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Hepburn, who is chairman of the committee on interstate and foreign commerce, says he has received many letters doring the recess. particularly from mercantile bodies, urging action on the antiscalping and pooling bills, and he expects both these questions to receive early attention. fteiircNeutntlve Cannon Talk*. WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.—Representative Cannon chairman of the committee on appropriations. arrived iti Washington to-day. Speaking to a reporter, he said that his policy for the approaching session of Congress as chairman of the House committee would be to hold the appropriations, so far as he could control them, down to existing conditions. “I believe in a liberal but not an extravagant policy in making appropriations,” he said, “and until our revenues increase shall oppose entering on new enterprises requiring the- expenditure of government funds.” Mr. Cannon expressed the opinion that by the. beginning of the next fiscal year the Dingley tariff bill would afford revenue sufficient to meet the legitimate demands of the government. He also sttited his belief to lie that the • omtng session would be a comparatively brief one. "We should be away from here easily by the Ist of June,” he said. "Indeed, there is very little for us to do beyond passing the appropriation bills. It is needless for us to attempt to secure currency legislation because of the impossibility of getting anything through the Senate. So long as the .Senate is anti-Rcpublican, as at present, all efforts to got currency reform legislation will be so much waste of time and energy. What sense, then, is there in writing long-winded essays to be read In the Senate and House and disturbing the business equilibrium unless some wholesome purpose can be subserved.” Mr. Cannon says the appropriations committee will report the legislative and pension appropriations bills in the House before the Christmas holidays. Senator Turner's Views. LONDON. Nov. CO.—United States Senator George Turner, of Washington, who has been in London for a month and will sail for New York by the Teutonic to-morrow, sairl to-day: "Asa silver man. 1 can say it is certain that no scheme of currency which discriminates against silver, as all the plans favored by Seeietary Gage do. cun pass the Senate, and that nothing the Senate would .adopt would pass '.he House of Representatives I feel sure, therefore, that there will be no currency legislation by this Congress.” Mr. Turner strongly favors the annexation of the Hawaiian islands to the United States. On the subject of arbitration, he said: “I have found no sentiment in England in favor of the revival of the arbitration treaty.” • hovering Will lie Reprimanded. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30,-Sccretary Alger has received from Lieutenant Colonel Hunter, the Judge advocate of the courtmartial in the case of (’apt. Leonard A. Lovering, of the Fourth Infantry, the record of the proceedings and findings of the court. The secretary admits that the published reports of the sentence arc correct, and that the- officer has been found guilty of ill treating Private Hammond at Fort Sheridan and has been sentenced to be reprimanded by the secretary of war. So far Secretary Alger has not acted on the papers, but he took them over to the Cabinet meeting to-day, anti they formed the subject for discussion for some time. It is understood that the proceedings will he approved by the department and that the reprimand will be administered through jiublicatlon in official orders as soon as it can be put in language satisfactory to the authorities here, it is understood that the reprimand will be severe. Widow I.omcm Her Pension. WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.-Assistant Secretary Webster Davis to-day, in the case of the widow of James Dempsey, lute of Company C, Fourteenth Michigan Infantry, held that the fact that the widow’ accompanied her claim with a certificate from the Board of Health of Detroit, Mich., that her husband's death was due to paralysis of the heart, but suppressed the fact that subsequent Investigation by the coroner showed that the heart paralysis w r as caused by using liquor and thugs, constituted fraud. The widowr was pensioned by special act of Congress and by to-day’s decision the department will recoup itself for money previously wrongfully paid her under the general pension laws.

Grarral Ordway’* Sai'oemtor. WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.—The President to-day appointed Mr. George H. Harries, of this city, to he brigadier general of the militia of the District of Columbia, to succeed the late General Ordway, former commanding officer of the District National Guard. Mr. Harries has been a major in the guard for some years, and as inspector general of r : fle practice has taken an active part in rifle competitions. He was a well-known newspaper man of this city for some years, and in this capacity was present at the lust Sioux outbreak in Dakota, and also at Homestead. He has been engaged in business pursuits for about two years, and Is at bresent secretary' of the Washington Board if Trade. Day Will Not lie Attorney Genernl. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—When asked tonight whether there was any truth in the .often printed reports ihat he had been tendered the attorney generalship. Assistant Secretary Day, of the State Department, said: "The President some time ago was kind enough to tende*- to me the position of attorney general In the event of a vacancy in that oiTiee, which, after consideration. I have been reluctantly compelled to decline for reasons entirely personal.” There is every reason to 1 > lave lht Judge Day will continue work ia Pis present position in the 'State Department. Elkin* Will \ot Oppose McKenna. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. Senator Elkins tvas at the White House to-day and announced that the reports that he would oppose Attorney General McKenna’s confirmation as a justice of the Supreme Court were erroneo is. No intention to oppose .confirmation of the man the President has chosen for Justice Field’s successor has been made known to the President by his senatorial callers. Mr. McKinley’s list of callers to-day included Senator Teller, of Colorado, the leader of the silver Republicans, but no significance attached to the visit. t liapluin's Hesignation Accepted. WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.-The President has accepted the resignation of Chaplain W. M. Goodwin, of the Wabash, against whom the captain of the ship made charges of irregular living. The resignation of Lieut. Michael J. O’Brien, Fifth Infantry, stationed at Fort McPherson, Ga.. has been received at the War Department, but has not yet been acted upon. It is said that charges had been or were about to be made against this ’ officer, which, in the event of the acceptance of his resignation, of course, will be dropped. Curler to Be Conrt-Murtiaied. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-*-Secretary Alger has ordered the trial by court-martial of Captain Carin' on the findings of the court of inquiry and on the recommendation of the judge advocate who made up the brief In the case. The detail of the court lias not yet hem made, and. owing to the fact that the judge advocate will require some time to prepare the complex case, it is not probable that the court can be assembled for several weeks. The Treasury Delicti. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Secretary Gage said to-day that in the annual estimates he would send to Congress he would name about $20,000,000, and not above fcj.ooo.Co3, as thi amount of the tit usury deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30. 18yx. The secretary said that he expected the receipts from customs to increase steadily and that in the spring months he anticipated quite large importations. Leu* rnl Notes. WASHINGTON. Nov. 3>.-To-day’s statement of the condition of the treasury ahows: Available cash balance, 1216.765.220; gold reserve. $157,113,988. Minister Hoshi. of Japan, will return here on Dec. 10. after an extended visit home, during which he has had an opportunity to confer with the Japanese authoriti -s concerning the annexation of Hawaii to the United States. His return puts at rest reports that he had been recalled permanently. The Chicago lake front ease, which lias conspicuously figured before tile Interior Department, will he given another hearing to-morrow, this time in the office of the secretary of the: interior. TO IT HE A COLD IN ONE DAY ■i nk*> Laxative Hroino Quinine Tablets. AH drug*t*U! refund money if it falls to cure, 'io c. The genuine has L. is, Q. on each tablet.

FOUGHT TWENTY ROUNDS THE CHOYXSKI-JEFFRIES "Mil,!." AT 'FRISCO DECLARED A DRAW. ♦ Billy Stiff Bested ly Tommy Itynn at Chicago—Tlie Former Stated by the Police. - - FRANCISCO, Nov. 30.—Joe t'hoynski. of San Francisco, and Jim Jeffries, of Los Angeles, fought twenty rounds to a draw before the National Club to-night. Chovnski conceded fifty pounds in weight, and on this account was compelled to draw or: his superior ring generalship and long experience at the game to avoid the rushes of the giant opponent. Jeffries, who displayed much improvement in the .art of defense and attack, still lacks in experience. He failed to follow up on Choynski when an opportunity afforded. On the other hand, he fought with excellent judgment. Even his oldest admirers were surprised at his generalship. He avoided clinching, except when absolutely necessary, and his ducking was marvelous. lie d< pended almost entirely on left jabs on the nose and meuth to stop the big fellow, and after the eleventh round kept blood flowing from Jeffries’s nose. In the second round Jeffries brought Choynski down with a left swing on neck, which left Joe flat on his back. The blow was ineffective, however, and Joe arose as strong as ever. Referee Jimmy Donald's decision was satisfactory to the crowd of 5,000 persons. Martin McCue, of New York, and Young Jack Dempsey, of San Francisco, fought fifteen rounds to a draw’. The bout was preliminary to the Jeffries-Choynski tight. McCue outclassed Dempsey in cleverness, but lacked punching powers, and could not finish his man, though he punished him badly. The decision of Referee Elmer w’as hissed. R VAX BESTS STIFT. Police Permit Only Six Hounds, but thut Was Enough for tlie Loser. CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—Tommy Ryan, of Syracuse, was given the decision to-night over Billy Stiff, of Chicago, in the sixth round of what was lo have been a twelveround bout. Ryan had all tlie best of the fight from the start, forced the fighting all the way through, and had Stift in bad shape when the police Interfered. If the fight had gone on as it went for six rounds, Stift would have been cut tit the end of tlie eighth round at the farthest. The men entered the ring at 10:30, Ryan, who weighed HI! pounds, being seconded by Jimmy Murphy, of Chicago, and William Moore, of Syracuse. Stift, who weighed 107 pounds, was aided by Frank Childs, of Chicago, and Patsy Fitzgerald, also of this city. George Siler acted as referee. Ryan led and landed a light left on the body, following it up with a left on the face. Stift led with his left and put it lightly on Ryan’s jaw. The men sparred for some time and Ryan shot his left on Stiffs jaw and put his left on the body as the gong sounded. During the second qnd succeeding rounds Stift w f as kept on thl defensive in his corner and Ryan was hot after him. In the third Ryan sent his right to the stomach twice in succession, his right on the jaw r . his left on the wind and his right on the jaw again. Ryan landed a hard left under the heart, and in making a left swing w’hich caught Stift on the jaw, he lost his balance and ’fell just as the gong soupded. This was Ryan's round all the way through. In the fourth Ryan put his left on the wind and received Stiffs right in the shoulder. Ryan led with his right for the body, but was blocked. Ryan sent his right to the body hard. Stift got in two rights on the body and Ryan put his left hard on the right eye, dazing Stift. Ryan went after Stift from the sound of the gong in the fifth and hit him so often that it was hard to keep track of the blows so fast did they come. It simply rained boxing gloves for Stift. Ryan put his left on the jaw and'his right on the body. Stift led with his right, but was wild, and Ryan got away easily. Ryan put a right and left on the jaw. then put his left hard on Stiffs bad eye, closing it a little more. Then he bombarded Stift with a left on the eye, a right in the center of the face, a right on the jaw\ and followed Stift into his corner, driving him against the ropes with a w’hirlwind of blows on the jaw, eye and over the heart. Stift managed to get a hard left swing on Ryan’s jaw, but got two of the same sort in return. When the round closed Stiffs right eye was closing, the side of his face was puffed out and he was badly punished. In the sixth Ryan landed a left on Stiffs bad eye and put a right on the jaw. following it up with a left. Stift lost his head and, although the agreement w’as that the men were to break clean, he clung to Ryan and fouled him repeatedly with short-arm blows while the men were clinched. Ryan landed a hard right and left on the jaw and Stift got in a hard right on the body, the best blow he struck in the tignt. Ryan put his left on the jaw and then, swinging around, caught Stift with his light on the jaw and sent him to the floor*, where he was for nine seconds. Ryan then put his right on the jaw in succession, his left on the eye and was following Stift hard with right and left swings, every one of them •getting home in good shape, when the gong sounded. Stift was badly beaten and the police stopped the tight, it being evident that Stift would not last over one or two more rounds. The fight was for a purse of $2,500, the loser to have SSOO. Tne first bout of the evening was between Mike Roach and Harry Forbes, both local 105-pounders. The decision was given to Forbes. Peter Boyle, of Chicago, and William Moore, of Syracuse. N. Y.. went six fast rounds, both men doing ciever work. Boyle knocked Moore to the floor with a left in the face in the second round. Honors were easy up to the sixth, when Boyle got in a succession of left jabs that demoralized the Eastern man. The decision was given to Boyle.

••Kid” l-'nu! finer Defeats Lewis. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 30.-“Kid’’ Faulkner, of Indianapolis, was winner in a wrestling match last night with Frank Lewis, of Kalamazoo. Faulkner won the first and third fulls in fifteen and five minutes, respectively. Lewis, who was several pounds lighter than his opponent, gave Faulkner all the work he wanted and succeeded in throwing him in six minutes in the second round. Charles Ward, a Buffalo sport. was present and challenged both for a match of SIOO a side for Saturday evening. Dec. 11. in this city. Ward agrees to throw both within an hour, the money being theirs if they should either throw' him in that time. Ward is an expert bicycle trainer, as well as wrestler, and trained Dr. Brown, of Cleveland, who made his mark oir the track. Akers Won In Ninety Seconds. BIRMINGHAM, England, Nov. 30.—At the Birmingham Athletic Club this evening Arthur Akers, of Birmingham, met Faddy Purteli. of Kansas City, for a purse of £250 ($1,250) in a twenty-round go. The fight w'as soon over. Furtell being completely outclassed and Akers winning in ninety seconds. THE PROSPERITY OF THE COUNTRY. Only Political Awltntlon Can Disturb Its Progress. Baltimore American. Tn the last week but one nearly seven million bushels of wheat were shipped from American ports, w'hlch was the largest business ever done in any week in this line. In tht: second week in September 6.290,000 bushels were sent away. Ever since the rise of wheat the business has been much better than many people expected. Those who early in the summer sneered at the prediction that we should have ‘‘dollar wheat” before the year was out have changed their tune. Crops of all kinds have been enormous this year, and prices, even for the small farmer, who pays more attention to other things than wheat, have been very satisfactory. A day or two ago attention was called to the. great prosperity of Kansas. This was but a sample. Other States have shown Increases equally as gratifying. It is becoming more and more apparent, if the natural course of things toward a greater prosperity is not disturbed by hostile legislation and crack-brained agitators, that the wealth of this country will shortly be such as to surpass the calculations of even the ablest statisticians of the world. We are. per capita, now the wealthiest people in the world. In tin* business of supplying certain foreign nations with food products we have competitors, hut these competitors are not Iti the class with the active, u|>-to-date Americans, and are not likely ever to he. Nature lias given this country certain advantages which It has not

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granted to others. It Is the business of the people to develop their resources, and that is what they will do if not hindered. It is not blowing to state facts, hut the statement of facts and the deductions that naturally flow from them have to be made and reiterated in order for the farmers and ! others who are most directly engaged in the business of development to be protected against the misguided zeal and ignorance of those who are sometimes intrusted with the conduct of legislation. What is more needed in this country than anything else is less political agitation and a closer harmony among all the people engaged in all kinds of enterprises. FRAUD AN Serious Allegations Against J. J. CooKim and His MoHier-in-Ln w. NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Testimony was taken to-day in the suit of Edward V. Coogan against his brother, James J. Coogan, and Mrs. Sarah L. Lynch, his mother-in-law. The plaintiff alleges fraud and conspiracy on the part of James J. Coogan, the Bowery furniture dealer, who was the unsuccessful labor candidate for mayor of this city in 1888, and Mrs. Lynch to deprive him of his legal and vested rights in property amounting to several hundred thousand dollars. The accusation of conspiracy is based on the fact that for the consideration of $1 James J. Coogan leased Mrs. Lynch certain property on Sixth avenue, this city, for a period of twenty-one years at an annual rental of $12,009. This property was subsequently released at a rental of $32,000 a year. It was stated that up to date Mrs. Lynch has received $1153,666 for the Sixth-avenue property and has paid only about $63,000. The plaintiff said that he had made demands for money from Mrs. Lynch on two different occasions and was refused each time. He also alleged that the books of Coogan & Cos. contained fictitious entries in favor of Mrs. Lynch tit the time of the fire several years ago. The plaintiff charged that these entries were made by the bookkeeper, Frank E. Ernsley, now deceased, at the instance of James J. Coogan. LOSSES BYTHE STORM. Great Damage to Shipping and Coast Towns of England. LONDON, Nov. 30. Stories of wrecks, fatalities and damage done by yesterday’s storm continue to be received to-day. All the bays and ports are full of shipping, more or less seriously damaged. Such sights have not been seen for many years. Several of the inland towns of Kent are flooded, and a long time must elapse before repairs can be made. The seaside resorts, naturally, have fared the worst. At Margate alone the damage done is estimated to amount to £59,000, and at South End the loss was £30,COJ. The severity of the weather prevailing in Durhamshire can be gauged by the finding of the frozen body of u laborer who lost his way in a snowstorm. New England, an island near South End, several thousand acres in area and surrounded by a high sea wall, was swamped during the gale, anil everything, including a farmer, nis family, the farm buildings, sheep, horses and cattle, was swept oft of it. The Norwegian ship Kemmender Svend Foyn, Captain Nielsen, is being towed here, dismasted. Her masts were cut away on Sunday night off South Foreland to save the ship from the fury of the gale. The mate and fourteen of the crew, fearing to trust their lives to the ship .any longer, deserted her and landed at Dover, leaving the captain and only a, small part of the crew aboard to work the ship. The storm has done great damage along the Belgian coast. At Heyst and Middlekerke the dykes have been breached, flooded houses have collapsed and a number of vessels have been driven ashore. The Kursaal and other buildings at Blankenberghe have been damaged, the streets tire flooded and the troops are being employed at various points to assist in the work of the rescue. Heavy gales are sweeping the Sardinian coast. A vessel on fire was seen off Sardo island to-day. She soon foundered, and no trace of her crew has been seen. Stranded on n Breakwater. DELAWARE BREAKWATER, Del., Nov. 20.—The British steamer Glenochil, from Hull, stranded on the new breakwater while passing in the capes last night. Her bow is now forty feet over the stone pile and is stove in several places. The weather at the time the ship went on the rocks was hazy and the wind was blowing from the northwest at fifteen miles an hour. The North American Wrecking Company will try to drag the Glenochil from her perilous position. Rescued front n Sinking: Ship. NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—The Bristol City line steamer Exeter City, which arrived today from Bristol and Swansea, fell in with the British schooner Elite, dismasted and in a sinking condition, and rescued the crew of five men and brought them safely to port. The steamer Veendam, which reached this port yesterday, reported having come upon the deserted schooner, which, to rid the sea of a danger to navigation, was set on fire by direction of the Veendam’s captain. MisHing Ten Days. CLEVELAND. 0., Nov. 30.—The steamer Bulgaria and the schooner Amazon have been missing for ten days. They are Cleveland boats and left two weeks ago with coal for Duluth. They passed the Sault Ste. Marie ten days ago, but nothing has been heard from them since. Captain Corrigan, owner of the boats, is much concerned for their safety. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Arrived: Jdaho, from London; State of Nebraska, from Glasgow. Sailed: Georgia, for Liverpool; Spree, for Bremen. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 30.—Arrived: Majestic, from New York; Belgenland, from Philadelphia. BREMMERHAVEN, Nov. 30.—Arrived: Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, from New York. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 30.—Arrived: Cufic, from New York; Cephalonia, from Boston.

OBITUARY. Dudley Wilmot Cnrleton, One of the Heroes of Sebastopol. LONDON, Nov. 30.—Dudley Wilmot %‘arleton, Baron Dorchester, is dead. Baron Dorchester was born in 1822. He was a son of Hon. and Rev. Richard Carleton, youngest son of the first Baron Dorchester (Gen. Sir Cuy Carleton). who fought in the war of American independence. In 1854 he married a daughter of the first Lord Broughton. Entering the army in 1846, he served in the Crimea and was present at the siege and fall of Sebastopol. He left no children. Other Deaths. NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Dr. Henry Drisler emeritus professor of Latin and Greek in Columbia University, and formerly dean of the Columbia School of Arts, and twice acting president of the college, died to-day, aged seventy-nine years. MUNICH, Nov. 30.—Dr. Von Narquardson. the eminent jurist and professor of Erlangen University', is dead. OFF HIS BASE. Secretary Wilson’s Suggestion to the New "Woman. St. Louis Republic. The resentful attention of the new woman. • naturally jealous of any attempt to enlarge the field or improve the opportunities ot" the old woman as mankind knew her in comfortable days lang syne, is earnestly called to the annual report of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, now just issued. In this report the secretary of agriculture takes occasion to review the work that has bt-ui already accomplished by his department in the instruction of women in such a ridiculous line as domestic science—home training, the art ~f cookery, a study of human nutrition. Just think of it!—and to urge upon the American government that he anil his subordinates “be afforded an opportunity to undertake some definite enterprises which will enable the department to extend much more material assistance to those who are engaged in the noble task of giving practical training to the future wives md mothers of our farmers and to that vast arn.y of faithful women who are bearing the heavy burdens of keeping the farmers' homes pure and sweet and rearing the future masters of our vast agricultural domain.” Things have come to a pretty pass, indeed, when such a report as this is llouted in the face of the new woman, already Hushed with the triumph of securing suffrage in more than one State of the Union. The bare idea of expecting women to go back to such studies as that of domestic science, of cooking, sewing, housecleaning, dishwashing, is In itself enough to fire the heart •>* the emancipated female with the fiercest indignation. And the reason for such retrogression, the reason, my lords and gentlemen? Why, on the word of the

secretary of agriculture' himself. In order to give practical training to women in the work of “keeping homes pure and sweet and rearing the future masters of our vast agricultural domain*” The future masters, quotha? And this in the very teeth of the new woman armed with the ballot! Developments such as these are calculated to weary the new woman, - scanning the future with imperious eyes. What time has she to devote to the home, when even now she is running for office and making a crazy quilt of politics in various localities? And as for rearing “future masters” —is she not. instead, planning for the overthrow of those masters in behalf of the coming dynasty of mistresses? The secretary of agriculture is off his base. If a knowledge of domestic science is so indispensable. have it taught to the new man an’ you will—the new woman will have none of it. SCARED TO DEATH. Missionary'll Wife Fatally Shocked by an Inquisitive Nicaraguan. NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Horatio C. Janos, a missionary* who arrived here to-day on the Atlas liner Alene, from Port Limon, says that his wife w;as scared to death by the intrusion of a native anxious to sec the. new baby, into her bedroom, at Sun Carlos, Nicaragua. The native meant no harm, but Mrs. Jones was so frightened that she died from the shock. NOTES FROM CUBA. Surrender of nil Amazon—Train Dynamited by Insurgents. HAVANA, Nov. 30.—it is officially announced that the insurgents dynamited a freight train near Alqulza, province of Pinar del Rio, on Sunday. The engine was partially destroyed and the engineer was injured. A Cuban amazon, known as Capt. Regina Palenzela, with five armed insurgents, it is announced from Spanish headquarters, has surrendered to the authorities at Nueva Paz. province of Havana. The official reports have it that only four insignificant skirmishes have taken place recently between Spanish troops and insurgents. The printing office of El Centinela, the organ of the gendarmes, was burned last right. The cause of the fire is not known. The building, it is said, was insured for the sum of $50,000 in the Sun Insurance Company of England. Plea Med with Home-Rule Scheme. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-The Spanish minister makes public the following dispatch from Dr. Congostos, the Spanish consul at Philadelphia, but who is now in Cuba on a mission for his government; “The terms in which home rule is conceded have produced an effect which cannot be improved on. A commission of the Home Rule and Reformist parties has thanked the governor general and assured him of their adhesion to the institutions. The same has been done by the Chamber of Commerce and other corporations, which have telegraphed to Madrid that the sincerity of the government has raised public spirit. Every one expects immediate good results in favor of pacification.” Mr. Steele's Record. Washington Post. There are few congressmen who can boast of a more honorable war record than Representative George W. Steele, of Indiana. He enlisted at the beginning of the war in the One-hundred-and-tirst Indiana Regiment as a private anti served through the four years’ struggle with gallantry’, being mustered out of service as a lieutenant colonel. The first year of the war he was in the Army of the Potomac, but was afterward transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, and was with Sherman in his march to the sea. Mr. Steele was the first Governor of Oklahoma, but resigned the office after serving for twenty* months. He reached here yesterday afternoon and has taken up his residence at the Arlington. Mr. Steele said to a Post reporter that it w*as impossible to predict with any certainty just who . questions would engage the consideration of Congress. He does not believe that the arbitration treaty will again be brought up. "As fur as I am personally concerned, I only hppe that Congress will quickly dispose of all business and adjourn, and thus give the business world a much needed rest.” Mr. Steele is a member of the board Os managers of the Soldiers’ National Homes.' and he is here to attend a meeting of the board, which will be held to-day.

Mr*. French Alleges Conspiracy. BOSTON, Nov. 30.—E. Hamilton Giot and Francis H. Appleton, miniqg men. and Wm. H. Abbott, a broker, were arrested to-day charged with obtaining $1u.500 from Mrs. Julia B. French by a conspiracy'. The sum was obtained, it is charged, for stock in the Fortune Gold Mining and Milling Company, of Cripple Creek, Col. Mrs. French’s counsel alleges that she received 40,000 shares of stock in the gold-mining enterprise. for which she paid $5,500 in cash and a note for $5,000. The claim is that the. stock sold is worthless. The prisoners were admitted to bail in $15,000 each. Alleged Train Wreckers. NEW YORK. Nov. 30.—Jacob Girrhach. John Decker, William Dobson and Hugh O'Brien, charged with train wrecking, were committed to the county jail at Elizabeth, N. J., to-day to await the action of the grand jury. A Jersey Central Railroad detective alleged that on yesterday they' placed a beam in front of the east-bound Long Branch express in an attempt to w'reck the train at Elizabethport, N. J. The beam was seen by the engineer of the train in time for him to bring it to a stop. The young men are all twenty-one years of age. They were identified by the train crew. Insurance Rates Reduced. NEW YORK. Nov. 30.—The Tariff Association of New York (fire underwriters) to-day agreed on important rate reductions governing business in the association’s territory. The new rates are in many cases 33 1-3 per cent, lower than those which now obtain. The reductions agreed on t<-day r , it is generally believed, will make business in this territory for many' of the companies more profitable, but they were thought to have been necessary, in view of the critical situation confronting the tariff companies since the rejection of the brokers’ compact some time ago. In Memory of Whitman. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Nov. 30,-The memorial exercises in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the massacre of Dr. Whitman and his associates at Waiilaptu mission closed to-day. The programme was t arried out with the exception of unveiling the monument. Owing to the stormy weather the monument has not yet arrived from the East. Mrs. Katherine Pringle, a survivor of the massacre and an adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Whitman, made a short address. Ex-Senator Sawyer ill. OSHKOSH. Wis.. Nov. 30.—Ex-Senator Sawyer is again confined to the house by illness. He spent Thanksgiving at Marshfield, where lie was induced to take a short ride. He contracted a cold, which brought on an attack of tonsilitis. The ex-senator is ov r eighty years of age and his friends are solicitous on account of his illness. Gift from Andrew Carnegie. RICHMOND. Va.. Nov. 30.—Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give the last SIO,OOO of the SIOO,OOO needed to build a suitable home for the Ginter Mechanics’ Institute in this city. The $100,030 is being raised by subscription to supplement SIO,OOO bequeathed the institute by Major Ginter. Damage Snit for 8t8.(MlO. SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 30.—Donald Morrison has begun suit against the North American Transportation and Trading Company for the recovery' of SIB,OOO damages, suffered by reason of the company’s failure to transport himself and several associates to Dawrson City, by way of St. Michael’s. Delimit Pythian*. TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 30.—A sensation was created in Florida Pythian circles last night, when the Red Cross Lodge. Knights of Pythias, of this city, defied the authority of the grand chancellor and refused to obey his orders or relinquish their charter. Locomotive* for Japan. NEW YORK. Nov. 30.—The government of Japan has sent an order to locomotive builders in Jersey City’ for fifteen locomotives for use on heavy' trains. Work on the locomotives will begin at once. finite a Personage. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. John Wesley's name was casually mentioned a few' times at the Methodist Episcopal Church congress. Woman Found Dead. Minnie White, living with Mrs. Patterson, at 4<W West Seventeenth street, was found deafPthis morning at 1 o'clock. It is supposed that death resulted from heart discos©.

THE LATEST SWINDLE IMQIK SCHEME TO BEAT ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANIES. All the Operator \eed I* a IMece o£ Sand pa per. a Mustnril Plaster and a Mook Fall. ♦ /•; i New York Press. There is a. new swindling game in the market. The insurance companies, of course, are the victims. Every rogue and crock out of a dishonest job and in need of funds turns as naturally to an insurance company for aid as a business man turns to his banker. The companies are looked on as his legitimate prey and lie feels no more compunction in robbing them than he would in lighting a borrowed cigar. It would take an index to classify the different brands of bunco games that have been sprung on the insurance companies since the business of issuing policies began, and the latest one, while it differs in many details from previous brands, has probably excited no more alarm in insurance circles than a great many others. There are several reasons why the new swindle appeals directly to those uneasy rascals who live wholly by dishonest employment of their wits. In the first place, it requires little or no capital. With an investment of $5 the confidence man can live in comparative case and luxury for a week. In the second place, it is not complicated; its simplicity, in fact, is one of its strongest features, and, like most bunco games, it can be played successfully on that account. The absence of danger of detection is another point which makes it popular with rogues. There are accomplices necessary to “swing” it, but they are unconscious accomplices, and are totally innocent of any wrongdoing or knowledge of the part they are playing. Two pals are sufficient. When the # bunco man is ready to try his game he first of all invests in four necessary articles—an accident policy, a piece of sandpaper, a mustard plaster and a strip of thin cheese cloth. With these simple implements he is thoroughly equipped and ready to begin operations. The thirty-six hour traveler’s insurance tickets are most desirable, and at the same time less expensive. After buying one of them the operator bords a train; it may be only to Newark or Yonkers, or some other near-by town. Once in the car he retires to the toilet room, pulls up his trousers leg or his coat sleeve, as the case may be. and vigorously applies the sandpaper to the part of his anatomy that he desires to injure. After rubbing until the blood comes he places the cheese cloth, after first moistening it. over the sandpapered flesh, and on top of that spreads the mustard plaster. In five minutes the action of the mustard has intiamed the raw flesh and produced an ugly swelling. Just before the destination is reached the plaster is removed, and when the train stops the operator arises from his seat, walks halfway down the aisle toward the door and accidentally falls over a satchel, or trips over the leg of a seat. When he gets up he limps painfully and falls exhausted into one of the seats. This always should be doce in the presence of the conductor, a brakeman or one of the trainmen. When they hurry to assist him, as naturally they will, he has pulled up his trousers leg or his coat sleeve and disclosed his carefully prepared property wound. It is angry and terribly inflamed by this time and the fall has caused the blood to flow afresh. The bunco man murmurs faintly that he believes he has been hurt, and the conductor or the brakeman helps him from the train and hands him over to the station master, who in turn directs him to some doctor and puts him aboard a street car. The doctor is the most important accomplice. The victim of the accident limps into his office, apparently suffering intensely, and show's him the bruised or bleeding knee or elbow. Ninety-nine times in a hundred the fake wound wflll deceive the most skillful and experienced physician. He orders that his patient keep absolutely quiet for at least a week, and after prescribing a remedy and pocketing his fee tells him to call again in a day or two. The bunco man promptly destroys the prescription and applies the mustard plaster again. Then he returns to New York, und either goes in retirement or limps painfully around the streets. In tw T o or three days he w'rites to his accomplice the doctor, saying that it is impossible for him to call, describing his symptoms and requesting another prescription. Incidentally he mentions that he was luckv enough to buy an accident insurance policy, and asks the doctor if he will be good enough to sign a certificate to the effect that he saw his injury, treated him for it and ordered him to remain quiet ?or at least four days. , , . While he is waiting for his reply he informs the insurance company from which he has bought the policy that he has been injured, and asks that his claim be settled as soon as possible. He gives as his witnesses the doctor w r ho treated him and the railroad man who helped him from the train. Generally these witnesses are satisfactory to the company, but if it sees fit to send its medical examiner to investigate the case the bunco man fools him in the same way and just as easily as he fooled the physician and the train hand. The policy, amounting generally to S3O a w r eek, is settled in full, and the bunco man remains injured from ten days to two w r eeks, or as long as he can without exciting suspicion.' The example cited is only a primitive form of the swindle. It can be elaborated so that the rogue wdll receive anywhere from SI,OOO to $6,000. In fact, there is no limit to its scope, and a man who is clever can live like a prince the year round and never perform any work more arduous than sandpapering his own skin. “The extent to which the newest game is being played,” said a detective for a big accident insurance company the other day. “will never be knowui. It is almost impossible to catch a man at it. We may be morally certain that he is playing a crooked scheme on us and yet we cannot prove it. The doctor has signed the certificate in good faith, the witness to the accident swears that he saw the man fall with sufficient force to produce the injury, and there you are. We cannot produce any witnesses to offset the testimony of the physician or the conductor. In using the sandpaper and the mustard plaster the man runs absolutely no risk of sustaining a permanent injury. The pain of producing the wound is trivial, and, except for a little burning when the plaster is applied, the ■poor fellow’ suffers no inconvenience. I have seen cases that I know were frauds, and yet were done so artistically that a clinic would not discover it. “When the really clever men play they injure the knee in preference to other parts of their body. It is easier to affect a limp than a stiff arm. and by a little judicious touching up of the shin, sandpapering it here and there, the effect obtained is precisely the same as if a man had fallen and barked his leg. “They only play one company at a time. Should they buy three or four different polieies they would either have to swear to a lie when we asked them if they were insured in any other companies, or else they would admit that they were and thus lay themselves open to suspicion. Any man who is a reasonably good actor and has a sufficient disregard for the truth can play the trick, and with comparative safety.”

A LESSON IN CIVIL SERVICE. How Rotntion in Ottice Would Affect PoNtul Bank System. Washington Correspondence Boston Transcript. It has apparently escaped notice in the current discussions of the postal savings bank project that the establishment of a huge rational training school in banking would have to go along with it. Os course, this bureau of instruction would never la: known by that name any more than is the present "sixth auditor's office,” which is in reality a commercial college for fourthclass postmasters. This auditing division of the treasury, which deals with postmasters’ accounts, has on its payroll more than five hundred names, including clerks and laborers, and the whole establishment. Mr. Howard, a former head, once describe:l it as “a training school for fourth-class postmasters." He added that it would be a comparatively easy matter to audit the accounts of the seventy thousand postmasters in the United States if in submitting their reports the postmasters would only follow directions Intelligently and keep their accounts systematically. But this they were unable to do. and so by far the greater part of the clerical force is occupied in giving the rural postmasters instructions, and in most cases the lessons are of a surprisingly elementary character. If it takes four hundred clerks to audit the accounts of fourth-cluss laistmasters on the present basis it may well be asked how large u staff would be necessary to Instruct postmasters in the art and practice of banking? The United States alone among

civilized nations believe it best to conduct large business undertakings, like the distribution of the mail in the local communities, by a force which is chnnged every four years with almost unbroken regularity. The first year of anew administration is looked upon with dismay by the clerks in tile sixth auditor’s office, but the hundred-dollar-a-year Podunk postmaster gradually learns something as his term of office continues, and by the time he is ready for decapitation by the next administration he is in a condition to conduct his office with sufficient intelligence to give the auditing department of the treasury little trouble. But the addition of the banking business to the present duties of the postmaster would give the system a severe strain. Perhaps it may result in compelling' the adoption of civil service reform methods, and if so. postal savings banks will be of iiiestiable value. But tlie public is yet far from realizing that intelligent government work requires trained men. So badly rendered are the postmasters’ accounts in certain cases that it is not unusual for the department clerks here to make out the reports in advance for the postmasters, who are asked to run over in ink the hypothetical figures which the Washington clerks put in *or them with a lead pencil. The department also requests many of its incorrigible postmasters to call to their assistance some intelligent man in the neighborhood who is able to comprehend directions in making out quarterly reports. Even then the bookkeeping that comes in to the department is otten amazing. Not only are the dollars and cents columns generally ignored entirely, but the separation between the “auditor’s column” and the "postmaster's column” is disregarded as well, and nothing but the common sense of the clerk in Washington enables him to unravel the mystery. According to the testimony of the chief clerk, 20 per cent of the rural postmasters are unable to comprehend the distinction between sales and cancellations, or to believe that there can be any necessity for keeping these two items separate. Any one who looks over these reports as they now come into the department would become convinced that to teach their authors the principles of banking will be no holiday task. It is quite true that it is not proposed to make every postolfice a depository for savings, and that the least intelligent grade of postmasters would not be compelled to do banking work. But in so far as rural sections are unsupplied with postal savings banks will the project fall short in the very plages for which it is particularly intended. No one is urging the postal savings bank for the benefit of people who live in Eastern cities; but there is where the postmasters could best keep the accounts. It is in the mountains of North Carolina, where other banking facilities are slight, that the postal project will be most helpful, and it is there that it will be most difficult to secure and educate postmasters who are competent to attend to it. Mr. Gary's present plan, in so far as he has gone into details, is to make the offices which do a money order business branches of the savingsbank system. Os these there are pver twenty thousand, or two-sevenths of the whole. But this number includes a very considerable body of postmasters who are just staggering under the perplexities of the money order system, and, on the other hand, it does not very fully cover the remote rural districts. This is one of the considerations with which Congress will have to reckon. If the quadrennial shakeup in the postoffices is to continue and the department is to go into the savings bank business it will be necessary to establish in Washington a very large force of instructors, who will, of course, be known as auditors, and their tasks will not be simple;

HYPNOTISM IN SCHOOL. Teacher of the Mysterious Dnrk Art Forced to Resign. SHEBOYGAN, Wis., Nov. 30.—Professor George W. Ferguson, the Instructor in drawing ;n the public schools who introduced hypnotism among the pupils, resigned last night at a special meeting of the School Board. The commissioners had already held a secret meeting and dedded to ask Professor Ferguson to retire. Hypnotism, however, has spread throughout the four thousand children, and as a result one-third of the pupils of the Cheboygan schools hypnotizing the other two-thirds is the spectacle revealed by the developments in the exposure of the “science of suggestion” in the educational institutions in this city. The practical demonstrations of the science made in the presence of pupils, with other pupils as subjects, coupled with discourses on the subject and hints on how to place persons in a state of hypnosis, have developed many amateurs in the art. They include the larger boys and many girls numbered among the students. How successful any of these young Svengalis may have become is not known, but it has come to the knowledge of the school authorities and many parents that the children are practidng hypnotism upon ore another. A special meeting of the School Board was held last night to investigate the matter. The complaint is made by Adolph Kuehlmann, superintendent of the Mattoon Manufacturing Company, and is against George W. berguson, instructor in drawing, who has found many subjects for hypnotic experiments among public school pupils. It is charged that on an afternoon a few days ago Mr. Ferguson was at the Fourth Ward School, and on leaving asked eight or ten of the pupils to accompany him to the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. Bowmann, 1227 South Eighth street, where he gave a demonstration in hypnosis. Some of the children were not susceptible to suggestion und could not be placed in a state of hypnosis. Others were hypnotized. They were made to do various things under suggestion, and were brought oiit of hypnosis in the usual manner. When the children went to their homes they told where they had been and what had been done. In several of the homes the facts aroused the feelings of the parents. Among the children experimented on were those of Adolph Kuehimann, superintendent of the Mattoon Manufacturing Company. He laid the facts before School Commissioner Koepsell and asked that they be submitted to the board. One instance in which Mr. Ferguson is alleged to have practiced hypnotism in the schoolroom is reported from the Second Ward School. It is asserted that he used three or four pupils in a demonstration of his powers. Another instance outside the school when a pupil of the public schools was a subject occurred at his residence it is asserted, it is said by the mother of a little girl attending the First Ward School that while she was at Mr. Ferguson’s home playing with his children she and the artist’s children were hypnotized. The mother was informed that while in hypnosis the iittle girl was told that dogs were chasing her and that accepting the suggestion the child was gieatly alarmed. Professor Ferguson is an artist of unusual talent and spent some time in Paris in pursuing his art studies. He became a student of hypnotism and has made a study of the science as an amateur and has become an expert h> suggestion. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The Cornell Athletic council has engaged G. A. Conners, of the Chicago Athletic: Club, as general athletic trainer. The Omaha police yesterday arrested in a disorderly house two men thought to be Chris Merry and Frank Haley, wanted in Chicago for the murder of airs. Merry. Eugene Moore, Nebraska’s ex-auditor of state, was sentenced yesterdav to eight years in the penitentiary for the embezzlement of insurance fees, amounting to $23,000. Benjamin Harris, a rag merchant of Detroit. was last night arrested, charged with transporting across the Detroit river $3,000 worth of woolen rags, evading the duty of $750 and attempting to bribe the customs officials. The opening session of the eighteenth annual convention of the American Society of Mechaical Engineer s, having a membership ir. every State and Territory in the *Tnion and in Caada, were held last night in the rooms of the society in New York. The internal revenue collections for November in tlie Peoria district were $2,137,257. This is surpassed by but one previous month in the history of the office, and that was an abnormal showing, being August, 1594. when the Wilson bill went into effect, increasing the tax 20 cents a gallon. George Douglass, a negro, who accidentally. killed Albert Grayer, at Snowden, Pa., a mining hamlet near Pittsburg, Pa., last spring, in attempting to murder another man, with whom he had quarreled over a game of craps, was hanged yesterday. The accused expressed sorrow for his crime, and died in the hope of Divine forgiveness. The fortifications at Fort Delaware and those on either side of the Delaware river at Delaware City. Del., and Finn’s Point. N. J., which have been in course of construction for many months am! which are relied upon in ease of war to defend Philadelphia from the Invasion of any foreign power, were officially inspected by General Nelson A. Miles yesterday. John McCormick, editor and publisher of the Meridlun Dally News, of Meridian, Miss., is searching for his son John, who has been mysteriously missing since last July. Tin young man Is twenty-three years of age, had completed one year’s study at the Atlanta (Ga.) Dental College, and when

A common COM and common carelessness can make a combination strong enough to defy all the healing skill of the physician. Common carelessness lets the cold root and grow. Common carelessness says, between paroxysms of coughing, “It will be all right in a day or two,” and the common end is confirmed lung trouble, perhaps consumption. The common-sense treatment of a common cold is a prompt dose of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. It is the most efficient and reliable cure for colds and coughs, and is constantly pr/scribed by physicians. S. Haynes, M. D„ Saranac, N. Y., says : “ I have used Ay Cherry Pectoral in my practice since 1853, and have always found it reliable for the cure of colds, coughs, and all lung diseases.” Cherry Pectoral is now put up in half-size bottles, for half price—so cents. last heard from lie had been selling law btoks in Wheeling, W. Va., for a firm at Atlanta. A cable dispatch from England indicates that the sale of the large Willimantle thread works at Willimantic, Conn., probably to foreign parties, will soon be consummated. The thread company has $2,000,000 capital and employs several thousand hands. An option on its entire stock at $31.25 for each share of $25 par expires on Dec. 15. Secretary Draff, of the United Brotherhood of Cloak Makers, made the statement yesterday that not more than 2.000 of the : 9,000 organized cloak makers in New York are in actual employment just now. The dull season will continue until about March 1, and only a small proportion of these 2.000, he said, would be permanently employed during the winter. Losses by Fire. ESCANABA. Mich., Nov. 30.—Ore dock No. 4, of the Chicago & Northwestern Kailroad, one of the largest in the world, was burned this morning together with the steamer Nahant. which was lying alongside. Two lives were lost—Harold Miller and Jacob Blenner, of Cleveland, both employed on the Nahant. KINGSTON. Ont.. Nov. 30.-The big elevator of Richardson •& Sons was destroyed bv fire late to-night. It was filled with giain. Loss, $60,000; insurance, about half. WINNIPEG, Nov. 30.—A large portion of the business center of the town of Carberry. Manitoba, was destroyed by tire today. Loss, $50,000. Pigeon Fancier* Organize. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 30.—A number of pigeon fanciers from various cities met tonight and formed anew association, to he called the National Association of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers. Indorsements by letter were received from Fall River, Buffalo. Erie, Washington. Baltimore, Wilmington, Newark, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Chicago, Columbia, Pa.. York. Reading and the six districts composing the big (lying section of Philadelphia. The ticket placed in the field was as follows: E. E. Baker, president, Baltimore; first vice president. H. A. Lippincott, Philadelphia; second vice president, W. J. Lautz, Buffalo; third vice president. W. H. Keyworth, Washington; secretary and race secretary. Chas. Jones, Philadelphia; treasurer, T. M. D. Cardza, Philadelphia. The board of directors covered almost every district in the United States. . Ga* Work* Lease to Be Perfected. PHIL ADELPHIA. Nov. 30.—The Court of Common Pleas refused to enjoin the mayor and other city officials from executing the lease of the city gas works to the United Gas Improvement Company for a period of thirty years. A bill In equity had been filed by certain citizens to test the legality of the ordinance recently adopted by City Councils, by which the United Gas Improvement Company , secured control of the city gas works for thirty years and obtained an exclusive franchise for the supplying of gas for the period to consumers throughout the city and lighting the city streets, etc. The United Gas Improvement Company agrees to expend in improvements and repairs the sum of $15,000,000 in thirty years or more if necessary and also to reduce the price of gas. ' *•> m Mayor Quincy Renominated. BOSTON. Mass.. Nov. 30—Mayor Josiah Quincy was renominated by the Democratic city convention in Fanueil Hall to-night, and, although the nomination was made by acclamation, there was a spirited attempt to obtain an indorsement of the Chicago platform and William J. Bryan. The indorsement was not put to’ a vote, but disposed of by reference to the resolutions committee. During the proceedings there was continued uproar among the 250 delegates.

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