Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1899 — Page 7

“It I* not tv hat you rarn, lint what yon !ai e, that make* wealth.*’ Have you acquired the habit of systematic saving? Are you in debt? If so, do you want to prepare to meet it? Do you want a safe and permanent investment at a fair rate of interest? Do you wish your money to accumulate without causing yon annoyance and care? Are you trying to collect money for any particular purpose? Are you putting aside a fund to take care of yourself in old age? Are you prepared to meet the "rainy day” which comes to almost every one sooner or later? DEPOSIT YOUR SURPLUS FUNDS —IN THE— Indiana Trust Company 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on deposits of $1 and upward. Offices In the Company's Building. THE L. A. KINSEY CO., INCORPORATED. CAPITAL, $-.">,000 —FI’LI. PAID. —BROKERSChicago Grain and Provisions, Hew York Stocks. Long Distance Telephone. 1375 and 1592. 11 and 13 West Pearl Street Cincinnati Office, Room 4, Carlisle Building. JMONFY 4, / 2 %t06%. /WIUIiL I SI,OOO and upward, loaned on Improved Property. Interest graded according to location and character of security. Ko delay. C. F. SAYLES, 135 East Market St. THE FEELING OK FEAR. Aonseiuie tc* Say of Any Man that He \ovcr Kelt It. Washington Post. “Whenever I read in the biography of this or that commander that ho was ‘utterly devoid of fear.’ or that he did not ‘know the meaning of the word “fear.” ’ I feel like sitting down and writing to the biographer that he is in need of treatment for locomotor ataxia of the brain.” said a naval officer to a party of service men In a club corner the other night. No soldier or sailor of common sense, famous or obscure, ever gave it out, I verily believe, that he was a stranger to fear under any and all circumstances; and such tommy-rot in biographies can only be attributed to the ignorance or the in- < xperience of biographers. For myself. I don't mind saying -that I’ve been seared stiff any number of times since I've been cruising around the world, and sometimes over trivial enough happenings, too. For Instance, I went ashore In Honolulu one morning a few years ago, when my ship was coaling, on some personal business for the commanding officer. When I returned aboard at noon for luncheon, all hands were at mess, except a loutish, moon-faced landsman, a former farm hand, from lowa, who had been the butt of his mates as an innocent of the rawest kind. The landsman was leaning ovpr the starhoard rail, looking no more stupid or inert than he generally did. A big coal lighter filled with coal was moored to the starboard side of the ship, and in order to get aboard the ship I had to climb from the steam cutter that brought me. off from the shore onto the lighter, and then pull myself up on the fixed iron ship’s ladder to the gangway. There was a space of about two feet between the coal lighter and the ship. Into this space, missing my hold when I attempted to clutch the wet, slippery ladder. I fell, feet foremost, with a splash. As I afterward found out, the. crew of the steam cutter heard the splash, but they did not know what had caused it. Now it was about KM) to 1 against my saving my life through my own efforts, for I knew that when I came up my head was due to bump against the bottom of the coal lighter, and It Is a hard proposition even for a good swimmer, as I happened to be, to keep his nerve under such circumstances. “Now, d’ye suppose that 1 didn’t experience fear, and a whole lot of It. when I was kicking around there beneath that coal lighter? Fear? Why. I w*as scared almost senseless, and I lost my nerve completely. I didn’t have any glimpses of my whole life and of my happy boyhood days down on the farm, or anything like that, but I was just frightened for keeps, and that was all there v.as about it. I surely would have been a goner had it not been for that loutish landsman leaning over the starboard rail. He didn't even stop to kick off his brogans before he let himself fall into the space between the lighter and the ship at the exac t point where T had tumbled. The crew of the steam launch saw r this move and wondered what it meant. They didn’t know that I was bobbing around like a sea otter underneath the lighter. My head was bumping against the bottom of the lighter, and I was just about to abandon the whole idea of living along any more when I felt myself gripped around the waist and I thought a shark had got me. But it wasn't any shark. It was the moon-faced landsman, and he had me at the top of the water, between the ship and the lighter, in no time. I was still frightened silly, and I clutched him in a pretty wild kind of way. “ ’Hey! Stop that!’ he commanded me, in a tone very unlike that of a bluejacket to his superior officer—bless the low-browed rufflaiu's brave soul! But I didn’t ‘stop that.’ but went right on pawing and grabbing at him, and the first thing I knew I didn’t know anything, for that moon-faced landsman just hauled off with his loose fist and punched me one with all his might on the point of the jaw. I can feel that slug , yet. The blow put me out of the game altogether. but it saved my life, and probably the life of the landsman, too, for 1 should perhaps have drowned him. The steam cutter's crew hauled us up onto the lighter. Now, I’ve never been court-martialed yet for showing the white feather, and I've been In a few tight fits at that, but I give you my i solemn word that it makes me break out with cold perspiration down to this day whenever T think of the minute or so I passed down underneath that coal lighter. I simply tasted fear, with a capital F. In allopathic doses, on that occasion, and whenever my autobiographer comes around to me for data with reierence to my great and .useful life on board Uncle Sam's line of fighting packets. I'm going to tell him the truth about it.” How He Gets Even. Chicago Post. He was doubled up over his desk making his pen go at the rate of about a mile a minute when a friend dropped in to see him. "Just wait a minute,” he said. ”1 have some goods to be transferred, and I am just writing to the van company.” "To engage a van?” “No; merely to let them know that I don't want them to send one.” Noting the pleasant look on the caller’s face, he read him the letter when It was v ritten. Ixclusve of the address and signature it was as follows: “Gentleman: It affords me great pleasure to inform you that 1 have a job in your line, nnd that, following the rule 1 laid down for myself May 1, ISIM, I shall engage some other express or van company to do it.” "You see, it's this way,” he explained. ”1 engaged this company to move my household goods in 1894. I had had some experience in moving, so I went to them three or four weeks before the time came and explained what 1 wanted done, how l wanted it done and when I wanted it done. They agreed to do it according to the plans and specifications by me made and provided, but they didn't. 1 told them l came to them so far ahead of time because I didn’t want any chance for a misunderstanding or any question as to how the job was to be done, hut when the time came they broke every promise they had made to me. They didn't send the wagons they had promised and they didn't begin moving me until about the middle of the afternoon. Os course you know the result. It was after midnight when we got the last load in, and we all had to sleep on the floor that night. I suppose I could have made a row about paying the bill, hut I didn’t. I paid, but I told them at the time that it lay In my power to throw a good deal of busii)ee to some express company and that I should take great pleasure in seeing that none of it came to them. Since then it has been my good fortune to notify them of a number of good, paying jobs that they might have had. It’s not much trouble, and it sort of eases my mind and makes me feel better.”

WILD SCRAMBLE TO BUY W EEK CLOSED WITH A SEW SATURDAY RECORD FOR WALL STREET. London Hm Finally Begun to Rid for American Stocks, nnd Price* Room —Local Trade Active. At New York, Saturday, money on call was nominally at per cent. Prime mercantile paper. 2%®3*4 per cent. Sterling exchange was steady, with actual business in bankers’ bills at 34.84%<?x4.55 for demand and at $4.82%'&4.53 for sixty days; posted rates, $4 83% and $4.85*2: commercial bills, $4.81’A®4.82. Silver certificates, nominal, bar silver, ,t9%c; Mexican dollars, 47 1 / BC. At London bar sil\er closed in fair demand at 27 9-ltid an ounce. Imports of dry goods and merchandise at the port of New York the past week were valued at $8,232,448. The exports of gold and silver from this port to all countries for this week aggregated $928,000 silver bars and coin and $1,086 gold. The imports of specie this week were $1,700,146 in gold and $123,989 silver. The New York weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Surplus, reserve, increase $8,430,600 Loans, increase 3,507,600 Specie, increase 8,888,500 Legal tenders, increase 857,200 Deposits, increase 13,268,4<>0 Circulation, decrease 168,800 The banks now' hold $34,693,675 in excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent. rule. The New York Financier says: “The banks of New r York gained $9,747,800 in cash last week, mainly In the form of specie. The heavy increase in gold was due to the treasury disbursement, to receipts from Euroiie and San Francisco and smaller transfers from other points. The cash expansion, owing to the relatively small loan increase, greatly swelled the surplus reserve and the gain in this item for the week was no less than $6,630,600, bringing the total idle excess to a point well over $35,000,000, the highest figure, in fact, recorded since August last. Much Interest has been excited by the slowness with which loans are advancing in the face of a stock market and industrial conditions never before paralleled in activity. One theory that finds ready acceptance is that the present speculative craze finds its course in investment buying and that securities are being paid for and taken out of the market, instead of being used as collateral. There is some room for this conjecture, but the operations of the banks for a week past do not reflect it. While the gross loan expansion was but $3,500,(XX), a detailed analysis shows that a gain was made in spite of a loss of $5,004,000 in loans by one very large institution, which is heavily interested in sterling investments and treasury disbursements. Whether this loss represents the maturity of outstanding foreign credits or operations with the treasury is not known, but it is true that to meet the decrease and report the gain noted the other clearing-house banks must have increased their loans over $8,000,000. Operations with the treasury are of unusual importance at present, since the heavy surplus of the banks, not only here, but ail over the country, is largely due to the SBO,OOO/4)0 or Sfx),OCO,oOO of government deposits held by them. EFFECT OF LOW RATES. "The present enormous volume of speculation, based on the country’s prosperity, is still dependent on these deposits as assuring low money rates and any policy looking toward their withdrawal or reduction would, no aoubt, check the violent advances which have a marked characteristic of late. More than that it would put money on a plane where profits are possible, providing gold imports did not immediately follow. As it is, the New York banks find it impossible to use the money now flowing to this center and the movement has only begun. Tha very presence of these funds only tends to exaggerate unsound speculative Conditions.” At New York the total sales of stocks Saturday were 762.900 shares, including; Atchison, 34,<20; Atchison preferred, 70,745; Canada Southern, 10,210; Central Pacific, 7,200; Chesapeake & Ohio, 7,350; Burlington, 8,150; Cleveland, iTincinnati Chicago St. Louis, 16,020; Delaware & Hudson, 3,500; Denver & Rio Grande preferred, 7,210; Illinois Central, 30,520; Louisville & Nashville, 12,320; Manhattan, 29,320; Metropolitan, 4,750; Reading preferred, 5,720; Minnesota & St. Louis, 4.100; Missouri Pacific, 24,210; Missouri, Kansas & Texas preferred, 5,200; New York CentraL 29,320; Northern Pacific, 15,020; Northern Pacific preferred, 11,420; Rock Island, 7,668; Union Pacific, 56,620; St. Paul, 9,850; Southern Railway, 5,200; Southern Railway preferred, 10,200: Union Pacific preferred, 90,020; Wabash preferred, 4,200; Paper, 9,820: Cotton Oil, 5.000; Tobacco, 3.780; Steel, 19,720; People’s Ga 5,7.050; Brooklyn Transit, 8,100; Pacific Mail, 3,125; Sugar, 14. Sf: Tennessee. Ceal and Iron, 6,905; Leather, 6,310; Western Union, 14,920; Chicago Great Western, 13,850. The New York stock market Saturday was exceptionally active and remarkable advances w f e*e made in many shares, the extreme gains being in investment issues. The average of prices was higher than in years and the volume of trading in stocks and bonds was the largest yet traded in on a Saturday. Had the two hours’ session been extended to five hours as on other days, and had the same rate of trading continued, there w'ould have been $14,060,000 bonds and 1,900,000 stock dealt in. Investors, weary of waiting for a substantial reaction, seemed panic-stricken to place their money. The opening quarter of an hour was the most excited in sympathy with the booming market for New York Central on the London exchange. All the Vanderbilt shares made sharp advances on rumors concerning the plans of the controlling interests of the New York Central. The street, judging by the course of the market, gave credence to these reports, but nothing was given out in regard to the plans which were said to involve closer relations between New York Central, Chicago & Northwestern and Union Pacific, although an unnamed director of the latter company was quoted as making a denial as far as the Union Pacific Company w’as concerned. New York Central made an extreme advance of 8%. Union Pacific 2% for the common and 5% for the preferred, and Northwestern 5%. London moved ujv ward all day and it is estimated purchased about 50,005 shares in New York, although the lyondon exchange closed before the New York market opened. There was heavy realizing in some stocks during the advance in the Vanderbilt*, but all offerings were readily taken. Commission orders were so large that some floor brokers having more than they could w'ell attend to. had to refuse orders. The fractional declines that occurred were due to the suspicion on the part of the traders that prices were bid up In the interest of sellers. The appearance of the bank statement, assuring, as it did, an abundance of money, exerted a strong Influence and a renewal of confident purchases. The closing was strong, but at recessions from the best figures. The more important gains for the day, outside of the Vanderbilts, Union Pacific and Atchison, were Great Northern preferred, 2, and Evansville & Terre Haute preferred. 2. The declines were fractional, excepting Hawaiian Commercial. 3*4; Pullman. 2, and Western Gas. 1. National Biscuit common closed at a loss of %. after a previous advance of 5%. Sugar, American Tobacco, Manhattan. People’s Gas and Federal Steel were weak. RUNAWAY STOCK MARKET. The stock market the past week was treated to a dally average of a million shares dealt in, making allowance for the short session of Saturday, and on three days the dealings were In excess of a million. Saturday was a fitting close of the remarkable week, the highest prices of recent years being attained in many stocks. There were various potential influences at work, the most important of which being the continuance of easy money, very favorable trade reports, especially the Improvement in the iron business, large railwmy earnings and the government's foreign trade statement for the year, showing an excess of $521,261,000 of exports over imports for the year, against $357,091,000 in 1897, which was the highest record before last year. The exports were the largest and the imports the smallest since 1885. although the consuming population is about one-third larger than at that time. Moreover, December exports were the greatest of any month In our history. The money public controlled the stock market, it having grown too large for any leader or pool to manipulate. A period of irregularity and hesitancy on realizations set in after the Initial burst of strength on Monday. Scale orders to buy at concessions by midweek overcame traders’ efforts to make quick profits on the short .side by catching stop loss orders. As the market advanced renewed confidence appeared and

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gained in momentum for the rest of the tveek. The buying was particularly pronounced In the dividend paying stocks. London, in all, sold over 150,000 shares on balance, but in the latter part of the week repurchased more than half that amount. The reversal of London’s position followed the Bank of England’s reduction in its discount rate from 4 to 3%. Material advances were recorded in the grangers. New York Central and Pennsylvania, which exerted a healthful Influence on the rest of the list., St. Paul's $140,600 increase in gross earnings for the second week in January, Omaha’s increase of lM- per cent, in the dividend rate and the talk of advantages to accrue to Burlington should its bonds be refunded on a lower basis, were the influences in the granger group, all of which made new record prices for many years. Burlington made tin largest gain of 6 points, although the refunding story lacked confirmation and was denied In some quarters. Rock Island gained 4 points, St. Paul 3V 8 and Northwestern 4%. The Vanderbilt stocks were all very strong. New York Central leading with an advance of on talk of an issue of New York Central bonds to take in Northwestern and Union Pacific. Pennsylvania’s advance of 4% was on gossip as to the probabilities concerning 6 per cent, dividend on the stock. Advances in the Pacific ranged up to 8% per cent, in Union Pacific preferred. Exceptions were Southern Pacific and Pacific Mail, which w’ere easier. A reported agreement with a rival concern to charge identical prices for the refined article was a pretext for squeezing the shorts in Sugar over 4 points. American Steel and Wire stocks were manipulated both ways on its plan of securing new companies, and ended with a gain of 10% for the common and 15 for the preferred. New York Air Brake fluctuated wildly, rising 26 points and dropping over 19, with a subsequent recovery, making the net gain 10%. Among the specialties to show strength were Tennessee Coal and Iron, Metropolitan and Manhattan, the latter rising 814. It was said that new blood was to be infused into Manhattan, but this was denied by the present management. Railroad bonds exhibited marked strength with the inquiry embracing gild-edged as well as the usually neglected Issues. The material improvement in the high-grade stocks prompted extensive trading in bonds where opportunities for enhancement in values seemed favorable. United States new fours, registered, and fives advanced %c; the old fours, registered, the new fours, coupon, and the fives, registered, %, and the threes % per cent, in the bid price. The following table, prepared by L. W. Louis, Room 11, Board of Trade, shows the range of quotations: Open- High- Low- Closins. est. est. ing. Atchison 2314 24 23% 23% Atchison pref 61 62% 60% 62% Baltimore it Ohio 67% Canada Pacific 85 Canada Southern 58 60 58 59'4 Central Pacific 47% Chesapeake & Ohio 26% 27 26% 26% Chicago & Alton 166% C., B. & Q 139 139% 138 138% C. & E. I 64% C. & E. I. pref 114% C„ C., C, & St. L 47% 49% 47% 49% C. C., C. & St. L pref 96 Chicago Great Western 16% Chicago, Ind. & L 8% Chicago, Ind. & L. pref 33 Chicago & Northwestern 149% Chicago & N. W. pref 190 Delaware & Hudson .... 114 D. L. & W 158 Denver & Rio Grande 36% Denver & R. G. pref 72% Erie 15% Erie Ist pref 40% Fort Wayne 182 Great Northern pref 166 Hocking Valley ' 2% Illinois Centra! 121 Erie & Western 17 Lake Erie & W. pref .... 06 Lake Shore 200% Louisville & Nashville .... 67% 67% 67% 67% Manhattan 117% 117% 114% l!i% Michigan Centtal 112 Missouri Pacific 47% 47% 46% 47% M.. K. &T. pref 37% 38% 37% 38 New Jersey Central 103 103% 103 103 New' York Central 134% 140% 134% 137% Northern Pacific 49% 49% 45% 49 Northern Pacific pref 81% 80% 80 SO% Beading 22% 23 .22 % 23 Beading Ist pref 58 Rock Island 121% 121% 120% 120% St. Paul 129 129 128% 128% St. Paul pref 168% St. Paul & Omaha 99% 99% -96% 99% St. Paul & Omaha pref 172 Southern Pacific 38 Texas Pactfie 18% Fnlon Pacific com 49% 50 49 50 Union Pacific pref 79% 83% 79% 83% Wabash 8 Wabash pref 24 Wheeling & Lake Erie 6 Wheeling & L. E. pref 26 EXPRESS COMPANIES. Adams Express 109% American Express 138 U. S. Express 56 Wells-Fargo Express 125 MISCELLANEOUS. American Cotton Oil 36% American Cotton Oil pref 89% American Spirits 13% 13% 13% 13% American Spirits pref 36% American Tobacco 147% 147% 146 146% American Tobacco pref 137 People's Gas 1!2% 112% 111% 111% Brocklyn Rapid Transit 52 Consolidated Gas 192% Commercial Cable Cos 175 General Electric 102 l'i2 101% 102 Federal Steel 53% Federal Steel pref 183% Lead 40% 40% 39 39% Lead pref 114 Pacific Mail 46% 46% 45% 46% Pullman Palace 156% Sugar 133 133% 131% 131% Sugar pref 113 Tennesse Coal and 1r0n... 39% 40% 35% 39% U. S. Istather 7% U. S. Leather pref 75 75 73% 74 % IT. 8. Rubber 47 IT. S. Rubber pref 114% Western Union 95% 95% 95% 95% UNITED STATES BONDS. U. S. Fours, reg 112 U. S. F*urs, coup 112% U. S. Fours, new, reg 123% U. S. Pours, new coup 129% U. S. Fives, reg 111% U. S. Fives, ocup 112% U. S. Threes, coup 107% Saturday’s Bnuk Clearing;*. At Cincinnati—Clearings, $1,661,450. At Philadelphia—Clearings, $17,247,333; balances, $2,160,333. At Baltimore —Clearings, $5,337,983; balances, $637,643. At New York —Clearings, $259,494,339; balances, $15,619,045. At Boston —Clearings, $23,752,763; balances, sl,944,523. At St. Louis—Clearings, $5,108,553; balances, $1,347,714. At New Orleans —Clearings, $2,135,268. At ('hicago—Clearings, $19,368,464: balances, $2,328,587. New York exchange, 20c premium. Ster 7 ling exchange, posted rates, $4.83%®4.85%; actual, sixty duys, $4.81%(Ti 4.84. ♦ LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE. A Good Week's Trade nnd Few Change* in Values Noted. Inquiry shows that on the wholesale streets the trade of the week ending Jan. 21 was very satisfactory and strong and steady prices were the feature. In dry goods and some lines of drugs advances were made. In groceries strong prices ruled, but no changes of importance. The iron and leather markets are very firm and trade active. On Commission row the weather was such as to admit of shipping perishable goods, and the commission men had a good week for January. Oranges declined 25c per box and lemons ruled easy on a light demand. Apples, if choice, bring luxury prices. In vegetables much the same prices prevail as for some weeks past. The provision market ruled steady. Receipts of hogs are still large. The flour market shows more activity at unchanged prices. Trade with the seed merchants is improving somewhat. In other lines there were no new features. The local grain market was more active than in the preceding weeks of the present month. Receipts of corn were liberal and of other cereals light, while all cereals are in active request at the following range of prices, as furnished by the secretary of the Board of Trade; Wheat —No. 2 red. 69c; No. 3 red, 64@68c; December, 69%c: wagon wheat, 69c. Corn—No. 1 white, 35%c; No. 3 white (one color), 35%c; No. 4 white, 3!%@33%c; No. 2 white mixed, 35c; No. 3 white mixed, 35c; No. 4 white mixed. 31@33c; No. 2 yellow. 35%c; No. 3 yellow. 35%c; No. 4 yellow, 31%@33%c; No. 2 mixed, 35%c; No. 3 mixed, 35c; No. 4 mixed, 31@33c; ear corn, 34 %c. Oats —No. 2 white, 30%c: No. 3 white, 30c; No. 2 mixed, 29%c; No. 3 mixed. 28c. Hay—No. 1 timothy, $8; No. 2 timothy, $6.50#7. cember, 69c; wagon wheat, 69c. lnsiections: Wheat—No. 2 red. 2 ears; No. 3 red. 1 car; total, 3 cars. Corn—No. 3 white, 15 cars. No. 4 white, 1 car; No. 3 yellow. 3 ears; No. 3 mixed. 5 cars; no grade. 2 cars; total, 26 cars. Oats—No. 3 mixed, 2 cars. Poultry and Other Produce. (Prices paid by shippers.) Poultry—Hens, 6c; spring chickens, 6c; cocks, Sc; hen turkeys, young and fat, B%c; young toms, 6%c; oid hens, 6c; toms, 4c; ducks, 4c; geese, 4c for full feathered, 3c for plucked; capons, fat. 9c; small, 6@Bo. Cheese—New York lull cream. lOffllc; skims, C@Bc; domestic Swiss, 12%c; brick, 12c; llmburger, 10c. Butter—Choice, 10c; poor, 6@Bc; Elgin creamery. 21c. Eggs— 13c. Feathers—Prime geese, 30c per lb; prime duck. 10® 17c per lb. Beeswax— 30c for yellow; 25c for dark. Wool —Medium, unwashed, 17'ul8c; tub-washed, 20®25c; burry and unmerchantable, 5c less. Honey—lo®l3c per lb. Game—Rabbits, 65®70c. Venison, 18@20c per lb. Opossum, 20@25c apiece. HIDES, TALLOW. ETC. Green-salted Hides—No. 1,9 c; No. 2. 8c; No. I calf, 10c; No. 2 calf, B%c. Grease—White, 3c; yellow. 2%c; brown, 2%c. Tallow—No. 1,3 c; No. 2, 2%c. Bones—Dry, $12@13 per ton. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Senree and Steady—Hog* Active nnd Stronger—Sheep Strong. INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 21.—Cattle— Receipts, light; ttUipmcuis, none. There were not enough

here to establish any business. The market looks steady on ail grades. Exports, good to choice ss.lD@ 5.65 Killers, medium to good 4.GO® 5.00 Killers, common to fair 4.00® 4.40 Feeders, good to choice 4.40 Stockers, common to good 3.00® 4.00 Heifers, good to choice 3.96® 4.35 Heifers, fair to medium 3...0@ 3.80 Heifers, common and light 3.Of®) 3.25 Cows, good to choice 3.6:® 4.00 Cows, fair to medium 3.00® 3.36 Cows, common and old 1.50® 2.50 Veals, good to choice 5.00® 6.00 Veals, common to medium 3.00 (d 4.50 Buiis, good to choice 3.50® 4.00 Bulls, common to medium 2.50® 3.25 Milkers, good to choice [email protected] Milkers, common to medium [email protected] Hogs—Receipts, 4,000; shipments, fair. The quality was generally good. The market opened active with good demand from both packers and shippers at a shade stronger prices, and closed steady with all sold. Heavies $3.75@3 80 Mixed 3.76®3.76 Lights [email protected] Pigs [email protected] Roughs [email protected] Sheep and I,ambs—Receipts, light; shipments, none. There was but lltle doing for want of stock. The market was strong. Sheep, good to choice [email protected] Sheep, fair to medium 3.20® 3.30 Stockers, common to medium [email protected] Bucks, per head 3.00® 3.50 Spring lambs, good to choice 4.25® 5.00 Spring lambs, common to medium [email protected] Elsewhere. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 21.—Cattle—Receipts, 770 natives, 370 Texans; about steady prices. The supply this week was mostly good quality slaughtering cattle; all the well-matured stock sold active at prices, while common stock wa.3 about steady. Stockers and feeding cattle continue in good demand; best grades about *2fie higher; heavy native steers, [email protected]: medium, s4.@ 5.25; light weight, [email protected]; stiickers and feeders, [email protected]; butcher cows and heifers. $39)4.75; canners, [email protected]; bulls, s3@4; Western steers, [email protected]; Texans, [email protected]. Hogs—Receipts, 5,860; prices steady to 5c higher. The moderate supply of the week sligntly strengthened prices. Heavy hogs selling at $3.60 @3.75; mixed, [email protected]; lights, [email protected]. Sheep and Lambs— Receipts for the week, 16,000; offerings of shade better quality, the most desirable bunches selling at slight advance in prices; common stock steady. Lambs. [email protected]; muttons, [email protected]; feeders, [email protected]; Stockers, [email protected]. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 21.—Cattle—Receipts, 200, Including 60 Texans. Native beeves 10®25c, cows and heifers 10®15c and stockeia and feeders 10@ 20c higher than last week; Texans steady; fair to fancy native shipping and ex)*ort steers, >4.25® 5.85, bulk of sales at $5(fi5.50; dressed beef and butcher steers, [email protected], bulk at [email protected]; steers under 1,000 lbs, [email protected], bulk at [email protected]; Stockers and feeders, [email protected], bulk at [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected], bulk of heifers at $3.85 C 54.35, bulk of cows at $2.6()@3.15; Texas and Indian steers, $3.10#5, bulk at [email protected]; cows ar.d heifers, $2 [email protected]. Hogs—Receipts, 5,300. Market stiong to 5c higher; pigs and lights. [email protected]; packers, $3.50#3.75; butchers’, [email protected]. Sheep and I.a mbs—Receipts, 300. Market steady; native muttons, [email protected]; culls and bucks, $2.50®3.25; stockers, $2.50@'3.25; lambs. $4.26 @*5.40; fed Texas sheep, [email protected]. CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—Cattle —There were not enough cattle received to-day to make a market. At a result of the small offerings of choire cattle during the week, prices for those grades are 15® 20c higher than a week ago. Fancy cattle would bring [email protected]; choice steers, [email protected]; medium steers, [email protected]; beef steers, $4/574.85; Westernfed steers, [email protected]; Texas steers, [email protected]; calves, [email protected]. Hogs—A mo<li ate supply of hogs and an active demand resulted in advancing prices 5@7%c. Fair to choice, $3.72%@3.87%; packing lots, [email protected]; mixed. [email protected]; butchers', $3.57%@3.82%; lights, [email protected]%: pigs, [email protected]. ttheep and Lambs —A few' droves of sheep offered were closed out at unchanged prices. < tills to choice sheep, |[email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]; lambs, [email protected]. Receipts—Cattle, 200; hogs, 20,000; sheep ar.d lambs, SCO. NEW YORK, Jan, 21.—Beeves—Receipts, 815; no trading; feeling steady. Cables firm. Shipments to-day, 560 cattle, 60 sheep ar.d 2.9% quarters of beef; to-morrow, 500 cattle and 3.100 quarters of bteef. Calves—Receipts, 9; market steady; veals quoted at $5©8.25; nearly nominal for all sorts. Hogs—Receipts, 1,873; none for sale alive; nominally firm at [email protected]. Sheep and latmbs —Receipts, 3.502. Sheep weak to 10c lower; lambs steady to 10c lower. Sh<ep. s4® 4.37%: lambs, [email protected]; common lambs sold late Friday at $4.80. CINCINNATI, Jan. 21. —Cattle strong at $2.50® 5. Hogs active and 5c higher, at [email protected]. Sheep and lambs steady; sheep, $2.25®4; lambs, $4 @5.25. THE NEW STRANGE WOMAN. The Time Uoniliiß- When the Unknown Woman Must Carry Credentials. Philadelphia Press. Poisoning is a hazardous trade when a jury passes upon it, as Mrs. Cordelia Botkin. has discovered. If her revenge had taken any other form her round, full figure, her sympathetic manner and her face, still attractive in spite of the arts and artifices of an uncertain middle life given to dubious hours, would have probably saved her. But with poisoning nothing short of a distinct break in the network of evidence to which the judge calls attention, as occurred in a recent case in this city, will save a pris-oner-man or woman, pretty or homely. No links were lacking in the San Francisco trial. Mrs. Botkin was convicted by the average accuracy of all transactions on a large scale. The presumptions of the postal pouch are fatal to every prisoner caught in the logic of their habitual regularity. Woman as she was, and woman familiar with life’s more careless side, the low cunning of Mrs. Botkin altogether overlooked the rigid record which follow's purchases and governs the movements of the mailbag. Men and women come and go. They buy here and mall there. They have no shadowy conception of the iterant inexorable certainty which marks every act. The ticket, the package, tire delivery, the f/ostmark and a score more of daily and muriy records track each act as automatically us a cash register. For those who live in a city, unnumbered and forgotten, units as they seem, the modern world of trade hotels and postal regulations is one long trail which accounts for every purchase, follows most of the acts of life and leaves every hour with Its permanent record. The habitual criminal has learned the trick of dodging these things. He pays cash. He has no packages delivered. He uses methods of transmission less regular than the mails. His letters come and go from the special boxes private enterprise thoughtfully provides to cheat the public record. This meshing netw'ork of records is known by few r and remembered by none. It convicts in murder trials. It conceals the evil life just on the edge of the law, but not yet across its criminal boundary. The trial of Fayne Moore in New York, the pending arraignment of Mrs. Vermeule and the conviction of Mrs. Botkin, each in its way lays bare the new strange woman which the mere size of the American city has come to conceal. Bad women there have always been. Lillith may not survive Eve, but she undoubtedly preceded her. No too long ago, when American life w f as both less strenuous and less anonymous, the dubious woman had usually a dubious origin. Fayne Strahan Moore w r as a judge’s daughter, and the indecencies of her unreportable trial w ? as only two years removed from the bourgeois decencies of her home. Mrs. Vermeule is a very recent arrival from respectability, whom a foolish passion for the dangerous device of bank drafts early has laid bare to the law and the public gaze. Mrs. Botkin had left her husband, but in America an absent husband does not, as yet, breed present suspicion. In this country the presumption still favors the solitary woman. She is still assumed to he presentable until she is shown to be peacabie, save by people of most unusual discretion, and early suspicion is so widely held to be a sign of past contrition that on it few venture. But the new strange woman is destroying this presumption with swdft certainty. She is fresh from respectability. She buries herself in a big place. To her old friends in some small place she remains for years respectable and respected. She has one life, but she manages two reputations and preserves each to aid her in using the other. Until some accident trips her on the sidewalk and lays her sprawling in the public gutter, she works above reproach in public long after she has become below repute in private. Gregarious city life, the social carelessness of Americans and abounding masculine charity, which makes an exoteric practice of forgiving much because of a selfconscious estoreric necessity of being forgiven on a large scale, all aid her. The time is not far distant w hen in American, as long since in European life, the present presumption in favor of the unknown woman will be abruptly changed and social proof will be required here as there to show that it is not necessary to assume the worst w’here the least is known. Unconventional Foreigner, Washington Post. I really believe that if any community in the land has outgrown the provincial stage, Washington is the place. We axe so accustomed to manners of ail kinds and to lack of manners of any kind that few things surprise us. There is, how'ever, a foreign gentleman in town who is receiving slices of cold shoulder in a quarter where he once dined on the fat of the land. It is all because of the simple, naive, frankness of his manner. He was in\ited to a card party a moon or two ago, and he went. He arrived early and he was unmistakably distraught. The hostess affected not to observe it. but the foreign gentleman himself spoke of it. His feet ached he said, and—well, he asked that a basin of hot water be set for him in another apartment, and for hulf an hour ne remained in retirement. At the end of that time he reappeared, thanked his hostess for her kindness, and said his feet felt much better. The hostess says she realizes that it waa the sensible thing for him to do, but much as she admires common sense, the next time she gives a party the name of one foreign gentleman will not be in her list of guests.

TO REFORM THE BOYS a PROF. STIDEBAKER'9 SYSTEM APPLIED l\ COMMON SCHOOLS. 4. Scheme for n Trolley Line Tlmt Will Heaeli from Indianapolis to Winona —The Ruftenbarger Case. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FLORA. Ind., Jan. 21— Prof. Joseph &tudebaker, a teucher in the public schools here, has anew plan of self-government for the pupils, and it has turned out so well it will probably be adopted by all the schools of the county. Speaking of the new plan of government Prof. Studebaker said: “The one main purpose of our schools should be to teach the duties of good citizenship, yet our schools are actually training for poor citizens, because we run them as little monarchies and expect the pupils to become citizens of a democracy. This seems to be finding fault with our school system, but not so; I am striking at the teachers. For eight or ten years the common school is the child's community, and the impressions and convictions made during these years can never be removed. They will fix his life as a member of the community, the State and the Nation. “The school is the first institution with which the child comes in contact. Here lie finds tyranny on the one side—the teacher—and rebellion on the other—the pupils; the monarch ruling over the slaves. Breaking the rules without being caught is so much clear gain. To expose each other is treacherous and cowardly. ‘Let the teacher find out,’ is but the prelude of the indifferent citizen who says, ’Let the police, or the marshal, find out, it is not my business.’ Hiding a crime makes one a party to the crime. “The schoolboy is the’ miniature citizen. He learns to do by doing. Then why not have him hold office and vote in school life, as he will when he grows up. This is the purpose of self-government in schools; to train the child for usefulness in after life. ‘We hold an election every month and pupils vote by ballot for their tribune, whose duty it is to look after, and hear the petty annoyances of those under him. Thus I have only to seek information from the tribune, and then the eases are taken up and disposed of as in any court. In my quarter of a century of teaching I never found anything more practical or beneficial than the tribune system of pupil self-gov-ernment.” A MERC HANT KING’S ESTATE. Legal Fight nt Clinton Over the Late A. L. Whitcomb’* Money. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CLINTON, Ind., Jan. 21.—0n petition of B. H. Morgan and John Q. Washburn, of this city, Dr. John H. Bogart has been appointed administrator of the estate of the late A. L. Whitcomlx Whitcomb was for many years the merchant king of Vermillion county. In 1880 the firm of A. L. Whitcomb & Cos. organized, with Morgan and Washburn as partners. Morgan had been a clerk in Whitcomb's employ since he was a little boy. The firm conducted a big store hefe till Whitcomb died in 1887. B. H. Morgan then purchased the business and still owns It, having now one of the largest department stores in westerh Indiana. When Whitcomb died his entire estate, amounting to 170,000, was left to his widow as administrator. Morgan had always been a sort of a pet with Whitcomb and it was understood that he left instructions that he (Morgan) should share in the estate at the death of his widow. She went so far as to make a will, leaving Morgan $5,000 and a business building, but when she died, about a year ago, a later will was brought out, which left Morgan nothing. A few weeks ago Morgan employed expert accountants to overhaul the old books of the firm of Whitcomb & Cos. The experts claim to have discovered evidence that Whitcomb was about $30,000 short in his accounts with the firm, or that he had applied that amount of the firm’s money to his private uses. The appointment of Bogart as administrator yesterday was the first step taken by Morgan and Washburn to recover the money which Whitcomb is alleged to have taken from the firm. Whitcomb’s heirs resent the imputations of his dishonesty and will fight the case to the bitter end. A Trolley Line to Winona. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Jan. 21.—J. T. McNary, B. F. Keesling and Dr. M. A. Jordonj returned yesterday from Indianapolis, where they had been in consultation with Indianapolis men interested in the construction of the Indianapolis & Logansport Electric Railroad. Dr. Jordon is a member of the directory of this new corporation and is vice president of the company which has the road under consideration. The three men are members of the hoard of trustees representing the Logansi>ort Commercial and Manufacturing Association, which has secured the right of way for a trolley road from Burlington, in Carroll county, through this city, through the counties of Carroll, Cass, Fulton and Kosciusko, along the old Michigan road. It is believed that the plan of the projectors of the Indianapolis & Logansport line will be to join issues with the Logansport association and utilize the right of way secured in the counties mentioned. The route of the road as now proposed will be from Indianapolis to Zionsville, Lebanon, Frankfort and Burlington, at which point it will connect with the proposed Logansport & Burlington road, coming on to this city. From this city north the road will make use of the right of way already secured to Rochester, Mentone, Warsaw and Winona. If this route be followed the new company has yet to secure the right of way in but two counties of the entire line—Boone and Clinton—and as the road has already excited the liveliest interest along the line there is but little doubt that the franchises in these two counties will be forthcoming. Strange Quaker Doings. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEWPORT, Ind., Jan. 21. One of the greatest revivals ever held in this county has just closed at the Hopewell Quaker Church, eight miles west of here. The meeting was not great from the number of accessions to the church, for there was but one, but from the large crowds. The meetings did not last an hour or two, like ordinary meetings, but continued for several days without adjournment. The revival was conducted by Rev. S. Talbert, pastor of the church, assisted by Rev. Noah Dixon. Miss Mary Walthall, aged twenty-five, who has been a member of the Quaker Church all of her life, went into a trance on Thursday morning a week ago and remained in that condition until after midnight Sunday. She lay on her back right down on the church floor all the time and was perfectly rigid. During the whole four days and three nights she lay there on the floor without a bite to eat or a drop to drink. For over five hours she kept one of her arms extended in the air. She would bark like a dog, mew like a cat and hiss like a serpent. This is the strangest case of this kind on record in these parts. The oldest inhabitant never before heard of anything like it. Other young women were affected in a similar manner. Mm. Dickerson Asks Damages. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TIPTON, Ind., Jan. 21.—Last November John Dickson, an engineer on the Lake Erie Railroad, was killed at Hoopeston, 111., In a wreck, and his remains were brought to this city for burial. He was a highly respected citizen and lived with his wife, and seemed to be very much devoted to her. The widow drew the insurance, made payable to her by a life insurance company, after which she removed to Illinois. Yesterday a well-dressed woman from Indianapolis called on the authorities and represented herself as the legal wife of Mr. Dickson, and produced a marriage certificate in proof of her claim. She said that his right name was Dickerson, but owing to the confusion In names in railroad circles by another man by the same name, he had changed his name from Dickerson to Dickson. She claims that she was the first wife, though she knew that he v.as living in Tipton with another woman, who also had proof of her marriage relations. She has filed a claim against the railroad for damgea Robber* Terrorize a Town. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DECATUR, Ind., Jan. 21.—Preble, a small oil station three miles west ot here, was terrorized last night by a gang of highwaymen, who appeared on the street and compelled everybody to hasten indoors. The general store was looted, the aalo blown open

and about S4OO taken. They left as quietly and suddenly as they came and some are supposed to have come to this city and are now terrorizing the people living in the suburbs. The house of L. I). Adams, a wealthy lumber merchant, was entered by two, who demolished things Inside and demanded money of Mrs. Adams, who is an invalid, and was alone. A posse of officers arrived in time to arrest the two and are looking for others. There is great excitement here and a raid is looked for almost at any time. About every citizen is carrying a revolver. Looks Dark for Mrs. Rnsenliargcr. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON, Ind., Jan. 21.—The hearing of testimony in the Rosenbarger poisoning case was completed this afternoon and court adjourned until Monday, when the argument will be heard. The sensation of the day was the testimony of the defendant, Mrs. Rosenbarger, who is accused of poisoning her son. She was on the stand for four hours ahd was subjected to a severe cross-examination lasting over two hours. The State strengthened its case materially by the cross-exam-ination and by the rebuttal offered later. The testimony showed that the defendant had not proven a mother to her children since separation from her husband. The defense rested at 2 o'clock. The State’s rebuttal brought forth several surprises in the way of breaking Mrs. Hudson’s testimony that the deft ndant was not out of her sight on the Sunday afternoon. The defense developed little In rebuttal. The cross-examina-tion of Dr. Ellis this morning covered considerable time. He says that the son is insane. Suicide of Samuel Go. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BROWNSTOWN, Ind., Jan. 21. Samuel Goss, residing four miles west of here, committed suicide yesterday afternoon by swallowing paris green. He left his home at 1 o’clock, going out into a field, where he took the poison, and was found one hour after. Physicians used stomach pumps, but to no avail. He remained conscious up to 5 o’clock, talking to his family, and said that as his health was failing him he wished to die. He belonged to a family of twelve, four girls and eight boys, ten of whom still live. The youngest is forty-three years old, and the average weight is 225 pounds, the smallest weighting 200. A sister committed suicide about seven years ago by blowing off the top of her head with a shotgur.. The present sheriff, Joseph Goss, is u brother. Forgot His Bride’s Name. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Jan. 21.—Henri Gordon, a French glass worker, of this city, was to have been married yesterday, but he forgot his bride's last name, and the wedding was postponed. He went to Anderson after the license, and when the clerk demanded the name of the woman he replied, "Marie.” It then developed that lie did not know her last name, although he had kept her company for two years. He had to return to where she was employed and .ascertain her family name. The license was issued this morning, and the coupie were united in marriage and went their way rejoicing. Crate I® Now HU Editor. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Jan. 21.—The firm of Walker & Craig, editors and proprietors of the Noblesville Dally Ledger and the Hamilton County Semi-weekly Ledger, was dissolved to-day by the sale of the paper to the Ledger Company, a corporation of influential business men. By the terms of the deal J. E. Walker, who has been editor of the Ledger for ten years, retires and Will H. Craig will become editor, with Roland S. Truitt business manager. The Ledger office is being moved to its new quarters on Logan street, the Ledger block having just been completed. Henry Gobbles Up Franchises. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PENDLETON, Ind., Jan. 21.—Congressman Henry appeared before the Town Board here yesterday and secured a .franchise for the right of operating a street railway on the streets of this city. He is given until 1901 in which to get the road into operation. Mr. Henry is also asking a right of way through Ingalls, Fortville and other towns between here and Indianapolis, and unless all signs fail will make a connection between his gas belt electric railway line and the capital city. Dry Goods Mysteriously Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TIPTON, Ind., Jan. 21.—The store and stock of dry goods belonging to George M. Shortle, at Goldsmith, a small town six miles west of this city, were destroyed by fire last night. The stock was recently removed from this city for the purpose of closing it out, Mr. Shortle expecting to go out of business. The building w r as valued at SBOO, with S3OO insurance, while the stock wua valued at $5,000, with $4,000 insurance, Decatur Cats Ont IllulTtou. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DECATUR, Ind., Jan. 21.—1 t was given out by an official of the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Railroad to-day that the freight division of that road, now located at Bluffton, w'ould be moved to this city at once. The company has been considering the advisability of this move for some time. Decatur people are thankful for small favors and are singing praises. Men are already laying extra tracks. Banker Albert Wade Acquitted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 21-Albert Wade, of Mount Vernon, charged with making false entries in the books of the Mount Vernon National Bank while employed there, v/as to-night acquitted by a jury in the Federal Court. When the exposure came some three years ago, Wade decamped, but later returned and surrendered, being admitted to bail. The jury was out twenty-four hours. Ella Dawson an Helre**. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Jan. 21.—Mrs. Ella' Dawson is the name of an heiress who is supposed to be residing in or near this city. The attorneys for Mrs. Dawson were here yesterday trying to locate her. She is one of several heirs to a great estate in Calcutta, India, her portion being valued at $200,000. Up to the present time she has not been located. Unknown Dead Man Found. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VERNON, Ind., Jan. 21.—The remains of a drowned man were found in a drift pile in Graham creek, three milts south of Verr.on, on Friday evening. The body had been In the water many days, from all appearances, and nothing was found that would aid in identifying him. He was thought to be a mulatto and aged about forty years. Beal Pleads Insanity. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND. Ind., Jan. 21.—The trial of Benjamin C. Beal, charged wuth shooting Putsey Webb and William Thomas at Dunkirk last February, was all but finished in the Jay Circuit Court to-day, Judge John M. Smith being on the bench. The prosecution made a very strong case, and the defense pleaded insanity. Contract* for Next Y'ear. Special to the lndianai*olis Journal. GREENWOOD, Ind., Jan. 21.—The J. T. Polk Canning Company at this place began to-day making contracts with the farmers to grow peas, corn and tomatoes for the coming canning season. Contracts for over 2.000 acres will be let, an increase over last year and indications point to a successful season. Seymour to Have Elk*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY. Ind., Jan. 21.—New Albany Lodge of Elks ha3 accepted the invitation to institute the new lodge of Elks at Seymour, Ind., and last night selected Wednesday, Feb. 1, as the date. About one hundred Elks from New Albany, Jeffersonville and Louisville will attend. A Reporter’* Golden Wedding. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Jan. 21.—Daniel Helper Brown, reporter on the Dally Republican, and his wife are to-night celebrating their golden wedding anniversary. Both are strong and hearty and were born and raised within seven miles of this city. Indiana Obituary. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 21.—Joseph P. Elliott, justice of the peace and an active traveling man until four years ago, died to-day of pneumonia. He was the aides# commercial traveler in Indiana when he retired from tire road to enter politics, la

earlier years he wan prominent here as a business man. MADISON. Ind., Jan. 21.—William Nichols, one of Madison's oldest citizens, dic'd suddenly last night at his home, in Hanover. He was the father of Rev. George O. Nichols, graduate of Hanover College, who Is now' preaching out. West. ELWOOD, Ind., Jan. 21.-Eiijah F. Ring, a well-known citizen of this city, died yesterday afternonn after an illness of seven months. Mr. Icing was fifty years of aga and leaves a wife and six children, four of whom are married. GRBENCAUTLE, Ind.. Jan. 21.-Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Hines dies at Stilesville within twenty-four hours of each other. Both were about eighty years of age and their double funeral took place to-day at Stllesville. PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 21.—Mrs. Elizabeth McEwen. one of the pioneers of tha county, died yesterday at her home, In Knox township. She was a woman of much prominence and highly connected. CURRENCY BILL (Toncloded Irani Flr*t Page.) the other cans. A can. he said, w'ould last some hours after opened. He admitted that there Is a good deal of beef that is not palatable. Much of the beef used at hi* yard had come from Lihbey, McNeill & IJbbey, which was generally satisfactory, but last June he had occasion to reject some they furnished because dry and unpalatable. He demonstrated the method of opening the cans, and two cans bought in open market at random were opened and their contents tasted by the members of the commission. Bach member declared it had a good flavor and taste. ♦ THE EAGAN COURT-MARTIAL. Trial of the t'ammUuiy General tal Begin on Wednesday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Quarter* have been secured at the Ebbitt House for the general court-martial appointed for the trial of Commissary General Eagan, and it is expected that It will begin its sessions there next Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock, in accordance with the order convening tha court. The questions as to whether the sessions of the court shall be open or secret lies entirely with the court. The almost universal rule in such cases is for open sessions, and it is confidently expected that there will be no exception in the Eagan courtmartial. Proceeding on the assumption that tho sessions will be held with open doors, the officers of the War Department are making arrangements for the attendance and accommodation of representatives of the press at the hearing. A long table and chairs will be provided for a limited number of newspaper men sufficiently to keep the public fully Informed of the proceedings of the military tribunal. Col. George B. Davis, the judge advocate of the court, was at the War Department to-dnv completing arrangements for the prosecution ol the charges and specification* prepared ny Judge Advocate General Lieber and approved by President McKinley and Secretary Alger. A certificate of the charges and specifications has been furnished Commissary General Eagan in order that he may have ample time for preparation of his defense. Colonel Worthington, of the District bar, formerly United States attorney for the District of Columbia, has been retained by General Eagan as his attorney. General Eagan declines to discuss his probable course of action before the court. Col. James S. Weston, who has been designated to act as commissary general of subsistence, pending the result of the proceedings against General EAgan, has acknowledged the receipt of the orders of tha department, and announced that he will report for duty and take charge of the office Monday morning. THE PEACE TREATY. Mr. I)avi Will Not Consent to a Vote Until He I* Sure of Ratification. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Senator Davis, in charge of the peace treaty, to-day told a delegation from the opposition) that he would not consent to a vote on the treaty until he was satisfied that it could be ratified. He made this statement in response to representations made to him by a delegation authorized by the leaders of the opposition to confer with him, declaring in the first place that he did not accept the statement that there were sufficient votes to prevent ratification. He asked for a list of the name* of opposing senators and was given the names of thirty-six senators, who, ft was declared, would vote against ratification. Senator Davis was further told tha defeat or postponement of the treaty could be prevented by agreeing to an act or even a resolution declaring it to be not the purpose of the United States to maintain permanent sovereignty in the Philippine islands. Senator Davis declined to accede to this proposition, saying that he would prefer to have the treaty go over until another session. When his attention wa called to the fact that an extra session of the entire Congress as well as of the Senate would be necessary In order to appropriate the $20,000,000 made payable to Spain, he said this was not true, as the terms of the treaty did not require the payment of the money until after an exchange of ratification. When Senator Davis was asked as to the truth of this report he declined either to deny or confirm it. The opponents of the treaty also state that there will be no objection to the extension of the law until June 30, 1900, which allows the regular army to consist of 62,<*0 men. TTiis proposition, it is said, will be placed upon the army appropriation bill a* an amendment and relieve any necessity for an extra session to pass an army bill. # IRELAND CASE DECIDED. The ArohbUhop Will Get Only Fart of the Land He Claimed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The secretary of the interior to-day affirmed the decision of the commissioner of the Land Office in the famous case of Archbishop Ireland, involving title to 33,178 acres of land in Minnesota. He holds that under the first contract, made with the St. Paul, Minnesota & Manitoba Railroad Company on July 17, 1880, Archbishop Ireland was not a purchaser, but that under the second contract, made on March 30, 1883, he was a purchaser. Accordingly, the lands covered by the first contract will not go to Archbishop Ireland, while he will receive those under the second contract. The case has been pending for a number of years, and involves the homes of a large number of settlers. The archbishop secured the lands for the purpose of locating settlers, an Irish colony being established, and most of the lands have passed to the settlers. There still remained, however, a good many acres not sold or only partially paid for, and on the plea that the archbishop had simply a contract to dispose of the lands as an agent, an attempt was made to prevent a transfer of those other lands. The contention of the archbishop is sustained and ho will receive all the lands under the second contract. Title to the lands has been unsettled because of these suits for a good many year*, and this final decision of the matter will come as a relief, not only to the settlers on the lands, but to all residents about Graceville, Minn., where the bulk of tho lands are located. Place for General Kennedy. BELLEFONTAINE, 0., Jan. 21.—Gen. Robert P. Kennedy has returned from Washington after a conference with President McKinley and Senator M. A. Hanna. The President tendered Gen. Kennedy a position as member of the new commission in the War Department at a salary of $5,000 a year. The appointment la agreeable to Secretary of War Alger. It is stated that exGov. Hastings, of Pennsylvania, is to have the position in the Bureau of American Republics made vacant by the death of Joseph P. Smith. Gen. Kennedy was once an applicant for the same position. They All Gamble. New York Times. Possibly the most confirmed gamblers in the city are the newsboys and bootblacks. When business falls slack they can be seen gathered in sheltered alcoves or in friendly areaways pitching pennies or playing “craps.” The police have long since com* to regard their games a* possibly a necessary evil, and pause to look on with quit* as much eagerness as that manifested by the other spectators. In these little pictures, that are usually overlooked by the average New Yorker, intent on his affairs, there is a touch of life that is not without it* artistic charm, if one does not think it necessary to moralize. The nervous intentness of the boy übout to pitch or throw the dice and his look of consciously doing It In artistic style are very human, just a* are the exultant whistle and the gestures of triumph from his antagonist, a moment later, if he fails to score. The animated and pleased attention of the spectators. Including messenger boys, office boys, and visitors from the rural districts, with the omnipresent policeman looming high above them all with an expression of amused indulgence on his stolid face, is worth contemplating. It is the whole game of life in miniature, for chance rules the little fates of the player* and "Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” here as in the shop, the counting room, the courtroom or the exchange.”

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