Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 18..

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1809.

Telephone Calls. Euslcess Once S3 Editorial Rooms 18 TEI15IS OF SUBSCniFTIO.V. DAILY BY MAIL Dally enlj, cne month ..$ -70 Dally only, threemonths 200 Tally only, rne year ... 8-M Daily, Including Sunday, one year 10 00 fiucday only, or.e year.. 2.00 WIIEN FUTlN'ISnED BY AGENTS. Dally. per wk, by carrier 15 eta Sunday, ln;l copy 5 cts Dally an J Sunday, per week, by carrier.... 20 cts WEEKLY. Per year tl-00 Redneed Rates to Claim. Subscribe with any of our numerous srenti or end subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. Persons sending the Journal through the malls In the United Ftates should put oi an elght-re rPr a ONE-CENT postage stamp: on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage sump. Foreign postage is usually double thee rates. All communications Intended for publication in . this paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address cf the writer. Rejected manuscripts will not he returned unless postage is inclosed for that purpose. THE IXDIAXArOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK As tor House. CHICACO-P!mer House. P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and - Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNAT1-J. R, llawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng. northwest comer of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Co., 2Zt Fourth avenue. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C Rlggs nouse, Ebbltt House and Wlilard's Hotel. One of the advantages In having a Republican Council Is that it names the Inspectors for municipal elections. Aguinaldo must not pray for all Demo'crata, since thousands of them, like Captain Allen, now in the service, and Captain English, are not flag furlers. A man who committed suicide on Thurs- ; flay said Just before dying: "Tell Tom 'Taggart I voted for him." The causes of suicide are sometimes very strange. The er of strict economy has doubtless set in at the mayor's office, and the thou sand extra laborers on the streets; having; e-elected him, will soon be hunting other jobs. Americans should remember that when we began war with Spain the British government and people sided with us at once, without stopping to ask whether we were In the right or not. " Fewer alleged statesmen are smiting trusts with war whoops than was the case ft few weeks ago, which leads to a suspicion that such method of demolition is not appreciated by the people. The; historical facta stated by President SJcKInley In his speech at Minneapolis regarding tho territorial expansion of the .United States were not new, but they have never been more compactly or. forcibly . stated. The Sentinel thinks "it is to be regretted that the new Council will not be in political accord with the mayor." Quite a number cf people think It Is to be regretted that the mayor will not be in accord with the new Council. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, chairman of the Bryan national committee, reports that he can see.no prosperity In the United States. Southerners who are getting 7 cents for cotton can. Besides, Mr. Jones Is a very sick man. Now that the new regiments are arriving In Manila, Aguinaldo will not be able to longer make his followers believe that the Americans are pulling down their flag. Hereafter, when towns are captur2d they vrlll be held. - ' Senator Hoar seems to have come to the conclusion that the thing for the Republicana to do is to sustain the President. At any rate ne has made a speech declaring that he la satisfied with the Republican platform in Massachusetts. Massachusetts, whose Legislatures have been Republican ever since there has been a party of that name, has laws prohibiting stock watering:. Such laws in other States ould prevent the enormous capitalization cf trusts and street railways. , That was a remarkable symposium of speeches at Huntsvllle, Ala., on Thursday, when the two foremost negroes of the country and the white Governor of Alabama discussed the race problem. They all favored the better education of the negroes, especially on practical lines, and giving Mm aT white man's chance. David B. Hill, of New York, has been a Democrat in all that the word means in that State, but since the death of Tllden the Democracy has not had a leader who could so well nil his place as ex-Governor Hill. To overthrow Hill for Boss Croker's control in the state committee indicates the tendency of the Democratic leaders in the Empire gtate. If the rumored massacre of two German officers in South Africa by an armed body of natives, who afterward escaped into Drltlsh territory, chould prove' true, the Incident may contribute to the rapidly growing complications In that country. Germany will certainly try to punish the murderers of her officers, and will be apt to pursue them regardless of boundary lines. In his speech at Minneapolis the President brought out a forgotten fact in that after the purchase of Alaska in 1S67 the minority of a House committee reported that "it Is Inexpedient to appropriate money for the purchase of Russian America." Now members of the- same party are denouncing the administration because it is ot ready to go to war for an additional slice of the once despised territory. Unless the Council passes an ordinance to elevate the railroad tracks, nothing will be dene In that direction during the next two years. The mayor has approved one ordinance, but it will be a dead letter. The Council can send him s genuine one. which -will not permit him to be on both sides. Meantime, the Republican Council should see. that tho railroads have proper gates and watchmen at all hours when trains are run, at every crossing used by any considerable number of people. The plan, of ''ex-Representative Culber; acn. of Texas, -for the opening of the flsht upon Representative; Roberts, the alleged tigamlst, seems, to meet with general approval. Mr. Culberson proposes that when lir. Roberts appears, on the organization cf the House, to take the oath, that eoroe center already iwom Into ode object to 1j bdfij s-srora. That objection will hold.

and the speaker will refer the matter to the committee on elections, which will consider his case and report. When the report shall come up in the House It will be discussed and passed upon. If the report holds that bigamy disqualifies and the House approves he will not be a member of the House and his seat will be declared vacant. Another election will be ordered, and It Is iot probable that another bigamist would be elected. If the House does not thus dispose of Mr. Roberts, the Mormon bigamists In Utah will have won a victory of the greatest importance to them. COME, LCT t'S HIIASOV TOGETHER.

If It Is true, as has been stated by the News, that some Republicans are criticising some of the men who have been more or less prominently identified with local Republican politics in times past, accusing socalled "machine" Republicans of treachery or lukewarmness in the campaign Just closed, they should stop it at once both for the sake of the future and in justice to the past. It Is a fact perfectly well known to the campaign committee and to the friends of Mr. Bookwalter that the men .who labored before the convention for the nomination of Mt. Ransdell or Mr. Allen gave to the nominee of that convention the most loyal and earnest support. Mr. Bookwalter himself gracefully and Justly bore public testimony to the truth of this assertion. Those who charge or insinuate to the contrary either willfully misrepresent or are ignorant of the facts. Mr. Ransdell himself not only responded to every request of Mr, Bookwalter and the committee, but scores of his personal friends wrU testify to hts having visited them In behalf of his successful competitor. The statement in the News that "Mr. Ransdell's friends are claiming that he would have been elected" Is not true. That is purely a matter of opinion, and there are no doubt Republicans in Indianapolis who believe it, but no such claim is being made by anyone who wa3 actively engaged in the attempt to nominate either of the gentlemen named. It may aa well be admitted now in fact It might be well to say that some Republicans in Indianapolis were so angered by things that were done by the managers of Mr. Bookwalter's campaign In the organization of the city committee, the methods employed in controlling many of the primaries and the seating of the delegates to the convention that they did not forgive what they regarded as a wrong done them before the closing of the polls; but the men who usually rebel at these things are not of a character to be pacified or "talked Into line" by others whom they recognize as political n.anagers. These are men who feel themselves perfectly we!i qualified to do their own thinking, and not only vote as they please, but resent any attempt that may be made by committeemen or others to control their votes. It may be even that there were enough such in Indianapolis to have changed the result of last Tuesday's election, but if such Is the case the responsibility certainly does not rest with those who were wronged or who fancied themselves so. If responsibility la to be charged at all It must be placed on other shoulders. The Journal Is not attempting to criticise or excuse, but for the sake of the party in which it believes and wishes to serve it would point a moral and give what it conceives to be wholesome advice. A nomination by a convention is not equivalent to an election, and the friends of worthy candidates should not allow themselves, through an excess of zeal for a favorite, to adopt methods in bringing about his nomination that will prove a millstone about his neck later on. He deserves better. Let Republicans who have the interest of the party at heart cease muttering ' and breathing charges against each other, particularly if they do not know what they are talking about, and let all join in a general movement on the enemy. The rank and file of the party, the thousands of voters who never have been and never care to be candidates for office, or members of any wing or faction, but who desire to see the party win because they believe in and respect its principles', will not be ready to forgive any man who perpetuates a quarrel where it means disaster, and the sooner all 'that sort of thing is stopped the better it will be for those who may care to engage in It. BREAKERS AHEAD FOR GREAT IIRITAIX. A London dispatch a day or two ago quoted a correspondent at Berlin as saying: "Gen. Benjamin Harrison, former President of the United States, declared to me to-day that he sighted breakers ahead for the British ship of state." This does not give any particular direction or application to General Harrison's remark, but It probably referred to the coming war with the Transvaal. So far as appears, there Is nothing in the present condition of England's domestic affairs or her relations with other powers to indicate breakers ahead for her, but the war in Africa may involve complications now entirely unforeseen. It looks more and more as If the basic question of the war on the British side Is imperialistic. As the Journal recently remarked, England's traditional policy Is one of territorial expansion, and Africa is the only portion of the globe left where -that policy can find scope. The future ownership, population and government of Africa are yet to be determined. The only thing absolutely certain Is that all the native tribes will give way before -the whites. What white government will ultimately predominate remains to be seen. It certainly wUl not be the Dutch as represented by the Boers, nor will the gieat continent be permanently cut up Into small provinces. It will be divided among the great powers, and one will overshadow all the rest. It is entirely natural and In harmony with her traditional policy that Great Britain should desire the lion's share. 'But there are other powers which, if they do not entertain the same ambition and purpose, will at least regard with Jealousy and perhaps dispute the development of British policy. France, Germany, Italy and Portugal already have territory In Africa, and would like to have more. It remains to be 6een how they will regard a movement which. If allowed to proceed to Its logical conclusion, is almost sure to end in England's seizing and holding the Transvaal country and the Orange Free State. It will hardly he possible for Great Britain to carry out her programme of Imperial expansion without infringing on the interests of some of the powers named. A recent dispatch said It was reported in London that at the coming special session of Parliament formal announcement will be made of the cession of Delagoa bay and the surrounding territory now owned by Portugal to Great Britain. The price paid for this concession was said to be $40,000,000. This would give Great Britain the most valuable harbor on the eastern coast of Africa and a large strip of territory immediately east of the Transvaal, thus greatly strengthening the British position. It would lessen the -danger ot opposlUoa to

the British plans by Portugal, but would tend to increase the danger of opposition from other powers. There is reason to believe that in the war now opening Germany will sympathize with tho Boers. There is no more blood relationship between the Germans and the Dutch than there 19 between the Germans and the English, but Germany would favor the Transvaal Just to spite or thwart Great Britain. At the time of the Jameson raid into the Transvaal, in 1S05, Emperor William cent President Kruger the following message: I express my sincere congratulations that, supported by your people and without appealing for help to friendly powers, you have succeeded by your own energetic action against the armed band3 which invaded your country as disturbers of the peace, and have thus been enabled to restore peace and safeguard the independence of your country against attacks from without. This message roused a wave of popular Indignation in Great Britain. It was construed as almost a declaration of willingness on the part of Germany to assist the Boers in defending their claims. If Emperor William still entertains the same views, he can hardly fail to sympathize with the Boers In the coming war. A few days after the message above quoted was published the British secretary of state for the colonies telegraphed to Sir Hercules Robinson, British Governor of Cape Colony, as follows l Great Britain will resist at all cost the Interference of any foreign power in the affairs of the Transvaal. The suggestion that Germany had contemplated such a 6tep was met In this country by an unprecedented and unanimous outburst of public feeling. Great liritaln will not tolerate any change in her relations with the Transvaal. Shortly after this a member of the German government stated in the Reichstag that it was "the determination of the government to uphold the status quo of Delagoa bay and also the rights involved in the ownership of the German railways, and the maintenance of the South African republic, as guaranteed by the treaty of 1SS4." This was construed In England as another note of defiance. From what has been said it is evident that the war now beginning may Involve consequences entirely unforeseen at present. What with the stubborn opposition of the Boers, the possibility of uprisings by the natives and the probability of complications with one or more of the European powers, especially with Germany, it may be that Great Britain will find she has her hands full. A war begun in Africa may easily spread to Europe, and in that case there would. Indeed, he breakers ahead for Great Britain. The British, however, are good sailors and are not likely to be caught in the breakers unawares.

BRYAN AXD TAGGART. It may be noted as an interesting coincidence that Democratic machine politics achieved a victory simultaneously In Indianapolis and New York. On the day that Mr. Taggart was elected mayor by the canvassing board William J. Bryan was indorsed by the Murphy-Croker faction in the state Democratic committee of New Tork. The resolution adopted by the New Tork Tammanyites recognized Mr. Bryan as "the natural and approved leader of the Democratic party in the Nation." At Mr. Taggart's inauguration, whteh, by the way, was a strictly partisan function, the new city clerk followed his official oath with a speech In which he said: "Yes, we have established a machine and we are going to use it for a good purpose. We are going to use it to help elect to the presidency the greatest man in America, William Jennings Bryan." Some one then proposed three cheers "for Tom Taggart, the next Governor of Indiana," and they were given. Thus was Mr. Taggart's name linked with that of the great apostle of free silver at 16 to 1. The platforms of 1S95 and 1S97 on which Mr. Taggart was elected indorsed free silver. That of 1S37 reaffirmed the declaration of the Chicago platform "In favor of the free and unlimited coinage of sliver at the historic ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting the aid or consent of any other nation on earth, upon which that great statesman, William J. Bryan, made his memorable campaign for the presidency." In accepting the nomination Mr. Taggart Indorsed this declaration. He has never been suspected of having any convictions on the money question, and perhaps that was the reason the platform on which he was last nominated made no allusion to It. His indorsement of Bryan still stands, and the haste which his henchman at his inauguration made to connect their names shows which way the local Democratic wind is blowing. When the Tammanyites in the New York committee succeeded In putting through the resolution indorsing Bryan as "the natural and approved leader of the Democratic party In the nation" ex-Senator David B. Hill warned them "that if any clique or coterie of politicians from this city tries to ride over the Democrats of Cayuga county the ticket that the clique indorses will not be worth the paper it's printed on." Of course, he spoke for the Democrats of mt.ny other counties. If an attempt Is made to carry out the BryanTaggart programme in this State a similar protest will be heard from thousands of Democrats who will refuse to have the repudiated platform and candidate of 1S05 forced upon them. Mr. Taggart could run for Governor on any other platform a? well as on free silver, and under the shadow; of any other great man's coat tails as well as those of Mr. Bryan, but the eagerness of his local trainers to make his last election appear as a victory for Bryan foreshadows a purpose to work them together. From now on Mr. Taggart will be an open and enthusiastic Bryan man, accepting to Its full extent the declaration of the Tammanyites InNewYork. That the most emphatic denial of a statement which, when published, attracts wide attention. Is not noticed. Is again verified in the case of Mr. Peyton. He was sent to the Philippines by Bishop Doane to see what could be done by missionaries. After his return he was made to say that our army was made up of drunkards and gamblers. He has denied the statements over his own name, and yet wideawake papers continue to repeat the original statement and to lash him for making it. He was doubtless the victim cf an imaginative reporter, and the denial seems to be of no avail. Now a few papers are finding fault with the President because he refuses to anncunce a policy for the Philippines after the war is over. They cannot oppose the putting down of Insurrection, but, anxious to find fault with the President, they would have Mm usurp the powers of Congress and do that which he has no right to do. When Congress assembles the President caji make recommendations, and there his constitutional authority ends. In nuppresslng Agulnaldo's insurrection he is simply performing a constitutional duty. . The Twentieth Kansas, which won so high reaowa La Uis P&Uippiaes, want out wlta

1.23 officers and merr: In Its fourteen months of arduous service It lost thirty-three men by disease and thirty-six in battle. In the war for the Union very few regiments lost more men In battle than by disease. Furthermore It is safe to. say that the regiments which went to Manila lost fewer men by disease than did any similar number of regiments during their first year In the war for the Union. This 'means that the men were well cared for.. There is no reason In the nature of things why the entire body of citizens should not unite in electing city officers, without reference to party politics, Just as they did members of the School Board on Tuesday. In fact, by as much as the affairs of the whole city are more important than those of the schools alone, there Is more reason in one case than in the other. When the millennium comes, perhaps, municipal officers will be elected In the manner indicated. The decision cf the Supreme Court settles the question as to. the right of Inmates of the Marlon Soldiers Home to vote. The decision Is based on broad grounds end is clearly right The Constitution and laws confer the right of suffrage on every person of legal age, unless he is otherwise specially disqualified. It would be an outrage to disfranchise veterans, otherwise qualified, because they are voluntary occupants of a soldiers' home. The little town of Three Oaks, Mich., has actually secured a promise from Admiral Dewey to attend a local celebration at the unveiling of its Manila cannon, and Miss Helen Gould has promised to be present and pull the lanyard that will loosen , the drapery that will reveal the gun that lay in the fort that Dewey took., Now let the rest of the country take off its hat to little Three Oaks. I1LUI1LES IX THE AIR.

Embarrassing. . She asked the parson to guess her age A wicked trick, forsooth! The good man dare not tell a He, Nor dare he tell the truth. The Rlffht Word. Mrs. Wick wire Our washerwoman always talks about "wrenching" the clothes, instead of rinsing them. Mr. Wickwire Maybe she says what she means. She has wrenched all the buttonholes out of half my shirts. IlooHed. Thompson Of course, if the government at Washington choose to do so. It can proffer its good offices to tho British in the hope of settling this Transvaal dispute Hooligan I wud like to see thlm dare to try it. There are not enough good offices for us Americans, begorry. Alarmed. The young man, with all due regard for conventionality, hastened to Say: "I have done nothing but 'think of you since I saw you last." She, having the strange hyper-practlcal-Ity that is eating out the heart of romance In this day. Immediately' asked, with much ilann: "Good gracious! Have you lost your Job?" IS THE CHURCH DECLINING t One Man Is Reasonably Certain that It Is Not. Rev. T. A. Goodwin, In Christian Advocate. Speaking for the Methodist Eplscopa' Church only, I am almost compelled to say It must be in spots, at least, for I have heard from very good men, for more than three-quarters of a century, that it is. But. the same was so often alleged of It In the days of Wesley, by the same class of good men, that he preached and published a sermon to contradict It, referring in it to the fact tiaat at least as far back as the days of Solomon eome people thought the former days were better than Just then, but Solomon rebuked them for holding such notions. I should no wonder if good old Noah in his dotage sometimes compared ante-diluvlan conditions with post-diluvian, to the disparaging of the latter. Somehow It seems to be one of "the Infirmities of old people to call up the good times and good things they had when life was young, and to claim that time? were better then than now, Just as the dyspeptic octogenarian recalls the corn Done and mince pies of his mother, and ho;v he relished them when hLs new digestive machinery, was in strictly firstclass condition and he . was a rollicking, growing boy, working or playing in the open air all the time, and he wishes t.ie art of cooking as his mother practiced It was not lost, and that he could once more enjoy the luxuries she prepared for him and the whole family, whereas one such meal as he so much relished In his boyhood would probably throw him Into spasms if it did not kill him outright, while this generation goes along with Its more scientific cooking, utterly tabooing some , of the very things he most relished because they are known to be unhealthful, breeding, if they do not contain, deadly microbes; and the average man or woman is more vigorous now at seventy than the fathers and mothers were at fifty. The respective processes by which spiritual food and food for tbe body are digested, assimilated, and appropriated to their several uses are not so dissimilar that the spiritual may not be aptly illustrated by the material, hence I assume that very much of the bemoanings ' of the supposed decay of the church may be traced to the same cau.e that the old dyspeptic has for Insisting that his mother's cooking was better than his wife's; his spiritual digestive organs are the worse for the wearing. Ono such sermon as he relished "In his spiritual boyhood, and pronounced "powerful," would upset him. My earliest recollections are associated with the lament that the glory of the church had departeds Among those who most constantly harped upon this theme was a venerable old couple who monopolized the grace of sanctificatlon for the whole claps, and dwelt much upon it. They held that it was a sin to laugh, and proved it by the claim that the Christ often wept, but never laughed, whose example they so religlouslv followed that they never even smiled. They were a terror to us children, and we could not help hoping that so advanced a state of grace as they had reached might be long postponed. Another was a venerable preacher, "Father'' Charles Hardy, who Joined the "connection" in 1786. and was for many years among the foremosrt preachers of his period. ; He drlited into Indiana with his children, but if he was ever happy except when miserable over the decline of the church, nobody ever knew it. I well remember two specifications of evidence to prove the glory of Methodism had d parted; one was the members did not attend class meetings as they used to, and the other that women persisted in wearing enormoua bonnets and calashes, and rlnRSt and ruffles, and other wicked articles, always climaxing with, "And even the preachers wear gallues', which are an Invention of the devil -to drag men down to perdition. Bishop Asbury warned them against this sin at the Genesee Conference, enly a year before he died, hut now every preacher wears them." Dear old man! I can yet see his bent form as he leaned upon Ms staff, .topping every once in a while to hitch up his breeches, which seemed Inclined to slip off his hips, and all that he might show to that backslidden generation what Methodism was in Its better day And. so far as has come to my notice, all the evidences of decline paraded by those of this generation who bemoan decline, belong to the same family of complaints, and may all be accounted for on the theory that their spiritual digestive organs are not In first-clasa condition. nnrrlson and the Kaiser. Chicago Chronicle. General Benjamin Harrison has been dining with der Kaiser von das vaterland. Wilhelm has the reputation of being a particularly haughty and -exclusive personage, but if he tried any chilly hauteur with Benjamin wt will wager that the thermometer in the royal dining room froze up and exploded with a loud report shortly thereafter. When It comes to cold storage dignity, the Hon. Benjamin Harrison Is no slouch himself. Jnit a Fmt of 'Em. Boston Globe. , . ? In spltf of the fact that business everywhere is booming, several persons stood in Washington street in front of the Globe's vach' race bulletins nearly all day yesterday. Irritating; Philadelphia Ledger. It must ' irritate New jersey te see the yachts racinjr up and dovs bar oaut without uklng out gh,?.rtTZ

PRESSURE OF PROSPERITY

IT KEEPS UP, AXD ACTCAMA INCREASES, IX NEARLY ALL LI-ES. An Unprecedented Movement of Cereals Abroad, Especially In CornGeneral Business Conditions. NEW TORK, Oct. 13.-R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade, which Issues tomorrow, will say: Industrial conditions could hardly be better. After many months of sucn extraordinary buying that its continuance seemed Impossible, even larger buying still crowds producing works, in most lines, beyond their capacity. The iron furnaces are producing 11,000 tons weekly more than ever before, 278,615 tons to Oct. I, and yet the actual consumption in manufacture reduced unsold stocks in September by 27,380 tons, while the demand runs far Into next year for many products. After the great buying last week Bessemer pig rises to $24 at Pittsburg, with No. 1 anthracite, at Philadelphia, and No. 1 local coke, at Chicago, both quoted at $3.50 and buyers paying premiums for early deliveries, according to their needs. Finished products still advance, Eastern bar to $2.15 and tank plates to $3.10, and the average of percentages to prices of Jan. 1, 1S37, is now 100.64 for finished products and 103.7 for pig. The boot and shoe shops are getting a little better price for men's kip boots and women's grain and buff shoes, and shipments for the first half of October are the largest ever reported, though orders for next season are retarded by prices. Leather Is a shade higher, but buying of sole has been checked by the recent advance, as mantl icturers appear to have rather large supplies, and the Chicago market for hides, though quoted a little higher, seems uncertain. The demand for woolen goods Is fairly large and prices are well sustained though not further advanced. Sales of wool are smaller, only V,473,3u0 pounds for the week at the three markets, without further advance. Silks are firm and linens tending upward, with good demand. Cotton manufacture meets so great a demand that prices advance every week and supplies for early delivery are in many lines restricted. More business is turned down than is done in brown sheetings, and drills and coarse colored cottons are rising. Wheat exports are still larger than from the great crop of last year, Atlantic (flour included) having been 7,351,990 bushels in two weeks, against 6,116.6JS bushels last year, and Pacific 730,44$ bushels, against 1,375,034 bushels last year. Western receipts have been only 14,518,892 bushels, against 20,790,495 bushels last year, but the' course of prices 'is not calculated to encourage a big movement, for after starting at 75.37 cents and falling to 75 cents the market closed at .75 cents, with December options unchanged. The government deferred any estimate of yield, and Its figures are usually variously interpreted but not influential. Corn receipts of 13,T89,S49 bushels, against 11.047,258 bushels in two weeks of last year, with exports of 6,177,148 bushels, against 4.367.593 bushels last year, show a supply and a foreign demand which might well affect the wheat market to some extent. Failures for the week have been 164 in the United States, against 2C5 last year, and twenty-seven In Canada, against twentyfive last year. nEAPIXG MEASURE. Prosperity Apparent In Every Line of Trade and Production. NDW YORK, Oct. 13. Bradatreefs, tomorrow, will say: Trade activity Is widespread, all measures of volume and value testifying to prevailing prosperous conditions. Only good reports are received from distributive trade centers, and some markets report fall demand as holding out longer than expected. Railway earnings, bank clearings returns and quotations of staple prices are all encouraging, pointing, as they do, to a maximum volume of business for this period of the year. Crop returns for October bear out earlier impressions of shortened yields of leading agricultural products. Expectation of more moderate yields of leading cereals Is not confined to this country. The world's wheat crop will admittedly be smaller, and rye, barley and oats yields are not expected to be so large as a year ago. The higher range of prices of all staples, and particularly of agricultural products, however, will furnish a profitable balance to producers. The advance in the price of cotton has been a notable one, and though some reaction is naturally noted, the effects upon general Southern trade and industry of the great advance are particularly beneficial. The liberality of foreign demand is, perhaps, best shown in the September report of exports of leading products. Shipments of breadstuffs were as large as those of August, and there was naturally a heavy gain in cotton exports, which are double those of the same month a year ago. Totals of leading exports show an Increase of 23 per cent, over September, a year ago, and over September, 1897, but a decrease of 8.5 per cent, from September. 1897, which witnessed very heavy shipments of breadstuffs. The general manufacturing industry is running full and activity is so widespread that it is hard to prefer one industry to another in this respect. Coal production is particularly heavy, but a scarcity of cars is complanied of in this and in the coke industry, with the strength of lake freights a disturbing element as regards the supply ef anthracite In the West. Iron and steel are active as to production, but new business is limited by the small quantities available for near-by delivery. Liberal orders are still reported for the first half of next year and s.teel rails are reported tending upward at the West. Paper is in specially active demand at present, news varieties, owing to low water, being reported practically out of the market. Sugar refining furnishes one exception to the reports of general prosperity, and production is decreasing, partly, of course, owing to the season, but also to the demoralization growing out of price cutting. Tobacco is reported very generally active, at nearly all markets, Kast and West. Shoe manufacturers are busy and leather and hides are sympathetically strong in price. Lumber is in good urgent demand at many markets, in spite of the advanced stage of the season, and prices are firm. Since July 1. this season, the exports of wheat aggregate W.5,047 bushels, against 67.228.11C bushels last year and 6,920,132 bushels in 1397-98. For the same period, corn exports aggregate 64,754.159 bushels, against 42.CC6.240 bushels during the same period a year ago, and 43.842.81.8 bushels in 1S97-9S. n VXK CLEARINGS. Dradiitreet's Snmmary of Business In the Lendintr American Cities. NEW YORK, Oct. 13. The following table, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended Oct. 13, with the percentage of increase and decrease as compared with the corresponding week last year: New York $1,141,300,422 Inc.. 56.9 Boston 143.065.653 Inc.. 30.1 Chicago l.",989.330 Inc.. 16.0 Philadelphia 80.370.634 Inc.. 30.3 St. Louis 39.975.3S7 Inc.. 17.3 Pittsburg 45.411,248 Inc.. 137.6 Baltimore 19.337.123 Dec. 4.4 San Francisco 21.294.873 Inc.. 23.9 Cincinnati 15.796,850 Inc.. 12.9 Kansas City 17,499.073 Inc.. 9.4 New Orleans 9.196,213 Inc.. 28.1 Minneapolis 12,731,037 Inc.. 6.8 Detroit 8,645,431 Inc.. 27.6 Cleveland 11.856.639 Inc.. 4S.8 Louisville 8.220,553 Inc.. ll.S Providence 7,207,300 Inc.. 28.8 Milwaukee 5.911.096 Inc.. 8.2 St. Paul 5,144,578 Dec. 14.6 Buffalo 5.442.156 Inc.. 14.0 Omaha 7.2T9.56S Dec. 7.9 Indianapolis 5.63.698 Inc.. 5.2 Columbus, 0 5.S56.200 Inc.. 44.0 Evansvllle, Ind. 601,044 Inc.. 13.0 Totals, TJ. S $1,829, 769.586 Inc.. 31.1 Totals outside N. Y... 6S9.374.154 Inc.. 24.2 Bljr Deal In Conl Lands. PITTSBURG. Pa., Oct. 13. The Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company has Just closed the deal for the purchase of the Immense tract of cool belonging to the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, at Charleroi, for $l,CO0.CO0 cofih. The money has been paid Into the Union Trust Comnanv and the river combine Is now in possession. The tract contains

anout 4,wjo acres and Is one ot tne largest bodies of coal on the Monongahela river. It has been under option for some time to the MononKahela Company and also to the Pittscuzj Cos! Qy lha rtli cssi ccabloe.

It is probable the tract will be opened up next spring by the river combine on a large scale.

Prclffht Rate on Ore Increased. CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 13. As the result of the efforts of the Rockefeller Interests and their heavy purchases of Iron ore carrying vessels, the lake freight rate on ore r.ext eeason will be $1.25, which is an advance of 65 cents over this season's rate. Owing to the advance in freight the ore men announce that the price of ore will go up $2. Seventy-five per cent, of the output of the mines for the first six months of next year has already been contracted for. The Rockefeller interests are negotiating for the purchase of two more steamers. Bankruptcy Act Construed. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 13. A decision of great importance in bankruptcy cases has been handed 'down by Judge Jenkins from the United States Court of Appeals. The court rules that a Judgment secured against an Insolvent person within four months preceding the filing of bankruptcy proceedings Is void Inasmuch as it is an apparent impossibility to determine to a certainty the exact standing of creditors. It Is stated the decision will result In a rush for other security. ... Stoves S Per Cent. Higher. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 13. The Southern Stove Manufacturers Association to-day announced a 5 per cent, advance In all grades of stoves. JUBILEE OF CHRISTIANS FOLLOWERS OP DR. ALEX. CAMPBELL XOW OVER 1,000,000 S1ROXG. Annual Convention at Cincinnati Well AttendedWomen's Board of MissionsEpiscopal Congress. CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 13. The Christian Churches, or Disciples of Christ, began here to-day the Jubilee of their organized missions. This denomination, which began seventy-five years ago under the leadership of Dr. Alexander Campbell, and has had such distinguished adherents as President Garfield and Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, is now more than a million strong. Threefourths are In Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee and Kansas. They are notably an active denomination In evangelistic work. Over 100,000 converts were added the present year. This Jubilee convention is represented by three' missionary societies the Christian Women's Board of (Missions, the American Christian Missionary Society and the Foreign Christian Missionary Society. It Is In no sense a legislative body, and never deals in trials. Delegates and visitors are here from foreign countries: Among the pioneer preachers here are Rev. C. I Loos, of Kentucky; Rev. H. R. Prltchard, of Indiana; Rev. Robert Moffett, of Ohio, and Rev. W. T. Moore, of Missouri. This year has been highly successful In missionary contributions, the total being over half a million dollars. The feature will be the celebration of the Lord's Supper in Music Hall Sunday afternoon, when 5,u00 communicants will take part. The Christian Women's Board of Missions began its sessions to-day with the address of Mrs. O. A. Burgess, president. Mrs. Lois A. White, secretary, presented the annual report. -This Is the only women's missionary society that both raises and disburses its funds without authority of men. One of its features Is the maintenance of Bible chairs in connection with the state universities. Prof. G. P. Coler has the chair at Ann Arbor and Prof. C. A. Young at Charlottsille, Va. Mrs. O. A. Burgess, of Indianapolis, called the board to order. The report of the secretary, Mrs. Lois A. White, showed that over $100,000 had been raised the past year for missions. The report of Mrs. Helen Moses on the Bible movement was loudly applauded. It is the purpose to establish a chair for English Blfc'e Instruction at every state university. Prof. G. P. Coler, who occupies this chair at Ann Ar bor, made an address. The notable feature this afternoon was. the memorial service at . the Richmondstreet Church, where the society was organized twenty-five years ago. Mrs. C. N. Pearre, of Indiana, who was the leader in the organization, gave a touching address of remlnlscenses. Miss Jennie It. Errett, of Ohio, daughter of the late Rev. Isaac Errett, read an address on "Leaves from Unwritten History." Many of the charter members were present. In the evening addresses were made by Mrs. Ida W. Harrison, of Kentucky; Mrs. N. E. Atkinson, of Indiana; Mrs. C. F. Lindsay, of Illinois, and Miss Mattie Burgess, a returned missionary from India. A feature of the Jubilee convention will he the communion service Sunday afternoon, provision for which has been made in three of the largest auditoriums of the city and in which ten thousand persons are expected to participate. So large were the crowds to-day that two overflow meetings were held. Evancelleal Bishops Re-Elected. ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 13. The four present bishops of the Evangelical Association were re-elected by the General Conference. The results of the ballot gave Bishop Breyfogel 86 votes, or only ten less than the whole number cast. Bishop Horn received 76, Bowman 67 and Escher 61, and all were re-elected. After disposing of the election of bishops the conference attempted to elect a senior book agent. Five ballots were taken. Three candidates C. A. Thomas and Henry Mattlll, of Cleveland, the present book agents, and Jacob Pfund, superintendent of the orphan home divided the votes, but no one received the required majority. At the sixth ballot C. A. Thomas was elected senior publishing agent. Hi headquarters will be at Cleveland. O. On the third ballot II . Mattlll was elected Junior publishing agent. G. Heinrailler was chosen editor of the Chllstllche Botschafter; S. P. Sprerg, editor of the Evangelical Messenger; C. F. Zimmerman, editor of the Evangelische Magazine and of all the German Sunday-school literature issued by the association. J. H. Lamb will edit the Living Epistle and he will have general editorial charge of the English Sunday-school publications. T. C. Mekel was chosen corresponding secretary of the missionary society and W. Yost was made the society's treasurer. C. C. Pfund wast elected superintendent of Ebenezer Orphans' Home, at Flat Rock, O. A. H. Beck was named as publishing agent for the branch house at Stuttgart, Germany. G. Fussels was chosen editor of the Evangelische Botschafter. J. Schemp, J. Barchet and A. Bader. of the Germany Conference, together with S. F. Mauer. 8. Muller and S. Zwinglin. of Switzerland, were named as a committee to oversee the workings of the Stuttgart publishing branch. W. Yost was made statistical secretary. Protestant Episcopal Congress. ST. PAUL. Minn., Oct. 13. The Protestant Episcopal Congress held its closing session to-day. The general topic was, "The Prayer Book in the Life of the People." The writers were Rev. Alford A. Butler, of Faribault, Minn., and Rev. B. W. R. Taylor, of Los Angeles, Cal. The leaders in the discussion were Rev. W. II. Jones, of Gambler, O., and Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas, of Wheeling. W. Va. No business was transacted by the congress, but the general commission of the church, at its sessions during the recess, has transacted considerable business. Rev. C. C. Tiffany, of New York, was re-elected general chairman of the congress and Thomas Whltaker treasurer. The position of general secretary was offered Rev. Cornelius B. Smith, who has for the past year acted &9 secretary pro tem. Dr. Smith, however, refused to accept the position, for the reason that he had not the time to devote to it. The matter of his successor was left to the executive committee, with power to act. Hartford, Conn., was chosen as the place for holding the twentieth session of the congress. Allesed Heretic Deposed. DENVER. Col., Oct. 13.-Rev. Henry W. Plnkham. pastor of Bethany Baptist Church and one of the most prominent young clergymen in the city, has been dropped from the Rocky Mountain Baptist Association for alleged heretical views. The charge Is that Mr. Plnkham does not believe in the literal resurrection of Christ; In the supernatural birth of Christ, nor in vicarious atonement. Henry C. Iiyne Dettt r. MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Oct. 13. Henry C. Payne, who fell unconscious to the street last evening from an attack of vertigo, has entirely recovered nnd is at his ofiice to-day Attending to business as usual

GEN. MERRITT'S REPORT

OX THE COXDITIOX OF THE AR3IT DEPART3IEXT OF THE EAST. Ordnance Bnrean and Quartermaster's Department Arrnla-ned Coast Artillery Xot Efficient. ' WASHINGTON. Oct. 13. The annual report of Major General Mcrritt. commanding the Department of the East, was made public at the War Department to-day. The report Is a strong arraignment of the whole situation In the artillery branch of the service, being particularly directed against the ordnance bureau, and incidentally the quartermaster's department, the latter for failure to furnish what General Merritt considers proper quarters at artillery posts. - General Merritt says the system on which the artillery is based is wrong, in that the artilleryman who is held responsible for the work he has to do with his guns has no voice In the making or selection of them, this being left entirely to tho ordnance buleau. But he adds that since the engineer department, In the same Independent way, furnishes the artilleryman with his emplacements, and there has been no fault to find with this portion of the equipment, there n.ust be something more than the mere system to blame for the unsatisfactory condition of affairs. The general says he resumed command of the department Jan. 7 last, since which time most of the infantry and cavalry la the department have been ordered on foreign service, leaving at the present date only four troops of cavalry and three comparies of infantry. He says he has no specific reco.Timendations to make regarding any one place. Tho officers are known to be intelligent, industrious and serious In their efforts to improve the efficiency of their commands. "Tnat the coast artillery Is not to-day In cn efficient condition," General Merritt says, "is due to causes over which artillery officers have no control:, nor can these Impediments be reached, by the department commanders. - Seme require tho action of the secretary of war. and others can r remedied only by Congress." General Merritt calls attention to the defects which Major Storey, department artillery Inspector, treats in detail In his report. "Our cavalry anl infantry to-day," General Merritt contlnuea. "are organized on a modern basis are splendidly officered and equipped, and with regular supplies of food, clothing and 'ammunition, contain within themselves the elements of complete efficiency. This is not true of the artillery. The officers are well educated and zealous, but the efforts are cramped by an Imperfect organization, and responsibility for the efficiency or inefficiency of their arm lies not. as it should, with themselves, but very largely In other quarters. Either through defects of law or their own Inettlclency. the supply departments, on which the artillery Is wholly dependent, have frequently failed to loj-ally and energetically serve its interests. The fact that the engineer depart ment, working under the same law, has under Its present chief given the artillery no cause for complaint would seem to Indicate that something Is wrong besides the laws. This condition gives rise to the oftenexpressed desire of the artillery for a chief for that arm of the service, who would see that it is supplied with what It needs to be effective; but I. personally, have very grave doubts as to this being the most suitable remedy, as It may result only In adding another bureau to the War Department, which It may be as difficult to make efficient as some of those already In existence. "I desire. In addition, to call special attention to the following points In the report of the artillery inspector: "First The failure of the quartermaster's department to make timely provision for housing the garrison at new artillery posts. "Second The necessity for providing at artillery posts a permanent post noncommissioned staff of specialists, electrician, and observer sergeants. "Third The recommendation that the strength of coast artillery be fixed at the number of officers and men required to fully man the guns. "It is also observed that the artillery should be inspected by artillery officers; and the fact that tho department commander's artillery inspector has no power to Inspect Is a patent absurdity, and one which I urge may be disposed of at an early date. The means of making nny arm of the service all it should be should rest with the general commanding the geographical department in which the said arm of the service Is stationed." Capt. Ike T. Jobe, late of the Sixth United States Volunteer Infantry. ha9 been arrested here on the charge of using War Department penalty envelopes for private letters, and held for appearance at the December term of the court at Columbus, O. Jobe, who was formerly mayor of Johnson City, Tenn., was discharged from the army in March last He was arrested in New York recently, where it was alleged he had sold a number of transportation requests to ticket scalpers. He was held In 12.000 bond, which he furnished, and soon after went West. Recently a notice of Jobe's death appeared in a Covington, Ky., newspaper, with a complimentary obituary notice. Ht was unable to furnish the required bond here, and was remanded to Jail. To-day's statement of the condition of the " treasury shows: Available cash balance, $287,205,117; gold reserve. $257,744,906. The Navy Department has received a cablegram from Chief Engineer Norton, who is at Newcastle, England. Inspecting the progress of the work on the cruiser Albany, stating that a dock trial of the ship had Just been had with two boilers, with satisfactory results. Tho ship Is now nearly ready to be turned over to tbe United States government and she will probably go direct . from England to Manila, a crew being sent out to her from this country. Major Root, in charge of the customs of Cuba, writes the War Department that the recent strikes of the draymen, stevedores and lightermen have reduced the customs receipts at the port of Havana for the month of September to the amount of jmooo. The monthly statement of the imports and exports of merchandise of the United States during the month of September, 1809, together with the Increase or decrease, as compared with September, 1S08. shows as follows: Dutiable merchandise Imported, 139,425,521, an increase of about $10,000,000: domestic merchandise exported; $109,123.47, an increase of H3At; jrold Imports, $2,B72I2S. a decrease of $14,300,000; gold exports, $1,036,743. a decrease of about $2,000,000; sll- ' ver. imports $2.040.S14. an increase of $10,000.- . sliver exports, $3,622,147, a decrease of $1,500,000. The exports of merchandise dur- . ing the last nine months are shown to have exceeded the imports by $7C,6uC,7S7. The Navy Department has disposed of three of Its condemned vessels as follows: The single turreted monitor AJax. to II. A. Hither's Sons, of Philadelphia, $20,067: the single turreted monitor Passaic, to Frank; Samuel, of Philadelphia. $19.7&: the schooner rigged Hector, formerly the Spanish vessel Pedro, captured and condemned as a prize, to the Metropolitan Coal Company, of lio-ton. at its bid of $vl.V). The appraised value of the thre vessels was $74,0D and ' they brought $114,000. ROBERTS IN NEW YORK. Tbe Mormon Consjressman-nieet Ad mlta He la a PolygramlM. NEW YORK. Oct. 13. Congressman-elect Brigham XX. Roberts, from Salt I-ake City, Utah, who Is In Brooklyn on private business, said to-day there was no Indictment against him when he left Utah that he knew of. nor did he know there was now an Indictment. He had broken no law, he said. That he hid a plurality of wives was true, but he had married them before th manifesto of 1E. There had been no plural marriages since then, nor would there le any. Any Infringement of the statute would be disciplined by the church as quickly as by the laws of the land. Speaking of his election to Congress, he said it had been accomplished independent of the church, as he had received the greater number of votes from gentiles, and it had been an election of tho people. He had no fear about facing Congress nor any misgivings in regard to the general outcome of the situation. Quarreled Over the Wedding; Dr. - FORT SCOTT, Kan.. Oct. 13. James Pish to-day shot his nancee. Miss Clara Stainbrook, and then sent a bullet into his own brain. Hish is dead, but the young woman. will recover. They had quarreled over the day of their wedding.

1

f

-A