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A fraudulent election in St. Louis to-day, uch as the Democratic managers forced upon the city last November will be a bad ! beginning for a world's fair. In Lynn (Mass.) the man who gave evidence which led to the conviction of hi3 brother-in-law of murder is being ostraeis d by his neighbors. If this story is ! true, Lynn is a good place for those people j to go who believe that human life should not be protected. I The election in St. Louis has a national significance in that the success of the Democratic candidate for mayor, who voted for McKinley, means that hereafter Missouri will be controlled by Gold Democrats. Bryan and Altgeid are against the Democratic candidate. Those who Insist that there are no men in this age who possess the heroic spirit that risks life to save the lives of others must ignore ihe name of Lieutenant Commander Roper. He gave his life to save men in his command. Such heroism adds fresh luster to the glory of the officers of the American navy. It looks as If the long-expected Invention for utilizing petroleum In the cheap production of heat and light may have come. The Standard Oil Company dors not waste time on fake inventions, and Its purchase of a new patent of the kind referred to indicates that we may te on the eve of Interesting developments In the direction of cheaper fuel and light. The appointment of a special committee of Cubans to visit "Washington and confer with the President relative to the Piatt amendment will postpone final settlement of the question two or three weeks. As the Cuban patriots who compose the constitutional convention draw $13 a day they will prevent any settlement as long as a pretext can be found for doing so. In Chicago, where women are permitted to register to vote for school officers, 29,513 registered in 1S91. 5.6CG in 1800, 1.4S3 in 1S9S, and not enough to count in 19o0. In Hartford, Conn., In 1S13. TOt women voted; in DOO, I7. In Boston only LM.472 women registered out of a total of 123,0)0. These facts fhow that where women have an 'opportunity to vote few avail themselves of tho right. . . There Is too much of a-custom to support a man for appointment to a public office because he lives in one's county or town, regardless of qualifications. To stand by one's neighbors is a creditable thing within certain limitations, which Include character and capacity. No one should advocate a man for a public position whom he would not recommend for a responsible position In private. The best men are needed for public employment, but they are not always obtained, because men, In the desire to stand by their locality, urge the appolntmen' of men who have no fitness for public position. The pitiful performance of Sunday night must have satisfied all people who respect the decencies of life that Mrs. Nation cannot faii to injure any good cause. The woman may mean well, but if she is not lacking In good sense she has no appreciation of the proprieties of life. No cause founded on good conduct can be helped by her performances. The sooner people generally know this the better. It is creditable to the good sense of th? people that they did not pay money to see and hear the woman. Those who imagined that she would draw good houses and hired her to visit the city fcem to be Ignorant of the character of the masses. In this locality temperance people gave her no support. An article Is published from Mr. Eugene V. Debs In which he assails the memory of the late ex-Presldcnt Harrison because, as the writer asserts, 'at the time of the railroad strikes in 1VT7 General Harrison "made his way into a meeting of strikers, denounced them as a mob of lawbreakers, declaring that if ho were in authority he would put them luck to work if he had to do it at the paint of a bayonet." Mr. Dobs says that ".-cores of men, many of whom I personally know, testified that Harrison declared in the same speech that a worklngman could live on $1 a day and that he ought to be willing to do It." There Is not a word of truth In any of those state

ments. They are simply a, revival In a new form of similar torlos started by disreputable persons In the presidential campaign of lS. The Journal denounced then at the time m campaign Ii s and offered a standing reward of fl.tvO "for proof that Central Harrison ever used s?uch language In thin city In 177. or in any other city or Plata at any t'me." Th proof waa never furnished and the story never fathered by any reputable person. Shortly after Gen. JiajTbon's nomination In 1S.SS a Republican

club was formed in thl3 city composed exclusively of railroad men. On the night of the ICth of July they marched to General Harrison's house jm strong, where one of the number, a yardmaster, made a speech indorsing him In tho i-troneest terms, and members of the club stated that it was organized to refute the slanders about the general. There never was a particle of truth in the stories, and their revival at this time is very discreditable, even to Mr. Debs. RATIONAL DISO NMOX OF IXOXOMIC ! tendencies, j There Is a disposition to discuss the extensive combinations of factories engaged in the same business in a rational manner rather than from the point of view of. the demagogue. Monopoly, or the desire of monopoly, is not confined to corporations. Monopoly has been one of the alms of mankind since the days of Adam. Each man haa sought to gam an advantage over his associates and to obtain In trade a portion of tho Income of his neighbors over the mere cost of living. Possibly the individual monopolist Is more grasping than the corporation. Certainly the individual money lender, as a rule, demands higher rate of interest than the bank. So, In discussing this question, let us dismiss the idea that there cannot be monopoly without a corporation. To deal with trusts or monopolies by legislation Is the fad of the period. Something in this line may be done; but how can legislation prevent such vast combinations of plants and capital as that which ha3 just been made by the consolidation of tho Carnegie properties and others In the same or kindred Industries? Must not such legislation begin with constitutional amendments that will change the theories upon which our government stands? Those who are at tho same time candid and Intelligent, Instead of indulging in denunciation, are awaiting the development of such vast aggregations of mills, mines and transportation as has been recently made under the leadership of J. Pierpont Morgan. While most distrust many wait for results. Now and then a man appears who Is making a theoretical study of the trust as an economic factor, like Mr. Edward S. Meade, a recent graduate of De Pauw University, who gives his viewa in an article In the Forum entitled "Limitations of Monopoly," which are worthy of consideration by those who are studying the subject. He Is frank and brave enough to say that such extensive combinations as have been referred to may mitigate monopoly by extending the number who are participants In the profits of manufacture. The Carnegie Company dominated the Iron Interest for years. It owned ore, ships, furnaces, coal, and dominated transportation. A competitor could net make the smallest profits of the Carnegie Company. Many competitors had to pay heavy tribute to the Carnegie Company because It controlled raw materials. All the while the Carnegie Company made large profits while competitors had to be content with meager ones. Now, all these properties are merged in one corporation and the aggregate of profits must be divided more equally among a multitude of stock and bondholders. Thus whatever monopoly the great iron combination obtains Is diffused. The Investment habit will make hundreds of thousands of Individuals sharers in the profit of what may be called a monopoly. In Philadelphia &CM1 voters are shareholders in the municipal monopolies of that city. Through deposits in savings banks and- trust companies almost millions of depositors are the recipients, Indirectly, of the profits of railroad and other reliable corporations. This Is a movement toward public ownership of the best character. The organization of labor comes under the same head. Whatever is gained by thousands of workmen in better wages Is a dividend from the profits of what may be called monopoly. The power of substitution is another of the limitations of monopoly, and a very effective one. The monopoly of the anthracite coal industry led to a great Increase of consumption of bituminous coal, forcing the output from 3S,2oo,OoO tons in 1SS0 to HS,700,OJ tons In 1S?S. The substitution of gas made of soft coal for anthracite coal and petroleum Is a feature in some larger cities. A few years ago the International Paper Company announced that the monopoly was based on the possession of large tracts of forests from which pulp can be made. Hardly had the companv made Its announcement when It was discovered that the magnolia tree, growing abundantly In khe South, would make good paper, and that the hull of cotton peed and the waste of sugar plantations could be turned to the same use. The consumption of wood has fallen off during the last ten years because the cotton-seed hall has become more ami more a substitute. Considering the unlimited power of substitution, no monopoly Is secure in its control, for no bounds can te set to the inventive capacity of man. FROM (I V Ell RILL A LEADER TO PATRIOT. Colonel John S. Mosby's views regarding the future of the new South, as published In the Journal yesterday, are interesting on account of their origin and also In themselves, colonel Mosby was a Southern product of the civil war. and few names on either side of the conflict were more familiar to the public ear than his. He was a typical cavalryman and perhaps the most noted guerrilla leader of the war. His so-called partisan rangers were made up of deserters from the Confederate ranks, of volunteers from civil life and of furloughed cavalrymen who had lost their horses and joined his command temporarily until they could steal or capture a remount. One of his boldest lieutenants was a deserter from the Union army. The Confederate Congress by special act placed his command on the footing of regular cavalry, w ith the s i me pay. Their daring leader Inflicted groat damage on the Union army and thwarted every effort to capture him. He was very grateful to General Grant for extending protection to his guerrillas at the surrender in lVi. and In 157J he came out In support of Grant for President. From that time to the present he has been an outspoken and unwavering Republican. President Hayes appointed him consul at Hong-Kong, and he made an excellent official. After his return to the United States he practiced law and Ioctured. It Is instructive to note the progress which this typical Southerner has mde since the war. In taking leave of his pirtisan rangers at the close of the war Col. Mosby said: "Soldiers of the Forty-third Reglmect; I have summoned you together

for the last time. The vision we have cherished of a free and independent country has vanished, and that country is now the spoil of the conqueror. I disband your organization in preference to surrendering it to our enemies. I am now no longer your commander." That was frank and conclusive, litre is what Colonel Mosby says now: The real South Is just at Its birth. The growth of this child of the Nation maybe gradual, but In the end tho South will b tar richer and more powerful than the North. In the days to come the South will become the dominant section of the country. Without the war of secession theSouth could never have hoped to attain the future that is now certain. Slavery wis a great incubus, paralyzing natural energy, llv abolishing this wrong our war benefited every State south of the Mason and Dixon line. The negroes are producing more as free men thin they ever did as slaves, and the great mass of the people are vastly better off to-day than they were under th. old ante-bellum system. Socially, as well as Industrially, the abolition of slavery was highly beneficial in Its results to the masses, for slavery was a great wrong, and no community can exist in the highest state of happiness when Its system Is based on wrong. These are bright and hopeful words to come from a man who spent four years In the prime of his life fighting for Southern Independence and who is now in his sixtyninth year. They are the words of a prophet of good and not of a prophet of evil. And they are mainly true. What he says about the incubus of slavery and the benefits resulting from Its abolition, which he fought against with all hl3 might, is undoubtedly true, as is also his prediction as to the future prosperity of the South. Whether It will ever become richer and more powerful than the North may be doubted, but it will become far richer and more powerful than it is now. In another part of his statement Colonel Mosby predicts that Richmond, Va., "Is the city mot likely to become in time the banking center and commercial headquarters of this country, and therefore of the world." Colonel Mosby is a Virginian, and much can be forgiven to the State pride that would make the ancient capital of the State the commercial metropolis of the country. Richmond enters the race too late to outstrip the great cities of the North, but she should be satisfied to become the commercial metropolis of the new South. That will be infinitely better than being the political capital of a confederacy based on slavery, the abolition of which Colonei Mosby now admits was the greatest possible blessing to the South. The Southern people have never quite forgiven the former daring cavalry leader for his early conversion and firm adherence to Republicanism, tut in his present views regarding the new South he is the most optimistic Southerner of them all. Colonel Mosby's progress from guerrilla leader to broad-minded patriot has been an interesting evolution.

While there is abundant reason for regret in the reported discovery of frauds in the commissary department at Manila it would be very unreasonable and unjust to reflect on the whole military service because of the dishonesty of a few individuals. Among the hundreds of thousands oLjiostal officials in the United States not a year passes that several scores are not arrested for fraud of some kind. Yet everybody knows that the great mass of the officials are thoroughly honest. With an army of G3,0oO men in the Philippines there Is no occasion for surprise that a few, perhaps half a dozen, shou'd prove dishonest. Such things occur In all wars and in all countries. In the present case It Is quite likely the first report is exaggerated, but if there has been official fraud to any extent whatever the country will demand a searching investigation and severe punishment of the guilty parties. This case will not present any of the difficulties regarding extradition or mode of trial that were raised in the case of the Cuban postal frauds, as the Philippines arc an undisputed possession of the United States. If the guilty parties can be punished more summarily under military than under civil law, that mode of procedure should be adopted. Public sentiment will demand that no guilty man escape. Ex-Senator Gorman's plausible defense of the Maryland 'disfranchising law does not consist. In one breath he says that if there are 26.0O0 adult negroes in the State who cannot read or write it is their own fault, as "since 1S70 the colored population has had ample opportunity to learn to read and write, by means of the schools furnished by the white taxpayers of Maryland." In the next breath he says the Maryland people would have no trouble In regard to suffrage with their own colored people, but they are overrun by the recent immigration and importation of negroes from the South. If the illiterate negroes have arrived so recently from the South how could they have profited by the free schools which Mr. Gorman says have been maintained since l!70? He will not succeed in making any person believe that the public, schools in the rural districts of Maryland are open to negroes, or that his defense of the law is honest in other respects. He is too well known to pose successfully as a political reformer or champion of an educated ballot. BSBBSSBSBMBSMSHBSBBBBSBBSMBBBSaBSBSBSPWBSSSBBBBSBBBSSSSBSMB FKOM HITHER AND YON. S'Minnt intin I Term. Philadelphia Record. IUobbs He told me a hair-raising ftory. Flobbs About what? Rlobbs The profits In Relgian rabbit Contrnrt. What to Rat. Mr. Selfmade Remember, children, when I was a boy I often went to bed hungry, and seldom had a square meal. Little Tommy (who Is tired of hearing about It) Well, that Ju.t shows how much better off you are pinee you've known us. An Average Roy. "Ma. make Sis help. I can't do All o' them chores up for you 'Fore school begins; My bark's lame, n" I mus go N' m iome fellers 't I know N' other things." Frank H. Sweet. In Recreation. Financial Illlllculty. Detroit Free I'n ss. "Judy and I got into a terrible tangle shop ing to-day." "How?" "I owed her b cent?, and borrowed Z cent? and then cents." "Well?" "Th?n I ral,l ZO cents for something bought." "Veit?" "And t-he j ai l 4' eent for . nu thing I bought, and then we treated each th r to Ice cnam oda." "Well?" She says I -tili owe h' r a nickel." Anocd otal. Detroit Journal. "I rnd inypelf too ponr." falter! Sir Walter RaleUh. "to keep a servant!" "WrdlT" reioliud the irod Queen Re. with

froideur. for rhe chance3 to b croser than two etick this tiay. 'Yur Majesty," quoth the courtier. "If I have no servant, who. pray. Is to throw an ewer of water over me as I enjoy my pipe, exclaiming: 'Winn there is .moke there Is f:re!' " , Kven the TutJor o raM not find it In her heart to ."tan.I In the way cf t'ir Walter's having an anecdotal 5iJe to his character; accordingly, albeit it was with no very good praer, she drew an orJtr upon the royal exchequer. BLOW AT PROGRESS.

Science nml Art Cannot He Taught In London cIioo!n at I'nbllc Expenne. LONDON. April 1. The Appeal Court has upheld the decision of the Divisional Court declaring that the School Hoard was not justified in providing science and ait classes out of the school board rate, and that the auditor was justified in disallowing payments therefor. The case referred to in the foregoing dispatch has been known as "The King vs. Cockerton." It was an appeal by William H. Milton, J. Scott Llddgett and George Septimus Warmington from the judgment of the Divisional Court. The London School Board was the real appellant, and the case raised the very important question whether the School Roard was justified ir. paying out the funds raised by rates the expenses of the science and art classes in its day schools and evening continuation schools. The local government board auditor appointed to audit the accounts of the school year for the year ending Sept. C. IyaS. had disallowed and surcharged three separate sums which had been expended on the maintenance of classes registered under the sclenc and. art department. A rule nisi for a certloriari to bring up and quash the certificates of the auditor disallowing and surcharging these three sums had been obtained at the instance of the appellants, who were members of the School Board of London, and upon each of whom one of the three sums in question had been rurcharged. For the purposes of the argument of the rule the lacts were stated in the form of a special case pursuant to an order of the court dated Jan. 31, Ilu0. INTRIGUES IN THE SOUTH I'E R S ECL'TI O X ALLEGED IX SOUTH CAROLINA AMI KEXTLCKV. Law L'el for Partisan End Impeachment Proceeding anil Goeliel Cases Cited i;s Examples. CHICAGO. April 1. W. E. Curtis, in a Washington dispatch to the Record-Herald, says: The acquittal of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, which was Impeached of "high crimes and misdemeanors," and the action of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky in grantirg a new trial for Powers and Howard, who had been sentenced, one to death and the other to imprisonment for life, as principals in the assassination of Goebel, are causes for national thanksgiving. Political animosity and intrigue seldom have gone so far In modern times as in these two incidents. The proceedings were of a medieval character. Kings and ministers used to get rid of troublesome people in that way, but the method had not been adopted In this country until now. The North Carolina judges were Impeached, not for what they had done, but for what it was feared they intended to do, and the Democratic leaders decided that dt was safer to get rid of them before they had a chance to pass upon the constitutionality of the law that disfranchises illiterate negroes, but allows Illiterate white men to vote. A case was cooked up, based upon a trivial judicial proceeding. Articles of impeachment were presented, evidence was submitted, arguments were heard, but twelve Democratic members of the Senate, which Is almost wholly Democratic, voted for acquittal. The telegrams from Raleigh say that these twelve men "represent the business community, the most Intelligent element in the State, and the Democratic machine has received a knock-out blow from which It can scarcely recover. If there Is wise leadership the result will be the building up of a white Republican party that will dominate the State." Caleb Powers and James Howard, two mountaineers from eastern Kentucky, were convicted of the assassination of Goebel by a partisan Judge and a partisan Jury selected for that purpose, upon the evidence of witnesses whose testimony did not command public confidence. Every answer that tended toward conviction was admitted; every Item of evidence favorable to the defendants was ruled out. The trial took place in the midst of the most heated political campaign in the history of Kentucky, and was altogether a political proceeding. There was no outcry from the people at the time, because everybody knew and told everybody else that the Court of Appeals would set aside the verdict after the election was over, so that public Indignation was suppressed. It may be that James Howard, who has a reputation of being one of the most desperate and determined men in the Kentucky mountains, fired the shot that killed Goebel, and that he fired it from the window of the office of Caleb Powers, who was secretary of state of Kentucky, and that Powers and Youtsey, his private secretary, were present and aided and encouraged the crime, but thus far it Is only a theory of the detectives who are employed bv their political opponents. No evidence has ever been submitted to sustain it. and probably the truth will never be known. At least, Howard will not be hanged and Powers will not go to prison for life without a lair trial. By the way, there is a curious circumstance in connection with the Goebel case which has never been explained. The doctors who dressed his wound and attended him till his death were not allowed to testify at tho trial. The wound has never been officially described; but eminent surgeons say that if the bullet followed the course stated In the newspaper accounts the morning after the murder it could not have boon lired from a third-story window or any other elevation, unless Goebel was standing on his head when he received it. The ball is said to have entered his groin and to have gone upward, Instead of downward in his body. Gormnii Defends) Hin Lnvr. NEW YORK, April 1. Ex-Senator Arthur P. Gorman, of Maryland, In an interview regarding the recent political legislation enacted at Annapolis, which appears in a special from Washington, says: "if there are many illiterates in Maryland who will be affected by the passage of the present law the blame lies with themselves. We have had the most perfect system of public schools for thirty years of any State south of Pennsylvania. Since 1ST) the colored population have had ample opportunity to learn to read and write, by means of the schools furnished by the white taxpayers of Maryland. And If after these years of honest effort on the part of the white people in supporting these schools there are. as is asserted, L'G.OOO of those who cannot road or write the fault can be attributed only to their lack of desire to obtain knowledge. If they prefer to remain In ignorance there is no way to compel thorn to learn, unless the incentive to vote mav hereafter encourage them to attend the schools." Statu" of nau:iil:ui Supreme Cnnrt. SAN FRANCISCO. April l.-In the United Stat s Court of Appeals to-day Judge Gilbert handed down an opinion in the case of the Wilders Steamship Company, a Hawaii in corporation, against George U. Hind and others, appellants. The question presented was whether this court had jurisdiction to entertain an appeal from the Supreme Court of Ilawall In an admiralty case. It H the court's t. pinion that "no anptal shall lie t any United States Court of Apepals from tho final judgment of the Supreme Court of Hawaii and that the only appeal from such territorial court shall be to the Supremo Court in the United State anil only in such casts as are appealable to the court from the Supreme Court of the State. The motion for the allowance of the appeal was denied. The decision emphasizes the fact that the Supreme Court of Hawaii stands upon the basis of the Slate Supreme Courts In all matters which concern their relations with the United Statts.

OVER OSE BILLION

CAPITAL STOCK OF THE MäW STEEL CO It PO RATIO X INCH E A S KD. rincetl nt $1.100.04MMMK In the Fapen Filcel with the New Jersey Secretory of Stnte Yesterday. DIRECTORS TO BE ELECTED NAMES OF THOSE "WHO WILL COXTROL THE DIG COMBINATION. Exchange of Stock Many Sninll Strikes Thronghont the Conntry Industrial Note. TRENTON. N. J.. April 1. The United States Steel Corporation this afternoon filed with the secretary of state articles amending its charter and increasing its capital stock to Jl.lOO.OOO.OOO. The State's fee for the filing of the paper was $220,000. The original articles filed some time ago were only amended in one particular. This amendment was made for the purpose of taking advantage of an act passed by the recent Legislature. Originally the corporation could not merge or pledge its real property or any of the stock of any other company except by the affirmative vote of the owners of two-thirds of the capital stock. Under the amended charter It is. necessary to have only the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the stock represented in person or by proxy at any of the meetings of Ahe corporation. The reason for the change is the fear that the stock will become so scattered that it would be impossible to get two-thirds of the entire stock represented at a meeting. ' PRICES CL'T PER CENT. EiTect of the War Between Manufacturers of Rubber flool. BOSTON, April 1. The United States Rubber Company to-day announced a further reduction in Its price list of 5 per cent. The annual price list is made public. In comparison with the price list of April 1, 1LK, it shows a total reduction of 2S per cent., as cuts amounting to 23 per cent, were previously made from the 1900 lists. To-day's reduction in prices applies to all goods on. hand in the stores of the jobbers on Feb. 1 and all shipments since then. A director of the United States Rubber Company says: "We have thrown down the gauntlet to our competitors. We are going to sell our goods and retain our business in competition with any outside concerns." It is figured in the trade that the additional 5 per cent, cut in prices means a loss of J2.uoo.tHO to the United States Rubber Company on its rebates and orders in hand. Ll.it of Directors. NEW YORK, April 1. Charles Steele gave out a statement to-night, in which he said the directors of the United States Steel Corporation had not been elected yet, but would be in a day or two. The statement follows: "In accordance with their circular of March 1?, which provided, among other things, that the entire plan of organzlatlon and management should be delivered by Messrs. Pierpont Morgan & Co., they now announce that the organization of management of the Un'.ted States Steel Corporation will be cot:?tituted as follows: Directors J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Francis II. Peabody, Henry II. Rogers, Charles M. Schwab, Elbert H. Gary. Robert Bacon, Charles Steele, Marshall Field. Norman B. Ream, P. A. B. Widener, William P. Moore, James H. Reed. Henry C. Frlck, Daniel G. Reed, K. C. Converse, Pereival Roberts, John D. Rockefeller, jr., Alfred Clifford. William K. Dodge, Nathaniel Thayer, William Edenborn, Abram S. Hewitt and Clement A. Griscom. President, Charles M. Schwab; treasurer, Arthur F. Lake; secretary, Richard Trimoie; executive committee, E. H. Gary, chairman; Daniel G. Reed, William Edenburn. E. C. Converse, Pereival Roberts and Charles Steele: finance committee, Robert Bacon, chairman; Henry H. Rogers, Norman B. Ream and P. A. B. Widener." Two More Concern Taken In. NEW YORK, April 1. A circular Issued from the office of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. to-night and addressed to the stockholders of the American Bridge Company and the Lake Superior consolidated iron mines announces that the offer of the syndicate made on March 2, 1901, has been accepted by more than ÖS per cent, of the holders of the stock and the plan proposed has become operative. Morgan- & Co. offered for the account of the United States Steel Corporation in exchange for the preferred and common sbck of the American Bridge Company and for the stock of the Lake Superior consolidated iron mines certificates for preferred stock and common stock of the United States Steel Corporation. The circular stys that arrangements have already been made for the acquisition of more than 85 per cent, of the stock of the Lake Superior consolidated Iron mines, embracing therein the interests of John D. Rockefeller. Arrangements have- also been made for the acquisition by the United States Steel Corporation of all the outstanding Interest in the Oliver Mining Company and the Pittsburg Steamship Company not owned by the Carnegie Company. Exchange of Stock Completed. NEW YORK, April 1. It was announced to-day that practically all the stockholders In the constituent companies have turned over their holdings to the United States Steel Corporation, the extension of time having expired Saturday. A member of the firm of J. 1. Morgan Ac Co. said this evening that on account of the absence In Europe of a few scattered stockholders the exchanges would not represent all the outstanding stock, but pledges from some of those Insured a practically unanimous acceptance of the terms offered by the surviving corporation. TO ESCAPE TIIK TARIFF. Englishmen Will Entabllfth Steel Works in Thin Country. NEW YORK, April 1. S. J. Robinson, managing director of W. Jessop & Sons, limited, of Bright Side works. Sheffield. England, has arrived here on the Cunarder Lucania for the purpose of determining as to the location of the plant which the English concern purposes erecting in the United States. The Jessop company, which is capitalized at 12.000.000. operates one of the oldest established industrial plants in Europe, it being founded as far back as 1774. It manufacture.-? crucible steol chiefly. The Sheffield works undertake a number of 1ar?e contracts for the British government and give employment to l.G5n hands. In an interview last night Mr. Robinson said: "We are going to build a plant on this side principally with a view to escape the tariff of some $VJ a ton which the United States government Imposes on crucible steel entering this country. Having works here will enable us to extend our important business connections in America." LABOR, BUSINESS, INDUSTRY. All thft union painters of St. Joseph, Mo., struck yesterday for 35 cents an hour. All the journeymen painters and plasterers of Lowell. Mass., are out of work, the former being locked out arid the latter having started a strike. The majority of the union carpenters in Binghamton. N. Y., went on a strike yesterday. They demand nn eight-hour day with full nine hours' pay. Syracuse painters gained an eight-hour workday- yesterday, all but three firms hav

ing signed the contract with the union for the ensuing year. Four hundred painters are benefited. The Dayton and Xenla Traction Company, of Dayton, was incorporated at Columbus. O.. yesterday with JvO.ooO capital. The company will purchase the Dayton and Xenia interurban line. John Gllmour. Hugh Gilmour Sc Co. and Gl.mour Brothers, tobacco manufacturers, of Owensboro, Ky., assigned yesterday. The liabilities and assets are not known, but are estimated at JliO.wO. Reports received at a mass meeting of the Lan?;rkshire colliery engine handlers, at Hamilton, England, showed that C'J.or) miners were idle in Scotland, owing to the strike for an eight-hour day. Monroe Seiberllng. an Akron, O., man. has raised $700.w with which to build -a glass plant at Ottawa. III. The money was furnished by Joseph R. Oliver, of South Bend. Ind., and Q. M. Gray, of Niles, Mich. The members of the Port Huron Carpenters and Joiners' Union, I'd strong, went on strike yesterday because their demand for 25 cents an hour and a nine-hour workday was refused by the four largest contractors In the city. Five hundred striking girls gathered at the doors of the Wood factory in St. Joseph. Mo., yesterdaj and prevented all the nonunion girls from entering the place. Force was used by the strikers In several instances. It is announced that the Great Western Cereal Company, the "combine" of Independent plants recently perfected by O. C. Barber, has acquired another large property that has been a great money-maker in the past ten years. It is the malted food mill at Burlington, Vt. A dispatch from Spencer, la., confirms the rumor that petroleum in large quantities was discovered Saturday night at Greenville, la. Many locations have been made. Great excitement prevails and people are Mocking to that locality in great numbers. This is the first oil discovery in Iowa. Five hundred and fifty members of the Journeymen Painters' and Decorators' Union at Cincinnati struck yesterday because of the refusal of the Master Painters' and Decorators' Association to sign the scale recently adopted by the union. The new scale is for 52. NO for an eight-hour day. Sheriff Gates left Norwalk, O., yesterday for Richmond. Ind., In response to a telegram notifying him that a man was under arrest there having been identified as Ezra Moore, who shot and killed Constable Smith two years ago. Moore made his escape at the time and has been in hiding ever since. Employes of the five blast furnaces In operation at Sharpesville, Pa., yesterday posted notices demanding that the same scale of wages be granted as conceded Ijy the blast furnace owners in the Mahoning valley. A general strike will go into effect in the Shenango valley on April 5 unless the demands are granted. The resignation of P.. G. Wood, vice president of the American Sheet Steel Company, and Allen D. Wood, manager of the Dcvvees Wood Company plant of the American Sheet Steel Company, were handed to the executive committee yesterday. No reasons are given for the retirement of these officials. A threatened strike of egg testers, which promised to seriously affect the Chicago egg market, has boon averted by commission merchants agreeing to the demand of the . Egg Inspectors' Union for a uniform Fcale of 25 cents per hour, a ten-hour day. and 10 cents extra for each case of eggs candled after the regular close of the working day. The puddlers in the employ of the Glasgow Iron Company, at Pottstown, Pa., have been notified that beginning next Saturday their rate of wages will be M.25 a ton, instead of 53. as heretofore. The wages of other employes will also be increased. The 112-inch plate mill of the company's plant, which has long been Idle, resumed operations yesterday. At Hamilton, O.. Judge Nlelan yesterday ordered the hvdraullc property owned by E. G. Rathbone and the heirs of the lat L. D. Campbell and capitalized at $.VO.h0 f.old. and appointed J. J. Pater a trustee to conduct the sale. Pater has been acting as receiver of the Hamilton and Rossville Hydraulic Company, owned by Rathbone and the heirs of Campbell. A report was Issued Sunday night by New York Union, No. 30. of the National Union of Brewery Workmen, to the effect that it had suspended a member named Fitzpatrick for joining the National Guard. Some of the unions have adopted rules forbidding their members to join the National Guard, on the ground that if they are In the militia they may be called upon to fire on strikers. Articles of Incorporation were filed at Newark, N. J.. yesterday for the Ohio Northwestern Development Company, to deal In mining rights and operate mines In Idaho, Washington, Montana and Oregon and in British Columbia; authorized capital $."0,000. The incorporators are Cleveland V. Childs, James R. Kraphtoft and H. N. Smith. It now seems probable that the threatened strike of the carpenters In Cleveland will not take place. It Is stated that fully half of the contractors have agreed to pay the increase demanded and it is thought the remainder will do likewise shortly. The Building Laborers' Union also demanded an advance of 25 cents, making their wages $2 a day. The employers have generally conceded the Increase. Representatives of the miners and operators of the Hocking valley yesterday agreed to continue the present docking system until April 21. thus preventing a suspension of work. A conference will he held in the meantime, and it Is confidently expected that changes demanded by the operators in the docking system will be arranged, the miners having expressed a willingness to consider the proposition submitted by the operators. The contract between the Chicago Board of Trade, the Western Union and Postal telegraph companies has been made public. It provides that these two companies and the Cleveland Telegraph Company shall receive the quotations simultaneously by means of one Morse instrument on the floor of the exchange. The sum paid by the telegraph companies jointly for the quotations is $30,000 a year. The contract runs for one year and provides for the termination thereafter on sixty days' notice by either party. The Toledo and Bowling Green, O., electric railway, operating between the cities named, was sold yesterday to Colonel George B. Kerper and Ccdonel John Kilgour, of Cincinnati. Colonel Kerper is the owner of the Findlay street railway, which Is now being extended to North Baltimore, and the two lines will be consolidated under the name of the Toledo Northern Railway. The lines will. It is said, form part of a through electric route between Cincinnati and Toledo. The connecting link letween North Baltimore and Bowling Green will be completed by October. The order of the Knights of Labor, Simon Burns, general master workman, and John V. Hayes, general secretary and treasurer, yesterday at Washington lnFtltuted proceedings in equity for injunction and discovery of accounting against John N. Parsons, Emery E. Burley. James J. Donnelly, John A. Connor, A. J. O'Keefe and V. JZ. Carr, alleging that the defendants falsely represented themselves as officers ami members of the Knights of Labor. The court 1$ asked to order an accounting of all moneys received by defendants or any one of them from the local or district assemblies and the payment of all such to Secretary-treasurer Hayes. The bill also asks the court to restrain the defendants from publishing any paper purporting to be the official Knights of Labor organ. In reference to the possible action on the part of the Buffalo vessel owners to have the licenses of striking marine engineers revoked. President Uhler, of the Marine Engineers' Union, said yesterday: "The matter is too absurd to be seriously considered. The solicitor general of the United States or any other fair-minded person will decide that our demands are ierfertly reasonable and Just. Reports from all lake points how that vessels generally remain tied up and that as a rule practically no boats have even been fitted out. If the vessel owners are willing to permit their boats to continue idle for a month or six weeks we are prepared to stand it. Indeed, we were never in better condition, as I have previously stated, for a long fight that at the present time."

Rriirillnn Republic Not in Dnnger. NEW YORK. April 1. A dispatch to the Herald, from Rio Janein, says: "The government has sent a communication to the le;;u'ons In Europe and the United States Faying that there is no langer of Institutions being overthrown by the monarchist conspiracy. The minister of the navy has appointed a medical commission to inquire into the physical condition of Admiral Mello. and to ascortaln if it is true that, on the ground of health, the admiral cannot safely be sent to Amazonas, where the government has ordered him to be sent. Admiral Mello Ia detained on Cobras island." Can ad la it Ceimu Inder Way. OTTAWA. Ontario. April I. The work of taking the census throughout Canada was begun to-day. The population Is to he recorded as it was yesterday, the decisive hour of reckoning being 12 o'clock mldnipht so that every one lorn In-fore that and every one dying after It are to to counted in the population. It will take 9.012 ofiicials and employes to take tin census.

AS EXPERT. CHOSEN J. M. MASTIX APPOINTED Si CCEMOn of ;eohge m. allex.

Native of Indiana, and Han Been Con ncctcd with the lotnl Service for .Many Yearn. FOREIGN MISSION FOR EVANS PRESENT PEXSIOX COMMISSIONER MAY I1C SENT ABROAD. r.ewnnl for AVnll-Scaler Tltnn and Other Naval Heroen Who Succored the Peking: Legations. Special to the IfdianapoMs Journal. WASHINGTON, April 1. John M. Mastin, who succeeds George M. Allen as chief clerk to the first assistant postmaster general, was born in Martin county, Indiana, near the town of Trinity, about forty years ago. He entered the postal pervice in 1S7T as clerk In the postofHce at Loogootee. Martin county, being then seventeen years old. Four years later he entered the railway mail hervlce, his run being between Louisville and Nashville. Then he opened a new line from Cincinnati to St. Lculs, and was chief clerk of the first car which wen out, in February, 12. In the fall of the same year he was taken Into the office of the superintendent of the railway mall service at Cincinnati. In two years he -ecame the supervisor of all the railway clerks connected with the Cincinnati division. One day in lsf0 Mr. Mastin received a dispatch calling him to Washington, . and when he arrived here he was appointed assistant superintendent of the railway mall service, and was assigned to the contract department. In December, 1&9S, ha went to Porto Rico as head of the commission which was appointed by the postmaster general to map out a postal servici for the island. For this work he was highly praised. The following February h maue a tour through Cuba for a similar purpose. There his work was equaliv satisfactory. Mr. Johnson, who succeeded Mr. Heath as first assistant postmaster general, decided, when the place of chief cleric became vacant, that Mr. Mastin was the best man to fill It because of his enviable record for efficiency. George M. Allen said to-day he would leave here to-morrow and go direct to Denver, his new post of duty. XXX Rankin & Kellogg will tend a man to Indianapolis this week to look over the ground before going further with their public building plans and have so notified Supervising Architect Taylor, who will not. however, send any one there at this time. XXX The controller cf the currency has approved the application of Mortimer Levering, of Indianapolis, Albert A. Barnes, Hiram W. Miller, W. M. Penc. Raymond P. Van Camp and others to organize the Columbia National Bank, of Indianapolis, with a capital stock of $300,0 0. XXX Senator Fairbanks called on the President to-day, but said it was simply to pay good-bye and devoid of political significance. He left for New York at 4 o'clock this afternoon. He will be there two or three days and go trom there home. Tho Indiana minister who was named as one of the new army chaplains last Saturday night Is Rev. James L. Griffiths. He lives in the Tenth congressional district and Is Judge Crumpu: r's cppolntment, though ho was indor: a d ny the entire Indiana delegation. Including Senator Fairbanks. The newspapers have played havoc with the new chaplain's name, printing It "Griffis" and "Gries." and not till now as the good old Welsh name "Griffiths." xxx Henry Dahlenburg' bond as postmaster at Shields, Jackson county, was approved and his commission issued to-day. xxx It seems to be understood that Pension Commissioner Evans will be appointed to a foreign mission. The men oftenest mentioned as his successor are former Congressman Pettis, of Kansas, and I. N. Walker, of Indianapolis. XXX L. J. Coppack was to-day appointed postmaster at Webster, Wayne county, Indiana, vice Hattle Horton, resigned. . . BOOZ CASE RECALLED. West Point Harem Exonerated hy the 3Iilitary Court of Inquiry. WASHINGTON, April 1. The findings of the military court of Inquiry which Investigated the treatment alleged to have been accorded to the late Oscar L. Rooz. a former cadet at West Point Military Academy, have been made public at the War Department. The findings of the court are summed up In a letter written by Secretary Root which accompanies the report. The letter says: "The findings of this court of inquiry, which are sustained by the evidence, show that the statements which led to the convening of the court, to the effect that Cadet Oscar L. Rooz came to his death by reason of injuries received by hizir.g at the academy, were not true. They phow that at the time Cadet Rooz was a member of the academy hazing was prevalent there to a deplorable extent; that the present officers of the academy have shown commendable energy, zeal and efficiency in detecting and punishing offenses of this character, and that they greatly decreased the practice and Improved the public sentiment on the subject. The findings of th court were placed In the hinds of the committee of Congress charged at about the same time with the investipntlon of the Eubject. and the beneficial action of that committee, followed by legislation on the subject contained In the act of March 2. i:l. renders further action by the department unnecessary." HEROES REWARDED. VounR Tltnn Made n Naval CadetPromotions for Bravery. WASHINGTON. April 1. Tho President to-day appointed Calvin T. Titds to I a cadet at large at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Titus was the first soldier to scale the wall at Peking. Adjutant General Corbin to-day cabled General MacArthur nt Manila to send young Titus home on the first available transport in order that he may take the entrance examination to the academy. The President also made the following appointments;. Joseph B. SUwart. to be collector of customs for the district of Richmond. Va. Navv Joseph N. Hemphill, Abraham R. H. Linie. Henry N. Manny 4r.d Wrn. T. Swinburne, to be captains: Edward M. Hughes and Samuel P. Comly; to lw commanders; Emory C. Smith and Robert S. Griffin, to be lieutenant commanders; Emorv Wlnship. to le advanced four numbers "in rank on the list of lieutenants, junior grade, lor eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle; Col. Robert 1.. Meade. t be brigadier general by brevet In the marine corps for distinguished conduct and public service in the presence of the c nemv at Tion-Tsln. China, and Thorn is F. Hoby, to be a warrant machinist in ths, navy. MISCELLAXEOl S M:VS. Change In the Commissary Depart nient-llemey Ordered to Melboarue. Charles H. Duell, of New York, who recently resinned s commissioner ulxuttou