Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1898 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • - • INDIANA.

WHALERS ARE SAFE.

RELIEF PARTY FINOS THEM WITH PLENTIFUL SUPPLIES They Can Now Hold Out Until Auguet, When They Will Be Released—Cleveland Award la Accepted by the Colombian Government. Ice-Bound Whalers All Right. The revenue cutter Bear arrived at St. Michael's, bringing in the news, obtained at Cape Prince of Wales, that the Government relief party carrying provisions to several hundred ice-imprisoned whalers at Point Barrow reached Point Barrow March 29, having covered 1,500 miles of difficult arctic traveling in midwinter. Lieut. Jarvis and Dr. Call journeyed via St. Michael's, Unalaklik, Point Rodney and Cape Prince of Wales. One hundred reindeer were secured from natives and the Government herd of 300 at Cape Prince of Wales, where Missionary Ix>pp volunteered to drive them 500 miles to Barrow, taking seven native herders. The expedition proceeded via Cape Blossom, reaching Point Franklin, where the whaler Belvidere was imprisoned, March 26, and Point Barrow three days later. Lieut. Berthoff went ahead with dog teams and succeeded in getting 1,000 pounds of provisions to Cape Blossom for the use of Jarvis, Call and Lopp when they arrived. The whalers greeted the expedition with great demonstrations <rf joy, though they had supplies to last until August, when the cutter Bear will rescue them. Agent Brower of Liebes Company Point Barrow storehouse gave them his supplies, requiring the Eskimos usually depending upon him to provision themselves. The Eskimos killed 1,000 deer, besides many seals and fish, game being unusually plentiful. From the abandoned whaler Navarach 854 sacks of flour were obtained. Lopp’s reindeer herd Insures the whalers plentiful food until August. Lopp returned to Cape Prince of Wales before the cutter Bear called there last month. Government officers give Lopp all the credit for getting the reindeer through successfully.

Standing of the Club*. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati ..52 27 Pittsburg ... .41 36 Boston 48 29Philadelphia. 33 40 Cleveland ...47 29 Brooklyn ....31 43 Baltimore .. .45 29 Washington. 29 47 Chicago 45 35 Louisville .. .24 54 New York.. .40 35 St. Louis.... .23 57 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 48 28Columbus ...41 31 Kansas City. 46 33 Detroit 31 46 Milwaukee ..47 34 St. Joseph... .25 *45 St. Paul 45 33 Minneapolis. 24 56 Cleveland Award Accepted. The Rome corresjx>ndent of the London Daily Mail says: “The Italian foreign office learns from Washington that the Colombian Government has accepted the award of $250,000 made by President Cleveland to Ernesto Cerutti, an Italian subject, in a claim made by him against the Republic of Colombia, and the incident is now considered closed.”

BREVITIES.

Mrs. Sue Drake Motes, nt Burkett’s island, Tenn., shot and killed a negro. - Memorial services for those who lost their lives on the Bourgogne were held in Paris. The Secretary of War has approved the award of the contract for the San Pedro breakwater to the lowest bidder, Heldmair & Neu of Chicago. A great fire that broke out in Sunderland, at the mouth of the Wear, in England, destroyed thirty business buildings in three of the princii>al streets. At Guthrie, O. T., two laborers on the St. Louis and Oklahoma Railway, Aaron Gunter of Packerton, Ind., and J. A. Shanhaltzer of Centralia, 111., ftefo "muFand robbed of all their wages, r The Secretary 'of the Interior at Washington has received information that special forest agents have ejected more than 85,000 sheep from the Yosemite park, California, and will in a short time probably succeed in removing others now on that reserve. V Jasper Simpson, while resisting arrest, shot and instantly killed J. B. Grady and L. S. Hill, deputy United States marshals, near Jenson. Ark. l.ung Grady was a son of United States Marshal Grady of the central district. Marshal Grady has offered a reward of $5(Xt for the arrest and conviction of Simpson. Sherman S. Goodin, son of Dr. G. Goodin of Indianapolis, chief surgeon of the “Clover Leaf” Railroad, was shot and instantly killed at Charleston, W. Va., by James Whartons aged 10, while attempting th enter Jessie Murdock’s house. The Murdock woman has been having trouble with Goodin, who was infatuated with her, and on this occasion he made an attack upon her. The separating house at the Hercules powder works, located twelve miles below Hannibal, Mo., on the St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Railroad, has been blown up as the result of the aeid becoming heated. Two employes were in the building, hut they bad warning and escaped before the explosion occurred. The building was totally demolished. No estimate of the damage has been made as yet, but the principal loss will be the closing of the plant. Only giant powder and similar explosives are manufactured at the plant. • Great excitement was created by the explosion of dynamite in the county jail at St. Joseph, Mo., the act of a number of desperate convicts awaiting transfer torfSuLyenitentiary. The rear end of the jan was wrecked, but the prisoners’ escape was prevented by citizens and officers, who hurried to the scene armed with guns and pistols. It la said thirty Fall River cotton mills will shut down four weeks in August to curtail the production. Fire in Newport. Ky., destroyed the Livety sawmill and thirty small dwellings. Loss, >130,000; insurance, >50,000.

EASTERN.

At Hazleton, Pa., while Andrew RodIra and his wife were away the house in which they lived was burned and their two children, Mary, aged 3 years, and John, 9 months old, perished. .The dead body of a man was found in a freight car which had just arrived at Wilmington, Del., frdm Jersey City. The man is supposed to have been E. H. Brunson of Merrill, Wis. Evidence of a struggle suggests that the man was murdered. An overtaxed boiler in one of the buildings of the Niagara branch of the National starch trust blew up at Buffalo, N. Y. Four workmen were killed. The explosion shook the brick building to pieces and “shelled” the neighborhood for an eighth of a mile with bricks and pieces of iron. Great damage was done to the houses near by. Every pane of glass within two blocks was broken. A piece of iron weighing fifty pounds crashed through the roof of a two-story house at 28 Oneida street. Mrs. John McFeeley, who lived on the second floor, was holding her infant daughter. The iron struck her, breaking her shoulder blade and crushing the iufant's skull. Albert Brinker, aged 9, was playing in a yard a block away when he was struck by a piece of the Ixiiler, which broke his leg. Nearly a hundred trifling injuries are reported. Mrs. Joseph W. Hoyt and baby are missing and are supposed to be buried in the ruins.

The news of a new scheme to get Chinese into this country in spite of'the provisions of the exclusion act reached the Chinese inspectors of New York City. Chief of Police Lane of Hudson. N. Y., discovered the plot. Six Chinese were found in the bay loft of the St. Charles Hotel barn at Hudson, on their way to New York. The men had come from Montreal and got to Albany without being discovered. Just how they managed to get so fur will be the subject of an investigation. From what the Chinese inspectors now know of the case the Chinese were evidently shipped over the line in a big dry goods box us freight. When Chief of Police Lane discovered the game the men had just got out of a big packing case. A soap box was nailed on one end of the case and in this the men rested, their feet. With the Chinese was Charles Briggs of Albany, who drove the wagon that carried the big box. He was promptly placed under arrest. Briggs said that he got the box full of Chinamen at Albany. All sorts of schemes have been tried to get Chinese into this country since the exclusion act went into force several years ago. The most popular one was to have the Chinese swear they were returning from a visit to China: that they bad been here before, and that n “father” lived in New York. Many Chinamen got into the country in this way. The “freight route,” however, is entirely new, and so is the scheme to bring the immigrants so far below the. line.

WESTERN.

It is reported that Fred W. Baumhoff will be the next postmaster at St. Louis, Mo. At Dayton, Ohio, H. B. Sortman, aged 58, a contractor, committed suicide by hanging himself. a Robert W. Miers was renominated for Congress by the Second district Democratic convention held at Sullivan, Ind. The President has appointed N. O. Murphy to be Governor of Arizona, to succeed Myron W. McCord, who resigned to accept a colonelcy in an army regiment. The wife of ex-Gov. Albert W. Mclntyre of Colorado obtained a divorce in Conejos County June 26 hut. The grounds for the divorce are not stated. E. J. Allen’s farm house, twenty miles east of Junction City, was burned and three children under 6 years of age were eremated. Two older children were burned beyond recovery. Passenger train No. 1, east bound, was held up one mile east of Humboldt, Nev. Express car blown up and safe blown open. Robbers escaped. Not given out how much they secured. George H. Spry, one of the best known lawyers in the Northwest, ran in front of a street car at Minneapolis and was instantly killed, the body being frightfully mangled. He was 57 years of age. By a vote of 18 to 4, the executive committee of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, composed of the various State presidents, decided to abandon the project of owning the Woman’s Temple inJJhicago. . . Fire cotnpletely destroyed the large three-story structure of the Racine, Wis., Malleable and Wrought Iron Company, resulting in a pecuniary loss of SIOO,OOO, together with three lives and serious injury to a score or more of others. At Dayton, Ohio, William Seime, aged 48, a millwright, in comfortable circumstances, in a fit of jealousy gashed hik wife's throat with a razor, chased his daughter with the bloody weapon and then cut his own UlTQat, dying instantly. The wife may recover. Five specimens of gold-bearing quartz were placed in the hands of City Chemist Bogardus of Seattle by a stranger from Alaska. Mr. Bogardus says that he can bold five pieces of the rock in one hand and that they carry $450 worth of gold. They will assay $150,000 to the ton. 4 *’ The Ledigh Carriage Company at Dayton, Ohio, assigned to Charles J. McKee, The estimated liabilities are $115,000 and assets $140,000, with preferences of $35,000. The company has stocked up with $90,000 worth of raw material, and the expected orders for the finished product were not forthcoming. In order to liquidate, the Winona Mill Company and the Winona and Dakota Grain Company of Winona. Minn., sold all their properties, valued at $250,000, to the Atlas Elevator Company of Minneapolis. It is understood all creditors will be paid. Unfortunate speculation is said to have hastened the misfortune.

Forty-five prisoners in the reformatory at Mhnsfleld. Ohio, are strung up by the thumbs in dungeons and given only one scant meal a day, having gone on a “strike" because their tobacco supply was cut off. There were twenty-five others implicated, but they returned to work When informed what the punishment would be. . ' Statements having reached Washington that cattlemen are trespassing on the Sequoia national park, in Tulare County, Cal., since the withdrawal of the Fourth cavalry, the Secretary of the Interior has appointed W. B. Zebley superintendent of the reservation and Instructed him to appoint twenty deputies and see that cattle are kept outside the park limits. The ’longshoremen, in session at Cher boygan, Mich., elected the following officers: President, D. J. Keefe of Chicago; first vice-president. Frank Foster of Escanaba; second vice-president, J. Walsh

of Cleveland; third vice-prc.iident, W. Murnan of Duluth; secretary and treasurer, H. C. Barter of Detroit. Buffalo wm chosen as the next place of meeting. Mrs. I. N. Barber, principal of the BL Paul, Mitin., School of Fine Arts, committed suicide at Mendota, where she was in charge of the summer art school. The deed was committed some time during the night and the body was cold when found ip the morning. She bad shot herself through the temple. She left letters to friends saying that the struggle for a livelihood was too great. She was a young woman of exceptional ability and great strength of character. The 'Frisco passenger train leaving Wichita, Kan., for St. Louis was held up by two masked men at Andover, Kan. A" citizen of Andover, who learned of the plan to rob the train, attempted to notify the train crew and was shot by the robbers. He will probably die. His name could not be learned. Several hundred dollars was taken from the express car, but the exact amount is not known. As soon as the engineer slowed down the men, wearing heavy masks, entered the express car and demanded the money. The messenger drew a revolver, but was gagged and disarmed, after which the men took the valuables from the safe.

SOUTHERN.

John Henry James, a negro of Charlottesville, Va., was lynched by an armed posse of 200 men. A special grand jury had been summoned to try his case, and the court was in session when the news came that the prisoner had been hanged and his body riddled with bullets. Tlje Cuban Development Company has been incorporated under the laws of West Virginia, with a capital of $5,000,000. A number of prominent railway and steamboat men are interested in the company. The company will encourage immigration, raise sugar and tobacco plantations, and construct railroads. At Oxmore, Ala., Mrs. James Melvin heard a burglar at work in the room adjoining the sleeping apartment of herself and husband. She arose in her night garments, and, going into the next room, struck a match. As soon as she did so a burglar crouching in the darkness fired a pistol shot at her. The ball took effect and Mrs. Melvin died from the wound. Just before a terrific rainstorm commenced at Prattville, Ala., a very peculiar accident occurred. Mallard Goodson, a colored youth, was in the act of splitting a piece of wood when an upraised ax in the youth’s hands was struck by lightning and melted, as was also a saw at the boy’s feet. The boy himself and Tommie Rawlinson, a white boy, standing near, were killed. A double lynching. in which Jim Redd and Alex Johnson, negroes, were the victims, occurred at Monticello, Ark. A mob broke down the doors of the jail and entering the cellroom poured a volley of shots into the cages where the men were confined. Johnson is dead and Redd is fatally wounded. They were convicted of killing W. F. Skipper, a rich planter and merchant of Baxter, and were sentenced to bang. Appeal to the Supreffie Court had granted them a new trial.

WASHINGTON.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue (it Washington has decided that all telegraphic messages must be stamped by the sender. The Navy Department at Washington has asked for bids for two floating docks, the two to cost not exceeding $250,000, as recently provided by Congress. Chief Endicott of the bureau of,yards and docks bas been very anxious to get some of these floating structures in order to send them down to the gulf, and possibly to Cuba, where our cruisers, guntwats and auxiliary craft could be docked in them without the necessity of sending the ships to northern docks. There are a number of floating docks in view, and it is expected that two of these will be secured under the bids asked without waiting for the long time necessary to build structures. Two such docks are located at New Y’ork and three more in and about New Orleans. Au officer of the bureau has been in New Orleans looking over the docks there in anticipation of their being offered to the Government. The choice will be made with very little delay, and it is probable that the two floating docks will be in the service of the Government within a fortnight or so. The bids for the mammoth floating docks to be built at New Orleans will be called for in a few days.

FOREIGN.

Mrs. Elizabeth Lynn Linton, the English novelist and essayist, widow of the late William James Linton, the celebrated wood engraver, is dead. The Swiss bundesrath, orfederal council, has prohibited the importation of fresh and unpeeled dried American fruits, witij the view of keeping out the San Jose scale. Major Comte Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, the alleged author of the bordereau in the Dreyfus case, has been arrested in cj?aris. Madame Pays, his mistress, has also been placed under arrest. The Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Mail says: “The idea of forming a central European coalition, consisting of the triple alliance and its immediate neighbor, to oppose the expected increasedly hostile commercial policy of the United States is gaining ground in Germany.” The Frankfurt Zeitung says Russia has commenced making reprisals against Germany owing to the failure of the latter country to fulfill the terms of the commercial treaty by which she undertook to grant exceptionally favorable rates on Russian grain and other products. This action is taken on orders from the Russian finance minister, Dr. De Witte, who has directed the exaction of higher duties on certain GermanUmports. Fears of a revolution In Guatemala are due to the prevalent belief among the people that, if elected to the presidency, Cabrera, the present head of the Government, will proclaim himself dictator. He became president on the death of Barrios, and now seeks the office for a six years’ term. His strongest opponent is Jose Castillo, who Is supposed to be backed by the army in which he has served with distinction. The election of Cabrera is expected, and in anticipation of trouble many Americans are returning to the United States or removing their families ent of the city. Advices from Honolulu announce that the executive council of the island government has signed a contract with the Scrymser company to lay a cable from the American coast fO Honolulu and J-hpan. The line will run from San Diego to Honolulu. and thenc(> to Japan, the latter section to l>e exclusive. The work is to begin within six months of the signing of

the contract This is with the understanding that the objection of the Secretary of State of the United States shall vitiate all agreements. The provisions of the contract permit the Government of the United States to protect itself should it deem the contract inimical to American interests. The inaugural meeting of the AngloAmerican league was held at Stafford House, London, under the presidency of the Duke of Sutherland, who was supported by Earl Grey, the Earl of Jersey, Baron Farrer, Baron Brassey. Baron Tennyson, Baron Monkswall, Sir John Lubbock, Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford and James Bryce, author of “The American Commonwealth.” Others present were the archbishop of Canterbury, the archbishop of York, Cardinal Vaughan and the Duke of Westminster. The Duke of Fife sent a letter expressing his regrets at his inability to be present The Duke of Sutherland, in opening the •proceedings, said the league was quite apart from ordinary politics, its object being to express the feeling of cordiality which existed between the people of Great Britain and the United States, an-.effort which he believed would be appreciated and reciprocated in America. On motion of Lcrd Brassey the following resolution was adopted: “Considering that the peoples of the British empire and the United States are closely allied by blood, inherit the same literature and laws, hold the same principles of government, recognize the same ideals of freedom and humanity in the guidance of their national policy, and are drawn together by strong common interests in many parts of the world, this meeting is of the opinion that every effort should be made in the interests of civilization and peace to secure the most cordial and constant co-operation on the part of the two nations.” A representative executive council was then appointed.

IN GENERAL.

News of the tragic death of Dr. William Beard, the noted mining expert of Philadelphia, near the Valdes glacier, Alaska, last May, has been received at Seattle. It came in a letter from H. C. Watkins, formerly of New York, who was with Dr. Beard. The British warship Columbine arrived at St. John’s, N. F., from a fishery protection cruise along the French shore. She struck a sandbank off St. Julien’s, damaged her bottom and broke one blade of her propeller. The Columbine reports that there is no friction just now between the French and the English fishermen on that coast. William Walmsley of Waupoos. Prince Edward County, Ont., has been advised of the murder of his son William in Madagascar in June or July, 1896, with three fellow prospectors, by natives of Imerina, the central province of Madagascar. They were attacked in their camp by order of the governor and were killed by gunshots and spears. They defended themselves bravely, wounding three of their assailants.

R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: "Industries and business are at the naturally lowest point for the year. The decrease in output of pig iron is mostly due to usual stoppages for repairs a little before July 1. It is still between seasons for wool, but the demand for woolen goods is better, though prices for some have been reduced. Cotton has been steady in spite of good crop prospects. Failures for the week ended July 7 were $1,854,394 in amount. Failures for the week have been 215 in the United States, against 263 last year, and in Canada 23, against 7 last year.” Just as the authorities were getting ready to muster recruits at Buffalo, N. Y,, for the cruiser Buffalo so that the name could be borne out by a force derived from the fountainhead, it is discoverd that’there is a great scarcity of good seamen on the lakes. Not only is this the fact with regard to the recruits, but suddenly there comes up a wail from the lake captains who are in need of able seamen. The war has taken them apparently. Less than half the number expected have come forward to join the crew to be sent to the Buffalo, and lake captains say that they are surprised to find that the supply is so short. Only a little while ago there were sailors enlisting in the infantry because there was no way of sending them to the navy. A lake captain says that lately he shipped several men who represented themselves to be able seamen, but before he had got outside he learned that most of them knew nothing of sailing and had to be taught the simplest details of the work before them. The inference is that actual seamen have drifted to salt water of late and that other men in need of work have taken advantage of the situation and offered themselves for lake service.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; new potatoes, choice, 60c to 80c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.75 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2,23 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 46c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 85c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 42c. Detroit—Gattie, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, Nd. 2 white, 29c to 30c; rye, 45c to 46c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye. No. 2,44 c to 46c; clover seed, $2.95 to $3.05. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 89c to 90c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 83c; oats, No. 2 white; 25c to 28c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 51c; barley, No. 3. 30c to 32e; pork, m»»s3, $9.75 to $10.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5 .25; hogs, common to. choice, $3.50 to $4.25: sheep, fair to Choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.00: lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $6.75. . •* New Y’ork—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, SB.OO to' $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 88c to 00c; corn. No. 2. 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; ■ but ter-creamery, 13c to- 18c; eggs, Western. 13c to 15c-

GOLD HUNTERS FACE PERIL.

B tor ms, Starvation and Indifferent Success in the North. The schooner Samoa has arrived in Seattle from St. Michaels, Alaska, with thirty-six Klondikers, who brought with them from $300,000 to $400,000 in gold dust. The Samoa left St. Michaels July 8. Among her passengers was Thomas C. Austoh of New Whatcom, Wash. He says that the clean-up on Eldorado, Bonanza and Hunker creeks in the Klondike district this season will not be more than $10,000,000. This, together with about $5,000,000 of last season’s output will all be shipped out this year. He confirms previous reports that no important new discoveries have been made. Several passengers were from Minook creek, where they worked all winter with but little-suc-cess. Ex-Gov. McGraw of Seattle and E. M. Carr have the best claim in the district. . This yielded about $20,000. When the Samoa left St. Michaels there were many people there who had decided not to go on to Dawson and were awaiting an opportunity to come back. The steamer Roanoke was to sail for Seattle July 9, with many passengers and a large amount of gold, estimated by the Samoa passengers at all the way from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. One misfortune after another seems to have befallen the craft which started in tow for St. Michaels and up to the time of departure of the Samoa not one of the numerous river boats had arrived except those taken by the steamer New England. The steamer Conemaugh, which left Seattle early in June with a river steamer and a barge In tow, when more than half way on her voyage encountered 1 heavy gale and lost both the river steamer and barge and came near going to the bottom herself. She was thrown on her beam ends and in this condition she wallowed in the heavy sea for forty-eight hours. Her crew and passengers had about given up in despair, but when the storm abated she righted and succeeded in reaching port in a battered and dilapidated condition. An official letter from Capt. Abercrombie, U. S. A., now at Copper river, Alaska, contains the statement that there are 200 destitute men now there.

WILL REACH $100,000,000.

Small Subscribers to War Loan Obtain One-Half the Amount. Subscriptions to the war loan bonds are still coming in, says a Washington correspondent, despite the fact that Secretary Gage’s circular inviting proposals fixed 3 p. m. of the 14th inst. as the close of the period within which they would be received. Since that time nearly 20,000 applications have come to the department. Of these about 5,000 have been included by the officials in the list of the subscriptions coming within the terms of the circular. They were delayed by failure to make railroad connections, having been deposited in the mails at the starting point in time to have reached Washington, had there been no unusual delay, by 3 o’clock of the 14th. The* accepted applications have not yet been all tabulated, so the complete figures cannot yet be given. Mr. Vanderlrp, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, said that subscriptions in sums of SSOO or less would reach fully SIOO,000,000, $10,000,000 in excess of his first estimate. The prospect was, he said, that subscribers in the sum of $5,000 would get little or nothing. The allotments to subscribers under that sum would nearly exhaust the $200,000,000 to be issued. Secretary Gage said that there would be no further issue of bonds, in his opinion, before next winter.

CARRIERS ARE TO PAY.

Express and Railroad Companies Mast Provide Stamps. In answer to references from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, all bearing upon the question as to w'hether the shipper or carrier shall pay for and affix the required revenue stamps to bills of hiding, etc.. Assistant Attorney General Boyd has held as follows: _ The law makes It the duty of every railroad, steamboat company, carrier, express company or corporation, or person whose occupation It is’ to act as such, to issue to the shipper, consignor or his agent or person from whom any goods are accepted for transportation a bill of lading, manifest or some other evidence of the reeelpt of goods, wares or merchandise received, for carriage and transportation, and this bill of lading, manifest or memorandum requires a revenue stamp of the value of 1 cent affixed to it and canceled. In case of failure to issue such bill of lading the law imposes a penalty of SSO upon the carrier guilty of such failure. The penalty for failure to so affix the stamp is not more than SIOO. The purpose of the law Is clear. It was to tax the carrier and not the shipper, and these provisions undoubtedly fix upon the express companies and other carriers the duty of providing, affixing and canceling the stamp, and their failure to so provide, affix and cancel such stamp subjects them to the penalties provided by law.

HARVEST HANDS IN DEMAND.

Farmers in the Northwest Unable to Obtain Help. The farmers of North Dakota and South Dakota are unable to get men to help in harvesting their crops. During the last ninety days Nebraska has sent 3,000 soldiers to Jthe war. Most of them were young men from the farms, and in consequence the wheat raisers are crying out for help. Farmers are paying good wages for harvest hands, in some instances $2 a day and board. The wheat yield is estimated at twenty bushels an acre, while oats will be nearly fifty.

PRINTER OF CHECK STAMPS.

Evening Wisconsin Office Designated by the Government. The Evening Wisconsin Company’s printing establishment, Milwaukee, Wis., has been designated by the Treasury Department as an office for the printing of Government revenue stamps on checks, drafts, etc. This appointment has been made largely out of consideration for the large lithographic interests of Milwaukee, which is the third city of the United States in that industry. This appointment will be a great advantage to printers and bankers of the Northwest.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Good rains throughout Virginia insure a full crop of tobacco in that State. ' Mrs. John St. Clair of near Humphreys, Mo., committed suicide by drowning herself in a pond. '< Assessment of real and personal property A’ Philadelphia shows an increase of $23,0u0,900 this year over 1897. There is Uvely war in progress between the brewers and ?heepera at Cleveland, Ohio, over the war tax ug beer. - ' ■ .

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

While McKinley expects that Spain willl now ask terms of peace, he believes thsbest way to realize that expectation is to* keep pounding. It is the purpose to call home all the boys at Santiago except theartillery as rapidly as possible, and give them a chance to rest and feed up and tellthe folk about their fighting; while several regiments of immune* will be sent down to garrison that city during thesummer and assist a military governor,, who will probably be Gen. Shafter, torestore order and rebuild the town and. revive business and agriculture in that province. Every possible encouragement will be offered the residents of eastern Cuba to recover their prosperity. Steamship communication with New York will be resumed at once, public improvementswill be introduced and the owners of plantations will be afforded protection, while they clear their fields and plant their crops. The iron mines will be in< operation very shortly, because the ore is needed in Baltimore, Pittsburg and Chicago, and before the summer is endedeastern Cuba will be in a condition to illustrate what may be expected of the rest of the island when it is relieved from Spanish despotism. • • • The startling charges made by Mr. Hearst of the New York Journal about the murder of Spanish prisoners by the Cuban soldiers in front of Santiago are confirmed by officers who have reached Washington. They are reluctant to discuss the subject, and justify the barbarous act on the ground that the victims were not members of the regular Spanish force, but independent guerrillas, who had themselves violated the laws of war and were guilty of the most infamous crime among soldiers, the slaughter of the wounded. Officers say the Cuban allies treat ordinary Spanish soldiers who have deserted or have been captured with great consideration, but for guerrillas and Spanish volunteers they have no mercy. The officers smile when Gen. Shafter’s denial is referred to, and explain that he knows nothing whatever about the matter; that the capture of Spanish guerrillas is never reported, and that when one is found he is hustled into the Cuban lines as rapidly as possible. • • • Everybody you meet on the streets of Washington these days is either a school teacher or a soldier. The national association, which has been in session for ten days, brought 12,000 or 15,000 interesting young women who are professionally engaged in molding the minds of the coming generation, and they are indefatigable sightseers. The capitol, congressional library, the White House, the national museum, the Washington monument and other places of interest have swarmed with them. They monopolize the street cars, throng the sidewalks and have made their visit here the source of both pleasure and profit. These young women do not hesitate to ask questions when they desire information, and their inquiries have been addressed to anybody they met upon the streets. The soldiers from Camp Alger have almost equaled the school teachers in number and come over by hundreds every day. • • • The officials of the internal revenue bureau believe the country will absorb more internal revenue stamps than postage stamps. The Postoffice Department prints about 3,000,000,000 of postage stamps a year, or an average of 10,000,000 a day. The requisitions for internal revenue stamps from the sixty-three collectors already filled amount to 500,000,000, which seem to have been instantly absorbed by the public, and they are now calling for more. 'The department is sending out about 15,000,000 a day. • • • It is proposed upon the arrival of the commissioners to hoist at Honolulu the identical flag that was hauled down April 1, 1893, by Paramount Blount. This flag belonged to the cruiser Boston, then lying in port, and was taken possession of by Lieut. Lucian Young, one of her officers, who presented it to Minister Thurston. Mr. Thurston treasured it as a sacred thing and will deliver it to Admiral Miller to be restored to its former place at the top of the flagstaff on the Government palace. • • • There is not the slightest apprehension in administration circles concerning the attitude of Germany in the Philippines or elsewhere. On the contrary, there is a perfect understanding between the two Governments and the two admirals at Manila. While some of the German officers may show independence and perhaps impertinence, the Emperor and his ministers concede the position of the United States in the Philippine Islands and will not interfere in any measure with our plans. ©ess It is said that no attempt will be made to attack Havana. Gen. Blanco will be allowed to contemplate his fortifications and study the art of war within his own lines without disturbance from our ships or soldiers. He Is entirely cut off from communication with Madrid. One can imagine the unhappy and hopeless situation in which he is placed, with his supplies of food rapidly growing less and no prospects of rescue or, re-enforcement* • • • The officials es the Treasury Department have assumed it was the intention of Congress that the corporations of ths country instead of the public should pay the petty taxes imposed upon business transactions by the war revenue bill, and so far as they can control the matter this Intention will be carried out. • eo Commodore Watson’s missionary expedition will be hastened In order to furnish the Spaniards a practical example of war and emphasize the determination of Uncle Sam to have his own way. It is expected also that he will seize Ceuta, the Spanish outpost on the African side of the Straits of Gibraltar, and hold it as • base of supplies. • ’' ’ • t. • • The Spanish Govehpnent can no longer communicate witfe-fts officers either 1* Cuba or the Philippine Islands without the consent of the United States.