Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — Page 2

PPJWNTY DEMOCRAT. t"?. E. BaBCOCK, PubJisher. R. , - • IWDIAWft.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Rf/John King and iiis wife, an aged couple c' of Fixkdale, Mjsm.. were killed l>v their Peter, who was crazed from the ex®W.s'sire use of liquor. The skulls of both 3? were crushed by a heavy instrument. The IsHtUrderer also at tempted to kill his J brother, % 'Mrs. J. M. Williams, wife of a Missouri Eypacific braketnan of Sedulia, Mo., satu--1 rated the clothing of herself and 2-ilßKmths-old babe with coal oil and then Ppet tire to the garments. She was burujf ed to death and the babe was fatally fi *corehed. jf • Mrs. Beatrice Markalaua and her I daughter. Angelina, aged 10 years, were | burned to death and Joseph Markalaua. F the husband, badly injured at their home Si in Cleveland as a result of an attempt by | the girl to start » fire in the cook stove L with coal oil. p. The rapid rise of the rivers Salzach, ; Kffis and Traun has Hooded Upper Aus--1 tria. Interrupting road and railway eoni- ■ mnnieations. At Iselii and Kbensce several bridges have been destroyed and / many families have been driven from ifc their houses. The Kichardson A Boss Asphalt Block and Tile Works at Philadelphia was dels strayed by fire, entailing a loss of b 4 00(1, The blaze was caused by the boiling ; over of crude oil ami asphalt. Albert E. Lewis, a fireman, was severely injured by falling girder. fe Neither the State Department nor the German embassy has any official advices on the reported acquisition of a large tract of land nearly 1,000 miles square in Brazil by the German Government. I The report probably grows out of the work of colonization societies in Brazil. Fifteen hundred members of the Amul gatnated Journeymen House Painters’ Association went on strike at Philadelphia in consequence of the failure of the master painters to sign the agreement presented them by the association. The union demands an eight-hour work day at 85 cents an hour. Luther Day, son of former Secretary of State Day, narrowly escaped death near Canton, Ohio, while hunting. He stepped it ism a marshy piece of ground cat! was drttwn into a quagmire, lie sank to his shoulders and was only rescued after three hours' work by his brother .aiid .a farmer who went to his assistance. 4 Word has been received of the strange an<i romantic marriage of William L.von, the son of Rev. and Mrs. Frank It. Lyon of Cleveland. The groom, who is 24 years of age, is now u medical student Ui the Western Reserve university of Cleveland and the bride is an aunt of the groom. She was Mrs. Agnes Crawford, a widow, 34 years of ago. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is ns follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn .. .86 37 Chicng I>t> t!3 Philadelphia HI 47 Pittsburg . . .<l3 l!4 Boston 77 4H Louisville ...AH tlit Baltimore ..73 51 New York,.. .52 73 Cincinnati ..73 57 Washington. 45 HO St. L0ui5....71 5s Cleveland ...13 115 The steamer Cleveland has 1 libeled for $5,409 by eighteen second- lass pa>- - tengers who arrived at Seattle from St. Michaels, Alaska. The suit grows out of trouble the vessel had between St. Michaels and Dutch Harbor, when, by reason of running short of coal, the secondclass passengers were employed ?o break up for fuel all the loose lumlicr and superlluous.woodwork on tin* vessel. In addition to their wages libelants sue for damages for the discomforts suffered on the voyage in consequence of poor sleeping accommodations. "x

BREVITIES.

11 enrv and Alfred Stockman were killed at 11 nuiel City, (). T„ by the explosion of dynamite. The residence of Samuel B. Sexton at llyde Dark, X. Y., was destroyed by tire. The loss is sflo,<HH(. John Blanchard, for nine years editor in chief of the Minneapolis Times, died, after an illness of several months, aged 57 J. T. Sargent, editor of the Dakota Herald and a prominent Demoemtie politician, dropped dead of apoplexy at Yankton, S. D. At Washington, I>. Miss Alice Knott iwis found dead in Inal, having been asphyxiated. A pet parrot hail turned on .the gas. Malcom T. MaeAnley. formerly bookkeeper for the American Exchange Bank of Duluth, Minti.. hits been indicted by the grand jury for forgery. W est-boftnd Panhandle passenger train Mo. II ran down and instantly killed Mrs. Harrison McYefy and three children at a crossing east of Logansport, I nil. William White of St. Louis, 50 years of age, shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Alice Bremser, and then tried, unsuccessfully, to end his own life. Jealousy was the cause of the tragedy. A cyclone swept over Bermuda recently. Houses were blown down and others were unroofed. No lives were lost, hut heavy damage was done to public and , private property, fruit and cedar trees. Application lias been made for a new trial in the case of William A. E. Moore, who last year was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for blackmailing and assaulting Martin Mahon, a hotelkeeper.of New York. Lizzie I’rue. u young woman formerly . of Wavorly, lowa, attempted to commit suicide at San Francisco. Disappointment in love is thought to be the cause. The flauce of the girl is lielieved to lie Bert Ralston. A Hamilton. Ohio, firm has shipped to Yokohama for the Japanese Government equipment for one of the finest paper mills iu the world. Dr. Nehemin Nickerson of Meriden, Conn., says that in his practice he administers chloroform to end the suffering of patients who arc ill beyond the hope . of recovery. According to a Washington dispatch to the Memphis Commercial-Appeal Chief Justice Chambers of Samoa has handed his resignation to the President, to take effect as soon as the powers can agree

EASTERN.

The Republican State convention at Baltimore, <Md.. nominated Lioyd Lowndes for Governor. The Garden City Hotel at Garden City, L. 1., owned by the A. T. Stewart estate, was burned. Loss $155,000. Charles Y. Wheeler, president of the Firth Sterling Steel Company of Pittsburg. died at New York, aged 5(1 years. A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by Lewis M. Hornthai at New York, dealer in clothing, with liabilities of $343.233. At Buffalo. N. Y., John Collins, a sailor, 35 years old. was killed by John Brewster, a painter, in n tight in a restaurant. Janies J. Dailey of Philadelphia died of apoplexy, aged 55 years. He was foreman of the composing room of the Public Ledger. Rear Admiral Henry F. Picking, commandant of the Charlestown navy yard, dropped dead at Boston. lie was 59 years old. The Cumberland Glass Company at Bridgeton, N. J.. has come to terms with the union and will unionize the big bottle factories. The Rev. James G. Caldwell, a wellknown Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia. was instantly killed in a runaway accident. Janies B. Eustis of New York, formerly of New Orleans. ex-L'uited States Senator and ambassador to France, died at Newport, it. 1., of pneumonia. In Philadelphia, Cramp's ship building yards haYe resumed operations. The 150 blacksmiths and machinists who struck on the day of the shut-down did not return to work. Richard B. Leech of Brooklyn, N. Y., died suddenly just as lie finished his addi •ess ut a banquet of the Forty-eighth New York volunteers at a Brighton Beach hotel. He was 54 years old. Five vessels were burned and a loss of $250,000 was entailed by a fire which destroyed one of the largest buildings of the Brooklyn Storage and Warehouse Company at pier 47, South Brooklyn, N. Y. Mabel Prindle. 10 years old, was chained by the neck to a pump in a yard at Watertown, N. Y. Her father, Charles Prindle. had taken this means to punish her for goiug away from the house to spend the forenoon with her aunt. A head-on collision on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad tit Tiona, Pa., resulted in the death of one man and the injury of three. Engineer Gerlach failed to see a set target and crashed into another freight that was about to take a siding. The American Steel and Wire Company has purchased the Crown Point Iron Company’s plant at Crown Point, X, Y.* The company has also acquired the ownership of the long-established mining, shipping and furnace industry at Port Henry. During the bicycle races at Brockton, Mass.. John It. Dubois, in a five-mile tinpaced pursuit race, rode in world's record time, defeating Claude Hamilton of Lowell in four and a quarter miles—time, 11:1$. Dubois continued for a five-mile ' record, lowering the mark of 12:12, made by 11. Clark tit Denver, by live seconds.

WESTERN.

Twenty street fair booths, worth $20,000, burned at Massillon, Ohio. The Kinsman Canning Company’s plant at Kinsman, Ohio, burned. Loss $5,000, insurance $2,500. Ten prisoners out of fourteen in jail at Nevada, Mo., escaped by digging their way through the wall. In Bt. Louis, an electric street car collided with a wagon load of school children, fatally injuring two and badly hurting four others. At Kansas City, Timothy Keefe, a laborer, died from wounds inflicted by Geo. P. Crehoe, who struck Keefe au the head with au iron bar. Rev. O. 11. Sproul, presiding elder of the Methodist Church for the Aberdeen district, died suddenly at Northville, S. D., while preaching. Wellington C. Lewellyti, accused of killing Police Officers Clifford and Griffiths in Denver, Colo., Aug. 13, was arrested at El Reno, O. I’. The plant of the Pelican mine at Chitwood Hollow, Mo., was entirely destroyed by fire. The Pelican is owned by Tvnyet- & Chandler of Chicago. W. T. Jamison and J. D. Arnold of TonkaWn, O. T\, shot and killed each other in a street fight. Jamison was a gambler and saloon man and Arnold a bote! proprietor. At Salt Lake, Heber J. Grant was arraigned on the charge of polygamy, to which he pleaded guilty. Judge Norrell ordered thut he pay a fine of SIOO, which he promptly did. Prof. Simon Newcomb of Johns Hopkins University was chosen president of the new Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America at its late session at Williams Bay, Wis. Andrew Carnegie has written a letter in which he says he will give Oakland, Cal., $50,000 for a public library building. provided the city will pay $4,000 a year to maintain the library. As a result of a collision between two electric street ears on Ontario street, Cleveland, six persons were seriously injured. Wet rails caused the accident. Both cars were badly wrecked. On board the steamer Hudson at Cincinnati, a steam pipe burst and scalded Secretary Jerry O’Shaughnessy, ex-Presi-dent Cook and Treasurer Rowe, members of the water works commission. A small riot took place iu South Brooklyn, a Cleveland suburb, in which two cars were derailed and bombarded with clubs and stones. Employes of the street railway company dispersed the rioters. Fire destroyed sixteen buijdings in Centralia. Mo., including the Merchants’ Hotel and O. G. Byram’s livery stable. Seventy horses were burned and all the buggies. The loss is estimated at $30,000. Final returns show that Pleasant Porter, the progressive candidate, has been elected president of the Creek Nation, I. T., by a majority of 1,000 votes, defeating ex-Chief Perryman and Second Chief Mclntosh. > M. Bcnard, the Parisian architect, has been awarded the first prize in the competition sponsored by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, who offered prizes for the best plans for uew buildings for the University of California. While temporarily insane because of typhoid fever, Mrs. Marion Conrad, the wife of a Canton, Ohio, farmer, took a razor and hacked her throat from ear to

ear while looking into a mirror. Death was instantaneous. The old schooner America, which July 4 celebrated ber fiftieth anniversary, sunk in the middle of Lake Michigan. Her crew was taken off by the tug Prodigy. She was bound from Chicago to Grand Haven for a cargo of lee. Fire started by spontaneous combustion in the Turkish room of Andrew McNally’s handsome winter residence in Altadena. Cal. The caretaker extinguished the flames, with help of neighbors, after $5,000 damage had been done. Four masked men held up Southern Pacific train No. 10, west-bound, at Cochise station, Arizona, blew open Wells, Fargo & Co.’s through money safe with dynamite, took the treasure it contained and escaped to the mountains. A cloudburst in the western part of Sheridan County, Kansas, covered the prairie with water twelve inches deep, doing more or less damage. Two men named Chappell and Davis, who were traveling in a wagon, were killed by lightning. One of the worst storms in years swept over Wayne County, Ohio. Three barns were destroyed by lightning. In one of them there were four men. All were stunned and Clarence Rutt was killed. Great loss is reported by farmers generally. Secretary Woodbury of the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange denies the story that five prominent commission firms have been swindled out of $90,000 by persons who drove one herd of cattle from point to point, mortgaging it to the commission men. Dog-in-the-Pot, a member of the Bannock tribe of Indians, committed suicide at Virginia City, Mont., because of unrequited love. Dog-in-the-Pot was in love with Ramona, the belle of the Indian camp, and sought her hand in marriage. His offer was rejected. Fire was discovered in the rolling mills at the Shelby Tube Works at Shelby, T)hio. The tire originated from an overheated oven. The rolling mill is a total loss, as is also the piercing machine room, engine room and boiler room. The loss gauuot at present be estimated, 5 Two members of the Cincinnati tiro department and a child 4 years old were suffocated the other day. Monroe Dent, aged 4, fell into a vault in the rear of his father's house. Firemen Thomas Bland and Harry Heinsheimer went down a ladder to rescue him. The three were killed by gases in the vault. A. F. Dahronge, who claims to be a representative of the Turkish Government, was arraigned in court at Cincinnati on the charge of renting typewriters and selling them. The police indicate that the prisoner is acting as a spy for the Ottoman Government, with his efforts directed against some secret society in New York. In Cleveland, Ohio, William R. Morrison, 17 years old, said to be a member of the notorious "Nickel Plate gang,” was : shot and killed by Mrs. Mary Schwarz. Morrison was with a number of companions and had started a tight in Mrs. Schwarz's yard. Mrs. Schwarz told the police that the boys had been stealing her flowers. St. Xavier’s Girls’ Academy and Convent of Mercy of St. Columba Deanery, at Ottawa, ill,, together with a new $13,000 addition under construction, were destroyed by tire. Forty Sisters of Merry ami twenty boarding pupils escaped in their night clothes without accident. The loss on the buildings is $50,000 .and on contents $25,000. A shooting affray which occurred at Xaco, a small town on the International line, nine miles from Bisbee, Ariz., caused the death of one American cowboy and a Mexican guard, the wounding of several other persons and ultimately in the delivering over to the Mexican authorities of four American citizens, who will be tried for murder. Lightning struck among a gang of men on the grounds of the fair association at Camargo, 111., while the fair was in progress, and ten were thrown to the ground, two being instantly killed uud two fatally hurt. Many women were shocked and stunned. The bolt struck on the north end of the grand .stand, which was filled, just a short time previous. Nearly all of the killed and injured were young men and they were seated at supper when the bolt came.

SOUTHERN.

Patti Louise Grayson, the younger of the Grayson sisters, died at Galveston, Texas. At the time of her death she was under engagement to go to New York and play all winter. At Louisville, Ky., tire destroyed the stove foundry of Bridgeford & Co. aud the Phoenix Canning Company, causing a loss of $250,000. Samuel Reese, a fireman, was fatally hurt. Gov. Candler's minute men, a, company of 100 officers and privates at Atlanta, Ga., have made application to Secretary of War Root to be accepted as a company for service in the Philippines. Mrs. B. K. Bruce of Mississippi, widow of the late United States Senator Bruce, has accepted the position of lady principay of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute at Tuskegee, Ala. Three miners, Fred Hamilton, Clarence Hardesty and Eliza Powers, lost their lives in Highland niiues. near Fairmount, W. Va„ the result of a powder explosion, followed by a tire started by the falling of a lamp in a keg of powder. Near Columbia, S. 0., 200 feet of trestle on the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens roail over Broad river gave way under a train load of granite. Several cars aud an engine fell fifty feet into the water. Four men were killed. Arch Healton wun shot aud killed in Leslie County, Ivy., by Miltbu Brnshear. Healton and Brnshear had quarreled. Healton went the other morning to a store on Philips Fork to buy some merchandise. He found Brashear at the store and when Healton entered the store Brashear told him. to get out. Healton did not go, but pulled his pistol. Both fired at once. Healton fell dead in the store door.

FOREIGN.

Rain has improved the crop outlook in western India, and the fears of a famine have been removed. European nations are considering; projects to boycott the Paris exposition liecause of the verdict in the Dreyfus case. At Rennes, France, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was declared guilty of treason by the court martial and was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. President Kruger of the,Transvaal Republic cablaa to a New York newspaper; I

“We are determined to defend to the uttermost that freedom and self-government for which our people have shed blood in every part of South Africa.” Agents for a company of Spanish capitalists announce that arrangements have been completed for the building of a modern railroad line in Luzon that will connect Manila with all the important towns along the west coast of the island as far north as Lacag. The great Siberian Railway is to be rebuilt even before it is competed, according to a report forwarded to the State Department by Mr. Hagerman, second secretary of the embassy at St. Petersburg. The reason is the enormous increase in the business. The steamer Antarctic, which left Helsingborg, Sweden, on May 25 last, with au expedition under Prof. A. G. Nathorst, was spoken off The Skayv, the northern extremity of Jutland, Denmark, on her return from her search along the northeast coast of Greenland for Prof. Andree. She reported that she had found no trace of the missing aeronaut.

IN GENERAL

Skaguay, Alaska, has absorbed its rival city, Dyea. The legislative council of Victoria has rejected the woman’s suffrage bill. The arctic steamer Windward has arrived at Brigus, N. F., with news that Peary has established winter quarters at Fort Conger. The United States cruiser Detroit has been ordered to Venezuela, where American interests are reported to be menaced by a revolution. Trof. Campbell of the Lick Observatory has discovered that the polar star is a triple system, two of the bodies revolving about each other and at the same time moving about the third body. The Hollander Line will soon open its service between New York and St. Louis. The steamship Catania will sail from New York to Mobile, whence the Mobile and Ohio Railroad will be used to St. Louis. The statistics of the cotton crop for the year ended Sept. 1, as compiled by the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, show a total crop of 11,285,888 bales, against 11,180,9(50 bales in 1898 and 8,714,011 bales in 1897. Owing to the laws of Mexico prohibiting the removal of bodies from that country until two years after death, the body of Frank Ives, the former champion billiard player, who died at Progreso, cannot tic brought to this country for burial. Adjt. Gen. William C. Lillee of the Spanish war . veterans, received a telegram from Miss Helen M. Gould, who was unanimously elected national sponsor of the Spanish War Veterans’ Association, thanking the society for the honor. At Sydney, X. S. W., Right. Hon. George Houston Reid, the premier, treasurer and minister of railways, and the other members of the cabinet resigned in consequence of the action of the assembly, which passed a resolution declaring u lack of confidence in the ministry. The naval estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901. will aggregate about $50,000,000. This considerable increase in the cost of the navy is due in great part to the expenditures which will have to be made during the present and coming fiscal year for the construction of new war vessels. There is a plan arranged to form a gigantic railway system which will create a trunk line consolidation greater than any tiow in existence in this country, and it will embrace the Baltimore and Ohio. Pittsburg and Western, Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Rending, West Virginia and Pittsburg and several smaller roads in as many States. Bradstreet's commercial report says: “Strength of staple prices, activity in fall demand, large railroad earnings, reports of heavy lake traffic and of activity in leading industries are the features, none of them necessarily new, but still presenting themselves in the trade situation this week. Expansion in fall demand is perhaps most notable at the leading western and northwestern markets, but advices from eastern markets furnish evidence that active interest is manifested at these centers. The price situation is one of notable strength. Cereals ure generally higher. The hot weather in the West is responsible for a further shading in exuberant estimates of the corn crop and for the slight strengthening in prices shown therein. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,353,906 bushels, against 3,(313,443 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,786,873 bushels, against 4,167,868 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to ,71c; corn. No. 2,31 cto 32c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye. No. 2,55 cto 57c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 16c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indinuapolis—Cattle, shippiug, $3.00 to $0.25; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, t>6e to 68c; corn. No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; oats’, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.25 to $7.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2. 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2,22 cto 24c; rye. No. 2,53 cto 55c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $2.50 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2, GBc to 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 60c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,70 cto 72c; yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, 58c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2. 56c to 58c; clover seed, new, $4.75 to $4.85. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 07e to 68e; corn. No. 3,32 cto 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 1,56 cto 58c; barley, No. 2,42 cto 44c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo —Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.75. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, Nau. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 39c to 40c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 20c; butter, creamery, 18c to 23c; eggs, western, 13c to 17c.

THE PEOPLE'S MONEY.

The Goldbue—A Many in Kntomoloer The gold bug’s existence seems coeval with man’s, and although it haa not always been known by its present name, Its methods of operating have remained unchanged, and are marked with great caution and exceeding cunning. We have evidence of its active presence an remote as when “pottage” was a medium of exchange and birthrights were extorted from jiungry. famishing men. Its natural habital is in the commercial centers of the world, but its poisoned effluvium vltates the of trade to the outermost circles of the earth. While its favorite diet—upon which it “feeds fat”—ls real estate mortgages and government bonds, It readily devours corporation bonds of all kinds, and it may be said to be omnivorous so far as well-secured interest-bearing gold redemption paper is concerned. In general appearance, it closely resembles the human family, so closely Indeed as to lead to the opinion that it Is identical with man; but after the most thorough investigation and careful research,- even the X rays fail to discover the slightest rudiments of that “Divine compassion” that bespeak the soul in common humanity, and hence it is reasonable and very pelasant to think it belongs to an entirely different species. One of its fixed habits is to always demand the “pound of flesh” if It be so “nominated in the bond,” and another Is to see to it that it always be so “nom-/ iuated.” So wonderful Is its ability to lix conditions ’right for its operations by corrupting legislative and judicial departments of state as to lead to the belief that it is endowed by hypnotic power akin to that of the traditional serpent who “charms” his prey before devouring it. Of late it has been ravaging the industrial interests of the United States to a most alarming extent; and the people are preparing for a general and concerted onslaught upon It on the third of next November, when, by a most thorough administration of the popular free silver 16 to 1 remedy, it is believed that the pest will be exterminated. or at least reduced from its present “pernicious activity” to a state of “innocuous desuetude.”—Angel ine Allison.

Minds Are Confused. There is great confusion in the minds of many people between a bimetallic standard of value and a bimetallic circulatiiig medium. Many people think that you cannot have a bimetallic standard of value unless in each country gold and silver circulate side by side. It is quite immaterial and unimportant, as far as measuring values Is eoifcerned, whether gold and silver circulate In each nation. You can have a bimetallic standard of value without silver circulating In a gold standard country or gold circulating in a silver standard country. If one-half of the nations of the world in commercial importance were to adopt the single gold standard and not permit silver coin to circulate in those countries, aud if the other one-half of the nations in commercial importance were to adopt a single silver standard and not permit gold coin to circulate in those countries, the world nevertheless would be upon a bimetallic standard of value, because there would be an equal demand created upon an equal quantity of metals, which would produce an equal price. You can readily see that, though the silver did not circulate in the gold countries, it would be doing service in another part of the world as primary money, and consequently would be relieving the strain upon gold, just as much as if it circulated side by side with the gold in that gold standard country.—J. F. Sbafroth.

In General.

Salt in whitewash makes it stick. There are 5,C00 bicycle-makers in Chicago. You can not Jell by a man’s looks how much he owes. Fish lie 6 are Innocent, but they get people iu the habit of thinking that everything is "fish.” Butter, if eaten moderately, will not prove hurtful. The system needs oils and pure butter furnishes these. The five largest Belgian cities are Brussels. withssl,oll inhabitants; Antwerp. wltb 271.284; Luttich, 107,305; Ghent, 161,125; Brughes, 50,990. Mrs. Joubert, wife of the commander of the Transvaal forces, accompanies her husband In the Held, and herself has gained a considerable knowledge of military matters. Postage stamps may be reproduced once more Iu England In stamp albums and catalogues by a recent ordeT of the British Board of Internal Revenue. They must be printed In black and not be like enough to Uie originals to cause deception. Time wasted on little duties Is not often considered. A mill-owner not long ago issued the order that the girls in his employ should not wear laced shoes. The reason he gave was that each one’s boot became untied at least five times a day, and took at least five seconds to retie. When these twentyfive seconds were multiplied by 300tbe number of girls in his employ—the loss of time was, be said, too serloua to submit to. - Another mill-owner, talking over this case, said that be bad forbidden visitors, because each of bts “hands” tamed her bead to look at them. Computing twenty visitors a day and two seconds for the bead-tnrn-ings of each of bis 600 employes, mate 4 over six hours dally wasted In tbit gesture.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Admiral Dewey's official welcome homa will take place in Washington when the magnificent sword voted to him by Congress will be presented to the hero of Manila bay on the steps of the Capitol. There will be official delegations from the Senate and House, under the leadership of Senator Proctor of Vermont and Representative David B. Henderson of lowa, the Most of the State Governments will be represented officially. The ceremony of presenting the sword by President McKinley will take place on the east front of the Capitol, on the spot where the Presidents are inaugurated, and the plaza between the Capitol and the Congressional Library will furnish standing room for the thousands who are expected as spectators. At night there will be a general illumination of the city, and a torchlight parade of troops and civic organizations. The ceremony will take place immediately after the reception in New York. An informal understanding has been reached for a temporary agreement on the Alaskan boundary. The boundary line is to form a temporary barrier only, and its location will not prejudice the Government case of either country. The modus vivendi provides for a line running just northward of Kluckwan, and it bars out Canada entirely from the Lynn canal. Arrangements of a temporary character may yet be however, to permit the Canadians to get their goods across the border, but the protocol as now drawn does not provide for such a free port. The boundary line under the modus vivendi is a slight concession to Canada, but it is still far inside of the British claim and is in substance the American line. Chinese missionaries, some of them at present at home, are back of a scheme to transplant a modern sawmill from New York State to Wn Hu, China. American, English and Chinese residents of Wu Hu are said to take kindly to the proposition, and Li Hung Chang is quoted as having given his consent, and along with it a check for $2,000 fqr stock in the new enterprise. There is no modern sawmill in all China, and lumber is sawed there by the most antiquated methods. It is said that the value of the proposed mill as an object lesson for the natives will be important, and that for this reason the Government is looking upon the plan with favor. There was more gold in the treasury Thursday than the Government has ever had before at one time. The net gold and bullion, including $100,000,000 reserved for redemption of United States notes, as reported at the Treasury Department on that day was $251,618,132. The amount never reached $200,000,000 until August last year, when it was a little more than $217,000,000. The actual amount of gold coin in the treasury Thursday was $195,812,840, and of gold bullion $128,904,321, making a total of $324,717,661, against which gold certificates to the value of $73,099,529 are outstanding. According to official reports at the State Department, steps have been taken to break down the quinine trust, organized by Germnn manufacturers. Recently some of the largest and most influential planters in Java have organized to control the supply in such a way as to keep the raw material out of the hands of the syndicate and have begun to tlTcourage direct trade with the United States. Factories have been established in Java, and since last January, when the new trade begun, 265,000. ounces of sulphate of quinine have been shipped direct to this country. It will take more than half a million dollars to repair ships of war during the current fiscal year. The available appropriation amounts to $3,000,000, and Rear Admiral Hichborn, the chief constructor of the navy, says that sum will not suffice for a longer period than six months. He will endeavor to make it hold out until Congress meets in December, when the Navy Department will submit a deficiency estimate of fully $3,000,000 to carry the work on until July, 1900. When Gen. Shafter retires as a brigadier general in the regular army next month he will be continued as a major general of volunteers as a reward for his services around Santiago. The vacant brigadier generalship will probably go to Gen. Lawton. Brig. Gen. Anderson and Maj. Gen. Merritt of the regular establishment will retire in the next six months, and this will make two new brigadiers, who are likely to be MacArthur and Wheaton. The blanks for writing the names in the Cuban census are twice as large as the blanks for the same purpose In thia country. This grow* out of the fact that the Spanish names are usually about twice as long as American and English names. In Spain it is the general cuatom to give a child the surname of his father and of his mother, and thin custom has been followed in Cuba for a great many years. *•" •" Arrangements have been made through the regular diplomatic channels for the reshmptiou of commercial relations with Spain. To this end Minister JBtorer at Madrid has been instructed to take such steps as will lend to the usual commercial treaties between this country and Spain. * ; . t The people of Florida and Georgia are urging very strongly upon the Secretary of War the organization of colored regiments for service in the West Indies or the Philippines, claiming that the black race Ut peculiarly fitted for service in the hot countries. In Georgia alone it la claimed that ten regiments of colored troops could be raised within twenty days. United States Senators, members of Congress sod Governors of States are back of the movement and have united la a petition to the Secretary.