Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1902 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • * INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Clare Hnnpum has been found dead hanging in his room at Pvddie Institute, at Hightstown, N. J. While the tragedy has every appearance of ( suicide, the general belief in the school is that the boy lost his life in an attempt to startle his roommate by a “make-believe” suicide. Charles William Pearson, professor of English literature at Northwestern University. Evanston, 111., for thirty years, has tendered his resignation, and the trustees of that institution have accepted it. He has also taken a letter from the Evanston M. E. Church, of which he was a member. Militimnen on guard nt the Paterson, N. J., fire ruins heard groans in a house just within the fire lines. They ran upstairs and found Charles Handley, a telegraph lineman, with his head crushed. He revived sufficiently to say two women had attacked him and then relapsed into u nconsciou sness. Proof that the British sloop-of-wir Condor was wrecked at sea and that the 130 officers and men of the crew perished was brought to Victoria. B. C„ by the ship Egeria. The Egeria, which went out to seek the Condor, found wreckage of the vessel near Clayoqnet, on the west coast of Victoria Island. Although he had been convicted of stealing S2,(MM), sentence has been suspended on Albert J. Ayres, 19 years old, of Brooklyn. Ayres was a bank messenger employed by the Union National Bank of Brooklyn. Judge Crane said he and the president of the bank had looked into the case and hud concluded Ayres’ downfall was due to evil companions. Die Information (a Vienna newspaper) reports that two bands of brigands are at war for the possession of Miss Stone, one being that which originally captured her, the other desiring to seize her now so as to claim the ransom. In an engagement between the two bands on the border between Turkey and Bulgaria the total casualties were twenty killed and twenty wounded. An early fire at Ilarmarviile, Pa., on ■the West Pennsylvania Railroad, destroyed 000 worth of property and for a time threatened the entire place. The fire started in the plant of the Duquesne Distributing Company, and before it was controlled consumed the wain structure, a four-story brick building, the First Methodist Episcopal Church, postoffice, Thompson's general store and several small buildings.

BREVITIES.

Tom L. Johnson has formally nnnoitr.es ed himself ns a candidate for Governor Ohio. Stephen Greenwood, aged 7, died at Lima, Ohio, from the effects of eating poisoned candy. A disastrous snowslide, in which three lives were lost, occurred at Scowlarm, near Ketchikan, Alaska. Mrs. N. F. McCormack of Chicago has contributed $5,000 to the fund for rebuilding the Wooster (Ohio) University. The body of an unknown man found in the ruins of the bunted Hotel Vendome at Minneapolis has been partly identified as that of M. D. Akers of Montevideo, Minn. As the result of the investigation into the deaths from antitoxin at St.’Louis the city bacteriologist and the janitor at the city chemist's office are to be removed from office. In order to escape a threatened lynching Willis Cooper, who killed William Perry and Mrs. Faraba Russell at Amite City, La., has been taken to the New Orleans jail. Judge Keyser has dissolved the order restraining the Omaha board of tire and ]K>liee commissioners from trying Fire Chief John Betdell for alleged mistreatment of firemen. Fifteen men were injured by a dust explosion in the main entry of mine 5 at Boa Air, Texas. All were rescued and probably will recover. Five of the miners were seriously burned. The Utica, N. Y.. Maeunerchor building. or Music Hall, was destroyed by fire. One fireman was killed. One was fatally, and two were seriously injured. The building was valued at SIOO,OOO. The new Syms-Eaton Academy at Hampton, Vn„ was dedicated the other day, the occasion being commemorative of the founding of the first free school in America, the old Sy ms- Eaton Academy. The Cleveland-New York flyer on the Erie Railway was ditched near Mahoning, Ohio. Private car of President < Ramsey of the Wabash was included in the wreckage. One man was fatally hurt. Herman Lorash, or Loerch, of Cleveland. Ohio, was found dying in an alley at Pittsburg. He claimed to have been with three men who assaulted and robbed him. Later he lost consciousness and died. Louis Chambers and Helesen Trujillo fought a duel with pistols in a saloon at Bowen, Colo., in which Trujillo was killed instantly aud Chambers received wounds from which he died several hours later. The United States transport Wright, which was wrecked Nor. 28 last by striking nn uncharted rock at the entrance of Han Jacinto harbor. P. 1., and sinking in fifteen feet of water, has been successfully raised. ♦ Col. Jack Chinn’s foxhounds killed a number of sheep belonging to a woman neighbor near Harrodsburg, Ky., but the colonel paid her twice the amouut of damage nnd killed the seven young dogs that had cost him over SIOO each. ’ Hix men were killed nnd ten or more injured iu a battle between a Kentucky posse and a saloonkeeper and his followers. , ■ ..<1 Robert Fairbanks, the 14-year-old son of Senator Fairbanks of Indiana, accidentally shot and dangerously wounded his little playmate, Francis Hamlin, in Washington. Bev. Oliver Hemstreet angered the Presbyterian ministers of Baltimore by declaring in an address before them that Lu being assassinated by an anarchist President McKinley rouped what he had •own in Dot suppressing the canteen.

EASTERN.

The Minckel Brewing Company of Albany, N. ¥., has made an assignment. Barbers in New York have been forbidden by the health department to use sponges. Fire in Brooklyn, N. Y., destroyed the Shadbolt wagon factory aud other property worth $300,000; and injured fourteen ' persons. Pier G of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Jersey City and adjoining property and barges were burned, entailing a loss of $250,000. Fire in Paterson, N. J., destroyed twen-ty-six blocks, consuming 500 dwellings in addition to the main business section of the city, nnd causing a loss of $10,000,000. Four children were burned to death in n fire which destroyed the farm house of William P. Robertson, twenty-nine miles east of Cumberland, on the Maryland side of the Potomac river. Two hundred nnd eighty clerks in the census bureau at Washington have been dismissed on account of the gradual completion of the work. There will be a large number of dismissals in the next few weeks. One of the most important social events of the season in Washington took place at noon Thursday., when Miss Helen Hay, daughter of Secretary nnd Mrs. Hay, was married to Payne Whitney of New York City. Ma ria Halpin, who figured iu the first Cleveland campaign, died at her home in New Rochelle, N. Y., where she had been living quietly for several years as the wife of Wallace Hunt. The cause of her death was pneumonia. A colored man met death at Erie, Pa., in a peculiar manner. He wandered into the Edison Electric Light plant, nnd got his head into one of the large rapidly revolving condensing fans. His bead was literally cut from his body. An unknown three-masted schooner was burned at sea. The schooner c,ame to~a point about six miles off shore in a northeast direction from Capp May lighthouse, New Jersey, and was caught iu the Ice fields flowing out of Delaware bay. Foreman Charles Haggerty of the Broadband Construction Company has been arrested at Greenville, Pa., charged with manslaughter. It is claimed he failed to give notice before firing a blast which killed one man and injured ten others. » Rev. T. De Witt Talmage announces the engagement of his daughter Maude to Clarence F. Wyckoff of Ithaca, N. Y. The marriage will be celebrated some time in April. The young couple will make a tour of Japan as part of their wedding trip. About 2:30 o'clock on a recent morning nn attempt was made to rob the Gap National Bank at Gap, Pa., which ended in a lively l exchange of shots between the town watchman. David Stamix, and the burglars. The latter were routed and compelled to flee. An explosion of dynamite in rapid transit subway construction in New York hurled a piece of rock weighing thirty pounds through the plate glass door of the Grand Union Hotel nnd broke several windows in that establishment. Two persons were hurt by flying fragments. Dr. James Edwin Russell, a Brooklyn physician, has made the startling offer of his life to science. Over his signature he invites physicians and surgeons to use his body ns a subject for vivisection for one year's time or until death, if he succumb to the experiments before the expiration of twelve months. After an inquest into the alleged murder ease in which it was claimed that Eli Cameron nnd Edward Draper of Rouse's Point, N. Y., had killed Mrs. Sophia Rock, Cameron's housekeeper, in a quarrel, and then had tried to conceal the crime by setting fire to the camp in which the woman's body had been left. Coroner McMasters has decided that Mrs. Rock died by accident. Cameron and Draper have been released.

WESTERN.

The Oregon Republican State convention will be held at Portland April 25. Orpheon Music Hall iu Chicago was destroyed by fire. Eight persons were injured, one seriously. At Limn, Ohio, Frank Shaw, employed at the steel works, was crushed to death by a heavy ladle falling on him. Edgar Patterson of Cavalier, N. 1)., is reported to have been killed by wolves in the Canadjun Northwest territories. The feed store of Peterson & Wright at Akron, Ohio, was damaged $50,000 by fire. The origin of the tire is unknown. Insurance SIO,OOO. Two big tires iu the downtown district of Chicago caused destruction of property wortli $222,000. Gage millinery atore and Trude building damaged. At Bainbridge, Ohio, the Methodist Church burned. Loss $15,000. At one time the town was threatened and other towns were called eu for help. Ln a cave in iu the Diamond mine nt Butte, Mont., onezof the Amalgamated properties, Jerry J. Conroy and Richard Williams were crushed to death. A Cincinnati judge has ruled that strikers must not employ persuasion or any other menus to interfere with nonunion men desiring to work in a carriage factory. The First Lutheran Church of Xenia, Ohio, was destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at SS,(MM). The Bunday school room was heated by stoves aud the fire started therein. The Empire Hotel, n three-story lodging house for men in St. Louis, burned nnd teu men ami one woman were cremated. Eight others are badly injured. The property loss is $20,000. The two oldest residents of northwestern Ohio died Thursday in Toledo. They were Mrs. Hannah Torrens, aged 104 years 7 months and 14 days, and Mrs. Dora Exteine, aged 101 years and 1 day. Secretary J. P. Byers announced In Columbus, Ohio, that the date of the national conference of chnrities nnd corrections. which was set for Milwaukee, has been changed to Detroit, May 28 to June 2. inclusive. Twelve manufacturing firms suffered n total loss of all their stocks and machinery nnd 1,000 men were thrown out of work when tire destroyed the East street shops hi Springfield, Ohio. The aggregate loss is $700,000. Fire at the Sixteenth District School tn Brayton. Ohio, destroyed the building. All of the pupils escape I, The tire start-

ed rrom the furnace, the flames following the hot air flues, and broke but on the second floor. Loss $50,000. Seventeen-year-old Frank Benedict of Chicago swallowed a vial of carbolic acid apd lay down in the snow of a vacant lot and died. Opinion is divided as to whether a love affair or a business disappointment prompted the suicide. James A. Hill, treasurer of the United America*)! Mechanics’ lodge of Ironton, Ohio, has been arrested charged with embezzling $374 of the funds of the lodge. He admits that he used the money to tide him over financial reverses. Andrew Brilliant, charged with the murder of David Davidson, at Bridges, Mont., last Thanksgiving night, is said to be making a desperate effort to starve himself to death. For eight days Brilliant has refused to touch food. L. A. Garner, assistant superintendent of the American Express Company, died in Omaha, Neb., from the effects of a fall on an icy sidewalk. He had been iu the service of the company for thirty years. He left a widow and six children. The Central Ohio Sanitarium at Fountain Park, alwut three miles east of Urbana, Ohio, was burned. There were only a few patients in the building, and all got out safely. The building cost $30,000, and was insured for SIO,OOO. By railway route changes on the Central Pacific the town of Wadsworth. Nev., which has a population of 1,300, will be wiped out of existence in a few months. It has been deserted on account of being cut off the railway by a straightened line. A Superior street motor car in Cleveland dashed into a freight train going nt full speed at the Cleveland and Pittsburg grade crossing on Superior street. Five men were hurt, three of whom were policemen. The men are not believed to be dangerously hurt. Because she was about to secure a divorce from him John Kay beat his wife to death with a flatiron in Topeka, Kan. He then attempted to take his own life by hanging himself from a bridge near his home. He was cut down before life was extinct and revived. At a sale of registered cattle nt the Union Stock Yards in Indianapolis, W. D. Flatt of Hamilton, Ont., sold to Walter E. Cline of Wilmington, Ohio, the celebrated - imported cow Jenny Lind XXIV. for $l,OlO. Forty-eight head sold for a total of $9,515. Burglars broke into the postoffice nt Meyers Falls, Wash., took all the money nnd stamps in sight aud ent open many of the letters. The Spoknne Falls ami Northern station was also visited, the safe blown open by dynamite nnd several express packages taken from it. George Sutton, who died under mysterious circumstances in Wichita, Kan., it has uow been learned, committed suicide. Brooding over having accidentally killed Mrs. Scott Wadley is said to have been the cause. He left his promised wife, Mrs. Anna Stevens, about $5,000. Fire destroyed the Vendome Hotel, a three-story building in Minneapolis. The building is in the heart of the retail section, but good work by the fire department confined the flames to the hotel. Many guests in the hotel had narrow escapes. The loss is estimated at $75,000. State Senator Hobson, who is interested in the sapphire diggings in Fergus County, Mont., says the story in circulation throughout the East of diamonds being found in that State is a myth. The stone that is creating all the furor is a white sapphire, very hard but of comparatively little worth. Fire in the big car works of the Rock Island Railroad at Horton, Kan., caused the death of two persons nnd a loss of $325,000. The fire spread so rapidly that the employes on the second floor barely escaped with their lives, many being slightly injured. The company will rebuild the plant at once. The locomotive of a freight train on tlie Lake Eric and Western road blew up at St. Mary's, Ohio, killing Engineer Edward Casey nnd Fireman Floyd Brown of Lima, and injuring the head brakeman. A number of cars were wrecked. A defective crown sheet is supposed to have caused the explosion. George Sutton, a grocer and a bachelor, 4(1 years old, was found dead iu his brother's store in Wichita, Kan. He had been shot and a revolver lay at his side. Indications point to suicide, although no motive is known. He was to be married the next Sunday nnd spent his latst evening .with his fiancee. The police suspect murder. The sum of $2,700 has been stolen from Mrs. Scrable, a widow who lives north of O'Dell, Neb. Being distrustful of bunks, she put the cash in a tin can, which she placed beneath the floor of her chicken house. When Mis. Scrable went to get her money it was gone. Search is lieing made for the treasure, but no clew has been found. The $75,000 plant of the Wireton Heating Company at Wireton, a Chicago suburb, was burned to the ground. Not a drop of waterother than that supplied by a bucket brigade was thrown on the flames. Engines went to the blaze from Blue Island, n mile and a half away, but the firemen were helpless. The village water supply conies from wells. City Savings Bank of Detroit is closed because of operations of its vice-presi-dent, Frank C. Andrews, who has been arrested on charge of wrongfully securing over $1,000,(MM) of the institution's funds. The institution has deposits of over $3,000,000, which directors hope to pay In full. Andrews turned over property worth nearly n million us part payment of claims against him. John, alius "Shorty,” Councelle waa shot and killed by Patrolman Smyth while attempting to escape after holding tip John W. Sollais, n conductor on a Spring avenue car in St. Louis. Councelle nnd an unidentified mnn who got away boarded the car, which was loaded with passengers, nnd held up the conductor at the point of a pistol, securing his watch and money. > At Greeley, Colo., Jailer Williams mortally wounded Pe(er Kane, an insane prisoner. In frustrating an attempt of two other prisoners to break jail. When Williams unlocked the cage for the purpose of putting Kane inside Thomas Huff and David Fair, charged with highway robbery, made a dash for the door. William* immediately shot nt Huff, but the latter used Kane ns a shield. Two men nrc dead and four others seriously injured ns the result of an explosion iu the powder, house at the mouth of Japan tunnel. Telluride, Colo. All the buildings around' the tunnel wore wrecked. Santino Marta, who was thawing powder in the powder Inr.tsc, stepped out

of the building for a moment, and tha powder, becoming heated, exploded, the concussion setting off the entire supply of several hundred pounds. A young man who gave his name as R. G. Sutton of New Orleans, but who was subsequently identified as Ray Sutton Garlick of Tacoma, has been arrested in San Francisco on charges of forgery and obtaining goods by false pretenses. Representing himself as the nephew of William Alvord, president of the Bank of California, Garlick bought a gold watch and a diamond ring from W. E. Vnndersliee & Co. aud offered in payment a check for SIOO, to which Mr. Alvord's signature was forged. The nude body of the murdered girl found in an empty house at 2211 Suter street, San' Francisco has been identified as that of 10-year-old Nora Fuller. The crime has startled the city as no other has since the finding of the victims of Theodore Durant. The girl, inexperienced and eager to earn money to help support her brothers and sisters, answered an advertisement on Jan. 8 “for girl to attend baby.” On that day she met a man who gave the name of John Bennett, and was not seen ''thereafter until her decomposed body was found, divested entirely of clothing, in a rear room of the Suter street house. One C. B. Hawkins, who had rented the house for a month, disappeared at the same time. The police believe Bennett and Hawkins are one and the same, and their theory is that he enticed the girl into the house, kept her a prisoner there and murdered her after he had grown tired of her.

SOUTHERN.

The Illinois building at the Charleston exposition was discovered on fire Thursday morning and narrowly escaped destruction. The damage will amount to several hundreds of dollars. City of Galveston, Texas, has defaulted on interest payments of its bonded indebtedness of $3,000,000, virtually acknowledging bankruptcy. This condition is the result of the flood aud other misfortunes. Clad in rich, red robes, the skeletous of St. Magnus and St. Bonosa, two Catholic saints who were slain at the command of a Roman emperor nearly 1,000 ago qn account of their religious beliefs, were buried ia St. Martin's Church in Louisville. The bones were found in the catacombs of Rome in 1700. Safe blowers forced the vaults of the Lemon Banking Company at Acworth, Ga., securing $5,000 in gold, a $5,000 Georgia State bond and a large amount of stock certificates. Between $45,000 and $50,000 in notes, stock certificates and bonds were hopelessly mutilated by the explosion and much currency and small bills destroyed. At Nicholasville, Ky., Thomas Brown, a negro, aged 19, who attacked Miss Emma Powell, a 16-year-old school teacher, was taken to the home of his victim and fully identified. As the officers were endeavoring to get the prisoner back into the jail he was seized by a mob of 200 determined citizens, led by the girl's brother, and hanged in the court house yard. The bond company which was surety for the late Stuart R. Young, formerly city treasurer of Louisville, who committed suicide last November after a shortage in his accounts had been discovered, sent to Mayor Grainger a check for $42,404, covering the entire amount of the shortage, with the exception of $332, which was paid by Col. Bennett H. Young, father of the dead official.

FOREIGN.

A dispatch from Canton announces that the Berlin Missionary Society’s buildings at Fayon, near Canton, China, have been burned by an anti-Christian mob. The missionaries escaped. Edmond A. Dubose and Lewis Russell were hanged in the Philippines in execution of sentences imposed by a military commission by which they were tried and convicted of deserting to the enemy. The Sultan's brother-in-law, Damad Mahmud Pasha, has been sentenced to death. Mahmud has long been prominent in the Young Turk movement, and was recently expelled from Greece at the behest of the Sultan. M. Kamtcheff, the Bulgarian minister of public instruction, was assassinated in his study by a Macedonian who pretended he wanted to present a petition. The assassin subsequently committed suicide by shooting himself. Emperor William has intervened to stem the spread of the faith-healing cult in Germany. His majesty has had long conferences with the chiefs of police for the purpose of devising measures to counteract the campaign of the Christian Scientists, who have followers iu the higher circles of Berlin society.

IN GENERAL.

Several foreign insurance companies will withdraw from America, and a number of local companies will go out of business as a result of the Paterson fire. Mrs. Gustav Miller, while walking through the Canadian Pacific yards in Winnipeg. Man., was struck by u train. Her head, hand and feet were severed from her bady. Death has disclosed the name of the man who stole the famous Gainsborough painting of the Duchess of Devonshire. Adam Worth, noted in the criminal annals of the world, is the mnn. He died Jan. 10. In a secret session the massed delegates of the United Mine Workers, acting finally upon the advice of their national officers, adopted the report of tho Joint scale committee, which reaffirmed the scale of 1901 as a whole. Epidemic of smallpox, the most serious in many years, is raging nil over the world. Health officers in all the large cities are taking unusual precautions to stamp out tho disease, ami vacciuation is being enforced 1 when necessary. Frederick Schultz was hanged nt Saul; Ste. Marie, Ont. One night in the first week of August last Schultz returned home intoxicated, nnd nfter a quarrel with Mrs. Craig, n woman who passed as his wife, deliberately shot her. lie was arrested, found guilty and sentenced to death. “Ail elect infants are saved.” This section In chapter 10 ou the salvation es infants, which has caused a storm of criticism to sweep about the Presbyterian Church for n hundred years, is to be changed. It Is to bo so modernized that none can assert th" Prosbyteri in creed contains an "Inf tnt <’ >mn ;t!<>:i'' clause.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

.. v The volume of business 1181/ lOFft. was somewhat affected J during the last week by disagreeable weather conditions. Trade was not seriously interfered with, ■ however, and orders continue to multiply in most manufacturing lines. It is natural to expect less activity in many directions in February, just before the spring business gets well under way. The surprising and growing demand by home consumers for iron and steel products has placed the country, according to some authorities, close to a famine in steel. The primary cause of this great consumption is the universal prosperity In the United States. If the last year had not contained so bright a promise for trade and the new year had not opened so auspiciously this demand would not have arisen. But the encouraging soundness of business emboldened railroads to add to track facilities and equipment and manufacturers to expand. Where the competitive export trade was sought a year ago by the makers of iron and steel, the home trade to-day makes demands they are not able to meet. So far above the capacity of the home mills are these demands that further imports from Germa.v are under consideration. The German manufacturers have an opportunity now to get rid of their surplus stocks. There is talk of bringing back to this country foundry iron sold in 1901 to European buyers. It is estimated that two-thirds of this year’s output of pig iron has already been disposed of. For prompt shipments premiums are offered. Eastern producers as pig have decided oil an advance of 50 cents a ton. The structural and bridge company of the United States Steel Corporation is said to be sold ten months ahead. The busy state of the iron and steel trade is drawing some outside capital into the erection of new plants, but the policy es the steel corporation to avoid advances in prices tends to check activity in that direction. The independent companies in the iron and steel business are advancing prices, although the steel corporation is not doing so. Those companies iutend to get from the consumers all the consumers are willing to pay. 7T7 Plans for the construction LillCdQO. °t several downtown buijd- ——' ings will be rapidly in view of the Council’s action in removing the bar to high fireproof structures. Contracts for structural material needed for new buildings are in view, and while they add to the already overtaxed condition of structural mills, contractors and builders believed they will be ablo to get needed material. Building permits issued in January in Chicago represent a larger outlay than in any January since 1894. Improvement in the real estate market continues. Cotton is quiet, with the statisticians still at loggerheads ns to the crop. Staple cottons are no more active, home buyers confining themselves to the supply of immediate needs. Demand for export purposes was limited. Jobbers are confident of a larger business this year than last. Prices of wool hold firm, but demand is moderate. The output of NewEngland shoe factories is larger this year than last. The leather market is active. Slight improvement is reported in hides. May wheat was rather quiet, but nearly steady, the net result of the week being a loss of %c to %c. A lighter demand caused weakness in May corn and a net loss of l%c. The cr'bp situation is being watched closely by stock market operators. The money market holds at 4 to 5 per cent and the demand is good. The Bank of England made a further reduction of one-half of 1 per cent in its discount rate, the second iu two weeks. The rate now is 3 per cent. Gold exports of $4,250,000 were made to Europe from New York.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, commoa to prime, $3.50 to $6.50; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $0.45; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; corn, No. 2,58 cto 59c; oats. No. 2,41 c to 42c; rye. No. 2,59 cto 60c; hay, timothy, $9.00 to $13.50; prairie, $5.50 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 23c to 26c; potatoes. 75c to 80c per busffiel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.30; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,85 cto 86c; corn, No. 2 white, new, 63c to 64c; oats, No. 2 white, 46c to 47c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $6.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,85 cto 80c; corn. No. 2, 59c to 60c; oats, No. 2,43 cto 44c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 62c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $6.35; sheep, $2.25 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,89 cto 90c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 63c to 64c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; rye. No. 2, (Me to 68c. Detroit—Chttie, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $0.15; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,86 cto 87c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 58c to 59c; oats, No. 2 white, 45c to 46c; rye, Ulc to (J2c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed; 86c to 87c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 58c to 39c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; rye, No. 2, tile lo 62c clover seed, prime, $5.67. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 14c to 75c; corn, No. 3,58 cto 50c; oats, No. 2 wKite, 45c to 40c; rye, No. 1,59 c to 60e; barley. No. 2, (13c to 64c'; pork, mess, $15.80. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $6.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 t« $4.90; lambs, common to choice, $3.75 to $6.25. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $6.15; hogs, $3.00 to $6.30; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 86c to 87c; corn, No. 2, 66c to 67c; oats, No. 2 white, 48c to 40c| butter, creamery, 23c to 28c; eggs, w«tern, 26c to 28c. A postoffice has been established at Narcissa, I. T., with William H. Parrott as nostmaster.

Congress.

The House on Friday passed the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, the second of the regular supply bills. It carries $25,171,969, which is $503,721 in excess of the current law. Only two amendments of importance were adopted. One provides for a commission to redistrict the legislative districts of Oklahoma, and the other authorizes the President, in his discretion, to cover into the civil service the temporary clerical force employed on account of the war with Spain. There are about 1.250 of these clerks still in the service. By the terms of the amendment the President must place all or none of them under the civil service. The Philippine tariff bill was taken up early in the Senate. The session was notably quiet. Mr. Turner of Washington delivered a carefully prepared speech on tho general Philippine question, and had not concluded when the bill was laid aside for the day. He discussed particularly the legal and constitutional questions involved in the government qod control of the Philippine archipelago by the United States. After the adoption of minor amendments the pension appropriation bill was passed early in the session. The House on Saturday devoted an hour to the transaction of minor business and the remainder of the day to eulogies on the life and public services of the late Representative Burke of Texas. General debate on the oleomargarine bill was closed Monday. The friends of the bill have decided to offer an amendment to make the 10-cent tax apply to oleomargarine, in imitation of butter, “of any shade of yellow.” The amendment is designed to meet the charge of tho opponent 3 of the bill th at wi t hou t this amendment the language of the bill might be construed to absolutely prohibit the sale of oleomargarine. Throughout nearly the entire session of the Senate the Philippine tariff bill was under consideration. Mr. Turner (Wash.) concluded his speech begun the previous Friday on £he legal and constitutional phases of the Philippine question. He held in the main that as the Filipinos had established nn independent government in the islands prior to the fall of Manila, the United States under the principles of international law had no right iu tho islands. Mr. Teller (Colo.) took the floor to deliver a speech on the pending measure, but had scarcely introduced bis argument before he requested that he be allowed to continue his address the next day. By n vote of 155 to 106, the opponents of the oleomargarine bill forced adjournment in the House late Tuesday afternoon before the bill had been disposed of. The temporary defeat of the bill was complete, but not squarely upon its merits. The dairy forces were repeatedly routed during (he day. Without competent lenders the “cowboys.” as the friends of the bill have been dubbed, were frequently stampeded. The unusual anil wholly unexpected spectacle was presented of a measure that was supposed unquestionably to command the support of a safe majority, being torn to pieces and kicked about the chamber. The joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment making the commencement nnd termination of Congress and of the President's nod Vice-President's terms of office the last Thursday in April instead of the 4th day of March was taken up in the Senate, and after some opposition by Mr. Stewart of Nevada was passed. The amendment is to become effective with the expiration of the Fifty-eighth Congress in April, 1905. It is believed the House will concur in the resolution. It it does President Roosevelt’s term of office will be extended nearly two months. A stirring debate on the genera! Philippine question was precipitated in the Senate late in tho day, the principal participants being Mr. Platt of Connecticut and Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts. The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the oleo bill. The test of strength of the contending forces camo on the motion of Mr. Wadsworth of New York to refer the bill back to the committee on agriculture, with instructions to report the substitute or minority measure. This motion was defeated by a majority of forty-four, the vote being 162 to 118. War claims occupied the attention of the House after the passage of tho oleomargarine bill, and the day was made notable for the passage -of the first bill for the payment of claims of United States citizens arising out of the Spanish war. It carried something over $55,000 for the payment of 202 claims for property taken within the United States for the use of the army. An omnibus bill carrying claims aggregating $2,114,552 for stores aud supplies taken from loyal citizens during the Civil War also was passed. These claims were allowed under the provisions of the Bowman act, and the bill was identical with one passed by the House at the last session. Two other bills, which have been before Congress for twenty-eight years, to refer certain claims for additional compeueatiou by the builders of certain monitors during the Civil War to the court of claims, were passed. With the exception of a sharp dash between Mr. Lodge and Mr. Patterson over tho matter of admission of representatives of the press to the investigation which the Philippine committee is conducting, the discussion of the Philippine tariff bill in the Senate was quiet. Mr. Teller occupied the attention of the Senate during the greater part of the session, and did not conclude his speech before adjournment.

Washington Notes.

CoiigreßHinan Newland* has introduced a bill providing for statehood for Cuba. Porto Kicau importer* have asked the government to reimburse them for money paid for duties. Structure to cost $7,000,000 is planned for State Department and Department of Justice. Admiral Schley was given a SI,OOO piano by some one whose identity is unknown. House of Representatives will resist nny attempt of the Senate to alter tariffs by reciprocity treaties. The House passed bill appropriating $15,845 to pay for damages caused by explosion of caisson in Chicago. Secretary Root has proposed a new plan far Imndlirrg hisular affairs to rid himself of Acting ns colonial secretary.