Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1902 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. p 7 E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Prof. William E. Hitter of the University of California has made the discovery that Santa Catalina Island the famous pleasure resort, is slowly sinking into the Pacific ocean. He estimates that the island is now 270 feet lower than it was formerly. Janies McAuliffe, the principal witness In the triul of Wardinan Glennon, whose testimony was thought to have been largely responsible for Glennon’s conviction and sentence to Sing Siug, was found dying on a street in New York, and never regained consciousness. Frank Kolar and John Hajny, two 18-year-old boys, have confessed to Capt. ■Campbell of the Warren avenue police station in Chicago that they were guilty of the murder of Horace Shrode, the young grocery clerk who was killed Jan. 20 while defending G. C. Burns' store. Henry C. McEldowney, president of the Union Trust Company, his wife and their three children were rescued from their burning home in Pittsburg by neighbors with ladders. Their handsome residence, into which they moved a few weeks ago, was destroyed. The loss is nearly $50,000. On a charge of counterfeiting the Birmingham, Ala., police have arrested Ernest Matthews, it 10-year-old boy. He and ten companions are alleged to have received instructions from an old man and established a small mint, where they manufactured spurious silver quarters from crude molds. - Charles G. Fargo has signed the deed conveying to the Elkhorn Railroad a piece of real estate in Dead wood, S. D., after spending three dnys in the Lawrence County jail for contempt of court. The contempt lay in his refusing to make the conveyance in compliance with an order of the court.

President Roosevelt hag made public his decision on appeal of Admiral Schley. He declined to reverse tV> verdict of the court of inquiry, declared fight off Santiago was a captains’ battle and that honor rests equally on commanders in the action, and pronounced flatly against continuation of the controversy. Hamilton Schuyler, postmaster at Bellevue, Ohio, has been missing for several days and the office is in charge of Postal Inspector Moore and the bondsmen of the missing postmaster, who is several thousand dollars short. Schuyler left a written confession saying that he had been speculating on the markets. Mr. and Mrs. John Glosser, an old couple, were found in their home in Fremont. Ohio, in a most pitiable condition. They bad been overcome by gas several days ago. After being prostrated their fires went out, and they had been lying cold and helpless. They were so badly frozen that the arms and legs of both must be amputated. Neither is expected to recover.

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis has decided that the sulride clause in a life insurance policy must be respected. The ruling was rendered by Judges Caldwell, Thayer and Sanborn, releasing the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York from paying to the widow of Edward S. Kelly $7 ,500. Kelly committed suicide at Colfax, lowa, Feb. 21, 1805. Eleven-year-old Michael Ferers of Chicago had a desire to see the fire department at work. To give himself entertainment he set fire to four buildings and kept the fire department busy for three or four hours. At the last fire he had the pleasure of seeing the firemen work as life-savers. William Dowling, 80 years old, was carried out of a burning house. This fire led to the arrest of young Ferers, and Capt. Schuettler says he confessed to setting fire to four structures for the fun of the thing.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Fire which started in Swart's livery barn at De Graff, Ohio, caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. The Corn Exchange and Merchants’ National banks of Chicago are to be consolidated. Fifty welj-known Chicago men who now live in New York have organized the Chicago Society of New York. Mrs. E. A. Cook of Shawnee, Ok., a restaurant keeper, announces that an uncle has just died iu Luzon, Philippine Islands, leaving her uu estate of $1,000,000. Charles L. Tiffany, senior member of the famous jewelry firm in Union Square, New York, died suddenly at his home. He had been ill with pneumonia for several days. The Maryland house of delegates, by a tie vote, defeated the bill to prevent trusts from transacting business in the State of Maryland. The bill is similar ip its provisions to the law now in force in Texas. H. H. Mafitesou, who on .Tan. 5 confessed First '"National Bank of Greut Falls Mont., while ueting as cashier, is now alleged to have taken $178,000, his operations extending over three years. Fire destroyed the upper works of the wteamer Fred Kelly, lying in winter quarters at Cleveland. When the (lames had been subdued the firemen found the body of Watchman L. Walker lying in the hold of the vessel, bur lied-to a crisp. George Savage, alius West, was arrested in Montreal, Que., at the Instance of the Pinkertons for alleged connection with a robbery at Portlaud, Ore., where aniOiTV other thiugs a trunk containing $lO ,000 worth of jewelry was stolen. It develops that Lieut. Clarence M. Fumy committed suicide at Columbus barracks because his sweetheart at Omaha became blind. Dr. Cornelius W. La risen of Kingoes N. J., Who braved the danger of smallpox contagion, caring for the living and burying the dead aioae, has been attacked by the disease at the house of a patient. A Chicago crook named Everett, who stole the overcoat of Bishop Dubs of Chicago at Findlay, Ohio, escaped arrest by jumping from a second-story window. Five shots, two of which were effective, (were fired after him.

EASTERN.

Peleg Cornell, aged 70, was murdered near Little Comton. R. L, It is supposed, by robbers. Two women were killed and a bouse was wrecked at Brookfield, Mass., by the explosion of acetylene gas. Helen Gould’s home in New York was robbed by her second butler, John O’Neill, of many valuable articles. The man has confessed. In his will James W. Tufts, the Boston soda fountain manufacturer, left; SBO,(XX) to his employes, to he distributed in sums of SSOO, S2OO and SIOO. Eleven men, three of whom may die, were injured at the Boston Run colliery, St. Nicholas, Pa., in being hoisted by mistake up the dumping chute. John Young, one of the four burglars who murdered Washington Hunter, a wealthy farmer of Riverside, N. J., Jan. 25, 1901, has been sentenced to be hanged March 18.

The factory of the Hampden Corundum Wheel Company at Springfield, Mass., was almost totally destroyed by fire. The loss is about $50,000, partly covered by insurance. The Gloucester, Mass., haddock fishing schooner, Elsie M. Smith, has been wrecked on Cape Cod. Two members of the crew were drowned and sixteen were saved in the breeches buoy. Heavy snowfall, accompanied by high winds, caused a suspension of traffic in New York and other Eastern cities. All of New England was affected, the sea coast towns suffering the worst. Edward It. Thomas, son of Gen. Samuel Thomas, ran down and killed Henry Theiss, 7 years old, in New York, with his automobile, the original White Ghost, formerly owned by William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. Five men blew open two safes in the street railway company’s*office at Northampton, Mass., after overpowering the. watchman. They obtained about S3OO in cash. In their haste they overlooked SSOO in one of the safes. Explorer C. E. Borohgrevinck has reached home in New York after a hazardous voyage, in which he went 500 miles nearer to the south pole than ever before was reached and gathered much important scientific information. Geneva, N. Y., suffered a SIOO,OOO fire. It broke out In the Y. M. C. A. building and in ten minutes the four-story brick structure was a mass of flames. Thirty boys in the gymnasium on the top floor escaped down the ladders in their gymnasium clothes. Three men killed, four probably fatally and two seriously injured, one freight train a complete wreck and another nearly so are the results of an accident on the Pennsylvania Railroad at the steep grade a few miles above the Horseshoe Curve, Altoona, I’a. Mrs. Henry Daguc and her 3-year-old son wore fatally burned at Washington, Pa., by the child pulling an oil lamp off the table. An explosion followed and the blazing oil was scattered over the two. Heury Hague, the husband, was also badly burned while trying to rescue his wife and child.

Liberty’s torch is to be put out. The lofty light in the hand of the bronze goddess, standing on Bcdloo Island, in upper New York bay, which has been allowed to grow dimmer steadily since Bartholdi gave the magnificent statue to the United States, is to be extinguished forever about March 1. The grand jury has returned a series of indictments against the contractors and workmen alleged to have been responsible for the fatal and destructive explosion on Park avenue, New York, on Jan. 27 and against tho city officials charged with dereliction in connection with the storing of explosives. Announcement is made in Boston that a combination of transatlantic steamship companies, embracing the Dominion and Leyiand lines of Boston and the White Star, the American and the Atlantic transport lines of New York, has been effected. The combination controls 120 steamers of all sizes, and, it is said, bus behind it a large capital. The mystery of the disappearance of George McCue of Seneca Falls, N. Y., Nov. 8 lost, was partly solved by the finding of his body in an unused well thirty-five feet deep. The well was tightly planked over, and the theory of suicide is doubtful. James McCue, the deud man's father, disappeared eighteen years ago and was never heard from. Unremitting in his efforts to find his son Walter, Paul S. Bolger of Yonkers, N. Y., has mailed letters describing the boy to all the principal cities of the world. Besides these letters Mr. Bolger has written thousands of personal communications to commercial and consular agents at various ports* Young Bolger is 18 years old. He has been missing since Nov. 19, when he left home on an errand.

WESTERN.

Adolphus Trumley shot and killed W. 11. Patrick at Geary, Okla. Mayor H. W. Allen of Ashtown, Ark., was run down by a switch engine at Texarkana and killed. John Cox, convicted of the murder of five men Hour Weer, I. T., has been sentenced to life imprisonment. ‘‘Billy” West, old-timo minstrel, died in Ills apartment* at the Palmer House, leaving an estate valued at $250,0(X). Johu McCormack has beep convicted at Nebraska City, Neb., of murder in the second degree for shooting Mrs. Muggiu Llaley last November. U. M. Clayton, aged 72 years, of Mount Ayr, lowa, blew out the gas at the Florentine Hotel iu Lima, Ohio, and was found dead the next morning. Henry Ford was killed (and Joseph Carl and Evan Thomas were badly hurt by a delayed explosion of dynamite Jn a clay bank iu Springfield township. Ohio. Dr. C. C. Calhoun, accused of poisoning Ills wife, whose life was insured for SS,(XX), has been convicted at Oswego, Kan., of murder in the second degree. Annie Anderson, a Swedish girl employed as a domestic, was shot and probably fatally wounded by a masked footpud in San Francisco. The man escaped. Ernest Stringer, living near Monett, Mo., shot and killed A. G. Topper because the latter had failed to keep his promise to marry the young man's moth* er. Frederick Walker was killed and his brother Frank probably fatally Injured while trying to drive across the railroad track in front of an engine at Waverly, Neo. The Northern Pacific awitebmeo'*

strike in the yards at Missoula, Mont., has been declared off. Every concession asked by the striking switchmen has been granted. C. Willard Hays, formerly with the United States geological survey, reports that the Pike County, Ark., asphalt deposits are the finest he has ever seen and in many respects remarkable. Fire destroyed the opera house block at Carl Junction, Mo., including three stocks of general merchandise, causing a loss of $40,000. Mark Enos, a miner, was caught by fallin'g wallis and fatally injured. Charles E. Davis and Benjamin Ivins and their wives, accused of counterfeiting, were arrested in St. Louis by United States secret service agents, who also secured dies and metal used in manufacturing spurious coin. “Diamond Special” over the Illinois Central while creeping through a fog near Litchfield, 111., was struck in the rear by a heavy freight train and wrecked. Two persons were killed and five injured, all employes of the road. Barney Reynolds of Cleveland has received word from Sydney, Australia, that an uncle of his is dead and has bequeathed a fortune of SIOO,OOO and a cattle ranch to Reynolds, his two brothers— Charles and George—and a sister. Mrs. Kathryn Hunter of Springfield. Mo., wife of Edward Hunter, said to be a Chicago sporting man, is in Denver looking for her child, who, she says, was kidnaped by her husband five years ago. The girl, she says, is heiress to SIOO,OOO.

At a dance in Okmulgee, I. T., Wiley Johnson, a Creek, and Bill Scott, an Ouohee, engaged in a fight and both were fatally stabbed. More than twenty other Indians and lfbgroes who were mixed in the fight were more or less seriously hurt. In a rear-end collision between Baltimore and Ohio trains at Indiana Harbor, Ind., Conductor Huntley and Brakeman Brice, both of Garrett, were killed. Two other trainmen were injured. The responsibility for the accident has not been fixed. Seven men were killed and at least fourteen were seriously injured by a huge boulder crashing into the caboose of a work train on the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad twenty miles "west of Little Rock, A.rk. Many of the Injured will die.

A daring robbery was committed in Clinton, lowa, when two masked men, at the point of revolvers, held up Flanagan's gambling establishment and robbed the inmates, numbering twelve, of money and valuables amounting to $2,000. There is no clew. John M. Blue of Larue, Ohio, was found hanging to a bedpost at his home, having strangled himself to death. Two weeks ago Blue, who was 73 years old, and Cleinentia Drake, aged 03 years, were married. No cause for -the suicide has been found. There was a big surprise in the Alfred Buff murder trial at Mexico, Mo. The daughter, Miss Louisa Buff, arrived unexpectedly from Troy, 111., and testified that her father deliberately killed her mother, shooting her through the head before the eyes of the witness. The body of a grandson of a President of the United States was reduced to ashes at the crematory in Cincinnati. The child was the son of Rutherford Platt Hayes, and bore the name of its illustrious grandfather. Mr. Hayes brought the body from Asheville, N. C. The Ohio House has passed a bill aimed at Christian Scientists. It provides that any parent or guardian who shall willfully deprive any sick child under the age of 16 years of the services of a physician shall be fined from $lO to S2OO, or imprisoned for six months, or both. Andrew Tapper, sentenced to hang at Chaska, Minn., tried to commit suicide three times, once by breaking a lamp chimney and cutting himself with a piece of the glass, another time by pricking himself with a pin and a third time by hanging himself with his suspenders. President A. E. Stillwell is on his way from Europe with $3,000,000 for the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad, raised abroad from the sale of International Construction Company stock. Officials report that rapid progress is being made in the construction of the road. Ne-Iva-Sha, Hugh Miller nud Allen Gibson, full-blooded Osage Indians, all under 30 years of age, drank a concoction of wood alcohol, vanilla, cologne and Florida water at Guthrie, Okla., which killed them. The three suffered agonies for several hours before death relieved them. One of the most sensational niurder cases ever tried in Montana was brought to a close at Bozeman when the jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter against Lucy S. Black. The defendant was accused of poisoning her husband, John 11. Black, with morphine and ur- . senic.

Shelley Streeter, manager of Armour & Co.’s house at David City, Neb., has been missing for several days. The auditor of the company began an examination of his books and announced that he had already found a shortage of $2,500. Streeter is 28 years old and has borne a good reputation. Articles of incorporation were filed in the ofllce of the Secretary of State at Pfcrre, 8. D., for the Northwestern Industrial Company, with a capital of $000,0t)0,000. The purpose of the corporation is to construct abattoirs to handle nil kinds of meat products and by-pro-ducts of the same. West-bound passenger train No. -105, the Pittsburg nud Detroit flyer, on the Pennsylvania, struck a broken rail between Helena and Millersville, Ohio, and , left the track. The train was ditched and several coaches wrecked. About a dozen passengers are reported injured, some seriously, but none fatally. The Supreme Court of Minnesota has handed down a decision sustaining the Torrens system of land title registration in every particular. A onse wus carried from Itamsey County to that court by W. P. Westfal, the local attorney in charge of such registration, with the purpose cf testing the constitutionality of the law. Dead nt his desk in hi* office, at 4(11 Lincoln avenue, Chicago, they found Peter Buschwnh the other morning. Gas was, pouring into the room from eight wide-open jets. The windows and doors were tightly closed. The death of his wife and mnhy business troubles are supposed to have Jed Buschwnh to take his lire. Fire which broke out in the big retail dry goods house of Brosman Brothers at Indianapolis gutted that establishment. For a time the department store of 11. P. Wasson & Co., immediately west of Bros*

man’s, was threatened, but the fire was confined tq the establishment in which It originated. The loss is estimated at sffiS,000. An attempt was made to wrecg Burlington passenger train No. 3. a mile east of Hastings, Neb. The train ran into a large pile of ties that had been laid across the rails, and only the fact that the train was running prevented a serions wreck. The pilot struck the obstruction in such a manner as to throw it clear off the track. The Singer sewing machine factory In South Bend, Ind., the largest in the world, is shut down because of a strike of the 1,711 employes. The twenty-five wood molders walked out, declaring they would not submit to the will of Superintendent Barker, who recently came from the East. They were followed out by all the other employes. Lieut. Clarence M. Furey of the Second infantry committed suicide at the United States barracks at Columbus. He was standing in his quarters surrounded by brother officers at the time and, without a word, pulled a revolver and shot himself in the temple. He was dead when he struck the floor. No cause for the act has been assigned. In Sandusky, Ohio, David Winget was convicted of murder iu the first degree for killing Fred Blanche, a well-to-do vint-' ner. This was his third trial. He was twice convicted and.sentenced to be elec- . troeuted, and he will again be condemned to death. Winget is a veteran of .the Civil War and strenuous efforts have been made to save him from the chair. Edwin Boyce, head of the Western Federation of Miners and leader in the recent strikes in northern Idaho, has become wealthy through a rich find recently made in a mine in which he and his wife are interested. Some of the wealthiest mining men in the West are said to have offered $1,500,000 for the property, but the owners refused to part with it. , Preparations for a jail delivery were discovered by Jailer John L. Whitman and bis guard in Chicago. Three saws were found in the cell of James M. Wilson, who several days age pleaded guilty to passing forged money orders of Wells, Fargo & Co. The blanks were a part of the proceeds of a burglary of an express office in Oklahoma several months ago. Two men met death in elevator accidents in Cincinnati the other day. Edward Bolan, night fireman in the Lincoln Court lun building, was caught between the bottom of the cab and the floor and crushed to death. John C. Sloan, a book distributer at the public library, fell down the elevator shaft at the library from the third floor to the basement and was instantly killed.

SOUTHERN.

In a sawmill explosion six miles from London, Ky., five men were injured, two fatally. Fire destroyed the International Company’s grist mill at Selma, Ala., causing a loss of $50,000. About of the business portion of WlKlbury, Tenn., was burned, the loss being estimated from $50,000 to $75,000. J. H. Salisbury, conductor on the Knoxville branch of the Southern Railroad, was shot and mortally wounded at the Glen Rock Hotel at Asheville, N. C., by a negro waiter. , While crazed from illness Mrs. Cornelia Cluck, member of a prominent family at North Christian, Ky., wandered in her night clothes from home. Her body was found by neighbors several hours later in the cliffs, five miles distant. She had been frozen to death. The first baseball game played this season in Memphis, Tenn., proved fatal to Bud Levy, a school boy of Camden, Ark., who was catching behind the bat without a catcher’s mask. The club in the batter’s hand slipped, striking Levy near the temporal bone and causing concussion of the brain. Death resulted in a few moments.

FOREIGN.

Doodica, one of the Hindu twins separated In Paris by a surgeon, is dead. A census of the unemployed in Berlin, taken Feb. 2, indicates that there are 75,(XX) persons totally without employment and about 40,000 partially unemployed. William Waldorf Astor, as a preliminary to going in for horse racing, has registered his colors under the London Jockey Club rules. They are light blue with pink sash and cap. Santos-Duinont, the aeronaut, met with s disaster at Monaco, and had a narrow escape from death. His airship is a tattered wreck, while his motor lies at the bottom of the bay of Monaco. "Laurie” Marks, the bookmaker wanted in connection with the Liverpool bank frauds, and said to have jumped from a steamer in the English channel, is believed to be alive at Springfield, Mass. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company in London from Lahore says that, under the new regime of nonintervention, the plague is ravaging the Punjab and a thousand deaths are occurring daily. A dispatch from St. Petersburg to a London news agency announces that the large town of Shumaku, Transcaucasia, has been destroyed by an earthquake. No details of the disaster have been received. The discussion itt the English Parliament of the Auglo-Japancse alliance convinced diplomats generally that the agreement is a triple instead of a dual alliance, the United States being the third, but silent, party. In the lower house of the Prussian diet the bill announced by the minister of commerce, Herr Moeller, Feb. 8, was introduced, placing 58,000,000 marks nt the disposal of the Prussian government for the purchase of mining property in the district of Dortmund, Westphalia. Details which nre slowly arriving from Shamnkn, Truns-Caucasiu, show that 2,000 persons, mostly women and childreh, perished ns a result of the earthquake last week and that 4,000 houses were destroyed. Thirty-four villages cf the country surrounding Shainaka also suffered.

The Constantinople correspondent of the Echo de Purls says that a plot against the Sultan has been discovered and that two of the Sultan's aids have been arrested, and it is reported that a number of courtiers are implicated in the plot. The object of the conspirators was either to kill the Sultan or imprison und dethrone him.

Congress.

A little flurry was created in the Senate Friday over the employment, since the beginning of the session, of a score or ■more of extra clerks and messengers to committees. The charges of extravagance made induced the reference of the wholp subject of clerical employment to a committee for Investigation and report. The hill crentiug a permanent census office was tinder consideration for a time, but was not disposed of finally. The committee amendment increasing the salary of the director of the census from $5,000 to $7,500 was adopted. After the passage of 127 private pension bills, clearing the calendar of this class of measures, the Senate eulogized the life and character of the late Representative Brosius of Pennsylvania. Congressman Wheeler of Kentucky stirred the HousAwith a tirade against Prince Henry and what he styled “flunkeyism” in plans for the entertainment of the royal guest. His bitter words aroused members and called forth sen.iments in opposition from Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio.

The Senate voted on Saturday to piac-e all employes of the census office under civil service rules. The action was taken during the consideration of tho bill establishing a permanent census office, which occupied the entire session, and gave rise to a debate which covered the whole civil service question. The United States will speedily come into possession of the islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix aud St. John, known as the Danish West Indies, lying just east of Porto Rico and forming an important strategic base. In a little more than an hour ou Monday the Senate rook np the treaty with Denmark, ceding these islands to America in consideration of $5,(X)0,000, and ratified it. After an extended debate the Senate passed the bill establishing a permanent census office. The discussion related principally to the collection nod publication by the director of the ceh*as of statistics respecting the production of cotton. Mr. Allison vigorously opposed the provision, maintaining that the cotton statistics gathered by the Department of Agriculture were complete and accurate aud that no necessity existed for their duplication. Despite his opposition the provision was inserted iu the bill. Several other bills of importance on the calendar were passed, among them one extending the charters of national banks. This extends no new privileges to national banks, but simply enables those whose, charters are about to expire to renew them. The House passed the war tax reduction bill two days ahead of schedule, the Democrats forcing an immediate vote when power to amend the measure was denied. The speech of Mr. Wheeler of Kentucky in the House, when he bitterly assailed Secretary Hay and Lord Pauncefote and criticised the official preparations for the reception of Prince Henry, had a sequel in the House Tuesday during the debate on the Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Gillet of Massachusetts declared that the intemperance of Mr. Wheeler's language carried its own condemnation. Nevertheless he (Gillet) grievously deplored such an affront to a foreign country. During the course of the speech two Democrats—Robinson of Indiana and Thayer of Massachusettsdisclaimed any sympathy with Mr. Wheeler’s utterances. These disclaimers drew from Mr. Talbert of South Carolina the statement that he desired to share in the responsibility of the speech, every word of which, he said, he indorsed. Mr. Wheeler himself subsequently replied to Mr. Gillet, reaffirming what be had said and declaring that he would stand by bis words whether they were discreet or not. In the Senate Mr. Wellington of Maryland spoke in opposition to the Philippine tariff bill and Senator Stewart of Nevada in support of the measure. Mr. Wellington set forth his well-known views at length, while Mr. Stewart made a brief legal and constitutional argument in support of the authority of Congress to hold the Philippines and to provide a proper government for their inhabitants.

The Senate continued the consideration of the Philippine tariff bill Wednesday, the main speeches being made by Mr. Burrows for the bill und Mr. Money against it, although Mr. Mitchell. Mr. Foraker, Mr. Mallory and Mr. Tillman took part in the general debate. Mr. Burrows maintained that Congress was dealing with the question as it was today and not with any reference to what took place in the past or might take place in the future. He maintained that the United States’ occupancy of the islands was with due regard to international obligations. Mr. Mallory spoke particularly in favor of his amendment to that portion of the bill relating to the navigation laws, and said that it was necessary in the interest of American shipping. Mr. Money maintained that it was not so much a question of what could In* done with the Filipinos as it was to legislate iu the interests of our own people. There were several rather lively exchanges between Mr. Foraker and the’opposition Senators during the debate. In the House Representative Bontell of Chicago took Congressman Wheeler of Kentucky to task for his speech regarding America’s.relations with the British and Germans. v

In the National Capital.

Pension reduction in the next ten years, it is estimated, will l*c 50 per cent. Hawaiian leper colony Ims protested against bill to make their settlement a national colony. The War Department is planning to make Fort Sheridan the largest military post in the country. Effect of delay by Congress in tnking action to relieve needs of Cuba causes concern at Washington. Terms of protocol with Colombia concerning the canal right of way nre considered favorable to the United States. Industrial commission, iu report on combines, urged laws giving more publicity to their affairs and to prevent overcapitalization. Senator Cockrell of Missouri missed a dinner with the President at the residence of Secretary Hitchcock because he forgot all about it. Industrial commission in report on .abor urged establishipent of nniform hours of work by the different States and criticised careless granting of injunctions.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

TI ~' ■] la spite of many unfavorN6W York. I a ble conditions there was a ■ *■ * ‘good volume of trade last week. While railroad earnings are showing some decreases, because of bad weather, on dbe year’s record the gain, of the combined systems is material. The most spectacular occurrence in the business world during the week was the failure of the City Savings Bank of Detroit. The failure, however, was the outcome of personal dishonesty, and none of the other banking institutions in the city was involved. As to the situation In the Iron and steel trade, the production of pig iron iu January amounted to over 1,450,000 tons, and stocks were reduced from 180,000 tons on Jan. Ito 122,000 on Feb. 1. At that date a year ago unsold stocks at furnaces were 556,764 tons. The output is insufficient in the unique situation nowprevailing in this industry. There has been a decrease in production on account of storms, which hampered railroads and made it impossible for some furnaces to get coke. The excellent demand for coal is due in part to the busy condition of industries, which does not permit stocks to accumulate. There is talk of a further advance in pig lead, and trade reports indicate an unprecedented activity for this season of the year. The copper market Is still unsettled and purchases are small. Exports of copper are still growing over last year’s record. Total exports of the United States for the, seven months to Jan. 81 fell off $29,925,109 as compared with the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year, while imports increased $07,360,811. The comparison, of course. Is with a time when exports were high. Shipments to Porto Itieo and Hawaii also were included for the last fiscal year. In the calendar year 1901 this country held its position as the leading exporting nation of the world. Money is plentiful and rates are unchanged at 4to 5 per cent. Country balances have grown enormously and outside banks are buying much commercial paper. The Imperial Bank of Germany has reduced its rate again. It is now 3 per cent, the same as the Bank of England. There has been a distinct change for the better in Germany.

Every week adds some ChiCaQO. evidence of improvement in * ' I the Chicago real estate market. Several new downtown deals are reported, and also the sale of a large tract of acre property. Larger imports of steel and iron seem unavoidable. Manufacturers are offering abroad higher prices for steel billets than were asked by American producers last year. A Southern railroad is reported to have placed abroad an order for 25,000 tons of rails, being unable to secure delivery from home makers when needed. The United States Steel Corporation clings to its set policy of refusing bonuses offered for prompt delivery. Where iron and steel markets are regarded by sc many good judges as the most reliable indication of business the resistance tc temptation to anise prices becomes of special interest. Steadiness in these important products works agaiust the probability of overproduction. The situation is peculiar, however. The official quotation on steel bars is said to be merely a nominal one. as manufacturers are sold so far ahead that they are not taking orders at that figure. Eggs reached 3<H4 cents a dozen, wholesale, the highest point of the season. They advanced I*4 cents on Saturday here aud 3 cents in New York. This i* 5 cents higher in Chicago than a week before. The cold weather has checked laying and the demand is urgent. There is no corner, but stocks in cold storage are being held back. Butter is firm and the higher grades are scarce. May wheat closed at 78%e to 78%c, against 77%c the week before. May corn closed at (“2%c to 62V4e, against 61%c. ’

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to s(*.4o; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to sti.3o; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00" to $5.50; wheat,' No. 2 red, 84c to 86c; corn. No. 2,68 cto 69c; oats, No. 2,41 c to 42c; rye. No. 2,58 cto 69c; hay, tic’othy, $9.00 to $14.00; prairie, $5.50 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 28c; eggs, fresh, 29c to 32c; potatoes, 70c to 7(!c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.50; boga, choice light, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,80 cto 87c; corn, No. 2 white, t!3c to 04c; oats. No. 2 white, 45c to 40c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $0.20; sheep. $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2,84 cto 85c; corn. No. 2, 00c to 01c; oats. No. 2,44 cto 45c; rye, No. 2. 01c to 02c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $0.45; sheep, $2.25 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,90 cto 91c; corn. No, 2 mixed, 02c to 03c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 40c; rye, No. 2. 00c to 07<\ Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; bogs. $3.00 to $0.15; sheep. $2.50 to $4.60; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 87c; corn. No. 3 yellow, tiOc to flic; oats, No. 2 white, 40c to 47c; rye. 02c to 03c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 8(lc to 87c; corn. No. 2 mixed, flOc to 01c; oats, No. 2 mixed, l4e to 45c; rye, No. 2,01 c to 02c; clover seed, prime, $5.72. • Milwaukee —Wheat,' No. 2 northern, 70c to 77c; corn, No. 3,59 eto 00c; oats* No. 2 white, 44c to 46c; rye, No. 1,00 c to Ole; barley, No. 2,03 cto tHc; pork, mess, $15.75. / Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3,00 to $0.50; hogs, fair to prime. $3.00 | to $0.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5.16; lambs, common to choice, $3.75 to $0.50. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $0.55; hogs, $3.00 to $0.50; sheep, $2.60 to $5.50* wheat. No. 2 red. 87c to 88c; corn, No. 2, 00c to 07c; oats, No. 2 white, 60c to 51c; butter, creamery, 20c to 30c; eggs, weati ern, 30c to 34c. N. A W., Railroad placed an order tot 1.750 cur* with the Southern car aliop* Knoxville, Tcnn.