Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1902 — Page 2

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

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Patrick Kelly and John Baritcb of Colorado, Pa., and John MeMichael of Glrardvllle were killed by the explosion of a boiler at the Lehigh Valley Company packer No. 5 colliery, near Girardvilie. Kelly was a fireman and the other men were helpers. The body of an artist has been found covered with rocks and debris, near Mountain View, Ok. He was probably murdered. It is thought that lie was out for some paper or In ago xi lie lust fall before the Comanche country was opened for settlement. V. I). Snyder and I’. \V. Stewart, president and vice-president of the Union Wholesale Company, with headquarters in Kansas City, pleaded guilty in the federal court there to three indictments charging them with making fraudulent use of the mails. J. W. Weatherford, a mail-robber couviet serving u term at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., escaped from the national cemetery,Where, miller guard, lie was digging a grave for the body of General Leavenworth, which is to be brought from New York. On account of the “increase of the cost of living” the Continental Tobacco Company raised the wages of 5,000 of its employes in Ixiuisville 10 per cent. The order applies to all the company’s employes throughout the United States. They number between 30,000 and 35,000. The will of Sol Smith Russell, tlie actor, was filed in Minneapolis. The estate, mostly real, is valued at $150,000. The only heirs are the widow, Mrs. Alice Adams ltussell, and two children, Robert and Alice. The document is very brief and leaves everything to the widow. William Malcolm, City Treasurer of Passaic, N. J„ admitted that lie was short in las accounts as secretary of the Mutual laian and Building association of Passaic to the amount of about $50,000. 11c turned over ail his property, with that of his wife, to make good the deficit. Eugene Sexton, aged 43 years, killed Mrs. Mary Bromley, aged 35, and then killed himself. The double tragedy occurred at thp pumping station at South (Mens Falls, N. V., where Sexton was engineer. Sexton was madly jealous of the woman. The tragedy was witnessed by her son. The presence of piind of Miss Katie Henderson saved t liftt.v men employed in the quarries at West Ooushohocken, Pa., from death or injury. Mtss Henderson saw that the roof of the powder magazine was blazing. She warned them, so that they escaped before the terrific explosion occurred. A desertion epidemic has struck Fort Meade. S. It. In four days eight men have left without leave, and iti the last two months twenty have left from a single cavalry troop. Officers account for the desertions from the fact that the Thirteenth Cavalry is a new regiment and the men are new to the service. Following is the standing of the club* of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .Ut 4 Philadelphia. 10 11 Chicago ....12 7 Brooklyn .... 9 14 New York... 13 It Cincinnati ... 7 10 Bostou 10 lost. Louis.... 0 15 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 11 0 Chicago ‘.l <S Hetroit 10 ti Baltimore ... 7 11 St. Louis.... 10 ti Cleveland ... 5 14 Boston 10 8 Washington.. S 11

NEWS NUGGETS.

The condition of Queen Wilhohnina continues to improve. All daugcr in past now. Hichard Rartholdt of St. Louis was re nominated for Congress for the sixth time by the Republicans of the tenth Missouri district. Rev. William T. Brown of l’lytnouth. Congregational Church, llochcstcr, X. Y. w ho married I‘rofcssor Herron and .Miss Hand, has left the ministry. .1. W. Voigbt, a traveling salesman for the Milwaukee Harvester Company, fatally shot May Welch and killed himself by shooting in a Minneapolis hotel President Roosevelt laid the corner stone of the McKinley Memorial Ohio College of (iovernment of the American I’niversity at Washington. Bishop Willard l'\ Mallalieu of Boston presided. Leaders in finance, journalism and polities attended a farewell bam|Uet given at I’nion League Club, New York, to Whitelaw Reid, special ambassador ‘ attend the coronation of King Kdward. I>r. F. J. Leadbrooke and Miss Winnie Booth, aged 111. daughter of a Methodist minister at Moscow, Idaho, committed suicide by taking hypodermic injections of morphine in a hotel at < >ro Pino. Idaho. Hr. A. A. Bondman's damage suit for fIoO.OUO against his father-in-law, ,1. 11. Beckham, was compromised at Kansas City. Plaintiff is said to have received JJO.OOO and Mrs. Uoodmau was given a divorce. The steandio.it South Hakota, .1. I.uch captain and owner, was burned at the first lauding north of (irecnwood. Nell., while on a trip up the Missouri. The loss is Passengers uni crew escaped. Muhlnu P. Miller, a St. Paul manufacturer, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition with liabilities alleged by creditors to reach and assets of only *l.OOll. Miller den leu about fli,000.000 of liabilities. John Wanamuker is said to have made an offer of I'J.oOtt.ooo for the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, which he would turn into a department store. Lewis Nixon, leader of Tammany, rc» signed, charging that every move must be vised by Richard Croker, and that he coaid no longer remain at the head of the organisation and retain his self-respect. The post office of Monroe. lowa, was rnbtxsl by burglars. The safe was blown open with dynnmltc and several hundred dollars' woith of stamps were taken. The explosion wrecked a part of the building.

EASTERN.

The atrike of the bridge and structural Iron workers of the Pittsburg district has been officially declared at an end. Twenty-live persons were killed and many injured in an oil and naphtha explosion in a railway yard near Pittsburg. •Senator McLauriu of South Carolina and A. A. Cates of that State had a list fight over politics in a hotel lobby in Washington. The heavy frosts have caused damage estimated at half a million dollars in the extensive fruit-growing section of New York State. Mine workers, men aqd boys, to the number of 150,000, have gone out on strike in the anthracite coat regions of Pennsylvania. The five buildings of the C. K. Williams Paint Company, at Easton, Pa., were destroyed by tire. Loss, $100,000; insurance small. Harry H. Starkey, son of Clinton W, Starkey, president of the Oriental Bank of New York, killed himself at the B-ook-lyn Union League Club house. Owing to tlie disinclination of Chief Clerk Norris to accept the position of Chief Coiner, the coining department of the United States Mint at Philadelphia is tied up. Forest fires have been raging in the vicinity of Babylon, L. 1. Nearly 1,000 persons were engaged in fighting the flames, which at one time threatened to destroy the village. The bill to authorize licensed inn holders in Boston to provide barbers for their guests Sunday until noon was killed by a large majority, on a voice vot? in the Massachusetts House. Mrs. Lillie M. Walker, of Philadelphia, lias tiled a petition lor a receiver for Oxford College at Oxford, Ohio. Plaintiff once owned the institution and the suit relates to an accounting. Walter L. Myles, of Edwardsdale, Pa., a junior pupil of the normal school of Westchester, died from injuries received by being struck with a pitched ball in a local baseball game. Julius Newton, formerly a member of tlie banking house of 1. & S. Woruiser, shot himself through the heart in his room near Patchogue, N, Y.' His act is attributed to financial difficulties. Miss Amy B. Heath, teacher in the Chelsea, Me., school, was shot in the head by James Judge, one of her pupils. The boy, who is 13 years old, lias had a passion for literature of the wild West type. The Andover, Mass., Theological Seminary, which for over a century has been one of the foremost colleges of theological learning in the United States, is to lie moved to a western location, probably Chicago. William A. Rogers and F. 11. and O. W. Goodyear have formed a company with a capital stock of $3,000,000 to build two large modern blast furnaces at Buffalo for the manufacture of foundry pig ♦roil. At Burlington, N. J., Mrs. Helen Sharp, widow of Harry B. Sharp, who committed suicide four months ago, shot and instantly killed her 15-year-old son Edward, and with a razor cut her own throat, almost severing the head. Mortimer llaiuhridge Buggies of Virginia, who, while an aid to his father, Gen. Daniel F. Buggies of the Confederate army, assisted John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, to escape into Virginia, is dead in New York City from dropsy. He was 58 years old. By an explosion of gas at the furnaces of the American Steel and Wire Company at Neville Island, Pittsburg, Joseph Antine, aged 24, was fatally and Tony Alneo, aged 32, and Frank Butseh. aged 27, seriously burned. The explosiou was caused by a “hang" or accumulation of metal, Mrs. Catherine Soffel, the wife of Peter Soffel, warden of tlie Allegheny, Pa., county jail, who entered a idea of guilty to the charge of releasing Edward and John Biddle, the burglars and murderers of Grocer Kahney and Detective Fitzgerald, was sentenced by Judge Frazier to two years in the Western penitentiary. Lawrence Bressano, a jealous fireman at the Atlantic Hotel, Bridgeport, Conn., split open the skull of Chef Tourniah with u cleaver. Not satisfied with killing the chef, he seized a butcher knife, cut off his nose and ears and cut slices of flesh from all parts of his body. Bressano was knocked senseless before he could be arrested.

WESTERN.

Lieutenant Governor Stone, of Wisconsin, died at his home in Watertown. The jury in the case of Robert Hyndnuiu, charged with the murder of James Quinn, at Denver, brought in a verdict of acquittal. Headaches which caused a hemorrhage of the brain caused the death of Leslie Evermaii, chief clerk of the West End Hotel in St. Louis. Eight persons were injured in a headon collision between two Burlington passenger trains at Greenwood, Neb., due to tlie fuilirre of a switch to work properly. Suit for divorce has been tiled in the Circuit Court in Chicago by Mrs. John Vance Cheney against her husband, the welf-knowti poet and author. The ground urged is desertion, William Murphy, aged 30, a St. Louis electrician, was shot and killed by his wife. The murder was the result of a quarrel and Mrs. Murphy declares she acted in self-defense. Reilly, alleged slayer of Detective Duffy of Chicago, after three days in the sweat box, confessed to scuffte, but accused Vincent Briscoe of shooting. His charge is not believed. Fire destroyed the principal portion of the town of Ames, Kan. The Chicago lumber yatyl and the Wood mercantile store are among the properties destroyed. The loss is not known. The Buckeye Lumber Company’s office, box factory, warehouse, dry boxes nud 2,000,000 feet of lumber were destroyed by fire at. Truckee, Cal. The loss will exceed $200,000. Charges of almost Inhuman cruelty were made during tlie investigation of the girls’ Industrial home at Delaware. Ohio, which was ordered a few duy« ago by the General Assembly, The business part of the town of Hldgewny. Mo., was destroyed by lire. Six stores and their contents were burned. The loss is estimated nt from $25,000 to $50,00, partly covered by iusurnnee. Fire which started in Campbell Bros.' drug store in tit. Joseph, Mo., destroyed

six frame store buildings and one dwellI ing, and damaged two brick building* adjoining. The losses will aggregate $25,000. Fire In the Chicago stock yards endangered millions of dollars' worth of property, but was extinguished after a hard fight, with a loss of SIOO,OOO to GermauAinerlcan Packing Company and M. Wile & Co. Jack Tiger, a Creek desperado, was shot and killed by United States Deputy Marshals near Alabama, I. T. Two of bis companions, Sainmie Fixico and Jesse Hber, escaped after exchanging several shots with the officers. Fifteen thousand acres of the most valuable coal lands in Columbiana and Jefferson counties, Ohio, have been sold to Pittsburg and Cleveland capitalists. The investors propose to start several large mining towns near Haminondsville. Jacob Roth, aged 07, one of the wealthiest farmers of Meigs Township, Ohio, met a horrible • death. A savage boar which lie was trying to separate from some other hogs, turned upon and gored him. He died in three minutes. J. 11. Shane, a photographer, who last February shot and killed Ed Kathcrmnn, a ybutig man, as the latter was passing by his shop in Lawrence, ICan., was convicted of murder in the first degree. He will he given a life sentence. Robert L. Lindsey pleaded guilty in the United States District Court in Kansas City to using the mails to promote the illegal sale of 1,004,100 acres of Oklahoma laud and threw himself on the mercy of Judge Philips. Sentence was deferred. While a party of students from Orleans college was bathing in the Republican river at Orleans, Neb., one named Berry, 21 years old nud unable to swim, got beyond his depth. Another named Daniels went to his rescue and both drowned.

Among those who have passed all the examinations and are full-Hedged liavui cadets, class of 190 U, are the following from the middle West: George E. Lake, Illinois; W. B. Howe, South Dakota; Lennox Grant, Missouri, and W. F. Amsden, Kansas. A west-bound fast mail train on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway was held up at Marsh' siding, five miles west of Jonesboro, Ark., by four masked men. Information wired to express company officials state that the robbers secured nothing. Freight traffic on the St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railroad, recently purchased by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, was completely suspended the other day as the result of war declared by the Wabash Railway Company and the Terminal Railway Association. Fire broke out in the dust conveyors at the Northwestern Consolidated B mill in Minneapolis, and for a time the entire milling district seemed in danger. A general alarm was turned in and the flames, by prompt action, confined to their place of origin. The loss is $5,000. There was a mutiny among the boys .it tlie State Training School in Redwing, Minn. Two-thirds of the boys refused to go to work and defied the officers to enforce discipline. The boys assert that they have not been treated right, and that the food is not what it should be.

Potter Palmer's will lias been filed in Chicago, bequeathing au estate estimated at $8,000,000, of which $1,000,000 is personal property. Mrs. Palmer is virtually left in control of the estate, and the sons are provided for in special trust funds, over which their mother will have supervision. Another man hns been vindicated for killing the man who destroyed his domestic happiness. Charles Baker was acquitted at Portsmouth, Ohio, on the technical ground of emotional insanity, of murdering W. J. Selvage, a young insurance agent, on a street of that city several months ago. Fire starting in a rubbish heap from a cottage which was being tom down destroyed a frame cottage and wrecked two apartment buildings in Chicago. Twenty-two families were driven to the street, and some of them had narrow escapes. Three persons were rescued from the building, two of them unconscious. Miss Clara Hossfehl, 29 years old, popular in society in Hamilton, Ohio, committed suicide with carbolic acid in the Pines, a sanitarium at Oxford, Ohio. She was the daughter of Charles Hossft hi, a wealthy merchant. Recently she showed signs of mental derangement and became so violent that she was sent to the sanitarium. Engineer Michael J. Riley and Brakeman A. L. Little were killed by nil engine crashiug through, a trestle near Everett. Wash., to the bottom of a gulch twenty-five feet below. The men were in the employment of the Snohomish Logging Company. Another train crashed through the same trestle, blit the engineer and fireman escaped by jumping. A freight train on tlie Chicago, Burlington A Quincy railroad left the tracks at DeKoveu street, Chicago, tearing up the pavement, knocking down a lamppost und striking a frame house with such foree that it demolished a corner of tlie structure and threw it back nearly four feet. The occupants of tlie cottage were thrown from their beds by the shock of the collision. Two 15-yeur-old Chicago boys called on Gov. Nash at Columbus, Ohio, to request aid in getting back home. Both hoys said they had entered a freight car with the intention of stealing a ride to some town fifty miles out of Chicago. At tlu> dawn of the fourth day tlie door was opened and the boys were in Baltimore, Ohio. They were very weak, but managed to crawl out of the car. They are now working their way home. The President has issued a proclamation opening to settlement tlie Fort Hall Indian reservation in Idaho, All of the land within five miles of Pocatello will be sold at public auction at noon on July 17 at a minimum of $lO an acre and all tlie rest of the land will be thrown open to settlement and entry at noon of July 17 next. The opening involves nearly 400,000 acres ceded to the government by the Shoshone and Bannock Indians. A certificate was filed with tlie Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J., by the United Railway Investment Company of San Francisco increasing Its capital from $2,000,000 to $25,000,000. The company was originally incorporated in February lust and its object, it is understood, is to consolidate the trolley lines in and about Sun Francisco. Of the capital stock $15,000,000 is to he preferred, witli 5 per cent cumulative dividend. George P. Meier, Edward CUncy,

Amandus J. Krause and William Gefeke, four of West Point’s popular young men, have started on a journey around the world on foot, ifrom West Point. Neb. They have a burro which carries their tent, utensils and food. The four youths are under agreement not to separate, to live on what they can earn or what is given them en route, and, above nil, to walk all the way except when afloat. They expect to be gone three years. An attempt was made recently to rob the Rock Island fast passenger train a* it was palling out of the station at Muscatine, lowa. Three men were arrested and placed in jail. They gave their names as William Long, Thomas Murphy and Janies Bohen, said they came from Moline, 111., and claimed they were only trying to steal a ride. Three others escaped. The men were prying open the express car door when they were discovered, and three were captured ty the trainmen.

SOUTHERN.

Jeff Roberts was shot from ambush and instantly killed.near Duffield, Va., by unknown persons. Walter Spradley shot into a barge filled with excursionists at Spottsville, Ivy., and killed Deputy Sheriff Jesse Mitchell. Hunt & Hutchings, one of the largest brokerage and commission firms In Louisville, Ivy., and a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, has suspended business. Robert Hicks was killed, Thomas Hackett fatally wounded, W. M. Smith shot in the forehead and Henry Hackett seriously stubbed in a fight at Olive Hill, Ivy. John Mooney and Frank Friday were hanged on the sain® scaffold at the State penitentiary at Moundsville, W. Va.. for the murder of James Hervey at Elm Grove over a year ago. Both died protesting their innocence. John Turner, formerly chief of police of Middlesboro, Ivy., was killed by Lee Turner of “Quarter House” fame at “The Narrows,” near Jeliico, Tenn. The latter is reported mortally wounded. The men were cousius, but old enemies. Mrs. George W. Herget was killed during a carousal at her home in Dayton, Ky. Her husband, William Thornton. Frank Kent, Thomas Shields ami William Murray, alias Ford Mattox, have been arrested on the charge of murder. Ilerget is the son of a wealthy distiller, who died at Pekin, 111., two years ago.

FOREIGN.

Thirteen persons were killed in a landslide at Marola, province of Emilia, Italy. Queen Maria Christina, of Spain, resigned her regency and with deep emotion bade farewell to her loyal councilors. Air ship La Paix exploded while making ascension at Paris and Senor Severo, the Brazilian aeronaut, and an assistant, who were on board, are killed. All the towns in the Republic of Hayti are in a state of revolution. After a street battle in the capital the government was forced to yield to rebels. The result of 1(58 ballots of a total of 174 shows that 128 ministerialists and 40 anti-ministerialists have been elected in France. The ministerialists gain nine seats in the chamber. Gen. Tiresias Simon Sam, President of the liaytian republic, lias resigned his office. The Haytian Congress will assemble at once to elect his successor. The city of Port au Prince is quiet.

IN GENERAL

President Roosevelt has signed the oleomargarine bill. Cuban flag was raised over Morro Castle for the first time, the occasion being the arrival at Havana of President-elect Palma. Executive committee of United Mine Workers has ordered a big strike at anthracite region, which will render 17,000 men idle. f Eruption of La Soufrlere on the Island of St. V ineent killed thirty persons and covered plantatious < with ashes, causing great damage. The House passed statehood bill for Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Republican leaders meeting defeat in efforts to prevent favorable action. President Roosevelt has ordered new trial for Rathhonc, directing Gov. Wood to amend Cuban law so as to allow appeal to the Supreme Court at Havana. Cardinal Martinelli, papal delegate to the United States, who was recalled recently. sailed from New York for Genoa. He said he expected to reside in Rome in the future.

The following postofficcs have boon advanced to the presidential grade: Cliuruhusco and North Judsou, Ind.; Stevensville, Mont.; Arapnho and Billings, Ok.; Glussport, Pa., and Platte, S. 1). The steel tank elevator D at Fort William, Man., of 1,500,000 bushels’'capacity, caught fire. The machinery and tower were destroyed, also eight ears of wheat standing near. The damage is estimated at SBO,OOO to SIOO,OOO. Congress acted promptly on message of President and appropriated $200,000 for relief of volcano sufferers. President pressed the whole machinery of government into service to expedite the dispatch of supplies for the stricken people. Visit to ruins of St. Pierre and examination of heaps of bodies found there discloses the fact that 30,000 lives nud al! combustible material In the city were destroyed almost instantly by cyclone of gaso* and fire from Mont Pelee and not by lava streams. The Saskatchewan Land Company, with n capitul of $3,500,000. has been organised to purchase 1,000.000 acres of raw wheat land in the Saskatchewan Valley, Manitoba. The men composing the corporation are Minneapolis, Duluth anil Chicago capitalists. Streams of lava from Mount Pelee destroyed three more cities in Martinique with population of 14,000 and threaten to devastate whole northern end of Island. Five thousand refugees, burned and without water for days, crowded the hilltops. Futalitic* on the island may aggregate 50,000. The dominion fisheries protection cruiser Curlew arrived In port at St. Andrews, N. 8., with three raptured vessels, the first fruits of the dynamite prohibition law. Two of the vessels hail from the United States, but were iu Canadian waters under modus vivendi liceure. They are the schooners Satellite and Nellie Osskill.

ConGRESS.

Again the (Rebate on the Philippines had the right of way in the Senate on Friday. A joint resolution was passed to permit steam railroads in the District of Columbia to occupy temporarily parts of streets for the benefit of the traveling public during the national encampment of the G. A. R. in October. The resolution offered by Mr. Culberson calling upon the Secretary of War for certain information as to Gen. Smith’s order in the Philippines was at the suggestion of Mr. Culberson himself indefinitely postponed. In the House the statehood bill for Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma was passed. The rest of the session was devoted to private pension bills, eighty-seven of which were passed, twenty-eight original, fifty-four for increase and five to complete military records. The army appropriation bill was passed by tbv Senate on Saturday and also an urgency measure appropriating SIOO,OOO for the relief of the volcano sufferers in the French West Indies. Mr. Perkins reported the fortifications appropriation bill. Mr. Proctor reported the bill making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture. A bill for the sale of sites for industrial plants in Indian Territory was passed. A resolution offered by Mr. Harris calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for information as to the sale of Indian lands in Kansas was adopted. Mr. Pr«aßor offered a resolution. which was adopted, calling upon the Secretary of War for information as to how many Barbette carriages have been manufactured since July 1, 1893, and other information as to the disappearing gun carriages. A resolution by Mr. Patterson calling upon the Interstate Commerce Commission for information as to safety appliances in use on various named railroads wgs also adopted.

- In the Senate on Monday the Philippine bill again held the right of way. The House emergency bill appropriating $200,000 for the relief of volcano sufferers was passed. On motion of Mr. Proctor the vote by which the army appropriation bill was passed was reconsidered and the bill nmended so as to restrict the provision for the sale of army posts to those of Indianapolis, Columbus and Buffalo, and authorizing the President to use the money derived therefrom ill purchasing other lands in the vicinity and constructing other posts; also .o authorize the subdivision of this property. As amended the bill was passed. The House passed emergency bill appropriating $200,000 for the relief of volcano sufferers in the West Indies and killed tlie bill consolidating the gas companies of Washington, D. C.. by striking out the enacting clause.

In the Senate on Tuesday an additional appropriation of $300,000 was voted for the stricken people of the French West Indies. The agricultural appropriation Dill was passed and then Mr. Stewart spoke in support of the Philippine bill. The conference report oil the Cuban diplomatic and consular bill was adopted, the House conferees accepting the amendment making the salary of the minister to Cnha $12,000 a year, and the Senate accepting the amendment striking out the provision for $2,000 a year for the minister’s house rent and for an additional consul. In the House discussion of the naval appropriation bill was begun. The conference report on the omnibus claims bill was rejected on the ground that claims not considered by either branch of Congress had been inserted in the measure by the conferees and the measure was returned to conference.

During the greater part of the Senate session on Wednesday the fortifications appropriation bill was under consideration. Mr. Proctor offered an amendment providing that no part of the appropriation made should lie used for procuring disappearing gun carriage*. This precipitated a debate which continued for two hours, and had not been concluded when the measure was laid aside for the day. A further conference on the omnibus claims bill was agreed to, witli M essrs. Warren. Teller and Mason as tlie conferees. In tlie House tlie naval appropriation bill occupied attention throughout the day. Mr. Dayton tW. Va.) spoke on the ned of strengthening tVa.) spoke on the need of strengthening W. lvitchin (N. (’.». Fitzgerald (N. Y.), Metcalf ((’al.l and Maynard (Va.) strongly advocated the building of warships in government navy yard*. The debate took a wide range at times. Mr. Rhea (Va.l speaking iu criticism of the administration’s Philippine policy and Mr. Elliott (S. (’.) presenting the advantages of the proposed Appalachian forest reserve. Rising to a question of personal privilege, Mr. Mali. m (Pn.) indignantly denied statements contained in a circular sent to members alleging that certain contributions bad been made to bis campaign expenses. The conference report on the Cuban diplomatic and consular bill was agreed to.

Washington Notes.

General O. L. Spaulding, first assistant secretary of the treasury, is to be retired. Chicago may be selected ns headquarters by the Democratic Congressional* Committee. The President lias issued n proclamation for the o|K‘iilng to settlement July 17 of the Fort Hall Indian reservation in Idaho. The Senate appropriations committee increased the House fortifications bill by addition of $1,384,481, making the total amount $7,940,481. 11. Clay Evans said he retired voluntarily iis Pension Commissioner, and not on offer of Loudon Consul Generalship; latter offer came later. Gen. MacArtliur, in testimony before Senate committee, said he planned Agulnaldo’s capture and was responsible for all deception. The funeral of Rear Admiral Sampson surpassed all previous naval funerals In America. The President, cabinet and all other officers of the government attended.

Senator Vest, in Philippine debate, denied Tillman's statement that Lincoln, nt Hampton ltoails, offered Confederates their own peaec terms; denis! based on |MT*oivul knowledge ns Confederate Senator.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

U wb I a t ‘ me w hen consunipNev York, j t ' ve demands surpass all ■ * previous records in the nation’s history it is unfortunate that production should be curtailed. Yet that is the present situation. Fires, labor controversies and a tornado stopped work at many points, greatly reducing the output, and many more wage disputes must be settled before tlie end of the month or furnace fires will be banked and wheels cease to revolve. Losses by the elements have beeu severe, the largest tin plant iu the world being rendered idle probably for a month, while many foundries and shops were destroyed. Prices of commodities on May 1, as shown by Dun’s index number, rose to the highest point in recent years, gaining (!,3 per cent over the corresponding date last year, but thi* weektherehas been a material decline In some products, notable grain. Distribution. through retail channels continues very heavy, seasonable weather exerting a most helpful influence. Railway earnings are steadily gaining, full returns for April exceeding last year’s by 10.0 per cent, and 1900 by 25.0 per cent.” IL G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review thus sums tip trade conditions. The review continues: Procrastinating consumers who predicted a collapse in the iron and steel market similar to the breuk that occurred two years ago have greatly augmented the pressure by tardily attempting to supply their requirements. It has been obvious for some time that there is utterly lacking the artificial element tending to inflate prices that was conspicuous !n the opening months of 1900. The only limit to prices appears to be the ability of purchasers to pay fancy figures, according to the urgency of their needs. Meanwhile there is no advance on long term contracts, and these cover the large bnlk of the business. Productive capacity is being greatly enlarged, but there is no evidence as yet that the nation’s needs are not expanding equally fast. p,. "I Some of ' the Western LDiCdijQ. railroads have been reach- — ing out this week and feeling around with a view to ascertaining what may be expected in future westbound tonnage. The roads know the crops will make or unmake their earnings. Starting with hope and confidence in the situation, and assuming that this is certain to be a satisfactory crop year, they are carrying their analysis further along and covering every phase of the outlook down to the most minute details. In the advices received from agents to manypp o uts there is much of eneour-. agemeut. Stocks of merchandise in the hands of country merchants in the middle west are found to be. on the Whole, considerably lighter than is usual at this time. In the northwest they are mod.-rate. The southwest is carrying light stocks as the natural result of the uncertainty and recent fear of a winter wheat failure, which prompted conservativeness. There is no noteworthy accumulation anywhere, oven in the staple commodities, which were puiVhased liberally early in tlie spring. Wheat has ruled steady and quiet, with a moderate showing of strength at times. Scarcely any wheat is coming In anywhere just at present. Northwest stocks are light and decreasing, and a portion of the Red River Valley is very late with seeding. With northwestern conditions paramount, wheat would probably be higher, but in the southwest the recent heavy rains have materially improved the winter wheat outlook, and there is a lack of bullish enthusiasm in consequence. For the week there was a decided failing off in wheat exports, the figures showing only 3.302,000 bushels, compared with 5,308.000 in thp previous week and 4,179,000 a year ago.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cflttle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.15; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $7.35; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $0.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 81c to 83c; corn. No. 2,01 cto (52c; oats. No. 2,41 c to 43c; rye. No. 2,55 cto 50c; hay. timothy. SIO.OO to. $15.00; prairie, $5.50 to $13.50; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, WOc to 93c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cuttle, shipping. $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $0.95; sheep, cotmnou to prime. $2.59 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 80c; corn, No. 2 white, (54c to 05c; oats. No. 2 white, 44e to 45c. St. Louis—Cattle. $4.54) to $7.00; hogs, $3.00 to $7.15: sheet). $2.50 to $5.5(1; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 8lc: corn. No. 2, 03c to ti4c; oats, No. 2,42 cto 43c; rye, No. 2,59 cto OOe. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $7.10; sheep, $3.25 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2. 84c to 85c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 05c to (IGc; oats. No, 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; rye. No. 2. 01c to (>2e. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $0.30; hogs, $3.00 to $0.85: sheep. $2.50 to $5.(40; wheat, No. 2. 85c to 80c: corn. No. 3 yellow, 02c to 03c; oats, No. 2 white, 45c to 40c; rye, 59c to OUe. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 83c to 85c; corn. No. 2 mixed, (lie to 02c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 44c; clover seed, prime, $5.00, t Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 northern, 70c to 77c; corn. No. 3,00 cto (lie; oats, No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; rye, N<>. 1,57 e to 58c; barley. No. 2,72 cto 73c; pork, mess, $17.00. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $7.30; hogs, $3.00 to $7.00; sheep, $3.50 to $0.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 87c to 88c; corn. No. 2, 6l)c to 70c; oats, No. 2' white. 50c to 51c; butter, creamery. 22c to 23c; eggs, western, 14c to 17c. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $7.25; hugs, fair to prime, $3.00 to fuir to choice, $3.25 to $0.00; lafKs, common to choice, $4.00 to $7.00.

August Nolte, a wealthy farmer, com* miU'-d suicide by hanging himself in hla barn in Morgan County, Missouri.