Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — Page 6

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

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Commodore Albert G. Clarey, U. S. N., retired, died at his home in Springfield, M a SB. Musaolino, the notorious brigand, was sentenced at Lucca, Italy, to imprisonment for life. At Knoxville, Tenn., Pearl Slemmons, known on the stage as Pearl Tompson, tiled secret divorce proceedings aguinst Hugh Slemtnons, who is said to be >n Chicago. The Secretary of War has directed the sale at public auction of the steamers Grant and Sedgwick, they being needed no longer for the transport service. The Grant is at San Francisco and the Sedgwick at New York. Miss Ethel Sigshee, third daughter of Captain Sigsbee, who commanded the battleship Maine when it was blown tip in Havana harbor, was married in Washington to Robert T. Small, son of Sum Small, erstwhile evangelist. Mrs. Lillian J. Adams has been appointed city treasurer of Kansas City, Kan., by Mayor Craddock, to succeed her husband, John A. Adams, who died. Mrs. Adams had been her husband’s principal deputy for the past five years. Evanston, 111., society is astonished by the unexpected post [ton omen t of the wedding of Ralph McKiunic and Miss Edna Ixtuise Evers*, tlie groom announcing that he intends to take a “trip for his health” on the eve of his marriage, which had been set for the very near future. The secret methods by which the Kansas City bucket shops and their many branches in the West secure Chicago Board of Trade quotations was disclosed at a meeting of the directors of the Kansas City hoard. Detectives discovered Hint by a clever arrangement of delicate telephonic instruments the quotations received ut tlie office of a regular broker were sent to the Christie, McPherson and other bucket shops. The leak will be stopped. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...35 9 St. Louis.. ..18 115 Chicago ....25 IS New Y0rk....1S 25 Brooklyn ...24 20 Philadelphia, lit 25 Boston .....IS 22Cincinnati ... 10 27 The dubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....24 15 St. L0ui5....20 ID Philadelphia 25 17 Baltimore .. .19 25 Boston .....25 lit Washington. IS 24 Detroit 20 111 Cleveland ...10 27 An oil gusher has been fottnjJ at Red Fork, I. T„ which is pronounced by experts to be one of the most promising discoveries in the Indian Territory fields. Oil was struck ut a depth of 1,500 feet. Experts say the quality is first class, an 1 the supply almost inexhaustible. The Red Fork field has been under development about u year, and this well is by far the best strike of oil yet made. The people of Red Fork arc excited and believe their field will rivul Beaumont.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Poisoning from Panama lints packed In sulphur caused the death of George C. Davis, who shaped the huts in a Baltimore factory. Swarthtnore College, Pennsylvania, has completed a fund of $400,000 required to secure services of Prof. Joseph Swain of the University of Indiana. The dead body of au unknown negro was found hanging to a tree near Newport News, Ya. Investigation by a coroner's jury showed the negro had been lynched. All the steamship lines merged into the great combine have agreed to prolong indefinitely the rate agreement entered into two mouths ngo and which was to lust until June Id. Mrs, Harry Churchill, formerly Miss Olga Pries of Omaha, for whom the Chicago police have been looking by request of her mother, who feared she had met a tragic end, is said to be working in Kansas City. William Strother, the negro bath attendant who was arrested last January for the murder of A. Deane Cooper, the millionaire proprietor, in St. I.ouis, pleaded guilty and will serve fifteen years in the Missouri State penitentiary. J. L. Cannon, n Kansas City trackman, and C. N. Brooks, subcontractor, of Vernon, Texas, were instantly killed at Wildman, Ok., by the premature explosion of a blast. Three others were seriously but not fatally injured. Five hundred excursionists on an Erie train returning from Greenwood Lake to New York had a thrilling time. The driving rod of the engine broke anti the train dashed down a grade for three miles. It was fiunll.v stopped by uu upgrade.

By means of a noose, improvised with a bathrobe and towels, Miss Alice Levis, 23 years old, the daughter of a wealthy merchant of Bt. Louis, ended her life at u hotel in New York City. She Is supposed to have killed herself in a fit of melancholy superinduced by ill health. Telegrams received at St. Paul sny the town of Michel, B. C., was destroyed by fire Monday, Flumes started in ,the residence section shortly after 1 o’clock. The wind blew u hurricane, and In less tlinn four boars twenty-four houses were lu ashes. About fifty families are homeless. 'The Crow’s Pass Coal Company’s loss is 930,000. Cu uudiun Pacific curs were burned at n loss to the company of about 910.000, and traffic delayed six to tcu hours.

A tornado struck twelve miles north of Lake Park, Minn., sweeping a strip of land two miles wide and three miles long. It destroyed nine farm houses and killed ten persons. The third trial of Jessie Morrison, who killed Mrs. Ollu Castle, hus begun at Eldorado. Kan. An application for a diangeof venue has been refused. Guatavus Dirk*, formerly a Chicagoan, and known as the newspaper artist who originated the "Bugville” sketches, ended his life In New York by putting a bullet in his'bantu. Dirks had been in had health fur some time.

EASTERN.

John Hamilton of New Castle, Pa., dislocated his right shoulder while sneezing. Dr. Patton resigned presidency of Princeton and is succeeded by Prof. Woodrow Wilson. Change causes great surprise. During a game of baseball at Bunker Hill, Pa., Pasquule Mohn and Antonio Parunni quarreled over a decision of the umpire, Parunni fatally shooting Mohn. Influential New Yorkers have bought a large tract near Poughkeepsie a site for a school of practical agriculture, ami are trying to raise $1,000,000 endowment fund. Three buildings of the Erdenheim stock farm, near Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire. Five thoroughbred horses were burned to death. The loss is placed at SIOO,OOO. The safe of the Duncannon National Bunk of Duncannon, I’a., was blown by burglars. The dial [date was blown off, but the vault was not entered. The burglars took about $5. and a revolver. George H. Snow, son of late president of Mormon Church, caused the arrest in New York of “Bat” Masterson and three others on charge of dishonestly securing SIO,OOO in faro game in Chicago hotel. The North German Lloyd .liner Kron Prinz Wilhelm arrived at Plymouth front New York, making a record run of five days eleven hours and thirty-two minutes. Her average speed was 25.55 knots.

Erecting seventeen stories of structural steel over an area 80x140 feet in twentyseven days is the remarkable record achieved by the builders of the Pennsylvania, the new office building at Philadelphia. Miss Lizzie Case of Ossining. N. Y., has received word that she is one of the heirs of the late Leonard Case. The loss of the old family Bible has caused much litigation. The book has been found in an old barn loft. Charles 11. Beecher, son of a Detroit millionaire, was found guilty in Philadelphia of marital infidelity brought against him by his alleged wife, Carrie Dearborn Beecher, and sentenced to nine months in the county prison. One person was killed, one fatally injured, two others severely hurt, and a number are reported missing as the result of a fire at Saratoga, N. Y. The property destroyed was rallied at $300,000, with estimated insurance of $175,000. John Warnock, a noted athlete and one of the famous Warnock family of athletes, is dead front a bullet wound inflicted by himself. Disappointment over business matters led to the act, which was committed in an open boat off Winthrop, Mass. » Mrs. J. Feeley of Hoboken, N. J., saw a child drop through the air from a window above. Believing it was her son, she screamed his name in heartbroken tones and fell in a faint. She died a few moments' later. The boy who fell to the street was not seriously hurt. The spirit of unrest that has been manifesting itself more or less in Wilkeabarre, Pa., broke out in earnest the other night, and as a result a boy was dangerously if not fatally shot by a guaerd at the Stanton colliery and a considerable portion of the fence around the Murray colliery was destroyed by fire. As mysteriously ns they disappeared from her room in the Waldorf-Astoria in New York a week before, Mrs. Charles It. Kingdnn’s stolen jewels, valued at SB,(XXI, were returned. The jewels were left at the house of Detective Yallcly, who has been working on the case, by a strange young man who made no explanations.

Clutching a red flag which had been handed him, and picking his dangerous way as best he could amid stilling smoke and flame, 12-year-old Bernard Brady rau over the biasing ties of a burning railroad bridge at Derby. Conn., and, flagging a passenger train from New Haven, prevented what might have been a terrible disaster. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, youngest son of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, is going to be a gentleman farmer. He has purchased of Benjamin Weaver, Sandy Point farm, in Portsmouth, about seven miles from Newport, It. I. The property consists of about thirteen nnd a half acres of land and a farm house, which Mr. Vanderbilt will have improved at once.

WESTERN.

A railroad is to be built between Coos Bay and Itoscburg, Ore. Construction will be begun by Sept. 1. A cyclone struck lloldrcge, Neb. A number of persons nre reported killed, and a great part of the town wrecked. Dr. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) unveiled a tablet marking the house in St. Louis where Eugene Field was born. At Chillicothe, Mo:; Ilarve Gibbons was shot and fatally wounded by his brother-in-law, John Ualveiu, the result of an old grudge. William 'l'. Moore, a furniture dealer of Lowry City, Mo., was shot and fatally wounded by Thomas J. I’rosies, the result yf n quarrel. Joseph Calviu, chief of police of David City, Neb., committed suicide by shooting himself. He was despondent because of failing health. At Lawrence, Kan., Mary Coop, a white woman, was killed by Charles Anderson, a negro restaurant employe. There were no witnesses to the crime.

Joseph Bnrtli of Boonville nnd Robert Anderson of Blnckwnter, Mo., were killed and Engineer Mercer seriously hurt in a Missouri Pacific wreck at Nelson, Mo. “Pug" Ryan, said to be the lender of a gang of desperadoes, who killed two oflicers r.nd who escaped from jail at Leadrille, Colo., was captured at Cripple Greek. Irwin A. Onrdner, amanuensis to Mayor Ames of Minneapolis was found guilty of accepting bribes for protection of ■linrk gaming and other illegal establishments. At Whatcom, Wash., the Jury in the case of the State versus John IHx, charged with wrecking two luniks, returned a verdict of guilty of larceny and embezzlement.

The Arknnsns Democratic convention nominated former Gov. James P. Clark to succeed Senator James K. Jones and renominated Gov. Jefferson Davis by acclamation. lu a collision between an electric car and a Missouri Pacific engine ut the surface ebrossing at Brentwood, near St.

Louis, forty-five persons were injured, two fatally. Miss Mamie Goelitz, until recently employed as night cashier in a downtown restaurant in Chicago, has been notified that she ts heiress to a fortune estimated at $1,000,000. The rules of the St. Paul health department requiring the vaccination of children who attend the public schools has been declared legal by the Minnesota Supreme Court. Ten were burned to death during a fire at the sanitarium of the St. Luke Society, Wabash avenue and Twenty-first street, Chicago, Aldermau W. E. Kent being one of the victims. The annual convention of the Western Federation of Miners at Denver adjourned, without date. Edward Boyce refused to serve o« president and Charles Moyer of Lead, hi. D. t was elected. . Margaret Taylor, who was kidnaped from Cincinnati, Ohio, over four years ago, arrived in that city the other day, accompanied by her parents and her brother Edward, 3 years old. By the overturning of a wagon in which thirteen students of the Denver, Colo., high school were riding one was killed, four were seriously injured and all the others more or less bruised. Rendered destitute by the reported death of lier husband, J. E. Bishop, in the St. Luke’s sanitarium fire at Chicago, Mrs. Josephine Bishop of St. I.ouig ended her life by drinking carbolic acid. Three employes of Bostock’s wild animal show, two men and one woman, were mangled by wild beasts at the Manhattan Beach resort uear Cleveland. One of the victims cannot survive his wounds. A Wall street syndicate headed by William L. Stow, the banker, has wrested control of the Dos Moines and Fort Dodge Railroad, one of its strongest subsidiary systems, from the Rock Island road.

The Second Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, Neb., was destroyed by fire. Defective electric light wiring started the blaze. The walls of the structure are still standing and the loss is estimated at $15,000. John C. David, president of the Lincoln, Neb., Paint and Color Company, committed suicide at liis home. He was possessed of a fortune of a quarter of a million dollars. Temporary insanity is assigned as the cause. The, Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided that a girl’s beauty is not to be counted against her, and that if a jury is influenced by the comeliness of a fair plaintiff it is not for the courts to deprive her of her natural advantages. Dr. T. H. Storey’, who. disappeared front Duluth several weeks ago, has written to his wife from San Francisco that his mind has been a blank since leaving Duluth, and that he does not know how he reached California.

After killing three guards two prisoners escaped from the penitentiary at Salem, Ore. Harry Tracy, one of the fugitive convicts, was serving a twentyyear sentence and the other, David Merrill, was under a thirteen-year sentence. Fire in the Prudential building on Sixth street, Pueblo, Colo., did SIOO,OOO damage. The Crews Boggs Dry Goods Company lost $50,000. The National Biscuit Company sustained a loss of 550,(XXI, and the damage to the building is $20,000.

With solemn ceremonies the newly constructed Church of the Sacred Heart, at Omaha, was dedicated by Bishop Scanned, assisted by Bishop Gleunon of Kansas City and Bishop Spalding of Peoria. Pope Leo XIII. sent a special message granting his blessing. Blanche Warren, a soubrette, nnd le'r mother, Mrs. G. W. Brown, were asphyxiated at their boarding house in San Francisco. One of the gas keys near the side of the bed on which lay the body of Miss Warren was turned partly ou. The fixtures were in bad order. Daniel Porter, a wealthy farmer <«f Princeton, Mo., was shot and fatally wounded by his 18-year-old son. A dispute arose as to which would use the buggy. As the elder Porter was climbing into the buggy the son appeared with a shotgun and fired both barrels at him. It is reported from Talmadge, lowji, that two unidentified men, alleged to be highwaymen, were shot and instantly killed by Claude Bristow of Cawker City, Kan. Bristow was hunting, lie alleges the men sprang upon him from behind a clump of bushes, attacking him with clubs. At the commencement exercises Miss M. Carry Thomas, president of Bryn Mnwr College, announced that the conditional gift of $250,000 by John D. Rockefeller had been secured through the friends of the institution subscribing a similar amount, tnakiug the total sura raised $500,000. At Alliance, Neb., Judge Westover sentenced August F. Juhnke to life imprisonment for the murder of Michael Sicnk last April. Oliver Olsen, who did the shooting at the instigation of Jahuko, pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and received a sentence of twenty years’ imprisonment. An excursion train on the Detroit and Mackinaw ltuilroud, consisting of un engine and twelve coaches and carrying over 500 people, was wrecked at Black River, Mich., while running forty miles an hour. One man was instantly killed, three probably were fatally Injured and nearly fifty others received injuries. H. It. L. Zwick of Dayton, Ohio, was killed while acting ns field judge at the Cleveland Intcrscholnstic field meet. Slierbum Wightninu swung the hammer preparatory to making n throw. It parted in his hands, one of the pieces striking Zwick, who was standing twenty feet away, squarely lu the stomach. He died two hours later.

While running up the Detroit river the passenger steamer Frank K. Kirby was run into by the steamer Egnn. A panic ensued among the Kirby's passengers. The accident ended in the passenger steamer first running to shore to ascertain damages and then proceeding to her dock nnd discharging her passengers. No one wns injured. The Missouri State express on the Chicago and Alton Railroad collided with the rear end of a freight trnin standing on the track near the Hlite river, just east of Kansas City. The engineer, B. V. Meade, and Fireman Landman jumped, the former receiving internal Injuries from which lie died. The tiremuu was injured only slightly. In a collision with the steamer George G. Ilndley outside Duluth harlior, the whslebnek stecatuer Thomas Wilsou was sunk, taking nine of its crew to the bottom of the lake. Th« collision was fol-

lowed by the Hadley's racing for shore and, after a thrilling struggle, sinking on a bank near the harbor. The Hadley’s crew were all saved, A special horse trfcin on the Big Four Railroad was wrecked west of Bellefontnino, Ohio, killing Rrakeman Jim Borden and severely injuring Engineer Daniel Ivunkel and Fireman George Boyen. The train consisted of seven horse cars of export animals, and a large number of these also perished. The cause of the wreck was a defect in the track. The validity of the Farrelly anti-trust law was upheld in a decision handed down by the Kansas Supreme Court in the case of E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers’ Association. Smiley was arrested for violating the law, was convicted, fined SSOO and given a jail sentence. The case was appealed on the ground thnt the law was invalid. After saturating hi* clothing with kerosene, Joseph Rejeh yet fire to himself in the Catholic Church at Fishervilic, Mich. His charred remains were found in front of the altar. Holes had been burned through the church floor by his blazing body. Bejch, who was 30 years old, was the organist of the church and a teacher in the parochial school. It is supposed he was insane.

SOUTHERN.

A picnic party returning to Nashville. Tenn., in a tally ho was struck by n trolley car and fifteen persons were injured. The tallyho was smashed. The President has nominated William B. Drear of Georgia, a contract surgeon in the United Stutes army, to be assistant surgeon of volunteers with the rank of captain. Fire destroyed the saw and planing mills of J. S. Bailey & Co. at McDonald, Ga., with ‘.J.GOO.OOU feet of lumber and seven freight cars. The loss is $150,000, with little insurance. A passenger train of the Southern Railway collided with a north-hound freight train near Juliette, Ga. The engineer anj fireman of the passenger train were killed and nineteen of the passengers were injured. John Laffoon, a half-witted man, killed his wife at his home at Valley View, Ky. Laffoon and his wife and small son had just eaten dinner when Laffoon secured an ax and brained his wife. Luffoon made his escape. James Black, a negro implicated in the murder of the wife of J. K. Jones, a section master of the Atlantic Coast line, was hanged near Raveual, S. C., by a mob of men, who secured him from a posse of officers en route to jail. He confessed the crime. J. M. McKnight, the former bank president who is now appealing from a conviction in the federal court for wrecking the German National Bank of Louisville, Ivy., notified the police that he had been robbed of a trunk containing $3,100 besides clothing and other articles of value. Mr. McKnight said the trunk had been taken front the Victoria Hotel while he was at one of the parks. Capt. C. W. King, former quartermaster in charge at Fort Morgan, who was convicted in the United Stutes Court in Mobile last year on the charge of accepting a bribe of $3,000 in connection with work done at the fort, was arraigned on two counts. He entered a plea of guilty as charged in the first count aud was sentenced to thirteen months’ imprisonment and to pay a tine of $3,000.

FOREIGN.

A boat containing eight Spanish artillery officers was run down by a steamer at Gijon, Spain, and five of the officers were drowned.

Volcano Tacnna, in Guatemala, destroyed town of Itatalhulen and killed 1,000 persons. Mount I’elee again in violent eruption. Emigration from Copenhagen to the United States is assuming increasing proportions. The emigrants are mostly young Swedes who are leaving for America partly because of the more stringent military service regulations. The Birmingham Post, organ of Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, says that owing to liis age and infirmities the British government lias waived its claim for the acknowledgment by Mr. Kruger of British sovereignty over the Transvaal. The village of Cambulata, in a mountain pass of the L’ruch range, Russia, hus been destroyed by a landslide. A large rent suddenly appeared in the mountain, which shortly afterward toppled over on the village and the neighboring farms. The inhabitants escaped. Sixty arrests have been made in Pretoria ns the result of the discovery of an extensive plot to blow up the government buildings and Lord Kitchener's residence and to spike the guns in the artillery barracks. The parties concerned in this plot were lawyers, chemists and Boer and Dutch prisoners on parole.

IN GENERAL.

Star advices from Hermosillo, M-'xieo, say that the Y’aqui trouble is practically settled and flint travel is perfectly safe throughout Sonora. B. YV. Snow says crop conditions were ideal through May aud looks for better than a “bumper” year in wheat. Immense acreage has been planted to corn, which is very promising. President Roosevelt finds he ennnot comply with request of New York Board of Trade that lie intervene to settle miners’ strike, the law cited by that body having been repealed in 18U8. Gen. Maximo Gomez has published on open letter, in which he refuses to accept the annual pension of S<MXX) provided for him In a resolution which is now before the Cuban House of Representatives. The largest gold nugget, ever found in the North has been picked up on the J. B. Brooksldc Hillside claim, beside Solomon Hill and Monte Cristo gulch, Klondike. It weighs 330 ounces and contains $4,800 worth of gold. The old record wns SI,OBO. The pavilion in the horticultural gardens, the second largest auditorium in Toronto, burned-.. The convervatory adjoining. in which were many valuable nnd rare nlants, was also badly scorched and many of the plants wer e irreparably dninnged. The loss Is heavy. United States Treasurer Roberts calls attention to the fact that now for the first time the outstanding gold certificate# exceed in volume the United States notes, which remain fixed at $340,861,010. The gross gold in the treasury also liaa reached a record-breaking point, standing at $554,000,000. >

Congress.

The Senate on Thursday passed the military academy appropriation bill, providing for extensive improvements at West Point, and devoted the rest of the day to debate upon the canal bill. In the House the general debate on the antianarchy hill was ended except for two speeches. The debate, like that of Wednesday, was devoted to legal arguments, the speakers being Messrs. Sibley (Pa.), De Arniond (Mo.), Williams (Miss.), Wooten (Texas), McDermott IN. J.t, Loud (Cal.), Crumpacker (Ind.), Maddoj (Ga.), Ball (Texas) and Clark (Mo.). Friday in the Senate was mainly occupied by debate upon the canal bill, a bill to pay $1,042 to Frank C. Darling of Minnesota for damages done by the Sioux Indians, and a large number of private pension bills were passed. In the House general debate on the anti-nnarcliy bill was closed. The incident of the day was a speech by Mr. Richardson, an Alabama Democrat, condemning the President in severe terms for the references in his Memorial Day oration at Arlington to the epithets applied to Lincoln and Grant during the Civil War and for his allusions to lynchings. Mr. Littlefield made a legal argument of an hour and a half in closing the debate on the bill. The section of the Senate bill providing a bodyguard for the President was stricken from the Senate bill as a precaution in case the House substitute failed. An effort was made to strike from the first section of the substitute the words limiting the crime of killing the President to the President in his official capacity, but the motion was lost, 03 to 89. Only one section had been disposed of when the House adjourned. By a vote of 100 *o 72, cast on strict party lines, the resolution requesting information as to salary or other compensation paid to Gen. Wood during the occupation of Cuba was laid on the table.

At the conclusion of routine business in the Senate on Saturday Mr. Depew spoke in advocacy of the bill appropriating $10,000,000 for the purchase of 2,000,000 acres of land for n national forest reserve in Vinginia. North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The Senate then began the consideration of the measure commonly known as the Ixmdon dock charges bill. Consideration of the canal bill occupied the rest of the session. In the House Mr. Cannon, chairman of the committee on appropriations, asked unanimous consent to consider a resolution to authorize the conferees on the sundry civil appropriation hill to insert in that bill the necessary appropriations authorized by the omnibus public building bill. He explained that about $(5,000,000 should be appropriated in the sundry civil bill on account of the omnibus act which was signed Friday. There was no objection, and the resolution was adopted.

During the early part of the Senate session on Monday the naval appropriation hill wns considered. All of the committee amendments were agreed to except that relating to the construction of two additional battleships, two cruisers and two gunboats, action on which was delayed. After a speech by Mr. Simmons in support of the bill for the establishment of a national forest reserve in the southern Appalachian mountains discussion of the canal bill was resumed. In the House the anti-auarcliy bill was passed. The remainder of the day was devoted to the bill to transfer certain forest reserves from the Interior Department to the Agricultural Department, and to authorize the creation in such reserves of game and fish preserves.

The Senate on Tuesday passed the naval appropriation bill and resumed consideration of the isthmian canal question. Mr. Turner delivered an extended argument in support of the Nicaraguan route. A bill was passed appropriating $15,845 for the relief of the persons who sustained damages by the explosion of an ammunition chest of Battery F, Second United States artillery, in Chicago, July 1(5, 1804. The House bill providing for the protection of the President was referred to the judiciary committee. The House defeated the bill to transfer certain forest reserves to the Agricultural Department. The special order for the consideration of the Corliss Pacific cable bill was then adopted by a vote of 108 to 73, and for the remainder of the afternoon the author of the measure argued in favor of its passage. Mr. Dalzell (Pa.), who presented the rule, announced he was opposed to the government building a cable to the Philippines. He said he favored the construction of an American cable by American capital.

The House bill amending the present law providing for the issuance of passports to persons who owe allegiance to tlie United States, whether they be citizens of the United States or not, was passed by the Senate on Wednesday. It was explained by Mr. Foraker that the bill simply was to provide for the issuance of passports to citizens of Porto Rico and the Philippines. The rest of the day was devoted to consideration of the canal bill and the subject of election of United States Senators by popular vote. The House killed the Corliss I’aeilic hill by striking out the enacting clause. A Semite hill was passed to authorize the towu of Lawton, Okla., to use $150,000 from the sale of town lots for municipal improvements; Anadarko, Okla., SOO,OOO, and Holinrt, Okla., $50,000. Another Senate hill was passed to retire four survivors of the Lndy Franklin Bay expedition ns sergeants in the signal service.

Washington Notes.

Rag time is barred from the popular concerts of the Marine Band at Washington. Senator Harris declares engineering dittieulties presented by the Panama route to be insuperable. Tourists may now pay customs duties through express companies nud avoid delay at piers in getting checks cashed. President Roosevelt opened national convention of American military surgeons. Over 2(1.000,000 quinine pills and 250.000 “first aid” packets used during Spanish war. Twenty million dollars is to be distributed among the architects and builders of the country under the provisions of the omnibus public building bill just signed by the President.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

TJ ~ ; | “Peace in South Africa New York. | has B r <-’ at, y improved the "■ ’outlook. Foreign industrial markets will quickly benefit by the development of that country, while • return to active gold mining will have a helpful influence in monetary circles. Owing to the present exceptional home consumption producers in this country may not be able to take advantage of the opportunity immediately, but even the indirect effects must be beneficial. Dopnestic. conditions still have but the one drawback of labor disputes, which have reduced the earning power of a large force. Outside the limits of this influence there is little cause for complaint. Orders are large and distribution is less interrupted by the shortage of cars. Railway earnings for May show an increase of 0.8 per cent over last year and 17.4 per cent over 1900.” R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade thus sums up the industrial situation. Continuing, the Review says: Contrary to expectations, the leading producers maintained their conservative position by making no advance in the price of steel rails for delivery in 1903, notwithstanding the very material rise that has occurred in pig iron. Much new business has been placed during the past week, although consumers have found difficulty in booking orders for delivery in 1902. This is especially noticeable us to structural material and railway euppiies. Interruption to work at blast furnaces was not wholly averted, but the loss in output did not reach a large figure owing to prompt concessions on both sides. Practically no orders were accepted for pig iron, however, owing to the uncertainty as to the extent of the strike. In tubes, pipe and foundered lines there is much activity, with quotations fully maintained. Bituminous coal is abnormally stimulated by the anthracite coal shortage, and the output of coke in the Connellsville region is establishing a new record each week. According to the latest report less than 4 per cent of the ovens are idle.

Satisfactory weather in the leading producing regions had n depressing influence on grain quotations, and last week’s advance was lost. Cash prices were slow to react, owing to the extremely strong statistical position, but the next crop options fully reflected the progress at the farms.

Most of the leading eomCulCdOO. modifies show seasonable a ' activity. The Northwestern flour output is light, and the flour trade rather depressed, this being believed to be only a temporary condition. The Western element, so much in evidence recently in stock market leaderships, has dropped out of sight, as indeed, have most of the leaders. Extreme dullness rules in stocks, and trading is very light. This shows in a decrease of 41.9 per cent in New Y'ork bank clearings for the week. In the West there is a good showing, and while the twelve principal centers show decreases averaging 18 per cent in bank clearings, Minneapolis, wRh a total of $10,703,482, decreased by only 4 per cent. Country banks show an increase in loans, especially in the Southwest, where winter wheat harvesting is under way. . It has been another bear week in the speculative grain markets, bearish at least in the sense that the preponderance of news has been against price maintenance. Yet declines have not been so severe as was expected when the week opened under this influene. Much of the depression comes from the good crop reports in coarse grains, which weakens confidence in corn and oats and mnkes a sympathetic weakness in wheat. At the same time wheat receipts have not increased as much as expected, and there is a continued good cash demand. Exports for the week were 4,000,000 bushels, wheat and flour, compared with 3.900,000 in the previous week, and 0,045,000 a year ago.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, f 4.00 to $7.05; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $7.55; sheep, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. red, 78c to 7t)o; corn, No. 2,01 cto 02c; oats, No. 2,40 c to 41c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c; hay, timothy, SIO.OO to $14.50; prairie, $5.50 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, 50c to 61c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.90; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 white, 63c to 04c; oats, No. 2 white, 42c to 43c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $7.40; hogs, $3.00 to $7.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 70c; com. No. 2, 61c to 02c; oats' No. 2,41 cto 43c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 55c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.00 to $0.40; hogs, $4.00 to” $7.00; sheep, $3.25 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,81 cto 82c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 03c to 04c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 42e to 43c; rye. No. 2,58 cto 59c. Detroit —Cattle, $3.00 to $0.15; hogs, $3.00 to $0.85; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 80c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 04c to 05c; oats. No. 2 white, 4flc to 47e; rye, 59c to 00c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 79c to 80c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 01c to 02c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; Clorer seed, prime, $5.10. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 northern, 75c to 70c; corn, No. 3. Ole to 02e; oats, No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; rye, No. 1,57 c to 58c; barley, No. 2, COc to 70c; pork, mess, $1.7.57. New York—Cattle, $8.75 to $7.05; hogs, $3.00 to $7.20; sheep. $4.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2, 69c to 70c; oats, No. 2 white, 50c to 51c: Gutter, creamery, 2lc to 22c; eggs, western, 17c to 18c. Buffalo—Cnttle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, fuir to prime, $3.00 to $7.50; sheep, fuir to choice, $3.25 to $5.26; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $7.25. Montreal. Can., has accepted $150,000 from Andrew Carnegie for a public library.