Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — Page 2

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

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Harry A. Parsons. who married Senator Hanna's eldest daughter, Mabel, received a fortune as a wedding gil’t from Senator Hanna. After the ceremony had been performed l’arsons found among the numerous presents a check for $50,000. lining have been reported from only a small part of northeastern Texas, where the corn and cotton crops are said to have been in better condition than in any other part of the State. Outside of this limit the outlook for a corn crop this year is poor. At Wheeling, W. Va., a man’s suit of clothes was found on the steel bridge, indicating a suicide in the Ohi,o river. In a coat pocket was found a note in which the writer said be had decided to end his •life, as no one cared for him, even the girl he loved. A deaf-mute stranger put up at a lodging house in Duluth, Minn., and shot himself. The victim gave the name Richard Hull. When the physician told him he must die the man wrote his true name was Koyhl S. Lain of Canisteo, Is'. Y’., and his father a prominent citizen. The United States transport Meade sailed from San Francisco for Manila via Nagasaki. She carried a full cargo of arms and supplies and had on hoard fifty recruits, eleven signal corps men. twenty-two members of the hospital corps and about fifty cabin passengers. 'file special session of the Mahoning Presbytery at Canton, Ohio, found tiie Rev, Walter Kling, Ph. 1 >., guilty of immoral conduct and ordered him suspended from ministerial duties indefinitely. The exact charges as officially made and the review of the testimony are held secret. A man (57 years of age died on a Krie train just east of Ashland. His ticket read from Sharpsville, Pa., to Chicago. Evidently lie was a well-to-do business man, as he was well dressed. His pockets contained a number of notes'lor sums varying from S2OO to SIOO and $53.20 in money.

A statue erected to the memory of Richard Parks Bland, .who served in Congress almost continually from 1872 until 1800, was unveiled at Lebanon, Mo., with impressive ceremonies. An immense crowd gathered to hear addresses by William .1. H-yan, William .1. Stone and others. The statue is of bronze, lif“ size, ami rests on a pedestal of stone six foot high. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .85 iO Philadelphia. 21 20 Brooklyn ...28 22 Cincinnati ...20 28 Chicago ... .25 21 St. Louis. .. .lit 28 Boston .....25 25 New Y0rk...10 20 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: * W. L. W. L. (Philadelphia 21 21 Baltimore .. .22 20 {Boston 20 25 Washington. 22 27 ; St, Louis,... 25 22 <Me vela ml ...20 50

BREVITIES.

Miss Mabel Ilanna, eldest daughter of (Senator M. A. Ilanna, married Harry A. (Parson*, her father's private secretary.

f Anarchists led mob of 5,000 at Paterson, N. J., in an attack upon silk mills (imd police. Ten persons were shot, four of them fatally.

Word has been received of the drown-* Jug at Seoul, Corea, of ltev. H. G. Appon seller of Lancaster, Pa., a well-known 'Methodist missionary. Charles Frederick Haviland of France, u member of the famous family of china ware makers, is seriously ill with heart disease at the Oakes Home in Denver.

Houth Tarkington, author, ami Miss Laurel Louisa Fletcher were married at the Fletcher home in Indianapolis. Only members of the two families were present. William \V. Iveyser, judge of t'n District Court at Omaha, resigned to accept u chair in the St. Louis law school. Judge Iveyser was a graduate of the school in 1883. C. C. Norbeck, the Miuncu|sdis detective on trial for receiving a bribe, is missing, and his bail has been declared forfeited. There is reason to believe that he lias committed suicide. Officers of Fnited States cruiser Chicago, arrested at Venice for disorderly conduct, are exonerated by Hear Admiral Cruwniushicld. Captain Dayton is blamed for not defending them. The train dispatchers' convention at Pittsburg elected A. D. Caulfield of Wilson, La., president, and J. F. Maekic of Chicago, secretary, treasurer and editor of the Dispatchers' Journal. Myron T. Herrick, treasurer of the McKinley National Memorial Association, lias received a draft for $7..'114 forwarded by a bank in behalf of the Paris committee of the association.

Plot to assassinate King Edward is rumored in London; King's sickness is declared feigned to keep him from public functions where plot might he carried out. His majesty did not attend Ascot races. E. W. Johnson, vice-president of the Classen Heal Estate Company at Oklahoma City, who served through the Cuban campaign with the rough riders, was shot and killed by W. T. McMicliael as a result of a contest over a luud claim. Two lives were lost, many iicraons were injured, sixty families were made homeless and property valued at $200.0(X( was destroyed by a fire that swept through upper Creede, Colo. It is believed the flames were set by incendiaries. Presideut Bashford of Ohio Wesley 111 University denied the report that lie had been called to the presidency of the University of Wisconsin. Herman A. Tubbs, a well-known capitalist of Han Francisco ami member of Tubba Cordage Company, won killed near Ills home at Huusalito, Cal., in u runaway. John W. Gate* says Americans will soon control the world's railways, and that community of interest will goyvrM, with few men In control of the propertles. He credits Picrpont Morgan with * having wonderful plans in view.

EASTERN.

Bituminous miners of Pennsylvania, by stopping shipment of product into anthracite field, aided cause of strikers. Roland Worthington, well-known financier and club man of Boston, married Miss Edith Johnson, a stenographer twenty years his junior. Attempt to kill Lehigh Coal Company superintendent was made at Wilkesbarre. Engine on which he was riding was riddled with bullets. Strike leaders pleaded against violence. A young man who was a passenger on a Brooklyn bridge car in New York suddenly left his seat and sprang over the bridge rail into the river below. The body lias not been recovered. Captain Hannett Robbins of Port Morris, N. J., and Mrs. Pluma Haines of Camden, N. J., were drowned opposite Chester, Pa., by the capsizing of the sloop Henry B. Robbins. In addition to property damage caused by a cloudburst, five railroad men lost their lives by n freight train on the Central Vermont Railroad running into a washout at Middlesex, Vt. United States secret service men, aided by local police, captured eight Italians in Baltimore, supposed to be members of a gang of counterfeiters who have operated in several parts of the country during the past few months. At Corry, Uu., some hoys discovered evidence of a terrible murder. The body of Henry Haddock, an old soldier, was found tilled full of buckshot and the skull crushed in. Haddock, when last seen, had a large sum of money, and this is missing. What is locally known ns "the triumvirate” of Tammany Hall, New Y'ork, has adopted a resolution abolishing the chairmanship of the finance committee of Tammany Hall. This wus the chairmanship held by Richard Croker, his predecessors and the late leader, Lewis Nixon.

The Supreme Court of Connecticut has rendered valid a residuary legacy of $lO,000 of Sidney Hall of Hartford, given to a Boston society, to be used in publications combating the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. -The legacy was contested on the grounds of public policy and morals. Sullivan 11. Palm, aged 40, brother of Sheldon E. Palm, ex-postmaster of Warren, Ohio, was found dead at the Boston House, Pittsburg. Dr. Walter MeCiwulless made an examination for the coroner mid determined that Palm hail died from poisoning. The police believe it the work of a jealous woman. The house of James Applegate at Hazleton, Pa., was badly shattered by an explosion of dynamite which had been placed near the side of the building by unknown persons. The family escaped injury. Applegate has been employed as a special officer at the Cranberry coll'ory since the strike went into effect. Mrs. Itaehel Salilor, a widow, was shot ami killed at Contesviile, Pa., by Harry N. Ricer of New Castle and xvas himself killed by a bullet front the same revolve! while struggling with another woman for its possession. Ricer had quarreled with Mrs. Salilor, and xvheu sire refused to receive him he shot her through the heart. For twenty-five years Charles S. Shivler has been secretary and treasurer of the American District Telegraph Company in New York at a salary ot $5,000 a year. The other day lie was arrested and indicted by the grand jury for grand larceny on three counts after he had confessed that he had been stealing for sixteen, or seventeen years, in order to provide funds to complete an Invention. New Y'ork detectives and the coroner are investigating what may prpve to be a double murder. The victims are Clarence Foster and Miss Sarah Lawrence whose bodies were found in Shinueeoek bay, Long Island. Foster's remains were found early in the morning and those of Miss Lawrence a few hours later. The head and face of Foster hail been battered and there were marks of violence on other portions of the body.

WESTERN.

Two carthqunkc shocks were felt at Newport, Ore. The Woodward block at Beatrice, Neb., was fired for the third time by incendiaries. The Standard fire pressed brick works, north of Pueblo, Colo., were damaged $150,000 by tire. James F. Wheetock was executed in the penitentiary nt Sun Quentin, Cal., for the murder of Mrs. Emily Martin. The Minnesota Supreme Court decides sale of meat containing preservatives cannot he interfered with in that State. At Crawford - , N'eb., Judge Kincaid was nominated for Congress by Republicans of the Sixth District on the 147t1i ballot. The official count of the vote in the recent election in Oregon shows that Chamberlain, Democrat, for Governor, has a majority of Hod. The Union ore sampling works and tin’ warehouse of the Second-Hand Supply Company at Denver were destroyed by fire. The loss is $50,000. Portions of the body of an unknown man, supposed to have been murdered, hnve been found ou the Dixie trail to Thunder Mountain, in Idaho, At Trenton, Mo., Ralph Lord shot and killed Mrs. Arvilla Worrell, of whom lie was jealous, and then shot himself through tlie lungs. He will die. George Puck, formerly of Sioux City, and George Ostrander, formerly of Correctlonville, were fouud murdered in their ealiln on a ranch near Sturgis, S. D. Arthur Underwood, u prominent member of the Castle Square Opera Company, playing an engagement in Cleveland, wus struck and killed by a street car.

Andrew Peterson, on trial for the killing Inst January at Greenleaf, Knn.. of Carl Holt and his niece, Hilda I ‘etervin, was found guilty of murder iti the first degree. Henry Siegel of Siegel, Cooper & Co. has acquired a half interest in store of Sehlesinger & Mayer for $1,500,000. Merger of big department houses may follow. In Knusas City four persons were burned, two perhaps fatally, in an explosion that followed an attempt of Mrs. Julia Hawkes to light a kitchen fire with kerosene. Mayor Ilnrrison of Chicago was overthrown by John P. Ilopkius in ’he Illinois Democratic convention in n test of strength. Bryan* and free silver were not mentioned. George Goodcll has been pardoned from the Ohio penitentiary by President

Ropsevelt. He xvas sentenced in tne Indian Territory to serve two sentences of ten years each for manslaughter. Tae fast mail ou the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad jumped the track at Fulton, 111. The engine and two mail coaches rolled over a 15-foot embankment. The engineer was injured. The towboat Relief was sunk at Rising Sun, Ind., by colliding with a barge. The seven members of the crew escaped. Thomas Allen, the steward, and his wife were injured before they were rescued. John Fox, a farmer living near Elbow Lake, Minn., shot and killed his brother Peter and his mother, and then shot himself dead. He was probably demented. Fox was unmarried and lived with his parents. The first car of 1902 wheat was received in Kansas City the other day. It graded No. 2 red and was from Tulsa, I. T. It was sold for cents per bushel, which was about 3 cents above the market. William N*. Vaughn, who has been on trial at Ravenna, Ohio, for the murder of his stepmother and her mother, was found not guilty, the jury declaring him “not guilty because of insanity at the time of the crimes.” Carver Brothers’ department store in Strasburg, Ohio, was conamned by tire, with n loss of SIOO,OOO. It is thought the fire was set by robbers. While the members of the firm were fighting the blaze their home was looted. Kansas needs (5,000 harvest hands. The State employment bureau has furnished its Kansas City agent of the Missouri bureau with a list of places where the men are to be sent. The railroads make n special rate of one-third fare. Clarence Hamilton, a trick bicyclist from New Y’ork, kuowu as Moucrief, fell from the giant wheel at the Elks’ fair in Minneapolis and had several ribs broken, besides suffering internal injuries which make his condition serious. In the presence of his xvife, a bride of five days, George A. Fleck of Louisville, Ky„ was accidentally killed in his room at the .Great Northern Hotel in Chicago. He was seated in a chair examining a revolver mid unwittingly pulled the tr'gger.

The combine of furniture manufnetur- < rs recently formed at Chicago under the auspices of the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers has been dissolved owing to the failure of a lurge fraction of the firms interested to keep the agreement. Willie Saunders, aged 10; Carl Gunion and John Roach, each a year younger, started to wade across Licking river at Zanesville, Ohio, almost within a stone’s throw of their homes. Gunion led, and, going over an offset, called to his companions for itelp. All were drowned, Mrs. Mary Sassanalli died at Y’ouugstown, Ohio, from wounds inflicted with a shotgun liy Vincenzo Aduasio. Her husband and Aduasio had quarreled over a card game and Aduasio attempted to shoot him. The woman ran for a polieenian and Aduasio turned the gun on her. Fire in a riding academy at Ohanning avenue and Locust street, St. Louis, started a panic among the 300 girl employes in the Friedman shoe factory, a six-story building across the alley. In their frantic efforts to escape from supposed danger many of the girls were injured. Harry W. Bragg, a private in Company F, Twentieth United States infantry, shot and killed Mrs. Lizzie Tibbits and then shot and killed himself. The tragedy was enacted on the grounds at the Columbus, Ohio, barracks and jealousy was the motive. Bragg's home was in Pelican, Wis. Another chapter in the municipal corruption scaudal at Minneapolis, Minn., was added when Detective Norman W. King was arraigned on an indictment charging him with the theft of a diamond, which he had procured from a thief, and which, it is said, he failed to return to the rightful owner. Ama Dyer and her 12-year-old daughter were found hanging from the ceiling of their home at Okfngee, I. T., in the heart of the Creek Nation, dead. It is believed from information furnished the marshal's office that Mrs. Dyer was killed by an admirer, and that the daughter was killed to cover the first crime.

A storm of unusual severity visited the central portion of southern Minnesota. The storm was in* the nature of a cyclone, and an enormous amount of damage was done. New Prague is reported to have been in the path of the cyclone, Owatonna, N'orthfield, Faribault and Henderson are among the places cut off. Waiter Bourne, formerly deputy auditor at St. Paul, who is serving fifteen years at Stillwater prison, was denied a new triul by the Supreme Court. Bourne was convicted on two indictments, cue charging the Illegal use of county warrants and the other fraud in the use of his official signature. The Supreme Court confirms the conviction in both cases. After a desperate battle between local officers, in which thirty or forty shots were exchanged in a chase of nearly a mile, lam Henderson, a desperate criminal, wanted in Indianapolis for various offenses, including the shooting of three officers, was brought to bay in Marion. Ind. Henderson did not surrender until he had been shot several times by the officers. All Montana is stirred up over a sensational bn re knuckle tight which took place between Roy Campbell, ii son o! cx-Congrcssman A. J. Campbell and Wll Ham G. Maiigau. an athlete of some 10.-. i! repute and said to he a protege of W. A. Clark. Jr. The affair Is said to he an outgrowth of the Idtter political fight made against Senator W. A. Clark In Washington several years ago. The so-called packing house eases, comprising four charges against the Cudahy Packing Company, two ngiitist the Ar incur Company, rate against Swift Co. ami one against Seliwnrxsehi’.d & Sulzberger. were stricken from the municipal Court tab in St. Patti. The action was taken in view of t’,o< recent ‘Supreme Court decision striking out the preserved meat prohibition* in tin- food adulteration law.

Elsie Swift, II years old, was found in a fainting condition at tier home >n Chicago. she having been gagged and severely beaten by a burglar. Pulling her by the hair, the ro’ilnw compelled '.in* helpless girl to guide him through tile house to places where valuables were supposed to lie hidden. ILs quest, which was not as remunerative n< lie had an* .tleipated. angered him. and lie tore tie* rings from her Ungers unJ escaped. Miss Wren of Lexington. Mo., who eloped from Kansas City with George

Henderson of Denver, a farmer who was formerly employed on her father’s ranch near Lexington, was discovered by her father at the Deltone Hotel in Omaha, Neb. He confronted the couple as they left the dining room. A fight ensued between the old man and Henderson. Johnson, the hotel clerk, interfered at the solicitation of the girl. The couple were to have been married in Omaha that day. Wren left for Kansas City with his daughter. Like a regiment of Cavalry nearly 1,509 homeseekers, men and boys, mounted and heavily armed, pushed across the line of the Fort Hall Indian reservation at noon Tuesday and disappeared in a cloud of dust in a wild free-for-all race for farms. A whistle signal from the Oregon Short Line shops started the grand rush, and within an hour Pocatello, Idaho, was practically depopulated. A few minutes after the first rush was begun probably 1,000 persons, families and friends of the prospective settlers, started into the ceded lands with camping outfits and household effects loaded upon pack animals. At Blackfoot every arrangement had beep made to handle the crow.ds, and the municipal and county authorities put on a large number of deputies to preserve order.

SOUTHERN.

Lieut. Richard C. Croxton of the Twen-ty-third United States infantry is in ,» hospital nt Richmond, Va., fatally Injured by an attempted suicide. In a fight resulting from a feud between Italian factions in New Orleans, Salvadore Luciana, Vincenso Velcra Hnd Murrella Ferri were killed, while Joseph Calamina and Joseph Geraeehi were wounded. Mrs. Louis Westrop, a white woman living near Martin, Miss., killed tiro of her children by shooting them to death in an outhouse and afterward burning the structure over their bodies. The woman escaped. A little daughter of William Blankenship was attacked at Hopkinsville, Ky.. by a rooster and so bndly injured that it is thought she will die. The bird sank its spurs in the top of the child’s head, penetrating the brain. As the result of a decision in the court of criminal appeals affirming judgment ir. the case of Harvey Fullerton of Greenville. Texas, convicted of operating a bucket shop or dealing in futures, every bucket shop in the State will have to close. Miss Mary Custis Lee, second daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, was arrested at Alexandria, Va., charged with violating the separate car bill passed by the last Legislature. So far as known, she is the first victim in Virginia to the “Jim Crow” law. At Knoxville, Teun.. an instant after the death of Col. John S. Van Gilder, one of Knoxville's leading citizens, a portion of his mansion collapsed, causing a panic among the members of the family and the servants. No one was injured, however. Four men were killed and fifteen injured in a collision between fast mail No. 1 from Nashville and the Jasper accommodation train ou the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, between Hooker and Summit, about twelve miles from Chattanooga, Tenu. The Supreme Court of Mississippi declared that the Noel primary election iaw adopted at the last session of the Legislature is constitutional. Under this law all party nominations in Mississippi are to be made by primary elections, abolishing the nomination by convention. The business portion of Alexunder City, Ala., a place of 1,500 inhabitants, was wiped away by fire, the loss reaching at least $750,000, which the insurance will not begin to cover. The fiataes began in the foundry and machine works, uud spread from building to building until ('he entire business portion of the town wan a mass of Humes.

The recent decision of the State Supreme Court invalidating consolidated leases and placing on the market more than 2,500,000 acres of grazing lands, has struck a death blow to the cattle laisers of Texas. Hundreds of sections or these lauds are being filed upou eneli day by actual settlers. Tile ranchmen own the alternate patented sections of land and had under lease the intervening •school sections. It is impossible to fence each section separately or graze satisfactorily cattle jointly with a uumber of smull holders.

FOREIGN.

It is announced that the Spanish government has decided to appoint a minister to the Cubuu republic. An anarchist (dot to assnssiuate Emperor Francis Joseph has been discovered in Vienna. A Trieste tailor who was allotted the task has disappeared. The Chamber of Commerce at Manila lias presented to (Jen. Chaffee a set of resolutions expressing the regard with which Gen. Chaffee and the army in the Philippines are held by the business men of Manila. Ganz & Co. of Budapest, owners of valuable electric patents and the largest manufacturers of supplies in Europe, are said to have joined Me ains-Ryau-Dolan syndicate, thus forming i tremendous combine. The bodies of the sergeant, two corporals and four privates of toe Fifth cavalry, who were <up lined May IV i by Ladrones at B.nangoiiau, iti/ul province, l.itzotl, have been teeovered. Most of (lie oodles had been hewn limn from tinib and it was fouud impossible u> i ecoguue Sou** of the dead men. An eiup.uye of the l>uuk of Fruuee who a us intrusted with ttie care of Collateral setfti rules abstracted a ii umber of these documents mid. through tile heip of a frieud. borrowed money ou tln-in Irom the Bank of France itself. The Paris papers say that the sum lost by the hasp* amounts to 450.0*0 francs.

IN GENERAL

President Roosevelt sent a special message to Coil areas urging 20 per Cent tariff concession to Cuba, declaring it will not hurt American industries. New Lake Shore-Pennsylvania New York-Cklcn.ro service eclipsed world's fast seln-ilides and officials-ihellovo twen-ty-hour limit cjii be shoved.to eighteen easily. News lias lioeu received from fionnliitii that the British bark Fannie Kerr, laden with isial from Newcastle, Australia, to San Kruwriscn. caught lire at «-a and was abandoned by -Ike crew, who-safely reached land.

Congress.

The Senate on Friday received special message from the President on reciprocity with Cuba. A resolution was offered by Mr. Mitchell directing the committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico to inquire into the general condition of Hawaii, the administration of affairs there; the quality, condition and value of the public lands in Hawaii; the crown lands; and the ttile of the former queen therein; with power to sit during the recess and a subcommittee to visit the islands if necessary and report at the beginning of the next session. Mr. Hoar proposed an amendment providing that the committee should inquire whether the former queen has any claim against the United States, legal or equitable, by reason of having parted hitherto with her title. Mr. Mitchell accepted the amendment and the resolution was referred to the committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Itico. The House received the President’s special message on Cuba and passed the irrigation bill.

Consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill was begun by the Senate on Saturday and the measure, carrying $9,848.(573, passed. The irrigation bill, which passed the House Friday. was then taken up, the House intendments agreed to. and the bill passed. A House bill, pn.ving certain claims heretofore reported by the Secretary of War. growing out of the war ivith Spain, was passed. Private pension bills were then taken up and a number passed. The House passed 199 pension hills, and at 3:45 p. in. adjourned until Monday. After a discussion extending over parts of seevral days what is popularly known as the London dock charges bill xvas passed by the Senate on Monday. The opposition to the measure practically collapsed and it was passed without division. Just before the executive session which preceded adjournment a spirited discussion was precipitated over a motion by Mr. Proctor of Vermont to agree to a conference with the House on the army appropriation bill. Several weeks ago the Senate was affronted by a message from the House refusing to submit to conference certain Senate amendments to the bill. The opposition to Mr. Proctor’s motion was so vigorous that finally lie was forced to withdraw it for the present. The House transacted miscellaneous business under suspension of the rules. It included the adoption of resolutions appropriating $25,000 fqr tile preparation of plans for a memorial in Washington to Abraham Lincoln. $400,000 toward the erection of a monument to the prison ship martyrs, who died off Brooklyn as a result of the cruelties to which they were subjected by the British during the Revolutionary War. and SIO,OOO for the erection of a monument at Fredericksburg, Va.. to the memory of Gen. Hugh Mercer, who was killed during the Revolutionary War. Two bills were passed to amend the general pension laws, one to provide for the restoration to the pension rolls of the widows of soldiers who subsequently married ami were again widowed, and one to increase the pension of those who have lost a limb or were totally disabled while in the military or naval service. The latter bill also carries a provision to increase the pension of a soldier under the dependent act of 1890 from sl2 to S3O per month when ruch pensioner requires frequent or periodical attendance. The resolution calling on the Secretary of War for his reasons for the dismissal of Rebecca J. Taylor, a clerk in the War Department, was laid on the table, 109 to S 4.

In the Senate ou Tuesday lolls were passed to regulate the commutation of (United States prisoners for good conduct, !o amend the act providing for a pernanent census office, so as to include 'unskilled laborers” in the list of those employed uot included in the civil service; to provide for refunding taxes paid ou legacies and bequests for uses of religious. charitable or educational character; for the encouragement of art, etc. The rest of the day was devoted to debate upon the ennnl bill. The House passed bills to amend the bankruptcy law; providing for the punishment of United States prisoners for crimes committed XVlille confined in State institutions; to increase the fees of jurors in I uiteil States courts from $2 to $3 per day; to allow appeals from final rulings of the general land office to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; to incorporate the Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba, and to ratify the agreements negotiated tiy the Dawes commission with the Creek, Kansas or K.iw Indians of Oklahoma. A House bill to provide for the opening to settlement of •180,000 acres of land in the Ki iwn, Comanche and Apache Indian reservations in Oklahoma was defeated.

In the Senate practically the entire day Wednesday was taken tip with debate upon the canal bill. A resolution offered several dnvs ago by Mr. Carmack, directing the civil service committee to inquire into the discharge from t-lie War Department of Miss Rebecca J. Taylor for the publication of articles in newspapers criticising the President was called up. and Mr. Carmack spoke in support of it. In the House the general deficiency appropriation hill, tile last of tile supply- hills, wus passed, in tile course of some remarks early in tile session Mr. Cannon dncl it red that if he could have ills way Congress would adjourn sine die before July 4. A night session was held, nt which the House considered hills reported from tlie committee on Indian nduirs.

Washington Notes.

The river and harbor Idll has been signed by the President. I.ast of Spanish war revenue taxes will end July 1; beer tax will return to $1 a barrel; tea tax stands till Jan. 1. Proposition of Gov. Taft for purchase of friars’ lands, says William K. Curtis, probably will lie accepted by flip Vnticnn. The Corliss Pacific cable bill lias been killed by the House. 11(1 to 77; argument made that appropriations already exceed revenues by $31,000,000. The Navy Department is taking ndvanrtnge of the miners’ strike to enlist (hem as seamen. Recruiting officers hnve been sent to coal region. Venezuela Is said to have declared blockade of Orinoco river; warship nuiy he sent to protect American interests; •tutus of river is like Mississippi.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Mow Vnrk I “ N ? diminutlon «» **•!• nCI lUlll. | ness is apparent from labor 1 ~~ 'controversies, owing to the prosperous condition of the agricultural sections and the bright outlook for this year’s crops. Retail distribution of lightweight wearing apparel has felt the stimulus of higher temperature. Ra'lway earnings in May were 8.7 per cent larger than last year and 21.7 per cent above those of 1900.” R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade thus sums up the busiuess situation. Continuing, the review says: There continues to be a wide discrepancy between the amount of business offered and the contracts closed in many branches, of the iron and steel industry owing to inability of producers to assure delivery at a specified time. Contracts runnjpg well into, next year indicate that the end of activity is not uear. Pressure is still most conspicuous for railway and structural supplies, ami agricultural Implement xvorks are crowded with orderß. Sales of Bessemer pig iron at Pittsburg for delivery next year were recently made at $16.50, while immediate shipments command about $5 more. Limited stocks are still the cause of steadiness in all branches of textiles. Holders are not urging sales, and buyers show a disposition to wait. Purchasers of cotton goods are influenced by the prospect of cheaper raw material after the new crop begins to move. Cotton rose slightly on a few unfavorable weather reports, but the outlook is very bright In many States. Tardy deliveries of sample pieces by the woolen mills has caused complaint among the clothiers and fall orders are not placed freely. Wool sells more freely at leading eastern markets, and quotations are steady

7, , From the fact that there UIICaQO. are labor disputes in so a Tnnnv places it is evident that the spirit of unrest is at work. The country is unusually prosperous with many industries taxed beyond capacity. Money is plentiful and the people have more of it per capita thau ever before. Any willing man may find employment and wages—on the whole —are higher thau for years. With these conditions it would seem that this should be a time for contentment, yet it is not entirely so. Unreasonable as are some of the demands of the workingmen, there Is something to be said for the general cause of labor. An important consideration, and one rarely given sufficient weight by employers, who look askance at an increasing wage scale, is the increased cost of living., Uun's index figure, which is a pretty reliable guide, shows that while the cost of living in 1897 was 75.5, it is to-day 101.5. The southwestern wheat movement is getting under way, and while Kansas will have a yield considerably under the average, the general outlook for grain tonnage is good. The government lias issued'the first-bulletin of the year bearing upon the new spring wheat crop. It is found, as was the general expectation, that there is a much smaller area in wheat than last year, the government putting the decrease in Minnespta an<» the Dakotas at 2,511,000 acres. This does not mean that the northwestern railroads will necessarily have less grain to haul, and indeed with favorable weather the outlook is for a heavier grain tonnage than ever. Practically all this abandoned wheat land has gone into other grain, and even yet farmers are planting flax and barley in scattered places, where seeding conditions were the worst earlier in the season. From this time on the reports from the growing spring wheat will take precedence as the price influence. The Northwest holds lip wTII ip the general volume of business. In Minneapolis the bank clearings at $12.450,023.27 show a gain of 15.9 per cent, which is especially gratifying in the face of a decrease of 23 in the total for the country at large.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.75; hogs, shipping grades. $4,125 to $7.55; sheep, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2,02 cto 03c; oats. No. 2,40 c to 42c; rye. No. 2, 5Uc to 57c; hry, timothy, SIO.OO to $14.50; prairie, $5.50 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, new, 80c to 00c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cuttle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.10; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to SS.(A); wheat, No. 2,7 tie to 77c; corn, No. 2 white, 04c to 05c; oats. No. 2 white, 42c to 43c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $8.00; hoes, $3.00 to $7.25; sheep, $2.50 to s4.B<i; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 77c; corn. No. 2, 59c to 00c; oats. Nor 2,43 cto 44c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 50c. Cincinnati—Cuttle, $4.00 to $0.40; hogs $4.00 to $7.00: sheep. $3.25 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2. 81c to 82c: corn. No. 2 mixed, 03c to 04c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; rye. No. 2. 50c to 57c. Detroit —Cattle, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $7.05; sheep. $2.50 to $5.00: wheat, No. 2.' 80c to Sic; corn. No. 3 yellow, 04c to 05c; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 47c; rye, 59c to 00c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixed. 79c to 80c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 02c to 03c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 43c to 44c; clover prime, $5.02. Milwaukee—lV heat. No. 2 northern, 75c to 70c; corn. No. 3, flic to 02c; oats. No. 2 white. 40c to 47c; rye, No. 1, 570 to 58c, lmrley, No. 2,70 cto 71c; pork, mess, $17.57. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $7.75: lings. sl<.oo to $7.00; *iMep, $4.00 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 77<■ to 78c; corn, No. 2, COe to 07e; nntv, No. 2 white, 51c to 32c; butter, c,'earner/, 20c to 21c; eggs, western, 13c to t~>\ Buffalo- On.tie, choice shipping steers. $4.00 to J 7.00, hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $7.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $5.25; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to S7.(XX Fir* In the business section of BcTler, Mo., «T*d damage estimated at from $10,• 000 to $12,000.