Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1902 — Page 2

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

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Telegrams from Sedro, Wash., soya that a man confessing that he is one of Nora Fuller’s murderers has surrendered to the city marshal at that place. He says he is John Bennett, for whom the Fan Francisco police have been searching several months. John K. Messersmith, the Baltimore cotton broker, who has been on trial for five days on a charge of obtaining $25,000 by false pretenses from the Merchants’ National Bank, was convicted. Sentence was stt,spehded upon a motion for a new trial. The Vnion Pacific has discharged the remaining 500 men employed in its shops at Cheyenne, Wyo., making 650 in all. This includes thirty boilermakers and helpers who struck, Tile order discharging the men states that the shops are to be closed permanently. William Broun, a miner of Minden, Mo., afraid of being lynched for the murder of a fellow-worker, jumped into the 'Elk river near Lanagan arid was drowned. Brown had been arrested for the murder of Joseph Stager, whose dead body was found under a bridge. Henry Taylor, colored, was hanged at Pittsburg for the murder of Edward Sewall, also colored. and Thomas Croni mell, colored, was executed at Lebanon. Pa., for killing Jacob Schmidt, an engineer. (Jus Ayers was hanged at Holly Fprings, Miss., for wife murder. After three hours' deliberation, a cor mer's jury declared Orlando E. Miller, president of the St. Luke Society, and Henry Clark Dalls, general manager, responsible for the death of Alderman William E. Kent and others in the Woodruff Hotel tire of June 1) in Chicago. The others connected with the institution who ■were held pending the result of the coroner's investigation were discharged. Since the coronation of King Alfqnso the quarrels between him and the Dowager Queen Maria, his mother, have been no frequent and violent that they have become a veritable scandal. Her slightest effort to guide the monarch is answered in a tirade of stable boy p.ofanity. Recently in the presence of servants the young King informed his mother that he would expel her from the palace if she did not respect his wishes. Alfonso's manners' have been generally insufferable since his coronation. Mercur, fifty miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. and the second largest mining town in the State, was almost wiped out of existence by fire. Not a business house is left, and scores of dwellings are in ashes. At least 1,000 people are without food and shelter. Frequent explosions of powder stored in the town addml to the terror. The loss is $909,000, with insurance of $350,000. Men nr is famous as n cyanide gold camp and as the home of the Mercur and Golden Gate . mines. John Hand, a retired grocer, was shot •nd killed nt Seward, Neb., by Alexander Lange, who afterward shot himself. The men had met in the street and quarreled. Lange accused Hand of carrying on a flirtation with Mrs. Lange. The former grocer made a reply that incensed Lange and then he startl'd to walk away, lie was shot in the head, dying instantly. Lange left his victim lying in the street, walked to his own barn and there fired two bullets into his brain. Physicians say he will die. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. * \V. L. Pittsburg ...39 12 Philadelphia. 21 .31 Brooklyn ...31 24 Cincinnati ...22 31 Chicago ....28 23 St. L0ui5....21 32 Boston 25 25 New Y0rk...20 32 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....32 1S Washington. 26 29 Boston .....29 2<> Baltimore ...25 29 Philndelpfda 2*l 21 Detroit 21 28 St. L0ui5....25 21 Cleveland ...23 32

BREVITIES.

A forest fire near Garfield, Colo., caused a panic. A change in the wind saved tlie town. Anthony Powers, aged 68, fell from a cherry tree at Marysville, Ohio, and broke his neck, dying instantly. Storm in north central Indiana killed two persons, injured fifty ami did priqierty damage' estimated at S2JMMI,(MXt. , A President Roosevelt, speaking at Harvard University, imide a defense of Gen. Wood. Secretary Root mid Gov. Taft. Fire in East Dallas, Texas, destroyed twenty residences covering an Area of three- blocks. Several firemen were injured. A four story building in Brooklyn, N. Y.. occupied by the American Tartar Company, was burned to tlie ground. Loss $150,000, The Toronto street rallwnj employes' strike was ended by a compromise' wage agreement mid the recognized freedom of the men to organize l . E. C. Schultz, the* Northern Pacific en gini'er who was injured in tin' eollisioc near Staples. Minn., died, beipg the eighth victim of the wreck. A new ruling <.r Sieretnry Shaw holds It possible for any Ameriemi returning to the States after a visit to Mexico to take back goods pur. liasesl in the' n'pt'.blie to the value of $1(K). Daniel McClinton, a porter at Surgeon’s Hall. Edinburgh, Scotland, in u lit of insanity shot ami killed Dr. Ivisoir Ma<*mliini. professor of chemistry, mi l Janie** Forbes, the* professor’s assistant. Dange'r from fire's in the Hot Springs. Wash., region has passed nnd the* loss to the'*forests, it Is believed, will not be inereaaeel to any great extent. Detective Norbeck, who tied from Mintieuipolia while being tried for bribing hi conni'rtion with the municipal scandals, was captured at Carver, mid he declared he will confess everything. Tlu' body of Jesse James, who was buried in his mother’s hack yard near Excelsior Springs. Mo., immediately after lie was killed by Bob Ford at Bt. Joseph', Mo., In 1882, is to be taken up and reinterred at Kearney.

EASTERN.

A total loss of $20,000 was caused by a Are at Lexington, Mass. A score of persons were injured in a collision of trolley cars at Chestnut Hill, a Philadelphia suburb. Frank Jones and John Johnson, negro murderers of Israel Badetsky, a Hebrew peddler, were hanged at Ellicott City, Nd. The old Bessemer mill at the Pennsylvania steel works at Steelton, Pa., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $25,000. Annie Reno, 10 years old, was fatally burned at Braddock, Pa., and four others who went to her assistance were severely burned. George Sangfoss of Larksville, Pa., has deserted ills wife and two babies and eloped with Mrs. Helen llestus, his moth-er-in-law. The American Library Association closed its sessions nt Magnolia, Mass. Dr. Jatnes A. Hosmer of Minneapolis was elected president. Robert Quale Weaker, a student nt Syracuse University, Carbondale, Pa., was ground to denth by a freight train on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. Mrs. Frank E. Jeunison, New York, failed for second time to kidnap her 4-y ear-old daughter from father at Greepwich, Conn. Mother twice defeated in suit for divorce. Dr. Jacob F. Meyer, one of the best known surgeons in Buffalo, N. Y., was shot through the heart and instantly killed. His wife was the first persou to inform the police of the shooting. Mrs. William Barrett Ridgely, wife of tlie Comptroller of the Currency and the only daughter of Senator Cullom of Illinois, died at the Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore of appendicitis. Grover Cleveland ami David B. Hill spoke at Tilden Club opening in New York and urged reuniting of Democratic party. Former declared new issues could be found in extravagant appropriations and high tariff. Anthony S. Sherman, cashier of the Merchants’ Bank of Newport, R. 1., shot himself in the head. It is believed the wound is mortal. The bank, which is a private institution, is closed. it was chartered in 1817. Announcement is made that the Union Steel Company had made an important additional purchase of iron ore lauds in the Mesalia range of the Lake Superior region. It is said the amount of the investment in ore property will be in excess of sl.ooo.ootf At Barnstable, Mass.. Miss Jane Toppan was found not guilty of the charge of poisoning Mrs. Mary E. Gibbs, for whom she acted ns nurse. She was freed of the charge because of her insanity and by order of the court she was committed to the Taunton insane asylum for the rest of her life. June Toppan, Who was sent to the Taunton, Mass., insane asylum by a jury at Barnstable, where she was tried for the murder of Mrs. Mary D. Gibbs, has made a confession to her senior counsel, Judge Fred M. Bixby, that she killed thirty-one persons. The victims were patients whom she had nursed. A 16-inch gun, the largest in the World, is completed at Watervliet, N. Y., arsenal and sent to the United States government’s proving grounds at Sandy Hook. Its operations are expected to astonish the world. It is the most powerful weapon yet devised by man and is expected to revolutionize the art of gunmaking. The body of a 12-year-old girl was found in Gravesend bay. New York. Several cuts and bruises on the head and hands looked as if they might have been inflicted before death and the police ordered an investigation to determine whether the girl was drowned or murdered and the body thrown into the bay. Henry Rechtin, disbursing officer of the department of justice at Washington, D. C., was arrested on the charge of misappropriating $7,600 of government funds. He confessed to tiie shortage. Rechtin is from Cincinnati. Rechtin attributes his trouble to fast living and speculation. The shortage is fully covered by his bond of $30,000. . The police of Philadelphia and New York are searching for Henry B. McDowell, president of the United States Trust Company of Philadelphia, which made an assignment last Tuesday. Warrants issued for his arrest charge him with embezzling $50,000 worth of valuable securities, but State Banking Commissioner Reeder says the man must have got away with fully $250,000.

WESTERN.

Two cartlequake shocks were felt at Newport, Ore. Andrew Carnegie has offered S2S,(XX) to Lawrence. Kan., for a library, on the usual terms. Benjamin I-'. Jacobs, the pioneer real estate dealer ami Sunday school worker in Chicago, is dead. Two were killed mid several fat(illy hurt in wreck on Omaha road at Ashton, lowa. Passengers had a narrow escape. John A. Drake's colt Wyeth, at 12 to 1, won the American Derby in Chicago, with Lucien Appleby second and Alladin third. C. A. Sykes of New Y'ork was elected president by the National Dental Trades Association, which closed its convention at Detroit. Frost is reported from many localities in western Nebraska. Along the Platte valley west of Kearney it did some damage to gardens. Fire wiped out the business section of Rttyby, N. D.. witli a loss of $40,090. The residence section was saved only by most strenuous work. Allen Tarkee, aged 25, wns struck on head with a beer bottle in Hie hands of R. Blizzard nt Lancaster, Ohio, and died from the effects. Democrats of tlie Fifth Congressional District of Ohio renominated John 8. Snookjof Paulding and indorsed the Kansas City pint form. Permanent injunction against building of Mayor Tom L. Johnson's 3-cent fare street railway system lias been granted by Cleveland court. At Fresno, (’al., the roundhouse of the Southern Pacific liuilway and twelve locomotives were destroyed by fire. The estimated loss was $200,600. 1 In a collision between two crowded electric cars nt Twelfth ami Clark streets, Chicago, fifteen persons were injured and others were thrown into a panic. At least Mix persoua were killed in a bcud-eiid collision nt Lower Lake aiding, two miles west of Staples, Minn., on the

Northers Pacific Railroad, between passenger trains. While attempting to board a jhoving train D. M. Strong, an attorney and once Prohibition candidate for Governor, of North Bend, Neb., was thrown under the wheels and fatally injured. Five masked robbers bound and gagged the night watchman at the Fremont Brewing Company plant, Fremont, Ohio, and robbed the safe of its weekly collections. The loss Will exceed SI,OOO. The wife of William Martin, a Greeley County, Kan., farmer, gave birth to twin boys. They are the fourth set of twins born to that couple in succession. There are thirteen children in the family. As a result of a collision between two light engines on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad at Mingo Junction, Ohio, during a heavy fog two men were killed and a number of others were injured. The authorities of Potowatomie County, Okla., are investigating the case of Arthur E. Pecore, aged 14 years, near Shawnee, whose death is alleged to have resulted from attempts of several companions to treat him with the “water cure.” Horace Shipman, who to have been half-witted, shot and killed the city marshal of Jefferson, lowa, as the latter was attempting to arrest him. In a few minutes an infuriated mob surrounded the bouse and Shipman was shot to death. Four boys were drowned by the capsizing of a boat at Fern Gleu, a resort fifteen miles from St. Louis. The drowning occurred at the annual picnic of the St. Louis Turnverein. The boys were rowing on the Meremac river when their skiff capsized. E. J. Jennings, manager of the North Dakota Newspaper Union of Fargo, was fatally injured in a wreck near Granville. Mr. Jennings was riding in the caboose of a Great Northern freight train when another freight train following ran into and wrecked it. P. R. Martin, while digging a well at his residence in northwest Helena, Mont., has found the old bed of Last Chance creek, which in the early days produced upward of $15,000,000 in gold. Prospectors have searched for years in vain for the old route of the creek. An important decision lias been announced by ihe Ohio Supreme Court sustaining the Willis tax law, levying a fee of one-tenth of 1 per cent on the subscribed capital stock of private corporations, which, it is estimated, will yield the State an annual revenue of $41X1,000, At a meeting of the trustees of Oberlin College held at Oberlin, Ohio, it was announced that the institution would undoubtedly secure the $500,000 fund started by John D. Rockefeller, who offered $200,000, provided the trustees would obtain $300,000 from other sources. A log train of twenty cars on the Iron Range road ran away on a heavy grade for eight miles, near Duluth, Minn., and twenty men had a miraculous escape from death. The cars were reduced to kindling wood and logs eighteen inches in diameter were broken in two. Benson Peoples, a young man of Newcomerstown, Ohio, won the love of the pretty daughter of Elijah Starts and informed tlie girl's father of his intention to wed the girl. A quarrel ensued, during which Peoples fatally shot Starts. He then shot and killed himself. A telegram was received at Wanatah, Ind., conveying intelligence of the drowning of Nelson N. Reynolds of La Porte County with his wife and three children in a flood in Tennessee. The entire family was swept away while crossing a bridge and all perished except one daughter. Jennie Daley was shot and killed by William Bennett, her partner in a restaurant at Valley City, N. D., who then committed suicide. The affair occurred at midnight. Bennett fired six times at the woman after a violent quarrel. They had been,, business partners for many years. Gov. Savage has released from the Nebraska State penitentiary the convict who was sentenced under the name of Bert Martin, but who after a year was found to be a woman named Lena Martin. The woman had masqueraded for years as a man and was convicted of cattle steling. Charles D. Warner, son of Maj. William Warner, United States District Attorney and past grand commander (J. A. R., was found dea& in a rooming house in Kansas City. On the dresser were three empty bottles that had contained morphine. He was 24 years old, and leaves a widow and one child. A disastrous wreck occurred on the Rock Island road five miles west of Fairbury, Neb., in which seventeen cars of merchandise was badly wrecked, 500 feet of track torn up, and two unknown men killed. Tlie train was running at high speed when an obstruction was struck. The entire train was piled in the ditch. Juan Micaba, a full blood A coma Pueblo Indian who lived near Las Cruces. N. M.. committed suicide because he was whipped by his mother-in-law. Micaba had a quarrel with his wife and whipped her. He was in turn whipped by his mother-in-law. Unable to bear up under the indignity he took a six-shooter and blew out his brains. Nels Anderson, Jr., of Brigham, Utah, who was kidnaped recently, returned to his home in an almost famished condition. having eaten nothing during his absence. The boy alleges that he was held up just outside the city limits by three masked men and imprisoned in a cave in the mountains, east of Brigham, from which he escaped. A heavy, soaking rain, extending as far west as Wichita and east to the Missouri line, fell in Kansas, nearly two inches of water falling nt some points. Much wheat was washed out, and in many places the harvest will be delayed. Many streams are out of their banks. A heavy wind accompanied tlie rain and did some damage to crops. In the bankruptcy case of Hannah Levy of Circleville. Ohio, the United States Court held that diamonds cannot be considered as wearing apparel, but must be regarded ns the equivalent of cash. Mrs. Levy sought to retain possession of l certain diamonds, among them an engagement nnd a wedding ring, on (he ground that they were wearing npparel. Fire that started in the Phoenix- iron works, formerly tire plant at East Madison and East Water streets, Portland, Ore., burned oversjbout six acres of territory nnd caused a loss roughly estimated at $600,000. The iron works plant, which was a frail wooden structure, was entirely destroyed, us was the East,Side

Lumber Company's plant on the north, with several hundred thousand feet of dry lumber. Mrs. Annie Mullering and her 14-year-old daughter Emma, who have been mysteriously missing since the morniug of May 7, appeared at the St. Louis police station, where Hermann Mullering, the husband and father, has been held prisoner, suspected of double murder. Mrs. Mullering has been employed as a servant in the family of A. S. Mermod in Kirkwood, and the daughter has been working for another Kirkwood family.

SOUTHERN.

The coroner’s jury which has investigated the cause of the Fraterville mine explosion at Coal Creek, Tenn., May 19 reached a verdict against the Coal Creek Coal Company officials and against the State mine inspector, R. A. Shiflett. Link Monday, formerly of the Ninth infantry and a survivor of the Balangiga massacre, killed John Kennedy at a church supper near JxnoXville, Tenn., because Kennedy charged American troops with cowardice. Monday and two others were fatally wounded. After having been acquitted four times for the killing of Washington Smith on July 16, 1896, Judge David T. Rogers, a prominent man, was killed by Troy Smith, aged 25, a son of Washington Smith. The tragedy occurred in a restaurant at Knoxville, Tenn. Four men were killed and fifteen injured in a collision between fast mail No. 1 from Nashville and the Jasper accommodation train on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St, Louis Railway, between Hooker and Summit, about twelve miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. A terrific explosion occurred at the railroad camp of William Park, four miles from La Follette, Tenn. Herd Lones and Martha Chapman were blown to pieces and the house in which they were sleeping was demolished. Four cases of dynamite had been placed under the house by enemies of the couple. The Supreme Court of Texas has decided the Shippers’ Compress case against the State. The court held that competition had not been destroyed because there was none in the first instance. As to the constitutionality of the anti-trust law, the court held that the State may annul charters under it, but that it cannot collect penalties. The finding of a headless body, horribly mangled, brought about a complicated situation at Knoxville, Tenn. The police and county constabulary arrived on the scene simultaneously, a squabble ensuing for the body. The police were victorious and carried it away. A few hours later a telegram was received from Indianapolis which inquired the whereabouts of just such a man as had been found dead, but the police positively refused to divulge anything. Residents of Madison County, North Carolina, for several weeks have heard rumblings akin to thunder on the farm of John Park, near Lynch. Recently a crack a few inches wide appeared along the mountain side. A few days ago there was a sound resembling a dynamite explosion, followed by a cloudburst. This struck on a hillside and made an opening fifty feet wide and several yards long. At the bottom of the fissure was found a tine deposit of gold in paying quantities.

FOREIGN.

Ninety American soldiers died of cholera in the Philippines. The total number of deaths during the epidemic exceeds 6,500. The ministry has proclaimed Prince George, brother of the late king, King of Saxony. Prince George has taken the oath of allegiance. An operation for perityphlitis Was performed upon King Edward VII. in London Tuesday afternoon. All social and official functions have been declared off. Torpedo boat 42 of the German navy was run down and sunk by a British steamer at the mouth of the Elbe. The commander of the torpedo boat and three of her crew nre missing. An American missionary named Canright has telegraphed to Pekin from Chengtu-Fu, province of Suchwan, that a Methodist chapel there has been destroyed and ten Chinese converts have been killed by Boxers. A dispatch from Shanghai says that the Chinese cruiser Kai-Chi was wrecked by a terrific explosion while lying in Yang-tse river. The Kai-Chi sank in thirty seconds and 150 officers and men on board were killed or drowned. The correspondent of the London Daily Express at Rome in a dispatch says that the Queen Dowager of Spain has asked the Pope to suggest an eligible bride for King Alfonso. It is reported, continues the correspondent, that the pontiff has recommended cither an Austrian or a Bavarian princess. Five soldiers of the Twenty-seventh infantry, forming an advance guard which was escorting a wagon train halt a mile from Camp Vicars, Island of -Mindanao, were attacked by ten bolouien. One soldier’s arm was badly cut and another was seriously wounded in the head. The Moros captured a rifle and escaped uninjured.

IN GENERAL.

Secretary Root hus informed the Senate that the war in the Philippines to date has cost $170,326,586. The street railway service in Toronto was BUspeixlcd the other day when the railway employes decided to strike, nnd all negotiations between the company and the men nre off. W. J. Bryan has issued n statement, denouncing Grover Cleveland for Tilden Club speech nnd declaring harmony cannot exist between believers in Democratic principles and those Cleveland advocates. One of the sensations of the year was caused by the resignation of I). W. Davis, collector of customs at Dawsou City,. Alaska, and of his ns»;vtant, Alexander A. Cook. Davis has been suspended und a shortage is alleged. 11. L. Frank of Butte, Mont., has sold a three-fourths interest in his coal mit|es at Frank. B. C., to a French syndicate for $1,300,000. A payment of SBS,(HX) has been made to bind the sale. The Frank minqa nre in the Crow’s Nest region. Gen. O. L. Spaulding, First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, has been notified by Secretory Shaw that he is to retire. ll# will probably not again exer-> else the function of an assistant Secretary of the treasury, being at the present time on a leave of absence.

CONGRESS.

No business of importance was transacted in open session in the Senate on Friday, .except to agree to a conference report finally disposing of the military academy appropriation bill. Soon after the disposition of routine there was an executive session. In the House day and night sessions were held for discussion of the Philippine bill. The canal bill was sent to conference after (he Senate amendment had been non-concurred in. The House reiterated the position it had taken on the army appropriation bill by ignoring the action of the Senate and sending the bill back to that body after voting to adhere to its disagreement to the objectionable army post amendments. ’ ■ The Senate was not in session Saturday. In the House Mr. Hull (lowat, chairman of the committee on military affairs, called up the conference report of the military academy appropriation bill. Mr. Hay (Vn.l. Mr. Clayton (Ala.i and Mr. Mann (III.) criticised the action of the House conferees in agreeing to the number of cadets at West Point proposed by the Senate. Mr. Hull and Mr. Parker (N. J.) defended the conference report, arguing that the increase was necessary in order properly to officer the army. Finally the conference report was adopted. 88 to 59. Mr. Cannon (111.) then called tip the conference report upon the sundry civil bill. He explained that the agreement was only partial, items carrying $1,283,000 being still in controversy. Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) moved that the House concur in the Senate amendment for a memorial bridge across the Potomac to cost not to exceed $2,500,000 and appropriating SIOO,OOO for the preparation of plans. This was voted down without division nnd the bill was sent back to conference, after which the debate on the Philippine bill was resumed. In the Senate on Monday a motion was entered formally by Mr. Quay to discharge the committee on territories from further consideration of what is known as the omnibus territorial bill —a measure to admit as States the territories of Oklahoma. New Mexico and Arizona. Mr. Quay spoke briefly in support of his motion, maintaining that both political parties in national convention had pledged themselves to the admission to statehood of the territories. Mr. Beveridge, chairman of the committee, said the measure had been put over until next session by the committee because it was not believed there would be time now to consider it properly. No action was taken on the motion. During the greater part of the session the nnf/iisbcd business, the bill ratifying a convention with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, was under discussion. It was not disposed of. A bill was passed for the classification of salaries of clerks employed in postotlices for the first and second classes. In the House day and night sessions were again held for discussion of the Philippine bill, which occupied practically the entire time. A resolution was adopted calling upon the Secretary of War for information as to any payments made by Gov. Gen. Wood to F. B. Thurber and any other persons or corporation's, together with the dates and amounts of such payments, for advocating reciprocity with Cuba. On Tuesday the Senate passed bills creating a national forest reserve in theSouthern Appalachian Mountains and ratifying the agreement between the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians of the Indian Territory and the United States. Tlie first bill provides for the purchase of 4.000,000 acres in the Southern Appalachian system at a cost not to exceed $10,000,000. The Secretary of Agriculture is to designate the lands to be purchased and to take measures to preserve the hard wood forests which they bear. Bills were also passed for the suppression of train robbery in the territories of the United States and elsewhere, and to amend the act of March 2. 1893, so as to provide that all locomotives and tenders shall be equipped with train or power brakes and automatic couplers. The House devoted the day to debate .upon the Philippine bill. In the Senate on Wednesday the conference report on the sundry civil bill was agreed to. as was that on the army appropriation bill, the House receding from its announced -purpose not to consider the Senate amendment increasing the appropriation for barracks and quarters from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 and agreeing to make the appropriation for that purpose $8,350,000. Bills were passed appropriating $2.500.(XX) for the erection of a building for the accommodation of the Department of Agriculture, to regulate the use of the public reservoir sites located on the public lands of the United States, and to promote the circulating of reading matter among the blind. In the House the Philippine civil government bill was thrown open to amendment, but slow progress was made, only fifteen of the fifty pages of the bill being completed. By an amendment offered by Mr. Bartlett (Go.) cases involving the construction of the Constitution can be appealed from the Supreme Court of the islands to the Supreme Court of the United States, and by another, offered by Mr. Littlefield (Me..), one corporation in tlie islands is prohibited from holding stock in another. These were the only amendments of importance adopted. The curlier portion of the day was devoted to consideration of conference reports of the sundry civil, army and navy appropriation bills. The House adopted n proposition agreeable to the Senate with reference to the disputed items in the army bill, and by n vote of 63 to 95 refused to agree to the Senate amendments to the naval bill providing for five submarine torpedo boats.

Washington Notes.

Lender* in both branches of Congress hope' to ndjonrn July 3. . Pension roll has almost reached the million mark and is likely soon to pass it. ns list i* constantly increasing. William E. Curtis believes the United States government contemplates establishing u naval station on the coast of Liberia. New Department of Commerce and Industry not likely to bo authorized nt present session; Chicago man probably will be head of it ultimately.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

~ “Trade at the is iIBW YOrli. wore quiet,o.wjug to the ad- —— vnneing season, and the bad effect of prolonged labor controversies is being felt in certain lines. Reports from the interior and tlie far West are more encouraging, bountiful harvests being expected, while the light stocks carried over from the previous season assure profitable prices. The best indication of continued prosperity is the fact that quotations do not recede,’even in thh lines where at present there is only a moderate degree of activity. Railway earnings thus far reported for June increased 3.9 per cent over 1900.’’ R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade thus sums up the situation: Uncertainty regarding their ability to secure pig iron at reasonable prices is making producers of steel cautious in accepting contracts that call for delivery at even remote dates. Raw material is undoubtedly in light supply, nnd the anthracite coal strike has suspended work at a number of furnaces. Coke production is attaining new records each week in the endeavor to supply all requirements, and better railway facilities are making unprecedented shipments from the Connellsville region. Soft coal Is beginning to show the effect of an abnormal demand. In certain lines of finished steel products the addition of new plants to the productive capacity has had a perceptible influence on prices, introducing more competition. This factor is felt in only n few divisions, however, and in all heavy lines, notably rails and structural material, orders run far into next year, and there is no question of concessions in quotations. Jobbers having a surplus of bar iron sold moderate quantities at a lower figure than the market rate, but steel bars are firmer. Quiet conditions prevail in eastern dry goods and footwear markets. A stronger silver market has revived purchases tor export to China, although, like the home trade, this is still on a moderate scale. Supplemental buying of woolens is also limited. It is noteworthy that prices in all textile lines are firmly held, despite the slow movement, indicating confidence on the part of sellers. Shoeshops in New England have more orders, yet most factories only operate part time, and some are entirely idle. Leather is dull and foreign dry hides weaker. Lack of rain in the Southwest is the only seriously unfavorable crop indication of the week, while exceptionally encouraging reports are received from most points. Domestic grain makes good progress, but bad news has been received from abroad, and the outlook is favorable for large exports. Failures for the week numbered 19-1 in the United States, against 193 last year, and 19 in Canada, against 14 a year ago. , The fact that the winter CIIiCdQO. wheat harvesting was intera Ifered with to some extent by rains 4iad a stimulating effect upon wheat prices. A wet harvest would l»e bad in that it would lower the quality of much grain, and would delay the crop movement as a whole. And with this domestic influence upon grain prices lh<week brought the first unfavorable news from abroad. The weather in France has beep less favorable than heretofore. Wheat prices have been firm in all markets. Chicago advancing about two cents. For the week our exports of wheat and flour combined equaled 3,860,000 bushels, compared with 3.400,000 in the previous week, and 5,520,000 bushels in the corresponding week last year. But from July 1. 1901, to date, a period of fiftyone weeks, we are ahead of the previous season by 35.148,580 bushels, having exported 245.285,883 bushels against 210,137.303 bushels. General commodity prices are holding steady, averaging a shade lower on the whole. Live stock prices are firm, some new price records being made at northwestern markets.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.90; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $7.85; sheep, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn. No. 2,65 cto 66c; oats. No. 2,42 c to 44c; rye. No. 2,56 cto 57c; hay, timothy, SIO,OO to $14.50; prairie, $5.50 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 1.3 c to 16c; potatoes, new, 50c to 76c tier bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.40; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.10; •heep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4-75; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn. No. 2 white, 64c to 65c; oats, No. 2 white, 45c to 46c. St. Louis—Cattle. $4.50 to $7.90;,h0g5, $3.00 to $7.65; sheep. $2.50 to $5.45; wheat. No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn. No. 2, 62c to 63c; oats. No. 2,42 cto 43c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Cincinnati -Cattle, $4.44 to $6.50; hogs, $4.00 to $7.40; sheep, $3.25 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,81 eto 82c; corn, No. 2 mixed, G3c to 64c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; rye. No. 2,55 cto 56c, Detroit —Cattle, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 0 $7.05; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, Ko. 2,79 cto 80c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 6.3 c to 64c; oats, No. 2 white, 48c to 49c; rye, 59c to 60c, Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 78e to 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 63c to 64c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; clover need, prime, .$5.07. Milwaukee Wheat, No, 2 northern, 77c to 78c; corn, No. .3, 61c to 62c; oats. No. 2 white, 47c to 48c; rye, No. 1,57 c to 58c; barley, No. 2,70 cto 71c; pork, mess, $lB.lO. New York Cattle, $3.75 to $8.15; hogs, $3.00 to $7.15; sheep, $4.00 to $4.fX); wheat, No. 2 red. 80c to 81c; corn. No. 2, 68c to 69c; onts, .No. 2 white, 53c to 54c; butter, creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, western, 16c to 18c. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.75; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $7.75; sheep, fair to Choice. $3.25 to $5.25; lambs, common to choice, S4.OU to $7.00. A $15,000 painting was recently stolen on board n vessel while being transported from Havre, France, to New York.