Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1902 — Page 6

JASPER com DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSBELAEA, INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Andrew Hellman, aged (15 years, a well-known dairyman of Mount Washington, near Pittsburg, fatally shot his .■wife and then, turning the revolver against his own temple, killed himself. Several weeks ago the aged couple quarreled. Paul Hertrick, a theological student, aged 23, son of Rev. Mr. Hertrick of Plato, Mum., has not been seen since June 16. During his college vacation he worked as a carpenter at Albany, Minn. He was severely injured by a fall and it was decided to take him to Minneapolis for treatment. When last heard of he was lying in a baggage car en route for Minneapolis. Michael Burke, a rich farmer residing near Craig, Mo., was shot and mortally wounded by his wife', a pistol bullet passing through his brain. Burke was under the influence of liquor, having arrived hottie from a visit to Craig. He was acting ugly, and started in to thrash a hired man. His wife interfered, and became the object of his wrath and a vicious assault. She tired but one shot. Mrs. Edward Edwards has been arrested at Burlington, Kan., charged with the murder of Viola Gladys Edwards, her 4-year-old stepdaughter. The coroner’s jury found that the child cnine to its death by being stamped and trampled on by Mrs. Edwards. The woman say* a strange man killed the child. Mrs. Edwards is Edwards’ third wife. The child was adopted by his second wife. Mrs. Catherine Mills of Toledo, Ohio, is in New York City trying to learn something of her early history and the fate of her parents, from whom she was separated when a child, more than half a century ago. "When I was a very small girl,” she said, “I lived at Pittsfield. Ohio, the only child, as I believed, of Charles Spooner, a well-to-do farmer. When I grew older 1 learned the Spooners had adopted me and that my parents had lived in New York. After marrying 1 took up the search for my relatives and shall persist to the end.” Following is the standing of the chibs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. ;42 12Philadelphia. 28 33 Brooklyn ...35 27 Cincinnati ...22 33 Chicago ... .32 25St. L0ui5....22 36 Boston 29 27 New York... 20 37 The clubs of the American League stand as follows:' ' \ W. L. W. L. Chicago i'. ..33 19 Washington. 27 32 Boston .....33 IXI Detroit 25 30 St. L0ui5....27 25 Baltimore ...26 32 Philadelphia 28 26Cltveland ...25 34

NEWS NUGGETS.

Earthquakes are reported'to have occurred simultaneously in twenty towns of Asin Minor. Many houses collapsed. C. J. McAllister, the young man arrested while trying to enter the Whitt* House With a revolver, is insane over disaje pointment in love. -’■ Hehry Onfield. 75 years old, killed his wife and himself at Morrison, 111., because of jealousy. The couple had been married fifty years. American money ami enterprise are behind $25,000,000 interurban traction system in Englund, principal promoters being New Yorkers. Official figures at port of New Y'ork show 493.38$ immigrants arrived in the fiscal year ended July 1, which is an increase of 87>.000 over last year. A march called the "Parade March of the Marine Division,” composed by Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, has been brought out by a publisher of Leipsic. Ernest M. Gray, one of the best known mining men of Cripple Creek, killed him self by putting a bullet through his head. Gray had been losing in mining deals. * A bunch of 2-year-old black cattle averaging 1.286 pounds sold on-the Kansas City market the other day for $8.35 per hundred, which is the highest price on record. Edwin and Thomas Baleh of Philadelphia are in St. Petersburg for the purpose of collecting information and material with regard to the boundaries of Alaska. Frank McNamara, a sergeant on the Kansas City police force, was shot and killed by Abe Emerson, a negro, whom he was seeking to arrest. Emerson was shot twice ami will die. Minnesota Republican convention renominated Gov. Van Sant, approved the fight against the railroad merger, indorsed President Roosevelt for re-election, and declared for modifications of the tariff alid reciprocity.

Cn|4nin Krivetsky of the Russian army lias been sentenced to imprisonment for two years ami six months by a court martial which was held nt I’altava for having accepted brilies to free recruits from military service. The first loss of life during the anthracite strike occurred at the William A. colliery at Duryea. Pit. Antonio Giuseppe, an Italian, was shot dead by otje of the Coal and. Iron policemen from behind the stockade of the colliery. Three Wabash Kailroad laborers and two Italians met at Mingo Jiiucthdi. ()., and a quarrel ensued over a chew of tobacco. One Italian was stabbed to death with bis own stiletto, taken from him by a Wabash workman. The grand jury investigated the death of Mae Thompson, who died after wearing a beauty mask prescribed for her complexion by E. W. Johnson. No true bill was found against the "beauty doctor” and he has been released from jail. Alexander A. Robertson, member of the Salt Lake City Couucjl and paying tellet; in Wells-Fargo's bank, who disappeared recently and whose accounts at the bunk are said to show a shortage between $85,006 and IWtl.tJitO, Ihis given himself tip to the police. United States District Attorney Gould announced in the- Probate Court that William 8. Yeatmnn, formerly disburse Ing clerk of the War Department in Washington, ka» n defaulter at the time of hia death on April 2(». 1901. So far ns known the alleged defalcation amount* |o about 118,000.

EASTERN.

Charles Davis, a West Virginia negno, was hanged at Pittsburg for the murder of his wife last December. Yale varsity eight-oared crew defeated Harvard in aimost record time, crimson four-oared crew won from the blue, while the freshmen eight rowed a dead heat. Wells College at Aurora, N. Y., has received gifts aggregating S92,(MM), all of which is to be used in erecting new buildings and adding to the equipment of the Institution. A collision occurred between a Brooklyn Heights electric car ami a two-seated carriage at Sixtieth street ami Gravesend avenue, New York. Five people on the latter vehicle were injured. Joseph Irons, aged 11 years, died of hydrophobia on the Baltimore and Ohio limited at Rockwood, Pa. He was on his way to Boston for treatment. He was bitten by a cat last April. At least six lives —and possibly seven--were lost by the sinking of the steam barge George Dunbar of Chicago off Kelley’s Island, in one of the worst storms that have visited Lake Erie in years. Mrs. Irene Brady Weber, known tn stageland as Irene Perry, the burlesque actress, was quietly married, in Boston to Harvey Bell, an advertising agent and the son of Bishop Bell of North Carolina. Mme. Janauschek, who, [K)or and enfeebled by a paralytic stroke, is living at Saratoga, N. Y’., has a few jewels left and these are to be rallied by their custodian, Janies E. Tossiny of Brooklyn, unless sold advantageously. At .Springfield, Mass.. Mrs. Antone Mueller has beeh shot to death by Joseph Bencker, who then committed suicide. The murdered woman's husband discovered the bodies on returning from his work. Jealousy is supposed to have caused the tragedy. The wages of unskilled employes of the Carnegie Steel Company at Pittsburg, nearly 1,500, have been voluntarily increased 10 per cent. This will make the .wages of the lowest laborer $1.65 a day. The increase goes into effect without the knowledge of the men. Carefully concealing all traces of their work, though they carted away about $4,000 worth of fine china and bric-a-brac from the magnificent residence of Mrs. Genevieve Sussdorff in Woodside, L. 1., burglars locked all the doors of the fine house and then threw away the keys. At 12 o'clock the other night four men went into the saloon of Austin CroW •. in Buffalo, N. Y., aimed revolvers at him. and demanded his money. Crowe ran around the end of the bar and began to fight. The hold-up men fired five shots and Crowe fell dead, shot through the heart. The robbers escaped. In Boston the Attorney General rendered an important opinion, in which he cites that credit must be allowed for accrued interest on liens. This decision will increase the assets of the Mutual Reserve by $239,000, the Provident Savings by $52,000. and the Security Mutual by $6,000. The text is a distinct rebuff to the insurance department, which held otherwise. Janies E. Pearson, 65 years of age, a lawyer, whose home was at Hemostead, L. 1., and who had an office in Brooklyn, was found dead in his office. He had killed himgelt by inhaling illuminating gas. In his hand was the photograph of a Woman. He left a letter, in which he said: “I am a defaulter and thief, and where all the money is gone I cannot tel). My wife and children are left penniless.” Formal nnnounceuumt of the-organiza-tion of the American Steel Foundries under a New Jersey charter, with an authorized capital of $40,000,000, half 6 per cent cumulative preferred stock ami half common, has been made. The new corporation acquires the following plants and properties: American Steel Castings Company of New Jersey, Reliance Steel Castings Company (Limited) of Pittsburg, Pa.; Leighton & Howard Steel Company of St. Louis, Mo.; Franklin Steel Casting Company of Franklin, Pa.; the Sargent Company of Chicago, 111.; American Steel Foundry Company of St. Ix>uis, Mo.

WESTERN.

Former Mayor Taggart of Indianapolis declares for David B. Hill as next Democratic presidential nominee. From the Samuels farm, where he was born, the body of Jesse James was moved and reburied in the Kearney, Mo., cemetery. Michigan Republican convention renominated Gov. Bliss on the first ballot, giving him Nil votes! to 214 for Stearns, his leading opponent. George Sperling of Graham, Mo., and George Bates of San Francisco were killed by a bolt of lightning on a ranch four miles north of Arvada, Colo. Eleven persons were injured, four of them seriously, by the wrecking of a tramway car which was returning to the city from Elitch's Gardens, at Denver. Charles W. Gale, Chicago real estate man, killed himself when menaced with arrest for attempting to murder a barber, whom he suspected of speaking ill of him. Burlington track in lowa 125 miles long was changed from narrow to stall 1ard gauge in nine hours by 44<> men. Thousands stood in the rain watching the feat. Storm in southern Indiana caused three deaths nt St. Wendel, seriously injured eight persons and destroyed much property. Two lives were lost in Texas cyclone. Two deaths were caused by lightning near Pierre, S. !>., in a atorufr, one victim being Bert Walker, a herder, am) the other a small sou of Ole Strand of Sully County. Missouri Supreme Court refused writ of ouster against beef packers, holding trust is not proved. State anti-trust law is sustained, however, and further hearing Is ordered. Three children, aged about 9 years— Alonzo Weils, Lena Geiger and Rose Geiger • were struck by a freight train near Cedar Rapids, lowa. The two first named will die. L. H. He'rshtield, former president of the suspended Merchants' National Bank of Helena, Mont., has been adjudged bankrupt. His liabilities* arc $498,469 mid assets ¥2.157. Mrs. Carrie Notion, the “saloon smash,er,” has announced her intention to join John Alexander Howie in his colony of Zion, near Chicago. Mrs. Nation says that she has turned out to be a first-class healer. | Gus Ruhlin of Akron, Ohio, defeated

Tom Sharkey of New York in the eleventh round before the National Sporting Club in London. The fight was held in connection with the coronation sporting tournament. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral In Cleveland, which was opened in 1855, was formally abandoned Sunday, when /impres sive religious services were held. A magnificent new cathedral is being erected on Euclid avenue. Frank J. Kerscher, aged 20, and Albert Melty, aged 17, both of Toledo, O„ while standing on the footboard of a street car, were struck by a car going in an opposite direction and thrown under the wheels and killed. Joseph Coleman, tried at Faulkton, 8. D., for the murder of his brother Ed, in order to obtain possession of the latter's life insurance, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. The evidence was purely circumstantial. Gov. Nash of Ohio has appointed Harry L. Gordon, an attorney of Cincinnati, Lieutenant Governor, to succeed Carl L. Nippert, resigned. This action is in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court holding that a vacancy existed. John Berry, Chicago candy manufacturer, died at Hot Springs, Ark., where he had gone for the benefit of his health. His death was due directly to typhoid fever, but he was at the springs to receive treatment for inflammatory rheumatism. A section of passenger train No. 5, on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad was derailed at Minckie, a few miles west of St. Louis, and two laboring men who were beating their way to Streetville. Mo., on the blind baggage, were killed. Millions of grasshoppers are attacking the grain in the Hill river district near Mclntosh, Minn. The State entomologist is assisting the farmers in combating the pest, and* “hopper dozes?” are in daily use. L’nplowed stubble is the cause of the trouble. The Union Pacific discharged 137 more machinists and helpers at Omaha and twenty-five in Armstrong, Kan, This makes in all a reduction of over 1,000 men in the shops. The company effected a compromise with the car builders, who get a slight increase in wages. A man giving the name of John Eagon, been sentenced to five years in the State prison for trying to work a three-card monte game on B. O. Sims, a prosperous farmer of Audrain County, Mo. A man giving the name of Hill, also in the game, made his escape. After being out twelve hours the jury in the case against Jessie Morrison, charged with the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle, at her home in Eldorado, Kan., in June, 1900, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. The jury made no suggestion of punishment.

(>ver 600 excursionists on a wrecked train in Ute Pass, Colorado, had a narrow escape from death. As it was, one of the pleasure seekers was killed and thirty were injured, some probably fatally. The wreck was due to a broken rail, which snapped after the passage of th£ engine. The first serious conflict between nonunion employes on the trust tugs and sympathizers with the striking tngmen took place in Cleveland, with the result that Michael McDonough, president of the Licensed Tugmen's Protective Aggm. elation, is in the hospital with a bullet wound in his leg. A. B. Wolvin of Duluth has closed a contract with the American Shipbuilding Company for ten steamers of the Welland canal size for the new line between Duluth and Quebec which began operations this spring. The boats will tie 242 feet keel and forty-three feet beam. They will be built at Duluth, Chicago and Cleveland. A SIO,OOO damage suit was tiled at Springfield, Ohio, against the goverument by Corporal Harry E. Ellis of Troop JI, Fifteenth cavalry. Ellis alleges he was subjected to brutal treatment and indignities by orders of Maj. Waller on the transport which conveyed him from Manila to San Francisco after a three years' service in the Philippines. Detective “Norm” King, the oldest and most widely known detective in Minneapolis, was convicted by a jury of being an accessory to a felony after the fact. The specific charge on which King has been on trial for a week is that he |fnew that Harry Adams was implicated in the theft of a diamond from John D. Hooper and that he assisted Adams in escaping punishment. George Elwin, a member of the Pueblo, Colo., Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union, was shot and instantly killed and Police Officer Joseph H. Sheppard was dangerously wounded by Jacob Dodson, as a result of the boycott by the Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union against the Riverside restaurant. Elwin was acting as a picket and was attempting to turn people away from the restaurant when the trouble started. Clark Moyer, a mail clerk on the Burlington. running between, Omaha and Chicago, was found dying on the sidewalk in front of the Creston House in Council Btflffs. He had left the house but a few minutes before, after spending the evening with friends. There was an ugly wound under his right eye. He had been engaged in no quarrel and there is at present uo clew to the perpetrators of the crime. ,

Patrick O’Donnell, James T. Brady, William J. Gallagher and their four associates were all found guilty of conspiracy to bribe and accept bribes by the jury in Judge Brentano's court in Chicago, P. |l. O’Donnell, his law partner Brady, and Cyrus 8. Simon, the attorney of the Union Traction Company, were fined s’2,» 000 each. Gallagher, the most active agent in the conspiracy, was punished with an indeterminate sentence to the penitentiary. The new gasoline launch Ranger, with fourteen passengers on board, caught tire on Luke Bemidji, Minn., and was totally destroyed. All the passengers, including womdi and children, jumped overboard and were sieved with slight injuries. The accident occurred near the shore at the north end of the lake. It was caused by ii leaking gasoline tank. Someone lit n mutch and in an instant everything was enveloped in flames. After the people had jumped overboard and reached shore the Ranger drifted out in deep water and sank. / The Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided that a juror may remain drunk during the trial.of a case ami bo asleep during the summing np of the ’evidence and yet not invalidate the verdict returned. ’The case brought was on an appeal from Swift County against B. K. Halleraon, cashier of a bank, convicted of

embezzlement. The principal point mane in the appeal to the Supreme Court was the intoxication of a member of the jury that convicted him. The Supreme Court holds that this is a question to be dealt with by the trial judge, who refused a new trial.

SOUTHERN.

G. Brantley has been renominated for Congress by the Democratic convention of the Eleventh Georgia District. At Houston, Texas, it is|said that n wind of tornado proportions developed near Rosenberg and blew a Southern Pacific freight train from the track, wrecking it and injuring three or four men. James Geary’s saloon at Roslyn, Va., was wrecked and riddled with bullets by a crowd of 150 soldiers from Fort Myer, Va.. who conducted an apparently organized attack, presumably in revenge for the shooting of one of their comrades. The long drouth in Texas was relieved generally Friday. Heavy rains are reported from Dallas south to the gulf and many sections north, east and west have received portions of the downpour. The corn crop is said to be beyond redemption, but cotton will be saved. A copy of the will of the late Charles Broadway Rohse of New York has been deposited in the county clerk’s office at Waxahachie, Texas, to be recorded. The will is a lengthy document and disposes of property of the estimated value of sl,500,000 or more, though no estimate of its value is stated.

FOREIGN.

There has been a big fire in the heart of Cape Town and several large business houses have been destroyed. The loss is very great. New all-British cable, connecting Great Britain with Canada, Australia and New jZealand, expected to be in operation early in November. Edmond Bruwaert, French consul general at New York, is to be minister to Cuba. His probable successor is Henri Merou, at present French consul general at Chicago. Gen. Cronje, the Boer commander, who with bis army was captured by Lord Roberts at Paardeberg, Orange Free State, in February’, 1900, has taken the etfth of allegiance to King Edward at St. Helena. The American yacht Uncle Sam, owned by Francis R. Riggs of New York, won the first of the international special class races at Kiel, the Stars and Stripes crossing the line eight minutes ahead of all other flags. The steamer Bertha reached Seattle from Valdez and westward points. Mount Redoubt, which has been in an incipient stage of eruption since early spring, was not visible, owing to fog. Mount Wraiigel is in eruption. Capt. Andrews and a crew of twelve seamen of the British bark Ossuna, who were rescued while clinging to their capsized vessel in midocean, reached Philadelphia on the British steamer Beaconlight. One member of the crew was drowned. Emperor William’s American-built schooner yacht Meteor, with the Emperor himself on board and steering most of the time, finished seven minutes and twentytwo seconds ahead of the Cicely in the large schooner race held at Kiel in connection with the regatta. A gunpowder magazine at the encampment at Carabanohel, five miles from Madrid, exploded. Two men were killed and fourteen were injured. The shock was felt for miles. Scores of houses were damaged, the doors of the royal palace were thrown open by the force of the explosion and many windows were smashed. The treaty providing for the prolongation of the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy (the dreibundi was sigped in Berlin by the imperial chancellor. Count von Buelow; the Austrian ambassador, L. von Szogyeny-Ma-rich, and the Italian ambassador, Count Lanza di Busca. The alliance was renewed in its original form. The Kosinos liner Aly dos. from Hamburg. carried into Valparaiso the crew of the wrecked Kosmos liner Sakkaraii. The Sakkarah ran into an island about 800 miles southwest of Valparaiso, and jammed herself hard and fast on the rocks. All hands were saved and the ship's papers and $2,500,000 in gold were taken ashore, but the ship and cargo were a total loss.

IN GENERAL.

Among the honorary degrees conferred by Williams College was that of LL. D. upon Gen. Leonard Wood. President Roosevelt has ordered Attorney General to investigate the alleged trust in anthracite coal industry. Appropriations by first session of Fiftyseventh Congress aggregate over $927,-’ 000,000. largest sum ever voted except in time of war. Senator Bailey of Texas made a violent personal attack on Beveridge on floor of Senate after adjournment and threatened life of Indianian, but was restrained by bystanders. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Trade Review reports financial conditions satisfactory and trade good; manufacturing operations increased; railroad earnings for June, 4.6 per cent over 1901. John T. Wilson, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Truckmen, refused Canadian Pacific offer of $25,000 bonus and salary of $5,000 a year and decided to stick to the brotherhood. Toronto having bivn selected as the meeting place of the next triennial convention of the International Sunday School Association in 1905. the worldwide convention in 1904 will be held at Jerusalem. The steamship Roanoke, Capt. Weaver, arrived, at Seattle from Nome. When the Roanoke loft Nome no tidings hod been reer.ved of the steamer Portland or the Jeanie, and both vessels are now believed to be lost. John Sebastian, general passenger ngent of the Rock Island Rnilrnfi-l. has been promoted to-passenger trntfic manager; Robert Mather made general eounaul; R. H. Aishton made Northwestern’s assistant general manager. An important addition to the extrndition treaty between Mexico and 'he United States wns signed by Ambassador Clayton and Ignacio Mnrisccs. minister of foreign relations. By virtue of the addition the crime of bribery is added to the list of extraditable offenses.

CONGRESS.

In the Senate on Saturday Mr. Teller presented a petition from Estes G. Rathbone, praying for a full investigation into his performance of duties as director of posts of Cuba duriug the occupation of Cuba. The petition was referred to the committee on relations with Cuba. Mr. Aldrich called up a bill relating to tobacco passed by the Senate and moved to agree to an amendment of the House providing that no packages of manufactured tobacco, snuff, cigars and rigarettes shall have attached to them any representation or promise of a ticket of chance in any lottery or any immoral picture. The amendment was agreed to, thus passing the bill. A resolution offered recently by Mr. Mitchell instructing the committee on Pacific islands and Porto Rico to investigate, during the recess, the condition of things in Hawaii and the administration of affairs there, with authority to visit the islands, was adopted. In the House resolutions were adopted declaring the seat occupied by Mr. Butler of Missouri vacant on the ground that there had been no valid election. Mr. Babcock (Wis.) asked unanimous consent for consideration of a resolution to empower the commissioners of the District of Columbia to make special regulations for the G. A. R. encampment in Washington next September. The resolution was passed.

In the Senate on Monday hot words passed between Mr. Bailey (Texas) and Mr. Beveridge (Indiana) on the floor of the Senate, and after adjournment was followed up by a physical assault by the Texas Senator on the Senator from Jndiana. Mr. Bailey criticised the State Department for its haiftiling of the case of an American citizen, Dr. Scott, and reflected on the competency of Judge Penfield, solicitor of the department. Mr. Beveridge characterized the words of the Texas Senator as "unwarranted attack." This characterization Mr. Bailey regarded as an insult. Early in the session, Mr. Elkins (West Virginia) delivered a speech in favor of the annexation of Cuba, maintaining that it would be in the best interests of both countries. Mr. Elkins’ remarks drew a sharp tire from Mr. Platt (Connecticut) and Mr. Hanna (Ohio), who deprecated any annexation proposition at this time. Among the many bills passed was cue giving “Rear Admiral Schley the pay and allowance of a rear admiral on the active list of the navy. Mr. Gallinger (New Hampshire), chairman of the committee on pensions, made a brief statement of the work done by the pension committee during the present session. It showed that the bills relating to pensions introduced in the House aggregated 7,518, while thq aggregate number introduced in the Senate was 2.552. The total number passed by .both House and Senate was 1.151. In the House the conference report on the general deficiency appropriation bill was taken up. Among important items passed, on separate votes, was $500,000 for the Buffalo exposition and $160,009 for the Charleston exposition: Claim of sl,000,000 for Hawaiian fire plague sufferers not concurred in. Plrilippine conference report adopted—l 49 to 92. Bill provides for a Legislature of two houses. Legislature to elect two commissioners <o represent islands in Washington, Friar lands to be purchased by issuing bonds nnd' to become part of public domain. Public lands to be open to homesteaders. Corporations are regulated. Money’ standard and banking system postponed. At 5:30 recess taken until 8 o’clock. The election contest case of Wilson vs. Lassiter. from the Fourth Virginia district, which confirms Lassiter's title to the seat, presented. The Dick bill to reorganize the militia was taken up and passed.

The final report of the conferees on the general deficiency bill was presented in the Senate on Tuesday and agreed to without debate. The conference reports on the naval appropriation bill and the bill to provide a temporary civil government in the Philippines were' agreed to, as was that on the Porto Rico public lands and buildings bill. A bill appropriating $75,000 for the* erection of a quartermaster's warehouse in Omaha was passed. A resolution offered on behalf of the minority of the committee on the Philippines authorizing that committee to sit during the recess to prosecute its inquiry into the Philippines was referred to committee. The House concurrent resolution providing for adjournment was adopted. Before adjournment the usual resolutions were adopted,’ including one thanking President Pro Tempore Frye for ’’the dignified, impartial and courteous manner in which he had presided over the deliberations of the Senate.” In the House the Senate bill to promote the efficiency of the marine hospital service and change its name to the public health and marine hospital service was passed under Suspension of the rules. Other bills were passed as foliowk: House bill to authorize the creation of a quartermaster’k warehouse at Omaha at a cost of not to exceed S7S.<KK); Senate bill to reduce the number of appraisers nt Philadelphia and Boston. A joint resolution was adopted appropriating $5,000 each for monuments to the memories of Gen. Francis Noah and Gen. William Lee Davidson of North Carolina, as authorized by resolutions of the continental congress. The conference agreement on the naval appropriation bill was adopted. Senate bill for the suppression of train robberies; a bill to make Confederate soldiers who enlisted in the Union army previous to Jan. 1, 1865, pensionable, was passed, 97 to 19. The report of the special committee to investigate the facts in connection with the purchase of the Danish West Indies was presented, ordered printed and referred to the calendar.

Washington Notes.

Secretary Moody plans to secure recruits for tin* navy from among the striking miners in Pennsylvania. Representatives of dairy interests ridiculed Chicago packers’ pinn to dell bntferine color to housewives; declare trouble would be too great to attract buyers. A favorable report has been authorized by the Heuate committee on public lands on the bill creating a national park surrounding the famous wind citvc in South Dakota. The purpose of the proposed legislation is to protect the euve from vandalism.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Uaw Vnrb “Foreign markets were NBI IOIK. badly disarranged by the “ ’sudden illness of the Kiug, and there was much liquidation prior to .he closing of British exchanges from W ednesday afternoon to Monday morning. Domestic financial conditions are exceptionally satisfactory and trade is well maintained, although low temperatures interfered with the distribution of midsummer specialties. Manufacturing operations have increased in activity, especially in the iron and steel industry and textile production, while the constructive work on new buildings and bridges is very heavy. Labor difficulties have not improved in the anthracite coal region, but numerous settlements have l>een effected elsewhere. Railway earnings thus tar reported for June exhibit an.average increase of 4.6 per cent over last/year and 17.7 per cent over 1900.” R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade thus sums up the industrial situation. Continuing, the Review says: Most of the blast furnaces that were stopped by the scarcity of anthracite coal have resumed with coke, of which the ovens have established new records of output, and shipments have been still larger owing to the stocks accumulated during the ear shortage. Despite the vigorous pig iron production, numerous contracts have been placed abroad, and still the machine shops, manufacturers of stoves and implements, and ebnsumers generally are seeking deliveries. Structural shapes of steel and all forms of railway equipment continue to lead the market, orders in these lines running far into next year. Bars and sheets are the least active divisions of the market, but even in these there is no tendency to weakness. Higher freights have not materially cheeked importations, and it is reported that a large structural mill in Germany has sold its output for this year to American consumers. Failures for the week number 200 in the United Suites, against 204 lust year, and 20 in Canada, against 23 a year ago. Bradstreet’s report says: Wheat, including flour, exports for the week aggregate 3.382.701 bushels, against 3,860.434 last week and 4,364,147 in this week last year. Wheat exports, July, 1901, to date, aggregate 248,668.583 bushels, against 214.501,550 last season. Corn exports aggregate 130,501.550 last season. Corn exports aggregate 130.102 bushels, against 110.979 last week and 2.445,460 last/ear. July 1. 1901, to date corn exports are 26,323,177 bushels, against 173,879,684 last year. ~ The first half of the year CnlCdGO. has passed. This marks the a (close of six months of prosperity as great as the country has ever known. It has been a time for the exploitation of new plans, new enterprises have been born, new business ventures undertaken, while in the old established lines there has beep a general expansion. It has been a period of commercial aggressiveness. of easy money affording opportunity for the development wf new country, the enlarging of industrial plants, for betterments by the railroads. With other grains advancing, the wheat professional assumes that should the weather continue unfavorable wheat is bound to do better, and is buying moderately- on this theory, as wheat and corn are selling only 3c apart, aud wheat should be worth more money, baaed on the present prices of coarse grams. Cattle and hogs sold nt the highest prices of the year last week, and cattle brought more than at any time in twenty years. It was natural with live hogs selling close to $8 that product should sympathize. The righest prices of the season were made, and the close recorded a gain of 35c ou pork. 5c on lard, but a loss of 15c on ribs. Local speculative interests are inclined to leave provisions and go into grains, as pork at over $lB is not so attractive as September wheat around 72c.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $8.25; hogs, shipping grades. $4.25 to $7.95; sheep, fair to choice, $4.<M) to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 75c to 7Gc; corn, No, 2,71 cto 72c; oats. No. 2,47 c to 48c; rye. No. 2,57 cto 58c; hay, timothy. SIO.OO to $15.00; prairie. $5.50 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery. 2Oc to 21c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 17c; potatoes, new, 50c to per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $7.75; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.30; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn. No, 2 white, 64c to 65c; oats, No. 2 white, 48c to 49c„ St. Louis—Cattle. $4.50 to $7.00; hogs, $3.00 to $7.65; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 2, 64c to 65c; oats, No. 2,48 cto 49c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 6Oc. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $7.00; hogs, $4.00 to $7.50; sheep, $3.25 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2. 79c to 80c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 65c to 66c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; rye. No. 2. 54c to 55e. Detroit—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $7.05; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2. 79c to 80c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 64c to <’>sc; onts, No. 2 white, 49c to sOc; rye, 59c to 60c. e Toledo —Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 77c to 79c; corn. No. 2 mixed, <Ue to 65c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 46c to 4>c; clover seed, prime, $5.25. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 northern, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 3. 61c to 62c; oat*, No. 2 whit.'. 54c to 55c; rye. No. 1. 57c to 58c; barley, No. 2,70 cto Tie; pork, mess. $lB.lO. New York Cattle, $3.75 to $8.50; hogs, .3.00 to $7.35; sheep, $4.00 to $1.50; wheat. N0.,2 red. 70c to 80e; corn. No. 2, GBc to 69c; onts. No. 2 white. 58c to 59c; butter, creamery, 20g to 21c; eggs, western. 17c to 19c. Buffalo—-Tattle, choice shipping steer*, $4.00 to $8.15; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $7.90; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; lambs, commdu to choice, S4.UO to $7.25. J. I’ierpimt Morgan was hanged in effigy in South Wilkesbarre, Pa., by tyinpathixers with the striking coal miners.