Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1902 — Page 2

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

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The transport Thomas brings news of a new cholera outbreak in Manila. When the vessel left there thirty cases of cholera were being reported daily. Army stirgous arriving on the Thomas say the disease is raging unchecked in the southern provinces. Frank Costello, aged 10, a switchman on the Air Line, was instantly killed at the Washoe smelter. Anaconda, Mont, lie had just thrown the switch when the train started, and in attempting to catch oil lie fell under the wheels. His mother lives in Chicago. St. Louis Court of Appeals decides that the boycott is an illegal conspiracy in restraint of trade; that capitalists may refuse to use their money unless they become public charges, and workmen may refuse to work if they keep out of the pool-house. ]>r. Henry Looker, a Milwaukee physician who wont to New York City a few days ago to attend l)r. Lorenz’s clinic, was robbed on his way to his hotel by two men who sprang upon him from behind a shanty. The robbers obtained sllO, a gold watch and chain and a diamond stud. The marriage was celebrated in St. Bartholomew's Church, Ngxv York, of Edith Koineyn Cray, daughter of Justice John Clinton Cray, of the New York Court of Appeals, and Robert S. It. Hitt, second secretary of the I'liitcd Slates embassy in Berlin and son of ltepresentative Hitt. Thomas Nehns of Pittsburg was brought before Commissioner Pound trt Lockport, N. Y-, on a charge of smuggling foreigners afflicted with eontngeous diseases into the United States. He was held for the grand jury. Hliyies Eeeoc, n Syrian, arrested in his company, was ordered deported to Syria. The body of Mrs. C. D. Smith, better known as Mrs. Carrie do Mars, one of the most strikingly handsome women in Toledo, was found in a retiring room at the Union depot, a bullet hole through her head, a revolver lying at lu-r side. She was married two days before to C. D. Smith, who was to have taken her and her five children to Clyde, N. V. Senor Olavnrria, director of the renowned Las Vizcainos College, reports to the Mexican government the discovery at that institution of a hidden chest containing extremely valuable gems. The chest contained n solid silver image of the Virgin, inlaid with gold and ineritsted with gems, IDli diamonds, 342 emeralds, twenty-six rubies, four hyacinths and 1,D17 pearls.

Fire broke out in the basement of Day’s drug store, situated in the Masonic Temple Block, at Beatrice, Neb. The entire Masonic Temple, s three story business block, was destroyed. The loss is $125,000. The principal losers are; Beatrice National Bank, $40,000; Masonic Temple, $35,000; Day's drug store, $7,000, and a number of minor losses, ranging from $1,500 to $.'1,000. Joseph Foley shot and killed Mrs. James B. Wilson and then with n shotgun literally blew off bis own head at the Wilson farm near Liberty, Mo. Foley was formerly employed by the Wilsons and while drunk he wont there to borrow a gun. He handled the gun so recklessly that Mrs. Wilson remonstrated with him, when lie shot and killed her without provocation. He then killed himself. The worst lire in the business section of Knoxville, Tenn., since the disastrous million dollar conflagration of 1897 broke out in a four-story building on Commerce avenue, occupied by the JOioxville Pants Company. In two hours buildings adjoining it on Commercial avenue, oeeupled by Broyles, McClellan A Lackey, L. David Commission Company; the large establishment of the George Brown Hardware Company on Hay street, that of the Shanklin Grnin Company and the It. H. Cuttee Company building on tlie same streets had been destroyed. Sevorul other buildings were badly damaged. The loss will amount to about $500,000.

BREVITIES,

''alom Reverend Frederick Tempi*-, Archbishop of Canterbury and primate of all England, is dead. Six miners, whose names are unknown, wort- crushed to death in n mine at Inman, Va., while pulling down some pillars. The Princess of Wales has given hirth to another soil, this being the fifth child she has presented to the prince since their marriage in 1803. John Armstrong, of l>e Smet, was found dead in bed at the Ward Hotel, in Aberdeen, S. 1). Heart disease was the probable cause, lie was a well-known dairyman and lecturer. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton has secured important track and terminal concession from the city of lrontou, Ohio, and will extend its line from Gallia through the Waterloo coal fields to Ironton.

Kee Owgang, representative of the imperial Chinese court to the world's fair, mid Wul Chi Aruki, commissioner to the fair from Japan, have arrived in St. lamis with credentials from their respective governments, The lefeii railroads entering Cleveland, Ohio, will I login work soon to eliminate the ld4 grade crossings in the city. The estimated cost of the work will bo SIO,OOO,OO<V nuil it w ill require ten icars to complete the work. The lied I» Lino steamer Caracas, Captain Woodrick, from New York via Han Juan, I'orto lUeo, and Willemstad, Curacoa. entered the harbor at La Gusyra safely, being allowed free entrance by the blockading vessels. George Wilson, eldest son of Mrs. Julia Wilson, whose suspected murder by slow poisoning is being investigated by the authorities at Willimantif. Conn., has been arrested and taken to the jail where Mrs. Lillie Mnusoii is being held as a result of Coroner Hill's Inquest. The first stage robbery on the line between lledding and Wenverville, Cal., since IKI'J happened the other day when s lone highwayman stopped a conch near Whiskytown, forced the driver to throw down the express box, lineff up seven passengers by the roadside and robbed them of money and jewelry.

EASTERN.

Fire in the piano factory of Ernest Gabler A Brothers, in New York, causes a loss of $500,000. The terminal station of the Long Island City Railroad at Long Island City was destroyed by tire. Loss SOO,OOO. Winston Churchill has been appointed an aid-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, by Governor-elect Ilacheldler of New Hampshire. At Melrose, Mass., Mrs. Mary Ashton Livermore on Friday observed the eigh-ty-second anniversary of her birth. Mrs. Livermore is still very active. President Baer and other coal operators are sincere but mistaken men in the opinion of John Mitchell, president of the mine workers’ organization. Unrequited love is said to have been the reason why Herman llelseher shot and mortally wounded Voltairino Le Cleyre, a noted anarchist, nt PhifiuK-l-* phin. Albert E. Swift, aged 53 years, the originator of the “Johnstown Flood’’ at the Pan-American Exposition, died suddenly in a Turkish bath in New York of heart failure. On its official trial over the Cnpe Ann course the United States monitor Nevada made an average speed of 12.05 knots, exceeding the contract requirement of 11.5 knots. The steamer S. K. Martin pud the schooners Charles Spademan and Hanscomb of Marine City have been released from their dangerous position in the Lake Erie ice crush. The Ilev. George K. McDonald, pastor of a Baptist church on Long Island, who recently accused his parishioners of teaching him to drink, has started a saloon urid tends bar himself.

An explosion of natural gas in the boarding house of Mrs. Laura Itickards in Pittsburg, resulted in the probably fatal burning of one man and the serious injury of two others. Alexander M. Bartow, a member of the exclusive Indian Harbor Yacht Club and well-known society man, is missing and his employer claims to have found a shortage of $15,000 in his books. While a train of twenty cars loud.-d with con! was standing on a siding in the tenement district in Ansonin, Conn., a raid was made by 200 men, women and children, and over ten tons of coal were carried away. lugleshle School, a large and fashionable seminary for young women at New Milford, Conn., conducted by Mrs. William I>. Black, wits partly destroyed by a lire of unknown origin, ntid caused damage estimated at $40,000. Miss Eigie Bowen, prima donna of the San Toy company, playing in Baltimore, and daughter of former Director Forsyth of the Chicago Conservatory of Music, eloped to l’liiladelphia with S. Mantig, a member of Sousa’s Band. The jury in the case of Thomas J. Sharkey, accused of the murder of Niehlas Fish, the banker, returned a verdict in New York of manslaughter in tfie second degree and recommended that the mercy of the court be exercised. Official report of the burning of a car load of Christmas mail on route for the West was made at Syracuse, N. Y. Only twenty or thirty out of seven or eight hundred pouches were saved, the burned mail being for ('bicago and points further -west. The Ashing schooner Manhasset arrived in Boston with ten survivors of the wrecked schooners Frank A. Palmer and Louise li. (Vary, which were in collision oil Thatcher’s Island, on hoard. Eleven or more sailors were killed in the collision or were drowned or died from exposure. Notice has been received nt the office of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tinworkers in Pittsburg!,from the Hepnhlie Iron and Steel Company*' that u plan for making the workmen in those plants stockholders in the company will lie presented to the next convention ut Columbus.

Isaac H.-Radford, manager and president of the West Side lee Company »f Chicago until 1897, has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment in Auburn State prison and fined SSOO in the United States Court for furnishing straw hail for Chinamen under arrest for violating the-Ghi-Peso exclusion net. A three-masted steam schooner, going up stream, sank in the North River off 42d street, New York. Three men escaped in a rowliout and landed on the Jersey side of the river. Those who saw the schooner sink say it suddenly keeled over, as if it had struck some obstruction, und went down almost instantly. Laborers who have been working to put in readiness for resumption the Breaker Island steel plant, formerly the property of the Troy Steel Company, in Albany, have been notified that their services are no longer needed. It is announced that the plant has been purchased by the United States Steel Corporation for $1,500,000, and that in nil probability the works will not be operated. Suffering severely from exposure and privation, seven shipwrecked men and one woman arrived in Philadelphia on the British steamer Mira, Captain Swartmore, from Newcastle -un-Tyne. They were C. 11. Clements, owner of the British schooner .1. N. W.vlde, Captain Dunph.v, his wife and live seamen. They were taken from the dismantled ntld sinking schooner by the crew of the Mira.

WESTERN.

Judge Phillips at Cleveland held Mayor Johnson’s tux bureau to be Illegal. Because of jealousy, John W. Williams fatally shot his wife and killed hlmaelf at St. Joseph, Mo. Philip Nagel was convicted at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, of the murder of his friend, William Wade. Fire at Huron, S. destroyed the Huron Opera House, owned liy W. L. Miner and valued at $-5,000. Believing she was becoming insane, Mrs. W, \V. Jones of Rock port, Ohio, committed suicide hy ’ shooting. John Bowers, superintendent of a mine, was fro/,ett to death iti the Greenhorn district of Oregon, He was 04 years of age. .Four men were killed and several In-' Jtired in n collision on the Burlington Railroad, two miles west of Table Bock. Neb. Ilurry Been, a mantel setter, and Ids wife wore both found uucolfecious in their imd at rtietr home in Columbus, Ohio. The symptoms urc those of morphine

poisoning and it is believed the couple will die. Attorney Thomas E. Steele and Mrs. Anna T. Miller were convicted at Columbus, Ohio, of conspiracy to blackmail. A St. Louis hotel keeper has been held responsible for the death of a guest who perished in a fire, and widow awarded $5,000 damages. The Nebraska Supreme Court has decided that the marriage of divorced persons within six months of the granting of a decree in that State is void. Governor-elect Mickey of Nebraska refuses to countenance an inaugural ball, and has stopped the preparations for the annual function at the State capital. Plans for a palatial library building for Stanford University, to cost SOOO, 000, prepared by Architect Clinton Day, have been accepted by Mrs. Stanford. Twenty persons were killed and twen-ty-seven injured in the collitiiou between the southlsjund Los Angeles Owl limited train and the Stockton . flyer on the Southern Pacific at Byron, Cal. The My-I’rodiict Paper Company, with a central plant at Niagara Falls, will start flax liber mills at various points in North Dakota. The product will be sent East to he manufactured into tine banknote paper.

Mathias 11. Utzler, alias John Brantlinger, pleaded guilty at Hastings, Mich., to the murder of Mrs. Robert Garrison in Johnstown Township, and was sentenced to solitary confinement at hard labor for life. Itt. Rev. \V. 11. Hare of Sioux Falls, S. I)., Episcopal bishop of Sioux Falls, is under the care of physicians in Aberdeen for injuries received in a runaway in the country west of Aberdeen. Increase in wages averaging 8 per cent is granted by the Northwestern road to S,(KM) engineers and firemen. Strike of s,kK>o Chicago woodworkers is threatened because manufacturers are said to be planning war oil union labor. The four-story Salinger flats, Fortylift h street and Evans avenue, burned -tn Chicago. Explosion of gas range caused quick fire; twelve families escaped with loss of goods; Acorn brass plant, Peoria and Fulton streets, was also destroyed. The jury in the May ease at Bismarck, N. !>., brought in a Verdict of acquittal after being out only two hours. ‘May was charged with killing Ilarry Ilibbs last January. May was discharged from custody immediately upon the return of the verdict. Crossing in front of a rapidly moving electric ear in Chicago, a carriage with its four occupants was struck and overturned, the driver being injured so that he may not recover. The carriage was demolished. The party was returning front a funeral. During the recent unveiling of the monument to Louis Kossuth in*'Cleveland, a project was informally start-1 by representative Hungarian-Ainericaus to erect a statue of George Washington in Hungary’s capital—Buda-IVsth—by popular subscription. Judge J. A. Lewis, a pioneer, 7t> years old, and bis aged wife were murdered by unknown robbers, who, after a struggle, brained the old man with ay ax r.nd then murdered the wife hy tieauug her to death with a club. The tragedy occurred near Almira, Wash. The synod of the Greek Catholic Church of North America has decided to locate the cathedral in Cleveland and remove the headquarters of the church from San Francisco, where it is now located. The sum of $1,500,000 will be sp lit in the building of the cathedral. Gov. Savage of Nebraska gave Daisy Lawrence of Norfolk, aged 10 years, a Christmas present in the shape of a pardon for her father, who is serving a three years’ sentence in the State penitentiary for embezzlement. The pardon was granted in response to a pitiful letter from the little girl. In u desperate fight on the fifth floor of the Granite building in St. Louis, T. M. Martin, bridge engineer for the St. Louis, Santa Fe and Southwestern Railway, cut J. W. Barriger, Jr., to death xn itU a poeket knife. Martin took poison immediately after the murder and is not expected to survive.

A cathedral to he used ns headquarters in the downtown district of Chicago is to lie built by the Oriental Consistory of the Accepted Order of Scottish Rite Masons. , The building is to cost ibout $5011,000, nnd to he similar to the cathedrals of tlie rite in New York, St. Louis and other large cities. Two highwaymen heavily nrim il were at tucked by a posse of citizens as they rode into the town of Provence, in the Chickasaw Nation, nnd an exchange of shots followed. The horse wus shot from under one of the men, George Slocum, ami finally lie was shot nnd captured. The second man escaped. The Jones Brothers Publishing Company of Cincinnati has tiled a deed of assignment with liabilities of about SIOO,<<oo and assets of about $50, 00P. The members of the company say they had a large amount of the paper of Henry T. Knight of New York ami that his recent liquidation on used them to assign. The joint trial of five former members of the St. Louis house of delegates ended in a verdict of live years in the penitentiary for each man. The defendants, John A. Sheridan, Churlcs ,1. Denny, Charles Gutke, Edmund Borsch and T. Id. Albright, were convicted on (barges of britswy in connection with the passage of the suburban street car bill. .1. W. Barringer, Jr., office engineer of the St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railway, was stabbed to death in his office in St. Louis by Thompson Morton, nn unemployed civil engineer, whom he had befriended for years. So far as known there was absolutely no motire for the crime. Barringer died without making a statement, nnd Morton declines to iiHerilie any cause for the murder. Barringer was Morton's warmest friend, nnd had been loyal to him. when his taciturnity drove others away.

SOUTHERN.

The bank at Mullins, S. C., was broken open, the safe dynamited and about s<>,ooo in cash stolen. In New Orleans Judge Aucoin has declared the law compelling a husband to support his wife unconstitutional. Willis Williams, colored, was hanged at New Roads, La., for the murder of Albert Herbert in September, 11)01. The Virginia Legislature passed n hill appropriating $5,000 to defend the recent suits against the new constitution. It developed the next day that U. C. Whayne, a Louisville business man, who

was found dead with a gunshot wound in hia breast, carried $350,000 life insurance. Zeb Wilson, recently elected State Senator from Yancey County, North Carolina, xvas killed at Bumsvillle by his brother, Hiram Wilson. The brothers quarreled over a horse trade. Representative Edmond Spencer Blackburn of North Carolina and Miss Louise Levattn Parker, daughter of Col. Myron M. Parker of Washington, were married at the bride’s home Thursday. Warrants have been issued for a man and two women under arrest nt Whiteville, Tenn., charged with robbery of the bank there Dec. 0. About $2,000 was secured. The three uiider arrest give tho names of Mr. and Mrs. George Carrol and Mrs. J. Laughlin. They game front Chicago. Negotiations have practically been consummated whereby an Eastern syndicate, of which J. I’ierpont Morgan is a director, lias obtained control of all the coal mines and coni property west of Green River in Kentucky, except that owned by the St. Bernard Coal .Company. The consideration is $8,000,000.

FOREIGN.

The Heraldo of Madrid says that Don Carlos purposes to renounce his claim to the throne in favor of his son Don Jaime. An unconfirmed dispatch from Genoa to London says the Countess Üboldi and Prince Reggio were found dead at the Hotel Lombardi. The British Parliament has been prorogued by order of King Edward, whose speech, reviewing and commenting on events of the year, was read. President Castro, through the United States legation, has formally asked for arbitration of the dispute between Venezuela and European countries. Sixty-three persons have been frozen to death in Hungary during three days. Wolves _ are devastating the sheepfolds and have devoured three shepherds. Famine threatens to cause general suffering throughout Finland. Crops are short everywhere and in the northern part of the country the food supply is almost exhausted. Crown Princess Louise of Saxony de-> sorted husband and family, renounced her right to throne, and fled from Salzburg . castle; quarrels with husband blamed; her brother believed to have accompanied her. Fruulein Kopec, a school girl of luowrazlatt, province of Posen, lias been sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment for lose majeste in having thrown a brooch with Emperor William's picture in it to the floor and stamped upon it. Two violent earthquake shocks were experienced at San Jose, Costa Rica. The people of the city were greatly alarmed, but there were no casualties. Several other shocks followed at intervals. These, however, were of diminishing severity.

Three officials, two soldiers and 150 natives, mostly children, were killed by the earthquake which destroyed the town of Andijan, Russian Central Asia. In addition 300 natives and seventeen soldiers were injured and 0,000 houses of natives and 130 Russian residences were destroyed. King Leopold has concluded'negotiations with the Chinese government for the cession of a tract of territory similar to, the settlements of other European nations. Relgium has accepted this arrangement instead of financial compensation for the Belgian claims arising ■from the recent rebellion. The Peruvian government has contracted with Alejandro N. Puente and Leopold Arnand for tho construction of a railway from Chimboie to Ilecuay, with the privilege of free importation of material for twenty-five years. The railway must be completed within t • n-ty-five years. The capital for the enterprise will lie American.

IN GENERAL

The United States government has doubled its Copper river anti Yukon mall service. Twentieth century thank offering fund of the Methodist Episcopal Church, amounting to $20,000,000, is now tilled, according to announcement made by Secretary Mills, of Rochester. President Diaz of Mexico is suffering from the effects of falling on the staircase of the Relncimento. Theater. He sustained a sprained arm and slight bruises. No serious result is feared. Wireless telegraph system across Atlantic Ocean has been successfully started by Marconi; messages sent from Glace Bay, N\ S., to Cornwall, England, 2,300 miles; Edison and other friends received announcement. Proceedings have been instituted under the Sherman anti trust law against the General Electric and Weatinghouse companies, who are charged with agreeing to regnlnte prices, divide territory and limit competition. Minister Ilnrt at Bogota has cabled the State Department at Washington that a recent government decree provides for a progressive reduction of 10 per cent monthly in tin export duties of Colombia, beginning Jan. 1. Eli Hyman, a Jew, who begged for admission to the general hospital in Toronto, Out., is dead. An examination of his clothing resulted in finding scrip worth $31,000. Other papers showed Hyman to be worth probably SIOO,OOO. For twenty years lie had slept in sheds and stables nnd sold papers and begged money nnd food. J. W. Ragsdale, United States Consul at Tlen-Tsln, nnd W. E. Hnlnbridgc, secretary of the United States legation at Peking under Minister Conger, have returned to San Francisco from the Orient. They were appointed by this government to appraise the damage sustained by American residents of Chinn ns a result of the Boxer uprising. The report shows that 230 different claims were submitted, aggregating $4,000,000, hut only $1,000,500 of this amount will he available out of the indemnity. Nearly 0,000 Boers, It is said, are preparing to "trek” to America, nnd wil settle in Colorndo, New Mexico nnd Texas. The representative of this movement is General Samuel Pearson, late quartermaster genf&nl of the South African republic.*, \vb» hip headquarters ill New York. Colorndo friends of the Boers have been in communication with the general in regard to suitable lands for the settlers, BpO General M. de Yil Hers, who Is now looking over the land, has expressed himself as very favorably impressed with Colorado.

CONGRESS.

There wap no session of the Senate Thursday. In the House the McCall resolution calling upon the Secretary of State for the facts in relation to the Venezuelan affair and generally for a statement of the situation in reference to the Monroe Doctrine was passed. The House then, after a great deal of discussion, passed the bill to reduce the duties on articles the growth and product of tho Philippine archipelago, from 75 per cent to 25 per cent of the Dingley rates. Several amendments to the measure were voted down in committee of the whole. The pure food bill was then considered. Mr. Tompkins (Ohio) spoke in favor of the measure and Mr. Adamson (Ga.) against it. Mr. Gardner (Mass.) opposed the bill, taking the ground that it would interfere materially with many legitimate industries. After further discussion, and without taking any action on the bill, the House adjourned nt 4:35.

The Senate held no session Friday. The House passed the pure food bill by a vote of 72 to 21, the point of no quorum not being raised by the opponents of the measure. Bills were also passed to make Portal, N. 1)., a subport of entry for the immediate transportation of dutiable goods; for the relief of the Miami Indians of Indiana; to donate a piece of ground to Challam, Washington, and to amend the act relating to the location of a public building at Muskegon, Mich.

Only twenty-seven Senators were present when the Senate was called to order on Saturday. Mr. Allison, of the Senate conference on the coal strike arbitration bill, presented the report of (he conference committee. He explained that the Senate amendment fixing a definite sum for the expenses and compensation of the commission and employes and taking the question of fixing these out of the hands of the President had been retained, but that the Senate conferees had yielded to the House to the extent of allowing sls per day to the commissioners for expenses instead of $lO ns fixed by the Senate. The report xvas agreed to. A bill authorizing the payment of judgments amounting to sl,ooo,oo<i to be paid on account of the destruction of property in Hawaii in connection with the fight on the bubonic plague in those islands in 1809, was passed. The resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Patterson (Colo.) requiring railroad companies to Supply to the interstate commerce commission data as to brakes was adopted. Mr. Morgan then addressed the Senate on the question of the isthmian canal. There were not over seventy-five members of the House present to-day. Immediately after convening Mr. Cannon explained that it xvas important that the coal strike commission bill and the urgent deficiency bills be finally disposed of before the holiday recess. The conference report upon the former, lie said, xvas in the Senate, and he asked that a recess be taken until it xvas returned from that body. A recess was accordingly taken for txx-enty minutes. When the House reconvened Mr. Cannon presented the conference report on the coal strike commission bill, nnd the report was adopted without discussion. The House remained in session until the bill xvas enrolled and signed by the Speaker, and then adjourned until Jan. 5, 1903.

In the National Capital.

Senate committee on Philippine ordered favorable report on bill for establishment of a currency for the Philippines. Senate committee on education and labor agreed on favorable report on House eight-hour bill, with numerous amendments. Bill creating a general staff corps for the army ordered favorably reported by the House committee on military affairs, with amendments. Interstate commerce commission has begun hearing of railway men on proposed rise in freight charges from the West to eastern points. The President has received favorably mention of Ishain G. Randolph and Voiney W. Foster for members of the isthmian canal commission. Senator Hoar (Mass.) will try to solve trust evil by bill which has not yet been prepared; permission granted to introduce within sixty days. Senator Pritchard of North Carolina announces that he favors reduction of representation from the South in Republican national conventions. Merchant marine committee is deadlocked on ship subsidy bill nnd neither favorable nor unfavorable report is likely at present session of Congress. Senator Depcw has introduced a bill for emergency currency, allowing national banks to, issue circulation to extent of 50 per cent of capital in time of stringency.

Special commission to chooso site for lake naval training station has decided upon place not fur from Chicago, exact location not yet ftisdo public; $250,000 asked for purpose. Minority report on statehood hill, presented by Senator Rate, scores majority for likening Arizona and New Mexico population to "riff-raff who follow construction of railronds.” House eight-hour lubor hill, providing penalty of $5 against government contractors for each day and every -laborer allowed to work over eight hours, has been agreed to by Senate committee. William E. Curtis suggests a receiver for Venezuela, arguing that the revenues, If honestly handled, would be sufficient to meet all claims within six years and would also remove the incentive for revolutions. House judieinry committee gives hearing on proposal to change date of inauguration to last Thursday In April; amendment offered to make Dec. 30 (Into for beginning nnd ending Congress, nnd Jan. 1 as inauguration day. Senator Quarles lias submitted a plan to remedy the trust evil by an amendment to existing law. Secretary of War Root appeared before military committee of House nnd made extended argument in favor of changes. William E. Curtia, in letter on Venezuelan affair, quotes Secretary Root ns saying it is impossible for United States to become involved. Commissioner Yerkes of the Internal revenue bureau decides that soda diapenssrs who mix distilled spirit* in soft drinks must psy for a liquor license.

COMMEPCIAL AND FINANCIAL

“Lower temperature nnd holiday demands have comI bined to accelerate retail

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trade, sales largely exceeding the corre■ponding week in preceding years. Much postponed business is being made up and ■hipping departments are crowded with work, but xvliolesalo trade has ruled quiet. Railroad earnings for the mouth of November exceeded last year’s by i.® per cent and those of 1900 by 20.5 per cent.” The foregoing is from the Weekly Trade Review of It. G. Dun & Co. It continues: At first glance the sudden rise in furnace stocks of pig iron to 94,295 tons, compared with 71,858 on Nov. 1, might Suggest that consumption xvas below production, but obviously auy accumulation that occurs is due to Inadequate transportation facilities, since needs are urgent, as evidenced by the imports of eastern steel xx-orks. The pressure is still greatest for railway supplies, with structural material next as to urgency o£ demand. Small supplementary orders spring ■hoes are received by New England shops, but the season is practically over. Aside from activity in uniqp sole, the lenther market has been quiet. Further recessions have occurred In domestic hides. On the other hand foreign dry hides are*firmly held, despite increase! receipts. Conditions are pruetically unchanged as to cotton goods, a fair volume of orders preventing accumulation at the mills. Quotations are steady, and export sales of heavy brown cottons continue very small. Woolen goods for next fall have been opened at an average cdvance from 5 to 10 per cent. Failures this xveek in the United States are 209, against 201 last week, 213 the preceding week and 273 the corresponding week last year, and in Canada 30. •against 15 last week, 10 the preceding week and 17 last year. Itradstreet’a Grain Fluures. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending Deo. 11 aggregate 3,701,047 bushels, against 5,704.440 last week, 3,879,808 in this xveek last year 4,375,577 in 1900. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 120,507,495 bushels, against 130,303,381 last season, and 30,008,003 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 1,301,280 bqshels, against 1,151,503 last weelq 273,807. last year and 4,853,458 in 1900. For the’ fiscal year exports are 5,100,180, against 39.794,958 last season and 84,900,390 in I'JtO.

Seasonable weather i»as been a help in the retail trade lines, although nine

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of twelve leading western centers shoxv on the whole a smaller total volume of business for the week as indicated by the comparison of bank clearings with last year. There was a remarkably strong wheat market during the week in the face of man/ things that ordinarily xvottld have worked for depression. The Canadian government report of the quantity raised last year wns bearish, our own government report of the growing winter wheat extremely bearish, and many other items were of the same tenor. We exported ouly 3,701,047 bushels last week, ngaiast 5,701,440 in the corresponding xveek last year. Yet May wheat advanced over 2Va cents. The legitimate grain trade cares little, however, for depressing news ns to the future, while we are on an immediate expert basis at the seaboard, and nre selling xvheat to Europe, ns on Tuesday, when* over 700,000 busheli were taken. The South American imbroglio has also been a consideration on the part of tie more venturesome of the speculative element. While the probability of our country becoming entangled in tho Venezuelan mix-up seems very remote, there can be no doubt that the effect upon American speculative markets would be very disturbing should we become lnA'olved xvith the great powers.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, ' common to prime, <>4.40 to SG.OO; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $0.55; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 78c; corn, No. 2,45 cto 40c; oats, No. 2, 290 to 81c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $14.00; prairie, SO.OO to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 28c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 24c; potatoes, 40c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $0.20; shoep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $0.00; hogs $3 50 to $0.35; sheep, $2.50 to $L00; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn. No. 2, 43c to 45c; oats, No. 2,31 cto 33c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.50 to $0.50; hogs, $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.86; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; com, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 47c; oats, No. 2 mixed. I 27c to 28c; rye, No, 2,63 ato 64c. Detroit—Cnttle, $3.60 to 50.26; hogs, $3.00 to $0.15; sheep, $2.50 to $8.70; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 81c; com, No. 8 yellow, 50c to 51c; oats, No. 8 white, 34c to 35e; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 75c toJOe; com, No. 3,50 cto 51c; oats, j No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 1,60 c to Clc; barley, No. 2,03 cto 04(4 pork, mess, $10.40. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 77cj com, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 38c; clover seed, prime, $0.42. * Buffalo—Cnttle, choice shipping steers, . $4.50 to $0.35; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 I to $0 50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $3.75; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $5.T5. I New York—Cattle, $4-00 to $5.00; ! hogs, $3.00 to $0.10; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2,00 cto 01c; oats, No. 2 white, 38c to 39c; butter, creamery, 28c to 80c; I rggs, western, 24c to 27c.