Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1903 — Page 6

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

WEEK'S NEWS EECORD

A snowslide occurred nt Park City, Utah, killing three miners outright and injuring several others. The avalanche swept down from the high mountain that overhangs the Quincy shafthouse, carrying the structure down the valley below. -■ The Smith business block at Wellsville, Ohio, was destroyed by fire, resulting in a loss of SIOO,OOO, partially insured. C. V. Shoub, stationer; the Central Building and Loan Company and Elmer Blackburn’s store were the chief sufferers. The Kansas Senate voted down the woman suffrage bill. It was proposed to grant women the privilege of voting for presidential electors, wjiich would not require an amendment to the constitution. The House ami Goiernor Bailey favored the measure. Four men robbed'the Citizens’ Bank of Waterloo’, Neb., and escaped with $3,500 in cash, after exchanging shots with a squad of citizens attracted to tiie seelie by the explosion of the safe, which was wrecked. While two of the robbers worked inside the bank the other two stood guard. Andrew Carnegie has offered Manhattan, Kan., SIO,OOO for a public libi iry upon the usual conditions. A fund of $4,000, enough to maintain the library four years, has already/ been raised. Manhattan is the home of the late Col. C. G. Anderson, who gave Mr. Carnegie the use of his library in his boyhood days. The smallest real estate deal ever consummated in Minneapolis was effecteil the other day when the owners of the Donaldson (Hass Block purchased of F. 11. Peterson a strip of land three inches wide by 120 feet long. The price paid was SSOO. The transaction is also unique in that it took several months of negotiation. ■* It is reported from Stanton, Mo., that securities to tiie amount of S96,(MH) were recovered from the house of Frank lltidolph by a party of detectives. Tinwe securities were part of the loot of the Bank of I nion, Mo., which was robb"d two (lays after Christmas, w lien money and valuable paper amounting to nearly SIIO,(MH> were taken. Representative Campbell has introduced a bill into the Kansas House to tax all able-bodied bachelors between the ages of 4(1 and (15 SSO a year, and all able-bodied spinsters between the ages ’of 35 and 50, who have no families to support, $25 a year, these taxes to go into the school fund.’ A clause in the bill forfeits to the school fund the salaries of unmarried State otllcers. This provision is aimed at Gov. Bailey ami Lieut. Gov. Hanna, bachelors, to whom several thou sand strange women have lately proposed. Twenty dead, with perhaps a dotetf others cremated in the tierce lire that follow cd a collision between two fast trains on the Southern Pacific Railroad, and at least sixteen persons seriously hurt, is the shocking report that comes from the scene of the disaster near Vnilsburg. Ariz. Tucson gained its first tidings of the disaster when a tourist conch, torn away from the other curs, thundered with terrific Speed down the grade upon which the road is built between that city and Vailsburg, and the frantic passengers shrieked the dread intelligence to the men at work in the railroad yards. A dispatcher stationed at Esmond, midway between Tucson .md Vailsburg, is responsible for the accident. He made a blunder in carrying out his orders regarding the trains, and instead of sidetracking one of them he earned the two to dash together in a head end collision at a point where each engineer considered that lie liad a clear track ahead. Oil from the locomotive reser voirs caught tire and was scattered over the wrecked coaches, destroying eleven of them mid burning to death the pas sengers who were pinned down in the wreckage.

NEWS NUGGETS

The varnish works of A. Fuller Company at Portland. Me., burned, < ausing damage of s7s,<*M>. President Mitchell. of the I'nited Mine Workers, has declined a place on the Illinois State Board of Arbitration. A west-bound I’nion Pacific passenger train ran into a freight train at (Jothenburg, Neb. Fireman P. L. Dolan was killed. Hunter Taylor, a wealthy young slock man of Douglass, Kan., was killed by his mule tenui running away, the wheels of the heavy wagon passing across his body. Joe Thomas, a negro desperado, who killed Sheriff Benjamin Oury of St. James Parish, La., was run dodn by hounds and burned in his own cabin. The Postal Telegraph Company tried to use girls as messengers nt Milwaukee is'catise it could not obtain enough boys, and the attempt almost precipitated a riot. Rev. Luther P. Ludden of Lincoln, Neb., ha* been elected western secretary of the board of missions of the general synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, The I'nited States Supreme Court has decided that titles of settlers who located on Northern Pacific grant after railroad’s general map, but before its definite location was tiled, are better than railroad's title. "I would rather have a student killed occasionally in a game of football than have all. the ls»ys rot to death in college. said Rev. Simon J. McPherson, head master of the Lawrenceville (N. J.) school, in an address nt Phrtadelphia. The Wheeling police have received word that three men. supposed to ho the robbers of the Somerton (Ohio) bank, rre intrenched in n log hut near Moundsville, W. Vs., and that they had driven away a posse of farmers. The roblwrs secured $6,000 from the bank. An attempt was made to rub the hank vault nt Mocksville. N. C. The noi«e of the explosion aroused the cashier, who. with another officer of the banK rushed to the building. Shots were exchanged. but no one was injured. Th* robbers secured a small amount of money and were driven off.

EASTERN.

The Pigeon Cove Hotel and several residences' were burned nt Pigeon Cove, Mass., causing a loss of S3S,(XX). Society women in Philadelphia hare adopted the tattooing fad and “profeesore” are busy putting decorations on white arms am! legs. The plant of the Montello Brick Company at Wyomissing. Pa., suffered damage by fire of $175,001), on which there is insurance of $50,000. The Steriliqua Company and « storage warehouse owned by George Kelly, a retail furniture dealer of Philadelphia, suffered a loss of $55,000, which is fully insured. Announcement has been made at Yale that Frederick Vanderbilt has added SISO.(MX) to his $500,000 gift to the Sheffield scientific school at Yale hi order to build a second dormitory for the school. Fire in the thirteen-story office building at 15 Murray street. New York, damaged the structure to the extent of about $75,000. The stock and furniture of a number of tenants were damaged about $25,000. Fire in a factory building at the corner of Crosby and Houston streets, New York, adjoining a five-story tenement and n cigar factory, resulted in n panic in both places, during which four women lost their lives. Twenty-four persons were crushed or burned to death and scores injured by a rear end collision near Cranford, N. J., between Jersey Central suburban and Royal Blue passenger trains. The wreckage took fire and was burned. Edward Darling ami Thomas Sw ink, brakemen, were killed and Harley- Milkins, conductor, was fatally injured in a freight wreck on the Williamsport and North Branch Railroad near Satterfield. Pa. The wreck was caused by an open switch. A spark from a passing locomotive dropped in the pocket of Edward McCarel, a track walker on the Northern Central Railroad, nt <’lark’s Ferry, Pa. Before he discovered its presence the spark ignited his clotlies. llis body and arms were badly burned. By the burning of the smallpox hospital at Biddeford, Me., thirty-six men, women ami children patients were forced to escape in their night clothes. The mercury was several degrees below zero, and all suffered terribly from exposure. One man is expected to die. A combine of all tin* manufacturers of refractory brick who arc outside the Har-bison-Walker combine has been arranged at Pittsburg with a capital of $15,000,000. It is the purpose of the company to buy the plaids outright-and to operate them as one concern, with Pittsburg as the headquarters. Charles Westphal, a furnace man, rind Michael Schultz, a helper, employed at the Buffalo Union Furnace Company, Buffalo, N. Y., were terribly burned while about to load one of the coke ovens. When the oven door was opened a sheet of flame shot out of the furnace, enveloping the men. Wreckage from the Kchoonef” Celtic, which was lost during a tiefee gale on Lake Huron Nov. 29. lias been found on Boom Point, the extreme southeast end of Cockburn Island. The Celtic broke away from the steamer Runnells during the storm and nothing has ever been heard from the crew. Joseph Isaacs, “the old-clothes man," has retired into private life, after more than fifty years of great activity in Baxter street. New York. Before retiring from business Isaacs bought u three-story-red brick dwelling in Station street, where he now resides. Isaacs is now 7b years old and wealthy. Rescuing gangs worked strenuously at the Brookwood colliery, Pottsville, Pa., to save three men who were entombed in the mine by n rush of clay. But when the rescuing gang reached theiimprisom-d , men they were calmly eating dinner, unconscious that they were imprisoned, the silent rush of the clay giving them no notice that they were cut off from the outside world. Two men were killed and four seriously injured in the eastern end of the Wabash tunnel, Pittsburg, by tin explosion of dynnmite. Blasts had been prepared by the night crew in the eastern end of the heading, and Day Foreman Florence had gone in with Night Foreman Taylor to see what had been done. With the foremen were four workmen. As the party were going toward the cltarg -s of dynamite some one up tit the top of the shaft turned on the electrical current without notification, and when Taylor, who carried the wires, inserted them into the charge of dynamite, the explosion followed.

WESTERN.

At Somerset, Ohio, robbers forced an entrance into the city bank, blew the safe, and got away with SO,OOO. Burt Desbazo, alias Bert Sweet, wanted in several States for forgery, commit ted suicide by poisoning in the jail at Butte. Mont, Katherine McMahon, aged 70 years, and her daughter Elizabeth were killed by a Big Four train at a crossing nt Shelby, Ohio. The members of the Plasterers' I’nion of St. Louis have made a demand for a wage scale of $0 a tiny’. Tile present Scale is s."> a day. The State Bank of Verdigris, Neb., Is in the hands of a bank examiner. Its last report showed loans of SI7,(MA) and deposits of SIO,OOO. The chapel of Ols>r)ii> College, Oberlin, Ohio, wn* destroyed by fire, together with its contents, including a SIO,OOO pipe organ. Tlie loss is $50,000. Jacob Kaplan, a policeman, and Nathan Lavin, a saloonkeeper, were r.-rest-ed at St. Louis, charged with aiding nnd abetting in naturalization frauds. Senator Teller has been re-elected by Colorado legislators in joint session, after securing a quorum by bringing in an absentee front a sick bed iu an mnbnlance. A thief entered the rooms of 12, B. Henry at Omaha, Neb., and curried nwny $1,200 in gold. Henry is a street ear conductor and the money represented bis savings for six years. Bert de Shore, alias Sweet, held on two charges of forgery, committed suicide in the county Jail at Rutte. Mont, lie lint! taken heavy doses of strychnine, morphine nnd cocaine. I lilted States revenue officers have Seized practically all the butler stored nt the various city Institutions in fit. Ixnils. Tha butter is of an Inferior grade known a* “process" or "renovated butter."

None of the tubs In which it was delivered originally bore the required revenue label, which, it is believed, had been re moved for purposes of sit Institution. Jerry Kahler, n saloon-keeper of St. Louis, aonvicted of being an accessory after the fact to the robbery of a registered Jnail pouch, was sentenced to five in the penitentiary. J. 11. Bierbaum and wife Louise were asphyxiated with natural gas at Dayton, Ohio. The gas had gone out and then, coming on again while the husband and wife were sleeping, strangled them. Albert Jordan, n wealthy farmer, has been placed in jail at Crystal Plains, Kan., charged with thb murder of his 4-year-old adopted child. While in a rage Jordan beat the child and later it died. The jury in the case of Dr. Louis Zorn, a Kansas City dentist, charged with the murder of Albert Sechrist, reported that it was unable to agree. Zorn was released oil bail pending another trial. Reports from Popular, Mont., state that the range in the northern part of the State is in very bad condition, and that cattle are dying for lack of grass. The snow Inis crusted and the cattle are unnble to do any picking. George H. Price, a carriage nink'T. formerly of St. Louis, Mo., shot and killed his wife in Enid, Ok., and then shot and Rilled himself. The couple were not living together and Price believed his wife was about, to sue him for divorce. William McKinley’s birthday anniversary was celebrated at Canton, Ohio, with a banquet, nt which President Roosevelt was chief guest and speaker. The latter and his party first visited Mrs. McKinley and Westlnwn Cemetery. Frederick Walker, aged 20 years, shot and killed his father, Smith Walker a farmer and politician, while the father was at dinner at Ids home, near Jefferson, Ok. Young Walker became infuriated because his father chastised him. Tiie banking house of Boughton Ford A Co., at Burton. Ohio, assigned to C. E. Williams for tiie benefit o£ its creditors. It is understood the assets are close to $500,000 with liabilities at $300,(XX). The assets consist largely of farm mortgages.

Three saloons were held up just before midnight, all within three or four blocks of the statehouse in Denver, Colo. Nearly SI,OOO was secured from the proprietors and their customers. The robbers were young men, but there is no clew to their identity. Two Great Northern freights were in collision at Des Lacs, N. I>. Five men were injured, three seriously. The engine set tire to a large elevator and it was burned; also seven freight cars. A snowstorm prevented the engineer seeing the train ahead. Edward Cruse, the convict who escaped from the Ohio penitentiary four days before, was recaptured while asleep in a house in Columbus, Ohio. He had eluded detection by wearing a woman’s dress, and claimed he would not have been taken but for the treachery of a friend. Anthracite ccr.l has been discovered in Montana. The vein is four feet wide, and while not thoroughly developed as to its extent, mining experts state that the indications are encouraging. The strike was made by Davis and Cameron in their prospect on Bear Creek, Madison County. A prominent young student of Oberlin College paid at the rate of $37.50 apiece for two kisses, which he stole from a fair co ed. The young woman reported -the affair to the dean of the woman’s department, who effected the recall of a $75 scholarship which the young man previously enjoyed. The Woman’s Christian Temperaace I’tiioti of Tacoma, Wash., has inaugurated a crusade against the social evil along oil new ideas. Instead of persecuting the unfortunate young women and driving them out of the city prominent members of the union will take them into th dr own homes on promise of reform.

Emil Turk, arrested the other day, confessed to the St. Louis police department that he and two other men. whose mimes he disclosed, were implicated in the rolibery and murder. < 'hristnins evening, of John Moog. a cigar dealer. According to the police, Turk says he acted as lookout while two others entered the store and killed Mong. -Robbery was the motive, and Turk's share was sls. After braining his housekeeper. Mrs. Stella Wright, with a hatchet in the kitchen of his home in Chicago. William F. Lewis sought in vain for another victim of his murderous rage. Failing to find the man he sought. Lewis returned to the South Side and was about to enter the home of n sister when be was captured by detectives. A struggle followed, during which he cut his own throat after admitting the murder of the woman. He probably will die. In Cleveland, Ohio, the Circuit Court handed down n decision declaring the salary law to be illegal. The decision will result in all county officials being placed under the fee system, and will cause a bad muddle in the county offices, as they have been operated on a salary basis for the last ten years. The decision affects the counties of Cuyahoga, Summit, Loraiif and Medina, and follows n similar decision of the Supreme Court last Muy affecting Pickaway County. The house twelve mil;-, from I’nion, Mo., where the other day occurred the light between men suspected of being the robbers of the Batik of I’nion and officers in which lletectlve Schnniacher, of fit. Louis, was killed, has been searched, together with tlie premises, and a sack containing SM(Mt was found in tlie cistern. As a result of the tight. Frank Rudolph, aged 60; his wife, agtsl 45; their daughter Esther, aged 13, nnd George Hannes, a relative, who were occupants of the home, were arrested. Rudolph i« the stepfather of William Anderson, who escaped from the houiie after the fight nnd is suspected of complicity in the robbery. At Steelville 81., robbers blew open the safe of the bank, stole S3,(MM» and escaped in n carriage which they obtained by breaking open a barn near ’he bank. Nitroglycerin was used to open die vault nnd four explosions were necessary before the robbers could gain entrance. One man did the work inside the building, while another stoisl guard on the sidewalk ofilside. Paul Zimmer, an engineer iu Elster's mills, was awakened by the report of the first explosion. Mr. Zimmer, who Uvea next door, glanced out of his front window toward the bank and saw a man standing on the sidewalk. He went through tbe alley in

the rear of Ma house to the mill and Informed the mill employes. Zimmer and the men then armed themselves and started back toward the bank. Three other explosions were heard in the bank building in quick succession. The last explosion was followed by a crashing of glass, and sheets of flame poured from the bank windows. The mill employes, headed by Zimmer, hurried to the bank, but before they reached there the robbers had looted the safe and fled.

SOUTHERN.

T. L. Hoover, nged 52, of Lima. Ohio, fell from a hotel window in San Antonio, Tex., and was instantly killed. John Thomas, a negro, who shot and killed Sheriff Benjamin E. Ory, of St. Charles’ parish, near New Orleans, was killed by a mob and his body was burned. Two shocks of earthquake were generally felt in Savannah, Ga. News from the settlements along the coast indicate that there they were of a sufficient violence to put houses to tacking. A large factory building in Richmond, Va., owned by Newton Vaughn and’tperated as a tobacco stemming plant by the Continental Tobacco Company, was destroyed by fire. The loss is heavy. Alleged refusal of the managers of the Dallas Opera House at Dallas, Tex., to open the door to permit Rev. Sam Jones to speak almost precipitated a riot. Mayor Cabell had the door opened, but Jones insisted on speaking outside. John Jones, a negro accused of assault near Livermore, Ky., was arrested, but on being pursued, by a mob the officer told him to run for his life. About 100 shots were fired at him. when he jumped into Green River and was drowned. The Great Southern Oil and Development Company, with a capital stock of $2,000,000, has been incorporated to develop 100,000 acres of oil lands in the Tennessee valley. The president of the company is Mrs. I*. Collings of London, and the other officers itre all women. In a short time only eight cities in the State -of Tennessee will have the privilege of selling intoxicating liquors as a beverage. This revolution in the liquor traffic in Tennessee will be brought about by the Adams bill, which prohibits the sale of liquor in towns of less than 5,000 inhabitants.

FOREIGN.

Three hundred thousand dollars’ worth of property in the business section of Armagh, Ireland, was destroyed by tire. More than fifty insane patients, nil of whom were women, were burned to death in a fire at the Colnry Hatch asylum, England. Count Boni de Castellano, who married Miss Anna Gould, has been elected again to the French Chamber of Deputies from tiie Basses Alpes district. The sentence of death passel upon Col. Arthur Lynch, who was found guilty of high treason in London, has lieen commuted to penal servitude for life. Secretary of State Hay and Sir Michael Herbert, British ambassador, have signed a treaty providing for a speedy settlement of the dispute over the Alaskan boundary. Following the advice of his doctors, King Oscar of Norway and Sweden has decided to intrust the government temporarily to Crown Prince Gustaf, who will assume the regency at once. Powerful Socialist demonstration will be made shortly in London. Fifty thousand unemployed workmen will assemble in Trafalgar Square and pass resolutions asking the government for work. The number of millionaires in Prussia has increased since 1809 from 6,01 G to 6,601, according to the general tax returns. The late Herr Krupp’s fortune shrunk during the last three years $19,750,000, being now assessed at $4(5,750,000. After a brief spell of inactivity the volcano Stromboli, in the Mediterranean, is again in eruption. Great quantities of lava and stones are being thrown up, and to an immense distance front the crater. The cone of the volcano is capped with a thick cloud of snyoke. Germany has offered voluntary explanation to the United States of the bombardment of San Carlos fort. It says actioa was forced, aad disavows any intention of oppressing Venezuela. Great Britain has sent a protest to Berlin against further use of force in maintaining blockade. It is reported that the volunteer force organized nt Bolinao, province of Zambales, P. 1., to disperse ladrones has been defeated and that three Americans, including Mr. Osborne, a teacher, were killed. The ladrones outnumbered the volunteers, surrounded the latter and boloed them. The Americans died fighting.

IN GENERAL

H. B. Parsons Ims been elected a vicepresident of the Wells-Fargo Express Company. Judge W. 11. Day, of Canton. Ohio, has accepted the appointment to the United States Supreme bench. The Cuban House of Representatives has voted tbe sum of $300,000 to build a cnpitol for the use of the Congress. Conductors, brakemen and yardmen on the Baltimore and Ohio Rnilrond have been given 10 per cent advance in wages. The appeal for pardon made by excaptain of the I'nited States army, John M. Neal, now serving a two years' sentencs at San Quentin for forgery, has been refused by President Roosevelt. R. G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review reporta merchandise shipments still delayed by precedence given to fuel; buying liberal in spite of high prices; January railroad earnings 5 per cent over 1902. Governor Hunt, of Porto Rico, acting independently of any judicial proceedings. suspended Manuel Egozcue, the Mayor of Sun Juan, from office and ordered an independent investigation ihto the city frauds. News has been received by the Mexican Minister of the Interior of earthquake and volcanic disturbances near T’rique. State of Chihuahua. N'entanann Mountain has been riven in twain and the atmosphere ia filled with fine volcanic dust.’ Lieut. 11. Clay Evans, Jr., has received advices from the War Department that he was released from arrest and was acquitted of the charge on which he was court-martialed. Thia is a decided victory for ths young lieutenant, who la tha son of the consul general to London.

CONGRESS

The statehood bill again occupied the attention of the Senate Friday. During the debate several spirited colloquies occurred, in which Senators on both sides of the question charged the others with obstructing important legislation. Mr. Burnham continued his remarks In opposition to the admission of Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. During tiie morning hour Mr. Fairbanks made an ineffectual attempt to secure consideration of the immigration bill. The House pass--235 private-pension bills. They included pensions to, the widow of Gen. Franz Sigel at SIOO a month, the widow of Gen. Francis Negley at SSO. ami the widow of Rear Admiral Henry Picking nt S4O. The Alaska Delegate bill was passed. It provides for the representation of the territory of Alaska in the House of Representatives by a delegate. It also defines the citizenship and the qualification of electors, and creates the machinery for flic elections, the date of which shall be the lust Tuesday in September. 8Constructively, the statehood bill was on Saturday, as usual, before the Senate, but, as a matter of fact, the admission of the Territories was scarcely mentioned in the course of the day’s proceedings. As soon as the bill was laid before the Senate a number of Senators were afforded an opportunity to call up and secure the passage of bills to which there was no objection. After the passage of a number of such bills the statehood bill was again called up and Mr. Spooner took the floor. He candidly confessed his intention not to speak to the statehood bill, and then discussed the President’s action in discontinuing the postoffice nt Indianola, Miss., and refusing to receive the resignation of the negro postmistress— Mrs. Cox. He defended the President and was responded to by Mr. McLaurin (Miss.), who said there had been no threats against Mrs. Cox. but who admitted that she was objectionable because of her color. The session closed with the passage of a number of private pension bills. The House worked all day on thg agricultural appropriation bill and finally passed it, with only one amendment —an increase of the appropriation for free seeds from $270,000 to $300,000. The House of Representatives on Sunday inaugurated tiie experiment of holding memorial services for deceased members upon the Sabbath. It will be followed hereafter during this session. Mr. Quay, in charge of the omnibus statehood bill, insisted on its consideration to the exclusion of other business in the Senate Monday. When Senator Platt, of New York, attempted to call up a committee report providing for the printing of a document. Mr. Quay objected. Mr. Hale thereupon declared that Mr. Quay was confiscating the time of the Senate.' The latter replied calmly that this could be obviated by allowing a vote on the statehood bill. A resolution offered by Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, questioning the credentials of Dr. Ilerran, the Colombian charge d'affaires, who signed with Secretary, Hay the canal treaty, caused the Senate to go into a long executive session. At its conclusion the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was passed. The House made a new record in the matter of appropriation bills. Tlig military academy bill was passed without a single word of debate. The Indian bill, which followed, was not completed, as Mr. Burton (Rep., Ohio) made a long speech mi it, in general criticism of the piolicy of the government toward Indians. Senator Quay made an effort Tuesday to hold the Senate in continuous session to consider the statehood bill, but failed to hold a quorum and was compiled on that account to allow the Senate to ndjeurn at 6:20 p. m. He secured another ballot, however, to test the sentiment of the Senate, the vote standing 17 to 29 in his favor. The day was spent in coirsideration of the statehood bill, with the exception of an hour devoted to a speech by Mr. Scott, of West Virginia, oa the pension laws. The House devoted the day to bills reported from the Judiciary Committee, passing about twenty. Most of them were of a minor character relating to the times of bolding court, etc., but two were of general importance. One was to meet the original package decision of the Supreme Court by making intoxicating liquors imported into States subject to the jurisdiction of such States. The bill is designed to prevent evasion under the original-package decision of liquor laws hi prohibition States. The other bill is the Senate bill t<> increase the salaries of Federal judges. In the Senate Wednesday Mr. Rawlins called up his resolution directing the Secretary of War to furnish the Senate the proceedings of a number of courtsmartial in the Philippines. A sharp debate ensued, in which Messrs. Lodge, Beveridge. Carmack, Proctor and Tillman participated, alleged abuses in 'he army being the subject. Mr. Quay stopped the debate by demanding the regular order. Discussion of the st.itehqod bill thereupon was resumed, and Mr. Ixidge addressed the Senate in opjtosition to the omnibus measure, speaking for two hours and n half. An attempt by Mr. Aldrich’to divide the time of the Senate ts-tween the statehood bill and other business failed, Mr. (Bitty objecting. The House made slow progress with the Indian appropriation bill, covering only aliout eight pogos in over four hours. Amendments were agreed to appropriating $21,300 for n survey of the Fine Ridge reservation. South Dakota, mid striking out the appropriation of $1(),(XK) for a warehouse nt St. Louie. The Senate amendments to the bill to amend the bankruptcy act were agreed to.

In the National Capital.

William E. Curtis says New Tori, Democrats jjre united on Alton B. Barker as presidential candidate and orc actively booming him. Agricultural Department experiments with adulterated foods may be abandoned by Dr. Wiley because people hail him on streets as “borax" and regard bis tests ns joke. Commander Thomas IL Howard, now at the naval academy, has beea selected as the first commanding officer of tbe monitor Nevada, which will be placed in commission during February.

COMMERCIAL AND FAINANCIAL

"— “Fuel shortage is still NgW York the oae perilously disturbing - element in the industrial situation. Transportation facilities have been diverted from other merchandise, to the disadvantage of shippers, yet iron furnaces are unable to secure sufficient supplies of coke, and many other manufacturing plants are closed because of Inadequate coal deliveries. Mines are mor* fully operated, but there is no prospect of normal conditions until spring.” The foregoing is from the Weekly Trade Review of R. G. Dun & Co. It continuest Extremely low temperature during the last week stimulated distribution of heavy clothing and other seasonable goods. Retail trade was accelerated by the customary clearance sales, especially lu dry goods and kindred branches. Traveling men are sending in large orders for spring goods, the volume of advance busl» ness surpassing the customary amount for this time of year. Quiet conditions in the iron and steel markets do not mean dullness or diminishing consumption, but merely the oversold condition of furnaces and mills, together with great uncertainty about keeping plants active on a day to day supply of fuel. Inquiries are numerous, especially in ctructural lines, but makers are not ready to accept bids until the future appears more definite. New plans constantly come forward for large office buildings, notably at the West, which means vigorous consumption of structural steel, and the demands from car builders are phenomenal. Practically the entire capacity of the leading plants is already booked for six months, and at many concerns the last half of the year will bring no idleness unless orders nre canceled. Eastern manufacturers of footwear are fully employed on spring shoes, but new orders are light for later delivery, although western jobbers purchase freely of fall samples. Quiet conditions in leather have been succeeded by an increased demand for hemlock sole and standard upper, shoe manufacturers placing liberal orders. Last week’s slight recovery in the hide market was not sustained. Dry goods trading has increased In volume, buyers arriving in greater numbers, and the prospect favors stiU more activity in the latter half of the month. There is little disposition to anticipate wants in the cotton goods division, but immediate needs have evidently grown more pressing. In the xvoolen goods division the opening of piece dyes was made at an ‘advance, but not as much as some sellers anticipated. Bradstreet’s weekly report on grain says: Wheat exports since July aggregate 140,6-10,SOO bushels, against 158,004,139 last season and 107,210,9(58 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 2,394.612 bushels, against 2,8511,986 last week, 298,093 a year ago and 5,184,550 in 1901. For the fiscal year exports are 15,978,018 bushels, against 21,255,447 last season and 108,935,493 in 1901. , The wheat market showLfIICdQO. e d C reat strength and made 3 a material advance during the week.. Conditions favored strength and the advance appears warranted. There were reports of good business at the seaboard and large sales of wheat and flour to go out later to Europe. Here in America, and more especially in the Northwest, sentiment has favored higher prices for some time. But the foreign markets, Liverpool especially, would not follow the advances on this side. With a good crop in sight in Argentina wheat Importers in Liverpool are slow to anticipate their wants, and will naturally hold off ns long as possible. During the week there was evidence that there was wheat needed abroad for immediate use. At present it looks as if there would be demand from Liverpool for good American wheat in any event, while if it should develop that the Argentina crop is not so large or the quality not so good as has been figured upon, the demand for American wheat would be great.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $6.95; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to- 78c; corn. No. 2,45 cto 46c; oats, No. 2, 820 to 34c; rye. No. 2,40 cto 50c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $13.50; prairie, $6.00 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 25c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 23c; potatoes, 40c to ISc per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $0.45; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn. No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 84« to 35c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $6.50; sheep, $2.50 .to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn, No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2,35 cto 36c; rye No. 2,49 cto 50c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $4.78; hogs, $4.00 to $6.75; sheep, $3.50 to $4.20; wheat. No. 2,79 cto 80c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 87c to 88c; rye. No. 2. 50c to 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hog*. $3.00 to $6.40; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00| wheat, No. 2,82 cto 83c; corn, No. 8 yellow, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 3 white, 86c to 88c; rye, No. 2. 51c to 53c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 79c to 81c; corn, No. 3,45 cto 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c: rye. No. 1,. fJOc to 51c; barley, No. 2,04 cto 65c; pork, mesa, $19.00. ♦ Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 77c 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye. No. 2, 500 to 51c; clover seed, prime, $7.25. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steenL $4.50 to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime, <4.00 to $6.80; sheep, fair to chdice, $3.25 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $0.05. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5 50| hogs, SB.OO to $6.35; sheep, SB.OO ts $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; com, No. 2,59 cto 60c; oats. No. 2 whits, 42c to 44c; butter, creamery, 24c to 2ttoj tg<s, westsrn, 21e to 23a. _ ___j