Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 9, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 November 1893 — Page 2

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WEEKLY COUR IKK. C. DOANM, lhliHlur. JASPER. INDIANA

ritKStDKNT Caunot lins finally le cided to become u Candida tu for reelection. O.v the night of the 3lst tiie Liberty Hell left Chicago on its return to Philadelphia, never more, it is said, to bo removed from the City of Hrotherly Love. Piusen Antonio of Orleans, husband of the Infanta Eulnlie, and lieutenantcolonel in the hussar regiment ''Princess," will join the Spanish troops at Melillo. Thk senate amendment to the silver purchase-repeal bill was passed by the house, on the 1st, and one hour and thirty-five minutes later was signed by the president and became a law. The election for 147 members of the Swiss national council, held on the 29th, resulted in a crushing defeat for the socialists, only one of the candidates of that party being elected. Duiuno the closing ceremonies in the Woman's building at the World's fair, on the 1st, it was announced that Potter Palmer had given 200,000 to erect a woman's memorial building1 on the lake front in Chicago. Twkntv-two miners' cottages, belonging to the Monongahela Coal Co., at Monongali, W. Va., Were destroyed by lire, on the lid, entailing a loss of about $10,000. Most of the occupants lost all they possessed. -im i ii i m ' Hos. Glomus McDonald, ex-mayor of New Albany, and one of the most prominent men in southern Indiana, was stricken with heart disease, on the 1st, and died a few minutes later. He was 50 years of age. Ai.i.thatvas mortal of Carter H. Harrison, late mayor of Chicago, was laid to rest, with imposing ceremonies and attended by the largest funeral pageant ever witnessed in the west, in Graceland cemetery on the 1st Pkixck Alkkkd Wisniscii-GiiATZ, whom Emperor Francis Joseph desired to succeed Count Taafe as Austrian prime minister, has announced that, owing to important family considerations, he is unable to accept the ofllce. Pathick Kugiink Joseph Piieniikuoast, the murderer of Mayor Harrison of Chicago, was arraigned in court on the 2d and pleaded not guilty. The assassin was so nervous when led to the bar of justic that he almost collapsed. It took nearly five hours for the procession of Cincinnati school children to pass the car upon which rested the Liberty Hell, in that city, on the tid, and when they were gone the car and bell were hidden from view under a mountain of Uowers. Miss Annie Howajid, who, on the 10th was to have become the bride of Mayor Harrison, is dangerously ill, and there are great fears that she will never quite recover from the dreadful shook she sustained by the assassination of Chicago's mayor. A ckank entered the office of Edwin Gould, in New York, on the 30th, and demanded, instantly, ?5,000. Mr. Gould stepped into another room, telephoned for assistance and then entertained his visitor until officers arrived and took him into custody, The Midway plaisance fakirs from the far east, of various tribes and tongues, will carry home about $1,000,000 as their harvest for the six months of the World's fair. At least J0,000 in counterfeit money, lead quarters and confederate notes were passed upon them. PjtKsnuiiflAST, the murderer of Mayor Harrison in Chicago, is having a rough time in jail. The other prisoners have Uiken to using' every opportunity to jeer at the wretch, and shrieking imprecations at him, so that exercise outside his cell has been made practically un impossibility. The reorganized national GermanAmerican bank, of St. Paul, Minn., which closed its doors during the financial stringency, August I, reopened on the 31st. .Since its failure the bank had made collections aggregating fOUO,000. nearly fiOO.OOO more than required by the comptroller. , Gkoiiok K. Stcdkiiakeu, who wns lelegatcd by the A. O. U. W. to visit the counties of southwestern Kansas anil ascertain tho true condition of affairs there, returned to Topeka, on the 81st, and his account of the suffering in Seward, Grant, Stevens, Morton and Stanton counties is heartrending. .1 Udo k D.ui.ky, of the Indiana supreme court, rendered a decision, on the first, holding; the peculiar election bribery law of. that state constitutional, lly its terms a man who at tempts to purchase another's vote must" pay tho person approached SHOO, and may suffer imprisonment besides. The Northwestern Miller reports the .stock of wheat in private elevators of Minneapolis, on the fiOth, at ftOT.OUO bushels, a gain over the previous week of 03,000 bushels. This made the total stock at Minneapolis and Duluth 1!',043,:iS8 bushels, an Increase of 1,209,079 bushels, ngainst 11,048,000 bushels at the same lato last year. I' inn i-ii'i- PI-.ML. I A ciiazy printer walked in on Superintendent of Pollee Byrnes of New York, on tlic'ilst, and asked him for the tlOG.OOO the superintendent owned him. The original amount, he said, was $75,000. hut the interest had increased it to tlOO.000. lie wanted thu Wo.OOO interest in pennies He was invited into the detectives' room to get the money, und five minutes later found himce'lf locked up in a cell

CUBIiRST TOPICS.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. 'Kxtra Session.) IN the senate, oh tin' s.th (telilalvo tiny of the tTth continued', tho urgency doncluncy Mil was reported, amended ami passed. Tho joint resolution for the transfer to thu State of IUI mils, for tho ue of tho naval mllltla of that tute, tho model battleship Illinois, was rejHirted and iwssed. Tho silver purchase repeal bill was then taken up and a number of amendments, offered by freo-sllver-coltiauo advocate, were voted down by moro or less pronounced majorities, At 6.15 the senate went Into executive session and oon after adjourned . ..Tho house was not innessiouon the UMHIN the senate, on the 30th (legislative day of the Uthi, the silver purchase-repeal bill was taken up. and after a wholo day spent In .peech-maklnu on the part of tho repeal men. a ballot nan reached at 7:30 o'clock nnd resulted in the pasaK0 of the bill by a vote of 43 to K. ...,..In the house reolutloni on the death of Carter Harrison, mayor of Chlcairo and un exmember of congress, wore pa-tied. In the senate, on the 3lnt tht only Important action taken was the pass.i of thi New York bridjobiU In the house tho senate joint resolution to transfer to the tato of Mino' the model battlo ship Illinois was passed, as was house bill authorizing the Arkansas & Kort Smith Hallroad Co. to construct certain bridxes. The discussion of the naturalization bill then occupied the house until the mornlnc hour expired, when tho bill went over. Tho joint resolution to remit duties Imposed on war munitions imported by tho navy depart, mentat tho time of threatened trouble with Chill was passed. The house then went into committee of the whole for the consideration of tho bankruptcy bill. In the !enato, on the 1st, several bills wcro favorably reported from committees and placed on tho calendar. Several bills, unlmportantor of local Interest, were passed. Mr. Hill offered two amendments to the rules intended to curtail the power of obstruction. A mumerbil from Miss Clara Harton. president of the American Kcd Cross association, asking tho nssistnt.d.t nt .sti.raj trt Yin rtttt ff t lif h u tTj r. m from the cyclone on the Sen islands and on th coasts of South Carolina and Geornia.was rend The Chlneso bill was then taken up and some time wasispent In Its consideration, when, after a brief executive session, the senate adjourned. In the house tho silver purchase-repeal bill was passed by a vote of 103 to 91. In the senate, on the !M. atnone a number of bills passed wns house bill providing for the construction of a steam revenue cutter for servico on the creat lakes at a cost not to exceed tlTS.Ooj. Consideration of the bill for the relief of tho cyclone sufTerers on the coast of Georitia and South Carolina anil on the Sea Islands was objected to by Mr. Cockrell, and It went over without action. House bill to extend the time for tho enforcement of the Chinese expulsion act was then taken tipand passed .., In tho houso a Joint resolution to adjourn on tho 3d, at 3 p. m., was passed, as was the World's fair prize-winners' exhibit bill. 'Filibustering occupied most of the session. PERSON ALAND GENERAL. In dedicating the new school and sisters' home of St, Alphonso's (Philadelphia) parish, on the tiOth, Archbishop Ryan predicted that the day was coming in America when the parochial school would bo recognized by the community. It is said that a secret treaty has been signed between Ilrazil and the United .States by which, among other things, the United States is bound to support her southern sister in the event of an attempt being made to restore the monarchy. Oi'KKatio.nb were resumed at the Portage iron works at Duncansville, Pa,, on tho 'iOth. The workmen in the finishing mills accepted an average reduction of ü per cent in their wages. The works give employment to 2,000 men. Tub weekly statement of the New York associated bunks for the week ended on the iJSth shows the following changes: Kescrve, increase, $0,110,700; loans, increase, t3,'2S.j,100: specie, increase, fS46,000; lngal tenders, increase, IS, 104,400; deposits, increase, ?ll,.V74,800; circulation, decrease, $70,700. On that date, the banks held 18,707,-173 in excess of the requirements the 25-per cent. rule. Wiik.v the World's fair was officially closed, on the 80? li, the total number of paid admissions for the six months footed up 'JI,477.'J12, which together with the 2,0.Vi,18S admissions on passes inttde the grand total 23,520,400. Sit.VKit con tin ties to decline. The Loudon price, on the 80th, :ih reported to the treasury department, was 70 cents per ounce, making tho bullion value of the silver dollar about fiftysix cents. Pathick Ki'uknk Pukmikicoaht was indicted, on the 80th, for the murder of Mayor Harrison of Cltieago. A KrssiAN ukase has been issued ordering the formation of fifteen new reserve brigades. The formation of these brigades will be equivalent to an increase of the tinny to a war footing by the addition of 150,000 men. E. A. McCu.t.lVKV nnd Joseph Irwin wen- arrested by tht police of SiouxCity, la., on the 30th, for counterfeiting. They scraped the figures off bills of small denominations, pasted rice paper on the defaced portions, and with engraving ink etched figures on the paper, raising the bills to ?20 and 050 denominations. .Ia.mks Stoni:, the self-confessed murderer ot six members of the Wratten family, in Daviess county, Ind., made a third confession, on the Mist, before thu grand jury, in which lie implicated several other persons whose object, he said, was robbery. F. C. 1 1 im, of Sioux City, In., was, on tlio JUst, appointed receiver of the Sioux City, O'Neill S& Western railroad. IIk.kkiah Ii. IlosMKit, ex-chief justice of Montana, died in San Francisco, on the 1st, aged 78. lie was .born in Henderson, N. Y. After being admitted to the bar ho went to Ohio, edited the Toledo lllade, of which ho was one of the proprietors, and started thu daily paper of that name. In 1804 he was appointed by President Lincoln chief justice of Montana. O.v the .'list Postmaster-General Illssell transmitted to the secretary of the treasury the estimates for the post ofllce department for tho fiscal year ending June 80, lfel)5. The total amount is too,800,485, as against 181,004,81-1 for the present year. M.vvtm liATiioimof ll-iltimorc, Md. on tho 81st, received nn anonymous letter in which he wns threatened with instant death if he failed to provide employment for the idle workingmen of the city. The letter showed that, the sender was well educated. Paid admissions to the World's fair on the 1st Acre 15, WW.

MlNoul, Kkitii's clipper fruit steamer Foxhall from Port Limon, Costa Kica,

arrived at New Orleans on the night of tho 81st. Among her passengers was Francis II. celts, the New ork embezzler, in charge of Dotectivtyi Kollly nnd Von Gerichten. A sr.iuot's railrond collision occurred on the Lambert Point branch of tho Norfolk fc Western railway in Nor folk, Va., on thu 81st, resulting in tho death of two men and the dangerous Injury of llvu others. Thk Chicago City Railway Co. transported 7S.000.000 passengers between May 1 and October 81. This estimate is based upon the returns of cash fares for tho time, excluding all transfers, policemen, firemen, employes ami others who rode free. Jajiks F. llitANNKN, the leader of the mob that lynched Daniel Arata, tho Italian murderer, in Denver, Col., on the night of July 0, last, was indicted by the grand jury on the 1st. Hakuikt Ann. daughter of Thurlow Weed, died in New York, after a lingering illness, of pleurisy, on tho 1st, aged 74. Thk public debt increased during October S5.141.050.01. Tin: Elwoo-l (Ind.) window-glass factory, employing 000 hands, was discovered to be burning on the morning of the 1st. The immense plant was situated outside the limits of waterworks lines and could not be reached by the department. In twenty minutes the whole building was ablaze. The plant is a total wreck, and its employes tire thrown out of work at the beginning of winter. Loss, 50,000; insurance, St!, 000. Chamiman Pkck reports the World's fair treasury in a healthy condition. All obligations have been met and there is a cash balance on hand of $2,r.00,000. The gate receipts from now mi and the salvttge, it is ligured, will pay the current expenses until the end, so that thestockholders.who have holdings representing ?5,000,000, upon which they scarcely expected to realize anything, will be paid fifty cents on the dollar. SiioKTf.v after 1 o'clock on the morning of tho 2d a lire broke out in the house at No. 10 Third street, New York. A second alarm was sent out shortly after the firemen reached the scene. Six firemen were overcome by gas and draggetl out of the place by their companions. Tin; public debt statement issued on the 1st showed a net increase in the debt during October of f5,141,05S.01. Cash in the treasury, ?720,447,014. A n.oruiNO mill boiler exploded, on the 1st, at Windfall, Ind., instantly killing Lewis Mill. Everything was wrecked. Tin: silver repeal bill was entered upon the records at the White House, on the 2d, and the otlicial parchment copy was sent to the state department for Illing with the archives of the government. At a congress of revolutionary .socialists held in Prnssels, on the 1st. it was resolved to carry on an active propaganda tobring about u strike among the soldiers of I'elgium and elsewhere. Thk Viking started from Chicago, on the 2d, for St. Paul, Minn., to which city it was presented before thu close of the World's fair. Tk.V Tiiot'SAM) persons witnessed the unveiling of the statue of thu late Sir John Macdntinld at Hamilton, Out., on the 1st S.vow fell for an hour at St. Paul, -Minn., on the morning of the 2d, with the thermometer at the freezing point. Thk paid admissions to the World's fair on the 2d were 8,042. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Is the senate, on the 8d, Mr. Cockrell reported back from the committee on appropriations the house joint resolution for final adjournment nt 8 p. m. There was a feeble opposition to tho resolution, which, however, was agreed to without division. House bill in aid of the World's Fair Prize Winners' exhibition was passed. The usual resolutions of thanks were passed and responsive speeches made, and after a short executive session the senate adjourned In the house the only substantial achievement was the final disposition of the bill uCowing a rebate of duty on World's fair exhibits acquired by the Columbian museum, the greater part of the three hours' session being spent in a wrangle over pay and back pay of congressional employes. At 3 o'clock, with the fall of the speaker's gavel, the house adjourned. M. 15. CriiTis, the actor, who is wanted in San Francisco as a witness in the case of McMaddus and Dunn, charged with bribery in the Curtis murder trial, loft that city, on the 2d, on an east-bound train, putting himself beyond the jurisdiction of the California state courts. O.v the 8d the London udmiralty court awarded $1,250 salvage against tho Dutch steamer Mnasdnm in favor of the Ilritish steamer Winchester nnd her crew, the latter to receive $450 of the award. O.v the 8d orders were sent to the superintendents of the United States mints at San Francisco and New Orleans to resume the coinage, suspended some time ago, of standard silver dollars. Thk second trial of ex-Detective Daniel C'oughlan for alleged complicity in tho murder of Dr. Cronin, on May 4, 1880, was begun in Chicagoon thu8d. Miss A NN IK HowAltti, who was to have been married to the late Mayor Harrison of Chicago, left that city on the Sid for her home in Ililoxi, Miss. Latkh reports say that hut six lives wore lost by the burning of the steamer City of Alexandria, though seven others were still missing on the 8d. Thk new French tax on bourse transactions, which became operative on July 10 last, has yielded in four months the sum of 2,070,000 francs. Thk Uigelow carpet mills of lloston, employing 1,100 hands, shut down, on the 8d, for an indefinite period because of lack of orders. Thk president signed the Chinese bill nmending the Oeary act on the 8d. Paid admissions to the World' fait on tho 23th were 5.000.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Dknuy Di'MMKitKiiuiT. a farmer, CO

years old, was found unconscious la a ravine near I.ttughery creek, near Lawrenceburg, five miles from his home, tho other day, with terrible wounds Indicted by himself. Ho hud had domestic trouble, and, going to the woods, climbed a trco, tied a rope to a limb and the other end to u tree. Ho then jumped off. The rope broke, but choked him. The fall uIko broke his leg and badly bruised his head and face, lie regained consciousness in several hours, and then cut both wrists horribly with a pocket-knife, quenching his terriblo thirst with tho llowlng blood. Then with a pointed stick ho stabbed himself in the abdomen repeatedly, tearing his entrails. He became unconscious again, and had lain in the ravine two days and nights when found. He was taken home and can not live. Thk following fourth-class postmasters were commissioned a few days ago: A. C. Crngo, Carmel, Hamilton county, vice J. W. Nutt, removed; S E. Colvert, Plum Tree, Huntington county, vice W. II. Eckam, resigned. On. has been found near Cms City, and a test well Is to be sunk at once. Wm. Duckwohth, an old soldier of Seymour, has beon notified that his pension will be discontinued. Burnt Dkhk, of Wabash county, pleaded guilty to outraging a ten-year-old girl and received u two-year sentence. Thompson's green glass bottle factory, at Gas City, has gone into operation, giving .employment to a largo force of men. Five shops are being operated, and the number will be increased before long. Hakkv O. Dyis, of Indianapolis, committed suicide by taking morphine He had been discharged from his position as gatcman at tho Union station. Ho leaves a wife. A VAI.UA1H.K marc was stolen the other night from John Campboll, of Delaware county. Geouoo W. Powkm., head of the real estate linn of Powell &. Frather, was the other day appointed chief of police of Indianapolis. He has had no police experience, and he hesitated a good while before accepting, lest it might ruin his social standing. utDOf, FitiEin.KY, in the circuit court, at Madison, has granted the prayer of tho citizens temporarily restraining the council from purchasing the Gamewell fire alarm system at ?5,000, owing to large municipal indebtedness. J. C. Hhown, who killed Attorney Wesner in a sensational manner in court at Danville, last May, has been acquitted of the charge of murder. A hum. and a stallion fought in a field near Lebanon, both being fatally injured and had to be killed. At Mttncie the wife of James Parker slipped up behind him as ho sat in n chair and fractured his skull with a club. Thk large pulp plant of tho Indiana Paper Co., South Itcnd, was destroyed by fire, the other night. Loss, 20,000; insurance, 15,000. The fire was probably incendiary. The plant will hardly be rebuilt Shokti.y after midnight the store of Cook & Snyder, of St. Louis Crossing, near Columbus, was entered and the building fired, llcforo the flames were discovered the entire building was enveloped, causing a total loss of $4.000. Thk finding of gold in Morgan and Drown counties is no longer a myth. Winlleld S. HSchards was in Martinsville, the other day, exhibiting gold valued at $45 that ho washed out of Sycamore creek, Morgan county, in two days. He had a two-ounce bottle filled with the glittering treasure, besides some fine specimens of shot gold. At Richmond Henry W. Grcive was killed by a falling bank o.f earth. Several of the men with hir.i barely escaped and Greive was completely buried under five feet of fine sand and grt' vel. Onk hour after swallowing thirty grains of morphine Linsey Sinkhorn, of Salem, was a dead man. He had been on a protracted spree, which was doubtless the exciting cause. The victim was CO years of age, and leaves two sons a nil a daughter. "Lüsirv jaw" is said to be breaking out among the cattle nt Albion, this state. Thk Common Sense engine works nt Muncie will resume business with a full complement of men. Da viii Coiiiiuv, a prosperous resident of Toronto, en route to the World's fair, was done out of $40 by confidence men at South Hend. In the suit of Miss Hcrshey against W. Cheeseninn for damages, at Fortland, on a change of venue from Winchester, the jury awarded her $800. Mils. Kknkta Shui.tz, aged 05, was cut to pieces the other morning by a Lake fcric nnd Western passenger train at La Porte. The unfortunate woman was crossing a long bridge north of La Porte, when she was warned by the whistle of tho approach of the train; Sho started to run, and in another instant would have crossed in safety, when she swooned and fell between the rails. The dismembered remains became entangled in tho locomotive, and were extricated with dilliculty. David Dim.on, n farmer near Ander son, took twenty-five cents worth of morphine with suicidal intent, but the doctors may save him. Thk extensive grain and general store business of Florian Groshour, of Ijamsville, Wabash county, was closed up a tew tluys since, under n chattel mortgage. Liabilities, $25,000, with assets considerably less. Tho defunct First national bank, of North Manchester, is creditor to tho amount of $12,000 in cash advanced for buying wheat Wit.mam II. Tkiipanv, of New Carlisle, a prominent resident there, is dead. Imiaki. A situ it v, aged 00 and insane, was killed by the ears at Ellsworth, four miles from 'ferro Haute, on the Lognnsport division of the Vandal ia road.

FINANCE AND TRADE. Tim (Irneml Outlook ThroiiKliout tho Country mn Seen Tlirnuuli lt. II. Dun A Cu. VrMy Uovli'W -MimmI HfTectn of Mlvpr-l'urfliinu ItrpeiU Alremly lloeomIliK .Muni fest III l.i'Kltlliutttt UiinIiu', Hut Hpv.-uUtloii Not Miifli AfToulfU Tho Wrekly l'nllurrii, Ket. Nkw Yohk, Nov. 4. It. U. Dun it Co.'s weekly review of trade, issued today, says: Tito repeal of ui sliver ptirclmso net iloos KootI already. The business world In every part of tliu country reckons it helpful and the tone is morn eonlldent. It Is hardly tlmo ns, jet for the effects to he full to any reat exteat in manufacture, but tmnltar aru moro literal In accommodations, and merchants moro hopeful In purchases. It Ih well to remember that tho net will do less pood than if it had been passed early in tho spring, or thu day after conifross assembled. It cannot now prevent several thousand fallurei which have alreudy occurred, nor relievo creditors from resultier embarrassment!. It cannot now save from lois a inultltudo of manufacturini; establishments which havo closed becauso tho future remained uncertain. It will ko far to restore business conHdence, which was much needed; but many may expect from tho measure larKcr results Hum can at thin lato day bo realized. Thus, in tho stock market during the past week, although the action of congress ami tho president was correctly anticipated, tbo uverouo of prices declined f 1 per share for railway stocks and $175 for Industries, Human tho tono Is fairly confident. The dlnieulty Is that a InrKo proportion of tho buyers durliiK tho past month, have been cnleuhitlni; to realizo with pro tit on the pn-stauo of tho bill and those who realized llrst did best. Tho action or coiiui-ens had lcsa visible Influence upon speculative markets for products, la part because foreign markets obstinately refused to accopt tho higher valuations which speculators here trted to establish. Though people across tho water award unstlnto.l praises to thoso who secured tho passaire ol tliu repeal bill, thero is not much disposition to pay hlk'hor prices on that account for wheat or corn. In view of tho Kreat abundnnco of money at speculative centers, tho weakness of markets is moro Hlcnlllcant. Wheat was 2 cents lower, receipts buinu 0,011,751 bushels for tho week, uis'alnst IUI, 113 for tho same week last year; while exports were only fWf.BIS bushels, Uk'silnst 2.I7I.7M) last year. If forclirn countries oro on the vere of famlno their traders do not scorn to have discovered tho fact. Corn receipts were lamer than last year and prices declined a fraction. Oats advanced a little, though the receipts contlftuu lare. industries could not Iks expected to make any material aln as yet In eonseimunce of now tlmwicliil conditions; but the demand for textile products has to somo extent improved. Carefully scrutinized, the Increase of orders appears to be almost wholly due to tho gradual exhaustion of stocks In tho bands of dealers, wholesale and retall, und not yet to any appreciable Increaso In sales to consumers. Tho most nstorilstilti!,' shrinkage ever known in purchased by consumers has been at the bottom of the prostration of trade and manufae tures, and as yet thuro Is scarcely uny sign of Improvement in that respect. Hut as retail stocks run short, and in turn wholesale stocks are depleted, tho mills fool nn Increasing demand, mostly in the form of numerous small orders for Immediate delivery. This kind of demand has kept many mills running durlni: the past week, thnuch the lack of orders has closed moro textile, mills than have resumed. Thu sales of wool havo been materially Increased by purchases for somo larno worsted oml dress goods works, presumably bocauso they have orders for continued operations, even though it may be for n short tlmo only, and the sales nt the throe chief markets were 4,45.!00 pounds, acalnst 7,5fl.BM last year, making for four weeks !:i,G&",0Y! pound, against Ä.Utll.ftMl for tho same weeks last year. Tho metal-working Industries manifest little gain as yet. The miner metals are weaker on tho whole, though simulation lifted lead a triile to 3.6c. but largo sales afterwards occurred at 3.4e. Tin was depressed at 20.450, copper was .sold at 0.75c for lake. As yet, lrou nnd steel manufacture shows scarcely any signs of recovery. Thero has been somo Increase. It is judged from printed reports, in the number of furnnces In blast, but the output still appears to largely exceed tho consumption, and thero is more pressure to sell pig iron than to buy. Tho orders for Mulshed products are still small, and do not appear to l.c increasing, nnd while at Pittsburgh some orders havo been secured from the east by exceptionally low bids, at the Jollut works the prices quoted aro on the whole lower than last week. There is not much dolngln steel rails, although sales aro reported nt $77 per ton, a decline ot i", and bar and structural Iron are also lower. In boots and shoes a somewhat better domand appears, and yet not enough to keep tho works fully occupied. Tho shipments from the enst for tho past week wero iWS.ffl" cases, ngalnsi 358,CiS lust yenr. The volume of dötnesllc truilo gains but little, exchanges outside New York being i.D per cent, lower than last year for tho weeu. Tho Mcports of products for the past mouth have been about JI.OOO.OOO larger than last year, whl!e Imports havo been about IMOO.WK smaller, which Indicates an exuss of oxporti of f30.Xi,0OO for the month. The railroads bav been doing n little better, but returns do not come up to those of last year. Tho treasury lias been gaining In reserve most of tho week. Failures for th'i week number 358 in tlm United States, against 2W last year, and J8 ii Canada, ngntnst.1t last year. loT-Tdö n ö p Tnio n s

Of the I'riihaldc KfTect of thr Itopeat ol tlio Silver Piirclmsliif; Claus of tin Sliortnnii Act. Lomio.v, Nov. 4. The Speaker says cditm'killy to-day of the repeal of ,tlu .Sherman net: There Is a feeling of relief In tho Unltet' States' nnd Kuropo. The repeal of tho Sherman net paves tho way to tho restoration ol prosperity In America. Everybody knows now what tt,e monoy of tho United Slates i? to bo, and distrust will soon die out. The writer enumerates a list of reforms which, he says, aro needed badly ih the United States, and onjjht to bo undertaken at once, ns follows: Modification of the McKinley act, revis'or. of the pension list; restoration of the $100,000,000 ffold reserve In the treasury (if necessary through a loan at home or abroad), and n complete overhnulhiffof tlio national bank iiig system. While acknowledging that the national banks of the United States are splendidly managed, the writer condemns the system as utterly bad. The Statist insists that since tJ:c repeal of the Sherninii act the most pressing need of the United States finances is the reform of the banking system. It predicts the further full of silver, ascribing the present steadiness of tho market to the heavy repurchases made by the bear element. English investors are advised to hold aloof from all American securities. Interdlrtnl. . Paius, Nov. 4. "Les Uoi." a drama by Lc Maitre, which was to have been produced next Monday at the Kenn issanoo theater by Sarah llcrnhardt, has been interdicted, tho Austrian ambassador having protested because the principal scene suggested too strongly the death of the Crown Prince Hudolph. A Unltptt StHtr Marshal ltrnlRiiii. Paris, Tex., Nov. 4. J. J. Pickcrson, United States marshal for tho eastern district, has resigned his position, for business reasons. His term would have expired in 1804.

SEVEN BOLD ROBBERS

Hold Up a Tri I ii on tho Iron Mniiiitiia Itallroud at Ollplmiit, Ark. -The Vi,idtirlor liutiiiilly Killed, The r.iir).H far l.oolt'il oml tkn I'ltKHeugt-rs I'orerd lo Surrender Their VuIiiiiIiU-h u( thu .Muz.lt'M of ICcvolvem -lllniMlliniiiiiU (lit tho Trull. Litti.i: Ilooic Arlc, Nov. 4. Fast express train No. fil of thu St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, known as the Cannon. Mall, duo hero at i;10 a, m., was held up and robbed by seven musket! men at Oliplitint, Ark., seven miles north of Newport, at 10 o'clock last night. Passenger Conductor .1. I. .McNally was shot and killed while trying to protect his train. Oliphaut is a small lumber town of nbout 00 inhabitants, situated in a lonely timber district in White county. When train No. .11 stopped nt the station two men jumped upon tho engine, and, pointing their revolvers at the engineer and firemen, they ordered them tokcop still, threatening to blow their bruins out if they moved a muscle. The other men surrounded the express cur, the door of which was open, and at once began firing a wicked fusilndc from thuir revolvers. Conductor McNally drew his revolver and returned the robbers' fire, but be f tire he had succeeded in wounding any of them he was shot and killed. The robbers then entered the express car, overpowered the messenger und looted the car. Leaving two men to guard the trainmen, the other robbers proceeded to rob the passengers. They enteretl the coaches and sleepers, and at the point of a revolver relieved all the passengers of their valuables. They then left with a parting volley, taking a northerly direction. A telegram was at once sent to tho sheriff, at Newport, who formed a posse and started in pursuit. An engine was dispatched to Augusta for bloodhounds. Telegrams were quickly sent to Little Hock for assistance, and a special train left nbout 1 a. m., carrying a posse of ollleers and a pack of bloodhounds. Thu train which was held up is expected here about 2:15 a. m., brintring the remains of Conductor McNally. Until this train arrives full particulars of the robbery cannot be learned. There is no idea as to the amount of money secured by the robbers. General Superintendent l'eck and Division Superintendent Hose of the Iron Mountain, who were in Memphis last night, have been notified of the robbery by telegrams, nnd have instructed tho railroad people here to offer a large reward for the arrest of the robbers. STRUCK THE WRONG TRAIN. An rtimirrenful Attrmpt nl Triilll Hole bery nt Col Orerk, Trim.- Ohm Kohbcr Morlully Woundril. Knoxvim.k, Tenn., Nov. 4.- An attempt was made to rob the through night express train leaving here at 8:10 p. m. for Louisville over the Knoxville & Ohio railroad. The train stopped at the water-tank near Coal Creek, thirty miles north of here, and two men boarded the express car. They hurt no sooner cntcrod the car' than several men opened fire on them. One ol them, who has been since indentilied ns dames Smith, of this city, was shot through the body and mortally wounded. Tho other, whose name has not lieen learned, was captured without injury. There was less than u hundred dollars in the express car safe. The Southern Express Co. mid been on to u conspiracy to hold up the train for several days, antl from four to ten armed" men had been sent out on every cur for three nights past. AN UNCONFIRMED RUMOR rhnt tlio Farmern' I.ikui unit 1'runt Co. of New York IIb Applied for n ltreelvr for tho Wontren Connolilutrd Coal und Iron Co. ' Nkw York. Nov. 4. A rumor that the Farmers' Loan ond Trust Co., ol this city, hail applied for the appointment of a rcceirer for the Western Consolidated Coal and Iron Co. could not be continued, nor was it denied, at the ofllce of the former company last night. The secretary of the Fanners' Loan anil Trust Co., Mr. Marston, said he knew nothing about it. At the ofllce of Turner, McC'lure & Unlston, counsel for tlio Farmers' Loau nnd Trust Co., it was said that Mr. TurnerfUhe senior member of the firm, was uC'Cincinnatl, and that no infonnatlonconcerningthe alleged foreclosure; could be made public until his return. FRANCIS H. WEEKS. The Defaulting I.nwyer, Arraigned In the New York Cottr,t of Cit'iternl Session nd Committed to tint Tomb. Nkw YoitK.Nov. 4. Francis H. Weeks, the defaulting lawyer who was cxtradleted from Costa Uiea and brought back to this country, reached the PenHsylyania depot nt V2:l o'clock yesterday afternoon in .charge of Detective Scrgeant3 Hoilly mil Von Genchtcn, and was taken nt once to police headquarters. Ho was. urralgnCkV In general seshions before Judge Martine at U:07 o'clock. Vhon asked to plead, he said that ho would like to have time. Judge Marline then granted I'ii" until the 10th of the present month to make a formal plea oc make such motion as he may desire. Tho judge then committed Mr. Weeks to the Tombs. rirn from Spnnlsh tVr Ship nnd Forti tos Hot for lUe KHMuns. London. Nov. 4. The Spanish embassy in this city has received the following dispatch from the government at Madrid: "The destruction of Ititllnn villages by the guns of tho Spanish war ships and the forts at Melilla, in addition to the severo punishment Uen. Mucins inflicted upon the tribesmen on October ai, hns caused thu Rifflansto disappear from the vicinity of the forts. Tho firing hau, therefore, stopped nil along the line. The Spanish, garrison now ouslsts of R 000 BMB.