Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 29, Jasper, Dubois County, 30 March 1894 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER.

C DOA:!srK. Publisher. t?ASPER, NDIAN o !.. ...V. SENATOR COLQUITT, of Georgia, who two years a to was stricken with par alysis, had another serious attack on the 20th: Commodore William D. Whitixo. of the United States navy, retired, died, on the 19th, at his city residence in New York. Ex-Congressman Washington Tows8 ex i) died at his residence in West Chester, Pa., on the tSth, of paralysis of the brain, aged M years. OX the 20th the ew ork chamber of commerce unanimously adopted a petition to President Cleveland praying that he veto the seigniorage bill. The house judiciary committee agreed, on the 20th, to report favorably a bill providing for an additional district judge for the northern district of Illinois. The esttuinster Gazette says that Mr. Gladstone will occasionally make his appearance in the house raons, and will retain his old the treasury bench. of com seat on Tub queen and the prince of Wales have giveu their consent to the marriage of Lord Rosebery, the new Rritish prime minister, with Princess Mamie of Wales. Thk United States senate adopted a resolution, on the 22d, offered by Mr. Hoar, expressing' regret at the death of Louis Kossuth, and tendering to the family of the deceased the condolences of the senate. The 195 banks of Illinois outside of Chicago, held, on February 25, Sii.Cti per cent, of reserve; loans and discounts -Ml, 909, 000; lawful money re perve, 15,542.000; surplus funds. ?o..0,000; individual deposits 40,S9S,00J. The American ship Undaunted, which tailed from San Francisco, on the 19th, wheat laden, for Queenstown, was towed back the same night in a sinking' condition, with four feet of water in her hold, having struck on a bar going out Mus. Mathias Reecke of Cleveland, 0., arose, on the morning of the 20th, to find her husband's dead body beside the bed. He had tied a rope to the bednost and deliberately stranirled i himself to death while his wife lay j asleep with her babe in her arms. t I Ox the 19th Secretary Herbert j ordered all the American war ships I away from Kio, the .Nexv ork going to . int". Lucia, est Indies, there to await further instmctions by cable front the navy department, and the Charleston to Montevideo to join the Newark. Dcrixg a performance in a theater at Lucca, in the Italian province of that name on the evening' of the 15th. a gentleman upon entering his box found in the doorway a bomb with a lighted fuse. He seized the burning fuse and by crushing it in his hand put oct the fire. A roi'XG woman about 20 years old, thought, from marks on her clothinp, to be a Miss Flemmipg-, of Clarksburg", W. Va., died in the hospital at Newark, O., on the 17th, from injuries sustained by jumping from a rapidly-moving east-bound express train. She took the train at Chicago. Moi'RXiXG emblems were displayed on all sides in Hungary, and every newspaper in lluda-l'esth appeared, on the 21st, with black Iwrders. The two cities were black with crepe and other emblems of sorrow felt by the people of Hungary at the death of Louis Kossuth, the exiled patriot. Dr. Netti.eship, the well-known London oculist, who has been engaged with several other eminent professional men to perform an operation on Mr. Gladstone's eyes, says that in his opinion the proposed operation will fully restore their distinguished patient's normal powers of vision. Ox the 21st a number cf coke operators in the Connellsville (Pa.) region made known their intention to resist organized labor, and by way of emphasis the Atlas Coke Co. discharged L. H. Davis and Daniel Darby, who on the day previous had been elected president and secretary, respectively, of the miners' organization. The Italian chamber of deputies sitting in committee on the budget, on the 21st, accepted the ß-overntnent's estimates of revenue and expenditures. The proposals impose aggregate taxes of 50,000,000 lire per annum and prescribe economies to an equal amount, In the war and marine departments 20,000,000 lire arc to be saved. The Italian court of appeals hasren dcred a decision that military tribu- " nals are not cotnpetei ;nt to consider I and pass upon the acts of prisoners prior to the proclamation of a state of siege In Massa di Carrara, Sicily. Jn consequence of this decision the sentences recently imposed on many prisoners there will be materially modified. Gov. Rich's action In removing from office Stale Treasurer Hambitzer, Secretary of State Jochim and Land Commissioner Uerry, was sustained by the supreme court of Michigan on the 20th, and the governor appointed their successors, as follows: Secretary of sta te, Washington Gardner; state treaMtrer, J. M. Wilkinson, and land commissioner, W. A. French. treasurer the T! ized by law ami to make a nrofit there-

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of Seattle. Wash., was. on P seriously burned.

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CUREEXT TOPICS.

THE SEWS IK BUEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRES. The senate was not la session on the 17th up "" ainr aucuwun 1 mailers in ; iBor ,mporUw. the sundry drll approprla 1 In the boue after attention to matters o( tloas Mil was taken up la committee of the i whole. Several prepoed atneadaienls were I ruled out on point of order. The commute roe. and the special orJer for tha hour eulocle upon the late Kopresentatlve W. II. , Knochi. of Ohio, who died last July was I taken up, after which the house adjourned. I Is the senate, on the IC-th, the only occur I rence that possessed any ceaeral Interest was I the announcement by the vice-president that he had amxed hU -denature to the Illantl i M-tsnio-ntte act. Mewsaze- from the president tran-tnlltla- the latest dispatches from Minis i ter wmis in Honolulu In relation to affairs In ! Hawaii, and from Arabas-stdor HayarU In LonI don In relation to the landing of Hrltlsh force' j at niuct'.clüs, Nicaragua, were presented and ' referred. Half a doien nils were taken from the calendar and passed In the houe the entire t-e.sion was spent In further considers I tion of the sundry civil bill. The army appro1 prlatioa hill wi reported. In the senate, on the 3Jth. the tariff hill, as modified by the senate finance committee, wan reported and ordered to be printed and placel on the calendar- Mr. Voorhees trave notice that he would ask the senate to bcicln the consideration of the bill on Monday. April Ü. Mr. : fh h th. ,., annrnrIrl.,nl hin was passed. The contested-election case of O'Neill rs. Joy. from MI-ourl. was called up, but action wa? delayed for want of a quorum. In the enate. on the Cist, the session was confined almost exclusively to bills on the calendar unobjected to, twenty-tlve of which were passed ai fast as they could be read In full by the clerk. None of them were of ceneral Interest or Importance At 2 o'clock, when the mornlnc hour expired, the calendar was laid aside, and from that time until 3 3U. when the senate adjourned, a discussion war kept upon a bill to simplify the form of deeds of conveyance, trust and releases of land In the Dltrlct of Columbia. No action was taken on the bill, which still remains the unfinished business ..The house was not in session on the 21 "L Is the senate, on the Sid. Mr. Sherman offered a resolution looking to the enactment of a bill for the prevention and punishment of simulation of United States coins by coins of the same welch: of metal and fineness, which went over. The bill to secure a site for the covernment printing office was taken up, and the Mahone lot was selected by vote. A motion to reconsider went over without artlon. The untinl.shcJ business the McGarrahan bill was laid aside by request. The bill to appropriate l.(oj.000 for the extermination of the Russian thistle, went over without action In the house the sosloa was spent in an unaralllnc eSori to secure the vote of a quorum upon the motion to take up the O Nelll-Joy contested-election case. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Tin: jury in the Ratliffe-Jackson killing case of Kosciusko. Miss., brousrht in a verdict, on the 11-th, of not guilty. The miners employed at the Ander son mines at Clinton. Ind.. atrreed. on the 19th. to go to work at thirty-eight cents a ton for run-of-the-tnine coal, which is equivalent to fifty cents a ton for .crcened coal, or a reduction of twenty cents from the scale for the vear u.hjcl enas May 1. mix a number of workmen were engaged in excavating at Thorn. West Prussia, on the 20th, an embankment fell, burying five of tuera underneath hundreds of tons of earth. Ex-Empress Frederick left London, on the 19th, lor Germany. SENATOR lSofLAXGHR-IJcnXET has been appointed to the newly-created j position of minister of the colonies in the French cabinet, Locis ICossoctii, the Hungarian patriot, died at Turin on the 20tlu Tuu:ti:e" county prisoners at Cripple Creek, Col., broke jail, on the night of the 19th, and pained their liberty. friends on the outside having knocked the locks off and opened the doors. Tin: arrest of W. E. Darrow, alias W. F. Shaw, at Sioux City, la., Monday, for making-counterfeitsilvereoin, was reported to the treasury department on the 20th. A large assortment of tools, flies, lathes, etc., was captured. IjiCEXniAr.iES attempted to burn the business portion of Clinton. Ia., on the morning of the 20th. An alarm called the department to the residence part of the city, and immediately after two fires were discovered in the business district. This necessitated a division of the department, and, with a high wind prevailing, the fires were only subdued after much hard work. Thk dwelling of the chief of the Cherokee nation at Tahlequah, I. T. was burned on the night of the 19th. The structure was a two-story frameNothing was saved. Chief Harris had a narrow escape, barely escaping with his babe, in his night clothes. His hands were badly burned. It was reported in Athens, on the 21st, that an earthquake had occurred at Tarissa, near the Gulf of Salonica, destroying many houses. Particulars were not obtainable. Thirtken persons were injured in the wild rush of 400 men, women and children, from the "Mixed Ale" tlats, a big six-story double-decked tenement house in New York, on the 21st. The panic was caused by a fire which destroyed the upper portion of the building. Thk four-story public school building in South Evanston. 13 miles north of Chicago, was completely destroyed by fire on the 21st; loss, S.IO.OtK). c everal pupils were severely injured by jumping from the third and fourth story windows. Ox the 21st it was given out that Senator Colquitt's bowels were paralyzed, and his physicians reluctantly admitted that his death was but a matter of hours. The absent meinlcrs of the fcenator's family were telegraphed for. The eighth annual convention of the Michigan Christian Fndcavor union met in Detroit, on the 2lst, about 1,500 delegates being present. Tin: residence of KU Clark, a miles south of Hartford City, JntU. wan destroyed by an explosion of nr.tur.tl gas, on the 2 1st, and an Infant child was so Six other "- steamer Atichoria, en route to New

John H. Pkhkixi, of Lebanon, Ind., received a letter, on the 21st, containing Jf20 and n note saying: "1 sent this for Jesus Christ's sake." There was no signature to the note. About eight years ago Mr. Pork lim store was robbed and about J20 worth of gotnls taken, and the supposition is that the money he received was sent by the rob ber. At St Paul, Ind., on the 21st, Andrew Gayheimer. an aged and re spected citizen, climbed to the top of the railway bridge which spans Flat lloek river, the top of which is 80 feet from the river bed, which is solid limestone rock, and without saying a word deHlKrately walked to the edge and jumped. Kverr bone in his body must have been broken. Phixckss M.vrn, the youngest daughter of the prince of Wales, and Prime

Minister IJosebery will shortly be married. An olücial announcement of the engagement will be made within a few days. The princess is the prettiest and most vivacious member of the royal family. She is 24 years old and is a general favorite. Du. A. J. IIouskk. of Indianapolis, Ind., who some weeks ago directed a message to ex-Queen Lilittokulani asking her royal highness to accompany hint on a lecture tour through the United States, claims to have information indirectly from the queen through a Washington friend that she has decided to nceept his offer. IIox. Axuhkiv 1). Whitk is about tc retire from the Ktis.iun mission. The mission will soon be raised to the rank of an embassy, and Levi Z. Leiter, the Chicago millionaire, it is said, will be made ambassador to the court of St. Petersburg. Duiuxo a quarrel over some pasture land at Lebanon, Ind., on the 2 1st, Seymour Thompson drew a-revolver and attempted to shoot his father-in-law. Hartley Smith, but the latter was too quick for him and Thompson received a blow on the head which mav prove fatal. Thk coronor's jury at Troy, X. Y., on the 2lst, in the case of Robert lloss, who was killed at the riot at the polls on election day, rendered a verdict that the murder was committed by Hartholomew Shea. Ox the 21st Sweet Perry, a negro boy, aged 10, was found guilty at t.uthrie, Okla., of murder and sentenced to the penitentiary for life for the stoning to death of J. W. Chamblhh, a cowboy, about six months ago. Kkv. Thomas Spchokon was, on the 21st, elected pastor of the London tabernacle. No mention was made of l!ev. Dr. Arthur P. Pierson, the Amer ican minister, who was a candidate for the place. Justice of the Pkack Newton, of Urooklyn, was, on the -2d. sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and to pay a fine of ?.00 for complicity in the Gravesend election frauds. He then withdrew his appeal in the contempt of court case and received an addi tional sentence of thirty days' imprisonment in Kaymond-street jail and a fine of 250 in that case. Skxor Iiji.vrt Homiest has been elected president of Uruguay and will assume the duties of the ollice at once. He belongs to the official party and was elected by a narrow majority, Fivk members of a wealthy Jewish family residing in Smorgoni, Russian Poland, were murdered, on the 21st, by peasants whose motive was robbery. Ox the22d the senate confirmed the nomination of Marshal II. Williams to be associate justice of the supreme court of Arizona. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Thk senate was not in sc-ssion on the 2:5d .In the house an expression of sympathy on the death of Louis KosMilli was voted. After one vote the O'Neill-Joy contested-election case want over. The Whitely-Cobb case was decided in favor of Mr, Cobb, the sitting member. The military academy appropriation bill was passed, as was also a bill appropriating StO.000 for the furtherenforcement of the Chinese exclusion and registration act. An evening session for the consideration of pension matters was held. Thk meeting to be held on the steps of the federal capitol by Citizen Coxey and the army of the commonweal on Tuesday. May 1. has been declared off by Maj. William 0. Moore, superintendent of the Washington police, under authority of an act of congress entitled "An act to regulate the use of the capitol grounds." Cn.VFiiENTiAi. orders are said to have been issued to the commandants of various posts and garrisons within reasonable reach of Washington city to hold their commands in readiness to move to the capital in the event of Coxey's horde assming the proportions intimated hy the press. Dki.koatks from various industrial establishments of Philadelphia, who proposed going to Washington on Aprd 0 and 7, to attend a convention in protest against the Wilson bill, have postponed their trip to the capital until the 20th and 21st. Tin: Imports of dry goods at the port of New York for the week ended on the 2d were 1, 811,274, and the amount marketed $l,Sö3,llö. For the corresponding week in 1S0;J the imports were ?l,l'32.025t and amount marketed t2.0r.O,4.V. Mus. Geo. McOjiiikk, of Chicago, claims to have been guided by her spirit mother to Independence. Mo., where she located her runawey husband, who left her a year ago in company with Mrs. IL I). Urown. Mus. Sid.vey Shull, of Mttncie, Ind., j aged 72 years, while attending the ' funeral of a neighbor, on the 2rd, became greatly grieved, was attacked with a fit of coughing, and died in a few minutes. Tin: limine committee on agriculture perfected the anti-option bill, on the 2.1d, and directed Mr. Hatch to submit it to the house with the recommendation that it pass. CoMMonom; Ktiiici.Axn has been appointed to succeed Admiral Itcnham in command of the South Atlantic station.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Postmasters appointed the othci day: A. C Hunter, Center Square, Switzerland county, vice J. IL Hitch, as, removed; J. Ii. luvelt, Nebraska, Jennings county, vice P. W. Coyra, resigned; Edward Whalen, Sardinia, Decatur county, vice I). J Moore, removed; Valentine Helberg, Sellersburg, Clark county, vice Stephen Allen, resigned. Johx Gam.owav, the wealthy septuagenarian, arrested for stealing wraps and robes from a church at Kokorao, entered a plea of guilty the other day, and was given a year in the penitentiary. This was on tho advice of his grandson, Lee Nash, a prominent attorney of Tipton. Fhaxk Pool, of Indianapolis, became possessed of the hallucination that he was to be appointed consul-general to London, Eng.. and he ordered a new suit of clothes and a gold collar in which to disport himself. The he carried his dog to a barber shop and had him shampooed and shaved, after which he decorated him with ribbons. This iniluenced his relatives into tho belief that Pool was insane, and a few days ago he was taken in charge by the authorities. Tin: superintendent of public instruction of Indiana has rendered a decision that devotional exercises can not te enforced in the public schools of the state. At Mttncie the small daughter of Frank Cribbs pulled a pot of boiling bean soup from the stove over herself, cooking her face, neck and breast It is thought her sight will be destroyed. Fi.axk Uhew, aged 12, of Noblesville, accidentally shot himself in the left leg while engaged in cleaning an

old revolver. Doctors have failed to locate tho balL A Tixi-r.ATE works employing 200 men will be started at Montpclier. The proposed water works at Lebanon will cost M2.SS5. A colohed commandcry of Knights Templars has been organized at Marion. There arc forty pedro clubs at Elkhart A sore-kve epidemic is causing annoyance at Laporte. The dog poisoner is getting' in his work on unguarded canines at Muncie. The miners employed at the Anderson mines, at Clinton, have agreed to work at a reduction of 20 cents from the scale. The other morning a state prison official from Michigan City arrived at Muncic with Val Dotson and Uert Whitehead, who are serving terms for burglar-. Dotson brother, Ed. Dotson, who was arrested at Marion, will be tried as a party to the crime for which the other two are serving time. Val will testify against his brother. At Kokomo. three applications for liquor license have been withdrawn on account of temperance opposition. The tailors of Ft Wayne will sell their bad accounts at public auction April 24. The Citizens' National, of Martinsville, the new bank will commence business with $100.000 capital. A SUIT for f 10,000 was filed against Richmond by the Shale Manufacturing Co., of Canton, O., for brick furnished for the Main street paving. Joseph II. Lesh, of the Lesh stock farm. Richmond, has bought Ontonian. 2:07i, the second fastest descendant of George Wilkes, and who shares with Hal Pointer the honor of the fastest fourth heat race. Ontonian is the greatest rival of Will Kerr. 2:07. Dit.ixo the temporary absence from home, the other day, of William linker his wife committed suicide by strangling herself to death at Indianapolis. She left a note laying the blame upon her parents. The skeleton of a mastodon was discovered on a farm east of JefTersotiville. A TEi.r.riioxK system was commenced at l'edford, but after the erection cf the poles the scheme fell through. J.HiXsox county commissioners have appointed Miss Margaret Hcrgen to be matron of the Orphan's home of Johnson county. Ax eastern syndicate purchased tho artificial natural gas plant at Lafayette for f S40.000. A dozex young men were arrested at Pierccville for breaking up an evangelist's meeting. Foi:rth-ci.ass postmasters were appointed the other daj- as follows: Seymour Lennington, islountsville, Henry county, vice James Tcmplin, removed; L. O. Pickens Crown Center, Morgan county, vice H. E. Wnrmouth, resigned; 11 R. Wilson, Mixersville. Franklin county, vice Itobert Wilson, resigned; ISradshnw, Hendricks county, Charles C. Miller appointed postmaster; Lippitt, Morgan county, Jacob A. Wilhitc appointed postmaster. Elias M. Smith and wife have lived on the same fand near Crawfordsvillo for .IS years. On March VA they had been married sixty years Tin: Indianapolis ordinance taxing breweries 61,000 per year has been upheld by the supreme court At Peru a tape worm SO feet in length was removed from Peter Whitehall's three-year-old son. The new courthouse at Laporte. will be dedicated In May. A walk t no club is being agitated at South Hcnd. Indiana has 530 G. A. R. posts. Jacoii W. Hoaoi.axd, of Sullivan, whose proud boast it was that he had voted a straight democratic ticket for over half a century, dropped dead a few dnys ago in Indianapolis while walking along the street He was 75 years old, and was hero visiting a son. Ross fc Gorr's hardware store was broken into at Russell villo und two hundred dollars' worth of cutlery, jewelry and gold-filled watches taken. No clew to the thieves Hv a vote of 20 to 10 a second convention of the Indiana bituminous miners roted down a proposition to reduce the present scale of mining In response to the ona-ators' demands.

AW I'LL EXPLOSIONS.

At tho Acmo Powder Work at Bluck'a Rim, P. rive IVr.on Klllr.l lntwtlv und Ono Se errly !njiirl Tlirr of tlic lit-aii I'rr.ou. sl.trr--Terrllln Effects uf the Kaplosluiis. PiTTfiHrnoH, Pa., Man-h 24.-Two explosions occurred yesterday morning at the Acme Powder Ca 's works, at Itlack's llnu, fourteen miles from this city, on the Allegheny Valley railroad, resulting In the death of five persons, the Injury of another, and tho destruction of live buildings and ten thousand pounds of dynamite. The monetary loss is about 512,000, THE DEAD, Charles Robbins, aged 20, of Allegheny City. Nellie Uemally, aged 2.". Sadie Remally, agedllO. William Arthur, aged 2S. Helle Arthur, aged 19, wife of William Arthur. The three women were sisters. The person injured was James Moo ney, .superintendent of the works. Ills right iiutrh was struck with a flying splinter. The location of the works was about a mile from llttlton, in a ravine. Tho first explosion occurred in the paek-itig-hottse about 7:15 a. m.. shortly after work had been commenced. The only eyewitnesses of it are Supt Mooney and Simeon llradley, one of the workmen. They were at the glycerine house, almost 200 feet above the packing house, arranging to make nitroglycerine, which was their first duty in the morning, llradley had his eyes in the direction of the packing-house when he saw a Hash of fire come out of the door. In a terrified shout to Mooney said: "What's that?" Mooney shouted in return: "it's fire: iti'x ion Torn tin::" Then they lied up the run as fast as their legs would take them, but in a few seconds the awful explosion deafened them and hurled them to the ground. Mooney was struck in the right thitrh by a splinter. Rrndley was uninjured, but his hat was blown off and his spectacles torn from his face. The packing-house was located about 100 yards from the Allegheny Valley railroad tracks, anil was a two-story wooden structure. 20 by S5 feet THE VICTIMS OF THK EXPLOSION. At the time of the explosion Mr. Arthur, his wife. Sadie Remally and Robbins were in the building and were blown to fragments. Nellie was in the boarding house, which was located about 100 feet below the packing-house. This building was a two-story frame structure abott :0 by 40 feet. It was leveled to the ground and Nellie was crushed by the falling timbers. She was rescued and brought to this city on the first train, the intention leing to take her to the West Penn hospital, but she expired just as they were taking her off the train. She did not regain consciousness after the explosion. THE SECOXD EXPLOSION. occurred at the mixing-house at S:2. a. m. This was caused by a spark from the ruins of the boarding-house. The smoke had been seen in time to warn all In the vicinity to get out of the way before the second explosion took place, so no damage was done to life then. In this explosion 1.000 pounds of lynamito in process of incorporation let go, blowing the mixing house with all its machinery to atoms. AX TEHHIIILI: PICTl HE. After the second explosion a terrible picture of damage and destruction met the eye, the smoking ruins of the boarding-house with splintered timbers, furniture and torn bedding and clothes lying about, the house being razed .so completely that in no place did the ruins lie above the ground more than a foot One hundred feet further on, where the packing-house had been, there was a great hole in the ground, probably ten feet deep. For .100 feet about the ground is literally covered with splintered wood. The hillside to the right was used in making dynamite shells. Large trees on the hillside were torn up by the roots, others broken in the middle and others stripped of their branches. A little further on to the left, looking up the valley where the mixing house stood, nothing of it remained save splinters. Where the lynamito exploded the ground about is light gray as though sprinkled with slate dusL The side of the engine house toward the packing-house was blown in. A little storehouse right along by the railroad trades was so shattered that light was let in on every side, but it remained standing. The heavy iron machinery of the packing and mixing houses was blown to pieces HI.OWN TO ATOMS. The bodies of the unfortunate victims were blown to atoms The largest parts found were portions of two trunks supposed to ba of the women on account of the proximity of pieces of scalp with long hair on them. A foot was found. Small pieces of clothing were found here and there, but none nas found on the flesh picked up. The portions of bodies found were blackened and burned somewhat. The most of the remains were scattered about within a radius of 100 yards, but piece of1 bloody flesh and debris were found a mile and a, half away. THK EFFECT. OF THK EXPLOSION Al OTHER PLACE.", The explosion created the wildest kind of excitement in the Allegheny valley above and below itlack's Run, ami was felt at Sharpsburg, nearly ten miles distant At Acmetonia, directly over tho river from IHack's Run, nearly every window in the town was shattered, while houses rocked to anil fro for perhaps two minutes. Almost similar sconce were enacted in llulton, Oak mont, Verona, Johnston, Parnassus Kensington, Tarcntum and othc towns within a radius of four or flvt miles

INCREASING TRADE, Without Any AtMltlou to tlir Arrri,tni 1'roNI. Cu m Prritlnln,.. MtHi' An I'lisatlirai'tn-y Mum hit;. , Whole f Ik Iluilnr Outlook. Hlou-,' Not Without Kutut) Kin oiir.thii; I ta Ilten. New York, March 24.R. (J. )m A Co.'s weekly review of trade, issued to day, says: It Is pcrplcxtw; to be olilbiM to report tfas liu-irif s crowH lamer In volume, at tl time not more nrollt.it.lc Uncertainty ,1,. not diminish, but has rather Increase! mm jntlj-ineiit of many coimwrclal txniic, -,sr have tinted the president to veto the -'in., u;e Mil, I'rlcesof commolltles ilo ,: riv but nnt on the whol alotit I S p.r cent 1 . than last week. lhou;h then flu low. rxt known la this country, anil liu p, r ,n. lower than u year an. No ftwrt' f. .1 i k'onc abroad, ami stocks avcra?. cents per 1100 lilshcr for ratlroa u last wcels. nnil exactly tla sair.p f .r 'r,,. stocli; but some foreign purchases ,ti, i Intervention of a holiday explain th- vtiif'i More mills are at work, though tv r portion of productive force tinciuili.y.t ,, rrom n tltth to a thlnl In illflen-nt lran.li., !ni!utry. anil many mills are stoppln,. i ;. their enters have run out. even uhll.-.i ;annutnberaro slurtlng with orders no-uh ! time. TUo prospect of utttiiK cr.tji.t . remunerative cmp!oymi-nt for wor;. at ham's does not clianse. The fact that on'. -keep only part of the forco at work, wtiil- t,i nrlcomiml vrasjes tend downward, thoujli .-'! is near at hand, renders pts-sr-at t i ü less profitable and tho future b-ss promt. n Tho starting of Tour furnaces lv tti- Hbi.o Sttl Co . and ono other at lMtlsMirU i crosses the output of iron, and om -al have heen tnndent tho lowest prices vet ported with indications of c-oat'iiu.! il.-n. n forstritctural w.irSi. cupoclallynt tho vifM the ether hand the dcm.tnd for wir tu v.n forms, nli U-h led the way to improvivi' seems to slac'.ten. and nails arc said t t- -hr; lower than ever, hflow I cent. A r U Hon of 0 cents in freiahts from I'iUM'in.'!. Tidewater only adds to eastorn whll It Uk. from western buslnc-s. In minor metals Vsncss Is a little larer, but at tu oxp'n' ..f furthur decline too..) for ltiku copptirw.i. tin is steady and lead a .shad- hlcher. In shoes some concerns which bnv runnlns on larse orders for cheap imu m their orders exhausted: but for other md : and low priced jroods tho b-man! is lmpr- in and shipments from Horton for the m.. thus far have been Id jier cent less than 1 . year. Textile industries arfl answorln. " Krowlns demand for replenishment or '! with hand-to-mouth production. Mtr.e w,i Kettln- or-Iers cnoush to Mart, and tth.which have tilled orders In slsht. stop-.l: without irunlui: to future trade. The demand for cotton uoods is fairly tar.but with reduction In prices of somei.r:i' and thn accumulation of print cloth tinucs. A larso auction sale of silks tiro-.i.-fairly satisfactory price.s. Sales of mk,; f three weeks have exceeded tat year's -J3 9 p cent., though the transactions tills ram: last year were about -til p;r cent. In-low t: average. There- Is more demand for sui wool as is needed in the manufacture of j derwear. dress goods and worsted, um fti Geccesare almost unsaleable. Ohio XX quoted at i2 cents, and carpet inmufactur buy .sparluuly, though about halt their rc chincry Is active. Wheat cotton and pork have dectind a !; tie. wheat nuking another rei ord a haJ.- ! low 6) cents nt New York. Corn was a cf tronger. with western receipts U.S71 G) !m els. against l.ft"vt."Er: last year. The termination of the reunion In lira, opens a new scope of coffee which 1 report very lre. but prices are us yet steady (': tic are low abroad almost beyond prece,!-! so that exports are retarded. Sum" h;v cheaper coal Is encouraiel by a reduct.'n rates on the Ihl'h road to f per cent, o: t price In New York harbcr. The volume of i mcstlc trade measured by clearings for t. week has been J" Ml) per cent, smaller th last year and outside New York 17.9 per cer smaller, the decrease belai there Ic.s but New York greater than for the previotM wee There Is encouraclw; incraase. the Qrst f' many months. In south-bound tonnage frv Chicnco. and at Indianapolis th movema' almost as larse as last year, while west u tonnage of hi-h-class merchandise is a. lari'c. The accumlatlon of Idle money contiues. as It could nnt If business were material enlarsln-. and the demand for lomm-r: loans is no belter than It was March I. V:i: Interior rates of exchanen harJen, th" tan. here are attain dlsrusslus the need of rcdu.-.t tnterrj.1 paid oa deposits. The treasury has been losing a little of I balances lately, customs receipts for t. month so far bclnj only tii.tCiS TTrt. a-.-ali: i GI5.S7!t last ye-ir. while Internal revenue W a: a h.Klc .maller. With lone delay ia ttxlne .l basis of taxation, treasury emharrassnien Increase and since tho Hlnnd 1 ill passe.!. ;i rovernnient t.onils recently purchased a(juoteil at prices b;low thn cost with Inter'-' The failures for the week endlns Mar.-' Involved liabilities of only r. .'". I-1, and f th" two weeks of Mnr.'h only fLKTiliH

which te S30.ta were of manufacturing .i 1 1 I"4 11 OX! of tr.idinz cone-ras. Son" tn-rerr n-ports will farther swell tho nivre-jate at San Francis a the resumptions nw tec-lthe failures. A nnmbjr of rallr-vdr reivcr-'hlps are notWd. thomth none o lait tame The failures this week munter Sil the L'nltsil States, against -IT last year. ' .'! In Canada. a-alnHte last year. It l net worthy that Canadian failures are conMcr. bly liicrcaslnir. KNOWS NOTHING OF IT. The Allrced Intermit Ion In llrh:ilf tili Itrnilllin Kelrl. "Washinotom, March 2 1. Secretar (resham says he knows nothing of concerted action on the part of th governments of the United State' Great Ilritain and Italy, requestin President l'eisoto to grant clomenc to Ilraziliati rebels now on board lh Portuguese w.nr ship. It Is reganle as inconceivable that Minister Thorrif son could have joined with other ers in such action without instru tions from Washington, and no sue instructions have I teen asked for o given. These are matters in which tin t'niteil States has always declined b interfere. When the emperor of A"" tria asked the good olllces of l!" United Sttttes on behalf of his brother the unfortunate Maximilian, in M"ico, Mr. Seward simply transmit-', the request to the Mexican giMrn nient, explicitly disclaiming tiny rig" of recommendation or interference. The situation of Da Gaina and hi oflicers on a Portuguese ship of wa is concededly a delicate one, involviti. possihle dtflictilties between Hr.isil an Portugal, and Minister Tltontp'-on s re cent record hardly permits a lhli that he would take any steps in t'" premises without specific directionfrom Secretary Gresham. Condition of f;oiiBrrnininn Wll"'1" San Antonio, Tex.. March 2:J,i"',a gressman W h. Wilson spent a restle night und Is In a weak conditi" I1 day, hut Dr. Underwood, his niedi' attendant, r eports that no unfavorably conditions have arisen, and that inpatient is no worse oiT than when he arrived here yesterday. Mr. i',,rJ sat up a few hours yesterday, a-." "! doctor thinks that this is the principal cause of hlstvcnlccond-Mon tenia v. ,c remained in bed all day. and nilm' Mon to his room was denied cal.'r U Is son will probably leave to-morrow for Washington.