Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 June 1895 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER. C. DOAN'K, Publinhor. JASPER, ... - INDIANA.

Tm: supreme court of the United States, on the STtli, ntlirmed tho consti tutionality of tho .supplemental Chi nose exclusion net of 1994. Cihkkok Poi.ici: Thomas RvuNKSwai retired, ut Iiis own request, on the 27th. by the Now York city police loanl, on a pension of $3,000. IN the ltritish house of lords, on the 28th, Lord Halifax's bill to empower church olticinls to refuse to marry per Bons who have been divorced passed its second reading. A I'NKji'K and .successful experiment was made at Louisville, Ivy., on the COth, when the press telegraphic news was taken from the wire directly by u type-setting machine operator. Tm: North German Gazette, on the 80th. denied the report that the protesting powers have arranged for the floating of a Chinese war loan, or that the Rothschilds have been intrusted with the raising of such a loan. A vioi.knt shock of earthquake was experienced in the village of Ag-ikent. in the district of Raku, Russia, on the 2(5th. Niuety-five houses were wrecked and many of the inhabitants of the Tillage were buried beneath the ruins. A tukmkndocs avalanche of rock fell, on the 2Sth, from the Schwarz Moench mountain into the Laucrbrunnen valley, in Switzerland, destroying the entire forest on the slope of the mountain. Fortunately no one was injured. Nothing official has been promulgated, but it is believed Maj.-Gcn. Thomas H. Ruger will relieve Maj.Uen. Nelson A. Miles as commander of the department of the east when liieut.-Gen. Schofield is retired on September -'9. Chikf Thomas Ryhnks of the New York police department, it is said, has decided to resign. He realizes the existence of antagonism to him since the mayor appointed the commissioners, and he does not care fight the new board, so he will ta e off his shield and retire. Thk Paris Figaro says the German emperor recently sounccd M. Pasteur as to his acceptance of a decoration upon the occasion of the opening of the lSaltic Sea canal, and that the French chemist refused to accept the honor, declaring that he would never forget 1ST. lx consequence of the death of Secretary Greshatn, the receptions which were to have been given by Ambassador to England itayard and Secretary Roosevelt wore cancelled, and the Uags over the United States embassy and Mr. Hayard's residence were lowered to 'half-mast. On the 20th Dr. Luger, te antiSemite leader in the Austrian reiehsrath and vice-burgomaster of Vienna, refused to aceept the otlice of burgomaster, to which he was elected, because the majority he received was the smallest that was permitted by the law to electTun emperor of Japan, after a stay of many months at Hiroshima, made a triumphal return to the capital on the 30th. The streets and houses were ffaily decorated and the populace were intenselj enthusiastic. Yokohama was also enthusiastically en fete in honor of the occasion. Tub supreme court of the United States, in an opinion read by Justice Jlrewer. on the 27th, denied the motion for a writ of Italiens corpus filed by Eugene Debs and his associates of the American Railway u.i on, and they will have to serve the sentences imposed upon them by the court Ti:k mayor and the members of the corporation of Southampton paid a visit to the United States training ship Alliance, on the -!7tli. where they were entertained at luncheon. A salute of thirteen guns was fired in honor of the visitors, and the ship's band played ltritish and American national airs. Alivicr.s received in Washington from Havana by the surgeon-general, on the 20th. were to the effect that the situation in that city with reference to yellow fever were unchanged. A letter from Santiago states that in that city all regular hospitals are erowdetl, and that in the country thereabouts many hospitals have been improvised which are also full. With civic and martial honors and in the presence of avast multitude, including notables. Grand Army and confederate veterans and common people, the remains of the late secretary of state, Walter Q. tiresham.wero deposited in a crypt in the chapel at Oakwoods cemetery, in Chicago, on the 30th, there toremain until the family decides upon the final place of interment. Wai.tih: QtiNToN Ghhsiiam, secretary of state in President Cleveland's cabinet, died, after a somewhat protracted illness, at 1:15 o'clock on tho morning of the 2Sth. at his rooms in the Arlington hotel in Washington. Although he had suffered much during his illness, his last hours were pushed painlessly in the presence of his wife and daughter and the hitter's husband. It was authoritatively stated in Co lnmbus, Ind., on the Uftth, that notwithstanding his valuable services to his state and country at largo and to the church, ex-tlov. Ira P. Chase, recently deseased, left his family in actual poverty. For a quarter of a century his wife hns been a confirmed invalid, and for fifteen years totally blind. A movement will at once be started to raise n fund for the maintenance of Mrs. Chase in her declining jjrears.

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JUNE-1895. ft I San. Moil. TnoJWefljTIiüJFriJSatit l 2 3 0 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 10 18 1 19 25,20 20 21221 '3 24! 27 2820 CUlütENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A toiivkdo boat, built at the Germania wharf at Kiel for the Turkish government, wns making her trial trip tw Kekernfoerde, on tho 27th, when her boiler exploded. Six of the crew were j iustantlv killed anil fourteen were i mortully injured. AnoiT two inches of -snow fell through northern Wisconsin on the night of the 20th. The snow was preceded by rain, which put out the forest fires that had been spreading seriously. Mom; cavalry regiments for Cuba embarked at Cadiz on the 27th. A battalion of infantry which had been ordered to the Phillippine islands was, at the same time, diverted to Cuba. .1. I', Mohoa.v Ä Co., of New York, closed the subscription lists to the Terminal Railroad Association of Su Louis bonds on the 37th, the issue having been largely over-subscribed, though the books were only open thirty minutes. There are $t,. 100,000 of the bonds, and they bear 5 per cent, interest, pnyable in gold. Thk French steamer Dom Pedro was wrecked, on the 27th, off Cape Corrubedo. She was bound from Pasagcs for Carillo. She struck the Hajes Corrubedo, when her boilers exploded, sinking her in a few minutes. Part of her passengers and crew were saved, but IO.'i persons were drowned. Mkndu. How.vho, an American, who was arrested and arraigned in the How Street police court, London, on April 30, on the charge of having in Iiis possession a quantity of engraved plates and other matter for forging notes, was. on the 2sth, committed for trial without bail. Mhs. Hakhy It. Smith, wife of the auditor-elect of Muriou county, Ind.. slipped and fell as she was entering her yard on the 27th. Roth limbs were broken, one above and one be low the knee, and one kneecap was splintered. She is a heavy woman! and was returning after playing lawn tenuis. Her tennis shoes were slippery and caused the fall. A distinct earthquake shocic was felt at Hrattleboro, Vt about 11:15 a. in. on the'Jsth. The vibrations seemed to be from west to east, and continued from ten to twelve seconds, accompanied by a heavy, rumbling sound. Residents in several parts of the village rushed front their homes in great fright. The shock was felt in other parts of the county, and was the heav iest ever known there. Jacoii Hk.nson, colored, under sentence of death at KUicott City, Md., for the murder of Daniel F. Shea, was hanged by lynchers about 1 o'elock on the morning of the '.'3th. A placard was left pinned to the dead man's breast on which was written: "We respect our court and judges. Gov. Hrown forced the law-abiding citizens to carry out the verdict of the jury. White Caps." Hi'HOl.AKS entered the store oi W. M. Hrown, United States trader at White Ragle Indian agency, a few miles north of Perry, Okla., on the night of the 27th, and stole 5)2,000 from the safe. Hrown is head trader for four or live tribes of Indians. Clerks were sleeping in the store at the time of the burglary. Ghkat destitution is reported in a strip of country embracing a part of Grant county, Okla. While nearly all of the territory has had splendid rains, there is a distance extending from 4 miles south of Enid, north a distance of 20 miles, almost to Medford, and from 0 miles west of Round Pond east nearly to Lamout, a distance of 10 miles, where there had been no rain since October until quite recently. Tin: trial of -Herman Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, alias Howard, at Philadelphia, on the charge of conspiring to defraud the Hdelity Mutual Life association out ofSlO.OOOby the imposition of a corpse as that of P.enj. F. Pltezel, was brought to an abrupt ending on the 2Sth, when the prisoner pleaded guilt v- Sentence was deferred. L.rAVKTTH Phinci:, the Cleveland (0.) wife-murderer, was hanged in the penitentiary annex at Columbus, on the 2Sth. He had professed religion and was calm and unmoved to the last. j His neck was broken by the drop. ! On the night of the 29th Frank Ryan, j for many years a prominent figure at the St. Louis Merchants' exchange, und whose operations were on so large a scale as to gain him a national reputation, died in his rooms nt the Southern hotel. Mr. Ryan had suffered for several years with diabetes and an enlargement of the liver. Euasmc.h FitKiiKiticK shot and killed his former employer, .lohn IL Lewis, superintendent of the Renton Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, because the latter insisted on putting Frederick off with $Us for Sil worth of work which had taken two weeks to accomplish. Tm: Ohio republican state convention, which met nt Zancsvitle, on the 28th, nominated CUn. Asa A. Kushncl! for governor. Tiik first issue of the Chicago Chronicle, 'the only democratic newspaper in Chicago, made its"ppcarance on the aath. Tin: Kptscopnl convention for the diocese of Kansas, on the 28th. elected Dean Millspaiigh, of Topeku, bishop to succeed the late Illtihop Thomas.

A skuiocs swine epidemic Is raging in Hungary and In some districts In Austria. The mortality is 40 to Ml per cent., being the worst in Stclnbruckcn, where the loss has already reached over 4,000,000 florins. On tho -'0th Inspector Waterbury, at Salt Lake City. Utah, arrested C. W. Carter, accessory to the robbery of the post ofllec at Rock springs, Wyo. OX the 27th the steamship Colima, with persons on board, including passengers and crew, foundered off the western coast of Mexico. Fourteen passengers and live memKrs of the crew are all that were known to have been saved, thongh lames were entertained that other boats, containing all or nearly till of the missing, would yet make the laud. On- the 2tth it was stated that the hull of the ill-fated steamer Chicora has been found lying at tho bottom of Lake Michigan, about it miles from the pier ut St. Joseph. Mich. ON the 21th whilst the military were in line waiting the order to fall-in for the vlresham obsequies in Washington, Capt. Whipple, of the ordnance bureau of the war department, one of Gen.

Rugor'sstaiY.was prostrated by u slight j stroke of apoplexy. He was taken to the Emergency hospital, whence he was later removed to his home. On the 2ttl .lohn A. Carr, a wellknown capitalist of Portland, Ore., was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for jury bribing. Carr was convicted of attempting to bribe a juror in the murder case of "ISuneo" Kelly, who killed old man Sayers. On the 29th the fulminating house of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., at New Haven. Conn., blew up. An employe named Jeremiah Spillane was killed. Tin: Gold Standard association of London has distributed circulars widespread, inviting memberships and pecuniary subscriptions wherewith to establish a propaganda for the issuance of pamplets. etc. Wmi.n reviewing- the parade of the Grand Army of the Republic from the stand in Madison square, in New York city, on the 30th, Gov. Morton was prostrated by the heat, and was removed in a carriage to the Fifth Avenue hotel, where he so far recovered as to "be able to be present at the ceremonies at the tomb of Gen. Grant during the afternoon. At the request of the governor Mayor Strong reviewed the parade. That neither Marti nor Gomez, Cuban insurgent leaders, nre dead or even wounded, was declared, on the 30th, to be positively known in Havana. It is said the report of their death was spread by the Spanish otlicers to raise the drooping spirits of their troops, and to inspire confidence in the money marketand thereby assist Spain to negotiate a needed loan. A now of men guarding cattle which were being driven to Santiago de Cuba to supply the city with meat, was intercepted by insurgents, on the 20th, and a force of troops was sent to their assistance. A fight ensued, in which two rebels were killed and five wounded. The government loss was two killed and four wounded. A Ck.vtr.vi. Nkws dispatch from Vienna, on the 30th, sa!d the government had decided to dissolve the Vienna town council and to appoint an imperial commissary to administer the municipal affairs of the city. A gas pipe two feet long, filled with dynamite, and with fuse attached, was found, on the 30th, in the basement of the Grand Missouri hotel, in Kansat City, Mo. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Tiikek l.ritish war ships were, on the 31st. ordered to Jiddah, the seaport of Mecca, with orders to investigate the circumstances of the killing of the british vice-consul at that place and the wounding: of the ltritish consui. and the French consular secretary, by a band of Reduoins, and also to protect the lives and property of foreigners. Mis HrKi.AH Ki:x.VAitii, who prepared the missionary calendar of prayer which is in use in nearly all the Itaptist churches throughout the country, and who was one of the bestknown women connected with that denomination, died at her residence in Philadelphia on the night of the 30th. Apoplexy was the cause of death. On the night of the 80th a sponging vessel, fully provisioned, was stolen from its moorings at Key West, Fin., and has since been missing. The vessel was presumably taken by Cuban sympaMiizers. A soldier deserted from the United States barracks at the same point and is supposed to have joined the stoop. Tin: steamers Norman and Jiicit were in collision in a dense fog near Middle island. Lake Huron, on the niht of the 30th. The Norman sank, carrying down with her the steward's wife, a watclimnn anil a deckhand. The .lack was alloat at last accounts, but i-t a "badly damaged condition. Tin: cruiser P.ennlngton left Mae Island navy yard, on the ;;nth, for Honolulu, to relieve the flagship Phil a-Wphlu. which is expected to return iiome with Admiral P.eardslee, who wi'.t hoist his Hag on the Olympia at San Francisco. I nr.ltR was a collision, on the Hist, a few miles north of Ksennaba, Mich., between an ore train and Lemon Rro.'s circus train, in which five circus men were badly injured, n valuable horse was killed and several cars badly wrecked. Tin: United States treasurer, on tho 31st, mailed 1,113 checks, aggregating $120.922. for the payment of interest on United States bonds of the funded loan of PW1, continued at 2 per cent. A dispatch from Hong Kong says the .hipane.se tnmtcd ut Kelong, Fortnon, on the "0th, and fighting- began next day, the Japanese war ships bombarding ICelong. Tin: steam trawler ltittcrn foundered off Grimsby, England, on the 31st, 'and nine of her crew were drowned. (iKoimi: StkimiknuGouoh, second Viscount Gough, died In London on the 31st. lie was 70 years of age.

I LVJHANA STATE NEWS.

Tin: jury at Indianapolis, in t'.ui Copelnnd shooting case, found him not fidlty. Thk Pike County Democrat is a quarter of a century old and still growing. Vigo county will resist the schoolfund tax in order to test the law. Smai.m'ox scare at Tell City is over uid the schools have reopened. IxniANAi'oi.is' Commercial elub is to discuss how to reduce the death rate. At Evansville John Manner, aged 17, killed John Smith, aged 27, with a billiard cue. They had quarreled during a game of pool. A LAi'oitri: man has invented a paper rim for bicycle wheels. A.vm:itso.v hns a firm of three female paper-hangers. They have been asked to join the paper-hangers' union. Rkv. Havok.v Rayiu'HN, of Logansport, has married 1.217 couples. Shki.iiy county's courthouse has been repainted and papered. Pk.viii.s are being found in the White river near Gosport. Clinton county farmers report very little wheat left Ahoit 1.10 Italians are working on the roadway of the Indianapolis, Rockport .t Chattanooga railroad between Rockport and Newtonville. Thk new First Methodist church, of Terre Haute, costing over $40,000, was dedicated the other day. Rishop Joyce and Kev. T. I. Coulta, of Indianapolis, preached. Nearly $1.1,000 was raised at the services to apply toward paying the debt. The chureh seats 3,000. ' W.m. Howma.v, while plowing on his farm near Oswego, Kosciusko county, found several Indian relics, among the number being a perfectly-formed spear-head and an implement resembling a hatchet. They were discovered near the surface, the hatchet being broken and the parts lying 2." yards apart. TiinitK are 77 attorneys at Elkhart. Lonowood's depot is now a heap of asncs. Onk-thihi) of Mt. Vernon's school children are colored. So says an ex change. Indiana stands fifth in the list of states as to the appraised value of property for taxation. Indianapolis sanitary foflieers will come out in new togs .nine 2. inen look out, epidemics. Michigan Citv high school bovs arc being taken through a course of military discipline. At Shelbvvillc John Poland took a dose of laudanum bv mistake and came near dying. Miss. Nki.uk Ci.kooi:tt, on trial at Greenfield, charged with killing her infant child, was the other morning found guilty. Her punishment is five years is the Woman's Reformatory. A Tit.vvni.iNfs man went up against the electric dice game at Indianapolis. Lost 200. Härtender in hoe. Thk New Richmond bank has de cided to discontinue its deposit depart ment and has paid its depositors. T. E. Davidson, an attorney of Columbus, received notice of his appointment to n foreign mission as as sistant treasurer nt the Pekin (China) Methodist school. lie will sail for his new post August 13. Whii.k a gang of men were clearing the farm of Charles Stewart, near Robtown, the other day. a large stone was turned over and thirty-two large flints, In the shape of arrowheads and hearts, were found. Hobtown is near Johnsville. The police raided one of ths crap joints which have spung up in the suburbs of Elwood, since gambling houses were closed, and captured twenty of the inmates, among them several society men. They where heavily fined and released. Indianapolis is to have a woman deputy sheriff. FitANKFoitT has opened brick streetpaving bids. Stki'iikn Ci.anct, Elwood, who went insane from being hit on the head with bricks during a fight, has become a raving maniac. RlCKKltT. Randolph county, now has a post otlice with Sam C. Rickert a postmaster. Mixnii: Sta.vi.ky, the seven-year-old daughter of George Stanley, of Mitchell, was fatally burned while playing with fire. Tin: C, II. it T). railroad depot at Longwood, a small station four mile.' west of Connersville, burned at noon the other day. Thhkb well-known Anderson women have formed a firm and are doing paper hanging, and doing it fully as well as the men. They have been asked, to join the paper hangers' union. An Auburn barber has a hot and cold set of pictures to hang in his shop. In hummer he puts up winter scenes, and vice versa. Mits. Diu Kau Mint, Noblesville, has fallen heir to a 7.i,000 fortune in Philadelphia. 4 Mkr. Mahoaukt CasoN. mother of Ex-Congressman Cason, died at Lob anon, aged l.r years. A kkmai.i: street fakir is a Richmond novelty. A cofi'i.i: of Klkhnrters are said to have traded wives. Post or kicks in Indiana to be discontinued after May 31: Ivis, Harrison county, and Rapture, Posey county. Thk New Richmond bank has decided to discontinue its deposit department and has paid its depositors. A Itot'si.vo revival meeting was held at Rrn7.ll in the opera house, the other afternoon. Evangelist Munhnll, of Philadelphia, delivered the sermon, All the business houses, including the a loons, were closed and the opera house was crowded. Do hc Ah LrciKN, S-ycar-old daughter of Prof. Win. Lucien, of Nappanee, while playing about a sawmill the other night, was caught by a rolling log, which crushed her chest, and inflicted injuries which resulted in her death a few hours later. A LoOANsrour man attended a ball game and then went home and took Rough un Rats.

GEN. WADE HAMPTON. Alilrr Uillvrrcl li- lli Xoti'il Kx-Con-fi'iltTiili (li'iu-ntl it tln lliillritlhiii or I In- Molimin nt In OiikttoniU ('iiirirrjr, ("lilfiitco, Ii Ilm l'rloiir ut Witr wliu DIimI In Citmi IIuiikIh. Ciik aoo, May III. At the dedication af the confederate monument to tho prisoners of war who died in Camp Douglas, Gen. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, the orator of tho dny, spoke in substance as follows: The scene presented here to-day is one that could not bo witnessed in any country but our own, and for this reason, if for no other, it possesses a significance worthy of the gravest consideration. A few years ago brave men from the north and from the south stood facing each other in hostile array, and the blood of the country was poured like water on many a battlefield. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of our bravest sleep in bloody graves; men who gave their lives to prove tho faith of their convictions; and now north and south, standing by these graves wherever they may be, grasp hands across the bloody chasm and proudly claim federal and confederate soldiers as Americans, men who have given to tho world as noble examples of courage and devotion to duty as can be enrolled on the page of history. Nor is this all that marks this occasion as exceptional and remarkable, and which would render it memorable in our annals for all time to come. No monument in the world lias such an honorable history as attaches to yonder one. That marks the graves of no victorious soldiers, but of the followers of a lost cause; it stands not on southern soil, but on northern; the men who rest under its shadow come from our far off south land, and it owes its erection not to the comrades of these dead soldiers, but mainly to the generosity and magnanimity of their former foes, the citizens of this great city. All honor, then, to the brave and liberal men of Chicairo who have shown by their action

that they regard over, and that they as friends, on this auspicious occasion, enemies. As long the war as can welcome solemn and their former as this lofty column points to Heaven, as long as one stone of its foundation remains, future generations should keep it up with pride, not only as an honor to those who conceived its construction, but as a silent though noble emblem of a restored union and a reunited people. In the name of my comrades, dead and living, and in my own name 1 give grateful thanks to the brave men of Chicago, who have done honor to our dead here, not only as confederate soldiers, but as brave men who preferred imprisonment and death rather than freedom obtained by a dishonorable sacrifice of the principles for which they wen willing to die. We. of the south, measure our dead comrades buried tin re by the standard applied to men after death, and you. of Chicago, have measured them by tht same standard, tho only standard by which vi; can measure men, and by applying this you have shown that you have come to the highest standard vouchsafed to men, and on this north and south can stand, with honor alike to both sections. Are any feil era! soldiers disloyal to the flag under which they fought because thev join in decorating the graves of brave men whom they met in battle? Thousands of federal soldiers rest under southern skies, in southern graves, many in unknown graves. Where some beneath Vindnlnn bills, "And some by irreeti Atlantic rills, 'Some by the waters of the west, "A myrlait unknown heroes rest' "Of them, their patriot zeal and pride, The lofty faith that with them died, "No grateful page .shall further tell. Thau that so many bravely fell." And when on memorial day in the fcouth the graves of our dead are decorated, gray-headed confederate veterans, and noble devoted women, strew flowers over the graves of federal soldiers. If the humane generous action of the people of this city in doing honor to the memory of their old antagonists is denounced us dtsecration, it would seem to follow that the decoration of federal graves by "rebel" hands, should be open to the same criticism, but no denunciation of southern people for daring to honor the memory of men who were once their enemies has met my eyes. When the north called upon its citizens to rally to the defense of the old Hag they responded to the summons from a sense of duty, as did the people of tho south to the call made on them. State allegiance and state pride in eaeli case was the moving cause which arrayed millions of men in arms in this country, and while the war that brought them out caused untold misery to tho country, it has taught a lesson to the nations of the earth, that America in arms can defy the world. It seems to me, too, thai it should inculcate another lesson to us, und that Is that the tim: hu come when the actors in that fearful fratricidal strife und those whom they represent should judge their former opponents as they should themselves be judged. This can be done without the sacrifice ol principle on either side, as the exam pie of our mother country had showr us. York and Lancaster, cavalier nno rcotuilhcud, no longer wage war on each other; all are Englishmen, proud of their country, and the red rose and the white are emblems of peace, and of the glory of old England. Can we not all be proud of the prowess of the American soldiers? A YOUTHFUL MURDESER. A riftccti-Yriir-OIil Hoy Cut Ilm Thrnitl or n coiiiiHiiinii. Stankohii, Ivy., May 0. Marion Thompson, the 15-yoar-old son of J. J. Thompson, a well-known stock trader of Pulaski county, and Arthur Todd, the 15-year-old son of W. H. Todd, had a difliculty at a hinging nt Woodstock last night. Todd cut Thompson In the neck, severing tho carotid nr! tcry, killing him histnntly, Todd then fled. The neighbors are scouring the country for him, but he has not been caught.

DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW, Tb Coiil liiui'il UUh In (In. 'rW,t f Wlii-itt iiml Colt tm. Lahor Truiilil,., ,,., Tlin mIi iiIiil; mill Iii Vuliiiii f rilr' iih Shown by CIimiIiil-Immi Iti-l..-,,,' (Sriicriilly Iihti-uiOiik -Injury t ,,, mill YVIu-ut. 1 Ni:w Vom, June I. I! ;. ) it Co.'s weekly review of trade, issn. ,1 today, says: More far-reaching than anv ,itlt.r change during the past week. If n-aiiv warranted by facts, is the conti,(a.j rise in prices of wheat and cotton Real scarcity of either wouhl afb-ct all business, Happily there is sti; room to hope that accounts of injury are greatly exaggerated, alth.m'i, there has been some evidence ilurin" the week that both the great erop have suffered more than at first up. peared. Other changes are almost a favorable, and somu highly ene iura"ing. Labor troubles are ulearlv lA threatening. Monetary conditions are satisfactory, and the substau. tial increase in the cotum-rcud demand is a good sign. Exchanges through the clearinghouses have bti greatly in Rated by speculation, ami at this time last year were cut down ;nthe coal strike, and toward theemt of May, ISO:., greatly reduced by bank failures. Rut for the week tln-y exceed last year's by Hi per cent, an l fall only . 1.11 per cent, below those of i. while the daily average for May is percent, larger than last year, but 7 jo percent, less than In ISiKt. Stock speculation has shrunk to b-ss than half its volume three weeks ago, and is almost wholly confined to prfessionals. in spite of better earnings. The aggregate for May is 3..S percent, larger than last year, but Rl.aper cent, less than in lsUÖ, causes above-im-n-tioned affecting the comparison with both years. London has done scarcely anything, though still taking bonds enough to prevent disturbanceof exchange. The decline in railroad stocks averages but 4t cents per share, and grain-carrvinp roads arc supported with such tenac ity as to show that railroad managen and owners have very small faith in reports of injury to grain, Wheat on the other hand is largely supported by public buying, nnd the purchasing orders from fanning re glons are supposed to indicate an opinion of the yield. Yet wheat eome forward freely, as it would not at cur rent prices if a short crop were assured, and western receipts for tht month have been r,ÜH,'7l bushels, against 5.."?.V-"S last year. Nor do Atlantic exports reflect in creased haste to buy abroad, amount ing in four weeks, Hour includcil, t f., ls3,PJ0 bushels, against 7,0 Uu'lM last year. Accounts still indicate thai spring wheat was not injured am promises well in spite of some reports 1ml in a few winter wheat states tho yield has been cut down, how much cannot yet he judged. The sales ol the great vtoclc held by the Fair estati at San Francisco will lessen the E: ropeau demand upon Atlantic stocks. Corn is ',"ä cent", lower, lard is H cents per 100 pounds higher, pork is 2" cents lower and hogs t!0 cents per b pounds lower. Cotton continues strong because it is believed there will be much reduo lion in the yield per acre, as well se in acreage. Xo estimate based on defi nite information nuts the decrease ic acreage at more than i:i..r per cent, which, with a yield per acreage equal to last year's, would mean a crop of (MOO.000 bales. Months must pass before there can be anything definite known as to the probable yield per acre, unless widespread disaster comes, but the market has been acting as though the future were known. Speculation lias diminished in volume and the fact that takings ol spinners have exceeded the maximurr consumption over tOO.OOil bales in northern states and twice as much abroad, makes the commercial stock in sight, :i,3S4,ft.VJ bales last week look still lanrer. The advance this

week has been only a sixteenth and it is supposed that the stronger specula tors have realized. The manufacture is doing well, though not all the machinery is employed, but the demand has been better and there are occasional advances in prices of goods. Sales of wool for the month have been 10,770,150 domestic and lO.OXVOOO foreign, against 10,901,700 domestic and 0,207, 100 foreign in 1812. but stocks arc rapidly accumulating, and at Chicago are said to be the largest ever carried. In prices there is no change. The iron manufacture is gaining rap idly, and the average of prices elsewhere given, which had fallen since February 1 to .14. lo per cenL of the prices In October, 1S00, has now riseii to .10.14 per cent., most of the advance having been in May. bessemer pig has been lifted to 11.(1.1 and gray forgi to 10.40 at Pittsburgh by the growing demand; tank steel plates are $ per ton higher at Philadelphia, and nail producers have combined, raising wire nails to SI. 1.1 and cut nails toSl by car loads at Pittsburgh. Failures for three weeks of Ma have shown liabilities ainounlng t $7.4.1.1,1211, of which Sii.oT.'.lHM were of manufacturing and SL-'I0,tV57 of trading concerns. For tho same weeks last year the liabilities amounted tr S7.7s?,lM, of which $3,350,912 were of manufacturinu' and S3,27."i,'J75 of trading concerns. The failures during the past week have been 21.1 in the United States against is:; last year; and 31 in Canada, against last year. A MINATURE HADES. Nlnety-Thoiimid Itiirrrl of IVtrolcum on Firn. II A.Miii'HO, June 1. -During a thunder storm late yesterday afternoon lightning .struck and set fire to a number of Nhcds, containing 00,000 barrels of petroleum, on the Island of WUlielmsburg, opposite this city. The petroleum was owned by the Rreinen Tending Co., an English firm. The entire stock of r.,fi00 tons of oll hi four tnnks and 1,200 barrels was consumed. Tho loss Is il.10'1,000, covered by insurance