Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 40, Number 11, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 November 1897 — Page 2

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l'rm bus t ii'ii stops t. secure whatever ai vsnlages may be reaped under tin' reciprocity clause of the new tariff act. An .inMin'.i'soi'hl Ruthas bceudiecovvrvA iu QeTUMsUJ of wonderful power and cheapness. V single jot of ordinary sUoomiU light of much more thun l.ooo-candle power. Thk phjflfsMni i" alien. lauee upon Jon. Benjamin llutterworth, eomiuisaioner of patents, who is ill with pneumonia ut the 'lullenden hotel. Clevelaud. f, on the Ith gave butdiltle eucourageUMUt for Iii; recovery. Sknoii Pominoik.. the lawyer who is defending the Conepatitor prlconcri at Havana, is sanguine of securing at

least na Melton s re-least', and believe that the hberatiou of all the Ainerieau prisoners probably will follow soon. A i et ikk from Vienna says the published reports of the political situation in the Austrian empire eouvey u adequate uiea of the chaos prevailing in that couutry ou account of the political tight between the Periuaus and the Cxecha.

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CUJiKEXT TOJ'ICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The condition of the members of the Turkish embassy iu llerlin is deplorable. Not one of them has received Lis salary for over a year, aud their lebt- iu tue oily aggregate L 500,909 murks. Tradesmen are nuporluuiug them for money. A ie i.Eit ATioN of Lie Indians, who Weill to Washington to get the ussiirauee of the secretary of the interior that the Ureal Father thought it best for the tribe to taUe eUotUMUtn, left the oapital, on the Mh. saying they would return to their tri le aud advise them to aeeept allotments. 1 Ji kok BsUCMX. iu the New York supreme court, on the Sth, denied the motion to dismiss the suit brought by Mrs. Anteil to establish her right of power in the estate of the lale day tiould. The suit was ordered placed on the prefei od ease calendar for the trat Mouday iu December. I.n the trial of Martin Thorn. at Long Island i ity.N. V. ou the luth, for complicity iu the murder oi William Gel densuppe. Mis. Augusta Nack, a niidevife.joiutly indicted for the crime, w ent upou the witness stand and turned state's evidence, claiming that her accomplice killed ti u ideusuppe. A MESUM of anarchists was held in Berlin, on the llth. to celebrate the anniversary of the execution of the anarchists of llaymarket square, hi UUgO Several iuihiuuuatory speeches were made, ami tiually the police, interrupting the diatribe of a female speaker, dissolved the meeting. Thk Itrilish minister to li recce. Mr. E Ii. ürgetou, has returned t" Athens, anl ia distributing slothing, etc., to the destitute Thenealil i- It has been decided to appeal to Europe and Australia to raise the sum of M9M (llou OcJOl, with vi eh to relieve the terribl. d, stress prevailing- in lircece.

In hasty action of the lower court in tixuig 'lie 19th as the date of execution of Theixbire Purraut, the convicted murderer of Louche i.amont, was ovcriuicd. on tiie llth, by the supreme eourtof aliforma which unanimously granted a writ of "probable cause" aud forbade the execution of the sentence.

O.s the tflh the ministers of the I inted .states, Grant Britain mm Permany addressed a collective note to the l'eruviau government asking that the bill for legal i.ation of uuu-i atholic marriages be included among the measures to he named by I'resiileut Pierola w lieu convoking the extraordinary sesaiou of MongfunUi in Joseph i i 1:1:, the alleged French anarchist, who had been refused admittance to lite I uited States and was com e I led to remain iu tiie City of hftxiOO and for tiiat reason was detuiued on the .Mexican gunbo.it Zaragoza, was, on the luth, turned over to the I'reiicli steamer Nioruiaud.c to be acut back to France.

The statement was maiie on higii

authority, ou the llth, that the committee having 111 charge llio refunding of iiiatiiring issues of bouds of the Kock Island company had accepted a pTopOeltion to refund iuto a four-per-awti l'ii.la.l of tlie Hook Island 1sin sas they become due. One block of V6,uou,uou matures in 1 A sew industry was started at Oweusboro, Ky .on the 'Jlh. with 100 emploves. It is to BtUtM -o.-nstalks. l.oinosefor lining battleships, mate rial for mskiug imitation of ailk aud for making celluloid are amoug its products. Faper ia another production. Y. W. tubbs, of PkUadalpttla, is president, and the stockholders are eastern capitalists. Us: the sth. amid jeers, catcalls and hisses, which the police vainly entb avored to prevent, the common council of the city of Philadelphia voted to give sway to a ring of politicians and capitalists the most valuable property now owneil by the city, BaOMljT, the gas vorUs. worth at least JHO,UOO,oou. It was a scene unpic m the history of Americau muuicipal affairs.

( i k n . James (. ÜL'Ank, 73 jears old, a uieiiiber of the Aqueduct Willakm, died ut Ins home in New York, on lue sth, of apoplexy. He was a gr.iouuteitf West Point, in the class of Ms, iin,l was instructor of engineering in the I into. I Mates ,in,ut.u academy from I HI mil U the bt eiii, i ng out of I ho eivul war, in which ho served with distinction with the aruiv of the I'o-tuuiac.

Os the sth the I nited States supreme court atlirmed the decisiou of the cirralt court of the California circuit, refusing a writ of habeas corpus to William Henry Theodore Purrant, under sentence of death for the murder of Miss 1!. am he Lainout, iu San Francisco, in April, I W6 Hauiiv PlBMOlf, aged v:5. an iier. was crushed to death iu the engine room of Swift's packing house at Fast St. bonis. 111., on the 8th. being caught in the or. ink shai't, whien hewasoiliug, and whirled around uutil he was a lifeless mass. Btf Nisn and lb y Niinn, father and sou, were each sentenced, at (iindivui, Mich., on the Sth, to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary at Jackson, 'fhelr crime was murdering t'urliee Wright. Fmant n. Fkieni. counsel for Mrs. Mack, accused of complicity in the Quldettaappa monier La Now York, reported, on the Blgkt of the '.Hh, that bis client had made a confession and would go ou the stund, on the 10th. uml testify against Thorn, her alleged accomp . ice. A iitok appeared at the White Mouse, on the '.Hh. and demanded to see Idaat McKinley. He said the president had not treated him right. He tried to go up by the elevator, but was taken iu charge by ofticiais aud placed in the police station. Thk annual meeting of tbe general committee of the I Yeodmun's Aid and Southern Education aoeietj was concluded at the Hans u Place M. & church. Brooklyn, on the Wth. The birthday of the prince of Wales was celebrated in London, ou the Hth, with the usual Mac hoisting, bell riugioj.' and artillery salutes. He was born Norwnbar . 141. A plsi-Ai'i M from lJuenos Avres saya that a general frost has severely injured the w heat mid tlax crops of the Argentine republic. The wheat crop of Italy is estimated at about 'i0 percent, of last year's crop, or M .. TÜU bushels. (lOT. Leeuv of Kansas has been reiues!ed to investigate the circumstances connected with the purchase of soap by the state board of charities for use of the various state institutions. It is asserted that the board is paying II cents a pound for soap, which can be purchased for three cents a pound, La I New, a corporal of (J company, Fourth infantry, stationed at Fort Sheridan. Chicago, has been summarily reduced to the ranks without charges or trial. He test. tied against I apt. Löveling at the recent iiniuiry into the Hammond case. Pit Kiwahi NaWMCnaY, founder of Brentwood, Long Inland, died, on -the Uth, from pneumonia, contracted at the funeral of Henry iioo. ge. lie .was an intimate friend of Henry (ieorge. and an earnest ad vocate of the single tax. At Columbia. S. C, on the loth. Pe tective W. II. Newhold, of the state force, looking after violations of the whiskv law, shot mil iiilcl Kov. J. W. Turner, a baptist preacher, OO suspicion. Turner, who was in a buggy driving through the oitv. was commanded by the detective to halt, lie did not halt promptly, and w as shot. The detective lied to escape being

lynched. FlltK in the flve-story-building on Central pier. Brooklyn, occupied by the lloyal I'iantation Coffei I ., did tflifl.OiH itnwiipn Ten thonnand hags of coffee were stored in the building. Thk annual dinner of the National BOOM -Market club was held at the Mechanics hotel in Hostou ou the night of the 10th. Fully 1.0 10 persons attended. The most dist inguished guests were Congressmen Nelson A. Dingley, of Maine; Charit A. Russell,

of Connecticut, and Jonathan r, LMiiver, of Iowa, und Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts. MiMBiL Pi am o, on the lOlh, removed from his command the local military commander nl tiibara. prince of Santiago de Cuba, for allowing a

demonstrat ion in honor of Lieut. -tieu. Weyler. when he went on shore there a few days ago from the steamer Mout sorrat. which had put into that port owing to a misnap in her mach inery. Mas. Mahoahki Poi oiian died at her home in i hieopee Falls. Mass., ou tbe luth. Sue was born iu Ireland, and claimed tobe LM years old. Her husband corroborated her story, and said that he discovered in the records of her birthplace that she was born in 17TH. liKSI. Fl 1 7.11 1 Uli LKE, I'nited Stales consul -general at Havana, sailed from New York, on the 10th, fort uba. The Princeton collegians were great ly disappointed when it bOOMM known, on the 10th, that ( trover loveland's son was hi be named Richard Folsnm Cleveland. They had given the young gentleman the name of (rover Cleve land, jr., on the day of his birth and hoped it would slick to him. The name decided upon is given iu honor of Mrs. Cleveland's father. William J, KKAHMi. il years of age. who resided w ith his parents iu North Homestead, l'n.. died, on the night of iMh. from the results of a-i injury received In a football game al Swissvale ten days bo fore. He was injured who playing half back for one of two team--engaged iu the nrMthnv.

Tbbodou Pi hhant, Mm nontlnh! murderer of IJlaucho Lauiout, was taken into court at San Francisco. 041 the Mth. an I was promptly resentenced by.ludgo Hahrs tobe hanged on the lJth. deapiU the efforts of his lawyers to sev-uro further delay. Tin; ofticiais of the lilasgow (Scotland! joiners' union have posted notices iu all the shoos of that oitv forbidding members of the union to hang doors which have been made in the l inte l Slates, or to ust manufactured joinery which has boon imported from America. i m ii sof this year's cotton crop, as tabulated ut Memphis. Tenu.. show an average of LQ,O0i,tH bales. The lowest estimate is tf.oou.ouo baloe; the highest, lO.T.'.O.UOO bales. J. M. llichai t-on. the largest cotton planter in the world, makes the high estimate. Ar a depth of Ko feet in the now workings of the Hawkeye, situated on Plum gulch, two miles from Headwood, s. a body of fron milling gold ore has been st ruck, w Ii ich shows an assay of $i,'.isii iu gold per tou. toi.. Hknhv C. Cook, commander of the I'ifth infantry, I'nited States army, stationed at Fort Mei'horsou. Atlanta, i .it.. lias issued an order which prohibit! any further playing t)f match games of football on that reservation. The Middlesboro (Ky.) niachiue works and foundry, one of the largest plants iu the south, were destroyed by tire on the P'th. The plant employed JAO tuen, aud was being enlarged. The loss on the main building will roach uuü. James Simtson, engineer, and John Boblnnon, g rtman, of a freight engiue on the Borlington Missouri Hiver railroad iu Nebraska, wore blown from their cab by the explosion of the enjjiuo boiler, ou the loth, and both instantly killed. Mus. Mini .v MooitE, acolored woman, who lived iu Lawrence. Kas.. many years, died, on the loth, at the age of llä yours. She was born in Kentucky ami w as reared a slave. A II A v a letter to the New York Sun aays that IM.OOQ ( u bans have perished from hunger since Sepl-inber 10. The heavier mortality is re.... ted from the reconcentrado districts. The statement of the Condition of the I'nited States treasury issued on the llth showed: Available cash balance. IMn, 160,081; gold reserve, $15.V OO.'i.OM). Mus. OnonOI I'aiii uiix.E. formerly o, St. Louis, many years connected with the great Blddl! Market Mission Suu-day-school of that city, died in SanFrancisco, on the llth. aged SB years. The trial of Martin Thorn for the niurderof William oildeiisuppo, w hich was begun at Long Island City, on the 7th, was suspended, ou the llth. owing to the dangerous illneaa of Jnror Magnus Larsen. 1 he jury was discharged. Mi the 1-th. and it new trial ordered. Kii. i c Alt and a number of private citizeus of Sweden have contributed sufticient mouev to insure the dispatch of a Swedish polar expedition in ls'.i-i, which will be led by Prof, Nathorst, the geologist- The cost of the expedition is estimated at To.ooo crow ns. Pit. Pakhv, secretary of the Pritisl, arbitration alliance, ou the llth. presented to Lord Salisbury a memorial with 't4..'T'i signatures attached in favoi of an Anglo-American arbitration treaty. Mus. W. W. DlTOUCY, wife of Pen Dudley, of Indiana, the former com uiissionor of pensions, died in Washing, ton on the 1 Ith. the llth, the earl of Russlyn wav, adjudicated a bankrupt. LATE NEWS ITEMS.

H00SIEK IIAPI'KMNUS Told !n Britd by Dinp itchoa frota Various Localition. a 9mm Ukelri Liiiorte, lud., Nov. 10. The last legislature passed u law extending the tarnt! of m antjf tmnnnn m to .inn nary I. The term oi igiually expiied Novoinber If The present iiieutubents were made ineligible for appointment, iiiuking H neci'ssary for bourds f eounty i omnnliilnn!f i to HU the raonnofnni F. C. Mann, of this cit y, t roasui or elect, lias filed his bond. Tbe connni-sioiiers lave chosen II. F. Zha r n to sorx e f rum November U to January i. Mann will demand possession of the office, whien will be denied, and notion will at once be begun in the courts tötest the constitutionality of the luvv. The MM! v IU be earned to the supreme court, w hero n decision will be rendered whieli will affect the status of claims to possession (if the treasurer's orheo in every county In Indiana.

I hurueil ssllli llrlltory. Flkhart. Ind.. Ko. 10. County Commissioner Charles Wally und F.dwnrd W. Kennison. of this county, have been in- ' dieted for bribery and larceny from the COttnty. En-County Treasurer V. II. Pobleninn accuses them of taking r bribe from him in order to got then tU nllow a bill which he presented to then nrainst 'he eounty. The indict men t is , for taking money belonging to the county. This affair is the OUtgTOWth of ihe alleged defalcation of Heidenau as treasure,-, he being eompotlod to relinquish his ofiioc on account of inability to secure bondsmen, his former bondsmen having withdrawn, oat Ofllrpi to lie ( onsolldntod. Wnshing-ton, D. C, Nov. 10. Assista nt I'ostmastor-Peneral Heath made arrangement for the consolidation of post office! in the vicinity of Indlnnott olis in conformance Writ! the greater Indianapolis plans. Fifteen additional carriers will be allowed and nttofUO tery clerk provisions will he innde. Post Office Inspector Fletcher ha been wired to proceed to Indianapolis and to arrange for th! new service if possible by December 1. Four or live post offices will give place to post office itationi snd substations. Aeenaesl f Kenteet. Fort Wayne. Ind., Nov. 1(1. Henry Smith was arrested by officers of the Humane society ehnrired with willful neglect of his 12-yeur-oid daughter

Effle, The girl has been niüncj for two week!, and Smith refused to employ a phyaiclan, but sent to Huntington for in elder in the Saints church, who h.s

been praying for the girl. She is I off firing with typhoid pnentnrnin. and is ; near death, and, ns the father would no' j weaken in bis stund, he was arrested. Did Siot Kiiriilh the Knife. Lnporte. Ind., Nov. 10, With tears ' streaming- down her cheeks Mrs. Pinkerton. wife of the murderer and suicide, appeared before Coroner Long and ; pleaded she did not give her husband i the knife with w hieb ho added self-miir-der to the crime of which he had already been adjudged guilty, The coroner is unable to fasten the responsibility for Pinkerton'i possession of the

knife, nnd the mystery will probably tu vor be revealed.

LAND REGULATIONS

HnanMa öeeannlng the öaenpnslen " i r 1'tatma la si. HtaManala Military Usasrsatloii iMKuril l.y Sf. rrlary of Wr AI r i' rinn Mol TraaefseaM He setaU blallllrd sulrlls iu be Tolvralssl WUUlu i iix Mease vat tn. Wasiuno Iosj, Nov. Hi. Secretary Alger has issued regulations governing the use and occupation of lauds Mithin the limits of the military re rvatiou of St. Michael, A las', a. The regulations are substau tiully as follows: Applicat.ons for permission to conduct Ingltinat! bnalnena enterprises in u -.i be nooouipanled by tntlinoninl! of good chnmcter nod standing, ree ling the nature of the business to be Conducted; the location, us nearly us possible, on unoccupied laud within the reae rrntion s th! men of laud neoessary; n u mbcr and character Of buildings, etc., to be erected, aud probable dale w hen occupancy is to be collittMnend and terminated. Those located on this reservation at the time thf reservation was made will in like manner present their applications for pornots. The permit will authori.e til! grantees t.. maintain the specified business und none other at tiie places name. I. The permit will not bo negotiable and will be of no value or effect until preaen ted u and recorded i.y the con in. Hiding officer of Fort St. Michael, and the location staked out by him. it will not be transferable witboul the approval of the secretary of war, except where both parties to the transfer arc ou the ground and one desires to dispose of Iii.- interest, ill which event the commanding officer of Fort st. Michael may authori.e the transfer. It will give no right or title to owner ship of lands and is revocable at the will of the secretary of war. Occupants under these permits will bo subject at all times to such police regulations us may be imposed from time to time by the commanding officer of Fort St. .Michael or higher authority. In case of nat irally restricted landings, sites for buildings, ship yards, etc., no monopoly will be given to an person or Corporation and no permit will bo construed to this end. All disagreements between holders of permits will, after a eoroftti hearing by tlim be. settled by th! coin nOtttliUg ofSeer Of Fort St. Michael. No retail of distilled spirits iu the reservation will be allowed; but this prohibition shall uoi include Hght wines or beer. It is to be understood that this I permits are issued subject to any subsequent legislation of congress. Provision is made for reserving sufficient lands for the post at St. MiehM .-.and for the modification and termination of permits.

It is said one of th! first bills to be introduced in the Now York legislature w ill be one providing for a new state, to bo carve i out of the Fmpire s:ate, by permitting n constitutional amend tuent to be passed and approved by tin I'nited States government divoecing H counties of the state and including them in what shall be known as the Btat! of Manhattan, with a population of :,u()j, jjü. ÜTMIKINO evidence of Spain's financial strait is furnished in the dispatch of the Madrid correspondent of the

London Daily Mail, cabled to t hat paper

on the Vi b, saying the Spanish gov

ernment, lindiiitf it impossible to raise the sum of tlt.OOi). 000 I SI .". 000. 00u) b.V loan or taxation to carry out its original naval plans bad deeded to build two new cruiser.-, only of ü.0i0ton each. ti the Uth Mayor Warwick of Philadelphia signed the bin recently passed by t o- councils leasing the city tfas works to the I'nited this Improvement Co. The term-, of the lease are that the DultOd Oil Improvement Co. is to pay a rental of 91 .ouo. 000 a year for :to years, and to spend 8".ooo.00 on the Improvement of thegM works. Till: BnrOelOnn police have seized MM Miles intended for the Carl lata Then! am re found on board the ship B t Philip, which took shelter iu the harbor under stress of weather. The v s scl sailed from Antwerp, and it was intended to unload her cargo ou the . mst of Valencia. I UK .'span legation in Wash ingtoi, made official denial, on the Uth. of report! thai Nicaragua had tendered to Japan the franchise of the Nioaruguan anal. It is stated officially that no negotiation! of any kind here ooeurrrd et-veeii Nicaragua and Japan relative to the canal TlIK sultan of Turkey has conferred awn Count MuravietT. the Russian ninister for foreign affairs, the grand onion of the Oetnnntl order, for his ei vices in "OOOaolkleting the friend hip existing between the two eoun i ies. " Tun Berlin police have eonfleented he anarchist sheet Nouesloben for eblinhing an article glorifying the nan lusts of llaymarket. square, Chi igo. th' anniversary of whose e.xeoii .on was celebrated in that. oity. DVMfMO the Week ended the Itth Pal res throughout the I'nited States, ns ported by R. P. Pun .V t o., were'J'.D falnat STCfortheoot reeponding mmIi ist yenr For Canada die failures vere -4 against 80 last year.

win ot Bnpel n. Marion, Ind., Nov. 10, The Marion lodge of Elks some time ige admitted Robert Fitzsimmons as a member. The action being an alleged rlotntlOO of the rules of the order, the Marion lorlge was lately commanded by the grand BJC lilted ruler to expel Fitsimmons. 'The lodge haa decided to stand by ita initiation and refuse to act until the matter is finally derided by the supreme ruler of the order, II. 15. Pet more, of Harrisburg, Pa. Deotnree innn. Elkhart, Ind.. Nov. 10. .Tames It Mather, a Wealthy young resident of this city, and formerly in busine, was arrested Tuesday and an examination made as tu Iiis sanity. He was deeitled to be of unsound mind nnd v ill be taken to an asylum. He had become dfUMfcrnusly ill. nnd had a num. a for buying all kinds of horses. Belnn to Hew Mealee, Lagrange, Ind., Nov. 10. A colony consisting of several hundred families Of Punknrds has been organized to locate in the Pecos valley in New Mexico. The location is ,,,1 utl,i the pes. ilbllitlee of development are gnat. F.lder L. Fly will accompany the colony nnd conduct a mission church. I-'I reu r in stolen. Elkhart, tndU Nov. 10. PoonoVr'a gnu rdorc in this city was entered by burglars nnd n Mtrg! quantity of firenrms ami cutlery taken. One of the proprietors was sleeping in the store, but one of the robners stood over him with a soldering iron until the robbery m as nocompliahed. Hotel gold. M uneio. tttdH Nov. Hi. .1 tili usi A. HeinMihn has sold tht furniture and lease of his hotel, the Kirby house, to Christopher Niepp. of Tefffi Haute. Mr Heinsohn established the hostelry 25 years ago. and it has since been tht leading house here. Mod Poor. Valparaiso, Ind., Nov. 10. Orso. d heeler, aged H.'! years, nt one time MM of the most prosperous farmers In this eounty, heil Im the poorhouee, whore he had been nn inmate several v enra. t)nnll ShootlnaCrown Point. Ind.. Nov. 10. li e law nn quail has expired in Indiana, and many hunters nre now on the ground. Ttirds nre reported plentiful. Ilnnu l III itiKi'lf, Foraker. Ind . Nov. 10. per. BHftl Pulp, a JTOUng Mennonite minister reCdiiiT nenr here, went into the woods' md hanjred liime!f. By an explosion in a hosiery factory nt Ptooe, 0 Ihe bnlMing mm wrecked and ti glrll were terrib' 1 reed

THE. APPROPRIATION BILLS. rrrimratloii IIfIuk l.,ile for 1 lielr I . mi; at the Karliml l'ttmnlile Hate. V asiii M.io.N, Nov. IS. It ii the iutention of Chairman Cannon of the appropriations committee of the house to begin the preparation of the appro pi .aii. in bills at the earliest possible date. He has announced the appointment Of the subcommittees aud, those on the pension and the le.slati ve, executive and judicial bills have been called to meet November a week ill advance of the assembling of congress. As the house is fully organ i.od by the appoint nun t of ull the staudiug committees it will be cxpcete.i to get down to business as soon as it reassembles for the regular session ou Monday. December B. Ordinarily It require! u mouth to organise thej lioiise, and the month of Deoemher at the regular session sees practically nothing iu the way of legislation accomplished. Put the organisation of the house at the special session will save tune. Most of the members who have already arrived In town exprem the opinion that, the OOmlng session Will In the shortest regular long session of congress iu years. Ordinarily the long teaaioD mst, iron six to ten months. Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, one of the prominent republican leader,, predict! that congress Wil I have completed ita word end adjourned before May l. Tbe sii licommitt. es of the appropriations committee, announced by Chad Is man ( annpn yesterday, are as follow s; Sundry Civil eOOOMh VY. A. BtOMQ. North way, Savers and Meitae. legislative Biogham, Ueneenwnffi Moody. Pookery and Livingston. District of Columbia (trout, Pitney, Blnghnm, Donhery uml Allen. Pensions W. A. Stone, Bai iioy, Pelden, Alien and Hell, fc'ortiueotiooa Hemenwny, Pitney, Pugh, NcPae and Hell. DelicieMoiee 4 annon, North way, Harney, Sayers aud Livingston. Permanent Appropflatioaa Moody Qront, Pugh, Allen und Hell.

THE Vü f ERANS' COMPLAINT. a Vnneeenh lawesetnMMen f Their AMegoal Sftewnee tinirr Wasiiim. ion, Nov. Hk Complaints having bann made to the navy department of alleged discrimination against veterans employed in the Mare Island navy yard. Secretary Long has directed Lieut. .). J. Knapp to make a thorough investigation and report the facts to him. LMUt Knapp is familiar with the questions involved, having been a member of the board which laid down the labor regulations, and having also made just such an investigation ut the New York navy yard.

THIS BEATS THE BRITISH. A Cargo of Vtnsrlnnii Hater I'lpn for New Zealand. Piiii.ik.i riiiA. Nov. p. One of the most important business transact ions in shipping circles that has occurred recently is the chartering of the American Imrk Mary tint bronchi I apt Ludwig. now at New York, to come to Philadelphia and load a full cargo of water pipe lor Auckland, New calami, 'lhis is the Irai exportutiou of the hind from Phil ndelphia, and other shipments are expected to follow.

DUN'S COMMERCIAL RFVlEW.

loi ter and eterwf UTenMeet naaaleratu Ptitrtiaiinn Ofdeee lUl Msn sa i ... iseanglaj laa tonvnttaalafi Pewwr tf tas V.- tirtiluall) liin-eaalinj, Slnl li.t.ln hli. oilil liiir Ample l-HUnuce of I...,. ,., I he KsllurtM. Nkw Voiiu. N e, Pi It. ti. him g L'o.'s weekly MVioW of trade says

Colder ami more stormy MCUther, aa long needed in Ihe accelerate. I , v tr.biition of winter goods, has materially helped In some Martern and Las I faauiting inprorenent in retail trade is mentioned in nearly every northern dispute! Ihia week, eo that orders to ' till stocks buve been oncou I agi ur. au l ill some munches the multitude of uiiin.is for imtuediuto delivery s i v that the distribution to ooneumei liai uiroudv gone lunch beyond the cap la! ions of the dealers. Rot thla ia U yet the general rule, uml. with man DOn plain tl of delayed trade from uKhi i I onartern there still lennlni tha . I tensive shrinkage caused ly fever au 1 qua ra u 1 1 uc at the south.

It is. therefore, the more mrpr o that the volume of payments tbr..ii 'u cloaringhoiiscs con 1 1 lines about n, ,,, as iu ls'.ej, and PI. T per cent. Ulrg r thaU last year. Railroad earnings also nearly those of lv.lj for the first week of November and half the mileage m ,. I'nited States shows earn in gs j t it' .-Is-r of M,85, 496, or s.o percent, larger than last year, aud two per ccut. larger than InW, Speculative markets feel disappointed because prices do not : -, fnetor and faster, but it la fortunate for producers and dealers that the experience of aome past year, iu thai respect has not b.-cn repeated. There ia

nothing to cause general reaction I

purchasing power of the people is gradually increasing and after the which folio wa en tensive replenish inent of stocks, trade should give ample cvi denoe of that increaac. The output of iron furnaces November l waa 9T4, 140 tons weekiy, nga usi ItM, 199 Oetober i, n gain nf n.1 per cent., and unsold stocks decreased 6S,s'.n tons Iu October, Indien ting a largi consumption in manufactures than aver before, even when the Otttpu! of pig was pushed by swift. y-.idv I4UC prices to the highest point. '.'.T. J tons, November l. l-.i.'i. Prices of Iron products rOtM that year .'.".Ii per cent, but are now not four per cent, higher than June The enormous output, with some more furnaces stand in November, causes but a alight decline in He seen !r pig to 8iu..,.i at t'itta burgh, with no decline in otner pig trade at the east or Cine... ami no fall in prices of finished j i : -nets except a shade iu angles. u .. most works have orders for the real "f the year, und in sheets und SOUM Othei brnnchee nre (ar bnhind in dnliveri BOW orders are few, but include one for '.',000 cars at Chicago and one for 4ou at Pittsburgh, one for au armor d

j ship at I beater, many lor small bnild- ! ings and for St. Vincent's boapltal au I i three aebool houses here, inanv f..i , bridges, with some for the drama,,.' I canal ai Chicago, Woolen mills generally hare order- ! for three mouths ahead, and arc it ; seeking further engngunMntn. La ' MshM of speculative lots of woo, al i prices not staled suggest that it may be lower before the mills need further o -j dors. A JTOnr ago the price began : mount. With heavy speculation, and ' has risen U per cent, without reu. in quotation-., while the rise in goo tl

uve rages but U per ccut. The decline m cotton nnd the si 0 v demand for goods, ovvii. ' In Dart tu

arnrm weniher,havc led cotton mills to eoMferabont curtailment of production and further r ductiona have been ma Ic iu brown sheet. ugs, drills and print and by jobbers in bleached goods ( otton declined an eighth to 7 OBUta for middling uplands, aud both exports ami takings of spinners bare boon large. Wheat dropped over two cents, but has since riaea us much with bnj ay foe eXpOrt. Western receipts c .nüllilc heavy, iu tWOWOeku 1 4.OJS.U07 bus hell against H. .'!. 9 last year; w hile AtInntle exports, lour Included, here been fvMMJ,g hushels. against 1,931,831 laat year. An English authority reckons tha I world's yield at IUI, 000,090 buabela leaa thnn last year, which would moan a market for nil this counlry has to spare, torn exports are again larger

than last year nnd the price has risen 1 , cents. Later prices of meats do not Indicate that farnaerebnvu aayel much inducement to save corn for f ending, Failures for the week have been J U in the I'nited Sti 'es ug.tinst -'Tu last ar. end 94 in CMnnda, against 4i laat year. THE BOGUS INDIAN WARRANTS. Several Kanons 4'lljr Koianrlera MUstlf t allKllt In llie lle.il Kansas ClTT, Mo., Nyv. IS, Th! fraudulent issue of over S'.MI.UOH u reek Indian warrants recontly dis -..v Bred by the government has caused much stir in Kansas City banking and mercantile circles, inasmuch as quite a large proportion of the bogus issue is held here. OuUide of the amount (fla.090) a'rea acknowledged M held by one local bank it is currently reported that one man who has been speculating in the paper was caught for $51,000, and that a banker and former broker here are inter, sled uith him in tiie deal. What action will be taken by the holdera of the bonds to protect themselves, if possible, is not known. FIRE AT FOSTORIA. A Ills; Hins Follow. Kapliralim at gsU torln, O. Kostohia. ()., Nov. 18. -An axploalo! of a quant ity of gasoline iu the MHaV inent of the Alcoll building caused a disastrous tire here. In a few iniu ules the entire building was entirely destroyed. The ground Moor was occupied by the Maberry ahoe store, Vogel Urns.' tailoring store, Western UOioU Telegraph Co.. Auieriean Kx press Co. and the A lent t llavdwarr" Co. The upper llooes vc.e CCUoitHl bv nlnbs and nuvsiuians.

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