Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 November 1894 — Page 2

(Ehtfilu County femortat X. MoO. BTOOPS, Editor tnfl Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - • - INDIANA. ! Charles Auguste. hereditary grand duke of Saxe-Weimar-Elsenach, died from pneumonia at Cape St. Martin, on the 20th, ^ged 50 years. I A dispatch from Che-Foo to the Central News, on the 21st, reported that the Japanese had captured a fort 9 miles west of Port Arthur. ( Two steamers carrying 14,000 bales of American cotton, the first of the season, entered the Manchester ship canal, on the 21st, en route for Manchester, England.- * To two women of the Red Cross who wanted to go to the front on their humane mission, Sheng, the taotai of Tien-Tsin, said: “We don’t want to save any wounded Chinese.” There is a toothless saw in Carnegie’s Homestead mill that travels six miles to the minute, and cuts a 95-inch iron beam, weighing 1,000 pounds to the foot, in two in twelve seconds. Anton Gregor Rurinstein, the famous Russian pianist and composer, died at Peterhof, near St Petersburg, on the 20th, of heart disease. He was within ten days of 64 years of age. The republican congressional committee published, on the 20th, a corrected list of members elected. It shows that 245 republicans, 105 democrats and six populists will receive certificates. * The rajah of Lombok, his son and grandson, have surrendered to the Dutch authorities and been conveyed to Ampenan. The Dutch have retaken all the guns which they lost in the engagement with the Balinese on August 25. It was stated at the post office department, on the 20th, that no more appointments of presidential postmasters would be made until after congress meets. It was understood that the same rule would apply to all the executive departments. The remains of Gen. John C. Fremont were finally interred, on the 22d, In the presence of friends and relatives to the Cumber of 150, on the crest of a high hill near Sparkill, N. Y., commanding a view of the Hudson river and the country to the west of it for many miles. Czar Alexander III. left a document to be opened nine days after his death. When the document was opened it was found to contain an entreaty to Czar Nicholas to marry Princess Alix directly after the funeral. Heuce the wedding was fixed to take place on the 26th. Several hundred Armenians attended a meeting in Chicago, on the 18th, held for the purpose of taking action in regard to the recent slaughter of their countrymen by Kurds, and to discuss ways and,means by which the sentiment of the civilized world can be aroused to prevent a repetition of the outrage. After assuming command of the department of the east, on the 20th, Maj.Gen. Miles said in an interview: “This is the only section of the country that I have not commanded and I am honestly glad to get here. I know I will like it, and the change from the active t life I have been leading for years will be -considerable.”

I Five citizens of New York city, representing the Good Government clubs I of thd city, appeared before Gov. Flower at Albany, on the 21'st, and preferred charges of neglect of duty against Col. • -John R. Fellows, district attorney of , New York county. .The governor cited Col. Fellows to show eause why he should not be removed from office. The grain crop of Russia, as estimated by the agricultural ministry, according to a St. Petersburg cable, is as follows: Wheat, 272,000,000 bushels, against 886,000,000 last year; rye, 702,000,000, against 752,000,000; barley 176,000,000, against 224,000,000; oats, 664,000,000, against 672,000,000; maize, less than half of last year’s crop. The Amsterdam Niewsdag published & dispatch from Lombok, on the 19th, stating that the Dutch had stormed and captured the town of Tjakra Negara, the stronghold of the Balinese. The rajah of Lombok escaped during the fight, taking his treasure with him. The Dutch lost 150 killed and wounded, and the enemy’s loss was several hun dred. - Uj, ^ Miss Faibv Ckulx, of Noblesville, Ind., was assaulted by a veiled woman, on the night of the 21st, who seized her by the hair and tried to pour carbolic acid down her thrpat, failing in which she dashed it in her victim’s face - and beat her terribly over the head with a revolver. Rivalry in a love affair is supposed to be at the bottom of the trouble. '-r V * ; Final arrangements are under way for the beginning of the construction of the great American university, to be erected under supervision of the Methodist church in the northwest suburbs of the city of Washington. The university will be surrounded with ninety acres of high and beautiful ground, most of it given by the Methodists of Washington. In the United States district court at Philadelphia, on the 21st, the jury in the case of the government against Col. A. Louden Snowden and Wm. D. H. Serrill, bondsmen of Henry S. Cochran,1 ex-chief weigher of the Philadelphia mint, rendered a verdict for the defendants. The government sought to recover 910,000 from the sureties of the thieving ex-Chief Weigher Cochran.

CURRENT TOPICS the hews nr Barer. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Severs fighting is reported to have taken place at Port Arthur, on the 15th, the Japanese haring massed their troops there. The session of the Knights of Labor convention at New Orleans, on the 21st, was taken up with a favorable report of a committee allowing lawyers and barkeepers to become members of the order. The proposition was voted down, but a motion was made to re* consider, and without any definite ac* tion being taken the assembly took a recess. The steamer Empress of China arrived at Vancouver, B. C., on the 20th, from the orient. Her cargo was the largest ever brought across, and contained a large amount of silk for Boston consignees. . Gen. Antonio Ezeta, who arrived at San Francisco from Mexico, on the 20th, denies the statement that he is there as an agent of Mexico to purchase arms and ammunition in case of war. On the 21st the Vermont senate passed the bill incorporating the Nicaragua Canal Ca A case of Asiatic leprosy has been discovered in t]m western part of Grand Forks county, N. D. Miss Mary L. Stevenson, daughter of the vice-president, confined to her bed at Asheville, N. C., with pneumonia, was no better on the 21st. Hope of her ultimate recovery had been about given up. The jury in the Jim Cook case at Tehlequah, L T., returned a verdict, on the 21st, of guilty of manslaughter for killing Sequoyah Houston, and sentenced him to eight years in the Cherokee penitentiary. Friends and connections of the Barings have taken over from the Bank of England the entire amount of the remaining Baring assets. All guarantors are thus released from further responsibility. Six students and the dean of the medical faculty of Cottner university, at Lincoln, Neb., were under arrest at the police station on the night of the 21st, charged with grave robbeay. Judge Cooper, at Memphis, Tenn., took the bull by the horns in the Millington lynching case, on the 21st, and fo.eed Butch McCarver, the obstreperous witness, to testify. Ex-Attorney-General Peters created a sensation in court by denouncing the sheriff for working in the interests of the lynchers and trying to cheat justice. The grand jury at Leander, Wyo., on the 21st, created a -sensation by indicting Capt. Patrick Henry Ray, of the Eighth infantry, acting Indian agent, Shoshone agency, for branding cattle belonging to a stockman named Boyd. Joseph K. Emmett, the actor, and Mrs. May Haggins Stevens, known to the dramatic profession as Emil}' Lytton Stevens, were married at Grace cathedral in Davenport, la., on the21st. Mrs. Stevens is the leading lady of Mr. Emmett's company. Commander-in-Chief Lawler of the G. A. R. and his adjutant-general, C. C. Jones, arrived in Washington, on the 21st, to present to the president the resolution adopted by the national encampment at Pittsburgh, protesting against the discharge of veterans of the late war from government positions

A rapproachment is said to have taken place between Russia and England, which renders }t possible that the straits of the Dardanelles, which have been closed to Russian and other men-of-war since the signing of the treaty of 1841, which was confirmed by the Paris treaty of 1856, will shortly be opened to men-of-war of all nations. Frank Payson and George Brill, two American prospectors, have just discovered an old Spanish gold mine, situated about sixty miles northeast of Sierra Mojada, Mexico, and from^ samples of the ore, which they have had assayed, it is believed the mine is one of fabulous richness. Frank E. Godfrey, acting assistant superintendent of the gymnasium of the Boston Y. M. C. A., fell and broke his neck on the night of the 21st, while working in the gymnasium. He was standing on the shoulders of a companion and trying to turn a somersault in the air from that position, when he slipped and fell. The grand jury of McLennon county, Tex., on the 21st, returned indictments against a number of the officials of the Standard Oil Co. Among the number are some of the most prominent officers of the company. They are charged with conspiracy in restraint of trade and violation of the Texas anti-trust law. It is probable that among the earliest communications to be sent by President Cleveland to congress when it assembles in December will be the new commercial treaty with Japan, which Secretary Gresham and Minister Kurino have been negotiating during the past few months. At 6:38 o’clock on the evening of the 21st several slight shocks of earthquake were felt at Tacoma, 'Wash. The first shock was most severe, feeing accompanied by rumfeling noises as of a distant explosion, and simultaneously a sheet of flame was observed in the eastern heavens. Alderman Charles Parks, of the “Tenderloin district,” New York city, convicted of keeping a gambling house in the moist fashionable part of Asbury Park, N. J., was sentenced by Judge Connover, on the 22d, to pay a fine of 8500 and serve five months in A^Revol’PTION broke out, on the 21st, in the garrison at Comayuga, Honduras. The loyal government troops lost nineteen killed and twenty-eight wounded, the mutineers losing five killed and seVfen wounded. The mutineers fled to Salvador. In circles close to the Vatican the belief is expressed that Mgr. LorenzelU will eventually be appointed apostolic delegate to the United States to succeed Mgr. Satolli. |

Tk trial in London of Sidney Ben* nett, the young American lawyer who, in July last, fired a revolver at Miss Edith Andrews, a young lady of whom he was enamored, ended, on the 33d, in his acquittal, on the ground that the shooting was accidental. Lawyer J. P. Howe, of St. Louis, indicted for complicity in the conspi* racy against the Fidelity Mutual Life association, arrived in Philadelphia, on the 33d, and surrendered to the police. Emperor Nicholas is suffering greatly from insomnia, and is consequently very much depressed in spirits. The opinion was expressed in Washington, on the 33d, that the war between China and Japan will end with the fall of Port Arthur, which point is said by those acquainted with it to be superior even to Gibraltar in its natural and artificial resources of defense. Charles and Henry Lathrop, Ottawa (Kas.) business men, who were out for a time on the morning of the 33d, struck the wrong house, kicking in the door. Charley yr»s shot dead and Henry was seriously wounded. The coroner gave the corpse to Undertaker Sessions, which so enraged an opposition undertaker that he stabbed Sessions. Sessions’ wound is serious. The United States Fish commission has found it necessarv to curtail the generous and gratuitous distribution of goldfish which has come, during the past five years, to be a large part of the institution. In the future goldfish will be furnished only to state commissions, to parks and for public use generally, and will not be given to private applicants. William P. Hazen, chief of the secret service of the treasury department, in his annual report shows that during the year the total number of arrests made was 637, nearly all of which were for violations of the statutes relating to counterfeiting United States money. The Chinese Pie-Yang squadron is reported to have shelled the Japanese troops marching on Port Arthur. A desperate battle between the Chinese and Japanese fleets is said to have followed. The result of the engagement is not known, other than that the Chinese battle ship Chen Yuen struck a torpedo and was beached. Most of the English, French, Russian and Greek newspapers published between November 14 and 19, and also all the Berlin newspapers of November 18, were stopped at the Turkish frontier and confiscated by the government, as they contained references to the Armenian massacre. Busts of Vice-Presidents Stevenson, Geo. M. Dallas and Elbridge Gerry have been placed in the vice-presi-dential niches in the senate gallery of the national capitol. The Aaron Burr statue has been placed in one of the gallery corridors preparatory to transferring it to its permanent quarters inside the senate chamber. The chief of the Chinese imperial customs at Tien-Tsin, De-Ting, who was recently summoned to I’ekin in order to confer with the government as to means for raising money for the war, has left for Japan in order to arrange terms of peace. Every bell in Tiffin, O., at 8:80 o’clock on the night of the 22d, rang out a knell, notifying all that Gen. William Gib&on, the statesmen, soldier and Christian citizen, had passed away. Gen. Gibson had been ailing for some time, but took to his bed only a few days prior to his death. He was 73 years of age. >_ LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A dispatch from Lombok, of the 34tli, said the Dutch had fought another battle with the Balinese, defeating and routing them. The Dutch were surrounded, but made a successful sortie, killing forty-five of the Balinese and putting the rest to flight. Tfie Dutch lost fohr men, including a colonel. E. S. Hamlin, founder of the Cleveland Leader and a member of congress from Ohio before the war, died in Washington, on the 24th, as the result of injuries received at the hands of a negro robber, aged 86 years. He was one of the first free-soil editors in the United States. A dispatch from Bangkok, Siam, on the 24th, said the Siamese government launch Pherona was waiting recently at the mouth of the Canptabun river for the Siamese commodore, when the French gunboat Pluvier arrested it and ordered it back. Negotiation were pending. Samuel Carson, sentenced in 1876 to eight years in the Missouri state prison, and who escaped after serving three years, returned, on the 24th, and surrendered himself to the prison authorities. He has recently fallen heir to 810,000 by the death of his parents. Officials of the state and navy departments are agreed that the capture of Port Arthur renders China helpless, and no doubt is expressed that overtures for peace will now be submitted to Japan through the good offices of Ministers Denby and Dun. —A heavy defalcation has been discovered in the Shoe & Leather bank of New York. A bookkeeper named Samuel C. Seeley has absconded with 8354,000. The stockholder^ have agreed to make good the amount. Several earthquake shocks have recently been felt in several provinces of Venezuela. The town of Carache was destroyed, but the loss of life was small. The ravages of smallpox and diphtheria in Detroit, Mich., have thrown the city into a partial panic. The spread of the latter disease, particularly, has been rapid. Before the Brazilian congress adjourned it passed a bill fixing the strength of the army of 20,000 men, thus disposing of President Peixoto’s veto. Helen Wilson, a young American pianist, made a successful “first appearance” in the Dresden conservatory recently. A society of Henry George single taxers has been formed in Berlin.

WITHIN OUR BORDERS. Telegrams from Towns and Cities in Indiana. Home for Old Soldiers. ‘ Indianapolis, Ind., Not. 90.—The Grand Army of the Republic of Indiana owns oTer 200 acres of valuable laud near the famous Tippecanoe bat* tie ground and it is proposed to ask the next legislature for an appropriation that suitable buildings may be erected upon this land which will always be open to the heroes of the late war. A bill appropriating 1150,000 for a soldiers’ home passed the lower house last session after being cut to 175,000. The bill reached the senate too late for action and there it stood at adjournment. It is estimated that over 1,000 veterans are in the poor asylums of the state. Deadly Roller Explosion. Elwood, Ind., Nov. 20.—The boiler in the power house and car shops of this oity exploded. Four street cars were wrecked and heavy timbers were hurled in every direction. Several people were seriously injured. Norman Clark, a workman, was horribly mangled and died. Frank McDonald, a car-cleaner, was covered by a pile of debris, but was not seriously hurt. The property losses will reach $60,000. The city will be without light and street car service for many weeks to come. Cigarettes Found on Schoolboys. Crown Point, Ind., Nov. 90.—John S. Allison, superintendent of city schools, has declared war against the merchants who sell cigarettes in this city. Almost every pupil among the boys between the ages of 8 and 15 years has been found with cigarettes about his person when at school. Allison has employed Attorney Wood, president of the Epworth league, to prosecute law-breakers. The law in this state says that no merchant shall sell tobacco or cigarettes to a person under 16 years of age. Another Husbund In His Place. Valparaiso, Ind., Nov. 20.—Leopold Weisthaler for many years lived in this vicinity, but he went to Chicago some time ago to secure work. His last visit home previous to Friday was on June 16. July 2 Mrs. Weisthaler began divorce proceedings in the circuit court. The divorce was granted October 11, the defendant not appearing. In fact, he knew nothing of it until he came and found his place in the household usurped by another husband. _■ Received Damages. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 20.— Charles A. Russ, a commercial traveler, was awarded a verdict of $2,500 damages against the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis road on account of damages sustained by being put off the train of the defendant company at Jeffersonville. Saloonkeepers to Ask a Favor. Indianapolis. Ind., Nov. 20.—The Indiana saloonkeepers’ organization has begun a vigorous - campaign throughout the state for an amendment,to the liquor law which will enable them to keep their places ope bill midnight instead of 11 o’clock, at present. _ Died as His Father Did. Wabash, Ind., Nov. 20.—Arthur Fetter, aged 14, while trying to get off a moving train on the Wabash railroad at Andrews, fell under the wheels and was killed. Three years ago Fetter’s father, employed on the Wabash at Lafayette, fell under a train and was killed. _ Alleged Defaulter Brought Back. Jeffersonville, iDd., Nov. 20.— After having been a fugitive for two years Henry Richard, who as treasurer of the Roman Knights of St George in this city decamped with $400 of the order’s money . was arrested at St Anthony, Ind., and brought back

Attempted Murder. A*. South Bend, Ind., Nov. 20.—f|lorge Swearingen was arrested here charged with attempting recently to kill with poison his son-in-law, August Vetter, aged 28, residing near Buchanan, Mich. He confessed and was taken to Michigan. Vetter will die. Burned to Death. Peru, Ind., Nov. 20.—Mrs. Rebecca Weist, aged 80, of this place, was burned to death at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Reider. Her clothing caught fire from a match and, being alone and almost helpless, she could not save herself. Anderson to Have a Theater. Anderson, Ind., Nov. 20.—A company of Andersonians closed a contract for a valuable piece of property on Meridian street, on which they will erect an opera house as soon as possible. _ A Break for Liberty. Jeffersonville. Ind., Nov. 20.—Joseph Grace, Frank Leathers, John Johnson, Mason Curtis and William Evans, charged with murder, made an unsuccessful attempt to break jail. ' Kept Their Marriage a Secret. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 20.—It has just been learned that Dr. John M. Stanley, of this city, and Miss Ida Lucille Waldron, of Bloomington, were married October 4. Mail Carrier Arrested. Elkhart, Ind., Nov. 20.—John Gampher, mail carrier, was arrested for appropriating money given him by people who asked him to stamp and mail their letters. _ Fatally Burned. Fort Watnk, Ind., Nov. 20.—While attempting to put out a fire started by children Mrs. J. H. Eylenburg, of this city, was fatally burned. May Have Poisoned His Wife. Foster, . Ind.. Nov. 2a—William Drellinger, of this place, was arrested on suspician of having murdered his wife with poison._ Death of a Pioneer. Muncie, Ind., Nov. 20.—John W. Drago, aged 72, for sixty years a resident of Union townshlo. is dead.

PORT ARTHUR FALLS, After Thlrtjr-8tx Boors’ Desperate Fight* lap. Before the Victorious Japanese— Their Undisciplined Enenles Moke a Stont Resistance, Fighting Like Tigers, hot ore ‘Boated mod Driven to the Bills. London, Not. 28.—A dispatch from the Central News correspondent in Shanghai says that the Japanese cap* tured Port Arthur Wednesday evening. The fighting began on Tuesday. The Chinese made an unusually strong defense, and the fight was severe and incessant for fully thirty-six hours. Both sides are reported to have lost heavily. Fought with the Desperation of Tigers. London, Nov. 24.—A Che-Foo dispatch says: '‘China’s loss in the battle at Port Arthur, it is said, exceeded that of Japan, for, undisciplined as the emperor’s soldiers were, they fought with the desperation of tigers. The attack on Port Arthur by Japan’s second army under Gen. Oyama was so careffftly planned that when fire was opened the Japanese troops assailed the city at every point. The fighting was terrible, and was only ended when the Chinese, unable to struggle any longer, withdrew in retreat to the mountain passes near by, leaving the city at the mercy of the;r foes. COMMISSIONER WRIGHT Defends Bis Report on the Recent Railway Strike. Washington, Nov. 24.—Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, of the census and labor bureaus, whose report on the recent railroad strike was so indiscriminately distributed in advance that it obtained publication prior to its date, has given out a letter in reply to some of the criticisms called out by that report. He says: “The testimony taken by the commission will be printed by order of eongress and then everyone can satisfy himself as to the positions taken by the commission. I believe the report of the commission to be thoroughly impregnable as to every material statement of fact. What specific answer the commission may make to the charges in the Railway Age and of other papers, I presume the commission will prefer to make officially and not y> any individual publication. Such an answer I have no right now to make because 1 have not consulted the members of the commission. “I write this letter on my own responsibility. Whoever calls on me for the purpose of examining the testimony will be accorded every privilege.” Mr. Wright states on his own responsibility that every point made in the Railway Age “is false.” CHARGED WITH tRAUD. Arrest of Three of the South Bent Patent Medicine Venders. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 23.—Deputy United States Marshals Taylor and Agnew went to South Bend last night and arrested Dr. Samuel Killmer, Harry McDonald and Elmer Strayer, on grand jurjf warrants issued on indictments charging that the three men have been usin& the mails for fraudulent purposes, Eillmer, McDonald and Strayer are engaged in making and selling lotions for the improvement of the complexions of women. They represent about 150 firms, or companies, in South Bend that are making and selling patent medicines and lotions of various kinds.

several weens ago me postomce uepartment issued an order excluding the literature of some of the firms from the mails, and their indictments, just returned, are the result of the investigation that was made before that order of the department was issued. The indicted men were brought here this forenoon. Dr. Killmer is said to be worth not less than $100,000, and McDonald and Strayer are wealthy. They have all made their money out of the lotion business. Dr. Killmer has been doing business under the name of “Louise Fairfield.” The men were arraigned before J udge Baker. Each was permitted to sign a recognizance bond for $1,500. A COLOSSAL SWINDLER, yglth World-Wide Operations Beaching Into the Millions. Yankton, S. D., Nov. 34.—It is now believed that John L. M. Pierce, of the mythical financial firm of Pierce, Wright & Co., of London, England, Yafakton, Spokane, Holyoke, Col., and elsewhere, made away with $1,500,000. New evidence of his frauds is constantly coming to light. In schoolbond issues he has covered the South Dakota counties of Yankton, Bon Homme, Huchinson, Turner, Clay, Union «nd others. 'the latest forged bond to be discovered is dated December 1, 1893, for $35,000. payable to J. P. Crennan, who died several years before it was issued. It was guaranteed by Pierce’s London house and sold to English parties. Criminal proceedings against Pierce have been begun. All of his property in Yankton has been turned over to other parties. His operations extended from Sidney, Australia, to Vancouver, B. CL, and from London to Mexico, in all of which places he has property. He spent $50,000 in the Aurora mine, Zacaetez, Mexico, preparing it for sale to English capitalists. There is no clew to Pierce’s whereabouts. The Ricks Investigation. Cleveland, O., Nov. 34.—At 10 o’clock next Monday morning the Kicks investigation committee will begin the hearing of the charges againstJudge A. J. R.jks. George Smart, who was deputized to act by the ser-geant-at-arms of the house of representatives, was in the city yesterday, and made arrangements for the hearing. pHe called on Judge Ricks, and that gentleman said it was immaterial to him where the hearing took place. It was deoided to hold it in the government building. The investigation will be open to the publio

DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW. A Little More Definite Slfni for the Better, with Larger Employment of Labor, and Consequently Greater Purchasing Power. Promising U1U Better Things for the Future—A Slight Premium on Gold Recorded. Ntw Tore, Nor. 24.—R. G. Dun <& Co.’s weekly review of trade issued today says: There are some changes for the better. The gain is slow, and in some directions not very distinct, but the= signs of it are a little more definite than last week. The most important, of them is larger employment of labor, answering a better demand on the whole for manufactured products. Much of this is due to the unnatural, delay of orders tor the winter, which resulted from long-prolonged uncer- f tainty, but it means actual increase in earnings and purchasing power of the millions, and so gives promise of a. larger demand in the future. Prices, of farm products in the aggregate do uot improve, but the prevailing hopefulness is felt in somewhat larger* transactions. A little premium on gold, for the first time since 1878, naturally excites* some comment even though it is only the smallest fraction, and apparently* due to temporary causes. Undeniably . it reflects a disposition to hold gold. without redeeming its notes. About 15,200,000 has been drawn from the. treasury by redemption of notes, and it is supposed that much more will be withdrawn, perhaps after the award of bonds, so that the first payment may not raise the gold reserve higher thani it was a week ago. The upward tendency of sterling exchange point? the same way; the admitted need of borrowing does not increase confidence. But after the treasury reserve haa been replenished, greater confidence may follow. It is expected the# a syndicate will bid for the full amount of bonds at a price making the rate 3 per cent, or a little less, and that other bids prill also be large, but how much gold the treasury will get or keep isproblematic. There is no improvement in the demand for commercial loans, and money still drifts to this center, scarcely any going south and none west. There was a little selling* of stocks after reduction of the Burlington dividend, and the average railroads closed 1.05 lower for the week. The wheat market has lost this week the cent it gained last week, western receipts being larger; and Atlantic exports are also larger—567,711 bushels, as against 530,026 last year; but theseare of small account compared with the great visible supply. Foreign reports this week have been rather mores promising, though the fact remains that the world’s crop outside of the United States is probably the largest, ever grown. Corn has declined l}f cents, receipts having much increased. The foreign demand for cotton continues large, exports being 50,000 bales- , larger than for the same week last, * year, but receipts also continue greater than a year ago, and for three months, will closely approximate those of the* same three months when the yield was. over 9,000,000 bales. But the price rose an eighth. * Textile industries have added a few* factories to the working list, against, only one or two withdrawn, and there: has been improvement in the demand for woolens. More supplementary orders for spring have been received, and colder weather has increased the demand for heavy goods. Yet on the: whole the market is not active, and the manufacture is much below the capacity of works. Sales of wool for the week increased again, though still far behind last year, and for four weeks of November have been 12,579,300 pounds, against 17,790,531 last year. Since August the sales have 9 been 13 per cent, more than last year, but 38 per centless than in 1892.

Prices of cotton poods are more irregular and some have declined, whiles print cloths have advanced a shade. The shoe industry leads all others ia approaching full production. Shipments from Boston have been for November, thus far, 642,948 cases, against 453,940 last year, and 583,589 in 1893. The number of cases shipped has been larger since January 1 than, in any previous year. In spite of the general demand for cheaper grades, this is a most encouraging record, and whiles some factories have completed their orders for winter and begun stock taking and repairs, many others have orders to keep them busy beyond January 1. The iron industry again records* lower prices, for Bessmer iron 810.40’ , at Pittsburgh, and for some manu* factured products. The consumption, is large, and for the season, fairly well maintained, but as it is not equal to* the capacity of works in operation. | their struggle to get business keeps prices at the bottom. It is reported, that an American shipyard had secured, orders to build three armored cruisers, for Russia, which will give added work for some years, and that a contract for 10,000 tons cast pipe for Tokio may be secured by a southern concern. The failures for two weeks of November have been moderately large in* amount, reported liabilities being 86,502,803, of which $1,713,466 were of manufacturing and $3,831,389 of trading concerns. For the same week last* year liabilities were over $7,200,000. The failures this week have been 323in the United States, against 385 last. year, and 31 in Canada, against 34 last year. THE PRESIDENT Again Falls to Attend the Cabinet Meeting" on Account of Rheumatism. Washington, Nov. 24.—For the second time this week the cabinet meeting was postponed on account of the absence of President Cleveland. Mr. Thurber stated that the president is much better, but his rheumatism still troubles him and his physician wishes him to keep as quiet as possible. He attend^regularly to business matters* brought to his attention, but devotes most of his time to the preparation, of his message to congress.