People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1897 — Page 3

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Who Shall Bell the Cat?

The Georgia antitrust law adds one more excellent Jaw to a body of state and federal statutes under whioh it would seem impossible, for trusts to live an hour. Yet they live, grow fat and actually have to fight one another to keep from getting dangerously plethoric. This situation is very like that of the , rats in the fable. They resolved that the cat that was devouring them must be belled. But when a wise old rat asked whom they would get to bell their great enemy the convention was confused and confounded. The people have resolved and commanded. But who shall bell the 4 monopoly oat?

Chickamauga Park.

The annual report of the Chiokamauga park commission shows the purchase of the battlefield of Lookout Mountain as ah addition to the park. It has been obtained at considerably less than halt the Bum originally asked by the ownera The states of New York and Pennsylvania will be ready to erect imposing monuments on this field early in the spring.

A New Achievement.

General Weyler is entitled to another ovation; his troops have killed 3,000 naaoom batanta —St Louis Republic

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Justus. Dick Roche, who acted as referee, and Tom O’Rourke, manages of the Broadway Athletic club, arc under arrest because James Duffy Is dead after & ten-round glove fight In the .club arena. He did not get a "knockout” blow at all, and died of hemorrhage of the brain, caused probably by the jars his head got during the bout At the election for senators in France Sunday the Socialists were completely defeated. Charles Bramlette, a farmer who died at Cynthiana, Ky., Saturday, was buried Monday in & coffin of blue Kentucky limestone, which was filled with fine old bourbon whisky and then hermetically sealed and placed la a grave near his home. Sir Josepji Hickson, late general manager of the Grand Trunk railway, 1* dead at Montreal. The arrest of a Japanese, S. Klregsym, on complaint of a young Japanese girt at Butte, Mont., developed the fact thsA several Jaitpanese in that city canted on a regular slave traffic In the purchase and sale of Japanese ghrls. John J. Schmitt, who keeps a dreg store at Chicago, gave a stranger his watch and $22. The stranger had a revolver and Mr. Schmitt did ‘ what to thought was best at the moment, he front of hie store stood William Parker, a Sheffield avenue detective, amt not ten feet away sat John Meeker, neither of whom knew of Schmitt’s troubles till they heard him telephone for the police. It is stated that the British admirably intends to Introduce a new class of torpedo destroyers es a minimum speed o t thirty-three knots. It is currently reported that the leading Prohibitionists and temperance workers of Kansas have decided to ask the legislature this winter to pass & law establishing a etate liquor dispensary. Obituary: At Naples, Italy, Cardinal San Felice, 62. At Grand Rapids, Mich., ■William B. Bmith, 64. At Anderson, Ind., Mrs. J. A. Eakln. At Wheeling, W. Va., Philip D. Elkins, 87. At Phoenix, A. T., Representative-Elect J. J. Davidson, of Beaver, Pa., S«. At Columbus, 0., William A. Nell, 67. North Dakota Bank Closed. St. Paul, Jan. 6.—A Devil's Lake, N_ D., special to The dispatch says: The Merchants’ National bank closed its doors yesterday pending action of the comptroller of the currency. Cousulb to Hold a Conference. Havana, Jan. s.—lt is Reported that all the. United States consuls in Cuba will successively come to Havana for a conference with General Fitzhugh Lee, the consul general. Starts After a Long Sliut-Do-wn. Boston, Jan. s.—The Standard Cordage company started up yesterday after a shut-down of nearly thrdk years. This will give employment to 400 hands. The Weather That Sometimes Cornea Washington, Jan. s.—Following are the weather indications for twenty-,Vrar hours from 8 p. m. yesterday. For Indiana—rLooal snows; westerly winds; colder. For Illinois—Light snows; olearlngin southern portion; northwesterly winds', colder in southern portion. For Michigan—Generally cloudy weather and light snows; oolder; westerly winds, For Wisconsin—Local snows, followed by clearing weather; brisk northwesterly winds. For lowa—Local snows in the morning, followed by clearing weather; continued cold northwajterly winds.

THE MARKETS.

New York Financial. Nsw York, Jan. 4 Money ou call easy at 9 per cent; prime mercantile paper,2)4@4)4 P« cent.; starling exchaug© was steady, With actual business in bankers’ bills at 480)4@48f1)4 for demand and 483)4@48394 for sixty days; posted rates, 484)4 and 437; commercial bills, 48214. Silver certificates, 88)4; no sales; bar silver, 64^0; Moxloau dollars, 5091 United States government bonds firm; 4's registered, 13014; do. ooupona, |23>4t 6’s registered, 114; do. coupons, 314? *’s registered, 110)4; do. coupons, 111; B’s registered, 85)4? Pacific «'s of ft), 10254. Chicago Grain and Produce. Chicack>, Jan. 4. Following were the quotations on the Board of Trade todayi Wheat—January, opened SlHjo, closed nominal; May, opened 85)4c„ closed 84)4o? July opened 81c, closed 7054 c. Corn—January, opened 83)4 o, closed 8i)4o; May, opened 200, closed 35?40( July, opened 270, closed 2054 c. Oata January, opened and closed nominal; May, opened 19)40, closed lime; July, opened and closed nom> nal. Pork January, opened $7.55, closed nominal; May, opened $1.85, closed $7.82)4Lard—January, opened 88.85 c, closed $3,80? May, opened $4.03)4 closed SS-ftlH-Produce: Butter—Extra oreamery, Ifto per lb; extra dairy, 170 per lb? fresh pstoking stoock, Bc. Eggs—Froah stock. 18@16c per doz. Poultry- Turkeys, o@Uo per lb; ohiokens (hens), ; spring chickens, o@B>4c; roosters, 4)4c; ducks, 6@Wo? geese, 7©90. Potatoes—Burbanks, 18@24q per bu; Hebron, 18@20o. Sweet potatoes—lllinois. SLIS(§I.OO per bbL Honey—White clover, lo@l2c per lb? extracted, 6@7c. Apples—Common to fanoy, [email protected] per bbL Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Jan. 4. Live Stock—Prices at the Union Stock yards today ranged as follows; Hogs—Estimated receipts for the day, 21,001; sales ranged at $3.10 @3 60pigs, $3 85@3,6) light, $3.05®3.15 rough packing, [email protected] mixed and $3.20®3.55 heavy packing and shipping lots. Cattle—Estimated receipts for the day, 11,000; quotations ranged at 84 73 3.5.10 ohoice to extra shipping steers, $i.80@475 good to choice do., s3.&)<g»4.2sfair to good, [email protected] common to medium do., $3.10©8.75 butchers’ steers, $2.60 @3.86 stackers, [email protected] feeders, [email protected] cows, [email protected] heifers, [email protected] bu Is, oxen and stags, [email protected] Texas steers, and sl76® 6.4‘i veol calves. Sheep and Lambs—Estimated receipts for the day. Id,000; sale 3 ranged at [email protected] western, [email protected] Texans, [email protected] natives and [email protected] lambs. East Buffalo Live Stock, East Bufealo, N, Y., Jan. 4. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts, 120 care; market steady to shade stronger for good grades and desirable •batchers’ kinds; common steady; beet heavy Bteers, st.76@s.<X)t good to choice shippers, $4.40@4.«3; good to extra fat heifers, $3.75® 4.15; light to fair, [email protected]? old to prime fat cows, [email protected]; # veaa active; tops, $7.0f>@7250? others, [email protected] Hogs—Receipts, 103 cars; market active and higher; Yorkers, good to ohoice, $3.70@&70; light, siLftO@3.«dt pigs. $175 @3.90; mixed packers, [email protected]: heavy, $3.60; roughs, [email protected]; stags, S2UH@&7S. Sheep and Lambe—Receipts, 60 cars; market active? sheep 10@15c higher; lambs stronger; best lambs, [email protected]>r, fair to food, [email protected]; culls and common, [email protected]? mixed sheep, Sood to choice, s3.s)@a.Bfc oomnjon to fair, [email protected]; culls and common, s3.oo@lßfi? handy wethers, [email protected], Milwaukee Grata. MinwACKEK, Jan. 4 Wheat—No. 2 spring, fftXc; No. 1 northerly 83c;. Corn—No. 8, $Dn, Q»t»-*4o. 8 White? 18@Ukv Barley-No. ft HMm maapim. OQSix Rye—No. 1,3994 c. Detroit Onto. Drtntorr, Jan. 4. Wheat—Cash white, OtMcioaah red, 6K3£*| May, »i)4o bid.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1897.

THIS TREE BORE COIN

THE COSTLIEST CHRISTMABCELEBRATION IN AMERICA. Spectacular Christmas Party of Hew York Society People to Whom the Havemeyers Distributed Golden Gifts Prom a 910,000 Tree In a Gotham Palace. The smart folk who luxuriate in the gilded gardens of swelldom are supposed to be so thoroughly satiated with pleasures of every kind that a Christmas tree burdened with holiday gifts would seem to have few attractions for them. Yet eaoh year there is a Christmas tree party in one of the flue houses in New York whioh many socially ambitious millionaires, their wives and sons and daughters would give almost anything for the privilege of attending and joining in the revels. This Christmas tree is a wonder of its kind. It probably ranks pre-eminent among the hundreds of thousands of Christmas trees set np in all parte of the world. It is a small tree, not more than 6 feet high, and the average Child would not regard it with as much pleasure as a tree bedecked with dolls and drums, Noah’s arks and blooks, candy and popoorn and lighted with candles. Ten dollars will make the ordinary tree a very attractive aflatx. But it takes SIO,OOO to decorate this particular tree with trinkets and toys. Six or seven yean ago Mrs. Theodore Bavmeje*. at the mum fcinai

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who spend ten"months in the ycay golfing, hunting, yachting, skating, tobogganing, polo playing and following the other pleasures erf outdoor country life. A dash into the oity for a few duya, a week or a month two or three times in the town season and then back again to the beloved oountry, that is the life of this particular set. The Christmas tree Is sot in on- corner of the great ballroom, whore every - thing is white and gold.' The walls ore of glistening white marble, with delicate tracings of gold. At one etui is a great pipe organ built into the well. The organ is ail white and gold, ('attains of white satin and white Volvet, ornamented in gold, hang from the windows and doors. Tiny gilt cotillon chairs, upholstered in white, are scattered along the sides of the room. The ceiling is painted in white and gold; the woodwork, with the exception of the polished flooring, is white and gold. Golden brackets jut out * rora the walls, holding bulbs of softened electric lights. The wide doors look oat upon a wide hallway, all marble and gold. A marble stairway, growing broader with each upward step, leads to a wide platform half way to the upper floor, and from this platform the way leads into the big conservatory, bigger than the conservatory of any other house in New York. This is the place where the Christmas tree guests assembled on Christmas eve. The fun did not begin until 11 o’clock, when the hostess grouped the guests about the Christmas tree. There they found Mr. Havemeyer, costumed like the conventional Santa Clans. He oglled off a name, and the owner walk-

ed up and Teooived a tiny sflVsEbcEihg if she were a woman, or a papier maohe pig or cow or horse if a man. Inside the stocking was a small pair of scissors, all solid gold, or a gold hand mirror, or a gold scent bottle. If a man, the fancy pig or other animal had stowed away in its interior a gold matchbox, a pockotknife with a gold hanj die or a small pipe ehoathed in gold. Everything on tho tree was of gold, lustoad of the regulation caudles there wore bulbs of electric lights in lamps of varying Lraoa. The little tree was a muss of electric wires, and they ran out on every twig and branch. When flanta Claus Havemeyer had called the last name and bestowed tho last gift, Supper was served in the dining room, and when this feast was over j the ballroom was again visited, where | the grown np ohildreu danced' into several hours of Christmas day.—Washington Post. * j

Stuck on His Job.

A man named Daniel Mustard is now holding a government job ut Washington, and there are those who hint that he must have a “pull.”—Cleveland Leader.

St. Michael a land of Desolation.

Joseph M. Melio. Jr., of Providence has received a letter from his father, a resident of Arriffess, St. Michael, in the Azores, whioh was recently devastated by a waterspout, confirming the news of the disaster. Mr. Melio said that St Michael is a land of mourning and desolation. At Povoaoo whole families and eattle and farming produote as well as the houses were swept away. . •'■raflwfcfc

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