Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — Page 2

A YEAR’S HISTORY.

v- : - #• , • . ;• Chronological Record of Twelve Months. " • * rj__ [FULL RECORD OF 1895. An Epitome of AH Events of -v>- L Importance. Vhm Oi«tl Admixture of Disaster, | Crime, Political Changea, Commercial Achievement*, and International Complications—Atrocities of Tnrka in Armenia the Most Shocking Page la Modern Hiotory—Powers of Europe Unite In Demanding ; Reform - Cuban Revolution Meat In i Public Intercat. ! ——— , With but two ’exceptions, the nature of fth* exeats which go to inako up the his--1 lory of the past year is notr startling. The butchery of thousands of Armenians hy Turks has aroused the European powers, and at the close of the year act ire preparations were in progress which suggested the probable dismemberment of tha Ottoman empire. , Tift revolt of Cubana against Spanish rule was lit* ■ext moat important affair, aful that, too, was in full sway at the close .of tlwlyear. Spain seems to fruitlessly beiwi every energy toward its suppression, jyopniar sympathy isitirgejy with-the-Gubaus, and their success seems not improbable. In American politics the year has been exciting, and one of the great parties has suffered" such reverses as to" leave the chief executive unsup(>orted in i*olilical faith by a majority in either house of Congress. A chronological record of •Tents follows:

January. I L Michigan'* first'public Installation of (State officers... :Gov. Morton, of New York, ■worn In. .. .Belgium bars American beef... jTom Blair lynched at Mount Sterling. Kyi*. in an Incendiary fir? at l.ancas2. Death of Col. Edwatd M. Horl, Inspector general Department of the Missouri, at Chicago... .Carnegie's Homestead men strike against reduction of wages. i. S, Fires: $75,*J00 at Springfield. Ohio; $105,•00 at Coffeyvllle, nt Cleveland; $300,0U0 at the Southern Illinois lu-, aane Asylum, at Anna. .. .Cleveland entertains Hill at a Cabinet dinner, j 4. Scores of villages ami eitlca unite In ■ending aid to destitute people In Nebraska 1... .JltJO.ooo tire In Milwaukee. I 0. Captain Dreyfus, of the French army, Mflbllety degraded for selling war secrets. | 6. $1,000,000 fire at Toronto; two lives lost. I 7, 15 J plosion on steamer In Uio harbor kill* JJ20.,, .High water in Ohio Hirer towns. men pillage stores at St. John’s, kO. W. XV. Taylor. ex-Trensurer of South 'akota, embezzles $350,000; bis bank at Hedeld closes. j 10. Two Uvea lost In a Toronto fire; prepjarty less.-SOOO,OOO. i 11. Coldest day of the season In Chicago; (12 be10w...,. .Storms In the Fast. I 12. Train held up near Ottumwa, lowa. IH. Ono hundred firemen frost-bitten at [Bradford, Pa.; sl3o,ooo,damages. .. .Several {vessels lost oh England's coast; fifteen ' sailers drown. I 14. Hundred miners trapped by rising water In North Staffordshire, ling.: 20 drowned. • 15. C.iant ponder liorrugfat Butte, Mont.; •0 people killed, 100 hurt. .. .French l’resl4ent resigns: Royalists awake. WJ7. M. Felix Faure eleeied President of ranee. f 18. News of rebellion In Hawaii.... .Death •f Mary, X'lce I'resldent Stevenson's daughter. ... MHIUa ordered out to protect Brooklyn trolleys. 19. Body of Barrett Scott, the O'Neill, •>'eh., defaulter, found in the riVcr. with rope ■ round hts neck... .Sinking of steamer State of Missouri tu the Ohio; forty lives Jest. 21. Chicago, has v thunder and rain storm, rwllh temperature of 51 degrees anil a spring Breeze. followed by a hurricane blowing til jtollea an hour, temperature falling to 10 defirees ntwve zero; many people hurt by' falias timbers,"blown from new Buildings, i 23. Steamer Clpcora nud 25 people lost.ofT Pouth llavea. Mich.; financial loss. $185,000' j... .Death of Lord Randolph Churchill at ILcndoa. ' •• I 25. Seven killed by Mendota. 111., boiler, ■xploslon—.Guatemala concedes Mexico's boundary claim... .Fearful wind and snow •term In the West. 26. Thirteen Bailors dfowued off Point Ju41th. Conn. 27. Mercury below zero all day In Chicago .... .Snow blockades many Western roads. 28. One killed, 43 hurt. In Vandalla wreck ■t Coatsville, Ind... .l’realdeut Cleveland's ■urrency message sent to Congress. 29. Receivers named for the whisky trust. SO. Steamer Elbe sunk In collision with the Crathle. hi North Sea; 314 lives lost. ‘ 31. Death of Ward McAllister, leader of. Ktv York's society. Febrtta ry. I 3. News of kidnaping of officers from Uni-ted-Slates gunboat Concord, by Chinese, for accidental ihooting of u native. .. .Chicago temperature 13 below. i 4. Three drowned 4*y Milwaukee street car huuniug. Into «n open draw Thirty French laulaers killed by explosion... .Chicago temz>erature 17 below... .Queen Lil abdicates 15. Blizzard sweeps over the Northwest. ... {Alarm for the overdue French liner La Gascogne. i. Whole country suffers eitreroc cold; 20 ibelow at Chicago. .. .Nine men lost In open Boats at Milwaukee. . .wteport of aunlhllafttlon of Chinese fleet at Wei-Hai-Wel. .. .Ad(Zulnistiation's currency measure atnl Reed nd Cox substitutes defeated iu the House. 8. President aunounees the sale of $02.r l,0(K) In bonds... .Coldest day of the year Chicago. I 10. Schooner Clara and 13 men lost off LIv«rpool, N. S. 11. La Gascogne, eight days overdue, •takes New York harbor with disabled machinery; great rejoicing. 12. $200,000 street-car barn fire at Chicago. L 13. Five firemen killed, 10 hurt, at Lyuu, Mass. 19. Death of Isaac P. Gray, Minister to Mexico... .New Orleans has ten inches of •now. 20. Death of Fred Douglass, the colored •rator. at Washington... .Quick sale of late pond Issue. il [ 2*. Riot at Savannah. Qa., beeanse of exVrlest Slattery’s lecture; troops Called. ' I 27. $400,000 fire at Chicago; $1,000,000 at (Halifax... .Scores of miners killed in New (Mexico... .Postmaster General Bissell •>CU»I March. [l. Mexican train wreck costs 104 lives.... Vive killed. 19 hurt, by falling walls at New York. . . .Hvlye}!ion gains ground iH-XhiUa. 2. $1,000,000 fire iu Toronto; $350,000 at Batina. Kan. JL Chicago Times issues Its last nnmber Before consolidation with the Herald..Terrtfle snowstorm In Northwest. 4. Fifty-third Congress adjourns. 5. Mrs. \V. K. Vanderbilt divorced at New York. a One rolfber killed, one captured, and four citizens wounded during raid on the Odell, lows, bank. Harry Hayward convicted of murdering Catherine Ling at Minneapolis... .Steamer Longfellow sluka St ‘Cincinnati; twelve •mwntd. 30, Spanish, war .vessel Rein a Regente founders; 400 lost! 11. Six men killed In New Orleans riots. IZ-Seven- Italians lynyhcd Yty miners for In order In Colorado. Is. Western Newspaper Fnlon plant burns •t Kansas Cltji.. .Two more Italians lynchFWe killed In round-house fir* at ToBodo; Kellogg ready-print plant at Cleveland Karas; $200,000 firs St St. Louts... .Report of Making of American schooner and crew of )M by Spanish gunboat ( 30. Mine explosion -In Wyoming kills 00 Miners... .SIOO,OOO fire la Peoria, 11L

2L MOO.OOO Sir* at Won* City; $300,000 at New Orleans. 24. 1.l Hung Chang shot by fanatic Japanese; not fatally... .ft. 000.000 fire at Kansas dtr. Kan., packing house. 25. Furious Oust storm over Central and Western'Bta tea. . —c"" 28. $1,000,000 fire tn Milwaukee. 27. Three train- robbers killed on Queen and Crescent route.. 29. Japan declares armistice.,. .Hottest March day ever known In Chicago; temperature 78 degrees, 1 30. Death of A. C. HcSfng, editor of Illinois Staats-Zeltung. -,i April. 1. Boiler explosion kills six at Woburn, Mass... .Five ale In Kentucky forest fires. 2. Republicans snccessfnt la Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Chicago. . 1 $ Death of Mrs, l'aran Stevens. ifcletv "tjneen oi Acer York.. .44rfl'n<l I’aclnc liotcl of Chlcngo/closed .. .Fifteen killed by explosion in New Oi leans; it. Supreme Court makes change* llfijnwn« tax law,. .-.Train wrecks- In Ohio 4mF Illinois kill eight. 8, Discovery inf counterfeiting of postage stamps. .. .21 miners killed at New Whatcom, Wash... .Collapse of six-story brick at Wheeling, W. Va; 0 killed; loss $200.000..., Blizzard of sand and snow.ln the West. 13. Crude oil *?1 Is at $2 in PJttsburg Cuban rebels whip Spanish,troops. 14. Death by apoplexy of james W. Scott, of Chicago •Tline's-llerald, in New York.... $1,000,000 hotel Ore at Pasailctia, Cal. 15. Conclusion of peace in the Cuban'rebellion crushed... .Cattle admitted free from Mexico. . 19. Three killed, six hurt, at Chicago shipyards. 20. IT. H. Kohlsaat buys Chicago Tlmesfflerald. .. .May wheat sells at 00 cents All grain advances strongly... .OH goes higher. 21. Five negroes lynched at Butler Springs, Ain....13 Inches or snow In^Colorado. 23. Supreme Court decides In favor of Debs In tho famous contempt of court case. - May, 1. Ten persons killed by a Kansas cyclone ....Bandits kill’ an Alton engineer.. ..Big Ohio coal strike on. 3. Awful death roll In lowa and WlseonriaateMnw.., Five killed by powder mill explosion at South Acton, Mass. .7 .Hottest 3d of Slay on record In Chicago; temperature 88 degrees; ono man sunstfuck. 8. South Chicago and Joliet steel workers strike. .. .Orlentn! peace assured. 10. .Steamers Cayuga and Hurd sunk off Mackinaw. Mich., by colliding: one man lost; pecuniary loss, $400,300... .Temperature at Chicago drops from 80 to 43. ~ .Twelve people hurt by gas explosion at Chicago;! four die. 13. Killing frostx from Nebraska to-the Atlantic. ~ .Snow stops the Chicago-New York ball game at Chicago... rKlghteen lives and twelve vessels lost in storms ou Lake Michigan. 18. Great flnrrr In corn and wheat. It). SI,OOO/4)0 tire at St. Albans, Vr... .Terrible earthquakes In Italy... .Killing frost lu fifteen States. 20. tax declared Invalid... .Wheat sells at 7t% cents; 21. Jose Ma'rte, President Cuban Insurgents,, killed... .14 killed in San Francisco powder house explosion. 25. Two men lynched for assault at Danville, 111... .Wheat reaches 82 cents. 27. Supreme Court against Dchs. 28. Death of Gresham, Secretary Of State. 20. Remarkable' military reunion at Chicago. — 1 ' ~ 30. Funeral of Gresham at Chicago... .Dedication ut Chicago of Confederate monument. Si. Cloudbursts In Texas, parching droughts In middle Western Slates, 99 degrees In the shade In Dakota. six Inches of snow In Colorado, balmy weather on the Pacific coast, and 96 degrees in New York City. June. 1. 2. 3. Unprecedented heat In Chicago, New York, Detroit, Philadelphia and Indianapolis; niaity deaths ..front heat prostration. 4. Drop at Chicago of 4tJ degrees temperature. 5. Silver convention at Springfield. 111. 7. Olney appointed Secretary of State, Harmon Attorney General. 8. $200,000 tire ut Kalamazoo. 9. $750,000 tire at Milwaukee. 13. Wlilsky trust declared Illegal. 16. Greenville, Ohio, has a $225,000 fire. 17. H. J. Aldrich falls for $1,000,000 at .Deadly storms sweem the Missouri Valley.. . .Opeulug of Uarleia ship canal. 20. Opening of Kiel ship ennui. 21. Rosebery's ministry defeated... .Two fatally, ten badly hurt, by explosion on whulebnrk excursion steamer Christopher Columbus at Chicago. 2G. Six firemen killed at Minneapolis; SIOO,000 1055... .$2,000,000 fire at Sail Francisco. 29. Death of Prof. Tbos, Huxley at London. July. 3. Daughter born to the .Clevelands. 7. Terrific stonn.at Chicago... .Six drowned at Lake Geneva, Wis.... Michigan swept by forest ttrPs. 10. Chrisilau Endeavor assembles at Boston. 14. Destructive storm In North Dakota.. Three drown ut South Haven, Xltch... .Seven iicetdentai fatalities at Chicago. .. .Nine kHtod by storm In New York and New Jersey. 16. Beginning of Horr-Uarvey debate at Chicago. , 'IT. First appearance of bloomers at a ball, In Chicago... .Three Cincinnati firemen killed. 18. Nine miners Imprisoned hy eave-ln at Iron Mountain. Sllch... .British ship Prince Oscar and unknown vessel sink In collision; 40 perish. , / 19. Rescue of Iron Mountain miners.... Cleveland baby named Marlon. 21. Drowning of 148 Italians, by sinking In collision of steamer Marla I’. ...Four killed at grade crossing at Wllllamston, Mass... .$400,000 lire in National Linseed Oil Company's Chicago warehouse. 22. Report of killing of seventeen Indians near Jut kson'a Hole, Wyoming; trouble imminent. 23. Furious storm In Pennsylvania coke region.... L. S. & M. S. train held up In Ohio; $7,000 stolen. 25. Thirty-two miners killed hy explosion lu Westphalia. . -—4; . 31. Sixteen perish In a cloudburst In Colorado and Wyoming. ... .Menominee, Mich., has a $500,000 fire. Atignit, 4. False report of race war at Spring Valley. 111., between Italian aud negro miners... Murder of British missionaries in China.... $1,000,000 fire at Sprague, Wash. 7. Death of George F, Root, the famous composer. 1 8. Thirteen kilted and many Injnred by fatting building in Now York. .Death of Supreme Judge Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee. 10. $200,000 fire at I.ookport, 111. 11. $500,000 fire at Newark. N. J Four killed iu a wreck at Balnbrtdge. Ohio. 13. $300,000 file at Philadelphia. 18. Holocaust In Denver hotel: 25 hilled.... Scyen drown at Ocean City. Md. 20. Trains Iwld up on the C. & W. M.. near Fcnnviile, Mleh.. and oa the Union Pacific near Nohth Platte, Neb.. . .Eight killed and eight iujured by explosion at Braddock. Pa. 22. Milwaukee loses $382,000 by fire.... Gentry loses stallion pacing championship to Patcbun. 2C-7-S. Heavy rains In corn belt; severe storms accompanied hy fatalities In Illinois aud Ohio. 29. Fifteen miners drown at Central City, Col. Feptember. 2. One hundred people hurt on tha Sea Beach road. Long Island. •* 3. Furious storm in central Northern • States. 4. $300,000 fire at Boston. G. Triple murder tu Sullivan County, Ind. 7. Forty-two miuera perish lu a burning mine at Calumet, Mleh... .Defeuder defeats Valkyrie'in first cup contest by nine minutes. 8. Five killed by dynamite near Dubuque, lowa. 9. Opening of G. A. R. encampment at Louisville. —4O. Valkyrie fouls Defender at the start, aud wins second heat of yacht race by 47 seconds; race given to Defeuder on protest ....Temperature 97 degrees at Chicago. Ilf Uexen killed by exploding .caisson-at -Louisville... .Six killed in collision on Great Northern. 12. America cup goes to Defender. Valkyrie refusing to sail Seventy-five hurt by fall of a grand stand at Louisville, Ky.... News of death of. 300 hy earthquake In Honduras. .. .Ei-Qmvn Liliuukalam pardoned by Hawaiian Goternmeut. JO. Six killed in a wreck at I.ynehbnrg, Va. 17. Atlanta Exposition opened Phenomenal beat In Kansas; 107 degrees. nopga National Military Park. 19. Spanish cruiser aud 46 men lost In collision off Cuba.. .Steamship Edam sunk tn collision; all saved... -Six die of heat In Chicago. 23. Great losses on upper lakes hy storm. 28. Death of I‘asteur at Paris. 29. Twenty-four lake vessels meet disaster in a storm. Retirement of Gen. Schofield. 80. Continued gales on the lakes; schooner Elina and eight people lost on Pictured Itock*. ...Mammoth mass meeting at Chicago declares sympathy for Cuba... .National League season dosed, Baltimore winning.

■ Oct'ben 1. Destructive gales on British coast.... Cuba declare* her Independence. 2. Texas special prohibits mglltsm. 8-.-; „ 3. Million dollar fire nt Warren. R. I. -■ 7. Seven kUled by explosion In a Wllkesharre. Pa., Buae... .Masked bandits sncceasfully hold up a Chicago electric car. 9. Anniversary of big Chicago fire... .Firs die by firwin Cincinnati.... Steamer Afrlea and crew of eleven lost la Owen Sound.... Georgia father kills his nine children... .Six children burned to death at Snider, Out. „ 12. SIOO,OOO fire loss at Duluth: 13, Four killed, twelve hqrt, on a Pittsburg trolley car. .. .Five burn to death ln-a Manitoba prairie fire; Immense property loss. . 19. 515Q.000 saw-miH fire at Minneapolis. 20. Ilnlf-mllllain dollar fire at Net; Orleans] 1.000 people homeless... . Flrst.gnowstorm ox season"aUCßlcSgb rE?r<V,~P£d ESI' dftea Inches. 22. President Cleveland welcomed to At- < lanta... .$175,000 linseed oil mlllfire at Chimgn ' _ j 21. Lake Shore train runs from Chicago to Buffalo, 510 miles. In 7 hours 50 minntes 20 seconds, running time, beating world’s record. - 26. Three killed by explosion of tug bolle* nt Chicago... .Sheriff and posse Ft Tiffin, Ohio, kill two of a lynching robb... .Burning of Virginia’s State University. _ 29. Negro criminal burned at the stake la Texas... .$200,000 fire In Springfield, Ohio ....Two killed, three fatally hurt, In a collision in St. Louis. 31. Earthquake throughout the central belt of the United States; no fatalities, little damage. - - . November. 1. Earthquake at Roirfe... ■Durra'HT v found J guilty of murder at San Francisco. r 2. 11. H. Holmes found guilty of murder of Benjamin Pi'tzel at Philadelphia. 3. Four killed In B. & O. wreck near Wheeling, W, Va... .Four burned to death In New York tenement house fire. x 5. Death of Eugene Field at Chicago.,.., $300,000 fire at Decatur. 111. 5. Republican landslide... .$1,500,000 fir* inNew York. 0. Forty killed by holler explosion In Detroit, Mich., Journal building... .Ityan family of six die in their burning house wt Brooklyn. 11. Chicago dallies reduce to 1 cent. 16. Twenty killed In u street car accident ct Cleveland, 0hi0... .Death of Dr. S. F. Smith, author of “America,” at Poston.... News of another massacre by Turks In Armenia; 800 slain.. of Chicago Journal and Press. 19. Furious snow and wind storm in Northwest... .Lowell, Mass.; Dallas, Texas; and Purcell, I. T., have big fires. 21. SOOO,OOO fire in Springer Building, Chicago... .Eugene Vi Debs released from Woodstock, 111., Jail... .Sultan of Turkey forced to a peace policy by the powers, after lie had countenanced many Armenian massacres. 22. Five firemen lose life In a $500,000 Chicago blaze. .. .Release from jail and enthusiastic reception of E. V. Debs, labor leader, at, Chicago.. Foreign fleets rendezvous In' the Dardanelles. 25. Tremendous damage at Chicago by storm of snow, sleet cud rain; all ear lines blocked, wires down, i. .Fire at Chicago does $200,000 damage. ...Seventy killed by explosion In cartridge factory at Palma, Island of Majorca.. 26. Three vessels go ashore nt Glencoe, 111. i crews of 20 men saved.. . .Riot lu Jackson, Mich., prison.' 27. Death of Alexandre Dumas, Jr., at Paris. 28. Day of doom for the turkey... .Football games: Michigan heats Chicago; Boston and Chicago, tie; Pennsylvania defeats Cornell; Purdue defeats Illinois; Louisville wlna from Do Panw; Columbia Athletic downs Columbia University; Brown defeats Dartmouth. r December, 2. Assembling of Fifty-fourth Congrcssj Reed elected Speaker of the House.;. .Zero weather In Northwest... .Further massacre* In Armenia. 7. $350,000 Are In San Frahclseo... .Europe storm-swept; British boat and twenty-seven sailors lost off Scotland. .8. $600,000 Arcs In Chicago... .Death ofGe.o A. Sala, Loudon journalist... .Tug Campbell and seven men lost In Lake Superior. 9. Chilton, Wis., razed by fire. 10. St. Louis gets next National Republican Convention... .Sultan permits guard ships to pass Dardanelles. .. .Harry Hayward hanged at Minneapolis. 11. Burning of Catholic Orphan Asylum at Milwaukee: 200 children rescued... .Steamer Germanic sinks the Cambfrae, at< Loudon; no lives lost. ...Mob threatens Kansas Medical College at Topeka, because of grave-robbing. 12. Death of Allen G. Thurman at Columbus, Ohio. 15. German ship Athena with a cargo of naphtha explodes off Cape May; 14 lives lost. 17. Cleveland's Venezuelan message arouses great enthusiasm at home and astounds Great Britain... .Philadelphia In .the ha'nde of a mob during a strike. IS. Explosion on liner St. Paul killed six men and injured five... .House passes sloo,* 000 appropriation for Venezuela commission. ....Rioting In Philadelphia; entire street railway service suspended... .Death of Capt. Isaac Bassett, doorkeeper of tho ..Senate. 19. Thtrt-y-six lives lost In Newfoundlands fishing _fleet.br storm. ~ killed In n North Carolina mine... .Tremendous rainfall at Chicago. 20. Panic on Wall street... .Senate unanimously passes House bill for Venezuelan commission. .. yClevcland sends financial message to Congress. .. .Twenty-four miners at Dayton, Tenn., killed... .Unprecedented flood at Chicago.

PUFFING THE PLAY.

"A NewVXork Success ’’—Abuse ol Tress Courtesy. The United States Is n broad and busy country, and It is,well supplied with excellent journals, says mo Forum. As Is natural and unavoidable, these generally take their tone In treating drantatie affairs from those of the metropolis. What Is said and done In New York about plays and actors Is published all over the union as Quickly! as the wires and: can spread the news. Consequently tho theatrical business of the entire country Is managed from New York. That Is why actors, managers and the minor personages of stage life flock to New York. That Is why for many years past It has been possible for the wily speculator in rotten dramatic lumber lo set up a flimsy stage structure, held together only by the adhesive qualities of paint and printers’ ink, and— py keeping a New York theater open and empty for Its exhibition for a stated term of weeks at the expense of $3,000 or $4,000 a week, and by a continual pestering of the good-natured journalist—to qbtaln a sufficient amount of notlcs of his “great New l’ork success!” to ena'ble him to travel throughout the country with his “show,” and gather a rich hai> vest from those who are eager to seo what sort of plays please the people of the great city. Of course the “show” soon falls tp pieces from the weight of Jts o#n worthlessness, and the seeds'of general contempt for New York’s-good taste la theatrical matters are/sown broadcast But uo matter. TJre enterprising speculator, now well lu funds, reUyns to New York and Is soon upon the full tide of another like venture. Year after year this sort of thing goes on. But the people of the East, South and West are becoming wise anyd wary. The “business’,’ Is not so good now as It once was in those often-deluded seecal troubles upon which the ax should fall quickly aud sharply Is this abuse of the press courtesy—first extended lr good nature toward the struggling an tlst, but now demanded fig a right by the brass-band “show boomer.” , Our hardest battles are those ire fight with ourselves.

OUTLOOK FOE WHEAT

CROP OF THE UN If ED STATES . UNDERESTIMATED. Conservative Estimate of the World's Production 2,416 000,000 Bualicif— Prospect Slightly Bullish—Philadelphia's Street Car Strike Settled. May Be 473,000,000 Bushels. ~A* the jmr P r ffirisssft». .prr-ssiou continues to grow, so far as the wheat crop in the United States is concerned, that it has been materially underestimated. According to Bradstreet's the official figures as to the size of tho crop, or the interpretations of earlier official wheat drop reports, placed the total probablo outturn at about 390,000,000 bushels. At the present time trade estimates in very few, if’any, instances put the probable aggregate yield at less than 400,000,000 bushels —and the end is probably not yet, in the matter of revised figures. This, in view of .comparatively moderate exports of wheat and ffour thus far during the cereal year, continues to perpetuate the dominance of bear influences in the world’s wheat markets., Some of our optimistic foreign friends are even now inclined to think the wheat Crop’ here may amount to 473,000,000 bushels, as against 520,000,000 bushels last year. Canada comes out with,an estimated increase of about 10,000,000 bushels, and Aygentina is now expected i to show 80,000,000 bushels, although only a month or two ago 60TW0,000- bushels was accounted a Itigh estimate, the output Inst, year having been rather under 58,000,000 bushels. As against this, however, it is becoming probable that Australia is likely to be an importer rather than an exporter Of wheat. In fact, she has already begun to import wheat The Crop in Russia. In Russia, a most important source of supply, the minister of agriculture estimates the crop of the Ruroßean provinces at 122,000,000 bushels less than last year;,but this is deemed too low,, “as theofficial estimates usually are,” and it is generally Supposed that the production of Russia and Poland together will not be more'than 88,000,000 bushels less than last year. Russia generally has a larger surplus from previous crops, and it is this reserve which will enable her to keep the balance between exporting and importing countries. One of the more conservative estimates of the world’s production of wheat in 1593 places it at 2,410,000,000 bushels, as contrasted with 2,500,000,000 bushels in 1804. a falling off of about 144,000,000,000 bushels, the significance of which is gathered from the fact that-the general consensus of opinion as to the approximate total- world’s, annual consumption of wheat is about 2,400,000,000 bushels. With a production this year of only 2,410,000,000 bushels of wheat iu the face of estimated requirements amounting to 2,400,000,000 bushels, stocks of wheat car tied over from the outturn of 1894 aud

ATTACKING A STREET CAR.

prior thereto gather special significance, or would do so if they could be known wit it n«y’ degree of accuracy. The follovqing is Becrbohuv’s estimate of the surpluses which the chief exporters will have to spare from this year’s crops, in comparison with last year: Estimate. Actual. Exporters. 1595-G, qrs. 1894-4, qrs. United States and Canada 15,000,000 18,500,000 Russia* 13,000,000 16,500,000 Roumania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Servia.... 7,000,000 4,750,000 Austria-Hungary 500,000 India aud Persia. 3,250,000 2,300,000 Algeria, Tunis, aud Egypt.... 1,250,000 1,250,000

CHAIRMEN OF IMPORTANT CoMMITTEES IN THE LOWER HOUSE OF CONGRESS.

THE AUTHOR OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the ahiicabla relations existing between th* United States and the allied powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on thelf part to extend their system to any portiop of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not iiv* terfered and shall not interfere, but with the Governments who have declared their inde* pehdence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and: just principles, acknowledged, we could not view an interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any,cther manner their destiny (by any European power) in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward tho U.tited States.—* Front Monroe's vwsaaoe to Conoress in December. ISZt, ~,

Chili and Uru- , ] guay 500,000 (500,000 ! Australasia .... 500,000 900.000 ! Argentina 5,000,000 5,750,000 ! Total surplurTT^tS^OO^OO. 50,500,000 Total surplus,bu.3B4,ooo,ooo -00,400,000 | This estimate was formed when' the i Argentine production was expected to be, not rnucli, if anything, over that of last year; but should it amount to 80,000,000 bushels, then one may take the available surplus for the cm-reut year to be about 400,000,000 bushels. Great Britain requires to import 200,000,000 bushels, France about 20,000,000 bushels, Belgium, Germany and Holland together about 86,000,000 bushels, Italy about 28,000,000 bushels, the rest of Europe about 44,000.000 bushels, and the West Indies, China, Brazil, etc., about 25,000,000 bushels—in all, say 400,000,000. bushels, against a probable surplus -on the year's crops of 40,000,000 bushels. \ This is altdgetHor\too close a fit and calls for some examination as to probable stocks of wheat 'carried over from the prececfing crop year. There were, and probably are, large wheat reserves in Russia which enabled that country to export so freely during the fall and winter, while in India and Australia reserves are

and have undoubtedly been -relatively small. » 1 - Prices T-ikely to Go Up. The world’s available stocks of wheat, those in sight, on land and,afloat, are not smaller this year than they were last, notwithstanding the heavy decline in production. Either the invisible supplies must be smaller than customary (except in Russia, of course, whieff are believed to be large), or there is likely to be, ns is generally the cnse. more than “enough to gq around.” Quite certain is it, however, that 1893-96 is likely to cat well into the world’s old and new cereal stocks of wheat, and that the following cereJfl year, at least, may witness a considerable price stimulus to tho cultivation of the cereal. This is not quite as bullish a view of

the situation as many producers and traders, may have been waiting for during tho last few years of depression, but it is a literal interpretation of the be*t available statistics.

STRIKE IS SETTLED.

Philadelphia’s FtreetCar Trouble Han Been Adjusted. The great trolley strike in Philadelphia is ended, John Wamimnker is the mu who brought about the settlement, suc'ceeding Where ail others failed. He was aided in the work by members of thn j Christian League. The basis of settle- ’ ment follows: I First—While the Union Traction Company will only treat with the workmen ia Its employ, it will allow them membership in any lawful organization; second, it will take up all grievances and giv« them full and fair consideration; third, it will, so far as it has vacant places, immediately put on the old men, and as fast as vacancies arise will give preference to the old men yet unemployed, and endeavor jo arrange the trips of the ear? to favor the old men asufar as possible .without violating its contracts with the new men. The questions of compensation and hours are left for future determination. The battle has mainly been fought ’on the question of the employes’ membership in the Amalgamated Association of i Street Railway Employes, which the com-1 pany has persistently refused to reeognizo. ] The new since the strike began number nearly 1,000. There wer* about 5,000 strikers. Wanamnker sub-1 mitted the ideas embraced in the settle-1 ment to the strikers. They accepted* them, and'" in turn submitted them to thn company. Considerable eoi-respo,Hienc«B and many conferences followed, and fin&lfl )y annor.neemeiYt was made that both side had agreed to the terms. To properly round out the matters a mass meeting of the strikers was liqld for the purpose of ratification. Ilerc the strike was oliiciafly declared off, all the leaders were called upon for speeches, and, there was a veritfj able love feast. I

ROSBED BY MASKED MEN.

One- of I'd Corrlcan’s Employes Re*J lievetl of the Traci: Receipts. fl In San Francisco four masked robber* held up a Mission street ear from Inglesidc and robbed Itcnben ClarkeJ an employe of the Pacific Coast .fockevß Club, of the receipts of the day, said tfll aggregate !?H,OOO. Clarke and two other| men were shot by the robbers, but it is bo* ; Roved, none of -the wounds would prove| fatal,, although Clarke will probably lossjj ono of bis legs. The robbery occurred Ififl a lonely place eight miles from the city. I

On the Picket Line.

Now is the time to resign from militia. ". i As a lion-tamer Uncle Sam is a gfl success. jfl God save the Queen! She isiifl blame for it. H Iu the meantime Venezuela will ly oblige by not shopping over. It is well to be firm, but do lialf-cockcd. That is no way to The present little flurry will tard Canadian annexation for years or will precipitate it in r. A nation which in the nineteealHß tury will refuse to arbitrate need iHB pect to get any sympathy when itHg buked. Even if lie had no Monroe sustain. Uncle Sam would humane grounds, the neighbor. fIHB