Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. = i' 1 ~ ■■ GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - < ' INDIANA.

BOYCOTT ON BRITAIN.

’/• ’vj ■ - . ~ ■■■ HER GOODS TABOOED IN VENEZUELA. ’ i . ■ ~7 . ■„• l - ■ Little Republic Active in Other Mat-tcm-Wexler Will Not Follow the Pf Gen. £aijqjoa ip CJ*l»«-Beyv_ Oil Fields. —V Venezuelan News Budget, The press -and people of Venezuela ha ve declared commercial war against-Eng-land. Th<? newspapers publish daily notice in display type: “To the Prople; Whoever buys English products increases the power of Great Britain.”, For two months from Jan. 15 the press;will give “ daily - the Staines of Venezuelan and loreign merchants dealing in ahy manner with England on her colonies. There is a bright outlook for American trade. President, Crespo is releasing many political prisoners, and Congress is soon to meet. The Government has bought a light-draft stemu craft and armed it'witli light Hotchkiss guns for service on the Orinoco river. There is a rumor that the tierman Government has sent a sharp demand for the-ire modi are payment of the railroad debt. The enrolling of militia is so great that the time has I>em extended, to Jan. 81. The limit originally set was Jan. 20. The militia will drill with wooden guns. The town of San Sebastian, in the State of Miranda. has been depopm lated by yetkvw fever. Weyler in Cuba. The alleged program of Gen. Weyler, the new <l6vernor General of Cuba, has been cabled from Spain. He will not foStow Gen. Cvaiupbsr'jwTfvy r ; itolitß’ally he will be an opportunist;war will be answered with war; he (vttDbe inexorable towards spies and rebel sympathizers, but lenient towards those surrendering under arms; he will endeavor to establish an efficient blockade to prevent the landing of arms and auuminkioti from the United States; that he will not be sanguinary, but svill deal justly. He says that two months ego it would have been easy to suffocate the rebellion; now it Will not be bo easy on account of its spread. But he promises satisfactory results in the future. The same dispatch reports that 17,000 men will be sent from Spain, beginning in February, with two batteries'of mountain artillery. Bishop Haygood of Georgia Dead. Bishop Haygood, of the M. E, Church South, died at his home in Oxford, Ga., Bunday morning. Atticus Green Haygood was born at Watkinsville, Ga., on Nov. 19, 1839. He was graduated at Emory College, Ga., in 1859, and license ! to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the same year. From 1870 to 1875 he was editor of the Sunday school publications of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and in 1876 was elected president of Emory College, where he remained eight years. He was appointed general of the Jofiin F. Slater fund in 1883 for the education of colored youth in the Southern Stales and has since devoted himself to this work and efforts for the progress of the colored race. Dr. Hay good was the author of several religious Works. Millions in Oil in Tennessee. Intense excitement prevails newly discovered oil fields underlying the border counties of Kentucky and Tennessee. Speculators and boomers have followed in wvanus on the heels of the first reports of oil, but the agents of the Standard, as. well as other organizations und individual investors, preceded them and have already leased every acre of land for miles around. The belt will probably range from forty, to fifty feet in width, following closely the Cumberland plateau. Daily carloads of machinery for sinking of wells and putting up of plants are arriving at Rugby Road. Ten or twelve border counties are embraced in the oil district, which is the least settled ami wild-st part of Tennessee. Investments to date approximate $15,000,000. Baby in lulck, Cat Out of Luck. The 9-ycar-bld son of Mr. and Mrs. John Freeman.,near Delaware-, 0., discovered the family shotgun under the bed. He pointed it playfully at his baby brother. and saying. “I’ifi going to Shoot you,” pulled the trigger. The cap failed to explode. Turning the muzzle toward the eat, which was sitting on the hearth, he said: “I’ll try my luck on ’Ttildiy.’ ” This time the gun fired, and there nothing left of “Tabby.”

NEWS NUGGETS.

The population of Oregon, according to the census just completed by the county assessors, is 364,762,-an increase of about 13 per cent over the Government census of 1890. V The Mayer of-San Miguel, Peru, seized and caused to. be burned in the public, square of the city all the Bibles and stock of the focal agent of the American liible Company, Henry C. West &»Co., New York, rice end eoffee brokers, assigned to Martin S. Katenhorn. The schedules in the assignment of Harriet It. Tracy, dealer in sew- . Ing machines, show liabilities of $41,842: nominal assets, $28,(519; actual assets. $7,250. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says Seiihur Carlos Carvalho, minister of foreigu affairs, is preparing a note demanding the immediate restitution of the Island of Tritadad, which has been occupied by Great Britain. It is stated a refusal on the part, of Great Britainlb restore Trinidad .to Brazil will lead to a rnpture-of diplomatic relatious between Great Britain and Brazil. At Erie* Pa., Agent Frank Moore of the Agricultural Department, with K. T. Mead of Pittsburg as attorney, prosecuted Fred Hale, the Armour & Co. agent, for violating the State food law by selling oleomargarine. Hale was convicted and sentenced to i»y it tine 6f stoo and coats. Two civil actions against the companyare pending. • A large number of American sealers have become dissatisfied with the manner in whidh the Customs Department of the Goreraufut is handled on Pngot Sound, •nd are seeking protection under the English crown. __ 1 '

EASTERN.

Perkins & Welsh. New 10l .angarimporters and exporters, have assigned to Benjamin PtHiins,. with preferences to creditors for upward of $125,000. The Ejm. Was rated at $300,000 a fid its credit was good. - ■ . A light engine rah into a crowd of carcleaners who were walking the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad track at New Yorig. killing two women and injuring two other women and a man so badly that they will probably die. Thomas W. Palmer, of Michigan, called on,: Gen. Harrison at.the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, ’Monday night. They were together two hours. When Mr. Palmer came downstairs he Was asked whether Nir. Harrison was a candidate he. “that Gen. Harrison is not a candidate.” “ ” The GloucesteT, Mass., fishing schooner Fortuna was sunk in a collision with the Boston Fruit Company’s fruit steamer '“Barnstable off Highland light Monday night. Nine of the Fortuna's crew were drowned; fourteen were saved. The collision occurred about 7:30 o’clock. The night was-extremely dark, and a lumpy sea was running. The Barnstable's lights wercPseen, but knowing she had the right of way the schooner’s course was not altered until too late. The steamer struck her well forward, cutting a deep hole, and the ■schooner began to settle immediately. Before the boats could be cleared she went down jtiid the crew wore left struggling in the water until fourteen of them were picked up by the Barnstable's boats. The Others had gone down, , A Philadelphia dispatch says: Demoralization is staring the kid and morocco leather industry in the face. Several large firms have gone to the Wall And others in all probability will follow. The direct cause of failure,of the local firms which have lately succumbed is traceable to the failure of the Keen-Sut-terleb Company, which went under a few days ago. The latest failure recorded is that 6f Charles Landell, who has confessed judgment to tjie amount of almost $1,000,000. It is whispered in some sections along North. Third street thatsomething of a very, sensational nature may soon bo expected in the affairs of the Keen-Sutterlee Company, but the nature of it was not mentioned by anyone. It is impossible to get the exact figures representing the liabilities of the fignj, but those best infbrnied state that they will surely amount to over $4,000,000, while any attempt to get at the assets is mA-e conjecture.

WESTERN.

At Columbus, Ohio, J. B. Foraker was Tuesday elected United States Senator to succeed Calvin S. Brice. Col. Holt, of Decatur, 111.,' has been holding a series of temperance meetings in Pierre, K D. They culminated Wednesday evening in many of the prominent women of the city-raiding the saloons and gambling houses A few nights ago n notice signed “White Caps” was posted on the door of William Hertel's factory, near Payne, 0., ordering him to discharge a colored man. He did not do so. and Thursday morning his factory was in ruins. Des Moines, la., on Thursday witnessed the retiring of Gov. Jackson and Lieut. Gov. Dungan to private life and the elevation of Gen. Francis M. Drake to the position of Governor and Matt Parrott to the position of Lieutenant Governor of the State of lowa. At Pierre. S. D., in-a law class which passed an examination, before the Supreme Court, Madison Jackson, a negro porter on- the Northwestern road, was admitted to practice before all State courts. Jackson is the first negro to be admitted to practice law in the State. __ _ General Manager William Craig, of the Duluth water works, has been indicted for manslaughter for the death of Harry W. Smith, who died of typhoid fever, caused, it is alleged, by imp'. rs water. Chief Engineer James -Stewart also indicted for perjury in connection with the same matter. The wife of Joseph Hildebrand, a farmer who lived near Marysville. Kan., poisoned her eight children while in a fit of despondency. The mother and seven of the children are dead and the other child Is not expected to live. Hildebrand, who was in a Kansas City hospital under treatment for cancer, has disappeared. As a result of the Duncan-Lemly commissioner contest all the votes cast at the last Omaha city election have been ordered recounted by the courts. Numerous reports of wholesale frauds in the election have been made public from time to time, and it is asserted by many that this contest will cause startling developments. Thf rivalry at" Cincinnati between Observer Baksh?r and Coin Teller Phil Turpin's poultry over which is the better weather prophet ended in a victory for the observer. Turpin's rooster, erowed on Friday, and on the strength of this his owner prophesied a storm for Saturday contrary to Bassler's prediction,. The rooster's life was wagered against Ba?sler's money on the result. There was no storm on Saturday and Bassler will eat roast rooster. Bassler has eaten Turpin's oracular pig and now gets his rooster. Turpin still has a turkey which has the gift of prophecy and proposes to stay in the fight as long as his stock holds out. It \vas because he was a fugitive front Danish justice, had swindled people in Denmark and led a crooked career that Jens Hausen, known as Peter Hougaard, turned on the gas at his home in Chicago Sunday night and smothered his wife, five children and himself. He had swindled creditors out of $40 ( 000 in his native country* and tied to America. He was .driven to desperation and decided to die7taking his entire family with him. •v letter which has fallen into the hands-of the i»oliee induces them to believe that husband and wife had reached an uhdfitstanding concerning their, final qpd, and had dismissed the method of their tailing off at least a week. " Aiderman Frank Lawler, of Chicago, died Friday at his home, of heart disease. Death came < while he was presumably preparing to go down town to the city hall. He fell lifeless to ths floor before his Wife,’- The deceased wks a unique character in politics, not only of a municipal bitt national order. He served a term in Congress after having officiated in several elective offices in the city. The celebrated fight he made to obtain the office of postmaster, that was secured by Washington Hesing. with his,**iuiles long petition,” made him famous. His recentvictory in his ward over a number of aspirants for the place of aiderman was considered by him to be his greatest political victory. ' -r • 1 The appan*r"hf the new woman is involved in a question presented, to the Chicago city law department. The point

decided was that the police department acted within its authority in threatening - to close Jone of the big down town restaurants and lunch counters in which it is proposed to install a force of female-wait-ers dressed In knickerbockers and tightfitting jackets. It is, expected that the opinion-4111 be contested in court, and that an attempt will be made to establish for all time the rights of the varied and /abbreviated bloomer costumes affected by she modern woman. The backers of the bloomer restaurant enterprise, It is said, threaten to turn the, same authority .against enthusiastic female bicyclists, <f their plans are interfered with by the police. -

SOUTHERN.

Newr^KeTrabdy,"Lamar County, Ala., James Runyon and Robert Young climbed a hightree for an opossum. On the 'same limb, forty feet from the ground, they quarreled. Runyon pushed Young off the limb, but was pulled off with him. Both lived just long enough to tell how it happened. Information comes from Carriso, Tex., that a party of Americans—James H. McHane ; nd son, A. J. Blevins and Walter Strickland —starting 'from Eagle Pass on a hunting trip, were fired upon by Mexican soldiers forty miles below that place on Sunday. The party is oil its way to Laredo to complain to the Government authorities. - - Within the last ten days twenty-five recruits for the Cuban army have left Fort Worth, Tex., for Galveston, from which point they will embark for the Cuban coast. The agent contracted to pay SSO per month to date from enlistment, advance payment to be made when she party arrived at Galveston. Kailroad trausportation from Fort Worth to Galveston was furnished each man.. The fact that recruiting -for the Cuban army has been going on is well known. The men are good material for soldiers. A horrible double murder was committed near Flynn’s Lock, Tenn. Five masked men entered the hotise of Joseph Day, an old farmer, who was reputed to have money hidden away, and demanded the secret of his treasure. Day refused to give it up, and after numerous threats was taken out of doors and h&nged to a tree. The brutes then attempted to make Mrs. Day tell where the money was hidden, and when she refused beat her brdins out with a club. They then ransacked the house, but failed to find the money. No arrests ha ve been inn de.

WASHINGTON.

Senator Lodge introduced an amendment to the fortifications appropriation bul authorizing a popular 3 per cent coin bond issue of $100,00Q,000, to be used in providing for the defense of the coast, for the manufacture of guns and the erection of forts and batteries. President Cleveland on Friday sent a special message concerning land grants, in which he says: “It seems to me that the act of 1891 should be so amended as not to apply to suits brought to recover title to lands certified or patented on account of railroad,or other grants. I respectfully urge upon Congress speedy action to the end suggested, so the adjustment of these grants may proceed without the interposition of a bar through lapse of time against the right of recovery by the Government in proper cases.” Chica-go’ . 26 St. Louis. .24 Cincinnati .1 New York 0 Chicago wins the Democratic national convention of 1896. July 7 is the date. The national Democratic committee so decided at Washington Thursday. It was a long contest, and for twumty-eight bal-* lots the result was in great doubt. Chicago won eventually by the slender margin of two votes over St. Ixmis, amid considerable excitement in the committee room and among a great throng which had lingered for two hours in the hotel lobbies awaiting the decisive ballot. The pension committee of the Grand Army of the Republic will appear before the House Committee on Pensions and hrge legislation placing the pension office administration on “business principles,” the stopping of "unwarranted interference with pensions through biased complaints,” and will toror fixing S3OO a year ns the limit of income which bars a widow from receiving a pension. Gen. Walker said: “We want the practice of sending assassins of pensioners’ rights through the country at the beck and call of everyone who has some personal aim to sene to stop. The Grand Army of the Republic is iu favor of using means to stop fraudulent but in ninety-ifiue' cases put of one hundred it is not the pensioner guilty of fraud in cases investigated, but those personating pensioners. Among no body of men is there less fraud. We believe that, except where otherwise provided by special legislation, all pensions should be issued uniformly, the widow of a colonel receiving the same pension as the widow of a private.”

FOREIGN,

Havana is in danger of famine owing to the cutting off of supplies by the i'nsurgents. The Argentine Republic Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill granting bounties for exports of sugar. i According to the official figures just made public, French imports for 1895 decreased 152,000,000 francs and exports increased 310,000,000 francs compared with 189 L The Hawaiian volcano has broken out again and shows great activity. The outbreak began on Friday night, Jan. 3i ami a rise of the lake of about 200 feet took place that night. The lake is now about 200 feet wide and 250 feet long. On Dec. 0. 1894, the lava disappeared, and the renewal on the third of January came without warning. _ The pope, through Cardinal Satolli. has made a semi-official proposal to President Cleveland to arbitrate the Venezuela question. The pope was much hurt by England's refusal last year when Venezuela proposed the pope as an arbitrator. It is believed that his holiness has now instructed Cardinal Vaughan to sound the British Government on the subject. The Chilian treaty with Brazil this been shorn of its importance by the announcement that Argentina has an anterior treaty with Brazil giving all the rights of a favored nation, it is the intention of the United States minister to demand oi the Brazilian Government that similar privileges be accords’ll this country. This will minimize the advantages that may possibly accrue in favor of Chilian flour and cereals. Berlin dispatch: In the Reichstag Thursday during the discussion of Count von Kanitz's proposal for the establishment of a Government grain monopoly,

the Count denied that it would raise tn« price of bread. He also said that the scheme was not socialisficand that its object was t» benefit the peasantry. He concluded with'the remark: “The Gk.♦eniment may look on while the country is being desolated, but we want deeds* not words.” ■ (Prolonged applause.) s The forthcoming report of the Department of Labor of the British State Department will say that, notwithstanding the numerous trade union troubles of the last twelve months, the manufacturing and building interests of the country are on the .whole in better shape than at any similar period in the last five or six years. From scarcely any center are there reports of the pressure of unemployed such as were made a year and two years ago, while prices of labor range a fragtion Higher. The .only exception to the general report of improved conditions is from : Lancashire, where, owing to lack of orders, it is stated that over 10,000 looms are idle. A Portsmouth, Eng., dispatch says: ‘‘The flying squadron, consisting of the battleship Revenge, flagship, Rear Admiral Alfred T. Dale; the battleship Royal Oak, the first-class cruisers Gibraltar and Theseus, and the second-class cruisers Charybdis and Hermione, together with six first-class torpedo boat destroyers, assembled at Spithead at noon Friday. It is reported that the destination of this squadron, after leaving Bantry Bay, Ireland, will be the Bermudas.” No information reached Washington Friday. It is doubted whether Great Britain would send sueh a powerful fleet into American waters at this time, when its presence iu force sufficient to overcome our North Atlantic squadron almost certainly would be regarded as a hostile demonstration certainly not called for as long as diplomacy has not yet exhausted its resources in the settlement of the differences between the United States and Great Britain. The Bermudas, lying between 600 and 700 miles off our. coast, would afford . an admirable base of operations against any point from Cape Cod down to Key West, and* while the islands are part of the British empire the assemblage of a powerful fleet there could not be regarded with indifference by the United States Government, unless its presence was explained satisfactorily. .>

IN GENERAL

Cope Clementi, the missing collector of customs of Ottawa, Ont., is said to be hiding in Chicago. His books show a shortage of $30,000. The sealing schooner Kilmney, twentyfour tons, M. Halgram master, and carrying a crew of four whites, is reported to have gone to pieces on the west coast of Vancouver island In the gale of last Saturday. Meager particulars only are obtainable and it is not known whether the crejv survived the disaster or not. The Kilmney was built two years ago and the present was her third sealing venture. tVith horror at the atrocities of the fiepdish Turk, Mihran K. Serailian, an r»rinenian and a student; at the University of Chicago, has been anxiously awaiting news from nis home, In central Asia Minor, since the reports have been coming of wholesale slaughter. Tuesday he learned that his father had been murdered in the massacre of Nov. 30 at Kaisarea, and tnat his mother, sisters and brothers met • with the same fate or were scattered to starve or freeze to death in the fnountains. The provincial elections in Manitoba resulted in the Greenway government being sustained by a substantial majority. The issue at the polls was largely iffidlou.-. al schools vs. separate schools. The opposition party championed the cause of a dual system and the vote was overwhelmingly against their candidates, many of whom were defeated two to one by the government representatives. Premier Greenway and his entire cabinet were reelected, three by'acclamation. In the new House of forty members the party will stand: Government, or national school, party, 31; opposition, or separate school, party, 8; independent, 1. Banker Morgan has dissolved the great bond ’combination, and the gold syndicate js broken. In his circular to the syndicate members, concerning the popular feature of the loan, Nir. Morgan says: “I feel perfectly satisfied that there is no question as to the success of the loan.” The reason given for the dissolution of the syndicate is that the syndicate contract called for a bid of “all or none,” and therefore Mr. Morgan was unwilling to -make a- bjd under the present circumstances, as he might seem to present for consideration by the Secretary of the Treasury the throwing out of smaller bids - made in good faith under the public call. The only emergency, in Mr. Morgan's . judgment, which would justify such a 'ddurse would be the failure of the public .to respond to the call of tha Government.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to-$4.25“, sheep, fair to. $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 57c to 58c; corn, No. 2,28 cto 29c; oats. No. 2,17 e to 18c; rye, No. 2,36 cto 38c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 18c; potatoes, per bushel, 18c to 25c; broom corn, S2O to SSO per ton for poor to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75: -wheat, No. 2,65 cto 66c; corn. No. 1 white, 26c to 27c; oats. Np. 2 white, 20e to 22c. 4 St. Lotris—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; com* No. 2 yellow, 24c to 25c: oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2,33 c to 35c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2,67 cto 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; oats* No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 31}c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to SL2S; sheep, $2.00- to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 86c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye, 37c to 38cToledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, G6e to 68c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye. No. 2,37 cto 39c; clover seed, $4.40 to $4.45. X , , Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 57c th 59c; corn, No. 3,25 cto 26c; onts, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; barley, No. 2,33 cto 33c; rye. No. 1,38 cto 39c; pork, mess, $19.00 to $10.50. Buffalo-dJattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats,' NoX2 white, 22c to 24c.. . New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hdgs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; cord, No. 2, 35c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; butter, creamery, 16c to 25c; eggs, West* ern, 18c to 19c.

SOLONS ARE SCARED.

if■ ; 1 '■ • ■ •A> ■ ■■■../ , . • FEAR THEIR FAULTS MAY BE MENTIONED IN PRAYER. House Chaplain Requested to Not Be Bo Specific—Delay in the Senate Dan* - gerous to Business Interests—War Cloud from Florida’s Swamps. t To for Nothing Particular. There was an unusual scene in the House at Washington the other day when Chaplain Couden proceeded to speak some friendly \yords fyr Cuba in hia mernipg.. prayer, and was promptly applauded On both sides of the House. is .sentiments found an immediate echo among the members, and few find fault with his opinions on Cuba, but at the same time the unexpected applause startled some of the members to such an extent that h quieTintima* tion was conveyed to the„blind chaplain’s friends that hereafter he would do well to leave matters pending in the. committees or before the House out of his petitions to the throne of grace. These conservative members are afraid the chaplain may interfere with a prayer on almost any topic, and as no points of order could be raised, they would be helpless. So they declare‘that although he is all right on Cuba, they "will move for his removal unless he confines himself to glittering generalities hereafter.

Troops Are Held Ready. A special to the St. Louis Republic from Tallahassee, Lla., says: “Sensational stories are afloat here, Gov Mitchell, at the request ' the War Department in Washington, has ordered Adjt. Gen. Houston to see that the Florida militia be placed in readiness to take the field at a moment's notice. Similar requests, it is reported. have been sent to the governors of other Southern States. The story has generally known, and is causing great excitement throughout the South. Gov. Mitehell Gen. Houston were asked in regard to it, but they.refused to talk. Gen. Houston has sent telegrams to ail battalion commanders iir the State. Major Turner, Ist Florida battalion, has received several messages from the adjutant general. The battalion commanders at Pensacola and Tampa have also received messages from Gen. Houston. It is stated as coming from the executive office that the Washington authorities have reason to believe that a deal is pending between Spain and Great Britain for the-sale of Cuba 'to the latter, and that the United States is preparing to resist the transfer of the island, and that the flying squadron is coming to American waters to be ready for the war with the United States that will inevitably follow the attempted cession of Cuba. Dispatches from various cities in Florida report that the troops are gathering, and that the war fever is higher the day after President Cleveland’s Venezuelan message. Waiting Upon the Senate. R. G. Dun & Co,’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The situation could hardly be more perplexing. None doubts that the Government will raise money to meet obligations, but how far the money market will be disturbed or the treasury reserve first diminished none can say. The business world cannot know as yet how far foreign questions'may upset calculations, though there seems every reason to expect peaceful settlement. It cannot know what may be the duties on any important class of imports a month hence; whether imports are likely to exceed exports and draw away gold; whether th*e deficit of revenue will continue, or what other taxation will be levied. Failure of the Senate thus far to take any action upon financial measures proposed by the President or those passed by the House affects unfavorably all branches of business. Under such adverse circumstances it is actually encouraging That shrinkage in transactions ,and resulting commercial disasters have not been greater. But four large failures within a day or two indicate that the same condition cannot continue' without much embarrassment.”

BREVITIES.

The Duluth Gas and Water Company has been sued for causing the death'by impure water of a boy who died of typhoid fever. Bernhard Gillam, the famous cartoonist of Judge, died Sunday morning at the home of his father-in-law. ex-Senator James of Canajoharie, N. Y. His death was the result of typhoid fever. The House Friday passed the pension appropriation bill, to the consideration of which it had devoted an entire week. The pension bill as passed carries $141,'325,820,•■ab0ut $50,000 lees* than the estimate. The bill was passed fifty days ahead of any previous pension appropriation bill. At a Cabinet council held at Taris M. Berthelot, Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced that the Anglo-French agreement regarding Siam was signed Wednesday, and that by its terms the Mekong becomes the boundary, and both powers undertake to refrain from an armed advance into the Menam Valley. But the Siamese territory west and east of it is excluded from this clause. The disagreement between the co-pas-tors of the First Presbyterian Church, Washington. D. the Rev. T. DeWittTalmage and the Rev. Adolos Allen, has been settled by the church session calling for Mr. Alien’s resignation. The trouble grew out of a plan to have Dr. Talmage preach Sunday mornings as well as evenings, to which his colleague objected. Dr. Talmage now will hold forth twice on Sunday. ' Charles A. Millmnn, of Kansas City, ex-State Representative and a prominent local politician, has been acquitted of the charge of poisoning an election judge in order, as claimed, that ballot-box staffers might proceed with their work unmolested. Mlllman was one of a dozen j>oliticians indicted for alleged crooked work committed in the spring election of 1804. Elder & Davis, general merchants at Monroe. La., have filed an application for a respite for one and two years.__Assets, $97,000; liabilities, SOO,OOO. The largest creditors are the local banks, $30,000 being due them. A Cape Town dispatch to the London Times says: “Dr. Jatheson’s mep are now being handed over to a military escort at the Natal border. Each man signs a declaration promising to proceed to England as a prisoner, and not to raise any question respecting his legal custody en route, nor to attempt to escape.”

The Library corner

Paul Bourget is writing a one-act plflQF In prose for the Comedle-Francaise. Th> title is “The Screen * Edmund C. Stedman has declined offer of the new Billings thalr in English literature at Yale University., In the Macmillan’6 new edition of Dickens, edited by his eldest son, thereare many interesting reminiscences of the novelist and bits of bis correspondence in the prefaces. Tbe American Economic Association will publish very shortly, “Letters of Ricardo to McCulloch,” lately discovered, edited and annotated by J. Hi Hollander, Ph. D., of Johns Hopkins University, and “Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro,” by F. L. Hoffman. Mrs. D. F. Verdenal, formerly of San Francisco, but now living in New; York, where her husband is a correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle, has written a novel. *lt is entitled. “Ladies First,” and deals with the experiences of a well-known mine'promoter of early days. i_ Richard Harding Davis Is said to have been paid five hundred dollars by W. R. Hearst’s New York paper, tbe Journal, for writing the introduction to the Yale-Priqceton football match; Heffelfinger, the egiant football player/ received a like amount from tbe same newspaper for publishing a technical description of the game. T. B. Aldrich has sent the following letter to the Boston Transcript: “Some verses called ‘The Ideal Husband/ and having my name attached to them as the author, are being extensively reprinted by the newspapers. I beg leave to say—and it gives me great pleasure to say it- that I am not the author of those verses.” n Douglas Sladen’s new book, “A Japanese Marriage,” wbicn has had an immense run in England, has just been issued In America. In it Mr. Sladen declares himself a strong advocate of the New Woman movement. The book Is dedicated to the Earl of Dunraven, “the most eloquent advocate of ths rights of the deceased wife’s sister.” In speaking of a passage in “Vailima Letters,” Andrew Lang says: “• • • Mr. Stevenson was ‘crazy’ over M. Bourget’s ‘Sensations d’ltalie,’ and fired a dedication at him. It hit M. Bourget In a book-seller’s shop in Paris (he informed me), a bolt out of the blue, and sorely puzzled he was as to how to communicate with his remote admirer.”

Terror of Engagement Time.

The daughter in a wealthy household 1 in close neighborhood to Central Park is engaged to be married, and the news of the engagement has been published. “We all wish I hadn’t,” says paterfamilias, “because since it got out it has looked as though we would not be ableto enjoy life or even to stay in town. The mail we receive and the people who try to get in to see my wife or myself are such as to cause consternation. Both the letters and the visitors come from tradesmen who would like to furnish flowers for the wedding or to cook the wedding supper (whether we were to have one or no), or to supply the chinaware or the cabs. They are from stationers who desire to print the cards, from engravers, from jewelers, from dressmakers and tailors and milliners, from caterers who will furnish waiters, china, glass, plateeven a bridegroom if we ran short, I imagine.- The letters pile up beside my wife's plate ever£ morning and the most stylish engraved cards, bearing the names of men and women of whoo we never heard, are sent up to the distracted woman from the front door all day long. Interesting? Yes, very?' especially the covert suggestion by a jeweler or two that if we desire to swell the display of of gold or silver or jewels they can ba had on hire.”—New York Suu. *

Female Firemen.

In Wasso, Sweden, there Is a feminlno branch of the tire department. Their duties consist in filling four great tubs which constitute the water supply In case of fire. They stand in two continuous lines from the tubs to the lake,, about three blocks awny, one line passing the full buckets and the other sending them back. Whenever the fire alarm sounds they are obliged to come out, no matter what the weather may be, the daughter of the house as Welt as the serving maid, and often their skirts freeze like bark from the water and the cold. If the men are away they not only carry the water, but bring out the hose and ladders and work thepumps.

A Mysterious Face.

While a workman engaged in a Pueblo, Colo., atone yard was dressing a block of stone his chisel laid bare a round knob or knot near the surface of the rock. A stroke of the hammer vigorously applied for the purpose of smoothing down the nodule had the effect of dislodging it entire. An investigation proved that the under sldoof the stone knot bore a perfect model of a human face. 4

The Corean Hat.

A singular Coreau hat Is a great, round mat of straw worn by a mourner. jThe hat 13 bound down at the sides so as almost to conceal the head and face-, of the wearer. He carries in his hand a screen or fan, and wbeu in the road any one approaches hlin, be holds thescreen in front of him, so that it, together with the hat, completely conceals him. When a man disputes with a tool the fool is doing the very same thing. y