Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1899 — Page 2

pEEKLY REPUBLICAN. - - jQEO. B. MARSHALL. Publisher. IpNSSELAER, . . INDIAN^.

10 CHANGE DESIRED.

Ime military rule in favor AMONG CUBANS. Kwslaess People of Havana Are Optiposeil to Discontinuance of Present HMvernment-BriKht Business Hut[/"Book Reported by Dun's Review. cable message stating that Carlos Oareia was in Washington for the pur||j|se of conferring with President McKinley and others interested in Cuban asIspirs, and alleging he kqd assorted that | fuba's greatest need is the substitution Spit civil for military government, has been IppC subject of considerable comment in B§»avnna. On ’Change, where a majority the large business houses of Havana | Ire represented, the feeling is generally ; pat at present a change is not advisable, I is the putting of new men in office would k&turb business and the withdrawal of fiktc military would mean an increase in nligandage. Among twenty-two prominent merchants- of Havana, including Mfcßmiards, Cubans, Americans and other Bferious nationalities, who were asked gijkeir views, not a single dissenting voice |kuß raised against the continuation of |p»e military government for at least two |fr three years, until the country had setPped down. 1 BRIGHT BUSINESS OUTLOOK. Run’s Commercial Agency Reports the Host Encouraging Conditions. I B. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly reNjriew of trade say: “The general evi- • lences of prosperity continue convincing. |Failures are the smallest ever known for ithe season, railroad earnings the largest, plaid solvent payments through clearing ' bouses in July have been 48.6 per cent »|brger than last year and 62.3 per cent p|rger than in 1892, the best of previous Hears. Official returns of the most wonderful year in the 'nation’s commerce i*how a decrease of $85,900,000 in value Etc the great staples exported, largely owing to- prices, but an increase of about, • $80,000,000 in other exports, mostly man IKactures. Failures for the week have 'been 145 in the United States, against ,207 last year, and 23 in Canada, againsl $.7 last year.” H RACE FOR THE PENNANT. Standing of the Clnbs in the National and Western Leagues. 1| The standing of the clubs in the National* League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. -Philadelphia. 48 31 New York.. .35 44 St. Louis... .47 33 Louisville .. .33 46 •Chicago .....45 33Washington. 31 54 fßaltimore ...44 34Cleveland ...15 68 i Following is the standing of the clubs fin the Western League: W. L. W. L. ilndianapolis. 44 30 St. Paul 38 39 |Minneapolis. 44 33 Milwaukee ..34 42 I Grand Rap.. 39 37Buffalo ,32 44 LIVES LOST IN A WRECK. Tennessee Train Falls Through a I Trestle and Is Burned. - A serious wreck, resulting in the loss of |two lives, the wounding of a number of persons and the destruction of several thousand dollars’ worth of property, occurred on the Chesapeake and Nashville Railroad. The train which left Gallatin for Scottsville fell through a trestle sixty 'feet high, between Bledsoe and Westmoreland, Tenn., part of the trestle giving way. Just as the locomotive had passed over the trestle one of the cars dropfcped through and carried the engine and fthe other car* with it. The cars caught fire and were destroyed. | WOOLEN MILLS FOR CHICAGO. Concern Will Erect $600,000 Plant to Fight the Trust. | Opposition to the woolen trust, known as the American Woolen Company, is the purpose of an important German con- . cern that intends to establish a great ■Woolen mill in Chicago within a year. Secrecy is maintained as to the name and horn? office of the corporation. A woolen inill has been planned for the concern to cost $600,000. It is the intention to manufacture worsted. Men’s clothing and women’s cloaks, suits and skirts also will be made of the material. [’ Three Bathers Drowned. Three bathers were drowned in Lake Michigan, off Chicago, the other day. One gave up his life in an attempt to save a lad who had ventured out beyond his depth, both going down. Car Is Blown Up. t An open summer car on the Euclid avenue line in Cleveland was blowu to pieces ITtf1 Ttf an explosion of nitroglycerin or gun cCtton,-and six passengers injured, one of them fatally. s BK-, I*» Alger’s Place. J Formal announcement of Elihu Root’s Appointment as Secretary of War has gticen made at Washington. He has notified the President of his acceptance. H. K. Thurber Dies in Idaho, p Horace K. Thurber, for many years prominent in New York as a business tpto, died at Hpiley, Idaho. ; Three Brothers Are Drowned. ’ /Three little sons of George Tress were found drowned in Manegold’s pond, west ,'of Milwaukee. The boys were 8, 9 and pi years of age. b'a «.... i i.—— | Destructive Fire at Fayette, Wis. The entire business portion of Fayette, Wlb-» was destroyed by fire. Andrews & pochards’ general store, E. L. Worrell’s general store and postoffice, Mrs. C.Abralam’s drug store and hotel, Dr. T. J. puckiey’s office and several dwellings B|p among the buildings burned. h Hew Suspension Bridge Opens. L; The formal opening of the new suspenses bridge across Niagara river, connectgf Lewiston on the American side with Peesston on the Canadian side, took gaAA«| I

EUROPEAN CROP OUTLOOK POOR.

Reports by Foreign Correspondents of Agricultural Department. The Agricultural Department’s foreign crop report for July states that the commercial authorities estimate the shortage la the Russian crop of wheat at from 000,000 to 120,000,000 bushels as compared with last year. The deficiency is most serious in the regions most favorably situated for export. The Prussian official report on wheat is a little above “fair,” 2.3 being the technical designation. The Austrian outlook for wheat and rye is good in all but one province, that of Bukowina. Austria, Roumania and Bulgaria are all slightly below the average in wheat, rye and maize. A French estimate of the wheat crops of Spain and Italy puts it at 84,000,000 bushels below last year, the shortage being somewhat the heavier in Spain. The wheat crop in France is represented as satisfactory, but the optimistic estimates made earlier in the season have been scaled down by later crop damage. In Great Britain cable reports of a severe general storm presage considerable damage to a grain crop that otherwise would have ranked as fair. NOTED CHARACTER IS SLAIN. Double Murderer of Appanoose County, lowa, Himself Meets Death. Wells township, lowa, was the scene of another murder one day recently, which resulted in the death of Brazil D. Courts, a notorious character who has to his record two murders within the last fifteen years and for one of which he served a term in the penitentiary. John Frazee is guilty of the crime of killing Courts. The men had long been enemies and, meeting in the highway, Frazee, after a few words, raised a shotgun and killed Courts instantly. The shooting was but n few hundred yards from where Moore killed Shehrer last December. Frazee gave himself up. While Courts was a notorious character the sentiment of the people is against his slayer. FALLS TO HEATH. CharlM Keef Killed in Sight of Hundreds in Cleveland, Ohio. Charles Keef, an aeronaut, was killed in the presence of several hundred persons who had assembled to witness a balloon ascension at Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland. The balloon and parachute were attached to a guy rope, which in turn was attached to a stake. The ascension of the balloon was very sudden, jerking the rope in such a manner as to pull the stake from the ground. This struck the parachute bar, breaking it off. Keef frantically clung to the cordage of the balloon. When 150 feet from the ground he was compelled to let go and fell. He landed squarely on his feet, sustaining broken legs and internal injuries. He died soon after reaching the hospital. STOCKMEN BUYING RANGES. Quarter of a Million Acres Disposed Of in Western States. With the last two weeks the Union Pacific land department has closed sales and leases, principally with sheep owners, for over 250,000. acres. This breaks the record so far as known to the officials at Omaha. Last month 78,000 acres in Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah were disposed of to sheep and cattle men. Many land buyers from lowa and Illinois are acquiring farms in the West, especially in Kansas and Nebraska. A deal involving 20,000 acres in Lincoln County, Nebraska, is now pending. An Eastern syndicate will make of it a cattle ranch.

SUICIDE’S BODY IDENTIFIED. Man Who Shot Himself at Minneapolis, Minn., Is K. C. Hinnant. The identity of the man who shot himself through the heart at Lake Harriet, near Minneapolis, was disclosed by Mrs. F. L. Hanna, who recognized the body as that of B. C. Hinnant, one of her boarders aud cashier of the construction department of the Northwestern Telephone Company. Hinnant came from Texas two years ago. About six years ago he married a Miss Clarke of Hillsboro, Texas, and it is said that family trouble drove him to suicide. Bandits Cause a Fatal Wreck. At Wybark, I. T., on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, a freight train in charge of Engineer McCune of Parsons, Ivan., was wrecked. McCune was killed. The switch lock had bee* battered to pieces, the switch turned and the light taken up the track a short distance, signaling a clear track. It was doubtless the work of men who had intended to derail and rob the Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger train. Thugs Raid a Farmer’s Home. Daniel Miller, a farmer residing a mile south of Lexington, Ohio, reported to the police that four masked men entered his house at 1 o'clock on a recent morning, bound him, his wife and son hand and foot aud then fastened them to a bedpost. The robbers then looted the farmers safe of SI,OOO iu bonds aud money.

Bank Cashier is Sentenced. George M. Valentine, cashier of the suspended Middlesex County Bank at Perth Amboy, N. J., has.been sentenced in Middlesex County Conrt to six years in the penitentiary at Trenton. Valentine pleaded not guilty to the charge of larceny in connection with his misappropriation of about $130,000 from the bank. Arrested for an Old Crime. Louis Billow, who was arrested in Elleuburg, Wash., is wanted for the murder of Jacob Hess of Lindsay, Ohio, on May 16, 1896. Billow was engaged to marry the daughter of Hess, but her-par-ents opposed the match. Billow shot and killed the father. Fire at Saratoga. Fire started at Congress street and Broadway, Saratoga, N. Y., and spread rapidly. The fire originated in Charles Leggett’s bicycle, store and was caused by an explosion of naphtha. The loss is estimated at $150,000; Cloudburst in Wisconsin. Rain and hail fell in a cloudburst at Campbellsport, Wis., destroying hundreds of acres of growing grain. William Prehn & Sons’ large coal elevator, newly built, was completely wrecked. Mormon Chief Pleads Guilty. At Salt* Lake City, through his attorneys, Angus M. Cannon, president of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion, has entered a formal plea to the charge of polygamy. Joined by New York Men. Employes of the Metropolitan electric street railway system in New York have big atrikei r °° >U /° * 3 mCU ,a e “

TAKE MARCUS ISLAND

JAPAN HAS PLANTED HER FLAG THERE. Feared the United Statee Would Take Possession of It for a Cable Statlsa— Cloudburst Destroys Much Property in Panhandle of TexasT" According to Japanese advices Japan has hoisted her flag on Weeks, or Marcus, island, fearing the United States would take it for a cable station. Recently while her majesty’s steamship Plover (gunboat) was proceeding up the river to Canton a mandarin charge of the Rocca Tigri, who had instructions to open fire upon any Italian man-of-war going to Canton, ordered the flag hoisted to stop her, mistaking her for an Italian. The Plover did not stop. The mandarin ordered a blank charge to be fired across the gunboat’s bows. The viceroy of Canton and the mandarin apologized and the incident closed. News from Manchuria says the Russians have caused Chinese officials to stop working some gold mines that employed 2,000 men because they are going to take possession of them. They also took some coal mines north of Maukden from Chinese and paid nothing for them. They are also trying to take some iron mines. All these mines are near the railway. PANIC AT A CLEVELAND FIRE. Tenants of the Wyandot Flats Flee from Rooms for Their Llvw. Fire broke out in the big Wyandot apartment house in Huron street, Cleveland, just -after the occupants, fifty-five in number, had arisen. The roof was badly damaged and several suites of rooms on the seventh and eighth, the two top floors, suffered loss. The entire damage, however, will hardly exceed $5,000. Scenes of the wildest excitement ensued in the big building. The news that the building was on fire was spread rapidly from floor to floor. The occupants hurried downstairs to the street and to safety. Many in order to effect their escape were compelled to use the fire escapes. ANOTHER FLOOM IN TEXAS. Many Counties Inundated and Mach Property Destroyed. A report from Childress, on the line of the Colorado Southern Railroad, in the Texas pan-handle, states that a cloudburst occurred in that region with disastrous results. Much of the track of the Colorado Southern Railway has been swept away, and the bridge across Little Red river, near the western line of Childres County, is gone; also the bridge over Pease river, near Vernon. Both these rivers and their tributaries are roaring torrents. The property loss is very heavy. It is feared that some lives have been lost.

KILLED BY A JEALOUS RIVAL. Suitor of a Connecticut "Woman Slain and Thrown Into a River. Harry Chadwick, aged 24 years, of New Britain, Conn., was murdered by Joseph Hough, aged 30, who then attempted to kill himself by cutting his throat. Chadwick went to Chester to visit Miss Mary Smith, to whom he was paying attention. Hough boarded with the Smith family and was also enamored of tig? young woman. Hough has made a full confession to the coroner, stating that he killed Chadwick and threw his body into the river. Twelve Die in Alaska. The loss of twelve members of the steamer Elk expedition to Kotzebue sound is reported from St. Michael by the steamer Roanoke. Twelve men perished at various points along the trail between the Selawiek and Koyukuk rivers. Scurvy fell first upon them, then starvation and frost. Fire in Navy Yard. Fire at the Brooklyn navy yard threatened much valuable property in the building occupied by the provision and clothing department of the bureau of supplies and accounts. The fire was discovered on the third floor, in which white duck cloth was kept and cut up for the men in the uaiy. Purchases Big Paper Plant. Drexel & Co. have purchased the extensive plant of the Jessup & Moore Paper Company of Philadelphia, the Drexel company holding the entire capital stock of $2,000,000. The operation of the plant will continue in practically the same hands as at present. Bis Deal in Zinc. Ex-Gov. Renfrew has made another big deal in Missouri zinc mining property for the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company. The property purchased is the famous Richland mine, near Carterville, consisting of thirty acres of mineral land and five plants.

Double Killing by a Woman. Mrs. George Treider shot and killed her mother, Mrs. Christian Foss, then killed herself, in a farm house near Long Grove, 111. Mr. Treider, the husband of the murderess, tried to disarm her and was shot three times. The murder grew out of family quarrels. Want Texas Horses for Cuba. The "Federal Government has sent agents to several points in Texas to secure horses for service in Cuba. The Federal Government is of the impression that the Texas horses, or mustang 1 ponies, are especially adapted to Service in a tropical country like Cuba. Wreck Near Baltimore. A mixed train on the Curtis Bay branch of the Baltimore, and Ohio Railroad was derailed at Stonehouse Cove, near Baltimore. Engineer Resaw was killed and Fireman Shade slightly injured. Mrs. Holladajr la Exonerated. Mrs. Louis W. Holladay, who killed her husband, the son of a. wealthy Chicago real estate man, was exonerated at St. Louis by a coroner’s jury. The verdict at the inquest was “justifiable homicide.” Fends Result in Murders. Another feud has broken out in Clay County, Ky., by which five-men lost their lives. These fatalities resulted from a pitched battle "fought near Little Goose creek, three miles from Manchester. The fend dates back nearly two years. Kaiser Calls on Gonld. Emperor William of Germany spent an hour wi'th Howard Gould on board the latter’s yacht Niagara, at Molde.

FROM LAKEB TO MONTREAL. The Work of Deepening St. Lawrence Canals Nearly Completed. The work of deepening the SL Lawrence canals, which has been going on for many years, is now about completed, and it is announced that by September, at the latest, there will be a channel fourteen feet in depth from Lake Ontario to Montreal. Heretofore some of the canals were only nine feet deep, and for this reason the lake freight steamers have had to transship at Kingston. With the deeper channel they will be able to come through direct from Port Celborne on Lake Erie, the head of the Welland canal, to Montreal, and there transship their cargoes to ocean-going steamships. At Montreal, it is said, the Government has decided to erect, as a public work, an Immense grain elevator. As the reward for all this capital outlay, running high up into the millions, Canada expects to deflect a large amount of grain from the Erie canal. WAREHOUSES IN FLAMES. Fire ou Brooklyn Water Front De stroya Valuable Property. A fire whose origin is unknown destroyed more than a quarter of a million, dollars’ n orth of property on the Brooklyn, N. Y., water front. It started in the large eight-story grain elevator of the Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company. The elevator, being a frame structure, burned rapidly and was soon destroyed. The fire extended to buildings Nos. 275 and 276, stores which are constructed of brick six stories in height, and cover a ground area of 150 by 125 feet. These two buildings were gutted and their contents, consisting of about 200,000 bushels of grain and valuable machinery, destroyed. The loss is estimated at from $250,000 to $300,000, well insured.

KILLED IN COLLISION. Disastrous Wreck on Norfolk aud Western Railroad in Ohio. A through freight and a passenger train on the Norfolk and Western Railroad ran into each other at Haverhill, Ohio. Three men were killed, and three others seriously hurt. The passengers were badly shaken up, but none is seriously hurt. The wreck occurred in a heavy fog on a short curve west of Haverhill. The trains were running at a high rate of speed, and the two engines, twenty freight cars and baggage and express cars became a pile of wreckage. Form Upper Leather Trust. The efforts to form an upper-leather combine have succeeded. The new company, it is said, will be in full working order before the end of August. It is claimed that about thirty of the leading tanners of the country will be represented in the company, which will be capitalized at $70,000,000. Again Strike iu Cleveland. The conductors and motormen of the Big Consolidated Street Railway system at Cleveland, who Were on a strike last month, have gone out again. Eight hundred men are affected. They claim the company has not lived up to the agreement made which ended the former strike. Kill and Eat a. Young Girl. A dispatch from Tampico, Mexico, says there-is much excitement among the Mexicans of that city over the killing of an 8-year-old Mexican girl by four Chinamen at a railroad laborers’ camp near Cardenas. It was reported that the Chinamen ate the flesh of the girl. shot to Death by Angry Men. *». Lou French was shot to death by a crowd of angry citizens at Freelandsville, Ind. French had been quarreling with Jonas Noelting, a saloonkeeper, who had ordered him out of his place. French fired a revolver into the crowd, which returned the lire with fatal effect. Firemen Buried in Ruins. 'ln the burning of the Grace Hotel, a four-story brick structure at Milwaukee, the roof caved in and twenty firemen fell to the basement, one being killed and several fatally injured. Council Ousts City Officer. At Cohtmbus, Ohio, the City Council, by a vote of 15 to 3, impeached and removed from office Joseph W. Dusenbury, director of public safety. St. Paul Car Barns Bnrned. The car barns of the Twin City Electric Railway at St. Paul were burned. Sixty, electric cars were destroyed. The loss' is estimated at $125,000. President’s Uncle Passes Away. Ephraim McKinley, ajg|? uncle of the President of the United States, died at Ogden, 111., at the age of 85.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2,32 cto 33c; oats, No. 2,24 c to 25c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, choice new, 35c to 45c per bushel-. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats. No. 2,24 cto 26c; -rye, No. 2,52 cto 54c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,70 dto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; owts. No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, 59c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 34c to 35c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 24c to 20c; rye, No. 2,56 c to 58e; clover seed, new, $3.80 to $3.90. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3,33 cto 35c; oats, No, 2 white, 25C’to 28c; rye, No. 1,53 cto 55c; barley. No. 2,41 cto 43c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00'; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 te $4.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.90 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra,' $4.50 to $7.00. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, 63.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 80c to 31c; butter, creamery, 15c to 19c; eggs, Weateru, 14c to 16c.

MR. ALGER RESIGNS.

THE SECRETARY OF WAR QUITS M’KINLEY’S CABINET. Vice President Hobart the One to Convey the Request of the President— His Retirement Is Asked to Put an End to Friction. Washington special: Gen. Russell A. Alger Wednesday morning called upon President McKinley and handed him his resignation as Secretary of War, to take effect at the pleasure of the President. There was no comment except that the President asked if he wished to go at once, and the reply of the Secretary that he would remain until the assistant secretary returned, if his successor should not be chosen at once. The story of the resignation is closely guarded in administration circles, but it is said that the President indirectly requested the resignation, and as soon as the Secretary was informed that the President wished him to retire he returned from Long Branch to Washington and placed his resignation in the hands of Mr. McKinley. The politicians have for some weeks been anxious to get Alger out of the cabinet. The Pingree alliance was the excuse. They feared it, and they feared the hostility of Senators McMillan and Burrows if Alger remained in the cabinet. They urged the President to get rid of Alger, but McKinley said he could not ask for Mr. Alger’s resignation with

GENERAL R. A. ALGER.

suc-h an excuse. President Lincoln had refused to accept Secretary Chase’s resignation from the cabinet, even after he knew that Chase was scheming to be a presidential candidate against him. President McKinley said he could not ask Mr. Alger to leave the cabinet because he had announced his candidacy for United States Senator from Michigan. The members of the cabinet were more open to the argument of the men who wanted Alger out of the way of the success of the administration. They agreed that the Secretary of War must be sacrificed, and they expressed their views to the President. At this stage in the developments, Attorney General Griggs was sent as a messenger to Vice-President Hobart, to ask the Vice-President to advise Alger to resign. Mr. Hobart agreod to undertake the delicate mission of saying to Gen. Alger what the President and other members of tiie cabinet would not say to him. i He telegraphed Secretary Alger, inviting i him to spend a few days with him at his [ Long Branch cottage. When the Secretary arrived and the jyvo men had an opportunity to talk reely, Mr. ‘Hobart advised Alger to/resign, saying that the country was Against him and that he might as well reCSgnize that he must be sacrificed. Gen. Alger asked if the Vice-President spoke only for himself -or at the suggestion of others. Mr. Hobart had to tejl him the -whole story, that the President wanted his resignation but did not wish to ask for it; that Attorney General Griggs had been the messenger of the 1 President and the cabinet to him, and that he (Hobart) was merely the agent of the administration in advising Alger to retire. Gen. Alger' remarked that he would hand the President his resignation as soon as he returned to Washington. He said he had supposed that he and the President were on terms of friendship justifying frankness regarding this situation, but all he desired was to know tfte President’s pleasure. He returned to Washington and handed his resignation to President McKinley.

ALASKAN DISPUTE HOPELESS.

Indefinite Postponement of High Joint Commission Likely. A Washington dispatch asserts that the administration has practically abandoned hope of a settlement of the Alaskan boundary question, and the indications are that the meeting of the joint high commission will be indefinitely postponed. Definite action on this point, however, will not be taken until after the arrival of Senator Fairbanks. A conference will then be held by Senator Fairbanks, Secretary Hay, John Foster and John A. Kasson, and the boundary question discussed at length. The best the authorities hope for now is that there will be no clash in the remaining few w-eeks of the mining season. The situation is grave, with the American miners on one side in a state of irritation and the Canadian constabulary on the other in a very aggressive mood; Should the clash come it will not be through the fault of this Government. Everything has been done to prevent action which will- cause bloodshed.

News of Minor Note.

Texas floods damaged railroads $2,000,000. Essex Hotel, Bloomfield, N. J., was de■troyed by fire. Loss SIOO,OOO. Nonantum block, Newton, Masa, destroyed by fire. Loss $20,060. Bainard Oliver, 22, Newark, N. J., killed his wife by then escaped. Chas. Jones, New York porter, fell down an air shaft and was killed. Dan L. Davis, Wayland, Ohio, while intoxicated, fell under a train and was killed.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Admiral Dewey, through former Secretary Herbert, has filed suit in the District Court at Washington to recover prize money due him and the officers and crew under his command for the vessels captured in the battle of Manila and the property subsequently recovered by the uaval force of the Asiatic squadron. Upon, the ships and equipments which have already been appraised by the board of survey appointed by the Secretary of ’ the Navy the admiral demands the sum of $326,141, and in addition the amount due upon three cruisers sunk in the engagement, but subsequently raised, upon which he places a value of $425,000. The title of the ease is "George Dewey, Admiral of the United "States Navy, on behalf of himself and the officers and crew of the United States naval force on the Asiatic station taking part in the battle of Manila Bay, vs. The Don Juan de Austria and other vessels and miscellaneous stores and supplies captured by the fleet under his command.” The bill recites that Admiral Dewey and the officers and crews are entitled to the prize money as provided by law. The number of men aboard the American vessels during the engagement is given as 1,836, aud while Admiral Dewey declares he is unable to give the exact number of men engaged on the Spanish side he says it was far in excess of those under his own command, and the enemy’s forces were superior. All of the property recovered as a result of the battle is now in the possession of the United States except such as has been consumed.

The latest advices from consuls and consular agents of the State Department represent the crop conditions in southern Russia to be even worse than heretofore depicted in unofficial reports. The misery of the inhabitants of the famine-stricken provinces is described as appalling. "It would seem,” writes Consul Heeuau from Odessa, "that European Russia might as well be dismissed as a factor in successful agriculture. The climatic conditions throughout the area aj'e of so uncertain a character ns to be a source of anxiety and loss to the farming population.” From central and eastern Russia similar reports are made. Altogether the outlook for wheat in that part of the world may be summed up as decidedly dismal. The United States certainly has nothing to fear from Russia as a competitor in the wheat markets of the world this year.

The State Department neither confirms nor denies reports crediting Chief Justice Chambers of Samoa with having resigned his position. There is little doubt that such action on his part would give general satisfaction, although it cannot be predicted with any certainty that he will voluntarily efface himself from the pay roll. The latest trouble in the Samoan Islands is due entirely to his ruling recognizing the kingly rights of Malietoa Tanii. The Washington Government has technically upheld the chief justice, and it may be that he is in the right, but it is none 'the less undeniably true that the American representative has kept England, Germany and the United States almost continually stirred up ever since he was introduced into the Samoan problem.

It has been determined that the war prize Reina Mercedes shall be retained on the Naval Register as a relic. The board of survey, which has examined that ship at the Norfolk navy yard, has reported in favor of dfing as little work as possible with the idea the ship may be kept in its present condition with all the evidences of the conflict off Santiago. The board refers to the holes made by the projectiles from Schley’s fleet and suggests that no attempt be made to repair such damages. It is recommended that only $2,500 be expended on the ship, the main work to consist of installing a new boiler and pump, tightening the hull and repairing the steaming gear.

“This Government stands ready to send troops to the Porcupine region or anywhere else where their services are needed,” said a member of the cabinet when asked the Intention of the administration in this respect. “At present there is no immediate danger of an outbreak in that region, but we are closely watching developments.” Notwithstanding this statement there is no danger at present of a conflict. The Government has within the last few days received information to the effect that Canadian police and miners are now on this valuable portion of American territory, and some fears are felt of a clash.

Immigration Commissioner Powderly Friday granted a hearing to Attorney May, who represents the Croatian National Society of Chicago, in behalf of the eighteen Croatian immigrants who were arrested at Itathbun, lowa. As Attorney May could not produce evidence enough to convince Commissioner Powderly that the immigrants should not be returned to their native land their deportation was ordered.

A Striking Resemblance.

“If you will stand a little closer to your wife’s portrait, my dear sir, I think you will appreciate its striking effect much more forcibly.” “That’s certainly like my wife."— Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Liked It.

“No,” said Fido, through the fence to the tramp dog, “I don’t mind being washed. It is such fun to roll in the dirt afterward.”—lndianapolis Journal.

Appreciation.

Mauve—This is not my best work l only, painted it to keep the wolf from the door. His Friend—Hang' It out It will be. a success.—Harper’s Bazar.

Suggestion.

He—Hypnotism, you see. Is only an act of suggestion. The doctors make cures by suggestion. She—Do you think if you were to suggest Ice cream It would cure my hunger?—lndianapolis Journal. x : . . ■ . -.1 *_ v-* .. , . . ;