Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, INDIAN-.

TRUST LAW IS VOID.

MISSOURI JUDGE RENDERS AN IMPORTANT DECISION. S Maids that the Law Is Criminal and tliut Trust Members Cannot Be Compel led to Testify Against Themselves J —Accident on New York “L” Road. R Judge Gates of the Kansas City Circuit IhCourt decided that A. N. Doerschuck, fe druggist, was right in refusing to answer i questions asked him in a proceeding | brought by the Attorney General to show g that Doerschuck and other druggists were in a combine or trust. Judge Gates said: “If he was compelled to testify in iKthe case now pending he might have to g give evidence upon which an indictment | or criminal information might be based | and upon which he might be convicted of Kin misdemeanor. This cannot be permit- | ted. Our constitution vouchsafes to ev■?jery person, however humble he may be, J' the privilege and the right to refuse to | bear testimony against himself.” The great importance of the decision of J udge ’ Gates is in the fact that he holds that k the State laws regarding pools, trusts and t combines are criminal laws, and that a I person charged with violating those laws B cannot be forced to testify against him- ' ®elf. The last Legislature passed a law that if the Attorney General had reason K to suspect that anyone was a party to a E ttust he might, in a summary proceeding, | obtain his evidence. Under the decision by Judge Gates this law defeats itself I and is void. t ? TRAGEDY ON ELEVATED ROAD. H' Four Men Injured, One Killed and a Woman Dies from £hock. I Four men were injured and one killed B and a woman died from shock as a result H os an accident on the Brooklyn elevated Ktrtructure. An East New York elevated H train got stalled between Duffield and streets, on Myrtle avenue, BrookIpyn. Several persons got off the train and I attempted to walk over the structure to fi'the nearest station. The train moved 4, suddenly and threw several persons to the ' jMrvement below, a distance of thirty-five EYeet. William J. Moody, Frank Royn||eton and his brother William, Charles | Wright and Augustus Snyder were in■jured. The latter sustained a fracture of f the skull and died shortly afterward. LizBp® Hill, colored, was a witness of the afnccident and died from shock. | HENRI STIFT KILLS HIMSELF. ®Buicide at Denver Said to Have Been Once a Policeman in Chicago. i Henry Stitt, a brother of “Billy” Stift, .pugilist, committed suicide at Denver, Colo., by hanging. His body was found from a beam in the stable of ||the Vai Blatz Brewing Company. It is Bthought that the act was induced by debrought on by ill health. Henry HBtift was formerly connected with the poforce of Chicago, where he was drivR|er of a patrol wagon, until his health him. He was about 35 years of kSTART FIRES TO AID ROBBERY. OConfeeaion of a Negro Captured at Baker City, Ore. | Early on a recent morning five tires |Were started almost simultaneously in ■Mtfferent parts of Baker City, Ore. Two gi buildings were burned to the ground; A onegro named Charles Johnson confessed Ko starting the fires, and implicated a iJMexiean and a white man, who were arHMKted also. The negro says it was planIffihed to rob the faro banks and saloons Saßuring the excitement caused by the fires. | Kansas Telegraph Law Void. | The law passed at the last session of 1 jflie Legislature permitting a charge of Ejtaiy 15 cents for a ten-word dispatch beKansas points has been legally degSiared to be void. Decision to this effect Kiras handed down by Judge Stewart of Hthe Nemah County District Court in a test case. 1 Attempt to Wreck a Train. |;An attempt was made near Watertown, | Igß. D., to wreck a train on the Chicago ■gad Northwestern by placing obstructions I |Sn the tracks, consisting of planks spiked I Sown and ties piled across and braced [awith iron bars. A boy named McDowell I Bneovered the obstruction, secured a lanI Kft*n and stopped the train. | ’ Slain in Border Fight. I feAwother border war broke out between I Mfeericans and Mexicans at Naco, a little I IqßFn HwR lies partly in Arizona and | Bjwrtly in Mexico. Four Mexican officers I MW two Americans were killed and one I and two Americans wounded. I JsHle Five Wives Share Alike. I afearry St. Clair, prize married man of I ISjchester, N. Y., was sentenced by Judge I fcieriand on a charge of bigamy. St. 1 Pleaded guilty and was sent to Au- ■ prison for five years, one year for i wife he had married. g | Mormon Leaders Are Fined. H |£Five prominent Mormons were arrested B jf Richfield, Utah, and fined on the K|geof polygamy. The court warned B the fines imposed were not to be Knded as a criterion. Fire in a Card Factory. U a3h>e upper stories of the large frame g Hiding of the American Card Company, U si, the business section of Lowell, Mass., ■■■ burped. Loss $50,000. LjhhrVerk Ha. 476,717 Voters. The registration in Greater New York ® fepmpleted. The total registration was J 1 ij ' Gold Seekers Are Stricken. Kfrom Cape Nome, Alaska. Hi by the steamer Lakme. are that --ftihuld fever has broken out in the camp S form. The hospital is crowdS| Jthero DOW being 250 patients in it. been five deaths and others Fire Loss in r'outh I hicago. through a score :rf homes at DDfl and th** in-

FOR CONTROL OF COLONIES. President Expected to Discuss New Department of Commerce. A dispatch from Washington says that President McKinley will, it is expected, devote considerable attention in his forthcomiug annual message to another executive branch of the Government, with a »abinet officer at its head, to have charge •f interstate and foreign commerce. It seems to be pretty settled that a recommendation will be made for a new Department of Commerce, but its full scope is still a matter for discussion, and will probably not be decided until various subordinate officials of the Government have submitted the data which they have been requested to furnish and there has been a general exchange of views around the cabinet table. As early as June last the President began Jo give consideration to this subject, and at that time called for data concerning the control of colonies by foreign powers, and of the extension of our commerce into foreign fields. A great deal of this information has been compiled and various officials of the administration are working on individual plans for the creation of such a new department as proposed. There are some differences of opinion as to putting the new colonial possessions under the control of a department to be devoted chiefly to commerce. CROWD CUBAN LABOR MARKET. Spain Assisting Idle Men to Emigrate to the Island. During the last sixty days there have arrived at Havana over 2,000 Spaniards, who say that it is impossible to obtain work in Spain and that the government is assisting them to emigrate to Cuba. It is believed that over 200,000 of them will come to Cuba within the next few months, rendering the situation on the island more complex. One of these Spaniards who recently arrived says that women are not assisted to emigrate, the Spanish government aiding only men over 18 years of age to leave the country. A large number of these immigrants desire to work in the mines, but the Havana merchants are giving employment to all for whom they can possibly find positions. Mrs. Letorde, wife of Military Governor Ludlow’s acting chief clerk, is dead from yellow fever. She was the first American woman since the occupation to contract the disease. Almost every case of the fever among the Americans is traceable to certain places frequented by them. THREE FIREMEN KILLED. Fire at Knightstown, Ind., Canges a Loss of SIOO,OOO. The, most serious tire in the history of Knightstown, Ind., broke out. Three lives were lost and property worth SIOO,000 or more was destroyed. The dead men were members of the volunteer fire department -and were fighting the fire when the front wall of a three-story building fell outward. They were caught by the falling bricks and crushed to death. The Masonic Temple, the largest building in the city, was in the path of the flames and was destroyed, together with the building occupied by E. O. Anderson, dealer in household goods; Green Brothers, saloon, and Davey Brothers, dealers in notions. The fire is supposed to have originated from an explosion of natural gas. STRIKE DELAYS LAUNCHING. Navy Not Likely Soon to Get New Tor-pedo-Boat Destroyer. The launching of the torpedo boat destroyer Bailey, built by the Gas Engine and Power Company of Morris Hqjghts, N. Y., for the United States navy, which was to have occurred recently, has been postponed indefinitely owing to the prolonged strike of the iron employed on the craft. The men quit work about two months ago and a settlement of the trouble seems as far away now as at the start. TO TERMINATE THE TREATY. Agreement Between Switzerland and United states Endangered. The State Department has regretfully come to the conclusion that the.existing treaty between the United States and Switzerland must be terminated, and steps in that direction will soon be taken. The necessity for this course arises from the action of certain of the State governments in enforcing local laws which in their operation prevent Swiss insurance companies from doing business in those States, thus violating the treaty.

Denver Poolroom Robbed of $4,000 Austin’s poolroom, the largest in Denver, Colo., was robbed of $4,000 by Robert J. Boykin, an ex-policeman, who has been for some time employed as special policeman at the club. The place had been closed for some time, but Boykin induced the cashier to return to the room and with a revolver compelled him to open the safe. He took all the cash, including S9OO in coin. He then made his escape. Interior Department Estimates. Estimates for the Interior Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, aggregate $170,500,000. This includes $145,172,000 for the entire pension service, of which $144,000,000 is for all army and navy pensions, the remainder being for agencies, salaries, etc.; the census bureau, $9,664,000; Indian service, $6,800,526; the general land office, sl,690,000; patent office, $1,051,190, and geological survey, $500,000. Fix an Alaska Line. Mr. Tower, the British charge at Washington, called at the State Department and handed tp Secretary Hay a note formally accepting for his government the proposition for the temporary boundary line proposed by Secretary Hay. America’s Cup Is Safe. The third and final race in the series for the yachting supremacy of the world was won by the Columbia, the American boat, defeating the Shamrock, the British challenger, by six minutes and thirtyfour seconds. Col. Schneider la Dead, e Col. Schneider, the former Austrian military attache at Paris, whose name has been prominently connected with the alleged treason of former Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French army, is dead. Female Bandit Is Recaptured. Pearl Hart, the Arizona woman bandit, who escaped from jail at Tucson, Arix., was arrested at Deming, N. M., where she arrived on horseback with a male companion. Accidentally Kills Himself. I Maj. Frank Kidder Upham, acting quartermaster and commissary of the SolI diers’ Home at Santa Monica, Cal., ac- ’ cidentslly killed himself with a revolver.

CRUEL MURDER PLOT

AWFUL CHARGE AGAINST MISSOURI YOUNG MAN. Said to Have Conspired with Another to Kill His Father for the Money He Would Then Inherit — Farmer Commits Murder and Suicide. .¶ Great surprise was created in Springfield. Mo., by the arrest of Noah Storms, a well-known young school teacher and popular man in society, on the charge of conspiracy to murder his father, one of the wealthiest and most influential farmers of Taney County. It is charged that Storms offered Leroy Lewis of Swan Creek, near Forsythe, where the Stormses live, $35 to do away with his parent. Lewis notified former Sheriff John L. Cook and his brother, William Cook, of the alleged proposition made by young Storms. He had the two Cooks conceal themselves where they could overhear a conversation between himself and the school teacher about the plot to kill the elder Storms. It is alleged that in the conversation the details of the contemplated murder were discussed in advance, the evident object of Storms being, it is supposed, to acquire the wealth the death of his father would give to him. COUNTERFEIT RAILWAY TICKETS Well-Executed Imitation of Skeleton Round Trip Form Discovered. The officials of the Colorado Midland Railway Company have discovered a case of ticket counterfeiting which promises to prove one of the most extensive ever discovered in this country. The ticket is so made that, with the coupon attached, it can be made out to any point in the country and return. The tickets found have been all on Eastern points, and they were so nearly perfect that not only conductors, but employes in the general office passed them without question. KILLS HIS SON AND HIMSELF. Minnesota Man Hopes Thus to Pay Off Mortgage on His Farm. .¶ A Morris, Minn., special says that Joseph Haigh, a farmer living five miles west of Donnelly, shot his 21-year-old son, Russ, blowing his head completely off. He then shot himself through the heart. There was a $2,000 mortgage on Haigh’s farm, and it is thought he killed his son to get $2,000 insurance from the Modern Woodmen, of which order the latter was a member, and then killed himself to escape legal punishment. In this way he expected to leave his family with the farm clear of incumbrance. Four Men Drowned. Two fishermen who came in to Toledo, Ohio, brought a story of the drowning of four men near Cedar Point. A man named Francisco Demeraux and his son Severance, with a couple of Slav farm , hands, went out fishing and carried beer with them. They became drunk and began quarreling, fighting in the boat, which turned over and threw them into the water. They were all drowned. War Ends in Veuezuela. The Venezuela crisis is virtually over. Gen. Andrade, the president, has accepted the conditions proposed by the insurgent commander, Gen. Cipriano Castro, and will go abroad, the presidency devolving upon the vice-president. Gen. Castro will enter Caracas peacefully, thuS avoiding bloodshed and a dictatorship. k < Dewey’s Baggage Is stolen. Admiral Dewey’s baggage, including all his voucher’s, is said to have been stolen. This is technically denied, but in spite of that everything indicates that the admiral’!? belongings are missing. It is sa: i ra ft goods lost are valued at $lO,000 an., consist of mementoes and curios collected by the admiral. Carter Verdict Upheld. Judge Lacomb, in the United States Circuit Court at New York, banded down a decision dismissing the writ of habeas corpus in the case of former Captain Oberlin M. Carter, who is under sentence of five years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to defraud the Government in contracts. New Transpacific Line. The firm of Mitsui & Co. of Japan is considering a plan to establish a new transpacific steamship line. The firm is said to have contracted for 100,000 bales of cotton, to be delivered before next March, and may provide steamers of its own to carry part of this American product. Wichita Dry Goods Store Burned. The dry goods store of George Innes & Co. burned at Wichita, Kan. It was brilliantly lighted and prettily decorated because of the local festival in progress. It is thought to have caught from an electric wire. The loss is $75,000, with insurance of $53,000. Banker’s Wife Kills Herself. A victim of melancholia resultant from ill health, Helen Banfield, wife of W. S. Jackson, a banker, committed suicide at Colorado Springs by shooting. She had just partaken of luncheon with her husband and six children, and retired to her bedroom. The bullet entered the heart. Fatal Fire in a Hotel. The Casino at Green Lake, Wis., was destroyed by fire between 5 and 6 o’clock the other morning and Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Jenks, who were living on the third floor of the building at the time, were burned to death. The loss will be $35,000 on the building and SIO,OOO on the contents. Henry for Army Department. By direction of the President, Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry, now on waiting orders in New York City, has been assigned to the command of the department of the Missouri, with headquarters at Omaha, Neb. Jester Is Held Without Bail. At Paris, Mo., the preliminary trial of Alexander Jester closed. Judge Moss remanded the defendant to jail without bail to await the action of the grand jury. Reed Admitted to New York Bar. Thomas B. Reed, former Speaker of Congress, has been admitted to the bar of New York. He intends to reside in New York City permanently. Found Guilty of Conspiracy. At Philadelphia the jury In the Ing-ham-Newitt counterfeiting conspiracy trial brought in a verdict of guilty. A recommendation for mercy is made.

FOR IMPROVING THE OHia Convention at Louisville Adopts Resolutions to That End. The most important business before the Ohio Valley Improvement Association at Louisville, Ky., was the adoption of the following resolution: That Congress be urged to appropriate a sufficient amount to insure immediate improvement of the Ohio river to its mouth at Cairo; that the improvement of the Qhio between Pittsburg and Marietta be pushed; that Congress prevent encroachments on the channel of the Ohio which may render navigation difficult and dangerous; improvement of the Mississippi river at its mouth; immediate construction of locks and movable dams at and near Gallipolis, Ohio; ownership by the United States of an isthmian canal; the building of a dam just below Cincinnati, and a standing appropriation by Congress of $75,000 annually for dredging the I FARMER KILLS HIS FAMILY. An Insane Man Near Redwood Falls, Minn., Causes Five Deaths. Frank E. Babcock, a farmer residing near. Redwood Falls, Minn., murdered his wife and three sons. The murder was committed in a fit of insanity. Babcock loaded his shotgun and went to where his two little boys were playing and shot both of them. His wife saw the murder and rushed to the barn for safety. Babcock went into the house and Bfrote a note to his brother-in-law, Frank Mason, and then searched for and found his wife in the barn and shot her through the head. From the barn he walked a mile south to where his oldest son was at work, and at close range fired, killing the boy instantly. Then reloading his weapon he killed himself.’ NEGRO SOLDIERS IN A RIOT. Battle with Police at Laredo, TexasSeveral Persons Hurt. Friction between the Laredo, Texas, police and the negro soldiers at Fort McIntosh resulted in a street riot. A Mexican, C. Nuncio, received a Krag-Jorgen-sen bullet through the shoulder. Policeman William Stoner was badly beaten with clubbed rifles, and at least 100 shots from the army rifles and pistols were fired by the rioting negroes. The trouble grew out of the arrest of a soldier for some offense. One Killed and Nine Injured. One person was killed and nine others were injured, several probably fatally, in a grade crossing accident at Seymour, lowa. A wagon in which were ten young men bound across the country to charivari a newly married couple was struck by an east-bound meat train on the Rock Island road and knocked from the track. Will Cuppies was killed outright. Marconi Is Enjoined Lyman C. Larned of Boston has brought suit in the United States Circuit Court against Guglielmo Marconi to restrain him and his agents from using the system of wireless telegraphy, which, Larned claims, is an infringement of a patent now controlled by him. Max lie Up Great Northern. A general strike on the Great Northern ‘has been threatened for some time and it looks now as if it may occur within a very few days. It will include conductors, engineers, firemen, brakemen and switchmen and the men expect to tie the road up from end to end. Kills Wife and Himself. Oscar Everhardt, a New Orleans musician, borrowed a pistol, and returning home shot his wife through the head while she slept. He then turned the weapon on himself. Domestic infelicity is given as the cause of the tragedy. Nebraska College Purus. The college building at Norfolk, Neb., was totally destroyed by fire. The loss is $14,Q00, about half covered by insurance. The college was closed about a year ago. It was a Congregational school. Chicago Box Factory Burns. Fire destroyed the factory of the W. 0, Ritchie Paper Box Company, Green and Van Buren streets, Chicago, entailing a loss of $221,000. At least 500 men and women escaped by a narrow margin from the burning building. No Political Assessments. The Postmaster General has issued a formal warning to postmasters against the levy of political assessments. The civil service commission will enforce the law. 1 Death of Noted Publisher. William H. Appleton of the publishing house of D. Appleton & Co. died at his home at Riverdale, N. Y., aged 85 years.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 31c; oats, No. 2,22 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 17c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 te $6.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.50; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn. No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,23 cto 24c; rye. No. 2,55 cto 57c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; tye, No. 2,63 cto 65c. ’ Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye. 61e to 63c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 69c to 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed,’ 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye. No. 2,59 c to 61c; clover seed, $5.95 to $6.05. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 Northern, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 33c; oata, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 1,58 c to 59c; barley. No. 2,46 cto 47c; pork, mess, $725 to $7.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choice, $325 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.50. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $425; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2, 39c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; butter, creamery, 17c to 25c; eggs, western 14c to 19c. ■

REPULSE THE BOERS.

BRITISH GAlty A DECISIVE VICTORY AT GLENCOE. English Troops Mske a Desperate and Successful Charge—The Enemy in Attempting to Retreat Caught Between Two Fires—Both Sides Lose Heavily. British arms triumphed in a desperate battle fought at Glencoe Friday, but not without a heavy loss of life. Sir William Symons, the British commander, was wounded and it was said his hurt would prove mortal. Maj. Yule took command. The battle, which continued for eight hours, resulted in the complete repulse of the Boers. The British loss is estimated at 300 killed and wounded and that of the Boers three times as many. The action began at 5:30 o’clock in the morning, when the Boers on Talana hill began to shell Glencoe camp. The English artillery, the Thirteenth and Sixtyninth batteries, returned the fire, finding the burgher gunners no match for them. Gun after gun was silenced, and then the plucky charge began. Half an hour had sufficed to prepare for the charge, but it took hours of crawling, fighting and climbing before the British troops won their way to the summit. The charge was covered by a heavy artillery fire from Glencoe over the heads .of the advancing infantrymen. The British were fighting their way inch by inch toward the summit when word reached Glencoe that a large force of Boers was advancing on Hattingspruit, a little to the north. The Leicester regiment and a battery of artillery were told off to check the re-enforcements, and the battle raged on. At 1:30 the Glencoe artillerymen saw their comrades on the crest of the hill. Then the British cavalry circled around the hill and pursued the Boers in their orderly retreat to the eatsward. Seventeen guns fell into the hands of the British. It is thought that this victory, coming at so early a stage of operations, cannot fail to have a good effect on the Boers, not only because of their being ousted from a position they had occupied in force, but because of the loss of their guns. This last, it is judged, will prove even more demoralizing.

HARD BLOW ON TRUSTS.

Supreme Court Decision in American Glucose Litigation. Trusts and combinations formed for the purpose of controlling prices, regulating outputs of commodities and stifling competition received a body blow at the hands of the Illinois Supreme Court in Springfield Thursday. In ah opinion written by Justice Magruder and concurred in unanimously it is held that the $40,000,000 Glucose Sugar Refining Company, commonly known as the glucose trust, is in fact a trust within the meaning of the statute passed in June, 1893, defining trusts and prohibiting them. In arriving at this conclusion the court follows the reasoning it laid down in the celebrated case which proved the ruin of the whisky trust, and plain terms are used in denouncing the purposes had in view by the organizers of. the company. The case was one begun by George F. Harding of Chicago and makes the American Glucose Company the principal defendant. The American Glucose Company is one of the six concerns which the trust absorbed, and the purpose of the litigation is to prevent the sale of the American Glucose Company to the trust The Supreme Court heard the case upon a writ of error taken by Harding after his amended bill had been dismissed upon a demurrer. The court reverses the decision of the court below and remands the case, with directions which will apparently partly, at least, disrupt the trust. The decree sets aside all the conveyances by which the trust became the owner of the property of the American Glucose Company and all assignments and instruments which accompanied the delivery. The lower court is also directed to furnish every relief consistent with the prayer of the bill.

EUROPE IS AROUSED.

England’* Immenae Military Plana Puzzle the Powers.. It is reported that Great Britain’s immense military preparations against two insignificant republics are viewed with considerable curiosity in some of the European capitals, notably Paris and St. Petersburg. Notes have been exchanged on the subject and it is even hinted in inofficial quarters that inquiries will be addressed to the British Government as to the contemplated absorption of the two republics by the British empire. The London Press Association has announced with an air of authority that the Government’s plan is to terminate the war in the speediest manner possible after the forts at Pretoria and Johannesburg have been razed and then to promulgate by order of the Queen in council a new constitution for a group of five federal states —Cape Colony, the Transvaal, Natal, the Orange River Free State and Rhodesia —under the title of the dominion of South Africa, the crown to nominate a governor general and the five states having power to elect its own lieutenant government and to have local legislatures with a dominion parliament to meet at Cape Town. With some modifications, the scheme is based upon lines similar to those of the Canadian Government.

Echoes from South Africa.

War poems are popular in English newspapers. Italy has sent a cruiser to South African waters. President Kruger’s wealth is estimated at $5,000,000. English papers say that many of the Orange Free State Boers oppose the giving of aid to Kruger. The London Mail’s circulation is now over 650,000, having increased because of its attitude towards the war. Bakers are being enlisted to go to South Africa to bake bread Equal rights to negroes are denied by the constitution of the South African republic. Johannesburg street cars are not running, as the horses have been seized by the Boers. Paris newspapers complain because, while there is an Irish and a German

Business Situation.

Chicago Correspondence: Nothing calculated to disturb the present favorable underlying conditions of trade and manufacture has occurred during the last week. Activity along nearly all lines is increasing rather than diminishing and the signs are pointing to the transaction of an enormous volume of fall and winter business. Money continues to show an easing tendency, and whilethe sterling exchange market at the moment seems to foreshadow an outward movement of gold in the next few weeks the opinion of the best authorities is that such shipments, if they occur, are not likedy to have any serious effect on the situation in this country. Although general business is enormously swollen by reason of the heavy domestic consumption of commodities, the export trade is increasing all the time. The statement for September showed the largest exports of mercha’ndise for any correspondingmonth on record. The stock markets have been affected somewhat by the decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois in the glucose case, but the disturbance caused by this has been confined mostly to what is known as the “industrial” department. Price of wheat has tended lower this week, while com rather favored some improvement. Holders of the former yielded reluctantly for a time to the influences that threatened the value of their property, but those became too obviously powerful toward the end of the week, and Saturday saw what had the appearance of a general surrender by the bulls. The final quotations Saturday showed a loss of 1% cents a bushel for the December delivery and 1% cents for May, the discount of December under May widening to the extent of the difference. The inference is that holders of wheat are so tenacious of their belief in ultimately higher prices to have the wheat carried for them until next spring. They are not unmindful of the most unsatisfactory yield of last season’s winter wheat crop or the heavy requirements of Europe. The week’s exports of wheat and flour from all American ports were over 4,000,000 bushels,, and the week previous they were in excess of 5,000,000 bushels.

WIN AT GREAT COST.

British Killed and Wounded at Elandslaagte Number 150. Official and unofficial dispatches show that the capture of Elandslaagte by the British Saturday was a brilliant feat of arms, although accomplished only with great loss. The British killed an(Twounded numbered about 150, according to the report sent to the war office in London by Gen. Sir George Stewart White. That of the Boers is placed at a much higher figure, while many were captured. The force of the Boers approximated 1,200, while the British had a much larger number. The burghers were strongly intrenched and in many respects the battle was like that at Dundee Hill. Remarkable bravery was shown by the Boers, especially in repeatedly returning to their guns after they had been silenced by the British artillery. Gen. Viljoen, second in command of the Boers, is among the killed. Gen. Koch, who led them, was seriously wounded and is a prisoner. His son, Piet, is among the killed. An important prisoner taken by the British is Schiel, a former German army officer. So closely were the Boers pressed that they were forced to abandon a number of standards, which fell into the hands of the victors. The eastern and western Boer columns are entirely dispersed.

IOWA TROOPS ARRIVE.

Transport Senator, Bearing; the Regiment, Reaches Port. The transport Senator, bearing the Fifty-first lowa volunteers, came creeping through the heavy mist of the Golden Gate, San Francisco, just at noon Sunday, and in a moment the cheers of thousands of people, the screeching of whistles and booming of cannon rent the fog and cloud banks, and the gallant soldiers steamed into the offing. The arrival of the Senator is the cause for double joy. lowa and the nation are glad to welcome home the men who made such a splendid record in the Luzon swamps, and there is great relief in the knowledge that the boat escaped the great typhoon, out of Yokohama, which so nearly wrecked the Canadian liner Empress of India. Doubts as to the fate of the transport had been aroused by reports brought by the Empress of India, which arrived at Victoria after a thrilling experience in one of those typhoons which are the terror of seamen in the East India seas at this time of the year. The Empress reported that the Senator was right behind her leaving Yokohama and probably felt the full force of the storm. The Senator delayed sailing two days on account of the great storm at sea. The lowans were given a great reception as they steamed in through the Golden Gate.

PERTINENT Personal

Melville E. Ingalls was born on a farm and began work as a lawyer. Frank H. Burford, a 15-year-old boy, has been admitted to the bar in Guthrie, O. T. > Four Richardsons and six of their relatives have been Governors of South Car- . olina. Ephraim Dougherty of Rochester, Ind., although 90 yearn of age, still supports himself by manual labor. Hiram Cronk of New York is the only surviving pensioned soldier of the war of 1812. He Is 99 years old. Congressman Bingham of Pennsylvania is said to be the handsomest man in the House of Representatives. A movement has been started to buy the Daniel Webster estate at Marshfield, Mass., including the tomb in which he is buried. William Badge has resigned his position as conductor on the Maine Central Railroad after fifty years’ service as a railroad man. Joel Chandler Harris has never seen a play acted. The only time he has visited a theaterhas a reading by