Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1899 — Page 2

||CKLY REPUBLICAN E. MARSHALL, Publisher. MisELAER, -' IN DIAN..

?ECLINE IN STOCKS.

■USTRY and speculation IT DIVERGE. ■■Kb Returns of Earnings and Tmf■jb Are Larue, Stock in Concerns Are Htoreased -Wheat Yield of the United Kites for 1809. ■KG. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of ■e says: “Unusual depression in stocks has displayed the great diverKfce between the trading and the proKpve industries of the country and its IKjglation. Never has production been the number of hands employed Ker, the wages distributed higher, or Repurchasing power, based upon earn- ■, greater than at this time, and nevconditions of trade or returns of and traffic given certainty of Kjter business for transporters. Yet H&e earnings of the railway and mancompanies mount upward Bfestocks decline as if it were disasKga for a road to double its earnings ■Pruinous for a mill to realize unpreHwited profits. Inflated capitalization ■of course done much harm and speeBdve excitement has counted profits in ■ay cases long before they were earned, markets here and abroad have ■n strained by British reverses in ■th Africa. In spite of an advance of ■Scents in prices cotton exports in No■ber decreased $13,020,926 in value, ■Banting to only 710,351 bales, against ■8.126 last year. Wool did not ad■ee further, though sales scarcely di■fah and have been 22,075,000 pounds Rwo weeks at the three chief markets, ■lures for the week were 218 in the ■ted States, against 261 last year, and ■k Canada, against 21 last year.” | FATAL COLLISION IN OHIO. ■feenger Train Crashes Into a Switch ■ Engine at Cleveland. ■ [(Cleveland, Akron and Columbus train collided with a switch ■hienear the State insane asylum at ■reland, killing two men and fatally Kring another. Both engines were ■rd from the rails aad landed bottom ■* the ditches, one on each side of the Bjek. The coupling pin behind the pasRfeer engine's tender broke and none ■Hie passenger coaches left the track, ■she cab of the switch engine were the ■ineer, A. G. Sherman; the fireman. Ehlers, and the conductor, Harry Rnltz. They were crushed under the Kder and terribly scalded by escaping ■m. One of Sherman’s legs were ■feed. Both of Ehler’s legs were cut ■B These men died later at St. Alexis’ ■ntal. The engineer of the passenger ■n, George Carson, applied the sand ■ air brakes when he saw the danger Rr jumped, breaking one of his arms. ■ William A. Moore, also ■ped, but escaped with a few bruises. ■kited states wheat crop. Rpartment of Agriculture Provides IRptatiatic* of Acreage and Yield. Rhe statistician of the Department of Kriculture reports the wheat crop of the ■ted States for 1N99 at 547,300,000 ■iels. or 12.3 bushels an acre. The Reaction of winte' vhrat is placed at ■,700,000 buahe. that of spring Kat at 255.600.000 bushels. Every im■ant wheat-growing State has been ■ted by special agents of the departKt, and the changes in acreage are the ■alt of their investigations. The newRneded area of winter wheat is esti■ed at 30,150,000 acres, which is about ROOO acres greater than that sown in Rjjfall of 1898. The average of condi ■ is 97.1. ■suicide verdict is upset. ■and Jury Declares a Man Found ■l. Dead in Jail Was Murdered. ■t Litchfield, Minn. John Doughs , iy, ■ties Brost, Philip Rowe, Casper and William Kickbush have Rn: indicted for the murder of a man Rthe name of Miller in the Eden ValRjail. Miller had eloped with Schmidt’s Re and was found and locked up. The Rnd jury has discovered that a mob Rke into the jail, choked him to death ■ left his body hanging in his cell. ■ coroner’s jury had returned a ver- ■ that Miller committed suicide. B Killed with a Coffee Cup. Rfrilliam Morganrath died at Dayton. RB, from the effects of a blow on the Rd with a coffee cup, delivered by J. ■ones. The young men were in a resRrant talking and joking, when Mor ■rath got the laugh on Jones, which Rered him. Jones grabbed up the eofKcup and threw it at Morganrath. fra< - Rug his skull. ■ i? African Wool Is Needed. Rhe war in South Africa is affecting Rfirool manufacturers of New England, ■hnents of Cape wool are due in Bos- ■ k and there is no prospect of their ■|ving, and if British campaigning ■ll last for sixty days in the Trans■l'. indications point to a sudden rise in at 10 to 15 per cent. B i Dewey’s Flag Officer Dies. ■jent. Thomas M. Brumby, Admiral ■way’s flag lieutenant while the admiral ■pin Command of the Asiatic station. ■ of typhoid fever at the Garfield hos ■|<in Washington. K Er ..School Building Burned. ■be completely destroyed the school ■sex building of St. Michael's orphan ■Ron on Pius street. Pittsburg. Loss ■Kp, insurance $50,000. E | Killed at a Crossing. KK’Marfa, Texas, a freight train ran B a hack at East Crossing. The hack ■joined Mrs. Lacey Duncan, Mrs. John ■|jp,and Mrs. William Coalson. Mrs. Rhr Duncan and Mrs. Krupp were llßni against the engine and instantly Knew South Wales Wheat Area. fciaS&ffieial estimates of the wheat |& the colony of New South Wales acres, with a probable yield KkJOJOO bushels; available surplus K, sv, • Mk . '.a-**--''

WAVE TAKES 5,000 LIVES. Awful Scene* Following an Earth* quake on the Island of Ceram. By the steamer China come the first details of the appalling disaster caused by a tidal wave which swept over Ceram, one of the Molucca islands, between Borneo and New Guinea. Mail advices show that 5,000 persons were killed on Ceram alone, when the dreadful earthquakes of November visited the coast of Japan and agitated the lands adjacent to that empire. In the night the people of Ceram were awakened by a terrific earthquake that seemed to move from north to south. All fled from their houses and took up places in public squares. A few hours later the water rose in the bay of Ambonia. The tidal wave followed. At Pauholy and Samasoeroa, on the bay, the wave swept over the tops of trees thirty feet high. When the wave subsided corpses were everywhere. Broken trees and portions of houses were buried. Every few rods were great heaps of stones and bowlders that had been washed up from the sea, changing the entire topography of the country. The exact number of killed along the coast will never be known, as the bodies are buried in many cases yards under new ground. LAKE SHIPPING WAS HEAVY. Navigation Season Which Closed the Other Day Broke the Record. A memorable year for the lake shipping trade ended the other day when the navigation season formally came to a close. Not only have profits to vessel owners been unprecedented, but there is every promise that the next season will be just as profitable to the lake trade. A feature of the season was the number of changes in ownership of lake craft. Corporate interests have stepped in and succeeded the individual vessel owner. So many have been the purchases of boats of all descriptions by the large industrial firms identified with the lake trade that in a few more seasons all the lake vessels will be under the control of the large corporations, according to marine authorities. The enormous demand for iron ore was the main cause of the lake boom. All through June, July, August, September and October the steady upgrade continued. One of the results of the demand for lake vessels to carry ore was the successful competition of railways for the grain trade. JEALOUS MAN SLAYS HIS WIFE. Attempts to End His Own Life, but Is Saved by Neighbor*. Theodore Nelson, aged 60 years, shot and killed his wife, aged 28 years, at Wheeler, Mich., and then tried to kill himself, but failed. Nelson lived on a farm at Lafayette last spring and later rented the farm to David Goddard of Wheeler. Goddard took charge of .the farm, Nelson and his wife living there. Goddard, who is 35 yars old, became attentive to Mrs. Nelson. Nelson had a talk with his wife and wanted her to go to St. Louis, Mich., and live with him. She at' first agreed, but later declined. Nelson then shot her. He turned the revolver on himself, but it failed to discharge a second cullet and neighbors seized him. GIRLS ARE PUBLICLY WHIPPED. Wyoming Town, Excited Over the Action of School Teacher. For more than six weeks Casper, Wyo., has been excited over a public whipping administered to girls of the high school by Prof. Bowlden, late of Los Angeles, Cal. The citizens signed petitions to the board asking for the professor's discharge. and many threats to ride the schoolmaster out of town on a rail were made. The school board, however, upheld the schoolmaster. This severe rebuke to the girls may yet result in bloodshed. Must Make Good the Bank’s Loss. The jury in the case of the board of directors of the American National Bank vs. N. L. Michael, Vice President, and G. Kalb, Cashier, to recover SIB,OOO, of which the bank was robbed last Christmas, returned a verdict for the full amount, with interest. Negligence was charged in not seeing that the safety appliances provided by the bank were used. Dismisses Insurance Cases. The Ohio Supreme Court dismissed the eleven cases brought by Attorney General Monnett against as many fire-insur-ance companies on the ground that the evidence did not support the averments of the petitions. Mr. Monnett sued under the anti-trust law, alleging that the defendants were in a combine to fix rates. Louis F. Menage Goes Free. Louis F. Menage, the fugitive president of the defunct Northwestern Guaranty Loan Company of Minneapolis, who returned voluntarily from his hiding place in Mexico a few months ago, after five years’ absence, has been made a free man, all the indictments being quashed on the grounds that there was no chance of conviction. Two Killed by Gas Explosion. Near Victoria, B. C., by the explosion of gas in the Cumberland mines two men were killed and a number wounded. The gas was released from an unknown feeder through the subsidence of the roof and was ignited by a torch carried by the miners. Trust in Fruit Jara Coming. As soon ns certain patent suits now pending upon fruit jar glass blowing machines are disposed of a trust of fruit jar manufacturers will be formed, so it is said upon reliable authority, and the Ball Brothers’ plant of Muncie, Ind., will be the principal member of the trust. Buys a House in New York. William H. Moore, the promoter of Chicago, has bought No. 4 East 54th street. New York, a five-story and basement dwelling, with a front of light stone, on a plot 36 feet front by 100 feet deep. He paid $325,000 for the property to W. E. D. Stokes. Kentucky Contests Assured. The Democratic State central and executive committee met at Lexington, Ky., and decided to make contests for all State offices recently awarded to Republicans by the State election board. Welling Mansion in Ashes. Fire totally destroyed the Welling mansion, at Fourteenth street and Welling place, Washington. The loss on the residence was $60,000 and on the content’s about $50,000. Taylor la Installed. William S. Taylor was installed as Governor at Frankfort, Ky. The crowd .was much smaller than in past years, Hne to the weather..

WIFE WORKS A FARM.

WORKING AND WAITING FOR TWENTY YEARS. Mrs. Zeltner Is Determined to Have a Home for the Man She Married When He Emerge* from the PenitentiaryLove vs. Law. - • Some months ago John Zeltner, a Jackson township, Ohio, German farmer, was convicted of complicity with his brother Paul in the murder of Attorney E. H. Westeuhaver of Hoytville. He was sentenced to serve a term of twenty years in the Ohio penitentiary. John Zeltner’s wife has •furnished a striking example of- how a determined woman may adapt herself to the most discouraging circumstances. She was left with three small children to care for, and to this burden was added the care of an 80-acre farm. She went into the fields like a farm hand, helped to plant and harvest the crops, and has made a full hand on the faipn almost every* day since her husband's incarceration. She has recently completed harvesting forty acres of corn, much of which was husked with her own hands. Besides she has fed.a herd of 150 hogs, which are ready for market, and eared for the cattle and horses, milked the cows and attended to her dairy. There is a mortgage of about S2OO on the farm, and it is her determination to keep her little family together and pay off . the indebtedness, so that when her husband regains his liberty they will have a home of their own in which to pass the remainder of their lives. OUTGENERALS HIS GUARDIAN. Marion Lambert Marries Florence Parker in Spite of Objections. The marriage at Richmond, Va., of Miss Florence M. Parker, a dashing, beautiful girl, native of that city, to Marion Lambert of St. Louis concluded a romantic courtship. The two children—neither is oyer 18 years old —recently determined to get married. The boy’s guardian, however, deemed him too young to marry and withheld his consent. Lambert then determined to take his prospective bride and her attendants to Washington in his private car, where the laws are more lenient. This plan was abandoned and another one more ingenious substituted. Carlton Jackson, Miss Parker’s brother-in-law, appeared before she. judges of the Chancery court and qualified as Lambert's guardian. He then at once gave his consent to the union. The wedding took place immediately. DEAF AND DUMB BURNED OUT. Western Pennsylvania Institute Destroyed, but Without Loss of Life. Fire destroyed the Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb at Edgewood. There was a panic among the 500 pupils in the building at the time, but the teachers managed to get them under control and remove all safely from the building. There were no accidents to children or teachers. The pupils were taken to the Home for Aged Couples near by and to the houses of residents of Wilkinsburg, where they will be cared for temporarily. The institute was a large four-story brick building and covered about an acre of ground. The loss is placed at $150,000, with insurance of SIOO,OOO. The fire is believed-to have been caused by the bursting of a gas pipe.

Woman Dies iu a Fire. Mrs. Alice Palmer, whose family lives in Alabama, was burned to death in a midnight fire in a boarding house at 1 Hubbard Court, Chicago. The fifteen women boarders aroused from sleep were thrown into a panic and rushed hither and thither for a means of escape, finally getting out in safety. The building was damaged to the extent of $4,000. Important Copyright Decision. Judge Moses Hallett, in the United States Circuit Court at Denver, rendered a decision in the case of the Detroit Photographing Company against Frank S. Thayer, to the effect that photographs of natural scenery or other objects not the products of artists originally are not subjects of copyright. This applies to all photographs of Rocky Mountain scenery. Lost in the China Sea. A dispatch from Saigon, capital of French Cochin China, says the British steamer St. Helens, Capt. Luckham, last reported from Shanghai, Sept. 30, for Singapore, has been totally lost on the Paracols, a group of islets and reefs in the China sea, and that five of her crew were drowned. Two Mexicans Killed. A difficulty occurred at the Black Diamond coal mines, twenty miles east of Rockdale. Texas, in which some fifteen or twenty shots were fired, two Mexicans being killed and one Mexican and a white boy wounded. Thomas Johnson, a negro, acknowledged having done the killing and surrendered. Judgment Against an Ex-OfficiaL At San Francisco, United States Circuit Judge Morrow has entered a judgment for $45,979 in favor of the United States and against the bondsmen of exInterual Revenue Collector O. M. Welburne, who was recently acquitted of embezzlement. Will Sell Municipal Gas Plant. The city council of Toledo, Ohio, has voted to sell the city gas plant, the Mayor, after months of opposition, being able to mustei* only three votes. This ends municipal gas so far as Toledo is concerned. The plant goes into the hands of J. N. Bick for $228,000. Boston Goes Republican. Sixteen Massachusetts cities elected Mayors on Tuesday, and one other chose a new city council, but by long odds -the greatest surprise was in Boston, where Thomas N. Hart, Republican, was elected by 2,200 majority over Gen. Patrick A. Collins. Deficit of Half a Million. The Peruvian Congress has closed its session, after sanctioning the budget, which estimates a deficit of $500,000. Congress failed to provide for covering this deficit. * Three Lives Lost in a Fire. Three persons were burned to death and one seriously injured at a fire that occurred in a dilapidated tenement in the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, N. Y. Filipino Chief la Taken. Mabini, a Filipino leader who is said to be the real head of the insurrectionary forces, has been captured by Gen. MacArthur’s troops.

GING MURDER CASE RECALLED. Claus A. Blixt, Sentenced for Life, Ask* for a Pardon. At Minneapolis Claus A. Blixt, who pleaded guilty to the murder of Catherine Ging in 1894 and was sentenced for life, has tiled an application for a full pardon. He says that he is not guilty of murder or of any crime; that the real perpetrator of the crime was Harry Hayward; that the deed had been committed before he had any knowledge of the crime, and that he was drugged while with Hayward on the night of the murder and would not under any circumstances have been coerced if it had not been for the medicine given him by Hayward. DEATH COMES AS WOES END. Husband and Wife Reunited, but Latter Dies of Heart Disease. Mrs. Edith Montville, of East Toledo, Ohio, died suddenly of heart disease under strange circumstances. She had twice attempted to secure a divorce from her husband, who is a Catholic, she being a Protestant and much the younger, but the court refused each petition. Friends of both succeeded in effecting a reconciliation, and the couple had just arranged to resume living in their beautiful home in Euclid avenue when Mrs. Montville was stricken fatally in the presence of her husband. SUICIDE DUE TO BOER VICTORY. British Reverses Cause an Englishman in New York to Kill Himself. • Daniel A. Weber, an t Englishman, 57 years of age, committed suicide at his home in New York by jumping from the fourth-story window. He had been out of employment fdr some time. His son Daniel, with whom he lived, said that his father was made melancholy by this and the news that the English forces were suffering reverses at the hands of the Boprs. Just before killing himself the old man expressed the opinion: "I’m afraid the Boers will win.” Pastor Scores Church Fairs. Rev. G. R. Robbins of the Lincoln Park Baptist Institutional Church, Cincinnati, has caused a sensation by denouncing church fairs and bazaars as wicked. He says it is more godlike to let the poor starve to death than to provide for them through a charity ball. Union Pacific Train Wrecked. ; The west-bound Union Pacific passenger train known as the Colorado Special was wrecked at Grand Island, Neb., and Engineer Meyers and Fireman Murphy were seriously injured. The wreck was caused by an open switch, the train running into a string of freight cars. Find Lead and Zinc Deposits. Lead and zinc have been discovered in the vicinity of Centaur, Mo., and preparations have been completed to mine it on a large scale. Two hundred acres of land on which mineral has been found has been purchased by St. Louisans. The ore is said to be very rich. Debut of Mias Louisa Drew. Miss Louisa Drew, daughter and only child of John Drew, made her debut on the professional stage in “The Tyranny of Tears” at the Empire Theater, New York, when she appeared in the role of a maid, a small part, but one which she filled with much credit. Earthquake Felt in Utah. A distinct earthquake shock passed down the valley along the Wastach range. It was quite severe in Weber and Davis Counties and was perceptibly felt in Salt Lake City. Many persons were frightened, but no damage was done. Verdict of Manslaughter. At Topeka, Kan., the jury brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the third degree against S. E. Yoeman, who in a quarrel last July shot and killed David Jackson. ____________ * Fatal Railway Wreck. Norfolk and Western passenger No. 3 ran into a siding at Panther, W. Va. Engineer W. S. Bishop of Huntington was killed and Fireman Coontz of Bluefield was fatally injured. Rival for Sugar Trust. Large sugar refining companies outside the trust are about to incorporate the Cofonial Sugar Refining Company, with $100,000,000 capital, in New Jersey. Minneapolis Elevator Burns. The private warehouse of the City Elevator Company at Minneapolis was burned. Loss $50,000. Packing Plant Burned Out. Fire destroyed the plant of the North Amherst Packing Company at North Amherst, Ohio. Loss about SIO,OOO.

MARKET QUOTATIONS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $8.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, S3.UU to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c te 67c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 31c; oats, No. 2,22 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 51c; butter, choice creamery, 24c te 26c; eggs, fresh, 19c to 21c; potatoes, choice, 35c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,66 cto 68c; corn. No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25- to $7.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.23; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2,23 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye. No. 2,60 cto 62c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to- $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c: oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, 56c to 58c. . , Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,55 c to 57c; clover seed, $4.80 to $4.90. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern. 65c to 67c; corn, No. 3,30 cto 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 1,55 c to 57c; barley. No. 2,42 cto 44c; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffalo —Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.50. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; batter, creamery, 23c to 28c; eggs, western. 16c to 22c.

BOERS ROUT BULLER.

BRITISH COMMANDER CRUSHING DEFEAT. Eleven Guns Lost and Many Men Killed and Wounded in Attempt to Relieve Ladysmith—Carefully Planned Simultaneous Attack at Three Places Fails. News of another crushing defeat to the British arms was received at midnight Friday by the British war office in London. This time the victim is not Methuen orjSatacre, but Gen. Buller, to whom the nation had been looking to redeem it’s tottering military prestige. Gen. Bui ler reports that he was severely defeated by the Boers at the Tugela river during the day, not only suffering heavy losses in killed and wounded, but having to abandon ten guns and losing another that was destroyed by the enemy’s shells. He moved against the • Boers Friday morning, in pursuance of his purpose of raising the siege of Ladysmith, from his camp near Chieveley, his plan being to force the passage of the Tugela simultaneously at two drifts or fords, situated two miles apart, by two brigades, under Gens. Hart and Hildyard respectively, with a third brigade under Lyttleton in the center, ready to give its support where needed. The Boers proved too

GEN. SIR HENRY REDVERS BULLER.

strong for Hart, who delivered the first attack on the western drift. He was driven back, with great loss, although his men behaved with the utmost bravery. Then came Hildyard’s turn, and his movement' was begun propitiously, when the crushing disaster of the day occurred. The artillery under Col. Long, which had been withdrawn from its support of Hart to aid in Hildyard’s attempt to cross the eastern drift, approached too close to the river, and was suddenly confronted by a terrible rifle fire from a large force of the enemy, which had been concealed by the river banks. It appears to have been a veritable ambuscade, and the whole of the British artillery was in a few moments put out of action, all its horses being killed. Gallant efforts werp made to save the guns, but all were lost’ but two. Whole Army Retreats. Hildyard’s movement was, of course, out of the question without the support of the artillery, and he was ordered to withdraw, and the whole force retired to the camp at Chieveley. The news of this disastrous reverse of Gen. Buller’s entire army has filled the cup of British bitterness to overflowing. The attack which Englishmen were impatiently awaiting, even demanding, for the relief of Ladysmith. was delivered Friday morning. It not only failed completely, but the British army was driven back to its original position at Chieveley, after heavy slaughter and the loss of a large portion of its artillery. The immediate consequences of Gen. Buller's reverse are very disheartening to the British. There is no need to say that the news startled and aroused England as nothing has done in recent times. From now on the country will go to war as if the life of the empire depended on the issue, as it truly does. Pretoria has now become as vital to the preservation of the British empire as the possession of Bombay, Melbourne or London itself. The struggle in South Africa will now be treated as a great war, which it is, and not as an expedition. England will now mobilize the militia and colonial troops, and also call for vohin; teers, if necessary. She will pour soldiers and guns into South Africa with-, out number. But the first thing she will do is to call a halt. There will be no further attempt to invade the Boer republics until a great army is massed in Africa, and more than a month must elapse before this can be done.

QUAKER CITY WINS.

Philadelphia Chosen as Place of Holding Republican Convention. The Republican national convention will meet in Philadelphia on June 19, 1900. This was decided in the national committee meeting at Washington Friday afternoon. The final vote stood 25 for Philadelphia to 24 for Chicago, with Ohio and Colorado absent. Chicago had the votes of the Westeru States and four from New England. Philadelphia had the votes of the Southern States, the territories and two from New England. The arguments in favor of Philadelphia were sentiment, cold cash and Southern delegates. The President allowed it to be understood that he would not object to being renominated in the only city where, since the civil war, a Republican President was renominated and elected. Grant was renominated in Philadelphia in 1872. There were also the sentimental argument that Philadelphia was the cradle of liberty, the place where the constitution was written, and the city where the flag had its origin. More important than this sentimental argunient was the (Jfertified check for SIOO,OOO offered to the committee by Philadelphia.

BIG BOSTON FAILURE.

Squire & Sons, Pork Packers, Forced to Suspend. The firm of John P. Squire & Sons t Boston, the largest i»ork-packing establishment in New England, has failed. The liabilities are $3,000,000, and the assets $5,000,000. The firm’s paper is mostly held by Boston banks. H. W. Caplin, the firm’s attorney, is assignee. It is said that the firm was connected to a great extent with the affairs of the Globe National Bank, recently in difficulty, and this fact had much to do with the failure.

CONGRESS

Debate began on the currency bill in the House on Monday, opening speech being delivered by Mr. Overstreet (Rep., Ind.). Other speakers were Mr. Dolliver (Rep., Iowa), Mr. Maddox (Dein., Ga.) and Mr. McClellan (Dem., N. Y.). In the Senate Mr Mason of Illinois delivered an address in support of his resolution expressing sympathy for the Boers, - which was referred to foreign relations committee. No business of importance transacted and early adjournment was taken. On Tuesday the Senate received from Mr. Pettigrew a resolution asking the Secrtary of the Navy whether Adnliral Dewey formally or informally ever recognized the self-styled Philippine Republic. Sent to the committee on military affairs Mr. Pettigrew's resolution ou the use of government troops during the Coeur d’Alene strike. Authorized the committee on elections to investigate the Clark and Scott contests; sent Mr. Cullom’s Hawaiian government bill to the committee on foreign relations. Confirmed the nomination of Gen. Leonard Wood to be Major General of Volunteers. Received from Mr. Cullom his bill to give the Interstate Commerce Commission more power. In the House Congressmen Prince (Illinois), Driggs (New York), Grosvenor (Ohio), Parker (New Jersey), William Alden’ Smith (Michigan), Lawrence (Massachusetts) and Powers (Vermont) spoke in support of the currency bill, while Messrs. Newlands (Nevada), Cochran (Missouri), Shafroth (Colorado) and Sims (Tennessee) opposed it. The Spaker was authorized to appoint a committee of ten to co-operate with the Presidential and Senate committees in arranging for the centennial celebration of the first meeting of Congress in Washington. On Wednesday Mr. Gallinger introduced a bill in the Senate for the codification of the pension laws by a joint commission of jurists and members of’the G. A. R. A resolution by Mr. McMillan calling attention to the blockading of navigation in the St. Mary’s canal during the last season and asking the opinion of the Secretary of War on the desirability of constructing additional canals was adopted. The House adopted a resolution providing for a holiday recess from Wednesday, Dec. 20, to Wednesday, Jan. 3, and continued the debate oa the currency bill. The Senate on Thursday by a vote of 41 to 20 laid on the table Mr. Pettigrew's resolution asking the Secretary of the Navy whether the Filipino flag had been saluted at Manila. Agreed to the House Christmas recess resolution and agreed to meet Friday to receive reports on the composition of its committees for this Congress. The House continued the debate on the currency bill. In the Senate on Friday Mr. Aldrich presented a special order fixing the standing committees and their personnel for the Fifty-sixth Congress. The erder was adopted without dissent. Adjourned until Monday. Debate on financial bill concluded in the House. In the House on Saturday the currency bill- was read for amendment under fiveminute rule. Senate resolution adopted for the appointment of three members of the Senate and five of the House to make arrangements for the unveiling of the statue of Daniel Webster, presented to the Government by Stilson Hutchins, on Jan. 18, 1900.

Odds and Ends.

Louisville school board condemns golf skirts. Georgia’s prohibition bill was killed in the Senate. Mountain Valley Hotel, Hot Springs,, Ark., burned. Augusta, Ky., school building, worth $20,000, burned. Charles Grey, Wellston, 0., blown to atoms in a mine. James McConnell, editor of the Philadelphia Star, is dead. John Fritz. Celina, 0., fatally stabbed his wife iu the breast. Rumored that the P., C. & T. has been acquired by the B. & Q. Edison and Columbus, 0., electric light plants will consolidate. Half the business portion of Camby, Tex., burned. Loss $25,000. Eight firemen, Montgomery, Ala., were injured by a gasoline explosion. Union Pacific people deny that the Northwestern has leased that road. Two men were asphyxiated by gas in a little shoe repairing shop in Brooklyn. Sells Bros.’ circus may remove headquarters to Bridgeport, Conn., from Columbus, Ohio. Texas health board has established quarantine at Galveston against ships from Santos, Brazil, where plague exists. Willis J. Abbot, well known in newspaper circles, will take charge of the press bureau of the Democratic national committee. Minnesota railroads have eoacfaded contracts for the delivery of 600.000,000 feet of pine logs to mills in the vicinity of Dublin. The pilot boat James Gordon Bennett was struck by a dummy shell fired from the Sandy Hook proving ground and badly damaged. Pete Thompson was killed at Bi Reno, Okla., by John Curtis, son of Robert Curtis, a wealthy white man, who married into the Caddo Indian tribe. Jailer Wm. Shockley and his son, Harry Shockley, Columbus, Ohio, were indicted by the United States grand jury .on the charge of aiding Capt. I. T. Jobe to escape from jail. United States will have an irrigation exhibit at the Paris show. Cotton mills of New’ Hampshire have increased wages 10 per cent. Conductor Howard, Newark, 0., was killed in a collision near Mansfield. Engineer Peterman badly injured. Many negroes are said to have been duped into leaving Georgia for Mississippi by an alleged female immigrant agent. Joseph C. Hoagland, 55, founder of the Royal Baking Powder Company, died in New York. He was several times a millinns iro.