Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1900 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. "" m * m ’ i '«■ —'• ~ r ~ RENSSELAER, - • INDIANA.

GOOD HOLIDAY TRADE

INCREASE IN BUSINESS NOTED IN BIG CENTERS. Collections the Country Over Continue Good and Relieve Anxiety Over Hicher Rates Asked for Money— Shorten Canadian Northern Railway. Holiday trade has increased moderately and in wholesale staple lines no relapse is seen either in volume of transaction or in prices. Cold weather has helped New York, but it is still behind the rest of the country, for some recent losses from failures in the textile markets have fallen rather heavily there. Collections in the country continue good, and this relieves anxiety which might otherwise be felt over the higher rates for money. Merchants’ accounts are in good position, so that new sales of commercial paper are Right 'eTCO for this season. Industrial enntinne. with no great, accn'mulation of new Tuerchandise in any quarter, according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of .trade. Continuing, tlie report says: Cereals did not maintain their advance, Coffee has suffered from liberal receipts at Brazil ports, and No. 7 Rio is 1% cents below- the price a month ago. Failures for the vvtWk were 240 in the United States, 26 in Canada, againstfco last year. MEW SAILKOAJP SCHEME OUT. Minnesota and Manitoba Line to Become Important Link. - The Minnesota arid Manitoba Railroad is to become an important link in a vast transcontinental system of railways controlled by the Canadian Northern. McKenzie & Mann, millionaire contractors, who are financing the scheme, have mapped out a route which will shorten the distance to tidewater fc- upward of 1.000 miles for all Northwqkern freight destined to European marla ts. This is done through a carefully Elected Eastern transportation scheme." The McKenzie & Mann roads already extend from Winnipeg to Port Arthur anxLthey expect to operating trains between these points next September. \ t OHIO THIEVES ARE cijPTURED. Two Shanesville bank Taken After a Lively Fight. Two of the robbers that entered Doerschuck’s bank at Shanesville, Ohio, were captured on the Massfllpn accommodation train at Bridgeport after a fight which nearly caused a panic among the passengers, and resultedAn the breaking of windows, tearing upc of seats and slight injury to two drocers. Four others of the gang jumped through, the windows and escaped. L- Dies Whili Helping Others. Nels Nelson, who lived at 771 orth Artesian avenue. Chicago, died during a recent storm near Two Harbors, Minn., while on his way from a lumber camp to get food for lih> companions, who were unable to leavepjand at the point of starvation. Nelson, instead of taking shelter at the home of a settler, as he might have done, plodded ajong and before he reached his destination was frozen to death. * Indians’ Fatal Gasoline Fire. An Indian family, consisting of father, mother and four®iildren, burned to death at Cannonball, W. D., from an explosion of gasoline. Another family of father, mother and one, child are frightfully burned and will.pmbaidy die. They mistook .tbp stuff for kerosene. X Scores Die iu Shipwreck. - With only her: masts showing above the surface of the*vater the German training frigate Gfieiseuau lies a wreck off Malaga, sixtyY&ve miles northeast of Gibraltar. It is believed that the loss of life will reach 100. This figure is considered a conservative estimate. BcandA Ends in Tragedy. ; Tragedy ant&scandal followed the discovery of J. 1\- A. Davis, a high official of the Erie Railroad, under a sofa in Mrs. Flora Wickham’s apartment at Port Jervis, N. Y. Mrs. Wickham committed suicide aLfew hours after Davis was found iu hismiace of concealment. Hob Two Negroes. Two negro® Jim Henderson and Bud Rowlands, w® confessed they waylaid, •brutally mur®red and .robbed Hollie Simons, a were lynched in the jail yard at Koekfk>rt, lud., by a mob of 1.000 frenzied citiz# s. Ex-Sedfetary Porter Pies. | John Addison Porter, former private secretary to Eresident McKinley and one of the most prominent men of Connecticut, died at his’jjbome iu Ptajtfrci after a long illness # roaj|jacomplicat|<iL . f disFonr Deadlwttu'nlson. | As a result of a mys*Bta|iCflsc of poi-' 1 %pning at Forsythe Marietta, fjptuo, four persons are dead. fßee fatally picric and two others are serioqßy ili. The dead are Andrew Barnick, Laijpbajc, Andy Litchie, and a child.* ■ Noted Indian scout Slain. ,4 Baptiste Gamier, known all over the ttyest. and especially among jkuy men, fcjPfc'Rle the fearless IntHb n scout, Bm'shot'and fatally wounded i*u saloon It C-awford. Neb., by James 1* HngueWooJ, the saloon manager, 9 jfV To Jail for Kissing a oA. SaFytfd DaveUport of Toledo, JKio, was ■fat 1" Jail for ten days for Mar pa Baleen, a pretty S.vrU^jfddler. I’ Fire at Ashtabula Haßr, Ohio. pThe Herrick House ut jAtabula HarHSf fllitn caught fire ’ l.*- Mam s swept fvery frame hiiildS on the east ide pf'Sft ldgb streejt jpE High street Ea Nearly a ..doistvstrurtures were wttetl. The lom Is JrtiinAted at about Kq /uhi mirliiillv lnmffrf'l ■S^Pfreuciter Mff (TU|7 $200,000. ■tester AtiderMrl, tyho went to the Klon\;&.and Non* ami Swedish missionary,

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

LIVES IN PRISON 43 YEARS.

Man' Convicted of Murder Dies Protesting His Innocence. George Knight, whose prison service of forty-three years is a record unequaled, died at the State prison at Thomaston, Me., aged 83 years. He had been in poor health -for several years, but had been buoyed up by the hope that he would be pardoned. A few days ago in a fit of despondency, he‘■slashed his throat with a razor and gradually his life ebbed away, following the loss of blood and the shock to his system. On his death bed he was pressed to make a dying confession, but he continued to assert his innocence to the last and his final words were: “I have told all I have to tell. I never murdered my wife, never.” Knight was convicted of the nmrtltuvnf his wife Qct. 6. 1850, iu Poland. He was an industrious farnffer and married the widow of his brother, she being 61 and he 40. The disparity of their ages was a source of domestic difference. One night during his absence she was found with her throat cut and he was convicted on circumstantial evidence, the strongest piece being the testimony of a girl that she saw the shadow of a man resembling Knight in the house that night. He was sentenced to be hanged, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. SHOT IN THIEF CHASE. Marvin Kuhns, Who Escaped from Ohio Penitentiary, Is Located. A desperate fight between the police and a criminal took place at Logansport. Lid., when officers undertook to arrest a man wanted at Warsaw for horse stealing. During the day the police had received an order to look out for a man and stolen team, and located them at the livery barn of Frank Sellers. When they started to make the arrest the officers were ignorant of the identity of their man, but as soon as they caught sight of him he was recognized by Chief of Detectives O. A. Sommers of the Panhandle, who chanced to be with the officers, as Marvin Kuhns, the noted Ohio criminal, who escaped from the Ohio penitentiary on Nov. 29. Kuhns at once opened fire on the officers with two revolvers and a running fight followed which was continued to beyond the eastern city limits. Here the officers ran out of ammunition. Benjamin Dean, one of the policemen, was seriously wounded by Kuhns, who escaped temporarily.

FIERCE FIGHT IN OKLAHOMA. Two Deputy Sheriffs Arrest Three , Rowdies and All Are Wounded. Near Mountaiuview Station, O. T., Deputy Sheriff Jesse W. Morris and Special Deputy Alfred Acress attempted to arrest George 'Williams, Mart Williams and George Call, a half-breed Indian. A desperate fight ensued. Deputy Morris received a bullet .through the right lung. Acress is shot through the right knee, the Indian has two bullet wounds in his body and one in his nose and cheek, while George Williams has wounds in the left leg and Mart Williams has one through both jaws. The outlaw's are all under arrest. Six Hurt in a Wreck. Four persons injured, many passengers shaken up and thrown into great excitement, three locomotives and three gravel cars wrecked and traffic interrupted for two hours resulted from a head-on collision between a construction gravel train and the St. Louis express on the Chicago and Alton road near Sag Bridge, thirty miles out of Chicago. The failure of a flagman to carry out instructions was the cause of the accident! (ollege Building Burned. The main building of lowa State College at Ames was almost destroyed by fire. The fire originated in the boiler room from a pile of kindling and only a portion of the four-story structure remains. About 450 students roomed in the main building and were glad to escape with their lives and many with numerous burns: The structure was erected over forty years ago and the loss will be over SIOO,OOO. Ferrell Hopes for Mercy. Gov. Nash of Ohio has called a special meeting of the board of pat lons to consider the application on behalf of Rosslyn H. Ferrell for a commutation of sentence. Ferrell is under sentence to be electrocuted on March 1 for the murder of Express Messenger Lane. The date of the meeting was fixed by the Governor for Jan. 10, 1901.

Steel Rails for Norway* Negotiations are in progress for the chartering of -five tramp steamships which will carry from Philadelphia 11,800 steel rails to Norway. The orders for ils will he placed by tlm state railways Of Norway with the Feudal sylvania Steel Company and the Man| land Steel Company. F aw In Anti-Clsnrette Liw. It has been decided that the anti-cigar-ette law passed by the Tennessee Legislature jn 1899 is unconstitutional and void. The act as recorded in Nashville does not bear the signature-of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. I ala’ Exp'os o n a Tunnel. Gas that, bifd accumulated in a new railroad tunnel exploded, killing four men and injuring six others. The tunnel is being built on the cut-off of tlie Union Pacific road between Aspen and Hilliard, Wyo. Victory for em'-erancO People. The temperance people of Massachusetts have w-ou a great victory in the municipal elections* reducing by 8,000 Boston’s majority for license and making many additions to the no license column in the 300 or more towns. - Nuns Narrowly K«cape "*enth» Fire destroyed the Bister of Mercy convent and Catholic school In Fort Dodge, tow*. The inmates narrowly escaped

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.95; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.60; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2,36 cto 37c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 46c; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 24c to 26c; potatoes, 43c to 49c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.60; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $4.90; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,73 cte 74c; corn, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.25 to $5.65; hogs, $3.00 to $4.85; sheep, $3.00 to $4.10; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 35c to 36c; oats. No.-2, 22c to 23c; rye; No. 2,49 cto 50c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.00 to $4.95; hogs, $3.00 to $4.95; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2,54 eto 55c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.80; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 51-c to 52c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 75c to 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye. No. 2,51 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, $6:00 to $6.35. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern. 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3,34 cto 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c: rye, No. 1,50 c to 51c; barley, No. 2,57 cto 58c; pork, mess, $10.50 to $11.25. ] Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, ; $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 | tp $5.15; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to i $4.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.00 to j $5.85. j New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.60; hogs, $3.00 to $5.35; sheep. $3.00 to $4.37; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2, I 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; ; butter, creamery, 25c to 26c; eggs, westJ ern, 28c to 29c.

TRAIN HELD UP AND ROBBED. Mails Rifled and Conductor Shot Close to New Orleans. Illinois Central passenger train No. 3 was held up by four masked robbers five miles from New Orleans, within full view of the electric lights. The mail ear was blown open with dynamite and the mails rifled, about 100 registered packages being secured by the highwaymen. A bomb was thrown into the baggage and express car .which completely wrecked the and flooded the car with milk from a stack of cans that were taken on at Hammond, La. The train was running slow because of the Valley Junction, near by, A red light was shown and the train | came to a stop. No one suspected a holdup owing to the proximity to the city. I Qonductor J. IV. Kennebrew wa“s order- | ed to uncouple the engine,- and when he refused he was shot through the back. Over 100 passengers were on the train, but none of them was molested.—

BANK ROBBED IN OHIO. Four Masked Men Secure Over $3,000 at Shanesville, Ohio, an l Escape. Four masked men held the town of Shanesville, Ohio, at bay early the other morning while they robbed the private bank of John Doerschuck, blowing open the safe with a heavy charge of nitroglycerin, and then made their escape with the contents of the vault. They left the town on a Wheeling and Lake Erie hand car. carrying with them betweey $3,000 and $4,000. The conditions surrounding the robbery are the same as those at Seville, a few days ago, and the belief is general that the same men did the work. Without Purse or Scrip. The Rev. Myron W. Reese of Laporte, Ind., and the Rev. Charles Stalker of Westfield have started on a missionary tour around the world. expect ttf visit all the missionary stations of the Society of Friends on the face of the globe. They will go in obedience to the New Testament command, without scrip or purse, believing that every need will be supplied. Standard Oil Company Wins. The Supreme Court of Ohio by an equally divided vote refused to hear the charges of contempt of court preferred by Frank S. Mannett, late Attorney General of Ohio, against the Standard Oil Company and its officers, including John D. Rockefeller. The information in contempt is by this decision dismissed.

Find Rich Gold District. A stampede up Fourth of July creek, a Kettle river, iu Washington, has J* in. Shot gold has been ground running $lO to Bute CuhfcydHHt The strike extends on rbotti sides oPuSe British-’AmermaiLboun-dary. . ‘ ■■ Mangled ®<jr Dynamite. While miners were attempting to thaw out some dynamite at mine at Trimble, Ohio, an explosion%ccurred which sboow the country for miles around. Both eyes were blown out of Dow Lefever, and John Moody and Charles Karns were seriously injured. Germnn Paper Sold. Die Illinois Stants-Zeitung, the leading Gernjan daily newspaper of the West, has been sold at auction in Chicago to Mrs. Margaret Raster, u creditor of the publishing company in the sum of SIOO,000. The consideration was $50,200. Children Killed by Timber Wolves. Two children named Bertrand, brother and sister, met a horrible death at Englishman’s River, on the northern British Columbia coast. They were attacked and killed Uy wolves. Won by McGovern. In a prize fight at Tnttersali’s in Chicago Joe Gaim was put out in the second round by Champion Terry McGovern. The mill lasted but f» fu minutes.

LOOT AN OHIO BANK.

Burjjlars Drill a Bank Vault, Take $2,130 and Then Escape. The boldest and most daring bank robbery in northern Ohio for many a year was committed at Seville. There were six men in the gang, who had carefully laid plans to rob the bank. Beginning their work at about 11:30. o'clock, they first broke into the carriage shop of Frank Beach, got what large tools they required to force open the front door of the bank, which they did, making sufficient noise to attract the attention of the town marshal, Howard Weaver, who went that way to see what the matter was. Instantly he was seized and forced to surrender. The. burglars took him upstairs to a room above the" bank and there tied his hands.and feet so that he d’as helpless and demanded that he keep quiet.' Leisurely the burglars went to work at the safe, drilling holes in it taking them nearly four hours, and bletv if open with dynamite. In the safe was $2,130, which they secured, SI,OOO in gold escaping their search among the packages. Some valuable papers were destroyed. The bandits stole a handcar and speeded dow T u the track of the railroad.

ROMANCE IN A MARRIAGE. Mrs. Sadie Pipps Becomes the Wife of Millionaire Roeer Morgan. Roger Morgan of Benton Harbor, Mich., president of the Hopper:Morgan Paper Company, was recently married to Mrs. Sadie Pipps. Mr. Morgan is a son of-President'Morgan of the national paper trust, and is said to be a millionaire. Mrs. Pipps is a handsome young woman. She may be 30 years old, though she looks little more than 25. Until last summer she was the wife of a wellknown traveling man in Benton Harbor, who appeared as devoted to her as she seemed fond of him. A year ago she met Roger Morgan. Before she knew it he was deeply attached to her. Her love for him developed as suddenly. A salt for a divorce followed, which the husband did not contest, and the decree granted. The world only knows, or thinks it knows, that Mr. Pipps gave up his wife because he loved her so much that he believed a millionaire could make her happier than he could. -

FATAL 'WRECK ON BURLINGTON. Fireman Shannon Killel and the Engineer Badly Injured. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway’s fast mail, No. 15, was wrecked two and a half miles west of Kirkwood, lowa. Fireman George Shannon was instantly killed. Engineer Samuel Dove was badly and Brakeman Thompson slightly hurt. The train consisted of an engine, tender and four mail cars. All i the cars were derailed and two storage mail cars caught fire and were consumed. The engine broke loose from the train and ran 2,000 feet beyond the cars. The crew consisted of engineer, fireman, conductor, two' braketlien and seven mail clerks. Fireman Shannon lived at Galesburg, 111. He leaves a wife and two children. The accident is supposed to have been caused by tb# breaking of a cracked wheel under the engine tank.

Ships Built in Five Months. The vessels built in the United States and officially numbered from June 30, 1900, to Nov. 30, 1900, were 495, of 149,963 gross tons. The principal items of the total are seven steel steamships on the great lakes (34,933 gross tons) and four smaller steel steamships (8,456 gross tons, which could pass through the new Welland canal), and one steel schooner barge (2,790 tons). Pine Lands Sale Held Up. Commissioner Hermann of the Interior Department has sent from Washington to Crookston, Minn., a notification to purchasers of White Earth piue lands that the validity of all sales depends on the approval of the department and that possession cannot be taken until such approval has been given. This is in effect a notice that the recent pine sale has been suspended, Lumberman Takes His Life. After being discharged from a Philadelphia hospital W. Charles Kaeracter went directly to the Reese House and committed suicide by taking poison. From papers found in the man’s clothes it was learned that he was the senior member of the firm of Kaeracter & W’aite of Brainerd, Minn.

Dies Poor on a Rich Lo le. John Thompkins, a well-known character of the Cripple Creek district, died at Independence after a lingering illness as a tenant on property Worth millions which he located. He died a pauper and will be buried through the liberality of mining men of the district. Illinois Anti-T.-nst Law Good. It was declared in a decision rendered by ,Tiu|iM*Usiloy, Waterman and Dunne, sitting' en Kane in the Circuit Court in Chicago, thnt’tbw anti trust statutes of Illinois, though unconstilutionul pn.v in force. More Riches for Mrs. Pewev, j The estate left by Mrs. Washington McLean is said to be worth nearly $2,000,000. Most of this will go to her children, Mrs. Geosge Dewey, Mrs. Ludlow and John R. McLean, editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Falls Down Air Shnlf. A miraculous escape from instant death was experienced by Will Mcßride, aged 10 years, who fell down an air shaft of a mine at Jacksonville, Ohio, a distance of 115 feet. Though bruised Considerably he was practically unhurt. Will Restore Ruined City. Old St Joseph, Fla., the largest dty in that section in the eighteenth century, but long since extinct, is to be re-estab-lished. Burveyors are now engaged la replatting the town site.

ALLEGED VICTIM OF HAZING.

Oacar Booz’s Death Charged to Maltreatment at West Point. If it be true that Oscar L. Booz, the former West Point cadet who, died at his home in Bristol, Pa., was a victim of

OSCAR L. BOOZ.

out of American schools and colleges. Booz was 20 years of age and was the son of a prominent citizen .of Bristol. He was admitted to the Military Academy at West Point? June 20, 1898, and resigned from the institution Oct. 31, 1898. His health began to fail him, but not until Aug. 3 of 1900 did he consult a specialist, who found that the membrane had all been eaten away from his throat and stomach and the ease had been neglected so long that the physician could do nothing for him. It was not until then, according to the story of Booz’s father, did the young man say anything about being hazed at West Point. Mr. Booz says his Son told him he was hazed several

HOME OF CADET BOOZ.

times at that Institution. Tobasco sauce was poured down his throat, red pepper was thrown in his eyes, hot grease was poured on his bare feet and other inhuman methods indulged in. Young Booz was obliged to resign his cadetship because of his physical ;conditfon r , according t*o his.father, and he grew steadily worse, but he would not divulge the names of the cadets who committed the fiendish acts, even to the end. Throat consumption resulted and to this his death is attributed. The young man could not eat anything for weeks without the greatest paiu- J and died in, agony.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

New- York. the January interest and dividend disbursements, money lately has beep working somewhat closer, the rates this week having been jirmly held at SVL> to 6 per cent for both call and time loans. A higher money market is always to be expected in December, owing to the necessity on the pnrt of the banks at all the large financial centers to accumulate funds in preparation for the disbursements referred to, and the present year the demands on this nceount are much greater than usual. The anjmint to be distributed next mouth in the way of interest on bonds and dividends on stock is variously estimated at from $125,000,006 to $200,000,000. Business sentiment continues rather conservative. Prices for all commodities are being well held. Trade and manufacturing reports indicate a slow but steady and healthy growth in all directions.

-Chicago—Speculative markets on the Board of Trade suffered during the week for lack of business and at the end of Friday’s session prices were not changed materially from those ruling at the close of the week preceding. The trade was in large part confined to those handling the spot commodities, purchases or sales of the futures to an extent equal to their spot transactions being a necessary part of the business ns it i| now conducted. Speculation pure and Simple disconnected with the movement from producer to consumer was perhaps never for the same Jengtli of time so restricted as at present. Still the current price of wheat seems sufficient to attract supplies adequate ta consumptive requirements. There would probably be no great alarm for the future should the rate of farmers’ deliveries diminish to some extent, as is usual toward the end of the calendar year, seeing that any discrepancy in the movement from first hands can be made good readily from the liberal reserve in tht> visible- supply. Scarcity of contract corn has continued to keep the price of the nearer deliveries at a premium over the more remote, contrary to regular custom, and although the grade? immediately below the contract is of the usual shipping quality. Provisions ruled steady in spite of heavy receipts of hogs, the consumptive demand, both foreign and domestic, keeping pace with the man ufacture of the products.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Vast coal deposit!* have been discovered In upper Alaska. Of every six Mexicans, five are unable to read and write. Oklahoma had, an increase in the voting population in two years of over 27,000 voters. S>gate wholesale traffic in geese amounts annually to nearly of Downs, Kun.,' has more inhabitants, (tmong whom there is not a single Jawyer. Missouri will hav#Hbe lurgest Democratic delegation in tire next Congress of any State in the Union. The census shows that thezilare 1,400,000 more farmers in the United States than there were in 1890. • 'jK Thirty million persons left Europe during the century just closing to neck their fortunes in other lunds. Arrangements for Introducing the Americau cotton plant into German West Africa are practically complete. Under the Sherman act, from Aug. 13, 1890, to Nov. 1, 1900, there were coined 122,783,000 standard silver dollars.

hazing it remains for the United States authorities to make a thorough investigation into the case and mete out punishment to the guilty parties. This b a r b a rous practice, which too often results fatally:. once and forever should be stamped

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Before the winter is over there is to be a systematic trial of the rural free delivery service covering large areas in different parts of the country. Nothing in the mechanism of the government has been so surprising as the successful application of the free delivery service to small farthing communities. The practice hitherto has been to take individual routes along certain well-defined roads, but now an effort is to be made to extend the service to whole counties. Hitherto the only complete county service has been in Maryland, where a special postal wagon or traveling postoffice has been operated in Carroll County. It is proposed now to inaugurate the regular rural delivery service without the use of any specially constructed vehicle in Washington County, Tenn.; Kent County, Delaware; Fairfield County, Connecticut; Niagara County, N. Y.; Washington County, Pa„ and Keokuk County, lowaT These differeut counties have been s.eleeted with special reference to varying conditions which obtain all over the United States, and when the service is satisfactory in these isolated towns it can readily he extended. It is believed that by a year from now'the experiment will have proceeded so far as to allow of an attempt to deliver the mail everywhere in the United States where the population per mile will at all justify it. • The official returns of the late presidential election are beginning to come in. The electoral vote of Ohio was the first to arrive, and then Alabama and Miss“ sippi. Those are the only States heard from, but it is expected that the remainder will come with a rush within the next few weeks. One set is sent by mail, and a duplicate by messenger, the former going to the Secretary of State and the latter to the Vice-President. The count will take place in the presence of both houses of Congress at 1 o’clock on the second Wednesday in February in the .hall of representatives. It is a singular fact that there is no provision of law for notifying the President and Vicepresident of their election, but if they do not hear of it it is their own fault. It is a singular fact that the only bloodthirsty communications received at the White House and the Department of State on the Chinese question come from ministers of the gospel, especially from missionaries. Forgetting the gentler teachings of Christ, they insist upon the application of the old Mosaic Taw iu the punishment of the Chinese—an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth—an I the utter destruction of the cities in which the wickedness has been committed. They demand the lives of the Emperor and Empress downger, and all the members of the court and the wholesale slaughter of the 3 offlcials of the government. Many of them demand that Pekin shall be burned to the ground and the site sown with salt.

The Fostoffice Department has decided upon six special stamps for the benefit of the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo. The 1-cent stamp, of green color, will have a picture of a lake steamer to represent the great transportation industry of the inland seas in which Buffalo is so much interested. The 2-cent stamp, printed in red, will have a railway train; the 4-cent stamp, ip red-brown, an automobile; the 5-eeut stamp, in blue, a picture of the new bridge at Niagara Fallen the 8-cent stamp, in litac, a picture of the lock at Sault Ste. Marie, and the 10cent stamp, of light brown, an -ocean steamer. The census bureau issued a bulletin giving the results of the enumeration of the domestic animals in inclosures, but not on farms or ranges. Of 1,878,207 barns or inclosures reporting domestic animals, which was substantially onethird of the total number of farms in the United States, 784,500 contained 1,466,970 neat cattle, 1,355,630 inclosures reporting horses aggregating 2,833,877, and the aggregate of other animals reported follows: Mules, 102,115; nsses, 12,870; sheep, 150,470; swine, 1,592,901, and goats, 47,052. Secretary Wilson believes that it is possible to raisfe the same crops in Alaska that are raised in Finland, where the natural conditions ate similar and a population of 2,500,000 people is supported by agricultural industries. He has reached this conclusion after three years of exploration and experiment by competent agents. While the area susceptible of cultivation in Alaskn is very small compared with the vast extent of that territory, the agricultural possibilities are no longer a matter of doubt, and the arable soil is scattered in small tracts so that it may serve to supply a large local demand if properly cultivated. There is now in the treasury of the United States $474,U>8.336 in gold coin, an increase of $76,000,000 during the year. The> increase during the last three pmnths has been over $45,000,000. Of this amount $230,755,809 is held to redeem outstanding gold certificates. The remainder, amounting to $243,000,000, belongs to the government. It is estimated that the national banks hold $197,000,000, which, in addition to that in the treasury, makes a total of $070,000,000 under control of the government, while the total gold supply of the entire country is estimated at $1,100,000,000. Robert Wilcox, the new delegate from the territory of Hawaii, will receive the largest milenge pay that has ever been drawn by any delegate Ar Representative. In order to reach Washington, Wilcox has bad to travel nearly 7,000 miles , by sea arid rail. This, with the return trip to IDmolulu, will make bis mileage account, fit the rate of 10 cents per mile. $1,400 f/r each round trip. Wilcox wib be entiled to draw this sum in addition to once a year, thereby m . ing /u income sccon'i only *o that -f tiie Speaker.