Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1905 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. GEO. fi. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

HOTEL GEM ROBBERY.

A WEALTHY CHICAGO WOMAN LOSES VALUABLE JEWELS. Thief Enter* Room While Owner In at Dinner and Securea Loot Aggre- ' gating $15,000 —Boy Desperado Kicked Out of Attorneys’ Ofllec. Jewels valued nt $15,000 were stolen from the room of Mrs. James Morgan of Chicago nt the Hoyd Green, Pasadena, Cnl., the other night. This is the second big robbery that hns occurred in this fashionable hotel in a year. While Mrs. Morgan was nt dinner the thief gained entrance to the room and stole the jewels, including two valuable diamond rings and other smaller stones. Since the robbery last year the management of the hotel has employed women guards, who patrol every floor. None of the guards or employes of the hotel has any clew to the thief’s identity and special detectives have made but little headway. Mrs. Morgan has offered SSOO reward for the return of the jewels. Mrs. Morgan is the widow of a prominent Chicagoan. BOOT FOB HOY TERROR. Would-Be “Had Mau'’ Unecremonionxly Kicked Out by Attorney. Edward Pettis, 17 years old, consumer of “Dead Eye Pick" novels and wouldbe “bad man,” rushed into the offices of Stem, Heidman A Mehlhopc, attorneys, in the Traction building, in Cincinnati, flourishing a big six shooter. Bringing it to the level of Attorney John Bohrer's eyes, the boy ordered him to write a chock for SSO. “Don't trifle with me. man.” shouted Edward when Rohrer hesitated. “I'm desperate. Write as 1 dictate.” Rohrer grabbed the desperado by the neck? threw his revolver into the waste paper basket, and kicked him into the hallway. Later the terror was locked up. He was formerly employed in the attorney's office ns messenger. TRAIN BOBBERS’ BOOTY SMALL. Washington Hold-Up Men Thought to Have Obtained Little. The robbers who held up the North Coast Limited nt Hillsdale, Wash., are believed to have obtained but S4OO or SSOO. Officials of the road say little cash is carried on this train. A boy who was on the baggage car and who is being held says the two robbers got on top of the car at North Yakima. At Hillsdale they crept into the cab of the locomotive and pointing revolvers at the engineer and fireman compelled them to cut loose the express and mail cars. The cars were hauled half a mile up the track and then the engineer was compelled to dynamite the safes. A man who answers to the description sent out of one of the robbers was arrested. Drown in River Collision. Four persons were drowned in the Monongahela river near Brownsville. Pa., as the result of the passenger steamer Rose Hite colliding with the towboat John F. Klein and sinking in fourteen feet of water. All the dead were employed on the steamer as deckhands and were drowned while they slept. Killed in Gm Explosion. The Nickerson gas works, which fur r.ished light for Hyannis, Mass., were destroyed by an explosion which killed Osborne Crowell, who was in charge of the plant, and damaged several buildings. It is supposed Crowell's lantern ignited escaping gas. The explosion damaged many buildings near by. The loss is SIO,OOO. Democrat to Succeed Mitchell. Gov. George E. Chamberlain has announced the appointment of John M. Gearin ns United States Senator from Oregon. Mr. Gearin is a Democrat, but had the indorsement of not only the Democratic party in Oregon, but also that of some of the stanchest Republicans. President Defends Morton. President Roosevelt and Attorney General Moody have come out in defense of Paul Morton in connection with the Santa Fo rebate case, holding, in letters which are made public, that there were no grounds for legal action against the former cabinet member. Hunk Robbery Avail* Nuthing. Six bandlta tied a watchman and his ion and blew open a bank safe at Suffield, Conn., escaping with $50,000 worth of registered securities which are value- !••* to them. Burglary a Capital Offense. Owing to the ninny recent cases in which householders have been shot by burglars, the Mississippi Legislature has passed a law making house-breaking a capital offense. European Minlatriea Ont. Because of defeats in the popular assemblies the ministries of Italy, Greece and Montenegro have been forced to re sign. Swallow* Carbolic Add. William Smedley of Streator, 111., a glaaablower, committed suicide in Newark, Ohio, by drinking carbolic acid. 11l health was the cause. •treagth Save* M.»'« Life. Caught In a whirling belt driven by a 2.000 horse power engine In Kenosha. Wla„ Walt er Cavanagh, the giant former center rush of the University of Chicago football team, saved hl* life by sheer strength. American Behool la Turkey Barna. Barton Hall, the American college for girls in the suburb of Scutari, near Constantinople, waa partially destroyed by a Are. The students, including a number of boarders, were In Imm! when the flames were dtocovared. All were rescued.

PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER TOWED

Engagement of Miss Alice Roosevelt nnd Mr. Longworth Announced. The President nnd Mrs. Roosevelt have made formal announcement of the engagemeift of their daughter.

MISS ROOSEVELT.

cur at the White House. Miss Roosevelt and Mr. Longworth have been the subjects of pleasant and friendly gossip for several months, especially since the gallant Congressman's faithful attendance on Miss Roosevelt during the recent journey to the Orient. Miss Roosevelt will be 23 next February, speaks nearly all the European languages fluently, and is the country's most popular young woman. Congressman Longworth is 36 years old, was born in Cincinnati, and Is serving his second term in Con-

gress. He is n graduate of liar vard, an alumnus of the Cincinnati Law School, ami before going t< Washington served In both houses of the Ohio Legisla ture. He is quit! wealthy. The fam lly fortune cairn down from his pa ternal great-grand father, a pioneel of Cincinnati. The bridal trip

will be made in June, Mr. and Mrs. Longworth will go abroad, making their first stop at London, where they will be the guests of Ambassador Reid. Upon their return to this country the Longworths will make their residence in Washington. They will live there as long as President Roosevelt remains in the White House, although a later residence In Cincinnati, Mr. Longworth's home, is contemplated. Miss Roosevelt's wedding will be the first at the White House since President Cleveland was married there. The last daughter of a President married in the White House was Nellie Grant to Algernon Sartoris.

THE PRESIDENT’S ADVISERS.

Personal Characteristic* of the Men on Whom He Belle*. Wilson and Hitchcock are the chumi of the cabinet. They often go away from the cabinet meetings together. Hitchcock is the most aristocratic-ap-pearing of the secretaries, with a handsome face, though a strong one. which is well set off by his white hair anil mustache. Wilson never smokes and often carries his hands in his coat pockets. Hitchcock generally lights a cigar as they start out. and they talk quietly and seemingly without animation, though evidently interesting each the other immensely. Moody is n little shorter than the President, stocky, looks the athlete, lias a well-knit form, a ruddy face, and walks well. He rides with joy and sits on his horse «s if he grew in the saddle. He is the only bachelor in the cabinet. Root, slender, intense, with keen, intellectual face and eyes that sometimes smolder, sometimes flume, was not popular when he began ns Secretary of War. but as Secretary of State he now knows better how to get along with the correspondents and every one else. Cortelyou, black-eyed, handsome, neat, reserved, but never discourteous, will always seem the accomplished chief clerk to some of the old-timers of Washington. He has only one dissipation—music. Bonaparte always dresses in black. His big head rolls from side to side when he walks, and the Bonaparte smile —who hasn’t read of it?—is always in evidence. His walk is long nnd swinging and he seems to be nervous when he sits. He doesn’t look like a Frenchman—in fact, the blood he has inherited from the Bonapartes isn’t French at sll, but Corsican. He doesn't often talk of his royal ancestor, and is said to be glad he doesn't resemble him. Metcalf is so quiet that he is known as the modest Secretary. He is a goodlooking chap with graying hair and mastache.

Brief News Items.

The Hamburg Vitrified Brick works at West Hamburg, Pa., were destroyed by fire, the loss being $56,000. Five double blocks of houses belonging to the Reading Coal and Iron Company were burned at Yatesville, Pa. Two American young women have been etpellod from Prussia for less majesty. They talked about the Kaiser. The Japanese budget estimates the total expenditures at $515,000,000. Of this $400,000,000 b the outcome of the war. The new statue of Camille Desmoulins. recently unveiled in Paris, shows the orc tor dressed in garments that did not come into fashion until after hi* head dropped into the basket. It ha* been removed for alteration*. Milwaukee leather men are stirred up over the alleged manipulation of the hide market by the packers and are demanding relief in the shape of a removal of the duty on hide*. Creditor* of the Colonial Brass Company of Cleveland. Ohio, petitioned the United States District Court to have the concern declared bankrupt. The 'labilities are said to be $N5,000. James S. Hawkins, an insurance man, has been arrested at Charlottesville, Va., charged with blackmailing R. D. Ballantine, a young millionaire of Newark. N. J., who committed suicide.

Alice Lee, to Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati, Representative in Congress from the First District of Ohio. It was announced also that flie wedding will take place about the middle of February. While arrangements for the wedding have not been made, it is probable it will oc-

MR. LONGWORTH.

CHRONOLOGY OF 1905.

BRIEF RECORD OF YEAR’S PRINCIPAL EVENTS. Infernal Disturbances in Russia and Independence in Norway—Close of the War in the East—Many Great Names in List of Dead. Most significant of the events of 1905, because it indicates unmistakably the inexorable advance of mankind toward high ideals of liberty, justice and perfect civilization, is the political and economic upheaval now taking place in Russia. Wearying under a load of taxation, rendered well-nigh unbearable by added burdens imposed by the prosecution of a disastrous war, the peasantry and common people started a revolt against the tyrannical aristocracy, and have been able to force from their unwilling ruler many concessions tending toward a free citizenship. Massacre and rapine, in which the Jews were the chief sufferers, are part of the price paid for the advantage gained. Another impressive proof of civilization’s advance is the bloodless revolution by which Norway has dissolved its political connection with Sweden and seated a king upon its long unusued throne. The recent exposures of graft and fraud in high financial circles and last summer’s labor troubles In Chicago are only Incidents of the constant conflict being waged for the establishment of justice and fair treatment between man and man. The Russo-Japanese war, after a brilliant series of land campaigns, during which one after another of the strongholds of the Russians in Manchuria fell into the hands of their opponents, and a decisive battle on the Sea of Japan, that is said to have been one of the greatest naval contests of all history, has been brought to a close, and largely, we believe, by American influence. The completion of the great Simplon tunnel was the accomplishment of another great engineering feat, and the Lewis and Clark Exposition iu Portland, Ore., presented to the world a record of achievement in all lines. Great disasters have been fewer than usual, though tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas destroyed more than five hundred lives, and earthquakes, fire and railway wrecks have done their dread work. The year's list of famous dead contains the names of many men and women noted in the arts, statecraft, philanthropy and business. The principal events of 1905 are briefly summarized below. January. 2 Surrender of Port Arthur. 3 Towboat Defender blown up on Ohio River; 20 lives lost. 4 Death of Theodore Thomas, orchestra leader. 5 Admiral Rojestvcnsky’s flagship Kniaz Souvaroff sunk off Madagascar. 9—Death of Louise Michel, French anarchist. 15— Combes’ ministry In France resigns. 16— Secretary liny advises China to remain neutral... .Earthquake nt Shemakha, Russia, buries hundreds of people. 18 — End of textile strike In Fall River, Mass. 19— Attempt to assassinate Czar and Russian royal family. 22 —Massacre of workingmen by Czar's troops In St. Petersburg. 23 A Revolt spreads through Russian cities. 25 —Liberals defeated In Ontario general elections... .Czar Issues proclamation promising reforms. 29 Kouropat kin’s army driven back from Sandepas by Gen. Oku's forces. 80—Czar signs document grautlug great reforms to Russian people. February. I- Extreme cold wave sweeps Northern States and Canada. Glendive. Mont., has temperature of 54 degrees below aero. 7 Death of Joseph 11. Manley of Maine. ....Senate passes Statehood bill. 8— Roosevelt and Fairbanks declared elected after count of electoral votes In Congress. 9 House passes Townsend Esch railway rate bill. 10 —Death of Hon. Chas. IL Hackley of Muskegon. Mich. 13 Severest cold wave of winter. 15 Death of Gen. Lew Wallace. 16 Death of Jay Cooke, noted financier. 17 Grand Duke Sergius killed by bomb In Moscow... .Frances Willard statue dedicated in Statuary Hall. Washington. 20— Explosion in Virginia City coal mines, near Bessemer, Ala., entombs 152 miners. ....Fire destroys piers and ships at Charlestown, Mass. 24 Boring of Simplon tunnel under the Alps Is finished. 25- $1,000,000 fire In Hot Springs. Ark. ....North Sea Commission announces decision against Russia. 20—Illinois Central terminals in New Orleans burn with loss of $5.0»»>.000... .Thirtyfive miners killed by explosion at Wllcoe, W. Va. 27 Dentil of Geo. S. Boutwell of Massachusetts... .Judge Swayne of Florida acquitted by United States Semite.... Eleven persons killed by collapse of church floor In Brooklyn. N. Y. 28 Death of Mrs. Leland Stanford Ic Honolulu. March. 3 Czar of Russia signs rescript giving people a right to representation In lawmaking body... .Thirty persons killed In wreck of Inauguration special trains near Pittsburg. 4 • Roosevelt Is Inaugurated... .End of 58th Congress.... Will J. Davis and two others Indicted as responsible for Iroqnols tire... .Chns. Thoma* found guilty of Mabel Scofield murder. 7 Big traction strike begins In New York. 8 Japan*? win tattle of Mukden, after eighteen day*' fighting. 10 Mukden captured by Japanese. ll Mr*. Chadwick convicted of conspiracy In Cleveland. 14 Nineteen live* lost lu New York tenement house fire. 17— Death of Gen. Joseph R. Hawley of Connect lent. IN 19 Twenty-four miner* killed by explosion In mine* near Thurmond. W. va. 20—Explosion and fire In Brockton, Mass., •hoc factory causes lo.’l death*. 24—Death of Julea Verne. April. 3 President Roosevelt leaves Washington on vacation trip.... Explosion In Leiter mine* at Zeigler. 111., kills thirty five men. ....Russian artillery depot In Harbin blown up and seventy-five men killed. 4 Earthquakes In India devastate wide range of country and destroy hundreds of Ilves fi Chicago iramstcrs strike In sympathy with garment workers. 8— Collapse of water reservoir at Madrid kill* or Injures too persons.... Battleship Minnesota launched. 14 —Hard frost damages early fruit and garden truck In Central and Southern States.

17— Four boys Killed in panic In Indianapolis Masonic Temple. 20— Thirteen lives lost In burning of convent In St. Genevieve, Quebec. 23 Death of Joseph Jefferson. 24 Frank G. Bigelow, president of Milwaukee First National Bank, acknowledges himself a defaulter for $1,500,000 of bank's funds... .Teamsters’ strike in Chicago supposed to be ended. .. .Earthquakes near Bombay, India, kill fifty persons. 25 — Chicago teamsters’ strike on again.* 28 —Death of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.... Rioting in Chicago... .Tornado at Laredo, Tex., kills sixteen persons. 30—Thirteen miners killed by explosion near Wilburton, Qk. May. 1 — One hundred persons killed in disturbances in Poland. 2- —Serious strike riots in streets of Chicago. . 6—Pat Crowe gives himself up to authorities in Omaha, but disappears later. 9 Tornado destroys thirty-five lives and much property in Marquette, Kan. 10 — President Roosevelt entertained In Chicago... .Tornado in Oklahoma kills 000 persons. . , , 11— Fifty persons killed and 100 Injured in railway accident at South Harrisburg, Pa. 12— Nan Patterson released in New York. 14— Death of Jessie Bartlett Davis. 16— Northern and Southern Baptists meet in joint convention in St. Louis... .Czar issues rescript granting sweeping reforms In Poland and Baltic provinces. 21— Death of Judge Albion W. Tourgee In Bordeaux, France. 23—Death of Mrs. Mary A. Livermore. 26 Death of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild. 27 Russian Baltic fleet under Rojestvensky defeated in great battle In Korean Straits by Japanese under Togo. 28— American yacht Atlantic wins Kaiser’s cup In trans-Atlantic race. 29 Death of former Premier Francisco Sllvela in Madrid, Spain. 30— Bomb thrown at carriage of King Alphonso of Spain and President Loubet oi France in Paris. June. 1— Opening of Lewis and Clark Exposition In Portland, Oregon. .. .Earthquake in Montenegro... .Two hundred drown in overflow of reservoirs at Princetown, Natal. 2 Japan shaken by earthquakes. 6 —Crown Prince Frederic William of Germany weds Princess Cecile of Mecklenburgschwerin... .Norway declares her independence of Sweden. 9 —President Roosevelt arranges for peace negotiations between Japan and Russia. 13— Theodor Delyannis, Grecian premier, fatally stabbed by gambler. 15— Marriage of Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Princess Margaret of Connaught. ~ , 17— Death of Cuban leader, Gen. Maximo Gomez. , , ~ 23 —Death of Judge Stephen Neal, author of 14th amendment. In Lebanon, Ind Bloody strike battles In Lodz, Poland. 25—5750,600 fire in retail district of Nashville. x 28 — Great mutiny and rioting at Odessa, Russia. July. 1— Death of John Hay, Secretary of State ....Paul Morton is succeded as Secretary of the Navy by Charles J. Bonaparte. 2 Cloudburst in Guanajuato, Mexico, de-stroys-,1.000 lives. 5 Tornado In North Texas. 6 Elilin Root appointed Secretary of State to succeed the late John Hay11—Fire damp explosion In Welsh colliery kills 126 minors. 16— Death of Gen. W. W. Blackmar, G. A. R. National Commander. 20— Strike of Chicago teamsters Is ended. 21 — Boiler explosion on U. S. S. Bennington In San Diego harbor kills thirty-seven and Injures ninety-seven others. 23 Death of Daniel S. Lamont. 24 Bones of John Paul Jones placed In vault in Annapolis. 25 Yellow fever epidemic In New Orleans. August. 8— Collapse of store in Albany, N. Y., kills twelve persons. 9 Russian and Japanese peace commissioners meet at Portsmouth, N. H. 10— Flala-Zeigler expedition, rescued by the steamer Terra Nova, reaches Honningsvaag, Norway. 13— Referendum in Norway favors separation. . 16— Reciprocity convention In Chicago. 17 — Fifty passengers drown when excursion train runs into open draw near Norfolk, Va. ... 21—Earthquake felt In Illinois. Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee.... Death of Mary Mapes Dodge. 29 Russian nnd Japanese envoys agree upon terms of peace. September. 1— Alberta becomes new State of Canada. 2 Five milllon-dollar fire in Adrianople, Tu rkov. 4 Death of Hezekiah Butterworth, historian. _ , . 5 Treaty of peace between Russia and Japan signed in Portsmouth, N. 11 Peace riots in Tokio. 8— Earthquake in Southern Italy destroys 400 Ilves and twenty villages. 9 Rand powder factory. Fairchance, Pa., explodes, destroying thirty lives. 11— Mlkas.i. Admiral Togo’s flagship, burns and 599 lives are lost. 14— Death of Patrick Collins, Mayor of Boston. _ ~ „ . 15— Heath of George McDonald, novelist. 24—Great fire In Rutte, Mont. 20— Manila swept by typhoon. October. 4—Six hundred thousand dollar fire In Rhinelander, Wls. 13— Norwegian treaty adopted by Swedish Parliament,.. .Death of Sir Henry Irving. 14— Close of Lewis nnd Clark Exposition In Porthind. Ore... .Treaty between Russia and Japan signed by Czar and Mikado. 17—Fatal tornado at Sorento. DI. 19-20 Storm on Great Lakes destroy* shipping nnd costs several Ilves. 23—Death of Congressman Jerry Simpson of Kansas. 30— Ciar grants representative government to Russians. November, I—Sweden unfurls her new flag... .Bloody riots In Russian cities. 3 Enormous loss of life In massacres In cities of Southern Russia. 4 Czar signs manifesto giving freedom to Finland. 12— Bishop Stephen M. Merrill, prominent Chicago Methodist, dies... .Prime Charles of Denmark chosen King of Norway. 14 People of Isle of Pines declare freedom from sovereignty of Cuba. lg—Torpedo boat sunk In German nnval maneuvers and thirty three men drowned. 10— One hundred lives lost In wreck of steamer Hilda In English Channel.... Thi-rty-nine men die In Glasgow lodging house State entry of King Haakon VII. and Queen Maude Into Christiana. '•o Eighteen person* killed and twentyfive Injures! In railway wreck near Lincoln, Masa Fleet of allied power* »cl»e Turkish Island of Mytllcne. “7—Drunken Russian soldiers at Alexandrov*k burn barrack* and eighty political prisoner*. 28 Severe gale cause* much damage to property In Great Lakes district. December. 1— Cuban election* a landslide for moder ate party. 2 Iron missile thrown through window of President Roosevelt'* special train In Philadelphia. 4 Fifty ninth Congress meet*... .Wisconsin legislature meets In *|>ecl*l session.... Balfour ministry In England resigns. g Lieut. Gen. Hakharoff slnlu by wotnnn In province of Saratoff. Russia. 8 Mr*. Mary M. Rogers hanged In Windsor. Vt. 11— Death of Edward Atkinson, political economist.

This Funny World.

“A man doesn't really get any sense until he is 40 yearn of age.” “Wbat'a the application?” “And then no business house seems to enre to employ him.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.

Getting Along.

“Ix't'a see; Wlllyums waa married a little over a year ago. wasn't be? How does he and his wife get along?” "Splendid.” "That's good.” "Yes, they’re dlrorced now."

CONGRESS

Spirited debate was occasioned in the Senate by the introduction of a bill by Mr. Tillman authorizing the interstate commerce commission to fix maximum rates. Mr. Foraker declared that the bill proved that its author believed the present law sufficient to correct all transportation evils except excessive rates. Mr. Tillman responded that he had thought the present laws adequate until the investigation begun by Judson and Harmon into the Santa Fe case had ended in a miserable fiasco. The Panama Canal emergency appropriation bill was received from the House, and after considerable discussion, during which the high salaries paid employes was criticised, it was referred to the Appropriation Committee by a vote of 40 to 23. The death of the late Senator Mitchell of OregofF was not mentioned during the session' and the erasure of his name from tlr4s rolls follows. Announcement of committees was made in the House. A resolution was passed slightly increasing the membership in several important tommittees, owing to the fact that the membership of the House has grown from 356 to 356. Mr. Lamar (Fla.), a Democrat, who with Mr. Shackleford (Mo.) had been left off the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, was stopped from voicing open criticism of Mr. Williams, the minority leader, only by the latter’s strong objection. Mr. Sulzer (N. Y.) introduced a resolution of sympathy for the Russian Jews. The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill authorizing the Rock Island, Arkansas and Louisville railroad to construct bridges across the Ouachita and other streams in Arkansas. In the Senate Wednesday Mr. Allison presented the report of the committee on appropriations on the Panama canal bill, giving notice that he would call it up for consideration Thursday. A communication from Secretary Shaw saying that only a few small campaign contributions had been made by national banks was read. A controversy over committee appointments in which Mr. Lamar (Fla.) and Mr. Shackleford (Mo.) bitterly attacked Mr. Williams (Miss.) took up nearly all the time in the House. The subject under discussion was the committee distribution of the annual message of the President, which was not completed when the House adjourned. The Senate Thursday discussed the Panama canal emergency appropriation bill, but did not come to a vote. A separate bill regulating the frsuance of bonds for the canal and placing them on the same basis as other government bonds was passed without debate. A pure-food bill was reported by Mr. Heyburn. Mr. Elkins made a statement from the committee on interstate commerce expressing the opinion that the committee would report a rate bill within a reasonable time. Debate on the recommendation in the President's annual message regarding insurance regulation occupied the House again without a conclusion. The pending resolution refers the question to the ways and means committee, and in its defense Mr. Payne argued that the only way Congress could control insurance was through the taxing power. After a number of long speeches the House adjourned. The Senate Friday adopted a resolution of Mr. Stone requesting the Postmaster General for information as to whether college periodicals are admitted to the mails as second-class matter and whether a preference is shown some such periodicals over other similar publications. Mr. Gallinger reported the merchant marine bill. The Panama Canal bill was laid before the Senate and Mr. Bacon presented nn amendment requiring quarterly reports giving lists of officers and employes of the commission above the grades of laborer and the salaries paid them. After debate by Messrs. Tillman, Spooner. Money, Hale, Culberson and Allison an agrement for a vote was reached and the Senate adjourned. The House devoted aiearly all of the session to a lively debate on the possibilities of controlling insurance companies. Mr. Sherley (Ky.) stood for the doctrine of States’ rights and Mr. Cockrau (N. Y.) attacked the officers of the big life insurance companies. A message was sent to the Senate returning its bill regarding canal bonds as a usurpation of the constitutional right of the House to originate revenue legislation. The hazing incidents at Annapolis came up for much criticism. The emergency bill appropriating sll,000,000 for the Panama canal was passed by the Senate Saturday, after a debate which practically excluded all other business. A substitute offered by Mr. Hale for Mr. Bacon’s amendment, specifically requiring that Congress shall be supplied with regular estimates of all salaries except those paid to laborers, was accepted. Mr. Hale made the authorized announcement that Secretary Bishop’s duties as press agent would be abolished. The House indulged itself again to the extent of four hours in an academic discusskin of federal control of Insurance. The holiday recess was fixed from Dec. 21 to Jan. 4. For the purpose of bringing out information showing'the existence of a civil pension list the House asked the President for the number of civil employes of the government who have reached the age of 70.

National Capital Notes.

Speaker before national conference Mid America treats child toilers same as Russia does. Attorney General Moody Instructed subordinates whenever possible to prosecute railroad officials and shippers who violate rebate law for conspiracy and send them to Jail. Postmaster General Cortelyou, in annual report, called Chicago post office notable example of lamentable deficiency in certain essentials; deficit held less Important than efficiency. The Philippines tariff committee of the Merchants’ Association of New York, at the War Department made an argument for a modification of the Philippine to iff on cotton goods.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Bank exchanges, the measure of trade, usually are expected to reflect

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some growth during December, but the total this week is doubly interesting in that it largely exceeds the corresponding week last year and makes a new high record for this city. This evidence of progress is not weakened by any present or approaching indication of diminution in activity. Iron and steel production shows unexampled cohesion; ore never before was more eagerly secured against future needs, and prices of both raw and finished materials have acquired exceptional firmness, notwithstanding the Vapidity of recent advances. This situation is not surprising when it is considered that the leading producers are away behind their orders and that capacity will be taxed to the limit well Into next year. Operations in the distributive branches continue to be of unprecedented volume. The lack of adequate transporting facilities has become a subject of greater anxiety with the close of lake navigation. Bank clearings, $236,116,527, exceed those of corresponding week in 19C44 by 12.7 per cent. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 34, against 22 last week »nd 25 a year ago.—Dun's Review of Trade.

Holiday trade, begun earlier than usual, promises to break all records,

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but retail trade in seasonable goods, reflecting the irregular weather, flucturtes in volume. The wholesale trade notes a quietness as the stock-taking >eriod approaches, but spring sales rontinue encouraging. Industries remain active, iron and steel and building in all its branches especially so. In the textile trades activity is still a feature. The recent large advance in rotton and talk of 15 cents for the balmce of the crop is a disturbing element in future business. Business failures for the week ending Dec. 7 number 203, against 188 last ivee, 231 in the like week of 1904, 241 in 1903, 247 in 1902 and 223 in 1901. (n Canada failures this week number !1, against 25 last week and 23 in this week a year ago.—Bradstreet's Commercial Report

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prims, $4.00 to $6.25; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.00; wheat, No. 2,88 cto 89c: corn, No. 2,44 cto 46c: oats, standard, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 2. 68c to 69c; hay. timothy. $8.50 to $13.00; prairie, $6.00 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 21c to *23c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 26c. . Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $5.05; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,88 cto 90c; corn. No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 32c. St. Louis—Catle, $4.50 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $4.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2,90 cto 93c; corn. No. 2,40 cto 41c; oats. No. 2,30 cto 32c; rye, No. 2,67 cto 68c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $4.00 to $4.85; hogs. $4.00 to $5.10; sheep, $’2.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2,90 cto 92c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; rye. No. 2,70 cto 71c. Detroit—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, S4.(M) to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,87 cto 89c; corn. No. 3 yellow. 45c to 47c; oats. No. 3 white, 32c to 35c; rye. No. 2,68 cto G9c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 84c to 87c; corn, No. 3,41 c to 42c; oats, standard, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 1, 69c to 70c; barley, No. 2,53 cto 55c; pork, mess, $13.00. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 87c to 88c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 4<k; oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye. No, 2,07 cto 69c; clover seed, prime, $8.20. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4-00 to $5.50; bogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.15; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.65; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.90. New York—Cattle. $4.00 to $5.40; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep. $3.00 to $5.30; wheat. No. 2 red, 90c to 92c; corn. No. 2,50 cto 51c; oat*, natunil, white, 37c to 38c: butter, creamery. 21c to 24c; eggs, western, 27c to 28c.

Short Personals.

Dr. Glennon of St. Louis is the youngest archbishop in the world. He is 42 years of age. Shahan Bey, a leader of the Albanian insurrection against Turkey, hn* arrived in thi* country to try to interest the American board of foreign mission* in his project for a boys' school in Albania. Mr. Carnegie never smoke*. No on* dares light a cigarette in Skibo Castle. He does not play cricket, is not devoted to riding, never followed the hounds iu hi* life, and doe* not shoot. Railroad magnate* are supposed to b* hard worked, but they are long lived. James J. Hill i* 67. Marvin Hnghitt is 64. and E. T. Jeffrey. Roswell Miller and Thomas Lowry own up to 62. Rotart B. Roosevelt, an uncle of President Roosevelt, is going to make an attempt to have the scrub pines of Ixing Island destroyed and supplant them with more beautiful and useful white pines.