St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 July 1897 — Page 2

Cljc Jnbcpcnbcnt. AV. A. ENDLEY, Publisher. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. SUSPEND ALI EN LAW. CANADIAN CABINET WILL NOT TRY ENFORCEMENT. Klondyke Open to Americans—Additional Force ior Customs Houses— Spreckels May Buy the Southern Pacific Railroad. Alien Law Not for Gold Miners. The cabinet at Ottawa, Ont., decided not to attempt to enforce the alien law in the Klondyke district, The subject of royalty on the gold output was discussed. Eighty — additional mounted police will be sent on to maintain law and order, and the United States authorities at Washington will be asked to give the right of way through disputed territory. Two customs officers will be sent to Lake Tagish, on the British frontier, to collect customs duties. The report up to last week of tonnage of provisions which has gone into the Yukon country by the overland route was 5,000, and in addition to this there are about 5,000 tons of live stock. Three Years for Hubbard. A. D. Hubbard, who was convicted at Topeka, Kan., of embezzling SB,OOO as receiver of the Hamilton Printing Company, was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary by Judge Hazen. Hubbard ■was a prominent lawyer at the time of his arrest, was law partner to Lieut. Gov. Harvey and State president of the A. I’. A. of Kansas. When sentence was pronounced Hubbard made a sensational speech. He said the trial was a farce and his conviction a travesty upon justice. He was convinced, he said, that he was convicted because of his connection with the A. P. A., and. if so, was proud of it. Mr. Hubbard referred to the prosecution as a persecution, but asserted that no man ever went to the penitentiary with a clearer conscience than he. Mr. Hubbard is an eloquent speaker, and there were many wet eyes in the court room when he finished. — Standing: of the Clubs, Following is the standing of the clubs m the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 53 24 Pittsburg ... .35 40 Cincinnati ..48 2G Chicago 3G 44 Baltimore .. .48 2G Louisville ...35 45 New Y0rk...45 30 Brooklyn ....33 44 Cleveland ...42 34 Washington .20 4G Philadelphia .38 42 St. Louis 19 GO The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis .53 2G Detroit 40 41 Columbus .. .53 27 Minneapolis .28 57 St. Paul 54 32 Gr'd Rapids .2G 54 Milwaukee .53 32 Kansas City.2s GO Kninorof Die Railroad Deal. A sensational report is in circulation at San Francisco that Claus Spreckels has now under consideration a plan to buy out the Stanford and Crocker interests in the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. It is being seriously discussed by men familiar with railroad matters. There is no doubt that Mrs. Stanford would be glad to close out her railway interests if she could be assured they would not fall into the hands of C. P. Huntington. Mr. Spreckels has lent the Southern Pacific between $1,500,1X10 and $2,000,000 in the last three years, and has money enough, if reports be correct, to carry out such a gigantic deal as is rumored. Mrs. J. I>. Mallory Will Die. Mrs. J. D. Mallory, wife of the oyster and fruit packer of Baltimore, was thrown from her carriage and sustained fatal injuries. Mrs. Mallory fell on her head. The physicians in attendance say the unfortunate woman's neck is undoubtedly broken, and she has but one chance in a thousand to recover, although an operation will be attempted in the hope of saving her life. BREVITIES, Ex-United States Senator James R. Doolittle of Wisconsin died at Providence, R. *l., Tuesday forenoon at the home of his daughter, of Bright's disease. He was 82 years of age. Judge Doolittle was one of the founders of the Republican party. The Paris Figaro predicts the early issuance of a papal encyclical censuring the priests who, despite the warnings of their ecclesiastical superiors, continue to incite the workingmen of France aud other countries to demand their rights, forgetting meanwhile their own priestly duties. A special dispatch from Grenoble says ^|o body of young Sorrel, the daring Alpne climber, whoso vbhtufosomo fonts have attracted attention this summer ami who started July IS to make the ascent of Mount Taillefor. has been found at the bottom of a deep crevasse with his neck broken. Father Tom Sherman, son of Wi'Jh m T. Sherman, has just arrived in Seattle. Wpsh.. from the East. He is broken down in health and goes to Seattle for recuperation. Among his personal friends there is Mrs. George M. Past hall, whose father, Maj. P. S. Turner, was an associate of Gen. Sherman during the Mexican war and one of his most intimate friends. Father Sherman will remain for several mouths. Mr. ami Mrs. Gladstone Sunday celebrated the fifty-eighth anniversary of their wedding. Many visitors joined in the family rejoicing at Hawarden and scores of the townspeople saluted tin* venerable couple while on their way to church. Both tiro in excellent health. Mr. Gladstone walked off with as much vigor as at any time in the last ten years, shaking hands energetically and conversing with great animation. Over 300 policy holders in the Massachusetts Benefit Life Association had an exciting meeting in New York. They decided to refuse to pay tiny more assessments into the company and empowered a committee to make arrangements to transfer as many of the 10,000 policy holders as are willing into some old-es-tablished New York company. Otto Mum'hmeyer, United States consul in San Salvador, has committed suicide. Maurice Grau has been re-engaged for four years as director of the grand opera season at Covent Garden, London.

EASTERN. Four women and two men were killed by an explosion in the loading department at the armory of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, New Haven, Conn. Two men were fatally hurt and at least a dozen persons were seriously injured. James R. Keene is in the saddle again, and Wall street has found it out. On the floor of the exchange and in every broker's office Wednesday this brilliant, daring man was credited with having so conducted the recent dashing campaign in sugar that he has increased his wealth by fully $2,000,000. He reappears, therefore, in the front rank of American financiers, from wliich adversity temporarily crowded him. For years he fought with his back to the wall, but be paid his obligations, principal and interest. At G:3O o'clock Friday evening a terrible explosion occurred on the steamer Nutmeg State while she was lying at her slip at Bridgeport, Conn., and as a result four men are dead, three others are thought to be fatally injured and a number more are in a serious condition. The steamer was damaged about SI,OOO. It was first alleged that lightning struck the boat, but it was later ascertained that a deck hand went into the hold to light his pipe and it is believed that the lighted match in a closed forecastle caused some naphtha gas to explode. Bar silver declined at New York Wednesday to the lowest price in two years, and prix site dispatches from abroad received in Wall street were to the effect that the holders of the white metal had "weakened.” Some of the bullion brokers assumed that this meant that the silver pool was liquidating its holdings. Other brokers were of the opinion that the lessened demand for silver in the East, through the adoption of the gold standard by Japan, among other reasons, xvas responsible for the decline. Outsiders generally called attention to the fact that the recession in price came simultaneously with the announcement of the groat gold discoveries in the Klondyke region. The demand for vessels in all linos of foreign and coastwise trade continues at Philadelphia, and rates are advancing because of a scarcity of tonnage. Railroads are said to be blocked with coal for coast ports and vessels arriving with cargoes are being discharged on their arrival quicker ti an ever before. Steamers for grain continue in good demand for July. August and September loadings. For August loading the British steamship Boyne was chartered to load 11,000 quarters of grain at 3 shillings and G pence per quarter. to Cork for orders, and the Mathew Bedlington was engaged at 3 shillings and 7^ pence per quarter for Septemberi October loading. The British steamship Imperial Prince, now in port, was also , chartered to load for Cork for orders at 3 shillings and 3 pome. There is also a ■ demand for vessels to load cotton at । Southern ports for Liverpool, Havre and Bremen. Trainloads of wheat and corn are being hurried from the West to Philadelphia, Baltimore ami Newport News to make way for the new crop, part of which is being forwarded for shipment on foreign account. I WESTERN. Judge Showalter Las reaffirmed his decision against the 3-cent fare law passed by the Indiana Legislature and continues the injunction to prevent the city of Indianapolis from carrying it into effect. Mrs. Lovey Aldrich, one of (he seven surviving widows of the revolutionary soldiers who fought in the war of 177 G, died at San Diego, Cal.. Monday afternoon. Mrs. Aldrich was born at Sanbornton, N. 11.. March 29. 1S(K». One man shot, three men and two women held up and robbed by footpads, was the record at Chicago Saturday night. Sunday the industry languished a little, for only one saloon-keeper was killed and one trolley car livid up. Grieving beyond hope over the deatii of her mother and weighed down by physical ills, Margaret Foote, a young member of the Alpha Chib. Chicago, took a fatal dose of poison Sunday night in her room at the <lul>. She died two hours later. Gen. D. W. Caldwell, president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, died Wednesday at Cleveland. He was formerly general manager of the Pennsylvania lines, was president of the Nickel Piate, and succeeded John Newell as president of the Lake Shore, What is known as the Brown system of discipline is to go into effect on the entire Santa Fe system at once. Under this system records are kept of the work and behavior of every employe, demerits being recorded against them for violation of rules, and credits being given for satisfactory service. The Leroy Mining Company of Spokane, Wash., has just declared a dividend of $200,000. This is the second dividend of a like amount paid this month. It is thought the company will declare still another dividend before the end of the month. To date this mine has paid $475,000 in dividends. The will of Mrs. Julia C Mnffltt, reputed to have been the richest woman in St. Louis, was filed for probate. The estate is valued at $3,000,000 and consists largely of personal property. It is to be apportioned among Tier six children, share and share alike. Charitable bequests amounting to $30,000 are made. Thursday the statue to Gen. John A. Logan was unveiled at Chicago. The ceremony was accomplished in the presence of a multitude notable in its factors, and with a magnificence of detail quite unprecedented. The widow of the dead general, army officers who served with him through the war, Governors of States, members of President McKinley's cabinet and United States Senators sat in the shadow of St Gamlen's heroic statue and took part in the exercises. Captain Porter of the United States secret sei vice at. Chicago says V. J. Traven was about to make enough $5 treasury notes to pay the national debt. Travel! is a prisoner in the marshal's cage, and asseits he was simply getting ready to make cigar box labels for Cuban insurgents, and that a sac simile of a $5 bill was to be used on his label. But Traven is hazy about the name of the Cuban who gave him the order or the exact address of the people who were to use liis peculiar cigar box label, and Captain Porter believes Traven always will be hazy on the subject. Six men and two women are under arrest at Trinidad, Colo., charged with the murder of Deputies William Green and William Kelly when they were in search of cattle thieves in Hie spring of 189 G. Officers arc in pursuit of two more men who are said to have been implicated in the crime. The prisoners are Juan Duran, Nestor Martinez, Macedonia Archuleta, Dave Hodges, Luberte Archuleta,

] and the two women. Luz Duran and LuI cia Archuleta. Archuleta has made a confession, in which lie says that the two deputies were killed from ambush and their bodies were burned and the ashes scattered so that there would be no trace of the bloody work. At 7 o'clock Thursday night a terrific cloudburst struck Youngstown, Ohio, flooding the entire valley and causing great damage to property, both in the city and along the railway lines. Many people are supposed to be drowned. The entire country east and west for twenty miles was flooded and the damage will be enormous. The Erie Railroad west of Warren fourteen miles, and north of Sharon for the same distance, was entirely washed out, and orders were issued to discontinue all trains. On every railroad leading into the city came reports of < ensive washouts and bridges swept away, and railroad officials say ttie loss will be the heaviest they have ever known. Frank N. Sheldon is under sentence of death at New York, on conviction of the , murder of his wife. Some time before the murder, Mrs. Sheldon separated from her husband and went to another place to live. She was induced to return to him on his gh Ing bond in the sum of S2,^HB that therealter he would be a kind and affectionate husband. Soon afterward he shot and killed her. A civil action has been brought by Jacob N. Waldron and Mary it. Sheldon, as administrators of the estate of Eva Sheldon, the murdered woman, rgainst the murderer and his bondsmen, to collect the bond. Mary is the daughter of the convicted man and was the principal witness against him on the trial. The British ship Comliebank, which sailed from San Francisco Thursday morning for Rio Janeiro with a cargo of 1 wheat, returned Friday afternoon. Shortly after the towboat cast off Mate Marshall issued some orders which the sailors refused to obey. Marshall went to the forecastle to reason with them and was । set upon by Seaman Elliott and one or two other members of the crew and drend- ’ fully beaten. Elliott drew a sheathknife t and ordered the captain to hold off if he valued his life. Captain Storms was told i that the vessel was bound for an infect lions port and that the men had resolved * not to go on the trip. Captain Storms orI dered the ship about and returned to San Francisco. Elliott was placed under ar- . rest, but Captain Storms will not prooe- - cute, as the proceedings would delay the • sailing of the vessel for a long time. ' Friday morning 100 tramps gathered at Tekamah. Neb., and announced that they would permit no trains to pass through on the Omaha line unless the company ■agreed to transport them to Sioux City ' free. The first freight that approached from the south slowed up for fear ol being wrecked. In a minute the tramps swarmed over the cars, menacing the । erow and daring the crew to prevent them from capturing the train. They nt once put a guard of six men over tlx* engineer , and settled down to wait for the train to move. In three hours another train cao^ in there and the hobo band nt once tivi®| ed their forces and captured it. This trfME^ carried a mail car, and thyUnited(iUUgSg authorities at < hnalia were noufieu nidf special c arried thirty deputies to I ekwj mah. It was a great surprise to thWi tramps. They prepared to capture the ha| coming train when they saw it ami stir™ rounded the car. Then the deputies poured out v itb drawn revolters. The tramps scattered every where and showed 110 fight. Each deputy pursued and captured a man. Six resisted and several drew knives, but the guns of the deputies ill timidated them and twenty eight prisoners were made. Wade Gillis, a Tekamah lawyer, was also arrested on the charge of aiding the men in obstructing mail trains ami insisting United States officers, it is said lie had been retained by the tramps and was advising them** to what course to pursue and was taken in. Gillis was releasee] on bail. The tramps who escaped scattered all over the* country. SOUTHERN. Fire destroyed the Casino summer theater at Romona Park, I’adiieah, Ky., Friday night. Fifty people were severely burned, mid over a hundred crushed in the panic which ensued. The main building of tlie Peoria, 111., Grape-Sugar Com-, pony's plant was destroyed by tire Friday’ evening. The loss is SS(M),(MM>, the total insurance < arried being S4GO,(MH), of which nearly $300,009 was on the burned building and contents. All the southwestern railroads are reconsigning grain from Kansas City to Texas local points at the balance of the through rates, despite the recent decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission, wliich practically dealt a death blow to the reconsignment privilege nt Kansas City. The full text of the decision has been received by shippers mid railroad men of Kansas City, and they agree that it does not apply to grain shipments to Texas points. It affects the reconsignment of grain, they say, at the balance, of through rate to Chicago and the Mississippi river, but this privilege was wH^Z drawn by the railroads last Novcmbd^l' The Missouri. Kansas and Texas and the Missouri Pacific roads agreed Thursday , to han lie grain to Texas at Kansas Q*ty in the old way. They consider that -the decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission is only an opinion and must be followed with mi order to the railroads to abolish reconsignnient privileges before it can become effective. FOREIGN. The Japanese cabinet agreed to the proposal of the Hawaiian G-overnment to submit the questions at issue between the two Governments to arbitration. A boat containing forty-five employes of the Hamburg engine works capsized in the River Ellie Friday at Hamburg, Germany. Six persons were drowned. Edhem Pasha, commander of the Turkish forces in Thessaly, is reported to have received an infernal machine, which exploded while being opened and severely wounded him. The Duchess of Hamilton was married quietly Tuesday morning at London to Mr. Foster. Little is known locally of the bridcgioom. It is stated that the Duke of Devonshire was present at Ilie ceremony. A dispatch from Nobske, Vineyard Sound, Tbmsday morning says that mi unknown three-masted schooner sunk during the night on Hedge Fence shoal. The same dispatch says that mi unknown twomasted schooner w-ent ashore on the middle ground near that port. The Paris Ganlois says the forthcoming report of M. Potevin, the examining magistrate in the Panama scandal, recommends the prosecution of former Deputies Hurard, Sarlat, Planteau, Saint Martin,

nties an<3 IJi Fnud. with DepHonn B ’iyer, Alfred Naquet and Ac<f laret 8,,d Senator Leveret. fromy i rd,n K to the latest native reports is sti a Siam, the famine there from Kt 9^ height mid people nre dying BimFC‘. ^ nrv “ ho " b- v hundreds daily. Large the suk _ vnioney will also be needed to start On jJ vivors once more in life. palace |’ un e fire broke out in the royal threat I at - Rangkok, Siam, and for a lime tion. ^ned to be a very serious conflagraand fortunately there was little wind in wl ne bhize was confined to the building store** 4 " '* started. A quantity of medical wer(^C[ , ’ ri,,es and much ammunition sevc cestioyed. The latter exploded mid j. nil people xvere injured. tbc trt ‘ W Os ,he ’h'lgimi steam M-^. jneba were drowned by a collision Brf Wy off the Isle of Wight with the wl< sh Steamer St. Fillans. The Concha. l)Q*|itli was from Mediterranean ports and th<—? dd n l* ehannel, was sunk, while St. Fillmis' bow® were badly damag- , . The last-named craft, which was Rotterdam for New York, 'en of the Concha's crew to i- - haiupron.

net Riven r evening at Saragossa in honor $ nor Moret y Prendergast, the liberal h' v and former minister, Count Ror (rtes made a violent attack “upon . fish ministers beyond seas,” referring ev h»ently to Senor Dupuy de Lome. A rp l > Wesentfetive of the Government who "i'W present intervened, resenting the qlj’W l *' B remarks, and a free fight ensued. *"W Government's representative drew n Revolver. Finally the entire company wa-i|, ejected from the hall where the ban’l” 4 was given, after which they formed 9*; groups mid paraded the streets shout- ’* “Long live liberty!” Honor Moret y * endergiist,'s speech made a great sen--80 ion in Madrid. The Ep<>< b says: “The ^’fchtful picture of Cuba painted by the ‘"joral lei dor at Saragossa can only be c yipnred to the inflammatory utterances ?.W the worst enemies of Spain. We be'jve that his insinuations against the

^rone must permanently keep the liberals of power, owing to the increased •wength which such utterances give the Jjomirchists in the eyes of the public.’’ '.■nor Canovas del Castillo, the premier, * ntes that the report of an alliance be veen Spain and Japan is incorrect. He Ids; "It was never more necessary than * jw for the Government to consider what f 'forms ought to be introduced in Cuba." J here have been serious outbreaks ami riots nt Barcelona and the gendarmes JAVe been stoned by tin 1 mob. The Gov yrnment has sent large re-enforcements io restore order. I IN GENERAL । Obituary: At Dorchester, Mass., James tT. Babcock, inventor of the tire evtinKiiishrr. 53.- At Dayton, Ohio, CommoJdore James Applegate, SU; Levi B. .lones, ibl. At Chillicothe, Mo.. Editor I’. A. iLeonard. At Bloomington, 111.. Nelson M. Hurtt. At London. Sir John Charles Bucknill, TV; Sir John Skelton, Secret.ary Long has again asked the jinTiogie and Bethlehem companies to garnish the Government with armor for battle ships Illinois, Alnbnmn and I Hfi»cCMt»ln at a cost of $3(Ai a ton. It is ^’cported that the Cnrucgie company is considering a proposition for (he its plant to the Russian Government. Th- - has been in circulation in ord nance circles for some days, and while the representatives of the Carnegie pro fess to know nothing about it, some ord mince experts believe there may be some foundation for it. The Chicago Shipbuilding Company P is joined the list of occupied shipyards by taking an order for a steel tow barge, the largest on the lakes. She will be nearly I a duplicate of the Amazon, w he h estabj lished the OJMJtI-ton record for Lake Superior. The addition will be two feet to the beam. She will be built to the order of a Cleveland and Cuyahoga syndicate, and her dimensions will be as follows: Keel, 376 feet; depth. 26, and water bottom, 4% teet; beam. 48 feet. This makes the fourth large shipyard to secure contracts that will afford work for a good part of the summer. R. G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The end of uncert; inty regarding duties on imports gives greater confidence alike to those who have opposed and those who have favored the change. The great strength in stocks, particularly in those of the granger list, reflects assurance of heavy crops. The remarkable rise in wheat, notwithstanding that assurance, is based on heavy buying for export and belief that foreign demands will be large. The one retarding force, the strike of coal miners, has caused the closing of a few manufacturing works for want of fuel, but negotiations for settlement are still pushed with hope." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago-Cattle, common to prime, S3.<MI to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice. $2.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 75e to 76c; uwrm No. 2,26 cto 27c; outs. No. 2. 16c 18c; lye. No. 2,38 cto 39c; butter, ,‘hoice creamery, 14c Io 15c: eggs, fresh. 9c to 10c; new potatoes, 75e to 85c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22e. St. Louis- Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c to 18c; rye. No. 2. 37c to 39c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 34e to 36c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye, 37c to 39c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 ned, 75c I > i6c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to Xjc; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2, to 40c; clover seed, $4.30 to $4.35. Milwaukee—'Wheat, No. 2 spring, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 3,25 cto 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 1,38 cto 39c; barley, No. 2,30 cto 34c; pork, moss, $7.2.’ to SB.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2, 31c 'to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; butter, creamery, 12c to 16c; eggs, Western, 11c to 13c. '

j GREAT INLAND HARBOR. Chicago ailfl N ew Y ork Men to Improve the Calnmet Region. Chicago and New York capitalists have , organized to construct a great inland harbor in the heart of the Calumet region. £ 000 '?i re ° f private will be $6,000,(00. Hammond and East Chicago hare assured prompt co-operation, and I ncle Sam is expected to lend a hand to to e theT Ct ' ?? e h ° rbor "i' l be ada Pted to the deepest draught navigation. 2 non will give employment to will 1 r*f 0 ,bt I>r<>sent Plans work will be formally begun in October Completion is expected within two or three Jems. It is believed that the sequel of this undertaking will be the development or a great commercial empire at the northI x”* 7 ’ : V •’ : HA H H « N 6 j 1 • O>yJt I’KOl’Osm IXLAMi hakboh.

western gateway of the Hoosier State. The Industrial and ngriculturaTresources of Indiana will be linked with the shipping trade of the lakes. Incidentally some people believe that it will eventually ditert considerable traffic from Chicago. It is intended to deepen AVolf river, Molf hike. Lake George ami the Calumet river, and connect them by a system'of canals. The route agreed upon is from Lake Michigan south ami west via the It olf river one mile to Wolf lake, w hich is two miles in length, thence south and east one mile to L. ke George, the length of which is one and one-half miles, thence in an eastern direction two miles to a point east of East Chicago. A canal from this point smith to the ('alumet completes the proposed route. The total length would be seven and one-half miles. The right of way has been secured, surveys made and plats recorded. Swinging bridges will be built, except nt the mouth of Wolf hike. The width of the canal at the entrance to Lake Michigan will be i (JOO feet. This route gives the advantage of two i sntnrnl Wolf In ko lis 1,000 feet wide nt the center line. Its present depth is from three to seven feet. 1 I he projectors of the work say that a I shippers’ paradise w ill be completed with- | in two wem w ith a total dockage of sixI teen miles and superior transportation i facilities. CURRENCY COMMISSION PLAN. lext of the Me.wage Sent to Congress !>y the President. I’ollowing is the currency message sent to Congress by President McKinley immediately after the passage of the tariff bill: 1 • the Congress of the I nftcd States: la my message convening the Congress In extraordinary session I called attention to a single subject that of providing revenue adequate to meet the reasonable and proper expenses of the Government. I believe that to be the most pressing subject for settlement then. A bill to provide the necessary revenues for . the Government has already passed the House of Representatives anil the Senate, and awaits Executive action. Another question of very great importance Is that of the establishment of our currency and banking system on u^better basis, which I commented upon In my inaugural address in the'following words: "Our financial system needs some revision: our money Is all good, but its value must not. further be threatened. It should all be put upon auAmdiirlng basis, not subject to easy attack, nor Its stability to doubt or dispute. Tfte several forms of our paper money offer, in my judgment, a constant embarrassment to the Government and Imperil a oafe balance in the treasury.” Nothing was settled more clearly at the late national election than the determination upon the part of the people to keep their currency stable In value and equal to that of the most advanced nations of the world. The soundness of our currency is nowhere questioned. No loss can occur to its holders. It Is the system which should be simplified‘and strengthened, keeping our money just as good as it Is now. with less expense to the Government and to the people. The sentiment of the country is strongly in favor ot-early action by Congress in this direction, to revise our currency laws and remove them from partisan contention. A notable assembly of business men, with delegates from twentynine States and Territories. was held at Indianapolis in January of this year. The financial situation commanded their earnest attention, and after a two days’ session the convention recommendrd to Congress the appointment of a monetary commission. I commend this report to the consideration of Congress. The authors of the report recommend a commission “to make a thorough Investigation of the monetary affairs and needs of tills country In all relations and aspects and to make proper suggestions as to any evils found to exist and the remedies therefor.” This subject should receive the attention of Congress at the special session. It ought not to Ue postponed until the J'egular session. I therefore urgently recommend that n special commission be created, non-partisan In Its character, to be composed of well-In-formed citizens of different parties who will command the confidence of Congress and the country, because of their special fitness for the work, whose duty it shall be to make recommendations of-whatever changes In our present banking and currency-Taws may be found necessary and expedient and to report their conclusions before Nov. 1 next, in order that the same may be transmitted by me to Congress for its consideration at its first regular session. It Is to be hoped that the report thus made will be so comprehensive and sound as to receive the support of all parties and the favorable action of Congress. At (ill events, sitch a report cannot fall to be of value to the Executive branch of the Government as well as to those charged with public legislation and to greatly assist In the establishment of an Improved system of finance. WILLIAM M KINLEY. Editorial Etchings. Arbitral ion in labor disputes seems to be that intangible something which both sides desire, yet never get.—Syracuse Courier. The strike of the coal miners and coal heavers is liable to furnish an excuse to the coal dealers for inaugurating a strike upon the coal consumers.—Omaha Bee. ’i’he shriek of the Spanish press for war with the United States indicates a desire to have fife Spanish tragedy enhanced with spectacular effects.—St. Louis Republic. ,

BUT FEW NEW LAWS. e ANALYSIS OF WORK OF THE EX* TRA SESSION. I. e J House Passes Tariff Bill in Response to Request of President McKinley j with Little Delay, but Senate Hold* It Many Weeks. ( f Hone at Washington. . 7he Senate Saturday, by a vote of 40 . to 30, accepted the conference report on f Within an hour President Mcßndey had signed it, and the measure was law. 'lhe ITcsident sent a message to the House recommending a currency commission, but no action was taken. At 9 o clock Saturday night, the extra session took final adjournment. The extraordinary session of Congress which has just closed was called by Pres ident McKinley two days after he took the oath of office. It met nt noon March 15. The special message 11 n nsniit te<l l>y him tlie ..p.,,, ing day e? plained the deficiencies in the revenues, reviewed the bond issues of the last administration, and urged Congress promptly to correct the then’oxisting condition by passing a tariff bill that would supply ample revenues for the support of the Government and the liquidation of the public d< bt. No other subject of legislation was mentioned in the message, and the tariff bill has been the all-absorbing feature of thesession. Three days after the session opened the tariff bill was reported to the House by the Ways and Means Committee. and thirteen days later, March 31, it passed the House. It went to the Senate, and was referred to the Committee on Finance. The Repuldii >n members spent a month and three days in preparing amendments submitted to the Senate May 7, and exactly two months later, July 7. it passed the Senate with 872 amemlments. The bill then went to conference, where, afte r a ten days' struggle, on July 17. a complete agreement was reached by which the Senate receded from 118 amendments and the House from 511. The others, 243 in number, were compromised. The conference report was adopted l y the House July 19 at the conclusion < f twelve hours' continuous debate. The report was taken tip in theSenate July 20 ami adopted July 24. The tariff Dili was signed by the President the same dav. Congress did not devote its attention entirely to the tariff, though it did subordinate everything else to this one measure. The four appropriation bills which failed on Mar-h 4 last in themselves would have compel! d President McKinley to call Congress in extra session even if the necessity for a revision of the tariff had not existed. Those appropriation bills were the sundry civil, the agricultural, the Indian, ami the general deficiency. These bills were introduced and passed by the House in the identical form in which Choy existed at the tim • of their failure of enactir.< nt into law at the preceding Congress, bu they were amended in some important particulars by the Senate, and when they finally became laws contained more or less new legislation of interest and importame. lonic New Appropriations. 3he general deficiency carried a provision accepting the invitation to take part in the Paris exposition in 191’0. and ajipropriated $25,(100 to defray preliminary expenses, and appropriated $150,000 for a new immigrant station at New York to replace the one destroyed by fire. By far tlie most important piece of new legislation in the bill, however, was that limiting the cost of armor plate for the three new battleships to S3OO per ton. In case the Secretary of the Navy should find it impossible to make contracts for armor within the price fixed, he was authorized by this provision to take steps to establish n Government armor plate factory of sufficient capacity to make the armor. In the sundry civil bill the most important now provision was that suspending the order of President Cleveland sotting aside about 21,000,000 acres as forest reservations. The law also includes a general scheme of legislation for the Government and protection of the foreSt reservations of the country. Fifty thousand dollars was appropriated for the relief of American citizens in Cuba at the solicitation of the President; $200,000 was appropriated for the relief of the Mississippi flood sufferers; a resolution was passed authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to transport supplies contributed for the relief of the poor and famished in India; and $50,000 was appropriated for the entertainment and expenses of the delegates to the universal postal convention, wliich met in Washington. I he only extensive pieces of general legislation enacted by this Congress, except the tai'ifi bill, were the laws to prevent collisions at sea and to place in force regulations to ju-event collisions upon certain harbors, rivers and inland waters of the United States, and the bill authorizing the President to suspend discriminating duties on foreign vessels and commerce. The Senate, not being confined as to the scope of its legislation, dealt with a number of important subjects both in and out of executive session. One of these, whichattract’d world-wide attention, was ths general arbitration treaty negotiated by President Cleveland with Gr^it Britain. After exhaustive consideration, despite the great pressure brought to bear upon tlie Senate by religious and cohiniercia) bodies throughout the country, the Senate rejected the treaty. 'The Hawaiian treaty of annexation negotiated by President McKinley was still unacted upon when Congress adjourned. In open session after much debate Ihe Senate passed the Cuban belligerency resolution, a bankruptcy bill, including both voluntary and involuntary features, and the “free homes” bill. But none of these important questions received consideration in the House. A landslide half a mile wide occurred in the mountains near Lincoln, Vt. Trees and loose rock were piled in an immense heap in the valley below. No lives xvere lost, but several farms were partially covered. A ce!< bration of the fall of the Bastile was held at Montreal and a ■'display of fireworks was given on the river front. A bomb exploded near the ground, injuring over a dozen persons. A domestic wife is a blessing, but not if she is too dome:-tie