Walkerton Independent, Volume 24, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 January 1899 — Page 2

^I)C Independent. w. A. ruviunZZZ” WALKERTO^ ~ 77 INDIANA. T 1 L - - EVENTS OF THE WEEK — Being denied shore leave by their commander, thirty members of the crew of Ilie Philadelphia disappeared from the ship at Santiago. Cui. Eighteen of them have been recaptured. A fatal head-end collision occurred on the Chicago Great Western Railroad at North Hanover, 111., and as a result three men were killed, three engines, a dozen cars and the station house destroyed. Clark W. Bryan, aged 74 years, formerly part owner of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, and late owner of the Union, shot and killed himself. A few 1 months ago he met with business reverses. Heavy rains, unusual in that latitude at this time of the year, have injured the- ’ ripening crop of sugar cane in Nicaragua. The coffee crop, now being gathered, will not exceed half of the usual annual crop. ' Several sharp shocks of earthquake were felt in the valley of Mexico. Many houses were cracked in Mexico City. The national palace was cracked in eleven places and in some places the sidewalks were broken. <_ aptain Eaton of the auxiliary cruiser Resolute captured a 20-foot Spanish flag in Havana harbor, and incidentally taught a lesson in manners to the crew of the Spanish schooner who had hoisted it above a Cuban flag. A little daughter of George Edwards was horribly burned at a bonfire at Vineland, N. J. Enveloped in flames, the child ran screaming along the street and eluded her pursuers until nearly all of her , clothes dropped in ashes from her body. Mayor P. C. Hesser of Fort Scott, Kan., has been expelled from Grace Episcopal Church by public announcement because of his failure to make an effort to close the saloons of the city. His wife thereupon withdrew. Hesser was elected as a Prohibitionist. ।

Commodore Philip, former captain of the Texas, now the commandant of the New York navy yard, is to be presented with two jeweled swords. One of these is to be given by citizens of New York City. The other will be presented by the Sunday school children of Texas. A royal decree has been published at Brussels, accepting the resignations of the premier, De Smet de Naeyer, and the minister of industry and labor, M. Nyssens. The same decree appoints MM. Liebaort and Cooreman, both members of the chamber of deputies, to succeed them. The syndicate composed of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore capitalists, including Widener and Elkins, which has just completed the consolidation of the Baltimore city street railways, is now after the Consolidated Gas Company and the electric light plants of that city. The deal involves $20,000,000 or more. At Stillwater, Minn., the jury in the case of Edwin Bronson to break the will of his grandfather, Isaac Staples, brought in a verdict sustaining the claim of Bronson that Mr. Staples was of unsound mind at the time of making the will. The estate of Mr. Staples is valued at $1,300,000, and by the terms of the will the heirs of Mr. Staples’ daughter, who married W. G. Bronson, were only remembered in small bequests. The steamer Labuan, which has arrived at Labuan, British Borneo, came from the island of Balabac, thirty miles south of Palawan, Philippine Islands, and not from Palawan, as previously cabled. The murder of the Spanish officers which she reported occurred at Balabac. The Labuan brought sixty-five women and children. They had been robbed of everything, but otherwise had not been illtreated. The Sulus assisted the Balabacs in killing the Spanish officers. The Spaniards have left Palawan, where the natives were fearful of the Sulus. Stores had been looted, business was at a standstill. and the natives were armed and ready for mischief. BREVITIES. Aguinaldo has publicly proclaimed the republic of the Philippines at Malolos. At Springfield, Tenn., an entire block was destroyed by fire. Loss about $lO,000, covered by insurance. Fire destroyed the Osterhout building, a large four-story brick structure at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Loss $225,000. At Joplin, Mo., five families were poisoned by ptomaine in cheese. Sixteen persons were made seriously ill. Senator Cullom has been informed that during 1899 all Federal contracts for Indian supplies will be placed in Chicago. Martin Redoch, confessed embezzler of $2,134.05 postoffice funds of Yazoo City, Miss., was arrested at Birmingham, Ala. Ira Crandall, aged 70 years, a blind farmer, was pounded to death with an ax wielded by Emmet Fouton, a crazy resident of Corry, Ta. The Supreme Court of Ohio overruled the motion of Attorney General Monnett to oust Master Commissioner Brinsmade in the Standard Oil case.

Judge E. W. Woodbury, who framed the first prohibitory liquor law enacted by the Maine Legislature, is dead at his home in Bethel, Me., aged 81 years. Thomas J. Wells, the retired Chicago lawyer who tried to shoot his young wife .t Snn Francisco, has deserted her. ieav- i ing ln r penniless in a hotel of that citv. 1 Nati-es are reported to have murdered I the Spanish governor and a number of Spanish officers on the Island of I‘ela-

wan, one of the southwestern Philippines. A violent storm throughout England was accompanied by serious floods in Wales. The river Towy. in south Wales, overflowed, a bridge wa- destroyed and many cattle were drowned. Miss Emma Rumpier. 22 years of age, was killed ami Miss Grace Winthrop was injured at a fire in a three-story brick building at Passaic, N. J. The Canadian Government has decided to allow the law to take its course in the case of Henderson and the three Indians under sentence of death at Dawson. I hey will be hanged in March. The first assistant Postmaster (icneral has issued an order increasing the salaries of all the regular free delivery carriers who provide their own horses or other modes of conveyance iron: s•>* 9 to $490 per annum, beginning Jan. 1 last. EASTERN.

Philadelphia Democrats nominated Dr. W. Horace Hoskins for Mayor. Frank K. Shattuck for city solicitor and John A. Thornton for magistrate. Charles Frohman has secured the Lyric Theater in New York for a term of hve years. This is the fifth New York theater acquired by Charles Frohman. At Olean. N. Y., a still burst at the Standard Oil refinery, throwing burning oil over the adjoining works and causing a fire that caused $75,000 mss. Five small boys, from 7 to 10 years of .i , । n.l rre. ni'c accident in age, met death in a Uio^m.i^. aixiuv

—— South Gibson, a small hamlet in Susquehanna County. Pa. The five victims and another boy got on a big sled and coasted upon a weak place on a mill pond. The Atlantic Transport Line steamer Menominee, which arrived at New York from London, brought to port Captain Honeyman and twenty-two members of (he crew of the British tramp steamer Glendower, which was abandoned at sea in a sinking condition. WESTERN. Adam Swigert, engineer at Mead paper mills, Dayton, Ohio, was instantly killed by being hurled around a pulley. George W. Dent died at Oakland, Cal., aged 79 years. He was a brother-in-law of Gen. U. S. Grant and uncle of U. S. I Grant, Jr., now candidate for United j States Senator. j It is announced that the Catlin To- | bacco Company's plant at St. Louis has been sold to the American Tobacco Company. The price paid is said to be not far from $2,500,000. Mrs. Mary Tj on Williams of Denver claims to be a niece of James Tyson, the Australian who recently died leaving a fortune estimated to be worth over $25,000,000, and she expects to receive a share of the estate. Fire broke out in the seventh story of the building at 701 and 703 Lucas avenue, St. Louis, in the hat and cap factory of Gram & Glass. The contents were destroyed and the seventh story of the building was badly damaged. At Fort Ancient, Ohio, while prospecting on a prehistoric mound-builders’ village site, Clifford Anderson, a farmer, found some portions of human skeletons, stone hatchets, arrowheads and pottery and other relics of the past. Capt. Edward K. Holton, a St. Louis millionaire, who is secretary and treasurer of the St. Louis Stove Company, and Mrs. Lillie Leonori, who has been his stenographer for seven years, were married by the Rev. Dr. Burnham of Pilgrim Congregational Church. 1 he bank at Arthur, 111., was robbed at an early hour the other morning. The robbers carried away in gold, greenbacks and silver from $3,000 to $6,000. The bank officials admit that the sum is in excess of $3,000. Six men blew the safe

open with dynamite. J. S. Giles, county clerk of Millard County, Utah, has disappeared. He is accused by George Bishop of Smithfield of forging the names of George E. Smith, receiver, and Byron Groo, late register of the United States land office, to receipts and certificates affecting entries to public lands. At Canton, Ohio, Mrs. Anna George was indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree. The crime of which she is charged is the killing of George D. Sexton Oct. 7, 1898, as he was walking up the steps leading to the residence of Mrs. Eva Althouse, a widow. Sexton was the brother of Mrs. William McKinley. Within the last few days Cleveland and Detroit shipbuilders have closed contracts for four steel freight steamers, all of the very largest class, 7,000 to 8,000 net capacity, and of about $1,000,000 in aggregate value. These four orders bring the number of new freight carriers under contract on the great lakes up to eighteen. Their aggregate carrying capacity will be about 101,-100 net tons, on seventeen feet draught. The number of vessels of all kinds now under contract in lake shipyards is thirty-one and the aggregate value $4,174,000. Scio. Ohio, College received a long-hoped-for endowment when the oil well being drilled on the school campus “came in and flowed 100 barrels of the groasv fluid in less than twenty-four hours. Derricks are now being erected all over the college property, the faculty, under whose direction the work is being done, sparing neither baseball grounds nor tennis courts. { It is estimated that the college, which is the largest Methodist educational institution in eastern Ohio, will soon have a daily revenue sufficient to maintain several chairs in honor of nature’s benevolence. At the annual meeting of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company it developed that a majority of the stock had been bought by stockholders of the American Steel and Wire Company of Illinois, which is the prime mover in the big wire and wire nail i combination to be known as the American Steel and Wire Company of New Jersey. The old officers were re-elected and will serve pending the completion of the consolidation. President William B. Chisholm will retire from the business. The holders of stock not yet purchased are given thirty days in which to sell at $1,250 per share. William Martindale, vice-president of the First National Bank of Emporia, Kan., which failed last November, owing depositors $500,000. has turned his holdings over to Maj. Calvin Hood under a deed of trust. Hood will settle with the depositors for Martindale's debts, and it is believed he can handle the property so ; that it will pay dollar for dollar. When i the bank failed its president. Charles S. Cross, shot and killed himself at his famous Sunny Slope Hereford farm, near Emporia. Cross left a confession saying he falsified his reports to the Comptroller and exonerating Vice-President Martindale and the other bank officers. SOUTHERN. The United States revenue cutter Alma

was driven on Padre Island, about fifteen miles south of Corpus Christi, Texas, during a storm, but all on board escaped to land. A deposit of tin ore has been discovered fifteen miles from El Paso, Texas, in a range of low hills. The specimens submitted yielded 68 2-10 per cent tin, worth s24'l per ton at present prices. The Memphis and Vicksburg Dacket liner Ouachita was destroyed by fire at the i

Memphis dock. The blaze started about 1:15 a. m. and in fifteen minutes very I little was left of the boat except the hull i and a mass of twisted rigging. All the passengers escaped. Loss $30,000. Special Officers Joel Necessary, Charles Necessary, Will Freeman and Sam Dun- ! can went to arrest William Flannery in ! Scott County, Virginia, on a charge of ; killing- a member of the Hatfield gang. I Pat Flannery came to the assistance of j his brother, when the Necessary brothers ‘ were killed and Freeman and Duncan fa- j tally wounded. The Flannerys escaped. A special from Dewitt. Ark., says that during the Christmas holidays a party of gentlemen arrived at that place and went hunting on the island near by. On the second day one of them, Philip Faudi, a millionaire retired merchant of St. Louis, wont out hunting and he has not been seen or heard of since. The supposition is that Mr. Faudi lost his life in some unknown manner and that his body was lost in the water or the tangled grasses.

WASHINGTON. Tiie detail of the court to try Commissary General Eagan includes Gens. Merritt. Wade, Butler and Young and Brig. Gens. Frank Pennington. Randell, Kline and Comba. Lieut. Col. George B. Davis will be the judge advocate. Secretary Alger has ordered the Relief of Manila to serve there as a hospital ship and also as an ambulance ship for the con veyance of sick and wounded soldiers from Manila to Nagasaki, or even to San Frarcisco. The Relief is now at New

- | York and will go byway of the Suez 1 I canal. * By request of the Secretary of the ; Treasury the War Department has orderr ed the American officials in Porto Rico c to enforce the Chinese exclusion laws of • this country in Porto Rico. Treasury ■ 1 officials ascertained that Chinese agents ' I were preparing to flood Porto Rico with i j Chinamen from other countries, hoping : thereafter to get them into the United i States. FOREIGN. Dr. Guiseppe Bosso of the Turin University is dead, as the result of infection caught while cultivating pest bacilli । in his laltoratory. The casket containing the remains of < hristopher Columbus was opened at CaI diz. About thirty bones and some ashes j were found. A fierce election riot took place at Uj-Szent-Anna, in the county of Arad, Hungary, and four persons were killed and sixteen injured. The Morocco Government troops, commanded by Prince Marani, have defeated the Tafilet rebels in a big battle. This is expected to finish the Tafilet rebellion. The speech from the throne at the opening of the Swedish parliament declared that whatever might be the result of the Czar’s peace conference, Sweden must continually strengthen its defenses, which were altogether too weak, though no one” could suspect her of aggressive scheme^.' In the upper house of the Hungarian diet the motion of Count Szechenyi to present an address to the empero^-king, Francis Joseph, begging his majesty to exercise his constitutional rights in such a manner as to restore as early as possible the constitutional order of things was rejected by a vote of 99 to 69. A dispatch from Colon says: “Senor Zubieta, an influential senator, suggests through the press that the republic of Colombia immediately occupy the Mangle Islands, at one entrance to the Nicaragua canal, in order to obstruct the enterprise and help the Panama canal. The Mangle Islands belong to Colombia, he contends, and if her occupancy of them should be opposed he predicts that France would be compelled to defend Colombia in order to protect French interests.” Cecil Rhodes' great scheme for a railway through Africa from Cape Town to Cairo is meeting with financial encouragement. The line from Buluwayo, the terminus of the present Cape system, to Khartoum will be more than 3.000 miles long, and is estimated to cost $47,000,000. Mr. Rhodes has been assured of $10,000,000 for the section from Buluwayo to Lake Tanganyika, and the remainder can be secured when the surveys from Tanganyika to Khartoum are made. IN GENERAL. The committee representing the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois and Indiana, which has been in Hot Springs, Ark., investigating the Government site for a national Pythian sanitarium recommend the establishment of the institution in that city. The location of the institution means an investment of $500,000. For some weeks the Canadian Government has been in receipt of representations urging a reduction of the 10 per cent royalty on the output of gold in the Klondike. It was thought the Government would yield to the extent of reducing the royalty to 2V a or at most 3 per cent. It is announced that the Government does not propose to reduce the royalty at all, but will increase the amount exempted in the case of each miner from $2,500 to $5,000. News has been received of the Paul Jonos. Fishermen have come in to New Orleans who report that several they found the bulk of the Paul Jones and that of an unknown schooner. Both were lying stranded on one of the Bird islands, and the Paul Jones was broken amidships, showing, in the belief of the fishermen, that she had been blown up. The men said that the shore all about was strewn with wreckage and the personal effects of the passengers. The Paul Jones carried a party of pleasun* seekers from Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville and St. Louis. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “A new year rarely opens brilliantly. Difficulties between holders of material and manufacturers continue to hinder in some industries md in some may prove embarrassing, but the activity is, on the whole, unsurpassed hitherto, and the volume of traffic is beyond all expectations, in some branches consumption is running beyond the producing capacity, but in others it is hindered by doubts about the future supplies and prices of materials. The woolen manufacturer is still waiting, with only moderate demand for gortds as yet. Sales of wools for the last three weeks at the three centers of the Eastern market have been 16.495,800 pounds, against 22,322.970 last year. The cotton manufacturer has a large demand for goods, but raw cotton has so rapidly advanced that there is hesitation in the purchases of staples. The iron and steel manufacture leads all others in the volume of new business. While production is much the largest ever known, many of the works are withdrawing nil quotations or naming prohibitory prices in order to check orders which they cannot fill for months to come. Failures for the week have been 249 in the United States, against 374 last year, and 32 in Canada, against 53 last year.” MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2,36 cto 38c; oats, No. 2,26 c to 27c; rye, No. 2 55c to 57c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2..50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c. St. Louis —Gattie, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2,27 cto 29c; ( rye. No. 2,55 cto 56c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; i wheat, No. 2,72 c to 73c; corn, No. 2 I mixed, 35e to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c jto 29c; rye. No. 2,56 cto 57c. : Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $0.75; hogs, $2.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 3<c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; rye. 58c to 59c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to i 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c: oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye. No. 2,56 c ! to 57c; clover seed, $4.40 to $4.45. Milwaukee—AV heat, No. 2 spring, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 3,34 cto 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 1,56 cto 58c; barley, No. 2,44 cto 52c; pork, mess, $9.50 to SIO.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, • j $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, j $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice weth- ’ I ers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to I extra, $5.00 to $5.50. i > New York —Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, > j $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; * I wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 81c; corn. No. 5 I 2,44 cto 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 36c; 1 j butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, Westc I ern, 18c to 19c.

WARSHIIJ o SAMOA. CRUISER PHIL A JLh IAORDER . ed to the islands. Hurried Trip to Ma(Je to Protect American Inter tst8 _ Action of Ger . many’s Consul R esente<l at Washington—Demands Ef planation , Advices from Ap^, spat o f Sa- I moan government, pirate that the American and British representatives there seized with force a W ejected the German consul from the s<a t of lhe Samoan government and thr^ him bodily who hndV hen ^stated the chief justice Germans Em^' Utrarily deposid b * the five had talent Willia,u ’ s representaanarchy which ° f r ° igU ° f ably exists vet tea ? h 7?’ and Presumof the islands iS*?™ h " nself dictator tite agreement tripUl ” Germany, Great £ ■ at ^ erPn between States. Britain and the United The State Dd&^ . . _. ~ took immediate®^ 11 ^ 1 ^ W ashington inquiry as to t^lOq n . tbe matter. An conduct was ca Germany’s Cruiser 1 hiladeb Which had arrived at San Diego, C/ ^irom Acapulco, to pro•eeed at once to^ty. The Oregon, which will soon land * -o- of the Pacific stations. will prob#* be dispatched to Apia as soon as a me,Jige can reach her commander.

The situation^AW is said to have assumed a seriouflsaase. It is feared that the German am^Aritish gunboats stationed at Apia ma; Jash before word can be sent to the isla £ Meantime the authorities, both at hrlin and at Washingto: view the affairs being one that will ultimately lead ten quarrel and probably war between |e two powers. If the ( i iao mataafa. reign of terJ should prevail and Ger many showsjirther aggressiveness it is pretty certaithat President McKinley will order ainrt of Admiral Dewey’s squadron to loceed to the islands. The London Timisays it would not be surprised to sediese islands the theater of hostilities iXeen Germany and the United StatJ Briefly strd, the Government understands that Prniany has done an act so hostile as to ill for a heroic remedy, even though it rriit ultimately be a deelara-' tion of war Germany, in which Amer-

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lea would ibacked by England. Germany is cned with violating the tripartite trd of Berlin, which makes any action Ming to the Samoan Islands depending Agreement of the three powers. She iarged with openly encouraging Mataah his efforts to overturn the Governmebnstituted by Chief Justice Chambers^ Germißecomes AKuressive. Germany will be recalled, brought Mataafa t to Samoa on one of its war vesseßd practically instigated the revolutionist the constituted authorities. Thehent anarchy has resulted. Germany taken advantage of the situation andsumably directed her consul to prem himself dictator. The critical siton lies in this: England and America neither assert their authority or surer the islands to Germany, a policy w was advocated by President Clev4. The State Department Ll-J-

A IJ. “• AT APIA, SAMOA, lias acb-ftjifcymation received from tin Amer. Jbsil at Sydney, Australia. Aegotiallave been on foot, for some tim< in reg the succession to the i. amoaiwtl^ j t ig b e ij eve( ] t } la t muc ]j '. 11 r ^n!ity for this arbitrary action miisW,,, ii c i i ,i ' president’ tlle G< ™n Apia, whT ™ UmC,pa ! .^cil at hasledt^ I™^ 1 ™^ other po ^ ran^on thepart standing £ lhero has ,een an underanother i? " " l ’<* ™»oved to sition inf a nd He suppowind ttf tf^^T J" tha ’- „ m-iQiu button, he has precipitated Am Idano.),) tll j| es distant, and this ack of cW calion nlak c S (he sitna ion than it would be othei • ’Asts of the United States are in Lloyds AV. Osborn, in m hose dpc| 1 j 1(1 State Department reposes MlSSldj’^ |N JAPAN LOST, i MrS ' A W’ Unable to Escape I K , ^HT 1 blames. Aews received from Hirosaki, ; Japan, aU mission house of the i general soc j e ty O s the Methodist Lpißfhurch in that city has | been destfy fire Mrs . Alexander, y iie of th p Alexander, who : is in chatf| le m j ss ion, was burned n^^Jusband, as well as Miss Otto and^ ewitt wko are working under the, s of thp Roman’s Foreign of t j le .Methodist Lpiscop^i, escaped. J

“LESE MAJESTE.” ' 4 i 1 1 11 il wwWrl —Chicago Tribune. *—

FARMERS’ GREATEST YEAR. Figures Which Show that 1898 Beat All Records The farmers of this country made more money in 1898 than ever before in its his- . tory. The statistical reports from the Department of Agriculture show unprecedented crops and unprecedented prices. TJte corn crop in 1896 amounted to 2,283,875.165 bushels, valued at $449,276,030; m 1897 it was 1.902,967,933 bushels, valI tied at $501,072,952. In 1898, according I to present estimates, the volume was not i , only largely increased, but the farm value i of corn throughout the country averages ; 2.4 cents a bushel nmn han in 1897. , rhe wheat crop in 189, „t 72 cents a bushel, was valued at $427,6842146; in «o*o-7, 80-8 per bushel « was valued at i The increase in 1898 was 1. II 1.692 acres, the largest in history, and the crop was unprecedented in quality, quantity and price. The barlev crop in 1897 was worth $25,142,139 at 37 cents a bushel. Ihe figures for 1898 are not in

yet, but the price is 41.4 cents a bushel and the preliminary report shows a crop s .jhtl.v above the average. The same may be said of rye, which is quoted at 4(>3 cents a bushel, against 44.7 in 1897. I'he farm price for oats in 18!»8, according to the official figures of the Agricultural Department, is 25.6 cents a bushel against 21.2 for 1897 and 19.5 in 1896. I he totals are not in yet, but in 1897 the crop was valued at $147,974,719. Potatoes are now worth 41.4 cents a bushel on the farm, which is a large falling off from 1897, when they sold for 54.7 cents, but it is said that the difference will be more than made up by the increase in the vol-

■ I lime of the crop, which is beli.o e l to be - 21 per cent greater than in 1897. when * i the total was valued at $89,643,059, The I : hay crop of the United States in 1897 was ■ valued at $401,390,728. with hay selling |at 86.62 a ton. In 1898 the crop was the ■ i best on record, ami it is selling at an average of 80 a ton throughout the country. i During the calendar year ended Dec. I 31 the value of the breadstuffs sold abroad | was $317,000,000. provisions $174,000,000 । and cotton $233,000,000, making a total I Os $724,000,000 worth of farm products : exported and sold at better prices than were ever known before. SEQUEL TO KIDNAPING CASE. I nited States Marshal Arrests Ten Men for Fiendish Outrage. Deputy United States Marshals Fossett. 1 ilghman and Thomas arrested ten men in Pottawatomie County, O. T., charged with kidnaping and arson. They may be tried for murder.

■ I About a year ago Mrs. Julius Leard was I murdered on her farm near Maud, O, T. Ihe circumstantial evidence pointed to | tt\o Seminole Indians, Palmer Sampson and Lincoln McGeisey, as the perpetrators. 1 liey were kidnaped from their reservation, chained to a tree in Oklahoma, brush piled about them and set on fire. I Death resulted. The I nited States Government took a hand in the matter, the Interior Department going so far as to hire special conn | sei. The grand jury of Pottawatomie County and at .Muskogee, I. T., indicted as the offenders Bill, Jesse and old man Guinn, Charles Woodward, Dr. Cast. W. M . Ballard, Mont Ballard, George Pettifer, Butterfield and J. D. Hodges. They are now under arrest and will be taken to Muskogee for trial. The death of Mrs. Leard and two Indians was fiendish, and attracted the attention of the nation, ftirt* ft® —— —— Il begins to look as if the insurgents in ( the Philippines were going to settle Aguinaldo's career without the help of willing ' I allies. Lx-Queen IJI wants .’ > ’(<0.000,000 for the <' loss of her crown, and in spite of her com- s I plexion she is not keeping dark about it I either. . In taking home the dust of Columbus y the Dons, impecunious as they are, have a J proved that there is more than one way ~ to “raise the dust.’’ If the Czar is unable to arrange a loan 0 here he will have lots of company in ti | America. There’s many a peaceably in- s j dined fellow who cannot borrow money. $ The eager air with which the Spaniards are hunting for the man who says they V wrecked the Maine is not indicative of a tl desire to find the man who wrecked the vi Maine.

SUCCESSOR TO GEN. EAGAN. Col. John F. Weston Reported to Have Been Selected. Whatever may be the outcome of the Eagan court martial, it may be confidentlj said that Eagan's career as commissary general of the army is ended, says a M ashington dispatch. His successor, Col. John F. Weston, has already been selected. He is ultimately to take charge of the commissary general’s department. He cannot be nominated to the Senate to | succeed Gen. Eagan as commissary gen- । etal until the latter has been dismissed or relegated to the retired list. Col. Weston is one of the best known officers of the subsistence department. He was the chief commissary officer during the Santiago campaign. He has been in the subsistence department since 1875, and previously served in the line of the >iimy. He entered the volunteer service as first lieutenant of the Fourth Kentucky cavalry in 1861 and served throughout the rebellion. At its close he was appointed to the regular service.

WANT TO BE PRESIDENT. Senators Cockrell and Gorman Have " bite House Aspirations. In a leading editorial the Kansas City rimes, heretofore a warm supporter of Bryan, urges the candidacy of United States Senator Francis M. Cockrell for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1900. Senator Cockrell is put forward ! as "an old-fashiom*d Democrat, who stood for what the Chicago platform contains long before that platform was promulgat-

ed, a Democrat of experience in national affairs, whose record has stood the test of time.” The Times asserts that “the sole objection which could have been urged ngairst Cockrell, that he fought with the South, has been answered by the action of ex-Confederate soldiers in the war of 1898.” Senator Gorman of Maryland is a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination m n. x.ni .....v.. vs . campaign on anti-expansion and opposition to the ratification of the* peace treaty. ENGLAND TO RETALIATE. ill Take Action Against France to Protect Sugar Growers. The British cabinet has decided to inaugurate a policy of trade retaliation against France if the latter continues to cripple the British sugar growing colonies by her bounty system. This will be the first time England approached anything like a protective measure. Germany, Austria and Holland have consented to reduce their bounties a certain amount yearly till the system is wiped out. France alone has held out ; against it. England's colonial sugar grow- ■ ers have been almost ruined by competi- [ tion with the bounty-fed sugar of Europe. Ordere l to Take Mission Rock. | The President has issued an executive | order setting apart what is known as Mission Rock in San Francisco bay as a naval i reservation. The purpose is to use it as a ! I coaling station and the department's exj ports report that it will be the best station ' । that can be had in San Francisco bay

m S^ELL Sales of fine American horses in Mexico now reach SIOO,OOO annually. South Dakota has a surplus of money in the State treasury, it recently took up $70,000 of bonds not due until 1910. Parrots recently from South America are said to tave introduced typhoid fever among visitors to a bird show in Berlin. The revenue cutter McCulloch, which sailed from Manila recently, will make a tour of the world before coming home. | Smith Edwards, aged 70 years, who for several years had lived a hermit's life at Smithton, Mo., was found dead in bed. A report that a plan is being formulated to control the tobacco leaf industry at Havana is not credited in New York. It is said that army circles in Washington will be a long time recovering from the shock of Gen. Eagan's criticisms of Gen. Miles. It is officially stated in Washington that no railroad company has been given permission to run through the Chickamauga National Park. The Filipino representative at Berlin declares that the natives could hold out in a guerrilla war against the United States for several years. The utilization of grain elevator waste lor sheep and cattle lood has given rise 1 to a new industry in the Northwest. The i waste sells for $7 a ton. Pennsylvania Commandery, Military i Order of foreign Wars, unanimously voted to present Admiral Dewey with the I gold insignia of the order. The recipient of the Golden Kose this vear will, it is said, be the Archduchess losela of Austria, wife of Prince Leopold, second son of the regent of Bavaria. The Alaskan Commercial Company of 'an I rancisco has presented to the Uni•ersity of California its line collection of nounted fossils and ethnological specinens. ,A??7 \ ork 'X oman caused arrest t net husband in Baltimore for deser>on, and in justification he pleaded that he^offered to sell him to a widow for th ? sn’aller army posts in the ; V est will probably lie abandoned after I fe withdrawal of their garrisons for ser- ■ ice in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip- 1 mes. ‘

/ t Ri The Senate listened further on Thursday to a discussion of the policy of expansion M r . Turner (Wash., p O p.) delivered a carefully prepared speech on the Vest resolution. The speech was for the whiHJxr 1 a constit ’>«onal argument in which Mr. Turner took issue with Senator I att and Senator Foraker upon their MrT„™T nCeB - At the —>«-on of Mr. lurnet s argument Mr. Foraker took some sharp exceptions to statements made n the speech, especially those referring to him personally. The Nicaragua canal bill was under consideration nearlv three hours After much debate a substitute presented by Mr. Morgan (Ala.) for the bond amendment offered by Mr. Allison was adopted. It provides that bond pavments shall not exceed $20,000,000 in anv seal year. The amendment as amended htmr of th ad ° P . ted ' 41 to 19 - The last sion of t v ~0n, ,0n Was occl, P i ^ in discusMr. CafferVof “™ e . n 9 ,n ‘ >n ts offered by were defied T ; ’n\“ na ’ ! '“ 7 Which eided the Brown PraCt ' CaUy d etion case from te?Fi« h C ^.’^7 *»*ctnct in favor of the sitting member, Mr" Dpmo <™t’ by declining to consider the case. The postoffice appropriation bill waR t he n taken up. The ^ at T. Burprise of thc day was tlle ad °Pthe WH th'° a,nend, . aent 3 striking out of tne bill the appropriation of $171,000 for tne fast Southern mail and $25,000 for special mail facilities from Kansas City to Newton. Kan. y The proceedings in the House were enhvened on Friday by a wordv duel beS Grosvenor of Ohio and Mr. W.Tm P emoc T rat ’ member from a. hington. It occurred during the debate on a private bill to refer to the court PhnadTl S h C h im ° f Cramp & Sons * the fro nth P ?' a Sh ' P bnilders - damages to Go 1 Y ernnient fo r delays incident to the building of the warships New hin F a -'^^^hnsetts. Indiana and Columte d h<? fai,Ure ° f the Government or tt« t rmOr Plate and other '“aterials for these ships on time. The postoffice aopropriation bill was passed. At 4:30 p. m. the House recessed until 8 o’clock. The evening session was devoted to private pensmn legislation and adjournment was ion « I'’”'- T ' K ' Se “ ate “ »»■ sion for hve hours and a half, but the sesTwo ™tn> y barreu of res n’ts. bt Mr v i C Spe 7 hes wer e delivered, one tion tn M A 0 " , ReP ” . Minn ) ’ iD °Pl>OSi- . ‘ es t s an ti-expansion resolution and the other, by Mr. White (Dem. Cai.), a personal explanation of his position with respect to the instructions given the California Senators by the LeLnsHture in that State as to voting on the pending peace treaty. At the conclusion of the speeches the Senate resumed consideration of the Nicaragua canal bill, but it was not completed.

Senator Morgan’s Nicaragua canal bill passed the Senate Saturday afternoon bv a vote of 48 to 6. As a matter of fact it was passed twice, once by a viva voce vote and the second on a roll call The opposition had been dwindling awav for several days. Friends and foes of the anti-scalping bills were also lined up in the Senate the same afternoon. The sup°f measures won their first , \*. ' otv or .^,5 to Z1 tiipv sv pceeded in having the Senate bill taken up for consideration. p Discussion of the policy of expansion occupied nearly all the time of the Senate in open session on Monday. Mr. White of California addressed the Senate in support of the anti-expansion resolution introduced by Mr. lest (Dem.. Mo.) and another resolution offered by Mr. Bacon (Dem., Go.) declaring that the Philippines ought to be free and independent. The > enate at 2:10 p. m., on motion of Mr Dav.s, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, went into executive session. After the executive session Mr Chandler called up the bill to restore to their original status officers of the naw and marine corps who lost their status by reason of the promotion of other officers by reason of conspicuous conduct in battle. The bill went over on objection Monday was District of Columbia day in the House, and the major portion of the day was devoted to local legislation. The only action of public importance was the passage of the bill to extend the navigation laws of the United States to the Hawaiian Islands. One of the provisions of the bill grants American register to all vessels flying the Hawaiian flag owned by Hawaiian citizens July 7, IS9B.

1 he debate on the army reorganization bill opened in the House on Tuesday under an agreement by which the general debate is to run fifteen hours, exclusive of three night sessions. Mr. Hull and Mr. McClellan in support of the measure and Mr. Hay of Virginia in opD^ition divided the honors. Ihe other speakers were Messrs. Parker ( Rep.) of New Jersey and Brown (Rep.) of Ohio in favor and Messrs. Cox (DemJ of Tennessee. Bell (Pop.) of Colorado and Latham (Dem.) of Texas against it. At the conclusion of routine business in the Senate Mr. Lodge (Rep.. Mass.) delivered his apnounced speech upon the policy of expansion. At the conclusion of Mr. Lodge's speech Mr. । Teller (Col.) addressed the Senate upon a question with respect to the constitutional powers of the Government in rhe territories. Mr. Clay <GaJ. one of the Democratic Senators who expects to vote for the ratification of the treaty of peace, then addressed the Senate on the general question of territorial expansion. Bars Alien Mine Owners. The act to prohibit aliens from owning placer mines in British Columbia has finally passed the provincial legislature and received the formal assent of the lieutenant governor. Notee of Current Events. In the United States 189 S was the warmest year on record. France is reported to be willing at last to sell her Newfoundland shore rights to England. | Several tine steamers have been caught i in the ice in the Yukon river, and it is feared that they will bo lost. j Gen. Jose Gomez, who lias returned to ! Washington from Havana, says the peo- | pie of Cuba are beginning to realize that American rule is necessary for the present. The 101 tire insurance companies doing business in Kentucky, which were indicted last fall by the grand jury for combining to keep up rates, have again been indicted for the same offense. Secretary Hay has formally disapproved the concession made in July by the Hawaiian Government to the Pacific Cable Company for the exclusive right to lay a cable from the United States to Hawaii and Japan. Near Arkansas City, Kan., a few days ago. Chief Wauhoo of the Kaws was buried in Indian fashion. His horse was shot ami placed on his grave, and over that was erected a new tent, purchased for fhn