Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 24, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 December 1901 — Page 2

^lje 3iii>cpenbcnt. W. A. ENDLEY, I>ul>llslier. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. SUMMARY OF NEWS. It is learned on good authority that the directors of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad voted at a recent meeting to present to the president of the road, Marvin Hughitt. $50,000 in appreciation of the work he has done for the corporation. At Butler, Mo., Dr. James L. Gartrell, 70 years old and for several terms a representative in the Texas Legislature froAi Abilene, was sentenced to be hanged on Feb. 13 next for the murder of D. B. Donegan, a miner from Cripple Creek. Colo. Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske narrowly escaped being seriously injured by a falling chandelier on the stage of the Manhattan Theater, New York, immediately after the curtain dropped at the end of the first act of "The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch.” During a Christmas tree entertainment at a colored public school in Atchison, Kan., Priscilla Kerford, 14 years old, was probably fatally burned. She was representing snow, and her clothing. B which was covered with cotton flaking, caught fire. In consideration of $1 William Deering. president of the Deering Harvester. Company, transferred to his sons and Richard F. Howe property at Fullerton avenue and the Northwestern tracks in Chicago worth $1,000,000. The filing of the deed marked his retirement from active business.

Henry Williams, wanted to answer a charge of cattle stealing, was killed; Frank McClurg, merchant, was fatally wounded; and Tom Williams was shot in the arm and breast in a battle at Russellville. Ala., between Marshal Ben Barrett and Deputy Sheriff Hargett on one side and the Williams brothers on the other. The building connected with No. 8 mine, belonging to the Brazil Block Coal Company at Brazil, Ind., were destroyed by fire, incurring a loss of over $25,000, with but $13,000 insurance. The fire originated in the engine room. As this plant furnished power and light for two other mines several hundred persons have been thrown out of employment. John W. Moore, an aged soldier, shot and killed his son-in-law. Thomas Mawhinney, at the latter’s home in Bellevue. Pa. Mrs. Mawhinney, it is said, had complained to her father of abuse on the part of her husband. After ti.e killing Moore gave himself up, saying that Mawhinney had driven his first wife to suicide, but he could not repeat the. offense, as he had killed him. A gang of forgers of railroad tickets has been operating in Kansas City successfully during the last few weeks, according to H. C. Townsend of ^t. Louis, general passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific. “The losses of the western railroads will amount to thousands of dollars,” said Mr. Townsend. Dozens of the forged tickets have, it is said, been secured by the railway officials. After assaulting, overpowering and gagging two watchmen, ten burglars who forced their way into the building of the Chicago Wrecking Company, Thirty-fifth and Iron streets, Chicago, robbed their victims of their valuables, ascended a stairway leading to the offices of the company, and with the aid of dynamite

^recnea tlie’saT Then they made their escape after rifling the contents of the heavy iron compartment, securing everything of value. The robbery occurred shortly after 11 o’clock Sunday night. Some three hours later one of the watchmen cTragged himself up the stairway to the offices of the company and turned in a still alarm of fire. Firemen who responded released the watchmen. The safe contained a considerable’sum of currency which -was appropriated by the cracksmen.

NEWS NUGGETS. i “Jennie June” Croley. writer and or- t ganizer of women's clubs, died at New f York. < The Buena Vista (Colo.) Smelting Company’s plant was destroyed by tire. Loss i $50,000. George Vanderbilt and brothers assumed obligation of $509,000 in a Tacoma ! bank failure to save family name from disgrace. The farm house of John Ashbaugh, ’ near Summerville, Pa., was destroyed by fire, and four persons were burned to death. Five others are seriously burned and injured. Fire entirely consumed the flour mill of the Elks Milling and Manufacturing Company at Lowellville, Ohio. The loss was $50,000 and but a small amount of insurance was carried. President Roosevelt summarily removed Wilbur F. Wakeman, appraiser of the port of New York, because of his attack on the Secretary of the Treasury in a letter declining to resign. Gov. Leslie M. Shaw of lowa has been tendered the portfolio of Secretary of the Treasury, the position having been declined by Gov. Crane of Massachusetts, who pleads a press of private business. William Ellery Channing, an author of marked originality and poetic power, publisher of nine notable volumes, died at his residence in Concord. Mass. ~fKe last of the brotherhood including Thoreau, Hawthorne and Emerson. Six persons were killed and a number injured on an electric car -which jumped the track at a sharp curve at the foot of the high mountain between Allentown, Pa., and Coopersburg. The accident was due to the wet rails and snow. D. D. Baroush and John Lisco, founders and leaders in the Polish colony near Osceola, Neb., were killed in a runaway accident. Lord Kitchener reports severe fighting at numerous points in South Africa, in which the losses have been severe and about equally divided between the Boers and British. At Jeffersonville, Ind., Newell C. Rathbun was found guilty of manslaughter in conne< an with the death of Charles Goodman His punishment was fixed at from two to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. EASTERN. Members of a certain Harvard secret society suspended a skeleton from the top of a flagpole. By a vote of 503 to 129 the conductors and motormen of the Union Traction Company in Philadelphia decided not to strike. Rear Admiral Frank Wildes, who commanded the cruiser Boston at the battle of Manila bay, has been given a handsome sword by his many friends at Boston. State Superintendent Victor Collins of New York has announced another inno-

ration in his conduct of the State prisons. Hereafter the inevitable haircut which every convict had to submit to upon arrival in the prison will be discontinued. John G. Milburn has been threatened with assassination. An anonymous letter threatening the life of the President of the Pan-American Exposition'Company ' is now in the hands of the Buffalo police, . and detectives are attempting to find the writer. I Oliver Harriman, Sr„ who is said to be worth at least $5,000,000, has been declared insane and incompetent by a commission and a sheriff's jury at Port Chester, N. Y. The petition was made ।by his eight children. Mr. Harriman is 70 years old. The plant of the Marion Manufacturing Company fronting on Erie Basin. Brooklyn, was destroyed by tire, and James Hall, an aged laborer, perished in the flames. The fire started in a big tank of crude glycerin, and, communicating to other chemicals, there was a series of explosions. Charles P. Chipp, formerly a bookkeeper employed in the office of collector of assessments and arrears, a branch of the Comptroller’s office in New York, has been arrested charged with stealing $30,000. Chipp is 50 years old and lias been an employe of the Comptroller s office for several years. There was a stir on State street. Boston, when it was announced that certificates of stock aggregating above $33,000 in value were stolen from the office of a prominent brokerage firm last September. The fact had been kept secret until now in the hope of recovering the certificates ThYoufiTi private channels. The Panama Railway Steamship Company’s steamer Advance, which arrived at New York the other day from Colon, rescued and brought to port the captain and crew of the three-masted schooner Edward W. Young of Boston. The Young sailed from Georgetown, S. C., for New York, lumber laden, and was abandoned at sea. At least five men were killed, twelve were injured and many are missing as the result of the explosion of four boilers at the BlSck Diamond steel works, Thirtieth street and the Allegheny Valley tracks, Pittsburg. It was about 4:15 a. m. when the night crew was about to turn over the mill to the day force, that four boilers in the ten-inch bar mill No. 3 exploded with terrific force. The mill was wrecked and the debris is piled from fifty to seventy-five feet high. The boiler works of James McNeil, adjoining the Black Diamond mill, also were destroyed. A force of men went to work as quickly as possible after the explosipp, searching in the debris for bodies. Five dead and twelve injured have been removed. The dead have not been identified and the bodies are at the morgue. The mill had sixty men on each turn, and it is thought that almost 120 men—both crew’s—were in the plant at the time of the explosion.

WESTERN. Alexander Gunn of Herington, Kan., died in Abilene from the effects of cold weather. He claimed to be 116 vears old. C. E. Hayward has been held without bail at Lincoln, Neb., chitted with murdering former Representative John J. Gillilan last August. Andrew Carnegie has offered' Calyon City, Colo., SIO,OOO for a public library, and the library association has accepted the condition imposed.

At noon the bank at Springdale, Ark., was robbed by one man. He compelled the assistant cashijtr to give him all the money in sight, 87 000 ..

Representatives i ^William Alden Smith ery, of Michigan has introduced a bill in the Pai House making tli> birthday of William two McKinley, Jan. 2* a national holiday. ere

J. H. Glover, secretary of the Jewett car works at Newark. Ohio, was found dead in his office with a bullet hole in his head. It was evidently a case of suicide.

Avery Breeen, aged 25, of Claremore. I. T., was killed, and Richard Brumback lost one hand and part of his arm by the premature explosion of a blast in a Joplin, Mo., mine. The State Bank and eight other buildings have been burned at Francis, I. T., the loss being estimated at $60,000. The fire also destroyed much business property at Stennet, I. T.

Six persons were more or less severely injured in an accident to a west-bound 1 Madison street cable train at the Clinton street entrance to the Washington h street tunnel in Chicago. a Andrew Carnegie has offered Redwing, i Minn., $15,000 for a public library building, provided the city furnishes a site and I $1,500 annually for maintenance. The J library board asked Carnegie for $12,500. t At Canyon City, Colo., two daughters t of Mrs. James E. Ewing, respectively 6 and 4 years of age, were burned to death i in a fire that destroyed the house occu- ] pied by Mrs. Ewing and her six chil- i dren. t An east-bound fast mail train on the i Union Pacific crashed into the rear of a freight train near Rawlins, Wyo. The . passengers were shaken up and the fire- , man, Charles Brown, was seriously injured. । Word comes from Chicago that Byron , E. Shear of Denver has married Francesca Bain, an opera singer of some repute and wealth. Shear made several millions out of the Mollie Gibson before silver slumped. W. J. Selvage, a young insurance agent, died at the city hospital, Portsmouth, Ohio, from a bullet wound in his stomach, the,injury having been inflicted by Chas. Baker, who said his home haTbeen broken up by Selvage. As United States Mail Driver Oscar Kelly left the branch postoffice at Third and Olive streets, St. Louis, with sacks of registered mail, he was knocked senseless by three highwaymen, who took the mail bags and vanished. While suffering from an attack of violent insanity Dexter Knight, a ranchman living near Bryan, Idaho, killed his 5-year-old boy and severely injured two others of his children. Knight killed his son with the baby's cradle. North-bound Sunset express No. 9 of the Southern Pacific Railroad and Sunset express No. 10 from San 1- rancisco col lided near Salinas, Cal. A part of No. J was destroyed by tire. Iwo persons were killed and four injured. The State Bank of Gothenburg, Neb., was closed by order of the State banking board, and an examiner placed temporarily in charge. The bank is capitalized at $20,000, and at the time of its last report had deposits of $32,000. During a street quarrel at Spencer, ' Neb., William Parker fatally shot his father-in-law. Peter Hansen. The quar- , rel was over Parker’s wife, who has been l living at her'father’s 1 > i time. Parker is under arrest. The new training school of the Unive’- ■ sity of Utah, with its entire contents, w , destroyed by lire at Salt Lake. Lo SBO,OOO, insurance $35,000. Ihe fire • thought to have originated from combi tion of chemicals in the laboratory. f The first public celebration in connection with the world’s fair to be opened

iq St. Louis tn 1903 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Louisiana purchase was held Friday, when ground was broken on the site in Forest Park. One person was killed and seven injured by the fall of a passenger elevator in the department store of Schaper Brothers in St. Louis. The drop was from the fourth floor to the basement. It is not known what caused the accident. United States Senator J. 11. Berry of Arkansas, while en route to his home at Bentonville, was badly injured at Newburg by a fall on the ice. Senator Berry has only one leg and walks with a crutch. His crutch slipped and his fall injured his hip joint. At Beatrice, Neb., Judge Letton has handed down a decision deciding the unconstitutionality of the law requiring contracts between laud owners and real estate agents to be in writing. This opinion will have a far-reaching effect upon real estate agents. Theodore Cabblac of St. Louis sold his shoes for 10 cents that he might buy bread for his wife and six children who had been in dire want for several days. He bought two loaves of bread with the money’ and walked home over the snow in his stocking feet. 11. L. Kidwell and Nicholas Breazy were asphyxiated by natural gas in their room at Akron, Ohio. They had a gas stove turned on full force and during the night the gas pressure was increased and it is supposed fumes escaped into the room which ended their lives. Attorney General Douglass of Minnesota will bring his action on behalf of the State against the Northern Securities Company before the United States Supreme Court soi^t after Jan. 1. He will petition for a bill of equity, which is in the nature of injunction proceedings. The two-story brick heating plant of the St. Francis Catholic Orphans' Home at Tiffin, Ohio, was almost entirely destroyed by fire.* Conditions were serious for the 300 inmates, as the thermometer registered around zero and there was no other way of heating the institution. Dr. W. L. Thompson, aged 74, of East Liverpool, Ohio, has been sentenced to two years in the Ohio penitentiary’ for causing the death of Ada Lou Moore of Duquesne, Pa., by an operation. Robert Winette was sentenced three weeks ago to the Mansfield reformatory for complicity. The State Normal School at Aberdeen. S. D., was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $20,000. The building was nearing completion, and was still in the hands of the contractors, N. P. Frazier A Co. of St. Paul, Minn., who will have to bear the loss, which is partially covered by insurance.

SOUTHERN. The Connaway Grocery Company of Memphis has assigned with estimated assets of $9,500 and liabilities of $6 000. The suspect under arrest at Knoxville, Tenn., has been identified by a Chicago detective as Harvey Logan, one of the alleged Great' Northern express robbers. Remorse drove a crippled life convict to suicide by hanging at Nashville, Tenn. He was of a well-to-do family, but killed his brother-in-law and child while drunk. Dayton 11. Miller, secretary ami treasurer of the Crow's Nest Coal and Coke Company, was shot and killed by a negro at Toms Creek, Ya. The negro may be lynched. A block of business houses, seventeer in number, were destroyed by fire Sweetwater, Texas. The Joss is estir ed at $150,000. partially covered b

suranc Tht^W> •nner Kanawha Bel’ y, W. Va., ac lint Creek on her uu u o and is a total wreck. ?w, all deck hands and ro. ire drowned. All the officers o. ‘■b at were saved.

The headless body of a man, identified by a gold watch as that of Prof. Chandler. a school teacher, was found beneath a mass of rock at Oak Level, Ala. I rof. Chandler lived in Limebraneh. Ga., and taught school just over the Alabama line in Cleburne County. He was seen one day last October with $125 in money, and the next day disappeared. WASHINGTON.

Secretary of the Navy Long has notified President Roosevelt that he will retire from the cabinet in the near future. Admiral Schley, through his attornejs, has filed with the Secretary of the Navy a bill of exceptions to the majority findings of the court of inquiry. Rush orders have been received from Washington directing that the cruiser Philadelphia sail from San Francisco with all speed for Panama. Affairs on the isthmus are approaching a crisis. Secretary Gage, according to a wellknown financier, will retire from the President’s cabinet within a month and return to the banking business. Secretary Gage will neither affirm nor deny the report. The objection of Admiral W. T. Sampson to that portion of Admiral Dewey's report of the Schley court of inquiry, in which he says Admiral Schley was in command at the battle of Santiago and entitled to the credit for the victory, has been filed with Secretary Long. foreign. Ashtabula’s total ore receipts thi_s season are 4,471,000 tons. This is 150,000 tons more than any former record for one port. The primary elections arc oyer in Costa Rica. The official republican ticket won. There was considerable rioting at the polling places, but the disturbances were quelled by the police. The steamer San Blas, which left San Francisco Nov. 29 for Panama, was wrecked between Acajutia and La Libertad, off the coast of Salvador, and is a

total wreck. Her crew and passengers made their way in boats to La Libertad. A blue book of the concentration camps in South Africa has been issued. It shows that during October the deaths in the camps were 3,156, of which number 2,633 were children. During November The deaths wsre 2,867, of which 2,271 were children. The correspondent in St. Petersburg of the Cologne Gazette telegraphs that a number of experts representing big American firms have arrived at Vladivostok, en route for Siberia, where they will build factories and exploit the agricultural and mineral wealth of the country. In London the jury returned a verdict of guilty against both Theodore and • Laura Jackson (Ann Odelia Diss de Bar) ’ charged with immoral practices ami ' fraud. The judge sentenced Jackson to 1 fifteen years' penal servitude and Mrs. ’ Jackson to seven years’ penal servitude. I Both the London Times and the Post ’ I publish dispatches from Copenhagen which describe the growing agitation here against the. sale of the Danish Vest Indies before a plebiscite has been ken. The correspondents consider it •ry doubtful whether the Danish Par- “- liament will approve the sale of the isl d ands.

RUSSIAN PA aER fOR WHOM ROOSEVELT IS SITTING, ch fl IHBV a n m3T I ■ ''w tM’ B W w hlw m. vel TANTINE MAKOVSKY. Presidepe . . , . . for a port y Roosevelt has begun to sit sky, the M ’ t/H’-tnntme Makovis the cot? jslan art,s ^' M- Makovsky He has m l£ ? ainter ot St ’ Petersburg, before him Cz!,r i 1 "; 1 , his . . , - >aM the grand dukes <>t the* Kp: “'.i'<» >assmi. ^reception given in his honor at the ,ssian embassy was the first large fuu. sli O £ season m xv., « ton. CHANP s FOR THE CABINET. Gov. Crane Slated to Succeed GageI ,ong Also to Quit. Rumors o f cabinet changes, following the annour ement that Secretary Gage will resign, have been flying thick and fast in Was' aington. Gov. Crane of Massachusetts i S said to be slated for Secretary of t he Treasury to succeed Mr. Gage. It is also reported that when the present Secretary of the Treasury steps out Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer of the United States, and O. L. Spalding and H. A. Taylor, assistant Secretaries of the Treat mry, go with him. Ot»her res (nations expected soon are those of ’ •'retary Long of the Naw Departing , n d Secretary Hitchcock of the Interior Department. It is said that Mr. Long’s r esignation is due at any time, as he has h fld the office since President McKinley’s death only to try to clear up the Sampsot t-Schley controversy. So far as 'an be learned, says a Washington corn spondent, Gov. Crane's acceptance of the place depends largely on whether he can retire from the governorship wi hout causing anv unpleasant complication If everything is favora-

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I iy in M^achu --tts. it is said, ble political the secret^D'^ip of tlie he will act j chang/ could be made treasury an nuary. / early in J a ne is a successful business \Gov. Cra the leading spirit in several man. being jt paper jaiills in the country, of ihe large; , p,, very wealthy. His name He is said t< j t 0 hAe been suggested to is understoc nt pw Senator Lodge, who the Preside hj ni as a successful business vouched for oul4 conduct the treasury man who v on conservative lines. Department v gd that whatever changes It is belie i the cabinet 'ill be effected take place ii ext four wet Ks. Secretary within the r .ttorney General Knox are Root and ? -main, and it is now said certain to s -y Hay has no present inten-

that Secreta gning. Whether Secretary tion of resi ins is a matter that depends Wilson rema lis qjvn wishes, as he is said entirely on 1 ,*ry way satisfactory to the to be in ev< President. ’UROPEAN POTATOES. EATING E otland and Belgium HelpIreland, Sc to Feed Uncle Sam. ing rst time in eight years this For the ii been obliged to go abroad to country has tpply of potatoes in market make the si the demand. Four-fifths of adequate to that have reached New York the potatoes few weeks have come from in the past ithin a week nearly 200,000 abroad. W 3 been received in that port bushels haw over half a million bushels and all told d there. The potatoes coma have reache nd, Belgium and Ireland, from Scotia rop has been good, while on where the c the ocean it has been the our side of decade. The farmers who worst in a 1 supply have been holding have a goo< tter prices, putting the proback for be ars and storehouses. Those duct in cell old recently have demanded who have s $3 per barrel, which has as high as price up to $4 and $5 at a brought the mtatoes are usually cheap, time when 1 ibroad can be bought fbr 70 Potatoes rel. There is a duty of 2o cents a bai tel and this, with some other cents a busl igs the cost of potatoes from charges, br’ HTO per barrel on the pier Europe’ to . r. New York consumes about in New Yor. els of potatoes daily.

25,000 bush. AMERICAN GIRL. MAY Fl •tment Petitioned in Behalf State Depai f Miss Eastwick. o Hay is said to be favorably Secretary 'ard the petition presented to disposed tow epartment in behalf of Miss the State D Josephine Eas t-

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marie ea raising a Canadian Pacific out of her -ate from 100 to 1,000 shares, stock certifii ht Secretary Hay will ask It is thong m embassy at London to inthe Americt ggest that this government formally su 'd it as an act of comity ta would regal young woman so that she release the :ed in a sanitarium for treatmay be plac ment.

test. ™, The President acted in the cnsdl^ Gen. Miles on hits prerogative as com-mander-in-chief of the army, and from this there is no appeal. The highest law officers of the government say that Gen. Miles has no remedy. START WORK FOR THE FAIR.

President Francis Wields Spade and First Turns Dirt. With a wooden shovel one hundred and fifty years old, found at Mine La .Motte, Missouri, nearly fifty years ago, Presi-

dent Francis of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Com pany turned the first shovelful of dirt for the buil 1ing at St. Louis of tlie World's L air ot 1903. Battery A fired a salute of sixty guns while the ceremony was in progress—one for each State and ter-

ritory, one for D. HiAXCTS. Alaska, one for Mexico and one for each of the national commissioners. The day was bitterly cold—lo below zero was the average temperature —and few persons witnessed the ceremonies. The grand parade plan was abandoned on account of the inclement weather. A monster fire built over the ground marked for excavation made it possible for the diggers to remove the first load of dirt, and the crowd shivered and cheered when President Francis, followed by Gen. Bates, Congressman Tawney and other prominent World's Fair workers, began to load the wagon. The site of the education building was the scene of the day's historic action. Mr. Francis, Corwin 11. Spencer and others made brief addresses, and at - o’clock the spectators, many of whom had come in sleighs, adjourned to the Coliseum, where the original program was carried out. Archbishop Kaine prononncod tin- Invocation. Congressman Tawney, John Allen of Mississippi, Gov. Jeff Davis of Arkansas and others addressed the meeting. Gov. Van Santos Minnesota, Savage of Nebraska, Shaw of lowa and Toole of Montana were among the city's guests.

THIRTLEN-YEAR-OLD HEROINE. Saves Passenger Train from Plunging Through a Bridge. Jessie Earl, a 13-year-old girl of Advance. Ohio, is a heroine. To her presence of mind a passenger train on the

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wick, imprisoned in England for forgery. The relatives of the unfortunate young woman have adduced affidavits from American alienists who say that she has been of unsound mind for years. Miss Eastwick was recently convicted in London by a jury on charges growing

was burning an that its timbers had been so badly damaged that the structure Was in imminent danger of falling. She recalled that a passenger train would be due in a short time. She at once set out down the railroad track to meet the train and in a few moments sho heard the whistle of the locomotive. As the train approached she waved her apron and attracted the attention of tlie engineer, who brought the locomotive to a stop.

PRESIDENT TAKES ACTION. Rebukes General Miles and Orders Ilia* torian Maclay Fired. President Roosevelt on Saturday privately scored Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles for his Cincinnati interview com-

mending the report of Admiral Dewey on the Schley case. Subsequently, by the special direction of the President, Secretary of War Root sent to Gen. Miles an offfi eial letter of censure, which wa& given to the public by direction of the

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President. Practically at the same time Secretary Long promulgated his letter approving the findings of the court of inquiry, disapproving of the report submitted by Admiral Dewey alone, and declaring that this minority opinion could not have been submitted without impropriety. Miles, Schley and Dewey were all made the recipients of official and public displeasure within a few hours. The President also sent an order to Secretary of the Navy Long to demand the resignation of Edgar S. Maclay, who though officially designated as “special laborer, general storekeeper’s office, navy yard. New York." is the author of "The History of the Navy"--the work used at ’Jr I'd 1 IS lOfe’W 1

Annapolis for the instruction of naval cadets. In the last volume of the history, bringing it up to the Spanish-Amer-ican war, Maclay violently assailed Schley as a "caitiff.” ami a "poltroon,” and. in fact, was to some extent directly responsible for the Schley controversy. The censuring of Miles and the dismissal of Maclay is taken, in army and navy circles, a Washington correspondent says, as signifying President Roosevelt's determination to end the Schley trouble right now for good and always. This belief was strengthened by the action of Secretary Long, who made public his decision on the Schley court findings. The decision upholds the majority report and is against the individual report of Admiral Dewey. In indorsing the majority report Secretary Long stands by the recommendation that there be no further action in the controversy by the Navy Department. Hence he advised the lawyers of Admiral Sampson that the Sannison. protest. » be con" 3 -

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| Congress. 1 Mttttttttttttttttttttttll On Monday, by a vote of 72 to 6, the Senate ratified the Hay-Pauncefote isthmian canal treaty. Only Senators Bacon, Blackburn, Culberson, Mallory, Teller and Tillman voted against the convention. Bailey paired with Depew and Elkins. Rawlins paired with Hanna and Sewell. Daniel, Jones of Nevada, Patterson and Quay did not vote. The vote was reached after almost five hours of discussion in executive session. The debate was confined to discussion of the merits of the agreement and the policy of its provisions. The principal speech was made by Senator Teller in opposition to the treaty. Among the other speakers were Senators Clay, Fairbanks. McCumber, McLaurin of Mississippi, Culberson, Mallory, Tillman, Bacon and Bate. A resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Vest of Missouri instructing the committee on the judiciary to inquire into the subject of anarchy and to report a constitutional method by which Congress may legislate for the suppression of anarchism and for the control of anarchists was adopted by the Senate. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Attorney General Knox, the judiciary committee reporting that the charges made were not upheld upon investigation. On Tuesday the House decided to vote upon the bill to provide temporary revenues for the Philippine Islands Wednesday at 4 o'clock. The measure was discussed in committee of the whnh«—Tuesday and was the subject of the first debate of the session. There were several lively exchanges, but no display of temper. Mr. Payne of New York, the floor leader of the majority, opened for his side, and owing to the indisposition of Mr. Richardson of Tennessee, the floor leader of the minority, who is suffering from an attack of the grip, the task of opening for the Democratic side devolved upon Mr. Swanson of Virginia. Other speeches were made by Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio and Mr. Robertson of Louisiana, in favor of the bill, and Messrs. Thayer of Massachusetts. Shafroth of Colorado, De Armand of Missouri and Patterson of Tennessee, in opposition. The new assignment of committees was made in the Senate. While the Senate was in executive session Senator Morgan made an effort to have the Senate make his bill authorizing the acquisition of a right of way for the proposed isthmian canal across Costa Rica and Nicaragua the special order for 2 o’clock Wednesday, but the Senate declined to make the order. Some Senators expressed the opinion that all general legislation should be postponed until after the holidays owing to the absence of a number of Senators. In the regular session no business of importance was done.

On Wednesday me Philippine tariff bill was passed by the House by a vote of 163 to 12S, two Republicans, Littlefield of Maine and McCall of Massachusetts, aligning with the opposition, and three Democrats, Davey. Broussard and Robertson of Louisiana, voting with the Republican majority. The bill imposes the Dingley rates on goods entering the United States from the Philippines and the rates established by the Philippine commission on goods entering the Philippines from the United States. It also provides for the collection of tonnage taxes on vessels plying between the Unitand that ff William Penn Nixon, ^tween these UTams and Jonathan Merria^jd eD t Rooseor of customs, assistant titassn nnnointension afient. respectively, at Chi- cn m

On Thursday Congress adjourned until after the holidays. Both houses will meet Jan. 6 with the avowed purpose of working industriously to close the session by June 1. The isthmian canal bill will be pushed when Congress returns to work. Chairman Hepburn of the House committee on rivers, canals and commerce, Thursday reported favorably the measure authorizing the construction of the canal. A long report was appended to the bill stating why it should be passed by Congress. Both the Democratic and Republican platforms are quoted to show that the political parties are pledged to an interoceanic canal, and extracts from President McKinley’s speeches and President Roosevelt’s message are presented to emphasize the undesirability of further delay. Senator Cullom presented a petition from the Chicago Federation of Labor urging the pasage of legislation to limit the powers of federal judges to issu exparte injunctions in labor troubles. Senator Hoar has introduced a bill to the effect which is pending before the committee on judiciary.

Affairs in Washington. Receiving ship Vermont is to be sold at auction. Schley refused offer of SSOO a night for forty lectures. Canal bill will be taken up in the House on Jan. 7. Name of Mrs. Bonine has been restored to the civil service register, A bill has been introduced in Congress to make Schley, Sampson and Clark viceadmirals.

Senate directed judiciary committee to report on the power of Congress to legislate on anarchy. Secretary Root declined to postpone Cuban elections at the request of Gen. Maso’s pnppoitcrs. Admiral Sampson is to file protest against the approval of Admiral Dewey’s findings in the Schley case. Secretary Gage wants Congress to pass law giving counterfeiters twenty-five years' imprisonment on their second conviction. Philippine commission report advised an early establishment of civil government for the islands, including a legislative assembly. Mr. Yerkes, the commissioner of internal revenue, is preparing a bill which will be presented soon after the Christmas recess, providing that unused revenue stamps may be redeemed. The American navy, according to Commander Clover, naval attache at London, is not to be compared with those of European powers and practically is of little consequence. British navy far stionger than generally believed. Germany and the United States reached understanding on how far former may go in the Venezuelan affair without encroaching on tlie Monroe doctrine. Gen. Chaffee, in commenting on court martial cases in the Philippines, said that practically all of the Filipinos ar? v.raitor and full of dissimulation. Appraiser Wakeman of New York, in letter to the President, refused to resign, and scored Secretary Gage's administration of the customs department. Bill which will form the basis of anarchy legislation punishes the assassination of the President with death and attempted assassination with life imprisonment.

' “Holiday trade reachei New York. ts maximum this week, I nearly all sections of the country reporting exceptional distribution. While the class of goods especially stimulated by Christmas demand occupied the position of greatest prominence, general merchandise was not far behind in activity. Transporting interests were just beginning to overcome congested conditions when severe storms made the situation more complicated than befor. In many industries it is not a question of finding buyers, but securing the privilege of postponing deliveries beyond the date originally specified,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade. Bradstreet's says: Retail trade has held the center of the stage this week, stimulated as it has been by the dual influences of exceptionally cold weather throughout the country and a rather more pronounced holiday demand, which promises to be of record-breaking character, not only as to volume but as to <juality and grade of goods purchased. While jobbers in many lines, notably shoes, clothing and rubber goods, report a good reorder business growing out of the above conditions, wholesale trade as a rule has been seasonably quiet, exceptions to this being noted in woolen goods, raw wool, Tiimlh'T —*"?*!. .. ;a>i, out Qj no means least, iron and steel in a myriad of forms. Nothing is heard of the usual conservative waiting for the new year's arrival to place business, and order books of leading producers are filled for long periods ahead. Hardware is in good demand at most markets. Foreign cotton spfeculators are apparently getting their second wind after the surprise given them by the government estimates. Liverpool estimators claim a crop of over 11,000,000 bales, against the 9,074,000 bales indicated, and prices are now on a dead center awaiting a new impulse. Tales of rate cutting at the West contrast strangely with reports of car shortage and incidentally returns of earnings, which show that titty roads earned 8 per cent more in the first week of December this year than they did last, while for the second week forty-two roads show a gain of $500.000 over the middle week of December, 1900. Again, October gross earnings of 105 systems increase! 16.2 per cent on a total of $119,212,776, while net took on 20.5 per cent, the total beip.g $46,092,955. as against $38,249,605 for October last year, when the coal mindrs’ strike held sway.

; Conditions in the wheat CIIiMQO market have assumed a a ' more bullish tone, and those who had been bears and worked for lower prices for a week found it impossible to dislodge any amount of long wheat below 80e, and, although they forced the price down to 79c on two days, a 2%c advance followed, and the price Saturday was up to 81%c to 8114 c, and closed at Sic. It was at 81c a week ago, but broke to 79%c at the close. The net gain for the week was Ilic. There is evidence of a tenacious country holding. The lattehave made up their minds that wheat I going to bring more money, and w j selling very high, they are keep),, wheat for an advance. The foreij- j bought Manitoba wheat largel^-s seaboard, and has reduced the z® prerereuve. —

are nearing the period of increased consumption and depleting stocks, and on this basis the bull has the best of it. There was nothing but a scalping trade in coarse grains, and conditions have not changed from those of a week ago. JThe range on May corn was 66%e to 67%c, and oats 44%c to 45%c. The close in both was at a net loss of %c to %c for the week. Western offerings were small and shipping demand limited, although au the close Liverpool accepted small lots of corn for the first in a long time. The car scarcity both East and West has restricted the movement, and cold weather has also been a factor. The low temperatures, with snow on the ground, has increased consumption on the farms, and Western holders arc indifferent sellers. The receipts of all grains here the past week were only 2,663,000 bushels, the lightest in six months, and the smallest for this period since 1894. Receipts of corn were only u3u,000 busnels, or about 2,200,000 bushels less than last year. Shipments were 483,000 bushels. Ihe movement of oafs was much lighter than last year and 200,000 bushels less than the shipments.

Shipments of meats for the week were 12,187.000 pounds, and lard 6.712,000 pounds, ami a year ago were 15.898,000 pounds meats and 11,601,000 pounds lard Ilog receipts at Western points forth? week were 530.000, compan d with 'M2.000 the previous week, and 4 83J W Dst year.

f 'gl Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping g^ies. $4.25 to $6.55; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.15; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to Nlc; corn, No. 2, Ooe ■ othy, $9.00 to $14.00; prairie, $5.50 $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 22c 24c; eggs, fresh. 24c to 27c; potatot 71c to 84c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 te $6.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.90; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.25. wheat. No. 2,81 cto 82c; corn, No. 2 white, new, 68c to 69c; oats. No. 2 nhite, 49c to 50c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to_sb.o.»; hogs. $3 00 to $6.35; sheep. $2.50 to $3.80; wheat, No. 2. 82c to 83c; corn No. 2. 65c to 67c; oats. No. 2, 4ic to 48e. ije. No. 2,64 cto 65c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs. 83 00 to $6-40; sheep, $2.25 to $3.25; Wheat. No. 2, SJe to 85c; corn No. 2 ' mi-ed 69e to 70c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 50.- to 51c; rye. No. 2. 69c to 70c. I letroit—CattK*. $2.50 to >.»..»«•: hogs. <”()O to $6 05; sheep. $2.50 to $3.50; N 2, 8 ’ yellow, 67c to 68c; oats. No. 2 white. 48c to 49c; rye, 63c to 64c. I Toledo— Wheat. No. 2 mixed. 84c to 'SC corn No. 2 mixed. 66c to 67c; oats. '2 mAM. 45c to 46c; rye, No. 2,64 c to 66c; clover seed, prime. $.>..0. Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern. I to 7''>e; corn. No. 3. 64c 65c; oats. ‘xo •’ white, 47c to 48c; rye, No. 1.62 c * to qTe: barh-y. No. 2,62 cto 63c; pork, mess. SK'.l«. I Xew York—Cattic, s3.io to s•>. 10, nogs. S”, GO to $6.00; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn Nm 2. 69c to 70c; eats, No. 2 white, .Ge to wx butter, creamery, 22c to 25c; eggs, west--1 ern, 26c to 33c.