Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 January 1902 — Page 2

®l)c Jndfpenfcnt. W. -A. EADLEY, ^Publisher. WALKERTON, - - ■ INDIANA. WEEK'S NEWS RECORD Frank 11. Peavey. head of the Peavey Grain Company, ami said to be the greatest elevator owner in the world, died at the Auditorium Annex in Chicago. Pneumonia. with which Mr. Peavey had been confined to his room sima* Dec. 22, was the cause of death. Minnesota court granted temporary injunction restraining officers of Northern Pacific ('ompany from retiring preferred stock, from transferring property to Northern Securities (’ompany and from entering into any agreement with competing lines to fix rates. Two freight wrecks occurred on the Western Kailway of Alabama within thirty miles of each other on account of the heavy rains which flooded the track, causing two embankments to give way. One man was killed, three injured and the property loss is heavy. The Misses Battle, two elderly women living at Barnett Junction, Ga., were robbed of $6,000 in gold. When the robbers entered the house the women, hearing a noise, investigated, lighting a lamp. The robbers dashed a bucket of cold water on the one holding the lamp and overawed them. Eager to show his skill as' an ithilete, John Samuel Pinover. 21 yeaks oIA, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge. Pinover was picked up unconscious by tugboatmen and taken to the Hudson street hospital. It was found that he was seriously hurt internally and the physicians said his chance of recovery was small. At shaft So. 1 of the McAlester Coal Company, Hartshorn, I. T., while the cage was ascending with eight men it jumped its guidings about 100 feet from the bottom of the shaft. Six of the eight men were killed. They were caught between the cage and the buntings and their bodies dropped to the bottom of the shaft. There is a growing belief in Washington that President Roosevelt will withdraw the offer of the United States to purchase the Danish Wept Indian Islands unless the government of Denmark very shortly cuts loose from the speculators who have prevented the consummation of the deal through their desire to share in the profits. Gen. Frank Armstrong, as agent of the War Department, is at Fort Sill, Ok., making arrangements for the release of Chief Geronimo and the 298 Arizona Apache Indians who are held by the government as prisoners of war. They were captured by Gen. Lawton twelve years ago after a 3,000-mile campaign. They will be allotted land by the government. Robert McElfresh, who recently went to St, Joseph. Mo., from Chicago and entered the employ of Swift & Co. as a clerk in the general office, was found dead in a cell at the police station from the effects of morphine poisoning. He had taken the drug some time after his arrest on a charge of disturbing the peace of a young Woman with whom he was madly infatuated. Masked robbers entered the home of Thomas Y. Ingling, a butcher at Mai tin’s Ferry, Ohio, and forced him at the point of a revolver to give up S6OO. Later the police had a battle with two of the robbers wore cantured rHer lively IOS ' • 1 1 alias Ta, -Harry Hoyt of Wheeling, Four of the robbers escaped. Albert Doty, living near Lyndon, Kan., killed his wife by beating her over the head with a gun barrel. Doty then escaped and the next morning his horribly mutilated body was found on the Missouri Pacific Railway, showing evidence of suicide. As a result of the crime Mrs. Doty’s mother, Mrs. Taylor, has become insane. Doty was 25 years old and a paroled prisoner from the Hutchinson reformatory. Richard Mullins. Bob Clark, Turner Barnes, Red Robinson and Frank Thompson, the latter a negro, five of the recaptured convict mutineers of Nov. 7, have been detected and headed off in another desperate move to break out of the federal penitentiary at Leaver* orth, Kan. Their plan this time included the probable killing of Deputy Warden Frank Lemon, F. G. Brown and other guards and the capture of the guards’ armory, where many guns are stored. BREVITIES. Denver was shaken by two slight earthquake shocks. John J. Kelly, former member of the New Jersey Assembly from Bordentown, was found dead in bed in Jersey City. Death was caused by asphyxiation from gas. The battleship Missouri was launched at Newport News in the presence of 15,000 persons. Vessel was christened by Miss Marion Cockrell, daughter of the I Senator. Admiral Schley is the recipient of a magnificent diamond-studded medal, presented by a committee on behalf of the Maryland councils of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. William A. Lindeke, formerly a prosperous dry goods merchant, killed himself at St. L'aul, Minn., by shooting through the heart. Ho met with financial re--2 versos and for the last year had been employed as a clerk. Over 400 miners at the Wheeling Creek mines, Bellaire, Ohio, Went out on strike because one of their number was made to work on Sunday when it was not necessary. the exception to Sunday work being one of their most important rules. The Blue Goose saloon ami building at .New Hampshire. Ohio, were blown up by dynamite. The saloon was the only one in the town and only recently started The Georgia Railway and Electric Company, capital $3,000,000, has applied for a charter to build and operate electric lines in Fulton and DeKalb counties, Georgia. A waterspout has burst over the n wu of Saffe, Morocco. It inundated the lower part of the town for the space of twelve hours, sweeping everything into the sea. Two hundred persons tire reported to have been drowned. EASTERN. A diamond chain worth $3,54)0 has disappeared in transit between New York and Washington. While caring for his horse Judge Samuel B. Neal of Kiitciy, M- . was stamped to death by the :>nii i:d. The Dayville Woo . ■ (’ -mpany of Danielson, Cann., has been ]e ’ar-d bankrupt. The liabilities -:e s:•,<« 1,000. A. J. Ayers, a young mt --' nger of the Union Bank of Brooklyn who disappeared recently with $2,000 of the bank's money, was arrested in Montreal. Mayor Diehl of Buffalo formally re-

moved City Treasurer Philip Gerst after concluding the investigation into the charges against him of misconduct in office in misappropriating funds of the city. Captain Richard I*. Leary, United ■ States navy, died at Marine hospital, Chelsea, Mass. Captain Leary was the first Governor of Guam after that island came into the possession of the United States. Alfred G. Ginty, a Yale graduate, master of languages and a noted scholar, drank a vial of laudanum at Cambria. N. , Y., and died a few hours later. The coroner believes he drank the poison by mistake. W infield S. Arter, a well-known stock broker of Pittsburg, shot and killed himself at his home. Arter had been desponden| for several weeks on account, it is said, of being on the wrong side of the co; r mark-;. One cnild was burned to death, ii< parents were seriously injured ami two other young children were slightly injured as a result of a tire at the home of James 11. Connelly, 397(5 Wyalusing avenue, Philadelphia. Three children of Madary Grzela were burned to death in a fire that destroyed a two-story frame building in Buffalo. They were aged 10. 7 ami 3. The mother and a baby 2 days old were carried from the building on a mattress. An explosion in the barrel mill of the Moosic Powder Company at its Jermyn, Pa., works injured several men, blew the mill and adjoining buildings to pieces and broke windows for miles around. The shock was plainly felt fourteen miles away. , A deed transferring: the Pope Bicycle works of Hartford, Conn., from the American Bicyck Company to the American Cycle Manufacturing Company has been filed. Revenue stamps indicating a consideration of about $300,000 are attached to the deed. 11l feeling between whites and negroes 1 in Harlem, N. Y„ developed a race riot, in which seven white persons were injured. One of them may die. The negroes were declared by the police to be the aggressors and fifteen of them were placed under arrest. In Connellsville, Pa., almost an entire square was wiped out by fire. The loss is conservatively estimated at $75,000. The square was owned by the Wilkey estate and the buildings were occupied by about thirty tenants, nearly all of whom wore burned out. An explosion at the old Sharpsville furnace, at Sharpsville, Pa., killed three men and wrecked the furnace plant. Another workman was probably fatally injured. The men were working at the top of the furnace when the explosion occurred. The cause of the explosion is not known. WESTERN. Max Grossman, an old German, was drowned in the Marais des Cygnes at Ottawa-, Kan., while fishing. L. W. Lacey, superintendent of the Palm Fruit Company's ranch near Wasco. Cal., was shot and killed by an employe. Death rate for Chicago in 1901 is lower than that recorded in any year in any other big city in the world—l3.B per thousand. Vera, the 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Shafer, died at Caldwell, Ohio, from poisoning caused by eating canned peas. Robert E. Lee and Samuel Garvin were convicted at Helena, M ‘ of -tealinte 700 head of c‘ le fron n s the Crow rose out. Aasu poisoned bye tor dinner at Columbus, Ohio. All will recover. Mrs. Bertha Varley coriimitted suicide at Guthrie, Ok., by drinking carbolic acid because she was named as corespondent in a sensational divorce suit. Michael Colby, a well-known sporting character of Chicago, was thrown from a spirited saddle horse at Hot Springs, Ark. He sustained a fatal fracture of the brain. John E. Dempsey, a printer, while frightened by fire leaped from a fourthfloor window of the Washburn building in St. Paul and received injuries from which he died. Moses F. Solmsou shot and killed George Stubblefield at Pine Bluff. Ark. The tragedy is a sequel to the killing of Carl Stubblefield by Myer Solmsou several months ago. Judge McPherson, in the federal court at Omaha, signed a decree for the sale of the Millard Hotel to satisfy a judgment held against the property by Paul J. Sorg for $46,944. Dennis Begley, tiie clothing clerk who was found dying in a field nine miles from Atchison. Kan., Is believed to have been murdered, as marks on his throat indicated that he had been choked. Eight prisoners, who had overpowered the Walla Walla. Wash., jailer, and were about to escape, were driven back to their cells at the point of a revolver by Mrs. Susan Kees, wife of the sheriff. C. A. Young was arrested at Poteau, I. T., on the charge of robbing a Texas postoffice last spring of SSOO in money and stamps. He paid $l4O in stamps for a diamond ring and this le i to his arrest. Eugene Gardiner was drilling a well on the farm of Willet Brunk, near Pelican Rapids. Minn., when he struck a vein of gas, which came up with a terrific noise and when lighted burned to a great height. Soldiers at the Presidio, San Francisco, engaged in a riot growing out of a stabbing and fought with the police who attempted to make arrests. Six officers were injured and sixteen soldiers arrested. Three men were crushed to death and four others severely injured by the falling of an iron girder weighing twenty tons in the shipping department of the American Bridge Company’s plant in Chica go. The jury in the case of Irene C. King vs. Mary I*. Hanson for alienating the affections of Mr. King, returned a verdict for $6,000 damages. Mrs. Hanson has a hotel at Rice Lake, Wis., and King was in her employ. John Pipkin, a planter and merchant, shot end killed his brother-in-law, John Manns, near Forest City, Ark. It is claimed that Manus hail shot into Pipkin’s store, wounding Pipkin and his two sons slightly. William Fay. who was an English soldier in the Crimean war, died at Osage City, Kan., aged more than 100 years. Until a few weeks ago his mind was vigorous. The old man wandered away and was badly frozen. Thousands of bushels of grain were destroyed by the burning of the 11. F. Mueller elevator at Fifty-fifth street ami the Fort Wayne tracks in Chicago. The loss to stock, machinery and tin.' building is estimated al $200,000. Cass Lake, Minn., village council has appropriated SSOO send a delegation to 1 Washington to oppose the creation of ,i national park in northern Minnesota. The people want the Chippewa reservation opened to settlement. While fire truck No. 7 was responding to an alarm in Toledo, Ohio, it collided

with a street car, resulting in the oeath e of Captain J. B. Ward of the tire coma pany and the injury of several other e : firemen, one of whom may die. i Mrs. J. B. Ragar, wife of a farmer livl j ing near Philadelphia, Mo., locked herl> I self in a bedroom, saturated the carpet e | with coal oil and set fire to it after cutI j ling her throat. Emotional insanity is 1 I assigned as the cause for the act. Gov. J. R. Rogers, who had been critically ill with pneumonia for several days, died at Tacoma, Wash. The immediate result will be a revolution in the political complexion of the State government. ' Lieut. Gov. Mcßride is a Republican. The premature explosion of a small 5 cannon at the residence of William Gott- ■ ner. five miles southeast of Galion, Ohio, resulted in five young men being sir aus- • ly injured. John Gottner, one of the live, f was badly burned and his eyes are injured. Two masked men entered the oilice of the Abernathy Furniture Company in I Leavenworth, Kan., fired several shots f to intimidate the clerks, stole S9OO which 5 was about to be distributed as the pay of the factory employes, and made their . escape. 1 At Grand Island. Neb., Augustus Hes- . sei. aged 78, committed suicide by hang- • ing as the result of brooding over the i death of his wife. 'The old t tan was missed by neighbors, who broke open the Hessel home and found him hanging to , a stringer. t A. C. Vosburgh, a horse jockey, while I ; making preparations to commit suicide at | ‘ Lincoln, Neb., suffered an attack of apo-’ ) plexy and died before he could syyallpw 1 the poison. Physicians state that the ex- I , citement of preparing for death brought . on the attack. SOUTHERN. The steamer Suu, employed in the Memphis and Fulton trade on the Mississippi, was burned to the water’s edge in the harbor at Memphis and four lives were lost. T. L. Wilson, a farmer, ami his neighbor, Thomas Barlin, quarreled at Dwight, Ya.. over who was the greatest g-ner.nl ! of the Civil War. with the result that ' Parlin shot Wilson dead. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas north-bound passenger train was wreck- j ed and completely burned six miles south of Dallas, Texas. Three persons were in- i jured, but no one was killed. Tin* mystery in the disappearance of Miss Ella Cropsey was partly cleared up by the finding of her body in the river near her home at Elizabeth City. N. C. । The coroner's jury decided she had been : murdered. In a free-for-all tight at Middlesboro, I Ky.. Sam Wells ami Henry Bass were mortally wounded. At Four Mile Will Hendrickson was killed by his cousin. Nat Hendrickson. On Taggard's creek Thomas Haynes was beaten to'death by Henry Bowman. John W. Taylor, chief engineer of the Terminal Railroad Association, and William Austin Kent, a prominent citizen of Louisville, Ky., were ground to death beneath the wheels of a switch engine in North St. Louis in jumping, panic- । stricken, from a swiftly moving gasoline . motor ear which threatened to collide with the engine. In a genera] fight between white men and negroes at Childersburg. Ala., a white man and his son were killed, while i a white boy and one negro were wounded. With great difficulty a general outbreak was prevented. The negroes are now in jail at Tailadf" ’’’’'o trouble grew out of a crap having quarried FOREIGN. The civil ceremony of the marriage of Senator Chauncey M. Depdw and Miss May Palmer took place in the United States consulate at Nico. France. Captain Schoeffel. with a detachment of eighteen men of Company E, Ninth infantry, at Dapday. Island of Samar, was attacked by a large force of bolomen. A severe hand-to-hand tight ensued. in which a sergeant, a corporal and five privates were killed. Assassination and pillaging of villages and outraging of inhabitants have increased so much recently in Macedonia that the consuls have appealed to the embassies to put a stop to the crimes. The foreign ministers have made urgent representations to the I‘orte of the danger of permitting the continuation of such acts. IN GENERAL. Official announcement of the appointment of Gov. Leslie M. Shaw of lowa to | succeed Lyman J. Gage as Secretary of ; the Treasury has been made from the White House. J. Newton Nind of Chicago and C. C. Imring of Boston are visiting furniture manufacturers of the United States, promoting a national organization for mutual protection. The Lake Shore road has ordered an increase in wages of conductors, engi- | neers. firemen, brakemen and yardmen, | operating east of Chicago, to take effect shortly after the first of the year. Maclay has refused to resign as an employe of the navy, and President Roosevelt immediately ordered his discharge. It is hoped in Washington that the controversy over Schley will now be permitted to die. The local express and a working train on the Canadian L’acific Railway collided । between Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and Webbwood while running at full speed. Four mon wore killed and several -trereseverely injured. A new canal bid by the Panama company is forecasted in a private letter telling of a probable reduction of its sale price to $40,000,000. If such a tender is officially made the commission is likely to recommend acceptance and Nicaragua may lose. (train shipping to Europe is at a standstill. Europe would like corn, but America has none to ship, because of the crop failure. Europe is drawing its wheat from other countries, and has so large an amount on hand that 2 cents a bushel is the best freight rate that transatlantic lines can get. China will be relieved of the payment ‘ of >18,<»00.000 of the $25,000,000 demanded by the United States of China as indemnity for the outrages perpetrated upon A meric:’- n citizens during the I>oxer revolt of 1900. This action will be taken because the administration, after consid- ; tion of all the claims filed by Americans who suffered injury or whose property was damaged and the expenses incurred 1 by the army and navy, has come to the conclusion that $7,000,000 will certainly • cover the American bill. • ; Aii increase this year of $35,577.21,S in I I the net earnings of railroads operating 192.193 miles of line is shown in the ; I preliminary report of the interstate com--1 merce commission cove-ring the period up -to June 30 last. Lhe total of net earnings was $5.>0.007,924. Gross income was $1.587.164.205. against $1,487,044,Sl4 last year. Os the earnings this year $1,114,740,770 was from freight, and I $426,909,210 from passenger traffic. ] Dividends declared amounted to $121,- ' | 108,637, an increase of $13,000,000 over 1 । last rear.

r _. 1 = ihe new postmaster general. : A A "s-’ IISi,! v V XX r •• ' / X J '■■ ' 7 < V- ■ G' ' I 1 fa . / Hegry C. Pay Wisconsin has been selected by President Roosevelt to succeed Postma? General Smith, who resigned. Air. Payne is a resident of Milwaukee, who: 10 wa s postmaster for ten IHehi a n a member of ’he Repullfta lational committee since 18S0. Hej is president of the Milwaukee Elec* ilway and Light Company and of ,the Wisconsin Telephone Company, an receiver for the Northern Pacific I‘ailr - . 1 in 1893 and 1594.

INS, NDIANS. Civilization ! .I s Another Grave Malady A trn l1 ® *' ed Men - It is expected t within six months the National India ^(sane Asylum, just i completed in Cant< S. D., will be taxed to its utmost cap; '>'■ Insanity among the Indians is gr< Dk'. most cases having resulted from pligious fanaticism. They are naturally jperstitious ano hab- , Itually work then ves into frenzies by tin c ghost dances n, l other weird cenmonies. As these ?bh> minded red m< n received little *rr attention from the relatives or tribesm.g’. Senator Pettigraw took the matter in Imnd ami after asx. u J for an appropriation of $45,000 in IS'.t'.), I which was later ing ’U’-ed to SMIJMIO. he had plans drawn a 1 immediately commenced con st met im”' It is a peculiar bi* significant fact that ■ there was practical*’ no insanity among Indians until theirii lociation with the whites. As it is, a ; *ry large percentage of eases are found it Iho half-br< ’ds. This is entirely con ,tent " ith < riln ’ inal records, which 1 ‘how that the halfbreeds, instead of ’J ing bettered by the introduction of white blood, seem to rath- ! er coinbine the iniqui ih's of the two races. : Even the insanity c ,ses among the full bloods are shown by their maladies to be the indirect result < f the supremacy of the paleface. Areo ‘!ing to this it is a fact that as civilii’tt on grows among the Indians the number of patients will increase. The structure is a handsome one. even for the government Pressed brick and white stone wer- " 1 exclusively and the roofin'* ' .’hr building is in — jss. 164 feet long . »me oira waY accommodate abo ,5 patients. There are now at tne nat a ml asylum in Washington eight or nine r-rsane Indians, and i there is illustrated emong th"se the dis- 1

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ferent types of insaiijr as well as the degrees of Indian bl<| I among the patients. | ; This model buildingKyr insane Indians is the only one of its kind in the world. The institutioi will be in charge of ex-Congressman O. S. Gifford of Canton. a man of wide experience in both public and business natters, and one who is acquainted wit 'lndian life. LORD KITCHEb 1 IS SUED. Case of Emily Hol jouse, Deported from Africa, St js Lon 'on. London legal circles deeply interested in the suit of Baro Ptlobhouse, uncle of Miss Emily Hobhou: the young wom- . an who went to South Africa to distrib- : ute clothing and food >mong the Doers I in the concentration cfops and aGio was r I/• ao/W I Mt >ll /Ct v\‘A M 1 n I HISS EMILY HOI HOUSE. arrested and deported I ome because of ; her criticism of Englist prison camp methods. Baron Hobhi>use brings suit in behalf of his niece against I,ord Kitchener, Lord Milner and others, alleging false imprisonment and assault. The suit will raise the interesting constitutional question of how far a British subject can be deprived of liberty by martial law—a question that has not been brought up since the rebellion in Jamaica in connection with the kite Gov. Kyw.

QUEEN ALEXANDRA, OS GREAT BRITAIN, REPORTED SERIOUSLY HL I, X. -U r QV! EX AI J X AMUi A. Queen Alex m lr,, of Grca: Britain, , who is reported to ia seriously ill at I Marlborough House in Lon ion. is now in | the fifty-eighth year of her age and has I lived a life of unusual health and vigor. She is the sec mi child and the eldest daughter of King Christian IN. of Denmark, and was born Dee. 1. 1814. She was married on March 10, 1863, to the Prince of Wales and with him succeeded j to the throne on Jan. 22. 1901. GROWING MACARONI WHEAT. Great Northwest Equals Italy in I’roMacaroni wheat, as good as that of , Italy, has been grown in the Dakotas, i Kansas and Nebraska. So successful have been government tests that Arneri-

can manufacturers are offering No. 2 northern prices for wild goose macaroni wheat, which was formerly invariably rejected. Macaroni wheats differ radically from I the ordinary bread wheats and in the field look more like bar -w than wheat. The thorough establishment of this industry will do iwh for the semi-arid plains. A million or more of acres can thus be given to profitable '.vii«:it raising which, on account of di'->:;_ht. have ! heretofore been entirely idle or less prof- I itably employed. The farmers of the West and Northwest are awakening to the importance of this industry and carload lots of macaroni wheat are in demand for seed next year. The official | tests showed a yield of one-third to onej half more per acre than .any other wheats • grown side by side with them, and in I 1900. when ether wore n'mowt a ! complete failure in the Dakotas, the mac- ' aroni varieties produced a good yield of ' grain of excellent quality. The section best suited for raising macaroni wheats, according to the government map, begins west of the ninetyfifth meridian and includes North and i South Dakota, Nebraska, except extreme eastern part; eastern Colorado, western and central Kansas, western Oklahoma, extreme eastern New .Mexico and central and western Texas. The United States ; imports over 16,000,000 pounds of macaroni annually, at an expense of SBOO,000. M’KINLEY MEMORIAL. Judge William I?. Day Issues a Statement to the Public. i Judge William It. Day, president of the McKinley National Memorial Associa- ; tion. has issued a statement to the pub- | lie, concerning the work of the associaI tion. In part the statement says: The McKinley National Memorial Association was organized to afford an opportunity for the people of the United States to express their personal love and devotion to the late President by the erect L n of a fitting memorial above the grave at Canton, Ohio, where he will finally rest in accord with his own express d wish. All banks have been designated depositories for subscriptions. All postmasters will f receive and forward moneys and all express , companies will issue money orders free of charge and, when neves ar;.. forward mon--1 i ey free. - i In every case the name and address of the , subscriber should Ite forwarded to the treas- ’ । urer, Myron T. Derrick. Cleveland. Ohio, for I preservation in the permanent archives of - . the association, and in order that souvenir i certificates may be sent to each. I The National Memorial Association will | join with the William McKinley Memorial 1 Arch Association of Washington to erect a t national memorial at the capitol of our country to commemorate his services to tie

SHAW IN CABINET. TO SUCCEED GAGE AS HEAD OF TREASURY. lowa’s Governor Accepts the Portfolio Offered by President Roosevelt—Secretary Wilson Is Not to Be Displaced 1 liecause of the Selection. Gov. Leslie M. Shaw of lowa has for- ! mally accepted the offer made to him to become Secretary of the Treasury an 1 I the fact was officially announced W ednes lay night at the White House. The I understanding is that Gov. Shaw will take charge of the Treasury Department ■ as soon as he can relieve himself of his i official business in lowa. As nearly as 1 can be learned he will go to W ashingI ton in January and Secretary C ge is j arranging his affairs to be able th leave j at any time before Feb. 1. In announcing the acceptance of Gov. i Shaw it was officially stated also that this appointment would in no way interfere with the retention in the cabinet of Secretary Wilson. It is known that President Roosevelt has a high regard for the Secretary of Agriculture, who has made a greater record than any one previously in that office since it was established in 18S9. not even excepting the famous “Jerry” Rusk of \\ isconsin. The announcement at the White House that Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is to remain in charge of his department bat bis relations to the administra-

tion are not at all affected by the selection of another cabinet officer from lowa, ' I Xi "--V ■ LESLIE M. SHAW. seems to be well re.-eived throughout the country. Mr. Wilson is known far and : wide as the most successful and progressive head the Agricultural Department has ever known. Pn -ident Roosevelt has been greatly impressed with the j many evidences of Mr. Wilson’s useful- | ness. and despite a difference of opinion | between them as to the Cuban reciprocity question, the IT< -: i nt and the Se retary are on the best of terms. In selecting G >v. Shaw, President ' Roosevelt did so without consulting any । one. He has known him for many years, . having campaigned in the West with him on several occasions.. The Governor i» one of the original gold standard men of the West, and, long before the single j standard became an emphatic issue, he i was making speeches for it. Several times he went as far East as the New I England Stites, urging tie single standard as the measure of value. t ; prominent in politics t'o|r more than a fifth of a edntury. He rqmoved to lowa early in his life and has been actively identified with the affairs of his State for many years. He is now concluding his second term as Governor and, it is said, could hhve been renominated for a third had he sought a renominittion. When President McKinley declared against a third term Shaw was mentioned as a presidential possibility by Senator Allison and other lowans. He is a banker of considerable- local distinction and a lawyer of no mean repute. BEGAN LIFE HUMBLE. Clement Stndebaker Was a Type of the । Self-Made Man. Clement Studebaker, who died in South | Bend, Ind., recerLy. was a type of the , self-made man, b< ginning h.s business ! 1 iiag upward until the ; wag>n manufactur- ■ / ,n = which e v " rh - bcad ’i Ik 1 grown to mam- ' D - a ' -’‘ r - Studebaker | rn in 1-831 in Adams County, * Pa., a f iv miles C. STUDEBAKim. f scen .. o f ' I the battle of Gettys! .:i_. When be was ; 4 years obi his ; .un;ly r- moved to Ohio , and there until the age of 11 Clement j attended s bool. He then wo: :ed on a farm for $2 per mofith an : later 1 :ned ' • the wagonmnking business with hi- th- . ! er. In 1850 he moved to S uith Bend and taught school for one winter. He then worked for a threshing machine company for 50 cents a day and his board. In 1852 he and his brother. Henry, with a C'C 1 : ' I $ - ‘t ing an occasional wag- n as the demand arose. Soon the business began to grow ar ,a Iflc.X it was in< LffonaontJ being made president. Meantime IL nry • had retired and other brothers had join- ! ed the concern. Mr. Studebaker died leaving an ample i fortune and a flourishing business. He I was during his life a deb gate to several Republican national conventions, com- | missioner to the Paris D ;po' . n, im mber of the Pan-American Congress and ; president of the Chautauqua Assembly ; of New York. Sparks from the Wires. Emperor William has d rate] Mar- ■ quis Ito, the Japam - • i -man. with the Order "f tlie R I _ Senator ULra n ii s mt: bleed anamendment to th n granting the right of suffn . e to w-unen. The Wagoner Na I B nk, Wagoner, I. T.. has been auth i .zed to begin Byway of av< . :.ng i m:!: Ie in Illinois, W. J. Bry. a h is refused to accept an invi tion to -peak on Ja k- m ; day to the Bryan League at Cha ago. A store belongin'-' to !’• .ram, Sanford & Thorn, in P.n - '■ ■ I’ >. 1.1.. W<-■ utqred by burglars : on fir . lhe total loss is about s■;.*■ >. Three negroes have b< a in I . r-zen to death near C n. M - ii in central Ml - I ' l’”' •“ dent :.t this tim>- ■■ • r. Goul i G.JOilm .n a:: 1J- I; R> a- a ‘ were s- riousL wo i i . ■■l ::t an n. which ar st a dame W .. □, T x. Goodn.: i will probably Ball Bros., the largi -t fru:t ; r in ;n---ufacturers in the world, announce tha^ factory No. 3 will be built in the spring, adding 500 additional hands to their present list of 1,500.

GWsaCIAL '<JNAMCiAL Bradstreet's anmiai reNe¥YorL b 5«« < ' ■ ' • ; .. ' • . ■ . ' . ■ - that 1901 ha- established th • record of the last five years of eornm-reial expansi'ii enjoyed by the Lnit. 4 States. The year iia- seen trausa- > .1 an aggregate of general business, as refle. t< <i :i bank clearings, far in excess of any pre ceding period; immense increa-e in outputs of coal, ore, iron, steel, leather, lumber and a multitude of other branches; freight transportation faciliib-s insuffideut to handle the volume of business off< red, ami a "volume of holid.iy business passing all previous bounds both in quantity and quality.'’ Present estimates imis :te 'bat the earnings for 1901 will ex< < ed highest records of preceding year- by aii' -: r:h. Gross railway earn.aa- have iinr--.<- i 12 pei 16 per cent over the b< ff ’•receding ; • I There lias been a tin 38 p. . •■• nr in bank clearings over it'_ '.e-' ! price for wheat since 1898 an . ■ : • ..j I and oats for almost decade. ( I Not all the returfs however. re so . i favorable. There is less money in eot- ■ •

.— - 7 I sioned complaint m New ami o<i England. Export trade has shown signs of hesitation after years of steady advance, and imports have increased; -till die margin in favor of exports is very large. Foo,] pro ! lets as a whole are higher than in the general price boom of 1900, while manufactures are lower. Prices as a whole are 8 per cent lower than in February. 1900, and Deeemb.-r. Ist*:), but are higher than in any year from 1893 until the third quarter of 1899. In transportation activity has been without precedent. Tlie pre-eminence of the trade conditions <»f this year is all the more no' ide when we consider a number of occurwhi h in a nor;.:al year would have proved depressing, if not disastrous. Th“re were the machinist and steel -trikes, the stock excitement of May. the failure of several imprudently in.c; >ged combinations, the efforts of some combination- to fix prices, the shortage in corn, cotton and oats, and the assassination of I ’resiJ■ n t McK 1 nley. With the record of -meh a year as a b;:-i- tii- outlook for 190’2 is en ■ mraging. As the report under consideration well says: “If only a portion of the h:^a hopes indulged in as a result of the recent con-ferene-s of capital and labor materialize, industrial peace, and through this sustained commercial good fe-Hng. wiii have been powerfully furthered.” CIEMQO. 11 - the nsu “ ! h ” H,i;i -v Juu--3 •-s was not experienced. hile the loiiime of trade was not nearly as large as during some weeks previously, orders came tbi rk and fast in departments where spring buying is usually done some weeks later. There was a firmness in quotations in<:ieative of a rising rather than a declining market, and the conditions surrounding trade in all its branches were more favorable, perhaps. than during any former closing week of a year. Never before have the prospects for a large spring business been advance sales and also -y ;;:e wi requests for early deliveries. As to grain prices, wheat is now at a point where a few big traders - - in inclined to sell it on every bulge. The foreign situation is fairly strong, and the latest estimate of German requirements is for 5.000.000 bushels m nthly. Seaboard clearances continue close to the level of 4.OO9JMhJ bushels weekly. / inch are not c'i >n_ i to m । <e f rei_n mark ts weak, and their supi :• - are being . sely adjusted to n quirements. In tin soft winter wheat markets there h i- i een a good milling d man ] at better than May prices for the Nl2 re . nd . n indisposition on the part of farmers tu sell. th: :i corn. : - corn it xcucy . i <’ : II;; ns arc fairly - • there being the ti-ml n ’.ml r• . • iH---In corn the cash - ' nChicago— <’ tl . iA - 2_ .-i.i2a’ —- a—- | to 51.25; wh at. No. 2 red, 85c - 86e; i corn. No. 2. t’2<- x 2 14c ; $12.50; bu;;. . < • re .’- ' O 1 I 49c to 50c. St. Loui- Ca" $4.50 $3.00 to 5'5.35; ■ •>. s2.s’* to S3.SO; Cinrinnn C Detr i . \ -. 2 • !. ^7c: C'«rn. ?<n 2, butter, ci*‘3uhm - ’. . —— " to —-tcj 'icsiern. 25c to 2 s \