Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 January 1902 — Page 2

Jnbepcndcm. W. A. EKIILEY. PubliHher. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. SUMMARY OF NEWS. Mrs. Cullen Calhoun Mitchell, former Kentucky belle, wife of an army lieutenant, was found dead in her room at Louisville. There was evidence of suicide, but fact that securities and jewelry worth $20,000 are missing lends mystery to the case. Captain NV. J. D. Horne of the Ninth Cavalry, United States Army, made a sensational attempt to commit suicide in the street in San Francisco, by cutting his throat with a butcher-knife. As the knife was blunt, the wounds are not

dangerous. Nellie Corneillsou. the 11-year-old daughter of George Corneilison, a laborer, cut the throat of her 3-year-old sister Laura in a stable at Wichita, Kan. The child died soon afterward. Her father’s razor was the weapon used. No motive for the crime is known. Policeman Cruze shot and probably fatally wounded Lou and Alex Nelson in Knoxville, Tenn. Cruze was returning home from the police station when, he claims, he was fired upon, and on investigation found the Nelsons, with other men, on a near J by corner. Thomas O’Brien, a tugboat captain, and an unknown woman about 50 years old were found dead in a room in a small water-front hotel in New York. Death was caused by the inhalation of illuninating gas which had escaped from two open fixtures in a chandelier. “Padre,” a big medicine man of the Yuma Indians, who lived on a reservation near Yuma, Arizona, has been offered as a sacrifice, in accordance with Indian custom, and has expiated the sins of the tribe, which are held responsible for an epidemic of smallpox. The charred and mutilated bodies of L. W. Thompson and wife were found on the prairie near their ranch, in the vicinity of Ramah, Colo. Their residence had been burned to the ground, but it is believed that they had been murdered for money and their dwelling burned as a blind. The surveyors employed jointly by the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland to correct the boundary line as first established by Mason and Dixon, have proceeded with their work as far as Germany Township, Adams County, Pa. They report that many of the stones are displaced.

William Fife of Fairlie on the Clyde is to build Sir Thomas Lipton's next challenger for America’s cup. At a conference just held between Sir Thomas and his advisers definite arrangements were made for the construction of the Shamrock 111., and an order for the new yacht was given to and accepted by Mr. Fife. Frank Holt, the military prisoner, who escaped from Alcatraz Island by concealing himself in a box which was taken on the steamer McDowell, is In custody again. He got out of the box on the vessel, saluted the officer of the deck, obtained $2 from a stranger to whom he told his story, rented a room and was arrested the first time he ventured out, _ ________ _ —ertirciid Stu les mu pre are bmuTrtirTMr waukee in tl*S famous section 30 land cases in favor of Margaretha Lonstorf, Frank W. Eaton and Leonidas Merritt. The decision affirmed the opinion of the Supreme Court of Minnesota and is a complete victory over the Midway company and the United States Steel Corporation. By the decision title is given to 320 acres of land on the Vermillion iron range, Minnesota, and is so valuable that the United States Steel Corporation, it is said, is ready to pay $8,000,000 to the victor in the long struggle for ownership. BREVITIES. In Columbus, Ohio, the House and Senate, balloting separately, re-elected Senator Joseph B. Foraker. The People’s Bank at North Enid, O. T., was robbed of $2,000. The burglars blew open the safe with dynamite. There is no clew to the identity of the robbers. George H. Phillips, the former corn king, has been forced to the wall on the Chicago Board of Trade. Inability to cover margins on a long line of rye caused the failure. Senators Allison and Dolliver were renominated by acclamation by the lowa Republican legislators in joint session. Gov. Shaw's final message was read io the Legislature. J. W. Schmidt, assistant head miller at C. Burkhardt's Hour mill at Burkhardt Village, Wis., shot his wife and then himself at their home. Domestic troubles led to the crime. Arthur Pue Gorman has been elected by the Maryland Legislature United States Senator to succeed George Je Wellington. The total vote was: Gorman (Dem.). 68; Jackson (Rep.), 52. At Eureka. Cal., J. H. G. Saffel, a res-taurant-keeper, shot and killed his wife in the presence of his seven young children, and then ended his life. Domestic infelicity'was the cause of the tragedy. - ^fnr.tho .safety of die British war; ship Condor is all but abandoned. Naval ‘ men at. Victoria, B. C., are convinced that she went to the bottom during the recent typhoon while on her way to Honolulu. ! W. H. Martin, an insurance solicitor, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head while in a saloon on Jefferson street, Louisville. He was to have been married in three weeks. The cause of the suicide is not known. The Bank of Butler, Ga., was robbed of $2,000 in cash. Dynamite was used to blow open the vault. The burglars escaped. The slaughter of a human being as a propitiatory sacrifice to the gods of the Chinese was prevented at Baker City, Ore., by the timely arrival of some Sisters of Charity The destruction of the Kennard, a granite structure, considered to be the finest business office block in New England north of Boston, proved to be the worst fire in Manchester. N. 11., in many years, the total loss being $.)00,000. EASTERN. Democratic legislators in caucus in Maryland nominated Arthur Pue Gorman for return to the United States Senate. The 11. W. Gokey A Sons shoe factory at. Jamestown. N. Y., has been closed, pending an adjustment of the company’s affairs. Miss Julia Foraker, youngest daughter of Senator and Mrs. Foraker, was married at her parents’ residence in Washington to Francis King Wainwright of Philadelphia. Fifteen persons were crushed, burned aud scalded to death in a rear-end col-

lision in the New York Central Railroad tunnel at Fifty-sixth street aud Park avenue, New York. George D. Stratton, a collector for the Equitable Gas and Electric Company, has been arrested at Utica, N. Y., charged with larceny. He admits stealing $6,000 from the company. A AA ashington correspondent produces comparative tables, showing the superiority of the Panama over the Nicaraguan canal route. He says it is shorter, less expensive and less dangerous. John D. Rockefeller has offered Brown University $75,000 for a social and religious building, on condition that ‘the college raise $25,000 for an endowment fund by the June commencement. The Dayville Woolen Company of Dayville, Conn., has been adjudged bankrupt and the schedule of its liabilities and assets shows liabilities aggregating $387,321. The assets amount to $170,865. The bodies of Joseph Caskey, Sr., aged 60, and Joseph Caskey, Jr., aged 30,

were found in the yard of their home at I I Camden N. J. Both had been shot, and a revolver was found by the side of the elder man. . Elbridge S. Brooks, the author, died at । his residence in Somerville. Mass., after an illness of several weeks. lie left a widow and two daughters. Mr. Brooks wrote nearly 100 books, mostly of a patriotic character. A well-dressed young man threw a stone through the shop window of Edward Burger's loan office on Sixth avenue, New York, and stole diamond jewelry worth $5,000. Though the street was crowded, he escaped. Martin O'Hara, aged 18 years, and his sister Mary, aged 15, were drowned while skating on the Youghidgheny at Osceola, Pa. Their brother James, aged 8, also went under the ice, but was rescued by men who were at work near by. Charles Caleb Creston, the head of a prominent and influential family living in Philadelphia and Germantown, was found dead in his home at the latter place, having been asphyxiated by gas escaping from a heater in his room. Annie Beaudry shot Jennie Gagnon in one of the Amoskeag Corporation mills at Manchester, N. IL, and then committed suicide. Miss Gagnon is alive, but in a critical condition. It is believed that Miss Beaudry was not in her right mind. WESTERN. Ferd Kruuskoupf was killed and Robert Maxwell fatally injured in Maynard's mine near Cannellsville, Ohio, by falling slate. In Milwaukee George N. Wiswell died from ulcer of the pericardium, following an attack of pneumonia, which resulted from a severe cold. Dr. D. K. Pearsons of Chicago has offered SIOO,OOO to Wooster University, provided the school will raise $40,000 additional by Feb. 21. Warden Jewett of the Kansas State penitentiary has abolished the lockstep and will hereafter march the convicts by fours like soldiers. Thomas Redmond, who killed Thomas Scruggs in a general fight in Kansas City, Mo., has been sentenced to twentyfive years in the penitentiary. The safe in the postotlice at Greensburg, Ind., was blown on a recent night and $1,500 worth of postage stamps were stolen. There is no clew to the burglars. A freight train on the Rio Grande Western road and a work train collided near Roy Station, Utah, in the thick fog. I r-tft-rnT-e a Sir rii Minnesota road has bought the Enterprise iron mine on the Mesaba range for $160,000. It was owned by W. 11. Yawkey of Detroit. Osborn Deignan, who helped sink the Merrimac at Santiago, has been discharged from the Ukiah hospital for insane at Vallejo, Cal., and ordered to duty on the steamship Independence at Mare Island navy yard. Former City' Clerk A. B. Phillips of Ashtabula, Ohio, recently charged with misappropriating city bonds, has been rearrested under indictments charging him with disposing of $12,000 of spurious bonds of the city. A person who uses a free railroad pass and signs a contract to release the railroad from all claims for injury to person or damage to baggage is bound by the contract and cannot recover, so the Supreme Court of Indiana has held. ■ J - I). Choate of New York is at the | Colorado Sanitarium. Boulder, Colo. For •thirty days Mr. Choate has not eaten 1 anything. His fast has been self-imposed. - because of a stomach trouble which J would not yield to medical treatment'. 1 Because Robert Sidman of St. Louis persisted in "scorching in the parks on a tandem bicycle with his wife. Marga1 ret, the latter has brought suit for di- . vorce. alleging the violent exercise reo suited in an impairment of her health. A fire of mysterious origin caused damr age estimated at $140,060 in the building :- at 511 and 513 North Main street. St. d Louis, occupied by the E. C. AA . Meier c China and Glass Company. The building, a four-story brick structure valued at j $30,000, was gutted. d The Pueblo laud office has issued orders 1- opening for settlement more than 250,000 n acres of land in Huerfano and Las Animas counties, Colorado. This land was withdrawn from settlement over a year , ago for the purpose of creating the Las p Animas reservation. i c Mrs. Henry Moberly and her little son were killed near Garnet, Kan. The team which they were driving became unmanngdable iffin rhn in ircDrta a .arilinrrr^ Pacific passenger train at a road crossing. The mother was killed instantly £ and the boy died in a few hours. In Omaha Constable Hans Timme was v shot and fatally wounded by John Rolf as, v a German, on whom he was trying to j serve a writ of restitution. Rolfas says Timme thrust a revolver into his face and demanded him to move his effects . from the house in which he was living. , State Representative Albert Gabrin died in Denver, it is supposed, from the effects of poison in wine taken New , Year's night at his father’s home. Other members of the family who drank of the wine were taken sick, but all recovered except Mr. Gabrin's sister Alice, who is still seriously ill. Fire in Chicago :n the American Malting Company's elevator at 52d street ami the Panhandle Railroad in Chicago, destroyed the building and its contents, causing a loss of more than $200.000. There were 300,000 bushels of barley in the building, all of v hich, it was said, would be ruined. John Booth, an old man, was murdered and his body thrown into a Woll on the ' premises of Mrs. McCoy, a block from his home, in Ottawa, Kan. Booths skull had been crushed with an ax and the j body put into the well head downward. Mrs. McCoy and a daughter have been placed under .'."rest. Frank Simonton of I nion City. Mo., was recently reunited with his daughter, Mabel Simonton, whom he had lor twelve years believed to ne dead. Sinmuton and his wife separated when the g ri was a few months old and a few months later he received what now proves to have been a forged death certificat *. Col. Frank R. Ireland, a leader in the

politics of that State, died at* Nebraska City, Neb., from the effects of a fall from a second-story window while he was walking in his sleep. Col. Ireland formerly was Mayor of the city, chairman of the Democratic State committee and claimant of the nomination for Governor. Gov. A an Santos Minnesota has announced that he would call an extra session of the Legislature for the middle of February, probably about the 18th. While the session is called specifically to consider the report of the tax commission, it is considered likely that the recent railroad developments will come in for consideration. SOUTHERN. James B. McCreary, ex-Governor and ex-Congressman, has been nominated by the Democratic caucus of the Kentucky Legislature for United States Senator to succeed Senator Deboe, Republican. "Tight lacing and belting, which induced ill health,” is the charge made by John Banks in his suit for divorce filed at Knoxville, Tenn., in the Circuit Court. Desertion is also relied on to secure the divorce. A rear-end collision on the Monongahela division of the Baltimore and Ohio road, near Shinnstown, AV. Va., resulted in the serious injury of six persons and the wrecking of two engines and a mail and baggage car. Gov. Beckham, in his message to the Kentueky^_Legislatu''e at Frankfort, denied the reports of lawlessness “in the State, declaring that “the supremacy of the law in Kentucky to-day is such as to give every citizen as perfect a guarantee of protection as can be found in any State in the Union.” The property of the Port Arthur Chan- I nel and Dock Company was sold by the United States marshal at auction at I Beaumont, Texas. There was only one bid. that of Max Pam, for the Kansas City Southern Railway. The property was soid co him for $500,000. The channel property is valued at about $2,000,000. Admitting that his picture was in the rogue's gallery and that for a period of years he had been familiar with the “lowest depths of New York opium joints,” yet pleading for mercy from the court, Franklin J. Moses, once Governor of South Carolina, was sentenced in Boston to four months’ imprisonment for the larceny of an overcoat. The Equitable Mining Company, which is practically owned by ex-Gov. Hogg, brought in a gusher oil well Thursday at Keyser’s mound, four miles north of Columbia, Texas. The oil began to gush after the well was bailed, and in a few hours the oil was spouting sixty feet high. The cap of the well casing failed to operate and the whole surrounding country is being flooded with oil. Great excitement prevails and hundreds of people are flocking to Columbia. A repetition of the boom times in Beaumont last spring is likely to result. This is the first gusher that has been struck off Spindle Top heights. FOREIGN. The Dowager Empress of Chinn asserted her complete supremacy the other day by granting an audience in the most sacred hall in the forbidden city. The rules of the dynasty forbid women from entering this hall and the Dowager Empress has never before violated its sanctity. women under the leadership of the wife of Commander de Beers. One hundred and fifty of the women were acting as cowboys and only six men were connected with the camp. Three clashes between American sailors and Russian soldiers have occurred at New Chwang, China. One Russian has been wounded. Advices to this effect have been received by the State Department from Minister Conger, who said that complaint had been made to him by the Russian minister in Pekin. Sir Alfred Jones, chairman of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, has j received a letter from Maj- Ross saying that Dr. Dutton, at Bathurst, has made a most important discovery of a new kind of parasite which causes a fever in human beings that closely resembles that causing the fly diseases in houses in South Africa. Announcement is made that the Ameri-can-China Development Company has । been organized on a firm basis, and that i an official demand has been made on the . Chinese government for the issuing of । bonds against the construction of the ' Hankow-Canton Railway, which has ' been undertaken by the company. The system will link Canton and Pekin. Mohammedans will hereafter make their pilgrimage to Mecca by electric railway, if the plans of the I nited States Construction ’Company, which is seeking concessions from the Sultan of Turkey, are realized. The project is to construct lines from Cairo, Egypt, to Mount Sinai and along the coast of the ’ Red sea to Mecca, with a branch from I Mount Sinai to Damascus. ‘ IN GENERAL. Sir Wilfred Laurier, the Canadian premier, received a cable dispatch saying 1 that R. R. Dobell, a member of the doS minion cabinet without portfolio, had been killed at Folkestone, England. He 11 was thrown from a horse which he was 11 riding. Gas was struck in a well which was being hor?d' for salt at tlte UTei’eiana and I , Sarnia Sawmill Company’s plant in ' । Sarnia, Ont. It was immediately ignited , by a stove in a building adjoining the j well. The machinery in the well, which . was destroyed, was worth $40,006. The Navy Department has received the following cablegram from Rear Admiral I Rodgers at Cavite: "Waller reports having °completed ten days' march across I Samar from Lanaug to Bahey. Column endured great hardships. Killed thirteen insurgents, captured captain, lieutenant and four men.” Rear Admiral Frank Wildes, recently assigned to duty as commander of the Pensacola navy yard, has received telegraphic notification from the Navy Department to prepare for sea duty, sailing Feb. 1 from Sait Francisco to assume command of the Asiatic squadron and relieve Rear Admiral Remey. The big steamer Bristol was wrecked on the coast of Green Island, half way between Vancouver and Skaguay, on the night of Jan. 2, and Captain Mclntyre and six of the crew were lost. Three boats carrying seven men each got away I s a £ely, but the captain's boat, which was tile last to leave the steamer, was smashed against the collier and all on board went down. Xt a meeting of Free Methodists at Verona. Ont., one of the brethren declared he could Uy and proceeded to demonstrate his [mwer. He got on the table and gave a leap to launch into space and his head came in contact with a large hanging coal oil lamp. The lamp fell to the 7ioor ami the oil ignited. At one time five men and three women were on fire and five out of the eight were seriously burned. The flames spread and caused a panic. Many were injured in the stampede.

POPULATION OF T HE WGRLDmates Given i« Some Interesting Eetr~"ipedia. Current Cycle spates of the Some interesting *e s in The Cur . world s population are f placed at a rent Cyclopedia. Thii e d as followsbillion and a half, distr' n Persons per V yr DtJon. sq. mile. [2,625,< 00 9O.HG Europe 30,558,090 48.57 Asia . 70,O50,«‘OO 14 77 Africa TV 32.718,000 s’96 America 6,000,000 1 73 Polynesia 82,000 ok>r Polar regions — . — 112,333,000 28.89 ,'f otal . 11 J leading countries Ihe population of th recent censuses is of Europe according t< given as follows: -mos-, Austria-Hungary 641’333 France 1,345,014 Germany x 1,449,754 Italy ,f06454’(X)7 Russia 41,454,219 United Kingdom empires with large Hie totals for the qed in the forego-

aependencies represe 94,731.014; Gering table are: Fra tnssia, 128.932,173, many, 71.032,014: 390,0(10.000. From and United Kingdt J le British flag which it appears . oiarter of the flies over more niau )f these, howinhabitants of the ea • Asiatics and ever, nearly 300.000 40,000.000 are AfF O s the WashAccording to an s no less than ington bureau ol inhabitants are 500,000^ • colonial posed 15,000, , o । ntry. -Of- the people of t v t This 3 per cent, . j ’’ ls ’ ‘I 5 ’ 1 stock, scattered thr, nghout the English t* of the globe.

colonies tn various , „ , Roughly speakb c E“S^h- S peaking population of t/' 't' ' 11111,1 l,( rs 000.000, being ou ?, d p n ' y by tllC inhabitants of Ch F" d ln ‘ la ' , „ . The population < uo lds J 1 ™’" ish flag is about e-- ChlDa ’ MRS. LET er<M ' SHAW - t» «• , c,a ‘ Duties with She WHlPerfo -plei )eHcucy . Modest’ „ . Mrs. Leslie A a ,W !" " i,sh ] ln ^n will undertake. inet»”desty and dehcacy, to maintai P^^.ge she 1 Des Moines, since has wortlnlv w< evi/< 1 , u A 1 Governor. During her husband be< , rn ... , , , ,rn e Shaws have been the past four vei .. . lavish entertain. u 1 bos , Vitality having n maintenance of • . Si "i JWKI NO- ' -'J - 1 • \ JI4 /w> SLIE M. SHAW. MHS. I 1 the salnrv of the Govthe family exceet ent apprecintion in oil ernorshq. Re. fam lanJ jn lo> lands m Texas 3 Governor’s fortune to B ,e of $250,066 or $300.made on a c'* ** will be enabled to devotee of soch ^<"ind< which are has a gracious ( is not a charming hostq * ,or a club woman, but — rsouality and is a FIFTEEN D Trains Collide ’ LN A TUNNEL, ground in ~ Fifteen person ' Running Underand scalded to ew York city. rear-end collision s "’’D' oiushed, burned tral Railroad tm d f ath " odm-sday in a The list of inju 111 . New A ork Centwenty victims, ,n ^ 111 New York City, said to be fata rt>d more than flames, smoke ai a of whom are to the horror of Uy hurt. Smoldering The trains in < d uttcr d arkue>s ad led modation on the Bie wrcck -

and Hartford roa 'I I .'"' 1 ’ 1 ? wer e an aecomand a suburban c * v " ork, New Haven the New York d f, ’ om Norwalk. Conn., train had stoppt ai Lle Uarß'in branch of awaiting orders Central. The Norwalk the Harlem trai d 011 si saal, and while through the dark 0 struck by two rear cars of u ’ " a ll 'h came tearing datiou were tek ness m the subway. The was blocked will the Xor walk accommowere heard the scoped and the tunnel and dying. Esi 1 wreckage, from which wrecked engine screams ot the injured scalded aud stiff- ' apiD s stea ™ fr om the tims before ass B,e Harlem train the first few m< ’cated a number of vicwreck caught ii ,stauce arrived. After had escaped in tl J men ts of darkness the lision were threa e ’ aild the living who rible death. Ie first sh ock of the colAll the ambul tened with a more horsummoned and t begun in the fa * nces 111 the city were The promptness e work of rescue was was given to t) °...°L difficulties.

■ I caught in the - ”. th which assistance : fulness of the r< “ ’“periled passengers ’ many lives. 7Ck and the resource1 exampl^se.'"^^ Before Assumin r BY MAYOR LOW. with Quasi-I __ — ’J, Sriiotv, befr ’flice He Severs Ties or of New Yo<k Alic Corporations. bonds worth in- ' taking office as MvThey were goo_ ( disposed of stocks and Mr. Low though' than a million dollars, to pass upon ap income producers, but he might be called upon plications for franchises RET. ET*-, If ’f * K3^ “ O' I' ’ 1 by corporations .you low. and that some —— his decisions if "’hich he held stock securities. persons might question Mr. Low will ’ e continued to hold such rived from the panics that are reinvest the money decortact th saJe in securities of comnever likely to come ia ) city government

I MRS. DENNIS TELLS STORY. Washington AVoinan Fails to Give Clew to Her Assailant. Mrs. Ada Dennis, the Washington woman who was murderously assaulted on the night of Dec. 8, was able Sunday tor the first time to make a statement. Ihe police have been hopeful that what she would say would throw some light on the motive for the crime or lead to the discovery of the perpetrator, but Mrs. Dennis statement contained nothing that would give any clew in either direction. She said she remembers nothing immediately preceding the attack upon her, and said the blow was struck while she was asleep. Nor had she the remotest idea who committed the assault nor the motive for it. Mrs. Dennis said she had not been out of the house during the evening of the

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MRS. ADA DE.XMS. night of the assault and that before retiring she had locked the doors to the front and back parts of the bouse.- The latter she occupied as a bedroom. The police are more mystified than ever over the affair. Mrs. Ada Dennis, a famous modiste of Washington, was found in an unconscious and seemingly dying condition in her home, in Washington. She had been assaulted by an unknown, who had attacked her with a piano stool. Mrs. Dennis’ condition has much improve! and the attending physicians now believe she will recover. TELEPHONES IN USE, 2,278,717. Hello Husiuess Has Grown Till Now Half a Billion Dollars Is Invested. The Electrical Review contains a study I of the present telephone situation, in which it is shown that the amount invest* ed in the telephone industry in the United States is nearly $500,666,0(10. This estimate includes both the lines an 1 instruments of tlte American Telephone and I’elegraph Company, generally called the Bell Uomi»any. and of the opposition. or in dependent companies. All the States in the Union, with the I exception of Nevada, Rhode Island an I 1 tali, have opposition te’eph 'tic <xch.'ingi s. the total number of exchanges of this , harm ter being 2>l 1. ami the number of telephones connected to them I being 76X.717. The largest extension of | the independent telephone business is in the State of <>hi». which has 226 exchanges and 155.664 inJepcmbut teleidiones. The Bel] interests have an invested capital of $326,606,006. These interests | operate 1,506 exchanges, to which are connected teclplmnes. The Bell companies are now handling a total of very nearly 2,006.6<»0,0<h) calls a year, and arc opcratiug a total of 1.351.202 mm s m vr.a-.-r-mr;—; —/" : , ■ _ pie. I hero are —!«S.7I« telephones in use it? the United States.

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One of the new, big compound locomotive- put in s-rvic- by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul RaiL w:i \ recently made a record run fr m Chicago to Milwaukee. Fast mail train No. 57, engine 921. Engineer I vens, with six sixty-foot mail and express cars, left Chicago at 10:15 p. m., twenty minutes late, and reached Milwaukee at 11:42 p. m.. two minutes late, making tlie run from depot to depot, eighty-five and twotenths miles, in eighty-seven minutes, with one stop. Considering the slow time in the two terminal cities, the slow-downs for tire railway crossings, the run was a remarkable one and is the fastest ever made between the two cities. Edgebrook to Stowell, seventy-two miles, was < ered in sixty-five minutes (sixty-six and one-hall miles per hour), and AA adsworth to A\ estern Union Junction, nineteen miles, in sixteen minutes (seventy-one and one-quarter miles per hour). The run , in detail was .as follows-

* >u ueuiu nas as 1O11OWS: Miles from Chicago. Time. ’ 0 10-15 p. m I aciac Junction 5.4 10 27 n m Edgebrook n. 2 10.34 £nn Readout 32.3 10.53 p. m. Uadi worth 42.9 11.04 p.m. Western union Junction.6l.B 11 26 p m mi i Milwaukee 85.2 11.42 p.m. Engine No. 921 has loaded weight of <£99.099 pounds, driver* 8414 inches in diameter, cylinders 15 -25x28 and has a tender capacity of 18,000 pounds of coal and 7,000 gallons of water. The Santa Fe has issued an order that no one addicted to the use of cigarettes shall be given employment by that company. and a number of cigarette smokers working on the railroad have been dismissed. When opened the new route of the Vandalia from Toledo to St. Louis will be 450 miles in length. Between the same two points the Wabash mileage will be 437 miles and the Clover Leaf 454. The Chicago, Milwaukee anil St. Paul will build at its West Milwaukee shops 100 ore cars of 100,009 pounds’ capacity’ and 500 fifty-foot furniture cars. Cross earnings of the Illinois Central railroad for the month of December were $3,394 118, against $3,267,706 the month previous, an increase of $126,412. 'Die new Chicago-Florida through passenger train service of the Eastern Illinois and Louisville and Nashville roads has been inaugurated. Hereafter locomotive numbers on the Great Western will, appear only on th engines, and the name of the road on the tenders. The Peoria and Northwestern Rond, an extension of the Chicago ami Northwestern from Nelson to Peoria, has been com- I pie ted. The St. Louis, Hillsboro and S'cithern I Railroad of St. Louis, with a capital I stock of $1,900,000, has received a char- | ter. The November statement of the earn- ’ ings of the Denver and Rio Grande shows J substantial gains in gross and net earn- ‘ ings. |

i: Congress. I On AA’ednesday the isthmian canal bill was before the House for debate. All the principal speakers recognized the ailx antage of the Panama route and an nounced themselves in favor of it. So strong ha<l sentiment grown in favor of the I anama route that the most advanced advocates of its selection were talking of forcing a square issue between it and the Nicaragua route. The more conservative friends of the Panama route are urging a compromise—not that th y are uncertain of their own strength, but to escape playing directly into the hands of the Panama company. The debate was rather tedious. Several members who had been among the thirty who voted agamst the Hepburn bill when it was ast under consideration announced they would give it their support provided an amendment is attached givin- the Prcst dent [lower to make a selection. Mr. Burton of Ohio, chairman of thr committee, on rivers and harbors, who voted against the bill, reviewed the objections by the minority when it was last before the House, to show that practicallv aj had been removed. By a vote which was virtually unaniid°us the House of Representatives on Ihursday passed the Hepburn Nicaragua canal bill. But on a test of strength bei">A tn tb<? riVal routes Panama mustered I_6 votes against 176 for Nicara-n 1 1 the House voted

against the Hepb....„ - L„ rc . t ' in of final passage—Mr. Fletcher of Minnesota and Mr. Lassiter of A’irginia. Mr. Bishop of Michigan answered “present,” and several members from the Northwest refrained from voting, among them Page Morris of Duluth, who actively advocated the Panama route. Mr. Fletcher has several times announced his opposition to government construction of an isthmian canal, believing the work should be done by private enterprise.. The vote in favor of the bill was 368. After an all-day debate in the House on the Hopkins bill to create a permanent census bureau the matter was recommitted on Friday to permit the addition of a provision placing the present employes under civil service so they could be transferred to other departments. Die fight to recommit was made under the . leadership of Mr. Burkett of Nebraska, the new member of the appropriations I committee. What might be termed the first gun in the campaign for the re-es-tablishment of the pneumatic tube service was fired when Representative Roberts of Massachusetts introduced a bill providing for the introduction of this service in Chicago. St. Louis, New York. Boston. Philadelphia an 1 Brooklyn. The bill proposes an appropriation of $355,006. to be divided among the six cities as follows: New York and Brooklyn. $126,606; Chicago. .<SL<HM>; Boston, s<i6.600; St. Louis. SSo.O<MI; Philadelphia. $3.>.000. A bill was passed unanimously to give Mrs. McKinley the free mailing privileges during the remainder of her I life. The House then adjourned until I Monday. The ILuise of Representatives spent I Monday in general discussion of the pension appropriation bill. Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio and Mr. Hepburn of lowa denounced a report presented to the last jG. A. R. encampment criticising the course of themselves and other members of Congress on the veteran “pr<*ference” . bill, which was defeated at the last session. Mr. Barney of AA’isconsin. in charge »^X_lbg_nejLd.«n bill, explained that it car--30 appropriated for the current year. I ay merit of pensions had decreased from $1 14.660.1 MID to $138,500,000. Mr. Barney was asked by Mr. Richardson *of lennessee why this was so when the | number of pensioners was said to be larg- | er. Mr. Barney explained that the arrearages were decreasing and the numI bor of large pensions, those from SSO to jss ’ a n,on ll I< was also decreasing. Mr. , Gaines of Tennessee talked about his observations in the Philippines. Mr. Lever of South Carolina then formally announced the death of the late Representative Stokes of his State, and as a mark of respect the House adjourned. In the Senate Mr. Nelson of Minnesota called up the bill providing for the establishment of department of commerce. He explained the necessity which he said existed for the passage of such a measure and was plied with questions by several Senators who thought sufficient time had not been allowed for looking into the merits of the measure. The bill finally went over, subject to call by Air. Nelson. 611 Imsday the Philippines were the Massachusetts, who spoke on his resolution introduced providing for the appointment of a Senate committee to investigate the administration of those islands. He ^poke at some length regarding the unreliability of statements on the situation in the Philippines and the causes which led to the outbreak. Air. I.odu/ Mr. Hoar's colleague. sai<i be regarded the resolution as a reflection on the Philippine committee, of which he was chairman, ami the necessity for the latter

’ XVI lilt. 14111.L1 would cease were this resolution to be adopted. The discussion was leading rapidly to an opening up of the whole Philippine question, when it was agreed that the resolution should go over until AA ednesday. A concurrent resolution was passed appointing a joint committee of < ongress to consider the question of a site for a hall of records to be erected in A\ ashington. The House continued

tho debar on th p -hshm ;, u hill and devoted much time to the proposition advanced by Mr. Rixey of Virginia to open the doors of the soldiers' homes to ex-Confederate veterans. T w , notable speeches were made in support of the proposition, one by Mr. Gardner, a Michigan Republican, and the other by Mr. De Armond, a Missouri Democrat. The Rixey suggestion met with much opposition <m the Democratic side on rhe ground that it was utterly impracticable. Wasliinirton Notes. I he President one day recently signed 1.800 army commissions. Congressman Kern introduced a bill to re-establish the army canteen. Advocates of Chinese exelusi-m have prepared a bill which will effectually bar the Mongolians from the United States. ' Contractor Peirce will complete •is work on the Chicago postoflice about M v 1. am! his penalties will then amount to $50,500. They will probably be remits 1 however, because he was delaved bv foundation work. One squadron of the Eighth civa'-v has be n ordered withdrawn frmi Culu Military district of Santiago - abolish, i American medical and hospital enuio- I men) for troops in the Heid has b' ■ adopted by Canadian force min - tc South Africa. Secretary Long, in reply to criticism of the allotment of prize money to Sampson, declared his d<*par!ment has no control in such matters. The Supreme Court has declined to grant a writ of habeas corpus to C tain Oberlin M. Carter. Green A: Gaylord, contractors, charged with complicity in the Savannah frauds, were ordered to Georgia for trial.

SWEBCIAL WbiXWiAL'’ nTpw~Vnrlt Xofhin " has happened Hun luln. thus far in the new year to indicate that the hopes of continued prosperity so generally entertained throughout the country are falla- < ion-. Ihe one place where there havecome to the surface conditions disagreeable to contemplate is Cleveland, where it has long been suspected by banking interests that trouble was brewing. The difficulties of the Everett-Moore syndicate and their consequences are purely local. They are not due to any w.stkm -- m business in the country at iarge. The same observation applies with equal force to the rubber situation, which has been the subject of wide comment in the East. It is a source of relief to merchants and manufacturers that tran<p..nation facilities are easier, now that the holiday trade, the greatest in the country's history, is finally disposed of. but these facihties are not equal yet to the requirements of the vast volume of business. The railroads have not yet delivered all The structural material which has been delayed in shipment. These delays have interfered seriously witk building operations in many quarters. ders for this kind of mater. *

lon the mills. This is a good 1 summer. during t' An idea of the magnitude of the new equipment which railroad companies are acquiring may be gained from the fact that one of the largest car manufacturing companies built in 1901 65.1MJ0 cars, of which only 500 were passenger ears, and that orders in this industry continue to be enormous. James J. Hill, in speaking to the farmers of the Northwest, said the country has outgrown the capacity of most of the trunk lines. The rail mills are kept so busy by home orders which it will take a long time to fill that little attention is being paid to foreign business. The English mills have been able to get an order for 105.000 tons of rails for Mexico because the American steel men did not deem it worth their while to make a bid. It is understood that the mills are receiving liberal orders to be filled during the second half of this year. They will not be for the present the activ edmpetitors in foreign markets that they were a few years ago. The freer movement of coke ha< enabled some of the blast furnaces to resume work, and the situation in that respect is much improved over a week ago. Prices of wire nails have been adranced 10 cents per keg at Pittsburg, and it is believed that quotations will be permanently higher, as the outside concerns appear to be working toward an agreement with the trust. After a cut of 35 cents per keg this is the first step In the direction of a recovery. The minor details show no special activity. The Amalgamated company has not made a further reduction in [ rices, although the independent companies continue to cut under its figures. Fears are expressed in England that the end of the copper embarrassments has not been seen there yet. The shoe manufacturers are fairly busy on spring and summer goods. There are no signs as yet of lower prices. The jobbing trade in woolens shows a slight improvement. Prices are as high as and in Mime cases higher than they wore a IT | Reports from the dry goods trade indicate that advance orders for the ciDTent year are greater than at the begiuiing of 1901. Country merchants are not backward about buying, and that Is a satisfying proof of the soundness of conditions in the small communities. pi . , Chicago business tyainufllCdyO. j tains a good volume. is shown by a gain of 19.3 per cent in bank clearings. The advance made by the Underwriters’ association in insurance rates was not expected but the insurance men claim the heavy losses in the classes of property affected j '-itify the change. Ibis never is an active season o<‘ the year in real estate, but there is le« activity than there was twelve months ago. There is less eagerness on th? part of owners to sell and more imptity by men who have money to invest anj who are coming to the conclusion tha? they can do better in real estate than anywhere else. The government crop report inti -ated a total wheat yield in 1901 of 678,61,1.400 bushels, the greatest ever known in the country, but this does not reach the amount estimated by some of th- private statisticians. May wheat clo-.ed at 82^ cents, a loss of three-fourths of a cent for the week. The crop prospects will soon become a point of vital concern to the New York -tock market as a decreased yield this year will raN-- the question of a reduction in the earnings of the railroads, whose business will be

chiefly affected by short crops. I rospects for the Brazil coffee crop are not satisfactory, owing to con in tied drought. Eggs are scarce and so te * : the large houses have been heavy buyers, but the Eastern apprehensions of a corner are not entertained here. Suga ■ continues low. and authorities in the trade think prices will rule low.

( hicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $9.50: hogs, shipping grades, $4.2.1 to sC>.,>.>; sheep, fair to choi.-e $3 (hi to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 re.], 84c t > 85c corn. No. 2. (lie to (i2c; oats. No. 2,44 c to 45c: rye. No. 2. 65c r*. (ide; hay, timothy. $9.00 to $14.09; prairie. $.*.50 to $13.90: butter, choice creamery, /0.- to 23c; eggs, fresh, 27c to 30e; po atoes, lie to 77c per bushel. Indianapolis—CattD. shipping. s£.oo to $6.50; hogs, choice ligl t, $4.00 to £6.00" sheep, commim t-> prime. .<2.50 to *3.59; wheat. No. 2. sp - llirn _ j whit* . new, 67 • : <> •; , s. \ , j ... h;-. ■ID ■ to 59 -. St. Louis l ittle. 84.59 to $7.09 hogs, $3.99 to $6.20: sleep. s_*.s(t io .•■4.25 whet, N* . 2. >7<- t " ss • . < n ' ■ •’ Vi" t ■ 'H ■; No. 2. 17 ■ • , 48c ne,’ ■ ' wh’ .i?. No. 2. * * । <• y. •* mix 1-' 96 • ■ 67c c-. \ 2 P j x ;.,b 48,- to 49c; rye. N *. 2. 69,- to 70c. •'■' ■ ■ - <*o t‘» i»Gc* 'h •* whito Toledo Wh ,5.2 mixed. SCc to No. 2 mix* 47 •4s ■; rye. No. 2?52'! tn .Jh-: clover s ed. prime. s<>.lo. _ Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 7<c to • 9 ; corn. No. 3. 61c to 62c; oats. No. 2 white. 47e to 48*- rye. No. 1. 65e to ’ale: barley. No. 2, C4c to 65c; pork, mess, $16.70.