Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 January 1902 — Page 2

<1 be .3 nbe pendent. ", A. ENDLEY, I’ubl iMbvr. WALKERTON. - - - INDIANA. WEEK S NEWS RECORD Camp Five of the Otter Creek Boom and Lumber Company, several miles from Hambleton, AV Va., in the forest, took tire and burned so rapidly that seven of the forty men in there asleep in the building failed to get out and were burned to death. I. Solomon, a Syrian, living at Keokuk, lowa, was held up and robbed of a money belt containing $8,500 at Kirksville, Mo. ' Solomon had sold out his business in Keokuk and was looking for a location. Two fellow countrymen have been arrested and charged with the robbery. J. L. Craft was hanged in the county jail at Jefferson City, Mo., for the murder of Henry Spieker, member of a posse who tried to arrest him after he hail escaped from prison. Gov. Dockery pardoned Craft of his prison sentence for train robbing in order that he might be hanged. A four-story brick building at Spring and Capital streets, Columbus, Ohio, occupied by Samuel Stevens, wholesale grocer: E. B. Robins & Co., and Zinn, Judkins & Co., wholesale hatters, and John Hayes & Co., jobbers in leather, was gutted by fire, entailing a loss estimated at about $200,000, practically covered by insurance. A courier from Picton, a coal mining camp located three miles from Da Isenburg. Colo., brought news that a terrible explosion occurred in one of the mines operated by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, in which six men were killed and ten or more wounded, many of them perhaps fatally. The mine caught tire and is now burning. In Kansas City the Court of Appeals decided in the case of Fannie Brassfield vs. The Knights of the Maccabees that fraternal insurance orders must operate under the laws of Missouri. The State law provides that it shall be no defense that the insured committed suicide. Brassfield committed suicide and the Maccabees refused to pay the policy. Because he got obstreperous at the bedside of his dying wife, while Rev. Father Timothy Dempsey, pastor of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, was administering extreme unction. John Cosgrove of St. Louis was ejected from his home by the priest, an athletic young man 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 250 pounds. Father Dempsey practically kicked Cosgrove out of the house.

A few months ago Frederick Randen, middle aged, of Bremen. Ind., married the young daughter of a neighbor. Banders' handsome son fell in love with his pretty stepmother, the latter reciprocating. The husband and father learned the • secret of the young people anil procured a divorce. Later he accompanied his sou and former wife to the county clerk'? office, where the young couple were wedded. An attempt to defraud the National Bank of Commerce through its stock, yards branch in Kansas City out of $6,500 by the use of forged drafts, has been discovered by G. R. Thompson, who presented the drafts for payment: W. J. ' Laughlin, to whom the drafts were paya- ' ble, and another man whose name is not known have been arrested on information filed by Charles Moore, assistant cashier ’ of the bank. i Three years ago young Robert Mason 1 of Woodhill, N. Y., kissed his sweetheart, ' Agnes Shepard, good-by and with his Regiment started for the PbilipjJnes. He ! ^"ulu'ib'erormagempntß and expeditions that caused delay in receiving his letters from home. On a recent night, his term of enlistment having expired, he suddenly turned up in Woodhill just in time to find his sweetheart marrying a rival. Rushing up the church aisle, the ex-soldier, in his wellworn uniform, drew a pistol and, putting his rival to flight, wedded his old sweetheart, who had thought him dead. NEWS NUGGETS. Franklin Murphy has been inaugurated as Governor of New Jersey. John Lutz was hanged at Wilkesbarre, Fa., for the murder of his wife. Montana’s new state house at Butte has been turned over to the State commission by the contractors and wJU be dedicated July 4. The Kansas Democratic State convention will be held at Wichita May 20. The representation is made large enough to admit the Populists in case they decide to affiliate. Robert Green, his grandson and Joseph Jackson, all colored, were struck by a train and killed while driving across the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley tracks at Fayette, Miss. The Superior Court at Scranton. Pa., has decided that Alexander Bergman, who attempted to assassinate 11. C. Frick in 1892, must serve his full term of twenty-one years, less good behavior allowance.

Lewis Johnson, assassin of City Marshal Richardson of Gulf Port, and Victor Johnson, who brutally murdered a little girl at Pass Christian, were hanged from the same scaffold at Mississippi City, Miss. Gov. Taft of the Philippines says the islands are rapidly being pacified, and predicts that a force of 15.000 soldiers will be ample to maintain order within a year, their principal function being a show of authority. ’ Evidence is accumulating to show the formation of a gigantic transatlantic steamship pool, taking in thirty lines, all British or American. German, French, Holland and Scandinavian boats are not included in the proposed combine. Fire in the Globe yarn mills of the New England Cotton and Yard Company at Fall River, Mass., damaged the plant to the extent of about $200,000. Prof. W. C. Crossman and his 15-year-old son. Willie, were caught on a trestle one mile north of Brenham, Texas, and run down by a passenger train. Both were instantly killed. Louise Avery was found dead at Delaware, Ohio, holding to her right temple the muzzle of a shotgun. There were indications that she had also taken morphine and paris green previous to using the gun. EASTERN. Three letters have been received by Gov. Odell of New York threatening him with assassination. The Harvard Princeton debate will take place at Cambridge, Mass., on the evening of March 2S. Negro railroad laborers attempted to thaw out dynamite at a stove at Kartaus. Pa. Three were killed and seven injured by the explosion. That cancer can successfully be treated by means of the X-ray has again been demonstrated by Dr. C. E. Skinner in New Haven. Conn., who has just cured

L. S. Manville after a course of treatment of five weeks’ duration. There was an explosion of gas at Maple Hill colliery, near Gilberton, Pa. Two miners are missing and probably dead and two others were injured. A naked lamp in the hands of one of the missing men ignited a pocket of gas while making an investigation. George Kline, accused of the murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Caroline Klein, was acquitted in Baltimore, Md., on the ground of insanity. Klein knocked the woman down and kicked her to death because sho threatened to have him arrested lor abusive language. It now appears that an important reawrn why the banks in a recent week showed only half as large an increase in cash as the known movements seemed to indicate is that considerable amounts had been lodged in Jersey City to cover the day when personal property was declared ill New York Citv.

Neighbors made the discovery of a terrible tragedy at 209 Spring alley, Pittsburg. A family named Vensuliek, Polish, was found horribly beaten with a railcutter. The wife was dead, the husband dying, and the throe small children badly cut and bruised. It is supposed the husband attacked the wife, who succeeded in inflicting fatal injuries on him. WESTERN. A case of smallpox has caused a scare in the I. Diversity of Minnesota. I resident Haskins has been unanimously re-elected by the Ohio Mine Workers. Ihe railroad brotherhood, in session in San I raneisco, decided to hold the next bi-ennial convention at Chicago in Mav 1904. It is reported that outside capitalists are about to build a blast furnace at Toledo to cost $1,000,000 and employ 500 men. Harry Hagemeyer and Charles Berger, laborers at the Proctor A Gamble soap works at Cincinnati, were asphyxiated in an oil tank. Thomas Mills and Henry Grenfeldt were killed by the premature explosion of dynamite in tho Wabash mine near Custer, S. D. The roller mill at Sprague Lake, Wash., owned by the Centennial Milling Company, has been destroyed by fire Loss $60,000. Frank Kendall’s lumber yard and drv kilns, with 4.000,000 feet of’ lumber, were burned at Kedron, Ark. Loss $50,000 with no insurance. Charles L. Chapman, proprietor of the Pittsburg Foundry and Machine Works, was run down and killed by a train at Fort Scott, Kan. Ihe Chicago Woman s Club exonerated Mrs. Alice Bradford Wiles from all re-, sponsibility for the anonymous letter attacking Mrs. Farson. The entire business portion of Arapahoe. tho county seat of Custer County, Oklahoma, was wiped out by fire. The loss is estimated at $50,000.

Former Policeman George Vena was found in the outskirts of Maumee, Ohio, dying from a stab wound and expired without regtlining consciousness. Two officers were killed in a tight with outlaws near Anadarko, I. T. The bandits are being pursued by a force of 100 men, and there may be further bloodshed. A first mortgage of $5,500,000 has been filed in the records office of Randolph County by the St. Louis Valley Railroad Company in favor of the St. Louis Trust Company. R. L. Spears' house at Harmony, Ohio, was burned and his 2-year-old child perished in the Hames. The father was badly burned while rescuing three other children. That to have smallpox is a crinm beCtuia- uasjiitilit y- of prpve । Tjy^^ffination is declared by Dr.*Rr3p Bracken, secretary of the Minnesota Board of Health. Beno Hinterholzer and James Person , were killed and three other men injured near Mackey, Idaho, by the explosion of an old charge of dynamite wiiich they were trying to dig up. Application for a receiver for the Cincinnati Safe and Lock Com|»any has been made by a majority of the stockholders. They place the assets nt $42,798 and the liabilities at 8109,000. The four-story building at 100 SSt Charles street, St. Louis, occupied by the Premium Shirt Manufacturing Company, was burned and the contents destroyed, causing an estimated loss of $250,000. Samuel F. Hawley, aged 39, an attorney of Chiciego, shot and killed himself at the home of his brother, E. W. Hawley, in St. Louis. Grip, added to other complications, rendered him despondent. Thomas Redmond, aged 17, recently convicted of murder in the second degree at Kansas Ciiy for having stabbed to death Thomas Scruggs, has been sentenced to twenty-live years in the penitentiary. At .Milton. N- D., Mrs. Lars Hanson was burned to death while starting a fire with kerosene. Her sister, Miss Lottie Doty of Chicago, xvho was visiting her, went to her rescue, and was burned so badly that she died. Mrs. Carrie Nation, at Topeka, Kan., while flourishing a large hatchet which she received its a present from an Eastern manufacturing firm, dropped it and the keen edge of the instrument severed the large toe of her right foot. In Cincinnati Annie Lage, a servant girl, murdered the 5-year-old son of William IL Whitaker by hanging and then attempted to commit suicide by asphyxiation. It is probable that she will die without regaining consciousness. Cashier Philip S. Adams and $4,500 disappeared Monday, and later Chief George D. Carstarphen of the State banking department closed the Commercial Bank at Fulton, Mo., taking charge at the request of the president.

Fire in rhe ticket office of the Union station. Canal and West Adams streets, Chicago, imperiled sixty railway employes, eauseu a panic among 200 patrons of the roads in the big waiting room and wrecked $12,000 worth of property. The Michigan Buggy Company's fourstory brick factory burned in Kalamazoo. Loss SIOO,OOO, about half covered bj - insurance. The company is now erecting a large new factory in Manufacturing Park in the south part of the .city. Missouri Democrats will hold a convention at Springfield July 8 to nominate three candidates for judges of the Supreme Court, and one at St. Joseph July 22 to name candidates for railroad commissioners and superintendent of schools. In Los Angeles, Cal., the Rees A Wirsching block was almost totally destroyed by fire, together with the saddlery establishment of the Hayden A Lewis Company and the coffee and spice house of Newmark Brothers. Loss $150,000. M est-bonnd Missouri I’acilie passenger train No. 3 ran into an east-bound freight train a mile east of Etlah, Mo. Many cars were smashed. Only one person was injured, Judge Elijah Robinson of Kansas City, wfio escaped with severe bruises. Sixty guards, armed with rifles, fought a desperate battle with robbers in the Independence gold mine at Cripple (’reek, Colo. The fight took place 400 feet

below ground, and in absolute darkness. One guard was wounded and the robbers escaped. H. 11. Kohlsaat retired from editorial control of the Chicago Record Herald. Prank B. Noyes, who has been in charge of the business of the paper since the consolidation of the Record and TimesHerald last April, now takes full control of the property. Henry Coffee and his son, both discharged employes of the Southern Missouri and Arkansas Railroad, were caught setting fire to the depot at Poplar Bluff, Mo. They confessed to setting the fires which destroyed the company’s rolling stock recently. Four miners were killed, one dangerously hurt and a number of others seriously injured by a cave-in at the Ada mine, located at Carterville, Mo. Others were hurt, but their injuries are not serious. The accident was caused by the premature explosion of dynamite. I The center span of the West Washington street bridge crossing White river in Indianapolis succumbed to the weight of a work train consisting of two trolley cars and four teams. Twelve workmen wore precipitated into the river, but all were rescued alive. Four were injured. Jessie Wilson at Santa Monica, Cal., fished from the Pacific a bottle containing a message which came from central Illinois, around Capo Horn. The message was written by W alter Roeder of Bloomington 111., and after being inclosed in a bottle, was thrown into the Mackinaw river. SOUTHERN. The body of Sturgis E. Jones, former Mayor of Roanoke, Va., was found in the Ohio river at Huntington, W. Va. Indications point to suicide. Gen, Palmer, who gave $1,000,000 to the employes on retiring from the presidency of the Rio Grande Western Railroad. has announced his intention to found a $250,000 sanitarium. The fishermen's strike which has been on at Pensacola, Fla., for several weeks has been amicably adjusted. The smacks are being iced ami stores taken on board preparatory to proceeding to sea. In Natchez, Miss., Thomas Glenn shot and killed Allen I). Carpnter, brother of J. N. Carpenter, one of the wealthiest men in that part of the State. The shooting occurred over a trivial dispute. An application for a temporary receiver has been filed by the directors of tho Commercial Bank of Albany, Ga. The liabilities of the bank are estimated at I $123,0(H), with assets of $191,000. Lieut. John W. Stark of the Virginia State Guard, charged with sending obscene matter through the mails to the President of the United States, has been held to the grand jury, which meets at Richmond, Va., in April. In the federal court at Louisville, Ky., J. M. MeKuight, former president of the defunct German National Bank of that City, who was convicted of embezzling the bank’s funds, was sentenced to the penitentiary for six vears and was lined $lO.

One of the most important developments at Beaumont, Texas, is the discovery of a gusher which is not on Spindle Top Heights. It is a hundred feet from the hill, 199 feet from tho nearest well, and in a territory where two or three gassers have failed, so far, to develop into oil spouters. J. W. Martin, a Knoxville, Tenn., postoffice clerk, was injured by the explosion of a package of powder or tin infernal machine. He was stamping letters and packages, when a package addressed to a hardware house exploded as he struck it with the stamp. Examination showed on it the name of a New York smokeless powder concern. ■F* Reign. During an audience granted to a company of American pilgrims Pope Leo fainted. Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett died in London, the result of an operation for ai)|>endieitis. Twenty-two persons were drowmd .11 the sinking of the Norwegian h.‘ik Arab Steed, London for Christiania, in the North Sea. At Pruex, Austria, the Jupiter mine was suddenly flooded and forty-three men, including the manager and two superintendents, were cut off from escape. It is thought probable that they were all drowned. Lord Kitchener reports to the London war office that Gen. Louis Botha has escaped Gen. Bruce Hamilton after a seven miles’ chase. One Boer was killed and thirty-three taken prisoners. Some rifles, cattle, etc., were captured. A Belgrade correspondent telegraphs that King Alexander of Servia has re-

quested the metropolitan of the Greek Church to arrange a divorce for him from Queen Draga. Gen. Laza, a lawyer named Markich and three other residents of Belgrade are named as corespondents. At the opening of Parliament by King Edward public interest was centered in the two leading issues of the nation—the Boer war and the Irish question. The King's speech from the throne defended the conduct of the war, aud despite reports of cruelties by the British soldiers praised their treatment of the Boers. IN GENERAL. Four earthquake shocks made the City of Mexico tremble Thursday. Religious statistics for 1901 show that the gain in church membership in the United States during the year was 2.67 per cent, while the total gain in population was only 2.18 per cent. The price war in the window glass trade is practically on. The effort to reconcile the differences existing between the three combines —The American, the Co operatives, and the Independents—has been defeated. King Christian of Denmark has cri^Utfd Charles Earl Currie of Louixlulle a Knight of Donneborg in appreciation of Mr. Currie's efforts to promote trade relations between Denmark and the United Stales. Fire in Montreal damaged the Royal Electric Light Company’s works and adjoining buildings to the extent of $50,000. With the aid of temporary repairs it is promised that the city lighting will not be materially affected. Col. Myron T. Herrick, treasurer of the McKinley Memorial Association, says few contributions have been received from wealthy men. and that the bulk of the memorial film! has come from wageearners and school children. In the presence of the President and his cabinet, the entire Wisconsin delegation in Congress, Gov. Durbin of Indiana. Senator Hanna and a number of oth->r friends, Henry ('. Payne of Wisconsin was sworn in as Postmaster Genera) in the cabinet room at the White House. One of the most terrible catastrophes in ihe history of the State of Guerrero, Mexico, is reported to have occurred when an extremely violent earthquake shock was felt at (Jhilpancingo, causing a great loss of life and injuring many persons. Details from the stricken district are very meager, but scattering reports indicate that probably 300 persons were killed and as many more injured.

s OPENED B 1 f THE KING. .1 — • BRITISH PARLI AMENT RESUMES e ,TS I .ABORS. Rig.il I onip Att ent j a j] ie Ceremonies -Populace Hai 1k the King Speech from the Throw ; Greeted with Cheers e - Ruler Defends , Hie SoldicrH . r 1 ■ King Edward o pen ed Parliament with a ceremonial in all essential respects sim liar to that of Fe. bruary last . Thc pro . cession to the 11‘lmse o f Lords was of the same charactfi r ag that witnessed on • occasion of t\ e open ing of the first s arhament of lx j ng Edward’s reign, while within the I llpper hoUBe were seen the same state p ageantry, the same histone dresses and the same revival of ancient forms. r 1 lonfe of the royal procession, t less than a m j] e j n length, was , med with more t han 4,000 trained troops ( and 1,000 po'* ' nen । King Edvi and Q U een Alexandra o< cupied thrones beneath a canopy, . Wlth 1 and Princess of Wales ; ^" either them. The other membe! s of # ] family W ere seated on c " alrs ! ot of the steps leading to the ' i ''•“'J usher of the Black Rod, ‘ I Biddulph, having sum- ' er “nd the members of * mnons. his majesty read . ° . tlie throne. Their macd amid a fanfare of tided by the same regal ‘■'•rem j _ ’utnrijiexLtljeir entry into the house. ’ — >xi King Edw s speech from tho throne opened with “eferonco to the tour of the Prince and I ‘rincess of Wales. “They were every whe’l e,” said the King, "reif A i KINO J I DWAKD VII.

c>’iv. .| ujth |Ost 1.1 est affection, nnt i 1 am convinced their presence served t 0 rivet more closely the bonds of mutual regard mid loyalty by which the vigors ot the empire is main tained." R-ferring to G rent Bri: :> .3; 1 with foreign co' mtries the King said: “My relations wi h the other [towers con tinue to be of a friendly character.” Contrary to e lactations, the King’s reference to the LBoer war was just as indefinite ns rhe teim tits on the subject made in the i«t half a dozen messages from the tb ne. "I regret.” sni' 1 ids majesty, "that the war in S mth is no* vet concluded, been favorable t. “ a ; war largely redm •’ of - being resumed in n are orv. , i upw colonies. ’ lhe T7 ,ty ^relieving those wnX ; “'V strain of 1 ' . s n ' Du- the opportunity of r of the loyal mid ntrmoc offers of Co | on : cs fur . then contingents n m ,v , t , ~ , 1 , in l " shortly reach South Africa from the D, • ... , > . Imlnton of Canada, the commonwea th of < . , I ‘ Zeal-md ” Australia and New In regard to th( > , . , ' sugar conference the K[>ecch said: I tL, , , > 1 , , , . , ust its decision mav lead to the aband . , . .. , , mment of the svsiem by which the sug„„ „„ , , ■ । , , ”lar producing colonus 1 mi l home manulaj, , . . .rturers of sugar have been unfar x we.L^,^ in tb( . . us tmn of this import nt in , ]nstrv » 1 I hen came the , , , . , . । rollowmg cla use: ”1 have concluded witl, ~ , . , 1- . J) the I resident of the 1 I nited States a trJ,, . । ■ , , ... 'aty, the provision^ of I which will facihtat ,e the constru-tion of mi interoceanie ca , . • , . ~ Hal unuer guarantees that its neutrality. ...m 1 • , 1,1 . -ii 1 maintained, . and that it will be t, , , ~ , , . . nPPon to the commerce and shipping of al< ation< , On the opening d of l>arli . llnent (he aggressiveness of t< , ~ , . fu* opposition riva ed the speech from th< tlll . , , , ,• , ‘ T1 ? throne in public interest. Ihe attaclL „„„„ ~ .. , s upon the government were of such „„ , , in unexpected nature hat they drew the hre of Saljs _ bury in the House Sf Lords all(] that Joseph Chamberlam in the Coinn)ons

NEW ROCKEE ELLER face> Multimillionaire Cl * . . JiaiiKCs Appearance by Shaving L is Mustache The shaving off of hig mustache makps n surprismg change i n th( . appearanc „ of John D Rockefeller tbe uiultilllillion . a ire. He seems I

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much thinner and j more sickly, says a I New York dis- j [Hitch. His hair has begun to fall out so fast that he is almost entirely * bald. He seems to 1 be more easily fa- 1 tigued Uuh- rt WO 1 fore. On hig estate- of 2,000 acres[ in the Pocantico > hills. Rockefeller often works for days at a time in the fields, hoping thus to regain his strength, but thus far his efforts have been in vain. After a few days of exertion he sits

down to a supper J -jD. kockeeelli:!. of crackers and skimni , , , , I , led milk, which IS serxed at a temperatf „ - । grees, for nothing may ’ fe ° . 9 *“ ° temperature lower tba 11PS a a • . .1, , . 1 • , n. blood heat, lie is almost a physical COAL IS si Aß rp k ' 1— • Railroads Unable to 51 , .... . .. |eet the Demand lor I li is Coni e, . niodity. Snortage ot cars and] ~ .. , , .[motive power on the railroads has result . . , ~ , . .led in a sear< 1 y ol coal throughout a li - . • United States, and in other large cities where|,\ e a . lll । . (t he eonsumpfiou is great a coal famine isl ~ , . .5, 11.. 1 threatened. 1 here actually i> less c , , , , now than there was at ° a on ''" re last year, when a prolon J 10 , same anthracite region had p s<t . S "/ J" • dustrv. Prices both win 110 are higher than one ye CBale ““J; f a ’’ advance xvas made befj a ^. 0 ’ "" 1 1(! scarcity of coal. b' e th «

A WEST POINT HERO. Capt, Francis A. Bchoeffel, Recently Wounded in the Philippines. The gallant Ninth regiment has borne the brunt of the fighting in the Philippines for some time, and as a result many a brave American lad has gone down with his face to the foe. The third reverse which has overtaken this regiment recently was that of the day before Christmas, when a detachment of Company E was ambushed by a band of bolomen and a fierce hand-to-hand light followed. Before the Filipinos were driven off seven American soldiers were killed and six wounded. Among the latter was Capt. Francis A. Sehoeffel of Rochester, one of the bravest soldiers in Uncle Sam’s service. Capt. Sehoeffel began his fighting career when a student at West Point. II is name was brought into considerable prominence during tho investigation into the death of Cadet Booz as the student who whipped every Q HERO WHO WHIPPED HIS CLASS, upper-class man that was brought before him thirty in all, five of them going down before him in one day. His wonderful prowess lias become celebrated in the annals of the institution. Sehoeffel was one of the first men to climb San Juan hill. He was present at the siege of Pekin, and was shot while in the lead during the charge in which Col. Liscum, commander of tho Ninth, was killed. ( apt. s, hoeffel is the son of a prominent Rochester Civil W ar veteran. NO MERCY TO REBELS. Reconccnt raGon ami the UnspnrhiK Pursuit of Filipinos Begun. Having failed during two years’ strife in subduing the insumxction in Batanagas Province, which lies just south of Manila, ami having become convinced that lenient treatment of tho insurgents la productive of no good results, Gen. J. I ranklin Bell, military commander in that province, has decided on the enforcement of the war in the most vigormis and determined fashion, involving ret'oncentration in a modified form, the application of martial law in all directions and the unsparing pursuit and punishment of natives who act as spies aud traitors to the United States. All this appears from a long report to the War Department. The reconcentration order in substance provides for the establishment of a zone around the garrisons into which tho friendly inhabitants are to be required to come under penalty of confiscation and destruction of their property. This is said to be necessary to prevent the collection of forced contributions from the inhabitants by the insurgents. Ihe military officers are allowed to fix the [trice of necessaries of life and it is promised that the people may return as soon as peaceful conditions are • st nd p, 111 II • l-naip lar by Gen. Bell to his station commanders, commenting on existing conditions and giving them advice how to proceed. He says it is regrettable that the innocent must suffer with the guilty, but the greatest good to the greatest number can be brought about best by [Hitting a prompt end to the insurrection. Therefore he directs the application of general order l(Hk in force during the Civil War in he United States, which practically regards an insurgent as a guerrilla, outside the pale of civilized warfare and subject to the deatli penalty wherever such art insurgent does not engage in the war continuously and observe all the rules of war. BEATS RAISING HOGS. Nebraska Farmers Find that Raising Wolves Fays. The large number of claims coming into the Nebraska State Auditor's office for bounties on wolves and coyotes has led to the discovery that some farmers and ranchers in the western part of the State have gone into the business of breeding those animals for the bounty market. In one instance a man was found to Lave raised more than 100 wolves last summer from animals he had trapped and penned up for that purpose. Other cases were unearthed whore from fifteen to sixty of these animals had been reared. In October and November they were killed and their scalps presented for redemption at the office of the county clerk in each county. The State now* authorizes the county clerk to pay $3 from the county fund for each coyote or wolf scalp presented, and he certifies the fact to the auditor, who pays $1 additional. Four dollars for each wolf or coyote pays better than hog raising, and naturally some farmers have turned their attention to this industry. The law was passed years ago when the wolf and coyote were the great foes of the cattle and sheep men. In the last ten years $150,000 has been paid by the State alone as bounty. What makes the State authorities angrier is that there is nothing to prevent a man from running a wolf ranch if he desires to. Th® It is a safe guess that Captain Clark will not delay the coronation by arriving late. Once more the British have captured the spot where Gen. Botha was a few hours before. Young Mr. Phillips has succeeded in demonstrating that rye is dangerous even when not in liquid form. That Cuban who claims That he blew up tho Maine probably is competent to blow up an empty balloon. Kentuckians may only have wanted to let the world know that they could distinguish bet-Aeon Uncle Tom and grand opera. Dabbling in rye is what caused the second downfall of Speculator Phillips, but as it was not old rye there is hope for him. King Edward, it is said, secs the end of the war, which must be accounted as evidence of very good eyesight for one of his age.

| Congress 1 The Senate on Thursday for a brief time had under consideration the bill creating a department of commerce and the discussion tended to show that the measure will have to be amended in many particulars before it can receive the approval of the Senate. Serious objections were raised to the transfer to the proposed department of several important bureaus now a part of other departments of the government. It was pointed out that if the bill as reported became a law it would create the greatest department of the government ami that the seefetary of commerce would have more power even than the Secretary of the Treasury. Notice of several important amendments was given. The House concurrent resolution providing for McKinley memorial exercises by Congress in the hall of the House of Representatives on Thursday, Feb. 27. was adopted. By a strictly partisan vote a favorable report on Senator Frye’s ship subsidy bill was authorized by the Senate committee on commerce on Friday. The committee made several important amendments to the bill. One allows mail carrying vessels to be either iron or steel, instead of steel only, as originally provided. Another reduces to 1.000 gross registered tons the vessels receiving a bounty. The Democrats voted solidly for striking out the general subsidy provision. The House of Representatives was in session less than an hour Saturday. Only routine business was transacted, the most important feature of which was the reporting by Mr. Cannon, chairman of the committee on appropriations, of an urgent deficiency bill. The bill carries $16,701,415, distributed am mg the different departments. Among the more important items included in the bill are the following: Rebates to tobacco manufacturers as provided in the war revenue reduction act, $.»,1.>0.000: completion of public building at St. l’aul, Minn., SIOO.0(H); completion of statue of Rochambeau, $15,000: establishment of permanent military post at Manila $500,000: military ordnance. $2.>0.000; naval ordnance, S3<HI.(H>O: expenses of congressional party to funeral of President M> Kinley. $6,200; rural free delivery. 5515.000. The time of the House of Representatives was occupied Monday in general debate on the urgent deficiency bill, which carries a total of $16,704,230. An item in the bill carrying $5(M),000 for a military post at Manila precipitated a long debate, in which some of the ablest debaters on both sides of the House took part. \\ hen pressed for an explanation as to the reason for the proposed appropriation of $40,000 for the emergency fund for the State Department. Mr. Gannon admitted that it was for the entertainment "f Prince Henry of Germany. Mr. Clark (Mo.) wanted to know who was going to pay the expenses of Whitelaw Reid, Captain Clark, Gen. Wilson, young Pierpont Morgan ami young M'etmore. who were to be dispatched to London to see King Edward VIL crowned. "We were to pay the expenses of Prince Henry's visit,” said Mr. Clark, “and it was a poor rule that did not work both ways. If it was right and proper for us to pay for the entertainment of Prince Henry, why should not England pay the expenses of Reid, Clark and the others?” Mr. Cannon in his reply drew the fire of Mr. De Armond of Missouri. Others who participated were Mr. Richardson, Tennessee; Mr. Grosvenor, Ohio; Mr. Alexander. New York; Mr. Grow, Pennsylvania; Mr. Williams, Illinois, and Mr. Underwood, Alabama. Chairman Lodge -^-ed l||e 1 gave notice th;n he would call it up at 2 o'clock Tuesday. During the greater part of the day's session the measure providing for the establishment of a department of commerce was under consideration. An effort was made by Mr. Nelson of Minnesota to secure a vote, but the opposition to many of its provisions became so strong that the effort had to be abandoned. Discussion of the Philippine tariff bill occupied attention in the Senate Tuesday. the debate continuing three hours, and resolving itself along political lines. Senators Lodg<‘. for th-- Republicans, and Rawlins, for the Democrats, were the principal speakers, ami were given close attention. The bill was made the unfinished business and will probably hold that pre,er> m e until the final vote. In the absence of other [tressing business the House managers are allowing the widest latitude in the debate on the urgent deli' k'm y bill now before the llotAe. The irrigation of arid lands in the West and the advisability of retaining control of tlie Philippines were the main topics under discussion Tuesday. The speakers were Mr. Sibley (Pan. Mr. Dinsmore (Ark.). Mr. Newlands (Nev.l. Mr. Mondell (Wvo.i. Mr. Robinson (Ind.). Mr. Kern (III.). Mr. Gaines (Tenn.), Mr. Vandiver (Mo.) and Mr. Greene (Iowa). Washington Notes. House coinage committee has agreed upon a bill to maintain silver at a parity with gold. Bills have been introduced for public buildings at Ghampaign and Jacksonville, 111. Senator Rawlings । resented resolution to inquire into lease of mineral lands by Indians. Representative Watson introducetl a bill creating office of Fifth Assistant Post ma st er General. House committee on rivers and harbors heard delegations from the Chicago drainage canal and other organizations who explained the necessity of deepening ami otherwise improving the Chicago river Gov. W. M. Crane of Massachusetts is said to have been selected as the successor of Secretary Long. According to the program, the change is not to be made until after the adjournment of the Massachusetts Legislature. House committee on agriculture decided to grant public hearings on oleomargarine tax bills. Senate committee on military affairs exonerated Gen. L'orbin and Col. Heistand in the hemp inquiry. There is a growing sentiment in Congress to adopt some plan to relieve the President from the importunities of office seekers. Cuban merchants have appealed to Secretary Root to have Congress enact a law giving the island tariff concessir.ns. It is declared if th ~ is not dom tho industries of the island will be ruined. Congressman C 'nper explained that the present civil goveranumt in the Philippines is mH affected by tlw new bill conccrni ig thCommeicial (’abb- ' tuji ay ■■ facing a lively contest in ihe P'cifie cal c matter before Cong) ■ n b ot Pacific ReproM-nta i •• 1 "Vn ag of Massachusetts has introduced a bid providing a salary of >25.(11)0 a year for < x Presidents of the United State's. It is said that PD’shbm; Roosevelt has brought a majority of the Senators to support his plan of granting tariff concessions to Cuban sugar and tobacco.

^WrERCIAL [ii ~ I I lie volume of businei-.H sc I Nev IOFK. r: "’ tllls «how- rnod- — 1 erate gain over the corresponding period of last year. Net earnings of fifty-two roads for the fir-t week in January increased 9.! I per com over the corresponding week of last y.-.ir, and the showing by bank <d< arings is Imost equally good. ■ One of the best evidem'i s m smid condition of business is th- via :m of banking communities generally. The tr.m---bh-s of the Everett-Moore syn li and the ('rude Rubber Company arc coing bankers everywhere to scan mor ■ c. 'sely the character of the securities on which they make loans, so as to guar : ; disaster. Less complaint is heard regarding car shortage, and the railroads probab \ are beginning to catch up on business offered. The reports from the various branches of the iron ami steel industry fulfill the expectations of thriving business, and it is singular to s< ■ tha - foreign steel ami iron in fair <iuan:itie- havo been imported for Eastern cons :m rs. German steel billets have b-e:i delivered at Youngstown at a cost to th • po hasers of $27.5() « ton. This illustr. ‘ merely the inability of ih< \mericaa manufacturers to -apply imme i:.:ti-,y all kinds of steel which are needed, but also the readiness of the German sr w meti* to accept a low price forth Ir product. The duty pai 1 on these billets was .si>.72 a ton. As anticipated, the American Steel ami ire Company made an agreement with the independent manufacturers, and tlie result is an advance of $1 a ton in the price of wire, while wire nails have been put up to $205 a keg. T. • price of pig iron, the demand for which is maintained firmly, has not been changed. Southern as well as Northern producers are conservative. Stocks at the furnaces are being reduced, and the output, wliieh was 298,4<X) tons on Jan. 1. probably is increasing. A different story is told in copper, two cuts reducing the trust quotation for lako to 11% cents a pound, while sales are reported at 11 cents. This is a great reduction from 17 cents, at which the Amalgamated company's selling agency en leavored to support this metal. Foreign demand. however, is at last stimulated, and exports during the first half of this month improved considerably. Woolen mills are busy in the endeavor to get even with orders. New prices announced by the largest corporation are not so high as expected. The market is rather quiet. Prices for cotton goo Is are steady, but purchases are not larger than current needs demand. Advancing prices are reported abroad in the linen market. In footwear there has been a general advance of from 2% to 5 cents. I continued activity in LlliCfiOO. building and the belief that I it will continue on an extensive scale during this year will keep structural mills well occupied. The steady buying of down-town property in Chicago for investment purposes is centering it in strong hands, and the improvements which will come with this process will enhance the value of real estate in the business district. The unchanged mild weather has helped builders to make rapid progress with the work, jlunua bitter, co■ d wm delayed. " The second failure of Phillips precipitated liquidation of large holdings of grains and depression by manipulation, and was accompanied by apprehensions of allied failures. None have occurred. In the decline which came with the collapse in rye. May wheat dropped to 78% cents, as against a high price of 84yi cents in the previous week, but it recovered from the low point and close.! at SI cents, a loss pf 1% cents on the w<->"k’s movement- May c6m closed a: 64 a 4 c to 64%c, against 65% cents in the previous week. Cotton continues weak, whim estimates of the crop vary widely. One statistician places ir at 11.259.b:i5>», which is 1,486.01)0 above the gov> rnmc::’ report. Money rates are easier, both iu this country and Europe. The Imperial B ink [of Germany, which has kept i rate at 4 [>er cent since last May. redu--. • jt to 3 J/ 2. Gold production in the R iin December increased 25 [>er . >• vember. and further improv, m 6 '.d this output will help the situati >n ;:br ad. The stock market is quiet, waiting on the action of the Unite.! St - Sv; -mo Court on the Northern Secari’i's ■■-.>.?. Chicago—Cattle, comm a to prime. $3.50 to $6.50; hogs. ship[>. ig g s . s, ; $4.25 to 6 55; sheep, fair to c:.o;ee. $3.00 to 84.75; wheat. No. 2 red, Me 85c; corn. No. 2. 59c to 60c; oats. A 2, 43e to 44c: rye. No. 2,61 cto 62c: hay. timothy, $9.00 to $13.50; inair. . $5.50 to $12.50; butler, choice cream. ry. 2>) • -o 23c; eggs, fresh, 21c to 23e; potatoes, 71c to 76c per busheL Indianapolis- Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light. $4.< :4 ) ’ $6.09; shee|>. common to [irime. $2.5<) • ■ $5.50; wheat. No. 2,87 c to SSe; -m. No. 2 white, new, 63c to 64c; oa’-. N o 2 v> .ite, 48c to 49c. Si. Louis Cattle, $4.50 t- $6.30; hogs, $3.00 to $6.25; -hevp $2 50 tn wheat. No. 2,8,5 c to 86c; corn. No. 2, 64c to 65c; oats. No. 2. 46c to 47m rye. No. 2. 65c to 66c. Cincinnati- Gattie, $3.00 t $5.75; hags, $3.00 to $’1.35; sheep. $2.25 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2. 90c to 91c; corn, Nb. 2 mixed, (56c to 67e; oats. N< . 2 mixed, 48c to 49c; rye. No. 2, <>9- ■ 7O \ Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5..50; nogs, $3.00 to $6.20; >hec|>. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. N e 2. Ss • to ’>9' ; co; :i, No. 3 yellow, 62c to 63c; oats. N . 2 white, 48.- to 49.-; rye. 64c ;o 65-. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 m'xel. 86c to 88c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 61c to oats, N". 2 mixed, 1 to ! >■■; ry’. .5 • to 53 -; clover s prime, >5.9.' Milwaukee Wheat, Nn, 2 rm-bera 75c to 76-; eo.-n. No. 3. 59- • . No. 2 W lit!-. 46e ■ 1 47’ . x • . . to (He. barm. . N". 2. (L •' 61 ,- k , me -. $16.1 1. Buffalo- 1 ittle. h . ■■ sh $4.50; lambs, common ■ < • $3,75 to N w York C.ittle. $3.75 - 15: m ;s, $3.50 to $6.50; de <>. $2.59 ■ , $4,40; wheat. No. 2 re I. s'! t<> >7c; butter. C! >mi ry, 22 to 23 ; ■ w stern. 25c to 2Sc. For 19(H) il total valuation • : live stock r< -el .ed it th< Chicago s’ . yards was $262,154,272. which was ih- largest in the thirty-five years the Chlr-.igo Union Stock Yards had been a busings* factor Vu the gregt Western metropolia.