Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 March 1902 — Page 2

^I)C Jubeptnbent. AV. a. ENDIiE Y, I»wDlislier. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. SUMMARY OF NEWS. The Continental Coal Company of 'Cleveland announces the purchase of the property of the Columbus Coal Company and the Summer Coal Company, whose output was handled by the General Fuel Company. The consideration is unknown. Navigation on Lake Erie was opened for the season of 1902 by the steamer City of Detroit of the Detroit and Cleveland lino, which left her Detroit dock bound for Cleveland. The City of Detroit had a full cargo of freight aboard and seventy-five passengers. Triplets celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their birth at the home of their mother, Mrs. Paul Miller, id Bucyrus, Ohio. The triplets are Catherine Miller of New Washington, Mrs. Margaret Frieberger of New York and Mrs. Elizabeth Metz of Vernon Junction. An indictment returned against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad by the federal grand jury' was made public at Louisville. It alleges a violation of the interstate commerce law in charging less corll iaj'ar IqRIL 'Tots than the law preserrnrrs: A cyclone struck the mining town of Piper, Ala., wrecking forty houses and damaging thirty-five others. Edward Turner, colored, was killed, and John Allen, wife and three children severely injured. The storm also did great damage at Gurnee Junction and Belle Ellen. Harvey L. Wheelock of Chicago filed the will of his father, Jerome Wheelock of Worcester, in the Probate Court through his counsel, Henry F. Harris. Mr. Wheelock could not find the will for some time, but it was discovered rolled up in an old newspaper. It disposes of nearly $600,000 in bequests. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, in a ruling just received, says Indians in the Creek Nation may rent their allotments for a period of not longer than one year prior to the receipt of their deeds. Hundreds who have gone to the Creek Nation with the idea that the lands are now open to purchase are disappointed. The Creek rolls are incomplete, the deeds held up, and thousands have already filed on their homesteads. Rev. C. L. Smith, an old and wellknown resident of University place, a Lincoln, Neb., suburb, has mysteriously disappeared. Letters dated at Grinnell, lowa, and postmarked Omaha, lead his acquaintances to fear that the missing man has lost control of his reasoning faculties and possibly committed suicide. Five letters were received by the family in one day. In them Mr. Smith indicated that the next family reunion would be in ' heaven. In one he spoke of having the smallpox and of having to go to the pesthouse. NEWS NUGGETS. Ruby Marion, a cornist in “The Telephone Girl,” will join the Salvation Army at Denver. Algernon Sartoris has left his electrical work with the Westinghouse company in Pittsburg and will enter the army. LabelHite is the name of a new substance designed to take the place of rubber, which has been invented by Prof. C. H. Labeile of Salt Lake City. Alexander R. Peacock, Pittsburg millionaire, and family have taken refuge in New York from kidnapers, who demand $25,000 on pain of violence to children. Mitchell Harrison of Philadelphia, a millionaire and personal representative of J. Pierpont Morgan, was seriously hurt in a railroad accident in East St. Louis. Wholesale conspiracies for the systematic betrayal of military secrets to a foreign power have been discovered among officers of high rank in the Russian army. Two men bound and chloroformed Miss Nellie Woods in her room in the Avalon block, Denver, and stole her diamonds, which are worth between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO. Andrew D. White, ambassador to Germany, will retire in November in order to resume educational work. Senator Wolcott is mentioned as his most likely successor. Five hundred returned emigrants, disappointed with life in the United States, have passed through Berlin on their way to their old homes in Posen, the provinces of East and West Prussia and in Russia and Austria. Fire at Newark. N. J., destroyed the big building occupied by the American Refining and Crucible Company, the Calcutta Manufacturing Company, and the Crystal Lead and Chemical Company. Loss $75,000. The State institution for the deaf and dumb, a large building in the residence section of Jackson, Miss., was burned. The 150 inmates .were gotten out safely, but some of them had narrow escapes. The loss is $40,000. Fire at Hoboken destroyed the Phoenix Line and Barber docks, the steamer British Queen and a number of lighters. Nearly a score of persons were drowned or burned to death and the property loss is nearly $1,000,000. W. T. Nugent, formerly a wealthy merchant of Louisville, has been ordered to ^xx,±oo iulw me rederal court, ne will be imprisoned until he is ready to pay the amount, which, his counsel claims, means a life sentence. The trial of William E. Broese, president of the First National Bank of Asheville, N. C., on the charge of embezzling several hundred thousand dollars resulted in a mistrial. Tire jury stood eleven for conviction and one for acquittal. The Tiffin, Ohio, woolen mills are in the hands of a receiver. Frederick Baloian of Saginaw-, Mich., one of the members of the firm, filed his petition in the United States court at Toledo, asking a dissolution of partnership and the appointment of a receiver. The Guardian Trust Company of Cleveland was appointed. A tornado visited Scotch Plains, a Dunkard settlement near Belleville. Kan., and did much damage. Several houses were blown down and the Dunkard church completely demolished. No lives were lost.

EASTERN. Harvard Observatory has received an anonymous gift of $20,000. John Kelly, a coppersmith, was stricken dumb while uttering blasphemies at his home in Baltimore. Francis Skinner, New York broker, committed suicide because of financial ruin and domestic trouble. Gov. Odell of New York has signed the bill increasing from ten to twenty-live years the punishment for attempt at murder. Granville W. Leighton, teller of the National Traders’ Bank of Portland, Me.,

York newspaper man, committed suicide by shooting. He had been a sufferer from insomnia and had been under the care of a physician for some time. E. W. Bloomingdale of New York has been appointed temporary receiver for the firm of Escewege & Cohn, importers of fancy goods. The liabilities are said to be $91,950 and the assets $58,750. New York plumber fell through a manhole and was swept through three-quar-ters of a mile of sewer in a little more than tw-o minutes, into the East river, where he was rescued without any ill effects. The refining building of the India Refining Company in Philadelphia, manufacturers of cocoa butter, was destroyed by fire. There were 100,000 pounds of oil In the building. The loss is $60,000; fully insured. William L. Elkins, Jr., died at his country home, “Menlo Lodge,” near Elkins Station, Pa. He w-as a son of the millionaire traction magnate and was himself prominently identified with many business interests. John T. Stover was shot and killed by his wife Alice at their home in New York City. When she was arrested she told the police her husband had threatened to kill her because she would not give him money, and that she shot him to save her own life. In New York Francis Skinner, a broker, whose assets were S cents, shot and killed himself in his office. In his pockets were the photographs of two children, a I— Rjr- awJ-an euv-wLpta'. addressed to Richard D. Morse, a lawyer, at 11 Broadway, containing a will. During a tire which destroyed the main business block in the village of Pelham, N. Y., one life was lost and ten persons had narrow escapes from burning to death. Many were badly injured by jumping from windows. Rudolph Yocum, 13 years old, was burned to a crisp in bed. Rupert Fritz, a chef who served the luncheon at Shooters’ Island, New York, for the 2.000 persons who witnessed the launching of Emperor William’s yacht, has assigned. Fritz says he borrowed a large amount of silverware from friends for use at the luncheon. In the rush for souvenirs nearly all the silverware disappeared before Fritz and his assistants were aware of the raid. Finding it impossible to make good his losses, he decided upon an assignment. F. M. Osborne, former president of the Pittsburg Coal Company, the soft coal trust, Is said to be at the head of a company that has purchased the product of the mines of the river combine in the Pittsburg district, which amounts to a million tons yearly. The firm of Osborne, Saeger & Co., which was absorbed by the Pittsburg Coal Company several years ago. is likely to be reorganized to compete with the trust in handling coal for this and other lake points. Four officials recently in the employment of the Pittsburg Coal Company have resigned to go ■with Mr. Osborne. WESTERN. Former Gov. John P. Altgeld died in Joliet, 111., of apoplexy. Sixteen passengers were slightly and August Geiges severely hurt in Missouri Pacific wreck due to a broken rail near Sedalia, Mo. At Lima, Ohio, Mrs. Phoeba Grey committed suicide by hanging. She was 61 years of age and grieved over the loss of her husband. Col. R. C. Clowry of Chicago has been elected president and general manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, succeeding Thomas T. Eckert. Owing to inability to complete the Auditorium at Omaha, Neb., the Christian Church convention set for that city in October will be asked to meet in some other city. Edward Singleton, son of Millionaire John Singleton, one of the owners of the Yellow Aster mine at Randsburg, Cal., committed suicide b- shooting himself through the head. Miss Vina Woodbury, a Methodist Sunday school teacher who lived at Wesley Montgomery’s residence, committed suicide in Newark, Ohio, by hanging. She was 111 with quinsy. The 12-months-old child of Gustave Brown was suffocated by a large eat, which inhaled the infant's breath while it was lying in a. carriage in the backyard of Mr. Brown’s residence in Denver.

Half the city fire department was called out to fight a blaze in the downtown district of Chicago, which wrecked the establishment of C. Sidney Shepard A Co. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Mrs. Sybyl Taylor of Rockford, lowa, was held up by highwaymen near Guthrie, Ok. Her pockets were- cut from her dress, robbing her of money, railroad tickets, postoffice order and other valuables. Fire at 1:30 o’clock Friday morning destroyed the west barn of the Easton avenue sheds of the St. Louis Transit Company. together with seventy cars. The loss is estimated at $125,000, fully insured. John D. Rockefeller has offered $25,000 for the endowment fund of William Jewell College at Liberty. Mo., provided $75,000 additional is raised by Jan. 1, 1903. College officials say the SIOO,OOO will be obtained. Fire destroyed two blocks of buildings in the business part of Winslow, 111. The bank, postoffice, fifteen business houses and several private residences were entirely consumed. 'The loss is $125,000, insurance $60,000. An explosion in the powder mixing department of the Fairmount Manufacturing Comnanr at 2294 Ehi^d. inamue, Cleveland, resulted in the death of one girl employe, while seven other persons were seriously injured. Traffic managers of the St. Paul-Chi-cago roads and of the north Pacific coast lines have issued orders to general freight agents to cancel immediately all contracts with shippers and to stop rate cutting on all classes of traffic. President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America addressed a meeting of miners and operators in Des Moines, lowa. He had spoken only a few moments when he was taken ill and had to be assisted from the stage. At Butte, Mont., Patrick Sheehan, a miner, was blown to pieces by a premature explosion of blasting powder. His partner, Erick Hills, was terribly injured. The two men were blown a distance of twenty-five feet by the explosion. Augusta Halpestein, a 13-year-old girl, is in the county jail at Butte, Mont. She shot'Mrs. I’. J. Cannon while the latter was engaged in a fight with the girl’s aunt. Mrs. Cannon has a serious wound in the hip. The aunt is also in jail. Fire destroyed nearly half the town of Campbell, Neb. It started in a billiard hall and in an hour, with a terrific wind blowing, burned the billiard hall, newspaper office, blacksmith shop, postollice, hardware store, drug store and hotel. St. Vincent's orphan asylum, situated in the northern part of Denver, Colo., was destroyed by fire. There wore 200 orphans in the institution. All were rescued unharmed, 'rhe asylum was conducted by the Catholic Sisters of Charity. George I*. Welch, proprietor of the Taylor Hotel at Pleasant Hill, Mo., committed suicide at the Hotel Cosby in Kansas City. He was despondent over

business reverses. He left a note bequeathing his body to a local medical college. F. E. Brady, the missing manager of the Imperial Savings Company of Toledo, Ohio, is declared to be a forger and defaulter to the amount of SIOO,OOO. This fact became known after an investigation by trustees of that institution. Brady Is thought to be in Chicago or South America. Charles Michaelis, a retired merchant and prominent politician, committed suicide at his home in St. Joseph, Mo., by shooting himself through the right temple. Continued illness and despondency over the recent death of his wife are supposed to have been the causes which led to the suicide. Larry McKee, a messenger of the Adams Express Company, to whom was intrusted a package said to contain $30,000 in treasury notes, is missing. He disappeared March 3, and no trace of the money, which he was to carry from Brazil, Ind., to St. Louis on a Vandalia train, has been found. Mrs. Joseph Phillips and her two daughters, Florence, aged 12, and Margaret, aged 7, were struck by a Big Four train while crossing a trestle west of Springfield, Ohio. They were all thrown into Mad river. Mrs. Phillips and Florence were killed, but Margaret was only injured slightly. Willard Smith, a young man of 20 years, who sought to blackmail a merchant of the town of Tillie, Neb., was sb।it atid killeij bv ime of a party of fmy^ men set to entrap him. He ^'rote an anonymous letter demanding money, which he went to secure, and, resisting capture, was killed. The marriage of Miss Clara Leonore Huntington, an heiress to many millions, and Gilbert Brooks Perkins, son of Judge C. G. Perkins of Covington, Ky., principal owner of the Latonia race track, will take place April 30 at the palatial residence of the Huntingtons at Jackson and Broderick streets, San Francisco. SOUTHERN. Louisville health authorities will prosecute anyone who sells limburger cheese. A Beaumont, Texas, gang of negro women and white men is believed to be responsible for the murder of twenty or more men reported missing there. A broken wheel derailed eleven cars of a west-bound Chesapeake and Ohio freight train at Quincy, Ky. The cars plunged through the depot, completely wrecking the building. The big White Fleming sawmill, five miles below Tiptonville, Tenn., was completely wrecked by a boiler explosion. Sam Burton, the fireman, was blown fifty feet and instantly killed. The grand jury of Pasquotank County. N. C., found a true bill against James Wilcox, the young man in jail at Elizabeth City charged with killing his sweetheart. Miss Nellie Cropsey, last November. A windstorm did some damage in the outer portion of Houston, Texas, wreck ing twenty houses, most of them small residences. There was no loss of life ami the property damage will hardly exceed $15,000. Fred Kilthauer, a barber of Louisville, has been left a fortune of $250,000 by an uncle in Germany. He received a letter a few days ago from the German ambassador at Washington apprising him of the bequest. The steamer Providence w <s capsized by a squall at Lone Landing, Miss., and twenty-one of its passengers and crew drowned. An Illinois Central limited train ran into a eyel^ /^D from New Orleans, and The Bank of Newcastle. Ky~ w T as - rob-~ bed of $4,500, a lot of jewelry belonging to Isaac W. Kelly, its president, and SSOO worth of stamps deposited by the postmaster. Citizens were aroused, but were held at bay until the six burglars made their eScape. Seized with sudden insanity, Lase Yerkey of Flint. W. Va., buried a hatchet in his wife’s head and shoulders and then beat her brains out with a poker. After killing her he cut his own throat with a razor and will die. He is violent in spite of his injuries and has to be held with ropes.

FOREIGN. A meeting of the employers of the striking dock laborers and delegates from the ( strikers at La Rochelle, France, resulted in the acceptance of the demands of the ( latter. The strikers number 800 men. A dispatch from Constantinople an- । nounces that the town of Kiankary, northeast of .Angora, in Asia Minor, was , destroyed by an earthquake. No details of the disaster had been received. Kiankary had 20.000 inhabitants. The biggest blaze seen in Paris since the burning of the Opera Comique in 1897 started in the corner of a block of buildings in the Rue Montmartre. Flames spread rapidly to the upper portions of the buildings, which were used as residences. The damage is estimated at $250,000. With reference to the Russo-Japanese war rumors the St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times says he is able to vouch that the Siberian Railway is declining consignments from merchants because the resources of the line are fully occupied in forwarding troops and war material to Vladivastock. Capt. F. H. Smith, a well-known Englishman who arrived recently from Japan, declares that war between that country and Russia is soon to come. “Russian occupation of Mum.-huria is the-r.ittwDfT the trouble,” said Capt. Smith, “and the • Japanese are spoiling for a chance to ‘ whip some one. They are making all j preparations for the fight that must come 1 soon.” 1 - .. ~— J IN GENERAL. > i Andrew Carnegie announces the gift of t forty more public libraries. X Copious rains in the States of the ( Southwest, have been of great benefit to . the wheat crop. ' 'There is every reason to fear that the brand new Allan liner Huronian has been lost, with more than 100 lives. Six deaths occurred on the transport ( Sheridan, which arrived in San Francisco 1 recently with troops from Manila. Dr. Von Holleben, German ambassador at Washington, is accused of trying to influence the German-American vote in favor of Bryan in the last presidential campaign. Herbert Booth, son of Gen. William Booth, is reported to have rebelled against his father’s policy and to have resigned as commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army in Australia. Fourteen-year-old Gerald Osborne, who saved the St. Johns express from disaster near Halifax, N. S., is to be presented with a check for $2,000 and a life pass | over the railway. He noticed a broken ! rail and flagged the train by waving a i burning newspaper. | * Fred Lowden was killed by a snowslide near Nelson, B. C. He and Chris Sher- , bert were asleep at the foot of the Ko- , kanee range when the slide buried their ' cabin. After thirty-six hours of super- 1 human effort Sherbert freed himself. Hs a obtained aid at a neighboring mine, but c Lowden w r as dead. I T

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LU BABI THAT HAS A) DfOR A PART NT, RAILRO lahoma and Gulf 'Tho Choctaw, Ok has adopted a <’■ Railway Company I left on one of its months-old bahy gir refuses to give it up passenger trains and laim to it. and the to any one laying c distinction of being child now has the vfr had a railroad the only baby that? m Paris, 111., claimfor a parent. A mat! iven to him by its that the child was has appeared at the mother. A woman Wichita. Kan., and Children’s Home in tw W EM -AaS J OKLA Cl’ xAW-GULF. ter, and wiiet- h< baby back. But! railway officials hold } on to their fountain SB ® nt | sn Y thry will a rear it even better | than any mother t could. 1 1 . .. . . f One of the finest t ’ ar fi s in the \\ ichita - Children's Home is set apart for Mi-- 1 Okla Choctaw-Gust 18 the 6-months-old 1 foundling has been' »named. She has a t special nurse, fine la> j ® dresses, hoods and »hoes, and. in fact, et| er ything that money t can buy. The Chili llren’s Home officers i have been instructei ,0 sen 3 the bill to f the general office oF ^he Choctaw rout? < —.——J t AMBASSADOR W! ^ ITE T O RETIRE. t

Envoy to Berlin ti ' QhR Official Life Next No member. The return home o ’ Andrew D. W bite, the United States ai ibassador at Berlin, which has been rumt re ^ since family bereavements and bus ®ess interests gave the ambassador a 4 ?s * ro U P ^is post, is said to be se- ' or November. Mr. White began 4 « diplomatic career as attache of the Ul te ^ States embassy —* at 'St. Petersburg o'l^ 1 ’ forty years ago. He was president oil Oornell University from 1867 to 1885, while stin the head of that instil ^’ on was f° r years minister to C - tnan y- brom 1892 to 1894 he was mill to Rus sia. and in 1897 was appoit lte . d ambassador to Germany. He was < airman of the United States delegation The Hague peace conference. „ GRAND JURY REJUI^S INDICTMENTS AG/ UNST MRS - SOFFEL Indictments in thre e cases against Mrs. Catherine Soffel, wif eO4 ex- ^ arden leter K. Soffel, growir 'S °f the escape of the Biddle broth- ■ p ers from jail on -lan. 30, were conAdored by the grand jury at PittrlßM burg and true bills iMIQI jIBSXjMIi returned. Sii"uld Jlrs - Soffel "v £ victed on the three \ "eW* charges the maximum aggregate sentence that could M be imposed upon « o her woukl be six - teen yeara in prison mks. soffel. and a Sue of $2.500. The first charge is for a ‘dins criminals to escape. The oth er charges are separate indictments for felonious assault and battery upon Cha r ® s . Reynolds and James G. McGary, ' guards. Reynolds was shot by one the Riddles, and McGary was th rown ov e r or jumped over the railing fr- >m the ce J' f’ cr :lnd was seriously hurt, on the night of the escape.

IRRIGATING ARID LANDS. 1 What an Artesian Well Cun Accomplish in Central Dakota. 1 he question of the irrigation of the | aiid lands of the West is now the most important domestic concern before the Ajmaiean people. rhere are between I 75,tHK),(HiO uni ] Umi.imwi.ikhi acres of such j lands which without irrigation are virtu- , ally \ alueless. but which if watered are i capable of raising an abundance of crops i of all kinds. In some sections of the West, notably in <<mtral Dakota, water for irrigating purposes is procured from artesian wells. The flow from some of these wells is very great. At Chamberlain a 600-foot weil yields 5. ,i;o.(MH) gallons of wafer daily; at the Y.inkton India agency there is a flow of 3,(MM) gallon^ a minute. I he result of the ceaseless flow from such wells in a country like Dakota, " here the rainfall seldom exceeds fifteen inches yearly, can hardly tie appreeitited by one who has never witnessed it, says a writer in the National Magazine. Dry hillsides become covered with flags and water grasses; arid fields are heavy with [ verdure; trees, shrubbery, rose bushes, vegetables, grain and flowers grow lux- ■ uriously and are often untouched by frost weeks after everything around them is sere and withered. 1 he cost of such wells is high, ranging from $4,(160 to SG.ooo. ami is beyond tho reach of most farmers. The cost of one first-class battleship. s.'’>.s<h),<MM), would sink and equip in the Dakota artesian goo fi r< t ,a , , ennoble of irri-

gating tiw.tKM) acres of arame .uno; giving an increase yield of 10,000,000 of bushels of wheat, valued at $5.0(X),000 yearly: besides keeping every dried-up watercourse in perennial flow, increasing the local precipitation, giving thousan s of farms a constant supply of water for stock and home use, increasing the bird life and vegetable development and larg ly modifying the rigors of the climate at all seasons. From many of these wells —without in the least diminishing their flow power, light ami heat could be supplied for a great variety of uses, and in a single decade after the establishment of such a system, men would wonder that It had ever been thought possible to exist without such potent agencies of

good. STORM SWEEPS NORTHWEST. Railroad Traffic Paralyzed by Worst Blizzard in Years. Minnesota and Dakota. Wisconsin and the Canadian Northwest have experienced the worst snowstorm in many years and railroad traffic has been paralyzed. ’The Northern Pacific and Great Northern did not move a wheel for thirty-six hours in the blizzard stricken district and abandoned all efforts to do so until the fury of the storm should abate. The loss to range cattle and sheep on the ranges will be heavy, as many of the ranchers were caught unprepared after the mild weather. The high winds piled the snowin mountainous drifts and packed it solid masses, many deep cuts being filleu. The temperature in the vicinity of Fargo. N. D.. dropped to 16 below. All the country in that section has been held firmly in the grip of one of the worst storms of the winter.

The loss to stockmen is expected to be great. Many of the ranchmen were caught unprepared for severe weather. Old settlers near Fargo, N. D., went to the relief of a party of emigrants that arrived in the vicinity some time ago. They did not have time to prepare for the blizzard, their shelters were not adeqilarle ;i n.[ IhefT'fdod'strp'nTt*" Winnipeg was cut off from communication with the outside world and other towns on the border were storm-bound. The temperature was sixteen below in the Dakotas and Minnesota and at Alberta, Canada, it was twenty-six below. The zero temperature extended through the central portion of lowa and Nebraska. The Southern States felt the effect of the wei ther disturbances and cold rains fell in that section. Tte Mrs. b losevelt probably hereafter will tie you , Teddy’s hat on securely. Even^ie fishing is not good in those Eastern Spates where everything is under water. An emergency appropriation to supply our statesmen with sparring lessons is earnestly suggested. Canada is receiving modern artillery from England and is anxiously waiting to hear us tremble. Paterson, N. J., can make up ?: mb.d at its leisure whether it prefers tire, floods or anarchists. Spaiu does not want Don Carlos to come to its relief; it has troubles enough without taking on new ones. Lord Kitchener will yet be obliged to put up a bunch of “Keep Off the Grass” m Sonfik Africa to restrain Dewet,

| Congress, i In the Senate on Friday the ship subsidy bill was again under consideration. Mr. Foraker supported it, although he admitted he would have preferred to build up the American merchant marine by the levying of discriminating duties. Both Mr. McLaurin of Mississippi and Mr. Harris opposed the measure on the ground that in their judgment it was not constitutional. They maintained that it was class legislation, which amounted to little short of robbery of the people for the benefit of a few ship owners. At the conchision of Mr. Harris' remarks the Senate went into executive session and confirmed The Hague treaty on rules of warfare. In the House the postoffiee appropriation bill was passed, the only amendment of importance adopted being one to incorporate in the bill the provisions o! the bill to classify the rural free delivery service, passed a few days ago. Quite a number of other bills were passed, including three for marine hospitals at Buffalo, Savannah and Pittsburg. The Burleson resolution calling on the Secretary of State for the facts relative to the case of Dr. Thomas and wife, who desired to go to South Africa to distribute renef funds, was adopted after a short debate. in the course of which Mr. Hitt, chairman of the committee on foreign affairs. introduced a letter from Secretary Hay explaining what the D. j.artmem of State had done in the premises.

The ship subsidy bill was under discussion during most of Saturday's ses-ion of the Senate. Speeches were made by Senators Allison. Spooner. Teller and Elkins. Amendments were presi-nted by Senators Bacon and Mallorv. A bill appropriating $150,000 to establish a marine hospital at Savannah. Ga., was passed: al-o a bill providing for the construction of a bridge across the Misouri river at South Omaha, Neb. Adjournment followed a brief executive session. In five House the day was devoted Io private pension bills, 229 being passed, clearing the calendar. I his is the largest number of pension bills ever passed by the House at one session. Earlier in the day a resolution was adopted calling upon the Mar Department for information concerning the government transport service between San Francisco and the Philippines. Late in the day Mr. Minor (Wis.). rising to a question of personal privilege, denounced a published statement regarding the Speaker and himself as false. The story said he (Minor) had changed his position on the shipping bill and on the Cuban tariff question because of the Speaker's intention to advance a local revenue cutter measure in which the Wisconsin member is interested. Speaket Henderson also stated that there was not a shadow of truth in the article.

Monday in the Senate was chiefly devoted to consideration, amendment ami p.i—age of the -l.ip -mb-idy bill. Among otluu bills pa-sed were those appropriating XIS6.(MM) for a public building at Colorado Springs. Colo.; appropriating SI(M),- '*•<* for a public building at Laramie. Myo., and appropriating ss.<n)o for the erection of a dwelling f or the keeper of I he lighthouse at Kewaunee. Mis. Athe last publie bill on the calendar was passed Mr. Hale remarked that in all his experience he had never before known the last public bill on the calendar to be reached and disposed of. I n the House consideration of the river and hari an extended speech in explanation of the measure. I'he impression existed, he -aid. that the bill carried something over $60,OUO.(MM) for the ensuing fiscal year, whereas it carried only S24.(MM),(MM) of actual appropriations, the remaining $36.<K)O,(MM) being simply authorized to be appropriated under the contract system. • Ine of the important new features of the bill, he added, was a provision for a board of five engineers, familiar with all river and harbor xvork, to pass upon surveys. examinations and estimates. Several other members spoke briefly, among them being Mr. Bellamy of North Carolina. who protested against the treatment his State had received. Mr. Foster of Illinois and Mr. Cochran of Missouri discussed the Boer war, criticising the majority severely for failure to allow Congress to express the sympathy of the American people with the struggling republics.

For three hours on Tuesday in the Senate the bill providing for the protection of the President of the United States ami lor the punishment by United Statecourts of those who commit assaults upon him was under consideration. Mr. Ba?on opposed the bill and Mr. Hoar and Mr. Mason supported it. Earlier iu the day a lively debate was precipitated by the effort of Mr. Rawlins to have printed as a document some Philippine correspondence Eventually the matter was ordered printed as requested. Thirty-nine private pension bills were passed, the calendar being cleared. An executive session preceded adjournment. The general debate on the river and harbor bill was enlivened by Mr. Hepburn (Iowa), who made his annual onslaught on the measure. The other speakers were Messrs. Rall (Texas) and Lawrence (Mass.), both members of the committee, and Messrs. M hite (Ky.), Thompson (Ala.) and Burnett (Ala.), who spoke in favor of improvements of interest to their districts. April 26 was set aside for memorial services on Representative Stokes of South Carolina and Representative Crump of ri.

Washington Notes. A son of Admiral Sampson has been appointed a cadet in the navy. Possums driven from their retreats by high water in the Potomac songffit refuge in White House grounds. Gov. Taft says slavery in the Moro Islands is so deeply ingrained that it will require patience to eradicate the system. Russia and Germany have given fresh assurances to the United States on China. Commerce with Spain in 1901. i n both exports and imports, was greater than ever before. President Roosevelt hereafter is to give out the only information concerning cabinet meetings. Mar revenue repeal bill of the House was so carelessly drawn a new measure will be substituted for it in the Senate. Claims commission rules officers and seamen of the wrecked battleship Maine cannot recover damages from Spain. Gen. Hughes declined to tell Senate committee on the Philippines whether the surrender .if Manila wa< prearrangNicaragua and Costa Rica have repudiated protocols negotiated last spring concerning the Nicaragua canal. New treaties must be made. vate citizens and told them the United States cannot and will not interfere in the struggle in South Africa. Colombia. Nicaragua and Costa Rica are believed to have formed a combination to make the United States pay an exorbitant price for the privilege of building an interoceauic canal.

WiWIAL I Nev York. । — i and teamster-, which directly affected .<<UMM) men an< ] iudiie.-tly rend -ri.d othj er thousands idle by holding oack -nje I plies of raw material. Fortunately this । struggle seem- in a fair wav to -ettlen ent. Outside of Massm-hu— !ts, however. the labor situation is exceptionally free from controversy, and even in the coal mines there is less laan The usual agitation as April approaches. D’-tribu-tion of spring merchandise is rm k’t g lapid progress, rhe most -anguine expectations being fully realized in all sections outside the strike area.” according to R G. Dun A Co.'s Review of Trade? Continuing, the report -ays: “Consumers of iron and steel products are still anxious regarding conditions during the next three months. After July 1 it is believed that deliveries will be ampl". According to the Iron Ag l.v capacity of pig iron furnaces in blast on March 1 had declined to 330.710 tons, oi ajvout 10,000 tons from the prod iction on beb. 1. Considering the numerous disturbing factors at work during the mouth ol February, i; Is gratifying- that a much heavier curtailment of output d.d not occur.

All records prior to Feb. 1 are still eclipsed and the resumption of many idle plants this month practically assures ne v high water marks in the near future, unless some unforeseen interruption occurs. As operations at steel works were also retarded, furnace stocks of pig iron de- < lined only about 2.».(MM) tons during February. The most important event of the week was the heavy buying of steel bars by makers of agricultural implements in anticipation of higher prices becoming effective on April 1. Billets command large premiums for spot delivery, and more purchases are reported from foreign makers. Pipes and tubes are more active as the season advances, while large contracts have been placed for structural shapes. Better transportation for coke is rapidly reducing surplus stocks in the yards and supplying furnaces with all the needed fuel.

TTj - Official indications of LDiCdQO. farm reserves on March 1 —— were not surprising as to the corn, dealers anticipating that supplies would be only about one-half last year's, but the statement that 23 per cent of the enormous wheat yield remained in farmers hands was not calculated to sustain values. N -eded rains in the Southwest made the market look more favorable for the next crop. A sustaining feature was the interior movement of only 2.618.819 ), ns h e is, against 3,902,000 last year, while on the other ha.id total exports from the United States were but 2..>98.4,2 bushels, compared with 4.962.674 a year ago. As to corn both comparisons were striking, receipts aggregating only 1.893.950 bushels, against 4.131.837 a year ago, while Atlantic exports fell to the lowest record lor many years. 90,109 bushels, against 8,339.992 in 1901. There seems a stronger cash situation. 111 Minneapolis No. 1 Northern, which was le under May. has advanced to 1c - from D4c to lc under May. Manitoba wheat is bringing a smaller discount under ( the May, and hard winter is active at within a fraction of May price. A weak feature is the Manitoba wheat, for which there is but a limited market. It is used as a club by the bears both here and in England, as English markets are the only ones available for it. Germany is taking the hard winter more readily, and export business of late has been composed largely of Manitoba spring and American hard winter. The spring wheat can be bought cheaply and is underselling the American in the English markets to such an extent that buyers there say it is useless to offer No. 1 Northern. The corn traders had the government report on farm reserves last wvk showing 29 per cent, or 384,0 '> >.OOO Im- ’mls, held March 1. This is the smallest ~n record. It was expected to stimulate mw buying by outsiders, but the close Saturday found prices only %e higher than the previous week. No surplus producing State has over 32 per cent, and Kansas only 14 per cent of its croj, left. With an ordinary consumption there is not a surplus bushel, and the high prices will necessitate continued husbanding of supplies to get through to the next crop. The small farm stocks mean the same thing as last year; we will go into the new crop in the fall with no stock. It is also taken as indicating good prices for several years to come. The country movement is light, receipts last week 'a ing only 820.00:1 bushels, and shipm-mts 514.000 bushels. The movement both ways is about 50 per cent of last year’s. Farm reserves are as estimated a week ago. 30 per cent, or 198.000.000 bitsheis. the smallest ever reported. Brices f>r May are within l' s e of the top pre ■ . which makes shorts uneasy. I-'rom a speculative point the provision situation presents nothing attractive. Hog supplies are liberal. Western points rtceived 394JMMI for the week, or 10,000 more than the previous week, compared with 340,0iX) last year. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $G.65; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $6.55; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.30; wheat. No. 2 red. 82e to 83c; corn, No. 2. 59c to (iOc; oats. No. 2. 42c to 44c; rye. No. 2. 56c to 57c; hay. timothy, $9.00 to $14.50; prairie, $5.50 to $12.50; blitter, choice creamery. 24c to 26c; eggs, fresh, 12.- to 15 : potatoes, 72c to 79c per bushei. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, 54.00 to $6.20; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,89 c to 81c; corn. N >. 2 white. 64c to 65c; oats. No. 2 white, 45c to 46e. St. Louis -Cattle, $4.50 to $6.55; hogs, $3.9:) to $6.2); sheep. $2.50 to S.t.LO; wheat, No. 2. 81c to 82c; corn. No, 2. 59- to Go-; oats. No. 2. -He to 45.-. rye. No. 2. 61 c to ।‘,2c. <’inciarmti—C trie. $3.00 to ss.!);>: hogs, mixed, 62c t > 63c; oats. Nc. 2 1 >:ed, to $6.2‘. - . -p. $2.59 t Si.so; yt iow, 61c to t;2 ; <. No. 2 ite, Toledo—’A heat. No. 2 mix. d. ' Sie; corn. No. 2 mi: ed, 59c to G ’ ; oats. No. 2 mixed. 43.• to 44 •; rve. N >. 2,61 c t > 62 ■; clover seed, prime, $5. . ~ Mil waukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 74c to 75c: corn. No. 3. 58c to 5? oats. No. 2 white, 45.- to 46 •; rye, No, 1.59 c to 60c; barley, No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork, mess. $15.40.