Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 42, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 May 1902 — Page 2

^I)C .Independent. W. A. EXDIjEY, I’uVllslier. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. SUMMARY OF NEWS. Patrick Noonan was arrested at Helena, Mont., and brought back to his former home in Preston, Minn., to answer the charge of murdering John Skinner in 1874. Noonan was passing as James New, and has been a fugitive for twenty-eight years. The vault of the First National Bank of Wickliffe, Ky., was blown open by robbers. The sound of the explosion awoke the citizens of the town, who drove the robbers off. but did not succeed in capturing them. The robbers, four in number, failed to get any money. The world’s fair will be postponed to 1904, according to plans which have just been completed in St. Louis. Washington will be notified that the directory is resigned to postponement in the best interests of the fair. Any measure to postpone to a later date than May 1, 1904, will be strongly opposed. According to the Nome Nugget an important discovery has been made there. A New r York syndicate, at the head of which is George D. Roberts, a wellknown mining man of the Pacific coast, had been prospecting the tundra between Nome and Penny rivers. The result ol the work the paper describes as startling. It shows that gold dust estimated in the millions is deposited in the vast tundras which skirt the Bering coast. v The Mosier Safe and Lock Company of Hamilton, Ohio, closed a contract to furnish the First National Bank of Chicago the largest burglar-proof vaults in the world for its new building. They will be of the finest hardened steel and will cost $300,000. The contract calls for their completion within one year. The Mosier company will put a special force of mechanics at work on them at once and keep them at it until the job is completed. The larger of these vaults will be 65 by 45 feet and the other nearly as large. Following is the standing of the clubs j of the National Baseball League: W. L. AV. L. Pittsburg ... 7 2 Boston 5 G Chicago .... 6 3 Brooklyn .... 5 7 Philadelphia. 6 4Cincinnati ... 3 7 New York... 6 5 St. Louis.... 2 6 * The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Detroit 3 1 Cleveland ... 3 4 Washington.. 4 2 Baltimore ... 2 3 Chicago .... 3 2Philadelphia.. 2 2 Boston 3 3 St. Louis.... 2 4 NEWS NUGGETS. Albert Smith, colored, was hanged at Philadelphia for the murder of his wife. William McKinley Osborne, United States consul general at London, is dead after lingering illness. One of the buildings at the Shenandoah Powder Company, at Krebs Station, Pa., blew up. Four men were killed. William W. Carr, a telegraph operator, was shot and killed by the accidental discharge of his shotgun near Eudora. Kan. Four persons were killed and twentythree injured, eight seriously, in wrecking of California limited on the Santa Fe near Medill, Mo. Near Dallas, Texas, James Clevinger ■was shot and killed by B. Clifton, who w’as in turn killed by an unknown man, who shot him through the heart. Advices say that the French fishing fleet recently was caught in a gale in the North Sea, that three schooners foundered and that many lives were lost. William Price and Bernard Sutter were killed by an explosion of dynamite at Issaquah. Wash. There was not enough of Sutter’s remains left to hold an inquest. Michael Cherko. aged 38. was murdered at Freeland, Pa., during the progress of the Greek Easter services. George Smith is under arrest, charged with the crime. Constable Charles Engelbrecht was shot to death on the Secaucus road near Snake Hill, N. J. The police are searching for a man whom they suspect of the murder. Edgar T. Washburn of Wickliff, Ky., has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with $26,000 liabilities and no assets. The creditors are lumber dealers in Chicago and Milwaukee. The spotted-fever scourge in the Bitter Root valley. Mont., has broken out with । greater violence than at any time known in the history of the peculiar disease. . Eight persons died of the malady within one week. The first colored student to win a prize 1 at Yale is George Crawford of Tunga- । 100, Ala., a member of the middle class in Yale Law School. He won third prize, S2O, in the annual contest for the Way- ; land prizes. Directors of Wittenberg College at Springfield, Ohio, have decided to offer free tuition for one year to high school graduates' receiving the- <lor in । Ohio, Indiana, southern Michigan and northern Kentucky. The Rock Island Railroad Company, in i order to secure a route from Lawton, Ok., for an extension into Texas, has condemned the public highway as far as the Red river. Active construction will commence immediately. A billion-dollar packing trust is. predicted by Chicago financiers if the United States wins its suit against the packers; combine would follow lines of United States Steel Company and control entire packing industry of the country. Allen Cogsdell, North Carolina farmer, announced he would kill himself at dinner June 10, and sent out invitations. His wife will fire the shot. A locomotive attached to a passenger train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad blew up near Dover, N. J., killing the engineer. None of the passengers was hurt. Carroll D. Wright, head of the bureau of statistics of labor, Washington, is to be the head of the new collegiate school attached to Clark I niversitj. Moi coster. Mass., over which Prof. G. Stanley Hall presides. EASTERN. Sol Smith Russell, America’s greatest comedian, died at Washington of a i-a paraplegia. s ... The Catholic University at Washington U in financial straits and has discharged a number of its professors. Mrs Alice IL Putnam of Chicago was chosen president by the International Kindergarten Union convention al boston. Fire at Marienville, Pa., consumed 1»U buildings and caused a loss_ of nearly $300,000. with not over $7.>,000 insur ance. About half of the town is in

ashes and about 500 people are homeless. C. E. Borchgrevink, the antarctic explorer, has made formal application at Washington to become an American citizen. Mr. Borchgrevink will be a rover ■ for some years, but the United States will be his home. At Glens Falls, N. Y., fire caused a property loss estimated at over $500,000. It started in the clothing store of "Webb Brothers, and from thence spread to the large plant of the Joseph Fowler Shirt and Collar Company. John Wanamaker, charged with selling poison contrary to law, was acquitted in Philadelphia of the charge by Magistrate Stratton, who said the accused was guilty of a technical violation, but did his best to repair the fault. Simon Shamoniski, a Hebrew sentenced to the Onondaga County jail at Syracuse, N. Y., for fifteen days, was released on appeal to County Judge Ross, on the ground that he coidd not live on the jail diet during the passover season. Plans which are being prepared by the yards and docks department of the navy indicate that one of the largest dry docks in the United States will be built at the Brooklyn navy yard. It will cost about $1,000,006 and will be built entirely of concrete. AN hile lying in Newtown creek, near the Manhattan avenue bridge, in Greenpoint, New York, the tugboat Thomas Percival was destroyed by an explosion. Three of the crew—an engineer and two firemen—are missing. Edward Moran, a watchman, was found in the debris. He was fatally hurt. Yale University will receive the residuary estate of Edward Wells Southworth and also the reversionary interest in a bequest -wHpsJJRjOO made to a relative of the testator for life, according to the terms of Southworth’s will. The personal property is estimated at $200,000 and the realty at $30,000. Forest fires in the immediate vicinity of Oil City, Pa., have entailed a loss of $30,000 upon Venango County oil producers, many tanks and derricks being burned. Reports from Forest County show that the fire is doing much damage in the virgin forest near Tionesta. The big saw and lumber mill at Gilfoyle, near there, was destroyed. William McCarty, 12 years old, lost his life at Portchester, Conn., while trying to save his blind father in the belief that he was in danger. The boy was playing with some companions, when he saw his father walking near the railroad and an express train approaching. He started across the tracks to save him 1 and was struck by the train. Constable Rhoades arrested Michael Grosscup at his home at Stowe, l'a., on a charge of assault. Grosscup went upstairs ostensibly to change his clothing, but sprang through a window and ran away. The constable, who weighs 200 pounds, attempted to follow his prisoner through the window and became wedged fast. It was necessary for a carpenter to cut the frame away to release Rhoades. United States Senator Money used a knife in resisting the attempt of a Washington street railroad conductor to eject him from a car. Senator Money, while en route to the Capitol, changed ears at the Peace monument in Pennsylvania avenue. When he boarded a car that would carry him up the hill to the Senate wing of the Capitol a demand was made by the conductor for his fare. Senator Money said he had not been given a transfer and he refused to pay. The conductor after a few words attempted, with the aid of another man, to eject the statesman. Money cut the conductor in the hand with a penknife. He was not arrested because he was on the way to the Senate, and was, therefore, under the protection of the Constitution from interference by law officers. The conductor's wound is not serious. WESTERN. Sarcoxie. M<' ^was completely swept by fire. Fifteen cosiness houses burned. Loss SIOO,OOO. J. Sterling Morton, former Secretary of Agriculture, died at the residence of his son, Mark Morton, at Lake Forest, 111. New plant to cost $3,000,000 and give employment to 5,000 men is to be built in Chicago by the American Bridge Company. The Franklin mill of the Sterling Paper Company burned at Hamilton, Ohio, causing $150,000 loss, with $75,000 insurance. At AA inside, Neb., Mrs. Katie Dimmell. divorced wife of John Dimmell, killed her small child and committed suicide by hanging. St. Paul Prohibitionists won their fight and the name of John Henry Fitz will go the official ballot as the party’s candidate for Mayor. M. AViddekind of Pocatello. Idaho, was elected president by the National Embalmers’ Association, which closed its convention at St. Louis. Deck hands and firemen on tugs in the harbor went out on strike with men of Toledo, Buffalo and Cleveland to compel concession to Duluth union. Gov. Jefferson Davis of Arkansas denied charges of drunkenness made against him by Baptists, and asked Little Rock church to try him. A Grand Trunk passenger train was wrecked near Valparaiso, Ind., by two freight cars blown on the track. Two of the train crew are missing. Postoftice inspecim .... a plant for manufacturing postal cards in Chicago, arrested the proprietor, Louis Smith, and confiscated his plant. The Ohio House adopted the Senate resolution providing for submission to the people in 1903 of an amendment giving veto power to the Governor. Mayor-elect Charles C. Klein of Ulrichsville, Ohio, who disappeared recently, has been found at Zanesville, and says he wished to escape holding office. General offices of the Lake Shore road are to be removed to Chicago, and the new Lake Shore-Rock Island depot will consist of twelve instead of eight stories. Gov. Ezra P. Savage of Nebraska resigns from the candidacy for renomination as a result of criticism of his action In pardoning former State 1 reasurei Bartley. The safe of the Elkhorn railroad station at Harvard, Neb., was blown open with dynamite and its contents stolen by robbers. No clew to the robbers has been found. The wife of Lee Gallaher, receiving teller of the First National Bank of St. Joseph. Mo., who has confessed to having stolen $26,000, died from grief over his troubles. Mrs. J. M. Graham of Clifton, Kan., while being taken to the State insane asylum jumped from a Rock Island passenger train going at full speed, and was instantly killed. The town of Herkimer. Kan., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The place had a population of about 509. The i origin of the tire is unknown. The propertv loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Frank Nicolli, an Italian miner, shot and killed Mrs. Stockder, wife of Moritz Stockder, superintendent of the Hidden Treasure mine at Lake City, Colo., and

- j then blew out his own brains. Nicolli I was formerly an employe of the mine and - it is said he blamed Mrs. Stockder for t his discharge. Severe windstorms in several States in f the Missouri valley caused loss of life 5 and destruction of property. Three were killed at Joplin, Mo., and five fatally i injured. Omaha reported one fatality. • Because she feared punishment at ’ school Frances Rigby, aged 12 years, ‘ daughter of R. M. Rigby, president of - the Rigby Printing Company of Kansas City, committed suicide by taking car- ; bolic acid. 1 Forest fires have been raging in the ' mountains in the Gallinas Canyon above the Las Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico. Great damage is being done, and it is feared that houses of ranchers in the canyon will be swept away by the flames. Custar, Ohio, an oil town of 500 inhabitants. was totally destroyed by fire. A high wind was blowing, which prevented any possible chance of saving the town. The loss, which will exceed $60,000, includes nine stores and scores of dwellings. Martin Lynch, who was arrested a few days ago. charged with the murder of his wife, committed suicide in his cell at the county jail in Cleveland by hanging himself from the doorknob, which was not more than three feet from the floor. The 1,700 employes of the Singer Sewing Machine Company returned to work at South Bend, but because of the disorganized state of affairs Manager Pine put only 800 men to work. The Singer company did not concede a point to the strikers. Burglars broke into the wood and feed store of Brand & AA 7 ubben in St. Paul, cracked the safe, stole checks and valuables and then set fire to the building, which was consumed, causing a loss of S7OO and almost effacing the evidences of the burglary. Forty students of Baker University at Baldwin, Kan., have been suspended for breaking into the gymnasium during a basket ball game between the two girls’ teams of the college. The officials say tile offenders can lie reinstated only on petition to the faculty. Attorney General Knox has commauded United States District Attorney Sol Bethea to bring suit in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago to enjoin the packers who constitute the so-called beef trust from continuing their alleged combination in restraint of trade. Prof. George M. Howells of Washington says the explosions at Robinson, Kan., were caused by a meteor, which buried itself in the ground and obstructed some underground stream. This caused the spring to appear, and might also account for the ■warmth of the water. Reports of a fabulous find of gold at Sand Creek, Mont., were received. A man named Meyer shipped to Butte samples of ore for assay that go from ssl to $28,000 to the ton. The extent of the strike has not been ascertained, but Meyer says he has an abundance of ore. SOUTHERN. Seven persons were killed and forty injured in cyclone that nearly destroyed the town of Glen Rose, Texas. At Frankfort. Ky., the case of Berry Howard, alleged principal in the Goebel assassination ease, was given to the jury at 10:15 Friday, and at 12:10 the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. The steamer Sunrise burned to the water’s edge at her wharf in New Orleans. The fire spread rapidly and some of the passengers and crew narrowly escaped. but all wore saved. Tim boat carried considerable freight, which was badly damaged. The Sunrise was valued at $25,000. Mrs. R. AA'orthington of Chicago, whose husband is a race horse man, and Mrs. G. D. Byles of Memphis were badly burned and the former is not expected to recover. Mrs. Worthington was boarding with Mrs. Byles. They were preparing a meal on a coal oil stove, when an explosion followed, igniting their clothing. FOREIGN. Fifty persons were injured in an accident on the Great Eastern Railway, near Hackney Downs station. Ixmdon. Ambassador AA’hite reports Emperor AA’illiam of Germany as saying in reference to the Monroe doctrine: "I have no intention of acquiring even the smallest island in the western hemisphere.” Russian peasants, driven by hunger, sacked eighty estates, and 18,0<X) are now under arms in Poltava and Kharkoff; troops are now being rushed there. Itinerant agitators are partly blamed for the outbreak. Lieut. Col. Frank D. Baldwin, who is i operating against the Moros on the Isl- j and of Mindanao, telegraphs that the ' capture of Sultan Pualo’s fort has had a most salutary effect. The dattos are submitting. I O. AA’. Little, editor of the North China Daily News, in an interview given at Victoria, B. C.. says war between Japan and Russia is considered inevitable, not only by the Japanese but also by the Rus- | sians and all residents on the Siberian coast. Count Zeppelin, the aeronaut, has been ruined financially by his experiments with airships. He is unable to obtain any further support in Germany for his projects and he is breaking up the old frameworks of his airships. He has sold More than 3.s(lo"fbuds . of Samar have surrendered and given up their arms to the American authorities. Chief of the capitulating forces is Guevarro, who succeeded Gen. Lukban last February as the commander of the entire insurgent forces of the island. Gen. Guevarro, together with forty officers, 189 men and 161 rifles, is now in custody of Gen. Frederick Dent Grant on an American gunboat at the mouth of the Gandara river, west coast of the island. IN GENERAL. 'The house of Jean Baptiste Moncham, a French butcher, residing in St. Morbert settlement, Manitoba, was destroyed by fire, and five children were burned to death. Capt. Charles E. Clark has declined the appointment of special naval representative at the coronation of King Edward, and the President has named Rear Admiral Watson for that mission. President-elect Palma of Cuba, after conference with revolutionary generals, decided to postpone payment of soldiers’ claims till farmers have been helped to I resume. Invalid soldiers will be eared I for. Thorough inquiry into conditions in meat industry shows that cattle shortage is slight; that tariff and combinations 1 with "railroads for rebates enable big I packers to keep up prices in spite of sat- • । isfactory range conditions. Dawson telegrams state that orders I have been received there from Ottawa J directing that the royalty on gold be I abolished and an export tax imposed ini stead. This means the retention in the z Yukon territory of the gold dust now in 11 circulation and that resulting from the I present clean-un

—■ I— I J. 8. MORTEN IS DEAD. : i FORMER SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE PASSES AWAY. Death Occurs at H nn e of His Son at Lake Forest, Hl. -Deceased Was an Agriculturist of gNational ReputeOriginator of Arftor Day. J. Sterling Mortof , Secretary of Agri- > culture under the lr st Cleveland administration, died Sum ay afternoon at the residence of his sci, Mark Morton, at Lake Forest, 111. 1 H s three sons, Mark. Paul and Joy Mor on, with their families, were at the be dside of their father when the end came. His physicians were in almost constant attendance on their patient during the last few days, although they and tl ie family were fully aware that there was no hope of his recovery. Secretary Morton ?s illness dates from last November, wht m he contracted a severe cold while sj|leaking at the stock show in Chicago. I The cold ran into an attack of grip, am 1 Mr. Morton was in a hospital for seve ral weeks-. AVhen he was able to trave 1 he returned to his home at Nebraska City, where he suffered a relapse. Takes Tri pto Mexico. After a partial covery he went to the City of Mexico, e’ parting that his health would be restoy During his stay in the South he v z ttacked with a disease of the bron^r tgy ‘Hid he returned to his home at tS^red severely on the retu 1 ■ reached his home with hi; health very milich-im-U paired. Three v “ ks a &° ^ r - Morton wont to Chicago the purpose of consulting a specia c - A week ago, while at the home of 8 son at Lake Forest, he was stricken v apoplexy. He rallied little after tl 1 ds attack, and gradually sank until th e end - Since the dealt 1 of his youngest son. Carl, a year ago ‘ ast January. Mr. Morton had been a ch . an ßed man, and his intimate friends sa?' ' the K rief he then experienced indirect’ I’ hastened his death. His Poll Heal Career. Julius Sterling j Morton had been one of the foremost E ^“ocrats of the nation for nearly half a century.. His first official position wai given him by President Buchanan in J BS , 7 ’ th «t of secretary of the territory < t Nebraska. His last office was that ol Secretary of Agriculture in the last 'lministration of President Cleveland, f ‘ oni 1893 10 189 ~- All his life he had l/^on a farmer and had been a leader in * thc upbuilding of every line of agricultur j " as he who originated "Arbor d. • ‘y’” which has become an annual festivi 'I throughout the western prairie State-* ^* r - Alorton had the choice he w 4' ,uld . rather be remembered in connectic n " *th that anniversary than for anythin “P else he ever accomplished. Even oi ‘ ^ is book mark was the motto “plant tre ' s -' Mr. Morton's Public life practically ended with his r Hireuaent from the cabinet with Presit Cleveland. In the Bryan campaigr that immediately followed that administration Mr. Morton forsook the Dem. x ' rats a ® d declared himself for the gol J st«u<lard, casting bis strength for the 1 Republican candidate. HisCu ' e ev Sketched. Mr. Morton wi 18 burn in Adams. Jefferson County, N. I l " April 22, 1832. When he was but 2 y ears of u P e his parents removed to Micl d K an ‘ "here the boy attended the priu y school. At the proper age he ret- V" 1 to \' v York att^.led Uni.< " here hy aduaieu in 18547 Te same year he was married and em -grated to the then faraway territory INebraska. He preempted a half ' secti ?n of government land at Nebras ka uud for more than forty yet© * kad li'ed on the same farm and * iad always been active In its managem. It was in 1 taat President Buchanan appointe d ^ r ‘ Alorton secretary of the territory, aud ’ the Covernor, dying during the term > he became acting Governor. Does Ne wspaper Work. During his « Je S e da y s Mr - Alorton became a contril ‘ u ^ or to the Detroit !■ ree Press, and later ^e "rote for the Chicago Times in tl * e days when that paper occupied its mos t prominent position under Mr. Story. newspaper experience he acquired 1 at thnd time served him well in after yea rs ’ an( kas been connected with son e Publication nearly all his life. Short)} after he went A\ est he started the Nel ,raska Cit y News > and was its first edit or - I’or many years he had been proprie tor aud usuaDy editor of the Conservativ *’ a weekly publication in Nebraska Citjf y , that has had a lar « e ! following amongr! p le farmers. Although littlekL kno Y n 1U the East ’ up : to the time that fpeveland appointed him to the new Depl| artnient ° f Agriculture, he at once took ’ ^ont rank among the agriculturists al tUe country, and became the expoil !t of man y reforms in farming that h. < e servcd t 0 revolutionize the industry , Mr. Morton 5 as su PPosed to be in comfortable if n< affluent circumstances. His farm in Neb aska 1S ? ne of th ® est and without do , ubt th f ' lloßt cultivated in t State indeed in the whole AVest. JIS al ?° sa,d J? own considerable p )ert y in ashington City and in Ch ISO, ShorL ' lewß Notes. Several busin'" ^bouses. McAigbur. 0,, Flood at Os< , thirteen miners. aan ’ Aloravia, drowned A Paris disp ' is to have a m 1 Ba y ß Jean D e Reszke Etoile and that 1 theater of his own at $1 250 000 for i riends have subscribed ’ t7 erection. Dr. Morris H . Little Rock, A ’> a leading physician of teen mouths’ h • was sentenced to fiftiary for sendh 1 labor 111 the Pemtenthe mai s. >bscene matter through Mayor Carte . to Paul Kruger*, I- Garrison forwarded Montagu AVhite, -t The Hague, through invitation of th. special Boer envoy, an Chicago. Ci ty Council to visit It is reported , dized steamer K<« aat the Russian subsito the Persian gs )rniloff - 011 hcr last vlslt the Bender Abk IC landed 60,000 rilles at on the Persian a seaport of Persia i n uRSome philantii given has donati °P' st - "’hose name is not Medical College, SIO,OOO to the Kansas pose of'enablins 4 Topeka, for the pnrto the present b « erect an addition , ding. Two boys 6 Rilev arrest is Lester and 1 nomas they' ’robbed^ York confess that throughout ttT * than 20d churches . Mrs. Alice *ntry. . ams. a Burffe. wife of J. <>. Ad- . of Chicago, com ’ n conductor, formerly • strychnine folio- j itted s,uclde b - v lakinhusband at St. J « quarrel with her , Edward Kern ?e P h > ‘'uj- < stole diamonds— ^ew Yorx valet who - Paul G Thebai . llu ed at $12,040 from ■ prisonment for .- "’a* sentenced to im- ■ e months. Kern -°ur years and six i 29 and fled to : ole the jewels on Dec. c was betrayed Orleans where be ; thief. He pie- tbe P° hc e by another | ’ guilty wh<n arraigned. 1

Just before adjournment of the Senate on Thursday Mr. Rawlins concluded his speech in opposition to the Philippine government bill. As on previous days, lie devoted much of his time to consideration of the testimony taken before the Philippine committee, analyzing it in connection with orders issued by the AA ar Department and by genera! officers in the Philippines. The Senate passed several unobjected measures of minor importance and a large number of private pension bills. Seventy-eight private pension bills were passed, as was one to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon in AA ashington to be used for a ball of records and making an appropriation of $1,006,000 for the purpose. In the House the oleomargarine bill was sent to conference after agreeing to the Senate amendments w ith some modifications suggested by the agricultural committee. The opponents of the measure offered a number of amendments, the principal one of which was designed to place renovated butter on the same footing with oleomargarine, but they were overwhelmingly voted down.. Mr. McCumber. chairman of the committee on manufactures, spoke at length in the Senate on Friday on his bill “to prevent the adulteration, misbranding and imitations of food, beverages, candies, drugs and condiments.” He declared the extent of the adulteration and I mis nr.Hiding of food products was appall-flnr-iSie owworat in food products which were being foisted upon the public and declared the time had come for Congress to act. as the instances he had cited were crimes against the retail merchant and consumer alike. In the House one hundred and forty-five private pension bills were passed, including bills to pension the widow of Gen. AVilliam Ludlow at SSO a month and the widow of “Farson” Brownlow of Tennessee at S3O a month. The remainder of the day was devoted to general debate on the agricultural appropriation bill. Mr. Lessler (N. Y.) discussed the necessity for a new postoffice at New Y’ork, Mr. Cochran iMo.) the trust question and H. C. Smith .(Mich.) “good roads.” The conference report on the Chinese exclusion bill (a disagreement) was made by Mr. Hitt (Ill.). The House insisted upon its disagreement and the bill wiA sent back to conference, the same conferees being appointed. In the Senate on Saturday Air. Carmack completed the speech on the Philippine government bill which lie began the day before. He continued his caustic criticism of the administration's policy. Mr. Jones, chairman of the committee on contingent expenses, reported favorably the resolution providing for an investigation by the committee on relations with Cuba of the alleged control of the,Cuban sugar crop and sugar lands in Cuba, and it was adopted. A resolution offered by Mr. Proctor was passed directing the Secretary of AA’ar to send the Senate a statement of the number of disappearing gun carriages under contract, a list of the bids for the construction of such carriages, the total cost of the carriages, where they are mounted and where it is proposed to mount those under construction. In the House afterdevoting an hour to the passage of bills by unanimous consent, public business was suspended, and for the remainder of | the afternoon tributes to the memories I of Representative Stokes of South Carolina and Representative Crump of Michigan were listened to. The House amendments to the oleomargarine bill were accepted by the Sen- 1 ate on Monday, thus passing it. The conference report on the Chinese exclusion bill was also adopted. Consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill was begun, but not concluded. Mr. Simmons spoke at length in opposition to the Philippine government bill. In the House slow progress was made with the agricultural appropriation bill, only twentyfive of the forty-nine pages being disposed of. During the debate Mr. Curtis (Kan.) made a brief but fervent defense of Gen. Funston against the criticism to which he had been subjected. Mr. Feely (Ill.) submitted some remarks in support of the contention that the laws of neutrality were being violated by this government is allowing the shipment of mules and horses to South Africa for use by the British in the war against the Boer republics. Mr. Feely and Mr. Gillett (Alass.) clashed upon the interpretation of that part of the treaty of AVashington which binds the United States and Great Britain as to what constitutes war materials. The conference report on the Chinese exclusion bill was agreed to. The Senate devoted I'uesday to discussion of the Philippine civil government bill. In the House, under a special or- I der which allowed three hours debate, but which cut off all opportunity of amendment, the omnibus building bill, ' which will distribute $17,405,451) among 174 cities, was passed. As the bill covers into the treasury $1.585,000, the total amount carried by the bill is reduced to that extent. The bill provides for sev-enty-seven new buildings and sites already purchased, seventeen buildings on donated sites and fifty-eight increases in appropriations for buildings already m- ' tTorized. It alio provides for the purchase of sixteen sites. The consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill was resumed, but only seven pages was disposed of. Washington Notes. Labor leaders object to the proposed department of commerce and labor, desiring a bureau of their own. President Roosevelt has accepted the invitation to deliver the memorial address at the national cemetery at Arlington on May 30. Capt. Geo. Detchemendy, formerly of the Twenty-second infantry, had a talk with Secretary Root with a view of securing some official recognition of the important part taken by his command in the capture of the papers, which resulted in the capture of Aguinaldo Sir Richard Stewart, of the British army, has arrived in AA'ashington. He is the personal representative of the government of Great Britain, and will remain in the United States for several months for the purpose of making nquiries into the supply of horses for use in the South African war. President flatly opposes any action by Congress whereby the verdicts of courtmartial in cases of desertion are overturned. Chartran portrait of the President will be given to the United States by the French Ambassador on behalf of his government. Allen Welsh Dalles. 8-year-old boy. h is written a book on Boer war, which his grandfather. Jolin AV. Foster, diplomat, published. AVitnesses in Danish island inquiry fail to support charges of Captain Christmas or to show any reprehensible methods in negotiations for the sale.

CROP CONDITIONS ARE BETTER. General Improvement Observed in Most States. The regular weekly crop report of the weather bureau was compiled before the sweeping changes of weather throughout the AVest and central AA’“st were reported. It says; The week ending on April 21 was warmer than ihe average in the Pacific coast and Rocky Mountain regions, in the Missouri valley, and the northern districts to the eastward; it was too cool in the middle Atlantic and Southern States and decidedly dry over the greater part of the central va’leys and middle Atlantic States. Rain is bMly needed throughout the Rocky Mountain districts and central valleys and would prove beneficial in the middle Atlantic States, while excess of moisture has hindered farm work in portions of the central Gulf States. The latter part of the week was marked by abnormally high temperatures iu Kansas and Nebraska, intensifying the drought conditions in those States, 'ihe general weather conditions, although not conducive to rapid advance of vegetation, were favorable for farming operations in nearly all parts of the country. The progress of corn planting has been rather slow, except in Missouri and the Southern States, this work being about finished in the central and the west gulf districts. A large acreage of ground Is prepared for planting iu the States of the central valleys, and some planting has been done in southern Illinois, but none elsewhere northward of the Ohio. The early planted is coming up in southern Kansas, where cultivation has begun. AA’inter wheat has continued to make ■■■■■^i^anil on the whole is in less E i O AV promising condition in the principal ter wheat States of the central valley than at the close of the previous week. Moisture and milder temperatures are generally needed for this crop throughout these districts and also in the middle Atlantic States. The outlook in California continues promising and the crop has experienced improvement on the uorth Pacific coast. The germination of early sown spring wheat over the southern portion of the spring wheat region has been slow, aud seeding has been retarded by freezing in North Dakota. The Red River valley lands in Alinnesota are drying nicely and seeding began on the 15th. Some reseeding will be necessary in Minnesota as a result of the dust storm of April 10 and 11. Seeding has progressed favorably on the north Pacific coast. HIGHER PRICES FOR FOOD. Fresh Meats of All Kind, Poultry and Butter Score Advances. Higher prices for various foods, particularly fresh meats and butter, which are regarded in this flourishing country as necessaries of life, although looked upon as luxuries in some others, have not only come, but they are here to stay. Moreover, according to expectations of men in the trade, they are likely to go higher still in the very near future. It is not only beef that has advanced almost sensationally in price within a few weeks. Lamb and mutton have gone up. as have hog products, and so also have poultry and butter. Lard has been advanced 1 to 3 cents a pound within a few months, and it has become known that there has been formed some sort of a working agreement between the great producers, who have held meetings in . western cities to come to understandings J as to the conduct of their business profitably in view of the gradually advancing prices all along the line from hog to lard. The rise in the price of butter is said to be chiefly speculative, not as turning upon any attempt to corner the market, but owing to a belief among the dairymen that Congress will pass the proposed law- prohibiting the manufacture of oleomargarine. The advance in the price of poultry is a sympathetic one, consequent upon the high beef market. The price of beef in the carcass, as the butcher buys it, is now about 3 cents a pound higher than six months ago. PRESIDENT REBUKES FUNSTON. Must Cease Further Public Discussion of the Philippines Question. President Roosevelt has reprimanded Gen. Fred Funston. The Kansas fighter has been ordered to cease the discussion of the Philippines question. This is the result of Gen. Funston’s recent statement in a speech that Senator Hoar of Massachusetts was “afflicted with an overheated conscience.” The following letter in regard to the matter was made public by the AA’ar Department: “AA’ar Department. AA'ashington.—Sir: ; I am directed by the President to instruct you that he wishes you to cease further public discussion of the situation in the Philippines and also to express his re- । gret that you should make a Senator of | the United States the object of public criticism or discussion. A'ery respect- ' fully, AVILLIAM CARY SANGER, “Acting Secretary of AA’ar. “Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston, Commanding Department of Colorado, Denver, Colo.” CANADA LEARNS WAR LESSON. Dominion "Will Copy Boer Plan of Colonial Defen«p Canada’s decision to profit by the lessons of the Boer war for her own defense is attracting much attention in England. It is argued that the Boer system has been demonstrated to be the ideal of effectiveness in colonial defense, if it has not served to revolutionize the general methods of warfare. The measure introduced into the Ottawa Parliament increasing the militia to 106,000 rifles creates force equal to the United States regular army. It is expected that the Melbourne Parliament will take a similar step immediately on behalf of federated Australia. Great significance is attached to the appointment of Maj. Gen. Lord Dundonald to the command of the Canadian forces. He was by far the most successful cavalry leader in the Natal campaign and is regarded as the commander, who, perhaps, has profited most from his South African experiences. Brief News Items. Building trades of Cincinnati want an ■ eight-hour day. James R. Keene, New York, wants to | form a rubber trust. Silas C. Croft, surveyor of the port ' of New York, is dead. One thousand men representing the building trades of Niagara Falls, N. Y., struck for an advance of wages and an eight-hour working day. The contract has been let for the erec- | tion of the monument in Guthrie to the j memory of Roy A'. Cashion, the Okla- | homa rough rider who was killed in Cuba ! during the Spanish-American war. Lyman J. Gage, former Secretary of the Treasury, has been elected president of the United States Trust Company of New York, ile succeeds John Stewart, who resigned on acco*«M. ill ksaltA

GwaCl A1... 1 Versatile weather has produced erratic fluctualions in prices and affeetec business very differently, according to locality. The extremes were blizzards and oppressive heat, with every intermediate variety. As the future prosperity of the railroads is more or less dependent upon the crops, the vagaries of the weather were quickly reflected in the markets for securities as well as in option sales of grain and cotton. Retail distribution of merchandise has maintained a good average, losses at some points being offset by gains elsewhere. Manufacturing plants are well employed, except where wage disputes interrupt. Coffee and silver touched low record prices, but the average of commodities advanced. Transporting interests maintain their wonderful record, railway earnings thus far reported for’April exceeding hist year's by 5.2 per cent, and those of 1900 by 15.3 per cent. Dun A Co’s AVeekly Review of Trade thus sums up conditions. The Review continues: Most large consumers of pig iron have provided for their needs well up to the end of the year, and consequently dic.-e is little change to report in the situation except as to small orders that appear from time to time. Quotations received by cable indicate that pressure in the United States has produced a decided advance abroad, and imports, after pay- —&££ extremely ex,,T . ■ 11 -■ i —. pensive. Movement of partially manufactured and finished steel products continue on a large scale. Lumber and building material are having the usual spring activity. Manufacturers of cotton goods are still behind with deliveries, and active machinery is assured for some time to come. Labor disputes have been temporarily adjusted, making the output very heavy as compared with recent weeks, when the strikes were causing interruption. New orders are small, the recent liberal export demand being checked, it is thought, by tlie fall in silver. Jobbers have received requests for more prompt delivery, retail trade having expanded with the warmer weather. Quotations of cotton goods are firmly held, the strength of the raw material giving suppi it. Independent woolen mills are working night and day. AA'ool moves slowly, and in some instances prices are shaded, but as a rule holders insist on fall figures. Footwear shops at the East have few new orders, and shipments from Boston continue to decrease. Jobbers have sufficient stocks to supply the retail demaud and are inclined to delay placing contracts. Drought Hurt Crops. Bradstreet’s says: Tlie cereals aud to a lesser degree hog products generally responded promptly to the southwestern wheat damage reports, which, coupled with very heavy decreases in the visible supplies, particularly in Manitoba and the Northwest, resulted in the highest prices of the crop season being reached for cash wheat. Corn, too, almost broke the season record. Crop reports to Bradstreet’s indicate that beyond doubt the Kansas wheat crop has been hurt by the drought and hot winds. Nothing in exces of three-quarters of a crop is looked for even by the most sanguine, while 60 per cent of last year’s yield is confidently predicted. In other sections, however, rains have benefited the situation, and even in Kansas the rains, though received late, ate encouraging so far as the outlook for the coming corn crop is concerned. AA’heat, including Hour, exports for the week aggregate 3,750,559 bushels, against 4,118,108 last week and 4,282.129 in this week last year. AA’heat exports from July 1. 1901. to date (forty-three weeksi aggregate 210.556,667 bushels, against 170,616,064 last season. Corn exports aggregate 376.186 bushels, against 400. 733 last week and 1,344,656 last year. July 1. 19ul. to date corn exports are 25,400,185 bushels, against 153,061,819 last season. ~~ A week of great uncerCuICaQD. taint y» nervousm - —z doubt; of fear and hesitation at first, giving way to contidenee and renewed activity at the elose; of wide fluctuation in prices of leading commodities —a week starting with a mena e over all, but ending with conditions as favorable, and an outlook as promising as could well be desired. T'p to AA’ednesday nearly the entire western Country stood in need of rain. The Northwest, although abundantly moist in places, had complain; -of dry soil and damage to early seeding from a considerable area. The Southwest was very dry, and in Kansas conditions <vere really alarming. A drought sar - was getting well under way. Then came copious rains, bringing relief generally ur.d loosening the tension everywhere. The grain markets and the st,,. I, >narket hung on the daily r. port- from tiedry districts.' As o. . . weakened and grain prices advan -ed, and on the more favorable reports it was the reverse. A bull market started in wm at, prices advancing materially. Jub' whe** ToißH<r b it with the rain came a setback of 3 cents. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $7.1 Hi. hogs, shipping grades, $ 1.25 to $7. W: sheep, fair $3.00 to $6.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 83c to 84c; corn. No. 2,61 cto 62c; oats, N>.2, 41 to 42c: rye. No. 2. to 56c; bay. timothy. SIO.OO to $15.00; prairie, $5.50 to $13.50; butter, choice creamery. 2O<- to 21c; eggs, fresh. 13- to 15c; potatoes, 90c to $1.96 per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, choice light. SU hi to $7.00; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,79 cto 80c; corn. No. 2 white. 65c to 66c; oats. No. 2 white, 45c to 46c. St. Louis—Cattle. $4.50 to $7.10; hogs, ; $3.00 to $7.25; sheep. $2.5. to $6.00; wheat. No. 2. 80c to 81c; corn. No. 2, I 65c to 66c; oats. No. 2, 44. to 45c; rye, I No. 2, <We to 01c. j Cincinnati l'attle. $3.00 to $6, <5: hogs, i $3.00 to $7.10: sheep. $2.25 to $5.10; | wheat. No. 2, Ssc to S6c: • >rn. No. 2 mixed, 66c to 67c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 4f>e; ; \e. No. 2. <i2<' t - G3e. Detroit ''attic, $2.50 to $G.25; hogs $3.00 to S»;.SS; sheep. $2.1»0 to $5.00; I yellow. 63c to 64c; oats. No. 2 w. .te, I 47c to 48c; rve, 64c to 61c, To ■ Io AVI . No. 2 - - . ■ S4c; corn. No. 2 mixed. Glc to <>2 . oais, ! prime. $5.27. Milwaukee —AAheat. No. 2 : hern, to 60c: barley. No. 2’. <•' to <-Jc pork, mess, $16.87.