Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 May 1902 — Page 2

Wljc Jnbcpnibcni. W. A. TADDEY, l*ul»llMhcr. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. WEEK’S NEWS RECORD Crazed by whisky, three patients in the county pesthouse at Deadwood, S. D., ended a night ot' riot by setting fire to the building and destroying it. The other patients, many of whom were in the worst stages of smallpox, narrowly escaped death, being rescued with difficulty. Eighty-four Moro prisoners, under guard at Manila, made an attempt to escape. At a preconcerted signal they got between the soldiers forming the guard and a company at dinner. The latter, realizing what had happened, tired on and pursued the Moros, killing thirtyfive of them and capturing nine. Two masked men armed with revolvers held up a crowded electric car of the Old Colony Street Railway Company on Washington street, near Lagrange, in West Roxbury, Mass., drove off a policeman with a shower of bullets, and took to their heels without waiting to rob the passengers. The ear was tilled with passengers. The route is through a thickly wooded district, where houses, electric lights and policemen are scarce. Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has been summoned to Rome, owing to the attempt of his daughter, Princess Beatrice De Berrone, to commit suicide by throwing herself into the Tiber, Princess Beatrice arrived at the Sistine bridge richly attired in evening dress and wearing her jewels. Before throwing herself into the water she made the sign of the cross. The princess was rescued with difficulty and was half dead when taken from the water. She declared her motive to have been jealousy of her husband. While Mrs. Albert McClure, with her 3-year-old son. was walking in Edgemere cemetery, Ashtabula, Ohio, a closed carriage drove close to them, and a woman leaned out and beckoned the child to her, and so soon as within reach she pulled the boy in and drove swiftly away. Mrs. McClure attempted to arrest the vehicle by grasping the wheel, and One hand and arm were severely injured. Excitement and pain caused her to swoon. McClure left his wife some days ago. and she knew nothing of his whereabouts, but says he was not in the cab. The police have taken hold of the case. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...14 2 Philadelphia.. 6 8 New York.. .10 5 Brooklyn .... 6 9 Chicago 7 5 Cincinnati ... 4 11 Boston 77 St. Louis.... 3 10 \ The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. , W. L. Detroit 6 3 Chicago 5 5 St. Louis.... 6 4 Washington.. 5 7 Philadelphia. 7 4 Baltimore ... 4 7 Boston 7 sCleveland ... 4 9 Two persons perished and several were injured in a tire which gutted the building at 304 Pearl street. New York, occupied by the Eureka Bedding Company. The tire started on the first floor near a pile of stair pads. A boy was sweeping loose cotton over the floor, and it is supposed that he swept the stuff over a lighted cigar or cigarette stub. The cotton burst into a blaze, the stair pads

to the upper floors. A panic ensued, and. disregarding the fire escapes, many of the employes jumped from rear windows to the roof of an extension. The rush of immigrants to New York, which has signalized the first four months of the year, reached a climax in one week recently, during which time 25,120 were brought from the various European ports. The total number of immigrants arriving for the four mouths ending April 30 was 178,604, an excess of more than 30,000 over any’ previous year for the same period. By months the record this year is: January. 18,213: February. 20,519: March, 57,175; April. 73,667. When it is mentioned that the total number landing here last year was 438.868 it will be seen that 1902 has started out as a record breaker. No fewer than 12,340 immigrants were landed at Ellis Island in one day. BREVITIES, Rear Admiral William T. Sampson died at his residence in Washington, Ij. C., after a long illness. City elections were held throughout Indiana on Tuesday, contests being on local issues and neither of the old parties gaining any advantage. F. Bret Harte, the American author, is dead. He passed away suddenly at the Red House. Camberley, near Aidershot, England, from hemorrhage, caused by an affection of the throat. Representative J. S. Salmon of the Fourth District of New Jersey died suddenly at his home in Boonton. Apoplexy was the cause of death. He was 56 years old, and a Democrat. Alexander Meussing was the prosecutor of his father in the police court at Columbus, Ohio, and the latter was fined S2O and sent to the workhouse for thirtydays for stealing his son’s watch. A cloudburst at Foss, Ok., drowned nine persons and left many homeless. Four bodies have been recovered. A mile of the Choctaw Railway track was washed out near the town and the loss of town property will amount to $200,999

1 A t'ornn(tcTwlMcii passed five miles east of Centerville, S. D., destroyed Victor Anderson’s house and barns, killed his baby and injured his wife and mother. Two horses were killed. Anderson was away from home and lost his reason when he returned. The cases of alleged assault against Senator Money of Mississippi, Orpha H. Shaner, a street car conductor, and Jas. E. Hooper, a truck foreman in the lire department, all growing out of a street car altercation in Washington, were nolle prossed and formally abandoned in the police court after a vigorous contest between counsel. While the royal yacht Amphitrite, with the royal family of Greece on board, was on its way to Chalkis it stranded in ths, Europis channel. Vessels went immediately to the scene to assist in refloating the Amphitrite. EASTERN. “Reggie” Vanderbilt is said to have promised his relatives to give up gambling. Congressman Amos J. Cummings of New York died at Baltimore from pneumnnia following an operation. Archbishop Corrigan died in New York after a brief illness, caused by a cold caught on his recent trip to Washington. The Wells elevator, situated on Buffalo river at the foot of Indiana street, Buffalo, N. Y.. was destroyed by lire. A large quantity of grain had been placed Ln the elevator during the past week and

the loss on the building and its contents is estimated at $225,000. I Two persons were killed and forty-five i injured, two probably fatally, in a bad | head-on collision between an emigrant j train and a fast freight near Rockwood, i Pa., on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- I road. The two trains dashed toward | each other on a straight stretch of track. A skiff containing four grown people and a child was overturned in the Youghiogheny river at West Newton, Pa., ami two were drowned. Mrs. Frederick Landsparger and her son, 4 years old, were the victims. Landsparger, unable to help them, saw his wife and son drown. Mrs. Kate Soffel, wife of Warden Soffel of the Allegheny County, Pa., jail, who figured in the sensational escape and recapture of the Biddle brothers last January, was called into court and entered a plea of guilty to the charge of aiding and abetting the escape of prisoners. Mrs. Fannie McComb Hertzog, who risked $3,000,000 for love by her marriage to Louis Hertzog, which had been expressly forbidden in the will of her father, the late James Jennings McComb of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y„ has brought suit against all the heirs to recover her full share of the estate. Until the other day Willie Raymond, 3 years old, was the master of his parents’ home at 1428 Baltic avenue, Atlantic City. Upon the arrival of a baby sister during the forenoon little Willie became exceedingly jealous of the attention bestowed upon the infant by the other members of the household, and, awaiting a favorable opportunity, he stabbed the baby with a knife, inflicting a dangerous wound. WESTERN. At Fargo. N. D., fire destroyed seven business houses, causing a loss of $30,000, partially insured. Potter Palmer of Chicago died unexpectedly of heart failure after an illness of three weeks due to a stomach ailment. Dr. E. W. Aldrich, Chicago, attacked two detectives at Los Angeles who tried to serve a writ, wounded one. and then shot and killed himself. The second disastrous tire in a week, aided by a gale, destroyed thT opera house in Aberdeen, S. D. The blaze was no doubt of incendiary origin. John 11. Parks’ suit against J. W. Gates for an accounting of profits in the formation of the American Steel and Wire Company has been dismissed. During a temporary aberration of mind Mrs. Florence McKinney, wife of Ben J. McKinney, an editor in Marietta, Ohio, committed suicide by hanging. George 11. Moody, aged 35, of Hollister, Ohio, and Wilbert 11. Miller, aged 35, of Herr's Island. Pa., were killed by a Baltimore and Ohio train near Cincinnati. John W. Bookwaiter is organizing a company with $500,000 capital to operate a big steel plant at Springfield, Ohio. His patents for converting iron into steel will be used. Passenger train No. 16 on the Lake Shore road struck and instantly killed Holly Hogle, aged 18; Louis Mohr, aged 16, and Guerney Gill, aged 17, near Swanton, Ohio. At Phoenix, Ariz., fire started in the store of Ross, the tailor. No accurate estimate of damage can be made at this time, but it will amount to many thousands of dollars. Five persons were severely injured on a vacant lot in Denver by the explosion of a tank of chemicals with which they

ms to h" i —og sifi<-opticon views. The falling of the roof in mine No. 4 of the New Mexico Fuel Company's coal workings at Capitan, N. M.. resulted in the death of two miners, David Thompson and William Webb. While placing two young men under arrest, Policeman Patrick Duffy of the stock yards police station in Chicago was shot and instantly killed in front of the Tenth Presbyterian Church. The Central Trust and Safe Deposit Company of .Cincinnati was appointed .receiver for the firm of Howell, Gano A ! Co.. whose liabilities are stated to be I $68,000 and assets SBB,OOO. Andrew F. Haas, a live stock commission man of Omaha, Neb., formerly of Chicago, and one of the wealthiest stockmen in the West, was instantly killed bybeing struck by a Union Pacific train. Because of despondency Mrs. John L. Kingsbury, wife of the foreman of a Denver laundry, poisoned her two children, aged 8 and 12, causing their death, and committed suicide by the same method. Despondent over the continued drought and the possibility of the entire loss of his crops, T. A. Coatsworth, a farmer living near Broughton, Kan., committed suicide by hanging himself. That night it rained. An electric car carrying twelve passengers crashed into a moving locomotive at Clinton and Oregon streets, Milwaukee, and was demolished. The passengers were terribly frightened and seven of them injured. A boiler in the hog killing department of Swift's packing house at South Omaha. Neb., exploded, injuring three employes seriously and two others slightly. The explosion did several thousand dollars’ damage. Ihomas Bishop, a wealthy gold mine owner of Old Mexico, totally blind, married Susanna Shuck, a cook in a restaurant at Findlay, Ohio. He tasted her cooking, then wanted to meet her, and after a short courtslrp, took her to wife. Samuel E. Crance has resigned his position as general superintendent of the Burlington lines in .Missouri, the “K” line in lowa and the Kansas Citv St.

।~‘ • L hmsebn ana Council Bluffs Railway. Mr. | Crance has been in continuous service of I the Burlington forty-one years. Mrs. Nellie Gabrin was arrested at Denver, Colo., on a charge of murdering her husband, Albert Gabrin, last January by administering poisoned wine at a birthday celebration. The warrant was ^worn out by Chief of Police Armstrong after an investigation lasting over a month. Dr. A. F. Longeway. secretary of the Montana board of health, and a party of scientists have gone to the Bitter Root valley to inquire into the mysterious malady known as spotted fever, which is causing a panic among the inhabitants of that region. Every ease of the disease has been fatal. A building in South Branson street, Marion, Ind., occupied by Pansier’s drug store, Rowan's grocery, John Dilday's saloon, John Darnell's saloon and Hudson A Otjs’ restaurant, was demolished by natural gas. injuring at least a score of people. The building was demolished and the loss will reach ^3S.(XX). Dr. D. Estaing Dickerson, one of the most prominent physicians in Kansas City, and a millionaire, died, aged 67. Dr. .1. W. Foster, an aged physician, and devoted friend of Dr. Dickerson, attempted to commit suicide on hearing of the latter’s death, by taking morphine, but bis condition was discovered in time to save his life. The will of J. Sterling Morton was opened in the presence of the heirs ami their representatives at Nebraska City. Neb. The estate is estimated to be

worth in the neighborhood of SIOO,OOO. ' The will provides for an annuity to be j paid to Miss Emma Morton, sister of the j decedent, during the remainder of her I life. The estate is then divided into ' four equal parts, one part for each of i the four sons or their heirs by representation. Judge Hale of the Common Pleas Court at Lisbon. Ohio, has declared unconstitutional the statute that makes the discharge of a union man a misdemeanor. D. S. Bookman, manager of the Wellsville mills, was indicted five months ago for discharging a union man who refused to surrender his card. Bookman was prosecuted bv the union organization, and the case was thus decided. The case will be carried to the Ohio Supreme Court. SOUTHERN. At Beaumont, Texas, the Southern Pacific freight depot was burned with all records and about $50,000 worth of freight. Conrad Lueder, who claimed to be a brother of Baroness E. von Bergen of Germany, has disappeared from Johnson City. Tenn., leaving letters stating he intended to commit suicide. Under the new law in North Carolina every voter who failed to pay his poll tax before midnight ot May 1 is disfranchised for this year. Several thousand white men failed to pay the tax. Fire at Wellsburg. W. Va., destroyed the decorating and packing departments of the Eagle glass works, owned by Paul Brothers. The loss is S7S,(XX) to SIOO,000. About SbO people are thrown out of employment. President Shaffer has been re-elected as the head of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers in the convention in Wheeling, W. Va., receiving 148 votes to 56 for Thomas Williams of Zanesville, Ohio. Fire which started in the candy factory of Bosman A Lowman destroyed nearly a block of buildings in the heart of Norfolk. Va. A rough estimate of the loss is between $250,000 and $500,000, Two hundred persons are out of employment. it has been learned that a murder was committed recently in the penitentiary at Rusk. Texas. Several Mexicans were convicted of robberies extending over a number of years, in which it was estimated that SIO,OOO worth of goods had been stolen and sold. The leader of the gang was Ramon Mendez, about 18 years old. 'The police used Juan Aguilar as a witness, and he was let off with live years. As soon as Mendez, had an opportunity after arriving at the penitentiary he killed Aguilar. FOREIGN. A Rome dispatch says the Dowager Queen Marguerite has decided to take the veil and enter a '.'invent. As an outcome \ •'‘nissatisfaction with the constitution*’.id the government the Victorian cabinet has resigned at Melbourne. This step was taken in order to enable the premier, A. J. Peacock, to reconstruct the ministry. It is officially announced that Queen Wilhelmina is out of danger. There is general rejoicing throughout Holland. The Chambers of the Slates General have adopted by acclamation a congratulatory address to the throne. Two hundred and fifty fishermen are reported to have been drowned in a gale which has made havoc of the herring fishing fleet- on the west coast of Japan. The Japanese cruiser Musashi was driv- ( n ashore, but her crew were saved. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has pardoned the ..flic.-rs -.f ’ ’ibfaw— i 'i 1 '"’t?*-.

cruiser Chicago, who are imprisoned at \ enice. They will be handed over immediately to the United States consul, from whose charge they will be transferred to the Chicago. Col. Barker reports that he captured Commandant Manio Botha, his adjutant and eleven others, near Frankfort. Orange River Colony. This is regarded as important, as Manie Botha is a nephew of the commandant general and (Jen. De \\ et's ablest lieutenant. A dispatch from Russia, filed on the German frontier, announces that the labor population of the whole district between Moscow and Vladimir, central Russia, is in revolt. There have been numerous encounters between the workingmen ami the troops and many persons have been killed or wounded. IN GENERAL "Macabebe Marie," known to every soldier in the Philippines as one of the shrewdest spies in the American service, is dead. She formerly served on Gen. Funston’s personal staff. Il is reported that Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican republic, has surrendered to the insurgent forces. President Jimenes of the Dominican republic is said to have taken refuge in the French consulate there. The Cuban Senate and House of Representatives assembled in the palace at Havana. Governor General Wood made an address. Salvator Cisneros was elected president of the Senate, while Pedro Albarran was elected president of the House of Representatives. The War Department has given out copies of a telegram written by Aguinaldo three weeks before the battle at Manila, in which he offered rewards of money, lands and titles for capture of American troops with their officers, and particularly for the capture of their commander. The War Department has received a cablegram indicating that the campaign against Sultan Bayan, one of the principal Moro chiefs, had been completely successful. The result was accomplished by a gallant .assault .on the 'iu^-apitr | Moro fort and its capture after a number | of the leading Moros had been killed. J. J. Hill, the railway magnate, says the injunction to control rates will be futile, and that only roads that are best equipped and best suited will get traffic. He speaks for what he calls "inactive” competition, denounces pooling, and de-, dares that roads that cannot carry freight have no right to demand part of the earnings of another road. W. Mulock. minister of labor, has im troduced a bill in the Dominion Parliament to prevent strikes on Canadian railways. The measure provides first for a provincial or state board of arbitrators of three, one selected by the company, one by the employes, a third chosen by these two. 11 they fail to agree in a selection the government will appoint the third. Labor strikes were numerous throughout the United States the other day, but th6 total number of men who went out did not reach the figures predicted by union leaders. The total number of i strikers reported at various points j amounts to about 25,000 men in all. The I I chief points of disturbance are in the I I East, Pittsburg leading ■with about 8,000 | men out. Just before departing for Scotland An- j drew Carnegie announced to President j W. N. Frew of the board of trustees of i Carnegie Institute that he had completed I a new list of twenty libraries which ho | had given to various cities in the United | States. The latest list of gifts will { amount to over $1,000,000 and the libra- | ries will be located in cities of below the | third class.

BIG SHAKEUP LIKELY 4 RUMORS OF CHANGES IN WASHINGTON OFFICIALDOM. Many New Men for Old Places and New Places for Time-Tried Officials— Perturbation Among Some Holders of Fat Jobs. Washington correspondence: - ^^H ANGES and ru- , V fl mors of changes till V^Hthe political atmosphere at Washington. /Officialdom is - starI tied and perplexed A I " [and wonders where vtsk jnext the lightning pnav strike. Not only, WJ.S - family feel ■—t ie service and he screr: ‘’ ^Tartments ot the governI II it llment are to receive a W’< 11 liishaking UP. Secretary of tl* Inte r b>r Hitchcock’s withdrawal 1* abinet in the near future is regaffle, « certain. Tip-.Sec^.. retary has annou *'d wumto leave the office, and th, president, it is said, will place no obsth ’es in the way of his retirement. Theri mve been rumors respecting the possßle retirement of Attorney General Km;, but seemingly they lack foundation, rThat the diplomatic service will be rearranged is beyond doubt. Andrew D.

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White, embassador to Germany, will vacate that post shortly, and his successor, r u m o r has it, will be David J. Hill, who is now First Assistant Secretary of ' State. 11 en r y White, first secretary of the United States embassy in London, has been practically selected

to succeed George von L. Meyer a* embassador to Italy. Payne Whitney, son-in-law of Secretary Hay, has been mentioned for Mr. White's London post. With the ratification of the treaty annexing the Danish West Indies will come the necessity for a governor of the islands. Several iiilliX'" have bemi suggested for this office. Jann* R. Garfield, son of former President Garfield, is one of the President's most recent appointments. He succeeds William A. Kodi n berg on the civil service commission, Mr. Roosevelt served on this commissioii under President Clewlaml. Among other appointments soon to be

made is that of a United State* minister to Cuba. In view of the fact that this official must plunge at once into the difficult task of negotiating a fabric of treaties with the , new republic it is 1 expected that the ^otce will fail upGi some cue not

DK. D. J. HILI altogether lacking in diplomatic exp nee. ' I’) the iminigr “ 1 a<r-Tne

’SWKT ■ b"” ni . ad ’; missioner Genera ' ' ', has been replaced I'mnk 1. . argent Thomas Fitchie ""“^oner of umm gration at New *' Wil ' Ham Williams, a / sioner at the Port * \‘ rk I ? ,, * ard McSweeney is sure "" lvd by Joßeph Mnr ray. ! , Henrv Clay Evi n *' Pensions, has beem to lh ". lucrative post in t foreign service 01 the United States. 1 v *7° b ‘‘ api "’ lnt ; cd consul general a s " ccced William MeKiniev “"h?’ 1 ’ 0 ' . “° f President MeKiniej ’ whose death ~ccUrred recent!v. . , r> e . . who succeeds 1. V. 1 ranl> U. Sargent . . . t>z„-a,.i„ • i master of the Broth--1 ow derly. is grand

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erhood of Locomotive Firemen. He has come into prominence more than once by his outspoken declarations in favor of the recognition of the rights of employers by the labor unions. Less than a year ago he expressed himself strongly on this point and said that

. was made bv nun when an agreement . . ■ ... , .. was important for with employers it „ .J . . . , . jserve their part ot unions to strictly o _ • , , ‘ .. . .. .. by wished to secure the agreement if th . .. , espeet of the public, the sympathy and r , „ , ■ ~ „ \ . . ndefatigable worser. Mr. Sargent is an i . . . aan ordinary endurpossessed of more t • „ . , , . . . ion. As a factor in ance and determmat , , , , , ... . . , bor troubles he has the settlement of la . , . been of much jni-

portance, and his influence is regarded of supreme account by both capital and labor. Personally he is inclinled to be reticent, yand especially «-o ■dabout matters of ^business. In his ^office he is usually 4umiicative.

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a as. ii. f Eugene F. Ware, attorney of Topeka, |Kan., appointed to succeed H. Clay Evsks as Commissioner of Pensions, is knotwi to Americans everywhere as “Iron l^uill,” the Kansas poet. Mr. Ware is a hative of Connecticut and is 61 years of age. He went to lowa when a young ifian, served through the Civil War in a Hawkeye regiment and afterwards fought Indians on the

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frontier, being badly wounded. In 1871 he became a lawyer, settled in Kansas and was elected to the State Senate. His most celebrated literary effort is the screed which he wrote after reading of the battle of Manila. William Williams, who becomes Commissioner of Immi-

gration at the port of New York, was born at New London, Conn. He is 39 years old. He is a lawyer and was one of the junior counsel for the government in 1892 in the Bering Sea arbitration Sees Wife and|Son Drown. A skiff containing four grown people and a child was overturned in the Y’oughiogheny river it West Newton. Pa., and two were dr owned. Mrs. Frederick Landsparger and her son, 4 years old, were the victims. *“Landsparger, unable to help them, sa y his wife and son drown.

MO Ji ULKED-OF WOMAN IN SOLDI CAROI INA. Mrs. Andrew Simmonds is the most talked about woman in South Carolina. Her shrewd little ruse by which she met President Roosevelt early and wooed him away to lunch in her hospitable home, when all the members of the exclusive St. Cecelia set, which is supposed to set ■ IJlfc If MRS. ANDREW SIMMONDS. the social pace of Charleston, were distanced in the race, has won the unbounded admiration all outside that set and the undying hotTCu of (hose within it. .Vs it !• war to the knife between Mrs. Simmonds and the St. Cecelias the beaker's wife knows that she has won a great victory over those whe sought to squelch her, and is happy BUTTER PRICES BOOSTED. J'-“o Bill Said to Haw: Bcck the Cause the Skyward Advance. i While meat has climbing up in ' price and the federal government prepari ing to investigate the cause, butter, too, I has been busy. The antics of this staple have been acrobatic enough to puzzle everybody not engaged in the business. ■ The oleomargarine interests declare the price has been boosted by the butter speculators in anticipation of the passage of the Grout bill by Congress. This is denied by the dairymen. The fact remains. however, that on April 17 butter sold for 3D-J cents in Chicago, the highest price spring butter has brought in Chicago since 1893. The price of butter began to advance when the Senate took up the bill to place a tax of 10 cents a pound on oleoinarga- [ line “colored in imitation of butter.” The price of the commodity declined to 29 cents April 12, rose to 3U- cents April 17, and after a storm had been roused by the high prices of butter dropped to 27 cents April 19. Tins the opi ponents of the Grout bill assert was directly due to fears of the butter mer that the bill would fail to pass if the high prices kept up. Here is a comparative table of butter prices from the Chicago Dairy Produce, j the organ of the butter interests: Cents. Cents. April 17, 1593....33 April 11. ISOS go April H’,. PIG. . , .23 April 10. isu<j go April 11. 1 ... . *'o April'.!, llioo go’^ April 13. 1 s'. ': .. . ' April S. lliol. . .20‘ 3 April 12. 181)7. .. .171-j April 14. 11102 2U^ The price this year is higher than at any comparative period since 1893. 'The prices then were ascribed to droughts and high prices for grain and the butter men say these same causes have boosted the - pvi'-'t again. U I —

v | MILLIONS OF CHEAP ACRES, Railroad Officials Promoting: Colonization in the Southwest. Officials of the Union Pacific, the I Southern Pacific and the various other Harriman lines have been holding meetings in Chicago of late, with a view of j perfecting the largest colonization plan t ever attempted by western roads. It is the purpose ot the men controlling these lines to provide occupants for millions of j acres of fertile and unoccupied lands in f southern California. Texas and western Louisiana. The general plan will be to send into the Middle ami Eastern States and possibly into some of the Northwest States fully l,t») immigrant or colonization agents, whose duty it shall be to induce immigration to the territories menl tioned. Many of these agents have al- | ready been employed, and the traffic and advertising departments of the various lines are busy getting out the necessary advertisements to be used in connection i with the work of the agents. "In the Southwest," said one of the men back of this enterprise, "we have over 3,000,000 acres of fertile land which would make good homes for industrious people. We believe that no section of the United States has a more brilliant future than Texas and western Louisiana, , and we are convinced that all that is nec- . essary is to let the public know what we f have got. There is not another portion . of the country where you can see the traffic sights you see every day in Texas and the Southwest —I mean great train loads of any one and all of a dozen com- , modifies, such as coal, iron, cotton, pre- ; cious metals and corn." It is announced that within a short j time every one of the 1,000 or more agents will be at work throughout the States east of the Mississippi river. From . time to time homeseekers’ excursions will be run to the territories mentioned, and . special inducements will be offered to get the public to visit the Southwest and , southern California. British troops at Cairo are held in readiness to proceed to the Soudan, owing to the fact that trouble is threatening in that part of Egypt. A movement is to be made in the Brii ish House of Commons for the appoint ment of a commission to investigate the operations of trusts in Great Britain. It is announced that Emperor William has notified the executors of the will of Cecil Rhodes of his country’s acceptance of the trust relative to the German scholarships at Oxford. The Santa Fe officials at Topeka have announced their intention of giving the preference to graduates of high schools in giving employment to persons in the office force of the company. Recent purchases of property near Wantage, England, by Richard Croker of Tammany fame has created the impression there that he intends to make England his permanent home. The Austrian minister of instruction. Dr. Von Hartel, has conferred the great gold Staats medal upon Walter MacEwen, the American artist, for bis picture called “The Ghost Story.” James Henry Smith of New York City, heir to the $50,000,000 estate of the late George Smith, who amassed his fortune in Chicago and died not long ago in London, has purchased Rubens’ “The Holy Family” for $50,000 and presented it to the Metropolitan Mtmum of Art..

I ©ORGReSS. I ! In the Senate debate on the Philippine question occupied practically the en- i tire day Wednesday. The bill for the purchase of the Rosebud reservation iu South Dakota and the sundry civil appropriation bill were considered, but no action was taken on them aside from amending the latter by appropriating $250.0(X) for the purchase of the ground and building now occupied by the census bureau, in the House the agricultural appropriation bill was passed after increasing the item for good roads inquiries from $20,000 to $30,000. and incorporating the following amendment: “The Secretary of Agriculture shall, on or before July 1. 1903. transfer to and consolidate with the weather bureau and under the direction of its chief all the work of the Department of Agriculture relating to the gathering and compilation of statistics by the division of statistics.” Consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill, the last but two of the regular supply measures, was then begun. By the terms of a special rule adopted it will be in order to attach a rider to it to make operative the existing personal tax law of the District, which has been a dead letter for Phairm-An f’linnnn tStl" mated that there was $100,000,(XMJ of untaxed personal property in Washington. The Goldfogie resolution calling on the Secretary of State for information as to whether American citizens of Jewish faith were excluded from Russia was adopted. In the Senate Thursday discussion of the Philippine question again occupied most of the day. Both the Rosebud reservation bill and the sundry civil appropriation bill received consideration, but not final action. A bill appropriating $5,(MXJ for a lighthouse keeper’s dwelling at Ecorse Range light station. Detroit river. Mich., was passed. In the House most of the day was given to the District of Columbia appropriation bill, which was not completed. Mr. Shattuck (Ohio) spoke on industrial conditions, and Mr. Gaines (Tenn.) in criticism of conditions in the Philippines. A bill was passed providing that third and fourth class mail matter withoirt sufficient postage shall not be remailed to the sender. In the Senate on Friday debate on the Philippine bill continued to occupy most of the session. The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was agreed to. The Rosebud Indian reservation bill and the sundry civil bill were again considered, but not completed. The amendment of Mr. Pratt (Conn.) to the Rosebud bill striking out the provision providing for free homes on the lands to homestead settlers was rejected. 19 to 38. An amendment was agreed to appropriating $l(X).000 for the construction of a revenue cutter of the first class for service in Hawaiian waters, the total cost not to exceed $200,00(>. The amendment providing the machinery for the enforcement of the personal tax law of the District of Columbia, passed in 1878. was placed on the District appropriation bill as a rider and the bill was passed. The bill to provide diplomatic and consular officers for the republic of Cuba also was passed. The Senate devoted the entire day Saturday to debate on the Philippines. The House adjourned in respect to the memory of Congressman Amos J. Cummings

In the Senate most of the day Monday was taken up by Senator Lodge with a speech on the Philippine civil government ( bill. The sundry civil appropriation bill ■ was passed with amendments, providing ■ for t’ne dedication of the St. Louis expo- ! sit ion on April 30, 1903. and that the exi position shall be opined to visitors not i later than May 1. Itml; appropriating > $25,000 for the commissioner of labor to 1 collect statistics of marriage and divorce; i constituting the Secretary of the Treasi ury. the Postmaster General and the । Secretary of the Interior a commission i to select a site in Washington Cit.v for a hall of records, the limit of cost of the site being Ss<m).(m;() ami that for the building being $509.0 rt; appropriating $165.00>> fur repairs to the White House in lieu of the $45.900 heretofore provided .and appropriating $50,000 more for a i temporary office building to be used while the repairs to the White House are in progress. The bill for the purchase of the Rosebud Indian reservation was ■ passed with an amendment eliminating ■ the commutation clause and providing that settlers, in order to make good their ; titles to the land, shall live on it for five ■ years. In the House an urgency resolution making additional appropriation of SIOJH)9 for the expenses incident to the dedication of the statue of Marshal de Rochambeau was adopted. Mr. Jones (Va.) announced the death of Representative Otey and offered the customary resolutions of regret. The Speaker ap- > ointed a committee to attend the funeral. In the Senate on Tuesday the Philippine question again o<<-upied nearly the entire day. A House joint resolution making an additional appropriation of slo.fK>o for the dedication of the statue of Marshal de Rochambeau in Washing ton was passed, as was a bill to apportion the term of office of Senators dected at the first general election in the territory of Hawaii. Ninety private pension bills were also approved. The House adjourned shortly after convening out of respect to the memory of Congressman Salmon of New Jersey. Washington Notes. House naval committee agreed to naval appropriation of $76,000, which provides for six nessels. Senator Hawley has introduced a bill to give the commanding general of the army a legal status. Congressman Mann of Chi ago has asked the House to investigate the public building now being erected in Chicago. Congressman Hitt has asked the House for an appropriation for minister, consul general and consuls in Cuba; salary of minister to be $10,009. The Rev. T. DeWitt '1 almage left estate of S3OO,O'JO. Widow receives onethird and balance will tie divided among children, according to will. Bureau of foreign commerce bulletin said that if line of steamers from New York to Brazil were started there would be sufficient freight in rubber and coffee. Oscar S. Straus, in address at American Social Science Association convention. emphasized necessity of systematizing American diplomatic and consular services. Colombia proposes that United States shall nay lump sum of $7,990,009. representing fourteen years’ rental at $500.o(k> a year, for the istlimian canal, and that at the expiration of that time a new agreement shall be made. The Senate has confirmed the nominations of James R. Garfield of Ohio, to be United States civil service commissioner and William Williams of New York, to be commissioner of immigration for the port of New York.

^^aciAL wife New York.] ■ 'l. were avert- .. : t least temporarily, and a number of smaller ones were settled, but many new controversies have beg>m. This labor factor is the only seriously unfavorable one in the industrial situati m. ex- r' a^ considerable influence over tin- v.dume of transactions, and also tending unsettle confidence. In seasonable m. . udise. especially dry goods ami • . ’-a -rmer weather has st‘m'i!ate<i : .15 outdoor work is pros, u-- : 1 . Collections are more r:-im .. fewer extensions b-imz - . 1. Ship ments are less delayed . !i -e >n_o. ; - tion. ami railway earn::..- th;- lar reported for April exceed .a.-- year’s by 7.2 per cent.’’ R. G. D n <k Co. thus sum up trade conditions in their weekly review. 'The review continues: Consumers of finished steel products are compelled to place orders subject to the convenience of manufacturers, ani it is the exception when any nearby de*5 . ~ t rs TITIf { amount of railway work is being dore, while the erection of new buildings would be much more extensive it material were available. This structural Work is on a record-breaking scale and promises relief to the situation hereafter, since mo«t of the plants under constru L m will add to the productive capacity when completed. Pig iron has worked up to a higher point. Bessemer commanding S2O at Pittsburg on deliveries within six months, owing to the full c ntracts heid by the furnaces. Fort-ign dealers have shown much wisdom by making concessions in this market. A better volume of or! r- taken by New England shoeshops ;- one of the most encouraging signs f the week. Slight concessions were made on a few grades, but the general level at <jn.Nations is fairly well maintained. Jobiiers are still slow to place fail orders, hoping that better terms may be pu-s-blc next month. Jobbers in dry goods have felt the effects of good weather ami a brisk track* has been done at steady prices, although no general advance has fui'mwed the rise in raw cotton or the resrr:-operation , at woolen mills. Weak silver has continued to militate against exports to China. Overtime work at independent mills is partially neutralizing the effect of the weavers' strike. Cereal prices have been less inflated by speculation than they were last week, yet a high level was maintained, and only slight reactions occurred. The general tenor of crop news wa- much more encouraging, aside from Kansas dispatches, which indicate that wheat needs moisture, although corn and oats have good prospects. Good foreign crop conditions were calculated to weaken the tone, yet exports of wheat from the United States, flour included, amounted to 5,579,637 bushels, against 4,132,357 a year ago. Recent attractive prices have brought corn to market more freely than in preceding weeks, but receipts of 1.686.<)50 bushels for the week fail far short of the 2.378.;>34 in the same week last year. The comparison as to Atlantic exports is . till more striking, onlv 154,704 bush»-;s going out ~-' - - -

ago. Failures in the United States this week were 225. against 212 las* week. 261 the preceding week and 226 tiie correspond I ing week last year, and in Canada 17. against IS last week. 24 in the preceding wek and 24 last year. ~ j It was hardly to be exCliicago. i pected that the week 1 3 I would pass without a more serious turn in the labor situation. Trouble lias been in the air for a time and ' the beginning of the new m-m’ii brotigk< the culmination of some 1 ing standing disputes. Strikes O' , urr/ 1 in mat > ' places, yet. in the main, they were local ' troubles involving no great b>ly of me;:. It is gratifying to note an eXi •; al freedom from the bitterness that t-• often characterizes disputes ■ w. • m cap ital and labor, a tendency av-mi <i-n:-onstrations liable to lead to vmb-m-e. and a marked disposition to adjust the differences by arbitration. The building trades have suffered, and in some places new building plans have b - n hung up pending a settlement. This delay ’ - spring building is the most aspect so far. In all the cities of the ia rijr bank clearings are running far ah ad of last year. Deliveries of wheat My ehoa: rs to millers on May contra ' iped swell the total. The grain mark hold between the counter influences of unresp ■t'.sive foreign markets and h >m<- comlitions, tending to make a high , ri.range. In the Northwest the season is backward. The fact tha’ • crop w.. start uneven ami generally late’ is n t necessarily bad in itself, as one of the largest wheat crops ever rais'd in the Northwest was on seeding ’.ut -r than tl;0 Chicago—Cattle, common t prime. $3.50 to $7.00; hogs, shippi _ $4.25 to $7.30; ■ <’ • to $6.00; wheat, No. 2 red. XL to s4c; _ corn Na 2. 5Sc to 59c: oars. N >. 2. 41c to I2c; rye. No. 2. 55 othy, $19.00 to $15.90; prairie. $5.50 to $13.50; butter, choice creamery 20c to--22e; eggs, fresh. 13c to 15 . ; tatves, ’.Hie to 97c per bushel. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. c'SMO to $6.75; hogs, choice light, s4.oq to SO.SO; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2. 81c to 82c; corn. No. 2 white. 65c to 66c; oats, No. 2 white, 45c to 46c. St. Louis—Cattle. $4.50 • • $';.75; hogs. $3.00 to $7.00; sheep. $2.5) $6.20; wheat. No. 2. 79c to s 9e; i"r:i. No. 2. 61c to 62e; oats. .\. 2. 41 42c: rye. No. 2. 5Sc to 59c. Cincinnati ('attic. $3.00 : So.e' ie'gs $3.00 to $7.19; sheep. <2.25 : >s.4<i; wheat. No. 2. 85e to s.: । . Xu. 2" mix'd. 6’ie to 67c: N . n.ixtd. i4le to 45c; rye. No. 2. •2- ■< •- Detroit- -Cattle. $2.5n , •'T.go; hugs. $3.0:l to $6.55: eeep. 5'2.5 . X 3. IK!; i wheat, No. 2. <ii ■ to s7e; ■ cm, N". 3 i yellow. ).2c to O.’le; mts. N. 2 whit,-. -17 c to 4<e; rye. OOc to OU-. i Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 n.i. i S 2 ■ 9 ' 84c: com. No. 2 mixed. 59.- • .;-a I No. 2 mixed. 42c to 43'-; < er s. 1. ' prime. $5.12. I Milwaukee- Wheat. N". 2 north) re. ' 75c to 76c; corn. No. 3. GOc tn tile; .-a:.-, ' No. 2 white. 43c to 44e; rye. No. 1. 5,\ ■to s<e; barley. Ne. 2. 79e : 71 ; mess, $16.95. । New Y’ot k $3.75 t S7J ■ bogs. • $3.00 to $6.75; sheep. Li.b.i • >9.00; I wheat. No. 2 red. S7c t" ■ Ac 2. 66c to 67c; oats. No. 2 white. 5 ■ t . 51c; > butter, creamery, 21c to 22c; ~_gs, western, 14c to 17c.