Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 51, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 July 1902 — Page 2

Cl)c Jndt pendent W. A. LIXDLISY, Publisher. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. WEEK’S NEWS RECORD Andrew Hellman, aged 65 years, a well-known dairyman of Mount W ashington, near Pittsburg, fatally shot his wife and then, turning the revolver against his own temple, killed himself. Several weeks ago the aged couple quarreled. Paul Hertrick, a theological student, aged 23, son of Rev. Mr. Hertrick of Plato, Minn., has not been seen since June IG. During his college vacation be worked as a carpenter at Albany. Minn. He was severely injured by a fall and it was decided to take him to Minneapolis for treatment. When last beard of he was lying in a baggage car en route for Minneapolis. Michael Burke, a rich farmer residing near Craig. Mo., was shot and mortally wounded by his wife, a pistol bullet passing through his brain. Burke was under the influence of liquor, having arrived home from a visit to Craig. He was acting ugly, and started in to thrash a hired man. His wife interfered, and became the object of his wrath ami a vicious assault. She fired but one shot. _ Mrs^d^dxxumlihL^uds has been arfiSSaCS'' ■■■ 'urged with —- Gladß. her ,4-year-old stepdaughter. The coroner’s jury found that the child came to its death by being stamped and trampled on by Mrs. Edwards. The woman says a strange man killed the child. Mrs. Edwards is Edwards’ third wife. The child was adopted by his second wife. Mrs. Catherine Mills of Toledo, Ohio, Is in New York City trying to learn something of her early history and the fAte of her parents, from whom she was separated when a child, more than half a century ago. "When I was a very small girl,” she said. "I lived at Pittsfield, Ohio, the only child, as I believed, of Charles Spooner, a well-to-do farmer. When I grew older I learned the Spooners had adopted me and that my parents had lived in New York. After marrying I took up the search for my relatives and shall persist to the end.” Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...42 12 Philadelphia. 28 33 Brooklyn ...35 27 Cincinnati ...22 33 Chicago ....32 25St. L0ui5....22 36 Boston 29 27 New York... 20 37 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....36 19 Washington. 27 32 Boston 33 26 Detroit 25 30 fit. Louis. ...27 25 Baltimore ...26 32 Philadelphia 28 26 Cleveland ...25 34 NEWS NUGGETS, Earthquakes are reported to have occurred simultaneously in twenty towns of Asia Minor. Many houses collapsed. C. J. McAllister, the young man arresttd while trying to enter the White House with a revolver, is insane over disappointment in love. Henry Canfield. 75 years old. killed his wife and himself at Morrison, 111., because of jealousy. The couple had been . married fifty years.

American money and enterprise arc behind $25,000,00» ' Official figures at , '*/t of New York show 493,380 immigrants arrived in the fiscal year ended July 1, which is an increase of Ba,ooo over last year. A march called the “Parade March of the Marine Division,” comi>o®ed by Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, has been brought out by a publisher of Leipsic. Ernest M. Gray, one of the best known mining men of Cripple Creek, killed himself by putting a bullet through his head. Gray had been losing in mining deals. A bunch of 2-year-old black cattle averaging 1,286 pounds sold on the Kansas City market the other day for $8.35 per hundred, which is the highest price on record. Edwin and Thomas Balch of Philadelphia are in St. Petersburg for the purpose of collecting information arid material with regard to the boundaries of Alaska. Frank McNamara, a sergeant on the Kansas City police force, was shot and killed by Abe Emerson, a negro, whom he was seeking to arrest. Emerson was shot twice and will die. Minnesota Republican convention renominated Gov. Van Sant, approved the fight against the railroad merger, indorsed President Rooseveft for re-election, and declared for modifications of the tariff and reciprocity. Captain Krivetsky of the Russian army has been sentenced to imprisonment for two years and six months by a court martial which was held at Paltava for having accepted bribes to free recruits from military service. The first loss of life during the anthracite strike occurred at the William A. colliery at Duryea, Pa. Antonio Giuseppe, an Italian, was shot dead by one of the Coal and Iron policemen from behind the stockade of the colliery. Three Wabash Railroad laborers and two Italians met at Mingo Junction, 0., and a quarrel ensued over a chew of tobacco. One Italian was stabbed to death with his own stiletto, taken from

him by a Wabnsl; " ■■i^^rt^^rana jury investigated the death of Mae Thompson, who died after wearing a beauty mask prescribed for her complexion by E. W. Johnson. No true bill was found against the “beauty doctor” and he has been released from jail. Alexander A. Robertson, member of the Salt Lake City Council and paying teller in Wells-Fargo’s bank, who disappeared recently and whose accounts at the bank are said to show a shortage between $85,000 and $90,000, has given himself up to the police. United States District Attorney Gould announced in the Probate Court that William S. Yeatman, formerly disbursing clerk of the War Department in Washington, was a defaulter at the time of his death on April 20. 1901. So far as known the alleged defalcation amounts to about SIB,(XX). Six men were killed, four women widowed and seventeen children mad > fatherless by a -eries of accidents in the Riehard iron mine, two miles from Dover. N. J. Four other miners who went into the mine to bring out the bodies were also killed. Two boys strolling along the shore of a lake in Forest Lawn cemetery at Buffalo. N. Y.. found the body of Marion Mur;>a,v a 6-year-old child, who disappeared eight days before. The body was bound in piece of calico, a rubber band, tw , newspapers and a rope, and evidently had been in the water five days. The identification is complete.

EASTERN. Charles Davis, a West Virginia negro. I was hanged at Pittsburg for the murder । of his wife last December. Yale varsity eight-oared crew defeated Harvard in almost record time, crimson four-oared crew won from the blue, while the freshmen eight rowed a dead heat. Wells College at Aurora. N. Y.. has received gifts aggregating $92,000, all of which is to be used in erecting new buildings and adding to the equipment of the institution. A collision occurred between a Brooklyn Heights electric ear and a two-seated carriage at Sixtieth street and Gravesend avenue, New York. Five people on the latter vehicle were injured. Joseph Irons, aged 11 years, died of hydrophobia on the Baltimore and Ohio limited at Rockwood, Pa. He was on his way to Boston for treatment. He was bitten by a eat last April. At least six lives—and possibly seven — were lost by the sinking of the steam barge George Dunbar of Chicago off Kelley's Island, in one of the worst storms that have visited Lake Erie in years. Mrs. Irene Brady Weber, known to stageland as Irene Perry, the burlesque actress, was quietly married in Boston to Harvey Bell, an advertising agent and the son of Bishop Bell of North Carolina. Mme. Janauschek, wfiio, poor and enfeebled by a paralytic stroke, is- living at Saratoga, N. Y., has a few jewels left and these are to be rallied by their custodian, James E. Tossiny of Brooklyn, unless sold advantageously. At Springfield, Mass.. Mrs^ Antone JUlidJ .dm t-x-n ^v?<^ud^tlW>y~Toseptr J Bencker, who then .committed suicide. The murdered woman's husband discovered the bodies on returning from his work. Jealousy is supposed to have caused the tragedy. Lhe wages of the unskilled employes of the Carnegie Steel Company at Pittsburg, nearly 1,500, have been voluntarily increased 10 per cent. This will make the wages of the lowest laborer $1.65 a day. The increase goes into effect without the knowledge of the men. Carefully concealing all traces of their work, though they carted away about $4,000 worth of tine china and bric-a-brac from the magnificent residence of Mrs. Genevieve Sussdorff in Woodside, L. 1., burglars locked all the doors of the fine house and then threw away the keys. At 12 o'clock the other night four men went into the saloon of Austin Crowe, in Buffalo, N. Y., aimed revolvers at him. and demanded his money. Crowe "an around the end of the bar and began to fight. The hold-up men fired five shots and Crowe fell dead, shot through the heart. The robbers escaped. In Boston the Attorney General rendered an important opinion, in which he cites that credit must, be allowed for accrued interest on liens. This decision will increase the assets of the Mutual Reserve by $239,000, the Provident Savings by $52,000, and the Security Mutual by $6,000. The text is a distinct rebuff to the insurance department, which held otherwise. James E. Pearson, 65 years of age, a lawyer, whose home was at Hemostead, L. 1., and who had an office in Brooklyn, was found dead in his office. He had killed himself by inhaling illuminating gas. In his hand was the photograph of a woman. He left a letter, in which he said: “I am a defaulter and thief, and where all the money is gone I cannot tell. My wife and children are left penniless.” Formal announcement of the organization of the Am trican Steel Foundries under a New Jersev charter, with an au-

luarier, witn an aue thorized capital of $40,000,000, half 6 per U went c»twn* ^ive preferred stock ai»*t ’b portJ^^^^'^nres Ilie following plants and properties: American Steel Castings Company of New Jersey, Reliance Steel Castings Company (Limited) of Pittsburg, Pa.; Leighton & Howard Steel Company St. Louis, Mo.; Franklin Steel Casting Company of Franklin, Pa.; the Sargent Company of Chicago, Ill.; American Steel Foundry Company of St. Louis. Mo. WESTERN. From the Samuels farm, where he was born, the body of Jesse James was moved and reburied in the Kearney, Mo., cemetery. Michigan Republican convention renominated Gov. Bliss on the first ballot, giving him 811 votes to 214 for Stearns, his leading opponent. George Sperling of Graham, Mo., and George Bates of San Francisco were killed by a bolt of lightning on a ranch four miles north of Arvada, Colo. Eleven persons were injured, four of them seriously, by the wrecking of a tramway car which was returning to the city from Elitch's Gardens, at Denver. Charles W. Gale, Chicago real estate man, killed himself when menaced with arrest for attempting to murder a barber, whom he suspected of speaking ill of him. Burlington track in lowa 125 miles long was changed from narrow to stan 1ard gauge in nine hours.by 440 men. Thousands stood in the rain watching the feat. Storm in southern Indiana caused three deaths at St. Wendel, seriously injured eight persons and destroyed much property. Two lives were lost in Texas cyclone. Two deaths were caused by lightning near Pierre, S. D., in a storm, one victim being Bert Walker, a herder, and the other a small son of Ole Strand of Sully County. Missouri Supreme Court refused writ of ouster against beef packers, holding trust is not proved. State neHrr, f ..,^

bl U3V ‘J uvv • v and further hearing is ordered. j, Three children, aged about 9 years— c Alonzo Wells, Lena Geiger and Rose t Geiger—were struck by a freight train i near Cedar Rapids, lowa. The two first named will die. L. 11. Hershfield, former president of | t the suspended Merchants’ National Bank j ( of Helena, Mont., has been adjudged bankrupt. Uis liabilities are $498,499 and assets $2,157. ( Mrs. Carrie Nation, the “saloon smash- ( er,” has announced her intention to join , John Alexander Dowie in his colony of . Zion, near Chicago. Mrs. Nation says that she has turned out to be a first-class ] healer. Gus Ruhlin of Akron. Ohio, defeated < Tom Sharkey of New York in the elev- , enth round before the National Sporting _ Club in London. The fight was held in connection with the coronation sporting tournament. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland. which was opened in 1855. was for- , mally abandoned Sunday, when impressive religious services were held. A ; magnificent new cathedral is being erected on Euclid avenue. Frank J. F>rscher, aged 20, ami Albert Melty, aged 17, both of Toledo, 0., while standing on the footboard of a street car, were struck by a car going in an opposite direction and thrown under the wheels and killed. Joseph Coleman, tried at Faulkton, S. D.. for the murder of his brother Ed, in order to obtain possession of the latter's life insurance, was convicted and sen-

tenced to life imprisonment. The ev!- ' f denee was purely circumstantial. I . i Gov. Nash of Ohio has appointed Harry I L. Gordon, an attorney of Cincinnati, Lieutenant Governor, to succeed Carl L. ' । Nippert, resigned. This action is in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court holding that a vacancy existed. John Berry, Chicago candy manufac- j turer, died at Hot Springs, Ark., where he had gone for the benefit of his health. His death was due directly to typhoid fever, but he was at the springs to receive treatment for inflammatory rheumatism. A section of passenger train No. 5. on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad was derailed at Minckie, a few miles west of St. Lottis, and two laboring men who were beating their way to Streetville. Mo., on the blind baggage, were killed. Millions of grasshoppers are attacking the grain in the Hill river district near Mclntosh, Minn. The State entomologist is assisting the farmers in combating the pest, and "hopper dozers" are in daily use. Unplowed stubble is the cause of the trouble. The Union Pacific discharged 137 more machinists and helpers at Omaha and twenty-five in Armstrong, Kan. This makes in all a reduction of over 1,000 men in the shops. The company effected a compromise with the car builders, who get a slight increase in wages. A man giving the name of John Eagon, Chicago, has been sentenced to live years in the State prison for trying to work a three-card monte game on B. O. Sims, a prosperous farmer of Audrain County, , Mo. A man giving the name of Hill, also in th^gtune^fflmr^n^e^^S^^^^®' l SOUTHERN. M illiam G. Brantley has been renominated for Congress by the Democratic convention of the Eleventh Georgia District. At Houston, Texas, it is said that a wind of tornado proportions developed near Rosenberg and blew a Southern Pacific freight train from the track,’ wrecking it and injuring three or sou? ! men. James Geary's saloon at Roslyn, Va., was wrecked and riddled with bullets by a crowd of 150 soldiers from Fort Myer, \ a., who conducted an apparently organized attack, presumably in revenge for the shooting of one of their comrades. The long drouth in Texas was relieved generally Friday. Heavy rains are reported from Dallas south to the gulf and many sections north, east and west have received portions of the downpour. The corn crop is said to be beyond redemption. but cotton will be saved. A copy of the will of the late Charles Broadway Rouse of New York has been deposited in the county clerk's office at M axahachio, Texas, to be recorded. The will is a lengthy document and disposes of property of the estimated value of sl,500,000 or more, though no estimate of its value is stated. FOREIGN. There has been a big fire in the heart of Cape Town and several large business houses have been destroyed. The loss is very great. Gen. Cronje, the Boer commander, who with his army was captured by Lord Roberts at Paardeberg. Orange Free State, in February. 1900, has taken the oath of allegiance to King Edward at St. Helena. , The American yacht Uncle Sam, owned by Francis R. Riggs of New York, won , the first of the international special class । races at Kiel, the Stars and Stripes cross- 1 ,

r I Upp.^**** 11 1 ***— The steamer Bertha reached Seattle from Valdez and westward points. Mount Redoubt, which has been in an incipient stage of eruption since early spring, was not visible, owing to fog. Mount Wrangel is in eruption. Emperor William’s American-built schooner yacht Meteor, with the Emperor himself on board and steering most of the time, finished seven minutes and twentytwo seconds ahead of the Cicely in the large schooner race held at Kiel in connection with the regatta. A gunpowder magazine at the encampment at Carabanohel, five miles from Madrid, exploded. Two men were killed and fourteen were injured. The shock was felt for miles. Scores of houses were damaged, the doors- of the royal palace were thrown open by the force of the explosion and many windows were smashed. The treaty providing for the prolongation of the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy (the dreibund) was signed in Berlin by the imperial chancellor, Count von Buelow; the Austrian ambassador, L. von Szogyeny-Ma-rich, and the Italian ambassador. Count Lanza di Busca. The alliance was renewed in its original form. The Kos'mos liner Alydos, from Hamburg. carried into Valparaiso the crew of the wrecked Kosmos liner Sakkarah. The Sakkarah ran into an island about 800 miles southwest of Valparaiso, and jammed herself hard and fast on the rocks. All hands were saved and the ship's papers and $2,500,000 in gold were taken ashore, but the ship and cargo were a total loss. IN GENERAL. Among the honorary degrees conferred by Williams College was that of LL. D. upon Gen. Leonard Wood. President Roosevelt has ordered Attorney General to investigate the alleged trust in anthracite coal industry. Appropriations by first session of Fiftyseventh Congress aggregate overS9^^, 600,000, Large^iaa,ai»m^BTod except in “tTffneof war.

Senator Bailey of Texas made a violent personal attack on Beveridge on floor of Senate after adjournment and threatened life of Indianian, but was restrained by bystanders. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Trade Review reports financial conditions satisfactory and trade good; manufacturing operations increased: railroad earnings for June, 4.H per cent over 1901. John T. Wilson, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trackmen, refused Canadian Pacific offer of $25,000 bonus and salary of $5,000 a year and decided to stick to the brotherhood. Toronto having been selected as the meeting place of the next triennial convention of the International Sunday School Association in 1905, the worldwide convention in 1904 will be held at Jerusalem. The steamship Roqnoke, (’apt. Weaver arrived at Seattle from Nome. Wher the Roanoke left Nome no tidings hac been received of the steamer Portland oi the Jeanie, and both vessels are now be lieved to be lost. John Sebastian. general passenge agent of the Rock Island Railroad, ha: been promoted to passenger traffic man ager; Robert Mather made general coun sul; R. H. Aishton made North western’: assistant general manager. An important addition to the extradi tion treaty between Mexico and th< United States was signed by Ambassa dor Clayton and Ignacio Mariscca, min ister of foreign relations. By virtue o the addition the crime of bribery is add ed to the list of extraditable offenses.

BOSSES.! THE SENAT LEGISLATORS PEN PICTURES O HOUSE. IN UPPEF- — * * Gw Are Popularly Prominent Men V 'nJ roller* of LegisRegarded as Cc urfr” Element and lation—The “Be Their Strong Me — nee: Washington correspon JERE has been ti

iI Ing in the met*. Ner has Senator en any exhibit’ quietest and of the Sena oeedings go. never seen i telling ytlw nine

an onio^ 11 I as those " bo are for the I Senator Hu Qore obtrusive than either of these. is aggressive^ <

cannot help appe ing so in the Sc ate, where the oth t er leaders are as ’ % rule quiet and aj ■ i parently indiffei 5 ent. Hanna ba given several exhi 1 bitions of strenuom endeavor tha’ I would meet the e i pectations of ’ visitors who looking for a I but these were 2” as so momentous they seemed. Th n-

were only the ear Hanna jn es efforts of Mr nal bill in which he 1 e . , , > , speaking, a personal or, more properl, * J . conviction and de ’ „ . . . w charge of the I hdSenator Lodge watch ^ thc debjUC ippine bill and tef wwk rard , on that bill week > g ing posmg any one, £ aurnfnder pmn; , for the sake of har-

mony. Yet he was ever watching for epportunities to get th«* bill forward by Amproiuises. And at was the way • won. It is the ly all contesis arc yn in the Senate. I®e leaders do not di\>w the power •4iey exert. They

T. C. PLATT

do not boss. f greatest persua nered man fro. 7

xvaikim* back . n u moveTo theuminiti ginia. Burrows « N ' ~v VirMichigan, Ndsot of " Minnesota, Pcrki A of California, Diet

rich of Nebrask; Burton of Kansas and several othei Senators who arx called "Boxers” by the older men would appear like the bosses, as they fly about "the chamber, hold conferences, and talk loud and lotg co th

others xx ho are abou p ^respondents nn d • Stephen Benton 1 t the marble room. ginia is the chief o , }lkins of We st Vir- 1 the most perfect typ f thv -B oxer sand , in the United States pof a boss eves 3e en ( and ruddy of face, r< Senate. He is round and aggressive in 1 x Qn d of body, quick voluble and positive movements, and never has opinions. in hU talk> Elkins . tive facts that requ Hc thiuks ouly lx)S i. always speaks as one irp no proo f s . He ity, and what he sa, having full author-

;s is gospel to him, and in his view should be to all others. This is not a newly acquired characteristic of Elkins. It is a part ’ jf his natural self and has been so for hany years. It was lo when he lived •a New Mexico and vas a member of

W. R. ALL I SOX. t

Islature nearly forty ? he Territorial Leg. so when he came as earg ago It wa3 gress from that terri a delegate to Con<o a. He was then tory back in the he was running the g Jst c#rtain tha t i ** he 19 map mment as he I Next, there ’ the Senate. ch i Ie Julius Caesar sornest man in ♦’- v i States Senate. He is als-r one of t.. |nost impressive orator* in the Senate. He is called tbe Columbian orator of that great Then there is Knnte Nplson of Minne . sota. He was born in Norway> C ame to

this country m 1849, and located in Chicago, where he carried a news route on the North side and at the same time learned something of politics. He then went '"' r to Wisconsin and * became a member of the Legislature. Two years later he moved across into

Minnesota^ and into the Legislature of that State. He . an tbp political gamut in that great Stat(? fi]ling tho offices of legislator. Go ^ rnor . Congressman and Senator. He j the most popu . ' lar man in Minnesota. I Knute Nelson does n 9t rp]v npon his I adherence to political ] ,i at f orm for his ' hold on his position in Senate He makes his own platform. a rul<> has always been a tari $ ‘reformer’, and 1 when in the House he vo ted for , be i bill without losing caste with the la : nub . i licans in Minnesota. I Ie hag been au earnest advocate of rec i procitv< but he’ :is opposed to reciprocity ^ tb Cuba I I Harvesters Wanted - n RansßM> j | Harvesters of the who lt crop arp bad . ; ly needed in Kansas n )rk th ,. rc aWait3 I ■ , fully 10,000 men and th p wages are !ib _ ' j eral, $2.50 a day and boi ird being yffered by farmers. |

ot of talk about Republican bosses n the Senate this oason and the vistors to the galleries ire ever eager to iave the bosses •ointed out to them, fhese visitors have •eard about Aldhh, Platt, Hanna id Lodge as the »sses who crack ie party whip, but iey have been dis‘pointed the rs 0 bossIdrich. •rk give is the member pen pronml is chamber seems lost as mm n i

In the Senate on Monday hot words passed between Mr. Bailey (Texas) and Mr. Beveridge (Indiana) on the floor of the Senate, ami after adjournment was followed up by a physical assault bi the Texas Senator on the Senator from Indiana. Mr. Bailey criticised the State Department for its handling of the ease of an American citizen. Dr. Scott, and reflected on the competency of Judge Penfield, solicitor of the department. Mr. Beveridge characterized the words of the Texas Senator as “unwarranted atta k," This characterization Mr. Bailey regarded as an insult. , Early in the session, Mr. Elkins (West Virginia) delivered a speech in favor of the annexation of Cuba, maintaining that it would be in the best interests of both countries. Mr. Elkins' remarks drew a -harp fire from Mr. Piatt i('onnectlent I and Mr. Hanna (Ohio), who deprecated aux annexation proposition at this time. Among the many bills passed uas one giving Rear Admiral Schley the pay and albovance of a rear admiral on the active list »t the navy. Mr. Gallinger (New Hampshire), chairman of the committee on pensions, made a brief statement of the work done by the pension committee during th” present session. It showe 1 that the bills relating to pensions introduced in the House aggregated 7.51 s *. xxhiie the aggregate number introduced in the Semite was 2.552. Tin t't ,I number pa—* d by both House and Senate was I.L»L In the House the conference report on the general deficiency appropriation bill was taken up. Among important items passed, on separate votes. wa< s,>tM).ooO for the Buffalo exposition ami SHUiJhci for the Charleston exposition. Claim ol SLiMHl.om for Hawaiian lire plague stlfterers not concurred in. Philippine < mference report adopted 119 to 92. Bill provides for a Legislature of two houses. Legislature to elect two commissioners to represent islands in Washington. Friar lauds to be purchased by issuing bonds rind to become part of public domain. ‘ ’ S”.'” '-: ■ hone -t* a be-. Corporation*, are Red. M-mx staiKT ‘ ard and banking system postponed. At 5 30 recess taken until 8 oclock. Hu election contest case of Wilson xs. Lassiter. from the Fourth Virginia d.-trmt, which confirms Lassiter s tit.e to 'ae s* . presented. The Dick bill to rorgamze the militia was taken up and pi ' The final report of the coufere general deficiency bill was pr—mted n the Senate on Tt —l. y ami 1 ■ without debate. Th repor s on the naval appropriation tnl! an*l bill to provide a temporary civil g mint in the Philippines w<re agt*< . .. •>.. IVct., Rico rmb!><

Em M. A. HANNA.

11. C. LODGE.

as was that on in- ' , ■ lands and building- bill. A mH •‘?c’ ' priating $75.0m for the .r-f.-m • ■ quartermaster's war. hou-e m hnaha t passed. A re-Inti m dieted m of the minority of the <omm ' I’hilippin.s authorizing that nm---to sit during the ■ to pio-~ inquiry into tie- Phi’/q pices tw- m ' to committee. Ihe Hoi:-- com 111 O olmion providing : r adjournment -aadopted Before adjournment the usual resolutions were adopted, including one thanking President Pro I empore 1 ’.?• "the dignified, impartial and cttirreo manner in which he had pre-id. d .ver tildeliberations of the Senate. In he

House the Senate bill to t.refficiency of the marine hospital and change its name to the public he.!, h and marine hospital service was pay under suspension of the rules >■> bills were passed as follows: House bill to authorize the creation of a qua; 'imaster's warehouse at Omaha at a ' ' ~ l Os not to exceed $75,009; Senate bill to reduce the number of appraiser- a •' ‘ adelphia and Boston. A joint resom was adopted appropriating S-»WHI ea< for monuments to the memories of '" n. Francis Noah ami Gen. WilliAm Lee Davidson of North Carolina, as authm-.z 1 by resolutions of the continental congr. Jfhe ^onff, j-once agreement on the oat al bill for the suppression of train robberies; a bill to make Confederate soldiers who enlisted in the Union army previous to Jan. I, 18«i5, pensionable, was passed. 97 to 19. Ihe report of the special committee to investigate the facts in connection with the purchase of the Danish West Indies was presented, ordered printed and referred to the calendar.

F W I. R. BURTON.

Washington Notes. Secretary Moody plans to secure recruits for the navy from among the striking miners in Pennsylvania. Representatives of dairy interests ridiculed Chicago packers' plan to sell butterine color to housewives; declare trouble would be too great to attract buyers. A favorable report has been authorized by the Senate committee on public muds on the bill creating a national park surrounding the famous wind eave in South Dakota. The purpose of the proposed legislation is to protect tin- cavi- tr >m vandalism. White House east room and grecn- ' houses are being dismantled and jo- -parations made to construct Stji.u r> office , building for President. | Congressmen Grosvenor and Mahon de- • fend conduct of soldiers in the Phdip- ' pines and compare cruelties of < ivil bar j with those alleged in Philippines. I Rear Admiral Crowninshield s criticism of Italian justice in cruiser ( hicago de- ! cision caused protest by Italian ambassat dor; may prove international incident. I Republican leaders are said to be I alarmed over increasing tariff revision i sentiment at the West and the rule of i high protectionists in Congress as shown I in Cuban reciprocity defeat.

^©ORGReSS. "J In the Senate on Saturday Mr. Teller presented a petition from Estes G. Rathbone, praying for a full investigation into his performance of duties as director of posts of Cuba during the occupation ot Cuba. The petition xvas referred to the committee on relations with Cuba. .Mr. Aldrich called up a bill relating to tobacco passed by the Semite and moved to agree to an amendment of the House providing that no packages of manufactured tobacco, snuff, cigars- and .-igarettes shall have attached to tin■in any representation or promise of a ticket of chance in any lottery or any immoral picture. The amendment was agreed to. thus passing the bill. A resolution offered recently by Mr. Mitchell instructing the committee on Pacific islands and Porto Rico to investigate, during the recess, the condition of things in Hawaii ami the administration of affairs there, with authority to visit the islands, was adopted. In the House resolutions were adoptcl declaring the sent occupied by Mr. Butler of MisSonri vacant on the ground that there had been no valid election, Mr. Babcock (Wis.) asked unanimous consent for consideration of a resolution to empower the commissioners of the District of Columbia to make special regulations for the G. A. R. encampment in Washington next September. The resolution was passed.

STORMS CAUSE LOSS. INDIANA, OHIO, IOWA AND SOUTH DAKOTA SUFFER. A Terrific Hurricane Sweeps Hoosier State, Killing or Injuring Scores and Wrecking Hundreds of Build-ings-Marietta, Ohio, Is Dismantled. At least half a dozen persons w 'ere killed. scores injured, thousands of buildings wrecked, and at a conservative estimate $3.2;>0,0(X) damage done by storms in the central \\ estern States on Tuesday night and Wednesday. Indiana was the worst sufferer. Two persons were known to have perished and fifty were hurt in a terrific wind storm that sxvept across the central portion of the State. The property loss is estimated at $2,000,000. Northxv estern lowa and southern South Dakota were struck by a heavy wind storm. Reports of persons killed are received from many places, but few of them are xerified. Ihe property loss is near $1.000,000. Marietta, Ohio, was wrecked by a tornado. (>ne person was killed there, Michigan and parts of Illinois suffered fiom the storm s fury. Near Kalamazoo heavy snow preceded a rain and hail storm. Near Fairbury two churches and a school house were struck by lightning, and one church xvas destroyed. Heavy Loss in Indiana. *.b visited by one qf the most

disastrous storms that ever sxvept over the State. Two persons are known to have perished, over fifty were injured, and the property loss, at a conservative estimate, will be $2,000,000. Thousands of buildings were razed, tens of thousands of trees were uprooted, and now blockade highways, railroads and traction lines. Crops are ruined, and fifty persons were more or less injured. But three deaths have been reported with authority. One was the killing of James Van Hoy, xvho was caught in the ruins of a collapsed barn near Pendleton, and James Bailey, xvho xvas killed by flying timbers at McCordsville. Two farmers were killed near McCordsville. The storm swept sections covered hundreds ot miles, extending from Hancock County northwest through the northern portion of Marion County. Hamilton and Boone counties, and doing much damage in Tippecanoe and adjacent counties. Madison County also felt its fury. At Maxwell the United States chain factory was ruined, all the buildings being destroyed. Seven workmen were injured by being caught beneath the wreck. The New Bros.' flour mill and grain elevators were destroyed, and the Friends’ Church xvas blown away. One house was destroyed and several damaged. Twelve persons were injured at Maxwell, txvo of them fatally. Funeral Party Suffers. At Cleveland the storm broke as the funeral of Mrs. Mary Earle was being held. The roof of an adjoining house was blown away, and a piece of timber was hurled through the side of the house of mourning. It struck ex-County Clerk Sample, breaking his leg. Several others were slightly injured. The hearse was demolished. The funeral was postponed. Ernest Hurst and E. Heims were badly hurt by being blown against the side of a house. Seven houses were destroyed and the postoflice was unroofed and one aide blown out. Between Cleveland and Greenfield all Uie rOauS «»>■«- J-’ 1 T - R' '• anr‘■■•i-n heavy hail and rain fell. Crops are ruined and fields are several inches under water. Several farm houses were unroofed and several fine tracts of timber laid waste. The bottle factory at Greenfield was unroofed and several workmen were injured. Big boss nt McCordsville. At McCordsville. Pickle & Co.’s general store was destroyed and the stock of goods was scattered over several squares. The Masonic and Odd 1 el ows block was destroyed. The Methodist Church xvas blown down and fourteen houses were unroofed. Two were blown down; one man was killed outright, and five persons were slightly injured. At Wilkinson nine persons were seriously injured, one perhaps fatally. Ibis was Charles Sheperd of Red Key. lour houses were destroyed. At Stringtown Mrs. Cicero Hamilton was serious.y injured, being caught under the wreck of her house. At Fisher 8 station three per sons were injured. Tornado Wrecks Ohio Town. Marietta, Ohio, was dismantled by a . hurricane. At 8 p. m. during a heavy r electrical and rain storm, the tornauc < swept across the city, carrying eyerytbmp . in its path. The loss is not less $200,000. The plant of the I arker>ourj

and Marietta interurban company is lam flat. Engineer Severance of the electric H-’ht company was killed when the ouildinz went down. Twenty persons are seriously injured. At least fifteen houses were blown down. Ihe Ohio valley wagon works plant is a mass of t urns. Dm Acme brick plant was demolished. De streets are almost impassable. lowa and South Dakota Suffer. A terrific wind and electric storm in ■northwestern lowa and southeastern South Dakota late Tuesday night did damage estimated at $1,000,000, equally divided between the States, and caused the loss of several lives. v t^neo-n living near Hudson. S. D., wa -^^ad-by the collapse of a house. Fh^’ ersons were injured at Y'ankton ana^olin. Dozens of towns in South Dakota and lowa report a property loss of SIO,OOO or more each. Crops are badly hurt and fruit and shade trees ruined. At Sioux Center. lowa, not a house in the town escaped damage, and at Maurice

100 head of stock were killed. A NAPOLEONIC RULE Has Been That of Waldeck-Rousseau, France’s Latest Great Man. The French government is about to stiffer a severe loss by the retirement of Pierre Marie Waldeck-Rousseau from

the post of prime minister. Though his administration has just been indorsed by o.OCLU’JJ votes against 3,(W,<)oo, he feels that he has contributed enough to the welfare of his country to have earned a rest. It is said of him by his friends that he is

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walduK not>si.ac easily «he most remarkable Frenchman <:n e Gambetta. At the same time, it is probable that Frenchmen as a rule do not understand him and many hate him. With a ruthlessness and thoroughness almost Napoleonic he has put the household of France to order and has gained the admiration of the business men and conservative citizens of the republic.

Mon/ VTirV I '‘ l '' orei “ u markets were lui I OIK. hadly disarranged by the —’ ’sudden illness of the King, ami there was: much liquidation prior to the dosing O s British t . A ,.h ;lllZ( . s from Wednesday afternoon to Monday uio.nntg. Domestic financial conditions are exceptionally satisfactory and trade is well maintained, although loxv temperatures interfered with the distribution of midsummer specialties. Manufacturing operations have increased in activity, especially in the iron and steel industry and textile production, while tin* constructive work on new buildings am] bridges is very heavy. Labor diliiculties have not improved in the anthracite coal region but numerous settlements Have been es feded elsewhere. Railway earnings thus tar reported for June exhibit an average increase of 4.6 per cent over last vear and li.i per cent over 1900.” R- G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Irade thus sums up the industrial situation. Continuing, the Review says; Most of the blast fnrna.es that were stopped by the scarcity of anthracite emu have resumed with coke, of Nxbich the ovens have established new records ol output, and shipments have been stil’ larger owing to the stocks accumulated during the car shortage. Despite the

contracts have been placed abroad, nd still the machine shops, manufacturers ot stoves and implements, and consumers generally are seeking deliveries. Structural shapes of steel and all forms of railway equipment continue to lead the market, orders in these lines running far into next year. Bars and sheets- are the least active divisions <>f the market, but even in these there is no tendency to weakness. Higher freights have not materially checked importations, and it is reported that a large structural mill in Germany has sold its output for this year tc American consumers. Failures for the week number 2<» ir the United States, against 204 last year, and 20 in Canada, against 23 a year ago. Bradstreet's report says: Wheat, including flour, exports so- the week aggregate 3,382.701 bushels, against 3,860,434 last week and 4.364,147 in this week last year. Wheat exports. -July, 1901. to date, aggregate 245.66-8.5.53 bushels. against 214,501.550 last season. Corn exports aggregate 130.501.550 last season. Corn exports aggregate 130.102 bushels, against 110.979 last week and 2,445.460 last year. July 1, 1901. to date corn exports are 26.323.177 bushels, against 173,879,684 last year. The first half of the year Cnicago. has passed. This marks the close of six months of prosperity as great as the country has ever known. It has- been a time for the exploitation of new plans, new enterprises have been born, new business ventures undertaken, whil? in the old established lines there has been a general expansion. It has been a period of commercial aggressiveness. of easy money affording opportunity for the development of new country, the enlarging of industrial plants, for betterments by the railroads. Railroad earnings, during this time. have shown increases r.-^llv surpris-'ug, | and especially so to the ' their most sanguine view h । uKuuiulfi 1111 f the preceding year. The * first four months were strikingly free from anything of an adverse nature, present or prospective, nor was there any change until the growing feeling of dissatisfaction on the part of the labor element began to cloud the industrial sky. Commodity prices have been more irregular than in the preceding week. 1 his is/ordinarily a dull time, yet the volume ofi trade in general merchandise holds up well. Lumber prices are firm. M o«uens and raw wool prices hold steady, texules in general a little lower, cotton stronger by a trifle. Iron and steel are firm as > ever with demand pressing and ' still being booked into next year. < uJ ■ ;i •. 1 continued i ainy wi i drawback to retail trade r points. 1 With other grains advancm,--. • ' uoav - professional assum< - f weather continue unfavorable wheat - bound to do better, and is buying ... d< ■- ately on this theory, as wheal ami corn are stdling only 3c apart, and xx mat should be worth more money, based on a the present prices of eoa: -” J The 70c price for corn, which '■■ •n* 0 tire West has looked for for a yea,, aas K realized Saturday. If n in the market are correct. .:i:- pim. may X look comparatively le v w••

lies, as some are predicting 9” Cattle and hogs sold at the prices of the year last week, ami attebrought more than at any tm,= :n -v- .. .» years. It was natural with .;v<- n gs selling close to $8 that pi'-bi t ■;• 1 sympathize. The rights’ pre«— << y season were made, and the close c'Ued a gain of 35c on pork. 5 n a loss of 15c on rib-. Lya. -pee : i - interests are inclined to leave pi" and go into grains, as pork at ..ve : -,M is not so attractive as September wheat around 72c. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $4.(K> to $8.25; hogs, shipping g: :'i <. $4.25 to $7.95; sheep, fair to choice. s4.<> > to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 7.5 c to 7(»c; corn. No. 2,71 cto 72e; oat-. No, 2. 47c to 48c; rye. No. 2. 57c to 58c; hay. timothy. slo.<st to $15.00; prairie. $5.5<J to $11.50; butter, choice creamery. 20e to 21c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 17c: potatoes, new. boc to *Xh: per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $7.75; hogs, choice light. s4.<mi t,, $7.30; sheep, common to prime. s2.sc< to S4.‘"t. wheat. No. 2. 75c to 76c: corn. No. 2 white, 64e to 65c; oats. No. 2 white 48c to 49c. St. Loui< Cattle. $4.50 • . S7.<XT h"gs, $3.00 • ■ $7 'D; -.. • p $2 5 - $4.25; wheat. No. 2. 77e to 7 s >rn. N<>. 2 i ■ • 65c; oats, No. 18 No. 2. 59e to 60<-. Cincinnati ('attic. s4.sti n <7? g-. Sl.lHi p> $7.50; sheep. $1 g,". ‘ : .- I . ! wheat, N,. 2, 79- ' ■ : 'on. N 2 ‘ mixed. (>se to <X»c; oat- N■. 2 mixed, I sOc to 51 ■; rye. N ■. 2. .51 t ■ 55. ■. | Detroit—Cattle. $3.00 t. s<;.' p hogs. ■ $3.0*1 to s7.<*s; sheep. <2.bo X' '■ C ' wheat. No. 2, 79e to so. : ■■ ■ \ . .; yellow, <Me to *’s •; .it-. N . 2 . 19<- to 50c; r e. 59 ’ ; '.■ ■ . I Toledo-Wheat. N c 2 mixed. 77c to j 79.-; corn. N". 2 I. '• 'D.-; ■ 1 N‘>. 2 mixed, 46c lo 47- : ■■■ v. . svd. I prime. 55.25. I Milwaukee Wheat. N- . - : .1!;. ri. 76e to 77e; corn. No. 3. 61 t ’De : ..:.;s, N.. J I .' 54 to "5.-; :; - No. 1. »>7c Ito 58c: barley, No. 2, 70, to <1 I 5 > mess, $lB.lO i