Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 October 1903 — Page 2

t .uDcnt.' W. A. IC N1» >■ !• ' . I’ul’llxl'er. WALKERTON. - INDIANA. j EVENTS OF THE WEEK As the result of an encounter between a band of negroes led by a white man and a constable's posse three negroes were killed and eight wounded in the rear of Pecan Grove plantation in St. Charles Parish, La. None of the posse was hurt. China has signed a treaty giving Russia a monopoly of Manchurian trade and mining rights, thereby violating the agreement with America to open certain ports to the commerce of the world. Manchuria is also made practically a Russian possession. The schooner Dione, with a cargo of codfish, from Pogo, N. F., for Oporto, was sunk off the Grand Banks in Thursday's gale, and one man was swept overboard and lost. The three remaining men rowed for thirty-six hours in a small boat before making a landing. The steamer South Portland, from Portland, Ore., for San Francisco, during a blinding fog, ran onto Cape Blanco MM Xfi££_and ( was completely wrecked. She

li d on board iourteen pussisiingttrs and a • । crow of twenty-two men, besides the captain. Fourteen persons are missing. Ben Michael, George Dubrey and Fred A. Rodgers were arrested at the county fair in Colfax. Wash., for kidnaping. They had a negro boy. 14 years of age, disguised as a wild girl, and had compelled him to eat mud. Rufus Stone, the bov’s father, came from Spokane and charged the men with having kidnaped his son. Vs a result of the massacre of seven Indians on the Blackfoot ^ervation near Great Falls, Mont., by Little I mint. Miss Helen P. Clarke, former county ........rlntPidpnt of schools for Lewis and

supermtenueni or ( Clarke counties, has preferred charges of maladministration against Major J. n. Monteath, agent of the Blacktoot (I iegan) reservation. Bv the Alaska award, as officially made known, America gets two which dominate Port Simpson where the Grand Trunk Pacific is to end. London papers call the decision a sacrifice on the altar of American friendship, while an ada talks of imperialism as dead. Ihe Canadian commissioners refuse to sign the verdict, declaring their country betrayed. Judge C. W. Smith has set a new precedent at Stockton. Kan., by adjourn-

ing court so that the farmers might save their crops. He presides over a ‘’strict in the great corn and wheat belt n Northwest Kansas, and said from the bench that the saving of a years earnings was of greater importance to the people than the adjudication of a few petty suits. With no excuse to offer other than that they had snent the night quarreling. Charles 11. Weiffenbach, at 5 o clock the other morning, choked his wile to <ea | in bed with his hands in Dajton, O- • He then tried to sleep, but half an h >u later arose and prepared and ate l us his breakfast. Later he went to the t bacco warehouse where he is emplojtd as foreman and gave instructions for the day’s work. Then he went to. -police headquarters, told the story

nea aqua a <. and was locked up * O rkers’ Ass ;.<*TmoE«T|uarters in Tdlt^/viiio. President Roosevelt has issued his call for Congress to assemble in extra session Nov. 9, to take up the Cuban treaty. The Tennessee Supreme Court has as-

firmed the death sentence of Orris Snulling for the murder of Moses Koehler. A sweeping boycott of all labor unions in New Orleans, La., has been declared against the Klaw, Erlanger & Co. “trust” theaters. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has issued orders to cut down the force ; in the Altoona shops 10 per cent, which j will necessitate the suspension of SOO men. A crew of British sailors were cast away on the shores of Hudson's Bay, and marched 600 miles with little food , and poorly cled, before reaching civilization. Officials of the United States Steel Corporation have decided to reduce the wages of thousands of employes in the general scheme of cutting down expenses. John Williams, a negro arrested in St. Louis on suspicion of being implicated in the murder of Mrs. Kate Lauman, committed suicide in his cell in the Clayton jail because he feared he was going to be lynched. Twenty-seven hundred high-class actors and actresses are idle in New York, unable to secure engagements, this being the hardest season for ten years, owing to strikes which have delayed the opening of many horn s. James Murray, the Toronto horse tamer and breaker, received -possibly fatal injuries at the Kansas City horse show. His horse failed to clear a fence in the exhibition of hunters, and Mr. Murray was thrown. By dressing a 1.200-pound steer in three minutes and thirty-eight seconds Jacob Baer, employed in a Denver packing plant, has reduced the world’s record by- twenty seconds, and incidentally won the western cbampionslAp^- ~ — '^Endangering the lives of thousands of passengers and causing a panic, the Southern Pacific ferry steamer Newark crashed into the ferry steamer Oakland in the middle of San Francisco bay dur- I ing a dense fog. No lives were lost. A. E. Bell, the confessed mail pouch | robber and check forger, who was arrested in Denver, escaped from a Pull- ; man car just before the train to which the car was attached arrived at the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Phila- | delphia. । A Chesapeake and Ohio passenger > train met with a serious accident on the long bridge which spans the Potomac river at Washington. The northern half | of the bridge gave way and precipitated the tender and a dead baggage car into the water. A girder saved the passenger cars. No one was killed. Herbert. Hall, a 14-year old boy, shot his mother, Jennie Hall, through both jaws, Charles W. Hasley, his sister’s sweetheart, in the face, fired three shots at his sister, and then killed himself in Springfield, Ohio. The lad had been ill with typhoid fever, and it is believed that he was delirious. A series of depredations, alleged to have been committed by a gang of white men on the Omaha reservation near Decatur, Neb., has roused the Indians of the Skunk and Wolf lodges to a high state of excitement. United States Marshal Sloan has sent a number of deputies to quiet the Indians and arrest the guilty white men. I

EASTERN. । Bertel'S tin factory at Wilkesbarre. I Pa., was destroyed by tire. The loss is | $45,090. । One man was killed and another sori- i j ntisly injured as the result of a cave-in ' in a deep ditch in Pittsburg. James Swartz., ti freight train conduc- I tor. was killed by a collision in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards at Washington. Peter Culoosian, an Armenian,, was found murdered in Providence, R. 1., and SSOO which he had collected to found a school is missing. In a fierce scrimmage on the Yale gridiron John Moorehead, Jr., of Pittsburg, one of Yale’s first substitutes, had his leg broken just below the knee. While digging for coal in an abandoned mine near Draveburg, Pa., two men discovered a thieves' cave with $;>,000 worth of clothing and valuables. Dependence on faith cure in sickness is declared by the New York Court of Appeals to be criminal negligence; test based on death of a girl from pneumonia. Gordon McKay, inventor of the shoesewing machine, who died in Newport. R. L, is said to have left $4,000,000, perhaps much more, to Harvard University. An official order revoking the quarantine against cattle, sheep and swine in Massachusetts and New Hampshire has been issued by the Secretary of Agriculture. George Duncan of New York, a -nephew of George B. Edwards, presi-

nem ov me Deposit Bamt Ky., was accidentally killed whi e hunting. Silver, lead and bullion worth has been recovered by wreckr rs bottom of Staten Island sound vd e fell from the deck of a s . ^T^T International Training School of the Young Men's Christian Assoc aturn of Springfield. Mass., received a gift or $20,000 toward its endowment um $135,000. . . J. W. Schwartz, a wealthy metvli of Brooklyn, was fatally injured by the overturning of his automobile ,H e • pinned down by the machine, nhnh burst

into flames. Caleb Simms, leader of the by Alam Padro. John D. Rockefeller and other S am __,i Oil directors are repotted greatly alarmed at the falling oft m the i production m th i enn-y imdim to be making extraordinary Hloits cure new sources of supplyEight men were killed, two are miss ing and four were badly hurt by t u < u lapse of a traveler crane on tin I nt. burg end of the new Wabash Lai rm

bridge over the M mong-hela rm-i-President Roosevelt, speaking at the , unveiling of a monument to Ge . Ham Tecumseh Sherman in M ashingtv , held up the famous commander as . model American and a to" ei m._ t 1 the clean, able ami fearless pa no Peter Elliott of Minnesota, who, was arrested at the White House Oct. • > ami who made a violent attack upon fleers who had him in custody, Ims men I officially adjudged insane and ted to St. Elizabeth's insane asylum. WESTERN. A movement I. W“FT-K S - compel women to remwe tbetr haw J all court rooms. , * I — killed

ii g xrostof this rail .... in Clay County, Kan., the other night. Corn was out of danger. John Kenahan and John 'Wilson have been convicted of murder at Glendive. Mont., and sentenced to fifty years in prison. The body of Henry Dixon of Cincin-

nati, Ohio, who has been missing for several days, was found in the river near Louisville. The Toledo Match Company’s plant, which was sold a few days ago to a New, Jersey Company, was destroyed by fire, with $50,000 loss. Dr. Greth of San Francisco made a successful test of a dirigible airship, sail- : ing for an hour over the city and guiding his machine at will. Charles Collard, postmaster at Kiowa, I. T., was convicted of the murder of Gip Radey. a traveling man, and sen- ; fenced to life imprisonment. Walter Jackson, the convicted murderer of Fennie Buck, a 6-year-old boy. was taken from the county jail in Hamilton. Mont., by a mob and lynched. William Carthew, alleged to have embezzled SIOO,OOO from a New York bank and squandered it on a woman, has been recognized in California and arrested. H. S. Canfield, a well-known writer and newspaper man. committed suicide at the West Chicago Sanitarium in Chicago by cutting his throat with a razor. As a result of a dispute over a mining location William Miller shot and killed । George Simmons, a wealthy mine owner of Newark, N. J., at San Bernardino, Cal, Lawrence P. McLoud of the stock broker firm of McLoud, Quayle & Co. of Cleveland died as the result . injuries received when his automobile ran into a wagon. Oil has been struck in a well bored eight miles north west if Pueblo, Colo. It is reported that oil stands about thirtyfeet deep in the well and is steadily increasing. Mrs. Kate Lonergan, who, with her 2 year-old son, was lost on the^LuGrrwlTr a i^iH!ffl! t m"TTpar — Denver has been found dead in an irrigating ditch into which she had fallen. Six persons were severely injured in a collision between a Fifty-first street elec- ( trie car and a Wallace street and Center | avenue electric ear at Fifty-first street ; and Center avenue. Chicago. John Nelson, aged 14 years, was fatal- ' ly injured by being kicked on the head in a football' game in St. Paul. His skull was fractured and the attending . physicians say lie cannot live. The City Hall of Cheboygan, Mich., I was destroyed by fire. Loss $50,000, in- ■ surance $25,000. It was one of the finest municipal buildings in upper Michigan. The cause of the fire is unknown. j Samuel J. Albright, Governor of Dakota Territory under President Pierce and an editor of various newspapers for sixty years, has just been taken to the National Military Home at Dayton, OWilliam Allen White, author of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” and a newspaper and magazine writer, will be selected as dean of the department of journalism of the Kansas University. Albert E. Bell, who has confessed numerous mail robberies, has recovered { sufficiently to be taken from the hospital at Denver, where he has been confined, and will be taken to Philadelphia for trial. The members of the Nebraska State Bankers’ Association voted almost unanimously in favor of the repeal of the present bankruptcy law and a resolution asking the Senators and Congressmen

’ from that State to work to that end was adopted. ! Gordon Allen, 32 years old, a wellknown mining operator, was shot and ‘ killed by Benjamin Aylor of Webb City, j at the Aylor mine near Prosperity, Mo. I There had long been ill will between the I men. I Three more workmen were seriously | injured at the Union Pacific boiler works ।in Omaha. Neb., when the part left ' standing of the wall which collapsed a I week before fell, burying them in the ; debris. Hog cholera is devastating the southeast portion of Shawnee and across the line in Douglas County, Kansas. The farmers along the valley of the Wakarausa lost over 1,000 animals in two weeks. Dairymen and bakers of St. Louis are forming a combine with a capital stock of $5,500,0(10 to purchase the smaller concerns, deliver bread and milk from the same wagon and thus reduce operating expenses. Alfred A. Buck, assistant cashier of the State Bank at Mapleton. Minn., who has disappeared, leaving a shortage of $30,000, left a letter saying he had been systematically blackmailed for twelve years by a Chicago family. The spreading of rails caused a freight wreck on the Missouri Pacific near ’ Langley, Kan., in which four persons were killed and six others injured. Two of the latter will bo crippled for life. 1 The men were harvest hands. Wluio alone in his room in (Ji

^Hunting mid PIIWo.S c lubTionse W> • , Charles County, Missouri. Isaac M . Mor ( ton. a member of the St. Louis City , Council, committed suicide by shooting. , No cause is known for the act. ‘ Fire supposed to have been of incendiarv origin destroyed five busines blocks and the railroad station, besides damaging several other buildings . veston. Ind. The loss is estimated at $75,000. The telegraph operator at . station reported the tire and as <<’> help while the station was burning H was driven away by the flames ami the ' wires were burned, cutting oil all comi munication. The fire departments at Lot ; sport and Kokomo loaded ai>P«ratus 'u.-f trains ami sent, it to Galveston.

on relict trains ami ~ — - „ nntro i = vt 8 o’clock the lire was undei control. * Four men drove into the little town of Berwick. 111., early the other im mg. wont to the Farmers Mate Bank 1 the lock of the front door, drilled t n X Os the vaun nation, obtaining S2A””- n,t 1 , awakened a number of residents: of _ ti e town, who appeared, mi the s< < < . were covered with guns in the hands ot the robbers, who held their pursuers at bav until they had loaded their booty into U- rig and .»«•««; ing towns were notified. " ’ ’ ■ president of the br.uk, says the loss ,s covered by insurance.

The B ink of Viborg. S. D- robbed the other night of $5,000. Ihe roK bers were seen by citizens who did not cave l() venture on t^' r e^ nn'rolled bv armed robbers. Halt us t .m stolen was in gold. The robbers escaped on a handear. Robbers cracked X. lase in the Linn Grove, office the same nUdd ^ ul o P in money and stamps. 11 i caped. An attempt was mad< the Citizens’ National Bams m socket. S. D. ^-.X^offe^ th.iu the evening, om < _ । W. !

m — _ Prines Ahmed Bedr Eddine, n younger । son of the Sultan of Turkey, is .lend of I pneumonia. Circumstantial reports have been re- I ceived that Boris Harafoff, the Macedonian leader, was killed in a skirmish j at Pruva, near Florina.

The arbitration treaty between Great i Britain and France has been signed iu I London by Foreign Secretary Lansdowne i and the French ambassador, M, Cambon. Russia bids China to choose between accepting her demands or seeing the Czar's troops permanently occupy Manchuria. The prospects of peace in the I far East are conside'rod more hopeful. A dispatch frqm Odessa says news has reached there from Khorassan that 25*> lives have been lost in an earthquake at Turshiz. Persia. Thirteen villages wore destroyed and 5.00t> persons are ' now homeless. King Victor Emmanuel and Queen ! Helena of Italy arrived in Paris and were given a royal greeting. At a state : dinner in the evening President Loubet 1 and the King exchanged warm international compliments. Russians in the far East are savage nt America for concluding her recent treaty | with China, and declare the St. Peters burg government will never allow Muk- ! den to be opened as a treaty port. Rus- . sian monopoly rights are said to be infringed by the agreement. IN CENERAI. The battleship Maine in her endurance - run from Newport News, Va.. to Cule- ; bra, I’orto Rico, showed remarkable | speed, making 1,185 miles at an average ; of fifteen knots an hour and running one j stretch of fifty miles at the rate of 16.7 knots an hour. Congressman Dayton of West Virginia believes Germany is looking to South America for colonies to drain off her surplus population, and that she proposes to build a str ng navy irp order* "antagonize the Monroe doctrine should it become necessary. W. J. Bryan has authorized a denial of the report which quoted him as saying he believed that free silver would not be considered at the Democratic national convention in 1904. Mr. Bryan said he had not talked with a reporter in lowa City, from which place the report emanated. American Alaskan claims have been granted in all particulars save the Portland Canal, which is awarded by the mixed commission to Canada. This insures the retention by Americans of every foot of land they have believed their own. and at the same time gives the British the outlet to the sea which, they so much needed. Although the assertion is made continually that the use of automobiles is driving the horse out of business, reports from 325 cities in the United States show that the statement is far from true. Each city gives figures which prove that the use of horses is increasing rapidly and there is a bigger demand than ever for them. The United States cruiser Baltimore has left the Brooklyn navy yard to start on a voyage to the Philippines, whither she will convoy five torpedo-boat destroyers. The voyage will be watched with interest by the naval authorities of the world, as it will be the first time a flotilla of torpedo-boats has attempted so long a voyage—l6.ooo miles. The destroyers probably will never return, but ’ will be kept in Asiatic waters for a pos--1 sible emergency. The Baltimore, it is said, will join the Asiatic squadron.

—■ M «i BIG BAN J DOWN. - — BALTIMORE BY TWO serioU^res. Maryland Tr«»f |*9^m Trust Are Forced to S' *jj -Combined Liabilities of t’ AVO Concerns Will Keach SIO,O The Bnltimo inaucial world was startled Mondi the suspension of two of the cit purgest financial concerns, with jo abilities of $10,000,000. The Mu jd Trust Company, with a capital iek o f $2,125,000 and deposits of ovekoOO.OOO, and the Union Trust Compy, whose capital stock is sl.t>oo,ooo, ^h deposits of about $750,000, went i, the hands of receivers by consent. Allan McLanobird vice president of . the Maryland Tnl Company, was ap-

k pointed receiver f< that company. with > a bond of $2.000,( ; a ml M iles White, t Jr., one of the v presidents id' the , Union Trust Com ny, was appointed receiver for his c pany, with a bond t of $1,000,000. Aj um ber of petitions for coreceivers hm been filed in court by stockholders at others interested. j Although the ti companies had no interests in comity their suspensions were closely -The Maryland ; Trust Company h^’obout $6,000,0001 Vied in *b" Cruz and Pacific j Railroad, across TDrHiiii- 1 tepee, in Mexico, has recently been completed. -intavorable condition of the market_ is prevented the company from re:!|^ ig anything on these securities and ‘‘ ia s become pressed for money. Th« ort was made to negotiate a loan ot. ,000,000 in London, but failed, and $ precipitated the receivership. Q A run on the bar^ department of the Union Trust Comgny caused its embarrassment. The ditrs of the Maryland Trust ComparJ had remained closed at 9 o’clock, Ap opening hour, pursuant to a decisis I of the executive committee at the cl |> of a meeting

DOWIE, V“ YLLD GIVE NEW YORK A LIFT. 1f ■ 1 B \<®», v\ Ij• V - or -wSVA J J /'C/Y - r - - Y ~ V - I yf '-s. I " ! -Minneapolis Jouml.

' *ed until 2 /clock in the mom- > Ing and ver. - ,on aftrwnrd the petition for a receiver was fed bv John S Gittings \ Co., banker, who alleged that they had on dep---it he sum of $506.74. The answer of the onipnny was filed at the same time and tie receiver appoint ed immediately. The latter has a large part of its money tied up in the Mew Belvidere IL> tel here, which is mw nearing comp' - tion. but whose l,oms are not yet u arketable. The comptny also had out । loans aggregating I.s66,which it could not call in an! it wits soon seen tb.at with the contained withdrawal on the part of depositor* the company could only meet them by tisposing of its securities at ruinous prio's and to avoid this the re eivership proctedings were res -rt ed to. CANADIANS ARE BHTER. Dominion Representative, Withdraw from the Commission. In consequence of tie attitude maintained by the Unnaditin commissioners.

Lord Chief Justice Alverstone decided not to hold the I'roposld public London meeting of the Alaskmi boundary commission, but to hand jits decision to j Messrs. Foster and Siiton, respectively agents of the American and Canadian governments. The Canadian commis- ! sioners not only decli led to sign the ! award, but said they would publicly ' withdraw from the co umission. They as well as the Canadiai s connected with the case are very bitter. Telegrams from Fneiui-r Laurier and: other prominent persons in Canada show j that this seatiiuj i^ LisliiireiUliterally ; ■■ i.ii,lir. iu .n.' DomrnTTX| -r The Alaska award relating to the Portland canal gives IIL United States two islands. Kannaghnput and Sitklan, commanding the entrance to the Portland channel and the ojeean passage to Port Simpson and destroying the strategic value of Wales and i Pearse Islands, which are given to Canada. HARD WINTER FOR NEW YORK. It Is Predicted That i>O Per Cent of Workers Will Be Unimployed. The prediction Is mad; by Charles L. Eidlitz, president of the New York Building Trades Employers’ J association, that at least 50 per cent of t ie workers who would ordinarily be em ployed iu the building trades there w ill be idle for this winter. This mean; a hard winter for New York. “Many architects,” said Mr. Eidlitz, “have abandoned the preparing of plan < for new buildings Which hey had undertaken and will wait tint: 1 spring before they decide what to do. I know of one architect who had a goo ] deal of <wo.rk before him, which he had decided to finish this fall. Work on bi aiding can now be done under ordinary circumstances through, a good part of th * winter. This architect I speak of decided, however, that it was useless to trj to work with labor troubles so general, and he is taking a trip to Europe whie i he has promised himself for many yea rs. “He is only one of mar y. The buildings now in hand wliich are nearly completed will be finished, but there are few of these, and under present conditions little or no new work will be undertaken this winter.”

CALL FOR AN EXTRA SESSION, j President Summons Congrew to Meet | The President Tuesday issued the following proclaim! lion; “By the President of the United States of America: “A Proclamation: Whereas, by the resolution of the Senate ot March 19, 1903, the approval by Congress of the reciprocal commercial convention between the United States ami the republic of Cuba, signed at Havana Dec. 11, 1902. is necessary before the said convention shall take effect: “Ami. whereas, it is important to the | public interests of the United States that the said convention shall become opera- ! tive ns early as may be; i "Now. therefore. I. Theodore Roosei volt. President of the United States of I America, by virtue of the power vested ’ in me by the constitution, do hereby proclaim ami declare that au extraoidmarx f occasion requires the convening of both houses of rhe Congress of the I mted States at their respective chambers in

► > tnv a* * • I” ' ‘ ' the city of Washington on the 9tii day of November next at 12 o'clock noon, to ■ the end that they may consider and determine whether the approval of the Congress shall be given to the said convention. “All persons entitled to act as members of the Fifty-eighth Congress are reqtured to take notice of this proclamai tiou - , , i “Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at W ashington the b’au, .bn ..f (iciober. in onr j Lord one thousand nine hundred and three aml of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth. “(Seal. । “THEODORE ROOSEVELT. “By the I‘resident: “JOHN HAY. Secretary of State.” PEOPLE SftjßN DOWIE. i “Elijah” Enrag * When Multitude I Leaves Ilis Service in New York. I Dowie's invasion of New York, judg- . I ing by "Elijah's" reception at Madison •! Square Garden, has been a failure. Half I i of the audience that filled the big hall

scrambled for the doors before the serA i<-e wis well began. Dewie. on the : platform, in his wi.;:. robes, surrounded ' by the Zion choir similarly garbed, pleaded. stortmsl and wejit in an effort to hold i the people, but iti vain. He appealed to i the police to lock the doors and keep the I crowd in, hut the only response made by : an inspector was: “There’s no law to make people stay where they don’t want. This isn't Zion. T: is is New Y-.rk.” Young w- ::e:. I lowieites lo gged the crowds to go bn k and list- n to the healer. but nobody yielded. “It doesn’t take much to stir up Chicago,” said one man. who did not stay ; h-ug, “if this t.t.-n <-.,uld make any impr --ion there." “Bluff.” “Faker” and “Pious fraud” were among the comments of the outgoing crowd. Tl.e guard outside on the i avenue were disappointed. They had ' great hopes of New York when the : crowd was pouring in before the services । began. Dowie's elaborate program was i interr.pted by the coming and going of

people, to bis great annoyance. IM SSMhh s Salina barbers are said to be prepar- I ing to test the constitutionality of the Kansas barber license law passed by the j last Legislature. ; The War Department has decided to : make Pawnee flcG the p —■'nnent camp i >ite f.-r the annual military immeuvers | at Fort Riley. Kan. The Kansas Wesleyan University of Salina has received another gift of $25.- ! 000. this time from Mrs. Mary Johnson | of Barton County, Kan. Miners from the Minnesota and Michij gan iron mines have been taken to Cripj pie CVeek. Colo., to rake the places of । the striking union miners there. Massachusetts Prohibitionists in State I convention at Worcester nominated a full ticket, heade 1 by Dr. Oliver W. Cobb of East Hampton for Governor. About 400 messenger boys employed by the Illinois District Telegraph Company stopped work in Chicago as a protest against the employment of colored messenger boys. Because of the trouble near Bluefields. Nicaragua, involving the interests of an American steamship company, the gunboat Nashville has been ordered there from Pensacola, Fla. Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of engineers, will be released from the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth Nov. 28. when he will have completed a sentence of live years. William Smith, the millionaire nurseryman and S]dritualist. who was preparing to build a college for women in Geneva. N. Y., has countermanded the building contract, by order of the spirits, as he says. Clarence L. Seymour, a young attorney of Boston and a stepson of Gov. Bates of Massachusetts, is confined in the insane ward of the county hospital jat Denver, Colo. He went to Denver on | account of poor health.

DECIDE IN OCR FAVOR UNITED STATES' CLAIMS IN ALASKA ALLOWED. International Tribunal in Loudon Gives to Canada Only Portland Canal and Outlet to Pacific Ocean—Other American Content ions All Confirmed. American ownership of the entire Alaska "panhandle,” which at times since 1867 has caused serious friction between the United States aml Canada, is recog- | nized by the Alaskan boundary commis- j sion, which reached its decision Satur- I day. By a majority of one. Lord Alver- i stone, chief justice of England, easting ' the deciding vote, the commission con- : firms the I nit cd States in its title to all the land aml every water way and inlet : it claimed except the Portland Canal, which Canada gets as its only outlet to ■

the sea. America Vastly Enriched. This triumph for America, means, in I brief, that Great Britain admits the right j of the United States to about 20,7(10 square miles of territory, instead of a small fraction thereof, and continued ■ control of the many important bays and | inlets throughout the 60 miles of seacoast. It means besides American supremacy in the northern Pacific and AmefFcan possession of much valuable mineral land that Canada has claimed for years. Portland Canal is at the southernmost end of this strip of territory, md the American boundary line is merely shifted from the southern to the northern side of the channel. A Canadian factory and a small settlement of Canadians are at its head, and the American commissioners, seeing that Lord Alverstone was dis- ; posed to grant the justice of their contentions on every other point, agreed to allow Canada to have it. i The agreement was arrived at only after deliberations extending over a week. All this time the chance seemed to be that the commissioners would reach no definite judgment and that the dead-

lock of the joint high commission which met in Quebec and Washington in IS9S and 1599 would be repeated. When the first vote was taken Satur- j day, however, the uncertainty was removed, for Lord Alvcrstone said he had made up his mind that the American contentions were just, except as to the Portland Canal. After luncheon the American commissioners agreed to cede this point, and the controversy was settled. Canada Much Disappointed. While Canada will be much disappointed. the opinion is widely held in official and diplomatic circles that the decision will help to cement Anglo-Amer-ican friendship. The Canadian claims did not find a great number of active supporters in London; in fact, only a languid interest was felt in the procedings. The first days were dull and the trial of the case in the foreign office in Downing street was attended by few outside of the persons concerned and the wives of the American commissioners and counsel.

Not until toward the close, when At- ■ torney Jacob M. Dickinson, of Chicago, made his eloquent and forceful appeal. I did the British commissioners rouse themselves from their scmA-ieth.n^v. i Lord Alvcrstone on that occasion complimented M-. Dickinson on his ar^menb

Canada's claims were strongly combated by the American counsel, who brought out the fact that these claims were not made seriously until late in the '7os. when gold was discovered in the | disputed territory; in fact, most of the ■ evidence against Canada was from the utterances of prominent Canadians and Englishmen. Fr"in ihe time the An_ v

> 4>li IWJI. 1 lilt- Hint.- uiu mil- • Russian treaty of ls_’s until long after: Alaska's transfer to ti,p United States; in l k >7. otli-ial Cimni.i did not contest! the I , -mi r- lines laid d >wn by Ku->ia. | John W. Foster, former Secretary of j State, managed tl.e ease for the United i States, while the Canadian side was un-j der the leadership of Hon. Ciifford Sis toil. Canadian Minister of tl.e Interior.! D. T. Watson. <>f Pittsburg, and ILtnnts ; Taylor, of Mobile, were the other Ameri- | can attorneys. There was the best of feeling I.etween j the commissioners and counsel, which j was beightened by a dim: r given by the ; Pilgrim Club, which they all att'-n lel. Thursday. Toasts were drunk, one to 1 President R< ■ sevelt and King Edward jointly, and to Britons and Ameri ans of i prominence, while British cabinet min- i isters and other prominent representa-। fives of English public life, including Lord Roberts, responded to toasts ex-1 pressing amity ami cordial good will. CUBA UNABLE TO GET CASH. $35,000,000 Loan Delayed by Condition of Money Market. Although the Cuban commission which came to New York about a month ago to negotiate a loan of $35.060,000 for l the government of Cuba, has not yet lost . ’ hope, it has received little encourage- : i merit from bankers. The unsatisfactory and uncertain conI dition of the money market has been ad- > vanetd as a reason why $35,000,000 could not be spared at this time from the country. But the negotiations have ( not even reached the point of looking ! about for underwriters. Bankers, it is said, have plainly' 'flm formed the loan commission that the special internal revenue law, which is to raise a sinking fund to pay off the loan, is inadequate as a guarantee. They want jto have the surplus customs revenue ! pledged unconditionally before they will look at the loan. The object of the loan is to pay the veteran soldiers of the late rebellion. Sparks from the Wiree. Horse thieves have been making a practice recently of robbing the barns of ' peace officers in the Choctaw nation, ; Indian Territory. The herd of buffalo on October moun- ; tain, bred in captivity by William C. I Whitney, have been sold to Hagenbeck,

of Hamburg, Germany. Captain Cowles, brother-in-law of President Roosevelt, is to command the ' battleship Missouri, now nearing coru- ; pletion at Newport News. The Missouri ■ will not be commissioned until January. Robert Bonsall. 54 years old, connect- ; ed with the land department of the Santa Fe Railroad, killed himself at Galveston, ■ Texas. The cause was desjiondency over the death of his wife. Otto Inman was for the second time I convicted of murder in the first degree । in the District Court of Ottawa, Kan. Inman was charged with killing his . l cousin. Elsa G. Jackson, a farmer, on i the night of Feb. 1. I Jacob Miller, one of the grocers of Chi- । I cage, convicted of conspiracy to defraud . the wholesale grocers together with sev- j ; eral teamsters and receiving clerks, cut { : his throat in front of the sheriff’s office j " the criminal ceurt building.

^^CIAL yiNAUCIAU R. G. Dun & Co.’s Ney York. | While some contraction in trade and industry has undoubtedly taken place, it is not in proportion to the reduction of I 20 per cent in pig iron output, or ti:e J reaction in prices of securities, althougii I in normal years these have usually proved fairly reliable barometers. Many I branches of manufacture, however, are ! working full force, with large orders still | unfilled, while the latest returns of the : crops are most encouraging. Finance and labor are the disturbing elements I .. ■ . ■ • , .. ’ i.. i...

this year, neutralized very largely by favorable commercial aml agricultural : conditions. The net result is a fairly well i maintained volume of trade, offset by conservatism in carrying out protected i new undertakings and proposed exteni sions of facilities. Railway earnings । thus far available for October are 6.2 I per cent larger than last year and 12.7 ' per cent above V.MH. Weekly conflicting reports are received _ n« to the enndition of tlie iroff and steel industry. There is evidence that the decline in quotations has been cheeked, although it is occasionally stated that special terms are made on important contracts. A better inquiry is noted in the I West, pig iron being freely taken by open-hearth steel furnaces and makers of i railway supplies, and in some favored I lines the new orders cover deliveries' i through all of next year. Footwear factories are busy on coni tracts that will require some time to 1 | finish, and wholesalers still complain that deliveries of heavy goods are not made i promptly, yet there are indications that 1 > trade is quieting down at the East. There I is no diminution in activity at the \\ est. 1 : More idle machinery has resumed at cotton mills, but the <• >st of raw cotton

is still considerably above a parity with the prices that buyers are willing to give for goods. Increased inquiries are noted, although the unsatisfactory quotations prevent business being consummated. Woolens are dull in men's wear fabrics and quiet in dress goods. Failures this week number 20$ in the United States, against UH last year, and in Canada 2S. compared with 24 a year ago. : i ; Under the stimulus of Mm i seasonable weather condi- > I tions farm work progresses satisfactorily, and reports indicate some increased activity in the distribution of , goods and in manufactures. October i buying is of a gratifying volume, and while this is most apparent in the leading retail lines, the jobbing sections are also doing a fair house trade, and make large shipments of dry goods, furniture and carpets, clothing and foot wear. Grain shipments for six days, including 3.922.447 bushels of corn, aggregate ; 6,274,395 bushels and are 8 per cent over i the previous week. The wheat market

presented the most interest, owing to stronger buying and the scarcity of that cereal. Corn operations were on a large scale, and sales of futures were influenced by growing supplies. Compared witli closing prices of a week ago wheat ad- -’- — —

nu’ oais . :;• i I declined 4^ cent. Live stock receipts, I 310.503 head, are 4 per cent under the corresponding week of 1902. Buying of l cattle and sheep showed less vigor early in the week, but later improved, and closing prices of both show a net loss of 5 cents per hundredweight. Arrivals of desirable hogs had a sharp falling off. and on spirited bidding values were ' quickly advanced 50 cents. Provisions

were in fair demand, principally for domestic account. Bank clearings. $185,475,635. are 10.02 per cent over a year ago. The movement of currency for crop-moving purposes is normal, but there is increased offering of commercial paper and money is again quoted firm at 6 per cent. Call loans are । infrequent. International’a Report. Special telegraphic advices to the In- ; ternational Mercantile Agency from correspondents throughout the United States and Canada are summarized as follows: The most significant trade feature of : the week is found in a tendency to greater ease in money for mercantile uses at Boston, Philadelphia. Chicago and Pittsburg. St. Louis bankers anticipate like conditions there soon. Winter wheat sowing has progressed favorably. Prospects for a top crop of ‘ cotton have decreased. Rice receipts ; at Southern markets have been quite free. Crude oil prices are up 12 cents ! within two weeks. In the Canadian dominion there is a ; good demand for heavy winter goods, i The wheat harvest there is exceptionally large, and growers are receiving about 75 cents':’, bushel for it. The increase of s2<Ji >JX)0.000 gain in ; loans and discounts by national banks be- : tween Sept. 15. 1902. and Sept. 9. 1963. is explained from the office of the Comp- ' । troller of the currency to be largely due । to the fact that between those dates | there were chartered 529 national banks, with capital, surplus, undivided profits. . circulation, government deposits and rediscounts of $230,600,000. sWSSSsfe Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3,000 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades. $4.50 to $5.65; sheep.fair to choice. $3.00 ■ to $3.80; wheat. No. 2 red. 80c to S2c; i | corn. No. 2,42 cto 43c: oats, standard, 33c to 34c: rye. No. 2,56 cto 57c; hay, I timothy. $8.50 to $12.50: prairie. $6.00 to I $12.00; butter, choice creamery. 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 19c; potatoes. ■ ; 52c to 60c.

St. Louis —Cattle. $4.50 to $5.40; hogs. $4.50 to $5.95; sheep. $3.00 to $3.75: wheat. No. 2,86 cto 87c: corn. No. 2, ' 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2,35 cto 36c; rye, ; No. 2,53 cto 55c. Cincinnati —Cattie. $4.25 to $4.65: $4.1 io /■: ,>- i : s2.'' । to ! $3.30; wheat. No. 2. 86c to S7c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 46c to 4Sc; oats. No. 2 । mixed. 37c to 38c; rye. No. 2,62 cto 63c. Detroit —Cattle. $3.50 to $5.00; hogs. $4.(,t» to ss.!^>: sheep. $2.50 to 53.50: wheat. No. 2,84 cto Soc; com. No. o yellow. 49c to 50c; oats. No. 3 white, i 37c to 38c; rye. No. 2,56 cto 57c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, i 84c to 85e; corn. No. 3,46 cto 47c: oats. ! No. 2 white. 3<c to 38c; rye. No. 1, oae ito 56c: barley. No. 2,64 cto 65e; pork. ! mess. $11.25. Toledo —Wheat. No. 2 mixed. Sic to 83c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 18'’; oats. i No. 2 mixed. 37c to 38c; rye. No. 2. 54c I to 56c; cl<^ei^ee<Lprimej|s6-jdi^^PMMW"^^