Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 18, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 November 1903 — Page 2

£l)i onit. W. A. EMDEEV, Publisher. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. WEEK’S NEWS RECORD A Chicago company, represented by Dr. E. O. Wald, has bought 150 acres Os oil land in the Kayak district of southern Alaska, whore the oil produced contains 90 per cent, of illuminates and compares favorably with the best Pennsylvania product. By the collapse of a scaffold in the Terminal Railway Association’s subway, near the Union station in St. Louis, twenty-five laborers were hurled twentyfive feet to the ground, Oscar Berger, W. 11. Mills and Benjamin Schwartz, being probably fatally injured. Ten thousand women fought with the New York police to see .Miss May Goolet. who was married to the Duke of Roxburghe. They stopped iier carriage and climbed on the steps, peering into the windows. Finally souvenir hunters despoiled the church "ecorations. Two dead and two wounded is the re- — _ j'.. Mm mi ng affray at the entrance of tffe iqWhi Tlo®e m MffWlfite, juntas the theatergoers were leaving after the performance by the James O'Neil company. The trouble arose over a miner insisting on smoking a cigar in the gallery. The steamer Charles Nelson, which departed from .Astoria Nov. 3 for San Francisco, became waterlogged off Hecla Head, and was abandoned by its passengers and crew. The trouble resulted from the working of the deckload of lumber in a terrific gale off the Oregon coast. Z. C. Cadle, a white man, was lynched by a mob of ten or fifteen people at Brinkley, Ark. Cadle, in an altercation, had stabbed Policeman J. C. Cox. who died shortly afterward. A mob secured entrance to the jail, and taking Cadle out. shot him and hanged him to a telephone pole. A loss that cannot be estimated on a monetary basis was caused by tire which destroyed one of the first orchid collections in the world, besides other valuable and rare plants in the Missouri botanical (Shaw's) gardens in St. Louis. Four hothouses were ruined by the tire, which originated in an overheated furnace pipe in the boiler room. George W. Dull, who was sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years for the murder of Dr. Rowland at Herndon. Kan.. April IS. 1902. will have to serve his sentence. The Supreme Court has affirmed the decision. No motive was assigned for the deed and Dull was convicted on circumstantial evidence. This was one of the most, mysterious murders ever committed in Kansas. When Mr. and Mrs. Clement Copernick returned after a temporary absence from their home in Naalle. ‘Pa., they found their children. Anna and Stella, aged 3 and 9 years respectively on the floor of the kitchen covered with blood from wounds. Anna had been sho through the lung, while her sister been shot in the neck. Neither oyKo children has been able to tell whd^Kt them. tries on Red Lake lands, vrhu^rfor jSe'Jiiient Tuesday, at CroA vm..

qnd spent all th^-i«ftvings to ; M land office. on-I^to fall fainting in the 4 ^Wriong ItW'of waiting people or be disappointed. Miss Gustava B. Anderson, of Elk River, secured the prize, a tract, of choice timber land worth $12,000. Charles Becker, who won $300,000 by forgery ami counterfeiting and who aided in stealing the famous Gainsborough portrait in 1876, came to New York the other night a free man. to be good for the rest of his life, he says. Becker was liberated from San Quentin prison in California Aug. 10 after a seven years’ sentence. So fearful were bank officials at the prospect of his being a free man again that, it was reported, the American Bankers’ Association hired him to behave himself at a salary of SSOO a month. The report was denied later. BREVITIES. Minister of Finance Rosano committed suicide in Naples, Italy, by shooting. Since the formation of the new cabinet the Socialists had charged him with corruption. It is reported in New York that the Rockefeller interests have secured control of the steel trust and that as a result the ship building scandal will be squelched. President RoOsevelt’s message was read in both houses of Congress Tuesday. It was brief and urged keeping faith with the Cubans, who have fulfilled their agreements. Carrie Nation made her debut on the stage at Elizabeth, N. J., in a revision of “Ten Nights in a Barroom," in which the hatchet wielder and grogshop smasher appeared at the heroine. Colonel A. K. McClure has been appointed prothonotary of the Supreme Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Colonel Charles S. Greene. Safe blowers cracked the safe of the Quick Service Laundry Company. 232 Paulina street. Chi a .. •■•■our’ng <!‘"O ” ’Andrew Smith, watch-’r- and trim Woodruff, a passer-by. were bound mid gagged during the burglary. A family of five persons—father, mother and three children- —were murdered at their home in Marianna, east of Pensacola, Fla., ami their bodies were found by the mother of the murdered yife. The family's name was Cassey. The little daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. Monday will be heir to one of the largest fortunes in the world. Mrs. Rockefeller is the daughter of United Stares Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island. This is^their first child. A policeman discovered a printing plant in Lynn, Mass., from which millions of bogus lottery tickets have been sent and sold all over the country in the last few years. William S. Weils was arrested and made a partial confession, implicating men in Dayton, Ohio, and New York. An explosion of gas in a pit at the repair shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Pittsburg killed William Skiles, IS years old, and Stewart R. Breit. The men were at work in the pit repairing a hydraulic jack, when the gas formed from chemicals used in operating the jack was ignited by a lighted torch. The ease of Adolph Fein, former secretary of the Hebrew branch, of the Jefferson Club, a political organization, ended in St. Louis with a verdict of guilty after three days of trial in the United States District Court. He was charged with aiding and abetting naturalization frauds and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary with a fine of SI,OOO

EASTERN. Charles B. Ailing, a millionaire of Derby, Conn.. aged 79 years, helped fight , a fire in his woolen mill apd died from his exertions. In Taunton, Mass., Peter Clgrk, aged - 11, was shot dead by Waiter Er Bassett, aged 13. and the latter is now tocked up on the charge of, homicide. William L. Elkins, traction magnate, financier and patron of art, passed away in his summer home, Ashbourne, near Philadelphia, aged 71 years. A few hours before he was to have married Lillian Robertson, M iliiam Warren, a newspaper man at Chester, Paif committed suicide in his newly furnished, home. Railroad men declare the big companies will put the Erie Canal out of business in one year, provided it is rebuilt, which some persons profess to doubt. Gordon McKay's will gives Harvard 80 per cent of net income from his $20,000,000 estate and in time the principal. Sous, cut off with small annuities, may contest. Six men were killed, one is missing and four were injured by a series of explosions which destroyed two shellhouses at the naval depot at lona Island, N. 1., causing a loss of $500,000. Judge Lacombe, of the Federal Court in New York, ordered the deportation of ing the first application of the new law forbidding “reds” entrance here. The Carnegie medals for paintings were awarded at Pittsburg to Frank W. Benson, Salem, Mass., for "A Woman Reading.” and to Bryson Boroughs, of New York, for “Ariadne Abandoned.” Delegates of the Central Labor I nion of Philadelphia had a heated discussion over the assertion that a union man I violates trade union principles when he allows his wife to mend his overcoat. Samuel J Parks, the New York walking delegate, warned unionists against having money deals with employers. Ho has been sentenced to two years and three months at hard labor for extortion. Fire which started in the Citizens’ Steamboat line pier in Troy. N. Y., raged for two hours and destroyed six large buildings in River street, between Broadway and Second. The total loss will exceed $1,000,000. WESTERN. The Chicago City Council passed the Patterson ordinance prohibiting the sale of toy pistols and other cheap firearms. 11. N. Higiubotham offers $50,000 for a earnation that will excel the fiancee pink, which won the gold medal at the Joliet flower show. A severe earthquake shock was felt at Brazil and other places in Clay County, Ind. Window’s rattled and many houses rocked on their foundations. Frank Keefe, a Rawlins. Wyo.. mer chant, who shot and killed Policeman John Baxter and Lieutenant Thomas King, has been found guilty of manslaughter. Two freight trains on the Cleveland and Pittsburg road crashed together on a curve between Canal Dover, Ohio, and Zoar and as a result two are dead and f six injured. Mary Armentout, aged 7, perished and her two little brothers were probably fatally burned in a fire which destroyed a boarding house on the Scioto syndicate plantation at Sagetown, Ohio. Aj^-Gjiuha. Neb., three way.-! M mon

There were no pasSlugers ffbonrxt-^K car. The rohbei-s escaped. The Mormon Church has purchased for S4,(MM) the old jail at Carthage, 111., in which Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, and Brother Hirma were killed tby a mob in,the early history of the (State. The entire family of George Bond, living near Rock Bridge, Ohio, was almost wiped out of existence by an explosion of nitroglycerin. The parents were probably fatally injured and four children were killed. William Notter. a salesman for the Phoenix Chair Company, committed suicide by jumping from the Smith avenue bridge. 200 feet above the Mississippi, into the river at St. Paul. He formerly lived in Winnipeg. A remarkably distinct mirage has been seen north of the town of Nelson. Neb. The entire town of Edgar. which is about fourteen miles from the point where the mirage was witnessed, was reflected in the sky. Frank Shanklin, captain of the Hanover College football team last year, died at a hospital in Indianapolis from injuries received in a practice scrimmage on Hanover field five weeks ago. He lived at Franklin, Ind. Life savers at Ludington. Mich., towed by a car ferry steamer, raced fourteen miles through a terrific storm and rescued two sailors from the sinking barge A. T. Bliss. Other lake boats were badly crippled by the storm. President David R. Francis, of the St. Louis exposition, announces that every building will be ready to receive exhibits Dec. 1 and that the exposition will open April 30, 1904. in more complete form than any preceding world’s fair. The bodies of seven men who died in the chase for gold in Alaska have been returned to Milwaukee. They are: Charles Herman, Charles Schusted. Ferdinand Evenson. Fred Synder, I Chris Swenson, Oden Oyen. Ed. Walter. Mrs. Maria Linderman, wife of William Linderman of Chicago, committed

I m-nrr-nr I.os Angeles, Cal. Temporary aberration, caused by nervous prostration, is assigned as the reason for taking her life. Fire in the Kearsarge mine, six miles from Virginia City, Mont., killed nine men. The damage to surface buildings is slight. Among the dead is Superintendent R. B. Turner, of B itte, one of the best known mining men in the Northwest. The Methodist general committee of church extension at Kansas City voted against consolidation, the home mission and church extension benevolence and refused to abrogate the rule denying assistance to any church whose building cost less than SIO,OOO. The Kansas Co-operative Grain Association, known generally as the farmers' trust, has begun proceedings in the courts against the Burlington road, which are generally interpreted as the beginning of a crusade to secure competing elevator facilities throughout the State. A man rode up to the Ames house, nine miles south of Stroud, Okla., and shot and killed Mrs. Ames, Jackson, a i hired man, and wounded Miss Ames, a daughter. The murderer was a young man, but his identity is not known. A motive for the crime is lacking. While responding to an alarm of fire five firemeu of truck company No. 7 were seriously injured and narrowly escaped death on the network of tracks at Wood | and Kinzie streets, Chicago. The truck was struck by a passenger train on the j Chicago and Northwestern Railway, i Two of the horses were instantly killed,

| the wagon was demolished and two ot the firemen had to be taken to then homes. ® Long barreled shotguns, loaded with ; lead and rock salt, will be supplied work- | house guards in Toledo in the future to enable them to intimidate prisoners who desire to escape. The guards have instructions to use both barrels and not stop until the fugitive has been well salted. Bibon, a village on the Omaha Railroad, twenty miles south of Ashland, Wis., was destroyed by fire. The village was without any fire protection. The fire started in the mill of the Chicago Coal and Lumber Company, owned by J. H. Kreuger of Ashland. The loss xvill reach $75,090. More than 19,000 coal miners in Colorado went on strike Monday for tin eighthour day, increased wages and other concessions. Os the idle men 6,000 are in southern coal fields, 2,000 in the northern coal fields and 1,800 in Fremont. County. One hundred mines have been closed down. Former Lieut. Gov. Lee testified at Jefferson City, Mo., that he paid State Senator Farris $7,000 for the members of the committee on jurisprudence for defeating the bill to repeal , the law prohibititig the use of alum i# baking powders. find that he received $1,500 for his own services. Porthmsof Missouri, Illinois, Keutneliy Louisiana experienced two decided I ternoon, the first at a few minutes after 12 o'clock, the second about an hour later. The area of disturbance extended as far north as Peoria, 111., and as far south as Memphis, Tenn. Eleven hundred tanners employed by the American Hide and Leather Company in Chicago went on strike and the three factories of the company xvill be closed down until the strikers are ready Ito talk business. Manager Kiernan of the company said that b.e had not been able to find out what the strike was called for. While students of the Agricultural j College at Ohio University in Columbus were witnessing the harvesting of a field ) of corn for ensilage purposes with a machine operated by an old traction engine I the boiler blew up and pieces of iron tore ! through the crowd of students. The en- i gineer, Charles I'upper, was blown about : fifty feet from the engine and his body I was terribly mangled by the debris and | scalded by the hot water from the boiler. । John Delgnru, assistant engineer. was fatally injured. Prof. Vernon 11. Davis, assistant professor in horticulture^ suf- j sered severe injuries to his hand. The ‘ explosion was felt in all the university buildings. With tremendous force the pieces of iron were hurled through the ) air and blew a great hole in the side of a barn over a hundred yards away. I ORBIGN. Emperor William will semi his yacht Meteor to the Inited Stales in the spring to take part in the ocean yacht race for the Emperor's cup. Sudden news that Emperor William of Germany has been operated on tor a polypus in the throat caused the greatest excitement in European capitals. The German Consul at Cape Town telegraphs that the Bondelzwarts tribesmen have invaded ('ape Colony and have had an encounter with tin* Cape police. After a search lasting almost two years the wreck of the British warship | Condor, which was lost with 111 men m> • board, has been found sunk in Barkley Sympl..,, ' I m ng m a seieutitn; bomeft

JIG ' ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 . • ■' v hue of Mufcia.' lapsed, killing seven and injuring twenty, . some fntnllv. 1 Two more victims of the Armenian feud have been murdered in London, the , assassin afterward committing suicide. , He is supposed to be the-same man who v murdered Sagatel Sagouni. , H. E. Huntington and E. IL Harri- t man are interested with Edwin Hawley. ; j T, F. Oakes, Frederick Eldridge and other New York men in a syndicate to . secure important railway concessions in < China. | ( A dispatch frm i Vienna says a rum r t is curient there tiiat the Czar of Russia s and the Emperor of Germany have sign ; 1 ed a convention for a defensive alliance | 1 in the far East should Great Britain sup- ; port Japan. The volcano of Malaspina, in Negros. Philippines, is in a state of violent erup- i ’ tion. Malaspiua is the loftiest summit of the central mountain chain of the ‘ < 1 Island of Negros, being 5.192 feet high. ’ it has never been entirely quiescent. . 1 IN GENERAL. Lieut. Albert M. Beecher, ord mince j officer on the battleship Maine, fell from the forward turret, a distance of forty feet, and was killed. Report of Commissioner of Education for the last fiscal year places the total number of pupils enrolled in the public schools at 15,925,557. There are nearly 6(M) eases of scar’etina in Havana. Cuba. Recoveries from the disease are generally rapid, and there । have been few deaths. . Dun A Co.’s weekly review sh >w ; general trade restricted by warm weather, I । while crop gathering is helped: October railroad earnings 6.2 per cent over 1902. : The Fifty-eighth Congress convened in I extraordinary session at noon Monday in I accordance with the proclamation of President Roosevelt for the purpose of enacting legislation necessary to make । effective the Cuban reciprocity treaty.

- ^rai ^-T-r'-rr.’r-r-rrr'r^^ the Harnessmakers' 1 nion, who embez- i zled $5,000 of its funds, was sentenced j to two years in the penitentiary. Conine is in poor health and for this reason the I judge took off six months of the original j sentence. The United States government has extended recognition to the new republic of Panama, which has accomplished its independence by the most rapid work in history, and which is assured of powerful backing provided it shows capacity for self-government. Commander Hubbard, of the American gunboat Nashville has ordered the superintendent of the Panama Railroad at Colon not to transport troops either of the government or the opposing force. Washington officials believe the revolutionists will be successful in Panama and think the supremacy of the United States is complete. On board the steamer Majestic, which arrived in New York from Liverpool, were twelve negroes from the Southern States, who went to Liberia, West Africa. to experiment in cotton culture with a view to future colonization by negroes from this country. They say their experiment was a failure and they embarked for home in a penniless condition. A fierce gale has been raging along the entire seaboard of Newfoundland and several vessels have .been driven ashore. The American schooner Edith Emery I has been lost at Port ati Basque and the Canadian schooner Florence is ashore at Forteau. The schooners Trefoil, Janet, Arethusia and a number of other New- ; foundland vessels also have been j wrecked. j

— | PRESIDENT AcSSAGE | I CUBAN RIiOCITY. i Following is the m President Roosevelt dealing 1 * üban reciprocity treaty. It j ,uid fuesday to both houses of the ‘ighth Congress in extraordinary sei xxx To the Senate and Representa- .. 501 fives: I have convened 10b'ongress that it may consider the N' on 11< ' < eKsnr - v (o put into operation ^'mmeieial with Cuba, which BJ ratified by the Senate at its las ion ami subsequently by the C ,8 > government. I deem such legisNjti ptuanded not only by our interests J 1 our honor. We cannot with p C abandon the course upon whi. ' .. have so wisely embarked. Whe V 'heptance of the Platt amendme a required from Cuba by the u< "S. Congress of the United States, t otaj 1 '"neut thereby’ definitely commit, - bi! of treating CuM at ’ 'ving a unique position as re^rds , intry. t was provided that when b‘' ’me a Urec and imlependßM ” ,K ' ^.'eshould

stand ill surf. withjn in certam rospe ts poli and system of internal. i, t , necessarily followed. -omeincludedwithto a certain degree h momic police. Sitin the lines ot our e„ , ~ , . ' , , ~ , . ' ould not be possinated as ( üba is u w un-nU «i. , * 11 r ■ permit the strateble for this countrv 9 , i,„ r , . • ~ ■’ any foreign gic abuse ot the b H . . ■ , .... ~ °r this reason that military power. It is . . 1 "e been imposed certam Inmtatmns J Hry n;bl naval nr ’“ liC1 ; p, UCP(lc(i bv hcl . (0 the stations h»Y been c< negoti ations as to S , !1 ” naval stations are | the det.-uH ot t’lest , tioil Th( , y ;|rp R(J m 11 ro''."' ’l‘ot there I b- 1 1 <l.l to use them against IS h. mu-rm eve, hll;i fi(l . lh(1 I . l1 '' 1 '." 1 . ' ' 1 ■' ls eb e assaults of foreign ■on o, ( üba from t^ t te r safeguarding of toes, ami tor the bi; , . ' n tue waters south Aim riean mt. rests ; i °f us - « ~ . o' ! o Cub 1. —, " ' ° !: <un largely in- ' 1 ’‘inenees of the war) I ’‘l ?■'’ . ' ? 1 ' ' be still further in- ) ) \ n ' '■ ’ u g of the isthmian <'<> . 9 ’ ’ 'n’h’f h military and ceon- ' I cam;!. my are bo; ns b , , üba of | , mme. ihe grontmi , lb ., V( . ;is i I ! ‘ I amm from a military ■Ot the utmost imp- I . , . , . I l ■ o- ‘->e good faith । standpoint and > pr 1 tre -i" ’ Cub- ■ with which <'n!:; ■ ' /' i . , x nor indc- । . ' I She has ad- j 1-’-' ; w. ly . s.. ni -1 I r '7 !; ' IB A- I- 1 ' s l ls : I pubhi'S of l ie Nt'wT . ~ . , , I ■- U’cns to us: and ally observing her -h , tn atment bv us. she is entitled to lib.n. The tromy „ t bmi| , d < I prn ' ' 1 ? grrot ns’those Xm Oimc N S ;>s 1 V ....x , • I . j D»• <> I*, i ( üban 1 , urn J ..I ieero If is m:U1 ” : ' ' ■’ ■Si.' ", M mir doors-, which I amm up. h:. .hiuh ' nuiH » ' j i!n l'" !t >’ ' ■ s’ * 4,e indeed short- I ) P -' । u '' T ,' ' t;ke ndvnu- ; .sightf.Mor u< t- i-Hty mid to force I ”, ' ... ■ < Ub I BU '> TH' v . ~ „ . - «!■-- -

This i^r L by if -’f It is demip tied or * J>: k d national .policy * ' ‘ <ls by " ? tr isic interest. Jt w‘l ; 1 harm to mi industry. It will l- 'iu-ii, industries. It is in ti ■ uiier' • D "' I ” P l ' 'pb* as a wboh. :i I" - iihpoj • in, from the try a! •: us international policy ar. l 1 ' ■" ecor. .mii-ally it intimately >■: r Ils b> develop and secure the rich Un bnn i .rket for our farmers, ar r I'rclmn;,. !nanu . fart are i< Final.. bsH-.y,. J(s a guaranty of th? g<" < 1 faith > f < nr nation ton . rds her V' i: * r 1 üblic to t! e s >’.ith. whose wolfrrf , mu-' ever be clos.dy bound with out " s’ve l:er lib rty. We .are knit to Fir t’-c men ri , of the blood and the <•. f>”rage of -mr so’diers who fought f ir her B' ' ' v;!r; by the memories of the wi .d-u | land inp-grity of m-r administrators who I saved her in ppaie and who started 1< . d <s ” '' ell on the difficult path ot self g• ‘ ''mmi'u:. \\ a must help her onwnt.! • r r ' '’pward: and in helping her we -'.null I help mirselvts. The foregoimt t'blcr • thms <-msed th- noirm mtio:. , ■ t W'’vy with Cuba and :1s i ntifiv.itimi 1 ■ *■ Semite. They now with equal for y support the legis- ; lati n by • ('o;o 'ss which by the terms of tie- treat} neies: ary to ren- I dir it operative. A fFtH’tre to enact such leaislat: : would • • | c 1 erilously near a r. ] -di:' Ui of th- : r-vdged faith of the nation. t, I transmit herox ‘th the treaty, as amended by the So "de and ratified by the Cuban governn 1 THEDDDD I ”. ROOSEVELT. Interesting e'^ws Items. Die wati '' workslijuine’ nt Cleveland, Ohio, that has 11 st Kl Lv lives and millions of p moy. ha^ been opened after years of work. , While delirious. y[«rgnret McFarland, ’ a typhoid fever patp lll !!1 St. Luke’s , hospital. Duluth, leaf I ’’} from a fourth- ■ storv window and wi y uistantly killed.

BlVl.i »» IHU'-O I 1 < '• i ’ The plasterers*.,at Minneapolis, Minn., is ope * — j n standpoint, and with throe evc^sk ' every plasterer in the city is a memhei union. Samuel Hum hi, a '■tor. was instnntly killed and hi ^ OI1 ‘ Mattie Fitzsimmons. -erously injured in a suburb o land. They were driving and w ‘uck by the flyer on the Erie rotu^o^ Thomas Lucas, a- o-year-oid colored boy of Brooklyn. 111.. s a prisoner charged with killing his tepfather, Charles Anderson, also coioro a £ed 40 years. i The production o the play, “Jesse James, the Bandit by a company filling an engagemer.Ut the Auditorium . Theater, in Lincoln ’ ,e R- was stopped i by order of Chief of 'hee Routzahan. George Grace, ag t ! ^- whose parents reside at Lake Conti near St. Joseph, Mo., was killed in runaway, lie fell from a seat and his |«t leg was caught between the spokes a tvheel and torn off. L Jerry Gallivan. a finer who lived southeast of Warre^nnL Mo., drove over the edge of a cyFt ar *d overturning his wagon, fell a ditch below ami broke his neck. W n s him instantly. Adam Copier. Jr.. jSident of the firm of A. Cupler, Jr.. & manufacturers of nitro-glycerin am 3 well supplies, was instantly killed East Titusville, Pa., by the accident explosion of ten quarts of the high eP s * ve - An unknown man. airently about GO years of age. was s^ by the southbound Santa Fe parser train while jon the Cow Creek' "ste- about two ' < miles north of Pittsbb Kan., and sus- ■ ) tained injuries from he died. 1

EXTRA SESSION IS ON. . CONGRESS MEETS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PROCLAMATION. First Day Devoted to Social Greetings and Organization —Largest Membership in tlie History of the House Is in Attendance. Washington correspondence:

HE Fifty-eighth Congress convened in extraordinary session at noon Monday in accordance with the proclamation of President Roosevelt tor the purpose of enacting legislation necessary’ to make effective the Cuban <|? reciprocity treaty. Tlie day wtis de- ~ voted simply to personal greetings “ft and organization. The House assembled the largest

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® ‘ membership in its history, and the scene before the gavel fell in that body was one of animation both on the floor, in the cloak rooms and in the lobbies ami corridors.

Crowds of engei^speeWffl^fm^immi? and women, thronged the corridors and ' rotunda of the capitol early in the day, and the galleries, to which admission ’ was had by carl only, were taxed to their capacity long before the hour for assembling arrived. Many high officials of the government left their desks at the departments to witness the opening of the session and greet their legislative friends. Many strangers in Washing- ——————— — | v V ’X A " '' i & A . A-"'. ‘ - sr- AKi n CAXXON. ton had their first glimpse of Congress, j while the < : pitol was the Mecca of the Washingtoni.-in. I’roceedings it, the Senate, W ith galleries crowded, with the chamber a mass of elaborate floral trib- I Utes and nearly every Senator in his i seat, the gave! of President pro tern. Fry sounded at imm, calling t'le Senate to- I gether in the second extraordinary ses- i , sion of the Fifty eighth Congress. The •.pei n, s ssion <>f tlie Sop-to " •.-in- I s | t\ -seventh < '.mgr'" - .km. . . .. the routine worx which dberwise woutu ; bnve be. ■ 1 a-' o . ’ M mday. New’ Sen- 1

. ■ atois t,.,d g, no tl:io i_h the formality of । taxing oaths of office, seats had been assigned and nith the exception of the appointment m some vacancies all func- , twins of the organization has been com- ( plied with. Mope ti.an two hours before the Sen- । ate was calb J. to order the galleries were tilled up with early arrivals. Happy occupation was found in watching the , Work of pages and messengers placing the ci mst ant ]y arriving floral offerings tp"n toe ।. . ... of Senators. Senator 11.inn.i's pi- norn . .] victory in the Ohio election won for fin; what was one of the most ।,r<*t entiolls tier. I designs ever se,-n in t e St nr ■ o—a shield three and a half by fmr atid a half feet of blue immortt t's. in w aich was W'roucht out of t’alifornia gra-5,.?. ribbons and red. wl :e and blue imniortidles the design of the Amer; -.ti! eagle identical with that on a silver quarter of a dollar. Senator Gorman’s triumph in the Maryland eh "lieu was recognized by the largest t!< ral piece, a handsome wreath more than two feet in diamcier. with a cro-sed cluster of r”<es, carnations and clir.vsantlieinums as the base. Itoingx in the House. The llou<e of Repros, ntaiivcs con-' I vened at m.m in extraordinary session. I The session wu< fid! interest to the i spectator, likewise to the new members, but to the veteran it was only a routine i proceeding. The fact that a speaker was to be elected and that this was ths first session of a new Congress added to the interest that Usually attaches to an opening day. Long before the hour of noon, when the g ivel fell, the galley- i ies were tilled, women being largely in ' the majority. Many more were disap- I pointed, holders of cards of admission even being among this number. Among the spectators were public officers, diplomats and a great many out-of-town vis- i itors. During the hour or two prior to the I opening members kept co ning in. The I

I leaders of both sides wore early on the scene. Old friends and associates met a~d chatted. New membr>r« were introduced to their colleagues. The hum proi duced by conversations going on in all | parts of the House grew louder and i louder as the hour hand on the big clock approached 12. First of importance among the day.s events was the election of Mr. Cannon as Speaker, next was the । swearing in of the members and the | drawing for seats. The floral display in the Speaker’s lobby was never more elaborate. The popular members on both sides were remem- | bered by friends in lavish fashion. As ! the seats of members would not be determined until after the drawing the flowers were deposited in the lobby. । The bright colors of smart gowns, the flowers and other scenes usual on a first day lent picturesqueness to the occasion. Many familiar figures of the last Congress wore missed, some retiring voluntarily, others failing of re-election and' a few going to the Senate. Labor Notes. There were 252 strikes in Austria last year, involving 36,304 work people. Os these there were successful. 71; partlv successful. 68; failed, 95; result unknown in 18 cases. Elevator constructors from all over the country have held a convention in New York ( ity, formed an international union and decided to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. Brockton, Mass., Shoe Stitchers’ Union is by far the largest local of the Boot and Shoe Workers in the United States or Canada. It has a total membership of over 3,000 and an income of SIOO a day. j

INDIANS ARE UGLY. Already Two Fights in 'WyomingSeveral White* and Indians Killed. The greatest concern prevails in Wyoming and elsewhere in the Northwest over the present outbreak on the part of

the Indians, the outcome of which no man can prognosticate with any degree of certainty. Already two fatal fights have taken place and that there are conflicts to come b.eforc tlie reds are all back on their reservations is certain. The temper * of even those Indians who are on

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the reservations is savage. anil the younger men are spoiling for a fight.' In order to understand the situation one should have a map of the Northwest before him as he reads. For many years it has been the habit of the Indians to journey back and forth in the fall between the Sioux reservation at Pine Ridge, in South Dakota, the Wind River reservation in central Wyoming, and the Crow reservation in southern Jlontana. These traveling Indians have always left behind them a trail of carcasses of elk, deer and other wild game, and the authorities have been unable to put a stop | to the slaughter. In addition to the wild j game, the Indians have not hesitated to

I 7 to the ranchmen as came in their way. This has led to great bitterness on the part of the whites, and on more than one occasion there have been narrow escapes from fatal conflicts. For some time a band of Indians from South Dakoja have been hunting in Converse County, Wyoming, and ranchmen were angry because they slaughtered cattle as well as game. Settlers warned the reds to get out of the State, but the Indians only laughed at them and said that the government had so reduced their rations that they must hunt meat or starve during the coming winter I Finally Sheriff W. IL Miller organized a I posse and set out in search of the In- ; dians. The posse came upon the Indian | camp on Beaver creek, but it was de- । serted by all save the squaws and chil- . dren. The Squaws were busy preserving . meat for winter. The entire camp was j arrested and sent to Newcastle in charge {of Lieut. Hilton. Then the posse set j out in search of the braves. They were located on Lightning creek, just at dusk. Sherif! Miller tried to have the Indians submit to arrest quietly, but they refused. They were under the leadership of Eagle Feather, a graduate of ( arlisle, abd Black Kettle, a noted warrior. hen the sheriff finally called oil Eagle Feather to surrender he refused and Black Kettle suddenly raised his I rille and shot the sheriff, killing him. 1 Members ot the posse then opened fire ! and shot down Black Kettle. For a time , the ensuing tight was a hot one. Both sides sought cover and the redskins held their ground in the darkness until Eagle I 1 eather was shot in both legs. Then they stole away one at a time and the whole party set out in the direction of ) the Bad Lands in South Dakota. Besides Sheriff Miller. Deputy Sherif! M aulkenburg was killed, being fehot in the neck and bleeding to death. Several braves besides Black Kettle were killed and a number, including the wounded Eagle 1' eather. were taken prisoners, "he whites sent couriers for help and ^ped for the night, guarding their As soon ns possible Sheriff John Ow-

f ens of Newcastle organized another ,_ posse and set out to intercept the fleeing e reds before they could get to the Bad .. Lands, where they would be comparatively safe from pursuit. Once in the Bad Lands the reds could bide and return one by one to the reservations and > it would be almost impossible to identify . . them. ’ , Dn Monday came the report that ; Sheriff McDermott with still another < pose hud had a severe fight with a • band of Indians near the Horseshoe > Ranch about fifty miles east of where Saturday’s fight took place. It was reParted that ten of the Indians were kill ed and nine taken prisoners, and that none of the pos-e was gijured. Gnly the influence of the older men. who realize the folly of war, keeps the younger braves who are yet on the reservations from leaving ami joining their : brethren who are r mining at liberty and : who may almost Le said to be oil the j warpath. I Ts® Why, Mr. Blatt! You giddy old thing. I \\ all street fashion note: Steel trust' dividends will be cut low this season. As to the steel trust, even its preferred stock has become almost too common. As to the other battleships, the Missouri proceeded to “show them’’ her heels. , It appears that the arbitrators handed Canada a chunk of ice instead of acres of the same. Probably Japan's “Monroe doctrine” is

known by a much longer and hardei . name than that. • Though the first snow in New York fell at Plattsburg it is safe to say that Tom was not there. Apparently it has not occurred to the Czar to leave that far-eastern dispute tc ; The Hague tribunal. However, we do not believe Mr. Rocke feller will ever succeed in getting any ol I Lncl“ Russell Sage’s. Mr. Heinze has done more to attract attention to Butte than any other person since Mary MacLlane. The more time Russia and Japan can devote to counting the cost the less likely will they be to go to war. Japan has a “.•Jonroe doctrine’’ cover ing the ease of Corea; but possibly Rus sia has something of the kind also. It appears from the verdict that the Hon. Jim Tillman outlawyered the people of the State of South Carolina. Mr. Reagan of Texas, who thinks th< United States is going to pot, had tin same kind of a think about forty years ago. Wall street says it’s sorry, but wail till tho lambs begin to frisk about one. more and see whether it has lost its tast. fer mutton. One thing that hampers the spread oi the Balfour propaganda is that near!, all the Balfour party appears to be ii the cabinet. The Alaska boundary decision give Uncle Sam possession of Chilkoot, Ska guay, Chilcat, Dyea and several othe equally interesting places. He alread had Puyallup, Snohomish, Wallula, Ya Uma, Steilacoom, Issaquah, Chehalis Whatcom and Conconully.

mJNXNCIAL' UE ~ “i R. G. Dun & Go.'i Ne\7 IGK I Weekly Revie of Tradd — says: Unseasonably mild leather is making it possible f<>r farmers io secure much late grain and cotton that seemed doomed by early frost, but on the other hand trade is dull in heavy wearing apparel, fuel ami many lines that should now be vigorous. While in the long run this business may be made up and the nation xvill be be stited by the increased crops, the immediate effect is unfavorable. Manufacturing activity has increased at cotton mills and several minor industries, but in iron and steel thero are more idle furnaces am! mills. Bunding permits are decreasing, and structural work is not prosecuted xvith the vigor that was seen last year. Lumber is firm, despite the nmderate demand. The railways continue prosperous, earnings for October surpassing last year's i»y 6.2 > per cent. 1 Disappointment has been experienced > by those who believed that quotations

A_- T - J Kr iron mJ, ~tem xyo4m go ~r -mas are maintains - So S for stau . ] . u . J umg lt. tm? railroads constantly placing st,lad orders. Reports of extensive export sales are heard and contradicted, but it is certain this branch of trade is reviving as prices become more attractive to 1, , ign consumer.-. 1 threatening disturbaii'-e in the labor situation and restored equanimity xx here there was probability of serious in’. "Are’: to business. The se of outdoor work is nmv well advanced and there will he the usual release of help but this xvill affect only a m .derate number of skilled hands. Aside from implement makers, indications arc that most factories will ruil f u li throughout the winter, and the steel mills are assured full employment. Demand for Im-n ice products and finished iron is curtailed, due principally t o j.-u-ge consmners no,'ding off f,, r lower prices. Reported cuff. in finished materials and a reduction in price of rails wiii encourage the early initiation of much heavy worn for some time past hel l in aboyan. i'. Giain shipments, including 2.(1.80.798 bushels of corn. aggregate 4.907,588 bushels, and are 26 per cent over the correspond.ing xvoek of 1902. Agricultural advices are satisfactory as to condition of winter wheat and farm work. 'ppiies o! wheat are gaining in the Northwest and millers are enabled to increase the output. Export demand for breadstuffs is liglpor and prices tend lower. Compared xvith last week's closing wheat declined 2"« cents. Corn advanced %c and oats unchanged. Live stock receipts. 368.509 head, are 8 per cent over a year ago. Bank clearings. $178,363,113, are 6.02 per cent over a vear ago. International's Report. Special telegraphic reports from correspondents of the International Mercantile Agency throughout the United States and Canada regarding the state of trade are summarized as follows: -inL'Hweution of_o!eoHons in eleven States, xvith a xvei kof mild xwither h-’s " '

t smwed to Hie.-k reI . IH , ‘ , file goods, notably clothing and millinery, ] but a canvass of leading jobbers in qa- . plc lines at important cities indicates , that the season's total business is somewhat in excess of expectations. । In financial circles features have Lorz the ease with which the Wall street stock market resists shock, the ease with which gold was engaged for import after the first flush of cotton expori bills and the increased firmness of mom-v at the West, vv'here. as Chicago bankers s-^ continued tension is promised for tlie next four weeks. The cotton crop, representing .$109,000,000 more than t’nt of last year, even if no I rgcr. points to further financial drafts to market it w (hicago—Cattle, common to lu-ime, $3.00 to .-5.50; hogs, shipping gr les, Fx.oO to .50.20; sheep, fair to choice. $2.25 to $3.30: wheat, No. 2 red. 78c to 79c; corn. No. 2,43 cto 44c; oats, standard, 36c to 37c; rye, No. 2. 35c to 56.-. hay, timothy, SS.o() to $12.00; prairie, $6.90 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery. 18c to 21c; eggs, fresh. 20c to 23e; potatoes, oOc to 62c. ( Indianapolis—-Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to so.l. >; hogs, choice light. s4,<: i to 55.15; sheep, common to prime. $2.5 • to $3.25; wheat, No. 2. 83c to 84c: corn. No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 white 36c to 37c. St. Louis—Cattle. $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, $4..i0 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $3.60; wheat, No. 2. 85c to SGc; corn. No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2,34 cto 33c; rye. No. 2. 53e to 54c. Cim-innnti—Cattle. $4.25 $4.G5; hogs. $4.00 to $5.35; sheep, $2.60 to whe:t, A<i, 2,83 cto x.;.-; corn

•i No. 2 mixed. 45c io 46c; oats. No. 2 mixed, ooc to ; rye, i.o. g. tide to j rreix-,/'■^-■Ta—-t $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, $2.50 to 83.66; wheat. No. 2. 86c to S7c; corn. No 3 e yellow. 46c to 48c; oats. No. white, 37c io 38c: rye. No. 2,56 cto 57c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 northern, 79c Io SOe; corn. No. 3. 44c to 45-; oats’ . NV 2 white. 37c to 38c; rye. No. 1, 55 c ' to 56c: barley. No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork mess. $11.25. I Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixed 84c to । SGc; corn. No. 2 mixed. 47c to 48c- oats No. 2 mixed. 37c to 3Sc; rye. No. 2. 54c i to 56c; clover seed, prime. $6.52. Buffalo -Cattle, choice shipping ste rs s4.;>o to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime. $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice. $3.25 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice. $4.00 to $5.40. New York —Cattle. 34.00 to $5.25; hogs. $4.00 to $5.25: sheep. $3.00 to s3.7'q udwat. No. 2 red. 84c to 85c; corn, No. 2,56 cto 51c: oats.. No. 2 white,’ 42c to 43e: butter, creamery, 18c to 22c; eggs, western. 25c to 29c. This on<i That. A pickpocket at Madrid abstracted a wallet containing 1.700.C03 pesetas (about $328,100) from the pocket of a millionaire farmer from Granada. John Joseph Shea, who rowed in the Dauntless eight which won the World’s Fair championship regatta at Detroit in 1893, is dead in New York. Wilber Perry Guenther, aged 54 years a proofreader known in many cities, committed suicide by inhaling illuminating -as in Philadelphia, Pa. He had been despondent owing to ill health. Guenrher was a native of Champaign County, Illinois.