Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 March 1904 — Page 2

I .It. INDIANA. CIRCLING THE GLOBE Fire at Faulkton, S. D.. destroyed ten business buildings, including the Mer chants’ Bank, two general stores, two drug stores, a meat market, two restau rants, two residences and the ieiophone office. Loss about S4S.(HR), insurance about $22,006. Bowing his acknow lodgments to the great crowd that had cheered his agile thrust, Fuco, a matador, was fatally gored at Juarez, Mexico, by a dying bull. I'he animal impaled the man on his , horns, while women fainted and maddened men cheered. W. R. Barksdale Camp. United Confederate Veterans, of Granada, Miss., lias started a crusade against lynchings and adopted resolutions tippealing to all Confederates, their wives and daughters, to w ork to put a stop to the "diabolical, inhuman and ungodly crime of burning human beings." The twelve jurors in the Dewey, McBride and Wilson triple murder case, who returned a verdict of not guilty, were hanged in effigy at Norton, Kan. The twelve figures, each bearing the name of a man, were left hanging from trees in the court house yard. The veiA new plan for the Northern Securities Company has been announced by James J. Hill as a stock dividend of 91) per cent, through the distribution of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern stocks held by the merger. In the stock market the shares of these roads and Union and Southern Pacific advanced on huge purchases, which are not explained. It is rumored that former President Policarpo Bonilla of Honduras has been tried by court-martial and sentenced to be shot to death. He was arrested and thrown into prison last, month with several other members of the chamber of deputies, it being charged that a plot against the government of President Manuel Bonilla was hatching among them. Stockholders of the Chicago, Kock Island and Pacific Railway Company voted in favor of the $163,600,666 bond issue, and indorsed the lease of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad and the purchase of the following lines: Minneapolis and St. Paul Terminal. Choctaw, Oklahoma and Western, Searcy and Desare, and the Hazen and Northern. After three hours’ run the Orange Growers’ National Bank in Riverside, Cal., closed and the directors announced that H. T. Hays, former cashier, had embezzled $105,000. A warrant was issued for him and the run resulted. The directors said they had arranged to make up the amount and the bank would resume as soon as arrangements could be perfected. BREVITIES. Eugene Carey, prominent insurance man of Chicago, dropped dead while at a banquet in St. Louis. In Vicksburg. Miss.. William McNeal, white, has been convicted by a white jury and sentenced to be hanged for an attack on a colored girl. James McGee, aged 15. who was stolen two years ago by gypsies, has just made his escape and returned to his , Borne in Millville, N. J. The car department of the Santa Fe Railroad shops at Albuquerque, N. M„ has been destroyed by tire. One hundred men are thrown out of employment. A Welsh regiment of 600 men was in open mutiny at Howick. Natal, while en route to Durban for embarkation, and the soldiers raided grogshops and stores. In a quarrel over exchanging tobocco at Lee's Landing. Ky., Henry Stucker, Jr., was shot and killed by Richard Crofton, an engineer. Crofton tied to Indiana. A. W. Colgate of Morristown. Mass., a wealthy soap manufacturer. 65 years old. dropped dead as he was about to enter the residence of a friend in Pasadena, Cal. Five persons were seriously injured, one probably fatally, by the derailment of a west-bound passenger train on the Central Vermont Railroad, near Cambridge, Vt. A circular has been sent out to the trade by the United States Rubber Company announcing an advance of 7 per cent on all classes of rubber footwear, to take effect immediately. Cool head and prompt action on the part of Captain Bradford of the battleship Illinois saved his ship from being sunk, with great loss of life, in the recent collision with the battleship Missouri. Miss Annette M. Dye. a linguist in the bureau of animal industry. Agricultural Department, Washington, committed suicide by shooting. Grief over the death of her mother is supposed to have caused the act. The body of John Maynard, a negro, was found hanging to a telegraph pole at Montgomery Station, Texas. Maynard was one of a party of negroes who robbed several Bohemians and after beating them killed one. State Senator Travis Henderson, candidate for the nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Texas, has issued a public statement charging that the books of the State Auditor show that Si 500,000 . f school funds has been lost. Gen. Wood reported that the allied \ dattos in the Island of Jolo drove the recalcitrant datto Pangliman Hassan, the last of the hostile Moro leaders, from the place where he had been hiding since his defeat near Siet Lake. Mrs. Edward Willingham and Seph Crook, white, and Jake Dyer, colored, are dead; Newt Clements fatally wounded and Percy Benton seriously wounded as the result of two running fights held with deputy constables on one side, and Dyer and West Streit, colored, on the other, near Bessemer, Ala. The Pacific Steel Company, with a capital stock of $160,060,660, has been incorporated at San Diego, Cal. The company will make ships, locomotives, cars and armor plate. The directorate includes C. W. French of Cleveland and coast men. In Wichita, Kan., the federal grand jury returned six indictments against Kansas City and Kentucky wholesale liquor dealers who are charged with violation of the prohibitory law of Kansas or local bption laws of Texas, The method complained of is the snipping of liquors to fictitious persons and then allowing express agents to dispose of the packages to anyone who wants them. Henry Williams, a negro, was hanged in Roanoke, Va., in the presence of a crowd that thronged the streets and jail yard. During his trial he was guarded bj eighteen companies of militia. He confessed many criminal assaults and the murder of several women

EASTERN. The Maryland Senate has passed the bill appropriating $250,000 to relieve the destitution caused by the Baltimore fire. Delegate William G. Kerbin of Worcester County, who has been pushing the "Jim Crow" bill in the Maryland Legislature, has been boycotted by negroes. Gov. Warlndd of Maryland has approved the two so-called "Jim Crow" bills relating to railroad and steamboat travel in the State, and the acts will go into effect. A resolution was adopted by (he Now J oik Chicago good roads convention at I rie, Pa., favoring a national highway between the two cities byway of Cleveland and Toledo. Receivers have been appointed for William 11. Scott, trading us "Great Scott. ' one of the largest retail furniture dealers at Baltimore. The receivers' bond was fixed at $300,000. Peter F. Dunne and the Whitney estate have sold the New York Morning Telegraph, devoted to sporting and theatrical news, to E. R. Thomas, son of the late Gen. Samuel Thomas. The postoffice at Mount Washington, Md., was blown open by dynamite, but the discovery was not made until the next morning. The robbers took all the money and stamps in the safe, about S3OO. In a wreck in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad yards at. Locust Point, Md., William H. Bremmar, brakeman, was killed. Charles Kaufman, brakeman, fatally injured and Albert Yager, conductor. seriously injured. ^_W,iHiain _R- o> Gyace, former Mayor of New York and a wealthy citizen, died of pneumonia. He was in his 72d year. William Russell Grace was born at Queenstown, Cork. Ireland, May 10, 1832, and had a varied career. The plant of the Bayway Refining Company in Elizabethport, N. J., was destroyed by fire. The flames spread to the plant of the Pennsylvania and Delaware Oil Company, and the warehouse and part of the dock were burned. The loss is SIOO,OOO. John M. Peters, son of a Brooklyn manufacturer, who was found near his father's factory last November with two bullet wounds in his head, has been discharged from the hospital in better health than ever, but with one of the bullets still in his brain. Charles Brown, an inmate of the New Jersey State prison, committed suicide in his cell at that institution and John Brown, another convict, was badly injured in a fight with a fellow prisoner. Charles Brown was serving a five-year sentence for horse stealing. WESTERN. James McDonald pleaded not guilty to the murder of Sarah Schafer at Bedford, Ind., and his trial was set for May 16. James Walters, the San Francisco bellboy who stole the diamonds of Baroness von Horst, has been sentenced to five years in State prison. Chauncey Dewey and his two cowboys, Clyde Wilson and William J. McBride, were acquitted of the murder of Burchard Berry at Norton, Kan. Fire destroyed barns of the Union Traction Company at Division street and Western avenue. Chicago, causing a loss of $160,000, and incendiarism is hinted at President Roosevelt has decided as a result of the disclosures of the Senator Dietrich case to remove W. S. Summers, | United States District Attorney for Ne- । braska. O. C, Horton, a Chicago and Alton engineer, was married the other day in overalls in St. Louis and started with his bride on a honeymoon to Chicago in an engine cab. Five unknown tramps, who were stealing a ride, were killed in a freight wreck on thg Colorado and Southern Railroad at Mayne, Colo. The accident was caused by a broken rail. Henry Heusack. who was arrested on suspicion, has been held by the coroner's jury for the murder of his father-in law. August Raphael, who was killed at St. Louis with a hatchet. Henry T. Thurber, a well-known attorney of Detroit, who was secretary of President Cleveland during his second term, died Thursday. He was operated on for appendicitis two weeks before, James Walters, former bellboy in the Colonial Hotel, San Francisco, who stole the diamonds of Baroness von Horst and was arrested in Minneapolis, was sentenced to serve five years in State prison. Bishop Louis Maria Fink of the Leavenworth diocese of the Catholic Church, died at his home in Kansas City. Kan., of pneumonia. He had been hovering between life and death for several days. Prairie fires, started by a spark from a locomotive, burned over 40.000 acres of range land in the vicinity of Heining way. Neb. Several ranchmen have been burned out and many head of stock destroyed.

Though he had eight suits of the best of tailor-made clothes, several pairs of fine shoes, with gloves, walking sticks and a bank account, Charles F. Parker is under arrest in Cleveland as a common beggar. The St. Louis board of police commissioners will prefer charges against a sergeant and seven patrolmen for neglect of duty and disobedience of orders in connection with the disturbances at the Democratic primaries. An explosion of a gas tank in a restaurant owned by Cropper Brothers in Pittsburg, Kan., injured six persons, three of them seriously, and caused a property loss of $5,000. The entire building was wrecked. David Carroll, aged 36 years, shot and' killed Anna Maxwell, a 16-year-old girl, and then killed himself at Nemaha, Neb. Carroll was employed by Miss Maxwell’s father as a farm hand. Carroll is said to have been a rejected suitor. James Baxter at Omaha has found that James B. Kitchen, president of the Kitchen Brothers Hotel Company, conducting the Paxton Hotel, owes the minority stockholders $150,060, and will appoint a receiver for the property. After experimenting many years a grower at Grand Junction. Colo., claims to have developed a method of growing seedless apples which is destined to revolutionize the apple industry, just as the seedless orange revolutionized orange growing. Drafts and checks representing many thousands of dollars, sent in two mail pouches from Memphis to St. Louis, have mysteriously disappeared. Postoffice officials say the pouches were routed via Hoxie, Ark., where a transfer of mail is made. After telling his friends in Chicago that lie was going to his boyhood home, Harry Hudson of that city went to Cincinnati, where he committed suicide in a hotel where he had registered under an assumed name. Drink is said to have been the cause of Hudson's trouble. Four men entered the office of the W. J. Morgan Lithograph Company in Cleveland and engaged the cashier, the only employe present, in conversation. A moment later, while the cashier was answering a telephone call, supposed to have been made by a confederate near

I by, the men secured between SI,OOO and $l,lOO from the safe and quickly disappeared. There is no clew to the identity of the thieves. Edwin ( aid well, a wealthy farmer of Laporte County, Ind., died Friday, hav ; ing hiccoughed himself to death. He was ! stricken the previous Monday and the physicians were unable to account for I his condition. He hiccoughed without ; cessation until death ended his intense । agony. The British submarine boat No. Al I was run down and sunk off The Nab lightship by a Donal Currie liner, and eleven men were drowned, including Lieut. Mansergh, rhe senior officer cngrged in submarine work. The liner passed on and reported that she had struck a torpedo. Louis 11. Mott was hanged in Missoula, Mont., for the murder of his wife, at whom he became enraged last January because she sold his laundry business while he was absent. Lemoine Mott, a wealthy miller of Des Moines, c? pen led wealth and influence trying to save Mott, who was his nephew. An infernal machine exploded outside the residence of Commissioner of Police Laurent in Liege. Belgium, wrecking the house, fatally injuring an artillery offict. Major Papin, and seriously wounding halt a dozen other persons. There is no clew to the perpetrators of the outrage. Andrew Carnegie’s gift of $50,000 to Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio, is said to be in recognition of Edwin M. Stanton's kindness to Mr. Carnegie years ago, Mr. Stanton having been an alumnus of the college. The money will be inWto Sna bTislt tile 'LTUvoiCf?. '^tanrofi'chair of economics. Representatives of the miners and operators of the competitive district of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and western Pennsylvania met at the headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America in Indianapolis and signed the scale agree-

ment. which was ratified by the miners in a referendum vote. Gov. Herrick of Ohio has signed the Chapman bill abolishing spring elections and it is now a law. The terms of all । elective municipal officers which would j have expired in April are extended until | after the elections next November. A 1 constitutional amendment providing that I all State and county officers' terms shall j expire in the odd years will be submitted j to a vote of the people in 1905. Fifty buildings are partly wrecked. । one man is mortally wounded and several others hurt, the town is in darkness j and the streets strewn with debris as the . result of a tornado and hailstorm which ; struck Higginsville. Mo., Monday after noon. The hail on the streets was a foot deep withip live minutes after the storm came. The mortally wounded man is John Hotzen. The financial loss is said to be $40,000. Two other towns in that section were in the path, of the storm anil are said to be considerably damaged. They are Corder and Alma. The residence of George Gayer. one of i the jurors in the trial of the Chicago j car barn bandits, was set afire by a sup- I posed incendiary, who has written Mr. ‘ Caver threatening letters for voting to convict the robber trio. Mr. Gayer lives at 5955 Loomis street. On receipt of r. letter threatening him and his family with death by dynamiting their home. Mr. ( ayer and his wile went to live with friends. At 11:36 o’clock the other night Patrick Leonard discovered the Caver house on fin*. The lire marshal, on Ids arrival, found positive evidence of an incendiary. As the result o' the testimony given ; before the committee on privileges and j elections nt Washington, S(H) young Mor- ' mons in Salt Lake have formed a secret organization to enforce in the church the pledges given at the tunc that Utah was admitted to the union. The organization will deliver an ultimatum at the April conference of the Mormons Unless President Joseph F. Smith and other leading Mormon priests will agree t<> 1 cense living with their plural wives, theieby violating the law. the members

will withdraw from the church. The organization is spremling rapidly and tuny number a thousand or more wU 11 the conference meets in April. FOREIGN. While entering Port Arthur the Rus sinn torpedo boat destroyer Snorri struck upon an unplaced mine ami was blown up. Onlx four of the crew were saved. The United States cruiser (’iiieim .ti. arriving nt Chefoo. reports that 300 Rus- ' sinus encountered 2<"> Japanese near I’ing-Yang, Korea, and t at he Japanese were annihilated. Tne Novosti of St. P< •• ■ 4nn g de dares that the real secret of the British Tibetan expedition i> the discovery of j immensely rich gold deposits. Tibet being. in fact, a second ('alifornia. Forty-four prisoners in K ..1 have been put to death in three nights by the sword or noose, ami the powers may interfere in the wholesale slaughter which the government has adopted to dear its prisons. The Russian squadron blew its way through the ice at Vladivostok and departed for an unknown destination. The Port Arthur fleet, in an effort to join its northern ally, sighted Admiral Togo’s vessels and returned to harbor. A so has been born to the Prince and Princess David Kawananakoa, at Hono Inlu. The boy is the first male heir of i the Kalakana line to be born for many i years, and if the monarchy were still in ; existence he would be heir apparent to ; the Hawaiian throne. IN GENERAL. The weekly trade reviews of Dun and Bradstreet find much encouragement-in. . business conditions throughout the country. Leonard Wood has been confirmed as a major general in the Senate by a vote of 45 to 16. A Washington correspon- I dent says this surprisingly large majority sweeps away all charges against him. Hobart S. Bird, formerly of Madison. Wis., who acquired sixty-two libel suits while running a newspaper in Porto i Rico, has arrived in New Y’ork and relates his experiences in reform work. After a search extending through several centuries and entailing the expenditure of many thousands of dollars the fabulous treasure buried in the time of tbe Incas and valued at $16,606,600 has just been discovered by a group of British and American engineers, according to reports brought to New York by a South American official. Piesider.t Roosevelt has introduced a service pension plan of his own, which greatly relieved Congress of dealing with the troublesome question. An order was issued by Pension Commissioner Ware and signed by Mr. Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior, establishing a system of service pensions, the cost of which probably will be betw-een $15,660,600 and $20,000,000 for the first year. If there is no contrary evidence, and all other legal requirements have been met. claimants under the general act of June 27, IS9O, who are over 62 years old, will be considered as disabled one-half in ability to perforin manual labor, and will be given $6 a month; if over 65 years, $8; over 68 years, $lO, and over 70, sl2. The order goes into effect April 13.

I I JURY SETS DE' J FREE. I Trial of Millionaire K „ ... ~ , . ~ as Cattleman Ends in Y crdict < i At Norton. Kan.. for twentv-eight and aha .. . , ; ... jiours the jury 1 brought in a verdict ac . CballU( .„ y ■ I,e " ev n "'''.',7 Civile Wil- • son and \\ dhnm J L of lhe murder of Burchard! This pnds . one of the most famol-'. u tbe prim . mal annals ot Kanstlj wbipb at „ m . time threatened to I ay armpd up . rising m the cattle J So strong was the feeling ngaf ; and bis men that the Gover I at one tbnP L.reed to call out I wiHtia t 0 | prevent hostilities b<l he riv;U sac . | tions. “ A few years ago Cha ml, Dew( , v ar | rived m Kansas from Ch’ Hc ba(l Plenty of money and at L pstablis | lel i a large ranch m Commie^,,, v bny . | mg several thousand ndl of land nnd surrounding it with wii^, tiers in the neighborE< did ^t j ook upon his enterprise with r He bail money and they had no d ' lbvv rt . al .. ed that he would evenly dl . V( ', tbeUl out of the country by f ]all (b „ unoccupied land on wl» ‘ . urn/ed their cattle and *'l^, "f. A i anv tunes his fences we’“ , . . . ..1 I*l Mroyed by the settlers and there .... 1 . t nore than oae clash between lus < . and tbe slllall cattle owners. lhe Berrys Da h;s gons Bnr . chards and Alphc , sppcia lly active m opposuwm *. 1 niimon . aire. hmally the eh s Plnup in tbe early part of last sm/^ aU d in a fight between Dewey ami J ^nen on ene side and the Berrys on ^/bthei Daniel Ber i lhe WJ vJWe- immediate ly in an up . jjJLI his cowboys were pirn v and armed bands of settlei. red wreak summary vengeance oi A company of imii., W as sent to assist the sheriff in ta« g hj s prisoners to

the jail at St. Fraj-J mld a n the way the soldiers were tl (PUPII w ith attack from the angry s ers v ho hovered < about the little a . as niarehed across the prairie. » , a . SP veral weeks the jail was guarded sv the militia un- [ til the excitement hi down sufficiently to make it si pto p U t the men ' on trial. The acquittal will ^ on btless cause a | fresh outburst on the '-rt pf thr settlers and it is doubtful w" Dewey will ever return to operat s b i g ranch. NEW ENGLAI u j A rre D Earthquake Shock |^ting Three Seconcls Stirs Up J > ve rnl States. An earthquake v| h h begi n in St John, N. 8.. and is t| )ugbt t o have done considerable damage , ^ P w Brunswi< k. | Maine and Miesm 1 shook Boston . at 1 o clock Mom Ty .irning. The । shocks are said to 81 been the most severe experienced . £yi : M .,.tion of the country since the adorable seisicc disturbance of l»l ■ In Boston nm! rg , s houses were rocked like cradles <•,>»'■■■• were tos>e<l ! from shelves and 5 nfinre broken in many homes. At . n!s!a . Me, several chimneys were kn " pd down. The! shock most severe!. ~;t j n the vic;m. y of Boston was at PV ere a seas';.. re town. In that tow: .veral ho is. s ro. k ed so that the ... pg^s rolled from their beds, and at t o| e phom exchange the operator. Rus- U| ; irk. w .- knock ed from his chair. \ policeman na j McKenny. wlo was in the hendqu r< tlm park p i lice at Revere, wm brown violently to the floor and slight njun'd. Ulark. the , telephone operator. s • , at he f. 1: a peculiar sensation ft t ^ UB h his body when he was km>,’ . | bd ( .: ia j r The *ln»ek f ~ ns , IL p..tu ..i nv <l. 7, N. IL, mid Spriitgii M,ss.. state •; the vibrations uere pjt disLnetly in those two cities. 0b o-ver* m thr H. r vani I uiversitv m-tr uao mieil observatory in Uambridge m ,j,„i s cverrthing Watehm nn jf a rris Page .c

the T-.w h■ \L nlgomct C,, tu pnny s plant say- the factory wns 'phakeu. In other section* of tli< city „ PIP !iwak cued In tho rattling o f ,}<«>;•< and w a- ! flows. Shelves and f' rniture were brok eu in many houses. REPORTS ON CH CAGO POLICE. I mest mat nr Ifeclurc' B ? | u , llcpnrtmi nt Is ill II Uisuracvf i |U Condition. "Th. re is piaetieall.' . n<| ; !IP , , n ,] the for. ■ <mild har ’ j v bp bl w state " With these w ,’ nß c \ b . X!l! i der Russ piper H’nlti j Sluvs arm :■

tim >D. hum r deputt has been in Chicago 1 f or M . V en weeks. J invesiigming the Chi j t . ai .,, p O !: PP f., n . eh trifled the member! sbc ('Uy ci". U ■ w s luakim- a req 1 . ir( , )f s j )n , ... g.iti.m. which wa* D'-’| un nf the in- .e of the club ll' a result 1 of , bp j v . - dn, prevalence of crir. )p , u < b j .0 , According to ('apt. pj] . r's wp ’t. the Chiemo police are in a flisgra eful \ ondition of domornlizatie n lUK j n . pin , , y . Instead of protecting < .jtizens from criminals. the members of t bp Hre drinking in saloons, playin; , sb , T machims or gossiping on the street , Patrolmen wr. accused of taking "to their Loh s" at every opport inity. instea () of wa j kiug their beats. Old mid ineapa ..Rated were found in “soft snaps." robbii lg tbp department of active men. sorely n PP dcd. Wide open gambling was found by Capt Piper, handbooks running pt aetic-illy ail over the city. The administration of tbe criminal laws at the Harrison street police court were found jo be "m „ re ]j ke lnob biw than order." ('apt. Piper expresses sympathy for the head of tbp Chicago police department and fl .i., rp s that Chief O'Neil! is "an hone-; man> rioiTT? Lie Ti. st^ le '-a ,; s at his coinmaniTT** Poli sergeants come in for the report ingersollism q out. Rabbi Says Atheism I KeKar(U . ( , as Intellectual __ . , Weakness. Replying to articles lb!Bhpd rpcpn tIv 1,1 I-'">don raising a , >n as to , 11P ■ smeess ot (he immst. ()f . b(i W()) ., d in spreading the gosp Rabbi silver . 11111,1 U.r; Ims < le ;. larcd tbat atlle . ism ami agnosticism a re uow gpi)prai i y looked upon as evidem ps (>f iutP i lP c tU al weakness: "lhe Inger s(dlian lype bp aserted. has almost < d fro:n polite society. there a ta< . it nndp ,._

standing that religion is an ( , vidpll( . e of culture and refinement and (bat H bas a wholesome effect upoi } the dpv c iopm e nt of man. "There never was a thpe .. bp pontin . ued. "when men of all Khade< ((f beiipf were as interested 111 r pH ns stndv> in worship and practice, m . l(( . dav The religious press has mere ’ d is SUp . cessful financially. Tl , . . . K'olonh’al instiiutions have improved ai id are bpttpr pn . .lowed. It is no muisua ] sppda( . lp t(( SPP rich men who devote 1 hpir pnprgips a n the week to making mon py tp . u . bil . g Bible classes on Sundays. "These evidences tmd fbprs lba , p(>uld be presented demonstrat p )bar - n m)r day the ministers have eerl a . n]v uot faib ,. L They are a great social aud pycn p()lit . leal mfluem e. for they pxprt , bat si]pnt ethical force that is efl . p( . tivp in . lU so . cial and government ret . ~

DANIEL J. SULLY. h's--Daniel J. Sully, the cotton king, whose failure startled the world, was a salaried employe earning $75 a week two years ago. After viewing the cotton fields of the South he concluded the waste of the farmers and the ravages of boll weevil would curtail the production of cotton. He advised friends to buy cotton and acted as their agent. In the May corner of 1903 he cleared $2,600,000 to s.>,000,060. He increased the market value of the year's crop $200,000,000. Since then he lias been a bull in the market. Inat'iiUy io in.., nil eotton offered at falling prices drove him to the wall. Sully clique losses $16,000,000 Stilly's loss in four days 5,000,000 Highest cotton price of day . . 15.2Hc Lowest cotton price of day.. .. 12.6. >c Los on each bale about .... S3O Sully begins speculating. . .January, 190.1 Uorners world's market.... May. 1903 Collapse March IS, 1904 I

CROP OUTLOOK FOR WORLD. Governinvnt Report Shows Increased Production in Foreign Lunds. The foreign crop report of the Department of Agriculture gives the following: Austria—Official estimates of wheat : crop of 1903, 46,014,058 bushels of sixty I pounds each; rye, 8L1.ii.62s bushels of fifty-six pounds; barley. 73,872.512 bushels of forty eight pounds; oats. 128,328,Dl bushels of thirty-two pounds, and maize. 16.055,!H>S bushels of fifty-six pounds. Australasia Wheat en pof 1903 I undotihte'ily very large am! will leave an unus’ial quantity of available for ex- । Argentina—V Bible wheat supply j abi iit 50 per cent greater than a year । : a. ' .c. . •hmble that at a corre<ponding I date in 1!KI2. The surplus available tor j j export out <>f the 1903-4 crop is unotli- ' eHlly estimated at over 9l>.<MMI.<KH> bush- | Romnarin Wheat area sown in the fall of 1 ' . ■ ted at 4.110.710 a. re- rye area. 32*'..!t23, barley. SI,- ' 4‘. L ami rape. 145.557. Ru-sia (i.mial estimates Wheat area | I for IPo.:. 57.;•><;.71s ae;*-. p: >.hietion. <;21.157 65'« bimh.B. '• • . 912.007.655 I bushel-, earn. TmUfs.’.:;!,; bushels, and I bnrb v. .157.470 •s<il bushel-. Live -tock: ll ’;’-i- 2s.(ifo.Limi, cattle. 41.251,500; si 1 • a‘p ami goa' —, । Loll.—t mL and swine, 13.75;. d x ■ Hungary <'rops ot!i< ially reported sat- ‘ i-factory. I tikey G nm consul general reports grain crop- of European 1 urkey 1 । xtraordmarily good. I 11.'.1y Crop conditions fairly good. France Oilicial preliminary estimates of tpo;; 4 crop areas are: Wheat. Li.920,42s acres, rye, 3.236.439: barley, ..GO,- . 2.021.(178. The winter wheat area i- over 3 per cent less than a year ago. Condition of cereals stated as falling somewhat below “good. ’ Xeti erl.im!- Weather too mild ami Wet. I'mtugnl Whe t crop larger than nt C। t rst siippo-d ami requirements from 1 .. 1 .... . . 1 ” n. li lh W I I. 11 Is ixl

ebr >. I esiiman-fl at GJ»•«.».«hn> bushels. । ( Ur >;i: ' W'■ at en-p a medium yield. | ( but of ■ \ eUmt qtm’ity. ' ( Thntunn ' • New IS hent I'nritiers. Dm- outco: e «>f tl n •nt remark a- ; I hl< ' ■,. . r ••■ -s t'. e s c . I ttKrni grain cmimry. Direct the last j t*’U 6,(3N» s. tth rs : 'i' passed : ; through t’. < Union stntmn m K. n-as j ; ("tv L. 'ir ! for sontlc rn KaasK. T li*. ; ... 1 « i Neatly all • fnrnnis from Liinois. 1 Im'.i.imi. W.o 'i-ni ;.i i other St.-ibA of ■ . t: " ■ :.i V .• st. ... 1 ,vc s . 1 oat i

f<T 1! m SSH spHi ~n acre, and are | m eking mw homes at lower prices. The I irucw’.t totin' Southwest i~ tl largest 1 over know :i. (>ne hundred am- thirty- I far new towns were started in Oklahoma . Inst • and im - te likely to he added this tear. Although thoUSamls of I farmers want to share the wTle.lt [,rospcrit;. it is unlilu it. l;ev.ev«r. tint there । will Le a land craze such as last year ' followed tile moveim ..t to the North- j west. Japan tine - timf there is a mmli cheapei way to get boats than to I uy them. Ji n Hill is going to obey the law. but he 1 as not decided yet just how he will obey it. Speaker Cannon's boom has not been for vio^itivg iliu anti ip : ” <»rdinnnce. * St. Louis has had a plain warning that I it need not come to I ncle Sam with the ! same hard-luck story again. । Nothing will be the matter with Kanl sgs if dollar wheat will only linger until ai other crop has been harves-.t ;. If any trouble is going to be passed > around in the old world the Sultan of I Turkey means to have his snare. In a word, food is contraband of war unless the powers which have it to sell happen to possess the biggest warsuips.

If there are many more big tires the owners of insurance companies will bo tempted to trade them for chicken farms. Big sleeves this year are big at the other end so that the bidies cannot wea? their old gowns and be in the social As to lynchings in different sections of the country, the pot is hardly as black as the kettle. But which is kettle and which pot? King Alfonso did not present tho Kaiser with any islands as souvenirs of his visit, as Alfonso is a little short 0:1 islands just now. On looking around for a national chair man the Republicans discover that a man like Hanna is not to be found in every wayside village. That N;'w York murderer who asks for a speedy execution may only be calling attention to the lact 11. at the girls are neglecting to bring him the eustom- । ary flowers.

ADMIT MANY MURDERS. Members of Chicago Car Barn Gang } > Tell of Their Crimes. The Chicago car barn bandits, con . ' victed and sentenced to death, are now I * confessing crimes that have long mysti I ' tied the authorities. Peter Nisslemeyer, ; ’ the brains of the gang, admits killing twenty-three men, one for every year ' of his life. Gustav Marx remembers murdering eight persons. Marx de< lared , in a confession that he was one of the three men who held up the Chicago and Norihwestern express train at lower | ' \\ . near DeKalb, four years ago. lhe crime, which has passed into history as , one of the most desperate ever commit ted in or about Chicago, lias never been ■ accounted for. Marx says both his confederates in the i crime are dead and refuses to give their , names. (Ine of them, he declares, died with his boots on.” The railway authorities admitted a loss of $102,066 by tha robbery. Marx says the robbers secured only $8,606, the rest, of the money having been destroyed by the explosion of dynamite used to crack the safe. ’ "I used dynamite for the first time in the tower robbery and made a bungle of it,” Xlarx said. “We tied and gagged the tower man ami then flagged the train. One of my pals had got the dynamite in (’alifornia. I placed a big lot ol it on top of the safe, and when it went off it not only wrecked the safe but most of ■ the .Cioney inside. With a swag of SB,- * 060 we came back to Chicago, although . the police were under the impression we 1 headed for Omaha. “Besides John B. Johnson, killed at ) the car barns; Detective Quinn, killed nt 1 the time of my arrest, and Otto Bauder, whom Rm-ski is generally supposed to e have killed. I have killed five oilier mm.” J If Peter Niedemeyer’s story is to be 5 believed, he has killed a man for every 3 year of his life. 4 ’ "I have killed twenty-three men and wounded seventeen,” lie declared. In-

nocent men are serving time for my enmes in more than one penitentiary. Rewards amounting to $16,060 are outstanding for me in different States. I will confess these crimes if the police will give me a written promise to give a part of the reward to my old mother. ’ BIG PRICE FOR HEALTH. Sanitation of the Panama Canal Route Will Cost $2,000,000. The House committee on interstate and foreign commerce \\ ednesday again heard Prof. William 11. Burr on the

question of sanitation of the I’anama canal route. The Isthmian Canal Commission. he said, had regarded the subject ns one of the greatest importance. The works of sanitation would be chiefly the construction of water works and a s.werage system for the cities of Panama and Union and the drainage of districts between those cities. It would re- / ~ V WWW A VII.W OX TUE CANAL. quire the co-operation of the police, as the people on the isthmus had no idea of sanitary principles, he said, to make the territory healthful. He estimated the cost at $2,0(M».060. The completion of the canal, he said, could be accomplished in eight or nine years. Answering Mr. Hepburn, Prof. Burr said that where men are careless in their habits on the isthmus the mortality is high. IL- had not heard, he said, that a thousand men lost their lives for every mile so far as work has been done, nor

1 ad he ever heard <>f a graveyard containing SJHHI graves of laborers, or of the fact 11 w tof 800 Chinese 506 died in three months. Prof. Burr was subjected to many | quo .ions, bearing mostly on the amount ■ of • \c. vation by the two French companies, and said they had excavated about 7.(ii>0.000 yards. two-Ihirds of which was useful/ leaving 1,600,000,000 Cubic yards still to be excavated, t I ’■ '«y e V" if » The regular Roosevelt ticket was elect-t-J hy a large majority at the primaries at St. Joseph. Mo. J. L. Caldwell of West Virginia issued a statement withdrawing from the race

for United States Senator from that State. The Democratic territorial committee of Okkihotna selected Anadarko as the place of holding the national delegate convention June 1. In a convention lasting twelve hours the new union labor party of Kansas City nominated a full city ticket for the spring election. T! e Republican State central commit tr at Sioux Falls. S. D-, selected Sioux Falls as the place and May 4 as the date for the State convention. Representative E. J. Burkett of Nebraska is naw believed to have sufficient support to give him the I nite I States Senatorship to succeed Senator Dietricn. The Bloomington. 111., Bulletin has ' laiincheT a Loom for Adlai 1.. Steven- ' son as the Democratic candidate for the presidency as a compromise between Parker and Hearst. 1 The Arizona Republican convention at

Tut son instructed its delegates to the Chicago convention for Roosevelt and Adopted strong resolutions against joint statehood in any form. Nebraska Democrats will hold two State conventions. The first, to select dele-'ates to the national convention, will be ;it Omaha June L 1 lie second will be held later at Lincoln. The Democrats of the Fourth Ohio di> r rict selected A. D. Miller of Allen anil S. A. Hoskins of Anglaise as dele•'•ites to the St. Louis convention. The delegates go uninstructed. The Republican convention of the ’•’ourth Congressional district of Missouri olected E. M. Birkes of St. Josei>li and Edward S. Smith of Savannah as delegates to the national cmv c".l-'m. instructing them foi' Roosevelt. The Maryland Senate by a strict party V ote—seventeen Democrats to eight Re •mblicans —passed the proposed ameud--1 ment to the State constitution to regulate the suffrage and admitted to be ip tended to eliminate the negro vote.

ICONGRESSI The Senate Thursday passed the f lowing bills: Authorizing the Sc ret ary of the Interior b> dispese of Lim er "B public binds, the proceeds to be a part ■ • the irrigation rei lamiti m fun l reinstating the homestead right ol persons who have I cell loiapelle 1 through no fault of their own to n limciish iheir hom< stead entries; authorizing the Senate committee on comnierce to invesi!gat< tin- propose 1 improvements m the M ississippi rii er between lowa ami \\ is cousin. in executive session Senator Quarles finis;.al his speech, occupying two hours, in defense of Gen. Wood, and a general discussion followed. Alter setting aside Sunday. March 27, for memorial addresses on the life of the late Representative Burke of Pennsylvania, the House resumed consideration of the postottiee appropriation bill, but made little progress. The item of so.6<K) for advertising for bills was agreed to. In this connection Mr. Maddox of Georgia asked a question and said since there were a lot of rascals in the department the House would be more careful in future. An amendment to reduce the P< stmaster General s expense allowance from $2,660 to $1,666 was lost. After a lively debate the appropriation of $7.5(10 to defray the expenses of delegates to the univeisal postal congress at Rome was I reduced to $5,660. Mr. Williams' point ot order against designating certain emplovcs as “cnshiers.” ‘‘night superintendents,” etc., which iie said was lor the purpose of promoting favorites, was sustained. The Senate Friday confirmed Brig.

Gen. Wood's nomination by a vole o' la to 16. A resolution was adopted directing the Secretary of the Interior to inform the Senate whether an order has been issued recently enlarging the pension act of June 27. 1890, and amendments. as to disabilities of applicants for pensions, and if so to send the Senate a copy of such order. Also by wh it amount, if any. will said order probably increase pensions annually. lhe House continued the discussion of the postotllce appropriation bill. The principal amendment adopted was the insertion of a new paragraph in the bill pro-

viding for an appropriation of SStfO.OOO for ‘‘uiiusual business” in third and fourth class postoffices. The Postmaster General is required to make public the regulations under which the allotments are made before using any part of this amount. A similar requirement was iml used in the expenditure of the Sl.'iOU.(Mio for sop: r..ting mails in third and fourth class postoffices. The paragraph appropriating $!«».<««» per annum for the lease of a postoffice building in New York Pity, to be erected by the New York Central Railroad, was ..greed to after it had been amended so ns not to interfere with the discretion given the Postmaster Get "ral in the matter of the selection of a site. Consideration in the Senate Monday of the bill protiding for a 1 mldmg tor the Departments of State. Justice and Commerce and Labor was made the occasion for adverse criticism of the architect who planned the M hiie House offices. Mr. Hoar introduced a bill by request to organize a colonization branch, which, he said, was prepar’d by officers of the Salvation Army for the purpose of securing settlement on public lands. It is the bill which was prepared on the advice of the late Senator Hanna. After being in session a short time the House adjourned out of respect to the memory of the late Representative Charles AV. Thompson of Alabama. Resolutions of respect; and sympathy were passed. Mr. Hepburn offered a resolution reciting certain statements by Mr.

LIV 11 1 ’ ' *1 “'r B -ker (N. Y.t contained in the ( ongressiona! Record of last Friday refiectinaon the integrity and honor of Mr. Babcock fWis.t. Mr. Hepburn explained that Mr. Baker had not delivered the remarks on the floor of the House, but l.ad entered them in the Record under a leave of print. The amendment waadopted after the Democrats forced a roll call. Mr. Baker endeavored to exi plain his action, but Speaker Cannon j refused to recognize him. The 'Senate spent the greater part of the dav Tuesday on the Indian appropriation 1 ill. The section exempting the position of Indian agency farm, r from civil service examination was dropped. The superintendents of Indian schools an to be allowed to act as imb.an ageu > for the next year, according te tin House amendment, which was ad. d. Another amendment adopted anticmzcs the payment of claims made by Indian tribes <>n account of the <liflere:i>e- between the value of payments made du m in mvonlKicks nnd coin p«i\hh*d« > ’•> i* quired by treaties. The House continued consideration of the postoilice approptiation bill. Mr. Butler (Ta.t made an unsuccessful endeavor to have passed an amendment transferring back to the office Os the First Assistant Postmaster

General jurisdiction of the free doavery ami rural delivery services which was declared by Mr. Moon Ctan.l to be an effort Io punish Mr. Bristow for iliscorering frauds in another bureau of the department. An amendment agreed to prohibits the Postmaster General from ordering out of postoffices telephone < ompanies other than the !’ell company. Another amendment prohibits the further reiving of canceling macliines. Ilie us ignation of Charles Dick (Uhioi to lake effect at noon Wednesday was read. A resolution was passed fixing March 25 after the deposition of the pension bills lor the consideration of the bill providing for the election of a delegate from the territory of Alaska and making the bill privileged thereafter. In the National Capital. Mormon church rules Utah politics; methods were explained l y witnesses in Smoot henring. Bourke Cochin has been appointed member of ways and means committee instead of William R. Hearst. Commissioners appointed to investigate conditions in Indian Territory urg< drastic action by Congress to check so- ' called grafting of officials. Hundreds of te hnical violations of postal laws by Congressmen ami Sena- ' tors revealed in report of < hairman Overstreet of committee on postotlices. ’ The desire of the Filipinos for an 1 American education is strikingly set out bv the appeal from Manila to the insular bureau for an additional MM school teachers from tl.e 1 nited States. In ? December last I."M were appointed. i James G. Bayne, auditor of the DM 1 trict Supreme Cour:, has tiled his report - on the amount and value of the ; rize - property in tl.e case of Admiral 1 "wey a'minst tl.e Don Juan de Austria and v other vessels captured and sunk n M r . nila bay. May 1, IS9N rhe auditor. to whom the question was rderied by , the court, reports that the allowance of , property subject to the share oj the libellant as prize, aggregates S- -A