Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 April 1904 — Page 2

.^enbtnt. ■W. A. 1OI>I,L:V, J'libllNhor, WALKERTON. - - - INDIANA. WEEK’S NEWS RECORD After weeks ot torture Oscar Leonard Os Philadelphia, born without a nose but desirous of having one. is on the load to success. A linger which is to supply the place of the missing organ was cut away from his hand and Leonard will soon have a full-fledged nose. Clarence Thurston, son of former Senator John M. Thurston, married Miss Nellie Cotter in St. Louis, the result of a romantic courtship. The bride is an Omaha girl, the daughter of poor parents. She and young Thurston have been sweethearts from their school days. Twenty of the corporations in Pall River, Mass., engaged in the manufacture of print cloths, controlling sixty-five mills, have entered into an agreement to curtail production by shutting down two days a week. The action is due to unsettled conditions in the cotton and cloth markets. The doors of the Akron, Ohio, Savings Bank were closed Tuesday and the Common Pleas Court appointed G. W. Seiber und W illiam Buchtel receivers of the institution. The action was precipitated - —as-a-J^gi’lt-Qf-the Akron Clearing House Association compelling the bank to make all its clearings in cash. A bomb containing two pounds of powder, heavily charged with nitro-glycerin and containing a box of WO detonating caps, was found on the guard rail of the steamer Albany of the Western Transportation Company's line at Portland. Ore. The fuse had burned almost to the caps, but had gone out. Fire starting in the grocery of Holderman Brothers in Benwood. W. Ya., destroyed a five-story fiat, owned by the same firm, a two-story dwelling qf August Holderman and a saloon of Daniel Cleary. About 300 foreigners lived in the flat and there were many narrow escapes from death. The loss was $30,000. A man who gave the name of Walter W. Wilson walked into police headquarters at New York and announced that on Aug. 1. WO3. he ami a partner, who were drivers for the United States Exptess Company in Pittsburg, stole a package containing $llBO from that company. The partner, he said, is sort ing a six years’ sentence. Wilson was held for examination. Henry A. Barnhart of Rochester, president of the Independent Telephone Association, which embraces independent exchanges in all sections of the United States, states that plans are about consummated for a merger of the independent companies for the organization of a company with a capitalization of $1,000.000 for the building of a factory for the manufacture of telephone supplies. One of the most original pickpockets was captured on a Rock Island passenger train near Centerville, lowa. Wish a rag wound around his forefinger as though it were injured, he saturated it with chloroform and sat down beside a drowsy passenger. Opening a paper, he became interested in a story ami soon worked his finger near enough his victim to cause an unnatural stupor. He had victimized several passengers when arrested. —BREVI 'IES, One of the distributing stations of the Standard Oil Company in Jersey City was destroyed by fire. Loss $75,000. Fire loss in United States and Canada during March was $11,200,000, $1,300.000 more than for the same month a year ago. Sheriff Moore of Clinton. Tenn., who was conspicuous in the Coal creek labor troubles, has been found dead in front of the jail at Clinton. Basio, one of the Philippine Negritos at the St. Louis exposition grounds, died of pneumonia, making the third death in the tribe since its arrival. As a result of playing with powder and matches three boys of Provo. Colo., will die and one will be crippled for life. All are aged from 14 to 16 years. John Nichols, leader of the strikers at the Diesel branch of the American Can Company in Chicago, was killed during ar. attack on a train carrying non-union workmen. Returns from elections in Illinois cities and townships show few noteworthy gains or losses by either Democrats or Republicans. Springfield was carried by the Democrats. Trade between the United States and Japan is growing more rapidly than between Japan and any other nation, onetliird of the total exports of the kingdom in 1902 coming to this country. The Chicago Journal is in the hands of new- owners—John C. Eastman, a veteran newspaper man of that city, and E. W. Harden, formerly financial correspondent in New York for the RecordHerald. Five persons, all members of a pleasure party from the Florida Methodist College at Sutherland, were drowned near Anclote lighthouse. Florida. President Walker and Miss Newton reached the beach alive. The battleship Virginia was launched at the yard of the Newport News Ship—building Company. Newport Nows, Va. ^k^UST’Matilda Gay Montague, daughter '’of Gov. Montague, was sponsor for the new battleship. Chief of Police Strayer of Beavwr Falls, Pa., with a posse of officers, set fire to a building north of town ami captured Robert Fry, alias "Big Bob” Fry, alleged to be one of the most dangerous safe blowers in the country. The body of William A. I.add. 28 years old. was sent to his home in Hastings, Mich., on what was to have been his wedding day. He was engaged to Miss Florence Huber of Bath, N. Y., and while working on a building in Sayre fell forty feet through the breaking of an iron beam and lived but an hour. Wearing a wreath of roses she had woven for her hair and lying on her bed, which had been strewn with the blooms, Mrs. E. B. Hunter, wife of a prominent business man of Memphis. Tenn., shot ai d killed herself in her apartments in the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati. Fire in the Board of Trade district of Montreal destroyed the building occupied by Watson Jack & Co., agents and merchants; S. Pitt & Co., woolens and tailors’ trimmings; Rademay & Co., limited, patent medicines; Imperial Neckwear Company, F. J. Elliott, W. J. Tabb, and Atlas Brand Shirt Company. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans disagreed over the decision of the lower court in the case of S. M. Clyatt of Irwin County,. Georgia, charged with peonage, and the case has been referred to the United States Supreme Court, which must pass upon the status of the various peonage cases that are pending.

EASTERN. The Broad street store of the Georke Company in Newark, N. J., was burned, entailing a loss of $100,060. In a head-on collision between an ex press and a freight train at Pottstown, Vil, three people were killed, one is missing and a number were hurt. New Haven court ruled out the sealed letter in the Bryan-Bennett will case, defeating William J. Bryan in his suit for $50,000. An appeal will be taken. Guy Wetmore Carry!, whose books of humorous verse have been well known for the last two years, died in New York from septicaemia, following an attack of grip. The New Jersey Slate Company, of Newton. N. J., has been ordered to show cause why a receiver should not lie ap-_ pointed. Liabilities $60,000, assets $53.00. The American Locomotive Company has obtained a controlling interest in the Rogers locomotive works at Paterson, N. J., and may combine it with the company's Paterson branch. Otis White of Ransomville. N. Y., an old man. committed suicide at Prospect Point by deliberately walking into the rapids, where he sat down and was carried over the American falls. An air tank, 6xlo feet, exploded in the machine shop of the Erie Railroad shops in Meadville, Pa., partially wrecking the immense building and killing one man instantly and injuring several. Edward Reglar. who endeavored to see President Roosevelt and who carried a loaded revolver, was arrested in Pittsburg and will be held ponding an investigation into his mental condition. A petition of involuntary bankruptcy against the United States Fireproofing Company of Lisbon. Ohio, was filed at Trenton, N. J., following the recent appointment of a receive rfor the company. Charles Lyons, proprietor of a roadhouse at South Bloomfield. Vt.. was shot and killed, it is alleged, by Reuben and Edward Bronson, brothers. The shooting grew out of a family feud of long standing. The New York police have discovered a gang on the west side which is said to have a schedule of prices for doing up people. The schedule ranges from $lO to sls, according to the kind of work to be done. WESTERN. Thomas 11. Woody, one of the wealth iest men in Petersburg, committed suicide by shooting. The lowa miners and operators failed to agree and 13,500 miners are on a strike. Every mine in lowa is closed. Captain Robert McCullough of Chicago has assumed charge of the lines of the St. Louis Transit Company as vice president and general manager. Judge 11. B. Johnson of Denver, who was Attorney General of Missouri from 1868 to 1872, dropped dead in the lobby of a hotel at Excelsior Springs. Mo. The President has sent to the Senate the nomination of Irving F. Baxter of Omaha to be United States District Attorney for Nebraska, to succeed William Summers. Three cents a ton for mining coal is the reduction made by the scale signed by Illinois mine operators and workers at Springfield. The contract prohibits boycott of railroads. The 4^ron, Ohio, City Council unanimously granted to Thomas L. Childs a franchise to operate a street railroad upon certain streets in that city, the rate of fare to be 3 cents. An inventory of the personal property of the late William J. Letup, of St. Louis, shows a valuation of $4,347,679. The real estate is worth $6,000,000. Al! is willed to the widow. Federal Trust Company of Cleveland. Ohio, assigned, fearing a run by its depositors because of rumors that a missing official is a heavy embezzler. Union Trust Company of Boston also closed. Three masked men held up the Oregon express, south hound, on the Southern Pacific Railroad at Copley, Cah, killed W. J. O’Neil, the express messenger, and carried off the contents of the express box. A prairie fire broke out near Basset. Neb., and burned a strip of prairie from the railroad north to the Niobrara river, averaging four miles in width. Numerous buildings were destroyed, ami the loss will be large. Miss Anita Kelley of New York, to whom a jury in Los Angeles awarded damages of $55,000 against a Santa Barbara hotel company for the loss of a limb in an elevator wreck, compromised her case for $25,000. A mixed train on the Baltimore and Ohio was wrecked four miles east of Somerset, Ohio, by the breaking of a wheel on a freight ear and eight persons were injured. Two passenger coaches, which contained about thirty persons. Were ditched. Freddie Fillwock, aged 10, died in Findlay, Ohio, ns the result of a hazing at the Rawson school. Freddie's mother, who was slightly ill with a cold, became worse when the boy died, and physicians have given her up. as she has sunk into nervous prostration. The Bankers’ Surety Company has secured a warrant for George F. Clewell. the missing secretary and treasurer of the assigned Federal Trust Company of Cleveland, who is charged with responsibility for discrepancies of SIO,OOO in the bank's accounts. City Chemist Kirchmaier and Coroner Storz of Toledo, Ohio, have decided that W. S. Rader, who died suddenly March 2, and whose death was attributed to cigarettes and dancing, was poisoned by nitro-benzole, an ingredient of shoe polish that Rader had used. Miss Marie Willis, Samuel Graham and an unidentified man plunged to death aver the brink of towering Shoshone Falls, Idaho. The falls, which are 210 fleet high—higher than Niagara-—are untlsually swift, owing to the swollen condition of Snake river. Raphael Soden, the 6-year-old son of the late Patrick Soden, the millionaire railroad builder, died in Kansas City, of grip. The boy was in actual possession of an estate valued at SIOO,OOO and had an income of SSOO a month. This estate will go to his brother Henry, 8 years old. Shrinkage in deposits of more than $500,000 in the past month, followed by a run of frightened depositors, caused the failure of the Capital National Bank of Guthrie, Okla. President C. E. Billingsley issued a statement that the bank was solvent and the depositors would be paid in full. The body of an infant was found in the glowing furnace of the Lincoln, Neb., Medical College. It was discovered by a student who acts as janitor and who pulled the charred body from the coals. The police say the baby was undoubtedly alive when it was thrown in and that it was several days old. Livingston Quackenbush, aged tw years, was arraigned in Lesueur, Minn., on a charge of receiving money into an insolvent bank and committed to the county jail to await the action of the giand jury. He had been in the banking

i business (here for twenty-nine years. His I failure was for $115,000. | For "allowing the St. Louis police dei partment to be used as a political ma- । chine,' Gov. Dockery was severely < ritii vised in a grand jury report returned in । St. Louis. With the report were indictments against seventeen policemen and John Lavin, central committeeman from the Twenty-eighth Ward. A girl 18 years of age is being detained at the Emergency hospital in St. Louis because she is unable to remember anything about herself beyond the facts that her name is either Annie Von Kresse or Reno Von Kresse and that she was born in Neu York. She was picked up while wandering around the streets. Caught in the weeds near the shore, the body of a well-dressed woman, wearing several rings and showing evidence ot refinement, was found in the Chicago river by Leo Konkowski, tender at the Division street bridge. It is believed by the police that the body Ims been in the river for two or three months. Murder is suspeefed. One million four hundred thousand acres of land have been added to the acreage subject to homestead laws in Minnesota. This represents the work tb.at has just been completed by E. L. Warren, chief government examiner, who has been tiding under the provisions of the Morris law. The pine will be disposed of to the highest bidder. Mrs. Throckmorton, with her two sons. Joseph and J. D. Throckmorton, and her daughter. Mrs. Lillie Chatterton, was arrested at Bement, Okla., charged with the murder of her hdsbuud. Throckmorton had been in an usylum for some time and died shortly after returning home. An examination of the body by the coroner developed the fact that there was poison in the stomach. An explosion in the Citizens’ National Bank building. Albia. lowa, resulted in three men being killed and several persons injured. The dead are: R. Ramsey, Edward Dougherty. Richard Grimes. The cause of the explosion is unknown, but it is supposed it originated in the heating plant. Besides the bank build ing, a clothing store and two grocery stores were destroyed by tire. The loss is $75,000. The residence of Medford B. Wilson, president of the Columbia National Bank in Indianapolis, was robbed of jewelry valued at SIO,OOO while the family was at dinner. Mrs. Wilson heard a noise in time to turn on a porch light and see a negro jump to the lawn. Servants pursued the porch climber, but he escaped. Two diamond-set watches purchased Europe and valued at SI,OOO each were among the articles taken. W. T Scot . negro of East St. Louis, 111., has announced that, prepara tions have been completed for a national convention for the nomination of a negro candidate for President. The convention will be held in St. Louis July 6. the date set lor the national Democratic convention. The name of the new party is "the national civil liberal partv” and a platform will be adopted which. Scott says, will call for government ownership of transportation facilities and a pension list for former slaves. S. P. Mitchell of Memphis, Tenn., is president of the organization and I. L. Walton of Washington. D. C.. is vice president. Appropriations for public buildings in the Mississippi valley in the sundry civil bill are: Battle Creek, $25,006; Flint, $10,600; Owosso. $10,000; Traverse City, $15,000. For public buildings in lowa appropriations ate: Centerville. $16,250; Waterloo. $16,1*00; lowa 1 ity. $35,000; Marshalltown, $20,000. In Wisconsin appropriations are; Fond du Lae. $15.000; Green Bay. $20,000; Superior. $50,UOO; and Wnusnff. sl;>.on6. For Kansas $12,500 is appropriated for a postothce at Hutchinson nnd $17,500 for Lawrence. For continuing construction of the postoffice at Hastings. Neb., an np preprint ion of $20,000 is made. FOREIGN. Japanese forces have driven the Rus sians from Korean soil and now occupy Wiju and Yongampo. Their advance is a remarkable feat in military history. That Emperor William will undergo a second operation in a short time is be lieved by the officials who met him at Gibraltar. His voice wa* almost gone when ho appeared there. In a tierce battle with the Thibetans who attacked his expedition Col. A oung husband has routed the force* of the lama. who tied from the field. Ie iving 4t*O dead and as many wounded. The Braisli loss is between ten ami fifteen. The work of harvesting this year's wheat crop is nearly completed in New South Wales, Australia, and the government estimates place the yield at 11,060.000 bushels above the best previous record. Seventeen million bu-heis are now available for export. Continuous fighting between the outposts of tile Russian and Japanese armies is reported between Fing-Yang and Wiju. The Japanese have lost many men. The advance of Gen. Kouropatkin to Liao-5 ang is believed to indicate that he will force the fighting on Korean soil. The first civil tribunal of the Seine in Paris decided the case of the Republic of Colombia against the Panama ( anal Company in favor of the defendants. The decision holds that the complaint of Colombia is not receivable and condemns the plaintiffs to pay the costs of the action. This decision has the effect of removing the legal obstacles in the way of the transfer of the canal concession from the company to the United States. IN GENERAL. Weekly reports by Dun and Bradstreet show business for season has been below that of a y—age “Hail Columbia" will make way for “The Star-Spangled Banner” on naval vessels at morning and evening colors. The United States Supreme Court holds that the anthracite coal roads must produce on demand the contracts entered Into with the mines, as they may affect the price of fuel. Lawyers say the decision is of the highest importance. The reorganization of the Rock Island system has been completed by several important promotions and retirements. Benjamin L. Winchell, formerly third vice president of the Rock Island, was elected president, succeeding W. B. Leeds, retired. Formal opening of the Cuban House of Representatives was prevented by the Nationalists, who invaded the chamber accompanied by a mob. The action was caused by the fear of members whose seats are contested that they would be outvoted by a combine of the other parties. Henry A. Barnhart of Rochester, N. Y., president of the Independent Telephone Association, in an interview at Laporte, Ind., said a merger of all the independent companies, with a capital of $1,500,000, was being formed to build a factory for the manufacture of telephone supplies. The steamer Newport, which arrived at San Francisco, brought news of an earthquake at Manzanillo, Mexico. A number of buildings were shaken down, but (die greatest damage was done to the big breakwater that is being built there by the Mexican government for the improvement of the harbor.

Gen. Adna Romanza Chaffer, who has succeeded Gen. Young as chief of staff of the army, is a soldier with an inter-

national rep ut ation. He was a leading figure in the Civil War, in campaigns against Indians, and iu Spanish conflict. He was born at Orwell. Ohio, April 14, 1842, and entered the army in 1861 as a private. His gallantry won him a brigadier

GEN. CHAFFEE.

generalship, and when the war closed he was appointed a captain in the regular army. Thejufollowed his Indian service, and for tweniy-seven years he was with the Sixth cavalry. In the Santiago campaign he won fresh laurel* at Las Gun simas and El Oaney, and next figured in the Boxer nprisii^.China, when he commanded the American forces at the relief of Pekin.' Thon he was assigned to the comn#Fl of the Philippines, and was appoint® l military governor July 4, 1901. Col. Juaffee was relieved of this lH>sitiou the (Olli, reUjrued to the United States, and assumed command of tho^tpurtment of the East. John Mi Harlan, who handed down the * ‘ision in the Northern Securities - -has been an associate jus-

Ou ’ JVSTICE HAKLAN.

tice of the Supreme Court of the United States sinw Nov. 29, 1877. He was born in Boyle County. Kentmiy, in 1833, was educated in Center College ami Transylvania University, and was a county judge at the ago of 25. From I 1861 to 1863 he was I colonel of the • Ten t h Kentucky

regiment in the Union army, and from the latter year until 1867 was Attorney General of the Blue Grass State. He was twice nominated for Governor, and in 1572 was favored by the Republican* of Kentucky for the vice presidential nomination. Justice Harlan was one of the arbiters in the Bering Sea case. He it w as who handed down the decision in the famous Nebraska maximum freight rate ease. IX illiam lusco Buchanan, who has been appointed minister to the new Republic of Panama, is n man of wide di

1 plomatic experience, j having been minis 1 ter to Argentina from 1894 to 1900. 1 He was director general to ti e PanAmerican exposition at Buffalo, mid was <>ne of the lowa I commissioners to I the ( ’ olnmb ill 11 I world's fair. Mr. I Buchanan was Iwn near Covington. (*. Sept. 16. 1853, and

w. I. HKUANAX.

received . (Mhrration in the <<mntrj school I- iiv«rl in Indiana for a time. | and in I|£ , 1875 was engrossing ch rk ] of the low<*' house the Legislature. • Recently Biichanan wn* arb.(rater i to fix theline between Argen- < tina .ind ( ,'fti He has lived at Sieux : City, lowa, pince 1882. Charles ^L Schwab, prominently in i the public eye by reason of hi* conne< tion with the crippled steel trust. 1* a 1

C. XL set! V. AU.

"self made ’ man" whose ndv ancement ha* been rapid. lie wa* born April 18. DijJ. at Williamsburg. I’n., and was for a time n student in St. Francis College. A* a lK>y lie drove a stage, and was a stakedriver in the engineering corps of the Edgar Thompson

steel works. He speedily got other em I ploymrnt in the ot’ice of tin Caiuegie i company, and soon be. ame superintim I dent Os the Homestead works. Hi* next advancement was to the presidency of I the Carnegie Steel Company, and he i ; . now a diuxtor and a member of th. finance committee of the Unite! State I Steel Corp >rati<m. John G. Walker, rear admiral United States navy, retired, is the chtuum n <4 the Panama, Canal Commission. Ad

miral Welker is an authority en the in teroeeanie c ana' question, and praeti rally since 1897 has ! devoted his time tc | the study of the question. He enter ed the navy frori । lowa in 1850 and distinguished him [ self in the Civi War as an oflicei of great ability, am!

AW AbCTR.

* J maintained order it Hawaii^ ’ time of the revolution He was at the age limit in ING Dani?^^ily, the cotton king, tvhost failure startk ’ the world, was a salaried employe $75 a week two yenrt

•, S-) DANIEL J. SULLY.

ago. After viewing the cotton fields of the South he concluded the w««te of the farmers and the ravages of 1 weevil WoU^q| ^yAtllQ rod tie t ionTT” cotton. He advised friends to buy cotton and acted as their agent. In the May corner of 1903 he cleared $2,006,600 to $5,000,000.

He increased the market value of the year’s crop $200,000,060. Since then he has been a bull in the market. Inability to buy all the cotton offered at falling prices drove him to the wall. It is estimated his losses aggregate $1,700,000. Dr. Francis E. Clark of Boston, founder of the Christian Endean r movement.

.lias begun with liis daughter a seven months’ tour of the world. He will visit every Christian Endeavor center. Several clergymen and Christian Endeavor officials xvere at the station to bid Dr. Clark farewell. Dr. Clark and his daughter are now in the Orient.

O’ BEV. DR. CLARK.

IOWA MINES SHUT DOWN. Conference of Work men and Operators Onuble to Settle Dispute. Unable to agree to an arbitration of their differences, tie lowa miners and operators split in joint conference Thursday, with the result that every mine in the State will be -hut down, throwing 13,500 miners out of employment. The conference adjourned a session covering a period of six weeks, the latter part of which was devoted to an attempt on the part of both to arrive at some amicable conclusion. The split resulted from a refusal on the part of the operators to raise the wages of the unskilled and to lower the price of blasting powder demanded by the num. The refusal to increase the wage of unskilled miners' workmen, such as mule drivers and top men. at the beginning o( the conference extended only to certain districts where that class of labor is un usually expensive, but at the close of the conference the operators demanded that it should be universal ami apply to every, district in the State. Summed up, the situation is thus; The miners demand a reduction in the price of blasting powder from $2 to $1.75 per can. They demand a uniform advance in the scale of wages paid top men, and that drivers in districts Nos. 1 and 4 should receive the same scale as in districts Nos. 2 and 3. The operators claimed they were standing by the Indianapolis agreement and in so doing could not submit <<> geneial increases in the wages pam unskilled labor throughout the district. There was no dissatisfaction with the scale paid skilled workmen in any district. President White of the lowa miners said: “The miners made every attempt to arbitrate and were unable to reach an agreement. There is nothing else now to do but to fight it out to the end. I shall never sanction an agreement under the present conditions.” Leading operators say the position of the miners is unI tenable and that they cannot reach then so long as they cling to their present pc sition. The strike and lockout will include । mines in Appanoose. Mahaska. Keokuk I Wapello, Marion. Jasper. I’olk. Boone ■ and Webst • counties, lowa, and those in | Putnam Uounty. Missouri. In Polk County there are 4,s<K> miners, while more than $2,000,006 is invested in the business in this county alone. The struggle is likely to be long and bitter. OHIO BANK IN CRASH. Federal Trust Co. of Cleveland Assigns— Boston Institution Closes Its Doors. Uneasiness caused by the strange disappenrnnce of George I'. Ch well, its seci rotary and treasurer, and rumors that he | had embezzled a large amount, forced । the assignment of the Federal Trust I Company iu Cleveland. News of the failure caused a panic among the depositor* of the Pearl Street Savings and Loan Company, and a run was begun on that bank. The prominent institutions downtown, however, rushed coin and currency to the assistance of the bank, nnd when the clamoring crowd of deiwisitors were admitted they found the counters piled high with silver dollars and smaller coins. The sight of the great piles of wealth was magical, and the crowd melted away. The Federal Trust Company assigned to the Guardian Trust Company. The action is said to have been taken ns a result of the disappearance of Clewell nnd reports that a shortage had been found in the funds of the concern. The compnuy's total assets will be . about s3.<MWi.(X>*. It has a capital stock I of SLoixi.ih**. a surplus fund of $56,000 i nnd about $140,060 undivided profits. According to its hist report it had $2,188.- | 362 in loans and discounts, $45,300 in real estate loans, and owned $729,000 ' stocks, bonds and mortgages. An agreement practically was reach- । ed between the directors of the Federal i TtU't Company nnd the Guardian Trust । Company several days ago. providing sot I the merging of the two concerns. The i disnppeni :m e of Clewell. however, pre- । ipitated matters, ami the directors de- , -ided that an assignment probably would avoid a run on the bank and protect ail I interests. Unable to provide for the unusual deI ms.nJs of it* depositor*, the Union Trust ('ompauy of B ston losed its doors. The I liabilities of tie company are plmed at ' s LdUG.ixK 1 . u ith nominal assets of about ' tin sama amount. For some time past , depositors have been making heavy with- ; draw al*, and the manag merit of the ■ bank w i* un bte to realize on securities I quickly enough to meet these demands. I The Union Trust ('ompauy was imorpoI rated in Isss. It was capitalized at i slih\<H*o. and it* [ resident i* formei Con- | gressman M illiam E. Barrett. Orders for 50.060 tons of steel rails have been placed by the Harriman lines, at the schedule price of S2B per ton. The Southern Pacific has been granted a concession by the Mexican government to build a line through the peninsula of Lower California. The Grand Triink shareholders, at a trceflng in Loudon, ratified the agreement with the Canadian government for the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific. The Rai'road Commission of Louisiana has adopted a uniform bill of lading for all freight on all roads in Louisiana and ordered the railroads to adopt the same. The Now York Central Railroad has opened negotiations with the American Locomotive Works for the purchase of 112 locomotives for use on the Central and the Lake Shore. The work of double-tracking the line of the Richmond. Fredericksburg and Potomac Railway, the only line between Richmond, Va., and Washington. D. C., is progressing rapidly. Between 12.606 and 15.600 home-seek-ers, bound for Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, started from Chicago a few days ago over the Santa Fe, making the trip in special trains. The Delaware nnd Hudson's seventyfourth annual report for the year 1903 shows a net income of $3,914,794, out of which dividends of $2,450,000, at the rate of 7 per cent, were paid, and in addition $1,000,000 was spent for equipment and nearly $500,000 for new construction and mining plants. The Burlington bridge across the Missouri river at Nebraska City is in danger of being turned by the current of the river ami of being left spanning a bayou or dry land. The river is cutting into the lowa bank rapidly nnd when the spring rise occurs the current may change despite the efforts of the engineers to retain it in its present place.

MOB HINDERS SOLONS Convenintr of Cuban House Prevented by Riotous Scenes in Chamber. 1 he ( üban Congress was to have convened Monday, but only the Senate " j in session. The House was simply * riot, owing to the enormous numlo r of disputes over election frauds and charges ol fraud made by the various contesting menjbers. All the nationalist members refused to enter the chamber, the nationalists fear ing that if the question of contested seat* arose they would be outvoted by the coalition largely arranged between the republicans and moderate liberals. The nationalists, however, came into the building accompanied by several hundred local followers, who crowded into the audience part of the chamber and into the halls and streets adjoining, shouting "viva.*" for the nationalist party. The republicans and moderate liberals, for the most part, remained in their seats. Ilie Speaker of the House, a nationalist, not being present, the Vice-Speak-er called upon the sergeant-at-arms and the employes of the Hous* to preserve order, but the crowd was too great to handle. Liouaz Castillo, a nationalist, who was one of those elected, mounted the reU>rters' table and. addressing the crowd, assured it that justice would lie done and that the representatives who had been fraudulently declared elected would never be permitted to take their seats. As the disorder continued. Representative Boza. himself a nationalist, addressed the people to the effect that such a demonstration in the House was not only unlawtul but outrageous, and lie counseled them that no redress of grievances could be had by such means. The people thereupon began to withdraw quietly, just as a squad of police entered the building. President Palma's message was read in the Senate. On the subject of contested elections and election frauds President Palma said he had abstained from intervention in all questions arising out of the elections, leaving their settlement to other and proper authorities. The message also showed the prosperity of tiie island. The sugar industry had enormously increased the danger of overproduction. Cuba, he thought, should consider other forms of industry. Cattle have increased from 953.911 head in 1902 to 1.223.613 and horses and mules from 187.728 to 230.473. The message says the public health is excellenl. The number of deaths in Havana in 190-3 is the lowest since 1820. The rate in the island is not over fifteen per l.e *O. He also says not a single case of yellow fever nor smallpox has originated in Cuba during the year. Regarding the reciprocity treaty. President Palma says both countries have agreed that ('uban or American products exported to other countries ami shipped to the United States or Cuba shall enjoy the benefits of the treaty. Cuba, he said, had pronosed this measure to prevent other nations from passing off their own products as ('uban or American. A WONDERFUL REVIVAL. Former Baseball Player Converts Thousands in the West. For nearly a month and a half a rebgioii* let ival tempest has been sweeping over northern Illinois and eastern lotta. The section covered with this religious outburst embraces a population of over 500.600, and of this number 200,696 have attended the revival meetings. Night after night special trains have carried people by the thousand to Sterling, 111., and at one meeting 1.647 converts were mode. No hall in th« place was laige enough to accommodate the crowds, and such a demand arose for the opportunity of hearing the sermons that a telephone system was introduced and 188 cities and towns in lowa and Illinois were connected with the hall where the exercises were held. In this way 8,000 persons while sitting in their own homes were enabled to hear the sermons every night. As a result of the revival the different t hutch societies in this part of Illinois have trebled and in some cases quadrr.ph d their membership. Before the revital only 15 per cent of the people of Sterling attended church; now the perccntage lias swelled until practically the entire community is drawn to the < 1: un h< s. The wonder of this religious upheaval is William A. Sunday, a former base--1 all player of national prominence. He has t een an evangelist eight years. After one of his sermons fourteen whist clubs disbanded and many other clubs, < rganized for pleasure, have gone out of busim ss. NEW PENSION RULING By Which Practically All Veterans Will Draw Pensions. Under the new ruling made recently by the administration every veteran of the Civil War who can prove his service and his age is entitled to a pensiou. There have been introduced into Congress several bill* providing for service pensiou*. but there has been a hesitancy toward their passage on the ground that the cry of extravagance might be made. The administration has taken the matter into its own hands and assumes the full responsibility before the country. An act passed in 1890 directed the pension bureau to regard any veteran incapacitated who has reached the age of 75 and to award him a pension of sl2 a month. The administration has taken the position that if it has the power to make a ruling that a man is entirely incapacitated at 75 it has a right to say that ho is partially iio npacitntcd before he reaches that age. Acting on this conclusion. it has been ordered that when a teteran is 62 years old he shall be regarded as half incapacitated and shall be entitled to a pension of $6 a month; at 68 sl6. and at 76 sl2. The new ruling will give a pension to practically every veteran of the Civil War, for there are very few who have not reached the age of 62. ARMED CONVICTS ARE FOILED. Attempt to Escape from Missouri Penitentiary at Jefferson City. A desperate attempt to escape from the -Missouri penitentiary at Jefferson City was made Tuesday by four convicts, heavily armed and also carrying sticks of dtxiamite. They succeeded in cutting their way out of their cells, and when John Williams, a guard, in making his rounds, came upon them in the corridor they called upon him to halt. Williams tied and gave the alarm. A corps of guards responded and soon overpowered the convicts and placed them in other ce’ls. The convicts —James Thornton. I’. T. Ellis, James McDonald and J. C. Millard —assert that they secured die revolvers and dynamite by express, but the prison authorities believe the weapons and explosive were smuggled to them by friends in visiting. An investigation was immediately instituted. Thornton. Ellis and McDonald came to the penitentiary three years ago on ten-year sentences each for safe-blowing in Platte County. Millard was sentenced from Cape Girardeau County for grand larceny.

ICONGRESSI r *< The bill for the repeal of the desert land, the timber and stone and the homestead <onunutation laws was taken up lor discussion iu the Senate Tlmrsday. Mr. ( lark (M yo.i contested the position taken by Mr. Gibson that there have been great fraud* in the admmistration of the land laws in the West. He declared that there is a lobby in Washington in the interest of the repeal bill, and engaged in a colloquy with Mr. Patterson, during which each chai i- i< rized the statements of the other a* :intrue. 'The genera! debate on the postotic-e bill lias confined largely to a speech by Mr. McCreary and interruptions by the Republican Senator*. <'on«ideration of the sundry civil appropriation bid was concluded in the House and ti e bm W as about to be passed when a roll call on a motion to commit the bill with instructions to strike out the paragraph appropriating $136,066 for rental of the ' I New York custom house showed a quorum was not present. The right of boards of directors of State homes for disabled volunteer soldiers to retain certain portions'of pension money received by the inmates w;* discussed at length. The session of the Senate Friday was devoted to an almost continuous discussion of ponfica! questions. The time until 2 o'clock was given to a consideration of the Carraek resolution proposing an inquiry into the legality cf the recent executive old a^e pension order. The latter half of the day was devoted 10 the postoffiee appropriation bill. Mr. Culberson proposed an amendment providing for an investigation of the department by a joint committee of three Senators and five members of the House. The committee is authorized to sit during the recess of Congress and rep, rt on or before Dec. 5. Part of the investigation proposed is to pass upon the postal laws, with a view to recommending charges. Mr. Foraker introduced a bill to amend the act for the government of Hawaii, prescribing the man: -r of appointing public officials and for their removal for cause by the Governor. The House passed the sundry civil appropriation hili after voting down a proposition to •recommit it. with instructions ; > strike out the appropriation of $136,660 for rent of the New York custom house. The remainder of the day was devoted to dis- < ussion of the conference report on the army appropriation bill. With the exception of one amendment providing certain increases in the signal corps the House disagreed to all other important amendments and the bill was sent back to conference. In (lie Senate Saturday Mr. Mallory continued his speech on the Carmack resolution looking to an inquiry into the old-age pension order by Secretary Hitchcock. He declared the order was a usurI pation of legislative authority. Mr. Warren spoke on the land law repeal bill, opposing wholesale repeal as against rapid settlement of unoccupied areas. In the House 319 pension bills were passed. A bill was passed conferring jurisdiction upon United States commissioners over offenses committed in a portion of the Hot Springs reservation. Arkansas. The State of Texas was authorized to place in Statuary Hall, in the national ca;>it<>l, statues of Sam Houston a..d Stephen F. Austin. A resolution was ituopted .oiling for a convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of the fur seals of Alaska. In the Senate Monday Mr. Gibson replied to the opponents of the meas’i' C repealing the land laws and denied that the proponents of the bill were proceeding at the instigation and in the interest of land grant railroads. Mr. Hansbrough in reply mentioned by name- George H. Maxwell, who, he said, was drawing a princely salary for the work he did in this direction. Considerable progress was made with the postoilice appropriation bill. A number of pension bills were passed. In the House an attempt was made to secure consideration under suspension of the rules of the bid appropriating $475.0(h* for the Lewis and Clark exposition. The move failed after the House had divided seve~al times and the 101 l had been called twice. The military academy appropriation was taken up and Mr. Parker explained its features briefly. Mr. Goldfogle spoke in behalf of the Jews of the United States, for whom he asked equal treatment and prOlectioa while traveling in Russia. Mr. Liver- _ : mish. of California, made an attack on ■ the President as a foe of union labor nd I Mr. Morrell (Pa.i discussed the nearo ! question. Consideration of the bill was j not concluded. ! The Senate Tuesday listened to a two hours' speech by Mr. Morgan 'Hi the J Panama canal question. He miv .eated j the p« ssage of his resolution r< ■ information from the Attorney General , concerning concessmus. to the original Panama ('anal Company and his talk in . the main was an arraignn new company. In spite of his appeal the 1 resolution was referred to the committee on intcroceanic canals. Several aimnd--1 meats to the postoffiee appropriation i bill were passed. The p ^ccedi' -* of . the House were enlivened by s] by Mr. De Armond and Mr. Gro*\। •■'.or.__ . The former attacked the Hept:; ... an* . ■ ■ failure to order an investigation' into the t postoffice charges and to revise the taritt. . The latter vigorously defended rbe R . publican party ami lauded* ITe*i<lent ■ i Roosevelt for the part he played I postal investigation, tne passage ol ter J Cuban reciprocity law and the treaty [ with Panama. The militaiw ..c.idemy > bill was passed without amendment. In the National Capital. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Capt. Theodore J. Jewel’ to be a rear admiral; also other promotions in the navy. Senator Cullom, by direction of the- •' foreign relations committee of the Sen--1 ' ate. reported the consular reform bill. ■ | advocated by the National Business ; 1 ; League, favorably. ' i \V. T. Nichols has been appointed by ; the President to be secretary of Arizona 1 । to succeed Isaac T. Stoddard. Mr. Nichi ols is chairman of the territorial Repub- ; : lican organization of Arizona. ' ! Mormon secrets have been revealed in. I Smoot hearing; Apostle Lyman admits ' he has three wives and declares Utah I Senator never protested. President Roosevelt will not attend Republican party birthday celebration at i Jackson. Mich., because of dispute as j to whether party was born there. The Frye Philippine shipping nil! was ' passed on understanding that Klam! tai*i iff will be lowered nt short session of 1 present Congress; coasting kept, | Serious charges have been tiled with the Senate investigating committee against the conduct of the Red Cross Society; it is alleged that money collected never has been accounted for.