POWERS WILL ARBITRATE 0 Great Britain, Germany and Italy Send v Venezuelan Answer. 'BOSUN'S REPLY IS UNSATISFACTORY. Dm t Iti Reaalrttntats SiM to B An Apol tr Fro Castra Asks Amend tor the Arreit ! Coasals and Sicklag f Legation ' Eattaadt Chief Coacera la lor Adequate OaaraalM Hay Will Ask Allies ! Recede. Washington, D. C. (Special). Secre tary Hay has received partial responses from the Governments of Great Britain. Germany and Italy respecting the pro posal to arbitrate the Venezuelan dif ficulties. Great Britain is favorable to arbitra tion with proper safeguards. Germany accepts arbitration in prin ciple, but finds a multitude of small ad justments to be made before entering into the agreement. Italy, as the junior partner of the Dies, declares that she is favorable to arbitration, but will be bound probably ly the action of the senior partners. As far as England is concerned, the safeguards referred to are believed to relate to the question of guarantee, which is full of difficulties. Sonic con sideration is again being given to tlic feasibility of the assumption of responsibility for any award assessed against Venezuela, but the United States Government is determined not to allow itself to be drawn into the po aition of a guarantor in this case, for the precedent, once established, might require the United States to become the financial backer of all South and Cen tral America. However, if private con cerns can be induced to enter the field the United States Government will do what it can to reduce their risks. Secretary Hay. Sir Michael Her bert, the British Ambassador, and Sen ator Depew were in conference, and it it suspected that this phase of the case was touched upon, although no confir mation can be had at this time. The German position presents the greatest difficulties, for not only does it involve a demand for apologies, which re extremely repugnant to Venezue lans, but also presents so many points requiring adjustment that it is evident that many Jays, or perhaps weeks, must elapse before that adjustment can be effected and the case prepared for arbi tration. The danger of the delay in the face of a blockade, which seriously cripples tieutral commerce and invites hostile collisions with the Venezuelans, cannot 1e overestimated. The effort of the United States, therefore, must be di rected toward hastening Germany's ac tion on the arbitration pronosal and toward endeavoring to persuade it to recede on some particular. The Italian position is. of course, of .less concern than that of the other al lies. The Italian ambassador here, in his intercourse with the State Depart ment, has been extremely moderate and considerate, giving Secretary Hay the impression that he is well disposed to second any ettort ot tne unnea States to terminate the present dan gerous situation. The French Government has served notice that, without abating her claims, the payment for which has been ar ranged, she also claims the right to have the claims of the French citizens ,which have arisen since the adjustment above spoken of considered by the joint tribunal which will adjust the Venezu elan debts on a basis of equality with those of the other nations. This contention is strongly resisted by some of the allied Powers, and is one of the points which is likely to lead to the consumption oi much time and which must be disposed of before a final arrangement can be made to arbi trate the case. Secretary Hay laid before the Cabi net meeting the latest phases of the Venezuelan situation as .shown by the correspondence he had had with our Ambassadors and the Foreign Offices at London, Berlin and Rome, and also acquainted the members with the sub stance of the verbal exchanges which had taken place with the Ambassadors from those capitals in Washington. After a thorough discussion of the subject, the Cabinet gave its unquali fied approval to everything that had been done by Secretary Hay and also to his plans for the future, so far as they were outlined. It is gathered that the attitude of the United States is for the present a waiting one. in the hope that the allies wfil soon be able to agree upon the basis upon which they arc willing to accept arbitration. HAD J3t0,0JO ON HIS LIFE. R. C Wbsyae, ol Louisville. Ky., Foj.id Mys teriously Shot. . Louisville (Special). It developed liere that R. C. Whayne, a Louisville business man who was found dead in the vicinity of Jacob Park with a gun shot wound in the breast, carried insur ance on his life of $340,000 and had ap pications pending for $50,000 more. It was upon the fact that he carried audi laie life insurance and was said to be suffering from rheumatism thai a theory oi suicide was ba ,ed. Coroner Kelly went to the scene of the shooting. He said the circum stances were such that the case would require exhaustive examination. Near Mr. Whayne' s body, but on the opposite side of a wire fence, was a shotgun with one barrel empty and the other loaded end cocked. His friends and family de clare that death was due to accident and that the gun was discharged while tie was climbing through the fence: Kills Hyacinth, Alts Cattle. Tallahassee, Fla. (Special). Gover nor Jennings received a telegram from Palatka, Fla., stating that the fluid be ing used by the United States authori ties in the effort to kill hyacinth in the " C John's river, and its tributaries by spraying it is daily causing the death of undreds of cattle on the ranges bor dering; upon these waters. The sender of the telegram ured prompt action to secure an investigation looking to ending the danger to the cattle. New Ship Merger. Rockland, Maine (Special). The American Navigation Company, just formed in this State, with a capitali sation of $1,000,000, contemplates the establishment of a splendid fleet of ves sels under one head and some import ant changes in the management of shipping. Vessel property in many Mew England ports will be merged in to this big company, and from time to time the company will build vessels to add to the fleet. The home port of the company is Bath, and most of the re pairs will be made there. THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. DobkiiIc. Voltairine It Cleyre. n noted anarchist and a teacher of languages, was shot and mortally wounded on the street in Phila delphia hy Herman llelscher, a former pupil, who said they had been sweet hearts and she had broken his heart. United Stales Judge Edward B. Thomas, in Brooklyn, handed down a decision dccl.irit'g invalid a claim of $1,000,000 against the United States, entered by l-ieutcnant Commander Wil liam II. H. Southerland, of the Navy. J. W. Barriger, Jr., aged 27, a civil engineer, in the employ of the St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railroad, was stabled to death in St. Louis by S. M. Morton in the Granite Building. Justice Scott, in the Supreme Court in New York, dismised the writ of habeas corpus in the case of Jesse Lewisolm, who refused to answer questions before the grand jury in the gambling c ses. In a statement made bv V. G. Hunter, Jr., before the Court of the Third In stance in Guatemala City, he declared that he shot mid killed William A. Fitz gerald in self-defense. C. S. Wight and Frank Harriott tes tified before the Interstate Commerce Commission meeting in New York to investigate the railroad rates on import traffic. The iury in the ease of Thomas Shar key, accused of killing Banker Nicholas Fish in New York, returned a verdict of manslaughter in the second degree. Proceedings were instituted by a New York lawyer against the General Electric Company under the Sherman Anti-trust Law. The postofiire robber who was shot in Middlcshurg, Pa., by Rev. D. B. Shcllcn berger, died without revealing his name. A runaway car loaded with lumber crashed into a double-headed freight near Bradford, Pa., and both engineers were killed. A plan is to lie adopted by which workmen of the Republic Iron and Steel Company are to be stockholders. Antonio Taddai, an Italian, who killed three men in self-defense in Reading, Pa., was acquitted after a trial. A round up of ladrones in the Rizal province in the Philippines is proceed ing. It has come to light that R.C.Whayne, who was found dead in Louisville, Ky., with a gunshot wound in his head, car ried $340,000 worth of Insurance. Many witnesses were produced before the Anthracite Strike Commission to prove that a reign of terror prevailed in the mining regions during the strike A number of witnesses testified at Freehold, N. J., that they had heard Mr. Bennett and many of his employes ad dress Laura Biggar as Mrs. Bennett. The remains of the late Gen. George Moorman were temporarily buried in the tomb of the Army of the Tennessee, in Metaire Cemetery, in Louisiana. The monitor Nevada had her trial trip over the Cape Ann course, her average speed considerably exceeding the con tract requirement. Officials of the Reading Coal Company hold out no encouragement of relief from the coal stringency this winter. It is said that 9,000 Boers are prepar ing to trek to America, settling in Colo rado, New Mexico and Texas. The will of Mary Longfellow Green leaf, sister of the poet Longfellow, be queathed $83,000 to charity. The threatened strike in the General Electric Works, at Schenectady, N. Y has been averted. Aaron & Co., of Kansas City. Mo., have secured a comer on turkeys for the Christmas trade. The new Union Steel Company has been absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation. One hundred and fifty firms reorgan ized the pottery combine in Pittsburg. Foreign. United States Ambassador Tower presented his credentials to Emperor William at the palace in Berlin, and the Emperor assured him that he was convinced that the cordial relations be tween Germany and the United States which had always existed would con tinue. Four hundred thousand persons are destitute and starving as a result of the crop fai!;:re in Finland. The Anglo American Church is aiding the desti tute. John Roche, member of Parliament for East Gulway, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for unlawful as sembly. One thousand persons are reported to have lost their lives in the earth quake at Andijan, Russian Central Asia. The grand jury indicted Col. Arthur Lynch, member of Parliament for Gal way, for high treason. The Czar pardoned 58 students who were exiled to Siberia for rioting on his Name Day. King Edward, in his speech prorogu ing Parliament, referred to the unjusti lialile and arbitrary acts of Venezuelans against British subjects and property. Many persons were killed and injured and over 1,000 homes were destroyed by the earthquake at Andijan, Russian Ctn tial Asia. The Himdesxath approved the German Tariff Bill in the form in which it passed its third reading in the Reichstag. General Norj. having been proclaimed president of llayti by the army, took possession oi the national palace. Prince RiKgio and Countess Ubnldi committed suicide in a hotel in Genoa. Sixty-three persons are reported to have been frozen to death in Hungary and three shepherds to have been eaten by wolves. Queen Alexandra acted as godmother at the christening of Ixrd Mandeville, heir of the Duke and Duchess of Man chester. Financial. Lehigh Valley retains all the ad vances it has recently made. St. Paul's melon for stockholders is nearly ripe and is promised as a cer tainty. It is asserted that the American Lo comotive Company has orders for 2800 locomotives. Russell Sage is loaning 6 per cent, money for five months, which looks more cheerful. James R. Keene denies that he is in any way connected with an Amalga mated Copper pool, Canadian Pacific's earnings for the second week of December were $824, 000, an increase of $55,000. Chicago hears that the Pennsylvania is paying daily $3000 (or borrowed cars and $1500 for cars overdue. It is understood that next year France will make a loan of $100,000,000, and Spain a loan of equal amount. American Shipbuilding Company de clared a quarterly dividend of 1 3-4 per cent, on its preferred stock. It is semiofficially reported that China will pay the next indemnity in stallment in silver, not being able to get gold. PASSES PURE FOOD BILL The Hou.e ol Representatives Ajrees to the Measure by Decisive Vote. SOME STRICT PROVISIONS CARRIED. Bill Prohibits Ibe Introduction lata any State r Territory, or the District ot Colombia, From Aoy Other State or Territory, or From Any Foreign Country ol Any Article Food Which Is Adulterated or Mlsbranded. Washington, D. C. ( Special). The House passed the Pure Food bill by a vote of 72 to 2t. There was not a quorum present, but the point was not raised by the opponents of the measure. The bill inhibits the introduction into any State or Territory, or the District of Columbia, from any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or from any foreign country, or to the ship ments to any foreign country of any article of food or drug which is adul terated or misbranded. The above inhi bition is made to apply to anyone ship ping, delivering or receiving within the. regions named any swell tood so adul terated. Adulterations in the bill arc defined as follows: In the case of drugs, if sold under a name recognized in the United States pharmacopeia and the drug differs from the standards of strength, quality or purity as determined hy tne test laid down in such pharmacapicia at the time of the investigation, so that its strength or purify falls below the professed standard under which it is sold; if it be an imitation of, or offered for sale under the name of another article; and in the case of a confectionery, if it con tains terra alba, barytes, talc, chrome yellow or other mineral substances, or poisonous colors or flavors. In the case of food, when any sub stance is mixed with it so as to lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength, so fhat such product when offered for sale shall tend to deceive the purchaser. If any substance or substances have been substituted so that the product when sold shall tend to deceive the pur chaser. If any valuable constituent of an article has been wholly or in part ab stracted. If it be an imitation of, or offered for sale under, the distinctive name of an other article. If it be mixed, colored, powdered or stained in a manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed. If it contain any added or poisonous ingredient which may render such article injurious to health. If it is falsely labeled as a foreign product, or is in imitation of another substance of a previously established name or which has been trade-marked or patented. If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any part of an animal unfit for food, or if it is the pro duct of a diseased animal or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter. The last section of the bill provides that any article of food or drug that is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this bill and is transported, or being transported, from one State to another for sale, or if it be sold in the District of Columbia or the Territories, or if it be imported from a foreign country, shall be liable to confiscation by a process of libel for condemnation in the United States courts. Such goods, it is also provided, shall not be sold in any State contrary to the laws thereof. RESCUED FROM SINKING SHIP. : Seven Men and One Woman Saved By Steam. er Mira. Philadelphia (Special). Suffering se verely from exposure and privation, seven shipwrecked men and one wo man arrived here on the British steam er Mira, Captain Swartmore, from New Castle-on-Tyne. The victims included C. H. Clements, owner of the British schooner, J. N. Wylde, Captain Dun phy. his wife, and five seamen. They were rescued from the disman tled and sinking schooner by the crew of the Mira. The J. N. Wylde was bound from Philadelphia, December I. for Bridgewatcr, Nova Scotia. Off Newfoundland the vessel was overtaken by a blizzard which continued more than a week. Benumbed by the cold, the captain and crew were unable to manage the schooner, which was toss ed helplessly about. Several vessels passed the distressed chooner, but her captain and crew were unable to answer their signals. Finally, one of the sailors succeeded in fastening a signal to the mast, which, on December 14, brought the Mira to the rescue. TO STAMP OCT TUBERCULOSIS. An American Congress on tn: Disease to Be Formed. Atlanta, Ga. ("Special). A petition was filed here in the Superior Court asking for a charter for the incorpora tion of the "American Congress on Tu berculosis. Dr. fieorge Brown, of At lanta, heads the list of petitioners. Others who arc seeking to have the congress incorporated are Dr. Henry D. Holton, of Vermont; Dr. Daniel Lewis, of New York; Dr. J. A. ICagan, ot Illinois: Dr. Frank Paschal, of Tex as; Dr. Irving A. Watson, of New Hampshire; Dr. K. J. Barrack, of Can ada, and Dr. P. 11. Bryce, of Canada. The purpose of the corporation is to promote discussion and devise means oi bettering the condition of cows suf fering with tuberculosis. Another ob ject is to assist in organizing the world s congress on tuberculosis. Beggar Dies, Worth $100,00). Toronto, Out. (Special). Eli Hy man, a Jew, who begged for admis sion to the general hospital here, is dead. An examination of his clothing resulted in finding scrip worth $,31,000. Other paper showed Hyman to be worth probably $100,000. For 20 years he had slept in sheds and stables. He sold papers and begged moucy and food. His heirs are his widow and a daughter, living, it is thought, in San Francisco. For Thrc Strawberries. New Haven, Conn. (Special). Twelve men have tried a 17-ycar-old boy on a charge of stealing three strawber ries and deliberated an hour before find ing; him not guilty. Joseph Carroll, wiih two other boys, was charged with eating three strawberries while trespassing. They were fined $10 each in the lower court. The others paid, but Carroll ap pealed. It was pointed out that the case could be dismissed on a technicality, as the boy was tried without a guardian be ing appointed, but the court overruled it. DOINGS AT THE NATION'S CAPiTAL. Senator Hoar's Trust BIIL Following close on the House appro priating $500,000 for the use of the Attorney-General in prosecuting the trusts -came the announcement from Senator George F, Hoar, of Massachu setts, that he will prepare a bill during the holiday recess for presentation in the Senate. Inasmuch a Mr. Hoar is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and came to Washington at the beginning of the session with an opinion against anti-trust legislation, this fact is im portant, and may mean some sort of trust legislation before March 4. Sena tor Hoar authorized a statement on the subject in which he suggested that three things should be done. First The Attorney-General should be supplied with sufficient resources to enable him to execute the existing law. Second There should be legislation which provide safeguards against the abuse oi corporate powers engaged in international or interstate commerce. Third Whrther the definition of the thing which should be prohibited exists in the present law; and whether it should be amended or could be amend ed and improved, should depend very much on the opinion of the law officer of the Government who is charged with the administration of the law. Department of Commerce. The House Committee on Interstate Commerce ordered a favorable report on the Department of Commerce bill. The vote on reporting it stood 5 to 3. The provision for including the bu reau of labor in the new department was retained on a tie vote. As it will come from the House Committee, the bill will embrace within the proposed Department of Commerce the light house board, the lighthouse service, na tional bureau of standard, coast and geodetic survey, bureau of immigra tion, fish commission, bureau oi statis tics, of the Treasury Department: bu reau of foreign commerce, of the State j Department; fur, seal and salmon fish- ; eries, bureau- of labor and census and j three new bureaus insurance, matin- j factures and corporations. The province and duty of the pro- j posed bureau of corporations is, un- j iter the direction of the secretary of commerce, to gather, compile, publU'.i I and supply useful information concern ing corporations engaged in interstate or foreign commerce. A section added to the Senate bill gives the President the authority to transfer at any time any statistical or scientific branch of the Government to the Department of Commerce. Philippine Currency BIIL The Senate Committee on the Phil ippine Islands agreed upon a bill for the establishment of the currency of the Philippines, which is the joint pro duction of Senators Henry Cabot Lodge and William B. Allison. It makes the gold peso of 12.9 grains the unit oi value in the islands and the gold coins of the United States legal tender for all debts. In addition to the currency at pres ent authorized the Philippine Govern ment is permitted to have coined 75. 000.000 silver pesos of 416 grains each, which are to be legal tender for all debts in the islands unless otherwise specified by contract or by law. Sub sidiary silver coins also are allowed in excess ot the present volume. 1 lie Philippine Government is authorized to issue certificates of indebtedness in or der to maintain the parity between the gold and silver pesos. Provision also is made for the re demption of the present silver currency oi the islands. Authority is given for the coinage of the silver pesos at Ma nilla or at any of the mints oi the United States. For Emergency Currency. Representative Elijah B. Lewis, oi Georgia, member of the House Com mittee on Banking and Currency, in troduced a bill to provide an clastic or emergency currency to meet the finan cial and commercial requirements of the country. The hill authorizes the Comptroller of the Currency to issue to any na tional banking association, in addition to the circulation now authorized by law, circulating notes to an amount not exceeding 25 per cent, of the paid-up capital and surplus of said bank. To Admit Fair Employes. A joint resolution was introduced in the House by Representative James A. Tawney, oi Minnesota, chairman oi the House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, providing that the Allen Contract Labor law shall not op erate to prevent foreign exhibitors at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis from bringing into the United States, under contract, such employes, natives of foreign countries, as they may deem necessary f r spe cified purposes, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Indian Service Short ol Assistance. The Indian service is confronted with a lack of physicians, industrial teach ers, disciplinarians and seamstresses, the Civil Service Commission having no names oil its rolls of eligibles to fill the vacancies in these positions. With lbs Lawmakers. Delegate Rodey, of New Mexico, is sued an appeal to the people of tlx' country on behalf of the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, which are ap plying for statehood. The report of the British minister at Havana shows that the Cubans have been making excellent progress. The House Committee ordered a fav orable report on the bill to create a de partment of commerce. The President decided not to send the Cuban Reciprocity Treaty to the House. The House Military Affairs Commit tee authorized a favorable report on the bill drafted by the War Depart ment creating a general staff corps in the Army. The Senate passed the Pension Appro priation Bill. It carries $139,847,000. The House passed the bill to reduce the duties on the products of the Philip pine Islands from 75 per cent, of the Dingley rates to 25 per cent. The Senate Committee on Education and Labor agreed upon a favorable re port of the House Eight-hour bill. Secretary Root made an argument be fore the Senate committee in favor of the General Staff Bill. January 31, at 3 o'clock, was fixed as the time for holding the exercises in connection with the acceptance of the statues of Charles Carroll and John Hanson, Maryland's contribution to Sta tuary Jlall, ' NON-UNION MEN ON STAND -Stories of Alleged Violence Told to the Mine Commission. MANY OF THEM ACCUSE STRIKERS. Four Witnesses Said Attempts Were Made to Dlow Up their Houses; One Hous It Was Alleged Was Badly Damaged Many Wit nesses Were Threatened With Bodily Harm Testified to Belaf Hung In Effigy. Scranton, Fa. (Special). Non-union men, some of their relatives and others to the number of 30 appeared before the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission and told their stories of alleged boy cotts, intimidations, dynnmiting and violence in various forms during the late strike. Each witness called was a sufferer in one form or another at the hands, they allege, of strikers. Four witnesses said attempts were made to blow up their houses; one house, it was alleged, was badly dam aged; many of the witnesses were threatened with bodily harm, several were beaten, one was shot in the leg and everyone stoned, boycotted or hanged in effigy, they declared. One school teacher testified having lost his position because bis father did not strike. Joseph H. Dugan. who says he was requested to give up his membership in a temperance society because he was classed as an unfair workman, re mained at work doing repair work and acting as watchman. He said he had been stoned and otherwise badly treat ed, and added that a good clubbing would not have hurt half as much as the action of the society in dropping him from the urganiation. The boys he had drilled in the society, he said, stoned him on the highway, and when he displayed his revolver they all drop ped flat on the road. C. S. Darrow, for the miners, asked the witness if he thought the union taught them that, to which the witness replied that he. as captain of the mili tary company of the society, had taught the boys the military tactics which they resorted to when lie nourished his pis tol. Chairman Gray asked the witness if he remained at work so that the pumps could be kept in good repair and thus keep the mines irom being destroyed, and he said he did. Mr. Darrow asked him how long he worked and examined him in such a way on this subject that it drew out the remark from Chairman Gray that men will work IS hours or more to help save a neighbor's burning house. James Mitchell said he was expelled from the Hibernian Society. He worked during the strike, he said, as a repair man and did not consider it un fair, because he did not mine any coal. He had been a member of the society 20 or 28 years and at a meeting one night during the strike the question of his alleged unfairness came up and the members present unanimously voted to expel him. WHOLE CITV DESTROYED. Earthquake Wipes Out Andijan, Which Had 30,000 Population. Ashkabad (By Cable). The city of Andijan, in the Ferghana Government, was destroyed by an earthquake. The number of fatalities is not yet ascertained. The population is threat ened with starvation. Shocks were felt in New Marghelan and surrounding villages. The railway at Andijan was destroyed for a consider able distance. Food and clothing are being sent to Andijan. Populous and Historic City. Andijan is a city of 30,000 inhabitants, situated in the old Khanate of Khokand, which was acquired by Russia in 187(1. when its name was changed to the still older one of Ferghana. The city is 73 miles northeast of Ko kand, the capital of the province. Jt stands in the fertile belt which is irri gated by the tributaries of the L'pper Sir Darya, in a region unequaled for luxuri ant beauty in Central Asia. The icity is in one of the valleys of the Thian Shan Mountains, just north of the famous Pamir tableland which is known among the natives, on account of its tremendous altitude, as the "Roof of the World." BURGLARS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Mulllns Bank Robbed ol $5,0C9 Nltroglyccrii c Used. Columbia, S. C. (Special). A special to the State from Mullins, Marion county, says that the bank of Mtillins was burglarized about 3 o'clock a. m. and $5,000 stolen. All external evi dences go to prove that the work was done by professional cracksmen. After blowing open the vault door, a safe on the inside was demolished. Bloodho-.nds were secured, but the trail was evidently too cold for the dogs to follow. Mullins is the leading tobacco marke' in the Suite, and t lie bank usually car ries a large amount of funds. All ei forts to trace the burglars have so far prov?d unavailing. A special from Aiken says that on Tuesday nieht burglars blew open the sale of J. i. bhuler. at .vtontmorenn, Aiken county, and took nearly $800 in cash, checks, stamps, etc. The biif glars broke into a blacksmith shop, took a drill to work with and used nitro-glycerine as an explosive. LIVE NEWSV NOTES The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Louisville and Nashville was held in Louisville. More than or dinary interest centered in the gathering, as it was the first niceting of the stock holders since the system passed under the control of the Atlantic Coast Line. At Montgomery, Ala., Rev. Charles M. Beckwith, D.D., was consecrated Epis copal bishop of Alabama. The ninety-second annual report of the American Board of Foreign Missions shows an enormous demand for Bibles. The office of x-ray expert and elec trical diagnostician of the law depart ment of the City of Chicago has been created. The National Municipal League will hold its next annual meeting in Detroit. "General Peanuts," well known as a midget, died in New York. An effort in Chicago to corner Devtm bcr coin failed. ' Capt. A. Carsiairs, of the Irish Rifles, secured a divorce in London from his wife on the ground of adultery. Two craters on the Island of Samoa which had been supposed to be extinct are reported to be active. THE KEYSTONE STATE. Ntwa Happening of Interest Oatbered Front All Source. A sensation wa caused in the Wash ington county school directors' erecting when J. L. Post, a director front Fast Finley township, accused many of the teachers with drunkenness and immo rality. The trouble was started when Post presented a resolution to the ef fect that the directors do not hereafter choose teachers who arc known to pos sess bad habits. A director jumped to his feet ami stated that there were no teachers in the county guilty, and then Post made the statement that he had seen several of the teachers drunk. He also said that drunkenness was com mon among the Washington county teachers and that the directors should do something to stop it. Several of the directors denied the charges made against the teachers, but Post-claimed that he could produce proof to show that he was correct in his statement. The jury after being out 40 minutes, acquitted Charles S. Bnttcrmore of the murder of William Cunningham. Both were employed by the Friek Coke Company, at the Coalbrook plant. Cunningham appeared at Buttcrmore's door at an unusual hour of the night, and Bnttcrmore, thinking he was a bur glar, shot him. When the verdict was announced. Buttcrmore's wife rushed to him and kissed him several times in open court. In the Mankcy-Stocking case, at Washington, the jury awarded the girl $5,500 damages for defamation of char acter. Both litigants are members of prominent families. Grace Mankcy sought $to,ooo as the result of scandal mis stories spread by Hugh L. Stock ing, who is a prominent business man :i Washington. A similar suit has been brought by Miss Mankcy against Mrs. Stocking. George Kitten, the sclf-coniesscd murderer of Louise Krnette, will make a fight for his lilt-. He has presented a petition to court at Grccnsburg asking that counsel be appointed for hi:n. At torneys Curtis 11. Grew, C. Ward Eicher and Charles D. Copeland were selected to dciend him by Judge L. W. Doty. A young man named Hcnncssy. about 19 years old, is in jail at Empo rium on a charge of assaulting Ger trude Buck. 1.1 vears old. Both live in Driftwood. He-nncssy dragged the girl into some bushes, it is said, and threat ened to kill her if she made any out cry. Her condition is serious. The American Tin Plate Company posted notices at New Castle notifying their employes that the Sheuango mill will start Monday, December 29. The flant has been closed since last July, t is expected that the Greer mill will be started about the first of the year. Oscar Bender and George Foeht met horrible deaths at the North Lebanon furnaces of the American Steel Com pany. The men were jjngaged in fill ing a cupola. Bender was overcome by gas and fell in. when Focht, in trying to save him, met the same fate. Adjutant General Stewart says there is no frnth in the rumor that the entire division of the National Guard will at tend the Pennypackcr inauguration. The probability is that a regiment from each brigade will attend, although noth ing definite has been arranged. Arthur H. Stafford, formerly a brake man on the Pennsylvania Railroad, filed a suit for $5,000 damages at New Castle for the loss of an arm. His father asks $5,000 for medical attention and the fact that his son is likely to be a. charge on him. St: John's Lutheran church. Kittan ning, has extended a call Jo Rev. C. A. Freed, of Stauntou, Va. , Marshall Daugherty, on trial at Union town for the killing of John Rucheck, w as convicted of voluntary manslaughter Charles Rott. who lived near Councils, ville, died from a bullet wound said to have been indicted by John Gilelti oil December 7. Fire damaged the pottery of Mayer Bros., Beaver Falls, to the extent of $3,000. Christian Eurckhart, of Barberton. who has applied for a divorce, alleges that his wife tried to feed him aconite. The Colonial Coke Company, Smock, Fayette county, has sold its holdings to Uniontown parties for $275,000. Itocco Calvatti was convicted at New Castle of manslaughter for the killing of John Pardoe at Edinburg. Engineer W. S. Knox and Fireman J. Thompson were injured through the derailing of their train on the Lake Shore Railroad at Youngstown. Amy and Maggie Houck, who aided Clyde Adams to escape from the Butler iail, were each fined $10 and costs and sentenced to the workhouse for three months. Adams was fined $25 anj given a six months' sentence. The old handle factory at . Manor, owned by Beainer Bros., has been pur chased by a stock company that has been incorporated with a capitalization oi $150,000. II. L. Greer and J. 1.. Me Kean. of Wiimerding, are among those interested. Governor Stone has fixed February 24 for the execution of Charles Grcther, of Monroe county. James Bercidgc, a young Allegheny inventor, became insane and tried te kill his mother and sister. He waf taken to the insane department of the Allegheny City Home. Charles J. Ellison, a prolific writer for leading publications of this coun try, has been found dead in a hut in the mountains near Hampden. For a quarter ot a century Ellison had lived in huts in the mountains of Northern Pennsylvania and Northern New York, his sole company being a herd of goats. The American Flint Glass Workers' Union has officially withdrawn from the American Federation of Labor, The United States Steel corporation will enlarge its Shelby steel tube plant a! Greenville. . Returning home from work at St Nicholas colliery along the Philadel phia and Reading Railway tracks be fore daybreak, Louis Hunuingcr, aged 27, of Mahanoy City, was run down by a passenger train and killed, HunUing er s two brothers were drowned at Washington Park, Philadelphia, six months ago. Fire suppoed to be of incendiary origin destroyed the large barn on the farm tenanted by Samuel H. Parke, in East Bradford township. The property loss is $10,000, ,. W. C. McCoiinci! was elected presi dent of the Shamokin Banking Com pany, the oldest baukir.;; institution in the county, succeeding Attorney C. W. Ryon. a member of the .State Board oi Charities. The Darmstndter Bank, of Ucrlin, has been defrauded of $175,000, owing to false entries in the books on he part of a bookkeeper, Nessler, who had charge of the deposits. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. General Trade Condition i Bradstrcel's Trade Reivcw rays: "Retail distribution, further stimulat ed by colder weather and the holiday season, has expanded largcty, until now it easily occupies first position in the trade situation. Wholesale trade, ex cept where inroads upon retailers stocks have induced reorders, is re lapsing into the quiet usual at thr stock-taking period. Building trade ac tivity has been checked by the climatic influences prevailing, and the distribu tion of lumber and building material: generally is less active. Other leading industries also note the quieting down usual at this season. Great basic con ditions however, make for future prosper ity. Railway earnings, swelled by heavj traffic in grain and miscellaneous pro ducts, offsetting smaller movements ol live stock, provisions and cotton, show an incrensc of 7.2 per cent, over No-vembrr-for the same month a year ago. "Cold .weather and snow have helped distribution at retail in the Northwest, and the outlook is for an miprecented holiday distribution on the Pacific Coast. Reorders of heavy goods from jobbers arc still of moderate propor tions at the West, but spring sales arc larger than a year ago in dry goods, shoes and clothing. "It has been a narrow market for cot ton. Heavy clothing, shoes and rub ber goods have moved into consump tion largely during the week, ami spring business is reported of flattering vol ume. There is little new in the cotton goods market, the export branch being still very dull. Woolen goods are firm, and the mills arc well employed. "Alone among the industries, iron and steel show some symptoms of the weaker prices for crude material, but this, on the whole, is more apparent than real, because demands for sup plies are as pressing as ever, and pro duction has not yet overtaken con sumption. ' Lower prices for coke iron at the West and weaker quotations for foreign foundry iron at the seaboard may be really regarded as readjust ments of abnormal situations previously prevailing. Heavier form of finished material showed no signs of weakness. Rather more interest is taken in pig iron, judging from the reopening of ne gotiations by the leading interest with the Bessemer association, for deliver ies in the second half of 1903. Business failures in the United States for the week number 247, as against 185 last week, 233 in this week last year, 247 in 1900, 211 in 1899, and 234 in 1898. "Wheat, including flour, exports for 'the week aggregate 3,761,047 bushels, against 5,704,440 last week, 3,879,809 in this week last year, and 4.785,577 in 1900. Wheat exports since July I ag gregate 120,507,495 bushels, against '36,303.381 last season, and 86,008,003 in 1000. Corn exports aggregate 1,301, 286 bushels, against 1,151.563 last week, 278,307 last year, and 4,853,458 in 190a For the fiscal year, exports are 5,160, 186, against 19.794.958 last season, and 84,006,396 in 1900." LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour Spring clear, $3 25a3.45; beat Patent. 4.6.V, oboino Fumily, $3.90. Wheat New York No. 2. 83fo; Philadelphia No 2, WiialGHo; Baltimore No 2 76,';c. Corn New York No. 2, 64o; Phila delphia No. 2. 51u55,'; BultimoreNo. 2, Tide. Outs Now York No. 2. 87o; Phila dolnhla No. 2, 383-io; Baltimore No 2, 37o. liny No. 1 timothy, $16.50nl7.00; No. 2 timothy. HG.00al6.50; No. 3 tim. othyll4.00ai5.00 Green Fruits and Vogotablos Apples perbrl, fancy $2 503 25; fair to. good per brl, 2 (K)c$J 50; Cnbbnges, Do mestic, per ton. $i.00u7.00. Celery, per diz. 18e25c; Eggplants, native, per 10U,$150'3i2O0; Urupos, basket, 12alfio Lettuco, native, per bits box, 30o-a40o. Limn beans, nativo, per bu box, 8a I Onions, Maryland nnd Pennsylva nia yellow, per bu, G;)C70o. Potatoes. Whito, per bu 65nG3c; Mary, land nnd Pennsylvania, per bu GoaGSo; New York, per bu G3u70; sweets, per brj 2 (Hint 225. Butter, Separator, 30a31o; Gathered erciiiii,-.'Hu2,.)c;'r'riiits,l-lb 3la32c; Rolls, 21b. 3!)u3l; Dairy pts. Md., Pa., Va,, t'8n29c. Egg, Frosh-lntd eggs, per . dozen, 27ni8u ' Uheesu, Lurgo.- 00-lb, 13at3tto; !io; me. 1, 23-il., diuin, 3U-lb, 13al3; picnics 13Xnl3!c, Live Poultry. Hons, lOXallo; old roosters, each 25a3Uo; Turkeys, llalLi Dunks, 1W2 Hides, Hoary steers, association and salters, lute kill, GO-lbs and up, olose se lection, ViiisillHc; cow and tight Btoers !u9Jo. Provisions and Hog Products. Bulk olear rib sides, lOiVc; bulk sbouldors, 10've; bulk bullion, 12o; bulk ham butts, I (Ac; bacon clear rib tridus, 10c; bacon shoulders, HVu; sugar-cured breasts, 14io; augar-cured shoulders, H)e; sugar cured California hams, 10:o; liuuiHcnnvuscd or uncanvased, 12 ins. inn) over, 14c; refined bird tierces, brls uml.'iO lb cans, gross, lUio; refilled lurd, M'cond-hiuid tuus, ll'l'o; refined lurd, Imlt'-burruls and now tubs, llo. Live St7ck7 Chicago, Cuttlo, Mmlly 15a20o lower, good to prime steers j GOati 60; modi mo (:)00u5 50; Blockers unl feeders t) 00 nl 50; cows, il 25.i4 50; hoifera $ J 00j 5 01); Texas-fed steers 6')u4 75. llg', Mixed and butcher $1 50aG 20; good to choice, heuvy $1 30j6 50; Sheep, sheep und lambs slow to lower; g ioj tn clioto whether I 7iu4 50; Western slije ft OOua 51). - East Liberty, Cuttle steady; choice fci OUud 10; prime $5 G0u5 75. Hoc prime heavy fd 45a6 fA mediums 30; heavy Yorkers (d 20.iG25, Sheep steady, Best wethers ft 9lu4 10 culls mid en uioii $1 5Uu'.' 00; choice luinbs f j -iOiO 05 LABOR AND INDUSTRY A scarcity of lumbermen is reported at Ottawa, Canada. There are 180 mines and 12,006 min ers in the State of Indiana. The strike of Old Town (Wash.) shingle makers lias been amicably set tled. Every .member of the Horseshoers Union at Indianapolis, Ind.,' is at pre cnt employed. " Marine cooks at Buffalo have applied for a charter from the International Seaman's union. On account of the bad harvest, in Norway the Government has graulea $48,000 to farmers for the purpose ot buying seed. At Indianapolis, Ind., the Retail Clerks' Union is strongly urging npt the merchants to agree to shorter hours. Camden (Maine) weavers 1iave struck for an equalisation of pay. Day nanus receive $1.50 and piece hands want t.ie sarr.e. I Molders of Newburg, Fishkill and Walden. N. Y.. have begun a strike lot i iiiue-hour day and recognition ot tat '.'.iiion.
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