ANNUAL .REPORT. United States Treasurer Issues HLs Yearly Statement. Treasury Never Stronger TIIUII at ('lose ol Prcaeutfixnl Vcar—Steady and llealthlul Growth In liold lurrrane ol $20,414,485 Over Ke% cuues ol IDOU. Washington, Nov. 1. —Hon. Ellis IT. Jloberts, treasurer of the United •States, in his report of the transac tions of his office during 1 the past fis cal year says that the treasury was never stronger than at the close of that period. The operations, which were of the first order both in vari ety and magnitude, resulted in note worthy changes in the paper cur rency, as well as a steady and health ful growth of gold in the treasury and in the general stock. The net ordinary revenues for the year were $587,685,337, an increase of ."$20,444,485 over those of 190(1, which were t'he next highest recorded. The increase came from each of the heads •of resources, but chiefly from inter nal revenue. On the side of the ex penditures, the total of $509,967,353 has been exceeded only four times, in 1863, 1864. 1865 and 1899. The sur plus of $77,717,984 was slightly under $2,000,000 less than in 1900. Inclusive of the transactions affecting the pub lic debt, the aggregate receipts were $1,146,489,306, and the aggregate dis bursements $1,077,063,052. For the first quarter of 1902, al though the act of March 2. 1901, was operative, reducing the revenues, the receipts were only $3,417,960 less than "for the like period of 1901, while the •expenditures for the same months were reduced by almost exactly $20,- 000,000. The reserve of $150,000,000 in gold required by the financial law of 1900 •has been kept intact by the substitu tion of gold coin and bullion out of the general fund for the notes re deemed. These redemptions, which amounted to $24,697,258 for the year, do not indicate any preference for g'old over paper, but simply the desire for large denominations, which are most conveniently supplied in g'old •certificates. The monetary stock of the country received during the year an increase of upwards of $88,000,000 in gold, $37,- 000,000 in silver coin and nearly $16,- 000.000 in notes and certificates. The -circulation per capita was $26.50 July 1, 1900, S2B July 1, 1901, and $28.52 Oc tober 1. 1901. Up tto the last date, from July 1, 1897, there was an increase of $403,- 130,458 in the stock of g'old, which was ■•then estimated at $1,160,353,790, and of this there was $908,718,436 in circu lation in the form of coin or certifi -cates. By October 1 the gold in the treasury, consisting of the reserve, the security for certificates and the isum in the general fund was $542,- 822,849, the highest in the history of the country and more than was ever held under single <»ont rol elsewhere in the world except 'or a few months. Arrangements are completed, sub ject to generous action by congress, for putting out notes and certificates, with the beginning of the calendar .year 1902, at the rate of 135.000,000 pieces annually. It, is hoped that thus the currency will be well sea soned before it is issued. The re demptions of national bank notes -were the heaviest in 22 years, amount ing to $147,486,577, an increase of $50,- .503,970 over 1900. The shipments of standard silver •dollars from the treasury amounted for the year to $38,338,519, and the •amount outstanding in December was $70,182,326, but this was reduced near ly $10,000,000 by July, in consequence •of the return of the coins to Washing ton. The shipments were 6.66 per cent, greater in 1901 than in 1900, and there was an increase in the first quarter of 1902 over that of 1901. The uncurrent coins transferred to the mints for recoinage were less in •stll kinds than in the preceding year, which probably indicate an improve ment in the condition of the metallic •circulation. Counterfeit silver coins iind paper currency amounting to $11,583 were detected during the year. MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING. "Wife of Itlanasrr of a Skating IS In It at lloboken, N. J., I'uder Arrest lor Killing ller llunbuild. New York, Nov. I.—John C. Chart rand, manager of a skating rink at Hoboken, .\. J., is dead from the ef 'fects of a pistol wound in the head, •and his wife is under arrest pending investigation. Mrs. Chart-rand's story is that her husband had been unable to rent apartments for their accom modation of late and for that reason she had gone to live with her mother. •She visited her husband at the rink Wednesday night and remained with him all night. She says that when cshe was about to leave the rink Thursday morning her husband took >oift a revolver and offered it to her. Chart rand had arranged, she says, togo on a hunting trip to Toms river to be gone ten days and Mrs. Chartrand was to have taken care of the rink during his absence. lie gave her the revolver, she says, to protect herself during her stay at 'the rink. Mrs. Chartrand says that she put lier arm around her husband's neck to kiss him good by and that the re volver in some way was discharged. The bullet entered Chartrand's head behind the left ear, and he died be fore lie could be taken to a hospital. Attempted ,13nrrter and Suicided. Buffalo, V., Nov. 1. —Thomas J. Harvey, formerly a programme sel ler alt the Pan-American exposition, on Wednesday night attempted to shoot William J. McLaughlin, with whom lie boarded, in front of the Amherst hotel. The bullet went rwide of the mark and lodged in the hand of an Indian, Charles Brave, who stood near by. llarvey then ran to the rear of the hotel and shot him ■eelf in the head, inflicting a wound which caused his dentil Thursday morning. llarvey had been drinking heavily. He has a sister in l.'ing'- ham ton, N. Y. SCHLEY FINISHES. rhe Admiral Conclude* 111* Tefttla ■noiiy liilorc llie Court ol' Inquiry Itebuttal Teatimony. Washington, Oct. 20.—When the Schley court of inquiry adjourned Friday Admiral Schley had not com pleted his testimony. The chief event of the day was the admiral's relation of the events of .lily 3 when the American fleet sent Cervera's squadron to the bottom of the sea. He told his story of this occurrence in plain words, but the narrative was to the point. lie said that the Brooklyn for a time had sustained the fire of all four of the Spanish ships, and also the fire of the Spanish land batteries. Explaining the turn of the Brooklyn, he said that she had not approached to with in less than 600 yards of the Texas and that he never had considered that vessel in the least danger. He also stated that he had never luring the battle engaged in anycollo quy with Lieut. Hodgson and that he h;vd not used the expression attribut ei l to him by Hodgson. This refers to the alleged colloquy in which the admiral is charged with having said: "Damn the Texas." Schley said he warned Sampson, the night before the battle, that lie thought the Spaniards were coming out. Nevertheless Sampson went away early the next morning. He said the New York was not in sight when the Colon surrendered, ending the battle. After Schley had left the stand, Lemley said Rayner had made a pub lic demand that Sampson be called. He asked when Sampson should be brought in. Rayner answered that Sampson was in no condition to tes tify, and the occasion for his appear ance had passed. Washington, Oct. 29.—The cross-ex amination of Admiral Schley began Monday before the court of inquiry and hardly more than a third of the ground was covered when the court adjourned. Admiral Schley concluded his direct examination with a statement of the effects of the fire on the respective fleets at Santiago, showing that 36 per cent, of the hits suffered by the enemy were scored by the Brooklyn's five-inch guns, while his ship received 70 per cent, of the hits from the Span ish ships. Washington, Oct. 30. —The cross-ex amination of Admiral Schley was con tinued throughout Tuesday's session of the court of inquiry. The admiral gave three reasons for turning back. First., the statement of Capt. Sigsbee, who commanded the scout ship St. Paul, that the enemy was not in Santiago; second, the opin ion of Nunez, the pilot, that the en trance was too narrow and shallow for the Spanish ships to enter, and third, the ambiguity of the depart ment's telegram. Washington, Oct. 31.—The long or deal to which Admiral Schley has been subjected since Monday morn ing ended yesterday when his cross examination was concluded and he was allowed to leave the witness stand. One of the most interesting fea tures of the day was the development of the fact that the report of the battle written by Admiral Schley July 6, ls9B, was not the original re port. The original report never has been published and, in accordance with a previous decision, the court declined to allow it togo into the record. Admiral Schley was al lowed to explain, however, that Ad miral Sampson declined to receive the first report because it did not. men tion the presence of the New York. "I felt that the victory at that time," said Admiral Schley in ex plaining the matter, "was big enough for all and I made this change out of generosity and because 1 knew if the New York had been present she would have done as good work a? anybody else." Washington, Nov I.—ln the Schley court of inquiry yesterday a number of witnesses were introduced by Judge Advocate Lemly to testify in rebuttal of the evidence given in Ad miral Schley's behalf. The witnesses called in rebuttal were: Capt. Charles 1-). Sigsbee, Capt. Francis E. Chad wick, Capt. Jo seph ecided to Ileuialn at Work. Fall River, Mass.. Oct. 31.—The mill operatives of this city last niglut de cided not to strike, the matter being decided by a majority of four votes dn the Loom Fixers' union. Only 1,- 702 of the 20,000 operatives of the dit.y. exclusive of those employed in the Iron Works and Bourne mills and the mills of the Xew England Yarn Co. attended the general mass meet ing of the unions, called for the pur pose of voting on the proposition to strike Monday for an increase of 10 per cent, in wages. Decision In a Famous Lsiwsnit. Xew York, Oct. 31.—A decision was handed down yesterday by the Uni ted States circuit court of appeals in the famous case of Brickiil vs. the City of Xew York, reversing the de cree of the Umted States circuit court and thereby relieving the city from payment of a judgment of sl,- 030,000, obtained against it for in fringement of the Brickiil patent, which was for apparatus for heating the water in the boilers of steam fire engines. Found Indian Wounds on Fair Site. St. Louis, Oct. 31.—David Ives Bush nell, jr., who is in charge of the arch aeological department of the Pea/body institute at 'Boston, while on a visit to the site of the world's fair in For est park, discovered six Indian mounds on the high ridge of ground where the art building and the state and foreign buildings are to be locat ed. Steps have been taken to save from injury at least one of the mounds for exhibition at the Louisi ana Purchase exposition. "The jn'ouudw are in the precise condition in which the Indians left them,'' sayn Mr Bushneil. | AN ALLEGED POISONER. tile Is Arrenled oil Suspicion of Hav ing Caused the Deaths of I'uur I'eo |»l<- Living in u Massachusetts Town. Nashua, X. IH., Oct. 31.—Miss .bine Toppan, suspected of having inur dered Airs. Mary Gibbs at Bourne, Mass., last. August, litis been arrested and taken to Massachusetts. Mrs. Gibbs died under suspicious circum stances. Bourne, Mass., Oct. 31.—-'Mrs. Mary Gibbs, for whose alleged murder Miss Jane Toppan is under arrest, was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Davis, of this place, and a sister of Mrs. Harry Gordon, of Chicago. Both Mr. and Mrs. Davis died last July and within a few weeks Mrs. Gordon, who had come from Chicago to see her mother in her last hours, and Mrs. Gibbs died. Miss Toppan, a profes sional nurse and a friend of the Davis ■ family, attended each person. Barnstable, Mass., Oct. 31.—Miss Jane Toppan, who was arrested on suspicion of l>eing connected with the alleged murder of Mrs. Mary Gibbs, was brought here Wednesday after noon. She was taken to the local jail and will be arraigned to-day. Mrs. Gibbs' husband, Capt. Irving F. Gibbs, who is captain of the coast ing schooner Golden Ball, was away on that vessel at the time of his wife's death. On learning of it, at a coast port, he immediately returned home, and although there had been up to that time no suspicion of foul play, Capt. (iibbs believed that there should be an investigation and placed the matter in the hands of District Attorney Holmes. The bodies of Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Gibbs were exhumed and the stom achs were sent to I'rof. Wood, of Harvard university, and as a result of his examination Miss Toppan was ar rested on suspicion of having poisoned, the four members of the Gibbs family. The police assert that they have sufficient evidence to convict Miss Toppan. MADE HUNDREDS HOMELESS. Seventy-flvc Famllfe* arc Driven Into the Street by a Fire at Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 31.—Seventy-five fam ilies lost their homes and $250,000 worth of property was destroyed in a tire last night that started in Peter son & Co.'s picture frame factory at Union Street and Austin avenue. Fanned by a strong wind the flames got beyond control and spread to the small packing establishment of Fein berg & Stopp and a long row of resi dences adjoining. Two blocks of dwellings skirting Milwaukee avenue were wiped out before the fire was subdued. The Peterson factory, which with contents was valued at $17.5,000, fully insured, was destroyed. The bulk of the remainder of the loss was on residences, fairly well covered by insurance. There were many rumors of lives lost in the fire, but it is believed that all people living in the burned build ings escaped. Several people were rescued in an unconscious condition. One of the incidents of the fire wrfs the crema tion of the body of Frank J. Ruck at "his home, 14S Milwaukee avenue. He died in the afternoon of blood poisoning. So quickly did the flames invade the building that there was no chance to remove the body and it was incinerated. A SPECK Or WAR. A French Squadron Sails lor Turkish Waters to Obtiin Satisfaction from the Ottomnn Government. Paris, Oct. 31. —"The entire French Mediterranean .squadron left yester day afternoon," says the Toulon cor respondent of the Figaro. "While one division putin at Salins-D'Hye res, another composed of three bat tleships and two cruisers, under com mand of Admiral Caillard, pro ceeded to the Levant. Two thousand troops will be add ed to this force. Admiral Cail lard's orders are that, if complete satisfaction is not immediately given by the Ottoman government to all the claims of France, lie shall seize the custom house of the Porte near est his squadron. It is believed his destination is the island of Mitylene, or Salonika. The island commands the entrance to the Dardanelles and the (iulf of Smyrna." Several morning papers confirm the Figaro's Toulon advices. Rumors to the same effect were current in Paris late last evening, but the foreign office professed to know nothing about the matter. Nejro Shoots a Deputy Sheriff". Raleigh, X. ('., Oct. 31. —Late Wed nesday afternoon near the show grounds at Rutherfordton, X. C„ Dep uty Sheriff Butler was probably fa tally shot in the head by Bud Logan, a drunken negro, who with a negro companion had been abusing white men and had knocked down four of them. The negroes* had out pistols and the deputy attempted to take them when Logan tired. The whites opened tire and both negroes ran un der a shower of bullets. They were soon captured and are in jail. Should Deputy Butler die a lynching is like ly unless the negroes are shipped from the jail here. The lind of a Strike. Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 31. —The strike of the Seattle and Tacoma iron mold ers, which has been on since June 8, has finally been settled and the men have returned 'to work. The Metal •Trades association conceded a 55-hour week, whiiieh means a Saturday half holiday. The I.ettcrs are Genuine. Omaha, Xeb., Oct. 31.—Chief of Po lice Donahue has received assurance from Chicago handwriting experts that the letters received by the chief, signed Pat Crowe, are genuine. The letters were compared with speci mens of Crowe's writing in the ar chives of a Chicago detective agency. The letters were received October ID and 21, and named' the conditions on which the writer offered to surren der to the chief of police. T.»e chief has about abandoned the idea that Crowe will give himself up, as he of fered to do iu the letters above r»- ferred to. PAID THE PENALTY Presidont McKinloy'o Assassin Is Electrocuted. When IMaood In tlie Itratli Chair ll* Btflarfil that He ivnn Not S»>rrjr HP Had II u ra*t Fall. Hazelton, Pa., Oct. 30. —Mitchell day, named in honor of the president of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, and which marks the first anni versary of the ending of the great coal strike last fall, in which the mine workers of the anthracite field won a 10 per cent, increase in wages and other concessions was celebrated here Tuesday. A parade in which 15,000 mine workers participated was held. A big meeting followed the parade at which speeches were made by Thomas Duffy, president of the Hazel ton district of the United Mine Work ers, Anthony Sclilosser, an organizer, and "Mother" Jones. The day was celebrated in Seranton with a parade of 10,000 miners from the collieries of Seranton and the ad jacent towns. The 400 street car strikers marched at tlie head of the line and were given a big ovation. Xo attempt was made to run street cars with the imported men, as it was feared trouble would be provoked. All the mines were idle in the Sha mokin region. Five thousand of the 15,000 mine workers between Shamo kin and Centralia paraded at Mount Carmel, after which a large mass meeting was held. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 30. —Mitchell day was observed here by the United Mine Workers by a parade in which 15,000 miners marched and which was headed by John Mitchell, the presi dent of the union. It was tlie great est outpouring of miners ever seea here. After the parade there was a mass meeting at which President Mitchell was the principal speaker, lie said he was opposed to compulsory arbitration, but was in favor of volun tary arbitration in the settlement of disputes between employers and em ployes. Woman Kill* a Hoy. Pittsburg, Oct. 30. —While indulging in preliminary Hallowe'en pranks Fred Bradley, aged 15 years, was shot and almost instantly killed last night by Mrs. Margaret Cameron. A crowd of iboys gathered around the grocery store of Mrs. Cameron and frightened her 10-year-old son by playing ghost. Mrs. Cameron secured a revolver after having warned the boys away, and fired four »hots into tlie crowd, one of the bullets entering ]>.'"idley'3 abdomen lloiirkc Cock run In lia