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The Job department of the Piifss Is complete anrt iff r.ls facilities for doing the best class of w.irk. PA HI It 11. All A'I'TKN I ION HAIDTO I.AW PltlNTlNi,. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid Cor in advance. Since lons' before the birth of St. Patrick people have".seen" snakes and crocodiles and mvr« Irollej Mania iads of other ugly IN tlie l,Hte»t. , . .... anu terrifying' rep tiles, and some have seen things out side of the reptilian family which made them" shudder and shake at the knees; but it remained for Mr. William Hoyt, of this city, says the New York Sun, to "bee" trolley cars. Koine time ago Hoyt was struck by one of the cars of the Metropolitan Street Railway com pany and received several injuries about the head and body; and the fact, os alleged, that he is now suffering from a peculiar mental condition de scribed by his physician as "trolley mania" was disclosed in the supreme court, where Hoyt brought suit against the railroad company to re cover $25,000 damages. Although, so far as we know, the term "trolley mania" originated in this case.phrases somewhat similar to it have been for some time employed to express a sort of fear or apprehension felt by many residents of New York •whenever they attempt to cross streets traversed by trolley ears. It i., indisputable that some persons,generally those from the suburbs, travel several blocks out of their way daily in order to avoid cross ing a street in which the cars are run, and when necessity compels them to cross such thoroughfares they appear for some minutes to be in a dazed and nervous condition. Hoyt, it is said, fancies that everything in motion, from a wheelbarrow to an automobile, i- a trolley car, and for trolley cars he is everlastingly on the watch. Trolley oars overtake him on tlie sidewalk and follow him home; they roll around the floor of his house like marbles; at night they go up on the roof, turn somer saults and come clanging down through the chimney, and, once on the ins-ide, they play tag around his bed and vie with each other in running down frail and unwary pedestrians. The railroad company, it is said, has employed physicians for the purpose <>f determining whether trolley mania really is a new and prevalent disease. They will, no doubt, seek to ascertain how many persons, if any, have suf fered from hallucinations similar to those described by Mr. Hoyt, and will endeavor to learn the specific and technical cause of the malady,and a'.so the percentage of cases wherein it has shown grave and refractory tenden cies, Trolley mania, if it actually ex ists, is not an affliction to be trifled with, it should receive the immediate end undivided professional attention of those who are best able to deal with it. An advertisement in a city newspa per recently asked for information re garding a certain depositor in a sav ings bank. The depositor saw the ad vertisement, answered it, and learned that :i!i years before liti had placed s2fio in the bank; Hit i lie had gone to Eu rope and forgotten the deposit. The sum had increased to more than $2,000, and came to him .* a time when ihe •money was greatly needed. Ueeent statistics eoncernnig the savings banks of the world show that the Ignited States leads all other countries, having over $2,300,000,000 so invested, with an average of over S4OO to each depositor. Such figures make cheerful reading— for depositors. A young girl who spent part of the winter in Washington some years ago was telling about the array of forks at the big state dinners. Now, she knew the uses of .some, but the oth ers puzzled her greatly. So she said: "Whenever I made a mistake I moist ened the fork with my lips, wiped il on the sly on my napkin and put it back in its place. And after that 1 watched a gu< si opposite, who was well posted, and followed her in every move ment. Then I Mas safe." Mrs. Sarah 1I igley, of Meir, ind., was rescued from drowning about a year ago by Marion Rutherford and William Miller who happened to be on hand on the offer of Mr. lligley of SI,OOO to any one who would sate his wife's life. Then Mr. Higley re fused to pay and assigned his farm to Mrs. Higley. The court has de cided that Higley must pay, and the farm has been sold for the purpose. THE OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT. Evrrytlilng Point* ton Splendid Victory for the llriiulillrua Party. Never did a party begin a year of an important political canvass with brighter prospects than present themselves to the republicans at this moment. The country's prosperity in 1901 and the probability that a still greater degree of prosperity will come in 1002, the year in which a new congress is to be chosen, is a fact of great consequence for the party which is dominant in the nation, and which is popularly credited, even by the bitterest of its enemies, with having a large share in bringing this happy condition. All the indications point to h-heavier trade, to greater industrial activity and to a higher level of prosperity in the year which has just begun than were scored in the one which has just ended. In the first business day of 1002 many stocks on the New York exchange touched higher points than were ever reached before. The orders for all sorts of iron and steel products which are being placed at present are far in excess of those given at this time in 1901. There is a general feeling throughout the country that the financial record of the year which has just, opened will be much better than was that of any other twelvemonth in the country's his tory. Obviously all this will lie a tre mendous factor in favor of the main tenance of the republican party's power, says the St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. There were many predictions of republican discord recently, some of them being based on the rivalries of different aspirants for the presidency in 1904. Indiana was said to be par ticularly disaffected on account of the aspirations of one of its sena tors, but at a banquet just held in Indianapolis, at which both the state's senators anil several of its representatives were in attendance, the opposite sort of a feeling was de cidedly manifest. Said the particu lar senator who had been mentioned in connection with the presidential nomination two years hence, in a speech on that occasion: "We meet with no trace of factional disturb ance. With the party united and harmonious throughout Indiana, this is indeed a happy augury. It fore casts certain republican victory." That particular personage and the rest of the speakers declared that there was the utmost harmony be tween the Indiana republicans and the head of the national administra tion. The same condition has been expressed by Ohio's leading repub licans, especially by Messrs. Ilanna and Foralter. The election for congress this year will, in a large degree, forecast the result of the presidential canvass two years later. The democrats were free with their prognostications a few weeks ago of republican disagree ments on several important issues, but none of these predictions have shown any signs of verification. On the question of the general treat ment of the Philippines there is no divergence of any consequence among the republicans. This was shown in the action taken by the house on the Philippine tariff bill, in which there was only a trifling de fection on the republican side. On the Cuban question there is likewise practical unanimity. If there should be a disagreement on, the ship sub sidy question it cannot possibly be greater than was that in the late congress, 12 months ago, and that di vergence, as the overwhelming vic tory for McKinley afterward proved, did not hamper the republicans in the slightest degree. The democratic soothsayers have been widely astray in their divinations of republican (dis cord. The party was never more harmonious and enthusiastic than it is at this moment. An overwhelming majority of the people of the United htat.es are, manifestly, on the repub lican side. A reverse of some dimen sions or other for the party in power is the rule in the congressional elec tion in the middle of the presidential term, but it seems clear that the re publicans in the canvass of 1902 will pass this danger line in safety as tiiey did in the congressional contest of 189S, when the conditions were far less propitious than they are to-day. E7.\s one looks back over the first year of the new century the manifold and strong evidences of constantly in creasing prosperity seem at the first glance to constitute its most note worthy feature. Put a little thought brings out tlie fact that far more im portant than the evidences that pros perity is with us are the evidences which the year has brought that it Is substantial in its nature and rests upon a secure basis. It has undergone the severest tests to which it could be subjected and stands- unshaken. It lias withstood blows that would ha»e bad a crushing effect in ordinary good times.—Albany Journal. cy'l'lie rivalries between Ilanna and Foralter in Ohio do not affect, the party in the state or the nation. Ohio is ro bustly republican, and will remain so. Ilanna is not opposing Foraker's re election to the senate, which will take place on the first ballot. IJoth Porn ker and Ilanna ind IK Sound in Hin Financial l'ollcy. Propriety estops Gov. Shaw, our next secretary of the treasury, from answering l the natural questions of eager reporters as to his "financial policy," or from indicating how far he agrees with Mr. Gage and where in he differs. Certain, questions re lating to tlie great subject of na tional finance are justly regarded as settled, at least so far as the sound money elements of the country are concerned. The gold standard is es tablished, the legal tenders arc "im pounded," and the independence of the treasury is safe. But certain im portant questions are outstanding, and Mr. Shaw's position with refer ence to them is a matter of legiti mate interest, says the Chicago Even ing Post. It has been intimated that the new secretary will suspend the purchase of bonds and thus arrest the pres ent tendency to withdraw bank cir culation. ll«- will probably do noth ing of the kind. The provisions of the sinking fund sections are ex plicit and mandatory, and the new secretary will no more disregard or evade them than Secretary Gage has done. It is equally safe to say that the deposits of government fui.ds in the national banks will not be re duced. The now familiar steps for the relief of the market will be taken when the situation shall im pose such action. An examination of Mr. Shaw's pub lic addresses on the financial and banking questions will furnish an swers to other and larger questions, lie will undoubtedly support tin- Hill and Overstreet propositions for the redemption of silver dollars in gold coin. In one of his speeches he rec ognized the danger of the metallic greenbacks," and added: ••AH I cantend for is that every note signed by a solvent debtor, every draft on a solvent merchant, every deposit wiili a solvent bank, every piece of paper that cir culates as money and every coin shall ulti mately be payable, redeemable or cx changeable In the standard coin of this country. Ir, no other way can It be protected from discount. Safeguard it as you may, under conditions easily conceivable, the silver certificate or the silver coin may be at a discount, and so long: as there Is' the element of danger, however remote, so long there will exist an ever-present cause of panic." With regard to our paper currency Mr. Shaw holds that its volume should be coextensive with the needs of the country, and that it should lie issued exclusively by the banks. "The time," he said once. "is. past when the govern ment should issue a part of the paper currency and the banks a part. ' Only fiatists and paternalists believe that the government ought to monopolize the, issue of currency, but the consen sus of progressive opinion certainly fa vors the retirement of the legal tenders and the withdrawal of the government from the note-issuing business. This logically leads to the question of asset banking. Is Mr. Shaw an advo cate of that reform? Certain expres sions indicate that he is, yet his cau tion and reserve show that he is bj no means a radical on the questii n Here is what he said in one of liis speeches: "I repeat that currency based on assc'* contains, in my judgment, no element of danger, except popular prejudice. This v 11 vanish as the question is. discussed and . x plalned by those who make a study of it. The depositor would be in no worse con dition than, now." But in the same speech he declared that elasticity could be secured with out resorting to asset banking, ai.d that he recognized "a public prejudice, akin to fear, against a currency based on assets, and prejudice, so long as it exists, constitutes an element of da ti ger, even when the thing itself against which the prejudice lies contains no element of danger." Asset banking is not a question of "practical politics." It will come gradually and as the re sult of evolution. There will first be provision for emergency circulation and for branch banking—reforms de manded even by the most.conservative. POLITICAL DRIFT. By A Denver newspaper solemnly announces that Mr. Bryan has not been a success as an editor. When was Mr. Bryan ever an editor?— D etroit Free Press (Dem.). imt. is recorded of Gov. Shaw, now secretary of the treasury, that he never foreclosed a mortgage, though holding many. No wonder Wall street, doesn't like him.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. C Bryan's one-horse press hits not power enough to let t.»ose all his verbiage, and he is going on a lecture tour more to turn a nimble sixpence than to convert the public to his po litical views, that tune on his well worn fiddle being played out some time ago. —X. Y. Tribune. rrThe situation as regards the democratic minority in the house of representatives at Washington is fair ly and tersely set forth by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "Mr. Itioh ardson. of Tennessee, is trying to ure out how lie can lead a minority marching in several different dinyj tions and ready to claw each other." And the more he tries the less is he able to learn where he is at. —Troy Times. E-?"On the whole, it has been a pretty good old year. There is no haste to see it go and make an end of it. There has been general prosperity in the United States, and the welfare of Al bany has steadily advanced. The one great sorrow of the year—the as sassination of President McKin'ey— was followed by no great disturbance , to business and there was no abate ment of the country's material pros perity. I.et us. he.pe that the new yeai will make as good a record. —Albany Argus (Dem.). STOLE GEMS. A Very SlriiiiKf <"«»<* !»«• vrl»p> lei New Oriean*. Xevv Orleans, Jan. 16.—George I. Kline, of St. Louis, and ltobert L. West, of Cincinnati, were arrested across the river Wednesday morning, charged with robbing the trunk of T. E. Manners, of Chicago, of about $2,500 of jewelry. They are alleged to have represented themselves as Manners and another guest, at the St. Charles, paid the bills, and left with their baggage. They crossed the river in a skiff and were caught be fore the train came on which they expected to leave, through the watch fulness of a newsboy who had read the story in the newspapers. Later in the day Manners went over to identify the property and Kline accused him of being a thief under an alias. As the whole affair had a suspicious appearance Man ner:-. was also arrested. The police believe he may be Kerns, the Xevv York jewelry thief, and Chief of De tectives Titus, of New York, sent a telegram here which strengthens the idea. Manners claims that he is with his father in the pawn broker : age. business at Chicago, and that the | jewelry taken was unredeemed ; pledges that he was trying to dis i nose of. Fifty diamond pins, a gold watch, a | diamond brooch and some pearls are , in the lot. Now York, Jan. I(s.—Cnpt.. Titus, e>f : the detective bureau, said late last night that he had received dispatches from New Orleans which said that a man believed to be the missing valet | Kerns, who is accused of having robbed Paul (i. Thebaud, of s.*>o,ooo worth of jewelry here, was under ar ! rest there. He added that he had re : ot.ived a detailed description of the ' man under arrest antl that he be* He veil him to be. Kerns. 110 said the ; description tallied very closely, even to the gold tooth Kerns had. He : said slops would be taken looking toward the complete identification of tlie arrested man. If this is estab ' lished requisition papers will be ap plied for if necessary. | Chicago, Jan. 16. —There is no pawnbroker in this city named Man ners and the officials at police head | quarters declare that tliey de> not re call any pawnbroker of that name. According to the city directory there ' are only three m4n named Manners 'in Chicago. One is a painter, one a laborer and the third a janitor. KLONDIKE AND ALASKA. A lliiiu-li of New* from tin- Fields ol llie I'ar North. Port Townsend, Wash., Jan. 10. — The latest advices from Dawson were brought yesterday on the Cottage City by Charles Berryman, who left the Klondike capital the latter part of December. Berryman says there is a stampede from Dawson for Hen derson creek, near Stewart river. He reports that several thousand men are on the creek and all claims have been staked. During the winter the gambling element in Dawson has resorted to all kinds of schemes to induce the authorities te> permit the opening of gambling, without success. Preliminary work has been com menced on one of the largest and longest mining tunnels in the world near Juneau, Alaska. The tunnel will be more than 8,000 feet long and will be started on the beach south of Juneau and run into the mountains to tap a large number of claims in the Silver Bow basin. A large mill will be built e>n the beach where it can be operated the year round. It is said that the tunnel will cost in the neighborhood of $2,000,000. Spinner* Strike. Mavnard, Mass., Jan. 16. —The Asse bet mills of the American Woolen Co. acre are shut down except in the carding and sorting departments, be cause the spinners have struck. The probability is that the entire mill will be closed unless the spinners' grievances arc adjusted. This would make about 1,500 employes idle. For 30 years the company lias been weigh ing the rope used with beam scales. , Lately the scales were changed. The employes assert that this change works hardships against them. The employes also demand that for over time tliey be paid toji cents per hour over the regular wages. Tlir Lake furrier*' Convention. Detroit, Jan. 16.—The system of sjioveling grain at Buffalo under a superintendent appointed by t lie Lake Carriers' association, instead of letting the contract to some indi- I vidual, operated so successfully last j season that the .members of the as- ; soeiation, who held their ninth an nual convention here yesterday voted j to continue it another year under Superintendent Thomas Kennedy. A statement was presented showing that 132,209,492 bushels of grain were handled at Buffalo in 1901. Flection* In Canada. Ottawa, Out., Jan. 16.—(Much inter- j est was taken here yesterday in the federal elections. The conservatives' I greatest surprise was* the victory of j Archie Campbell in West York. He ! reduced ii conservative majority of 1 more than 800 to a majority of about 200. West Durham, which went con servative at the la£t general elec tion, tias turned liberal again. The result of yesterday's voting in the nine constituencies is that, seven ' have gone liberal and two conserva- I tivc. Will Advance Wage*, St. Paul, Jan. 16.—1t is semi officially stated that the new wage j schedules adopted by the Great j Northern at the request of engineers > and firemen operating the new and ! heavier freight engines, will advance the wages of engineers who have been receiving $-1 per 100 miles to $4.50. Killed lu a Mine. Clarksville, --via., Jan. 16.—Thomas Johnson was instantly killed and Jo 11 ii Frazor fatally injured in the coal mines at .Npadra yesterday. The accident was the result of a blast. A FIERCE BATTLE. Sheriff and One of Hia Deputies Killed in Oklahoma. OIIIccr« Tried to rupture OiitluiTH In un Indian lint The ItcNperiidocN i:»caped Slir rill' Continued to Shoot Alter Beiim Wo un red. Guthrie, O. T., Jan. 16.—Sheriff Frank Smith and his deputy, George Beck, were killed by highwaymen early Wednesday morning in the vicinity of Auadarko, the home of the officers. A posse of 100 men started immediately on the trail of the murderers, but no arrests have been reported. The posse expects a fierce fight before the men shall be taken, and it is known that the no torious highwaymen, ' Bob McCune, Ben Cravens and Bob Sims, are at the head of the gang in that region. Sheriff Smith was appointed from j Norman, Okla., where lie had been lon the sheriff's and marshal's forces ! for a number of years. A number of j murders and robberies are charged to the gang that murdered the of j fleers anil efforts to capture them | have been made by all the officers in that vicinity. Sheriff Smith and Deputy Beck met death while storming an Indian hut eight miles west of Auadarko. High waymen on 'Sunday night had held up and robbed persons going home from church and Smith and Beck, ae ; companied by Deputy Briggs. located j the robbers early yesterday morn | ing in the hut. In attempting to en i tor "Smith was shot through the ■ breast and died in a few minutes. I Beck was also shot through the j breast and his left arm was shat- I tered. Briggs was not injured. The | highway men robbed tin; dead bodies of the officers and then fled. Sheriff Smith made a dying effort ! to arrest the roboers and shot sev j eral times through the door and walls after being wounded. Beck continued the fight until killed. WANT RECIPROCITY. Cuban Sujjar I'luiitcr* .Ire Heupcrate in Tlieir I'lcadlngM Willi t on^renM inrll. Washington, Jan. 16.—The ways and means committee*began hearings yesterday on the subject of Cuban reciprocity, with a large representa tion present from the various inter ests which would be affected by legis lation of this character. Edwin F. Atkins, of Boston, said that if present conditions continued Cuba probably would become so des perate as to be forced into annexa tion. Mr. Louis Place, a merchant of Havana, and head of the Cuban dele gation, presented the case from the Cuban standpoint. At present, he said, Cuba was buying large quanti ties of foreign goods, and if reciproci ty was brought about with the United States, Cuba would buy American cotton goods, wine and many other articles now bought abroad, lie believed this market in Cuba would amount to within two years. Francis li. Thurber, of the United States Export association, said that the primary consideration was one of good faith on the part of the United States to Cuba. •Hugh Kelley, of New York, who has large sugar holdings in Cuba, said that as an American he urged that reciprocal concessions be made. He believed that if there was no re ciprocity Cuba would ask for annex ation. If this occurred the voice of the American people would be for admitting the island. Mr. iMendez, of the Cuban delega tion, pictured the distress if present conditions were continued and said the loss on the sugar crop of the island this year would approximate $12,000,000. FOR NEW EQUIPMENT. Kanta I'V Itailwuv Umiiijrcmciil Wilt Spend $13,000,000 Till* fear. Chicago, Jan. 16. —The Record- Hern Id says: The management of the Santa Ke has decided to spend $13,- 000,000 for e<|uipment during the present year. This? statement is made by an official of the company, who added that the money would come from the proceeds of a'new issue of $30,000,000 ot bonds. .lust how the expenditure is to be apportioned is not stated, but it is known that an order has been given lor 5,000 box cars, 50 mammoth 1 "eight engines and iOO more engines of a smaller type, and that practical- j ly all <>f 1 lie passenger equipment of tlie company is to be renewed. The official statement regarding the amount to be expended for equipment makes it plain what is to be done with the proceeds of the bond issue. It will take fully $12,000,- 000 to give the company over SOO miles' of new line free from debt. This sum and the equipment ap propriation taken from $30,000,000 leaves $6,000,000. Of this amount fully $2,000,000 will go'toward the new terminals in San Francisco and the rest will be used for grade re ductions, etc. Iloiiclit !>,ooo Acres ol' I,and. 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