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JOB PRINTING.
The Job department of l lie I'kfss is complete
and I' r.l. facilities for doinu the best class of
v< r's \< AK'l Kl'l.AK ATTEST! ION PAIDTO LAW
h''i 'paper will be discontinued until urrear-
Jtg' V lire paid, except at the option of the pub-
IVpers sent out of the county must be paid
for in advance.
new child labor law of Ala*
lama, which has just gone into effect,
takes thousands of children out of
the cotton mills of the state. Five
hundred little tots ceased toiling tlitir
lives away in the Huntsvtlle factories
alone.
Joseph Snyder, an athlete of 92, who
lives in Aetna, N. Y., challenges any
man of 75 or older to walk from 10 to
50 miles. Mr. Snyder says: "I'll walls
him either wRh or without canes,
though I prefer to carry one just for
company. I walk at least ten miles
every day, and the fellow who takes
tip my challenge will have to scratch
gravel mighty lively to win."
Without leaving a clew to her iden
tity an elderly woman left a package
containing sll,llO in green backs at
the door of James Mealey. of Sehuy
lerville, N. Y„ with no explanation
save that it was"from a friend." Mr.
Mealey has been in financial difficul
ties, and recently went through bank
ruptcy, his store and stock of gooda
"being sold to meet his obligations.
By his will, filed in the surrogate
office. New York, the late Paul B. D«
Chailhi, explorer and writer, be
queatha all his estate to his friend
Henry R. Hoyt. Mr. Hoyt was named
as executor. The will was executed
in New York nearly three years ago
The petition which accompanied the
will, filed by Mr. Hoyt, set forth tha
the testator left no real estate in Nev
"HgTiK, s,atp an(l thßt he left P ersona
- ii-- ♦rnn
except that of amassing a fortune
Calling one day on a consul on busi
ness matters he was offered a cigar b;
the official. "No, thank you," said Si
Thomas (then Mr.) Lipton. "Althougi
I am the biggest smoker in England
I never smoke cigars." "What do yoi
smoke?" was the surprised query
'Bacon,' was the prompt reply.
Efforts to impress upon the mind
of young people that marriage is a r,e
rious matter are not always success
ful. Louisiana, however, has taken an
advanced step in that direction. Hei
legislature at Its last session passerl
an act punishing by imprisonment at
hard labor those husbands who desert
their wives or fall to support them.
The act was thought to be unconsti
tutional, but the supreme court has de
cided that it is valid.
Jesco von Puttkamer, the 14-year
old grandnephew of Prince Bismarck,
is a press feeder in a job printing
establishment in Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Ills aunt, Mrs. Mary Royer, with
whom he lives, Is a scrub woman.
The boy's father, Francis von Putt
kamer, was an officer in the German
cavalry. About 25 years ago, the boy
says, he quarreled with Prince Bis
marck and fled from Germany, giving
up home, position and money. In New
Yoik he was at one time a dishwasher.
Estaban Ortega, a hotel proprietor
nf Bath Beach, T,. 1., the other morning
went to"the Captain's pier," which he
owns, and ordered raw clams for
breakfast. About the seventh clam
had passed his mouth when his teeth
struck a hard substance. Thinking it
was a pebble, he was about to throw
It away, but showed it to a friend, who
advised him to take the stone to a
jeweler. Ortega did so, aqd says a
diamond expert told him it was a fine
pearl and offered S9OO for it. Ortega
refused the offer.
United Slates Senator William A.
Clerk, of Montana, intends to build
the finest house in Washington. To
make sure that it will surpass all
other mansions and will possess all
the best features he will not break
ground on the site of the old Stewart
castle, facing Dupon circle, until the
Massachusetts-avenue residence of
rhomas F. Walsh, a Colorado million
aire, is completed. Then if there are
any features of Mr. Walsh's house
that Senator Clark desires to incor
porate in bis own dwelling he can easi
ly alter his plans.
The British war office has already
got to work upon its plan fur supply
ing sets of falpe teeth gratis to sol
fliers who have lost their teet.i "as a
result of active service," and local
dentists have been approached in va
rious centers with the offer of army
week. The price allowed by the war
office to the dentists is only CI for
extraction, (including anaesthetic, and
whntever the number of teeth), and
fri ru i. 2 U>s. to X 4 10s. for the arti
ficial substitutes. This Is not consid
ered by the dentists !<> be a libera)
P'Jce.
THE IDE \ IS EXCELLENT.
I'hil Eiprnard in the low* State t'on
trnllun Im in Every Wny
Commendable.
So much has been heard of"the lowa
■ Idea" regarding the tariff that the itn
j pressij>n had been created in some minds
that it was a very revolutionary and
upsetting one. In fact, certain over
zealous democratic journals had spoken
of the matter much as though lowa had
suddenly decided to break loose from all
| its republican traditions and go over
| bodily to free trade. Of course no one
1 who has kept track of what is really
I going on in lowa and elsewhere had
been misled by such foolish and un
warranted assertions. There has not
been the slightest danger that lowa re
publicans would forsake protection for
free trade, and the democratic hubbub
has been wholly without tangible cause,
says the Troy Times.
The proceedings in the lowa republi
can state convention held at Des
Moines made it clear that the party is
sound on all the distinguishing features
of republican doctrine. As to protec
tion. the platform is as unequivocal as
any declaration on that subject can be.
It says: "We reiterate our faith in the
historic principle of protection. I nder
its influence our country, foremost in
the bounties of nature, has become fore
most in production. It has enabled the
laborer to successfully insist upon good
wages, and has induced capital to en
gage in production with a reasonable
hope of fair reward. Its vindication is
found in the history of its success and
the rapidity with which our naitonal
resources have been developed and our
industrial independence secured, and
we heartily renew our pledge to main
tain it." What could be more uncom
promising as an affirmation of loyalty
to protection?
So "the lowa idea" as it found expres
sion in the republican state convention
is seen to be a very excellent and com
mendable one. To be sure, the conven
tion took occasion to add that it did not
regard schedules in tariff laws as sacred
enactments, and it said they should be
just, fair and impartial, should guard
against both foreign control and domes
tic monopoly and should be changed
from time to time to meet varying con
ditions. But there is nothing very alrm
ing in all this. Precisely the same views
are held by many republicans, if not by
the great majority. The party believes
in protection, and it believes protection
should be uniform in its application and
favor no individual or interest at the ex
pense of others. And that revision of
the tariff when made with the retention
of protection in view should be under
taken by the friends and not the enemies
of protection is something to which all
troa „ 11U v.„,. cu
its desire for "his unanimous nomina
tion as his own successor." thus putting
itself unequivocally in line with what is
indisputably the sentiment of the party
throughout the country. It renominated
Gov. Cummins and the other state offi
cers and thus finished up an admirable
days work, the effect of which must be
to assure republican hatmony in the
state, increase party enthusiasm and
earnestness throughout the country and
disappoint democratic hopes of profit
ing by republican dissension. Repub
licans are "solid" for republican prin
ciples everywhere, and the people are
with them.
AS TO REVENUE REDUCTION.
DvmnmlM nt Democratic Oriran* That
Will Sot Meet with Com
pliance,
The new fiscal year is only a few days
old, but already there are demands from
some foolish newspapers for a reduction
in the revenue. The surplus was in the
neighborhod of $53,000,000 for the
twelve months which'ended with June
30, 1903. This sum appears so large to
those papers that they are afraid of a
currency congestion in the treasury
which will derange trade. They forget
says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat!
that the surplus was a great deal larger
in the preceding fiscal year. It was
about $92,000,000 then, but the revenue
reduction which was Instituted cut
down the figure in the year just ended to
a little less than $53,000,000.
An immense expansion in importa
tions in the past twelve months, whicl
had not been looked for by anybody, was
the reason why the surplus did noi
shrink farther than the $53,000,00(
mark. At the time when the reduction
was being made everybody, in and out
of congress, supposed that the cut would
bring the surplus in the year which ha?
just closed down to $30,000,000, or below
that line. The vast increase in imports,
however, kept the revenue tip to a high
mark, notwithstanding the removal of
many internal taxes. The country can
not count on the maintenance of this
import expansion. It will not be safe
to calculate on a $53,000,000 or a SSO -
000,000 surplus In the year which hn'r
just begun.
Moreover, the French company Is to
paid, if Colombia ratifies the Panama
canal treaty, and the probability is that
she will. This would make a pretty big
hole In the surplus. This overflowing
treasury of the past year or two cannot
be counted onto continue. There ought
to be a margin of $40,n00,000 or $50,000-
0W nf an excess of receipt* over expen
ditures to allow for possible declines In
income or expansions in outgo. A full
treasury is a very good thing for n big
and growing country like the I'nited
States to have all the time. A margin
of $50,000,000 cannot possibly do die
country any harm, but ntav.ori the other
hand, avert harm. If any one thii *ln
relation to action of control for the
next two yenra can be predicted with
nbfolute confidence it Is that there will
no '•"venue reduction of anv sort hv
Mnt.it" within the lifetime of ibc pres
ent national legislature
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 23. 1903
DEMOCRATS BUMP BRYAN.
The l)nr l.uclil IJoll veri»n»c o( tli*
Kerent lima Ilvniucrallo
luntrnllou,
It is one of the curiosities of "poli- I
tics" that the democratic party regular
ly holds state conventions in such Btates
as lowa and solemnly passes "resolu
tions," as if they amounted to anything.
lowa is one of the most prosperous
states in America, and a gathering of
the party of calamity in such a state
must necessarily be a convocation of
very absurd persons, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. For example, the lowa
democratic convention announced the
"financial policy" of the unterritied in
the following terms:
"We insist that the Integrity of the
money of the nation be guarded with
zealous care, and demand that it shall be
sufficient in volume to meet the needs ot
the business interests o-f ifle country, and
that it shall be safeguarded by careful
legislation so as to prevent gamblers of
Wall street from cornering the money
market, thus inflicting untold injury upon
the smaller business men, the farmers
and the laborers of the land."
Will anyone, after reading that
"plank," state what law the lowa dem
ocracy desires to have enacted or re
pealed? Or what, if anything, it would
do about the currency if it could?
Nevertheless, there was one matter
wherein the lowa democrats knew per
fectly what they didn't want. The con
vention formally washed its hands of
the "Chicago platform." and therefore,
by inference, of Bryan and all his works.
So much sense, at least, the lowa demo
crats have imbibed from their republi
can environment.. It was the one lucid
deliverance of the session. The com
mittee did not report a resolution "re
affirming" that celebrated document,
whereupon one of the crazier sort intro
duced such a resolution of his own.
That was squarely voted down, and
since Bryan will belong to no party
which does not stand by the Chicago
platform, the effect was to read Bryan
out of the democratic parly so far as
the democrats in a strong republican
state could do so. It is significant of
trouble, however, that this was only ac
complished by a majority of 109 and a
fraction in a convention of 818. There
were 354 delegates who stood by the
prophet of calamity. It is probable
that most of them will continue to stay
by him and follow him into the party of
united and irreclaimable cranks which
he is morally certain to organize and
lead when a few more democratic con
ventions have turned him down. All the
democratic orators are crying for peace
in the democratic ranks, but there is no
peace. And there will be none until
Btyan's nominal connection with the
party is formaly dissolved.
PAYNE IS ATTACKED.
uriirrml* -* »• 1I r* ton 9.
There is every reason to believe that
Postmaster General Payne will remain
in the cabinet, at least until the postal
scandals have been disposed of. This
will be disappointing to those who have
been trying to force his retirement,
and they are doubtless chagrined at the
announcement of President Roosevelt's
faith in the director of the postal affairs,
says the Cleveland Leader.
Postmaster General Payne occupies
now very much the same position that
Secretary of War Alger did after the
close of the war with Spain, and for
practically the same cause. Gen. Alger
was attacked by those who were de
sirous of hitting the chief executive
over the shoulders of the head of the
war department. The confusion re
sulting from the attempt to meet the
exigency arising out of the war with
Spain was seized as good ground for
attacking the administration, and Gen.
[ Alger, being at the head of the war de
partment, was chosen as the target. It
is now so with Postmaster Genera!
Payne. Ailthough every alleged irregu*
larity in his department was commit
ted before he became postmaster gen
eral there is a disposition to hold hir.>
responsible in a measure, and to drive
him from the department, if possible.
President Roosevelt is himself beyond
attack, and all the enemies of the ad
ministration know that. Therefore,
the postmaster general has been chosen
as the victim, the belief being that his
forced retirement from the cabinet
would reflect upon the administration
directly and upon the president indi
rectly.
But the president stands by the post
master general, and the .-chances are
that Theodore Roosevelt will not
change his position either.
CURRENT COMMENT.
genuine lowa idea can be iden
tified readily by the smile of perfect
tranquillity which overspreads its face.
—Chicago Inter Ocean.
t -'The lowa idea that republican na- j
tional platforms are good enough for
steady company is a safe and sensible
proposition. St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
Bryan is reported to be ready
to "pitch the song in the old key," But
tiie existing political situation opens
with a 1903 patent time-lock.—Albany
Argus (Dem.).
C "A deep disappointment pervades i
the democratic papers over the discov
ery that the lowa idea is not a case of
free trade. The notion that lowa re
publicans would take up with the soup
house relic is amusing. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
n The people of lowa have confidence
in Senator Allison. One of the few who
were present at the formation of the
party, he has stood by It in all lis work,
has taken part in the deliberations of
the state and national leaders, and has
a fund of experience from which to
draw wisdom that makes his opinion
to be respected, because it has been
learned by experience that he IR seldom
in the wrong.—Davenport Times,
EPWOBTH LEAGUE.
Its Convention fit Detroit Is a
6M( Success.
About 17,000 Delegate* Already Oai
the Oroumi— I.cu<llii£ .l|etlio«ll»t*
AddrrM ICiilhu*iu«tle Croudu
ul I'oiir Kiu' rciiteco»t*l
Tent nrrllHli»>
Detroit, Mich., .July I".—Last night
four great pcntecostul meetings were i
lieiil by tlie Kpworth leaguers in Tent
| Ontario, Central M. E. chureh, tlie
DetVoit opera house and the Fort |
Street Presbyterian chureh. Tent j
Ontario, witli a seating capacity of
! 5.0(H), was jammed to suffocation and i
tiu» opera* house and the Central M.
K. chureh were crowded to their ut
most eapaeity, while the Fort Street
church, which is only a short dis
tance from Tent Ontario and conse
quently suffered by reason of the
great ineetin- there, was comfort
ably filled. At the headquarters of
the convention committee it was said
at 10 o'clock that th« total registra
tion of delegates had reached 17,000,
with more arriving on every train.
Every seat in Tent Ontario was oc
cupied and delegates stood about the
edges of the tent, whieli had been
raised to admit air, six and seven
deep. Back of the speakers and sing
ers' platform blazed a great electric
Kpworth league emblem in colored
'ights. It was an inspiring sight
when Rev. A. C. Crews, the chairman
of the meeting, stepped forward
and announced that Rev. (i. A. Reed
er. of Cleveland, would open the
meeting with prayer. Bishop (lallo
wny. of Jackso - ). Miss., bishop of the
Methodist church south, was the first
speaker on"The Eighteenth Century
"Pentecost." *
Mr. Galloway recalled the pente
costal meeting in 173!t that resulted
in the founding of Methodism by
John Wesley and his associates, .and
graphically pictured the men who
; were present at that meeting. He
declared that Wesley and his coad
' jutors were guided by the divine
spirit in their founding of the church,
. for, he said, nothing conceived en
• tirely by human instrumentality
» could have achieved such mighty
, things as has Methodism.
r Bishop (iallowav, himself a south
p ern man, referred to the late Presi
dent McKinley's declaration while in
[ the south, that the Confederate
graves should be decorated on Memo
rial day as well as the Federal, and
3 his name was greeted with a great
5 burst of applause.
1 Bishop Ooodsell was to have spok
-1 en on"The First Pentecost," but i 11-
8 ness prevented his attending the con
vention.and when Chairman Crews
announced that his place would be
taken by Bishop .Tcyce, of Minneapo
: lis, president of the Kpworth league,
t. the creat audience broke into ap
j the front of the platform,
t ! The same program was followed af
, the other three meetings and the
1 same subjects discussed b- the speak
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Detroit. Mich., July 18.—There wan
no lessening of enthusiasm among
[ Jl' 0 Kpworth leaguers last night, and
lent Ontario, Auditorium Kpworth,
the .Jetroit opera house and the Cen
> iral M. E. eluireh, where the night
meetings were held, were crowded to
I their capacity. Every seat in the big
tent was occupied and people were
turned away from the opera house in
• g»eat numbers, while in the chureh
every pew was crowded and chairs
were placed in the aisles. '"I no Field
Near at Hand," "The Field Far
Away" and"The Part in the World's
Evangelization" were the topics of
the evening at all four meetings.
Will Open tln> Fort*.
Washington. July 17.—The Manchu
rian question has been settled satis
factorily in t lii government. As
surances have been received from the
( hinese government that it will, in
the near future, open as treaty ports
several ports now closed to the
world's trade. The Russian govern
ment has conveyed formal assurancej
to the I niteil States government that
it will not. in any way, oppose such
opening. While the ports to be open
ed are not yet specified, it is gather
ed from the communications received
that they are Moukden, the principal
inland port of Manchuria, and Tn
Tung Kuo, at the mouth of the Valu
river.
I*. M. Arthur E)io«.
Winnipeg, Man.. July 17.—P. M. Ar- !
1 h Wr. grand chief engineer of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fngi- \
neers, dropned dead at midnight
while speaking at the banquet clos
ing the annual union convention of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fn
gineers which has been in session
for the past few days. Mr. Arthur
had just, arisen to respond to a toast
and repeated the words: "It may'be
my parting words to many of you"'
when he fell backwards and expired
a few minutes afterwards.
Shot IMi Daughter'* A». n || an( ,
Indiana. Pa., July 17.—Margaret
Bark ley, aged 11 years, daughter of
John M. Barkley, a farmer, was as
saulted Wednesday night by Frank
Will, a tramp, while she was rcLiiru-i
inir from the postoflice. The child?
crawled to her parents' home after I
the outrage and her father, accom
panied by a number of others M -Mod
in pursuit of the man. lie was found
in a house nearby and was probably
fatally shot by Barkley.
Ne«ro Shot Three i'eupjo.
Poughkcep.-ie. \. V., July ir.' War
ren Welch, an unmarried negro
.'io, is under arrest at Souri. |),',Ccr
charged with assault with intent to
1011. Welch lived on a farm near
south Dover will other nejrro and
his wife. Karly yesterday he went
to their bedroom and shot both -is
they lav in bed. \ nephew of the
J!," 1 "?" r,, 1 " "I' -«"lrs and was shot by
" s ''''"red the room. This
man Is seriously hurt and is likely t..
die. The couple who were in 'bed
were not badly hurl. Welch esetmcil
lu 11,,- w0,..1 , Where lie was captured :
A DEADLY TORNADO,
A Nlorm < unx d 11 ("roix-rty !.<>«& ol
ijiViVOU.UMU ni Kiremor. ill.
Streator, 111., July It. A tornado
killed li\t; persons, injured a score of
others and caused a property loss o£
$>',000,(100 here last night. The dead:
Harry Doyle.
N'els 11. Bivens.
K. l'u reel I.
< liarles .Snyder.
Unknown negro.
All except Pureell were killed at the
raee track. New buildings had just
been erected and the races were to
have been given next week. Not a
building is left standing. All of the
buildings at Elect rie park were de
stroyed and the amphitheatre of the
ball pnrk was blown away.
Stauber's clothing factory, a two
story brick building, was blown down
and all the stock ruined. The Vul
can Western Co.'s plant suffered
heavy loss. I'ureell was killed there.
The Indiana, Illinois & lowa bridge,
costing $1,000,000, is nearly half
gone; the hoisting works nnd build
ings at Spring Hill shaft were ruined;
many buildings in Kingsley, four
miles west of Streator, were blown
down and several persons injured.
Many houses were unroofed and
otherwise damage*!. Telephone and
telegraph lines are nearly all down
and details are meager.
Mendota. 111., July 18.— Four per
sons were killed and ten others seri
ously injured by a tornado which
struck the northern #art of this city
last night. Everything in the storm's
track was leveled to the ground. The
known dead are:
("ora Boisdorf, aged 15.
Ora Luny, aged 19.
; Shatnel, boy, aged 13.
Shamel, boy, aged 4.
Nearly every member of the Bois
dorf family was injured. The fam
ily took refuge in the cellar to es
cape the storm. The house fell in on
them.
INQUIRY RESUMED.
Incinent Into tlie llcnlli of ltooordcr
Brown, ol' Plttoburs« It Not Kuded.
Pittsburg, July 18.—At the inquest
into the death of the late Recorder
•I. O. Brown, which was resumed Fri
day, the recorder's physician, Dr. \V.
If. MeKclvey, testified that when he
was called to visit the recorder on
i March 14 last he was told that the
patient had been using trional and
that he was taking too much. The
doctor prescribed some strychnine
and a few tablespoonsful of brandy.
About 5 o'clock that evening Mr
Brown came to the office of the doc
; tor with a box. Examination proved
it to be cyanide of potash.
" 'This is a deadly poison,' I ex
' claimed," said I)r. McKelvey. "J1
ought to be destroyed."
The box was marked "Cyanide ol
Potash." The witness said that th<
I box was obtained after a seven
| struggle with Mr. Brown.
| "Thorn "'."J iVI"I s "' 1 ..VX AIV
' About 2: Jo d.j. t ffn t tele
phone message that Mr. Brown wai
dying. When I reached the hous*
; the recorder was nearlj- dead.
"We suspected after his deatl
something was wrong. I said to the
coroner later in the day that I be
lieved he had taken some poison, and
j if so, he had taken it himself."
Asked if he knew when tlie poison
was used, Dr. McKelvey said he did
not.
Asked if he knew the cause of
death, Dr. McKelvey said he did not.
"I must go back of the heart failure.
Maybe he took some poison as a
; sleeping potion."
Adjourned until July 25.
THE DYING PONTIFF.
Pliyalciann' Bulletin Say« "H«. i„ So
Wor*e"-lle Blesaea All Who Fray
for Him,
Rome, July is.—"l cannot say the
pope is better, but he is no worse."
In these words Dr. Lapponi summed
up last evening the pontiff's condi
tion at the end of the second week of
his illness, in all the varying periods
of which the pontiff has scarcely had
a quieter day than yesterday, with
the result that last night's" official
bulletin declared him to be a little
less depressed.
After the visit of the physicians
the pope received Cardinal Bampolla,
who remained in the sick room only
a few minutes. lie again gave the
pontiff a full report of the prayers
offered in his behalf all over the
world. His holiness, raising both
hands, said: "I bless all those who
pray to God for me."
No Explanation Beqneatcd.
Washington, July 18.—It is learned
at the state department that there
have been no representations from
the British government touching- the
ownership of any of the small islands
in the south of the Philippine archi
pelago and adjacent to the coast of
Borneo. Nor is anything 1 known
here of recent naval operations in
that corner of the world, although
the fact is recalled that about a year
ago one of the American gunboats
cruising in those waters did visit
some of the native chieftains on the
smaller keys and asserted American
sovereignty.
Blew the Top ol III* Head Oil;
Columbia City, Intl., July IS.—
Joseph Clark, president of the school
board and formerly treasurer of
Whitley county, bh*v oil" his head yes
terday with a rifle. 11l health and
financial trouble was the cause.
Narrowly Ktenped Lynchlni!.
I roy, N. ~.1 illy is. A man who
gave his name as Peter toilette, aged
:.'s years, caused great excitement in
Whitehall yesterday and almost pro
\ (died—a lynching. He was arrested
for a criminal assault upon Ethel
< hapinan, aged Hi years, who he met
about two miles east of the village,
where she was picking berries. Flo
made his escape after the attack, but
the farmers in the vicinit.v organized
a band and captured him as he wit*
ept'-riiM' the village. A large crowd
. atliercd, but the authorities succeeded
In uniting (iilette 'n the county ju|L
liIiIHKHY CllAliiiKl)
George W. Heaver, nn ex-Postal
< Mlicial Is Wanted.
many nuirra ;%IIV«tlll|£ Ills Admlllls
trillion uh < hint of 111 vision of
Kularli* in PoKlofllce lll'piirl-
HK'iit Hhvp Bern Probt'd
Into b.v ln»Pfil«r«'
New York, July 18.—A bench war
rant was Issued Friday by Judge
j Thomas in the United States circuit
court at Brooklyn fort lie arrest of
(it'orge W. Beavers, formerly chief of
the division of salaries in the post
offiee department, on an indictment
found by the federal grand jury,
which charges him with accepting a
bribe of SS4O. It is understood that
payments to Beavers were traced
back to the purchase by the govern
ment of the Brandt-Dent cash regis
tering machine. The postoffice in
spectors found that Beavers had a.
large account in the Nassau 'i rust
Co., Brooklyn, and are said to have
discovered that checks deposited
there had been given by ex-Congress
man Driggs.
Washington, July 18.—The issuance
of a bench warrant for the arrest of
George W. Beavers, the former
chief of the division of salaries and
allowances of the postoffice depart
ment, is the culmination of an inves
tigation that has been in progress at
intervals since his sudden resigna
tion from office last spring. A num
ber of matters affecting his adminis
tration have beet) probed into, one of
the first results of which was the
cancellation of 3,040 promotions that
had been passed on by him, to take
effect at postoffiees throughout the
country during the present fiscal
year.
Chief Postoffice Inspector Cochran
has made several mysterious trips to
; New York in connection with the
case and Inspector Walter S. Mayer,
of Chicago, who worked up the case
against August W. Machen, the for
mer head of the free delivery ser
. vice, has figured conspicuously in ob
taining the evidence placed in pos
session of the district attorney at
. Brooklyn.
, The authorities are now searching
. for Mr. Beavers to place him under
I arrest, llis present whereabouts are
. unknown.
TRADE REVIEW.
Conditions Continue Natliluc'tory
Crop* l>oln*j Well-HallroaU 'l'm file
' Heavy Uncertainty Prevails in
JW ait ul'ac In re of Cotton tiooilw.
New York, July 18.— R. (I. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Keview of Trade says:
Conditions continue satisfactory
112 outside the region of speculation,
many reports indicating further im
: ; provement. During recent months
i the disturbing factors have been
labor controversies and weather con
- i ( v" f *'*«-*• wcclc lias brought
better things in int.« respects
' until the outlook contains much that
is encouraging. Crops are making
rapid progress and the army of un-
J employed is diminishing. Jiailway
'■ traffic is heavy, earnings thus far re
" ported for July exceeding last year's
1 by 13.6 per cent.
Retail trade in seasonable merchan
dise is fully up to the average and
there is less than the customary mid
summer quiet among wholesalers,
while the preparations of jobbers and
manufacturers indicate confidence in
a large fall business.
Unsettled conditions still exist in
forge and foundry pig iron markets,
I while Bessemer iron is only barely
steady. The chief difficulty appears
; to be the inclination of prospective
purchasers to wait for the lowest
possible quotations.
Structural steel beg-ins f 0 reflect
the settlement of labor troubles in
the building trades, but several im
portant undertakings have been post
poned until next year. Merchant
steel and pipe are Hi" better demand.
Steel rails are sold well into mot, and
other railway equipment is still one
of the best features in the industry.
It is a season of uncertainty in the
manufacture of cotton goods, and
nothing in the nature of improvement
can be expected until the artificial
position of the raw material is rad
ically altered. Supplies of cotton
goods in first hands are low and there
is no effort to make spot sales. Mills
are steadily curtailing production
both here and abroad.
Western jobbers are operating
freely in the Boston footwear mar
ket, both on contracts for spring
goods and supplementary fall orders.
Eastern \\holesalers are also pur
chasing additional fall supplies, and
New England factories are fully oc
cupied.
Failures this week were 213 in' the
I nited States, against 213 last year,
and 16 in Canada, compared with 20
a year ago.
Arrest of <'on merle I tors.
New York, July 18.—Secret service
agents captured a gang of Italian
counterfeiters in Brooklyn yesterday
after a hard fight, in which revolvers
wire drawn by both sides and one
agent had a narrow escape from
death. Five men and two women
were arrested. They are all mem
bers of the "Society of the Bad
Blood," seven of whose members are
now awaiting trial on a charge of
having murdered Benedetto, whose
body w«» id in a barrel two
months ago on the East Side.
A Famous Artist Hies.
London. July IS.-James Abbott Mc-
Neill Whistler, thi' celebrated Ameri
can artist, died yesterday afternoon
nl his residence in Chelsea, at the
age of li'i year*, llis dentil came un
expectedly, although for some time
he had been seriously ill. This
morning's papers publish elaborate
obituary notices, recognizing the dis
tinguished anil unique personality "112
Whistler, whose genius greatly dom
inated European art. While 'admit
ting that ii is for posterity tn decide
his exact position as a painter, it is
generally that he was a
consummate etcher