| HORSES FAVE INFLUENZA.
Emperor William's Subjects Trying to Find
Fault with American Imports. 3
The entire liberal press of Germany
is at present opposed to the so-called
setaliatory measures adopted last week
against the United States.
These meacures have been drawn up
and pushed by the so-called Agrarians.
Their adoption it is said was a govern-
ment trick in order to obtain the Agra-
nian vote for Emperor William's naval
bill.
American fruit has been prohibited
from entering Germany, because they
are said to be infected by bugs. The
only result of this act will be that fruit
. will be imported from Southern Europe
at a higher price than was paid for
American fruit.
«Dr. Heinrich Dodhues, a prominent
physician says that the bug scare is
entirely unjustified as he has examined
the imported fruits and plants.
Several newspapers express the opin-
ion that the decree is only intended as
an act of retaliation for American treat-
ment of German sugar.
But inquiry at the German Agricul-
tural Department shows that the steps
taken are but forerunners of others of
more importance.
"In the Reichstag last week Dr. Hahn,
a friend of Prince Bismarck, demanded
the prohibition of American horses,
claiming the imports had increased in
1897 to 4,279,000 marks, and that some-
thing must be done “to show those
overbearing Americans that an energe-
tic German Government exists.”
The views of the Prussian Cabinet
are gaugeable by a declaration made
by the Minister of Agriculture, who de-
tlared that American horses developed
influenza after importation, adding:
“If the importations increase we shall
certainly be forced to adopt a suitable
quarantine in order to protect our-
selves.”
The total exclusion of all living cattle
and hogs is also under consideration.
The syrup producers have petitioned
the Imperial Chancellor, demdnding
that no tariff agreement shall be ae-
cepted unless the United States tariff’
on German sugar is reduced 20 per cent.
from the present scale and an assuranc:
given that no other coumtry will be
moré favorably treated.
England has never complained of
American fruit and laughs at Germa-
ny’'s exclusion act.
THE CHINESE LOAN.
British Attorney Asserts the United States
‘Would Respond in Case of War.
‘““Fhe far Eastern situation is serious,
and-it is belleved that Japan is actively
preparing for war.”
Germany has further demanded com-
pensation for the assassination of the
sailor Schulz by a Chinese mob while
he was on sentry duty at a railway line
south of Kiao-Chou. The land already
conceded amounts to 100 li- (about 300
cables) around Kiao-Chou bay.
Trustworthy Chinese assert that the
killing of Shulz was justifiable homi-
cide, and due to his own misconduct.
The St. Petersburg correspondent of
the London “Times” says: ‘‘Represen-
tatives of the Disconto bank, the Deut-
sche bank and several other Berlin
firme have been here several days and
have only just departed. It is reported.
that a Russo-German loan of 100,000,000
roubles has been concluded, but the re-
port requires confirmation in detail.”
‘The Tsung-Li-Yamen proposes to di-
vide the loan equally between Great
Britain and Russia.
‘It i8 now reported that Germany de- |
mands that Port Arthur and Ta-Lien-
‘Wan be made free ports, and that
Great Britain has definitely withdrawn
her demand for the opening of Ta-
olien-Wan, :
Several thousand Russian troops who
haye been guarding the Transiberian
railroad, have entered Manchuria with
the consent of the~Pekin authorities.
~ Bir Richard Webster, the British at-
{orney general, speaking at Ventnor,
Isle of Wright, on the Chinese trouble,
said that the United States ‘was sup-
porting England's policy with surpris-
ing unanimity. He declared” that if
Great Britain were compelled to fight
for’ this cause and should lose, the
British people would have a ‘“‘quick and
glorious response from across the sea.”
NINETEEN DROWNED.
o
Britsh Vessel Strikes a Rock During a Fog’
py and Sinks. ;
The mail steamer Channel Queen was
wrecked Tuesday morning off the is-
land of Guernsey. She struck on the
rocks during a fog and sank.
The Channel Queen’s engines were
reversed when the rocks were seen, but
it was then too late. The first boat-
1 reached land and sought help of
thé fishermen, who made gallant res-
rues, although the heavy sea prevented
. their boat from approaching the wreck.
The survivors had to be dragged by
ropes through the sea to the rescuing
boats. The captain was the last to
{eave the wreck.
The chief engineer, three stokers and
fifteen passengers, including fourteen
onion sellers, were drowned in their
rabins when the sea swamped the ves-
sel. The rescued passengers lost every-
thing, even their ¢lothing. ©
CABLE SPARKS. Ed
Prince Maximilian of Baden will
rhortly marry Princess Pauline of Wur-
temburg. ia
Turks and Thessalian peasgnts had a
conflict last week in which a hundred
persons were killed. .
The pope is announced to be in ex-
rellent health and will shortly issue an.
address to Catholics. z
= By the capsizing of a navy launch at
"Kiel last week nine sailors and three
"workmen were drowned.
‘Mrs. Cadwalader Guild, the American
tress has been congratulated upon
* work by the German Emperor.
- King George of Greece is greatly de-3
‘pressed by the situation of his country,
‘and is willing to abdicate in favor of
cstablishing a ‘republic.
2 Dispatches from Madrid say that the
x panish government has decided te
send two additional cruisers to the
© United States. The § ‘sel J
ast bably will be the Cristobal Colon
© and the Almirante Oquendo. :
‘score of people lost their lives in
| was no
PEACE WITHIN A MONTH.
Such is the Declaration of General Blanco in
3 to the Cuban War.
A dispatch from Manzanillo, Cuba, to
the New York Journal, gives the text of
an address made by Capt. Gen. Blanco
in that place. on January 29. Blanco
declares that in view of the new policy
of the government, which counts upon
the support and assistance of the best
element of the island, he looked for
peace within the coming month. He
added that Spain is prepared and de-
termined to adopt a more energetic and
less*'moderate policy to all who despite
her generosity in dealing with the col-
‘ony sHall continue after the expiration
of #0 days in arms against her author-
ity. F
Another demand is to be made on
Spain for the payment of $75,000 indem-
nity .to the widow. of Dr. Ruiz, for the
murder of her husband in a Quana-
bacoa jail.
Rumors that the naval department at
Washington intends sending another
‘warship to Havana are given additipn-
al credence by the activity in fitting out
the double-turreted monitor Miantono-
mah, at League island. Two gangs of
men are employed, one on the exterior
of the vessel and the other in the cab-
ins and ip the hold, making everything
ready for a sea voyage. The deck of
the Monitor is a scene of continued bus-
tle in an éffort to get everything in
shipshape. The immediate cause of all
this activity is kept secret, but it is
known that on Sunday Capt. Longacre,
the commandant of the yard, made a
thorough investigation of the Minatono-
mah. As a result of this investigation
the men were put to work. °
The fearful increase in the mortality
month after month during 1897 in Santa
Clara City, Cuba, is most impressive
proof of the ravages made by war in
Cuba. The figures of mortality in the
city during the past year are official
ang are taken from the Statistical bu-
reau: January, 78 dead; February, 114;
March, 333; April, 524; May, 539; June,
531; July, 655; August, 645; September,
630; October, 884; November, 1,037; De-
cember, 1,011. The otal population of
Santa Clara City is 12,000.
The news from Cienfuegos continues
to be alarming with respect to the atti-
tude of uncompromising Spaniards and
volunteers who are in overwhelming
majority there. They consjder that the
death a few days ago of their leader,
Col. Pertierra, was a national loss.
They made a formidable demonstration
at his burial, and their newspaper or-
gans compare Pertierra’s funeral with
that of Gonzajo Castifien, which led in
1877 to the massacre of the students of
the University of Havana.
Dr. Sanchez Agramonte, surgeon-
general ‘in the Cuban insurgent army,
has just arrived from Europe, bringing
$40,000 raised in Paris for the Cuban
cause. Dr. Agramonte says that popu-
lar sentiment in France is strong in
favor of success for the Cubans.
‘“Among people of all classes,” he sa'd,
“there is a desire that Cuba be freed.
The French government is restrained
from taking any action in favor of Cuba
by the French interests in Spanish
bonds. A part of my mission abroad
was to place before the Red Cross so-
cteties of the different nations the man-
ner in which our sick and wounded
have been treated in Cuba. I sent a
manifesto to the Red Cross congress in
Vienna and talked with prominent phy-
siclans and officials with a view of in-
ducing France and other nations to
bring pressure to bear upon Spain to
recognize our Red Cross organization in
Cuba. All we want is to have our
wounded treated like those of other na-
tions.”
Dr. Agramongte said that in this mat-
ter he had been promised the aid of per-
sons of influence, but he did not know
whether Spain would grant their re-
quest’ or not.
A HEROIC GIRL,
> PARC.
Ignores a Threat of Death and Drives off Her
Assailant.
The most sensational Ku-Klux raid
ever perpetrated in Knott county, Ky.,
was the: other night when abgut 25
armed men came into Hindman and
attacked, the house of Henry C. Moore,
a reputable citizen, who .had gained
the ill-will of the Ku-Klux by denpune-
ing their unlawful acts. After firing
several shots into the house they tried
to break in, but Moore repulsed them
with an ax. He had no firearms. The
firing caused Jailor Strong and Deputy
Johnson to run ‘to the scene., They
found the mob* saturating Mogre’s
house with oil to set it on fire. They
ordered them to leave, but were met
with a_ volley of bullets. Citizens, at-
tracted by the shooting, came to the
officers’ assistance. Moare’'s daughter
jumped from a window, and as she
struck the ground a Ku-Klux member
threatened to shoot her with a win-
chester, if 'she moved. She knocked him
down, grabbed his gun and drove him
off. The firing then became general
between the, citizens and officers and
Miss Moore on one side and the Ku-
Klux on the other. The latter soon re-
treated... None -of the citizens were
hurt. :
Pingree Wins a Buit.
Judge Donovan, of ‘the Circuit Court,
at Detroit, recently ordered issuance of
a mandamus against the Michigan Cen-
tral Railroad in the suit brought by
Governor Pingree to compel the rall-
road .company to sell him a 1,000-mile
mileage book, good not only for” him-
self'but for any member of his family,
for $20. In his opinion Judge Donovan
J reviewed the railroad company’s con-
tention and quoted several decisions of
the United States Supreme Court, under
which the right to regulate fares and
charges was reserved to the State. He
concluded that the Michigan Central is
‘still under police power, reserved to the
State, and that the ‘company cannot
fix rates by laws repugnant to the laws
of the State.”
Tit
Father and Danghter Attempt Suicide.
Miss Lucy Taylor, of Washington,
who has been ill for some time, jumped
through a window the other nights and
landing in a snow bank, ran terribly |
cut and bruised through the streets,
and after a half hour's search was
found in‘a snow bank almost nude by
a policeman. She was cut and bruised
in many places. She was taken home,
and it was then found that during her.
ahsence her father had hanged himself
by a rope attached to the boiler of a
stove. He was cut down and removed
to the hospital unconscious. phy-
sicians 1 d'that both Mr. and Miss
Taylor were improving and t there
ger doubt of their recovery.
Er
~The trustees of the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New York, re-
| signed last ;
maini
ed a
re 0
he pulpit. Dr. Hall resign-
eeks ago, but at the urge
few
1 Vardella
‘of Ephraim
THESE TE AES CEN
A BIG CAVE.
Wonderful Formations Seen if a Pennsyl-
vania Cavern near Madisonburg
A big cave on the Detrich farm, near
Madisonburg was' partially explored
for the first time by B. F. Miller, Mad-
isonburg; John Long, Pittsburg; Ber-
tram Miller, and others. They descen-
ded 90 feet, found a cave three-quarters
of a mile long, with numerous windings
and chambers. There are streams, wa-
terfalls, wonderful domes, monster pil-
lars, pits and lakes, and stalactites and
stalagmites said to equal the Mam-
moth cave. ,
The following pensions were granted
last week: William H. Thomas, Beaver
Springs, $8; Logan Mains, McKeesport,
$6; Daniel Keiflein, dead, Appollo, $6;
Robert Boak, Burgettstowpn, $8; John
D. Resley, Elton, $6; Joseph W. Wey-
ant, Osterburg, $4 to $6; Warren Chaf-
fee, Hatch Hollows, $6 to $8; Catherine
McGee, Pittsburg, $8; minor of Benja-
min Barnes, Pittsburg, $10; Henry
Young, Uniontown, $8; Samuel D. Tar-.
rance, Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home,
Erie, $6; Wilson Kennedy, Renfrew,
$6; George B. Lindsay, Pittsburg, $12;
Benjamin F. Crawford, North East, $6;
John J. Glass, Altoona, $6; Mary Ann
Porter, Vanderbilt, Fayetté, $8; Mary
Reer, Burtville, Potter, $10; John Hart-
sell, Uniontown, $8; Joseph H. Sparks,
Clearfield, $24 to $30; Margaret I. Gil-
bert, Pittsburg, $8; Moses R. Taggart,
Wilkinsburg, $8; William C. Louder-
back (dead), New Eagle, Washington,
$12; Thomas M. George, Port Perry,
$6; William McConnaughy, Adtech,
Huntingdon, $12; John F. Berkerimer,
Barnes, Warren, $6; George Roe, El.
liott, $8; Warren Cooper, Washington,
$6; Logan M. Truxal, DuBois, $8;
James 8S. Carson, Bellefonte, $4 to $6;
Samuel M. McMurtie, Bellefonte, $6 to
$10; Barbara Shaffer, Shirleysburg,
Huntingdon, $8.
State Librarian William H. Egle, in
hjs report for 1897 states there are 134,-
935 volumes in the State library, includ-
ing duplicates of State documents. Dr.
Egle suggests that the next Legislature
intrdduce the system oft “traveling li-
braries” into the State library work. He
states that 12 libraries, some with
branches, have been established under
the literary act of June 28, 1895. Mr.
Egle claims that portraits of George
Washington, Thomas Wharton and
Benjamin Franklin, owned by the State
have disappeared, and that they ought
to be returned. The doctor also thinks
an effort should be made to recover the
first American flag unfurled in British
waters during the revolutionary war,
and he states that the stars and stripes
raised on the citidel of Mexico upon its
capture has mysteriously disappeared
from the State building.
Michael Hart, aged 29, whom the au-
thorities of Clearfield county have been
after for two years on the charge of
murder, was arrested the other night
while riding on a freight train. The
murdered man was named Laski, an
Italian builder of Dubois. Hart and
two other men, named Curry and Kel-
ley, were accused of having waylaid,
killed and robbed him. Curry and Kel-
ley are serving long terms in prison for
the crime. ?
Charles Davis, a Pittsburg & Erie
brakeman, was riding a car over a high
trestle at the steel mill at New Castle.
This trestle was immediately over the
place where red-hot cinders are thrown
and as the car passed over water was
.thrown on the cinders to cool. them.
The steam blinded Davis, and he fell
down from the car right into the hot
cinders. He was terribly burned, and
his knee cap was broken. His injuries
may end fatally. : ¥
Thomas F. Shingledecker, Frank A.
Hover and J. W. Foulkman of New
Castle have just returned from a trip
to Florida, where they secured an op-
tion on 40,000 acres of land lying in the
northern part of the state along the
Louisville and Nashville railroad. It is
the intention to organize a land com-
pany and raise sugar cane and cotton,
build a town, and have a sugar refin-
ery and a big cotton mill.
An explosion occurred a few days
ago at Lilly, blowing the end off a
house occupied by an Italian named
Verbatti and 25 boarders, all foreign-
ers. A blast put off by contractors
working on the railroad caused the
damage. No one was injured, but a
number of the foreigners were 8o badly
frightened that they started back to
Italy. 5
Gearge McClellan Byers, of Beaver, a
shoe dealer, who has been suffering
trom a bad ebld, was taken with a fit of
coughing and fell to the floor a few
days ago. He was picked up and died
in a few minutes. Doctors say he rup-
tured a blood vessel in the brain by
hard coughing. He was 51 years old
and a member of the Masonic order and
the Elks.
Elmer J. Walbridge, aged 8 years,
obtained a verdict for $10,000 against the
Schuylkill Electric Railway Company,
of Pottsville, recently. The boy . was
run over by a trolley car in’ Pottsville
over two years ago and had both hands
cut off. The lad is an inmate of the
House of the Merciful Saviour, Phila-
delphia. Arbitrators awarded $8,000,
and the company appealed it to Court.
Ex-Governor Thomas A. Osborne, of
Kansas, died suddenly at the Commer-
cial hotel at Meadville last Friday of
hemorrhage of the stomach. Mr. Os-
borne only arrived the day before from
his Western home, having come to see
Mrs. Margaret Richmond, This engage-
ment to whom was announced but re-
cently.
The frozen body of an unknown man
was. found kneeling in a fence corner
the other morning by Jacob Guffy near
Unionville. In the man’s pockets were
a Bible, a pack of cards and a bottle of
whisky, but nothing by which he could
be identified. He is supposed to have
been a tramp. =!
The horseless carriage made its ini-
tial appearance in Central Pennsylva-
nia last week. Dr. 8S. M. Goldberg of
New York City made a successful run
in his- carriage over the mountain road
and’ through snowdrifts between Al-'|
toona and Hollidaysburg.
Frank Forgan, who was on his way
from Youngstown to Pittsburg, fell off
a train last week at New Cagtle Junc-
tion and had both legs crushed so bad-
ly that they will have to be amputated. |
He says he resides at Pittsburg, where
he has a wife and two children. He
was hunting work. ‘
David Steffe, aged 80, was burned to
death at his own home three miles
‘seuth of Oil City the other night. An
Oil City sleighing party passing the
house found it in flames, but were un-
‘able to rescue Steffe, who lived alone.
Nelson Minney, of Monongahela, was
brought to jail recently on a charge of
wife. They had been married but
three months and the other morning
“he struck her with a poker. 3
Frick, aged 22, a daughter
CONGRESS.
Senate.
session of the senate lasted six hours,
two of the general appropriation bills—
that for the army carrying $23,143,492,
and that for the legislative, judicial and
executive departments carrying $21,658,-
620—were passed, the latter consisting
of 121 pages, occupying the attention of
the senate during the greater part of
the session. After a brief executive
session the senate adjourned. John M.
McLaurin was sworn in as a senator
from _South Carolina, to fill the unex-
pired term of the late Senator Earle,
the term ending March 4, 1903.
. Washington, Feb. 1.—The Senate
Spent most of the day in executive ses-
sion upon the Hawallan annexation
treaty. The friends of annexation are
confident that they can now command
the 60 votes necessary to ratify the
treaty and accordingly they voted
down a motion made by Senator Thurs-
ton to postpone consideration to March
Mr. Platt, of Connecticut, began the
debate in favor of annexation. He
charged that the sugar trust was op-
posed to annexation. There. were cer-
tain parties, supposed to be identified
with the trust, who had a grievance
against the present government of the
islands and were using all the means
at their command to prevent the ac-
quisition of Hawaii by the United
States, and money was being used to
‘this end. He did not charge that there
was any effort to corrupt Congress, he
thought that some interests had been
unduly influenced. He urged upon the
Senate the: importance of not giving
ear to the representations of the trust.
Washington, Feb. 2—In_ the Senate
Mr. Hawley (Conn.) secured the adop-
tion of a resolution directing the secre-
tary of the interior to furnish the sen-
ate the total per capita cost of educat-
ing Indian childrei at certain Indian
schools; the total cost of transporting
pupils to and from the schools, includ-
ing the number transported; approxi-
mately what proportion of the children
educted in the schools return to the
blanket and camp condition, and what
can be done to prevent such retrogres-
sion and continue the children in the
lines of progress on which they have
entered; and what is the relative influ-
ence of the educated youth at home
and those educated away from home in
favor of ending tribal reservation of
the Indian, his becoming a citizen and
entering the great mass of the popula-
tion as shown by the pupils going into
the employment of civilized life.
Washington, Feb. 8.—Senator Teller,
Chairman of the Senate committee on
claim§, introduced two bills in the Sen-
ate embodying the results of the com-
mittee’s investigation under the pro-
vision of the general deficiency act of
last session. One of the bills refers nu-
merous claims to the court of claims.
The other is an omnibus measure pro-
viding appropriations under general
heads as follows: Court of claims
cases (mostly under the Bowman act),
$1,840,963; French spoliation claims, $1,-
043,117; under naval contracts, $792,500;
on account of churches. and schools,
$365,974; claims of States, $4,693,128;
miscellaneous claims, $897; for adjust-
ment and settlement (in part), $130,359;
totals, $9,765,223.
Washington, Feb. 4—Senator White
concluded his three days’ speech in op-
position to the annexation of Hawaii
in the executive session of the Senate.
He declared agains that the entire
power behind the throne was the sug-
ar combination of Hawaii, whose per-
sonal interests had, he said, always
been consulted regardless of the effect
upon the public, and he criticised the
action of President Dole in coming to
Washington at such a time, and:said
he asked what would would have been
thought of the taste of the Prince of
Wales had he come here at the time
that the treaty of arbitration was un-
der consideration for the purpose of in-
fluencing our action.
House.
‘Washington, Jan. 31.—The Teller reso-
tution, which provided that all bonds
can be paid for in silver at the option
of treasury officials, was defeated. in
the house by a vote of 182 to 132.
Washington, Feb. 1.—In the house
the District of Columbia appropriation
bill was then taken up, and the debate
drifted into politics. Mr. Simpson, Pop-
ulist, Kansas, attempted to show from
slippings from Maine papers that there
had been no returns of prosperity in
the lumber industry in that- State. He
also attacked New Jersey as t home
of the trusts. Mr. Dingley, Republican,
Maine, replied that the Maine papers
were full of evidences of the improve-
ment in the lumber industry. The clip-
ping quoted was the exception. It was,
he said, another proof that gentlemen
on the other side could see the speck
on the barn door, but could not see the
door.
Washington, Feb. — Ex-Speaker
Grow, of Pennsylvania, asked the con-
sent of the house to-day for the con-
sideration of a joint resolution author-
izing the issue of medals to 130 surviv-
9
“e
Pennsylvania troops which were the
first to reach the national capitol for
its defense on the 18th of April, 186L
Mr. Hul, of Iowa, chairman of the
committee on military affairs, objected,
saying the committee had before it bills
| providing for the issue of medals to
about 225,000 soldiers, and he would in-
sist upon this resolution going with the
rest. Other attempts to gain consider-
ation of private measures were futile.
‘Washington, Feb. 3. — The House
spent to-day ostensibly considering the
fortifications appropriation bill. In re-
ality the major portion of the time was
consumed in the discussion of political
topics. ‘The existence or non-existence
of prosperity in this country was again
the main question of dispute. All at-
tempts to increase the appropriation in
the fortifications appropriation bill, or
to amend it in any respect, were voted
down to-day. A bill was passed appro-
priating $10,000 for a survey and report
on the practicability of securing a 35-
foot channel in the Southwest Pass of
the Mississippi river.
Washington, Feb. 4.—In the House
sale of the Kansas Pacific road, set
for February 17, was precipitated by
Mr. Fleming (Dem. Georgia), who,
‘ed legislation to require the President
to bid the full amount of the debt,
principal and interest. The claim ot
the Government, Mr. Fleming sald
was over $13,000,000, and while it was
claimed that the road could be paral-
leled for $3,000,000 he said that the en-
gineer who built the road, Senator
Harris, of Kansas, estimated its value
ft from $25.000.000 ta $30.000.000.
His Political Death.
Ex-Senator Hill has gone South. He
spent some tithe at the Capitol while
he was here, and lunched with Sena-
tors Gorman and Murphy. It seemed
quite natural to see Governor Hill in
the Senate chamber, says the ‘Washing-
ton Post. = a:
acteristic good-nature. “I can only re-
‘peat what was said by Mark Twain,’
was his comment. “The reports of my
‘death have been greatly exaggerated.”
. Frick, a farmer, wandered
‘Washington, D. C., Jan 31.—~To-day’'s |
ing members of the five companies of’
to-day discussion of ‘the approaching:
with his Democratic colléagues, desir--
€ ex- 0 “the joking about
his retirement to private life with char-
“THE GALEN WIS IE
ARTILLERY DUEL.
Wisconssn Veteran Relates an Interesting
Encounter of the War.
“I witnessed the oniy artillery duel
that took place during the war,” said a
Veteran wearing a badge of the 6th
Wis. Art. “It was fought at Port Gib-
son, Miss., and was arranged with as’|
much formality, if without seconds, as
marks one of those personal affairs of
Boner in France.
‘There were a good many artillery
fights during -the war,” he en ind
“At Malvern Hill Gen. Lee's guns ex-
changed tons of solid shot, shells and
canister with McClellan’s artillery, and
at Gettysburg 100 Confederate guns,
stationed on Seminary Ridge, thunder-
ed at 80 of our pieces on Cemetery
Ridge, in command of Gen. H. J. Hunt,
Gen. Meade’s Chief-of-Artillery. But
these were parts of great battles, not
duels bp these fellows who write his-
duels by there fellows who write his-
tory. The artillery fight at Port Gib-
son was a duel—nothing more and
nothing less—and was witnessed by the
greater part of two armies who did
nothing but watch the gunners and
shout when the fur flew.
“In the Spring of 1863 Gen. Grant
was maneuvering about Vicksburg in
an effort to get near enough to the for-
tified city to strike an effective blow.
Troops below Vicksburg erossed to the
east bank of the Mississippi at Bruins-
burg. Port Gibson is 10 or 12 miles east
of Bruinsburg, and at that point the
Confederates were in force. At dawn
on May 1, 1863, the two armies were
face to face.
‘When we reached. Port Gibson,” the
Sauk City inn kéeper continued, ‘both
armies halted to take breath. Away
off toward the Confederate line was a
solitary house, and near this was the
rebel #artillery. While we stood there
a battery of Confederate artillery left
the line, “trotted out as if on parade,
swung around into line, and unlimber-
ed. It was all done with the precision
and nicety of a parade at West Point.
Every man was in his place, we could
see, although the distance was three-
quarters of a mile. There the men
stood. like- so many statues in gray.
Everybody asked what it meant, but
no one could say.
‘“ ‘By Jove, it's a challenge!’ some one
finally ejaculated. And sure enough it
was.
“There was no move in our line for a
minute or two; then the bugle of the
Ist Wis. sounded, and out went the
six guns, swung into line and unlim-
bered. In 30 seconds the Johnny. rebs
saw that the challenge was accepted,
and both batteries opened fire.
|. “While the singular duel was in prog-
ress from 12 to 20 shots were fired from
each gun. The 1st Wis. was com-
manded by Capt. Jake Foster, an old
Ozaukee County boy, who went out to
Minnesota and enlisted at La Crosse.
He was a good soldier himself, and hig
gunners were crackerjacks, and those
percussion shells made the _~Johnnies
jump. It wasnt five minutes before the
Confederates had enough and started
to-withdraw the battery.
“Our boys disabled three guns, blew
up a caisson or two, if I remember
right, killed a rebel Captain, and
wounded three or four gunners. Every
shot that told was greeted by a loud
cheer from our boys.”
AWAY TO SEE WIFE AND CHILD
‘Editor’ National Tribune: The re-
cent death of Capt. M. J. Grealish, U.
8. A., reminds the writer that he was’
one of the few remaining links be-
tween the great Lincoln and the pres-
ent generation, as he knew the war
Prsident intimately. I recall oné of his
stories of Lincoln's great kindness. In
October, 1862, Grealish was a Lieuten-
ant of Volunteers, and at Washington.
One afternoon he called on the Presi-
dent, and while waiting in the ante-
room, noticed a handsome young wo-
man with a babe. The woman was ap-
parently in great mental agony, and
frequently wept. He finally asked her
what was the trouble, and if he could
in any way help her. ’
“My husband is to be shot to-mor-
pw, and I can’t get to see the Presi-
dént.” ;
Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas came in
about that time, and after shaking
hands he too became interested in the
mother and child. -
The condemned soldier belonged to
the Pennsylvania Bucktails, and was
from Franklin County. While in Mec-
Clellan’s army on the Peninsula the
young wife had written him to come
home on furlough and see tha baby. He
wrote back that they were on the
move. After Manassas he made appli-
cation for leave, but the Antietam fight
was brewing and Confederates were in
Maryland. After that battle he again
tried for a furlough, but failed. The
enemy had recrossed the Potomac into
Virginiagand the Union army was now
lying infctive on the Maryland shore.
Then did the young man take
“French leave,” and hie away to see
his first-born and his loving wife, after
which he returned to duty. But he was
arrested, tried as a deserter and con-
demned to be shot. y
She broke down and continued to
weep when Lincoln spoke kind words
to her. ;
“Who'is this young lady?”
Grealish related her story. Mr. Lin-
coln quickly penned an order to Gen.
Burnside to send the condemned soldier
to him.
“Lewis, take this quickly to the tele-
graph office; don’t let Stanton see it,”
said he to his messenger.
Next day, instead of being shot, the
poy was ushered into the presence of
the President.
“Well, young man,” said Lincoln,
taking him by the hand, ‘there is
somebody in the next room who wants
to see you.” ‘He told me afterwards,”.
said Capt. Grealish, in narrating the
incident, “that after leaving them
alone for a while he returned to their
room and there sat the young, manly
soldier with his wife on one knee and
the baby on the other; husband and
wife were weeping for joy.”
Mr. Lincoln offered him a furlough,
but the young man thanked him, and
‘said he wanted to return where duty
called. Then he told the President he
hadn’t mony enough to take them both
home. “Well, I guess the man that
saved your life can furnish you a little
money to go home.”—W. A. Rodgers,
Pittsburg, Pa. : ;
Avoided the Dog.
At the dinner at the Rt. Rev. Thomas
| Underwood Dudley’s—23 years a Bishop
—that Bishop told several good stories,
says the Louisville Courier-Journal.
When he first told his friends in Bal-
timore that he was coming to Ken-
tucky some of them were astonished.
“You're not going to Kentucky, are
you?” asked one startled man.
“Yes, indeed.
“Why, do you know what kind of a
State that is? I saw in the paper
where a man killed another in Ken-~
tucky for treading on @ dog.” The
impatiently: “What're you going to do
ad
‘Bishop sald nothing, and the man sald, '
PRICES FORCED UP.
Fhe Wire Combine Makes Itself Felt in the
Market. . §
It is asserted at Cleveland that the
American Steel and Wire Company —in
other words, the consolidation of the
entire American wire industry—seems
to be an accomplished fact. One of the
strongest indications is a sudden and
marked. stiffening in the price of wire
and nails last week. The price was
put up on Monday over a dollar a ton
beyond what it was previous. to the
recent temporary drop, and as much as
$3, $4 or $5 a ton over some prices for
wire which were reported as having
been made last week. Now the price
announced is $1.30 for wire and $1.55
for nails, and another advance of §&
cents a hundred pounds is to be made
in March. This huge concern, with a
capitalization eof $87,000,000, all repre-
senting property, owns all the estab-
lishments in the country with which
wire rod mills are connected. It is an
absolute absorption of the property of
the concerns consolidated, and the for-
mer owners who now hold stock can
not dissolve the combination by any
withdrawal.
The Indiana labor commission has ef-
fected a settlement for one year among
the thousand workmen in the Elwood
and Kokomo plate glass plants of the
Pittsburg Glass company. In this city
agreements were entered into on wage
and working regulations, and articles
drawn up covering a year. They will
be filed in the county courts here and
at Kokomo, and violation during the
year by either workmen or the com-
pany will be punished as a contempt of
court. The Elwood plant resumed re-
cently with 600 men. "
:Roach’s shipyard, at Chester, Pa.,
last week concluded a contract to build
for the Standard Oil Company the
largest tank steamship ever construct-
ed in this country. The ship will be
364 feet long, 48 feet beam and 23 feet
deep, and will be built to carry oil in
bulk. There are now six vessels under
construction in Roach’s shipyard, and
a larger force is employed than at any
time since 1890.
The Neshannock Steel and Tin Pldte
company at New Castle, Pa., started
its new mill Monday. The company
will give employment to 300 men, all ot
whom have been engaged. The output
will be 50 tons of black plates per day.
Carmi Glover and Perry Green have
purchased the Clover foundry at New
Castle, Pa., and will operate it under
the name of Green, Glover & Co.
The 250 employees of the Seneca
Glass Company, Morgantown, W. Va,
hay accepted a "cut in their wages.
A new glass factory will be started
at Morgantown, a site and $10,000 hav-
ing been donated by the town.
An English syndicate has, it is re-
ported, decided to put up a $1,000,000
steel plant near Birmingham, secure
large ore properties adjacent and ship
the product bf its mills to England te
be used in factories turning out the
finished products.
A Wellington, Australia, firm was
fined $32 for failing to provide a dining-
room for its female employees. At
Dunedin a merchant who employed a
female on Saturday afternoon was
fined 210.
Prince Bismarck’'s plan to Germanize
Prussian Poland by buying up Polish
estates and settling Germans on them
has proved a failure. The Prussian
Chambers nine years ago egtablished a
fund of 100,000,000 marks for this pur-
pose. The Polish nobles sold their
heavily mortgaged estates to the Gow-
ernment readily, but, instead of emi-
grating, bought with the money other
estates in the country from Germans
and gathered around them Polish la-
borers.
A Portland (Me.) man has sworn off
against talking to himself. He was
berating himself roundly the other day
while walking on the street, and ap-
plied to himself a very uncomplimen-
tary name in a half audible tone just
as he came abreast of another man.
This person thought himself addressed,
and not relishing the title drew off and
gave the talkative chap a blow in the
face that blackened his eve
PITTSBURG.
Grain, Flour and Feed
WHEAT—No. 1red. $
Nod red......oeonrvsss
CORN—No. 2 yellow, ear
No. 2 yellow, shelled
geen
YE—NoO. L...c.coervnese
FLOUR—Winter patents.
Fancy straight winter
Rye flou
HAY—No. 1 timothy
Clover, No. 1.
Hay, from wagons
FEED—No. 1 White Md., ton..
Brown middlings
Oa
S8EEDB—Clover, 60 Ib
Timothy, prime
Dairy Products.
BUTTER—EIgin Creamery....$
Ohio CreBmMery....covavsenese
Fancy country roll
"CHEESE—Ohio, néew..........
New York, new..............
Fruits and Vegetables
BEANS—Hand-picked,;# bu... 8 1
POTATOES—White, per bu....
CABBAGE—Home grown, bbi.
ONIONS—per bu
Poultry, Etc
CHICKENS, # pair small
TURKEYS, 8 Ib
EGGS—Pa. and Ohio, fresh. ...
CINOINNATL
FLOUR
WHEAT
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BUTTER—Ohio cream:
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OATS8—No. 2 white. .....
BUTTER—Creamery, extra....
EGGS8—Pa. firsts........ dine
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WHEAT—No. 2 red
CORN—NO. 2...c..c0ivnnsonee
OATS— White Western.........
BUTTER—
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: CATTLE. 2
Prime, 1,800 to 1,4001bs.. .. ....
1,200 to 1,800
Tidy, 1,000 to 1,150 bs. .... ..
Fair lignt steers, 900 to 1000 bs.
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