”
Railroads through:the ‘‘wild West”
put an end to serious Indian out
breaks. They would be great civilize
ing and peacemaking forces in our
new possessions.
We sent 2,222,279 pounds of mail
to Great Britain during the last fiscal
year, from which it would appear that
we are entitled to high rank among
people of letters.
A society has been formed in Paris
whose business it will be to furnish a
fourteenth guest for dinner parties
numbering thirteen guests. Alas,
how seriously those frivolous Parisians
take the little amenities of life.
In spite of all the attractions of
football, it is still true that the im-
pelling motive of ycung men who seek
our colleges is a serious purpose to
acquire knowledge and an adequate
preparation for the important duties
citizenship.
The wreck of the sfeamer Portland
off the coast of Massachusetts, involv-
ing the loss of over one hundred lives,
appears to have been due primarily to
a willful disobedience of orders on the
part of the captain of the doomed ship.
It is alleged that he was ordered by
his employers not to sail from Boston
at the regular hour of departure, but
to wait’ at least two hours and consult
the weather reports as to the probable
duration of the furious storm theR
raging along the treacherous coast
Instead of following these instructions,
it appears that he left port at the usual
hour, toward the
open sea in the face of a gale of ex-
taking his vessel
traordinary violence, with the result
that he lcst his ship, his life and the
lives of all the other persons on board.
Tt is a grim tragedy of thé wintry seas,
made doubly tragic by the probability
that it might have been averted if com-
mon sense and good discipline had
guided its principal actor.
The strained relations between Nor-
way and Sweden bear close resem-
blance to those between Hungary and
Austria. Norway, like Hungary, has
been rapidly increasing in wealth and
population and, like Hungary, she is
evidently aiming at eventually com-
plete independence. In the meantime
Norway is seeking for a separate con-
sular service of her own, claiming that
under the present arrangement the
foreign service of the Scandinavian
union is practically Swedisli, and Nor-
Wegian interests suffer greatly in con-
sequence. To this Sweden refuses to
assent, maintaining that there can be
only one representation of the union
abroad.
| one side of him and General
| general,
wegian storthing in adopting a resolu- |
tion for a flag without the emblem of
the Scandinavian union is apparently
a protest against the attitude of Swe-
den. Where the long dispute between
these two countries will end it is hard {
to say. The good influence of King
Oscar, like that of Emperor Joseph in
the case of Austria and Hungary, has
3 kept the two countries together in
spite of jealousy and bickering, and it
may prevent dissolution of the Scan-
dinavian union.
The latest declaration as to the legal
status of the boycott is found in an
opinion rendered by the Supreme
Court of Michigan in a case which
arose out of a boycott of a firm of mill
owners by striking union teamsters.
The strikers picketed the mills and
issued circulars establishing a boycott
on the firm. The court prefaced an
injunction against the strikers with a
statement of the law regulating the
relations between employer and em-
ploye.
law protects employers in the right to
employ whom they please at prices
they and their employes can agree
upon, and to discharge them at the
expiration of their term of service for
violation of their contract. So, also,
the laborers have the right to fix a
price upon their labor; and to refuse
to work unless that price is obtained.
They have this right singly or in com-
bination. They may organize in order
to improve their condition and secure
better wages, and may use persuasion
to induce men to join their organiza-
tion or refuse to work except for an
established wage. They may present
their cause to the public in newspa-
papers or circulars in a peaceable
way, and with no attempt at coercion.
This, however, marks the limit of
either party’s right. The injunction
granted by the court restrained the
strikers from picketing the premises
and from distributing boycott circu-
lars which were said to embody threat-
ening language. Labor, as the de-
cision illustrates, possesses freedom
of action and of combination, but that
freedom must not be construed to in-
clude intimidation or coercion of
others whose right to labor or employ
labor is equally free.
SPAIN'S RULE HAS ENDED IN GUB.
TRANSFER WAS QUIET.
Gov. Castellanos Yields His Authority to Cen
Brooke—An Exchange of Speeches—Cu-
bans Not Enthusiastic.
With tears in his eyes Gen. Caste:l-
lanos, Spanish general of Cuba, last
Sunday turned the reign of the island
over to the United States government
The form of the transfer was simple,
consisting only of an exchange of
speeches in the salon of the palace,
and the raising in itt stead of the flag
the hauling down of the Spanish fiag
of the United States on the flagstaff
on the palace roof. Salutes were fired
from the heavy guns of the forts and
two warships before and after the
change of the flags. The raising of
the Stars and Stripes was greetzd
with cheers by the people, who cov-
ered the roofs of the buildings around
the palace and the plaza.
At 11.45 Major-General Lee,
itary governor of the province of Ha-
vana, with his staff, joined General
Brooke. The latter then crossed the
street to the palace, General I.ee On
Chaffee
on the other, followed by the other
American generals and the Cuban of-
ficers.
A flourish of trumpets greeted the
procession, and the Spanish troops
presented arms as the Americans en-
tered the palace. The Cubans re-
mained outside until escorted in by
the members of General Brooke's
staff, the Spanish soldiery remaining
all the while at “present arms.”
On entering the palace, the Amer-
ican generals went to the salon facing
the plaza, which is on the second
floor.
Suddenly Captain General Castil-
lanos entered the salon without cere-
mony from the left and greeted Gen-
eral Brooke and others. After shak-
ing hands General Brooke sat upon a
sofa while General Castellanos moved
towards the group of Cuban generals.
Britsh Vice-Consul Jerome intro-
duced him to General Mayia Rodri-
guez. Shaking both hands of the
Cuban officer, in the usual Spanish
fashion, General Castellanos said:
“We have been enemies, but I re-
spect you for your correct attitudes
and opinions, I have pleasure in shak-
ing your hands.”
General Rodriguez replied:
mil-
“I thank
i you, general, I feel sorry for the Span-
ish army, which has defended the
banner it has sworn to defend. I also
have pleasure in shaking your hands.”
At the last stroke of 12, the bocm of
a gun brought all eyes to the point in
the room where stood the captain
who was talking with an
American officer. Immediately all
was silence.
At this moment the band on . the
plaza was playing the Spanish natioal
hymn. As the guns at Cabanas fort-
ress ceased firing there was a breath-
less pause in the salon. Everybody
knew that the American flag was be-
ing raised on the staff on the roof of
the palace by Major Butler, son of
General Butler, and that the Stare
and Stripes was going up on all the
other official staffs in Havana. After
this second of silence, the baad on the
plaza played “The Star Spangled
Banner,” while the guns of the fleet
and fortresses began to roar out the
National salute of 21 guns.
Addressing himself tg Major General
| Wade, president of the United States
! military
commission, General Castel-
lanos said:
“Gentlemen—In compliance with the
i treaty of Paris, the agreement of the
| military
The recent action of the Nor- |
commissioners of the island
and the orders of any king, at this
moment or noon, January 1, 1899, there
ceases in Cuba Spanish sovereignty
i and begins that of the United States.
In consequence I declare you in com-
mand of the island with the object that
you may exercise it, declaring to you
that TI will be first in respecting it.
“Peace havmg been established be-
tween our respective governments, 1
promise you to give all due respect to
the United States Government, and 1
hope that the good relations existing
| between our armies will continue until
; tory.
of the evacuation of
orders in this terri-
the -termination
those under my
Major General Brooke said: “I accept
this great trust in behalf of the Gov-
ernment and Président of the United
States,” and addressing Captain Gen-
eeral Castellanos, “I wish you and the
| gallant gentlemen with you a pleasant
| return
to your native land. May
prosperity attend you and all who are
with you.”
The parade of the United States sol-
diers did not arouse any enthusiasm
cn the part of the Cubans. There was
little decoration and much indiffer-
ence. An Indiana company displayed
small Cuban flags and Genered Lee
ordered the men placed under arrest.
~-Meanwhile the officials of Spain were
saying farewell to their nation’s seat
of power in the new world. Turning
to, his officers, General Castellanos
said, with tears in his eyes:
“Gentlemen, I have been in more
battles than I have hairs on my head,
| and my self-possession has never fail-
According to the court the |
ed me until to-day.
adieu.¥
Havana harbor presented a striking
appearance this morning. The Stars
and Stripes were conspicuous on the
American men-of-war and merchant-
men across the bay. while launches
were constantly plying between the
shore and the ships. The docks were
crowded with sightseers, many of
whom wished to enter Morro Castle
and Cabanas fortress, but they were
refused admission.
DINNER WAS NOT READY.
Instead a Father Pulls His Wife and Children
From the River.
At Alexandria Pay, N. Y., a few
days ago three of the children of Chas.
Hagerman were playing on the ice off
the north shore of Wells island. in the
St. Lawrence river, when it broke, and
they were drown«sl. Mrs. Hagerman,
in her endeavors :o rescue the child-
ren, broke through the ice and was al-
80 drowned. Hagerman came home
an hour after the drowning to take
Christmas dinner with his family. He
alone recovered, tte four bodies.
Adieu, gentlemen,
Promotions for Naval Officers.
Secretary Long has decided to make
Commodore Picking commandant ot
the Boston navy yard and Commodore
Philip, of the Texas Commandant at
New York navy yard. Captain Kem-
pff, late commanding the Monterey,
has been selected as naval Governor
of Guam. It has not yet been decided
just what disposition to make ot
Admiral Schley. and Admiral Howell,
though it is certain that the latter is
to be given a squadron and Admira
Schley expects to get the European
station.
TERSE TELEGRAMS.
The Rothschilds have, secured a
loan of $150,000,000 for the Czar's gov-
ernment.
Beginning January 2 a letter mailed
in New York will reach San Francisco
4 days later.
The coinage is the largest ever re-
corded for a single month, amounting
10 $10,062,000.
The expedition sent out by the Swed-
ish government to find Angre has re-
turned without news.
The Third U. . P.. church, of Pitts-
burg, was destroyed by fire last Satur-
day evening. Loss, $25,000.
Theodore Roosevelt, governor-elect,
of New York, took the oath of office
at New Albany last Saturday.
U. 8S. Grant, Jr., is the most promi-
nent candidate to succeed Senator
Stephen A. White, of Califcrnia.
Prominent men in Germany are con-
fident that the Jesuits who were ban-
ished in 1872, will be permitted to re-
turn.
An excursion of 200 Texas cattlemen
to Havana has been arranged. Over
100,000 cattle are being gathered to be
sent to Cuba.
The total receipts of gold at the Den-
ver branch mint in 1898 were $20,195,-
995, a gain of $7,822,544 over. the re-
ceipts in 1897.
The imports of live stock from Mex-
ico to the United States during the
past year were less than half "the im-
ports of 1897.
Henry Wessel’'s dry
Baltimore was robbed
Wednesday. = Dynamite
blow up the safe.
A horseless truck company has been
incorporated in New York with a capi-
tal of $1,000,000. Compressed air is used
as a motive power.
Two girls in: Perry County, O., are
suffering from leprosy. The victims
will be isolated and cared for by their
mother as long as they live.
Mrs. : Mallon, . the = writer, better
known as “Bob,” died at New York
last Tuesday. The cause of death was
pneumonia, succeeding grip.
Thomas Green, of Furley, killed his
wife and then shot himself. They both
were returning from Wichita, where
they had applied for divorce.
George Smith, a stage driver of
Jacksonville, 11l., has received notifi-
cation that an estate in England, val-
ued at $250,000 is his inheritance.
J. E. Kennedy, Richard Harman
and T. Grady fought a three-cornered
duel at Lulu, Miss. a few days ago,
and the first two were killed and the
third fatally wounded. ;
W. A. Feltus rode from Chicago to
St. Louis on his wheel during the
recent cold weather in order to settle
a wager. Both his feet were frozen
and have been amputated.
Secretary of State Hay
the concessions made in July by the
Hawaiian government to the Pacific
Cable Company for an exclusive right
to lay a cable to Hawaii.
A meeting of the creditors of Allan
MacNaughton, president
exchange, was held in New York last
Friday. The schedules showed liabil-
ities $1,149,530, nominal assets $241,465.
The deaf and dumb parents of 5-
year-old William Ingland of Duquesne,
Pa., could not hear their boy’s cries
when his clothes caught fire a few
days ago, and he was burned to death.
H. F. Bailey, cashier of the Cole-
brook National bank of Colebrook, N.
H., was arrested charged with the
misappropriation of funds of the
bank. The shortage is placed at $34,150.
The gunboat Bennington sailed from
Honolulu Sunday with instructions to
retake the island of Guam, captured
early in the war by the. cruiser
Charleston and since seized by the un-
ruly Spaniards there.
A reward of $5,000 awaits the person
who will find the jewels which were
taken from Max Blumenthal's apart-
ments in the Great Northern hotel,
Chicago a few days ago. The gems
were valued at $25,000.
Cattlemen, who some time ago kill-
ed John Eckman at Chadron, Neb. in
selfdefense have come to the relief of
his destitute widow. She was present-
ed with a purse of $1,000 on Christmag
day, with a promise of more.
It is reported’ that Wm. K. Vander-
bilt, Jr., aged 21, is engaged to marry
Miss Virginia Fair, slightly older. The
lady posesses a great fortune. Van-
derbilt is a sincere Protestant while
Miss Fair is a devout Catholic.
The year has, on the whole, been a
very fortunate one for charities of
London. A return has been printed
showing out of a total personalty of
60 testators’ amounting to $65,000,000,
$6,000,000 was left to charitable objects.
Dr. Butler, an influential negro of
Atlanta, Ga., has a remarkable article
in Bishop Turner’s paper, in which he
advocates a petition of 12,000,000 color-
ed people to the European powers, ask-
ing them to intervene to right the
negro wrongs in a land which boasts
so much of liberty.
A rubber company capitalized at
$30,000,000 will soon be incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey.
China has forbidden the landing of
dynamite and like explosives in the
empire. x
at
last
to
store
L000
used
goods
of
was
disapproved
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
London had seventy-two fatal cases of
influenza in six weeks.
Australia will join with Canada in de-
fraying the cost of a Pacific cable.
The house in Edinburgh, Scotland, in
whieh Robert Louis Stevenson was born, is
for sale.
The farmers about Salem, Ore., are con-
sidering the project of a co-operative
creamery.
The French were reported to be fortify-
ing Tahiti, the principal island of the So-
ciety group.
Consul Washington at Alexandressa
thinks there is a good chance for American
wind mills in Syria.
An American has founded Ruskin Hall at
Oxford University, England, forthe benefit
of poor young men.
A Greater Sydney, New South Wales,
will be organized, poasibly on lines similar
to those of Greater New York.
The Director of the Mint reports that the
United States Government now has more
gold than any nation on earth.
John Howell, one of the heroes of the
famous charge of the Six Hundred at Bal-
aklava, died in Springfield, Mas-.
Dispatches from Germany show that the
feeling of antagonism to American imports
into that country is gradually abating.
The savings banks of New York City have
deposits amounting to $766,684,916. This
money belongs to no less than 1,805,830 per-
sons, mostly poor. —
The Wesleyan Methodists of England
have already in hand a fifth of the fund of
£5,000,000 which they recently decided to
raise as a ‘‘twentieth century offering.”
The terracotta monument marking the
spot where Lafayette was wounded on the
Brandywine battlefield was blown down by
the reeent high winds and badly broken.
of the wool -
WILL NOT YIELD TO AMERIGANS.
STUBBORN - NATIVE"
Gen. Miller May Use Force to
Rebels at Iloilo—Foreign Resi-
Subjugate the
dents in Danger.
The following dispatch from Iloilo,
island of Paney, has received at Ma-
nila by boat, telegraphic communica-
tion with llcilo not having ween
sumed:
“The situation at Tioilo is - grave
Fifteen hundred nativse, fully armed,
are at Melo, a suburb of Iloilo. Sev-
enteen thousand more, it renorted,
are awaiting orders to embark at sev-
eral points on the island of Negros
fifteen hours’ sail from Iloilo.
“All the women have withdrawn
and many families have taken refuge
with the Americans. The rebels, afier
a consultation, insist upon inaetion
until Gen. Aguinaldo shall have been
heard from. Gen. Miller, when this
demand was first made, declined to
concede them time and insisted upon
an answer being given him by noon
to-day. At the same time he gave as-
surances. that lives and property
would be protected.
“The foreign residents
tioned Gen. Miller to grant
sion desired by the rebels, as a fight
would cause inevitable lc This also
Gen. Miller refused
“At the designated. time a
commission again boarded the United
States transport Newport and asked
for delay, saying that they were
able to control the army, wich com-
manded the city and the surrounding
country. Gen. Miller refused and pre-
pared to land forces sending an emis-
sary back to Manila for
“The rebels are strengthening
position and are preparing to resist.
The streets of Iloilo are ful of armed
soldiers who are constantly entering
in every direction. is great
c¢itement, which is. i ‘eased by the
appearance of the gunboat El Cano
flying the Spanish The
buildings, churches boats
the river are filled with rebels.
“The Newport's. boats, as. the
patch. boat which carries this message
is about leving,
four machine guns mounted
bows. The lighters are
United States transport
United States transport
lies three miles to the
steam up.”
re-
18
then peti-
SS
native
their
nos
lag,
and along
in their
alongside the
Arizona. The
Pennsylvania
south,
Under Toas of Rock.
A part of Red Rock mountain,
cording to a dispatch from Airolo
village of Switzerland, canton of
cino) has fallen into Airolo, destroying
a hotel and several houses. The scene
of the disaster presents a terrible
spectacle, the debris of the
covering a square mile,
(a
The
matchwood. A new terror was added
by the outbreak of fire amid the ruins.
Three dead bodies have
ed.
will reach $200,000.
Can't Appreciate Negro Heroism.
Mason Mitenell, the actor-soldier,
who left the stage to join Roosevelt's
Rough Riders, was aissed off the
stage at the Acaen.y of Music, Was-
hington, D. C., the other night, be-
cause he praised the bravery of the
colored Tenth cavalry. Mitchell de-
livered a lecture sn the war and was
enthusiastically applauded until he be-
gan to praise <he colored soldiers.
Then yells of . “Put him out,” ‘Stop
him,” ‘Shut vp,” were heard,
storm of hisses in every
house. Miteclrell finally retired.
Guardian of Washington's Tomb.
Edmund Parker, once a slave in
Washington family, and for almost
half a century the guardian of the
tomb of George Washington at Mount
Vernon, is dead. Parker had skaken
the hands of Presidents, Princes and
potentates on their” pilgrimages to the
tomb.
the
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.
The Filipinos believe that
Time in the Old Town’ is the national
air of America.
Merchants and planters who left
Cuba during the war are now return-
ing to the island in great numbers.
Aguinaldo,
insurgents, now fears assassination
and with some of his favored followers
is in hiding back of Cavite.
While, he has reached no decision
and will make no recommendations on
the subject, it is believed that sooner
or later the president will recommend
that the $20,000,000 indemnity
be charged against the Filipinos, and
both the interest and principal
from their revenues. He does not
think it should be a charge against
the people ‘of the United States, al-
though, as in all other matters, he re«
serves the
the subjéct.
Exuberant Over an All ance.
Here is a good story which has the |
advantage of being perfectly
nd true. At a smart afternoon At
Home” the other day, a well-known
young author introduced to a
charming lady novelist of hitherto
unimpeachable propriety—I can not
mention her name for obvious rea-
sons, declares the I.ondon Sun. Set-
tling themselves in a quiet corner of
the crowded room, they were chat-
ting together and discussing Anglo-
American politics, when a sudden si-
lence falling upon the company, the
lady in heart-felt accents was heard
to exclaim: “And the more we know
of each other, the more dearly we
must love one another!” As can be
:magined, all their eager explanations
as to the entirely political character
of the remark fell upon deaf ears and
were powerless to stop the laughter
of the hugely-delighted audience.
new—
was
His Later Discovery.
The Bishop of Exeter is a man ot
the most abstemious temperament,
almost a teetotaler, but of late not
quite following, as he explained to Dr.
Temple, the reason which was con-
sidered adequate for Timothy. A
well-known good fellow and capital
judge of the fruit of the vine was din-
ing cne night at the Bishop's table.
At dessert Dr. Bickersteth asked him
what wine he would take. His guest
(with some qualms) selected port.
The Bishop lifted the decanter before
passing and said, **1 have had this
since 1847.” There was an ‘honest
glow on the face of the guest; but
later on he discovered the Bishop was
referring to the decanter and not the
wine.
Spiders are a serious plague in Ja-
pan. They spin their webs on the tele-
graph wires, and are sO numerous as
to cause a serious loss of insulation.
Sweeping the wires does little good, as
the spiders begin all over again.
the exten- |
un- |
| 1892,
I only
: "and flour in any previus year
instructions. |
| $1.91
i “with
ex~ |
public |
dis- |
are being lowered with |
with |
i larger in
| in
ac:
Ti- |
| against
avalanche |
hotel, !
with eight houses and 12 other build- |
ings, was swept into a great heap of |
| being
i year. Es
| kets,
| the
amid a |
part of the |
week
| 274, against
I ceding week,
| ing week
{ in the United States and 21 in Canada.
| have
| 178 liabilities less than $5.000.
ed §
leader of the Philippine | od 3
which |
has been paid to Spain shall ultimately |
paid |!
right to change his mind on |
TRADE REVIEW.
The Year of 1808 Has No Equal as Regards In-
dustrial and Financial Results,
R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of
trade reports as follows for last week:
The year 1898 has not only been one of
victory, increase in ter-
ritory incalculable expansion
of the influence of the United States
among other nations, but has sur-
passed all other years in financial and
industrial results. The center of finan-
cial power has crossed the ocean. Af-
ter paying debts of several hundred
millions abroad and condncting a war
to an honorable end, the country is
lending so many millions in Iurope
that, for the first time, banks abroad
look to New York to dictate the rate
of exchange.
Exports have been
and the excess over
$617,000,000, against $357,000,000 in 1897,
and in only two previous years has
the balance risen to $300,000,000. 1n no
past calendar year have-net imports
of gold reached $75,000,000, but this
year they have been about $140,000,000.
November passed all previous months
in value of produce exports over im-
ports, but December has gone much
beyond November.
Power in the world’s market comes
with a demand for breadstuffs and
other necessavies never before equaled.
of important
and of
about $1,250.000,
imports about
| Exports of cotton have been over $7,-
700,000 bales, about
and in no previous year as
7,000,000 bales, or 3.500,000,000
Exports of breadstuffs have
value, $283,018,294; in eleven
and have never been as large
other year.
vear, lacking a day or two, have been
218,594,686 bushels, flour included,
ightly exceeded only by 225,665,812 in
and of corn, 200,979,077 bushels;
approached by 189,127,570 in 1897,
heaviest exports of both grain
were 59,
3,936,000,600 pounds,
much as
pounds.
been, in
months,
in any
The
000,000 bushels smaller, only
in 1897. Though wheat was
in May, the highest quotation
the highest monthly average for
years, $ 3 that the average
the first half ycar was $111.11, ex-
ded slightly in 1891, but the highest
ce 1883, the December average hag
been only 72¢, 25¢ below that of last
year, but the average, 93c¢, is
the highest since :
The triumph in finance has been
largely due to. industrial . progress
The output of pig iron has been about
11,645,000 tons, the- greatest yet reach-
ed in any year by 2,000,000 tons,
greater than Great Britain ever reach-
ed by 2,500,000 tons... Yet the consump-
tion in manufacture has been still
of net exports of pig
ten months 163,089 tons, for unsold
stocks were reduced in eleven months
380,000 tons.
Exports of iron manufacture in ten
months were about $87,644,536 in value,
imports of $13,497,817. Prices
shown for the year in the table of com-
parisons have been unusually steady,
varying net 5 per cent for pig from
the lowest to the highest, and for fin-
ished products not 6 per cent.
Textile industries have been retarded
by high prices of wooi, and abnormal-
raised te
30
for
SO
spite
| ly low prices of cotton, both deterring
been recover- |
It is estimated that the damage |
cotton
for 50
known
Sep-
last
not
purchases. In three months
reached 5.31c, the lowest price
years, the greatest yield ever
followed by receipts since
357,000. bales larger than
ports have increased but
80 greatly.
In spite of enormous stocks held.
wool was so lifted that buying. both of
wool and of goods was checked early
in the year, but slow decline began in
February. have been only 232,-
451,131 pounds at the three chief n
so that the mills have probably
used less than a full year's supply and
stock of gaods was also excessive
a year ago.
Failures in
were 25
tember
Sales
the United States. for the
and in Canada 22, total
289 last week, 2 the pre-
and 416 correspond-
year, of 395 were
the
last which
States 74
$5.000, “and
For four
total liabilities of
$11,697,605, against
Of failures in
liabilities
the United
exceeding
weeks of December
firms falling were
$10,366,586 last year.
GOVERNMENT'S FINANCES.
| Receipts of 1866 Were Considerably Larger Than
“A Hot |
Those of Last Year.
The forthcoming statement of the
Government receipts and expenditures
will show that during the half year end
ing Dec. 31, 1898, the receipts aggregat-
,961,860.. against - $207,760,574 for
the same period last year. According
| to the Treasury records these receipts
when they
entire fis-
are the largest since 1866,
reached $558.032,620 for the
cal year, and $490,634,010 in 1867. With
the exception of these two years, the
receipts never before in the history of
the country exceeded $490,000,000, and
cnly seven times have they ever reach-
ed $400,000,000.
The receipts from customs during
the six months amounted to $96,045,-
39, as compared with $62,825,021 for the
same period last year. For December,
the customs receipts aggregated §16,-
764,325, which was the hlghest point
reached under the present Dingley law
ane the largest for December since
1888, when it was $16,900,000. The re-
ceipts from internal revenue sources
amounted during December to $22,621.-
319, the largest since the ‘War of the
Rebellion. The total for December was
$41,404,794.
GOOD RESULTS OF A BURGLARY.
Robbers Frighten an Invalid Into Health at
New York.
Unusual features came to light in a
case of burglary which was beforg
Magistrate Crane in New York a few
days ago when a burglar who gave the
name of Joe English was given a hear-
ing. He is accused of having looted
several Rouses in the northern section
of the city.
One of the houses he robbed was the
dwelling of Mrs. Julia B. Adams on
Madison avenue. The place was en-
tered December 15 and about $800
worth of silyer was taken.
Mrs Adams was in court and she re-
lated that for about nine years up to
the time of the robbery she was an
invalid. For six weeks prior to the in-
vasion of her home she was confined
to her room. The fright of the rob-
bery, she stated, had a strange effect
upon her. On the morning after the
visit by the thieves, she was able to
leave her bed and her room and to as-
sist the police in making the prelimin-
ary examination. Since that time she
has been well and is able to get about
as she chooses.
One Million for Charity.
The. late Baron Fredinand Roths-
child, of London, left nearly $1,000,000
for clarity. One bequest alone to
Evelina Hospital, founded in memory
of his wife, amounts to half that sum.
His disposition of his magnificent
steam yacht, Rona, is a tesson to other
millionaire owners of these floating
palaces. He left it to be disposed of,
the proceeds to be bivided between
nine sailors’ charities. The Rona
should realize at least $100,000.
Exports of wheat for the |
and |
THE LABOR WORLD.
Delivery wagon drivers of Duluth, Minn.,
are organizing.
Belgium supports eighty-two industrial
and trade schools and thirty-two appren-
tice shops.
New Albany, Ind., has a federal labor
union composed of printers, cigarmakers
and iron molders.
In San Francisco a move is on foot to
amalgamate all the unions in the central
body—the Labor Council.
Judge Meyers, of Bloomington, Ili., has
decided that the union labor only clause in
contracts has no standing beforethe court.
The native laborers of Mexico, the peon,
receives from fifteen to twenty-five cents
per day in Mexican silver at common labor.
The strike of the grocers’ employes ot
Paris, France, has suddenly collapsed. It
is stated that many of the strikers obtained
their demands.
The Boston (Mass.) city council has or-
dered all city departments to advance the
wages of laborers in the city employ to
$2.25 per day.
The New Jersey State Board of Arbitra-
tion reports that for the year 1898 not a sin-
gle strike has been successfnlly arbitrated
in New Jersey by that body.
The Italian council of state recently de-
cided that communes must abstain from
granting subsidies from theif” budgets in
support of the foundation or development
of chambers of labor.
The native labor of Hawaii is of a very
low grade, the average wages being as high
as $5 per week. The prevailing labor is
Japanese, who get $15 per month, and
Chinese, who get £16 and 317 per month.
The laboring classes of Sweden in the
larger cities are quite well organized, and
efforts are being made —principallyby Eng-
lishmen—to shorten the hours of labor,
which now average ahout eleven per day.
Denmark has the best and strongest fed-
eration of all crafts in Europe: nearly every
trade is organized and affiliated. At the
last annual convention of the Danish Fed-
eration of Labor 403 delegates, represent-
ing 69,720 members were present.
Thirty employes of the Newport News &
Old Point Railway & Electric Company of
Newport News, Va., have divided $16,000
between them, the gift of J. S. Darling,
President of the company, and his son.
Individual amounts were based on time of
service. One man received a check for
$1000, and several conductors received
$750 each.
A Deadly Christmas Gift.
Harry Cornish of New York received
a bottle of bromo-seltzer as a Christ-
mas gift. T.ast Thursday his cousin,
Mrs. Adams, complained of a head-
ache and he gave: her some of the
seltzer. Shortly after she .died in
great agony. It now develops that the
vial contained poison and was intend-
ed for Mr. Cornish. The police have
as yet no. clue.
Thousands of Riot:rs Liberated.
King Humbert of Italy has signed a
decree amnestying or reducing the
punishments the rioters who took
part in the disturbances last spring.
of
Fortune for a Missing Heiress.
Mrs. Angie Sloan, who until a year
ago lived in Chicago, is heiress to
$250,000, according to a letter received
by Police Captain Colleran from Mrs.
Mary W. Hazlett, of - Parnassus, Pa.
Mrs. Hazlett says her mother died re-
cently, leaving nearly $500,000 to her
two daughters. The writer is one of
these, and Mrs. Sloan is the other. The
presence of both is required at Par-
nassus before the estate can be di-
vided. Mrs. Hazlett says. her sister
wrote regularly to her until a year
ago. Captain Colleran failed to find
any trace of her.
The Iox
It has deveioped that the battleship
Iowa met. with a serious accident on
her trip around South America. One
sf her steam cylinders burst, erippling
the ship, which explains the change of
orders. - It was originally intended to
send the vessel to Honolulu with the
Oregon, but the Iowa will go to
San Francisco for repairs. The battle-
ship will remain at Callao until Janu-
ary 10, in order that <he mail for the
squadron may reach officers and men.
CABLE FLASHED.
a Injured.
Now
their reviews
wonderful
papers in
upon the
America.
The English
of 1898 dwelt
in power of
Duke Cyril, c«
dicted that the
much trouble for
The new year
Ireland with the
local government
legislation.
Emperor William is gre
at the number of office
gambling dens and insists
vestigation in every ce
Joseph Vacher, the
the Ripper,” was guillotined
Bourg-on-Bresse, capital the
partment of Ain. ‘Twenty-one ass
sinations were tracked him.
The of of Paris ex-
amined M. Casimir-Perier, the former
president of France, and M. Barthou
the former minister of the interior, ip
the proceedings attending the revision
of the Dreyfus case.
An eruption of Mount Vesuvius
occurred from the crater formed
1875. Two streams of lava, each
meters broad, have already reached the
of Monte Somma. which flanks
the north.
rise
usin of the
Iilaninos
America.
czar,
will
pro-
make
for
new
local
brightly
initiation of the
act to enact
opens
atly incensed
3 caught in
on an in-
French
of
to
cassation
court
has
in
9203
slopes
this
well-
“Chancing
Visi=
had
IL.ondon 1
of Father Stant
London ritualist:
to enter into c¢¢ sation with a
itor to St. Alban’ Holborn, who
attended the service for first time,
Mr. Stanton asked what = he
thought of the service, stranger
replied that he liked it very well
except the incense, to the use of which
he strongly objected. ‘lI am very sor-
ry for you, my friend.’ said M Stan-
ton. The other not unnatuix
‘Why? . ‘Well, . you see,’
Stanton, ‘there are only
in the next world—incens:
stone—and you'll have to
tween them!"
The
story
known
the
two
and
choose
At a gathering of Lutheran minis=-
ters in Baltimore the other day it was
decided to approve the view recently
adopted by the Central Iliinois Dis-
trict Conference of Lutherans, to the
effect that the principle involved in
life insurance is antagonistic to the
teachings of the Bible.
Milan has a curiosity in a clock
which is made entirely of bread. The
maker is a native of India, and he has
devoted three years of his time to the
construction of this curiosity. The
clock is of respectable size and goes
well.
Rev. Dr. R. M. Patterson, after a
study of reports, finds that more than
half the Presbyterian churches of the
country have a membership of less
than 100 each. One-seventh of the
Presbyterian and one-fifth of the Con-
gregationalist have less than 25 each.
The largest proporticn of single per-
sons is found in Ireland and Scotland,
and the smallest in the United States.