PRLSIZERT CH SURGEON'S TABLE
REST IS IMPERATIVE.
Operated on for an Abszess on the
Leg Caused by the Trolley
Car Accident.
President Roosevelt's Western trip
came to an untimely end at Indian-
apolis, Ind., Tuesday. He was found
to be suffering from a swelling in the
left lez between
ankle, which required immediate sur
gical attention. and, instead of being
taken to the train to continue his jour-
ney, he was conveyed to St. Vincent's
hospital, where he was operated on.
‘The operation occurred at 4:3¢ o'clok,
and lasted only a short time. Then
he was taken to a private room in the
hospital to rest. After taking a light
luncheon at 7:30 p. m. he was con-
veyed on a stretcher to his train,
which had been backed up on a “Y”
near the hospital. and the train left
for Washington. The use of the knife
was brief and did not involve any im-
portant consequences to the Presi-
.dent’s general health. The first public
knowledge of the affair came in the
form of a bulletin issued by Secretary
Cortelyou. After the President en-
tered the operating room he sat down
and waited for instructions from the
physicians and surgeons, watching
their preparations with keen interest.
“I am awfully sorry I cannot continue
my Western trip,” said he. “Can’t
you let me go ahead with it after this
thing is over?” Several of the sur-
geons turned to him and one said: “It
is my opinion that you would be very
indiscreet to continue on your feet, as!
would be necessary in your speech-
making trip, after the operation. This
is by no means a serious thing, and
there is absolutely no danger of ser-
ious consequences from it if you are
careful and stay off your feet until the
trouble is over. But you should by all
means, Mr. President, discontinue your
trip.” “Very well, then, it will have
to be that way.” said the President
resignedly. “I will do as you gentle-
men say. Now, what do vou want me
to do?” The President was told to re-
move his shoes and stockings and
nether garments. He also removed his
coat and vest. A moment later he was
told simply to remove his shoe and the
physicians would be required to bare
the leg only. This done, the President
walked to the operating table, and as
he lay down he remarked with a smile:
“Gentiemen, you are formal. 1 see
you have your gloves on.” The opera-
tion was begun without delay. The
pain caused the President to mutter
Several times in a low voice, but he
said nothing that was distinct except
to ask for a glass of water before the
needie had been removed. After the
operation was over he made several
laughing remarks concerning trivial
matters and asked if he would be al-
lowed to use his leg long enough to
walk upstairs himself. He was con-
veyed to the special car and started
on his return trip to Washington,
D.C .
Forced Out of Business.
The British match-making industry
has been reduced by American com-
petition to a deplorable condition,
cables a correspondent. Several Brit-
ish firms have decided to quit the
business rather than to manufacture
at a loss.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
President Roosevelt was safely and
comfortably lodged in his room on
the second floor of the temporary
"White House Wednesday.
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan
will sail from Boston within two weeks
to take command of all the American
force in West Indian waters.
Gov. Bliss, of Michigan. has ten-
dered to General R. A. Alger the ap-
pointment of United States senator
to succeed the late James McMillan.
The war department received a
cable from General Chaffee says Cap-
tain John J. Pershing to Vicars. Un-
able to reach Maciu forts. Water and
swamps prevented.
The President has pardoned William
Dinkella, convicted in 1880 before a
United States consular court in Japan
of the murder of Charles H. Abbott,
first mate of the ship Centennial, in
Hiogo harbor. Dinkella has been in
prison more than 22 years.
Six hundred marines have been
mobilized at Norfolk to be sent to the
isthmus aboard the Prairie, now at
Boston, and ready to sail whenever
she receives notification.
President Roosevelt has signed the
order providing for a census of the
Philippines upon the certificate of the
Philippine commission that the insur-
rection has been suppressed.
The Siamese minister conferred
with Assistant Secretary of State
Peirce respecting the coming visit of
Chewfa Maha Vajiravudh, the crown
prince of Siam. The visit will be
semi-official.
The state department has received
a cablegram from United States Minis-
ter Conger, at Pekin, stating that the
evacuation of Manchuria has been be-
gun by the Russians, who already have
relinquished the railway.
Upwards of 30 pieces of furniture,
some curtains and portieres and sev:
eral heavy plate mirrors, all belonging
to the White House, were destroyed
by fire in an upholstering establish-
ment. The loss is estimated at $5,000.
It is stated at the treasury depart-
ment that there is nothing in the re-
port that Secretary Shaw proposed
to allow National banks to issue cir-
culating notes beyond the par value
of bonds deposited as security. Such
action would constitute a plain viola-
tion of the law.
General Chaffee writes from Manila
that Alice Kemmer, an army nurse,
having been granted leave of absence,
voluntarily relinquished it and took
mpon herself the care of two smallpox
patients in an isolation hospital. One
of the patients was the wife of an of-
ficer, the other an enlisted man. Her
nursing saved their lives.
The illness of President Roosevelt
and the abandonment of his Western
trip came as a total surprise to every-
body in Washington.
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PENSIONS DECREASED.
Mors Rejected Than
Were Granted, but 339,435 Were
Under Consideration July 1
Applications
The annual report of the S-
sioner of pensions, Eugene F. Ware,
shows that the numi 3f names on
the pension rolis sti is under the
million mark, despite 2 net gain of
5,732 pensions since 1398 The total
enrcilment on July 1, 1992, was 999.-
446, against $97,735 last year. The
total comprises 728,809 soldiers and
260,637 widows and dependents. The
j Geath rate among pensioners [or the
coming year will he about 40,000, aud
the losses to the rolls from other
causes will be about 6,000. The total
amount paid for pensions during the
fiscal year was $137,504,268, and the
yearly cost of operating the bureau
and the agencies aggregates $3,590.-
529. The pension system since the
beginning of the government has cost
$2,092,509,019, exclusive of the sol-
diers’ home. Payments on account
of the various wars were Revolu-
tionary war, $70,000,000; war of 1812,
$45,025.297; Indian wars $5,814,209;
war with Mexico, $31,861,339; civil
war, $2,744,874,276; Spanish war, $3,-
275,184. The average value of each
pension is now a little over $132. Of
235,592 applications during the year
118,464 were registered and 117,268
granted. The number of cases now
under examination is 339,436. On
July 1 there were pending 15,604 ap-
peals from the decisions of the com-
missioner. The summary of rejected
cases shows that 23,073 of the rejec-
tions were on legal grounds and 95,351
{ on medical grounds. During 1902 the
bureau handled 47,106 more pension
applications than it received, show-
ing progress in catching up with the
accumulated work. .
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NEW MOVE TO GET COAL.
Apply for a Receiver for Mining and
Transportation Companies.
A. G. Litchfield ‘and others of Bos-
ton, filed a bill in equity in the Mas-
sachusetts supreme court against the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Com-
pany, the Central Railroad of New
Jersey, the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company, the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western ‘Railroad Company, the
Delaware' & Hudson Company, the
New York, Ontario & Western, the
Erie Company, the Pennsylvania
Company and the Philadelphia &
Reading Iron and Coal Company, for
the appointment of a receiver to con-
duct "their business. A subpena was
issued to serve upon the defendants,
giving notice of the bringing of the
suit, and it will be returnable in No-
vember. The suit is an outgrowth of
the miners’ strike and is based on
the theory that the people have a
right to have coal mined and trans-
ported.
WAS ALMOST WRECKED.
Several Lives Lost by Tidal Wave
In Pacific Ocean.
The schooner Louisa D has returned
to San Francisco, Cal. port after a
cruise among the Marshall and Gilbert
Islands. Twice she was almost
wrecked on coral reefs. Capt. Moore
tells of a tidal’wave which visited the
Marshall Islands and took several
lives. A schooner owned by Moses, a
chief of the Marshall Islands, was
wrecked, and Moses and his three
wives and eight soldiers were lost.
‘When the IL.ousia D left Jaluit, the
German gasoline steamer Aelous was
long overdue, and was thought to be
lost with her crew of dine men. .
WERE 70 EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
Wave Struck Santa Cruz and
Did $500,000 Damage.
Seventy shocks of earthquake were
felt Sunday at Santa Cruz, the Pacific
terminus of the Tehuantepec railway,
Mexico, accompanied by a furious
gale. A huge tidal wave leaped from
the sea, lifting 30 and 50 ton blocks
like cockleshells and sweeping the
great crane into the sea. The wave
invaded part of the town, destroying
some of its houses. The loss from the
breaking down of the new sea wall
and the sweeping away of the crane
will be $500,000.
Tidal
SUIT OVER NATURAL GAS,
Indianapolis Co. Restrained Temporar-
ily From Shutting Off Supply.
In the suit of the city against the
Indianapolis Gas Company the super-
ior court granted a temporary injunc-
tion restraining the company from
shutting oft the natural gas on Septem-
ber 30, the date which the company
announced for quitting business. The
city contends that the company’s
franchise is a contract compelling it
to supply natural gas at present rates
for the period of the company’s life,
which ends in 1931. The company
served notice several months ago that
it would quit business, as the city
council refused to pass a meter ordi-
nance.
Will
Bishop David Hastings Moore, of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, hav-
ing supervision of China, Japan and
Corea, who has reached New York to
spend five months in the open door
missicnary movement says regarding
the fresh outbreak of the boxers in
China, that he does not believe there
will be another general uprising in
the future, i
be No Uprising.
Congressman Boreing Vindicated.
The civil service commission has
dismissed as unfounded charges
against Representative PBoreing, Dr.
Edwards and George Young, of'Leb-
anon, Ky., of levying political assess-
ments in contravention of law.
Many Deaths From Cholera.
Gen. Chaffee reports to the war de-
partment by mail that there were
34 deaths from cholera among the en-
listed men of the army in the Philip-
pines between July 10 and August 12.
10,000 SOLDIERS MAY BE CALLED
SHERIDAN TROOP REPORTS.
Governor Stone Prepares to Use the
Entire National Guard to Sup-
press Rioting.
sovernor William A. Stone con-
templates calling out the entire Na-
tional Guard of Pennsylvania, 10,000
men and officers, for duty in the an-
thracite region. The governor him-
self is authority for the . statement
that he will maintain order, what-
ever action may or may not be taken
toward ending the strike. In this
connection he recently called atten-
tion to the fact that there are 95,000
men in this State liable to military
duty. Sheridan troop, called out Sun-
day, belongs to the Second brigade.
All other troops now on duty belong
to the First brigade. Adjutant Gen-
eral Stewart and Major General Mil-
ler, commanding the guard, are con-
stantly on duty. The State -authori-
ties have awakened to the fact that
an army of 10,000 men must be ready
for a call to duty the moment a gen-
eral resumption of coal mining is at-
tempted. The Sheridan troop, of
Tyrone, was ordered to report to
General Gobin for duty in the an-
thracite strike territory. The troops
left Tyrone Sunday evening by spe-
cial train under orders to reinforce
the Thirteenth regiment at Oly-
phant. Camp equipage and canvas
were shipped from the State arsenal in
a special car, which was attached to
the troopers’ train at Tyrone. The
Governor's troop, of Harrisburg, and
the Second Philadelphia city {troop
will remain on duty at Shenandoah.
Sheriff Knorr, of ‘Columbia county,
says he did not sign nor authorize his
name to be signed to the telegram
which was sent to Governor Stone
asking that troops be sent to Cen-
tralia. General Gobin says that the
sheriff's call for soldiers was au-
thentic, and that Knorr had sent his
deputy to him (Gobin) for troops.
Shots were fired by soldiers at strik-
ers for the first time since the troops
went afield. At Grassy Island col-
liery, near Scranton, half a mile from
the Thirteenth’s camp, two soldiers
from Company A were stationed in a
patch of underbrush as part of ah;
outpost to the camp. A volley of
stones descended “all about them, and
one of them striking Private Charles
Edwards felled him to the ground.
PARADE OF THE G. A. R.
Gen. Torrance Announces the Forma-
tion of the Line.
The order of Commander in Chief
Torrance, prescribing the line of march
for the parade of the Grand Army of
the Republic at Washington, D. C., on
October 8, during the encampment,
provides that the head of the column
shall move at 10 a. m., starting at the
Congressional library building and: dis-
banding after getting well past the
White House. Posts are to march in
companies of single rank with 12 files
front. The distance between depart-
ments is fixed at 24 paces. The col-
umn will move in the following order:
Platoon of mounted police, drum corps
of National association, Civil war mu-
sicians,.citizens’ mounted escort, Mar-
shal Blakemann and staff, United
States marine band, commander in
chief 'and staff and personal escort,
Executive committee of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Sons of Veter-
ans escort, the various State depart-
ments, in the order of date of char-
ters, Illinois leading.
SECRET SAVED INHERITANCE.
$2,000,000 by Having Kept Quiet About
His Wedding.
A romance which resulted in a secret
wedding. three years ago has come to
light when announcement was made
of the marriage of Walter M. Jermyn,
son of John Jermyn, the millionaire
coal operator, of Scranton, Pa., and
Miss Lena Kehoe, daughter of William
Kehoe, of Oswego, N. Y. Mr. Jermyn’s
father disapproved of his son’s atten-
tions to Miss Kehoe, and threatened
him with disinheritance unless his
suit was discontinued. John Jermyn
died at Scranton a few months ago,
leaving $10,000,000. By the terms of
his will his son is heir to $2,000,000.
Fire Chief Croker Accused.
Charges against the chief. of the
New York fire department, Edward F.
Croker, were served upon him. They
allege incompetency in the manage-
ment of great fires; conversion of
public property to private use, and
conduct unbecoming an officer and
prejudicial to discipline.
St. Louis Leper Is Cured.
Dong Gong, the Chinese leper pa-
tient at the St. Louis quarantine hos-
pital, is recommended for discharge
as cured, by Dr. M, C. Woodruff, su-
perintendent of the hospital. He has
been a patient at the hospital more
than a year.
McKinley Fund Gets $5,000.
An additional $5,000 has been re-
ceived at Canton, O., from prominent
Philadelphians, which completes the
$26,000 promised to the National Me-
Kinley Memorial association. Each
contributor gave $1,000.
New York Buys Welsh Coal.
Four thousand tons of Welsh coal,
chiefly large size anthracite, has reach-
ed New York. None was offered for
sale, as all had been contracted for.
Four Stockmen Killed.
George Stewart, A. H, Canthers, A.
H. Canthers, A. H. Wagner and W. L.
Collins, stockmen, were killed by a
collision between a cattle train and
a passenger train on the Burlington
railroad at Walden, Ill.
Labor Federation Convention.
President Gompers, of the Federa-
tion of Labor, has issued a call for the
annual convention of the Federation to
be held at New Orleans. beginning on
November 13.
LATEST NEWS NOTE.
The anthracite strike is making dif-
ficult work for the immigration bureau.
Several hundred people were killed
by an earthquake in Russian Turke-
stan.
J. J. Hill, at a Minnesota county
fair, says that combines may be harm-
less. .
The clothing store of Louis Saks,
Birmingham, Ala., was burned; loss,
$240,000.
The new British cruiser Drake made
a record of 24 knots an hour on her
trial trip.
Panama rebels, at Vegualita, fired
on two government boats bearing
white flags.
Hundreds of corpses are found on
the coast of Sicily, the resuit of the
great tempest.
Putnam .Bradlee Strong and May
Yohe are reported to have been mar-
ried at Buenos Ayres.
Diplomatic relations between Great
Britain and Venezuela are on the
verge of being severed.
President Roosevelt talked to Span-
ish war veterans of knotty problems
their victories brought.
Consul Jackson says there is an
opening in the Grecian market for
American iron and steel.
S. Osgood Pell, of New York, killed
a grizzly bear in Wyoming after it had
severely injured his arm.
Governor Odell, of New York, de-|
clined to accept W. R. Seldon as run-
ning mate on the State ticket.
James B. Craft, a wealthy resident
of Glen Cove, L. I, was murdered in
a New York tenderloin resort.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners in session at Atlanta, Ga.
elected W. D. Huber president.
The Roumanian government has
stopped the emigration of Jews from
that country to the United States,
Three firemen were injured and 25
horses burned to death in a fire in a
large livery stable in New York city.
The American I.eague for Civic Im-
provement, in session at St. Paul,
elected Howard B. Heinz president.
American and British interests are
formed into an international trust and
the great tobacco war is at an end.
General William Booth, commander
of the Salvation Army, has sailed from
Southampton, England, for New York.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad earned in the year ended June
30, $60,275,942 gross and $15,564,527
net.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg,
Russia, reports an attempt to raid
the train upon which the czar trav-
eled from Kursk.
General Chaffee will turn over com-
mand in the Philippines to General
Davis on September 30 and sail for
San Francisco.
Eight thousand persons have emi-
grated from Greece to the United
States during the past year, and the
movement continues.
Polk Hill,'a guard at the insane asy-
lum, Nashville, Tenn. was stabbed
and killed by Thomas Copely, an in-
mate of the institution.
The crown prince of Siam will sail
from “Southampton, England, on the
steamer Fuerst Bismarck, October 3,
for the United States.
Major J. W. Powell, director of the
bureau of ethnology at the Smithson-
ian institute at Washington, died at
him summer home, near Haven, Me.
Jay Cook, the Philadelphia financier,
who is at his summer home at Gibral-
tar, near Put-in-Bay, suffered an at-
tack of passive congestion of the
brain.
Karl Reuber, known as the “labor
poet,” has given to Pittsburg, Pa.
division of the United Mine Workers
a plot of ground on which to erect a
temple.
An operation performed upon Presi-
dent Roosevelt at Indianapolis for a
small abscess caused by the trolley ac-
cident at Pittsfield, Mass., abruptly
ended his western tour.
The posoffice department is putting
its foot down upon the efforts by the
Letter Carriers’ association to pre-
vent the re-election of Representa-
tive Loud, of California.
Walter Horner, paymaster’s clerk
on the battleship Wisconsin, was con-
victed of embezzling in the purchase
of commissary stores and sentenced
to a year’s imprisonment.
Captain H. M. Richards, an official
of the American Iron and Steel Com-
pany, and two non-union employes of
that corporation were shot and slight-
ly injured at Lebanon, Pa. i
Arrangements are being made in
New York for the reception of Will-
iam Booth, general and founder of the
Salvation Army, who is expected to ar-
rive from England on October 4.
The Princton university library has
been enriched by a collection of rare
manuscripts owned formerly by the
Rev. Samuel Miller, the celebrated
divine ,and Miss A. S, Hunt, of Wash-
ington, D. C.
William Hooper Young, grandson of
the Mormon prophet, will rely upon a
plea of insanity to save him from the
electric chair as the penalty for the
murder of Mrs. Lillie Kingston-
Pulitzer in New York.
A warrant is out for the arrest of
Laura Biggar. Her counsel, Dr. C.
C. Hendrick and Samuel Stanton, for-
mer justice of the peace, who claimed
he had married the woman to H. M.
Bennett, are in jail on a conspiracy
charge.
At a conference of 50 manufactur-
ers and big distributors of window-
glass at Detroit, Mich., it was decided
that the general opening of factories
will not come till October 15, after
which date they will be kept in cpera-
tion for seven or seven and a half
months.
The Pennsylvania railroad and its
allies in the great war with the Goulds
are credited with having taken advan-
tage of the money situation in Wall
street, New York, to punish the big
pools which have been speculating in
the Gould securities,
Plans have been filed with the build-
ing bureau, New York city, for the
second of the public libraries provided
GARNEGIE GOMPARY VIGTIMIZED.
EXTENSIVE FRAUDS.
Greig’s Defalcations Amount to Over
35,000 Pounds, and He Had
Confederates.
Indications are that the Carnegie
Steel Company has been systematical-
ly robbed for years by organized
crooks, associated with Lawrence H.
Greig, the confidential clerk of
Colonel Millard Hunsiker, its I.ondon
agent. GQGreig's defalcations so far
discovered exceed $175,000. He used
the funds to run four wildcat com-
panies, for each of which he main-
tained separate elaborate city offices.
The company has secured the Dest
legal talent, and will push the case
to the, limit. Scotland Yard detec-
tives at work on the case promise the
greatest sensation in years. Greig,
who was remanded on the charge of
forging checks amounting to $9,500,
purporting to have been signed by
Colonel Hunsiker, was given a second
hearing and again remanded. Coun-
sel for the prosecution said that prob-
ably others were implicated in the
case, which promised to develop
largely. The information disclosed
that not only had forgeries been com-
mitted, but embezzlement and theft
of correspondence from Pittsburg to
the Carnegie Company. Counsel
handed in forged checks for $90,000
and $50,000, respectively. He said
the forgeries were all of great magni-
tude. The prisoner, he declared, kept
up a lavish establishment at Kings-
ton-upon-Thames, and steps were be-
ing taken to prevent the removal of
his handsome furniture. Counsel
also handed the magistrate a letter
from a prisoner in Exeter jail, which,
the magistrate said, threw quite a
new light on the case. Counsel added
that an examination of the books
showed not only that Greig’s forgeries
were for a very large amount, but
that there had been an extensive fal-
sification of the books. The prisoner
had apparently been carrying on large
businesses. At various addresses in
the city the police have seized a mass
of documents and correspondence.
They also discovered that chloride
of lime had been used in erasing
names from checks. Colonel Hun-
siker said that some of the money had
been recovered.
NEW AMBASSADORS.
Charlemagne Tower Succeeds Andrew
D, White to Germany.
President Roosevelt has chosen
Charlemagne Tower ambassador to
Russia, to succeed Andrew D. White
as ambassador to Germany. Mr. Tow-
er’s acceptance of the German mission
will create a vacancy in the ambassa-
dorship to Russia. It is likely that he
will be succeeded by Bellamy Storer,
present minister to Spain, and that the
vacancy in the Spanish mission may
he filled by the appointment of Henry
White, present secretary of embassy in
London. Ambassador White is not
likely to leave Berlin before the middle
of November,
Reading’s Store of Coal.
Vice President Voorhees, ‘of the
Philadelphia and Reading railway,
stated in an interview that the com-
pany has 20,000 tons of coal stored
at Reading. He declined to say what
the receipts of coal are at present or
the number of loaded cars that have
been brought down the road within
the past few days.
Drowned During a Hurricane.
The British ship Claverdon, which
arrived at San Francisco, Cal., from
Hamburg, reports having passed
through a hurricane. The storm was
encountered August 27. Heavy seas
swept over the ship and washed every-
thing movable overboard. Five of
the crew were drowned and nine
others injured.
China Sends Plague.
Cholera infection at Manila has been
traced to Canton, China, and the West
river country adjacent, from which all
vegetables consumed at the Philip-
pine capital are imported. This fact
is shown by a report from the chief
quarantine office of the Philippines.
Swift Assumes Control.
An important move in the formation
of the alleged beef trust took place in
Chicago when Swift & Co. notified
the Anglo-American Packing Company
that it had assumed control of the
Kansas City and Chicago plants on
September 29.
Property Value Great.
Improved real estate worth more
than $27,000,000 is owned by the
Young Men’s Christian association of
the United States. This is an increase
of $2,000,000 over last year and marks
the fiscal year 1902 as the most pros-
perous the great organization has ever
known.
Mine Refuse in Streams.
Investigations are about to be bhe-
gun by the division of hydrography
of the United States geological sur-
vey, under M. O. Leighton, resident
hydrographer, into the effects of coal
mine refuse upon the rivers of the
coal region.
Millers Will Not Strike.
The employes of the flour mills at
Minneapolis, Minn., have decided to
accept the eight-hour day at reduced
wages, and there will be no strike.
George Gantz Hanged,
George Gantz was hanged in the
county prison yard at Reading, for the
murder of 15-year-old Annie Hitter,
October 26, 1901. He went to the gal-
Jows stolidly and had nothing to say.
Comet Is Visible.
Prof. W. W. Campbell, of Lick, cb-
servatory, San Jose, Cal. says that the
i comet discovered on September 1 has
for by the Andrew Carnegie endow- | grown steadily brighter and it is vis.
ment fund.
ible to the naked eye.
CANNOT BE DEPOSITED
Secretary Shaw Gives Out a State-
ment Regarding the Money in
the Treasury.
Secretary Shaw gave out the follow-
ing statement: “Money once covered
into the treasury (and this, of course,
includes the sub-treasures) cannot
thereafter be deposited in banks. All
custom receipts are by law payable to
the treasury and sub-treasuries. The
only fund therefore available for de-
posit in banks is internal revenue and
miscellaneous receipts before they
have been actually covered into the
treasury. These ainount to about half
a million per day, and since the
stringency arose to their fullest ex-
circulation. “This policy will be con-
tinued for 30 or 69 days if needed, and
longer if necessary. In the meantime
National bank circulation has been in-
creased about $7,000,000, largely in-
duced by the distribution of deposits,
and the further increase to the amount
of $8,000,000 is assured. All rumors of
experiments have been unauthorized
by the treasury department. It is to
be hoped that the public will place no
credence in vagaries started by irre-
sponsible and untrusted men of the
street. It is also hoped that the coun-
try will understand that the treasury
department, to the extent of its ability,
will stand by the banks, East and
West, North and South, and it is
hoped also that the banks will stand
by every business and every interest
that is worth protecting. The only
way to get money out of the treasury
into circulation, after it has been actu-
ally covered in, is by the payment of
legal obligations of the government.
These may be anticipated. The de-
partment did anticipate the October
interests. It now offers to anticipate
all interest maturing between October
1, and the end of the fiscal year, if
presented within 60 days, at a rebate
of two-tenths of 1 per cent per month,
which is at the rate of 2.4 per cent
per annum. In other words these ob-
ligations will be prepaid at such a rate
as to allow the government to profit
thereby at 2.4 per cent per annum. The
amount maturing before June 30, 1903,
is in round figures $20,650,000. The
profit to the government if this offer
shall be accepted will be in round fig-
ures $220,000. There will be no ex-
periments tried, and no policy adopted
until after mature deliberation, and no
feelers will be sent out. Anything to
the contrary should be discredited.
CABLE FLASHES.
Mrs. Chaffee, wife of General Chaf-
fee, is still ill at Manila, and if her
condition does not improve it may
delay General Chaffee’s return to the
United States.
An official telegram to the Korean
legation, Germany says the emperor
of Korea is alive and in the best of
health, notwithstanding recent runmers
of his death.
The earthquakes in Eastern Tur-
kestan, India, which lasted from Au-
gust 23 to September 3, reduced the
town of Artusk to rains, killing 667
persons and injuring 1,000.
Evelyn B. Baldwin. of the Baldwin-
Zeigler Arctic expeditions, was a pas-
senger on the steamer Germanic,
which sailed from Liverpool, England,
Wednesday for New York.
The body of Edmund Jellinek, the
defaulting official of the Vienna, Aus-
tria Laender bank, has been found in
the Danube. His embezzlements
abounted to about $1,150,000.
The newspapers of Rome announce
that the grand master of the Italian
Free Masons has instructed all the
Italian lodges to open subscriptions in
behalf of the destitute Boers.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Quito, capital of Ecuador. It was
followed by a violent storm. No dam-
age was done, but the people of the
capital were greatly alarmed.
The complaint is rife in British iron
and steel circles that although inquir-
ies still come liberally from the Unit-
ed States for pig iren and steel bil-
lets, the resulting business goes most-
ly to the continent.
Henninger, a director of the Rhein-
an-Mannheim Chemical Company,
Germany, which filed a declaration in
bankruptcy has been arrested. It had
worked at a loss for many years, but
the deficiency had been conceded by
false entries on the books.
Simultaneously with the issue of an
appeal from Amsterdam of the Boer
generals to the civilized world for as-
sistance comes the statement that
the Boer funds have received the enor-
mous accession of $100,000, the gift of
Henry Phipps, the well-known Pitts-
burg steel man.
Three companies of United States
marines have reached Panama. They
are commanded by Lieut. Col. Benja-
min R. Russel, and will be quartered
in the railroad station. Another com-
pany consisting of 80 men under the
command of Maj. George Barnett will
be kept in Colon and quartered on the
dock of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
Three hundred Bulgarian revolution-
ists, who were surrounded by Turkish
troops in the vilayet of Salonica, forced
the cordon after a sanguinary fight,
during which both sides suffered se-
vere losses. The militia reserves have
been called out and troops are being
dispatched into the interior of Mace-
donia.
An agreement is being reached by
the heads of high finance in Europe
to refuse any loan to Roumania until
the oppressive anti-Jewish legisla-
tion has been modified. Such action
would embarrass seriously the Rou-
manian government in the redemption
of a large amcunt of treasury bonds
pavable in 1904.
Governcr Salazar has endeavored to
demonstrate that the Colombian gov-
ernment has here all the forces neces-
sary to protect the liyes and property
of all foreigners. He says he consid-
ers it an attempt to assume the sov-
ereignty of Colombia, protests against
it, and will hold Commander McLean
responsible for whatever may happen
as the result of the marines landing.
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