PRESIDENT OF MINE ON THE STAND
LITTLE INFORMATION GIVEN.
J. L. Crawford Refused to Answer
What Were Considered Most
Important Questions.
The representatives of the miners
during the course of proceedings be-
fore the strike commission at Scran-
ton, Pa., called one of the independ-
ent operators,
dent of the Peoples Coal Company, to
the witness stand, but he refused to
answer what = were considered the
most important questions. When
‘ir. Crawford was asked “When did
vou ship coal last?” he replied: “Yes-
terday.” “What are you getting
far #7?’ “1 don't know exactly.”
“(an You come near it?’ “I can if
1 want to.” “Don’t you want to?”
“Nop, sir.” “You are a party to this
¢-mmission and went to New York
{0 see the coal presidents?” “Yes,
’ “Then you refuse to give this
smmission that information?” “I
dont think I am compelled to, sir.”
“Which road do yon sell to?” “Dela-
ware, Lackawanna & Western.”
“What do you get for it?” “About 65
per cent of what the Delaware, Lack-
awanna & Western gets for it.” At
this point attorneys for the operators
ybjected to, the inquiry proceeding
further along the lines of what a
company’s profits were. Mr. Darrow
said he called the witness to show
that the coal companies were abie to
pay the advance in wages asked for.
Wayne MacVeagh, in his cross-ex-
amination of Mr. Mitchell, he said,
intimated that ‘the increase, if grant-
ed, would ultimately be placed on the
“bowed backs of the poor,” and he
wanted to show that the companies
are well able to give the increase
asked for without putting it on the
poor. Mr. Darrow’ then continued
the examination. “How many tons
do you produce a day?” “Nine hun-
dred to 1,000 tons.” “And you don’t
know how much you get for it?” “I
can give an estimate.” “Well, what
is it?” “About $2.50 .a ton.” On f{fur-
ther examination Mr. Crawford said
that during the latter part of the
strike his colliery was in operation
and he got $20 a ‘ton for his coal
Chairman Gray here stopped the ex-
amination, saying that the excep-
tionally high prices during the strike
were not pertinent to the inquiry.
Two witnesses, employed by the Dei-
aware, Lackawanna & Western Com-
pany, testified that before the strike
of 1900 the men when they worked
received 94 cents a car, and that the
strike was ended by the company
agrening to give the men an in-
crease in wazes of 10 per cent, 2%
per cent in cash and the other 73%
nef cent to be considered in the re-
duction in the price of powder. In-
stead of receiving the increase, they
‘now get three cents a car less, or 91
cents. In cross-examination the com-
pany produced figures which showed
that one of the witnesses earned an
average of $4.23 a day for 17 days
worked in November. The witness
claimed he went into the mine 25
javs during the month. One of the
‘nesses handed in a statement
which was given him some time ago
by a mine supérinkendcpt showing
that there were seven sizes of mine
cars at the mine. colliery where he
worked. The witness said the same
wages are paid for filling all of
them.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Representative Dalzell introduced
Pittsburg & Lake Erie ship canal bill
in Congress.
The Anti-Saloon League adopted
resolutions declaring against the re-
peal of the anti-canteen law and
pledging its efforts to continue the
law.
The Anterican Institute of Archi:
tects e' ected as honorary members
Andrew Carnegie, Samuel A. D. Ab-
Lott, of Bosten, and Emil Nauchamer,
of Paris. !
The bar of the United States su-
preme court met and tock appropri-
ate action in honor of the memory of
the late Justice Horace Gray, of that
court. Senator Hoar, of Massachu-
setts, presided and delivered a euic-
gistic address.
George Sawter, United States con-
sul at Antigua, British West Indies
has been appointed to succeed the
late Thomas Nast as consul general
at Cuayaquil, Ecnador.
General Crozier, chief .of ordnance
has awarded a contract for the manu-
facture of 20 15-pound rapid fire guns
and mounts to the Pethiehein <
works at $3,93¢ for guns and mount.
Secretary of Agificulture Wilson
has asked Congress for an emergency
appropriation of $1,000,000 to be used
in stamping out the foot and
disease among cattle in
land.
Representative
has introduced a
steal
Tayler, of Ohio,
bill authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to purchase!
a site for a
Liverpool at
$10,000,
Admiral Dewey, in a cablegram re-
ceived at the Navy Department, dated
San Juan, December 11,
the c¢ypening of :
public building at
a cost not to
East
exceed
command.
The delegates to the National
alan Association w
Wi House hy Mrs. Rocsevelt, who
expressed to them her interest in the
organization, of which she is honor-
ary vice president.
Mr. Scott and other representa-
tives of the Baltimore & Ohio
road appeared before Secretary Root
at the war department and asked his
favorable consideration of the bill
introduced in Congress for the estab-
lishment
erset, Pa, 5
Senator Quay introduced a bill in
the Senate appropriating $2,625,000 iy
enable the secretary of war to estab-
e received at tue
Jish a permanent camp ground for
ihe instruction and maneuvering cf
troops of the regular army and Na-
ional Guard in the vicinity of Som-
s+ Pa,
L. Crawford, presi-
moti |
New Eng-!
announces |
the fleet maneuvers
hy the combined squadrons under his |
Ini
rail- |
of a military camp at Som- |
.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
LVI. CONGRESS.
immigration Bill.
The Senate Tuesday adopted an
amendment to the National Guarl
hill designed to prevent conirover-
sies as toc when a man becomes a
United States: soldier. The bill to
regulate immigration was called up.
Amendments were adopted to exclude
professional beggars from admission
to this country; providing for the
careful inspection of families of
aliens who already have been admit-
ted and filed their preliminary dec-
larations for citizenship, and _that
skilled labor may be imported if such
labor cannot be found in this coun-
try. The section relating to the ex-
clusion of anarchists was amended so
as to make it specifically provide for
the exclusion of anarchists who advo-
cate the ‘destruction of the govern-
ment of the United States, or of all
governments by violence. :
Holiday Adjournment.
The House Tuesday passed the res-
olution for a holiday adjournment
from December 20 to January 5. The
London dock charge bill was opposed
by Mr. Dalzell, Pennsylvania, and was
killed by striking out the enacting
clause. The Indian appropriation
bill, carrying $9,715,930, was reported
from committee.
Refund War Taxes.
The Senate Wednesday took up the
bill passed by the House at the last
session to admit Oklahoma, New
Mexico and Arizona as States. A de-
bate ensued, participated in by Quay.
of Pennsylvania: Beveridge, Indiana;
Nelson, Minnesota. Withdut further
action on the ‘Statehood bill, the Sen-
ate passed the House bill remitting
the duties on tea and a bill to refund
war taxes to owners of private dies.
Tea Duties Remitted.
The House Wednesday passed the
hill to remit the duty on tea in bonded
warehouses prior to January 1, 1903,
| when the repeal of the duty takes ef
fect. Another bill was passed to re-
fund the duties collected on imports
from Porto Rico and the Philippines
hetween the ratification of the treaty
of Paris and the enactment of the
revenue laws for those islands. The
pure food hill was made a continuing
order,’ not to interfere with appro-
priation bills.
Strike Arbitration.
After brief discussion in the Senate
Thursday on the bill to admit New
Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma as
States it was passed over until Mon-
day. The bill fixing the compensa-
tion of the coal strike commission
was passed with an amendment,
making the pay of the members not
already in the government service at
$4 H00; providing that the ccmpensa-
tion of the emploves and recorder of
the commission, who are not officers
or clerks ol the government, shall be
such as may be fixed by the commis-
sion. and allowing the commission-
ers and assistant recorders $10 per
day for expenses, and all other eni-
ployes of the cominission $6 per day.
As passed, the Dill takes the ques-
tion of payment cut of the bands of
the President. The bill was further
amended by changing the title of the
commission to “The Anthracite Coal
Strike Arbitration.” The Senate then
adjourned until Monday.
Contested Elections.
In the House Thursday Mr. Olm-
sted, Pennsylvania, called up the
resolution from elections committee
No. 2, limiting to 40 days. the time
for taking testimony in the contested
clection case of Wagoner against
Butler” from the Twelfth Missouri
district. Butler, who is a son of Ed-
ward Butler, the St. Louis million-
aire, recently convicted of bribery,
was expelled at the last session and
was re-elected in November by a ma-
jority of over 5,000. Mr. Wagoner
contests on the ground of fraud at
the polls. The resolution was adopt-
ed hy a vote of 155 to 118.
Three Appropriation Bills.
The Yiouse Iriday passed 173 pri
vate pension bills. The lezislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill. carrying $26,930,453, was report-
ed from committee. Bills appropri
ating $7,000,000 for a department of
justice building and $1,500,000 for a
Luilding for the Department of Agri-
culture were favorably reported.
NEW $2,000,000 COKE COMPANY.
Organized at Syracuse, N. Y., to Com-
with Frick Company.
¥. R. Hazard, president of the Sol-
vay Precess Company, has organized
a company at Syracuse, N. Y., with a
capital stock of $2,000,000. for manu-
facturing coke and other by-products
of gas coal. The Sclyay «Process
Company is now manufacturing cokz
for itself on a large scals. and Las
| coke ovens in Syracuse and Detroit.
petz
while the Senet-Sclvay works at
| Qcimsz, Ala, are for the exclusive
| manufacture of coke. The new com-
|
pany expects to compete with the FH.
(. Frick Coke Company. It is the
intention of the company to estals-
lish ovens at the bases of the suppiy
of gas coal
i
New York and New England Tues-
day experienced the coldest weather
i of many years. In New York city it
was the coldest December 9 in 26
{ yoars, the thermometer registering
| eight above zero. In the Adirondack
| region and along the Champlain Val-
lev the thermometer registered be-
tween 17 and 26 below.
Oliver Mine Still Burns,
The underground workings of the
section 16 mine of the Oliver Mining
Company. at Ishpeming, Mich., which
| took fire December 8, is still burning,
though the fire is not so fierce. Ail
| the shafts and openings have been
| goaled with timber and clay, but
ces continue to ooze out.
| Bank Recbbers Took $30,000.
| .
| The bank at Hillsboro. Sierra coun-
| ty, New Mexico, was held np in broad
{ daylight and robbed of $20.000.
MARINES LEADED IN VENEIORLM.| tATesT NEws notes
Four Philadelphia public schools
were forced to close for want of coal.
Hestile Anglo-German Fleet Moves
The government tariff bill passed
on Laguayra to Enforce Pay-
second reading in the German reich-
ment of Claims. stag.
ee Saat Britain disclaimed responsi-
: ; sility for seizur E enezue
The combined Anglo-German fleet! ships. ine of Venizudina
entered the harbor of I.aguayra Wed-
resday, December 10, and anchored
within 300 feet of the custom house
and began landing marines. Ten
German and four British cutters at
4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon seized
in the harbor the Venezuelan war-
ships General Crespo, Tutumo. Ossun
and Margarita, which had 390 men on
board. They went alongside the
Venezuelan vessels and ordered them
to surrender, and without a shot be-
ing fired the British and German
The town of Ventura, near Mason
City, Ta., was wiped out by fire. Loss,
$50,000. ‘
A newsboy was choked to death by
an unknown person’ in Central park,
New York.
A white man was killed by a negro
and lynching was threatened near
Steubenville.
Glaude O’Brien was sentenced to
death at Lexington, Ky., for the mur-
der of A. B. Chinn.
forces seized the fleet in the name of Mrs : i
the German Emperor and the King of TS: Dora, laghiner told on wit
England. Two of the vessels whicn| P05 stand at Toledo, 'O,, how she
killed Lucy Wheeler.
President Roosevelt will attend the
dedicaticn exercises of the St. Louis
exposition next April.
British and German residents at
Puerto Cabella have been arrested LY
Venezuelan government,
: The annual meeting of the Amer-
ican Coal Company will be held in
New York December 26.
were undergoing repairs were broken
up. The German cruiser Panther
steamed into the harbor during these
proceedings with her decks cleared
for action. The Venezuelan steamers
were taken outside the harbor and
the General Crespo and Tutumo and
Margarita were sunk. The Ossun
was the only vessel spared, in view
of the protest made by the French
charge d’affaires, Quievreux, who 3 :
notified the commodore of the allied oe Uosivoyed the Posioria (0)
fleet that the Ossun is the property| ; ass so posialy Company’s plant.
of a Frenchman. One hundred and | ~°*% $50,000; insurance, $17,000.
thirty Gernan sailors proceeded tol Senator Tillman in the Senate
Cardonal, a suburb of Laguayra, in| Maintained that Pennsylvania coal
barons viclate constitution with im-
punity.
George TFeever was roasted to
death at Bird Island, Minn., by his
foot catching in the doorway of a
burning house,
Congressman Burton’s opposition to
Bromwell’s Ohio river survey reso-
lution is reported to have effectually
pigeon-holed it.
which is situated the residence of
German Consul Lentz, who, with his
family, they escorted to Laguayra and
placed on board the warship Vineta.
On their way back the sailors met a
party of Veneznelan soldiers, but no
collision took place. A landing parity
of 30 British seamen went to the
British consulate and conducted the
British consul, R. Schunck, and his
family on board the Retribution. The
German and British residents have Dr. Elis Duncan assailant of
been arrested by Venezuelan forces Bruce Head Yas noinstoied by, Louis
with the: exception of Fieldwork, ville, Ky., authorities as superintend-
Price and Lepage, directors of the ent of City hospital.
harbor corporation, who barricaded| The American Tin Plate Company
{nemselves in their houses. They | has decided to remove the bar mill
were rescued by British sailors and division of the great Elwood (Ind.)
taken to the Retribution. Their | plant to Pennsylvania.
houses were surrounded by Venc- The catch of the American Fisher-
zuelan policemen, but when 320 sail-
ors marched to their relief the police-
men made no resistance. All the
stores and banks at lLaguayra were
closed. Great excitement prevailed
as the population were afraid that the
town would be shelled by the Anglo-
German vessels. A Venezuelan gov-
ernment communication te its reprc-
sentative at Paris, France, protests
thal Great Britain and Germany, act-
ing in concert, have committed an act
of hostility in & manner as arbitrary
as it is unprecedented by the seizure
of Venezuelan vessels lying at Lagu-
avra. The communication says that
indignation in Venezuela js. at its
highest pitch and the government is
resorting to reprisals. It has arrest-
ed the resident subjects of both hos-
tile countries and has seized the rail-
wavs and other undertakings belong-
ing to them. At the Pritish and Ger-
man embassies at Washington it was
ies Company this year is reported Lo
have been 1,375,786 barrels against
867,21¢ barrels last year.
The first collision between the
striking dockmen and police at Mar-
seilles, France, resulted in the injury
of several on- eaca side.
George W. Prescott, first president
of the Union iron works, was found
dead at the Palac2 hotel, San Fran-
eisco, Cal., from heart failure.
The New York Central will pay the
New York & Harlem railroaa a divi-
dend of 5 per cent on January Z to
holders cof record December 15.
The president has withdrawn the
Dominican reciprocity treaty from
consideration by the senate at the
request of the Dominican authorities.
Governor Yates’ secretary, in comi-
menting on the answer of Governor
Stone on the stock quarantine, said
|
Governor Stone was not ruli i-
said that President Castro's arrests bl © ruling 111i
[4G iti subjects in 2 oe
of German and British DJ lent OF ihe. Monutectureey
Venezuela are sufficient ground for a
declaration of war. Mr. Bowen,
United States minister at Carhcas,
who had undertaken to look after the
interests of British and Germans, at
once demanded of Castro their re-
Castro at first demurred, but
Association told the Civic Federation
that there are not enough men in the
country to work three shifts of eight
hours.
Mr. Carnegie upon his arrival in
New York, said President Roosevelt
A Mr. Bowen produced his au- and Attorney General Knox were tak-
thority from the German and Pritish | ing the right line in dealing with
envoys, who had left Caracas, he con-| trusts.
santed to release the principal pris- Flans for a combination of the
factories of the couniry
oners, and Mr. Bowen will insist on h
The combi-
the release of the remainder. In tke
larger icy
are almost completed.
ITcuse of Commons of England Lord | pation will Have about $2,000,500
Cranbourne, under foreign secretary, capital.
said that the British ed Bishop Talbot and leading woman
Venezuela that necessitated coercion) oo yo." of St. John's Episcopal
included a demand for compensation
for interference with trading vessels,
the imprisonment and ill treatment
of British subjects and the destruc-
tion of the property.
church of Huntingdon were defend-
ants in suit for heavy damages by
deposed rector.
James B. Hawley, acquitted of the
chaprze of killing his brother at De-
{roit on the ground of self-defense
Tenders His Resignation. The brothers were prominent long-
Thilip W. Moen, second vice presi-| shoremen and wreckers.
dent of the American Steel and Wire tdward and Oliver Tompkins, ne-
Company, has resigned and will re-| groes, 4 and £ years old, at Wash-
tive from business. ington, were burned to death. Rosa
Prue, with whom they were left in
charge, was placed under arrest.
Unless relief shall be secured soon
CHANGE INAUGURAL DATE.
April 30 Fixed in Resolution intro. packing house manazers at Omaha,
duced in Congress. Neb., assert that they will have lo
A joint resolution was introduced close their plants for want of coal.
in the House by Representative De! After undergoing repairs in the
Armond, proposing an amendment to Rremerton navy yard the battieship
ihe constitution of the United States, | Wisconsin, recently . returned from
providing that the term of the Presi-: Panama, will follow the Oregon to
the Asiatic station.
Hugh C. Faldwin, at Plainfield, N.
is trying to break the will of his
dent shall continue until April 30,
1905, at noon, and thereafter April 39,
at noon.shall be substituted instead of | J.,
March 4 as the beginning and ending mother, Mrs. A. C. Baldwin, who
of terms of President, vice president. | died a month ago. The estate is
and that the Fifty-ninth Congress valued at $200,000.
shall end and the Sixtieth begin on Among the nominations sent to
January 8. 1907, at noon, and there-
after each €Coneress shall begin and
end on January 8 at noon.
SCHOOL CADETS DISMISSED.
Military Institute Boys Sent Home
and 40 Others Under Arrest.
indulging in
the senate by the president was that
of Leonard M. Thomas, of Pennsyl-
vania to be second secretary of the
embassy at Rome.
Before the Mine Workers’ conven-
tion, at Indianapolis, Ind., L. D. Nickh-
ols, president of the larizest anthra-
cite district. will run against Tom
lewis, of Ohio, for vice president.
First of 65 Carnegic libraries was
For disorder 13 cda-
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dets, members of the third class at} 7 : 2
the Lexington (Va) Militady Insti: dedicated in New York Saturdapy.
tute, were dismissed from the school! State capitol commission of Penn-
and ordered to return to their homes. | svlvania «closed contract with George
The remaining 40 members of {ho ' Gray Barnard, sculptor, for marble
class zre under arrest pending action : !lecorations for interior. of mew cap-
of the superintendent. i itol.
~Se.. General Kritschinger and Comiman-
ante Joubert and Fouche, formerly of
the Boer army, were among the pas-
sengerss on the - Atlantic Transport
jiner Manitou, which arrived in New
York.
The board of directors of the Penn-
sylvania railroad granted’ the request
of General Manager J. B. Hutchinson
A $500,000 Fire at Atlanta, | to be relieved of the duties of that
Fire at Atlanta, Ga. burned out the] position, the change to take effect
stores of the Snook & Austin Furni-| January 1, 1903.
ture Company, the Jacobs Drug Com | Dr. C. O. Probst. of Columbus, O..
pany, P. M. Rose's liquor store, the| was elected president of ‘the Amer-
williams hotel and the Norcross! ican Public Health Association at
Four Killed by Dynamite.
Your men were killed and 10 in-:
jured, three probably fatally, by the |
explosion of a box of dynamite in No. !
5 mine, of the Lehigh and Wilkes. |
barre Coal Company. at South Wilkes-
barre.
CASTRO'S NAVY DESTROYED. Galuisha A. Grow made what is|-
iy called his farewell speech in Con:
gress.
"up to the nearest
GEN. LEE RELATES SECRET HISTORY
SPANISH BLEW UP MAINE.
Tells How He Nearly Killed General
Funston While He Was Consul
General in Cuba.
General Fitzhugh Lee, former Ccn-
sul General at Havana, Cuba, ad-
dressed the members of the Pairia
club at New York on “The United
States and Cuba.” He said in part:
Cuba is well worthy of the attention
of the American people. It is the
richest spot on God’s green earth. No
country can ever rival Cuba in its
products. It has been waiting for
half a century for American energy
and enterprise. If we had not sac-
rificed wisdom for sentiment we
would own Cuba to-day. When we
did have Cuba we should have held
on to it, but some of the people
wanted to show the world that they
were acting for humanity's sake and
not for the possession of territory.
Prior to the war with Spain, when
I was consul general in Cuba, there
were repeated attempts to assassl-
nate me. Wherever I went I had to
sit with my back to the wall and my
hand on my six-shooter. I received
20 and 30 letters a day in which [
was threatened with all manner of
deaths. Scme threatened to waylay
and strangle me; others to string me
post, and still
others to tie me to a horse's tail and
drag me around the streets of Ha-
vana. Five Spanish women called at
my office one afternoon and hande
me a letter from some Spanish of-
ficers in which they threatened to
come to my office, tie me hand and
feet, put me aboard the Maine and
drive me out of the harbor. When
some of these reports were current a
man came into my office one day
with the purpose, as 1 thought, of
killing me. He moved toward me
inch by inch, and, just as he came
within reach I had him covered with
my gun. I asked him what he want-
ed and, to my surprise, he said in
English: “I have just come from
General Gomez's camp, suffering
from a wound in the thigh. I want
to go back to the United States.” I
asked him where he came from, and
he said, in the drawliest kind of a
wiay, “from Kansas.” That man was
(eneral Frederick Funston. So you
see I had much to do with the later
capture of Aguinaldo. General Lee
then related the incident that fol-
lowed the blowing up of the battle-
ship Maine and told of General Blan-
co's actions after the catastrophe.
General Blanco and his officers. had
1:0 more to do with the blowing up of
the Maine than had the people of
New York city. It is my belief that
some of the young officers leit in the
arsenal by General Weyler blew up
.the Maine. In conclusion, “General
Lee advocated an increase of the
navy owing to the growing interest
of the United States and because ‘in
view of recent events we may be in
deep water before we know it.”
Courts Decide Unconstitutional Law
Advocated by Mine Workers.
The Dauphin county (Pa.) court de-
cided in an opinion written by Judge
Simonton, that the store order law
was unconstitutional. In a number of
cases tried and decided the court
found the companies against whom
issue any store orders of the kind
upon which the act imposed a tax of
25 per cent on their face value. The
case of the Lebigh Coal and Naviga-
tion Company, the court squarely
holds the act to be unconstitutional.
Judge Simonton says:
do. "and ‘if the. act
Mine Workers.
NUMBZR IS 588.572. ’
¢ = .
Spurious Twenty Dollar Bill
Been Put in Circulation.
I. E. Wilkie, chief of the secret ser-
vice bureau at Washington, D. C.. has
notified secret service men thirougn-
out the country to be on the lookout
for a new counterfeit $20 gold cevt
cate. which is being cirenlated.
bill has on it check letter “Os
Has
The
the
Elis H. Roberts as tieasurer, and
containg a poor picture
dent James A. Garfield. Tae number
of the bill is 588,572, and the worl
manship on it is very poor. The cer
tificates are printed on two pieces of
paper. having heavy red and blue silic
{hread running through them.
Midshivmen Poisoned.
The number of sick midshipmen af
Annapolis has reached 115, nearly a
quarter of the whole naval academy.
They are suffering {rom ptomaine
poison contained in something which
they ate. Several are ill enougn to
stop work, and the naval hospital is
full, the others being in quarters. It
is not known what caused the trou-
ble. opinion being divided between
sausage and salad dressing.
Pure Water for Public Use.
The American Public Health Asso-
ciation at New York adopted a reso-
jution asking for legisiation that
would require railroad and steamship
companies and hotels to furnish pure
drinking water.
it,
inches fel
in Nebraska December
inches in Kansas. Six
building. The loss was $500.000. New Orleans. La..
Mexico.
the taxes had been charged did not|
“The taxation
imposed on defendent hy said act and |
charged against it in said settlement
was intended to
were sustained, would inflict a pen-
alty on defendant for dcing, that
which it has a legal and constitu.
tional right to do, and the act is,
therefore, invalid and unconstitu-
tional.” This act was une of the
measures advocated by the Unite.l
t: Ricans.
signatures of J. W. Lyon as regisgier:
of ex-Presi-;
and four
over the Rocky Mountain region from)
Northern Wyoming to Southern New
INSULAR AFFAIRS. *
Cholera Cuts Labor Supply—Rindere
pest Arnihilates Water Buffaloes.
Ccmmerce of Philippines.
The bureau of insular affairs of the
war department at Washington has
issued the following comparativa
summary of the commerce of tha
Philippine islands for the seven
months ending July 31, 1902 and
1901: The total value of ‘merchan-
dise, exclusive of gold and silver, im-
ported during the seven months end-
ed July 31, 1902, was $19,310,457, as
against $17,132,205 for the same
period of 1901. The principal" in-
crease in 1902 was in food stuffs, the
purchase of rice alone exceeding thie
figures for 1901 by nearly $1,500,009.
sold and silver was imported during
the seven months of 1802 to the value
of $3.026,747, same period of 1901.
$1,230,294. The value of imports
coming from the United States in
1902 was $2,433,889, against approxi-
mately $500,000, =zi3 compatled with
1001. Agricultural industries through-
out the archipelago have been ma-
terially affected owing to the unfortu-
nate destruction cf the work cattle by
an epidemic of rinderpest, a diseas2
that has practically annihilated the
carabao or water buffalo. and the ouf-
break of cholera, which has curtailed
the already limited supply of labor.
These unfavorable conditions in ad-
dition to the effect of frequent
changes taking place in the present
currency standard, an early and sat-
isfactory solution of which. situation
the bureau says is absolutely essential
to the business interests of the islands
produced a falling off in the exports
for the seven mcnihs ended July 31,
1902, of nearly $1,000,000, as com-
pared with the corresponding periorl
of the previous year, the figures for
1902 showing $13,883,263, against
$14,815,761 in 1901. Gold and silver
was exported to the value of $2,019.-
717 in 1902, against $635,181 in 1901.
The anrual export trade of the is-
lands since American cccupation as
compared with the output prior to
that time, has improved so rapidly
that the present monthly average
notwithstanding the adverse condi-
tions that have prevailed during the
seven months cof the current year, is
in excess of the computed ratic based .
on the showing of former years.
BEAUTIFUL LIFE FINISHED.
of Heart Trouble.
Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, widow of
President Grant, died at her resi-
&nce in Washington, D. C., at 11:17
o'clock Sunday night. Death was due
to heart failure, Mrs. Grant having
suffered for some years from yalvu-
lar disease of the heart, which was
aggravated by a severe attack of
bronchitis. Her age prevented her
rallying from the ‘attiacks. Her
daughter, Nellie Grant Sartoris, was
the only. one of her children with her
at “he time of her death, her three
sons ‘had been summoned, not hav-
ipg reached the city.
CABLE FLASHES.
Dispatches from Naples says Vesu-
vius iz assuming a threatening ap-
pearance. A number of smaller open-
ings have appeared around the great
crater.
The Victoria hotel in Quebec, Can-
| ada, was completely destroyed by
fire. The guests and employes es-
caped uninjured. Loss, $110,000; in-
surance, $75,000.
The British cruiser Charybdis and
the German cruiser Vineta bombard-
ed the fortress at Puerto Cabello,
i Venezuela, Saturday and quickly
silenced it. The hombardment lasted
45 minutes, and was in retalliation
for a mob tearing down a British
flag,
A dispatch from Willemstad, Cura-
cao, datel December 11, says (hat tli=2
foreign residents of Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela; are taking refuge. on
board the German cruiser Vineta and
the Briti¢h cruiser Ariadne. and that
these vessels are threatening to bom-
{ bard the port.
The repert of the commiltee of the
House of Commons of England on
steamship subsidies is against the
principle of granting subsidies. It
i finds that British ship owners have
! not suffered much from the fostering
| effects of subsidies paid by foreign
governments.
~t a mass meeting of Porto Ricans,
held in Hilo, Honolulu, a resolution
was adopted providing for a commit-
tee to ask Congress to send the Porto
who are in Hawaii, back to
their own country. They are mostly
destitute, and many of them are very
anxious to return to Porto Rico.
Tho great Nile reservoir and dam
at Asscuan, Egypt, were opened De-
cember 19) in the presence of the
: khedive, the duke and duchess of
| Connaught, lord Cromer, the British
| agent and consul, general in Egypt,
und f.ady Cromer: the ministers and
| many other distinguished persons.
i The Suitan of Morocco’s forces
i have been defeated with serious loss
on the road to Rabat. After defeat-
ing the Zemmeur tribe recently the
Sultan’s army encountered another
robel force and a sanguinary fight fol-
lowed. with the result that the army
was compelled to retire toward Fez.
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(teneral Alexis Nord, who was war
minister under the Provisional gov-
ernment, entered ithe capital of Haiti
at the head of his army. He was ac-
corded a sympathetic reception by
the people. It is generally believed
that in case he anncunces himself
a candidate for the presidency’ his
election to that office is assured.
{ Chancellor von Buelow, in his argu-
| ment. on the third reading of the
| tarift hill in the German reichstag,
| eaid the allied - governments would
| accept the bill and also the abolition
+ | of the municipal octrois since the
5 Sno in the West. 2 en Dr on
Thor an Sl in hn. oy Pe Ly date fixed for taking effect in 19i0.
Sure 2hes S Wl om : : .
e : | The increas¢ on meats runs from
| $1.50 a hundred on bacon to $1.75 on
{ meat delicacies.
Minister Bowen has suddenly be-
co: 42 famous in Germany.