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WILL BESEECH CONGRESS,
The Prlneipal with Intereet Advanced by
Monti Amounti to $(,000,000.
The present Congress will shortly he
nsked to refund to the holr ot Robert
Mnrrlii the money with ncrumulated In
terest which was advanced to the gov
ernment during the Revolutionary
wnr.
Robert Morris wan a financier and
patriot and Rave largely from his pri
vate fortune to enable America to con
duct her war ngnlnst England. Al
though the government nt the time was
grateful, Morris could not be refunded,
and the patriot died In a debtors' prl
Hon. Ills heirs propose to apply to Con
gress for the return of the money lent,
with accumulated Inters st. the amount,
as was stated, ranging all the way from
live to eight millions of dollars. Two
Philadelphia Inwyers. who represent
i ne branch of the Morris family, and
a New York lawyer, who Is working
in the Interest of the Long Island de
scendants, are obtaining signatures of
the numerous claimant.
As near as can be ascertained, Rob
ert Morris when he died left four sons.
One of these sons was a private In the
revolutionary army. This young man
deserted, set sail for England and was
never afterward heard of. All trace of
Ms descendants has been lost. The
ether sons, attached to the patriot
cause and sharing the fortunes of IV't
lather, lived In New Jersey and diiftid
to Monmouth county. How many heirs
of the great financier are living It Is
difficult to conjecture. It Is believed,
however, that nt least thirty claimants
huve been found, the purity rtf whose
descent cannot be questioned.
The main line of the claimants are
the children of James and Elizabeth
Morris, who were the children of Rob
ert Morris, Jr., son of the original Rob
ert Morris. There are five heirs of
James Morris living In the neighbor
hood of Asbury Park, (lendola and
Belmar. Elizabeth Morris had eight
children, and they are all living. Sev
eral years ago a similar petition to
congress was prepared for the relief of
the Robert Morris heirs, but for lack
of exidence was laid over Indefinitely,
Meantime the lawyers have collected
evidence which. It Is claimed, will
prove not only the Indebtedness, but
the accuracy of relationship, which at
tho time of the former bill was some
what In doubt.
The prospect of an eight million find
Is much discussed among the numerous
heirs of Robert Morris residing In As
bury Park, and vicinity, although they
do not place Implicit confidence In Its
final distribution. Old Robert Morris
at the time of Cornwallls" laet ram
pilgn, advanced the American govern-
men fl, 500,000 In his own notes. The
understanding was that the amount
should be repaid when the financial
condition of the new government was
more secure.
Other evidence has been produced
showing that bonds were lent at vari
ous times when the critical necessities
of the nation seemed to require the aid
or a friend.
Exactly how much money was ad
vanced the government cannot be de
finitely ascertained. History says Rob
ert Morris was superintendent of fl
nonce and vested with complete con
trol for some years over the monetary
anairs of the country.
SAVINGS EARN LESS.
A Lower Bate of Interest to bs Paid by Now
York Bank! Nszt Tear.
With the announcement of the dlvl
dends to be paid next month by tho
various savings banks of New York
there Is a general tendency to pay a
lower rate of interest than heretofore.
A few years ago practically all the
older banks were paying Interest at 4
per cent, per annum, but gradually
this has been changed so that next
year tho rate of Interest In many In
stances will be 8'4 per cent. President
Mi-Mann, of the Emigrant Industrial
sangs bank, said: "Conditions are
such now that the various banks are
not earning so much as a few years
ago, and consequently It Is Impossible
to pay a rate of interest that would per
haps tend to reduce the surplus. The
tendency is even toward a lower rate,
say 3 per cent., not this year, or even
the next, perhaps, but eventually."
BEMABKABLE FBEAK.
Darwinian Theory Supported by an Inmatt
of a St Lonii Hoipital.
W. I. Brebacht, a remarkable freak,
received at the St. Louis hospital Mon
day, Is regarded as a striking proof of
the Darwinian theory of evolution.
Brebacht waa born with seven fingers
on the right hand, six on the left and
only two toes on each foot. He had
cleft hands and cleft feet, and his
rplnal column was bent in a manner
unlike anything Dr. Butter had ever
seen in a human being. The curvature
closely resembled that of a horse. The
shoulders also are shaped like those of
.a quadruped and Indicate a much
greater adaptation to physical endur
ance than la possible by the human
shoulder. Brebracht has inherited
from his mother and her ancestors
these striking evidence of man's des
cent from a lower being. Urebracht
has never been incommoded In any way
by the abnormal structure of some of
lits organs.
HHTHNO THE PBODPCTION.
Only a Certain Number of Men to bo Em
ployed in Maseachusstta Prisons.
A new law, limiting the production of
goods In the workshops of the Massa
chusetts state prison and other penal
institutions, went into effect Monday,
The law provides that not over 30 per
cent, of the number of the inmates of
any penal institution in the state hav
ing mora than 100 inmates, shall be em
ployed In any one Industry, except In
cane seating and the manufacture ot
umbrellas. The new law is likely to
make no end of trouble for the officials
at the state prison, where 150 men, who
have been engaged In the manufacture
of shoes, have been laid off, fifty more
cease making harness and the force
employed in other industries was re
duced. The chief objection to the new
law Is that the enforced Idleness of the
prisoners win make them restless and
more difficult to control.
Begained Ear Voioe
By patiently teaching the use of the
lips for utterances. Dr. Willis li. Htorer
a staff physician at AugUBtana hospi
tal, at Chicago, has restored the power
M speech to Maggie K. Lauf. Three
years ago Miss Laufs nervous system
waa shattered by a stroke of lightning.
Since that time and up to about six
weeks ago the young lady had bean un
able to utter a sound. Dr. Btorer train
ed Hiss Lauf to use her Hps as if a
child, and after about two weeks of
1 sons the young lady suddenly part
is y regained her voice, and with con-
.ot piMtir has) now entirely reoov
i II it milt.
IIBSELT TOLD TKLBORAM.
Earthquake shocks were felt at Santa
ltnsa, Cal., last week.
The cotton crop of 1S97-1893 Is esti
mated at 10,257,030 bales.
Thomas Knne was Instantly killed by
a falling wall at Philadelphia.
An earthquake shock was felt nt
Exeter, N. H., Inst Hundny.
Andrew Carnegie will build another
free library nt Oreensburg, Pa.
The Red Cross Society will soon tnke
charge of the charitable work In Cuba.
In New York 600 unemployed coat
tailors have found work shovelling
snow.
John Wannmaker Is being boomed as
a rnndldnte for governor of Pennsyl
vania. The Anaconda Standard has collect
ed $soo In Montana for the Cuban re
lief fund.
Homos, the lender of the Cuban Insur
gents, says war will end on the Inland
within a yenr.
(Jen. Blanco received $4,000,000 In sil
ver last week for carrying on the Span
ish war In Cuba.
The Volume of westbound traffic on
rends west of Chicago Is lnrger than
ever before known.
P. II. Mabry. express agent of the
Southern Express Company, and $10,000
tre missing at Brunswick, (la,
James W. Cochran had one of his
eyes torn out by u cow"s horn at
Orccnnhurg, Pa., a few days ago.
After Monday the thousand mechan
ics in the Union Pacific shops will work
t hours Instead of 7 hours a day.
The vigilance of government officers
I revented a Inrge filibustering expedi
tion leaving Florida for Cuba the other
day.
John OalloRhcr and James Joyce
were run over and killed by a passen
ger train at Carnegie, Pa., last Wed
nesday, Arkansas ropullsts' state committee
declnred agulnst fusion and against
nominating a ticket for 1900 this year,
as proposed.
Mexican hauled down an American
flag floating over Cllpperton Island.
The United States government has been
uppealud to.
The explosion of a gas stove knocked
out tho side of a house at t niontown
Pa Inst week. Mr. and Mis. Black were
seriously burr.ed.
The steamship Hcorge W. Elder has
sailed for Talya and Skaguay from
Portland with 125 passengers and S00
tons of freight.
At Linden. Ind., Oren Stlngley, the
other day, a prominent citizen, acci
dentally shot and killed his aged rath
tr, John Stlngley.
Thirty-five miners were Imprisoned
four days In a mine partially filled with
water from an underground river near
the city of Mexico.
Cholera has broken out In India.
There were 37 deaths In the Manvn
district last Wednesday. To date there
have been 11.8H2 deaths.
The Princeton Inn grill room, over
which there hns been so much dispute
recently, will, It la said, be permanent
ly closed In a few days.
Drunken stewards burned an Amer.
lean Hug on board of the steamer St
Louis on Christmas day and much In
dignation was aroused.
Antolne Uoyetto, aged KG. was run
over and Instantly killed at Richmond
(Jue., last Tuesday by a train whose
engineer was Uoyette's son.
Publishers met in New York recently
and resolved to oppose the Loud bill
regulating second-class mall matter
and excluding book reprints.
Veins of gilsonlte in sufficient else to
warrant development are reported to
have been discovered on Willow creek,
In Middle park, Colorado.
If the son and daughter of Mrs, Hen
rletta R. Kales Baker, of Philadelphia,
die without Issue the Pennsylvania
hospital will receive $2,000,000.
An explosion of alcoholic vapors
killed Theodore Wlnkofsky while h
was enameling the Interior of a brew
cry vat at Chicago the other day.
The crumbled bones of Mr. and Mrs,
A. C. Howe of Michigan were found
Thursday In the ruins of the burned
Grand Forks (N, D.) hotel, Decotuh.
Five hundred Italians employed on
the canal Improvement between Little
Falls and Mohawk, N. Y , struck for an
advance In wages from 12 to la cents
hour. .
President Calloway, of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
says that the long distance telephone
has eut down the passenger business
considerably.
William F. Baldwin, alias Frank
Watson, notorious counterfeiter, re
cently escaped from the Kingston
("int.) penitentiary, has been arrested
at Cincinnati.
,V heavy snow storm raged in Pitts
burg last Thursdny. Electric travel
was Impeded, telephone wires were
blown down and roots caved in by the
unusual fall of snow.
Mrs. Anna J. Fowler was burned to
death In a lire that consumed the house
of Frank Graham at Bordentown, N. J,
A letter received at Quebec from
Paris stated that the French govern
ment has given a subsidy of 500,000
francs toward a steamship line between
France and Canada,
Peter French, who owned thousands
of acres of land and more cattle than
any other man In Oregon, was shot and
killed in Canyon City by a man named
Oliver in a land dispute.
To have some fun with his keepers,
Harry McCullom thought to frighten
them by making an attempt at suicide
in a New York jail recently. Tho Joke
proved fatal for he could not be re
vived.
At Port au Prince, Hayti, Are recent
ly destroyed KO0 houses and rendered
3,000 people homeless. An earthquake
shock, which greatly alarmed the popu
lace, occurred at the rame place a few
days ago.
Nine of the Chinese bandits who took
part In the murder ot aUerman priest at
Yen-Chau Fu, which Germany guve as
the causu of the seizure of Klaochau
bay, have been apprehended and muc
plunder recovered.
The French flag has been hoisted on
the Island of Hainan off the smith coast
of China. The island has an aiea of
12.000 square miles and a Chinese popu
latlon of 1,000,000. No opposltiou was
made against the sclsure.
Two children of Thomas A. Edison
were to have taken part in a danc
for a charitable purpose the other
night in New York. Two agents of the
Horry Boclety prevented the little ones
from taking part in tne entertainment,
New York society women are indignant
over the Interference of the humane
society.
At Forgo. S. D Mrs. Ethel Mary Mo
Callum secured a divorce from William
Cuthbert McCallum, "convicted of Tel
ony and sentenced to a term of years
In prison at Johannesburg, aoutu Al
lies." Mrs. McCallum's maiden name
was Andrews and she has many weal
thy relatives in this coimtry and Eng
lane
SIX BURNED.
Parent and Fonr Children found in tho
Halns of Their Home.
After having quietly celebrated New
ears day the family or Adoipn iteicn
retired late Saturday night. Sunday
morning the dim lantern of firemen dis-
losed the bodies of six members or tne
ntisehold who had been burned to
enth.
Adolnh Reich's home was at Jersey
City and he was a well-to-do real estate
gent.
The dead are: Adoipn Reich, 42 years
old, the fnthcr: Emma Reich, 22 years
old: Ida Reich, 15 years old; Oustave
Reich, years old.
Severn! others were injured ana it
may be thnt another member of the Ill
fated family will die. He is the 19-year-
Id son and his body is covered witn
burns.
John Conwnv. chief of the Jersey City
re department, was very badly burn-
d. He fell through a burning floor
nhd was rescued with difficulty.
Henrv A. R-lch. 17 years old, mnnnged
to make his ecnpe from the house with
severe burns on the neck, race and
bunds, but he Is not seriously Injured.
Henry Reich snld ho was awakened
by shouts. Running Into the hall he
saw the smoke and flames In the lower
hall. His father whs there and they
managed fo g-t out of the house in their
Ight clothes. Young Reich ran tlown
the street and gave the nlarm.
Several engine companies responded
promptly to the nlarm and ten minutes
Inter the fire was out. Then negan tne
search of the house. The rays from the
firemen's lanterns disclosed three
huned bodies against the wall at the
foot of the stairs. They were those of
Adolph Reich, his daughter Tlllle and
Little Hustave. The father had fallen
upon tho dnughter and his son was In
his arms. They were burned almost
beyond recognition.
In the basement of the house the
searching party stumbled over the re-
mnlns of Ida and Albert, two blackened
orpses with nrms Intertwined. Por
lons of the limbs had been entirely
nirnt away and the faces were horribly
distorted.
The mother was found In the dining
room. She was but slightly burned.
Her face showed no look of pnln. She
undoubtedly died from suffocation. The
bodies were sent to the morgue.
LAWYERS TO BLAME.
Row Tork Papera Active in
Denouncing
Pension Abueea,
a long signed statement in the
York Press H. Clay Evans, com
In
New-
missioner ot pensions, denounces pen-
Ion attorneys and declares they alone
re to blame for frauds on the roil or
honor. He demands a law to stop the
pnyment of fees to attorneys or claim
gents for any claim filed for pensions.
This, he says, would put an end to the
pension scandals. The commissioner
states that tho ordinary pension agency
Is
worse than the most pestiferous
irmlnt" that ever Invaded a hen
roost.
The Herald says the time has come
for a radical revision of the pension
Inws and sweeping reforms In the oper-
stlou of the pension bureau. The first
duty of congress. It deolures, should be
o revlso and purge tho pension roll.
I'he Hevald dcclures the rolls should no
inger be kept secret and quotes Com
missioner Kvuns as saying that the
itibllcatlon of the names of pensioners
would be of great service In the detec-
lon and punishment of frauds.
CANADA'S TBADE.
Tho Dominion Imported Mors Ooods From tho
United States Than from England.
The trades and navigation returns
shortly to be Issued at Ottawa, Out.,
will show the total imports entered for
onsumptlon were $111,294,021, as
against Imports of $110,587,480 the pre-
dlng yenr. The duty collected
amounted to $1(1.891, SOT. as against $20,
219,037, a decrease ot $327,010.
Exports amounted to $12:1,950.888, an
Increase of $17,581,0S6. There were ex
ported to the United States Canadian
products to the value of $13,991,4X5. as
against $.'14,460,428 In 1893-6. lireat Brit
ain took of Canada's exports $09,."i35,&52.
et Canada a Imports from the old
country were but $29,412.1 KM. a decrease
of $.'l,bUi,fio4, as compared with the pre
ceding year, while from the United
States Canada imported to the value of
$('1,619,041, an Increase of $3.075,0.3 over
Imports of American products of the
year before. Upon the total Imports of
Rritlsh guoils there was collected duty
to the amount of $6,205,347. an average
rate of 21 per cent; upon total imports
from tho United States the sum of IS,
147,075, an average rate of but 13 per
rent. Even upon the dutlablo portion
of imports Ihe average duty on Ameri
can Imports was only about 26 percent..
as against 30 per cent, on Imports from
Oreat Britain. The balance of trade In
1K96-7, aa between Canada and Oreat
Britain, is in Canada's favor by $40,121
661 for the year. As between Cnnnda
und the United States It Is in fuvor of
the Americans by $17,657,556.
Oaa in a Lake.
Prof. Knerr. scientist of Midland
college, visited Doniphan lake, six mil' B
north of Atchison, Kas., recently, and
says there Is no doubt about the exist
ence or natuiai gns mere, it is round
In pockets under tho Ice. By tapping
thtse pockets the gas which (.hoots up
can be lighted and will burn for a
minute or two. At other places the
gas bubbles up so rapidly that It pre
vents the Ice from forming.
CAPITAL CLEANINGS.
Available balance, $238,544,640; gold
If serve, JlU0.2o0.0ti2.
Three-hundred and seventy-five ap
plications for patents were received at
the patent pnice luesany.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorised the Nevada National bank
of San Francisco to begin business,
capital, $3,000,000.
The United States has taken no part
In tho Chinese controvesy. She tius no
intention of dolngo unlets American
interests are endangered.
Leut.-Col. Alfred E. Bates of the pay
department of the army, has been ue
tailed as United States naval attache
at London to succeed cspi. u. m. cal
ler. By pluclng lead pipe In the bags to
equal the weight of silver dollars taken
out the government has been robbed by
some trusted employee for the past ten
years of over $i00.
The new French ambassador, Mr.
Jules Cambon, will arrive at Washing
ton soon after the holidays. His ar
rival Is expected to give another Im
net us to reciprocity negotiations.
Secretary Uage of the treasury offer
ed to resign last week but President
McKlnley would not listen to him. The
secretary's financial policy has been
severely criticised, and this prompted
the resignation.
A KILLING SEARCHLIGHT.
Tho Rare, Charged With Electricity, Wonld
Annihilate an Army.
John M. Hartman la the Inventor of
the Hartman electric gun, the first one
of which Is now being built. The in
ventor hopes to sell It to the govern
ment. With It, the inventor says, a
whole army can be held at bay or an
nihilated, just as tho operator of the
gun desires. The gun docs not shoot
shells, but discharges a current of elec
tricity of any voltage which the opera
tor desires. When connected with a
dynamo It Is always loaded and ready
for business. Tho Inventor says he has
tried It on a small scale nnd stunned a
rabbit at a distance of fifty feet this
from a lnmp using only fifty volts of an
alternating current. When this current
Is multiplied loo times the gun will kill
everything with which Its electric ray
comes In contact, says Hartman. Thu
brood principles upon which the Inven
tion are based, according to Hartman,
are thnt under certain conditions the
rnys of a searchlight can bo charged
with electricity, the deadly electrical
liuld does not need a wire to carry It.
but will travel with the light, and those
upon the light Is turned will drop as
though they had suddenly touched a
live wire.
WHY NOT TURKEY?
The Chincaa Miniator Diacuiies the Bitnation
in tho Eait
In nn Intel view Wu Ting Fang,
Chinese minister to the United States,
explains the eastern situation.
'What has China done," he asked by
way of preface, "that she should be dl-
Ided up and parceled out among the
powers? What Is her offense against na
tions or against civilization?
Germany Is Incensed, we are told,
because two of her subjects have been
murdered. If this be truo my govern
ment will make all the reparation In
Its power. It has never refused to do
lint, and, never hiving refused, there
Is no necessity for Herman ships of war
landing men to seize Chinese territory.
"They talk of dismembering China.
Why do they not partition Turkey?
Everybody knows she was long the
scourge ot Europe, nnd time and again
hns made bloody conquests, some or
which she still holds. On the ether
mnd, the Chinese have kept well with
in their own territory and have never
disturbed the peace of Europe.
AS for Kussin, 1 nove no notion mnt
she Intends to take any of our territory
without our cordinl consent. We are
on terms of tho warmest friendship
with Russln. She has been our friend
when her friendship was of Inestimable
Hlue. When she asks for anything we
are Inclined to grant It If possible. Rus
sia may get concessions, but I do not
hlnk that means thnt we shull be di
vided up and handed around like coke."
foreign residents In China, said the
minister, were responsible for many of
their troubles.
B0N0BED BT ATTACK.
Itewepapera Which Supported Weyler'a Pro-
teat Againat McKlnley Froaeented.
Heneral Weyler, former captain gen
eral of Cubn, In his memoiiul to the
queen regent on the subject of Presi
dent McKlnley's message to Congress,
protests in most courteous language.
specially so since he discovered that
the army generals would not Join him.
He says he Is honored by the attacks
made upon htm and that his conduct as
governor general wus that of a soldier
animated by honor and patriotism.
Such attacks, therefore, he adds, will
do him no harm, as they ore aimed at
him simply because he has done his
duty. Nevertheless "since the mes
sage contained insulting observations
on the Spanish troops In Cuba," he
believed It to be his duty to address a
protest to the crown.
The general Hlllrnis that the so-railed
pacillcoH, whom he concentrated In the
fortified districts, were the prime abet
tors of the rebellion.
"El Borreo Espnnol," "La Naclonal,"
El Epoca" and other papers that have
published Henernl Weyler's protest
ugnlnst President McKlnley's messagn
will be prosecuted. The publication
had been prohibited on International
grounds.
It Is also rumored that General Wey
ler will be prosecuted. The authorities
rfuse to transmit the protest to the
queen regent through the war office.
Cost of Famine.
It Is officially announced that the re-
rent famine In India cost the treasury
500,000 ($2,000 010). while leans to agri
culturalists and suspensions of taxes,
mainly payable, absorbed 14.COO.000, ir
respective of charitable contributions.
approaching 1.7.0.000 (JX.750,000).
The Imllun national congress came to
n conclusion recently amid much en
thusiasm nnd cheers for the :jueen em
press. Resolutions were adopted
thanking the people of the United
Kingdom, the British colonies and the
United States for generous aid during
the famine. It wus decided to erect,
fit the cost of 1,000, a memorial ot
gratitude In London. Ctr.er rtsolutlona
were adopted criticising the govern
ment s recent measures regarding se
dition.
Second City in the World.
The Inauguration of r! router New-
York was fittingly celebrated last Sat
urday. New York la now the second
Ity In the world.
Mayor Van VVyck will appoint every
department head In tho city except the
controller, who is elected ror tour
years. He will appoint all commis
sioners, all Justices of Interior criminal
courts: all the members of the Bchool
boards, with the exception of the com
missioner of education, the Justices oi
special sessions and the police magis
trates, and Is given the power to re
move any official In New York and ap
point his successor.
Choked by a Haxal Nut.
A hazel nut became lodged In the
throat of Nettlo Delp, the 4-year-old
daughter of Adam Delp. of Chicago,
tho other afternoon, and before it could
be extricated the child choked to aeatn.
The members of the family hud but a
few minutes before finished their New
Year's dinner and the child was play
ing In the dining room, while the rest
of the family were conversing In the
Darlor. Every effort of tne motner u
relieve the agony of the llttlo sufferei
proved futile. A physician was cauea,
but the child was beyond medical as
sistance when he arrived.
Elootrio 4m4 to the Klondike.
W. K. Burkholder, of San Francisco.
has gone to Alaska to erect an electric
transmission plant to operate an eiec
trln mad over the Chllkoot pass. Eleo
trlclty will be generated at Dyea and
transmitted 20 miles to the point wherf
It is to be used. In addition to the
electric wires, the poles) will support
cables, from which heavy cars will be
suspended. The motors will be sta
tionary oi the cars will bo propelled
up the Incline by cables on a drum
The plant Is expected to be in working
order in about three months, when it It
supposed that Chllkoot pass) will lost
all it terrors.
GII1C OF (111 IB SHIPS.
READY FOR BATTLE.
Oreat Britain and Japan laid to bo Working
in Harmony Againat Basils.
The fnte of China Is awaited. The
empire may shortly lose Its identity and
clth by war be devastated or fall
prey to the grasping European Powers
who are now endeavoring to gain pos
session of Important sea port towns.
China herself Is helpless. She has
neither money, capable officers nor a
I navy, and consequently can do nothing
In her own behalf. Russia has now a
fleet at Port Arthur and Intends to re-
tun In.
I The Herman question Is unsettled
I nnd her withdrawal from Klao-Chou
nay is conditional upon her finding n
suitable naval station elsewhere.
A dispatch from Shanghai says the
British licet has anchored nt Port
Hamilton. A report Is current at Chee
l-'oo to the effect that the Japanese
lleet lins also arrived nt Port Hamil
ton. Port Hamilton Is a small Island
si nth of Corea nnd not fur from Quel
pnrt Island.
It Is reported thnt n Japanese fleet
of over twenty wnrshlps is waiting
near (loto island, outside Nagasaki,
fully equipped for war, and only wait
ing Instructions. This Includes tho
YuHblma and the Fuji, two of the finest
vessels In the Japanese navy, and the
Chin Yuen, thnt was raptured from
China. The Jnpnnese fleet. It Is under
stood, Is acting In close touch with tho
UiitlMh squndron. under Vice Admiral
Sir Alexander Buller, commander-in-
chief on the China station.
Japan will certainly oppose a perma
nent Russian occupation of Port Ar
thur. The sudden dissolution of the
Japanese diet was owing to the war
spirit. It Is expected thot the Jnpanesc
fleet will attempt to prevent the land
ing of reinforcements from Odessa for
the protection of the Russlnn trans-
Atliinllc railway In Manchuria.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Morning Post says: "Russia has
long been negotiating to raise a Chi
nese loan of 6.000,000 In France to pay
the Indemnity und secure tho Japanese
evacuation of Wel-Hal-Wel. The ne
gotiations were broken off, owing to
Fiance Insisting thnt the Bank of
France should Issue the loan, and Rus
sia desiring that the Riisso-Chlnese
bank should take the lead. A certain
coolness now exists between France
und Russia.
England for the past few days hns
been Innkliig desperate efforts to gain
the moral support of the United States
against the nntlnns now nrray ng tnem
selves on the const of China. F.ngland
finds herself pitted Bgnlnst the strongest
combination ever assembled.
Russia on the strength of obtaining
a great loan for China will enjoy an
advantage over other powers. As the
loan Is secured by the land tax. Russia
can enter every portion of the empire
on the plea of collecting tax.
CHINA ACTIVE.
Li Hung Chang haa Been Restored to Power
at Fekin.
LI Hung Chang has been recalled to
power nt Pekln, tho emperor and the
Inner council desiring his assistance In
the present diplomatic crisis.
Thousands of troops are being re
cruited to the Interior, nnd it Is Intend
ed to double the number of battalions
in all the Chinese maritime provinces
within thirty days. The emperor has
received 48 secret memorials regarding
the defense of the empire from high
military and civil officials throughout
China. All China Is awakening.
It Is claimed thnt the Chinese com
nmnder at Klao-Chou was tricked In
to surrendering by the Herman admir
al, who offered his word that the Em
peror of China hud consented to the oc
cupation of Kiao-Chou and would re
gard any resistance as an act of rebel
lion.
The "JIJI-Rhlpo," the most Influential
paper at Toklo, says that Russia,
France and Germany have reached
understanding whereby Russia Is to
tuke Korea and North China, (lermnny
the Shatung districts, while France will
get Fi
tijant.
Formosa nnd parts of the Fooklen
Pnrehated a Title.
The New Yenr honor list In London
Is weak and decidedly partisan. It at
traded llttlo Interest from the public
outside of the knighting of Thomas J,
Linton, the millionaire provision mer
chant, whose knlghiuge establishes th
fact thnt titles are purchaseuble, for
the honor bestowed upon him was, of
course, due to his gift of 25,000 ($125.
000) to the Princess of Wales' Jubilee
fund for feeding the outcast poor of
London.
fhe Princes of Wales, on Christmas
eve, sent Llpton a magnificent aiamom
scarfpln, IncMontoily, in lSltB, a syndl
cnte offered Llpton (who is a enntrar
tor for the British nrmy and navy, who
who packs meat In Chicago, has a tea
nnd coffee business in New York, man
ufactures ginger ale and mineral wat
ers lu Ireland, makes confections In
London and grows coffee and tea In
Ceylon) 8.030,000 ($10,000,000) for his
business.
FB0M ACB0SS THE SEA.
Bismarck Is unable to sleep, read or
walk on account of gout.
Tho death rate In Berlin is rapidly
Increasing, due to Influenza.
Wednesday Mr. Hladstone celebrated
his eighty-second birthday. ,
There are now 100 war-ships of six
Powers near Chinese shores.
Pope Leo celebrated the sixtieth an
niversary of his first mays last Satur
day. 800 persona were massacred near Bal
rr.as, Persia, by Koordestan raiders re
cently. There are as yet no signs of settle
ment In regard to the English Engin
eers' strike.
The Rothschilds are making efforts
to oppose the Standard Oil Company in
Europe.
It Is rumored that an English man of
war fired upon a Russian battle-ship in
Chinese waters.
There were 89,427 rases of dysentery
throughout Japan this year up to De
cember 9, 22,310 of which proved fatal.
Queen Victoria distributed 44,000
pounds of beef and 100 tons of coal to
the poor of Windsor on New Years
Day.
The debauchery Incident to the ush
ering In ot the New year In London
was so licentious and debasing that the
police were not able to control It.
Tho first big shipment of about a
hundred American horses, mainly for
riding and carriage use, arrived at
Berlin during the course of the week
and were sold within 24 hours.
The czar. In his own name and in the
name of the ca&tina, hns sent President
Faure an effulslve telegram expressing
their sincere good wishes for the presi
dent and "friendly Franoe." President
Faure an effusive telegram expressing
I Imperial majesties "touch the hearts of
all Frenchmen,"
TRADE REVIEW.
Aggregate of All Failoret for the Paat Tear
Amonnta to (180,600,000.
R, O. Dun ft Co.'s weekly review of
trade reports as follows:
allures for the year have been
smaller than in any other year since
1892; In number smaller than in any
yenr except in 1895, nnd In average lia
bilities per failure smaller than In any
other year during the last twenty-threv?
except four. The aggregate of all fail
ures, commercial and banking, was
$180,600,000. of which $26,800,000 was In
banking. In 13..160 commercial failures
the amount of liabilities was $154,800,-
000. of which $69,000,000 was in manu
facturing and $73,700,000 In trading with
$12,100,000 In brokerage and other com
mercial lines. The average of liabili
ties per failure was only $11,589, and in
1M'2 only $11,025, but only three years
In the pnst. twenty-four were rivals.
SS8, wiUi $11,595; 1880, with $11,651, and
KM, with $11,078.
The Iron Industry bns boon greatly
rncournged by Increased demanrt
during the past few weeks, and while"
the slight Improvement In pig Iron at.
I'lltsburg hns been maintained, not
withstanding the greatest output
ever known, the new contracts for
flushed product have been unusual
for the season. They Include 80,000
ns steel rails to one eastern mill, 12,-
000 tons structural work for Improve
ments at New York alone, with large
operations nt Chicago nnd other titles.
nnd a grently Increased demand for
manufacturing materials generally and
especially for sheets. The best besse
mer full weight tin plates are selling
at $3.05, against $4.10 for foreign. No
change In prices of cok appears,
though the shipments were the largest
for any week this year.
The rntton Industry Is halted by the
question of wages, although a general
reduction now seems probnble. The
manufacturers have been buying large
ly of material for worsted goods, and
their purchases have stimulated buy
ing by wool manufacturers, so that the
wool markets are stronger, though
without changes In quotations. Wheat
still goes out of the country as largely
ns before, Atlantic ports, 3.570,783 bush
els, Hour Included, against 1.M2.M0 last
yenr, nnd from Pacific porta l,742,s
bushels. In four weeks the Atlantlo
exports flour Included, have been 15,-
Of.0.047 bushels, against 8,500,161 last
year. Heavy western receipts are only
relirctlng temporary conditions in tne
Chicago market. But extraordinary
exports of corn, 14,404.905 bushels,
against 9,444,853 bushels in the four
weeks Inst year, shows how sorely
foreign markets ore pushed by the In
creasing demands for breadstuffe.
Wheat has declined of a cent with
the Chicago market, and corn ha
meanwhile advanced of a cent.
The cotton movement continues re
markably henvy, and yet the slight ad
vance last week Is maintained. The
movement to date, although more than
7.000,000 bales have come Into sight,
scarcely supports the largest currents
estimates.
Failures for the week have been 395
In the United Stntes. against 4.19 last
year, and 21 In Canada, agulnst 89 last
week.
AMERICA 1EASS.
Yankee Product! Seen in every Country of
Europe and are Very Popular
Col. Alexander (iordon, of Hamilton,
O., president of the Nlles Tool Com
puny. has been abroad since early last
spring, and hns been traveling almost
nil over Europe. He has come home to
attend to some business and will return
to Europe early next month. "I don't
know much about politics here," he
said. "I have been away so long that I
have lost track of things, but I do know,
this, nnd thnt Is. business li booming.
"VYe are running our mills night and
ilny. double turn, nnd cannot keep up
with the orders. We are getting orders
from Bohemia, Italy, Norway, Russia.
Spain. France and almost every other
European country. I have been In near
ly every country of Europe within the
Inst few months, and I have been stun
ned by the way American goods have
tnken precedence over others. Almost
all the street car equipments, electrical
fitting and general machinery now be
ing purchased In Europe are of Ameri
can manufacture. Europe is buying
our wheat at a good price.
Oreat Sum for Beligion.
The will of Charles Contolt wan filed
for probate at N.v York recently. Af
ter a number tit bequests to relatives
and friends, the residue of the estate,
amounting to about $1,500,000. will be
divided in equal share among the Gen
eral Theological seminary of the Prot
estant Episcopal church, the Domestlo
nnd Foreign Missions society of tne
Protestant Episcopal church and a
large number of other Institutions.
Wall Street Broker Arreatod.
A warrant Is out for the arrest of
Henry Oliver Goldsmith, one of the best
known men of Wall street. The speci
fic charge against him is grand larceny
In the first degree for appropriating
a check for $3,000, the property of Oscar
E. A. Wlessner of Brooklyn.
The officials of the district attorneys"
office say that Goldsmith hns managed
to get away with something like half a
million dollars by questionable opera
tions. :
A Oang of Murderers.
The Paris police during the course ot
laat week secured another of the or
ganized gangs of murderers and rob
bers which have terrorized the suburbs
of the French capital for months past.
The new arrests number 33, and the
oldest prisoner Is only 21 years of age.
Within three months the bodies of 63
murdered persons have been found In
a small section of the river Seine, and
it is believed most of these murders
are traced to this gang.
Burglar Bit With a Flat Iron.
A burglar entered the home of Mrs.
Andrew Sherrick at Quincey, 111., laat
Saturday. While he was ransacking
the house Mrs. Sherrick struck him In
the face with a fiat iron, rendering the
burglari Unconscious. Them she fainted
and the burglar escaped.
Printers' Union Sued.
An Important suit has been begun
at San Francisco. Fred Hess has sued
the typographical union for $25,000, al
leging that because he was not a union
man, by means of a conspiracy with
the union members, he waa discharged
from his position In the Bulletin office.
The proprietors of the paper admit that
Hess' work was satisfactory, and that
there was no reason why he shou'd have
been discharged except to prevent
trouble with the union.
Aa Ideal Santa Clans.
Benjamin Cutler Clark, well known
as a philanthropist and aa a friend to
criminals, for whom he has often pro
vided counsel, did a graceful a-,t a few
days ago at Boston by going down to
the poatotttce and providing money
enough to pay the postage on all the
detained Christmas mall. J , large
quantity of mail had been eld for
postage and Mr. Clark was ot llged to
pay out something like WO. - r 'bis haa
been a yearly custom wlvn Mi-. Clark,
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