Y 1 STEEL COMPANIES COII $50,000,000 CAPITAL. Union and 8haron Corporations Merged- It Meant a New Railroad to Lake Erie. An aero'nipnt has been entered Into for the consolidation of the Union Stool Cnmpitny, thoe works are at Imnora, Pa., and tho Sharon Steel Company, tinder cnpltallifftlon of Ji-O,-(lOO.OOD. The proposed capital lnvost nient contemplates, nt no remote time, the construction of nn Independ ent railroad from Elk Creek harbor, on Lake Erie, to the works at Sharon, J'a.. 60 miles away, and thence to lionora, over twice that dlstnnca from the lake. To cover the present assets of the two steel concerns and the Im provements already tinder way, tpOO.OOO In stixk of the reorganized Vnloit Stee! Company Is to be used at once. The consolidation combines the two greatest Independent steel concerns of the country, outride of the Jones & l.aughlln Steel Company. Th-i assets of the two concerns, figured at 133,000,000, Is regarded remarkably low. The two Interests have In tho great ore fields of the northwest prop, ertles estimated 1.9 hoM 70.000,000 tons of ore. Thl , figured as the United States St'ot Corporation esti mates its ore in ground, la alone worth $70,000.01 i. This ore lies In the Mesahl and the Old Ranpe re gions. The two Interests havo al ready Included in their assets an im portant start In an ore fleet on the liil-es. In a recent purchase made of over 2,000 acres of ground at Elk Creek harbor in Pennsylvania, carry Inn; with It a charter for a terminal railroad there, the Lake Erie Terminal Railroad Company, provision Is made for the most. Important part of a now lake line. Surveys have already been partly mndu for this. The new Union Steel Company will In the near future have In operation seven blast fur naces, with aggregate dally capacity of 4.200 tons. To feed these monsters with ore, limestone, coal and coke, and the stepl works with fuel, the new railroad will be an Important factor. Tho two great independent Interests have now arranged for terminal lines at their works and the railroad links from their coal properties. At Don ora there is to he terminal rallrcad syBtem, wltii a bridge over the Monon gahela river. For tbU new railroad from the mills to the lakes there are now only tentative plans. When con struction Is taken up the additional $17,000,000 of stock will provide for the investment. The officers of the new companv are Andrew W. Mellon, president; W. H. Donner and John Stevenson, Jr., vice presidents; Rob ert B. Mellon, treasurer. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. The trial of the monitor Nevada, now tinder construction at the Bath Iron Works, Maine, will be set for the second week in December. Lieutenant Colonel John A. John t.nn. of the adjutant, general's office, lias tendered his resignation to Secre tary Root, to take effect February 1. A meeting of the board of tniE tees of the Carnegie Institution will be held November 25, when the scope of the Institution will bo decided Minister Wu, who for more thaa five years, has. represented the Chi nose government In diplomatic capa city at Washington, left Tuesday lor San Francisco en route to China. A cablegram has been received from tho Philippine commission stat ing that the number of cases of cholera had gone down to live a day, Instead of 34 a day, as a week ago. Differences have arisen between the state department and the Colom bian government which may delay an agreement upon a canal treaty be yond the time in which it had been expected to conclude the treaty. Although the state department has not yet decided to turn Godfrey Hun ter, who shot and kiiled William A. Flt.gerald in Guatemala, over to the Guatemala authorities, it is thought that thiU action will bo taken if it is learned upon further investigation that young Hunter was culpable. Justice Brewer denied the applica tion for an appeal from the doclsion of Judge Caldwell for tho appoint ment of a niastor in chancery to su pervise the coming election in tho Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The Philippine commission has ap pointed John S. Powell judge of the court of the first Instance in the Fourteenth district of tho Philippines; Adolph WlBlezenua, judge of the same court in tho First district, and James H. Blount, judge at large. ' Immigration Commissioner Wll I'ama, nt New York, has received in structions from . the treasury depart ment in Washington ordering that the case of t'he 11 Cuban children de tallied on Falls Island be reopened. Mail advices received at the War Department Indicate that during the, closing days of September the chol era epidemlo In the Philippines reached its lowest stage for many ttinntha. 'Secretary Moody has issued a for- mal order directing Admiral George Dewey to assume command of the Caribbean sea division In the coining maneuvers, and haB Instructed Rear Admiral Taylor, chief of the bureau of navigation, to accompany the ad miral as his chief of staff. Clarence W. Mackay, PreBidont of the Commercial Pacific Cable Com pany, called on Attorney General Knox and explained that his company was ready to proceed with the work of laying the trans-Paolfic cable, even to laying an independent American line from Manila to Hong-Kong, a dis tance of 1,200 miles. The War Department has beon ad vised by General Davis, commanding the Division of the Philippine Islands, of the death of Major Robert P. P. Wainright, Fifth cavalry, at Manila, November 10, of cardiac embolism. DECSEASE BY ROOT. Secretary' Budget Shows Lowering In Estimates ef $11,000,000. Amounts In Detail. Secretary Root Just completed his estimates for the next fiscal year an.1 ho lias succeeded ill effecting a marked reduction in tho amount of money required for the support of the army and. navy department. Exclud ing river and harbor appropriations over which the department has little control, as they are directed largely by Congress, the secretary -rays that the estimate for each of the last five fiscal years shows an average anntinl Increase from the estimates of the previous year of about $44,300,000. The estimates for the next year show a net decrense of $31,420,400 com pared with the estimates submlttel for the current fiscal year, and tin decrease as cempnred with the cur rent, appropriations is f?0,9l?,iifi0, Tho estimates for the military estab lishment, which Include all Items for the support of the army and tho mili tary academy, show a net reduction of $21,8fi2,92l from the estimates for 1003. The pay of the army is re duced more than $S,000,Ooo In conse quence of the reduction of the force. The cost of subsistence is reduced more thnn $3,R00,(p')O, and tho expense of barracks and quarters in the Phil ippines Is reduced a million lor the same reason. The cost of army trans portation has been reduced $9,000, 000 as a result of the peaceful condi tion now existing in the archipelago. It. Is explained at the department that t!to Increase of $149,800 asked for the signal service is largely to finable the signal corps to provide proper installations and maintenance of ar tillery fire control in our scacoHst de fenses. The Increase of $l.4n0,000 for barracks and quarters la due to resumption of work on new and re construction of many of the old posts rendered necessary by the Increase In the regular nrmy. An increase of $7.r-0,000 will be required in order to provide a full year's supply of cloth ing and equipage during the next fiscal yeir. Increased estimates are submitted to procure an annual sup ply of ammunition for target practice and to provide for an accumulation to meet nmergencies which must be anticipated. The estimates tinder tho head of "Public Works," show a not reduction of $9,738,770, as compared with the estimates for 1903 and ol Sfi.407,H88, as comrared with th-J amounts appropriated for 1903. The more important Items embraced In the appropriations that come under this general head are river and har bor Improvements, fortifications and sea-oast defenses and military posts. BENEFIT ORDER LOSES 8UIT. Rule That All Funds on Hand Are Subject to Taxation. Tho Illinois supreme court has de cided that all cash in the hands of tbe treasurer of a benevolent Insurance society is subject to taxation regard less of whether a part of the fund Is Mibject to payment to beneficiaries. The opinion was rendered in the caao of the State Council of the Catholic Knights of Illinois versus the board of review of Effingham county. Tho treasurer ot this society refused to llHt the money In his hands for taxation because there were outstanding or ders payable to beneficiaries of de ceased members. The supremo court says that the fact that orders have been drawn upon a iieneflt fund prior to April 1 to pay bcneflelBries of de- ceased members does not. exempt the fund from laxutton to the amount of such orders, if no part of tho fund has actually been )ald out before April 1. This doclsion will affect every fra ternal insurance society with Its head office In the state of Illinois. Sardow Reported Drowned. It is believed in London, England, that Eugene Sandow, the strong man, was drowned in the wreck of the steamer Elllngamlte, which went ashore on Three King's islands u week ago. Tho strong man's wifa wrote to frlcnde in Ixmd'on hy the last mail saying that they intended to go to New Zealand from Melbourne aboard the Elllngamlte, and since then no news of them hns been re ceived. Anti-Trust Cases Fall. The indictments pending in Texas for several years against John D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler and other members of tho Standard Oil Company, charging them with viola tions of the anti trust law of Texas, were dismissed. All efforts to serve tho warrants failed through the re fusal of the governors of New York and Florida to honor requisitions. City of Camden Goes Dry. Mayor Mowrey, at Camden, N, J., in obedience to a writ of ouster Issued by the State Supreme Court, orderej the closing of all liquor saloons with in the city limits. The court recently declared unconstitutional the law cre ating the city excise board, and all Ucensos granted by that body are void. Invests In Niagara Property. The Litz farm, on the Niagara river in Tonawanda. New York, was sold to representatives of H. C. Frlcl; for $120,000. The farm contains only 100 acres, but it is reported that Mr. Fi'lek and other steel niognntes havo options on nearly 1,000 acres. Lost of $450,000 by Fire. The Southern Pacific railroad depot and ferry on the Alameda mole at San Franciaco, Cal., were destroyed by fire. Thirty-three passenger cars were burned, and the total loss is estimat ed at $450,000. One workman, Victor Dellasanta, Is missing. i , "Blind Tom's" Mother Dead. Charity Wiggins, the mother of ynna lom, uio nngro musician at Birmingham, Ala., died of dropsy of nt.. t- d U ..... .AO . 1 J trio unrt. Dug .ni av. cr wu. Gil! FIEEI WILL FOLLOW FLAG. DEWEY IN COMMAND. Most Effective Naval Force Ever As sembled by the United States. Formidable Showing. When, about three wnct;s hence, Admiral Dewey steams Into the Carlb bean sea with the four-starred flag of an admiral flying from tho peak of the Mayflower, he will assume command of the most powerful fleet tho United States 'ever sent to sea. It will be more powerful than the combined squndrons which fought the battle of Manila Hay and Santiago. In fighting effectiveness it will be the .superior of all the squadrons and single ves sels that In the past fought the fights thnt. made glorious the history of American naval achievements. The admiral will have six battleships or the first rate in his force nnd 13 rrnlfdng vessels. Tho tonnnge of the former will be 66,471 and of the latter 59,334. Among the cruisers will bo the Olympla, which was the admiral's flagship in the action which raised him from the grado of a commodore to that now held by him, and the Brooklyn, the flagship of Admiral Schley In the fight off Santiago. Dewey's flagship during the maneu vers which have tempted the admiral to again go to sea is the Mayflower, the luxurious yacht which at other times is the vessel reserved for the use of t'he President. She is one of the large number of ships bought during the war with Spain, when the United States vas acquiring every thing that would float at enormous prices. In comparison with the squndrons which gave tbe American navy the fame it hns the fleet which Dewey Is to rommnnd is as a levia than to a speckled brook trout or a six-Inch rifle to a toy pistol. Tho squadron which Commodore . Perry had when he defeated and captured the British squadron on Lake Erie was of a tonnage not much gi eater than the smallest ship in Dewey's fleet, the torpedo boats excepted. Perry's ships had a displacement of about 1,200 tons. Captain Barclay's ships had a tonnage slightly in excess of that of the American ships. But combined they had less than 2,300 Dewey will 'have the following ships, the displacement of each of which Is In excess of the tonnage of the. entire British and American squadrons In the bnttlo of Lake Erie: Battleships Illinois and Kearsarge, 11,625 tons each; Iowa, 11,340; Indiana and Mas sachusetts, 10,288 each. Cruisers -Atlanta, 3.000; Albany, 3,437; Buffalo, 6,888; Olympla, 5,870; Chicago, 5,000; San Francisco, 4,098; Cincinnati. 3.213; Dixie, ,175; Prairie, 6,888, and Mayflower, 2,690. When General Orant went campaigning in Kentucky he took with him a fleet of 175 gun boats. The combined tonnage of those vessels was less than one of the new battleships. The fle:t of Ad miral Fnrragtit when he passed the forts on the Mississippi was not equal to two of the battleships. The power of all the guns Perry, Grant and Far- ragut had was not equal to the gum on one of the battleships. And yet the fleet which Dewey is to drill Is In ferior to the channel squadron which Gteat Britain maintains in order to notify Fiance and Germany that the tight little island Is to remain so. INCREASE FREIGHT RATES. Central and Southern Railroad As sociation Agrees on New Tariff. At a meeting of the executive offi cials of Central Freight Association lines the trunk lines and 4.3uthern roads, held at the Trunk Line Asso ciation's headquarters In New York, grain, provisions and kindred rate were generally advanced. An Increase of 2Vj cents per 100 pounds on tho Chicago-New York basis for grain and grain products was decided upon. A corresponding advance In rates on glucose, glucose syrup, corn oil, corn syrup, etc., was made. The rate on dresed beef was Increased 5 cents a hundred, both domestic and export, and 5 cents a hundred also on pro visions. SHERIFF FAILED IN DUTY. Official Removed Because He Did Not Prevent a Lynching. Governor Durbin, of Indiana, noti fied Sheriff Dudley, of Sullivan coun ty, that his office was vacant and the coroner Decomes sheriff ex-ofilclo. The Indiana law provides thnt a sher iff shall vacate his office when a prls oner in his charge is lynched, and tho lynching of the nogro Dillard brought Dudley "under Its provisions. The sheriff has the right under the law to ask to be reinstated, but. tie must show that he was powerless to protoct his prisoner. Septimus Winner Dead. Septimus Winner, composer of "The Mocking Bird," and hundreds of other popular songs, died suddenly at his home in Philadelphia, aged 76, Agreed on Schedule. The American Federation and In dependent Window Glass Manufactur ors at Columbus, O., have announced a schedule for the following six months. A contract for 450,000 boxes of glass Is to be filled and tho present price Is to be advanced at a per cent to be agreed upon by the manufactur er and jobbers at the end of .60 day. Locomotive Exploded. Hy the explosion of a locomotivo in the Thompson yard on the Pittsburg, Virginia ft Charleston railroad, one man was so severely Injured that lie died latlr In the West Penn hospital, Pittsburg, and nine others were ser iously injured. One of the latter will probably die. The cause of the acci dent is 'not known. LATE3T NEWS NOTES. All grades of refined sugars hav been advanced 10 points. Thieves robbed the Pelhttrlno bank at Lisbon, Portugal, of $165,000. Eighteen nntlves were killed by an explosion of nitroglycerin at Cairo, Egypt. The Grand Trunk Railway Com pany proposes to build a line acres Canada. Negro Dillard was lynched In Ind iana before troops could be moved to protect. Wages of al.out 500 Michigan Ccn tral railroad switchmen were raise.' voluntarily. Unknown vaitdnls smashed portion! of the statuary group in the Sieges AHce at Berlin. Big elephant Gypsy was killed In Gectgla cotton Held after going ma-i and killing his keeper. A Danube steamer crowded wilb workmen sank olf Orsova. Austria nnd 30 were drowned. llerr Ooldberger, of Berlin, ller many, writes of America as "Land ol Unbounded Possibilities." Wilson Hall, a young farmer, wa shot and killed by Benjamin Chen ault, colored, at. Foxtown, Ky. Ohio and Michigan delegations to the next congress met and declared in favor of Cannon for speaker. German machinery for converting mine waste Into fuel is to be intro duced Into the United States. The Rt. Rev. John N. Stnrlba wa? Installed at Lead, S. D.. as Catholic bishop for the Black Hills diocese. Nenrly 3,000,000 gallons ot petro leum, stored In a reservoir at Od'S?a, Russia, havo been destroyed by fire. Mttsburg millionaires have pur chased a New Jersey Island which they purpose to make a rival of New port. The steamer Robert Wallace, load ed with ore for Cleveland, sank 'neat Two Harbors, Minn. The crew es caped. Two of the cabinet members, ad vised the President to tone down trust section of his message to Con gross. The Columbia Oil and Gas Com pany, of Lisbon, O.. capital $500,000, has been Incorporated at Dover, Del aware. Robbers cracked the safe In the Farmers Loan and Trust Company's bank at Arthur, la., and secured $2,300. Fashion, estimated by some to be 35 yenrs old, and too old to eat hay. won a blue ribbon at the New York horse show. John Truck was electrocuted In prison at Auburn, N. Y., for the min der nt Frank W. Miller nt Virgil oil March 14, 1899. Governor Nar-ih, of Ohio, appointed Theodore Hall Judg of the common pleas court to succeed tho late Judge J. P. Caldwell. . President Gompers and other olfl errs w-:je ro-elected by the American Federation of Labor convention at Now Orleans. Edward Saatkamp. superintendent of tiio P.oss-Moyer Machinery Tool Company, Cincinnati, was. killed y robbers at t'he factory. The Kansas missionaries, whose lives were In peril at Mequinez, Morocco, from the insurgent Kabyles, havo reached Fez safely. Robbers held up a Rock Island train In Ocwa. It being reported they got $20,000, but United States Express Company officials said $1,000. American Federation of Labor com pletely exonerated President Gomp ers on charge ot bad faith in the Amalgamated Association strike. Major Ross, principal of the Liver pool, England, School ot Tropical Medicine, will be awred the Nobel malaria research prize of $30,000. Mrs. Lulu Miller ourgs, pleaded not guilty In Rochester, N. Y., to mur derlng Florence McFnrlln, and was committed for the action of the grund Jury. American refugees arriving at San Francisco from Guatemala confirm the news of terrible Iosb of life dur ing tho eruption of Snnta Maria vol ciino. A telegram from Portal, N. D., nn noiinccs tho probable murder and the robbing of Stephen HayeB, a lawyer Ho was formerly a resident ot Clevos Ohio, 'Fifty studcntB of the College ol Liberal Arts of Northwestern Uulvor idty, Chicago, were oreluded from classes because thoy had not been vaccinated. Corporal Edmond Perrln and Prl vato David M. Milan wore mysterl ously assaulted at the Presidio, Sun Francisco, Cal. Perrln died and Milan may.. Tho "Nero" soundings were turned over to the Pacific Cable Company by tho government, which probably In sures completion ot the cable to Hono lulu within six months. To relieve the freight congestion In Pittsburg the Pennsylvania rail road has projected numerous cut oils on its main line between Pitts burg and Philadelphia. Ronald F. Brennen, 22 years old who rose In two years from the posi tion of an office boy to that of presl rtont of a trust company, which he organized In New York has botiii nentonced to Sing Sing for 10 years, charged with securing money undo! false pretenses. The Wisconsin Control' railroad or dock, os Ashland, Wis., was destroyoi by fire, causing a loss of $525,000. Tim dock in falling carried down a nuin her of Iremcn and docknun. The answer ot the Philadelphia & Reading Railway C'omiany to thf complaint of William R. Hearst, oi New York, denies unlawful comblua tlon, confederation or agreement. Jam pilllmali, president of the National City lank of New York haj presented $100,000 to Harvard univer sity for the endowment of a prates- borship in comparative anatomy. T ACCEPT OR QUIT THE MINE WORKERS' CHOICE President Mitchell Declares Fate ef Miners Who Refuse to Abide by Verdict of Arbitrators. Aftor being on the stand for four and a half days, President Mitchell, nf the Minora' union, completed his testimony at Scranton berore the an thracite strike commission Wednes dny One ol the most. Important things brought out during the cross examination of Prrsldent Mitchell was his emphatic declaration that tho miners were opposed to separating the bituminous miners from the an thracite workers, thus fronting two orranlzntlons. He made this repiy to a question of rx-Congrespmnn Hlmoti P. Wolverton, counsel for tho Heading C'ompnny, as to whether It would lie better to have separate organizations. Mr. Mitchell's answer was that "It would not bo possible of desirable. The anthracite mlno workers have had independent organizations In the past. They have had several. They have gone. They are not here now, and tho men do not wnnt any more of their organizations to go the same way." The non-union men. that Is. those who remained at work during the strike, weie made a party to thi arbitration plan by tholr counsel agreeing to make public tho names ot the men who petitioned tho commit.- slon. When the attorneys for thi "non-stt Iking" workmen, as Chairman Gray designated them, and who num ber about 2,000, made a demand to the commission for a 20 per cent In rrenso In wages with no reduction In hours, their attorneys desired to with hold the names of the persons they represented. Tne commission, how ever, decided they could not. bo n party to such a plan of secrecy. In connection with the non-union feature of tho investigation, Mr. Mitchell an nnmieed that he Is also representing thousands of non-union men who struck with the unionists, and that all the workmen would ai.lde by the award of the arbitrators, "or get out of the union." At. one point In bis testimony Mr. MltcVll. In answer to a query by .Judge Gray, said: "1 think the understanding Is that, pend lug the consideration of the questions, by this commission, the strikers weif to return Immediately to work, and I think tbe further understanding Is don't let me bo misunderstood -is thnt tho non-union men should not b5 Interfered with nor displaced from employment generally by the return of the union men." Mr. Burns wns examining the witness regarding un hwful acts, committed during tho strike, and had asked Mr. Mitchell If he approved of them, when Judgi flrav stopped him and said that noth ing could be gained by asking the question because tho commission mil a moral sense of its own which ho presumed agreed with tbe moral sense of the community and society. PROBABLY BURIED ALIVE. Insurance Fraud Consigned a Living Man to Mis Grave. Upon exhuming tho body of a man named Mitchell, who died mslerlous. !y at Chlhuah.ia, Mexico, after bav in? been Insured by the men In Jnil it El PtiB.i. Tex., who nre chnrged with defrauding a New York life In surance company, It Is alleged to have bi'en discovered that the man had been burled alive. This was shown by evidences of a struggle In tho cof fin, the mouth being open, the arms against the lid, and the palms turned upward. NEW POLITICS IN CUBA. Enemies of Americans Control Hous-3 of Representatives. x The House of Represrntml es of Cuba lias elected Portuordo president of the chamber, Oannendla first vlea president, Cardenal Bocond vice proa Ident, and Perez and Aeosta soero 'arles of tho chamber. I'ortumlo Is a Nationalist, with leanings t.iwur I radicalism. He Is nntl-Anvtlcan in his feelings, and was strongly op posed to accepting the Piatt amend ment In the constitution. Gnrmendia Is a pronounced Radical, while Car denal anil Aeosta are members of tin' Republican party, and Perez Is u Na tionalist. INDIAN REVENGE STOPPED. Proposed to Burn Brakoman Whoso Train Had Killed Squnw. An Indian woman nt tho Crow Win? agency was struck by n freight train at Butte, Mont., and killed. A bravo who acoonipnnled her summoned a number of Mb followers and they cap. tured the brakonian. When the In dian police reached tho tepees the ex cited braves were holding a war dance about tholr victim, who was bound to a tree, whilo the Indiana were preparing to torturo and burn him. The bucks objected to intorfor once, and for n time a clash threaten ed, but the police succeeded In rescu-. Ing the man. Spouts Once a Year. ' An old oil well which flows oil, gas and mud in a puzzle to the operator at Barbourvllle, in the Kentucky fields. The well flows only in tho month of November each year, and hns done so for over TO yenrs. Dur ing the other 11 months the well la quiescent. Boer Generals Not Coming. Generals Delarey and Botha, now at Brussels, Belgium, nave decided ti) abandon their proposed tour ot tho Uulted States. General Delarey says they Intend to return to South Africa to meet Colonial Secretary Chamber lain at Pretoria. Will Vote on Local Option. Both branches of the Vormont Leg islature passed the local option high license bill with referendum attach ed. ' YAQUI WAR STATUS. Junta Issues Report Showing 6,200 Men In the Field - Losses In Six Months. The seventh seml-annti.il report of the council of war of the Yaqtil revo lution lias JitBt, born lsued by the Ynqul Junta, and first received at. Prescott, Arizona. It Is stated that the number of Y.iqnls actually In tho held If 6,200. There were 18 Amer icans In the service. It -Is stated that tho funds at hand In thu council of war amount to $4r0,000. Threo venrs ago thu council hud but $200,-oo-i. These funds nro obtained through contributions and by tho looting .f Mexican towns. The Ynqul Junta declares that the Yaquh hold absolutely 25,000 square miles of productive territory, known as "the Btmh" and "the Sierra." In this re gion they rnlse all that they require, such an cereals and eset allies an -J cattle and horses. From thi Ir broth ers at. peace thty obtain all tho clothing that thoy need. They manu facture their own gunpowder when necessary. During the lust six months the Yaquls lost 500 soldiers. Including 18 officers, or these 4S0 wore killed In battle. The rest died of disease. No mention Is made of the women who were killed at Uva lama, but In a note the council of war states that It Is safe to Bay that more than 200 Yaqul women and 100 Yaqul children suffered death at. the handt of Mexican so'dlers. The Junta stntes that four Americans were killed on the Yaqul side. WAS PARTIAL TO GERMANY. Arbitrator Ruled Steadily Against America and Great Britain, The text of the decision of King Opcar, of Sweden, arbitrator between tiio United States, Great Britain and Germany In tho Snmoan alfalr, shows that on every point, adopted the most extreme. German view. Ha decides that the action of the Amer ican cruiser, Philadelphia and th'j British ships Porpoise and Royalist In opening war on Chief Mataafa on March 15,- 18!'l. and Installing Malle toa as chief, although they were only rnforclng the derision of the chief lustlce, was unwarranted by tho treaty, and that the German consul was justified In resisting. King Os car places the claims for damages to proporty in Samoa entirely upon tho American and Brlllr-h governments. The navy department Is Informed that the Hancock has beea placed in commission at the Mare Island navy yard, California. She was formerly on army transpott and will now bo utilized as a receiving ship at New York city. CABLE FLASHES. Tho Duke of Marlborough, of Eng land, has resigned the office of pay master general of the Hiltlsh army. The evacuation of Shnn-jhal, China, by the foreign garrisons has begun, the Jnpancso being the first to with draw their trc-opf. Richard J. CartwrlgM. minister ot trade and commerce of the Dominion of Canada, has been mudo a privy councilor of England. The Anchor line warehouses were destroyed by fire nt Glasgow, Scotland. One man was killed and several were injured. The loa sup talncd by the company is very heavy. It Is announced that the construc tion of the Russian railroad from Erlviin, n town of Russia. 115 miles from Tlllls. to the Persian frontier, will be commenced at the beginning of 1903. The sultan of Morocco has present ed $5,000 to Mrs. Cooper, widow of the English missionary who was mur dered by a native, and whose assassin wns shot to death in front ot a mos que on order of tho sultan, Tho Danish steamer Knud II., Cap tain Hnnssen. from Copenhagen, and the llrltlwh liteanier Swnlodale, from Hamburg, collided at the mouth of tho Tyne. Tho Knud II. foundered Immediately, and the niastor and sev en of her crew wero drowned. Ambassador Tower, who has beon transferred from St. Poteisbni'g, Rus sin, to Berlin, llermnny, has his fare well audience with the Czar nt LI vadia. Ho aflerward lunched with His Majesty and the Czarina. Lord Kitchener has arrived at Ad n, Arabia, on his way to India, and has conferred with the commandant, General Maltland, concerning the campaign which Is proceeding against the Mullah In Somalilnnd. According to advices frorji Mon ntttir, 87 miles wrat of Salonica, the Turks oro inflicting terrible tortures on Bulgarian peasants In order to ex tort confessions whltdi may lead to the discovery ot revolutionary bands. With tho approval of the minister of tho Interior tho Austrian league to combat the white slav? traffic will en tublish branches in all tho important towns and frontier stations of Aus tria and take active means to sup press the traffic. . Germany Is preparing to rrtss her claims against Venezuela. Four of the kaiser's worships are now in Vene zuelan waters, and as soon as Presi dent Castro's capital settles down In a permanent location it Is the Inten tion to present them In a form which will penn'1 of no procrastination. Lord Tennyson, the temporary gov ernor general of Australia, has been formally appointed to that office. Tho appointment, at his lordship's wish, waa tor ono year only. Ho succeeds Lord Hopctoun, whose resignation was officially announced May 14 last. The Marquise de Chambrun dkd at Paris, France. She was the last granddaughter of Lafayette, Her old OFt. son, tli Marquis de Chambrun, who Is a member of the Chamber of Deputies, was formerly Counselor of the French Embassy at Washington and married a daughter ot Mrs, Bel lamy Btorer. f 1HB MAHAKra. PITTSBURG. Grain, Flour and Feed. Wheat-No. i red $ Kjn-Nn. Br Corn-Nn. i rlluw. inr 71 No. olfow, shelled M Mixed Her (19 Oats-No. f white 'M to. It whlto ID Flour Winter patent 4 00 Ksnny ntrnlxlit winters TO IU7-N0. Itlmothr 1 CIciTnr No. I .1 00 Feed-No 1 white mid Ion 0 BKn mUldllnm 17 Ml Brn. hum...... ir CO Straw-Wheat MM Oat ! W Dairy Products. Butter Klgln creamery W Olilo creamery W Fancy i nun try roll Cbceee Ohio, new 1H Kf Vork, new 11 Poultry, Etc. I!en-per lb 13 thlcuena dtenped ... , 15 Ein-l'i. Hiifl Ohio, fresh its Fruits and Verjetables. TO e T TI TO "it 4 10 a w IB 7 1 W 31 SO IS 00 ir no 9 00 too M Si in is 16 It) (Ireen 1 pane per ton $1 M I'ntatnee i ancy while per iua ft3 Uahlmi-e .r hhle..., 7 Ouioua per tan el ml 1 ?5 00 1 10 BALTIMORE. Flour-Winter Palont $31 380 Wheal No. 2 red V:t 74 lorn-mtxea , H l E(tK K 7 butler-Ohio creamery S7 M PHILADELPHIA. Floor Winter Patent ..:! M Wteat-No. arel 78 701 -'ora-No. If mix ..(1 of Oato No. 1 whl.a 7 M Buiter -CiYAinury. extra Kgg PennnylVHiiU nrata it ISM SH N NEW YORK. Flour ratal.' tam 4 0 Wheat-No, -. . 7HI 7SW t orn No. t)7 m Uata No, 2 Wlnte 17 butter Creamery... II" 7 tgna-Staiaand t'eunarlvanta Sit ' M LIVE 8TOCK. Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Pa, Cattle. Prime heavy, l.'CO to 1600 luj f,0 00 Vi rrlme, laoo to 1-iuu Ilia 7S 6 W Medium, I'JOU to laOU lbs !S MJ 6 Ml talh.lle.rf. 4Ki 3 00 Butcher, WKI to 1000 lha 8 w 4 10 Common to lair Six) 400 Oieu, common to fat ... i) fi 01 Common toitoo'l lot bulls ami cow wikj 4 on Mllch cowa, each WI MaOO Extra milch cowe, each WO) bbOQ Hogs. Prime heaty bogs B35 6 40 Prime medium welnhta I OM 840 Beet heaty yorkera ami medium.. 0 8 85 Uood to choice packora 6 30 Uuod pigs and llghtyorkera 0 "' Plga, common to good HO) 80 Common to lair tli) ) Housha 6 00 8 00 Htaga 6 0) 4i Sheep. Extra, medium wether M 8 75 Uood to choice 141 8 40 tedium. g.'ifl 800 Common to fair 1W Lamb. famtm clipped !W (150 Lambe, rond to choice, clipped. 5 00 5 l Lambs, common to fair, clipped.. K0J 4 00 bpring Lambs 60) Oil Calve. Teal, extra 7 50 8 5C Veal, good to choice 00 SSfl Veal, common heary HO) 600 Veal, common to fair 30) 5 50 REVIEW OF TRADE. Wage Increase Aids Business Christ mas Purchases Are Heavy Coke Still Backward. It. O. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Voluntary Increases in waxes by some of tho largest rail way systems In the country hear eloquent testimony to the amount of business handled In the past, and emphasize the confidence of otlicials In continued heavy traffic. Moreover, hy this addition of largo sums to the purchasing power of railway emplojes there Is assurance of a larger demand for all staple linos of merchandise. Temporarily, sales of seasonable lines of wearing apparel are retarded bv mild weather; but this loss will be fully mado up when low temperature becomes general. Preparations for holl.lay trade are on an unprecedent ed scale, especially at interior points. There Is no relief as to tho conges tion of railway trafllc, nor any Im mediate prospect of free movemento at the points of most sorlous block ade. Coal freight Is steadily gaining, nnd all railway 'earnings thus far re ported for November exceed last ) car's by 5.9 per cent and those of lf'OO by 12.9 per cent. Orders. aro now coming forward for Iron and steel products that have been held back mary months in expectation ot an easier market. Instead of making couccRslons, however, producers ask premiums for early delivery, and hesi tate to accept contracts where ma terlal and fuel are not In sight. No relief is reported as to tho movement of coke, nor Is any anticipated for some time to come. Imports relieve some departments or tho industry. Plans for constructive work are now increasing and a very large tonnage of structural material will be re quired. As the present congestion is due to Inadequate facilities, the most importunate inquiry is for railway equipment. Activity la notable at works making agricultural Imple ments, bolts and kindred, lines. Re cent reductions in prices of a few of the lighter forms stimulated dealings to a fair degree. Heavy lines of dry goods and footwear need the stimulus of cold weather. A fairly steady demand is reported for staple cot ton goods, but buyers are taking only for Immediate requirements. Orders for spring shoes are coming forward freely, and there Is supplementary buying of winter goods on a moderato scale. Both solo and ur.psr Leather are quiet, yet quotations are steady, anJ belting butts are firmer. No con cessions are obtained on hides oxcopt where now -offerings nre of inferior quality. Failures for the week num bered 206 In the 1'nlted States, against 218 last year, and 24 lu Can ada, compared with 31 a year ago. Firadstreet's says: Wheat, Includ ing flour, exports for the week end ing November 20, aggregate 5,277,872 bushels, against 4,440,160 bushels last week, 5,518,930 bushels In this week last year, and 3,827,296 bushels In 1900. Wheat export since July 1 ag gregate 106,862,324 bushels, against 122.701,248 bushels last season and , 75.292.387 bushels In 1900. ' A
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