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MMt, K " v • • 1." ; - V . ' ' • ' • ' • ^ • • • „ o ' ' • • ' /v: SLYKE, Editor and Pub. ILLINOIS. ' 1 •• CORWINE IS CAUGHT. m \iv. - . fe-r- ml PAYMASTER OF THE NAVY IS UNDER ARREST. • - em'd to Be Short $20,000 in Hu Ac­ counts--Trouble in New York Cloak Factories--Rubber Trust May Not " - Find Clear Sailing. Caujrlit in Chicatro. PayaJnster John Corvine of the United tHilles navy, charged with embezzlement, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the office of the Palmer House, Chicago, a few minutes after his arrival at the hotel,' by Detectives Arthur McCarthy and Mur- nane of the central station. Corwine s accounts with the (Government were dis­ covered to be .shoW: two days ago. .He was stationed at Newport, R. J. He drew drew $5,000 more of the Government's money, gave $2,000 of it to his wife and .ified. He had $2,930 in his pockets wlien •he was Searched at the police-station. The •amount of Corwine's shortage is said to •be -about $20,000. He confessed to. Chief of 'Police Badenoch and Inspector Fitz- patriek that lie had taken the.suni of $.">*- 800.. but said the other portion of the dis­ crepancy in his accounts is due to the 'peculations of a clerk. When- the discov­ ery was made that someone had been ap­ propriating Government money in his office, he said, he became, mentally de­ ranged at the thought of the disgrace that would fall on him and he drew §5,000 and started to Cripple Creek. Colo. He was on his way there and had only stopped in Chicago for a few hours' rest, he said, when the detectives caught him. vj*V. ' Cloakmakers Upon n Ptrike. Pour thousand New York cloakmakers ind shirtmakers. men, women, boys and girls, "struck" from work Wednesday. They are not satisfied with the pay they are receiving and have been chafing un­ der long hours and poor wages for months. It is not a general strike as yet. however, the employes "of many shops having acted Independently without organization and apparently without a competent general jr leader. Contractors say it is impossi­ ble for them to make advances in wages, because they have been cut down to the last cent by the manufacturers. The movement among the dissatisfied workers Is spreading, and it is not unlikely that more than 30,000 of them will be involved before many days have elapsed. If; Rubber Trust Has a Competitor. The rubber trust has a rival. Tht? Crude Rubber Company, with-a capital stock to be not less than $l,0p0,000 nor more than $5,000,000, was incorporated by New York capitalists utyfler the laws of Virginia. The president of the com­ pany is George S. Dearborn, senior mem­ ber of the firm of Dearborn <fc Co., who own the California line of skipper ships running between New York and San Francisco. Mr. Dearborn said all the details of the company had not been com­ pleted. but it would operate in opposition to the United States Rubber Company, otherwise the rubber trust. Bliss in the Cabinet. The declination of Gen. McCook to accept the position of Secretary of the Interior left a vacancy in President Mc- Kinley's cabinet which has been filled by the appointment of Cornelius X. Bliss. NEWS NUGGETS. •v-- hV-' \ w:~ / r ' v " car dashed on Co the railway tracks. Bat as the motottnan is among those killed it will probably not be learned whether or not he lost control, of his car. The list of the dead is: Gebrge O'Malley, motor- man; Fokkfei* Pi-ins, milkman; Roscoe W. Young, collector for the Clinton & Rhodes Company. The injured are': Robert Hines, motorman; Henry Madison, con­ ductor; Mary l2. Moschelle, reporter; John Young, fireman on the passenger locomo­ tive. Conductor JSfadison, who is at Mer­ cy Hospital, is not in condition to be ques­ tioned about the accident, but it is not expected he can explain why the" motor- man failed tolieed the flagman's signals and stop Jiis car. Willoughby, Hill & Co., the Chicago clothiers, were closed Saturday by the Sheriff on two judgment notes held by the Fort, Dearborn National Bank and aggregating $81,611. The minority stock­ holders, represented by Attorney New­ man, charge that the filing of the notes was in Contempt of a suppressed restrain­ ing Order entered by Judge Showalter of the Federal Court, hint at fraud in the notes themselves, and say they will have them examined by microscopic experts to determine their authenticity. Soon after the Sheriff's levy Alfred Benjamin & Co., creditors of the concern for $3,405, filed a bill in the Circuit Court for a receiver, and Judge Hahecy-appointed E. B. Mc- Kee, who qualified with bonds of $75,000. The litigation in which the clothing house is involved is primarily the outcome of troubles among the stockholders, the Hill interests in Chicago being arrayed on due side and members of the Stein-Blocb com­ pany, clothing manufacturers of Roches­ ter. N. Y., who are the minority stock­ holders in the Chicago concern, on the other. • • -V: The legislative cotumittee appointed to investigate the Leadville, Colo., strike submitted a report which was a great sur­ prise to the mine owners, but the con­ clusions are eminently satisfactory to the miners. The committee recommends that a board of arbitration be appointed, two to be choseu by the mine owners and two by the miners, .the fifth to be chosen by the four. "Whatever decision this board of arbitration shall arrive at must be bind­ ing on both sides, and an agreement to that effect must be signed beforehand. The committee submits an agreement in full, which provides that the scale of, wages in force immediately before the strike shall be conceded by the mine own­ ers and shall remain in force until the board of arbitration shall arrive at a de­ cision: also that the mine owners shall recognize labor unions, and that members of unions and non-union\men shall work side by side. Further, it is provided that no strike or lockout shall be declared by a labor organization or by an organiza­ tion of employers unless by secret ballot. The proposed agreement makes a further proviso that no strike or lockout shall be declared on foreign labor imported with­ out both sides submitting their grievances to tho arbitration committee, and that mine owners shall not discriminate against a man because he is a member of a labor union. All differences regarding the future scale of wages must be sub­ mitted to the arbitration board. times. Gomez, whom lie claimed to have penned up between his Spanish columns and the central trocha, has crossed his line of'march, defeated his troops, out­ flanked him, reached his rear, and is now apparently in a position to raid Matanzas and Havana Provinces almost at will. Disappointed, defeated, and discouraged, Weyler reached Sahcti Spiritusr proceed­ ing thence to Yunas de Zazas to await a warship sent to take him back to iBavana His pompons military parade has cotoe to a truly sad end. Paris dispatch: An"avalanche of grSnt volume and almost irresistible powe; swept down upon the buildings of the' famous Monastery of St. Bernard Sunday night and great apprehension was causbd at Aosta for the safety of the hospice and the fifteen Augustinian monks who live there. Relief parties were dispatched to the place that has sheltered thousands of travelers during centuries, and the hardy Alpine rescuers were overjoyed to find that there had been no loss of life. A por­ tion of the avalanche demolished the left wing of the monastery and buried the hos­ pice deep in snow and debris from the mountain side. Immediately the ava­ lanche had passed the monks began to dig a tunnel and soon made their exit. It is said that the avalanche also buried the morgue, a smallrhouse near the monastery, Used as a receptacle, for bodies fouiid in the snow by the monks and their St. Ber­ nard dogs. The monastery was founded in 962 A. D. by St. Bernard de Menthan. During nine months eadty jyear, known as the snow season, the monks are con­ stantly alert to rescue unfortunate trav­ elers. St. Bernard dogs, descendants of an old line but not of the original an­ cient breed, share the dangers of the next to the highest winter habitation in the Alps. In the middle ages this monas­ tery was very wealthy. Of late years the 18,000 travelers who annually take lodg­ ing there contribute little more than what would be a moderate hotel bill for 1,000 guests. Scarcely any monk can continue in the dreary abode and live for more than fifteen years. He returns to the mildef climate of Martigny or some other place, broken in health. Altogether the hos­ pice is a place associated intimately with the geographical studies of millions of scholars. Its destruction by snow would be followed by contributions from the entire civilized world for a rebuilding fund. WASHINGTON. John D. Rockefeller has given Mount Holyoke College §40,000 for a dormitory Charles F. Strong, the Rockford "heal er," has been sued for divorce. His wife ^charges extreme cruelty and non-support. Valparaiso dispatch: Senor Moria Va- cuna, minister of foreign affairs, has is sued an official statement to the effect that rumors of troubles between Chili and her neighbors in South America are with out foundation. Serious rioting took p!.ice at Neuwied. Rhenish Prussia. Sunday. A mob attack eu and stoned the police, who drew their sabers in self-defense, but were obliged to retire to the station. Thereupon the biob attacked the station with paving / pones and cheered for anarchy. Numer­ ous arrests were made. Attorney General Smith of the Hawaii­ an republic, concerning the question of an-f nexation to the.United States, said the sentiment in Hawaii favorable to it was stronger than ever. Annexation, he said would solve the Chinese immigration for the Americans and would be of great benefit to a large class of American farm­ ers who could settle in the Hawaiian Isl­ ands and engage in raising tropical fruits for exportation to the United States, At San Francisco, United States Dis­ trict Judge W. W. Morrow has deeded that Charles B. McCloy, the embezzler, should be returned -to Michigan for t-.-ial. McCloy is the young man who, a£ter three years passed in wandering about various portions of the globe, finally was so goad­ ed by the pangs of conscience that he sur­ rendered himself to United States Mar­ shal Baldwin. McCloy had stolen $8,000 from the '.Second National Bank of Bay <3ity, Mich. Walter Ream is in jail at Boulder, Colo., Charged with murder, his alleged victim being the 18-months-old child of the Hayes family, with whom he boarded at Lafay­ ette. Ream purchased some strychnine, telling the druggist that he desired to poison some cats. It is alleged he put the poison in the coffee. Mr. Hayes, father of the child, after tasting the coffee, found it bitter and threw it out and thus saved his life. The child died in great agony an hour after drinking^fie-eoffee. It is believed Ream desired to poison Mr. Hayes so that he might marry Mrs. Hayes. Both Hayes and Ream are coal miners. Havana dispatch: Ramon Mas, the sec­ retary of Castillo, the insurgent leader, who is a prisoner at Sitio Esconbido, says that the insurgent leader Aguirro and the Marquis of Santa Lucia, president of the Cuban republic, both died recently of sick­ ness, and that Quintin Bandera, one of the best known of the insurgent leaders, died recently of wounds. President Cleveland vetoed the immigra­ tion bill. He declares the bill to be un- American. It will be recalled that this is the word he used in discussing it with Senator Palmer a month ago when it first passed the House. • • The United States Supreme Court re­ versed the judgment of the cour.t «f pri­ vate land claims in the Santa Fe iaud grant case, thus annulling the grant. One of the most important appoint­ ments, in all probability, which President McKiuley will have to make is a successor to Associate Justice Stephen J. Field of the United States Supreme Court. The justice has been in very feeble health for some time, but thus far has persisted in attending to his duties. The bureau of statistics of the htate De­ partment expects to largely extend its field of usefulness this year owing to the liberal spirit which Congress has manifested to­ ward its wants. The requests for larger printing appropriations have been granted without hesitation, upon representations by Secretary Olney, who has the welfare of the bureau at heart, that the business men of the country were particularly in­ terested in the publications. The work in hand this year will, it is expected, yiefd results far more valuable than evfcr before realized. The great feature of the reports will be those coming in answer to the gen­ eral instruction to consuls of last July to submit statements of the exact trade con­ ditions in different countries, and the com­ pilation of which is now in the hands of the printer and soon to be issued, will be full of valuable trade information. IN GENERAL. The Alaskan boundary treaty signed by Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Paunce- fote Jan. 30, 1897, provides lor the ap­ pointment of one commissioner by the United States and one by Great Britain, with whom shall be associated su.-h sur­ veyors and other assistants as each Gov­ ernment shall elect. ^The commissioners shall, as early as possible, proceed to trace and mark so much of the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude as is necessary to be defined for the purpose of determining the exact limits of the terri­ tory ceded to the United States by 'he treaty between the United States and Russia of • March -30, 1867. lb case of disagreement between the commissioners as to the correct geographical co-ordinates of one and the same point determined by either of the two governments separately, a position midway between the two loca­ tions shall be adopted, provided tli* dis­ crepancy between them shall not exceed 1,000 feet. In case of a greater discrep­ ancy a new joint determination shall be made by the commissioners. Each gov­ ernment shall bear the expenses incident to the employment of its own appointees and of the operations conducted by them, but the cost of material used in perma­ nently marking the meridian and of its transportation shall be borne jointly and equally by the two governments. WESTERN. Michael J. O'Brien, of Chicago, pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering If is wife Nov. 19, 1895. Ex-Gov. William J. Stone was appoint­ ed receiver of the Mullanphy Savings Bank at St. Louis, which was closed by the State bank examiner. He immediate­ ly took possession. • / ; t In a street car accident Thursday at Chicago three persons were killed and four more or less severely hurt. An ex­ amination of what remained of the car after the collision showed by the controller that the full current was on when the The overdue Allan Line steamship As­ syrian has arrived at Halifax. Obituary: At Lancaster, Pa., Miss C. W. Cassady, 101.--At Kaukauna, Wis., James Madison 'Boyd, 81.--At Mount Sterling, 111., Dr. J. R. Rickey, 56.--At Jefferson, Iowa, Mrs. Susan Russell, SI.-- At Quincy, 111., Mrs. W. R. Lockwood. 36. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Genuine improvement in business does not come with a rush, like the breaking of a great dam. The growth for some weeks past ha-s been more en­ couraging, because in nearly all lines it has been gradual and moderate. Tlie rup­ ture of the steel rail and other combina­ tions in the iron business'lias brought out a vast quantity of trade which" has been held back and has set many thousand men at work, while the slow but steady gain in other great industries has given em­ ployment to many thousands more, but the full effects will not appear until in­ creased purchases by all these swell the distribution of goods. Meanwhile, it is substantial ground for-acrmfidfpoe that months which were regarded~i)y Wnany in the money market with serious apprehen­ sions have passed without disturbance and with steady gains in the position of the country and of the treasury." The New York World Tuesday morning says: "Passing coasters observed four suspicious craft, two tugs, a schooner and a barge, lying off Barnegat. till the storm, with its white fuzz of snow, became so thick as to shut off the vision. A s:earner with a single funnel, a black hull an,d two masts rigged as derricks, emerged from the bloom of the morning, signaled the tugs, which answered nuderstuiidingly, and presently came about and tied up alongside the little fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel, which" in turn was made" fast to one of the tugs, and had no sails spread. The .whole proceeding looks like; the start of a carefully planned filibuster­ ing expedition for Cuba. It was learned that Major Castrov-rdi. a young and dashing Cuban patriot, who was formerly with the late Gen. Maceo. disappeared a week ago. He went south to lead an ex­ pedition from some point on the coast, his friends in the Cuban junta say. Ilis outfit was to comprise hospital stores, rifles, ammunition and a few picked men. The point from which he was to sail is kept secret. N'o one about the junta would say he knew of the arrangements for the expedition. A tug called the Volunteer left the old Logwood house at Greenpoiut. In tow of the tug was the barge Relief, upon whose deck crouched in the shadows more than a score of Cubans, mostly young men, and many of them, judging from appearances, of the adventurous and daring class that are always pressing the officials in the junta for a chance t o strike a blow for Cuba libre. Thus the llotilla lay till the mysterious "steamer "i-aiile out of the horizou to the southward. In ad­ dition to her many eases, the schooner is • said to have had nine or ten men. who also climbed aboard the steamer. From appearances. Major Castroverdi's $50,000 expedition, headed for the mouth of the San Juan river, is already on its way." JOBS FOR FAITHFUL. FEDERAL PATRONAGE AT M'KIN- LEY'S DISPOSAL. fftVN Citizens by the Hundred Making. Ef­ forts to Secure Government Posi­ tions in the Consular Scrvice and the Departments. Information Resrardins: the Offices* President-elect McKiuley will find seek­ ers for office for every place at his dis­ posal. The blue book has been studied carefully by hundreds of citizens anxious to. serve their country, and though the civil service law has restricted to a great extent the number of places at his dis­ posal, there remain many desirable billets. First in importance are the three em­ bassies--:wjth their salaries of $17,500 per annum; the Mexican mission, paying the same wage, and the Italian embassy, fixed at $12,000. Equal to, the latter in salary, though slightly less in diplomatic stand­ ing, are the missions to Austro-Huligary, Brazil, China, Japan and Spain. There are eight nice missions, with sal-, aries of $10,000 per annum, namely, Ar­ gentine, Belgium; Chili, Colombia. Guate­ mala, and Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Salvador, Peru and Turkey. At $7,500 per annum are rated the missions to Denmark, Hawaii, Corea, the Nether- lauds, Paraguay, and Uruguay, Portugal, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, and Venezuela, niiie in all. One salary is $(».- 500. that of the minister to Greece and Seryia. s Seven places pay $5,000 per an­ num, Bolivia, San Domingo, Ecuador, Haiti, Persia. Siam and Egypt, where we are represented by an ageiat and consul general in the same person. Many of the embassies and ministers are supplied with secretaries, interpret­ ers and attaches, with more or less attrac­ tive salaries. The best paid of these is the secretary of the Hawaiian mission, who receives $4,000 per annum. The others, thirty-five in number, have salaries at­ tached all the way from $3,000 down to $500. As to the consular service some doubt exists. By a rule made last September President Cleveland provided that all con­ sulates with salaries and official fees run­ ning between $1,000 and $2,500 should be filled by only three methods--promotion or transfer, appointment of persons pre­ viously serving the State Department well in some capacity, and lastly, by appoint­ ment, after examination. That was as far as he went in the application of civil service principles, and it remains to be tenure of office, bfat this, of course; is not binding. Of the presidential postoffices, about 250 will be at the disposal of Mr. McKinley during his first month in office. There are forty .cases of presidential postmasters' commissions already expired, not acted on by the Postoffice Department, and thirty- eight more will expire during March. Semi-attached to the department are the two commissioners to Investigate the overtime claims of letter carriers, now, A. B. Hurt, ex-doorkeeper of the House, Hid Judge Lorenz. The former draws not only the $5 per diem paid as commis­ sioner, but also $2,000 per annum as as­ sistant superintendent of the free deliv­ ery system of the department. Outside of the regular departmental ser­ vice there are a number of independent branches of the government service, to some of which considerable patronage at­ taches. The chief of these places are the commissioner of labor, public printer, three civil service commissioners, a libra­ rian of Congress and superintendent of the library, a commissioner of fish and fisheries, and chjef of the bureau of Amer­ ican republics. VETOED BY THE PRESIDENT. Cleveland Declines to Approve the ... Immigration Bill,. One of the last acts of President Cleve­ land was to veto the immigration bill. By the first section of this bill it is proposed to amend sectioii 1 of the act of March 3, 1891, relating to immigration, by adding to the classes of aliens thereby excluded from admission,to,the United States the following: "All persons physically capable and over 16 years of age who cannot read and write the English language or some other lan­ guage," but a person not so able to read and write who is over 50 years of age and is the parent or grandparent of a qualified immigrant, over 21 years of age and capa­ ble of supporting such parent or grand­ parent may accompany such immigrant, or such parent or grandparent may be sent for and come to join the family of a child or grandchild over 21 years of age similarly qualified and capable, and a wife or minor child not so able to read and write may accompany or be sent for and come and join the husband or parent sim­ ilarly qualified and capable." In a message setting forth his reasons for the veto Mr. Cleveland says: "It is not claimed, I belieVe, that the time has come for the further restriction of immigration on the ground that an ex­ cess of population overcrowds our land. It is said, however, that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory whe TO THE WHITE HOUSE. v, the same thing was said of immigrants seen whether or not the numerous incum- i who with their descendants are now num- GROVER--BEN, PERMIT ME TO LEND YOU THIS. McKinley Begins the Journey Amid Shouts of Joy. With a crowd of 25,000 people yelling iheir good-byes to him, a brass band play- Ing "Home, SWeet Home," the explosion of firecrackers, and the tooting of horns, William McKinley started from Canton on his'journey to Washington to become the rule'r. of the greatest nation on earth. The crowds that watched his departure from the little city that has been his home nearly all of his life covered the roofs of th^ houses abqut the railway station and the tops of the cars in the railroad yards, they packed the streets along the line of march, and were jammed into the side streets. When finally the procession of soldiers and citizens that surrounded the President-elect's? carriage came in sight the cheers were almost loud enough to split the sky. A long line of soldiers in blue overcoats cleared the way on each side of the ear? riage. Four white horses with nodding plumes of red, white and blue drew it. Within were the President-elect and his Wife. ' Behind the carriage- came ft long row of soldiers and citizens on foot and a squad of cavalry. The President's train of seven cars »> shiny red paint and gold lettering waited in front of the station for their arrival, the special car for the President-elect in the rear. It. was fifteen minutes after the time set for the departure of the train when the President-elect stepped from his carriage. He helped Mrs. MclvinVy to alight while Capt. Floyd of the Cleve­ land detective force threw a heavy wrap over her shoulders. They walked 'through the line of policemen to the rear platform. Mrs. McKinley entered the car, but the President-elect, hat in hand, turned to­ ward the people and said: . My Neighbors and Friends, and Fe>- low-Citizens: On the eye of departure to, the seat of government, soon to assume the duties of an arduous responsibility, as great as can devolve upon any man, nothing could give me greater pleasure than this farewell greeting--this evidence of your friendship and sympathy; your good will, and, I am sure, the prayers of all the people with whom I liave lived so long, and whose confidence and estffem are dearer to me than any other eaithly honors. To all of us the future is a sealed book; but if I can, by official act or adminigl" \- tion, or utterance, in any degree, add to the prosperity of our beloved country, and the comfort and well-being of our splen­ did citizenship, I will devote to it lite best and most unselfish efforts of my life. "The assumption of the chief magis­ tracy is of such grave importance that partisanship cannot blind the Judgment or accept any other considerations but for the public good of all to every party and every section. With this thought upper­ most in my mind,-1 reluctantly take leave of my friends and my neighbors, cherish­ ing in my hea»t the sweetest memories and the tenderest thoughts of my old home my home now, and, I trust, my home hereafter, so long as I live. I thank you, and bid you all good-by." Tlie President-elect's voice was full of feeling as he spoke, but it was clear, and every word was distinguishable to the out­ skirts of the crowd. When be had finish­ ed there was a tremendous shout aiid a volley of firecrackers, the bell rang, and the train started. AND HOUSE. hm WORK O^ OUR NATIONAL LAW* MAKERS. A Week's Proceedings in the. Aalls ot Congress--Important Measures Dis­ cussed and Acted Upon--An' Impai;-* tial Resume of the Business. 1 FOREIGN. President Crespo has sent to the Vene­ zuelan congress a message favoring the boundary line treaty negotiated with Great Britain by the United States. Cable dispatches received at Madrid from Manila say that over 2,000 insur­ gents were killed in tho recent battle fought with the Government troops at Silang and Las Marimas. Constantinople dispatch: The ambassa­ dors have completed the communication to be addressed to the Turkish Govern­ ment in regard to the Island of Crete and will now telegraph it to their respective governments. The massing of Turkish troops and mu­ nitions of war on the frontier is" proceed­ ing with feverish haste. All the soldiers on furlough have*been recalled, and eleven batteries of artillery, a regiment of cav­ alry and two battlions of infantry have gone from Salonica, Monastir and else­ where to Elassona. Two additional bat­ talions of infantry have reached Katerina. The reliefs from Smyrna, Brusa,. Trebi- zonde and elsewhere in Anatolia arc on their way to the frontier, where a total of six divisions will be formed with head­ quarters at Elassona. . •; A dispatch from Placetas, Province of Santa Clara, Cuba, via Jacksonville, Fla., says: The Spanish captain general's per­ sonal campaign against Maximo Gomez in Santa Clara Province is a failure. Wey­ ler has been outgeneraled, outmaneuvered, outmarched and outfought by the "scat­ tering groups of insurgents," of which he,, ib his official dispatches to the War De­ partment at Madrid, has spoken with con­ tempt. Within ten days his generals have been defeated' in this one province five MARKET REPORTS. Chieago^-Cattle, common to pritiu-. $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair t<» ctioice. to $-1.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c lo 75<. corn. No. 2, 22c to :Mc: oats. No. H. 15. to 16c; rye. No. 2. :13c to 34c: bitter choice creamery, 17c to l!»c: e«g«. fresh 13c to 15c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c •< 30c; broom corn, common short to choic> dwarf, $35 to $S0 per ton. Indianapolis--Cattle, ship).inn. $;!.()(» t. $5.00; bogs, choice light. $3.0M to $:>.7ri sheep, good to choice. $3.00 u» $4.0u wheat, No. 2, 82c to 84c: corn. No. white, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white. 20. to 22c. St. Louis--Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50: hog* $3.00 to $4.00: sheep. $3.00 to ?4.5i> wheat. No. 2. 91c to 02c: corn. No. 2 yel­ low, 20c to 21c; oats. No. 'J white. 16c t< 18c; rye. No. 2. :51c to 33c. Cincinnati--Cattle. $2.50 to $5..Hi; bogs. $.".00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.5o wheat, No. 2. 89c to 91c; corn. No. 1 mixed, 22c to 24c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 17. to 19c; rye. No. 2, 35c to 37c. Detroit--Cuttle. $2.50 to $5.00: hogs $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2.00 to $4.25 wheat. No. 2 red,.86c to 88c; corn. No. yellow, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white. 11). to 21c: rye. 34c to 36c. ' Toledo--Wheat. No. 2 red. 88c to i)0< corn. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c: oats. N« 2 white, 16c to 18c: rye. No. 2. 35c to 37c clover seed, $4.70 to !j;4.S0. Milwaukee--Wheat. No. 2 spring, 74 to 75c; corn, No. 3; 18c to 20c: oais. N< 2 white, 17c to 19c: barley. No. 2. liNc t 32c; rye. No. 1, 33c to 35c; pork. mes» $7.75 to $8.25! : Buffalo--Cattle, common to prime ship ping* $2.50 to $5.00: hois,medium t best, $3.00 to $4.25; cheep, common t prime natives. $3.00 to $4.75; lambs, fa: to extra. $4.50 Jo $5.25. New York--Catfie. $S.OO to $5.25; hogs _$3.50 to_ $4.25: sntep, $3.00 to $4.75 wheat. No. 2 red, 81c to 83c: coru. No. 2 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2- white, 21c to butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, em, 15c tonOft. bents in this class are now to be regarded as subject-to eviction. Within the limits are 196 places; above the $2,500 class are fifty-three places, and below the $1,000 class are seventy-one places. They are thirty-seven consulates general, many being lucrative posts, such as London, Paris and Berlin. The fixed salaries of the more important consuls generally average about $5,000, with un­ official fees retained by the incumbent to an unknown amount. In the War and Navy Departments thefe are just two places open to candi­ dates, aside from a couple of private sec­ retaryships and a half dozen miserabh paid laborers' places. . These places ar< the assistant secretaryships, one in each department, paying $4,500 each. Good Places Gajre ay Fill. The Treasury Department next offers the greatest inducements, salary and hon­ or taken into consideration. These in­ clude: Three assistant secretaries at $4.- 500 each, six auditors at $4,000 each, six deputy auditors at $2,500 each, one treas­ urer at $6,000. and also an assistant treas­ urer, controller of'"treasury; register -of the treasury, assistant register, of treas­ ury, controller «f the currency, commis­ sioner of internal revenue, general super­ intendent of life-saving service, commis­ sioner of navigation, director of the mint, supervising surgeon general marine hos­ pital, supervising inspector general of im­ migration, superintendent coast survey, private secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury. 250 laborers actually employed as such, from $240 to $600; 120 collectors of customs, at varying salaries, 43 sur­ veyors of customs. 6 naval officers, 9 gen­ eral appraisers of customs, 5 commission­ ers of immigration, 15 appraisers of cus­ toms, IS assistant appraisers of customs bered among our best citizens. It is said that too many immigrants settle in our. cities, thus dangerously increasing their idle and vicious population. This is cer­ tainly a disadvantage. It cannot be shown, however, that it affects all our cities nor that it is permanent; nor does it appear that this condition where it ex­ ists demands as its remedy the reversal of our present immigration policy. "The claim is also made that the influx of foreign laborers deprives of the oppor­ tunity to work those who are better en­ titled than they to the privilege of earning 'heir livelihood by daily toil. An unfor­ tunate condition is certainly presented when any who are willing to labor are un­ employed. But so far as this condition now exists among our people, it must be conceded to be a result of phenomenal business depression and the stagnation of all enterprises in which labor is a factor. ^ Itli the advent of settled and wholesome financial and economic governmental poli­ cies and a consequent encouragement to the activity of capital the misfortune of unemployed labor should, to a great extent at. least, be remedied. If it continues its natural consequences must be'to clieck the further immigration to our cities of for­ eign laborers and to deplete the ranks of those already here. In the meantime those most willing and best fitted ought to be able to secure the advantages of such work as there is to do. "The best reason that could be given for this radical restriction of immigration is the necessity of protecting our population against degeneration and saving, our na­ tional peace and quiet from imported tur­ bulence and disorder "The requirement concerning the com­ ing of illiterate relatives of immigrants proceeds upon the assumption that these relatives are in every case by reason of to 23c | West J spectors of steam vessels. Connected with United States mints there are four superintendents, five incit­ ers and refiners, three coiners, five assay- ers, one engraver. In the United States assay office there are one superintendent, two assayers in charge, two assayers, oue melter and refiner, one melter and one assayer and melter. Connected with the department of jus­ tice there are one solicitor general, six assistant attorneys general, one solicitor of. • the treasury, one assistant so­ licitor of the treasury, one solicitor in­ ternal revenue. 14 territorial judges, three judges in the Indian territory, five judges court of private claims, 75 United States attorneys, 75 United States marshals. There are also in the District of Colum­ bia two judges of police court, 15 justices of the peace, about 450 notaries public and commissioners of deeds, eight trustees of the reform school for boys, and nine trus­ tees of the girls' reform school. t During his administration President McKinley also will have a number of life appointments at his disposal, including places on the Supreme Court, the Federal bench, and in the army and navy, of which class of officers are allowed to retire on full pay. i : Postal Feryice n Wide Field. No field embraces more,.positions over which contests will be made by aspiring candidates than the postal, service. There are just 70,612 postoffices in the country, and most of these change hands with ev­ ery administration. Of these over 6o,500 are fojirth-class postoffices, and 20,000 bf these 66,000 are money order offices, or ones that pay well. The retiring adminis­ tration is the first one to fix a four-a-ear And yet if unable to read and write, though quite able and willing to support themselves and their relatives here be­ sides, they could not be admitted under the provisions of this bill if the immigrant was impoverished, though the aid of his fortunate but illiterate relative might be the means of saving him from pauperism.-' Tlie Slnirfcst. Presumably Nevada's Legislature will attend the "mill" in a body and on free passes.--Grand Rapids Herald. Gov. Sadler of Nevada has shaken hands with Corbett. It must have been quite an honor for the Governor.--St Louis Star. Nevada promises to do something for the cause of truth by demonstrating that a prize light is not exclusively a vocal ex ercise.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is all right enough to try to raise th< standard of professional pugilism, but Fitzsimmons is going too far when he gets in training by wrestling with a dog.--New York Press. Wyoming may not be much on the trim mings of civilization, but she proudly rises to a plane from which her finger of scorn can draw a bead on Nevada.--San Fran cisco Examiner. The proudest man in the United States this morning is probably Gov. Sadler of Nevada. Jiui Corbett has publicly pro nounced him "no hypocrite."--St. Paul Pioneer Press. Not uiitil we hear the "spat, spat" of four-ounce gloves colliding with human flesh will we believe that Fitzy and Jim mie intend to stop talking and go to'fight .iu*»--Omahu World-Herald. COMMANDS BRITISH SQUADRON Sir J. O. Hopkins Who Is nt the Head of the British Mediterranean Fleet, With all the great powers of Europe snarling about the littfe island of Crete. England may be expected to be a big dog, and she is just that in the person of Vice- Admiral Sir John O. Hopkins, command­ er-in-chief of the British Mediterranean squadron. Sir John is one of the best known and one of the most efficient offi­ cers of the British navy. He succeeded Sir Michael Culme-Seymour in this im­ portant post not long ago, and was in every way capacitated to take the place of so efficient a sailor. Sir John is an old sea dog wjio has seen no end of service. He took part in the Crimean war, and was SIK. .IOUX O. HOPKINS. present at tlie attack of Sebastopol and at other operations in that war. For his eminent services there, he received the Crimean and the Turkish medals and th Sebastopol clasp. For one year--1881- 1882--he was secretary to the first lord of the admiralty, and was aid-de-camp to the queen in November. 1881. He served his country in many important positions, notably as superintendent of the Sheer- ness dockyard, director of the naval ordi nahcei ^admiral superintendent of the Portsmouth yard and lord commissioner of the admiralty. Americans wot of him as the commander of the British naval movements in Hampton Roads during the World's Fair. Me is a grizzled, bronzed marine fellow, utterly familiar with every trick of naval strategy, and the very man for Britain to have in the extraordinarily peculiar position she finds herself to-day in in the Mediterranean. Sir John has a number of titles and decorations lie cares very little about, being accustomed, as he is, to be so seldom on land where people know about them. Sparks from the Wires, W. J. Koerner, a newspaper artist, has been found guilty of the murder of his sweetheart in New York City. Henry J. Chjsholm of Portland, N. Y., has been elected president of the Ameri­ can Paper Manufacturers' Association. Officials of the Illinois Central .deny the story that they are planning to run a line of steamers between New Orleans and Venezuela. Col'. Edward Moale has been promoted from lieutenant colonel of the Third in­ fantry in place of Col. Crofton. who was summarily retired by the President. Mrs. Nat Goodwin was about to give a party in her flat at New York City when a fire broke out. There was no reception, but Mrs. Goodwin rescued her sealskin cloak, her parrot and her canary from the smoke and flames. • Jockey William Simms, who was de­ barred from further riding at the Ingle- side track a few days ago, will be per mitted to accept mounts in the future, in consideratio n of payment of $200-fine im posed on him by the association. American bicycles are threatened with destructive piracy in Germany, and tin it ed States Consul (I'eueral De Ka.v. who reports the fact to the State Department has goiie immediately to work in the ef fort to checkmate the movement. The National Solons. Cuba was again a topic in the Senate Friday, from 1 to 4:30 o'clock: but the debate upon the SanguHy and Agguirre resolutions was comparatively spiritless, and resulted in no definite action. The .first, half hour of the evening session was given to private pension bills, the pension calendar being cleared. Among the bills passed was that pensioning Gen. Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky at $50 a mouth. At 8 o'clock the consideration of the Indian bill was resumed, the amendment relat­ ing to the five civilized tribes being dis­ cussed at great length. The amendment as finally agreed to gives the United, States exclusive jurisdiction over all civil and criminal cases, abolishing the native courts. Two additional judges are pro- ided for the territory. The bill was then 'passed. The House passed the Senate international monetary conference bill by vote of 279 to 3. it was supported alike f Republicans, silver Republicans, gold Democrats and silver Democrats. Bills ere also passed td provide for the arbi­ tration of differences between the carriers of interstate commerce aud their employes 1 (known as the Erdman bill), and the Sen­ ate bill to prevent the importation of im­ pure tea. / T There was a majority ,of three to one against ticket scalping when a vote was taken in the House Saturday on the hill reported from the Committee on Inter­ state and Foreign Commerce. Mr. Sher­ man. chairman of the Committee on Li­ lian Affairs, moved that the House non- •oncur in the Senate amendments to the Indian appropriation bill and ag-ree to a conference. The motion was carried and the bill was sent to conference.- In the Serjnte Mr. Daniel presented certified opies of the naturalization papers of Julio Sanguilly, and had them printed, with ex­ tracts from the law showing their regular­ ity. Mr."Chandler made a statement as to the Loud bill, saying the committee had concluded that it' was impossible to nve any legislation on the subject at the present session, and that a commission ( should be created to investigate second- ' class mail matter. The usual Sunday quiet of the c-api'ol building was disturb­ ed by a session of the Senate, made nec­ essary to pass the appropriation bills. The attendance of Senators was even greater than that through the week. By a par­ liamentary fiction the session was a part of the legislative day beginning Saturday, recess having been taken at 2:30 'clock in tlie morning until,3 p. in. The sundry civil appropriation bill received its finishing touches, and was passed. The Senate, by unanimous vote, has added an amendment to the bill, counteracting the President's recent order withdrawing 21.000,000 acres of land from the public * domain and establishing it as forest re­ serves. When the naval appropriation bill first came up in the Senate Monday after­ noon Mr. Chandler stated that he would move later to increase the appropriation for torpedo boats or decrease the number provided. All the other items were agreed to without comment exeiept that relating to cost of armor, establishment of Govern­ ment armor plant, etc., which occasioned extended debate. The Chandler amend­ ment reducing the price of armor plate to $300 a ton was adopted without a divis­ ion. Another, to reduce the total of con­ tracts authorized to $2,407,500, to corre­ spond with the reduction per ton. was adopted. The amendment authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish a Gov­ ernment armor plate factory at a cost of $1,500,000 if he failed to make contracts was lost. Tho naval bill was passed ut midnight, and although Mr. Chandler tried to call up the international mone­ tary conference bill the Senate adjourned. In the House the bill to prohibit the trans­ mission of detailed accounts of prize fights by mail or telegraph led to a very lively skirmish, in- .which prize fighting was de­ nounced on all sides. But the bill met with most strenuous opposition on the ground that it would tend to establish a censorship of the press, and was finally sidetracked. A bill was passed to pro­ vide for the transmission' to Washington of presidential election returns by mail. The bill abolishes the system of messen­ gers now employed. - 1 In the Senate Tuesday tho fortification bill was passed, as was also the deficiency appropriation bill, after amendment to keep the $1,310,427 claim of the Southern Pacific Company in the treasury until final adjustment of the Government lein upon that corporation. The House amend­ ments to the international monetary con­ ference bill were agreed to. and the bill sent to the President. The President sent to the House a veto message upon the immigration bill, his principal objection being to the educational clause; the Presi­ dent holds that the worse class of immi­ grants is not found among the illiterate. The House Thursday, by a vote of 193 to 37..overrode the veto of the immigra­ tion bill. The conference report on the postoffice appropriation bill was agreed to. Then the fight on the naval bill was re­ newed. the price of armor plate being the matter at issue. The Senate amend­ ments to reduce the price from $563 to $300 and to build three torpedo boats and a practice boat, were agreed to. The In­ dian bill. District of Columbia appropria­ tion bill, and the sundry civil bill were*5^ accepted as they came from conference. Both Senate nnd House adjourned with­ out day Thursday. In the Senate agree­ ment was unanimous to resolutions ex­ pressing the appreciation of the Senate for the able and impartial discharge of the duties of presiding officer by Mr. Steven­ son. and by Mr. Frye, president pro tem. Mr. Hoar announced that the committee of Congress had waited on the President and that he , had asked them to convey his congratulations on the close, of their labors. There was anxious- awaiting for the announcement that the President had signed the remaining appropriation bills. But it did not come. Gradually the iden­ tity of the Senate was irierged into the more striking features of the inauguration ceremony, and the session came to a close without further legislative business. The f general deficiency bill failed in confer­ ence. and the agriculture, sundry civil and Indian appropriation bills failed of executive approval. TherHouse was still in „the legislative day of Tuesday when, it adjourned without day. The closing hours were uneventful. The statement had worked hard all night to get the sun­ dry civil. Indian and agricultural bills to the president, only to have them "pocket vetoed." while the general deficiency bill failed of passage because the House re­ fused to subscribe to the $500,000 of Bowman claims which the S^nafeTnsiSt- cd upon. Mr, McMillin of Tennessee, with a few appropriate remarks, offered a resolution of thanks to the Speaker for his impartiality as a presiding Office.-, which was unanimously adopted by a ris­ ing vote. As Speaker Reed mounted the rostrum the members rose and cheered valiantly. He acknowledged the warm 1 reception and then delivered his parting address. With a whack of the gavel, at 11:56 he then declared the House ad­ journed without day and the members hurried over to the Senate to participate- in the ceremonies there - " 'mm mm •sM