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thosp who attended the meeting. The iforeiiCe was private and it was hot 11 a r r i sort,--stm-ef-Oarter-H. THE AUTHOR OF THE MONROE *- 2^5? PLAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MCHENRY ILLINOIS TWO MONTHS^At THE ME^RCY OF TEMPESTS. Broken Shaft Lcntes Her Helpless-^ Towed Into Harbor--Over 200 People Aboard--Letting Contracts for Pro- jec tiles-House Poss.es"Tariff Bill. Stratlinevis Arrives Safely. The steamship Strntlinevis, which sailed from Tacoma Oct. 12; for the Orient and was about given up for lost, arrived in Port To.wiisend, Wash., about midnight Wednesday in tow of the steamer Mine- ola. (irave fears are entertained for the safety c>f the Australian steamship Miow- etn,- which had the Strath nevis in tow for five days. Ten miles off Gape Flattery, last Friday afternoon; during a violent gale, the two steel hawsers parted Sud­ denly and the Miowera disappeared in the Btohii.. The Miowera,had had the'Striith? aeyis in tow* five days and had exhausted 'the larger portion of her fuel. The log of the Sitmthiievis tells a story.-that is !sel-- s#»in duplicated iii the annals of maritime Jfti&toi'y- Leaving Victoria Oct. 13, with Jtio passengers and 4(5, officers and crew,, with moderate weather, a speed of ttjri knots was lhade until Oct. 20; at 7:40 ia .n the morning, in latitude 49.14. north and longitude 104.27 west, when the ship ex­ perienced a terrific shock, the crash sounding like ah explosion of a canijon. The shaft had snapped, short off close to the propeller, which dropped clear of the vessel and went to the bottom. A strong northern gale was coming on and all sail was crowded on two small masts without yarjls, schooner rigged. The accident oc­ curred about ISO miles south of Unalaska. . Slowly the gale carried the vessel to the southeast, and it was two days later be­ fore she could make any progress toward «.,the east. From that time on under a zig­ zag course, she sailed slowly toward Gap© Flattery. Gets Ready for War. Some excitement was caused in Wash­ ington by the discovery that the navy de­ partment had decided to let contracts for large quantities of projectiles for which no appropriation has been made by Con- " 'gross.' Small contracts aggregating $100,- 000 lia^e been awarded within the past two days to the Carpenter Steel Company and to the Wheeler-Sterling Steel Com­ pany, and these will be followed by others, which is expected to bring the total amount up to something like $600,000. The department has observed some se­ crecy about the matter, the contracts al­ ready letc having been awarded witho-.it the usual public advertisement. Big Fire Kaires at Baltimore. The four-story iron front building at Baltimore, Md., owned by the A. S. Abell estate and occupied by the firm of Oehm & Co. as a clothing store, was destroyed by fire shortly after midnight Thursday. The adjoining buildings,, also occupied by Oehm & Co., were badly damaged by water. The establishment is known as "Oehm's Acme Hall," and is one of the largest in the city. A rough estimate places the loss on stock at .$200,000 and on the building's at 8100,000, fully covered by insurance. The fire is supposed to have originated from the electric light wires. throng of patriotic men and women, old and young, proud of American liberty and despising .English arrogance,collected there ready and ̂ determined f b uphold yjrith their sentiment the stand which the government ,at Washington has taken. There were others there, too, ready to ap­ plaud the overtures of those who claim the Monroe doctrine plays no part in the present controversy. But their applause Was often unheard in the storm of hisses and catcalls that the remarks of the speakers brought forward. , livery sen­ tence uttered by the speakers \yas re­ ceived with storms of hisses and men were on their feet in half a dozen parts of the. hall at once endeavoring to lodge a pro­ test against the sentiment expressed from the speakers' rostrum. It proved'that the vast majority in New York are stanch supporters of the government. It showed that while there is no unreasonable desire for war, no petty jingoism, opposition to "the government at "Washington is regard­ ed by them as treason. There was a panic in the New York stock market Friday. The President's special message to Coingress on the Vene­ zuela affair had the effect- of frightening the forevgrn.; investors--especially the En­ glish--in Americansecurities. Before the Eastern markets opened.cables, from London' evinced trait' there was a seini- piinie in the American department on the British Bourse. Stocks and" bonds were thrown on the market regardless of the price, and buyers" were very few even ,at. enormous concessions. At the close of the exchange-'ih Chapel court the "Yan­ kees" were; thoroughly subverted. * The. general list fell from 2 to 0 points below the fin ai New York quotations; In Wall street the Effect of Tendon's closing . fig­ ures was sihiply demoralizing.;- The im­ portant and active properties opened all the way fro pi 1 to 3 points off and up to boon continued to fall, Each successive cable indicated still lower figures, and it was finally reported that many "jobbers" on the London Stock Exchange had re­ fused to accept orders. The Unfavorable news wis coincident -with preparations by the gold-shipping.houses for Saturday's exports to Europe. The initial trading was highly sensational, and declines were made all along the line, extending to -V'/> per cent. A sinister feature was an ad­ vance in rates for" call money to '<5 per cent., collecting the calling of loans. Three failures were reported on the New York Stock * Exchange and one on the Consolidated Exchange. Only one, that of S. S. Sands & Co., was of financial importance. The railway and • miscella­ neous bond market was also demoralized, declines ranging up to 15 per cent. It was rumored that a single house had dumped $400,000 of Reading bonds on the market. Wisconsin Central trust re­ ceipts scored the extreme loss noted and in the leading speculatives the recessions extended to 11^, per cent., in Kansas and Texas seconds, to 47J&, Around 12:30 the selling pressure abated and re­ coveries were made in the stock market from the lowest extending to 3 per cent. Bonds were relatively active. WESTERN. While' skating on Lathrop Lake, seven miles west of Denver, Charley Jones, aged 8. fell through an airhole in the ice. His brother Robert and sister Maggie, aged 21 and 20 respectively, and Ida Ball, aged 1(5. attemoted to rescue him, and all four were drowned. William 1'. Admonishes Army Officers. . An order issued by the Secretary of ^War Thursday reminding army officers that it is extremely impolitic to publicly discuss the possibilities of war is con­ strued by the friends of Major General •Miles as a roundabout thrust at that officer. General Miles has recently writ­ ten an article owr his signature regard­ ing the possibility of war with England as s. result of the Venezuelan affair. Mr. Dinjrley's Measure. Congressman Dingley of Maine intro­ duced in the House Thursday a bill de­ signed .to increase revenues $40,000,000 per year, by a horizontal increase of 15 per cent, upon the present tariff schedule and the adding of wool and lumber to the dutiable list. NEWS NUGGETS. The British steamer Bellerophon has been in collision with and has sunk the French steamer Emile Selsise at the en­ trance of the harbor at Algiers. Thirty passengers of the Emile Selsise, includ­ ing twenty-five natives, were drowned. The House Thursday passed a tariff biil, the operation of which is limited to two and a half years, and which is de­ signed to raise $40,000,000. The vote on the passage of the bill was much con­ fused, and no debate was permitted. The vote stood 227 to 81. The most destructive fire that Mc- Leansboro, 111., has ever known broke out /Thursday morning about 3 o'clock. The three large general store' buildings of Asher & Ledbetter, .T. E. Robinson and T. G. Berridge & Co., with their con­ tents, and the residence of J. Baberger, were burned. The loss will exceed $80,- 000. The large brick building occupied by F. W. Robinson, druggist, and F. J. Chapman, groceries and notions, was damaged to the extent of $3,000. The in­ surance is about $33,000. The large three-masted vessePseen on Tuesday flying signals of distress in Kingstown Bay, Ireland, turns out to be the Russian bark Palme, Captain Eriksen, from Liverpool, Dec. 18, for Mobile, Ala. As cabled at the time, a lifeboat which went to her assistance was capsized and her crew of sixteen men were drowned, and ai second lifeboat which attempted to assist the Palme also capsized and re­ turned to the shore with the greatest dif­ ficulty. The crew of the Palme cut away her masts, and eventually all on board, eighteen souls in all, were rescued by a passing steamer. The rescued people > included the captain's wife and child. At" San Francisco, Cal., three masked robbers held up. a Mission street car re­ turning from Ingleside Wednesday night and robbed Richard Clarke, an employe of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, of the receipts of the day, said to aggregate $3,000. Clarke and two other men were shot by the robbers, but it is believed none of the wounds will prove fatal. . The cruiser Ivwan-Ping, one of the warships captured from China by the Japanese during -the--recent -wa®*--was wrecked on the Peseadore Islands Satur­ day. Nearly all her deck officers and isix- ty men are missing. Harrison, the late Mayor of Chicago, ar­ rived in San Francisco from an extended trip to the antipodes. During his stay on the Samoan Islands over twenty-five in­ dividuals were devoured by the.cannibals. By accident he escaped the same fate. A. D. Thurston, who in ISStJ brganized the Order of Railway Telegraphers at Clinton, la., and was its grand chief for seven years, is at Clinton, Mo., police headquarters,there with his wife and six children destitute and cared for by the city. lie is helpless from rheurra'ism, and while en route overland tc Spring­ field narrowly escaped drowning while camping near a small stream. S. McDowell, aged 13. is in jail at Lo- gausporl, lad., for beating his mother, who is a widow 04 years old, living near Georgetown.- Her right thigh was brok­ en, she was bruised and Cut about the head and neck, and injured internally so that recovery is impossible. The out­ rage was committed because she refused to give the young scamp $5. It will be difficult to prevent a lynching when she dies. Albert Neeland, a photographer of St. Louis, who is said to have three wives, was arrested at St. Joseph, Mo.; when about to marry another, Miss Grace Woodward, a girl of 17. Neeland's last victim, whose maiden name was Mary Hull and who had been deserted, arrived from St. Louis and nut a detective on her husband's trail. He was surprised in the company of Miss Woodward. Nee­ land is said to have two wives living somewhere in Illinois. He is in jail, Two were killed, five others so badly injured they may die, and two others seriously hurt by a premature explosion of dynamite Monday on Sec. 14 of the Chicago drainage canal. All the victims of the disaster were laborers under the foremanship of Richard Powers. Ac­ cording to the statements of drainage canal employes the gang had just com­ pleted a drilling and had filled sixteen holes of the blast with 250 pounds of dynamite. Investigation indicated the ac­ cident was due to the carelessness or mis­ fortune of John Boweu. a workman, whose duty it was t'o explode the blasts. not to entirely wipe it out. A revision ot the currency system is also asked, and be requests that no adjournment be had Until these had two measures are accom­ plished. A Key West, Fla., dispatch says: Not­ withstanding the cordon of Spanish war­ ships about Cuba, three filibustering ex­ peditions -have-recently lauded. Accord-' 'ing to advices received here one of these expeditions was composed of members of the Fifth Regiment, Ohio National Guard. They accompanied their command on an excursion to the Atlanta exposition and there deserted ahti' made their way to .Cuba. They joined Gomez in Santa Clara on Sunday. Their leader was Serg-t. Arthur Bur«e, Company K. lie was accompanied by L. Schwa n, Com­ pany II; John Harris and - Clifford Smith, .Company C; and five others. The Ohioans--were warmly received by Gomez, and Burge has been commission­ ed captain. - Washington, D. C., dispatch: Fifty mill­ ions of additional revenue to be raised by an increase of custom duties: deficien­ cies in revenue to be supplied by interest- bearing treasury certificates, sold for greenbacks and payable in coin; Jongrtinu* 3 per cent bonds fo protect the gold re­ serve; greenbacks redeemed'in gcild to "be kept intact in the reserve; national bariks to be permitted to issue circulation up to the par value of their bands; tax on circu­ lation to be reduced fb % Sr"% Of. 1 per cent; the minimum capital of national banks to be reduced from $50,000 to $25",r 000 or less,- This is .the Republican finan­ cial program as agreed upon by the.Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives wit-bin twelve hours'af­ ter the President's message was.read. . ' ' FOREIGN,"" A An official dispach from Zeitoum says that the Armenians there, on Sunday last, .massacred all the Turkish soldiers iui; prisoned in the town. The St. Petersburg Novoc Yreinya says: "If it conies to a war between Great Britain and the United States the former will have to encounter internal as well as foreign foes, for the Irish are not likely to look passively at such a conflict. In that event England's affairs in Tur­ key and the far East will not wear so favorable an aspect, and there would come the hour of bitter retribution for the past upon which Englishmen pride them­ selves, forgetting that successes gained by guile and force are never enduring." The Boerse Gazette remarks: "The oniy hohorable means left for England to ex­ tricate itself from the affair is a vote of censure against the Marquis of Salisbury, and a new cabinet might be able to rectify the blunders of its predecessors." A London dispatch says: A grave but inevitable consequence of President Cleveland's message upon the British- Yenezuelau dispute has arisen perhaps sooner than might have been expected. A meeting of prominent financial leaders who have important interests in the Uni­ ted States was held in a London banking office for the purpose of considering the advisability of united action in calling in their American credits. It'is undoubted­ ly within the power of English capitalists by such a eouTbined movement to deal America a blow which'would, temporari­ ly, be terribly embarrassing and disas­ trous. It would, however, prove to a certain extent a . boomerang, and this view had its influence upon the majority j> con intended even that the fact that it took place should be allowed to be made public. IN GENERAL •Cardinal Satolli has received the red skull cap, the insignia of his new office. The United State cruiser Boston, which has been undegoing repairs at the Mare Island Navy Yard for the last four months, went to sea Friday oil a trial trip. The. Boston is the oldest of the new White Squadron. One hundred thousand dollars has been spent on its repairs. Its battery has been rearranged, upper works strengthened, and its protection deck new­ ly sheathed, and its engines overhauled. A. G. Butler, of South Africa, arrived at the City of Mexico a few days ago with a letter of credit to the amount of , ; $15,000,000 from Barney Baruato, Cecil Rhodes, and the Rothschilds. He was given a cordial reception by President Diaz, and the result of his visit is the investment of several million dollars in the drainage tunnel which the- government has under way, and in city water works. Mr. Butler has also taken an option upon the street railway system for $7,000,000. This includes the entir< street car ser­ vice. not only of the city, but of the fed­ eral district. The American line steamship Berlin, Capt. Lewis, from Southampton for New York, collided with and sunk the British ship Willowbank, Capt. Young, of Glasgow, thirty miles southwest of the Isle of Portland, at 3 o'clock Sunday morning. It was believed the whole crew, of thirty-nine were- drowned. H. M. S. Blake arrived upon the scene at 7 o'clock in the morning and picked up a water­ logged lifeboat. It sighted the Berlin, hove to. and rescued the crew of one of' the Berlin's lifeboats-which had lost con­ trol of its rudder in the heavy sea. Later the American line officials telegraphed from Southampton as follows: "The"Red Star steamship Berlin from Antwerp for New York has returned here with its bow damaged by a collision with the Willow- bank, whose crew was save', rtr.d are aboard the Berlin, including the cap- rain's wife. But the Falmouth pilot on the Willowbank, who went below to save OUTLOOK TOE WHEAT CROP OF THE UNITED STATES UNDERESTIMATED. Conservative Estimate of thfe World's production 2,410 000,000 Bushels- Prospect Slightly BullisH--Philadel­ phia's Street Car Strike Settled. :May Be 475,000.000 Bushels. As the Cereal year progresses the im­ pression continues to»grow, so far-as the wheat crop in the United States ir con: cerned, that it has been materially under­ estimated. According to Bradstreet's the official figures as to tne size of the crop, or the interpretations of earlier of­ ficial wheat crop repdrt^-.placed_lhe total probable outturn at about 390,000,000 bushels. At the present time trade esti­ mates in very few, if any, instances put the probable aggregate yield at less than 460,000,000 bushels--and the end is prob­ ably, not yet, in the matter of revised fig­ ures. This, in view of comparatively mod­ erate exports of wheat and flour thus far during the cereal year, continues to per* petuate.the dominance of bear influences in the .world's wheat markets. Some of cur optimistic foreign friends ,-are even now inclined to- think the wheat crop here may amount to 475,000,000 bushels, as against 520,000,000 .bushels last'year, Canada comes out with an es­ timated increase of about 10,000.000 bushels, and Argentina, is how expected to sliow SO,0Q0,000 bushels, although only a month or two ago <10,000,000 bushels Was accounted a high estimate, the but-' pnt last year having been rather under 53,000,000 bushels. -A-S-agaihst this, how­ ever, it is becoming pt'obable that Aus­ tralia is likely to be an importer rather than an exporter of wheat. In fact, she has already begun to import wheat. The Crop in Russia. In-Russia, a most important source of supply, the minister of agriculture es­ timates the crop of the European prov­ inces at 122,000,000 bushels less than last year; but this is deemed too low, "as the official estimates usually are," and it is generally supposed that the production of Russia and Poland together will not be more than SS,000,000 bushels less than last year. Russia generally has a larger surplus from previous crops, and it is this reserve which will enable.her to keep the balance between exporting and importing countries. One of the more conservative estimates of the world's production of wheat in 1895 places it a t~2,410,000,000 bushels, as contrasted with 2,560,000,000 bushels in 1894, a failing off of about 144,000,000,- 000 bushels, the significance of which ia gathered from the fact that the general consensus of, opinion as ,to the approx­ imate total world's annual consumption of wheat is about 2,400,000,000 bushels. With a production this year of only 2,410,- 000.000 bushels of wheat in the face of estimated requirements amounting to 2,- 400,000,000 bushels, stocks of wheat car­ ried over from the%uttiirn of'1894 and DQQTftlNSL ; We owe;it. therefore,.;to candor and tothe amicable .-relations ..existing between the United States and ; the ati 'ed .powers to declare that w.e shcfuld consider any attempt-cn .their part to extend' their-sy.stem .to any -portion of. this hemisphere as diflgerous to our peace arid safety. With the existing colonies' o^dependehdips of any European power, we have riot-in? terfered 'nod shall-hot . interfere, but .With' the "Governments, who have declared their inde­ pendence; and -maintained it; and whose independence' we have, on great-Consideration ^nd just principles, acknowledged," we could not yiew an interposition, for the purpose of oppress­ ing them or controlling'in any other manner their" destiny-(bv any.European power) in any other light than as-a manifestation of a'n- unfriendly' disposition toward the Un,ted States -- From Monroe's message to".Ccm0rees i» December, iss.% 000,000 bushels, the rest of Europe' about 44,000,000 bushels, and the West Indies, China, Brazil, etc."-, about 28,000.000 bush­ els--in all, say 406,000,000 bushels, against a probable surplus on the year's crops of 40:000,000 bushels. This is altogether too close a fit and calls for some examination as to prob­ able stocks of wheat carried over from the preceding crop year. There were, and "probably are, large wheat reserves in Russia which enabled that country to ex­ port so freely during the fall and winter, while in India and Australia reserves "are and have undoubtedly been relatively small. Prices Eikcly to Go Up. The world's available stocks of wheat, those,in sight, on land and afloat, are not. smaller this year than they were krsT, notwithstanding the heavy decline in pro­ duction. Either the invisible supplies must be smaller than customary (except in Russia, of course, which are believed to be large), or there is likely to be, as is generally the case, more than "enough to go around." Quite certain is it. however, that 1895-96 is likely to eat well into the world's old and new cereal stocks of wheat, and that the following cereal year, at least, may witness a considerable price stimulus to the cultivation of the cereal. The new men engaged'since the strike be­ gan number nearly 1,000. There were about 5.000 strikers. Wauamaker sub­ mitted the ideas embraced in the settle­ ment to t'i£ strikers. They accepted j them, and in turn submitted thetn to the I company. Considerable correspondence ! and many conferences followed, qnd final­ ly announcement was made that both side had agreed to the terms. To proper­ ly round out the matters a mass meeting of the strikers was held for the purpose of ratification. Here the strike was official­ ly declared'off, all the leaders were called upon for speeches, and there was a verit­ able love fea'st. FLOODS BRING RUIN. PHILADELPHIA STRIKERS ATTACKING A STREET CAR. MARKET REPORTS. EASTERN. The men in New York who are arguing in. favor of a backdown from the great principle of American liberty embodied in the Monroe doctrine, and who advocate a miserable desertion of the Chief Exe­ cutive at a moment when he has taken a firm s^and against .greedy British "en­ croachment, received an. unlooked for and hearty rebuff at Cooper Union Monday night. It was a meeting called in the interest of peace at which Henry George, Ernest Crosby,the Rev. Dr. Hyman J. Abbott, and others were advertised to addresses. But peace was not with- the ^va$lls„ of Coope,r Uni'o»» A vast make Bowen had prepared for a blast by j ing the electrical machine used in explod- his clothes, was drowned." ing the dynamite in the bed of the ditch. To test the machine he then inserted an explosive cap and turned away for a moment. Coming back he pulled the lever and there was a terrific explosion. Oneafter another the charges of dynamite placed along the face of the rock blew,up with reports distinctly heard at Joliet, seven miles away. The laborers were in a frenzy at the killing and mangling of their comrades and, it is said, started after Bowen with the avowed intention of wreaking vengeance on him. He was arrested by the drainage police before the mob caught him, howei'er, and locked up. It is usual on the canal to give a danger signal before exploding a blast by heavy notes from a steam signal. No signal was blown Mondar. however. SOUTHERN. Goveri or M. J. Foster was renominated by the Louisiana Democrat jejuni to con­ vention. Twenty-nine miners lost their lives Fri­ day in the XeLson mint, Entry No. 10, near-Dayton, Teun., by an explosion of fire damp. The explosion was succeeded by a terrific crash, which indicated the roof of the passage through which they had entered had fallen in. No avenue, of escape was left. WASHINGTON. Friday the Senate without a dissenting vote passed the House bill for the ap­ pointment of the Venezuelan commission. Not an amendment was pressed. . A cabinet meeting was held at the White House Sunday afternoon and a de­ cision reached to make arrangements for another sale of bonds for gold at the earliest practicable moment. An officer- of the treasury, wascselected to go to New York at once to confer with the bankers and make arrangom :nts for the new is­ sue. President Cleveland sent another mes­ sage to "jptftvgress Friday iu $"hich he re-' quested immediate legislation to protect the gold reserve, stating that immediate demands threatened to gpeatly deplete, if . X. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to §.".75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 55c to 56c; corn, No. 2, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2, lOe to 17c; rye, No. 2, 34c to 37c; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, $20 to $445 per ton for poor to choice. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.50: wheat, No. 2, 63c to 65c; corn. No. 1 white, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. St..Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 23e to 25c: oats, No. 2 .white, 16c to 17c; rye, No. 2, 31c to 33c. \ Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50: hogsj $3.00 to .,$3.75; cheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2. 63c to 65c; corn, No, 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 38c to 41c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2100 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 04c to 65e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye,' 37c to 38c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red. '63c to 65c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2, 37c to 3©e; clover seed, $4.00 to $4.10. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring,. 54c to 56c; corn, No. 3.j25c, to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, lSe to 19c: barley, No. 2, 31c to 33c; rye, No. 1, 30e to 31c; pork, mess, $7.25 to $7.75. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; slleep, $2.50 to $3.50; wbeaf. No." .2 red, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yelIbtwV°30& to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22<t- tb 24c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; . 'sheep, $2.00 to' $3.50; wheat, No. 2 r£d, 67c to 6Sc; corn, No. 2, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; butter, creamery, 17c to.29c; eggs, West- i'a, 20c to 22c- P'rior thereto gather special significance, or would do so if they could be known with any degree of accuracy. Beerbohm's Estimate of Surplus. The following is Beerbohm's estimate of,the surpluses which the chief exporters will have to spare from ihis year's crops, in comparison with last year: Estimate. Actual. Exporters. 1895-6, qrs. 1S94-4, qrs. United States and Canada 15,000,000 18,500,000 Russia 15,000,000 16,500,000 Rouinania. Bul­ garia, Turkey, and Servia.... 7.000,000 4,750,000 Austria-Hungary 500,000 250,000 India and Persia. 3,250,000 2,300,000 Algeria. Tunis, and Egypt.... Chili and Uru­ guay 500.000 600,000 Australasia .... 500,000 900,000 Argentina...... 5,000,000 5,750,000 Total surplus. . 48,000.000 50,800.000 Total surplus,bu.384,000,000 406,400,000 TI lis estimate was formed when tlib Argentine production was expected to be not much, if anything, over that of last year; but should it amount to 80,000.000 bushels, then one may take the available surplus for the current year to be about 400,000,000 bushels. Croat Britain re­ quires to import 200,000,000 bushels, France about 20,000,000 bushels, Bel­ gium, Ce-^inny and Holland together about 86,000,000 bushels, Italy about 28,- 1 his is not quite as bullish a view of the situation as many producers and tra­ ders may have been waiting for during the last few years of depression, but it is a literal interpretation of the best available statistics. STRIKE IS TETTLED. I Philadelphia's Street Car Trouble Has "cen Sa t i s fa c to r i l y Adj us t ed , j The. great trolley strike in Philadelphia is ended. John Wauamaker is the man. who brought about the settlement, suc­ ceeding where all others failed. He was aided in the work by members of the Christian League. The basis of. settle­ ment follows; First--While the 1'nion Traction Com­ pany will only treat with the workmen in its employ, it will allow them member­ ship in any lawful organization; second, it will take up all -.grievances and give them full and fair consideration; third, it will, so far as it has vacant places, im­ mediately put 011 the old men, and as fast as vacancies arise will give preference to the old men yet unemployed, "and en­ deavor p> arrange the trips of the cars to favor the old men as far as possible with­ out violating its contracts with the new men. The questions of compensation and hours are left for future determination. The battle has mainly been fought 011 the question of the employes' member­ ship in the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes, which the com­ pany has persistently refused to recognize. Da mace Amounting to-Over $2,C00,- OOO Already Pone. To the farmers who live along the banks of the- Osage River in Central Mis­ souri Christmas brought only woe and gloom. The unprecedented rise in the river of thirty-five feet, in three days has devastated that section, and many farm­ ers have lost everything they possessed. Some of them had their corn in shocks, others in cribs. The flood has taken all that lay in the low lands. Not only have many farmers lost their crops, but their stock and buildings as well. The OtSage valley is a desolate waste, anil the damage will reach at lea-st $2,- 000,000. Lee Thoiusberry, living between Bagnell and Tuscumbia, lost fifty-seven head of good M-yo/ir-olfl.steers, and Hugh White, who lives near the luouih of an Osage River tributary, lost everything but his life and liis family. Hundreds of others have lost their hay. corn and some stock, At Bagnell, the end of the Le­ banon branch of the Missouri Pacific Road, the river is three miles wide, and 110 train has been able to get within a mile and a half of the town for four days. That tow! 1 and Eldon are shut off entirely from telegraphic communication with the outside wiirld. The large business house of Ilawie.v & Franklin is tilled with water and their stock of goods is greatly dam­ aged. At Tuscumbia, the county seat of Mil­ ler, a terrible .condition exists. Nearly the entire town is under water. Only the roofs of many buildings, the postofiice among them, can be seen. A large flour­ ing .mill, the printing office and several small stores and residences are entirely submerged. Twenty cars loaded with railroad ties are standing 011 side tracks at Bagnell, and there are thousands of ties floating about in the river and back­ water. The river is higher even than during the famous flood of 1814. The suf­ fering of the people whose land and prop­ erty have been devastated will undoubt­ edly be terrible this winter. ROBBED BY MASKED MEN. One of * d Corrijjan's Kniployea Ke- 1 i< • ; I of t i ie Track Keeeipts. '- I11 San Francisco four masked robbers held up a Mission street car returning from I ngleside and robbed Reuben Clarke, an employe of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, of the receipts of the day, said to aggregate $3,000. Clarke and two other men were shot by the robbers, but it is be­ lieved none of the wounds Would prove fatal, ,/ihough Clarke will probably lose one of his leg.*. The. robbery occurred in a lonely place eight miles from the city. On the Picket I. , ine. Cod save the Queen! She isn't blame lor it. I11 the meantime Venezuela will great­ ly oblige by not slopping over. It is well to be firm, but do not go off half-cocked. That is 110 way to shoot. The present little flurry will either re­ tard Canadian annexation for several years or will precipitate it in a hurry. It is significant that the Russian bear Is not losing any sleep over the damages now inflicted upon the British lion's tail. There are indications in the British press of a gliniering perception of the fact that somebody has got to back down. A nation which in the nineteenth ceny® tury will refuse to arbitrate need not ex­ pect tp get any sympathy when it is re­ buked. Even if he had 110 Monroe doctrine to sustain, Fnele Sam would oppose, on humane grounds, the vivisection of a neighbor. HOUSE LOWER OF CON 3RESS CHAIRMEN IMPORTANT THE OF COMMITTEES ASKS NOW FOE GOLD. PRESIDENT SENDS ANOTHER MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. SENATE IS AS ON IS MAN. Passes the Bill for a Commission TJ nan im oil s ix. Neither the bluff and bluster of British financiers nor the threats of Wall street operators moved the United States Sen­ ate from what it deemed its path of duty Friday. Republicans and Popu­ lists joined with Democrats in giving the strength of unanimous support to the President, who, it was conceded, had bu,t performed his loftiest duty upset­ ting forth in forcible words the. concrete sentiment of "the American people in his recent message, on the Venezuela u boun­ dary dispute. The House bill for a Venezuelan com­ mission passed the Senate by a viva voce »^ote, and not one voice was raised against ithtO'T-a single amendment urged. It was openly and bravely stated on the Senate floor that concerted action was being taken by the money magnates of England to bring pressure to bear to set aside" the threatened investigation pro­ posed by the President through the story that nothing but party politics , had prompted the President's action; and it was also proclaimed that Wall street, while the debate was in progress, had been flooding the Senate chamber with telegraphic messages proclaiming the direst panic on record if the Senate in­ sisted upon adopting the House.bill. But the Sena-tors were not to be intimidated. "Why," said Mr. Teller in his strong, forceful speech, "every Chamber of Com­ merce and Board of Trade in the Uni­ ted States, except in New York, favors upholding theoPresident.'s action and the Insistence upon the principles of the Mon­ roe doctrine. Suppose stocks do go off, this country^need not be disturbed." And Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Chandler,-of New Hampshire, tl/ok occasion to serve notice on the money powers of London, who seemed to be. striving to create a panic by disposing of American securities, that the patriotic sentiment of the United States could not be influenced by such a course, and that the people of this country should stanrt up to the last for what they believed to be the right. (%ngresi would do its duty, no matter what the financial operators of Wall street might do. A Fireproof Saie. An important result attended a test made by order of the Reichsbank--the German Government's banking estab­ lishment--with a safe constructed of cement with steel wire placed in be­ tween. The question to be decided was whether it is practical to build vaults of this material for safety against fire. A safe was placed upon a pyre of logs drenched with kerosene, which, after being set 011 fire, kept the safe for half an hour exposed to a heat of about 1,SOO degrees of Fall., that is, a beat in which iron will melt: Two hours after the safe, was opened and the contents- silk, paper, draft blanks and«a maxi­ mum thermometer--were found to be absolutely uninjured, and the rnaxi- ' mum thermometer showed that within the safe the temperature at no time dur­ ing the test rose above So degrees. Urges Revision of t]ie Finances, anil Requests that No Recess Be Taken Until, Gold Reserve Is Protected-r- Immediate Action Is.Soughti Text of -the Message." The following message was sent, to Con­ gress by President Cleveland Friday: To the Congress: In my last annual: message the evils of otir present financial, system were plainly pointed out and. the' causes and means ef the tippletion of gov­ ernment gold were explained. It was therein stated that after all the efforts- that had been made by the executive- branch of the government to prbteet our gold reserve by the issuance of bonds, amounting to more than $162,000,000. such reserve then amounted to but little more than ?79,000;000, about $10,000,- 000 had been withdrawn from such re­ serve during the month next previous to the date pf that message, and quite large withdrawals for shipment in the ittimedir ate" future A"ere predicted... "• " " ... The contingency:'then feared, lias reach-' ed us. Mid "the withdrawal of gold since the commu n'i,cation referred to and others that appear inevitable threaten such a de- pletidri, in our goveriimeht .gphT reserve as brings US jTace tb face with, the neces­ sity of further action for its protection. .-This condition is int^nsified^by the pfce- , •valence in certain quarters of sudden,an\l Unusual apprehension-ami timidity <11 busi­ ness circles. . *. . ; We are in the-midst of another season ' of perplexity caused by- our. dangerous and fatuous financial operations. These may be expected to occur with certainty as long as there is no amendment in our financial system. If in this particular in­ stance our predicament is at all influenced by a recent insistence upon the position we should occupy iii our relation to cer­ tain questions Concerning our foreign pol­ icy, this furbishes a signal and impressive-' warning "that even the patriotic senti­ ment of "our people is not. an adequate substitute for a sound financial pojicy. Of course there can be no doul)tr4»~&«y-- thoughtful mind as to the complete sol­ vency of our nation, nor can there be any just apprehciftion that the American people will be satisfied with less than an honest payment of our public obligations in the recognized money of the world. W& should not overlook the fact, however, that aroused fear is unreasoning and must be taken into account in all efforts- to avert public loss and the sacrifice of our people's interests. Cure for Recurring Troubles. The real and sensible cure for our recur­ ring troubles can only be effected by a complete change in our financial scheme. Pending that the executive branch of the government will not relax its efforts nor abandon its determination to use every means within its reach to maintain before the world American credit, nor will there be any hesitation in exhibiting its con­ fidence in the resources of our country and the constant patriotism of our peo­ ple. In view, however, of the peculiar situa­ tion-new confronting us, I have ventured to herein express the earnest hope that the Congress, in default of the inauguration of a better system,of finance, will not take a recess from its labors before it lias, by legislative enactment or declaration, done something not only to remind those apprehensive among our people that the resources of this government and a scrup­ ulous regard for honest dealing afford a sure guarantee of unquestioned safety and soundness, but to reassure the world that with these factors and the patriotism of our citizens the ability and determina­ tion of our nation to meet in any circum­ stances every obligation it incurs do not admit of question. I ask at the hands of Congress such prompt aid as it alone has the power to give to prevent in a time of fear and ap­ prehension any sacrifice of the people's interests and the public funds or the im­ pairment of our public credit in an effort by executive action to relieve the dangers of the present contingency. CliOVER CLEVELAND.