Nebraska Newspapers

    IIGLISN MINERS 60 OUT
Three Hundred Thousand Quit
Work at Noon.
Ji* Co»l Production for Two Weeks—Prices
to Be Forced Up to Prevent the Cat
ting of Wngee — The Move
W1U Affeat Million*.
London, March 12.— At soon today
the greatest strike of coal miners in
the history of this country, or for that
matter of the world, will be inaugu
rated.
Nearly 300,000 men will have their
time on their hands on Monday
morning.
They are all member* of the Miners’
Federation of Great Britain, which in
cludes Yorkshire, Leicestershire, North
and South Staffordshire, Derbyshire,
Nottinghamshire, Monmouthshire,
north Wales and Cumberland.
As a matter of fact the strike fs not
* strike, but a closure, the miners
quitting work for two weeka Their
object in doing this is to bring about a
coal famine so that the employers will
have no excuse for reducing wages, as
they have threatened to da So far as
the famine is concerned it may be said
to have already commenced, for coal
has gone up to an enormous figure,
and iactory after factory in the lead
ing trade centers has been compelled
to shut down. The poor people who
are compelled to buy their coal in
small quantities are suffering terribly,
while the weather is unusually incle
ment for this time of year. Moreover,
before three days have elapsed there
will be an almost entire cessation of
labor in most of the great industrial
centers, including Bristol, Manchester,
Birmingham, Leeds, London and Liver
pool.
All the rolling mills and cutlery es
tablishments in Sheffield will shut
down on Monday and so will vast en
gineering establishments, iron foun
dries, soap manufacturies and cotton
and woolen mills by the score The
total number of people that will tem
porarily be thrown out of employment
in the strike, if the closure continues,
cannot be estimated, but it will cer
tainly run into the milliona Many of
the mine owners have given notice
that they will not start up again ex
cept at a reduction of 8% to 10 per
cent.
The miners have a reserve fund of
several millions of dollars and will not
suffer even if the struggle be prolonged
beyond the period now designated.
Speculators are taking advantage of
existing conditions, and already the
price of bread has been advanced in
many parts of the country, even where
the bakers have stocks of coal on
hand. Agents of many big manufac
tures have been purchasing supplies
in Belgium, France and Germany, but
the Longshoremen’s union is in accord
with the miners, and threats have
been made that they will not
only refuse to unload any imported
coal, but will boycott the lines by
which it may be brought in. Public
sentiment is largely with the miners,
although there is an undercurrent of
feeling that it is dangerous for any or
ganization of labor to take a step
fraught with Buffering and possibly
destitution to hundreds of thousands
of fellow beings in other trades
Probably the sentiment in their favor
is largely due to the fact that it has
been demonstrated that the mine own
ers are already receiving what, in any
other business, would be regarded as a
very fair profit, and that consequently
there is no ground for their allegation
that coal is too cheap for profit and
that wages must be reduced.
The outcome will be watched with
more interest than has over before at
tached to a labor movement. At the
clubs frequented by the upper ten
there is a question of invoking the in
terference of the government, al
though just how this con be accom
plished none of those pressing it seem
to know. A general election is not
very far off, and even the tory govern
ment would be slow m making a move
that would tend toward bringing
against it the combined effort of the
trade unionists of the entire kingdom.
The miners’ federation has issued an
address to all its members urging them
to maintain order and keep the peace
in order that there may not be the
slightest ground for invoking the in
terference of the authoritiea
SIDETRACKS INCORPORATED
the Inter
A Scheme Which Endn
state Oemmeroe Lav,
Chicago, March 12.—When a great
shipper sets out to get a cut freight
rate there seems to be many ways of
sccomplishing that object The Illi
nois Steel company appears to have
found one of these ways, and it is a
method so comprehensive that it can
he made to apply to %very one of the
150,000 to 200,000 cars of freight which
that company receives and sends out
tk y?ar- 1’his plan is not open to
he objections against the system of
«*sh rebates which the big grain ship
pers take advantage of, but which at
he same time opens a jail
oor for them if they can be
'Aught at it. While the method is
Hhite as effective, so far as furnishing
eans for annulling the provisions of
he interstate commerce law, the law
ln this case completely evaded with
out being actually violated.
l secretary of state some time ago
ued charters to the Calumet and
ue Island Railway company, the Chi
n«5° aud Southeastern Railway* com
•"•hy. the Joliet and Blue Island Rail
VJ co>npany, the Milwaukee, Bav
wand Chicago Railroad company.
rau'86 j‘^es read like the names of reuj
ar.roa?*•. As a matter of fact, they
tho a . °‘ce collection of sidetracks at
various plants of the Illinois Steel
pany at South Chicago, Joliet, etc.
aru,v incorporating their sidetracks
jitic,tr°ating all the machinery of dis
otwn ja“way organizations a way was
win. ,whereby the law can be evaded
sions t'ruCtualIy y*°lating its provi
can >. j le easiest way in which this
can be done i. __
Dani 8 doae I® for the switching com
• es to establish a switching tariff
Whin I «=on»uiisa a switcning lann
rau » nJay be absorbed in the through
ad the rate cut to that extent,
has been done, and the variou*
pnblUh a tariff sheet showing
twitching charge varying from
•1.50 to S3 a car has been made. That
alone would be an important item, ai
the company'* freight buslnea* ha* run
up as high a* 200,000 car* a year, but
the scheme U capable of making even
greater profit* than that It Mem*
to have been the original intention to
nave a division of rate* as if it were a
through shipment over two lines and
thus get all the railroads to divide the
regular tariff, but the Central Trafflo
association refused to allow such an
arrangement Any such arrangement
is in violation of the rulings of that
association, but it is understood that
one or two roads grant it, neverthe
}?**> that the division the termin'*!
line gets amounts to 40 cents a ton.
As the company received 1,900,000 tons
of raw material and shipped 795,000
tons of finished product it is evident
that if 40 cents a ton can be saved on
^t °f even a small proportion
of that the saving might be an impor
tant matter.
A GREAT COPPER COMBINE.
The Mftee Owners Propose to Limit the
Production.
Nkw York, March 12.—Rumors of a
great combine which, if effected, will
involve millions of dollars, just now
are proving matters of prime interest
to manufacturers and dealers in cop
per and to holders of copper mining
stock as well as to mine men gener
ally. For the past two or three weeks
the reports that a project was afoot to
secure unity of action among the cop
per producers in all parts of the world
have been numerous and have been
gradually crystallizing Into definite
form. For many months copper prices
have been very low, and the
tension upon most of the cop
per mining companies in the Lake
Superior region, Montana, Arizona and
New Mexico to keep things going has
been a severe one. It has long been
urged by copper men that some com
bination to limit production should be
formed, but only within a very recent
time has the matter assumed shape.
The negotiations have been carried on
very secretly. The course of prices,
however, in the boston market—the
chief and in fact the only copper
mining market in this country—has
shown that things are getting on
favorably. The price of the stock of
the Calumet and Hecla. Quincy and
other big Lake Superior co/per mines
has steadily improved.
A boston dispatch says: “The
statement is made here on very good
authority that the proposed combina
tion of copper mine properties, with
the exception of the Quincy company,
which declined to join, has been prac
tically effected. It is stated that the
annual production of the Anaconda
mine is fixed at 70,000,000 pounds, and
that of the Calumet and Hecla at
60,000,000.”
ENGLISH CAPITAL INVESTING
Options Secured for •0,000,000 Worth ol
Land and Water Bights.
Denver, Colo., March 12.—The Trav
elers' Insurance company has given an
option on all their property in Colorado
to John C. Montgomery of this city.
The transaction will be closed this
week and a new company of gigantic
proportions will be formed. So far as
can be learned it is the intention of
Mr. Montgomery to place this enter
prise in England. To it will be added
a grant ofi 100,000 acres of land owned
by O. W. Show, of boston, adjoining
some of the insurance lands and situa
ted in Colorado and New Mexico.
The options cover all the real estate,
irrigating ditches, and canals and
water rights owned by the insurance
company. Among these are the Grand
River, Fort Morgan, Del Norte, Citi
zens’ and Uncompaghre Land and
Ditch companies. The amount of the
option is said to be $1,000,000. The
land put into the scheme by Mr. Shaw
is valued at $4,500,000, which would
make the enterprise reach the enor
mous sum of $6,000,000.
AN INFLUENTIAL PAPER.
Over a Hundred Congressmen Sign a Peti
tion for Channel Improvement.
Washington, March 12.—Over 100
congressmen have affixed their names
in an official capacity to a circular let
ter addressed to the river and harbor
committee, as follows:
I respectfully ask that your committee
make a favorable recommendation regard
ing the further improvement of the chan
nels between Lakes Superior and Huron,
and Huron and Erie, as proposed in
the report of General O. M. Poe, for a
twenty and twenty-one foot channel on
the lakes and that you authorize in the
bill that cont nets may he made for the
entire work to cost as estimated, $3,." 10,000,
and incorporate in the bill such amounts
an an initial appropriation, as you may in
your judgment deem proper.
The signatures show that practically
the entire delegations of Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Penn
sylvania, Ohio nnd Wisconsin have
signed this recommendation.
EIGHT-HOUR* MOVEMENT.
The Labor Organizations of Mew York
Preparing for a Demonstration.
New York, March 12.—Representa
tives of most of the labor organiza
tions of this city will unite tomorrow
in a conference called by the social
istic labor party at Labor lyceum for
the purpose of considering preliminary
arrangements for a great eight-hour
demonstration. This year that day
falls on Sunday and it is proposed to
make the demonstration one of the
largest of the kind ever seen on this
continent Delegates are to be in
vited from all the leading industrial
circles of the country and England,
France, Germany and Switzerland will
also be asked to send representativea
SCOTT TAKE i A VACATION.
The Energetic Publisher of the Chicago
Herald Nall, for Europe.
New York, March 12.—Among the
passengers who sailed for Europe to
day on the North German Lloyd
steamer Fulda, was James W. Scott,
president af the American Newspaper
Publishers’ association, and publisher
of she Chicago Herald and Evening
Post of that city. He was accompanied
by his wife. He proposes to visit Italy,
France, Germany, and to take a coach
ing tour into the north of England, re
turning to this country in about three
month* A large number of local
newspaper men were at the dock to bid
him bon voyage.
TREY SCARED JOHH DULL
The Men Who Beat the Bank of
England in Chicago.
**• Famous Bid well Brothers, Who
Forged Bills of Exchange for s
millOD, OB Brltslo's Big Bank,
OB b Lccturlag Tour,
Chicago, March la—Nearly twenty
years ago a thrill of horror ran
through the stupid old financiers who
sit around the directors' table of the
Bank of England. They were placid
fellows, these directors, who had gone
through life transacting business in
the knee-breeches-and-tye-wlg fashion
of their predecessors. Such a thing as
a forgery of any size had not disturbed
such minds since the day when forgery
was a capital crime and men were
taken out and hanged for it before a
gin-drinking mob from Whitechapel
road. One of the directors, a stout old
gentleman who had acquired gout be
fore the Crimean war, became purple
in the face and had to be removed
when the announcement was made:
“Americans have forged bills of ex
change for 800,000 pun on the bank.”
Two of the men who caused this re
markable scene in the board were in
Chicago yesterday. One of them is a
rather corpulent man whose naturally
sharp face bears lines cut in as if by
some great misfortune long continued.
The second is tall and straight He
has a merry face, this Austin
Bidwell which rather disarms one and
leaves one at the mercy of the other
brother, Ueorge Bidwell, who did one
of the most remarkable pieces of plan
ning ever evolved.
George Bidwell has been out of pri
son four years. Austin was released
with the help of the Pinkerton agency
and througa the efforts of his sister
February 13 last. They have come on
here to deliver a lecture, which will
supplement a book written by Ueorge
Bidwell. They went to the Urand
Pacific first, but were afterward sent
to the Palmer house.
They talked about their case freely
last night—George Bidwell in a cur
sory manner, Austin Bidwell with con
ciseness affected by a nervousness that
stamps the convict deeper than the
pallor of life in a. cell. Both the men
and a third brother lived in Chicago
One of them owned a candy shop here
before the fire. The other two,Ueorge,
a grocer, and Austin, his clerk, came
here from New York in 1871.
"We went to EuropeJ' said George
Bidwell last night. “YVe took up with
George McDonald and Noyes. We
believed the Bank of England could be
beaten, but we did not know how till
we sent a bill of exchange to London,
which was cashed by the bank with
out identification. McDonald got the
money. He had been a square fellow;
he was a graduate of Harvard, but he
had fallen by the wayside. We did
not know how to get to the Bank of
England, so we put out feelers. I in
troduced myself to a tailor named
Grear as a wealthy American who was
about to open a Pullman branch in
England. I bought clothes from him
and deposited money with him. I left
£1,200 in his keeping. He said that
was too much, lie would place it in
the bank, and he took me over to the
western branch of tbe Bank of Eng
land and introduced me.”
George Bidwell stopped here to
laugh and the sedate brother smiled in
a dreamy way. Then Ueorge Biuwell
Went on: “YVe had procured square
bills of exchange from a number of
foreign firms I said: ‘We can forge
these bills as well as the men can
write them.' We forged bills for
thousands of pounds, stamped them
with stamps we made ourselves and
passed them on the unsuspecting bank.
We forged acceptances of the Barings,
the Rothschilds, the Anglo-Austrian
bank and the Russian bank of ex
change, and we might have gone on to
the extent of millions of pounds if a
slip of McDonald’s in neglecting to put
on a date had not started an investi
gation that discovered to the
bank our forgeries. That day
Noyes came to me and asked for
£1,000. I didn't want to give it to
him at first, but he pleaded so hard
that I finally sent him back to the bank
with a check. As usual, I followed
him and as he entered the door and
handed in the paper I saw two men
leap at him. 1 knew it was all over.
The forgery was detected and I
skipped.”
ueorge umweu was arrested in Scot-1
land. McDonald was taken at New
York. Austin Bidwell, with 9100,000
or more in his possession, made his
way to America, and, having bought a
Slantation in Alabama, intended to
▼e his life out as a wealthy planter.
He was a handsome fellow, and he had
married a pretty girl, the daughter of
a brevet-major in the Uritish army.
He was routed out of the plantation
and fled to Havana, where he was
arrested by the Pinkertons, and by
consent of the Spanish government,
which at that time did not have an ex
tradition treaty with England, was
carried back to London.
The trial was most interesting. The
stolid British public was waked up to
a point of frenzy by the thought that
the great bank which was supposed to
be impregnable had been cheated out
of a fortune, and it was lucky for the
Bidwells that the day of hang.ng for
knavery had passed. They had the
next thing. When the jury had
brought in its verdict of “guilty” Jus
tice Archibald, wigged and gowned,
arose, and looking down upon the
group of wigged and gowned men at
the tables, said:
“The sentence is that each and all
of you be kept in penal servitude for
life.-’
George Bidwell picked oakum for
fifteen years, Austin Bidwell for nine
teen years. Picking'bakum was not a
congenial occupation for this man.
The doctor said he must be released
from prison or he would die, and he
was sent to America a ticket-of-leave
man.
His sister, Mrs Henrietta G Mott,
of Hartford, went to work for the re
lease of the other brother. She
was untiriug. She enlisted the sym
pathy of the Pinkertons; 'she
saw the president of the United States;
she talked with James Russell Lowell;
she secured the help of Lady Henry
Somerset, who Is now In Chicago, end
of the late Mr. Spurgeon: she broke
Into the same old governor's room of
the ltank of England that had been
shaken by her brother's forgeries; she
had a member of parliament arise and
question the home secretary; she spent
10 shillings in a basaar in order to
speak to Prlnoess Mary, of Teok; and
finally all these energlesaoncentrated,
after Austin Bidwell had saved a pris
oner from drowning, in his release
from prison.
"She is a good woman,” said Austin
Bidwell, simply, last night
"Aye, she is that,” said George Bid
well. "It Is worth one's while to live
in a cell and to be maimed by crnel
guards to have suoh love shown as that
We don't deserve it”
"No,” said Austin Bidwell. “We de
serve everything but that”
McDonald and Noyes are still prison
ers, but an attempt will be made to
free them.
THE “FLYING ROLL” A FRAUD
One of the Nine Aug sis Uenooneee Prince
Michael.
Toronto, Ont, March 10.—"A foul,
festering plot upon a Christian com
munity” is the way Mary Armstrong,
who has recently returned from De
troit, describes the colony of "the fly
ing roll” in that city. She ought to
know, for she was one of the nine
angels who accompanied "Prince
Michael” on his recent pilgrimage to
England and who hare been living in
the same house with him in Detroit
She was one of the first who were led
by the promises of the prince to desert
their homes in this city and join the
long-haired fanatics in Detroit, llut
her eyes have been opened, and she
has returned again to her family, but
in a weak and pitiful condition. She
declares that the Toronto people in the
colony are sick and tired of the whole
thing, and would gladly return at once
were it not for the fact that the
"prince" has all their money and in
tends to koep it. Neither she nor any
of the others who have returned will
make any definite charges of immoral
tty against Michael. They admit that
he lives in a house with his wife and
the nine angels, and that two of his
mottoes are "Let Nothing lie Hid” and
“To the Pure All Things Are Pure.”
Heyond this they say nothing except
that they believe lie is hypnotized and
practically made a dupe by the mes
meric influence of one E. II. Durand,
who is the Lucifer of the colony, and
Lizzie Courts, his "spiritual’’ wife.
Prince Michael is a native of Elgin
oounty, Ontario, and was formerly an
almost illiterate molder. When the
Mormon elders were in Elgin oounty
some years ago Miolieal became one of
their converts, and he has evidently
taken his now scheme, from that oC
Joseph Smith. This disclosure seems
to explain why it Is that the long
haired prince is so earnest in his en
deavor to secure a large number of
"spiritual” wives for his colony and
why he has the nine angels in his
house as well as his wife.
The recent developments have caused
trouble In the camp of the Toronto
members of the flying roll. The other
night a meeting was held in which the
“false reports” of Miss Armstrong wore
denounced. But now a strong anti
Michael faction has arisen. As Mich
ael is not recognized by the English
branch of the sect, which was founded
in 1837, he may soon be deserted as a
false prophet
A DISASTROUS DEFEAT.
Iht Fall of Mercier a Groat Victory for
the Conservatives.
Ottawa, Ont., March 10.—The elec
tions in Quebec province have resulted
in a clean sweep for the conservatives,
the stock of that party, already high
by reason of its success in the domin
ion by-elections, is simply beyond quo
tation now. The liberals were divided
among themselves, many of their best
men refusing to follow the leadership
of ex-Premler Mercier. This is after
all the cause of their defeat. The re
sult will probably bring the affairs of
the whole liberal party to a crisis. The
straight party men from Quebec now
in the dominion parliament attribute
the division in their ranks to the influ
ence of the Ontario liberals, who de
nounced Mercier for boodiing as bit
terly as the conservatives did. There
will probably be an open rupture in
the party. Leader Laurier is a French
Canadian and the representative of
Quebec. He is personally a man of un
blemished character, but it will be al
most impossible for him to lead with
the representatives of his own province
denouncing their Ontario allies.
8uch a political overturning has
never been known in Canada’s history.
It was virtually a clean sweep from
one end of the province to the other
for the De Boucherville government in
condemnation of the mothods of gov
ernment which led to Premier Mer
cier's dismissal.
Mercier did not attempt to defend
the charges which were brought
against him, probably because they
were indefensible, but raised the cry
of Quebec for the French and made an
attempt to spread in the country dis
tricts the idea that this opposition to
and attacks upon him were due to hos
tility to the Roman Catholic church, of
which he has long posed as the cham
pion. The clergy stopped that by de
nouncing him from the pulpit, and the
French habitant, which forms three
quarters of the population, for once
saw through the race and religious
cry which is usually successful and
voted against the deposed premier.
The result makes Quebec overwhelm
ingly conservative, and strengthens
the federal government, also conserva
tive, enormously.
WIND IN WASHINGTON.
Sirs. Senator Palmer Dashed to theOroun*
and Injured.
Washington, March 10.—A severe
rain storm accampanled by a wind that
attained tremendous velocity passed
over Washington shortly after noon to
day. The wife of Senator Palmer was
approaching the senate wing of the
capitol on foot when the storm broke.
She was taken off her feet and thrown
with considerable force against tile
steps, suffering a deep cut in her head.
Her sister, who was with her, was un
injured. Mrs. Palmer’s wound was
dressed in the capitol and she was
taken to jier home.
TO RAI8E CARPET PRICES.
■satsra M«nnrb«tnron Combining Tot
Larger l'roflu.
Chicaoo. March 13.—Secrecy velli
the proceedings of the eastern manu
facturera of carpets, bat those convers
ant with the trade in thla city any th«
manufacturera are combining to lessee
the output and inoreaae prices.
J. CX Carroll, of the Chicago Carpet
company, aald; "The manufacturera ol
body bruaaela carpets have been com
plaining bitterly that they are not
making anything. Philadelphia flrmi
were specially dissatisfied. The Phila
delphia and Worcester, Mass, firm*
have been calling on other firms eaat
to hold meetings In New York. The
largest houses In tho country have re
fused to enter any combination. There
is certainly an overproduction. The
scheme of the 'kickers’ Is to have all
the firms agree to make only a certain
amount o{ carpet and at a specified
price. For instance, a factory having
ISO looms will be asked to work only
100 looms It will not work because
all will not enter tho combination."
E. Cl Richardson, of O. W. Ricardson
A Co, said: "I have heard of the In
tention among eastern manufacturers
to pool their intere its, but it will not
succeed. A year ago an agreement
was made by several large manfsetur
era to force up prloes, but competition
was so keen that th# rules wore soon
broken over."
F. Eumea, of Marshall Field A Co.'s
carpet department, said: “It Is un
doubtedly a faot that a scheme Is on
foot to raise the prices of carpets by
combination among the manufacturers
Some of the body brussels people are
going to make a desperate fight. Meet
ings with strictest seorecy are being
held In New York. The scheme Is to
make eaeh "firm sign an agreement to
run only a certain number of looms
and stick to a schedule of prices ”
LADY HENRY SOMERSET.
The Noted En?llsli I.udjr will 8liorlly Bo
, turn to Burojio.
Chicago, March 18.—Lady Henry
Somerset, the noted Enjllih aristocrat,
whose time and great fortune havo for
some years been devoted to the tem
perance movement, and who for sev
eral months has been in this country
studying the methods of evangelical
work pursued by the Women’s Chris
tian Temperance union, will shortly
sail for Europe, and tonight a great
farewell demonstration Is to be given
in her honor at Central Music hall. At
the recent pntlonal granger and labor
convention at St. Louis, Lady Somer
set's name was, by unanimous consent,
placed upon the roll of delegates, the
compliment being more marked from
the fact that she was the only partici
pant in these proceedings that did not
represent an organization of voters.
MISS NEVINS' LETTER.
She Will Give It to Mia Public Sunday II
Well Enough.
New York, March 18.—If tho health
of Mrs. Mary Nevlns Blaine permits her
statement in reply to JamesG. Blaine's
letter, published nearly two weeks ago,
will probably be given out by Sunday.
As matters appear now, however, it is
exceedingly doubtful that her condi
tion will be such as to enable her to
prepare the statement. Ever since her
arrival at the Now York 'hotel last
week she has been ilL Wednesday
last she was so low that her life was
for a time despaired of. During the
previous evening she had made an ex
tra effort to do some writing on her
statement Wednesday morning Mrs.
Blaine was found in a comatose condi
tion, and her breath came in short,
labored gasps. Fortunately there was
a physician in the hotel, Dr. Constable,
who reached the sick woman's bedside
within ten minutes after she had been
found. Three other doctors were sum
moned, and after six or seven hours of
incessant labor they brought back the
young woman's fleeting vitality, and
by midnight she was pronounced almost
out of danger.
THE MARKETS.
Live stock.
Sioux Citt, March la
Hogs—Light, $1.70(31.75; mixed, 11.553
heavy, $4.55(31.16
Caltle—Steers, 1,100 to 1,800 pounds,
I3.0031.H0; feeders, $2 5fc3 1.25; stockers,
(2.(032.50; cowe, common to good, $1.00 m
2 75; yearling*, (>.0u3A75; bulls, (1.503
2.75; veal calves, (1.5034.50.
Chicago,
Cuicio >, March la
Cattle—Choice beeves, (3 8535.26; cows,
iJl.2538.75; feeders, (.'.2533 75; bulla.
(1.253275; 'l'exans. 2.’.538.80
Hogs—Light. (16035.05; mixed, (1.603
E05; heavy, (1.5.135.0 >.
Sheep—Natives, (1.0036.00; westerns.
(3.0036.75; Tcxaus, (66035.40
South Omaluk.
B iutu Omaha. March 16
Hogs—Light, (1.6034.75; mixed, $160di
4.75; heavy, (4.5534.70.
Cattle—Stockers and feeders. (2.403620;
cows, (2.403620. common, (L0U@i. Id.
Kansas City,
Kansas Cm, March l&
Cattle—Extra fancy steers, (6 5034.20;
cows, (1.5033.25; Stockers, (62533 60:
feeders, (6253660. ’
Hogs—Extreme ranges, (4.2034.75
Produce and Provisions.
• Chicago, March 16
Flour—Spring patents, (1.4031.75; win
ter patents, (4.4034.75
Wheat—Cash, 85^a; May, 87 V3875-/C.
Corn—Cash, 80%a; May, 41c; new*No,
6 88Ji3»c.
OaU—Cash, 29c; May. 80c. No 2
white, 31K@82%cj No. tt white, 2'Jk'c.
Bye—82J4C.
Barley—56c.
Timothy—(1.3L
Flax—97Mc.
Whisky—$1.16
Pork—Cash, (10.72>f; May, (10.90'
Lard—Cash, (6.30; May, (6.40
Shoulders—(1.7535.50; short clear. $6.25.
abort ribs, (5.753.77)*. *
^Butter—Creamery. 20328J*c; dairy, 193
Cheese—Full cream Cheddars, 11312c;
Bats, 11312c; Young Americas, 113i3c!
Eggs—Fresh, 13313^0.
Hides—Heavy and light green salted,
5c; salted bull, 4)*3i><ci green salted
» "u,kcu uuu* ,74'W,7|4<i Iffcea lulled
calf, 63«>*e: dry flint. Sc; dry salted
hides, t>37o; dry calf, 83V0; dcaoons.
jach. 25c.
Tallow—Na 1 solid, 4c; packed, i
take, 4>*a
Minneapolis, March 16
Wheat—Closing: March 88)*c; May
53c; en traok, Na 1 hard, 81)*®; Na i
sorthern, 83)*c; Na 7 northern, 78380a
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS*
Tin*
Washinoton, March R— In tho senate
today Mr. Hi|ulro presented a partition
from the chamber of commerce,.of Port
Townsend, Wnnli,, sotting forth that tb«t
present condition of the Borin*
»«a flaherlea question worked
the greatest hardship to American
fishermen, and praying that the flaherioa
of these eoaa be'tlirown open. Mr. Bqutrea
said he regarded this a* a matter of great
Importance, aud asked that It be referred
to the committee on foreign relatlona. It
was so ordered.
Mr. Stanford, of California, Introduced
a hill to make tho duty On opium Id
a pound.
Washington, March 0.—Tho pure food
bill passed the senate without a division,
and an cxeautlve session will Immediately
he called on the Bering sea question. The
text of the correspondence was submitted
by the president to the sonata at U:IIU,
Wasiiimoton, Minch in.—In tha senate
today Mr. Morgan's resolution Instructing
the committee on judiciary to report on
the legal propositions Involved In the
Idaho contest was passed.
On motion of Mr. Taller the secretary of
the treasury was called u|ion for Informa
tion as to what v mount of treasury
notes had been Issued under the act of
July 14. 180(1, tho amount of sliver dol
lars coined, the amount In the treasury and
whether silver dollars were being paid out
by the treasury In discharge of ordinary
Indebtedness and whether they were being;
held for the redemption of treasury notes.
The agricultural deficiency bill appro
priating $IM),000 for the bureau of animal
Industry and 110,000 for experiments In
sugar cultivation was passed.
Washington, March 11.—In the senate
to-day Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, offered •
joint resolution providing for a constitu
tional amendment that no person who baa
held the office of president of the
United States for a term of fonr
yarra or any part thereof shall he
eligible to that office within four years af
ter the expiration of that time,this amend
ment to takh effect after the 4th of March,
mur. lie suggested that the resolution he
referred to the committee on civil service
reform and retrenchment It was so or
dered.
Mr. Daniel offered a Joint resolution
confirming on the part of the United
States the rights granted by the states of
South Carolina and Virginia to the Freneb
Telegraph nompnny. Referred.
Wasiiinoton, March 14.—In tho senate
today au unusual potlllon was presented
from tha Baltimore Methodist Episcopal
conference, protesting against further re
strictive Chinese legislation, for the rea
son that It tended to restrict missionary
work In that country by provoking retail
ntory measures.
The judiciary committee reported favor
ably the house hill plnolng the secretary
of agriculture in the line of tho presiden
tial succession. By the provisions of tbte
bill, should the president and vice-presi
dent both die nnd all the members of tho
cabinet also die or become disqualified,
down to the secretary of the Interior, the
last of tha list of ellglbles. as It at present
stands, then the secretary of agriculture
should bcoome president of the United
Stales.
Tit* IIuum.
Washington, March 8.— In bis opening’
prayer In the home today the chuplaiis
feelingly alluded to the nudden death yes**
terduy of Representative Kendall, of Ken
tucky.
Mr. McMillin gave notice that be would
call up the free wool bill'' tomorrow. Tb*
way* and moan* committee had In*trusted
him to ask con aide ration tomorrow of th#
tariff question.
On motion of Mr. McCreary, of Ken
tucky, who announced the death Of‘bla
colleague, John W. Kendall, the houit
agreed to adjourn iu respect to the mem
ory of ita late member.. The speaker an
nounced aa a committee to accompany
Mr. Kendall's body to Kentucky, Mr.,
Paynter. of Kentucky; Mr. Mansur, of
Missouri; Mr. Amerman, of Pennsyl
vnnln; Mr. Bailey, of Texas; Mr. OwetiSp
of Ohio; Mr. Wilson, of Kentucky; Mr.
Belknap, of Michigan. The commlttew
will leave at 2 o'clock tomorrow.
Washington, March 0.—In the house,
after some unimportant business hadfbeeia
done, the house went Into committee of th*
whole on the free wool bill. Mr McMUIlia
took the floor and opened the tariff debate.
He herein by saying tt»t the last congress
imposed the highest tax ever levied Id
this country and made the most extrava
gant appropriations e»cr made In time of
peace. 1'he p esent congress would cor
rect this. The farmer now realized fron»
2 to H cents per pound loss ou his wool
than formerly; labore s' wages have not
increased under tlie McKinley law and
he had to pay more for the necessities of
life. The McKinley bill had' increased
the tariff of i*83 15 per cent, and th*
rate of duty was higher on the necessariea
than on the luxuries of life. The con
sumer had not been considered and tb*
manufacturer and trust combinations bad
been protected. The greed of the seller
and not the need of the buyer was the
measure of the rate of duty. 'this only
differed from highway robbery in having
the sanctity of the law. He alluded to
Blaine's reciprocity aclieme which bo
called undemocratic and unrepublican and #
unamedcan. The president in bis disere-*
tlon could impose or remit certain taxes*. ‘
Such a power was unprecedented and if
exercised iu England the queen would
lose her orowu if not her head.
Washington, March 10.—The attend
ance in the house today was sraalL Them
seems to be little interest iu the tariff de
bate.
The naval appropriation bill was re
ported and referrc.i to the committee oi
the whole. The bilk to classify and pre
scribe salaries of railway postal clerk*
was reported; also a bill to protect for
eign exhibitors at the world’s fair against
prosecution under the United States in im
post tax.
Washington, March 11.— In the house
today Mr. McMillin asked unanimou*
consent that the private bill day be dis
pensed with in view of the tariff
discussion and that the two
hours tomorrow previous to lb*
eulogies at 2 o’clock on Hon. J. R Gam
ble, of Dakota, be devoted to the consid
eration of private bills.
The house then went into committee of
the whole on the free wool bill.
Mr. Stevens, democrat, of Massacho
setts, spoke fr, in the standpoint of
the manufacturer. Reduced taxes
aud lower prices, he said al
ways increased consumption. Fre*
wool meant lower prices and belter goods.
T he one was equivalent to the other and
the American people would have reason
to complain if this did not ensue.
Quoting from leading manufacturer*
of this country he showed that
the free wool bill was satisfactory to them.
If the bill was passed it would result la
infinite good to the people.
Mr Montgomery, democrat, of Ken
tucky, followed with a long argument I*
support of the bill.
Washington, March 14.—In the boose
today a message from the president trans
mitting the agreement between the United
States commissioners and the Cherokee
r ation regarding the Cherokee outlet in
Indian territory, was refened to the comr
mittee on Indian affairs.
A joint resolution was passed authorise
ing the joint committee on printing to in
vestigate the subject of a site for the pub
lic printing office and report to congress.
On motion of Mr. Bowman, of Iowa, a
bill was passed to make Couneil Bluffs,
la . a port of delivery.
The following reports were made: Bill
for the settlement of claims of officers and
militiamen in the state of Missouri;
bill to construct a bridge across the Mis
souri river at Dewitt Carroll county, Mis
souri; bill to enable intermediate ports o*
the great lakes to obtain official statistics
of the amount of bu does transacted at
such *x>rts.