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ME SOUTHWKSTKKN. Kc>M UOTKK ft Mt *n.l rub* LOCP CITY. »- KER TBf WHS n B2Uf. Wiliam B Gale, a well known crim inal lawyer of Boston, la dead. The torpedo Boat Stuck ton was sue- ; cassfufly launched at Richmond. Va. Tke Fotyrke-Lrlrkt lumber company, j Chicago, icat fll-ow in Burned build ings iamdc a papers say they see a ] Slightly Better financial condition ahead. Joseph Rhodes Buchanan, a well known writer upon medical and occult j science*, to dead, aged hi. Beymoad G Wolfe, of Humboldt, la has Been appointed a teacher at t'liil «*o Indian nrkuol. Ok la hoc.a Benera E. Troesdell. for many years i connected with the St Paul Pioneer Press, has died at 1m (W. Win. The Bnaa at Montreal (Canada» ha» wtonttod $17 HU# u» the -ellef for the tke British soldier* in South Africa. At Lena pah. I. T„ Jacob Slants, city marshal, was cot In the throat by Tolly Moure. 22 years at age He may die. Berea Indians, including two women, j were drowsed Mr Ashcroft. II C.. j By the upsetting at their cam*- in the Tkompnoa river. Tke Earte of Warwick. iHidtey and I nuwdale and Vtarount Galway, deside tke I hike of Marlborough have volun teered for service in South Africa. Governor Meant in Behalf of the •late at Indiana will briny suit agrinst the Standard Oil compact, m order to lest tke legality of the state anti-trust law.. Tke cigar leaf toBnrro Board of trade : will ask congress to provide that the dnty on iMpatrtnd toinrrn Be not due until withdrawn from tke Bonded ware The Missouri valley fruit growers 1 will ask tke state to lurate an experi mental sis i mo near ait. Jo%cph. a call has been issue 1 (or a acting at St. 1 Joseph. Mrs. Johnson mother of J. G. John- j won. of tke democratic national com- ! puttee, was Burned to death at her home. Peoria 111. By her «ire-» catch ing fire. Buffalo Jones will suggest to con gress that prov i»so® shour I Ur made to preserve tke btoos of North America He Claims to hare in western Texas (he only herd. &a4I JMiy • Imp m ill FV’jujr’t tty ssuft.ll. irm| —_- #WA i>lMr rf*< ”*• »ifrr w *wp *«•* t rainu . _ mm , ^ ■ - ftr^Id prmm*r> 9 * The Cuaiu Canal company, of America. «Ufe aa utkerltwl capital of tMjaSASa. mm lacorpo'wted at Tree tea. S J. Tb* Clariaaati dgtf Bcnabeturcri at* much rtawtH over the umutD< e meat that Urn Aarrktl Tobacco run pMMr, the tnsst. to tube iato the < icar Tbr*British Steamer Beaedirta ha* ! heea chartered at Philadelphia to load coal for Part apu the *r*t occasion of the kind At S meeting: of the directors of the Xatkmsl Hoard aad Paper company, j It vraieHigUMU pasteouard would Mepneneatadlre Ctartls of Kmot is caafmed to his baase la Washington bf aaother attack of boils. shi< b di* aMnd him ■> —t a pear a*o Caagrtmmsa J. W Haile? of Texas has had; kts hair cut. aad he appears aa tbe streets with a "pink*" hat. He ihrv—as to wear a druse suit oa New Year's 4«p. j THE HIMES OF 1899 Braertreet Revkwa the Record that Is Kow Left Beh nd. >T IS ONE HIGHLY ENCOURAGING. Tolame of IlManitle noil Foreign Trade the Largest K»er Recorded—A General Adtanre In Wages Also shown—Prices for Products of Labor Are Higher Than for Fight Tear*. SEW YORK. Dec. 30.—Bradstreet s review ol " i he Year in Busiuos” to morrow will say: Karelv have sanguine commercial and financial hopes or predictions l< uud such adequate realization as tcev did during 15'uy. Certainly the widespread and general upward move ment of values, alike of staples and oi securities such as occurred this year could not have been foreseen. Kinked with an immense business and record breaking production in nearly ail lines oi business and industry ex cept. jK-rhaps. in some products of the agricultural interest .there was with, it an advance of staple values, either ot which alone would have made the year notable, and combined they have served to establish the year as a re cord breaker and set up new stand ards. The volume of domestic and of for eign trade alike was the largest ever re- <>rd«*d and the bank clearings, re fle ting immense business expansion, &< live speculation in stocks and im mense new in . Huntings far sur I hissed all previous records. Prices, a a result primarily of the stimula ton proceeding from supply and de mand conditions, scored probably the g;eal»-?t advance in any single year and brought the general level of staple values to the highest point reached for more than eight years past. Fail ure statistics point to the smallest number reported for seventeen years past. These results have come to pass in the face of a considerable lessened piodu (ion of wheat and an immense tailing off in the yield of cotton. With the exception of marked speculative activity in the latter during the ear li»-r part of the season, speculation on t!u- u-ading exchanges has been more hugely confined to stocks and securi ties. In industrial affairs the year has U-en one of enormous expansion. Cer tainly nothing like the general ad vance in wages of industrial employes has been witnessed for many years and this has been accomplished with a minimum of friction entitling the year to special mention on this, if on n* other account. The close of the year finus orier books filled to from three to six months ahead in nearly ail Lines. Distributive trade was nat urally of imui'-nse volume throughout the year, though mild weather at the lose tended to modify the satisfaction with mhiih retail trade in winter fabrics was regarded. This was. how ever. partly compensated for by a holiday business surpassing all previ 90* records. Notwithstanding smaller exports of agri ultural products during the talen lar year breadstuff shipments being II per cent smaller, cattle and hog ex ports 12 per cent less and cotton ship ments. on account of the short crop, ■t lea-t 15 per cent less, there was such an expansion in our manufactured ex pert* that the entire export trade of the year will considerably exceed that oi the List calendar year, which was the heaviest recorded, and make the year no less notable in the line of for eir v than In domestic trade, with a total of exports little leas than $1,280. OOOtHMi. an aggregate, which if reach e : will mark a gain of 3 per cent over the record total of 18S>8. Imports have naturally shown a marked revival and if the gain for the eleven months Is maintained for the month of Decemlver a total little below $v*o oniHMit) would !>e expected, which would guarantee a foreign trade well in ex • s of $2,000,000,006, an amount, it might 1*** remarked, never before equalled. THIRSTON ON TH PROGRAM. *. b ilk* Ornitor t» Knponil to Toa»t "Utir t'orrigii Pollrjr." V VORK. |fet» ::«»!—Arrange R ‘ O'* have b* en practically comp eted for the annual dinner of *ne New Vork Hoard of Trade anil Tra»<pnr t.itii.n. which is to be held at the Wa'uurf-Astoria. January :it Between -o and 4* <' members of the board and their friends will be present and the dinner will be held in the large new nque- hall. Several Ini ted States senators will tie at the dinn-r and some of them will -p»ak to toasts. Among thos who have accented invitations are Senator* Kind-ley of Kentucky, Thurs ton of Nebraska. Hannan of Ohio and A. J. Beveridge of Indiana. Senator Thurston, who is the most prominent exponent in the senate or in* expansion policy, and is regarded 2 the chief representative In that t* dy of the administration on the • u. j *t. will sneak to th * toast. “Our Foreign Policy.” Former Senator Perkins of Califor nia will speak on “California and the Commerce of the I'nited States.” and :» is expected that in the course of his u marks he wul refer to our merchant i-arme and the proposed subsidizing thereof. The president has promised t attend if it is possible to leav* Washington. %M«ihcr Kt*<l to i*»ritl«- t'oait. CHICAGO. Dec. 30.—The Record to morrow will say: Another railroad to |L* Pa* ific roar,, is a strong probabil ity. Several eastern capitalists and promoter* have been in the city for *. verai days and it is said they arc conquering such a line. Among them is Warner Miller and he has admitted that his business in ( tu ago at this time is in connection * :th traffic matters anti a new western lim A line from Salt Lake to Los Aii-. ir-s is in mind and the building of it ha* been practically decided upon. snliaa In r«*r of Trawbcrr. BERLIN. D«*c. 30.—A Constantinople dispatch to the Berliner Tageblatt states that since the flight of Moham med Pasha all relatives «*f the sultan have been kept under closer obser vation than ever. A swiss named Chattier, who arranged the flight of Mohammed Pasha, received from a group of financiers interested in the Bagdad railway SO.000 francs for his aid. The sultan. It is said, was will ing to pay double this sum if Moham ad would come back. SIGNAL CORPS MEN CAUGHT. Four Killed or Captured by Flllpluos Fust of Tartar. MANILA, Dec. 30.—Six men of the signal corps were attacked yesterday at Talvera, east of Tarlac, by a force of 200 insurgents and four of them were either killed or captured. A dispatch stating that the Filipinos were harassing the entire Lingayen coast from Vigan to San Jacinto in small bands and that Lieutenant J. C Gilmore and the members of the cruis er Yorktown’s crew, who are prisoners of the rebels had been separated and were with insurgent bands in the northern mountains, was censored by General Otis on the ground that he had contrary information. The strength of the insurgents at j Mala bon caused surprise to the Amer ' icans. Merchants here are anxious to have the campaign in Cavite province be I gun. so that it may be the sooner fin ished mrid the ports be opened to trade. General Otis’ recent deciee authoriz ing civil marriage makes no provision for divorce. Only the Catholic rea sons for separation are recognized in the order. | Girls 12 years old and boys of 14 : are permitted to marry with the con sent of their parents, but otherwise they must be 21 years old. in order to remove any doubt of the status of Protestant marriages per formed during the last year by army chaplains, where one of the concen trating parties was a Catholic, Gen eral Otis’ order was made retroactive. Native women who have married sol diers without Catholic rites have been i ostracised by their relatives. Justice Arellano requested the omis sion of a divorce clause from the de cree because o fthe belief of Filipinos that a marriage tie cannot be broken. A delegation of representative Fili pinos from towns where General Law ton established civil governments, Paranaque, Baeoor, Imus. etc., called on the general’s widow yesterday and delivered an address of sympathy. They expressed deep sense at the loss of their best friend, who was a strong and just administrator. COL BRYAN IN TEXAS. Makes a Speech at Sail Antoniu to a Very Large Audience. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 30.—To i the largest audience that ever faced a i Public speaker in a hall in this city, Colonel \V. J. Bryan tonight made a speech on finance, trusts and expan sion. He stated that the democratic platform for ‘the coming campaign would be the Chicago platform of 1896. with the addition of such planks as recent industrial combinations and the late war necessitated. He spoke at : length on the money question, but made no mention of the ratio, his re marks dealing principally with the : subject of bimetallism in general, j Speaking of expansion, Colonel Bry . an said that it was clearly the duty of this country to establish a stable government in the Philippines and then turn the government over to the inhabitants of the island. Mr. Brvan leaves tomorrow for the north, where he will fill a number of engagements, and then return to Austin to spend the remainder of the winter :n Texas. IMP10YES WILL BE PAID EIRST. •Iiidgc Hunger Adjudges the Exposition Bankrupt. OMAHA. Dec. 30.—Judge Munger yesterday passed upon the application of about 100 employes of the Greater America exposition to declare that concern bankrupt. Opposing this petition, it has been asserted, the exposition was not “en gaged principally in mercantile pur • nits, and that therefore it was not entitled to the benefits of the bankrupt act. The court found that the expo sition company, while in the exposi tion business had also been engaged m mercantile business to such extent as to brine it within the provisions of 'he law. Consequently he granted the petition to declare it bankrupt. This will have ...e effect of making the employes, petitioners and all. pre ferred creditors. It also will knock ut actions uuring the latter days of the exposition designed to make soma u her parties preferred creditors. TO BOSTON UNDER GUARD. Former President of the Globe Bank (Joes Hack for Trial. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Dec. 30.—The warrant for the arrest of Charles H. Cole, formerly president of the Globe bank of Boston, on a charge of em bezzlement of $900,000, arrived today. The Cnited States marshal also re ceived a telegram from the attorney general of the Cnited States, directing j him to conduct Cole to Boston, under guard. Cole waived a preliminary ex amination he e and the start for Bos ; ton w ill lie made tomorrow . The charge c ontains four counts. The first charges | Cole with receiving $300,000 on Au gust 7 last and embezzling it, and the ; second arcuses him of embezzling $300,000 on August 17. The other two counts simply refer to these previous transactions. I.iXht for Census Takers, WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—The cen sus bureau has announced the follow ing places and datps where supervis ors in various sec tions will assemble for instructions in taking the census of 1900: Charlotte, N. C., January 4; Atlanta. January 5: New Orleans, .January 8; Houston, Tex.. January. 5; Memphis. January 11, and Cincinnati, January 12. \mrrlrRiM to K«*ep Open House. PARIS. Dec. 30.—The American col ony in Paris will recognize New Year's in American fashion. United States Ambassador Porter and Mrs. Porter will receive on Monday and any American in Paris, with or without invitation will be heartily welcomed. United States Consul General Cow dry will receive on Tuesday in order not to conflict with Minister Porter. It is announced that M. Cambon, French ambassador to the United States, will leave for Washington ear ly next week. The Prairie has completed the work of unloading the first shipment of the United States government exhibit for the Paris exposition, and will sail for the United States next Tuesday. Senator Against Senator. CONCORD. N. H.. Dec. 30.—Senator W. E. Chandler appeared as a witness in the hearing of the civil service vio lation against Senator Gal linger. Sec cretary Hoyt of the republican state committee testified this afternoon. The missing witness, John H. Walker, Senator Gallinger's secretary, has not vet been located. I CIH — Rank and File of the Army Have Faith in Roberts and Kitchiner. f EXTENT OT THE DITCH UPRISIN6 1 Brother of President of the Free State Heads a Faction Opposed to War—Ask to Return to the Farm —Menacing Forces Closely Watching Each Other. LONDON. Dec. 30.—Dispatches from all parts of South Africa emphasize i the great enthusiasm among the troops and public occasioned by the appoint ment of Generals Roberts and Kitch ener. The announcement that the for mer will have supreme command and that the latter will be chief of staff has largely dispelled the depression in Cape Colony caused by the recent re verses while the soldiers anticipate everything from the presence of “Bobs” from success in battle to caper beer. Advices from Capetown dated Da- i cember 24 say an investigation shows that the reported disaffection among the Dutch in the Victoria West crs trict has been overdrawn. The farm ers, it is pointed oiu. are mostly land owners and will not risk the loss of their farms by rising. A dispatch from Lourenzo Marquez, dated December 23, says a curious story is current, emanating from Boer sources, that Matt Steyn, brotner ot the president of the Orange Free State and 800 Free Staters have defi- i nitely refused to continue the war. Matt Stven. acting as spokesman of , the party, is reported to have told the : president that he was only authorized : to intervene in the interest of peace and that the burghers did not feel that 1 they were hound by his "uuwar- j rantable conduct,” especially as they ran the risk of confiscation of tneir property, and they simply desired to be permitted to farm in peace and pro- j posed to immediately return to theii farms. Sir Charles Howard Vincent, mnr ber of Parliament for the central di vision of Sheffield* and colonel of the Queen's Westminister volunteers, has been appointed to command the infan try division of the City of London Im- | perial regiment. The text of Colonel Baden-Powell’s proclamation to the burghers besieging Mafeking the gist of which has already been cabled comes from Lourenzo Mar quez today. After asserting that me republics cannot hope for foreign in tervention, and pretending to relate the exact attitude of all the European powers, including Emperor William, i who. the colonel said, "fully sympa- ' thizes with England,” Baden-Powell i makes the extraordinary statement \ that "the American government has i warned others of its intention to side j with England should any of them in- j terferc.” STORY AN IMPROBABLE ONE. Blinistr}' Which Disponed of Colonies Could Not Live for a Day. NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—Luis A. M. P. A. Taveira. Portuguese consul general. | said that he had no knowledge of any agreement regarding the sale of Dela goa bay, “but,” added Senor Taveira, “this does not mean that such an agreement may not have been made. I would not he likely to hear of it be fore the general public. It would not be surprising if a treaty had been made or is going to be made.’ The Portuguese charge d’affairs in the United States. Ignacio de Costa Duarte, is at present in this city. He ! declared in an interview that, in his I opinion, it would be well for Portugal to dispose of Delagoa hay and the East Africa possessions. Tney had always , been a source of trouble and were like ly to remain so. But it is not credi ble,” said Senor Duarte, "that any ! treaty has been made by which Portu- i gal has parted wTith all its colonial possessions. Any ministry that agreed j to such a treaty would not remain in power a minute, if a treaty such as described in the German newspapers j had been consummated, there would , have been some hints of it published i in Portugal to prepare the public mind.” AGENTS OT BOTRS IN KANSAS CITY Discovered l*,v British Vice Consul i Through Agents in Washington. KANSAS CITY. Dec. 28—The Brit ish vice consul here, Mr. Burrough, ! made the statement today that agents j rf The Boers are at work in Kansas ! City getting recruits for the South Af- ; rj^an war under promise of free trans portation. free lands and honorable citizenship after the war is ovo<\ The plan, he states, is to forward j such recruits to Philadelphia, which j he says is the rendezvous of the Brit ish recruits. It is his belief, however, i that not very many men have been ; sent from here to Philadelphia. The British consul secured the i names of the Boers’ recruiting agents i here by having someone write to the Boer agents in Washington asking for authority to recruit a force in this ! city, with the result that the appli cant was nut in communication with the Boer agents here. Consul Burrough states that scores of men have applied at his office for ec'i;*unent in the British army. 1 Defeuse for Frenrli Const. PARIS, Dec. 30.—The government will submit to the chamber of depu- i ties at the beginning of January a bill providing for the defense of the French roasts and colonies and to in crease the strength of the tieet. This does not involve an increase in the j expenditure. The cost of the defense of the coasts and colonies is estimated at 120,000.000 francs, spread over two and a half years. This sum will be provided for by 50.000,000 francs an- j nually set aside to pay off certain bends and which become free this year by final repayment. Horrs Mount Another Gun. PIETERMARITZBURG, Dec. 30.— A dispatch from Ladysmith, dat- j ed December 22, says: The Boers j have mounted another howitzer on ! Surprise hill, replacing the gun cap- * tured in the sortie of the rifle brigade. : While they watch us nightly with a searchlight and bombard the place daily, they show no signs of assault ing the town. They probably think they can starve us out, but we have plenty of provisions. The total casualities since the siege began are seventy men killed and 236 wounded. FLYER RUNS INTO A LOCAL. \ Bad Accident on the Cheyenne I.iue of the Union Pacific. DENVER, Colo., Dec. 30,—The Chey enne flyer on the Union Pacific rail road crashed into the Boulder Valley train at Brighton. Colo., at 6 o'clock this morning. One man was killed and fourteen persons were injured as far .as known, as follows: Killed: WINFIELD RANDLEMAN. express messenger, Denver, body burned '.o a crisp. Passengers injured: H. S. Hooker, Olin, I., head badly cut. Mrs. Margaret Young, Mansfield, Mo., forehead cut. S. G. Hurst, banker, Brighton, badly cut and bruised. E. V. Davis, traveling salesman, Danver, head badly cut, back injured, ribs broken. W. G. Tompkins, traveling salesman for Bradley, Alderson & Co., Kansas City, head badly cut, back injured. C. H. Payne, Laramie, Wyo., head badly cut, right hand smashed. Mrs. McCanna, Laramie, bruised. Trainmen and sectipn men injured: Fred Laws, brakeman, Denver, right leg cut off. Michael Regan, section foreman, Denver, head badly cut. Thomas McGoovern. section fore man. Denver, head badly cut. John Kennedy, Denver, badly cut and bruised. John Carrington. Denver, head cut. Frank Sloan, Denver, cut and bruised. Jerry Flannery, Denver, back nurt. Conductor McAllister of the Bould er Valley train was crazed by the ac cident. He attempted to jump into the burning wreckage and had to be forcibly restrained. The Boulder Valley train left Den ver a little late this morning, and. a? usual, stopped at Brighton, which is the junction for the Boulder Valley line from the main line to Cheyenne. It was here that Banker Hurst of Brighton got on the train, just before the collision. The Cheyenne flyer. I'nion Pacific train No. 3, also left Denver late and in coming into Brigh ton in the early morning dusk ran into the rear end of the Boulder train, tel escoping two or three cars and derail ing the passenger locomotive. The section gangs from the Denver yards and a half dozen passengers occupied the Boulder train. Two cars on the flyer were burned. Mrs. Young was in the chair car with six children. None of the chil dren were hurt. Superintendent Deuel went out on ^ special train from Denver with Drs. Lemon and Taylor. They also took a lot of stretchers and other supplies. They found all the wounded at the Brighton hotel, being cared for by the citizens. The Brighton hose com pany was pouring water on the blaz ing baggage car and had discovered the remains of the dead baggageman. Superintendent Deuel says he can not understand why the Boulder train was not on the sidetrack. It had twenty minu.es to clear the Cheyenne flyer. The Boulder train consisted of fourteen loaded freight cars and a heavy caboose. Engine No. 815, the big machine hauling the flyer, lies out on the prairie, a total wreck, as evi dence how hard the crash was. The wounded were brought to Den ver about noon and taken to hospitals. ABLE TO CONTROL THE PLAGUE. Honolulu Authorities Take Prompt Action—Not Seriously Alarmed. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 30.—Mail advices from Honolula to the Associ ated Press regarding the bubonic plague situation say: President Dole, while realizing the seriousness of the situation, does not believe there is much cause for alarm. The president thinks there is no danger to those whose houses, persons and food are cleanly. He has unbounded confidence in the ability of the board of health to quickly stamp out the disease. Some physicians say that the disease is not black plague. Public opinion is divided also. Many believe that if the plague were present in Honolulu the inhabitants of Chinatown would be carried off by the hundreds on ac count of the filthy condition of the dis trict. Another interesting phase of the case is the fact that no Japanese have been attacked. They live in large numbers in the quarantined dis trict. The council of state met in extra ordinary session on December 12 and appropriated $25,000 for immediate use of the board of health in combating the plague. All of the district outside of Hono lulu are in a clean condition and there is little danger that the plague will gain a foothold in the other islands. Roland Renl Not Kxpfcteil to Live. NEW YORK. Dec. 30.—Roland Reed, the actor, who was operated on Tues day last at St. Luke’s hospital, was reported to be resting quietly last night with little change in his condi tion for better or worse. There is some doubt as to whether or not he was operated upon for can cer. as reported. His trouble was orig inally announced as appendicitis and later as cancer of the stomach and it was said that half of his stomach was removed. His daughter has arrived and is con stantly at his bedside with her mother. Many flowers and messages of sym pathy arrive daily, but all but a few of the flowers are kept away from the sick room. It is feared that if the mes sages were read to him they might alarm him. While he is not expected to live everything possible is being done for him. Trial of the Torpedo Seat. PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 30.—The tor pedo boat destroyer Goldsborouyi which the Wolff & Zwicker Iron woras of this city have completed, was given her first contractors’ trial to day on the Columbia river. Her per formance today was considered re markable by the naval officers on board. She steamed sixty miles at half speed without the slightest acci dent to her machinery. The Goldsbor ough. on her official trial, will be re quired to make thirty knots per hour. I I,at!y Wilson Safe at Mafeklng. LONDON. Dec. 30.—A war office dis patch from Colonel Baden-Powell dat ed December 12. after announcing that Lady Sarah Wilson had arrived :-afe and well at Mafeking adds that thu bombardment and musketry fire con tinue daily on all sides and that the health and spirits of the garrisoa are very satisfactory. Gold Exports to Europe. NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—Heidelbach. Ickelheimer & Co., will ship $1,600,000 gold by tomorrow’s steamer. This makes a total for tomorrow so far en gaged of $2,850,000. | UVE STOCK AND PRODUCE. I Omaha, Chicago and New York Market Quotation*. SOUTH OMAHA LIVE STOCK. SOUTH OMAHA, Jan. 1.—CATTLE.— The general tendency was lower. Chi cago came lower and that did not help this market any. Stockers and feeders scare. Beee steers. $2,754)5.40; Texas steers, $3.304/4.40; steers and heiers. $3,754/ 5.10; cows. JC.404/4.25: heiers. $2,604/4.05; bulls. $2,504/4.25; Stockers and feeders. $3,234)4.45: stock cows and heifers. $3.2Vu 4.45: stock calves. $4,304/4.73; calves, $3.50 4/6.50; stags. $4,104/4.73. HOGS—Some of the heaviest buyers were plainly acting on the bear side and were holding back and not trying to ou> many at the prices ranging. It resolved itself into a $4.121~4/4.13 market, at which range the most of the early hogs were sold. Later on after the more urgent or ders were filled, the market eased up and the close was slow. SHEEP—Good to choice fed yearlings. $4,354/4.60; good to choice heavy wethers, $4,104/4.30; good to choice light wethers. $4,254/4.50; good to choice fed ewes. $3.73 4/4.0uftifair to good fed ewes, $3,404/3.63; good to choice native lambs. $5,204/5.60; good to choice fed western lambs. $4.S54z 5.15; feeder wethers, $3,754/3.90; feeder yearlings, $4,004/4.25; good to choice leeder lambs. $4.25414.60; fair to good feeding lambs, $1,004/4.23. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET. CHICAGO. Jan. l.-CATTLE+Steers generally active and steady; inferior kinds, slow. Texans tirm and active; cow market and canners strong; stockers and feeders steady; good to choice, $5.50 96.50; poor to medium. J4.TOfj5.20: mixed stockers, $2.0093.S); selected feeders. $4.25 94.75. HOGS—Active and 5910c higher: top, $4.40: closed steady: good clearances; mixed and butchers, $4.0594.40; good to choice heavy, $4.30f>4.40; rough heavy. $4.0594.17*2: light. $4.009 4.32*2; bulk of sales. $4.25'14.30. SHEEP—Good to choice sheep and lambs steady; common and medium grades weak to 10c lower; native wethers, $4.309 4.75: lambs. $4 0095.90; western weth ers, $4.259 4.75; western lambs, $5.4095.Ml. KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK. KANSAS CITY. Jan. 1.—CATTLE— Market fairly active and ruled steady for desirable lote: plain stuff shade lower; heavy native steers, $5.2095.85; light weights. $4.3595.50: stockers and feeders, S3.4095.00; butchers’ cows and heifers. $3.2094.50; canners. $2.509 3.29; fed west erns. $4.0095.25; western feeders. $3,009 4.30; Texans. $3.759 4.25. HOGS—Good all around demand and strong to 5c higher; heavy mixeo. $4.30; light. $3.9094.23: pigs. $3.6593.85. SHEEP—Ail desirable stuff active and steady: few very plain lots lower; tamos. $4.2595.50; muttons. $4.1594.60; stockers and feeders. $2.759 4.25; culls, $2.0093.<9. NEW YORK PRODUCE. NEW YORK. Jan. 1.—WH12aT—Closed steady at V'O-iC net decline; March 74789 75**0, closed at 75**c: May 74 9-16974**0, closed at 743*c; July 74*29 74\c; closed at 74*2c; December closed at 72**c. CORN—Spot, easy: No. 2. 4oHc f. o. b. afloat, and 39**c elevator. Options opened dull and easy, with a downward ten dency. owing to large receipts, lower ca bles, heavy selling west and light export trade. Closed steady with wheat at un changed prices. May. 38**9 38T*c, closed at 38"sc; December closed at 39c. OATS—Spot, dull; No. 2. 29c; No. 3. 2S*-_-c; No. 2 white. 31e; No. 3 white, 30c; track white. 31954t2c; track mixed west ern. 2993042C. Options slow. CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET. CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—WHEAT—No. 3 sprin. 60965*20; No. 2 red. 67**968**e. CORN-No. 2, 3o-V'31c; No. 2 yenow. 31 93P*c. OATS—No. 2. 22*20; No. 2 white. 25926c: No. 3 white, 24*jC. RYE—No. 2, 52*2C. RARLEY-No. 2. 389 43c. SEEDS—No. 1 flaxseed and northwest, $1.49*2; I*rime timothy seed, $2.35. PROVISIONS—Mess pork, per 100 lbs.. $5.3095.62*2. Short ribs sides (loose). $5.3) 95.45. Dray salted shoulders (boxed), $5.37*2*95.50. Short clear sides (boxed >, $5.5095.60. LIEUT, TAYLOR MEETS DEATH. Killed by Train While Crossing a River In tlie Philippines. WASHINGTON. Dec. 30.—General Otis at Manila cabled tbe war depart ment today that First Lieutenant Ed ward R. Taylor. Twelfth infantry, was run over by a train crossing the Agno river near Bautista December 26 and died in a few hours. Lieutenant Tay lor was born in Illinois and was ap pointed to the army from Idaho in June, 1S89. He was graduated at the Military academy and assigned to the Twelfth infantry, with which he served in South Dakota and Nebraska up to the time of the outbreak of the Spanish war, when he accompanied the expedition against Santiago, Cuba. At the close of the war he rejoined his regiment and served in Kansas and Missouri until February, 1899, when he accompanied his regiment to the Philippines, where he remained to the time of his death. START ANTI-TRUST CAMPAIGN. Travelers and Hotel Men's League Open lleadqnarters. NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—Headquarters in New York of the Commercial Trav elers and Hotel Men's Anti-Trust league were opened today by William Hoge. secretary and treasurer of the league, and from this time on Mr. Hoge said, a vigorous campaign is to be urged among the different commercial travelers’ associations and also among hotel men to organize them against the trusts. The league was strated in Au gust last and a membership of 12,000 has been enrolled. Kills Man and Horses Too. KEARNEY, Neb., Dec. 30.—Mm Un ion Pacific eastbound fast mail ran into a team that was crossing the Hack at Shelton at 11:30 a’elout this morning, killing William Lipomcott, the driver, and both horses instantly and scattering wheat anil pieces of the wagon in every direction. The man and horses were terribly mangled. Inppincott was a farmer living on the island south of Shelton. The tiain does not stop at Shelton anil was run ning at nearly full speed. Engineer Austin anil Conductor Dunbar were in charge. After the accident the train stooped anil backed up to the s ation to ascertain the extent of the damage. Kansas Kditor S^nt to .Jail. TROY. Kan.. Dec. 30.—Pool Grin stead. editor of the Wathena Star, was sentenced in the district court here today to eleven months' impris onment in the county jail under a conviction of criminal libel. The conviction is an outgrowth of a legislative scandal, the editor hav ing accused State Senator John Fulton of Brown county of accepting a bribe in connection with the location of a new’ state insane asylum. Senator Fulton was the complaining witness. Grinstead will edit his paper from the county jail. Two Train* Collide. PALMEER LAKE. Colo., Dec. 30.— A Colorado Midland passenger train northbound, and a Santa Fe freight train has a head-end collision two miles south of this place, Fireman Ed gar Jones of the Santa Fe being killed and Engineers Leavitt and Turk be ing seriously hurt. No passengers were injured. The cause of the col lision is not yet known. Normandy fishermen complain of the sudden appearance of cutlefish, which the making inroads on the fish eries. A Boston Man riea«ed. In conversation with some friends, a prominent Boston man told of his sufferings from rheumatism and ner vousness. and one of his friends gave him some advice, which will be men tioned later, and which has proven to be of incalculable value. To successful!ly act on this advice, it was necessary to make a trip of over 2,000 mlies, but he undertook it, and now thanks his friend for the advice, as he, finds himself fully re lieved of his old trouble and has re turned to his home feeling able to cope with his business demands, a new man. The advice given was to go to "Hot Springs.” South Dakota, and there take the baths and enjoy the finest cli mate of any health resort in America. If this man was satisfied after mak ing a long trip, those residing within a few hundred miles and similarly af flicted can certainly afford to try it, or rather can’t afford to neglect to try it. Ask any agent of the North-Western Line for full particulars, or write .1. R. BUCHANAN, General Passenger Agent, F. E. & M. V. R. R„ Omaha, Neb. Maurice Barrymore’s wit is far famed. but a neat little witticism at his expense was Augustus Thomas* laconic criticism of one of Barrymore's plays. The playwright had been mercilessly picking flaws in the actor's drama until the good natured “Barry" winced. "Oh, come. he inter rupted, "don’t be quite so hard, if it s not an ‘Alabama.’ Just remember that I wrote it in a week. "Did you, Barry?” retorted Thomas; “Then you must have loafed.” Important Inventions. Patents have been allowed upon ap plications prepared and prosecuted by us for interesting subjects as follows: To C. W. Cross, of Grinnell, for an auxiliary air heater adapted to be con nected with a stove in such a manner that it will receive and direct the pro ducts of combustion and aid in warm ing and circulating air in a room, as required to maintain a uniform tem perature, by admitting cool air at its botom, heating it and discharging it at us top. An undivided half is assigned to W. S. More of same place. To J. Morgan, of Atlantic for a plant planting machine adapted to be ad vanced across a field by horses to set out cabbage and tobacco plants in rows at regular distances apart. A boy on the machine hands plants in succession to automatic plant holders on a wheel and as the wheel revolves it places the plants in a furrow in ad vance of the wheel by a furrow opener and furrow' closers immediately cover the roots and rollers pack the ground around the roots. An undivided half has been assigned to E. Whitney, of Chicago. < Printed consultation and advice free. THOMAS G. ORWIG & CO., Registered Patent Attorneys. Des Moines, Iowa. Dec. 27, 1899. Requirements for pul: lie school teachings in Alabama are very simple. Applicants for third grade certificates, which allow' the holder to teach for two years, are obliged to be exam ined in arithmetic only through frac tions, and in geography only through the primary grade. Winter Excursion*. 1 The Southern Pacific Company and its connections operate the best first and second-class service to California, Arizona, Texas and Mexico. Through Pullman Palace Sleepers and Tourist Sleepers from all principal eastern points. Personally conducted Tourist Excursions from Cincinnati, Louisville, St Louis. Chicago. St. Paul, Minne apolis, Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas City. etc. For particulars and descrip tive literature write W. G. Neimyer, Gen’l Western Agent, 238 Clark St., Chicago; W. H. Connor, Com‘1 Agent, Chamber Commerce Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio, or W. J. Berg, Trav. Pass Agt., 220 Ellicott Sq.. Buffalo. N. Y. Booksellers in New York report an increased demand for Kipling's poetry since the announcement that General Lord Roberts is to take charge of the South African campaign for the Brit ish. Kipling had more to do with obtaining recognition for General Rob erts than anyone, with t’iat poem of his on "Boba.'’ This is the particular set of verses that purchasers of the Kipling books want to read again Your clothes will not crack if you use Magnetic Starch. The length of the world's railways is more than seventeen times the cir cumference of the equator. New Inventions. Last week 59 patents were issued to United v States inventors, and of j this number 37 per cent / were either partly or en tirely sold before they were issued. Amongst the prominent manufac turing concerns who purchased patents were the following: Dempster Manufacturing Co., Des Moines, la., Fitzgerald Meat Tree Co., Chicago, 111., Gathmann Torpedo Gun Co., Chica go, Ill Gates Iron Works, Chicago. 111., Oakman Motor Vehicle Co., Chicago, Ill United Coke and Gas Co., Philadel phia, Pa., Page Woven Wire Fence Co., Adri an. Mich., Nordlinger Fire Works Co., New York City, Vaughan Machine Co., Portland, Me., Union Cash Register Mfg. Co., Tren ton, N. J., Inventors desiring free information as to the best methods of procuring and protecting patents should address Sues & Co., Patent Lawyers and So licitors, Bee Bldg., Omaha, Neb. Dr. Frankland always wore spec tacles. One day on Ludgate Hill a porter passing him was nearly pushed off the pavement by an unintentional motion of the uoetor. The fellow, with characteristic insolence, exclaimed: “Damn your spectacles!” Frankland. smiling, observed: “It is not the first time they have saved my eyes.” 44An Empty Sack Cannot Stand Upright.” &fjtHhcr can poor, weak, thin blood nourish and sustain the physical system. For strength of nerves and muscles there must be pure, rich, •vigorous blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is established as the standard preparation for the blood by its many remarkable cures.