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About Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1892)
i i i V IS k THE FIGURES NEBRASKAS S0372i 253801 303m 1126 65 34 535 bl731i 2220793 1925 115009 4036W 33SyS 426 1 2230S3 1301 S0505 323340 232430 7025 79260 13U9G0 Merrick Madison Xemana Nance Nuckolls Otoe Pawnee Perkins Phelps Platte Pierce Polk Koi Willow Kichardion Rock Saline Sarpy Saunders Seward Sheridan Sherman -Sioux Stanton Thayer Thomas Thurston Valley Washington Wayne Webster 3S9970 Wheeler S71545 York 23730 523675 Total 1068395 N w ttlLLIOlJS OF DOLLARS REACHED EXPORTS BY t Condensation or u itoport TChch Deputy Labor Commissioner Andres Has Hand ed to tlie Governor V 1 ino Showing lor J1 the Counties Nebraskas Export Trade Nothing will be more valuable among the reports submitted to the Legisla ture when it assembles on the first of the year than that from the Bureau of Industrial statistics upon the surplus -of Nebraska products It has long been a noted fact that by far the larger proportion of the varied products of the field never cross the boundaries of the county in which they are raised At a close estimate it may be stated that not one third of the production of Nebraska agricultural interests are shipped out of the htate and yet the report of the bureau shows that in the year ISJl Ne braska shipped to market in round numbers SCO 000000 worth of products The method adopted by Commissioner Andres to secure facts upon which he ba es his statistics were those best cal culated to insure accuracy ly mak ing personal visits to the general man agers of the various lines of railway doing Business in the state he inter ested them in his project Each agreed not without some persuasion to furnish him an itemized statement of every pound of freight billed for shipment at every city town village and way sta tion in Nebraska These statements were grouped by counties In every case where possible j the statement had been reduced to car- loads by the railway managers but where the items were too small the work of reduction was performed at the office of the ommissioner The -work of making up the report was com menced last spring and has kept the Commisoner and his assistant Mr Beecher busy almost night and day large county map of the state has been prepared and upon the space devoted to the several counties will be printed the shipments from that county This map will form a part of the printed re port and will be an excellent birds eye view of the surplus products of the state Following will be found the value of the outshipments of the sur plus arranged by counties It will be noted that no report is concluded from Douglas and Lancaster Counties The report from one of the leading lines of railroad in the state is yet to be fur nished The manager of the road as sures the Commissioner that the work is progressing as rapidly as possible and that it will doubtless be ready be fore the report is placed in the hands of the printer Until the reports from this one road are in the shipments from Douglas and Lancaster Counties wil not be furnished for publication as under the agreement with the rail TCad managers the figures are to be published only in the aggregate Fol lowing is the report by counties Counties Value Counties Value Adams S 76GU75 Johnson 9946Ga Antelope 371775 Kearney 022193 Blaine 60145 Keith 220110 Boone 649 597Kimball 5i110 Box Butte 184190Knox 530300 54400J 781395 1181900 1052023 487060 825280 5007930 988970 3 2015 63S 705 1080515 45S957 447iS 29 -360 1582035 91971 1740477 1005770 1901215 1072202 820P60 277350 153505 305705 939525 62763 37163S 2SS6G5 1164730 868095 518300 65085 1152840 559703091 Eighty counties marketed 3S0100 head cattle seventy five counties mar keted 1431340 head hogs sixty nine counties marketed IS 940 head horses and mules fifty three counties mar keted 195 G0 head sheep eighty coun ties marketed 9S21000 bushels wheat seventy two counties marketed 24293 500 bushels corn sixty seven counties marketed 1192 000 bushels oats forty five counties marketed 438000 bushels barley twenty seven counties marketed 330500 bushels tarley and rye bixty five counties marketed 803500 bushels rye sixty five counties marketed 1351000 bushels flax fifty nine counties marketed 469 350 barrels of flour seventy one counties marketed 175158 tons of hay thirty counties marketed 101S cars of provisions seventeen counties marketed 41 cars mixed stock twenty three coun ties marketed 1G8 cars of dairy prod ucts thirty seven counties marketed 752 cars of building brick twenty eight counties marketed 923 cars of fruit twenty seven counties marketed 170 cars of potatoes fourteen counties marketed 49 cars of mixed seed fifteen counties marketed 125 cars of mixed grain thirty five counties marketed 107 cars of mill stun seventeen coun ties marketed 357 cars of sugar beets three counties marketed 02 cars beet sugar ten counties marketed 39 cars poultry twenty nine counties marketed 754 cars broom corn nine counties mar keted 134 cars canned goods ten coun ties marketed 90 cars hides and tallow fourteen counties mancetod 1732 cars ice ten counties marketed ls9 cars wood seventeen counties marketed 71 cars lumber live counties marketed 172 cars lime five counties marketed 15574 cars packing house products four counties marketed 74S0 cars dressed beef NEBRASKA AT CHICAGO preparations for the Worlds Fair Arc Well In Hand Mrs John Briggs Nebraskas representative on the Board of Lady Managers for tho Worlds Fair has re turned from Chicago where she at jonded a meeting of the board and she a enthusiastic in her reports of prog ress One of the new things decided upon said Mrs Briggs is a series of semi monthly concerts in tho womens building at which only amateur female singers who have been residents of America at least ten years will be i lowed to appca Candidates for places will be tested by a committee and must be satisfactory to Mr Theodore Thomas iermtesion to appear at these concerts will be a mark of high honor and 1 sincerely hope Nebraska I will be well represented for I know we have many sinners abundantly able In that event I would also like to see Ne braska honor each of her representa tives with a suitable medal and if any private persons wish to offer rewards for such service our board will be glad to hear from them The project of a family dormitory has been abandoned but the plan for womens dormitories is considered prac tical and excellent The time for mak ing application for shares in this enter prise expires the last of December and J can endorse the scheme as perfectly reliable Work on the construction of the Childrens Home began Nov J when Mrs Palmer turned the first sod with a silver spade Nebraska has about 30 of its quota of S400 yet to raise Right here I would like to answer the many inquiries with regard to our state building as the impression here at home seems widespread that it is very inferior How this has tome about J am not able to say as usually the critics have not seen in and some dis claim all knowledge of it except that it is very bad The day we visited it we found It locked Therefore 1 can only judge of its exterior but J must consci entiously say we were favorably im pressed with its appearance It has a line location and I expect to see it made by the deft fingers of our Ne braska ladies and the state board one of the handsomest on the fair ground both within and without Commissioner Seth P Mobley of Grand Island reports steady and sub stantial progress in the preparation for the Nebraska exhibit Several car loads of the choicest cereals and im perishable products of the state have been collected and stored representing the crops of 1391 and 1S92 selected from every quarter of Nebraska and properly credited to the locality pro- since the first reports were received A ducing them The collection includes Buffalo 1214403 Lancaster Brown 3ui3 incoiu Burt 3303151 Butier i40S4 0 Cass Cedar Cherry Chevenne Clay eolfax Cuming Custer Dakota Dawes Dawson Deuel Dixon Dodge Douglas Dundy Fillmore Franklin Frontier Furnas Gage Garfield Gosper Grant Greeley Hall Hamilton Harlan Hitchcock Holt Hooker Howard Jefferson Iib3i8i0 52GlilD 284570 25 955 SSS7H5 103 1470 llli5230 all the grains and cereals both threshed and in the straw all tho grasses speci mens of timber etc Mr Mobley is confident there has al ready been collected an amount and quality of material sufficient to make one of tho very bet agricultural dis plays at the great exposition In the horticultural department too arrange menes have been made to have as fine a showing as can be presented by any new state In the educational department he says most thorough and painstaking work has been done with the view or convincing all comers that Nebraska stands well at the head in educational advancement which constitutes her chief pride The women of Nebraska too have been very active and have plans well matured for a splendid show ing of the work done by women to ad vance both the material and educa tional interests of the state The zeal of the women having this branch of the work in charge he declared most commendable and praiseworthy their efforts being highly appreciated by the commission The apiary and dairy de partments have been given special at tention by the most competent bee butter and cheese experts in Nebraska and Mr Mobley feels warranted in say ing that no state in the Union will make a better showing in these depart ments The Nebraska building has Keen completed It is large and rather plain more substantial than orna mental but withal acknowledged by all to be one of the best buildings on the grounds for tho money invested as well as one of the most conveniently ar ranged for the purDOse intended It is tho policy of the Columbian Commis sion to attract the attention of the peo ple by the excellent exhibit of tho products of the state rather than by expensive architectural display The building occupies a most conspicuous place and will be used chiolly as a state headquarters building and a resting place for Nebraska people and their friends and tor conducting the business affairs of the commission It will also contain the special county case exhib its and decorative cereal panel exhibits of the various counties of tho state taking advantage of that opportunity offered them for individualizing tho said counties in a manner impossible in the general exhibit where Nebraska as a state will seek to shine as a dazzling star Mr Mobley says arrangements are also being made to distribute in one room of the Nebraska building dainty delicacies in the food line in the form of souvenirs showing the possibilities of the various food products of Ne braska On the second floor of the building space has been set apart for a general reading room in which files of all Ne braska newspapers will be kept and where will be made also the state news paper exhibit the work of which is now well advanced Commissioner General Garneau had the good fortune to se cure the services of lohn C Bonnell as special designer for the arrangement of the agricultural exhibit That gentle man has been at work for many weeks preparing designs D The scope of the exhibit will bo gov erned to a great extent by the action of the coming legislature in the matter of an appropriation lie fays that to make and maintain a fit representation will require the appropriation of at least 8100000 in addition to the amount previously appropriated Superintendent Fitzpatrick has re ceived a letter from W N Ilailman of the Worlds Fair Educational Commit tee urging the necessity of calling a meeting or an prominent eaucators in the state to take action upon the uues tion of a building for the edcational department at the fair Mr Mailman says there is great danger that tne Board of Managers will not comply with requests of the Educational Asso ciation for a separate building unless there is a special effort made all along the line He suggests the advisaliiity of gettinx tho leading newspapers to take the matter up and in this way bring the Board of Managers to a sense of its duty in this particular The first agreement was that the ed ucational department should have i00 000 square feet of space The mana gers have shaved this allowance down to 60000 and that in a gallery in ma chinery hall The leading educators are indignant and very much discour aged over tho prospect Glail Tidings A country newspaper correspondent in Maine recently sent this cheerful bit of news to his paper Brooks is at last provided with a nice hearse and our oitlzens can now be conveyed to their graves in decent shape This 1b some thlng that has41cng been needed here sW3k J I Ma DEATH OF JAY GOULD WALL STREET WIZARD SUC CUMBS TO CONSUMPTION All the Members of His Family at Hla Bedside When Death Came Career of the Great Financier from Poverty to Wealth PaHses Peacefully Awliy Jay Gould the greatest financier the Cnited Slates has ever known died at his Fifth avenue residence in New York at 912 oclock Friday morning His end was peaceful The troubles from which he died were diagnosed as consumption of the stomach supple mented with a bilious attack Twelve hours before his death he Avas prostrat ed by a nervous attack and his physi cian Dr Munn was summoned Every member of the Gould family was also summoned and they watched at his bed side until the end came The death of the great financier in spired unusual regret but it did not cause any sensational break in tho rtfSxai 5s aSi IP r m mM rmmmsr a JAY GOULD mi My iir w stock market in which for twenty years he was the most important fig ure The market was not oven shaken It was not believed until 2 oclock in the morning that Mr Gould was going to die He had been prostrated several times within the past three years The attack was thought to be like the others merely temporary Sketch of the TVIzirds Career Jay Gould was a native of Roxbury N Y where he was born on the 27th of May 1830 His early life was spent on a larm Ho entered Hobart College when 14 years of age paying for his tuition with money earned by keeping the books of the village blacksmith dur ing the evenings He developed a tasto for surveying and one of his earliest en terprises was the publication of a coun ty map of his own drawing The ac curacy of the work attracted attention and ho was employed ly the Legislature to make a topographical survey of tho State For several years he was en gaged in this work and in making sur veys of several counties in Ohio and Michigan In 1856 he became associated with Zadoek Pratt in the management of a tannery and conducting a large lumber ing business He soon purchased his partners interest and sold his plant just in time to avoid the panic of 1857 He invested his money in a bank at Stroudsburg Pa purchased bonds of a Vermont railroad at their lowest price 10 cents on the dollar and realized fourfold from the increas3 in value within a year He removed to New York City in 1S3J where he be came a broker and invested largely in tho stock of the Erie Road He soon became President of that company and remained in the cLrictory till lb2 he and James Fisk being the controlling spirits of the corporation Ho invested largely in the stock of thexVtlantic and Pacific Telegraph Com pany and a favorable opportunity oc curring he obtained a controlling inter est A depression in the stock of the Western Union takins place he was enabled to grasp control of that cor poration also and he consolidated the two not only increasing the value of the Atlantic and Pacific properties by a favorable alliance but also benefiting the Western Union by destroying competition The Ameri an Union and the Mutual Union companies both organized as competitors of tho Western Union were subse uently absorbed bj methods known best to the stock manipulators of Wall street and the monopoly of the telegraph business was assured to the Western Union In 1887 he pui chased a controlling interest in the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad and obtained a joint interest with the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Bailroad in the Atlantic and Pacific and the western portion of the Southern Pacific Eoad He was either bull or bear as best suited his purpose to pluck the unwary fool who dared attempt to trade in his favorites and hundreds of fortunes of the too venturesome passed into his coffers Like a giant octopus he guard ed his properties and his tentacles grasped and destroyed all within reach Compassion was an unknown quality in his breast Friend and foe alike con tributed to the gratification of his ra pacity Mr Gould was free from the vices that commonly attach to men of the world He seldom indulged in wine never used tobacco and had no liking for gay or dissolute society He was devotedly attached to his family and the death of his wife several years ago was a severe blow to him Since that event his daughter Helen was mistress of his household and the two were almost inseparable Miss Helen accompaniod him ol his tours over the country sacrificing her opportunities oi shining in society that she might minis ter to his happiness His son George was his business confidant He inher ited much of the shrewdness of his father and in recent years has been the active manager of some of the most im portant of the Gould properties He married Edith Kingdon the well known actress and they are living happily to- gether In Paris it is not customary for pa tients to wait in the ante chamber of great physicians but inquiry has to be made by letters which are rarely an swered unless they come from some aristocratic quarter of the city In some cases however numbered tickets are given out at six in the morning The records of the New Haven Pub lic Library show that there wero four thousand less books drawn last year j than the year previous the decrease being almost wholly in the field of tion i J H JOLIETS BAD FA POPULISTS AHEAD Majority of A LURE Duped Depositors Talk of crfilv cutions il Prose -The condition of tho coilapS4x5 ifcy and thelnterprise Company at Joiit 111 looks more serious as the dxtys go by Everything in sight has bee a at tached The transfer of tho proptftfty of the Fishes subjects them to bitter re proach All the transfers will be con tested in the courts The trouble began by a run being ing made ou the Stone City J ank a pri vate institution operated by Henry Fish Sens Before the doors were opened a large crowd collected and no soouer did the hour for opening arrive than a feverish ciowd pushed to the tellers window and had their notes checks certificates and books turned into cash The rush grew rather than diminished with the flight of time and the fact that all comers got their monej without a murmur did not deter the others in the crowd who stood stolidly waiting their turn By 930 a m 50000 had been paid out It was evident that the pay ment could not last much longer so orders were issued to the teller to pay out no more money The crowd was jismissed with tho assurance that the bank would pay depositors every dollar and the doors wero closed to the public while the bankers with then- attorneys got their heads together to see how affairs stood and what would be best to do under the circumstances George M Fish Treasurer of the bank said We owed depositors about z50 tOO We paid out over 50000 and now owe our depositors about 175 OOi and have taken every possible measure to protect them AVe have taken pos session of tho manufactured stock of the Joliet Enterprise Company which is worth 250000 and I am sure our as sets are thus amply sufficient to pay all depositors We have let go of the en tire business by turning everything over to Chauneey J Blair of Chicago as trustee and thus the rights of all par ties will be secured The Joliet Enterprise Company is a total failure The liabilities are over 500000 while the assets are valued at about the same figures The Circuit Court and Becorders offices were busy ail day with filing of papers and record ing of deeds that pertaine 1 to the trouble The citizens are greatly ex cited Never before was excitement known to be at such a high pitch The business houses in all parts ol the city did but little business and men left their work in the mills factories farms and stores to inquire about the deposits they bad left at the Stone City Bank IN KANSAS One in the Legislature on Joint IJallot The Kansas Canvassing Board has completed the official count The can vass progressed without excitement un til the tie for member of the lower house from Coffey County was reached The statute provides that in a case of a tie the board shall determine by lot who is elected Attorney General Ives the only Populist member of the board claimed that the statute was unconsti tutional and that it was the duty of the board to decide that no election had been made and that tho Governor should call a special election All of the other members of the board insisted that the provision of the statute should be carried out and the Attorney Gen eral withdrew declining to be a party to an act that he considered unconsti tutional The remaining members of 1 oard BepuLlicans proceeded to Sf ttle the tie by drawing lots and th Republican candidate was successful In Haskell County Joseph Bosenthal a Democrat was elected by a majority of 150 but the County Clerk in certifying to the returns gave Bosenthals vote to W A Stubbs the Republican through an error As the board had no author ity to go behind the returns Stubbs was declared elected When the report from Haskell Countv was read the Populists and Democrats who were watching the count failed to notice the error and Stubba certificate was made out and mailed him The certific ates as issued give the Republi cans in the House 64 Populists 58 Democrats 2 Independent 1 In the Senate the Populists have 25 Repub licans 15 On the face of the certifi cates the Populists have a majority of 1 on joint ballot BOLD OUTLAW CAUGHT Ellsworth Wyatt a Kansas Desperado Captured Near Cory Iiul Ellsworth Wyatt one of the famous Dalton gang of Kansas was captured at the home of his uncle in the little town of Corv about fifteen miles south of Terre Haute Ind by a detachment six officers including Sheriff Hixon Guthrie Oklahoma Sheriff Stout of of of Vigo County and a posse of the Terre Haute police force Wyatt sustained his reputation as a dangerous character by attempting to shoot Patrolman Smith who was the first to enter the house where he was stopping Tne policeman was too quick for him and forced him to throw down his weapon and throw up his hands The prisoner is wanted in Kan sas for murder and there is a standing reward of 1200 offered for his arrest He is also wanted in Oklahoma to answer to nine different indictments for various charges such as shooting with intent to kill carrying concealed weap ons etc CLEVELAND GETS CALIFORNIA The Official Canvass Shows a Democratic Majority of 271 The canvass of the official returns of the vote for Harrison and Cleveland has been completed in San Francisco and the result shows the largest vote cast for Republican Presidential elector 2 4416 as against 31012 for the highest Democratic elector The Democratic elector rr ceiving the smallest number of votes has a plurality over the highest Republican elector of 0504 The aver age of votes for electors in San Fran cisco County shows a plurality for tho Democratic ticket of 6603 The aver age pluraliy for Republican electors outside of San Francisco is G422 giving the Democrats a plurality in the entire State of 271 Minor Mention The Republican plurality in Minne sota is 22157 A consignment of 5010 canary birds has arrived at New York from Ger many A 4-year-old girl of S L Leverton of Birmingham X Y tipped a plate of hot soup over her and she was scalded to death In applying for Statehood Xew Mexi co will ask that tie bill bo amended so that Spanish shall public schools fr be loiit in the NATURAL GAS FAILING MANY RESERVOIRS OF THZ FLUID ALMOST EMPTY Fast ued i -- J n0 J ui1 iiaii0 Ca - Thn On ly May Glvo Out Entirely pani AJioank FanneM CJ0MV Jzi tne Uns Field That the leckless consumption ot natural gas duvng tfhff last tea yevrs has almost empMed the vast ean reservoirs of this inflammable fluid seems certain Jtroro many points where natural gas has for years been ali ost the only form of fuel used come accounts of decreasing pressure in tho wells constantly failing supply and in many ases total cessation of the How of gas At Lima Ohio Fort Wayne Connersville and other Indiana towns the deiciency has been so great as to compel tho closing of many factories In hundreds of instances families which relied on as for heating and cooking purposes hae been obliged to recur to coal stoves and occasionally suffering has been caused by lack of fuel where adequate precautions against a failure of the natural gas supply haJ not been takt n Warning Circular Issued Th following circular recently sent out to its patrons by the Salimonio Mining and Gas Company of Fort Wayne Ind one of the largest purvey ors of natural gas- in the State shows tho straits to which consumers are re dueed To Our Patrons The supply of natural gas is certainly fail ing throughout our field and the experience of cities in Ohio promises to be duplicated in In diana After considering tho matter for some time our board reluctantly consented to the expenditure of 120000 more for the better ment of our supply and service to consumers The expense is both great and hazardous in view ot the experience of other cities Tho additional lines and wells are now being pushed as rapidly as possible and with fairly good weather we hope to give better service in the next three weeks We fear from pressut indications it will be necessary to turn otT all fiictorics but this step will not be taken until absolutely necessary In the meantime wo would advisj all manufacturers to secure a supply of coal and be prepared to have tras turned oil at any time on short notice AVe sincerelv hope our friends will bear with us and do their utmost to assist us in the present emergency Lima Ohio three yeare ago had a rock press ure on her lino of aiO pounds being much above the Indiana field to day it has fallen to HO pounds and pumps are being put in to help force the gas to consumers All her churches school houses and public buildincs have been shut oft entirely and not a boiler is supplied at any price This circular is not issued to alarm the public but to enlist their co operation and bring about a pioper use of gas and avoid all waste and extravagant use of the same Nat ural gas Is certainly the champagne of fuels and should be so used He who wastes a TOOt or It now la not only an cuemv of the company but also a public enemy Wo aro ar ranging for a display of gas saving appliances which we will have ready by the latter part of next mouth of which you will be duly ad vised SALiMONin Mining and Gas Co GOING FARTHER WEST rr K Largo Numbers of Illinois and Wisconsin Agriculturists Moving The movement of Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin farmers to Northern and Western Iowa which has been an important factor in the devel opment of these portions of Iowa during the past two or three years is extend ing further west says a Sioux City Iowa correspondent and this fall hun dreds of farmers from Illinois and Wis consin and not a few from the Missis sippi River counties in Iowa have made purchases in Northern Nebraska and South Dakota with the intention of making their homes in these States in the future The farmers came out on the annual harvest excursions given by the railroad companies Most of them come from about Council Hill Galena Pecatonica from Kane County and from the southern counties of Illi nois They invariably buy the best farms hero and pay cash for them They sell their old homes for from 40 to 70 an acre and are able to buy the best farms here for from IS to 30 per acre This leaves them enough money to put on good improvements after paying cash for their farms and still have a neat bal ance left to their credit Tiftter Farmers This movement to the West has had a great deal to do with its development It is an undeniable fact that the Illinois and Wisconsin men are Letter farmers than those they found in possession ol the country They use more machinery and give more attention to the breeding of stock and to dairy farming They are responsible for the wonderful growth of the dairy business throughout Iowa and are developing it as rapidly in the new fields they are seeking in Ne braska and South Dakota They build better houses and their farms are neater in appearance A person can come very near to picking out their places in driv ing through the country Those who ought this fall already have under way or are planning improvements that will add greatly to the value of their places and at the same time enhance the value of surrounding property Real estate men agree in saying that it is this immigration that has had more to do than any other one thing in ad vancing the prices of raw lands in this section from 4 to 6 to 10 to 15 and of improved lands from 10 to 20 to from 15 to 25 during the past two years Their coming has been a relief to many a mortgage ridden Western farmer who has received from them the money in exchange for his farm with which to clear away his indebtedness and start anew on a gooa foothold The farmer who sells generally buys cheaper lands in tho same neighborhood or raw lands and starts in again This year the sales to Illinois and Wisconsin farmers have been 0 per cent greater than ever before and it ia estimated that tho farm population of the country within a radius of 150 miles of this city will in the next eight months be increased by at least 8000 persons because of their removal to purchases made in this area The fierce competition of rival water companies has enabled the peo ple of Denver to get their water for nothing and they are looking anx iously for a similar outbreak of rivalry among decreasing Warning Clr 1 rH 4- t 9 r the saloon men Since his victory over Sullivan in the prize ring Corbett is said to have shaken hands with four million peo ple all of which goes to show that the man appointed for the removal of the unwise is not doing his work as he should do it It is utterly impossible for the best men to please the whole world and the sooner this is understood and a position taken in view of this fact the better Do right though you have enemies BIG MONEY PROBLEMS rian or Dc Kotbschlld anil Prof Soetlicer Considered with Favor The plan of M de Fothschild re ported to the monetary conference in Brussels is in brief that a syndicate of the nations be formed to make yearly nlTlinCOa rT fr fhn nmnnnf nf tocouOOO and that America continue v her purchases of silver as at nresent In tho event of the price of silver rising aoovo o uuncoTie purchases are w be at once biispcndeJ Prof botftbters plan is to establish one gramme of fine gold as the inter national unit of value and to stop tho mfating of coins containing less than oSOto grammes of pure gold The cir culation of coin ct foreign countries of less than the nc w standard wll I e pro hibited by the signing the agreement and gold coin or inferior value will bo withdrawn wthin five years Private individuals will be al lowed to coin gold upon the payment of an agreed seigniorage Gohl certifi cates may be issued against gold Teld in reserve rof So-1- beers plan also in- ludes the outage of silver in the proportion of twenty valu units of that metal to one of gold but- private individuals will not be allowed free coinage of silver It is the gen eral expectation that Mde Rothschild s proposals will be accepted by the com mittee and then referred for adoption or rejection to the conference and the Gov ernments represented with modifica tions suggested ly the scheme of M Levi and Prof Stetbeer One of the modifications will undoubtedly I e that all gold coins below the value of twenty francs be withdrawn from circulation and replaced by silver notes The adhesion of the German dele gates is now considered certain as Ilerr Deebend formerly President of tho Iieichsbank approved the main lines of Prof Soetbeers proposal The French representatives will also accept the plan of Prof Soetbeer which was com municated by 11 Tirard French ex Minister of Finance The American delegates have strong reasons to- be satisfied with the recognition of the ad vocates of monemetalism and the se riousness of the dangers arising from a further fall in silver They are disposed to support M e Rothschilds proposals on the principle that half a loaf is bet ter than no bread BAD AS THE CHOLERA Typhoid Fever Alarms St Louis New Cass Average l0 Daily The typhoid fever epidemic in St Louis has b gun to increase to an alarming extent The most deplorable development is the fact that th fatal ities have nearly doubled and that whereas the malady has heretofore been mainly conf ned to persons between the ages of 15 and 30 years it has begun to lay hold on children and on the aged Captain Joseph Labarge says that the plague is due to the recent overflow for since that time water has stood in cellars all along the river front and be come stagnant There has he says been no overflow within his memory that was not followed by numerous cases of typhoid fever Prior to 1850 and be fore there was any city sewerage tho fact wa known to everybody and well-to-do people invariably left the city after an overflow and remained away until the danger had been averted by natures cleansing process On the other hand the disease is confined al r most wholly to the city proper where nothing but city water is used and where the sewerage is good as St Louis sew erage goes The citizens are almost panic stricken Two hundred new cases developed Saturday 115 Sunday 220 Monday and 118 Tuesday According to a press dispatch Chief Sanitary Officer Francis is now engaged in making a thorough inspection of tho homes and surroundings of every one of the many hundreds of patients reported to the health department by the physi cians His report is not complete and will not be for several ays yet It is apparent to anyone who visits the City Hall that Mr Francis him self is excited He is the one official who seems to realize the citys danger but his hand s are tied The truth is that the abatement of the epidemic will rest largely with the street commissioner Ten thousand men turned loose on the streets with brooms and other implements could not remove the filth in a month The alleys are rich with nastiness and their pun gent odor pervades the downtown dis tricts from Baden on the north to Ar senal street on the south It is o shameful state of affairs for which there seems to be no remedy LUMPY JAW NOT CONTAGIOUS Result of the Slaughter and Official Exam ination of Diseased Cattle An investigation of importance to the cattle industry of the entire country has been concluded at the Chicago Stock Yards The result proved that the much-talked-of lumpy jaw at least in a mild form is curable and that the disease even in itb most advanced stages is not necessarily if at all con tagious The test was conducted by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Gov ernment Department of Agriculture and Dr Salmon chief of the bureau came from Washington especially for it3 supervision EfciSthead of cattle were brought from the jucrdale Distillery to the slaughter house of Hess Brothers at40th and Union streets A few were hopelessly diseased and had been for weeks with the others some of which were slightly affected the others per fectly healthy On these the test has been in progress for over two months and the result was mot satisfactory Iodide of potassium was usod in the treatment Terse Telegrrams The Xew York militia will probably attend the Worlds Fair in a body Kate Gbeex colored of Louisville Ky beat her 10-year-old daughter to death for lying Rogei Q MrLiiS has enough vote3 pledged to secure his re election by a large majority The Democratic majority in the House will te 32 over both Republicans and Populists The Pennsylvania Railroad will spend S2000000 in improvements in and around ashint ion A decrease in the sugar output of Louisiana from 370000000 Dounds to 300000000 is i redicted Republicans have control of the Wy oming Legislature and will elect a Re publican I nited States Senator It develops that the bunrlare dynmited the safe in the First TCatfminif T Zl i T w w at Mo secured 15 J 000 mi
