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4: ©h* *sM:*#cml ©lob* CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Carrier lmo6mo»Uinioa, Dally only 40 $2.25 $00 Dally and Sunday .... .50 8.75 6.00 Sunday IS .75 1.60 ' COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. "By Mai1vr........... mot moa mos Dally only 25 $Ho »Do Dally and Sunday 35 2.00 4. Of Sunday :.:: :±::x::: ::: 76 1.50 Weekly 78 !■« Entered «fc Postofflce at St. Paul. Mlua.. as Second-Class Matter. Address aU communications and make all Remit tances payable to THE GLOBE CO.. St Paul. Minnesota. Anonymous commu nications not noticed. Rejected, manu •cripta will net be returned- unless ac companled by postage. , BRANCH OFFICES. Jtftf* York 10 Bpruca St. Chicago.Room 609. No. 87 Washington St WEATHER FOR TODAY. Minnesota—Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday; variable winds. The Dakotas—Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday, with showers in western portions; warmer Saturday; variable winds. lowa—Partly cloudy Saturday and Sun day; variable winds. Montana—Threatening Saturday and probably Sunday; varlubje winds. Wisconsin—Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday; light northwesterly winds. ST. PAUL. Yesterdays observations, taken by the United States weather bureau, St. Paul, P. F. Lyons observer, for the twenty four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night. Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. Highest temperature 77 Lowest temperature 56 Average temperature x 66 Daily range 21 Barometer 30.i2 Humidity 60 Precipitation 0 • 7 p. m.. temperature 76 7 p. m., wind, northwest; weather, clear. RIVER AT 8 A. M. Danger Gauge Chang*ln Station. Line. Reading. 24 hours. St. Paul 14 11.0 0.0 La Crosse 10 11.4 —0.3 Davenport 15 11.5 *o 5 St. Louis 30 21.2 —0.6 •Rise. —Pall. The river will remain nearly stationary in the vicinity of St. Paul from now to Saturday night. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES. High*Spm Hlgh*Bpm Battleford ...76 70 Boston 76 66 Bismarck ....72 70 Buffalo 76 70 Calgary 72 68 Chicago 74 72 Duluth 76 72 Cincinnati ...92 90 Edmonton ...80 74 Cleveland 8S 80 Havre 74 72 Denver 84 78 Helena 72 72 Detroit 86 82 Huron 80 66 New Orleans..BS 78 Medicine Hat.S2 74 New York ...72 66 Minnedosa ...72 62 Omaha 78 76 Qu'Appelle ...72 66 Philadelphia .84 74 S. Current .. .74 74 St. Louis 90 86 Williston .. ..72 72.5. Francisco .58 56 Winnipeg .. .76 64j Washington .86- 80 ♦Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul). WILL HE RESIGN? The latest intelligence from Washington gives indication that the country is not unlikely, in a given contingency, or, more properly, in a number of given contin gencies, to lose the services, in his pres ent capacity, of the greatest war minis, ter that the country ever had. As a result in some measure of the tre mendous public Interest which attaches* to every movement of the greatest war chier aforesaid, it is of course gentra'ly known that that great man would like dearly to represent the state of Michigan In the American house of lords, to wit, the senate of the United States. The fulfillment of Secretary Alger's ambition in this direction is not as remote as it might be. Indeed, there are only a few circumstances which stand in its way at the present time. Nor does any of these circumstances seem to be wholly irremov able. First of all, none of the events are scheduled to take place before the presi dent returns to Washington. When he does, we are likely to be treated to the resignation of our great war lord. This In turn depends upon another event, and that in turn on still another. The first event on the programme was the making of a combination between the potato statesman, Pingree, and the war lord, whereby the latter may have what is termed a fighting change to suc ceed Senator McMillan. This was ac complished yesterday. Here Is where the fine Tioga hand of Statesman Platt shows itself, for, immediately on the resignation of the great war lord, that other administration joker. Gen. Horace Porter, will forthwith resign his position as ambassador to France and become tha successor of our present war lord. This in turn is to be followed by the selection of that badly neglected diplomat. White law Reid, as minister to France, to suc ceed <i*-n. Porter. The entire symmetry of this proposal, looked ;ii with the eye of a spoils expert, is deeply impressive. It is complete and rounded-out perfection in every particu lar save one. That is the co-operation In the scheme of that recalcitrant admin istrationist, Gov. Pingree. What he will do In a given contingency is not known with absolute certainly—not always even to himself—five minutes before the event. Let us hope that Brother Pingree will not interfere with the far-reaching and comprehensive plans of his Republican brethren. There have been much gray matter a:;d no little midnight oil evidently expended in the incubation of the scheme. If ho satisfied that the g. o. p., of which he is so devoted a member, can survive the loss of its great war lord, every true reformer in the land will unite in wishing the governor to give the facile plan his sanction. As he is an entirely disinterested patriot himself, the fact that he does not come in anywhere visibly In the deal offers a reasonable assurance beforehand that he will carry out the part assigned to him In it FIGHTING THE TRUSTS. If there were a number of attorneys general who took the same stringent view of their duties with reference to the existence and operation tf trusts as does Attorney General Remely, of lowa, the danger to the public Interests from those institutions would be far less menacing than It is. It Is gradually be ing made plain to the understanding of the people that the successful handling of these Illegal combinations'is not so much a matter of legislation as It Is the enforcement of the existing provisions of law by existing officials. With the proper effort made to secure the evidence neces sary to prove that the operations of a given trust are In restraint of trade. In that they are prohibitive of competition, thore is no state in the Union, no mattir what the condition of the stat utory hi ay, but would bo in a position to put an end to this evii. If fbe effort failed In one or more cases, the character of the legislation needed would be made plainer and would be more readily se- cured than It la now, when dishonest legislators are disposed to play dema gogue and to trifle with the situation. There is one feature of Attorney Gen- eral Remely's address which will com mend itself to all who desire to see these vast aggregations made amenable to the law and to sound public policy. That Is his appeal to the county attorneys of the state to take the initiative in breaking up this evil. It is in the immediate vi cinity of the chief operations of a given trust that it can be most successfully as sailed. County attorneys are generally supposed to make themselves cognizant of the violations of the law within their Jurisdiction and take whatever steps are leedful to bring the offenders to justice. With all the agencies of criminal justice at their disposal the county attorneys are of all other officials those who ought to be relied on most successfully for the necessary steps to be taken in the first instance. There is In existence a public sentiment on this score which will sustain any and every effort made in this direction; and there are opportunities for reputation and popularity awaiting the prosecuting attorney of the first large community that will take up this subject seriously along the lines suggested by Attorney General Remely. To the few legal advisers of states that have taken this matter under serious consideration, like the attorneys general of Ohio and Illinois, the people are deep ly Indebted. Until such officials do their duty voluntarily or are made to do It by the most stringent provisions of law the evil will continue, and will grow more difficult to handle as time passes. SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAYS. The Globe is sure that the Woman's Civic league is actuated by the highest motives in all its doings, and most of these are so plainly correct as to be be yond criticism, but there is a feeling among business men that it went a litt'.e too far in its resolutions for a Saturday half-holiday, especially in the clause ap pealing to the women of the city to re frain from shopping on Saturday after noons during July and August at such shops as remain open. The wholesale houses have long since so adjusted matters that every summer they give their employes Saturday after noons. A similar condition of things ex ists with the railways. The retail busi ness Is, however, a decidedly different and more difficult problem. Saturday is pay day in probably at least 85 per cent of the institutions of St. Paul, and near ly that percentage of the ladies of St. Faul whose husbands and sons work for salaries do a portion of their shopping on Saturday afternoons. This has grown into such a custom that it cannot be broken off in a week by mere sentimental considerations. Perhaps the day will come when all stores and shops of every kind will close the last half of the last day of the week, but it will not be in 1899. Both the seller and the buyer must be made to feel that the innovation will be a blessing rather than a hardship, and this cannot be done in a single season. Sprung upon a great community without warning, such a scheme would send half of us to our devotions with exasperating shortages of clothing, and possibly the other half to our Sunday dinners with ludicrous shortages of provisions. As the matter stands the merchant is worthy of consideration. His advertising is so placed, his stock of goods so ar ranged and his force of clerks so ad justed as to prepare him for a heavy Saturday teade. A sudden change of plans—such as the closing of all retail stores on Saturday sifternoo.i.s—would mean an Immediate and serious loss to him. What is needed to make a success of the half-holiday without stepping squarely on the corns of a large and in. xluential section of the city Is to work up public sentiment, change the pay day or possibly change the holiday to some other time In each week. The half-holiday, per se, is a good thing, and the G 1 o b e is heartily In favor of it when It can be had without seriously jeopardising one of the city's largest and most important business interests. IS IT USREASOXABLEf Recent advices from Manila all indicate that the Filipino soldier and his com mander are greatly encouraged by the progress of military events, and that they are looking forward to a speedy end ing of military operations and to the en forced withdrawal of the United States army. The departure of Admiral Dewcy they no doubt regard aa the mere pre lude to the complete evacuation of the Islands. If the Filipino soldiery have really reached the conclusion that they have beaten the United States, there is after all nothing so very surprisingl In the be lief. If they do not go quite so far, but believe that that result is within meas urable distance, there is much In ap pearances to justify the delusion. Theae people are more aggressive, if possible, than they have been from the outlet In all recent engagements they have inflicted considerable Injury on our troops and have ambushed bodies of our men on several occasions. They have seen our troops retreat for miles. They have witnessed the evacuation of territory taken by the Americans which could not be held for one reason or another. What more reasonable than to conclude that the Americans were driven from posi tions which they had taken at no little cost of time and labor, if not of life? It Is not probable that we have made much more advance In the subjugation of the natives since we set to work than the Spanish had accomplished at any cor responding period during their operations. There is no lack of ammunition or of rations among the enemy. The large captures of subsist ence supplies which we made some time ago do not seem to have caused anything like a famine among the followers of Agulnaldo. The feuds which have prevailed among the commanders of the insurgent army do not appear to have left the fighting men among the Tagalos wholly without direction. There Is no addition made to our force. Many of our THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1899. fighting men have left the islands, and many more are preparing to leave "when th« necessary arrangements can be mada." Why should not the untutored Filipino Imagination be impressed with the belief that these men are giving up thoroughly disheartened and afraid of Filipino prowess? Besides all this, therr Is the touching circumstance, on which the aroused Imperialist lays such terrific emphasis, that there is a large propor tion .of the American people, usually de scribed as traitors, who have done every thing to aid Aguinaldo short of forward ing military supplies to that enterprising person. It may be some day that these belliger ent Malays shall have the truth forced on them; but It is quite evident that that much-desired occasion .will not arrive until a few more bodies of bright young Americans are placed under the sod around Manila. The reinforcement which the Filipinos have been expecting has arrived, and the wet season finds Gen. Otis and his command still apparently traveling In a circle so far nt relates to the destruction of Aguinaldo's army. WHY NOT ANNEX THEM? There is muck that is pardonable in the display of feeling which attended the proposal to extend the thanks of the people of New Richmond to Gov. Sco fleld, of Wisconsin. In such a terrible crisis as that which confronted the peo ple of the beautiful little city there was much reason to expect that the authori ties of the state would have come to the rescue with promptitude and generosity. The failure to do so, however, finds much of palliation in the fact that the immediate neighbors of these people were on hand with as much speed as the dam aged condition of the roadbeds of the railroads would admit of. There is, however, another considera tion affecting the matter which ought not to be overlooked. The north western tier of Wisconsin counties ought on every reasonable arrangement of ter ritory to belong to Minnesota. The capital of that state, as well as its principal city, is practically inaccessible to them. A line running from a point west of Ash !and southwesterly to the vicinity of the Twin Cities would be a far more natural boundary line between the two states than that which now exists. The group of Wisconsin counties to the west of such a line have but a nominal connec tion with their state. Their business connections are wholly with the Minne sota cities. They are and always have been a mere outlying and neglected sec tion of that state, and their annexation to this state would be entirely acceptable to their inhabitants. The singular con dition which is observable at the head of the lakes, for instance, involves a terri torial anomaly. Duluth and West Su perior are to all intents and purposes one city. The rivalry which exists be tween them by reason of their division by the state boundary line is a serious detriment to both communities, and- will always seriously interfere with their natr ural development. Nothing which the state of Wisconsin may now do will lessen the feeling 1 of disappointment and dissatisfaction which is being felt throughout the entire tier of counties to which we refer. The state has been in the habit of regarding them, for all purposes short of the payment of taxes, as a part of the state of Minne sota. Why not make them such by the joint action of the two states? In this way whatever little dissatisfaction ex ists will be set at naught, and the people most immediately affected will have their wishes and interests properly regarded, as they are not today. And now they are saying mean things about Col. Ben Tillman, the greatest pltchforker that ever broke into con gress. They say that while governor of South Carolina he ran a farm with con victs for whose labor he paid nothing, and that he owes' the state for groceries, a load of brick and a bookcase furnished to him by Col. Neal, while superintendent of the penitentiary. Isn't the morning paper which is pub lishing New Richmond relief fund sub scriptions from Rush City, Montevideo, Frog Creek, Wis., and the Blackfoot In dian agency, Montana, as .part of the St. Paul fund running some chances of mak ing itself ridiculous? Secretary Alger says he will make hia contest in Michigan on the platform of opposition to trusts and senatorial elec tions by popular vote. Oh, Alger, what a mammoth bluff you are! And, oh, Michigan, what a chance for you to go to bat! Commie says Decker is a fine ball play er,, who has played in considerable hard luck. He has a wife and several chil- But how are Mrs. Decker and the chil dren going to feel about it when they see that item? True, we are not living in the Philip pines. No one yet has been bold enough to suggest that we stir up the friendly Maccabees to make war on the Improved Order of Red Men. It is painfully evident that Senator Hoar, during Mr. McKinley's trip to Massachusetts, totally neglected to in vite him to a breakfast of fish balls. The rush of people to Europe this sum mer is not explained as an uncon trollable desire to seek the society of Mark Hanna. A son of Don Carlos has just won $100,000 in a lottery. Good! Now he can buy the Spanish throne and present to his father. There are quite a number of Imperial istic generals in this country who don't seem to want to go to the Philippines a little bit. Some of the convicts in the Kansas penitentiary play in a brass band, but this is not what they were sentenced for. Molineux claims that prison life is af fecting his eyesight. His morals were ruined before he got inside the Tombs. If McKlnley doesn't end the war In the next six months, he'd better decline the nomination for president In 1900. Somehow the Prince of "Wales is not shaking hands quite as effusively with Tod Sloan as "once upon a time." It -was never thought possible for a pie maker to fall, except to make good pies, but Charles E. Waters, a Chicago pie manufacturer, yesterday filed a pe tition in bankruptcy. Why should Emperor William agre« with all the i members of The Hague peace conference? "He doesn't i'haye to." :. . 1 — «» DRAMATIC. . v: -. METftO^ptlTAN. ;J'■■■-•■ The Neill companji will close the .first engagement" of ther summer season at the Metropolitan with the matinee and evening " performances •; of "A Parisian Romance" today; presentation of this powerful "imoderji : ffagedy ~"~ .has .' added greatly to the reputation of the Neill com pany for artistic versatility. .- Mansfteld. individualized tAe <jflay, and made •" the character of Baron Chevrial greater than the play" itself. JVfr. Neill makes the part of engrossing interest, but without per mitting it to overghajlow the other char acters or to completely dominate the story of the play., scenic lnvestltute of the production on a scale of magnif icence seldom equaHed by traveling com panies. The' NeUll^qmpaiiy opens an en gagement of two weeks in Minneapolis tomorrow night, going from there to Win nipeg and returning to St. Paul in July. Sunday night the Boston Lyric Opera company will open in "Said Pasha." In cluded in it are Josephine Stanton, Kath erine ' MacNelll, Henry Hallam, Lovett Rockwell,. George" Kunkel, John Hender son. Mamie Klngsbury, George B. Jack son, Eugene Rogers and Daisy Howard. * ICE HOUSES BURNED. Early Kvenins Blaise at the Minne- sota T r«it h f er. Sparks from a passing engine set flre to an ice house at the Minnesota Trans fer last evening. The flames spread rap idly to a second ice house adjoining, and in spite of the fact that one was full of select lake ice, both were burned, togeth er with a tool house belonging to the Transfer company and, a box car belong ing to the Northwestern road, which happened to be on a sidetrack beside the ice houses at the time. The blaze was discovered at 6:50, and an alarm turned in at once. The Mer riam Park and St. Anthony Park fire companies responded at once, but two streams constantly playing on the fires were not sufficient to check it. The large amount of ice -in one of the storehouses did not seem to check the flames in the least and the building burned down, leav ing an immense heap of ice In the center, covered with eharred and blazing tim bers. The tool.,htruse caught fire from sparks from the'"fee houses and was a total loss. Thftjubox' car was burned to the trucks. The buildings are situated at the corner at 'Cleveland avenue and University. nea*:' 'fne Transfer bridge. The loss, which will amount to $1,000, is partially covered "by. (insurance. BIRGLARY AND ARSON. tl ■ Both Were Attempted by Fifth Ward. Marauders. Burglars made a raid on the residence of Mrs. Felix •Woldbillig, 420 Warsaw street, Thursday* night, and later set fire to the residencg.". Mrs. Woldbillig re ported the facts to the police yesterday, stating that she:"was absent at the time, and returning Home about 4 o'clock yes terday morning found smoke Issuing from the winddws of her home. She called the neighbors, and with their as sistance put out the flre. A pile of clothes had been made in the middle of one of the rooms and the match applied. An investigation plainly showed that burglars had been about. Mattresses had been cut open, bureau drawers ransacked and the contents scattered in every direc tion and things turned upside down gen erally. Nothing of value was found, and the-<owner of the house states that she lost nothing. She claims to have recently received $5,000 life insurance on the death of her husband and thinks that the rob bers were after the money, but finding that it was not in .the house determined to burn the building to hide traces of their work. --..■-. — : ■ ST. MARK'S CONCERT. Benefit I'rimMmnii' *at i Columbian j v "':;' Hall Lost Evening. 'V*";,-^ ""■'•'; The--b>?nefit " given v at- Columfcla.'T?hall. Merriam park, last evening for St. Mark's church, ."Was. very successful, both from a point of attendance and the nature. of the programme. The entertainment was contributed by Twin City talent and netted a neat sum lor the parish. Paul Cole struck a popular chord in his: opening recitation of James Whitcomb Riley's '"The Old Band," and responded to an encore with another, selection from the same author. ;!„- .• ■• ■•.*; • Charles Roberts and Willis Ray were called back several times to repeat their performances on the banjo. Ralph Bur dick gave a number of imitations, fo'. lowed by some coon sitetches by Jack Sullivan. ,n ... ■ Miss Hattie Dbnnelly and Angle Mul lally both sang solos. Charles Dennis, in a descriptive jpong, and Ed Pollock, in a Swedish dialect sketch, lent diversity to the musical programme. Musical numbers were also contributed by Master Leo <iWhAte, Miss Freda Ny berg, the Misses. Donnelly and Ira Don nelly. •: Had LKnvpfe to Burn. Frank Haas ,was^ arrested about 10 o'clock last niglit by Officer Cline, who says he was engaged in the pastime of removing bicycla lamps from bicycles in a hallway near- Seyenth and Jackson streets. He was. placed under arrest and held on the chairge 6f larceny. WORLD'S JIEWS IN BRIEF. Hamilton, Ont.—Benjamin Parrott was hanged here today for the murder of his mother last February. He left a con fession. Eastman, Ga.—Cain Stephens, one of the murderers of Marshal Osborne, at Chancey, Ga., last January, was hanged here today. Wellington, N. Z.—Judge Fair, a judge of the New Zealand court, has been ap pointed acting consul for Great Britain at Samoa. Philadelphia—Admiral Schley is to be the guest of the city of Chester on July 4, and has consented to make an addres3 to the citizens on that day. Chicago—Charles E. Waters, a pie manufacturer, filed a petition in bank ruptcy today, scheduling liabilities of $88,930 and assets of $80,702. Kansas City, Mo.—The Fide'lty Trust company, capitalized at $500,000, was in corporated here today. Henry C. Flower, of Kansas City, will be president. Victoria, B. C—News has been received of the destruction of the D'Arcy island leper station by flre. One leper is dead and another, it Is feared, will die from injuries received. "Wallace, Idaho—One hundred and thir ty-one Missourians from Joplin have reached the Standard mine. Thirty out of 160 who started -had deserted. No demon stration occurred. i Milwaukee, Wis.—'Herman S. Mack filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States court late this afternoon. Liabili ties, $223,643; asssts,-4372. Of the HabLities $221,207 is unsecured.] New York—ln Jersey City today a man supposed to be"Antonio Macolate, a la borer, shot and killed his wife, Farritta, and then killed* himself. The affair took place on a publtd street. Detroit, Mich;2-GoY. Plngree today ve toed the military reorganization bill on the ground that sucb a law would create additional expense.and make but few changes in the existmg law. New Harvey J. Ramsay, a ticket seller at the Mailisi»> Square garden, was killed by his wife today. She cut her husband's throat -with; a razor aa he lay sleeping in .roam in the Garden ho tel. :. . -^:J:; ■;; ■• ■ :.- : Milwaukee, Wls.—After years of fight ing the Wisconsin supreme court has def initely knocked out the efforts of inter ested farmers to "have Mnskego lake drained and put in their possession some 20,000 acres of reclaimed land. Burlington, ; Vt.— today's session of the I convention of Foresters, ■ Chief Rang er Cannon read a telegram from >Mgr. Martlnelll. apostolic delegate, to Eev. D. P. O'Brien, chairman of the ; convention. conveying his "congratulations and bless l^ig to all**' BUSINESS IS PET there is nothing bordering upon DULLNESS, and thb FUTURE IS BRIGHT MIDSUMMER DECREASE SHALL Braditreet'i Summing; Up of the Timtfe Situation for the Week Is Favorable— Active Demand De - veloped In Woolen Goods—Hlffh Grade'-- Domeatie . Wooli In De. mand—Cotton <r«»i> Improved. NEW YORK, June 23.-Bradstreet'a to morrow will say: . ' Less than the average effect of ap proaching midsummer influences is dis cernible in current trade reports. Prices, too, show a strength unusual at this pe riod, and particularly in view, of recent steady advances. This is noticeably man ifest, of course, in the iron and steel in dustry, where the tendency of values is still upward, though the advances re ported are not 'uniform at all ] markets, pointing to individual instances of busi ness done at best possible prices. Where prompt delivery can be guaranteed, fancy quotations are in many cases obtainable, and testimony to the r scarcity of. sup plies is universal An unprecedented week ly output of coke is coincident with state ments that the usual summer shut-down in iron and its allied industries will be ignored, and claims from Plttsburg of the placing of record-breaking: contracts for steel rails for export to Russia, not, how ever, for immediate delivery. Predictions of $20 for Bessemer are within sight of realization, and warnings of overdoing the situation are more numerous. Hopes of improvement in the woolen goods Industry have materialized In an active demand at leading markets for the manufactured product, and simul taneously from several markets come reports of abnormally small stocks of light-weight- goods in dealers' hands. Wool is more active and firm, in sympa thy therewith, and sales are lagrer, though mostly on speculative account. A feature is heavy sales of high grade domestic wools to foreign buyers, but whether this wool goes abroad depends* upon next week's London sales. Improved crop reports are responsible chiefly for lower quotations of products declining in price this week. Wheat has been affected by glowing reports from spring wheat sections, but more espe cially by continued enormous deliveries of other crop supplies, pointing to the 1898 spring wheat yield, and yet the ag gregate yield of this year having been heavily underestimated. At the decline, however, good buying on export account has developed. Railroad reports point to an excep tionally large traffic doing, and earnings reports continue favorable, particularly in the Northwest, but passenger and freight rate cuts are increasing. Lumber retains all of its early activity and strength alike as regard movement and prices. Wheat, Including flour shipments for the week, aggregates 3,746,718 bushels, against 2,999,471 bushels last week. 3,799, --470 bushels in the corresponding week of 1898, 2,156,246 bushels in 1897, 2,837,631 bush els in 1896 and 1,946,402 bushels in 1893. Since July 1, this season, the exports of wheat aggregate 226,769,672 bushels, against 229,072,303 bushels last year. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,872,432 bushels, against 3,285,301 bushels last week; 3,902,321 bushels in this week a* year ago, 2,231,861 bushels In 1897, 1,706, --697 bushels in 1896 and 884,261 bushels in 1895. Since July 1, this season, corn ex ports aggregate 166,998,158 bushels, against 194,706,347 bushels during the • same-s)eriod a year ago. Business' failures probably reflects an annual settlement, numbering for the week 199, against 150 last week; 220 in this week a year ago, 215 in 1897, 218 in 1896 and 215 in 1895. Business failures in the Dominion of Canada for the week number 19, against 25 last week; 19 in this week a year ago, 17 in 1897, 19 in 1896 and 28 in 1595. BUSINESS SATISFACTORY. It. G. Dun & Co.'* Summing Up of Trade for the Week. NEW YORK. June 23.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade will say tomorrow: The outgo of more gold this week, $4,000,000 .so far reported, makes It clear that Europe is in need. Exchange and trade balances show that this coun try is not called upon to pay, but that money is worth more to lenders abroad than it is here. Home finances are most satisfactory. Revenue falls behind ex penditures for the fiscal year less than $100,000,000, and but for $230,000,000 war ex penses, including payment for the Phil ippine debts and for Cuban soldiers, the revenue, exclusive of that from the war taxes, exceeds ordinary expenses. Trade balances, in spite of exports from New York 19 per cent less than last year's and imports 26 per cent greater, still promise a large excess of exports for June. Nor is there any substance in the idea that large foreign sales of securities are mov ing gold. The best evidence attainable shows that in January and February about $8,250,000 worth of securities came to this side, and since February not more than $4,000,000 in excess of shipments. In character, transactions have been of the trading and not of the investment sort. Stocks here have weakened, but almost exclusively industrials, which for eigners do not touch, these declining $2.03 per share on the average this week, while railroad stocks have averaged a decline of only 29 cents per share. Earnings for the first half of June are better than for any previous month this year, 10.0 per cent larger than last year and 11.3 per cent larger than in 1892, the Granger reads gaining most largely over last year in spite of the reduced movement of grain. The textile industries are much behind in prices, though woolens are now stead ily rising and are- 6 per cent higher than at their lowest in March. The good 3 are in much stronger demand, and th» wool has advanced from 18.01 to 18.7S cents for domestic, taking the average of 100 quotations by Contes Bros., though the buying is largely speculative. In cotton goods the advance has been small, and though business is excellent the demand fairly matches the supply. The great gain in volume of business might seem of questionable safety wera it not greater in iron production, result ing from an actual excess of demand over supply and not from speculation. It is interesting that a 10,000-ton order for plates for two American liners to ba built by the Cramps has gone to Chi cago, Eastern works being too full. Or ders for furnished products show no de crease in quantity, and for most l'nea, as for rails, are quite often refused, speedy deliveries being Impossible. Failures for the week have been 178 In the United States, against 285 last year, and 13 in Canada, against 11 last year. STOCKS IRREGULAR. Some Exhibition/i nt Positive Weak- liens Were Given. NEW YORK. June 23. — Bradstreet's financial review will say tomorrow: Ir regularity, with fiome exhibitions of pos itive weakness, has been the feature of speculation for the last six days. The stock marKet has been professional to an increasing extent, and there was evi dence that powerful influences have been active on the bear side. Liquidation in certain specialties has been visible,though in some stocks which were prominent in this connection, the selling seemed to be the unloading of large blocks by people Identified with the manipulation. There was also a display of strength in certain parts of the list, as, for instance, the Vanderbllt stocks, which might suggest an accumulating process, and other groups, notably the anthracite coal shares, were steady and apparently wait- Ing for developments. The short interest, though naturally much larger than it was some weeks ago, betrays a certain amount of nervousness, and a decided readiness to cover at concessions which prevented the declines from assuming a steady or decided character, and, in many cases, limited them to small di mensions. It would seem that the public and the street are inclined to suspend judgment as to whether prices are toa high or not until a more definite conclusion as to the grain crop results can be drawn. The activity and sustained strength of the iron and steel trade..seemed insuf ficient to counteract the impression of the market that the capitalization of the steel Industrials has more than discount ed all the possibilities in that connection. It was also noted that the industrials furnished the weak part of the list, the break in tobacco stocks being a feature, while the proposed amalgamation of the several spirits corporations in the Amer ican Distilling company, with a capital of $125,000,000, had no result so far as the market was concerned, other than a sharp decline in American spirits. HAD EFFECTS OF IVAR. Shipment* of Gold Due to Payment of Philippine* Indemnity. WASHINGTON. June 25. — Secretary Gage attaches no importance to the engagement at New York today of $4,000, --000 in gold for export. "It is a mere incident," he said. "It is possible that the exportation which was paid to Spain in the settlement of our treaty obligations disturbed the equili brium somewhat and has necessitated some considerable shipments to again re store the normal conditions of ex change." m MISS GOULD DENIES. Says She I>ltl Not Sign a Note (or MU» Hick*. PROVIDENCE. R. T., June 23.—Miss Rachel Hicks, who claims to be traveling missionary for a woman's college at Den ver, Col., is being detained here pending an investigation of an attempt to have discounted a note for J20,00Q, which, she claimed, had been signed by Mis3 Helen Gould, of New York, and indorsed by Edwin Gould. When the note was pre sented at the Union Trust company's es tablishment, Miss Hicks, the bank of ficials claim, stated that Miss Gould gave it to her March 29 last. The bank communicated with Miss Gould and was informed that she had not signed the note. Miss Hicks still Insisted that Miss Gould signed in her presence, as j.lso did Edwin Gould. The young woman waived examination, was adjudged probably guilty, and bound over to the .grand jury In the sum of $2,000. She furnished a bondsman. The grand jury will sit in September. FRAUD IS ALLEGED. Land Suit Filed at Xcw GUTHRIE, O. T., June 23.—A sensa tional petition was filed today at New Kirk, by Assistant United States Dis trict Attorne'y John W. Schothern, on be half of the United States, to set aside a government patent issued to James W. Lynch for a quarter section of land in Day county. The land embraces the large part of Ponca City. The case is sensational because of the prominence of parties concerned in it. The petition which was filed upon the recommendation of Attorney General Grigsrs is brought against James W. Lynch, a prominent cattle man and a member of the Fourth legislative aa senibly and the Ponca Citr Land and Improvement company, of which Lynch Is president. The petition charges that the enti y of the land was secured through collusion with the land office of licials, and in this connection charges of bribery are made. TO DIVERT GRAIN TRADE. t aimda Talking of a L,lne From Georgian Bay to Toronto. TORONTO, Ont, June 23.—The proposal to build a railway from the Georgian bay, on Lake Huron, to Toronto, a distance of seventy miles, at a cost of between ?2,000 - 000 and $3,000,000, to .divert the grain transportation of the Canadian ond Amer ican Northwest from the Eria canal to tho St. Lawrence, Is much talked about here. At present a large portion of the 30,000,000 bushels of wheat gTown In Mani toba is exported to Europe by. way of Buffalo, and Canadians desire not only to have this sent through the Canadian ca nals, but also to get a large share of the American grain from the West to send to Europe by the way of Montreal. BROKEN FLANGE. It Caused a Fatal Wreck on the l'nlon Pacific. DENVER, Col., June 23.—A special from Julesburg, Col., gives meager news of a wreck which occurred this evening eight miles west of Julesburg, on the Union Pacific, in which four men are believed to have been killed and two others seri ously Injured. A gravel train of fifty cars was run ning east at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, when the eighth car from tho engine broke in two and twenty-four cars were piled up In a heap. Two unknown men were seriously hurt, and four more tre thought to be under the mass of wreckage. Conductor Simpson was slight ly hurt about the head. The wreck was caused by a broken flange on a wheel. DEATHS OF A DAY. PHILADELPHIA, June 23.—Rev. Dr. W. Oliver, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal church, Kearney, Neb., died at >fie Ep's copal hospital, this city, today. Dr. Oliver was the first chancellor of the University of Kansas. He held a major's commission during: the Civil war. He was eighty-five years of age. Interment will be at Kearney, Neb. NEW YORK. June 23.—The death of John G. Moore, of the brokerage firm of Moore & Schley, was announced on the stock exchange today. He diad at his home in this city. Mr. Moore was a di rector of the Western Union Telegraph company and prominently identifled with numerous other large mercantile inter ests. A member of the firm said that the business would continue under the same title as at present. Mr. Moore leaves large interests in th« firm. His personal affairs had all been arranged, as his death had been foreseen for some time past. Pressmen Adjonrn. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. June 23.—The national convention of pressmen and as sistants adjourned this afternoon to meet in Milwaukee the third week in June. 1900. The convention reduced the death benefits for pressmen from $200 to $150 while the assistants' benefits remain at $100. The convention, by resolution, in dorsed section 3 of the tri-partite alliance of pressmen, bookbinders and the interna tional typographical union. The conven tion also resolved to push the nine-hour work day, so that it may take effect Nov. 1. Mr. SpaulAlnar Accepts. CHICAGO, June 23.—Jesse It. Spauldlng, head of the lumber firm of Spaulding & Co., and formerly collector of the port at ChUago. today accepted the presidency of the newly organized Chicago Union Trac tion company offered him a few days ago, by the Wtdener-Elkins syndicate, which recently came into control of the Chicago surface railways. Bowton Bulk Sneak Fully Identified. CHICAGO, June 23.—George Shea, alias Philip Lambelo, who made away with $10,000 belonging to the Metropolitan Na tional bank, in Boston, and who was ar rested In New York, last night, has been identified by the Chicago police as Philip Bailey, under Indictment In Chicago, for robbery. Bailey lived in Chicago up to three months ago. ILLINOIS IS A PIVOT UPON ITS ELECTORAL, VOTE MAY DEPEND THE NEXT PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES « ME. HAEEISOITS PLAIN TALK 'Chicago's Mayor Denies That He Ha« Any Personal Grievance With ExwGot. Altgeld—Claim* Regular OrgMtliuttion I* Ham. pered — Kentucky Democrat* -'- Spend Another Frnitlesa Day. CHICAGO, June 23. —Mayor Harrison declares that Illinois may daclde whether William J. Bryan will be elected presi dent in 1900. The mayor .makes this statement in a letter he has written to D. Turnbolt, a Democrat of Lincoln, 111. Mr. Turnbolt wrote to Mayor Harrison asking him why the personal differences between the former governor and the mayor should not be settled, so that a united Democracy could work for the national ticket next year. The letter In part follows: aw "with, you thoroughly that <9*v. Altgeld and I should 'settle our personal misunderstandings through personal means.' This Is acting on the theory that we have any personal mlsunder.st.indings. As far as i am concerned, I have abso lutely no personal differences with the ex governor. The protest filed by the Dem ocratic state central committee against Gov. Altgeld and his man Devlin, at the St. Louis conference, does not really con cern me as an individual. • • • The protest against Messrs. Altgeld and Dev lin is made by Mr. Gahan, who is na tional committeeman of the Democratic party of the state of Illinois, and who had been persistently ignored in all party matters for the past two years. • * • Unless the regular organization of Illinois receives proper recognition I personally would despair of success in carrying the state of Illinois for the national ticket of 1900. Mr. Bryan will undoubtedly be the Democratic nominee at that time. With the state of Illinois casting its electoral vote for him he would probably be seat ed as the successor of President MclCin ley, but Illinois cannot be expected t o give its electoral vote to the Democratic nominee for the presidency if the regular organization is hampered in its work, and if a reward is held out for the political bolter and the political traitor." NO RESULT REACHED. Kentucky Democrat* Adjonrn Over Another Day Without Action. LOUISVILLE. Ky., June 23.-For the third time in as many days the Demo cratic state convention tonight adjourn ed without result. It will enter upon the fourth day of Us session tomorrow, with out having accomplished anything more than temporary organization. The report of the committee on credentials was reached in the order of business tonight, but its consideration was prevented by the influence of persons who were ad mitted to the floor of the convention, though not entitled to seats. The Hardln people place the responsibility for this on local sympathizers with the Stone- Goebel combination, but the latter can didates disclaim all knowledge of an at tempt to pack the convention, and de clare the disturbance was due to methods of the arrangements committee. After a consultation it was decided lo make another effort to hold the conven tion at 9 o'clock tomorrow, when pre cautions will be taken against intrusion by persons not entitled to seats in the convention. The first order of business tomorow will be the report of the commitee on creden tials, and if outside interference is pre vented the convention should reach the nominations in a short time. Two short sessions of the convention were held today, one in the morning, at which the only business transacted was the adoption of resolutions in memory of the late Richard P. Bland, of Missouri. Then a recess was taken until 4 p. m., to await the report of the credentials committee, which it was announced had been in almost continuous session all last night and still had enough of the 357 contested seats to pass upon to keep it busy until the hour named. When the convention reassembled in the afternoon a plea for more time was made on behalf of the credentials com mittee., A Hardin man offered a resolution for the discharge of the committee and the disposal of the contests by the conven tion itself. This was declared out of order. A motion to adjourn until evening was then made, and the chairman declared It carried, after a viva voce vote, which his opponents declared was too close to be determined In that manner. He refused to call the counties, as demanded. Judge Redwine left his seat, but not so the opposition delegates. There was no lack of leaders from among the Hardin- Ites, and soon they were wrought up to a high tension. The Goebel-Stone fol lowers remained in the hall to see what was coming off, and tried with their cheers to drown the angry yells of the opposition. "We must be patient," said a speaker. "Come back at 8 o'clock and let us settle our differences in this hall. If this con vention is again declared adjourned without regard to the rights of the dele gates we will elect another chairman and proceed with the business that brought us here." This brought cheers from both sides, and after several minutes of gradually subsiding excitement the hall was cleared. AI.GER AXD PINGREE. Latter Will Support the Former for United States Senator. DETROIT, June 23 — Go;-. Pingree gave out a public statement today to the ef fect that he had combined with Secretary Alger in the interests of Aider's sena torial candidacy. Gen. Aljjer will not withdraw under any circumstances, nor will he spend any money in the campaign. The platform of the»r campaign will be opposition to trusts and senatorial elec tions by popular vote. The alliance was -made at a conference- held List night, at which several of the Pingree state leaders and the general and the governor were present. CHICAGO, June 23.—Secretary of War Alger arrived here today from Detroit, and confirmed the statement made by Gov. Pingree that he would stand for election to the United States senate. Sec retary Alger declared himself opposed to trusts and heartily in favor of the elec tion of senators by direct vote of the peo ple. CONTROL. OF RAILROADS. Mr. Altseld Say* Is the Key to the Trust Problem. CHICAGO, June 23.—Ex-Gov. Altgeld declared today that th-i railroads will be placed under fire by the Democratic na tional convention next year. "It Is my belief," said the ex-governor, "that if the convention were held within thirty dtys, it would almost unanimously adopt a tentative plank, declaring for governmental ownership of railroads. An unequivocal declaration would be a atep so far beyond the existing limitations of public thought that the convention might hesitate about adopting it. With out continuous aasitsance from th» rail roads the trusts could not survive a year. If they had to transact business on the same terms as their competitors, which do not belong to trusts, they would quickly disintegrate and go to pieces, and the trust problem, which is now agitating the public mind would bo solved." « ■ Weary of Politics. L.A PORTE. Ind., • June 23.—Gov. Jumca A. Mount- has written a .personal friend that he vvill retlro from politics at tiis close of his term oi ofllce.,, . . ..