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WATERWAY ACROSS FLORIDA
Shift ('final Company Incorporated
with *75,000,000.
NEW' YORK, Sept. 3.—Articles have been
filed with County Clerk Purroy for the ln
corpo.ation of the Florida Transpeninsular
Ship Canal Company. The chief incorpo
rators are Robert May Caffall, Freeman 11.
Baldwin, 11. Bolet Peraza, consul general
for the Greater Republic of Central America
In this city: Benjamin F. Cromwell and
Francis P. Fleming. The capital is $75,000,000.
The projectors have in mind the building
of a ship canal and railway to connect the
Atlantic with ihe gulf. The new canal will
be of sufficient capacity for the passage or
ocean-going vessels.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.
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ACME MILLING CO.,
Old 362 "West Washington St.
PAPERS READ BY DOCTORS.
Topics Discussed by British Medical
Association Delegates.
MONTREAL, Sept. 3.—The meetings of
the different sections of the British Medical
Association were continued to-day. In the
section on public health Dr. Montizambert,
superintendent of the Canadian quarantine
station, read a paper covering the whole
subject of maritime nnd inland quarantines.
Dr. Formento, of New Orleans, and Wol
fred Nason, of New York, spoke of the per
fect quarantine station on the Mississippi
below New Orleans, the work of Dr. Joseph
H. Holt, of New Orleans. Dr. Holt’s name
evoked applause. At the Windsor Hall a
large audience listened to a paper read by
Dr. Herman Biggs, of New York. At the
section of public medicine Dr. A. 1,. De
martigny, for Mr. George Janin, C. E., for
merly of the Corps des Ponts et Chausses
of France, but now of Montreal, read a pa
per on the different processes recommended
for the treatment of sewage, mechanical
and chemical, and the protection of rivers
from sewage. The paper was discussed by
Dr. C. O. Probst, of Columbus; Dr. J. C.
Schrader, of Iowa: H. J. Herrick, of Cleve
land: Dr. Reynolds, of Chicago, and others.
Dr. S. J. Mackenzie, of Ontario, read a pa
per on filtration plants. Dr. F. F. West
brook, bacteriologist of the State Board of
Health of Minnesota, read a paper entitlc-d:
“A Preliminary Communication of the
Baccill of Diphtheria when it is Epi
demic.” The work of the different sections
was concluded to-day, but excursions and
other entertainments continue. Os the 250
papers which have been read before the as
sociation, fully fifty were prepared by
Americans.
FIGHT IN AN ELEVATOR.
8. 11. Smith Assaults Adam Wilson
with a Razor.
CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—Bare fists against a
razor was the unequal odds this afternoon
in a desperate encounter between Adam Wil
son and Samuel H. Smith in the elevator
at the Post Graduate Hospital and Medi
cal College, on Dearborn street. While the,
elevator ascended from the basement to the
sixth floor and retraced its course the two
men fought, their yells sounding through
the corridors of the hospital and carrying
alarm to the patients in the wards. It was
a fight for life by Wilson, a bloodthirsty as
sault by Smith, prompted by a quarrel over
their respective duties. When the battle
ceased Wilson was lying on the floor of the
elevator in the blood that flowed from a
dozen or more wounds. Deep gashes marked
both sides of his throat, four long slashes
crossed his breast, part of his left ear was
gone and his arms and hands were hacked.
Smith escaped from the elevator by stop
ping it at the first floor and leaping into
the hall. The police are searching for him.
His victim is in a critical condition.
PEARL-HUNTING CRAZE.
St. Francis River Lined with People
Prying Open Mussel Shells.
HELENA. Ark., Sept. 3.—The pearl-hunt
ing industry, which has been exciting the
whole country, is spreading all over this
end of the State. The St. Francis river,
from the mouth of the river to Jefferson
ville, is lined with white people and negroes,
all engaged in unearthing and prying open
the richly laden mussel shells. One young
man brought a small bottle of pearls to
Helena to-day. taken from Phillips’s bayou,
a tributary of the St. Francis. They are
darker in color than the ordinary pearls of
commerce, but tire handsomely shu]cd and
of good size. All of the chain of lakes in
tin* hitherto impenetrable St. Francis river
bottoms are full of these pearl-bearing
mussels, and if they should prove to In
valuable the whole country will presently
be engaged in the business to the detriment
of crop gathering. One planter said yester
day that he expected to have difficulty in
securing hands to pick his cotton on ac
qount of the pearl excitement.
His Resignation Demanded.
DENVER. Col., Sept. 3.—The Fire and
Police Board to-day 'demanded the resigna
tion of Chief of Police O’Brien on the
ground that he do“S not "possess the Judg
ment or discretion requisite to successfully
manage the police department.” It is un
derstood that the action was taken on ac
count of what is said to have been illegal
and improper orders issued by tne chief
regarding certain female prisoners.
.N DI AN APOL IS, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897.
STRIKE TO END SOON
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PROPOSITION FROM OPERATORS AC
CEPTED MY MINERS’ OFFICERS.
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Coni Diggers Who Suspended Work
Recommended to Resume at Six
ty-Five Cents a. Ton.
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DELEGATES TO MEET SEPT. 8
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AND RATIFY ACCEPTANCE OF THE
PROPOSED AGREEMENT,
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Which Is to Continue in Force Till
the End of the Year, When Joint
Conferences Will Be Held.
MR RATCHFORD CONFIDENT
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THAT THE PROPOSITION WILL I4E
PROMPTLY APPROVED,
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And that the I.ong Straggle Will End
Next Week—Possible Opposition
by Pittsburg Miners.
COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 3.—The end of the
great miners’ strike is in sight. This after
noon the national executive board of the
United Mine Workers agreed to recommend
to the miners a proposition from the Pitts
burg operators for a straight price of G 5
cents a ton, to continue in force until the
end of the year. A delegate convention of
all miners who have suspended work has
been called to meet in Columbus Sept. S at
10 a. m. to act on the recommendation.
President Ratchford and the other mem
bers of the board say there is not the
slightest doubt but that the miners will ap
prove the recommendation. The proposi
tion does not involve arbitration, and in
effect provides for an immediate settlement
of the strike.
President Ratchford said to-night that
there were special reasons for the board
recommending the proposition. In the lirst
place, it concedes the miners a material ad
vance. Had a 69-cent rate been secured he
was confident it could not have been main
tained for more than seventy days. The
proposition does away with all the uncer
tainties of arbitration and will bring the
strike to a speedy termination. As soon as
the miners ratify the proposition work will
be resumed in all the mines. In the second
place, the proposition provides for a re
vival of the joint conferences for the ad
justment of prices. The operators are
pledged to meet with the miners prior to
the termination of the agreement and de
termine the rate of mining for the next
year. Both the members of the miners’
executive board and the operators’ commit
tee are pleased over the outcome of the con
ference and feel that public sentiment will
sustain their action.
This morning the operators’ committee
renewed their first proposition for a 64-eent
rate pending arbitration. This was again
rejected by the miners’ board. Then the
operators’ committee got together and sub
mitted anew proposition for a straight
price of 65 cents, and after a long discussion
it was accepted by the miners’ board, sub
ject to the approval of the miners at large.’
The following circular was issued to-night
by the national executive board:
‘‘To the Mine Workers who have suspended
w T ork in tho different States:
‘‘You are hereby notified that a conven
tion will be held at Columbus, 0., at 10
o’clock a. m. on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1897.
“Greeting—At a conference held at Co
lumbus, 0., on Sept. 2 and 3, between tile
national executive board and district presi
dents of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica and a representative committee of the
Pittsburg district operators, whom we con
sented to meet only after it became appar
ent that a national conference of operators
and miners could not be convened, the fol
lowing propositions were submitted by the
representatives of the Pittsburg operators
to the executive board and district presi
dents as the basis of a settlement to ter
minate the present strike:
“First—The resumption of work at a> 64-
cent rate of mining. The submitting of the
question to a board of aibitration to deter
mine what the price shall be. the maximum
to be 69 cents and the minimum to be 60
cents a ton, the price to be effective from
date of resuming work.
“Second—Straight price of 65 cents a ton
to continue in force until the end of the
year, with the additional mutual under
standing that a joint meeting of operators
and miners shall be held in December, 1897,
for the purpose of determining what the
rate of mining shall be thereafter.
“Your executive board and district presi
dents, after much deliberation and a thor
ough consideration of the two propositions,
do recommend the latter as, in their judg
ment, the best that can be secured, be
cause of circumstances that are apparent
to all who study market conditions since
the inauguration of the strike. You, how
ever, are the court of final adjudication,
anc’ must decide for yourselves what your
actions shall be and when work shall be re
sumed.
"Additional reasons will be given and a
full report rm*de of the general situation
at the conven ion. We would further ad
vise that delegates come untrammeled by
resolutions and uninstructed, other than to
act in your best interest. At this time it
is deemed advisable for the reason that
provisions are made in the uniformity
agreement now pending in the Pittsburg
district and which it is expected will be
operative in that district on and
after Jan. 1, 1898. to arbitrate the
question of relative differentials between
pick and machine mining, which will, we
anticipate, do muqh towards furnishing us
with more reliable data on that question
than we possess at present and to that
extent will be beneficial to us in settling
questions as between machine and pick
mining.”
The circular was signed by the members
of the national executive board and dis
trict presidents, as follows: Fred Dilcher,
R. L. Davis, J. H. Kennedy, Henry
Stephenson, Patrick Dolan, members of the
national executive board; W. K. Farms,
W. G. Knight, Patrick Dolan, district pres
idents; M. D. Ratchford, president national
executive board; W. C. Pearce, secretary
executive board.
The State Board of Arbitration of Ohio,
which has been in communication with the
committee of operators and miners’ union
officials durinrr their conferences, being
asked for an expression about the .settle
ment. gave this statement: "The settlement
is a most fortunate termination of the
strike. There has been no question in any
quarter that miners' wages should be in
creased. The only question was how much.
Considering the difficulties in the way on
both sides in regard to the adjustment,
whichever proposition be accepted, it is
a very fair and reasonable one. It reflects
great credit upon both parties. The opera
tors went more than half way and sacri
fice not a little, hut this is done generous
ly and ungrudgingly, with the purpose of
securing to their employes a living wage,
and their action is appreciated and met
in a spirit of kindness arid fair dealing. We
regard It as a foregone conclusion that the
settlement will bo formally ratified on
Wednesday next and see no reason why
work may not be resumed at once. A half
week’s work will thus be saved and a
large sum of of much-needed money earned.
There should be no further time lost,”
The Radicals May Not Accept.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 3. Patrick Dolan,
president of the Pittsburg miners’ district,
is on his way from thu Columbus confer
ence to this city to tell the local people
what transpired in the Ohio city. District
Secretary Warner says a call w r ill be issued
for a convention of the Pittsburg d’strict
and will be called for Tuesday n*:xt, when
the delegates to the national convention on
the Bth inst. will be instructed. The indica
tions are that these delegates will be told
to “stand pat” for the sixty-nine-cent rate.
They hope to have the support of the other
States in this, because if the Pittsburg dig
gers obtained the advance of 11 cents, the
differential which has always been an es
tablished custom between the several
States will secure to th'e others a corre
sponding advance in their wages. The min
ers, individually, judging from talks, vith a
number of them, consider the operators
badly whipped in th‘e fight and think they
should be glad to compromise on even 79
cents, and there is no doubt that the dele
gates to the district convention will be giv
en to understand that they must instruct
the national delegates strongly for 69 cents
or nothing.
Irwin is filled with striking miners. The
town is wild. Over two thousand men, who
are contending for 69 cents or nothing, lo
cated to-night in a hurriedly formed camp
directly opposite the offices of the Penn Gas
Coal Company. Marches to the nearby
working mines have already commenced
and every effort w'ill be made to induce the
miners employed by the Penn Gas Coal
Company and the Westmoreland Coal Com
pany to quit work. Armed guards are pa
trolling the property of the coal companies
and Sheriff H. S. Zanor, from Greensburg,
was there to-night. He returned to Greens
burg for the purpose, it is said, of collect
ing a number of deputies.
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GOIIPERS NOT AN ANARCHIST.
He Will Not Jeopardize the Interests
of His Labor Organizution.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Mr. Samuel
Gompers, president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, when asked to-day why
he and other trade unionists did not attend
the convention held in St. Louis on last
Monday and Tuesday, said: “In regard to
the convention held last Monday at St.
Louis I have been placed in a most peculiar
position. The call for the convention con
tained my name as officially indorsing it.
This was certainly a mistake in the first
instance. It was placed there by Mr.
Ratchford, under the impression that,
knowing my intense sympathy with the
miners in their just struggle, that I would
go to any length in order to help them to
success, hut my name was placed there
and the official indorsement given to it
without my knowledge or consent. As you
will see, the call was issued to ‘organized
labor, its various divisions and subdivi
sions, and to all reform, social, educational
and scientific bodies, w ho condemn govern
ment by injunction.’ Under this call any
body of men w r ho are opposed to govern
ment by injunction would be entitled to a
seat in the convention, in other words,
persons entirely remote from and having
no connection with the labor movement
could have been in attendartee, and by
overwhelming numbers direct the course,
mapped out the policy and dominated the
trade-union movement. As president of the
American Federation of Labor, a responsi
ble officer in the trade-union movement, I
would not dare hazard the interest of our
fellow-workers at the hands of persons
who might be entirely irresponsible. There
are numbers of people who are opposed to
government by injunction and who are yet
hostile to the clear-cut and well-defined
purposes of tiie trade-union movement.
“1 shall say nothing in criticism of the
action of the St. Louis convention, and 1
did not say anything earlier because i did
not wish to interfere with the programme
it mapped out, not even its appeal for a
contribution of this day’s wages, and I am
glad that w'hat 1 now say will not appear
until after the result of its appeal has
been acted on. I do know that the
trade. unionists of the country have re
sponded most liberally in aid of the
miners; they are doing so now, and will
continue to do so on this line in order to
help the miners win. So far as I am con
cerned 1 have not lost one jot of interest.
On the contrary, if possible, I am more
intensely interested in having the miners
win, and anything that 1 can do without
hazarding the interests of labor and our
movement will be cordially performed to
attain that end. As in the beginning I
stand ready to-day to follow Mr. Ratch ■
ford’s lead in this strike in everything ex
cept to place the destinies of our move
ment in the hands of persons representing
‘reform, social, educational and dentifie
or other bodies’ who are simply agreed in
their opposition to government by injunc
tion. We ask the assistance of all to at
tain that end, but cannot permit either
domination of our movement nor the direc
tion of its policy with the possibility of di
verting it irjto irrational and improper
channels.”
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
Cull Issued Iy Sovereign, Debs, Ma
li on and Others.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 3.—Pursuant to the
action of the recent labor conference held
in this city a call for a convention of all
labor and reform organizations to meet in
Chicago on Sept. 27 next was issued to-day.
It is as follows:
To Trades Unionists, Wage Workers, Pro
ducers and Friends, Greeting:
Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the
representatives of labor and reform organi
zations of the United States in convention
assembled in St. Louis Aug. 30 and 31 all
labor and reform organizations are hereby
requested to elect delegates to attend a
convention to be held at Chicago, 111., Sept.
27 for the following purposes:
“First—To consider what further meas
ures shall be taken in support of the miners
on strike if said strike has not been set
tled.
“Second—To consider the unification and
practical co-operation of trades unions and
all other labor and reform organizations in
matters of common interest.
“Third—To devise ways and means to re
store to the people their inalienable rights,
and especially those rights guaranteed un
der the Constitution of the United States
and the several state constitutions.
“Fourth—To take such action as is con
sistent with trades unionism, good citizen
ship and liberty of thought and action,
when it does not infringe upon the natural
rights of others, as will tend to bring about
a more equitable and just condition of
affairs in our social and industrial life.
“The basis of representation will be one
delegate for each trades union, labor or re
form organization and two delegates from
each congressional district, provided "that
no delegate shall have a voice or vote who
is not a wage worker, producer, farmer or
representative of an organization that has
for its object the betterment of the condi
tion of the working and producing classes.”
The called is signed by T. J. Donnelly. J.
R. Sovereign, W. R. Mahon, James O'Con
nell and Eugene V. Debs.
Operators Indifferent.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Jnd., Sept. 3.—The miners' exec
utive committee met here to-day and made
final arrangements for the celebration of
Labor day. The failure to have sufficient
food to make a contribution at the various
commissaries Wednesday caused much suf
fering among the needy, many of whom
depend wholly on contributions for support.
Considerable stir was created among the
strikers by the report that several men
had returned to work at the Big Four mine
belonging to the Brazil Mining Company.
A delegation will immediately visit the
min'e to induce the men to come out. The
rolling mill here is working every day. us
ing Kentucky coal, and the Indiana paving
brick plant started up to-day, securing fuel,
it is claimed, from southern Indiana. Many
of the miners declare that unless an amica
ble agreement is reached at the meeting
of the operators and miners' officials at
Columbus, the miners here will be idle
when snow flies. The operators appear in
different, apparently not caring when the
men return to work. They have lost sev
eral good contracts by the suspension and
in all probability there will not be much
work here this winter when the suspension
is called off.
WAVE OF PROSPERITY
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STILL SWEEPING IRRESISTIBLY
OVER THE W HOLE COUNTRY.
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llnsinews Failures Growing Fewer and
(he Average Liabilities Lower
than Ever Known Before.
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BANK CLEARINGS HEAVIER
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AN INCREASE OF 41.5 PER CENT. AT
INDIANAPOLIS THIS WEEK.
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Cotton and Woollen Mills Busy, Iron
nnd Steel Industry More Active and
General Trade Improving.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s
weekly review of trade will to-morrow say:
Failures in the past August were in number
not 17 per cent, less than in August, 1896,
but in amount of liabilities 7.8 per cent,
smaller. July and August show a lower
average of liabilities per failure thftn has
ever been known in any year or even in a
quarter of the twenty-three years R. G.
Dun has kept quarterly records. The im
provement is also well distributed, extend
ing to nearly every important branch of
ousiness, but in clothing, jewelry and un
classified trading only two months of the
past forty-seven have shown smaller fail
ures; in general stores and furniture, only
three; in groceries, hats and iron manu
facture, only four; in hat and chemical
manufactures, only five; and in clothing
manufacture only six months of the forty
seven, The ratio of defaulted liabilities to
payments at clearing houses has been
smaller in July and August than in any
other montli since early in 1893.
August was the first month in which the
daily average of settlements through clear
ing houses exceeded materially that of the
corresponding month of 1892, the excess of
the principal cities being 12.3 per cent. Nor
is this due, as might be supposed, to ac
tivity in stock speculation, for the Stock
Exchange clearing house now disposes of a
very large share of transactions, so that
they affect bank exchanges far less than
five years ago. The volume of business
here has been distinctly larger in other
than speculative lines than it was then, and
in textile goods phenomenally larger,
though slackening this week, buyers hav
ing nearly completed their initial pur
chases. With an extraordinary movement
in grain, heavy real-estate and building
transactions, and increased business in
iron products, the month was clearly the
busiest August ever known.
Wheat continued its reaction until it had
fallen 4 cents more, but then rose 3 cents
with the first revival of foreign buying.
Western receipts are very large, though
not quite as large as a year ago, but At
lantic exports, flour included, rose to
5,534,758 bushels for the week, against
2,175,453 last year. The estimates which
command confidence still indicate a yield
of 550,000,000 to 580,000,000 bushels, winter
wheat turning out so much beyond expec
tations as to balance much of the loss in
spring wheat. Foreign accounts do not
improve, and unless much more deceptive
than usual the demand for American wheat
will far exceed the quantity which can be
spared. Continued large exports of corn
and buying for export show still more
clearly the extent of deficiencies abroad.
Western receipts for the week were 10,065,-
470 bushels, against 3,160.318 last year, and
such a movement at this season implies a
great export demand not yet reflected in
outgo.
Cotton speculation made August deliv
eries costly, spot rising to 814 cents, but
the market then drifted back quickly to
7.62 cents. Conflicting news doubtless re
flects conflicting facts, but the opinion
gains that the crop will be large, if by
lateness not exposed to serious injury. The
mills are now running and turning out
great quantities of goods in response to
heavy purchases recently made. Wool sells
largely between speculators, 16,568,500
pounds for the week. Mills have been buy
ing more freely to replace the wool rapidly
consumed, and the goods market has been
so large and strong that they are en
couraged to purchase even after a rise of
50 per cent, in a year. Great quantities are
held by dealers at the West above prices
yet paid in seaboard markets.
The improvement in the iron and steel
industry gains momentum, and a further
advance in prices makes 4.5 per cent, from
the lowest average, Aug. 12. The demand
increases for sheet and plates, especially
for bridge and shipbuilding, including 10,000
tons at Philadelphia in structural work, of
which It is said that 20.000 tons have been
placed at Chicago, in bars and especially
in wire and wire nails, and all
have advanced an average of $1 per ton.
Southern and Western dealers have united
to advance prices of pig 25 cents. Bessemer
at Pittsburg has risen 10 cents, and Eastern
markets are stronger The demand for
cars is pressing and work for railways in
creases. The first shipment of steel rails
from this country to Australia was of 2,000
tons, by the Lackawanna Company. Tin
is slightly lower, at 13.65 cents, but heavy
exports, said to be over 15,000,000 pounds
for the next three months, sustains copper
at llYp cents, and lead is strong at 4.10
cents.
Boot and shoe shipments, not quite 5
per cent, smaller than last year in August
nor 4 per cent, smaller than in 1895, were
7 l / 2 per cent, smaller than In 1894, but were
a little larger than in 1892. Buying is still
mostly for immediate needs, but is suffi
cient to keep works well employed.
Failures for the past week have been 191
in the United States, against 334 last year,
and 25 against 31 in Canada.
GENERAL TRADE NEWS.
Previously Noted Activity In All Lines
Maintained This Week.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Bradstreet’s to
morrow will say: Previous activity in all
lines of trade is maintained. There is a
better tone to demand of jobbers and the
volume of business in w'ool, leather, cloth
ing, hats, groceries and light hardware has
increased. There is a better request for
woolen and cotton goods, jewelry and rub
ber goods and for boots and shoes. Some
wholesale merchants at Western centers
report the largest volume of August trade
on record. There has been an increased con
sumption of cotton by Southern mills.
Western iron and steel mills have orders to
keep them busy until Jan. 1. In the central
Western States the bituminous coal strike
has had a further depressing effect on the
general industrial situation. At the North
west some commercial houses have had to
w r ork overtime to meet the demand for
goods, and the wairm weather is
reported to have practically assured the In
dian corn crop. On the Pacific coast wheat
exports have been checked by inability to
secure brews for vessels. Mercantile col
lections have greatly improved in some
sections.
week’s general and unprecedented
expansion of prices for staples is continued,
wool, cotton and woolen fabrics, hides,
leather, white pine lumber, sashes and
doors, iron and steel bars, billets and rods,
wire nails, barbed wire and Southern
foundry iron, wheat, corn, lard and sugar
having advanced and higher prices being
expected for boots'and shoes. Lower prices
are recorded for cotton, wheat, flour and
coffee, while those for oats, pork, print
cloths, petroleum and coal are unchanged.
This week’s exports of wheat (flour in
cluded as wheat) are the largest with two
exceptions, the second week of September
and the fourth week of August, 1891. Total
shipno nts of wheat were (5,368,247 busheis,
against 5,149,653 bushels last week, 3,369,862
bushels last year, 2,260,261 bushels in 1895,*
3,207,300 bushels in 1894, and 4,902.000 bushels
in 1893. Shipments of corn are also large,
aggregating 3,106,064 bushels this weety,
against 2,682,152 bushels last week, 2,527,525
1)1) I 11 q prVTtt iAT RAILWAY NEWS STANDS. ON
LTV 1 V li *> ‘ D*' 1 k>. 1 TRAINS AND SUNDAYS i <TENTS.
bushels last year. 1,405.370 bushels in 1895,
127,000 bushels in 1894 and 672,075 bushels in
1893.
There are only 198 business failures re
ported throughout the United States this
week, against 210 last week, 336 in the week
one year ago, IS4 two years ago. 207 three
years ago and as contrasted with 379 in the
like week of 1893. There are 30 business fail
ures reported from the Canadian Dominion
this week. Last week the total was 39 and
a year ago it was 30.
p
BANK CLEARINGS.
Increase at Indiana poll* Last Week,
41.5, nnd for the \\ hole Country, 36.3.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—The following
table, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the
bank clearings at eighty-six cities for the
week Sept. 2, with the percentage
of increase and decrease as compared with
the corresponding week last year:
New York $677,353,088 1nc..46.8
Boston 84,350.074 1nc..22.7
Chicago 96,560,451) 1nc,.33.1
Plnluaelphia 65,799,544 Inc.. 13.6
St. Louis 26,315,115 1nc..39.9
Pittsburg 16,661.616 1nc..42.9
Baltimore 17.196,793 1nc..4e.9
San Francisco 18,776,790 1nc..39.8
Cincinnati 1u,807,950 Inc.. 14.s
Kansas City 12,159,605 1nc..32.5
New Orleans •. 5,103,960 t>ec..14.4
Minneapo’is 8,190,367 1nc..18.0
lxtroit 5,610,3)2 1nc..18.8
Cleveland 6,393.815 1nc..21.4
Louisville 5,738,889 Inc.. 9.1
Providence 4,391,920 inc..2h.o
Milwaukee 4,290,730
St. Paul 3,052,563 Dec.. 4.9
Buffalo/ 4.063,1.>6 Inc.. 3.6
Omaha 4,689,244 1nc..54.7
Indianapolis 4,470,781 1nc..41.5
Columbus, O 2,889,900 Dec.. 5.9
Savannah 1,439,031 Dec.. 31.7
Denver 2,133,305 Inc.. 19.S
Hartford 1,869,062 lnr.. 878
Richmond .... 1,900,307 inc..15.l
Memphis 1,297.443 1nc..43 3
v Vashington 1,230,290 Inc.. 7.8
Peoria 1,768,988 1nc..24.7
Rochester 1,701,863 Dec.. 0.5
New Haven 1,347,576 1nc..80.0
Homester 1,203,529 Inc.. 7.9
Atlanta 895,070 Dec.. 15.2
halt Lake City 1.399.836 1nc..8?.2
Springfield, Mass 1,159,875 Inc.. 9.4
Fort Worth 1,081,712 1nc..34.2
Portland, Me 1,164,732 1nc..23.7
Portland, Ore . 1,925,126 1nc..73.0
ht. Joseph 1,(816,565 1nc..58.2
Los Angeles 1,148,026 1nc..50.0
Norfolk 769,923 Inc.. 3.6
Syracuse 868,156 Inc.. 6.2
Des Moines 756,293 1n0..13.3
Nashville 913,672 Inc.. 7.1
Wilmington, Del 758,291 1nc..36.0
Fall River 790,575 1nc..64.8
Scranton 837.828 Inc.. 5.6
Grand Rapids 642,950 Dec.. 8.5
Augusta, Ga 534,198 Dec.. 26.5
Lowell 566,618 Inc.. 5.2
Dayton, O 612,543 1nc..13.3
Seattle 774,932 1nc..64.5
Tacoma 615,840 lnc.. 6.9
Spokane 523,182 1nc..30.0
Sioux City 621,214 1nc.188.0
New Bedtord 316,673 Dec.. 10.7
Knoxville, Tenn 486,546 1nc..27.7
Topeka . 656,833 1nc..77.3
Birmingham 330,952 1nc..25.9
Wichita 283,180 lnc.. 8.5
Binghamton 314,500 1nc..26.6
Lincoln 295,442 1nc..35.3
Lexington, Ky 298,245 lnc.. 6.6
Jacksonville, Fla 132,030 Dec.. 30.5
Kalamazoo 221,892
Akron 195,700
Bay City 169,913 Dec.. 6.6
Chattanooga 267,984
Rockford, 111 148,309 lnc.. 9.6
Canton, O 168,400 lnc.. 9.8
Sprlngrield, O 109,224 Dec. .18.5
Fargo, N. D..... 74,585 Dec.. 64.2
Sioux Falls, S. D 39,251 Dec.. 15.2
Hastings, Neb 112,153 1nc..41.8
Fremont. Neb 109,746 1nc..81.6
Davenport 645,097 Dec.. 10.2
Tcledo 226,200 1nc..61.8
Galveston 4,909,000 lnc.. 7.9
Houston 6,572,785 1nc..28.5
Waco 890,021 Dec.. 24.4
Youngstown 223,855
Totals, United States $1,129,245,846 1nc..36.3
Totals outside New York.... 451,892,758 1nc..24.0
—Dominion of Canada.—
Montreal $11,645,323 1nc..12.8
Toronto 6,843,235 Inc, 34.9
Winnipeg 1,428,634 1nc..51.0
Halifax 1,070,004 Dec.. 5.8
Hamilton 563,983 Inc.. 3.2
St. John, N. B 608,686 lnc.. 10.3
Totals $22,159,945 1nc..19.8
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY.
View* of G. M. Collin, Acting; Control
ler of the Currency.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Mr. George M.
Coffin, acting controller of the currency, Is
confident of a most prosperous financial
season for the United States in the near
future. In an interview with a reporter
to-day he said: “There is every evidence
that the United States is accumulating a
vast amount of capital of its own, and this
goes to show that, sooner or later, if it is
not already so, this country will be finan
cially independent of Great Britain or any
other nation. The current rate for demand
loans in New York to-day is I*4 per cent.,
against a slightly higher rate in London,
and it is not at all improbable that under
these circumstances New York bankers are
loaning money in London. In spite of the
enormous losses and depreciation in values
sustained by the United States during the
past four years, the latest bank statistics
show that there has been a very large ac
cumulation of capital in this country, much
of which is lying idle in banks awaiting
favorable opportunity for investment. The
national banks of this country now hold
about $160,000,000 over and above the sum
required by law as a legal reserve. This
same condition of affairs undoubtedly ex
ists in the other banking institutions
through the States of the Union. There
has been a wonderful accumulation of cap
ital in the savings banks. One result of this
enormous accumulation of capital will be
lower rates of interest for tne future. I
am sure that this will come, and my opin
ion is shared by many bankers throughout
the country. Ido not believe that w r e will
see again as high rates of interest as have
prevailed in recent years.”
Heavy Shipments of Cnrreney.
NEW YORK, Sopt. 3.—The United States
subtreasury transferred SIOO,OOO in small
bills to Kansas City to-day, for which it
received gold in exchange and $15,000 in
silver dollars to Texas and Alabama. Bank
ers also report heavy shipments of cur
rency direct to the West and Southwest
by registered mall and otherwise, but not
much to the South.
WOMAN’S SufciDE CLUB.
Mamie Donohne the Third Member to
Fulfill Her Promise.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Mamie Donohue, a
young woman who committed suicide by
drinking carbolic acid in th* presence of
hundreds of people in Fourteenth street on
Tuesday, was a member of a suicide club.
She was the third to fulfill the ghastly
pledge of her initiation. The existence of
this club has been known to Charles Crit
tenton, the founder of the Florence Mission.
Mr. Crlttenton and his lieutenants of both
sexes have been exercised for months In de
vising means to break up the club. They
knew Mamie Donohue. They knew that
she was a member of the club. They ex
pected news of her suicide. They had
known the two girls who had preceded
Mamie Donohue in demonstrating their loy
alty to the club by leaving it and the world
by the one desperate act. It is a club of
women—of such women as the Florence
Mission strives to regenerate. Its members
are Inspired by a common horror of life as
it unfolds Itself to such as they after the
first unwholesome glitter has been tar
nished. Jennie Beck, another member of
the club, says she will also commit suicide.
Mamie Donohue was debarred burial in the
Florence Mission plot.
TANGLE IN IDAHO.
All important Laws of (lie State Prac
tically Nullified.
BOISE. Ida., Sept. 3.-Dlstrict Judge
George H. Stewart has decided the anti
gambling law unconstitutional under the
decision of the Supreme Court in the fee
law case, which. In effect, nullifies all im
portant laws of the State. Encouraged by
this decision the district courts of the State
will bo flooded with attacks on various
laws which are claimed to come under the
ban of the Supreme Court. If the appro
priation bill should be attacked, as s< ems
likely. Governor Steunenberg may be
forced to reconvene the Legislature. Should
the Governor decide to call an extra ses
sion of the Legislature, he will be in a
quandary to know which to convene, as it
Is presumed all but the first session under
statehood was illegal, the legislative appor
tionments being open to attack under the
Supreme Court decision.
Fatal FiK>it at Bear Creek Mines.
PINEVILLE, Ky.. Sept. 3.—William
Moore, a deputy sheriff, killed Seymour
Spencer, a miner, in a tight at Bear Creek
mines last night, Moore was wounded and
a bystanier got a bullet in the arm. Moore
was attempting to make an arrest for a
minor offense.
FROM THE FAR NORTH
IIETIRX OF THE J ACKSOX-HAHMS
WOHTH ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
Frans Jnitef I.and Thoroughly Ex.
ploreil and Severn! Inaccuracies
Found to Exist In Old Map*.
AN OPEN SEA DISCOVERED
■
THE HOST NORTHERLY BODY OF
WATER IX THE WHOLE WORLD.
Xo Sueli Place Gillie's Lund, and
Existence of I’etermnnn Land Doubt
ful—Nothing Seen of Andree.
* 4
LONDON, Sept. 3.—The British steamer
Windward, having; on board the Jackson-
Harmsworth expedition, which has spent
three winters near Cape Flora, Franz Josef
Land, arrived here to-day from Franz Josef
Land with E. G. Jackson and his col
leagues. All the members of the expedi
tion are in good health. They report hav
ing explored Franz Josef Land thorough
ly. with the exception of some odd corners.
Before tho Windward sailed the quarters
of the expedition at Elmwood were fast
ened np, but Mr. Jackson left there a
quantity of supplies in case the place
should bo visited by Professor Andree or
other explorers. He also established a
depot at Bell island.
Talking over his experiences Mr. Jackson
said that since the Windward left Franz
Josef Land last year with Dr. Nansen
the winter had been less severe and less
windy than usual. Mr. Jackson and Albert
Armitage, nautical astronomer of the ex
pedition, started on March 18 with a-pony
and dog sludges to explore the western part
of Franz Josef Land. They encountered
boisterous weather and at the end of the
first month a majority of the dogs and the
pony succumbed and the explorers were
compelled to abandon all but the most es
sential part of their equipment. The party
followed the coast line, sometimes on a
sea of ice and sometimes along glaciated
land 1,500 feeit high, bordering on Cam
bridge bay. The constant mists which pre
vailed made the journey very harassing.
The party shot a bear, the only one seen,
and having procured meat and blubber they
returned to Elmwood in the middle of May,
after meeting a party sent out to look for
them, anxiety having been felt for their
safety, as they were a fortnight overdue.
A second expedition which went eastward
at the beginning of June was less suc
cetful, as on the second day out the ex
plorers lost a sledge through the thin sea
ice and had a hazardous return journey.
The result of the explorations, it is
claimed, completely revolutionises the old
ideas of Franz Josef Land and proves that
the much-discussed Gillies land does not
lie where Arctic geographers have been in
the habit of placing it, and therefore, it
may be considered nonexistent. The whole
continental mass of land is replaced by a
vast number of small islands and the lofty
mountains by long ridged hummocks and
ice packs, while north of those areas has
been found an open sea, which is the, most
open north sea in tho whole world.
The most valuable magnetic, meteorolog
ical and geological observations were made
and very valuable botanical and zoological
collections were brought to England.
Tlie winter life of the explorers was un
eventful. There were about two hours twi
light in the middle of the day from October
to November, and from thence on lit was
total darkness until the end of February.
Tho nu mbers of the expedition killed 1.400
loon (a web-footed bird found in the north
ern regions) in the autumn, which provided
ample fresh meat. During the winter they
caught nineteen loon and twenty-two kitti
wakes (a bird of the gull Kind), to which
they fastened labels initialed “J” and lib
erated them. The cold sometimes reached
forty degrees belotv zero and jumped up to
twenty degrees below freezing point.
The members of the Jaekson-Harmsworth
expedition failed to see King Oscar Land
and are convinced that there is no great
land northwest of Franz Josef Land. They
add that the existence of Peterrrtann Land
is doubtful, and that at most it must be
small. These alterations in the map render
the prospect of reaching tho north pole
from Franz Josef Land more than doubtful,
as the returned explorers are satisfied
there is no land north of eighty-two degrees.
They did not see anything of Professor
Andree, who started on July 11 from the
Island of Tromsoo in an attempt to cross
the north pole by balloon. Mr. Jackson an
nounces his intention of heading another
arctic expedition, this time on his own ac
count.
TALK WITH BISMARCK.
Tlie Prince Doubtful About the Frnn
cu-BuMMiun Alliance.
LONDON, Sept. 4.—The Berlin corre
spondent of the Times says the Zukunft
publishes what is undoubtedly an authentic
interview with Prince Bismarck, probably
obtained by Count Limburg-Stirum, who re
cently visited the ex-chancellor on behalf
of the Conservative party. Prince Bis
marck expressed himself as very skeptical
regarding the alleged Franco-Russian alli
ance, and declared that the Czar’s toast
really committed Russia to very little. In
course of the interview Prince Bismarck
said: “I remember In my own diplomatic
experience similar obscure expressions
which were not unpleasing to the ears of
those they concerned. I do not think tho
contents of the treaty, If It exists at all,
would please the French. The policy of the
Russian government has always been very
cautious, and I cannot conceive that it
would needlessly commit itself to adven
tures from which It would gain nothing.
Count Muravleff has always behaved as
Germany’s friend, and 1 do not see any rea
son why he should change his mind.”
Prince Bismarck complimented somewhat
ironically President Faure s aptitude, taste
and success in the new fashion of political
traveling, and repeated the opinion that
nothing would come of it. adding: "But for
all that the French people is moved nearer
to the fire and might more easily than ever
boil over. This ought to deliver our rulers
from any illusion they may still cherish,
and should serve to warn them against al
tering the basis of our national defense.”
The. ex-chancellor deprecated the clamor
for a big fleet and for colonial expansion,
saying: “Our flag should follow our trade
and not precede it. The most important
thing for Germany is to have a strong
army. That was the opinion of Von Moltke
who shared my conviction that we shall
have to fight upon the continent of Europe
battles which will be decisive for our
colonial dominions.”
In the course of some interesting but un
gracious personal reminiscences of his j>o
litical and personal relations with the late
Empress Augusta, the conflicts with whom
he said had shattered his nerves more than
all of his parliamentary and diplomatic bat
tles. he recounted how he frustrated the
intrigue to make her regent in and con
cluded tin interview by ridiculing the re
port that he was going to Kiel to christen
a ship, saying: ”1 am no longer a man for
festive occasions.”
Armenians Sentenced to Heath.
LONDON, Sept. 3.—A special dispatch
from Constantinople received this afternoon
says that eight Armenians who have been
convicted of taking part In the recent bomb
outrages there have been sentenced to
death. Two Armenians who were charged
with complicity in the outrages have been
acquitted. The outrages occurred on Oct. 8
last In the private road between tho offices
of tho grand vizier and the state council
house. One man was killed, several severe
ly .injured and many windows were shat
tetVl. There, were several attempts at this
time to cause explosions.
Since Tuesday of the present week about
three hundred Turks have been arrested