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BULLEtjN OF
THrE ST. PrT&fQXikOß^
SATI i»J).VI. »(ISPT. 4, 1807.
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Weather lor Today —
Thunderstorms, Cooler.
PAGE 1.
Sioux Trouble Settled.
India's Position ok Silver.
Gompera Denies Si;fniiiK the Call.
Prenident'a Life Threatened.
Tlie Jap and IVlenragruan Canal.
Farmers Entertained at Fargo.
II i* in it re... DoulitH Dual Alliance.
America Controls <><>I<l Supply.
AnKnNl Htisiiiess ji Record Breaker,
Disaster in Colorado.
page: a.
Albreelit's Plan for City Lislitiiif?.
Annual Carnival (or St. Paul.
His Shun of Stock at State Fair.
PACE a.
Minneapolis Matters.
Jackson Expedition Returns.
Alaska's Silent City Seen.
Stillwater Affairs.
page: 4.
Editorial.
Twin ( ity Railroad Men in Trouble.
Day's Secial Events.
PAGB 5.
Saints Amiin Defeat Indians.
Slillors Shut Out Buckeyes.
Tigrers Keep Bines From Scoring.
Brewers Defeat Bobolinks.
Boston Again Ahead of Orioles.
IteNiiltH In tbe National.
Day's Sporting Events. ,
End of Uijn Strike Near. " '"-
PAUK <{ - *fe
£t. Pnnl Stocks Lively.
Bnr Silver, 52c.
Cash Wheat in Chicago, f).'J 7-Sc.
"World's Markets Reviewed.
PAGE 7.
Crow Wing Farmer Itoblied.
Kens of the Northwest.
Suicide of Russell Ward.
Wants of the People.
PAGE 8.
State Must Care for Insane.
Reservoir Gates ta> Ec Opened.
Around the Hotels.
Great Western Officials Deny.
Railway Gossip.
TODAY'S EVENTS.
Met— Selwyn's Night Out, -MIO, N.!.~».
Grand — Chimmie Fadden, '^i.:iO, 5.15.
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS.
KEW YORK Arrived: Karlsruhe, Bremen.
Sailed: Lv Campania, Antwerp; S<otia. Mar
seilles.
SOUTHAMPTON— SaiIed: Fuerst Bismarck,
New York.
LIVERPOOL— Arrived: Britannic, New
York. Salli New York.
QUEENSTOWN- Sailed: Galia, Boston.
HAMBURG — Arrived: Normannia, New
York.
GENOA— Arrived: Fulria, Now York.
NAPLES— SaiIed: Werra, New York; Brit
annia, New York.
MOVILLE— SaiIed: Anchorla. New York.
The Klondike u'tktail has appeared,
awl one drink is said to be a gold cure
in itself.
There ought to be good Ice mining in
Alaska, with the article 50 cents per
pound at Dawson City.
It is money thnt talks, and it has
pretty thoroughly silenced the calamity
howlers with its arguments.
Is this a quarrel between Col. Rend
and President Ratchford, or really and
truly <i strike of coal miners.
Wlun the manufacturers have clone
away with the bicycle chain, will they
please suppress the bicycle crank.
It is stated that Weyler can^ show
$7,000,000 as positive proof that his cam
> paign in Cuba has not been a failure.
As a star pointer the Yerkes tele
scope has been breaking- records on
long distance work in discovery of new
planets.
The Kansas .srirl is nothing- If not in
dependent. One seventy-four years old
has .ii:*t applied for a teacher's certifi
cate.
Great Britain should invoke the aid
of the Interstate commerce commission
to compel those Afridis to give up that
pass.
He»*e is news that will bo a sure cure
for the Klondike fever. Mrs. Lease has
the craze and may go to Alaska in the
spring.
If Luetgert is convicted", an additional
element of uncertainty will be chucked
into the composition of the universal
sausage.
Another party has returned from the
Klondike worth millions, but as it hap
pens to be the Vanderbilt party — but
that is another story.
Ex-Secretary Herbert continues his
pleas for the navy. And he is not re
tained by the Carnegie nor the Bethle
hem armor plate companies, either.
Some "business man" who borrowed
$1,500 from a Crow Wing farmer has
demonstrated that a man's face may
be good for a loan, even if it be mask
ed.
Prince Luigi saw the "silent city"
while on the summit of Mount St.
Klias. That must be where these "Ara
bian Night" stories about Alaska come
from.
If tho Jay is so anxious for a little
canal of his own across the Isthmus
of Panama, France has one slightly
Ehelf-worn, which he can secure at job
lot prices.
The revival off business is indicated
by the fact that Chicago has started a
match factory in Jackson park. A
"matrimonial picnic" is being held
there today.
Tom Reed s»y w that a statesman is
a politician who is dead* It would fol
low that a politician is a statesman
who is alive. This conclusion will con
pole Messrs. Quay, Gorman, Platt and
their kind immensely.
THE SATNT PAUL GX.OB"R-i
V
BUSIEST AUGUST EVER KNOWN
Expansion of Trade Under the Influence of
Abundant Crops Goes on Unchecked.
The Prices of Staples Show Advances.
Falling off in Failures.
Rates of Defaulted Liabilities
the Smallest in Years,
Says Dun's.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.— Dun & Co.'s
weekly review of trade tomorrow will
say: Failures in August were, in num
ber, not 17 per cent less than in Au
gust, 1896, but in amount of liability s,
70.8 per cent smaller. July and August
show a lower average of liabilities per
failure than has ever been known in
any year or even in a quarter of the
twenty-three years Dun & Co. have kept
quarterly records The improvement
is also well distributed, extending to
nearly every important branch of busi
ness. In clothing, jewelry and unclas
sified trading, only two months of the
past four years have shown smaller
failures; in general stores and furni
ture only 3; ?n groceries, hats and iron
manufacture only 4; In chemical man
ufactures only 5, and in clothing man
ufactures only six months of the for
ty-eight.
The ratio of defaulted liabilities to
payments at clearing houses, has been
smaller in July and August than in
any other month since early in 1893.
August was the first month in which
the daily average of settlements,
through clearing houses, exceeded ma
terially that of the corresponding
month of 1892, the excess at the princi
pal cities being 12.3 per cent. Nor is
this due, as might be supposed to ac
tivity in stock speculation, for the
stuck exchange clearings have not dis
posed of a very large share of transac
tions, so that they effect bank ex
changes far less than five years ago.
The viitume of business has been dis
tinctly larger in speculative lines than
it was then, and in textile goods, phe
nomenally larger, though slackening
this week, buyers having nearly com
pleted their initial purchases. With
an extraordinary movement in grain,
heavy real estate and building trans
actions, and increased business in iron
products, the month was clearly the
busiest August has ever known.
Wheat continued its reaction until it
had fallen four cents, but then rose
three cents, with the first revival of
foreign buying. Western receipts are
very large, though not Quite as large
as a year ago. The estimates which
command confidence still indicate a
yield of 550,000,000 to F. 50.000.000 bush-Is
of winter wheat, turning out so much
beyond expectations 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
coin and buying for export show
cli ally the extent of deficiencies
abroad. Western receipts for the week
were 10.065,470 bushels, against 3.160.
--318 bushels last year and such a in ive
mc-nt at this season implies a great ex
port demand not yet reflected in out
go.
Cotton speculation made August de
liveries costly. Conflicting news
doubtless reflects conflicting facts, but
the opinion gains that the crop will be
large if not exposed by lateness to
serious injury. The mills are now run
ning and turning out great quantities
of goods in response to heavy purchas
es recently made.
FARMERS Pass Resolutions of Thanks-Will
pL^as&d Visit Wheat Fields Toda y-
Special to the Globe.
FARGO, N. D., Sept. 3.— The Farm
ers' National Congress excursion
reached this city at 5 o'clock p. ni.
The excursionists were met at the de
pot by forty or fifty carriages, and
many were taken about the city or
went to hotels to rest and be ready
for the journey through the wheat
fields of the Red river valley in tbe
morning. There were about 400 in the
party, and great appreciation is ex
pressed for the kindness shown by
Mr. Hill's employes. The city was
aglow this evening, the fire depart
ment being out in full dress, the band
marching on the streets and the dele
gates being royally entertained. A
meeting was held this evening in Ma
sonic Temple, presided over Ivy Presi
dent B. F. Clayton. Speeches were
made by Mayor Johnson, of Fargo,
and many prominent congress dele
gates. An address was listened to
from A. C. Rankin. the moulder-ora
tor, whose home is in this city at
present. Alter the meeting all r---
Gompers' Name Forged
h|e Did Not Sign the Call for the
St. Louis ConfereQce.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.— Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of ' Labor, when asked today
why he and other trade unionists did
not attend the convention held in St.
Louis dh last Monday and Tuesday,
said: "In regard to the convention
held last Monday at St. Louis I have
been placed in a most peculiar post-,
tion. The call fcr the convention con
tained my name as officially indorsing
it. This was certainly a mistake in the
ft*st instance. It was placed there by
Mr. Ratehford under the impression,
knowing my intense sympathy with
the miners in tftfir just struggle, that
I would go to any length in order to
help them to success, but my name was
placed there and the official indorse
ment givei\ to. it without my knowledge
or consent As you will see the call
was Issued to 'organized labor, in its
various divisions and subdivisions and
to all reform, social, educational and
scientific bodies who condemn govern
rfl< nts by injunction.' Under this call,
anybody of men opposed to govern
ment by injunction would be entitled to
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897.
Northwest Booming.
Jobbers Unable to Keep Pace
With Their Orders, Brad
street's Reports.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.— Bradstreet's
tomorrow wil say: Previous activity in
all lines of trade is maintained. There
is a better request for woolen and cot
ton goods and rubber goods and for
boots and shoes. Some wholesale mer
chants at Western centers report the
largest volume of August trade on rec
ord. There has been an increased con
sumption of cotton by Southern mills.
Western iron and steel mills have or
ders to keep them busy until Jan. 1.
In the Central Western states the bi
tuminous coal strike has had a further
depressing effect vi on the general in
dustrial situation. At the Northwest
some commercial houses have had to
work overtime to meet the demand for
goods and the warm weather is re
ported to have practically assured the
corn crop. On the Pacific coast wheat
exports have been checked by inability
to secure crews for vessels.
Mercantile collections have greatly
improved in some sections. Last week's
general and unprecedented expansion
of prices for staples is continued, wool,
cotton and woolen fabrics, hides, leath
er.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 su
gar having advanced, and higher prices
being expected for boots and shoes.
Lower prices are recorded for cotton,
flour and coffee, while those for oats,
pork, print cloths, petroleum and coal
are unchanged.
This Aveeks' exports of wheat, flour
included, are the largest with two ex
ceptions, the second week of Septem
ber and the fourth week of August,
IS9I Total shipments amount to 6
2GS 247 bushels, against 5.149,653 bushels
last week- 3,369,862 bushels last year,
° 260 261 bushels in 1895; 3,207,300 bush
els in 1894, and 4,902.000 bushels in 1*9.?.
Shipments of corn are also large, ag
gregating 3,185,064 bushels this week,
against 2,682,452 bushels last week; 2,
--627,526 bushels last year; 1,405,370 bush
els in 1595; 127.000 bushels in 1894 and
672. 575 bushels in 1893.
There are only 198 business failures
reported throughout the United States
this week, against 210 last week, 33t
in the week one year ago; 184 two
years ago; 2<>7 three years ago, and as
contrasted with 379 in the like week
of 1893.
The improvement in the iron and
steel industry gains momentum. The
demand increases for sheets and
plates, especially for bridge and ship
building, including 10,000 tons at Phil
adelphia. Southern and Western deal
ers have united to advance prices of
pig and Bessemer at Prttsburg has
1 isen. The demand for cars is press
ing and work for railways increases.
The first shipment of steel rails from
this country to Australia was of 2.000
tins by the Lackawana company.
Boot and shoe shipments, not quite
five per cent smaller than last year in
August, nor four per cent smaller than
in 1595, were 7\' 2 Per cent smaller than
in 1594, but were little larger than in
1892.
There are 30 business failures report
ed from the Canadian Dominion this
week. Last week the total was 39, and
a year ago it was 30.
paired to the banquet hall and were
royally fed on the good things of the
valley. They leave tomorrow morning
at 7 o'clock for Grand Forks, Larimoro
and other points in the valley, return
ing tomorrow evening to St. Paul by
way of Crookston. At the meeting
this evening the following resolutions
were adopted:
Resolved. That it is the earnest and hon
est opinion, expressed with due appreciation,
of the Farmers' National Congress of Amer
ica yiat for general good fellowship, warm
hospitality and a knowledge of entertaining
the citizens of the preat Northwest are not
surpassed on the whole earth, and that We
cannot find fitting words of appreciation for
the uniform kindness that has characterized
every action in matins? out stay in this sec
tion of the United States one that will live
in our heart's forever. And be it further
resolved, that we desire especially to ex
press a slight token of our gratitude to the
citizens of St. Paul, the Commercial club, the
daily Dress of that and adjacent cities, to the
mayor and people of Fargo for the hearty re
ception tendered during the afternoon and
evening of the day; and resolved, that we are
all under everlasting obligations to the Great
Northern Railroad company and the president.
Mr. James J. Hill, for the many courtesies
shown the congress and to General Passenger
Agent Whitney for 'the thorough and most
excellent management in bringing this large
excursion to this city.
peats in the convention. In other words,
persons entirely remote from and hav
ing no connection with labor move
ments could have been In attendance
and by overwhelming numbers, direct
.cd the course, mapped out the policy
and dominated the trade union move
ment. As president of the American
Federation of Labor, a responsible of
ficer in the union movement, I would
not dare hazard the interests of our
fellow workers at the hands of persons
who might be entirely irresponsible.
There are numbers of people who axe
opposed to government by injunction
and who are yet hostile to the clear-cut
and well-defined purpose of the trade
union movement.
"I shall say nothing of criticism of
the action of the St. Louis convention
and I d-id not say anything earlier be
cause 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 g>ad that what
I now say will not appear until after
the result of ffhis appeal has been noted
upon."
THE JAP IN NICARAGUA!* CANAL AFFAIRS.
I'ncle Sam — Hi. you Uul, come out of there.
BETTER NOT
BOIL OVER.
LONDON, Sept. 3.— The Berlin corre
spondent of the Times says the Zun
kunft publishes what is undoubtedly
an authentic interview with Prince
Bismarck, who expressed himself as
very skeptical regarding alleged Fran
co-Russian alliance, and declared that
the czar's toast really committed Rus
sia to very little. In the course of the
interview Prince Bismarck said: "I re
member in my own diplomatic exper
ience similar obscure expressions,
which were not unpleasing to the ears
of those they concerned. 1 do not
think the contents ol the treaty, if it
exists at all, would please the French.
The policy of the Russian government
has always been cautious and I can
not conceive that it would needlessly
Precautions at
Columbus.
COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 3.— lt has de
veloped that extraordinary precautions
taken today to take care of the presi
dent were the result of the mayor
having received a n<ae, unsigned, tell
ing him to be on guard against a pro
posed assassination of McKinley be
cause of the appointment of Mr. Pow
derly. The letter, however, it is said,
was regarded by the mayor and di
rector of public safety as a hoax. They
both state that it was never consider
ed seriously. Gen. Alger tonight de
clared the publication of the letter an
outrage.
President McKinley and his party ar
rived in Columbus this morning as the
guests of the state board of agricul
ture. The morning was quietly spent,
and in the afternoon, the president
visited the fair grounds. Between
seventy-five and one hundred thousand
people were present. There were many
children present and Mr. McKinley di
rected his brief remarks largely to
them. In part he said:
The presence of 40,006 school children com
mands our affection and inspires ouf hope;
and I congratulate the children of Ohio that
they enjoy execeptionaJ opportunities ,for edu
cation at the hands of the government of the
suite. No other state has higher common
school advantages than the state of Ohio.
And it is gratifying to know that a half a
million children every day in our state crowd
the doorsteps of our public schools in thirst
for knowledge to fit them for the grave a*d
responsible duties of lit*-. There is OLe thing
of which the United States can proudly boast,
and that is our great public school system
where the boys and girls from every walk
of life assemble in full equality and enjoy
equally with all their fellows of t c advantages
of instruction. I congratulate you ali for that.
I am glad to meet these school children here
today. Children's day it is to you now, but
in a little while it will be citizens' day with
all of you. Upon you in a little while will
rest the duty as well as the responsibility
of carrying on tee gTeat political fabric
established by your fathers and bearing the
glorious old banner they have so proudly
borne in the past.
God bless the school children of Ohio. God
bless the school childrea of America, and
guide them to intelligence, to virtue, and
morality and patriotisih ,and with these ele
ments dominating our citizenship, our insti
tutions are safe and.^our republic may b?
glorious forever. I thank you and bid you
all good afternoon. (Great applause.)
At the conclusion of the president's
speech he was the recipient of an ova
tion from the school children and as
sembled multitude? Brief speeches
were also made by Secretary Alger and
Senator Hanna. After drivrtig over the
grounds the presidential party return
ed to the hotel. In the evening a com
plimentary dinner was given by the
state board of agriculture to President
McKinley and a brief informal recep
tion followed. The president leaves
for Canton tomorrow morning.
-^k.
NEW TURKISH MIMSTER.
Rifaat Bey Onlerert From London to
"Washington.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 3.—Ri
faat Bey, until recently councilor of
the Turkish embassy in E<ondon, has
been appointed Turkish minister at
Washington in succession to Mousta
pha Tachsin Bey.
WASHINGTON, Sept. ?..— The ap
pointment of a newf Turkish minister
was not unexpected to officials here,
as reports of Moustapha Bey's recall
have been current for spme time. Fol
lowing the close of the* Graceo-Turk
ish war, the Turkish legation here was
Bismarck Skepti
cal of the; New Dual
Alliance*
commit itself to adventures from
which it would gain nothing. Count
Muravieff has always behaved as Ger
many's friend, and I do not see any
reason why he should change his
mind."
Prince Bismarck commented some
what ironically upon President Faure's
aptitude, taste and success in the new
fashion of political traveling and re
peated the opinion that nothing would
come of it, adding: "But fo» all that
the French people are moved nearer to
the fire and might more easily boil
over. This ought to deliver our rulers
from any illusion they may still cher
ish and should serve to warn th?m
against altering the basis of our na
tional defence."
The President's Life
Threatened By a Crank
Letter.
closed, the two secretaries were recall
ed and Moustapha Bey went to New
York, where he has since remained. It
v. ,-i.s understood that Rifaat Bey would
come to Washington as first secretary
of legation, taking the place of Nori
gk-n Enfendi, and it is some surprise
to see him advanced to the rank of
minister. Moustapha Bey's service
has been brief, hardly exceeding a
yt ar. He has been in poor health, and
the Washington climate did not agree
with him.
RECIPROCITY TREATY.
Subject Discussed by Sherman and
the French Min inter.
W A SHINGTON, Sept. 3.— The French
ambassador, M. P^ten' tfe, called ■*i
Secretary Sherman today ri/'?t ye to
the proposed reciprocity treaty be
tween the TT-.iii ed States and France.
The subject was discussed in a general
way but, owing to the importance of
the question involved, it is not expected
that final results will be reached until
the return of the president, who takes
a personal interest in these reciprocity
negotiations. Under the new law it
appears that two forms of reciprocity
are provided, both of which Prance is
dffirous of securing. The first form
contemplates "commercial agreements
In which reciprocal relations may be
secured." This leaves ft to the judg
ment of the president to reduce the
duties on certain specified articles.
The president is empowered to grant
these reductions without the formali
ties of a treaty which ordinarily must
be submitted to and ratified by the
senate. Aside from the agreements
left wholly to the judgment of the
president, the law also provides for
reciprocity treaties covering the whole
range of articles included in the tariff.
It authorizes a reduction' of 2 per cent
of the duties on such articles as may
be agreed upon, or to transfer o§ duti
able goods to the free list for a period
not exceeding five years. These trea
ties, however, must be ratified by the
senate "and approve by congress" be
fore they go into effect. It is probable
that France will open negotiations for
this latter form of reciprocity, al
though it offers no immediate benefits,
owing to the delays incident to secur
ing ratification by tne senate and ap
proval by congress.
IOWA POPS ENJOINED.
Middle Road Ticket May Not Go on
Hi.- Ballot.
DES MOINES, 10., Sept. 3.— The
Democratic state central committee
secured today a temporary injunction
restraining the secretary of state from
putting the ticket of the bolting Popu
lists on the official ballot. The bolting
Populists ticket was fited 1 with th^»--ec
retary ten minutes before. Charles
Walsh, secretary of the Democratic
committee was already in the office of
the secretary of state to file the Popu
list and Democratic ticket, wljen C. W.
Weeks, of the micklle-of-the-roaders
entered with Deputy Secretary Smith.
Weeks had given the papers for the
to entering the office, an-d Smith
placed his file mark on them imme
diately. Walsh protested and the out
come was the injunction to restrain
the secretary of statt> from placing the
middle-of-the-road ticket on the offi
cial ballot.
PRICK TWO CEN»9nqiaJ«ftf
INDEPENDENT OF ENGLAND.
Uncle Sam the Master Now of the Gold Sup=
ply of the World.
Specie flovernent Must Be This \Vay==ship=
ments Cannot Be Long Delayed.
If London's Threat to Sell American Securities Is
Carried Out This Country Is Abundantly
Able to Buy and Pay.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 3.—
"With the condition of the national
banks as at present the United States
can be largely independent of Great
Britain. There is no present neces
sity for obtaining English gold."
George M. Coffin, acting controller of
the currency, made the foregoing
statement. Continuing, he said: "Tht;
threat that no more English gold will
be sent to this country is superfluous.
Our prosperity as now exhibited illus
trates our financial supremacy as a
nation, and we will be compelled to
ask nothing from England. I have
read with great interest the interview
given by Hugh Smith, governor of the
Bank of England, and think our bank
statistics an opportune reply to his re
marks as to lack of confidence.
"If the British do not want Ameri
can securities and have no confidence
in them, our people are in a position
to buy them and pay f..r them. With
$413,000,000 of actual cash in the na
tional banks, and perhaps $200,000,000
more in other banking institutions,
many of our citizens can afford to take
up large amounts of these securities
that Mr. Smith says are not wanted
by the English. He admits that there
has recently been a substantial im
provement in such securities, but at
tributes it to American buying. This
will increase as returns from the crops
come in, and when prices advance the
English will join us in a rush to ob
tain possession of these now despised
securities.
"If gold does not come from England
it must reach us from other countries,
for exportations of grain to all parts
of Europe will be heavy, and the ex
cess of these over our imports will be
paid for in gold. It may require a lit
tle time to start a perceptible flow in
our direction, but it cannot long be de
ferred. We will get an abundance of
gold and be able to let England have
seme in exchange for American securi
ties if needed.
"There is every evidence that the
United States is accumulating a vast
amount of capital of its own, and this
jpoes to show that sooner or later, if
it is not already so, this country will
be financially independent of Great
» TROUBLE SETTLED.
Suits to Be Dismissed by Order
of Secretary Bliss.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.— The con
troversy that has been going on for a
long period between the Sioux Indians
on the Pine Ridge reservation in South
Dakota and the grazers on adjacent
tracts, which has caused much excite
ment in that section, was taken up by
Secretary Bliss today, and the outcome
was a request to the attorney general
to dismiss the pending suits. The In
dians have long complained that the
cattlemen allow their stock to cross
the White river into their reservation
from the grazing ground of the north
side of the river. Last spring Agent
Clapp had several hundred of the cat
tle rounded up and turned over to the
United States marshal, subsequently
releasing them under bond. The In
dians demanded $1 a head for them;
the cattlemen dissented and the affair
has resulted in several suits. Togeth
er with the decision to dismiss these
suits, it was decided today to have fif
teen or twenty Indian police patrol the
boundary line between the grazing
ground and the reservation, and if that
does not prove effective then to fence
it. The latter measure was recently
recommended by Indian Inspector Mc-
Laughlin, but as about 150 miles would
have to be covered, the department
does not want to incur the expense un
less necessary.
DINGLEY EXPLAINS IT.
Xothin.s: Mneh Was Intended by Sec
tion --:.
LEWISTON, Me., Sept. 3.—Accord
ing to the Lewiston Evening Journal,
Hon. Nelson Dingley's paper, the
originators of section 22, of the tariff
law. did not intend it to effect the ■
bonding privilege, under which foreign
merchandise can be shipped and for
warded through Canada. The Jour
nal editorially says of section 22: "The
controversy which has arisen ovt-r
section 22 has come entirely over tw.i
amendments, one having been made
by the senate and the other by the
conference. The section as framed by
the ways and means committee and
passed by the house was the same
as in all previous tariffs, and, if it hail
not been amended after it left the
house, no question would have arisen
respecting it. The senate amendment
to section 22 amended the house sec
tion by striking out the words 'or any
act of congress' in the additional
clause which is the modification of
importance that is causing the most
controversy.
"Many papers in commenting on the
section assume that the conference
inserted this amendment and proceeds
ed to comment on what they call a
Twelve Bodies Recovered.
Disaster in the Sunshine Mine at GSerj
wood Springs.
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Col., Sept.
3._ At 6 o'clock this evening a terrific
explosion of coal dust occurred in the
old Sunshine mine, owned by the Colo
rado Fuel & Iron Co., seventeen miles
from Glenwood. At this writing,
twelve bodies have been recovered ■
and so great is the excitement tint it I
cannot be learned whether thvru are!
any more in the mine or not. The
names of those killed are: Antonie
Britain or any other nation. The cur
rent rate for demand loans in New
York today is v, 4 per cent against a
slightly higher rate in London, and
it is not at all improbable that und sr
those circumstances New Yuri; bank
ers are loaning money in London. Tn
spite of the enormous loss depri
tion in values sustained by the United
States during the past four years, the
latest bank statistics ■. | ihei
has been a very large accumulation of
capital in this country, much of w
is lying- idle in bank awaiting the
orable opportunity of investn
result of this enormous accumulate n
of capital will be lower rates o"
est for the future.
"The feature that present conditions
bring forward most conspicuously a
the effect to be reasonably expected
upon the silver question. The free sih
ver disease sprang from the suffering
and privations of the farming cla
and will be cured in the measure of t.
farmers' return to better conditioi
Beneficent nature is now applying
this cure, at least to the great wheal
growing sections, where population Is
densest. From the Atlantic: to the 1
cific come the unvarying accounts
abundant wheat and corn crops. This
"dollar wheat,' too, shatters to fra -
ments the stoutly maintained conten
tion that the silver in a dollar has
always been able to buy a bushel of
wheat. Today it takes about two and
a half times as much as a dollar con
tains at its gold value to purchase
a bushel of wheat. The law of supply
and demand has furnished the object
lesson which destroys this pet argu
ment of the silver men."
ENGLISH WHEAT SHY.
John Hull Must Depend on the
United States.
LONDON, Sept. 4.— The Daily Graph
ic publishes a table comparing the
available and prospective English
wheat supply at the present time with
that of September, lvuj. showing a de
ficiency of nearly two million quarters.
It is inevitable, the Graphic says, that
the rise in bread stuffs will be main
tained.
'trick in the dark.' The fact is, how
ever, that the amendment was adopt
ed in open senate. The other amend
ment, it now Beams, was adopted by
the conferees simply to prevent an
evasion of the section by landing of
foreign merchandise in Canada by
vessels not entitled to equal privilege
in our ports, then shipping Into il>'<
United States. an.d was not intended
or understood to affect the bonding
privilege under which foreign mer
chandise can be continuously shipped
and forwarded through Canada."
INDIA'S SILVER POSITION
Will Be Brought Out by Official
Action Just Taken.
NEW YORK Sept. 3.— The Evening
Post's correspondent cables today as
follows: I have just learned that, fol
lowing the recent decision of the India
government to suspend council drafts.
It is now decided that the Indian gov
ernment will receive next Tuesday ten
ders of drafts for one crore of rupees
(about $5,000,000); that is to say, Instead
of selling drafts, the balances in India
are so low that they want to buy re
mittances. This fact, which will prob
ably not be known to the local market
until tomorrow, is of the utmost inter
est, as it will at once bring into prom
inence the silver position in India, find
the scarcity o-f silver currency, occa
sioned by requirements connected with
the war operations on the frontier.
Dear money is probable in India, and
remittances of the kind wanted by the
India government are believed to be
scarce.
The Daily News in its financial re
view this morning expresses th« opin
ion that . gold shipments wiM result
from the action of the secretary of
si. it" for India in suspending the sal*
of bills of exchange on Calcutta, Bom
bay and Madras. All the morning pa
pers echo the expression of the Times
regarding the intention of thi gjV'.M.
rui t.
ONE HUNDREDJNJHE SHADE.
Wsirinor Wentlier West Wbiek In
(omiiifi Tliis Wily.
Special to tj»e Globe.
ABERDEEN, Sept. 3.— Government
thermometer recorded 102 degrees in
the shade this afternoon, the hottest
by G degrees of the season. The heat
and wind combined to make the day
vile almost beyond, precedent. Had
such weather been experienced a week
ago the crop losses would have been
great.
Special to tho Globe.
LUVEREN, Minn., Sept. 3.— This waa
the hottest day of the season, the ther
mometer registered over 100 In the
shade.
Martealtone, George Dannon, j>onlg
Raki, Jne Martini, Joe Casagrandl,
John Jenneni, Antonione Eppic. Theo
dore Polosi, John A. ;:driani.\. Etnil
Andriani. Francis McClous. Rescuing
parties are still exploring the mine arid
great crovris strrroant! the entrance.
The bodies taken out £ire Jn ti most
horribly tntrttlated i,-.intJltion. Physi
cians have gent: f-.i. Gleuwood to
care for iliose who may hv, rocovcred
woocded