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VOL. XXIII.—NO. 15.
EXPORTS TO ASIA
INCREASE ON FARM PRODUCTS OF
ELEVEN MILLION DOLLARS IN
FIVE YEARS
MARKET IS THE ORIENT
VOTABLE GAINS SHOWN IN FIGURES
JUST MADE PUBLIC AT
WASHINGTON
COLLECTED FOR FIRST TIME
a.vera«re Yearly Yatne of Farm Prod
ucts Sent Out of the United States
in the Period Named More Than
Six Hundred Million Dollars—Eng
land the Largest Consumer of
American Produce.
WASHINGTON, Jan, 14.-Frank H.
Hitchcock, chief of the foreign markets
division of the agricultural department,
lias prepared interesting figures, showing
for the first time the respective amounts
of our agricultural exports which go to
the several countries of Europe and of
the other continents. The period covered
Js 1894 to 1898.
The statement shows that the agricul
tural products exported from the United
States during the five years had an aver
age annual value of $663,536,201. Of these
enormous exports about 00 per cent found
a market in'the United Kingdom and Its
various dependencies. The sum paid by
the British people for American farm
produce, purchased during the period
mentioned, reached as high as $403,953,854
a year. Great Britain alone toak more
thail one-half of all our agricultural ex
ports, the consignments credited to that
country forming about 55 per cent of the
total shipments and having an average
annual value of $362,407,701.
Germany, which ranks next to the
United Kingdom as a market for the
products of American agriculture, re
ceived about 13 per cent of the exports
for 1894-1898, the average yearly value
amounting to $86,320,274.
France, with purchases that averaged
$43,988,790 a year, or about 6.6 per cent of
the total, was the third country In im
portance. These three countries—the
United Kingdom, Germany and France
received together nearly 75 per cent of
the total agricultural exports.
After the three countries Just mention
ed, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada,
Italy and Spain afforded the most impor
tant markets. The Netherlands about 4.3
per cent of the total; Belgium, 3.6 per
cent; Canada 3.5 per cent; Italy, 2.2 per
g«nt, and Spain 1.5 per cent.
ANNUAL AVERAGES.
The average annual values of the ex
ports to these countries were: Nether
lands, $28,803,156; Belgium, $23,731,669; Can
ada, $23,020,517; Italy, $14,204,424, and Spain
$9,761,870. Brazil look $6,258,729; Cuba,
$6,099,924; Denmark, $5,990,952 (exports to
the country doubling during the five-year
period); the British West Indies, $5,241,657;
Mexico, $4,636,486; British Africa, $4,135,920,
and European Russia $4,060,236. The av
erage yearly exports to Hong Kong were
valued at $3,555,588, and those to Japan at
$3,407,800. For Portugal the average an
nual record was $2,709,69-1; for Sweden and
Norway, $2,655,549; for Haiti, $2,281,966, and
for British Australasia $2,030,804.
The other countries to which the United
States sent agricultural products during
1894-ISHS having an average yearly value
In excess of $1,000,000 were Austria-Hun
gary, Venezuela, British Guiana, Puerto
Rico, the Hawaiian islands and the
French Indies.
These figures, with very few exceptions,
chow that the leading foreign countries
materially increased their purchases of
American agricultural products during
1894-1898. In the total value of the agricul
tural exports there was an advance from
$636,633,747 In 1894 to $858,507,942 in 1898, mak
ing a gain of $221,874,195. The countries
of destination that contributed most of
this increase were the United Kingdom,
• Germany, France, Belgium, Canada, the
Netherlands, Japan, Italy, Denmark and
British Africa.
P^xports of farm products to the United
Kingdom Increased $82,558,854 during the
five years; to Germany, $46,441,338, and to
Fiance $33,415,208.
FARM PRODUCE.
The summary brings out the fact that
about 88 per cent of all the farm produce
shipped from the United States during the
five years mentioned was marketed in
Europe, the anual average being $586,958,
--907. In 1898 it reached as high as $761,870,
--782, showing an increase "of $195,588,939 over
the value for 1894. Of the remaining 12
per cent the chief part went to Canada
and the other North American countries^
averaging annually $48,724,257, or slightly
more than 7 per cent of the total. South
America took only 1.72 per cent of the to
tal value, being $11,389,761. and less In 1898
than in 1894.
To Asia there was a marked Increase
during the five years, the value advanc
ing from $3,801,998 in 1894 to $14,671,349 in
1898. They formed 1.6 per cent of the total
for the five years.
The shipments of agricultural products
to Africa, although constituting less than
1 per cent of the total, showed a notice
able increase. In 1898 the value amounted
to $9,795,598, as compared with only $1,716,
--820 in 1894. This was a gain of $8,079,778.
To Oceanica there were agricultural ex
ports averaging $3,394,868 a year. The
value for 1898 was $3,540,461, while that for
1894 was only $1,963,148.
HER LIN GOLD MOVEMEXT.
TrannnctiouM of December Resulted
In Some Gain to Germany.
BERLIN, Jan. 14.-A leading official of
the ixeich^bank in the couree of an inter
view today ■,made the following state
in* nt regarding, the financial situation:
"The gold movement in December re-
BUlted In a considerable increase of Ger
many's gold stock. About 19,000,000 marks
•went to England, but more than 90,000,001
marks were imported from Russia. This
was due to the fact that Russia had been
unablt to raise a loan in Western Europe
to meet the interestuponher engagements
and was compel led to send gold insttad.
"Furthermore the British banks re
fused In prolong the Russian drafts, thus
roi.Jering remittances from Russia to
London necessary. These -were partly
direct, but chiefly by- way of Germany.
Hence the apparent export from Germany
to London was really a mere matter of
tninslt.
"Since the beginning cf this year the
export has been almost nothing. A
6e<--ond reduction in the bank rate before
the end of January is possible, but every
thing depends upon the further der*lop
ments of the market. The boerse has
taken 100 optimistic a view of the money
Wfr' £t lattl $lofa
situation, in view of the fact that the
rapid fall in discount since Jan 1 has
been largely abnormal."
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 14.—The bud
get statement of M. de Witte, Russian
minister of finance, cabled in part last
week, announced In connection with the
unfavorable change of the money market,
that Russia's gold reserve was diminish
ed last year by 24,600,000 roubles.
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APPROVES INSURANCE PLAN.
Booker Washington Speaks to Col
ored People of Chicago.
, CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—Hundreds of col
ored people of Chicago crowded into
Bethel church today to hear Booker T.
Washing-ton discuss the movement for
a new fraternal insurance organization
for colored people. Among those seated
in the rostrum were Rev. Jenkin Lloyd
Jones, Rabbi Hirsch, State's Attorney
Charles H. Deneen, Judge C. C. Kohl
saat. Judge Orrin C. Carter, Judge Rich
ard Tuthill, Hon. Patriclr H. ODonnell
and Miss Jane Addams. Prof. Washington
said:
"In seeking to give encouragement to
this movement I do so because it is in line
with the teaching to which my life Is
largely devoted—that of helping the race
to prepare itself for industry and busi
ness; to exercise thrift and economy; to
.gave money; to help lay up something for
a rainy day. Neither actively, ofllcially
nor financially can I enter Into the busi
ness of this organization, for I am de
termined to let nothing draw me aside
from the work that I have undertaken
for the elevation of our people through
the medium of the Tuskegee normal and
industrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala.
"I am glad to have a part in this meet
ing for the special reason that more and
more each year the problem confronting
our race in these large Northern cities
is going to become an important one. The
negro who comes from the South to Chi
cago, for example, finds certain advan
tages which are not afforded him In the
South. At the same time he finds certain
disadvantages. He meets with severe and
often almost cruel competition. I have
said more than once that I believe that
our people can sooner conquer prejudice
In the South than Northern competition.
The young colored man coming to Chicago
from our Southern states not only haa
to meet severe competition, but he finds
himself subjected to temptations which
do not surround him In his Southern
home. All these considerations make It
most Important that any organization in
the North that has for its object the
encouragement of our people in the direc
tion of thrift and economy, the exercise
of which gives them opportunity and en
couragement to save money, should re
ceive our special care and earnest con
sideration.
- "The negro in the South as elsewhere
will prosper In proportion as he learns to
do some one thing well—learns to do it
better than anyone else; in proportion
as he learns to put brains, skill and dig
nity in the common occupations of life.
"A few days ago I was asked by a
German in the North in what manner
could the negroes in the South be pro
tected. My answer was: 'Assist us in
making the negro the most useful man
in his community.' Usefulness will con
stitute our most lasting and potent pro
tection, whether we live In the North or
In th« South/
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ADVICES ARE CONFLICTING.
Contradictory Reports Regarding
the Revolution in Colombia.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. 14.—Advices
just received from Colombia reiterate the
statement that the main body of the Co
lombian revolutionists, after occupying
Bucamanga on Jan. 6, and securing large
Quantities of stores, proceeded toward
Soccorro, to which other bodies were con
verging with a view of forming a junc
tion and delivering a concerted attack
upon Bogota.
In this attempt according to the same
advice 3 the Colombian expects the as
sistance of a considerable body of Ven
ezuelans understood-to be advancing from
the frontier by way of Cuyota.
On the other hand the government dis
patches reaffirm the reports of a com
plete rout of the main body of the in
surgents in two heavy battles near Buc
amanga and Cereti, entirely frustrating
the insurgent plans.
As against this, advices from yet an
other quarter declare the government is
completely disorganized and the govern
ment troops are retreating to Bogota,
avoiding the insurgents. In this connec
tion it is pointed out that the drafting of
AntioQuan troops into the capital is a
significant indication of the government
position.
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CATTLE MEN COMBINE.
New Organization Formed nt Kansas
City to Prevent Fraud.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 14.— In order
to secure better protection against cat
tle swindlers and workers of frauds, sev
eral representatives of Chicago live stock
commission firms en route to the Fort
Worth cattle convention stopped off here
long enough to form what would be
known as the Livestock Commission
Merchants' Protective association. For.
some time, especially since the Glllett
alleged swindle, many of the live stock
men at the stockyards have been con
templating forming, an association to
work for each other's mutual protection
against not only swindlers, but also
against those customers who refuse to
promptly meet their obligations. At first
it was thought to make it a Kansas City
organization, but later it was considered
to the best interests of all to act jointly
with Chicago.
After a large amount of detail work
the meeting saw the association formed
and these officers were elected: M. P.
Bu«ll, of Chicago, president; J. H. Waite,
Kansas City, secretary and treasurer;
twenty Chicago and Kansas City firms
were represented at the meeting.
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IOWA CITY BLAZE.
Lighted Match Dropped Into II Pile
of Cotton Batting.
IOWA CITY, 10., Jan. 14.—A fire which
started in the store of Mrs. Hattie E.
Home inflicted a loss of $60,000. Lena
Delshied, a saleswoman, in attempting
to light the gas. dropped a burning match
in a pile of cotton batting and the entire
store was soon ablaze. The stock, valued
at $35,000, was a total loss, and the build
ing, owned by W. P. Coast, was dam
aged to the extent of $10,000. The fire
spread to adjoining buildings. The other
losers are: G. M. Lewis, groceries, $5,000;
Suppel & Moore, clothing, $3,000; Price,
Heith & Co., jewelry, U.OO0; C. Suppel,
building, $2,000; other stocks and build
ings damaged by water and smoke, $6,000.
All carried partial insurance.
James Wa*nke, a fireman, was badly
burned.
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CASES OF PLAGUE.
Two Reported by the Health Officers
of South Australia;
ADELAIDE, South Australia, Jan. 14.—
The health authorities report two cases
of bubonic plague here, one being fatal.
The victim was a runaway sailor of the
British bark Formosa
MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1900.
MR. HOAR IS MINED
HIS THE ADDRESS WHICH WAS
CABLED TO TUB FILIPINO
INSURGENTS
CHARGE MADE IN PUBLIC
Mr. Barrett, Bx-Unlted Stale* Min
ister to Siam, In Speaking at Lake
Forest University, Declares Thut.
in His Opinion, the Address of llie
Massachusetts Senator Was the
Canse of the Rebellion.
CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—John-Barrett, ex-
United States minister to Siam, for the
first time, publicly named Senator Hoar
last night, at Lake Forest university, as
the United States senator whose anti-ex
pansion speech was cabled to Hong Kong
and subsequently put into the hands of
the Filipino soldiers, causing, as Mr. Bar
rett believed, the open insurrection. Fre
quently this speech and its presumed ef
fect have been mentioned, and the reading
public has connected the name of Sen
ator Hoar with it, and it is probable Mr.
Barrett would not have used the law
maker's name on this occasion had he not
been facing an audience known to" be
largely hostile to the administration's pol
icy in the Oriental islands.
It appears further from the ex-minister's
speech that the government has discov
ered privately the stages by which the
anti-expansion address reached Luzon.
MR. BARRETT'S SPEECH.
In the course of his address, which was
on the general subject of the "Philip
pines," Mr. Barrett said that it had been
discovered in the government Investiga
tion that Senator Hoar's speech was ca
bled in cipher and In fragments to Paris,
where it was put together and forwarded
to Hong Kong. The message included
several thousand words, and the cost for
transmission was said to have been $4,000.
It interested the government to know
what friends the Filipinos had at this
time who were in a position to send the
message.
"I was in Hong Kong-at the time," said
Mr. Barrett, "and I remember the inci
dent distinctly. I was coming down stairs
in the hotel when I met the president of
the Hong Kong junta, and he had in his
hand the long dispatch he had just re
ceived. It gave a large part of Senator
Hoar's speech in full, and a summary
of the rest of it. I asked the president
what he wag going to do with it, and he
told me that he meant to send it to the
officers of the army in the Philippines.
He was urged not to do bo, but he pro
tested that it had been printed in the
United States and was public property.
"Four days after that speech had been
delivered it was in the- hands 1 of those
who saw an opportunity to make politi
cal capital.of It. The speech was pub
lished and distributed among.the soldiers,
and I beHeve it was the culminating in
fluence that brought about the open in
surrection. This speech you must remem
ber was delivered before there was an
open insurrection."
MR. HOAR SILENT.
BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 14.—Senator Hoar
tonight declined to take any notice of
the statement attributed to Mr. Barrett,
ex-minister to Siam, in an address on
the Philippine question. The senator said
that Gen. Otis' reports give him the full
est accounts of the events that led to
hostilities, and that he expects, as he
lias already given notice, to deal with
the whole matter in the senate.
BONFILS MAY DIE.
One of the Editors of the Denver
Post Who Was Shot.
DENVER, Col., Jan. 14.—Frederick D.
Bonflls, one of the proprietors of the
Post here, who was shot by Lawyer W
W. Anderson, of this city,: yesterday, Is
in a critical condition. Physicians are in
constant attendance at the bedside of the
injured man. This afternoon a hem
orrhage of the lungs had the effect of
weakening the patient and tonight grave
fears are entertained for his recovery.
Harry Tammon, associated with Bonflls
In the proprietorship of the Post, and
Who was also shot by Anderson during
the trouble that resulted in Bonflls' in
juries, is resting easily tonight and is in
no danger unless complications should
Get In.
W. W. Anderson, the lawyer who did
the shooting, was released last night by
District Judge C. P. Butler, on habeas
corpus proceedings held in a room at the
Denver Athletic club. His bond was
fixed at $10,000 and was immediately
furnished by friends of Anderson.
RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM.
Towns Adjacent to-Kansas City to
Have Trolley Cars.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 14.—The Kan
sas City & Leavenworth Electric Railway
company will open its road for general
traffic on Tuesday. The building of this
line is thought to be only the beginning
WILL THE OTHER WILLIE SIGN?
of a great lnterurban railway system cen
tering here. Should the new line prove
a good investment it,is-more than prob
able that all of the towns and cities
within a radius of sixty miles of Kansas
City ■will be connected by one big elec
tric rapid transit system, Right of way
franchises have already been secured for
a similar line betweeu Topeka and this
city.
WRECK STIITa MYSTERY.
Little Known as Ye* of the Steamer
an the Newfoundland Coast.
ST. JOHN'S, N. P.. Jan. 14.-The gale
has not yet blown itself out and the sea
is still too rough to allow boats to go
near the wrecked steamer in the bay.
As yet there is nothing to show tha name
of the vessel. Ten bodies have been
located among the rocks and others can
be seen floating about. Plans have been
made for the recovering of these tomor
row and as soon as the weather permits
it may then be possible to get at the
name of the steamer from plecea of
boats wedged in the cleft.
The priest of the district while holding
a service was given a photograph which
had apparently been washed ashore from
the wreck. This , represents a seaman
wearing a cap on Which were the words,
"S. M. 8. Falke." Th.-- priest was told
also that the ship had lid off the rocks
into deep water and had disappeared ex
cept for the top of one mast and that
a guernsey with the latters, "S. M. 5.,"
had also been picked up near the wreck.
It appears that the ship's funnel Was
banded red, white and black, with a white
diamond. This funnel could not be that
of the Falke, as, she being a North Ger
man Lloyd liner, would have a yellow
funnel. It is also thought that the photo
graph might be one of a seaman on the
German warship Falke, ©r one taken
while its. owner was on the other Falke.
The funnels most resembling that of tho
wrecked vessel are those of the American
petroleum company, which are banded
black, red, white and black, and the ves
sel certainly had a lot.of petroleum on
board, as the ocean is covered with it,
causing hundreds of-birds to perish.
The Warren line, q£ Boston, is known
as the White Diamond line and although
the funnels of its vessels are black the
wreck may have been a chartered steam
er with a white diamond painted over the
regular signal to show her as a Warren
liner. ■
FACULTY IN REVOLT.
Trouble In the Cincinnati University
Assumes a Serious Phase.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 14.—This has been
a day of anxiety among those connected
either directly or indirectly with the Uni
versity of Cincinnati. Following the
declaration of President Ayers, that the
members of the faculty should all re
sign and then he would accept such resig
nations as' he might select, comes a
movement on the part of the professors
to stand together and pot only refuse to
resign, but for all to quit, if the trustees
at their special meeting tomorrow sus
tain the recent decree of President Ayers,
The trustees last-.year, before electing:
President Ayers, adopted a resolution -giv
ing the president power to appoint mem
bers of the faculty apd^fH-lare vacancies.
"With this power tc 'discharge, any raera
ber of the faculty no jaich coup was an
ticipated as that of dlsTharging all mem
bers of the faculty *t j>nce. The profes
sor's ' are hofdlng -. conferences and have
not only decldedto|ta»d or fall together,
but also to fight Mr, iAyerS to the.last.
One of them announce? today:
"Every bridge has fe&en burned. Even
if the trustees should Refuse to sanction
what has been done, wji wouW decline to
be longer associated i*&K Mr- A >'eri>-
One or the other must go. "
President Ayers i'e/ufed to say anything
in advance of the meeting of the board
tomorrow. The students and^ others of
the alumni have-been; Industriously con
ferring today with thestrustees regarding
the crisis.
POLICEMAN GRABBEiTdTJMMY.
Officer's Singular JEsperlence at a
Dry Goods Store Fire. .
CLEVELAND, 0., Jan.
Martin Madden had a singular experience
during a small fire in the basement of the
dry goods store of' Crow & Whitmarsh,
on Euclid avenue. Shortly before the
blaze got under war Madden rushed Into
the store at the foot of the basement
stairs. He saw the figure of a man. "Say,
boss, how did this fire start?" asked Mad
den, excitedly. He received no answer.
"I want to know about this fire," yelled
Madden. Still no reply. "Here, I guess
I'll take you in," said Madden. He sent
another policeman to call the patrol
wagon," and, turning, grabbed the man.
The man was a dummy and fell to pieces
at the Jerk.
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RAN INTO A HURRICANE.
British Ship From Portland Badly
Damaged hy KouSh Weather.
LONDON, Jan. 14.—The British ship
Durbridge, whfoh -anrtved at Queenstown ;
yesterday, from ' Wrtland," Qr., tan
through a hurricane hn Nov. 24. Capt.
McLauchlan and fltw] «ren of the crew
were injured.severeJiyv two lifeboats and
the main bridge were, smashed, the sky-"
light in the. cabin st»y& in and the fore
castle and cabin jpvre*» flooded. She has
other sundry damages.
—New York World.
LONE MASKED 111
HELD IP TWO KANSAS CITY RES
TAURANTS AND MADE HIS
ESCAPE
IN TRUE WILD WEST STYLE
Deed Committed in the Center of
Hie City and Under the Glare of
»n Electric Light—All With Whom
He Came in Contact Awed by the
Revolver of the Bold Bandit—
Secured fl5O.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 14.—1n true
Western fashion, a lone robber, masked
and armed, cleaned out two restaurants
in the center of the city at 6 o'clock this
morning, under the glare of an electric
light.
In Lewis' restaurant, on Walnut street,
he pointed a pistol at Stanley Brushwood,
the cashier, and tapped the register, while
he kept his revolver in plain view of two
customers eating near by. The contents
of the register had been transferred to
the safe but a few minutes previous, and
the robber secured only a handful of
change. When he had satisfied himself
that there was nothing more in sight ho
gave the waiter and the two customers a
parting word of warning and skipped
across the street to the 'restaurant of
Robert McClintock.
Here the robber covered Cashier Joseph
Drysdale and commanded two waiters
and three customers to hold up their
hands. They complied promptly, and the
robber emptied the register in a twin
kling. He pocketed the entire contents,
$146, and, backing out of the door, encoun
tered a grocery solicitor. He poked his
revolver Into the solicitor's face, with the
command not to make any alarm, and
forced him into the restaurant, where all
the others still stood with arms up
stretched.
At this instant the robber darted down
a nearby alley and disappeared. Hardly
more than five minutes was consumed at
both jobs, and the robber had plenty of
time to get away before the scared vic
tims had recovered composure.
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HARRISON IS FIRM.
Will Not Be Democratic Nominee for
Governor of Illinois.
CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—Mayor Carter Har
rison today refused formally the offer of
the Democratic nomination for governor.
He was waited on by~ Chairman Watson,
of the Democratic state committee, In
company with ex-Congressman Henrich
sen and M. F. Dunlap, of Jacksonville,
nominee of the party for state treasurer
in I'B9B, and asked if his formal declina
tion of the nomination was final. They
urged that it was his duty to the state
Democracy to accept the nomination and
make the race.
The mayor' replied that he did not look
at k in that light; there were plenty of
good men, who Wtfuld make acceptable
candidates, and he must decline.
As a result of Mayor Harrison's action,
friends of former Vice President Steven
son are urging him to accept the nomina
tion. !."-*>
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WOMAN LABOR BARRED.
Action Taken Dy the Chicago Build
ing; Man-rial Trades Council.
CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—Woman labor is to
be abolished in all factories where build
ing material is produced in Chicago, if a
resolution passed by the Building Mate
rial Trades' council "tonight can be made
effective. The resolutions provide that
each of the organizations affiliated with
the? oQuncil demand that a.clause be in
serted in all union contracts hereafter
specifying that no woman be employed in
the shops.
There are now. 200, women at work in
the various factories,' for the most part
as metal" polishers and buffers and on
plumbers' supplies; The principal reason
given for .the action '>r the council is that
the work is totally unfit for women. It is
said, however,"that the council fears that
there is an effort being made by the man
ufacturers to gradually displace the men
in favor" of the cheaper woman labor..
INNOCENTS FROM IOWA.
Blew Out the Ga« at New York—One
Dead, the Other Unconacioua.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—John Woesner
and Jacob Lehman, two German farmers
from Akley, 10., off their way to their
former homes' in Germany, for a visit, put
up at the True Blue, a second-class hotel,
on Saturday night. One of them blew out
the gas and Woesner's dead body was
found today with Lehman in an uncon
scious condition, lying beside it. Lehman
was taken to a hospital, where it was
said he has a very small chance of re
covering. In Woesner's pockets . were
found several hundred dollars.
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IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE DAY
Weather Forecast for St. Pauli
Fair; Southeasterly Winds.
l—l,ii 11 In War \ewi.
Farm Produce Exports.
Attack I linn Mr. Hoar.
Wild Wc«t Holdup.
2—Mayor on An i lons Seat.
Hatred In Religion.
Skating at Lake Como.
Rice Street Pavement.
3—Minneapolis Matters.
IVorthwest News.
Goebel Vs. Taylor*.
4— Kditorlal.
s—Field and Farm.
c—Week's Market. Reviewed.
Clew** Stock Letter.
7—Popular Wants.
B—ln the Field of Labor.
Tales of War.
Week In Conarress.
OCEAN I/INBRS.
QUEENSTOWN-Sailed; Campania, New
York.
TODAY IN ST. PAUL.
METROPOLITAN — "The New York
Brewer" (in German), 8:15 p. m.
GRAND—"Under the Red Robe," 8:15
p. m.
Palm Garden—Vaudeville, 2 and 8 p. m,.
Olympic—Vaudeville, 2 and 8 p. xo.
Lecture on "National Music," People's
church, by Louis C. Elson, 8 p, m.
Church association for the advancement
of labor meets Christ church, 8 P. to.
Parlor conference of Associated Charities,
25y Dayton avenue, 8 p, to,
Poultry fanciers meet 8 p. m.
STRIVE FOE NEW HONORS.
Jeffrie* and Shairkey to Compete for
Beefsteak Eallnn Champlonahlp.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Jeffries and
Sharkey have both entered for the annual
beefsteak eating championship of the Mo
hican club of the Twenty-second assem
bly district. It wilj be held a£ Grand Cen
tral Palace on Feb. 14—St. Valentine's
day.
"I expect to eat about a ton of porter
house," says Sharkey. Allowing for ex
aggeration, his friends realjy believe that
he can beat the steak-eating record.
Mr. Jeffries claims a record of eleven
pounde of mutton chops, but it was not
made under any organized rulee or be
fore competent witnesses, and It Is not
admitted hy the Amateur Athletic union.
Thoinaa Cogtlp-ajo, who 0»n eat three
canvas back ducks for dinner, will referee
the steak race. The members of the Mo
hican club say that they are not neces
sarily greedy persons, but that there Is so
much vegetarianism in the assembly dis
trict that they want to do something to
counteract it.
"A beefsteak eating match is a thor
oughly refined affair when conduoted by
perfect gentlemen," said ona member.
"The old system was for the competitor
to eat the meat with his hands tied be
hind his back, but you can announce posi
tively that this plan will not govern at
the grand annual feed on St. Valentine's
day.
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COMPANY Will COMPLY.
Plttsbnrg & Gulf Ready to Obey Re
quirements of Texa« Law.
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 14.-$. W. Fordyce,
receiver of the Kansas City, Plttsburg &
Gulf railway; Silas W. Pettit, of Phila
delphia, attorney for the reorganization
committee; Frank Hagerman, attorney
for the receivers, and J. McD. Trimble,
of Kansas City, held a conference here
with Attorney General T. 8. Smith, with
the view of arriving1 at ft satisfactory
adjustment of the case instituted by the
state against Texarkana & Fort Smith
Railway company, which is the Texas di
vision of the. Kansas City, Plttsburg &
Gulf, for the forfeiture of Its char
ter and the appointment of a receiver for
failure to maintain its general offices in
Texas as required by the state law.
This case was instituted in the Travis
county district court and afterwards
transferred to the court at Texarkana.
The conference resulted in the company
agreeing to comply strictly with the
Texas law. A complete reorganization of
the Texas property and a new charter
will have to be had in order to comply
with the Texas law governing the opera
tion of railroads.
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WILL SPEND MILLIONS.
The Condition of the Baltimore A
Ohio to Be Improved.
CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—The Record tomor
iow will say: Plans for the expenditure
of 125,000,000 in Improving the physical
condition of the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road have been completed-and within the
next three years that vast amount of
money will have been expended. Improve
ments of railroads, bridges, tracks and
equipment will be made on all lines of
the system.
The present rapid development of earn
ing power of the system has led the
directors to the belief that a big per
centage of the $25,000,000 can be spared
from surplus earnings. Although the de
tailed plans of improvement have not
been made public yet it Is said that a
great percentage of the money will be^
spent in improving the line, between Chi.
cago and Plttsburg._ •
LYNCHING IS THBEATENED.
Itto Men In Jail In Indiana May Be
Hanged.
PETERSBURG, Ind., Jan. 14.—Frank
Percell and two companions, who were in
jail here, are in immediate danger of be
ing lynched on account of the killing of
William Riss, of Arthur, by Percell early
today.
Riss was returning home from a party
with two young men, about 2 o'clock,
when he was met by Percell and two com
panions. Percell ask d if the party was
over, and, being told that it was, drew his
revolver and shot Riss In the eye, killing
him Instantly.
Percell and his companions were arrest
ed and hurried here by the officers to
save them from the friends of the victim,
who threaten to lynch the murderer.
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TWIN CITY TRAINS.
First Sent Out by the Oninlin Road
Over the New Route.
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 14.—The first trains
of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha road to leave the Union Pacific
station, went out today, using the tracks
of the Sioux City & Pacific between here
and Sioux City and shortening the time
to St. Paul and Minneapolis an hour and
a half. This makes the line but five miles
longer than the Illinois Central-Mlnne
ap_olis & St. Louis route. The Illinois
Central failed to put on its through
trains today, as announced, being de
layed for several reasons. It is said that
next Sunday the service 'will be started,
giving two trains each way between here
and Chicago and also to the Twin Cities.
LULL IN THE WAR
LORD ROBERTS REPORTS FRO*f
OAPB TOWN THAT STATUS IS
UNCHANGED
LADYSMITH STILL SAFE
LATEST ADVICES INDICATE THAI
GEN. WHITE IS BEHNG GIV
EN" RESPITR
DASH INTO THE FREE STATE
British Troop* Sent Over the Bonier
on a Scouting- Expedition Without
Special Re«alt* — MafrklnK Ntlll
Held by Col.- Baden-Powell
Against Surrounding Boer Forced
—The Official Advices Made Publlci
DURBAN, JAN. 12.—THE EIVTIRJ)'
ABSENCE OF NEWS FTIO >I CHXBVIjp
I/BY OR FHERE CAMPS CO.VriNl'ES 1,
BUT THERE IS A PERSISTENT RU^
M<Wl HERE THAT LADYSMITH HAA
BEEX REUEVEO.
LONDON, Jan. IS.—The wi* office
iMved at midnight a dispatch from
Fiefld M«r*hnl Lord Roberta, date*
Cape Totto, Sunday, Jan. 14, Bi3o pV
"There to no change In the sltnaJr
tion today."
The war offlo© simultaneously \*+
■ued the following from Lord RofM
ertm, dated Cape Town, Jan. IS, 3:3Q
p. M.i
"Methuen's cavalry reconnolav,
•ance returned on Jan. 11. UVnt
twentj-flve mlle« Into Free State*
Country clear of enemy except pa
trols. All quiet at Modder River.
"French reoonnoltered m-onnd th«
enemy's left flank on Jan. 10. Ad,
Tiamced from Slesrger'f Farm on Janj
11 with cavalry and honte mtuicry
to bombard Boer laager east el
Colesberg Junction, but wa« unable
to outflank the enemy, Reconnols-i
nance of cavalry and mounted In fan*
try poshed north of Baalnrdi. NeU
and examined the country to the
north.
"Gatacre report* no change.
"All well on Dec. 28 at Mafeklng."
DESPERATE FIGHTING.
LONDON, Jan. 15.—A special dispatch
from the Hoofd Laager at Ladysmith,
dated Jan. 0, via Lourenzo Marquee,
describing; the assault on Jan. 6 upon
Ladysmith, says:
"The British made no attempt to hold
the first line or breastworks, but madS
an exceedingly stubborn resistance at ths
next row. Every Inch was stubbornly
contested and conspicuous bravery was
displayed on both sides.
"After 10 o'clook the British, artillery,
flre slackened and a terrible individual
contest ensued, among the riflemen ron
the possession of Plat-Rand ridge. A«
nocn, a heavy thunderstorm interrupted
the battle, lasting for two hour?.
"Although the burghers succeeded In
ultimately gaining possession of most of
the British positions on the western aid*
of the Plat-Rand, they were finally
obliged to retire from most of the groundf
they occupied. The British were most
strongly intrenched, their redoubts being
skillfully loopholed, and the combatant!
were so close that rifles were frequently,
fired at arm's length. It was a hand-to*-1
hand encounter. The men on both bided
fought like demons and the horror and
bewilderment of the scene could scarcely;
be paralleled.
"The' operations were continued the
next day. (Sunday) on a smaller *cale.
but it is reported that a* a result of on©
of the forlorn hopes, one gun and two
ammunition wagons were captured."
COLENSO DESERTED.
A dispatch to the Dally Mall dated jan»
12, from Pletermaritzburg, says:
"Sir Charles Warren marched with
11,000 men eastward fjom Frere by way
of Weenen. His scouts found no sign oif
the enemy at Grobler* Klopf and Colensq
was described to be deserted. There ar«
rumors that the Boers are preparing to
leave Natal, discouraged by their failure
to reduce Ladysmith. All the colonials
and irregulars have been placed under
Gen. Warren's command.
"Among the Free Staters killed In the
attack on Ladysmith on Jan. 6 waa
Commandant de VilHers, who, but fof
his well known friendliness toward Eng
land, would have been commander-in
chlef of the Free State forces."
HOPEFUL MESSAGE.
The special correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph at Frere Camp in a dispatch
dated Jan. 10, after describing the situ
ation as already known, says:
'Possibly you may not hear from me
for the next two days or bo, but bellev»
.me all will go well."
BOERS BUST.
The Standard publishes the following
from Ladysmith. Thursday, Jan. 11. by,
heliograph, via Weenen:
"The Boers are fortifying positions
north and west of Ladysmith. doubtless
with a view of securing a safe line of r«*
treat, should their opposition to Gen. Bui
ler's advance fall. They are still around
Ladysmith in large numbers and may be
ctfntemplatlng another attack. It 18
known, however, that they are greatly
disturbed by their heavy losses. Prior to
Saturday they were perfectly confident
of their ability to defeat the garrison and
to take possession of the town."
OFFER ACCEPTSD.
LONDON, Jan. 15.—Lord Lansdowne,
secretary of state for war, accepted o*
Saturday the offer of Lord BtrathconaT,
Canadian high commissioner in Londor
to provide, distinct from the CanadiarJ
regiments, a force of at least 400 mounted
men from Manitoba, Northwest Terri
tory and British Columbia, and to ami,
equip and convey them to South Africa
at his own expense. All will be exp«l
marksmen, rough riders and »couts It
is estimated that the offer will invoU*
an expenditure of £200,000. The war ot?
fice regards Lord Strathcona's P'opowl
as an extraordinary proof of colonial
patriotism.
ADDRESS BY KRUGER.
PRETORIA, Thursday, Jan.
Lourenzo Marques) .-President Kruger, \n
the course of a stirring address- Just 15
--eued to the burghers, affirms that Provi
dence is-on their side, that their cause !•
a just one aniLthat they must succeed.
Reports from Colesber-g represent the
position there as favorabje, but that t
British are concentrating for operations
on a large scale.
The official list of the Boer casualties
in what is called the "Plat-Hand tight,
on Saturday, Jan. 6 (the attack upon
Ladysmith), shows twenty-six killed and
seventy-seven wounded. These figures
are described as the "first return-" __
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