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HIGHLAND
RECORDER
VOL. XXVI.
MONTEREY. HIGHLAND COUNTY, YA.. SEPTEMBER 30. 1004.
NO. 37.
MR. PARKER'S LETTER
locralic Nominee States the Issac
Before the People.
iT BE WILL DO IF HE IS ELECTEI
Parker Says Tariff Reform Should I
ideally and Sagaciously Undertaken, <
eotiflc Principl.s, to the Ead That The
mid Not Be Au Immediate Revolution
Itln; Conditions.
S
tv York (Special).?The letter i
J Alton B. Parker, accepting tl
ratic nomination for Presider
'''Viacle public Sunday night.
'%art, as follows:
T? Honorable Champ Clark ar
|rs, Committee, etc.:
|emen?In my response to yoi
C<?tcc, at the formal notificatic
Pnings, I referred to some ma
tcrjt mentioned in this letter.
dc4iat these be considered as it
cor:ed herein, and regret that lao
?* c prevents specific referenc
to | all. I wish here, howeve
a8al refer to my views there e?
PrpJfes to the gold standard, t
declfogain my unqualified belii
,n sjtandard, and to express ni
appHon of the action of the coi
vent n reply to my communic;
that subject.
ttblic questions are prcssin
on. The Democratic part
the people with confidene
tion
Gr
for
appe
that position on these question
will -ccpted and indorsed at th
polls hile thc issues involved at
num< pome stand forth pre-em
nent 5 public mind. Among the*
are reform, imperialism, eec
nomi [ministration and honesty i
the p ?ervice. I shall briefly cor
sider e and some others withi
the 1 =arily prescribed limits c
this 1
idential Prerogatives.
VYh presented my views at th
notific proceedings concernin
this v sue, thc overshadowing in
portal f this question impels rn
to ref it again. Thc issue is of'
entim erred to as constitutiona
ism v jcrialism.
If w ul 1 retain our liberties an
consti al rights unimpaired, w
canno nit or tolerate, at any tim
or for purpose, the arrogation c
uncon onal powers by the exect
tive b of our ts<>vcrnment. VV
fihoulc 'vcr mindful of the word
cf W r, "Liberty is only to b
preser y maintaining constitution
al rest 5 and just divisions of pc
litical ;rs."
Aire' the national governmen
has # Je centralized beyond an
itmplated or imagined b;
;c.i of the Constitution. Hov
[>-.jly all this has added ti
Ytof the President. It ha
irjrom year to year until i
tis that of many monarchs
growth of our country am
tide of interstate interest
lo furnish a plausible rea
[is centralization of powet
time facts afford the mos
(!son why the executiv
!be permitted to encroacl
t>ther departments of th
and assume legislative
bwers, not expressly con
lie Constitution,
jnitude of the country am
of interests and popula
fenable a determined, am
able executive, unmindfu
fonal limitations and fire<
st of power, to go far ii
ton of authority and th<
nent of personal power be
ituation could be fully ap
|or the people be aroused.
In Conclusion.
Jput aside a congenial work
had expected to devote rn}
rder to assume, as best J
|esponsibilities your conven
>on mc.
|the cordial co-operation anc
issistance of every man whe
[at a change of measures anc
this time would be wise
harmony of endeavor a:
Jgorous action on the pan
linded.
les are joined and the peo
finder the verdict.
|>nomy of administration be
or shall extravagance be
wrongdoer be brought tc
people, or must justice
political obligarchy?
government stand for
inity or for special priv
in]
?iain a government of law
y-e of individual caprice?
libing to the rule of the
^Jall we embrace benefi
less and confidence we
)le's verdict,
the office of President,
:r myself the chief mag
!e people and not of any
lall ever be mindful of
1 many questions of na
here are honest differ
Iriion. I believe in the pa
|>d sense and absolute sin
the people. I shall strive
jr that he may serve his
Uvho serves his country
le wish of the people that
the duties of the presi
|dge myself, with God's
)te all my powers and en
[uties of this exalted office.
yours,
[ALTON B. PARKER.
fadoally Passing Away.
Mass. (Special"). ? The
;nator George F. Hoar,
:n lying dangerously ill
'eeks, issued a bulletin
the Senator is gradually
Po the effects of his long
jly the immediate rner*bers
|tors family are admitted to
miber, and he spends most
isleep. The bulletin reads:
Hoar has been weaker
r, passing most of thc time
refusing to take his medi
irishment."
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.
The special train carrying the Arch?
bishop of Canterbury and J. P. Mor?
gan, with their party, to Washington
ran into a locomotive at North Brook?
field, Mass. The members of thc
party were shaken up, but nobody was
hurt.
A cablegram from Caracas to New
York says that criminal charges arc
to bc brought against the Asphalt
Trust, which is accused of fomenting
a revolution in Venezuela.
The First National Bank of Dun?
dee, 111., sued Tracy & Co., stock?
brokers, of Chicago, for $41,400 lust
in margins by the bank's cashier, who
embezzled the money.
In a fight at the plant of the Pitts?
burg Steel Company, at Glassport, Pa.,
between strikers and unionists. G. VV.
Pidiar, a deputy, was fatally snot.
Senator Gorman had a conference
j with Judge Parker at which Dan La
[ I mont was present. General Miles is
- I to take the stump for the Democrats.
Sebastion Fasancillo was arrested in
New York on the charge of selling
bogus naturalization certificates.
Final arrangements were completed
for the national Convention of the
Republican Clubs at Indianapolis.
Dr. George S. Conant, of New York,
willed his brain to the medical faculty
of Cornell University.
The National Council of Good Sa?
maritans closed its session in In?
dianapolis.
A reunion of Wilder's Brigade was
held in Lafayette, Ind.
R. M. Alcivar, a Mexican passenger
on the Hamburg - American Line
steamer Prinz Oskar from New York
to Genoa, became insane upon the ar?
rival of the ship at Genoa and shot
Captain Dugge, in command of the
steamer, and Frank R. Shattuck, a
prominent Philadelphia lawyer.
Roy Fenton, the driver of thc ex?
press wagon from which the dynamite
was dropped that caused the blowing
up of a street car in Melrose, Mass,
was held on the charge of manslaugh?
ter.
Justice D. Cady Herrick, Democrat?
ic nominee for governor of New York,
has arranged to resign from the Su?
preme Bench as soon as he can finish
the legal work now befoVe him.
Charges of discrimination were filed
with the Interstate Commerce Com?
mission by John Compton, of Georgia,
against the Seaboard and the South?
ern Railroad Companies.
Caspara Lamonica and Restiro
Franch, two Italians, held'for passing
counterfeit money, were discharged
by the United States commissioner at
Mobile, Ala.
An attempt was made to dynamite
the residence of President J. C. Ma
ben, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and
Iron Company, in Birmingham, Ala.
The executive committee of the
Continental party named Austin Hol?
comb, of Georgia, for president, and
A. King, of Missouri, for vice presi?
dent.
The Erie Railroad Company has
brought non-union men to take the
places of the locked-out boilermakers
at their shops in Susquehanna, Pa.
The Postmaster General has award?
ed the contract to supply street letter
and package boxes to the Van Dorn
Iron Works t>f Chicago.
George Vollner, a Brooklyn ma?
chinist, and Samuel Schottcn, of New
York, both committed suicide because
they could get no work.
In a quarrel over the spoils of a
burglary Frank Shoemaker was fatal?
ly shot in Jackson, Mich., by his pal.
Four Egyptian students bound for
the University of Missouri have been
held up by the Italian immigration
authorities at Naples.
The insurance commissioners of the
various states will endeavor to pre?
vent the use of the mails by wild?
cat insurance companies.
Charles A. Semler, assistant cash?
ier of an Akron (O.) national bank,
has been arrested at San Francisco for
embezzlement.
The fireman was killed and the en?
gineer seriously injured by the derail?
ment of the Diamond special at Bar?
clay, 111.
One woman was killed and a num-,
ber had narrow escapes from death in
a tenement-house fire in Jersey City.
Six persons were killed and many
injured by the blowing to pieces of a
trolley near Melrose, Mass.
The State of Tennessee has sued
the Standard Oil Company for vio?
lating the Anti-Trust Law.
Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fel?
lows will meet at Washington, D. C.,
next year. ;
Engineer William D. Simonion was
burned to death in a wreck near Lock
burn, O.
Forty thousand bushels of wheat
were burned in an elevator at St.
Joseph, Mo.
Suit was begun by the United States
against the Fidelity and Deposit Com?
pany of Maryland to recover on the'
bond of Charles F. W. Neely.
Foreign.
The unveiling of the monument to
Catherine the Great, at Vilna, Rus?
sia, was a notable event. It is ex?
pected that Prince Sviatopolk-Mirsky.
the new minister of the interior, will
shortly announce important conces?
sions to the Jews.
The Institute of International Law,
at Edinburgh, discussed Sir Thomas
Barclay's proposal for a permanent
committee to deal with questions aris?
ing out of practice before The Hague
Court.
The jury in Dover, England, that
inquired into the death of Charles B.
Spohr, of New York, brought in a
verdict of "found drowned."
Rev. Samuel Ives Curtiss, of Chi?
cago Theological Seminary, died at
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in Lon?
don.
The Congress of Freethinkers, ii*
session in Rome, decided to hold their
next meeting in Paris in 1905.
Vesuvius has been more active,
tshes and sparks rising from the
:rater to a height of 700 feet.
Count Tisza, the Hungarian minis
.er of the interior, has prohibited Mor
non propaganda within Hungary. Two
Mormon missionaries from Salt Lake
City have been expelled.
SIXTY=TWO ARE NOW DEAD
Victims of Sonthern Railway Wreck May
Even Exceed That Number.
DID ENGINEER DIE IN HIS CAB?
The Injured Reach 129- One Conjecture As to
Reason Why He Disregarded Orders Not
to Stop at Newmarket, Tenn. -Railway's
Loss Estimated at Nearly $1,000,000 -Rigid
Investigation to Dc Held- Traffic Resumed.
Knoxville, Tenn. (Special).?-Hun?
ting on a roadbed in a supposedly high
rondition of maintenance and having
ibout them every safeguard known to
nodem railroading, two trains on the
Southern Railway, carrying heavy
jsts of passengers, came together in
i frightful headend collision near
Hodges, Tenn., sending 54 people to
death and injuring 120, several of
rfhom will probably die.
This appalling loss of life resulted
apparently from the disregarding of
orders given to thc two trains to
meet at a station which has for a
long time been their regular meeting
point. Thc claim of failure to sec
either the station or signals cannot
l>e> set up by thc engineer of the west?
bound train were he alive to enter
a plea of defense, as thc accident hap?
pened in broad daylight and, accord?
ing to thc best information obtain?
able, he had thc order in a little frame
in front of him as his engine rushed
by Newmarket Station. Soon after
i !t came full upon an eastbound pas?
senger train, making for Newmarket
in compliance with instructions to
meet the westbound train which car?
ried the sleepers frorn, the East for
Knoxville, Chattanooga and other
Southern cities.
Orders Rashly Disobeyed.
The possibility exists that the ill
fated engineer may have been asleep^
but nothing i? known save that the
orders were not obeyed. The trains
were on time and r.ot making over 35
miles an hour, yet thc impact as they
rounded a curve and came sudden'y
upon each other was frightful. Both
engine* and thc nujor portion of both
trains were demolished, and why the
orders were disregarded or misinter?
preted will probably never be
known, as the engineers of the two
.'rains were crushed, their bodies re?
maining for liQurs under the wreck?
age of the locomotives, which but a
second before had leaped forward at
tile touch of their strong hands upon
the throttle.
Some of the bodies have not yet
been recovered and many remain uni?
dentified.
CASUALTIES OCCURRED IN HEAVY TRAjN.
Daly the Eoglne Crew Were Killed on (he
Light Local.
Knoxville, Tenn. (Special). ? The
:ollision was between eastbound pas?
senger <rain No. 12 and westbound
passenger train No. 15, from Bristol.
No. 12 was a heavy train, carrying
two Pullmans, two day coaches and
1 mail and baggage car. No. 15 was
i light local train. The greatest loss
:<f life o-curred in the eastbound train,
.vhile in the westbound train only the
:ngine crew were killed. Relief trains
iverc dispatched from Knoxville with?
in an hour, and all physicians in the
vicinity of the wreck were doing what
:fiey could when the local corps ar?
rived.
An Editor's Story.
John W. Brown, of Rogersville,
Tenn., a newspaper editor, was in the
rear coach of the westbound train.
When the fearful jolt came, he said,
all the 6eats in the car were torn
looss, and people and seats were
hurled to the front of the car. When
he recovered from the shock he heard
:he screams and groans of the injured
ind dying in every direction.
"I left thc car, said Mr. Brown,
'as soon as I could, and walked to the
nain part of the wreck. It was the
most horrible sight I ever witnessed.
I saw a woman pinioned by a piece
af split timber, which has gone com?
pletely through her body. A little
child, quivering in death's agony,
lay beneath |he woman. I saw
the child die, and within a f;v. feet
^f her lay a woman's head, while the
decapitated body was several feet
iway.
"Another little girl, whose body was
fearfully mangled, was calling for her
mother. I have since learned that
ihe was Lucille Conner, of Knoxville,
ind that bot!) her parents were killed.
I heard one womat., terribly mangled,
>raying earnestly to bc spared for her
thildre'n, but death relieved her suf?
fering in a few minutes.
Sleepers Not Damaged.
"Both engines and all of the coaches
of No. 15 were literally demolished,
the smoker and baggage car com?
pletely so. The sleepers remained on
the track undamaged. Both engine-;
lay to the north of the track, jammed
together into one mass of indescrib?
able ruins. Thc cars which were de?
molished were piled on the wrecked
engine.
Congressman Henry R. Gibson,
from the Second congressional dis?
trict of Tennessee, was a passenger
in the day coach of thc ea?tboun,d
train. He and one other man, whose
name is not known, were the only
persons to escape alive from their de?
molished car.
One glance at the car showed it to
be a mass of human beings, backs of
car seats, grips, baskets and wearing
apparel of all sorts. There waa not
a sign of life except that mar his
side a young man who bad escaped
death and was struggling to get out.
Consul at Geneva Assaulted.
Paris (By Cable).?A dispatch from
Geneva says that the report cabled to
the United States by a news agency
of an assault upon H. L. Washing?
ton, the American Consul at Geneva,
greatly exaggerated the incident. The
Consul himself says th? affair was
unimportant. Mr. Washington drove
his automobile into a herd of cattle
near Coppet, and an enraged herds?
man attacked him, injuring him
slightly.
MET AWFUL DEATH.
N4ie Little Uris Suffocated in School-yard
Vault?Flooring Gave Way.
Cincinnati, (Special).?School had
tloscd but a few minutes at Pleasant
Ridge seven miles north of Cincinnati
at thc end of the first quarter of thc
session, when, 9 possibly io, school?
girls were suffocated in a vault and a
icorc of others narrowly escaped .thc
lame horible death.
During thc rest of thc day the sub
irb was wild with mingled excitement,
sorrow and indignation. At night
hose openly charging the calamity to
official negligence arc making serious
:hrcats.
The large building is used for a hjgh
school as well as for lower depart?
ments. All of the victims were from
primary grade?.
Girls Made A Rush.
On opposite sides of thc spacious
jround in rear of the school are two
Mitbuildings. When recess was given,
ibout 30 of thc smaller girls went to
the outbuilding assigned to them,
?vhen suddenly the floor gave way, prc
ripitating them into the vault below.
This vault is 12 feet deep and walled
up with stone like a well. Thc child?
ren falling foremost filled up thc 'fault
partialjy, so that others were not en?
tirely submerged. Thc struggles of
those who were on top kept at least
nine underneath until they were dead.
The frame sheds of these vaults
were about 20 feet square, without
windows and with only one narrow
doorway, so that only one girl escaped
from the door. She ran into the
building and told the teachers what
had happened. The principal and oth?
er teachers rushed to the rescue. The
screams of the girls were .dimly heard,
within the vault, and most of them
were ungble to speak when rescued.
The teachers were soon reinforced by
ajmost the entire population of the
town, the police and nre departments
rendering effective service. The fire?
men drained the vault to be sure that
the resuce was complete.
Those engaged in the rescue work
recite the most ghastly experiences.
Even the children rescued alive pre?
sented such an apeparancc as to make
many in the crowd of spectators faint,
but the sight within the vault beg?
gared all description.
Among thc first to come to thc re?
lief of Principal Simmerman were Rev.
Dr. I. D. Lambert, of thc Presbyterian
Church, and Frank S. Johnson, of the
Herald and Presbyter, of Cincinnati.
Rescued By Means Of Flag.
James Smith, aged 14 years, one of
the pupils, dimed the roof of the
schoolhouse, untied the flag and ran to
the vault. By means of this impromp?
tu rope several were rescued. Later
a ladder was ujed. Marshal Wood
had great difficulty in keeping thc
crowd from interfering with the res?
cuers. The importunities of friends,
especially of weeping mothers, were
almost beyond the control of the offi?
cers.
Drs. U. G. Senour and P. J. Shank,
with their assistants, usej the school
building for a hospita! and a morgue
until the dead and the rescued were
taken to their homes.
Smallest Suffered Most.
Frank S. Johnson said:
"I was standing across the street
talking to Dr. Lambert, when a little
2;irl came crying for help. We found
Principal Simmerman saving lives.
The smaller girls were being forced
to the bottom by the movements and
terrific struggles of the children in the
vault. Up the ladder climbed the little
Mies, drenched, gasping for breath, and
fainting as soon as taken out into the
iresh air.
"As fast as they came within reach
of the door those who stood at the
doorway reached down, lifted them
from the ladder and passed them to
waiting friends. It was not possi?
ble for any outsider to go down into
the vault for the reason that he would
have impeded the little ones who
were climbing out, and then men went
in and rescued those who remained."
Lucky Escape Of A Twin.
William J. Card, of Cincinnati, had
three daMghtets in the place, of whom
Charmian andVFausra lost their lives.
Rotha, the twin sister of Fausta, nar?
rowly escaped death. When the crowd
of girls rushed into thc place Rotha
was knocked out of the door into thc
yard just before thc collapse occurred.
Reports about the'floor having given
way last year are denieJ by the school
trustees, but there .s an angry dispo?
sition to blame those who are respon?
sible for its condition.
Montreal Has a Big Fire.
Montreal, Quebec (Special). ? The
buildings of the Canada Hardware
Company, the central agency, which
is the Canadian branch of the London
Thread Trust, and of Chaput Fils &
Co., one of the largest wholesale gro?
cery and liquor houses in Canada,
were burned early today. The loss
is estimated at $750,000.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
The Executive Council of the Amer?
ican Federation of Labor has officially
indorsed thc strike of the textile oper
?.tors of Fall River, Mass.
Rear Admiral Ludlow, U. S. N.,
.etired, was assigned to duty as gov?
ernor of the new naval home, at Phil?
adelphia.
Members of the interparliamentary
Union visited Mount Vernon and
placed wreaths on Washington's tomb.
United States consuls abroad are
showing up crooked schemes pro?
moted to entrap American investors.
Gen. Harrison Allen, deputy audi?
tor for the Postoffice Department,
died suddenly at his residence.
. The annual report of the bureau
chiefs of the Navy Department will
be censored because foreign govern?
ments have been obtaining too much
information from them.
Rear Admiral Evans wi I probably
be appointed to the command of the
North Atlantic Station.
Major General Wade ha> sent lo
the War Department the names of en?
listed men who have distinguished
themselves in the Philippines.
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GEN. niOKI ADVANCES
His Purpose Is Believed to Be to Turi)
Russian Left Flank.
iENTAI MINES ARE NOW OCCUPIED.
Japanese Capture of Mukden is Expected Soon
?A Detachment of the Mikado's Soldiers
Makes a Dash to Helios aod Drives
Off a Body of the Enemy, Who Leave 19
Dead.
St. Petersburg (By Cable).?A dis?
patch received here from Mukden
gives details of the Japanese positions
is follows:
General Kuroki has concentrated
ont army with thc distance between
Benisiaputzc and Bensihu as its ra?
dius, and his advance is pushing for
vard along the road leading to Fu?
shun and Pu Pass. The advance
forces of two other armies occupy
.he Yentai mines, thc village of Yer?
ai and Sandenu. The front of these
three armies is protected by an out?
post screen, which Chinese are not
?dlowed to pas?. A small Japanese
detachment is moving along the left
>ank of thc Liao river in order to pro
:ect junks.
The same dispatch reports that Chi?
nese bandits are openly siding with
:he Japanese. The weather at Muk?
den is rainy and windy. Cold has pre?
maturely set in.
The absence of detailed official re?
ports' from the 9eat of war, despite
:he important character of events that
ire developing around Mukden, leads
:o the supposition that Genera^ Ku?
ropatkin may, after all, not seriously
:ontest the Japanese advance and that
:he long-expected battle at Mukden
may turn out to be merely a rear?
guard action upon a large scale.
General Sakharoff reports that the
fapanese army is moving from Bent
iiaputie toward Fu Pass, a village six
miles northeast of Mukden and near
:h.e right bank of the Hun river. The
river at that point is shallow, and
probably for this reason the locality
las been selected by the Japanese for
:rossing.
If the Japanese succeed in gaining
i foothold at Fu Pass, General Ku
'opatkin's position at Mukden will be
nsccure, as the Japanese will be able
:o threaten the Russian line of com?
munications and turn the left flank.
Fu Pass is only 20 miles north of
Bentsiaputzc, but at the present rate
">f progress the Japanese wilj prob
ibly occupy'four or five days in trav
:rsing it.
The Russian force south of Muk?
den is believed to consist of only one
irmy corps, which is acting as a rear
juard and is not intended to ofter a
serious resistance to the Japanese ad?
vance.
FRUIT ON AT PORT ARTHUR.
Land and S:a forces Are Endeavoring !o
Storm I:or!ress.
Paris (By Cable).?The Matin's St
Petersburg correspondent telegraphs
as follows:
"Telegrams cf which the General
Staff have as yet no knowledge reach?
ed the Emperor at 4 o'clock A. M. I
can affirm that they concern Port Ar?
thur, regarding which place the great?
est anxiety prevails at Court.
"The Japanese are now engaged in
a general assault, which is more furi?
ous than its predecessors, attacking
thc town on three sides simultaneous?
ly aud employing their whole forces,
being determined to finish the busi?
ness. Russian mines blew up whole
battalions. General Fock especially
distinguished himself, directing thc
fire from the wall, which thc Japanese
reached after indescribable massacre
"The whole of Admiral Togo's anti
Vice Admiral Kamimura's squadrons
are aiding in the struggle, which, il
is feared here, will be final. The be?
sieged forces are fighting as in a fur?
nace. A perfect storm of shells is fall?
ing on the town, port and fortress
from the whole hill and roadstead
General Stoessel is going from fort
to fort encouraging the defenders in
their desperate efforts.
"In St. Petersburg the facts con?
cerning the tragic event, which per?
haps will terminate by a glorious fall
of Port Arthur, are wholly unknown.
At court hope has not yet been en?
tirely abandoned."
Kuropatkin No Longer Chief.
General Kuropatkin's star is set?
ting.
The Czar appears to have lost faith
in him as the commander-in-chief of
the Manchurian army. Under an im?
perial rescript just issued the army
is divided. General Kuropatkin is to
command the first army and Major
General Grippenberg thc second army.
Grand Duke Nicholas Michaelovitch
will, it is believed, become thc com?
mander-in-chief of the Manchurian
armies, which will be increased to
700,000 men. Viceroy Alexieff will
likely be recalled.
Accompany the several hundred
thousand more men to be sent to the
front will be 600 field and rapid-fire
guns.
Meanwhile the Japanese are pre?
paring to send 100,000 more men into
Manchuria.
The Czar pays tribute to "the high
warlike qualities displayed by the Jap?
anese" in a letter to General Grip?
penberg, appointing him commander
of the Second Manchurian Army, to
succeed Lieutenant General Linevitch.
The Russian forces in Manchuria are
thus divided into two armies.
A petition was filed to have the
American German Bank of Sidney, 0.,
and all its stockholders declared bank?
rupt.
FINANCIAL
"If there is no strike United State?
Steel preferred will go to 75," wired
VV. L. Bull.
China grows about as much cotton,
says one self-styled "expert," as tho
! United States.
Reading has declared the usual 2 pei
cent, semi-annual dividend on the sec?
ond preferred stock.
Lehigh Valley's annual statement
will likely come out this week. Ii
will show about 12 per cent, earned
on the $40,000,000 of stock.
Since July 1 this country has ex?
ported wheat and wheat flour to th<
amount of 15,000,000 bushels, com
pared with 33,000,000 for the same
period in IQ03
Canada's wheat yield is put at 58.
000,000 bushels. England's wheat
acreage is only a third as large as it
was a few years ago, which shows that
she can import wheat more cheaply
than it can be grown at home.
A new Japanese loan is talked of.
Net earnings in United States Steel
for 1904 will reach $70,000,000. It
takes $35,000,000 to pay the bond in?
terest.
Last year the Steel Corporation
made 8,658,391 tons of coke as against
9521,657 tons in 1902. Estimates of
this year's coke production exceed
7,500,000 tons.
There are persistent rumors that
the New York, Philadelphia & Nor?
folk Railroad is to be absorbed by the
Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washing?
ton, or rather that the two are to bc
merged into one company.
Il Years lo toe navy.
Washington, D. C. (Special).?Ad?
miral George Dewey received the con?
gratulations of his fellow-officers and
friends upon the fiftieth anniversary
of his entry into the naval service. Of
the 73 midshipmen who entered the
Naval Academy on September 23.
1854, the Admiral is the oniy one on
the active list, and but seven of that
number are on the retired list. Thc
Admiral is in his sixty-seventh year.
The President sent Admiral Dewey a
letter oj congratulation, together with
a handsome bouquet of flowers.
Penney Breaks Record.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special).?A special
chartered train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad has broken all previous rec?
ords on that line between Philadelphia
and Chicago, making thc 822 miles in
16 hours and 57 minutes. The train
left Philadelphia at 4:08 P. M., arriv?
ing jn Pittsburg at 12:02 next morning
and Chicago at 9:05 A. M. The train
was chartered by a Chicago business
man desirous of arriving in Chicago
in the quickest possible time to cloie
a business transaction said to involve
$250,000.
Dr. Jose de Jesus Paul is unofficial
y mentioned as the new minister from
Venezuela to thc United States.