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'THE MOKNING OREGOOTANiMCVNDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1900. LOST IN BREAKERS Fate of Thirty-two in the Nova Scotia Wreck. 25 BODIES HAVE BEEN RECOVERED Shore for Ten Mlle Strewn "With Wreckage of Uall and Cnrjfo of City of Blontlcfello. YARMOUTH, N. S., JSov. 11. The shore of this country for 10 mites east and west Is strewn with the wreckage of the hull and cargo of the steamer City of ontIcello. which foundered Saturday morning, and 26 bodies of victims of the disaster have been recovered from the Ilea, which is still raging with terrific fury. Many people have assembled at Rockvllie. near where the first body came ashore, and numerous relatives of mem bers of the crew, who nearly all belonged to points on this coast, have arrived to Identify the dead. The bodies were arranged In a room In the public hall, and the Coroner who held the inquest gavja an opinion of ac cidental drowning. All the bodies are terribly battered. The first body was found at daylight, when the zinc lifeboat, which was sup posed by the survivors of the first boat to have been swamped, was discovered on the shore. A few yards distant were the bodies of Mr. Eidrldge, a passenger; , Second Engineer Poole: Mr. Fripp, a traveler, of St. John, N. B.. and the body of a seaman. All four had life belts around them. At short Intervals along the beaoh 11 more bodies were found, making 15 discovered up to noon today. They had all evidently come ashore in the lifeboat, and were killed on striking the beach, not one escaping. The re mains so far identiflod, in addition to the four enumerated above, are: Captain T. M. Harding, the commander; Second Officer N. M. Murphy, of Yar mouth; Chief Steward N. Chopkins; Chiof Engineer Charles Grieg; Second Engineer Herbert Poole; Swen Johnson, quarter master; Stanley Ringer, oiler; Robert SNIckerson. deckhand; Levi Nlckerson, waiter; Wlnne Vanenberg and his father, Fred Vanenberg, both cooks; "Walter Cun ningham, waiter; Austin Wlckens, waiter; David Benham, deckhand; Harold Cope land, deckhand: Elsie McDonald, passen ger; Thomas C. Johnson, passenger; J. C Fripp, passenger; O. W. Coleman, pas senger; John Richmond, passenger; Ru pert Olive, steward; Isaac H. Wilson, bag gagemaster; one man unidentified. The watches In the pockets of two of the men stopped at 12:45 and 12:25 o'clock, respectively. The body of Captain Harding, of the Monticello, was found at Picnic Point, encircled with a life belt and fully dressed. An unknown body, supposed to be that of a traveler for a "Westorn boot and shoe firm, has been found at the same place with the bodies of Elsie McDon ald and Second Officer Murphy, recov ered yesterday. Of the members of the crew whose bod ies were secured, Copeland and Benham were not known to be on board until their bodies were identified. They were not on the ship's articles, having joined for the trip only. Several bodies are still unidentified. One body was recognized this evening as that of John Richmond, of Essex, N. B., a traveler for a boot and shoe firm. He was not before known to have been a passenger. This swells the known death roll to 32. Benham took the place of "Whttemore, previously re ported lost. Copeland was also a substi tute, but for whom it is not known. It is a coincidence that the ship Peter Stewart was wrecked off this shore a few yeara ago in the month of July, and a boatload of men came In where the !Montlcello's boat was found. Half of the men ware dead before the boat touched the land .and many believe the same is true of those in the Monticello's boat. The fury of the surf is appalling in this region. The body of O. N. Coleman, another commercial traveler, who was not pre viously known to have been on board the Monticello, has been washed ashore and identified. Ho represented a Hamil ton. Ont., Jewelry firm, and carried sam ples worth $63,000. One trunk has been, found. "Wreckage of all kinds litters the shore boxes, barrels, pieces of ship's boats and parts of the superstructure of the steam er. James Ball, a merchant of Yarmouth, Trho was supposed to have been on board, Is safe, having missed the steamer in St. John. Rupert Olive was crossing the bay from St. John to Yarmouth to rejoin his own steamer. Chief Steward Hopkins, of the steamer Yarmouth, perished, having taken his brother's place for one trip Swen John uon was taking Ellsha Cooke's place as Quartermaster, and Fred Van Renenberg was substituting as cook for his father. The absentees were off tb vote at tho elections, and to this circumstance they owe their lives. No trace of mors than three women being on board the Monticello could be found. They were given places in the first boat. One of them, Stewardess Kate Smith, is one of the survU ors, and she is too ill to make a statement. Elsie Mc Donald was drowned in the surf. Her bodr has been recovered. The third woman, named Lawrence, was colored. Her body was seen in the breakers this afternoon, but could not be reached. Some difficulty has been encountered In figuring out the total loss of life, as a number of passengers Joined the Monti cello at St. John without first registering at the booking office. They bought their tickets on board. A revised list of tho members of the crew, prepared at the head office of the Yarmouth Steamship Company here, shows that the officers and crew numbered 2S. The total num ber of people -who were on board is now placed at X. The four survivors are: Captain Smith, a passenger; Third Officer Fleming, Quartermaster "Wilson Cook and Stewardess Smith. The three men saved agree that the causa of tho disaster Tras. briefly: The steamer was pounded for hours by ea and gale, sprang a leak and filled; he became unmanageable, broke apart and foundered. The sea Is not remem bered to have been so heavy on this coast for many years. Tvro Arrival From the Jforth. SEATTLE. Nov. 1L The steamer Ruth arrived here from Lynn Canal ports this evening. She was delayed by running aground on Chatham Point. 156 miles north of Vancouver, but floated off at high tide, practically uninjured. The steam schooner Aloha arrived to night from Nome, via Dutch Harbor. She sailed October 27. and brought few pas senger, no later news, and no gold. Terry to Remain All Winter. ASTORIA, Or., Nov. 1L Tho revenue cutter Commodore Perry arrived In port this afternoon and will remain In the Columbia during the "Winter, unless called away on an emergency case. There are some minor repairs to make to her ma chinery and she will leave up for Port land in a few days to have them at tended to. American Ship Driven Ashore. LONDON, Nov. 12. According to the Hong Kong correspondent of the Dally Malt, the American ship Benjamin Sewall, Captain A. M. Sewall, which arrived at Hong Kong prior to September XS from Fre&mantle, where she left August 9. was driven ashore daring the typhoon Friday Bight. Put Baok for Repairs. SAX FRANCISCO. Nov. VL The British ship Flintshire, which sailed from here for Quecnstown September 23. put back today for repairs. She encpuntere1 a hur- j rlcane. October 64n latitude 18 nortniong tltude 12S west, and was dismasted. The storm raged for two days, and only good seamanship saved the vessel. Domestic and Foreign Forts ASTORIA. Nov. . Arrived at 1 P. M. and left up at 4 P. M. Steamer Geo. "W. Elder, from San Francises; at 2.20 P. M., United States steamer Perry, from Puget Sound; at 3 P. M.. United States steamer Columbine, from Puget Sound. Reported outside at 5 P. M.-Square rigger. Ar rived down at 5 A. M. and sailed at 2.20 P. M. British steamship Buckingham, for Manila. Balled at 2:30 P. M. German bark Olga, for Queenstown or Falmouth for or ders; at 4 P. M., schooner Anita, for Coos Bay. Condition of the bar at 5 P. M., moderate; wind southeast; weather cloudy. San Francisco, Nov. 11. Arrived Steam er Columbia, from Portland; schooner Jo seph and Henry, from Coquille River; schooner Conflanza, from Coquille River; steamer Signal, from Gra's Harbor; steamer "W. H. Kruger, from Gray's Har bor; schooner Matin, from Coos Bay; schooner North Bend, from "Willapa. Balled-Steamer Mlneola, for Nanaimo; ship St. Nicholas, for Port Townsend; steamer Empire, for Cooa Bay; ship Sin tram, for Tacoma. New York, Nov. 11. Arrived La Cham pagne, from Havre; Island, from Copen hagen. Sailed Bulgaria, for Hamburg via Cherbourg. Antwerp, Nov. 1L Arrived Noordland, from New York. Queenstown, Nov. flailed Umbria, for New York. LAWS OF NEW DEPENDENCIES Taft Commlulon earnestly at 'Work In the Philippines. Congress is likely to find a good deal to do in the near future in framing positive legislation for the dependencies, says a Washington letter. Regret was felt in some quarters that the Spooner bill, giv ing legislative sanction to the government of the Philippines, was not enacted at the last session. This bill was general in its scope, and would not have hampered the President and his subordinates In adopting such measures as they thought proper. It would have given measures a legislative sanction, which would be val uable in respect to certain matters affect ing contracts, franchises and the mone tary standard. The commission of which Judge Taft is the head has been given legislative power, so far as it is within the authority of the President to give such power, and they are making laws which are declared by those who have examined them to be the best code ever enacted in any country. The new civil service system 1b in advance of that of tho United States in the strictness of Its requirements, the limited number of ex emptions, and the fixing of an age limit for merely clerical employment. In this and other matters the commission has the power of a benevolent despotism, in not being required to consider popular prejudices in deciding whether a given reform shall be put in operation or not. The chief weakness of the present system is the absence of approval by Congress. The matter of granting franchises has not yet been taken up, and there may be doubt whether important enterprises would be undertaken by responsible busi ness men with uncertainty hanging over their heads, as to whether the privileges granted by the commission might not be revoked by Congress. If the next Congress Is in sympathy with the Administration important legis lation regarding the dependencies can be advanced without undue friction. It will be hardly practicable to legislate much regarding details at the short session which begins in December next, although it may be possible to pass some such gen eral measure as the Spooner bllL An op position Congress would cause a good deal of trouble to the Administration In the adoption of comprehensive policies, and might tend to prolong the military government of the President in the Phil ippines through failure to agree upon in telligent measures. The situation in Porto Rico may not call for much new legislation at once, although it Is consid ered desirable in some quarters that the reform of the fiscal system shall be taken up In all the former Spanish dependent cles. The relations of the United States with Cuba are likely to call for consider ation by Congress In some form, but what shall be done will depend a good deal upon the constitutional convention which meets in Cuba this month. It Is not the Intention of the officers of the United States to throw obstacles In the way of the Cuban revolutionary leaders in estab lishing an Independent Cuba, but the time may come when the interests of the United States will demand some action to prevent foreign complications. In any case, the sanction of Congress will be re quired for the withdrawal of the Amer ican forces from the Island and the ter mination of the government of the United States In Havana. This can hardly occur before the long session of the new Con gress In the Summer of 1902, unless an ex tra session is summoned next Summer to doal with the probable demand of the Cuban leaders for immediate independ ence. The Government has been somewhat slow thus far In dealing with the depend encies because of the novelty of the prob lems presented and the necessity of giv ing them careful consideration. The re- sl'fcfince to American authority in the Philippines has naturally retarded legis lation there, but the Taft Commission Is now hard at work, and do not anticipate much difficulty in establishing civil gov ernment from time to time in the larger towns. The new tariff, which has been under consideration by a board of Army officers at Manila, and later by the com mission. Is expected at the War Depart ment within a few weeks. It will b' carefully scanned there, and some of the proposed changes will probably be an nounced for the consideration of the busi ness community before the rates are offi cially promulgated. American cannea goods, provisions and machinery will be given the benefit of low rates on their entry into tho Island. The rates will be uniform against imports from all nations, but there Is little doubt that the United States will absorb the bulk of the trade. This tendency will be promoted if the cur rency system of the Philippines can be brought into a fixed relation to the Amer ican gold standard, even if the Mexican sller dollars continue to circulate as token coins. Tho fiscal system, the cur rency and the tariff need the sanction of Congress to insure permanence, and leg islation on these subjects will pave the way for a sound law regarding railway and industrial franchises, which will per mit the Introduction of outside capital for the speedy development of the islands, A Mysterious Suicide. ORLANDO. Fla., Nov. 1L Deputy Sher iff Whldden has been called to Lake How ell to Investigate the mysterious suicide of George A. Hume, a wealthy orange grower of that settlement. Hume left his homo Friday morning In his usual health and spirits for his orange grove to look after the harvesting of his fruit. He did not return to the house at noon or at night A searching party found his hat and vest on the ground near the lake Just where a neighbor keeps his row boat. The boat, with the oars inside, was found at another part of the lake, with every indication of having drifted there. In the vest pocket was found a note hastily written tvlth a pencil to his wife, stating where she would find some legal papers and giving Information about busi ness matters. It closed by saying that all he had he left to hsr. Up to tonight dili gent search of the lake failed to find the body. Secretary Lonsr Baclc In Washington. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. Secretary Long returned to this city teday from "his trip to" Colorado, where ho has been on a visit to his daughters. SEARCH FOR MURDERER CLEWS TO TUB IDENTITY OF THE COLORADO FIEND. He Is Said' to Bo a Known Colored Man Arrests Made, Bat 3To Proof Yet. DENVER, Colo., Nov. 1L A special to the News from Limon, Colo., says: "Search for the murderer of Louise Frost was continued today. The town was di vided into districts and a search was made of every house, barn and every out-building in the place. The deputies were divided into four squads, beginning at the outskirts and Working towards the center. Before the search was continued 20 minutes a squad in charge of Deputy Elmer Bloss discovered the remains of a fire where clothing had been burned. Sheriffs Freeman and Goddard and Chief of Police Henry, of Colorado Springs, made a thorough examination of the ashes and found the buttons to a coat, pants and a suit of underclothing and other evidence sufficient to recognize the owner of the clothing, although his name will not be made known until an ar rest can be made. Later a pair of shoes were found which showed bloodstains, al though they had been covered over with a coat of grease. Subsequently the offi cers found a trail going to the place and the shoes fitted the tracks exactly. The same tracks were found coming toward Limon, evidently at a run, and they ore believed to havo been made by the same shoes. By this the suspect Is believed to have hidden In the lane in the afternoon, as he cannot be accounted for at the time of the murder, and then returned, chang ed his clothes and joined In the search with the others. He had left town when this evidence was found, but the officers have him located. "Excitement is gradually subsiding and it is thought that all suspects can be kept at Hugo In safety and that no lynch ing will occur unless positive evidence can be secured or a confession extorted. Sher iff Goddard, of El Paso County: Chief of Police Henry, of Colorado Springs, and Sheriff J. W. Freeman, are directing the search. Tonight the force was aug mented by Marshal Camp and a detective from Greeley." One of the three suspects arrested in Denver today is named Porter, concerning whom a special to the News from Limon says: "Young Porter, arrested in Denver, is the colored man suspected of the deed. He was laying off the afternoon of the murder and hung around the barroom at the Limon hotel until about 3 o'clock Thursday. Two marbles found In the fire were Identified by a boy who saw Porter playing with them during the noon hour. The clothes are undoubtedly those of Porter. It is said that he has served a term in the Reform School in Kansas for assault before. Sheriff Freeman said to night that Porter would be brought to Hugo on tho first train." Three negroes, who had worked with a section gang ju3t previous to tho murder of little Louise Frost several days ago, were .arrested on suspicion here today. A rigid "sweat box" examination failed even to elicit a reply to the inquiry as to their names. They are being held for fur ther investigation. FOUND NOT GUnTY. Strong- Evidence Destroyed by Es tablishment of nn Alibi. ST. PAUL. Minn., Nov. lL-James Har dy and Elmer Miller, who have been on trial at Anoka for the murder of two members of the Wise family, were today found not guilty. Mrs. Wise and a young son were killed on the night of May 27 last by shots fired through a window while seated about a tablo In the farm house. William Wise, her husband, and an older boy, were badly wounded, and nave not yet recovered from tho effects of the wounds. Eliza Wise, aged 15, made a confession alleging that Miller and Hardy, w ho were said to be lovers of her self and sister, had planned to get rid of the old folks in order that tho girls might inherit the form and a small sum of money. On the trial of the two young men, who are both under age, the Wise sisters testified to tho alleged conspiracy and the state presented in corroboratio'n of their evidence the testimony of Alllo Preston, who alleged that Hardy had pro posed to him to join in the crime. Tho defonso rested its case upon an alibi and sought to discredit the testimony of the Wise sisters and Preston by alleging that they had been coached by detectives who were working for, the large reward offered by the state. NOT TO BE PROSECUTED. Insufficient Evidence to Convict ex Soldier of Murder. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 1L County Prosecutor Yates announces that he will dismiss the celebrated case against James Redmond, who Is charged with being one of the principals in the murder of Emma Schumacher, who was robbed and mur dered by two men in a grocery store In this city on tho night of December 8, 1897. This action is due to the lack of evidence caused by the death of William Handy, an old negro, who was the most Important witness for the state, and at whose house Redmond sought shelter the night of the crime. Jack Kennedy, who figured In several train robberies In thla vicinity, was arrested with Redmond, but Kennedy received a 17-year sentence to the penitentiary for train robbery be fore he could be tried for murder. Red mond escaped, and after many daring ex periences with Federal and state officers, he was rearrested August 16, 1898, in the Philippines, wr re he had served as a private in an . lerican regiment. Dur ing the Santiago campaign Redmond served under Roosevelt in the Rough Riders. Shot Her Husband Dead. CHICAGO, Nov. 11. May Teresa Jo sephine Schmidt shot and almost instant ly killed her husband, Peter, late tonight at their home. After the shooting, which occurred in the parlor of the house, Schmidt staggered cut through the front door and fell dead in the yard. Mrs. Schmidt made no attempt to escape, and she admitted the shooting, but declared that her husband had driven her to des peration by his acts. For some time the woman declares ho has been neglecting her, was drinking heavily and paying at tention to other women. When he entered his home tonight his wife declares he was Intoxicated, and she upbraided him for his acts. A quarrel and the shooting fol lowed. Prominent Prencher Fatally Shot. HUNTINGTON. W. Vs., Nov. lL-ORev. John Holden. a prominent minister in the Methodist Episcopal Conference In this district, was probably fatally shot by Rob ert Bostlck, at Mattewan. There has been trouble between the families for some time. Later reports states that Bostlck told his wife ho would be away over Sunday, that he camo back late in the night and found Holdcn at his house. Tho shooting. It is said, was done in Bostick's bedroom. District Attorney Shot a Man. MUSKOGEE, J. T., Nov. 1L Thomas Owens. District Attorney, shot and fatally wounded Noah Watts today, two bullets taking effect in. the breast. Both are young men. Owens claims self-defense. South Sea Whitebait. Forest and Stream. For a few days in each year, and al ways in the month of September, the South Sea people have & treat in the Way of fish a small stream runner smaller than the Thames whitebait and better flavored. The natural history of the fish is ob- scure. It seems to be the fry of some fish, for when taken many have the yelk -sac still attached to them. The first that is known of it is when schools appear In the mouths of rivers. The river mouths at all seasons of the tide seem fairly alive with the multitudes of fish not an Inch long, but all swimming and leaping under impulse of the instinct to ascend the freshwater streams. Then they are caught simply by sinking a piece of cloth in the water and lifting it by Its four corners at once. A square of cloth six feet each way will hold at an ordinary draught half a bushel of the fish, which the Samoans and many other islanders know under the name "lnanga." During the few days they are running they are taken by millions without diminishing the schools in the least. Enormous numbers of them are known to pass up tho streams, but once past the bar at the river mouth they disappear from sight and knowledge. Even in the height of their return they are not seen in the streams above the mouth, yet they are never seen running back to sea. The run lasts not for more than a week or ten days In any one stream, and on the isl and of Upolu seems to begin In tho east ern streams earlier than in those down to the wefit. Apia harbor has two stream debouching Into It. Not more than halt a mile separates the two, yet the school begins to run In the Valslngano three days before It makes Its appearance In the Mullval, which lies to the westward. In native cookery they are wrapped In banana leaves and steamed for a short time. But the catchers eat them raw with great avidity. ' ' JEFFRIES WANTS A FIGHT. Rnhlln Is Ready to Post a Forfeit to Meet Him. NEW YORK, Nov. 1L As a result of a challenge issued Saturday by James Jeffries, offering to fight Bob Fltzslm mons, Gus Ruhlln or Tom Sharkey, and a telegram from Fltzslmmons declining a match, on account of engagements last ing" until May next, Jeffffries tonight made the following statement: "If Fltzslmmons does not come to terms by Wednesday I shall arrange to meet Ruhlln or Sharkey on terms to be agreed upon. It Is my Intention to fight at least once a year. My choice of battle grounds would be Nevada, for there we could go to a finish and in such a c6n test there would be no doubt as to whom Is the bettor man,." Billy Madden, Ruhlln's manager, tele graphed tonight that Ruhlln will at once post a forfeit to bind the match. Arrival of Schaefer, Bllliardlst. NEW YORK. Nov, ll.-Jacob Schaefer, accompanied by British Baylor, the Cali fornia professional, arrived here today, en route for Paris, where he "will play in the billiard academies. Schaefer ap peared to be in the best of health, and said that he was playing the "game of hla life. He expects to sail this week, and A CANDID ADMISSION. e Chicago Chronicle, Bryan Dem. . It is plain that of all the men e who might havo been nominated at Kansas City, Mr. Bryan was the J weakest before the people, a It is plain that no man involved m 9 In any way with the stupendous financial and economlo blunder of 1896 can be elected President of the o United States. e It is plain that nothing Is to bo J a gained, nothing is to be hoped for 0 e from a continuation of the lm- moral and degrading alliance now a and four years past subsisting be- J tween the Democratic organization 9 and that of the Populists. J It is certain that the people of tho United States will not take their politics from a mongrel com- blnatlon whose first purpose ap- J pears to ho tho driving away In 2 e alarm of men of business, men of m affairs, men of substance and men of intelligence. It is certain also that no alliance of a 2 Free-Silver Republicans, Populists 2 and Democrats can, in the face of 2 e Innumerable Democratic precedents 2 e in favor of expansion and free a 0 trade, set metes and bounds to the a development of American power and prestige in the politics and 2 commerce of the world. 2 2 In splto of the crimes of the Re- 2 s publican party, in spite of the dec-( 9 laratlon of the Kansas City con- o vention, in spite of the engaging a personality of Mr. Bryan, in splto 2 of all preachments oral and writ- 2 2 ten in behalf of the Democratic 0 0 candidates, there has been but ono a real Issue this year, and that issue a e has been the political vagaries of a Mr. Bryan himself. Democracy and 2 Populism would not mix. No con- 2 2 vention, no newspaper, no amount " m of oratory, no combination of fa- a vorable circumstances, could bring a a about a true fusion between ele- ments fundamentally antagonistic, 2 Mr. Bryan Is defeated by Demo- 2 2 cratlc votes, because Democrats a e could not be made to believe that a his candidacy represented anytnlng e a better than it represented four years ago. All else has been lg- 2 nored. All other Issues have been 2 2 postponed. Populism alone has 2 s, gone down, never to rise again, let a a us hope, with the assistance of a a anybody who calls himself a Dem- a ocrat, a a a a aoaoeoaoaaaaaooaoaoaaaeaao In the few days he Is here will take part In several exhibition matches. Schaefer's contract calls for six months' play abroad, but he thinks that he will probably return In less time than that. Canada After a Yacht Race. ' TORONTO, Ont, Nov. 11. A chall-nge will be sent by the Royal Canadian Yacht Club to the Chicago Yacht Club for tho Canada cup. This action was decided upon at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club's executive committee Satur day. A subcommittee met tonight and framed the challenge. Under the conditions governing the Canada cup, 10 months' notice must be given by the challenger. The Idea Is to have the race sailed as soon after July 1 as Is convenient for the Chicago Yacht Club. The challenge will be for a race of the M-foot class. The R C. Y. C. will suggest that the race will be sailed at Buffalo, If a suitable purse Is offered. BIG DOMESTIC EXPORTS. So Fur It Hns Been $82,000,000 Over X.nat Year. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. The monthly statement of the exports of domestic pro ducts by the Bureau of Statistics shows that during October the exports were as follows, comparisons being made with October, 1SSQ: Breadstuffs, $21,913,832; decrease, 52,123.-: COO. Cattle and hogs, f2,92,361; Increase, $553, 000. Provisions. 513,934,33); decrease, $714 000. Cotton, $60,391,107; increase, $32,043,0 0. Minerals, $5.129 079; decrease. M63.0CO Total for the month, $103.2G0,6S9; net in crease, $29 3SS.S94. For the last 10 months the total was So,91S.S73, an lncreaso ns compared with the corresponding period In 1S99 of $32. 055.000. Bryan to Go to Florida. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Nov. 1L Demo cratic Governor-Elect "W. S. Jennings has been informed that his cousin, "W. J. Bryan, will- visit him at c his. home In Brooksville, Fla , and be present at the inauguration at Tallahassee in January. EFFECT OF OUR ELECTION STRONGLY FELT ON GERMAN BOURSES LAST WEEK. Europe Needs American Money in Its Business Easier Conditions General. BERLIN, Nov. 11. Germany bourses were completely dominated last week by the election of the United States and Wall Street's interpretation of it. Finan ciers here had been arguing that since a reaction here was started In April by tho .decline In stocks andjron prices in the United States, so the election's effect upon business would bo strongly felt here. This view has been strikingly con firmed. The large sales- In iron in the United States last week attracted much attention, causing unusual firmness. In German Iron shares and also giving a great Impetus to American railways. Fi nanciers here express satisfaction with the outcome of the election, interpreting the result as favorable to the German money market. The Vosalsche Zeltung says: "The immediate future of the European markets depends upon whether America will prolong the loans made to us or will withdraw considerable sums from Its balances. Should the latter result have been caused through any doubt with re spect to the financial policy of the United States the German market particularly would have experienced no slight strin gency toward 1901. Mr. McKinley's re election means for ug an avoidance of panicky turns in the money market." Heavy offerings of discounts In the- man ufacturing centers carried tho private rate yesterday to 4U per cent. The Rclchs bank statement made an unfavorable im-i presaion and the rise in money depressed Imperial and Prussian funds, being rein forced by the conviction that large Issues of 3s will be made early next year. Cologne's 21,000,000 4s will be subscribed November 20 at 991$ and the Anatolian Railway's stock November 15. Contracts let here for rolled Iron by the Prussian railways show prices ranging from 25 to 30 per cent below last year's figures. A French company secured a contract for the Brunswick water-works piping at 85 marks, as against 140 marks, tho lowest German bid. Tho wire nail syndicate has reduced production 40 per cent, but this failed to influence the Bourse, owing to the aqtlvlty of the American market. The statistics of nine months foreign trade show Imports to the value of 4,082. 000,000 marks, or an increase of 24,000,000 marks. The export figures for the same period are 3,252,Od0,00Q marks, or an In crease of 153,000,000 marks. Prussia's coal production for tho nine months covered by the official statistics was 75,809,023 tons, or an lncreaso of 5, 049,685. WELCOME TO LATIN-AMERICANS. Spain Talks of Necessity for Unity Future Congress. MADRID, Nov. XL The secret .sessions of the Spanish-American Congress will begjn tomorrow. They will be devoted to a study of the various propositions for the development of the commercial re lations between Spain and Latin Amer ica. The press today warmly welcomes tho delegates in language which is circum spect, showing no hostility toward the United States, but upholding the neces sity of the unity of tho Latin family in America. At yesterday's session of the congress Senor Sierra, the delegate from Mexico, emphatically disclaimed the idea, that there was incompatibility between tho present congress and the one that would be held In Mexico in October of next year for the purpose of discussing cus toms duties among all the American na tions. He expressed the hope that the two congresses would result in benefit not only to all the nations in the Western Hemisphere, but to all humanity as well, adding that universal blessings would follow If compulsory arbitration for dif ferences between nations should result. DON CARLOS AND HIS RIGHTS. Does Not Desire to Ruin Spain Con demns Recent Rlalnsr. MADRID, Nov, 11. Tho Madrid papers publish a letter from Don Carlos, ad dressed to tho Carllst General Moore, in which the pretender protests against the present movement as "contrary to In structions," and characterizing the au thors of the uprising as "men without consciences." "I shall never abandon by rights," saya Don Carlos. "But at the samo time I do not wish to ruin Spain. I cannot for get the danger to the Integrity of her territory from prolonged insurrection, be cause It would excite the ambitions of powers which aro attentively following events In Spain. The Catalonia move ment Is veritable treason on the part of a few undisciplined men." Spanish Troops Capture Carllsts. BARCELONA, Nov. 11. The govern ment troops have captured a band of 50 Carllsts near Villa Franca del Panades, 25 miles west of Barcelona. They seized a quantity of arms and ammunition. Promotions of Englishmen. LONDON, Nov. 12. Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has been promoted to the rank of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. The Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Sel borne, Mr. Joseph Powell "Williams and Mr. Gerald Balfour have been appointed privy councillors. Mr. Balfour was al ready an Irish privy councillor. John Grant Lawson, who represented the Thlrsk and Malton division of York In the late Parliament, where he vmt deputy chairman of the ways and means, and who has been one of the Parlia mentary charity commissioners since 1S95, has been appointed secretary of the local board In succession to Henry Chaplin. New Siberian Cossacks. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 1L The Rus sian general staff recently proposed that the Siberian peasants should adopt the Cossack caste and 10,000 have signified u. willingness to do so. It is proposed that the new Cossack, shall be offered two acres of land each, shall be required to serve four years in the Army, and shah belong to , the reserves until they be come 34 years old. Archbishop Issues Circular. BERLIN, Nov. 11. Mgr. Stabewskl. Archbishop of Posen, In Prussian Poland, has issued a manifesto against a German Centrist candidate and In favor of a Polish candidate. His circular has at tracted much attention and the Govern ment will probably take notice of It. Rnnslnn Conl on Black Sea. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov, 11. The Rus- '& Do not gripe nor Irritate tho alimen tary canal. They act gently yet promptly, cleanse effectually and Sold by all druggists. 25 cents. ML DDnDDICTODC AC y iil i iui iiliuij m Warner's Safe Cure will send to any person request ing same, a. free sample- of "Warner's Safe Cure. Mention this paper. Send today. slan Minister of AgricultunM. Yesmc leff, after visiting t&a coal deposits re cently discovered on the Black Sea coast in the Government of Kutais, estimates that they will yield L$40,OOOtons annually for 60,years. He considers the quality excellent. 1 Socialists Demonstration. BRUSSELS. Nov. 1L The Socialist demonstration which was postponed at the time of the home-coming of Prince Albert after his marriage to Duchess Ellzabether of Bavaria occurred to day. Fifteen thousand persona paraded, and the Burgomaster received a deputa tion who presented to him a petition in favor of universal suffrage. There was absolutely no disorder whatever, and the city this evening is perfectly calm. Earl Cadosan to Contlnne In Office. LONDON, Nov. 11. Earl Cadogan has consented to continue in office as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. PROGRESS INCREASES WANT Methods of Production Must .Improve as Civilisation Advances. Engineering Magazine. The excuse Is sometimes given that measures which Increase the productive capacity of the workman throw others out of emptoyroont. This is the same old charge that has always been brought against labor-saving machines and meth ods, and its absurdity has been proved too often to receive much consideration here. It should be well understood that a certain amount of production Is neces sary to maintain existence. That amount varies in proportion to the lncreaso In the population of the world, and the ad vancement of civilization. As people be come more civilized and enlightened their wants are Increased; to meet the Increase there must be a corresponding Improve ment In the methods of production. Stop that Improvement and you stop civiliza tion. Nature, working through .the av arice and ambition of man, supplies this Improvement. The time may come when all tabor may be paid according to its productive ca pacity. Theoretically, that Is the only Just method of remuneration. It is plac ing tho matter where It belongs, under that Inexorable law of nature the sur vival of the fittest. All development is In that direction, and competition In man ufacturing demands it. The observance of this law does not require that the weak should be left to suffer; but means other than the restraint of the fittest should be provided for their care. A Near Vleiv of Dr. Holmes. Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis In Scrlbner's. , Physically he was a very small man, holding himself stiffly erect his face In Significant as his figure except for a long, obstinate upper Up ("left to me," he said one day, "by some Ill-conditioned great grandmother"), and eyes full of a won derful fire and sympathy. No one on whom Dr. Holmes had once looked with Interest over forgot the look or him. He attracted all kinds of people as a brilliant, excitable child would attract them. But nobody, I suspect, ever succeeded In being familiar with him. Americans at that time seldom talked of distinction of class or descent. You were only truly patriotic If you had a la borer for a grandfather and were glad of It. But the autocrat was patrician enough to represent the descent of a Dalmlo, with 2000 years of ancestry behind him. He was the finest fruit of that Brahmin- or der of New England which he first had classified and christened. He had too keen an appreciation of genius not to recognize his own. He enjoyed his work as much as his roost fervent admirers, and openly enjoyed, too, their 'applause. I remember one evening that he quoted one of his poems, and I was forced stupidly to ac knowledge that I did not know it. He fairly jumped to the bookcases, took out the volume and read the verses, standing In the middle of the room, his voice trembling, his whole body thrilling with their meaning. "Therel" he cried at the end, his eyes flashing, "could anybody have said that better? Ah-a!" with a long. Indrawn breath of delight as he put the book back. Senator Davis Stronger. ST. PATH, Nov. UU Senator Davis medical attendant tonight issued the fol lowing bulletin: "After a good night. Senator Davis seemed stronger thl3 morning. Is rather more restless this evening, but tempera ture and pulse aro both good." TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY, Take Laxative Brcmo-Qulnlne Tablets. 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