W A S H IN G T O N
liiiiiiiS
From All Parts /of the New
World and the Old.
OF
INTEREST T O OU R READERS
•M B p ra leD d ln
ant
R eview
H a ppen in gs
of
o f th e I m p o r t
the
Past
W eek
C a l l e d Fr uui t h e T e l e g r a p h C o l u m n s .
i Constantinople dispatch says a
> u u o r e baa occurred at Evoclc, in
'w h i c h 100 Armeuiaus are reported to
have been killed.
A t Murray, Idaho, a cave-in of the
Sm all Hopes mine, killed (Jus Holmes.
Holmes was working in a slope and
fired a blast which probably caused the
nave.
Several members of the Miners'
Union of Leadville, Colo., have been
arrested under indictments by the spec
ia l grand jury, for their alleged con
nection with the attack on the Coro
nado and Emmett mines a few mouths
ago.
The Hew York Herald has a dispatch
from Havana which states that Antonio
Maoeo has crossed the trooba with a
large force. It is reported according to
tbia dispatch, that Captain-General
W eyler haa been wounded at the front.
▲U news from the scene of the engage
ment ia suppressed by the officials at
the palace.
Robert Fitzsimmons and Tom Shar
key fonght for a purse of f 10.000 in
San Francisco before the National
Club.
The contest was to be ten
rounds, bnt Sharkey was knocked ont
in the eighth round.
The referee,
however, gave the fight to Sharkey,
claim ing that Fitzsimmons deliberately
fooled Sharkey by striking him below
the belt.
United States Minister Denby, at
Peking, has informed the department
of state that the Japanese government,
hns officially and formally renounced
that part of the treaty between China
amd Japan, made at the close of the re
oent war, wbicb provides that all ar
ticles manufactured by Japanese sub
jects in China shall stand apon the
same footing as those imported by Jap
anese subjects into China.
The fighting oruiser Brooklyn, the
newest addition to the United States
navy, has been tested and accepted by
the government.
John Abel, a workman at the Nelson
Morris dressed beef works, St. Louis,
M a , was horribly burned w hile at
work. The flesh on the right leg was
parboiled. Abel tripped on the greasy
floor in the rendering-room, and fell
into a vat of boiling grease.
CO NG R E SS
IN
SESSION.
S en a t e.
A
dispatch from Lim a. Peru, aays
that observers there see a probability of
aaother clash of arms between Peru and
Bolivia, over tbe new trouble w bicb is
brew in g owing to Bolivia having pro
ceeded to fix the limits of her frontiers
in the Am atonian districts without
having an arrangement with Pern for
the delimitation.
In Dieppe. France, an enormons mass
o f cliffs oollap'ad and damaged property
to the eiteut of 1*0.000 franca. There
is ranch excitement, as tbs cliffs
threaten further slips
WASHED
N in e C » r i L o a d e d
ing from a third-story window of a ho
tel.
T u g Fd itli Burned.
The tug Edith, of Seattle, burned
near Dofflemeyer'a point, and is prac
tically a total loss. The tug was act
in g as a tender to a dregder and was
bn her w ay to Seattle.
I n ju r e d W h i l e H avin g III* W ife .
San Francisco, Deo. 9.— Herr Langs-
low, a tightwire performer and marks
man, was severely injured during a
performance at the Orpheum yesterday
afternoon.
His wife, whose stage
name is Ellen Vetter, entered a large
iron ball and rolled it up a spiral track
to a height of twelve feet, but in de-
sceodiug lost oontrol of the hall, which
started down rapidly, and when about
ten feet from the stage jumped the
track. Langslow, who from the wings
was watchiug his wife, saw her dan
ger, and endeavored to break her fall.
He suooeeded, but the heavy globe
struok him on the right shoulder, caus
ing a dislocation. He w ill not be able
to perform again for some time.
LaugFlow has been injured before in
the same rnanuer, once iu Berlin, When
tbe globe fell ten or twelve feet and
truck him.
Struck b y a F a l l i n g Fence.
Oakland, Cal., Deo. 9.— Mrs. W.
Beilina is lying at tbe point of death
as the result of injuries received in a
peculiar manner last Friday.
W h ile
some lads were playing football the
ball was kicked over a high fence. As
they climbed over it to recover the ball
the fence collapsed.
It was seven feet
high and thirty feet long, and the
whole structure fell upon Mrs. Beilina,
who was walking past at the time.
She is about 60 years of age. For sev
eral hours after the accident she was
unconscious, and the doctors give out
very little hopeXif her ultimate recov*
ery.
Broke
m ih I
Three
W ere
D row ned.
H aw ley, Pa., Deo. 9.— The skating
season opened here with a triple trag
edy.
Blanche Bishop, It years of age,
daughter of David Bishop, and Ella
Alpha, 15 years of age, broke through
and were drowned
Tlie brothers of
E lla sprang after them and attempted
to rescue the girls. One of tlie boys
was drowned, aud the life of the other
was saved through the efforts of bis
father.
Tbe accident occurred on a
m ill pond. The children had been
warned not to go on tbo ice, as it waa
unsafe.
( 'a nnd M W i l l It e c i p r n c n t * .
Ottawa, Dec. 8. — Hon A. 8. Fisher,
minister of agriculture, w ill be in
Washington on the I5tb inst.
He
goes to discuss with the Amei i -an au
thorities the qusrautine agsiiiFt cattle.
A It rut *1 M u r d e r .
If the American government w ill agree
Intense excitement prevails in East to abolish quarantine against Canadian
6 t Louis over the brutal murder of cattle, it is understood Mr. Fisher w ill
Christopher Ludw ig, aged 59, by Harry agree, on behalf of the Canadian gov
Bohmeltaer, ged 38 Schmeltser struck ernment, to abolish the quarantine
L u d w ig on the head with an at, kill against American cattle.
The miuis-
ing him instantly. Tbe murderer es ter w ill remain in Washington two
caped, but is being pursued by a posse. weeks.
On H I* W a y to M ex ico .
Peroival Low ell, of Boston, whose
astronomical researches with reference
to the inbabitability of tbeplauet mars
bave commanded wide atteuiion, is
now on his way to the City of Mexico,
near where be haa erected an observa
tory.
He w ill bave with him in M eti-
oo a distinguished party of scientiflo
men. and it ia the purpose to continue
the investigations in that onnntry for
at laast two yean, if the climatic eon-
ditiona prove favorable.
VE NEZUELA
A Plu cky
Agent.
Cedar Rapids, Ia., Dee. 9.— Tw o
highwaymen attempted to hold up the
ageut of the Milwaukee road at Fair
fax tonight, when the agent opened
fire, killing one and wounding the
other
Tbe injured robber baa nut
been captured
*
Cairo, Deo. 8. — The Egyptian gov
ernment has refunded to the cat me of
the Egyptian debt, tbe *500,000 ad
vanced for tbe the expenses of the N ile
expedition.
ACCEPTS
IT.
WEEKLY
T b * A t b ltn.tlon A g r e s m s n t Satisfactory
to the R epublic.
W ith Coal F e l l In to
T h e J u r y D i d n ’ t S ee H i m S h o o t .
Ic*
H A T C H E T
O UT.
The United States senate began tbe
the W ater.
second session of the fifty-fourth con
Taooma, Deo. 9.— The Northern Pa-
gress with crowded galleries and with ciHe railway officials received word tbia
that accompaniment of activity and of afternoon that tbe bridge across Crocker
greeting that usually attends the reas
and Carbonado, had been washed ont
sembling of congress.
But the upper
and that nine loaded ooal oars had
branch of congress never pats aside its
fallen through into the water. Tbe
dignity, and tbe meeting developed no
bridge was used almost exclusively to
demonstrations of dramatic iuterest.
haul out tbe coal from the Carbon H ill
The reading of the president's message
mines. The accident was caused by
was the feature of the proceedings, and
the washing away of the abutment at
beyond this no attempt was made to
the west end of tbe bridge. A wreck
enter upon the business of the session.
ing crew and piledriver were sent to
To many of the foreign represen'atives
the s-ene of wreck this afternoon, and
occupying the diplomatic gallery, the
the superintendent hopes to have tbe
message had special interest and sig
bridge again ready for traffio in twenty-
nificance, owing to the part they had
fonr hours.
taken in the oonspicnons foreign event;
It is not thought that the acoident
to whioh the president referred. On
w ill seriously delay the coal company,
the floor of the senate printed copies of
as one of their steamers left port last
tbe message were distributed, and these
night and before the other arrives the
gave tbe senators opportunity of read
bridge w ill be repaired.
ing.
There was a small attendance
Tbe water in W hite river is still up
after tbe reading had proceeded beyond
to a height that renders work ou the
tbe first half hour. A fter tbe usual
now impassable Northern Paoiflo bridge
formality of laying the message on the
impossible. A tel-gram was received
table, tbe senate, on motion of Ijale,
this morning from there asking for an
adjonnred.
additional force of twenty men, bnt
House.
Superintendent McCabe, apon learning
W h ile the scenes attending the open that the water had subsided only a foot
ing of the house were both brilliant during the uight, decided not to attempt
and interesting in the crowds that any repairs until tomorrow, or such
thronged tbe galleries, and the con- time as the water recedes sufficiently
spiouons personages present, tbe pro to allow the men to work to advantage.
ceedings themselves were dnll and
TH E ENGINEER T O BLAME.
spiritless, being distinctively routine.
The bonse met, the chaplain invoked
tbe divine blessing on tbe work of tbe P a a A e n g e r T r n i n * C o l l i d e on an OhI-«
H o a d W i t h F a t a l Ken ult s.
session, the roll was called, and a com
Cincinnati, Dec. 9.— A collision oc
mittee was appointed to wait upon the
president, and tbe latter's annual com curred at 8 oclock this moruin - near
munication was read. The reading Storrs station, on the Baltimore & Ohio
consumed about two hours. The holi Sonthwestern railroad, between an ac
day nature of tbe day was saddened by commodation train from Cochran, Ind.,
tbe announcement of the death of ex- aud a special made up of passenger
Speaker Crisp, which Turner of Georgia coach and two private cars. The spe-
formally made to his associates. Out oial was carrying all the general offi
of respect to tbe memory of the distin cers of the Baltimore & Ohio South
guished Georgian, the honse, after western, who were ont to make a thor
adopting appropriate resolutions, im ough inspection of the road. The en
gineer and conductor of the speoial had
mediately adjourned.
orders to follow fifteep minutes behind
the preceding regular train and keep
D e a t h In t h e P y r e n e e s .
A Paris disptach says that a terrible out of tbe way of accommodation train
disaster has occurred in the Pyrenees. No. 33, wbicn had the right of way.
The special stopped at Storrs, where
A score of Spaniards, crossing on foot,
had reached Gavarnie, in France, where it should have waited for No. 23, but
they related with apparent remorse the engineer and conductor both forgot
that they bad left a woman, unable to orders concerning that train and palled
procceed, with her husband and bro ont. Three-fourths of a mile wea1 of
ther, two hoars distant. Guides hur Storrs the trains came together. There
seeing
ried back to tbe rescue and beard calls was a fog which prevented
for help, when a sndden avalanche clearly, so neither engineer suspected a
blocked the mountain pass so that tbe collision until the shock came.
Engineer John Price aud Fireman
guides were obliged to retorn to G a v
arnie and w ait there for two days. Homer Dixon, of tbe special, were in
When they finally reaohed the ill-fated stantly killed.
L. Zepernioh, a clerk in the tffice of
trio, two of them were dead and the
the engineer for maintenance of way,
third was dying.
died from his injuries.
John Thiel, who waa supposed to
have fired the shot that entered the
head of a young girl at a wedding party
Jane Shelly, the 14-year-old daugh in Ritzville, Wash., has been acquitted
It was proved that be bor
ter of Joseph Shelly, a farmer living by a jury.
nine miles sonth of Olympia, W ash., rowed the gun, and that tbe shot was
w as reaching for some object on the tired from tbe gun, bnt no one saw him
mantlqpieoe, when her olothes caught ire it, and so the jury discharged him.
fire frk p the fire in the fire-place. She
F a t a l Fueling o f a F u ed .
wee terribly burned and died after a
A fight between old man Harrison
fe w days of suffering.
and his two sons and Morgan and his
Delbert Crawford, a young man 19 two sons, Tom and Caleb, occurred in
years old, was found twelve miles one of the mountain counties of Ken
from Pendleton, dead beneath an over tucky. The elder Morgan is dead.
tnrned loaded wagon.
He was hauling Both sona are dying.
Both the Har-
grain to the oity, and the wagon ran riaou boys are also dead.
off the grade into a canyon.
Hia four-
S t r u c k b y an E l e c t r i c Car.'
horse team stood all night hitched to
In Denver an electric car struck a
the wagon, and were fonnd the next
carriage containing Mrs. John C. Mont
morning oovered with snow.
gomery. w ife of a prominent Denver
T. J. Henry, living on the Apple- capitalist, and two other ladies. The
gate. near Jacksonville, Or., on Novem carriage waa wrecked and Mrs. Mont
ber 98 last went over to one of the min- gomery was so badly injured that she
in * oamps to look for a job cooking for sanuot recover.
the miners. He started home over the
K ille d by Poacher*.
W atkins trail. A storm started np
Count Fiuickenstein, an 'intimate
and he wandered about in the moun
tains and froze to death. The whole friend of Emperor W illia m , of G e r
community tnrned ont to search for many, has been mortally wounded on
It is supposed he was shot
him, and aooeeded in finding hia body. bis estate.
He was one of the
H e had orawled into a brush pile and by poaobers.
w as frozen to death
He leaves a wealthiest landowners in Germany.
w idow and six ohildren practically dei-
M a a a a c re d b y K u r d * .
titnte.
A Constantinople dispatch says that
Jennie W ard, a well-dressed young under the pretext of revenging an old
woman, created a sensation by w alk grievance, 10,000 Knrds raided the
ing along Wahaah avenue, thioago, province of Mamoutel ul Aziz, where
smoking.
People tnrned aud stared at they burned and pillaged the villages
the woman, bat she paid uo atteutiou and massacred tbe inhabitants.
to them, and continued to seud blue
Fren ch W ou ld E xclu de O u r Pork.
clouds of smoke heavenward.
She
A t a mass meeting held in Paris,
waa placed under arrest by Detectives
W oolridge and Schubert aud locked np France, of the organized Farmers'
at the Harrison-street station, charged Union, tbe dealers in salt meats adopt
with dlaorderly conduct, and when her ed a resolution in favor of tbe exclusion
of American pork products, iu view of
oaae waa called for trial lu Justice
Richardson's oourt she failed to spear. tbe fall iu tbe prices of swine.
'This ia something terrible," said the
Jum ped From m H otel W in dow .
oourt, "a u d as a w arning I w ill fine
Mrs. Eliza Cummings, aged 65, a
this woman f 1 for smoking.
It is ter wealthy woman of Hillsboro, O., com
r ib le ."
mitted suicide in New York by jum p
A freight trsin of thirty oars losded
w ith lumber and shingles from the
W est got beyond control on a heavy
grade east of Mullen tunnel, on the
Northern Pacific road, and ran away
Twenty-alx cars were scattered along a
distance of eight miles, when the en
gine left the track.
Ed Jarbeau. head
hrakeman. was killed. Fireman Young
had hia oollar bone broken, and E n
gineer John Pim m 's leg was broken,
besides internal injuries.
Conductor
John MoUean's thigh waa broken, and
hia back wrenched. It ia the worst
wreck the Northern Paoiflo bat ever
had from the point of damage to track
and rolling stock.
BRIDGE
C O U N T Y
German Vessels Will Be No
Longer Exempt,
INTEREST IN SH IPPIN G CIRCLES
A
R etaliatory
Measure
of
President
C leveland — Proclam ation
W ill
In
January.
Kltect
A fter
Next
Be
Washington, Dec. 7.— The president
has issued a proclamation suspending,
after January next, the operation of
the act which relieves German vessels
entering United States ports from pay
ment of tonnage dues aud other ship
ping obarges. This action was taken
on proof that American vessels are de
nied corresponding privileges in Ger
man ports. The shipping charges un
der our laws are baBed on a sliding
scale. The presiient’s action doubtless
w ill arouse widespread interest iu ship
ping circles.
Tbe president's proclamation w ill go
into effect on the morning of January
8, after which the vessels of Germany
entering oar ports mast pay shipping
charges ranging on a sliding scale of
from six to thirty cents a ton per an
num.
The president mentions the fact that
his proclamation of January 311, 1888,
suspended the collection of tbe whole
of tbe duty of six cents per ton, or not
to exceed thirty cents per ton, upon
German vessels entering the ports of
tbe United Stats, according to section
11, act of congress, approved June 18,
1886. This suspension was proclaimed
upon the proof appearing satisfactory
that no tonnage or lighthonse dues or
any equivalent tax or taxes whatever
were imposed upon American vessels
entering German ports, and that Ger
man vessels aud their cargoes were not
required in German ports to pay any
fee or imp rt duty higher or other than
was payable by German vessels or their
cargoes iu the United States, as an
nounced in the aforesaid proclamation
of 1888. The suspension was to con
tinue only so long as the reciprocal ex
emption of American vessels continued
in German ports.
Continuing, the president Bays it
now appears upon satisfactory proof,
that such dues or an equivalent thereto
are imposed upon American vessels and
their cargoes and other than those im
posed upon German vessels or their
cargoes entering in ports of the United
States.
Therefore, ihe president re
vokes his former suspension of the co'-
leotion of the whole duty of six cents
per ton and not to exceed thirty cents
per ton per annum, on German vessels
entering the ports of the United States.
The effect of the president's procla
mation is to reimpose upon the vessels
entering from Germany the same ton
nage dues that are imposed on vessels
entering the United States from Great
Britain, France, Italy, Spain and other
maritime nations in Europe and Asia.
AN
F iv e
OLD
QUARREL.
Persona M o rta lly W ou n ded
K e n t u c k y F Ig Itt .
in a
Middlesboro, Ky., Deo. 7.— News
has reached here of a fatal encounter
in Letoher connty yesterday, iu wnioh
W illia m Harrison, along with his sens
Henry and James, all of whom were
very strong partisans of Johu D. White,
the independent Republican candidate
for congress in the Eleventh district,
against the regular nominee, D C.
Colson, engaged in a deadly fight with
W illia m Morgan aud his sons, Caleb
and Thomas, all supporters of Colson.
Tbe Morgans were going to the mill,
aud met the Harrisons in the road.
They begau their old quarrel over the
merits of White and Colsun, and soon
began shooting at each other.
The
battle lasted several minutes, and over
• score of shots were fired.
Old man Morgan
fell
mortally
wonnded at the first fire.
When all
was over, the two Morgan boys lay
dead and the two Harrison boys proba
bly wounded fatally.
Harrison, the
father, escaped without a wouud,
though there were several bullet holes
in hts clothes. The elder Harrison
surrendered to the authorities, and
stated that the Morgans brought ou the
difficulty, and that he aud bis sous
fired in self-defense.
There was no connection whatever
between this affair aud Colson being
mistaken on the railway traiu by an
angry father, supposing him to be the
m as who eloped with bis daughter.
C h i c a g o '« M u n ic ip a l P a w n s h o p .
Chicago, Dec. 7.— Steps have been
taken toward the establishmeut of the
first muncipal pawnshop in America.
A t a meeting of the oommittee from
tbe civic federation legislative commit
tee tbe organization of a corporation
with a capitalization of *200,000 was
resolved upon, the plans and purposes
of which will be modeled after the
Mout de Piete of Belgium and Paris
snd the publio loan banks of England
and Germany. Special legislation will
be required before the establishment
of such an enterprise, and this is to be
asked for at the coming session of the
legislature. It is proposed to mske the
institution a quasi publio affair, the
mayor and governor each having the
power to appoint one director.
I’nftt f o r ft e r r i r o
N ew York, Dec
7 — The World
says: The battleship Texas, which has
been undergoing repairs for t w o weeks,
waa floated out of the timber dryd. ok
early yesterday morning. The ship it
unfit for service, and will, in all prob
ability, be put out, of commission in
the near future and urn ergo extensive
alterations.
The industrial aid 8 <oity of Boston
f and work daring tbe year just passed
lor nearly 8.7(H) people.
Washington,
Deo. 9. — Secretary
Olney has just received a cablegram
from Senor Andrade, Venezuelan min
ister to Washington, now in Csiaoaa,
stating that the Venezuelan govern
ment has accepted the agreement
reaheed by tbe Uuited States aud Great
Britain for the arbitration of the
buuudary dispute, and an extra session
of the Venezuelan congress has been
called to consider it. Thus the last ob
stacle to the amicable settlement of the
dispute w ill be removed.
The following statement given ont
at the state department embraces all
the information in the possession of
the department respecting treatment
by Venezuela of the proposed treaty:
"Secretary Olney received inis morn
ing a telegram from Minister Andrade,
at Caracas, in effect that the memo
randum agreed on between Great
Britain and the Uuited States for set
tlement of the Venezuela bound iry
question is acoepted by the Venezuela
government; that the memorandum
w ill be published at Caraoas this after
noon, and that an extra session of the
Venezuela congress w ill be called as
soon as possible that the memorandum
may be carried into effect by necessary
treaty between Great Britain aud Vene
zuela.
The department also made publio the
text of the heads of the treaty, as agreed
upon between Great Britain and tbe
Uuited States, showing that the ad
vance publication through the Associat
ed Press was perfectly accurate.
TOSS ED
Three
Men
IN
THE
AIR.
W ere
b low n
D y UMinite.
Up
W ith
Prairie, Wash., Dec. 9.— An attempt
was made here last uight to blow up
with dynamite three men who were
sleeping in the same building. The
men were J. C. and C. L. LaPlant,
owners of a shingle mill, and L. D.
Walters, their engineer.
About 2
o’clock in the morning they awoke, to
find themselves being lifted into tbe
air. A moment later they came down
and went through the floor with the
beds in whioh they had been sleeping,
and tbe debris of the building fell on
top of them. The men were partially
stunned, but they pulled themselves
ont, and made their wav to a neigh
bor's honse, a quarter of a mile dis
tant.
The honse was completely
wrecked, with its contents, the tim
bers being smashed to kindling wood,
and the bedding torn to shreds. Under
the floor was a large hole in the ground,
caused by the explosion, and the sup
position is that the dynamite was
placed in a bag, poked under the honse
and then fired. It was a miracle that
the men escaped, everything else being
utterly destroyed.
HEAD
Train
END
Crew
W e n t to S leep
M atters M ixed.
and
Cr ea te d
OREGON
Gat
WOMAN.
a S en sa ti on in a K a n s a s C i t y
P u lp its
Kansas City, Deo. 8.— Mrs. Helen
Dickerson Hartford, of Dragon, na
tional organizer of the W . O. T. U.,
created a sensation today while filling
the pnlpit of the Dundee M. E church
iu this city, by denouncing, in unmeas
ured terms, the acceptance by the oity
of a memorial to be erected in the cen
ter of the city to the memory of Fred
Heim, the brewer, lately deceased.
The Heim brothers, who succeded their
father in business, had drawu plans for
an imposing structure, to be ereoted to
the deceased's memory, and subse
quently tendered it to the city officials.
Today, in the course of her sermon,
Mrs. Harford arraigned the city fathers
for their action, alluded to the mem-
otial as a "monument of infam y" and
appealed to the congregation to prevent
its erection.
T its X r ir a w K illed ,
Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 9. — A spe
cial to the Democrat from Malvern.
Ark., says: "W h a t may be regarded
as reliable information has just been
receievd here that last Tnesday after
noon at a point midway between Cam
den and Beardon. on the Cotton Belt
railroad
a section gang, composed
principally of negroes, with a white
foreman, were engaged in improving
the madbed when a gang 0f nukn„ wn
persons begau firing into the crowd
killing five of them. The foreman
c aims he did not recognize any of the
assassins.
London Club R a ided .
London, Dec. 8.— A hundred consta
ble. raided the Battenberg Club, on
Hot well road, Ht an early honr Sunday
morning, aud trre*ted 150 persons
including many women.
G r o m I t - lt n ln 's W h e a t C r o p .
London. Deo. 8.— The Times, in an
ilS
*he
return.,
finds that the eetimat-d wheat crop nf
Greet Britain is 80,000,000 buanela
above that o£ 18a«.
r
,„
Trade.
"
**
Portland, Or., Deo. 8.-Thom who
liave never seen an old-fa.hioned boll
market are skeptioal about buvin„
May around 85 cents, aud it requires,
great deal of nerve for the avers»
operator to play the bull side without
taking moderate profits. There are no
shorts iu the market, and it require,
constant injections of bullish new, »„s
buying to keep prices moving upward
Whenever the latter lags prioos yield
aud fluctuations of one to two oenuin
an hour are to be expected all the wsy
up to *1. This has been the course of
all bull markets as they become easily
congested and are made healthier b»
good setbacks. Commission house, in
close touch with the outside publio *y
that their customers are afraid to bo;
wheat in the eighties, as they havesl.
ways been unloaded upon, ahd log
money, and show no disposition to
come iu as investors.
If wheat goei do
to *1, aud that prioe is maintained
speculation may broaden, but for the
present it is a professional market,with
a few of the big traders getting th,
bulk of the profits. They Hud It new,,
sary to sell enough to force down ,t
times when they again take hold md
an advance occurs.
Were they to do
otherwise the market might get aw,;
from them and there would be uo stop-
ping the decline. A feature of the
market is the timidity shown by small
holders, who put stop orders ou their
purchases, and are constantly raising
them as prices go np, their desire being
to catch all the profits possible.
Foreigu buying, both speculative and
cash, has been light fur several week,
and although prices have advanced j
abroad in sympathy with America,
and while they agree that we ocoop;
the position of price-makers, they ban
bought sufficient to carry them until
after the first of the year, and ate let
ting the speculators on this side do tbe
baying
Most of tbe wheat cleared i
and the large quantities that are to (
clear within the next thirty dayi waa
bought at lower prices, some of tbe
wheat that went out last week having
been taken on below sixty cents, and
there is a great deal more of the same
priced stuff to go.
The oorn market has been heavy and
inactive during the past week Fricei
are so low that there is little in selling
short, aud on the other hand there is so
much corn that the average trader hatei '
to buy it.
In oats there was bota j
professional scalping market, tbe range
for the week being about one cent
Provsions were heavy on heavier re
ceipts of begs.
As a result of the
week’s trading pork Bhuws a Ion of
about fifty oents per barrel for the !
January delivery.
WEYLER
Now
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Where ;
H e W itnt* Him .
San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 8.— A head-
end collision between two through
freights on the Southern Paciflo read
near Waelder this morning, resulted in
tbe death of two engineers, two fire
men and brakeman. The crew of the
east-bound freight went to sleep, while
waiting on a blind siding, and on w ak
ing, thinking the second section of the
through west-bound freight was the
third section of the train, took to the
main track. The weather was foggy,
aud the east-bound freight and the
third section of the west-bound train
came together a few miles from the sid-
ing.
A relief train was sent from this city
with a corps of physicians, and the
dead and injured were brough i to SaD
Antonio.
AN
LETTER ~
Downing, Ifopklna A Co.'i
M aceo
C O L L IS IO N .
MARKET
Jacksonville, Fla., Deo. 8.— A Citi
zen special from Key West Says:
The steamer Whitney brought Hi-
vana news this morning in relation to
Maoeo aud Weyler.
Passengers slate
that W eyler himself is now encamp«)
ten miles from ArteinDa, and bis army
is scattered along the troeba, and
through the Puiar del Rio distnet
When Maceo retreated from Weyler in
hie first onmpaig'n, bis plan was toiur-
prise Weyler at the first opportunity,
aud now Maceo has his army on either
side of W eyler, aud they are having
daily skirmishes.
W eyler is completely surrounded,
and if he should a ttem p t to move he
w ill be compelled to go to Ariemiaa.
Sm all bands have crossed the troche
into Havana distriot, and are sttaokiog
the outposts and villages of that prov
ince.
Insurgents numbering 7,000 are en
camped in Havana province, twenty
miles from Havana, and will go <o
Maoeo’s assistance when needed.
Spies in Havana are keeping the in
surgents posted us to the movement«
the Spanish troops
A movement je
on foot to capture Weyler if he shall
attempt to go to Havana by nil
Firemen and volunteers in Havana are
being ecut to W eyler’a relief. Hereto
fore, these troops were used in the de
fense of the oity.
Since Tuesday’s raid on Guansbaooti
the oity has been attacked almost every
night, and Thursday night 250 Cohan
cavalry rode for two hours through*
the oity. The damage done amount»
to thirty-seven houses burned and *
large quantity of suppliea aud ammu
nition seized.
A large number o
mules loaded snd ready to leave the
city were also taken.
F i g h t i n g In H a v a n n ' s Subarhfc
Jacksonville, Fla., Deo. 8.— 3b**j
firing has been heard again today i
Havana from
the neighborhood
Guauabaooa and other suburbs of t *
section, and all Havana is excite' "*
the occurrence.
Over 600 refug
passed into the city during the ,'*8'
five days from that section, '"sri
their lives darin g the fights betw
the soldiers and insurgents.
Nearly all the Havana rolnntw"
have gone to the front, but si i»'
they remove the guerillas in one P
they encounter them in another,
I
a succession of running fights 8*
j
in five to ten miles of the city.
^ ,
100 soldiers have been killed or wo
ed so far in these engagements.
W a r P r e p a r a t i o n s In O . * * * » -
Athens, Deo 8 — The king of
has issued a manifesto demanding
maneuvers on a large scale. ,D
_^
moiling 10,000 men from the
^
for the formation of a permanent ^ i
The selection of a new rid" __^
elteusic
army and
MLUV
MIMI other
Giuri military
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jijy
hmg advocated by public ad ì m*
opinion*, baa oauaed a sensation-
H e j* travels faster than cold-
> body can catch cold.