Youngstown News, 1902-12-12

              THE YOUNGSTOWN NEWS. VOL. XXII. YOUNGrSTOWN, N. Y., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1902. NO. 45. SHAWONNATION'S FINANCES He Recommends That Silver Be fvlaie Payable in Gold. STRENGTH OF THE TREASURY Additional Currency Necessary For Constantly Increasing Business— Banking System Imperfect—The Health of tho Country—lmmigration .Statistics For a \'e£#r—lhe Secretary's Annual .Report. Washington, D. C—The annual report of Secretary of the Treasury Shaw was presented to the House of Representatives and read. It contains nearly 30,000 words: His principal recommendations refer jto the actual condition of the currency and the necessity for a change in the banking laws which will provide for additional circulating medium. While insisting on'no one plan, the Secretary suggests that the issuance of circulation based upon general bank credits be properly safeguarded. He also urges that Congress pass a law miaking provision for the redemption - of silver or its exchange wi*"h gold. This would complete absolutely the .gold-standardizing of this country. It gives a statement of the Government's finances for the year 1002, as compared with the preceding year, showing that receipts decreased $14,- 990,250.45, whereas expenditures decreased $38,770,495.51. Tlie public debt was decreased jj>sG.- 070,340. During the year national banks increased their resources $418,- 551,G17.54, but their supply of specie decreased $22,300,751.11. The total resources of the banks was $6,113,928,- 012.50, the largest in the history of the country. Attention is called to the fact that the imports of the country increased by $80,143,783, while the exports decreased $100,045,590. High prices at home, the increased home consumption, and the failure of the corn crop, are given as the principal reasons for this condition. The. report on immigration shows that 730,798 aliens came to this country during the year. Of these 52,035 came first cabin. Of the total European countries furnished (590.4I2^^jiD£countries 23,082, ■ 7.: M L As to report shows that 162,188 were uWable to read or write, 2517 could read, but not write, leaving 435.G38 who were able to do both. The total rejections for all causes under the immigration laws were 4974, or about two-thirds of one per cent, of the total steerage immigration. The report shows that in the year ending June 30, 1902, there were 55,- 857 cases of smallpox 1852 being fatal. Notice is given that a bill for the establishment of an institution for the study and care of leprosy patients will be introduced into Congress. References is also made to the freedom of the United States from yellow fever .during the year. On the question of the currency, the report urges action by Congress looking to the redemption of silver and its change for gold. This would ward off a danger which might arise in hard times when the Government revenue was less than its expenditures. It is also urged that more subsidiary silver coin be minted. The Treasury cannot now supply the growing demand. The legal limitation has been reached—sloo,ooo,ooo—and the demand is $10,000,000 a year. The Secretary urges that the law requiring the coining of 15,000,000 silver dollars a month be repealed and authorization given to coin subsidiary silver to the limit of the demand. As to changing the banking laws, the report discusses the question at length. Additional circulation, it says, is needed. Bank branches are not recommended. No one plan is, the question being left open to Congress. MARION "WHITECAPS" NOT GUILTY. Seven Men Accused of Using Tar and Feathers Set Free. Plymouth, Mass. — After being out eight hours the jury in the Marion tar and feathers case returned a verdict of not guilty against each of the seven defendants:' Obder Andrews, Noble E. Bates, Owen F. Bumper, Andrew N. Gifford, Hector D. McLeod, William H. Potter and Joseph Silva. They were charged with riot and assault upon James McDonald and Mrs. Clara Potter, of Marion, in August last. The assaults were committed by a body of masked men, who gave Mc- Donald a coat of tar and feathers and rode him out of town on a rail. Mrs. Potter was disrobed and threatened ivith chastisement. The reason for the visit was understood at the time to be the objection townspeople had to the alleged conduct of Mrs. Potter and McDonald. Potter himself was a witness to the jssault on his wife, having complained about McDonald to the neighbors. The lefense was an alibi in each case. " The defendants were discharged from custody. Not a word of comment was heard as the men left the Court House. President Married Sixteen Years. President and Mrs. Roosevelt have list celebrated the sixteenth anmver■ Urv of their wedding, and the event t;a,s remembered by their friends with etters and telegrams of congratulation and floral offerings. There was no snecial celebration of the anmver! "u-v other than by an informal dinner i fo which a few intimate friends were I bidden. MUCH POVERTY IN EUROPE In the United Kingdom There Are 590,000 Persons Unemployed. Russian Streets Filled "With Sick and Starving— Bitter Cold in Germany Add* to Suffering—Swedigh Crops Fail. London.—lt is long since the London theatres and restaurants have experienced as profitable a season as the present. The West End is ablaze with light nightly, all the amusement places are crowded, and theatre supper parties keep the fashionable hotels and restaurants busy until long after midnight.In the meantime, it is estimated that 500,000 persons are idle in the kingdom, and the Board of Trade returns show the largest percentage for ten years past, of unskilled persons out of work, while the proportion of skilled men without employment is constantly growing. The Woolwich Arsenal authorities have discharged 2000 mechanics since the winter set in, and are preparing to let out 4000 more. To the great number of persons out of work must be added 536,000 members of the Army Reserve, who have been released from service with the colors. The worst distress, naturally, is visible in the East End. Several of the newspapers have started subscriptions and daily print harrowing stories of half-clad school children, many of whom are without any food, except scanty luncheons furnished by sympathetic teachers. Several of the London Suburban Councils are starting public works in order to employ a ■, small proportion of the idle persons. The Canning Town suburb, where the distress is keenest, has appropriated $50,000 for relief work. St. Petersburg, Russia.—Lack of employment is causing unprecedented distress in the interior of Russia. In Sara toff, as a fair example of the prevailing conditions, workmen eagerly accept about seventeen cents a day, hosts of beggars literally invade the shops and houses, and the streets are filled with sick and starving people. Similar pitiful details come from other interior cities. Berlin, Germany.—The bitterly cold weather which prevails throughout Germany has caused various municipalities to vote contributions in aid of the unemployed. Dresden has just voted $25,000 for this purpose. Stockholm, Sweden. — The crops In the northern district of Sweden and in a part of Delecarlia have failed entirely owing to the cold, wet summer, and collections are being made in all cities and towns by banks, corporations and private individuals for the relief of the sufferers. From the country, especially from Scania, large quantities of supplies are sent daily to the distributing committees. The railroads carry these supplies free o£ charge. The members of the royal family are deeply interested, and are lending their aid to the relief movement. I MUTINY AND MURDER AT SEA. Captain Wounded and Mate Killed—Ke» voltera Leave Ship on a Raft. _ , Queenstown.—Captain Beattie of the I British ship Leicester Castle, which sailed from San Francisco July 2G for Queenstown and which has just ar- I rived at Liverpool, reports a mutiny in the South Pacific on September 9. Three Americans, Ernest Sears, James Turner and a man of the name of Hobbs, shipped on the vessel at San Francisco. At midnight on the night mentioned Sears, who was on deck, called the Captain from his cabin and said a man had fallen from the foreyard.The Captain hailed the second mate and told him to bring the injured man in. While the Captain was giving this order Seaman Hobbs shot him twice, one bullet striking the Captain over the heart. Hobbs fired three more shots after the Captain, who ran on deck. The second mate, who heard the noise, ran to the Captain's assistance, whereupon Hobbs shot him dead. Hobbs wounded the Captain five times. Hobbs, Sears and Turner then left the vessel on a raft. They were located for several hours in the darkness, but when daylight came they were lost to view. It is believed they Intended to make for Pitcairn Island. They may have perished, as they had only a week's provisions with them. It is supposed that the object of the men was to plunder the vessel. The Captain recovered from his wounds during the voyage. DEATH OF THOMAS NAST. The Consul-General at Guayaquil a Victim of Yellow Fever. Guayaquil, Ecuador.—Thomas Nast, the Consul-General of the United States in this city, died from yellow fever, after an illness of three days. Mr. Nast's body was buried five hours after his death. The funeral was attended by the Governor, the members of the Consular Corps and the American Colony and by many friends. The coffin was wrapped in the Stars and Stripes. The British Consul related a praver at the cemetery. The death of Mr. Nast is deeply lamented by the natives, who held him in high esteem. Thomas Nast. artist and caricaturist, was born on September 27, IS4O, at Landau, Bavaria. He was educated in the United States, where he also studied art. He soon acquired a reputation as a talented artist, but it was as a cartoonist that he was best ! known. He was regarded as one of ' the most brilliant of caricaturists. STATE NEWS. Girl Barn Burner Tree. Ida Thompson, of the Dover Mountains, Avho was sentenced to a reform institution a year ago for a long term, is free, having been pardoned at the solicitation of Farmer Wm. S. Ketcham, whose farm she burped, causing him a loss of $10,000. The Thompson girl is about eighteen years old. Her pranks at the time of her arrest caused a sensation in Eastern Duchess County, Stones aimed at Farmer Ketcham were thrown through \vindows near which he was sitting, and Miss Thompson would ride bareback into the mountains in pursuit of imaginary miscreants. After the burning of the barn she confessed that she had thrown the stones and burned the barn, and that her wild rides at night were for the purpose of turning suspicion to others. Farmer Ketcham said he procured the girl's freedom at the solicitation of his wife, and that she promised to reform. Niagara's Hero Dead. William Ellis died at Niagara Falls at the age of seventy-two years. For over half a century he had lived within the sound of Niagara's roar, and away back in 1848, when the first suspension bridge was being erected across the gorge, he won the-title of hero. The tirst footbridge had been thrown over the gorge and a second one was building forty feet away on the second set of cables. Between the two crude platforms the old iron basket was operated. A terrific storm broke from the southwest, which swept down the gorge and wrecked the bridge or platforms. Four men were caught far out over midstream, hanging by two strands of No. 10 wire. It seemed as though nothing could save them, but Ellis volunteered to go out in the iron basket after them. Warned not to take more than one at a time aboard, he could not pass them by and brought all back to the cliff. Her Parrot Gave the Alarm. Mrs. E. C. Pratt, of the Kenyon, at Syracuse, awoke to the call of her parrot, who was shouting, '■Mamma, get up; a burglar is trying to get in." At the same time she heard some one trying to get in a window. She leaped out of bed. grabbed a revolver, and, running to a side door, fired three shots. The whole neighborhood Avas aroused and two policemen came running to her assistance. Polly continued, to scream, "Shoot them." Mrs. Pratt stood coolly in the doorway, but no burglars appeared. Pratt is the wife of a South American tobacco grower and her Husband is away. She says her parrot is almost human, and has been all over the world with her. That the bird was not deceived is proved by a woman Avho lives upstairs in the same apartment. She saw a man running away when the shots were fired. Bishop Doane Chosen Chancellor. The Right Rev. William Crosweh Doane, Episcopal Bishop of Albany, has been elected by the Regents as Chancellor of the University of the State of New York to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Chancellor Anson J. Upson. Regent Whitelaw Reid, of New York City, was elected Vice-Chancellor of the university to fill the vacancy caused by the elevation of Bishop Doane to the Chancellorship. On account 'of increased receipts during the fiscal year ended September 30 last, and through the economies that have been practiced, the Regents Avill not need to ask the next Legislature for as large an appropriation for the next fiscal year as Avas given for the present fiscal year. All Hotels In Town Cloned. Proprietors of. Walton's three hotels, the Central, the Walton and the Riverside, have closed their doors to the traveling public until April 1, 1903. Walton, with a population of over 3000, is entirely without hotel facilities. The action of the hotel proprietors is taken because of prosecutions begun against them for the illegal sale of liquor. A $500 forfeit has been posted, and a contract signed by the hotel men not to open until April. Judge Earl Passes Away. Former Judge Robert Earl died at his home in Herkimer. He wafi stricken with paralysis on November 22, and had not since rallied. He was born in Herkimer on September 10, 3 824, and was admitted to the Bar in 1848, was elected County Judge in 1855 and served two terms. In 1569 he was elected to the Court of Appeals' bench, where he remained until compelled' to retire because of his ago limit in 1894. Found His Wife Hanging Dead. When Frank Thompson, of Herkimer, entered his house a few days ago, he found the lifeless body of his pretty wife suspended from a transom by a rope about her neck. The following note was on a table: "Dear Frank- No blame attached to anyone. You have been good. I cannot stand it any longer. Pray for me.—Katie.'" What the woman meant that she could stand no longer cannot be explained. To Build a Trolley Road. President W. P. Gannon and General Manager E. G. Cennette, of the Syracuse Rapid Transit Company, have announced that the directors of the road had held a meeting in New York City and made arrangements for the expenditure of $1,000,000 to build a trolley road from Syracuse to Oswego. They also secured permission from the New York Central Railroad Company to cross their tracks at Liverpool. Two Escape From Jail. Robert Burns, of Catskill, and Ber~ j nard Smythe, of Brooklyn, have es« I caped from the county jail at Catskill. j Both had been indicted for assault in j the first degree and were about to be tried in the Comity Court. EX-SPEAKER REED DEAD / Famous Statesman Expires at the Arlington Hotel, Washington. HE WAS SiCKA FEW DAYS ONLY Ills Death Caused by "Uraeirtic Poisoning —Slight Attack of Appendicilis Brought on His Fatal Illness—Wife and Daughter Uith Him at the End—His tons Service in State and National Aflairs. Washington, D. C—Thomas Brackett Reed, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, died here in his apartments in the Arlington Hotel. The immediate cause of his death Avas uraemia. With him when the end came were Mrs. Reed, their daughter, Miss Catherine; Doctors Gardner, Mac Donald, Bishop and Goodno and the nurses. Mr. Reed passed away peacefully and without pain. His mind was in such a state on the day previous to his death that he did not realize the seriousness of his condition. He was cheerful and conversed with those about his bedside. When it became apparent that he would not survive his illness, his wife and daughter were informed, and they remained constantly at the bedside until the distinguished patient breathed his last. Mr. Reed returned to die in the city where he had made his great reputation, first as member of Congress and the acknoAvledged leader of his colleagues, later as Speaker of the House, and then as candidate for his party's nomination for the Presidency. Like that other "man from Maine," this last ambition never was realized by Mr. Reed. Growing old and without financial competency Mr. Reed finally left the Speakership and Congress four years ago. His income in legal practice since then, it is estimated, had been between $50,000 and $100,000 a year, equal at least to that of a President, and he dies leaving the competency he sought for his widow and the daughter, who was his chum. Mr. Reed died of uraemia, which means, as his physician said, that he had a chronic case of Brlght's disease for many years, which had broken down his system, and which suddenly became acute and deadly when appendicitis was contracted recently. His kidneys suddenly refused to perform their functions, and the uraemic poison passed directly into his blood. All efforts to save him were futile. Thomas Brackett Reed, member of Congress from the First District of Maine for twenty-two years, and Speaker of the House of Representatives during eight sessions; lawyer, public speaker, debater and author, and, in 1893, a prominent Republican candidate for the Presidential nomination, was born in Portland, Me., sixty-three years ago. He grew to manhood in Portland, and began his business career in that city, which honored him with many offices of trust, first, making him Representative In the State Legislature, and then electing him successively to the offices of State Senator, Attorney-General of Maine, City Solicitor of Portland and member of Congress. Since 1899, when Mr. Reed resigned from Congress, he had been a resident of New York City and a member of the law firm of Reed, Simpson, Thacher & Barnum. He leaves a wife and daughter. Mr. Reed probably will be remembered, more than for anything else, for the revolution he wrought in parliamentary procedure while Speaker of the House of Representatives. The rigorous manner in which he carried out the rules of which he was the author cause him to be widely spoken of by his political opponents and others as "Czar" Reed. Mr. Reed was not in sympathy with the acquisition of the Philippines, or with the expansion policy of the administration of President McKinley. Personally he was most loved by those who knew him best. He was bubbling over with good humor and good fellowship; he had ready wit and keen sarcasm. In ordinary conversation, no less than in public addresses, he showed a remarkable fund of information, broad reading, a strong, penetrating mind and a keen power of logical analysis and analytical reasoning. THOMAS E. EEED. Reed's Native Town Mourns. Portland, Me—The news of the death of Thomas B. Reed was received he:e with general sorrow. Mr. Reed was born here, and was personally known to many persona in the city. PERISH IN A HOTEL FIRE The Lincoln, in Chicago, an Alleged Fire Trap, Destroyed. Exits Cut Off, Guests Are Suffocated oi Killed in Jumping—Building Had Been Condemned. Chicago. — Fire in an overcrowded death trap known as the Lincoln Hotel cost the lives of fourteen persons. Most of the victims were suffocated as they slept or as they struggled through the narroAV hallways in search of an exit. Some were killed by jumping from Avindows. Many guests were carried out unconscious. For half an hour after the firemen found their way into the building they stumbled across bodies upon the floors and stairways. Although screams aud moans from the upper floors told the rescuers that men and women were imprisoned there, the smoke was impenetrable, and the victims stifled to death. The fire started in a rear bedroom on the fourth floor. It is said a porter, known as "Mack" accidentally tipped a lamp over and then fled. The fire marshal declares that the building was a hopeless fire trap, and that the fire could not have been worse had it been kindled with criminal intent. Two months ago building inspectors condemned the place as unsafe. Nearly all those who met death in the fire were from out of town. Most of them were visitors to the Stock Show; and, tired from a day of sightseeing, slept so soundly that they were not aAvakened in time by the fumes which filled the building. The dead are A. B. Coon, lawyer, Marengo, 111.: F. L. Ewing, railway mail clerk, Marionette, Ohio; C. P. Cowan, married, St. Louis, collector on the Wabash Railroad; B. F. Boswell. Chicago; T. V. Slocum. agricultural implement dealer, Wauconda, 111.; Edward Toner, proofreader, formerly of Mihvaukee; H. G. Woods, Lebanon, Ind., farmer; I. C. Yocum, Davenport, la., fire and lightning insurance agent, father of Samuel Yocum, another victim. Another man. not positively identified, supposed to •be a mail clerk named Bosnick; F. W. Corey, railAAray mail clerk, Bucyrus. Ohio: Samuel Yocum, Davenport. la.; . Ward Lowe, railway clerk, Sechlersville. Wis.: M. M. Fardy. city agent for Kirchoff & Neubarth. wholesale liquor dealers; George B. Graves, Chicago, newspaper man. An investigation will be made by the authorities. A fire wall around the freight elevator and other precautionary alterations had been ordered some time ago, but the changes had been neglected. MINISTER TO JAPAN KILLED. State Department Informed of Alfred E. Buck's Death Near Tokio. Washington, D. C—Mr. Kogoro Takahira, the Japanese Minister, called at the State Department with a cablegram from his Government informing him that while duck hunting near Tokio Alfred E. Buck, United States Minister to Japan, became suddenly ill and died. Mr. Takahira conveyed the condolences of his Government. Mr. Buck, who had made a splendid record since his appointment from Georgia, in 1807. was born in Foxcroft, Me., in 1832. He made his own way through school and served in the Civil War, after which he settled in the South and bore a prominent part in the reconstruction of the Southern States. He served in Congress as Representative of an Alabama district, and later removed to Georgia, Avhere he was Clerk of the Federal Court and United States Marshal of the State. He had great political influence in Georgia. FOUNDER BRADLEY'S OUT. His Resignation as Mayor of Asbury Park Accepted l>y the City Council. Asbury Park, N. J.—Founder J#mes A. Bradley's resignation as Mayor of this city was accepted by_ the City Council. There has never been a time before in the history of Asbury Park when Mr. Bradley was not a public officer. The Council also voted to appoint a committee of citizens to prepare a suitable testimonial to Mr. Bradley for his services to the city. Now that Mr. Bradley is a plain citizen the city is in a position to negotiate for the purchase of his board walk and the city sewers. A committee was appointed for this purpose consisting of Dr. Bruce C. Keator, Dr. H. S. Kinmouth, George W. Treat and S. W. Kirkbride. GET TITLE TO A TOWN. Indian Woman and Children Win an Important Suit. Washington, D. C—The Government has granted Nellie Lydeck, an Indian woman, and her two children full title to a large portion of the town of Cass Lake, Minn. The decision, rendered by the Secretary of the Interior, grew out of allotment complications dating back to a time before the settlement of the town. The United States Supreme Court has passed on the issue and the townspeople have no alternative. Mrs. Lydeck and her children will have title to all improvements made on the land. Bomb Thrower Arrested in Borne. A former policeman named Finelli, having in his possession a loaded bomb, was arrested in the neighborhood of the Chamber of Deputies at Rome, Italy. Finelli confessed upon being questioned that he meant to throw the bomb among the Deputies. It is believed that t.ie prisoner is not an Anarchist, but is insane. LABOR WORLD. Upholsterers in England oreceive about $12.69 a week. All the carriage and wagon shops in Albany, N. Y., now employ union men. A new union of steel and ironworkers hag been formed in Southington, Conn. Union moulders in Connecticut have asked for a ten per cent, increase in wages. All the machine shops in Denver, Col., are unionized with a nine-hour work day. Servant girls at Wheeling, W. Va., propose forming a un,ion to regulate hours and wages. Farm hands in lowa get better pay than the average wages for teachers in the common schools. There are 525 labor unions in Chicago, with an estimated membership of more than 300,000. Freight handlers at Albany, N. Y., will probably receive an increase of wages in the near future. Detroit (iviich.*) bookbinders are on strike for a raise of the minimum scale from $13.50't0 $15 a week. Employers at Chatham, Can., have signed the new scale of prices as adopted by the union printers. Union clerks ;.t Birmingham, Ala., have reached an agreement with employers respecting hours of work. Iron workers at Kansaj City, Mo., are very scarce, there being not nearly enough men to supply the demand. Iron moulders and .c'ndred trades in Stockton, Cal., have been conceded the nine-hour day with .no reduction in pay. Recent figures on the cost of farm labor in Germany show that hand work costs less than the use of machines.Union workers in the United States and Canada receive in wages every month the gigantic sum of $1,000,* 000,000. PROMINENT PEOPLE. King Edward owns china whose value is estimated at $2,000,000. Lieutenant Peary lost two toes while on his last search for the North Pole. Emperor William has taken to wearing glasses, alternating at times by wearing a monocle. The Czar has conferred the Grand Cordon of the St. Alexander Newysky Order on Ambassador Tower. lierr Krupp, the German gunmaker, who died recently, was an enthusiastic botanist, an ichthyologist and a patron of art. The degree of doctor of laws has been conferred on Dr. Adolf Lorenz, of Vienna, by the Northwestern University.The widow of Herr Krvpp has given 3,000,000 marks to establish a benefit 'fund for workmen in memory of her husband. Stanley Spencer, the flying-machine man, comes honestly by his aeronautic tastes. His father and grandfather were balloonists, and both his brothers are skilled aeronauts. Lord Reay, 'Jhairman of the London School Board since 1897 and President of the Institute of International Law, has been appointed First President of the British Academy. Cronwright Schreiner, husband of Olive Schreiner, the candidate of the Afrikander Bond, has been elected member of the House of Assembly for Colesberg, Cape Colony. Dr. Sven Anders Hedin, the Swedish traveler, has been invited by several American universities to lecture before them on his explorations. He hopes to be able to accept the invitations early in 1903. The Austrian Emperor is a man of simple tastes, and yet he* is said to spend $250,000 a year on the palace tables. The daily cost of furnishing the imperial table is from $200 to $250, while a state dinner with from fifty to a hundred guests costs from $2000 to $3000. SPORTING BREVITIES. El Paso, Texas, is to have a driving club. Tobin bronze will be used in the construction of the new cup yacht by the Herreshoffs. Michigan will lose three football players next season, Weeks, Sweeley and McGugin. It is reported that the new cup yacht will spread something like 15,000 square feet of canvas. E. E. Farnsworth has been elected captain of the West Point football team, and C. C. Soule, Jr., captain of the Annapolis eleven. Cincinnati has eleven pitchers signed for 1903—Hahn, Wiggs, Phillips, Poole Harper, Thielman, Vickers, Allemang, Ewing, Hooker and Sutthoff. The Westchester Racing Association has acquired 640 acres of ground at Queens, Long Island, and will construct an extensive race course. The West Point football team defeated Annapolis at Philadelphia by a score of 22 to S. This game is regarded as winding up the football season. New automobile track records have been made by B. Oldfield iu a specially built machine at Detroit, Mich. His time for one mile was lm. 1 l-55., and for five miles sm. 20s. New York Yacht Club's racing season will begin May 21, when the cup yachts will meet off Glen Cove. Tbe club's fixtures are very important and extend to September 17. There are now said to be more than GOO automobiles in California, twothirds of which are operated in San Francisco. Both steam aild gasoline vehicles are made in San Francisco, but no electrics. • The San Francisco Automobile Club has a membership of 200 $An Independent Re-$ * publican Paper, t a The Brightest and Best J J County Paper. f $1.00 Per Year in Advance, f t * a Advertising Bates on Application. \