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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
RAVAGED BY FLAMES
A LARGE PART OF GRAND HAVEN,
MICH, DESTROYED.

Flames Break Out During - Brisk Gale
Fire Department Forty-oNO Buildings
Burned at Loss of 100000.
Fire started in the center of the business
portion of Grand Haven, Mich, and be-
fore it could be extinguished had swept
through half the city.
A fierce wind was blowing from the lake
and the flames got beyond the control of
the firemen shortly after the fire started.
Among the buildings burned are the fol-
lowing: The Cutler house and the resi-
dence of Dwight Cutler and the residences
of Mrs. Slayton, T. A. Paris, G. d. San
ford, Capt. McCullom and A. S. Kedzie.
The First Reformed, Unitarian and Metho-
dist churches were burned, together with
about thirty residences. No lives were,
lost. The sweep of the fire included both
sides of Main street from Slayton's gro
Gerry, where the fire originated, to the Axe
ley institute. Everything in the path Of
Is about $500, 900, Al buildings in all be-
ing destroyed.
Grand Haven is the county seat of OF
tawa county and is situated on Lake Mich
igan, at the mouth of Grand river. It
has a population of some 5000 people.
Two railroads enter the place-the Detroit,
&sTaG1 Haven & Milwaukee and the Chi
cag0 & West Michigan-occupying separ-
ste depots. The Goodrich line of steamers
also touch there. At one time Grand Ha-
ven had large lumber interests, but of late
years this trade has heen reduced. The
principal business now is the manufacture
of agricultural implements and wooden
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
A CLOSER MONEY MARKET.
Tt Checked Business for the Last Week to
Some Extent

1t Checked Business for the Last Week to
Some Extent
r. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review of trade
says:
A closer money market has checked opera
tons to some extent. October disbursements
and moderate purchases of bonds have made
the money maTketeasier for the present. but the
rate on call, after rising from Sc to per cent.
and even to 80 per cent fer g. short time, is yet
about per cent. with no improvement in the
commercial loan market. The reports of bust
II ss from all parts of the country show in
creased activity on the whole, though in some
branches trade is not up to the September
level Chicago finds business larger than
year ago, with heavy country orders
showing q large demand aud easy financial con-
ditiOn throughout the West The years receipts
of cereals fall off little, but of provisions are
nearly doubled Cleveland finds oil branches
improving, and factories full OF orders. Pitts
burgh notes higher prices for iron and steel,
glass business active, with works all operating,
aud the coal trade dull, waiting water for the
river movement Throughout the West excellent
crops al 3 the basis of large buying by the farm
ing districts and confident hopes aS to the trade
for the rest OF the year. The wool market shows
@ better tone, because concessions in price have
induced larger transactions. Raw sugar is
lower, the demand for consumption being
slack and meanT hile heavy sales of sugar trust
stock have depressed the price. Wheat has
weakened, and the price is 1s4 cents lower
Corn is l cent and oats q cent lower, and pork
Btea ly. The general level of prices is neverthe
less shade higher than Oct. 1, and has ad-
vanced p per cent. since Sept. Ia result
rather due to partial failure of some crops than
to increase of Inomentary supply. The volume
of money in circuationis SIS 800, 900 larger than
Sept. l, and the increase in three months has
been $29, 1000, but the aggregate is scarcely
larger now than it was last December.
The business failures in the United States
for the quarter ending with September were
9, 1916 showing decrease of s., or 81 per cent.
from last year, but for nine months the number
has been 1879, showing an increase of 329, or
per cent. The liabilities for the past quarter
have been SWellod bV few large failures 20 $780,
227, 045, or 40 per cent. more than for the same
quarter last year, but for nine months the
aggregate has been sos, 055, 800, increase of
1872 per cent For last wee k the failures report
ed number 172 for the United States ard thirty
four for Canada against 1872 the previous week,
and 22l for the corresponding week last year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
VESSELS WRECKED.

Many Ships of Various Nations Destroyed
in the Recent Mexican Storm.
A City of Mexico dispatch says: The wires
to Carmen are down and information of the
damage done in that region by the recent
storm can not be obtained by telegraph.
Mail advices note the following list of
wrecks of briggs of divers nationalities
Flora Woodhouse, American; Alisha, Eliza,
and Morning Star, English; Maria Aghos-
tint. French; Nuevo Curruataca, Spanish;
louisa, italian; Haabet, Norwegian; Bro
drene and Barbara, Danish, S. E. E.
Nymphe, German, and Enrique, Mexican.
Two Mexican steamers, the Laguna and
the Asturias, besides large number of
Mexican coasters have also been lost,
bringing the number of wrecks to thirty
fOnr
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
USED HEROIC MEASURES
RAJAH BROOKE'S SUPPRESSION OF
A CHINESE SOCIETY.

By Flogging, Branding, Exiling and Exc
cutting the Members of a Secret Law1es
Chinese Order, He Hopes to Put Stop
to Its Murderous Deeds
A Canadian Pacific steamer which has
just reached Vancouver brings mail in
telligence from Sarawak, British COLONY
IN Borneo, that summary vengeance hac
been melted out to Chinese secret SO
ciety which recently decreed death to all
non members.
The societv was the Ghae Sin, no.
torious in China for lawless deeds. Ii
gained great strength within the last few
years in Sarawak, and all arrangements
had been made to take vengeance on
Chinese who refused to recognize it's au-
thority. Luckily, Rajah Brooke, a
son of the famous Rajah who es-
tablished British supremacy in the
Straits, learned of the conspiracy,
and, in a sudden attack upon the So
ciety's quarters, secured documents
that led to the arrest of about fifty lead
ing members. Six were condemned to
death and eleven to be fogged, and, after
imprisonment, permanently exiled. Aug.
IL the six condemned to death were taken
out in a small steamer, blindfolded,
bound, and shot, their bodies being sunk
in the river. About score of prisoners
will b o1ilsd after the fogging and
branding if they will reveal further the
secrets of the order This is the same
society which almost comprised the MUIR
der of the first Rajah, Brooke, and all
foreigners in Sarawak a generation ago.
Several hundred we're then hanged or
shot and the society was wiped out. A
branch of this society exists in San Fran
cisco and it's members are among the most
desperate of hiphbinders
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
LOTS OF WHEAT.
Minnesota and Dakota Show an Increase
of 100000 Bushels.

Minnesota and Dakota Show an Increase
of 100000 Bushels.
The following estimate of the wheat sup
ply in Minnesota and Dakota has been pre-
pared by Col. Rogers. of the Minneapolis
Market Record:
There were in country elevators along the lines
of the railroads in Minnesota and Dakota Oct.
4,066,0 900 bushels of wheat in the houses of ele-
vator companies having ten more houses
each. There are several smaller companies
whose houses contain in the aggregate 200, 600
bushels. There are in addition several hun
dred small warehouses and independent ele-
vators carrying small quantities each, but in the
aggregate put by careful estimate at 100000
bushels, making in store in country houses
4,566,O00 bushels Oct. this year, against 2, 759,
900 bushels the date last year. There were
in transit between shippers houses and Mime
apolis and Duluth what was estimated as three
days shipments, and days business on
track in the yards, making 2,842 cars of wheat,
approximately 100000 bushels altogether in
transit, which, added to the stocks in country
elevators Oct. l. gives total wheat supply of
6,066000 bushels in country elevators and in
railroad transit Oct. l. against total in transit
and in country elevators October last year Of
g. 9l2 $40 bu shells
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10

majority. NJ. Debelival, Revisionist. who
was dismissed from the Council of State
for publishing a book entitled "Hommes en-
une Republique. is elected by a large ma
jority Returns from 10 districts in which
reballots were taken show the election of
1872 Republicans and 48 anti Republicans
In NeuilIy, NJ. Laur, Boulangist, received
10,724. and Manoine. Republican. 1852
In Toulouse, Minister Constans received
1894, and nj. Susini 6.883 In Bordeaux.
ex-Minister Raynal received 11.570. and M.
Princelan, Conservative, II .243. Boulogne
returns Conservative and Republican.
It is reported that a split has occurred be-
tween Boulanger and Count Dillon because
of the formers assertion that the bargain
with the Conservatives had caused loss
of seats to the Rouangists.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
OUR RAILWAYS.
Annual Report of Commissioner of Rail-
ways Taylor.

Annual Report of Commi ssiOner of Rail-
ways Taylor.
Secretary Noble has received the annual
report of Commissioner of Railroads Tay-
lor for the fiscal year ending June 80 last.
AS Taylor was not appointed to the po-
sition until July II the work of the bureau
does not come under him, and he confines
himself to recommendations.
Several railroads which received land
grants from the State refused to report to
the railroad commissioner who differs
from them and claims that as the States
received land from the United States and
then gave grants to the railroads 1t is the
same as if they were granted directly He
has, therefore, reported these railroads to
the Secretary of the Interior for judicial
action.
The commissioner next devotes himself
to the subject of the rate wars between
railroads He says that in most cases they
are devoid of palliation or excuse and
that they destroy or imperil the value of
railroad securities and impose unjust bur-
dens upon the commerce of the country.
The commissioner dIsagrees with the claim
of the railroad managers that the recent
losses sustained were due to restrictive laws
enacted by Congress and various States.
He believes that in many sections of the
West, notably in Iowa and Kansas, roads
have more mileage than necessary and,
therefore, run at a loss.
The commissioner also expresses his be-
lief that the railroad managers do wrong
in fighting to secure trade from competing
points in a State for developing local
traffic.
The commissioner indorses the recon-
mendations of his predecessor in favor Of
enacJing a law providing for the funding
of debts of the bonded roads. He believes
also in extending the time and reducing
the rate of interest He opposes having
regular fixed payments and thinks that
the law must not be too strict, for in
that event he sees that the roads could
not be able to meet them and the govern
ment might be compelled TO pay off prior
liens and take possession of the roads.
Besides the extension of time and the
reduction of interest the commissioner de-
cides that the roads be required to pay a
certain per cent of their gross earnings to
the liquidation of their indebtedness to the
government. Thus in the years of depres-
sion roads could not pay much on the
indebtedness, while in prosperous years
they could do better.
In conclusion he gives a complete state
ment of the Indebtedness of the Pacific
rail1 Dad, ETC., and shows that it will be
impossible to pay all off at maturity.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
HONORED BY HARRISON.
Edward o. Leech Appointed Director of
the Mint.

Edward o. Leech Appointed Director OF
the Mint.
The following appointments have been
made:
Edward O.. Leach, director of the mint; M.
Hummel, gauger, and William H. H. Garry,
storekeeper for the First Ohio District and
Henry Siebers, gauger for the First Wisconsin
District. Edward 0. Leech, who has been ap-
pointed director of the mint, was born in Wash
ington in 1850, graduated from Columbia Col
lege in 1869, taking the second honor in his
class He also graduated in law from
the National University of the District
and was admitted to the bar in 1856. Upon the
death of his father ne appointed in the
Treasury Department. He entered at the low
est grade of clerkslip in 1859, and was trans
ferred to the mint bureau in 1873, where he has
served continuously, passing through all the
grades of clerkship up to his late position, Com
puter of Bullion, the salary of which in
creased by Congress on account of his efficiency.
Besides possessing q thorough knowledge of the
business of the mints, Mr.. Leech has had
pecial charge of the preparation of the money
statistics which have emanated from that bu-
reau, and is considered the best posted man in
the United States on the coinage systems of
this and foreign countries. His appointment
meets with general favor in the Treasury De-
partment. being regarded in the true line of
civil service reform, promotion for merit" and
in general one of the best appointments made
by the present administration,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
CHARGES AGAINST A CONSUL.
The Representative of This Country in
Morocco in Trouble

The Representative of This Country IN
Morocco in Trouble.
Charges of a serious character have
been made to the State depart
ment, during the last year, concern
ing the official and personal conduct OF
Reed Lewis, of Pennsylvania, United
States Consul-General in Morocco. The
charges affect the manner in which he has
conducted the accounts of the Office and
also his bearing as representative Of the
United States in outside dealings. The
most recent allegation against Consul-Gen
eral Lewis is made By a newspaper pub
lished at Tangier, which goes so far as
to make direct charge of an attempt at
extortion of money from another represen-
tative of the United States Vice Consul
Cohen, who is stationed at MaZagan, Mo-
rocco. According to the newspaper, Lewis
called on Cohen, who is wealthy, and de-
manded 20, 600 francs as the price of his
retention in office. Cohen refused to COM
ply with this demand, and Lewis said that
the consular agency had brought Cohen
large profits, and he could afford to spare
30, 900 francs. Cohen, again refusing, was
deprived of his Office by Lewis, who offered
it. without success, to several persons. 1t
was finally accepted by Daniel Madden.
The paper also charges that Cohen was
placed under arrest, his papers seized and
the American flag over the consulate
hauled down. State Department officials
say that the case is in Assistant Secretary
Wharton's hands, and they refuse to dis
cuss it until he returns. Lewis is the son
of wealthy Philadelphia
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Growth of That Denomination in This
Country.
The pastoral letter Of Cardinal Gibbons
on the celebration of the Tooth anniversary
of the establishment of the Catholic HER
archy in the United States congratulates
the Catholics of the country upon the Won
derful growth of the church during the cen
fury. He estimates the Catholic population
of the country at 100000. and says there
are thirteen archbishops, seventy one bish-
ops, 5000 priests, 10.50U churches and cha
pels, twenty seven Summaries exclusively
devoted to the training of candidates for
the sacred ministry, $50 colleges and acad-
emies for the higher education O.. youth of
both sexes, 800 Parish schools. and $40
hospitals and orphan asylums.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.

Oregon Created Diocese and Bishop
Morris Placed in Charge.
In the General Episcopal Convention at
New York, vote was taken as to whether
Oregon should be admitted as q diocese.
and it was unanimously decided in the af-
frmative. The question as to whether the
consent of the convention should be given
to the election of Bishop Morris as Bishop
of Oregon was also decided in the af1irma-
tive. Rev. DR.. Hauckel presented report
recommending the admission of new do
ceen in Wiaec1,~i "~d it was adopted with
"~S~%
but one dissenting vote.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
THE CONTRACT-LABOR LAW.

RigidIy Enforced by the United States
District Court in Texas.
The treasury department has been
advised that the United States Dis
trict Court in Texas has sustained
the law prohibiting the importa-
tion of contract labor. Proceedings were
instituted against the Rio Grande and
Eagle Pass Railway Company, and w. L.
Giddens contractor for bringing Next
cans across the boundary under contract to
work in the San Antonio coal mines.
Pending the trial strong pressure was used
by the defendants to get the Mexicans out
of the country, but the district attorney
prevented this, and at the trial the defend
ants were found guilty and fined 81 900
for each Mexican thus imported.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
REPUBLICANS CLAIM MONTANA.

Report that They Have Gained Two Mem
bers in the Legislature.
A Helena Mont, dispatch says: The
Herald has advices that the Republicans
have elected their whole Legislative ticket
in Madison County, one member for which
has heretofore been conceded to the Demo
Gratis, and also that the Republicans gain
one member in Fergus County. If other
Republican claims hold good this will make
the State Senate tie and the House Re-
publican by from one to four majority.
Chairman Seligman, of the Republican State
Committee. still claims the Legislature and
does not concede the election of Toole for
Governor. The official count in Lock
County will settle the matter, unless the
Republicans should institute a contest.
which now seems probable.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
GOVEKNME-.T APPOINTEES.
Late Changes in the Several Department
Officials.
The following appointments have been


The following appointments have been
announced:
Internal Revenue officials in the First I'LL
nois Chicago District-Henry NJ Deal and j.
O'Donnell, as Storekeepers M. B. Keene and
John d. Taylor, as Gaugers. To be Registers Of
Land Offices-George A. Boyce, of Michigan at
Marquette, Mich. Il. M. Lange, of Minnesota,
at Marshall, Mimi; Charles B. Kingsley, of
Idaho Territory, at Boise City, Idaho Lee Mon
roe, of Kansas, at Wakeeney, Kan. James r.
Hudson of Arkansas, at Camden, Ark; Chas.
M. Green. of Arkansas, at Harrison, Ark. ;
Horace r. Mann, of Wyoming Territory, at
Buffalo, Wy. T.. Alexander Il. Morrison, of
New Mexico, at Santa Fe, N. NJ. To be Receiv-
ers of Public Moneys-Charles w. Banks, of
Kansas, at Salina, Kan. : w. f. Griffin, of Ne
yada at Eureka, New. Alfred A. Tufts, Of Ar
kansas. at Harrison, Ark. Joseph Perrault, of
Idaho at Boise City, Idaho. Henry h. Tarbley,
of Salem, Ore, to be a Commissioner of Land
for the District of Alaska, to. reside at Ouna-
laska. Elisha e. Apologize, of Oregon, to be
Agent for the Indians of the Klamath Agency,
Oregon.
Collector of Internal Revenue-Henry w.
Byington for the Fourth District of California,
Samuel NJ. Friday for the Ninth District of
Pennsylvania, and James Freeman for Colorado !;
Stephen Motfitt, Collector of Customs at Cham
plain, N. Y. Lewis A. Dodge, Assistant APP
praiser at Boston; Roswell Farnhan, of Brad
lord, VT, an Examiner of National Banks, vice
John II. Senter resigned.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
Political Gatherings,

The following nominations have been
made by the respective conventions named:
New York Demonstration Secretary of State,
Frank Rice of Ontario Comptroller, Edward
Wemple; Treasurer, Elliott Danforth; Attor-
ney General, Charles F. Tabor; Engineer John
Bogart Judge Court of Appeals, Dennis O'Brien.
Maryland Republicans-For State Comp
troler, Louis E. McComas.
Massachusetts Observation-Disclosures VIM
E. Russell, of Cambridge; Lieutenant Gov
ernor, John w. Corcoran of Clinton; Secretary
of State, William NJ. Osgood of Boston; Treas
urer, Gen. E. B. Mann Of Holyoke; Auditor, d.
T. Trefry of Marblehead; Attorney General,
Elisha B. Maynard of Springfield.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
Sparks from the Wires.

MINERS in Northern Alaska are said to
be in q starving condition. Scurvy is
prevailing among them.
TWENTY men have been arrested at
Guthrie, Oklahoma, for selling struggled
whisky to Indians.
AFTER slashing himself with razor
Joseph Willis jumped from third-story
window and was killed, at Fort Scott, Kan.
The eighteenth annual session of the
National Board of Steam Navigation was
held at Pitts burgh, with sixty-four dele
gates present, from all parts of the
country.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
HUNDREDS PERISH.
Reports From Japan Tell of Floods and
Famine.

Famine.
Advices received from Japan state,
according to the latest reports published
in the Osoka Asahi Shlmbun. that 23S
houses have beeu destroyed and 217 per-
sons killed or drowned by the floods at
Totsukawa. Several thousand people are
destitute of food.
A telegram from the chief police in
spector of the Wakayama prefecture,
dated Aug. 80, announced that l, 079 per-
sons were drowned by the late floods, 1872
crushed to death, 143 injured severely,
3, 243 houses swept away and demolished,
20, 1856 buildings submerged, and many
bridges and embankments damaged.
The Tokyo Koron, under date of Sept.
II, states that on the afternoon of Sept.
II, at the dock yard at Toxic. one of the
boilers of the steamer Yeija Maru ex-
ploded, killing eight engineers and fire.
man and blowing up the vessel.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
NO PROHIBITION IN CONNECTICUT.

The Constitutional Amendment Defeated
by an Emphatic Majority.
Returns from Connecticut, which voted
on the question of prohibition. indicate that
the vote on the prohibitory amendment is
about to 1 against it. the majority being
about 10000 in total vote of 10000. The
new secret ballot law received it's first
trial. There was no excitement at
the polls, and in a general way the
plan worked exceedingly we'll. One
hundred and three townships and the
cities of Waterbury and New Haven give
majority of $4,000 against the prohibitory
constitutional amendment. Norwich cast
679 for the amendment and 1864 against.
while license received 1909 votes to 694
against. New Haven polled 6.681 votes.
5,068 being against prohibition, which car
ried but one of the fifteen wards.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
The Rights of the Indian.

Pro-. C. C. Painter addressed the Indian
conference at Lake Mohonk. n. Y. on The
Indian and His Property" and criticised the
severalty law. Ex-Justce Strong of the
United States Supreme Court said he had
no doubt that VIII once land was allotted
in severalty passes from the control of
the General Government 20 that of the State
in which the reservation is located. and the
owner becomes a citizen of that State
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
THE GERMAN NAVY.
Two New Gunboats and Several Cruisers to
Be Built.

Be Built.
The German Government has placed to
the credit of the Navy Department the sum
of $4,000, 900 marks to be expended on new
men, of-war. OF this amount 1900, 900
marks is on account of vessels now in
course of construction, being the second
appropriation for that purpose. The re-
manning 1S.000.000 forms the first appropria-
ton toward the building of two iron clads.
three cruiser corvettes. one cruiser. and
three dispatch boats. 1t was. rumored on
the bourse lately that the Government
would ask a credit OF 30O.OOOOOO marks for
bronze guns for the smokeless powder.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-10
ROTTERDAM STRIKE ENDED.

Both Sides Make Concessions and Work
is Resumed.
The strike OF tle dockmen at Rotterdam
has ended. Both sides were in conference
and the modified terms agreed to were
ratified by a meeting OF 1.500 strikers. I'm
der the new arrangement the men get 5
pence an hour on week days, IL pence an
hour on Sundays, and a IN nimum of four
hours work day. AL of the strikers have
resumed work