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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07
DUN'S WEEKLY REPORT
ON THE CONDITION AND PROS
Poets OF TRADE.

X. G. Dun Sc Co.'s weekly revie W
of trade says:
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
last week number for the United
States 200, Canada 81; total psi.
Business indications are not quite so
clear. Perhaps it is j, partly be-
cause the unfavorab'e weather
temporarily retards trade at many
points. and perhaps because the I'M
certainties regardiksF the results of the
silver agitation AND Behring sea con-
troversy somewhat affect the financial
and commercial ! calculations; but
there is on tho whole less evidence Of
improvement in tae distribution, and
yet the prospect in the great industries
seems to be brighter.
The movement of grain and cotton
falls of, and sharp decline in prices
is felt in many quarters; but the tone
i'll iron, wooden, cotton and shoe man.
ufactures is rather improved.
The money markets are abundantly
supplied, though foreign sales of
stocks again caused rise in sterling
exchange, so that stocks are lower,
while railroad earnings are decidedly
favorable. With the unusually con-
flicting signs, the confidence which
prevails in business circles is still una
bated.
Wheat has dropped to 50 1-s cents,
a decline of nearly 3 cents for the
week. Corn is nearly cents strong
err; oats are IA of cent lower. Oil
has advanced 2 3-4 cents and coffee 1-e
of cent. Cotton is down to 6 3-4
cents for lniddling uplands, although
the receipts this week have been
much less and exports greater than q
year ago. Stocks at the ports have
diminished, but are still 444, 900 bales
greater than at the same date last year.
Silver is lower at 40.44 pence pei
ounce, the lowest ever quoted, and at
New York only 80 IA is paid for
bullion, though none has supposed
that the silver bill could pass over a
veto. Prices of commodities also
have declined Sd of per cent during
the week and are now Is per cent
lower than year ago at this time.
The iron trade shows tone in spite
Of the very low prices. Larger sales
of pig are reported since the recent
decline, and there is less pressure to
sell, Bessemer iron being steady at
$14.lO at Pittsburg. Structural iron
is fairly active with better prospects.
Bar iron is more active and there is
an improved demand for plates.
Exports of domestic products have
fallen off and for three weeks of
March are but $626,000 larger at
New York than year ago, while i'm
ports have been "a, 900, 900 larger. in
dicating for the month considerable
excess of imports. But for the I'M
certainty how far foreign relations
will affect money and business here,
general confidence in the future of
trade would seem to be justified.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

The statistics show that married
men live much longer than bachelors.
They are supposed to keep better
hours and are better fed. Besides,
an old bachelor has not much to live
for, anyway. A man moving along
into that period where "the grass.
hopper is burthen," without wife
or child present or in memory, calls
for sympathy. There is no period il
life when the good wife is more 9
necessity for mans happiness thar
during the last quarter of the race.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

In the trying climate of Manhattan
Island Cleopatra's Needle continues
to disintegrate. Experts estimate
that it has lost 700 pounds in weight
since it was brought over, and it will
be necessary to spend at once $4,000
in giving it coat of paraffine in order
to save the hieroglyphics from peeling
of completely. There is no money
on hand for the purpose, and no feas.
ible plan for raising it has been sug.
gested. Why not put high fence
around it and as the fragments drop
off sell them to relic hunters?
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

At San Antonio, Texas, a most re-
markable case came UP before County
Judge McAliister. 1t was the exami.
nation into the sanity of young
woman named Mary Hayward. The
woman had been living in the woods
near St. Heding, that county, like
wild animal for the past six years
and during all that time has never
slept under roof. Nothing is known
OF her early history. She was pro.
nounced OF unsound mind by the iurv
and will be committed to the insaut
asylum.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07
England Ie Plenaed.

The news of the ratification of the
arbitration treaty by the American
senate gives great satisfaction in Lon
don. Sweden and Italy are both under
obligations to Great Britain. While
the general belief is the arbitrators
will be entirely fair, their interests
naturally incline them to favor the
British side of the controversy.
Sweden may want the seals for her.
self, and Italy wants England's friend
ship in the Mediterranean. The whole
outcome is considered quite a dipIo-
matte success for Salisbury.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

and the police to pursue fhe investiga-
tion into the case.
I 1t is reported on the East Prussiap
frontier that Konigsburg has been
closed against Russian Jews. The
report probably had its origin in the
action of the Konigsburg committee
in issuing circular requesting Rus
sian Rabbis to stop the emigration of
Jews, as America refuses to receive
them and Argentine is nearly ready to
take them.
Some New England papers are
sharply criticising President Elliott,
of Harvard, for his recent speech at
Salt Lake City, wherein he praised the
Mormons and the small colony of
them at Harvard. Friends of the
president claim that he only praised
the Mormons for what they had done
in material way, without indorsing
their moral doctrines.
A dispatch from San Diego, Cal,
says that the Mexican International
company, which claims 1S,0o0,0o0
acres just across the California border,
| is really composed of British capital
lists who are using the company as a
cloak to secure the harbor San Quctin,
Lower California, for a coaling sta
ton for England, between the Mica
ragua canal and her possessions on
the North Pacific coast.
| AT ADRIAN, Mich, Friday morning,
while Mrs. Henry Lards, wife of the
turnkey at the county Jail, was clean
lug carpet in one of her rooms with
gasoline, stove burning that fluid in
an adjoining room exploded. In a
moment the room in which the woman
was at work was filled with flames.
Her two children were burned, one
dying soon after, and the other is not
likely to recover. Mrs. Lards was
also fatally burned.
AT Atlanta, Ca, singular scene
took place during the performance of
a theatrical troupe at the opera house
Thursday night. The opera house
had been used for court room during
the day and the jury entered the opera
house during the performance to be
instructed on some points which they
could not agree upon. Justice Martin
took his seat on the stage in the midst
OF the burnt cork artists and recharged
the jury, after which they filed into
the jury room.
The Russian decree prohibiting the
export of wheat meal from the ports
on the Azof and Black seas has been
repealed, but it is provided that the
came quantity of wheat must be i'm
ported as wheat meal is exported. A
proposal to cancel the probi-
bition of the export of oats from
Archangel has been rejected, although
the governor of that province declared
that the stock of oats exceeds the
quantity required for homo consump.
ton.
The condition of the Jews within
the Russian pale becomes worse daily.
The government does not allow them.
under any circumstances, to leave the
bounds of the pale. They are unable
to obtain work, and there is much suf-
fering. An enormous death roll is
only averted by the continuous charity
OF the rich English Jews. The minis
ter of the interior has directed the
governor of the pale to report as to the
prospects of Jewish emigration in the
spring.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

and Japan with $4,000 New York
statesmen propose that the great
Empire State, to which has been &C
corded the largest space and the most
conspicuous position on the ground,
shall have the enormous fund Of $780,
600 to make an exhibit. The chances
are that New York will be ashamed
of it after it is done.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

New JERSEY has million and a
half jewellers, and is one Of the
wealthiest Of American States. 1t Is
all the more surprising then that the
cause of popular education languishes
in this part of the Republic Ac-
cording to the census given out the
other day there are 400, 279 children
of school age, Of whom 1877, S14, or
more than third of the total, are
not enrolled in any educational insti-
tuition. In comparing the illiteracy
OF the country, the South is singled
out as derelict in educating its young,
but here is proud Northern State
with more wealth than any composing
the Southern group of common
wealths, that is allowing vast num-
Der Of its children to grow up without
schooling of any kind. In this age
Of enlightment it is nothing less than
crime for any State to allow consid-
cradle part of her population to grow
up in ignorance when education can
be so easily obtained. The injury
inflicted through the ignoramus policy
falls hardest upon the most deserving
the honest wage-earners. Their
children, Of all others should not be
deprived Of the benefits Of an educa-
tion. T6 deny that handicaps them
in the race for preferment in all the
avenues open to the Industrious and
ambitious, and detracts materially
from the happiness OF life in num-
Der Of ways. New Jersey owes it to
herself, those who people her areas
and to the nation that she pass such
laws as will prevent every third per-
son within her borders from becoming
Ounce as well as reproach to Amer
lean civilization.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

MORE than 500 Baltimore girls
have abandoned corsets as injurious
to both health and beauty. The Bal
more girls may yet convince their
sisters everywhere that what is beau
tiful in art is beautiful in life. The
Venus de Medici statue has not a
taper waist and it is the highest and
best type of female beauty that art
has given the world
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07
Five Thousand.

According to advices just received
from Shanghai bloody engagement
was recently fought between the I'M
perIal troops and rebels in Northern
Onlna' which resulted in the slaughter
OF several thousand rebels.
Inc imperial army lost only five
killed and forty wounded. Oyrr five
thousand were put to death with the
sword and 800 burned alive.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD is en-
gagged in praiseworthy attempt to
attach the signatures Of 1000, 600
women to a petition for peace with
Chilli. Bets are freely offered that
she cannot get Colonel Phoebe Couzins
tos:gn.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

DR.. KELLEY says asafGtida in
doses Of sixteen grains, administered
four times day, is specific for grip.
A disease that would not get up and
get away from a man with sixty-four
grains of asafgtida exuding from the
pores of his skin could easily be
marked tough. AS a punishment
to family the treatment would be a
bowling success.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

PHILADELPHIA women have met
and resolved that the nude shall be
rigidly excluded from the approach
ing exhibition at the Academy of
Fine Arts unless it be in the form of
portraits of ladies of the highest
fashion attired for the opera.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

UNNECESSARY ado is made over the
discovery that Harvard students are
branded on the arms as a part Of the
initiatory ceremonies. of a secret So
clety. In later years it gives much
satisfaction to the alumni to point to
these honorable scars, thus demon
strating that they have something
else to show for their college course
than merely a taste for liquor.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

THERE are two remarkable things
about the death of the late Khedive
OF Egypt One is that he died in his
bed and is not suspected Of having
been murdered or committed suicide.
The other is that his death is deeply
mourned by the poor peasantry of
Egypt.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

The English miners probably feel
as much sympathy for Queen Victoria
In the loss Of her grandson as she
feels for the loss of any of their grand
sons, but they do not know how to
manifest it automatically.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

HowELLs thinks all letters of the
future will be typewriter. There
will be something painfully realistic
in typewriter love letter, and it's
only redeeming feature will be that
it will look as if it meant business.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

WHAT'S in name, anyway? The
Burial Expense Association, char
tered at Springfield, H., recently, is
declared by its incorporators to be for
amusement and social improve
ment."
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

TWENTY-FIVE years ago a young
man named Tom Lowry walked home
from st. Paul to Minneapolis because
ne had no money with which to pay
his fare. Now he controls all the
street-cars in both towns, and when
his cables get tired other people walk,
whether they pay their fares OF not.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

"SIR, y said the great Senator sternly,
understand that my acts are gov
erned by fixed principles Then the
lobbyist dxed 'em and went away
smiling.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

SOME man is said to have discovered
method of deodorizing whisky. II
this genius who has struck such a
body blow at the Glove industry can
now devise method of eliminating
the drunk" from the juice of the
corn and the fermentation of the rye
he can make bi-chloride of gold a
drug in the market.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

JOHN L. SULLIVAN has signed the
pledge again. Ills autographs at the
foot of temperance pledges are only
exceeded in number by his sprees.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

Mr.. HowELLs can afford to laugh
at his critics. In fact, a man with a
salary of $4,000 year can afford a
great many things that critics can't.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

PHYSICIANS must excuse plain,
everyday people for their lack of en-
thusiasm over the discovery of the
grip microbe. 1t will be time enough
to throw hats in the air when a rem
edy is discovered which-unlike anti
pyrine-willnot kill more people than
the disease.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

Tbs Wall street News complacently
refers to John Bull as ssthe best lamb
WaI street ever had"
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

DR.. KELLEY thinks that asafetida
will drive away la grippe. If asafe-
tida is not handy Limburger cheese
might serve.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

THE death of the late Mahdi left
upward of forty widows. There is
the chance for Senator Hill.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07

MEXICO will present her interests
n the Worlds Fair with $4,000
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-07-18

them. The threat of the superintendent
of mills had had its effect. A resolution
was passed expressing the sympathy Of
those present with the Homesteaders, but
there was no intimation that the sympa.
thy wouldggo furtheEthan perhaps a con-
trbution. Some of those present joined a
new lodge of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton. There is little hope from the direo-
tion of Duquesne.
Union men from Scranton and other
towns arrived in town yesterday and in
formed the Advisory Committee that Supt
Potter had agents in Scranton and through
out the Stete importuning men to work
in the Homestead plant. According to
the statements made by these men the
efforts of Mr.. Potter's agents have not
been successful
The few non-union men now in the
mills take their meals in the pressing
mill. Huge piles of boxes, barrels bags,
etc, containing provisions are stacked in
the pressing mill and in the Office build
ing above the railroad trestles One OF
the men said to a reporter, who succeeded
in getting inside that they had provisions
enough to feed several hundred men for a
month He said: ''We are being well fed
and having an easy time Of it,
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FRIcK coNTRADlcTED.
Carnegie Prices Said to be Even Lower
Than at Other Mills.

PrrTsBURG, July 1S.-In his testimony
before the Congressional Committee inves-
tigating the Homestead troubles, Mr.
Frick made the statement that 296 men
were employed in open-hearth department
No 2, and about 100 men were affected by
the reduction contemplated The locked
out men have replied as follows:
"There are 112 tonnage men affected by
the proposed reduction. They produce on
an average of "a hours 236 tons of steel in
gots. In Shoenberger's open-hearth de
partment, at the same number of furn-
aces as ia No. 2, 16S tonnage men are re-
quired to produce 1872 tons of steel ingots.
At one particular position in the two mills
the Homestead men would receive $l4. 10
per ton; in Shoenberger's he would receive
$18. In Homestead, if any accident occurs
to the heat of the steel, the men get no pay
for it, while in Shoenberger's they would
be paid by the day, be the steel good OF
bad y
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GARTER AND THE CHAlRMANsHlp.
Republicans Generally Regard the ssIeo-
tion as q Good One.

tion as n Good One.
WASHINGTON, July 1S.-The selection of
Mr.. Carter as Chairman Of the Republican
National Committee is considered among
leading Republicans here as being a first
class choice and places at the helm man
thoroughly fitted for the great work be-
fore him.
Mr., Carter is but 38 years of age, having
been born in June Furnace, Scioto county,
Ohio, in 1854.
In 1865 he moved TO Pana, ILL.,, where
he lived till 1875 when he moved to Bur-
Hngton, Iowa. He studied law in Louis
will, KY, and Illinois, beiug admitted to
the bar in Nebraska In 1882, he moved
to Helena, Montana, which is now his
home. He was elected Territorial delegate
to the Fifty-tirst Congress as its first rep
resentative. He was renominated in 1890,
but was defeated. In March 1891, he was
appointed by President Harrison as United
States Land Commissioner.
Mr.. Carter was one of the five men
originally suggested by President Harri-
son for the Office of Chairman when the
National Committee held its first session
in Washington three weeks ago. His name
was withdrawn from the consideration Of
the Committee for two reasons. He had
arrived in Washington from Montana
whittier he went Immediately after the
Minneapolis Convention, only few hours
before the Committee met, and he said he
could not consent to be elected Chairman
without an opportunity to consider the
matter fully.
1t was held by many members Of the
Committee that under the rules it was
necessary to choose Chairman from
among the body of the Committees mem
beiship, and Mr.. Carter was not a member,
and IN view of his personal objections to
taking the place he was finally permitted
to withdraw his name. Even then, how.
ever, it was expected of him that he should
serve as Secretary, but in electing him tc
the Craftsmanship the Committee achieved
one of its earliest plans.
When Mr. Carter was asked If the 40
ceptance of the Craftsmanship entailed the
resignation of his position in the Land
Office, he replied II shall resign at all
events"
The selection of Secretary will be made
within week, MIR. Carter says.
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200 Discharged a yvest superior.

WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, July 1S.-The
roller mills of the West Superior Iron &
Steel Company are shut down. The fires
are drawn tools put away, and arrange.
ments apparently made for continued in.
activity ii necessary. All men who were
supposed ina any way connected with the
Amalgamated Association or had taken
part in the recent disturbances and for tho
adoption of the scale, have been discharg.
ed by notice in writing. Manager Matti
viii say nothing Of his plans except that he
will not recognize the Association in any
event. A secret meeting was held last
night but nothing was done Whether
the men in other departments Of the works
viii 90 out is not known. About 200 men
are affected.
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ONE REGIMENT TO REMAIN.
Troops to BE Withdrawn Next Saturday IL
the Situation is No Worse.

HOMESTEAD, July 1S. - Preparations
have been made looking to the organiza-
tion of at least one provisional regiment
to remain in Homestead after the main
force has been withdrawn. If the situa-
ton does not assume a troublesome phase
by next Saturday the troops will be with.
drawn and the provisional force will as
sumo control.
A consultation between Gen. Snowden
and some of his principal officers in con-
nection with the organization Of the pro,
Wsional regiments of 900 men each is said
to have been held. Twelve hundred men
trained in military tactics would probably
prevent the recurrence of any more dis
order.
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ON AsEcREr MISSION.
Hugh O'DonneT, Chairman, Away on a
Mysterious Trip.

Hugh O'DonneIl, Chairman, Away on "A
Mysterious Trip.
HOMESTEAD Pa, July 1s.-Hugh O'Don-
nell, chairman Of the Advisory Commit
tee, and the real leader Of the locked out
iron men, left town suddenly and mysteri-
ously last evening. His departure was
known only to the Advisory Committee,
and the strictest secrecy was kept concern
ing it, fearing the effect it might have on
the action of wavering men.
He took an east bound train from Pitts
burg, The circumstances attending his
leaving were as follows: He was expected
to speak at the meeting of Carnegies 9, 900
employees at Duquesne, whom the Home
stead men hoped to induce to join in the
strike. Just before the meeting O'Don-
nell said he was in receipt Of information
concerning matter which imperatively
demanded a Journey to the East.
He was asked if the business had refer
ence to the strike and he replied evasively.
The committee granted the leave asked
and appointed Thomas @. Crawford to act
until his sreturn. Mr.. Crawford said to the
correspondent;
''Mr. O'Donnell has gone on a secret
mission. I, myself, do not know where;
1 did not want to burden myself with a
secret. He will return on Tuesday
night
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stevenson at Buzzard,a nax.

NEW YORK, July 1s.-Gen. Adlai Ste-
venson, the Democratic candidate for
Vice-President, left the city at midnight
for Buzzard's Bay. w. g. Ewing of Chi
oago accompanied him. Gen. Stevenson
goes to visit Mr.. Cleveland at the latters
speciabinvitation, and will reach Gray
Gables to-day He will return with Mr..
Cleveland in time to be present at the
meeting which takes place here on We'd
nesday night, when the candidates will
be publicly notified of their nomination.
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George william Curtis, Condition

LIVINGSTON, S. l., July 1S.-The con-
dition of George William Curtis is far
more serious than has been made public.
Nothing, however, can be learned at his
home concerning the result of the oon-
sultation of physicians. DR.. w. @. Wal
ser, the attending physician, said bulle-
tin would be issued, but post ply re-
fused to give any informatic con-
cerning the consultation. He said that
Mr.. Curtis condition was about the same,
but declined to say whether Mr.. Curtis
Rfiiiction was a cancer of the stomach or
not
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Congre.smen AnAIous for Adlourdmeni

WASHINGTON, July 18.-The listless
attention paid by members Saturday to
the debate in the House on the proposition
giving the Worlds Fair $4,000, 900 in
souvenir coins and closing tie gates ON
Sunday, is sufficient evidence that Con
gressmen are growing weary of the
session and are anxious to adjourn. Not
more than 100 members have been present
at any time for the past few days. The
advocates of tha measure under discussion
met with some opposition and it is suf-
ficiently evident now that there is a strong
sentiment against the amendment.