Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-03-29

IN GENERAL

disposed of his interest in the sugar trust
and to be planning a European tour
Marie Burroughs, actress, has filed a
suit for divorce from Louis +. Massen.
charging him with neglect and infdelity.
Senator Lee Mantle of Montana. is re.
covering from the grip at Washington.
Senator Carter, of the same State, is id
at Helena.
Gen. Adam Badeau. who was on the
staff of Gen. Grant as military secretary
and who afterward served as secretary of
the American legation in London, is dead,
aged 64 years.
George Marshall Graham. of Toronto.
Ont, after a hard fight with fate for
thirty years. has just been identified as
heir 10 the Scottish Earldoms of Strath
ern, Mcntcith and Airth. Two senior
branches having become extinct the title
and estates pass TO the third branch, of
which the Toronto man is the repreSen-
tatiye. The new Earl is entitled TO seat
in the British House of Lords, and will
claim il soon as some necessary pre-
llminary arrangements are made. Ora
ham has for some time been working as
bookkecper in a florists shop.
Il. q. Dun & Co.'S weekly review of
trade SAYS: indications of improve
ment in business grow more distinct. The
most obtrusive of them. the speculative
advance on cotton and in stocks. is the
least reliable; nor can either of these be
said TO reflect actual improvement in
business conditions. Railroad earnings
are scarcely better and the speculation is
largely based on expectation of more eff
fectlve monopoly in coal and some other
products. London was buying largely,
but likely to sell or any rise. Cotton does
not rise because there is more demand
for goods, but that there is more demand
for goods because cotton is dearer More
valuable indications are that the volume
of domestic trade gains little money is
i'll much better legitimate demand, and
the force of hands at work gradually in
crcases in some industries and in others
is restricted only by strikes, which are
presumably temporarily
The Cincinnati Price Current summar-
ICES the crop situation for the past week
as follows: Wheat regions ives; of the
Mississippi River are reporting crops
more discouraginSly, but other sections
about the same rs previously. The
weather is preventing seasonable growth.
The average condition has hardly been
maintained. Low supplies are almost
uniformly reported. A fair supply of
corn is reported in many sections. Oats
seeding has been delayed, but large
acreage is contemplated. The weeks
packing of hogs was 100000, against
23J, 900 for the corresponding week last
year" Figures obtained from the bulle
tin of the Statistician of the Agricul-
tural Department show a steady increase
il the wheat supply of the world for the
past four years. The annual yield has
been as follows: For 1891. 2.31O,OOO,-
coo bushels; 1892. 2.414 100000; 1893,
2.421 100000; 1894. 2,590O0O,O bush
els. Notwithstanding the increase be-
tween the years 1893 and 1894, the Uni
ted States finds itself with Il shorter sup
ply on hand March l, 1895. than ever
before.
During the early stages of the row
between Spain and the United States last
January Scott Wike. acting Secretary
Of the Treasury. made "a ruling under
which customs officers were required TO
collect the onc-tcnth of l per cent. diff
I, rental duty on sugars imported from
Cuba, holding that that country came
under the classification of n bounty-pay-
ing country. Later. though not because
of an amicahe and satisfactory adjust
ment of the Cuban tariff schedule. it is
said. but 10y reason of fresh evidence
bearing on the subject. Secretary Carlisle
issued Il supplemental order multiplying
the Wike ruling. he having learned that
Cuban products might be exempted from
the one-tcnth cent added duty. The later
order is worth 10 Cuban sugar raisers
about S2.2J0.00O year on the 2.23O,OO0,-
600 pounds OF sugar annually shipped in
To the United States. Now. 10y Il singu-
lar oversight, the Wike order appears in
n recent Treasury Department publica-
ton and the Carlisle multiplying order
fails TO appear. whercat there is great
alarm among the sugar importers who
do not know what to make of it.