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Evening star., 1897-06-08
WILL RENOMINATE SMITH.

The Chicago COlOred Boy to Have An
other Chance for Annapolis.
Representative White of the Chicago dis
trict announces his purpose of renominat-
ing John w. Smith to the Naval Academy
next September. Smith is colcred gradu-
ate of the high school of Chicago. He was
appointed cadet at the Naval Academy
and failed to pass the examination. He has
gone back home, and says he will take up
his studies again and try to perfect himself
in the studies in which ne was foui.d de-
flcient.
Evening star., 1897-06-08
WANT REPORT ON THESSALY.
British, Russian and Italian Repre
RentntiXea Sent tn InHesffxafe

HeHtutiNes Sent 10 InVestfYOte.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June S.-The Brit
;sh Russian and Italian ambassadors are
sending representatives to Thsssaly with
instructions to report upon the situation
there
The third meeting between the Turkish
minister for foreign affairs, Tewfik Pasha
and the ambassadors of the powers, to ar
range permanent basis for peace be-
tween Turkey and Greece took place today.
Evening star., 1897-06-08
TETUAN CANNOT RESIGN.
Spanish Minister Is CONDUCTING Nexo
tfatfons With United States.

MADRID, June S.-The Epoca an offi ia,
organ. says 1t does not deny the possibility
Of changes in the cabinet. adding, however
that ii is impossible for the Duke of T.,-
uan. the minister for foreign affairs. 10
resign. in view of the position of the no
gotiations between Spain and tn. United
States
Evening star., 1897-06-08
Baltimore Markets.

BALTIMORE. June s.-F10ur dun unchanged
receipts. 1O.175 barrels; exports, 13.0lS harrels;
sales, 800 barrels Wheat frmer-No. red, srs,t
and June, 77Aa77h: July, 71a71A; August. dStSa
G9N-rereipts 5I.54s bushels; exports. 10000 bush-
els: stock 42 1852 bushels; sales. 5.00a busbels-
spot and jane. 2Sq29k: July. 29a2sA: August, 29I,
e2ak: September. 2g5ta30: steamer mixed. 27i-a
Evening star., 1897-06-08
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

The following are the opening the highest
and the lowest and the closing prices of the
New York stock market today, as reported
by Corson & Mccartney. members New
York stock exchange. Correspondents.
Messrs Moore & Schley. No. 50 Broadway.
Evening star., 1897-06-08
Colrmbin Road Closed.

The Commissioners of the District today
Issued an order closing Columbia road be-
tween 18th and 10Th streets during the
construction of the extension of the Met
ropolitan street railroad.
Evening star., 1897-06-08

bushels; STOCK s9@.O6S bushels: sales 81 ooo bush
eis-southcrn white corn, 3la3ih; do yellow Al
nas ,s,t 9nis! and steady No. white. 27ha2s No .
nlAeu- sta2s t-receipts Sa. $50 bushels: erports
none; stock, 1l2.s46 bushels Rye strady-<o 4
nearSy ss,&a3ss: No. western. 3oaaai4-rcccip,s
S,VV bushels; exports none: stock, 12s as6 hush
rs Hay hrm-choice timothy $500 Grain
freights quiet but firm. Sugar strong anrrd
Evening star., 1897-06-08
Policemen Appointed.

The Commissioners this afternoon an
pointed Washington Sanford and Wiswerl
Wheeler privates CT the first class Of the
metropolitan police.
Evening star., 1897-06-08
Gar Receive. John w. Foster.

ST. PETERSBURG. June s-The car
received John w. Foster, the American
seal commissioner, at the Peterhof yester-
day.
Evening star., 1897-06-08

If you want anything. try an ad in .rhs
STIR. If anybody has what you wish. you
will get an answer.
Evening star., 1897-06-08
Gra,u and Cotton Market.

Furnished by w. B. Hibbs l. Co. bankers
and brokers. 1927 F st.. members New York
stock exchange. correspondents Messrs.
Ladenburg. Thalmann g. Co.. New York.
Evening star., 1897-06-08

III you want anything, try an ad in The
star If anybody has what you wish. you
Will get an answer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20
DAWSON CITY MAIL.
united States Accepts the ProDosi..
ton Made by Canado

>. WASHINGTON, Aug 19.-The Cana
olan government and the United States
nave agreed in cooperating in aug
nlehtlng the postal facilities for the
hlonolke region, and the result will
Shortly be evidenced in a substantial
uoupIng OF the mail service from the
coast into the district The renIv of
Canada to Acting Postmaster CanaraI
Shalenberger's proposition to establish
an exchange of mails at Circle CITY and
lawson City reached here TODAY If
Is counter proposition made bv Cana
ia, the latter agreeing to perform the
service from Dawson City down to
Dyea, by means of a contract of her
own, With reimbursement to he ma5a
by this government for IFS sbarn ~
the service. This differs from this
country's proposition in that it was to
nave the United States let the contract
ana look to Canada for her share. The
counter proposition, however, is salts
FACTORY to the department here.
Canada's proposition for carrying
the mails one round trip month be-
tween Dawson City and Dyea was for
mally accepted this afternoon by Act
ing postmaster General ShaIlenberger
and the Canadian government notified
OF the action. In this communication
thls government is stated to be in read
mess to assume it's share of the respon-
sunny, ana canada is urged to put
the service into operation at the ear
Hest possible moment. Dyea. which 10
100 miles above Juneau, on the LYNN
canal, and Dawson City, will be de-
clared international postal exchange
offices. The British mails will be car
RED by the United States from Victo-
ria, b. c., to Dyea. The service will
oTlng about the creation of a postoffice
at Dawson City and also at Fort Cud-
dy, Forty Mile and probably at other
points, although those mentioned are
beyond Dawson. The service Will be
under the Immediate supervision of
Canadian mounted police. The carriers
will be equipped with dogs and sledges
and have Indian drivers. The first
contract at least, will be for one year.
Wherever the British mails can be ex-
pedited by carrying them over the
present Circle City route, between the
dates of the new service, this will be
done
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20
THE OLD .TINPLATE LIAR" AGAIN

Yet what do they say about ''our" tinplate
industry referring at least on this oc-
casion, to the United States? Why. tinplate
sales from England in this country have fall
len off one-half. Because? Because American
production has been developed and is steadily
increasing; American production, mark you
of something which can no more be produced
in America than arrogance and cocksure
bumptiousness can dwell in a free traders
heart. And since when? Ye gods and little
fshesi Since the Mckinley tariff act was
passed! Was ever anything more monstrous?
The idea of an industry actually being created
by protection. You might just as well talk
of lifting yourself over the fence by your
Zoo S rsp'.-New Ycrk Trib ne.
In one form or another the old tin
plate liar, who RECALLED the land in the
first year of the nineties with his yarn
about tin mines in the Black Hills and
California, and presented the country
with that grotesque scene of Mckinley,
at Piqua, dipping imported block sheets
into a mixture in which lead predomin
ated and, holding it aloft, proclaiming.
Behold American tin plated on Amer
lean STEEL" is again abroad in the
land. This time his lie is the one the
Tribune Celebrates and others of that
ilk more tersely put into the assertion
that Democrats said we could never
make tinplate in this country. No
Democrat or Democratic paper ever
said So They did scott at the alleged
tin mines, and the unfortunate En-
glishmen who were sailed by the San
Jacinto and Harvey Peak mines wish.
they had beeded the scoffing. They did
say that bananas could be grown in
Alaska if cost were disregarded, and
tinplates could be made here if the
duty were made high enough.
1t was made high enough, and we
are making tinplate in about half the
quantity used, but it was not so much
because of the % cents a pound of the
Mckinley act, for the tin plate mills in
creased in number and output when the
German act cut the rate to IL cents.
1t was because the Mckinley act cut
the rate on black sheets and put the
tax on plates, SO that sheets could be
imported and plated. The mills in
creased when the German act still fur
Their reduced the, rates on black sheets.
Today, with, theLrcheapest made steel in
the world, tin 1.plate could be made
here without Gent of tax on imports.
Less reckless, the Chicago Herald takes
up the hue9o and cry and accompanies
a cartoon, representing John Bull fig
uring up exports to the United States
in 1890 and 1897, jubilant in the one
case and respondent in the other, with
some discreditable misstatements as to
prices In 1890 it gives the price as
$3.50 a box of 100 pounds The mar
ket value of &c 14x2O plate was $3.50
in July when the senate began
considering the Mckinley bill; and
$535 when the act added IL cents
pound tc the tax. The import price
was 1910 in 1890. So in 1891. 81 in 1892.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20
TRUTH CONCEALED.
Miners Modest in Telling of Success
in Alaska.

CHICAGO. Aug. 19.-G. NJ Nettleton.
of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who
is visiting in Chicago, says the condi-
lions on the Pacific coast remind the
old settlers of the palmy days of Cali
fornia in 1S49. He has a number of
specimens of Klonkike gold. Il be-
out question $50 100000 of the yellow
metal will be taken from Alaska next
year, and it is confidently believed
that the steamer Portland, which Is
due to arrive in Portland Aug. 20, will
bring $2000,000 in nuggets and dust
One peculiar thing is that the miners
upon landing seldom are willing to
tell the truth in reference to their sue
cses. Nearly all of them expect to re-
turn, and for this reason do not give
the facts as to the amount of gold
they have in their possession. I asked
one miner how much gold he. had Sc
cured. He replied that he had $1,000
or $4,000, when the truth was he had
$112,00 worth with him.
only about forty square miles of
territory have been thoroughly pros
pected, whereas there are hundreds of
square miles of territory which it is
believed contain gold in large quaint
ties. The surroundings are the same
as those of the ground which has been
gone over and the conditions are the
same. Nevertheless. people should not
attempt to go to the gold fields this
season, but should postpone their trip
until next spring, when conditions will
be more favorable to travel and pros
pecting."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20

of injunction to things to which
it cannot properly apply. The
men are restrained from assembling,
marching or encamping in proximity
of the said Mines" 1t is true that, if
we follow this along, we find, tackled
onto the end, "for the purpose of in
timidation, menace, ETC." to prevent the
miners from working in the mines.
But assembling and then encamping
and marching are in themselves pacific
acts, and ''in proximity is a term not
capable of strict legal definition. These
pacific acts, not an actual trespass
upon property or infringement of rights,
are forbidden if they are intended as a
means of intimidation. So is Undue
ing" men to leave their work, followed
by language which leaves it somewhat
doubtful whether this inducing is not
crime, even though it be not coupled
with menace.
We repeat that this is most danger
Gus precedent, and an act not war
ranted by any facts of the situation
The only actual violence recorded in
this great strike was the killing of
one deputy by another. The men set
to carry out these stern and minute
judicial DEGREES. men placed with arms
in their hands to meet with force any
attempt of miners to break over the
injunction, were of such character that.
when one of them was shot down by
another, the newspapers chronicled the
fact that this murderous deputy, for
the time being the custodian of the
law and the official agent of the court,
was notorious divekeeper and des-
perado. The news reports this morn
ing, again recount the insolence and
defiance of rights not of the strikers
but of deputies set to enforce these or
ders of the courts
The violence and intimidation that
have accompanied all great strikes in
the past are worthy of and have receiv-
ed the deepest condemnation Of every
thinking man, wherever his SYM
pathies lie. Equally to be condemned,
in our opinion, is an attempt to use
the courts as a bludgeon in the hands
of the employer, not to prevent violence
where none exists or is apprehended,
but to put the strikers at a disadvan
tage and enable the employers to win
the day. Fair play is a jewel; and if
the workingmen of this country are
able to follow the example set them
by the striking miners, of enforcing alb
solute order and obedience to law in
their own ranks, they Will find unwar
ranted interference by the courts swept
out of the way by the power Of public
opinion. No one familiar with either
history or human nature can doubt
that an improper use of judicial pow
ers, such as we have referred to, is
fully as dangerous a practice, if not
more so. to liberty and order, as the
past attempts of strikers to reach sue
cess by attacks upon life and property
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20

heart right-which has freed the black slave
at cost untold-will at last turn upon its
prosecutors and free the white slave as WELL
cast off the shackles from the business toiler
and give us at last commercial freedom in
these great states.
My fellow laborers, business men of the
United States, be not deceived by prosperity,
as you were in 1879, but insist that the can
Ger be cut out by legislation; that sound
currency laws be enacted commercial free
dom established and no chance left open for
another SO, or worse STILL for the annihiIa-
tlon which would follow another SO.
OFFICERS ELECTED.
Papers followed on Currency Ship
ments by Registered Mair' by Charles
r. Hannah, president Iowa Bankers
association, and Express Money Dr.
ders" by L. P. Hillyer, secretary of
the Georgia Bankers association.
Those prepared by Lawrence 3. Kemp
or Maryland, and Eugene B. PuIlen. of
New York, were Withdrawn by their
authors on account of the lateness Of
the hour and ordered printed in the
proceedings.
convention urging congress pronnfIv
TO provide for a competent, non-par-
tlsan currency commission, to the end
that sound financial legislation NAV he
speedily secured
Regret at the death of the late VIII
nam L. 81. John, of New York city.
was expressed in a resolution offered
by N. B. Van Slyke.
Joseph c. Hendrix, of New York civ
was was elected president of the associa-
tlon, without a dissenting vote. The
SAILING was not so smooth when If
came TO the election of first vice pres1
oenI. For this place the nominating
COMMITTEE presented the name or
T rank W. Tracey, of Springfield, III.
Eirederlck W. Hayes, of Detroit, nom
mated George H. Russell, of this citv
WI. russell was elected, receiving 205
votes TO 10 cast for Mr. Tracey The
secretary was instructed to cast the
palIot OF the convention for the state
wee VIC president, and the executive conn
etl members. The members Of the ex-
eGcutlVe committee elected are: J g.
cannon, New York; P. w. Hunting.
ION ONO; r. w. Lowrey. Georgia. 7
d; FlnIay, Pennsylvania: J. c. Sands
west Virginia. The list of members
Vi the executive council named bv the
ueIegates Of the various state associao
Iions are: F. G. Bigelow, Wisconsin.
~ r. Branch, Virginia; D. w. CARROTS
missouri; A. G. Campbell, Mississinni.
); =. Hunter, Minnesota. After T, II
TulIen, of New York, had presented
the retiring president, r. H. J,oWrevc
with a handsome gaveI, the insta1Is,
tion OF officers took place, and the con-
'ehlloh ADJOURNED sine die
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20

mitted to the qualified voters Of such city
and adopted by a majority vote at such cleo
ton on the question; nor, in such case, TOR
longer period than ten years.
1t is, of course, a practical certainty
that the charter commission, especially
after recent attacks upon the safety
and property of this city, would incor-
porate in its work such provisions as
are here indicated. That would play
hob with new street railway ordinances,
not to mention the regulation of other
franchises in the interest of the public
and of free competition. Full authority
to regulate and control the exercise of
public franchises, prohibition of per-
petual franchises and privileges, no
exclusive franchises unless approved
by popular vote, and, even then, for no
period longer than ten years! This is
simply dreadful. What would a poor
street railway company do if it were
hampered by such unreasonable re-
strictions as theSe2 1t is small wonder
that the journalistic representative of
d CoInpduy HOW seeking 10 eAteIu llS
control over our streets and make it
iron-bound for twenty years should
regard with loathing the prospect Of
a charter in which these conditions
would find place. The source and Sc
cret of the bitter opposition to a new
charter is here exposed to the public
gaze. To hold fat jobs inviolate and
to enjoy the opportunity and the emol-
uments of dickering with franchises
and the seekers after them is the in
SEPARATION of those who announce that
no new charter is needed The expos
ure of their motive will but add zest
and earnestnesS to the advocates of
reform.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20
MAGAZINE EXPLODED.
A StOrehOUse for Dynamite Struck
by Lightning.

BUFFALO, Aug. 19.-What was at
first thought to be an earthquake, felt
at a score of places along the lake this
morning, turned out to have been the
blowing up of powder and Dynamite
magazine at Port Colborn, Ont, about
eighteen miles from here. About $50
this morning lightning struck the mag
azine of John Reed, located a half mile
west of that place. 1t was a small
frame and stone building, the founda-
lions of which were in bed rock, in
which Mr.. Reed kept a quantity of
gunpowder and dynamite. The shock
shattered windows in all the houses of
Port Colborn, woke all the residents
of the town, and heaved up the waters
of the Welland canal. The only person
nearby was the Waterman employed
in a lime kiln and glass factory close
by. He escaped uninjured. There is
nothing left to show where the light
ming struck
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20

There is bureau in Washington that gets
up ready-made editorials for Republican coun-
try papers. That bureau must think there
are some blasted fools among the people, if
we may judge from some of the editorials
they send out.-Slayton Gazette.
From the number of "mclders of public
opinion" who have accepted the prop
osition of this same bureau and turned over
their editorial columns to Mark Hanna ct al,
one would naturally think that there were
some blasted fools" among the people. and
that some of lem were in the newspaper
bus, ness, too.-Jackson Pilot.
We would hardy call these assisted editors
blasted FOOLS but only blastedly foolish in
dreaming that they can fool their readers
into believing that the matter is their own
composition
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20

So in 1893 ana $2.45 in 1894 The do
nestle prices followed the import
price, rising when the tax was in
creased and falling when the tax was
reduced. 1t was $3.50 Just before and
$3.50 just after the German act reduced
the duty 81 on box. In 1895 the aver
age price of import was $3.50; duty,
$1.2O; total. $3.50; domestic, 1882. The
consumers paid the tax on the home
made as well as on the imported
plate. Now they will keep the
average just under the import price,
duty added. Import price, 1926; duty,
$3.50; total, $3.50; domestic price, 1910.
The Times-Herald gives the domestic
price as $3.50 now; the treasury bu-
reau of statistics gives it for July 80
as 1910.
But what was the cost? The imports
from June 80, 1891 to June 3d. 1894 were
2,541, 252,004 pounds. The increase of
tax was IL cents a pound. The in
creased tax amounted to $50, 495, 024.
Two million dollars more must be add
ed for the increase over the old rate
allowed by the German act. The nor
NAL consumption Is about 100000, 900
pounds, the increased cost of which,
owing to the Mckinley and German in
creases over the 1883 rate of cent per
pound, can safely be put at $4,000, 900
more, making $37,OOO,0OO paid by the
tin users of this country for the expert
ment of demonstrating that tin plate
can be made in this country without
any protection if the makers can have
their sheets as free of tax as is their
tin
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20
ALASKAN ROAD.
Residents of Juneau Are Very Much
in Earnest.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. Aug.
19.-Residents of Juneau, Alaska are
very much in earnest over the proposed
Yukon Mining, Trading & Transporta-
ton company, to construct a railroad
from Tokou inlet to Aake Taslin, a dis
lance of 100 miles. The company also
contemplGtes a road up the beach
from Tokou to Juneau, distance of
twenty mine miles. At the head of the
railroad scheme is P. J. Packard, pres
ident of the company, who says his
associates include Preston Lea and
Willard Salisbury, of Delaware, and
interested with them are New York
and Philadelphia capitalists. The Yu-
kon Mining, Trading & Transportation
company is capitalized at $4,000, 900.
During the past winter the company
has applied for and received all neces-
sary charters from the United States,
British Columbia and the Dominion
governments.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20

DETROIT. Mich. Aug. 19.-Pingree &
Smiths shoe factory. the only union shoe
shop in the city, was tied up at noon today
by strike Of the bottomers. About 200 hands
are affected. The firm is willing to arbitrate
the difference, but the men claim they have
always got the worst of arbitration and de-
mand an increase in the price of certain
grades of shoes.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20
Mnrried to SchIntter.

PITTSBURG, Aug. 19.-Late last night 1t
Ferris, widow of the builder Of the Chicago
wheel. had been married in Pittsburg to
Francis Schlatter. the divine healer, of Canton.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr..
Ward pastor of st. Peters Episcopal church.
Mr. and Mrs. Schlatter are now at down.
town hotel.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20

Are then checks indications of better times :?
Or. is 1t the fact that bank was found that
could handle such big check without going
into bankruptcy what makes the o e
think times are getting better for some folks !?
Buffalo Gazette.
If the doctor has read the Glob with
the attention its editorials deserve he would
not ask either question; the first because he
would know that the G | o b e regards the
increasing movement of checks as one of
several indications of better times, and, the
second, because it is silly.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20

The fact that wheat has advanced in price
is because the Almighty God has given the
United States a good crop and the rest of
the world is running short. 1t is not due to
the Republican nor the Democratic party
St. James Journal
True as gospel but, all the same, Republi-
can fakirs are asserting and Republican
farmers are actually believing that it is all
due to the election of the Great Apostle of
Protection and the Dingley act
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20
REVENUE RECEIPTS.
An Increase of Five Millions shown
for July.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-The monthly
statement of collections of internal revenue
show the total collections during July to
have been SIS, 472, 65S, an increase, as COM
pared with July, 1896, of $5,213,9T6. The re-
ceipts from the several sources of revenue
during July and increase or decrease as COM
pared with the same month of last year, are
given as follows: Spirits, $S,137>rS4; increase,
1886, 1885, Tobacco, 81, 445, SIS; decrease. $12,-
92S. Fermented liquors, $S75S, 7eS: increase.
81, S64 451. Oleomargarine, S109, S4S; decrease.
0S9. The exceptional increase in ahe receipts
from fermented liquors was due to the large
purchases of beer stamps in anticipation OF
the increased tax from s212 cents to 81 per
barrel,