The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20

consists Of $4,000, 900 in personal property
and 100000 in real estate. The prop
erty is disposed of to members of the
family. No public requests are an.
nounced.
In the markets on Monday, the short
sellers Of wheat Jared badly. They
had not prepared themselves for the pos
sibility of further war news between
Saturday afternoon and this morning,
and we're made painfully conscious of
their unpreparedness when they saw 11ac
added to the price of May wheat at the
start. They made strong fight to i'm
press the buyers that as to war news
there was nothing in it," and got the
price down lie for a short time, but in
the end they had to acknowledge de-
feat, the market ended with a gain of
lie for the day.
All the other markets were strong,
more especially provisions, which i'm
proved to the extent of 25c in pork and
lUc eacn IN larQ and ribs.
Corn was affected bullishly by the
firmness of wheat and it gained $s@115c
per bu. over Saturdays closing price for
May and ssc over for July. The stats.
tics of the day, including the figures re-
lating to the movement of the week be-
fore. were bearish, but the lowness of
the price and the strength Of wheat
overcame the few obstacles presented by
the statistics referred to. The days re-
ceipts were BAL cars and $50 are esti.
mated for tomorrow. The amount on
ocean passage increased ], 100000 blu. the
visible increased 1O62,O 900 blu. The total
in the visible now is "a $4,000 blu.
against 11,96000O blu. year ago. Ex-
ports from Atlantic ports since Satur-
days report we're 839, 210 bu.
SATISFACTORY assurances have been
received from Caracas that the Vene-
zuelan Boundary Treaty will be prompt
ly ratified. The government is. in a
position to assert this confidently, after
the careful canvass that has been made
among its supporters. The opposition
is declared to be confined to an insignifi-
cant minority, which has weakened in
stead of gaining strength as result of
its efforts to upset the work of the ne.
gotiators.
ALL who are interested, as all Ameri-
cans should be. in the proper diplomatic
representation of the United States
abroad, will be gratified to know that
authority has been granted to the EN-
bassy in Paris to make its home and
habitation correspond little better
with it's title. The allowance for rent
of the Legation building has, in fact,
been doubled.
ALL the mills of the Illinois Steel Com
pany's works, at South Chicago. started
at full blast on Wednesday of last week
for the first time in many months.
Nearly 5000 men returned to work.
Wages were cut from 10 to 10 per cent.
The Bridgeport works, which employ
about $500 men, are expected to resume
soon, with a reduced wage scale similar
to that of the South Chicago plant.
AT joint meeting of railroad officials
and representatives of the Ohio Soft
Coal Traffic Association. held at Cleve-
land on Wednesday, an agreement was
perfected. A meeting will be held in Chi
cago this week, at which it is expected
that plan of organization will be COM
pleted that will provide for the establish
ment of single sales agency for all
of theOhio bituminous coal producers.
WILLIAM P. ST. JOHN. ex-president of
the Mercantile National Bank and treas
urer of the Democratic National COM
mittee. died suddenly at his home in
New York on Sunday night. The cause
of death was complication of kidney and
stomach troubles, but undoubtedly his
labors in the recent campaign fastened
his death.
SENAToR-ELECT WILLIAM e. MASON
was taken suddenly i'll with nervous pros
tration at noon on Saturday, and was
unconscious for thirty minutes. A con.
sultation of his physicians was held, and
it was decided to take him to the South
at once. He left Chicago over the ILL
nois Central road on Saturday.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WILSON stated
recently that the President has never
considered the subject of extending the
civil service system to embrace fourth
class postmasters. There are over Co.
900 postmasters of this class who will be
subject to appointment after March T.
next.
A CALL has been issued for a prelim-
mary conference of representatives of
the Boards of Agriculture of the several
States, to be held in Washington, d. O.,