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The morning times., 1897-03-01
The Russian Resolve.

Several days ago The Times predicted
that the sudden outburst Of phil-Hellenic
sentiment and sympathy in England might
result in a change Of attitude by the Brit
ish ministry in connection with the Greco
Cretan situation. That prediction seems
to have been realized, coincidently with
an appearance of hostility to Greece on
the part Of Russia, that must occasion sur
prise and bewilderment to all readers
imbued with knowledge of Russia's his
toric and basic ambitions, purposes and
policy applied to the Eastern question
A further analysis Of the European stu
alton, as presented by current news from
the British and continental courts and
cabinets, may furnish us with a key to
this puzzle. In the first place the naval
power of Russia is largely frozen up in the
Baltic. and that consideration makes for
peace from the Cars point of view; but
OF far more value is the certainty that
Russia never has and never will make the
iiioi ploN iol INC uSsIIu uCtloh oi Gne i urh-
ish power in Europe, unless or until that
movement appears sure to result in the
permanent occupation of Constantinople
by Russia, and its unchallcnged and abso-
lutte sway over all the countries of the
Balkan peninsula.
These conditions would not he met by
an Inauguration OF the general fight by
Greece, backed by Servia and Bulgaria,
and perhaps Rounlania. Such a coalition
now appears possible, even imminent. and
may be further strengthened by impor-
tant uprisings in Turkish vassal districts
OF Greek race or religious composition,
like Macedonia and Albania 1t may be
The morning times., 1897-03-01
J. ADDISON PORTER HERE.
The Preside nt-Elect's Secretary
Chartered at the Ebbitt.

J. Addison Porter secretary to the
President elect, is quartered at the Eb-
bitt. Mr. Parker's duties are slight as
vet As representative OF the President
elect, he, of course, has examined the
various preparations made for his re-
ception and the inaugural, and expresses
himself as very well satisfied with every
thing but this is about the only duty his
office has thus far laid upon him.
Mr. Porter promises to he popular with
newspaper men, although he has learned
the truth Of the adage, "A closed mouth
gives away no secrets" He has not been
bothered much thus far. because he is not
supposed to know much. His troubles with
the enterprising interviewer will begin
after hi $ chief has been fnductcd d into office
Mr. Porter win probably be as close to
Mckinley as Private Secretary Lamont
was to Cleveland Friendship dictated
the appointment, friendship the acceptance,
for Porter s man of large wealth and
could have looked higher.
Porter S a man Of untiring industry
He leaves little to subordinates, and if
he can help it leaves them nothing. He
likes to attend to things in detail.
The morning times., 1897-03-01
ROCKEFELLER PAYS UP.
Merritts Settled With in Mesaba
Iron Range Case.


Duluth, Mimi, Feb. 28-In June, 1895,
a verdict for 1910 900 was rendered against
John d. Rockefeller, of New York, in the
United States circuit court here in favor
of Alfred Merritt.
Mr.. Merritt was one of the Merritt
brothers OF this city, who had explored
and brought to public attention thevaIuable
Mesaba iron range Mr.. Rockefeller had
been induced to join in the development
and this suit was brought owing TO u
disagreement. Mr.. Rockefeller promptly
appealed, and after a delay by the court
of year, the appeal was granted aud
n new trial ordered, which was due ut
the spring term.
Recently there have been rumOrs that a
settlement had been effected by the pa vn.cnt
of n large sum of money to the MerrittS
by Mr.. Rockefeller. All doubt wasremoved
yesterday by the filing with the clerk
of the United States circuit court here
of a document, which was executed six
weeks ago, asking the withdrawal of the
case by stipulation. In addition to the
dismissal of the suit a copy of another
document, duly certified, was filed at
the same time, signed by all of the Merritts,
and the past as wen as any prospect OF
future litigation is blotted out.
The morning times., 1897-03-01
Let the Cadets Come.

There has been a strong feeling On the
part Of many people who are especially
interested in the inauguration parade
that very important part of il should
be the future officers of the Army and
Navy. One of these people especially
interested is the President.el and at
a meeting Of his old comrades, the Union
Veteran Legion, Encampment No 19,
Col. Charles E.s Troutman suggested that
a request be sent to President Cleveland
that he order the cadets to be present.
or course, he can do this if he sees fit;
and the Union Veteran Legion, and those
various people who are Interested in this
thing in so large numbers. earnestly hope
that he will see fit. The encampment
unanimously adopted these resolutions:
Several sufficient reasons for the visit
of these military and naval cadets to the
Capital City were given the other day
by one of Gen. Porter's aides He said
that it would be an object esson TO the
and to the American Guard, composed CT
public schoolboys; and that the whole
business would cost only So each from
West Point and return for the West Point
Cadets, with a correspondingly cheap rate
for the Annapolis boys.
President Cleveland might think about
this, in the interval Of getting bills signed
and the fusniture packed, and awaiting
his successor. 1t would be worth a great
deal to the cadets, and 1T is their last
chance to attend an Inauguration as cadets
The morning times., 1897-03-01
Steel Rails.

1t is pointed out by the Philadelphia
Record that one of the immediate results
Of the collapse of the steel rail trust will
be a decline in the number of railroad
casualties and consequently greater safety
in travel. According to the Railroad GA
zette the number of accidents last year
six, and this journal adds that this total
was more than the average annual num-
Der due to that cause. The trust had put
the price of rails so high that the rail-
road companies, particularly since they
had suffered from the general business
depression as much as any others, bought
as few as possible for making needed re-
pairs to their roads. As soon as the trust
was broken, however, prices fell, and the
work of repairing tracks with new rails
was actively and generally renewed
1t is pointed out that the enormous num-
ber of recent orders for rails shows how
great this necessity was, and how long
it had existed. 1t is estimated. indeed,
that in the brief space OF time since the
Carnegie Rockefeller alliance smashed the
trusts the orders for rails have amounted
to nearly million tons. a deduction
of probably 100000 tons must probably
in all fairness be made on account of the
number required for export, but the de
been a great boon in promoting the safety
and comfort Of railroad travel. What
the upshot OF the Carnegie and Rookie
The morning times., 1897-03-01

There have been some doubts whether
the inhabitants of Connecticut We're gen
orally engaged in the manufacture of
wooden nutmegs and in passing them
off as the real thing upon an unsuspecting
public There ought not longer to be any
question of this. There are Connecticut
people, evidently, who will hardly stop
at anything. The Yale fellows-who are
not all Connecticut fellows, to be sure,
but who are doubtless all more or less
tinged with the color Of their wooden
nutmeg environments-inter seriously
on one occasion, not many months ago,
with a speech of Hon. William J. Bryan
They treated him differently in New
Haven the other night, A large con-
course of people listened thoughtfully to
the address of the wonderful young Ne
braskan. The Connecticut legislature quite
appropriately invited Mr.. Bryan to be-
come its guest, but then. after sleeping
on the matter, voted not to invite him
to become it's guest. This was dis
courteous enough, little as MI Bryan can
But it was good wooden nutmeg per-
formance. AS for Mr.. Bryan, he is today
as much the leader Of six millions and
three-quarters of his fellow citizens of vot-
ing age and Of sane mind as he was on
the Sd OF November last
The morning times., 1897-03-01
An Object Lesson.

H,Eoughby, Hm * Co. CT Chicago, have
failed This lirm was an old enc for that
brisk and breezy cty-twenty or thirty
years at least. 1t was rot young and
such adopted the cause of ''sOunG'' money
as it might a long lost relative. 1t was
this firm that invented tie Mexican dollar
object lesson Soon after the Bryan
nomination was made they got a cart
load, more or less, OF cartwheel silver
dollars. put them, with appropriate inscrip
tons, in their show window, and sold a
great many TO students Of finance at
53 cents apiece. They did a great deal
OF patriotic defending, and they got an
immense amount Of free advertising. But
they have failed. They did the largest
ready-made Clothing business In the West,
and were supp osed to be solid and steady
If anybody in Chicago was.
1t must shake up the ideas OF those
students offinance who bought the Mexican
o"-iato ~ Acd'Al OHiI TIC III III winch gave
tins interesting, instructive, and profitable
advertising to itself has been compelled to
confess judgment. 1t seems as if there was
something wrong somewhere. II the firm
had been free silver affair, instead of j
53-cent affair, ii would be easier to under
stand the failure. 1t would have been in
that case a plain Judgment, instead Of a
confession Of judgment.
But as it stands. it is awkward. If the
prosperity agents want to use this as an
advertisement, they had letter do some
thing to the facts n the way OF alteration.
The morning times., 1897-03-01
WOODWARD
manaLOTHROP. and
10Th. 18th and F SITS. N. w.
Inauguration


We are sblsnaadZy sqn,pbedt 10,
furnishing A0tsLs, 6oardIng-
houses and PIRATE families
aczM tie 0syy best 0aIuss o6-
ta1na6Ae, IN 70hatevey is needed
IN tile 7Oay of Inauguration snb-
plies. hn0aolng aUAat y0u
a00nla f1O6a6Ly need avs 'Aavs
scared 0e,y liberal quantities.
and BY so doing laH name
b4ees on goods of genuine
me'zk, a0hirA are exeebtI0nalZy
k01U.
The morning times., 1897-03-01
strikers Gain a Point

Lu,iington. Mich, Feb. 2S.-The injunc
ton applied for by the Flint and Pere
Marquette Railroad Company, to prevent
the striking freight-handlers from going
on railroad property to persuade working
men to quit, was decided by Judge Nc
Mahon yesterday, who granted an injunc
ton to restrain the strikers from destroy
ing property, but held the strikers had a
right to persuasion by legitimate means.
The strikers are overjoyed, and determined
to fight to finish
The morning times., 1897-03-01
LARGE SEIZURE OF OPIUM.
Agents Confiscate a Con-

Treasury Agents Confiscate Con-
signment at San Francisco.
San Francisco, Cal, Feb 2S.-Special
agents of the treasury have seized nearly
S4oO 900 worth of opium alleged to have
been imported into this country illegally.
The treaty with China provides that
subject of one country shall not import
opium into the territory of the other.
The opium in question was the property
of Fong Tai, Chinese merchant, who
had the drug consigned to II. David
son, an employe of the Bank OF British
Columbia 1t is not likely that either will
be prosecuted, for in case of failure TO
convict the opium would have to be Ie-
turned, while now it can be sold at public
auction.
The morning times., 1897-03-01
Big Elevator for Buffalo.

Buffalo, N. Y, Feb 2S.-The Great North
ern Railway is to construct here a grain
elevat or of 2 200 900 bushels capacity, all
OF steel The order for the steel, about
5000 tons, will probably be let in week
or two. The new elevator will have thirty
bins of $4,000 bushels capacity, and be by
far the largest at Buffalo. 1t is claimed
that elevato ors IAN be built on this plan for
less cost than in the old way, and that
in addition they will save in operating
,.xronceS nd in insurance.
The morning times., 1897-03-01
True Test of Democracv

Cleveland, O., Feb. 2S.-Five hundred
Democrats met in Army and Navy Hall
last night TO agree on a candidate for
mayor Two-thirds were siIverites and
the remainder followers of John Farley
Chairman Hart read set of resolutions,
the gist OF which was that the IGcetiRg
recommend that no candidate be nominated
for mayor who did not support and vote
for w. ] Bryan at the last election.
The resolution was adopted by a lSCge
majority.
The morning times., 1897-03-01
WITH A BULLET IN HIS BRAIN
Strange Story of a shooting and Its
Pathological Peculiarly.

Pathological Peculiarly.
Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 2s.-Daniel McFar-
lane, a railroad man, who has worked here
for the past five years, but whose home
is said to be in Buffalo, walked into the
police station yesterday and calmly an
nounced that he had bullet in his brain.
Blood trickling from wound in the mans
forehead indicated that he had been shot,
and examination indicated that Ehe ball
was imbedied in McFarlane's brain four
inches, The wounded man did not appear
to suffer from the injury, which the doctors
say will prove fatal within three days.
MrFarlane' story was that while walking
along the canal he was shot by an unkno wn
man, whose fire he returned. As evidence
of the statement he produced revolver and
three empty cartridges. The police how
ever, incline to the belief that McF arlane
attempted to commit suicide.
The morning times., 1897-03-01
VIOLATION OF BANKING LAWS
Officers of Michigan Savings In
stitution Arrested

Big Rapids, Mich, Feb. 2S.-D. F. Com
stock, c. w Comstock and c. w. Gun
ningham, late president, manager and
cashier, respectively, of the defunct Me
costa County Savings Bank, were served
with warrants of arrest yesterday. c. W.
Comstock and Cunningham were admitted
to bail in So 500 each. d. F. Comstock
is seriously i'll and was not removed from
his home.
The complaint charges violation OF the
banking laws, setting up that a month
before the bank closed the president, man.
ager and cashier executed false and
worthless paper to the amount OF $4,000
to the ID. F. Comstock Lumber Company,
which is composed of the above named
persons.
The morning times., 1897-03-01
No Fear of Indian UPRISING

formed the United Associated Presses
yesterday that his dispatches from Col
Bayon Indicated there would be no serious
uprising Of the Papago Indians on the
Mexican borders and that the present
trouble would be easily quelled.
The morning times., 1897-03-01
What the Country wishes to Know

(From the New York Tribune)
The Cuban question now seems to have
assumed this form: Has Consul General
Lee resigned because the administration
would not protect American interests, or
is the administration recalling him be-
cause he has tried to protect American
interests
The morning times., 1897-03-01
Otis A. Smith Released,

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. %. Otis A. Smiths
friends paid the amount Of his shortage to
the Georgia Security and Banking Com
pany yesterday, and he was released from
jail. He took a train for New Orleans and
said that h was going West
The morning times., 1897-03-01
Says Mr. Bryan

New York cannot favor financial policy
that makes heegars and traIupS " the rest
Of the country. Let them forec;oSe the
mortgages on tie farms; they wlil still
have to find tenants Of the farms. The
farmer VIII grow To the extent II his wants.
II necessary. the wives and daugh ."rS can
90 back, like the women OF Old, and make
the cloth and clothes themselves. But while
the farmer is getting his bare living from
the soil your streets will be iilled with
IDLE and hungry men, and it will lake all
your accumulated wealth to keep the pco-
pie fGom starving"
The one policy is mellifluous and theo-
retical, the other plain and PRACTICAL one
is triumphant, the other bows its lead In
Temporary defeat; but over all stauds the
truth; Nothing is ever settled in this
world until it is settled right.
The morning times., 1897-03-01

1t may be, after all, that the new
and give place, as he should, to Fred T.
Dubois. The first legislative ballot would
settle it.
The morning times., 1897-03-01
CAPITOL NEWS AND GOSSIP

Congressman Grosvenor of Ohio has
said some pretty hard things about the
CIVIL service law, and as he is the spokes-
man on the floor of the House of Pres
ident-elect Mckinley there are many who
believe that he voices the sentiments of
MI Mckinley. If this is true the friends
OF reform can look out for SQUALLS
when the new administration gets down
TO business. Somebody said to Gen
Irosvenor the other day:
6rosvenor, l think you are four-flush-
ing ON this civil service business. L
think you will drop the agitation after
the 4th OF March,
Gen. Grosvenor, who evidently knows
what four-flush is, promptly responded:
Don't you believe it. l shall make a
harder fight after the new Congress as
sembles than ever 1 did before to show
the inequalities of the civil service law.
L am not bluffing a little bit. 1 expect
TO see the day when the law will be
so amended that its trainers won't know
it,
The morning times., 1897-03-01

Here is the Republican Baltimore Amer
lean declaring that nobody knows and
nobody cares what the object of Senator
Wo!cott's mission was. We thought so.
The morning times., 1897-03-01

In few hours now Mr.. Cleveland win
be where the communism or pelf can't
touch him.
The morning times., 1897-03-01
Inauguration
Dinner and Toilet Ware.

White Porcelain coveredDtshes each. .3Oc
White Porcelain Vegetable Dishes ..15c
White Porcelain Cups and Saucers ....IOc
White Porcelain Platters, large, each. SOC
White Porcelain Platters, small, each Il sc
White Porcelain Soup Tureens. each .75c
White Porcelain Dinner Plates, each. 7c
White Porcelain Sauce Boats, each lie
White Porcelain Pitchers, each .-....2Oc
White Wash Bowls and Pitchers, set 6Oc
!" ii'e Cldlll'eIS' edch- h-.-----.-.--..-15c
"AteCoFereu " soap Dishes, ,each------1 Ice
White Uncovered SIop Jars, each ......6Sc
White Mugs, each ch...... Ba
White Soap Slabs, each............ &c
9Th floor
The morning times., 1897-03-01

Us whether his middle name is Alonzo,
Antonius, Aurelius, Ananias, or Argentum.
The morning times., 1897-03-01

Cecil Rhodes is rapidly becoming the
Mark Hanna OF South Africa
The morning times., 1897-03-01
The Contrast.

1t is interesting just now to compare the
last recorded utterances of the President
>clect and his distinguished Democratic op-
Moment before the people
Says Mr Mckinley.
"ToOr money never made any country
rich, and sound money VIII not dnd can
l OF make anyone poor The contents ion he-
tween the Nv conflicting ideas IT systems
is an Old one, and lads fair always i'll some
way 10 exist. But let us resuutely set our
faces Tor the right and never tire nf its
earnest and fearless advocacy
The morning times., 1897-03-01
Best Quality Wool
Bunting Flags.

Also 500 AIlsilk Flags, size 16x24
inches. at
25c each. Usually 371ac
Cotton Bunting, fast and loose colors.
plain red, white. and blue, or tri-cOIored,
% to SO inches wide,
4c TO lOc per yard
2d floor
The morning times., 1897-03-01

Representative wilson, OF Idaho, is a
silver Republican and supp orted Mr.. Bryan
for the Presidency. He did not however,
sign the manifesto issued the ether day by
Senator'S Teller, Dubois, and the other
silver Republican Senators and members
Mr. Wilson'sfTiendsin Congress are wonder
ing if he is not getting ready TO reJoin his
Old party, Mr.. Wilson, 1t is said, does not
intend, at the present, at any rate, TO
affiliate with the Republican party, nor
has he any intention OF Joining the DemOc-
racy at this time. He does not, in fact,
know Just exactly where he is at 1t
is certain that he viii not identify him
self with the party of Mark Hanna and
Mckinley unless it adv COATES the free coin
age OF silver.
The morning times., 1897-03-01

Four members OF the Pennsylvania dele
CATION In Congress will contest for the
guDernatorial nomination next summer
TheyareJosiah ID. Hicks, OF Altoona; VIII a II
L. Arnold, OF Dubois, and the two Stones,
William A, of Allegheny, and Charles W.,
OF warren. Other candidates are Frank
Reeder, secretary of State, and Col S NJ
jackson, ex-State treasurer. All the can
dldatesare friendly to Senator Quay, neither
or them being in any way identified with
the combine, of which Dave Martin, Of
Phlladelphla, Is the head. Senator QUAY
mas nnounccd that Is the fight Is between
his personal friends, lie will not mix in it,
He VIII keep hands off, and let the best
man win William A Stone is said now
TO be the strongest candidate, but there is
bellef that one OF the other men named
In the above list will finally be selected
Arnold Is looked upon by his friends a. the
most likely of the short horses" He is
popular throughout the State and has made
q very good record in Congress. His Sc
lection, 1t Is said, would satisfy both the
Quay and the anti-Quay factions G. w
Stone and Mr.. Hicks will both show up
In the convention with a good many dele
gates TO their credit, but neither, it IS
thought, II long drawn out battle could
command as much strength as Mr.. Arnold
The morning times., 1897-03-01
Best Quality
Muslin Flags, On sticks.
Three Special Values in All-lineD
HandkerchiefS.

women's All Pure Linen Hemstitched
HandAerchiefs, hand embroidered,
The morning times., 1897-03-01

I'd floor
The sun., 1897-09-01

ctscfSSArL Aug si-A new ruling IN local racing
SAA thAaGaTatci Al Sswp port to day, barring chrunE
eAy bal scior, from the betting BOI notorious In
hau SS va he!d out fro tho b~tting. and. Al.
hoaEh sAn colt Won third money and sut II from the
pGr-. far~s bAFs lastGilsc third place horse
Ia tS'tnG the t-ts Boz sh0~ ed sgrpriAinE reversal
rSeof1. The sunmAries:
FtrSi RAeS-f's tutioaEs -LlcAnor Holmes llO
lOrtTnaI ~ on. El,!s Y no (wullAmsI to
!, s~eosii sIAliy r-iIV tnAiAsWs. 8 to l. third.
Trms. i-OsS
se,,ha RAt~-si1 tarioar,.-cyeIone ! % rNs,he~y.
10 Won, iDrAlIy, ios Everett. I TO !. seeund /,
ts~itn los ,DrahADL S TO l. third. lime. lis.
Tsiri HAr~ Jbr mile -PcFfurn ance o. thAihs
~ 80 !os AGssrL lo5 tAksri. 20 to {. second
'Ayga lo5 'Huan Toto !. Third. Tme. llts7
FvI4fTa KAS~- FGTc Ahi kAis rarI -ru-piA o )
,rTrS,u. 10 70. 800. LAvsrnA los jHilI. 10 l.
.s"vt4 NGEkIno-o. i95 Cc!AyA E3 10 l. thiryi Time,
.ySa
yHEs Es-~-s~~sn tarioaEs-Pc1tius. los Twil.
Hams 80 l. vun. Aght JAnr, iUT tAksfL 10 ~ l.
ssyOsi 'e2I ins Hart, TArSs Barr. los tKrsrstts
. - J. tSirt Itnls ta5S
sHaFrrsi = katt!nT
The sun., 1897-09-01

CHICAGO. Aug. Sl.-Four favoritrs. ono second
choice, and an outsider won at Harlem to-day. Tho
outsider was Sprisrl backed from 100 To down to
80 to J. Tn 80 on the insds made killing. T.
hurhh was thrown by ElA PenEance while at the
post In the third race, but escaped with q slight
shaking up ionclin. Digs. and Adowa finished
Ftr.t Eace-siX fnriorr, T,sins.a 100 n woo.,.,
oiol. ~ou, Little sadie lo7 wv. DEAN, q to !, sec
ond Why. s5 &c. 0rAyI 80 to |. third. Time. l;ib5
second Re Five and . half furlongs -SpeiEel
los tConnoilyl 30 10 !. won' Joe sbslby. no &c.
sloan. TO =. second! Tho Ace 70 "a. BArrett, to
!. third Time, lao
Third Rsccs-si1 turionEs Es-lAureate, lot CGarner)
10 =, won Preston. 20 u. NoUdsL to 1, second;
Eiia Psnihnce. ss CponAldsonL 4 70 l. third Time,
% tponaldsonl, Is to 10, won; NAH o. (kitley),
TO seonnd; Serrano, 20 q. WoodA 3 to 3. third
Time. iia5A.
fifih RAc~-Four and = half furlonEs Cuba rrse
81 "A hArr-p, to 5, won, kf1e cine, 81 ~. woods)
20 !. seeoud, dt EdEr o. w. IL Martini. so TO /.
third, Time. i6a
siIth RAre-SiI fnrionES -FunclIH 100 10 OrAy)
10 5. won DiErs lOo Coaruerl TO !, s-cnnd ;
AiOuA VI lponAidsonl, o TO /, third. Time, i:iGk