Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-10-02
0LEOMARGARINE
Production Last Year Amounted
to 45,531,207 Pounds.
Number of Factories Decreased From
% in 1895 to 16 in 1897.
Illinois Continues to Lead In the Manufao-
ture of This Product--Adm.W Walker Com
fers with Secretary Long-Ex-Queen
Lii Returns to Washington.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The produc-
ton of olcomargarine during the last
fiscal year amounted 45, ,531, ,2O7 pounds,
being over 5000, 600 pounds less than in
1896, and of over "a, 900, 900 pounds since
1894. The decrease is attributed to
hostile state legislation cutting off the
privilege of sale as we'll as that
of manufacture. The number of man
ufactories decreased from % in
1896 to l6 in 1897. The number OF
wholesale establishments from l57 to
to 1O3 and the number of retail houses
from 4,3SO to $3.50. The quantity eX-
ported during the year amounted to
BIAS, ,4O7 pounds, which is n slight
increase over the year 1896. llli-
nois continues to lead in the mann-
facture of this product, more than
one-half of the total output having
been produced in the first district OF
Illinois. Rhode Island is second with
a total production of 7,112, 433 pounds,
and Kansas third with $3.50, 363 pounds.
The revenue derived from this source
during the last fiscal year amounted to
S1,034, 129.
Adm. Walker, chairman of the Mica
ragua canal commission, had confer
ence with Secretary Long Thursday
regarding a vessel to take the commits
sion to Nicaragua and to be used by it
during the stay of the commission
in the south. The admiral has made
a request for the gunboat Newport
which has been fitted up for the naval
academy, and which will answer all
purposes of the commission. 1t has
not yet been determined that this YES
sci can be spared. The commission
expects to start south at an early date
and is now delayed on account of the
Carter investigation.
Ex-Queen Liliuol1alani, of Hawaii,
returned to the city Thursday from her
visit to San Francisco. Accompanying
her We're Joseph Heleluhe, her secre-
tary, and several friends who recently
arrived at San Francisco from the is
lands. The eX-queen's stay in the city
is indefinite.
The state department has dashed the
hopes of another fortune hunter, who,
it would appear, narrowly escaped be-
ing victimized by sharper. In this
case two residents of Chetopa, Kan,
were represented to be heirs to ''the
Wardle estate" in England. United
States Consul Grinnel at Man
chester, by direction of the department
of state, made an investigation and
found that while there was magnifi-
cent estate of that name near Man
chester, it is owned by another family
who can trace title for 100 years, and
that no time in the past has any War
die family been interested in the
estate.
WASHINGTON, Oct 1.-The cabinet
meeting Friday was devoted almost en-
tirely to the consideration of the Span
sh situation and other foreign affairs.
1t was one of the longest meetings held
since the advent of the present admin
is;ration. lasting over two and "A half
hours The main subject of considera-
ton was the present cabinet crisis in
Spain and it's effect upon our rela-
tions with the Madrid government
and our attitude toward Cuba. 1t
is believed that an important cable
has been received from Minister Wood
ford and that this formed the basis OF
the discussion. The members of the
cabinet were extremely reticent, as
they always are when matters Of grave
import have been before them but at
the conclusion of the meeting one of
them said that the discussion had not
eventuated in anything definite and
that no immediate action would fol-
! low.
WASHINGTON, Oct lit has been
recommended to the state department
by United States Consul Read at Tien
Tsin, that the question OF including
Pekin in the list of treaty ports be
taken into consideration. He says thai
large illicit trade has been built W
there by foreign merchants who i'm
port their goods free of the duty i'm
posed on Chinese merchants whom
, they are consequently able to under
sell. The consul thinks this trad,
should be legitimatiacd by maxim!
Pelling treaty port and opening it t.
American trade.