The Mena weekly star., 1897-01-13
CABINET GOSSIP.
Senator Sherman Will Probably
 Be Secretary of State.
THE COMING MONETARY CONFERENCE.
A Commission Will Probably Be Appointed to Submit a Plan to ConGress-Co- Operative Steel works-Com-
 pressed Air Carriages.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ll.-Ine opinion among those who claim to know is that Senator sherman will be offered and will accept the secretaryship of state in Mir. McKinley's cabinet, and that Mir. Hanna will not be one of the cab met advisers of the next president. It is believed to be certain that Mir. Hanna will be appointed as the sue cessor of Mir. sherman in the senate, a place which he very much prefers to any portfolio which the president elect could offer him. Inasmuch as the senatorial appointment would have to be made by Gov. Bushnell, the arrangement hereIn suggested is said to indicate the friendly feeling which Senator-elect Foraker has for the president-elect and for the chair man of the national committee.
 Regarding the selection of Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York, for secretary of the navy, it is said that Mir. Bliss has been offered the place, but that he de- ferred his acceptance until he could ascertain whether he could so arrange his business affairs as to permit of his taking the place Gen. Alger, of Michigan, is counted as certain to be the secretary of war
 Membe of congress and other pub lie men who best know Representative Nelson Dingley, Jr, are still confident that he will not accept the portfolio of the treasury department that was of fered to him when he visited Canton just before the meeting of congress. Mir Dingley's reasons for preferring not to go into the cabinet are the fear that he is not physically strong enough to perform the work of the office and that he could be more help ful to the republican party in it's work of putting on the statute books tariff law that will provide sufficient revenue for the operations of the gov ernment as representative from the state of Maine and chairman of the ways and means committee than secre- tary of the treasury.
 THE MONETARY CONFERENCE.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Jan. II. Only | few members of the monetary confer ence have as yet arrived in the city John P. Irish, of California; w. E. Dodge, of New York and F. " smallcy. ot s. Paul. being the most prominent of those already here The majority of the delegates. which it is thought will number 100, are expected today. It is almost q settled c0nclu- sion. however, that commission shall be created by the conven- tion whose duty it will be to submit a final plan to congress anu urge its adoption y that body. Diff | air.tg e.t t!ii, commission shaii give extended hearing to various plans for reforming the currency system or shall draw up what it considers wisest without much waste of time. Whether any free and full discussion of finance will transpiro in the conference also remains an un- decided point, there being not few Of the delegates who have expressed l themselves as opposed to such course and rather favor the placing of the | whole subject in the commissions hands with as little debate as possi- ble. General feeling is it will not avail much to urge financial reform on the spring session of congress, owing to the tariff legislation having the right of way.
 | COOPERATIVE STEEL WOkh.
 BRADDocK, Pa, Jan. 1l.-Mill work CTS at the Carnegie plants here and at Homestead, Duquesne and Pittsburgh and employees of the Westinghouse works at Tuttle Creek and Wilmerding are forming joint stock company to build S2,000,000 iron and steel plant at Port Angeles on Puget sound, state of Washington. The company has been incorporated under the Washington laws. The officers are George Nj. Ninon, of Braddock, president; NJ. E. George. of Braddock, secretary; Will liam ]. Weisser, of Allegheny City, treasurer Twelve hundred mill work CTS of this section have in the past fort night subscribed for about Sl,000, GOO worth of stock. The plant will employ 2,000 men and will cover 30 acres of ground
 | COMPRESSED AIR CARRIAGES.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 1i.-Horseless car riages are to be introduced by the New York Cab Co. in the course of the pres ent year as one of the results of the strike of it's drivers. The service will be begun in April and extended grad rsiiiy; a= success seems to warrant Compressed air will be used to drive the carriages
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 spansards XIII schoolboy.
 NEW YORK. Jan. li.-A special to the World from Tampa, Fla. says: scloolboy of ten years ~as killed In