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HUGE TRUST PERFECTED
COMBINATION OF STEEL WIRE ROD
AND NAIL MANUFACTURERs.
New Corporation Representing About
$5O.OOO,O0O CapitaI-A Few Com
Germs on the Outside.

NEW YORK, March 4-The plan for a
combination of the steel wire, rod and nail
manufacturers which has been under con-
sideration for the past six months, was
practically sonsummated at a meeting held
in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in this city,
to-day. The combination will represent
about goo in capital. The name select
ed for the combination is the American
Steel and Wire Company" The largest
steel wire and rod companies in the coun-
try, to the number of fifteen, will be in the
combination. Only five concerns engaged
in the manufacture of steel wire, rods and
nails throughout the entire United States
are not in the combination. Although Judge
e. r. Gary, of Chicago, who is the leading
man in the consolidation thus far, would
not consent to mention the names of the
obdurate concerns after the meeting, he
said, however. that they are located in Ore
son, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New
York.
Ihere will be in all about 10000 men en-
ployed by the new concern, but as the ex-
port trade of steel wire, rods and nails is
expected to be largely increased through
the combination it is likely that the number
of workmen will also be increased very ma
terially in the near future The headuuar-
or Chicago. 1t is possible that the choice
OF these two cities will be made at the
meeting Tomorrow, when some final legal
questions relative to the new combination
are to be settled
The final meeting of the projectors of the
combination will be held on April l. At that
time offlcers will be selected, George T.
Oliver, of Pittsburg, being named as the
ieaoing candidate for the Office of president
Ihe interests to be represented in the com
pine include the following; From Cleveland,
o. the Cleveland rolling mills, American
Wire Company, Horse Power Mali Com
pany and Baacke's works of the Consoli-
dated Steel and Wire Company; from Pitts
burg, Pa, the Oliver Snyder, Pittsburg
wire, Consolidated, Rankin and Beaver
Falls companies. The other concerns are
scattered through the States of Missouri
illinois, Ohio and Massachusetts From
worcester, Mass, Philip w. Moen, repre-
senting the great Washburn- Moen plant. a
very important factor in the combine, has
taken very prominent part in the meet
lngs that have been held almost daily for
week past.
j. (. Morgan & Co., Of this city, Judge
Gary stated, would be underwriters for a.
considerable block of the capital stock, He
also announced that 1t was the purpose of
the projectors of the combine to provide
steel wire rod and nails at a much lower
figure than heretofore. The concern it is
said, viii produce about one million tons
of wire annually from the beginning. 1t
will operate its own mines, which are To-
Gated principally in the West and owned
py several OF the companies in the combine.
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or present heartburnings of the nation

or present heartburnings of the nation"
The article has provoked much comment.
Ell Nacional argues that American in
tervention already exists in the succor
American war ships have conveyed to the
pacificos, formerly Spain's enemies" 1t
says: America will continue to foster the
rebellion; and if Spain does not find means
to suppress the insurrection, the pacific
intermeddlings of the United States will
soon become armed Intervention, in which
event it win be worth while to mediate as
to the best means to protect the lives and
property of residents in Cuba who are loyal
to Spain. Radical autonomy or independ-
ence will menace Spain, sacrifice the lives
and property of loyal Cubans and impose
on the peninsula a debt amounting probably
of three thousand millions of pesetas. To
obviate such burden and to procure for
loyal Cubans a solid guarantee for their
lives and property should be Spain's first
care, before everything, even a sovereignty
whose vagueness is rather fantastic Either
independence or radical autonomy will pro-
duce anarchy in the colony and lead to the
determination of everything Spanish and
the ruination of the Spanish excheuuer."
The government has consulted the cham
bers of commerce throughout the country
respecting the proposed commercial treaty
with the United States. The Bilbao cham
Der replies that, considering the present
condition of mercantile relations, it can see
no necessity for treaty. If the negotia-
tions however, are successful it is of the
opinion that two treaties will be requisite
one between America and the Peninsula and
another between America and the Antilles
The former treaty, in the opinion of the
Bilbao chamber. ought TO be based on reci-
procity, granting the United States a sec
ond column in the Peninsular tariff. with
mutual concessions if possible If America
comedies that Spanish merchandise would
be favored by the tariff Spain would allow
America second column, with all the re-
bates granted by treaties to Holland, Switz-
erland Norway and Sweden. The treaty
between America and the Antilles, in the
judgment of the Bilbao chamber should be
limited to the concessions contained in the
Cuban tariff law dated Aug. g. 1897 and
should maintain protection at so per cent
maximum and 20 per cent. minimum for
other chambers take the same view.
The police here have arrested an Italian
who, d month ago, rushed up to the car
rage of Senor Sagasta, the premier, and
threatened him with stick. The man was
shadowed by the police and has been found
prowlng around Senior Sagasta's house. In
quiries are being made to ascertain whether
the Italian is connected with suspected per-
sons. The prisoner shows signs of insanity
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NOT YET READY
NAVAL COURT OF INQUIRY CANNOT
FIX A TIME FOR REPORTING.
Dispatch from Admiral sicard That
Disposes of Many Rumors Re~
garding the investigation.
NO CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE
SHOWING THE CAUSE OF THE DE-,
sTRUCTION OF THE MAINE.
Most of the Testimony Taken So Far
Merely i'm Relation to the ships
Condition Before the Explosion.
EXAMINATION OF DIVERS
TO BE RESUMED AT SCENE or THE
WRECK THIS MORNING.
~
Court of Inquiry En Route from Key
West to Havana the Light
house Tender MangrOve.
Most of the Testimony Taken So Far
Merely i'm Relation to the ships
Condition Before the Explosion.
EXAMINATION OF DIVERS
TO BE RESUMED AT SCENE or THE
WRECK THIS MORNING.
Court of Inquiry En Route from Key
west to Havana on the Light
house Tender ManGrOve.

WASHINGTON. March Alt was devel-
oped this afternoon through teegraphic
correspondence between Secretary Long
and Admiral Sicard that the court of in
quiry is unable TO fix even an approximate
date for their conclusion OF it's investiga-
ton into the disaster to the Maine. Shar-
ing the general anxiety for some nforma-
tion on this point, Secretary Long to-day,
at the instance of the Cabinet sent a tele-
gram to Admiral Sicard asking him when
it was expected the report of the court
would be made, and late tonight the fol-
lowing reply was received from the ad-
miral, dated Key West:
Have talked with the president of the
court of inquiry and agree with him that
it is not yet possible to fix date for the
finding, as SO much depends on the progress
ef the divers and wreckers and the results
they obtain. Every effort is being made to
advance the inquiry. The court returns Co
Havana by the Mangrove this evening.
having about finished the examination at
Key West"
Admiral Sicard's message is regarded of
ficially as disposing of the reports that the
court has as yet obtained positive or con-
elusive information bearing on the object
of it's investigation. 1t is taken 10 mean
that upon the testimony or discoveries OF
the divers will depend the finding, the ex-
animation of the officers and crew OF tile
ship having been insufficient to enable tie
court to even form an idea as to what lines
may be opened up from the investigation
of the wreck itself. While the telegram
was naturally somewhat of a disappoint-
ment in leaving the termination of the in
qulry as much in doubt as ever, 1t was
welcomed as practically setting at rest the
reports as to the results of the investiga-
ton up to date. 1t is stated that the board
in all probability will not return to Key
West, the department having intimated
that it was its desire that the examination
of the officers and men should be concluded
at this sitting as they are needed for re-
assignment to ships
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LONG SEARCH REWARDED.
Mrs. Banks Thinks she Has Found
Her Lost Daughter.

CHICAGO, March 4.-After nearly eleven
years search and the spending of a moder-
ate fortune, Mrs H. Banks, formerly Mrs
Henry Frederick, of this city, believes that
through the reading of small item in a
newspaper she has found a daughter taken
away nearly a decade ago and whom she
has mourned as dead. Yesterday Mrs
Banks read a. brief account of the search of
a young woman of Syracuse, Wyo., for a
lost mother and sister. The young woman's
name was Hattie Frederick, the name of
Mrs. Bankss missing daughter, and to-
morrow Mrs. Banks will start for the West.
According to Mrs. Bankss story, she was
married twenty years ago to Henry Fred
erick in Omaha, Neb. After living togeth-
er for nine years, Frederick left, taking
both children. The elder daughter, Adde,
shortly after returned, but no trace was
found of Frederick and the other child
Eight years ago she married Herman
Banks, a wealthy contractor, in Omaha,
and, with him. she continued the search.
One night in September 1896, her husband
disappeared He had raarly $500 with him
and it was believed he had been murdered.
He has not been heard of since. TO add to
Mrs. Banks's misfortune, six months ago
her six-year-old son was drowned. Her
money had given out and, broken-hearted
ani prematurely gray she gave up all
search for her daughter A day or two ago
the Chicago police received a letter from
Hattie Frederick, of Syracuse. Wyo., ask
ing that search be made for her mother and
sister, for whom she had searched for
years. Miss F're-terick said she had traced
them to Chicago during the worlds fair
but had then lost all track of them This
story found its way into the newspapers,
where Mrs. Banks read it and to-day she
made arrangements to start west at once
in the belief that she has at last found her
daughter
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OFF FOR HAVANA.
Court of Inquiry Sails ON the Light~
home Tender MangrOVe.


KEY WEST, Fla, March 4.--After twG
postponements of it's departure the court
of inquiry left for Havana this evening on
the lighthouse tender Mangrove. 1t is be-
lieved by the best informed here that the
court will complete its labors in the Cuban
capital within ten days. Only three of the
six days the court was here were devoted
to the work of investigation. The inactivity
of yesterday and to-day is still unexplained.
except by a semi-official statement that
Rear Admiral Slcard was awaiting instruc~
tions from Washington. The sessions it ia
generally understood developed no evidence
by which the court could definitely deter~
mine the cause of the explosion.
A naval officer in close touch with the
members Of the court said to the corre-
spondent: with one exception the witS
nesses who testified here were Maine sur@
vivors. The evidence, though in most cases
taking longer to tell, can be summed up
in the words of an enlisted man who, whem
Judge Advocate Mark asked him what hes
knew about the explosion, replied: Sir,
was blowed up. saved and I'm here
That was all he could swear TO-"
Ore important fact has been learned.
however. 1t is this, although the members
of the court may have their individual
body to render decisive verdict. The
officer already quoted said: IF the courk
has yet heard any testimony which would
enable it to decide intelligently that the
Maine was blown up from external causes
am the most mistaken man in the world.
Before the coming Havana sessle-.= arg
over it may secure such evidence and possi-
bly, find the blowing up was Intentional It
will learn from the divers the actual condis
ton of the ship after the explosion, as ie
has already learned from the survivors most
of the details of the ships condition befora
the explosion. With these bases thoroughly
established the court will hear more expert
theoretical testimony and then reach a ver-
Dict"
This statement can be ulken as mora
worthy of reliance than that of the Mains
officer who said the other dag he believed
the court was bound on evidence already
heard to find the cause of the explosion
external Its conservatism is also at vari-
ance with the opinions Of many other naval
officers here. especially those of the young
er set, and directly contrary to the BELIEF
of most of the Maine survivors that their
ship was Intentionally blown up
Before sailing tonight Captain Sampson
had a long consultation with Admiral
Sicard
All the Maine survivors received months
pay yesterday and their claims for lost
personal property have been filed. Schwantz.
q cook of the Maine. has put in a claim
for 81 ,22c. which he says he had in his chest,
which blown to pieces. Many other en-
listed men lost the savings of years
There have been no movements of the
fleet to-day. except in the case of the Nash
vile. which towed a coal barge out to the
Iowa
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BLANCO in FEAR.
MObS About His Palace HOOt Him and
Howl for WeyIer.

CHICAGO, March 4.-The Tribune's Ha-
yana correspondent sends the following by
way of Key West At guard mount this
morning at General Blanco's palace the
sentinels and patrols were more than
doubled. Where there had been forty-eight
officers and men 110 were marched out
Blanco is bitten with fear and nerve-shaken
Any popular uprising will be directed
against the government, as well as the
Americans and other foreign residents. The
administration unsuccessful attempt to
disarrn the volunteers and the postpone
ment of the autonomist elections are the
ostensihle reasons for the anti Blanco senti-
ment. The real reason lies in the efforts
of Weyler's agents. On the streets where
crowds gather and in the cafes and "bode-
gas" particularly one hears ''muere Blanco"
death to Blanco) more ferventIy than
Viva Espana.''
Viva Weyler'' and Down with RIanco"
divide the heroic Spanish throat. In Blan-
cos own palace court yard there are cries
Concluded from Second Page.)
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CURIOUS EXEMPTION.
Cars Wrecked, Cattle Killed, Grain
Spilled, but Eggs UnbrOken.

PLANO, Ill.,, March 4-Seven cars in the
center of a full train of special freight on
the Burlington road left the track near
here, the result Of broken fange, and
were tumbled over into a ditch. Four of
the cars were laden with grain, two con-
tanned cattle and one was packed from the
floor to the roof with eggs. The grain cars
were splintered and the grain scattered all
about Many of the cattle in two of the
cars were killed. but the car containing the
eggs, although it turned over twice before
landing in the ditch, preserved its contents
intact Investigation showed that not an
egg was broken. The Burlington puts this
down as one of the most remarkable wrecks
on the road. The tracks were cleared in
three hours and traffic resumed
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Dons CaIlning Down.

LONDON, March 5.-The Madrid CORE
spondent Of the Daily Mail says: In con-
trast with the olamor in America there Is
almost absolute calm here and that, too,
oven on the bourses, where the falls are due
to foreign selling. The general opinion is
that the United States dare not make the
Maine suspicion, which is unsupported by
evidence and is abhored by European opin-
ion, the pretext for war. The distress in
various parts of the country occupies the
public mind far more than American rela-
tons Notwithstanding the reduction in the
grain duty, famine threatens The Social
lists are utilizing the dearth, under guise of
electioneering, as a means of fomenting
popular agitation; and it would require
some overt act of injustice on the part of
America to divert ruhlic sentiment.
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REAL BOOK WORMS.
Lennox Library Has the Only Three
known, hut Their Health Is Poor.

NEW YORK, March 4.-rhe Lennox IL
brary officials are concerned about the
health of two of their bookworms whose
poor appetite and sluggish demeanor have
given rise TO fears that these rare and
ancient gems of the worm world may soon
give up the gost. Lennox library for the
last two years has had the only three live
bookworms at present known to science
The two which are now ailing were found
in a large vellum bound book on canonical
law printed in Antwerp in 1884. and it IS
calculated that they must be two hundred
years old anyway This calculation lends
an air TO the theory that they are simply
succumbing to the infirmities of old age
The two bookworms are respectively one
eighth and one-sixteenth of an inch long
They. with a. third bookworm of more re-
cent date and much smaller, have lain on
exhibition in a glass covered cardboard box
In Lennox library for the last two years.
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A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM.
Ell NacionaI Discusses the Proposal to
Sell Cuba.

MADRID, March 4.-Commenting on the
runors of President McKinleys project to
purchase Cuba, FL Nacional, in an article
under the caption, THE Best Solution of
the Cuban Problem" exclaims: ''Will no.
body preach and proclaim the annexation
of Cuba to the United States by agreement
with Spain, on condition that the United
States redeem us from the insular debt, fa-
voring us during certain period by tariff
concession and guaranteeing, under pow
erfui authority and a respected flag, the
lives and property of Spaniards resident in
Cuba. Behold solution of the problem
which would win popular sympathy. pro-
curing the best termination of any foreseen
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THE NAVY AND ARMY.
Movements of War Ships-InspectiOn
of Forts at Dry TOrtugaa


WASHINGTON, March 4-NavaI officials
here. are deeply interested in the reports of
the purchase of war ships by Spain and
make the reports of these transactions the
text for complaints of the inability of our
Navy Department to do likewise How
ever, as to the report from London to-day
of the purchase of the Amazonius by Spain.
1t is said at the department that this vessel
sailed for Brazil several months ago and
has been delivered to the Brazilian govern
ment. Her sister ship is near completion in
the Armstrong yards. They are useful
cruisers, copies of the Barossa now of the
Brazilian navy, and their strong point is
their great radius of action-S.OOO miles
which would enable them to cross the At
lantic and recross without renewing their
coal supply The other two ships building
for Brazil in France, which are also re-
ported to be about to pass into Spanish
possession, are presumed to be the Deadoro
and the Floriona. which are building at La
Seinne, Toulon. These are small but power
full little battle ships. Their tonnage is
only 3,162. but they carry four ten-inch
rifles in turrets, in addition to two six-inch
and four 4.7-incb guns and good sec
ondary battery. Their coal endurance. how
ever. is small and their forte would seem
to be coast-defense operations or cruising
near a base of supplies
The London reports also caused comment
at the State Department. In some quarters
the feeling was expressed that pending the
finding OF court Of inquiry on case hav-
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MISS WlLLARD'S WILL.
Estate of the w. c. II. us Late Presi-
dent Valued at Only $4,000.

CHICAGO, March 4.-The will of the late
Frances L. Willard was offered for probate
to-day. Most of the estate is left to Miss
Anna Gordon, but Miss Wizards home in
Evanston is left to Miss Gordon and Mary
Bannister Willard during their lives, and
viii revert eventually to the benefit of the
National Women's Christian Temperance
Union. The estate is estimated At $1,000.
OF which $4,000 is in real property.
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FELL 444 FEET.
John F. Armstrong Killed by Jumping
Into a Mine Shaft.

IsHPEMlNG, Mich. March 4.-John f.
Armstrong, mining man OF considerab BILE
note and we'll known throughout the Lake
superior region and Western mining dis
tricts, while temporarily insane. brought on
py Illness, walked TO one of the Lake Su-
perior Mining Companys shafts last even
ing about o'clock and jumped into the
opening. falling 444 feet. His b0dy will be
sent to Marquette this morning for inter-
msnt. de was unmarried.
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SCOPE or THE INQUIRY.

Admiral Sicard's instructions 20 fha
Naval Investigators.
WASHINGTON. March 4--Admifal slc.
ards precept convening the court Of IN.
Quiry now investigating the disaster to The
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Fatr weather.
''The Apparel Oft
PrOclaims the Man.
pablieLibr.v4 1909

Well, that depends upon the apparel Some cloth
ing is like yard stick, straight up and down, with
any line of beauty. Not It's made to
ft-that's the whole secret of it.
Our new, silk-lned SPRING TOP COATS in Covert
Cloth marvels of beauty and finish and have 'chc-
ness about them that shows artists had the making
thenw BE to them before you buy.
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EVIDENCE THAT SPAIN is PREPAR-
ING FOR CONTINGENCIES.
Either Getting Ready to Open HostiI-
tiles with the United States or to
Defend the Antilles.
SHE is BORROWING MONEY
AND BIDDING FOR ALL PURCHAS-
ABLE WAR SHIPS IN EUROPE.

she Is Also Fitting Out All Her Own
Cruisers, IrOncladS and Torpedo
Boats and Sending Them 40 Cuba.
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WAGON WHEAT, 00O
ACME MILLING CO..
Old 35z West Washington st.
Invalid Chairs

OF all kinds and accessories for the sick room.
Trusses made and properly adjusted. Store open
every Saturday night.
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ONew No 127, n 3. Illinois St. Indianapolis. Zs.t,.
The Mena star., 1898-09-14
Vaccinations.

In the German army only six or
seven cases of smallpox occur annually,
and there can be little doubt that this
almost complete immunity from dis
ease which formerly decimatcd conti-
mental armies is due to the thorough
way in which vaccination is carried out.
All recruits are revaccinated, and the
regulations prescribe that there shall
be at least ten punctures in each arm.
further confirmation of this view
may be found in the fact that the one
soldier who died from the smallpox
in the period from 1874 to 1887 was a
man who was twice unsuccessfully re-
yaccinated when recruited. There can
be no doubt that other diseases are
sometimes communicated through the
medium of vaccine lymph, but the un-
preiudiced observer will probably ar
rive at the conclusion that these form
but very insignificant fraction OF the
number of smallpox cases which would
ensue from the abolition of vaccination.
There are. no doubt. many objections
in either human or animal lymph, and
we look forward for the time when the
cultivation of vaccine virus shall take
Mace in a sterilized medium which can
transmit no other disease.-Westmin-
STR Pcview.