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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-07-26

Butter: Produce-Extra creamery,
19c per Id; extra dairy, 161s@17c; pack
inc stock, 14c .Eggs-Fresh stock. 1lHac
per doz. Live poultry-Turkeys so
6hc per Ib; chickens. hens, &c. springs,
ducks. TIC; springs, 10012c; geese, IS. 50
90 per doz. New potatoes-Harly
Ohio 28030c per bu. New apples-$2.O 0
$500 per brl. Blackberries-50cQ .0U
per 24-qt case.
Chicago Live Stock.
Hogs-Estimated receipts for the day,
IS .OOO Sales ranged at $4.65@5.30 for
pigs, $520@5.45 for light $5.05@5.2O for
roufgh packing, $5.20@5.45 for mixed,
and S5.25@545 for heavy packing and
shipping lots Bulk of sales at $500
$40. af-
CattIe-Estimated receipts for the
day. 1900. Quotations ranged at $5.40
05.75 for choice to extra steers, $500
!. 40 for good to choice do, $4.80@5.15 for
fair to good do, $4.50@4.75 common to
medium do, S4.30@4.55 butchers steers.
S4.8005.5O fed western steers, $400@4.80
feeding steers, $250@4.60 cows, SS.50@
SO heifers, $2.75@4.40 bulls and oxen,
$4,000 80 stays, $3.S0@5.00 Texas steers
and 450@675 veal calves.
Sheep-Estimated receipts for the
dav. 1900. Quotations ranged at $3.50
@1.35 westerns, $8.25@4.S5 natives. 81 SO
M6.25 western lambs. and $415Q6.66 ma
tive lambs.
Milwaukee Grain.
Milwaukee, July a.
Wheat-.Lower; No. northern. TICS
No 2 northern, 741k@76c. Rye-Nomis
nal; No /, 56c. Barlsy-Nomina1; NO.
2, 47@47Aac; sample. AO04Tc Oats
Lower: No. 2 white. Ss&Q&sc.
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Mrs. C. F. Cooper and her sister.
Mrs. Chase, spent the day with
friends in Chicago.
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AN EMBASSY Is VACANT
Gen. Draper Resigns His Mission to the
Court of Italy.

Worcester, Mass, July 25.-The Ca
zette has a special from it's Milford
correspondent announcing that Gen
eral w. f. Draper, of Milford, has
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-07-26
Excursion Tickets to Street Fair at RAJ
cine, WIS, s5 e

Via the North Western Line, will be
sold at reduced rates, July Is to %, inaA
elusive, limited to July 80. Apply to
agents. Chicago & Northwestern
R'Y. DIV
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THE MARKETS.
Chicago Grain and Produce.

Chicago, July "a.
blowing were the quotations on the
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26
BODY FOUND BY POLICE.
Death of Charles Alexander, coiored
While Alone in IA House in New Street.

Death of Charles Alexander, Colored
While Alone in IA House in New Street.
Charles Alexander, aged about 81
years, Il wel-Known coiored man, was
found dead by the police about l.s0
O'Clock Tuesday at his residences, Il
small frame dwelling in New street, a
small thoroughfare running north from
Eighth street between Crane and Tat
nall. just when he died is not known,
neither is it known what caused death,
although it is believed death resulted
room heart disease.
From what the police have been able
to learn, Alexander went TO the housp
last Friday and had Eeen there alone
ever since. Neighburs became suspi-
cious and Monday brought the maiter
to the attention of Policemen Solomon
and Mcbride, who forced the door open
and made IN inv estigation. They found
Alexun6es's body in IA room on the
secoud floor of the building. There
was very little furniture in the house
and the surroundings were not at all in
viting. Deputy Coroner Giles was
notified and had the body taken to the
morgue.
1t is believed Alexander died short
time after entering the house last Fri
day. He had two daughters, but they
did not live with him. Deceased was
familiar figure around town. He
made his living chiefly by cleaning
Offices, whitewashing and doing other
work Of ths.t Kind.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26
SATRTLING FIGURES ON FAMINE.

=
Over Three Million People Already
Affected i'm the Country.
The State Department Mt Washington
has made public one of the reports upon
which ii based its statement to the
Navy Department relative to the famine
in India. This particular report is
from United States Consul Fee, at
Bombay, and presents startling figures
to illusti ate the oxtent of the vista
tion. Mr.. Fee says that notwithstand-
ing the season of acute distress has
hardly commenced. the returns far ex-
ceed those recorded during the initial
stages of the famine three years ago.
1t then affected only 1000. 600 persons !;
now the figure is 3, 900, GOO, and the
daily expenditure is placed at SS4, 900.
The famine area covers 300, 900 square
miles, with a population of 40, 600, COO,
and there ia further area of about
145, 900 square miles, with a population
of 21.000, 900, in which mere or less
distress prevails, and where relief
already has been or will be given. The
consul says that the applications for
relief are overtaxing the State authorl-
Ties and are incl easing at an appalling
rate, the number of applicants ut the
relief works during the last week in
January advancing 250,0 and bring
ing up the total to 3, 800, 600, with the
most trying period still two months
distant.
In conclusion, the consul expresses
the fear that the South African war
will so divert the attention and con.
tributions of Englishmen as to oblige
India to fight the plague and famine
alone.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26
A GREEDY SET.

DR.. s. q. Schumacher lectrrod Mon
day afternoon at the New Century Club
on earniyorous plants which he charac-
terized as above; he told of their deep-
laid schemes for securing insect food,
in which they almost show intelligence,
and OF their wonderful adaptation to
this end. He showed u Venus Fly
Trap, which he said contained the
most wonderful plant mechanism
known. The moment an insect touches
the leaf it closes instantly, the points
on its edge interlacing, go there is no
escape for the unlucky trespasser who
is at once covered with fluid which
aids the plant in digestion and on
analysis was found to contain pepsin,
the active principle in human digestion.
DIR. Schumacher asserted that the plant
can count two for If wrapped with a
twig OF Iencil once it does not close
but always responds to the second tap.
He displayed samples of two varieties
of pitcher plant, which were also ad
mirably adapted to lead the unwary OH
that downward path that means de-
structicn and showed mass of half
rligested insects at the bottom of one
of the pitchers, The little "Sundew -
which glistens in the morning sun in
our surrounding fields, belongs also to
this family, and when an insect,
allured by the glittering feast spread
for him alights on 1t, the sticky
moisture holds him fast while it's
bristling points slowly close and gather
him, not to its heart, but its stomach.
Even the common petunia of our lawns
feeds on the tiny insects while it holds
tbapn fact in ita sticl<y stem,
Our dependence upon plant life was
explained; the sun is the great motive
power of the world, but if we lie in
that comes from the plant life, whose
energy is stored in sunshine. Literally
all flesh is grass, and our power comes
from the devouring of plant life, or of
animals that have devoured it.
DIR. Schumacher urged bis hearers not
to miss the beauty of the blossoming
trees, which passes so quickly; the
spring Is rushing now; there is n
glorious burst Of beauty in the Norway
NAPLES along Delaware avenue, which
today will be at its height and then
cannot be thus seen for another year.
The towering of the larches is on.
quisite, an event in ones life each
spling. Pull down a branch and see
the exquisite little red pistils that are
going 10 he cones. The valleys along
the creeks are yellow with the bios
SONS OF the spice bush, soon the
sisssafras will be out, and then the
most beautiful of all, the dogwood.
Truly
Gods in His Heaven,
Ais right with the world.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26
PROPERTY TRANSFERS,

Many Changes of Real Estate Ownership
Recorded Mt the City Bureau. ~
The following real estate transfers
have been recorded at the city registra,
tion bureau during the past few days;
Property on the south side Of Third
street east of Lombard, by Cornelius
Dugan, administrator, to Martin Keat-
ing west side of Van Buren street
north of Linden, oy Joseph L. Oar
penter Jr,., to Minnie r. Carpenter;
Nos. $40 and 5l2 Orange street. by
Francis M. Walker, trustee, to James
Q. Bonner: No. Alb North Van Buren,
street, by Eugene B. Mitchell to James
Lynch, Jr.; southwest corner of An
chorage street and Sixth avenue, by
the Real Estate Trust Co. to Lawrence
j. Broman: north side of Fourth street
east of Tatnall, by Lewis II. Moore,
administrator, to Allen Smith; north
east corner of Head and lobdell
streets, by Charles E. Lucas, ct all, to
Alexander Tyo; No. PIT Tatnall street.
by A fired johnson to Ethan Jones; No.
1l9 Logan street, by Michael j.
O'Rourke to Marion LashowslSi; south
west corner of A street and New Castle
avenue, by .dena Ahrens, executrix, to
Henry q. Roller; east side of Townsend
street south of A, by the Artisans
Savings Bank to Stonewall j. Sturty;
west side of Harrison street north of
Conrad, by Peter j. Ford to Jane Nc
Donough: Nos. 422 and 422la East
Seventh street, by Alfred B, Moore to
Clarence A. Neal: east side of Tatnall
street between Eighth and Ninth, by
Josephine M. r. White and Fred G.
Hodges to Stansbury J. Wiley, ct al
northeast side of Twenty second street
northeast of Lammut, by Patrick Kelle-
her to jeremiah Nolan; Nos. 1929 and
1924 Lombard street aud north of Shear
man and east of Lombard, by Addie L.
b. Taggart to Elisha X. Thompson
north side of Pennsylvania avenue and
east of Scott, by Marion n. Wood to
William g. Hamilton No. 800 Tatnall
street. by Laura Q. Green TO Stansbury
j. Wiley, ct al. Nos. sos and 1901
Madison street, by Mary W. Finley to
Samuel H. Wiley.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26
THE THIRD OF ITS KIND
More Than Two Thousand Missionaries
Attending ECumsniCal Conference.
THE MEETING OPENED SATURDAY
Benjamin Harrison Made the
Address OF Welcome.
GREAT WORK FOR COMING CENTURY

New York, April 21.-With former
President of the United States, Benia-t
min Harrison, to bid them welcome,
there are, gathered today in Carnegie
Hall more than 1000 missionaries, from
almost every quarter of the globe. For
10 years preparations have been under
way for this meeting. known as the
Ecumenical Conference on Foreign
Missions. 1t is the third of its kind
ever held. Every branch OF chris
tianity is represented except the Roman
Catholic, the Greek ard that branch OF
the Anglican Church known as the
Society for the Propagation Of the
Gospel.
The foreign missionary work OF the
world is conducted by seven great
societies. They are the Christian Mis-
sionary Society, which represents the
Evangelical party in the Church CT
Engla and is almost as large as the
other six together; the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel, representing
the Catholic party in the Church of
England, and which declined to attend
the conference; the London Missionary
Society of tile Congregational Church;
the American Board of Foreign Mis-
CONS, also of the Congregational Church;
the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis-
sions, the Missionary Society Of the
Methodist Episcopal Churcn and the
American Baptist Missionary Union. :
The sessions of the conference will
last until May lst, not including Sum
days. On Sundays, the delegates will
be assigned tc churches in the five oity
boroughs and suburban towns, to make
addresses and preach sermons In regard
to their work.
The Protestant foreign missionary
societies of the world spend about
SIS, 100000 a year to advance their
work. This is exclusive of money ex-
pended on missions in England and
America. Every cent of this vast sum
is used to convert nom Christians to
christianity. This great work was first
started in the close of the Eighteenth
Century and tho beginning Of the Nine
tenth. The conference now In session
is held at the close of this century us q
fitting time, and to make way for the
great work of the century about to
dawn. As stated by one Of the leaders
in the movement, the one great purpose
of this gathering off workers from all
corners of the earth is to look back over
the century closing, and to survey and
prospect the woi of the future'
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26

themselves: Sheriff, clerk of peace,
recorder of deeds, Levy Court com
missioner, receiver of taxes, rrothono-.
tary, register Of wills, comptroller.
These rules to take effect January lst,
1902.
Twentieth. Any member of this
county com mittee representing hun
dred or districts outside of Whining
ton failing to attend three consecutive
regular meetings of this committee
without reasonable excuse for his
absence may be suspended or his seat
declared vacant.
Twenty first. A member from the
city of Wilmington and member from
a majority of the districts outside the
city being present at meeting, shall
constitute quorum.
Twenty second. These rules can he
altered or amended only at regular
meeting of this COMMITTEES, and then
only if said proposed amendment or
alteration has been read at previous
regular meeting of the committee and
notice of said amendment or altera-
tion has been mailed to each member,
and said alteration or amendment CAN
not NE passed unless 1t receives two
thirds vote of the members present.
A meeting of the delegates from the
Second district was held and Richard
G. Buckingham was chosen chairman,
| and Joseph G. Jolls secretary,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26
THE $40, 900 CITY LOAN.
The Change From the Union Bank to the
First National Bank Looked Upon as
nnutI,..,.,t., E,hnn,a

The Change From the Union Bank to the
First National Bank Looked Upon as u
Deliberate Scheme.
The more it is looked into, the more
it appears that the movement in City
Council by which the loan OF SAC, 600
was negotiated with the Fnst National
Bank. and this bank made the active
depository for city funds instead OF the
Union Bank. appears like carefully
conceived scheme.
So far as o saving of interest m the
lean is concerned, there is protiabil lity
that the agents of the city overreached
themselves, aud negotiated the loan at
higher rate Of interest than could
have been secured from tho Union
Bank. No member of tho france com
mittee OF City Council appeared ut the
Union Itank to talk about the loan.
The only communicable: with tho
latter bank was by the clerk of City
Council, and after his interview the
matter of interest was in an indefinite
shape, although 5 per cent had been
suggested, the representative of tho
bank giving the assurance that the ui-
rectors would no doubt make satis-
factory arrangement for the loan. =.
The proceedings, thel efore, have all
the appearance Of u scheme by some
Interested persons with purpose to
serve. Who the chief engineer was does
NOT appear on the surface, although one
or two guesses have been made in this
direction.
The action of Councilman Kane and
President Alexander in suppressing the
letter to City Council upon tho subject
of the loan, written by Cashier Dandy
of the Union Bank, continues to he =
subject of comment. This unwarranted
act is now regarded as n portion OF the
plan by which the scheme to put the
First National Bank in the, place OF
the Union Bank was engineered through
City Council.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26


The proper officers of the board were
authorized to draw upon City Council
foi the May appropriation.
On motion of Mr.. Baugh, the board
accepted the invitation OF the Joint
memorial committee OF the Grand
Army of the Republic to participate
in the parade on the afternoon OF the
Memorial Day.
The repair committee was authorized
to make some repairs in the yard of
No. Is School during May week.
When the time arrived for resuming
consideration of the proposed revision
in bylaws it was decided after some
discussion, to postpone the matter
until the next meeting. This was due
to the fact that the law committee had
discovered, after having its report
printed, that there were some amend
ments in the minutes which had been
adopted some time ago and were not
before the committee at the time.
Since the meeting two weeks ago the
committee made -he discovery and was
ready to proceed, but some of the other
members thought il might be we'll to
have more time for considering the
matter, hence the Eostponenient.
COMMITTEES cards for the year 1900
1901 have been printed and were dis
tributed during the meeting among the
members. When the appointments we're
announced two weeks ago President
Shortlidge gave the members per-
mission to change PLACES on any Of the
committees il there was any desire TO
do so. Only two changes were made.
William Oscar Brown succeeds William
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26
The RrandYwine Springs Line.

General Manager Crook of tho Will.
mlngton u Brandywine Springs rail
way says the company has reached no
decision in the matter of running line
of automobiles in this city to connect
with its road at the city line. Mean
while the traffic agreement between Mr..
Crooks company and tho Wilmington
City Railway Go. continues in force,
and an effort may be madn in the COM
ing season to provide increased facIli-
ties for reaching the park. --..-
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26
DOUBLE SUICIDE.
Charles S. .Rosenbauin and Florence HunoId
Found Dead,

Charles S. s.Rosenbaum and Florence HunoId
Found Dead.
Philadelphia, Pa, April 23.-Charles
S. Rosenbaum, aged y years, of this
city, and Florence Hunold, IS years old,
of Delanco, N. j., were found dead in
bed today, in a room WHICH both occu-
pied, at No. 4219 Germantown avenue,
with the gas turned on. The pair had
been dead more than "a hours. The
case is believed to be one of double
suicide.
Rosenbaum was manager Of pawn.
brokIpg establishment, and business
and domestic difficulties are believed
to have caused his suicide. His wife
was about to enter suit for divorce. In
addition to this, he was threatened with
arrest by the proprietor of the pawn
shop, for alleged Irregularities. Moth
ing is known of the girl other than that
she lived with him.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26
LrGHrHoUsN .1ND sIGN11 STATION


Special Correspondence OF Gazette and Journal.
Washington, April 90. The House
of Repr esentatives, Saturday, passed
thu Senate bill, which was introduced
by Senator Kenney some time ago,
appropriating $4,000 for the erection
of lighthouse and signal station on
the new breakwater in Delaware Bay.
The bill now goes to the President fot
his signature. 1t is very likely that
the bill will he signed by the President
during the ensuing week.
After Mr.. Mckinley has affixed his
name to the bill it will be sent to the
Lighthouse Board of the Treasury De-
partment. All that remains to be done
after this is for the board to ask for
bids for the work and it is very likely
that the work will begin during the
coming simmer.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26
no MINE G0LD.
Organization of IA Company Chartered in
p This State.


The South Mountain Gold Mining
Co.. says a Newport News. Va. dis
match, has Just been organized here,
with capital stock OF e25O, 900, ard 1T
will at once put in machinery for tho
purpose of working mines IN the South
Mountain telt Of North Carolina,
where several largo tracts have been
purchased outright and several options
obtained The company was chartered
nnder the laws OF Delaware.
Robert P. Orr, president Of the City
Hank. is president of the new company !;
r. ID. Southland of New York timber
and lumbor dealer, is vice-president,
and j. A. Willett, cashier Of the First
National Bank, this city, formerly OF
New York, is treasurer. Other, New
Yorl,ers in the directors are J. T.:
Anyon Of Barrow, Wade u Guthrie, and
I. Eugene White, pier and dock builder,
of Brooklyn. General Superintendent
Walter A, Post of the Newport News
Ship Building and Dry Dock Co., is
one Of the directors.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26
CHINESE CATHOLICS MASSACRED.

Tien Tsin, China, April 2a. Mem
bers Of the Boxers Society, Satur-
day, massacred many Chinese Catholics
near Pao Ting Flu, in the Province Of
Pc Chi Ii, southwest of 'Fien Tsip,
The German sunboat lltis arrived at
Taku Saturday. The other war vessels
have left those waters. .Na
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26

from Council for the two months,
which are fixed by law at sl2, 800. 0l
per month, will amount to S25, $40. OF,
and if the expenses during April and
May equal those of March, the deticlt
on the first of July will be s3,477. 6S.
President Shortlidge agreed with
MIR. Turner that the board should
be economical, but said the condition,
il 1t should be as pointed out above, at
the end OF the year, would be better
than at the close of the last fiscal year,
when the deficit was between S10,0
and Sll, 600.
During the meeting it was decided,
as required by law, to submit the fol-
lowing estimates of the probable re-
ceipts and expenditures for the next
fiscal year to City Council, the esti-
mates having been prepared by the
finance committee, which based its
work upon the reports for the fiscal
year which is drawing to close:
To the Honorable. The City Coun-
oil of Wilmington, Gentle
men: The following is copy Of the
estimates of the receipts and expenses
Of the Board OF Public Education in
Wilmington, prepared by the COM
mittee on finance, for the year ending
June 30th, 1901:
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26
TIE STORY OF BANK CLEARINGS.

Indications That the Present Year Will
Equal the Banner Year of 1893 in Busi-
ness.
The clearings at the Wilmington
banks last week were 81, 139, 3l4. 50, as
compared with 1916, 957. 81 for the cor
responding period of last year. Although
a matter of two or three hundred
Thousand dollars III the oloarings in
one week might not be certain in
dication of general increase in bust
ness, areyiew of figures for six months
or for yenr, shows decidedly that
business is increasing. The clearings
of the banks represent the total of all
the checks sent by the local banks
through the clearinghouse and do not
include checks from corresponding
banks or the checks drawn by de-
positors and entered direct in the bank
on which drawn, So that the volume
CT business is much greater than in
dicated by the clearinghouse figures,
although they may very we'll be taken
as barometer to show whether more
or less business is being duno than
before
The clearing house was started in
this city October lsl, 1851, and for tho
first year, its clcaringS weie s35, 0G5, 1CS.
pIht IssutS ~ hio-At a'''' ~
reached high water mark in the pros.
porous year of 1898. when the total
clearings we're SAG, 500, 525.
In the following yenr came the de-
preston, anil the clearings dropped to
about So, 600, COO ;in lS95 and 1895, the
clearings we're about the same ; in 1897,
they fell TO about s3i, ,000,0W. An
upward tendency began af!er that, and
the figures for 1883 show s3T, ,0OO, 900,
and those for 1889, $4,000, 900.
For the first six months of the year
which will end Sentembor Both next,
the clearings aggregate 52i, Bob, 05l,
which is I'm increase of 81, lS3.3S3 over
the corresponding period of last year.
For tho whole year ending April lst
last, the ciearings were Si4, 522, 725, as
! against SO, lT7,77S for the correspond
ing period of the previous year. q gain
of s., 344, re.
In the opinion of Secretary John III.
DANNY of the Clearing Hovse Associa-
tion, the year ending September 30th,
will probably show q greater total than
the high water mark year of 1893.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26

In the United States Court Monday
on motion of Robert ii. Richards,
james Prettyman of Seaford was dis
charged fiom bankruptcy
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-26

The Atlantic Oil Co. will erect two
large oil tanks at Nauticoke City.