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«. W. KltlMEII, Editor.
M’CRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1901.
VOL. I.—NO. 16.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL.
On the 11th King Charles of Portu
gal, in the presence of the Portuguese
cabinet ministers, the insular author
ities and the officers of British and
Portuguese cruisers, inaugurated, at
Ponta del Gadn, Island of Miguel,
Azores, the International Meteoro
logical observatory.
On the 11th Gov. Berried of South
Dakota appointed A. 15. Kittridge, of
Sioux Falls, as senator to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Senator
Kyle.
On the 11th Herbert L. Bridgman,
secretary of the Peary Arctic club
and head of the expedition to the
north by which it is hoped to discover
the fate of Explorer It. E. Peary, his
wife and little daughter, left New
York, for Sidney, Cape Breton, which
will be his sailing point.
On the 12th the dead body of B. H.
Newell, who was known as a humor
ist 40 years ago, under the name of
Orpheus C. Kerr, was found in his
apartments in Brooklyn. Death had
occurred several days previously.
On the 12th Judge Dissette, of the
Cleveland (O.) common pleas court,
appointed Senator M. A. Hanna guar
dian of the three children of his son,
Dan It. Ilanna, by the latter’s di
vorced wife. This action followed in
junction prohibiting Mrs. Hanna from
removing the children from the juris
diction of the Cleveland courts. She,
however, learned of the. court's ac
tion, and, with the children, left for
New York before the papers were
served upon her.
On the 12th George C. Tilden, a
well-known mineralogist, was com
mitted to the state hospital for the
insane at Stockton, Cal. While explor
ing mining property in Salvador, Mr.
Tilden was attacked with fever and
later mental trouble developed. He
was formerly slatt mineralogist of
New York, and is a nephew of the
late Samuel J. Tilden.
Senor Federio Errazuriz, president
of Chili, who had been in feeble
health for more than a year, died on
the 12th. He was elected president
in 1896, for a term of five years.
Secretary Hay, on the 12th, carry
ing out a decision previously reached,
gave an instruction to Mr. Ilockhill to
support the Japanese application for
an enlargement of their indemnity to
be paid by China from 46,000,000 yen
to 54,000,000 yen, to cover the depreci
ation in Japanese bonds as compared
with those of some other nations.
Secretary of State Hay has received
a number of communications from
merchants and exporters, bogging
him to secure the withdrawal of the
resignation of Consul-General Stowe,
at Cape Town, in view of Mr. Stowe’s
great services to the American ex
port trade.
IIISCELLANEODS.
On the 11th Dr. August M. Unger,
Under conviction in Chicago for con
spiracy in the Pefenbach insurance
case, was taken to Joliet. Dr. Unger
commenced the service of his sen
tence at his own request.
On the 11th the secretary of the
treasury purchased short-term bonds
us follows: $20,000 threes, at 109.0204;
$2,000 lives, at 109.1372, and $20,500
fours, at 112.9879.
On the 11th about six hundred men
employed in saw and planing mills at
Tapper Luke, A’. Y., went out on
strike, demanding a nine-hour day in
stead of 11. The trouble was occa
sioned by a factory inspector insist
ing that a dozen boys under 18
years old should not be compelled to
work over ten hours. No attempt has
been made to start the mills.
On the 11th Commissioner of Indian
Affairs Jones received an envelope
Postmarked Denver, Col., containing
$40 in bank notes with a simple mem
orandum: “Please give this to any
tribe of Indians. From a friend of
the Indians.” It was forwarded to a
representative of the Indian Indus
trial league for use in its work.
A census office bulletin, just issued,
concerning the urban jwpulation of
the country, shows that 28,411,698 peo
ple in the United States live in cities
and towns of over four thousand pop
ulation, a gain ot almost five per cent,
since the census of 1890, when the per
centage was 3S.9.
On the 12th K. G. Dun & Co. re
ported: “Failures for the week num
bered 208 in the United States, against
196 last year, and 27 in Canada,
against 24 last year.”
On the 12th M. Santos-Dumont’s
cigar-shaped balloon, driven by a mo
tor, had a trial, from St. Cloud, across
Paris, around the. Kiffel tower and
back to St. Cloud. Paris papers say
the trip was quite successful, and
that the balloon ascended and de
scended apparently at the will of the
aeronaut.
The American consul at Tien Tsin,
James Kagsdale, has sentenced three
Ameriwn looters, caught in the CM*
nese quarter of that city, to four
years’ imprisonment in the American
jall at Shanghai. -Mr. Kagsdale also
turned over two Europeans caught
looting to the consuls of Great ttrit
tain and Denmark, respectively.
On the H)th Dr. H. W. Darkness, a
pioneer physician and a well-known
authority on fungi, died at San Fran
cisco, aged 80 years.
On the 12th, at. Buffalo, N. Y., Mrs.
J. R. Yates, of Kansas City, Mo., was
elected president of the National As
sociation of Colored Women, defeat
ing Mrs. Booker T. Washington and
Mrs. Bruce, of Josephine, Miss. Mrs.
Yates had been treasurer of the asso
ciation for four years.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
The ceremony of unveiling, at Kuri
lianra, Japan, on the 14tli„ the monu
ment to commemorate the landing
there of Commodore Perry, July 14,
1853, was performed by Rear-Admiral
Rodgers commanding the United
States visiting squardon.
Fire at Enid, Olcla., that broke out
early on the morning of the 14th, de
stroyed four blocks of business houses
on the public square, involving a loss
of $100,000. Owing to the continued
drought the buildings burned like so
much tinder.
George Gould has closed his home at
Lakewood, N. Y., and, with his wife
and four children, is spending the
time, when not at his office, on the
magnificent yacht Sybarite, cruising
around awaiting a visit from the
stork.
A number of the Epworth League
excursionists, en route to San Fran
cisco, were the victims of a gang of
pickpockets at Colorado Springs, Col.,
who despoiled them of money and
transportation, leaving them strand
ed.
Salt Lake City, Utah, was invaded,
on the 14th, by an army of Epworth
Leaguers and their friends, en route
to San Francisco. The visitors spent
the day in attending divine services
and viewing points of interest.
Dick Liddell, the former Missouri
bandit and train robber, died at Cin
cinnati, on the 14tli, where he was
racing a string of horses. Liddell was
an associate of the James and Young
er boys.
Army officers returning from the
Philippines report that Gen. Fred
Funston expects to tender his resig
nation as brigadier general in the
regular army and engage in private
business.
Gov. Sage of Nebraska has paroled
Joseph Bartley, former state treas
urer, convicted of the embezzlement
of nearly half a million dollars of
state funds and given a 20-year sen
tence.
The emigration from Germany by
way of Hamburg and Bremen, during
the first six months of this year,
reached 112,008, as against 115,370 for
the corresponding period last year.
Reports from the west, northwest
and southwest, on the 14th, indicate
no let-up in the hot weather and
drought. The corn crop will, in some
sections, be a complete failure.
The first meeting of the trustees of
the Carnegie educational fund of $10,
000.000 was held at Edinburgh, on the
15tli, Lord Elgin presiding. A letter
from Mr. Carnegie was read announc
ing that he. had signed the deed plac
ing the fund at the disposal of the
trustees.
Several hundred negro excursionists
from Macon caused a riot at Ameri
cas, Ga., on the 15th. which resulted
in the shooting of two police officers
and the instant killing of Ball English,
a Macon negro, the ringleader of the
disturbance.
As the result of a flash of lightning
striking a straw shed on a farm a mile
north of Newcomerstown, O.. on the
15tli, three persons who had taken
shelter from a prevailing storm were
killed and two others seriously in
jured.
Mrs. Fillmore Fetrow, living on
Round island, four miles below Lan
sing, la., found, on the 15th, a pearl
weighing1 139% grains of the size and
shape of a chocolate drop.
Five persons—engineer, two brake
men and two tramps—were killed in
a collision of Missouri. Kansas & Tex
as freight trains near Muskogee, 1. T.,
on the 15th.
The annual report of the auditor for
the treasury department shows that
during the last year accounts were ex
amined involving an aggregate of $5,
800,761,014.
In the Ellis Glenn trial at l’arkers
burg, \V. Va., the forgery issue in the
case has almost been lost, sight of in
the effort to prove the identity of the
prisoner.
Shamrock II. had her final brush
with Shamrock 1. on the 15th. She
will now receive her ocean rig and will
start across the big i>ond in a few
days.
A mob of negroes at Courtland, Ala.,
on the 15th, hanged Alexander Her
man, a negro charged with killing Sal
lie Swope. Herman made a confes
sion.
At Herrenberg and Wurtemhurg,
Germany, the crops have been half
ruined by hail, and they have been
badly damaged in other sections.
Fire of mysterious origin destroyed
three buildings on the Des Moines
county (la.) ppor farm, on the 15th.
Loss, $40,000, insurance, $24,000.
There was an enormous cloud-burst
at PotBdam,Germany,on the 15th. Two
men and many cattle were killed in
the mountains by lightning.
I
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Widow’s Cone Reversed.
The state supreme court ha* re
’ersed and remanded for another
•rial the case of Regina Tomlinson vs.
he St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
lout hern Railway Co. Tomlinson,
vho was a lieutenant in the Washing
ton Fencibles, was killed at the Union
iepot in Little Rock by a passenger
ocomotive while attempting to cross
the platform. lie was on his way
tome with his company July 8, 1894,
ifter participating in the interstate
iompetitive drill held in Little Rock.
The case was tried in the Saline coun
ty circuit court and his widow given
iamages amounting to $50,000. Circuit
Judge Duffle reduced the amount to
520,000. The supreme court has re
versed the case and ordered another
trial.
Mndc a Gallant Fight.
A hunch of bull gnats caused much
excitement at Texarkana the olher
morning. A storm on the previous
night drove them into the city, and a
refuge was found in the steeple of the
Catholic church. In swarming they
resembled smoke and the fire de
partment was ordered out. After a
gallant fight the firemen drowned
the gnats, thinking they were fighting
fire.
“Bliml Tiger” Operator* Arrested.
Nathan Walker and K. M. Wade,
both colored, were arrested and
jailed, at I’ine l’.luff, charged with
operating a “blind tiger.” The ne
groes were provided with a United
States license, but had paid no city
or county license. Doth are well
known in colored circles, and theii
business is said to have been quite
profitable up to the time of the ar
-est.
Irkamm Funding Bonds Cniled lit
Pursuant to an act of the general
assembly of the state of Arkansas to
provide for the cancellation of cer
tain state bonds and fix the rate of
sinking fund tax, all holders of valid
six per cent, funding bonds of the
state now outstanding are notified to
present the same to the treasurer or
the state for payment by December 1,
In default of which they will be null
ind void.
A Double Crime Near Turner.
Near Turner, on the borders ot
Phillips and Monroe counties, James
Johns, a white farmer, and his niece
were at home while Mrs. Johns was
visiting her foster father, who was ill.
Neighbors discovered the Johns house
on fire, and rescued the dead bodies
of Johns and his niece. The skulls of
both were crushed, Johns’ arms were
broken and the girl stabbed to the
heart.
Dipper mill Manor n» Weapons.
While the "Lost Coon,” a negro fir
ms, was performing at l’erryville,
Perrv county, a row commenced be
tween two women of the company.
One struck the other with a dipper,
ind she in turn drew a razor, and per
haps fatally cut her assailant. The
outfit was taken in charge by the
slieri ff.
Ila<l Been “Ilueklng’ Him.
Gustave G Wiegand, aged 13, was
Srowned n the Arkansas river near
Fort Smith, while swimming. Several
negro boys were arrested in connec
tion with the drowning, as it is al
leged they had been ducking Wie
gand, and thus exhaunsted him.
Legislative Action I'plield.
The supreme court has sustained
Circuit Court Judge Tillman, of Fay
etteville, in his decision upholding the
notion of the legislature in abolishing
the office of “pomologist” at the
state university, held by Col. W. S.
Vineenheller.
llnve CoiiHolldntcd.
The Helena Compress Co. and the
Planters7 Compress Co., with plants
at Helena, have consolidated under
the name of the Citizens' Compress
Co., with a paid-up capital stock o'
i; 110,000.
Charged With Perjury.
l'rof. J. T. O'Neal, a school-teacher
who has resided in Jonesboro, Craig
head county, for several years, has
been arrested on a charge of perjury
Gave OHIcer the Slip.
James Ward was arrested at Hat,
field, near Mena, charged with sell
ing whisky without a license, but
knocked down the officer and escape,
A New Feature.
A new feature of the Little Hock
ice war is the offer of outside capi
talists to erect new factories and sup.
ply ice at a greatly reduced price.
College Preuldent.
Dr. F. R. Karl, formerly president ot
the famous Cane Hill college, has been
elected president of the Arkansai
Cumberland college at Clarksville.
He Could Not Swim.
William Rush, colored, while bath
ing in the river at Marianna, Leo
counity, got beyond his depth, and
not being able to swim, drowned.
A Portion of the Drought-Stricken
Section of the Country Par
tially Relieved.
BENEFIT HAS RESULTED TO THE CROPS.
The Halos Covered Southwestern Mis*
sourl and Portions of Southeastern
Kansas to the Oklahoma Line—A
Jubilee In the Streets of CoffejTllle,
Kansas.
Kansas City, Mo., July 10.—A por
tion of the drought-stricken south
west has been relieved by rain during
the past 24 hours. Great good has al
ready resulted to crops, and, as there
are prospects of a further downfall,
it is believed thousands upon thou
sands of dollars will be saved farmers
on stock and crops. Nevertheless
much greater quantity of rain must
come before a lasting benefit is done.
In the portions of central and west
ern Missouri, western Kansas and the
territories still untouched by rain con
ditions remain unchanged, the tem
perature ranging from 98 to IOC, the
latter at Hutchinson, Kas.
Where the Rains Fell.
The rains, which come at the end of
a drought of from four to eight weeks’
duration, covered southwestern Mis
souri and portions of one-third of
Kansas, taking in the southeastern
comer of the Sunflower state from
Kiley and Dickinson counties down to
the Oklahoma line. The first break
came Sunday night, when fairly good
rains fell in Barton and Green coun
ties. Mo., and on the Oklahoma bor
der in Kansas in Cowley and Chautau
qua counties, and along the Union Pa
cific road in Kiley county.
Not Yet Sufficient.
These rains, while good, were not
sufficient to place the burned crops
out of danger. Monday morning a
heavy rain fell in the vicinity of Jop
lin, Mo., and traveling west covered
portions of Montgomery, Butler and
Sedgwick counties, Kas. Around Jop
.'in there was a heavy fall for feu min
utes. At 1:30 a soaking rain fell in
Cherokee county across the line in
Kansas, preceded by hail, benefitting
pastures and small grains immensely
and bringing relief to the crushing
plants in the zinc mining district.
During Monday afternoon a heavy
rain fell in the vicinity of Coffeyville,
Kldorado and Wichita, Kas.
A Jubilee In the Streets.
At Coffeyville the people held a jubi
lee on the streets during the rain.
Two counties west from Kansas City
and in Jefferson county, Kas., a full
inch of rain fell in the afternoon,
while in Kansas City a temperature
of 101 prevailed and hardly a cloud
was visible.
Victims of tlie llent.
In Kansas City Mrs. Martha C. Mul
lett, wife of a prominent business
man, died of heat prostration, and
Edward B. Shillito, contracting agent
for the Traders’ Dispatch fast freight
line, was overcome, and taken to his
home in a critical condition. Near
Leavenworth, Kas., on his farm, Sun
day night, Oliver S. Hiatt, a well
known Kansas politician, died from
the effects of the heat.
A SOI RCE OF HOPE YET.
Kaffir Corn ami Alfalfa May Save <lie
Situation.
Topeka, Kas., July 15.—F. D.Cuburu,
secretary of the. state board of agri
culture, does not share in the general
opinion of the ruin that will come up
on Kansas as a result of the present
dry spell. The damage to hay and
corn has been serious, but the defi
ciency will be nearly made up by the
great crops of kaffir corn and alfalfa
that have been raised.
Mr. Coburn states that there are
over 900,000 acres of kaffir corn and al
falfa in the stale, which has not l>een
materially affected by thedry weather.
In addition to this, there are 40,000,000
bushels of old corn in the hands of
farmers. This of itself is nearly a
fourth of the average crop. The farm
er who has stored his corn for the last
two years will not be seriously crip
pled.
Hottest Day on Record.
Baraboo, IVis., July 15.—To-day was
the hottest day on record in this sec
tion. At noon the thermometer reg
istered 106 in the shade. Many farm
ers are selling off their stock for want
of food. The oats crop is a total fail
ure.
110 In the Shade.
Calumet, Mich., July 15.—The gov
ernment has no official observer here,
but in many places to-day thermome
ters registered 110 in the shade. Two
prostrations were reported.
Corn Crop Radiy Fired.
Springfield, 111., July 15.—Advices
from all over central and southern
part of the state are to effect that
the continued heat and drought is fir
ing the corn crop badly, and that if
heavy rains do not occur soon the
crop will be almost an entire failure.
HANNA AND THE PRESIDENCY.
The Ohio Dorn Can Have the dom
ination If lie In Dinponed
to AVnnt It.
When the mention of Air. Hanna in
connection with the presidency was
first made, he was inclined to treat it
as a joke. He may have been honest
in so regarding it, or he may have
been testing the popular feeling, to see
how the suggestion would “take.” In
either event Air. Hanna has ceased to
joke about the matter. Very probably,
the more he thinks about it, the better
he likes the idea. He would be a
strange man, ft he were not proud to
be even suggested as a possible candi
date for president of the United
States; and Mr. Hanna is not of the
shy, shrinking sort of Americans—if
there are any such Americans- -who
would feel utterly disqualified to fill so
high an office. Mr. Hanna, whatever
his limitations, is a sanguine, ener
getic, practical man, and he would look
upon the presidency of the United
States very much as he would look
upon the presidency of a great trust,
in the modern sense of the word; as
fust the place for a skilled combiner
md organizer and man of business.
Such being the probable attitude of
Air. Hanna himself, what of his
chances? It is early yet, but unless
the conditions change greatly who has
a better chance for the republican
nomination? Who has half as good a
grip on the machinery of the repub
lican party? Who else is so close to
the big business men and corporations
that virtually control the machinery
and the candidate-making process of
the republican party? To whom
would the McKinley administration be
so likely to throw its aid as to Mr.
Hanna, if he should see a chance to
win and decide to make a canvass?
All-. Hanna will not be a “receptive
candidate,” in case he should enter the
race. He will not hunt for delegates
with a brass band, but neither will he
sit still and expect delegates to come
to him by some mysterious process
of gravitation or natural attraction.
He will organize his canvass, as thor
oughly and as systematically as he
arganized the McKinley delegate-hunt
of 896. and before the other candidates
know it, he will have the field to him
self; assuming, that is, that there
should t>e reaction within the repub
lican party lines against McKinley
ism, from which Air. Hanna could
hardly disassociate himself, even did
he so desire.
The chances are that Hon. M. A.
TTanna is not worrying about his abil
ity to get the republican nomination,
if he really wants it. He has never
failed, so far. to get about all he want
ed, and he knows the power of or
ganization. machine discipline and
“spot cash" in controlling republican
conventions. What Air. Hanna would
like to know is, what the democratic
party would do. He is probably not
worrying about his “personal unpopu
larity with the voters,” of which some
thing has been said. Gen. Harrison
had been beaten for governor of In
diana before he was elected president.
James G. Blaine and Henry Clay, pop
ular idols both, never reached the
presidency. Certain leaders seem to
think that Mr. Hanna would be an
easy candidate to defeat, and there is
a chuckle in their tones as they speak
of him as a logical republican candi
date; but Mr. Hanna probably does not
doubt his ability to win hands down,
ns against such platforms and candi
dates as have been put forward in
the name of the democratic party in
1896 and 1900. If Hanna could only be
sure that the “logical issue” of 1S9(>
would be again at the front in 1904!
But there exists a strong likelihood
lhat the democratic party will be do
ing business on a common-sense basis
In 1904, with a national platform of
live issues and a candidate to match
It: and Hanna knows it!—Albany Ar
gus.
Our IncnuKruonH Tariff
If the national tariff law was drawn
up for the sole purpose of raising
revenue for the government and was
based, like other forms of taxation,
without discrimination for or against
industries or individuals, there would
be comparatively no complaint. As it
is we have a. tariff the iron schedules
of which are made in the interest of
but half a dozen individuals. With the
protection thus afforded these men
held up the prices of fron goods to
American citizens in the United States,
while the benefit of low prices is given
1o those abroad. Thus we see a law
having for its ostensible object the
upbuilding of American citizens con
verted into an agency to squeeze their
pockets and resulting in the benefit
of lower prices to the man living in
France, in England, in Africa or al
most anywhere so that he is not an
American citizen.—Atlanta Constitu
tion.
-Those who have been indulging
in the delusion that the ship subsidj
steal was dead will receive light from
the resolution of Mark Hanna’s Ohio
convention indorsing the piratical
proposition. Mark Ifanna is deter
mined to have his pound of flesh, and
he and his associate bandits are mak
ing every preparation to put the next
congress in condition such that they
can force this measura through.—In
dianapolis Sentinel.
DINGLEYISM IS DOOMED.
Mannfnclnrers Seeking Foreign
Markets Are Rinltig Against
Protection.
The alternative now presented is
war or ignominious retreat* Senator
Aldrich, chairman of the senate finance
committee, ha« served notioe on the
president that the republican organ
ization in congress is opposed to reci
procity dickers and will defeat any at
tempt to procure the ratification of
those now pending.
Senator Aldrich claims to speak for .
his party in the New England and
eastern middle states. He undeni
ably speaks for those who have pre
vented the ratification of the pending
treaties, and who can continue to de
feat them and others like them unless
reciprocity republicans and demo
crats can agree to pull together, which
is not very likely.
The true democratic doctrine is that
tariffs are to be made by congress,
not by the treaty-making power, and
that congress cannot be divested of its
exclusive prerogative in the matter
of raising revenue by the treaty-mak
ing power or any other power.
The true democratic doctrine is
that reciprocity treaties are repug
nant to the constitution and are no
more to be tolerated than attempts
to discharge any other constitutional
functions of congress by treaty.
Democrats, therefore, should not join
western republicans in ratifying the
pending treaties.
What then? Will Mr. McKinley per
sist in urging the senate to ratify
those treaties? Senator Aldrich warns
him against that course. He assured
the president that the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers, which re
cently held a convention in Detroit, is
merely an association of western
makers of agricultural implements,
and that the real manufacturers of
the country—those east of the Alle
ghanies and north of the Potomac—
will make it uncomfortable for him
if he does not abandon reciprocity.
These real manufacturers have shown
what they can do with Mr. McKinley
heretofore, and they are likely' to dem
onstrate their power to unsettle his
settled convictions of duty once more.
But whipping him into line again
will not end the matter. Thousands
markets. They see that Dingleyism is
shutting the doors of those mar
kets in their faces. If they
find they cannot unlock those
doors by means of reciprocity
treaties they will seek to secure dem
ocratic assistance by attacking Ding
leyism directly in some such way as
that proposed by Representative Bab
cock.
Mr. Aldrich declares that eastern
republicans are practically a unit in
favor of maintaining the Dingley law
intact, and will effectively resent any
attempt to modify its offensive pro
visions, which are shutting doors
against our products.
But western manufacturers, and
many eastern ones, too, are deter
mined that the Dingley rates must
come down; if not In one way, then
in another. Tf they turn to the demo
cratic party for aid they will win,
and neither manufacturing nor agri
cultural interests will be slaughtered
any longer in order to build up the
private fortunes of greedy bene
ficiaries of Dingleyism in Pennsyl
vania and New England.
Mr. McKinley may be turned aside
once more from the path of “pla:n
duty,” but the war is on, and Ding
leyism is doomed.—Chicago Chronicle.
PRESS COMMENTS.
_—The new republican platform is
rather loop- for a party that professes
to be running on the simple issue of
McKinley ism.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
-There may be no danger from
imperialism, but ex-Secretary Foster
thinks that Hanna is a pretty good
imitation of an emperor.—Indianapo
lis News (Ind.).
——Mr. Hanna’s fine work in the
Ohio state convention may he taken
as an indication that he expects the
Buckeye state to furnish the nejjt
president, regardless of Mr. McKijb
ley’s declination.—Omaha World-Her
ald.
-If Senator Hanna car. organize
a machine in a few more states which
will do his bidding as unquestionably
as does the Ohio machine, he can
either be the republican nominee for
president in 1004 or select the gentle
man upon whom that honor shall fall.
—Peoria Transcript.
-The formation of trusts al
ways results in cheapening the prod
uct, as we have been so often assured
by the trust magnates. Nevertheless,
it may be well to note the fact that
the price of linseed oil has been con
stantly on the jump since the Linseed
Oil company was bought by the Stand
ard Oil people.—Hartford Times.
-There are significant signs that
the republican party is being divided
by discord. That party is likely to be
seriously disrupted in congress next
winter over the tariff question, and
who shall say that that party, which
arrogates to itself all the virtue*,
and is insolent in its asumption of un
paralleled powers, may not go tq,
pieces before 1904 through internecine
ouarrels.—Syracuse Telegram.