Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 22, 1902, Page 6

The Herald--Beview. |WHAT IT MEANS By E. C. KILEY. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS, - Jan Kubellk’s raven hair seems to be a splendid re-enforcement to his violin shading. Spanish the Gen. Weyler wants the @rmy reduced—probably to put mavy in countenance. German-built boats may do for trade er the navy, but for himself the em- peror wants the best. An emergency appropriation to sup- ply our statesmen with sparring les- sons is earnestly suggested. Prof. Herron has been in Europe long enough to learn that America is threatened with a revolution. The microbe that causes gray hairs has been discovered, but no injunction has ben served on him as yet. The early spring talk. about the destruction of the peach crop seems to have been nipped in the bud. To the average workman increased wages are better than new resolutions for the beginning of a fresh year. The Pan-American congress is al- ready bearing fruit. Washington is importing Mexican bullsnakes to catch her rats. It will now be in order to watch the Macedonial committee and see if it be- gins spending money with easy non- chalance. These are such surprising days that we barely find time to call attention to an Ohio judge’s trial of a case by telephone. Montana could not get as good as third money in Detroit. It took one of her cashiers over three years to steal a peltry $178,000. There is a 16-year-old boy in Ten- nessee who has killed three men, A boy of that age is almost sure to come to a bad end. A Kentucky farmer is dead from a calf bite. No Kentuckian ever dies from a snake bite. The antidote is al- ways in his pocket. Kansas wants to know if a man can be a Christian on $5 a week. That would depend largely on how much money his wife had. Wilhelmina’s Prince Henry seems to be really trying now to live a blame- less life. A testimonial of some kind ought to be forwarded to encourage him. According to a dispatch, British newspapers are giving the American steel trust credit for various things. The trust doesn’t need credit; it car pay cash. No one has succeeded in improving upon Edward Everett’s estimate of George Washington. “He was the greatest of good men and the best of great men.” According to the census bureau the value of domestic animals, fowls and bees in the United States is $3,200,000,- 000. This includes the cows that pro- duce colored butter. It is no cause for humiliation that the brain of a man weighs three times that of an ape. It takes man three times longer to prove superiority to his ow i atisfaction. The king of Siam has changed his plans and will not visit the United States this year, but the regular an- nual circus will come, street parade and all, the same as usual. Against those who deplore athletics es demoralizing may be pitted the T peka clergyman who declares that “it is all right for college students to pray to God to give them victory in a foot- ball game.” For every excess inch of liberty that the “foreign devils” are now taking | with the humiliated court of China the smiling dowager empress expects to take a mile of bitter revenge in the red bye and bye. Students of an Ohio college hazed a mew man the other night by gagging and binding him and then drepping him twenty feet down a coal hole. Yet the victim failed to see the joke. Some people are so obtuse. Puilanthropist Keene doesn’t believe much in crganized charity, for the rea- son that it demands a certificate of -eharacter before giving aid to people in extremity. It is true enough tat in almost everything else, ineluding the pursuit of pleasure, we take long chances on getting the worth of our money. That Detroit Napoleon of finance had a motto which was, “No man should work after he is forty.” Let us hope, however, that he will excuse «hose depositors who may find it nec- essary, because of what has happened, to keep on toiling after passing the ajlotted age. Banker Andrews thinks he could straighten things out if given a chance. hose bank directors have no great reputation for ‘wisdom, but they will hardly be simple enough to allow An- drews to get another go at the funds. REMARKABLE POSSIBILITIES OPENED BY THE RAILWAY MERGER. NORTHWEST WILL PROFIT BY IT ENORMOUS TRADE WITH THE ORI- ENT WHICH LIES WITHIN OUR GRASP. NOT TO DESTROY COMPETITION POTENTIAL BENEFICENCE OF THE ECONOMIC FORCES CALLED INTO PLAY, Mr. J. J. Hill was recently reported by the New York Journal of Commerce as having said that the two mammoth ships he is building for the Asiatic trade could be operated in successful competition with foreign ships in spite of the higher wages paid to American seamen if our navigation laws permit- ted a better selection and control of crews. The reason for this confidence is plain. It is because he has applied to the construction of his vessels the same principles which have made the “Hill methods” of organizing transpor- tation famous as one of the great morey-saving inventions of the age— the simple principle that the bigger the trainload the less the cost of hauling it per ton per mile. He has made his ships bigger than any now afloat in the ex- pectation that they will carry full car- goes and that it will cost but little more to operate them thus filled than smaller ships carrying a fraction of the torinage. These ships will carry cargoes at much lower freight rates than have heretofore prevailed, and are, there- fore, the pioneers in the development of the Asiatic trade which will eventa- ally require a larger fleet of similar ships. But to fill even these for regu- lar trips will require the massing at the Pacifiz ports where they are to be loaded of a much larger volume of exports to Asia than has heretofore been offered. The traffic of the Great Northern alone would not suffice to sustain them. These ships are a con- stituent part of the arrangements whereby the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington systems are to be operated in harmony, and subsidiary to the same general end. The momentous significance of these arrangements can only be appreciated wlen it is understood that their pur- pose is to make these two great trans- continental railroads the chief high- way of the commerce of this country and of the world with Asia. It is to carry out in the whole vast field of in- tercontinental traffic the same principle of concentration which Mr. Hill applies to his carloads and his ship’s cargoes— to so increase the tonnage volume by concentration on this Northern route as to reduce its cost by land and sea, and thus—following the law that com- merce always flows along the lines of least resistance—turn into this cheaper channel on the shorter lines of latitude the main stream of the commerce of the world. The full carload is thus the unit of pewer in a gigantic scheme of com- mercial concentration which will. pour a new and more abounding flood of commercial and industrial energy i | the six states which it has been recent- ly sought to array against it. The lawyers and politicians who have been fretting and fuming about the supposed efiects of the so-called merger 1 freight rates have been ob- to the grandeur and potential beneficence of the economic forces called into play by this scheme, and which will insure a much greater re- duction of local and transcontin@ntal freight rates as a necessary conse- quence of an immensely increased vol- ume of traffic than would otherwise be possible. Our local statesmen are not to be blamed for the narrow local view they have taken of this question, or for their inability to take in the broad horizon of its world-wide relations. For but few who have not studied the question have any conception of the enormous trade with the Orient which lies within the grasp of A'merican enterprise, but which for lack of an effective organiza- tion of our commercial power we have heretofore permitted other nations, and chiefly Great Britain, to appropriate. For the seven years ending with and in- clusive of 1898 not an American steam- ship entered a Philippine port. Since the treaty of peace we have done better, but the major part of that traffic is still borne in English vessels. In the fifty-two years from 1848 to 1900, in- clusive, the United States lost in their traffic with the Philippines over $275,- 000,000 in trade balances against us, or enough to have paid all the expenses of the Spanish war. And this does nov take into account the Philippine goods carried to English or German ports and transkipped to this country. In twenty years the United States has heretofore paid out over the coun- ters of London, Berlin and Paris over a billion and a half of gold due Asiatic nations for trade balances. {f this amount of money had been saved to the American people it would have bought out the steel trust and the Northern Securities company at their capitalized figures. In the ten years ending June 30, 19%, we have lost $120,- 00,000 in Chinese trade alone, exclusive of the trade of Hongkong, which is a warehouse for all China, under British auspices. And our ships have not carried 1 per cent of the foreign trade of China or of the pert of Hongkong, The latest accessible tables of the treasury department concerning our sea trade show that of our imports from Asia in 1899. $74,000,000 came by way of the Atlantic ports and only $32,600,000 from the Pacifie ports. Of our exports, $29,600,000 went from At- lantic ports and only $18,700,000 by way. of Pacific coast ports, which means that 65 per cent of our trans-Pacifie trade coes not come to us by the way of the Pgcific at all, but rather by the j way of European ports, being transkipped at Liverpool and Ham- purg for New York or Philadelphia. ‘The total trade of China in 1899 was $121,600,000. Only $17,000,000 of this was carried in American bottoms. Yet one line of steamships like that projected by Mr. Hill would very soon double that total and would put into Manila, Shanghai, Hongkong and oth- er Chinese and Japanese ports agents for American trade that would soon make themselves felt in the interest of our manufacturers. The current of commercial excharges thus established between the United States and the Orient would grow and widen until it drew into its swelling tide tre tribu- tary streams of every state in the Union and of every country in the world. All along the course of this great highway of the world’s com- merce this broad and deep current will set in motion the wheels of com- mercial and industrial activity. But it is mainly in Minnesora, whose chief cities, standing at the head of the great interior lines of water transit, are the terminal headquarters and gateways of these great systems of transcontinental railway, that its in- fluence will be felt in making them Zar greater marts of trade than if they de- pended on the narrower range of tribu- tary country around them. It will tend to make them the emporia for the dis- tribution of the products of the Orient through the Mississippi valley. It will lift these cities and this state to a commanding position among the in- terior states and cities of the continent. When the lawyers and politicians get to thinking about this matter in its larger relations they will probably come to the conclusion that there is something besides a question of local politics in this matter of the so-called merger—that it does not mean, as they imagine, the extinction of competition, but such a marshaling of commercial forces and such an organized concen- tration of commercial power as will enable this great system of transporta- tion, traversing the northern belt of the temperate zone, which nature has marked as the chief path of commerce throughout the world, to enter into successful competition with the rival systems which are endeavoring to ut- tract this great gide of transmundane commerce to more southern latitudes and that, whatever technical objec- tions the lawyers may find or fancy they find in “the mint and cummin” of the statutes, it is in conformity with that great economic law, to which all statutes must ultimately yield the right of weg, that through concentra- tion lies the only road to the highest econemic efficiency—to lower costs and lower prices.—-St. Paul Pioneer Press. WHO GAVE IT AWAY? Some One Gave Out the Correspou- dence of Gen. Miles, Washington, March 19.—Officials of the war department are interested to know how the facts with regard to Gen. Miles’ offer to end the,war in the Philippines by superseding Gen. Chaffee and taking per- sonal charge of the troeps reached the newspapers. All of the papers in the case are locked up in the private office of tne adjutant general of the army, where they were sent by the president after he had sum- marily declined to entertain Gen. Miles’ proposition, and as the adjutant general declares that the papers have never been out of his possession the inference was natural that the papers were furnished with the information upon which the publications were based by Gen. Miles or some one enjoying his confidence. Gen. Miles to-day returned to Washington, but refused to make any statement with re- gard to the case. If there is to be An Official Investigation to fix the responsibility for making pub- lic the official reports of the war depart- ment the request must come from Gen. Miles, as no further action will be ini- tiated by the department. If this investigation is had, and per- haps if it is not, the other side of the story is bound to come to light sooner or later. It is thought that Gen. Miles wil} not voluntarily or willingly give to ths newspapers the second installment of the official correspondence, but there is rea- son to believe that it will eventually find its way into print without his assistance. President Roosevelt, Secretary Root and almost everybody in Washington who has knowledge of this latest performance of the general of tiie army are surprised and disgusted. HAR Supreme Cou Not Satisfied With Minnie Healy Case. Helena, Mont., March 19.—The supreme court late yesterday issued an order ¢i- recting that Judge EB. W. Harney of the district court of Silver Bow county ex- plain to the court his return on the alter- native writ issued last week in the Minnie Healy case. By that writ Harney was required to show cause why he had not passed on the motion for a new tria) in the Minnie Healy case. Judge Harney denied the motion for a new trial and had stricken from the files affidavits which reflected upon his motives in deciding the case. Judge Harney is required to make addi- tional answer showing whether the order denying the motion for a new trial was made be‘ore or after the order striking out the affidavits reflecting upon his motives as a judge. SOUTH DAKOTA OIL. Indiana Cerporation Will Develop the Fields. Sisseton, S. D., March 19.—The North- western Oil, Gas and Mineral company of Indiana has leased 140 acres of land in vicinity of White Rock, Roberts coun- ty, thirty miles from this city, of L. H. Gibson, and will develop the same, ac- cording to the conditions of the lease, within a period of twelve months. The lease ruas for twenty-five years. It is believed the premises contain pe- troleum oil in paying quantities and works will be established at once. The lands are near the Boyd de Sioux on the west side of Traverse lake. Oil was discovered several months ago oozing from the ground. People, of the lceality are elated at the prospects of the establishment of off works in Roberts’ county. PRIEST CAN’T GO HOME. Miss Smythe Is at Elk Point but Kelly Must Stay Away. _ Elk Point, S. D., March 19,—Miss Jose- phine Smythe. who has‘ heen missing since her alleged escapade with Father Kelly, returned to Elk Point to-day mpanied by Mrs. Harris of Sioux City, She went at once to her home and gave out no statement. Father Kellv is still at Garryowen, 8. D.. and has sent word he will make a statement exonera- ting Miss Smythe if the people will allow him to’return, but this they say they will not consent + The price of liberty is eternal vigi-. lance—and it is always payable in ad- | vance. aes : el gee ae FIRE’S QUICK WORK A MILLION DOLLARS’ WORTH OF PROPERTY DESTROYED AT HOBOKEN. IS. RUMORED LOSS OF LIFE A PIER, A STEAMER, AND SEVERAL LIGHTERS ARE DE- STROYED. MANY ARE UNACCOUNTED FOR SEVERAL MEN JUMP INTO THE WA- TER AND FEW OF THEM WERE RESCUED. New York, March 20—A swift, and in many of its details, a picturesque fire Jast night destroyed the pier of the Phoenix Steamship line on the Hobok- en, N. J., river front. with many bal of cotton and hay, burned that com- pany’s vessel, the British Queen, to a hulk, consumed several lighters and their cargoes, damages a dock belong- ing to the Barber steamship line and for a time threatened the property of the Holland-American line and the huge, Campbell stores. The loss, ac- cording to estimates last night, will approximate $1,900,000. Whetker and lives were lost was most difficult to learn. While the con- flagration was at its height and after it had been reduced by the firemen and fire boats, rumors were rife that several men perished. It was toler- ably certain at midnight that Chief Engineer Scott of the British Queen was turned to death on her, and that a sailor named Jansen met the same fate One of -he men who escaped says that he saw several men leap into the water when the steamer he- came enveloped in fire, and he saw few if any of these rescued. The quartermaster of the ruined ship said that the crew was in her forecastle and l.e surmised if all es~ caped they did so with difficulty. Nev- ertheless some of the British Queen’s officers said that they were quite as- sured that all were safe save Engineer Scott. who they simply said was miss ing. It is not unlikely that some of the ‘longshoremen and_ stevedoers who swarmed aboard the vessel may Still havc to be accounted for. RIOT HOLDS SWAY. Revolutionary Outbreak Is Extend- ing Throughout Russia. St. Petersburg, March 20.—The revo- lutionary outbreak is extending throughout Russia and the situation each day is becoming more alarming. The government is doing everything possible to avert the rapidly increasing storm, but seemingly without avail. The troops cannvt be trusted, and in some instances they have refused to fight the rioters. . The parrow escape of the ezarine from serious injury or probable death, the killing of half a dozen persons, the serious wounding of others and 500 ar- rests constitute the belated report which the censor permits to be sent out of Sunday’s big students’ demon- stration here. Instead of 2 concerted riot in front of the cathedral of Our Lady of Kaszan, as was at first con- templated the Disorders Occurred throughout the day in ail parts of the eity. Unconscious of this, the ezarina and other members cf the imperial household took no special precautions to protect their S on their daily outings. result the car- riages containing royal personages and the nobility wer: mixed up several times in the melees, One carriage was upset by the rioters and the occupants savevd from the mob’s violence by the police. The most severe encounter ef the day was in front of the Hotel d'Europe between a multitude of stu- dents and workmen and the cavalry. It was only a few moments after the riot had been quelled that the Czarina Was Driven Past the hotel. From thousands had come the shouts of “Free Russia” and “Down with the autocracy.” The cav- alry charged the crowds, using only their Cossack whips and the flat of their sabers. Despite the leniency on the part of the soldiers there was more bloodshed here than in any other part of the city, owing to the obstinate re- sistance of the rioters. Four men were killed outright and hundreds fell seri- ously wounded. The police made most of the arrests hare, The czarina passed the place of bloodshed while the killed and wounded were being placed in hos- pital ambulances. She Looked Very Pale and made anxious inquiries as to the eause and extent of the trouble. The whole police reserve was called out and the entire military force were kept busy throughcut the day. Caval- ry patrols supplemented the mounted police. Additional squadrons of cav- alry, light batteries of artillery and detachments of infantry were packed in the side streets. ‘The crowds increased in the main thoroughfares until noon, when the cavalry officer in command of a squad in front of the Hotel d’Europe begged the crowd there to disperse and go home. The demonstrators refused and the mounted troops charged, resulting in the principal battle of the day. The fighting continued during the remain- der of the afternoon, breaking out in fresh places continuously. Senators Talk. Washington, March 20.—The senate committee on privileges and elections yesterday began consideration of the house resolution providing for the election of United States senators by dircet vote of the people, but, beyond hearing the views of several members of the committee, made no progress. The committee decided to meet regu- larly hereafter, on Thursday of each week, and to continue the considera- tion of the question until a vote is SCORE A VICTORY. Advocates of Cuban Reciprocity Win Out in the Caucus. Washington, March 20. — The advo- cates of Cuban’ reciprocity scored 2 decisive victory last night at the con- ference of the Republican members of the house of representatives, the prop- osition of Chairman Payne of the ways and means committee, for a 20 per cent reduction of duty, with the Sibley amendment, limiting the duration of the reduced rates to Dec. 1, 1903, being adopted by a vote of 85 to 31. This re- sult was reached at 11:30 o'clock, af- ter a protracted debate followed by a serics of exciting roll calls. The firsc test was when Mr. Payne concluded the speechmaking with a motion. for the previous question on «ll pending propositions. This motion, prey riled—78 to 56. A vote was then taken on a substitute offered by Representative Dick of Ohio in behalf of those opposing the reci- procity plan, offering in its stead a p'an ef direct payment to Cuba cover- ing several years. This was defeated --57 to 79. An amendment by Mr. Morris of Minnesota to take off the dif- ferential on refined sugar was defeat- ed--50 to 72. ‘The ways and means proposition for reciprocity, with the Sibley amend- ment limiting its duration, was then agreed to—85 to 31. While the voting was in progress auite a number of those who oppos2 vhe ways and means vlan left the chambe HENRY ARRIVE: Emperor Meets Him and Gives Him a Cordial Welcome. Cuxhaven, March 20.—The Hamburg- American line steamer Deutschland arrived here at 6 o'clock last evening from Cherbourg, having on “board Prince Henry of Prussia and his suite. The Deutschland was met in the road- stead by the German battleship Kaiser Wilhelm IL, on board of which was’ Emperor William. His majesty greet- ed Prince Henry 2ordially. The prince boarded the battleship, which after- ward started for Kiel. As the steamer drew near to Cuxhaven Prince Henry received the correspondent of the As- sociated Press in his cabin. The prince said: “I desire to send a last word through you to America to say how deeply grateful I am for the measureless kindness I received while there. I tried to say this before I left, but I want to say again that I am grateful for the cordial and generous manner in which the people and the president of the United States received me. I met and ialked with as many individuals as I could, but of course I saw most of the people in crowds, and sometimes only from the railroad car platform, and only long enough to touch my cap 2r take off my hat to them. I wish to thank all thos thousands for the trouble they too! OME. SOLD STOLEN BODIES TO MEDICS. Undertoker's Understudy Alleged to Have Done Qucer Things. Pittsburg, March 20,—Ida B. Hunter yesterday gave remarkable testimony against her husband, Thomas F. Hunt- er, in a plea for divorce. She was the daughter of a former Braddock post- master. She married him June 71, 1894, and he lived with her parents un- til he was put out of the house for abusing her. He worked as an ap- prentice for an undertaker. She al- leges he frequently took bodies from coffins, hid them, placed stones and bricks in the coffins and buried the stones, elling the corpses to medical clinies and students. He went to De- troit in July, 1896, and engaged with an underteker named Patterson. He bad two rooms over the shop and many corpse: were hidden in their closets, the boxes were laden with The bodies were sold, and Hunter spent the money with his: brother. He took ali the clothes from the dead and demanded that she and her child should wear them. When she refused he abused her and forecd her to de so. She has supported herself and child since 1898. 3 CHEAP COAL FOR NORTHWEST. Ton of Black Dinmends to Cost $1.50 Less Than Now. Washington, March 20.—If the pro- vivsions of a bill reported yesterday by the house committee on railways and canals are carried into effect. con- sumers of coal in the Northwest will be able to buy that product for about $1.50 per ton less than the prevailing price. The measure provides for the incorporation of the Lake Erie & Ohio River Canal company, which is au- thorized to construct a canal con- necting Lake Erie with the Ohio river. The purpose of the measure is to pro- vide a through water route from the iron ore regions of the Lake Superior district to the furnaces of Pennsyl- vania. This would materially cheapen the cost of transportation of the ore to the furnaces and at the same time confer a benefit on the consumers of coal in the Northwest. Former President Vosses the Sixty- Fifth Mile Post. Princeton, N. J., March 20.—Former President Grover Cleveland, who js now the only living ex-president of the United States, was sixty-five years old yesterday. Mr. Cleveland spent the whole Cay at his comfortable home on Bayard Lane with his wife and chil- dren. As he was confined to the house much of the winter on account of sick- ress he deemed it advisable, in conse- quence of the sudden change in the weather, to remain indoors and thus avoid any chance of another attack of illness. Headed for Northwest. Chicago, March '20.—During the next few days over 3,000 Dunkers and oth- ers will pass through Chicago en route to new homes in the Northwest. The movement will include entire families from Ifdiana, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsyl- vania, and they’ will for the most part go to the Mouse River district of North Dakota. Good crops in the Northwest last year and the glowing reports sent back by preceding settlers are ihe causes that have induced the heavy immigration, — MM ie Y IN WATERY GRAVE A CAPSIZED LIFEBOAT SENDS TWELVE SOULS TO ETER- NITY. SEVEN LIFESAVERS PERISHED: WENT TO THE RESCUE OF FIVE MEN ON A STRANDED BARGE, HEROIC WORK SAVES ONE LIFE WILLIAM H. MACK OF CLEVELAND WAS AMONG THOSE LOST. Chatham, Mass., March 19, — Seven lifesavers, practically the entire crew of the Monomy station, on the south end of Cape Cod, met death yesterday at their post of duty, and with them into the sea which capsiz7d the lifeboat went five men from the stranded barge Wadena whom they tried to bring in safety to the shore. One man. Lemuel Ellis, through the heroic work of Capt- Elmer Mayo of another stranded barge, the John C. Fitzpatrick, was rescued from the bottom of the upturned life- boat. Among thcse lost was William H. Mack of Cleveland, Ohio, who was on the barge representing his company, the Boutelle Towing and Transporte- tion company of that city, while Capt. Marsha N. i2ldredge, one of the oldest lifesavers on the coast, went down with his men. The scene of the acci- dent was in the well known tide rips off Monomoy Point, which make down from Chatham into Nantucket sound. Last Thursday the barges Wadenz and John C. Fitzpatrick, on the way to Boston with cargoes of coal; stranded on the Shovelful shoal, about three- quarters of a mile off Monomoy Point. Since then every effort has been made to float the barges, and all day Satur- day and Sunday men from Vineyard Haven were at work Throwing Coal Overboard from both of them. Sunday night the tug Peter C. Smith, which has been ly- ing besid2 the barges, ran alongside the Wadena and told those on board that a storm was coming on. All the wrecl ers were taken on board the tug with the exception of the five men who met their fate yesterday. Mr, Mack, who had come on from Cleveland, re- fused to leave, and ordered the captain | of the Smith to anchor near by. About | 8 o'clock, the weather growing very thick. the captain of the tug decided to run into Hyannis. Yesterday fore- noon Capt. Eldredge, who had been watching the barges very closely, sighted signals of distress on the Wa- dena. He got out his crew and surf- boat. The crew had no difficulty in getting off, but after rounding the point it took nearly an hour to reach the barge, By that time the tide had turned to the eastward and a fierce cross-sea had been kicked up. Capt. Eldredge steered the lifeboat under the lee of the Wadena, and one after an- other the five men dropped into the boat. With the wind astern it seemed comparatively easy to gain the smooth waters behind the point. The seas were tessing and turning in the rips and Capt. Eldredge was constantly looking for smooth spots. When about half- way in he thought he discovered one over what is called a hole, and the boat was sheered off for it. As she did so A Tremendous Sea caught her under the stern and she went over, throwing all the men into the water. Being used to the sea “1 the lifesavevrs clung to the boat and managed to pull the Wadena men along with them. An attempt was made to right the boat but the life- savers orly managed to get her partial- ly cleared. They had some hope, how- ever, of reaching land until another wave again cansized the boat. Mr. Mack was the first to succumb. and one by one the others dropped away until there were only four left, and these clmbed on the bottom of the overturr.ed boat. All were fearfully exhausted. The four men @rifted down in the direction of the Fitwpatrick, where Capt. Mayo of that craft caught sight of them. With much daring he dropred a dory overboard, then jumped into it and started after the exhausted men. Before he reached the lifeboat three of the men had fallen into the sea. Ellis managed to hold on and caught the rope which Capt. Mayo threw him. He was dragged aboard, and then Capt. Mayo, deing an exvert surfman, pulled around the point into the smooth water and landed the onty survivor of the thirteen who started from the barge. 1 BREWERS MUST PAY. Tax of $500 Must Be Paid in North- ern Michigan. Escanata, Mich.. March 19.—In a case from this county, Circuit Judge Stone of Marquette has filed an opinion of wide- spread importance to brewers. The de- cision was rendered in a liquor law viola- tion case in which Clayton Voorhis of Gladstone was the defendant and fs to the effect that outside brewers cannot sell their product in the state except on the payment of the wholesale license of $500, in every community in which they desire to do business through an agent. Voorhis is accordingly found guilty as charged, having paid no tax while representing a Minneapolis concern as agent. The effect of the decision will be far- reaching and will in particular effect Min- neapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago brewers who have a trade in the upper peninsula. The decision is based on the act of con- gress, approved Aug. 8, 1890, amending the interstate commerce law so as to give each state power to control and regulate the sale of all liquors manufactured out- side the state and carried into the state for sale there. HORSEFLESH FOR BRITISH.« Cargo Sent to South Afriea—Both to. Eat and to Ride. Allegan, Mich., March 19.—A carload of horses is on the way to New York for shipment to South Africa for use in the British army. An agent from the British government has been here for seuoral dere ee bad purpose. Horses p! sound, but Yoo ald’ to. be serviceable, were pur, ra ees nee