The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 20, 1899, Page 3

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It only costs wo Bits To secure The Star for ONE MONTH | TRY IT $eeeee e ¢ |'@@@e@¢e &€@8 ¢ & JeIS 9728S euL so Adoo e soqyusieu 4sanoA MOUS eee & & & ¢ ¢ &€&e && & & & ERNEST TS TE TEE ETT RY GE NTP IT | | | | WATLING IN KENTUCKY Whisky Barrels Are | Scarce, ‘THE OUTPUT IS VERY LIMITED) Production of Distilleries Is Re- stricted in ti of o | Booming Markets. | | en ae | LOUISVILLE, March 2.—Owing to peculiar causes the whisky dintit lers of Kentucky will have thelr pro duction restricted in the face of a booming market, Stocks are «mall | and demand t# better than for yoars and corn is reasonably cheap, while the plants have a capacity of %,- 000,000 gallons yearly, Notwithstand- ing all these favoring ciroumstances hew distilleries, whose owners are anxious to start them up, cannot run and old ones which have been busy are shutting down or cise running on | short time, | The cause of this te found in the | searcity of whisky barrels and the | Inability of manufacturers to eupply | them. Prices have advanced from | $2 a barrel to $3 and $2.00, but the | Coopers cannot get staves enough to | meet half the demand. A few are | Working overtime, but the balance | are #0 ahort of material that half | of their capacity is not engaged The whisky barre! is a model of | the cooper’s workmanship, and ha» to be well made in every respect ‘The Naquor te so volatile that the least flaw in the vessel! would make it useless, The staves are made from | selected and carefully seasoned) timber and are then put together by | the most experienced workmen. ‘They are nicely planed and jointed and are then bound thickly with metal hoops. When finished they) are charred tnaide, this being re-) garded as an essential step in the) ripening of the whisky, The new) Mquor ts then poured In, to remain | for at least four years and perhaps eight or ten, Only the beat of tim-| ber and workmanship Will answer | the requirements, and because the | whisky must be matured In new barrels second-hand ones can never be used. | ‘The shortage of staves t# due to the low price during the years of | depression in the whisky trade. The staves are cut and seasoned in the spring and summer, and in the fall and winter are shipped to Loulevitte. Last year prices were so low that | little timber wae cut and worked up and when the demand began to be | fairly under way the shortage w quickly felt. The coopers are offer- ing fancy prices for the timber. but few unsold stocks are to be found. ‘The big coopers of Louisville are the ones responsible, Up to a few years ago each distillery made tts own barrels, but the city firme saw the importance of the trade and bid) for it. Prices were cut down rapid-| ly under the competition, and at fast the barrels got so cheap that | starvation prices were paid for the) waves. One distiller went all over Louls- ville this week offering fancy prices | | for barrels, but could find none. Ro | senfleld & Co., have a new distillery | with a mashing capacity of #9 bush jels of grain a day. They are an fous to start it up, but as they no prospects of getting barrels they cannot do so, Other distillers are in the same fix. The cooper shops in Loulaville are turning out 400 bar- rele a day when thousands are need- ed for the trade. Old Professor Resi¢ns. NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 20.—| Prof. James Mason Hoppin, the old-| eat professor in active service at Yale, announced today his resigna- tion, tw take effect at the clone of the present school year, because of old age. He has been a professor at | Yale for 3% years. He wan graduat- ed in the class of 1840, and was for 18 years professor of homiletics and | pastoral theology in the divinity | school, THE SEATTLE STAR, company. in the Interest of the United Gas Im- nt company new company has appleations ing for franchives toomanufac New Ro prover r ture gas in Mount Vernon, chelle, Pelham and Pelham Manor ‘The company ia ulthmately to be plidated with the Yonkers mus plant under the tide of the Went chester Lighting company The consolidated company take the following electric t Chester 1 which Is operating Haht plants at Mount V helte, Hast Chester ani t Cheater Blectrie operating plants at Chester and Rye; Larchmont E trie company, operating plants at Larchmont, Mamaroneck and New Rochelle, and the White Piains Gas and Klectric company, operating at White Plains Another Wentchester company wan incorporated bany on Friday ui New York Subu It represents a ¢ Westchester gas companies: now eration, and it is stated to be tirely In pdent of the ni Improv will light companies company, tric LAwht Port Lighting at Al- an Ge company nw RK, March 20. Roman Catholic interest In the dition of the negroes of th on: south is the object of the lectures which for two months the Rev. J. M, Lu- cey has been giving tf this elty and Brooklyn jer and h Father Lucey, who is the dof the » and Cath sion at Pine Bluff, Ark, institution for negroes in th ollie church, that the 10,- 000,000 negroes in the Bouth loss than 200,000 are Roman Catholics, The Protestant churches, he says, have long pushed thelr various creeds lamong the negroes, and it is more than time that the Roman Catholic church inereared its work among a race which he believes to be an im- portant factor in the future of the nation. ‘Th red Industrial in- stitute has 240 puptis who are be- ing taught the ordinary branches and also sewing, cooking, houne- keeping and m A movement is on foot stablish similar institu. tions in other parts of the South. ALMANY, March 2.—The state board of charities today authorized Prestdent Stewart to’appoint m. mittee to inform the board as to the advisability of establishing a state horpital in the Adirondacks for the treatment of incipient pulmonary tubereule The resignation of Mr. James 0. Fanning of this inspector of charttios, was rece and the office abo! fect April 1, 1890. Owing to the lack of funds the services of Inspectors Clarke of Rochester and Brown and Hannahes of New York city were dis- pensed with, Wornberg in Luck. NEW YORK, March 20.—Jerry A Wernberg, the well known Brooktyn lawyer, went to Mexioo a couple of weeks ago to look after his interest in a big copper mine, and, according to reports receivew from him, his Mexican venture has netted him a handsome return. It is said that [he has received no lew than $500,000 axy ‘They nearly killed him in their | for 70 per cent. of Bie holdings tn experiments to determine whether | the mine and that he is also to get! he was a gad. They imprisoned him | a substantial slice of stock In the) tn a hut and watched him day and big company which Is to operate It, ‘ather Ward's Will. NEW YORK, March %.—The will of the Rev. Thomas F. Ward, pastor of the Roman Catholic church of 8t Charles Borromeo, on Sidney place, has been admitted to probate by Surrogate Abbott of Brooklyn, The estate le value at £100,000. After making provision for the payment of hie debts, the testator leaves the residue of his estate to his executors or to f them who should t for the Roman he h, the money to be disbursed under the direction of Bishop O'Donnell. The executors named are Mer. Duffy of St. Agnes’ | church, Charles Hoyt of 15 Pierre- pont street and John North of 666 Madison street. Mer only one who qualified erated Hebrews. NE RK, March 20.—Twenty- five Hebrew boys, who had been ar- d on Sunday for throwing stones, were committed to the Cath olic protectory In the Exscx Market police court yesterday on falling to pay the «mall fines imposed on them by Magistrate Wentworth. The ju- m quarrantin- when they venile asylum has t eA, Their relative: | heard of the commitments geaticul SAT TR CR RE RT ° r the title of the! nsotidation of five) in -| Some of the most important effort Duffy was the | ISLAND OF YEW GUINEA _ Gives it Up. | IS OWNED BY THE GERMANS | Administered by Emperor NEW YORK, March 20.—The Ger- man New Guinea company has giv- en up the arduous task of governing the large territory confided to it end Emperor William's government will now administer the affaira of the country tteelf. The New company had exercised auch control over the region as the Kast India company once possessed over a large pert of India. with the natives. It is now to be re- lleved of the responsibility of main- tainin, rder and will devote itself to its commercial interests, New Guinea is the largest island in the world, The western halt ot it, as far as the meridian, 141 degrees east belongs to the Dutch, The) southern half of the remainder ta} British New Guinea, and the North-| ern half belongs to Germany, and is}! known as Kaiser Wilhelm Land. Hamburg ts the headquarters of the New Guinea company, and the prod ucts It has been raising, particular- ly New Guinea tobacco, have often been advertiged in the German press, The company has also done much to explore the coast mountain ranges, and has ascended some of the rivers for a considerabie dis- tance, It wae the Kaiserin Augusta river that its explorers reported the natives as having splendidly devel- oped arma, while their legs had rath~ er less than normal strength, and they attributed this to the fact that the natives were almost incessantly on the water plying the paddle in their canoes, and thus giving their armen @ grea: deal of exercise at the expense of their legs. lof the company to develop the coun-— | try have been centered at Astrolabe | bay. whick is one of their chief ports | tm that coustry, This bay will a ways be historic as the place where the Russian ethnologist, Dr. Mikiu- cho Maclay, was put on shore from a schooner about 16 years ago to \atudy the natives, No white man hed ever been there, and he expect- | ea to live there alone for a ‘The schooner sailed away the | darkness, leaving him on the beach, and when the natives aw him there the next morning they thought the | strange object had from the night. They nearly starved him, be- use a god should not require food. | ‘They tied him to a tree and shot ar- | rows close to his head and neck, be- | cause if be were a god he should not be frightened. Two of the arrows inflieted severe flesh wounds upon the helpless captive. Then they pressed their spears against his teeth to make Aim open bis mouth and in many other sav- * sorely tested his temper, courage and strength, At last they decidet he had dropped from the moon and that he was not a god be- cause his wounds bied and he needed food, but they voted him @ good fel- low and grew daily more and more fond of him because he was always cheerful, however much they an- poyed him, and miany of their sick soon recovered under his skilful | care. | For two years Dr. Maclay lived |among these savages, feeling amply | paid for all his terrible sacrifices by | the wealth of setentifie facts he was able to collect. Money could not have tempted him to thus jeopardize his life and give up every civilized comfort. But the facts he gathered were needed to complete his long studies among the races of the weat- ern Pacific, and, with the ardor of the born devotee to science, he was eager to make any sacrifice that would yield him the knowledge he sought. Woman Sneak Thief. NPW YORK, March 20.—Mra. Le- Chartered Company Guinea | It has had trouble) ° hands had improved. ‘This won, he said, largely due to the use of ma ohinery and im 1 mothods, nd not organization of jabor. The sys rop sharing, he said, was in € sing, and would, he thought largely supplant that of hiring men for wakes. 3 Mr. Brigham favored the of the elementary principles of rieulture in the public schools arousing the Interest of the boys in ov ning & ae | that braneh would tend to keep! them on the farm and away from | the cities, The money invested in) | farms, farm implements and stock in the United States represented, he #aid, about $1,600,000,000, Farm in-| Yeatments paid higher rates of inter-| ent 40 years ago than today. Some | reasons for the de was the| Appreciation of land values and th higher wages for labor, The net profits of farming, taking an aver- age for the whole country, he said, | would not exceed more than 2 or | per cent. Farmers, he said, paid too great @ proportion of the taxes, one reason being that their property could not be concealed from the as- | Kenmore af Can some other classes of property. An Incorrig ble Girl NEW YORK, March 20.—Mre. Bo- phia Breslin of 304 Bighth avenue, | Jast night caused the arrest of her daughter Bmma, 16 years old, as in- corrigtble, The girl's father died about seven months ago, He was & member of the Pequod club and a well known Tammany hall worker. Soon after her father's death the girl ran away to Coney island, where she lived for three weeks with a ‘strong man” named Goldstein, She returned home, but three months ago again ran away and lived with Goldstein and lived in Philadelphia, and two weeks ago when he came to New York to accept an engagement in a Bowery theater she came with | him. i ‘The girt returned home, but her | action caused continual family quarrels. Two nights ago she took who ts two years younger than herself, out with her, and they remained away all night. Then Mra.) Breslin determined to call in the po-| lew. The wayward girl was locked up in the Weat Thirticth street station. Princeton Debaters. PRINCETON, N. J., March 20.— | The contest to decide Princeton's) representatives for the ninth annual debate with Harvard was held this afternoon in Murray hall, and the following men were chosen; James Henry Northrup, ‘99, Augusta, N. J.;/ Nathaniel Smith Reeves, #, Brook- lyn, and Alfred Sewell Weston, ‘99, West Mount Vernon, Me. The de- bate with Harvard will be held in Alexander hall at Princeton, April 5. Princeton will have the affirma- tive side of the question: “Resolved That a formal alliance between Great Britain 4 the United States for protection and advancement of common interests is advisable.” The Pope and Americanism. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., March The Kev. Archibald A. Murphy, paster of the Second Presbyterian church of this city, preached on “Amertcaniem ing to Leo XII.” last evening. He began by telling of the Paulist Fathers. “There is no question,” said the Preacher, “that they have done a great work in holding an immense auaience of young wom-" twice each day for a week; an audience of mar- ried women the same way the next) week; an audience of married men | the third week and an audience of unmarried men the third week. The doctrine of sin and salvation were | preached in @ most uncompromising manner, and heaven and hell were | set before the people without min- cinb matters. “The order was founded by Father Hecker, who died in 188%. An ac- count of his life was written and a garbied translation was made in Bu- rope. It is this transiation that ha awakened the controversy on the other side of the Atiantic. Some of the attacks on the Pauliste have been of a most scurrilous nature. I hold, af! careful consideration of the subject, that the lett of the Pope to Cardinal Gtbbons is a nega- tive victory to the American party in the Roman Catholic church. It in a very mild letter, So far as 1 can see, as an outsider, unfamiliar with such a complicated organiza- tion as the Roman Catholic church, the Paulist fathers are allowed by the Pope to go on with their work. Their enemies will not be allowed to persecute them. If the experiment is success it will be followed up. Americanism is up to the times. Protestants ought to rejoice in it and encourage it as much as they can. ‘Now I am not pleading for the Roman Catholic church, I know that church is quite able to take care of herself. And it is not courtesy for me to interfere, for this is really a | family matter. Still the new move- ated, wept 4 tore thelr hair and whiskers © police at last dis-/ Work of Burgiars. persed them. ELMIRA, N. ¥., March 20.—~At 1| ———— | o'clock this morning 11 masked men, A Check Forger. }all carrying revolvers, broke in sir " - NOW YORK, March 2.—Frank the power hou: of the Waverly and Breen, of 216 West Sixty-ninth street Athens trolley road at Waverly, N. t { in 31000 YT. and bound and gagwed three en-| V8? Dela. for examination in gincers and firemen. Tho burglers bail in the Weat Fifty-fourth street * police station y rday a then blew open the company’s nate Poul’ mem on awindling J and secured $120 In money. The 5 A 1 ee. a grocer of 276 Hudson Leider ane reid tee “ rn soul by means of a worthless $10 one of them had worked loose from stive Fogarty, who ar- the ropes which bound him. na Leopold, of 363 South Fourth| ment makes me hope that tn the street, Williamsburg, found a young, great future there will be a coming woman in her flat yesterday when together of all of God's children of she returned from a fhopping trip. | all parts of the world. We are near Mra. Leopold seized 1 @ intruder,|enough at present to shake hands, but the latter broke away and ran | and we are fraternietng sil the time down stairs, Mra. Leopold started! It will be a happy time when in pursuit and caught the fugitive. | branches of Christ's church unit A policeman arrested the woman. He also arrested a man who wason| (ealth Officer Indicted. the opposite side of the street. prisoner was taken to the Bedford| NEW ORLMANG, March 30.—Dr. 8 rested Fireen, sald that there w | % six other complainants in Brooklyn A New President. anxious to have the prisoner tried AMHERST, Mags., March 20.—The | on similar charges and that there trustees of Amherst colle pected to meet in Springf to elect a successor to Pr are ex- Gates, who is now in Europe on a leaev of absence and whore resigna- tion takes place on April 1 com- mittee is to report a Het of candi dates with recommendations. One name that is known to have been consid ed favorably by the trustees in that of President William F. , cum, a graduate of Amherst colleg in 1874, who is now at the head of Colorado = College, wrado Springs. President ow doin, fas also been but as he is in line of promotion to be the head of Harvard university he in not thought to be available. Th sub-committee met here today, bu will hold one other meeting at le before finishing its report To Light the County. NEW YORK, March 2.—The United Gas Improvement company ‘of Philadelphia, which company al- ready controls the Yonkers gas plant, as well as gas plants in 142 cities In the country, ineluding Phit- adelphia, proposes to branch out further in Weatchested county The Weatchester Gas and Coke company of Mount Vernon, which was incor ed at Albany on Friday, with a pital stock of $200,000, it was as rtained yesterday, was organized | jee two warrants out for him. were “Breen lives altogether on what he gets out of worthless checks for #mall amounts,” said th tive, “and he has passed them all over the town. He hires a furnished room somewhere, and gains the con fidence of some grocer in the neigh- borhood, and then grocer » bad cheek, Uav ts good money for change. Then he moves and repeata the operation some- where else.” pollee station, where the nan gave her name as Elizabeth She declined to tell where ehe lived, The man said he was John Friedman, 26 years old, of 76 Chrystie street, Manhattan, When the woman was searched two diamond rings and a gold watch and pin, valued at $150, were found in her pockets and twelve false keys in her stocking. Mra. Leopold said the jewelry had been stolen from her flat. In the man's possession was found a gold watch and chain, a amond horseshoe pin, one silver Edward Souchon, president of the Louisana state board of health, and | Dr. Quitman Kohnke, of the New Orleans board of health, were ar- rested here today on a bench war- rant based on an indictment found by the grand jury of East Feliviana parish, charging them with man- slaughter, ‘The indictment Is a con-| sequence of the yellow fever epidem- fe of last summer. Drs. Souchon land Kohnke are charged with hav- ing concealed the fact that yellow fever prevailed in New Orleans, with | the result that the disease was in-| troduced in towns in East Feliciana! The prisoner said that he was a ch, a gold pin, one marquise dia- é 3 real estate broker and a nephew of oT ring and three pocketbooks, | Parish. ‘The grand jury hold that ex-Senator Kiernan of Utca Tee wonen was locked up on a|the resulting deaths from the dis- an “parce of burglary. ‘The man was eens ei hines bite eae A Clever Chinaman. held on suspicion of larceny, give notice of its prevalence, ana w ORK, March 2.--While a that the officials e therefore r+ : in progress in the bust On Farm Conditions. guilty of manslaught neaa district of Ridgewood, N, J.,on| WASHINGTON, March 20.—The| ‘The indictments are the first of Saturday night, a Chinaman, w Industrial commission gave a hear-| the kind ever found in this country laundry wa the center of ing today on farm conditions, the | They are the ‘result of a newspaper burning block, lost no time in secur- principal witness being Assistant war which led to the bringing of a Ine new quarters, There was but Secretary Brigham of the agricul. | suit of Ibel against. Dr. MeKennan one vaoant in the nelghbor-| tural artment. Mr. Brigham/by Dr. Kohnke, It I understood hood, ‘The Chinaman hunted up the | said that he had been connected | that Dr. McKennan went before t londierd and hired the place on the with, th Grange movement nearly! East Felictana grand Jury and spot, binding the bargain by paying |20 years, and as master of the Na-| cured the indictment of the two he month's rent In advance, By the| tional Grange for nine years had| health officers, The supreme court | time the transaction was completed | traveled over the country consider-| has been asked to protect the off-| the flames had nearly reached hia|ably. ‘The number of men employed | cers, who are Ukewise Hable to be td atore, Willing hands aided the/on farma was about the same, he|indicted in all parts of Louisiana} Chinaman, and in a short time all| said as 50 years ago, The tendency | and Mississipp! and carried to fifty his ge were transferred to his| was, however, toward shorter houra| different counties If the view taken w store, and he announced that|and iMghter work, and In general the st Feliciana ne he was ready for business again, | condition and wages of the farm gg |of the matter by the | rand ‘jury is followed, | trict, | bers to (Rn Post. MVOLVED WL List of Big Smelters Combined. ANOTHER TREMENDOUS TRUST Concerns Consolidete ing # Capital of Sixty-Five Million Do! NEW YORK, March 20.—These are | the wmelting concerns that the $65, 000,00combine proposes to absorbs United States Smelting and Refin- ing company, Omaha and Grant Smelting company, Pucbla Srielting and Refining company, Colorado Smelting and Kefining . company, Hanauer Smelting works, Pennsyl- vonia Lead company, Pennsylvania Smelting company, Globe Smelting and Refining company, Bimetallio Smelting company, Chicago and Au- rora Smelting company, Germania Lead works, or in iiew thereof, all the stock representing the same, and also & majority of all the stock of the Consolidated Kansas City Smel< ing and Refining company. The United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry company will formally assume control and directton of all constituent plants this week. Ite directors are: Samuel Thomas, Col- gate Hoyt and eleven representa- tives of the consolidated companies. fe Hoyt, it is stated, will represent the Rocket rs large interests, Money Making Elephants. Three elephants earn $10,000 a year, ‘This is $2,900 more than the salary of 4 member of the President's Cab- inet, and $3,000 less than the ine come of an admiral in the navy, @ rank done away with Zoo, and they earn carrying on their backs of the gardens. Every his ‘Arriet and hier him back of one of the elephanta. The elephants are stationed In dif- ferent parte of the Zoo, and there after by those who are left out In the scramble for the elephants, but the old patrons of the Zoo say the uneven motion of a camel is only appreciated by an old salt who ie most at home on au exceddingly choppy sea. The camels are toe cultivated a taste for the ordinary mortal, Three camels earn about $1200 # year, but they cost less to keep than thelr more successful brothers. The elephants eat up most of their pro- fits, The greatest number of vis- itors to the Zoo In one day was 44,- 000, and an average of 500 pounds of Gainties were fed to the brothers of the royal executioner of India.—@an Francisco Call, Col. Kendall Defeated. AUGUSTA, Me., March 20.~Munte cipal elections were held today in many Maine towns and cities, With the exception of Biddeford, where there was 4 lively contest, the vote was small. In Biddeford there @ peculiar state of affairs, Col. 1 Kendall, commander of the Fi Maine regiment of infantry In the recent war, was nominated by the Republicans for mayor and indorsed by the Democrats, but he was beat- en, and the Citizens’ nominee wom by a good majority. 5 —— A Family Bank. Over in Tokyo there is a bani with a capitl of $5,000,000, and a re« serve fund of $3,230,000, which ad< vertises the following board of dirv ectors: Maron H. Mitsul. Rennosuke Mitsul, Esq. Genyemon Mitsul, Esq. ‘Takayasu Mitsui, Esq, Hachirojiro Mitsul, Esq. » Saburosuke Mitsui, Esq. Fukutaro Mitsul, Esq. Morinosuke Mitsui, Eeq. Takenosuke Mitsul, Esq. Tokuyemon Mitsul, Esq. The first named is the father, an@ the others are his sons. Every, share of stock belongs to the family, and it is announced that they as- ant | sume an unlimited responsibility for the labilities of the bank.—Chicaga Record, Sliding Scale Statesmen, Representative-elect John I. Bure nett, of the Seventh Alabama dis« who succeeds the Populist member, M. W, Howard, has been in the city several days and had the pleasure of attending the expirt hours of the Ffty-fifth congress. Mr. Burnett will be the shortest member In stature perhaps that was ever ¢ ted to Congress. He weighs less perhaps than Alexander H, Stephens did. It is rather a coincidence that Ala< bama should have the honor of send- ing the largest and smallest mem- the National Legislature, Before the civil war a portion of the district which sends Mr, Burnett, sent Dixon H, Lewis, a man who weighed noarty 400 pounds, ana for whom a spectal chair had to be made on the floor of the house.—Washing- Gives$ 28,000 to Charity BOSTON, March 20.—The will of nes Keough, who died in Janu- ry, was filed today. By its provi- sions $28,000 {s left to charitable in- stitutions, Keough was a coachman in the family of Martin Brimner, and made his money by real estate investments,