WHEELING DAILY INTELLIGENCER. TUESDAY. JANUARY 3, 1899. RAW MATERIALS That Enter Into our Manufactur. ed Products, INCREASED IMPORTATIONS Show that the Industries They Serve Have Been Very Busy During the Past Year -The Abnormally Large Demand for Our Manufactures has More than Balanced the Sheet.
Figures that Prove it. WASHINGTON, D. Jan. That the manufacturers of the United States and those depending upon them have been exceptionally bury In the year just ending is shown by some figures relatIng to the Imports of manufacturers materials und manufactured goods just compiled by the treasury bureau of With -large importations of materials and manufactured goods, and accompanying this, an abnormally large demand at home for manufactures, It da apparent that those engaged in their production must have found constant occupation. Four.
great classes of raw materials are habitually and necessarily brought into the country for manufacturers' use -raW silk, india, rubber, fibers and. hides. IC Importations of these show a marked Increase, It may be accepted as evidence of Increased activity on the part of manufacturers. It Is interesting, therefore, to compare the figures of the eleven Importations in these grout classes with those of earlier years. These show that in hides the Importations have been large: ly in excess of any earller year, the total value of those imported in the eleven months of 1898 being against $30,282,367 In the corresponding months of last year, and $17,915,328 in the corresponding months of 1896.
The number of pounds imported In 1898 were, in round numbers, 20,000,000 In excess of the corresponding months of 1897. India rubber, of which large quantities are used by American manufacturers, show in eleven months for the present year a value of $22,831,675 against $19,270,633 In eleven months of 1897. 964,633 In 1896, and in 1893. Raw silk for the ten months ended with October amounts to $21,540,225 in value against in the corresponding months of 1897, and $10,529,537 in the corresponding months of 1596, betIng thus, in ten months of 1898, more than double that of the corresponding period of 1896. Of fibers the importations in the eleven months ended with November amounted to $15,542,211 against $12,305,053 In the corresponding months of preceding year, and 326,506 in th the eleven months of 189G.
It will be seen that the importations of the year for the period covered by the above figures have been in excess of the preceding -rubber being 50 per cent larger than In 1894: silk 50 per cent in. excess of hides more than double that of 1596 or 1894. und ilberg 50 per cent in excess of 1894. This Increase In materials imported for the use of manufacturers is considered in connection with the fact that the importations of manufuctures have fallen in the year just ended from 000,000 in 1897 to $250,000,000 in the present year. It will be thus shown that there is good reason to believe the manufacturers have been exceptionally busy.
In addition to this, the figures of the treasury bureau of statistics show that the exports of manufactures in the yenr just ended will be more than 000,000 In excess of those of any preceding year, and will reach in round terms an average of $1,000,000 a day for every business day of the yeur. In only a single article among the importations for manufacturers' use has the year 1898 failed to show an incrensed demand. This single article is wool. The imports of wool in 1897 were abnormally great by reason of the intporters bringing in all the foreign wool available prior to the enactment of the tarift law of 1597 which transferred wool from the free to the dutiable list. The wool importations of eleven months of 1597 amounted to 337.982,964 pounds against 133,355,265 in the corresponding months of the preceding year, and against an average in the corresponding months of earlier years of less than half that quantity.
In other words a full two years' supply of foreign wool was brought Into the country in the calendar year of 1597, and it is not surprising, therefore, that the eleven months of 189S show Imports of only 95,114,620 pounds. It is apparent that the small importations of wool in 1898 did not indicate of activity on the part of woolen manufacturers since they evidently had in hand when the year began a full ordinary year's supply, and the fact that 95,000,000 pounds have been imported in eleven months of 1898 in addition to the large stock on hand at the end of 1897 cates an unusuol activity on their part. Ex-Empress Conveys Good News. PARIS, Jan. Journal has from personage belonging to the suite of ex- Eugenia, the statement that upon the eve of her departure from England, in the carly days of the Fashoda Incident, the ex-empress took leave of her majesty, Queen Victoria.
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MACCORKLE Pe-ru-na is 1 a permanent and scientific cure for catarrh. It is vegetable and works in harmony with nature. All druggists sell it, Eugenia was about to leave the queen said: "It war should break out butween France and England. 1 will ask Cod to allow me to die before it occurs." Three days later the secretary of the ex-empress Is said to have the words of the queen to the French foreign office. NARROW ESCAPE Of a Hundred Miners from Suitoeation in' a Burning Mine.
CARLINVILLE, Jan. shaft of the Carlinville Coal company caught fire to-day by a can of lubrienting oil being heated on a stove in the top of the tipple. strong southwest wind fanned the flames to all parts of the wooden parts which covers an acre of ground. The fire company was powerless as there was no water in the mains. The burning timbers and fired coal tumbled down in the shaft.
One hundred men were encased below. The 'airshaft engine, being seldom used, refused to work. A panie ensued below where' the air had extinguished the flames on the lamps, leaving the men in total darkness. They were scattered over a radius of three miles. Suffocation was narrowly averted.
A scene indescribable took place 011 top among the women, mothers, daughters and sweethearts of the victims. The men were finally released from the mine unharmed. The loss will aggregute $5,000 Insurance. Owing to recent trouble between employe3 and employers the nines may not be rebuilt. Only a small supply of coal is on hand in the city.
A suit will follow between the elty and the water company, as this is the second large fire caused by the fallure.of the company to supply water. the big touring mill being the other a year ago. The tire, blockaded the Chicago Alton and the Litchfield. Carrollton Western trains. One hundred and fifty familles are almost destitute as a result of the fire.
HAVANA PEOPLE JOYFUL, The City Tranquil- Brooke. Favorably Impressed with Cubans. HAVANA, Jan. people of Havana are in It joyful mood to-day, despite the disappointment experienced over the fact that the projected festivities have been postponed. The resentment quickly subsided, and gave place to composure.
Captain Greble, General Ludlow's ndjutant general, visited all the United States posts during the night. The city was found to be tranquil. Major General Brooke's Impressions of Cuba are pleasing. He regards the people as being emotional, mild and ol'derly. Americans are now.
conducting the customs, postoflice and telegraphs, in fact, all public business with Spanish and Cuban employes. Col. Bliss, the American collector of customs, has been instructed by the authorities at Washington not to uppoint Americans to subordinate places in this or the other customs houses. Only Cubans are to be appointed. The customs receipts here this week will probably be heavy, 19 the merchants' stocks are low, and several cargoes are due to arrive.
General Brooke will not govern from the palace for a week or two, as the building needs a thorough cleaning. After the general takes up his headquarters in the palace Mrs. Brooke will arrange a series of social functions. The headquarters for the present will be at the general's hotel. Generals Brooke and Ludlow see many of the prominent Cubans.
They are easily uccessible, and wish to make a wide personal and official acquaintance. As the civil police 18 slowly formed, the American troops will be sent Into the country. Col. Moulton, who is in command of the Havana police, had as his first official duty the investigation of a case of cattle stealing. General Ludlow vlaited Morro Castle and Cabanas fortress to-day.
The batteries of the Second artillery have been landed from the United States transport Chester. One battery was sent to Morro Castle, another lg garrisoned at Cabanas fortress, a third is Stationed near the palace, and the other three batteries are camped at Vedado. INDIANA SOLDIERS Who Waved the Flags Were not Ar. rested as Reported. HAVANA, Jan.
developed day that the company of the Indiana regiment which waved Cuban flags during the parade yesterday was not arrested, as cabled last night. Investigation showed that the flags were uted to them by Cubans in the crowd and that the act of waving them was thoughtlegg and not prearranged. mounted and armed, joined the column Twenty- Cuban horsem*n, well at the Prado, rode to Central Park: and debouched into a side street. They aroused considerable enthusiasm. Three blue Jackets from the Texas at about hall past 12 yesterday rowed to the wreck of the Maine and hoisted a large stars and stripes to the peak of the wreck.
The flag wns saluted by the shipping in the harbor. An Immense American flag WILK niso holated on top of the 200 foot shears at the naval dock, where It could be scent for miles around. Twenty members ot the Patriotle Junta in evening dress and wearing opera hinte, stood with the reviewing generals yesterday. OCHILTREE'S ROAST Of the Parisians Refers to Paris as a City of Maniacs Gomorrah EL Lily and Sodom Seminars or Parity Compared with it. New York Verdict: Col.
Ochlitree, ruse. raconteur. traveler, moldier and has returned. Nine months in Paris, two in London, Col. Ochlitree, has had New York absence of eleven months.
It was the other day we met. was the gainer. It is Worth one's while, to encounter Col. Ochilttec. To know him is a joy: to be his intimate friend an education.
Merely to neet hint becomes an Inspiration. "What of Paris?" said Col. Ochiltree, repeating my question. "Crazy, sir, absolutely crazy; Parts is a municipal maniac. You've seen a lunatic? That goes without question, for I recall that you put in six years about Congress.
Well. Paris comes simply to be a lunttic organized as elty. It is camped midway between the madhouse and the barricades. "What has done it? Absinthe and utter moral vileness. There's no doubt of it.
I've watched Paris for thirtyone And It has been going down hill mentally. morally, physically. nervously, for thirty-one years; sapped and under dug every particular by vile drinks und viler morals. Perhapa 1 should say immoral; Paris has 210 morals worthy of the word. the tople toples is the Dreyfus case.
It curly every lip, wagS every tongue, fills every Parisian mouth. Dreyfus will yet prove the rock upon which Paris will split. France, for weeks, trembled on- the brink of war with England. One heard nothing of it in Paris. The cafes rang with Dreyfus, while the bicker with England over Fashoda hardly gained aL notice.
"What would England have done to France in event of war, What we did to Spain. The British would have sent the French navy to the bottom like a lot of anvils. The French navy wouldn't have lasted as long as a drink of whiskey. A Frenchman nt sea is Frenchman lost. He should keep off the water.
To begin with, he fears water like eat. And he's too hysterical, too fantastic to sail a boat and tight at one and the same time. Billows and broadsides in conjunction overthrow the French reason: England would have thrashed France out of hand. It was the French good fortune that some of their quarter-deck gang had wit enough to see it, and get Murchand out of Egypt. "What of the French army? A mere muster of degenerates; manikins in red breeches.
The French army hasn't the discipline of A Rang or section hands, Dirty, dissolute, debauched: the French army would be a popular mnenace were not for its weak invirility. It hasn't manhood enough to be dangerous. The army Is a thing of tinsel: as sordid as Its tawdry, with and mentality in bitter strife for lowest place. It is 110 wonder those blond, healthy giants of Germany thirty years. ago went over the French army like landslide.
If Germany and France should fight again, Germany in 2 month leave nothing of her but rags, and not enough of them to flag a hand-car. "Tell you of the Dreyfus case? no doubt among fair minds of his innocence. The court of cassation will say $0. When It does, look out The mob will rise, and the mob will be the army recruited with al! that is thievish, sewer-born and mud-engendered In the whole city of Paris. The doings of the Commune will have redoing.
be a day of blood and torch and barricade -of loot. rapine, pillage and "The dews will be the first object of attack. Even to-day the ery of. "A Jew! A Jew! Kill him! KIll him! KIll will assemble a frothing mob in a minute. That and 'Vive ure highly popular cries in the Parisian streets.
If I were a Jew in Paris I'd gather my gaberdine about me and get out. Russia, by comparison, is a land flowing with civic -milk and honey, so far as the Jews are concerned. conditions in Paris are hideous and a horror. Its legislature Is bear -garden, press the of ntoney, its law a farce, while so-called justice is a joke when it isn't an outrage. The court of cassation is the one sole tribunal worthy a dog's respectthe one last feeble rift in the clouds that threaten France.
And while I was there Ifenri (tochefort came out in his paper, and said that "The judges of the court of cassation ought to be taken and tortured to death by tying them prone in the binzing sun, cutting off the eyelids and letting venomous spiders suck their eyes from the This rather elaborate disposal of these judges was opposed by another editor, who urged. in the name of brevity. that they be burned at the stake instead. "And Paris calls itself civilized, while Its papers soberly urge such savage balderdash' on a crazy public, who lap It up like spring water! "No, the French have 110 use for Amerien. They For hate myself.
a Yankee regard 118 they their hatred 18 great compliment. Parls differs from London in that behalf. 1 you want to hear London cheer Itself hoarse show it the stars and stripes, "Unless I miss my guess, the next few months in Paris will be worth world's, assassination watching. fu his Dreyfus, cell. in will es- go free.
Paris, on the feather -edge of tumult now, will make the signal for trouble. And then the very gutters will romp with gore. "One might sum up Parls like this: It is rich, frugal, ignorant, vile, artistle, vicious, industrious, venal. cowardly, narrow, cruel. frivolous, mendacious, corrupt, degenerate, beautiful--a threat to all men, still more a menace to itself.
Gomorrah was a lily to It: Sodom A seminary of purity, The one sole thing sure in it rotten, prurient destinies Is that Its future will but multiply Its dripping foulness of to-day." WILL LEITER DE A PRINCESS There is a Renewal orthe Gossip Connesting her Same with that of thic that her oldest sister is really the wife of a viceroy, it would really seem that all of the daughters of the Chicago millionaire were destined to own titles and wear coronets. Miss Nannie is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi 2. Leiter, and sister of Joseph Loiter, of dollar wheat fame.
She is probably the least known of the Leiter family, but this is because her tastes do not run very decidedly toward society. New Railroad Chartered. Special Dispatch to the Intelligencer. CHARLESTON, W. Jan.
secretary of state here has issued. a charter to the Arbuckle Wolf Creek Railroad Company, for the purpose of building and operating a railroad. commencing at or near the headwaters of White Oak and Arbuckle creeks, in Fayette county, to run thence through Wolf Creak Valley, passing south of Fayetteville, down Laurel creek, crossing New river to the Great Kanawha river, connecting with the proposed line of the Kanawha New Orleans Coal and Transportation Com- Sianda. 0000000000000000000000000 There Is No of buying a cheap, unreliable piano, because we are always ready to give reliable information about PIANOS. We can tell you in ten minutes some things may be worth dollars to you when you are ready to buy.
The time to gain knowledge is before you need it--not after. Milligan, Wilkin 1138, 1140 and 1142 Market St. pany, at a point near Deepwater, Fayette county. The principal office of the company will bent Charleston, with a branch nt Orleans. The authorIzed capital stock is $100,000.
divided into shares of $50 The shares are held by J. M. Richards, Annte L. Richards, Minerva Richard and Willam Richards, of Onk HIll, W. and J.
A. Franklin, of New Orleans. West Virginia Pensions, Special Dispatch to tho Intelligencer. WASHINGTON, D. Jan.
The pension of George W. Ashby, of Newburg. W. for disabilities contracted in the civil war; has Just been Increased from $50 to $74 per month. Other pensions to West Virginia applicants, recently granted, are as follows: Originals- Thomas Early, St.
Mary's, Frederick Scharf, Wheeling, $6. H. Rogers, Ellenhoro, to $10: Wililam Adkins, Dunnis, $6 to Gwin Van Meter. Central City, $6 to $8. Renewal and reissue- James Porter, New Cumberland, $6.
The pension of John Arnold, of Canonsburg, at rate of $6 per month, has been restored. G. W. Malcolm has been appointed postmaster aL Lewiston, Kunawha county, W. vice M.
F. Malcolm, resigned. DO you want a good glass of Champagne? Cook's Imperial Is an extra I dry wine, with a delicious bouquet. DEVILS ISLE. DEVILS ISLE PLACE OF DREYFUS! INCERCARATION.
ROYAL ISLE ST JOSEPH L5t.O 'ENFANT PERDU I. COAST 0g FRENCH GUIANA CAY ENNE. GOOD-BYE TO DEVIL'S ISLAND. Devil's Island. of which this is a good pleture, will be one of the islands of history.
Like Helena, It will live as a place of detention a famous political prisoner, for Dreyfus has created the political sensation of this generation. Authentle rumors are to the effect that he will soon leave Deyil's Island forever, as the authorities fear that in the coming great politcal upheaval his powerful friends may make an armed attempt to rescue him. OCEAN ATL OCEAN 3 ARCTIC MEDITERRANEAN SLACK SEA CRETE SEA CASPIAN A TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT. The little Island in the Mediterranenean called Crete is still agitating Euro pe. Denmark's grandson, Prince George governor, but Russia Insists upon flying IL 11ng at one point, and the sultan hay been allowed to do the same at another.
Crete In outwardly quiet, but the powers fear that there will soon be trouble again. The reason for the Cretan disturbance Is its great natural position, which makes it a key to Russia, and a very natural shipping place in the largest sea in the world. Receiner's Sale. DECEIVER'S SALE. Under the authority of a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States fur the District of.
West Virginia, entered on the 1ith of December. in the year 1490. In a suit in equity therein pending In which B. S. Baer and others are and Baer Sons Grocery Company and oth.
erm are defendants, the undersiened TEcelver will sell the property, goods and business of the Baer Sons Grocer Company. AUCTION SALE. Beginning on Monday, January 140) at 10 o'clock a. at tho business house of the Baer Sons Grocer Company. on the corner of -Main and Sixteenth streets.
Wheeling. West Virginia, wiN Poll At public auction to the highest and best told. der the stock of goods to my hands as receiver in sald suit at the time of said auction: the sale to be made in such late and parcels as will be most convenient and 118 will best suit the bidders, and will also sell the other tangible petronal property in the sald house or used in nection with the business. The stock of goods which will be sold as aforesald conalsts of large quantities of syrups and molasses, coffees and tens, canned goods of every kind, wooden ware and brooms. galvanized ware and off cans, four and farinaceous goods, dried and evaporated fruits, salt, tobacco and cigars, apices, paper, paper bags, cordage and twines, meats canned, salted and smoked.
brushes, fruit Jars, sugars, pickles and vinegars and a great variety of other goods of every kind such as are usually found In a thoroughly equipped wholesale grocery establishment. The other tankible property to be sold consists of horses. wagons, harness, trucks, hAy and feed, safes, printing presses with their appliances, a fruit cleaning plant. with engine, vats and appliances, furniture of various kinds, Including desks, typewritere, show and display cases and other things such as are generally used in wholesale grocery establishments. Terms of sale: Cash.
SEALED BIDS, The said order which was entered in the said sult on the lith day of December, 1598, as aforesaid niso contains the follow. Ing provision: But at any time before the soth day of the month of December now current at noon of that day any person or persons who may desire to do 50 MAY present to or file with the said Howard Hazlett, receiver, sealed bid or sealed bids offering to buy for cash at.a price to be named In the bid elther (1) the HR14 stock of goods and other tangible personal property used In sald business, or (2) the said stock of goods and other personal property and the accounts and debts duo the Baer Sons Grocer Company 88 well as those due cecelvora In this suit. (excepting the debts' whether or not appenring upon the books due by any stockholder, omicer or employes present or past, of the said Baer Sons Grocer Company, ol' (5) the said stock of goods and other personal property and the said accounts and, debts, including those due as ufore. said from any such stockholder, officer or employe, or (4) all of these things with the real estate, but the latter 10 be subject to the mortgage. Such bids shall be made as of the 2ith day of December, 1595, and iC any such bids be accepted the bidder, shall be entitled to the proceeds of any sales made by the receiver subsequent to that day and shall be charged with any purchaser made by the receiver quent to that day.
The reciver shall upon application give to anyone desiring to bid any Information in his power respecting the conditon of the property and business on said 26th day of December. The said sealed bide will not be opened by the recelver, but will be by him transmitted to the Clerk of the Court at: Clarksburg to be opened by the court on the 3st day of December. 1598. No such bid will be entertained by the court unless it be accompanied by a certified cheek payable to the receiver for not less than 10 per cent of the amount of such bid. it the court shall accept any of the said bids, then the said auction sale will not take place.
In accordance with the provisions of the said decree. I will. upon application, give to anyone desiring to bid any information in my power respecting the condition of the property and business on the anld 25th day of December, and will at any time before noon on the 30th day of December, 1898, recelve any such scaled bids which may be presented and transmit them to the court. HOWARD HAZLETT, Receiver. PS News and Opinions National Importance The Sun ALONE CONTAINS BOTH.
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