Show SHORT STORIES Ii I i Three corpses probably of sailors lost In Lho storm of last Sunday night havo been recovered In the last twentyfour hours on tho Long Island coast In Nebraska City Neb the packing house of the Morton Packing company resumed re-sumed operations yesterday after a strike extending over n month Tho terms of tho settlement with the employees IsnoL mado public I J Now York Charmbor of Commerce has adopted a memorial to Congress rccom mending a reduction of the tariff duties upon Cuban sugar und tobacco to bo foll lowed by reciprocal tariff arrangements with lie Island United Slates Minister Bowen has no llllcd tho State department that Unltqd < States Consul Goldschmldl at La Guayra f I has fallen ill and Is unable to perform I the dulles of his ofllce This Is the most I Important commercial point In Venezuela 1 Tho situation In the Iron trade is becoming be-coming more and mero strained and per plexlng owing entirely to the phenomenal demand which Is I now dealing with lie tonnage of tho second half of the year the capacity of the first six months haying hay-ing been taken up In the principal lines i A borly of business men called together for the purpose of investigating thoj newspaper reports regarding smallpox Inj the city of Des Moines ibid that Iho aiiivor and city officials are lully allvo lOt Iho requirements of tho situation and that the condition Is not half as bad as reported re-ported The census bureau has Issued an nd vanco bulletin on the manufacture of oleomargarine In tho United States It shows that the number of establishments Increased from twelve to lewntyfour between be-tween ISM and 1900 with a total capital invested of S3023C1C an Incrcao of 376 per cent |