| Show HY Y TELEGRAPH PER WESTERN UNION A X B 19 IL C A N JA washington 11 dr kimball director of the mint said aid today to day on the subject of the scant supply of of pennies and ana five cent nickels that chat the coinage was executed at the mint at philadelphia but had bad been suspended on the of february IM 1885 by b secretary mcculloch McCu on the arouni ground that the amount outstanding was redundant it hs has since appeared that there was a great inequality in the distribution of the stock of minor coinage in the bands of thesus the tub treasurer application for the same to the mint at philadelphia which is ordinarily charged with the distribution has been referred to the Assi assistant treasurer at act philadelphia where a large surplus had collected this surplus was maintained until in the middle of september it was turned over to the mint for cleaning and reissue about this time an unprecedented demand arose for pennies and nickels which soon exhausted the transferred from the sub treasury since then the work of striking new pieces hats has gone on without interruption to the farll CAPACITY of the mint over and above the silver olef dollar do lari coinage in order to increase the output of minor coins its quota of silver dollars has been reduced and to the same extent therein the coinage at san Sau francisco Francico and new orleans has been increased the d director attributes I 1 the great demand to the tendency of the minor coin to un 1 equal circulation through the general want of acceptability especially at the banks the circulation of pennies is confined to localities where odd change is exacted by way ot of street railway fares etc especially by the extraordinary increase of late of shops whose policy it to is to fix prices at odd amounts that is to say at prices not correspond 0 the denominations of the jtb sub t arv coln fak director rector is now endeavoring 11 deavo V oring ring 0 to ascertain the total active c I 1 lation va pen pennies tiles and live five cent p pieces tave and considers cob that not less t 7 of pennies piantes are now la a active ve acicula in the united states the bit mint nt at h philadelphia v is now turn il 1 MINOR coin OIN I 1 t the e value of aay and is only behind the demand this a lant n ut w will 11 11 saon L up and the atte L want i will pe re tally fully met even iolah the tendency is to get into par nicular channels annele eh and to accumulate at the public the orders for coins are filled in the order of their application but the superintendent of the mint will probable be obliged to resort to the expedient of Alli nelar e orders in two instances the pris presidents i dents message to congress was the principal topic of discussion at to days cabinet meeting secretary whitney was the only absentee the annual report of the second auditor aua ana win wi a A day shows that during the athe last fiscal year the sum of was drawn out of the treasury on requisitions issued by the secretary of war and on n those issued by the secretary of the interior on account of INDIAN maintenance raving leaving unexpended balances on those accounts of and respectively ively Getie general ral miles in his report on oft the apache campaign stated that the soldiers of captain lawtons lawtonw Law tons command were materially crippled in their efforts by the miserable shoes made at the military prison at fort leavenworth kansas and that the worthless material frequently fell felito to pieces in three or four days marching when this report was received at the war department the attention of the military prison board of which general terry is president was at once called to the matter and the board was directed to make make a thorough examination and investigation of the circumstances the report of the board which is long and detailed has been received at the war department and is now before the secretary of war the claim of editor cutting against 8 the mexican government for damage on account of FALSE imprisonment and personal indignities suffer suffered eq by him has been for some time on file in the state department but it has not yet been examined by the secretary and ad thero there has been therefore no decision with regard to the disposition t to 0 be made of it A controversy recently arose between a receiver of the land office it at marysville marksville Marys ville ual cal and the united states assistant treasurer at san francisco with regard to some light we weight IN gold old coin which the former sent t the I 1 latter at t e r for deposit in the regular course of business and which the latter not only refused to receive but returned to the receiver after stamping 9 the coins with the wor word dlight light 11 some correspondence pon ordence dence on the subject has passed g between the treasury department and the interior department the last communication muni cation being a letter from commissioner sparks of the general land office to whom secretary lamar had referred the previous letter from the treasury department SPARKS SAYS that the matter is not one over which he be has control but that in his opinion the he receiver at may Marys marksville marysville ville had a perfect right to se send nd the assistant treasurer aurer a deposit of any united states coined money and that if the assistant treasurer found the coins light in weight lie he should nevertheless have taken them and given the receiver credit for them at such reduced valuation as their deficiency in weight might require CHICAGO arego 11 there was a large attendance at the annual dairymen Dairy mens S convention this morning president windsor made the opening speech statistical reports from various markets were read and discussed by the convention there were numerous I 1 attacks on bogus butter and its deleterious let erious effect made during daring the ses rion gion in the dairy convention today to day the report of the comm committee attee ou on legislation gave rise considerable discussion resulting in the adoption of resolutions instructing the committee to exert all possible effort to further regulate the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine and other substitutes for butter the committee was enjoined mer to carefully watch national legislation effecting the subject power to act on behalf of the association was given to the committee in any measure deemed necess necessary gry to PREVENT INJURIOUS CHANGES in the present law subcommittees committees sub were provided who are to do all in their power to procure such enactments in their respective states as will further regulate the sale of oleomargarine resolutions were wera passed complimentary men to senator miller of new york and congressman hatch of missouri together with a vote of thanks to president cleveland and others who aided the interests of bill the report of T H of new york of the monsy money contributed and expended in t the he il interests it crests of the bill was referred to the committee on finance the total amount was A paper on the labor unionist abid and the farmer written by joseph sampson of storm lake iowa was presented and will be discussed tomorrow an informed informal talk upon the methods of manufacturing cheese closed the days proceedings NEW YoRK ll Jl the brewers of paterson and newark have joined hands with those of new york and long island in informing forming a combination to maintain the price of beer and to put ac a heck check on boycotting and labor unions each brewer is required to deposit in cash as a guarantee of good faith this sum to be forfeited if the agreement is violated it is estimated that the guarantee fund will re reach ac h nearly all existing contracts 0 ag are to tb be carried out but buc hereafter the practice of furnishing costly saloon fittings and signs will be di discontinued continued is the price of beer is to be 8 per barrel with 10 per cent discount if the customer changes his brewer the percentage will be only 5 percent per cent and the brewer bewer must pay U 8 per er barrel to the association for every gatrel barrel furnished a new customer the object of this provision is to prevent ruinous competition minneapolis 11 colonel platt platta B walker a prominent lumberman lumber mau says in an interview published in the evening journal that a syndicate of canadian lumbermen with partners in this state have acquired title to about feet of pine timber in north western minnesota and are arranging to gobble up the rest of the vast timber belt on the nor northern thein slope and including about one half of the entire state he charges that the clause in the sundry civil service bill providing in for a commission to treat with the anians indians now oc cupping these lands for their removal to the white earth agency was secured in the interest of this canadian syndicate colonel walker adds if the treaties should be made and confirmed ten million dollars worth of indian pine will certainly go into the bands of this foreign syndicate and worth of lum ber that minnesota and dakota will shortly need will be owned by the same pool CHICAGO 11 the national committee of anti saloon republicans was called to order by hon albert grifiin griffin of kansas chairman the statement of the work done by the executive committee since the national conference september and an outline of the situation was made by mr griffin from the fast east and the west said griffin the most encouraging reports come the anti saloon address written by general A B nettleton which was published on october loth has been favorably received all over the country having having been given publicity through the associated press the chicago daili esthe newspapers union kelloggs lists and the temperance and religious journals it stands as the leadin leading temperance document of the day editorially it was said in one of our stalwart republican dailies that it is the strongest political utterance terance at on behalf ot the temperance cause which has been made in the last a st twenty five years I 1 was agreeably surprised at the rapidity with with with the sentiment AGAINST THE SALOONS is strengthening in the east while in massachusetts last week I 1 was informed by leading kading republicans thattie that the anti saloon elm element within the party had undoubtedly prevented pie vented a democrat ic victory in new yorktee york the leading republican political and journalistic factions actions are solidly with US u s hon J G B connor of indianapolis reported a ratifying gratifying state of affairs in indiana ae he said the rep republican publican party in that state had bad put itself on an platform last august and the entire state ticket and a majority of the legislature had been elected thereon I 1 mr metcalf of ohio reported the situation in that state as rather critical and said that unless the republican party was willing to exchange its liquor sympathizers for the men of another stamp he feared the result WOULD BE disastrous estabrook of nebraska and hon IF H woodward of connecticut were elected members of the national com coin from their respective states on motion of gen nettleton it was unanimously voted to remove the headquarters of the executive committee from this city to new york some changes were made in the corn com mit tees and the membership was increased as follows albert griffin chairman F secretary ex postmaster general T L james jaines treasurer general thos W conway judge noah davis theodore roo roosevelt ge velta J M bondy of new york dr carroll Car rollof of plainfield new jersey W A james highland park III hou hon W W brown bradford pa pa won hon H B metcalf pawtucket R I 1 ron honar R H woodward hartford conn E H haskell boston gen AB nettleton Nett nettleton leion minneapolis minn chas S gleed topeka kansas 11 upon the arrival at dubois pennsylvania of the mail train from the north on the buffalo rochester pittsburg railroad today to day the car inspector while the PASS passengers nas eDgers were getting anand on and off tb at a the depot discovered taree amite bombs q mb s a and nd caps fastened un under er the springs P r 1 g 0 ot I 1 the rear coach the bombs were q carefully are fully removed and there were many pale faces among the passengers when they learned the terrible fate they had so narrowly escaped the train starts every morning and it is undoubtedly at that place that the bombs were placed under the springs as it only makes short stops between there and dubois it is 20 miles from the place ale of starting and how it was possie possible e for the train to run that distance over short curves with the amount of dynamite and cap sunder the springs of the coach is a mystery thirty four persons were in the coach suspicion points directly to no person as the perpetrator of the deed the matter will be thoroughly investigated by the railroad authorities and an effo at nade tue criminal to justice 11 in new england a thriving little village a few miles back of pole valley on tile the monongahela river there are two to or three mormon missionaries who took up their temporary abode a few months ago and quietly began to preach their doctrine to the people some twenty of the citizens I 1 including their families have been c converted to the mormon faith and are making preparations to depart for utah the leader of the mormon emissaries is known as rev barnes information from that place is to the effect that seventeen of the converts will leave for utah in a few days while the remainder will go just as soon as they can dispose of their little real estate which many of them have secured from the savings of almost a life time the missionaries tried to establish a following at several points along the river but were not successful to any degree until they reached the village of new E england land which is largely composed ot of english coal miners who have but little intercourse with the outside world NEW YORK 11 the following card is published to the editor of the 1 I evening post SIR will you kindly permit me through your columns to reply to many who still inquire concerning my real present relation to the little ch chicago cago magazine that my connection with this paper was irrevocably ended more than a month ago also that the ire gre ported interviews with the publisher of that paper hilve have contained contain eci so little truth in what they have said as to deserve only Tenny sons stigma of worst of lies these falsehoods would be as barm harmless less as they are ridiculous except for the sad fact that there are widely circulated newspapers which receive and scatter them to many readers among whom some feeling kindly toward me may sorrowfully believe them they are denied ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND HOLLAND PATENT oneida county N Y nov ath CONCORD CONc oRv N H 11 complete returns from cities and towns give e sawyer re rep for governor cogswell tem dem wentworth pro and scattering 2210 the republicans V public bl ae ans carried thirteen and the democrats eleven senatorial districts and there is no choice in two districts denver ll 11 official returns received from twenty seven counties UL BO the state together with reliable est estimates Mates from the remaining thirteen puts symes byrnes rep majo majority riLy tor for congress at the lower house will be 25 republicans and 24 democrats the senate 19 republicans and 8 democrats a democratic gain of 10 in the house and 5 in the senate ATLANTA ga 11 the prison reform congress this morning visited the camp of brick company seven miles from atlanta where four four hundred convicts leased from the georgia penitentiary are employed at a subsequent session of the congress prison labor was the topic for discussion the opening address on the subject was made by charles E felton of chicago at the night session charles dudley warner read a paper on the extirpation of criminals criminal nal 11 the secretary submitted a re port showing the rapid extension of tile the association and |
