‘ <..-l-MI- a... . -._._.._.. .. Qua...» .. ... stealer AND RUSSIA. .onthi'aatinn of tho Dispute Over Bis. marck’s Revelations. - LONDON, Nov. 3.-—-The Berlin corro- lpondent of The Daily News reports that he has learned? that the German treaty with Russia was in nowise as harmless ' as is alleged, but was disloyal to Austria. “Prince Bismarck was eager to come to terms with Russia," says this correspond- ent. flat SkierniewiCe, where the czar and Emperor William I met, and later, in interviews with M. de Giers, he gave a warm expression of his desire.” The Government Organ's Reply. BERLIN, Nov. 3.—The Reichsanzeigor this afternoon replies to Pr'qrce Bismarck’s organ, the Hamburger Nachrichten, on the latest phase of the great dispute con- cerning the disclosure of the Ru’ssian-Ger- man treaty of 11884-90, saying: “The ques- tion of the period of time required '50 -o- cret diplomatic occurrences to lose ‘he character of state secrets can only be de- cided by the statesmen in office, by ' . .‘8 of their responsibiiity and special 1: . l- edge of the political situation. An) . 3vi< ation from this principle would expose the country’s foreign policy to surprises and perturbation, and thereby endanger inter- ests of state. if Germany gave an uncon- ditional promise to keep secret the fact as well as the purport of the negotiations with Russia before 1890, the obligation is still binding upon all cognizant of the matter, and this consideration also pre- cludes the possibility of discussing the es- sential points of the negotiations.” A QUESTION or Tsar/urns. Another Step Taken In the Northern Pa- cific Railroad Matter. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-—-Another step in a long standing controversy has been tak. an by the secretary of the interior in de- clining to approve the designation of the city of Duluth as the eastern terminus or initial point of the'Northern Pacific rail- road grant. The department holds that the terminal should be at right angles to the last section of the road and directs that a new terminal be established as the eastern terminus of the road. accordingly. Under the construction of the department the line of both the Northern Pacific and Lake Superior and Mississippi roads is the same between Thomson and Duluth. A line of the sameoharacter as a terminal line should be established upon the Lake Superior and Mississippi road at Thom. son. Between the line thus established and the eastern terminus of the Northern Pacific grant, when establiished as now desired, the Northern Pacific company will not be entitled to indemnity for lands to which the other company may have been entitled under its grant. The inten- tion of congress, it is stated, was evident- ly to provide against making a double grant where two land grants were found to be upon the same general line. Hospital Cornerstone Laid. NEW YORK, Nov. 3. -—A t the laying of the cornerstone of the new St. John’s hospital in Long Is’ .nd City there were present nearly «1,000 people. The stone is of gran- ite and was laid by Bishop McDonnell, who used a. silver trowel, presented by-the Sisters of St. Joseph, who act as nurses in the institution. The hospital is the chief charitableinstitutlon of Long Island City. Fighting In Matabeleland. SALISBURY, Matabeleland, Nov. 3.— Colonel Cecil Rhodes and Captain Ferana, with 3.“) burghers, captured and bu‘i'ned Pangoi’s kraal aftera fight in which 31 rebels, including 3 chiefs, were killed. Freight Cars Wrecked. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Nov. 3.—An east and a west bound freight train tried to back into the same switch at Hales Eddy today. The rear ends met, and 20 cars were piled up, blocking all traffic. 5 One Day's Government Receipts. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. —-Natlonal bank notes received today for redemption, $218,- 770; government receipts from internal revenue, $502,763; customs, $463,035; mis- cellaneous, $53,082. Northampton's Err-Mayor Dead. NORTHAMPTON, Mass, .Nov. 3.——Ex- Mayor Jeremiah Brown, 51, died sudden 1y today in the office of E. P. Hall. He was mayor in 1890-1. He was a lifelong Democrat. The Weather. Fair; slightly warmer; southerly winds. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Quotations of the New York Stock Exchange. New YORK. Nov. 2.—-Money on, call stringent at 10 per cent; now offered at 25@50 per cent. Prime mercantile paper nominally 7@10 per cent. Sterling exchange irregular, with actual business in bankers’ bills at [email protected] for de‘ mand and 34"[email protected] for60 days. Posted rates. [email protected]}§ and $4.851;§@i.86. Commercial bills, $4.80;§. Silver certificates. sales 38l.000 at 6550. Bar silver, 650. Mexican dollars, 50%;c. Gov- ernment bonds strong. Stat-e bonds inactive. Railroad bonds strong. Closing prices: Atchison .......... 15% Bar. & Quincy. 77% 0., 0., C. & St. L.. 28% N. J. Central ...... 105 North American. 5% Northern Pacific. 1491 Chesapeake& 0.. 17 Do. pref ......... . 23% Chicago Gas ...... 723.4 N. Y. Central. . . .. 95 Cord age ........... 5% Omah a ............ i256 Cotton Oil ........ 14% Ontario & West.. ii§fi Del. & Hudson. . .125 Pacific Mail...... 24 Erie. . . K .......... 15% Reading ........... 28% Rock Island...... 67% Silver Builion.. . .. 65 General Electric“ 30 Hocking Valley.. 1634 Lackawanna.. . . ..l57 St. Paul ........... 76 Lake Shore ....... 149% Sugar Refinery. . .IIBM Lead .............. 25 Texas Pacific ..... 8% Louisville & Nash 48% Union Pacific ..... 10% Wabash pref...... 16% Western Union... 85 Missouri Pacific. . 23%; Northwestern. . . .102% ,Genegai Markets. New Yonx', lYOV: 2.——F‘LOUR—State and western fairly steady; city mills patents, $4.90 @5.l5: winter patents, [email protected]: City mills clears, 84.40611450; winter straights, [email protected]. VVHEAT—No. 2 red was quiet but strong this morning on higher cables. small Liverpool stocks and rcducedworld’s shipments: Decem- ber. 80%@Sl}v§c.: March, 84 7-16@850. . CORN—No. 2 quiet, but strong with wheat; December, 32@32§§c.; May, MWilvéc. 0ATS~N0. 2 firm; December, 23%“ track, white, state, 22@33c. PORK—Quiet: mess, $8.50@9;' family, $10.50 @1150. _ LARD—Dull; prime western steam, 34.67%, nominal. BUTTER —— Steady: state dairy, 11®180.: state creamery, 12}é@20c. CHEESE—Quiet; state, large, 7m109§c4 small, 7%10y40. ‘ , EGGS—Steamer; state and Pennsylvania, 18lé@2lc.; western, 15@19c. SUGAR—Raw quiet, but firm; fair refining, 2%c.; centrifugal,98test,3§4c.: refined steady; crushed, 4%c.; powdered, “do. TUR'PENTINE—Dull at 28@""~1:’20- MOLASSES—Irregular; New Orleans, 29@ 370.. RICE—Firm: domestic, 3%@'Sc.: Japan, 3%@ 4%c. TALLOW—Dull; city, 3%c.: country 3%c. HAY — Dull: shipping. , 55@600.: good to choice, 7E@82%c. W AINI} NOW is ellM To Subscribe for the v \’, I ITHE EVENING (Manure? . ,, ONE OF CHICAGO’S DANGERS. . A Digniflod Dian Put to Flight bya Drove of Hogs. ' A drove of hogs, about 200 strong, was winding slowly cut of the main entrance of the stock yards the other day, attended by 'a number of hog pelters, who, with the assistance of broom staves, were Hwalloping ‘ the swine, now on one side, and now on the other, as a means of showing them which way they were to go. The route laid out for them was down Forty-first street to I-Ialstead street, and north to the bridge, where they were to be transferred to a new pen. It is an unusual thing to drive stock of any kind out of the yards through 21 busy thoroughfare to transfer them, but for some reason this had to be done. ‘ The drove drew itself out to the length of a block, while pedestrians gathered on the sidewalk to view the unusual sight. Among the spectators was an elderly and dignified looking gentleman, with eyeglasses and a silk hat. The pigs thoroughly enjoyed their temporary freedom. In the street were several puddles and a quantity of grain, which had leaked from a wagon, so they were in no hurry. At Halstcad Street, on the corner of Forty-first, the street car tracks were being repaired, and a score or more of laborers were at work. Into the midst of these men came the advance platoon, two lines of trolley cars which cross each other at that cor- ner being obliged to stop. The dignified gentleman took ad- vantage of the break in ranks, and attempted to cross the street. when a vigorous application of the broom handle by the rear guard sent the loi- tering pigs pell mell to join the oth- ers. In the middle of the crossing they caught the dignified man, who made one frantic leap .to gain the other side, and then, finding himself surrounded, began to pelt his tormentors with his umbrella. He was overpowered by numbers, however, and it was plain that unless the drovers came to his rescue his pride would be doomed to the mercy of the bystanders, who were already laughing at him. ’ As he turned to retrace his steps a huge mother pig threW' her bulk against his legs. Up in the air went the Old gentleman’s feet and down on the flanks of several porkers went his back. For a moment the crowd on the sidewalk waited for a rare'spec- tacle, and .then a roar went up as the old gentleman was borne several yards distant, with the small of his back on that of a ponderous hog. Immediately a group of pigs gath- ered around the man’s silk hat. , One of them poked his nose into the thing, and tossed it into the air. While he waited for it to come down his com- panions stopped to inspect the old fel- low’s spectacles,.-whichhad fallen on the crossing. Meantime the dignified gentleman was rescued by the workmen, who had been trying vainly to drive the pigs from around the trolley cars. Gathering up his belongings the old gentleman sought refuge from the jeers of the crowd in a neighboring barber shop..—Chicago Inter-Ocean. The Fox is a Happy Outlaw. The fox is an outlaw whose scalp is valuable in many states, and to kill a fox on a' farmer's land. more espe- cially near a farmer’s hen coop, is to gain.the good will of the farmer. But in spite of the continuous search for it by canine and human enemies, in spite of bountics, traps and melodic— tions. the fox comes out smiling every evening along toward dark, and wends its way across the fields, lis- tening with 'cocked ears for the squeak of a mouse of the flutter of a dreaming bird in a low bush. Keen eyed and sharp nosed, the fox discovers what no other animal of the clearings and woods sees. Where the owl would pass by, not thinking that a ground bird was near, the fox eats the gmund bird. The weasel alone is so destructive to mice, the cooper’s hawk so deadly to small birds, and the white owl and wildcat scarcely equal the bushy tailed, smiling fox when it comes to picking partridge wings and rabbit ribs. Even the fawn deer are destroyed by the fox, if the old doc is not around. The fox is a good purveyor for food for its young, and it lays in a supply that lasts a long time if need be. Near Old Hadden, Conn, the other day, Arthur S. Burr was going across a field when he found a part1? eaten woodchuck, and a little .beyond a ruffed grouse. burrow with a large black hen and two more ruffed grouse in the en: trance. The man dug the fox hole out, since the town of Hadden pays $2 a head for the foxes, and discov- ered there eight partridges, three rab- bits, 3 woodchuck and five young foxes. It is probable that the mother 'was away after meat. The fox is a playful creature. With a full stomach and no danger in sight it will gambol about for hours, jump- ing sideways and up and down, 'wav- ing its big tail aloft and barking for the fun of it. Sometimes it gets so interested in its sport that it fails to notice the approach of man. When so detected it does not lose its self- possession a little bit. The corners of its mouth twitch a little, and then 1 it trots away with its- head up and tail dragging, as if it didn’t care whether the man was there or not; but once it gets behi; l .0, bush. rock, or log, or over a lit;.- knoll outof sight, its head drops, and away the beast goes, with its tail straight out behind. _________ “Is your papava. Christian, Georgie?" “Not today, 'sir. He’s got the neu- ralgyr—Chicago Tribune. Nearby was" a . fox’s -‘ For good goods is the result of great painstaking for ' years. Our plant at Providenceis equipped with every ' ll device necessary to facilitate economical production. . 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