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'\ If a story told in Chicago club cir- cles is correct, Joe Leiter’s entrance into speculation on the Board of Trade was with no thought of undertaking operations which have made him an in- ternational figure. George French came here broke and went to work for a railroad company. He exchanged his job for that of a solictor of buisness for a firm on the board, where there was a chance of doing a little better. In that capacity he met Leiter. Both men are young and congenial, and Joe is generous and more to help French got his commissions. The deals won a little money and Lcitcr got interested ‘Now Joe Leitcr is possibly a little pe~ culiar for a young man who is so rich that he has no incentive to labor. He has a. habit of studying things and dc- ciding for himself. His father is heav- ily interested in the Edison Company JOSEPH LEITER. and lhc City Railway Companies and in grass and manufacturing companies, and for two or three years Joe has looked after his interests. He looked into them so deeply that he mastered the technical details of each company’s physical plant. He can tell anybody all about electric lighting or street railroading or gas making from the ground up. There is no detail which he has not examined and weighed to such good effect that probably Mr. Leitcr could step right in and run any of the companies in which the Lcitci family’s money is invested. This habit of observation prenilcd when he stepped into the whirlpool of grain speculation a tenderfoot. It was not- French who figured out that natural conditions of supply and dc mand all pointed to higher prices for wheat. but Leiter himself. It was the latter himself who ,saw no reason why wheat could not be bought, carried and disposed of like merchandise, despite the venerable belief on the board that the process was impossible. Having reached these conclusions he got in for keeps. P. D. ARMOUR. The story of the deal. with its turns. and twists and collateral parts, such as the expedition for wheat P. D. Ar- mour sent out need not here be retold. There have been others on the board where the quantity of wheat involved was immense. Cudahy was long 28,- 000,000 bushels in 1893, but he did not take it. Armour in his deal of 1382 took in 6,000,000 bushels. The Harper deal, the Iiéane'deal, all included pro- digious quantities. In every big deal that failed the causes were much alike. The manipulators conducted them with practically the same end in view, namely, to make their profits out of the shorts, calculating it would be heavy enough to easily to make good the loss they expected to sustain the marketing the cash wheat they were obliged to take. _ L. Z. Leitcr has backed his, son, by the latter‘s oWn confession. L. Z. Leitcr is one of the richest men in America. His real estate in Chicago is worth more than $10,000,000. He owns blocks of the choicest local stocks and bonds, besides railroad and indus- trial securities, land and mines. No matter how rich, no man keeps an amount of cash on hand sufficient to carry 10,000,000 bushels of wheat, which Joe Leiter is supposed to own stored in Chicago, Buffalo, Duluth and Liverpool, besides 8,000,000 bushels of options. But it has been much easier than to ordinary mortals for these financial heavy weights to supply and borrow the round sum of $12,000,000 that has been used to take care "of the deal.- The figures are given on the strongest authority. The sum, im- mense as it is, was got easily, and the entire deal has been financed here. It was no strain watever. ‘ ‘v or aeration war It" Spain Sends More Torpedo Boats to American Waters. CONSIDERED AS A MENACE Navy Degartmeut Thinks of Forming a Flying Squadron—The Spanish Flotilla Not Needed to’ Suppress the Cuban Insurrection. \Vashingtmi, \larch 16.——The forma- tion of a flying; squadron to menace the Spanish torpedo boat flotilla, now on its way from Cadiz to Havana, is being considered at the Navy Department. It will consist of the Brooklyn, Columbia. and Minneapolis will be immediately disputt‘hed to make them turn back. A torpedo craft flotilla is not needed to suppress the Cuban insurrection, and the naval authorities consider that the sending of the fleet which sailed from Cadiz is a threat which the Unit- ed States Sllflllld not overlook. The vessels in the Spanish torpedo flotilla, which left (,fadiz on Sunday evening. are the Ariete, Rayor, Pluton, Azor, Terror and Furor. The flotilla. is escorted by the Transatlantic com- pany’s steamship Ciudad de Cadiz. Commander Villamil expects to reach the Canaries to-day, and proceed thence to Porto Rico, there to await len. Blanco's orders. Second Torpedo Flotilla to Start Soon. Madrid, March 16.—The Spanish tor- pedo flotilla which sailed from Cadiz on Sunday last ostensibly for Porto Rico, will only call there for provisions, etc, and will afterward leave for H9.- vana. A second Spanish flotilla will soon start for Cuban waters and will prob- ably be stationed at Porto Rico. Mailer-O’Donnell Fight To-niglit. New York, March 16.—Peter Maher and Steve O’Donnell will meet for the fourth time in a six-round contest at the Arena Athletic Club, of Philadel- phia, to-night. Although O’Donnell was defeated in the three previous bat- tles he still has the opinion that he can beat Maher, and will try hard to do the trick. Maher since he so easily defeated O’Donnell in one round imag- ines that it is only a little preliminary boxing when he goes in the ring to meet the Australian, and he will no doubt start right in to finish Steve as soon as the bell rings for the contest to begin. Both men are in good shape for the bout and will enter the ring fit to put up a stiff battle. They are to box at catch—Weights for 50 per cent. of the gross receipts. No decision will be given. LATTIMER VERDICT DENOUNCED. Mahany on Floor of the House Says It Is a. Case of Not; Prove!) Rather than Not Guilty. \Vashington. March 16.—Representa- tive )Iahany, of New York, yesterday Mr. he said, speaking of the recent trial of Sheriff James Martin on a. charge of murder at VVilkesbarI-e, Pa: “No evidence adduced at the trial of Martin and his deputies gives adequate indication that ‘the procession of labor- ers meditated any mob violence; nor does the acquittal carry with it any such inference. This official, proven by his own statement to be cowardly, reckless or incompetent, is free to-day simply and solely because the State found it impossible to fix particular murders upon particular men. The finding of the jury, therefore, was in the nature of ‘not proven” rather than in the sense of ‘not guilty.’ , “That such an event as the Lattimer tragedy could happen in this age and this land, and the perpetrators go un- punished, is a fearful commentary on the equitable working of our laws. "The manipulators of trusts combine [0 themselves by arbitrary rules and prices. This is landed in a certain portion of the American press as ‘busi- ness enterprise.’ The legislators, and promote such ‘deals’ are eulogized in the same quarter as sound and saga- clous statesmen,’ but let workingmen associate together to protect their in— terests and they are at once assailed as agitators and an. l'nglliStS. Let a public man, however conservative his record may be, presume to speak in de- fense of labor or the: American masses, and he is promptly denounced as a dis- turbcr and a demagogue.” Big Powder Shipment. to Key “'est. A special train bearing over 300,000 pounds of powder left the Jersey City station of; the Pennsylvania. Railroad yesterday bound for Key West. This shipment is intended for the squadron under command of Admiral Sicard. The powder was placed on board the cars under the supervision of gunners from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, who will accompany the ammunition to its destination. This is one of the largest shipments of powder ever made from this naval station. 0 The Death of Tufts. Thurston. W'ashington, March 16.—The death of Mrs. Thurston, wife of the junior Sen— ator from Nebraska, John M. Thurston, which occurred Monday on the yacht Anita off the Cuban coast, was made the subject of a touching reference by the blind chaplain in his invocation at the opening of the Senate’s session yesterday. Upon the motion of Mr. Allen, Mr. Thurston’s colleague from Nebraska, the prayer was ordered printed in the record. “’atsou for Govrrnor of Georgia. Atlanta, March ill—"Fhe State Convention, which will meet here to—day, will probably nominate Tom Watson for Governor, 21 though he has stats-d on several (vs-I: not want to run and will not attend the (-ol‘lvention. Sir Henry “03“(‘IZI91' Dead. Lulllibll. March lib—Sir Henry Besse- '-:~—-.r tho toiebrated inventor of Bes- . :' stool. died fl‘uesday evening; city coal dealers deny ._ :tzsual quantities of, coal are “1.1.53.9, to Havana from this - the use of Spain. Cardiff is source of supply. Y L: .'-' k made a speech in the House, in which , crush competition and to enrich- \ Populist .:ions that he did‘ Tnnnnvhivine GAZETTE Michael Davitt Says Great Britain’s Sym- thies Are With Spain. London, March 16.—The English at- ltitude on the American-Spanish crisis is influenced by two most selfish mo- tives. First, she jealousuy dreads any con- flict which might exhibit the republic as a strong rival naval power, and which would call forth at,this juncture “the great potential military strength of theUnited States. Secondly, she wishes by means of a cheap and insincere expression of sym— pathy with the United States in the quarrel with Spain to obtain in return the invaluable'prestige of America’s sympathy in a. possible struggle with Russia in China. To this end men and newspapers, or- ‘dinarily most anti—American, as over the Venezuelan difficulty, are now try- ing to impress France and Russia, :Anierica’s tried friends in the past, with the idea that an‘alliance between - England and America is possible of at- 'tainment. I Such an alliance, if formed, while ‘England is distrusted in her motives [ and policy by every other civilized na- ; tion would destroy the great moral in- fluence which the United States as a non-aggressiblz and non-grabbing power, wields throughout the world to— day. The sympathies of the ruling classes I of England are really with Spain. They are as hostile to America to-day ’ as they were in the days‘of VVashing- ‘ ton, Jackson and Lincoln. MICHAEL DAVITT. SPAIN ASKS WHAT WE MEAN. : ENGLAND’S ATTITUDE. __....___ 'Formally Inquires Why “7e Are Buying Warships. Washington, March 16.——According to 1 a. report current last night the Spanish l Governmentis not observing with in- difference the purchases by the United States of warships. It is ascertained in different quarters that the Spanish Legation yesterday presented a note to Assistant Secretary Day, at the De- partment of State, requesting that he enable the Minister to explain to his Government what construction Spain is to put upon the accumulation by the ,_ representatives of the United States in 3Europe, of ships, guns and ammuni— , tion. Mr. Day, when asked what truth there was in the report and what an- swer he made to it, if it were true, rc— , fused either to affirm or deny the story. lAt the Spanish Legation complete ig- ‘norance of the report was expressed. '-One report from Mr. Day represented 'him as having declined to answer the inquiry at once, and as having inform— ed the Minister ot‘ Spain that a reply will be made to-day. PHILADELPHIA BRIBERY CASE. Councilman Stevenson Tells \Vho Ofi'crml Him 85.000 for a Vote.‘ Philadelphia, March 16,—XValter N. Stevenson, a. member of Common Council who made a public statement at a meeting of that body on last Thursday night that a. bribe of $5,000 had been offered to him, to vote for the Schuylkill Valley Water Supply ordi— ' nance, was put on oath yesterday be- fore an investigating committee of the chamber. He swore the man who of- fered the money for his vote was Peter E. Smith, a. member of the Republican City Campaign Committee and a poli- tician of the Twenty-ninth Ward. Stevenson swore that Smith told him that the offer came from Charles F. Kindred, general agent of the Philadel- phia & Reading Railway Company, who, he said, had turned in for the bill, and for Whom, he said, he was author- ized to make the proposition. Mr. Kindred,who was seen last night, denied any connection with the alleged Schuylkill Valley bribery charges. Healer Ordered to Leave. Philadelphia. March 16.—Archbishop Ryan has ordered the Rev. Philippe Gi- raud, an Armenian priest who has been posing as a divine healer, to leave this city at once. Should he refuse the Archbishop will ask the police to arrest him as a fraud. Father Giraud ar- rived here ten days ago, and hundreds have flocked to him believing implicit- ly in his power to heal them. He claimed to have authority from the (‘hurch for his work, but his presence here was unknown to the Archbishop until the publication of a story about an eighteen-year—old blind girl whose sight, it was alleged, was restored last Sunday. The girl, Mary Pogues, is an inmate of. the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind, and the healing was a1— leged to have taken place at the house of her aunt. Axnericnn Flag on the New Cruiser. London. March Iii—The Stars and Stripes of the United States were run up yesterday on the masthead of the cruisers Amazonas. now at Elswick, and the sister ship, the Admiral Bren. which is on the stocks at the same place. This action, which formally de- notes that the United States has pur— chased the two Brazilian cruisers, was taken to prevent any complications should war break out before the ships can leave the country. - The Amazonas can be made ready to sail at any time, but the Admiral Breu "will not be ready for launching until Fall. Strength of Cuban Forces. W'ashington, March 16.-—Representa- tives of the Cuban Junta have received from the Adjutant-General of the Cu- ban Army by a special messenger a re— port of the strength of the Cubans around Havana. This report says that the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Army Corps, under Col. Cardenas and Col. Mayria Rodriguez, consist of 18,000 in- fantry fully armed. 12,950 cavalry, 3,700 artillery and 5,700 light armed infantry. All l‘Iexicans Side Against Spain. Guadalajara, Mex., March 16.—All classes of Mexican citizens sympathize with the United States in its contro— versy with Spain. and discussed in the smallest towns. and the remarkable fact is that the Mexicans. who have been hitherto cool in their, manifestations of regard for the United States, publicly declare the United States should punish Spain. 'heserters from Our Navy. Madrid, March 16.—-A dispatch to the. Imparcial from Lisbon says that a score of sailors deserted from the Unit- ed States warships while they were there, and-the dispatch adds they were nearly all spaniards. ’ . All news is read ooooorlrroloo 12.3 -. " ,C’ U u .LO- t'ericot [Confidence in the meat of the President. TALK OF AN ADJOURN TENT Said That Congress 3133‘ Go Home Soon. hut. All Depends on the Tenor of the Report of the Court of Inquiry—Enter- gency Measures Discusscd. .a W'ashington, March 16.—The (1’ let feeling which has prevailed in “3' Sn: ington this week has not been dis- turbed by any developments, and it' seems to be the determination of the President to encourage this peaceful sentiment which is. so widespread The Cabinet was in session yesterday aess than an hour, and after the meet.- lng was over, the members said that the reason the session was so short was because there was nothing to keep them. The meeting was devoted to going over the accounts in regard to the $50,- 300,000 defense fund and the hearing of reports from the departments as to the emergency work. The peace feeling which is so appar~ ant is not due to any change of‘policy 3n the part of the President, but to the fact that confidence Is growing in the President‘s ability to handle the situ~ attion, and to his steadfast desire that the matter shall be ended by peace. without the loss of honor. It is also due to the effect of the great prepara- tions which have been made during the last week or so, showing that the Uni- ted States can, if emergency demands, , prepare itself to cope with any nation. A Lesson for Spain. The lesson of the purchase of the two Brazilian ships has been a good one to Spain, for although that government has been endeavoring to buy.r these ves- sels for some time, the negotiations proved a failure from the lack of funds. As soon as the United States expressed a. desire to possess them, it was able to do so by paying cash and taking possession at once. This has been a. bitter experience to Spain, and has shown the Madrid Government that it would be easy for the United States to increase its navy, if it became nee— i-ssary, despite the efforts Cf Spain to prevent it. The President; in conversation with members of Congress, has in the last few days given every expression of con- fidence as to a peaceful yet honorable termination of the present crisis. He has stated that he has never lost faith in the .hope that the entire question would be settled by diplomacy. It is the belief among naval officials to—day that the report of the Court of Inquiry may be delayed a few days, because the board seems to have post- poned its return to Havana, and as the administration is in no great hurry for the verdict, it is likely that the official papers will not reach Washington until next week. The officials, however, only conjecture, because no positive infor— mation has been received lately from the court as to exact time this report will be ready for the President. For Adjournment. It is evident that the feeling for an early adjournment of Congress is again strong, and plans are being made by Congress to get away from Washing- ton before the first of May. Of course, this is conditional, as everything else seems to be, upon the exact nature of the report of the Court of Inquiry. A. prominent Senator said yesterday that the intimation that Congress wants to adjourn is but another evidence of the confidence the members ahave in the President’s ability to peacefully and honorably settle, not only the Maine disaster, but also the Cuban problem. The ability shown by the President in handling the crisis so far has impreSSed the conservative members of Congress most forcibly, and they are of one opin- ion that nothing would have so quiet— ing an effect upon the country as an early adjournment of Congress, and the leaving of the settlement of the entire question to the President. It would show that Congress, having appropri- ated all moneys necessary to meet an emergency. was just as confident that the President would bring a peaceful settlement of the affair, without its aid, as that he would expend the millions judiciously and wisely. There is undoubtedly opposition to an early adjournment among the Cu- ban sympathizcrs in Congress, and they threaten to prevent such a move by precipitating a Cuban debate. But. nevertheless, the prepartions ,for an early adjournment will continue, and if the situation is not threatening or hos- tilities have not actually begun, it looks to—day as if Congress would ad- journ early. ' The Purchase Scheme. The talk of the purchase of Cuba, this time by a, syndicate of American and European financiers, is but the re- vival of one of the numerous schemes daily proposed to the President and other officials in ‘Washington. It is stated that this Government would, of course, have no objection to the set- tlement of the question in this way, but it will have nothing officially to do with it, nor would the purchase of the island by a private syndicate have any bear- ing whatever upon the settlement of the Maine question, if the verdict should implicate ,the Spanish authori- ties, for then the question would be one between this Government and Spain alone. The subject of an early adjournment of Congress is being generally dis— cussed by Senators and, Representa— tives. It has been reported that Speak— er Reed is planning to bring the ses— sion to an end and that the adminis— tration is heartily in favor of that pol- icy. Senator Jones. chairman of' the Na— tional Democratic Committee, thinks it would be unwiSe and impolitic for Con- gress to abandon the field of action under existing conditions. The senti- ment of the Senate is more hostile to the idea of adjournment than that of the House. There are members of both houses who insist that it would be the» part of wisdom to leave. the settlement of the entire Spanish controversy with the President. ' The Merchants’ Association of New York city presented a protest at Al- bany yesterday, against the proposed transfer of the Erie Canal system to the United States Government. ' 4.
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