‘ from such drills in the past. of putting into condition the new ships iéas they are turned over to the govern— 'tions as far as the navy is concerned. AN UNWISE POLICY Congressional Action Cripples ' the Navy. SECRETARY LONG’S PROMPT ACTION. Unless Congres} Revises the Naval Bill the North Atlantic Squadron Must Be Greatly Reduced and All Shipbuilding Stopped. WASHINGTON, March 3.—The navy department has put the big double tur- reted monitor Puritan out of commis— sion at the Norfolk navy yard; and it 1 is said at the navigation bureau that 1 this ship must be follow ed by others i speedily, to the g1eat detriment of the I plans of the department. The estimates submitted to congress based on the minimum requirements of the navy pro-‘ vide for 20,000 sailors. Congress cut this . down to 15,000. There are now 18,000 I men in the service, so that 3,000 of these . must be dropped immediately. ThatI means, according to the navigation offi- cers, that a large part of the north At— lantic squadron must go out of com- mission. The Asiatic squadron cannot be reduced, in View of Dewey’s neces- i eties. There is only one ship, the Phil— 1.delphia, on the Pacific station. The European and the south Atlantic sta- tions have been abandoned. There is only left the’ north Atlantic squadron as» material for a cut. The loss of 3,000 men means the cutting in half of this splendid home defense squadron. It is probable that the heavy reduction in the number of enlisted men and conse- quently of ships will interfere seriously with the conduct of the naval maneu- vers this year, notwithstanding the enormous benefit that has been derived Another diificulty is going to be the impossibility ment by the builders simply for want of men to man them. The action of the senate in the matter of ship armor caused Secretary Long to take prompt measures to bring the sub— ject to the attention of the naval com- mittees of the house and senate in the hope of securing a change in the ap— propriation bill before it is finally en- .acted. The secretary ‘and Captain 'O’Neill, chief of the ordnance bureau, Ein communications sent to the commit- tees declared that the actionof the sen- :ate if adhered to meant the total stop- page of all naval construction, saying that no armor can be procured for $300 per ton. It might have been possible, it is said at the department, to go on and ~build ships without the armor under or- ~dinary circumstances, trusting to the Lnext congress to provide for it, but for a clause in the appropriation bill which provides that no ships shall be built un— til the armor is contracted for. The ef- fect of the two provisions will be to put a complete stop to shipbuilding opera- Although it is provided that a govern- ment armor plant shall be constructed in the event of the failure of the depart- ment to secure bids for supplying ar- mor at the price fixed, the ordnance offi— cers say that such a plant could not be constructed and begin to supply the ar- mor inside of two years at the earliest. They also declare that the limit of cost fixed for the plant is less than half of that found to be absolutely necessary by the special naval board which in- vestigated the whole subject of govern- ment armor plants a. few years ago. Salmon Fisheries Combine. NEW YORK, March 3.—The Pacific American Fisheries company, incorpo— rated in New Jersey yesterday, with a capitalization of $5,000,000, will control 70 per cent of all- the salmon caught in Puget sound waters and is authorized to I catch and can salmon or other fish in x the Columbia river, Puget sound, Era- ser river, Alaska and other districts. The headquarters of the company will 1 be in Chicago, and the American Trust and Savings bank of Chicago is the un- derwriters' trustee. The 'Manhattan Trust company is the New York trustee. The stock 0f,th5e company has been pri- ~ vatcly underwritten, and there are to be no other offerings. _______________ 0 Business Crippled by Storm. LEADVILLE, 0010., March 3.~—The snow storm which began here at mid- night Sunday shows no signs of abate- ment. The railroads are completely tied up west of this city and are run- ning but few trains east. The outlook here is most discouraging. There has been,a loss to this community for a month past of over $3,000 a day in wages, in addition to heavy losses of mine owners through failure to make shipments and carry on developed work. Johnstnwn Miners Injured. JOHNSTOVVN, Pa., March 3.——Four‘ miners were badly injured and several 5 others less seriously in an accident that ' happened as a train of cars was being ‘taken into the Cambria mines. Just, as 'the train was about to enter the mines the cable broke, and a collision occur- red. A dozen miners were caught in the wreck. Cody Jury Completed. ALBANY, March 3.5—The jury to tr Mrs. Marga t Cody for attempting t rblackmail orge J. Gould and Helen M.. Gould was secured at 5:15 o’clock yesterday evening. at which ended the first day's session of that trial. A large number of ju'rymen were drawn. The trial proper opens today. General Toral Arrested. MADRID, March 3.—General Toral, who commanded the Spanish troops at Santiago, Cuba, has been arrested and merisoned previous to being tried by court martial on the charge of capitu- lating to General Shatter at that place on Jdly 14 last. Chile Will Reduce Her Army. VALPARAISO, March 3.———The Chilean war office and the military authorities have definitely decided to reduce the . army by 5,000 men. The government, it I 'is rumored, contemplates a sale of sev- , eral cruisers to the United States and , Ecuador. Kipling Is Much Better. NEW YORK, March 3.—Rudyard Kip- ling is much improved'and is in a fair vay to recover. Two of his children, however are dangerously ill with pneu- monia. \, , Weather Probabilities. Generally fair; fresh to brisk caster-4 2y winds. . 51 I I I 1 ‘ TEE EVEN 1N G5 GAz'Err CONGRESS HASTENS WORK. The House Refuses to Unséat Arm Officers. WASHINGTON, March 3.—During al- most the entire session yesterday the senate was engaged in routine business. Threescore or more of minor bills were passed, the calendar being cleared en- ‘ r tirely of private pension bills and of 5 measures correcting military and naval . records. Two measures of national im- portance were passed, the fortifications appropriation bill and the bill provid—‘ ing a code of criminal laws for the dis- trict of Alaska. A provision for the high licensing of the liquor trafl‘lc in the latter measure created considerable discussion, and an effort was made to incorporate an absolute prohibition amendment, but it failed by a decisive vote. The fortifications bill was pass- ed precisely as it came from the house without amendment and goes to the . president. The conference reports on the census and naval personnel bills were agreed to, and these measures also go to the president. No conference reports on appropria- tion bills were pressing at 6 o’clock last evening, and the house therefOre paid , its last tribute of respect to the mem- , ory of the late Representative Hurley ' of New York by adjourning until,today at 11 o’clock. An attempt was made to consider the resolutions reported by the ‘ judiciary committee declaring that Gen- eral Wheeler and the three other mem- bers who accepted commissions in the army had thereby vacated their seats, but the house by an overwhelming vote refused'to consider them. An analysis of the vote shows that the affirmative vote in favor of consid— ering the resolutions was cast by 21 Republicans, 43 Democrats and 13 Pop— ulists and the negative vote by 101 Re— publicans, 4451 Democrats and 1 Popu- list. . ' Half a million dollars each was ap— propriated under suspension of the rules for thePan-American exposition at Buffalo and the Ohio centennial at Toledo. The senate bill carrying $1,000,~ 000 for a new building for the depart- ment of justice was passed, and two public building bills attached by the senate to bills for public buildings in other cities were agreed to, one appro- priating $250,000 for a building at Los Angeles. Grip Causes Many Deaths. ALBANY, March 3.—Th’e bulletin of the state board of health for the month of January, showing the vital statistics for that period, issued yesterday, states: There were 12 ,421 deaths reported dur- ing January, an average daily rate of 400, against 350 in December. The num- ber of deaths exceeds that of January, 1898, by 2,800. Common epidemic .dis- eases caused 800 deaths, against 765 in Decembe’r, and 900 in January, 1898. The mortality under five years of age was greater than in either of the other months. It was estimated that grip caused 1,800 deaths in December. This month it is estimated that it has in- creased the mortality by 3,000, this num— ber having been either directly caused or hastened by it, or nearly 25 per cent of the total mortality of the month. Looks Dark For Police Bill. ALBANY, March 3.—The New York police bill is dead unless some Demo- crats vote for it. This fact was fully disclosed at a caucus of Republican sen- ators last night, when Senators Cogge- shall and Wilcox refused to vote for the measure as long as it destroys the al— leged bipartisan «character of the pres- ent police board. They left the caucus when the bill was pressed. Coggeshall and Wilcox refused absolutely to vote for any bill which should provide for a single head for the police department to be named by Mayor Van Wyck. Courier Arrived Too Late. WICHITA, Kan., March 3.——Walla Tonka was shot to death on Monday, despite the report that the reprieve ar- ' rived just in time to save his life. A re- prieve was granted, but the courier fail- ed to arrive at Alikehi courthouse. Choctaw Nation, in time to save his life. The statement sent out from Antlers, I. T., saying that Tonka was not exe- outed was denied by the following mes- sage from Judge Clayton yesterday: “Tonka executed according to law. Courier failed to arrive with reprieve." An Imperialistlc Phopheey. ALEXANDRIA. March 3. — Cecil ' Rhodes, who in the eyes 0f,most Eng- lishmen is the incarnation of the impe- rialistic policy, holds views concerning the future of the United States even more farreaching than most American imperialists have broached. Mr. Rhodes in a recent conversation predicted most confidently that within a century the United States would have advanced the work begun in the acquisition of Cuba until it controlled all of the American hemisphere except Canada. Hog Killed by Rats. MIDDLETOVVN, N. Y., March 3.~—Ja- cob Decker, a farmer of Youngsville, Sullivan county, found in his hog pen a hog which had been killed by rats. The animal had evidently been attacked by a number of the rodents. Early in the evening Farmer Decker heard the. hog squealing, but on investigation found nothing wrong. The next morn- ing he found that the hog had been at- tacked during the night and killed. A Cable Message From Midocean.- NEW YORK, March 3.—Yesterday afternoon‘ the Commercial Cable com- pany received a cable message from their repair steamer, the Mackay-Ben- nett, repairing cable 420 miles east 0f Sandy Hook. The Mackay-Bennett had grappled the cable from the bottom of the ocean. Postmasters Appointed. WASHINGTON, March 3.—The presi- dent has appointed the following fourth class postmasters: New York—Whitney Point, EliP. Black; Whitestone, Charles R. Bindhamer; Cornwall-on- the- Hud- son, John J. Taylor. Pennsylvania— Sayres‘, James N. Weaver. The Portland Starts For Manila. SAN FRANCISCO, March 3.—The United States transport Portland has sailed for Manila. She carries a num-‘ ber of recruits and a great cargo of supplies for the army and navy de- partments in the Philippines. Indian School Commencement. CARLISLE, P8... March 3.—The elev- enth comma: -ncement of the Indian school was held yesterday in the presence of 4,000 people. Thirty-four pupils we1e graduated. K ,STHE BEEF INQUIRY -Volunteers1 Tell What They Know About It. ONE EIIBALIIING .STURY DENIED. It Was Brine Injected Into Corned Meats and Not Chemical Treat. ment That Was Witnessed—One Witness Failed to Appear. WASHINGTON, March 3.—There were several interesting developments in the beef court of inquiry yesterday. It was a field day for the volunteer arm of the service, the waiting room being filled all day with members of the various volun- teer regiments which served in Cuba and Porto Rico. The first of these, Clarence Walters of the First volunteer engineers, told a sensational story of hardship and inhumanity suffered dur- ing his service, describing the. canned roast beef in harsher terms than have ever before been applied to that much discussed article. Later in the day Lieutenant Sewell, U. S. A., who was major 'of the volunteer battalion in which Walters served, contradicted his _ story completel‘y. saying there was no canned roast beef aboard the transport which took the command to Porto Rico. Further than that, he said Walters had .come to him after landing and asked to be discharged so as to accept a position as newspaper correspondent, and on be- ing questioned he said that he had been well treated while in the service and had no complaint to make. An important development was the denial of the story by one James Far— nan, and also attributed to Dr. Maxwell Christine of Philadelphia, that they had seen beef injected with chemicals in an Omaha packing house. Dr. Christine explained that what he had'seen~ was theipicliling of corned meats, the brine being injected into the meat to save several weeks’ time in the pickling vat. Private Stubblebine of .the,.S_e.v_enty- first New York said he had. been .made sick three times by eating canned roast beef~and thereafter avoided it as much as he could. He was shown some of the freshly opened cans of beef on the table and said it was in a general way like what he had seen in Cuba, but was somewhat better meat. Of the refrigerated beef nearly all that he saw was tainted. Guy P. Vistinski of the First volun- teer engineers had been three months in Porto Rico and only ate canned roast beef once. It made him sick. There was one brand of canned corned beef that also made the men ill, but another brand they could eat. They only got a little of this sort, On the. voyage home the command was well cared for, having good fresh beef and some delicacies. R. C. Miller of Rochestg, a machinist by trade and a private of the Eighth Ohio, had had large expeiience with canned roast beef while camped in Cu- ba. His testimOny was clearer and more assured than that of most of the enlist- ed men. About one—third of the canned beef was fit for use and the rest con- demned. One-half the refrigerated beef had to be buried, and of the rest very little could be said to be good. The men were hungry and ate it. Dr. Maxwell Christine of Philadel- phia, the witness who was supposed to have seen the chemical preparation of meat in the packing house of Swift & Co. in Omaha, testified that while in Omaha last year he had been through the slaughter house of the Swift firm and had seen a man with a cannula 0n the end of a flexible tube shoving it into sections of meat and injecting them with fluid. He did not'know at the time what the fluid was or whether the meat being treated was corned beef, pork or refrigerated beef. The meat was cut in 15 or 20 pound pieces and was not insides 0r qdarters. He paid little attention to the matter at the time, but when the discussion over “embalmed beef” arose he deemed it his duty" to write to General Miles telling him what he had seen. He didinot say in his letter that it was “beef" which was be- ing injected, but said merely that it was meat. He had regarded is communi- cation as confidential, but it had got out and brought him a great many let- ters. Among others was a letter from a man in New York signing himself Wentz and asking it Dr. Christine knew that the injection process he had wit— nessed was the regular way of coming beef and hams, as the injection with pickling fluid reduced the period of pickling the- meat by several weeks. He received another letter from one James Farnan, whom: he had never seen. Farnan said he had been station- ed in Omaha \and knew all about the embalming of beef and could give in- formation very dame ging to the pack- ers. On the strength of this letter Far- nan was summoned to appear before the war investigating commission, but never responded. Largest Four Mast Schooner. PROVIDENCE. March 3.—Schoone1 John B. Prescott, the largest four mast~ ed schooner in the world, has arrived here. She is from Philadelphia on her maiden trip in command of Captain Al'- thur L. Crowley, brother of her man- aging owner. Cotton Mills Raise Wages. MANVILLE, R. 1.. March 3.—Every cotton mill in the Blackstone valley, from Woonsocket to Providence, will re- store to its employees the 10 per cent cutdown of a year ago. About 7, 000 per- sons are benefited. Monument to Maine Victims. WASHINGTON, Mal'Ch 3.—The house library committee has reported favora- bly the senate joint resolution author izing the secretary of the navy to erect at Havana a monument commemoratiVe of the Maine victims. A disordered stomach upsets the whole sys- tem. It is the starting rtpoint of many dis- eases. Stomach HOSTETTER’s BITTERS‘puis a unordered stomach inc 9000 working order agrio, fiflSTETTER’s \ .LEBRATED STOMAGH ITTE 0:5 813, _ co slip.» lion, 5hi5linusness curing dyspvp- '5 a 5. ‘9‘ U MUIUALU ’ manor OF NEW YORK. Statement for the 1.11. Ending Dec. 31:98. According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York. LNOOME. Received for Premiums . From all other Sources . I b. '“3 ' - - 542.3 I 81748'5 I "12,687,880 92 $55,006,629 43 ISBUBSIIMEN'DSQ To Policy-holders for Claims by Death . . . $13,265,908 00 lo Policy-holders for Endowments, Dividends, etc. . 11,485,751 35 For all other Accounts . . . .. . 10,493,379 53 United States Bonds and other Securities . . First Lien Loans ,on Bond and Mortgage Loans on Bonds and other Securities, Real Estate, appraised by Insurance Superintendents , $35,245,035 33 ASSII ”IT’S. A51609956914I 33 68,503,580 90 95,396,619 00 20,604,649 ‘61 at.$23,5~34,826.88: Book Value . . . Cash in Banks and Trust Companies . . . 11,021,377 36 Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, etc. 5 . . 6,434,957 10 LIAB $277,517,325 36 BILITIEIS. 233,058,640 68 Policly Reserves, etc., . . Contingent Guarantee Fund, . . . . 42.238,684 68 Divisible Surplus . . . . . $2,220,000 00 ' .517. 2.5 36 Insurance and Annuities in Force . . . $971,711,997“ ,9 lhave carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be <;-: liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department. CHARLES A. PRELLER, A Wilma; SAMUEL 1). 3.1110001. 810112. RD A MCCUBDY JAMES C. HOLDEN HERMANN C. VON P031 WILLIAM J. SEWELL OLIVER HARRIMAN ROBERT OLYPHANT .GrEoRaE' I“. BAKEE , Donner OLoorr ,' From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usua Board. of Trustees- RUFUS W . I I WM. 1’. Dixon I FREDERIC CROMWELL J ULIEN '1‘. DAVIES A. N. WATERHOUSE CHARLES R. HENDERSON 1311:0an11 J. HOBART HERRICK ROBERT A. GRANNISS GEORGE G. Hum I ADRIAN Issms J1. GEORGE S. Bowoc ' WILLIAM 0. Warrant \V‘iLLIAu RoCKEIrELLL-L JAMES N. JARVIE CHAS D. DIOKEY JR ELBRIDGE T GERRY JAMES Simian; HENRY H. ROGER-S. Jim. W Aocnmomss THEODORE MOBFORD WILLIAM BABCOCK STUYVESANT FISH AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIABD CHARLES E. MILLER WALTER B GILLETTE H. WALTER W EBB ROBERT A. GRANIS SS, Vic 6- -President. WALTER. R. GILLETTE, General Manager. 15.1.11! 15‘. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President. W’ lLLlA-M J. EASTON, Secretary. FREDEMC CROMWELL,T1'eSeurer. JOHN A. F U ‘IDA, Assistant Treasurer. W ILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier. DUE“ du—l’. BRECK, Correspoc ring Secretary ALBERT KLAMltOTH, Assistant Secretary JAMES TIML SON. V26. Assistant Treasurer. LDW ART) 1'. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier. EMORY MoCLlNTOCK, Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, JR, Assistant Actuary. CHARLE~ A, PRELLEli,Aud1tor. C. CLIFFORD GRET ‘lN GER, ASAistant Auditor. . WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. HENRY 5. BROWN, Assistant Comptroller J N C ELLIO l‘, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies. E ') \l ARI) LYMAN SHORT, General Solicitor. 1131.le J. MARS H. 311 D' MEDICAL DIRECTORS: 5 GRANVILLE 1! WHITE. M .0 G. .5. WINSTON 311. D. Consulting. arduous c. mousse, eenerai Agents. I A. iii. GAME“, Local Agent.
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