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VMMWVr EDITORIAL SHEET. PART TWO. Pages 9 to 6. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1899 SIXTEEX PAGES. BIG DEAL IN ELEVATORS.

BOOK GOSSIP OF LONDON. FIRST WOMAN TO BE HANGED INTEREST RATE LOW ON LOANS. EXPLAINS HIS BEEF CONTRACTS Outside corporations and individuals are enabled to loan money here at a lower rate than local firms, as they can escape taxation, which, though often evaded by borne money lenders, the latter are nevertheless liable to taxation on about 60 per cent of the face value of mortgages. Execution of Mrs. Poirier in Canada Is Fixed for March 10 New Experience in the Dominion.

ST. PAIL ROAD TWO SORTH BRANCH PROPERTIES. TOLSTOI SEW OVEL TO APPEAR IX A PEW HOSTHS. 156 feet In Cottage Grove avenue, running through to Graves place, improved with a brick building. I llolton, Seelye Mooney negotiated the loan.

W. D. Kerfoot Co. have sold for J. Nutt to William E.

Phillips a tract of ten acres of land at the southeast corner of Fifty-fifth street and South California avenue for $10,000 cash. Thirteen lots in Walker's Douglas Park addition. 396x125 feet, located at Rockwell and Nineteenth streets, have been sold by Rodney B. Swift for $7,500. The land will be Improved by a manufacturing plant.

Money Is Freely Offered at Premiums Ranging from 4 to 7 Per Cent. General Eagau Tells of tho Agreement with tho Packers. Russian Government Will Cat Oat On-third, bat Entire-WorfcWIU Be Frounced, la Kneland Hall Clne' Dramatie Version of "The Chrla-' tian" Will Be Given by Frobmans Company Desplfe Threat of Legal Proceeding's. Terminal Company ULpoe of Pais of l.arue CI rain Ku-Prle Paid. I 94OO.OOO PnrchaMTS Secure' SOO Feet niver Frontage to Add.

to System S. Karptn Bros. Take. Tea-Year Lease on Plan of Palme, Fuller Sfc Co. HOPKINS ARRESTED ONCE MORE BANK COFFERS ARE FULL.

MEAT TO KEEP 72 II0UIIS. Did Xot Consult with General Miles as to of Oklahoma in Custody and Other Complications Grow Out of the Lexow Investigation. Guthrie, Ok. Feb. 24.

Special. S. N. Hopkins, Auditor of the Territory, was arrested today on a warrant for contempt sworn out by Senator A. J.

Biddison. chairman of the legislative Lexow committee. The Senate is making a fierce fight on Governor Barnes, charging his administration with corruption. It has been alleged that Auditor Hopkins lias paid out over $25,000 to the Adjutant General's department without warrants, vouchers, or law to show for the same. When the investigating committee asked Hopkins to show his books and records he refused.

The Senate convicted Hopkins of Capitalists Almost Begging for Borrowers with Real Estate Security. Buffalo (lets 5 Per Cent. Mortgage of $95,000 on Masonic Temple, However, Bears only 4 Per Cent, and It Is to Be Transferred to Another Concern. Which Will Charge Only 4 Per Cent. Buffalo, N.

Feb. 24. Special. The prevailing rate of interest on sums from $5,000 to $20,000 good real estate mortgages Is 5 per cent, and above that sum 46 Pr cent. Owners of mortgages do not pay taxes on them.

A mortgage of $95,000 on the Masonic Temple, held by the Buffalo Savings Bank, bears 4 per cent and is about to be transferred to another institution which will charge but 4 per cent. Big church and institution mortgages bear 4V per cent. Michigan Taxes nortgages. Prevailing Rate of Interest Is 6 Per Cent. Making Net Rate 4 Per Cent When the 2 Per Cent Tax Is Deducted.

Non-Resl- dents Escape the Tax. Detroit, Feb. 24. Special. In Michigan all real estate mortgages pay a tax of 2 per cent.

The prevailing rate of Interest in this class of mortgages, with good security, on sums ranging from $5,000 to $20,000, is 6 per cent, leaving a net rate of 4 per cent. On sums ranging from $20,000 to $50,000 the prevailing rate is from hi to 2 per cent less, owing, to larger amount. Non-residents of Michigan are not called upon to pay the State tax, which is footed solely by the resident property-owner. The present condition of the local money market is easy, with the rates ranging as low as 4 and 4j per cent on large amounts. The rate on real estate loans is 5 per cent.

The St. Paul and Fulton elevators, located Just north of Lake street bridge, and extending to KInzie street, passed yesterday into the hands of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company. $400,000 being paid the Chicago Railway Terminal Elevator company for the two properties. Within sixty days the railway company will take direct control of the elevators and operate them as a part of its system of Chicago terminal houses.

For the Fulton elevator, with its frontage of 147 feet on the river with a depth of 107 feet, together with all improvements, was paid. For the St. Paul elevator, without the ground, the price paid was Montreal. Feb, 23. Special Corre spondence.

The first woman to be hanged in Canada will be executed in St. Scholas-tique on March 10. She is the worst woman that has ever been known to exist in this province. Her name is Cordelia Portler, but she is tietter known by her maiden name of Viau. She will die in company with her partner in crime, Sam Parslow, who helped her to kill her husband in the fall of 1S97.

Not a person has raised a hand to prevent the carrying out of the sentence, and the popular opinion is that she should'die. The Attorney General is of this opinion, and so are the Judges to whom the case has been referred. Lady Minto. wife of the Governor General, refuses to take part In the affair. The couple were convicted mainly through Chief Provincial Detective McCaskill obtaining confessions from them.

From these it was shown that on the Sunday afternoon when the murder occurred Parslow was visiting the Poirier house, and they drank whisky blanc." The husband got drowsy and while he was asleep Cordelia got a butcher knife, and, putting It Into Parslow's hands, said: Now is the time to kill him." Parslow hesitated, and Cordelia, calling him a coward, took the knife from him an slashed Poirier's throat. She then left Parslow to finish him, which the latter did. Parslow, who was in love with the woman, expected she would marry him when the husband' was dead, but she simply laughed at him. She Intended to collect her husband's insurance money and go and live in the city. She has not shown the slightest emotion or remorse, and seems prepared to met death stoically.

WAUKESHA WATER PIPEBURSTS times axd CHI- London, Feb. new novel will be published in St. Petersburg, probably in May. One-third of the material will be cut out by the censor for political reasons, but arrangements are being made for the serial publication of an expurgated edition In England. The biography of Sir George Grey, by James Mllhe, the London journalist, will be published in the spring by Chatto Windus.

It will be entitled, The Romance of a Proconsul." Sir George was a firm believer in the United States becoming the future lead- REPORTS FROM MANY CITIES FAVORS CANNED PRODUCT. St. Paul Flush with rioney. Ruling Rate of Interest on Real Estate Mortgages Is 6 Per Cent, but Some Loans Have Been Made as Low as 4 Per Cent-Mortgages Are Taxed. St.

Paul, Feb. 24. Special. The ruling interest rate en real estate mortgages of all kinds is 6 per cent. The money market is easy and' there is next to no diem and for money.

Owners of mortgages pay taxes upon them. The lowest rate of interest ever made on a real estate loan in this city was 4 per cent. Rates at ninneapolls. Ranges from 4 to 54 Per Cent, but Loans on Unimproved Realty Are Absolutely Refused Law Taxing Mortgages Is Seldom Enforced Non-Residents Not Taxed. Minneapolis, Feb.

24. Special. The ruling rate of interest on real estate mortgages on sums of $5,000 to $20,000 is 5 to 5, per cent. On sums from $20,000 to $50,000 it is 414 to 5 per-cent. The money market is easy, although loans on unimproved property are absolutely refused.

Mortgages held by non-residents are not taxed, but those held by residents are liable for personal property taxes, but in not more than 1 per cent of these cases Is the law enforced. Lowest rate ever made on real estate loan is said to be 4 per cent. Main Breaks in North Evanston and People Fill Jugs Orrington Avenue Damaged by Flood. Waukesha water has been cheap la Evans-ton this week. A break in the pipe which supplies Chicago was discovered a few days ago on Railroad avenue, near Noyes street, In North Evanston.

People of the neighborhood soon discovered that the bubbling water was different from the water in the city mains and hastened to fill pails and jugs. Some gathered enough of the water to last their families some days. The leak has been repaired. Orrington avenue is blocked to travel for a distance of three blocks, from Noyes street to Lincoln street, as a result of the damage done by bursting water pipes. The bed of the street Is so undermined in places that only a crust of concrete and macadam remains.

Yesterday a city employe walking along over the water main broke through the crust and went Into a hole three feet deep. SMALLPOX RIFE IN INDIANA. State Board of Health Reports the Scourge Existing in Eight Different Counties. Washington. D.

C. Feb. 24. Special. General Eagan, the suspended Commissary General, was the principal witness before the court of inquiry today.

It was believed he might Indulge In another outburst against General Miles, but there was nothing of the kind. His trial and punishment seem to have softened the late Commlasary General and he confined, himself to a dig--nified statement, which carried infinitely more weight than his previous scandalous diatribe. General Eagan naturally defended hie de-j partment and declared the beef furnished the army was generally good, both the canned and refrigerated varieties. Histes- tlmony was almost entirely a transcript of that given before the commission. There were other officers examined both, from the line and the commissary depart-' merit, but no new facts were brought out.

The supply of witnesses gave out during the afternoon, so the court took an adjourn-( ment until Monday. Several wltnesse i have i been summoned for Monday and at that I time It will probably be decided to what extent the court will sit In Chicago. Next week probably fifteen wltneeses will be heard, among them, perhaps. Governor) Roosevelt of New York, and it Is expected i that Dr. W.

H.Daly will be examined later i in the week In resuming his testimony General Eagan i explained that Swift Co. were wholly re-1 sponsible for the beef until delivered to the 4 government officials at the points deslgnat-; ed by the department. The clause requiring beef to keep seventy-two hours after leav- Ing the refrigerator was Inserted, he said, at his instance after the concerns declared 5 they could prepare it so as to keep that loner. Explaining further he said: Suppose a commissary should make i requisition at Santiago for 20.000 pounds 1 of beef, should secure it from the ship take proper care of it, retaining It in the shade, and it should spoil within seventy-! two hours, the contractors would cot be paid for It." Many vouchers for beef had been paid, he said, and he presumed deductions for-spoiled beef had been made, thoueh he did not know. He understood through Colonel Osgood that beef had been rejected by commands when in fact it was sweet and perfectly erood.

Speaking of the arrangements for the Porto Rican exnedition General Eagan eaid St. Louis Banks Are Full. Loans Begging for Takers at Rates Ranging from 4 to 6 Per Cent Lowest Rate Ever Made Was 4 Per Cent Last Year on $7,000,000 No Tax on Mortgages. St. Louis, Feb.

24. Special. Banks have more money than they know what to do with and' private loans in consequence are begging for investments On. gilt edge real estate loans are being made at rates ranging from 4i to 6 per cent. The lowest rates ever made on mortgages were made last year when about $7,000,000 was loaned at 4 per cent.

Upon all such loans, the property-owner is required to pay the taxes on the property. There is no tax on mortgages. he understood General Brooke was to coru. mand It, and he accordingly consulted with PREVAILING RATES OF INTEREST. from $5,000 From t20 000 to $20.

OOO to 950, OOO Plact. per cent, per cent. Chicago 6 4 New York 4 4 Brooklyn 6 8 Boston 6 4g Washington 6 4 Cincinnati 6 4H Buffalo. 6 4 Detroit 4 6 4 8t. Paul 6 6 Minneapolis.

6 to 5H 4S to 5 Denver. 6 to 8 5 to 8 St. Louis 6 4 to 6 6to6S 6 Kansas caty 6Htoe ,5 to 6 Ban Francisco. 6 to 7 eto7 a Los Angeles 6 to 8 4 net Never in the history of the country was there so much money to loan as now, and never before were the rates of Interest so low. The forego Titr table gives the rates at which money Is offered to borrowers In the principal financial centers of the United States on sums between $5,000 and $20,000 and from $20,000 to $50,000, as reported by correspondents for The Tribune.

Such loans are offered on the customary margin security. No loan at a rate lower than that made on the Stewart property, State and Washington streets $140,000 at 3 per cent, with prepayment privileges is reported by any correspondent. That figure seems to be the bottom notch in real estate loans up to the present time. All the reports are based on ample margin of security on what la known as good Income property." For all other classes of property and with a smaller margin of security of course higher rates are paid' at all points. The situation which has puzzled' capitalists In Chicago for many months In finding ways to Invest their fundsi at satisfactory rates, with a safe margin of security, has not confined itself to any section of the union Even farm loans, which during the period of depression in agriculture went begging at comparatively high rates, are now offered by a leading farm mortgage company at 4 per cent net, showing: a rate to the borrower of 5 per cent.

From the plenitude of money to loan on real estate to a time when capital will seek real estate Investments is but a step. The one is the certain outcome of the other. The only question is how soon will the change come? Chicago real estate men, who have been watching flor the change, believe they see infallible signs of it Just now With the larger number of inquiries bein? made. However, realty is following so closely its course after the panic of 1873 that the men who weathered that awful period are not as hopeful of an immediate Improvement as the newcomers in the field. These old-timers predict that it will be some time yet before the.fiood' of speculation now running so high in many lines of trade will reach real but it is bound to embrace realty before it-subsides, and already its influence Is being fielt.to some extent.

Reports of the loan markets of the country show that real estate is about the same in all the large commercial and industrial centers, whose future is assured. Chicago is in about the same condition as the other cities of the union. Market Easy In New York. Prevailing Rate on, Five-Year Mortgages for Sums Over $5,000 Is 4 Per Cent Owner of Mortgages Pays No Taxes on Them. New York, Feb.

24. Special. The prevailing rate of interest on real estate mortgages for five yearS in sums ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 and from $20,000 to $50,000 is 4 per cent in Manhattan and 5 per cent in Brooklyn. The money market is easy and money plenty. The owner of mortgages does, not pay taxes, on The lowest rate ever made on real estate loans was per cent.

Money Plentiful in Boston. Ruling Rate of Interest in Massachusetts Is 5 Per Cent, but a Rate as Low as 414 Is Made In Some Instances on Exceptionally Good Security, Boston, Feb. 24. Special. The ruling rate of interest on rear estate mortgages in Massachusetts for five years is 5 per cent.

With exceptionally good security per cent is accepted. In some instances it is 6 per cent. The money market is good, there is plenty to be had on all kinds of real property, and the terms are extremely moderate. In Massachusetts the owner of a mortgage pays no taxes on it. There is no record of the lowest rate ever made on a real estate loan.

Situation at Washington, D. C. Money Market Is Easy and Capitalists Complain of the Rapidity with Which Heavy Loans Are Being Canceled Mortgages Not Taxed. Washington, D. C.

Feb. 24. Special. On good real estate mortgages the rate of Interest la Washington now is from 4 to per cent, with the average easy at 4 per cent. Four per cent is about the lowest legitimate rate on real estate security.

Nominal rates less than that have been made, but they are Invariably special figures to facilitate trades and are offset by prices of the property involved. The money market Is remarkably easy, and bankers and capitalists complain of the rapidity with which heavy loans are being canceled. There Is no taxation on mortgages here. "NOW THEN, ALTOGETHER." er of Anglo-Saxon peoples. Sir Thomas The Indiana State Board of Health has sent out the following notice to local boards and health officers throughout that State: Smallpox is spreading throughout the world to an extent not equaled since lt93.

The disease now extsta in eight counties tn Indiana, and there are many centers of Infection. There are aleo probably many concealed and unrecognized cases. Xj county can reasonably expect to remain free from this loathsome disease, aa vaccination has been greatly neglected for a decade or more, and vaccination Is our only sure protection. Th State board therefore recommends vaccination and revacdnation. Health, officers will publish thl recommendation and add their own advice to the same effect.

In case smallpox appears. Isolation, quarantine, and vaccination of the afflicted and exposed must Immediately follow. Guards must be employed to maintain quarantine, and In outside cities and Incorporated towns the township trustee must furnish needed suppllea. Iomiclllary quarantine should not be depended upon In cities and towns. ILLINOIS MAGISTRATE IN JAIL.

Squire Crawford of Vermilion Undergoing Punishment for Disturbing a School. Terre Haute, Feb. 24. Special Correspondence. Justice of the Peace Crawford of Vermilion, over the line In Illinois, is serving out a fine in the county Jail.

Squire Crawford is a man of positive convictions, and. believing the fine was unjustly Imposed, he would not pay it. and wpnt to jail instead, where he will remain until under the law he has been confined enough days to offset the fine and costs, In all $25. His son had given Schoolteacher Jones a great deal of trouble, and finally the teacher whipped him soundly. The Squire caused the teacher's arrest for assault and battery, but a jury acquitted him.

and he in turn caused the Squire's arrest for disturbing a school, and it was on this charge that he was fined $10. DINNER FOR BOYS OF EIGHTH. Committee to Be Appointed to Raise Fund for Reception of Returning Regiment. A committee representing the Eighth Regiment Return Reception association yesterday asked Mayor Harrison to appoint a committee of representative citizens to raise funds for a dinner to be given to the boys of the Eighth upon their return from Cuba. The committee consisted of S.

B. Turner. H. H. Roberts, F.

L. Barnett. J. H. Harris.

R. M. Mitchell, and W. E. Burnham.

The Mayor advised the committee to appoint its own Citizens committee, upon which he agreed to serve. TO INCREASE CHURCH FUND. Circular Letter Mailed to Every Episcopal Layman in Chicago Requ est- ing Donations. Steps toward increasing the endowment fund of the Episcopal Church of the Chicago Diocese to $100,000 were taken yesterday. A special committee of laymen has been named to direct the work.

The special committee yesterday mailed a circular letter to every rector and churchman in the diocese requesting subscriptions for the endowment fund. The chief object of the movement is to secure sufficient funds to provide Bishop McLaren with a coadjutor. MAY PASS OVER BRIBERY CASES Evidence Must Be Presented This Morning or February Grand Jury "Will Not Act. contempt and committed him to jail. He was released on a habeas corpus and ths case taken into the United States District Court, where Judge Burford rendered ade-clslon that the Legislature could not punish for contempt, but that Hopkins was amenable to, the criminal law.

Tonight Hopkins Indicted a letter to the Lexow committee saying he would show part of his records, and Governor Barnes, hearing of Hopkins' statement, intimated, it is alleged, he would call for the Auditor's lesignation if the records were shown. It is alleged Congressman Flynn and members of the anti-administration crowd are now in Washington working with President McKinley and the Interior department for the impeachment and removal of Governor Barnes. The Legislature has been In session for forty-two days and has passed but one bill, an appropriation measure for $5,000, which was vetoed by the Governor. All legislation is clogged by the fight between the administration and the Legislature. JOHN NONNE IS Jury in Judge Burke's Court Brings in Verdict of Guilty in Forgery Case.

Little Demand in Nebraska. Is Plentiful and Business Is Good. Mortgages Are not Taxed, but Borrowers Generally Are Compelled to Pay the Taxes on the Property Mortgaged. Omaha. Feb.

24. Special. Nebraska today has a more plentiful supply of money than for years, but the demand is slight. On real estate mortgages the interest rate is from 5 to 5 Per cent. The lowest rate ever made on real estate mortgages in Omaha of any considerable size is 4 per cent.

Mortgages are not taxed, but the land which Is mortgaged 4s and there Is usually a provision in mortgages that the man borrowing the money shall keep his taxes paid. Demand in Kansas City. Rate of Interest Ranges from 5 to 6 Per Cent, but One Big Firm Offers Sums of $100,000 or More at 4 Per Cent Resident Owners of Mortgages Are Taxed). Kansas City, Feb. 24.

Special. The ruling rate of interest on real estate mortgages In Kansas City for five years on sums from $5,000 to is from 5 to 6 per cent, and on sums ranging from $20,000 to $50,000 from 5 to 6 Per cent. There is a steady demand for money at the rates quoted. Owners of mortgages, except nonresidents, pay taxes on their holdings. So far as can be learned the lowest rate of interest ever made here on a real estate loan is 5 per cent, but money is being offered by one big firm at 4 Per cent in sums of $100,000 or more.

Idle Honey In Colorado. Banks Have $19,000,000 Which They Refuse to Loan at Low Rates Prevalent In Other Cities, and in Consequence Money Is Borrowed from Eastern Concerns. Denver, Feb. best rate for real estate mortgages conceded In Denver has been 4 per cent on forced loans where the lender was willing to assist the borrower in redeeming. The prevailing rate from Eastern companies is 5 to 8 per cent averaging 6.

There Is no money market here, the rate ruling at from 8 to 12 per cent in commercial business. Owners of mortgages pay no taxes. Banks have 000 idle money, but refuse to reduce interest rate. Most of the realty loans, in consequence, are made with Eastern insurance companies. On the Pacific Coast.

Interest Rate on Flve-Year Real Estate Loans in San Francisco Ranges from 6 to 7 per Cent Plenty of Money and Small Demand. San Francisco, Feb. 24. Special. On real estate mortgages running five years, with good margin of security, on sums of from $5 000 to $50,000.

the Interest rate here is 6 to 7 per cent. There is plenty of money and small demand for business purposes, though there always is a large demand by those who dabble in stocks. Mortgagee pays the taxes. Los Angeles, Feb. 24.

Special. Money Is plentiful. The ruling rate of interest on real estate mortgages is 5 to 8 per cent net, or 8 to 11 per cent gross, the latter of course including the mortgage tax. according to the amount of the loan and character of security. On first-class security $20,000 to $50,000 could be had for five years at 4 per cent net.

The lowest loan has been at 4 per cent. Seattle. Feb. 24. Special.

Bankers and men of finance say the money market has never been easier here. City real estate loans, ranging from $5,000 to $50,000, with good marginal security, are readily negotiated at 6 per cent for five years or General Brooke, reaching a complete ana satisfactory understanding as to refrigerated beef. Did Not Consult with Miles. Subsequently he learned that General assumed command, but he never consulted with him and he did not know that General Miles knew of the beef arrangements. Replying to Colonel Davis, he said that Colonel Sharp, chief commissary for that expedition, wes furnished something like credits on the United States, and an offer to send cash was made, but declined.

This statement was Intended to bear upon General Miles' statement that funds for purchase of supplies In Porto Rico were not available. Here were read telegrams between General Eagan and Colonel Weston, the latter In Tampa, relative to the sending by a pack- ing firm of beef refrigerated to Tamp-, to test how long it would keep after removal from the ice boxes, with a view to the max-, ing of contracts after the breaking' out of the war. The beef when removed from the-Iceboxes and hung up was declared serviceable within 1 forty-eight hours, whereas that left Us the after ice disappeared could not be used after eighteen hours. Frozen beef was tested, but adversely reported upon. Canned -roast beef was declared by commiseary officials at Tampa as the beet solution of the fresh beef problem until circumstances were such as would admit the prompt delivery and use of refrigerated beef.

Ample and complete." declared General Eagan, was the authority of the commie- sarles hi Cuba and Porto Rico to purchase beef on the hoof for any emergenclea, or the will of their respective co-nanandera. Reports received, he Raid, showed, he thought, without exception, that the native beef was not nearly so satisfactory aa the refrigerated beef. The latter tends to die- placo beef on the hoof wherever both are equally available. Were any rations, any kind." asked Colonel Davis, sent to the troops at any time as an experiment?" Five thousand pounds of the Dote beef. responded General Eagan.

a canned, preparation that made a nice hamburger steak were sent. It found Its way to Porto Rico, was used, and everybody was delighted with it. It was expensive ar.d wae not purchased any further." First Shipment an Experiment. He then reviewed the flrnt shipment ref rigeratied beef to Santiago, which he considered as experimental because the value of refrigerated beef had not been finally. Aside from these absolutely iu other experimental shipments were made.

General Eagan declared with, frie-at emphasis. On the contrary." he added, I fought all the time against It." Was anything furnished on the pretense of experiment?" asked Colonel Davis, suggesting General Miles' notable eHeceion. No. sir; never, not to the value of a penny." replied General Eagan without la- dlcatlng consciousness of the querya auc-gestlveness. General Eagan then said many persona had offered alleged preservative processes), but he never entertained any such proposition and the department never had any connection whatever with any method of preserving beef other than the ordinary refrigerating process, as he understood It- Refrigerated beef was approved by army phTtd clan.

He tr-tld he received on Aug. 3 General Miles telegram from Porto Rico asking that no more refrigerated beef be sent, as he could secure native cattle. At that time a cargo of refrigerated beef was en the Manitoba, consigned to Porto Rico, freight was paid, and it wes allowed to proceed. Had that not been the case, said General Eagan. rt would not have gone.

After that no more was sent to General Miles' forces. Here witness detailed the supplying of troops In and for the Philippines. canne) roast beef being sent. No complaints had been The Australian roeen beef was delivered' at eight cents at Manila, the government paying $400 per day while the ship was detained' at Manila. No mutton was sent.

The government Is now ereotlng a large refrigerating plant at Manila to avoid the expense of the ship' detention, it being: the purpose to continue the use of Australian beef. Perfectly Good, but Eepulsive." I would like to say In regard to the abuse of this tinned roast beef, that when It waa kept in the holds of vessels, or exposed in the tropical sun. the effect Is like that of tha un on the best canned butter in Aril on a. It remains perfectly good, though It becomea repulsive In appearance." He said IX nothing- better oould be seauredj $138,000. The purchase gives the Milwaukee and St.

Paul a river frontage of 300 feet at this point. The land under the St. Paul elevator has long been the property of the railway company, but was leased many years ago to Jesse Hoyt with the option of purchasing the improvements. Hoyt sold out to Munger-Wheeler, who consolidated the plant with their system of elevators along the Chicago River. The Fulton elevator alongside was similarly operated.

Finally Munger-Wheeler sold out to the so-called English syndicate, of which P. B. Weare was the managing director. In the reorganization of that syndicate's business the two elevators passed to the Chicago Railway Terminal Elevator company, which now sells to the railway company. The St.

Paul house Is much the more modern in equipment. The two houses occupy nearly all of the 300 feet frontage on the North Branch, the engine plants being placed at the back of the lots. The Chicago Railway Terminal Elevator company, which originally owned the largest elevator capacity on the river, is having Its holdings decreased materially by fire and sales. A few months ago Its big elevator near th Northwestern railway depot was burned, and the Northwestern is preventing its rebuilding by condemnation proceedings, which were lately instituted to secure possession of the land. Now two more houses go by sale under the terms of an old lease.

The purchase of the two elevators has no especial significance," said Otis H. Waldo, the attorney who handled the deal. The purchase of the elevators is said to indicate the railway officials have confidence that the river will be Improved to the demands of navigation. They have taken great interest in the movement to that end. S.

Karpen Eros, to Move Plant. S. Karpen Bros, have taken a ten-year lease of the plant of Palmer, Fuller Co the southeast corner of Union and West Twenty-second streets. The rental is said to involve a total expenditure for the term of $100,000. The lease dates from May and at that time Karpen Bros, will remove the manufacturing department from its present location at Wood and Park streets.

The transaction was negotiated by E. A. Cummlngs Co. As soon as Karpen Bros get possession of the plant they will make Improvements In it to adapt It to their business. Hessenmueller Meldahl have been engaged to make plans for a new building and for changes in the old structures Involving an expenditure of $14,000.

Palmer, Fuller Co. have not been directly in the manufacturing business for two years, obtaining their materials from outside the city. They will move to some place in the near neighborhood of where they are at present located and erect a building to serve as an office and for storage purposes. The Palmer-Fuller plant consists of fifteen buildings. The tract of land has a frontage of 511 feet in Union street and 363 feet ia Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets.

Jjovr Interest on. Loan. A loan of $20,000 at 4i4 per cent has just been made on the property 3248 to 3262 Cottage Grove avenue. This is the lowest1 rate of interest yet made on a real estate loan outside of the central district, unless the stiji i.piovfcl coraer. The lot is irregular in shape, having a frontage of Lowell Buxton told Grey that President Grant once declared to him and to W.

E. Forster: The tne will come when there will be a strong fcrawing together of England and America." E. F. Benson has written a novel called The Capsina." on the subject of the Greek war independence. H.

G. Wells is writing a story entitled Love and Mr. Lewlsham," which is astudy of an assistant schoolmaster who aspires to set the world straight. Dean Stubbs Is publishing, through T. Fisher Urwin, Brythnoth's Prayer and Other Poems." Brythnoth was an East Anglican Caldorman.

An historical volume on climbing, by Francis Gribble, will be published In the spring, entitled The Early Mountaineers." Beatrice Harraden will shortly revisit California. In Theater Circles. The threat of legal proceedings mad by Wilson Barrett has not altered Charles Froh-man's plans respecting Hall Caine's dramatic version of The Christian," which. Mr. Frohman's agent announces, will be produced at the Duke of York Theater next season, Evelyn Mlilard playing Glory Quayle, with Herbert Waring as John Storm.

A new play, written for Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Kendal, by the authors of The Elder Miss Blossom." will be called The Poverty of Riches." Horace Sedger has secured for early production a new four-act modern comedy by the author of Lady Windermere's Fan." Mr.

Sedger is. now negotiating for the use of a suitable West End theater. The play will be ready for rehearsing In April and will be officially anonymous. Sir Henry Irving's theater opening Is now fixed for April 15. But the whole of Sar-dou's new play, called Robespierre," relied upon for production at that time.

Is not yet In the hands of the translator, Laurence Irving. As the Lyceum Theater is now controlled by a syndicate, of which Comyns Carr is the manager, Irving's first engagement will extend only over the approaching season. Ellen Terry will play the part of Clarice, the mi3tress of Robespierre. New Version of Nell G-wynne." In the new four-act play on the subject of Nell Gwynne," which will be the next production at the Garrick Theater, the chief parts will be filled by Fred Terry audi his wife, Julia Nellson. Paul Hervieus comedy, "La Loi de FHomme," produced! in Paris at the Theater Francals in 189T.

is being tranalatwdi for Mrs. Charles Kettlewell, better known a Edith Woodworth. W. W. Jacobs and Charles Rock have written a one-act tragedy, which Cyril Maude will produce on March 16 at the benefit performance organised by George Alexander in aid.

of Sarah Thorn. John Nonne, alias Chick Nonne. alias James B. Cunningham, but best known to the police of Chicago as Jim the Penman," was convicted yesterday in Judge Burke's court on a charge of forging a check for on the Northern Trust company, payable to James B. Cunningham.

The paper was presented to Hyman. Berg where it was cashed Oct. 3, 18.18. It is said Nonne is one of the most skillful forgers that ever operated in Chicago. The indictments also charged Juilps Forst, alias W.

D. Haldeman. with being implicated in the forgery, but he has not been arrested. OFFICES FOR WESTERN MEN. A.

C. McGillivray to BeBegister of the Bismarck Land Office An Ap-1 pointment for E. A. Jones. Washington.

D. C.Feb. 24. The President today sent the following nominations to the Senate: Register of the Land Office a Bismarck. N.

D. A. C. McGillivray. To be a Commissioner to examine and classify lands Erw In A.

Jone- of Iowa. De Mayor OoUiar to Pewta. Des Moines, la-. Feb. 24.

Special. Mayor John MacVicar has accepted an invitation to deliver an address before the Initial convention of the League of Illinois Municipalities, which meets at Peoria March 1 and 2. His address will be upon the subject of the municipal ccmtrol of corporations. British Steamer Ran A (fro and. New Orleans, Feb.

24. The British steamer Politician, Captain Brown, which sailed from here Thursday for Liverpool with a general cargo, grounded In South Pass. Its propeller and rudder have been damaged 4nd jt will have to return the city. Cincinnati Rates Never Lower. Money Is Plenty, with Few Loans.

Mortgages Are Taxable Under State Laws, but the Taxes on Them Axe Usually Dodged. Cincinnati. Feb. 24. Special.

On real estate mortgages loans of to $20,000 are made at 0 per cent, with good property as security. On loans from $20,000 to $50,000, with large margin of security, city business property, the rate is 4i per cent. Money is plenty, with few loans. All mortgages, under State law, are taxable, but in general taxes thereon are dodged. Lowest offered rate ever made on real estate loans was 414 per cent-Lowest Notch in Cleveland.

Masonlo Temple Association Gets 4 Per Ce nt Rate on a $90,000 Mortgage on Property Worth $400,000 Taxes on Mortgages Generally Dodged by Money Loaners. Cleveland, 24. Special. Although the ruling rate of Interest in Cleveland on real estate loans from $5,000 to $20,000 is 5 per cent, and from $20,000 to is 4'a per cent, the Masonic Temple association today refunded! through local agents of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company a mortgage of JfUO.OOO at 4 percent. This is the lowest Interest rate ever made on a loan on Cleveland real estate, but as the Property is worth.

$400,000 it gilt-edged. longer. The lowest real estate mortgage Whether the grand Jury will take up the Jury bribery Investigation today depends on evidence that must be prepared by 10 o'clock this morning. State's Attorney Deneen has the evidence In hie posseseScn in almost 100 cases In which crookedness on the part of court bailiffs and minute clerks la suspected. These are all street railway ranra This evidence came principally from attorneys who had tried damage suits and lost them.

Daniel Unrtaagh a De-tectlve. Policeman Daniel Murtaugh, who shot and killed Elmer Reed while Reed was robbing a house in the Fiftieth street police district, is how a detective sergeant under Captain OoUeran. Murtaueh was recently promoted for his bravery. Yesterday an order was issued transferring him to detective head-qusjrtera. Commits Suicide aft Joltet.

Joliet." Feb. 24. Special. Fred Galltx of Mo nee committed suicide Iaat night by shooting himself in the heart with a revolver. Despondency brought on byichronio slcknesa and Inability to work was the motive.

He leaves a wife and. three loan known to nave oeen mace in this city was at 4 per cent, though the obligation was recently paid and several years in advance of maturity. Real estate mortgages in this State held by non-residents are not taxable. Smallpox Reported in La Salle County. Springfield, 111..

Feb. 24. Special. Dr. C.

B. Johnson of Champaign, President of the State Board of Health, has gone to Dana, La County, to invertr.ra-?' tn a-Ilccxd cane 0 smaiiiKx rtioivcii 'uy ioQiiu of that place..