National.

President McKinley died at 2.15 Saturday morning, September 14, 1901. The funeral services were held at the Milburn house in Buffalo Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. The remains lay in state in Buffalo's City Hall from noonuntil midnight. On Monday the body was taken to Washington where serviees were held on Tuesday, after which it was taken to Canton, O., for interment.

Theodore Roosevelt took the constitutional oath of the office of the President of the United States at Ansley Wilcox's residence in Buffalo at 3.35 on the afternoon of September 14. The oath was administered by Judge John R. Hazel of the United States District Court.

The first official act of President Roosevelt was the issuing of a proclamation appointing Thursday, September 19, a day of mourning and prayer throughout the United States.

It has been announced that there will be no extraordinary session of Congress. The constitution does not demand it, and after discussing the matter with the members of the cabinet who were in Buffalo on Saturday last, President Roosevelt decided it was not necessary.

Money is still piling up in the treasury as a result of the continued excess of receipts over disbursements. This excess for the present fiscal year to date amounts to $6,693.266.72, and the available cash in the treasury, after deducting the reserves, amounts to $179,652,312.25. Though the revenue reduction law was estimated to cut the internal revenue receipts down $40.000,000 per year, there has been an increase of $11,776,565.70 since July 1. September 4 last year, instead of a surplus, there was a deficit for he fiscal year amounting to $5,083,298.98. and the available cash balance was $135,419,600. The present surplus is not due to an inerease in receipts, but to a reduction of expenditures.

The Schley court of inquiry convened at Washington on September 12. Rear-Admiral Schley objected to the service of Rear-AdmiralHenry L. Howison. Three witnesses were brought out to support the statement that Howison had previously expressed an opinion favorable to Admiral Sampson as against Admiral Schley. The court sustained the applicant's challenge and Howison was relieved. Admiral Ramsay was selected to serve in Howison's stead.

Chief Clerk Edwin C. Jones started for Manila September 6 to instal the new $110,000 government printing office in that city. The type left New York for Manila via the Suez Canal some time ago, and the type setting machines will be shipped in a day or two. A force of skilled men will accompany Mr. Jones to put the shop in working order.

Although commissioners, a majority of them being Cubans, were appointed to make a new tariff for Cuba, and their report is in the hands of Colonel Bliss, collector of the port of Havana, it is understood now that the present tariff will be retained, with a few changes that can easily be made by military order.

O' the afternoon of September 16, the grand jury of Erie county, New York, reported to Judge Emery an indictment against Leon F. Czolgosz, alias Fred Niemen, charging him with murder in the first degree. The trial will begin Monday, September 23, before Supreme Court Justice White.

At the National encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which was held in Cleveland, Ohio, last week, Judge Torrence of Minneapolis was elected commander for the coming year.

The immigration during the last fiscal year reached the largest figure since 1893. The total number of immigrants from all countries was 487,918.

Foreign.

Seldom have so many American war vessels appeared simultaneously in English ports. Scarcely had the Hartford and Essex arrived in the Thames before the Chicago excited the curiosity of Portsmouth's citizens. Then the Dixie arrived at Southampton. and now the Buffalo's crew are being entertained at Greenock. The Hartford and Essex have since left, but the others remain. They are all receiving the most hospitable treatment, but the English officers regret that the vessels could not all come to one port, so that a welcome could have been organized.

Renewed interest in the South African war has been awakened by the expiration of the limit of Lord Kitchener's proclamation, in which he declared that the Boer leaders who did not surrender by September 15 would be The effect of the proclamation is still in doubt. Six weeks ago it was estimated that there were twelve thousand Boers in the field; during that time some three thousand have been accounted for in surrenders, captures, and casualties.

When the death of President McKinley became known in foreign lands there was a universal expression of sorrow and regret. Messages of sympathy and condolence were sent to Mrs. McKinley, and also to the officials at Washington. In Madrid several papers published editorials in which they spoke of the departed President in terms of greatest respect.

The Crown Prince of Prussia may visit the United States in 1903. Emperor William has mapped out a tour of the world for his son and he wishes that the young man shall see as much of other countries as possible. The prince will go to India next year and will study the government of that part of the British Empire.

The Canadian Northern. Canada's new transcontinental line, will be completed through the Manitoba grain fields in time to handle a part of this year's crop of wheat. At the terminal on Lake Superior an elevator having a capacity of 1.000.000 bushels will be ready for use in October.

Industrial and Commercial.

Prairie, the former merchant steamship which was bought by the Navy Department during the war with Spain, and which for several months has been undergoing an extensive overhauling at the Charlestown Navy Yard, will probably be ready to go in commission the latter part of October. It is understood that notice has been sent to the department to the effect that the Prairie will be ready for sea by October 9, but according to present indications, it is more than likely to be a couple of weeks later. Soon after the Prairie arrived here she was put out of commission and all her fittings were torn out. Since the war she has been used as a training ship, but the $200,000 which have been spent in rebuilding her will make her much better suited to training young men for the navy. She will be practically a new ship, excepting the hull and machinery.

Basing computations upon the last Government crop reports, the statistician of the New York Produce Exchange estimates that the total wheat harvest for this year will be 644,835,000 bushels, as against 255,229,505 last year. About 3,200,000 acres were planted for the current crops. Corn is estimated at 1,335,093,000 bushels, as against a harvest of 2,105,102,316 last the acreage this year being about 400,000 less. These figures are not materially different from those which have long been accepted by conservative authorities.

The great steel strike, which was inaugurated June 30, was ended September 14, at a conference held between the leaders of the Amalgamated Asspcoatopm and the officers of the subsidiary companies of the United States Steel Corporation. An agreement was reached by which the men were to return to work on the following Monday morning in the mills which have been idle.

The rapid expansion of the Australian shipping trade continuos undiminished. In New South Wales it was larger in 1900 than in any previous year. The total number of vessels entered and cleared was 7,082, against 6,400 in 1899, Of those 6,308 were under the British flag and 724 under those of other countries.

It is said in Pittsburg that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has decided to spend $5,000,000 in improving alignment and reducing grades between that city and Nineveh.

General.

The total wealth of the United States is estimated at $90,000,000,000. Our farms produce $2,500,000,000 a year, our mines $600,000,000,our forests, $1,000, 000, 000, and our fisheries $50, 000, 000. In 1800 we produced 160,000,000 bushels of grain. Today we produce one third of the grain crop of the world. Our output is fifty-two bushels for each inhabitant, against thirty bushels in 1800. In the amount of our banking capital we stand first among nations, with $1,030,000,000. With minerals it is pretty much the same as with crops. In 1800 the world produced 11,600,000 tons of coal, and of this quantity 10,000,000 tons came from the mines of Great Britain, the United States contributing only 200,000 tons. To-day the world's output of coal is 600,000,000 tons, and our contribution is 175,000,000 tons.

Mrs. Eugenia M. Jones has assumed the management of the Press-Post of Columbus, O. has announced a unique policy of management. All the employes are to share in an equal distribution of half the profits which is to be made on Christmas and the Fourth of July. Conditions of employment are "that intemperance among editors and employes shall not be countenanced: that every editor and proofreader shall have a college education, and that no business of any sort shall be transacted with any individual, firm, or corporation without recognized financial standing."

The Peary Arctic steamer Erik, which sailed north with the relief expedition of the Peary Arctic Club last July, arrived at North Sydney, C. B.. September 13. Word was brought that Lieutenant Peary had reached the farthest point north in the Western Hemisphere—83 degrees 50 minutes.