Decatur News, Volume 3, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1901 — Page 2

The Decatur News. DECATUR, INDIANA. B. F. KIZER. - Editor and Publisher. 1901 NOVEMBER 1901 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 || 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ■ Q N. M. >F. Q. M 4th. W nth- 9 10th. <g> 25tb. ■ HISTORY OR A WEEK. , places and things jKr ’ OF THE WORLD. WE'" News of Crimes and Criminals, Accidents, Fires, Etc., from North, 1 South, East and West, Sanwiched jH; 4 with Minor Affairs. ■T ... , • >.{•' Northwest Independent Republic. ■K The San Francisco Call prints an un- ' confirmed story from Skagway, Alaska, K under date of November 6, telling of the discovery of what is alleged to be a huge |> conspiracy existing in Dawson, and’ ex- ■ / tending to Skagway, Victoria, Vancouver, | and Seattle for the overthrow of the local government of the northwest territory and T. • the establishment of a republic with DawK son as its capital. According to the details H, of the story, arms, ammunition and provisions have been taken in over the railroad and placed at strategic points. I Prominent American residents of Skagway are said to be nng-leaders in J the conspiracy. Miners to the number of five thousand are said to await the L ■ summons to arms, ready to fight for the Independence from dominion rule of the ' gold eamps and towns. The plan is to K overpower the mounted police, arrest the Ife civil authorities and take the government ■I into their own hands. The rigors of the < arctic winter would give the insurgents six || months immunity frdip attack by Canadian I' or British troops and the adventurous arch i conspirators hope for intervention or outside assistance by the time of melting of ice and snow will permit the invasion of their I, isolated republic. The Official Figures of the Ohio Electlon. The official tabulation of the vote cast at the late election in Ohio, is completed and the secretary of state announces the result: The total vote cast was 840,147. The total vote cast for the various candidates for governor was 827,566, as follows: C ( Nash, republican, 486,092; Kilbourne, dem©Crat, 368,525; Thompson, socialist, 7,359; Juergens, social labor, 2,994; Richardson, union reform, 2,718; Pinney, prohibition, ! 9,787; Nash’s plurality, 67,467. The prohibition party is the only one of the minor - parties holding enough votes to give its ticket a place on the ballot at the next election without petition. Aaar chi st Bergman Aska for a Parole. A' dispatch from Philadelphia Says: [ , Alexander Bergman, the anarchist, who in 1892 broke into the office of H. C. Frick, president of the Carnegie Steel Com- | pany at Pittsburg, with the intention of shooting Mr. Frick, and who was sentenced p to k long term of imprisonment in the Western Pennsylvania penitentiary has petitioned the superior court to be set at liberty, under the terms of the commutation law passed by the last session of the legislature. Horses Burned. The warehouse of the T. W. Jones Furniture Transit Company at Chicago, was burned, the loss being $50,000, with $40,000 insurance. Thirty-four horses perished in the fire. William Taylor, colored, who lived on the second floor, rescued his wife and two children by carrying them from the building. He was nearly overcome soon after, while trying to rescue the horses stabled on the second floor. He saved only one horse.

j Slaughter of Japanese. Twenty-five Japanese laborers were killed by a coibsion on the Northern Pacific, near Blair, in the eastern part of Montana. Four others were seriously in- „ jured. An east-bound extra freight train, running twenty-five miles an. hour and going around a curve, met the work train, the two coming together at full head. Conductor Krause of the work train, was the only whiteman injured. A Dastardly Deed. £ The southwestern express on the Northern Central railway was wrecked by a charge of dynamite placed under the track near Black Ridge, a short distance north fork, Pa. The train was running at the rate of forty-five miles an hour when the explosion occurred. Passengers on the train were severely shocked and consternation prevailed. All escaped injury. Masonic Temple Attractions, Fort Warne, Ind. Nov. 30.—“ East Lynne.” Dec. 3.—Field's Minstrels. Dec" s.—“ Arizona.” Dec. 9.—Marguerita Sylva Opera Co., “The Princess Chic.” Wedding Day is Set. Senator Chauncey Depew announces that he would be married Christmas Day in Paris to Miss May Palmer. They will return at once to America. Three Cent Sugar. “Congress will remove the duty on raw gugar within a year and the refined product <wvill sell at three cents a pound,” said W. A. Havemeyer recently. Big Gun a Failure. The second test of the monster 18-inch •Gathmann gun was made at Sanday Hook, N. J., and resulted in a signal failure. Now it is Murder. Leavenworth (Kans.) special:, J. B. Waldrupe, a guard at the Fort Leavenworth military prison, who was shot during the mutiny at that institution on / Nov. 7, has died of his wounds. Twentyfix mutineers now become liable to a Charge of murder. Indians on the War Path. A dispatch from Menominee, Mich,, (ays: It is reported that Indians are on the warpath around the head waters of Eagle River. They say one of their number was shot by a white hunter.

INDIAN MOUNDS ARE LEVELED. —— RUlcs Unearthed in Preparation for the I St. Louis Fair. The work of preparing the world’s fair grounds at Forest Park, St. Louis, is necessitating not only the destruction and transplanting of many giant trees of the primeval forest, but also the leveling of some of the Indian mounds which are scatterejl throughout the park. Four of these mounds, recently located by Eh 1. Bushnell, the well-known ethnologist, werg opened recently. Three of them were on the commanding hill where the art buildings are to be located and one was in the meadowland on the site chosen for some of the other large structures. “In the first mound ’opened,” said Prof. Bushnell, “three burials and a number of fragments of Indian pottery were found.” Trenches, running from the circumference toward the center of the mound, were started, and the first halfhour’s work brought to light portions of a human skull, which had been broken in the spading of the trench. The work was then pursued more carefully with trowels and hands, resulting in the dis; covery of two more skulls and a number of bones. The excavation was carried to ♦ the original level of the ground and a ■number of fragments of pottery and a few flints were found which showed traces of Indian workmanship. All relics found will be taken charge of by the world's fair promoters and carefully preserved. VITRIOL THROWN IN HER FACE. Mrs. George Wadsley of Fort Dodge, lowa, Permanently Disfigured. Mrs. George Wadsley of Fort Dodge, lowa, was batjly burned in the face in Omaha by vitriol thrown by a woman known as Julia Moorehouse. The victim raised her arm just as the fluid was thrown, and the act saved her sight. She Will, however, be permanently disfigured. Mrs. Wadsley has held the position of office attendant for Dr. B. L. Bishop, and is known for her activity in charitable work. During the last few months both she and Dr. Bishop have received offensive letters, signed by an unknown person, giving the namp of Julia Moorehouse. Mrs. Wadsley was warned to leave town, and when the instructions were ignored the assault followed. The acid thrower boarded the east-bound train before she was apprehended. The nature of her grievance is not known. BANK AT LE ROY, IOWA, ROBBED. Burglars Burst ths Vault and Escape with $2,000 in Cash.

r The, First National Bank of Leroy, Ia„ was broken into early Thursday morning by robbers, who secured $2,000 in cash and escaped. The lock of the outt side door was picked and the vault burst j open with nitroglycerin. The bank building was wrecked and the entire contents of the safe scattered about promiscuously. No one was awakened in time io see any of the robbers or secure a clew. 1 All the cash was taken. This makes the ■ eighth bank robbery, in lowa within a ’ month. , ■ BATTLE WITH SAFE-ROBBERS. TwoTownspeopleWounded at Bristol, Ind., 5 by Thieves Who Loot Postoffice. 1 The safe in the Bristol, Ind., postoffice was blown open by burglars the other night, and two residents were shot and ’ i wounded in an encounter with the robj bers. They were Mrs. C. E. Bicket and Ray Shaner. Neither was hurt seriously. The thieves exploded ten charges of dyf namite before the safe was opened. They I secured SI,OOO in bills and SSOO in 3 stamps. _ 1 Train on Swaying Bridge. The Chicago Great Western passenger train on the Red Wing and Zumbrota 1 line narrowly escaped being wrecked near Goodhue, Minn. As the train was passing over a bridge the structure fell l to pieces behind the cars, while in front , it swayed, but stood until the train was i safely over. The passengers were badly i frightened. Heroism of Elevator Man. . Fire in the carpet making plant of the j Planet mills in Brooklyn, N. Y., (endangered the Lives of 800 women at work on I the upper floors of the building. William Stewart, an elevator man, kept his cage going until the last woman had left the building and then fell unconscious from > the smoke and fire fumes he had inhaled. » Murdered in the Klondike. L. J. Girouard, governor registrar in , the Klondike, was shot and killed at Dawson, according to a brief _ dispatch , from the northern city. A man named ■ Lord, an Eldorado Creek miner, with i whom Qirouard had business dealings, is said to have fired the fatal shot. The men had a dispute over mining property. Turkey Yields to Austria. . The numerous grievances of AustriaHungary against Turkey have been settled by the agreement of the Porte to 1 adjust, financially and otherwise, the 1 wrongs arising from nine matters of dis- ' pute. These include the claims of the Oriental Railway Company. Wants Divorce and Damages. George Horton, author of “Like Another Helen” and former consul to Athens, Greece, has brought suit for divorce in Chicago. He also has sued Edward R. Bacon of Rogers, Bacon & Co., grain merchants in the Board of Trade, for SIOO,OOO damages. Wild Run by a Trolley Car. - Five persons were injured, one fatally, by jumping from a runaway traction car on the hill above New Homestead, Pa. The car did not leave the tracks, ami the motorman, who stuck to his post, was not injured. Boy Shoots His Fathsr. William Van Dexter, a farmer living near Camden, N. J., had a quarrel with his 18-year-old son, Cleveland. The latter had been drinking, and he shot his father in the groin. The doctors say he will reoovfer. Dies tn a Third Attempt. Edwin C. Crane, a musician of Detroit, Mich., committed suicide at the Gilsey House, New York, by taking carbolic acid. Crane had made two previous attempts to kill himself. Fire Destroys Iron Works. Beckwith’j iron works burned at Paterson, N. J. It was the largest iron plant in the city and had been partly idle for years. Loss $50,000. Gale on British Coast. " More than 100 lives were lost in the disastrous gale which has swept the coast Os Britain.

CLAIM LAND IN OHIO. WYANDOTTES SEEK PRORER'Xf WORTH $1,000,000. Fight Will Be Made for a Valuable Tract Not Far from Toledo—Farmer in .Indiana Is Tortured by Thieves in Search of His Money. Isaac Zane, a member of the Wyandotte tribe of Indians, whose home is at Wyandotte, I. T., is in Kansas City, Kan., on business in delation to a claim of the tribe to lands on Lake Erie, near the city of Toledo. According to the story of Zane the land in question is a part of the old Ohio reservation of tjie tribe. It was originally a swamp and counted as worthless, but has been reclaimed and is now worth nearly $1,000,000. A lawyer from Fremont, Ohio, named Burge, who married a Wyandotte woman, is pushing the claim and is at the Wyandotte Nation. There are 600 Wyandottes in the United States. THIEVES TORTURE RICH FARMER. They Almost Kill Man Near Hammond Searching for His Money. Two robbers entered the home of Michael Johnson, about six miles from Hammond, Ind., beat Johnson almost to insensibility with their revolvers, thrust a lighted candle into his face, and otherwise tortured him in. an effort to force him to reveal the hiding place of his money. They had tied a servant and locked her in a room, but she escaped and the robbers fled when she gave an alarm. They found $l7B and took that with them. Mrs. Johnson was beaten, gagged and bound to a chair. The robbers had information that Johnson had SIO,OOO congealed in his home, and this was the object of the visit. FLAMES SWEEP MICHIGAN TOWN. Hotels and Business Places and Residences Destroyed at West Branch. The business portion of West Branch, Mich., was swept by fire, and for a time complete destruction of the village was threatened. The fire originated in the West Branch Hotel, which was destroyed. Aided by the high wind the flames spread until the Commercial Hotel, Norton’s Hotel, G. A. R. Hall, two livery stables, two residences, a grocery, store, and a photograph gallery had been consumed. The losses are over $20,000. “Zao” at Toledo Is Burne-t ‘All the monkeys, birds and other animals owned by the city of Toledo, Ohio, in the “zoo” at Walbridge Park were burned at midnight the' other night. The collection comprised valuable and rare specimens and all were gifts to the city. The loss of the buildings, which were new, is heavy. Two horses were burned. Finds Minister in Morgue. Rev. Christian Hgddeus, for many years pastor of a Lutheran church in Columbus, Ohio, is dead in New York. His body was found floating in the water off South Brooklyn, and was taken to the morgue, where Adolph Kerler of New York City, a nephew of the minister, claimed it. Swift & Co. to Build at Laramie. Swift & Co. are preparing to build a large packing plant in Laramie,’ Wyo. The object is to save ear haul on. their live stock to Missouri river points and Chicago. The company has vast live stock interests in North Park, Colo., and other portions of the State contiguous to that city. , Met to Advocate New State. Three hundred delegates, representing Oklahoma and the Indian territory, met in Muskogee, I. T., to plan a wedding of the two territories and their admission to the Union as a single State. A joint executive committee was appointed and a delegation will be sent to Washington. Shot in Mistake for Deer. J. E. McLean of Minneapolis was accidentally killed while hunting near Kosos Landing, in Lake County, Minn., and the shot came within a foot of killing Attorney General W. B. Douglass. George Jentsch, a settler, mistook McLean’s fur cap for a deer and shot him. Workmen Caught by Falling Trusses. Roof trusses on the new power plant building now in process of construction at the University of Chicago collapsed, burying a group of workmen who were standing beneath under a mass of iron joists,' lumber and bricks, killing one man and injuring four others. Erie Yacht Club House Burns.

The Erie, Pa., Yacht Club house, one of the finest structures of its kind on the chain of lakes, was burned the other morning. The sleeping inmates had to make their escape clad in night , gowns over a piazza roof. The loss is about $20,000. Find a New Filipino Plot. Diaz, the presidente of Tacloban, island of Leyte, who has been proved to be an agent of the Filipino junta at Hongkong, has been arrested. Many incriminating papers implicating numerous officials were seized at the time of his arrest. Want War Chest Emptied. Agitation has been started to induce the German imperial government to relieve the nation’s financial distress by emptying the famous imperial war chest of 200,000,000 marks ($47,600,000) now hoarded in the Julius tower of Spandau. May Han? for Train Robbery. Harry Longbaugh has been indicted at St. Louis by the federal grand jury for train robbery in Montana. He may be taken to the Stat 4 where the crime was committed, and hanged under the law there. Many Wrecks on Great Lakes. The worst storm of the season has been raging on the great lakes and vessels sought shelter everywhere. No big disasters have been reported, but there were many minor wrecks. Hold-Up Men Get sßoo.' Five masked bandits raided Hearst’s Chicago American receiving station for collectors in Chicago, compelled the employes to put hand up and robbed the cashier of SBOO. Quarrel Ends In Shooting. Dr. Tyree, a physician of McGee, I. T., shot and fatally wounded Thomas Moag, a drug clerk, in a quarrel over a prescription. Moag also shot Tyree, causing a slight wound. [

' ; ■— I CATTIES UP ELECTRIC ROADS. ’ ''' - I H»r Death Cuts Off Fowtjr from Western New York. A cat was the cause of a great deal of trouble to the International Traction Company and the Niagara Falls Power Company the other night. Puss clftnbed a trolley pole on the Buffalo and Lockport Railway at Hoffman, N. Y., and tried to walk on the feed wire. Her tail touched the parallel wire that carried the current back to Niagara Falls. There was a flpsh that could be seen for miles as ttye 24,000 volts of electricity passed through her body. The cat was burned to a crisp. Her lifeless body fell across both wires, and did not drop ,to the ground. This short-circuited the,current, caused a fuse to burn out at the Niagara Falls power house and immediately cut off the power from all the lines centering there. It was two hours before the cause of the trouble could be located, and the charred remains of the cat removed from the wires. In the meantime almost all the electric railways and street lighting plants in western New York were without power. _ FATAL FIRE AT GRAND RAPIDS. Powers’ Theater Destroyed with SIOO,OOO Loss and Employe Is Suffocated. Powers’ Theater was destroyed by fire at Grand Rapid's, Mich- The property loss amounts to about SIOO,OOO. One man perished and several persons were overcome by. smoke. The blaze started in the basement and quickly spread. The entire block was filled with smoke, which cut tenants living in the upper stories off from the stairways. Edgar W. Warrenton, an employe in the building, was suffocated; Mrs. Washburn, son and daughter were overcome by the smoke. They were rescued by firemen and taken to a hospital. They will recover. There were a number of narrow, escapes. Howard Gould presented “Brother Officers” at the house the previous evening. ' COOK HEIR TO HALF A MILLION. Chef Informs Employer that He Will Erect Best Hostlery-in City, William Morgan until recently has been head cook at the St. Charges Hotel in St. Joseph, Mo. He tendered his resignation the other afternoon and notified the proprietor that he was going to England and that when he returned he would build a much better hotel than there is in St. Joseph. Morgan is sole heir to an estate in England estimated to be worth considerably more than $500,000, left him by the death of an uncle. His uncle often berated Morgan for the manner of life he was leading, and he says he had every reason to believe that he would never benefit from his uncle’s riches. BUILDINGS RENTED FOR FAIR. The St. Louis Exposition Company Leases Washington University Propjrty. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company has secured for use during the fair the 110 acres comprising the grounds of Washington University and the fine buildings of that institution, now nearing completion, just west of Forest Park, St. Louis. The buildings cost $900,000. The administration building of the University will be used as the administration building of the exposition. The other buildings will be used for congresses, education exhibits and athletic sports. Mysterious Murders in Evansville, Ind. v The police of Evansville, Ind., are mys--I'fled by the murder of Mrs. Georgia a widow; and Miss Lena Renner, both of whom had been strangled ,by unknown persons. Each accepted an offer to go buggy riding with a “friend” and the bodies were found by the roadside in different localities. Fire and Exp'osions In Virginia Mine. Fire followed by several-explosions resulted in the death or injury of between thirty-five and forty men in the t Baby mine at Pocahontas, Va. Twenty-five were rescued, more or less severely burned,' five dead bodies have been recovered and eight or ten others are unaccounted for. Burglars Get Valuable Booty. . Safe blowers got SIOO in money, about $2,500 worth of bonds and S2OO in stamps at the Rock Creek, Ohio, postoffice the other night. The safe was blown to atoms. The robbers also entered the Pennsylvania station and took a, sum of money. They then fled south ou a handcar.

Noted Kin Does Not Save. Miss Agnes W. Washington, who claims to be a descendant of the family of George Washington, was committed to the almshouse in New York. For twenty years this woman, who was born to wealth and high social position, has been dependent on charity. North Dakotan a Suicide. R. P. Allen, . a merchant of Inkster, N. D., committed suicide by- shooting himself in the head with a revolver. He was in a restaurant and borrowed the revolver. Then he cried out, “Good-by, boys,” and, placing the muzzle of the weapon to his temple, pulled the trigger. Bank Robber Is .Shot. The Citizens’ Bank of Minster, Ohio, was robbed the other night. In a fight with residents one of the burglars was shot. The bank building was wrecked by a charge of dynamite placed under the vault. There were twelve men in the gang of burglars. Cleveland Office Building Eurns. Fire destroyed a big office building in Cleveland, imperiling the lives of 100 occupants, many of whom jumped into life nets or escaped by telephone wires. One woman was killed and six persons were injured. Property loss was $500,000. To Wear the Koh-I-Noor. King Edward of England has decided to have the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond mounted in the crown of Queen Alexandra for the coronation. Indiana Farmer Pays Death Penalty. Joseph D. Keith was hanged at Michigan City, Ind., for the murder of Nora Kifer. Keith confessed that he committed the crime. Jeffries Whips Ruhlln. Ruhlin quit in the fifth round of the big fight in San Francisco, declaring a chance blow landed too low by Jeffries totally • disabled him. .-Operatic Impressario Dead. J. H. Mapleson, father of Col. Henry Mapleson, the operatic impresario, died in London, of Bright’s disease. Minnesota Postoffice Looted. The postoffice at Millerville, Minn., was looted by burglars of sllO in stamps.

NEW TREATY SIGNED. NICARAGUA PACT APPROVED BY HAY AND PAUNCEFOTE. Isthmian Waterway Will Be Built and Controlled by Uncle Sam-No Blockade or Attack in Time of War—Text of Agreement in Part. The new Hay-Pauncefote treaty was signed Monday at Washington by Secretary Hay for the United States and Lord

818 JULIAN PAUNCB* FOTE.

ernment of the United States, either directly at Its own cost or by gift or loan of money to individuals or corporations, or through subscription to or purchase of stock or shares, and that, subject to the provisions of the present convention, the said government shall ha ve and enjoy all the rights Incident to such construction, as well as the exclusive right of providing for the regulation and management of the canal.” Other clauses are: “1. The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations, observing these rules on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation or Its citizens or subjects In respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise. “2. The canal shall never be blockaded, not shall any right of war be exercised nor any act of hostility be committed within It. “3. Vessels of war Os a belligerent shall not revlctual nor take any stores in the canal except so far as may be strictly necessary; and the transit of sueh vessels through the canal shall be effected with the least possible delay, in accordance. with the regulations In force, and with only such intermission as may result from the necessities of the service. Prizes shall be in all respects subject to the same rules as vessels of war of the belligerents. “4. No belligerent shall embark or dtaembark troops, munitions of war, or warlike materials In the canal except in case of accidental hindrance of the transit, and In such case the transit shall be resumed with all possible dispatch. “5. The provisions of this article apply to waters adjacent to the canal, within thrse marine miles of either end. Vessels of war of a belligerent shall not remain In SECBETABY HAY. Such waters longer than twenty-four hours at any one time except in case of distress, and in such case shall depart as soon as possible; but a vessel of war of one belligerent Shall not depart within twenty-four hours from the departure of a vessel of war of the other belligerent. “6. The plant, establishments, buildings, and all works necessary to the construction, "maintenance and operation of the canal shall be deemed to be part thereof, for the purposes of this convention, and In time Os war, as in time of peace, shall enjoy complete immunity from attack or Injury by belligerents and from acts calculated to Impair their usefulness as part of the canal.” GET A JAIL SENTENCE. Chicago American Employes Punished fbr Contempt of Court. Judge Hanecy, of Chicago, sentenced Managing Editor Lawrence of the Chicago American, to forty days in jail for contempt of court. Reporter H. 8. Canfield was given thirty days for the same offense. General Manager Oaravalho and Assistant City Editor Hammond, also charged with contempt, were dismissed.

After they had spent an hour in jail Judge Dunne released the prisoners on bonds of $3,000 each under a writ of habeas corpus. r The American criticised Judge Hanecy’s decision of the gas trust case while it was still open. The offense of Lawrence and Canfield against the court, the judge ruled, was the writing and publication of an article implying that the judge was influenced in his decision in favor of the gas trust, by lus. political aspirations and the power of trusts. In his opinion, Judge Hanecy-contends that if the court loses the power to commit persons guilty of contempt, the whole judicial structure would fall, and when the judicial structure is gone, the structure of civil government will fall and there will be no longer any guarantee of our liberty. WRECK ON THE GREAT WESTERN One Passencer Is Killed and Six Are Seriously Injured. The “Minneapolis Flyer” of the Chicago Great Westers Railway, three hours late, crashed into the rear end of the De Kalb milk train near St. Charles, 111., killed one passenger, badly injured six others and destroyed the last car of the local. The rear coach of the wrecked train was literally tossed into the air by the oncoming flyer. It fell in a tangled mass upon the top of the engine of the fast train and at once took fire. 1 The switch at the west end of the siding, should have been thrown to let the flyer go past. But the rushing engine was crashing into the rear of the slowly moving milk train almost before the fast train’s fireman and engineer saw what had happened. They leaped simultaneously into the ditch, and when they regained their feet the engine was piled with a tangle of twisted steel and splintered wood, flames were bursting, from the wreckage, and the few passengers of the wrecked local, injured,and terrified, lying unconscious or suffering by the roadside.

Pauncefote, the British ambassador, for Great Britain. A copy of the new Nicaragua canal treaty was shown to a correspondent in London by a high official of the foreign office* Some of its provisions are as follows: “It is agreed that the canal maybe constructed under the auspices of the gov-

a•• _ _ J —- 11/ wXnciaF A few months ago injury to the corn crop aroused fears that the railroads would be seriously handicapped by the loss of tonnage, yet the season of grain traffic has not only failed to produce decreased earnings, but there is such a scarcity of rolling stock and motive power that numerous industries are badly demoralized. In so far as these interests are concerned, the reduction in corn freight proves a blessing. Railway earnings in October were 11.3 per cent greater than last year and 21.2 per cent over 1899, while thpse roads reporting for the first week of November show an average gain of 9.8 per cent. A healthy demand is reported throughout the country in all leading lines of merchandise, while sales of winter goods have attained normal proportions, and holiday business promises to surpass all records, according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade. -■ , Bradstreet’s says: Favorable features are still largely in the ascendant, and the current of business is running full the country over. In some directions, indeed, notably in the matter of forwarding of general merchandise, \grain, ore, coal, iron and lumber, complaints of insufficient transportation facilities have Jjecome more marked. Seasonable weather conditions East, North and West have ex-_ panded retail trade and enlarged reassort-i ing orders from jobbers. Weather conditions at the South have, howevet, not been entirely favorable, and complaints of slowness of collections, due to the backward cotton crop or the lower prices paid therefor, have been more numerous. Aside from the strength in raw cotton, the features have been the increased strength in such cereals as corn and oats, dile to the springing up of a better demand, some slight firmness in lard, a seasonable advance in butter and eggs and, other dairy products and the stimulation to tin prices caused by close control of spot supplies.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.20; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $5.85; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; com, No. 2,60 c to 61c; oats, No. 2,38 c to 40c; rye, No. 2, 59? to 60c; hay, timothy, $9.00 to $14.50; $5.50 to $13.50; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 24c; potatoes, 72c to 77c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.15; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.45; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.25; ; wheat, No. 2,71 c to 72c; com, No. 2 I white, 59c ito 60c; oats, No. 2 white, 42c to 43c. St Louis —Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.80; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,72 c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 62c to 63c; oats, No. 2,41 c to 42c; rye. No. 2,59 c to 60c. . "*• Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, i $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $2.25 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2,75 c to 76c; com, No. 2 mixed, 64c to 65c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; rye, No, 2,59 c to 60c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, | $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; i wheat, No. 2,75 c to 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 62c to 63c; eats* No. 2 white, ' 45c to 46e; rye, 56c to 57c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 76c; com, No. 2 mixed, 60c to 61c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; rye, No. 2,56 c to 57c; clover seed, prime, $5.62. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern; 70c to 71c; corn, No. 3,59 c to 60c; oats, No. 2 white, 42c to 43c; rye, No. 1,59 c to 60c; barley, No. 2,58 c to 59c; pork, mess, $15.00. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.80; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.90; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.50; lambs, comnion to choice, $3.75 to $4.80. New York —Cattle, $3.75 to $5.80; hogs, $3.00 to $5.60; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 80c; com, No. 2, 67c to 68c; oats, No. 2 white, 48c to 49c; butter, creamery, 21c to 24c; eggs, western, 25c to 27c. IRON RECORD BROKEN. The Total Output of Pic in October Beached 1,400,000 Tons. Reports from pig iron manufacturers, covering production in October, show that the month was a record-breaker. The output reached the great total of 1,400,000 tons, or at the rate of 16,800,000 tons a year. The furnaces in blast Nov. 1 had a weekly capacity of 320,824 tons, based on their actual yield in October. This is in excess of any previous record. In its weekly review of the trade the Iron Age calls attention to the facts given above, and also shows that so great is the still-growing demand for steel that railways which have not already ordered will not be able to get supplies for delivery next summer. The entire output of the rail mills ,of the United States Steel Corporation for next year is under contract at this date. The pig iron situation is strengthened by the great difficulty still experienced in securing ooke by reason of the shortage of cars. More furnaces have been banked in the central West during the week and the production this month, will be curtailed to a considerable extent This will affect particularly the output of steel, the supply of which was not equal to the demand when everything was running smoothly in October. \ ' Coke and anthracite furnaces reporting stocks, including practically all the furnaces making foundry and forge Iron, had only 223,080 tons on hand Nov. 1, against 299,824 tons Oct. 1, which is a reduction of 76,735 tons. The charcoal furnaces reported a reduction of 11,607 tons in the same time. This is the heaviest reduction in stocks in a single month in a long period, and it was made concurrently with a great increase in production. It would be difficult to find stronger evidence of the activity prevailing tn the iron trade. Prices are not likely soon to recede. • -I