Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1887 — Page 2

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - Publisher.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the .Week. EASTERN. While drunk at Nicholville, N. Y.» Charles Morrow shot his wife and then sent a bullet through his head, surviving his victim a few hours. Nine railway employes were injured and S2J,OJO worth of property destroyed by the explosion of a locomotive boiler in a roundhouse at New Haven, Conn. Peter Smith was hanged in the yard of the Tombs Prison, New York, for murdering Watchman John Hannon on the night of April 7, 1885. The Dwyer Brothers have purchased the colt Egmont for $15,000 cash. He sold as yearling m 1884 for $275. Dr. C. C. Carroll, of Meadville, Pa., has discovered a method by which aluminium can be cast, soldered, and welded.

WESTERN.

W. C. De Pauw, the wealthy glass manufacturer of New Albany, Ind., died last week at the Palmer House, in Chicago. He was stricken with apoplexy while waiting for a train in the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Depot. Mr. De Pauw was born in Salem, Washington County, Indiana, in 1821. When quite young he entered into the banking business under the free-banking law of Indiana in 1854. In 1861 he removed to New Albany, and during the war he was one of the largest army contractors in the country. He was the owner of the immense plate-glass manufactory at New Albany in which $2,000,000 is invested. He was a man of unbounded charity, and his donations to the Methodist Church during the last thirty years will aggregate $1,000,000. His will provides for a donation to the De Pauw University, at Greencastle, of $1,500,000, he having endowed that institution with $300,000 several years ago. Three mills, a chair factory, an elevator, and a hotel at Elk River, Minnesota, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $85,000. Three sheep-herders of the Albuquerque (N. M.) district died from fright during the recent earthquake shocks. A Marquette (Mich.) telegram says: “Reports of the recent windstorm are coming in freely. The thirteen counties of the upper peninsula were all swept In some rich pine fields the trees were mowed down like grass. Millions of feet of pine are destroyed, houses unroofed or demolished, unfinished buildings scattered, and chimneys and outhouses destroyed. Scarcely a town or settlement escaped. Only three fatalities are reported, but many persons wore seriously injured” Judge Blodgett has sentenced Colonel W. H. Bolton, the defaulting luperintendent of second-class matter in the Chicago Postoffice, to two years in the penitentiary. An assignment has been made by the St Louis Supplies Company, which has done business at St Louis for twenty years. The total liabilities are placed at $147,000.

SOUTHERN.

The yearly drive of Texas cattle into the Indian Territory aggregates 45,556 head. The bodies of three negroes, brothers, named Sylvester, were found hanging to a tree near Proctor, W. Va. Each body bore a placard on which was written: “Nigger thievery must be broken up. ” The farmers in the neighborhood had suffered depredations at the hands of unknown persons, and it seems they finally settled on the Sylvester brothers as the guilty ones. By the accidental discharge of a gun at Wilmington, N. C., four negro boys were killed, and a fifth badly wounded. Joseph Compton, a member bf the Alabama Legislature, proves to be an escaped convict from the North Carolina penitentiary, where he was sentenced in 1874 for twentyfour years for murder. He has fled from his home in Alabama to avoid arrest Louisville comes to the front -with a prodigy of judicial acumen in the perAn of a magistrate named Stofer. John J. Cornelison, who was serving a three years’ jail sentence for ths assault upon Judge Reid which caused the latter’s suicide, was brought before Stofer the other day on a writ of habeas cornus, and ordered released on the ground that his conviction was illegal. As the judgment against Corneilson had been affirmed by the Court of Appeals, the magistrate’s presumption amazes the public, and will likely get him into trouble. The remains of a mastodon of the largest size have been discovered about twenty miles from Atlanta, Ga. A negro man and woman named respectively Richard Goodwin and Grace Blanton, who confessed to having robbed and burned the store of a country merchant, were taken from the West Carroil parish (La.) jail by a masked mob and hanged to a tree. Fifty colored persons who had gathered at New Orleans to witness an immersion were precipitated into the river by the collapse of the railing on the wharf, and eight were drowned.

Three murderers were legally executed ou Fiiday, the 6th inst, namely: John Bogers, at Eureka, Cal.; Theodore Baker, at Las Vegas, N. M.; and Henry Anderson (colored), at Socorro, N. M. Crop prospects in South Carolina are reported more favorable than at this season in any previous year since 1882. Gen. Greeley, Chief Signal Officer, has arranged to issue a special weekly bulletin with a view of promptly placing before the public each Monday morning reliable information relative to the climatic condition in the agricultural districts of the country. It u believed that these bulletins will serV as

a reliable basis for determining the conditions favorable or unfavorable for the growing crops.

POLITICAL.

The Ohio Bepublican State Central Committee has decided to hold the Statj convention at Toledo, July 27 and 28. Charles J. Faulkner was elected United States Senator from West Virginia to succeed Camden. The new Senator is a jurist of high reputation, and said to be a man of excellent ability.

The President has approved the amendments to the rules for the regulation and improvement of the executive civil service proposed by the Civil-Service Commission. The principal change is in rule 6, clause 2, which, as amended, gives the Commission power to make regulations under which examinations for promotion in any classified department, postoffice, or customs office must be made. And in any classified department, customs office, pr postoffico in which promotions are made under such examinations, the Commission may, in special cases, if the exigencies of the service require such action, provide non-competitive examinations for promotion. In their letter transmitting the new rules the commissioners say that all the evils resulting from the promotion system in vogue when the civil-service law was enacted continue to exist, except in the New York customs d strict. Governor Hill has signed the bill making Saturday a half-holiday in New York State.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

A general strike among the miners of the Connellsville coke regions is believed to be imminent, the operators having refused to grant an increase of wages. The outlook in the Schuylkill region is also threatening, the anthracite miners, having demanded an advance of 10 per cent, in which they are to be joined by the miners of the Scranton region. Not one of the 12,000 coke-ovens in the Connellsville, Pa., dis'rict is in operation, the workers having gone out on a strike for 12J£ per cent advance in wages. The total* number of labor strikes and lockouts this year to Aprd 30 is 376, against 49 reported in a like portion of last year. The total number of men involved is 148,000, against 130,000 —a gain of 14 per cent The stove foundries of Detroit have shut down, throwing 2,800 men out of employment

REGULATING THE RAILROADS

The Interstate Commerce Commission concluded its two days’ labors at Memphis, after hearing evidence from merchants of Memphis, Louisville, Lexington, Little Rock, and Newport, Ark., to the effect that the enforcement of Section 4 would be disastrous to the commerce and industries of the points named. The Louisville and Nashville, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, and the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroads were granted two weeks' time to file arguments and statistical information in support of their petition for the permanent suspension of Section 4. Representatives of the river interests were also given leave to present their case in writing. United States Consuls in Canada report that the interstate commerce law is operating disastrously to the export and import trade in that country, and that our trade interests in that quarter are threatened with serious consequences.

Secretary Mosely, of the Interstate Commission, has received a petition from the New York Central, Lake Shore, and Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad Companies asking for an order permitting them, in connection with the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and the New York, Lake Erie and Western, to make passenger and freight rates to Eastern Pennsylvania, New York, and New England points to compete with rates made by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Up tq this time fortyfour railroad companies have filed with the commission formal petitions asking to be relieved from section 4of the law. Probably as many more have been returned for further information. A much larger number has been received from trade organizations, private corporations, and individuals protesting against the suspension of section 4 in particular cases. The Interstate Commission received a complaint from Chicago that the Sundayschool workers were cut off from “passes” and freight favors, and asking redress. Thei reply was that all such questions were in the hands of the railroad companies, and they must construe the law’ to suit themselves until the paints under it had been adjudicated.

AILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

A number of new railroad enterprises, to be carried out by American capital, are projected in Mexico. The annual report of the Michigan Central Bailroad gives the following statement of the year’s business: Gross earnings grom traffic 812,295,827 73 Operating expenses and taxes 8,404,679 12 Net earnings 3,891,148 61 Interest and rentals 2 576 984 52 Residue. L314J64'09 Canadian Southern s share of net income 407,334.70 Net revenue from traffic 906,269.19 Income from investments 45 190'.50 Total net revenue ’952*019 89 Dividend, 2 per cent., paid Feb.’ 15, 1887 374,761.08 Balance to income account 577,255.81 The Bailroad Commissioners of lowa in a decision in the case of Gov. Larrabee against the Burlington Bailroad have decided that a greater charge for a long than a short haul is illegal, and have fixed a maximum rate for coal in car-lots within the State.

MIS CELL ANE OUS. McDowell’s Comedy Company, now fulfilling a two weeks’ engagement at McVickers’ Theater, Chicago, proves to be a very bright organization of players. A local paper says: “While it is impossible to avoid mental comparisons between the work of the Daly company and that of the McDowell company, it can be properly claimed for the performance now being given at McVicker’s that it is in every way commendable, and will afford an

evening of pleasure to the patrons of the house." The Canadian Minister of Agriculture has dismissed the suit of Wright 4 Hibbard, of Montreal, against the Bell Telephone Company, the effect of the decision being to confirm the Bell Telephone monopoly in Canada. The business failures in the United States and Canada, during the week, numbered 182, against 191 during the corresponding week of 1886. R. G. Dun 4 Co.’s weekly trade review says of the business outlook: The feature of business reports for the last week is the enormous increase reported at many Western points. In that section the interstate act, though checking trade at some important, points, seems to have produced a feeling of extraordinary confidence in a much larger number of towns. Other causes, particularly •P ecn l*tion in real estate ana activity in building, contribute to swell transactions surprisingly. Eastern cities do not find a corresponding Improvement in trade. Already 937 miles of railroad have been completed, against 662 to date last year, and new securities are offered in great variety and large amount, but the uncertain prospect as to rates and respecting the decisions of the Interstate Commission affect investments in stocks, though prices have improved a little. The enormous supply of money goes far to explain the situation. Not only has the Treasury added about $4,00U,(K0 to the circulation in April, but the abundance and cheapness of money in London are clearly felt here. Undoubtedly large amounts of foreign capital are seeking employment here in industries cr in real-estate loans, because of the inadequate demand abroad. While this state of things continues and crop prospects grow more favorable the season of speculation and expansion in trade and industry is not likely to meet a reaction.

The Lincoln (Neb.) executive officers and business men, having compared the alleged Parnell letter with certain documents in the possession of Mr. Patrick Egan, and in the handwriting of Mr. Richard Pigott, formerly proprietor of the Dublin Irishman, assert that both were written by the same hand. An “American Cattle Trust” has been organized with an alleged paid up capital of $25,000,000. The combination has its interests centered In New York, Chicago, and the great cattle ranches of the West, and its object is to own or manage the whole cattleraising business of the country, or as much as it can get hold of. The combination includes mauy capitalists East and West, among them several of the largest ranch-owners in the country.

Destructive forest fires are reported in the Catskill Mountains. Edison threatens to astonish the world with some new discoveries. Paul Grottkau, Milwaukee’s noisy anarchist agitator, has been sentenced to one year in the House of Correction. Ex-Con-gressman Finerty has been made Oil Inspector of Chicago. Over 170 lives are known to have been lost by the mine explosion in British Columbia. Express Messenger Fotheringham has sued the Adame Express Company for SIOO,OOO damages. Two clipper ships are to race from New York to San Francisco, around Cape Horn. Billy Welch, the negro mins'rel, is dead. The Spanish Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill establishing trial by jury.

FOREIGN.

It is rumored that the Paris Exposition, announced for next year, will be postponed until 1893, in order to dissociate it from revolutionary memories. The French temperament is curiously illustrated by the hubbub that has been rained over the production of Wagner’s opera of “Lohengrin” in Paris. The Paris papers very sensibly condemn the popular opposition to the opera, and say it is absurd to confound art with patriotism. It is announced that the Government will suppress the performance of “Lohengrin” if it continues to be attended by anti-German demonstrations. The anti-German feeling is running high at Paris. Threatening demonstrations take place daily, and the situation appears to be critical The performances of Wagner’s operas at the Eden Theater have been suspended. A detective force will be organized In Germany, especially intended to watch spies. The steamer Asie has been lost in the Mediterranean with a number of passengers. , It is reported that the Czar will commute all but two of the death sentences imposed on his would-be assassins to life imprisonment.

There is a cloud over the relations between Italy and Spain, caused by the threatened establishment by the latter of a coaling station in the Red Sea on a spot claimed by Italy. The Borne government has asked an “explanation” of Spain.

The Prefect of St. Petersburg will no doubt discover fresh conspiracies against the Czar’s life presently. He has been given 100,000 rubles outright and a pension of 6,000 rubles for his services in frustrating the recent alleged plot.

A hot sirocco blew the whole week throughout Hungary, destroying vegetation and rendering it inflammable, says a Vienna dispatch. At Nagy Karoly in Transylvania 400 houses were destroyed, and 5,000 people rendered homeless are camping in the open air. At Torocca houses were burned and four lives were lost At Buskberg a church and thirty-seven houses were destroyed. Many houses were burned at the village of Meregyo, At Eperies all the churches and public buildings were destroyed and the cemetery was devastated.' At the latter place many inmates of a convent school are missing, and several girls were killed I y jumping from windows. It is estimated that the total losses will reach 82,5 0,0. X). No credence is given at Berlin to the rumored alliance between France and Russia. Prince Bismarck’s scheme to make the imperial finances of Germany independent of contributions from the individual states is likely to prove successful The jubilee subscription business has become a public nuisance in England. The subscription solicitors are having a hard time of it, the mass of the people showing a disposition to ridicule the whole affair.

The anti-Gcrman demonstrations in Paris excite no feeling in Berlin, but the situation in Alsace-Lorraine increases the difficulty daily. The frontier posts on each side have ceased to exchange courtesies, and act as if war might break out at any moment.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

William O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, arrived in New York City last week. He was met by a reception committee and an address of welcome read. Bishop Ireland arrived by the same vessel A demand has been made by the miners in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania for an advance in wages <ff 10 per cent Should a strike be ordered 90.0C0 men, most of them with families, will be involved. Charges are preferred that the Louisville, Evansville and St Louis Bailroad has violated the interstate law by contracting to take corn to the*seaboard from East St Louis, but in reality moving it only to Louisville, the scheme being to cut the Louisville rate under cover of billing, and making a virtual reduction of 33 per cent from the regular tariff between St Louis and Louisville. Two charges, it is reported, will be filed against the offender in the United States Court The four McCoys have been indicted at Portsmouth, Ohio, for the murder of Dr. Northrup. The killing is said to have grown out of a whisky-selling case, in which Northrup was the prosecuting witness. The funeral of the late W. C. De Pauw, at New Albany, Ind., was one of the largest ever seen in Indiana, there being not less than 2,530 meu marching in the procession, while a multitude gathered in the house and through the spacious grounds surrounding. Business in the city was entirely suspended during the hours of the funeral and all the stores were closed. A great number of business houses, banks, etc., were draped in mourning. The city buildings were festooned with crap’s, and theMlags on the public buildings were floating at half-mast

A dispatch from Guaymas, Mexico, says that “earthquake shocks continue at Ures. Many buildings are cracked and rendered unsafe. Nobody has been hurt, but the inhabitants are leaving as frftet as.possible. A large slice of a mountain near the town fell down with a terrible crash and the friction of the rocks ignited the woods, causing a belief that a volcano had broken out At Delicias Santa Elena mine the earthquake caused a great panic. A whole hill fell down, scattering rocks among 150 persons. Fortunately no one was hurt” According to the statistics of the Emigration Commissioners of New York City, showing the destination of the immigrants who arrived at that port last year, Illinois is the third State in the Union, New York being first and Pennsylvania second. The total number was 300,887, of which New York retained 109,554, Pennsylvania received 42,103, and Illinois 25,502. The Attorney General has given an opinion to the effect that the Director of the Mint has no authority to invite and pay for new designs for existing coins, wit£ or without the sanction of the Secretary of the Treasury. W. W. Vrooman, socialist editor of the -Labor Organizer of Kansas City, was arrested at Allegheny City, Pa., to save him from getting mobbed In a speech he declared that “the American flag was a pole with a rag on it” A London cablegram to a New York paper says that Mr. Parnell is really in a critical state of health, and that his absolute withdrawal from public life can not be long delayed. His malady is believed to be cancer of the stomach. The Hungarian Go vernment is about to make a contract with Herr Nordenfe dt to establish a small-arms factory at Pesth with a capital of 4,000,000 florins. Hungary will donate the land, exempt the property from taxation for fifteen years, and will guarantee an order for 400,000 rifles, to be delivered in two yea r.«. Tile movements of the Russians in Asia wear a sinister aspect It is rumored at Calcutta that they are collecting supplies at Chardjui, about two hundred miles from the Afghan frontier, preparatory to an advance bn Khamaib. There is liable to be exciting news from that part of the world in the near future.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cattles 4.25 @ 5.50 Hogs 5.50 © 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 98 ,<i> 1 00 No. 2 Red 97 @ Corn—No. 2 48W,@ ,50£ Oats—White .38 .42 ' Pork—New Mess 16.75 @17.25 CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers 4.75 @ 5.25 Good Shipping 4.01 @ 4.59 Common 3.75 & 4.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 5.25 @5,50 Flour—Winter Wheat 4.25 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 83'/>@ ,«4 Corn—No. 2 33 .39 Oats—No. 223 @ .27 Butter—Choice Creamery2l .22 Fino Dairyl7 @1 .19 Cheese—Full Cream, flatsl4X@ .1454 Full Cream, newl3s4@ .14)4 Eggs—F«esh 10)6® .11 Potatoes—Choice, new6s .70 Pork—Mess.\23.00 19 23.50 , MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 82 @ .82)2 Corn—No. 3 38’6® .39 Oats—No. 2 White3l' @ .3116 Rye—No. 157 .59 Pork—Mess 14.75 @15.25 „ TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 1 ... .88 .89 Corn—No. 2 .41 @ Oats 28 @ .30 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 425 @ 5.00 Hogs 4.00* @ 5.00 Sheep 4.50 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red .87 .88 Corn—No. 241 @ ,42 Oats—White 32 @ 33 ST.. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 285 & .86 Corn—Mixed 37 & .37 Oats—Mixed 28 & ,2J ' Pork—New Mess 1575 («16.25 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Redßs @ .85)6 Corn—No. 2 44 «« .45 " Oats—No. 2 3J .31 Pork—r Mess 16.00 16.50 Live Hogs 4.75 @ 5.50 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 91 @ .911$ Corn—No. 2 Yellow 44 @ Cattle -. 4:25 @ 5.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3.25 @ 4.00 Hogs 5.00 m 5.50 SHteEP 3.50 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 83 @ .84 Corn—No. 238’6@ .39 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 29 @ .29 >6 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best. 4.75 @ 5 2.5 Fair 4.50 & 4.75 Common 4.25 @ 4.50 Hogs 5.25 @ 5.75 Sheer 4,00 @ 4.25

THE HAYMARKET HORROR.

One Year Has Passed Since the Bomb Did Its Bloody Work. List of the Brave Officers Who Laid Down Their Lives to Throttle Anarchy. fChicago special.] The first anniversary of the event which will be known to history as the Haymarket massacre occurred on Wednesday last. The night of May 4, 1886, six companies of police, numbering 175 men, under command of Inspector John Bonfield and Capt. Ward, marched from the Desplaines Street Police Station up Desplaines street to a point a short distance north of Randolph street, and there halted. A socialists’ meeting was in progress on she street, and several fire-eating anarchists were doing their utmost to incite the people to a riot. Capt. Ward formally ordered the crowd “in the name of the people of the State of Illinois to quietly and peaceably disperse” Samuel Fielden, the anarchist who was then making a speech, replied, “We are peaceable,” and at the same instant a dynamite bomb was thrown into the ranks of the police. Instantly upon the explosion of the bomb, and before the police force had a chance to rally, a fusillade of revolver shots was poured into the police from both sides of the street. The police immediately rallied and returned the fire, and the mob fled with the police in hot pursuit. When the smoke of battle had cleared away the ground was found to be covered with wounded and dying policemen, stricken down by the deadly bomb. One officer died almost immediately and sixtysix others were wounded, six of whom died within the next week or two from the effect of their wounds. There was also one civilian found killed on the spot and about twenty others wounded, but aS the wounded socialists were mostly hidden away, the tothl casualties resulting from the battle will never be known. At least twelve, and. probably over twenty, lives were lost, and over 100 people seriously injured. Following are tie names of the policemen injured, classified as fatally injured, permanently disabled, and seriously disabled, still unfit for duty. FATALLY INJURED—7. Matlfiaa J. Began, Michael Sheehan, George Miller, Nels Hansen, John J. Barrett, Thomas Redden, Timothy Fiavihan. PERMANENTLY DISABLED— II. Michael O’Brien, Lawrence J. Murphv, Thomas McEnery, Adam Barber, Jacob Hanson, Patrick McNulty, Charles W. Whitney, John F. McMahon, Nich. J. Shannon, Jr., Daniel Hogan, Patrick Hartford. SERIOUSLY INJURED AND STILL UNFIT FOB DUTY— I 2. August C. Keller, Joseph Norman, John E.,Doyle, Peter Butterly, John H. King, Alexander Jamieson, Arthur Connelly, Charles H. Fink, James A. Brady, Edward Barrett, Timothy Sullivan, Henry F. Smith. But though the bomb did all the work expected of it, the results were not what the anarchists anticipated. The police, instead of running away, rallied and charged the mob, and drove , the conspirators to their holes, utterly routing them at the first onset. Numerous arrests followed, and the whole conspiracy was laid bare. June 21 eight of the leading conspirators—Spies,. Parsons, Fischer, Engel, Lingg, Schwab, Fielden, and Neebe—were placed oh trial before Judge Gary, and the next twentyone days were consumed in securing a jury. The . details of the trial are fresh in the minds of all. It lasted about two months, and resulted in a verdict condemning seven of the prisoners to death, and the eighth, Neebe, to fifteen, years’ penal servitude. Motions in support of a new trial have since been argued before the State Supreme Court, and the case is still pending. The decision of the Supreme Court is not expected until September, and the general impression of all who heard the arguments at Ottawa was that the motions will be refused. That verdict was the death-blow to anarchy in this country. It is a warning that anarchy has no resting-place here, and. that Johann Most and all his criminal associates and befooled followers the moment they begin to put their thedries into effect stand beneath the shadow of tho gallows.

WORK AND WORKERS.

Items of Interest for Employers and Employed. The rush of immigration from abroad has been stimulated by great activity in railroad building and by the demand for labor in mills, factories and shops of all kinds. Mechanical labor is coming over in abundance, while comparatively few miners are changing their abode. The inducements to miners of Europe or Great Britain to•change their homes is not so strong as to workmen in other branches. Common labor has extraordinary inducements offered. There will be railroad mileage laid this year double that of last year. House building will be at least 25 per cent, greater. Shop labor of all kinds is in demand, and there is therefore an opportunity for a great influx of common labor. Even, in the lumber camps in the Northwest men are paid from $1.75 to $2 per day, but they are skilled woodsmen. Mining labor iswanted in the gold and silver mines all along the Rocky Mountain range, from Northern Montana to the City of Mexico. Manufacturers of mining machinery in St. Louis, Chicago and New York have lately received orders for an unusually large quantity of special machinery, and a long list of mining companies have recently announced themselves, to operate all through the mineral regions from the lakes down into Mexico. One company has been organized with a capital of $12,000,000, two in St. Louis with a capital of $5,000,000, one in Chicago with $5,000,000, to say nothing of the long string of smaller companies, all of which seem to be well backed with capital and prepared to enter upon active work. At the spring meetings of the Western lumber men the opinions were generally’ expressed that prices for lumber must be stronger under the extraordinary Eastern and Western demand. Stocks in all sections of the country are showh to be much lower than a year ago. The decrease in six Western lumber States is given at 928,9’82,891 feet. In Minnesota there is a decrease of 101X000,000 feet.