Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1901 — Page 2

]\m COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E* B \ Bc6ck7 Publisher. 'ffcNSSfLAER, - - -i IBDtfHA

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

Fire and water caused :i loss of $125,(XX) in the nine-story building at 817 lVnii avenue, Pittsburg, occupied by Barker, Williams & ('<>., furniture-deal-ers. Ivl ward Hagetanicyer, a fireman, was killed by the collaiise of the elevator shaft. The St. Lawrence is to bespanned by n third bridge opposite Montreal. Ihe New York Central has obtained a controlling interest in the .Montreal Bridge (‘on>pfili.v and the am+wntpement is made that the work of construction will be tit (11 e irt'gun. Charles 11. Templesoii, representing himself as a horse buyer and ageii! of ib(: British government, was .arrested jtt I Maw-are-, Ohio, (barged with swindling farmers, lie had in his possession a certified cheek for $3,803 on the South (in Bank of Fulton, Mo. In the collapse of two ancient frame at 100 Maxwell street, Chicago, one man was killed instantly and four boys were seriously injured. The buildings fell while the denizens of the district were engaged in dragging wood from the dilapidated structures. F. 11. Clergue's cherished plan of a tourist route along the north sh ire of. Lake Superior, as yet almost unknown, is to be put in execution at once. Ill l ' steamer Ossifragc, formerly of Dulutli, has been bought and will make regular trips between Sault Ste. Marie and l’ort Arthur., A south-bound Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton limited was badly wrecked nine miles north of Dayton, Ohio, near Johnson's Station. The accident was due to spreading rails, which let flic engine down, and it turned a header. The baggage car and smoker fell into the ditch. Two persons were killed and eleven injured. A car on a Pennsylvania coal train jumped the track near the Baltimore and Ohio target-house at Cambridge, completely demolishing the building. Engineer Fred Johns of the Baltimore and Ohio of Newark was instantly killed. The operator, F. E. Iloke, and Baltimore and Ohio Engineer Woodford were badly injured. Minister I .ootids will not return to Venezuela, and the action of the l nited States in not sending him hack to Caracas is in the nature of a protest against the treatment of American interests by the Venezuelan government. In fact, it has developed that Minister I.ootnis was recalled by the l nited States because the government did not approve of the manner in which its representative was treated. I. 11. Farnatn, of Boston, chief electrician of the New England Telephone Company, was instantly killed bv (Seorge 11. Brainerd, of Boston, in the company’s building at Portland. Me. Bruinerd, who is believed to have acted on an insane impulse, also fatally shot James Wadsworth, an electrician, of Lewiston, and Elmer Lane of Mechanics Falls, severely wounded Earle Boston of Springfield, Mass., and slightly wounded Deputy Marshal Frith. Following is the standing of the clubs in tlk- two leading leagues: NATIONAL I.EAOIK. W. 1,. W. E. Pittsburg 2 1 Philadelphia .~2 2 Brooklyn .... 2 1 Cincinnati 1 1 St. I.ouis 15 2 3 Boston 1 1 New Y’ork 0 1 AMKKtCAN IF. AC, UK. Chicago 1 0 Philadelphia ...0 0 Milwaukee ....0 0 Washington ...0 0 Detroit 0 0 Baltimore 0 <1 Boston .......0 0 Cleveland 0 1

BREVITIES.

Dim Antonio de Bourbon snys ho will seek divorce from tin* Infanta Eulalia. Court of inquiry will investigate insubordination of spy oral West Point cadets. President has adopted (Jen. Milts' suggestion to enlist an army of 70,000 men. Three officers of the Canadiau Dragoons have been given the Victoria Cross. Louis Uotlard will try to cross the Atlantic in a balloon, starting from New York. Grand jury at New York has ordered Indictments for murder and forgery against Albert T. Patrick. Emperor of China has issued an edict abolishing the privy council and substituting a general board of state affairs. At Springfield. 111., the remains of President and Mrs. Lincoln, their three sons and grandson were transferred front the temporary vault to the new structure especially prepared for them. Over 2,(t00 union machinists of Cincinnati made a demand for an increase of 12V6 per cent in wages in addition to nine hours per day. and fixed May 20 as the limit for concessions or a strike. For five hours on a recent night the mountain detective (Wright’s! posse and gang in Letcher County. Ky., lav out against each other and three badly hurt mountaineers testify to the skill of the attacking party. William Hitter’s body was found hanging from a rafter in the barn at 48 West North avenue, Chicago. 11,. lost his posi tiou and us a result was very despondent. Mis wife died a year ago, leaving him to care for the three small children. The Sultan of Turkey has made another promise to pay the Coiled States tiie claim of $100,(MH1 which this nation lias held against him for many years ami which on two occasions has nearly led to a severing of diplomatic relations. Sidney Cole of Parkersburg, W. Va., shot and killed William T. Terry, a carpenter, on the steamer Keystone State. One or the largest property transfers In the Luke Superior ore regions iu Minnesota occurred when P. L. Kimberly of Sharon. Pa., sold his three big mines In Jones A Lnughltus. manufacturers,' of Pittsburg, for $2,500,000. John Costello, np ol.d-time circus down, was taken suddenly ill and died at Taylor's Hotel. New York. According lo on > of his friends the man's circus nauie was J»on Costello, and he was for many years «nc of til" (downs )u Bornum's shows.

EASTERN.

In a faro game lasting fifteen hours In New 1 ork a uian who has made millions In steel stocks lost $50,000. Josiah I*. Doremus, a retired millionaire shoe merchant, killed himself at Paterson, N. 1., by driuking carbolic acid. The differences between the miners and operator's of the Hocking \ alley have been adjusted, the miners making concessions. Joseph Hinton, who on Feb. II last shot Miss M aggie *Bhurtz at Logan/Pa., was found guilty of muderr in the first degree and given a life sentence. Miss M.tthiblo Agan was married at her parents’ home in New York to J. Frank Aldrich of Washington, D. (!., formerly member of Congress from Chicago. Miss Hull) Cardie Long, niece of Secretary of the Navy John D. Lung and a well-known singer, died at her home in Dorchester, Mass. She had been ii) with pneumonia. A. J. Schroth, n bookkeeper in the First National Hank of Birmingham, Pittsburg, was arrested by United States Marshal Leonard, charged with the embezzlement of $35,00(1 of the bank s funds, m<leorge Ellsworth linn s, a New York boy at tile Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., and bis chum, Otis Sawyer of Montclair, N. J., were drowned while canoeing in Lake Wononsaskaparuok. Both were from wealthy families. Because his parents objected to his marriage to Anna Linberg, Frederick J. Fisher shot his sweetheart and himself at Elmira. N. V. They were found dead in the mad. In Fisher’s right hand was a revolver, two chambers of which were empty. Exporters will no longer be required to affix revenue stamps to export bills of lading. New York exporters claim that they have paid SIO,O<M) in such revenue during the three years the act has been in ( ffcct. It has been ded a red unconstitutional and the S4O,(XX) will be refunded. The huge dam in the Westfield river, holding hack the water in the great reservoir at Middleficld, Mass., broke, an 1 the deluge swept down the valley with tremendous force. People living below the dam wen* warned in the astern oa that it would probably go out, and they hurried to the hills. The rush of water carried away a number of buildings and about twenty bridges! Snow from ten to twenty-four inches in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, accompanied by rain and high winds, created havoc in the cities, destroying communication. stalling trains, endangering crops and threatening devastating Hoods ill the valley districts, in Pittsburg 50,000 men were made idle an 1 property loss of $3,000,000 was inflicted by the water. Much damage is reported from Cleveland, Cincinnati and other Ohio points, New York, West Virginia and Kentucky.

WESTERN.

The Sims glass factory at Situs, huh, was completely destroyed by fire with a loss of $35,000, Three convicts tried to escape from the Sapta Fe penitentiary and one was killed and the other two wounded. While playing in a sand bank near Durant. I. T„ five boys were buried by a cave it). Four of them are dead. Mrs. M. A. Itadcliffe of Denver. Colo., was exonerated from the suspicion of having voted illegally at the city election on April 2. The Ohio rose ten feet the other night at Marietta, Ohio, floating the houseboat of William Fafavre away, drowning him, his wife and child. The Kansas Wholesale Egg Dealers' Association has accepted a contract to ship ltW) cars of Kansas eggs to Cuba for the island trade. While ’’bucking” snowdrifts at Francis, Colo., two engines and a snow plow were burled down the mountain side by a snowslide mid four men were killed. Burglars blew open the safe in West Side office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Chicago and carried off S7OO in currency and checks for $Ol. At 1 ima, Ohio, Mrs. J. I). Baker and Mrs. Henry Ebbeiing were driving across the Ohio Southern tracks, where a passenger train hit them, killing them Doth. A head end collision between a passenger train and a light engine occurred oil the Florence nud Cripple Creek road near Hassell, Colo. Six persons were injured. Adjt. Gin. Oyger has decided to supply the Ohio militia with cartridges loaded with shot instead of balls to be used when the troops are called out for riot duty. An infernal machine in the shape of n tube five inches long and three inches in circumference was received in n mail pouch at Brazil, Inil. It bore no address. Fresident Charles Brown and Cashier E. L. Cunby of the failed Vancouver, Wash., bank committed suicide together rather than face charge .of a shortage of SBI,OOO. W. 11. Timmons, n traveling man whose home is in Coshocton, Ohio, committed suicide at Limn, Ohio, by taking laudanum. His wife recently sued for divorce. Harry Cain and Paul Baumgardner, 17-year-old boys, are in jail at Wilcox, Mo., charged with trying to wreck a trait), the crime being prompted by reading of trashy novels. As the result of a head-end collision between freight and construction trains on the Wheeling and Lake Erie road in tlie Cleveland yards one man was killed and several badly hurt. A snowslide carried away the bunk and hoarding house at the Alta mine, near Telluride, Colo., killing Kb'hard I’ender* gast. Ten miners who were in the tunnel had n narrow escape. Illinois Stunts Zcitutig and Chicago Freic I'rosso have combined to form a German Sunday paper, hut will retain their individuality during the week, although published in one office. *) Judge Claneey in the District Court at Butte, Mont., awarded Thomas 11. Hindi's $2151,000 for his services while receiver fur the Boston and Montuu:) Company about two years ago. Ex-Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota has cleared up over SI,OO(MXXt in thirty days In speculating hi stocks. Mr. Pettigrew is believed to have operated on advice given him by James J. Hill. The United States Court of Appeals in St. Prtul passed upon the validity of financial obligations contracted in ileai-

mg in Board of Trade options, declaring them not gambling debts, but just and collectable. William S. Unsold, aged 32, cashier of the Big Font Railway freight office at Dayton, Ohio, walked into a hair, o n and shot himself in the heart. Resuk, instant death. Drink and family troubles were the cause. Deal has been closed at Detroit for $50,000,(KX) iron and steel establishment at Sault Ste. Marie, with plants on both sides of the river, to-utilize water power and employ 10,00 ft men. American, English and Canadian capital is interested. Nina Keating, 12 years old, tried to tlroePH hersejX at Albany, Ind., upon seeing tlie* truant officer from Muncie approaching. The child was prevented, whereupon she begged for poison. The truant officer is held in terror by the children. The strike of the. coal hoisting engineers in the Massillon district, which has kept 4,000 miners idle for two weeks, ha > been settled, the engineers waiving their demand for au eight-hour workday and receiving an advance of 13 cents a day in wages. ‘ Augusta, Ohio, was almost wiped out by fire. The Eagle Hotel, the I'ottorf drug store and several dwellings and oil) it buildings were entirely consumed with most of their contents. The loss amounts to several thousand dollars, with very little insurance. Henry C. Baxter, the non-union foreman wlio shot peter It. V. Miller ns the result of a labor dispute in Chicago, was found guilty of murder and his punishment was fixed at fourteen years in the penitentiary. Baster made the plea of self-defense. Philip Gunn, who was stabbed in the heart and was made the subject of a heroic operation at the St. Louis city hospital, where Dr. 11. L. Nietert, the superintendent. sewed up the wound in the heart, is dead. Dr. Nietert took three stitches in Gunn's heart. Gobi has been discovered in S ioto County, Ohio. Workmen engaged in sinking a well on the farm of Elias Smith on the Dry Fork of Harden creek, struck a species of gold-bearing quartz and specks of gold wore thickly distributed throughout tile formation. The body of Brakemau Frank I>. Lamb was found on top of a Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis train when it reached Hamilton, Ohio. The head was crushed to a pulp. Coroner Sharkey says he may either have struck a bridge or have been murdered by tramps. The fast express train of the Choctaw, Oklahoma ami Gulf Railroad was held up by three masked bandits at Bridge Junction, Ark. It is not known what booty the robbers secured. The express messenger and porter of the train were injured while resisting the bandits. Walter Hemsley of Chicago and Mrs. Mary Rude Maginn of St. Louis were married and departed for Chicago. The bride loses a handsome- fortune by the marriage, as her first husband’s will provided that in the event of remarriage his estate was to pass into the hands of his brother. A steel tank containing 10,(MX) gallons of water and weighing over forty tons broke through the roof of the Galbraith building, comer Madison and Franklin streets, and Crashed through five floors to the basement, where the tank landed without bursting. The loss is S3S,(XX). Five persons were injured. John Berquist, an expert fresco artist of Chicago, while working on a platform thirty feet from the floor iu the First National Bank at Youngstown, Ohio, made a misstep and plunged head downward to the floor. His right shoulder was broken, and he received internal injuries that may prove fatal. The officials of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad have announced a voluntary increase in the shopmen's wages from 27 to 31 cents an hour. This increase will mean an increased outlay of from $15,000 to $20,000 a month at Parsons, Kan. The hours of employment were also increased from eight to ten.

SOUTHERN.

The postoffice at Tarpon Springs, Fla., was robbed of more than SI,OOO iu cash and a large amount of stamps. Owen Bradley, a prominent trainer and owner of famous race horses, was shot and killed by William Nicholas at Lexington, Ky. The cause was an old feud. The hauilet of Biscayne, Fla., was struck by a tornado. Several houses were demolished. John Peters was fatally injured nud William Cook was seriously hurt. Twenty-five hundred mine workers of the subdistrict No. 6 of Ohio and West Virginia went on n strike. The strike was caused by a disagreement in regard *.o dead work scale. Joe Johnson nnd John Potter of the Creed l’otter and John Reynolds band of outlaws in Kentucky, have surrendered. They say the, other members of the Ku-Klux will not give up. Private telegrams from Beaumont, Texas, announce that gusher No. 0 has been struck. The strike is the Hey wood well, which has been eagerly watched for nnd from which wonderful results have boon expected. , By the burning of the Commercial Hotel at St. Mary’s, W. Ya., six persons lost their lives. The tire was caused by a gas explosion and tlie building was rapidly consumed. There were several narrow escapes from death, At Hopkinsville, Ivy., Roy Courtney, aged 22, recently released from a lunatic asylum, securely tied his old mother with a rope and threw her into the tire. Her screams brought aid, but she was badly injured and her hair burned off. The Tennessee Legislature has passed a hill to impose un nd valorem tax on all cars owned by corporations other than railroads. This law affects the Pullman, Standard Oil. Fruit Dispatch, Refrigerator and nil other corporations owning or leasing their cars.

FOREIGN.

Sir Alfred Milner is gloomy over progress of the Boer war. Archduke Francis, Austrian heir apparent, declares he will uphold the Catholic religion. The British turret steamship Caithness, eighteen days from Morornn, Japan, arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., with seven of her crew of twenty-eight men down with smallpox. Mount Vesuvius is again in a state of active eruption, and many people, seleat-

ists, students and the curious, including American tourists, arc leaving Paris by every train for Naples. Aguinnblo has issued a manifesto to Filipinos in which he urges peace and submission to American rule. He saytlie is confident this is the course favored by the majority of bis countrymen. A dispatch from Pretoria says the Boors have burned a supply train near Moltono, (.’ape Colony. The forward locomotive escaped and ran to Storniberg and returned with troops, who found the train on fire. Two natives were killed. The palace of the Empress iu Pekjn, inhabited by Courtt von Waldersee and his staff, was burned to the ground. Maj. Gen. Sellwartzkopf. Count von Waldersee’s chief of staff, has disappeared. With the exception of the military papers every tiling was destroyed. Mr. Ifarcburt's forecast that the liabilities of the British war in South Africa will wipe out the £200,000,000 saved during seventy years of economy and debt paying has sobered all comment upon the budget, but the House of Commons has voted the £00,000,000 war loan.

IN GENERAL.

Mexican Republic lias signed the eonvent ion of The Hague peace conference. Tlie United States Supreme Court has denied the application of former Captain Oberiin M. Caster to be admitted to bail. Three heavy boilers on the deck of the bark S. C. Allen broke loose during a storm and five sailors were badly hurt by them. The President has appointed William M. Jenkins of Oklahoma Territory to be Governor of that territory, and James W. Raynolds of New Mexico to he secretary of the territory of New Mexico. Secretary Root has ordered Gen. MaeAr.thur to reduce army in Philippines to 40,000 men, which is the result of improved conditions in the islands. Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-third infantry, Fourth artillery and Fourth cavalry are coming home. Police of the town of Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, have seized papers which prove that n plot against the lives of the Emperor of Germany, the Czar*>f Russia, the King and Queen of Italy and the Count of Turin was recently laid in l'aterson, N. J. James 11. Arderti of one of the mining companies of Dawson came to Seattle on his way to London, England. He said that the clean-up this year in the Dawson camp from a conservative estimate would amount to $30,000,000, making it the biggest output in the history of the Klondike. The ministers of England, France, America, Holland, Belgium and Italy, t< whom the question of provincial punishment was assigned, have submitted a report to the diplomatic corps that they demand four more beheadings and the punishment by exile and degradation of eighty more Chinese officials. The consummation of the project to consolidate all the independent cereal plants of the country is now assured. The various properties, ten in number, will be turned over to the Great Western Cereal Company at Chicago. The new company will compete with tlie American Cereal Company, better known as the oatmeal’trust. The Chicago Great Western has conceded all tlie demands made by the International Machinists’ Association, thus ending any possibility of a. strike. The demands included a nine-hour workday, a minimum wage scale of 29 cents an hour, and several concessions in connection with apprentice regulations. Under the old system the minimum scale varied from 2t; to 27 cents. Bradstreet's says: “Cold, rainy weather, with its concomitant of had roads, has been unfavorable to distributive trade this week, special complaint coming from the central West and parts of the Northwest. A similarly retarding effect upon crop planting is noted at the South, where cotton and corn cultivation and germination are reported from one to two weeks late. With these exceptions, however, trade developments of the week have been iu the lnaru favorable. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,3(X>,217 bushels, against 0,405,(501 bushels last week and 3,898,451 bushels in the corresponding week of 1900. From July 1 to date this season wheat exports are 107,533,246 bushels, against 157,814,717 bushels last season. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,130,401 bushels. Fj-om July 1 to date this season earn exports are 153,298,988 bushels. Business failures for the week in the United States number 212 as against 225 last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.03; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $0.05; sheep, fair to ehoiee, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 11 red, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2,45 cto 40c; oats, No. 2,25 c to 20c; rye. No. 2,40 cto 50a; butter, choice creumery, 10c to 20c; eggs, fresh, lie to 12c; potatoes, to 37c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.05; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $0.05; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,00 cto 70c: corn, No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 20e. Bt. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $5.05; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2. 71c to 72c; corn. No. 2, 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2, 2t!c to 27c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.00 lo $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $0.20; sheep. $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2. 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 40c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; rye. No. 2,55 cto 50c. Detroit —Cuttle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $6.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42c to 43<'; outs. No. 2 white, 20c to 30c; rye, 54c to 55c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 20c to 27c; rye, No. 2,51 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, SO.OO. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3,44 cto 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 20c; rye. No. 1,52 c to 54c; barley, No, 2,55 cto 50c; pork, mess, $14.42. Itii (T;i lo—Cuttle, ehoiee shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.05; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $0.30; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $1.50 to $5.75. New York—Cattle. $3.75 to $5.80; hogs, $3.00 to $0.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 78c to 70c; corn, No. 2, 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 10c to 20c; ogg«, west* ern, 13c to 14c. ,

STATE OF THE CROPS.

WEATHER BUREAU’S WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. Fourth Con ecutive Week of Abnormally Cold Weather Retards^Growth Over Nearly the Whole Country— Progress of Corn-Planting Slow. The chief of the crop division of the weather bureau, in his weekly report, says that this* is the fourth consecutive week of abnormally cold weather over nearly the whole country with the most marked temperature deficiency of the season in the central valleys and Southern States, and heavy precipitation throughout the Ohio valley and over the greater portion of the Atlantic coast and gulf districts. These conditions have l>cen very unfavorable for farming operations, germination and growth and the heavy rains have resulted in destructive freshets, especially in Ohio valley. Warmth and in most sections sunshine are now urgently needed generally to the east of the Rocky Mountains, While the season continues backward in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific coast States, the seasonal temperature deficiency is not marked, and the latter part of the week was very favorable in the ceutral Rocky Mountain region. •Slow progress has been made with corn planting; none has yet been planted north of the Ohio river, anil extensive replanting will he necessary over a large part of the Southern States, where the growth of the crop has been decidedly cheeked. While the growth of winter wheat has been materially retarded by low temperatures, the previously reported promising condition of this crop continues. In Oklahoma and Texas, however, insects are still causing serious damage. - On the Pacific coast the condition of winter wheat is promising except the lata sown in portions of California. But little spring wheat has been sown in North Dakota, and while seeding is well advanced in portions of Minnesota and South Dakota, much less has been sewn than at the corresponding date of last year and germination has been checked. Where not interfered with by rain, oat seeding has made favorable progress, an 1 is nearing completion iu the central valleys, but iu the more northerly sections and in the middle Atlantic States slow progress lias been made. The reports respecting this crop, however, are generally favorable, except in Oklahoma and Texas, where insects continue destructive. The week has been unfavorable for cotton planting over a large part of the cotton belt, more particularly in the central districts, where much replanting will be necessary. The early planted is coming up to poor stands generally, and in Texas and Geoejrtft some damage has been done by frost. In Tennessee about one-third of the crop has been planted. S-tate Reports. Illinois.—Cold weather during week retarded germination nud growth of vegetation; conditions favorable for farm work in northern part of State, but work delayed by wet weather in southern part; wheat, rye and grasses look well. Put growth Is slow; oat seeding nearly finished and many Helds eouilug up: some plowing done for corn, gardening, and potato planting, fruit prospects good, but some damage by trost feared. Indiana.—Precipitation beneficial to crops, but delayed plowing and seeding: owing to cold weather crops advanced slowly: ice and frost in localities did no apparent Injury: wheat, rye, eloVer and grass Improved; tobacco plants coming up slowly; oat nud barley seeding progressed slowly; oats coming up; potatoes planted; fruit irees, except apples. In bloom. Ohio.—Unusually cold and stormy; heavy snow in east and south; damaging floods In Valley of Ohio and tributaries; farm work much delayed, especially In east; vegetation made little growth: wheat and grass not unfavorably affected. except In few Instances; fruit backward, no bloom except In ex.reine south; opinions as to damage differ, Impossible to determine extent at present. Michigan.—ltains and snow beneficial to wheat, rye, and meadows, but delayed field work: oats, pens anil barley seeding advancing slowly; plowing for corn nud early potatoes begun; fruit trees generally promising. \\ isconsin.—Week generally cool, with heavy frosts during latter part tnd light snow: some seeding In southern portion, but little work on land In central and northern; ground remains frozen In many localities; winter wheat and rye generally uninjured and outlook promising; clover wintered fair ly well. lowa.—Week unseasonably cold and work delayed two or three days by rain: spring wheat sown and seeding of oats and barley nearly completed, except In limited area; germination retarded, but no material Injury caused by freezing: progress In plowing for corn. South Dakota.—Generally frosty nights fore part of week, with ralu or snow In east portion, delayed seeding and retarded germination and growth of spring wheat, oats and barley, but no Injury reported; spring wheat seeding nearly completed in southeast; elsewhere fairly good progress made; grass growth slow. Nebraska.—Cold week, with killing frosts on the first (lays; vegetation backward and nothing damaged.

CHICAGO TO LIVERPOOL.

Steamship Northwestern Begins Journey to the English Port. Buffalo, Montreal, Sidney, Cape Breton, Liverpool, England. This was the itinerary mapped out by the owners of the steamship Northwestern, which sailed Wednesday from Chicago on its long voyage across the Atlantic—-the first steamer, clearing from the port of Chicago, to carry the products of the West to the markets of the Eastern hemisphere. No formal ceremony, other than the regulations imposed by the United States government, marked the departure of the vessel which is to link Chicago by a direct line with the ports of the old world. Harvesting machinery nnd Chicago proi visions are included iu the first cargo of the Northwestern. The ship also carried about 50,(MX) bushels of grain for Buffalo. This was to act ns ballast for the lake trip, nnd its unloading at Buffalo lightened the steamer sufficiently to let it pass down the Kt. Lawrence canals. At Montreal the place of the grain was taken by other freight, nnd the steamer sailed for Liverpool with a full cargo. The vessel was expected to reach Liverpool in twenty days after leaving Chicago. .Whether the saving iu handling charget will offset'-the heawy expenses incurred In the navigation of the new route to th.i ocean is not yet known.

Told in a Few Lines.

Standard Oil people are gobbling up th« Texas oil Innds. Reported that hrignnds tortured a French priest in Thibib. Pennsylvania will appropriate $30,000 for the St. Louis exposition. In ninny parts of Europe river uuj canal routes are legally regarded os highva va.

PHOTOGRAPHING A FAST TRAIN.

Biggeit Camera In this World Built to Take Alton Limited.” “The Alton Limited,” in the fast daylight service between Chicago and St. Louis, is said to present the most symmetrical doeiga of any railroad train la the world. No train of cars had ever before been built with windows of the same size, shape and style from mail car to parlor car, and no former effort had been made to have every car train precisely the same length and height; even the hood of its locomotive was made the exact height of the roots of the cars. This gave a fascinating beauty to the train, artd absolute unity of detail from cow-catcher to observation platform. Indeed tins was what created, and impelled, the idea to obtain a photograph of the “Limited” sufficiently large to readily Impress the public with the train’s uniform conformation. Mr. Geo. It. Lawrence, the Chicago and Alton’s photographer, at first said that the train would have to be photographed in sections and these section* -fitted together, an unsatisfactory process. ’The Chicago and Alton, however, had built a faultless train of which they demanded a faultless photograph, iagiating

SETTING UP THE CAMERA.

that iu length the picture must not measure less than eight feet. Mr. Lawrencs then presented plans for a camera to photograph The Alton Limited on a single plate, Bx4l< ! feet—which is three times as large as the largest plate ever befors exposed. This, the largest camera ia the world, was built expressly to photograph The Alton Limited. It took tws and a half months to build the big camera. The weight is 9(X) pounds'and the piateholder when loaded weighs 500, making a total weight of 1,400 pounds. Early one morning last spring, an immense padded van drove up )o the Chicago and Alton’s station in Chicago, from it the giant camera was transferred to s Chicago and Alton flat car, and the start made for Brighton Fark, at which point, distant about six miles from Chicago, ths “first exposure” was made. The accompanying illustration illustrates the manner in which the camera was set up and the picture taken, the operation requiring the services of no less than fifteen men. The Alton people have issued a handsomely illustrated 10-page pamphlet, telling how the big picture was made. This they will send for a 2-cent stamp.

Nicknames.

“With the idea of naming my boys,” said a white-haired man, “so that them could be no nicknames—which K have always detested—in the family, we called the first Edmund, the second Edward, the third Edgar, the fourth Edwin, the fifth Edson, and the sixth Egbert” “That surely served your purpose, didn’t it?” asked one of the listeners. “Not at all,” rejoined the patriarch, rather shamefacedly. “Beginning with" the eldest, they were known as ‘Eddie,* ‘Chuck,’ ’Bim,’ ’Snodkey,’ ‘Muggins,* and ‘Pete,’ and every mother's son of them answered proudly to his nickname.”—Youth’s Companion.

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

A Veteran of tbe Civil War Telia an Interesting ftirr. Effingham, 111., April 22.—(Special.)— Uriah S. And rick is now 07 years of age. Mr Andrick served through tb« whole of the Civil War. He was wounded, three times by ball and twics by bayouet. When he entered the service of his country in 18(51 he was hale and hearty, and weighed 198 pounds. Since ths close of war, however, Mr. Andrick has had very bad health. For fifteen years he never lay down in bed for over an hour at a time. Hs had acute Kidney Trouble, which grew Into Bright’s Disease. His heart also troubled him very mueb. On Oct. 18, 1900, he was weighed, and weighed only 102 pounds, being but s shadow of bis former self. Ke commenced using Dodd’s Kidney Pills on the 20th of last December, and on Feb. 20 was again weighed, and weighed 146 pounds He says: “I have spent hundreds of dollars and received no benefit, until on tbs 2flth of December last I purchased one box of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. I am cured, and I am free from any pain. My heart's action is completely restored. I have not the slightest trace of th* Bright’s Disease, and I can sleep well all night. 1 was considered a hopeless case by everybody, but to-day lamt well man, thanks to Dodd's Kidney IHls. “For the last sixteen years my wife has been in misery with bearing down pains, pains In the lower part of the abdomen, and other serious ailments. When she saw what Dodd’s Kidney Pills were doing for me ahe commenced to use them. She now feels like another woman, her pains have all disappeared anil her general health Is better than it has been for years. “She Is so taken up with Dodd's Kidney Pills nnd what they have done for us that she has gone to Mr. Cornwell’s drug store and bought them for some of her friends for fear that If they wont themselves they might make • mistake and get something else.” "Inhere Is something very convincing In the honest, simple story of this old veteran and his wife. Dodd's Kidney Pills are the only Remedy that ever cured Bright’s Disease, Diabetes or Dropsy. They never fall.

Zoological Talk.

Tiger (in menagerie)—! tell-Tott, my IlfU la n hard one, anyhow. Lion—la what way? Tiger—l’m starved when I’m alive aas stuffed when I’m dead.