Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1901 — Page 2

JASPER OICNH DEMOCRAT. ” F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RcNSSFLAER, INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

While the betting ring nt Overland Park, Denver, was crowded with people a sadden gale lifted the roof over them from its bearings and dropped it in a mass upon the crowd. About a dozen persons were hurt, some of them severely. The Washington Match Company has been incorporated at Tacoma, Wash., with a capital stock of $1,200,600 by exCongressman James Hamilton Lewis and associates, it proposes to erect a factory 200 feet square and four stories high. The steamer Preston. Capt. Barlow* of Toledo, was wrecked on Lake Superior, and thirteen, or all but one of the persons aboard her, were rescued after the display of much heroism by Capt. McDougall and his men of the steamer Athabasca. The census Completed in March, 1901, shows that the increase in population in India during the past ten years was only 5,000,000 to 0,000,000, instead of the normal 19,000,000. The loss represents deaths from famine and the deaths in consequence of the famine. Jesse F. Thayer, formerly a captain in the American volunteers, but lately retired to private life and working at his trade, committed suicide in Omaha. He was horsewhipped at Lincoln three days before by his wife, from whom he had separated, and this seemed to prey upon him. The southwestern express on the Pennsylvania Railroad was ditched at ths East End siding, two miles east of Greensburg, Pa. Only three passengers were hurt, and their injuries were not of a serious nature. It is thought that the accident was a deliberate attempt at train wrecking. Michael *Budz, aged 4 years, and his brother Tony, aged 2 years, died at the home of their parents in Cleveland, as a result, it is supposed, of drinking poisoned lemonade. Just before he died the elder boy said that while playing on the street some one had given them lemonade that made them very sick. In St. Louis, Josephine Graham attempted to effect a reconciliation with her husband from whom she has been separated. When her efforts failed she went back to her home and poured coal oil over her clothing. The woman then set fire to herself and was burned to a crisp. Three children survive her. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. New Y0rk...29 21 Brooklyn ....30 28 Pittsburg ...33 24 Boston 27 20 St. L0ui5....33 20 Cincinnati ...24 32 Philadelphia 31 27 Chicago 19 42 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....38 20 Washington. 26 22 Boston 32 20 Philadelphia. 21 33 Baltimore .. .28 21 Cleveland ...21 34 Detroit 80 27 Milwaukee ..19 38 The navy department has purchased a considerable tract of laud surrounding the naval observatory in Washington, in order to protect from jar the delicate instruments which record the time of the country. It was deemed desirable not to have nny highways within 1,000 feet of the clockroom, where the Instruments are stationed, and a circle with a radius of 1,000 feet therefore was drawn entirely around the observatory. At the last session of Congress $149,000 was appropriated to purchase tbo inclosed land, and this amount has just become available. The tracts purchased contain about sixteen acres.

BREVITIES.

Ambassador nnd Mrs. White entertained the Kaiser at dinner. Charles F. Albert, a noted violinmaker, is dead at Philadelphia. In Buffalo, N. Y., the Niagara Bank, a State institution, has closed its doors. A London firm has made for the Sultan of Turkey two cameras costing £3.000. Lightning bolt struck a trolley car on the Chicago and Milwaukee liue, disabled the coach and caused a collision in which eleven persons are more or less injured. At a special meeting of the stockholders of the St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railroad, an issue of *20,000,000 fifty-year 4 per cent gold bonds was authorised. The corner stone of the new Catholic church was laid at Greenville, Ohio,, in presence of a large crowd. Sixteen priests were present. The edifice will cost *30,000. The beautiful Allenhurst inn at Asbury Park, N. J., went up in liames before the 160 guests of the house had fairly got seated at the dinner table. The loss is about *175.000. Schneider & Sons’ clothing factory in Whitechapel, London, covering a ground space of two and a half acres, was burn ed. The damage is placed at £IOO,OOO. Two thousand employes are thrown out of work. Miss Edna Jordan leaped from the excursion steamer Henrietta into the Missouri River at Omaha because of a misunderstanding regarding a dance. The girl bad been employed as a fancy goods saleswoman. Cornell eight won vrtrsity race at Poughkeepsie, Columbia second, Wisconsin third. Record for the course lowered fifty one and two-fifths seconds. Courtney’s men won race for fours and Pennsylvania eight the freshmen's event. The big Homestead Hotel at Hot Springs, Va., has been destroyed by fire. No one was hurt. The loss is estimated at *600,000. Four hundred and fifty tons of dried fruit was destroyed by the burning of the fruit packing house of George N. Herbert, near Han Jose, Cal. Loss about *60,000; insurance, *40,000. New issue of *50,000.000 bonds has been decided upon by the Western Indiana Road, to refund outstanding securities and furnish cash for notable betterments, including a new depot, track elevation, increased terminal facilities, etc.

EASTERN.

Fire destroyed! the George P. Cox last factory at Malden, Mass. L 055.535,000. Sixteen persons are killed and twentysix prostrated by the heat in one day in New York City. Edward Weinschraber of Williamsburg, N. Y., was seriously injured by the explosion of a loaded cigaret. Unknown blackmailers, failing to extort SIO,OOO from Charles D. Barney, of Philadelphia, sent his daughter an infernal machine. Henry Marquand & Co., bankers and brokers, closely identified with the Seventh National Bank, failed, with estimated liabilities of $8,000,000. The Brier Hill Coke Company has been organized and the company has purchased 1,100 acres of coal land near Masontown, Pa., paying $400,000 for it. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, fell from a street car in Washington and is suffering from concussion of the brain. Yale ’varsity eight-oared crew defeated Harvard in a terrific struggle on the end. Yale freshmen won. and Harvard’s fouroared crew landed in front of Yale, Three persons are reported to have been killed and two seriously injured by an explosion of dynamite nar Karthaus, Pa. The men were blasting for a new railroad. O. C. Thompson, a passenger on the Dominion liner Commonwealth, which arrived at Boston from Liverpool, committed suicide by jumping overboard while the steamer was off that coast. Comptroller Dawes forced the closing of the crippled Seventh National Bank of New York. Belief in Washington is that criminal prosecutions will follow because of over-certification of checks. Prof. J. R. V. Silver, a hypnotist, was severely horsewhipped in the Arena restaurant, New York, by his wife. He was dining with Actress Julia Morrison, who was tried and acquitted at Chattanooga last year for killing Frank Lowden. While seated under a tree during a thunderstorm, waiting for an electric car to convey them to Meriden, Fred Lee of Southampton, Conn., and his bride, Mrs. Florence Cornell Lee, were struck bylightning and killed. They were on their honeymoon. The President has refused to pardon ex-District Attorney Ellery P. Ingham and ex-Assistant District Attorney Harvey K. Newitt, sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment for connection the famous Jacobs counterfeiting cases in Pennsylvania. The steamer Mohawk, owned by John H. Starin and used by him in carrying excursionists to Glen Island, struck a rock just off New Rochelle with 900 passengers on Iward, and sank in less thau twenty minutes. It is believed that all of the passengers escaped. As the result of the breaking of a temporary platform built on a scaffolding inside and bridging the top of a monstrous tank in the Eastern elevator at Buffalo, six men fell a distance of eighty feet. Four were killed, one instantly, and the others died within a few hours. At Essex, Conn., John Sampson noticed a white snake crawling across the road a short distance ahead. It quickly coiled itself and sounded its ominous rattle, and he gave no thought to its strange color until after he had killed it. The reptile was three feet long and had eleven rattles.

WESTERN.

The Nebraska Republican State con vention will be held at Lincoln Aug. 28. Rev. George Shaw, pastor of a St. Paul church, is working in a tailor shop because he won’t accept a salary raised by church amusements. Judge William A. Woods, who granted the injunction against the Debs strikers during the Chicago troubles of 1891, died suddenly at his home in Indianapolis. Reports state that prairie fires continue to destroy wheat fields in Ellis an i Grove Counties, Kansas. Thousands of acres of ripe wheat have been burned. Don llarued, Joseph La Farre and Grover Gamphor of Bowling Green, O„ were drowned Wednesday while bathing in the Maumee river, near Perrysburg. At Eldorado, Kan., Jessie Morrison. v<j/o with a razor slew the ten-day wife of the man she loved, Oliu G. Castle, was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree. An immense grain hre ragi-d near Los Banos, Cal. Ten thousand acres of grain have been burned and a still larger area of grazing land has been swept by the flames.

Angus Hodgson, aged 17, and Frank Beatty, aged 24, members of a camping party from East Liverpool, Ohio, were drowned at Grim’s Bridge by the capsix ing of a boat. During n heavy electrical storm at Brasil, Ind., lightning struck a barn on J. C. Halbert’s farm, instantly killing Frank Bridgewaters. Anderson Webster aud a man named Wiggle. In Wichita, Kan., the Rock Island grain elevator caught fire and was a total loss. The elevator was In the railroad yards district. Loss on the elevator is probably *60,000. Grace Sullivan, aged 10 years, daughter of J. A. Sullivan, president of the First National Bank at Sallisaw, I. T., committed suicide by taking poison. No cause is known- for the act. Joe Sheets, a ranchman, shot nnd killed George W. Crane, another rancher, who had attacked him with u six-shooter at Cleveland, Mont. Sheets was exonerated by the coroner's jury. Six young ladies were returning from a Sunday school picnic at Wapakoneta, Ohio, when the horse attached to their carriage ran away. All were thrown violently out and severely injured. The Pjtfsburg, Wheeling and Lake Erie Coal Company was incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, with n capital stock of *1.250,000, half of which is 4 per cent preferred and half common stock. Many of the first-class mechanics working in the Northern Pacific Railroad shops at Brainerd, Minn , have had a genuine surprise. They each received a personal notification of an increase in wages. One child, a boy baby ,2 old, wm killed and eiffetern older pedons injured more or less Wriousk in a Cplliskm *f an electric car ih Irving Far* bsulsSLiiri ChicagK with two WagonS loaded with Max Kirshaw, a Yale athlete, well known al) over the country* whose home

WM in Philadelphia, died in San Francisco of paresis, due to years of dMpation. Kirshaw at one time was the champion pole vaulter of the country, Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy was formally sentenced by Judge Wofford In Kansas City to serve ten years in the State penitentiary for the murder of her husband, Philip Kennedy, in the corridor of the Ridge Building, in January last. Burglars late on a recent night broke into the court house at Minden, Neb., surprised and overcame County Treas urer Norlin, who explains that he was working overtime, secured $9,000 in cur rency, set fire to the court house and escaped. Violent electrical and rain storms swept over the Northwest, causing the death of one man and the injury of several other persons in Minneapolis and destroying property worth thousands of dollars in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin. —— Au lowa plan on his way to Anoka, Minn., on an early morning Omaha passenger train had his pocket picked of $4,500 in drafts. A gang of pickpockets has been traveling over the Omaha road from Omaha to the twin cities for two or three weeks. At Springfield, Ohio, George W. Thatcher was acquitted of the charge of forging the name of the late millionaire P. P. Mast to notes aggregating $296,000. Thatcher holds the notes and asserts that Mr. Mast signed them shortly before his death. The Central Hotel at Kern, Cal., caught fire. One life is known to have been lost and other persons are missing. Ed Tibbett, a fireman, had his skull crushed. The fire is supposed to have started from the explosion of a lamp in one of the rooms. Five young men were found clinging to the bottom of their capsized sailboat by the yacht Ingersoll when returning from Fish Point to Menominee, Mich. The sailboat had been overturned tn a squall, and only the timely passing of the Ingersoll saved them. Edwin Ruthven, colored, was electrocuted in the annex at the Ohio State penitentiary. The crime for which Ruthven, or Rutheben, as the commitment papers read, was electrocuted, was the murder of Police Officer Shipp in Cleveland on the night of May 6, 1900. A boy and a lighted cigaret is supposed to have started the fire in the barn in the rear of 218 Clybourn avenue, Chicago, which resulted in the total destruction of the barn and damage to a dozen residences and store buildings. The loss aggregates between $7,000 nnd SB,OOO. The consolidation of the E. A. Henry Wire Company, the Cuyahoga Iron and Steel Company nnd the Summit Wire Company, all of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, has taken effect. E. A. Henry is president of the combination, which is called the Cuyahoga Steel and Wire Company.

From high officials in Chicago news comes that when Janies J. Hill secures the Burlington road Sept. 1 the Burlington extension will be built from Burwell, Neb., north into South Dakota, thence northwest to the Black Hills through the cattle ranges now untraversed by railway. At Granite Falls, Minn., the jury in the murder trial of Dr. Wintner returned a verdict of not guilty. Dr. Wintner on April 15 last shot and killed William Lenard, a gambler with whom he was playing poker, explaining at the time that he had discovered Lenard to be cheating him. The Kansas City, Kan., City Council has granted a franchise to mine coal under the streets, alleys or public buildings of the city. The franchise runs twenty years and the annual compensation to the city is to be S2O per acre. It is believed the famous Leavenworth coal vein runs under the city. Burlington and Missouri River road tickets to the amount of $3,000 have been stolen. Oliver Shonst of Hastings, Neb., was arrested at Bladen charged with disposing of the tickets and with being implicated in the conspiracy. A ticket broker of Denver, who had his ticket taken up, identified Shoust as the man who sold it to him. The body of a man, supposed to be n cattle buyer named Martin Ayres,- was found the other evening by farmers under a bridge in Daily township, sixteen miles west of Ponca, Neb. The man's head was erushed and his clothing showed evidence of a struggle. No money was found on the body, and it is thought that be was held up and murdered. Ayres was a stranger.

Because her husband refused to comply with the demands of blackmailers for *6,000, M rs. W. O. Carson, wife of a Cowley County, Kan., farmer, lies dead after having suffered intensely many hours from burns receive 1 when her home was destroyed by fire. The fire was started by incendiaries in accordance with threats made. No clew to the criminals has been found. Clifford C. Tyler, son of W. E. Tyler, an official of the Chicago, Milwaukee aud St. Paul road, who disappeared from Grafton six months ago without apparent cause, has been located at Han Antonio, Texas. He is enlisted in the army, aud he and his parents are now actively en 'gaged In securing his discharge. Love of adventure was the real motive for deserting his position. Sunday closing advocates received a knockout blow in a ruling handed down by Judge John W. Henry of the Circuit Court at Kansas City. He decided that the Board of Police Commissioners has no right to revoke a saloon license unless it is shown that the place is a disorderly house within the meaning of the law. ‘‘The selling of oue. two or a dozen drinks of whisky on Hunday,” said Judge Henry, “does not necessarily moan that a man is running a disorderly house. As the result of a bitter neighborhood feud, C. I>. Guild and his 8-y ear-old son Clarence lie dead riddled with bullets at Dayton, lowa. The man who did the shooting is Oliver Bricker. Bricker’s story Is that when he met Guild nnd his son the other afternoon Guild drew a revolver and commenced firing nnd Bricker was hit three times, nil his wounds being slight. The Inst shot, Bricker claims, was fired by the boy, Bricker having kno -ked the revolver from Guild's hands. Bricker then eouimeuced tiring aud hiv.brottyxr Gcoige citaie up with a bhotgsn gadjie gretL on* - barrel nt I the boy«who hcK thsVtblver, The boy fell nnw fgfherjsprang-pick bp <bn pistol Brlcer shuft.and killed him. Mrs. Seth Hayes of Fremont, Ohio, who is visiting iu Sandusky, plunged off

the drawbridge into Sandusky Bay to eave the life of 1 4-year-old Dorothy Neilly the daughter of the woman at whose, house Mrs. Hayes is visiting. Mrs/ Hayes supported the child until help! came, when both were rescued. ’

SOUTHERN.

Texts Supreme Court decides the State has no interest in mineral lands sold to actual settlers from school land domain. John Lyson. aged 14, and Howard White, aged 12, were drowned while swimming in Green river, below Curdsville, Ky. While working in a field in Lincoln County, North Carolina, William Huss and one son were instantly killed and another son probably fatally injured by lightning. Frank Miller, a notorious safe robber, was hanged at Birmingham, Ala. The crime for which Miller was hanged was the murder of Policeman J. W. Adams one night in March, 1900. Cornered in a house by a determined band of infuriated citizens bent on meting out summary justice to Peter Price, a negro, charged with insulting a young woman, Price in his desperate efforts to escape cut and killed George Hooks and F. M. McGran and seriously cut Charles Davis. The affair occurred at laeger, W- Va.

FOREIGN.

English House of Commons in committee adopted the coal tax bill by a majority of eighty-six. Italian troops fired on agricultural strikers at Ferrara, and several men were reported killed. Several Chinese were burned to death during a blaze on the American water tender Arethusa at Hongkong. laeut. Edward Downs of the First infantry and one private of that regiment have been killed in the southern part of the island of Samar, P. I. Felix of Pillis, the world’s greatest dressmaker, closed his doors in bankruptcy. He was long looked upon us the king of France’s largest industry. The cause of the failure is the Palais de Costumes at the exposition. The wedding of Count Franz Josef Von Larisch Moenich of Austria, a nephew of the Emperor of Austria, and Miss Marie Satterfield, daughter of the late John Satterfield, the Standard Oil magnate, occurred at the bride’s home in Delaware avenue, Buffalo.

IN GENERAL

One of the arrested_men suspected of complicity in the murder of Robert Remmett, a British subject engaged in mining at Zacuaipan. State of Mexico, has confessed and gives the names of the leader of the band of assassins. The motive was robbery, and not revenge. Articles of incorporation of eight companies with $5,000,000 capital have been filed at Pierre, S. D., by Philadelphia and Pierre citizens for wireless telephone and telegraph companies. They are intended to cover operations in the United States and in all the new possessions of the United States, as well as in Alaska. President Shaffer of the Amalgamated Association ordered a strike of the 20,000 union employes of the American Sheet Steel Company because of the failure of conferees on wage scale to reach agreement. Trouble threatens to spread to all mills of the United States Steel Corporation, and to involve 150,000 men. “It does not follow because bad banking methods have caused one of the smaller New York banks to dose its doors, with attendant circumstances that create discussion in Wall street, that general business is in auy way affected by or at all responsible for the trouble. The country is undeniably prosperous, and with prospects of an abundant harvest to supply our own needs and increasing European deficiencies the situation is viewed with confidence. A few more labor disturbances have arisen, but others have been settled, notably the dispute over the tin plate scale. Some disagreements in the coal regions nt times assume a threatening aspect? but the troubles have been local and do not affect the mining industry. Reports from the country speak of n continued active movement of merchandise with the jobbing trade nnd embracing nenrly all lines.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. It also says: "Failures for the week numbered 204 in the Unite:! States, against 207 last year, and 23 in Canada, against 21 last year."

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prims, *3.00 to *5.75; hogs, shipping grades, *3.00 to *6.22; sheep, fair to choice, *B.OO to *4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 65c to 66c; corn. No. 2,42 cto 43c; oats. No. 2,26 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c;•butter, chdtce creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 10c; potatoes, new, 80c to *I.OO per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, *3.00 to *5.90; hogs, choice light, *4.00 to *6.05: sheep, common to prime, *3.00 to *8.25; wheat, No. 2,64 cto 65c; corn. No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c. Bt. Louis—Cattle, *3.25 to *6.10; hogs, *3.00 to *6.05; sheep, *3.00 to *4220, wheat, No. 2,64 cto 65c; corn, No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 46c. Cincinnati—Cattle, *3.00 to *5.26; hogs, *B.OO to *6.25; sheep. *3.00 to *3.50; wheat. No. 2,07 cto 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; onts. No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 2,63 cto 64c. Detroit—Catlie, *2.50 to *5.25; hogs, *3.00 ’o *6.06; sheep. *2.50 to *3.75;, wheat. No. 2,68 cto 69c; corn, No. 2’ yellow, 43c to 44c; oats. No, 2 white, 30c to 81c; rye, 54c to 65c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, G7c--tP 68c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 42e to 43c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2,50 c to 51c; clover need, prime, *6.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 06c to 67c; corn. No. 3,41 cto 42c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 1,47 c to 48c: barley, No. 2,54 cto 55c; pork, mess, *14.75. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, *B.OO to *6.00: hogs, fair to prime. *3.00 to *6.35; sheep, (air to choice, *3.50 to *4.2ft laa*l>s. common t« extgg, **.*o id wpgii. No. 2 red. <2c to 71W; corn, No. 2, 470 to 48c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 18c to 10c; eggs, westenu> Ifc to Wc. • • ; i 1 ■') t •

BOLT SLAYS ELEVEN.

LIGHTNING STRIKES PIER WITH FRIGHTFUL RESULTS. Boys, Youths and a Man Comprise the Victims— Bo J tea Found Twisted In* to Hideoua Shapes by Force of the Electricity. . ■ < ■ ——— Six boys and five men were instantly killed shortly after noon Monday by a lightning bolt that struck an old pier, a short distance north of the marine hospital in Chicago. The victims ranged In age from 12 to 45 years. When a terrific storm broke over the city the lads and men sought refuge under a zine-roofed shelter at the end of the pier nearest the shore. A party of twelve was crouching In the narrow spncq when the bolt of lightning struck the roof. Eleven were instantaneously killed. The twelfth one, Willie Anderson, had a marvelous escape from the fate of his companions. He was made unconscious by the shock, but fell underneath the others. He revived in a few minutes, and called for help. The bodies of all the victims had to be removed before Anderson was reached. He was taken to the hospital and will recover. - A majority of the boys who met death so suddenly had left their homes to go In swimming. The beach at the pier is sloping, and lads can wade out some distance. The pier is known as Robbias’ pier, having been built by Burr Robbins, the old circus man, whose residence is near by. The place is also a favorite fishing ground. The fierce thunderstorm which came up about 12:15 o’clock, accompanied by wind and lightning flashes, drove the timid ones in the crowd on and about the pier to the little hole In the timbers, which some fishermen had used in past seasons as a lodging place. The cavity was roofed with zinc, one of the best conductors of electricity known. The bolt struck squarely on this roof and ran down the Iron-studded timbers Into the huddled mass of humanity below. There was no cry of pain or fear from the doomed ones. They lost their lives tn an Instant, quicker than a current from the most powerful dynamo could have acted. Thrown in every conceivable attitude by the concussion, they presented a grewsome spectacle when the police arrived. The arms and lower limbs of the vietjms were entwined one with another, and it required a half hour to extricate the bodies and straighten them out on the sand. Underneath, crying piteously for help, was Willie Anderson, the only one alive in the awful den of death. In the history of lightning strokes costing human lives there is no record of eleven meeting death by one bolt. Four years ago four persons were killed by lightning at the Grant monument in Lincoln Park, but eleven at one stroke is believed to be the appalling record in such accidents.

GOTHAM GASPS AT III.

Terrific Heat at New York Leaves Trail of Death. New York was liks a fiery furnace Monday. A brazen sun poured scorching rays upon the great city, brought death and desolation and almost succeeded in paralyzing commerce and industry. Only three times in the thirty-one years that the United States government has kept a record has the official thermometer gone higher than it did Monday. The government observatory, on the top of one of the highest buildings In the city, with nothing to obstruct any breath of air that stirs, sweltered in the afternoon with the thermometer at 98 degrees, while on the street the mercury marked 111 degrees. Twice in former Julys the official temperature has been higher—on July 9, 1876, and on July 3, 1898—when it wan 90 degrees. The only occasion when the 100 degree mark has been reached was in September, 1881. Ninety-four persons died from the effects of the heat, and the ambnlance service proved inadequate to remove all who were prostrated in the streets. The deaths reported do not nearly represent all lives sacrificed by the sun, as very many deaths are attributed' to other causes, though the heat is really responsible. Of the persons prostrated many are beyond the hope of recovery, while others will suffer from the effect for years. The effect upon business was more serious than the usual panic, and sales In many of the large establishments fell fully 50 per cent below the normal fig. urea for this season of the year. The ice men alone prospered. Dispatches show prostrations and deaths from the heat in other cities Monday an follows: Pros. Deaths, tratlons. St. Louts 8 eo Washington '....$ 50 Boston $ 100 CleveJafl 8 18 Pittsbutg 18 40 Philadelphia 14 100 Baltimore 14 2S

PULPIT AND PREACHER

Dean Farrar, who has been dangerously ill at Canterbury, is convalescent. Memorial Presbyterian Church, Bay City, Mich., has extended a unanimous call to the Rev. William Bryant of Detroit. The Rev. E. Lascelles Jenner of Bayonne, N. J., has accepted the rectorship of Christ Episcopal Church, Chippewa Falls, Win. The Rev. W. R. Halstead has been appointed corresponding secretary of the Methodist hospital and deaconess home to be built at Indianapolis. Dr. Joseph T. Smith, psstor emeritus of Central Presbyterian Church’, Balti* more, has resigned as president of the board of trustees of Princeton Theological Seminary. The trustees of Montana Wesleyan University have selected the Rev. J. Walter MorrftfA. Id.. Jfn. DL as president of the IlftLitutty)ftp take the place of the late Ur.ftMmg* VaiFßcoy. The llcrjT ft. Rabdallif Grand Rap Ide, >HcV., has been* persuaded by hit people of the Fountain Street Baptist Church to withdraw hla resignation and to declins acA to Yonkers, N; Y.

BIG YEAR FOR THE FARMER.

Bright Prospects for Heavy Yields off All Cereals. Splendid crops of all cereals and good prices for every bushel that can be marketed are conQdently expected by the grain growera of the great West. • Er* erywhere now in the West, experts aro inspecting the growing fields of wheat, oats, corn and rye and forecasting tho probable yield/ Present conditions aro favorable to a mammoth yield of all cereals, but with the next two months depends the fate of all growing crops. Should favorable weather ensue, a supply of foodstuffs sufficient to feed all Europe will be assured and a market can be found, it is estimated, very readily for all that is not consumed in the United States and paying prices are looked for. This year’s crop of wheat, from present prospects, will be greater than that of 1900, although there has been a reduction of 1,200,000 acres in the acreage of spring wheat. Last year's crop was 522,230,000 bushels, valued after harvesting at $323,525,177. From present indications, it is estimated that thin year's yield will be not less, and probably more, than 650,000,000 bushels which,, at last year's farm prices, would b* worth $419,250,000. The critical time for wheat is from now until Aug. 15. Present conditions are most favorable, but excessive moisture or prolonged drought may decrease the yield by half. The acreage in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas is not as large as last year, but the shortage there will be counter balanced by increased acreage in Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Foreign conditions are expected to make the price of wheat firm. Ths French crop is reported below the average, Great Britain will be a good customer and it is believed Germany willimport 100,000,000 bushels, although her usual imports are about 40,000,000 bushels. -y • : -- The corn crop, while backward thus far and althongh the acreage devoted to its cultivation is considerably less than was the case last year, is expected to bring a good figure anj pay the growers even better than in 1900. Men who havo carefully studied the corn sitnation believe that 40 cents a bushel will be the minimum price. The total yield thin year will be, if the weather be favorable, as great as last year, 2,100,000,000, and its value will reach the tremendous sum of $840,000,000. Oats will probably show a slight decrease in production and hardly ao great a yield as was gathered last year will result It is possible, however, that the figures for 1900; a yield of 800,000,000 bushels, may be reached, which, at th* rates prevailing last year, would be worth $206,400,000. Barley and rye show a substantial increase over last year’s production. In 1900, 58,920,000 bushels of barley, valued at $24,075,271. were grown while this year 75,000,000 bushels, valued at $30,600,000, are looked for. Rye is expected to show an increase from last year’s figures, 23,995,927 bustels, valued at $12,841,413, to 20,000,000 bushels, valued at $13,312,000. From the South come reports of bright prospects for a tremendous crop of cotton. Stimulated by the high prices of last year, the planters have given over to the cultivation of cotton 2,111,000 acres more than in 1900. It is expected that this year the yield will be not less than 10,05H,000 pounds, worth $563,024,000, while last year's crop was 4,606,119,854 pounds, valued at $334,847,868. Also there are excellent prospects for hay, tobacco, potatoes, vegetables and fruits of all kinds. The fanner’s profits promise to be large, exceeding those of any year for a decade.

NEW TRADE YEAR BEGINS.

Outlook for a Large Volume of Business Baid to Be Bright. Uncle Sum on Monday made the American people a present of *40.000,000. With this act of generosity he opened up the new fiscal year, and the officials of the treasury department predict that it will be the most phenomenal year in the history of the government, not excepting even that which closed when the treasury shut its doors Saturday night. This donation comes in the shape of * reduction in the war taxes the people have been paying for three years in order to meet the extraordinary expenses caused by the war with Spain. Manyof these taxes will remain upon the statute books, but the most wnnoying of them have been lifted. The stamp taxes Imposed upon bank checks, promissory notes, telegrams, telephone messages, mortgages, leases, express receipts, money orders, proprietory medicines, etc., have all been repealed. Perfumery and cosmetics and chewing gum have also been released from ths bondage of war taxation, while ten millions have been cut off of beer. Bank checks have yielded an annual revenue of between *6,000,000 and *7,000,000, nnd promissory notes almost *4,000,000. Telegrams at 1 cent each have paid tribute to the extent of *750,000 a year and money orders a little more than *600,000 a year. Patent medicines have supplied almost *4,000,000 a year of the war tax. Insurance, leases and mortgages have furnished another *4,000,000, and the extra tax on cigars and tobacco *10,000,000. Hereafter some of these taxes will be collected in modified form. Beer drops from *2 a barrel to *1.60 without the usual 7% per cent discount. The special tax on cigars and cigarettes is reduced and the tax on legacies amended, so as to not include legacies to charitable, religious, literary and educational institutions. Notwithstanding these reductions, and lightening off of there should yet remain about *60,000,000 a year imposed during the days when revenues were being provided to prosecute the war. The United States ended Saturday ths greatest fiscal year in Its history. Its exports reached In round numbers *l,500,000,000—which broke not only all American records, but ail corresponding records in the world. In the great year ending with 1890 the United Kingdom exported more thau this, ineluding ths immense volume of goods it merely transshipped, but Its figures of domestic exports have never touched those reached in the year just closed by the United States. • - Patronise thoss who advertim.