Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1901 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. B. BABCOCK, Publisher. HcNSSfUfcR, * INUUNA

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

lii San Francisco fire destroyed the Pacific glass works and n four-story flat building adjoining. The charred remain* of a man supposed to be William Holst, the proprietor of the glass works, who had a habit of sleeping in Ihe factory, were found. Advices from Dawson slate that tlie gold shipments to the outside this year have amounted to $5,000,00(1 to date. Over &{,(>00,(>00 of this sum went dowa the Y'ukon and is going out by the way of St. Michael's, and the rest has gone lip the river. The Alexandria, Ohio, village hunk was dynamited at 1 o'clock the other morning. The building and safe were wrecked, hut the rash box uol disturbed. Citizens exchanged shots with the robbers, John Lloyd being shot and slightly hurt. Six robliers escaped with three stolen rigs, but no money. The Gardner motor works in New Orleans were struck by lightning and destroyed liy fire. The loss on the building, machinery and stock is about $150,000. There has been a strike of raacbin ists at the Gardner factory for over a month and Superintendent Gardner was recently beaten by strikers. The body of Samuel Carlson, a ranch man who resided Ht the Natural Corral, twenty miles from Cody, Wyo., lias been found some distance from his cabin with a bullet wound in’the shoulder and the face crushed and beaten in a horrible manner. A considerable amount of money which Cartson was known to possess is missing. Charles A. Spring, associate of the late Cyrus H. McCormick and manager of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Coin ftany from 1858 to 1889, died at bis home in Chicago, lie was 75 years old. It was one of his principles that lib man should have more than a moderate fortune, and, in keeping his property at the $250,000 mark, which he bad set. char itnblc institutions and Individuals were benefited. £ The packing plant of Jacob l>old & Nous of Wichita, Kan., was destroyed by fire. There were four large buildings. It Is estimated that 7.000,000 pounds of meat, in process of preparation, was destroyed. The loss is $1,000,000, with in sura nee about S4OO,(HK>. One wall fell, injuring four men, but not fatally- Three hundred and fifty men are thrown out of rvork. It is said the plant will he rebuilt at once. The fire originated in the lardhouse and is thought to have been due to spontaneous combustion. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League; W. L. W. L Pittsburg ...42 28 New Y0rk...33 20 St. L0ui5....41 31 Boston 32 35 Philadelphia 38 31 Cincinnati ...30 30 Brooklyn ...38 34 Chicago 25 51 Standings in the American league are ns follows: W. L. W. L. Boston 43 23 Washington. 29 32 Chicago ....4(1 25 Philadelphia. 28 37 Detroit 39 32Cleveland ...20 44 Baltimore .. .84 28 Milwaukee ..23 47

BREVITIES.

Mnx Regis, Mayor of Algiers, was •tabbed in the neck at Oran. William Karlc Cook died at Portsmouth, 11. 1., aged 104 yours. Ida nnd Edith Yooland. actresses and •listers, committed suicide together in I .on dim. Jules Guerin's sentence lias been changed from imprisonment to exile because of his ill health. Carnegie has offered 120,000 to Mattoon. 111., and $25,000 to Stllwater. Mimi., for library buildings. la>rd ltoseberry has written nn address to the liberals, which is taken as his farewell to their party. William A, King of New Orleans, a brother of Grace King, the author, was asphyxiated at his houte in that city. The four-story salesrooms an I hide rrarehouac of Joseph Byrne & Co. lu St. Ism is. wus almost completely destroyed by fire. Loss $4. r >,ooo. Reeves Brothers’ boiler works at Alliance, Ohio, were destroyed by tire. Loss SIOO,OOO, with $40,000 insurance. Alfred Meredith, an employe, was fatally in J ured. Three boy bandits held up Agent Miller at Iloyne avenue station of the Metropolitan Klevnted road in Chicago and shot him in the arm, but secured no money. Austin Dobson, the British poet, lias resigned ns principal of the harbor and fisheries department of the Board of Trade ufter forty five years’ work In civil service. Fred Fourhrlm, a farmer of Bartlett. lowa, insanely jealous, murdered his wife, his (i-year old stepson, killed h.s favorite horse, set fire to his house ami committed suicide. The village of Warwick, Oat., has been almost entirely wiped out by lire. Twenty dwellings and stores and the Grand Trunk Railway station were burned. Loss $75,000, no insurance. During operations with a military balloon near SchluesHelburg. ©ti nu island in the Neva, Russia, the balloon exploded and biased up. One person was killed and twenty were injured, several fatally. A posse organised at Big Bandy, Mont,, to capture three alleged horse thieves, ‘’Bucking Bill,” Fred Coniine and Pete Wulter, has received word that the three men were hanged by another posse ou the Missouri river, near Judith. The commencement exercises at the Ohio Normal university at Adn, Ohio, degenerated Into a big row between seniors • nil juniors. Willis Miller, on trial at Upper Bandusky, Ohio, for murder, attuekisl court guard in attempt at escape and was asMiaU'd by brother and sister. He was overpowered after a desperate fight. The United Htates Vehicle Manufacturers' Association, with Cincinnati ns headquarters, wan incorporated ut Columbus. Ohio, to bnnd the vehicle manufacturers of the country together for mutual benefit. . .

EASTERN.

Town of LineoLn. X. J., was sold at auction for SIO,O<X). % Joseph Cratner, ng.ed 75, was arrested in Philadelphia charged with having seven wives living. Spanish steamer Uriarte No. 4 ran on Winter shoals, near Lewes, Del., and broko in two, but all on hoard were paved The Massachusetts Republican convention will meet at Boston Oct. 4. Gov. Allen of Porto Rico will be invited to preside. A multitude saw Carlisle I). Graham make his fifth successful voyage through the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls in u barrel. The condition of Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the President of the Coufed eracy, who is ill at Portland, Me., is reported greatly improved. An explosion in an excursion boat in the Susquehnnna river at the foot of Market street, Sunburj, Pa., killed two boys and injured twelve other persons, two fatally. A farmer named McGrath, living near Brockport, N. Y., killed his wife and then committed suicide. Their bodies » were found in a field. They havo five children, all under 10 years. In Washington the grand jury after several weeks' investigation returned an indictment for murder against Mrs. Ida Bonitic for the alleged killing of James S. Ayres, the young census clerk. The excursion steamer Puritan was burned at its <lo"k at Buffalo. The entire upper works were destroyed, and it will not he possible to repair the boat for this season's business. The damage is estimated at SIO,OOO. James J. Callahan, formerly register eierk in the Springfield, Mass., postofliee, who left June 2, taking with him a number of registered packages and letters, returned from Europe and gave himself up to tile authorities. The Ilyde family of Plainfield, X. J., has incorporated itself. Hereafter the $3,000,000 estate left by Charles Hyde will be known ns the Union County In vestment Company, with his widow, hi* four sons and his daughter as the six stockholders.

Solomon linns, a miner living at YYi>burton, I’a., shot his wife in the back and then sent a bullet into his heart. He died instantly. His wife may recover. Haas was insanely jealous and often threatened to kill his wife because she spoke to other men. Four masked men entered the hotel of Peter Hoke at Yorkville, Pa., and encountered the proprietor and Michael Ritxell and George A. Wnchter, guests. During the fight which followed one of the robbers was shot and killed and Mr. Hoke was wounded in the leg. Three burglars made their escape., A west-bound local freight on the Nickel Plate Railroad, containing two cars of stone to be left at a bridge near Springfield, Pa., undergoing repairs, caus ed the bridge to collapse, and the entire train plunged through, carrying with it the crew and gang of workmen. Five men were killed and eight injured. Cornelius Vuuderbilt, Jr., has achieved another success in his career ns nn inventor. The engineers of the New York Central Railroad thought so well of his boiler and fire-box inventions that upon their advice the company has just placed an order for 1(10 locomotives to be built with the Vanderbilt improvements. A combination of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the American Steamship Liu», the Chesapeake and Ohio, a licet of ocean steamers sailing from Newport News and the majority of the shipping of the great lakes is said to he the object behind the conference recently held in New York by J. I*. Morgan. M. A. Hanna, C. M. Griseom, A. J. Cassatt and I*. A. B. Wideuer. /

WESTERN.

Missouri midgets, weighing forty-sev-en nnd forty-five pounds, were married. Tile postoffice in Weston, Ohio, was robbed the other night of $5tK) in stamps and S3O in cash. Pickpockets robbed about twenty Epworth Leaguers nnd left them stranded at Colorado Springs. John Costain was killed near New Albany, I ml., by Joseph Turner while trying to kidnap Mrs. Turner. Robert 11. (lively, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, was found dead in his room in Spokane, Wash. Alonzo 11. Stewart, doorkeeper in the United States Senate, was married at Atchison. Ivan., to Miss Grace Bliss. •* Peter Smith, a wealthy farmer of Bainbridge. Mich., was assassinated by nn unknown man who was hidden in a field. Christopher Anderson, who shot himself on the grave of his wife at Nebraska City, Neb., is dead. He was 70 years old. A tire at Mountain View, Okla.. destroyed un entire block. Loss $05,000. About fifteen business houses were bullied un. A mob at Kansas City, gathered to lynch negroes suspected of assault, marched through streets rioting and beating blacks. Local showers fell in portions of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Illinois and Oklahoma, affording temporary relief from the drouth. John Book waiter of Ohio calls the American farmer the uncrowned king of Europe, nnd says nil surplus product will bring high prices. At Albany, Mo„ some children fed dynamite to a pet frog and upset n tool chest on him; one child was killed aud another badly hurt. Dr. 11. Finley Helrnes, a dentist of Lincoln, Neb., has been sued for SIO,OOO for breach of promise by Miss Louise Lacey of Chicago. Drought in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota and lowa has damaged crops to the exteut of hundreds of millions .of dollars. A magazine of dynamite, located near the Grant smelter, Denver, Colo., exploded, killing Domenico Muto and Touy West, and injuring several others. Paul Hague, known as Prof. Zeno, an aeronaut, was fatally injured at Islan 1 i Park, Springfield. Ohio, falling 200 feet. | The parachute failed to open, and he fell into a cornfield. At Hamilton, Ohio, Judge Fisher Issued an order perpetually enjoining the striking machinists from maintaining pickets uround the plant es the Niles tool works. He held that the obvious

purpose of picketing was lawless Intimidation. Fire during the night destroyed the business portion of Huntsville, 111. Four stores, a blacksmith i shop and fire residences were burned. Totul loss, $20,000; partially insured. Chicago hns a population of 2.080,000, and is bigger by 70,000 persons than a year ago, if 4ht* basis upon which the Chicago Directory Company has computed the census is correct. At Delphos, Ohio, fire broke out in the yards of the St. Louis and Western Railroad early by a lump being overturned in a caboose. Ten ears burned containing baled cotton and wood pulp. The mangled body of Maj. Cyrus Huiter, a prominent farmer of Carey, Ohio, was found along the Big Four Railroad south of Carey. The theory is that he fell asleep on the track and was struck by a south-bound freight. The body of the man reported killed near Welch, I. T., by a train has been identified as that of Joseph Hnllora, son of J. 11. Hulloui, a wealthy cattleman of Nacogdoches, Texas, it is believed he was the victim of foul play. South-bound passenger train No. 1 on the Kansas City Northern connecting railroad came into collision with an extra Rook Island meat train at the crossing one mile north of Weatherby, Mo., killing one man and injuring six other persons. Alfred B, Kittredge of Sioux Falla, has been appointed by Gov. Herreid to till the vnoancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of James H. Ivyle. He will serve until March 4. 1903, the date when Senator Kyle’s term would have expired. Fred Yoelker, a laborer at the United Salt Company’s works in Cleveland, was caught under an avalanche of coarse salt. Thousands of-pounds of the saline mass buried him. He was taken out after two hours’ work and died without regaining consciousness. Richard S. Berlin, a well-known real estate dealer and manager of the Berlin Investment Company of Omaha, has filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy tiefore Judge Munger in the federal court. His liabilities are listed at $51,900.(12. His v assets amount to $570, part of which is exempt. Joseph Bartley, former State Treasurer of Nebraska, convicted of the embezzlement of an amount variously placed at from $500,000 to $750,000, and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary, has been released by order of Gov. Savage, who paroled him to C. O. Whedon, Bartley's attorney.

Forest fires are raging in two sections of Colorado, and it is feared they Will destroy a vast amount of property before they can be controlled ami extinguished. One of the fires is on the banks of Chalk creek, in Chaffee County, and the other in Larimer County. Both are said to be in timber on school lands. Robert Prange, whose business cards represent him to lie the manager of the Sehlitz Hotel at Omaha and manager of the Sehlitz brewery agency at that point, murdered his wife near Lake Contrary, Mo.. and then committed suicide. Prange’s wife had left him because of his dissolute habits uud cruelty toward her. A sensational suicide was discovered at the Palace Hotel iu Cincinnati. The self-slayer was I). A. Russell of Pomeroy. judge of the Circuit Court and a hank president. Nothing whatever is known of the cause. He left a sealed letter nddressed to his wife upon which was a special delivery stamp. He killed himself with a revolver. The Santn Fe Railroad has decided to use oil for fuel in its locomotives as fust as possible. The Beaumont product will be given a trial. A number of locomotives have been turned out of the shops at Topeka, which will run ou the main line of the road and burn oil. The Santa Fe has 135 oil burning engines on its lines in Southern California. Four blocks of business houses on the public square at Enid, Ok., were destroyed by fire in less than three hours' time. The water supply was inadequate, and it was necessary to blow up buildings \frith. dynamite to cheek the Humes. Owing to the continued drouth, everything burned like matchwood. The total loss is estimated at slightly over $100,900. The body of Lee Wing, a Chinese who was murdered last March by highbinders, was boiled in an iron caldron at San Jose, Cal., by order of the county authorities. This process was considered necessary in order to obtain the sixteen bullets which were fired into the man. They will he used us evidence iu the trial of Look Lee, alleged to be one of the nssussins. Raving under an insane spell, Ned Hartley Copeland shot and killed A. I*. Rogers on a Union Pacific train. The crime was committed near Wamsutta, Wyo. Copeland is the defaulting teller of the Nebraska National Bank of Omaha, and has been pursued by detectives since September, 1890. Rogers was a transportation agent for Swift & Co., and lived at St. Joseph, Mo. Breaking glass at the plate glass works in Kokomo, Ind., indicted terrible injuries on five of the ten men who were carrying the sheet upright from the annealing oven to the grinding table. Tinplate, which measured 122 by liK) inches and weighed 2.2(H) pounds, broke and mine showering down on the heads and shoulders of the workmen. All five will lose their arms if not Iheir lives.

SOUTHERN.

Will Nolan shot and killed A. H. Palmer at Auding, Miss. They were rivals in love. Julia Trabue, a negress, was sentenced to be hanged Nov. 15, at Louisville, Ivy., for stnhbing nnd killing her lover. Fire damaged the McDougal furniture store at Laurinburg, N. C., to the extent of $70,000. A portion of the town is in ruins. The Delta Notional Bunk and hulf the business portion of Cooper, Texas, was destroyed by fire. Loss $55,000, insurance about half. As the result of a dispute over crops Joseph Treadway, a farmer of Tipton County. Tennessee, killed Adolph Stafford, u neighbor, with n hoe. Another calamity has befallen the Lone Star State. Port Lavaca, on Luvaea Bay. has Ween destroyed by a severe gulf storm. The loss of life is heavy. At a Jewish picnic on Danfuskie Island, thirty-three miles from Snvaunnh, Ga„ six persons were drowned. The parties were ia bathing in a heavy surf

and got beyoDd their depths. A hi|b wind and strong tide swept the boliea to sea. Two Italians were killed and another was seriously wounded at Erwin, Miss. The three had been living near Glen Allen, but on account of some trouble were ordered to leave the community by the citizens. They went to Erwin, a few miles distant from Glen Allen, and decided to locate. While they were ualeep the three were riddled with bullets.

FOREIGN.

China is said to have granted Italy a concession at San Mun Bay. Memorial of Commodore Perry’s landing in Japan was unveiled at Kurihama. Young wife of William S. Wedge, nn American, was drowned at Stratford-on-Avon. It is reported King Edward will sell much old furniture and brie-a-brac from the'royal palaces. , Lord Kitchener indorses the charge that British wounded at Vlukfontein were murdered by the Boers. Miss Hamilton, an American, has been given the degree of Ph. D. cum laude by University of Heidellierg. A eublegram from Rivn, Italy, announces the death of Mrs. Brown, wife of Justice Brown of the United States Supreme Court. Captain Mayo of the Germun steamer Tanis, from Hamburg for Montevideo, cables that his vessel ran ashore at Punta Mogotes and is a total loss. Her passengers and crew are proceeding to Montevideo A fire at the West India docks in London, destroyed a number of huge sheds and their contents. The amount of the damage dene is estimated at £250,000. Sugar and timber warehouses were involved in the conflagration. The custom house was damaged, but the vessels in the docks were removed in safety. The Cologne Gazette publishes a dispatch from Seoul, Corea, saying that bloody conflicts, extending over a period of ten dnys, have occurred on the island of Quelpart between Roman Catholic missionaries and their pupils and the populace of the islaud. Fifteen of the natives anil about 300 of the .mission pupils are reported to have been killed during the encounters.

IN GENERAL.

The Minnesota, which was Commodore Goldsboro’s flagship in the famous battle with the Merrimae at Hampton Roads, has been ordered stricken from the uaval register and will be sold at auction. Federio Errazuriz, president of Chili, who had been iu feeble health for more tlian a year, is dead. Seuor Errazuriz was elected president of Chili June 25. 1890, for a term of five years, which began Sept. 18,1896. Officers of the Burlington Railroad are considering a plan for the pensioning of their company's employes. No definite system has been adopted and consideration of the subject has not passed the preliminary stage, but that the corporation will adopt some sort of a way for providing for aged and disabled men. The census office has issued a bulletin concerning the urban population of the country. It shows that 28,411,698 people in the United States live in cities and towns of over 4,000 population. Thia is 37.3 per cent of the entire population, a gain of almost 5 per cent since the census of 1890, when the percentage was 32.9. General business continues its even course, with all the leading Industries well employed and with confidence expressed on every hand. Bountiful crops of wheat seem ussured, and the damage to corn, while cousiderable in some directions, does not promise to he suffl ciently general or serious to nt all impede the progress of the country. Labor troubles are in process of settlement, and speculators have been responsible for most of the unrest which has been reflected in the markets. The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. It continues: Steel mills are actively employed, and there is n distinct improvement in the demand for finished products, while quotations are without alteration. In bars for use by makers of agricultural implements there is a brisk movement. Plates are taken readily and there is no sign of diminished purchasing in structural material. Rails |are ordered freely, with notable pressure for trolley and other light weights. Failures for the week numbered 208 in the United States, against 196 last year, and 27 in Canada, against 24 last year.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $0.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, title to 07c; corn, No. 2,46 cto 47c; oats, No. 2,30 c to 31c; rye. No. 2,50 cto 51e; butter, choice creamery, 18c to libs eggs, fresh, 12c to I3c; potatoes, new, 75c to 85c per bushel. ludianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light. $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, ernmuou to prime, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2, Ole to 02c; corn. No. 2 white. 4t(e to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 310 to 32c. St. Louis—Cattle, $5.25 to $5.80; hogs. $3.00 to $0.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2, ti3c to 04c; corn. No. 2, 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2,33 cto 34c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $0.15; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50: wheat, No. 2,04 cto 05c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 49c to 50c; ents, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 50c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $0.10; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,07 cto 08c: corn. No. 2 yellow, 47c to 48c; oats. No. 2 white, 34 c to 35c; rye, 52c to 53c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 05c to 00c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 2,50 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, $0.50. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 00c to 07c; corn. No. 3,47 cto 49c; oats. No. 2 white. 34c to 350; rye, No. 1,51 c to 52c; barley. No. 2,54 cto 55c; pork, mess. $14.25. Buffalo—" Cattle, choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $5.90; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to SO-.35; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $0.25. New York —Cattle, $3.75 to $5.80; hogs, $3.00 to SO-8#; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; whent, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2, 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2 white, 35c to 30c; butler, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, neatera. 13c to 15c.

STEEL STRIKE IS ON.

TIN-PLATE, SHEET AND HOOP MILLS ARE IDLE. Nearly ioO.OOO Men Go Ont, end Big Combine Properties Are Closed—Unless Union Is kecosoized Every Plant in Billion-Dollar Trust Will Quit. The strike of the members of the Amalgamated Association employed in the tin plate, sheet and hoop mills, which was ordered as a result of the disagreement between the conferees of the United States Steel Corporation and the Amalgamated Association, was generally observed in the Pittsburg district Monday morning. At the mills where the strike order extended the skilled workmen who nre under the control of the union failed to put in an appearance, or, if they did go to the mills, it was merely as spectators, and with no intention of working. This promises to lie the greatest labor war in the history of American industries. All of the steel workers in three big branches of the lMllion-doliar steel trust are affected. These are the American Steel Company, with 28,000 men; the American Steel Hoop Company, with 24,000 men, and the American Tin Plate Company, with 23,000 men. Thus at the outset 75,000 men are affected and should the strike extend to all the other plants of the combine 250,000 workers will probably be idle within a short while. Early reports received at the general offices of the Amalgamated Association were meager of details, but indicated that the strike order was being observed at all mills of the tin plate, sheet and hoop combines. This strike bears a resemblance to the \ historical Homestead strike in 1892 in that it is not a question of wages, but of recognition of the Amalgamated Association. The manufacturers refuse to grant this demand, and say that the individual contracts with workmen which are in force ut a number of the plants must stand. The Painter mill of the American Steel Hoop Company is shut down. The men have joined the Amalgamates! Association. The Lindsay & Met 'uteheon plant of the American Steel Hoop Company in Allegheny is idle and the Star and Monongahela plants of the American Tin Plate Company nre closed down. The Painter and Lindsay & MeCuteheon plants have been looked upon by the officials of the United States Steel Corporation as the strongholds of non-union-ism in the hoop company. The prompt action of President Shaffer in thus early forcing the fighting anil carrying it into the enemy’s onmp was looked upon as evidence that the strike will be one of the most spirited of Pittsburg's history. President Shaffer was pleased with the reports from the two strongholds, and he declared that not a wheel would turn in either the Painter or Lindsay & MeCutcheon works until the strike was settled. He said that the Painter plant was pivotal with respect to the other nonunion plants of the steel hoop company, and that the men elsewhere had promised, if the Painter plant would join tfoe strike movement, there would be no trouble organizing the remainder of the plants. He said that there was no doubt that the men would respond, as they have been anxious to join the general movement and were held in check and kept nt work by the direction of the Amalgamated officials.

President Shaffer said that the movement would be carried to the other plants not now recognized by the combine as under the wing of the association. He looked for a general response to his strike order, as the men have been waiting just such a command since July 1. He declared the men were prepared to fight it out on the original lines "until doomsday.” Chicairo Motdera Quit. About s>oo iron moldcrs who think their services are worth a minimum wage of $3 a day walked out of Chicago foundries Monday morning because their employers refused to pay more than a maximum scale of $2.85. As a consequence the molding departments of most of the local establishments are idle and will remain so probably until a long and bitter struggle has decided which is the stronger, the workman or the man who employs him. a

IS EDUCATION BAD FOR WOMEN?

Dr. Hall Sara Too Mncb of It Unfits Them for Matherhnod. President G. Stnnlev Hall of Clark University caused a sensation before the council of education in Detroit by declaring that higher education unfitted young women for wifehood nnd motherhood. Another statement that stirred his auditors was that boys should be allowed to use slung freely. On the higher education of women Dr. Hall said: "Do not misunderstand me. I consider woman fqlly as broad nnd ns worthy of cultivation of the highest kind as man. She is broader in spirit and more in touch with the human race as a whole. “It may even be that woman, like the female in many other species, ih becoming stronger and more numerous, forcing man to the puny, insignificant animal that is seen in lower species in the male, but the woman of higher education, as it Is given at present, will not become the mother of the future race.” This doctrine met hot opposition from Col. P. W. Parker of Chicago. Col. Purker said: “The day may come when this idea of education will go into effect. 1 don’t know when, but I do know, thank heaven, that before that day I shall be dead and gone. “I have seen something of this foreign iden of the education of women. I have been at nn nffair in Germany where the men gathered in one part of the room to talk philosophy and the women in another to talk like silly geese. I prefer the American woman.”

Telegraphic Brevities.

Philadelphia hospitals treated 179 July 4 injuries. Broom corn trust has boosted the price to $l2O a ton. Twenty business houses, Polo, Mo., burned. Loss SIOO,OOO. . Capt. R. P. Hobson believes he will live to see Independence day celebrated in every nation. A Santa Barbara (Cal.) man has ovei one thousand tartles, with which he expects to stock a “turtle ranch” In that county.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

The machinists' strike is fading out ia some cities, and' does not interfere seriously with business except Tho failure of the Amalgamated Association and the steel combine to reach an agreement at their recent conference is a more serious matter. It may have far-reaching I '- and disagreeable consequences, affecting the stock market as well as the iron and steel industries. As yet only sheet steel, steel hoop and tin plate mills are involved. The extension of the strike to all tho union plants controlled by the United States Steel Corporation will not merely decrease the earnings and depress the securities of that great- corporation, but will interfere seriously with manufacturers who look to it for their supply of raw materails. The business interests of the country will suffer if the conflict between capital aud labor which has begun shall spread beyond its present limits and be long continued. Speculative markets attracted great interest during the week. The growing apprehension over the. unpromising condition of crops in the Southwest was reflected in a sharp selling movement on the New York Stock Exchange. Other factors of great importance entered into the decline which characterized the trend of stock quotations during the .week. Foremost of these was the tightening of the market for money for speculative purposes. The threatened rate war between Western railroads, which uppeared likely to break out, has been averted. The roads have settled their differences and will “begin again’’ on a peace basis. Besides these influences on the surface was the evidence that the community of interest plan has not been rounded out to a sufficient degree to prevent ruptures between the large banking firms in New York which have been dictating the policy of the railroads. A vulnerable point in the community of interest principle is disclosed when the few Wall street interests now dominating the railroad situation of the country do not agree. Minority stockholders may be safeguarded against loss of their investments by rate wars, but the market values of their securities are apt to dwindle much more rapidly when financial magnates “fall out,” as a rumor of disturbed harmony between Messrs. Morgan and Rockefeller revealed last week. ___ ... In its general movements the New York stock market is a fairly accurate barometer of business conditions, even though it presents the extreme of every situation, but special conditions which govern stock market prices do not always affect the total business of the country in an appreciable measure. The harm to crops means severe loss to farmers in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and’Texas, and perhaps in other States unless timely rains save the crops. Reports of eueh damages are almost invariably exaggerated, and the trouble is local in character. Still it means a decrease in railroad earnings. Money for commercial uses holds firm. The margin of loanable funds in the country has been absorbed steadily until it is nearly exhausted, and any abnormal demand would cause an instant tightening of rates. The outlook points to a higher money market. General mercantile business and manufacturing industries, other than those affected by the labor troubles which*have been referred to, show a steady gain.

OLD TIMERS

Mrs. Maria Allen of Elyria, Ohio, is the oldest living member of the Woman’s Relief Corps, and preparations are nl-

ready being made by the order for the celebration of her 100th birthday. Mrs. Allen's father was murdered at Lisbon. Portugal, while sailing out of New York as master of one of the old time sailing vessels, and every one of her five sons

MRS. MARIA ALLEN

went to sea as soon as he was big enough to tie a rope. Mrs. Allen’s mind is clear and her memory of events stretches back more than seventy-five years. She recalls distinctly the enlistment of volunteers for the war of 1812. In 1833 Mrs. Allen traveled from New Y'ork to Ohio with her husband and family in a iunves top wagon, spending more than a month on the road. She is one of the oldest surviving pioneers of Ohio. A unique double distinction belongs to “Zeeke,” nn old Indian woman who liven at Neah Bay, Wash. She is said to be

not only the oldest but also the ugliest person of her own or any other race on the Pacific coast, if not in the world. As to her great age, there are no positive proofs, but a single glance at her photograph is sufficient to establish

her rightful title to the second distinction. She was boro at Ncah Ray, where she has lived ever sin e, and Indiana who are now more than 70 years old say that when they were born “Zoeke” wa already nn elderly woman with grow n children. Hiram Cronk, the last male pensioner of the War of 1812, still lives nnd drawn his pension in the tow-n of Avn, nino miles from Boonville, Oneida County, N. Y. He was born in Frankfort, Herkimer County, N. Y., April 29, 1800, and in September, 18)4, he enlisted in what was then called the mass militia. The apartment of John Brown, Queen Victoria’s favorite servant, which was kept ’ closed by hor orders for eighteen years after his death, is being converted into a billiard room for the present tenants of Windsor.

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