Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1901 — Page 2

JASPER. ffIJNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RcNSSFLAER, - • ffIOIAMA

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Frank, the 12-y«ar-obl nod of Mr. mid Mr*. Schulz of South Bend, Ind., was kidnaped by unknown men. 'The parcn s supposed the boy had gone to bed, nn I did not miss him until the next morn.ng, when his abduetiou was reported to the police. The Mauitoulin mail strainer JoEn Long, bound oat from the mainland with many passengers nnl the mails for the islands in Georgian Bay, burned in Meldrtint Buy. All the passengers and < rew escaped, although some of them we: c ► lightly burned. At Noblesville, Ind., the Christian Church was almost completely wrecked by an explosion of natural gas. Flumbers were putting a meter in the basement of the edifice, when the gas ignited from a match. Doras Granger mid Frank Shannahau were badly burned. 'Die commander of the German fleet maneuvering in th- Baltic t «-h-gr.ipln<l from Sassnitz, Island of llugen, that the third-class cruiser Wacht had been sunk off Arkona after having been in cidlision with the battleship Sachsen. Late advices show that there was no loss of life.

Three men were killed and three others seriously injured in n landslide til the new Lake Shore bridge over the boulevard entrance to Gordon Park, in Cleveland. Seven hundred tons of earth, loosened by the flood, suddenly slid down from the bank, burying a force of lalsirers working on the bridge. On the very spot where Gen. Cornwallis was defeated in a battle with the colonia 1 t roops under coin maud of G en. 'Vashitigton on Sept. 3, 1777, just 121 years ago, and where the Stars an I Stripes were first unfurled in battle, a handsome granite monument was unveiled at Cooeh's Bridge, Del. Emporia, Kan., narrowly escaped destruction by fire. As it is, the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Sprague’s pinning mills, Randolph's coal yard ami ice plant, and several residences and barns were destroyed. The total loss will foot up over S6O.(XM). The fire, it is alleged, was started by a spark front a switch engine. Following is the standing of the chibs in the National League: W. L. W. L. I’ittsburg ...66 41 Boston 54 59 Philadelphia (W> 47 Cincinnati .. .44 62 Brooklyn ...64 51 Chlcag 69 St. Louis. ...61 52 New York... 43 65 Standings in the American League arc as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....70 44 Philadelphia. 58 55 Boston 66 48 Washington. 49 62 Detroit 61 53 Cleveland ...48 65 Baltimore ...57 53 Milwaukee ..43 72

NEWS NUGGETS.

George Yatshenof lias been indicted in Alaska for the murder of three wives. Three Filipinos appointed on the commission for governing the islan I have assumed their positions. A registered mail pouch was stolen from the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton limited mail train at Lima, Ohio. President McKinley has accepted an invitation to review the naval parade during the G. A. It. encampment at Cleveland. An unknown man was stabbed to death on a freight train between Elkhart and Wauseon, Ohio. The motive apparently was robbery. New Jersey wife rifle I her husban l’s pockets, took s*'.oo and lost it. She appeared in court, but under law her husband could not prosecute. Charles C. Anderson and Andrew Fearson were killed at Eveleth, Minn., by the premature explosion of a charge of dynamite in the Fayal iron mine, Robert Gregory, widely known as a baseball pitcher, nt one time with the Chicago League team, was killed by the cars at Bloomington, 111. His home was in Hammond, Ind. A mosquito bit<*, nt first no larger than a pin point, has temporarily deprived Frank Cook, a Burlington, N. .1., young man, of the use of both hands, and serious results may follow. The Kaiser has received the apology of China for th«* murder of Minister von Ketteler. Kolemu ceremony marked the fulfillment at Potsdam of Prince Chun's apecinl mission of expiation. Because she refused to marry him, Carmini Pieardi. aged 25. shot and killed Lucia Pasquale, aged 15 years, in the sight of her mother nt her home in Philadelphia. Then he blew out his brains. Miles E. German, a carpenter of Corning, N. Y., shot his wife in the head with n revolver, inflicting wounds from which ►he died two hours later. He afterward killed himself with the same weapon. The body of Sarah Waldron, 30 years old. was found near the old fort at City Point, Me. The woman apparently had been strangled to death and there were indications that the body had been dragged to the spot where it lay. George Belcher of Brooklyn, well known us an expert and fancy swimmer, was drowned at Broad channel, Rockaway Bench. He was giving an exhibition in deep water of bow a swimmer could carry a person on his buck. After n conference with mediators from the Civic Federation, President Schwab of the steel combine offered concessions to President Shaffer of the Amalgamated Association to secure settlement of the big strike, but his terms were rejected. Two miners, Joseph Josiski and Charhs Finck, were killed by an explosion of gas in n Lehigh an! Wilkesbarre company shnft at Pittsburg. Pa. Miss Marjorie Young, eldest daughter of Maj. Gen. 8. B. M. Young, command er of the department of California, and Dr. John A. Gibbon of Philadelphia were married at Kan Francisco. As the result of a drunken quarrel nt Jackson. Ohio, John Anderson was shot and will probably die, while Keth Pinken received a bullet in the shoulder. They were returning home from work and were set upon by n gang of ten miners.

EASTERN.

The Union paper mill* at Monongahela City, Pa., were burned. Loss £50,000. The powder mills at Krebs Station. Pa., were totally destroyed by a terrific explosion, and two men were instantly killed. j By the collapse of a false roof over the United States Supreme Court room at the capitol in Washingion several men were badly injured. Sixty guests at Hiram College alumni banquet .were stricken with typhoid fever from drinking froip an old well on the campus. Two have died. Despite the season, hail fell to the depth of two feet in the ridge above Ligonier, Pa., and it is believed Edward Miller, a farmer, was frozen to death in the terrific storm. The steamer Ticonderoga, belonging to the Champlain Transportation Company, plying between Baldwin and Caldwell on Lake George, was destroyed by fire. No lives were lost. ■■■ -—-———— George M. Foster, former cashier of the failed South Danvers National Bank of Peabody, Mass., pleaded guilty to making false entries and misapplying the funds of the institution. Rev. Walter Lowrie, assistant to Rev. Wilson Merle Smith, the Central Presbyterian Church of West Firty-seventh street, New York, was drowned at Newport, It. 1., while bathing. The collapse of a three-story frame building at Bloomfield and Center streets, Hoboken, resulted in the death of George Koerner, bartender in the saloon on the first floor of the structure. An accommodation train was derailed nt the station at Fairville. N. Y.. Engineer William Mesher of Sodus Point was killed, twenty-eight persons were injured, two of whom will probably die. The Rankin Hotel at Rankin, Pa., was destroyed by fire. The flames spread so rapidly that the guests barely escaped with their lives and lost almost all their dothing. The loss was about £IO,OOO. Robert M. Wilson, formerly owner of lhe R. M. Wilson Bath Tub works in Rome, N. Y., was shot mid almost instantly killed with a revolver in his own hand at his summer home at Sylvan Beach. At Walpole, Mass., two then were shot and seriously wounded as the outcome of a quarrel between Fred L. Jenks, marhinist, ami Myra Belle Spear, a young woman with whom he had been keeping company. Ada Gray, who gained international reputation as Lady Isabel —hr "East Lynne,” died at the Home for Incurables at Fordham, N. Y., where she had been since .Inn. 15, a sufferer from locomotor ataxia. Several persons Were injured in a collision between a north-bound passenger and a freight train on the Schuylkill Valley Railroad, near Spring City, Pa. One of the freight cars was loaded with oil, which caused a tire and explosion. The destruction of the Hotel McKee, a frame structure in the East End, at Pittsburg, resulted in the loss of one life, injuries to four others and the narrow escape of many more. The fire was caused by the explosion of a gasoline stove. Three lives were lost and nine people wore badly burned in a fire which started In an old four-story frame tenement at 219 Graham avenue, Williamsburg, N. Y. The fire was started by a woman trying to .replenish the fuel ia an oil stove while the wick was afire. Sued by the wife of her coachman for alienating the man’s affection, Miss Maud B. Wetherell, one of the wealthiest belles of Gloucester, Mass., refuses to say anything about the matter, which has caused a great sensation. Mrs. Martin Magnusson brings the suit and places damages at £3O,(MX).

WESTERN.

In Nan Francisco Mrs. Arthur C. Rudolph shot and killed her husband and then killed herself. Jealousy was the cause. Boys playing ball in an Omaha lumber yard unearthed #<l,ooo stolen from a driver for the First National Bank five years ago. Fire destroyed the Mount Vernon, Mo., elevator, causing a loss of #50,000. The elevator was filled with grain, all of which was destroyed. The First National Bank of Columbus was the successful bidder for the issue of #O,OOO municipal bonds of Montpelier, Ohio. The price paid was #<5,834. An unprecedented downpour of rain at Cleveland, Ohio, flooded streets, wrecked houses, tied up railway service and inflicted damage of almost #1,000,000. Ralph Hanmeter and a young man named Stottler were struck by a Wabash train near Modico, Mo. Hanmeter was killed and his companion injured. The Gate City Carriage Company of Winona, Minn., assigned to C. A. Morey without preference. Nominal assets are given as #35,000 nnd liabilities #20.000. James Younger, one of the notorious bandits now out on parole under life sentence, is to marry Miss Alix J. Mueller, formerly society editor on a St. Paul paper. A freight train broke in two on a steep grade in Montana and crashed into a passenger train over the Great Northern, killing thirty-six persons and injuring thirteen. Because his father had punished him. George Hull, aged 12, lay down on the Hocking Valley tracks at Fostorin, Ohio, and let a train run over him. He was the son of a laborer. Congressman J. A. Tawney of Winona, Minn., while playing golf, was seriously injured in the left leg, just below the knee, a ball driven by another member of the club having struck him. Negotiations have been completed nt Milwaukee for the absorption of the National Exchange Bank by the Wisconsin National, of which the millionaire brewer, Captain Pabst, is the head. Henry Bronson committed still It in Salt Lake City the other day because of poverty. AftFr the act was committed, an attorney arrived and announced that the man had inherited a fortune. Albert Buchanan nnd Ira Evans, boys, were overcome by gns while exploring a deserted coal mine at Kirksville, Mo., and asphyxiated. Their bodies were recovered after several hours' search. Al Cross Plains. Mo., John Ktrickland, a farmer, shot nnd instantly killed h.’s eoi-ln-law, Elwing Chandler. Strickland

surrendered, but as it was a clear case of self-defense, he will not be prosecuted. A call has been issued for a convention in Guthrie Oct. 12 of all persons in Oklahoma named Smith, to effect an organization for an annual reunion. It is estimated that there are 2,000 Smiths in the territory. William Johnson, a four-year convict, committed suicide at the State penitentiary at Lansing, Kan., by drinking a large quantity of alcohol. He was Bent up from Dodge City and had three years to serve. Rosa Pride and Mintlie Smith, both aged 18. of Clarendon, Ark., agreed to end their lives because of disappointment in love. Miss Pride took laudanum and died, but Miss Smith failed to carry out the compact. Little Boy, the brown gelding purchased by F. G. Jones, beat the world's record for wagon pacers with amateur drivers on the Washington Park track in Chicago by going a mile in the remarkable time of 2:03 3-5. The Indiana State board of charities completely exonerated insane hospital officials in its report to the Governor on its recent investigation. The board declares tiiat no sane persons are now confined in these institutions. Judge Clark of the United States Court at Cincinnati issued an injunction against 450 strikers formerly employed ia the steel mills at Ironton. Ohio, restrain-’, ing them from picketing the plant or interfering in any way with the compaay. The steamer City of Clifton sank in nine feet of water at landing No. 76 on the Missouri side in the Mississippi river, not far from Murphysboro, 111. The seventy passengers cs aped in safety. The cargo of lumber and peanuts was partially lost. The four-story warehouse of the 11. M. Hooker Company in Chicago, filled from basement to roof with glass of every grade, was burned the other night. The damage, as estimated by Mr. Hooker, amounts lo £50,000 ta the stock ami £12,000 to the building. On a recent night, for the third time within a year, an attempt was made to wreck a Minneapolis and St. Louis train near New Ulin, Minn. The north-bound passenger train rati into a pile of ties on the track, and four other piles were found within a mile. In an accident due to a spreading rail on the Southern Railroad at Fireworks station, four miles from East St. Louis. Frank llaefle, chief ear inspector of the road, lost his life, Elmore Drumm, fireman, was fatally and Scott Mulconnery, engineer, seriously injured. Katherine Hotz, daughter of Jailer Hotz, prevented the success of an attempt to deliver thirty-three prisoners from the Madison -County jail at Edwardsville, 111., made by James Johnston, under indictment for murder. The girl discovered the men in the act and her screams brought aid. Horse thieves visited the ranch of A. C. Huidekofer near Medora, N. D. They made off with provisions from the storehouse, saddle horses from the corral and 100 full-blooded Normans from a nearby pasture. They started southward, but were attacked by men from the Carey Cattle Company and compelled to abandon the stolen horses. An immense cavity in the earth 250 feet below the surface was struck by oil drillers at Dalton, Ohio, and into this bus poured the water supply of the village. Wells at surrounding farms have also been drained. The drillers say the only hope of regaining the water supply is the possibility of striking a subterranean lake below the cavity. The business portion of Dougherty, lowa, burned Sunday night. The fire originated from spontaneous combustion in the wareroom of Swallow's drug store. When the fire spread to the hardware store and into the powder, Iteuzine and gasoline the flying embers were thrown all over the town and nothing could be done to prevent the spread of the flames. Tlie total loss reached £44,(MM), with £28,500 insurance. Severe storms have visited southern Arizona almost daily for the past ten days. Railroads from Sonora and Bisbi e, connecting with the Southern L’acifie, are paralyzed. A large bridge was washed away near Fairbank on the Arizona and New Mexico Road. A body was seen floating down the river followed by a buggy. A storm which was al-, most a cyclone visited Tucson, tearing off several roofs ami demolishing the gas works. All rivers are raging torrents. The jewelry store of Bernard J. Hagatnaiin in Chicago was entered by a gang of safe blowers, who escaped with booty valued at nearly £S,<XX). The burglars drilled holes in the door of the safe and with an explosive it was torn from its binges. Mr. Hugamaim's entire stock was in the safe, and everything was taken with th'? exception of a few watches owned by railroad men. Besides the jewelry Hagamnnn lost £7(M). The robbery whs not discovered until Mr. Ilagamann went to his store to open it for the day's business.

SOUTHERN.

Prvsly Vanhonser, constable, was shot anil instantly killed at Hand Springs, Ala., by a man uumed Kerstein in a difficulty about some peaches. A 13-ycar-old negro boy was sentenced to life imprisonment in Louisiana for killing a rival of the same age. Both lads loved a 12-ycar-old negro girl. A negro, Dick Hill, who killed Ed. Barry, a white man, in Philadelphia, Miss., was killed nt Summerville, Miss., while resisting arrest at the hands of a posse of 100 men. Allen Richards, George Fortner and Nam Ray were fatally burned by the accidental upsetting of a converter containing several tons of molteu copper at Ducktown, Tenn. Mrs. Fannie McGill, carrying n baby in her arms, was run down by u trolley cur at Birmingham, Ala., and mother and child were mangled to death, being dragged half a block under the car.

FOREIGN.

The Colorado beetle has been found in a potato patch at Tilbury, England, Consul General Ho Yow may succeed Minister Wu Ting Fang, if latter Is transferred to Ixmdon. British ship Cromartyshire, which s.ta'x the Botirgoyne, caught fire at sea and was abandoned. Captain drowned. Dr. Krruse, former Mayor of Johannes-

burg. South Africa, has been arrested in London, charged with being a Boer spy. The new Danish ministry has decided to accept the United States’ offer of 16,(MM),000 kroner for the Danish West Indies. The will of the late Empress Frederick was opened the other day in the presence of her relatives and the legal advisers. She loaves 1,000,000 murks (£2SO,(XX)) to each of her six children, including Emperor William. A plot to assassinate Emperor Francis Joseph is believed to have been thwarted by the arrest at Debreczin, in Hungary, of an anarchist. The prisoner gave the name of Johann Nagy, and refused all further information about himself. He is an Austrian. Official statistics show that the wheat crop in France will be short again this year. The consumption, amounting to 830,000,000 bushels, usually is amply supplied from the home product. Last year's crop was short 30,000,000. This year the forecast is for a still smaller yield.

IN GENERAL.

Sampson's name heads (he list of witnesses summoned for the Schley court of inquiry. Gen. William Ludlow, hero of two wars and former military governor of Havana, died of tuberculosis at Morrjs town, N. J. Information of a reliable nature has been given out to the effect that the Santa Fe road has purchased the Kansas Southwestern and that the change in management will take place Oct. 1. The London Central News says the engagement is announced of Miss Helen Morton, a daughter of ex-Vice-l’resident Levi P. Morton, to Count Boson de Perigord, the second son of the Prince of Talleyrand. So great has the demand for canned salmon become in the United States that no shipments will,be made of this season's pack from Puget Sound to England. American winners are selling their total pack at home. William IL Hunt, formerly associate judge of the Montana Supreme Court an J latterly secretary of the Island of Porto Rico, has been appointed governor of that territory by the President, to succeed Charles IL Allen. The Interior Department has been advised of the completion of the government sale of town lots in the town of Hobart in the newly ceded part of Oklahoma. The aggregate amount paid for all the lots sold was about £132,000. The City of Seattle, from Skaguay, brings news of the hanging at Dawson of George O’Brien for lhe brutal murder of Lynne Rolfe, Fred Clayson and Lineman Olsen on Christinas day, 1899. O'Brien protested his inno.ence to the last. The st < anter Frithjof reports that she successfully landed the Baldwin-Zeigler Arctic expedition at Camp Zeigler in latitude 80.24 degrees north, and longitude 55 degrees east. This is on Alger Island. All the members of the expedition were in good health. The steamer Solace brings the news that the buildings of the stockyards company in Honolulu were destroyed by fire and seventy-five fine horses were burned to death. Three cottages also were consumed. The loss by tire, which is supposed to have been of incendiary origin, was £IOO,OOO. "Even in cotton goods, which have been the slowest to respond to the vigorous tone of domestic trade, the past week has brought distinct improvement. Pressure at Fall River being removed, theprint cloth market became strong, while in the bleached goods division the gains were still more pronounced,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade. Continuing, the report says: “August opened with the commercial sky overcast by storm clouds thnt threatened serious injury to the steel industry, while drought in the Southwest aroused pessimistic predictions that business was on the verge of a severe setback. Thousands of idle strikers, together with a profitless season in agricultural regions, meant inactivity in manufacturing, trade and transportation, according to the prophets. Instead of these calamitous conditions, however, the month ends with a horizon that is almost clear, and each day resumption of work at an idle mill adds to the productive capacity, while canceled orders for merchandise from dealers in the drought section are rapidly reinstated.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, #3.00 to #<1.00; hogs, shipping grades. #3.00 to #0.85; sheep, fair to choice, #3.00 to #3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 7lc; corn. No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats. No. 2. 32c to 34c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 14c; potatoes, new, 80c to VOe per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. #3.00 to #5.75; hogs, choice light, #4.00 to #(>.45; sheep, common to prime, #3.00 to #3.50; wheat, No. 2. 07c to 08c; corn. No. 2 white, 58c to 59c; oats, No. 2 white, new, 3<>c to 87c. St. Louis—Cattle, #3.25 to #5.91>; hogs, #3.00 to #0.40; sheep, #3.00 to #3.50; wheat, No. 2,08 cto tftle; corn, No. 2, Me to 55c; oats, No. 2,30 cto 37c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Cincinnati—Cattle, #3.00 to #5.50: hogs, #3.00 to #0.55; sheep, #3.00 to #3.25; wheat, No. 2,71 cto No. 2 mixed, 50c to 57c; oats, No. 2 mixed, lew, 37c to 38c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, #2.50 to #5.15; hogs, #3.00 to #0.25; sheep, #2.50 to #3.75; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 54c to 55c; oats. No. 2 white, 3<ic to 37c; rye, 53c to 54c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 57c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 34e to 35c; rye, No. 2,03 c to 55c: clover seed, prime, #5.90. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern. GBc to 09c; corn. No. 3,54 cto 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 37c: rye. No. 1,58 c to 54c; barley, No. 2,00 cto 01c; pork, mtss, #14.32. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers. #3.00 to #5.25; hogs, fair to prime. #3.00 to #0.80; sheep, fair to choice, #3.00 to #3.50; lambs, common to choice, #4.50 to #5.85. New York—Cattle, #3.75 to #3 90; hogs, #3.00 to #o.<o; sheet), #2.50 to #3.80; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c- corn, No. 2, 00e to 81c; oats. No. 2 white, 39c to 40c; butter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, westera, 14c to 17c.

CROPS LOOK BETTER.

MOIST WEATHER REPORTED IN NEARLY ALL SECTIONS. Late Corn PrayticaLy All Safe and Will Soon Be Out of Banger from Frost— Yield Is Not ns Good as It Should Be Apples a Scarcity Everywhere. The weekly crop report issued by the Agricultural Department gives the following summary of conditions throughout the country: While the weather conditions of the week have been generally favorable in a majority of districts, heavy rains (in some places excessive) have injured the crops and retarded work in portions of the South Atlantic and gulf States and dry, hot weather has been unfavorable in the Missouri and upper Mississippi val.eys ahd~on North Pouffe <otst. Extreme heat and drought in localities of Oklahoma and Texas have also been de.r.niental to crops. Co >1 weather has retarded the maturing and drying of fru’t m California anl light frosts occurrel iu Nevada. Late corn continues to show improvement, although it was injured by drought and heat in portions of Kansas; has suffered further decline in Missouri and needs rain in Nebraska. In lowa corn is maturing rapidly and the cutting ot early planted is general in all sections of that State and Missouri, and the more northerly sections, and is progressing rapidly in Kansas. Further i.npro.e ment in late corn is reported from th? Ohio valley, but it has suffered injury by floods on lowlands iu Tennessee. Reports indicate that the bulk of the late corn will be safe from injury from frosts by Sept. 15 to 20, but that some l iter fields will require until Oct. 1 to fully mature the crop. Spring wheat thrashing continue-; with generally satisfactory yields, except i.i North Dakota, where they are Lgitt an.l of poor quality, the berry being shrunken and bleached. Another generally unfavorable week fin cotton. Continued complaints of fits. anl shedding are received from the greater portion of the eastern and central sections of the cotton belt, while Arkansas nnd Oklahoma report injury from premature opening, hi Texas the early cotton continues to open, and is being r.ipi Uy picked, but the bite crop is greatly deteriorated and in a critical state, with complaints of lust and shedding, l icking, while retarded in Georgia anl portions of Florida, is in progress in n?arly all sections, and with favorab.e weather will soon be general. Favorable reports con erning to'nrco are received from all sections except Maryland, where it is not curing satisfactorily, and Virginia, where the y'.ell is variable. Cutting is genera), and the bulk of the crop is in shed in Wisconsin. The condition of apples still con inu.s unpromising in nearly all sections. Soinimprovement is reported from Kansas and fair to good crops are indicated in portions of Arkansas, 11 in;,is, Indian i and West Virginia; elsewhere apples are scarce and generally of poor, quality. Soil conditions are favorable for plowing and seeding, which are in progrem and usually well advanced in all districts except in Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma, where the work has been retarded by drought, and in portions of Virginia, where it was interfere 1 with by wet weather.

Crop Reports by States. Missouri- Warm week, with on'y light scattering showers, very unfavoraule f r corn, and crop suffered rur.her dei-i.ne, cutting becoming general; bulk of < r p safe from frost Sept. 15: cotton doing fa:r.y well, picking commenced; p.owlug gt-nerahy s. s pended: app.es fair crop in some lo.a.itics; poaches better than expected. Illinois— Dty weather most of week, but crops have improved; late corn has greatly Improved, especially In northern district; it will be out of danger from frost by Sept. 30, and much of it by Sept. 20; broom corn gen erally good; stock peas and pastures much Improved; potatoes and gardens i«>or: 1 gat crop of apples, but good in some localities, other fruits fair to good. Indiana—Rainfall fairly well distributed, insufficient in districts or central and southern portions: much corn s;ll) green, seasonable autumn will materially increase prospective yield, bulk of crop safe by Sept. 21 to 25; noticeable tobacco improvement in southeast portion: cutting in Elkhart nnd Randolph Counties; tomatoes, late cucumbers. and vegetables promising; fair to good apple prospects; peaches, jiears ahd piuius plentiful; sorghum Improving; plowing continued; usual wheat acreage. Ohio—Warm weather: showers general but light lu west and southwest; eariy corn being cut In west and south, safe fisun frost Sept. W; Inte corn Improved, growing nicely, safe from frost Sept. 22; much plowing done; pasture* In good condition; late potatoes improved tn north, not prom lung in central an.l south; tobacco doing well, some cut; late, peaches improved; apples poor; clover seed being harvested; fair yield. Michigan—General showers, beneficial to corn, pastures and late potatoes; fodder and early corn being ent; late corn well eared, ? lazing generally, promising and will be safe rotn frost about Sept. 12; late bean harvtst begun; sugar lieets continue premising; soli In fine condition for plowing, which is well advanced; rye seeding begun In northern counties. Wisconsin—Corn maturing rapidly, some fields In southern section In shock, bulk of crop will be safe from frost by Sept. 15;' late potatoes somewhat Improved, but crop generally light and quality poor; bulk of tobacco crop in shed; pastuns r-hort. .Minnesota- Light to moderate rains well distributed evening of 28th, reviving pastures, gardens, late corn and late potatoes, but more mln needed: stacking finished end shock thrashing progressing well; much flax still uncut In mirth: early com being eut, snd late corn ripe by 15th; potatoes and apples poor. lowa—Week warm and dry, with few light showers; corn inatuilng rapidly, and cutting; early planting In general lu all sections: bulk of the crop will be In shock or fully matured by Rept. 20. but some lute fields may need till 30th; ralu much needed for grass and potMoes. Nebraska—Wnnu week, with heavy rain In western counties, and light showers In milern; plowing and seeding has been retarded by the dry condition of the soil: baying progressing nicely In northern counties;'late corn needs rain; most of the late corn will require until Kept. 25 to be beyond Injury by front. Kansas- Corn Improved In northwest, Injured by drought and heat elsewhere; cutting progressing rapidly: first Into corn safe from frost Kept. 15, last Oct. 1; apples Improving. fair crop; peaches ripe, g mml crop; pastures good went, needing ruin central nn I east; baying progressing, yield light. Routh Dakota—Warm, ami except north east and extreme west, rnln needed for potatoes; some late coni, imstures and plowing; thrashing and haying progrewtng nicely: flax harvest well advanced; corn generally doing well: estimate crop rafe from frost Kept. 10 to 15; considerable early now ripening and cutting In progress. Oklahoma and Indian Territories—Cotton, owing to extreme heat, opened prematurely, and wus greatly damaged; picking In general progress; Kattlr, late corn, cane nnd hay being eut: late crops and pastures revived some by local rains, but still suffering; wheat sowing and plowing In alow progrtss. Bamnel H. Klusser, Hanover, Pa., says a copperhead snake charmed him. Hit wife killed It before It tackled him.

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