Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1901 — Page 2

JASPER. COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • * INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

In Springfield, Ohio, the First Congregational Church was demolished by an explosion. It is supposed that a leak in the natural gas pipes filled the auditorium with gas, which reached the furnace and was ignited. The building cost >BO,OOO. A. C. Vosburgh, a horse jockey, while making preparations to commit suicide at Lincoln, Neb., suffered an attack of apoplexy and died before he could swallow the poison. Physicians state that the excitement of preparing for death broughtl on the attack. The American Bridge Company has secured the contract for the steel superstructure of the Wabtisli Railroad's big cantilever bridge over the Ohio river at Mingo Junction. The amount of the contract is over $600,000. The whole cost of the bridge will be $1,000,000. Michael McLaughlin, aged 62, who during Cleveland's last term as President was manager of the White House stables and at one time the city jailer and a well-known politician of Lexington, Ky., committed suicide in that city by cutting his throat with a razor. 11l health was the cause. D. P. Wheeler, cashier of the Citizens' National Bank of Akron, Ohio, was found dead in front of the vault in the bank. He had been killed by an electric shock through handling a socket of an incandescent lamp and opening the vault door at the same time, thus forming a fatal current. . _ At Cheyenne, Wyo., eighty members of Company F. Eighteenth infantry, were poisoned while eating breakfast, and for a time over half of them were in danger of death. The post surgeon was hurriedly summoned and administered an antidote. The surgeon examinctl the food served at breakfast and is of the opinion that the poison was in the beef. A freight wreck occurred shortly after noon on what is known as the big trestle, three-quarters of a mile south of Ridgeton, Tenn., on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The first section of train No. 67 jumped the track while on the trestle and plunged down 130 feet into the valley below. The engine and entire train went over. Three men were killed. United States Indian Agent Randlett, for the Kiowa nnd ComifnchA tribes, is sending out notices to all persons who have staked mining claims in Indian allotments in Oklahoma that they must vacate at once or they will be ejected from Fort Sill. The action is based upon the opinion of the Attorney General, approved by Secretary Hitchcock, and sent to the agent tinder recent date, prohibiting miners from filing on Indian allotments. Railroads with headquarters in Omaha are considering the project of reseeding all the western ranges. The preliminary portion of the scheme involves extensive experimenting with the cultivation of different range grass seeds. .The plan Includes the ranges of Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada nnd Idaho. The railroads expect the government to aid. The different States to be benefited will also lie asked to contribute a share of the general expense. The fire in the Champion Coated Paper Works at Hamilton, Ohio, which started late Sunday night was not under control before 3 o’clock the next morning. The loss is placed between $750,000 and sl,000,000. It was the largest plant of the kind in the United States and employed more than 400 persons. A stock of $250,000 worth of enameled book and magazine paper was destroyed. There was also a loss of a great quantity of valuable machinery. The fire was caused by the explosion of a can of gasoline in the hands of John Kopp who was using it in cleaning the machinery. Kopp was severely burned. The plant is owned by a company of which Peter G. Thompson of College Hill is the largest stockholder.

NEWS NUGGETS.

A. G. Spalding of Chicago announce* that he will not net as president of the National League pending decision of the court. Schooner Eliza 11. Parkhurst of Gloucester, Mass., with eight men on board, has been posted as missing, and is believed to have foundered in gale of Nov. 23. Charles M. Miers, superintendent of the City Park nt Portland, Ore., was thrown in front of a street car at Upper Albina by a runaway team and instantly killed. The steamer Sun, employed in the Memphis and Fulton trade on the Mississippi, was burned to the water's edge in the harbor at Memphis and four lives •were lost. Official announcement of the appointment of Gov. Leslie M. Shaw of lowa to aucceed Lyman J. Gage as Secretary of the Treasury has been made from the White House. ■Hie Missouri, Kansas and Texas north-bound passenger train was wrecked and completely burned six miles south of Dallas, Texas. Three persons were injured, but no one was killed. Soldiers st the Presidio, San Francisco, engaged in a riot growing out of a ■tabbing and fought with the police who attempted to make arrests. Six officers were injured and sixteen soldiers arrested. Maclay has refused to resign as nn employe of the navy, and President Roosevelt immediately ordered his discharge. It is hoped in Washington that the controversy over Schley will now be permitted to die. Jerry O’Donald, arrested at Lorain, Ohio, for being drunk, while trying to light his pipe set fire to his clothing and burned to death in his cell. The Shawmut, the first of twelve 11,-000-ton Atlantic freighters being built for the Boston Steamship Company, has been launched from the Maryland Steel Company's yard at Sparrow’s Point. . Henry Siegel, on return to New York from abroad, admits that he is considering establishment in London of department store on American lines, and that Sir Thomas Lipton may be associated jrlib him in the venture.

EASTERN.

Members of a certain Harvard secret society suspended a skeleton from the top of a flagpole. The Hyatt School Slate Manufacturing Company’s plant at Bangor, Pa., burned. Loss $60,000, partially insured. By a vote of 503 to 120 the conductors and motormen of the Union Traction Company in Philadelphia decided not to strike. Maj. E. S. Horton, president of the Massachusetts Association of ex-Prison-ers, presided at the dedication of the Massachusetts memorial tablet erected on the site of the old prison at Andersonville, Ga. Ernest Sapoli, former steward on the steamship La Gascogne of a trans-Atlan-tic line, was sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment in New York for attempting to bribe an immigration Officer to pass certain immigrants as citizens. State Superintendent Victor Collins of New York has announced another innovation in his conduct of the State prisons. Hereafter the inevitable haircut which every convict had to submit to upon arrival in the prison will be discontinued. John G. Milburn has been threatened with assassination. An anonymous letter threatening the life of the President of the Pan-American Exposition Company is now in the hands of the Buffalo police, and detectives are attempting to find the writer. Reginald Claypole Vanderbilt celebrated his twenty-first birthday Friday. He is tlie youngest son of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt and in addition to the income from a trust fund of $5,000,000 comes into possession of $7,500,000 under the will of his father. The plant of the Marion Manufacturing Company fronting on Erie Basin. Brooklyn, was destroyed by tire, and James Hall, nn aged laborer, perished in the flames. The fire started in a big tank of crude glycerin, and, communicating to other chemicals, there was a series of explosions. Charles P. Chipp, formerly a bookkeeper employed in the office of collector of assessments and arrears, a branch of the Comptroller’s office in New York, has been arrested charged with stealing $30,000. Chipp is 50 years old and has been an employe of the Comptroller’s office for several years. There was a stir on State street, Boston, when it was announced that certificates of stock aggregating above $33,000 in value were stolen from the office of a prominent brokerage firm last September. The fact had been kept secret until now in the hope of recovering the certificates through private channels. Following the disasters at the Soho furnace of Jonas & Laughlins on Thursday and at the Black Diamond steel works Friday, Pittsburg was shocked Saturday morning by of another explosion at SingeHrimick’s west end plant of the Crucible Steel Company of America, in which seven were scalded, one badly cut and twenty or thirty others slightly burned. David A. Nicoll of Baltimore, Md., claims to have discovered a process for dissolving glass and to have recovered one of the lost arts of enameling possessed by the ancient Egyptians. By means of a chemical solution Nicoll has succeeded in rendering glass soluble and has converted it into a liquid form which can be applied to articles and surfaces with a brush like paint or any other pigment. At least five men were killed, twelve were injured and many are missing as the result of the explosion of four boilers at the Black Diamond steel works, Thirtieth street and the Allegheny Valley tracks, Pittsburg. It was about 4:15 a. m. when tho night crew was about to turn over the mill to the day force, that four boilers in the ten-inch bar mill No. 3 exploded with terrific force. The mill was wrecked and the debris is piled from fifty to seventy-five feet high. The boiler works of Janies McNeil, adjoining the Black Diamond mill, also were destroyed. A force of men went to work as quickly as possible after the explosion, searching in the debris for bodies. Five dead and twelve injured have been removed. The dead have not Jyon identified and the bodies are at the morgue. The mill had sixty men on each turn, and it is thought that almost 120 men—both crews—were in the plant at the time of tho explosion. By an explosion of gas in the Soho furnace of Jones & Laughlins in Pittsburg nine men were burned to death and probably twenty others were more or less painfully injured. The damage to the plant will amount to $20,000. The explosion occurred in one of the large blast furnaces. The men were at work at the top of the furnace, over 120 feet from the ground. They were employed as tillers and were just getting ready to leave work, being members of the night crew, when the gas, which accumulated in the furnnee, exploded nnd tons of molten metal, cinders nnd slag were thrown over the unfortunate men on the top of the structure. When the gas exploded there was a panic on the small platform at the top. The men made a rush for the elevator, but it had gone down and there was no escape. To jump meant death, and to remain on the platform was as certain a doom. The tons of molten metal and flames fell upon them and burned ten men to death. Their bodies dropped to the roof of the mill, eightyfive feet below.

WESTERN.

George Bennett, a war veteran, was frozen to death at Camden, Ohio. A son was born to Mrs. Frederick Funston, wife of Brig. Gen. Funston of Kansas, at Oakland, Cal. A. 8. Kirgan, residing near Amelia, Ohio, was found frozen to death within forty feet of his home. He was 66 years old. Alexander Gunn of Herington, Knn., died in Abilene from the effects of cold weather. He claimed to be 116 years old. C. E. Hnyward has been held without bail at Lincoln, Neb., charged with murdering former Representative John J. Gilillan last August. Andrew Carnegie has offered Canyon City, Colo., SIO,OOO for a public library, and the library association has accepted the condition imposed. The coroner’s inquest nt Parsons, Kan., disclosed that Col. John K. Bull nnd wife, who were found dead in their home, were asphyxiated by natural gas. At noon the bank at Springdale, Ark.,

waa robbed by one man. He compelled the assistant cashier to give him all the money in sight, about $7,000. Fire destroyed the Nonpareil Hotel, King’s drug store and the residence of Henry Lohman at Helena, Ark., entailing a loss of $75,000, partiaHy insured. J. H. Glover, secretary of the Jewett car tvorks at Newark, Ohio, was found dead in his office with a bullet hole in his head. It was evidently a case of suicide. Operation has been performed on Gen. Alger of Detroit for relief of old trouble caused by gall stones. Patient rallied quickly and hopes for his o recovery are expressed. Avery Breeen, aged 25, of Claremore, I. T., was killed, and Richard Brumback lost one hand and part of his arm by the premature explosion of a blast in a Joplin, Mo., mine. The State Bank and eight other buildings have been burned at Francis, I. T., the loss being estimated at $60,000. The fire also destroyed much business property a t Stennet, 1. T. The safe in the county treasurer’s office at Atwood, Kan., was blown open and $1,500 taken. The explosion drew officers to the scene in a few moments, but the cracksmen had escaped. Six persons were more or less severely injured in nn accident to a west-bound Madison street cable train at the Clinton street entrance to the Washington street’tunnel in Chicago. At Canyon City, Colo., two daughters of Mrs. James E. Ewing, respectively 6 and 4 years of age, were burned to death in a tire that destroyed the house occupied by Mrs. Ewing and her six children. W. J. Selvage, a young insurance agent, died at the city hospital, Portsmouth, Ohio, from a bullet wound in his stomach, the injury having been inflicted by Chas. Baker, who said his home had been broken up by Selvage. While suffering from an attack of violent insanity Dexter Knight, a ranchman living near Bryan, Idaho, killed his 5-year-old boy and severely injured two others of his children. Knight killed his son with the baby's cradle. North-bound Sunset express No. 9 of the Southern Pacific Railroad and Sunset express No. 10 from San Francisco collided near Salinas, Cui. A part of No. 9 was destroyed by fire. Two persons were killed and four injured. The State Bank of Gothenburg, Neb., was closed by order of the State banking board, nnd an examiner placed temporarily in charge. The bank is capitalized at $20,000, and at the time of its last report had deposits of $32,000. During a street quarrel at Spencer, Neb., William Parker fatally shot his father-in-law, Peter Hansen. The quarrel was over Parker’s wife, who has been living at her father's home for some time. Parker is under arrest. The new training school of the University qf Utah, with its entire contents, was destroyed by fire at Salt Lake. Loss SBO,OOO, insurance $35,000. The fire is thought to have originated from combustion of chemicals in the laboratory. The first public celebration in connection with the world’s fair to be opened in St. Louis in 1903 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Louisiana purchase was held Friday, when ground was broken on the site in Forest Park. Car ferry Muskegon was wrecked at Ludington, Mich., and life savers worked four hours in severe weather to rescue the survivors, thirty-three being taken off in the breeches buoy. One man is dead, having been scalded by escaping steam. Miss Wills Burger, a teacher in the public schools, was seriously burned in Friend, Neb., as the result of the ignition of a celluloid side "comb in her hair while she was standing near a red-hot stove. Nearly all the hair was burned off. United States Senator J. 11. Berry of Arkansas, while en route to his home at Bentonville, was badly injured at Newburg by a fall on the ice. Senator Berry has only one leg and walks with a cruteh. His crutch slipped and his fall injured his hip joint. Jury Alexander Sullivan of Chicago guilty of conspiracy to assist Bailiff James J. Lynch to escape justice and imposed fine of $2,000, one juror holding out against the other eleven who voted for penitentiary sentence. Motion for new trial was made. President Caroline Hazard of Wellesley College announces that J. D. Rockefeller has offered that institution $150,000 for a dormitory and a central heating plant, provided an equal amount is added to the college endowment fund from other sources before commencement day, 1902. Dr. W. L. Thompson, aged 74, of East Liverpool, Ohio, has been sentenced to two years in the Ohio penitentiary for causing the death of Ada Lou Moore of Duquesne, Pa., by an operation. Robert Winette was sentenced three weeks ago to the Mansfield reformatory for complicity. The State Normal School at Aberdeen, S. D., was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $20,000. The building was nearing completion, and was still in the hands of the contractors, N. P. Frazier & Co. of St. Paul, Minn., who will have to bear the loss, which is partially covered by insurance. In Omaha the grand jury voted true bills against 148 business men and others for keeping and maintaining gambling devices. The indictments are based on slot machines, and include prominent hotels, two political clubs, a score of druggists and over a hundred cigar stores and saloons. At Findlay, Ohio, Solomon Shafer, a wealthy farmer, has been sued for $25,000 damages by Omar Watson. Shafer is bound over to court on a charge preferred by Watson, who, while hiding behind the parlof organ, heard him make love to his young wife. Shafer is 70 years old. An attempt was made to wreck passenger train No. 6, south bound, on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, between Western Union Junction and Truesdell; Wis. The engine and the baggage car left the track and the passengers were badly shaken up, though none of them was injured. William (5. Hicks, editor of a bulletin issued by a commercial agency, was killed by an elevator in the Jefferson block in Chicago. Hicks had visited a printing firm upon the third floor and attempted to enter an elevator in charge of Jumea E. Burns. As Hicks was half way into the elevator the car suddenly dropped nnd, catching the unfortunate man be-

tween the floor of the building and the top of the elevator,'crushed him to death. The dead bodies of John F. Bull and his wife were found at their home in Parsons, Kan. Bull was a prominent real estate and loan broker, leader o>’ the Methodist Church choir, and was reported to be in comfortable circumstances. The bodies were lying on the floor, both stabbed to death. Indications point to wife murder and suicide. In St. Paul Christian Thomas Christensen stood in front of a mirror in his room at 12 o’clock Wednesday night, sang ‘‘Du Du, Liegst Mir Im Herzen,” and then fired a bullet into his mouth. He died instantly. Christensen had a saloon and a restaurant. His wife says that he had been under a doctor’s care for some years, and suffered with an abscess in his head. He had quarreled with his wife and divorce proceedings were ■ commenced. St. Louis faces a shortage of coal \7hich not only forebodes suffering for those whose supply is small, but which may result in a general tie-up of the transit companies’ numerous street car lines. Unexpected zero weather, slippery pavements that make hauling exceedingly difficult, ice floes and low water that have tied up the ferries, combined with other difficulties of transportation, have brought the supply of coal far below the urgent demands of the market.

SOUTHERN.

The home of Henry Davis, six miles from Jackson, Miss., was destroyed by fire. His wife and 2-year-old child were cremated. Remorse drove a crippled life convict to suicide by hanging at Nashville, Tenn. He was of a well-to-do family, but killed his brother-in-law and child while drunk. Dayton H. Miller, secretary and treasurer of the Crow’s Nest Coal and Coke Company, was shot and killed by a negro at Toms Creek, Va. The negro may be lynched. A block of business houses, seventeen in number, were destroyed by tire at Sweetwater, Texas. The loss is estimated at $150,000, partially covered by insurance. Anton Nelson, recently from Chicago, was found in Bayou Gayoso, near Memphis, frozen stiff and with a gash in his head. It is supposed he walked off the bank and sustained the injury in failing. The steamer Kanawha Bell, which runs between Charleston and Montgomery, W. Va., wept over lock No. 3 at Paint Creek on her down trip, broke iu two and is a total wreck. Eight of the crew, all deck hands and roustabouts, were drowned. All the officers of the boat were saved. Will Redding, Wife murderer, and Jim Winton, who killed his sweetheart, were hanged at Birmingham, Ala. Both were colored. Reuben Quinn was executed at Danville, Ky., for shdoting Officer John T. Crum, who tried to arrest him. Cicero Harris, colored, who murdered Samuel Waso last September, was hanged at Bristol, Va. The headless body of a man, identified by a gold watch as that of Prof. Chandler, a school teacher, was found beneath a mass of rock at Oak Level, Ala. Prof. Chandler lived in Limebranch, Ga., and taught school just over the Alabama line in Cleburne ( County. He was seen one day last October with $125 in money, and the next day disappeared. The preliminary trial of George W. Morgan, president of the defunct Continental Security Company, charged with the embezzlement of $25,000 and a check for the same amount, was brought to a sudden termination at Birmingham, Ala., by Justice Beuners, who refused to hear any further testimony and held the defendant to wait action by the grand jury. Charles Oscar Keller of Chattanooga, Tenn., after sixteen years of work, claims to have completed an invention which without wires will locate and indicate separating distances of ships within a radius of sixty miles and establish telephonic communication under all conditions, even under water. He will go to Washington in January to appear before Secretary of the Navy Long and foreign naval attaches.

WASHINGTON.

Secretary of the Navy Long has notified President Roosevelt that he will retire from the cabinet in the near future. Rush orders have been received from Washington directing that the cruiser Philadelphia sail from San Francisco with all speed for Panama. Affairs on the isthmus are approaching a crisis. Secretary Gage, according to a wellknown financier, will retire from the •President’s cabinet within a month and return to the banking business. Secretary Gage will neither affirm nor deny the report. The objection of Admiral W. T. Sampson to that portion of Admiral Dewey's report of the Schley court of inquiry, in which he says Admiral Schley was in command at the battle of Santiago and entitled to the credit for the victory, has been filed with Secretary Long. The President has personally reprimanded Gen. Miles for discussing the Schley case, and a further rebuke has been administered by the Secretary of War. Findings of the majority of the court of inquiry have been indorsed by Secretary Long, who dissolved the court, dismissed Historian Maclay and made it plain that the administration wants the matter dropped.

FOREIGN.

Ashtabula’s total ore receipts this season are 4,477,000 tons. This is 750,000 tons more than any former record for one port. The primary elections are over in Costa Rica. The official republican ticket won. There was considerable rioting at the polling places, but the disturbances were quelled by the police. In London the jury returned a verdict of guilty against both Theodore and Laura Jackson (Ann Odelia l|iss de Bar) charged with immoral practices and fraud. The judge sentenced Jackson to fifteen years’ penal servitude and Mrs. Jackson to seven years’ penal servitude. Both the London Times and the Post publish dispatches from Copenhagen which describe the growing agitation there against the sale of the Danish West Indies before a plebiscite has been taken. The correspondents consider it very doubtful whether the Danish Parliament will approve the sale of the isV ands.

MISS SARTORIS ENGAGED AGAIN.

MISS VIVIAN SARTORIS.

Miss Vivian Sartoris, the beautiful granddaughter of Gen. Grant, is said, on high authority, to be now engaged to Morton Nichols of New York. There is a long story in this simple announcement. Miss Vivian Sartoris has been engaged before. She has even been engaged to Morton Nichols before. Although Vivian Sartoris has had an English father and an English training, she has been affectionately appropriated tjy her mother’s country, and has fallen heir to the almost idolatrous devotion which was formerly offered to Gen. Grant’s Nellie, the “Daughter of the Nation.” She was engaged to Mr. Nichols, who is a member of J. Pierpont Morgan’s firm, when she met Archibald Balfour, a fine young Englishman. In a week she had broken her Nichols engagement and had promised to become Mrs. Balfour. Last July the wedding invitations were recalled. Now Mr. Nichols has been restored to the throne in her heart.

WILL PREVENT TYPHOID FEVER.

Prof. Novy of Ann Arbor Discovers a Wonderful Antiseptic. Prof. F. G. Novy of the University of Michigan has discovered a new disinfectant, which, it is asserted, will prevent all intestinal diseases £ich as Asiatic cholera, typhoid fever and dysentery. "Bentozone” is the name of the new antiseptic, which its discoverer and others who have seen it tested declare will revolutionize the treatment of certain diseases. An absolute intestinal disinfectant and antiseptic is the way the new-found preparation is described, and its effects upon five students who submitted to seven days’ experimentation have been truly wonderful. The students offered themselves as “subjects” upon whom the experiments might be made. After a week of constant analysis, during which they had nothing to eat and only sterilized milk to drink, the announcement is made unofficially that success attended the trials and a new weapon is given man to combat diseases. Dr. Novy’s “benzozone,” it is asserted, does what the healthy system does. It prevents the bodily poisons from developing disease. In time of susceptibility to these diseases it is a substitute for the bodily action and removes the cause of diseases.

OPERATION ON ALGER.

Extreme Measures Taken to Relieve the General. An operation was performed at Detroit upon Gen. R. A. Alger, who for some time has been suffering from gallstones. The* patient bore the ordeal well and rallied from the shock. Fear was felt as to the general’s ability to undergo the operation, but the malady had reached such a stage that drastic measures were deemed necessary. His physicians on the day following the operation agreed that he had an even chance to recover. The general was on the operating table an hour and a quarter. Six hundred newsboys contributed to the purchase of a floral tribute to be sent to him. Every Christmas for twenty years Gen. Alger has bought a suit of clothes for every newsboy in Detroit.

IN A NUT SHELL

Dawson advices tell of a great stampede that is going on to Mayo creek, in the Stewart river district. The jury in the trial of Claude Moore for the murder of C. L. Wiltberger, at Winfield, Kan., found him guilty of murder in the second degree. The Holland government has refused the request of Socialist members to take any action in regard to the Boer concentration camps in South Africa. The immigration restriction bill, which excludes from Australia all persons who cannot speak a European language, has passed the commonwealth senate. The committee on press and publicity of the World's Fair says that more than 100 national conventions have been secured for St. Louis, to be held during the summer of 1903. The Supreme Court of the Philippines has decided that Patterson, the English secretary of Sixto Lopes, may be deported. He will be sent from Manila on account of his connection with the insurgents. Enlisted men in the regular army are not barred from membership in the A. O. U. W. order, according to a ruling just made by Senator George H. Lamb, grand master workman of the Kansas A. O. U. W. A switch engine, sent out 'from Wagoner, I. T., to help a crippled engine, jumped the track a few miles from that town and killed Engineer J. L. Hutchinson and Brakeman Johnson. In the trial of Tom Powers-and Bert Casey, charged with the murder of William Choate, near Paul's Valley, I. T., the jury disagreed and has been discharged. The trial consumed a week. The Kansas State Board of Charities rejected all bids for supplying flour to the State institutions for the coming six months on account of the big advance in price over ths bids of six months ago.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

f~ “Holiday trade reached NPW York maximum this week, nearly all sections of the country repeating exceptional distribution. While the class of goods especially stimulated by Christmas deursod occupied the position of greatest prominence, general merchandise was not far behind in activity. Transporting interests were |ust beginning to overcome congested conditions when severe storms made the situation more complicated than before. In many industries it is not a question of finding buyers, but securing the privilege of postponing deliveries beyond the date originally specified,” according to R. <l. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade. Bradstreet's says: Retail trade has held the center of the stage this week, stimulated as it has been by the dual influences of exceptionally cold weather throughout the country and a rather more pronounced holiday demand, which promises to be of record-breaking character, not only as to volume but as to quality and grade of goods purchased. While jobbers in many lines,, notably shoes, clothing and rubber goods, report a good reorder business growing out of the above conditions, wholesale trade as a rule has been seasonably quiet, exceptions to this being noted in woolen goods, raw wool, lumber, leather, coal and last, but by no means least, Iron and steel in a myriad of forms. Nothing is heard of the’ usual conservative waiting for the new year's arrival to place business, and order books of leading producers are filled for long periods ahead. Hardware is in good demand at most markets. Tales of rate cutting at the West contrast strangely with reports of car shortage and incidentally returns of earnings, which show that fifty roads earned 8 per cent more iu the first week of December this year than they did last, while for the second week forty-two roads show a gain of $500,000 over the middle week of December, 1900. Again, October gross earnings of 105 systems increased 16.2 per cent on a total of $119,212,776, while net took on 20.5 per cent, the total being $46,092,955, as against $38,249,005 for October last year, when the coal miners’ strike held sway.

Conditions in the wheat ClliC3Qo market have assumed a : * more bullish tone, and those who had been bears and worked for lower prices for a week found it impossible to dislodge any amount of long wheat below 80c, and, although they forced the price down to 79c on two days, a 214 c advance followed, and the price Saturday was up to 81%c to 8114 c, and closed at 81c. It was at 81c a week ago, but broke to 79%c at the close. The net gain for the week was l%c. There is evidence (ft a tenacious country holding. The latter have made up their minds that wheat is going to bring more money, and with corn selling very high, they are keeping their wheat for an advance. The foreigner has bought Manitoba wheat largely at the seaboard, and has reduced the discount • under the American. This Manitoba wheat is moving freely, going from Winnipeg to the seaboard by rail, and is taken in preference to the American. We are nearing the period of increased consumption and depleting stocks, and on this basis the bull has the best of it. There was nothing but a scalping trade In coarse grains, and conditions have not changed from those of a week ago. The range on May corn was to 67%c, and oats 44%c to 45%c. The close in both was at a net loss of %c to %c for the week. Western offerings were small and shipping demand limited, although at the close Liverpool accepted small lots of corn for the first in a long time. Tho car scarcity both East and West has restricted the movement, and cold weather has also been a factor. The low temperatures, with snow on the ground, has increased consumption on the farms, and Western holders are indifferent sellers.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.73; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $6.55; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.15; wheat. No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn. No. 2,63 cto 64c; oats, No. 2,46 c to 48c; rye, No. 2,64 cto 65c; hay, timothy, $9.00 to $14.00; prairie, $5.50 to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 24c to 27c; potatoes, 71c to 84c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.90; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,81 cto 82c; corn, No. 2 white, new, 68c to 69c; oats, No. 2 white, 49c to 50c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $6.35; hogs, $3.00 to $6.35; sheep, $2.50 to $3.80; wheat, No. 2,82 cto 83c; Corn, No- £ 65c to 67c; oats, No. 2,47 cto 48c; rye. No.' 2,64 cto 65c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs. $3.00 to $6.40; sheep, $2.25 to $3.25; wheat. No. 2,84 cto 85c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 69c to 70c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2,69 cto 70c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $6.05; sheep. $2.50 to $3.50; wheatr-No. 2,83 cto 84c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 67c to 68c; oats, No. 2 white, 48c to 49c; rye, 63c to 64c. Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 84c to 86c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 66c to 67c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; rye, No. 2, 64 q to 66c; clover seed, prime, $5.75. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 3,64 cto 65c; oats. No. 2 white, 47c to 48c; rye, No. 1,62 c to 64c; barley, No. 2,62 cto 63c; pork, mess, $16.17. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.50; hpgs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $6.40; sheep, rpir to choice, $2.50 to $3.90; lambs, epaimon to choice, $8.75 to $5.70. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $5.75; hogs $3.00 to $6.00; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2, 69c to 70c; oats, No. 2 white, 53c to 54c; butter, creamery, 22c to 25c; eggs western, 26c to 33c. La&t week was an enormous one with Minneapolis mills, the output being next to the largest ever turned ont.