Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1902 — Page 2

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

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Marshall Field of Chicago, who owns 1 large tract of wheat land near Fairfield, Wash., and who has been holding until higher prices ruled, has sold 50,(MX) bushels at about 50 cents per bushel. This is the last large lot of wheat in the Palouse district. The Madrid Gazette publishes a decree establishing an eight-hour day for all working people on the state domains and in the state mines, workshops, etc., and providing that each hour of overtime is to Im* paid for at the rate of one-eighth Of the daily wage. The State School of Reform at Lexington, Ky., in which 287 children are confined, burned down. All the children are believed to have got out safely. At 1:10 a’clock the boys’ building collapsed. The feßtitHtlon was erected at a cost of sl<X),0. There are eight buildings. A force of Venezuelan insurgents, supported by the revolutionary steamer Bollver, captured the town of Juan Griego, •n the island of Margarita, aud afterward moved on the town of Asuncion, capital of the island. The Venezuelan government troops were defeated. Half a million of Ixmdon’s poor will be the guests of King Edward during coronatioa week. His majesty notified the mayors of the metropolis that £3O,(MM) was placed at their disposal, aud be invited them to make the necessary arrangements to entertain the very jtoor, to the number of 50tt,(MM>, at a dinner in celebration of his coronation. John Young was Ranged in the yard of the county jail at Mount Holly, N. Y., lor complicity in the murder of Washington Hunter, an aged and wealthy farmer, who was killed In his home nt Riverside the night of Jan. 25, 1901. Young made a confession in which he idmitted having led the murderers to the Hunter home, but denied having struck the blow. By a decision rendered in the State Supreme Court the trust clause in the will of the late James G. Fair, so far as it pertains to the personal property of his estate, is declared invalid and an order of distribution granted by Superior Judge James M. Troutt to the children, Charles L. Fair. Mrs. Theresa Oelrichs Ind Mrs. Virginia Fair Vanderbilt, is affirmed.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Grover Cleveland celebrated his sixtyfifth birthday anniversary Tuesday. Fifteen Russian students are reported to have been shot for treason at Lemberg. Missouri Supreme Court rendered a decision upholding the right of labor men to enforce boycott. W. J. Bryan celebrated his forty-sec-ond birthday by moving to his farm, where he will live in barn till new house is completed. The warehouse of the Ohio Farmers' Fertilizer Company at Columbus. Ohio, covering about two acres, burned. Ix>ss $60,000, fully insured. Gen. Ma has been defeated by the Kwangsi rebels, who have taken possession of Fangcheng. They have killed or pt tired all the mandarins and have looted the town. The Turkish government has made a flat refusal to repay the United States the $72,500 given to the brigands as a ransom for Miss Stone and her companion, Mme. Tsllka. The agreement between the dominion government and William Marconi for the establishment of a wireless telegraph station at Cape Breton has been brought to a satisfactory issue. Circuit Judge Fisher of St. Louis decided that the city was not responsible for the death of children from Infected antitoxin dealt out by the health department some time ago. Russia and France sent joint note to ths powers concerning the Eastern policy of the two nations. It is taken to mean the formal announcement of their alliance in Eastern affairs. Edward Green, husband of Hetty Green, known as the richest woman in America, died at his home in Bellows Falls, Vt. He had been ill a long time with a complication of diseases. In payment of a freak bet on the Mc-Goveru-Sullivan tight, Ed Dameron, a lumber worker, swam the Ohio river at Louisville, Ky. He was covered with Ice after accomplishing the feat. The laudsthing, the Danish upper house, in committee of the whole and in executive session, voted to ratify the treaty providing for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. Thomas E. Burns, veteran baseball player and manager, for eleven years one of the quartet of great infielders that marde the Chicago National League team famous, died of heart disease in New York. Harry A. Garfield of Cleveland, a son of Pr esident Garfield, has been offered the position of civil service commissioner to succeed William A. Kodenberg, resigned. Mr. Garfield declined the appointment. As a result of the revolution in Wudai, which was followed by tierce fighting, 'he Sultan, Ahmed, has been deposed and Mohammed Dudu, sou of the former Sultan Josef, has been proclaimed Bultan in hie stead. Lieutenant dropped at West Point for weakness in mathematics has returned wounded from the Philippines, where he fought fifty bolomen single-handed, killing three and holding the rest till reenforcements arrived. A sensation baa been caused in Vienna by the discovery of a plot to destroy the Austro-Hungarian warships Habsburg and Arpad, which are stationed at I’ola. A large quantity of dynamite was recently stolen at Trieste and the government has been informed by an anonymous letter that the Halmburg and Arpad were imperiled. Reese Evans and A. A. Smith fought a duel with Winchesters at eight feet distance at Purdy Station, Nev. Each received injuries from which death resulted. The qu*ml was over a strip of alxnost worthless land.

EASTERN.

Gov. Odell of New York has signed the bill increasing from ten to twenty-five years the punishment for attempt at murder. The American Bridge Company has secured the Pittsburg contract for the Wabash Railroad viaducts to cost $1,500.000. One of the dormitory buildings at Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia, burned, fire being caused by the upsetting of a lamp in a student's room. Boston's great industrial strike, which directly and indirectly kept over 40,(KM) workingmen out of work four days, has been officially declared off. Mrs. Catherine Soffel, wife of the Pittsburg warden, has been indicted on three counts, charged with aiding the Biddies to escape from jail Jan. 30. Andrew J. Watrous, a well-known New York newspaper man, committed suicide by shooting. He had been a sufferer from insomnia and had been under the care of a physician for some time. A man who registered at the Hotel Lafayette, Niagara Falls, as P. J. O’Connell of South Bend, Ind., jumped into Niagara river just above the Horseshoe falls and was carried over the falls. E. W. Bloomingdale of New York has been appointed temporary receiver for the firm of Eseewege & Cohn, Importers of fancy goods. The liabilities are said to be $91,950 and the assets $58,750. New York plumber fell through a manhole and was swept through three-quar-ters of a mile of sewer in a little more than two minutes, into the East river, where he was rescued without any ill effects. The refining building of the India Refining Company iu Philadelphia, manufacturers of cocoa butter, was destroyed by fire. There were 100,(XX) pounds of oil in the building. The loss is $00,000; fully Insured. William L. Elkins, Jr., died at his country home, “Menlo Lodge,” near Elkins Station, Pa. He was a son of the millionaire traction magnate and was himself prominently identified with many business interests. Capt. Eldridge of the Monomoey, Mass., life-saving station and five of his crew, who started to the relief of a distressed barge, were drowned by the capsizing of their lifeboat. Only Surf man Ellis of seven men who started escaped. John T. Stover was shot and killed by his wife Alice at their home in New York City. When she was arrested she told the police her husband had threatened to kill her because she would not give him money, and that she shot him to save her own life. During a fire which destroyed the main business block in the village of Pelham, N. Y., one life was lost and ten persons had Darrow escapes from burning to death. Many were badly injured by jumping from windows. Rudolph Yocum, 13 years old, was burned to a crisp in bed. Washington is to have what is claimed will be the largest and most beautiful railway station in the world. Plans for a union station to cost $0,000,000 and to be used by all the roads entering the city, have been submitted to the Senate committee on the District of Columbia by Daniel H. Burnham, architect for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Rupert Fritz, a chef who served the luncheon at Shooters' Island. New York, for the 2,000 persons who witnessed the launching of Emperor William's yacht, has assigned. Fritz says he borrowed a large amount of silverware from friends for use at the luncheon. In the rush for souvenirs nearly all the silverware disappeared before Fritz and his assistants were aware of the raid. Finding it impossible to make good his losses, lie decided upon an assignment. F. M. Osborne, former president of the Pittsburg Coal Company, the soft coal trust, is said to be at the head of a company that has purchased the product of the mines of the river combine in the Pittsburg district, which amounts to a million tons yearly. The firm of Osborne, Saeger & Co., which was absorbed by the Pittsburg Coal Company several years ago, is likely to be reorganized to compete with the trust in handling coal for this and other lake points. Four officials recently in the employment of the Pittsburg Coal Company have resigned to gp with Mr. Osborne.

WESTERN.

Booth Tarkington, the author, was nominated for the Legislature by Indianapolis Republicans. A section of the nnval arsenal at Valparaiso has been destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $1,000,000. Sixteen passengers were slightly and August Geiges severely hurt in Missouri Pacific wreck due to a broken rail near Sedalia, Mo. At Limn, Ohio, Mrs. Phoeba Grey committed suicide by hanging. She was 61 years of age and grieved over the loss of her husband. Reese Evans and A. A. Smith fought a duel with Winchesters at Purdy Station, Nev., and each received injuries from which death resulted. John Lawson (“the terrible Swede"), the well-known bicycle rider, died nt St. Joseph's hospital in Milwaukee, after a five days' illness of pneumonia. The Sigma Nu Medical Fraternity, in international convention nt Cincinnati, elected officers, Dr. William Walton of Chicago being chosen executive committeeman. Owing to inability to complete the Auditorium nt Omaha, Neb., the Christian Church convention set for thnt city in October will be asked to meet in some other city. Miss Vina Woodbury, a Methodist Sunday school teacher who lived nt Wesley Montgomery’s residence, committed suicide in Newark, Ohio, by hanging. She was 11) with qninsy. A trust deed for SI,(MM),(XM), running from the Dutch General Electric Company to the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, was recorded at Duluth, Mitill. Improvements nre planned. The grain elevator of Fueber & Ford at Mount Vernon, Ind., containing 75,(MX) bushels of wheat, was destroyed by fire, due to spontaneous combustion. Loss SBO,OOO, fully covered by insurance. The 12-months-old child of Gustave Brown Was by a large cat, which inhaled the infant's brenth while It was lying iu a carriage In the backyard of Mr. Brown's residence in Denver. Fire at 1:30 o'clock Friday morning destroyed the west barn of the Easton avenue sheds of the St. Louis Transit Com-

pany, together with seventy cars. The loss is estimated at $125,000, fully insured. At Litchfield, Minn., Frank Addy has been arrested and placed In jail, charged with the murder of Milton Gordon and wife, who were burned to death NewYear’s eve in their home four miles from there. John Howik, an employe of the National Steel Company, was killed by an engine at Youngstown, Ohio, and Michael Torain, an employe of the same company. was caught by a descending cage and killed. John D. Rockefeller has offered $25,000 for the endowment fund of William Jewell College at Liberty, Mo., provided $75,000 additional is raised by Jan. 1. 1903. College officials say the SIOO,OOO will be obtained. Fire destroyed two blocks of buildings in the business part of Winslow, 111. The bank, post office, fifteen business houses and several private residences were entirely consumed. The loss is SI2S,'KM), insurance SOO,OOO. An explosion in the powder mixing department of the Fairmount Manufacturing Company at 2294 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, resulted in the derith of one girl employe, while seven other persons were seriously injured. President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America addressed a meeting of miners and operators in Des Moines, lowa. He had spoken only a few moments when he was taken ill aud had to be assisted from the stage. Fire destroyed nearly half the town of Campbell, Neb. It started in a billiard hall ami in an hour, with a terrific wind blowing, burned the billiard hall, newspaper office, blacksmith shop, postottice, hardware store, drug store and hotel. St. Vincent’s orphan asylum, situated in the northern part of Denver, Colo., was destroyed by fire. There were 200 orphans in the institution. All were rescued unharmed. The asylum was conducted by the Catholic Sisters of Charity. The Cleveland City Council has passed the 3-cent fare franchise ordinance. There was no demonstration when the vote resulted iu 29 to 2 in favor of the passage of the measure. The franchise provides for about twenty miles of double track railway. F. E. Brady, the missing manager of the Imperial Savings Company of Toledo, Ohio, is declared to be a forger and defaulter to the amount of SIOO,OOO. This fact became known after an investigation by trustees of that institution. Brady Is thought to be in Chicago or South America. Larry McKee, a messenger of the Adams Express Company, to whom was intrusted a package said to contain $30,000 in treasury notes, is missing. He disappeared March 3, aud no trace ,of the money, which he was to carry from Brazil, Ind., to St. Louis on a Vandalia train, has been found. Mrs. Joseph Phillips and her two daughters, Florence, aged 12, and Margaret, aged 7, were struck by a Big Four train while crossing a trestle west of Springfield, Ohio. They were all thrown into Mad river. Mrs. Phillips and Florence were killed, but Margaret was only injured slightly. Sympathizers with the striking switchmen attacked non-union switchmen at Missoula. Mont., aud several shots from revolvers were fired, but no one was hit. Later the strikers themselves fought a pitched battle with the non-unionists, using coupling pins, rocks and clubs. Several were injured. Every member of the International Brotherhood of Painters. Decorators and Paperhangers in St. Louis struck for higher wages, 1,400 men being affected. The men want an increase of 60 cents a day for eight hours' work. The Master Painters’ Association decided to ignore the demand. Willard Smith, a young man of 20 years, who sought to blackmail a merchant of the town of Tillie, Neb., was shot nnd killed by one of a party of four men set to entrap him. He wrote an anonymous letter demanding money, which he went to secure, and, resisting capture, was killed. In Cleveland fire destroyed the fivestory brick building occupied by the Randall Mattress Company at 201-205 Superior street viaduct. The loss is $50,000, partly covered by insurance. Philip Stopel. foreman of the factory, jumped from a third-floor window. He suffered a broken leg and was injured otherwise. The old Lincoln farm in the heart of Lincoln City, Ind., is to be sold for delinquent taxes. Attempts have been made to turn the farm into a park, and ask Congress to make an appropriation for its purchase, and this may be done after the farm passes into other hands. The mother of Lincoln is buried on the farm.

Charles Kollo, n suspect arrested at Findlay, Ohio, made a confession that in a quarrel with his wife lust August he had struck her a blow that had caused her death. For months he had tied from the police and had been dodging about the country. The strain was too much, be says, and he was willing to suffer punishment. Two cars of the Kansas City-Leaven-worth electric line were dynamited at Leavenworth, Kan. One woman was injured. The first explosion occurred early in the evening on the line runring to Fort Leavenworth. The car was damaged beyond repair, one of the wheels being torn off and the motor ruined. A sixty-pound rail was split in two, Maj. McLaughlin has recently arrived nt Solway, Minn., from the lied Lake Indian agency with the announcement that a treaty has been signed whereby the Indians sell to the government eleven townships west of the agency for $1,000,000, one-quarter in cash within ninety days after ratification and the balance in annual $50,000 installments. Julia Itaymond, whose operations in Denver for the last six months have resulted in the looting of several houses, has been captured. Her plan was to hire as a domestic, and nt the very first opportunity loot the house of her employer. She is supposed to have cleared upward of $3,000 by her operations, which included only the most costly jewelry. Geronimo, characterized by Gen. Mlles as “the worst Indian that ever lived," Is at last to be liberated, and he may be given citizenship. This famous Apache chief, who has been called a “human tiger," has been n military prisoner at Fort Sill for fourteen years. He la 80 years old. and it 1s believed cannot cause the government any more trouble. Science Hall at the Montana Stale University was destroyed by Are. The Missoula Are department went to the

aceno, but was handicapped by scarcity of water and could do little to check the flames. "Kic hall was the second largest building on the campus, and was valued at SIOO,OOO. although the equipment it contained brings the loss to a much larger figure. Frank Dunn, grower of blooded cattle and one of the Vest-known farmers in northern Missouri, perished at his home near Westboro, Mo,, during a fire in one of his large barns. Several horses and cattle were inside the barn, and it was to release these animals that prompted him to rush inside and sever the halters. The roof fell in and Dunn's body was consumed. A legal point has been raised in the District Court at Butte,, Mont., which, if sustained in the upper court, will make it possible for the people of Butte to repudiate about $1,000,000 of debts. The District Court held that dealers In goods that have to be weighed who do not conform with the law requiring scales to be tested and stamped cannot coll*?! through the courts.

SOUTHERN.

Louisville health authorities will prosecute anyone who sells limburger cheese. “General” Washington, the negro convicted of conspiring to kill th® wifs> as R. L. Taylor, a white man, was hanged at Mansfield, La. A broken wheel derailed eleven cars of a west-bound Chesapeake and Ohio freight train at Quincy, Ky. The cars plunged through the depot, completely w-recking the building. The big White Fleming sawmill, five miles below Tiptonville, Tenn., was completely wrecked by a boiler explosion. Sam Burton, the fireman, was blown fifty feet and instantly killed. Private Schmidt of Troop C of the Thirteenth cavalry, stationed at Fort Aasinaboine, was frozen to death while attempting to walk from the half-way house to the post, a distance of six miles. Fred Kilthauer, a barber of Louisville, has been left a fortune of $250,000 by an uncle in Germany. He received a letter a few days ago from th® German ambassador at Washington apprising him of the bequest. Seized with sudden insanity, Lase Yerkey of Flint, W. Va., buried a hatchet in his wife's head and shoulders and then beat her brains out with a poker. After killing her he cut his owif throat with a razor and will die. He is violent in spite of his injuries and has to be held with ropes.

FOREIGN.

King Edward has abandoned the proposed visit to the Riviera and Paris. Irish Nationalists blame the ministry for his decision not to visit Ireland. Ten thousand persons took part in students’ riots in St. Petersburg, which kept army of police and cavalry busy and caused injury to many of the participants. A meeting of the employers of the striking dock laborers and delegates from the strikers at La Rochelle, France, resulted in the acceptance of the demands of th# latter. The strikers number 800 men. The following dispatch, dated at Pretoria, has been received from Lord Kitchener: "Gen. Methuen was brought to Klerksdorp Thursday. He is doing well. Everything possible is being done for him.” Lord Methuen's account of the recent disaster to his troops shows that the rout was a panic, and that the Boers, who wore khaki, could not be distinguished from the British in the fighting at close quarters. Portuguese government troops recentlyattacked twelve strongholds of the slave traders, near Pemba Bay, Portuguese East Africa, and after a prolonged and desperate fight drove out the traders and liberated 700 slaves. A dispatch from Constantinople announces that the town of Kiankary, northeast of Angora, in Asia Minor, was destroyed by an earthquake. No details of the disaster had been received. Kiankary had 20,000 inhabitants. With reference to the Russo-Japanese war rumors the St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times says he is able to vouch that the Siberian Railway is declining consignments from merchants because the resources of the line are fully occupied in forwarding troops and war material tc Vladivostock. Capt. F. 11. Smith, a well-known Englishman who arrived recently from Japan, declares that war between that country and Russia is soon to come. “Russian occupation of Manchuria is the cause of the trouble,” said Capt. Smith, “and the Japanese are spoiling for a chance to whip some one. They nre making all preparations for the fight that must come soon.”

IN GENERAL.

Andrew Carnegie announces the gift of forty more public libraries. Bix deaths occurred on the transport Sheridan, which arrived in San Francisco recently with troops from Manila. Willis Van Devanter of Wyoming, assistant attorney general for the Interior Department, is the choice of President Roosevelt as successor to Secretary Hitchcock, who is soon to retire. The Senate passed the Hanna-Frye ship subsidy bill by a rote of 42 to 31. Six Republicans, including Allison, Spooner, Dolliver and Quarles, voted against the measure. No unfriendy amendment was adopted. The schooner John K. Souther, Captain A. F. Poole, from New York for Galveston, Texas, foundered off Great Stirrup the Bahama group, March 11. The crew of the Souther has arrived at Nassau, Bahama Islands. Fourteen-year-old Gerald Oslioriie, who saved the St. Jphns express from disaster near Halifax, N. S., is to be presented with a check for $2,000 and a life pass over the railway. He noticed a broken rail and flagged the train by waving a burning newspaper. Fire insurance rates on all manufacturing and mercantile risks were advanced 25 per cent throughout the country east of the Rocky Mountains by the Western Union underwriters. New York City Is the only (mint in the territory named not affected by the new schedule.

Fred Lowden was killed by a snowslide near Nelson, B. C. He and Chris Bherbert were asleep at the foot of the Kokanee range when the slide buried their cabin. After thirty-six hours of superhuman effort Sberbert freed himself. Ha obtained aid at a neighboring mine, but Lowden Was dead.

Congress.

The ship subsidy bill was under discussion during most of Saturday’s session of the Senate. Speeches were made by Senators Allison, Spooner, Teller and Elkins. Amendments were presented by Senators Bacon, and Mallory. A bill appropriating $150,000 to establish a marine hospital at Savannah, Ga., was passed; also a bill providing for the construction a bridge across the Misouri river at South Omaha, Neb. Adjournment followed a brief executive session. In the House the day was devoted to private pension bills, 229 being passed, clearing the calendar. This is the largest number of pension bills ever passed by the House at one session. Earlier in the day a resolution was adopted calling upon the War Department for information concerning the government transport service between San Francisco and the Philippines. Late in the day Mr. Minor (Wis.), rising to a question of personal privilege, denounced a published statement regarding the Speaker and himself as false. The story said he (Minor) had changed his position on the shipping bill and on the Cuban tariff question because of the Speaker’s intention to advance a local revenue cutter measure in which the Wisconsin member is interested. Speaker Henderson also stated that there was not a shadow of truth in the article.

Monday in the Senate was chiefly devoted to consideration, amendment and passage of the ship subsidy bill. Among other bills passed were those appropriating $150,000 for a public building at Colorado Springs, Colo.; appropriating SIOO,000 for a public building at Laramie, Wyo., and appropriating $5,000 for the erection of a dwelling for the keeper of the lighthouse at Kewaunee, Wis. As the last public bill on the calendar was passed Mr. Hale remarked that in all his experience he had never before known the last public bill on the calendar to be reached and disposed of. In the House consideration of the river and harbor bill was begun. Mr. Burton of Ohio made an extended speech in explanation of the measure. The impression existed, be said, that the bill carried something over $60,000,000 for the ensuing fiscal year, whereas it carried only $24,000,000 of actual appropriations, the remaining $36,000,000 being simply authorized to be appropriated under the contract system. One of the important new features of the bill, he added, was a provision for a board of five engineers, familiar with all river and harbor work, to pass upon surveys, examinations and estimates. Several other members spoke briefly, among them being Mr. Bellamy of North Carolina, who protested against the treatment his State had received. Mr. Foster of Illinois and Mr. Cochran of Missouri discussed the Boer war, criticising the majority severely for failure to allow Congress to express the sympathy of the American people with the struggling republics.

For three hours on Tuesday in the Senate the bill providing for the protection of the President of the United States and for the punishment by United States courts of those who commit assaults upon him was under consideration. Mr. Bacon opposed the bill and Mr. Hoar and Mr. Mason supported it. Earlier in the day a lively debate was precipitated by the effort of Mr. Rawlins to have printed as a document some Philippine correspondence. Eventually the matter was ordered printed as requested. Thirty-nine private pension bills were passed, the calendar being cleared. An executive session preceded adjournment. The general debate on the river and harbor bill was enlivened by Mr. Hepburn (Iowa), who made his annual onslaught on the measure. The other speakers were Messrs. Ball (Texas) and Lawrence (Mass.), both members of the committee, and Messrs. White (Ky.), Thompson (Ala.) and Burnett (Ala.), who spoke in favor of improvements of interest to their districts. April 26 was set aside for memorial services on Representative Stokes of South Carolina and Representative Crump of Michigan.

During most of the Senate session Wednesday the bill providing for the protection of the President of the United States was under consideration. Mr. Cub berson offered a substitute for the bill. It makes the assassination or attempted assassination of the President or VicePresident, or the sovereign of a foreign country within the jurisdiction of the United States, punishable by death; while those who shall couns 1 or advise the killing of the President, or who shall conspire to kill him or the sovereign of any foreign country, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twenty years. Mr. Bacon introduced a bill for the deportation and exclusion of alien anarchists. It was the one which, introduced by former Senator Hill of New York, had been passed by the Senate but had failed in the House. A brief executive session preceded adjournment. In the House fair progress was made with the river and harbor bill. After the close of general debate, twenty-seven of the 116 pages of the bill were disposed of. Several members took advantage of the latitude allowed in genera] debate to discuss other topics. Mr. Snook (Ohio) spoke In opposition to ship subsidies, Mr. Lewis (Ga.) favored tariff revision and Mr. Powers (Mass.) advocated irrigation in the West. Mr. Burton, in charge of the bill, in closing the general debate, answered the criticisms advanced against it.

Washington Notes.

New national bank notes of the 1902 series are a radical departure in design from former issues. Bare skin of a whale-shark, “rhinodon,” caught in the Atlantic, has been sent to the National Museum. Pure food fight in Congress promises to be a long one. Graeme Stewart and the other delegates from Illinois declared their intention of remaining in Washington until a bill Is passed. Miss Alice liooscvelt will not attend King Edward’s coronation, her father concluding that the visit would .cause complications with Germany and too .much notoriety for his daughter. William J. Bryan recently visited Washington and held an informal reception in the House. Rumors are eiaculwted that he is willing to make another attempt to be elected President.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

ITJ I “Business in Boston was NRV lOrk completely paralyzed b.v-th# '■■■— strike of freight handftrs and teaiqsters, which directly affected 30,000 men and indirectly rendered other thousands idle by holding plies of raw material. Fortunately struggle seems in a fair way to sente meat. Outside of Massachusetts, however, the labor situation is exceptionally free from controversy, awl evan in the coal mines there is less than the usual agitation as April approaches. Distribution of spring merchandise is making rapid progress, the most sanguine expe<* tations being fully realized in all sections outside the strike area,” according to R. G. Dun & Oo.’s Review of Trade. Continuing, the report says: “Consumers \of iron and steel product® are still anxious regarding conditions dui" ing the next three months. After July 1 it is believed that deliveries will lie ample. According to the Iron Age the weekly capacity of pig iron furnaces in blast on March 1 had declined to 330,710 tons, or about 10,000 tons from the production on Feb. 1. Considering the numerous disturbing factors at work during the month of February, it is gratifying that a much heavier curtailment of output did not occur.

All records prior to Feb. 1 are still eclipsed and the resumption of many idlo plants this month practically assures new high water marks in the near future, unless some unforeseen interruption occurs. As operations at steel works were'also retarded, furnace stocks of pig iron declined only about 25,000 tons during February. The most important event of the week was the heavy buying of ste<-l bars by makers of agricultural implements in anticipation of higher prices becoming effective on April 1. Billets command large premiums for spot delivery, nnd more purchases are reported from foreign makers. Pipes and tubes are more active ’ Official indications of ClliCdQO. reserves on March 1 , * I were not surprising as to the corn, dealers anticipating that supplies would be only about one-half last year’s, but the statement that 23 per cent of the enormous wheat yield remained in farmers’ hands was not calculated to sustain values. Needed rains in the Southwest made the market look more favorable for the next crop. A sustaining feature was the interior movement of only 2,618,819 bushels, against 3,902,650 last year, while on the other hand total exports from the United States were but 2,598,472 bushels, compared with 4,962,674 a year ago. As to corn both comparisons were striking, receipts aggregating only 1,893,950 bushels, against 4,131,837 a year ago, while Atlantic exports fell to the lowest record for many years, 96,109 bushels, against 8,339,902 in 1901. The corn traders had the government report on farm reserves last week showing 29 per cent, or 384,000,000 bushels, held March 1. This is the smallest on record. It was expected to stimulate new buying by outsiders, but the close Saturday found prices only %c higher than the previous week. No surplus producing State has over 32 per cent, and Kansas only 14 per cent of its crop left. With an ordinary consumption there Is not a surplus bushel, and the high prices will necessitate continued husbanding of supplies to get through tb the next crop. The small farm stocks mean the same thing as last year; we will go into the new crop in the fall with no stock. It is al-4 taken as indicating good prices fur seu eral years to come. The country move* ment is light, receipts last week being only 820,000 bushels, and shipments 814,000 bushels. The movement both ways Is about 50 per cent of last year’s. Farm reserves are as estimated a week ago. 30 per cent, or 198,000,000 bushels, the smallest ever reported. Prices for May are within l%c of the top price, which makes shorts uneasy.

THE MARKETS

Chicago— common to prime, $3.50 to $6.65; heps, shipping grades, $4.25 to $6.55; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.30; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn. No. 2,50 cto 60c; oats, No. 2,42 e to 44c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c; hay, timothy, $9.00 to $14.50; prairie, $5.50 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 26c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 15c; potatoes 72c to 79c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 Jo $6.20; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 81c; corn, No. 2 white, 64c to 65c; oats, No. 2 white, 45c to 46c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $6.55; hogs, $3.00 to $6.20; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2,81 cto 82c; corn, No. 2, 59c to 60c; oats, No. 2,44 cto 45c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 62c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.90; hogs, $3.00 to $6.60; sheep, $2.25 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,84 cto 85c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 62c to 63c; oata, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; ryy, No. 2. 63c to 64c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogss3.oo to $6.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.5(M wheat. No. 2,82 cto 83e; corn, No. 3 yellow, 61c to 62c; oats, No. 2 white, 47c to 48c; rye, file to 62c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 80c to 81c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 59e to 60c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; rye, No. 2,61 c to 62c; clover seed, prime, $5.45. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 3,58 cto 59c; oats, No. 2 white, 450 10 46c; rye. No. 1,59 c to 60c; barley, No. 2,64 cto Gsc; pork, mesa, $15.40. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $6.65; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5.30; lambs, common to choice, $3.75 to $6.60. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $6.55; hogs $3.00 to $6.25; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 85c to 86c; corn, No. 2. 67c to 68c; oats, No. 2 white, 53c to 54c; butter, creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, west-* ern, 15c to 16c.

A fire in the business section of Gyp, swm City. Kan., canned « loss estiin«M* at. SIO,OOO.