Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — Page 6

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

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The remains' of Lord Panncefote, British ambassador at Washington, were accorded a national funeral in token of the high esteem of the American people for the decedent and as an acknowledgment of the friendly feeling cherished toward Great Britain. In a barroom quarrel at Tiffin, Ohio, Col. Albert Brewer, a prominent resident, threw a bottle at Luther C, Hershey, fracturing Hershey’s skull. Hershey may die. Brewer was a former game commissioner of Ohio. He was released on 4110,000 bonds. Fearing that he would lose his sweetheart and be unable to marry her in a short time, Emil Rossman, 19 years old, shot and killed Sophia Batal, 17 years old, the sweetheart, in Chicago,*hnd then turning the revolver on himself, tired a bullet into his brain. The streets of Fountain, Colo., wore flooded to a depth of two feet in many places by the outbreak in Fountain creek, it is reported that the section house at Wigwam was destroyed and the family drowned. Over 300 head of cattle were drowned near Butte’s, The east-bound Rocky Mountain limited, the Rock Island's fastest train, met ■with an accident near Avoca, lowa, ■while running at high speed. The tender left the track and tore up the ties for nearly a mile before the speed could be reduced. Only the front ears were damaged ami no passengers were seriously injured. Traveling Auditor 11. W. Oliver of the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railway arrived .in Knoxville, Tenn., the other day and distributed the promised gift of one month’s salary to all employes of the road from former President 11. K. Mcllarg. The entire amount given employes was $(’>8,000 and gifts to officials living the total up to $95,000. Mr. McHnrg sold his road recently to the Louisville and Nashville. The following provisional government has been constituted in Hayti: President. Boisrond Canal; Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Jeremie; Minister of the Interior, M. Colin: Minister of Justice, M. Lalane; Minister of War, Gen, Nord; Minister of Public Works, M. Cesarian; Minister of Finance, M. Hennery, The government will now take steps to assure the election of a President according to constitutional methods. The record prices for fat cattle were paid at the Kansas City stock yards the other day. A Kansas stockman received $7.40 for thirty prime heavy steers averaging 1,630 pounds each. This price has never been surjiassed at the stock yards nnd was equaled only once, June 10, 1882. Two loads of 1.100-pound steers sold for $6.80, u record-breaking price, nnd. weights considered, the highest rate paid at any market. The cattle were shipped from Walnut Grove, Texas. Following is the standing of the chibs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...29 5 Brooklyn ....12 19 Chicago ....22 11 Cincinnati ...12 20 Boston 14 15 Philadelphia. 11 19 New Y0rk...15 17 St. L0ui5....11 20 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....Hl USt. L0ui5....11 12 Philadelphia 10 11 Baltimore ...13 Hi Boston 17 12 Washington. 12 18 Detroit 14 12 Cleveland ...10 20

NEWS NUGGETS.

The damage by the flood in the Fountain river at Pueblo, Colo., is estimated at $300,000. Cass Daweron shot and killed his wife and committed suicide at Denver. Both were circus performers. Ben Bowen, an aeronaut, fell from his balloon Into a lake at Manhattan Beach, near Denver, and was drowned. Paul J. Sorg. former Congressman nnd millionaire tobacco manufacturer, died at his home in Middletown, Ohio, after an illness of several years. The postoffice at Girard. Ohio, was entered by burglars, who blew the safe and secured $582 in stamps. There is no clew to the perpetrators. Miss Delhi Wileox, daughter of ('apt. T. H. Wilcox, a prominent citizen of Murray, Ky.. shot nnd killed herself while despondent over a love affair. Congressman Charles Curtis of the first Kansas district has formally announced himself a candidate for the United States Senate, to succeed Senator Martin. The Great Northern flyer was wrecked just east of Ojatn, N. D„ while running nt full speed. The only person hurt is Frank Heffron, mail clerk, whose back was wrenched. Robert L. Huntington, nephew of the late Collis P. Huntington. has disappear cd from Denver and Is accused of taking $1,200 from bis employers, the Colorado Telephone Company. A dispatch from St. Petersburg snya: •‘Secret service officers arrested a young woman nt Tsarskoe-Selo, the summer residence of the Czar, carrying an Infefiial machine concealed in a handkerchief. Henry W. Mayers, a tubular well matt, while putting in a Well nt Gracevlll«, Minn., nnd preparing a charge of dynamite, wns kilhsi by a premature expiation. His assistant wns fatally injured. With a dynamite cartridge between hjs t«idh. Adnm Kaufman seated himself nurtcr a tree at Meriden, Conn., and calmly lighted the fuse. He wns blown to pideej. Kaufman was a well known local aatrcfiiat. Frank Ilobinaou of Nevada. lowa, ghdt bls sweetheart. Gertrude Rawlins, to death, wounded Albert P. Ferguson, his rival, npd then fired a bullet close td Ills twn heart The tragedy was in small hotel in Kansas City, and wifs Que to the fact that Robinson had be<*i Supplanted by Ferguson in the glrl'h nt ’ectiong. • • A distinct earthquake shock pas felt n Chattanooga, Tenn. It wns nccoidinnlcrf Ity n low rumbling sound. Hoiisito were shaken, 'rhe short’ hrsted fnr *sveral seconds. Many persona were awakened and greatly frightcmsl.

EASTERN.

The Pennsylvania Prohibition State convention nominated Rev. Silas C. Swallow for Governor. “Pat” Sheedy announces that he has given up gambling and will become a merchant at Buenos Ayres. A mob of 1,000 people in Boston raided meat markets in the Jewish district and after soaking the beef in kerosene set fire to it. Lightning struck the icehouses of the Boston Ice Company at Milton, N. H., burning twelve of them. The loss is $50,000, fully insured. The new Anchor line steamer Columbia arrived at New York, after a good maiden voyage from Glasgow and Moville. It is the largest vessel yet built for the Anchor line. At La Salle, near Niagara Falls, a tablet was dedicated to Cavelier de la Salle in commemoration of the building of the first vessel ever navigated by white men on the great lakes. A temporary sidewalk In New York gave way during the Rochninbeau parade and precipitated 200 persons into an excavation, killing one and injuring eightyseven, some of them fatally. Tommy Noonan died in a Boston hospital from the effects of a blow delivered by Eddie Dixon of Chicago in a boxing match at the Lenox Athletic Club. Concussion of the brain was the immediate cause of death. John L. Semple, the Camden lawyer who has been on trial for a week in the United States District Court in Philadelphia for alleged complicity in the manufacture of S2O silver certificates, was found not guilty. Samuel Salter, Joseph D. Rodgers, Clarence Meeser, Harry McCabe and James T. Sheehan, indicted for ballotbox stuffing, in connection with the election Nov. 7, 1899, were found guiltless by a jury in Philadelphia. Capt. George Cowie, a well-known naval officer who served under Admiral Farragut in the Civil War and was chief engineer of the battleship Indiana in the war with Spain, has been killed at Rahway, N. J., by an express train. Employes of the Union Bug and Paper Company at Ballston, N. Y., who are members of the Laborers’ Protective Union, went on strike for an increase in wages from $1.25 to $1.50, for a ten-hour day nnd for 15 cents an hour overtime. Prof. Benton E. James, for many years principal of the Montrose, Pa., high school, committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree in the outskirts of the borough. Temporary insanity caused by ill health is supposed to have been the cause. Joseph Pearson, a jockey, was shot and hilled by bis Wife, Louise, at the latter’s home in Esplcn Borough, Pittsburg. He was trying to brain her with a hatchet when the woman fired at his head and Pearson fell a corpse at the feet of his wife, his son and n daughter. Since the declaration of the strike in the anthracite coal region there has been a continuous exodus of mine workers from the Schuylkill district of Pennsylvania. Many of the men have taken their families with them, their intention being to live permanently In other fields. George T. Bruns, an examiner of accounts for the Equitable Life Assurance Company, shot his wife and killed himself at their home in Brooklyn. N. Y. Edna Dashiell. sister of Mrs. Bruns, who had spent the evening with the couple, says that Bruns was unreasonably jealous. The so-called "blue law,” which prohibited the sale of ice cream, soda water and confectionery on Sunday by druggists nnd common victualers of Massachusetts was wiped off the statute book by a repealing measure, which Gov. Crane signed ns soon as it was sent to him by the Senate. At Ridgeway, Pa., during a severe rain wind storm John Robinson's circus tents were blown down upon a large audience. Immediately after the collapse of the tents the canvas caught fire from gasoline lights. Nearly everybody in the tent was bruised more or less seriously. Fortunately nobody was killed. One of the worst wrecks in the history of the West Penn Railroad occurred at a point called Porter's Curve, Pa. Two men were killed and one injured. The engine was wrecked nnd four freight cars loaded with valuable freight, together with a cabin car, were a total wreck. The track was torn up tor a distance of several hundred yards. Two men were killed and many inen and women injured in a trolley wreck a few miles beyond Easton, Pa. An Easton and Nazareth car left the former city shortly before midnight, carrying eightynine passengers. On a steep hill in Palmer township the brakes refused to work nnd the car ran nway, descending the incline at terrific speed. At the foot of the hill there is a sharp curve. Here the car jumped the truck and fell ou its side. College hnzing nnd the strong rivalry between classes of the University of Vermont caused the death of Nelson Pease Bond, a freshman, in Lake Champlain. Caught alone nnd act upon by two sophomores, whom he suspected of a design to kidnnp him in order to prevent him from being present nt a class function, ho ran to the lake, nnd. his pursuers any, jumped in. So far ns known there was no other witness of the drowning. Both declare that they sought to save him. bur could not, ns he sank before they could reach him with a Itoat.

WESTERN.

Abrnhnm Witherup, white, was lynched at Paris, Mo., for the murder of William Grow. Lorenzo Faulkner, aged 30, n railroad man, shot his wife dead and killed himself at Ogden, Utah. Congressman James A. Norton of Tiffin, Ohio, was renominated .for his fifth term by the Thirteenth District Democrats at Sandusky. Maj. John Pilcher, acting superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, lias Issued an order prohibiting the use of automobiles In the park. Bev. S. I*. lx>ng of Columbus, Ohio, tendered his resignation ns president of Lima College for tire second time ami It has now been accepted. Gov. Dockery of Missouri granted n respite from .lune 13 to June 27 to Hunt Brown, who wav sentenced to be hanged in Wayne County for murder. Williapi Brown, robber, tried to bold on Chris Erickson In Chicago and tt»l knocked down by the latter. While Brown was promt on the sidewalk he fired five shots at Ericson, two of them

making fatal wounds. The victim’s sweetheart, Miss Anderson, witnessed the tragedy. t John Keegan, State mine inspector of Kansas during Gov. Lewelling’s administration, was instantly killed at a coal mine three miles east of Jewell City. Miss Margaret warden of Sage College, resigned from Cornell, having accepted a position as full professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. Fire in the Cincinnati city hospital caused dire alarm, but fortunately the controlling forces prevented loss of life. Four attendants were overcome by smoke and injured. Jason Wilson, a negro, and O. Carroll, t white man, engaged in a fight at a baseball game at Florence, Colo., and the former narrowly escaped lynching in the riot which followed. The controlling interesjt in the Greeley Sugar Company’s property, in which several hundred thousand dollars of Utah capital is invested, has passed into the hands of the Haveineyers. A fierce thunder and rain storm swept Chicago, causing heavy damage. Basements were, deluged, electric light plants disabled and the flooding of subways compelled stoppage of trolley ears. A Kalispell, Mont., special says: "Guy Croffoth of Troy, Mont., was killed and Bridge Foreman Collins was badly injured in a work train wreck on the Jennings branch of the Great Northern. The bakers’ strike in Denver, which had continued several weeks, has been settled. The masters conceded the demands of the men for a midnight luncheon and 10 cents an hour extra for overtime. Chicago firms have secured almost all the contracts for supplying Indians, and business men consequently say that warehouses for handling such goods should be located in that city instead of in NewYork. Fire visited Johnstown, Ohio, and n slight rainfall is all that saved the town from total destruction. The loss is fixed at JFI<X),OOO, with probably half the loss insured. A score of business blocks and residences were destroyed. The Rock Island Company has bought property in the west bottoms of Kansas City and is negotiating for so as to reach the Union depot over wits own tracks. It is said that nearly $500,000 will be expended for land. Frank M. Sturgeon, one of the oldest mail carriers in the Kansas City. Kan., service, was arrested by postoffice inspectors for stealing a bundle of letters. Sturgeon was caught in the act and confessed his guilt. He has a family. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis Traction Company has been incorporated. Only SIO,OOO capital will be used in Ohio. The line is to run from Hamilton to the Indiana State line and then connect with the system in Indiana. According to revelations that came to light the other day, babies are sold in St. Paul, Minn., to any one desiring to make application. No inquiries are made as to the character of the applicant, nor are any records kept of the transaction. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease, the politician nnd author, has been granted a divorce from her husband, Charles Lease, In the District Court at Wichita, Kan. The trial lasted fifteen minutes, there being no objection offered by Mr. Lease. The steamer Kittie M. Forbes burned while coming through St. Clair flats and is n total loss, together with 800,000 feet of pine lumber which she had aboard. The fire started by the explosion of a lamp in the engine room. No lives were lost. Dr. Arehie Kingsbury, a young dentist, was drowned at Winona, Minn., while rowing with a son of Mayor Stewart and the Misses Mills. In crossing the dam the boat occupied by Kingsbury nnd his companion sank. Bystanders saved Miss Mills. Harry Meyers, Fred Schwake, Edward Miller and Harold Craig, ranging in age from 14 to 20 years, were drowned at North Vernon. The boys embarked in a skiff upon Mnscatatuck creek, above a stone dam. They let the boat drift over the dam. Allie Petty, living near Arcola, Mo., shot Mrs. Friend and her daughter nnd then himself. Both women were shot twice. The mother may recover, but the girl and Petty will die. Mrs. Friend had objected to Petty’s attentions to her daughter. In San Francisco a verdict of guilty was found against Charles R. Maines by a jury in the United States District Court. Maines was arrested on a charge of using the malls to further a scheme to defraud Dr. Charles Bennett of Wauseon, Ohio. Frank Wilson shot and seriously wounded his wife, killed Abner Canter nnd then committed suicide. Wilson was jealous of Canter's attentions to his wife. All three had lived on a farm in the territory across the line from Arkansas City, Kan. At St. Paul the Supreme Court held that A. B. Potter, who had been discharged without previous notice by bis employer, J. C. Barton, was entitled to such notice nnd should have one week’s salary as compensation for bis employer's breach of contract. At Zanesville, Ohio, Judge J. 11. Mnckey decided that the strikers of the Brown Manufacturing Company had the right to persuade, to assemble and to picket the plants, but none of these or other nets must partake of the nature of violence or intimidation. Five thousand union men employed In the building trades went on strike ill Denver, causing virtually a complete stoppage of building in the-jrity, The strike was begun by order of the Building Trades Council to help the woodworkers In their efforts to get an eighthour day, At Bismnrck, N. D., Judge Cowttn scored two old mon, one of whom had been in the country fourteen and the other sixteen years, and neither had lenrued the English language. They wished to take ont their paper* to that they might Me claims, but Judge Cowan refuse-] them that privilege. The Ohio State board of pardons unanimously icjrctej the applications for pardon filed by Mfs. France* I-- Taylor and hes daughter, Miss Frances L. Taylor, Jr., sentenced to one yvnr’ii jurprisniiincut each for complicity In the kidnaping of little Margaret Taylor, the grandchild of Mr*. Taylor. Judge Stone of the Criminal Court In Clovehmd sentenced former Deputy J’o* lice Clerk Tony Dehner to four years' Imprisonment in the penitentiary upon the charge of forging police court wit-

ness fee vouchers. Deisner’s stealing* amounted to SB,OOO. He pleaded guilty to two of the four indictments. The plant of the Delta powder works, located near Delta, Cal., was blown up, killing Mrs. George Miller and her child, who resided 100 yards from the plant, and fatally injuring another child. George Miller, husband of the dead woman, and George Barber, who was working in the factory, were seriously injured. Policeman Bateman 'arrested Harry Hill at Hamilton, Ohio, on a charge of violating a parole from the Joliet, 111., penitentiary. Hill was convicted of grand larceny in Chicago nnd given an indeterminate sentence. It is said he violated his parole, which did not permit him to leave the State, in order to see his wife. Former Congressman Henry L. Morey was shot at from ambush as he was driving past the home of his brother-in-law, Aaron L. Campbell, at Hamilton, Ohio, the bullet passing near his head. On Morey’s complaint Campbell, who is a lifelong enemy of Morey, with whom he has had years of litigation, was arrested and held In $2,500 bond charged with shooting to kill. Half of the business section of Milford, Ind., was destroyed by tire. Twelve buildings were burned with almost their entire contents. The loss is estimated at between $40,000 and $50,000, with only $9,000 insurance. The losers are: George Betzer, John Davisson, M. Oppenheim, Charles Robinson, Lewis Rodebaugb, J. H. Pritchett, C. Holloway, Edward Cammack, Charles Neese, Mrs. Mattle Brecknell, A. L. Brown, Stump Brothers, Newkum & Keehn, North & Neff, William Groves.

SOUTHERN.

Oliver Lamar, sentenced to life Imprisonment for murder, was released from jail by a mob of his friends at Mendenhall, Miss. Carney and George Wood, negroes, father and son, were hanged at Talladega, Ala., for the murder of Jack and Reuben Boyd, white, near Childersburg, Ala., on last Christmas day. At Louisville, Ky., Jeunie Ashcraft, charged with the murder of Edward Lambert, a former soldier, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to two years iu prison. J. P. Miller, deputy sheriff of Stewart County, Tennessee, and his brother, C. J. Miller, were arrested at Hopkinsville, Ky., charged with making and passing counterfeit money. The former admitted his guilt. The town of Clover, Va., was almost destroyed by fire. Five tobacco prizeries, three warehouses, eleven stores, a hotel, the postoffice, a livery stable and a number of dwellings were burned. The loss is $200,000, partially insured. Millard Lee, who shot and killed Miss Lilia Suttles in a church at Ben Hill, Ga., was captured near Austell, Ga., and placed in the Atlanta jail. He says he killed Miss Suttles because bis Jove was unrequited and he wished to end the suspense. The steamer John K. Speed, lying at her wharf at the foot of Lafayette street. New Orleans, took fire, supposedly from alcohol stored in the hold, and quickly burned to the water’s edge. The wharves took fire and a large section burned away.

FOREIGN.

Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant, the painter, is dead iu Paris. He was born in Paris in 1845. The village of Ramon, adjacent to the Oldenburg estate, in the government of Poltava, Russia, has been partially destroyed by fire. Lord Pauncefote of Preston, British ambassador to the United States and dean of the diplomatic corps in Washington, died at the British embassy there Saturday morning. The city of Quezaltenango, In the eastern portion of Guatemala, with a population of 25,000, has been entirely obliterated by an earthquake, according to private information. The cities of Amatitlan, Solola, Nahuala, Santa Lucia nnd San Juan also have been badly damaged. Count Matsukata, the former prime minister of Japan, with other high Japanese officials now on the Atlantic coast, came to the United States for the purpose of negotiating a loan of $100,000,000 with which to build ships and railways and carry on mining enterprises in Japan. The terrible drouth from which, as a climax to seven dry years, Australia is now suffering, has cost, by an official estimate, in stock since 1899 £15,000,000 ($75,000,000). Unemployed men are drifting into the cities by the thousands and there the State governments are providing them with relief.

IN GENERAL.

Explosion In the coal mines at Fernie, B. C. t killed 109 miners, twenty-four escaping. The British steamer Askehell sailed from Coronel for Portland, Ore., under charter to load 300,000 bushels of oats for the British government in South Africa. The Cuban House at Havana has adopted a resolution declaring May 19 Decoration day, and passed a motion expressing sympathy for American soldiers killed in Cuba. Alfred Hawkins was hanged nt Whatcom, Wash., for the murder of D. M. Woodbury over two years ago; Charles Reeves was hanged at Boonville, MJ„ for the murder of his wife Feb. 24, and Elijah Chapman, colored, was executed at Washington for killing Ida Nimmons. Two hundred lending furniture manufacturers of the country have formed a combination which will control the furniture output of the United States and dictate prices. Tho capital represented Is about 125,000,000. The organisation adopted a new schedule of prices which will go Into effect at once. Four hundred men of the Fifth regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles, armed with stones, ran riot through the streets of Halifax. N. S. They bombarded n house on Albemarle street ami practically sacked the building. Severn! days ago Troopet Martin wna sandbagged then l , and he In now critically ill. The Valdes, Copper River and Yukon Railway Company, capital $2'400,000, lias been Incorporated at Trefttofi, N. J. It Is understood that its purpose is to develop the tnffiing Industries of Alaska, by bgilding a railread from Valdez, on the GtUf oT'Alankh, to Engle City, on the Yukon river, nnd from the Yukon river to Behring strait.

CORGRESS.

A temperate and carefully prepared speech on the Philippine bill was delivered by Mr. Dubois in the Senate on Friday. He confined himself almost entirely to a discussion of the commercial and industrial aspects of the question, his purpose being to show that it would tye a disadvantage to the people of this country to retain the islands. J\.n extra appropriation bill, carrying SIBO,OOO and chiefly for the Navy and Interior Departments, was passed, as was one providing for the appointment of James VV. Long ou the retired list of the army as a captain of infantry. In the House the day was devoted to private pension bills and to a few other minor measures. Mr. Loud (Cal.) criticised the special pension legislation as a disgrace and drew emphatic responses from Messrs. Sulloway (N. H.). Sulzer (N. Y.) and Miers (Ind.). In all 105 private pension bills were passed. Mr. Patterson, one of the minority members of the Philippine committee, occupied the floor of the Senate most of the day Monday in a discussion of the Philippine question. The conference report on the fortifications appropriation bill was agreed to without debate, and sixty-two private pension bills were passed. In the House the day was chiefly devoted to business connected with the District of Columbia, especially the bill amending the District code. Sixty private pension bills were passed, and the conference reports on the agricultural appropriation bill and urgent deficiency bills were agreed to. In the Senate on Tuesday a fruitless effort was made to secure an agreement on a time for a vote on the Philippine bill. For several hours Mr. Patterson discussed the Philippine question. He attacked the pending bill, particularly its provisions regarding the holding of lands. Early in the session a committee was appointed by the Senate to confer with a like committee of the House about the disagreement which has arisen between the two houses as to the army appropriation bill. A resolution offered by Mr. Hoar, requesting the President to inform the Senate whether there be any law which would prevent any Filipino not under arrest from coming to the United States and stating his views or desires as to his country to the President or to either branch of Congress, pas adopted. The House passed the Shattuc immigration bill and the bill to amend the District of Columbia code. A special rule was presented to make the bill for coining subsidiary silver a continuing order until disposed of. In the Senate on Wednesday the Philippine question again monopolized must of the session. The conference report on the omnibus public building bill was agreed to. A joint resolution was passed providing for the printing of 20.000 copies of the proceedings of the unveiling of the statue of the Count de Rochambeau, In the House the day was spent debating the bill to increase the subsidiary coinage by coining the silver bullion In the treasury and to recoin standard silver dollars as the public necessities may require. The limit of subsidiary coinage is now $100,900,000. The’ bill increases this to an indefinite amount, in the discretion of tile Secretary of the Treasury. The measure aroused the opposition of the Democrats, who claimed it was only a step in the direction of the complete striking down of the silver dollar. The debate drifted into n general discussion of the silver question. Little interest was shown and Mr. Cochran twice nwfe the point that no quorum was present. Mr. Newlands (Nev.) finally offered an amendment to make subsidiary silver a legal tender. This was pending when the House adjourned.

Washington Notes

Congress is likely to remain in session till late In July. Senate passed omnibus public buildings bill, carrying total of $21,235,150. The President will not go on the stump to help in congressional campaign. President Roosevelt delivered address at Arlington at unveiling of monument to soldiers who fell in Spanish war. Senator Gallinger proposes investigation by the Senate judiciary committee into lynchings throughout the country. German Emperor is considering plan of sending the Crown Prince to America to attend unveiling of statue of Frederick the Great. Judge Lambert Tree says Democrats are making mistake in attacking Philippine policy, nnd should make tariff and trusts fighting issue. Foreign commerce bureau reports increased imports of American agricultural implements by France; shoe making machines are in great demand. Charges made by Corporal O’Brien to Senate Philippine committee were refuted by (’apt. McDonald, who proved alibi for himself and others accused. Statue of Rochambenu was unveiled with ceremonies in which expressions of international good will by President Roosevelt and French envoys were features. Secretary Root has received a message from Presi<lent Palma, warndy thanking him for his message of congratulation on the inauguration of the Cuban republic. The President has denied the petltioß of Miss Clemencla Lopes, n sitter of Nixto Lopez, for the release of her brothers, Lorenzo. Cipriano nnd Manuel, who were taken into custody by Gen. Bel). Bishop Thobtirn of the Methodist Episcopal Church in testimony before Senate committee said Hongkong is better governed than Chicago and that human life la safer there. Representative Bartholdt (Mo.) has Introduced n bill for the erection of an equestrian statue of Baron Steuben nnd appropriating $50,000 therefqr. The statue is to be erected in this city «• n recognition of Steuben's friendship (or the United States. Justice Barnard of the District Supreme Court, In a decision in the mandamus case of the Chicago Business College against the Postipaster General, sustained the policy of the Postoffice Dor pnrtment In its exclusions of certain classes of publications from the seco mills ss mall rates.

COMMERCIAL AND FINACIAL

U7J “—"Many minor labor con* NeH IOnL troversies have been settled, —— but the situation in the anthracite coal region has assumed a more serious aspect. Railway earnings continue satisfactory, roads reporting for two weeks of May show gains of 6.1 per cent over last year and 18.4 per cent over 1900. No change Is reported in the iron and steel situation, former conditions merely becoming intensified by the threatened decrease in supplies of fuel and the labor controversies in certain branches of the industry. The railways are seeking rails, rolling stock and other equipment, while contractors require much structural material.” Trade conditions are thus summed up by Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review. The Review continues: Quiet conditions have prevailed in the cereal markets, with only a moderate volume of option transactions and fractional changes in quotation. Exports of wheat, including flour, were only 3,803,508 bushels during the past week fronr all ports of the United States, against 5,525,130 bushels in the corresponding week last year. Small receipts of corn, amounting to only 1,263,188 bushels for the week, against 3.067,042 a year ago, held the spot price at about 70 cents. Dispatches from correspondents of R. G. Dun & Co. Indicate satisfactory progress with the new corn crop and a material increase in acreage. Rain* Help Crops. Bradstreet’s says: Telegrams to Bradstreet's point to the greatly increased area devoted to corn, and oats is receiving adequate moisture ■at a time when greatly needed. It will probably be found that all of the 5,000,000 acres of winter killed wheat and that lost to spring wheat by heavy rains in North Dakota will be turned into coarser grains, high prices for which have been induced by short yields and straitened supplies last year. The winter wheat crop in the Southwest is practically made. Wheat is slightly lower on good crop reports, but straitened supplies of corn and oats make holders confident. Corn visible supplies are only half those of last year, and GO per cent of the stock is in Chicago. “ Unless all signs fall, or LulCdOO. something unforeseen devel- — ops. the country is in for a good measure of business activity tor a considerable period to come. The coal strike has apparently spent its greatest force as a disturbing factor. For weeks the prospect of a serious labor controversy bung over the eastern industrial world, and was a hindrance to trade in all lines. When It finally came, business in general suffered less than had been expected. To a considerable extent the effect had been discounted. This strike is a very serious thing, and it might readily spread and be developed into something big enough to give the whole countrj’ a setback, but the business world is not looking for anything like this. There exists the firm hope that somehow, or by some means it will bo ' fixed up in a manner mutually satisfactory. To get the really hopeful and encouraging view of things, we must leave the east and came to the west. Here there is nothing adverse, or at least nothing Important enough to be worth considering. It is really remarkable how western railroad earnings keep up. When it Is consid<*ed that last year the earnings were 10 per cent greater than ever before, and that this year they are maintaining another gain of nearly 10 per cent, it will be ■een how large has been the increase in the volume of traffic. Not ninny of the homeseekers who went into the north* west in the early spring were of the eery poor class. Most of them have more or less money. Already they have been bet, ter buyers than was expected of them.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to pr!me» $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $7.15; sheep, fair to choice, $4.0(1 to $6.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn. No. 2,61 cto 62c; oats. No. 2,41 c to 43c; rye. No. 2,58 cto 59c; hay, timothy. SIO.OO to $15.00; prairie, $5.50 to $13.50; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, 60c to 71c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.15; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.95; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2,80 cto 81c; corn. No. 2 white, 65c to 66c; oats. No. 2 white, 44c to 45c. St. Louis —Cattle. $4.50 to $7.40; hogs, $3.00 to $7.15; sheep, $2.50 to $6.00; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn. No. 2, 62c to 63c; oats. No. 2, 4Oc to 41c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 00c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $6.50; hogs, $4.00 to $7,201 sheep, $3.25 to SSJjO; wheat. No. 2,82 cto 83c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 64c to 65c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 44c to 46c; rye. No. 2, (lie td 62c. Detroit —Cattle, $3.00 to $6.13; hogs, $3.00 to $0.85; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,82 cto 83c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 64c to Gsc; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 47c; rye, 59c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 82c to 83c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 02c to (Be; oats. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; clover seed, prime. $5.00. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 northern, 76c to 77c; corn. No. 3,61 cto 63c; oats. No. 2 white. 44c to 45c; rye. No, 1,58 c to 50c; barley, No. 2,72 cto 73c; pork, mess, $16.92. New York—Unttle, $3.75 to $7.35; hogs, $3.00 to $7.35; sheep, S4.(X) to $5.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 86c to 87c; corn, No. 2, 68c to 69c; oats. No. 2 white, 50c to 51c; butter, creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, western. 14c to 17c. Buffalo—Cnttle, choice shipping iteers, $3.00 to $7.25; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $7.40; sheep, fair to choice. $3.25 to $6.25; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $7.05. A rural free delivery route has been established at Cheney, Neb,, with one carrier.