Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — Page 6

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

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

« 1 A Chihuahua (Mexico) dispatch (reports the robbery of the Wells Cargo express car on the north-bound Mexican Central of $53,000. Three Americans are said to have held up the messenger and looted the safe. At Ravenna, Ohio, one man was killed and two injured by the explosion of the boiler of a locomotive attached to a westbound freight train on the Pittsburg and Western branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Road. 8. N. Jacks, a merchant of Port Worth, Texas, returning from the Yaqui River country, reports having seen thirty Yaqui Indians lined up and shot Saturday at a small town called Torrin, in Sonora. The Indians had been captured in the mountains. G. W. McElhinney, who came to St. Louis from his home at Guanajuato, Mexico, en route to New York City, was robbed at the Union station of a valise containing, he >aid, deeds and shares of mining property in old Mexico valued at $125,000 to $200,000. The Hawaiian territorial convention of the Home Rule Republican party ended in a split between the two factions and Prince Cupid, with forty other delegates, bolted from the convention to form a new party in opposition to Delegate to Congress Robert W. Wilcox. July oats touched the highest point in thirty years on ’Change in Chicago Wednesday and closed at 07 cents, exactly on a par with the Jyly corn price. This is a distinctly novel? situation, the difference in price usually being about 10 to 15 cents iu favor of the yellow cereal. Mrs. Emma Wacker, of Lancaster, Ohio, is trying to starve out a case of dropsy from which she is suffering and has, on advice of her physicians, refrained from eating since June 11, since which date, it is alleged, no food has passed her lips, her only sustenance being water with a sprinkle of lemon juice. Mattie Helen Beal, the Wichita telephone girl who drew claim No. 2 at the opening of the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita reservation, and selected I'6o acres of land just south of Lawton. (>. T.. worth $50,000, was in Chicago recently on her wedding tour. Under the laws of the United States she will have to pay the government $1,600 for her land, a penalty for being married before she proves her claim. Had she waited, the property would have cost her S2OO. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...58 17 St. Louis ...35 44 Brooklyn ...46 36 Cincinnati ..32 43 Chicago ... .41 36 Philadelphia 34 46 Boston 38 24 New York.. .24 51 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....42 31 Washington 37 40 Philadelphia 41 32 Cleveland .. .35 43 St. Louis ...41 33 Baltimore ..33 44 Boston .....42 36 Detroit 31 43

BREVITIES.

The long overdue French bark Broun has arrived at San Francisco from New Castle, England. Cabinet members who can make speeches will take part in the campaign at President Roosevelt’s suggestion. Fire at Brookside, Ala., destroyed four business houses and about forty residences, causing u loss of $40,000. The family of ex-Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong paid May Yohe $l5,OtX) to settle, the latter’s claim for diamonds pawned. The Chicago Union Traction Company's deficit for the fiscal year was $247,527; its floating debt increased $950,000. The postponed trial of Henry B. Faulkner, member of the hotise of delegates charged with perjury, began at St. Louis Monday. The George F. Thompson & Son Buggy Company. Minneapolis, suffered a fire loss of SSS,OUU, on which there is $40,000 insurance. / Santos-Dumont arrived at New York and declared he will be able to sail Brighton Beach airships around the statue of liberty. Mrs. Ellen Turley shot and killed her 4-yeur-old child, attempted to kill two other children, and failing, shot and killed herself at Depoy, Ky. The Ohio Legislature has been called to meet by Governor Nash to provide new laws for city governments, which the Supreme Court held invalid recently. John B. McGehee, charged with the murder of F. L. Miller, a Confederate veteran, committed suicide in jail at Rome, Ga., by cutting his throat. Philippine ladrones broke through a cordon of Cavite constabulary, which was “rounding them up," and escaped. Three members of the cordon were killed. Cardinal Ledoehowski, prefect of the congregation of the propaganda, died at Rome at the age of NO years. He was famous as a financier and an appointee of Pope Pius IX. The Navy Department is troubled to find ships enough for watching South American and West Indies rebellions. Hayti, Venezuela. Colombia and Nicaragua all have revolts. The Wnr Department has been informed from Manila that between May 9 nnd June 11 seventy-six enlisted men of the army died. Of these thirty-two deaths were caused by Asiatic cholera. In Chicago a 19-year-old boy was shot and instantly killed by his father after n desperate buttle, in which the older mnii was struck three times with a sledge hammer. J. Frederick Lyman, n distributing clerk at the Cleveland postoflice, was killed by an unknown man who called him to the door of bis home and fired three shots at him. Mrs. Mary Baker, sister-in-law of MaryBaker Eddy, died in Boston of cancer of the stomach. Mrs. Baker, who was the widow of Samuel Baker (Mrs. Eddy's brother), had been a sufferer for years.

EASTERN.

Four were drowned and great property loss resulted from floods in New York State. A strike movement involving 50,000 clothing workers has been inaugurated in New York. ' The New York stock market transactions again passed (he 1,000,000 share mark Friday. An earthquake rattled windows at Malone, N. Y., and was followed by storm approaching a cyclone. Papers of an anarchist from Paterson, N. J., arrested at Bra, Italy, disclose plot to assassinate King Victor Emmanuel. A building trust, planned in New York to include large realty concerns, will construct buildings in Europe after American ideas. Thirteen persons lost their lives by a tornado, which swept over Baltimore and vicinity, unroofing houses and causing other damage. Four released convicts who tried to intimidate a woman near Syracuse, N. Y., were routed by her with a broom and later captured. Washington sees in the trust conference called by the Czar a forerunner of possible economic conflict between Europe and America. W. Mills and C. Mills of Boston were killed and three others seriously injured as the result of a grade crossing accident at Old Orchard, Me. Adolph S. Ochs has bought the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The price paid for the property, including real estate, is said to be about $2,250,000. Havana citizens now visiting in Washington say that annexation is the only ’Solution of the Cuban problem, and that reciprocity will not answer the purpose. Five masked men blew open the safe of the office of the New York atid Stamford Railroad at Port Chester, N. Y„ and stole Sunday’s receipts of the office — about $2,000. A collision occurred at Sea Girt, N. J., between a passenger and a freight train on the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Boyd Clark, engineer of the passenger train, was killed. Captain, Putnam Bradlee Strong disappeared from New York after giving notice of intended suicide, and pawning, it is said. SIOO,OOO worth of jewels belonging to May Yohe. Laura Biggar, New York actress, has been awarded principal part of $400,006 estate left her by Henry M. Bennett, former Pittsburg horseman. She was his housekeeper, and relatives contested the will. Strikes of anthracite coal miners, resulting in the burning of bituminous# coal, is forcing the problem of smoke prevention on New York and other Eastern cities, and the battle for municipal cleanliness becomes wider in scope. Henry F. King, 30 years old, entered the office of the New York foundling asylum and shot two sisters of charity. He then ran into the grounds of the institution and shot himself in the left breast, making only a flesh wound. King, who has been a frequent visitor to the foundling asylum, is believed to be demented.

WESTERN.

July oats advanced to 65 cents in Chicago Saturday, a gain of 7*4 over Friday. Floods iu Illinois, lowa and Missouri have caused damage estimated to mount into the millions. Friends of Governor La Follette of Wisconsin will boom him as a candidate for the Presidency. Chicago freight handlers demand that teamsters shall request to see union cards when delivering freight. . The Hibernian convention at Denver elected officers ami expressed sympathy for striking anthracite miners. It is said that compulsory baths at the municipal lodging-house have served to diminish vagrancy in Chicago. Ellsworth, Wis., 1.500 population, is the healthiest town in the United States. Only two deaths occurred there iu 1901. John Gibbols, traveling salesman for a Decatur, 111., jewelry house, was found dead from heart disease in a Terre 11 ante hotel. Edward Williams, aged 24, and single, was killed near Eldora, lowa, his team running away and throwing him down an embankment. An lowa farmer s-pent his money in a Chicago resort, blamed the saloonkeeper for his downfall and then ended life.by drinking carbolic acid. Robert Loughlin, Albert Miller and Benjamin Watts, young men of Aurora, Ind., were drowned in the Ohio by the overturning of their boat. Three Chicago bookmakers report the alleged loss of $22,183, which they assert was taken from the Masonic Temple safety deposit vault during the night. Chicago freight handlers charge that four railroads have violated the compact by which the recent strike was settled, by refusing to reinstate old employes. Money is easier in Chicago, quoted rates being 4 to 4*-_> per cent on call and 4*/j to 5 per cent on time, though one two-months loan has been made at 4 per cent. Police have arrested a woman in Mil- > waukee and her confederate in Nebraska in connection with alleged swindles on the Corn Exchange National Bank of 1 Chicago. Judge Tuley in an address before the Illinois State Bar Association, favored State legislation requiring all corporations to submit labor troubles to arbitration. Because she refused to marry him, George Wiley, a Chicago and Alton Railway man, shot and killed Miss Dovie Flynn and committed suicide at Mar- , shall, Mo. I The Illinois Manufacturers’ Association is planning a campaign to secure uniform i corporation laws among different States. The aid of commercial bodies everywhere is be sought. At Mount Verpon, Ohio, in putting down a test well the Logan Natural Gas and Oil Company struck gold in quautities assaying $5 a ton. A small vein of coal was also discovered. Dr. 11. G. Greenland and Ben Boorman fought a duel at Okarche, 1. T. Dr. Greenland was shot through the heart and di id instantly. Bearman was shot in the head, but not fatally. Minneapolis officials may escape bribery prosecution because of a split in the prosecutor's office. A. L. Smith, first

assistant prosecutor, has resigned and the cases have been put over. The coroner’s jury at Park City, Utah, has returned a verdict holding the officials of the Daly-West mine entirely blameless for the accident by which thirty-five men lost their lives. After forty days of continual pursuit hymen and bloodhounds, all organized effort to capture Harry Tracy, the escaped Oregon convict, has ended. N° more posses will start after him. The commission appointed to reapportion Oklahoma has announced the total population of the territory to be 600.000 with one Representative for every 22.000 people, and one Senator for every 45.000. The miners’ convention at Indianapolis issued an address to the public, giving reasons for anthracite strike, expressing loyalty to contracts, asserting right to arbitration and asking aid for workers' cause. It is reported that a mob of 100 persons drove a uegro family out of Blackwell, Ok., and burned the house rented to them. No blacks have been allowed to even work in that city since it was founded. o Christopher Norbeck, the ex-police detective of Minneapolis who fled while his trial for bribery was in progress and was recaptured within a week near Chaska. Minn., pleaded guilty and was remanded for sentence. Flood losses are now estimated at $6,000,000, with every prospect that the amount will be greatly enlarged. In the Mississippi Valley, from Keokuk for a hundred miles to the south, the entire region is under water. Both litigants in the case of the State of Minnesota against the Northwestern Securities Company et al., being the socalled anti-merger suit, have agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States Circuit Court. Twenty-three thousand and forty acres of land on the Siletz Indian reservation in Lincoln County, Oregon, were thrown open for settlement Monday. The United States land office was thronged with people eager to file, about 160 claims being taken. The alleged robbery of the Chicago bookmakers started a run on the Masonic Temple vaults by depositors who wanted to make sure their property was still intact. The company does the largest deposit business in the world, and rich and poor were in the jam. Frederick Morrison, of Salem, Ohio, while riding in a carriage on Miles avenue with Miss Mary Cowley, drew a revolver from his pocket and fired a bullet through his brain that resulted in his death shortly afterward. Morrison had been paying attention to Miss Cowley and she refused to marry him. A terrific hailstorm prevailed over a considerable part of the farming country iu the vicinity of Hastings Monday afternoon. Chunks of ice weighing nearly a quarter of a pouiid fell for fifteen minutes. Chickens were killed and young stock injured. Oats and corn were driven into the ground. Jerome C. Lewis, a farmer near I’aw Paw, Mich., was fatally wounded by Charles F. Crossman of Kalamazoo. Crossman approached Lewis at his home and asked for employment. Being refused, he shot Lewis in the breast with a revolver, then beat him about the head with his weapon. At Plattsmouth, Neb., a cloudburst Friday night swept a river of water four feet deep down the main street, taking with it everything movable. Half a dozen frame buildings collapsed, the electric light plant was rendered useless, and every cellar in the place was filled. Several stocks of merchandise were seriously damaged. The total damage is estimated at $200,000.

FOREIGN.

The Pope is reported displeased at the way cardinals conducted the Philippine negotiations with Gov. Taft. Great Britain has proposed to the powers to relieve Chinn of eight indemnity installments, aggregating $90,000,000. The Vatican will withdraw friars from the Philippines, as asked by the United States. Other Spanish priests will replace them. A French doctor who inoculated himself with bovine tuberculosis claims tumors have resulted, thus disproving Dr. Koch’s theory. John W. Mackay, “bonanza mining king,” died at his London house after tn illness of five days. Heart failure was the immediate cause of death. The steamship Primus, of Hamburg, with 185 passengers on board, was cut in two and sunk by the tug Hansa on the River Elbe. About fifty persons were drowned. A typhoon swept Southern Luzon and sank the United States customs steamer Shearwater; nineteen members of her crew, including three Americans, were drowned. Au official notification was issued in London Friday morning that by the King's command the coronation of King Edward and Queen Alexandra will take place Aug. 9. Count Matsukata, former minister of finance of Japan, sees danger of a setback for United States, and believes Americans are doing too much business on borrowed capital. Secretary Taung of the Chinese legation to the United States, who has arrived from Europe, said the neW minister is a clever man, and that honors await Minister Wu iu China. Two hundred nnd nineteen Leyte bolomen surrendered and took the oath of allegiance to the American government. Two bands of ladrones were surrendered by constabulary and the majority killed. An unwritten agreement is said to exist between A. J. Balfour, the new premier of Great Britain, and Colonial Secretary Chamberlain that no appointments shall be made without the consent of Chamberlain. The St. Petersburg Novoc Vreniya publishes a dispatch from Seoul, Corea, which says that two American missionaries have been stoned and beaten on the line of the Seoul-Pusan Railroad by Japanese laborers. D. G. Longworth of Cairo, now in England, says that the Egyptian sphinx Is rapidly decaying. It will not now. he says, be able long to withstand the altering climate of Egypt due to the irrigation of recent years. The final summary of the Irish census returns have been presented to Parliament. It shows that during a hulf-cen-

tury over 3,000,000 persons have emigrated from Ireland, and that 80 per cent of these emigrants have gone to the United States. A severe earthquake shock was experienced at Bunder Abbas, Persia. All the chief buildings suffered. The governor’s house partly collapsed and the custom house was destroyed. The whole population was panic-stricken and flocked to the sea beach for safety, but only one fatality was reported. At Kieff, European Russia, fifteen persons were drowned by a sudden inrush of water into the basements of various houses in the lower portions of the town. A torrential rainstorm, accompanied by violent wind and hail, broke over Kieff and turned the streets into veritable torrents, flooding cellars and drowning their occupants before they were able to escape. Official dispatches received at St. Petersburg/ announce the serious spread of cholera in Manchuria, accompanied by great mortality. As an instance, it is cited that out of 643 cases at Inku 477 died. Up to July 4, at Kharbin. there had been 575 cases and 322 deaths up to July 10. At a score of other places affected cholera stations have been established, and the passengers on all trains are inspected by sanitary officers.

IN GENERAL.

Explorer Harry De Windt of Paris has reached Dawson. A census report shows the value Of all farms in the United States for 1000 was $16,674,694,247. The United States will not have a warship in the naval review ou the occasion of the King’s coronation. Reorganization plans of the asphalt trust provide for a new corporation with a capital stock of $31,000,000. A strike has been inaugurated throughout the country by the United Gold-Beat-ers’ National Union of America. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has caused a stir among department officials as a result of alleged remarks concerning dismissals. . The number of immigrants arriving in the United States during the fiscal year 1902 shows an increase of 160,825 over arrivals in IDOL The new government of Cuba has been recognized by Great Britain. France, Spain, Switzerland, Hayti, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Guatemala. Miners’ union officials estimate that if $13.33 can be. provided each month for each striker in the anthracite field the strike can be prolonged indefinitely. The value of torpedo boats in naval warfare is expected to be definitely ascertained in the maneuvers' on the Atlantic coast within the next few weeks. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Trade Review finds industrial conditions greatly improved, due to settlement of labor disputes and good crop outlook. Heavy fall trade is expected. Cuba has requested that the United States coaling station in Havana harbor be given up. Gov. Gen. Wood already had turned over title, and the request will be granted. The United States has inserted in the Panama treaty a clause providing for i the lease of the islands in the Bay of Panama, which are to be used for defense of the canal. John W. Gates says he is the father of the steel trust, gives inside history of its formation, reveals facts upon other vast financial deals, and tells how he rose from salesman to millionaire. Customs officers arrested a priest and his niece for smuggling church goods across the Canadian border. The priest made a confession in which he declat/d that the niece is blameless. The United States received no invitation to participate in Russia’s proposed international conference on trusts, and probably would decline to participate even had one been received. The weather bureau weekly crop report says corn has made splendid progress, except where destroyed by floods. Rains have interfered with harvesting and thrashing of winter wheat. The steamer Belgenland, Philadelphia for Queenstown, with 129 cabin passengers aboard, was towed into Halifax after drifting four days in the north Atlantic with broken propeller shaft. Senator Drummond, of Montreal, tells the House of Commons committee that the only hope for Britain to compete with the United States on the ocean is to have a new subsidized line of fast steamers. William E. Curtis, the Washington correspondent, sees possible division in the Republican party on the question of tariff revision, on each side of which influential and determined forces are at work. Democrats claim to see campaign material in the present high cost of living, blaming the Dingley law and citing ns proof the difference in prices for commodities sent abroad and those sold to home consumers. Ha xaua authorities have discovered a colony of more than a hundred Voodoos in the forests near Demajaybo, a village in Santiago province and on the extreme eastern end of Cuba. The discovery has caused considerable uneasiness in that locality, owing to the great barbarities practiced by the sect in the name of religion. Dr. Garnault, who inoculated himself with matter taken from a consumptive cow. in order to disprove Professor Koch’s theory that it is impossible for human beings to catch tuberculosis from cattle, says that the inoculation has produced tuberculosis tumors. He says this proves that man is quite as susceptible to bovine tuberculosis us tiny other animal. It is estimated that from 20,000 to 25,000 harvesters will be required in West Canada. The Canadian Pacific Railroad is arranging with the Allan and Beaver Steamship lines to bring laborers from England at exceptionally cheap rates. General Manager McNicholl is hi Winnipeg and hopes to avoid a grain blockade this year. The road, he says, has purchased 100 new engines and will have 10,000 cars available. Acting Cbmmissioner Williams of the internal revenue bureau has issued instructions to collectors to the effect that wholesale and retail dealer* in oleomargarine who have paid special tax at the rate of S2OO and $6, respectively, per annum, who are found to have sold any oleomargarine taxed at a different rate than one-fourth of 1 cent per found, removed from the factory on Tnd after July 1. 1902, will be required to provide themselves with special tax stamps at the higher rate.

BIG GAIN FOR CORN.

MAKES GOOD PROGRESS EXCEPT WHERE FLOODED. Rains Interfere with Winter Wheat) but the Harvest of Oats Is Satisfactory—Much Hay Spoiled by Storms in the Various States. The weather bureau's weekly summary of crop conditions says the low T er Missouri and upper Mississippi Valleys and lake region have continued to suffer from excessive rains, which also have interrupted farm work in the Ohio Valley and in portions of the Middle Atlantic States and New England. Much injury to crops and other property has resulted from overflows in lowa and portions of Illinois, Missouri and Michigan. Drouth has been largely relieved in the Southern States, but extensive areas in that section are still much iu need of rain, especially the northern portions, extending from Oklahoma eastward to the Carolinas. The temperature as a whole have been favorable, although rather Jow in the northern Rocky Mountain districts. The north Pacific coast States sustained considerable damage; from high winds and the Dakotas and Minnesota from hailstorms in scattered localities. < The corn crop has made splendid progress in the States of the central valleys, except in lowa and limited portions of Missouri and Illinois, the condition of the crop in lowa being fairly good on welltilled uplands, but great damage has resulted from floods on the river bottoms of the southern and eastern portions of that State and in Northern Illinois. Highly favorable reports are received from Nebraska, Kansas and the greater part of Missouri and Illinois, and a decided improvement-in the condition of the crop in Ohio Valley is indicated. Rains have interfered with the harvesting of winter wheat where unfinished in the extreme northern districts and also have been unfavorable for thrashing in the central valleys, while considerable wheat iu shock in the lower Missouri Valley has been damaged. Harvesting continues in California and has begun in Oregon, where wheat is filling nicely. The crop in both Oregon and Washington has, however, sustained considerable damage from recent high winds. Spring wheat has advanced favorably in the principal spring wheat States, but has sustained injury in scattered localities from hailstorms. Oat harvest is finished in the Southern States and is in progress in the central valleys, and while lodging is extensively reported from Ohio, upper Mississippi and Missouri Valleys and lake region. ' the general condition of the crop continues satisfactory.

WHERE CUSTER FELL.

Unique Fourth of July Celebration on an Historic Battlefield. At Sheridan. Wyo., near the battlefield of the Little Big Horn, where the gallant Custer and his command of 277 troopers were butchered by the confederated Sioux Indians on June 23, 1876, a mimic but fearfully lifelike imitation of that bloodcurdling event was enacted on the Fourth of July this year. Soldiers from Fort McKenzie represented Custer’s slaughtered command, while a force of 1.500 Crows and Cheyennes carried on the part played in the tragedy by the bloodthirsty Sioux. The sham battle was one of the most thrilling affairs of the kind ever held on the American continent, and the make-believe scalping by the Indians after the troopers had been shot down to

WHERE CUSTER’S TROOPERS SLEEP.

the last man sent shudders through the spectators. Not far from the spot where the mimic exercises were held is the national cemetery where rest the ashes of those who fell with Custer twenty-six years ago. Originally the bodies of the dead were buried as they lay on the battlefield, little headstones subsequently being erected to mark the graves. Later the remains of the troopers were removed to the summit of the hill and a large granite shaft was erected by the national government. Custer's body was reinterred in the military cemetery at West Point. N. Y.

Short News Notes.

Jesse Rule, a retired merchant, was stabbed to death nt Catlettsburg, Ky., by Fred Burchett, a timberman. Mrs. Plumb, widow of the late Senator Plumb, has given a site worth $2,000 for the Carnegie library at Emporia, Kan. The Frisco road has purchased ground at Fort Scott, Kan., and will soon rebuild and enlarge its car shops there. New York city officials have been enjoined from carrying out a contract for paring a rival of the asphalt trust, at the instance of the latter The Odd Fellows Orphans’ Home at Checotah, I. T., will be ready for occupancy about Sept. 20. Checotah secured the home by donating 160 acres of laud. The Japanese government has virtually decided to participate in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and has commenced to prepare estimates for that proposition. The appropriation will amount to about 2,500,000 yen and the Japanese delegates have already been decided upon. E. A. Sweet, trainmaster at Lns Vegas, N. M., was appointed to succeed D. E. Cain as assistant general manager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe RailwTfy system. Neat SaJinn Cruz, on the Pacific side of the isthmus of Tehuantepec, a giant geyser has broken tint as the result of heavy earthquakes occurring in that see* tion since April 18 last. The column of water rises to a height of about fifty feet, roars and hisses from among the rocks and is an object of great interest to the people and to passing vessels, being plainly visible from the sea.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

~ “—] Settlement of numerous nßlf lOffi. labor controversies and 1 ~ 1 prospect of early agreements as to other struggles have greatly improved the industrial outlook, while agricultural conditions steadily improve. As these have been the only unfavorable influences for some months, the prospects for active trade are decidedly encouraging. Preparations for unusually heavy fall sales are being made and confidence grows stronger. Mills and furnaces that have been idle on account of the usual overhauling resumed as rapidly as needed repairs could be made. Financial conditions are sound, the midyear dividend distributions producing no stringency, and speculation has been heavy for the season, both iu securities and staples. R. \G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade makes the foregoing summary of the industrial outlook. Continuing, the review says: Pig iron continues to command full prices, supplies falling below requirements and furnace deliveries failing to fill contracts. Scarcity of fuel is still the principal drawback, while car and motive power shortage are additional causes of delay. New orders are reported for distinct delivery running about a year ahead. Prices are fully maintained for the raw material, but billets weakened slightly because of foreign selling. Importations have reached a considerable aggregate*aud more are expected. Structural material is still the feature, new business being offered in great bulk. Railway needs do not diminish, despite the enormous amount of work already placed. Crop prospects have continued favorable, and with the removal of speculative influences there was a gradual decline in prices. Cotton rules steady, the outlook for a liberal yield being balanced by the strong statistical position. ~ Sensational performances CblCdOO. were witnessed in the * I grain markets. July corn declined 25c from the top figures following the winding up of the “corner.” Now it is claimed that July oats have been cornered also and from the fact that oats touched the remarkable figure of 57|4 e there would seem to be manipulation of some kind going on. A readjustment is going on in wheat. Old wheat is commanding higher premiums as a wet harvest in the winterwheat section has damaged the quality to such an extent that for the present not more than 1 per cent of the receipts here are gaining contract. This poor showing is reflected in the strength in July, which advanced to 79c, or nearly 6 cents over September. In the Minneapolis market the scarcity of good milling wheat, coupled with bull manipulation ran July up over 80c. and as cash wheat of the contract grade commands a premium, there were sales of No. 1 northern off the tables at 81c. Well might it be wished that these prices would rule for the coming crop, and possibly they will. Last Week saw a collapse in the bull deal in July corn. A week ago everybody was confident that the Wall street clique intended to put the price to sl. They saw how easy it was to mark it up to 90c, but that was ns high as the clique expected to put it. The price dropped from 86c Monday to 63’,4c on Wednesday, and later moved up to 69c, and closed Saturday at 67%c, or 18%c lower than the previous week. Both cattle and hogs reached the high point of the year during the week, yet closing prices for cattle were considerably lower than a week ago, with hogs about the same as a week ago*. Sheep advanced OOe to 80e, and lambs 10c to 15c during the week. Receipts for the week, compared with the previous week, increased 3,300 cattle and decreased 27,000 hogs and 17.900 sheep. Compared with the corresponding week a year ago there was a decrease of 10,200 cattle, 62,600 hogs, and 26.400 sheep.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $8.00; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $8.10; sheep, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn. No. 2,64 cto 63c; oats. No. 2,49 c to 50c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 62c; hay, timothy, $ll.OO to $17.50; prairie, $6.00 to $13.50; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potatoes, new, 40c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $8.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.65; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 white, 65c to 66c; oats, No. 2 white, 50c to 52c. St. Louis —Cattle, $1.50 to $8.00; hogs, $3.00 to $7.85; sheep. $2.50 to $4.40; wheat. No. 2,68 cto 69c; corn. No. 2, 61c to 62c; oats, No. 2,49 cto 50c; rye. No. 2,55 cto 56c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.50 to $7.25; hogs, $4.00 to $7.95; sheep, $3.25 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 66c to 67c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 56c; rye. No. 2,54 cto 55c. Detroit —Cattle, S3.<XJ to $6.50; hogs,; $3.00, to $7.65; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 66c to 67c; oats. No. 2 white, 56c to 57c; rye, 60c to 61c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 64c to 65c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; clover seed, prime, $5.27. Milwaukee— Wheat, No. 2 northern, 7flc to 77c; corn, No. 3. 65c to 66c; oats, No. 2 white, 61c to 62c; rye, No. 1,59 a to 61c; barley, No. 2,69 cto 70c; pork, mess, SIB.OO. New- York—Cattle, $4.00 to $7.75: hogs, $3.00 to $7.65; sheep, $4.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2, 69c to 70c; oats, No. 2 white, 63c to 64c; butter, creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, Western, 17c to 19c. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $8.25; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $8.27; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $6.50. Lewis Wilkins, 30 years old, 8 feet 2 inches in height, weighing 365 pounds, is. dead in Qhicago.