Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1902 — Page 2

JASPER, com DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, IKDIAWA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Mrs. A. K. 11. Patchen, of Buffalo, N. Y„ a member of an old aristocratic family of the Empire State, dropped dead in San Francisco. A candle, which she was carrying when death overtook her, ignited her clothing, burning the body somewhat. The bodies of John W. Kirby, a farmer, and wife were found in bed at their home, three miles north of Burden, Kan. Each had a bullet hole through the head and a revolver with two empty chambers was lying on the man’s body. All indications point to suicide. Charles (lurdner, who was kidnaped by two tramps ten years ago, when 1- years old, from his home near Quincy, 111., met his father in Wichita, Ivan., by accident. Young Gardner says the tramps took him to Fort Worth, Texas, where he was conijadled to beg. He finally escaped. Joseph Abelo and Morgan Davidson, members of the Fifth battery, Field Artillery. T'. S. A., were killed at the Presidio, San Francisco, by the caving in of a clay bank on which they were working. Abele was a resident of Cherry vale, Kan., and Davidson of Big Creek, Ivy. On the body of a woman floating in the bay at St. Michael’s, Alaska, drafts and gold to the amount of $15,000 have been found. The ’body was identified as that of a woman known in Lower Yukon ns “Becky.” The money was turned over to the federal authorities, while an effort is made to trace her heirs. T. F. Kirby shot and killed his son, J. W. Kirby, in loin, Kan., as the result of a quarrel. The father says that he shot in self-defense, as he was attacked with n razor. Another soil, who was the only witness to the shooting, refuses to discuss it. The dead boy had been drinking and started the trouble by abusing bis father and brother. Fred Herron, white, and Hubert Johnson, a negro, prisoners in the county jail ut Leavenworth, Kan., overpowered the guard and escaped. They entered the house of Carl Gitseh, on a farm four miles south of the city, held a pistol to liis head, and demanded his money. A young son of Gitseh came downstairs with a shotgun and shot and killed Herron. Johnson tied and has not been captured. The steamer City of Venice was struck and sent to tin 1 bottom of Lake Erie in fifteen minutes by the Canadian steamer Sequin off Point Hondeau. Three of the Venice's crew went down with their ship. The lost steamer was bound down Lake Erie from Lake Superior with a cargo of 2,500 tons of iron ore. Many of the passengers of the ill-fated ship jumped overboard in the panic following the collision, but were saved. Following is the standing of the dubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .155 20 Cincinnati ...40 4t' Brooklyn ...50 42 St. Louis... .4 V 49 Chicago . . . .4S 41 Philadelphia. ”<> 54 Boston 11 40 New York.. .2* 00 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....50 3(5 Cleveland ...42 40 St. Louis.. ..47 OS Washington . -11 4S Boston 40 41 Baltimore . . .MS 51 Philadelphia 44 38 Detroit 57 47 In a collision between a freight train and u work train on the Chicago, Milwau - kee and St. Paul Itailway, four miles east of Collins, lowa, eleven men were killed outright, two have since died and about thirty were injured seriously. The trains came together in a deep cut and on a sharp curve, when it was impossible for either engineer to see the other train more than three or four ear lengths away. Each train was making good speed, the freight to make up lost time out and the work train to reach a point to meet the freight. The flat ears on which the laborers rode were telescoped and the men thrown in all directions and buried under the debris. It is said the wreck was due to a misunderstanding of orders on the part ot the conductor of the work train.

BREVITIES.

A northwest gale swept Lake Miehi Ban, wreekiUK two yacht* and eausing big waterspout near St. Joseph, Mich. Brakeman Robert Foley of Portsmouth was killed and four other persons injured in a freight wreek on the Norfolk and Western ltailroad near Peebles, Ohio. Daniel Sweeney, a watchman employed by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company at the Bliss colliery in Hanover township, l’a., was found dead in a field. Harry Tracy, the bandit, shot himself and'died almost instantly in a wheat field near Fellowes, Wash, lie was surrounded by a posse whieh had been successfully held ut hay for hours. The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of York, Me., wne observed by a floral and historical parade, followed by commemorative exercises, There were 20,000 visitors in town. Luther Wallen, son of Hoy. ,1. B. Wallen, was found dead in n highway neat Hneedville, Tonn. He had been shot near the heart. The cause of the killing is tot known and no arrests have been made. Mrs. Anna V. L. Pierson, widow of Dr, William Hugh Pierson, said to he the inv* utor of celluloid, committed suicide hy hanging herself at her home in Glen Bidge, N. J,, owing to continued ill health. The New York Times has acquired tin triangle bounded hy Broadway. West 42d street and 7th avenue, and will build a large modern steel construction building, primarily for its own use, to he rcud.v for occupancy early in 1004. FHre of incendiary origin broke out at We*rt Alexandria, Ohio, and burned six business houses nud two residences. The Arcade Hotel guests were driven from rooms before they had time to secure their personal effects. Heroic work saved the hotel, laiss £1,1.000, The Southwestern Slate Manufacturing Company of Hlatingttm. Ark., has just filed articles of incorporation increasing Its capital stock to $10,000.00'). The stockholders are principally Pastern capitalists. The company has slate quarries at Hlatington. and a railroad is to he built «t once from there to llot Springs.

EASTERN.

Lightning struck St. Peter’s Church at Galilee, N. J., during the sermon Sunday. W. L. Ba thour has been nominated for Congress hj the Republicans of the Sixth New Jersey District. Senator Quay narrowly escaped death in liis fishing smack off Atlantic City when a storm came up. Carlos Zaldo, Secretary of State of Cuba, has arrived in New York and proceeded immediately to Liberty. J*. Y., where his wife was seriously ill. Portion of human skeleton has been found under the basement of the White house at Washington by workmen excavating for new heating apparatus. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has announced the engagement of her son, Keginald, and Cathleen Neilsou. youngest daughter of Mrs. Frederick Neilson. Harold Hartshorne, 0 years old, of New York, has been sued for $50,000 damages by his former governess, who says he administered a beating to her. Miss Anna I>. Collier, a school teacher of Worcester, anil Miss Jean Brown of Detroit, summer guests at Hull, Mass., were drowned in the surf while bathing. The National Dentai Association, in session at Niagara Falls, elected L. G. Knowles of Nashville, Teun., president, and A. 11. Peck of Chicago recording secretary. Willard C. Van Derlip, a prominent Boston lawyer, arrested for the larceny of bonds valued at $4,000, has admitted dissipating $200,000 estate of which he had the care. Four were seriously hurt, scores knocked down and thousands in panic'as result of premature bomb explosion at competitive fireworks display ut Mount Vernon, near New York. A head-on collision between milk trains on the Ontario und Western Railroad, at Horton's, X. Y.. resulted in the death of three persons, the Wrecking of two engines and the ditching of several cars. Barefooted and tattered, Charles Howard, the famous old-time minstrel, Was picked up on the street in Baltimore, find Justice Lewis sent him to the poorhouse for one year on the charge of vagrancy. Mrs. Elizabeth Meyer, under indictment at Buffalo, N. Y.. for murdering her husband, I>r. Jacob F. Meyer, a prominent young physician and societyman, has been taken to the Buffalo State hospital a raving maniac. - The Shenango tin plate mill at Newcastle, Pa., the largest of its kind in tin* world, shut down for an indefinite period. Officials say it is due to market stagnation and not in retaliation for refusal of the men to accept a wage cut. The coroner’s jury investigating the Lehigh Valley Railroad wreck in Rochester, X. Y„ iu which one was killed and a score injured, charges criminal negligence to Conductor Frank De La Vergne and Engineer Daniel Connolly. The proposition made by the American Tin Plate Company of Pittsburg to its employes, that they accept a reduction ill wages of 25 per cent, has been rejected. Another conference between the company und Amalgamated Association officials has been arranged for. Walter M. Smith, treasurer and general manager of the Greenwood division of the. Mount Vernon Woodberry Cotton Duck Company, has received notilieati >n from the company's head offices at Baltimore that the Greenwood mills, in Connecticut, which has 700 employes, will shut down Sept. I for an indefinite period. After fighting for three minutes on the twelfth floor of the uncompleted Commonwealth Trust Company's building, in Philadelphia, nearly 200 feet above the street, Joseph Touieny, a laborer, struck his fellow workman. Walter Hoffman, twice with a brick and then pushed him headlong down the elevator shaft to death. A letter containing $25,000 worth of notes was lost on Wednesday last somewhere between Boston and Lowell, in the mails. The package was sent by Blake Brothers, bankers, to a correspondent in Lowell, the actual mailing being done by a trusted employe who put a special delivery stamp on the package before mailing it. He did not register it. Hubert Innes of Thomaston, Conn.. who was slightly shocked by lightning during n recent storm, has had his hearing completely restored to him. During the last twenty years Mr. Innes had suffered from deafness, but when he recovered from tho effects of the lightning shuck he could hear a clock tick and now can hear as well as before he became a til let ed. The Italian steamer Sardegna, from Genoa and Naples, arrived iu New York towing the American schooner Notice of Providence, It. 1., from Brava, Cape Verde Islands, with sixty-fonr persons on hoard. Captain Montana of the Sardegna said he found the Notice disabled and drifting helplessly with the gulf stream. John F. Pina, the schooner's mate, reported that the Notice was disabled by a squall.

WESTERN.

Masked men near Lackeys, Wyo„ are reported to be beating sheepmen and killing their herds. The property of the Waukesha Springs Company was sold to F. J. It. Mitchell of New York for s.l-1,000. George K. (ireenfall, George Parker and (leorge Mason were killed by a gas explosion ut Aquilar, Colo. Fred Falkiuherg, a teamster of Kansas City, Mo., shot and killed his wife us she lay asleep ami then shot himself. He cannot recover. Mayor Ames of Minneapolis has resigned and will step down Sept. -1. He has also demanded that his brother, the chief of police, resign. . Despondent because of illness. Joseph Podawoski stubbed his wife and 1- yearold daughter and committed suicide at El Kcuo, O. T. Sturgis, r. 1)., Ernest Loscwnr was found guilty of tin- murder of George Puck and George Ostrander and given the death sentence. By a vfite of 3 to 11 the park eonituis•loners decided that hereafter automobiles should he excluded from the parks ami houlevnrdslof. Omaha. The Ohio plant of the National Steel Tube Company in Warren, Ohio, which has been Idle since the combine waa formed, hits been ordered dismantled. David Morris, a farmer, aged 48, was killed hy his son, Davis Morris, aged 22, near Prattsville, Ohio. The son was living with his father ana demanded the use

of a horge. When the father refuged the son struck him with a club. The father died within an hour. Panhandle train No. 11, tie fast mail, struck and killed J. M. Anderson of Kenton, Ohio, and Obe Jones of Tiffin. 1 The men were walking on the track. The explosion of a sawmill boiler on the farm of George Neff, near Bellaire, Ohio, killed John Shaw and George Wheeler and fatally injured Charles Supper. The new torpedo boat Grampus, one of the two ordered from the Union iron works, by the United States navy, v as successfully launched at San Francisco. Dr. William M. Beard shear, president of lowa State College at Ames, died as the result of nervous prostration. Dr. Benrdshear was one of the foremost educators in lowa. The Centennial Flour Mills at spokane. Wash., with a daily capacity of 700 barrels of flour and 200 barrels of cereal foods, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $85,000. The big grain elevator owned by John J. Badenoeh & Co. in Chicago was damaged $75,000 by fire. No watchman is employed In the--building and the origin of the fire is a mystery. Because his wife had left him. Pleas I’itzer. a negro, shot and killed Robert Brooks, his father-in-law, and his daughter and fatally wounded another sister of his wife near Brinkley, Ark. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy limited train on route front Chicago to Minneapolis was held up near Savanna, 111., by two masked men and the express ear was looted of booty valued at $20,000. Joseph Hardesty was instantly killed and his four sons were seriously injured by the explosion of a large boiler at his sawmill on Wolfe creek, in Lawrence County, Ohio. The mill is a wreck. John Courier and Joseph Vnrvais. Frenchmen, were killed by a cave-in on the seventh level of the Homestake mine at Lead, S. I). Five floors of the level came down, with about fifty feet of the loose rock. Carols Sardelli, an Italian scissors grinder, lies in>a serious condition at his home in St. Paul because of a self-in-flicted dagger thrust in the left side which was administered during a dance of hysterical happiness. A lone highwayman at Helena, Mont., held up Samuel Travel* and James Katidall, and after he had robbed them, compelled them to stop a street ear. tie a handkerchief over his face and go through the car.'"The robber secured sso. An earthquake shook Missoula County, Mont., causing damage and wrecking some old houses. It lasted about two seconds, the vibrations being quick qnd short. At Bonner one of the large dynamos of tho electrical plant was shaken from its adjustment. On his deathbed William Thompson of Vilas. Colo., has confessed that he killed his son, Benjamin, aged 13, and that Zeb Nicholson, who was convicted of having murdered the boy and is serving a sentence of ten to twenty years in the penitentiary, is innocent.

The body of an unidentified woman was brought to Stillwater, Minn., from a point near Lake Elmo, where she had been killed by a .passing train ou the Omaha road. There is nothing to lead to her identity aside from a ring marked “J. C. to M. S.” June and July broke the “wet” record for Chicago. One foot and one-fourth of an inch of rain fell in the two months. There were thirty-nine rainy days, and in July there were thirty-six showers. The month’s precipitation was 5.78 inches. That for June was 6.45 inches. Mrs. Julia C. Howell of Chicago committed suicide at La Veta Place rooming house in Denver by taking laudanum. The deed was committed on Wednesday, but the body was not discovered until Friday. In a note to her landlady she explained that illness caused her to take her life. J. Kiley, a stationary engineer of Leadville, was held up and robbed in the City Park, Denver, Colo. He says he overheard two men talking of kidnaping the daughter of James A. MeClurg, son-in-law of David H. Moffatt. When the men discovered him they attaekis] and robbed him.

Superintendent of Irrigation Armstrong lias received a report from Commissioner Banning that thirty farmers, fully armed, marched to the headgates of Fulton ditch, near Henderson. Colo., and. breaking down the headgate, allowed an immense amount of water to flow into the ditch, thus saving their crops. Mrs. B. B. Swing of Valparaiso, Ind., was killed at Pittsburg in an automobile accident. She was riding in Schley Park when through the loosening of a screw an automobile in which she was riding coursed wildly along a driveway. The woman fainted from the rush of air and fell from the runaway machine. In Cleveland tracks were cleared for a .Trent fare again, when the Circuit Court dissolved the temporary restraining order hy which the City Council was --ujoinod from passing any franchise legislation. Three-ecnt fare franchises will now te pushed through the Council at once, in accordance with Mayor Johnson's plans. The steamer'City of Wheeling had a narrow escape from serious disaster in tile Ohio river off North Bend, Ind., while bcund from Cincinnati to Madison, Ind., with a cabin full of passengers. Part of her freight was washed overboard and her passengers were thrown into a panic for a few moments as the result of a collision with the steamer City of Cincinnati. Mrs. Sarah Xessler of Denver, Colo., who has been blind for seven years ami w hose affliction was pronounced incurable by oculists, says she has recovered her sight in a miraculous manner. While praying at a revival meeting or the Holiness sect, sometimes called “The Jumpers," she says a white light broke upon her eyes nud soon she was able to distinguish objects. Mr. aii<| Mrs. John Khnndrow, who own a fruit farm near South Haven, Mich., are childless, ami, having decided to adopt a hoy, wrote to the Smith, Foundling Asylum in Minneapolis asking that several children be sent for n summer's outing, with the privilege of choosing from them in case they so desired. The institution promptly forw.'.’•■led twentytwo boys and girls over 3 years of age. The couple has decided to adopt all of them. A Santa Fe passenger train returning to Los Angeles, Cal., from Redondo Beach ran through an open switch and crashed into nn oil train. Both engines were wrecked, ns were also one conch and four oil-tank cara. The fuel tank of

üße of the engines exploded immediatelj t.fter the crash, setting fire to the wreck. Burning oil was scattered in every direction and the large oil refinery plant of the Combs Refining Company was set on fire. The plant was destroyed, as were all the cars in the wreck except one.

SOUTHERN.

A negro suspected of the murder of a white farmer was lynched near Leesburg, Va., within sight of the national capital. William Dodwcll, a farmer near Yelvington. Ivy., was hound to a tree by a mob and lashed with a blaeksnake whip until he was almost unconscious. Will Dentzler, a young negro, wa,s hanged privately in the court house yard at Hattiesburg, Miss., for an assault on Mrs. Ed Gardner, a white woman. Dentzler confessed. Gov. White of West Virginia offered a reward of SSOO for the arrest and conviction of parties engaged in the recent lynchings in Randolph County as a result of the assassination of Police Chief Wilmoth. The Hotel Garrard, the opera house, W. A. Arnold's livery stable, with nine horses and twelve vehicles: Burnett & Co.’s shoe and clothing establishment, and F. P. Frisbie's drug store wore burned at Lancaster, Ivy. The loss is about $5(1,000, insurance $20,000. Given E. Brocar of Louisville, Ky, a landsman of the United States cruiser Montgomery, lying at the Brooklyn navy yard, committed suicide by taking poison on board the vessel. It is thought his recent failure to pass an examination for naval yeoman caused him to become despondent and kill himself. At Wise court house, Virginia, in the presence of a thousand people, George Robinson, colored, was banged for tho murder of another negro. On the first drop the rope broke. Robinson was brought tip the steps on the outside of the scaffold to he hanged the second t ! me, and had to wait until the sheriff went to a store to secure another rojie.

FOREIGN.

Col. Piequart lias won a verdict for $4,000 against the Echo de Paris for libel. Queen Maria Christina, mother of King Alfonso, accompanied by the Infanta Maria, has left Madrid for Vienna. Explorer Baldwin has arrived in Norway from tiie Arctic and tells of greaT progress made in polar explorations and of preparations for a dash to the pole iu 1903. The Chinese foreign office has notified United States Minister Conger that government troops have killed between 300 and 400 rioters in Sze-Chuen province and thut order is now restored there. So far sixty-seven bodies have been recovered from the Mount Ivimbla colliery at Wollongong, Australia, where an explosion occurred. The work of rescue is greatly hampered by afterdamp in the mine. Gov. Gota of the province of Formosa, Japan, has visited Ellis Island, New York, to study American methods of excluding Chinese immigrants. Japan is said to be preparing to adopt an exclusion act against Chinese. The London Daily Mail says it is in a position to state that there is no question of any second operation on the King being contemplated. It adds that there is every reason to expect that his majesty is well on the road to permanent recovery without further surgical treatment of any kind. The object of the visit of the King of Italy to the German Emperor at the end of this month is to propose a reduction in continental armaments. This was the purpose of bis visit to the Czar, from whom he received every encouragement. He will go to the Emperor with Russia's full support. Pablo Matiras, a bandit who. had terrorized the island of Rotnblon, I*. I„ for the last ten years, was captured by the native constabulary on the neighboring island of Stbuyan. With his arms bound he was placed in a boat to be conveyed to Itomblon, but sprung overboard, in a dash for liberty, and was drowned. While cholera is decreasing in Manila the reports received from the provinces show n large number of cases and deaths. On a recent Saturday there were 005 cases and 525 deaths from cholera in the provinces. Since the outbreak of the epidemic there have boon throughout the archipelago a total of 21,408 cases of cholera and 10,105 deaths.

IN GENERAL.

Dr. Charles Kendall Adams’ estate has been found to he worth only $30,000. Exports from the United States decreased over $100,000,01)0 during the last fiscal year, while the imports increased over $80,000,000. Ambassador White mailed his resignation ns minister to Germany to the United States several days ago. It is to take effect early in November. President Roosevelt defeated Commandant Snyman, crack shot of South Africa, both with pistols and rifle, and break*- the record for five consecutive pistol shots. The Immigration Bureau has issued a circular stating that natives and residents of Porto Rico and Philippines must submit to same examination as other foreigners. Cuban revenues are falling off and the new government will face a deficit at the end of the first year of the republic. Sunitnry conditions are neglected and return of Scourge invited. . *•*.- The Armours huve procured control of two Hammond packing companies i nd n merger of all the big concerns is suid to be near, the financing of which will approximate $150,000,000. Marshall Field & Co. of Chicago have acquired one of the most valuable b'uslness sites in Winnipeg, Man., the object, as It became known at the time of tho purchase, being to establish a mammoth department and distributing store. The Cuban House of Representatives lias passed a hill authorizing issue of $3.7,. 000,000 in government securities to he re. deemed In forty years with interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum. United States may enter objection under treaty stipulation. The Santa-Fe Railroad lias issued a circular granting nu increase in wages to the carmen. Good gains are shown in all the departments. The highest wage* nre paid at The Needles and Barstow, Cal., with Colorado and New Mexics uext “*» tha list.

ROB EXPRESS TRAIN.

MASKED BANDITS TAKE $2,000 FROM BURLINGTON LIMITED. Torpedo Track Near Savanna, 111., and Halt Flyer Northbound—Train Crew Forced to Remain Quiet While Safe la Blown Open—One Robber E lain. Train No. 47 of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was held up by six masked robbers at 11:30 o’clock Tuesday night, the express car blown up with dynamite and the safe robbed of a sum estimated to be $2,000. The robbery took place about 123 miles from Chicago between Savanna, 111. and Marcus, a fiag station eight miles north of that place. Torpedoes were placed on the track by the bandits and at the north-bound train exploded them tht engineer shut off the steam and applied the brakes, thiuking that there was danger ahead. The moment the train came to a stop one of the masked robbers sprang aboard the engine und thrust a revolver into the face of the engineer and another at the fireman. Both members of the engine crew were threatened with death unless they obeyed the commands of the robbers. Cut the Train iu Two. Meanwhile another bandit stepped between tbe express car and the passenger coaches and cut tbe train iu two. He then sprang aboard the engine and ordered the engineer to pull up the track. When the engine had proceeded a short distance to u point far from any human habitation the robbers ordered a halt. The engineer, with a revolver muzzle pressed close to his ear. had nothing to do but obey. The robbers were well equipped for the task before them. They drew sticks of dyuamite from bulging pockets aud went toward the express car, taking along the engineer and fireman. Arriving at the door of the express car, the robbers set off'the dynamite in their possession. This blew the express car to pieces. The big safe in the car was then shattered by another explosion of dynamite. The money haviug been revealed when the safe was blown, one of the robbers began to pick up the cash and throw it into a bag he took from a pocket. V v R obbers Flee Into Woods. When the pile of money in sight had vanished inside the bag the "coin collector” gave the signal and his confederates marched the engine crew back to their posts. The engineer and fireman were told to pull out as fast as possible from the scene. The moment the locomotive began to move the robbers fled into the blackness of the night and the big patch of woods that lined the railway track. As they were disappearing in the brush Express Messenger B.vl fired and killed one of them. The authorities have been unable to determine the identity of the dead matt. Meantime a flagman on the train of coaches that had been left a few miles back ou the road, suspecting at once what had happened, started on the dead run for Savanna to give the alarm. On the way he heard the sound of the double explosion that wrecked the express car and the safe. After a run of several miles the flagman arrived at Savanng. He was then breathless, but he managed to tell a short story of the fate of the train. Officers Start in Pursuit. Policemen and railway officials were hurriedly summoned by the station agent, to whom the flagman had reported. It was then 1 o'clock and some difficulty was encountered in getting engines and men together. At 1:30 o’clock, however, an engine was attached to a coach and the latter, filled with heavily armed officers and railway employes, started from Savanna for the scene of the robbery. It was the intention of the officials to beat the woods on both sides of the railway in an endeavor to catch the bandits.

TRACY KILLS HIMSELF.

Outlaw, Surrounded by I‘oshc, Ends His Life Near Fellowes, Wash. Harry Tracy, the bandit, shot himself and died almost instantly in a wheat field near Fellowes, Wash. He was surround-

ed by a posse which had been successfully held .at bay for hours. Armed men from miles around were on the outlaw's trail. The exchange of shots between the bandit uiid his pursuers was at long runge. None dared approach within reach of. Tracy’s deadly weapons, und he was not wounded in

HARRY TRACY.

this his lust battle. The members of Sheriff Gardner’s posse also escaped without injury. Reports received at Creston, Wush., Tuesday night stated that Tracy wus surrounded in a swamp-near the Eddy farm, eleven miles southeast of the town. Jack McGinnis brought the news utid sought re-enforcemeuts. Shortly before midnight McGinnis left Davenport, Wash., with twenty-five heavily armed men in a wagon. Before they arrived Tracy had left the shelter of (he swamp and taken to the open country. It is thought ho expected to overawe his enemies and reiK'at the remarkable successes that marked his career. He had been hard pressed for many hours and the theory is that he founri'his strength leaving him. Disdaining to fall hy any but his own hand, the worst “bad man" that ever killed his mail in the “wild West" shot himself and invented the distinction of being Tracy's slayer from falling to one of hit* pursuers.

Brief News Items.

Secretary of War Root has started on a several weeks' European tour. John W. Mncksy left deeds dividing his real estate between his wife and son. King George of Saxony, who succeeded to the throne June 11) on the death of his brother Albert, is suffering from pneumonia. Prof. Aloec Fortier, professor of Romance languages at Tulune University, New Orleans, La., since 1880, has been lecorated with the cross- of the Legion of Honor of France.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

T! ~ j 1 Aside from heavy rains in NBlf IOFa. Texas, the week’s crop ’ news is encouraging. Manufacturing plants are well occupied as a rule, iron and steel leading, followed by textiles and footwear. Fuel scarcity ia still causing delay, although coke ovens are surpassing all previous figures of output, and bituminous mines are vigorously operated. At most points retnii trade is active aud preparations continue for heavy fall sales, while spring lines tre opened with good results. Railway earnings tints far available for July show a gain of 3.3 per cent over 15)01 and 20.8 per cent over 15)00. R. (}. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade gives the foregoing summary of the investigation. Continuing, the review says: With business in sight for at least n" year, the leading departments of the iron and steel industry may properly be eon«iderod prosperous. Notwithstanding the rapid increase in producing capacity, consumptive demand lias grown still faster, and the recent official report of a new high record of pig iron production nt 8,808,574 tons for the first half of 15)02 is accompanied by the statement that unsold stocks at the end of that period were only 29,8(51 jtons. compared with 372,5(50 tons a year previously. The first month of the second half of 1902 has brought no diminution in inquiries, but some decrease in output owing to scarcity of fuel. Imports are very large in order to keep the steel mills provided with material and offerings of foreign billets have checked the upward tendency of prices. Of engines, machinery and heavy hardware there is’a serious shortage, orders for delivery in 15)02 being out of the question. Steel rails and structural material contracts have been booked far ahead. Grain prices declined sharply as the month of speculative manipulation drew to a close and legitimate trading resumed a more normal volume. Cotton held fairly steady, more because of the large short interest than the floods in Texas. Thus far it is probable that rains have done more good than harm. Demands for consumption contitte liberal. Meats have also shown a tendency to seek slightly lower quotations, but. light receipts and higher quality do not promise any extensive relief in the immediate future.

j The outlook, viewing the CtliCdQO I country in its entirety, is that the generally favorable conditions are maintained, while the crops are a step nearer maturity. Heavy shipments of wool and cattle are giving the Western railroads enormous earnings. It looks now as if these roads will maintain their good showings on present tonnages, and break all records after the crop movement gets under way. The Northwest holds to a good volume of trade in theleading jobbing and manufacturing lines. The Minneapolis flour Irade, while not as heavy as could be wished, showed improvement over the several weeks preceding. In lumber there is talk of further price .advances. Wool is steady at a level several cents above prices at this time last year. In the grain trade there is a feeling of satisfaction over the closing of the July option. Every prominent grain market had its tightening up in July, and with the lightest supplies for years in wheat, corn and oats there was opportunity for price manipulation to the close. With the nervous hesitation naturally attendant upon market conditions in some degree artificial, now gone, the grain markets will be on a basis where normal influences will he given more weight. At was quite to be expected, wheat prices declined. This in response to the extremely favorable spring wheat reports. Let anything of danger to the Northwest crop arise, aud the sharpest price reactions may be expected.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $7.85; sheep, fair to choice, SI.OO to $4.40; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2,59 cto 00c; oats, No. 2,50 c to 52c; rye. No. 2. 52c to 53c; hay, timothy, $ll.OO to $10.00; prairie, SO.OO to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 10c; potatoes, new. 40c to Tsoc per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $8.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.70; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,05 eto 00c; corn, No. 2 white, 02c to 03c; oats, No. 2 white, new, 80c to 31c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $8.75; hogs, $3.00 to $7.80; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,03 cto 04c; corn, No. 2, 58c to 59c; oats, No. 2,27 cto 28c; rye. No. 2,49 cto 50c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $7.25; hogs, $4.00 to $7.50; sheep. $3.25 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2. 09c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, (10c to 04c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 82c; rye. No. 2. 57c to 58c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $7.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 00c to 07c; oats, No. 2 white, 58c to 09c; rye, 54c to 55c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 77c to 78c; corn. No. 3. 00c to file; oats, No. 2 white, 54c to 50c; rye, No. 1,58 c to 59e; barley, No. 2,05 cto 00c; pork, mess, $10.05, Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 02c to C»3c; oats. No. 2 mixed, Blc to 32c; clover seed, prime. $5.17. New York—Cattle, SI.OO to $8.25; hogs, $3.00 to $7.(k7; sheep, $4.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 770; corn, No. 2, 04c to 05c; oat*. No. 2 white, 07c to t»9e; butter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, western, 17c to 19c. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $8.25; bogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $7.95; sheep, fair ft) choice, $3.25 to $4.25; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to SO.OO. Time will demonstrate whether tha strawboard combine is a combine of straw*