Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — Page 6

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

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

A cloudburst caused devastation in Hillsdale cemetery at Madison, N. J. Seventy-five caskets were uncovered by the rushing waters and many of them were swept from the graves. Some of the bodies were found a mile from the cemetery. El Correo do Sonora brings an account of a daring stage robbery near Mazutlan, Mexico, by three masked men. The outlaws obtained $4,000 and escaped with the plunder. Mariano tlordillo, the driver, attempted to whip up the horses and was shot dead. The Fort Wayne, Dayton and Cincinnati Traction Company is planning to construct a road from (Cincinnati to Fort Wayne, there to connect with lines being built to Michigan City, and to secure an entrance into Chicago by establishing a line of steamers. Tlie Twentieth Century limited on the Lake Shore made the best long-distance run ever made by the train. The run was made between Kcndallville, Ind., and Toledo. The distance of ninety-one miles was covered in seventy-five minutes, which is at the rate of 72.8 miles an hour. Sheriff W. C. Barnhill of Ilenry County, Ohio, was shot and probably mortally wounded by chicken thieves. He was summoned to the southern part of the county, where some farmers had three thieves with wagons located. When Barnhill and two deputies attempted to arrest them they showed tight. An unknown man was found dead on the stoop of a private house at 50 West Twenty-ninth street. New York. He had killed himself by drinking poison. It developed that the man had during the day robbed the office of Edward Mn.vhew. He failed to secure any valuables, and liis failure is believed to have prompted him to end his life. Articles of incorporation'have been filed with the Secretary of State at I'ierre, S. D„ by the Farmers’ National Co-opera-tive Exchange Company, with a capital of $00,000,000. The principal object of the corporation is to enable farmers to secure better prices for their produce. For this purpose the corporation will hey and sell grain, live stock and all kinds of produce on commission and otherwise. A chain of grain elevators, warehouses, cold storage plants and stockyards will « be built. Following is the standing of the clulis of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg . ..‘is 23 Cincinnati ...43 50 Brooklyn .. .55 43 St. Louis. . . .4 i 52 Chicago ....50 44 Philadelphia. 37 58 Boston 48 43 New Y0rk...31 03 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. St. Louis... .52 30 Cleveland ...40 50 Chicago ....52 40 Washington. 13 52 Philadelphia 48 40 Detroit 30 5t Boston .... .52 44 Baltimore . . .'3O 55

NEWS NUGGETS.

Congressman E. S. Minor lias boon renominated by the Republicans «.f the Ninth Wisconsin District. Judge Caron of the Canadian Superior Court set at liberty tireene and Gaynor, the American contractors, on the ground that tlie requisition papers are faulty. Santos Dumont’s airship was damaged during an exhibition at Brighton Beach, New York. The accident occurred in the building where the airship was being exhibited. The Bethlehem Steel Company, for ■which Charles M. Schwab paid $7,500,000, has been sold to the United States Shipbuilding Company at a figure stated to be s2<l,ooo,<K Ml. The boiler of the tug Jacob Ivuper blew up near St. Georges, Staten Island, and four members of the crew were killed by the explosion or drowned. Two men were rescued. George McFndden. colored, has confessed to the Philadelphia police that he is wanted in Lumberton, S. ('., for the murder in November, 1900, of Elizabeth Smith, also colored. The postottice at Williamstown, W. 1 a., opposite Marietta. Ohio, was entered b.v two men and a boy. The safe was blown open and SBOO in money and a registered letter were taken. Two hundred and fifty thousand gold dollars, one-half to contain the head of 'Thomas Jefferson and the other half the head of William McKinley, will be coined for the St. Louis exposition. A strike of sulphide ore Carrying 4,iMH) ounces of silver and a large percentage of copper has been made on Bull Hill, the center of the Cripple Creek district, Colorado, at a depth of 1.305 feet. Policeman Tom Orr of Paducah, Ky., shot and kilhsl Frank Buckner, colored, while Buckner was trying to escape. The negro had been wanted for six months for malicious shooting. The officer was exonerated. The Riverside Itanch Company of Ashland. Neb., owned by (Jcorge E. Bicker Co., suspended payment. The company is the largest breeder of thoroughbred Hereford cattle in this country, selling mostly in car loads. Application to New York Stock Exchange to list imperial Russian rentes has been made through J. I*. Morgan Co., and is taken in Wall street as another step in recognition of city as financial center of the world. The International Typographical Culon restricts hours per week to a maximum of fifty-four and has made numerous other changes in its laws. Strong opposition developed in the convention to the newly organised Ladies’ Auxiliary. P. W. La very killed Wesley Karr at his ranch, twenty miles southeast of Gettysburg. S. D., shooting him through the heart with a rille. Lavery was shoC twice in the jaw and left breast. lie gave himself up to the sheriff. The men quarreled over land. Condemned to die for the murder of Nellie Cropsey at Elizabeth City. Va,, Jim Wilcox is said to be giving wn\ under the terrible suspense while his life is in the hands of the Supreme Court. The * are persons who claim that he is feigning insanity in an effort to escape the tallow*

EASTERN.

Consolidation of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and the Times is announced. Republicans of the Nineteenth Pennsylvania District renominated Congressman Alvin Evans. Mrs. Eliza Young, oldest actress in the United States, died at actors' home on Staten Island. The Commercial Law League of,.America met in eighth annual eonveutiou at Niagara Palls. Fire destroyed tlie Opera House block and the Eleventh Avenue Opera House at Altoona, Pa., causing a loss of sllO,tKFJ. The New York Bank building at the corner of Wall and William streets, New York, was damaged by tire to the extent of $50,000. . George W. • Fritz of Newark, N. J., was elected president of the National Jobbing Confectioners’ Association at Philadelphia. A tornado wrecked, many buildings at Trenton, N. ,T., the city being partly Hooded and left in darkness and street ear system paralyzed. A lively battle occurred between deputies anil strikers at Throop, l’a. Scores of shots were exchanged, but as far us is known no one was hit. Mrs. Charles A. Adams, daughter Nellie and a younger child were fatally burned by a fire which destroyed their home at New Gretna, N. J. Attorney General Ivuox was assaulted in a case at Atlantic City, N. J., by Charles T. Sehoon, Pittsburg millionaire, and Theodore Cramp, shipbuilder. United States Senator James McMiliun of Michigan died suddenly of congestion of the lungs, complicated with heart failure, at his summer home at Manciaester-by-the-Sea, Mass. The Harlan & Hollingsworth shipbuilding plant at Wilmington, Del., has been transferred to the United States Shipbuilding Company. The price is said to be $1,500,000. The Capouse washery of the Scranton, Pa., Coal Company, a brunch of the Ontario and Western coal department, was destroyed by a fire of unknown origin. The loss was $35,000. The United State's Grnphotype Company of New Y’ork City was incorporated ut Albany, N. Y., with a capital of $2,500,000, to deal in printing machinery and to carry on a general publishing business. Oliver Wendell Holmes, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, has been appointed associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, to succeed Justice Gray, who retires because i f illness and advanced age. J. Oscar Baker, of Temple, Pa., was drowned in the presence of thousands of pleasure seekers while bathing in the surf at Atlantic City, N. J. An attempt was made to save him by the life guards and others, but without avail. The first section of the express train on the Pennsylvania Hailroad ran into the side of an east-bound freight train near Dock street tower in Harrisburg, Pa. Seven freight ears were wrecked und burned. No passengers were hurt. A freight train plunged through an open bridge on the Long Branch division of the Central Railroad of New Jersey and landed In Elizabeth fiver. Patrick Mansfield of Plainfield, a brakemau, and Fireman Webster of Bayonne were killed. The United States Carbonate Company’s pluut, which is said to have cost $125,00(4, was offered at auction in Newark, N. J., by the receiver, John It. Hardin. There were two bids, one for $5,500 and the other $1,500. It is unlikely the bids will be accepted. Fulling 300 feet from the sheer side of a cliff in Englewood, New York, Robert Scott, 13 years old, reached the bottom with uo greater injuries than bruises. Scott lay in the bushes at the bottom of the cliff for nearly two days, being discovered finally by boys.

WESTERN.

Wyoming Democrats have nominated George T. Beck for Governor. S. T. Davis of Otoe County was nominated for Governor by Nebraska Prohibitionists at Lincoln. John I). Sprockets, proprietor of the San Francisco Morning Call, has sworn to a warrant charging Gov. Gage with libel. A man named Webster was arrested at Reedley, Cal., charged with arson in starting a (ire which caused a loss of $75,000. Dorothy Stiles, It! years old. living near Bay City, Mich., is said to be slowly turning to marble and that her death must soon result. Fire, supposed to be incendiary, practically gutted the Schwarzehild & Sulzberger packing house at Pittsburg. About $50,000 damage was done. Leonard M. Dingle, former teller of the First National Bank of Aspen, Colo., was arrested in Denver, charged with embezzling $40,000 from the bank. • Delbert Preston, aged 15, lias confessed to wrecking the Rock Island train near South Omaha July 111, by which one man was hilled and a number hurt. While the schooner Biased, in tow of the steamer Nipigon, was rounding off Detroit, she was struck by the steamer Presque Isle and badly damaged. Three immense forest (ires have neon burning with a few miles of Battle Lake, Wyo. Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of timber lias been destroyed. Several persons were injured in a headon collision between two suburban motor cars on the Clevelund, Elyria and Western line, three miles cast of Elyria, Ohio. Benjamin B. Brown, candidate of the Republicans, was elected Mayor of Pueblo, Colo., by a majority of 015 over J. E. Riser, Democrat, tiie present incumbent. Two boys near San dose, Cal., emulated Bandit Tracy, one. who was wounded after aiding in several robberies, committing suicide. His companion was captured. City Marshal Rich was shot and killed By Joseph Gideon, who was then killed by a policeman at Webb City. Mo. The officers were trying to arrest Gideon and his brother. Wind storm at Kansas City did SIOO,900 damage in eight minutes and injured twelve persons. Liberty. Warrenrille and other towns also suffered damage. Streets tiljed with debris. James McArkiu, aged <!0 years, of Joplin, Mo., was arrested.on the charge of being n counterfeiter. His abode wna Icarcbed, revealing many tools and device* for making counterfeit* money. A

large quantity of spurious coin was discovered. J. A. Purker of Dallas, Texas, chairman of the allied People’s party national committee, has called the executive committee to meet in Springfield, 111., Aug. 27, to consider the situation in Western States. Charles T. Pennell and Timothy Devine, patrolmen connected with the West Lake street station, were shot and killed in Chicago while In the discharge of their duty. The murderers are at present unknown. Private Cross of Company D, First battalion of engineers, placed the muzzle of a rifle under his chin and pulled the trigger at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Jlis whole face was blown off. He wus demented. A severe frost is reported in the northwestern part of lowa. Messages received from Cloverdale state that the section about Sibley was visited by a heavy frost, and that the damage to corn has been considerable. Walter A. Scott, reputed millionaire, clubman and president of the Illinois Wire Company, was fatally stabbed by Walter L. Stebbings, a civil engineer, in his Chicago office, as the result of a quarrel over au account. The Navajo Indians in Colorado have not been in such misery ns now for thirty years. The extreme heat and drouth in the Navajo country have ruined ranges, and horses, cattle, sheep and goats are starving by the score. Alice Moxley, aged 21, of 2016 West Jackson boulevard. Chicago, was drowned at Port Huron, by the accidental overturning of a rowboat. Her brother Charles and her cousin, Lester McDonald, were saved. Water is flowing into the great water power canal of the Miehigan-Lake Superior Power Company at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Without a spectator save the workmen, the sluiceway was opened. The tilling at the present time is in the nature of a test. The monument recently erected over the grave of Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln, at Lincoln, Ind., will be dedicated on Oct. 1. Col Charles S. Denby of Evansville, former minister to China, will be invited to deliver the dedicatory address. The body of u young woman was found on the prairie at 74th and State streets, Chicago, and later identified as that of Minnie Mitchell, and the police have found evidences of murder. The disappearance of William Bartholin, her lover, and his mother deepens the mystery. Lewis G. Toombs, convicted of the foul murder of Carrie Larsen last winter, was hanged in the county jail in Chicago. The trap was-sprung at 11:29. At 11:45 the sheriff’s jury of doctors pronounced Toombs dead, and the body was cut down and turned over to bis widow for interment. When Dick Bruyn went out in Chicago harbor to clean up Dr. George L. A. Dale’s yacht he found a man dead in the cabin. The man was W. G. Davis. A revolver lay beside the body. The man bad been shot through the temple and then through the heart. He was despondent. At Webb City. Mo., City Marshal Rich was shot and killed by Joe Gideon, who was then killed by a policeman. The officers were trying to arrest Gideon and bis brother Jim. After the shooting Jim Gideon was hurried to the police station to prevent a lynching, a mob having gathered quickly. Harry A. Faulkner, member of the house of delegates, recently convicted of perjury in connection with the bribery cases in St. Louis, and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, was given his freedom pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. He gave bond in SIO,OOO for his appearance. Attorneys for the American Book Company have tiled a writ of error before the Supreme Court at Washington against the State of Kansas. The fight will be upon the right of the Kansas Supreme Court to linr the company from doing business in Kansas under the interstate commerce laws. J. H. Siseo, a negro who escaped from a detective while being taken from Chicago to Pittsburg for stealing S4IXI from the home of Robert Pitcairn, assistant president of the Pennsylvania company, was captured by Canton, Ohio, officers. Siseo jumped from a Pullman car iu order to flee from his custodian. Eight-year-old Lance Harwood of Big Rapids, Mjch., while on a visit to the Chicago stock yards, found an envelope containing securities valued at $59,900. The envelope had been lost by a messenger boy who had been assigned to carry it from Nelson Morris & Co.’s main office to the stock yards postoftice. Young Lance was given $25 as part of his reward. Jacob Mamma, an aged farmer, who lives alone north of Dayton, Ohio, was tortured by masked robbers who broke into his house the other night, and is in a critical condition as a result of Ids injuries. Mumma attempted to defend himself with a shotgun, but his aim was bad and he wus overcome and bound. The robbers poured oil on his feet and started a blaze to compel him to reveal the hiding place of money he was supposed to have, but they secured only an insiguUl* cant sum. A plot to destroy the Adams County infirmary and kill the forty-four inmates was unearthed at Decatur, Ind. A. IV. Butler, secretary of the State board of charities, was making an inspection of the buildings. In the room of Charles Echermnn he foubd a idle of rubbish, which he ordered removed. Buried beneath the rubbish sixty pounds of dynamite, two two-pound dynamite bombs and 115 feet of fuse were found. Echcraun has been an inmate of the infirmary over twelve years. He was reprimanded recently and since that time has been sulky. When the discovery of the dynamite wus made he disappeared and no trace of him can be found. It is known that he has a dynamite bomb with him.

SOUTHERN.

Two men were killed and six injured in a train collision on the Southern Railway, near Wall Creek, Va. Richard Dodson was kilhtl and forty persons seriously injured by lightning striking a church at Leslie, On. Because of ill health Pierce Bodley, one of the best known real estate men in Louisville, Ky., committed suicide ty shooting. C. Diaz, a Mexican, attacked a- woman near Engle Pass, Texas. Her two small children screamed and the Mexican shot

them dead before the eyes of the mother^ Fire that started in the Landon Hotel at San Angelo, Texas, destroyed tho structure and burned seven persons to death. The property damage is $75,000. Jeptha Rhodes, William Kircus and James Smith of Haywood, Tenn., were killed by lightning while standing under a tree where they had taken refuge from the rain. John Dodge and Henry Hughes, farmers of Calvert City, Ivy., jumped from a fast Illinois Central passenger train which did not stop there and both were fatally injured. Following a business dispute William Duuovant, a capitalist of Houston, Texas, was fatally shot by W. T. Elrdldge, vicepresident and general uiauager of the Canabel Railway. Thieves broke into the store of B. C. Grigsby at Tolesboro, Ivy., in which is situated the postoffice. They secured $l5O worth of postal funds and S2OO from the store, also much merchandise, and escaped. Ten oyster canning and packing companies in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, it is said, will combine with a capital of $2,000,000. The combine will control all the business of the three States in the fish and canning lines. Fierce fighting marked the elections throughout Tennessee Thursday. Charges of. fraud were freely indulged in and at the polls there were many encounters. G. F. Rucker, Democratic election officer of Granger County, was shot dead while trying to make off with the ballot box. George Ishani of the Eighth District was also killed. In addition many persons were shot and beaten and ballot boxes were stolen at the point of revolvers.

FOREIGN.

Edward VII. was crowned King of the British Empire at Westminster Abbey in London. A great fire at Port au Prince, Hayti, burned sixty houses, causing damage estimated at $200,000. English investors in American railroad securities are taking out policies on ,T. P. Morgan’s life, fearing he will be killed. Russia is losing influence in Corea; defiance of latter in appointing Kato, a Japanese, as court councilor over Czar's protest is now explained by JapaneseBritish alliance. The semi-annual report of the Deutsche Genossfschaft bank at Berlin, emphasizes the existing industrial depression. The report shows that the bank lost $867,500 in industrial enterprises. The Brussels Petit Bleu announces the sudden death of General Lucas Meyer of heart disease. General Meyer was attacked several times with this illness during the war in South Africa. Osborne House, the favorite palace of Queen Victoria, has been presented to the British nation by King Edward as a gift in memory of his coronation, to be converted into a sanitarium for ailing officers. The governor of the Island of Guam reports through the Navy Department at Washington that the people of Guam desire to make a good showing at the St. Louis world's fair. The governor is with them and will do all he can to have the island creditably represented at the fair. The Paris Matin declares that the crown prince of Germany, after an escapade at Bonn, where he is attending the university, had a violent interview with Emperor William. It is said he expressed to his father his desire to renounce his rank and claim to the throne. He is 20 years old.

IN GENERAL

Senator Hanna says his suggestion that he would retire from the Republican national committee was a jest. An unknown schooner went ashore at Farmyard Islands, near Newfoundland, and the crew of ten drowned. Advices received in Washington indicate that President Roosevelt will call the Senate in extraordinary session early in Novein&er. The War Department is advised of the sailing of the transport Meade from Manila, P. 1., for San Fraucisco, with headquarters, ten companies mid 892 enlisted men of the Fifteenth United States infantry. Mrs. Norman Selby, the wife of Norman Selby, better known as “Kid" McCoy, has eloped with Ralph Thompson, one of his friends. McCoy and his wife have been divorced twice and united three times. The United States monitor Arkunsas returned from a very successful trial trip. During the trial the Arkansas maintained a speed for two hours of 17.2 knots, or seven knots greater than required by the government. President Roosevelt has decided on the conditions under which the Commercial Cable Company may lay its cable to Chinu and the Philippines. As arrunged the conditions practically give the government control of the cable. The steamer Santa Ana brings news that Mounts Redoubt, liiamna and Augustine, in the Csßbk Inlet section of Alaska, continue to emit smoke. Enough ashes have been scattered over trie snowcovered peaks to blacken their white surfaces. The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, xvhieh has been out of commission most of the time since the Spanish war, may be dismantled as a result of the investigation into the value to the navy which Secretary Moody will make when he returns to Washington. A severe earthquake was felt at Skaguay, Alaska. The first shock was fifty seconds long. Several large plate glass windows were broken and chimneys in the northern part of the city tumbled down. The water in Lynn canal rose five feet very suddenly, then subsided ag quickly. Most of the large harvester manufacturing concerns of the country* hare been united ns the International Harvester Company, with a capital of $120,000,000. InedYporntion papers wore filed at Trenton, N. J. It is understood that nmoug others interested is the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company of Chicago. The State Department has been informed that the provisional government of Haytl lias notified the United States legation that Gonavos, Pont de Paix, Petit Goave and St. Mare are in rebellion and that the government troops captured Petit Goave after a strong resistance. Many lives were lost. Firinin’s force set lire to Petit Goave before abandoning the place, which was totally destroyed. Ten thousand people are reported homeless and in dire want.

KILLED WITH A PAPER KNIFE

Chicago Millionaire la Stabbed |o Death in His Office. Walter A. Scott, president of the Illitois Wire Company, was stabbed to death in the Monadnock building, Chicago, by Walter L. Stebbings, a civil and consulting engineer, with offices in the same building. Stebbings used a paper knife. The stabbing occurred in Mr. Scott’s private office. Mr. Stebbings had done »ome work for the Illinois Wire Company, over which there had been a dispute. The two had a quarrel, and Stebbings, it is said, called Scott a liar. There was a scuffle and the two burst from the private office with blood flowing from Scott's wounds. Stebbings nia'de no attempt to escape. Stebbings, when arrested said he had struck Scott in self-defense and that he bad not intended injuring him seriously. The fight was witnessed by Miss Myrtle Bhumate, a stenographer in Scott’s office, who ran screaming into the hall. Occupants of other offices notified the police, who placed Stebbings. under arrest. According to Miss Shumate’s story the two men were in Scott’s private office for nearly nn hour disputing over a claim for $3,000. Suddenly the door was thrown open and the men staggered into the outer office, kicking each other and using their fists. Stebbings held the long steel pap. i r knife in his right hand and the weapon could tie seen flashing ns the men struggled. Suddenly Stebbings struck Scott in the body. The blow was repeated a moment later. Scott staggered bnckwird and finally fell to the floor. He died within half an hour.

BROKEN IN HEALTH.

Lady Cnrzon, India’s First Lady, Coming to America to Recuperate. It will be regrettable news to her many friends and admirers in this country to learn that Lady Curzon of India, formerly Miss Mary Leiter of Chicago, is compelled to leave the scene of her social triumphs at Calcutta on aceount of ill health. Since the appointment, several years ago, of her husband, Lord George

LADY CURZON.

Curzon, as viceroy of India, Lady Curzon has spent her life in that trying and debilitating climate. The social exactions upon her time owing to her high position have proved too much for her health and she will return to this country this month In hopes of rebuilding it. In addition to her social duties Lady Cnrzon has had a large amount of charitable and philanthropic work to look after. In this country she will spend her time chiefly at Bar Harbor, Me.

DIE IN A HOTEL FIRE.

Ten Persons Perish in Destruction of Texas Hostelry. By the burning of the Lnndon Hotel at San Angelo, Texas, ten persons lost their lives. The damage to property was SIOO,000. In addition to the hotel three stables and half a dozen stores were burned, only the greatest effort preventing the whole of the business section of the towii from being destroyed. All the bodies were fearfully charred, and could be moved only in blankets. The victims got out on a small balcony and were appealed to jump into blankets which were being held for them, but they failed to do so, and delayed until the gallery fell back into the flames which were licking up the big frame house. When the clerk discovered the flames at 2 o’clock in the morning the interior of the dining room was a gulf of flame, and he could not get through. He lushed up the main stairway, kicking in doors, calling out at the top of his voice, and making noise in every way in his Some of those who were awakened first discharged firearms to aid the clerk in arousing those who still were asleep.

HEAD OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

Denver Minister President of International Body. Rev, Benjamin B. Tyler, who was elected president of the international Sunday school convention at its recent

session at Denver, is a minister of the Christian denomination.. As the convention meets triennially, he will Hold the office for three years. Rev. Dr. Tyler has for many years been interested in Sunday school evork and since 1892 has been a member of the Sunday school lesson committee.

REV. B. B. TYLER.

He has occupied the pulpits of churches in several large cities of the country, for the last four years, being pastor of ihe South Broadway Christian Church in Denver. Rev. Dr. Tyler is a native of Illinois and is (12 years old.

Olficiiff reports for eleven months of the year ending June Jdksliow that this country imported $23,544,325 w<%th of iron and steel, ns compared with $10,408,1)00 the year before. During the same.period exports of iron and steel declined about $20,000,000. Increase of the home demand explains in some measure this falling off in the foreign trade. Since the declaration of war with Spain In April 1, 1808, there have been appointed In the line of the army 152 lieuInnnnts in addition to 270 appointed from Ihe military acadYmy.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Tj ~ r~| “Bright prospects in ag» MW IOrK. ncultural sections,far outweight the adverse Influence of labor disputes which are still retarding trade and manufacture. Confidence in the future is unshaken, dealers everywhere preparing for a heavy fall trade, while contracts for distant deliveries run further into next year than is usual at this date. Activity has been noteworthy in lumber regions, and fish packing made new records. Railway earnings are fully sustained, the latest returns showing an average advance of 3.9 per cent over the corresponding time last year, and 21.8 per cent over 1900.” R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade makes the foregoing summary of the trade outlook. Continuing, the Review says: “Aside from the fuel scarcity and some congestion of traffic, the iron anJ steel situation continues propitious. Coke ovens in the Connellsville region maintain a weekly output of about 250.000 tous and find ready buyers at full prices. Much more could be used to advantage. Conditions are indicated by the number of orders going out of the country which domestic producers cannot undertake. Thus far the imports have had little influence on domestic prices, except as td billets, which are freely offered beloW the home market level. New contracts for pig iron were placed this week covering deliveries in the second quarter of 1903, and structural material is desired for bridges and buildings that will not be received until even more remote dates. “Splendid growing and harvesting conditions have prevailed in most sections of the country, especially where the larger and more important crops are raised. It is now almost certain that the agricultural returns will be far above the average as to quantity, while the low stocks at the opening of the season are calculated to sustain prices, and there is iittTe prospect of a return to the low quotations of preceding years of bumper production.

7~ The week was marked by CDICaOO. il Bain * n a 'l western raila I road traffic and an increase in the volume of west-bound tonnage. This means the beginning of the period | of active buying that has been predicted ever since it became evident that this would be a good crop year. In the Northwest the harvest is practically made, and conservativeness and hesitation through fear of possible eleventh-hour calamity are giving way to confidence mid a desire for further business expansion. The West has begun buying heavily and ip taking a full share of luxuries. The unusually large proportion of high-class freight carried, with its wide distribution, is highly gratifying to western railroad management. This western prosperity has been the keynote in everything of comment upon the general business 1b the country at large. Some 300 locomotives were added to the equipment of the Great Northern. Northern Pacific and Soo roads during the year. The facilities for handling the Northwestern crops are materially increased over last year, yet even with this there is more concern lest the roads be unable to handle everything with promptness usually demanded by shippers. There will certainly be more tonnage this year than ever before and there is the opportunity for railroad earnings in the Northwest surpassing every previous record by far. The grain trade is waiting for an estimate of the Northwestern whejt yield. Wheat prices, meanwhile, have been on sharp decline under influence of the favorable crop news. Looking over the whole field, everything in sight at present seems bearish. Statistically there are some things favorable to wheat and while they are naturally ignored at this time, they may be important later. For one thing, the world’s visible supply of wheat now stands at only 47,376.000 bushels. A year ago at this time it was 71,920.000,000 bushels; two years ago 89,888.000 bushels, and three years ego, 90,192,000 bushels.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, commor to prime, $4.00 to $7.75; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $7.40; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 08c to G9c; corn, No. 2,52 cto 53c; oats, No. 2,32 c to 40c; rye, No. 2. 48c to 40c; hay, timothy, $ll.OO to $17.00; prairie, SO.OO to $9.50; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potatoes, new, 40c to 00c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $8.25; hogs, choice liyht, $4.00 to $7.45; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2. 04c V< 05c; corn, No. 2 white, 01c to 02c; ouls. No. 2 white, new, 30c to 31c. St. Louis—Cattle $4.50 to $8.00; hogs, $3.00 to $7.40; weep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, N<». 2, 00.- to 01c; corn. No. 2, 51c to 55c; oats. No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye, No. 2. 48c to 49;. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $7.50; hogs, $4.00 to $7.4(h sheep, $3.25 to $3.85; wheat. No. 2,07 cto 08c; corn. No. 2 mixed, OOe tc Ole; oats. No. 2 mixed, 2Se to 29c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 50c. Detroit—Cittle, $3.00 to $0.50; lings, $3.00 to $745; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,09 cto 70c; corn. No. 3 yellow, (it!., to 07c; oats, No. 2 white, new, 3Se tj 40e; rye, 54c to 55c. Mllwnul.ee- Wheat, No— 2 northern, 74c to 7fy; corn, No. 3, (tie to 02c; oats, No. 2 white, (!(>c to Ole: rye. No. 1,47 c to 48c: barley, No. 2,05 cto 00c; pork, mess, $ ,0.07. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. OSo to HOe; <yrn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 50e; oats, No. V mixed, 28c to 29c; clover seed, prluig, $5.17. New Y’ork—Cattle, $4.00 to $8.15; hogs, s3.o* to $7.40; sheep, $4.00 to $4.50; win at, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 7A> to 73c; oats, No. 2 white, 04c to f>sc; butter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, west* ecu, 18c to 20c. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steera, $4.00 to $8.25; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $7.80; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; lambs, common to choice. $4.00 to 10.50