Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1902 — Page 6

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

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Mrs Eleanor YVallack, wife of Lexter Wallack, an actor, grandson of the famous Lester Wallack. committed suicide in New York by inhaling illuminating gas. Mr. Wallack said he knew of no reason why his wife should have desired to kill herself. Oscar Thompson. “Dad” Classy and Edward A. Counselman have been held by the coroner's jury in Chicago to await the investigation of the grand jury into the murder of Minnie Mitchell. The verdict also recommends that William Bartholin be apprehended and held. Eight workmen are known to have been killed, six are missing and supposed to be in the ruins and thrfe others were badly injured" by the explosion of two steel digesters in the —Delaware pulp mills of the Jessup & Moore Paper Company on the Christina river, near Wilmington, Del. A daring robbery took place in the jewelry establishment of A. A. Webster & Co., Brooklyn, during the busy hours of the day. A tray containing forty-two solitaire diamond rings, valued at $4,000, was removed from one of the show cases and the thief made his escape undetected by any one in the place. The British first-class cruiser Ariadne, flagship of Vice-Admiral A. L. Douglas; saved a large ocean steamer, supposed to be a Montreal liner filled with passengers, from going ashore off Cape Race during a dense fog. The steamer was heading direct for the coast when the warship signaled her danger. It is doubtful if any attempt at present will bo made to float the proposed loan of $35,000,000. President Palma ami his cabinet are strongly opposed to the revolutionary element which has been clamoring for the payment of the Cuban army, and which saw in this loan the only means to bring this payment about. Lives were lost, several persons were injured and two trains and the train shed of the station at Belmar, N. J., were wrecked as the result of a collision. A special passenger train on the Central of New Jersey Railroad ran into the rear end of a regular Pennsylvania passenger train on the New York and Ling Branch road. One of the biggest lumber deals involving retail yards ever reported in the Northwest is- being closed at Aberdeen, S. D., between the St. Croix Lumber Company and the Lamb Lumber Company, by which the latter becomes the owner of forty-six yards in Minnesota, lowa and South Dakota. The consideration is somewhere between $500,000 and $700,900. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball Leagfle: YV. L. YV. L. Pittsburg .. .73 24 Cincinnati .. .48 52 Brooklyn .. .57 47 St. Louis. .. .46 56 Boston 51 4*> New Y0rk...35 65 Chicago ....51 50 Philadelphia. 40 61 The chilis of the American League stand as follows: YV. L. IV. L. Philadelphia 55 41 Cleveland ...50 52 St. L0ui5....54 43 Washington. 40 55 Chicago ....54 44 Baltimore ...42 58 Boston 55 45 Detroit 39 57

BREVITIES.

Emperor Kranz Josef of Austria celebrated bis seventy-second birthday. Senor Emilio Terry, secretary of agriculture in the Cuban cabinet, has resigned, Lieut. Berthoff of the revenue cutter service has discovered n now fur’ seal rookery in the Aleutian Islands. There is great excitement in the peninsula of Yucatan, where petroleum has been discovered in paying quantities. Associate .Justice Shiras of the United States Supreme Court is to retire next year, and the fact is admitted by his son. A delayed blast caused the death of Peter Olsen and William Ladd in the Ohio-Deadwood tunnel at Hochford, S. 1). Patrick Botkin, Michael Dunning and William D. Kay wore rescued at Buff-do, N. Y., after clinging to an upset boat in Lake Erie all night. William Ilolabird. Jr., one of the best known young golfers in the western hemisphere, died at his home in Evanston, 1)1., after a long illness of typhoid fever. A Lake Erie and Western passenger train was derailed and wrecked at the crossing of the Northern Ohio and Lake Erie and Western road at Bluffton. Ohio. William Francisco, engineer, was killed and Edward Montague, engineer, and U. G. Ilontehin, fireman, severely injured in a collision in the Burlington yards at Holdrege, Neb, Prof. Pickering of Harvard has received word from the Harvard station nt Arequipa, Peru, that the planet Eros has been rediscovered. The planet disappeared in May, 1901. A pontoon, containing a detachment of Russian infantry across the Amur, near Pushkova, sunk and five officers, thirty men and about seventy Chinese camp followers were drowned. The longshoremen mid lightermen of all classes ami the dock laborers went out on strike nt Havana, Cubit. They have several grievances, one being that- coal should be unloaded per ton instead of by day wages. The Mutual Building and Loan Association of I’n saie, N. J., of which William Malcolm was secretary for twenty years ami whose accounts were recently found to be $ Il* 1,000 short, has suspended business. Fire of unknown origin destroyed Parsons College at Fail-field, lowa, a Presbyterian institution founded in 1875. The loss is $50,000, and the insurance half that amount. Information has been received in Washington of the eng.igi-im nt of Senator William P. Frye of Maim , president pro fem. of the Semite, to Miss Ellen May of Portland, Me. The Exchange Telegraph Company of London publishes a .dispatch from Simla, British India, saying that tin* plague mortality is increasing at the rate of a thousand weekly.

EASTERN.

Luther R. Marsh, venerable jurist and famous Spiritualist, is dead in New Y’ork. Mrs. John 11. Drexel of New York received a birthday gift of $200,000 from her husband. Coal prices in New York have advanced again, being $9.00 wholesale for certain sizes of anthracite. A gasoline explosion in a Chinese laundry in Pittsburg, Pa., caused a fire in %hich Wing Lu, a Chinaman, was fatally burned and three houses were destroyed. John Driscoll, 53 years old, who was sent to the penitentiary for three months for intoxication, ended the term of his imprisonment at Buffalo, N. Y., by hanging himself. Mrs, Sarah Mackey died near Porterfield, Pa., as the result of constant sneezing. She sneezed S(H) times in an hour by actual count. Her physicians were unable to do anything for Iter relief. Charles L. Downes, a theatrical manager, ami his wife, Anna, were held up by three footpads in West Thirty-first street, Now Y’ork, garroted and robbed of jewelry and eash to the value of sl,152. Charles Post, Jr., aged 11 years, was run down by a train on the Pennsylvania Railroad in Pittsburg, and horribly mangled. He lived long enough to tell that he had been pushed under the train by his companions. Herbert E. Hill, the young man who murdered his sister and committed a murderous assault on his mother at their home in Roxbury, Mass.. July 8, was adjudged insane and ordered committed to an asylum. Levi Perham, aged 19. at inquest over body of Marcus Rogers at Bennington, Y’t., confessed that, assisted by Rogers’ wife, he bound her husband, chloroformed him and threw the helpless man into the YValloomsuc river.

Robert R. Remington, head of New York firm of advertising agents and former fiance of Miss May Van Alen, committed suicide at Newport. Breaking of engagement wjth young woman is thought to have a bearing on the tragedy. David T. Gilmore, former Mayor cf Paterson, N. J., in a fit of despondency ended his life with a bullet. Gilmore had consulted specialists and had been told that he was a victim of Bright's disease, and that he would become insane. In a tenement house tiro at 35 Essex Street, New York, three women and two children were burned to death, another woman was burned severely about the body and face ami a man's ribs were broken by jumping from a window to the pavement. Boston Museum, the oldest theater in Boston, and by far the most famous one, is doomed. It will be torn down at once to make room for a mammoth sky scraper, which will be occupied by lawyers’ offices. The deal involves considerably more than $2,000,000. William Malcolm, city treasurer .of Passaic, N. J., and secretary for twenty years of’the Mutual Loan, and Building Association of that city, admitted to the board of directors at a private meeting that he is short over SIOO,OOO in his accounts with the association. An attempt on the life of Robert E. Pattison, former Governor of Pennsylvania and present Democratic candidate for the same office, has been made by someone whose identity is unknown ns yet. A package containing several pounds of gunpowder in the form of small cakes or briquettes was sent to him, but by a chance the explosive was not ignited.

WESTERN.

YVilliam Ross, who killed Thomas Walch at YY'illow City, N. D., has been sentenced to death. The 12-year-old son of D. G. Raschkc, a farmer near Hastings, Neb., was struck at a crossing nnd killed. Bank YVreeker Frank C. Andrews of Detroit has been sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment at hard labor. George ami Henry Heinz, young sons of Nicholas Heinz, fell from some boom •ticks into Pike bay, Minnesota, and were drowned. Rev. Father J. 11. Delaney of St. Patrick’s Church of Fort Wayne has been appointed irremovable rector by Bishop Wording. A grave at Orlando, Oklahoma, supposed to contain body of C. 8.-Morris of Kansas, was opened and found to contain lump of ice. YVilliam Botler, a handcuffed prisoner, dived off the training ship Dorothea in Chicago harbor, in the effort to gain his freedom anil then vanished. Fire in the Bergerman building at Pueblo, Colo., caused a loss of $75,000. The loss of L. Florman in fine pictures, paints and wall paper is nearly $50,000. The main building of the Marietta, Ohio, Paint and Color Company burned. Loss $50,000, insurance $20,000. The company will resume operations at once. Rev. Dr. Edward C. Benson, senior professor in Kenyon College, Gambier. Ohio, died nt the'age of 79 years. The alumni endowed the professorship of Latin in his nnme. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate, has purchased the Faurot Opera House and block at Limn, Ohio, for $90,000. It is his intention to make extensive improveineuts. A receiver has been appointed for the Obadiah Sands Butter Corporation, whose liabilities are but $445,000, while the assets ate $800,0i)(). Concern owes $155,000 to farmers for milk. The United States District Attorney of Kansas has decided that trade checks are illegal and that their issuance nnd circulation are punishable by a fine of SSOO or imprisonment for five years. July Baker of Fairplay, Colo., charged with killing J. Y'allie, on whpse ranch be was employed, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. Mrs. Y’allie is under indictment as nn accessory. Tracey R, Bangs of Grand Forks, N. D., for the pust two years supreme vicechancellor of the Knights of Pythias, has been exalted to the supreme chancellorship by the unanimous vote of the supreme lodge. Miss Cora Hngemeyer, daughter of the ■eeretary of the Baldwin Piano C< inpnny, was iiauh d in n basket to the t6p of a new smokestack 150 feet high in the piano factory nt Cincinnati, and there broke a bottle of champngnl. Two persons were killed and eight others injured, one probably fatally, in two street car accidents in St. Louis. Charles Bronson, a grading foreman, was run down and killed ns he was crossing a street car track. A wagon containing a

picnic party of eighteen young persons [ was struck by a Page avenue car and I overturned. Harry King, aged 18, was killed, Katie Brown, aged 16, was probably fatally injured, and Patrick Brown, aged 16, was seriously hurt. Carl Henrici, owner of a restaurant in Chicago, was found dead in his bed with a bullet hole in his right temple. As Mr. Henrici had not been in good health lately, it is thought that fact had something to do with his taking his life. Frank L. Stone, a Kansas City policeman, died at the hospital of a bullet wound inflicted by one of four men he was trying to arrest at Riverview 4 , a suburb in Kansas. Before he died Stone said that Peter Nugent had shot him. Joseph Anderson, a farmer living east of Salma, Kan., in a fit of despondency drowmfe his four children, three girls and a boy, in a cistern, and then shot himself with a revolver. He will probably die. Financial matters had affected his mind. Mrs. Frederick YV. Prentiss, wife of the president of the Hayden-Clinton National Bank, was held up in her own home in .Columbus, Ohio, by a masked robber and at the point of a revolver compelled to deliver $2,600 worth of diamonds. A gang of robbers blew open the postoffice safe nt East Palestine, Ohio, and secured about S(XM) in stamps and stationery. The noise of the explosion aroused the citizens and an exchange of shots took place, but the robbers escaped with their booty. J. C. Surles, a Kansas City blacksmith, coming home unexpectedly and finding Albert Hayes, a hoarder, in company with bis wife, shot both with a shotgun. Mrs. Surles probably will recover. Hayes may die. Surles had pretended to go fishing, and returned to the house quietly. Shortly after noon Friday Pike’s opera house in Cincinnati was discovered on fire. The loss aggregated $75,000, distributed among many tenants. George Joffee lost $20,000 and Henry Straus, cigars and tobaccos, $15,000. The Pike estate and Manager Hunt of the opera house are among the losers. A terrific storm caused four deaths at Rolla, N. I). The house of a settler, whose name is unknown, was blown down and his wife and three children were killed. His son was killed instantly ami his wife and little daughters were caught in the ruins and so badly crushed that they lived but a short time. YVord has come of the rediscovery of the famous Lost Cabin gold mine in the mountainous district bordering the Black Hills, northeast of Douglas, YY’yo., and several hundred prospectors started at once for that country. The Lost Cabin mine was located in 1869, and was reported to be fabulously rich in free gold. The body of Peter Anderson, known as the hermit prospector of Park City, Utah, has been found in his lonely cabin. He had evidently been dead for weeks. It is believed he perished of starvation, notwithstanding that $1,700 in cash was found secreted in the cabin. It is believed that fully SIO,OOO lies to his credit in various banks. Calvin B. Potter, an attorney of Salt Lake City, and at one time prominent in Michigan State politics, committed suicide by taking enough morphine to kill a dozen men. Potter, who served throughout the Civil YVar, had been trying for twelve years to secure a pension and despondency over his failure is believed to be the cause of his suicide. Running at a speed of nearly fifty miles nn hour, a Monon special train carrying 3(H) business college students from Indianapolis and Cincinnati crashed into an Erie freight train a mile west of Hammond. Ind., and then jumping the rails, demolished a Monon freight train standing on an adjoining track. One man was killed and four others seriously hurt. John Grannam, driver of an ice wagon in St. Louis, was killed by lightning in a peculiar manner. Grannam was standing on the rear step of his wagon chopping ice, when" there was a flash of lightning and a ball of fire rolled along the trolley wire overhead. YY’hen alvove Grannam it burst with a loud report and he fell to the ground unconscious. He died a few hours later. Two persons dead, three more without hope of recovery, a sixth fearfully burned and a residence in Gering, Neb., in ashes is the result of the lighting of a fire with kerosene. C. N. McComsey, whose wife had been ill for several days, was attempting to start a fire in a wood stove when the oil exploded, setting fire to his clothing and throwing burning fluid all over the room. Many thousands of acres of valuable oil and gas land were added to the already immense Chanute, Kan., field by the striking of a gas well on the Hanson farm, six miles west of Chanute. The well is the property of a syndicate headed by Col. 8. YV. Isett of Chanute, president of the Neosho Y’alley Oil Company. The well shows a capacity of over 10,000,000 feet a day. Judge Fagan of the Probate Court of Shawnee County, Kan., in behalf of the Trades and Labor Unions of Topeka, granted an injunction restraining the American Book Company and its Kansas depository, the Kansas Book Company, from supplying the schools of Kansas under its contract with the State. County Attorney Nichols in presenting the ease held first that the contract with the State nnd the book company was made before the book company was legally authorized to do business in Kansas, and that therefore its contract is not good. Some time ago the citizens of Norcatur, Kan., demolished n joint in that town. The fixtures were shattered and the stock of liquor was poured into the gutter. A Missouri brewing company claimed the property and brought suit against forty members of the smashers' organization for SSOO damages. In charging the jury Judge Hamiltoii declared that the joint fixtures and liquor were legal property and entitled to the protection of the law. The jury gave the brewing company judgment for $350. The citizens who were defendants in the case have appealed to tin* Supreme Court. A most destructive fire began at Hamilton, Ohio, about midnight Thursday, and wus not under control until 4 o'clock in the morning. The large dry goods store of T. V. Howell & Son. where the fire originated, was made a complete wreck. The Second Nntiotlal Bank building, adjoining the Howell block on the west, .was damaged considerably l.y fire nnd water, but the bank itself escaped with slight damage, While Jhe fire was in progress another fire broke out in YY’nlnut street in a smalt grocery store, nnd Cincinnati was called upon for help. Two engines were sent in response, but by the time they arrived the fire was

under control and they were not taken from the train. The YValnut street fire was easily extinguished. The losses are estimated at a quarter of a million, mainly in the Howell’s and the Second National Bank.

SOUTHERN.

Ramon Cruise, a Mexican sheep herder, was struck on the head and killed by a fragment of a meteor while tending bis flock near Ellis, Texas. John YY’nrren, a negro, was hanged at Groeslveck, Texas, for the murder of a storekeeper named Dock Stevens. YY’arren sold his body for $5. In a quarrel at Anderson, YV. Y'a., William Douglass and son shot and instantly killed B. J. Johnson and his brother. The father and son made their eScape. Audrey . Newman, a 15-year-old boy, was shot through the heart by a guard at the water melon patch of YVilliam Kimbro, near Jefferson City, Tenn. Charles J. Allen, a wealthy Tampa, Fla., resident, was killed and his wife was wounded by Manuel Chavez, a rich Cuban, who was surprised by Allen at the latter’s home. The body of John McNeal, aged GO, was found in a skiff near Paducah, Ky. He was known from Pittsburg to the Mississippi as “Sailor Jack.” It is believed he died from heart disease while alone in his craft. Ex-Sheriff James L. Sutton of YY'ib liamsburg, Ky., committed suicide by jumping from the county bridge into the Cumberland river. The fact that his wife had sued for divorce is supposed to have been the immediate cause. YY’atkin Newman, a man aged 24, was murdered, robbed and nearly cremated in his home, six miles from Jefferson City, Tenn. His brother Isham, arriving home at midnight, found the house in flames and his brother YY’atkin lying on a bed dead. Terrific storms occurred the other night in different parts of Kentucky. Fulton and Cayce report tornadoes doing much damage in those localities. At Pineville YViliam Goforth and Alice Renfro were killed by contact with wires that had been blown down and John Whittaker, Charles Haskins and Lili France were badly injured. Night Operator Coyne at YY'olf Summit, YV. Y’a., prevented a disastrous wreck of a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train. Having heard a suspicious pounding on the rails, he set the danger signal and stopped the train. Investigation revealed that a switch lock had been broken, the switch turned and an ‘iron driven into the frog.

FOREIGN.

Prof. Leopold Schenk, author of “Determination of Sex,” died at Schwanberg, Styria. Capt. Newman and son Edward arrived at Falmouth, England, in thirty-eight foot kerosene launch, after perilous voyage across Atlantic. The Earl of Dudley has been sworn in at Dublin as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (in succession to Earl Cadogan), resigned, in the council chamber of the castle. Members of the religious orders expelled from France, especially sisters, are applying to the Y’atican authorities for permission to settle in the United States. Canada has been suggested as a better field. In a dispatch from Hongkong a correspondent says there have been terrible floods in Kwang Si province, in which a thousand persons were drowned. Several houses collapsed at Hongkong and twenty persons were drowned. The little Japanese island of Torishima was overwhelmed by a volcanic eruption and all the inhabitants, numbering 150 persons, were undoubtedly killed. The island is covered with volcanic debris and all the houses have disappeared. One of the most disastrous fires which have ever occurred in YY’est Kootenay has been raging about Y’niir. Many square miles of timber have been burned and a number of mine buildings wiped out. YY’agon roads and bridges have also been destroyed. Cholera continues to spread in Manchuria and isolated cases have been reported in Siberia outside of Blagovestchensk, where it has a firm hold. At last reports there had been 274 eases and 179 deaths at Blngovestchensk and 445 cases ahd 285 deaths at Port Arthur. As the result of a storm which swept over Cape Town the British bark Highlands, Captain Smith, from New York for East London, and the British bark Brutus, Captain Dallachie, from London for Table Bay, have been wrecked off that coast. Chief Officer Bourke of the Highlands says that the bark sank almost instantly and that twenty-three of her crew were drowned.

IN GENERAL.

Pierre Lorillard's estate at the time of his death is found to have been worth $1,797,025. Explorer Borchgrevink, the Norwegian, has taken out naturalization papers in the United States. Failure on the part of Turkey to execute agreements regarding American claims has caused somewhat strained relations with the United States. Corn and wheat will have to be imported in Mexico from the United States next winter. The corn crop in some Mexican States is good, but the general average is not satisfactory. German statistics give the total import and export trade of the world for 1901 as $23,800,000,900. Great Britain and her colonies lead, with Germany second and the United States third. The 1902 fishing season in the Columbia river is closed. It is estimated that the salmon pack is 336,000 cases, or about 100,000 more than last year. About 90,000 cases were shim>ed iu cold storage, making the total catch 462,000 cases. Announcement of the coming marriage of Miss Y’iviun Sartoris lias been made by Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris. Gen. Grant’s granddaughter is to be the wife of Frederick Roosevelt Scovel, son of Chevalier nnd Mme. Edward Scovel i nd cousin of President Roobevelt. The lower portion of the city of Altata, on the Pacific coast, just west of Culiaenn, Mexico, has been destroyed by a tidal wave, and not less than fifty persons are know*.i to have been drowned. The loss of life may lie several times that number. The property loss Is heavy. It is reported that several smaller const towns situated above Altata were washed away by the tidal wave, and that the loss of life in those smaller places Is heavr.

COLD RETARDS CROPS

WEATHER NOT FAVORABLE TO RAPID MATURING. The Outlook for Corn In Promising— Spring Wheat Harvests Nearly Fin-ished-Government Report Tells Reason of Setback. The latest crop report issued by the weather bureau says the week has not been favorable for the fapid maturing of crops in the northern districts east of the Missoupri valley, where it has been abnormally cool, with excessive rains in portions of the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys, while hot and generally dry weather prevailed in the Southern States and the protracted drought continued in the middle Rocky Mountain districts. Continuing, the report says: Corn continues in very promising condition in the principal corn States, in the more northerly portions of which, however, it has not matured rapidly under the low temperatures which, prevailed during the week. The reports indicate that early corn over the northern portion of the corn belt will be safe from frost by Sept. 1 to 15, and the late crop from Sept. 15 to Oct. 1, while over the southern portions of the corn belt some of the early corn is already matured, and the late will be safe by Sept. 15 to 23. Spring wheat harvest is nearly finished in the Dakotas, and has progressed under favorable conditions in northern Minnesota. but was interrupted by showers in the southern portion of the State, in which the crop generally has ripened slowly and unevenly. In lowa wheat in shock has been injured, and a large percentage ruined by wet weather. Further reports of damage to oats are received from the Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys. Harvesting is unfinished only, in some localities in the more northerly portions of the New England and middle Atlantic States.

Late cotton has improved in the Carolinas, Mississippi and Louisiana, and in portions of Missouri and Tennessee. Rust and shedding are very generally reported throughout the belt, with premature opening in portions of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. In Texas cotton is opening rapidly and picking is becoming general, but the crop has deteriorated on account of excessive heat, shedding and ravages of boll worms and weevil. YV’hile some damage has resulted from the hot, dry weather in Oklahoma amLlndinu Territory, where the crop is maturing fast, picking is in progress, a large yield of good quality is indicated. Special telegraphic reports were received from: . Illinois—Cool: heavy rains north; good showers in central and most of south; threshing nearly done; good yield of wheat and rye; oats better than expected; corn in tine condition, but maturing slowly lu north and considerable damage by chinehbugs south: pastures, broom corn, gardens and potatoes good; potatoes rotting somewhat; apple crop large tn central district, fair In north and south. Indiana —In southwest counties vegetation has been injured by drought, which was* broken during the last days" of the Week, elsewhere showers delay threshing, wheat and oats being damaged; corn and potatoes exceptionally promising: millet, second crop of clover, tobacco, tomatoes and pastures doing well; apple crop light, fruit falling. Ohio—Corn advanced slowly, oats yielding heavily, but injured somewhat In shock; seed clover promises fair crop; late potatoes, gardens and tobacco doing well, latter being cut; grapes rotting a little; pears fair, apples more promising In northern part. Michigan—Cool weather continues to retard growth of corn, which Is earing nicely, but Is small and backward; frosts In upper peninsula ami northern counties did some damage to corn, potatoes and garden truck; tine crop of oats mostly secured; beans nnd late potatoes in fair condition; sugar beets and apples continue promising. Wisconsin—Continued cool; frost did some damage to corn aud potatoes In north section. light elsewhere; moderate rains delayed threshing aud sticking; corn Improving, eared and silked; wheat, rye and barley good yle.d, but last named somewhat darif; oats heavy, but slightly Inferior quality; tobacco excellent, potatoes heavy crop; apples much improved. Minnesota - bavorable for spring wheat, oats and barley harvest lu north till rains of 17th; wheat ripening slowly and unevenly—stacking and shock threshing stopped in south by s.lowers beginning the 12th; llax cutting well advanced—warmer weather necessary to mature good corn crop before frost. lowa—Week cool with widely distributed excess of rainfall; wheat ami oats In shock Injured nnd huge percentage ruined; corn crop bulky, heavily eared and very green; most advanced corn will likely l>e safe from Sept. 15, a balance of crop about 25th to 3<lth—npples and potatoes doing fairly well. North Dakota- Favorable weather for bar vest st 111 prevails; wheat harvest nearly tin ished tn southern and just commencing in northern portion—oats and barley In shock or stack. Early flax ripening, some cut. late continues poor; corn needs about three weeks for safe maturity. Smith Dakota—Showers considerably benefited corn, flax, potatoes nnd pastures except in north; wheat and oats harvest nearing completion nnd threshing progressing; frost on the lltli seriously damaged considerable late and some early corn, flax and potatoes in middle and northern James and Sioux Valleys. Nebraska—Haying nnd harvesting retarded by rains In northern portion; warm and dry In southern portion; very favorable for progress of work, but soli too dry for plowing; corn growing Well, although needing rain in southern counties, while In southwestern counties crop hns been somewhat damaged by drought; early corn will be safe from frost by .Sept. .5, lute by Sent. 25th. Kansas—Early corn maturing, being cut in many counties, marketed in few. considered safe; late corn suffering for rain; damaged in many central and western counties; safe by Sept. I to 15. Still cutting prairie hay; very heavy crop of grass curing on range In west: apples promise a good crop, but are dropping In places.

Notes of Current Events.

WhiteTai>s licked W. 11. Dowel, farmer, Owensboro, Ky. Zcechs and Poles clashed, Kappel, Austria, seven being killed. Bakers in the City of Mexico have formed a pool and raised the price of bread. Senator Stewart announces that the State of Nevada will be carried by the Republicans this year. Omaha park commissioners have burred automobiles from the boulevards of that city because they frighten too many horses. Jos. Mirand, aged 14. was killed nt Los Angeles. Cal., by a Southern Pacific car. Mexican laborers tried to mob the train crow, but police interfered. The quaint old Wurtemberg city of Ravensburg has celebrated the one thousandth anniversary of its founding by a historical procession representing the successive centuries. The tariff committee of the German Reiclfstag adopted unchanged clauses 812 to 810 of the new tariff law. These sections cover files, drills, hammers and all agricultural and domestic trade implements except where otherwise specified.

COMMEPCIAL FINANCIAL

.. ~1 Prospects have,, greatly Nel IOfK. improved through the ad--11 ‘justment of numerous labor controversies, yet the anthracite coal strike situation is unchanged and supplies are nearing depletion. Distribution of merchandise has met with some interruption owing to freight blockades, the volume of business being very heavy. Statistics of pig iron production on Aug. 1, according to the Iron Age, are more satisfactory than might have been expected, in view of the great scarcity of fuel. A weekly capacity of 336.465 tons is 15,599 tons less than the high record of Maj’ 1, it is true, but compares favorably with all earlier dates and shows an increase of 32,618 tons over the output a year ago. These figures by no means suggest a serious setback in the industry, but rather emphasize the abnormal condition of demand which finds such a heavj’ yield inadequate. Southern furnaces have contracted so far in advance that they practically have withdrawn from the market, and all dates for deliveries are remote except where foreign arrivals are offered. R. G. Dun & Co.’s YY’eekly Review of Trade makes the foregoing summary of the trade situation. Continuing, the review says: Pressure for steel is undiininished, mid the urgency of domestic consumers is shown by additional imports of large size. Structural material is sought by carshops and bridge builders, while many office buildings and other steel structures are planned. Coke production in the Connellsville region exceeds 250,000 tons weekly, and outside ovens are also surpassing all records of activity. Yet shipments are ufisatisfactory, causing frequent delays. YY'heat, including flour, exports for the week ending Aug. 14. aggregate 4,591,805 bushels, against 4.244.363 lust week and 9.039,761 last year. YY’heat exports since July 1 aggregate 26,990.008 bushels, against 44,071,998 last season. Corn exports aggregate 93,423 bushels, against ,70,611 last week and 508,807 last year. For the fiscal year corn exports are 651,844 bushels, against 9,227,168 last season.

There has rarely been a CulCdQO. - vear wllen the money sit- — uation in the YY’est at this time has been so good as at present. The total amount of money in circulation Is $2,260,606,137, an increase of $71,038,988 over last year. There are 4,535 national banks now in the country compared with 4,165 on Aug. 15, 1901; and the statements on last examiner’s call Show a majority of these banks in better condition as regards loaning ability than at the beginning of the crop movement last year. The banks of the middle YY’est and Northwest have no less than $128,678,000 on deposit with reserve agencies in New Y’ork. Money is easy abroad, and while an occasional flurrj- may run up rates on our side, there is every reason to expect only temporary advances with an easy market and low rates as the rule. The credit of the YY’est has never been so good. And this credit based up<m confidence is really more important than any other consideration. The financial situation, on the whole, is sound, justifying everything of legitimate business expansion, vet not such as to warrant reckless speculation. Many favorable features are noted In trade, especially in the jobbing lines, where the fall buying is being felt with increasing force. In dry goods, shoes, hardware and other lines, material gains were made over last week in the volume of business. Structural iron is still being turned out under great pressure, and the curtailment of pig iron production remains a handicap. The grain markets were firmer nnd advances were the rule, wheat gaining about 2 cents from recent low points. Wet weather and fear of a lowering in the quality of the wheat has been strengthening, this helped to some degr«>e by somewhat smaller estimates of the northwestern crop yield, than was generally expected.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.75; bogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $7.10; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn. No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats. No. 2,28 c to 36c; rye, No. 2. 49c to 50c; bay, timothy, $ll.OO to $17.00; prairie, $6.00 to $9.50; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19e; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potatoes, new. 40c to 60c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $8.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.15; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,65 cto 66c; corn. No. 2 white, 60c to 61c; oats, No. 2 white, new 28c to 29c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $8.00; hogs, $3.00 to $6.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,61 cto 62c; corn. No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2,26 cto 27c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c. Cincinnati—Cuttle, $4.50 to $7.50; hogs, $4.00 to $7.10; sheep, $3.25 to $3.85; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 58c to 59c; oats, No. 2 mixed, '#<c to 29c; rye. No. 2,53 cto 54c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.35; hogs, $3.00 to $7.10; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 66c to 67c_; oats, No. 2 white, new, 35c to 36c: rye, 51c to 52c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 3,59 cto 00c; oats, Nor 2 white, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 1, 4t)e to 51c; barley, No. 2,69 cto 70c; pork, mess, $15.97. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 71c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 58c to 59c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; clover seed, prime, $5.17. New York -Cattle, $4.00 to $7.50; hogs, $3.00 to $7.15; sheep, $4.00 to $4.10; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; com. No. 2, 62c to 03c; oats, No. 2 white, 62c to 63c; butter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, western, 18c to ;2Oc. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $8.25; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $7.30; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to. $6.25. . I