Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1902 — Page 6

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

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Total receipts from the operation of all the railroads in the United States during the year ending June 30, 1901, was sl,588,526,037, an increase of over slOl,000,000. This fact is shown by the summary of the annual report of the interstate commerce commission. Two cars on the Youngstown and Sharon Electric Railway collided two miles south "of Sharon, Pa. Seventeen persons were injured, two seriously. Fifteen others received slight injuries. The accident was the result of a misunderstanding of orders and heavy fog. A. w. Mitchell, reputed to be a millionaire from Michigan, a passenger on the steamer Coptic, committed suicide on Aug. 12, when the vessel was three days out from San Francisco*. Mr. Mitchell, who was accompanied by Dr. C. E. Miller and a nurse, was reported to be on a trip around the world for his health. At Whatcom, Wash., Judge Neterer overruled a motion for a new trial for 11. St. John Dix and sentenced him to ten years in the penitentiary, the limit under the laws of that State. Dix was convicted of wreckihg the ScandinavianAmerican Bank in Whatcorn. He tied to England, and was arrested there about six months ago. According to Peter Sells, one of the proprietors of the Forepaugh and Sella Brothers' circus, his concern has agreed to a “community of interest’’ with the Buffalo Bill Wild West aggregation and the Barnum and Bailey shows. He said the three aggregations are to be managed by the Barnum ami Bailey Company, Limited, of London, England. Consternation reigns at Muncie, Ind., owing to a hand of gypsies located south of the city which has been sending its members, who have been found to be affected with smallpox, about the streets begging. The band has been driven into a big field and quarantined. It is feared the gypsies have spread the disease promiscuously eu route from Tennessee. Lieut. A. Jurich, Jr., of the Fourth cavalry, officer on watch at the guardhouse at Jefferson barracks, St. Louis, foiled a plot of seventeen long-term prisoners to escape. He caught six men in the act of Sawing through the roof of the guardhouse. In ten or fifteen minutes more they would have been on the roof and escaping by means of ropes. Jurich Called assistance ami the prisoners were put in safe cells. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...81 27 Cincinnati ...52 56 Brooklyn ...69 51 St. Louis. .. .48 59 Chicago ....54 53 Philadelphia. 43 63 Boston 53 52 New Y0rk...38 68 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: . W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 60 42 St. Louis..*.s4 48 Cleveland ...52 56Washington. 51 56 Boston .....59 46 Baltimore ...45 60 Chicago 47 Detroit 10 <l2

NEWS NUGGETS.

Strike at the Ashland sheet mill in Huntington, W. Va., has Wen declared off, and 600 men returned to work. President Jordan of Stanford University narrowly escaped drowning when his boat capsized in Samoan waters. ■ Another effort will be made to secure the release of Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick from Woking prison, England. The City Council of Bloomington, 111., has forbidden the serving of free lunches in saloons. The saloonkeepers desired such an ordinance. Harvard University has issued a circular showing provisions under which the bachelor of arts degree can be obtained in three years. Relatives of Mrs. Charles 1,. Fair have received a sum in cash said to be $500.000 and renounced all claim to estates of millionaire and his wife. Clarence A. Plank, police judge of Springfield, Ohio, who admitted a shortage of $4,300, committed spicide at Springfield, Mo., by taking poison. Chester Westbrook, who lived near Phillipsburg, Kan., killed his wife by cutting her throat with a razor, and then committed suicide by cutting his throat. The powder magazine of the Acadia Coal Company at Stellarton. one of the largest collieries on the mainland of Nova Scotin, blew up, killing two men and causing much damage. James Cahill, tt member of the baud of Fenians which killed Sergeant Brett and who tied to this country in 1867, afterward saying he fired the fatal shot, is dead at Lawrence, Mass. Charles T. Yerkes bus returned to New York after eight months abroad, and says millions will be spent if necessary to prevent competition by J. Pierpont Morgan in London electric railways. 1 faring the coming year 6O,(MN),O00 young salmon will be turned loose from hatcheries in Oregon along the Columbia river and its tributaries, in a determined effort to increase rile stock of Chinook anlmon. The Governors of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana have promised to attend the laying of the corner stone for a monument to the memory <>f Lewis and Clark to be erected in the city park at Portland, Ore. The War Department has received a cablegram from Gen. Cliaffee, at Manila, reporting the occurrence of a aeries of earthquakes on the island of Mindanao. Twenty persons were killed by falling walls, the victims all being Moros. Thomas Walters, for years n poor clerk nt Findlay, Ohio, has returned from California, .where he went to try to prove his relationship to the dead millionaire, Christian Westenfeld. He will receive S4M>.O kl from the estate together with his mother, Mrs. Lucy Walters of 'Circleville. Fred Wist of Boston is dead nt Saratoga from the effects* of being sandbagged. Mr. West had just emerged from a club house near Broadway when he was set upon by two men, who bent him down and emptied his pocket* of sever* I thousand dollars -

EASTERN.

; T. Bn rnes of Chicago husdbeCn denied : the privilege of trying to cross Niagara Falls on a tight rope. Two persons' were killed and three injured by an automobile plunging over an embankment near Long Branch, N. J. The four children of William Kronberg and his servant girl were suffocated in a fire in a two-and-a-half-story house at Portland, Me. President Roosevelt made a special journey to Newport to act as godfather for Roosevelt Ward Chanler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Chanler. Henry Tygon.Detwiler, the alleged defaulting accountant of the City Trust and ‘'Deposit Company of Philadelphia, has been arrested at San Francisco. George Hoadly, former Governor of Ohio and widely known as a corporation lawyer, died in Watkins, N. Y., aged 76 years. He had been ill for some time. Admiral Higginson's squadron captured the ships under Commander Pillsbury off New England const, bringing the naval maneuvers to an end with victory for the defenders. Miss Julia Lamont, daughter of ex-Sec-rctary of War Daniel S. Lamont, died at her father’s cottage at Sorrento. Me. Miss Lamont had been in poor health for some time. The body of Joel Hutton, a fireman, has been found in the ruins of the Delaware pulp works at Wilmington, Del., making the total deaths from the recent explosion seventeen. One man was killed and five injured in a head-on collision between two Baltimore and Ohio freight trains in Claysville” tunnel, near Pittsburg. Both engines and a number of cars were demolished. Rev. Robert Nor.se, the well-known Congregational minister and lecturer, was stricken with heart failure while in the pulpit of the First Congregational Church in Washington. His recovery is hoped for. The world's wagon record on a halfmile track was broken at the South Norwalk, Conn., fair grounds by a pair of horses driven by their owner, E. T. Bedford of Green’s Farms. The time trade for the mile was 2:15i.\. The body of Miss Olivo Broad, a mid-dle-aged woman who resided on the outskirts of Cornish, Me., was found in a clump of bushes with the skull crushed. The ‘woman had evidently been murdered. The motive is thought to have been robbery. An inspection of the Maurice river cove oyster beds by Thomas C. Covington, one of the largest wholesale oyster dealers in Philadelphia, shows that this year’s yield of oysters will exceed in numbers that of any former season for a full decade. It is estimated that the coal and iron policemen guarding the idle collieries in four counties of the Pennsylvania anthracite region number 5,000. The employment of so many special guards has necessitated nn expenditure by the companies to date of $1,800.000. In Buffalo, N. Y., while Policeman Orville Schickler was guarding three prisoners in a patrol wagon late the other night one of them drew a revolver and shot Schickler through the head. As soon ns the shot was tired all the prisoners made their escape and, it is- thought, left the city. Schickler may die. William I). Holdredge, 22 years old, of Medina, N. Y., met his death while flying a kite. Holdredge mounted the roof of a building owned by his father in order to get the benefit of a strong current of air. He was paying out the kite when a gust of wind carried his hat away. In trying to catch it he fell end was killed. Mrs. Josephine Vollmer, aged 51 years, and her niece, Mary Miller, aged 12 years, were found dead in bed nt their home in New York. They had been as? phyxiated by illuminating gas which poured into their bedroom from a fixture intended for both stove and gas jet, nnd a coroner who made an investigation said the case was one- of homicide and suicide.

WESTERN.

L. A. Sartell, an aeronaut, was killed by a fall of 1,200 feet at Homer, 111. Thomas Kane of Chicago has been elected president of the Winona assembly. President Burt of the Union Pacific Railway was, arrested in Omaha on complaint of ten workmen, who allege false imprisonment. The forest tires on the Green Horn mountain range, Colorado, whi.h had destroyed much valuable timber, have been extinguished by rain. Rufus K. Cravens and O. P. Nolan, quarrymen, who were deaf, were struck by a Rock Island passenger train near Kansas City and killed. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who spoke at the Chautauqua at Urbana, 111., said there was a strong possibility that the United States would acquire Cuba in time. The Ohio Legislature convened in extraordinary' session for the purpose of enacting a code of laws for the government of the municipalities of the State. Willie Furgrove and Otis Montgomery, each 12 years old, were knocked from the top of a freight car in the yards at Oklahoma City and run over and killed. The discovery was made at Duluth that 109,000 pounds of sugar belonging to the sugar trust and stored in a Duluth warehouse was missing. The sugar taken is valued nt $6,000. Herbst, Hill & Co., a brokerage firm at 112 LaSalle street, Chicago, went into the hands of Clarence Day, receiver. The liabilities are placed by the attorneys for the firm at $60,000, with assets nominally nt the same figure. The Kansas City-St. Louis lin» of the Rock Island system will be in operation within a year, according to G. A. Goodnow. general manager. Mr. Goodnow added that the offices of the new line would be located nt Kansas City. Celia Dibble Roberts, one of the pluri) wives of B. 11. Roberts of Sait Lake, who was expelled from Congress because of his polygamous relations, has contributed another pair of twins to the family which recently attracted much attention. Samuel Pryor, founder of Pryor's band died al Kt. Joseph, Mo., of a gastric disease. hi response to a n quest of the dying bandmaster, his musicians played lively airs for him ns ho passed away, several pieces being of bis own composition. One man was killed, three fatally in-

jured and one seriously hurt by the explosion of the boiler of a big mogul engine drawing the first section of a Chicago and Alton train eleven miles east of Mexico, Mo., while going thirty-five miles an hour. Charles Sieber, a wealthy cattleman and one of the most prominent citizens of Grand Junction, Colo., was shot and instantly killed by Joseph Harris of Westwater at a round-up on the Little Dolores river. The two men disputed the ownership of unbranded cattle. Kansas City's new $500,000 playhouse, the Willis Wood, was formally opened by Amelia Bingham and her company, presenting “A Modern Magdalen.” Theoccasion was made brilliant by the attendance of Govs. Dockery of Missouri and Savage of Nebraska. The First National Bank of Aberdeen, S. I)., was robbed of $3,800 in silver. The robbers entered the basement, thence going upstairs, and cut a hole in the vault through the steel side. The chest was not opened, the silver being stored in sacks in the vault outside of the safe. Hundreds of farmers in Kansas had to flee from the waters of the Cottonwood river, leaving behind their deluged farms and flooded homes. The river rose steadily for a week and great damage resulted. Some farms were under water thir-ty-six hours, causing certain destruction to crops. The annual reunion of the survivors of Quantrell's guerrillas was held at Independence, Kan. Most of those present took part in the raid upon Lawrence, Kan., thirty-nine years ago, and a majority of the survivors were boys at the time. Jim Cummings was prominent in the reunion.

Northern Pacific passenger train No. 7 crashed into the rear of a freight train in the yards at Anoka. Minn., killing the tireman, Harry Hutchins, and delaying traffic. In clearing away the wreckage David H. Wilson, engineer of No. 7, was caught between two timbers and fractured his leg. At Pratt, Kan., Mrs. Kimball is dead from “lumpy jaw,’’ caught from cattle, and Mr. Cochran of the Pratt Republican has been taken to a hospital in the same city jlangerously afflicted with the disease. Another man. whose name has not been learned, Caught the' disease by chewing straw. C. A. Mallory’ of the Mallory Commission Company and Judge Holmes, attorney for the Union Traction Company, both of Chicago, and Judge Levi McGee of Rapid City, S. D., have returned from Mexico, where they’ have been perfecting arrangements and letting contr.iets for a great packing house. The North American Copper Company, capitalized at $40,000,000 and formed recently in the East to purchase and operate all of the leading mines, the aerial tramway and smelter in the Gran-1 Encampment district, has purchased 'he Ferris-Haggerty copper mine at Battle Lake, Wyo., for $1,000,600. The Frisco system’s southern limited train, south bound, heavily laden with passengers, was maliciously derailed at Edwards Junction, near Fort Scott, Kan. Someone had driven a spike between the switch rails and opened the switch half way. The engineer and fireman were injured, but none of the passengers was hurt. A cable car crowded with passengers got away from-the gripman at the top of the Ninth street incline in Kansas City, shooting down at an angle of 45 degrees, to the Union station and dashing to the bottom at a terrific speed crashed into a train that had become stalled there, killing one person and injuring nearly a score.

Deputy Postmaster Sockland was held up, bound and gagged by robbers at Stuttgart, Ark., as he was about to close the office. The robbers took S6OO in money, about SBOO worth of stamps and Socklaud's watch and escaped. The man’s groans attracted the attention of passers-by an hour later and he was released. A tornado, accompanied by a terrific rain and hail storm, passed along the Niabrara river, eight miles north of Hemingford. Neb. It passed through a thickly settled country and is thought to have done a great amount of damage. It is known that a number of residences and other buildings in the path of the storm w’ere demolished. Miss Mabel O'Rear. daughter of Judge of Court of Appeals O'Rear of Frankfort. Ky., was drowned in the Ohio river at Cincinnati. Miss O'Rear. Miss Anna Stewart and Oscar Mortashead were out in the river in a canoe, when the waves of a steamlmat upset the craft. Mortashead and Miss Stewart were rescued by the steamboat crew. Three brothers named Sweet, from White Earth. Minn., who were camping near Fargo, N. 1 >., were held up by three maski-d men. The oldest brother resisted and was shot in and abdomen. He is in a critical condition. His assailant, John Rooney, was captured. The younger brothers were robbed of gold watches and money. William Upshaw, 20 years old. who left home at Salem, Mo., after a violent quarrel last spring, returned home, broke into the house, shot his father through the chest, tired two shots into his stepmother’s breast and then blew out his brains on the railroad tracks near their house. The only cause that can be assigned for the tragedy is that the son was opposed to bis father’s second marriage.

A west-bound Northern Pacific train was held up at Sand Point, Idaho. The robbers, of whom there were seven, forced the engineer to stop the train, after which they uncoupled the baggage car. Then they compelled the engineer to pull up the track about three miles further, where they tried to wreck the baggage car with dynamite. The explosives failed to work for some unknown cause, and after spending fifteen minutes with the ear the robbers decamped. So sure are the large cattle raiser* doing business on the Omaha market that a combine of the packing houses has been consummated and that the price of live stock will fall when only one firm is buying that they have practically finished plans to erect and operate independent packing houses at Omaha and Kansas City, and possibly St. Louis. The plan is to issue $1 worth of stock for each head of live stock owned by the cattle raisers. Fifty-five per cent of this stock will be held in the treasury, thus preventing the trust people from securing control. A fortune-teller told Jennie Fulk of Minneapolis that her lover would be faithless to her and that she would take

her own life in drder to become a spirit and watch over him from the ' spirit world. This prediction made such a great impression on "Miss Falk that she brooded over it and the other day attempted to drink carbolic acid. It was taken away from her, but two days later she secured more acid and succeeded in ending her life.

SOUTHERN.

Walter Bailey, colored, was hanged at Selma, Ala,, for the murder of Robert Hunter, near Orrville, in October, 1899. One person is dead and seven are injured as the result of the breaking of a trolley wire and a consequent panic on a street car at Memphis, Tenn. Mistaking his friend, who occupied the same dwelling with him, for a burglar, J. D. Wilson shot and instantly killed G. F. Apperson at Richmond, Va. The American Society of Florists, which has been in convention in Asheville, N. C., adjourned after selecting Milwaukee as the next meeting place. Three persons were killed and forty injured in a trolley collision on the Bay Shore terminal line just beyond Norfolk, Va. The cars were shattered and telescoped. The postoffice at Adairville, Ky., was entered, the safe blown open, and all of the government funds stolen. At Larwell, Ind., robbers secured $316 worth of stamps and all the money. Ornsley Covington and Charles Hunter, colored, and John O’Hara, white, were killed by a premature blast at the city workhouse, Lexington, Ky. The negroes were blown to pieces. O’Hara was manager of the works. The principal part of Ruskin, a little town seven miles from Waycross, Ga., was burned. The town was formerly the home of the Ruskin Commonwealth colony of socialists from Tennessee. The origin of the fire is unknown. Four of the most prominent citizens of Sumner County ami one of Nashville have been placed'under arrest in Gallatin, Tenn., for alleged complicity in the assassination of Dr. A. IL Williams, who was shot down almost at his own threshold on’the night of April 10, 1896. Miss Maud Thompson was killed by James Greer near the girl's home in Henderson County, Tenn. The only motive assigned is that the girl refused to go away with Greer. Meeting her in the road he put an arm around her neck and shot her twice with a pistol. The murderer escaped. Henry Kohlhaase, weigher at the United States mint in New Orleans, for twenty years an employe of the Louisiana State. Board of Health and a wellknown man about town, sent a bullet through his brain at his residence. As soon as the news of his suicide was received at the mint Superintendent Suthon put a force of men at work checking up his books and accounts. A shortage of S7OO was discovered.

FOREIGN.

Official cholera statistics show a total up to date of 25.664 eases and 18.040 deaths in the Philippines. The actual number of cases and deaths is greatly in excess of the official reports. News has reached Barcelona, Spain, of a fearful cyclone at Felanit, on the Island of Majorca. Enormous damage is reported to have been done. Houses have been destroyed and lives have been lost. Officers of the steamer Dahome report a severe eruption of Mount Pelee, on the Island of Martinique. The eruption was followed by total darkness five miles away from the volcano. It was twenty minutes before it again became light. Admiral You Diedrichs has resigned his post as chief of staff of the German navy. He has been succeeded by Vice Admiral Buechsel. Emperor William in accepting Admiral Von Diedrich's resignation referred in highly flattering terms to his services. Replying to a correspondent who asked Field Marshal Lord Wolseley of England if the report was correct that he had described the American army as “the best in the world,” the field marshal .writes that he believes the quotation accurately describes that army. The American auxiliary yacht L’towana, owned by Allison V. Armour of New York, won the Earl of Crawford's Coronation cup in the sailing race which started from the Nab lightship at Cowes, Isle of Wight, to Cherbourg .and back, around the Eddystone lighthouse.

IN GENERAL.

Senator Hanna has abandoned all efforts to end the coal strike owing to the attitude of operators, and predicts a long tight. A late Treasury Department report shows that the world has 1,750 submarine telegraph cables, having a total length of nearly 200,000 miles. The Northern Pacific Railroad Company has announced an advance in the wages of the company's operators which will average not less than 10 per cent. The convention of the American Opticians' Association, which closed at Boston, elected 11. E. Ellis of South Bend, Ind., president nnd William Sommers of Chicago regent. The new schedule of wages on the Big Four agreed on by the officers and the men will become operative Sept. I and will increase the pay rolls of the company about SIOO,OOO a year. Thomas S. Townsend has finished his 121 volumes, forming what is known i:s “the Townsend Library of National, State and Individual Civil War Records.” The author bns devoted thirtyseven years to this undertaking. An imperial order hus been issued commanding that all the demands made by the United States upon Turkey be conceded, nnd the relations between the Porte nnd the United States legation in Constantinople Jiave resumed their normal condition. One of the best portions of Rosahvid, B. ('., has been wiped out by fire. The tire started in I*. Beereas' premises, where lard was being rendered and n strong wind spread it to three blocks nnd several saloons. Half a dozen business houses were destroyed. The loss is SIOO,OOO. An important order affecting the military departments of about a hundred schools rind colleges in the United Stated, has been made by the War Department. The substance of this order is thnt hereafter a higher standard will be required of the military departments of those schools to which regular army officer* are detailed by the- general government.

MILES GOING TO PHILIPPINES.

Trip for Inspection of Army Conditions There Hat President’s Approval. 1 Gen, Nelson A. Miles is going to the Philippines and Secretary Cortelyou has made the positive statement that he goes with the full permission of the President, to inspect army conditions there. This statement was made after Mr.,Cortelyou had consulted with President Roosevelt. Asked for what purpose Gen. Miles is going to the islands, Mr. Cortelyou would add nothing to his former announcement. The officials of the War Department in Washington were much concerned over the report that Gen. Miles intended to visit the Philippines until they learned it was with President Roosevelt’s approval. Gen. Miles is now traveling in New England, and is said to have admitted that

his intentions are to make the start for Manila soon. Under the law there is no way of preventing Gen. Miles from going anywhere within the limits of his command. Gen. Sherman once moved the army headquarters to St. Louis and Gen. Miles ordered himself to Santiago during the\war with Spain. Notwithstanding the fact that Gen. Shafter commanded the Cuban expedition, Gen. Miles did participate in the negotiations for the surrender of the Spaniards, and knowing this, the officials in Washington fear that he may endeavor to interfere with the policy of the United States in dealing with the Moros of Mindanao. Should Gen. Miles while in the Philippines endeavor to assert his authority as commanding general of the army, it may result in serious complications.

NEWGATE PRISON RAZED.

London’s FamonsOltl Jail Demolished by Wreckers. The demolition of the walls of Newgate prison, London, was begun the other day. The famous old pile, which has been the place of confinement of many persons of rank as well as hated criminals since 1290, stood in the way of the modernizing of London, including the widening of streets, etc., and was ordered down. The structure dates back 130 years. Its predecessors on the same site were destroyed by fire. There was not in London a more striking building than this old prison house. The high stone walls, rugged and blackened, and presenting the merest slits for for windows, suggested the many tragedies that have been enacted within them. The history of the stronghold dates from the reign of King John, and as early as 1423 the masonry was taken down and

NEWGATE PRISON.

rebuilt. The author of this work was the then lord mayor of London, the famous Sir Richard Whittington—“Dick” Whittington of the story books. The name Newgate was taken from a gate that once spanned the street adjacent. The old building was comparatively small, and it was destroyed by the great fire of 1666, but even before thnt date its cells hnd held many men w-bose names still live in their country’s history.

BANKER AND WIFE FLEE.

Take with Them the Cash of the Town of Klnora, Ind. The Elnora Bank, a private institution at Elnora, Ind., has failed, and the proprietor, Pleasant Durham, and his wife have fled. Deposits to the amount of SB,OOO or SIO,OOO are believed to have been lost. The town is in a wild state of excitement. Durham went to Elnora in April from Chicago, and began business. He put in fine fixtures, a big safe, and obtained the best building for headquarters. Elnora is surrounded by n rich farming country, nnd he did a good business. His bank was not incorporated.

Sparks from tho Wires.

Hon. John D. Lyman, known through out the country ns n writer upon agrloul tural subjects, died at Exeter, N. IL, aged 70 years. A mixed railway train was derailed near Herat, India. Sixteen natives were killed nnd thirty natives nnd Europeans were injured. George Wingert, Zs the vicinity of Spring Hill, Kun., report* that he has harvested an average of thirty-thre* bushel* of biuegroaa seed per acre from flfteen acre*.

COMMEPCIAL FINANCIAL

y y j~| “Fuel scarcity is still the NB■ l OTK. one serious industrial handi- — cap. Protracted idleness at anthracite mines increased the pressure for soft coal and coke, and, despite new records of output, deliveries are utterly inadequate, owing to the lack of motive power. Freight blockade of coke trains has closed many furnaces, while the increasing call for transporting facilities on crop account gives little prospect of early relief. Notwithstanding the congestion, railway earnings thus far reported for August show gains of 3.4 per cent over last year and 17 per cent over 1909. Weather conditions have been less uniformly favorable for agricultural products, yet no severe loss is reported. Current trade is of good volume for the season, while the outlook for the future is bright. Buyers are numerous in all the leading markets, placing orders liberally at well-sustained quotations.” The fore going is from the weekly trade review ol R. G. Dun & Co. It continues: ' As the active blast furnace capacity o: this country decreases through wanto: fuel, foreign pig iron is purchased more freely, and Scotch warrants have advanc ed because of the steady demand. Do mestic needs are now far beyond all pre cedent, and even with the available homi capacity active there would be imports although less than are now arriving. There is much that is gratifying in thi state of affairs, but there is also a draw back. During the recent period for ex ceptional domestic demand many expor orders have been sacrificed which Germa: and Belgian makers secured. The outpu of the Connellsville regions continu above all records, but stocks accumulate Bradstreet's says: Wheat and flour ex ports for the week ended Aug. 21 aggrt gate 5,954,759 bushels, against 3,591,80 last week and 6.606,989 in this week las year. 'Wheat exports since July 1 aggn gate 32,944,767 bushels, against 50,675 987 last season. Corn exports aggregat 51,649 bushels, against 93,423 last wee and 523,883 last year. For the fisc; year corn exports are 703.493 bushel: against 9,751,051 last season.

Financial conditions ar LlliCdCO. easy money everywhere, i: creasing activity in a lines, expansion of trade and the dail launching of new business ventures; th: is the story of the past week in the bus cess world. It is a time of confidenc of prosperity and plenty, and viewing tl country as a whole, conditions might I pronounced almost ideal were it not f< the one unfavorable factor, having i beginning in the early summer and r maining as a handicap to progress as tl country enters upon the fall season. The week marked the rise of this qne lion of the coal supply into the place - first importance. That a long drawn-o , labor controversy was bound to rest hi a great scarcity of anthracite Coal w ♦vident at the start, yet through tl .‘hirteen weeks of continuation of tl strike there has been always a hope • settlement. Matters have nt last reac cd the stage where the stringency is h ginning to affect the industrial wor seriously, and every passing day increas the feeling of nervousness. Higher prices were made in some co: modifies, owing to crop news of a natu not quite so favorable as in the precedii week. Hides touched new high figun and leather advanced in consequem Lumber remains very firm at late a vances. The jobbing lines are rush with fall business. Unfavorable weather has delayed t Northwestern wheat movement. Ls year from Aug. 1 to Aug. 22 receipts bt were 7,977,000 bushels, while for t same period this year the figures sh( only 2.257,000 bushels. This will be ma 'tip later w’hen the movement gets fa ly under way, but meanwhile this m ter of light receipts has been an. imp, tant offset to bearish sentiment and influence for price maintenance, es; cially in the September option.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prit $4.00 to $7.75; hogs, shipping grad $4.25 to $7.70; sheep, fair to choice, $3 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 7 corn. No. 2,59 cto 60c; oats, No. 2, 1 to 28e; rye. No. 2,50 cto 51c; hay, t othy, $ll.OO to $12.50; prairie, $6.00 $9.50; butter, choice creamery, 17c 18c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potato new, 4Oc to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 $8.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6. sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4. wheat, No. 2,64 cto 65c; corn. No white, 60c to flic; oats, No. 2 white, ui 29c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $8.00; he $3.00 to $7.40; sheep, $2.50 to $4, wheat, No. 2,66 cto 67c; corn, No. 57c .to 58c; outs, No. 2,28 cto 29c; i No .2, 49c to 50d. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.50 to $7.10; h< $4.00 to $7.25; sheep, $3.00 to $3. wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn, No mixed, 57c to 58c; oats,, { No. 2 mis 28c to 29c; rye. No. 2,51 cto 52c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.<M) to $6.35; h< $3.00 to $6.90; sheep, $2.50 to $4. wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; Corn, No yellow. 65c to 66c; oats. No. 2 wh new, 35c to 36c; rye, 52c to, 53c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. J 2 northi 73c to 74c; corn. No. 3,59 e t,o GOc; o No. 2 white, 35c to 36c: rye. No. 1, to 52c; barley, No. 2, GOc to 70c; p< mess, $16.80, Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 00c to 61c; o No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; clover si prime, $5.17, New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $7.10; hi $3.00 to $7.15; sheep, $4.00 to $4 wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, Nt 67c to (13c; oats, No. 2 white, 44c to ‘ butter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, w ern, 18c to 19c. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping stc $4.00 to $8.25; hogs, fair to prime, $ to $7.65; sheep, fair to choice, $3.21 $4.25; lamb*, common to cboi le, $4.0 $6.40.