Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1902 — Page 6

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

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

President Roosevelt liud h narrow escape from death and was slightly injured in collision between his carriage and a trolley car near Pittsfield, Mass. Secret Service Agent Craig was killed, driver fatally hurt and Secretary Cortelyou stunned. Indictments for fraud and conspiracy in connection with the Masonic Temple tax case in Chicago were voted against Williams, Wheeler, Hoy and Healy. Sensational evidence affecting forged note transactions by Wheeler was given by Attorney Wagner. C. A. Brown and wife of Frankfort, Ohio, were found dend in the cemetery at Jamestown, the man shot through the temple, the woman in the mouth. A single revolver lay between them, ami whether it was a double suicide or not is unknown, though the indications point to suicide. Unanimous action-of Ohio Democrats in carrying out plans of Tom Johnson makes Cleveland Mayor formidable candidate for the presidency. Democrats of Wisconsin nominated David S. Rose, Mayor of Milwaukee, for Governor. lowa Democrats in convention at Des Moines rejected resolution to reaffirm specifically the Kansas City platform. In n raid on a “btimboat” moored in tin* Chicago river, seven men Were arrested and enough booty secured to completely rig out any ship’s hold. The fact 'that various yachts stationed at intertills along the river have for some time been subjected to the depredations of river pirates led to .suspicion against the occupants of the “bum-boat.” Following is the standing of the ciuhs of the National Baseball Leaguer W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .87. 29 Chicago 50 51) Brooklyn .. .011 50 St. Louis. .. .52 01 Boston .....57 55 Philadelphia. 47 0(5 Cincinnati ..57 58 New Y0rk...151) 73 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 05 48 Cleveland ...5!) 57 St. I/onis... .03 IS Washington. 52 (52 Boston .....03 41) Baltimore ...45 (58 Chicago ....00 51 Detroit 43 07

BREVITIES.

Kdward Eggleston, author of "The I lousier Schoolmaster." died at Jones Lock, Lake George, X. Y. There is an uprising of Yankton Indians at Xapcr, Neb., and the Mayor requested tin- Governor to send assistance. Dispatches received at Montreal report the destruction of tin- village of La Belle, Quebec, The loss is estimated at SIOO,(KH). David P. James, 7.5 years old, a farmer inear Muskegon, Mich., killed his sou John after a quarrel over the elder James’ housekeeper. The ProhibitionVnt* of Massachusetts nominated William 11. Partridge of Newton for (lovernor and I)r, Oliver W. Cobb of Kasthamptou for Lieutenant ■Governor. The body of Ralph Watson, aged 27, was found ou the Northern Pacific track near Anoka. Minn., mangled almiwt beyond recognition. It is thought lie was murdered. Alto rney General lvnox, after considering tlie long-delayed report of Commiirsioner of Labor Carroll I). Wright, concludes that President Roosevelt is powerless to interfere in the anthracite miiir ers’ strike. State Batik Examiner Hartwell of Nebraska lias closed the banks at Graf and Vesta. Neb., which were organized ty Pushier Charles M. Chamberlain of the Tecuuisoh Bunk, who inis been missing for several days. The Grove House Park summer hotel, one of Erie’s oldest summer resorts, was consumed by fire with all its contents at Erie, I’ii. The inmates escaped with their lives in their night clothes. Tin loss is $20,000. A Flushing, L. L. caretaker, aided by hi- wife and daughter, fatally shot one policeman and seriously wounded a dozen others, was driven from house in which he had taken refuge by tire and captured; daughter escaped. At Cuycy, Porto Rico, there was a conflict between persons attending meetings of fedcrats ami republicans, during which six men, including a police captain, were wounded. The fighting was caused by a strictly political dispute. The Tinted States cruiser Brooklyn, the flagship of Rear Admiral Coghlan, struck a hidden roek in Buzzard's Bay and sustained serious damage. The officers state that the rock upon which the vessel struck is uncharted. The west-bound passenger train on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad was wrecked by a defective rail near Brownwood, Texas. The entire train was thrown down u twenty-foot embankment. Thirty persons were injured. B.v the collapse of a tenqsirary stand at the horse show at Denver, 200 persons, prominent society people, occupying boxes, were precipitated a distance of five feet. Three were seriously hurt and uinny were slightly injured. The Diamond Match Company is reported to have purchased mills and pine in Duluth mid vicinity, the deals Involving $2,000,000. (Sen. Alger ami Smith A Co. have bought the Mitchell A. M (’lure Lumber Company for $750,000. William Trautman of Snyder villc, Utah, who was recently discharged from the insane asylum, beat Ills two daughters to death, fatally wounded his wife, attempted to murder the remainder of Ids family and then killed himself. Several shocks of isirtliquake were experienced at Gubhio. in the province «.f l’erugiu, Italy. A number of houses worn destroyed, three persons were killed atlij many were injured. O. W. (’use. n prominent resident of Kirkwood, Mo., and for many years connected with the Pacific Express Company at St. Isiuis. was found dead at his home, with all Indications pointing to suicide. While Wu Ting Fang was talking with a laltor leader about the miners' strike on his way to Binghamton, N. Y„ a stone was thrown through Lhc ear window and narrowly missed the Chinese minister.

EASTERN.

A fire which at one time threatened all the principal buildings of Bethlehem, Conn., waa stayed by a shift of the wind. Two soldiers were killed by premature discharge of gun at Fort Wright during a mock engagement with fleet of Higginson. Ada Gray, who made her success on the stage as the heroine in "East Lynne,” died alt New York and Was buried by the Actors’ Fund. President Roosevelt, speaking at Fitchburg, Mass., warned his hearers against radical action on combines which might endanger prosperity of all. Asbury Dixon, colored, was hanged at Snow Hill, Md., for wife murder. Previous to the execution he was baptized by immersion in a bathtub. Stratton D. Brooks, for two years professor of education at the University of Illinois, has been elected assistant superintendent of the schools of Boston, Mass. Merchants of the anthracite region have made direct appeal to President Roosevelt to intercede. Gen. Gobin ordered troops to shoot without orders persons who attack them. McCullough, regular Republican nominee for Governor in Vermont, failed to secure u majority and election was thrown into Legislature. Republicans were success fill ou rest of ticket. At York, Pa., 1 fire supposed to be of Incendiary origin started in the rear portion of the Palace of Amusement building, spread to several adjoining buildings and destroyed property valued at $150,000. David Gossnrd died in Hagerstown, Md., aged 75 years. He was twice married and the father of twenty-four children, twenty of whom are living. He is survived also by eighty grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. Job Murray Williams, colored, has confessed at Hridgeton, N. J., that he set fire to the barn in which Farmer John S. Holmes and his housekeeper were burned to death, in order to rob their house to get money with which to marry. A large automobile was struck by a boulevard car in New York, hurled against the flimsy railing lining the subway excavation, which gave way under its weight, and was precipitated into the subway, a fall of thirty feet, ami the driver, Edward Morris, was fatally injured. ' f> -i. * The torpedo-boat destroyer Barry, built by the Neafie At Levy Shipbuilding Company of I’hilndelphia, ran a successful endurance test over the Barren Island course. The government contract calls for an average, speed of twenty-seven knots. This the Burry exceeded by half a knot. Savabie, a Western colt, sired by Salvator, won the Futurity at Sheepsnoad Bay. John A. Drake, the Chicago millionaire, who captured the Derby at Chicago this summer, owned the colt, which was trained by Enoch Wishard, a Western man, and ridden by Lucieu L.vnc, also a Western product. Following close upon the recent announcement made by Harvard that the collegiate course in that institution had been altered.so as to permit a student to complete it in three years instead of four, comes the announcement from the University of Pennsylvania that a similar change hud been made in its curriculum. Albert Terrell, n negro pugilist, died in a Philadelphia hospital, where he was taken after a boxing bout with William Stokes, also a negro, at the Golden Gate Athletic Club. Terrell fell from the effects of u blow, it is said, his- head striking the floor. At the hospital it was learned that bis skull had been fractured. One woman was killed and several others suffered from shocks and burns i-s the result of a fire which started ou the first floor of a five-story fiat house in W est 121st street, New York. The dead woman was Mrs. Eva Arendt, who lived on the fourth floor of the house. She jumped from a window and died in a hospital of her injuries. The other women who were hurt will recover. The money loss was SIO,OOO.

WESTERN.

Five men are reported killed in a freight wreck on the Roek Island Railway at Randolph, Mo. At Waterdale, Colo., Miss Gertrude Edith Hoothroyd was married to Lord Lyulph Ogilvy, second son of the Earl of Airlie. Two hundred gunncii employed in the Union l’aeific shops in Omnha, derided to return to work at the scale offered by the company. Recent friction in the Minnesota high court of United Foresters has resulted in a decision by Insurance Commissioner Dearth to investigate the order. The safe and vault in the court house at Ipswich, S. I)., were robbed of $2,700. presumably by someone familiar with the office. All the money was gold. The body of an unknown woman which was found beside the tracks near Canoy. I. T., lias been identified us that of Miss Barbara Bates of Knoxville, Tenn. Joseph Laßarge, a paroled prisoner and printer of Toledo, was shot to death by a mob at Monroe, Mich., where he had arranged to elope with a married woman. W. 1). Stoner, aged 30, representing Sprague, Warner <V Co. of Chicago, committed suicide in Great Falls, Mont. His father, mother und sister are said to reside in Chicago. Wultev C. Eaton aud George Elirhurdt, boys who had gone 011 the river ut St. Louis for a row, were drowned by the overturning of their boat. Four companion* were rescued. The concentrator of the Montana Ore Purchasing Smelting works at Butte was d<\troycd by fire. The works are owned by F. August lleinze nnd 1,000 men are thrown out of work. The sensational contest over the estate of the lute I’. I’. Mast, the millionaire manufacturer of Springfield, Ohio, has been settled and each of his three adopted daughters will get $300,000, The conductors, gripmen and motormen employed hy the Union Traction Company in Chicago have derided not to strike. Their grievances will be submitted to a hoard of arbitration. Judge Morse of Salt Lake City, Utah, denied a motion for a new trial for Fetor Morteuseu, the contractor convicted ( ,f the murder of James R. Hay, secretary of the Pacific Lumber Company. Thirty millionaires from New Eugiaud, en route to tho Black Hills, spent the other day wandering about Denver without being aide to find hotel accommodation. They had wired ahead for Itllrty

rooms, but not one of the downtown hotels could even accommodate them with a cot. While an engine and four loaded cars were going up the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern coal chute at Chillicothe, Ohio, the chute gave way. Fireman Bazler and Switchman Falter were fatally hurt At Harrison, Idaho, the mills of the Cameron Lumber Company have been destroyed by fire, together with nearly 3,000,000 feet of lumber. The loss is $90,000. The flumes started from a spark from an engine. * I)r. E. Benjamin Andrews drew a dark picture of popular government in his address at the convocation of the University of Chicago. The gifts for the year footed up $2,083,355. One hundred and twenty diplomas were conferred. Howell Jones, a farmer, was shot and killed near Atkins, Ark., by A. J. Mathias, a farmer of the same neighborhood. The men were brothers-in-luw and had not been friendly for some time. Mathias at once surrendered. A terrific explosion occurred at the Hercules dynamite plant, eleven miles north of Louisiana, Mo. The acid-recovery house was the scene of the explosion, which utterly annihilated the building ami all its contents. No one was hurt. Otto A. Meyer, president of the O. A. Meyer Company, shot himself through the head at his home in Milwaukee. He was 45 years old and leaves u wife and three children. He is supposed to have been depressed over financial affairs. Over (50,000 toilers, including scores of women, took part in the Labor Day parade in Chicago, which is said to have been the greatest that ever marched in an American city. Contributions to aid striking miners are figured at SIO,OOO. Mr. und Mrs. Michael Murphy, aged 75 and 74 respectively, were asphyxiated at their room on Aldrich avenue, Minneapolls. Coroner Williams decided that death was purely accidental. Mr. and M rs. Murphy came recently from lowa. John Reit, a farmer south of Lewiston, Mont., took swift revenge on George Fredericks and Jacob Stange, neighbors, who were endeavoring to handle him in Whitecap style. He shot and instantly killed Fredericks and fatally wound.*d Stange. A tornado swept a passenger train from the track of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway near Meriden, Minn. It was thrown down a high embankment and three persons were killed, two fatally injured and more than a score of others seriously hurt. . . A special from Butler, Neb., where the fatuous Tonopah mines are situated, says: “A strike has Iteen made here which makes Tonopah without a doubt the richest mining c-amp in the world. The strike was made at 480 feet on the Mizpnh extension ledge.” J. It. Hunter, J. W. Woodworth, 11. P. Kauffer and S. N. Biekerstaff of the Henderson-Antes Company of Kalamazoo pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to defraud the State of Michigan and were fined $2,000 each, excepting Bickerstaff, who must pay $1,200. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Lake Carriers’ Association in Cleveland, the wages of firemen and oilers were advances] to $52.50 per month. According to agreements made with officials of the union the new rate will hold for the remainder of the season. Virgil Garvin, one of the pitchers of Chicago team of the American League, shot and wounded a West Side saloonkeeper in Chicago, after having assaulted a policeman who sought to quiet the ball player, who was quarreling. Following the shooting Garvin escaped. Miss Benson, aged 70, and Mrs. Phillips, aged (50, residiug four miles east of Springfield, Ohio, were clubbed into insensibility and their house robbed by two tramps, who were angered because their request for food was refused. It is believed Mrs. Phillips is fatally injured. The Union Pacific Railway Company lias appealed to the United States Supreme Court in the ease in which the 'Supreme Court of Colorado decided that the Postal Telegraph Company could secure a right of way for its wires along the Union Pacific Railroad by condemnation. Three engines and two freight cars were demolished in a wreck on the Wabash Railroad, three miles east of Peru, Ind. An east-hound passenger train, drawn by two engines, collided with n through freight, both going ut high speed. The six enginemeu escaped without a scratch. Four of the eight counciltnen in Mexico, Mo., have resigned. The council has been divided on the snloon and Sunday closing question and these resignations are the result. Mayor Jones ordered City Marshal White to notify the business men that the Sunday law would he enforced in future. The leading messenger service company in Omaha advertised for girls to take the places of boys as messengers. All of the others, it is reported, will follow suit in a few days. The girls will ride bicycles, and only a few hoys will be kept to go where their sister employes cannot with propriety. Chief of Police Reddy of Spikane, Wash., was a passenger on a street ear that was held up by a highwayman, who compelled the conductor to give up bis cash. Then, brandishing his long gun, he commanded the passengers to contribute. Chief Reddy was unarmed ni.d says he was powerless. The coast of California, with the Golden (lute as the center of operations, probably will he the scene of the next strategic battle between fleets of the American navy. Naval men at Han Francisco station are discussing the plan entertained at Washington of holding fall maneuvers ou the Pacific coast. Judge Richnrdson held at Spokane, Wash., that a boycott is not illegal when peaceably conducted, and when not so conducted must Im* dealt with by the Criminal Court. He denied the application of a Japanese restaurant keeper for on injunction to s-top the aggressive boycott of the Cooks and Waiters’ Union. After a lapse of more than twenty-four hours, during which no word was received from three aeronauts who left Denver to try for n transcontinental balloon voyage to New York, n telegram came announcing that the airship hnil been wrecked in a storm twenty-seven miles north of Florence, Colo. Although hruisfd and somewhat frostbitten, the occupants were not seriously hurt. The Master Plumbera’ Association is declared to tie a trust, operating in violation of the Missouri anti-trust law in a petition filed in the Circuit Court at

Kansas City by W. R. Young, a local plumbey. He alleges that his business has been ruined by members of the combine, who have refused to sell him supplies because he was not a member. Young asks $30,000 damages. An attempt was made by two masked men to rob the Metropolitan Street Railway ear barn at Armourdnlo, Kan. Watchman Mirnsker was ordered to hold up his hands, but Policeman J. W. Morris entered. Morris dealt one of the jobbers a heavy blow on the head wi'h h'g dub and was shot through the heart and instantly killed by the second robber. Watchman Minsker was also shot and slightly injured. Both robbers made their escape*.

SOUTHERN.

John Ruble, a blacksmith employed by the Hagamore Coal and Coke Company ou Crane creek, W. Va., was shot by striklug miners. He was guarding company property. Robert Foy, the negro who shot and killed Dajton H. Miller, secretary and treasurer of the Crane’s Nest Coal and Coke Company, at Tom's Creek, last December, was hanged at Wise, Va. The North Carolina Republican ernvention, composed entirely of white men, met ut Greenesboro and indorsed the candidacy of Thomas H. Hill, independent, for chief justice of the Supreme Court. Manny Price, the murderer of W. F. Brunson, a mine superintendent, and Bob Scruggs, n negro whom Price had named as an accessory, were lynched about two miles from Newberry, Fla., by a party of 300 men. Fire of incendiary origin destroyed twenty business houses at Livingston, Texas, causing a loss of $135,000, with insurance of 30 per cent. Gerlaeh & Brother are the heaviest losers, their losses being $40,000. General Manager Dixon of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad states that the strike of the machinists in the company’s shops at Cleburne, Texas, and other points has been declared off. About 700 men are involved. Texas people along the border of the Indian territory have determined to a>k for an injunction to stop the tribal authorities from turning loosy vast he'-ds of cattle upon Texas, because the owners of stock refuse or neglect to pay the tribal tax of 25 cents per head. Two boys found a band protruding fioni a sand pile, three miles from El Paso, Texas, and across the boundary in New Mexico and investigation revealed a headless body. The police believe the body to be that of Jay Culliugs, a civil engineer who recently disappeared. A report has been received of a battle on Sturgeon creek, Owsley Cowry, Ky., in which two men were killed and five men and one woman wounded. The tight took place at a bean-stringing at the home of William Peters. It is said to have been between the Neeleys and Allens. While rounding a curve on a high embankment near Berry, Ala., the engine and four ears of an excursion train on a branch of the Southern Railway leaped from the track and rolled over and over, smashing the coaches into kindling wood and causing the instant death of thirty persons and the injury of seventy-two others. Between Nashville and Franklin, Tenn., the local safe on the express ear of Louisville and Nashville through train No. 2, north hound, was rifled by two masked men. According to his own announcement one of the principals was Gus Hyatt, who escaped from the Tennessee penitentiary on Aug. 4 last. Express officials estimate the loss at about SSOO. -

FOREIGN.

George Douglas Brown, the author of the “House of the Greeu Shutters," died suddenly in London. Leading merchants and planters of Jamaica and Trinidad, tired of British rule, head agitation for annexation to the Unit•«d States. The Bolivian government has submitted proposals to Congress for the adoption of a gold standard at the rate of 20 pence for each sucre, the payment' of customs duties in gold at the same rate and for the abolition of the export duty on silver. The betrothal ceremony of Prince Nicholas of Greece and the Grand Duehese Helen occurred at the great palace at Tsarskoye Selo. Russia. The marriage service was held uftorward in the palace church, the metropolitan of St. Petersburg officiating. It is estimated that seventy persons were drowned in Algoa Bay, South Africa, during the storm which swept ever Port Elizabeth. Among the wrecked vessels is the British ship Inc-heapc Rock. Captain Ferguson, which arrived at Algoa Bay Aug. 2 from Portland, Ore, Part of her crew was saved. More than 200 residents of Martinique are known to have been killed by. Mount Peiee's latest destructive, but most beautiful series of eruptions. The village of Morue Rouge, near the volenno, was wiped out. The village of Le Carbct, devastated when St. Pierre was overwhelmed, was swept by a tidal wave. A Singapore telegram to the China Mall says that a collision occurred in the Straits of Malacca between the Dutch mail steamer Prinz Alexander and the British steamer Ban 11 in Guin. The Prinz Alexander sank and the first officer and the first engineer nnd nineteen passengers aud members of the crew were drowned.

IN GENERAL

The steamship Empress of China, which hns arrived at Victoria, B. C„ from China nnd Japan, reports having passed through a typhoon on the Chinese coast, blit suffered no dumnge. A dispatch from Chihuahua, Mexico, snys that a terrible wreck took place cn the Mexican Central nenr BermcjUlo. Many ihtsoiis are said to have been killed and the injured list is long. Three persons were killed, three mortally wouuded, and several others seriously iujured in a political riot which occurred In llumacuo, Porto Rico. Hundreds of shots were fired during the disturbances. The Navy Department has received tho official report on the explosion aboard the submarine torpedo boat Holland. The explosion resulted in the blowing of the only man on board, 11. K. Holland, through the hatchway, but no terioua damage of any kind was done.

ROOSEVELT IS HIT

Carriage Containing His Party Hit by Trolley Car. TWO MEN AJRE KILLED President’s Injuries Are Slight, but He Had a Narrow Escape. Coach Containing the Chief Executive's Party Struck by an Electric Car Near Lenox, Mass., with Fatal Results—Secret Service Man and the Driver of President’s Carriage DieGovernor Crane and Secretary Cortelyou Badly Braised. A terrible accident overtook the President's coach a short distance from Pittsfield, Mass., about 10 o’clock Vl'ednesday morning. After n short visit to the home of ex-Senator Dawes the President started on the long drive to Lenox. He had not gone far when an electric ear ran into them, throwing everyone to the ground and wrecking the coach. The President received cuts on the head. Gov. Crane was bruised. William Craig, the secret service mail, was instantly killed. The President was able to resume his journey to Lenox, hut sent word ahead that there should be no cheering. After leaving Senator Dawes' house, the four carriages containing the President and his immediate party were driven

PRESIDENT ItOOSEVELT.

down South street, two carriages on either side. When near the Country Club and at Che railroad crossing, an electric ear was noticed coming at a terrific rate of s|ieed. Mr. Craig signaled to the motorman to stop, hut he apparently paid no attention to the warning and the car came plunging on in its work of death. The President's carriage was literally smashed to pieces. The President, Gov. Crane and Secretary Cortelyou were piled up in a heap. Craig Instantly Killed. The awe-stricken crowd which witnessed the accident rushed to the President's carriage, hut with no expectation that he would he found alive. The President was cut on the right side pf his chin and his face. Secret Service Agent William Craig was killed outright, and I>. J. Pratt, the driver of the coach, sustained a fracture ,111 the skull which later caused death. The coach, which was a regijjation tal-ly-ho vehicle, was struck by an electric cav oq. the Pittsfield and Lenox street railway at about 9:30 o’clock. The accident happened at a point about a mile and a half from Lenox near the Pittsfield Country Club house while the President and his party were enjoying a coaching trip from Dalton. Gov. Crane’s home, where the President spent the night, to I<enux. a distance of about twenty miles over the Berkshire hills. The ear was in charge of Motorman Luke J. Madden on the front platform. The ear struck the coach in the rear

und smashed in the back of the vehicle, tipping it over end throwing its occupants to the ground. The ear was not badly damaged. Motorman Madden aud Conductor Kelly were at once arrested and taken to Pittsfield. Pratt, the driver of the coach, also was taken there and

O. B. CORTELYOU.

placed In the Pittsfield hospital. Cortelyou Also Hurt. The President, who in falling from the coach sustained only slight bruises nr.d a few scratches, and Secretary George B. Cortelyou, who suffered in n manner similar to that of the President with the exception that he was cut on the hood, with the other momliers of the party, went to tlie Country Oiub near by, where their wounds were dr eased. In a short time they proceeded to the Curtis Hotel at Lenox, arriving there at 11 o'clock. The President retained his composure, although lie showed solicitude for the rest of the party. The excitement was intense, and rumors flew thick nnd fast that the President had been killed. After remaining at the scene of the accident for an hour, the President determined to continu * his journey to Htockbridge. After a brief stop at lienox he was driven to the -.rain.

Western Horse Wins Futurity.

Havnble, n Western colt, sired by Snlvutor, won the Futurity nt Shcepshend Bay. John A. Drake, the Chicago millionaire, who on phi ted the Derby at Chicago thin summer, owned file colt, whk'h was trained by Knock Wisliard, a Western man, and ridden by Lncien Lyin', hlso a Western product. A dispatch from Oran, Algeria, says thnt n party of Moors recently attacked a F*vncb» military supply column near Ain DeJkelil and that number* were killed or wounded on both sides.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

U V L I resumption of rIGV IOrK. I anthracite coal mining it " 'encouraging, although the output is not yet sufficient to have nuy commercial value. Business conditions are unsatisfactory at the strike center, but reports from all other sections indicate unusually prompt revival after the summer vacation season, with exceptionally large operations ainoug dealers in the agricultural regions. Notwithstanding some bad weather, large crops are now practically assured, although the most sanguine results may not be attained. Manufacturing plants are now fully occupied os a rule, the least gratifying reports coming from furnaces that cannot secure coke, owing to railway blockades. The transportation problem is becoming serious, as the factor of crop moving is about to lie added, and moreover, much coal must be moved by rail that usually goes to consumers by lake and canal.” The foregoing is from the Weekly Trade Review of R. G. Dun & Go. It continues: Iron furnaces are suspending production because coke cannot he secured, and it is evident that the rate of output at the opening of the new month will show a serious loss. This scarcity of fuel was expected at the few plants using anthraclte coal, but has conic as a shock to the coke furnaces, for the Connellsvilh? ovens have steadily maintained a weekly production of 250,000 tons. Inadequate railway facilities are responsible aud the situation is critical. As the stocks of pig iron were very low fit the opening of August, consumers arc in an embarrassing position, and there is a growing disposition to refuse contracts. Imports are increasing, and numerous plans are reported whereby the finished product may be exported in order to secure the tariff drawback. These operations promise no relief to domestic consumers, and the railways are especially anxious for supplies. The dry goods jobbing trade reports a liberal distribution and supplies are only moderate in the primary market. Changed conditions in the raw material have accelerated inquiries for cotton goods, buyers seeking figures on forward contracts and placing a fair amount of ordets. There is also a better demand to meet immediate requirements, aud exporters to China are again in the market for brown cottons. Slightly less activity is seen in men's wear woolen and worsted fabrics, but fancy worsteds are in hotter request. At last footwear makers have been .-hie to secure a moderate advance in prices in response to the recent sharp rise in materials. Jobbers are no longer disposes to wait, but place orders freely. Retailers are also pressing jobbers for immediate deliveries of goo . for current trade. Leather is strong and active, while hides made higher record prices, but the market has quieted down. Deterioration from the exceptionally brilliant early outlook for cotton gave speculators an opportunity to advance options nearly $5 a bale, and dealings were heavy. Spot cotton was less sharply advanced, although a firm tone developed. Failures for the week numbered 173 in the United Stares, against 202 last year, ar.d 14 in Canada, against 21 a year a SO. Bradstreet’s says: Wheat (including floor) exports week ending Aug. 28 aggregate 5,4315.530 bushels, against 5,954,759 last week and 6,607,611 in this vfreek last year. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 38,381,297 bushels, against 57,286,598 last season. Corn exports aggregate 115,150 bushels, against 51,649 last week and 441,918 last year. For the fiscal year corn exports ; arc 818,(543 bushels, against 10,192,969 last season.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.75; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $7.82; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $3.G5; wheat, No. 2 red, Ot)c to 70c; corn, No. 2,58 cto 59c; oats. No. 2,25 c to 27c; rye. No. 2. 49e to 50c; hay, timothy $ll.OO to $12.50; prairie, SO.OO to $9.50; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potatoes, new, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $8.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.40; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,00 cto 07c; corn. No. 2 white, 01c to 02c; oats No. 2 white, new, 30c to 31c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $7.75; bogs, $3.00 to $7.00; sheep, $2.50 to $-1.25; wheat. No. 2,63 cto 04c; corn. No. 2, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 20c; rye. No. 2,50 cto 51c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $7.00; hogs, $4.00 to $7.40; sheep, $3.00 to $3.25; ■wheat. No. 2 70c to 71e; corn. No. 2 mixed, 59c to 00c; oats. No, 2 mixed, 28c to 29e; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs $3.00 to $0.90; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 00c to 07c; oats. No. 3 white, new, 30c to 32c; rye, 51c to 52c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern 70c to 71c; corn, No. 3,59 cto 00c; oats’. No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 1,51 c to 52c; barley, No. 2,05 cto 00c, !>ork mess, $17.00; Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed 00c to 01c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; clover seed, prime, $5.17. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $-1.00 to $8.00; hofs, fuir to prime. $4.00 to $7.90; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $5.75. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $7.00; lioga, $3.00 to $7.45; sheep, $4.00 to $4.10; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2, Me to 07c; oats, No. 2 white, 37c to 41c; butter creamery, 10c to 18c; eggs, western 18c to 10c. Senator J. K. Jones of Arkansas, whs ig in Memphis, Tenn., in an interview denied positively that lie had been offered a place on the Isthmian canal commission by President Roosevelt. A ntJrtvc in honor of the l«He Ku) press Frederick was unveiled at Hamburg with considerable ceremony. ,