Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — Page 2

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

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

J. Charles Collins, nt one time a highly successful artist, wee found dead is bis room at his boarding house in New York. The coroner’s verdict is that death -was due to the accidental turning of a gas jet, the escaping gas killing the artist as he slept. Lieut. Peary announces that he hat decided never again to return to the North. He will not make another attempt to find the pole. He said that the pole can be found by following his plans and that if it ever is found it will be found in that way. Couty Treasurer Wm. O. Thompson, charged with embezzling county funds to the amount of $73,57(1, was arrested at York, Pa., and placed under $50,000 bail. Thompson was arrested on ten specific charges, n warrant having bee if sworn' out on each offense. Harry Stratton of Pasadena, Cal., after a conference between bls attorneys, decided to contest the will of his father, .Winfield S. Stratton, which left the bulk of his estate, estimated to be worth from SIO,(KXt,(XX) to $12,000,000, for the establishment of a home for poor sick people nt Colorado Springs. A fire which broke out shortly before 1 o'clock Tuesday morning in the large clothing store of Louis Saks, at Birmingham, Ala., burned until 4 o’clock, destroying the three-story building and its contents. The loss is $240,000, with $190,000 insurance. A spark from a live (dectric wire on the third floor caused the fire.

Four men are dead, three of them unidentified, and their faces and bodies so badly burned and blackened that identification is almost imistssible, and five Others are lying in different wards at the Miners' hospital in Fairmont, W- Va., suffering from cuts, bruises, and other injuries as a result of a gas explosion at a coal shaft located at Stafford. Several members of Daniel McCook's brigade, which played a conspicuous part in the campaign of the federal army around Atlanta, have purchased nixty acres in the vicinity of the “dead angle,” at Kenesaw Mountain, where/they ma'de their famous assaidt upon the Confederate forces when (leu. McCook was killed, and will found a park there. A tornado passed over the southern part of Grant County, Indiana, leaving desolation in a path two miles wide. Farm buildings and all crops were destroyed and many persons injured, but so far as is known no lives are lost. The country home of Daniel Haines was destroyed, as was also his granary and barn, containing thousands of dollars' worth of grain and stock. The Chicago Pipe Line Company. Standard Oil Company and Jonesboro Mining Company lost thousands of dollars’ worth of oil and gas property.

.Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ..I<M) 34 Chicago 64 09 Brooklyn ...72 00 St. Louis....lW 72 Boston 07 01 Philadelphia. 53 78 Cincinnati . .66 07 New Y0rk...45 82 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 83 51 Cleveland ...08 05 St. L0ui5....75 50 Washington. 59 75 Chicago ....73 57 Detroit 50 82 Boston 74 00 Baltimore ...50 85

NEWS NUGGETS

Prof. Luthardt, probably the most noted strictly orthodox theologian in tiermany, died at Leipsic. He was 80 years old. In a dispatch from Seoul, Corea, the corres|>ondent of the Paris Figaro says it is reported that the Emperor of Corea is dead. Henry Fox, ex-Councllman. was fatally injured in a runaway accident at Greenville, Ohio, his horse running into a store show window. George Gantz, was hanged at Heading. Pa. Gantz's crime was the murder last October of Annie Etter, 15 years of age. Gantz was 21 years old, idle and shiftless. Jealousies betw<*en European powers prevent action on Hay's note, and Rollmania will not institute permanent reforms unless the nations unite in armed intervention. Thomas Faircloth and Theodore Smith, young white men of Bronson, Fla., have been convicted of the murder of Mr. and Airs. L. B. Lewis, and will be sentenced to be hanged. Judge George 11. Durand of Flint, who was stricken with paralysis three weeks ago and is slowly recovering, has withdrawn as the Democratic candidate for Governor of Michigan. 11. M. M. Richards, treasurer of the American Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company, was shot ami seriously wounded in a riot led by the striking employes of the company at Lebanon, Pa. The Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking Railway was sold by Master Commissioner J. Robinson nt Columbus. It was bid in by Paul B. Cravath of New York, who offered the upset price of S2.7S(M*M). W. J. Hahn, a leader of the bar, dropped dend in the court room at Minneupo* Ils, while examining a witness. Ho had served as Attorney General of Minnesota and was a member of the recent "Butte tax commission. Mrs. Lucien Anderson, a bookbinder, committed suicide in a Denver boarding bouse. Hhe left a letter in which she •aid: “Please do not make any great ado ■bout this. I am Just disappointed and tired of life, that is all.” A new $400,060 railroad bridge will be built across the Missouri river at St. Joseph by the St. Joseph and Grund Islam) Railroad Company. The bridge will 1.0 used Jointly by the Grand Island and Rock Island. This agreement ends a long dispute. Although the death of Mary Gruner, who came to New York recently from Ralt Lak e (’ity, is shrouded in mystery the police profess to have evidence to •how' that she burst a blood vessel in a fit of emotion due to the receipt of news raying that a love affair had ended unhappily for her.

EASTERN.

In a freight wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad near Conemaugh, Pa., Fireman George FreemanWf Pitcairn was killed. Fire damaged the six-story building and stock of the Duquesne Sanitary Company at 220 and 228 Third avenue, Pittsburg, to the extent of $50,000. Peter Hernia was hanged in the county jail at Hackensack, N. J., for the murder of Barney Kanter, a butcher, but before his execution was accomplished Hernia made a desperate fight. Fifteen hundred factory operatives employed by the American Iroq and Steel Company,, who went on strike on Aug. 29 at Lebanon, Pa., have returned to work, the strike having been declared off. Two local passenger trains on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad collided near Witmer, Pa. Both trains were wrecked and Engineer Benedict was killed and four other trainmen were Injured. Anthracite coal strikers destroyed dam and bridge and wrecked home of nonunion miner with dynamite near Wilkesbarre: railroads have been seized, troops called out and shipments made under guard. The American Board of- Foreign Missions nt Boston has received $57,933 through the Rtate Department as 25 per cent of the award made on mission property in the Boxer outrages of 1900.

Fire in the Mutual building in Allegheny destroyed the stock of the Wheeler Paint Company. Harry Glees, an employe, was fatally burned. Loss $50,000, fully insured. The fire was caused by an explosion of oil in the cellar. The nude body of a young woman was found in the Morris canal between Ntwark and Jersey City and was identified by Joseph Pulitzer of New York as his wife Annie, who had been missing for three days. Pulitzer is detained by the police. Three firemen were injured and twen-ty-five horses burned to death in a fire in a large livery stable at 525 East Sixtyeighth street, New Y’ork. Two of the injured men were taken to the hospital, where it was feared their injuries would prove fatal. The financial loss was small. David M. Goughner, a well-known young man, shot and seriously wounded Miss Leorena Winnebrenner, aged 17, near her home in Conemaugh, Pn.,. and then sent a bullet into his own heart, dying instantly. Jealousy and a desire for revenge are given as the causes for act.

Dr. Daniel L. Wasser of Pittsburg, a typhoid fever patient in the West Penn hospital, was given an injection of carbolic acid instead of oil by the nurse and in a short time died. The nurse had two bottles nt hand, one of oil and the other of carbolic acid. The acid was administered by mistake. The barbed wire department of the Oliver plant of the American Steel and Wire Company was destroyed by fire nt Pittsburg. The loss is $150,000. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp, which in turn caused the explosion of a barrel of oil in the oil room nnd in a short time the entire building was in flames. John F. O'Sullivan, labor editor of the Boston Globo and one of the best known labor lenders in New England, was rr.n over and killed by a train at Lynn, Mass. He hud come to Lynn to address a meeting and on leaving his train fell across another track upon which a train was making a flying switch, and he was beheaded. Seven-year-old Girt Deaven of Schuylkill Haven, Pu„ proved himself to be a gallant little hero. Miss Eva Heim, who was canoeing on the Schuylkill river, was upset about fifty feet from the shore. There was no help in sight save the little boy, who was playing on a small raft moored at the shore. He saw the woman's peril, and using a pole pushed the raft out into the river. Though almost drowned, the woman had strength left to cling to the raft until her screams attracted help.

Lebanon, Pa., was in a state of excitement Monday night. There was firing of pistols for hours in the vicinity of the American iron and steel works, where a strike was in progress. The negroes who had Just arrived to take strikers' places at the works were terrified, as were the colored citizens in the vicinity. About midnight William Hoffman, aged 17, was shot and he died in the hospital. He was a messenger in the office of the American Iron and Steel Company nnd had attended an entertainment in the opera house. On his way home he was struck by a bullet.

WESTERN.

Heavy rain has extinguished the forest fires in southern Wyoming and northern Colorado. Mrs. Nancy Webb of Canton, Ohio, choked by a crumb of bread, fell end broke her neck. Louis W. Pierce of Minneapolis, a wellknown dealer In farm lands, committed suicide by shooting. Peter Olsen, murderer of Mary Peterson of Omaha, was killed by a pursuing posse nr nr Bancroft, Neb. The stamp mill and cyanide plant of the Columbian Gold Mining Company at York, Mont., was burned. Loss SSO,(MM). Grace Mackey, aged 22. a school teacher of Newark, Ohio, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid while temporarily insane.

Harry Strong, adopted son of Dr. Treat Payne of New York, is dead in Salt Lake from the bullet wound inflicted by Miles Romney, a saloonkeeper. Benjamin Waddle, who gave the county a SOO,OOO children’s home, has donated the city of Marlon, Ohio, land valued at $«) ,000 for an old women's home. Howard Page, a real estate broker of Kansas City, pleaded guilty to the change of embezzling nearly SI,OOO and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Two boys cut the ropes holding a balloon at Toledo, Ohio, nnd were carried six miles, but the balloon landed after half an hour nnd the buys were not hurt. The most destructive prairie fire iu the history of Beadle County, B. D., is reported. Not a graiu or hny stack is leftstanding In an area twelve miles long by five wide. Louis Von Roseau, a prominent German mining expert, was imprisoned thirty hours hi n Grouse mountain tunnel, near Cripple Creek, Colo., owing to a cave-in, but was not hurt; The business portion of Taylor's Falla, Minn., has been practically wiped out by fire, seventeen structures being destroy-

ed. The loss is about $25,000, and It is doubtful if the city will be rebuilt. ' Night Marshal Kale was killed in a battle with burglars at Goldfield, Colo. Two shots pierced his heart, another entered the mouth and still another shattered his left hand. The burglars escaped. An Akron, Kent and Ravenna electric car jumped the track oi? Water street at Kent, Ohio, and ran into a telephone pole. A dozen passengers were on the car and all of them were more or less seriously injured. At Choctaw, O. T., an east-bound freight train ran into the rear of the Sells-Downs show train, killing two persons and wounding twenty-six others. The killed are Harry Williams and an unknown negro. The trustees of the Childs-Drexel International Union Printers’ Home at Colorado Springs have forwarded necessary papers to the Secretary of State of Colorado to shorten the corporate name to the "Union Printers’ Home.” Three masked robbers blew up the postoffice safe at Jefferson, Ohio, with dynamite, stole $250 in cash and SBOO in stamps, boarded a south-bound train and escaped; Night Watchman Lawrence Jones was bound, blindfolded and gagged. President Roosevelt was operated on at Indianapolis for abscess on leg due to injury sustained in Pittsfield, Mass., accident, and abandoned his western tour, returning to Washington. Physicians say he is in no danger and expect quick recovery. Trip of President Roosevelt came near being marred by another tragedy, two little girls narrowly escaping death under his carriage nt Detroit. Large crowds -filled the streets and gave noisy welcome whenever their guest made an appearance. In a fight among feudists at Spokogee, I. T., four men were killed, one mortally wounded and several others slightly wounded. The dead are Willis Brooks and his sons, Clifford and John Brooks of the Brooks faction, and Riddle of the Riddle faction. Bowling along at top speed, a crowded Elston avenue electric car jumped the track in Chicago, and, running across the sidewalk, crashed into a dwelling. More than a score of the fifty passengers were severely injured, and the car and house were damaged. Mrs. Mintue A. Baker, a widow of St, Louis, has sued the city and health officials for $1(3,000 damages, alleging that two of her children died of tetanus resulting from tlie use of impure antitoxin furnished by the city, and that another child became ill.

Game Warden Alber Kirmse of Fremont, Ohio, shot and killed Ferdinand Bork, a prominent farmer. The officer was endeavoring to arrest Bork’s s >ns for violation of the game laws when the father slashed Kirmse with a corn cutter and the latter shot in self-defense. Big Four train No. 2, with William J. Bryan on board, struck a yard engine at the New Jersey street crossing in Indianapolis. The pilots of the engines were smashed and they were sent to the shop for repairs. The wreck caused considerable delay. Mr. Bryan was not injured. The dead body of a man supposed to be that of Jeremiah O'Shaughnessy, a commercial traveler from Rochester, N. Y. was found lying near the Nickel Plate Railway track at the foot of Amherst street, in East Cleveland, Ohio. The man’s skull was crushed and it is supposed that he was struck by a train. Moses T. Hale, ex-City Treasurer of Colorado Springs, charged with embezzlement of SIO,OOO of city funds, withdrew his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty in the District Court. Judge Leeds suspended sentence, saying that it appeared that the shortage, which was incurred through the defendant’s generosity to friends, had been settled by his brother.

The Rhoades-Carmean Buggy Company of Marshalltown, lowa, one of the largest manufacturers of carriages in the West, made an assignment. A. C. Trice and A. A. Moore of that city were named as assignees, and the factory wili be closed temporarily until an invoice is taken. The assets are scheduled at $266,507.66, and the liabilities at $212,262.73. There are about 100 creditors. The Marshalltown State Bank is the largest creditor, wjth a claim of $40,000, which the president of the bank %ays is fully secured. The Nebraska Central Irrigation Company has completed arrangements for the construction of a $3,000,000 power Mid irrigation canal, and the work of building it will begin In a short time. The canal will divert the water of the Loup river from a point near West Point through the canal to an immense reservoir near Columbus. From this reservoir the water will have a fall of ninety feet, with an outlet into the Platte river, and besides furnishing 20,000 horse power will irrigate several, thousand acres of land.

SOUTHERN.

Samuel Jones was stabbed and killed in a tight with Cecil Nablcr on Troublesome creek, Kentucky. The men fought with pocket knives. Caroline Bacon, aged 76 years, of Paducah, Ky., believes she is nearing the grave and has had her pastor preach her funeral sermon, so she could get the benefit of it. Panic in negro Church gathering at Birmingham, Ahi., resulted in loss of at least seventy-eight and istssibly 100 lives and injury to over 100 others. Woman’s ■cream, followed by cry of "Fire,” caused the disaster. Three Italiah miners—Tom Miratch, Bottle Miratch and Browle Shifton—were shot and killed in a drunken row at Berrybnrg, W. Va. Another man. whose name was not learned, wax also shot and seriously injured. Jimmy Pueball, another Italian, was badly cut with a razor.

FOREIGN.

Marie Henriette, Queen of the Belgians, died of heart disease at Spa, after a long illness. The Montreal express over the Grand Trunk Railroad killed at a crossing near West Pownal. Me., Abel Bowie, aged 71; his sister, Rebecca Bowie, aged 64, and Addie Bowie, his daughter, aged 37. The cable steamer Colonia has ItMid.ul the land end of the Pacific cable at Barnfield creek, near Victoria, B. C., and has started on her long trip to Fanning !■!- and, paying out the cable as she proceeds. A petition signed by 1,083 persons of various classes on the island of St. Croix has been sent to the Danish minister of

finance praying him to use his influence tb expedite the transfer of the Danish West Indies to the United States Edmund Jellinek, an official in the cashier’s department of the Lenderbank, disappeared from Vienna. It was discovered that he had defrauded the bank of $315,000 by falsifying checks. The money was spent by Jellinek in speculation. The discussion of Andrew Carnegie's offer of $150,000 to the borough of Marylebone for public libraries in that part of London has brought out some opposition to the idea, and the acceptance of ■ Mr. Carnegie’s gift has not yet been decided upon. The force commanded by Capt. John Pershing of the Fifteenth infantry, operating against the Moros in the Island of Mindanao, has met with slight resistance in the Macin country, and had captured seven forts, killed twenty-five, and wounded twenty Moros. Much interest has been aroused in India by the announcement that the crown prince of Germany, Frederick William, is likely to accompany the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, who are to represent King Edward and Queen Alexandra at the coronation durbar. A Bombay parsee, Nowrojee Manockjie Wadia, has announced His intention of devoting his fortune of nearly $5,000,000 to charity. He will give his property in trust for the benefit of persons in any country deprived of their means of subsistence by sudden calamities. A mew journal, the Rand Daily Mail, appeared in Johannesburg for the first time and announced that a loan of SIOO,000,000, irrespective of the war debt of $500,000,000, will be raised for public works and become an immediate charge on the revenues of Great Britain’s new South African colonies.

Officials at Port of Spain, Trinidad, have been told that the British government has raised the British flag on the Island of Patos, which is near Trinidad, notwithstanding the protest of the Venezuelan government. Sovereignty over the Island of Patos has been in dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela for a long time. In a dispatch from St. Petersburg a correspondent reports an attempt to derail the train upon which the Czar traveled from Kursk. Rails were removed on the two routes which bhe Czar might travel. In one instance the plot was discovered, and in the other a train was wrecked. The Czar reached St. Petersburg safely. The London Daily Mail says the government has decided that the new South African colonies are to be required to pay $500,000,000 toward the cost of the South African wa?. The colonies are, however, to be allowed ample time in which to make this payment. It will not be collected until the extension of trade and expansion of revenue permit. Consequently the loan will not be floated for two or three years. The Sydney flyer of the Intercolonial Railway, on board of which were Lieut, and Mrs. Peary on their way to New Y’ork, collided with a local train at New Glasgow, N. S. The engines of both trains were wrecked and one of the local cars •overturned. None of the passengers on the express was injured, but all were given a bad shaking up. Lieut. Peary and his wife were able to proceed after two hours’ delay. Thomns Law of the milling firm of Alexander & Law Brothers and Miss Sherwin, a social favorite, shot two prairie chickens on the farm of L. Rowe, twelve miles from Brandon, Manitoba. This so enraged Rowe that he fired twice at the hunters, shooting Miss Sherwin in the stomach and Law in the knee. Rowe ran home and swallowed the contents of a bottle of gopher poison, dying in a few minutes.

IN GENERAL.

Estimates for the rural free delivery service for the next fiscal year aggregate between $11,000,000 and $12,000,000. Weekly reviews of trade show continued activity, money stringency having failed to check industrial operations or shake confidence. Dr. R. Koch, the eminent German specialist, has signified his willingness to attend the congress of tuberculosis to be held in St. Louis in 1904. Naval board of inquiry exonerated Rear Admiral Coghlan and the officers of the Brooklyn for accident to the cruiser during recent joint maneuvers. President Palma requests withdrawal of remaining United States troops from Cuba, and matter has been referred to Secretary Root by the State Department. The big packing house at Chihuahua, Mexico, owned by Mexican and Kansas City capitalists, was partly destroyed by fire. The loss is $500,000, partly covered by insurance. Frank Buchanan of Indiana was reelected president of the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers’ Union at Milwaukee. New York was selected as headquarters of the union. Robert H. Darragh has finished the longest continuous trolley trip on record. He covered the distance between Flint, Mich., and Boston, w ith the exception of a few breaks in Ohio and New York, traveling 900 miles by trolley. Darragh took the trip by easy stages, occupying four weeks.

An estimate of the production of rice Jtir 1902 has been compiled by agents employed for this special purpose. It has been found that for the total of 345,242 acres in Louisiana the expected production is 2,003,238 bags. On the total of 173,737 acres in Texas the expected production will be 1,036,956 bags, making a grand total for the entire production of the two States of 3,100,019 bags. Acting Postmaster General Madden has awarded the contract for furnishing •tamped envelopes and newxpgper wrappers for the Postoffice Department for the four years beginning Jan. 1, 1003, to the Hartford Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Conn., it being the lowest bidder. Upward of $3,(MM),000 will be paid this company under the contract. Their bld is approximately $85,000 less than the next lowest.

Lieut. G. T. Emmons is on his way from Seattle to Washington to report Bpon the finding of ancient boundary lines between Alaska nnd Canada, but refuses to talk until his report is made. He says the setting aside of the Alexander archipelago for forest reserve will not Interfere with the settlement of the islands of southeastern Alaska and that development in all lines will be allowed to continue. The forests will be cared for to preserve the smaller growths.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

“ J “Domestic trade continlOrk. ues act * ve , high rates for money having thus far failed to check industrial operations or unsettle confidence. Stringency is considered only temporary and chiefly of importance to speculators, while large imports of gold promise relief. Crops are making encouraging progress, despite some injury from frost. Labor disputes are few, the anthracite coal strike being the only one that retards progress, and each week shows some increase in output. Fall distribution of merchandise has begun unusually early, while the volume of orders already placed indicates much the heaviest aggregate on record.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. It continues: At the South and West conditions are especially favorable, shipping departments working vigorously, and payments are promptly made. Traffic congestion causes complaint, yet railway earnings thus far available for September show a gain of 4.9 per cent over last year’s returns, and 15.7 per cent over 1900. Official returns of foreign commerce during August show the improvement in exports over the two preceding months that was indicated by weekly movement of merchandise and staples, and imports far surpass the corresponding month in preceding years. This liberal buying in foreign markets testifies to well-sustain-ed domestic consumption, particularly as to iron and steel, > Failures for the week numbered 199 in the United States, against 157 last year, and 25 in Canada, compared with 20 a year ago. Bradstreet's says: Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending Sept. 19, aggregate 5,435,823 bushels, against 5,444,142 last week, 6,840,574 in this wek last year, and 8,535,857 in 1900. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 55,537,065 bushels, against 72,181,845 last season and 38,519,690 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 49,508 bushels, against 91,512 last week, 611,258 last year and 2,134,205 in 1900. For the fiscal year exports are 980,859 bushels, against 12,132,934 last season, and 39,791,241 in 1900.

The railroads of the West LUICdQO. have been overburdened the 8 ‘ I past week in greater degree than at any time since the fall crop movement began. Many complaints were heard of shipments delayed in transit, end in the Northwest it has been not so much a question of the ability of the roads to provide sufficient cars as of ability to move them promptly when loaded. Despite the enormous expenditures for new rolling stock, and an increase in motive power and general equipment, the roads lack the facilities for handling the immense tonnage now offered with the promptness desired by shippers. Everything in sight throughout the Northwest bespeaks the continuance of present conditions, the fall distribution in the jobbing lines having had an early beginning, and the volume of the merchandise movement from the distributing centers into the country surpassing anything ever known at this time. Minneapolis began the fourth week of September with the smallest stock of wheat ever recorded at this time, another decrease during the week, of 235,820 bushels, having brought the total down to 1,083,343 bushels. Daily receipts were somewhat heavier and better comparative showings were made, but the movement must increase much more before there will be opportunity to accumulate stocks. There is a better flour demand, and with an adequate wheat supply the mills will grind heavily for some time to come. Sentiment has turned stronger in wheat, and the fear of a heavy decline to follow any increase in the Northwest movement has been dispelled. While the speculative market may dip even lower on the fluctuations from day to day, there is a growing feeling that the extreme low points have been seefi, and that the legitimate supply situation warrants the maintenance of prices somewhere near the present levels.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.80; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $7.85; sheep, fair to choice, $3.80 to $4-00; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2,57 cto 58c; oats. No. 2,26 c to 28c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $12.50; prairie, $6.00 to $9.50; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 20c; potatoes, 30c to 36c per bushel. Indiapapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $8.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.70; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 69c; corn, No. 2 white, 59c to 60c; oats, No. 2 white, new, 31c to 32c.

St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $8.00; hogs, $3.00 to $7.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,64 cto 65c; com. No. 2, 59c to 00c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $6.75; hogs, $4.00 to $7.55; sheep, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 61c to 62c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 55c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $7.40; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 63c to 64c; oats, No. 2 white, new, 30c to 31c; rye, 47c to 48c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 3,58 cto 59c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 1,50 c to 51c; barley, No. 2,66 cto 67c;‘pork, mean, $16.65. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 62c to 63c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; clover seed, prime, $5.45. New York’—Cattle, $4.00 to $6.85; hogs, SB.OO to $7.30; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2, 68c to 68c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; butter, creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, western, 19c to 22c. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.90; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $8.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 tc $8.75; iambs, common to choice, $4.00 lo $5.50.

Peach Stones tor Fuel. The great strike and the Increased oast of coal incident thereto has d> rected much attention to other materials for fuel, and a Baltimore man says a good substitute for the black diamond Is dried peach stones. The only objection to their use Is their scarcity, which depends entirely os the size of the peach crop. Frank Hall, the Baltimorean referred to, says his family had used peach atones as fuel for years until about three or four years ago, since which time the sup> ply has appeared to have decreased. “We used to get the dried peach stones from a Mr. Noel, who got them from the different packing-houses and dried them on his place,” said Mr. Ball yesterday. “I think we paid $2.50 a load for them, the load containing about forty-five bushels. The fuel was used in the kitchen and gave good re* suits. The stones will make a quick, hot fire and one that will last One and a half or two buckets of the peach etones will last as long as a bucket of coal. One has to be careful not to fill the stove too full or there will likely be an explosion similar to a gasoline explosion. The proper way to keep the fire going is to put In a shovelful at a time. “Peach stones thrown into a damp cellar,” said Mr. Hall, “are said to have a peculiar effect on a person. After the stones are in the cellar for some time gases arise, and the fumes will go to one’s head and give the same effect as If the distilled product of the peach had been imbibed.”

Had Crazy Spells.

West Pembroke, Me., Sept. 22d. The 18-year-old daughter of Mrs. A. L> Smith suffered with a peculiar affliction which her mother describes as follows: “It is two years now since she was first taken with crazy spells. “They kept on coming at intervals and I could get nothing to do her any good. “The doctors gave me no encouragement. They all said they could not help her. “The crazy spell would last about nine days, then she would be well about nine days, but would eat very little and was very yellow. Even the whites of her eyes were yellow. “I heard that Dodd’s Kidney Pills were a great remedy for young girls and decided to try them. “After taking one box she was completely restored and she has not had one bad spell since. Of course we continued to use the pills and she used altogether five boxes last fall. “In March I thought I saw symptoms of the spells again and I got six boxes, of which she has taken four, and is la splendid health. “Her case was certainly a remarkable one, and we are very thankful to Dodd’s Kidney Pills for the great good they have done my daughter.”

A Sensible Question.

“I zay, pa,” began little Clarence, “what ” “Oh, I don’t know!” replied hie 'longsuffering sire wearily. “But the question I wanted to ask isn't foolish, pa.” “Well, what is it?” “Well, pa, if the end of the world was to come, and the earth was destroyed while a man was up in a balloon, where would he land when he came down?” ,

Homeseekers.

Before buying a farm or locating elsewhere, ought to see the good farming and dairy lands along and contiguous to the line of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. 'Hie soil, is rich and highly productive of grains, "and is a good stock country with markets in easy reach. These lands are going rapidly and another opportunity will be given to all who desire to see them. On the first and third Tuesdays of September and October, round trip tickets will be on sale at principal stations to points on this line in Northwestern lowa, Southern Minnesota and Southwestern portion of South Dakota. Call on nearest ticket agent for rates, etc., and see that your ticket reads via the 0., R. I. A P. R’y. / There will also be on sale at stations of this company on same dates homeexcursion rickets at low rates to various other territory. JNO. G. FARMER, D. P. A. 0„ R. I. & P. Ry., Cedar Rapids, lowa.

What’s In a Name?

Down Towne—l hired a new typewriter this morning. Upson Downe —Why, where io she? I don’t see her around. Down Towne—When I learned that her name was Simmons, I fired her. Upson Downe—What for? Down Towne—Why, do you suppose I want my letters signed “per Simmons?” —Princeton Tiger.

Look in the Glass.

What do you see? A face covered With pimples, blotches or blackheads, a yellow skip, lusterless eyes—do you know what the trouble is? Are you going to continue to use soaps, powders, or other cosmetics, or will you remove the cause by getting your system In order? If your stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels are In good condition, your complexion will be all right again In a short time. Dr. Caldwell’s (Laxative) Syrup Pepsin regulates the organs of digestion and secretion. Sold by all druggists on the manufacturers* guarantee.

The Emperor of Japan is a man of very simple tastes and rather democratic tendencies. He receives his guests standing and talks freely with all his visitors as an equal.

It’s folly to suffer from that horrible plague of the night. Itching piles. Doan’s Ointment cures, quickly and permanently. At any drug store, 50 cents.

Fielding said that tarts made with currant jelly always reminded him of heaven.

When doctors fall, try Burdock Blood Bitters. Cures dyspepsia, constipation; invigorates the whole system.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good.—Thomae Paine.

For winter or smntner, Mrs. Austin's Paacake flour. Always good. At grocer*.