Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1903 — Page 6

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

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Mrs. Wylie, the widow of Stephen C. Foster, the famous writer of old melodies. including “Ohl Folks at Home,’’ was probably fatally burned at Pittsburg. Wlrile sitting in front of an open fireplace the flames communicated to her clothing. The public library for which Andrew Carnegie gave $350,000 was dedicated at Washington with addresses by donor ami President Roosevelt. The former Said he had given 730 library buildings ami plans to donate 800 others now asked for. According to the report of tin® apptaiser appointed by the Superior Court in San Francisco to place a value upon the estate of the late Charles L. Fair, Mr. Fair was worth $3,040,187 at the time he ami his wife were killed in an automobile accident in France. 'Twelve persons were injured in a Jlre el^car.. jaiWsixm—aX-tlrrind-UArnniusumd Palm street, St. Lottis, one being hurt Internally. The accident was caused by an open emergency ■ switch throwing a north-bound ear to the other track in front of a swiftly moving southbound car. Fire in the Hotel Somerset in Chicago caused the loss of four lives —those of a mother and three daughters. - The Kames were confined to five rooms on the fifth floor, but they burned so fiercely for n fewTfunutes that the victims were liliable to <scape, three being overcome in the building, while the fourth jumped from a window and was killed. As a result of a rear-end collision between a passenger train and a freight train on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cochrane station, just above Duquesne, Pa., seven men are dead, one fatally hurt, and live others are injured. Four of the men were rousted alive. The accident was caused by the carelessness of a freight brakeman. who has fled. Fnited Slates Marshal STiotip lias arrived at Seattle from Juneau with three Hoonah. Alaska, Indians, sentenced to four rears’ imprisonment in the 1 nited States penitentiary on McNeil's Island for causing the death of Indian Isaac, whom they claimed to be a witcli. They kept Isaac tied to a tree for five days, the exposure and hunger resulting in his death. David Thompson, one of the best known prospectors in the Black hills, over which country he has hunted gold for seventeen years, the other day struck a ledge of great richness, and after ten minutes of demonstrations .4 delight fell to the ground In a fit. A few moments later he was dead. An examination made Inter by physicians showed a blood vessel in the brain to have been ii.ptured, *

BREVITIES.

The strike of school teachers at Portage la Prairie, Man., is virtually over, eight of the old staff being engaged at increased salaries. A Louisville, Ky.. physician estimates that thirty children were wounded during the holidays with blank cartridges. Two have since died. Gen. A. L. Pearson, past national commander of the Union Veteran Legion and one of the founders of that organization, died in Pittsburg of pneumonia. Trouble originating at Indianola. Miss., over the colored postmistress i% spreading over the entire South. Demand that negro postal clerks on Southern roads be deposed is made. The new Houlton block, containing Houlton’s bank, the opera house, three general stores and postofilee, was burned nt Elk River. Minn. The loss is $75,XHM), partly insured. The Douglas apartment building in Chicago was damaged SIO,OOO by tire; eight families made homeless ami twentyfour other* prepared to move before the blaze was extinguished. It is announced that Dr. Von Holleben, German ambassador nt Washington, lias applied for n prolonged leave of absence on account of his health. He is suffering from influenza. An anonymous gift of SIO,OOO to a proposed fund for a memorial to Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in New York has been made. It is expected the fund will reach a total of SIOO,OOO, Mrs. D. O. Hazelrigg, wife of n prominent oil man nt Marietta. Ohio, has been Identified, it is said, as “Irene Monsell,” who obtained money from men who answered nn advertisement for u husband. The roll of victims who met death by lockjaw as a result of burns inflicted by toy pistols during the holidays reached seventeen when 0-year-old Frank Hume of Portsmouth. Vu.. died of his injuries. It is announced in Paris that Emma Calve, the prima donna, will shortly marry Jules Buis, a journalist. Her marriage will not prevent Mme. Calve from fulfilling her engagement in the United States next season. The Eastern Steel Company nt Pittsburg has begun work upon four open hearth steel furnaces which will have a Capacity of 150,000 tons n year mid will be a pnrt of one of the biggest steel manufacturing mills In the country. After a preliminary hearing which lasted ten days Mrs. lama Lillie, charged with the killing of her husband on the night of Det. 24, was held to the District Court in SIO,OOO bonds nt David City, Neb. The bond was nt once furnished. Miss Pansy Rousvelt, 18-year-old daughter of John E. Roosevelt, n cousin of the President, is under treatment for nervous prostration in a private sanitarium nt New York. The young woman is n great friend of Miss Alice Rooseveft. At n meeting in Pekin nil the foreign ministers except Minister Conger signed ths joint note informing the Chinese government that n failure to fulfill its obligation* to pny tin- war indemnity on a gold basis, ns provided for by the peace protocol, would entail grave consequences. Mrs. Carrie Nation has closed negotiations for a large residence nt Kansas City. Knn., to be used ns a homo for drnnksrds* wives. The price was $7,500. It Is understood that Mrs. Nation will spend several thousand dollars in improving the property.

EASTERN.

Prof. Burt G. Wilder of Cornell University declares that the orangoutang, and not the gorilla, is next to man. Paul RevereI’s 1 ’s old home of pre-revolu-tionary fame in Boston has been bought by John P. Reynolds, Jr., who will preserve it. Fire in the Pittsburg Stair Company, Pittsburg, Pa., caused a loss of $5,000 and the death of Edward Reilly, a watchman. A certificate of incorporation for the Lorenz Orthopedic Charity Hospital has been tiled with the New York State board of charities. Six hundred carriage workers of Amesbury,. Alaas., struck following a refusal of the manufacturers to grant 12 per cent increase in wages. Hetty Green has been sued by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company to recover taxes paid on her land in Cook County by mistake. Engineer Harris Belding of Con'ienut was killed and Brakeman Gherlein of Erie dangerously injured in a collision between Nickel Plate freight trains near Fairview, Pa. Mrs. E. M. Miller and Miss Ida St >ry of Connellsville, Pa., and Mrs. Usury Helse], East Liverpool, Ohio, were injured in a wreck on the Pennsylvania “Toad near Connellsville. I’a. Meinay Kennedy, chorus girl at Wallack’s Theater, New Y'ork. Idel suit tor $2,250 damages against Mrs.’ Margaret Jackson, her landlady, for alienating Ibo affections of her dog Snowflake. The new torpedo-boat destroyer MacDonough, in a trial at Provincetown. Mass., exceeded contract requirement of twenty-eight knots an hour, making two runs at an average speed of 28.02. —The-firsn’tephant eVer electrocuted in the United States met death in a 0,000 volt current at Coney Island, New York. The elephant was Topsy, a “rogue,” which had killed three men and recently had become so unmanageable that death was decreed by her owners. A wild engine, running from Burlington to Rutland, Vt., on the Rutland Railroad, crashed into the north-bound flyer from New York at Shelburne. The crews of both engines were killed and a brakeman who was riding on the w ild engine was probably Litally hurt. The Portland Hotel, the largest and finest structure at Atlantic Highlands,” N. J., was destroyed by tire. Burning embers were carried a long distance, endangering the business section of the town, but a heavy rain prevented further spread. Estimated loss. $50,1)00. George B. Askew, an engineer on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad, was struck by an upright at Big Elk Creek, near Elkton, Md., and hurled from his cab into the stream, which was a raging torrent by reason of heavy rains. He was swept away and drowned. Boston is to have a mammoth coal company which, its promoters say, will smash the <oal trust and supply the public with cheap fuel, through Boston as the distributing point. The new company will be as powerful as any ever organized. It is backed by the vast wealth and resources of the Rothschilds. k Three of the biggest coal companies in the United States have formed an alliance, which, for all practical purposes, will be a combination. The companies involved are: The Consolidation Coal Company of Maryland, the Fairmount Coal Company of West Virginia, the Somerset Coal Company of Pennsylvania. At Bath, Pa., a trestle bridge which the B.ilh and Northampton Railroad is building swung from its abutments with a locomotive and seven loaded cinders cays, together with the laborers and carpenters. Lafayette Schall, carpenter, had several ribs fractured and was seriously cut about the head. The damageto property is about SIO,OOO. Abandoned workings of the Eddy creek colliery of the Delaware and Hudson Company beneath the very heart of the town of Olyphant, Pa., caved in and engulfed four frame buildings covering an aggregate ground space of 0,000 square feet. The setting was gradual ami people in the affected territory escaped without being imniediatldy endangered. Mrs. Lelia Mansion and George Wilson, who have been held in the Brooklyn, Conn., jail for some time on account of the suspicion that they were connected with the death of Wilson’s mother by poisoning, were given a preliminary hearing at Warrenville and remanded to jail without bonds for trial before the Superior Court next March on the charge of murder. Rea) estate assessments in New York City, according to tax commissioners, have been increased nearly $1,500,1MM),000 under the new system of taxati.m. The administration also is increasing by $2,000,01 hi, 000 the "tentative assessments" <>n personal property. By these increases the tax commissioner* believe tin* city tax rate for the current year can be cut in half. At the meeting of the social and economic seieme section ol the American Association for the Ad vaneement of Science in Washington Prof, Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau, said it cost $1,250,000 a year to make the loreetists. but that the frost warnings of a few days ago in Florida saved millions of dollars to the people of that State, and that the warning of a single cold wave recently saved shippers $4,000,(MM).

WESTERN.

The jury nt Aledo found Toon Dunlap not guilty of the murder of Allie Dool, Col. Myron T. Herrick of Cleveland ha* formally decided to enter the field a* a candidate for Governor of Ohio. Four men have been arrested at Macon, M<>., KUMpi-cted of complicity in the bank robbery at Union, Mj>., when $15,000 was stolen. Thirty railroad employe* wyre injured, four perhaps fatally, in n collision between a train nnd a switch engine nt Fort Smith, Ark. Col. Phil Shenon, n pioneer nnd one of the best known mining men of Montana, was thrown from his wagon at Bnlnioti, Idaho, and killed. Edward Shaunessy nnd Martin Cummings were drowned near O'Brien, Wash., while trying to rescue stock from a raging stream. With death from enneer threatening him, E. J. Baldwin, better known ns "Lucky ■Bn hl win," is lying in n lodging bouse ip Han Francisco. The hoisting plant of the Lexington

mine, between Butte’ and Walkerville, Mont., was destroyed by fire. Loss about $50,000, with no insurance. The Rev. Dr. J. B. McMichael, pastor of tlie United Presbyterian Church at Sugar (’reek, Ohio, died suddenly while conducting a prayer meeting. Jackson I. Case, son of Jerome I Case, wealthy thrashing machine manufacturer, died suddenly in Racine, Wis., from a complication of diseases. I Engineer Daniel Williams was killed and Fireman Frank Younger seriously injured in a wreck on the South Park Railroad near Breckinridge, Colo. Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, will gain $1,000,000 by the completion of the Methodist twentieth century- thank offering of $20,000,600. ' The will of W. 11. Smith, a banker of Montevallo, Mo., who died recently, leiiw-s bis entire estate of $70,000 to the Missouri Masonic Home after the death of bis widow.' The engine turners and coal beaveri employed by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad at Lima, Ohio, struck for an increase in wages from $1.35 to $1.55 a day. Rev. Luther Kuhns, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church at Omaha, bns resigned to accept the general secretaryship of the Luther League of America, with headquarters in New Y'ork City. A fire in a lodging house on Thirteenth and Market streets, Denver, Colo., resulted in the death of one man and the injury of a dozen or more, one fatally and several of them seriously. The British ship Conjblebank, which has arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., from Panama, reports the death of six members of the crew of yellow fever during the voyage. The vessel is in quarantine. Olin Castle, husband of the woman whom Miss Jessie Morrison was convicted of murdering, has departed from Eldorado, Kati., for California, accompanied by his mother and sister, to find a new bom*’. One hundred and ten Fort Sheridan. 111., soldiers struck against poor food and were arrested; one protester locked in guardhouse, others disobeyed order not to leave quarters and inarched to Highwood restaurants. White River overflowed its banks near O'Brien station. Wash., the water driving many people from their beds. A relief train took the residents to places of safety. No lives are reported lost, but much property has been ruined. John S. Eberle of the National Military Home at Dayton. Ohio, committed suicide by taking twelve morphine tablets. The only cause for the act was that Eberle was tormented by his comrades, and their jokes drove him to take his life. A irud ami rock slide on the Monte Cristo Railroad, between tunnels 1 and 2. mar Everett, Wash., blocked the track for 200 feet. The Everett train was caught in the slide, and passengers were <•( i> pelled to pass the night and most of the next day oi the train. In an interview W. S. Hopewell, chairman of the territorial committee of the Democratic party in New Mexico, announces himself in favor of admitting Arizona and New Mexico as one State, with three representatives in Congress, the capital to be fixed for ten years at Santa Fe. Thomas Dunn, colored, was hanged in St. Louis for the murder of Peter Jackson. a negro, with whom he had quarreled over $4. The execution was witnessed by a crowd of nearly 46') persons, among them being several women and children who had crowded their way into the jail yard. .James E. Bailey, a coachman of George M. Kilborne, died under mysterious circumstances at Colorado Springs, and indications are tlfat he was poisoned •by drinking less than an hour before from a small vial of whisky. The bottle had been given him as a present, but by whom is not known. The body of James H. Bobbin, the missing president of the Bank of Silverton, Colo., which was closed the other day on account of the president's disappearance. was found three miles from town. He had shot Iwmself. He was about 45 years old. and leaves a wife and three children in Denver. J. (’. Lowe, a teacher in the Kansas Industrial School for Boys at Topeka, was found guilty of killing liis wife. Murder in the second degree was the verdict returned by the jury. Mrs. Lowe was matron of the industrial school when she was killed by her husband six months ago as a result of jealousy. The South Omaha, Neb., Live Stock Exchange has been organized with II membership of 2UO commission merchants and dealers in live stock. The purpose is to push the South Omaha market to the front and drive out irresponsible parties who have been traveling over the West pretending to represent the commission tjrms. Judge Newnhain, of the Superior Court, handed down nn important decision at Grand Rapids. Mich., affecting city taxation of railroad lauds. It is the case of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad against the city. The cits wins out in its contention that lamia In retofore regarded as railroad lands, but used for other purposes, can lie assessed.

SOUTHERN.

in a saloon tight nt Williamson, W. Vn.. James Adams was shot und instantly killed by Ben Adams mid the hitter seriously wounded. Engineer W. W. White was killed and twenty-eight persons slightly hurt by the derailing of n passenger train on the Southern Railway near Birmingham, Ala. The Columbus Iron nnd Steel Compmiy hus purchased 2,(MX) ncres of conJ land opposite Montgomery, W. Vn., for $150,(MM) and will increase its capacity to I,(MM) tons daily. While returning from n party at Cynthiana, Ky., Ray Hiekmiin, aged 18, and Miss Muy Lovell were struck by a freight train. Hickman wn» Instantly killed mid Mis* Lovell Injur*.d. E. W. llnrdin & Co.'s bn ik, n private concern nt Rockwell, Texas, hns failed with liabilities of S22,(MM), nnd nominal resources of SIOO,OOO. Hani times among farmer* prevented realizing on lonns. Mrs. Minnie Cox, negro postmistress nt Indinnoln, Miss., who wns forced to resign, hns left for Birminghnm mid declared she will not return. An independent postotllce lias been established by citizens. Indi nil* iln. Mis*., postotflee hns been closed by cabinet order until Mrs. Miuui® W. Cox, negro postmistres*. I* safe;

her life was threatened till she resigned; sheriff and Mayor refused to be responsible for her safety. Newton R. Lyddle, who claimed to be a and said his home was in Raleigh County,.was shot and instantly killed at Bluefield, W. Va., by Russell Lilly, a prominent citizen. Lilly had been deputized to arrest the alleged detective by a magistrate. J. 11. Williams, a stable boy, and twenfy-threfi horses were burned to death in a fire at the plant of the Hughes Brothers’ Extract Company in Dallas, Texas. A warehouse was consumed w ith its contents of 500 barrels of sugar, glucose, chemicals, machinery and manufactured goods. The United States land syndicate of Chicago has bought the James Reynolds patent of land in Wolfe, Morgan and Breathitt counties. Kentucky, ami will have surveyors on the ground early in the spring to locate the boundary and put settlers on the tract. This land has been in the possession of the persons now holding it for the last sixty years. They will resist any attempt the company may make, to secure possession and are organizing an armed force.

FOREIGN.

Thieves at Delhi attempted to steal jewels valued at $1,250,000 from the Indian arts exhibit at the durbar. Letters of administration of the estate of Bret Harte have been granted in London. The total value of the estate is placed at SI,BOO. The British government has protested to Turkey against the passage of four Russian torpedo boats through the Dardanelles to the Black Sea. Treaty violation is pointed out. Senor I’raxedes Mateo Sagasta, former prime minister of Spain and one of its ablest statesmen, is dead at Madrid at the age of 75 years. He had been ill for some time with bronchitis. In a recent tight between Bulgarians and Turkish troops at the village of Drenovo, in the Monastir district, fifteen Turks were killed or wounded. The Turkish commander was among the killed. Increased tariff duties on grain* end manufactured articles is the feature of the new customs union agreed to by Austria and Hungary. This will affect seriously the United States and Great Britain. News of the wreck of the Norwegian bark. Prince Aathur, and the death bydrowning of eighteen of the crew was received. The Prince Arthur was bound from Valparaiso for. British Columbia to load coal. The taotai at Shanghai, China, has paid the January installment of the international indemnity on a silver basis. He explained his inability to accept the interpretation of the protocol adopted by the International Bankers’ Association. A letter received from Thomas Fitch, the Washington attorney for the Marcus Island Guano Company, says that Japan is relinquishing her claim to the island and is willing to allow the United States to take possession. Japan also w ill deport her subjects now on the island. A dispatch from Lisbon says that the whole city was thrown into a panic, owing to the bursting of the reservoirs in the northern part of the town. The low Ijiug districts were completely inundated, and many persons have perished. A large number of buildings were destroyed.

IN GENERAL.

Twentieth Century Methodist Thank Offering Commission has given out a statement showing that $20,034,960 was raised. Conductor Octave Trembley was killed in a rear-end collision between two freight trains on the Grand Trunk road at Montreal. May Yohe, it is said, has been given $45,000 by her former husband. Lord Francis Hope, in settlement of her claim against the English nobleman. Cipher dispatch received in New York says President Castro has abdicate*! or soon will abdicate. Germans have seized the custom house at La Gunira. The American Young Men's Christian Association reports a prosperous year, with especially notable growth in the South and Northwest and among railroad men. A serious collision occurred on the Grnnil Trunk Railway nt the west end of Merritton tunnel, Ont., between the Chicago express east 'bound and a light engine going west. Two men were killed and two injured. $ Dun & Co.’s review reports merchandise shipments increased to forestall higher freight rates; orders for iron and steel continue; December railrond earnings gained 7.7 per cent over 1901 and for years 4.1 per cent. It is announced at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offices that the wages of all employes whose pay had not been reopntly increased will be raised at once to put them on the same footing as the Pennsylvania Railroad employes. Charles Page Bryan, of Chicago, is to be made minister to Portugal, and to be succeeded as minister to Switzerland by Dr. David Jayne Hill, First Assistant Secretnry of State. Francis B. I.oomls, present minister nt Lisbon, is slated for the State Depart incut. Attorney General Knox, on request of Senator Hoar and Congressman Littlefield, has submitted a remedy for trust evils, Including a law against rate discrimination and interstate commerce in products of illegal combines. Action by Congress seema unlikely. Advices have been received from Guatemala that W. Godfrey Hunter, Jr., son of the retiring minister to Guatemala, has been acquitted by n native court of tlie murder of William A. Fitxgferald, also nn American citisen nnd former resident of Grand Rapids, Mich. The fire loss of the United State* nnd Canada for the year 1902, ns compiled by tho New York Journal of Commerce, amounted to $149,21)0,850. This is gratlfvlngly less than the figures for 1901 of $164,347,450 and 1900 of $1(21.362,250. During the entire year of 11MJ2 there were 2,400 fires of n greater destructivencss, each, than SI,OOO. The $20,000,000 malleable casting* consolidation announced Inst month a* nn assured tiling linn gone to pieces. It is said tliat the support of E. R. Gary. Max Pam and their associates in the United States Steel Corporation was withdrawn on the ground that the conditions are not opportune for tlie launching of such a concern, nnd this led to the deal being dropped for an indefinite ♦ Itue.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

~ ~ “I Bradstreet’s review of NeV lOffi. I the business year says: “To - —— say that 1902 was the best year this country lias ever experienced, while truthful enough in the main, does not suggest fully the enormous strides which the United States took in the year just closed. Practically every branch of ordinary trade and manufacture showed an increase above the best of previous years, and yet tills immense enlargement of output was not sufficient of itself to satisfy the growing, it might even be termed insatiable, demand for all kinds of materials. In many cases the usual foreign outlet for our products was, perforce, neglected by American producers, who confined their efforts to supplying insistent domestic demand, while in others foreign production was called upon to re-enforce domestic output, with the result that new curl'ents and channels were created in our foreign trade. Our export trade therefore shrank, while our imports expanded to unprecedented figures. “Industrial unrest was naturally marked, as it always is in times either of prosperity or of depression, and serious disorganization of some of the country's basic industries resulted for a time. In many cases, however, resort to extremes was avoided or rendered unnecessary by liberal recognition by employers of change s in the standard of living, and it is safe to say that two men obtained higher wages or had their working time reduced without resort to strikes for every one who actually quit work. There was about the usuChiCdQO. al amount business on a ' the Board of Trade during the year’ 1902. Wheat was, as usual, the leader and the selling price had a wide fluctuation, the lowest point touched for the year being 68'4 cents in August and the highest being 1)5 cents in September, while the extremes in 1901 were G 3% and 791 a cents. There was a good deal of bull feeling during the year under review on the reported poorer crop In this country and the world over —in quality only—the strong feeling in stocks and the general prosperity, and it was argued that the higher prices in securities should be reflected in wheat. This, however, did not fully materialize. The exports were smaller than those of the previous year. Corn ruled firm throughout the year and prices averaged higher. This was due largely to the small crop gathered in 1901. The crop ii* 1901 was nearly 750,000.000 less than that of the year before, or 1,522,000,000 bushels, as compared with 2,204,000,000 bushels the year previous, and higher prices followed. Oats were affected somewhat by the same causes which affected corn and also sold higher. Hog products were influenced largely by the course of corn and sold higher. Cash Prices for Two Years The following table gives the loweV. and highest price for cash wheat in .Chicago each month for two years: 1902. 180 L Januaryso.74 @BO% $0.71N4J February 72%@7<J% March tilKt 4 /q7<i April7o <<176% .89%@74% May 72%rq76 l 4 .70 4175% June 71V 4 fti75% .G’>)4<tl77 1 A July 71%*i7» .(3W71% August t‘iß l , 4 <«7<J ,66%@77 September 70 <q9s ,6S l ><f(7l October 87%@75% .66%<ii71>4 November ('t) T i.<«r77% .70 (|173% December7l%@77% ,73jwS5 Range of cash No. 2 corn in Chicago each month for the years named: 1902. 1901. January $0.56%t1K14% $0.36 @37% February.37%@4O Miuvh : 56 @61% S 9 April Wi%fri64% .41 4<48 May 3»%@«4% .42%@58% JuneCl @71% .41 <<i44% July MJ @BB .43%@58% August 34 @6O .53%fi59% September 57 @02% .54H<g59% Octoberss @61% .54%ti58 November 52 @SB .50W<i<'8 7 *' December4s @57% .63%@66% The yearly average cash prices, based on the monthly range for the articles named in the Chicago market for ten years, are as folloxvs: Wheat. Corn. Oats. Mes* pork. 1902$ .75% $ .61% $ .39% $16.C5 190172% .50% .32 14.55. 190070% .38% .22% 11.77% 189971% .33% .24% 8.67% 1898 89% .31% .24% 9.47% 189785% .25% .18% 7.97% 189666% 26% .18 7.57% 189562% .40% .24% 12.45 189457% .43% .81% 17.32% 1893 67% .39% .28% 11.35

THE MARKETS

Chicago—C@tlc, common to prime, $4.00 to $5.40; hogs, ahipping grades, $4.25 to $6.65; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2,44 eto 45c; oats, No. 2,30 c to 32c; rye. No. 2,48 cto 49c; hay, timothy. $8.50 to $13.50; prairie, $6.00 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery. 24c to 28c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 25c; potatoes, 40c to 46c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,-73c to 74c; corn. No. 2 white, 43c to 44e; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c. St. Louis —Gattie, $4.50 to $5.70; hogs, $3.50 to $6.40; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, N’<>. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2, 38c to 30e; oats, No. 2,32 cto 33c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 4!)c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $6.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.85; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 43c to 44c; onts, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rjc, No. 2,55 cto 56c. Detroit—Cuttle, $3.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $6.10; sheep, $2.50 to $3.70; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 70c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 48c to 40c; onts, No. 3 white, 34c to 85c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 51c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 74c to 75c; corn. «N'o. 3,43 cto 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, No. L 50c to 51c; barley. No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork, mess, $16.40. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $6.00; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $6.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to *3.85; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $5.83.

By the Short Cut.

One of the great newspapers is print ed in an office that has three ful stories blow the ground level, the enot mous presses resting on foundation •ven below this depth. An “old subscriber” came to look a the establishment one day, and th< business manager showed him round They had inspected,, the editorial anc composing rooms and the business offices, and last of all they went t< look at the engines and presses. The stairway leading down to th< basement had several landings, and t< the visitor it seemed that the journey would never end. “Well,” he gasped, as they stood a! last on the very bottom floor, “I se< you have arranged to get your news from China by the shortest route!”

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