Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1903 — Page 2

JASPER CTI'NTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - • - INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Fire destroyed the plant of the Schaeffer Piano Manufacturing Company at Riverview, just out of Chicago. For a time many buildings in the suburb were threatened and three were greatly damaged by the flames. The loss to the piano company is estimated nt $200,000. Four men were killed by the explosion of the engine on an freight train four miles west of Bowerstown, Ohio. The locomotive was hurled sixty feet and crashed down upon a passing west-bound freight train. Twenty six cars were hurled down an embankment. A desperate attempt to lynch Stephen Crandall, who was arrested as a suspect in connection with the shooting of Harry I’atee, the bank cashier, was made at Perry, lowa. Three thousand men gathered at the jail, ropes were secured and preparations made to hang Crandall. Sheriff Holmes spirited the prisoner away. Reports from Mexico are to the effect that the bubonic plague is spreading, and that at some places the people are dying like sheep in a blizzard. The Federal authorities are using heroic efforts to eheck the spread of the plague in Mazatlan, and have ordered the burning of tire ship yard erected a few years ago at- a heavy expense. Euclid Madden and James T. Kelley, indicted for manslaughter, in connection with the accident nt Pittsfield, Mass., last August, in which William Craig, President Roosevelt's bodyguard, was killed, i< traded a previous plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty. Madden was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of SSOO. Kelley's case was placed on file. A concurrent resolution in the Kansas Legislature deals with the harvesting machine trust. It is charged that prices have been advanced $5 on each machine since the trust was organized, and flint local dealers have been driven out of the field by the establishment of branch houses. An investigation will be made hud a bill may be passed taxing the trust the same as other foreign corporations. The Gilchrist Transportation Company, with a capital stock of $10,000,000, will be incorporated in Gino within n few days, with J. C. Gilchrist, of Cleveland, as its president. The new company was formed by menging the Lake Shore Transit Company, the Globe Steamship Company, the Steel Steamship Company, the Inland Star Transit Company, the Vega Steamship Com* pany, the Lorain Steamship Company, the Tyron Transit Company, and the Merida Steamship Company. The company will have about eighty freight carriers, ten of which are large steel steamers now being built.

BREVITIES.

Boston copper authorities estimate the copper production this year at 800,000,000 pounds. Two men dynamited the safe in the postotllci' at Strawn, Kun., obtained S2OO and lied in a buggy. To make the game of football illegal is the object of a bill introduced in the Missouri Legislature. Mrs. 4 Elizabeth Irvin fell from the third-story window and was killed during a tire in the Oakenwald flats, Chicago. The residence of Archbishop Elder, in Cincinnati, was entered"hy burglars, and a quantity of clothing ami about S3OO worth of silverware stolen. In a fight between fifteen Japanese mid three cowboys at Havre, Mont.. K. Minmi, n Japanese, was killed and Tom Corrigan, a cowboy, mortally wounded. The State Supreme Court has declared the reading of the Bible in the public schools of Nebraska permissible so long as it does not take the form of sectarian instruction. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Cleveland steel tile plants were merged at Pittsburg under the title of the Standard National Tile Company, with a capital of $1,000,1X10, By an agreement reached at Louisville, Ky., all engineers on the Louisville mid Nashville road will be given an increase of 5 per cent in pay. The advance also affects firemen and hostlers. The United States tug Leyden, bound from San Juan, Porto Hico, for New port, ran ashore on the south side of Block Island, IL L, and is a total wreck. The crew was taken off with great difficulty. Emperor William was sharply rebuked by a Bavarian statesman for his interference in action of the diet in refusing to vote $25,000 for art purposes. The Kaiser’s act was called irresponsible impertinence. The Duke of Manchester's luggage at the Holland House, New York, was attached by constables, who called to collect S7OO which a Jewelry company says Manchester owes it for a string of imitation pearls, C. M. Chirk, of Oklahoma City, states that D. E. George, who committed suicide nt Enid, and left n note to the effect that he was John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, had no connection with the death of Lincoln. Former Aiderman Maryssael, the founder of tho Kursanl. committed suicide nt Ostend. It is thought that be took his life because of the dosing of the gambling establishments which are closely connected with the Kursanl. At Port Gibson, Mis*., In the trial of the Rev. Marion Lane, or Jean Sky les, for bigamy in marrying Miss Terra Whitestone, of Wilkinson County, the evidence discloses the fact that Lane has seven wives, all living mid undivorced. Fire in a five-story building nt 512-518 Delaware street. Kansas City, caused SIOO,OOO loss, distributed ns follows; Jones Bros.' Dry Goods Company, which used the Upper floors for a warehouse. $00,000; Rothenberg & Schloss, wholesale cigarmskers, $30,000; building, st(),o<>o. Charles F. Kelly, member and former speaker of the Nt. Louis house of delegates, wns convicted of perjury In connection with the Suburban Street Railway franchise deal and given two years In the penitentiary. He still has to stand trial on two charge* of bribery In couuecftlon with t> ' *am* deal.

EASTERN.

Louis A. Disbrow was acquitted nt Riverhead, L. 1., of the charge of murdering Clarence Foster. Major W. C. Met !lure of Chicago married a well-to-do widow, Mrs. Martha Shaughnessy, at Newton, Mass. A Baltimore and Ohio engine struck an electric street car at> Hazelwood crossing, Pittsburg, Pa. Several persons are reported injured, one fatally. Abram S. Hewitt, former v Mayor of New York and former Democratic Congressman, died, aged 81 years. He was a son-in-law of Peter Cooper and a pioneer iron manufacturer. The silverware factory of C. Ilog' ra & Brothers at Meriden, Conn., hus been closed by orders issued from the offices of the International Silver Company. The order throws 350 hands out of work. Through the alleged interference of a messenger boy a wreck was caused on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad east of Cumberland. Md., and four employes cf the railroad were killed and three injured. Five boys, whose ages range from 13 to 15 years, while coasting at South Bethlobeiy, Pa., were struck by a 'rain on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway and instantly killed, and another was fatally injured. Herminia Josephson, a cashier, and John Cottain, an engineer, lost their lives in a lire which destroyed tile dry goods store of Aaron & AVeitheimer, at 119th street and 3d avenue, New York. The property loss is SBO,OOO. Julian Ralph, author and war correspondent. died at his residence in New York. Dr. Calvin S. May. who attended Mr. Ralph, gave the cause of death as dropsy, complicated with ulcer of the stomach and enlargement of the liver. Faces scarred with surface cancers have been healed perfectly, and skin diseases from which the patients had suffered in many instances all their lives have been and are being cured at the Boston city hospital by the use of the X-rays. Tile Moore brothers of Chicago, founders of the hoop steel and match trusts, have just completed a $60,000 public library in their native village of Greene, N. Y. This is said to bo the first of a series of libraries they will erect in this country. Charles M. Schwab is a victim of locomotor ataxia, and will never be able to resume active duties at the head of the United St'nles Steel corporation. This is the information received from high sources in the United States Steel corporation. Fireman Janies Kraham and Lewis of Baltimore, were so badly hurt that they died and Conductor Charles Cutsail and Brakeman Newman were probably fatally injured by the explosion of a locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio Road near Monrovia, Md. Alfred A. Howlett, an aged widower, who for fifty years was president of 'lie Sall Springs National Hank at Syr.umse, N. Y., will his eighty-second birthday anniversary Feb. 17 by inviting to a party 12.5 widows with whom he has been acquainted during his long life. The Pope received in private aifdience Francis McNutt and Mis. M. Nu't of Washington, who gave the pontiff a jubilee gift of four magnificent columns of alabaster from Tivoli. These have been erected iir the throne room to hold candelalira on each side of the throne. A boiler exploded at Bell’s Mills, at West Newton, Pa., wrecked a saw mill, .silled William Hunter and Robert Pore and injured A. B. Hunter, former member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and Janus Dyke. Hunter may dig. but Dyke will recover. It is thought the explosion was caused by low water. James P. Eckhart, a real estate agent nt Dover, N. J., and manager of Baker's Opera House, and Mrs. Minnie Hill, wife of Oliver Hill, a brakeman on the Lackawanna Railroad, were found dead in a room in Mrs. Hill's house. Both had died from shot wounds, mid a revolver was found grasped in Eckhart's hands.

WESTERN.

The United States Supreme Court has decided that divorces granted in South Dakota to non residents are void. Bobbers entered the jewelry establishment of R. M. Muench in South Bend, Ind., and carried away goods valued at $5,000. Ireton Brothers’ grain warehouse and elevator at Van Wert, Ohio, burned, causing a loss of $68,000, on which there is $20,000 insurance. The Fourteenth Street Theater in St. Louis has been sold to Lester M. Crawford of Topeka, Kan., and will be .added to his circuit of fourteen playhouses. J. M. Huff, proprietor of the hotel at Purdyh Mo., shot and killed his wife and then killed himself. Domestic troubles are believed to have caused tile tragedy. ’’Boston” McVeigh was killed by Albert Ames at Akron, Ohio. Marks on McVeigh’s body indicate that Ames kicked his victim on the head with bis wooden leg. C. S. Mitchell, formerly editor mid owner of the Alexander Post-Nena, has received the appointment of superintendent of the Minnesota exhibit at the St. I,ouis exposition.. By an explosion at the Pittsburg glass factory in Elwood. Ind., Three men were probably fatally injured ami three others were seriously hurt. The boiler room wns entirely wrecked. Fire destroyed two adjoining apartment houses near Euclid avenue and Andrews street, East Cleveland, causing the death of at least two persons and the injury of several others. Apostle Heed Simxtt, of the Mormon church, led all competitors in tho race for the United States Senate in Utah, and was elected to succeed Senator Rawlins by largo majorities in both houses. The grand jury has voted true bills against thirty-nine coal corporation* and their officers. The anti-trust law was ushd, mid for the second time in Illinois corporations themselves have been indieted. After an all-day conference, the committee representing the teamsters' union and the associated teaming interests of St. Louis, signed nn agreement which will avert the threatened t«‘a lusters’ strike. Colorado State Senators were locked in the capital under guard of fifty Democratic deputies, while two ’’Senates” practically were in session; nineteen Republicans nnd Democratic minority each organized. The employe* of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway threaten a

tie-up of the entire system became General Manager Waldo has refused to deal with the federated board representing the .various branches of labor ou the road. Miss Priscilla Leyter of Coalsville, Utah, dislocated her jaw during a debate on the propriety of the action of Mrs. Mary Coulter, a member of the Legislature, who voted for Apostle Reed Smoot for Senator in the Republican caucus. D. 11. George, au aged man. reputed to bo very wealthy, committed suicide at Enid, Okla., by taking poison. He owned land iu Indian Territory and Oknlohama, and at Dallas, Texas. Before his death he declared that he was John Wilkes Booth. Fire at 53 to 65 Canal street, Chicago, damaged buildings and seven manufacturing concerns to the extent of $85,000 before it was extinguished. Guests in two neighboring hotels were startled from their slumbers by the alarm, but panic was averted. James Walker, charged with the murder, Nov. 22, of Hasten Broadus, was acquitted at Chadron, Neb. Evidence was adduced to show that Broadus was a gambler, and this was used as a defense. The killing resulted from a card game in a saloon. Captain Streeter, William Mi Manners and Henry lloeldtke were sentenced to Joliet for killing Watchman Kirk in the "District of Lake Michigan," Chicago. The three defendants wept bitterly in court, but were granted a stay of execution for forty days. Fearing the discovery of a shortage in his accounts, Horace Richards, an employe of the tailoring firm of Sellstrom A Kilby, in Chicago, committed suicide. In a note to his employers the young man said that his downfall had been caused by gambling. Clinton Jones, who has been passenger representative in San Francisco for the Rock Island road for twenty-seven years, has decided to retire on account of ill health. He has a fortune of about $600,<»0(), and is considered the wealthiest passenger agent in the United States. The State Bank of Toronto, Kan., closed its doors the other day. The liabilities probably will amount to about $35,000. It is said only a small per cent of the deposits, which amount to $15.000, can be paid. The bank was one of the oldest in Woodson County. The cashier is W. P. Dickerson. A west bound Denver and Rio Grande train was derailed by the breaking of a bolt holding a fishplate near Sargent, Colo., and thirty passengers injured, the most seriously hurt being Charles B. Miller of Chicago, S. P. Gutschall, F. G. Lohr and Assistant Superintendent Griftin of the Rio Grande road. Edgar E. Hastings has been appointed trustee of the department store of the W. R. Bennett Company at Omaha, Neb. Hastings was made temporary receiver of the company some time ago, when it failed with liabilities exceeding $400,000. Just what disposition will be made of the stock is not known. Rather than be held a prisoner for burglary, John Lee, a junk man, 52 years old. hurled himself down the cliffs of the Spokane river and perished in the maelstrom below the Monroe street falls at Spokane, Wash. Lee had been arrested on a charge of breaking into a Northern Pacific car at Marshall and stealing grain sacks. Dr. George W. Crile of Cleveland announces'as the result of his experiments in vivisection what promises to prove one of the notable discoveries in medical science. By the use of a fluid he sustained life in a decapitated dog for ten and onehalf “hours and dog which had been apparently killed by means of an electric shock was resuscitated and is living. Andrew Alvenson was found dead in a pasture near Albert Loa, Minn., and the coroner's jury returned a verdict of siih-'de. The victim had sawed his neck on a barb-wire fence, ami, finding this oroco-s too slow, wont to a small tree and. [Hilling the limbs apart, fitted one ot them into the wound and with the other at the back of his neck strangled himself. George E. Dust, aged 21, of Garrettsburg, Mo., who recently married Mrs. Mary Greennrd, aged 60. a wealthy w idow, was arrested on a charge of presenting a check for S2OJJOO on a St. Joseph bank which bore /lie signature of his wife. She claimed to have given him a check for S2O. which is said to have been raised. Mrs. Dust refused to prosecute her husband. J. Parker Whitney. Jr., son of a millionaire of Boston, eloped with Miss Daisy Parrott, daughter of a San Francisco millionaire. The .voting couple uere married quietly by a justice of the peace and then took a train for their honeymoon. They narrowly missed fining eaught before the marriage ceremony by the watchful mother of the bride, who, ilid not approve of young Whitney. Fire created a punie nt St. James’ orphanage at Benson, a suburb of Omaha, Neb., and destroyed the north wing of the building, causing a loss of about $35,000, partly Insured. Gue hundred children were in the building when the tire broke out, and after groat difficulty Mere removed. They are now quartered in the convents of the city. The institution is outside the city limits and bad no tire protection. Official information is given out at Muncie, Ind., thnt a combine of the independent iron mills at Muncie, Hartford City, New Albany, Terre Haute and Enst Chicago, Ind.; Findlay, Ohio, and Muskegon, Mich., had practically been completed. John L Smith, superintendent of the Terre Haute plant, is lit the head of the new company. The American Rolling. Mill Corporation, which owns the Muncie and Muskegon plants, will be the largest factor in the combine.

SOUTHERN.

Adam Trendwell, eolored. was hanged at Norfolk, Vn., for the murder of his wife. W. A. Scott, n jeweler of New Cumberland, W. Vn., wns robbed of money and jewelry valued at $2,000 by three masked men who blew open the safe. The candy factory of Bradas & Ghecns, on the river front, between Bullitt and sth street*, in Louisville, was damaged to the extent of about $50,000 by tire. Mrs. Florence J. Maybrick and her mother, the Baroness Von Roque*, will, it is said, lose nil title nnd Interest in 2,552,302 acres of land in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, valued at $7,500,000, unlei* Mr*. Maybrick is released from prison In England In time to t**ti-

fy In a suit now pending in the chancery court of Richmond, Va. Editor N. G. Gonzales died at Columbia, N. C. After battling for almost four days for life, the victim of Lieut. Gov. James 11. Tillman's bullet, passed away at the Columbia hospital. Mrs. Gonzales was with her husband when death came. A whole family has been wiped out by poison, supposed to have been administered with murderous intent, at Santa Lucia, Texas. T. J. Ray, his sisters, Amy and Lou Ray, and Robert Ray, a nephew, are dead. The nephew has been arrested, charged with trying to get the others out of the way, that he might succeed to their property. As n result of the negotiations between the grievance committee of the Louisville and Nashville locomotive engineers and General Manager Evans an agreement has been reached whereby the engineers will receive an increase in wnges in proportion to the added duties which have fallen upon each division on the various sections of the system. Rev. J. B. Crantill, president of the San Jacinto Oil Company, which was placed in the hands of a receiver at Dallas, Texas, says the collapse is the result of the exhaustion of the wells. The company had fifty large contracts, all of which were made at a time when the company's wells were gushing and producing thousands of barrels of oil a day. Since then one of the wells has failed entirely and the production of the other two lias also practically ceased.

FOREIGN.

It is reported iu Honolulu that Attorney General E. I’. Dole lias resigned. The German government has opened in Berlin a bureau to facilitate the preparations of German exhibitors at the St. Louis exposition. China has expiated the murder of Baron von Ketteler, the German ambassador, during the Boxer uprising in “.900 by dedicating a memorial arch in Pekin. The official figures show that 4,714 liersons lost their lives and that 33,112 houses were destroyed as a result of the recent earthquakes at Andijan, Russian Turkestan. A special dispatch from Pekin says the censor's office lias memorialized the Dowager Empress to resign in favor of the Emperor as the first step in the policy of reform. The Sultan of Sulu died of cholera at Jolo; his mother was the real ruler of the islands; United States did not interfere with their dominion and granted him $5,000 yearly allowance. It is reported that the famous basrelief, "Descent from the Cross,” by Luca Della Robbia, has been stolen from the Church of San Severn, Florence. The bas-relief is valued at SIOO,OOO. A number of Mormon missionaries who have been recruiting for their faith have been expelled from Osnabrueck in accordance with the policy of the government to stamp out their propaganda in Prussia. Wireless communication between Marconi's Cape Cod station and England has been established, and messages exchanged between President Roosevelt and King Edward. Very little difficulty was experienced. Henri de Blowitz, famous London Times correspondent nt Paris, died of apoplexy at the age of 78. He was the originator of interviewing noted personages and had prevented three ruptures between Germany and France. The German cruiser Panther attacked Fort San Carlos, Venezuela, ami was badly damaged by the fort's guns mid forced to withdraw. Three of the garrison were hurt, but the fort was practically uninjured. Caracas citizens celebrated the victory. Constabulary Inspector Fletcher, while traveling alone in the province of Albay, Luzon, was attacked by thirty bolomen. Fletcher killed five of his opponents, but was himself wounded. He escaped, however, and formed a party, which pursued the bolomen, overtook them and killed six more.

IN GENERAL.

One hundred and seven deaths from the plague have occurred in Mazatlan, Mexico, since the first of the year. The Dominican government has paid to Minister Powell the balance of $50,000 due on the Sula Claim. This payment virtually disposes of the matter. Mme. Adelina Patti will sing in sixty concerts as her last appearance in the United States, Canada and Mexico during the season of 11)03-4, receiving therefore S3OO.O<M). The report of the interstate commerce commission shows that during the three months ended Sept. 30, 1902, 2G3 persons were killed and 2,013 injured in railway accidents. Five men were killed and four wounded, one of whom died, by the explosion of n powder charge of an 8-iuch gun on board the United States battleship Massachusetts. while at target practice off Culebra Island. Postal authorities are puzzled by the actions of Sam Saunders of Lexington, Miss., who is flooding the money order department of the Albany, N. Y., postoittce with orders for 5 cents, made payable to President Roosevelt and other prominent men. Fourteen independent canning factories of southeastern Alaska have been merged ami tho entire pack, between 600,000 and SOO,(MX) cases a year, passed under the control of Griffith, Burney & Co. of Nan Francisco, who will establish headquarters in Neattie. A telegram to the Pacific Packing and Navigation Company, from Valdes, Alaska. announces that the long missing Nome steamer Dawson City passed Unfca Island during the latter days of December. The vessel was under sail, having exhausted her supply of fuel. A cigar company, to be capitalized at $1,000,900, has been organized to work in hnrtitouy with the new National Cigar Deniers’ Association in its struggle against the tobacco trust. The factories will lie In Detroit. Mich., but there will be branches in nil the important cities in the country. A special from Dawson says: “A tremendously rich strike, the magnitude of which has never been equaled since Bob Henderson told his wonderful story of the Klondike, has been made eighteen miles north of n point on Tnnann River 300 miles front Its source. The district is in American territory. Circle has been depopulated and n wild stamp<ide of prospector* from all the surrounding country I* In progress.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

"7 ~ ~l ‘‘Fuel shortage is still 118 V IOrK. ie oue seriously disturbing —— element in the industrial situation. Transportation facilities have been diverted from other merchandise, to the disadvantage of shippers, yet iron furnaces are unable to secure sufficient supplies of coke, and many other manufacturing plants are closed because of inadequate coal deliveries. Mines are more fully operated, but there is no prospect of normal conditions until spring.” The foregoing is from the Weekly Trade Review of 11. G. Dun & Co. It continues: Extremely low temperature during the last week stimulated distribution ot heavy clothing and other seasonable goods. Retail trade was accelerated by the customary clearkpce sales, especially in dry goods and kindred branches. Traveling men are sending in large orders for spring goods, the volume of advance business surpassing the customary amount for this time of year. Quiet conditions in the iron and steel markets do not mean dullness or diminishing consumption, but merely the oversold condition of furnaces and mills, together with great uncertainty about keeping plants active on a day to day supply of fuel. Inquiries are numerous, especially in structural lines, but makers are not w ady to accept blds until the future appears more definite. New plans constantly come forward for large office buildings, notably at the West, which means vigorous consumption of structural steel, and the demands from car builders are phenomenal. Practically the entire capacity of the leading plants is already booked for six months. Eastern manufacturers of footwear are fully employed on spring shoes, but new orders are light for later delivery, although western jobber* purchase freely of fall samples. Quiet conditions in leather have been succeeded by an increased demand for hemlock sole and standard upper, shoe manufacturers placing liberal orders. Last week's slight recovery in the hide market was not sustained. Dry goods trading has increased in volume, buyers arriving in great >r numbers, and the prospect favors still more activity in the latter half of the month. There is little disposition to anticipate wants in the cotton goods division, but immediate needs have evidently grown more pressing. In the woolen goods division the opening of piece dyes was made at an advance, but not as much as some sellers anticipated. Bradstreet’s weekly report on grain says: ■ Wheat exports since July aggregate 140,610,800 busliels. against 158,004,139 last season and 107,210.968 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 2,394.612 bushels, against 2.856.986 last week, 298.093 a year ago and 5,184,550 in 1901. For the fiscal year exports are 15,978,018 bushels, against 21.255,447 last season and 108,935,495 in 1901. “ The wheat market sliowCll'CdQO. swat strength and made a a material advance during the week. Conditions favored strength and the advance appears warranted. There were reports of good business at the seaboard and large sales of wheat and flour to go out later to Europe. Here in America, and more especially in the Northwest, sentiment has favored higher prices for some time. But the foreign markets, Liverpool especially, would not follow the advances on this side. With a good crop in sight in Argentina wheat Importers in Liverpool are slow to anticipate their wants, and will naturally hold off as long as possible. During the weak there was evidence that there was wheat needed abroad for immediate use. At present it looks as if there would be demand from Liverpool for good American wheat in any event, while if it should develop that the Argentina crop is not so large or the quality not so good as lias been figured upon, the demand for American wheat would Ik* great.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $6.85; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2,45 cto 46c; oats. No. 2. 31c to 32c; rye, No. 2. 48c to 49c, hay, timothy, $8.50 to $13.50; prairie, $6.00 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 25c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 24c; potatoes, 40c to 48c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 34e to 35e. Nt. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $6.60; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 7<>c; corn. No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2,33 cto 34c; rye. No. 2,49 cto 50c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $8.50 to 85.25; hogs, $4.00 to $6.70; sheep, $3.50 to $4.20; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye. No. 2,55 eto s<Jc. Detroit—t’nttle, $3.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $6.10; sheep, $2.50 to $3.70; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 3 white, 34c to 35c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 78c to 8(»c; corn, No. 3,43 cto 44c; ent*, No. 2 wiiite, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 1,50 c to 52c; barley, No. 2,06 cto 07c; pork, mess, $17.40. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 40c; ont*. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 30c; rye. No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $7.00. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping *te«ra, $4.50 to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $6.80; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.<M) to $6.25. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.40; hogs, $3.00 to $6.35; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn'. No. 2,59 cto 00c; oats, No. 2 white, 41c to 48c; butter, creamery, 2Uc to 27e; egg*, western, 25c to 27c.

Intelligence of Snails.

Camille Spless, a noted naturall records a remarkable case of anln sagacity. At the foot of the Jt mountains in the canton of Vaud th< lives a farmer who raises edible sna (helix pomatia). He has as many 50,000 of them* at one time In an closure surrounded by a wooden feu about two feet high. To prevent t escape of the mollusks the top of t fence is covered with a board, the ed of which Is armed with sharp metal points. Lately the snails have disc* ered the means to surmount this b tier. A number of them climbed t fence until they reached the top, a then, forming a sort of ladder, th< behind passed over the shells of t others In front, and so all but one ( safely over the top without being 1 paled on the metal points. “This si pie story proves,” says M. Spless, “tl the vineyard snail is not without ci ning; his behavior In this case gh evidence of a reasoning faculty such we have never before encountered his actions.” One must go very 1< down the animal scale to reach the 11 trace of thought and will.

A Struggle for Life.

Eagle River, Mo., Jan. 19.—Magj E. Decker, a hard-working woman, years of age, whose home Is here, h just gone through a thrilling bat for her life. Many another wot have lain down and died, for f twelve long years she has suffered t most awful pains. She had Kidney Trouble and Rh< matism combined with a very distre ing stomach trouble. At last she g so bad that she could not sleep, for s ached all over and was so lame th she could scarcely walk. She spe over a hundred dollars in dlffere medicines, but only to be disappoints for everything failed to help her. At last, however, just tvhen she w beginning to despair of ever flndl a remedy, she heard of Dodd’s Kidn Tills and bought six boxes. She say "Now I can eat well, sleep well, a am feeling splendid. God bless Dod< Kidney Pills, for they saved my 11 My troubles were many, but Dod< Kidney Pills cured me completely. B for them I surely would have died.”

Millions in It.

“Ha! Ila!” exclaimed the mad pls wright, with a laugh of maniacal gl “My fortune is in sight, at last! They’ made a play of David Scarum, they’ made a play of Mr. Folley, they’ve ma plays, of the humorous columns in t Sunday papers, and of most every < thing that came along, but for r mighty genius has it been reserved dramatize the patent medicine, was Ing powder and breakfast food ads.” Puck.

The Pe-ru-na Almanac.

The druggists have already been su plied with Peruna almanacs. There sure to be a great demand for these i mauacs on account of the articles ■ astrology which they-coptain. The su Ject of astrology Is a very attractl one to most people. The articles i astrology in the Peruna almanac ha been furnished by a very compete astrologlst, and the mental character tics of each sign is given, constituti almost a complete horoscope. A list questions and answers on astrolo sent free upon request. There will a great rush for these books. Ask yo druggist for one early before they a all gone.

Wanted a Man Saturday.

Robinson Crusoe had just named 1 man Friday when he was ready to ki himself all over the island. “What a fool!” he exclaimed. "If had called him Saturday I'd have h a pay day every day of the week.” Subsequently, however, the royalt on his book more than covered hie lo —New York Tribune.

Won by a Hair.

First Fusser—What do you see attri tive in that girl, anyhow? Second Ditto—Why, man; her hair. First Ditto —Oh! 1 see. Just capilia attraction.—Y’ale Record. F|TQ Permanently Cured. No flu or nrrvouaneraaft fl I w ttr»t day’s of Dr. Klme'a Great Nerre I •torrr. Beurt for F K EE 00 trial bottle and treat! DR. R- H. KLINE, Ltd., Ml Arch St.. PhUadeiptlA,J

It Cure* Cold*, Coughs. Sore Throat, Croup, Infl enza, Whooping Cough, Bronchlll* and Asthm A certain cure for Consumption in flrat itage •nd • sure relief In advanced stages. Use at one You will see the excellent effect after taking tl flrst dose. Sold by dea'ers everywhere fan bottles 25 cents and 60 cents. Iff > UNION MAD* ’’ W.L. Douglas makes and sell* me man'* *3.80 and $3.00 shoo* than any oth two manufacturers In the world, whl prove* their superiority | they are worn by more people In all etatlon* of W life than any other make. F 5a Because W. L. Douglas fl lathe largest manufacturer MB he can buy cheaper and p" 7 / jfJ produce hl* shoe* at a BjUBtoM /> lower cost than other con-!GE*W cerns, which enables 4 to sell shoos for $3.50 and 1 $3 00 equal In every way to those sold where for $1 and SOO W. L. Douglas $3 b< JJffiwwtJYwKl/zhJwJ and $3 shoes are worn by thousaadsof men w have been paying SI and ss,net Ixdlevlng th could get a first-class shoe for 53.80 or $3.( He has convinced them thnt the style, f •nd wear of his $3.80 and $3.00 shoe* 1* jt •a good. Placed aide by side it I* Impose 11 to *ee any difference. A trial will convinc NwSlee laereae* rtsw Salre: • SSll.t in isn.ine*.i loan Mates: (ft.euAie,* A gain of •*, ■*«>.<Bo. VIS In Four Years/ W. L. DOUGLAS $4.00 GILT «DGI LIN Worth s*.oo Compared with Other Make Ms test Import id an J Amtrlcan ItatAiri, Htu Fotsnf Calf, [namtl. Bo* Calf. Calf. Vici Aid, Coro Colt, and National Kanoaroo. fait Color [arlati nintlnn • •*»«»]«• w. L. ixjucm.