Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — Page 6

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

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Friends of irrigation claim n great victory iu an opinion rendered by the Nebraska Supreme Court, which sustains the constitutionality of the Nebraska irrigation law, and with it grants the right of eminent domain to irrigation ci an panics. Swedish famine disaster can be averted only by quick forwarding of supplies; food needed by thousands of tons to keep 100,000 persons from starving; several towns of 5,000 population must hnyg, I. tons of flour besides provisions already sent. Cole Younger has been granted a full pardon in St. Paul, and under it will be permitted to return to ins old homo in Missouri. lie was out eti parole tor two years. The board of pardons secured a promise from him that, lie would not put himself on exhibition. Confidence men who identify rural visitors to the city by unshorn beards wifi have to discover a new distinguishing characteristic if the farmers of the country follow the lead of those composing the Rochester, N. Y., grange. The farmers decided whiskers were a discredit, and pledged themselves to shave regularly, A work train running forty miles an hour on the Baltimore and Ohio near Easton, Ohio, collided with a caboose and some coal cars that had broken away from a freight train. The caboose was demolished and Conductor William Miles of Newcastle was killed and Brakeman J. R. Cooney of the same place fatally injured. The Titusville (Pa.) Iron Company presented to all its employes who had been a year in the firm's employ with a sum of money amounting to 5 per cent of their earnings during that period. They also reduced the number of hours in a week's work to fifty, with a sufficient increase in pay to net a 10 per cent advance. Dr. George F. Shrady, editor of the Medical Record, and who was the physician to Gen. V. S. Grant, prints an article declaring that the birth rate in the United States is rapidly becoming as small as it is in France. He declares that the well-to-do woman is averse to I,earing children, and that she prefers a dog in the house to a baby. Secretary Root transmitted to the House of Representatives the other day an abstract of the returns made to the Adjutant General of the army by Adjutant Generals of the various States, showing the militia strength of the States to be ns follows: Officers, 8,921; enlisted men, 109,338. The aggregate number of persons in the United States available for militia duty is given as 10.853,396. C. A. Reeves of Philadelphia, a lion tamer, had a desperate encounter with a big Bengal tigress in a cage at’the .winter quarters of a circus in Syracuse, N. Y. Reeves had entered the cage to train the beast, when with n roar she sprang at his throat ami with her claws and teeth lacerated his head and shoulders and chewed his arm to the bone. Men armed with crowbars and hot irons entered the cage and dragged out Reeves.

BREVITIES.

Six hundred Wilkesbnrre carpenters mid joiners are on strike because tlie building contractors refused to grant nn increase of wages from $2.50 to $3 a day. Charles Gurley, the negro slayer of Rosie Higgins, was hanged in tlie jail yard in St. Louis. Gurley killed a col ored woman with whom he had been living. 'Die correspondent of tlie Standard at Tien tsin telegraphs the rumor that the Empress Dowager is dead, tlie-news having been concealed until the New Year observances. A small tornado passed over Seagoville, Tex., injuring four persons, how badly it is not known. Those injured were pupils in the public school, which was destroyed along with a private residence. Tlie monthly coinage statement shows that the total coinage executed at the mints of the United States during January, was $9,5C>3,085,. us follows: Gold, $7,635,178; silver. $ 1.707,9tM); minor coins, $220,910. Charles Friek. a nephew of tlie coke magnate and son of Edgar P. Friek of Wooster, Ohio, proved himself a hero by rescuing Miss Lena Kettler, the chum of ids sister, from drowning after she bad gone down twice. Tlie Dublin Otlieial Gazette has announced that the proclamation issued last year placing thirteen districts in Ireland under the Crimes act and mni'ituining suniinnry jurisdiction by 1 lie magistrates is revoked. During a heavy gale fire broke out in tlie business section of Middlebury. Vt., and before it could be controlled six blocks, two halls, a planing mill and other property were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $159,000. James Kilroy, union picket, charged with the murder of the non-union foreman of the Gauger Manufacturing Company, was acquitted in Chicago. Judge Brentnno declared the verdict is a direct stab at the heart of justice. Two 10-yeiir-old girls, named Reeves mid Curtis, have confessed that they set fire to tlie dormitories iu tlie State industrial school at Ogden, Utah. They said that the tire was part of a plot for a genera) escape by tlie girls. Rice brought to this country from Japan in two steamers being built by James J. Hill will be milled mid converted into various articles at St. I’anl. Mr. Hili proposes to make that city the «enter of the rice trade in this'country. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst declares tliat he is meeting with the support of millionaires in a project to provide mi ideal dully newsptqier for tlie public, to l»e issued in New York City. How far lie lias gone with the details <>f the scheme he refuses to say. Mrs. John Newell, living near Glass postoffice, Ohio, wax killed and her two young sons fatally injured by an «xplosiou of what was supposed to be tin empty nitroglycerin can, which the boya had brought to their mother and which she was attempting to clean. The house was demolished.

EASTERN.

Vermont abandon? prohibition, special election resulting in adoption of local option law by a majority of about 1,000. John St. Clair, alias Sinclair, a negro, who murdered his sweetheart eight months ago, was hanged at Washington. Baron von Sternberg, special envoy of Germany, has reached ’ New York and declares the Kaiser is a friend of America. After lying idle for ten years, the tunnel under the East river between Fortysecond street, Manhattan, and Long Island City will probably soon be rushed to completion. Five thousand Brooklyn horses are being fed on molasses because it is cheaper than oats; it is declared nutritious for draft animals, which do not get time to digest grain. Undetected,i seven New Y’ork detectives entered fifty-kix houses in the wealthy residence district of the city in a single hour to prove that receift robberies are due to laxity of servants. The measure prohibiting the practice of Christian Science, mind and laitii cure in healing was defeated overwhelmingly in tlie New Hampshire House of Representatives, the vote being 70 to 194. Yale seniors under five feet five inches tall have formed the Pewee. Club and will delve into history and science to secure evidence that'little men are more useful to society than their larger brothers. In Syracuse, N. Y., the Hotel Mowry was discovered to be on fire shortly before 1 o'clock n. in. Eighty guests were obliged to make a hasty escape through the smoke-filled halls. All got out in safety. Lawrence Sluter Benssn, author of ‘‘Benson’s Geometry” and well known as a philosopher and math?nmticiiui, is dead at the City hospital in Newark, N. J., penniless. Death was caused by paralysis. Walter Ramsey of Harrison, N. J., was shot and killed in the apartments of Mrs. George McDowell in Harrison by Mrs. McDowell's husband. NleDowell left the house after the shooting and eluded the police. John T. McDonough of Albany, N. Y„ announced that he would accept the appoititmeqt as .justice of the< Sujii’enpCourt of the Philippine Islands which was tendered him several days ago by President Roosevelt. William Polk, a negro recently from Chicago, was fatally shot at Laurel, Del,, in a desperate fight in which he fatally cut a deputy sheriff and slightly injured Sheriff Steele. An attempt to arrest Polk caused the encounter. C. B. Allison, ir well-known electrical contractor, was called to the door of his home in Sheraden, a Pittsburg suburb, and shot down by a mysterious assailant, who has not yet been identified. Allison is seriously wounded. Herman Helsicher, a young cigarmaker who on Dec. 19 attempted to kill Voltairine De Cleyre, a noted anarchist, was convicted at Philadelplua of aggravated assault and battery with intent to kill and was sentenced to six years and nine months' imprisonment. Robert Edgar Vance, an actor, .”>2 years of age, died at Baltimore. Five weeks ago Mr. Nance’s nose began to bleed and he was removed to the hospital. Every known remedy was tried by the physicians and surgeons to relieve the sufferer without avail. ■ Orders have been received at the United States armory at Springfield, Mass., to rush the shipment of IOO.tMM) Kr.ig rifles to arsenals over the country. The original cause of the order was the passage of the militia bill, but the rush feature apparently has a special, cause. R. D. Coulter, an attorney of Pittsburg, is one of the incorporators in the largest capitalized corporation in the world, not even excepting the United States Steel Corporation. The concern is the International Construction and Development Company. Its capital is $lO,000,000,000. That John D. Rockefeller has a grandson has been made public through the attempted robbery of the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. Parmalee Prentice, in New York. This new heir to the Rockefeller millions was born a few days before Christmas, but the fact was kept from the public. While four newsboys were sleeping in a warm spot in the areaway of the Second National Bank building in Pittsburg some one dashed two bucketfuls of scalding water over the quartet. Two of the boys, Harry Hess, aged 12, and Fred Reck, aged 11 years, were scalded so that they will die. Over 5,000 men were thrown out of work when the Havemeyer sugar refinery in Williamsburg, N. Y’., the largest of the sugar trust plants, closed its doors. The pay roll has averaged $40.000 a week. There was no explanation, no warning, scarcely a rumor of the impending distress.

WESTERN.

A cave-in at tlie Pioneer mine at Ely, Minn., caused the death of Jaceb Maki a Finn, mid injured three others. High water and an ice gorge washed out three sections of the long trestle over Alum creek, about six miles out of Columbus, Ohio. The safe in tlie postofflce at Dodge Center, Minn., was blown open and S3OO or S4OO in stamps and over SIOO in money taken. The postotlice at Brice Ohio, was dynamited by robbers mid SSO in government monej;, SIOO in stamps and sls belonging to Postmaster Springer were stolen. Fin- nt Waukomis, a small town on the Rock Island Railroad, ten Julies couth of Enid. Ok., destroyed nn mire block of buildings, causing a loss estimated at $75 ( 000. Tile steam schooner Crescent City ran on Fish rock off tlie Mendocino, Ca!., coast during a gale. The passengers and crew, numbering in all twenty-six, took refuge on tlie rock. Sergt. J. R. Fredericks of tlie United States weather bureau, survivor of tlie Greeiy Arctic expedition, wan painfully hurt in Indianapolis while trying to stop a frightened horse. Tlie big “A” mill of the WashburnCrosby Company in Minneapolis has been closed owing to tho inability of the railroads to remove the flour promptly because of lack of enrs. Negotiations are on foot for the sale of the Toledo, Bowling Green and Southern Traction Company, operating between Toledo and Findlay, Ohio, forty-

seven miles. It is believed ttio Pomeroy- I Mandelbaum syndicate will buy the I road. The bank at Cambridge, 111., was < titered by robbers and SIO,OOO was stolen. Five robbers, their flight impeded by heavy snowfall, were captured in a barn a few miles from town. Senator Hiler Horton of St. Paul has introduced a bill into the Minnesota Legislature prohibiting promiscuous kissing unless the kissers possess physicians’ certificate of good health. Gov. Van Sant of Minnesota has issued a proclamation requesting the people of the State to contribute to relieve the distress of the starving in portions of Sweden, Norway and Finland. The big lumber mills at Port Blakeley,' Wash., together with 50,(MX) acres of timber lands in Mazon and Kitsap counties, have been sold for $3,000,000 to a syndicate of Michigan lumbermen. James Tulloch, a Chicago soap manufacturer, choked to death while eating supper at a restaurant. A large piece of meat lodged in his windpipe, and he died before a doctor could dislodge it. The shortage of former Secretary G. C. Bayer of the Germania, Circleville and New Citizens' Building and Loan Associations of Circleville, Ohio, who has disappeared, is said to be about SIOO,OOO. Charles Smith, a member of the Lawton, Ok., "City Council, shot himself through the heart in the police court room. Smith brooded over charges of boodling in connection with the city campaign. The great department store of Weinstock, Lubin & Co., in Sacramento, Cal., was destroyed by fire. Frank Kasebolt, a fireman, was killed by a falling wall, and others were injured. The loss mayreach $1,000,000. Because, it is said, his fiancee broke their engagement, William Waters, one of the most prominent men of Butte, Mont., committed suicide by ■ shooting, dying in the midst of many wedding presents sent for the ceremony. Captain J. N. W. Rumple, member of Congress from the Second JQistriet of lowa, died at St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, from an affection of the throat. His home was at Marengo, lowa. Captain Rumple was til years old. William Garland at Clifton, Ariz.. shot a woman known ;i*j ''China Dot” and himself. The woman's identity was unknown until after her death, when it was learned her name was Mrs. E. P. Neal, formerly of Warrensburg, Mo. The International Order of Freight Handlers and Warehousemen has completed its organization in St. Louis under a charter granted by the American Federation of Labor. The order already has 15,000 members, of whom about 8,000 are in Chicago.

Three hundred employes of the Golden Reward Smelter at Deadwood. S. D.. have struck because one man was laid Off. About 700 other men will be thrown out of employment as a result, the company having decided to close down two of its large mines. Five business houses were destroyed by fire at De Witt, Mo., causing an aggregate loss of $50,000, distributed among the following firms: Weltner Bros., dry goods; Knappenberger, Iruggist: Barrett, groceries; the postofli-.-t, and a barber shop. An explosion at the works of the Standard Oil Company in Cleveland more or less seriously burnej'four men. John Slater will probably die, and the others will recover. A safety valve on tin oil still blew off and a tremendous explosion of gas followed. A Kansas branch of the Farmers' Cooperative Grain mid Live Stock Association lias been organized in Topeka. It, will build or buy elevators, buy- grain directly from the farmers, and sell it in the best markets, dividing the profits among the stockholders. Charges against indicted Retail Coal Dealers’ officials in Chicago filed with Judge Horton by agreement, include notices to wholesalers that carload sales to individuals and manufacturers may lead to proscription. The Glen View Golf Club and State normal schools are included among offenders. The spot on the battle field on Antietam where Commissary Sergeant William McKinley stood on the evening of Sept. 19, 18(12, under fire and served hot coffee and rations to his comrades in to be marked by an appropriate monument. The Antietam battle field commission has awarded the contract for its erection. The cost will be $5,000. A special grand jury called by Judge Brown at Ely, Nev., to investigate the tragedy of Jan. 7, iu which three men were killed and two wounded, returned two indictments against William Lloyd, president of the miners' union, who is charged with having concocted a scheme for getting rid of Traylor, either bykidnaping him or taking his life. Big Four passenger train No. 7, southbound, struck a street car at the Yellow Springs street crossing nt Springfield, Ohio. The car was filled with people and wns hit squarely in the center, driving it fifty feet beyond the crossing. Eleven persons were injured, two of whom, Mrs. Addie Wheeler and Anna Bailey, are seriously injured and may die. The motorman, A. L. Wilkinson, it is thought, was unable to stop the car owing to defective brakes. Charles Chisholm, P. Herbandson, N. O. Notion. Alexander Smart. Iver Swenson, L. G. Thompson, J. H. McLean. Charles Weigel and H. C. Branton, members, of the North Dakota Legislature, and J. N. Tolman, a legislative representative of Carbon County, Montana, spent Sunday in Glendive to arrange for the segregation of eastern Montana and western North Dakota and the creation of n new State, to be known as Montague, extending from the Belt Mountains in Montana to the Missouri River in North Dakota. Glendive is .to be chosen the capital.

SOUTHERN.

'Die Southern Pacific has reached nn agreement with its firemen on the question of wages. Tlie increase in wag-s granted averages lietween 6 and 12 per cent. A combination freight and emigrant ear contiiiiiiiiK six persons plung-d from tlie tracks of the Queen mid Crescent Railroad into tlie river at Vicksburg, Miss., and all in it were drowned. James Barker, general passenger and ticket agent of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, who has been at Hot Sulphur wells, San Antonio. Tex., since November for the benefit of his healtli, died of Bright's disease. The trainmen and conductors of the

M.Vsouri, Kansas and Texas system have by a poll absolutely rejected the counterpropositions made by the road, offered in response to their demands, and a general and immediate strike seems inevitable. The Frunklin County, Ky.. grand jury has adjourned. Notwithstanding the fact that Henry E. Youtsey, serving sentence for life as accessory to the murder of Gov. Goebel, was before the jury for over a week, no indictments in the Goebel case were returned. Masked men at Mount Gilead, Ky., entered the house of John B. Ferrow and demanded money of Mr. and Mrs. Ferrow, whom they found asleep. The aged couple gave them a purse containing $5, but the robbers insisted on having more money, and.ahot—Eerrow, whose wound is said to be fatal.

FOREIGN.

The entire crew of twenty-four men of the Norwegian steamer Avena) which went ashore on the coast of Denmark, lost their lives. It is announced that Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer, may be sent in search of the south pole by the French Geographical Society in .the spring. The British cruiser Pioneer ran into the torpedo-boat destroyer Orwell near the channel of Corfu during naval operations. Fifteen sailors lost their lives. At a meeting of S,(MX) strikefs'm Amsterdam a communication from the transport companies was read acceding to all the demands of the men. The strike is thus ended. General Miles was the guest of the King and Queen at dinner at Windsor Castle tlie oilier night. The Prince and Princess of Wales and others were among the party. Tlie German government has decided to readmit the Jesuits, who "since 1872 have been excluded from the country. Chancellor von Buelow made the announcement in the Reichstag. The iron trade of Europe is somewhat excited over tlie imminent prosjiect of the government of Norway and Sweden assuming control of the iron mining industries of those two countries. Sixty-six officials, including tlie Governors of several provinces, have been arrested in Japan in connection with a school book scandal resulting from the alleged introduction by bribery of many inferior books. Morocco pretender’s army lias been annihilated by the Sultan's troops and Bu Hamara, its leader, reported killed. Tlie camp, provisions and ammunition have been captured, with the artillery taken from the Sultan on Dec. 23. Henry Phipps, director of the Carnegie Steel Company, who is traveling in India, lias handed to Lord Curzon $lO,<MH> to be devoted to some practical object or iu st-ientific research that promises to be of enduring benefit to India. The volcano of Isalco, in the Central American republic of Salvador, has increased in activity and there is fear of an eruption. For several months the volcano has been smoking, but now fire issues from the crater and is accompanied by rumblings. A Belgian anarchist named Martin lias been arrested in Barcelona. He lias confessed that he was selected to kill the King of the Belgians, but was prevented from carrying out the deed by being arrested during the strike in Barcelona a year ago. Eight hidrones and one constable were killed in an encounter at Ormoc, West Leyte province, P. I. The fight was a hard one, but the constabulary ultimately won by a daring charge. One hundred and fifty ladrones surrendered at Ormoc tlie following day. Tlie district had been disorderly, and it is believed that tlie surrender of these men will lead to it pacification. The melting of tlie snow lias caused extensive floods and serious damage in Scotland. The River Tay lias overflowed in Pentshire and many carcasses of deer, cattle and sheep and quantities of household furniture are floating in the streets of Perth. In Inverness the River Ness has overflowed and the railroad bridges have been damaged. The River Dee has flooded parts of Balmoral and has elsewhere caused great destruction.

IN GENERAL

George E. Roberts of lown. director of the mint, has been reappointed by President Roosevelt. Superintendent Cable of the Rock Island denies tlie rumors that have been in circulation regarding a strike of Rock Island telegraphers. La Tarde, the liberal party newspaper of Santiago, asserts that negotiations are in progress for the sale to the United States of the two Chilian warships now being built in England. Eleven women and children were burned to death and seventeen persons were injured in the Finnish settlement on Malcolm Island, some distance up she coast from Vancouver, B. C. Naval Constructor Richmond Pearson Hobson has tendered his resignation from the service, giving as a reason a disease of his eyes, on account of which he was invalided home from the Philippines. The Venezuelan goveniwiit has been notified by France that customs nt several of tlie former’s ports will be collected by French officials under 1867 treaty right. President Castro declared foreign claims will get equal treatment. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review reported business iu spring merchandise deliveries heavy, with liberal fall contracts also being placed. January railroad earnings gained 5.7 per cent over 1902. The fuel situation is less serious. Minister Bowen, for Venezuela, rejected the compromise offered by tlie allies by which they would take two-thirds of money collected, and presented wiiat is practically an ultimatum, that question of preferential treatment be referred to The Hague tribunal. Minister Bowen's latest proposal, that all nations having claims against Venezuela lie given tlie same treatment as Great Britain, Germany and Italy, has been rejected in toto by the allies. This means that the negotiations lit Washington, for tlie time at least, are at a complete standstill. According to a cablegram from Guatemala City from Dr. Godfrey Hunter, formerly United States minister to Guatemala. Godfrey Hunter, Jr., wns acquitted of the murder of William Fitzgerald; of Grand Rapids. Mich. The message states that during the trial thirty-eight witnesses swore to the fact that there was a conspiracy against the life of Godfrey Hunter, Jr.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

“Z y j~l “Domestic trade and inNBV lOFL dustry continue to prosper, ~ while the fuel situation has grown less disturbing through the special efforts of transporters, aided to no small degree by mild weatlier. Distribution of other products has been restricted by tlie discrimination in favor of coal, and shippers are importunate. Clearance sales are about ended, leaving only small stocks of winter goods. Advance business in spring deliveries is very heavy, and fall contracts are also placed liberally.” The foregoing Is from tlie Weekly Trade Review of R. G. Dun & Co. It continues: At some points tlie harness season opens favorably. In most cases where there is no delay on fuel account manufacturing plants are busy, though cost of materials and labor is very high. Finn prices for finished products are consequently to be expected. Favorable returns of railway earnings are constantly issued, figures thus far available showing an increase of 5.7 per cent over last year and 17.9 per cent over 1901. Miles of loaded cars and thousands of tons of coke piled in the yards at Connellsville tell the story of conditions in the iron and steel industry. Furnaces are closing because of the fuel shortage. By giving coal, live stock and perishable goods precedence over all other freight the railroads helped consumers everywhere, but at the expense of tlie leading manufacturing industry. Many plants are closed or running onlypart time, and few orders for distant delivery are either sought or offered owing to the uncertainty as to when normal conditions will prevail. It is stated that deliveries of pig iron to the lending consumer are several months behind, and spot Bessemer lias risen sharply, yet there is much irregularity, as evidenced by the decline in cast pipe. Locomotives are being turned out of the shops with record-breaking rapidity, and other railway equipment is in equally good demand, while structural material is still a feature. Many additional contracts for bridge building are recorded. Bradstreet's Grain Figures, Bradstreet's weekly report on grain says: Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending Jan. 29 aggregate 4,420,065 bushels, against 3,538,757 last week, 8,702,368 in this week a year ago and 3,770,000 in 1901. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 148,599,622 bushels, against 165,346,186 last season and 115,825,646 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 2,045.999 bushels, against 2,376,683 last w-eek, 427,018 a year ago and 2,487,707 in 1001. For the fiscal year exports are 20,400,700 bushels, against 21,861,985 last season and 115,395,354 in 1901. A 5-cent decline in wheat CniCdflO. prices was a feature of the a ' week. A fortnight was necessary to work the market up to 82% cents for Chicago May, while in three days the advance was lost. Tlie Armour influence no longer appears, and traders are now getting back on tlie old basis, and forming opinions more from the news of tlie day respecting legitimate supply and demand conditions, rather than from tlie manipulation in the Chicago pit. A strong bull argument and a strong bear feature developed this week. The depressing feature was the shipment of 1,080,000 bushels of wheat from Argentine, this indicating that a free movement from Argentine may be expected from now on. Offsetting this was the report of renewed demand for American wheat from Australia, and of a quantity sold on tlie Pacific coast, iarga enough to more than counterbalance the Argent iye shipment.

THE MARKEST

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $1.25 to $6.90; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.10; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No, 2,42 cto 43c; oats, No. 2,32 c to 33c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; liny, timothy, $8.50 to $13.00; prairie, $6.00 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 25c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 19c; potatoes, 40c to 47c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light,*s4.oo to $6.70; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2. 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle. $4.50 to $5.25; hogs. $3.50 to $6.75; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn. No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2,34 cto 35c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 51c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $4.50 to $4.75; hogs, $4.00 to $6.85; sheep, $3.50 to $4.20; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 80c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 38c to 39c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c. Detroit—flattie, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $6.55: sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No, 3 yellow, 47c to 48c; onts, No. 3 white, 36c to 38c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 53c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 3,43 cto 44c; oats. No. 2 white, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 1,50 c to 52c; barley. No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork, mess, $19.35. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to TTs; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; eat«, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime. $7.10. Buffalo^—Cattle, choice shipping Meers, $4.50 to $5.25; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $7.10; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.50; lambs, common to choice, S4.»X) to $6.35. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.30« hogs, $3.00 to $6.80; sheep. $3.00 to $1.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2,57 cto 58c; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; butter, creamery, 24c to M£gs, western, 21c to 28o>

Was a Wary Youngster.

Some of the small boys who get into a business life young can be relied upon for good common sense. A man In one of the big shops uptown was much pleased at this attribute in a boy he employed. He was a bright, honest boy, quick and. reliable, and when a second boy was needed they sent for Sam. Couldn’t he get them a boy? They wanted a boy as good as he was, and he must know of one. After some thought he finally agreed to send one, and the next day the boy arrived and Sam was called to Identify him. “Do you know this boy, Sam?” asked the employer. “Yes,” answered Sam, “I know him.* “And you know him to be a good, honest boy?” “I have played-with him all my life and I have always thought be was.” “But will you vouch for him?” persisted the employer. “No,” answered Sam, indignantly, according to the New York Times. “I won’t vouch for any one. I wouldn't ▼ouch for my own brother. How do I know what temptations you are going to put before him?”

Few Old Men Can Say This.

Lakefield, Minn., Feb. 2. —Win, H. Gentry of this place makes the following statement: “For over forty years I suffered with misery in my back and at times I could not pass water without great pain and a burning sensation. I have had to make water as often as sixteen times during one night—just a little at a time. I tried many kinds of kidney medicines, but all without any good result till at last I tried Dodd's Kidney Pills and my pains are all gone. “I took six boxes and I am cured completely. lam 77 years of age and I feel better now than I have for over fifty years and I attribute it all to Dodd's Kidney Pills.” Dodd’s Kldfiey Pills have made some remarkable cures In this part of the State, and many old men and women are praising them highly as a cure for tame back, Kidney and bladder troubles.

His Question.

A certain Sunday school auperiaten<ent always conducts the lesson review In his school. He spends about five tninutes in explaining the lesson, and ■then asks: “Now, has any one a question to ask?” A member of the boys’ junior class raised his hand. “Well, what is your question?” asked the superintendent. “Please, sir, are we going to have a vierrie this summer?”

Not Suitable.

“Let's get grandpa to play Indian With us.” “No; let’s not. Grandpa is so baldheaded we can't scalp him.”

It Cores Colds, Coughs. Sore Throst, Croup, Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption In first stages, and a sure relief In advanced stages. Um at once. You will see the excellent effect after taking the first dose. Sold by dea'ers everywhere, Large bottles 25 cents and 50 ceuta ■ f Ji UNION MADE I ’ Ms. L. Oouglaa mtin and aalh more mtn'* Ooodyaar Watt (Handitawad Procoaa) ahaaatt.an any at hat Manufacturar tn tha arartd. $25,000 REWARD will be paid to anyone who W can disprove this statement. Because W. T,. Douglas fstlielargestmanufacturer ho can buy cheaper and produce his shoes at a lower cost than other conterns, which enables to sell shoes for $3.50 and SbvcxjJM A S 3 .00 equal in every way to those sold elsewhere for St and s,’>.<*). ffißKjWse* i NV. L. Douglas $3.50 and s3shoes |£e worn by thousands of men wb< have been paylbgfH and ss,not believing they could get a first-class shoe for $3.00 or $3.00. He has convinced them that the style, fit and wear of his 53.50 and $3.00 shoes is jusi as good. Give them a trial and save money Notice InereoM rises Sales: •S,E«NS,H«I3S,»I lu Business I 11« B Sales: *6.0*4.340,<>0 A gain of *B,B*o, <50.70 In Four Years. W. L. DOUGLAS 54.00 GILT EDGE LINE, Worth Se.oo Compared with Other Mak**. Tht best Imported and American leather*. Heul’t Patent Calf, Enamel. Bax Calf, Calf. Vld Kid, Coront Cost, and National Kangaroo. Faet Color Eurlet*. PaiiHnn ■ The genuine have W. X>. DOUGLAI VaUIIUII ■ name and price auuuped on bottom Uhori l>u mail. She. extra, filar. Catalog free. W. L.. llOlill.tM, lIROtKroX. M AM. WESTERN CANADA Has Free Homes For Millions! M Upwards of 100,(XX) Aiuericaas have aattlsd in Waslsrn Canada during th* last 6 }»wra. They arJ eonlantod, happy and proaporoosj and Iharalsroom sliUfor ml 11 lona Wonderful yields of U boat an( stbor grains. Bast Oraalng Lands on tha OontAont Magnificent ollraata. plenty M watar and tool. Goa schooN areal lent chnrehea and aplondid rallwa faeilitiaa. Free Homestead of 160 Acres. Free th« only chars* b*inc 110 for entry. Send to tbi fol low ing for an At la* and other lilerat are, aa well a for cortificat*, giving yon r*duo*d railway rat**, *te. Sup*iintaadent of Immigration, Ottawa, Oan.. or t O. J. Broughton, 430 Quincy Bldg.. (Chicago: K. 1 Holin**, Bio Jackson Hlieec, St. Paul. Minn.; W. v B*nn*tt, BUI New York Life Bldg.. Omaha. N*b.; M. V Mcinnee. No 2 Aranu* Theater Block. Detroit, Mich Ja*. Grieve, Bault Ht*. Marie, Mich ; J. Q. puncag Room 6, Big Four Bld*., Indi an apo Ilk, Indi J. fe Crawford,3l4 W. Hh St. Kansas I ity, Mo., the authoi is*<i CanadUn Govern meat Agents. Ely's Cream Balm WILL OUR* CATARRHfW DraggiMe, 50 Cte. A