Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1903 — Page 2

JASPER aim DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RiNSSELAER, - • - INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Twelve hundred shopmen nnd roundhouse employes of the Lake Shore Railway at Elkhart, Ind., have received an Increase of pay, ranging from 5 to 8 per cent, effective March 1. The advance was voluntary on the part of the railway company. John B. Ferguson, a traveling aalerBian from Pittsburg, was shot and killed at New Castle Junction, Pa., supposedly by Robert Mongin, an iron molder, who is held for the murder. It is thought Ferguson made an insulting remark to Mongin's wife. Five boys lighted a stick of dynamite which they found in the northern part of Buffalo. All were injured by the explosion nnd several may die. The victims nre Anthony Geraee, Janies S. Chorlia, Touy 8. Chorlia,' John Ferris and Tony Ferris. Their ages nre from 5 to 10 years. A big find of valuable iron ore in the River Hills, near Wrightsvillc, Ta., has been made nnd is considered by the State geologist the most important ever discovered in Pennsylvania. The ore is of the hematite variety, containing a large percentage of metallic iron and little dross. The lumber carrier! of the groat lakes have concluded ncgoliatiousAvith the marine cooks. The contract agreed upon fixes the same scale of wages as was paid last year. The objection to women cooks was met by a'tconipromise. Women who were cooks lggt year are to be retained, but no new contracts are to be made with women. The general committee of management of the G. A. R. has sent to President Roosevelt an invitation to attend the thirty-seventh annual national encampment of the order, to be held in San Francisco next August. It is expected that the President. Will accept the invitation if he does not visit the const earlier in the year. One man was killed, one lias since died and two others are seriously hurt as the result of an explosion at the Republic Iron and Steel mills at East Chicago, Ind. The men were manipulating a giant pair of shears in the cutting mill, and after sending the shears into a carbonic gas tank, which happened to lie loaded, the contents exploded and flying steel and debris filled the works. The Southern and Western stove manufacturers concluded their joint session In Chattanooga. The action taken indicates that there is to be a dose alliance between the members of the two associations, which embrace practically every stovcinnker of any consequence in the country. It was unanimously decided to increase the price of all stove manufacturers’ goods 5 per cent. A dispateli from Manila to Lloyds says the local United States steamships Navarra and Nuestra Sonora do Lourdes have been in collision off Cape Santiago, oil the southwest coast of tile island of Luzon. Both vessels sank. Some (f the passengers and crew were saved. Adam Black, a wealthy cattle king of Minot, N. D., committed suicide by taking strychnine. It is thought lie was temporarily demented.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Six deaths from disease resembling cholera on board the steamer Karamania, which arrived at New York front Naples. Metal workers employed in twenty-four of the largest shops in Chicago have gone on strike on account of an internal struggle between two unions. Ezra Kendall, the aetor, bought 000 acres of farm land near Washington, D. C, He intends to give each of his six sons a hundred-acre farm. Henry Thomas, a negro, who attacked the 10-year-old daughter of l’orter Keene, was lynched near Parish, Fla., after having admitted his guilt. Plans are being mapped out by trolley promoters for a road to connect New York with Montreal, the line to run via Vermont and by Lake Champlain. An unidentified man, about 25 years of age, committed suicide in San .lose, Cal., by shooting. On a loaf in a pocketbook was written, “Oliver Lisvvell, Chicago.” The reciprocity treaty with the United States was approved by the Senate at llnvnnn by sixteen votes against five. The vote for the convention is exactly two-thirds of the Senate, The “Overland Limited,” east bound, and a freight train on the Union Pacific came into collision at Oilman station. Neb. Six trainmen are reported to have been killed. A number of the passengers ore injured. A blow received in a friendly boxing bout is said to have put Arthur L. <sriffiths of Malden, Mass., a medical student at Yale, into a stupor that lasted three days, and lias since kept him in hospital for seven weeks. Mrs. Arthur J. Pennell, wife of the Buffalo (N. Y.j suspect, died of injuries received In the automobile accident which killed her husband. The police declare wife murder and suicide were not planned by Pennell, Prince Albert Kakailimoku Kumiiaklea is dead of consumption at Honolulu. The prince was the last descendant of Kamehamehn the Great, and would some day have )>ecn king of Hawaii had the Kamehameha dynasty lived. In Portland, Ore., fire damaged the stock of Canning, Wallace & Co., wholesale druggists, to the extent of $20,000 and partially destroyed the building occupied by the firm. The total loss is $40,000, fully covered by insurance. Townsville, North Queensland, Australia, has been visited by a cyclone, In which many persons were killed or injured; A part of the hospital building collapsed during the storm, killing six persons. Schools, churches and residences were destroyed and many of the inhabitants have been rendered homeless. James Wilbert of Chicngo fatally iplured his wife by striking her over'the bead with a sledge hammer at Kirkwood, Mo. He then attempted to kill hia mother-in-law, kicked his child in the face, and fired at hla father-in-law, afterwards escaping.

EASTERN.

Nine passengers ore reported to be seriously injured ns the result of a collision between two electric cars in Fail River, Mnss. Nineteen men are dead as a result of the capsizing of the ferryboat used by workmen at Spier Falls, on the Hudson River. . C 2: Twenty-two persons were killed and over fifty injured by burning oil thrown from exploding tanks in a freight wreck at Glean, N. Y. I>r. William 11. Hale of Jack ion, Mich., charged with forgery in the second degree, lias been held for the grand jury at Rochester, N. Y r . At the constitutional election in New Hampshire the woman suffrage amendment was defeated by an overwhelming vote, estimated at two to one. Arthur It. Pennell, a Buffalo lawyer, suspect nnd co-respondent in the Burdick case, was killed in an automobile accident, and his wife was mortally injured. The new United States monitor Nevada has been placed in commission at the navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H. Commander T. It. Howard took charge of the new ship. At a great mass meeting in Brooklyn in aid of tlie project for a memorial to Henry Ward Beecher former President Grover Cleveland paid a glowing tribute to the memory of the famous pastor and founder of Plymouth Church. Alonzo Clark and Elizabeth Austin, It), were married six weeks. They are now in jail at Oswego, N. V., charged with burglary and larceny. Mrs, dark says her husband forced her to assist him th robbing a "store at Hastings Center. The Elmira Anchorage, a home for unfortunate young women, burned at Elmira, N. Y., three bnbios dying In the Humes and three were rescued by their mothers. There were nineteen inmates, six of whom were mothers of young children. Ellen Vail, aged 55 years, and Elizabeth Vail, aged 22 years, were killed in a tire in East Seventieth street, New York. The older woman was suffocated and the younger jumped from the fourth floor. The property lors by the fire was small __ The old I Ilii.-m Opera Home block at Williamsport, Pa., was gutted by fire. A total loss of $75,000 was suffered by Michael Levi, clothier; George Loder, general merchandise; Companies D, G and I of the Twelfth regiment, N. G. I\, and other tenants. At Watertown,. N. Y., fire destroyed the Otis House, one of the largest hotels in the city, and ruined numerous stores in the block. The hotel was crowded with guests and many narrow escapes were reported. The total loss is estimated at $200,000. Hugh Dixon, aged 70 years, committed suicide at Pittsburg by jumping from the Forward avenue bridge to ground below, a distance of 135 feet. Nearly every bone in bis body was broken. 11l health nnd the recent death of his wife caused the deed. Trustees of Barnard College, New York, announced that a gift of $1,000,000 had been made to tlie college by a person whose name President Butler and Treasurer Plimpton suppressed. The money is to be used for the purchase, of land adjoining the college. The President lias offered Robert Bacon, formerly of J. P. Morgan & Co., the office of Assistant United States Treasurer at New Y’ork to succeed the late Conrad N. Jordan. Mr. Bacon retired from the Morgan firm the first of the ytfar because of ill health. Daniel Leroy Dresser of New Y*>rk, whose firm failed for $1,250,000, might have averted the crash. It Is said that both his brother-in-law, George Vanderbilt, and his sister, Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, offered him money to tide over his affairs, but lie refused their aid. By giving to Yale’s library an exceptional collection of Russian and Slavic literature, nnd more recently a small library on music, the inte J. Bumner Smith, Y’ale 1853, so impoverished his fortunes that Yuie graduates have taken steps to raise a fund for the aid oi his widow. Tile ferryboat Neptune plying between Allegheny and the West End, was sunk in the Ohio Rivers near the foot of Chartiers street, Pittsburg, by the steamer Margaret. The Neptune is a total loss, and the crew and passengers had to swim to the Alleghany side in order to save their lives. Miss Ella Lyde, aged 22, a telephone operator, was suffocated in Pittsburg in a street ear during the rush hours between 5 and 7 o’clock. She was forced to stand because of the crush nnd, after riding seven or eight blocks, fainted. After being carried into a nearby store she expired in a few moments. Word lins been received in Boston that William Miller, a Boston missionary who went to Russian I’olnnd some months ago to work among the poorer classes in an effort to educate them, hns been arrested by the police and exiled to Siberia. The Russian government makes it a crime to educate or attempt to educate the Poles.

WESTERN.

Mlsa Katherine Kidder, the actress, has recovered from a slight attack of pneumonia at Little Hock, Ark. Earl Shaw and Lee Shollenhergcr were killed at the Warren mine, near Joplin, Mo., by a bowlder weighing a ton. A. E. Mead, deputy treasurer of Walsh County, N. D., was arrested for embezzling l>etween $2,000 and $.‘1,000. Coffee plnntera who have just arrived nt San Francisco from Guatemala slate that the war preparations In the country are still going on. J. B. Floyd, n prominent citizen of Canadian County, Oklahoma, was shot and killed by his stepson, K. C. Putnam, during n family quarrel. The Montana House passed a bill requiring that newspapers shall once a month print a statement of ownership and that editorials shall be signed. The bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes nnd cigarette paper to children under 18 years of age pnssed the Missouri Senate. The House had previously pnssed the bill. General Harrison Gray Otis was attacked in a theater box in Los Angeles, Cal., by a rival editor, about whoso approaching marriage he had printed an offensive article. Attorneys for Mrs. Lena Lillie, convicted of murder in the first degree nt David City, Neb., for the killing of her

I husband last October, have filed a motion for a new trial. ! The general officers of the Woman’s | Christian Temperance Union, to whom I was left the selection of the convention | city, have settled- upon Cincinnati. The 1 dates are Nov. 13 to 18. j At Brainerd, Minn., Judge McClenshan I granted a stay of forty days to Ole G. lOleson, tlie condemned murderer who I was to have been executed at Aitkin for the murder of his daughter. At Fuirhaven, Wash., fire oil the water front destroyed the Murchison saw mill and tlie Hill-Webori wharf, together with two Northern Pacific passenger coaches. The loss is $130,000; insurance one-half. The main portion of the large pavilion at Lako Harriet, Minneapolis, was burned, the fire originating from electric wires. The structure had been the scene of many famous concerts. Loss, $15,000. In St. Louis between 3,000 nnd 4,000 union men of the Allied Brickmakers’ Trades struck to enforce demands for a recognition of their union, for an eighthour day and a 5 per cent increase in wages* The epidemic of grip, which began in Rt. Louis three wepks ago, lias spread with alarming rapidity until to-day the number of cases there is estimated by conservative physicians at from 12,000 to 15,000. Because they had jeered at him, Walter Green, n negro, aged 15 years, fired into a crowd of boys at South St. Joseph, Mo., witli a shotgun, wounding four of them. Tlie gun was loaded with buckshot. By a sheriff's attachment to enforce the collection of an account by the Western Montana National Bank the wholesale nnd retail grocery establishment of Pulliam Brothers at Missoula, Mont., has been closed. Officials of the Union Pacific Railroad nnd the joint committee of conductors and brakenien reached an agreement at Omaha by which tlie salaries of 1,500 employes of the road are increased from 12 to 15 per cent. The Arkansas Senate passed a House bill requiring street car companies in cities of the first class to operate separate cars for white and colored people or to separate such passengers in cars operated for both. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of W. C. M unsell, formerly chief clerk of the tax department of the Colorado State auditor’s office, on the charge of having absconded with about $7,000 of the State’s money. Chaplain Henry C. Gavitt, U- S. A., <has been exonerated by court martial at Denver from tlie charge of not paying liia debts, which was brought against him by a Chicago firm. Geu. Funs ton approved the findings. William Ross was executed at Bottineau, N. I)., for tlie murder of Thomas Walsh on July 5, 1902. Ross expressed sorrow for his crime. He was asked who killed Napoleon Le May, and answered that it was Carl Hanson. Edward Slattery, a farmer, shot and instantly killed H. W. Shaw, a stockman, while the latter was on his way to O’Neill, Neb. Slattery surrendered and was released on bond. A family fetid was the cause of the tragedy. United States Marshal Dorsey took possession of $240,000 iu cash and the offices nnd furniture of the John J. Ryan &,Co. Turf Investment Company in St. Louis and will hold the entire amount for distribution among the creditors. The State House of Representatives lias passed the Senate bill prohibiting the use of slot machines in Kansas. Governor Bailey says he will sign the bill. Under tlie provisions of the law the operation of slot machines will be a felony. The Northern Pacific Railway suffered a SOO,OOO loss through the burning of its warehouse and several loaded cars at Helena, Mont. The fire originated from the explosion of a gasoline stove used to heat the storage room. The watchman was badly burned. An autopsy held on the body of Horace H. Hagan, a widely known politician and banker who died suddenly at Guthrie, Okla., supposedly from heart disease, indicates opium poisoning. It is stated that Mr. Hagan took an overdose of the drug to allay pain. Navigation has been opened at Chicago by the arrival of the steamer Edward Buckley with salt from Manistee. There is less ice in Lake Michigan than for many years, and it reenis likely the struits will open ns early as they did Inst year, which was on April 1. Elder Uriah Smith, pho stood next to Prophetess Ellen G, jlfhite, the seer of the Seventh Day AdvtUnsts, ns the most influential person in that denomination, and for half a century editor of its official organ, the Adventist Review, and head of tlie great denominational publishing house, dropped dead at Battle Creek, Michigan. The Kansas Supreme Court has declared invalid tlie nuisance clause of the prohibitory law, which practically destroys the injunction section of tlie statute, and makes it more difficult than ever to enforce the law ns nn entirety. The clause in Question made places where liquor is made or sold a common nuisance. The decision was in the ease of several Kansas City, Kan., ‘‘joint’’ keepers, who resisted an injunction suit commenced by tlie State. Three thousand people, most of whom were returning from church, witnessed n tire in the heart of tlie business section of La Crosse, Wis, in which three men nearly lost their lives and which entails damage upward of $50,000. For a time the entire business portion of La Crosse was threatened with destruction. The fire originated in the upper portion of the Rudolf Building, and the big plant of (he La Crosse Engraving Company, containing thousand of dollars’ worth of machinery, and the stock of Stavrum & Hulberg, clothiers, was totally destroyed. The Looftler Tailoring Company, adjoining, also sustained a loss of 50 per cent on stock. The building is a total loss.

SOUTHERN.

The total of cattle losses due to the recent blizzard in Texas are now estimated at $200,000. The storm raged continuously eight dnys. James 11. Blount, for twenty years a member of Congress from Georgia and later paramount commissioner to Hawaii, died nt Macon, Gn. Biz persons were burned to death Rnd one was fatally Injured ns the result of a fire In a small hotel at Leiten, a mining town near Elkins, W. Vn. A negro entered the home of a white man ** Cordova, Ala., before daylight,

presumably for the purpose of robbery; A tight ensued, in which the negro killed the master of the house, his wife and child. The steamer Delta, of the Memphis and Vicksburg Packet Company, struck a hidden obstruction near Marysville, forty miles north of Vicksburg, Miss., and sank in shallow water. No lives were lost. Allan Melton, a farmer near Henderson, Ivy., who had fatally wounded his step-daughter nnd shot Mrs. John Culver, committed suicide iu his barn when he found the building surrounded by bloodhounds sent in pursuit of him. Judge Cochran, to the Federal Courtat Frankfort, Ivy., decided that nil land patents iu Kentucky for more than 200 acres nre void., This is a sweeping decision, and will affect much property, as heavy patents are held all over Kentucky. While running at high speed to make up lost time passenger train No. 4, north bound, on the Louisville nnd Nashv'ilo Railroad was wrecked twenty-two miles south of Birmingham, Ala. Five persona were injured, three of whom were members of the train crew. Thirty Italians fought four "orei'ien and a constable near Burning Springs, W. Va., on the line of the extension of the Little Kanawha Railway. Axes, clubs and revolvers were used, and many in the battle. The men recently came from Chicago. Marie Greenwood Guiberson, a vocalist of national reputation, entered suit for divorca against her husband, Will Parker Guiberson, at Memphis. She charges lie cruelly beat her at Dos Moines and wrote false charges against her to her father, reflecting upon her character* James Mooney, who lives near Stanhope, Ivy., unearthed SI,OOO in gold while digging post holes on the farm of William "Gardiner. Gardiner found Mooney taking S2O gold pieces from the post hole, but the latter pocketed the money nnd refused to divide with the owner of the land. The old Lincoln homestead near Ilodgenville, Ivy., tlie birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, will probably be sold under the hammer within a few weeks. Several years ago the old log cabin in which Lincoln was born was taken to the Buffalo exposition. A large flag pole is the only remaining thing marking the birthplace of the martyr. Sobbing bitterly, fearful of wliat they might do to him, 8 year-old Buddie Ryals, Pear Evergreen, Fla., confessed to special agents of tlie Seaboard Air Line that he had turned the switch and thrown the company’s limited, crowded with Northern tourists, from tlie track, killing the engineer and tlie porter and severely injuring a dozen others. Buddie is too young to prosecute.

FOREIGN.

Tlie Pope's benediction hns been taken upon a phonograph record and all Catholic people may hear the pontiff's voice. The Sultan of Morocco lias recently purchased nil estate in England and has deposited a large treasure of gold and jewels iu a London bank. Earthquake shocks have been felt for two days in tlie district of Voigtland, Saxony, and in the Erzebiere (Ore) Mountains. The shocks were violent. The British navy estimates for 100304 call for an expenditure of $179,184,205, an increase of $10,010,000. The maintenance estimates call for 127,100 officers and men. Leung Kai Chew, lieutenant of Kang Yu Wei, leader of the rebel forces in South China, is in America for the purpose, it is said, of raising funds and arms for tlie insurrectionists. The fortieth anniversary of the marriage of King Edward and Queen Alexandra was celebrated in London with the customary firing of salutes and ringing of bells. Their majesties received many telegrams of congratulation from public bodies. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Loudon Daily Mail telegraphs that terrible snowstorms have been -•aging in the government of Samara, and have caused hundreds of deaths. Horses drawing sledges have returned to villages with the passengers frozen to death. The German navy department makes a mystery out of some portions of its budget requirements. The government is asking for lump sums for the fleet and will not specify tlie ships or stations on which the money is to he spent. Admiral von Tirpitz admits the increased expenses are for vessels on foreign service. Two customs officers carrying a sack containing $25,000 to tlie banks were attacked at Johannesburg, Soutli Africa, by robbers. Two men threw pepper in the eyes of the officers, seized the money sack and threw it to a horseman, who galloped off with it. The horseman ran down and killed a bystander. Subsequently the horse tiolted and unseated Its rider, who was then arrested and the money recovered.

IN GENERAL.

Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, for many year* president of Johns Hopkins University, hos been elected president of the American Bible Society. Five persons perished in the burning of the Aurora Hoad House, fifty-five miles below Hunker Creek, Alaska. Ibe dead are Charles Burnie, liis wife end three children. Ths special Senate session of the Fif-ty-eighth Congress met nt noon Thursday. Thirty Senators were sworn in for six-year terms, including seventeen who were re-elected. William It. Merriam, who has resigned, will leave the census office May 15. His successor as director will probably be cXj-Congressman David 11. Mercer, of Nebrhska. Mr. Merriam will eutsi commercial lifo in New York City. The Richelieu nnd Ontario Navigation Company's magnificent steamer Montreal, in course of construction, was burned to the water's edge nt Montreal. Hundreds of persons watched the fire from tlis roof of an Allan Line shed, which collapsed, nnd two persons were killed and seventy-five injured, some fatally. While the Alaska law probably was satiated in the hanging of Homer Bird nt Sitka, his devoted wife and little daughter, Bernio, nnd three other children snt in their cottage in New, Orleans praying that some unforeseen power might save the man’s life. Mrs. Bird, who has traveled the continent over nnd worked and prayed for five long years that her husband might be spared, Is prostrated with grief.

COMMEPCIAL FINANCIAL

Tj ~ “Further improvement in Mlf lOM. the movement of freight **■ '■ • and fuel makes the general situation more favorable, although shippers are still constantly complaining and pig iron furnaces are not able to run steudily. Numerous labor struggles also interrupt manufacturing, yet mills and shops are producing freely as a rule. Jobbers and wholesalers are busy, while spring retail trade has opened very well in many lines, notably wearing apparel.” The foregoing is from the Weekly Trade Review of It. G. Dun & Co. It continues: Permits for building operations show large gains over last year’s figures, giving additional strength to lumber and other materials. Prices of commodities scarcely altered in the aggregate daring February, Dun’s index number being $101,0G7 on March 1, against $100,920 a month previous. Foreign trade con tinues very heavy. Conditions in the iron and steel Indus try need no other elucidation than the plans announced by the United States Steel Corporation. The last week lias brought out a large quantity of new orders, as is customary at this suasou. Among the lending features were liberal purchases of pipes, tubes, agricultural Implements, structural shapes and railway equipment. A heavy tonnage of steel rails was placed, particularly for trolley lines. Quotations are firmly held in all departments of this industry, and in several Instances the week lias brought a higher level. Tin plates were advanced $4 a ton. Billets, bars and pig iron are still in great demand, and further imports have been arranged. This business would be still heavier but for the strength of foreign markets. Failures this week numbered 229 in the United States, against 176 last year, and 10 in Canada, compared with 17a year ago. Bradatreet’s Grain Report. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending March 5 aggregate 3,491,480 bushels, against 2,650,839 last year, 4,095,944 in this week a year ago and 4,229,528 in 1901. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 104.284,134 bushels, against 184,202,043 last season, and 138,525,480 in 1901. Corn exports aggregate 3,817,009 bushels, against 2,308,939 last week, 352,400 a year ago, and 3,950,137 in 1901. For, the fiscal year exports are 34,557,191 bushels, against 23,471,390 last sea-on, and 135,736,401 in 1901. IT; Into tlie West we find LHIC3QOL conditions extremely gratThe South is just now on tlie verge of the annual period of high water, and already many of the rivers are close to the danger point. Fear of flood has delayed trade nnd the week in the South is reported hardly up to normal. Elsewhere through the country btisioess is going on in a volume larger than st this time last year, and tb.ls week brought a large increase in demand for everything in the line of building material, this foreshadowing a year of new construction on a very large scale. In tlie Northwest business men have little to complain of aside from the matter of insufficient freight service, which remains the one really bad feature. Tho railroads, in trying to cover all demands without enough rolling stock, and in endeavoring to make every car do the greatest possible amount of service, have been imposing new restrictions upon shippers from time to time. Some of tho larger shippers, as the millers, have Ignored the later Instructions and have fought it out successfully with the roads. The Northwest is looking to the opening of navigation more anxiously this year than ever before, for this will mean relief from a situation that is intolerable.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.15; hogs, shipping grades, $5.50 to $7.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2,00 to $5.60; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2,44 cto 45c; oats, No. 2,33 c to 85c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $14.00; prairie, SO.OO to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 27c; eggs, faesh, 14c to 16c; potatoes, 40c to 46c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.15; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 37c to 89c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.20; hogs, $5.00 to $7.45; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 69c; corn. No. 2, 89c to 40c; oats, No. 2,34 cto 35c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 60c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $4.80; hogs, $4.00 to $7.25; sheep, $3.50 to $4.85; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 47c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 38c to 39c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $7.1Ql sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 3 white, 87c to 38c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 54c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 77c to 78c; com, No. 8,42 cto 43c; outs, No. 2 white, 34c to 85c; rye, No. 1,60 c to 52c; bnrley, No. 2,63 cto G4c; pork, mess, $19.35. Toledo—-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c; com, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 85c to 36c; rye, No. 2,62 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $7.10. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.50| hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $7.70; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $5.65; iambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $7.10. New Yor*--Cattle, $4.00 to $3.60; hogs, $4.00 to $7.20; sheep, $3.00 to $0.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2,54 cto 65c; oats, No. 2 white, 48c to 44c; butter, creamery, 25c to 270; sggs, western, 10c to 18c.

LIVE CLOSE TO VOLCANO.

IwbnUst and Warlike People Be* longing to Independent Java. Under the fro tying brow of the most active of Voicaneos of eastern Java, on a fertile but Inaccessible plateau, there flourishes to this day the Independent Sultanate of Buloh, •ays the London Golden Penny. AJ*, though the Dutch have been In possession of this large and fruitful Island ♦f the Moluccas for over 200 years, tnany unsuccessful attempts at conquest have taught them to deal leniently and generously with some of the turbulent and warlike mountain !>eople, leaving them their own rulers, aws and customs, merely Insisting that the peace be kept It is only natural, with their peculiar, fearless and bloodthirsty characteristics, that they should pick out the fiercest depredator and wild beast of their country for their sport For this contingency, therefore, the animal Is caught as a cub or trapped when grown, and kept in captivity till the “harl bessar” or festival of “rambokkan matjan,” or tlger-baltlng, arrives. From far and wide the people flock to the capital on this occasion. Armed with businesslike spears, the young men form a vast ring on a clearing, where a stand for the great ones hae been erected, and the tigers and leopards, confined In collapsible cages, are hauled Into the middle of the armed array. One by one the cages are flung open, and the wild beast, maddened by hunger, generally charges at once, and after a risky scuffle of more or less fierceness, Is caught upon and transfixed by many sherp lances. If the brute balks there are arrow* and sling shots and other incltants to fury, and It sometimes happens that an animal, black panther being the most agile, clears the ring and lands with claws aud fangs among the spectators. Should a particularly ferocious bull be within ken and obtainable anywhere, the sport Is diversified by pitting bull against tiger. Strange to say, the bull nearly always wins, and wild and vociferous Is tho enthusiasm should he emerge from the fearful contest the victor. But the spectacle Is ghastly. Tho roar of t’ e powerful bull, the demoniac snarl of the tiger, the rending of flesh, snapping of bone, and gushes of blood, like water spilled, make a sight that goes to turn civilized man shuddering aside. This sort of thing continues for two or three days; In fact, till no more material in the shape of wild beast is left After that the populace give themselves up to feasting and dancing for some days more.

He Went West and Prospered.

Freeland, Kan., March 9.—One of the most prosperous farmers in Harper County is Mr. N. H. Mend. Some thirty-four years ago he left his home near Clarence, N. Y., and came to Kan : hi. Here he has thrived splendidly and last year harvested over one hundred and forty acres of wheat alone. But everything has not gone well with Mr. Mead, for his health has not been good for the last few years. He baa suffered a great deal with Kidney Ind Bladder Trouble and could get nothing to atop It Lately, however, he has Improved a great deal and be •ays that he has none of the old symptoms left and is feeling splendid again. He used Dodd’s Kldnev Pills ind this remedy seemed to work wouert In his case. He says himself: “Dodd’s Kidney Pills have made me well. They are all right and a reliable remedy for Kidney Trouble. They helped me right from the start, giving me great relief, and Anally cured me.”

Breaking It Gently.

“My boy,” said the managing editor to the space writer, “1 don't want to ■ay anything unkind, but you certainly make me think of a burlesque actress." "How so?” Inquired the young man, realizing that he was expected to asb the question. “You have the art of padding down very fine.”—Chicago Post.

Fame.

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