Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1903 — Page 6

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

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

,Bill proposing government loans Irish tenants to enable them to purehaso holdings has been introduced in the British House of Commons by Mr. Wyndiiatn. Introduction of this bill Is said to be an event of world-wide Importance end a forerunner for home rule in Ireland. Firemen called to extinguish flames in a dwelling in North Twelfth street, St. Louis, found the body of Mrs. Charles Adams lying on the floor. Apparently She had suffocated. Her husband could Cot give a satisfactory account as to to how the lire started and was taken Into custody pending an investigation. A sensation was caused near Grand Forks, N. D., when n bouse, the ownership of which was claimed by both Mrs. John Jacobson and Phil Mett, was moved into Minnesota despite the vigorous protests of Mett. Judge Fisk and several attorneys were routed out, hut before injunction papers could he secured the house was in Minnesota. Gilbert Warfield, a member of the fiylvn Opera Company, was arrested at Tagle, Wls., charged with robbing. Treasurer Nirdlingcr ut a hotel in Milwaukee,' of $2,700. Wapfield confessed to the theft. Warfield Is the man who slept with Nirdlingcr. He had nearly the full amount of stolen property in his jiossei*i<m when taken in custody. The Kev. l)r. D. W. Clark, presiding elder, before the Methodist Preachers’ Association in Cincinnati declared that the Sunday school us managed at present "is pretty much of a failure,” and advocated the graded system. He said that the laws <>f psychology > and pedagogy were as necessary in Sunday school teaching as in the public schools. The whipping post was resorted to at the smallpox hospital in Columbus, Ohio, to maintain discipline. Hugh Murphy, a negro suffering with a mild case of small pox, attacked and badly wounded T. V. Flowers, another patient, with a fork. l>r. Heiliel, superintendent of the lios pital, dierecil that Murphy should necive twenty-live lashes on his bare 100 k. Miss Jessie Wnggy, daughter of n prosperous farmer near Weston, W. Vn„ thot Ralph McDatiuiild, a medical slu dent. About two years ago Miss Waggy sued MeDamiald in the Circuit Court for $5,000 damages. The jury gave her a verdict of $2,000, and it was thought that this had ended the matter, but she says she bad been awaiting her lay of revenge. Emulating the example of the Armours and Swifts, Nelson Morris A- Co. have gone into the poultry and egg business on an extensive scale. The firm has purchased outright more than sixty branch packing houses of the Arthur Jordan Company of Indianapolis, located In Indiana, Illinois and New Jersey, and all the eastern branch markets, including those in New York, Boston and Brookl\ n. The habit of chewing toothpicks has caused H. E. O'Donnell, student, of St. Paul, Minn., to undergo an operation. O'Donnell lias been in the habit of chew ing toothpicks and swallowing small pieces of the wood. A few weeks ago ids throat began to trouble him. A specialist found several splinters embedded In the flesh below the palate, where u growth had formed. O'Donnell then submitted to an operation to have the growth removed. Judge Ilahey in the Circuit Court at Milwaukee rendered an important opinion to the effect that so-called blacklists are privileged communications. The libel suit of Valentine Gerhardt against Armour A- Co. and William G. Lloyd, the Milwaukee representatives of the combination of packers, for SIO,OOO damages was nonsuited. It will bo appealed to the Supreme Court. Gerhardt brought suit for damages after lie had been refused a supply of meat because a previous bill bad not been paid.

NEWS NUGGETS.

After yawning for three days Mr>. William Henry Jemier died nt her home lit Oshkosh, Win. Very Reverend I loininick Heuter, a native of Albany, N. Y., has been np pointed procurator general*)! the '.’ran riseim Order throughout the world. I>r. David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University. denounced those v, ho go to college to win prominence in athletics or to shine as social lights. Met aiuley's sawmill, near WJckliffe, Ky., was totally destroyed by an explosion of the boiler. Three men were blown to atoms and six others seriously injured. Miss Jean M. Thurston, the 17-year-old daughter of ox-Scuator Thurston of Nebraska, was married secretly to Ernest Hall foolidge, a 20-yenr-old clerk, at Rockville, Md. A serious riot him been in progress nt Port of Spain, Trinidad. A mob attempted to burn the government buildings and the police hud to fire on the rioters, killing and wounding several. The search of two Russians who have Just been arrested nt Naples revealed documents proving the existeneo of n idot of Russian Nihilists to assassinate the Czar during Ids visit to Italy. Attorneys nt Colorado Springs, Cok>., charge that I. Harry Stratton, son of the owner of the Independence mine, liar been trying to iisflucnce jurors in the case to overthrow Ills father's will, Mrs. J. M. Reeve of Huccaiunna, N. J., who had been in a trance for fivo days, is dead. A few minutes before she died and while the family was nt the bedside, she opened her eyes and bade them farewell. ' Thirty thousand acres are flooded by the breaking of a levee around Lacuna Circle, Ark., twenty-five miles north of Rosedale. Miss. Tile people living in the inundated territory had to flee in hnste, taking refuge mi the government levee in the rear. Louis Kohl, aged 513 years, shot and instantly killed his mother-inlaw, Mrs. Kate fjtacktole. in Cincinnati, and dangerously wounded Ids brother-in-law, Harold Btacktole, aged 17 years. Kohi has been separated from Ids wife, Oeorgle Kold, since Jan. 8 and she has |*en living at the home of her mother.

EASTERN.

Dr. Samuel J. Kennedy, accused of killing "Dolly” Reynolds at New York in 1898, has been freed by court after three trials, conviction, and death sentence. A non-secret senior class society, known as the Klilm Club, lias been organized at Yale. Members of secret college orders are barred from membership. President W. R. llarper of the University of Chicago was elected president of the Alliance Franchise in the United States ut the annual meeting in New York. Eire at Hartford, Conn., gutted a tenement block, causing a loss of SIO,OOO. sdauy tenants escaped in night clothing and five were rescued by firemen with ladders. Alice Roselaitd, an actress, the wife Of Arthur It. Wilbur, manager of the Texas Steer company, died suddenly in Washington, and the case will be investigated by the coroner. Three young women were killed and a fourth was probably fatally injured while Walking from Pawtucket to Philipsdale, R. E, on the tracks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The passenger steamer Plymouth and the freighter City of Taunton, both of the Fall River Line, collided in Long Island Sound during a dense fog, six lives being lost and several persons injured. Douglass Schoonover, a bridge worker of Allegheny, Pa., saturated tile clothing of his wife with oil ns she lay sleeping on a couch and then applied a match. The woman was burned beyond recognition. Tile Windsor Line freight steamer Nor man collided with the schooner collier John B. Manning off Massachusetts-and a 85-foot hole was stove iti her. The ship reached Fall River. The Manning was not injured. For the first time a patient has died from an operation for congenital dislocation of the hips after the bloodless method introduced In- Prof. Adolf Lorenz. The patient wtfs an 8-your-old girl, sip crated on in Philadelphia. , George I!. White, vice-president of the South Pennsylvania Rank at llyndm.in, was arrested in Philadelphia by federal officers and charged with conspiracy to wreck the bank, lie is accused of looting the institution of $20,000. Five men of the crew of the tug Pilot ot Philadelphia were drowned in a collision between the tug and the steamship Winifred in the Delaware river off Marcus Ilook, Pa. The reiintining three members of the crew were saved. Mrs. Eilwin L. Riinliek was subjected to merciless examination in Buffalo in quest, reluctantly acknowledged her intrigue with Pennell, but threw no direct light on murder of her husband. Love letters from Pennell were read in court. Announcement is made in New York that George Harvey, president of Harper & Brother.--; lias acquired the publishing and syndicate business of R. 11. Russell and that Mr. Russell is to become asso Ciated with the house of Harper A Brothers. The straits of Mackinac are open end boats can now get through from Lake Michigan to Luke Huron. This is the earliest opening of the straits on record, with the single exception of 1878, just twenty-five years ago, when navigation opened March 15. William Stephen, a Jersey Shore farmer near Williamsport, I’a., used a brace and bit two days ago in making a hayrick. 11 is death is said by the physician to be the result of bis having burst a blood vessel in bis stomach by pressing the brace against bis body too hard. Frank J. Ulrich, representative in the State Legislature from the Sixth District of Brooklyn, N. Y., was probably fatally ■tabbed by William Gettys, n clerk. The men got into an altercation over an alleged insult offered by Gettys to two young women, which Ulrich resented. The Denny block at Pittsburg was damaged by lire to the extent of $150,000. The principal losses were the Thrasher Mercantile Company, G. Dice A Co , Joseph Battaglia A- Brother, Novelty Candy Company, Lavfer & Co., John Murphy A Co., undertakers’ supplies. One man was instantly killed and three others were seriously injured in an explosion at the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad roundhouse at Taunton, Mass. The building was wrecked. An engine used to heat the roundhouse exploded. The dead man is Elisha Chase. Formal announcement of the coming marriage of Catherine Ncilson, daughter of Mrs. Frederick Ncilson, to Reginald Vanderbilt, has been made, the date being Wednesday, April 15. In all probability the event will be solemnized in St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Newport. "No woman who wears a seagull or u song bird in her hat can ever get to heaven," saiil Prof. Dallas L. Sharp of Boston University in a sermon at the First Methodist Church, Boston. "Those who rob the lives of the song bird and the bird of beautiful plumage cannot hope for heaven." Thomas Wilson, aged 11, and Robert Honan, 12 years old, both of Cleveland, Ohio, were found at Erie, Pn., in n Lake Shore freight ear in a famished and nearly unconscious condition. Wilson •aid they were on their way to school In Cleveland when two tramps caught them and locked them in the car. A decrease in the hard coal traffle*is enabling the Heading company to fill the bins at Landlngville, I’a., and other storage yards. The coal shipments over the Reading’s main line have been reduced from ten to seven oars weekly. There is a heavy demand for anthracite In the West, which is being; regularly supplied.

WESTERN.

John Rooney was sentenced to death nt Fargo, N. I)., for the murder of Harold Sweet, n boy, during an attempted hold-up. At their country home between Woodlawn and Glendale, Ohio, while playing with a revolver, Ray Whitehead, aged 7, killed his sister Gertrude, aged 5 years. leo dealers of Toledo and other lake cities have agreed that on April 1 they will advance ice 30 per cent. The advance, they say is duo to the great demand for lake ice in the South. The Milwaukee and Northwestern roads are reported to have entered into an agreement for division of business in connection with their threatened speed war between the twin cities, Milwaukee Chicago. Tra Box, a banker nt Quincy, Oldo, lias assigned to George Hahn and his hank is

closed. The depositors will lose about -*slo,ooo. The assets are estimated at $5,000. A run on the bank is said to have caused the failure. It is rumored in Colorado Springs, where Eugene Field, Jr., and Frederick Comstock Field, sons of the Chicago poet, are visiting, that a comic operir written by their father and lost after his death will be produced in New York next fall. Gov. Bailey, the bachelor executive, is ready to admit that the women of Kansas are persistent. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union all'over the State is petitioning the Governor to hnye water instead of wine used iu christening the new battleship Ivansa's. Gov. Bailey will surrender. Twenty of the twenty-five pastors under jurisdiction of Rev. J. L. Leilich, superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Utah missions, iiave asked his removal to some other field. Rev. Leilich preferred charges of polygamy against Senator Reed Smoot, but these are not mentioned. Union teamsters in Chicago have decided to hold aloof hereafter from the quarrels of other labor unions unless consulted before a strike is called. They say they have grown weary of bearing the burdens of every struggling organization and of “pulling others’ chestnuts out of the fire.” A new street railway company has been organized by 11. E. Buckled of Chicago, M. V. Beiger and J. A. Roper, Mishawaka, Ind., capitalists, and several Elkhart men of wealth. The line will be electric and run between Toledo and Chicago. It is said the road will skirt the St. Joseph river. A Des Moines-Albia passenger train on the Burlington road-tan into an open switch at Knoxville, lowa, and crashed into the rear of a freight train standing on a switch. The engine was badly demolished. Engineer Hiatt, a veteran of twenty-live years’ service on this line, was instantly killed. Ole Oleson was hanged at Aitkin, Minn., for murdering bis daughter, who planned to marry against his wishes. James Ruffin and Jay Green, colored, were hanged at Sioux City, Ark., for the murder of Don McGhee. At Moultrie, G.i J. 11. Bryant, colored, was hanged for killing 1». Buchanan. By an agreement reached at St. Paul Chicago Great Western freight conductors and trainmen are to receive an advance in wages of 15 i*er cent and passenger conductors and brakemeu an increase of 12 per cent. Yardmen in smaller yards will be paid on a basis of 1 per cent less than yardmen at St. Paul. By an explosion of gas in „one of the entries of the Athen Coal Company at Springfield, 111., six men lost their lives instantly and one is seriously injured. The entry bad been choked with gas for oune time, and workmen were engaged in drilling and blasting an entrance into one side of it in order to let in the air. The Missouri Supreme Court has found five large beef packing companies guilty of maintaining an unlawful combination to control prices of meat iu the State of Missouri and issued an order of ouster prohibiting them from doing business in the State and to pay a fine of $5,000 each and bear the costs of the proceedings. Mine, de la Motlie, an opera singer, was seriously injured at Guthrie, Okla., by a shot fired through the car window at which she was sitting on the Rock Island train from the West. The shot cut her arm and broke the glass, the small pieces cutting her face and arms in many places. Mme. de la Nlothe's home is in Chicago. Miss Lillemoe of Erskine, Minn., the daughter of a jeweler, lias been in a trance during the last month. She takes a small quantity of nourishment, but does not regain consciousness fully at any time. The young woman is a pupil of E. Chase, an amateur hypnotist, who is working hard in an attempt to awaken Miss Lillemoe. A Santa Monica electric car was held up a quarter of a mile outside the city limits of Los Angeles, Cal. In a fight between the passengers and three masked highwaymen one passenger was killed, two wounded and one highwayman shot several times, it is supposed fatally. The highwaymen secured no booty. It. A. Griswold of Manson, lowa, was the pas senger killed. The investigation of the Kansas City police department, started by charges of crooked work filed by City Jailer Todhunter before the board of police commissioners, has already developed sensational disclosures, and will be pushed. Todhunter in his testimony declared that the jailers have made a practice of taking money from prisoners who have nuy service rendered them, and also have regularly taken money from a lawyer for throwing cases his way. Other charges made during the investigation are to the effect that a sergeant and other officers at the Central station have stolen from drunken prisoners. Qn his way home from school 8-year-old Clarence Hunimell, son of George Huinmell of Findlay, Ohio, was captured by five schoolmates, forced to accompany them down the Blanchard river outside the city limits mid there, in a secluded spot, was tied to a stake. Preparations for his cremation were being made when the boy’s cries attracted the attention of men employed near the Findlay Hydraulic Press Brick works and he was rescued by them. Young IlummeH's captors had witnessed the production of n sensational play, and in talking it over made plans for the capture and the burning at the stake. A falling wall caught several volunteer firemen at Sheldon, Neb., at 10 o’clock Monday morning. Fred Colby was dragged out alive from beneath the debris. The lire originated Sunday afternoon in the office of a newspaper, and three buildings with their contents were destroyed. The smoldering ruins were fanned into a blaze again Monday morning. and Morris' drug store, Souther land's drug store and Hart's hardware store caught fire. The town being without fire protection more than 800 men, women and children turned out to light the flames, which, aided by a strong wind, threatened the entire business district.

SOUTHERN.

The anti-pool room bill, so amended as to prohibit betting or horse races even nt the tracks where tlie* races are run, was hurried through the Texas Senate and signed by the Governor. f The Nova Bcotin, one of the largest mines owned by the Gauloy Mountain Coal Company at Huntington, W. Vn., is on tire and its complete destruction is

threatened. The entire mountain is smoking. Judge Parker in the trial at Lexington, Ky., of Dr. A. P. Taylor, president of the defunct Industrial Mutual Deposit Company, ruled that fraudulent declaration of excessive dividends was embezzlement. Robbers blew open the vault in the Deposit Bank of Bardwell, Ky., and secured $5,000. The vault is a total wreck. The charge of dynamite was so strong that some of the currency, of which there was $2,500, was burned. The grand jury at Charleston, \V. Va., adjourned after indicting more than 250 miners accused of participating in the battle with deputy marshals at Stanaford, in the hold-up of Deputy Marshal Dan Cummings and in a conspiracy.

FOREIGN.

Plie Rev. William Farrar, dean of Westminster, author and former chaplain of Queen Victoria, djed in London, aged 72. The London police believe that Geoige Chapman, convicted of murder last Thursday, is the notorious “Jack the Ripper.” _ In a London interview “Buffalo Bill” admits that gold has been discovered on one of bis American properties and that he is a multimillionaire. San Domingo, the capital of the Republic of San Domingo, has been captured by the revolutionists after severe fighting, in which many were killed. The Madrid newspapers .again are talking of a marriage between King Alfonso XIII and Princess Louise Francoise, daughter of the Countess of Paris. The London home office officially announces that Mrs. Florence Maybrick, who in 1881) was convicted of poisoning her husband, James Maybrick, -will be released in IDOL The Dutch bark Amicitia, from New York with petroleum, burned at La Itoque. Several lives are .reported to have been lost on board the vessel, which had 700 barrels of oil on board. The town of Surigao, in the Island of Mindanao, has been captured by the ladrones, and troops have been hurried to the place. Constabulary Inspector < larke and several others were killed. The Venezuelan congress voted unanimously not to accept President Castro’s resignation. He declared retirement was planned to remove pretexts for hostility to present government or “connivance with foreigners.” Peace lias been signed between the t ruguayan government and the rebels. The government has sent complaint to Brazil against the invasion of Uruguayan territory by Brazil .forces in the Rio Grande province who joined Uruguayan rebels. The Peruvian government has granted to a local syndicate the concession for an electric overhead trolley railroad with double tracks between Lima and Callao, the principal seaport in Peru. Work on the railroad will be begun within six months and it is to be concluded in two years. The London Times' correspondent at Tangier says that the Sultan of Morocco is disbanding his irregular troops and lias announced officially that the rebellion is ended, but, adds the correspondent, the situation is inexplicable, as the pretender, Buhalara, has not been captured. The correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle at Geneva learns on reliable authority that the former Crown Princess of Saxony is lying seriously ill in her mother’s chateau at landau, on an island in Lake Constance, from the effects of an attempt to commit suicide by taking poison.

IN GENERAL.

Ilentseh's bonded warehouse, containing 10,000 tons of merchandise, was gutted by fire nt Sydney, N\ S. W. The loss is estimated at $2,300,000. Carlos Ezeta, ex-president of the republic of Salvador, died nt Muzatlau, Mexico, in exile, poor and almost friendless. Gov. Canedo paid the Expenses of his burial. The cruiser Atlanta sailed from Pensacola. Fla., for Ilayti to protect American interests. Capt. Turner would make no statement concerning his orders from the Navy Department. General Funston has arrived at Vancouver barracks to assume command of the department of the Columbia, relieving Brig. Gen. Randall, who will start in a few days for the Philippines. English railroad ofliciais, on a tour of the United States, decide the methods in vogue on railroads in this country are too gigantic to be of practical value in operating the lines in Great Britain. Miss Clara Barton is to retire as active head of the American National Red Cross Society; will be succeeded by Rear Admiral William K. Van Iteypen, retired, formerly surgeon general of the navy. The discovery of a rich body of ore has caused a stampede to Parral, Mex. The vein is five feet in width and of unknown depth nnd assays 200 ounces of gold and 2,000 ounces of silver to the ton. The departmental assembly at Panama has elected Jose Domingo Obuldia as cne of the senators for the isthmus. Senor Obuldia is u stanch friend of the Panama cunal treaty and also is a rich landed proprietor. Seven packing concerns purchased last summer by Armour-Swift-Morris interests are merged in t tie National Packing Company, $15,000,00*) capital. The action may In> forerunner of general consolidation of packing interests. The American Window Glass Company lias signed a wage agreement for the coming year. The signing of n scale with the glass blowers relieves all fear that the men will be supplanted by machines in the trust’s factories, nt least sos another year. Wulter E. Iloxte, second m.lte of the steamer America, who was left behind when the Ziegler party sniiod on that vessel for their polar expedition, is plan nlng to make n trip to Hudson hay in a entboat. lie will follow the coast northward ana explore the Labrador coast ■nil the entire Hudson bay const. After a long conference between the trainmen of the western division of the Southern Pacific and the ofliciais of the company u settlement wns readied on abasis of 15 per cent Increase ip the wages of the freight trainmen mid of 12 per cent in the pay of the passenger trainmen. These increases will affect 4,(XX) employes on the division.

BIG STEAMERS CRASH.

• * Dozen Persons Are DrowneA in Long Island Sound. Nearly a dozen men lost their lives end 700 narrowly escaped drowning when two large steamers collided in the fog which hovered over the waters of Long Island Sound Thursday night. The large Fall River passenger steamer Plymouth, from New York for Full River, with 500 passengers and a crew of 200 men, was run down, while passing through the Race, by the freight steamer City of Taunton of the same line, bound from New York. A hundred feet of the starboard sido of the Plymouth was smashed as if it liad been paper, the staterooms of the second cabin were cut away and in the hold members of the crew who were asleep were drowned by the torrent that rushed through the great gap made by the bow of the freighter. Although terrified, the people aboard the ship exercised great self-control and there was no panic. The collision occurred after the vessel had made her way up the sound through the fog until she reached a point east of Gull Island. The City of Taunton came tip and when she was sighted by the officers of the Plymouth was too close to avoid the collision. There was a quick exchange of signals and then the crash. The bow of the City of Taunton penetrated ten feet into the hull of the Plymouth, nnd as she backed away she raked the upper works of the passenger vessel, tearing out the second cabin and ripping the staterooms to pieces. Water poured into the hold and drowned’the men in their bunks. It was thought at one time that the ship’s company would have to tnke to the boat®, but.the closing of the collision bulkheads prevented the water from gaining and the vessel made the harbor and wharf unassisted.

W ORK OF MANY STATE LEGISLATURES

The State civil service bill, with its referendum rider, went to third reading Thursday for final vote some time the following week. Efforts to take off the referendum section failed, and with that effort, desire to amend, it further ended. The House passed the supreme judicial reapportionmerit bill. This is the bill which changes the fourth Supreme Court district so as to make it a Republican district. Judge Carter, who sits on the Supreme bench from that district, is a Republican, and his term expires this year. The game bill, which practically all of the sportsmen’s associations . and hunting clubs have been working for, had to run for its life from amendments. Over in tlie Senate Chicago park bills were to the front, several of them relating to South Park affairs having been passed. The affairs of the Chicago drainage board and the State canal were up in Senate and House committees, and the work done indicated breakers ahead for the drainage board. At the opening of the Assembly session Thursday morning Mr. Ray moved that tlie vote by which the 19S, authorizing county boards to appropriate not to exceed SIO,OOO for soldiers and sailors’ monuments without submitting the question to vote of the people, was non-con-curred in. be reconsidered. The motion carried. GO to 34. Mr. Ray then moved concurrence in the bill. After' over an hour’s discussion the bill was concurred in, 57 to 39. The anti-cigarette bill, prohibiting the sale or importation of cigarettes into the State, was reported favorably for passage by the committee on health and sanitation with an amendment providing that in case the line for violating the law is not paid punishment shall be by imprisonment from thirty to ninety days. Mr. Cady objected to the passage of the bill exempting pianos and organs from taxation. He could hot see why musical instruments should be exempt any more than a pig or a cow. Mr. Timlin spoke for the bill, referring to his experience as an nssessor in Milwaukee, pointing out that it was only the poor people who paid the tax on such instruments. Mr. Doolittle, for the committee, said the bill did not create an additional exemption. The bill was passed by a vote of 70 to 22. The Senate passed a number of bills of varying degrees of importance. Friends of the proposition to exempt mortgage and land contracts from taxation won a decided victory in the Senate Wednesday afternoon, the Kelly bill for that purpose being passed, 17 to 10, Just enough to put the measure through. The principal fighters against the bill were Senators Lockerby, Weeks and Scripps, and there was some warm discussion in committee of the whole. The Ilosse got down to business In good shape, passing a number of local bills, and putting through on third reading ten bills, which measures were agreed to In committes of the whole Tuesday. One of the results of rushing local bills throug without reading them, simply becauso the member or Senator from the district affected says the bill is all right, Is that some wonderful things in way of verbiage arc given the sanction of the Legislature. Although many of these measures are drawn by lawyers who ought to know how to preparo a bill, at least'well enough to make sense, many are put through in such a way that they mean nothing.

Legislative Notes.

The Kansas Legislature has adjourned. It had been in session ten days over the constitutional limit. The Missouri Senate passed the bill to assess railroad, telephone and telegraph companies for road tans. By a vote of 15 nays and 14 yeas the Delaware House of Representatives defeated ■ local option bill for the State. Both houses of the Mireouri Legislature’have adopted a resolution requiring all Missouri railroads to furnish free transportation <to State officers.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Tj 77 7~] “Only one distinctly unN6I lOH favorable factor is reported in the business situation, and it exists more in the fear r of what may happen than through anything that has actually occurred. Several strikes arc in progress, but none that seriously hampers industry, although many controversies are threatened and may interrupt trade unless agreements ore reached. Progress has been made in relieving traffic blockades, and deliveries are more prompt, yet railway facilities need njuch extension if they are to keep pace with the nation’s growth.” The foregoing is from the Weekly Trade Review of 11. G. Dun & Co. It continues: Jobbing trade is very large and the advancing season stimulates retail sales in many lines. Reports from the West are especitlly satisfactory; agriculturists making extensive improvements, notably in tlie purchase of the most modern machinery. Buying of spring and summer merchandise is heavy for the interior, and mills are resuming that have long been idle because coke could not be secured. A careful canvass of building operations at the leading cities makes a fair comparison with last year, outside of Chicago, where special conditions caused exceptional activity in 1902; returns are unanimous in disclosing a decrease compared with 1901, which, however, was the banner year in this respect. High Cost of material and wages of labor are undoubtedly retarding influences at the present time. Railway earnings thus far available for March- show an increase of 14. G per cent over last year, and 2G.1 per cent over IDOL Prospects in the iron and steel industry are still conspicuously encouraging. Only two drawbacks of serious importance are seen—railway congestion end labor disputes. The former lias greatly diminished with settled wenther and coke is moved freely to blast furnaces, while pig iron and other products reach their destination with less interruption. Quotations are fully held at Pittsburg, and a large purchase of Bessemer iron for delivery in the last half of tlie year is still under consideration. Some wire products and cast pipe nre advanced in price, and, as many mills are unable to deliver billets for several months, foreign steel is still purchased freely. Pig iron is continually arriving from abroad and finds a ready market. Textile markets are only fairly active, the buying at first hands for home account being on a moderate scale and forward business indifferent, except in the case of a few specialties. Unquestionably the undertone of the cotton goods market is strong. Demand for heavy weight woolens has decreased, most new orders being for the cheaper grades. More cancellations of early orders are reported. Much better conditions prevail In the dress goods market, both as to sta pies and fancies. New England shoe shops report increased sales, western jobbers placing orders for August and September delivery. Leather is more active, and tanaers are not carrying surplus stocks. The Saarket is in a healthy condition. Anetkar general reduction is reported la domestic bides, but foreign dry hides average higher, despite larger receipts. Failures this week numbered 220 in the United States, against 209 last year, and 22 in Canada, against 31 a year ago. Brailstreet’s Grain Figures. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending March 19 aggregate 2,359,598 bushels, against 3,3GG,79G last week, 4,320,304 in this week a year ago, and 3,25G,G44 in 1901. Wheat exports sine® July 1 aggregated 170,046,528 bushels, against 191,494,597 last season and 146,473,063 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 3,407,068 bushels, against 3,257,999 last week, 839,891 a year ago and 2,605,080 in 1901. For the fiscal year exports nre 40,887,258 bushels, against 23,5)94,701 last season, and 141,588.120 in 15)01.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.25; iiogs, shipping ja-adcs, $5.50 to $7.85; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $0.15; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; coni, No. 2,41 cto 42c; oats, No. 2,31 c to 32c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 50c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to sl4-.00; prairie, SO.OO to $12.00; butter, choice crenmery, 25c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, 40c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 white, 37c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.30; hogs, $5.00 to $7.70; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2,00 cty 07c; corn, No. 2, 88c to 89c; oats, No. 2,33 cto 34c; rye. No. 2,47 cto 48c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.10; hogs, $4.00 to $7.70; sheep, $3.50 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 47c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 38c to 39c; rye, No. 2, 57« to 68c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $7.10; sheep, $2.30 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 70c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 45c to 40c; oats, No. 3 white, 88c to 39c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 04c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern,. 75c to 70c; corn, No. 3,42 cto 43c; onts. No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 1,50 c to 52c; barley, No. 2,59 cto 00c; pork, mess, $19.00. ’ Toledo —-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; onts. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 2,52 a to 54c; clover seed, prime, $7.35. Buffalo—Cuttle, eholeo shipping steers, $4.5U to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $7.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $0.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $7.75. New Vwrk—Cattle. $4.00 to $5.55; hogs, $4.00 to $7.15; sheep, $3.00 to $0.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; com, No. 2,51 cto 52*; onts, No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; butter, creamery, 27c to 29c; eggs, western, 13c to 14c.