Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — Page 6

JOT (Jill UOUT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

, /'At Seattle, Wash., the grand jury re*lorned all the indictments which it had .voted during the last two weeks, including those against the Mayor for malfeasance in otllee, (thief of police, justices and other prominent men in the community. In all nineteen indictments were returned. Attorney General Douglass of Minnesota has handed down an opinion In which lie says the State has no recourse at law to prevent the alleged merger of the Duluth, Misenbe and Northern and the Iron Range Railroads by the Rockefellers. lie says |the spirit but not the letter of the law lias been violated. i A sweeping anti-trust law, which applies to labor organizations as well as 'corporations, has passed both houses of /the Texas Legislature. The new bill is an id to combine all the legal virtues of all the anti-trust measures enacted in ffexns Legislatures for the Inst six years 'and eliminates all their objectionable technical provisions. Forrest, McCord, a young barber living Hit Bournviile, Ohio, killed Charity Storis, 20 yearn old, his sweetheart, by cutting lier throat. Then he cut his own throat. ■McCord had been drinking heavily, and lie struck one of his companions with.a tieer bottle. A warrant was issued for Ills arrest. He then went to the Ktorts home, and the murder followed. Three children of Mrs. Susie Spencer, who runs a hotel at Hutchinson, Kail., .were kidnaped the other night. The man Who is thought to have abducted them wns a guest at the place. He became friendly with the children and persuaded the mother to have their pictures taken. •Ho took them to a gallery and then for a drive. The man returned late with the youngest and said the buggy had broken down. He then left and has not been seen since. One dead, seven not expected to live, two missing and seven others so badly burned and disfigured ns to be alines! unrecognizable, wns the terrible result of an explosion in blast furnace “1” of the Edgar Thomson " steel plant of the Carnegie company at Rraddoek, I'a. The name of the dead man is given as John Smith, probably an anglicized form of his proper name. As far as can ho learned the explosion was due to a defect in the electrical equipment of the furnace.

NEWS NUGGETS,

At Duncan, I. T„ fire caused a severe loss to several mercantile buildings and stocks. Frank Robertson, _n negro in jail at Bradley, Ark., charged with arson, was lynched. Roy S. Seimabaugh, aged 22 years, of St. Louis, won a prize of $ 1,000 in a piny writing contest. Fire destroyed the main plant of the Irontnn, Ohio, Lumber Company. Loss 920,000, insurance 911,000. A violent storm which prevailed •at Newport News, Va., for twenty-four hours did much damage ashore and nlloat. Ebenezer ltutliriok, the originator of the tissue paper dress pattern, died at liis home in Brooklyn, lie was 70 years of age. The regency of Crown I’rince Gustaf ended Tuesday, and King Oscar resumed the active direction of the Swedish gov eminent. John Wanamnker has sold Every body’s Magazine to the Ridgwny-Thayr Company, composed of firman J. Ridgtvay, John Adams Thayer and G. \V. Wilder. Junius It, Clay, soil <>f Cassius M. Clay, and one of the largest land owners near Paris, Ky., was accidentally shot and killed by* his wife while they were ut target practice. By a vote of 103 to -IS the Dominion House declared its opinion that to save the youth of the country the manufacture, snle and importation of cigaretteshould be prohibited. Lieut. W. 11. Henderson, F. S. N., who lias been in charge of dredging work in the harbor at Full River, Mass., for the last three months, eommitted suicide by inhaling illuminating gas. Luke James, aged 50, a hotelkeeper at Bonilla, S. D.. threw himself under a Chicago and Northwestern train at Huron and wns instantly killed. It is believed he was temporarily insane. Dr. Richard C. Flower pleaded not guilty at New York to five indictments charging him with grand larceny, but reserved the privilege of withdrawing that pleu and making any motion he saw fit. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company has given notices of a cut of 50 cents a ton in the price of domestic anthracite. There will be no change in the prices of furnace and steam coal. By a vote of 102 to 41 the Dominion Houne of Commons has adopted Mr. Coatigan’s resolution declaring in favor “of home rule for Ireland. Twelve con •ervatlvea voted for the resolution, while two liberals voted against it., Benjamin Gates, alias “Diamond Bonny, ’’ accused of Minneapolis diamond robbery, was arrested aboard a North »rn Pacific train near Helena, Mont. lie bad the index finger of a woman, which he said lie carried for good luck. The Atlantic City life-saving station reports the Norwegian steamship Brighton, Captain KrottUg, from Port Antonio for New Y’ork, stranded off station. The four passengers and twenty two crew were rescued by the life-savers. Court restraint, which since March .'l has prevented a strike on the Wabash Railroad, was removed the other day, when Judge Adams of St. Lmis dissolved the temporary injunction he himself had granted preventing the brotherhoods of locomotive firemen and railroad trainmen from ordering n walkout. The Pennsylvania chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution will build a SIO,OOO clubhouse in Manila for the use of the private soldiers in the United States army. The women will bear the entire coat of the building and the government will maintain it.

EASTERN.

The building occupied by Henry K. Wampolc & Co., manufacturing chemists, Philadelphia, waa damaged SOO,OOO, covered by insurance. - Dr. Richarl C. Flower, against whom there are several indictments charging him with larceny, was admitted to s2<},000 bail at New York. Herman Bowman Esher, of Chicago, n student at Yale, committed suicide in a New Y'ork hotel, supposedly because of worry over business troubles. While, canoeing in the Connecticut river ut Hanover, N. 11., Robert M. Baker and John B. Kenerson. both freshmen in Dartmouth College, were drowned. Fire whfcli originated in the Carthage tissue paper mill caused a loss of SO,OOO to the paper company and $3,000 to the tty ther A I’ringle storehouse ut Utica, N. Y. The Mills A Knight. Company of Boston, one of the oldest printing and book houses in New England, has assigned. Liabilities $01,270, assets nominally about the same. William 11. Santelmann has been regularly reappointed lender of the United States Marine Band at Washington, witli the pay and allowances of a lieutenant of marines. Head of bridge and structural iron workers at New York says labor crisis is at hand and has appealed to President Roosevelt to lend his aid toward averting general strike. Seven of the great cotton mills at Lowell, Mass., have been- Hint down by a strike of their operatives, which number several thousand. They demand a 10 per cent increase m wages. Judge Murphy’s verdict on the Burdick murder at Buffalo, while not openly accusing Pennell with the crime", indicates that lie had the strongest motive for wishing Burdick out of the way. 'Charles G. Quintard, who deserted his family to live? with Miss Alice Bradley, an heiress, at Greenwich, Conn,, jumped into a boat to escape officers of the law, and it is thought he wns drowned, Richard Gay, the only negro in Nunda, N. Y., is dead and has been buried with military honors. Ho was proud of the distinction of having been Gen. Grant’s head cook during the Civil War. Miss Anna Angela George, youngest daughter of the late Henry George, was married at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., to William Churchill Dc Mille of Pompton, N. J., a son of Henry C. De Mille, the playwright. Twenty eases of diphtheria have developed at the Norfolk navy yard among the 1,500 landsmen stationed there in the receiving ships Franklin and Richmond. Both of the receiving ships were placed In quarantine. Escaping from the River Crest. Sanitarium, Astoria, N. Y., a patient supposed to have been Duncan McFarlttn, 33 years old, and a wealthy resident of Philadelphia, dashed into the water near Hell Gate and went down in the running tide. Actors in musical farce, “McFadden’s Flats,” were driven from stage of new Star Theater at New York by 200 members of Clan-iui-Gael and Hibernian orders, who threw rotten eggs and vegetables ut them because of satire on their race. Alfred GWynne Vanderbilt has filed an affidavit in Newport declaring that he had become a citizen of Rhode Island, with a residence at Portsmouth. The certificate was filed in order that it might be presented to the assessors in New Y’ork. Miss Eluora Lockhart, daughter of Charles Lockhart, one of the wealthiest men in Pittsburg, who recently gave each of his five children a present of sl,000,000, was married secretly to William S. Flower of that city. The reason for the elopement is still a mystery. Five of the' striking motormen and conductors of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company were arrested at Waterbary. Conn., on the charge of assault with intent to kill. They are accused of having been concerned in the attack on a trolley car on the Waterville line Feb. 20. Alfred G. Vanderbilt experienced a revulsion of feeling after having sworn off a million assessment to $50,001) and has raised the amount to 9250,0tH). The young millionaire voluntarily appeared before Tax Commissioner Strnsbourgcr in New York and carefully went over his personal estate.

WESTERN.

Diamond* valued at $4,000 were stolen from a Minneapolis jewelry bouse by unknown persons. -Di Arkansas judge granted W. G. Tiffany of New York a divorce from his wife, formerly Mrs. Ysnnga. Elections were held Monday in lowa cities of the second class, politics generally being subordinated to local issues. Cardinal Gibbons lins accepted the invitation to offer the opening prayer at the Bt. Louis fair, us he did at the Chicago exposition. Luther Mays and William Lindsay, farmers of Cumberland, I. T., quarreled over a quantity of squirrels and Lindsay shot Mays dead. A. G. Spading, the Chicago sporting goods dealer, is reported to have become a member of Mrs. Tingley’s Point Loom Theospohlst colony. The night agent of the Santa l’o Kailroad at Cerrillos station, N. M„ was futility shot by two unknown men who robbed the depot. Enraged by the abuse of Newton Green, a city employe of Wichita, Kan.. Georgia Kent ley, aged l't» years, shot him and then killed herself. The Roseville Gas and Oil Company •truck a twenty-barrel producer in entirely new territory on Mayor William Darkness’ farm at Roseville, Ohio. Chicago is to have an afternoon newspaper, run exclusively by women. Its price will be a penny, and the first Itsuc may bo expected in the near future. Eva Pierson of Chicago died in n coach on r. Pennsylvania train near Coshocton, Ohio, from cerebral apoplexy. Hhe wtu on her way back to Germany. Three men wrecked the vault and safe of the State Hank at Greonsburg, Kail., with dynamite and got away with |4<hi. They escaped on a freight train. brands Hurt* and wife were nssassiunted at Ravin, 1. T., each being shot In the breast. Hare was a political leader among the Chickasaw*. The motive of the crime Is- not known. Two masked robber* held up three

men in George Keene’s saloon at East Atchison, Kan., at midnight and after securing SIOO and jewelry locked them in the icebox and escaped in a stolen rig. A. G. Staten lias discovered a rich anthracite coal mines about ten miles south of Havre, Mont. A specimen was sent to a chemical laboratory and pronounced a superior'terade of anthracite. 'Gustavos F. SwifrSJiead of Swift & Co packing industries, died suddenly in Chicago, aged 04 years. He was the originator of the present system of preparing and marketing dressed meats, and multimillionaire. Terry McGovern was knocked out in the eleventh-round by “Young” Corbett in fight for world’s lightweight championship at San Francisco; tire fight was rough throughout, with McGovern constantly clinching. One robber was killed and another wounded in a desperate battle at Bedford, near Cleveland, between n posse of citizens and three armed bandits. A great number of shots were exchanged before the bandits were brought to earth. Alderman Brenner of Chicago! wns held up by three men, armed with revolvers, in broad daylight and robbed of S3OO. His companion, Jacob Ivessner, is also minus a gold ring. The thieves made their escape in the Alderman’s buggy.^ The ‘f>t. Louis exposition dedicatory program has been adopted and will include a military parade on April 30 and dedication addresses by President Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland. Diplomats will be guests on May 1, and Governors on May 2. While playing policeman Hobart Duncan, aged 8, shot and killed a companion, William. Roberts, of the same age, at Wanamnker, Ok. Young Roberts was commanded to halt, refused and a load from a shotgun in Duncan’s hands killed him instantly. A. L. Belding was hanged at Portland, Ore., for the murder July 12, 1902, of his wife, his mother-in-law, Mrs. McCroskey, and Frank Woodward. Jealousy prompted the deed. Will Dorsey, colored, was hanged at Birmingham for highway robbery. Nathaniel Iv. Fairbank, business man, philanthropist and one of the builders of Chicago’s commercial and civic supremacy. died at his residence in that city. Mr. Fairbank htul been seriously ill for a week and his death, though sudden, was not unexpected. Two men were overcome by ammonia fumes, one so completely that he probaably will die, in explosions of carboys of the stuff in a fire which did more than $150,000 damage to the Fulton market, 2 to 20 Fulton Market square, Chicago, and the fifteen concerns occupying the building. East-bound California limited train No. 4 on the Santa Fe ran into the rear end of a freight train standing in the yards at Strong City, Ivan., killing many cattle and injuring three men. The engine of the limited wns badly damaged and five freight cars were crushed to kindling wood. Jacob M. Stnnbery, postmaster at Deavertown, Ohio, has been removed ns the result of an investigation by the department. Staubery in a signed confession admitted that for two years he had been opening letters sent to patrons of the office. Curiosity alone moved him. Nothing wns stolen. As the result of a conference between the officials the Citizens’ Savings and Trust Company and the American Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio, have merged the interests of the two concerns. The capital stock of the united companies will be $4,000,000, deposits $27,000,000, resources $34,000,000. According to a statement by a St. Louis man the world's fair in all probability will be postponed until 1905. 11. M. Leonard, general manager of the Home Life Insurance Company, said he is almost certain this will‘be done on account of tho trouble the management is having securing skilled workmen. Charles Moore and Charles Hibler. 10-year-old boys, arrested for breaking into a jewelry store and stealing gems worth SIOO in Kansas City, have confessed to the police that they belong to a band of ■fourteen boys known as “The Burglars’ Union.” Each member paid weekly dues. Six of the members nre negroes. It is understood that the Appleyard Electric Railway syndicate, which has been operating extensively in southern Ohio, has planned an immense trunk line trolley system, giving a through line from Cincinnati to Cleveland, by way of Columbus, mid from Cincinnati to Toledo, by way of Dayton nml Springfield. It is announced that a combination is forming to take in the rolling mills of the middle West and that Mancie, Ind., is to be the headquarters of the concern. All factories manufacturing bar iron in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin r.tnl Missouri, including mills in Chicago, Mancie, Muskegon, Milwaukee and St. Louis, are named. The new combine will he known as the American Rolling Mill Corporation. South-hound passenger train No. 28 on the Chicago, Burlington nml Quincy, from St. Louis to Quincy, was derailed four miles north of Thompson, 111., an.l twenty persons were injured. The two rear coaches, a Pullman sleeper and a chair car, turned over and immediately caught lire. Trainmen chopped a hole through the bottom of the chair car, through which the passengers were removed. Possibly two fatalities may result. A “double-header” freight crashed into the eaboose of another freight train on the Erie Itnilroad in a cut near Ashland, Ohio, derailing fifteen cars. F. L. Seif and W. 11. Wiuie of Gallon were killed, and Nilfer Evans and Albert Weis, engineers of tlie rear train, were hurt, hut not seriously. The men killed were firemen on the engines of the rear train. They, with the engineers, jumped, but botli of the firemen fell under the trnin and were run over. It is said the wreck wns enur'd by the displaying of n wrong signal.

SOUTHERN.

Joseph Jefferson, the veteran actor, is president of an electric light and power company organized nt West Palm Reach, Fla. / One corporal was killed and three soldiers were hurt by the overturning of n heavy piece of artillery in the drill hall nt Fort Myer, Va., during the regulur drill of the Fourth bnttery of field artillery. Fire of incendiary origin destroyed n row of two-story brick business houses

and moat of their contents at Tyler, Texas, the loss being about $200,000. Representatives from eight States met at Norfolk, Va., and formed a combination of almost all the wooden dish manufacturers in the country. A tornado passed over Clifton Forge, Va., doing great damage, but no loss of life is reported. The track of destruction shows that the tornado came from the southwest and leveled buildings, fences and forests for over a mile. Fire at Mount Sterling, Ivy., destroyed I. F. Tubb’s feed store and damaged the the Wirtle & Lloyd ©pelto House and the stores of Blunt & Nunnelly, T. K. Barnes & Co., Green, Garrett, Sullivan &■ Tooley and the Masonic lodge. Loss $50,000. Gen. William H. Jackson, a noted Confederate cavalry leader and proprietor of the Belle Meade stock farm, died at his home, Belle Meade, near Nashville. He wns G 8 years of age and had been in failing health for more thaa a year and dangerously ill for several weeks. Robert Bruce Lockridge, manager of the track team of Indiana University Athletic Association, was accidentally killed by a ten-pound shot thrown by J. H. Horne, athletic director in the same university. The accident occurred at the training grounds of the Louisville, Ivy., high school athletic team, of which Lockridge was the new coach. Through a crevasse that is described ns the worst in the history of the levee system, a volume of water sixteen feet deep and 200 yards wide has been pouring steadily through the break in the embankment, five miles south of Greenville, Miss. Thousands of acres of the finest sugar lands in the famous Yazoo valley were inundated and the loss will he immense.

FOREIGN.

The Chinese emperor sold 100 offices, in spite of his pledges to seek desirable men for positions of trust. The Empress of Germany was thrown from her horse while riding at Grunewald and her right fore arm was fractured. A dispnteh from Carupano, Venezuela, announces that Herr Meager, the German consul there, has accidentally killed himself. The British House of Lords has passed the prevention of corruption bill, which makes it a penal offense to offer or accept gifts or bribes with the view of influencing business. It is rumored in Danish parliamentary circles that the Danish commission which is now sitting in the West Indies, has sent home most pessimistic views regarding the economic future of the islands if they remain in the possession >f Denmark. Two companies of Macabebe scouts signally defeated the main body of San Miguel’s force near Manila. It is believed San Miguel was killed. Lieut. Reese was seriously wounded. The scoute lost three men killed and had eleven wounded. A serious engagement took place between the Dominican government troops and the revolutionary forces at Juan Calvo, near the town of Bajabon. The losses on the government side were twen-ty-seven killed and forty-three wounded, while the revolutionaries lost five killed and eleven wounded. Two Englishmen, Stair and Wilson, inveigled Kingston Smith, the American nrtist, into Geoffrey-Marie street, Paris, under the pretense of showing him a valuable painting. Confederates of the men gagged and bound Smith, and nfter robbing him of his jewelry and SOOO in cash made their escape. It is reported from Belgrade that one" of the bands formed by the Macedonian leader Sarafoff, consisting of forty men, lias been annihilated, twenty-nine of the insurgents being killed at Vladimirov and the remainder at Podareshe. At Itaslowzi, near Serres, thirteen revolutionary Macedonians have been killed by a Turkish force.

IN GENERAL.

William Nichol, James McLellen, Hugh McCallum amj. 11. Boulton were drowned in Bass Lake, near Owen Sound, Ontario, while fishing. The Sultan of Turkey lias asked Miss Alice Roosevelt to christen the Ottoman cruiser Medjidia when that vessel is launched from the Cramp yard in May. Advices have been received at Washington that Cuba at her own expense intends to raise the wreck of the battleship Maine and that bids for the work will be called for. The treaty of reciprocity between Cuba and the United States as amended by the Senate of the United States was approved in the Cuban Senate by a vote of 12 to 1). This approval is absolute and is not hampered by any conditions. The sailing steamers Virginia Lake and Aurora arrived nt St. John's, N.’ F., from the ice fields with 48,000 seals. They report a total of 238,000 seals for two-thinW'W the fleet nnd this year's catch is likely to reach 300,000 seals altogether. After having devoted six months to the duty of selecting n general secretary to succeed J. Willis Baer, the committee of sixteen trustees of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, appointed for the purpose, have chosen for the oflice Von Ogden Vogt of Beloit, Wis. Oflidal investigation of gold fields iu the Tanana district of Alaska is snid to have disclosed that the region is richer in the precious ore than the Klondike nnd the area included is grenter. It is the output of gold this year will amount to $20,000,000. The management of the Lake Shore lias decided to four-track the system from Chicago to Buffalo, thereby establishing n four-track line from Chicago to New York. Nearly 400 men are already at work on the improvement, and within a short time fully 2,000 will he employed. C. M. Waters of Denver, Colo., has been designated by Acting Postmaster General Wynne to take charge of the salary and allowance division of the l’ostofflce Department ns the temporary successor of George W. Beavers, resigned. Mr. Waters has been for several years an assistant to Mr. Reavers. Canada is to have another transcontinental railway. Its terminal will be at Quebec in the east and Port Simpson, B. C., in the west. The road will run parallel with the Canadian Pacific, hut will be from 200 to 400 miles farther north, traversing the very heart of Canada, through the wheat and pulp wood belt.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

i, ~ i, ! “Irregularity in retail New York, trade is due t o weather conditions. At most points an early season stimulates business, but in other sections there has been interruption from excessive rains. More uniform activity is reported in wholesale trade, with a notably largo movement of groceries, millinery, paper and builders’ materiafs, while conditions are satisfactory for the season in jewelry. Manufacturers of clothing, furniture, footwear and iron and svt'eel are well engaged, ample supplies of fuel greatly facilitating operations, hut extensive strikes threaten to render, idle many New England textile mills.” The foregoing is from the Weekly Trade Review of R. G. Dun & Co. It continues: The cut of spruce lumber has been large, but early breaking up of winter restricted movement and high cost of labor and provisions rendered ojieratious expensive. Early opening of lake navigation will benefit business, and the railway traffic embargo will be removed. Earnings of railways thus far reported for March exceed last year's by 12.8 per cent and surpass those of 1901 by 22.9 per cent. An output of about 300.000 tons of coke in the whole Conuellsville region for the last week indicates that fuel troubles are almost ended in the iron and steel industry. Quotations are sustained by the vigorous home consumption, and there is the additional support of stronger markets abroad. Work is resumed on bridg<*s and buildings wherever the places of strikers can be filled, and several contests in this department have been averted. A large opening trade in pipe has been followed by liberal supplementary orders, jobbers renewing contracts extensively, and prices are well maintained. Sharp competition for business in bar iron has caused a slightly lower level of prices, while plates and sheets are firmer, especially in galvanized lines. A prominent feature of activity is found in merchant steel for agricultural implement works and wagon factories, these orders running far into the future. Oversold conditions at rail mills are sending urging orders abroad. No improvement has appeared in the dry goods market. The situation is peculiarly complicated as to cotton goods; stocks ahe light as a rule and labor troubles threaten to curtail output, yet jobbers arc reluctant to undertake contracts at present quotations. Meanwhile producers are in no position to make concessions, and a dull market is the result. Dullness is reported in woolen goods, with new business on a limited scale. Cancellation of early orders has become a serious problem, many mills that had disposed of their product for the season now seeking business. Jobbers nre piachrg large orders for fall delivery of shoes, readily paying the recent advance in prices, and manufacturers of heavy goods have booked more business than is customary at this early date. Leather is quiet, but low stocks nffimtain prices. At last the turning point has been reached in domestic hides, and prices have steadied, which is due to the somewhat better condition of receipts. Failures this week numbered 214 in the United States, as against 205 last year, and 20 in Canada, against 22 a year ago. Bradstreet’a Grain Figures. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending March 20 aggregate 2.401.987 bushels, against 2,395,598 last week, 2,904,110 in this week a year ago and 4,494,335 in 1901. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 172,448,815 bushels, against 1114,398,707 last season and 150,907,098 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 3.018,210 bushels, against 3,072,008 last week. 139.205 n year ago and 3,582,943 In 1901. For the fiscal year exports are 44.505,408 bushels, against 24.133,900 last season and 145,171,003 in 1901.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to* $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $5.50 to $7.55; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $0.85; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2,40 cto 42c; oats, No.'2, 31c to 33c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c; liny, timothy, $8.50 to $14.00; prairie. SO.OO to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 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 $7.35; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 white, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.25; hogs, $5.00 to $7.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.30; wheat, No. 2,07 cto 08c; com. No. 2, 88c to 39c; oats, No. 2,81 cto 32c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $7.40; sheep, $3.50 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; com, No. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 37c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 57c. Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $7.45; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 3 white, 37c to 38c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 54c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 74c to 70c; corn, No. 3,39 cto 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 1,50 c to 52c; barley, No. 2,00 cto 02c; pork, mess, SIB.OO. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $7.12. Buffalo—Onttle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $7.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $0.25; lambs, common to $7.90. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs. $4.00 to $7.25; sheep, $3.00 to $0.00; wheat, No. 2 red, ,77c to 78c; corn, No. 2,60 cto 61c; oats, No. 2 white, 41c to 42c; butter, creamery, 27c to 29c; eggs, western, 13c to 15c.

Music that Strains the Clothing.

The standard of muaical excellence ▼tries according to differences of taste, nationality and occupation. Mia. Umblatter, whoso husband waa the director of a Now York orchestra, hat a standard of her own, which ahe did not hesitate to confess to one of her neighbors. “What operas does yonr husband like to play best?” asked the visitor, a friendly and well-meaning person. “That I know not,” Bald the wife* busily darning an old shirt, “but this I know: Whateffer he likes, I like not the Wagner operas. For the sound they are good enough, but for the clothes—ach! he neffer yet comes home from any of those Wagner operas that he has not torn a place in bis poor old shirts. When the cloth is weak and has been often tended one prefers the Italian operas always.”

One Answer for All.

Lancaster, N. Y., March 80.--Post-master Reiners Is still in receipt oi many letters asking If hie cure has held good. It wilt be remembered that 6omr time ago tlio particulars of far. Rem ers’ case were published in foese col tunns. Ho had been very low with Diabetes. Physicians could do nothing to save him and he grew worse and worse till someone recommended Dodd's Kidney Tills. A treatment of this remedy was begun and when eight boxes had been taken Mr. Renters be gan to see an Improvement which continued as the treatment proceeded till he was completely restored. Ho has since enjoyed perfect health and Is as robust and able a man as uny in Lancaster. Interviewed the other day, he said: “Many people wrote to me when the story of my case was first printed and some write to me yet, asking if the cure was only temporary and If thediabetes has returned. I have only one answer to everybody. Three rears ago I was very low with Diabetes. The best physicians failed to help me and Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured me. I am well and strong and have not bad the slightest return of the old trouble.”

Inconsistent.

Father—Come, young man, get you! coat off and come with me to the woodshed. Johnny—You’re not going to lick me, »re you, dad? Father—Sure. Didn’t I tell yon this morning I would settle with you for your »ad behavior? Johnny—Yes, but I thought it was only a joke, like when you told tbo batcher and grocer you was going to lettle with them.

Many School Children Are Sickly.

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Plausible Theory.

She—l understand you nre a great aoyel reader. He— Yes, Indeed; I have read over a hundred novels during the past six months. She—That probably accounts for it. He—Accounts for what? She—Y’our ability to talk fiction.

Broke the Record of Ages.

Mr. F. Lat—Just performed the greatist feat of the age. Mr. S. U. Burban—What’s that? Mr. F. Lat—Dropped my collar button, and saw where it fell.

PUTNAM FADELESS DYES color more goods, per package, than others.

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