Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — Page 2

M If BUM p. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, ♦ - INDIANA.

AROUND THE WORLD

Mr*. Colgate Hoyt’s $25,000 pearl necklace, winch was lost April 2, wan h.' tntarned to her in New York by Miss Harriett Schade, who aays she was paid but SIOO of the SSOO reward offered for ' Its return. Mias Schide is a young tsulesI woman. John Gurtmann, n young man. whose home is in Winona, Minn., wa* instantly killed by lightning while plowing near Albert Lea. He was about half way across the field when a thunderbolt if atruek him, killing him and his four horses instantly. Henry C. King was formally inaugurated as president of Oberliu College, Oberliu, Ohio, the principal feature of the ceremonies being the inaugural prote.’skiu, which consisted of about 3,000 persons, the majority of whom were students and alumni. The New York police found floating in the North rirer I lie "body of Mrs. Mary Augusta Harper Lynde, daughter of James Harper, founder of the Harper publishing house and widow of Charles R. Lynde, who died some time ago, leaving her a large fortuue. Compressed powder will be substituted for black powder ill the ignition charges of the guns of the vessols of the North Atlantic aquadron which are now repairing at the New York yard. This chnngc Is made to avoid the smoke encountered iu the use of black powder. George A. Kolb, business manager of the Marine Engineers’ Association, who mysteriously disappeared from New York, was located in San Francisco. He said lie remembered nothing from the time he left New York until lie reached El Faso on the westward journey. in n collision in Lake St. Clair the new steel steamer S. .1. Keefe, on her first trip from Buffalo to Duluth with a cargo of coal, was almost sunk, while barge No. 130 of the steel trust fleet was ripped open for forty feet. The damaged barge was towed to I’ort Huron iu safety. No one was injured. The strike of dock laborers at Valparaiso, Chili, is becoming more serious. The strikers after setting fire to the quay ns well as to the offices of the Roulli American Steamship Company hud a number of encounters with the police, during which ten persons were killed and 200 were Injured. John Haley, engineer, was killed in a wreck on the Cleveland, Cincinnati,- l.’hiengo and St. Louis Railroad at Ivorydale, near 'Cincinnati. Tin* Southwestern limited ran into an open switch, striking a switching engine on the sidiug. The two engiueea were badiy damaged and the baggage car was derailed. The 6,000 employers of labor in Kansas City have banded together to fight the members of labor unions who use the boycott to gain their ends and have organized “The Employers’ Association.” The association decided to refuse to deliver goods to places where non-union men or non-union made goods are discriminated against. J. B. Ficker, nil Adams Express employe, and four fellow employes in Cincinnati, William Eberle, Louis Burbank and William, are dangerously il|'from drinking liquor which they supposed was whisky, forwarded from Memphis and addressed to Kate N'obbe, of Cincinnati. The liquor was found to be arsenic and whisky. In Jacksonville, Fla., the recent rain culminated in a cloudburst, and as a result one square mile of the city was under water. Many citizens awoke to find their homes stir-rounded by water, and every railroad track entering the fity was flooded. The flood Joss is estimated at $-100,000. The rainfall for twentyfour hours is 8.41 inches. The chtbs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. New York.. 15 r. Cincinnati ... 11 12 Chicago ....16 H Brooklyn ....10 12 Pittsburg ...18* 10-St. Louis..... 7 17 Boston .....10 10 Philadelphia. 6 16 Following is the standing of the clubs iu the American League: W. L. W. L. Chicago .., .12 7 Detroit 9 10 Philadelphia. 13 8 New York... It 10 Boston .....10 10 Cleveland ... 7 !> St. Louis.... 8 8 Washington.. 6 12

BREVITIES.

Six Morns attacked Oapt. Pershing's rear guard near Lake I.nnau, in Mindanao, slightly wounding Lieut. Haggles. The guard pursued and killed all six-. President Roosevelt lias tendered to Frederick W. Hulls of New York the liositiou of umpire to net in the settlement of the claims of Germany and Italy again.«t Venezuela. The directors of the Chemical National Bank of New York elected W. 11. Porter, formerly vice president of the bank, president to fill the place caused bjr the death of President G. G. Williams. Money is being collected in Georgia to lie aeut to Miss Louise Hadley, the Indianapolis chambermaid who lost her position at the Hotel English beeau c she refused to make the bed occupied by Booker T. Washington. The President has appointed M. H. Backett. an editor of Gouvenenr. N. Y., to be United States consul at Prescott, Oat. He takes the place of Consul G. V. Anderson, wjio is transferred to the consulate at Durango. Mexico. Peter Stanrley died at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, at the age of 110 years, afte» an illness of seven weeks. He is survived by a widow 100 years old, tq whom he had been married eighty-five years. He was the oldest man in Ohio. W. T. Keith, an attorney of Dalhart. Texas, was shot and killed by George F. Kornegay, editor of the Bnu. ns a res’ suit of a quarrel over an article concenir _ lug Keith printed in the Sun. In the ~ fight Keith fired at Kornegay without effect. Kornegay fled after the shooting. Judges Dickinson and Day of the District Court in Omaha, signed a restraining order against the Waiters’, Cooks’ gad Bartenders' Uaioh, npou application of the Restaurant. Men’s Association. The order restrains the men from posting pickets, threatening or intimidating, ««.

EASTERN.

The Hartlan Paper Company’s plan at Middleport, N. Y., tvaa destroyed by Are. The loss is estimated at $50,000. Gov. Odell of New York has signed a bril which makes it unlawful for labor unions to discriminate against the State militia. The bill granting women the right to vote in Connecticut was rejected in the House of Representatives by a vote of 105 to 00. Mary Baker G. Eddy has given SIOO,000 and laud valued at $20,000 for the erection of a Christian Scientist church at Concord, N. 11. The body of Charles G. Dennison, of Chicago, who disappeared from Buffalo March 18, has been found in Niagara River near the falls. * All cities and many towns in New Hampshire voted ih favor of liquor license, taking advantage of the recent repeal of, the prohibition law. What is intended to he one of the largest hotels in the world will he the Sulus Court, which will be erected ut a cost of $3,000,000 at Saratoga. N. Y. Walter Wellman finds a general belief among financiers of New York that prosperity will continue for years, as predicted recently by .1. P. Morgan. Police Inspector Gross of New York was dismissed from the force by Commissioner Greene. Gross was tried recently on charges of neglect of duty. # The Pennsylvania diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church placed itself on record by an overwhelming vote as opposed to a change in the name of the church. Charles VV. Rlierrerd, of Scranton, Pa., member of the senior class of Rensselaer Institute, Troy. N. Y’., was drowned by the upsetting of a boat in the Hudson River. Major John Mills of the corps of engineers has been designated to build the road authorized by the last session of Congress into .Mount ltanier National Park, Washington. Three deaths and live serious cares of cerebro-spina! meningitis are reported on naval receiving ships Minneapolis and Puritan, .at Philadelphia; 1,200 recruits have been exposed. The convention of the American McCall Association ut Hartford, Conn., elected Mrs. Charles 11. Park hurst of New Y’ork as president and .1. V. Farwell of Chicago as vice-president. George 11. Rigby of Philadelphia paid $2,100 for the original manuscript of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Bells.” It is the most important Poe manuscript in existence, there being none of "The Raven.” Charles 11. Smith, Springfield (Mass.) hostler who claimed to have inherited $2,000,000, is missing after ordering on credit a S6OO piano for Mrs. Timothy Dooley, his betrothed, and bargaining for SIO,OOO farm. While walking with Mrs. Margaret Kountz John Walsh, a wealthy Pittsburg contractor, was shot dead by the woman’s husband, Walter P. Kountz. Mrs. Kountz was also seriously wounded. She may recover.

WESTERN.

Forty-five German farmers who are touring ther United States to study agriculture arrived at St. Louis, Suit was filed at Cincinnati asking for a receiver for the McFudden-Weiss Oil and Gas Company, a Texas corporation. A. I), Davidson, of Duluth, ami his associate* have closed a deal for 3.000,000 acres of Canada land, paying $12,000,000. Localise her sister refused to comb her hair, Ona Mason, a 13-.vear-old Cleveland girl, committed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. Children in two of the parochial schools at Omaha, Neb., struck for shorter hours. The movement may spread to public schools. W. I’erry was killed by bis brother, G. I>. Perry, during n family quarrel at their home Hear Vanndale, Ark. He was exonerated before the County Judge. ltev. H. S. Bigelow, of Cincinnati, defends Sunday baseball, holding that a laboring man who is busy all week observes Sabbath by finding recreation., Ail unknown Cleveland member of the Knights of Cohmtbus has added $4,000 to the SI,OOO offered for the arrest of the slayer of Agatha Relelilin at Lorain, 0. Strikers at Omaha secured an injunction against the business men forbidding them to boycott union men or to hold meetings to conspire against the meu now out. The head and arm of n woman were found floating in the Yellowstone River, near Gardner, Mont;, leading to the belief that a murder was committed in Yellowstone Park. The Chicago, Indiana and Michigan Traction Company, capital sboo,ooo, was Incorporated at Indianapolis. Au independent trolley line with Chicago as its terminus is being built. In a quarrel at Cincinnati over a trivial matter btweeu William Khrtloy and John Henry, yming colorcd laborers, who were roommates, Henry stabbed and killed Easterly. Henry escaped. Frank C. Kearney threw two ounces of carbolic acid into his wife’s face on the .street in St. Louis and escaped puras«£ Msfcarcc! "!* ut , the face and neck and one arm. Orte man was kiiled, another, fatally crushed and a third badly hurt in a street car collision on tlie road to Euclid beach, Cleveland. The dead man’s name is Galvin and his home is in Cleveland, A four-story brick building at San Fraucisco, occupied by the American Milling Company, of which Charles riaunieist«r is the chief owner, was destroyed by tire. The loss Is SIOO,OOO. Lynching of three negroes at Fremont. Ohio, for the murder of Otto Misehke and wounding of Albert Gotnmoll was prevented by Sheriff Mascn, who for two hours defied the mob at the jail doors. Captain Frauk Pennell, chief of police of Quebec, Canada, died oq a Wabash train between Toledo and St. Ixiuis. while on his way to New Orleans to attend the convention of chiefs of police. The St, Louis and San Francisco Railroad system, with 4.000 miles of track, has been bought by the Rock Island; SOO in 5 per cent ten-.vear bonds at 100, and SOO in Rock laland common shares paid. Profeasor T. F. Hunt, dean of the College of Agriculture of the Ohio State University, has accepted the profeasor■bip of agronomy in the college of agriculture of Cornell Univwsity, ItV>ca, N. Y. In a baseball game between Cedarville

College and Wilberforce University at the Wilberforce grounds, not far from Springfield,. Ohio, Charles Glenn, center fielder for the Cedarville team, wa* fatally injured. } Twenty thousand workmen are idle In Chicago because of strikes; 6,000 Deering harvester works employes out and 1,100 at Lassig iron wotks; 1,200 National Biscuit employes locked out; 1,000 ( electrical workers quit. , j The Federal Salt Company lias been 1 convicted in the United States Court at Ran Francisco on the maintaining a monopoly. The dgefston marks an important victory for the government under the Sliermau anti-trust law. Dr. Albert Alonzo Ames, four times Mayor of Miuueapolis and central figure in the system of "graft” that held sway in that city during 1001 and 1002, was found guilty of accepting a bribe of S6OO. The jury deliberated for twenty-four hours. ° A distinct earthquake shock was felt in the Grand Valley of Colorado. The shock lasted several seconds and seemed to travel from the northwest to the east and the southeast. Tills is the first seismic disturbance on the western slope in many years. The body of J. Bert Sin Her, a writer of sonic note, was found in the woods cast of Ivendnllrille, Ind., with a bullet in the head. 11l henlth was the supposed cause of suicide. His former home was at Kalamazoo and he once was editor of a Galesburg, Mich., paper. After being held for a month iu connection with the disappearance of Mrs. F. E. Knight, Mrs. Lucinda Dusenbury and her son Melvin were released ou SSOO bonds at Omaha, Neb. i'he police have found no trace of Mrs. lvuight’s body. Knight is still at large. President T. C. Dupont of the Wilmington, Del., powder firm of E. I. Dupont, Do Namours & Co., aud head of the combination of eastern powder concerns. has been in San Francisco trying to add to the eastern amalgamation the powder companies of California. Rhollenbarger Brothers’ livery barn and the Bijou Theater were destroyed by fire at Hamilton, Ohio. A number of fine horses were cremated. Several actresses were rescued from sleeping apartments above the theater. The loss is $30,000, with insurance of SIO,OOO. Jesse Morrison, convicted of killing Mrs. 01 in Castle three year# ago at Eldorado, Kan., and sentenced to twentyfive years’ imprisonment, must serve her sentence, according to an opinion handed down by the Supreme Court, which affirmed the decision of the trial court. Clay Taylor, alias Prof. Pluttc, was arrested at Ran Jose, Cal., for supposed designs upon the life of the President. He has served three terms in prison. It is alleged that lie wrote to the President, advising him not to visit Sun Jose. He U also act-used of recent anarchistic utterances. Dr. Robert M. Hartman, professor of chemistry in the Colorado School of Mines, is dead and C. Darwin Test, an instructor in the same branch, is in a serious condition as the result of asphyxiation by fumes of hydro-sulphite in the experiment room while endeavoring to repair the machinery by which the acid is made. At Topeka the Kansas Supreme Court a dinned the sentence of bigamy of James S. Pendleton, alias Coda S. Lorris, a Missouri man who went to Oklahoma, wrote to his wife over an assumed name that her husband was (lead, had a cake of ice buried in a coffin as Pendleton, then went to Emporia and married a young girl. Twenty persons were injured, a few seriously, in a collision between two south-bound electric cars at West Fortythird and Hoisted streets, Chicago. One woman was taken from the wreck into a shoe store. It is feared she is fatally injured. Others were thrown about the cars and sustained injuries from broken limbs and bruises. The “water cure” is being used on patients in the Kansas State Insane asylum at Topeka. The fact was brought out before the committee appointed by the Legislature to investigate alleged scandals in the asylum. A sheet is tied over the head of the obstreperous patient, he is thrown and water is poured on his head until he gives up. Thirty thousand people assembled in Kansas City Convention Hall Sunday afternoon to hear the first absolutely free public concerts the Theodore Thomas Orchestra ever , gave. Arthur E. Stillwell. president of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad, bought the hall for the two concerts and threw open its doors to the general public. Isom Donnell, another of the Indianapolis grave robbers, pleaded guilty uud received a sentence of one to three years. When the judge'said to him that, as he was 33 years old, he would have to go to Michigan City mid would not be able to see Rufus Cantrell, he replied: “I’ve seen too much of Cantrell already.” Cantrell and Donnell are cousins. - Chief Justice Sullivan, of the Nebraska Supreme Court, lias signed an order suspending the sentence of Mrs. Lena Lillie until her ease can be reviewed by the Supreme Court, which will probably be in September. In the meantime she will remain in the Butler County jail. Mrs. Lillie Was convicted of murdering her husband ami given a life sentence. Third'll failure, Tu which the debts originally amounted to nearly $1,000,000 and which for years has occupied the attention of the courts, was closed in Cincinnati by the announcement that $15,000 remained to be distributed. ThD was obtained from sureties ou the bomh of John B. Mannix, the original assignee, who himself became a bankrupt while administering the assignment.

SOUTHERN.

The Virginia Senate voted to remove Judge Campbell, of Amherst, on thecharge of cowhiding Rev. Mr. Crawford. Southern passenger ’train No. 12 jumped the track one jpile west of White Pine. Teim. Engineer Robert B. Holloman of Knoxville was crushed to death. Armed and masked men, under threats of death, have forced a negro rural mail carried near fiallatin, Tcnti.. to resign his position. The government may abandon the route. >. A portion of the kitchen of the State pVl.oa at Flat Top .Mines, twenty-five miles from Birmingham, Ala., burned and nine convicts escaped. Going to the railroad station, the convicts robbed the telegraph operator and left him tightly bound. A report reached Wire.her ter. Ky., frbm Jackson that B, >. Ewen was ' ' " 3 .■*

assassinated from ambush. Eweu wa* standing in the court house door with J. B. Marcum when the Tatter was killed, and it has been said recognized the assassin. There was a race riot in St, Tammany parish, about fifty milesrfrom New Orleans. An insolent negro was beaten with an ax handle by a white grocery clerk. The negroes armed and a pitched battle with white citizens followed, in which four negroes, one of whom was the aggressor, were killed. ' In a street duel at Yazoo City, Miss., between T. A. and E. M. Kelly on one aide and It. F. Birdsall, editor of the Yazoo Sentinel, and his two brothers-in-law, Gibbs and Doyle Dorsey, on the other, T. A. I&ll.v was instantly killed and his brother dangerously wounded. Doyle Dorsey was fatally shot and died later. A telegram from Chief of Police C. W. Austin, Birmingham, Ala., to Chief Mathew Kelly, of St. Louis, stated that E. J. Arnold, turf investor, was in that city. Chief Iveily immediately jvired back to place Arnold under arrest. Arnold was the proprietor of one of the get-rich-quiek investment companies which failed several months ago.

FOREIGN.

The striking engineers of the Greenock district, Scotland, resolved to resume Work. The projected naval program of Japan proposes the expenditure of $5,150,000 a year for ten years. Ritsria announces that all Maucliuria is now open to foreign travel and passports are no longer, necessary. Mwanga, the former king of Uganda, is dead. Ilis death was caused by rupture of ail aneurism, or soft, pulsating tumor. A syndicate of American firm?, with a capital of $500,000, is erecting a factory at Osnabrueck, Prussia, tor the manufacture of photographic paper*. Telegrams from Liverpool say the displacement of the new twenty-five-knot Cunard line steamers will be 32,000 tons and it will have 63,000 horse power. France, Austria and Russia have warned the Sultan of Turkey that they will not tolerate stern measures against Bulgaria oil account of the Salonica outrages. In honor'of C. A. Conant, financial expert, the people of the Philippines have given the name of “Conants” to the new silver pesos that are being coined by the United Rtates. The Portuguese government Is negotiating with London financiers for a loan of £3.000,000. The money will be used mainly in the consolidation of the public debt of Portugal. New Cliwang, Manchuria, and Liao river forts have been reoccupied by Russians; heavy guns are brought by squadron and provisions orde'red; vigorous opposition by United States eeems likely. It is reported in Panama that the Panama Canal Company lias offered the Colombian government $12,000,000-of the $40,000,000 the company receives from the United States government for the property. Dispatches from Monastir state that Turkish soldiers and bashi bazouks have joined the Mussulman populace in the neighborhood and are killing Christians in cold blood. Houses are deserted and all shops are closed. The Italian b'arkentine Vera Cruz bound from Cape De Verde Islands to New Bedford, Mass., is stranded at Oeracoke Inlet, near Hatteras. More than •100 Portuguese immigrants have been landed by the Portsmouth life-saving crew. Captain Pershing’s column has defeated the Sultan of Ampnruguno’s strong force of Moros in the Taraca country, on the east shore of Lake Lanao, Island of Mindanao. The Americans captured ten forts. One hundred and fifteen Moros were killed.

IN GENERAL.

Dun's Review of Trade rays unrest in the ranks of labor is checking big industrial undertakings. Twenty-five millions will be added to the world’s gold supply by the clean-ups now in progress in the Klondike, Forty Mile, Atlin and Nome districts. Lillian Nordica and Edouard De Reszke announce that they have blacklisted Atlanta, Ga., because of alleged indignities heaped upon them and their friends by the “smart set” of the city. Ottawa, Ont., was damaged $600,000 by fire and 2,000 persons made homeless through failure'of water supply because of damaged main; area one mile long was swept bare and disaster of 1900 nearly duplicated. Postmaster General Payne has dismissed A. W. Machen, superintendent of the free delivery system, appointing M. C. Fosnes to the position. The system also passes under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. David, Mills, justice of the Supreme Court and former Minister of Justice In tl)e Laurier government, died suddenly at Ottawa, Ont. It is thought that the bursting of a blood vessel was the cause of death. He was in his seventy-first fear. ' \\Hliis Sweet of Cocttr d’Alene, Idaho, has been appointed Attorney General of Porto Rico to succeed James S. Harlan, who recently resigned. Mr. Sweet was at one time associate justice of the Territory of Idabo„and later represented''bis State in Congress. Twelve men, imprisoned in a derailed work train on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, were either killed outright or burned to death in the debris near Port Arthur, Out. Eight others were fearfully burned and some of them will die. The train was running at high speed when it was derailed, presumably by the breaking of an axle. With a determination that finds no counterpart in fiction, Simon Jacobs wandered over the face of the earth for-ty-five years in the search for his two lost daughters. He was 74 years old and he died in St. Joseph witkput accomplishing the one object of bis life. Jacobs claimed New York City as kis home, where his wife died and hia children were stolen. The committee representing the keepers of the Chinese gambling honses in Honolulu baa been placed nuder arrest, charged with attempting to bribe Deputy Attorney General Andrews to permit fonr games of paka pio to be run without molestation. Andrew* arranged a meeting with the gamblers and concealed witnesses, who heard the offer of $6,000 a month made if Andrews would permit the conducting of gambling houses. v ' ■ 1 , ' - -H

BIG DYNAMITE PLOT.

infernal machine designed TO SINK GREAT SHIP. Box Found with Explosive to Bo get Free bj Clockwork—Motive Declared to Be to Drive Every British Steamer from the Fort. Through the* discovery at New York of an infernal machine set to explode 100 pounds of dynamite within thirty-six hours, a plot concocted by the Mafia to blow up the Atlantic liner Umbria in midocean was frustrated. The machine wag in a box the size of a small trunk and it consisted of three sets of clockwork nnd 100 pounds of dynamite. It was delivered at the pier by two Italians and the machinery was in motion when discovered forty-five minutes before the Umbria sailed for Europe. The attempt to blow up the Umbria is said to be part of a conspiracy to wreck all the English owend steamships on the New Y’ork run. ____ The infernal machine was discovered through a letter mailed at the general postofflee with a' special delivery stamp on it, addressed to Captain Piper, the deputy police commissioner. The letter said the Mafia was behind the plot. Although the letter was signed, Captain Piper thought the warning a hoax. He decided to take no chances, howSver, and reported the matter to Inspector McClusky, who sent Detectives McCarthy and Farley to the Cunard pier, McClusky also telephoned to Detective Gleason, who is stationed there, and who had Captain Watson, the dock superintendent, and Mr. Floyd, the acting agent of the linfr, waiting when they arrived. The detectives went on board and consulted Captain Dutton of the Umbria al> ter they had failed to discover the box on the pier. Inquiry led to the belief that a box like that described in the letter had been taken ou the vessel. Captain Dutton declared that he would not sail until the box was found. The box was found at the foot of the firot cabin gangway. It was of new pine wood, forty inches long, ten inches wide and twenty inches deep. The top was fastened down by an ordinary iron padlock. The detectives placed their ears near the box. They could hear the ticking and buzzing distinctly. They carried it to a less public place and broke the lock. The lifted lid disclosed three sets of clockwork. All the wheels were turning and ticking and buzzing industriously. Beneath the clockwork was n large quantity of a brown powder. It had the appearance. of dynamite and there were at least 100 pounds of it. - The detectives and the officials of the Cunard line decided to take no chances. They, carried the box to the end of the pier, handling it somewhat gingerly, and, attaching a ropt to one of the handles, tossed it overboard to render harmless any explosive that it might contain. The news of the finding of the box spread swiftly among the 300 persons on the pier 'who were there to see friends depart, and many of them fled. But few of the passengers knew anything about It, as the Umbria sailed soon after the Infernal machine was destroyed.

BATTLES WITH A BULL.

Armed with a Pitchfork a Farmer’* YVife Holds Animal nt Fay. Armed with a pitchfork, Mrs. James Morton, a farmer’s plucky wife, living near Flanders, N. J., for nearly an hour kept nt bay nr vicious bull that had attacked and nearly killed her husband. Two of the farmer’s children gave the alarm aud friends and neighbors rushed to the field and drove the bull away. While entertaining visitors Mrs. Morton became uneasy over the long absence of her husband, who had gone out to care for his stoek. She heard a dehorned bull, noted for its. vicious temper, bellowing, nnd, on running to the field, she saw her husband lying unconscious on the ground, while the bull stood over him. Flourishing ft -pitchfork, the Wife ran forward and drove the prongs four inches into the bull’s side. .As the animal still continued its attack on her husband, Mrs. Morton again and again jabbed the sharp fork into it until the animal turned and rushed at her. With a blow on the head Mrs. Morton .made the bull pause. She was still standing guard, pitchfork in hand, when, an hour later, the rescuers, summoned by the children, arrived. Mr. Morton was carried to the house, where it was found that reveral of his ribs were broken. He also was severely injured about the head and chest.

BIG FIRE AT OTTAWA.

Two Thousand People Homeless and. Damage Beaches $300,000. At Ottawa, Out., about 250 houses destroyed, probably 2,000 people homeless and a financial loss of fully $500,000 is the result of the conflagration which devastated the area between the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway tracks on the east, Albert on the north and the tracks of the Canadian Pacific Prescott Line and Third avenue on the west. The money loss is about half covered by insurance. Although It was first believed that an incendiary had started the fire, doubts were afterward thrown upon this theory. It wa3 said that the blaze waa seen in the grass before it seized the lumber. Between 10,000,000 and 15,000,000 feet of lumber waa burned. The buildings destroyed were dwelling houses and stores. . No lives are known to mere been lost. * x Because of an accident to the water pipes it was nearly an hour after the fire was discovered before water was thrown npon the flames. Assistance arrived from Montreal, but it was not required. The military waa called out to aid the civil power in fighting the fire.

Told in a Few Lines.

The barricaded monastery of the Capuchins at Marseilles was taken by the police, who arrested the friars and their sympathisers within the building. W. H. Pope, judge of the Court of First Instance of the Philippine Icl&nds, has resigned -and, owing to shattered health, will return to Santa Fe, N. M. Misa Virginia Evans, daughter of Rear Admiral*JEvans, was married to Harold Bewail of Boston at Tokio, Japan. The receptioi waa held at tha British legation. • _ <£

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

| “Unrest in the ranks of New York. — than abated since May when difficulties of this sort nsuaHy culminate. No single struggle of great magnitude is in progress, but the frequency of small strikes is disturbing, and in the aggregate a large force is idle, while important industrial undertakings are cheeked. Good reports are received from footwear factories, shipments from Boston for the. year thus far surpassing all record?, and clothing makers receive duplications of spring orders in addition to getting out fall samples,” according to R. G. Dun & Co’s Weekly Review of Trade. Continuing, the report says: Prices of commodities declined slightly during April, Dun’s Index number falling from $99,267 to $98,561. A ago 'the highest point of recent years was touched at $102,289. Railway earnings in April were 13.4 per cent larger Than iu last year aud 28.7 per cent above 1901. Cancellation of orders where deliveries failed to be made according to contract and new business at lower quotations indicate a tendency toward more normal conditions in pig iron. This is highly desirable, and gives assurance that present activity in iron and steel may be maintained. Pending contracts for about 50,000 tons of structural material have been closed, and other orders are only postponed by uncertainty regarding the labor cdtuation. RqjJway'Tequirements appear to have no limit, and the proposed extensions will consume large quantities of steel.' Billets are one of the scarce articles at present, even imports being arranged with difficulty. Implement manufacturers are surpaseing all records in their purchases of merchant nteel, machine shops alT'-working at full capacity, and thece is a brisk demand for plates, pipes and tubes. All! leading machinery markets report satisfactory conditions. Trade in hardware is of good volume, orders assuring activity for some time and new business still! coming forward freely, especially at the South. Textile manufacturers at the East have not improved their position during the past week. Jobbers are buying only small quantities, exercising a discrimination that indicates dull markets elsewhere, and salesmen are being withdrawn from the road. YVith large print mills closed, there is no activity in print cloths, nor is the movement of browo. sheetings and drills of any account. Abnormal prices for raw cotton might beexpected to stimulate inquiry for goods,, but the only effect is to prevent selKTsfrom, making concessions. Higher figures are expected next week at the official opening of the season in carpets. More woolen mills have closed; and the market is featureless, but the new woob clip is firmly held. A steadier tone i»noted in silks owing to reports that production will be curtailed. CBradatreet’a Trade Review. Business continues large and industry active, in most cases surpassing previous years at this date, despite unseasonable cool weather in some sections and* a swarm of vexatious labor troubles. Most of the measures of trade nnd industrial volume still make favorableshowings; The simply enormous gain iru gross railway earnings reported for April, 15 per cent over the best iu previousyears, is proof that past good reports of trade and traffic were fnlly justified. Wheat.' ineludiug flour, exports for the week ending May 7 aggregate 3,201,080 bushels, against 3,418,289 last weeif, 3,302,240 this week last year and .4,178,872 in 1901. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 191,503,163 bushels, against 219,106,728 last season and 180,939,973in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 1,631.* 709 bushels, against 2,210,155 Inst week,. 126,755 a year ago and 1,583,831 in 1901For the fiscal year exports are 57,011,G 59 bushels, against 25,655,355 last season and 158,222,268 bushels in 1901.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime;. $3.00 to $5.35; hogs, shipping grades. $5.50 to $0.85; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00t to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn. No. 2,43 cto 44c; oats. No. 2,31 c to 32c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 50c; hay. timothy, $8.50 to $15.50; prairie, SO.OO to. $13.00; butter, choice creamery, 18c to* 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes’, 40c to 51c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to ss.2{>; hogs, choice light, $4.00-to $0.05; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to *l-75; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, *o. 2; white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c.to 34c. v St. Loulr.—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.75; bogs; $5.00 to $6.70; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn. No. 2,. 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2,33 cto 34c; rye.. No. 2,47 cto 48c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.25'; hogs, $4.00 to sheep, $3.50 t<\ $4.75; wheat. No. 2,75 cto 76c; com-,. No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c: oats, No. 2: mixed, 33c to 35c; rye, No, 2. 57c to Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2,76 cto 77c; com. No. 3 yellow, 47c to 48c;.oats. No. 3 white, 30c to 37c; rye, No. 2. 52c to 53c. j Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 79c to 80c; corn, No. 3,45 cto 46c; oats,. No. 2 white, 34c td 35c; rye. No, 1, 51e’. to 53c; barley, No. 2,57 eto 58c; pork, mess, $18.50. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c~~t0. 75c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, .. - No. 2 mixed, 32c to S3c;,rye. No. 2,51 q! to 53c; clover seed, prime, $7.70. , - Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, fair to prime, S4.<JQ to $7.30; sheep, fair to choice, $4.00 ta $5.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 tq $7.35. —— New York —Caßle, $4.00 to $5-50; hogs, $4.00 to $6.50; sheep. $3.00 tq $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn. No. 2,52 cto 53c; ©at*, No. 2 white, 40c to 4lc; butter, creamery, 20c to 22ei ' eggs, western, 14c to 17c.