Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1903 — Page 2

«cum man F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. ■ • INDIAN^.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

Citizonj* returning to Kt Paso, Texas, from Casas Grande, la the heart of the Sierra Mudre Mountains, report the discovery of a smoldering volcano hitherto unknown except to a few of the natives. The volcano showed signs of a recent eruption. Daniel \V. Miller, assistant. Attorney General for the Postofllce Department, has been arrested for alleged acceptance of bribe for decision favoring John J. Jtyun & Co. get-rich-quick turf concert). Joseph M. Johns, Rochester, Ind., was arrested ns alleged go-between. At Laconia, N. 11., nearly 100 buildings have been burned, 330 persona are homeless and there is a loss of $400,000 as the result of a fire in the Lakeport section, the area burned over being about 150 acres, 'flic fire started in a boiler room of thq II- H- Wood hosiery mill. The servant girl problem will be simplified if success attends an experiment to be made by the Women's Education Association in Boston. A house in the Back Bay residence section will be opened Aug. 1, where young girls will be trained for a month or six weeks in various household duties, after which they will be hired out by the hour to householders. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. New Y0rk...22 i) Cincinnati ....17 17 Chicago 24 10 Boston ......14 10 /Pittsburg ...21 15 Philadelphia.. 0 24 Brooklyn ....17 10 St. Louis..... 0 20 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago 17 12 Boston ......15 15 Detroit 17 13 St. Louis 13 14 Philadelphia.. 17 14 New York..,. 13 10 Cleveland ....14 13 Washington.. .10 10 Joseph Becker, an anarchist, is in the city jail at Walla Walla, Wa.-h., on suspicion of having intended to kill President Roosevelt. The episode was kept quiet until the President’s departure. Becker is accused of having said at Pendleton, Ore., that lie had one bullet for President Roosevelt and another for Emperor William of Germany. He left for Walla Walla With a Winchester, and his Pendleton partner, Pat Kino, followed him there, notifying the police. Becker was found working in a butcher shop, lie was arrested and disclosed the hiding place of his rifle, which was in a barn along the line of march. Becker is a Swiss.

BREVITIES.

Mr/’. Lulu T. Hadley, who refused to make Booker T, Washington's bed, has lift liidiiuiupoHs on account of threats by negroes. Ten large buildings at the market wharf in Panama. Colombia, the most important part of tlie city .commercially, were destroyed by fire. • John D. Rockefeller has ngreisl to give $50,000 to the Y. M. <’. A. at Washington on condition that $300,000 additional is raised before Jail. 1. A most dwt motive and fatal tornado struek the town of Elmo. Mo. Niue persons were killed outright and five were injured, some of whom may die. Dr. Len Rroughton, a Baptist preacher at Atlanta, Ga., declared in a sermon that the woman who plays bridge whist is no .better than the negro crap shooter. Anton Cnlcagno, a San Francisco shoemaker, shot and killed his former paramour, Madeline Picconi, and committed suicide, because the woman had left him. German Naval Ensign Hussner has been given four years’ prison sentence and degraded front rank for killing It is boyhood friend. Artilleryman Hartmann, Who had failed to salute him. “Mammy Bates.” once a servant in the families of Presidents John Adams and James Monroe, was buried from Lincoln hospital. New York. She died in her one hundred and fourth year. While miming past May's siding on a hill about seven miles west of Kane, l’a., the boiler of one of tlie locomotives pushing a Philadelphia and Erie freight train exploded, killing one man anil injuring four others. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Warren of Lowville. N. Y., have started out for a drive of 3.000 miles. Their destination is Los Angeles, and their outfit consists of a team of horses, a buggy and a light stock of clothing. Viscountess Glentworth of Downham, Norfolk, who celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of her birth the other day, is the oldest member of the British peerage and is still in possession of all her faculties. A campaign against divorce was planned by Methodist, Presbyterian and Protestant Episcopal church representatives at New York conference; Archbishop Farley of Roman Catholic Church asked to co-operate. The Peruvian gunboat Loreto sprung a leak forty miles northeast of Scilly Islands and sank iu an hour. Tlie crew was picked up by a French vessel and lauded at Plymouth, England. The Loreto is a new vessel. Four United States watch companies have purchased tlie American Watch Company factory at Toronto, the object being to avoid the payment of large duties on cases and to afford a means of selling American movements. Four men were killed and two badly burned by an explosion of gas iu the mines of the ('harriers Coal and Coke Company at Federal. Pa.. The mine is but slightly damaged. Sixty men were at work ut the time of the explosion. The steamship Coban of the Diamond line, from Sydney, C. 8.. for Montreal, signaled that an explosion of . gas had occurred on board which completely destroyed the saloon and blew up , the poop deck. A waiter was killed and two steerage passengers are missing. An unknown man sitting in an open car crowing Brooklyn bridge suddenly' alighted when the car was in the middle of the center rpan and, running to th> aide of the bridge, jumped into the river. • His body rose to the surface immediately after the plnnge and was carried away by the current.

EASTERN.

A score or more persons were severely injured in New York by the explosion of a gasoline automobile. Terry McGovern, tho pugilist, saved a woman nnd tier two children from death iu a New York fire. Supposed jealousy prompted Charles Grannis of Newcastle, Pa., to fatally shoot Mrs. Della Ilybal and himself. Mrs. Elvin a Bachman of Slatington, Pa., killed her children, aged 1 and 3 years, by cutting their throats and ended her life in the same manner. New York school principals declare present system of maintaining discipline is unsatisfactory and ask to lie allowed to use the rod on unruly .pupils. About 105,000 men are idle in New York ns a result of strikes, lockouts and dissensions. It is estimated that they would earn nearly $4,01)0,000 a week. Five persons -were killed and twelve injured by falling elevator in Pennsylvania Electro-Mechanical Institute, Pittsburg, Pa. Victims were nearly all guests at ball. Dispatches from various parts of New York State report that rain has not fallen for five weeks and that vegetation is withering and pasturage has become scant. Workmen of Pennsylvania Railroad have laid low about 25,000 miles of wire and 20,000 poles following court’s order permitting removal of Western Union property. The plant of the American lee Company was destroyed by tire in Philadelphia. The loss is about $200,000. There were many explosions 'of ammonia but no casualties. Mary Gardner, 10 years old, of I’ierceficld, N. Y 7, was attacked in her room by an unknown man and disfigured for life with a knife a few weeks before her wedding day. Charles Grenier, 39 years old, was shot and fatally wounded by his brother George at Scranton, Pa. Charles was Abusing his mother when George interfered and shot him. Thomas McDonald, ft well known citizen of Plymouth, Pa., had a severe and prolong! d attack of hiccoughs. The strain of one of the paroxysms became so great that two rilis were broken. Standing in a cart, "Big Bill” Devery was nominated for Mayor of NiW York by 2,000 men, women and 'children, but he said lie would not run if Tammany nominatul “a man of the people.” In a shooting affray on the street at Freedom, Pa., three men were shot, one fatally. The meii were intoxicated and quarreled over same trivial matter. There were many narrow escapes for pedestrians. The original boiler-plate mill of the Central Iron and Steel Company was destroyed by lire iu Harrisburg, l’a., causing a loss of $200,000 and throwing a large number of men out of work. Tile loss is covered by insurance. A tire that Is estimated to have caused a loss of upward of $1,000,000 occurred In the building of the Front Street Warehousing Company, at 019-21-23 25 North Front street. Philadelphia. Merchandise of n general character was stored in the place. Andrew J. Campbell, one of the four men sent to prison iu 1901 for drugging and murdering Jennie Bossebieter, a mill girl of Paterson, N. J., is lying at the point of death Jn the hospital at' tliA State penitentiary. 11c has been operated on for appendicitis. The firm of Smith A: Wesson, revolver makers, closed its factory in Springfield, Mass., for an indefinite period. This step is taken, it is believed, because of labor troubles, the men having signified their intention of forming a union, despite the opposition of the firm. Two hundred and twenty acres are to be added to the United States military reservation at West Point at an expense of $20,000. The new ground adjoins the government’s present holdings on the south and west and is known locally ns the “uplands.” This is the first addition that, lias been made to the West Point property acreage. The school boys of Now Haven, Conn., liavA formed a union to secure shorter hour.-: of study and more time for play and work. The hoys in five schools are said to be members of the union, and it is their purpose to have the hours of attendance changed so that there will he a continuous session from 8 a m. to 1 p. m. instead of the two-session sy.-tem that is now iii vogue. A man who registered at the Yorkshire Inn, Great Barrington, Mass., as Arthur Sands of Chicago committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. He was about 21 years old and from his taik it was inferred he had recently visited Germany, lie left a letter to the coroner which stated that lie did not care how, when or where hi? body was buried and asked that his grave be marked with a stone inscribed “A. S.” F. Wellington Iluekstuhl, vice-presi-dent of tlie Municipal Art Society of New York, will sail Tor Europe next week nnd will remain abroad until the fall of 11)04. He will be busy on models for several monuments. One of the models will be for a McKinley monument, which will lie erected iu Washington by private subscription. Another model will he for a colos-.al national peace monument, which will be 700 feet high and will be erected on the Hudson.

WESTERN.

Thomas A. Edison has been appointed honorary chief consulting engineer at the world’s fair at St. Louis. The annual convention of the National Creamery Butterruakers will be held at Sioux Falls, S. 1)., in October. A cloudburst rendered hundreds of families homeless nt Enid, Okla., and caused damage estimated at $300,000. The annual encampment lowa G. A. IL. in session at Cedar Rapids, elected Col. R. B. Raymond of Hampton commander. Indications are that the new city directory will show that Chicago has a population of 2,200,000, an increase of 62.000 over last year. The centennial of Ohio’s statehood was celebrated at Chiliicothe, among, the speakers being Senator Hanna, Gov. Nash and Judson Hannon. Fifteen hundred freight handlers employed by railroads entering St. Lonis joined thO strike of warehousemen, practically tieing np freight traffic. Citizens of Indianapolis presented n gold watch to Miss Lulu Spence Hadley, the Indianapolis chambermiid who lost

i her position because she refused to make i up the bed occupied by Booker T. W ashington. Sirs. George Nosh of Spokane, Wash., who was traveling to Toledo to attend ! a family reunion, died on the train be* j fora reaching her destination, j News is received nt Canon City. Colo., of the destruction by fire of the mill and mine buildings at the Terrible lead mine. The loss is $50,000, well insured. The postofllce at New Richland, Minn., wns robbed of about $250 in stamps and money, the safe being blown open with nitroglycerin and completely -wrecked. George Blakely, h Cleveland and Pittsburg brakeman, fell between cars at Mingo Junction, Ohio, and wns killed instantly, as his head was ground to a pulp. Alies Kftldy. who was taking two camels and an .elephant to Minneapolis to join a circus, was trampled to death by the elephant iu a car at Medicine Bow station, Wyo, Nineteen persons were killed and more than twenty injured by tornadoes that swept over three Nebraska counties. One man wns killed and a child injured by a tornado at ltolfe, lowa. "Give the people music on their excursion trains.” This is one of the new movements started by the American Federation of Musicians in their national convention in Indianapolis. A cook for a railroad gang nt Brevator, Minn., was threatened with lynching by his boarders because he had killed one of them in a quarrel over the way breakfast was served. He escaped. „ Twelve people were injured, five dangerously, in collision due to defective tirakes on llalsted street electric line car ill Chicago. Tlii; is the second disaster in two weeks ascribed to poor service and equipment. George Reeder, principal of a school nt Victor, Colo., lias caused the town to be divided in a factional fight ns a result of his attempt to cure girls of the chewing gum habit by putting quinine into the gum. Salina County, Kan., was visited by a third tornado in twenty-four hours. Two persons were killed at Assaria. Ashland was practically destroyed, and heavy damage was done by the storm in Indian Territory. The total storm death list is six. The Helena, Mont., police have obtained a confession from Harry Anderson, a 14-year old colored boy, that it was he who set fire to the Montana club-, house on April 28, when the clubhouse was destroyed with all its contents, at a loss of $175,099. Frank and Dillard Eads and Logan Ingles, of Hemlock, arrested for the murder of Louis Yeager and Francis Sutton, of Oakwood. in the iutervillage feud, were released from custody at Kokomo, Ind., by order of Prosecutor Cooper. The accused proved an alibi. Amos Leed.v, aged 00 years, postmaster at I.qed.v, Ok., has pleaded guilty and been fined on a charge of detaining valuable letters in land contest cases. The letters had remained in the olflee uncalled for and Leedy, ignorant of what course to pursue, threw them into a waste basket. The business section of Dunkirk, Ohio, was almost wiped out by fire. Eleven business blocks and three residences were burned. The heaviest losers were Mahon A. Co., the First National Bank, Lydeck Brothers and the Dunkirk Telephone Company. Tho loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Samuel Keeler, charged with murdering his wife Feb. 15, took the stand in bis own behalf at Hamilton, Ohio, and swore that he killed his wife while in a state of somnambulism. He said he quarreled with his wife before they retired and lie had this on his mind When he went to sleep. Receivers have been appointed for the big fruit corporation of Porter Brothers Company of Chicago. Little is known as to tlie firm’s fiuanoial condition, but rough estimates place the liabilities at $300,000. Outside ventures by tbe president of the concern are alleged to have proved disastrous. The town of Altman, on top of Bull Hill, Colo., was almost totally destroyed by a tire that started in file Altman Hotel. The firemen’s liose was cut nnd it is believed the fire, was of incendiary origin. The loss is $75,0 ! .)0. with insurance of SIO,OOO. Five alleged incendiaries are under arrest. An attack of melancholia, due to nervousness, prompted Miss Tempest Leeper to commit suicide at the Liinlell Hotel in St. Louis Try drinking tlie contents of a half-ounce bottle of carbolic acid. The act followed the young woman’s flight from tlie Norbury sanitarium at Jacksonville, 111,, the day before. The indictment of several well-known Duluth lawyers and logging operators by the federal grand jury earlier in the week was followed by the indictments for fraud in connection with stone and timber entries in the Duluth land district of E. F. Krelwitz, a grocer, and Joseph Couture, a timber cruiser. The plowing of a goodly part of a field in East Ashtabula, Ohio, was accomplished the other day with an automobile which took the place of a rtont team of horses. The test was made by 11. T. Raser of Erie, Pa., nnd his brother, George Raser, guided the plow. Many persons witnessed the unusual feat. Records were broken when the Luke Shore Twentieth Century Limited ran from Toledo to Elkhart, 133 miles, in 114 minutes. This is two minutes lower than any previous time. At intervals along the run the speed average was seventytwo, eighty and ninety miles an hour, the general average being seventy miles. Maddened hy tbe fact that his wife had obtained a divorce, M. V. Leasia shot and killed F. IL Drews, his father-in-law. in Portland, Ore. Legsia’s former wife witnessed the tragedy nnd was compelled to go with Leasia. What has become of the couple is a mystery, but the police believe the man will kill his wife. Traces of prehistoric man in the shape of implements of bone and polished stone have been found in Chester County, Cal., by the paleontologists of the University of California. Specimens oi bones from many extinct animals were alro found. The eaves of that region are proved to be a rich field for scientific investigation. Much damage wns_j!one in the Ohio valley by cloudbursts and lightning. No lives were lost, but many people were shocked by lightning that struck houses, barns and telegraph pole*. The internrban electric lines are still badly disabled. A car on the Mill Creek Valley line was struck by lightning and ret on fire at

Carthage and the passengers narrowly ■escaped death, all being unconscious for a short time. Much damage was done at -Delhi, Home City and Fernbank. I John Dixon, colored, was driven from Fremont, Ohio, by a mob after an ex- [ citing encounter, in which his home was I stoned. Dixon had been employed nt the j Clausa shear plant, and did not go out ! when the strikers did. His wife nnd children escaped the fury of the mob by going jail. Dixon escaped to Norwalk. The YVaterous engine works nt St. Paul were destroyed by fire, causing a loss estimated at $75,000, partly covered by insurance. It is raid there were two explosions in the front of the buildings nnd a few 1 moments later the flames had spread through the length of the machine shop. The watchman, IV. E. Ecklin, attempted to put out the fire and was severely burnedWalter L. Chapman,. who%p whereabouts is unknown, is heir to more than $50,000 under the will just probated at Kansas City of his father, I)r. Andrew L. ' Chapman, a grandson of the poet, Thomas Campbell. Walter Clmpman ran away from home thirty-five years ago on account of a sehoolboy fight, and is now 50 years old. Nothing has been heard from him for fifteen years.

SOUTHERN.

One of the boilers of Wilson & Cochran’s sawmill at Wilcox, near Maringoin station, La., exploded, killing six persons. Nine others are seriously injured and it is thought that tw:o of them will die. At Carlisle. Ky.. fire destroyed the city school and resulted in injury to twentyfive persons. Three others are misring. The west wall of the building fell upon a number of people. The property loss is about $25,000. Tbe Seaboard Air Line Railway shops, just outside of Portsmouth, Va., were burned. Tlie loss is estimated at $750,000. In the shops were many locomotives nnd all appliances for repairing the rolling stock of the road. The long and short haul clause of tlie interstate commerce act has been killed by Federal Supreme U ourt ‘ n Louisville and Nashville rate case; competition was held a justification for higher rates over comparatively shorter distances. Fire destroyed the machinery and stock of tlie Falls City Siiirt Company at Louisville, Ky. The building was badly damaged. Tlie stock of the Carter Dry Goods Company, in an adjoining warehouse, also suffered. The total loss amounts to $82,000. Judge Walter Evans of the United States Court at Bowling Green, Ivy., has ruled that men in charge of postotflees must pay to the government any amount burglars may the otßccs. Tlie decision is considered important as establishing the liability of postmasters for funds and supplies. Tho strike of the trainmen and switchmen of tlie Mobile and Ohio Railroad has been declared off by agreement. They went on strike May 9 for a 10 per cent increase in wages. The road agrees to advance wages 7 and 10 per cent for freight and passenger service respectively, and to take back strikers as rapidly as vacancies occur.

FOREIGN.

At the Marlborough Club in Liverpool one of the King’s household cavalry de dared that another operation on his majesty is contemplated. Paul .Blouct (“Max O’Rell”). French lecturer and Writer, died at Paris. He never recovered from an operation in New York for appendicitis. It is reported that Queen Draga of Servia has consented to a divorce from King Alexander. She is to retire to a con vent, which will be named after her. The policy of the Russian government is to drive Jews to other lands. Editor who incited Kischineff massacres gives them one year in which to change religion or get out. The British government will call a conference of the signatories of the Berlin net,•with the view of abating the outrages committed by the government of the Congo Free State. Croats are iu revolt against Hungarian government, and city of Agram under martial law; 2,000 persons imprisoned after fights between peasants and troops; hatred between Slavs and Magyars chiefly responsible. The Paris-Madrid automobile race resulted in eight deaths within 343 miles, and the contest was declared off on Premier Combes’ and Spanish government’s orders. Marcel Renault, winner of the Paris-Vienna contest, was fatally hurt. The Sofia correspondent of the London Morning Leader telegraphs that the Macedonian committee reports that the Turks have burned the village of Banitzi, near Seres. Only forty-eight of the 500 inhabitants escaped. Many women and girls were outraged and murdered and their bodies cast into the water.

IN GENERAL.

A permanent treaty between the United States and Coba, including all the provisions of the Platt amendment, has been signed at Havana. After thirty-five years of the minstrel business George H. Primrore, the best known exponent of the “black-face” art in America to-day, has retired from the minstrel .stage. First anniversary of Cuban republic was celebrated at Havana, with review of police and fire departments by President Palma; congratulations were received from Secretary Root. A fire in the shoe factory of Cote Bros, at St. Hyacintbe, Quebec, destroyed that and half a dozen other factories and 250 Lenses, leaving nearly a quarter of the city’s population homeless. The loss is placed at $400,000. Bradstreet's weekly review shows wholesale merchandise and iron buying halting for future developments; lumber market affected by labor troubles; May railroad earnings show 14 per cent grors increase over 1902. Daniel Frohman, the well-known theatrical manager, is to marry Miss Margaret lUington of Mr. Sothern’a company. Miss lUington is a young actress of Jewish descent and made her initial appearance in Mr. Frohmun’s stock company. A deficit of $227,300 has been discovered in the Postofllce Department because of Superintendent A. W. Macbeo’a unauthorized expenditures and his disobedience of the Postmaster General’s order*. No action lias been taken by the latter official. ~ r *

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

—T*|i “Weather conditions and Hev iOrK. fl le labor situation are the —— dominant influences, in the business world. Unseasonably high temperature at many points, especially in the East, stimulated retail trade in wearing apparel and other summer merchandise to an unusual degree, but bad a most unsatisfactory effect upon vegetation, which was promptly reflected in diminished orders for supplies, nnd iu some cases there were cancellations. More conservatism was also shown at tlie interior, where agricultural progress met with check, and, while no serious injury to the great staple crops is yet reported, the delay to planting induces caution' among dealers,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade Continuing, the report sayr: On the whole there are fewer wage earners voluntarily idle^yet the spirit of unrest has caused the abandonment of some new enttrprises nnd postponement of others, which means less demand for structural materials and labor. Payments are also less prompt, time often being asked where formerly cash transactions for a slight discount were the rule. Aside from these tw# adverse factors the trade situation is favorable, and with average weather and industrial peace there is every prospect of continued prosperity throughout the country. Manufacturing plants are generally well occupied, especially in footwear, iron and steel. Traffic on the railways is heavy, earnings thus far reported for May exceeding last year’s by 13.0 per cent and surpassing 1901 by 25.7 per cent. Readjustment in prices of iron and steel continues, the market gradually resuming normal conditions. There is no evidence .of diminished activity as yet, and in many cases prompt deliveries are urged. but ns the increased capacity brings plants nearer their orders buyers are naturally less eager to place contracts. The fact that some concessions have been made in quotations tends to postpone business, prospective buyers waiting for still more favorable terms. Advances of about 5 per cent in wide sheetings indicate that the cotton goods market is beginning to respond to tbe higher raw material. A still more,encouraging sign is the greater interest displayed by purchasers. Warm leather stimulates activity in wash goiras for quick delivery. Print cloths are firmer, and while there is no demand for regulars. odd goods are sought freely. Reduced output of worsteds has strengthened the tone, and the recent advanced prices for carpets have not prevented large .transactions. Failures this week are 191 jn tho United States, against 192 last year, and J 4 in Canada, compared with 12 a year ago. Bradalreet’a Trade Review. While underlying conditions have improved as a whole, there is itiil room for betterment in weather, crop and labor matters. Railway earnings are as good as ever reported. Gross receipts .for the first half of May indicate a 14 per cent increase over last year, while net returns for March show the significant increase of 1(1 per cent in iff-t on a corresponding increase in grosz. Some of the less favorably situated trades are lumber,, which notes the effect of the building trade labor troubles; silk manufacturing at Paterson, which is slack at present, and men's wear woolens, which are still halting as regards fall orders. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending May 21 aggregate 5.293.373 bushel?, against 4,097,590 last week, 5.184,839 ,tliis week last year nnd 4.790,084 in 1904., Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 200.894,132 bushels, against 229,524,201 last season and 189,718.025 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 1,814,18(5 bushels, against 1.431.257 last week, 00,9ti0 a year ago and 2,204.902 in 1901. For the fiscal year exports are (50,257.102 bushels, against 25.829,119 last season and 163,131,7(54 in 1901.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, $5.50 to $6.40; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2,44 cto 45c; oats, No. 2,31 e to 33c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c; bay, timothy, $8.50 to $15.00; prairie, $6.00 to $13.00; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, 46c to 60e per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to' $5.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.30; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4,255 wheat. No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn. No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 36c. St. Louis—Cattle. $4.50 to $5.00; hogs, $5.00 to $6.25; sheep, $3.00 to SS.OO; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 70c: corn. No. 2, 42c to 43c: oats, No. 2,33 cto 35c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 49c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $-1.50 to. $4.75; bogs. $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, $3.50 to $4.15; wheat. No. 2,75 cto 7<>c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; oats» No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37e; ryp, No. 2,50 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.40; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 79c; com. No. 3 yellow, 46c to 47c; oats; No. 3 white, 38c to 39c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, f?2c to 83c; corn, No. 3. 47c to 4Sc; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c; rye. No. 1,51 c to 53c; barley. No. 2,58 cto 60c; pork, mess, $18.90. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed., 73c to 75c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 32c to 33c; rye. No. 2,51 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $7.70, * Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $7.30; sheep, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $7.35. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.30; hogs, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep., $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; com, No. 2,52 cto 54c; oats. No. 2 whito, 40c to 4lc; batter, creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, western, 14c to 17c.

PURITAN CHURCH MUSIC.

Music held but a small place In the public worship of colonial times in New England. After the Revolution there began to be a desire for more and better singing In the service; but at the same time a determined opposition developed which expressed itself equally well In town and In parish meetings. The records of the town and of the church of Holden, Massac Chusetts, throw a clear light upon the whole matter. x At a town meeting held on March 12, 1780, It was “Voted that the singers be desired to sing such tunes as may be sung with reading two lines only, at those times of singing which Immediately precede tbe sermon; and the Church will acquiesce In their singing without reading at the beginning of the exercises, and the last time In the afternoon; and further, that this be continued till ’tis otherwise signified to theiy by the Church or Town, or each of them.” At It church meeting held September 4th, of the same year, it was “Voted to signify to the singers that the Church desire that all such of them as are able to lead in the singing would do It as occasion may require. “2. That ’tls the earnest request of J the Church that the singers would omit the singing of ‘Milford’ and ‘Hartford,’ and In any tunes that are repeated, that. If any may be, they would omit the repeats till the last time of going over the tune.” On August 24, 1787, at a church meeting appointed to consult what was proper to be done relative to singing In public worship, It was voted: “1. That Dea. Haven set such tunes as he shall think fit and proper—omitting for the present those tunes which are found particularly disagreeable to a number of the Church—and to sing by reading of two lines of the psalm. “2. The question was put whether the reading of, the psalm be omitted at the last time of singing on every Sabbath.” Some of the regular attendants upon public worship refused to occupy their seats in the meeting-house unless the psalms and hymns could be sung without the aid of the unconsecrated viol and the unhallowed pitch-pipe.

A Sensational Case.

Alston, Mich., May 25. —Houghton County has never witnessed a more striking medical case than that of Mr. James Culet of this place. Mr. Culet had spent a small fortune with the best physicians in the county and in addition to this he has tried every medicine he could hear of. He had a very bad case of Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble, from which he had suffered for twenty years. Nothing he could get seemed to do him any good, and he was gradually growing worse. He has no Rheumatism now and explains It thus: “One day I happened to see an advertisement of Dodd’s Kidney Pill* and decided to try them. “I made up my mind to give them a good, fair trial, as my case was a very bad one and was of over twenty years’ standing. “I used altogether 42 boxes and I can truthfully say that they have driven out every trace of the Rheumatism. “I feel like a new man, and I dan and do most heartily recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills for Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble.”

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