Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1903 — Page 2

m mi win F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - • INDIANA^

CIRCLING THE GLOBE

Four negro men and one negro woman killed, eight or ten badly beaten and moat of the other negroes in the community ordered to leave is the result of the shooting front ambush of Mr. Craft and the wounding of Mr. Boyls by negroes at Forest, Miss. One of the most notable weddings of the year took place in St. Paul’s Lpiscopal Church, Cleveland, when Miss Until Hanna, daughter of Senator M. A. Hanna, was united in marriage with Joseph Medill McCormick of Chicago. President Itoosevelt was a guest. John Winkler. Johu Shook. S. E. Rebam ami (’lark Fisher werej killed by lightning near Sterling, Ohio. The men were framing a barn and, carrying a heavy limiter on their shoulders when lightning struck tire beam and tore it to splinters, killing the four men instantly. The Hreakprs, the second largest hotel at Palm Beach, Fla., was destroyed by fire. The hotel building, power house, Cory’s block of stores, flip Casino, south of the hotel, and one of the large cottages north of the hotel were burned. Total loss *BOO,OOO. The origin of the fire is unknown. News has come of a cloudburst near Clifton, Ariz. A wall of water eight feet high rushed down Chase creek. Several bodies have been recovered, and it is believed the number of drowned will reach twenty. Chase Creek was inhabited mostly by Mexicans employed by the Arizona Copper Company. Russia has given notice through its Washington embassy that it will not receive any protest from n foreign nation against the massacre of Jews at Kbhineff. In addition the announcement was made that no relief raised in America or elsewhere would he permitted to reach the families of Kishincff victims. Frightened by the approach of n big automobile, a horse driven by John D. Tanges, a wealthy resident of Greenlawn, L. 1., swerved from the road, upsetting the earl, and Mrs. Tanges was thrown into a ditch and killed. Tanges and his wife were in a dog cart, and on the way home from Huntington. In a spirit of playful warning, James Smith, 14-year did son of John Wesly Smith, a wealthy farmer, of Coshocton, Ohio, pointed a gun at his two brothers, and by the accidental discharge of one barrel both of the lads were killed. Albert, aged 10, dietl instantly, and Eugene,- aged 10, was blinded and fatally wounded. A Rig Four train was wrecked at the Muscat uck bridge near North Vernon, I ml., by colliding with a runaway section of another train. Trainmen saw the runaway appnroaehing, and to avoid meeting it on tlie trestle, which is 85 feet high, put on all speed. They had barely reached the other side nttd jumped when tlie crash came. No lives were-lost. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. New York... 52 l.'l Cincinnati ....10 -1 Chicago ■'{•‘l 15 Boston 17 20 Pittsburg 17 Philadelphia.. 12 .'ll Brooklyn ....24 22 St. Louis 1.1 15 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: \Y\ L. • W. L. Boston 20 17 Chifago 22 20 Philadelphia. .20 17 Detroit 20 22 St. Louis... .21 “10 New Y0rk....17 21 Cleveland ....22 17 Washington.. .11 31

BREVITIES.

Prince Gustave, uwvii Prince of Sweden and Norway, lias announced liis intention of visiting the St. Louis exposition. Captain Richmond P. lloh ton has declared himself n candidate for Congress from Alabama on a greater navy platform. Mark Twain nnd family have decided to go to Italy in September. They may live there permanently, ns their health demands a milder climate. Clara Nichols, society editor of the Chicago Tribune, was crushed to death in an elevator in tlie Tribune building. Her relatives live at Alton, 111. Because of the strike in the finishing departments, nine paper mill plants ill Holyoke, Mass., have shut down, throwing about 1,500 hands out of employment. ✓ Mrs. Leo Brown, of Powderville, Mont., shot and killed her former husband,. Dick Standfer, a cowboy with" a bad reputation. Staudfcr bad knocked her down twice. Officials at Kalkaska, Mich., believe that Mrs. Mary McKnight, who confesses to poisoning three persons, may have killed eight others who died under suspicious eircumstauces. Chinese pirates iiave kidnaped an American and hold him for SO,OOO ransom. The gunboat Callao has been sent to rescue the prisoner and to demand the punishment of the pirates. A section of the Union Station viaduct that carries the street over the raihvby tracks in Minneapolis fell on an incoming Great Northern train. The section was SO by 50 feet. One uian'i arm was broken. The plant of the Brooklyn Cooperage Company in South Boston. Mass., was destroyed by tire. The loss is $140,000. Joseph Wood, an employe, was probably fatally burned in attempting to save bis tools and clothing. Thirty lives are believed to have been lost in the current which has been rushing into Bast St. Louis, 111., and the city is filled with water. Nearly all of the 110,000 people fled as the result of the breaking of the embankments. Minnie Barnett, aged 6 years, was struck in the head by a bullet aud killed at Canton, Ohio. The ball was shot by Andrew Leida at a target 500 feet from where the girl was standing in lier father’s doorway. Leida surrendered to the police. Arthur Lyons, who murdered his stepmother. Mrs. Addle Lyons, near Burns City, Ind.. committed suicide while surrounded by a posse near Burns CityAfter the fugitive bad exhausted bis ammunition he waved a flag of truce, stepped into full view of the pone and ■hot himself in the heart with his rifle.

EASTERN.

Albert Meyer, who «ii attacked wltk glanders, is dead at Newark, N. J., after terrible suffering. Society girls at Newport, R. !., have introduced the style of wearing their hair flowing down their backs, and it promises to become the fashion.

Miss Mary Morse, daughter of Henry G. Morse, president of the New York Shipbuilding Company, was married to Harry A. Horner, standing beside the coffin of her father.

Mayor Low announced that the Jerome Park reservoir, oil which New York City already has rpent millions, is unsafe. It is estimated that the cost of repairs will exceed $500,000. Clergymen of all denominations in New York are to form a union to check the alarming tide of divorces. Figures show that 500,000 divorces have been granted in the United States in twenty years.

An epidemic of lockjaw prevails in Pittsburg. Five deaths occurred within three days, an.d jioother patient is in a critical condition. All the victims were boys who were injured by the use of\toy pistols. Government Geological Surveyor E. M. Hart of Rlairsville was mistaken for a burglar and killed by Night Watchman Edward Thomas of the Hotel Jefferson, in Jefferson township, Allegheny County, Pa. Thomas is under arrest.

Because of a dispute resulting 'from the stonemasons' refusal to join the bricklayers’ union, Pittsburg builders have suspended operations to the extent of throwing 4,000 men out of work, and within a few days 29,000 may be out. Fire at Philadelphia in the building occupied by the Vega Dress Suit Case Company destroyed nearly $50,000 worth of property. Cunningham At Seals’ wool warehouse and I’. E. Baxter’s shirt factory were damuged. The loss is covered by insurance. Fire occurred in the plant of the Buffalo Storage and Carting Company in Buffalo, enveloping the four lower floors of the six-story buildipg. A large amount of freight belonging to the Lake Shore Railroad Company is stored in the building. The loss will he heavy. Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the National Consumers’ league, in an address, said child labor conditions in Pennsylvania were worse than at any other filaee in the world, not excepting Russia. She cited facts to show that in the State there are 1(5,000 children between the ages of 13 and It) employed at hard labor.

The explosion of a large quantity of lodine in the laboratory of the wholesale drug house of W. J. Gilmore Ai Co. in Pittsburg, caused the burning of seven persons. One young woman, Minnie Prim, was perhaps fatally hurt by jumping from a third-story window. G. Hutchins; the ehemi.t, was dangerously burned and may die. For the alleged embezzlement of $75.000 from the funds of the District of Columbia James M. Watson, Jr., n clerk in the office of the auditor of the district, was placed under arrest. The specific charge was the embezzlement of SB,OOO, but it is known that the total amount missing will reach at least to the figure first named and may exceed it. A column of water, which witnesses describe ns a waterspout and towering higli in the air, struck a crowded elevated train as it was crossing the Jamaica bay trestle near Rockaway. The water fell on the third and fourth cars, flooding the platforms and sending a torrent of water into the cars. Fifty people were drenched to the skin and all badly frightened.

WESTERN.

The general freight offices of the Erie Railroad are to be moved from Cleveland to Chicago. Seven French nuns exile) from their native land have established u residence in St. Louis. John Flynn, a prosperous farmer of Flathead Comity, Montana, was murdered at La Salle. George Smith, colored, was hanged at Portland, Ore., for the murder of his wife last November. The world’s fair company nt St. Louis lias set apart $250,000 ns prizes in the live stock department. At Tnrkio, Mo., fire destroyed the plant of the Midland Manufacturing Company. Loss $50,000. Colouri Myron T. Herrick, of Cleveland, was nominated for Governor at the Ohio Republican convention. Drought of forty-cigiit days in New England is estimated to have caused a loss to farmers of $70,000,000.. James Wright, alleged murderer of three boys nt Salt Lake City in 1805, is under arrest at South Maealester, I. T. The diocese of Colorado of the Episcopal Church has voted down a resolution to recommend to the General Assembly a change in the name of the church. A mob attempted to take n wife murderer fr<sm the officers at Tomah, Wls., but was prevented by the militia aud officers, and the prisoner was taken to Rparta. A hand car was run down by a stock extra near Genoa, Neb., causing the death of Frank Vrovaw wnd John Mckus and fatal injury to W. Steele and M. lkansch. . As a remit of the St. Louis flood at least twenty persons are dead. 25,000 are homeless, several, towns are under water and property worth millions of dollars destroyed. Joseph Kirwin, of Toledo, was found guilty at Cleveland of the murder of Maggie Snedefar, who was found dead In her room and was supposed to have been strangled. Miss Marie Ware, who recently resigned her office of Uuited States commissioner at Eugene, Ore., has been arrested, charged with conspiracy to obtain public lauds by fraud. The Minnesota diocesan council of the Protestant Episcopal Church voted against the proposed change of name as follows: Clergy,.yeas 37, nays 18; laity, yeas 32, nays 52. The Toledo, Ohio Times nnd the Toledo Bee havemnnounced the purchase by the Scripps-Mcßae League of the Toledo Morning Times, the Toledo News and the Toledo Ilee. While swimming near Moss Landing, Cal., three young rrten were caught by the undertow, and before a boat could lie procured were drowned. George Stadley escaped after a hard struggle. A mob at Belleville, Ilk, hanged E. H. Wyatt, a negro, who fatally abet Superintendent of Schools Bertel, who had

refused to renew his certificate as a teacher owing to scandals In his district The wife and infant son of Charles Puett, of Stv Joseph, Mo. f were fatally burned by gasoline. The mother made frantic efforts to save the child by submerging it in a bath tub filled with water. Captain J. C. Reimers, of Cleveland, master of the barge Chattanooga, was run down and instantly killed by a train at Ashtabula, Ohio. Deceased was one of the best known vessel masters on the great lakes. • \ President Lake of the retail coal dealers of Michigan and Indiana, who met at Indianapolis, said the public and newspapers bad been unfair in their criticism of the Coal Dealers’ Association. He had no knowledge of a combine to keep up prices. Fire destroyed the greater part of the business portion of Randsburg, Cal. The blaze started at noon iu the Orpheon Theater and spread rapidly to adjoining business blocks. The loss is SIOO,OOO. Most of the buildings destroyed were of a flimsy character. An east-bound through Santa Fe passenger train front the West which had been delayed four days in Kansas by floods ran into a west-bound Missouri Pacific freight train at Pleasant Hill, Mo. Both engines were badly damaged. One passenger was slightly hurt. Joseph r. Miller of Columbus, Ohio, was convicted by a jury in the United States Court of using the mails to defraud iif connection with an alleged scheme to blackmail prominent business men. His wife is serving a term in the penitentiary for a similar offense. The interior of the Republic Theater, formerly Metropolitan Temple, in San Francisco, was ruined by fire. The damage is estimated at $25,000. Miss Nance O’Neil had just began playing an engagement, and through the efforts of the firemen ifitich of her property was saved.

The Kansas Supreme Court has refused to grant a new trial in the ease of Jessie Morrison, charged with the murder of Clara Wiley Castle three years ago. A dispatch from Eldorado says that Mbs Morrison would be taken into custody at once and returned to the penitentiary. Willis J. Bailey. Governor of Kansas, and Mrs. Ida B. Weede were married in the auditorium of the First Congregational Church at Kansas City, Rev. J. F. Fifieid officiating. There was no music, no ring and no attendants, the ceremony being as simple as it was possible to make it.

A forest fire has been burning in the vicinity of Ely Lake, Minnesota, doing great damage to standing timber and destroying thousands of dollars’ worth of cord wood. Unless rain falls soon the loss of timber will lat enormous, ns fires can be seen burning in a dozen different directions. Word has reached Weiser, Idaho, of the killing at I.ardo of Harry Enimens by 11. M. St. Cyr, an expert mining engineer of note. Ennnens and St. Cyr were partners in a hotel at Lnrdo on the Payette lakes and had a dispute over the division of property. St. Cyr says Emmetts first attacked him, firing three allots.

Rattling wjth a burglar iu the darkness in the basement of his drug store at (591 West Sixty-ninth street. Chicago, Herbert W. Fryer was shot iu the left thigh. Several other bullets fired at him lodged in the door frame above his head. The burglar escaped through a rear basement window without securing anything of value. j Settlement of strikes lias been effected that mean the return to work of 25,000 persons in Chicago, including laundry workers, hotel employes and others. Arbitration was agreed upon to arrange the wage scales in dispute, especially for hotel employes and laundry workers. Laundry owners announce that they will advance their rates. Word has been received from Lethbridge, Mont., of the loss in the recent blizzard of two small sons of J. Derrick, a sheep herder. The father wits six days finding the bodies of the lads and they had been dead eight days before he could get them iuto town for burial. Derrick was living with his children in a tent when the blizzard broke.

It. H. Adams, aged 82 years, who was burned in St. Paul on April 18 in a gasoline explosion which killed liis helper, Mrs. Ida Hawley, died ufter several weeks of intense suffering. His sou was also burned, but lie recovered. Adams was a cousin of President John Quincy Adams, whom he visited in tiie White House when a small boy. At Carthage. Mo., Samuel Mitchell (white), who led the mob that lynched Thomas Gilyard, a negro, at Joplin recently, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Gilyard had killed a policeman who was trying to arrest him. Mitchell was charged with climbing the telegraph pole and adjusting the rope With which Gilyard was hanged. Ed Field nnd John Barnes are still to be tried for their part in the burning of negro houses following the lynching. The business portion of the town ot New Lisbon, Wis., was destroyed almost entirely by fire early Friday morning, nnd the loss is approximately SIOO,OOO. The fire started in Stinson Brothers & Co.'s store nbout midnight. The fire department, with only 200 feet of hose and a small chemical engine, was uuable to cope with the flames, nud Mnuston and Tomah were asked for aid. The largest losses are: Stinson Brothers & Co., sll,500; Cash department store, $5,000; F. E. Hurd, $2,500; A. G. Anderle, $0,000; Moore’s Opera House block, $0,000; Wolf Mercantile Company, $14,000; B. D.‘ Curtis, SO,OOO, nnd O. B. Chester, SII,OOO. ,

SOUTHERN.

From 75 to 100 persons perished in a flood which destroyed big cotton mine, causing a loss of $2,000,000, at Spartanburg, 8. C. James Green killed Jhmes Harris at Dosselt, Tenn., in a dispute which arose over 1 cent. Green used a shotgun. He is in jail at Clinton. William Boston, aged 22, was found dead in the yard of his home, five miles from in hia forehead. The presumption is that he-was shot by burglars. While indorsing a check to pay the premium on a life insurance policy for SIO,OOO which he had just taken ont, J. S. Farrier dropped dead in the Farley Bnnk at Montgomery, Ala. Robert Dennis, a negro, aged about 50, was lynched in the public rquara at Greenville, Misa.. for an attempted attack upon Misa Beulah Bishop, a white

girl and an orphan. A ball game wee postponed forty mlnutea while the player* and most of the spectators joined the lyncher*. Two men are dead and another fatally wounded ne the result of a fight at Eagle Lake, Texas, when City Marshal Kinard and William McDow shot each other to death and Pierce Hammond, a bystandreceived a mortal wound. At he fell McDow said: “We are both done for;, let us die friends." They shook hands and died. The Jim Crow law providing separate compartments for whites and blacks in street cars, which was passed by the recent Tennessee Legislature, was der dared uneotiitituttonal by the State Supreme Court. The court did not go into the merits of the law itself, but declared the act unconstitutional because its caption was not explicit enough.

FOREIGN.

Bashi-Bszouks killed over 200 women and children in the village of Suierdasb, European Turkey. It is understood that the Duke of Argyll has sold lona Island, Hebrides, to the Carthusians, who were recently expelled from the monastery of the Grande Chnrtreuce in France. It is officially announced that the Bolivian government has signed a treuty with Chili, the basis being a cession of the Bolivian coast lands now under the vir-

tual control of Chili, in return for a pecuniary compensation. Dr. Lnnden, a German scientist, says he has proved by experiments that rays reflected from radium enable the blind to see more or less clearly. He instances the cases of two Russian blind boys who permanently regained their sight through the use of these rays. The Transcaspian Territory is threatened with a famine in consequence of the plague of locusts. The pests have appeared in such numbers that it is impossible to protect the grain and fruit crops from their ravages. Famine already prevails in Turkestan. In consequence of the opposition to the municipal enfranchisement of colored men, the government at Pretoria, Transvaal, has decided to amend the munici pal ordinance to exclude aliens as well as colored men, thus restricting the franchise to white British subjects. A terrible shipping disaster occurred n a little distance from Marseilles, when two passenger steamers, . the Insulaire and the Liban; both belonging to the FraisEenet Steamship Company of Marseilles, came into collision. The Liban sank and over 100 of her passengers and crew perished. Vandalism on the part of visitors to the recently floated Spanish cruiser Reina Christina*, sunk by Dewey, Is reported iu Manila. It is said the visitors have taken bones of dead Spaniards for relics. The Christina was thought to have had $200,000 in gold on board, but it was not found.

The rebellious Zenaga tribesmen who recently attacked and tried to ambush Governor General Joimart and his escort were given, a severe punishment by French artillery. Figuig, their stronghold on the eastern border of Morocco, was under heavy bombardment for three hours. Great destruction was wrought to the cheap houses, the mosque was destroyed and a great number of natives suffered death.

A hurricane has swept over the Philippine Islands and great damage has been done to shipping. The United States transport Shamshus is reported to have been wrecked. This, however, has not been confirmed. The United States steamer Pearla de Visayas has been totally lost off Camotes Island. Part of her crew were saved. The United States steamer Haurnfel and the schooner Mayflower have been driven ashore off Orinoc, West Leyte, and will prove total losses. All on board these vessels were saved.

IN GENERAL.

Fire destroyed twenty-eight houses in the suburb of the City of Hull, Ont., causing a los-s of $40,000, with no insurance. Full control of the Eastern Illinois line has been obtained by the Rock Island people, as shown at the annual electiou of the Eastern Illinois road. Augustine Menende, a member of one of the first families of Havana, has been sentenced to twelve years iq prison for the murder of Gregoria Altazarra after a quarrel in a case. Dun’s review of trade says weather conditions proved the only drawback during the business week. Railroad earnings are heavy and trade is encouraging in the principal cities. W. I. Idelmau, deputy collector of United States customs at the boundary of the Forty-Mile River, is in jail at Eagle City, Alaska, charged with embezzlement. His reported shortage is $40,000. It is announced authoritatively that Secretary of the Navy Moody would not remain in the cabinet longer than the present term of President Roosevelt. Mr. Moody expects then to resume the practice of law. In an interview in Paris Senator Elkins announced that he would introduce a bill at the next session of Congress to decrease import duties 10 per cent on goods carried in American ships and increasing it a like amount if shipped In foreign bottoms. The sash and door factory and planing milla of Davidson & Thackeray, the printing and lithographic establishment of Mortimer & Co. and nbout ten houses in Queen street were burned to the ground at Ottawa, Ont. The loss is estimated at $400,000. Twenty-five houses are in ashes and a financial loss « more than $300,000 has resulted from the fire which swept through Hopewell Cape, N. B. For two or twee days flames had been devouring the woods, in sections, and then they rushed down on the town. Two large whf*e whales, rare specimens in Atlantic const waters, are reported to be imprisoned in the Bras d’Or Lakes, Cape Breton. They arc supposed to have entered the lakes in pursuit of mackerel schools. Cape Breton fishermen are making great efforts to capture one of them. A report has been received at the War Department from General Sanger, who has charge of the census of the Philippines, in which he states that the work of taking the census of the islands is progressing. General Sanger says the reports thus far received indicate t Christian population of 7.000,000. Tbs population of Manila in round numbers it 220,000.

FLOOD SWEEPS CITY.

RIVER BREAKS EMBANKMENTB AT EABT ST. LOUIS. Thirty to Fifty People Are Reported Drowned—Residents Aroused la the Night by Belie end Whistle# Flee front Their Hones in Panic. Thirty lives are believed to have been lost iu tire current which rushed into East St. Louis Wednesday morning. Nearly all of tire 30,000 people fled as the result of the breaking of the embankments which had stood between the Min-f-Lsippi flood and the busy town on the eastern bank of the river, and Wednesday afternoon fully a fourth of the city was submerged. Factory whistles and men shouting through megaphones awakened people in the southern section of East St. Lotllis in the middle of the night, and they fled to the north end, leaving homes and goods behind. Before noon a break was reported in the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern levee at the north, and the whole city was'in danger. A long profession of disheartened, homeless residents whose houses are from two to five feet under water wended their way acrn«». the great Eads bridge, reeklngHfarety on the Missouri side. Others, panic-stricken, ran about the streets knowing not whither to go. The river rose to 37.9 feet, and the army of levee builders no longer could heal the breaks. Business was suspended and the city hall, filled with flood victims, was entered by the water. Bridge the Only Way Oat.

Women with children in arms, men carrying household furniture, horsey dogs and cats were in the streets. At sunrise the Eads bridge was virtually the only, means of crossing the river open to the throng. Traffic to East St. Louis from the west side was suspended and policemen turned back all who attempted the trip. The umthern half of East St. I.ouis was deepest in the flood, and 2,600 men fell back on Missouri avenue in the attempt to save the remainder of the city, menaced by swelling waters from three sides. A hours before the break in the levee Ned Roberts, a negro employed as a levee builder, was killed by members of the levee patrol for attempting to tear down a part of- the dike. His act was the result of anger because he was not allowed to draw his pay at once. An appeal from Mayor Cook to Lieut. Gov: Northcott for State troops to aid in guarding property was answered with the promise that details of militia would be sent to East St. I,ouis at once. Relief boats started from St. Louis for East St. Louis enrly Wednesday morning. By order of Park Commissioner Aull the fikiffs used for recreation on the park lake were collected, to be sent to the east side on a ferryboat. During the forenoon the water was threatening the north and east sides, preserved temporarily by the Baltimore and Olii.o Southwestern Railroad embankment, and had reached the viaduct only seven blocks east of the city hall. In the city hall a foot and a half of water had collected. It is believed many families in first -story cottages awoke when it was too late to escape. Levee workers who lay down to rest on the embankment, worn out with hard labor, were caught by the flood and drowned like rats. It may neyer be learned how many died in this way. • Messengers Aronse People. When the break occurred warnings were sent first through the Dexter addition by messengers, who discharged firearms, blew liorus and shouted in stentorian tones. Lights gleamed In houses where the occupants had retired, confident that the embankment would hold. Persons scantily attired emerged from their homes, and in a few momenta the whole populace of the low district were fleeing to higher ground. As the noise of the approaching flood was heard, the flight, at first a rapid retreat with a semblance of order, became a panic. AH efforts to assure the people that there was time to escape unless a gap was washed through the embankment failed, and most of them fled without making an effort to rave property. Messengers were sent to the main section of the city telling of the danger from the new point of attack. As the bottoms tilled and the river gained a larger entrance the terror in the business section grew intense. It was all the greater because of the darkness and the fear that while guard was maintained in one direction the torrent would break through at another point and engulf the luckless inhabitants. By the thousands people deserted their- homes and ran up nnd down the streets seeking a place of succor. Seven miles of water, pressing from the sonth and :«outheast, overcame the city’s line of defense shortly before 1 o'clock iq. the morning, and 5,000 persons were driven from their homes. ODe thousand men were working on the part of the levee which broke.'For several hours before the final break they had the assistance of hundreds of women and children.

The-crevnsse appeared at the St. Louis Valley crossing of the Illinois Central embankment, two miles south of the Relay station. While as many men, women and children as could stand on the embankment were heaping sandbags be* tween the rails to prevent the menacing waters from going over the top, the resistless current broke through the lower part of the wall of earth and spurted in rivulets into the faces of those who were carrying sandbags up the bank. Bags thrown into the openings by dozens of mei} were tossed aside by the water like feathers. The workers fled from their useless task and the alarm was given by ringing of bells and blowing of whistles in every part of the city. A few of the workers on the embankment remained at their posts until the -current compelled them to swim for their lives. Awakened families saw the water in the streets and when they were ready to leave the flood was at their window sills. All fled to the north. The Mercur, a weekly paper published by a group of young literary men ir Strasbnrg. was recently confiscated on the charge of lese majeste. A radical student named Hans Pagel. the responsible editor of the paper, thereupon shot and killed himself and his sweetheart. A damaged footballer has just been fitted at a London hospital with a celutoid nose.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

“The elements provided the only unfavorable development# of the week, and.

New York.

while the:# may not prove far reaching in their effect, their first result is seen in greater conservatism. Dispatches regarding trade conditions at the leading cities are generally encouraging. Railway earnings in May were 12.7 per cent larger than last year and 25.4 per cent greater than in 1901," according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade, Continuing, the report say#: “There is still an inclination to defer the placing of contracts for iron and steel. The United States Steel Corporation has bought 105.000 tons of pig iron, chiefly for delivery during the third quarter, but the recent readjustment of quotations has not stimulated general activity in the industry. On the contrary, there is still hope for further concessions, and buyers are disposed to get the full benefit. “Importations are no longer encouraged and domestic producers are prepared to accept more export orders then was possible when home markets were under great pressure. Railway improvements and extensions are again under consideration, and much work will be done when confidence is restored regarding the labor situation.

“Textile industries show no material improvement. Sellers of cotton goods are unwilHng to accept contracts for distant delivery and even in immediate business there is little disposition to accept the prices offered. Interior trade reports are less favorable. Western business being affected by floods, while droughts in the East and numerous strikes restrict consumption. Conditions as to woolen goods are practically unchanged. “Prospects continue bright in the footwear industry. The average of domestic hides is again higher, and Colorado* sold on a par with native steers. “Failures this week hi the United States 182, against 200 last week, 119 the preceding week nnd 218 the corresponding week last year, and in Canada 24, against 7 last week, 14 the preceding week and 16 last year.”

Ecadstreet’a Trade Review. “War country's foreign trade promise* well, failures are down to a low minimum, and bank clearings, though reduced by dullness in stock speculation, point to record totals outside of a few important speculative centers. "Numerous strikes in the building trades limit demand for lumber, brick, builders’ hardware, nnd, in fact, all classes of building material, but structural material remains surprisingly good in view of this. It is stated on good author--ity that the coal trade was never in better shape than nt the present, and the consumer continues to pay freely the entire cost of last year’s great strike. “Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending June 4 aggregate 4,708,5)05 bushels, against 4.677,078 last week, 4.600,055 this week last year and 6.0-44,-644 in 1901. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 210,280,805 bushels against 238.024,00Ma5t year and 200.501.039 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 1,013.871 bushels, against 1.179,739 last week, 86,254 a year ago and 2,455,102" in 1901. For the fiscal year exports are 62,450.712 bushels against 25.980.851 lar-t season and 107,024,209 in 1901.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.15; hogs, shipping grades, $5.00 to $0.10; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 ml, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2,46 cto 48c; oats, Nor 2,32 c to 34e* rye. No. 2,49 cto 50c; hay. timothy, $8.50 to $17.00; prairie, $6.00 to $14.50; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c, potatoes, 05c to 80e per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.15; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.85; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn. No, 2 white, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 38c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.20; hogs, $5.00 to $6.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 77c; corn. No. 2, 49c to 51c; oats, No. 2. 38c to 39c; rye. No. 2,50 cto 51c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $4.90; hogs, $4.00 to $0.15; sheep, $3.50 t 054.00; $4.00; wheat. No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 48c to 49c; oals. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 30c; rye. No. 2,50 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.40: sheep, $2.30 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2,70 cto 77c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 47c to 48c; oats. No. 3 white, 38c to 39c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 82c to 83c; corn. No. 3,48 cto 49c; oats. No. 2 white, 30c to 37c; rye, No. 1,51 c to 53c; barley, No, 2,58 cto 59e; pork, mesa, $17,00. * v No. 2 mixed, 74c to 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c: rye. No. 2,52 c to 54c; clover seed, prime, $7.70. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steer?, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, fair to choice. $4.00 to $5.00; lambs, commou to choice, $4.00 to $7.50. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.45; hogs, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.15; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; corn. No. 2,57 cto 5Sc: oats, No. 2 white, 41c to 43c; butter, creamery, 20e to 22c; eg**, western, 15c to 18c.

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