Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1903 — Page 6

Mam dmi P. E. BABCOCK. PuMtohcr. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Reports from the West of Ireland, Lancashire and other points state that thousands of acres of potatoes have been ruined by frost and rain. It is feared that the failure of the Irish potato crop will cause great hardship to the peasants. The wholesale boot and shoo firm of Lanikin & Foster of Boston has been attached by creditors. The estimated liabilities are between $(100,000 and $700,000,, while the assets are nominally the same. The cause# of the trouble are not stated. George Howard McDonald, a Boston laborer, is said to have been positively identified ns the sole heir to $2,000,000 cash and gold-mining claims valued at many times more left by an uncle, William McDonald, who died recently in California. lowa Democrats in convention refused to indorse the silver platform us framed by W. J. Bryan and his followers at Kansus City three years ago. A full State ticket, headed by Jeremiah B. Sullivan, of Creston, for Governor, , was nominated. 5,As a result of the visit of the Liberty Bell to Massachusetts a movement has been started to send Plymouth JUoek on a tour of the country, to visit all the large eitky. The idea has been received enthusiastically by the guardians of the rock in Plymouth, Maas. Miss Blanche Boies, convicted of smashing saloon windows in Topeka, Kan., on Feb. 14 last, was sentenced by District Judge Hazen to thirty days in the county jail and to pay n fine of SIOO. Miss Boies is n follower of Carrie Nation, the tenipt>ranee reformer. King Peter I. of Bervia entered Belgrade, his capital, amid noisy demonstrations of welcome by the people, much of which, however, was due to the. stage management of the officials in charge of the celebration. The king was grave and serious to a marked extent, his speeches were brief and formal. The clubs iu the Natiouui League are Standing thus: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg . . .119 17 Cincinnati . . .114 20 New York.. . .150 17 Boston ..... .20 011 Chicago 30 20 Philadelphia. . 15 30 Brooklyn ....27 24 St. Louis .10 40 Following Is the standing of the clubs in the Atnerican League: W. L. W. L. Boston 1515 21 Chicago 25 24 Philadelphia .32 22 New York... .22 25 St. IvOtiis 20 21 Detroit 22 27 Cleveland .. .27 24 Washington.. .14 37 The private bank of L. K. Minteli at Cary. 111., was robbed early Wednesday morning of about $3,000 iu money, besides some uotes ami securities. About 2 o’clock a loud explosion aroused the town, ami two men were seen running in the direction of Fox river. Investigation disclosed the bank safe wrecked by dynamite ami papers mid books scattered over the floor. A posse was organized by Anton Piclien, chief of police, and, divided into squad#, began a search of the entire surrounding country. It is supposed the robbers went down the river in a boat. Carey is on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's St. Paul division, about forty miles from Chicago. The windows of several houses were broken by the dynamite explosion. The Mayor of Cary rang the town hell, uml in ten minutes the entire population was gathered about the wrecked building. A slight description of the men lias been furnished the searchers by Mrs. James Wolff, who saw them at the hank in Gary. There were two of the robbers. One appeared to be dressed like a prosperous merchant; the other had a suit of rough clothes and a wide-brimmed sombrero of light color;

BREVITIES.

At Atlantic City the International League. of Press Clubs re-elected M. I’. Curran, of Host on, president. Labor unions plan 11 strike an nil building operations in (ireater New York as retaliation against the' employers. Widows and widowers of Hudson County, New Jersey, have fornfed a club, the prime object being the amelioration of the lot of its member.-. The death rate at Manila has decreased from -KI.NO per 1,000 population for the first quarter of 1000 to 22.17 for the first quarter of 1903. Negotiations for a trade with China opening Manchuria ports are dead-lock-ed, because the Chinese commissioners propose to omit Moukdeu. Taku Shan and llnrhin. Joint W. Pace, nu Alabama planter, pleaded guilty to eleven indictments on charge of peonage and was sentenced to live years’ imprisonment in each case, to be served concurrently. At Canton, Ohio. Miss Ida Barber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. llarlter, hnd niece of Mrs. McKinley, became the of Luther, second son l>f Supreme Court Justice William K. Dgy. The special session of the Legislature called by Gov. Bailey to enact a Hood relief measure lias begun in Topeka, Ivan., enough members having arrived to assure a quorum in both houses. Has escaping from a range in the kitchen at Hu* home of John Davidson in Chicago earned the death of one tnau, while the householder, his wife and 0-year-old son had a narrow escape. Edwin • Howell, former teller of the Fjrst National Bank of Cripple Creek, Colo., was sentenced to serve live years in the Fort Leavenworth penitentiary. Howell had pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzlement of SI,OOO front the bank. The Mississippi board of election commissioner.; ordered a State primary election to be held Aug. 0. This action means that the next United States Senator from Mississippi will be chosen by popular ballot. Senator Money and (Joy. Longiuo are candidate*. While the tug l’riciiln, with a number Of excursfqniiits on board 1 , wjjt catering her wharf at San Francisco J. I>. Paulson, a bookkeeper, aged .'Pi years, and Edward Bellinger, a bartender, aged 24 year;, began a scuffle in a friendly way and both fell in the bay aud were drowned. < -

EASTERN.

Ths Junger Maennerchor of Philadelphia won the Kaiser prize in'nbe saengvrfest at Baltimore. Will Van Benthuyaen, managing editor •f the New York World, ia dead. He waa well known in .Chicago, where he was connected with the Tribune. The Lowell (Mass.) textile workers’ strike has been declared off and 17,000 operative# will resume work ut former pay. About $1,300,000 were lost in wages. Patrick H. Flynn, nrgnnizpr of the Interurban system at New York, admitted on the witness stand that he paid $150,000 blackmail and said it was often done in large enterprises. Standing in the river with water up to their shoulders, firemen at Rochester, N. Y„ fought a fire in the wholesale liquor house of Fee Brothers that caused a loss of $ 175,000. Bishop ,7. C. Hartzell of the Methodist Episcopal Church sailed from New York on the Germanic on his seventh four of Inspection of the African mission field. The tour will cover 30,000 miles. By a headon collision of a light engine and a freight train on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, near Whitehall, N. Y’., a brakemun named Fred Ryan and Fred Bellegarde. a fireman, were killed.

The Power Imliding at Buffalo, adjoining the I«yceiun Theater, was destroyed by fire. The loss is $150,000. Smoke in the theater made it necessary to bring the play to un abrupt end. Otto Tbomert, an electrical expert from Germany, was instantly killed by touching a live wire while inspecting a new switchboard for the Germantown Electric Light Company, at Philadelphia. Major James Burton Pond, famous as a manager of lecturers and singers, died at his home in Jersey City as the result of an operation, in which his right leg was amputated. He had been ill for a month. In less than a month there have been at least four deaths, of men from glanders in Massachusetts. The board of health, fearing an epidemic, is making every effort to prevent the spread of the disease. The schooner Martha T. Thomas was rammed and nearly sunk iu Massachusetts Bay by the battleship Massachusetts on a clear night. The cargo of pine prevented its sinking. An investigation is likely. Three men who pleaded guilty when arraigned in a Jersey City court for harboring slot machines used for gambling purposes in their places of business have been fined $2,000, $1,150 and SSOO respectively. Gov. Bates of Massachusetts vetoed the eight-hour day hill on the ground that it meant an added burden of expense to the taxpayers. The hill reduced the hours of labor on all public works from nine to eight a day. A section of the tunnel near the foot of State street,-Boston, weakened by the action of the compressed air used in connection with the excavating work, caved in and a Polish laborer was killed and another injured. The attempted lynching of George White, the negro alleged to have murdered Helen Bishop near Wilmington, Del., was prevented by the workhouse prison warden. The girl’s family advised againnt violence. Attorney Robert A. Atnmon, who defended “Syndicate” ‘Miller of New York, one of the first “get-rich-quick” promoters, lias been found guilty of knowingly receiving stolen money and must serve a term in prison. Andrew D. White, in address at semicentennial of his cluss at Yale, railed upon wealthy Americans to give $14,000.OUO to endow professorships and fellowship* in American universities to fit youth for office holding. Jennie 15. Stover, n bright, pretty girl who attended the Meriden, Conn., high school, is dead from peritonitis caused by overexertiou at basketball. She wus a member of the champion girls’ team, though only 15 years old. An order handed down by the Superior Court at New Haven, Conn., lias made it possible for t lie - linal link to lie completed in a chain connecting trolley lines between New York City and Boston, a half mile at Westport, Conn., alone excepted.

WESTERN.

The American Flint Glass Bottle Com* pony’s $150,000 plant was destroyed by fire at Sunmiitville, Ind. Safe blowers blew open the safe in the post office at Colfax, 111., securing S2OO in cash and S2OO in stamps. • J. Ogden Armour lias given $150,000 to Armour Institute in Chicago; gift was announced at ■*commencement exercises. Fire in the live-story building of the Avery Manufacturing Company at Omaha did damage estimated at .upward of $70,000. The American Derby was run at Chicago Saturday in 2:33,- It was w,Qjn by The Picket, with Claude second and Bernays third. George Durham and Fred Underwood were banged at Clarksville, Ark., for the murder of Sheriff John H. Powers, Feb. 5, 1002. The San Diego, Cal., Union announces that U. S. Grunt is a candidate for the Republican- nomination for Vice-Presi-dent next year. A posse is hunting for two negroes who attempted to hold up two bridge workers and killed one of them near Sherman, Kan. Five men were killed by an explosion which completely wrecked mine No. 3 of the Raton Coal and Coke Company at Bloasbnrg, N. M. A mob at Peoria. 111., attempted to lynch a negro who murdered a detective, but was foiled by the determined attitude of the Sheriff. In a collision between two Missouri Pacific freight trains at Pole Junction, Sic., four men were killed and one was dangerously injured. Twenty persons were injured by fire-' works bomb found in the street and ignited in front of 1154 Clybourn avenue, Chicago, by John McNally. The discovery of coal at Willow River, near Duluth, Minn., is causing some excitement. The new find is high grade bituminous, suitable for cooking. Ten persons lost their lives when, the Oinaha-Chieago limited, on the Illinois Central, collided head-on with n freight train just west of Raymond, lowa. in a collision between two Spring arenas street cars at Fourteenth and Carr

streets. St. Louis, a dozen passenger* were injured, two of them seriously. J. A. Edgerton of Denver issued a call for a meeting at Denver July 27 of reform advocates for the purpoae of trying to amalgamate the reform movements of the country. Bandford Northrop, nephew of the late Jay Gould, committed suicide at St. Louis by shooting. Melancholia is blamed. His wife and daughter were at Atlantic City. M. J. McMasters, proprietor of a rear taurant at Plain City, Ohio, lost hie life in an attempt to rescue his 11-year-old son from n burning building. The boy died later of burns. Fire in the business section of Boise, Idaho, caused a loss of $140,000. The principal losers are the Northrop Hardware Company. Armour & Co. and John L. Day &, Co., grocers. Karl May, a young banker of Council Bluffs, was accidentally shot and killed, lie was preparing for a hunting trip when his gun was discharged, the bullet passing through his heart. John A. McAuley, a real estate dealer and builder, filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States courts at Columbus. Ohio. His liabilities are scheduled at $00,(539 and assets at $7,705. Fifteen Canyon City (Colo.i convicts overpowered the guards, seized the warden's wife as a shield, blew the gate open, and escaped. The guards killed one, wounded two, and captured all. At San Francisco fire did $125,000 damage in the warehouse of Cunningham, Curtis & Welch. Other principal sufferers were the Louis Roesch Company and the Union Lithographic Company. The Modern Woodmen’s convention in Indianapolis adopted the lowa plan for the readjustment of rates by a vote of 215% to 1(56. This provides for a graded increase ranging from 35 per cent to 100 per cent. The large new Avery building as Omaha was gutted by fire, the Racine Wagon and Carriage Company losing $20,000 on stock and the Avery Manufacturing Company losing about $25,000 On the building. Sherman Bell, adjutant general of Colorado and former “Rough Rider,” was married at Colorado Springs to Mrs. Essie Carter. They will spend their honeymoon at the White House at the invitation of the President. E. J. Arnold, under several indictments in connection with the operation of get-rich-quick concerns in St. Louis, surrendered to the authorities. He went to police headquarters accompanied by his wife and attorney. Creditors of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Coal Company of Brazil, lud., have applied for a receiver. Some of the stockholders reside in Chicago. There are claims filed against the company aggregating $6,000. Rev. Frank Hayes, a superannuated Methodist minister, died from exposure and hunger endured at North Topeka, Kan., during the recent flood. His house was surrounded by water # and he was without food for four days. T. 15. Gerow, director of the Kansas free employment bureau, has received final estimates us to the number of outside harvest hands to be needed this year. The total number foots up to 28,100. One man was killed and five persons and thirteen horses were injured in a collision in East St. Louis between passenger trains of the Illinois Central and Big Four railroads. The accident occurred near the approach to the Eads bridge. The ninety-second anniversary of the battle of Tippecanoe was observed near Lafayette, lud. Memorial services were held on the battle ground and the soldiers' graves were decorated. An address was made by Gen. John C. Black of Chicago.

The directors of the public library have notified Andrew Carnegie that they have complied with the conditions of his offer of $1,000,000 for libraries for St. Louis. Mr. Carnegie has replied expressing pleasure at the way the city has performed its part. Robbers -dynamited the Pennsylvania Railroad safe in the station nt Struthers, Ohio, and secured SI,OOO in money, after cutting the railroad and telephone wires, and escaped. The vault of the Struthers Furnace Cdt'npany Was also broken into and SO7 secured. At Owatonna. Minn., the jury in the Ivrier murder case returned u verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Charles and Henry Nelson were on trial for killing Harry H. Krier on April 13. William A. Sutton, their accomplice, turned State’s evidence. After a conference with Attorney General Knox, President Roosevelt signed an order removing Judge Daniel H. McMillan of the Supreme Court of New Mexico on charges of general immorality. Judge Clement O. Smith of Hastings, Mich., has been named to succeed him. Will Zimmerman, aged 20 years, tried to loop the loop at a circus in Indianapolis in place of Ray Stevens, who is again laid up with broken ribs from the feat, but fell from the top and fractured his skull. He will die. The authorities will stop the trials. A Great Northern train of sixty cars loaded with coal .got beyond the control of the engineer and tore through Spokane. Wash., nt a frightful speed, finally jumping the track. Three persons were killed and nine injured, and one is missing. Three buildings were wrecked. The second aud third floors of the eastern half of the Skidmore block, at Fifth and Minnesota streets, St. Paul, occupied by the F. G. Leslie Paper Company, collapsed under heavy pressure, causing a loss of about SB,OOO. The accident occurred iu the night and no one was hurt. The strike of the Union Electric Company's conductors and motoruien at Dubuque was settled through the good offices of the municipal affairs committee of the Dubuque Chib. The company agrees not to discriminate against union men, aud made other important concessions. The harvest of the famous Pottawatomie County, Okla., spring potato crop has begun. The crop is one of the best ever raised. The loss from high water will not exceed 5 per cent of the acreage. The price now ia 80 cents a bushel, almost twice the price paid last year. William H. Henderson, former judge of the St. Louis Probate Court, aud John I). Johnson, a prominent attorney, after a war of words In the Probate Court room in St. Louis, came to blows, and Judge Henderson knocked Attorney Johnson prostrate and caused the blood to flow. Judge Crews finally restored or-

der, after which the two shook hand#, apologised and the case was resnmod. The mills and elevator of the Arkansas City Milling Company at Arkansas City, Kan., were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Tom Yount, an employe, was so badly burned that he died in a few minutes. Major C. H. Beavering. president of the company, was severely burned. Nick Beirich, a German saloonkeeper of Atchison, Kan., was shot and killed tag Theodore McKim, a notorious Kansas City character, as the outcome of a dice game. McKim was mortally wounded later by officers. Charles Long of Quincy, 111., a comrade of McKim, was fatally wounded by the officers. James W. Ellsworth of Chicago has offered $50,000 for an endowment of Western Reserve Academy at Hudson, a part of Western Reserve University of Cleveland. The money is offered on condition that the trustees of Western Reserve University raise $50,000 to provide the academy with a yearly income of $2,500. The Adams & Barber OH Company, of Cleveland, filed voluntary bankruptcy procedings in the United States Court there. The assets are placed at $170,000; liabilities, $331,000. The company-oper-ated extensively in oil lands and controlled many large tracts of property and oil wells in Ohio, West Virginia and other States. White Eagle, the aged chief of the Poncas, resigned and conferred his title upon his son, Tahgy at White Eagle, Ok. The event was made one of great festivity. In honor of the new chief 700 ponies were given away as presents and, 2,000 Indians participated in the sun dance. Thousands of whites witnessed the celebration.

SOUTHERN.

A negro who shot two white men in Mississippi five years ago was found hanging in the woods. St. Stanislaus College was destroyed by fire at Bay St. Louis, Miss. The flames spread so rapidly that the students lost their trunks and clothing. The loss is $65,000. The jury in the Jett-White case reported twice to Judge Red wine at Jackson, Ky., that it was impossible to agree upon a verdict, and was discharged. This will make another trial necessary. A break has in the levee at Hollybrook, La., and flooded thousands of acres of valuable cotton land and made 5,000 people homeless. A large portion of East Carroll and Madison parishes has been submerged. Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, announces that he will punish the men back of the assassinations at Jackson. The special term of the Harrison Circuit Court to try Curtis Jett and Thomas White for the murder of Captain Marcum will be convened at Cynthiana July 27.

FOREIGN.

Aceording to a dispatch received from Tangier, El Menetsiti, the Moorish war minister, has lost 0,000 men in a battle fought with the rebels at Amniedinna. The Turkish war minister has telegraphed to the military authorities in Salonien to prepare provisions for 50,000 troops. A similar dispatch has been sent to Adrianople. Advices from Guam announce the birth there of the first American child on the island. It is a girl aud its father is Paymaster Ryan. The christening was marked by a big celebration, in which the entire community joined. . British consular reports on the recent earthquakes in the vilayet of Vau confirm previous advices* that twenty-three villages were affected aud some destroyed. Seven hundred and eighty-five lives are known to have been lost. King Peter of Servia has been formally recognized by Russia, Italy and Austria, but latter's sovereign practically commands punishment of conspirators who killed King Alexander; there will be an outbreak if he is obeyed. News has been received in Chicago that the Czar of Russia, urged by a delegation of Jews, has relaxed the restrictions against the race prohibiting them from living in villages and within fifty miles of the frontier. Great rejoicing occasioned on receipt of tidings. The United States European squadron, Rear Admiral Cotton in comnjand, arrived at Kiel the other day. The fleet commanded by Admiral. Prince Henry of Prussia, consisting of eight battle ships nnd six cruisers, saluted the American vessels, aud the band of the German flagship played “America.” Twenty men were killed and thirteen injured by an explosion in the lyddite factory at the Woolwich arsenal in England. Several of the victims were literally blown to pieces. The buildiDg was wrecked, the roof was blown off and the interior collapsed. The explosion is attributed to the bursting of a shell. There were many pathetic scenes about the gates of the great arsenal, where thousands of relatives of employes besieged the officials for information.

IN GENERAL.

Former President Grover Cleveland has broken his silence and declared that he does not wont the nomination for the presidency. A Chicago teamster, with three companions, washed out $205,000 in gold from Klondike placer claim, breaking the record for a day’s “clean-up.” R. G. Dun & Co. report merchandise distribution hindered by weather, with trade generally satisfactory; June railroad earnings 5.8 per cent over 1902. The emigration figures for May, 1903, show that more than twice as many persons emigrated from Denmark to America as during the same period last year, and the “American fever” shows no signs of abating. The Toronto and Niagara Power Company of Niagara Falls has called for bids on what will be the largest power wheel pit in the world. It is to be 480 feet long, 180 feet deep and 27 feet wide, cut through the solid rock. The work will cost $1,250,000 and will develop 225<000 horse power. Important changes, it is asserted, are pending in the Vanderbilt railroad system*. President Ledyard of the Michigan Central la to retire Aug. 1, and W. H. Newman, president of the New York Central and the Lake Shore roada, will be made the president of the Michigan Central. This ia but the beginning of other changes. The Michigan Central, it ia added, will lose its identity.

POSTAL SCANDAL GROWS.

Bristow** Kxpm* off Corruption Stirs tk# Capitol. Postmaster General Payne Wednesday announced the summary dismissal of Jams* T. Metcalf, chief of the money order division. Mr. Metcalf has been in the employ of the department for ths last twenty-one gears, moat of the time in the money order division, of which he haa been chief for several years. For efficiency, honesty and integrity he haa had an enviable record. The division under his charge handles annually enormous sums of money, last year the ■mount of money orders reaching $700,-000,-000, and the loss through fraud haa been Infinitesimally email. Action in the case of Metcalf was taken after President Roosevelt had bfc*n consulted by Postmaster General Payne and a full investigation of the case will be made later. The dismiisal la the result of acta of Mr. Metcalf in opposition to the bid of Paul Herman of Rutherford, N. J., the lowest bidder by $45,000, and in favor of the next highest bidder, the Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford Company of New York, of which Mr. Metcalf’s son is an employe. Mr. Met<hdf indignantly denies being influenced by this fact and claims that he was actuated solely by his desire to eee the government best served. In connection with the new developments Postmaster General Payne made public all the documents and reports of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow bearing on the Tulloch charges as they are known. The features of those documents are: Mr. Psyns In a memorandum aocompanytog the report ssrys some of Tulloeh'a charges are directed against the late President McKinley, who needs no defense, and against former Postmaster General Smith, who has replied for himself. The report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow tells In detail how the Inquiry was started at the time the Washington postoffice was transferred from Postmaster Mlllett to Postmaster Merritt. Various exhibits are attached to the report composing the results of Investigations by inspectors showing that efforts were made by Mr. Beg vers and others to have irregularities overlooked, and that In one case the names of Perry S. Heath and of the Postmaster General himself were used to back up threats. The Inspector, It Is shown, urged "that the responsibility for the many illegal appointments, the payment of two salaries to one and the same person, and the disbursement of thousands of dollars for which praotlcalaly no service waa performed, should be placed where it properly belongs and the many abuses corrected.”

MANY MILLIONS INVOLVED.

Ktw York City to Sue 1,000 Tenement Owners. In New York suits are being prepared in the corporation counsel's office against no less than 1,000 tenement owners for alleged violations of a sanitary clause of tits tenement house law. Expenditures aggregating perhaps $10,000,000 binge on these suits. Tenement bouse owners have as a rule found no fault with the provisions of the law. Now, however, the first serious concerted attempt to nullify a provision of the tenement house act is to be made. All the alleged violations of the sanitary clause occur in structures built under the provisions of the old law, since the so-called “new law” buildings are inspected so thoroughly as their constraeffop progresses that any illegal attempt <> n the part of a builder ia straightway detected and remedied. But it is not the provisions relating to or air or a score of other important regulations which have led to the combination to fight the law; it is solely a matter of sanitation. Differences of opinion exist aa to the number of tenements against which violation is chargeable. The property owners concerned estimate that no less than fi.QOO houses are affected, while the Tenement House Commission places the number at about 0,000. Argument also has arisen as to the cost of remedying aach case, the owners stating that It would be about $2,000, while the Tenement House Commission believes SI,OOO to be a liberal estimate. From the viev,point of the property owner, 9,000 houses each subjected to an expenditure of $2,000 would mean to ths»~ a cost of $ 18,000,000. The estimate of cost made by the Tenement House Commission is said to be about $6,000,000. It is contended by the men who own the tenement houses which are nnder the ban of the law that a change from the sanitary conditions complained of would involve a useless expense, since no more healthfulness might be obtained thereby.

THE RAILROADS

President Ramsey of the Wabash ia quoted aa declaring that the Gould lines east of Toledo will be consolidated within tke present year. There is to be no further reduction ia wool rates this season. It is understood that an agreement haa been reached by the rail and water associations. It is announced that the Big Fonr will begin doable-tracking the road on that part of the St. Leuis division between Terre Haute and Indianapolis at once. An official of the Soo line states that the work of replacing the light rails which have been in use. several years with heavy steel is to be carried throughoat the lines west of Minneapolis. At a recent meeting of the per diem committee of the American Railway Association at Cincinnati it was decided that if cars are delivered, there ia to be no per diem charge on them, even if waybill is not at band. Requests are coming to Chicago from the great railroad centers in the East for young men to take positions as stenographers in the offices. Of the roads. Young men are wanted who have both the ambition and the capacity to fill the Important places in the management of the roada in the next ten or fifteen years. There is a dearth of this character of help in the East. There ia decided preference for men as stenographers in most rtfilroad offices because of the policy being pursued which makes this position the avsoM for promotion to responsible places.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

v T - ] “Unseasonably low temr N6W TOrlL Peraturcs, together with " excessive precipitation at many points, have retarded the distribution of merchandise. Taking the country as a whole, however, the net result has been satisfactory, better crop prospects accelerating forward business and enlarging order lists of manufacturer*. Railway earnings thus far reported for June exceed last year’s by 5.8 per cent and those of 1901 by 14.8 per cent.” R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review ot Trade makes the foregoing summary of the industrial situation. Continuing, theReview says: ' Conditions in the iron and steel industry are sufficiently confusing to prevent any definite tendency, although factor* calculated to produce weakness appear to* preponderate. Special sales of imported pig iron have been made at concessions, but this is attributed to delay in tranaportation and a forced sale by owners. Yet a few mouths ago similar concessions were impossible, and it is apparent that the combination of unprecedented bom* production and conservative buying ha* taken control of the situation away from sellers. Three depressing factors have existed: The labor situation, condition of .crops and the decline in prices of stocks, although all have improved and may soon cease to exercise any baleful effect. Meanwhile, uncertainty as to the future course of prices of iron and steel products has become generally acknowledged, and even experts in the industry hesitated to express a decided opinion. Latest reports of imports show a large decrease, except as to ore, while the export trade in finished steel tends to expand. At the cotton mill* there is fair current activity, although spinners, whose stocks of raw material are low, have not only ceased to seek business for future delivery, but refuse to consider propositions. or else place their figures at a prohibitive position. Demands are chiefly limited to immediate consumption. Lower grades of light weight woolens for next spring have been opened at advances of 2% to 5 cents a yard. Reports regarding the footwear industry are satisfactory. Foreign trade is remarkably well maintained, considering the numerous factors that operate. Failures this week were 213 in the United States, against 194 last year, and 24 in Canada, compared with 19 a year ago. _____ The outlook for the crops CfllGdOl is > of course, the paraa mount consideration and in this respect the situation does not admit of clear definition at this time. A few weeks of good or bad weather will mean many millions one way or the other. There is this much clear beyond possible doubt; Chat the crop promise, taking the country as a whole, has been materially lowered. Com is Che bad feature, but with continued good weather may yet do fairly well. In the Northwest there is a splendid outlook, and the good all-around prospect has been nndisturb-' ed until this week, when some nervousness became apparent over reports of dry soil in portions of the Dakotas. Nowhere has there been- nny important damage and a good general rain soon will insure safety, but naturally some anxiety is shown. On the bull markets and advances In wheat prices this week Europe has followed reluctantly and the foreign markets have shown no disposition to catch our enthusiasm. This is qnite natural, gince early in the season we advertised the fact Chat we were to rawe an enormous crop, and this impression having taken root abroad is hard to eradicate, yet as time passes it becomes more and more clear that we are not going to have anything phenomenal in the way of crop results, and that Europe iB going to need all the surplus wheat we may have to ■ell.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.35; hogs, shipping grades, $5.00 to $6.15; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheait, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; com, No. 2,49 cto 50c; oats. No. 2, 35« to 37c; rye, No. 2. 51c to 52c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to £16.00; prairie, SO.OO to $15.50; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, 85c to SI.QS per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.15; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $0,204 sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 white, 50c to 51c; oat*, Np. 2 white, 38c to 39c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.50; hogs, $5.00 to $6.00; steep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 80c; com, No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats. No! 2,41 cto 42c; ry«* No. 2,52 cto 53c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.25 to $5.25; hogs, $4.00 to $0.20; sheep, $3.50 to $4215; wheat. No. 2,79 cto 80c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 S xed, 40c to 41c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.40; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00? wheat, No* 2,77 eto 78c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 50c to 51c; oats, No. 3 white, 40c to 41c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 84c to 85c; corn, No. 3,49 cto 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; rye, No. 1,51 c to 53c; barley, No. 2,59 cto 60c; pork, rnees, $17.00. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c tS 1 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 54c; clorer seed, prime, $6.00. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $6.25; sheep, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 t& $7.00. New York —Caittle, $4.00 to $5.56; bogs, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $6.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; corn. No. 2, 57 cto 58c; oats, No. 2 whits, 45c to 46c; butter, creamery, 20c to 21e; eggs, western, 15c to 18c. i