Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1903 — Page 6

m COUNTY DEHOIT 1 F. B. BABCOCK, Pubitoher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

AROUND THE WORLD

Beea use his son Charles, aged 10, refused to *get up when called William Liard shot ami killed the boy as lie lay in bed at Knoxville, lowa., chased u younger son to the home of a neighbor iii nu attempt to kill him also, and then turned the weapon upon himself with fatal effect. The commissioner of the general land office has authorized the withdrawal from entry under the reclamation net of 090,000 acres of land in connection with the Mud Like irrigation project in Idaho. A portion of the lands h, in the Blaekfoot land district, and the remainder in the Hailey district. While the State board of arbitration was in session at the Sf. Louis world's fair grounds, trying to settle labor disputes, walking delegates went to the site of thp power plant, which is being erected by the American Bridge Company, and called the union men off the job. In a riot that followed two men were seriously hurt. There has been an increase in price of raw sugar in the Hawaiian Islands from 3% to 3 11-10 cents a pound. This is equivalent to an increase of $3.75 a ton. This is said to be due to a greater demand for sugar, because the canning season is ut hand, and also to the report that the sugar raisers of Europe will form a selling combine. Encouraged by a letter from former President Grover Cleveland, the colored people are about to apply for a charter for the “Negro Development and Exposition Company of the United States of America.” This company proposes to raise $1,000,000 by selling stock at $lO a share, and the proceeds will be used to make an exhibit at the Jamestown celebration at Norfolk, Vtv., in 1007. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...53 2*l Brooklyn ....3$ 37 New York.. .46 30 Boston 31 44 Chicago .... .40 33 St. Louis.... .20 50 Cincinnati .. .41 30 Philadelphia. .24 55 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 40 2K Detroit 30 30 Philadelphia..4o 32 Chicago 34 40 ' Cleveland ...41 85 St. L0ui5,....31 41 New Y0rk...30 35 Washington.. .25 51

BREVITIES.

At Sparta. Tonn., four pinions were drowned by the capsizing of :i skiff. The alleged defalcation of a confidential clerk at Buffalo, it is claimed, will reach about $300,000. The Chinese foreign office writes to United States .Minister Conger refusing to often ports in Manchuria. • King Edward and Queen Alexandra were greeted with vociferous cheering whenever they appeared in Dublin. .Congressman Cannon called on President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay the other day to discuss the financial situation. William E. Curtis says the displays to lte. made by foreign governments at .St. Louis will be the greatest ever attempted. Gen. Cassius M. Clay, aged Kentuckian, once well known in public life, died Wednesday at his home in Whitehall, K.v. ; The United States Steel executive committee disapproves suggestion that statement, of the affairs of the company be issued. Burglars blew open the safe of E. T. Hoyt & Co. at Estherwood, La., and secured $30,000 in cash, crop liens and petes. - Nephew and namesake of Senator CulJ.pi wan arrested at Phoenix. Ariz., phnrgod with irregularities while in the ii-itcriiaUrevenue service. Some one scattered poison on the range about twelve miles out of Columbus, Mont., and more than 1,000 bead of sheep are known to have died. The Elks, in national convention at Baltimore, marched in a parade about 7.000 strong. It is estimated that 200,000 people witnessed the purade. Xoreross Brothers Company of Worcester, Mass., largest contracting and building concern in New England, has been placed in the hands of receivers. Charles Hedges, superintendent of .free delivery, Washington, has been dismissed. Statement from the Postotßee Department charges falsification of account s; For an attack uptro a I’l-year-oid white gif!, daughter of a saw mill man named Bjake, Crane (!reel), a negro, was taken from officers at Pine Bluff, Ark., and lynched.

■The first shipment of California fruit for the I,melon market went out from New York. Wednesday. The shipment includes 7.061 boxes of pears, 2.204 boxes of plums, 10 boxes of poaches and 04a boxes of prunes, Fred Collias, alias Fretl Lewis, the Union (Mo.) bank robber, was convicted of murdering Charles J. Schumacher, n Pinkerton detective, near Stanton, Mo., Jan. 24. The verdict is murder in the first degree. The penalty is death. Joint G. Ander on, an immigrant, eii ronte from Sweden to this country, mysteriously disappeared from the train between New York and St. Paul, and no trace of hint ha* been found. Anderson bad S4OO on his person at the time. Scandalized passengers protested to the management of the Hamburg-American •hip Blucher upon its arrival in New York, asserting that its cabin was taken possession of by a crowd of men and women who disregarded the decencies. Unionists in the government printing office at Washington delay action in case of Assistant Foreman Miller pending appeal to the President, and a strike may be averted. The body of Poi»c Leo was borne with pomp to basilica of St. Peter’s, where it lay in state. Church dignitaries had titled Homans took last view of remains at the Vatican. When the remaining United States troops leave Havana they will be escorted by p Cuban detachment and congratulated by President Palma on their exemplary conduct.

EASTERN.

’ Building trade* tie-up in New York is broken, nearly 50,000 returning to work. Sever* liquidassn continues in Wall street, though selling pressure is congested in a few Issues. Wall street proposes to use all its Influence in favor of a new financial law at the fall session of Congress. Police wore called to New York hospital to quell fight between patients, who broke up furniture and made the room a wreck. Fire destroyed the Now Britain opera house at New Britain, Conn., one of the best known theaters in the State. Loss $50,000. Absence of failures at New York is taken as evidence that brokers had fortified themselves against slinking out in stock market. Judge Kirkpatrick at Trenton, N. J., appointed receiver for Southern Car and Foundry Company, with plants in Alabama and Tennessee. President Koosevelt has ordered the reinstatement of an assistant foreman of the public printing office removed because expelled from labor union. George Wilson, an old resident of Boehcster, N. Y., who was pronounced dead, came to life, suddenly jutniH-d up and swore at the undertaker. Employes at the government printing office at Washington threaten to strike because of the reinstatement of an objectionable assistant foreman. Senator Platt of New York suggests his colleague Aldrich ns Republican candidate for Vice-President, and favors Chicago as next convention city. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Sheldon, whose daughter Edith was recently married in London to Anthony Hope Hawking, returned to New York on the Majestic.

The Mercantile Trust Company of New York has begun suit at Trenton, N. J., to foreclose $15,000,000 mortgage against the United States Shipbuilding Company. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Park Densmore at Rochester, N. Y., on the charge of forgery and grand larceny. The police say the amount will reach $25,000. Buying of American securities for European aceouut is expected to relieve the situation in. New York and give bankers funds for crop movement without contracting loans. Frank V. l.aßonntie, confidential clerk and bookkeeper for the law firm of-Wil-son A Smith of Buffalo, is reported a defaulter for $300,000 or more, which lie lost in real estate speculation. A federal judge at Brooklyn issued a bench warrant for George W. Beavers, formerly chief of the division of salaries and allowances in the Postoffice Department, on an indictment charging bribery. John Bohee, who was widely known as the "hairless man,” is dead in Wilkesliarre, Pa. He was the marvel of physicians, who tried in vain to account for the absence ol' lutir from his body. As the result of nil automobile accident near Schenectady, N. Y... W. F. Steers and,A. F. Knight have sustained serious injuries. Both men are well known in society circles and Mr. Knight is a well-known golfer. The signing in New York of the arbitration plan of the builders and an agreement on the wage scale for another year by the Bricklayers’ Union, it is said, insures the return to work of 75,000 men and the end of the building trades tie-up. At Cumberland, Mil., William 11. Doerner has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by Clarence Christie, auditor of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroud, charging Doerner with embezzling $17,341 of the company’s funds. Doerner had been cashier for ten years and declares lie is a victim of faulty bookkeeping.

WESTERN.

The Epworth League convention next year will meet in Denver. Baseball has been made a compulsory exercise for the Duluth police. The Chicago stock market continues weak in sympathy with conditions at New York. Horse traders resisted arrest at Eddyville, ‘lowa, and four persons were shot, one fatally. The Epworth League convention at Detroit was pronounced the greatest in the history of the organization. Olio-sixth of the business portion of San Luis Obispo, Cal., lias been burned out with a loss of over SIOO,OOO. The daughter of Maj. Gen. Young is engaged to Lieut. Hanney, now stationed at Fort Cook, near Omaha, Neb. Archbishop Katzer of the. Milwaukee diocese passed away at Fond du Lac, the end being paiule,is and without iucident. One man was killed and ninety persons injured, four probably fatally, in collision between electric cars near Oberlin, Ohio. MePhee & McGinnity’s paint, oil and glassware house at Denver Tntfned. The loss is estimated at $200,000, covered by insurance. A mob attacked the jail at Basin City* Wyo., and killed two murderers and deputy county clerk, who was acting as one of the guards. In Chicago fifteen warrants were sworn out by State Factory Inspector E. T. Davies against violators of the new child labor law.

The captain and fifteen sailors of the Marietto steamer I. Watson Stephenson had a desperate battle for life in a gale on Lake Michigan. The Colorado Legislature reconvened to pass a general appropriation bill, the one passed at the regular session having been declared illegal. Justice Brewer, in an address before the lowa Bar Association, indorsed the policy of the injunction, and said he would extend its scope. Matthias Zimmerman shot and killed his wife with a rifle at Mosher, Ark., then turned the gun on himself, sending a bullet through his heart. Dora Wright was banged at South MeAlester, I. T., for the murder of Annie Williams, a 7-year-old girl. She mounted the scaffold without a tremor. A plan to draw electricity from clouds by means of magnet and wires and store it for commercial purposes is to be tested on Pike's Peak by a Chicagoan. Edward Davis, for several years pastor of the Central Christian Church of Oakland. Cal., has forsakes the pulpit and entered upon a stage career. Bishop Fallows, in a sermon to Illi-

nois guardsmen In camp at Springfield, said trade unions make their greatest mistake in opposing National Guard. “Bill” Davia, known in the Indian Territory os a “bad man,” waa shot and killed by Cal Blanch, 17 old, who resented an attempt to drag him from hi* horse. Major Willard, in reporting on work on the Illinois and Mississippi canal, says that owing to high water and legal delays it is not likely to. ba finished fot~ three yenrs. Four persons lost their lives in a fire early the other morning which destroyed Bonner Springs sanitarium at Bonner Springs, Ivan., seventeen miles west of Kansas City. W. .T. Bryan, the principal speaker at the picnic of the Chicago Democratic (’lub, bitterly arraigned former President Cleveland for his policy while in the executive chair. John McGrath, superintendent of the Inland Steel and Forge Company at Indiana Harbor, absent-mindedly walked in front of a Baltimore and Ohio train and was instantly killed. Ex-Marshal James M. Rice of Lamar, Mo., was fatally shot by Bert Cochran. It is said the two men were rivals for the affections of n widow, and quarreled. Rice was a prominent politician. Joseph Clark, president of the Columbus City school board and ex-treasurer of Whitley County, Indiana, blew his head off with a rifle. 11l health and financial trouble was the cause. Attorney Clarence Darrow of Chicago was married Thursday to Miss Ruby llatnnierstrom of Galesburg, 111., at the residence of Mr. and Airs. Gregg, friends of the bride, at 5401 Indiana avenue. By the capsizing of a sailboat in the harbor at Everett, Wash., Miss Nina E. Solomon, a telephone operator; Miss Edna Warner, a school teacher, and P. G. Foster, an insurance man, were drowjted. Four months’ truce in Chicago’s traction war has been secured by the passage of two noncommittal measures by the Council. Union Traction lenders give a written promise that they will agniu take up negotiations. Alvin Lasswell, aged 17, is undoubtedly the youngest railway general passenger and ticket agent in the world. His home is at Campbell, AIo., and he has complete control of fifty miles of railway in Missouri and Arkansas.

Missouri Pacific’s Colorado limited was wrecked ten miles south of Kansas City aud ten persons were injured, three- seriously. The accident occurred on a straight track near the approach to a bridge and the cause is unknown. Maud Jordine, the Bloomington, 111., girl w'ho was accused of the murder of her 2 year-old sister, was discharged from custody by Justice Heineman aud J. P. Butler, the detective who made the charge, was hissed from the court room. James It. Angell, assistant professor of experimental psychology in the University of Chicago and a member of the faculty of t tie University of California summer school, has beeu compelled to give up work because of nervous prostration. A storm of rain and hail swept Chicago, the hailstones being of unusual size and wounding many persons, A man was killed by lightning and a girl was slain by a piano being blown over on her. Horses, frenzied by the icy fusillade, ran away aud injured several persons. Death in the electric chair awaits Alfred A. Ivuapp, the murderer of women, who was fouud guilty at Hamilton, Ohio, of killing one of bis wives, Hannah Goddard. The self-confessed slayer of at least five victims, all of whom he choked to death, accepted the verdict with indifference. The Ivnnsas State board of medical examiners revoked the license of Dr. Robert E. Gray of Garden City, tried on the charges of immorality, excessive use of drugs and unprofessionalism iu connection with the death of Miss Irma Brown a year ago in Chicago. The jury in the case of Julius Lehmann, former niember of the St. Louis house of delegates, charged with bribery in connection with the passage of the city lighting bill, returned • a verdict finding the defendant guilty. His puuishment was fixed at seven years in the penitentiary, the longest term yet iuflieted in any of the boodle cases. D. O. Mills, a director of the Ilarriinun railroad system and controlling owner of the Bellingham Bay and British Columbia Railroad, lias formally ordered an extension of the Bellingham Bay across the Cascade mountains to Spokane. It will there connect with the Oregon Railroad and Navigation line, now running from the main line at Huntington to Spokane, A new injunction, sweeping in character, was issued iu Chicago by Judge Holdom against the teamsters and truck drivers, as affecting the Kellogg plant, and Judge Brown instructed the grand jury to return indictments against riots era. Steps to procure pence have been taken by the National Business League and the names of a committee of arbitrators were submitted to the unious.

Seven Illinois towns were struck by a cyclone Friday evening, and a number of persons lost their lives, while scores more were injured, many of whom will die. Five were killed at Streator and nearly a score fatally injured. Four lost their lives at Meudota, while many were seriously hurt. A report was received also that eight persons were kilted by a cyclone at Verona, while further loss of life is reported at Ilansom, Pontiac and Ivernau.

SOUTHERN.

Major Edward Hughes, the aged exchief of the Louisville lire department, was killed by a trolley car. The New Orleans District Attorney, J. Ward Gurley, was assassinated in his office by Clarence Lion, a liquor dealer. Federal grand Jury iu Alabama reports the finding of ninety-nine true bills against eighteen persons, charging peonage and conspiracy. Fire destroyed the Sabine Hotel and Natatorium at Port Arthur, Texas. The buildings are the property of the Port Arthur Town Site Company. The loss is SIOO,OOO, partly insured. Fletcher Turner, a white man, in the United States Court at Montgomery, Ala., pleaded guilty to the charge of holding in peonage Glenny Helms, a negro youth. Turner was toed SI,OOO. Morris B. Belknap of Louisville, a wholesale merchant widely known throughout the country, received the nomination for Governor on th 4 first ballot on the second day of the Republican State convention. At Jackson, Ky., Monday, Judge BedI

wine intpancled the special grand Jury t® investigate the feud matters, appointing j C. H. Bailey and the man who waa fdreman of the jury that indicted Jett and White to summon witnesses. The Ewen arson case was first taken up. A tidal wave of liqaor prohibition la sweeping over Texas. One hundred and thirty counties have voted total prohibition and fifty-nine others have partial prohibition—that i«, the country prj&« clncts are prohibition, and in the larger towns only.tlike Datllas and Fort Worth, is the sale of liquor permitted. This leaves only fifty-seven counties in which liquor Is sold unrestricted by any subdivisionnl lines. Most of there are the sparsely settled border and panhandle counties. Fully four-fifths of the population of the State is living under the jurisdiction of the local option law.

FOREIGN.

Diplomats at Pekiu think war between Japan and Russia is uear. Reports from Iquique, Clitli, say that bubonic plague is again increasing. Janies McNeil Whistler, foremost American painter, died in Chelsea, England. The first congress of German chimney sweeps will meet in Berlin in the autumn. Irish land bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons by a vote of 317 to 20. President Roosevelt, through Secretary I lay, sent a message of condolence to Cardinal Rampolla. Japan is not satisfied with the ansurances Russia has given the United States regarding Alanchuria. Cardinal Oreglia is in temporary control of the Roman Catholic Church pending the election of a Pope. Ciudad Bolivar, the Venezuelan rebel stronghold, was captured by the government forces after a two days’ fight. The King and Queen of Italy narrowly escaped death when their automobile ran into a tree. The .Queen injured her foot. Secretary Hay’s coup in enforcing open door policy in Alanchiijfin is said to assure continuance of province as Chinese territory. A man named Alasterson; who, it is alleged, forged checks in California to the amount in Hamburg. Strained relations between Russia and Japan are attributed by Russian papers to the influence of Great Britain over the Mikado. The British steamer Alonterey, which went ashore west of Point Plate, island of St. rierre-Aliquelon, July 14, will be a total wreck. The steamer Nadejka, plying-on the Volga, has been/destroyed by fire near Nizhniy-Novgorod. Twelve persous were burned to death. There is a report that France will transfer to the United States its eastern Pacific possessions, comprising several groups of islands. Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador to the UuitedJltates, denies that an agreement hasmeen While to open certain ports in Manchuria. King Edward and Queen Alexandra reached Dublin Tuesday and were given a splendid welcome by the cheering thousands in the streets.

IN GENERAL.

Postmaster General Payne is said to be on the verge of collapse.

Winnipeg industrial exhibition opened, many Americans attending in spite of unfavorable weather. Grains show declines for the week on disposition of cash grain men to await new crop marketings. Nicola Tesla, 'electrician, claims as result, of experiments that wireless photographs may be transmitted to any part of the world. Recent discoveries by Marconi are expected to simplify wireless telegraphy, and may render tail masts and suspended wires obsolete. More immigrants arrived in the United Sti es during the fiscal year ended June 30 thau in any previous year. Italians head the list. » Prominent men in all parts of the world express sorrow over the death of Pope Leo and pay high tributes to his character aud work. Dun’s Review of Trade says business conditions are encouraging, seasonable weather and settlement of labor disputes being the main factors.

The East and West are divided on method of currency reform, former favoring Aldrich bill and latter Shaw’s plan of a tax on additional circulation. Former Postmaster General Smith makes a spirited- defense of his administration in reply to charges by John R. Proctor of the Civil Service Commission. Report of civil service commission says women applicants are at great disadvantage iu securing positions, large majority of appointments being from men eligibles.' A rumor which credits the Rockefeller interest with a purpose to get control of the Erie Railroad, with the ultimate union of the interests of the Erie and Rock Island, has been discussed in Chicago railroad circles.

Maurice Ivaufmann, the American violinist now in London, has arranged with Henry Wolfsohu to tour the United States next winter, beginning in an orchestral concert iu New York City about the middle of November. The Cuban House has passed the bill conceding a credit of SBO,OOO for representation at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The Senate passed a bill admitting free of duty paper for newspapers, when it is imported direct by the consumer. The old monitor Monadnock, which -was laid down in 1874, but not completed until 1883, has been having a full-speed steam trial in Chinese waters. A report of the trial received at the Navy Department from Rear Admiral Evans, commanding the Asiatic fleet, shows that the vessel, built to make 14% knots an hour, ran eight hours and five minfites at an average speed of 11.78 knots. P. M. Arthur, grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer*, dropped dead at Winnipeg, while speaking at the banquet at the close of the annual union convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Mr. Arthur had just arisen to respond to a toast, opening with “It may be my parting word to many of you,” when be fell backward and expired • few minutes afterward.

STATE TO PROTECT SOLDIERS.

Tndlaoa to Fualah Firm* Who Diocharged Militiamen. Gov. Durbin of Indiana hold a long conference with several officers of the National Guard the other afternoon over the recent discharge of members of the militia by their employers, and It Was agreed that rometliing would have to bs done to protect men who were willing to serve the Stafe, both from loss of positions and from Bhe opposition to the militia by the labor unions. Captain H. M. Franklin of Company H deskired that if a man cannot respond to the call of hi* State without imperiling his means of making a living it will not be long until a condition of anarchy will exist. „ As a resulj: of the Attorney General’s Investigation, a statute has been found which will apply to persons who discharge employes for belonging to the militia. The statute makes it a federal offense to discharge a militiaman because of Ms service with She State, and provides both for fine and imprisonment. After being in session for nearly two weeks, the Evansville grand jury called to investigate the recent riots there adjourned. Part of the filial report follow*: “That the members of the various militia com panties should be sought out and ostracised for doing their duty in maintaining the law, preserving peace and restoring order is beyond our comprehension. From an examination of witnesses it waa conclusively established that the unfortunate affray of the night of July 6 was brought on by riotous hoodlums. The soldiers were attacked by the mob that fired the first shots, and in self-defense the soldiers returned the fire. Now Is the time for the officers of the law to establish such a precedent as will ever be a lerson to those of anarchistic tendencies that the law is supreme.”

FOREIGN CROPS.

Condition and Prospects Reported Above Medium. The foreign crop report of the Department of Agriculture, just out, based on advices received by the foreign statistical agent of the department at London as late as July 1, io in brief as follows: In Itussit meteorological condition* have been in the highest degree favorable for the development of cereal crops in most parts of European Russia and harvest prospects are considerably improved, even in regions where conditions at the beginning of spring were unfavorable. In Germany a great improvement in all the winter cereals, particularly in winter rye, has been shown the last month. The condition of every crop in the middle of June is officially reported above medium, though winter wheat, potatoes and lucern were considerably nearer to good than medium, and all the others are graded about midway between the two conditions. Only an approximately good medium harvest of the spring crops in Austria is to be counted on at Sest. Maize promises well there. In Hungary, unless there is some improvement before harvest, which is hardly expected, this year’s outturn of cereal* will fall considerably below that of-4902, the deficiency in the case of wheat being about 15% per cent. Most of the Bulgarian crops are reported in very good condition. Storms and floods have caused extensive damage to crops and vineyards in Italy. In France the estimated area of winter wheat is 081,724 acres leas than in 1002. A marked improvement in wlieat and other crop* occurred there during June and the crops now are doing well. Generally favorable reports come from Denmark. In Great Britain the wheat crop is everywhere somewhat late and hardly can come up to an average yield. Advices to the department from the government of India estimate die total wheat crop harvested there in the spring of 1903 at 299,261,104 bushels, ngainßt a yield of 226,370,890 bushels in the previous year. The final estimates of the department on the tobacco crop of 1902 in the United States are announced as follows: Acreage, 1,030,734; production, 821,823,963 pounds; value, $57,563,510.

ICE STORM IN CHICAGO.

Terrific Fall of Hail Canaes Damage Throughout the City. The most terrific hail storm that has visited Chicago in years descended on the city at noon Tuesday and hurled great, jagged chunks of ice upon Che streets and buildings for nearly a quarter of an hour. Horses, driven frantic by terror and pain caused by the stones, ran away. Windows were shattered. Foliage in the parks and on the boulevards was destroyed. Many persons were bruised aud battered by the chunks of ice. Some of the stones were over an inch in diameter. The downfall was heralded by a brisk gale which blew up shortly before noon and covered the sky with gray clouds. Out of these there came first heavy sheets of rain, which served as a warning. Then, in slanting streams, the hailstones shot down, pounding against windows and on the streets in a terrific din. First the storm was only an ordinary one, with the drops of hail small and white. Soon, however, these increased to a formidable size, with-a formation of sharp, jagged points, fiat and circular. Like a batter}’ of cannister they descended, wreaking havoc to windows, nee lights, trees and foliage. The storm was purely local, the weather man said, and had nothing to do with that which occurred in Minnesota and lowa the day previous.

IMMIGRATION RECORDS BROKEN.

Prediction That More Than 1,000,000 Aliena Will Arrive This Tear. More immigrants arrived in the United States during the fiscal year that ended June 30 than in nny other year in the history of the country. The total arrivals for the twelve months numbered 857, ~- 048, being 68,064 above the previous record year of 1882, when restrictive legislation was pending in Congress, and a total of 788,992 immigrants, many of them aliefi contract laborers, were rushed into the United Stater. The Italians held the record for the entire year, as last year, with a total of 280,622 immigrants, an increase over the previous year of 52,247. AustriaHungary is second in the year’s record, with a total of 206,011, an increase of 34,022. The Russian Empire and Finland is third, with a total of 136,093, an increase of 28,748. In a wreck oa the Missouri Pacific, near Lea's Summit, Mo., three negroes were kilted and thirty injured. A fast mail train crashed into an excursion that bad stepped for repairs.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

„ v —“l “Condidons continue satNeV YON. ‘sfartory outside the region i— ' of ' speculation, many reports- indicating further improvement. During recent months the two disturbing factors have been labor controversies and weather 'conditions, but each week haa brought beltST things in these two respects until the outlook contains much that is eneouragiug. Crops are making rapid progress, and die army of unemployed is diminishing,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trad*. Continuing, the report says; Railway traffic is heavy, earnings thus far reported for July exceeding last year's by 13.6 per cent and those of 1901 by 19.2 per cent. Retail trade in seasonable merchandise is fully up to the average, and there is less than the customary midsummer quiet among wholesalers, while the preparations of jobbers and manufacturers indicate confidence in a large fall business. Unsettled conditions still exist in forge and foundry pig iron markets, while Bee* senior iron is only barely steady. The chief difficulty appears to be the inclination of prospective purchasers to wait for die lowest possible quotations. This la a condition to be expected in a declining market, but appears unusually aggravating in the present instance. Current consumption is heavy, and the delay is only in connection with distant deliveries.

Structural steel begins to reflect ths settlement of labor troubles in the building trades, but several important undertakings have been postponed until next year, two large buildings at Pittsburg being conspicuous examples. Merchant steel and pipe are in better demand, several large contracts being under negotiation. Steel rails are sold well into 1904, and other railway equipment is still one of the best features in the industry. Southern iron furnaces nnd steel mills are affeoted adversely by the coal miners' strike, although there is a belief that settlement will not long be delayed. It is a season of uncertainty in the manufacture of cotton goods, nnd nothing in the nature of improvement can be pected Until the artificial position of the raw material is radically altered. Supplies of cotton goods in first hands are low, and there is no effort to make spot sales. Buyers fill their requirements for immediate distribution, but in no department of this great industry is there any inclination to anticipate needs of even the near future. As supplies diminish there is a corresponding stiffening of quotations. Blills are steadily curtailing production both here and abroad. New lightweight woolens are being opened, with fair results only, buyers exhibiting no anxiety regarding the future. Failures this week were 213 in the United States, against 213 last year, and 16 in Canada, compared with 20 a year ago. Rradstreet'a Trade Review. The salient features in trade report* this week are the better tone of trade advices from the Southwest, where the feeling grows that a large business will be done. Hides and leather are rather weaker at the East, but eastern shoe shipments are far in excess of last year for the week and season. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending July 16 aggregate 3,652,084 bushels, against 2,380,410 last week, 3,775,222 this week last year, 5,221,880 in 1901 and 3,029,381 in 1900. For'two weeks of the cereal year they aggregate 6,033,194 bushels, against 8,179,337 in 1902, 10,238,029 in 1901 and 5,839,291 in 1900. Corn exports for the week aggregate 1,402,404 bushels, against 1,525,084 last week, 130,079 a year ago, 1,714,081 in 1901 nnd 4,182,159 in 1900. For two weeks of the present cereal year they aggregate 2,927,488 bushels, against 315.810 in 1902, 4,514,819 in 1901 aud 8,204,227 in 1900.

THE MARKETS

Chicago —Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $5.80; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn. No. 2,48 cto 49c; oats, No. 2,37 c to 88c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c; hay, timothy, SS.SO to $15.00; prairie, $6.00 to $13.00; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, new, 45c to 55c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.85; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,74 ctd 75c; com, No. 2 white, 50c to 51c; oaks, No. 2 white, 40c to 41c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.25; hogs, $4.50 to $5.80; sheep, SB.OO to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 70c; corn, No. 2, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2,33 cto 34c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.25 to $4.65; hogs, $4.00 to $5.55; sheep, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; com. No. 2 mixed, 49c to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 39c to 40c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs. $4.00 to $0.40; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 3 white, 38c to 39c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. . Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 80c to 87c; com, No. 3,50 cto 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 3Sc to 39c; rye. No. 1,51 c to 52c; barley, No. 2,59 cto 60e; pork, mess^fl4.ls. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 78c; com, No, 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 39c to 40c; rye. No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $5.65. Bnffaio—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.70s hogs, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; com. No. 2,65 cto 56c; oats, No. 2 white, filc to 42c; batter, creamery, 18c to 20ci •CO, western, 15c to 18c.