Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1903 — Page 2

m am mmumi P. B. BABCOCK. Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

While working on the Cleveland nnd Pittsburg Railroad at Macedonia. Ohio, Contractor l'rank Wine hung Ilia vent on the fence on a lot belonging to Frank Green, a prominent farmer. In the pock* e*of the vest was a purse containing SBS. A cow ate vest ami-money. W isejoought her, had her tlnughtered nud recovered $75.

Pietro Craslio nnd Jose Diniaro, Italians, quarreled over a game of cards near Williamsport, Pa. Diniaro went into a Khanty, procured a revolver and fired three shot* at Craslio. killing him instantly. There were about seventy-five Italians within 100 feet of the murderer, but they made no effort to prevent his escape. .Ex-Senator \V. V. Alien, of Nebraska, who as a Populist so eloquently lifted up hi* voice in the Senate against capitalistic might, is now a railroad magnate. In company with Judge M. M. Godrnan, of Dayton, Wash,, he will build a line from Huntington, Ore., to Lewiston, Idaho. Mr. Allen will net ns the promoter and will interest capital, Burglars blow open the safe in the Hotel Lippencott at Fox Lake, 111., and escaped with $2,500. The work was apparently that of experts. The big safe was wrecked, nnd the office considerably damaged by the high explosives used. The robbery was detected in a short time, and Judge Muehrcke appointed a posse to go in pursuit of the robbers. The posse followed the trail of the bandits for ten pules, but it was finally lost. Charles Med worth, a farmer living near Mount Ayer, Ind., was murdered by liis hired man, who then set fire to the house and killed himself while the building was burning. The bodies of both uieu were found in Che ruins. The hired man was a mysterious fellow, who had always refused to give his name and win known simply as “John." It is believed the quarrel was over a wage settlement. Medworth’s family was not at home at the time of the murder. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. 1,. Pittsburg ~ .GO fit Brooklyn. ... .‘l2, 11 Chicago 57 fit* Boston .fill It* New Y0rk....51 3(5 St. Louis 84 57 Cincinnati ...17 44 Philadelphia . .fil 58 Following is tlie standing of the clubs in the American League: \v. i,. w. r, Boston sli fifi New York.. . .12 41 Philadelphia.. 58 37 Chicago .....If* 17 Cleveland ...17 12 St. Louis.... .fi!) IS Detroit 14 4fi Washington.• .29 fill

BREVITIES.

(Son. Nelson A. Miles has boon mentinned for the posit ion of commander of the (i. A. H. A standard for food in restaurants and hotels is being prepared by an otlleial of the health board of Milwaukee. The factory of the Western Basket and Box Manufacturing Company of San Francisco was destroyed by fire. J.oss, ssr>,<iuo. Alfred BlOu of ('hie ago was robbed of S2BO in the Si. James Hotel at Minneapolis. Thieves entered the room while Blon slept. The town of Halsey, fifteen miles from Albany, Ore., was almost, entirely do snored by tire. The loss is $70,000, With very little insurance. In a fit of jealous rase, "Lou” Heine. « Kyppy, shot and killed his wife in I’hiiadelphia in a tent at Wood side Park, and then probably fatally shot a young man named George Itoberts.Mail advices from Caracas to the State Department say that *n July 4 tile Venezuelan government established a military academy for the training of officers for the Venezuelan army. The firm of Streeter & Lusk, Chicago and Denver contractors, has been awarded the contract for constructing the new Moffett railroad that is to be built from Denver to Salt Lake City. A mob at Net'dmore, Tenn., kilhd John Millikin, a negro preacher, and mortally wounded John Hunter, his son-in-law. The cause for the lynching is no! known, as both men bore good reputa tions.

Charles Saufley, aged 18, and n member of n prominent family. di<‘d nt Stanford, Ivy., from the effects of a dor« of t-orroaive RuHimate.' Saufley was recently appointed an alternate naval cadet by the President. Mrs. John Henry Ketcham, wife of the Congressman from the Twenty-first New York (listriot, was dangerously injured by a thief whom the discovered in her apartments nt her son’s residence it New York City. President Schwab, of the Uniied States Steel Corporation, has resigned and is succeeded by \V. L. Corey. Mr. Schwab still retaiiw the largest holding of stock, liis membership in the directorate and finance committee. The Chinese Journal reports that a band of 200 robbers broke into and robbed the summer palace of the Dowager Empress of China nud succeeded iu getting away with jewels and other valuable* to 'the extent of $50,000. American pilgrims have been shown unusual consideration by Pope Pius, who granted them an audience in advance of diplomatic corps and other distinguished persons. Menage of greeting was sent by the new Pontiff to Americans. Thomas S. Lippy, the Klondike millionaire, was confronted by two masked burglars in his home on returning from church at Seattle, Wash. He was beaten over the bead with a revolver, bound, gagged and tied to a post of his stairway. Nearly 100 cherry pits have been found Id the appendix of a patient who was being operated upon in a Brooklyn hospital. 'Hie eolleo.ion of stones had uot caused appendicitis, however. Their dis covery was due to an operation for eaucer of the stomach. Three hundred of New Jersey’s State convicts at Treuton have donned (heir new uniforms for the fir.t time, the •tripes have keen abolished for suits of light gray. The lockstep and close cropping of the convicts' hair were done away with some time ago in the New Jersey W.'. T 0 •

EASTERN.

i?he plant of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company in Cincinnati, valued at $160,000, was burned. Experiments are being made at the Smithsonian Institution with the coeloetat, which may enable the weather bureau to give more accurate forecasts. W. A. Miller, traveling passenger agent of the Big Four Railway, Cairo division, was run over nnd killed at Harrisburg by a Big Four passenger rtuin. Seven hundred and eighty-five young men are candidates for admission to Yale in the undergraduate entering classes of next September./Last year the total was 081. The schooner Emily was rammed by a swordfish off Gloucester, Mass., and forced to put back to the harbor, its timbers* below the water line having been penetrated. Mrs. Lydia Hancock is dead at her home in Palmer, Mass., at the age of 100 years and 1 mouth. Until recently she had been able to read without glasses. While seeking shelter from a thunderstorm near Masoutown, Pa., Jameo Parris and Felix Sanrein, two Italians, were struck by a bolt of lightning and instantly killed. Mr. nnd Mrs. William Wright of Oak Park, 111., have completed their drive from their home to Lynn, Mass., the long journey being accomplished iu less than sixty days. The explosion of a lamp at a Slavonic boarding house in Newcastle, I*a., during a dance caused the fatal injury of one woman and the serious injury of five other persons. Beatrice Tltto of Chicago nnd Marion Clawson of Williamsport, Pa., were killed while walking on the railroad tracks in the latter city. Miss Tate was visiting her grandfather. Tlie United Stntes Cotton Manufacturing Company, with a capital of $lO,000,000, was incorporated at Boston, but leading manufacturers there deny all knowledge of the corporation. An agreement has been reached to sell the plant and good will of the Silver Spring Bleaching and Dyeing Company of l’royideuce, It. 1., to the United States Finishing Company for $1,100,000.

J. Whitaker Wright, the London promoter, was taken from the Ludlow street jail in New York, where lie had beeu for serera. months, and, in charge of English detectives, started for London. The Doylestown National Bank of Doylestown, Pa., has been closed by the Comptroller of the Currency. The statement issued says that the failure was brought about by speculations in stocks. Tlie body of John Douiuiorskjp aged 20 years, a mine worker, was femnd on the street at Shenandoah. I’a. He had been stabbed to deatli iii a quarrel, The man who is said to have done the stabbing is' missing.

Coroner’s Physician Hurtling of Brooklyn, in his report on the autopsy held on tlie remains of Almon Smith, late a sailor on the steamship Havana, stales that the cause of death was not yellow fever. Fire destroyed the works of the I’hilip Carey Fire l’rooiing Company in Jersey City, and the cooperage of the Jarvis tobacco inspection depot, in which were stored 200 hogsheads of Kentucky tobacco. The loss is SIOO,OOO. While groping for a cut-off button in the cellar of his handsome summer residence at Giffords, Staten Island, New York, Dr. Francis 1., Morbited, a Manhattan dentist, accidentally touched a live wire and was instantly killed. The grand jury at Washington returned seven more indictments as a result of postal invoitigatioii, charging nine persons with conspiracy to defraud the government. A. W. Machen and several contractors are among the accused. A check for SIOO has been received from President Roosevelt for Theodore Roosevelt Signel, the boy born to Mr. and Mrs. William 11. Signel of McKeesport, Pn., some weeks ago and which is the twentieth child born to Mr. Signel. Hiram 11. Poolty a baker and one of the best known citizens of Canton, Mass., was stabbed to death not far from his residence by one of a party of three Italians. His assailants lied after the murder and have not yet been arrested. As a result of a leakage in the artificial and naturul gas mains in the downtown districts of Newcastle, Pa-, an explosion in a manhole of the municipal conduit system which is being constructed caused serious injury to five prominent men.

WESTERN.

An earthquake lasting thirty seconds ■wan felt in San Francisco. Indianripolis has been flooded with a circulnr calling upon white people to subordinate negroes to themselves. Farmers in the counties of northern Indiana are establishing an association, tile object of which is to tight the automobile. A clock with a dial 120 feet in diameter, to be covered with flower*, is being built at Milwaukee for the St. Louis exposition. W. F. Street, town site man and politician, was accidentally shot and killed at Bemidji, Minn., by Louis Bland, aged 15 years. A cloudburst has flooded the lowlands and valleys from a point near Lindsborg, northwest of Ellsworth, Kan., doing much damage. In a head-end collision on the Santa Fe line near Xunda, Cal., four men were killed and Engineer Ireland and Fireman Meachnm injured. Mrs. Jeannetta White died in Wichita. Kan., at the age of 130 years. She had a family Bible which gives the date of her birth as Jan. 10, 1707, not far from Louisville. The fire at Hobart, one of the new towns in the Kiowa-Comanche reservation. destroyed four blocks df business buildings. The loss is estimated at $ 100,000. The suit brought by the State of Minnesota against the Northern Securities Company was dismissed by Judge Lochreu. who held there had been no violation of the State laws. Walter Vail, a bank president at Michigan City, Ind., wrote to Pension Commissioner Ware asking him to cancel his pension papers, as his service In the Civil War did not merit a pension. . D. W. Ward, a merchant of Bailagh, Neb., and his family were poisoned by e»t jpg sardines. Mr. Ward and two

I children are dead nnd a third child la ' dying. Mrs.‘Ward will recover. Prominent hop grower* of the Pacific Northwest are endeavoring to secure unity of action among producer®, with the object of controlling this Season's production and forcing tip price*. Jerome Grosli, n member of the wholesale millinery firm of J. V. Clemen & Co. of Toledo, was drowned at Put-in-Bay ns the result of the eaiwlzing of a sailboat occupied by hiqiself and Mis* Alice Sturgis. Mathew Donncr of St. Louis, while in a fit of anger attempted to broil his wife on a red-hot stove. He was badly beaten over the head with a poker by his stepson, Henry Hoffmeistcr, who came to his mother’s assistance. Two persons were killed, five are missing and eighty were injured by the collapse of one span of a bridge over the Willamette river at Portland, Ore., which was packed with people watching a onearmed man swimming. Jenioiisy over Miss Sadie Guilbert caused W. G. Wray, a traveling salesman of Pittsburg, Pa., to shoot fatally William Farris in Cochran’s saloon at McConnellsville, Ohio. Wray was arrested and lodged in jail. A passenger train on the Peoria Eastern division of the Big Four ran into a freight trnin at Laura, Ohio, killing Conductor Devlin of Indianapolis and probably fatally injuring the engineer, fireman and baggageman. Leroy It. Mnsterson, a foreman at the Pueblo, Colo., steel works, was murdered while asleep. Suspicion rests on members of a gang of laborers of whom Masterson had charge and sixteen of thenx have been arrested for the crime. The south-bound Norfolk and Western passenger train No. 8 was wrecked at East Portsmouth, Ohio, by the rails spreading. The engine left the track and turned over. Twenty-five persons were hurt. Seven were fatally injured. Twenty-two cars of galvanized corrugated sheet steel were shipped from Canton, Ohio, for use in the Philippines in constructing barracks for the troops, it having been found that a large ant there destroys wooden buildings iu a few years. lteiwrts of frosts have been received Park River, Langdon, Cristal, Manvel and other points in the northern part of North Dakota, but at none of them was any damage done. Minnesota points also reported a light frost, but no damage.

Heavy rains in nearly every county in the Kansas corn belt have been hailed with rejoicing among the farmers. The drought of the past few weeks had threatened the corn crops, but the heavy downpour insures the success of the crops. An attempt was made by unknown parties to blow up the Northern Pacific bridge crossing the Yellowstone river near Livingston, Mont., and wreck the east-bound passenger train. A large hole was made in the central pier of the bridge. A hqmb was discovered on the railway tracks of the Eads bridge at St. Louis by a track walker. It is said to have been tilled with a powerful explosive. One theory advanced is that it was placed where found with tlie intention of wrecking the bridge. A 2-year-old child of Lee Montgomery, an Osage, I. T., farmer, was killed by a Plymouth Bock rooster. The child was throwing sticks and pebbles at the bird, when it suddenly flew at its childish tormentor and drove its spurs deep into the child’s head, neck and back, Frank Talbert, a stock buyer from Wabash, Ind., was taken from a box car at Air Line Junction, Toledo, and beaten into insensibility. Having no money or valuables, be was removed to the county infirmary. He is supposed to have, been assaulted and robbed by tramps. The noted female character, “Calamity Jane,” who lias figured on the frontier since 1870, died at Terry, eight miles from Dendwood. S. D. She had requested that she be buried in Mount Moriah cemetery at Dendwood beside “Wild Bill” Hickok, who was murdered. Harry Ifiley, an ex-convict who was released from the Salem, Ore., penitentiary the other day, beat Elliott' Parklmrst and forced Mrs. Parkhurst, daughter of J. T. Janes, formerly warden of the Salem penitentiary and a niece of ex<governor T. T. Geer, to run away with him. There has been a plan adopted by the territorial board of education *of Oklahoma to teach statehood matters in the public schools. A book has been published setting forth the reasons why Oklahoma should be admitted and a copy will be placed in the hands of every pupil in the territory. While Oscar Erickson ’ and Perry Schurmer, both of Crookston, Minn., were at work installing new water wheels at the Crookston water works and power house, the planking upon which stood gave way and Erickson was caught iu the cogs of one of the wheels and ground ’to pieces. - The body of Mrs. Anna Collier of McHenry County, N. D., who was supposed to have been drowned abont three weeks ago, was exhiimed by the authorities, who believe she was murdered and thrown into Moure river. She had been married only three months. It is expected several arrests will be made.

Judge Kavanagh of Chicago denounces violence and intimidation by labor pickets, nnd threatens severe punishment of the offenders if brought before him. He says, however, that pickets muy use peaceable arguments with workmen, and favors jury trials in cases of alleged violations of injunctions by strikers. Twenty-five years in prison was the punishment imposed upon John Wiltrax by a jury in Judge Kersten’s court in Chicago for the murder of Paul Paskowski, (1 years old, whose dead body, with a bullet through the brain, was found buried in the woods near Hansen Park April 27. Elizabeth Wiltrax, his wife, was given her freedom. A posse of armed citizens in Bartholomew County, Indiana, pursued William Garrett, a negro, and chased him into Flat Ruck River,' where he was drowned. Garrett had been acting strangely and started out to do damage. He ran abont brandithing a razor, threatening to kill every person he met. A party of citizens drove him out. of town.

At Cridersville, Ohio, George Slein, a middle-aged farmer, shot lfis wife, inflicting injuries from which she afterward died, and then committed suicide by shooting himself in Ac head. Jealousy on the part of the husband earned a separation some time since, hut a partial reconciliation had been effected, and the cause of the tragedy is not known. Sixteen persons, the majority of them -

from Chicago and Logansport, Ind., were seriously injured and several of them probably fatally, wh,en the New York express on the panhandle road ran into a west-bourn! freight train at Hartford City. A broken draw-bar had delayed the freight six minutes and it was standing on the main track when the express ran into it. In a fight William Deerwester, a carpenter, 45 years old, was shot to death by Clark Huffman, proprietor of the Star Hotel at Seven Mile, near Hamilton, Ohio. Huffman was arrested. He claims that because he refused to sell Deerwester beer the latter assaulted him with a billiard ■cue and that he fired in selfdfenso. Witnesses say Huffman began the assault. ' Henry Stutz was shot through the heart in Columbus, Ohio, by Nicholas Foreman and died instantly. Foreman was engaged in a controversy in a saloon on the outskirts of the city and was flourishing a revolver when Stutz stepped up and asked what he was doing with the weapon. Foremau replied that he carried the revolver for his own protection, and, leveling it at Stutz, fired. Foreman escaped.

SOUTHERN.

Three persons were killed and more than a score injured by lightning at New Hope Church, Appomattox County, Va. Duels may follow the turmoil in the Georgia Legislature, caused by measures on the convict lease system and textbooks in public schools. Alexander Means and Will Starks, two negroes, were hanged in Montgomery, Jkla., for the murder of Fleming Foster, a negro, near Le Grande, Ala. Edmnnd T. Sykes, a bookkeeper and son of Gen. E. T. Sykes, committed suicide at Mobile. Ala., by shooting himself. Despondency over a love affair was the cause of the deed. A violent electrical, wind and rain storm prevailed in Austin, Texas, resulting in great damage. The wind attained the velocity of a tornado and the total rainfall was four and one-half inches. John Galloway was murdered at a camp two miles from Rockport, Ivy., and Robert Carroll, a companion, was so badly injured that his life is despaired of. The killing was the work of two masked men. e A syndicate of Madison, Wis., men have purchased Windsor Shades, in New Kent County, Ya. This farm contains (5,000 acres. The price paid was $05,000. The place will be cut up into small tracts and colonized. A'Ynob of 200 men stopped a Chesapeake and Ohio train near Clifton Forge, Va., in an effort to secure two negroes it wanted to lynch. The doors were locked and the train started with the mob firing nt it. Sidney King, a negro, was hanged in the eounty jail yard at Birmingham, Ala. He had nothing to say on the gallows and di4j without apparent fear. He killed Ocie Byron, a negro convict, iu Coalburg prison. Because Ckarelton Ilullet, a contractor at Lexington, Ky., aged 50 years, did not pay him what he thought three days’ service was worth, James Copper, a laborer, aged 30, secured a pistol and shot Hullet to death.

FOREIGN.

Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto, Patriarch of Venice, It as been elected Pope. A Turkish patrol pursuing authors of dynamite outrage fell into an ambuscade laid by Bulgarians; seven Turks and three Bulgarians killed. The walking craze was revived in London by a well-known man’s winning $2,500 in a “cakewalk” from the Trocadero restaurant to the Hyde Park corner. A dispatch from Constantinople says that Russia has asked permission of the Sultan to allow several Russian warships to pass through the Dardanelles for the far east. Ten striking workmen were killed and eighteen the result of a volley fired by troops gt Mikhailovo, on the Tiflis-Batoum Railway, in Russia. The strikers attempted to stop trains. The Great Central Railway’s dock and sheds at Grinsby, England, have been destroyed by tire. The sheds were filled with machinery and an immense quantity of barley. The damage amounts to $500,000. The threatened general strike has been begun in several Spanish centers, including Barcelona, Murcia, Cadiz, Honda and Alcoy. The great unrest is attributed largely to bad harvesasmtoit the immediate object of the to re-enforce the demand for the release of numerous workmen who have been thrown into prison for offenses iu connection with recent striker.

IN GENERAL.

Dean C. Worcester, Philippine commissioner, has arrived at San Francisco from Manila. He reports health and financial conditions iu the islands improving. Weekly trade reviews show general business conditions throughout the country to be exceedingly prosperous and not in the least degree affected by the recent slump in Wall street. For their heroic work in rescuing the Spanish steamship Breza in a storm off Bermuda, in February, 1902, the members of the crew of the American steamship Y’eoman will receive $20,000, after more than a year of litigation. Representatives of a South African railway syndicate have been in Victoria, B. C., Inquiring regarding the possibility of securing 3,000,000 hemlock railway ties for South African railroads, of which 900 miles are to be built at once. The most picturesque officer in the nary and one of the boldest in speech retires for age. He ia Rear Admiral George W. Melville, chief of the bureau of steam engineering. He is G 2 years old having been born in New York City in 1841.

\V. C. Deering of Chicago, who arrived from the Orient by the steamer Tacoma, in an interview says that, akboagh the people of the United States may not be aware of the fact, the insurgents in the Philippine Islands are organising and drilling and the trouble there is far from over.' ' vf'-. A diver who went down to the wreek of the steamer Hungarian, lost on "Cape Sable ledges forty-three years ago with «il on board, reports that the after part and taro sides of the steamer are standmg and the shaft is still In position. An effort will be made to recover some nf the cargo.

SCHWAB STEPS OUT.

President of the United States Steel Corporation Retiree. With the, acceptance of Charles M. Schwab’s resignation as president of the United States Steel Corporation at Tues-

C. M. SCHWAB.

Schwab ha* had a meteoric career. He started as a common furnace laborer with ftthe Carnegie company, and before he was 40 was elected president of the great steel combine, nt a salary reported to be $1,000,000 annually, but, as a matter of fact, much nearer SIOO,OOO. He was bo’m at Loretta, Pa., graduated at St. Francis College nt the age of 17, and then entered the steel works as a laborer. He worked up to the position of chief engineer, and in 1887 Carnegie made him superintendent of the steel works and his salary was fixed at SIOO,--000, with fees contingent upon earnings. He also had heavy holdings of the stock which brought him a good income. Schwab went abroad and was royally entertained by crowned heads, and the general impression is that the life and prominence were too much for him, and it is now believed he has forfeited the confidence of Andrew Carnegie, who would never have permitted his retirement otherwise. Recently the wrecking of kia United States Shipbuilding combine proved a sad blow to his financial aspirations.

TRADE KINGS TO MEET.

Entire British Empire to Take Part in Convention iu Canada. The trade kings of tne British empire are to meet in Canada. Never before has a congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the empire been held outside of Great Britain, nnd the coming convention will be one of the most important events of the year in the commercial circles of the whole empire. Advices received from England and other parts of the empire indicate that this gathering will be of a most representative character. The idea of coming to Canada is proving immensely popular with British commercial men, and already more than 100 of the English Chambers of Commerce-have signified their intention of sending delegates. The British Chambers of Commerce of Iyimbyrley. South Africa; of Maseru, Basutoland, of Port Elizabeth, Capt Colony; of Colombo. Ceylon;, of Aden, and of many other British countries will also send representatives.

The visit of. this great body of delegates to Canada will be an event in Canadian history the importance of which cart hardly be overestimated. The influence of the bodies which these coming visitors will represent is of such magnitude that their deliberations will probably have a decisive effect upon several of the great questions of trade and colonial relations to the motherland that are now agitating the political and commercial circles of the empire. Extensive arrangements have been completed to entertain the delegates and to impress upon them the great -possibilities which this country offers for capital and enterprise and for commercial development.

PULPIT AND PREACHER

The Rev. Frederick Langham of Fiji, who translated the Bible into Fijian, has just died in England. The bi-centennial of the birth of Jonathan Edwards, the greatest theologian of this country in the eighteenth century, will be observed at Yale on Oct. 5, 1903. Centenary Church, St. Louia, almost the only church in an immense downtown district, keeps three deaconesses and a Sunday school missionary constantly at work. The London Examiner publishes . the names and addresses of 120 Congregational ministers who have declared their intention to refuse to pay the education rate. On the proposition of Cardinal Satolli the Pope has appointed Mgr. James S. Duffy, pastor of St. Agnes’ Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., to be a domestic prelate of his holiness. Tlie village of Jasper, N. Y., is to be the seat of a new educational institution to be known as the McKinley memorial college. The college will be interdenominational. The Catholic mission school at Bulawayo, Rhodesia, won the two first Rhodes scholarships at Oxford awarded to other British colonies, the United States and Germany. The oldest recorded minister of the Society of Friends iu the world, Mrs. Phoebe Ann Giflbrd, celebrated the 100th anniversary of her birth at her home in Providence, R. i., recently. The Rev. Dr. Theodore Bratton, reelected Protestant Episcopal bishop of Mississippi, has selected St. Andrew’s Church in Jackson as the place for his consecration late in July. Bishop Satterlee in n recent address said: “The Jews are preserving the home and family better than we Christians are doing. I do not know how to account for it, bnt I do knoweit to be a fact” The Rev. William M. Upcraft of Alton is about to start as a missionary to China, and to reach his destination in the western part of the country he will have to travel 2,000 miles from Shanghai. Dr. Philip Henry Pye-Smith has been appointed vice chancellor of the University of London for the unexpired term of Dr. Robertson, now bishop of Exeter. Southern Presbyterians have refused to enter upon ways which most religions bodies just now are making popular. Responding to a cordial resolution adopted by Cumberland Presbyterians, favoring committeea to consider the union of all Presbyterian bodies, Presbyterians south expressed sympathy with the spirit of the Cumberland advance, bnt said they did not see their way clear to the appointment of a committee.

day’s meeting of the executive committee one of the most notable official change* in the industrial world in recent years was made. It has been a little lees than twenty-four v years since Charles M. Schwab, then a freckle faced boy of 18 years, left hia adopted town to seek hi* fortune.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

“Further evidence of th® solid basis upon which I®gitimate trade is establish-

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ed lias been furnished by the equanimity with which commercial and toancial institutions regard the recent speculative collapse. Much more harm has been done to the country’s manufactures and trade by the inflated prices of cotton than by the depression in stocks. Reports are almost unanimous ns to the heavy distribution of merchandise, and this is shown statistically by the increase in railway earnings thus far reported for July, 12.5 per cent over last year’s and 23.1 per cent above 106 l,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade. Continuing, the report says: As a rule retail trade iu summer fabrics has continued heavy, and jobbers report fall business opening well. Labor i* well employed throughout the country except where voluntarily idle. Agricultural news is favorable. Foreign trade is maintained, both exporta and imports from this city showing gains over the corresponding week last year. Moderate improvement is noted in th® tone of the iron and steel industry. Thera is striking absence of urgent orders, however, especially in line® outside of railway equipment. There ks less anxiety regarding the danger of over-production, nit ho ugh dozens of new blast furnace* are in course of construction, and an active capacity of twenty million tons annually is nsw assured. Cables report spirited bidding by European rail mills for large contracts in America that home producers cannot consider, owing to their over-sold condition. Coke is moving freely, but the Alabama coal strike still disturbs fimiaeemen. Another decline has taken copper to about 13 cents. Failures this week were 190 in the United States, again:* 193 last year, -and 19 iu Canada compared with 18 a year ago.

Wheat harvesting is now general throughout the Northwest. As to the yield

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,of the wheat crop it is thought that with all the recent improvement and with a yield in South Dakota approximately 10,000,000 bushels more «s partial offset to losses elsewhere, the total is likely to fall under last year, but there will be a good yield on the whole, and a yield for which the Northwest may be very thankful in view of the fact that a mouth ago Ihe entire crop stood in imminent danger of destruction from drought. The coarse grain crops that come to harvest earliest of all are turning out well and there is a big hay crop. Flax is standing well, and the temperatures of this week, although the cause of some nervousness, were not low enough to hjirt it. The smaller crops are good. The flax farmers will have to take less for tlveir crops than for geveral years past when prices were really abnormally high, but eoar.se grains are bringing fairly remunerative priees and wheat will selljibove latrt year on the average. As the fall season approaches the stream of merchandise flowing into the West is becoming heavier. Of all surprising things in the general outlook the most surprising is the continued heavy tonnage of the railroads. There is no abatement of activity save in a few unimportant instances. Merchants in the West, especially the central West, say they are enjoying the best cash business for years and are unable to aecumulaTc a surplus of goods in any line. Car shortages in the Southwest are a feature, this due in part, however, to the crippling of many, roads by recent floods. The railroads are in better shape this year than ever, and this is a very good thing, for it is likely all the additional equipment will be needed this fall .to prevent a repetition of the car famines and freight congestions that were so serious a handicap to business during the late fall of last year.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.30; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $5.40; Sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.05; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn. No. 2. 50c to 51c; oats, No. 2,33 c to 35c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $15.00; 'prairto, $6.00 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, new, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.60; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,75 cto 76c; com. No. 2 white, 51c to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $5.50; hogs, $4.50 to $5.55; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 80c; com, No. 2, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2,31 cto 32c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.25 to $4.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5.45; sheep, $3.00 to 84.00; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; com, No.’2 mixed, 51c to 52c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.40; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; com, No. 3 yellow, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 3 white, 35c to 30c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 87c to 88c; com, No. 3,51 cto 53c; oats. No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; rye, Nb. 1,51 e to 53c; barley, No. 2,57 cto s*;; pork, mess, $13.40. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75c to 76c; com, No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye. No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $5.65. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers,-' $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, fair to prime. $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $5.50. New York—flattie, $4.00 *to $5.50; hogs. $4.00 to $5.85; sheep. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No, 2 red, 82c to 83c; com. No. 2,57 cto 58c; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; butt*, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, western, 15c to 19c.