Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1903 — Page 6

am«mm P. B. BABCOCK. PuWahtr. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Postmaster General Payne will prevent interference by railroad strikes with interstate commerce by making all trains mail trains and commissioning tlieir crews as United States postal employes. Extra compensation will be paid them by the government. Secretary Shaw has removed Henry Ives Cobb, architect in charge of the Chicago Federal building, and accepted the resignation of two employes who desired to quit the government employment because of dissatisfaction with Cobb's methods. A congressional investigation of tho affair is expected. The Cleveland Furnace Company's plant, just completed at a cost of nearly $1,000.0J0. was tiie scene of an accident in which three men's Jives were instantly crashed out. The three men were Inaide the stack laying the last course of material when the huge bell at the top of the stack, seventy-five feet above where the men were at work, crashed down upon them. In Pittsburg John Maclnnes entered suit for $6,000 damages against John Lucbt, a storekeeper of Allegheny. Last July 4 the 0-year-old son of Maclnnes purchased a toy pistol in Lucbt’a store. While firing it off the pistol exploded and a piece of it entered the boy’s hand. He died of lockjaw a few days later. The father Is seeking to recorer damages for the loss of his child. Carrie Nation's summary conviction for selling hatchets in violation of a city ordinance was declared illegal by Judge Newcomb at Scrauton, Fn., when her application for a writ of habeas corpus came before him. The writ was sustained on the ground that the magistrate’s record was defective. Mrs. Nation’s counsel will bring suit against the city for $50,000 damages for fatae arrest and imprisonment. ltcv. J. F. Davidson of Tacoma is settling the negro problem in a practical way by organizing a colonization movement among the negroes of the South. He passed through St. Paul the other day with a party of twenty-five negroes from Ix>uisiana. all of whom will take up lands in Washington. This is the vanguard, Mr. Davidson says, of a considerable movement of colored people from Southern cities to the farming lands of tho West. Five prisoners, John Campion, John Pitcher, James Campbell, Charles Howell and Juines Dant, were prevented from breaking out of the county jail at Washington, Ind., by the wife of Sheriff Morgnu, whose suspicions were aroused by peculiar noises. She was atone, but going to the prison door called all the prisoners to her and then she pulled a lever which locked them inside the inner corridor. An investigation developed that a stone slab weighing 800 pounds had been removed from the wall and leaving only an eight-inch brick wall. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. ,63 32 Brooklyn ... 144 40 New York.. .57 37 Boston .39 51 Chicago 60 41 St. Louis 35 63 Cincinnati ...51 45 Philadelphia. .31 61 Following is the standing of the clubs fn the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston ..... .00 34 Detroit 46 44 Philadelphia..s4 41 St. Louis 42 40 New York... .47 41 Chicago ..,. .42 52 Cleveland .. .50 45 Washington.. .29 64

NEWS NUGGETS.

About one-half of the business portion of Biggs, Colo,, lias I iron destroyed, causing a loss of over $40,000. At the O’Neill coal mines at Wilsonburg, W. Va., Italian miners attacked American mine employes and one Italian wan killed. Pistols, shotguns and bowic knives were use|l. Turkish troops are destroying villages and robbing and killing indiscriminately in Macedonia, under the guise of .combating insurgents. General massacres of Christians are feared. Fire destroyed Radcliffe & Co.’s fourstory warehouse at Grand Uapids, Mich., causing a loss of more than SIOO,OOO. The building. was tilled with furniture owned by local dealers. At Candor villuge, N. Y., Sadie, the 10-year-old (laughter of Peter Van Denmark, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Disagreement with her mother is thought to have caused the act. The American fishing tug Silver Spray, of Krie, was tired on and damaged in hate Erie by the Canadian revenue cutter Petrel while in debatable water near the boundary Hue. Complications may ensue. Bert Dixon, who shot and killed bis father, ex-County Coroner Dr. James Dixon, on July 2, was adjudged insane by Probate Judge Beam at Canal Dover, Ohio, and was taken to the Massillon asylum. Three slight earthquake shocks were felt at Athens, Greece. Three villages on the isle of Cythera were almost entirely destroyed. The earthquake was general throughout Greece. Two fatalities have been reported. Through an organized movement by Rev. J. H. Henry Duckery of Cambridge, Mass., 500,000 negroes ere to emigrate from the South to points between Troy, N. Y„ Boston and Providence within three years. According to the Paris Gaulois Jules Verne U almost blind. An operation for the removal of a cataract is necessary, but the author declines to undergo this, on the ground that it would be too dangerous at his age, 75 years. Four Philadelphia merchants have been arrested, charged with violating the law regarding the sale' of firearms to minors. The arrests are the outcome of an investigation into the cause of the death of four children from lockjaw resulting from pistol wounds. Joseph Hallicr, organizer of the United Mine Workers, was shot and seriously wounded, ami B. L. Greer, vice-president of the Alabama United Mine Workers, was severely besten 1# a crowd of angry citizens at Horse Creek, Ala., who objected to the organisation of a union at that place.

EASTERN.

A Nawark, N. J., physician believes k« has discovered a way to exterminate mosquitoes with an X-ray. machine. ' The police have learned of the disappearance of tho night clerk at a Chelsea hotel and SIO,OOO with him. Chelsea ia a suburb of Atlantic City, N. J. New York financier* are shocked by a new book by a jprmer secretary of Carnegie's, throwing new light on methods and successes of the ironmaster. After rescuing his mother from drowning In the surf at Coney Island Frank Masters, an expert swimmer from Brooklyn, lost bis life in the undertow. Four young men were drowned off the coqst of Maine by leaping from a gasoline launch which had caught fire. Two others were badly but rescued. Nine people were killed and probably 200 more or less seriously injured, a score perhaps fatally, by the collapse of a rotten balcony at tho Philadelphia baseball park. The naval war game came to an end off Bar Harbor, Me., with detection of the "enemy’a” fleet trying to raid coast, success of defenders being made possible by use of wireless telegraph. Charles Loeffler, nephew of Mrs. Charles Fair, who, with her husband, was killed in France, has been serMfualy hurt jn a runaway near his New Jersey home. He probably will recover. Conrad Schrocder, one of the wealthiest contractors and builders in northeastern Pennsylvania, shot himself in the head at Scranton and died almost instantly. He was rated as a millionaire. The pocking house of the Dupont powder mills at Carney’s Point, Del., blew up. No one was injured, as there were no employes there at the time. The loss is trifling. The cause of the explosion is unknown.

Jessie Hart, a pretty young domestic of Geneva, N. Y., received word the other day from Seattle, Wash., that her uncle, James L. Hawley, a mine owner, bad dlad, leaving her his entire fortune of $2,000,000. A deadlock on the cruiser Columbia has been in existence at Brooklyn navy yard for several days, because Chief Carpenter’s Mate Isaac Miller, negro, insists on dinlug with petty officers; Washington officials may interfere. The Boston and Chicago special was wrecked at Charlton, Mass,, depot in a collision with an east-bound freight. Both engines were wrecked and two cars of the express derailed. The damdige is estimated at over $30,000.

A certificate of incorporation of the Pittsburg Union stock yards has been filed in Jersey City. Tire company was organized for the purpose of buying, selling, slaughtering and packing live stock. The capital stock is SIOO,OOO. Keeper James H. Gunderman was eliot at the New York State reformatory In Elmira by a convict named Moore, whom he had threatened to report for violation of the rules. One bullet went through Gundermnn’s shoulder. * Fire which started in the store of former State Senator J. G. W. Havens at Point Pleasant, N. J., destroyed several business houses in the center of the town. The damage is about SIOO,OOO. Mr. Havens lost a valuable collection of antiquities.

Angelina La Puma, a New York child, who disappeared from in front of her home July 21, who is believed to have been kidnaped and for whose recovery a reward of SI,OOO was offered, was found by her father. She had been returned to the house. Because he married the divorced wife of a brother clergyman, Rev. George F. Kettell, assistant rector of Chris! Church, one of the fashionable Episcopal churches of Baltimore, Md., has been forced to resign from his position aud will be deposed from the priesthood.

WESTERN.

Tom Horn and Jim McCloud, murderers, broke jail at Cheyenne, Wyo., but were recaptured. The department store of Fred Blube at Refield, S. D., was gutted by fire, entailing a loss of $50,000, partly covered by Insurance. In nil explosion in a canning factory at Rutland, Ohio, John Mutchler, Said Mar and Dele Rawlins were killed and a dozen others injured. John C. Weller, foreman in the cornice factory of E. A. Rysdon & Co. in Chicago, killed a union comjeemaker when attacked by four men. A belated blast in the Homestead mine at Dead, 8. D., caused the death of Charles Beretti and the serious injury of Louis Harlatti and Louis Dottrick.

The plant of the Little Rock Mill and Elevator Company at Little Rock, Ark., burned. The loss is between $75,000 and SIOO,OOO, with insurance about $40,000. The main building of the American School Furniture Company at Piqua, 0., waa destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $50,000, partially covered by insurance. Albert Senvis, colored, and Frank Case, escaped Folsom convicts, have been captured uear Davisville, Cal. This leaves nine of the thirteen fugitives still at large. Two trains-carrying the Wallace Bros.’ circus collided in the Grand Trunk yards nt Durand, Mich. Twenty one men were killed, several others may die and many were injured. County Clerk C. P, Salen, campaign manager for Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, announces that Mayor Johnson has consented to permit his name to be presented for the gubernatorial nomination. By the collision of electric cars on the Cincinnati and Eastern luterurban line between Mount Washington and Bethel, Ohio, two crowded cars were badly damaged and sixteen persons hurt, four very seriously. The dismembered and headless trunk of a human body has been found floating In the Mississippi river near the dam of the St. Paul Boom Company. It has been in the water so long that it was impoesihle to identify it. John D. Rockefeller has joined with Charles Sweeney in organizing a merger of the Coeur d’Alene lead mines. The concern will have a capital of $30,000,000, and will engage in the smelting of ores as well as mining. Ordered on a march of 150 miles two ago, thirty-five of the 240 artillerymen sent to Camp Douglas, Wis., have deserted, according to reports received at Fort Sheridan. The Eleventh and Twen-ty-fourth batteries were sent. Albert W. Diebel, teller of the City National Bank at Canton, Ohio, who is

accused of embeaaling $22,000, pleaded hot guilty before United States Commissioner B. I. Gilmer apd was held to the District Court under $20,000. A tornado struck the town of Salt Fork, thirty miles southwest of Blackwell, Okla., and completely demolished the town, though no one was killed and but one person, a section boas on the ’Frisco Boad, seriously injured. ■'* At Lawrence, Kan., the north bank of the new channel of the Kansaa river is constantly giving way to the force of the current, and the port of North Lawrence next to the river ia going in the stream at the rate of twenty-five feet a day. A tire caused by an explosion of a can of pitch resulted in several thousand dollars’ damage to the Queen City printing Ink works in Cincinnati. William Miller, Harry Obcrding and Joseph Warbes, all employes of the plant, were seriously injured. The north-bound Missouri, Kansas and Texas flyer wae derailed two miles north of Schell City, Mo., and twenty passengers were injured. The postal car, the combination mail car and a chair car were splintered and three others were derailed.

Little Ted Kendall, who disappeared from the home of hto parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kendall, in Indianapolis, and for whom diligent search was made by neighbors and the entire police force, was found dead In a ciatern a few doors from the Kendall home. Fire partially destroyed the Perry block in Fort Scott, Kan., causing a loss estimated at $70,000. The principal losers: W. J. Calhoun ft Co., dry goods, $25,000; C. H. Harbison, building, $20,000; Maronic lodge, $7,000. Losses are well covered by insurance. Suit has been commenced by stockholders of the Standard Motive Power Company of Canal Dover, Ohio, to put the company in the hands of a receiver. The company is capitalized at $10,000,000 and the action is owing to alleged misrepresentation by Manager Blake.

President Roosevelt in a letter to Gov. Durbin of Indiana says lynching, which is a form of anarchy, is growing at an alarming rate and threatens the very existence of the republic. He suggests speedy trial and punishment of criminals as a remedy for mob violence.

A lovers’ quarrel over Florence Mackey, an Indian girl at the Cree camp, near Havre, Mont., resulted in the death of Cree Tom and the serious injury of two other members of the band. Arquite, a Mexican half-breed, is supposed to have done the shooting. He escaped. Carl W. Von Richtofen, a partner in a bird store in Omaha, is missing and he is believed to have been robbed of $6,000 and killed. The other day he received the money by express from an estate left him in Germany. He did not return home as usual that night and has not been heard from since.

Building operations in Chicago are paralyzed because of contractors’ pools and the heavy cost of labor and material. The Union League has abandoned its plans to erect a new club house, and other persons who had proposed to erect buildings have decided to wait for more auspicious conditions. The first practical test overland of the De Forest wireless telegraph system was made at Cleveland. Signals were received from Buffalo, a distance of 180 miles direct, three-fourths of this distance being overland. It is claiified this is a longer distance overland than messages have heretofore been sent.

Surgeons at the city hospital in St. Louis removed the heart of Alma Toomey, a 13-.vear-old girl, who had been stabbed by her aged lover, Thomas Barnes, laid it an her breast, examined it, found it uninjured and replaced it. This is the eleventh operation of the kind in the annals of surgery. William Henry, who was sent to the Illinois pejiitentiary in 1901 to serve a fourteen years’ sentence for-forgery and who escaped shortly after, was arrested in Guthrie, Ok. He married there a short time ago and quarreled with his wife, who informed the Sheriff of Christian County, Illinois, of-the whereabouts of the fugitive. Fifty prisoners in the county jail at Carthage, Mo., mutinied at midnight and made a demand for better food. The fire department was called out and turned a stream of water on the prisoners, who, after turning the lights out in the corridors, hurled empty bottles at the -firemen and jail officials. The prisoners were finally subdued. Dan Perkins, a negro, arrested at St. Ixiuis on the charge of having probably fatally shot Warden Taylor, another negro, narrowly escaped being lynched by a crowd of negroes who endeavored to take him from police officers at Eleventh and Morgan streets. One of the officers was knocked down, but re-enforcements arrived and dispersed the mob. Fire gutted the five-story brick building at 1(508-10 Harney street, Omaha, destroying a greater part of the stock of the Midland Puint and Glass Company, which is a local branch of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, the Mark Saddlery Company, and did considerable damage to the Schlitz Hotel adjoining. The loss will exceed $200,000, with about 80 per cent of insurance.

The Omaha police are looking for Bordsnll Ayres, aged 12 years, of Chicago, who has disappeared from Florence, a suburb of Omaha, where he had been for several weeks visiting an aunt. Several days ago the father of young A} res came from Chicago to accompany the boy home and when he arrived at Florence he found that his son and another boy had run away. Attorneys for Mrs. Lena Lillie, convicted of the murder of her husband, filed in the Supreme Court at Lincoln, Neb., an appeal containing 13,000 allegations of errors. The work is in four volumes and is the longest appeal ever filed in the State. Mrs. Lillie was sentenced to Imprisonment for life for the murder of Harvey Lillie Oct. 24, 1902. He was shot while asleep in his bed. During a quarrel between Gottlieb Schults and members of his family in the town of Seif, VVis., Schultz'shot and killed his daughter, Mrs. Patrick Leydon. Leydon was shot through the breast and is in a critical condition. Schultz's head was crushed with blows from a pitchfork and Mrs. Schultz is badly bruised. Schultz had been under bonds awaiting trial for attempting to murder his wife. The North Dakota Supreme Court has declared void the $700,000 of bonds authorised by the last Legislature for State educational and charitable institutions. State Treasurer McMillen refused to comply with the orders of the State board of university and school lands for the purchase of the bonds and a mandamus action brought to compel him te gay

over the money baa been decided against the institutions. A slave for fifteen oj her seventeen years, Louise Haby haa escaped and, taken refuge in Chicago. The giN was •old to a South Dakota ranchman for $25 when 2 years old, it is said. Her existence haa been one of horror. Without friend* or education, she was made to work on the ranch until a few days ago, when her uncle, John Mayer of Chicago, discovered her plight and formed a posse of neighbors, rescuing her and taking her t« his house. One of the most remarkable atmospheric disturbances is reported from 0«» coma, S. D. Following the hottest day ever experienced there came an atmospheric condition, lasting only a few minutes, but fatal to live stock and greatly distressing human beings. During the day nearly every kitten in the vicinity of Oacoma died, apparently from the effects of some gaseous matter in the air. A bunch Of eighteen head of cattle in one drove was seen coming down from the slate. when of them fell dead.

The village of New Holland, Ohio, ia in an uproar owing to the disappearance of John K. Brown, cashier of the Union Banking Company. Brown closed the bank one night and since that time has not been seen. Every possible effort was made to open the safe, and an expert was rent for from Cincinnati, Brown has been cashier for twelve years. His mother lives at Pleasant Ridge in Hamilton County, for which point he is supposed to have left. The bank haa closed its doom pending an investigation. A man 35 years old, supposed to be Karl Gettfried Carlson, a Scandinavian of Liverpool, England, was murdered in Minneapolis. The body, the head bearing the marks of a blow over the right eye and having what is thought to be a bullet hole over the left ear, was taken from the Mississippi river. The body was enveloped securely in a coarse sack. It probably had been in the water a week or ten days, aud on the body was found a notebook containing- some writing in Swedish and the names of Elin Johann, 1369 Sheffield avenue, Chicago, and John M. Nelson, 237 East street, San Francisco.

FOREIGN.

Lisbon was shaken the other night by a violent earthquake. Twenty men were killed by the explosion of an English boiler in the Santa Rita cotton factory in Canete, Peru. The factory was insured in native companies. The coronation of Pope Pius X. drew an immense throng to St. Peter’s in Rome, a similar splendid spectacle not having been witnessed in fifty-seven years. Fire and panic on underground electric railway in Paris caused the death of probably 100 persons and injury to dozens. Eighty-two bodies were taken out within a few hours. The strike riots at Cracow, Austrian Poland, have resulted according to a Cracow newspaper, in sixty deaths since Aug. 5 thrqugh contlicts between the strikers and the troops. Russia demands that Turkey punish the murderer of consul nt Monastir and all military or civil officials in any way responsible for the crime. Macedonian committee has appealed to powers to intervene. A special messenger from Monastir reports that the Bulgarian insurgents have dynamited the konak (governor’s palace), in the town of Krushevo, twenty-three miles north of Monastir. Fifty Turks were killed. An engagement Bear Sorovitch between Turkish troops and Macedonian insurgents closely resembled a battle. Four battalions of Turkish soldiers, supported by several batteries of artillery, attacked 1,700 insurgents, most of whom were Bulgarians and well armed. The Bulgarians, although outnumbered nearly four to one, fought desperately and were only defeated after many had been killed and wounded on both sides.

IN GENERAL.

James J. Hill, who bnilt railways in the Northwest when everybody said he could not make them pay, will attempt the equally difficult undertaking of building railways in China. A Government report has been issued showing that there will be a good average crop yield, resulting in an advance in the stock markets. Business men are confident that prosperity will continue. . Weekly- trade reviews of < Dun and Bradstreet show favorable conditions in nearly every section of the country, merchandise freight already taxing capacity of roads, although crop demand for cars is not yet urgent.

Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, upon his retirement from command of the army the other day, issued a general order bidding farewell to the army, in which he urges the men to keep the service untarnished and honorable.

Dr. John Clayton Gifford, formerly of Cornell University, who is exploring the new Luquilla forest reserve in Porto Rico, reports the discovery of new gold streams, the soil in which is crudely panned by a few natives. W. S. Stone of Elden, lowa, division, No. 131, has been elected to fill the unexpired term as grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, made vacant by the deaths of P. M. Arthur and A. B. Young son. Gen. Nelson A. Miles has issued an order, with the approval of the Secretary of War, to prevent the ‘‘docking" of horses in the military service. Gen. Miles regards this practice as brutal, and on this point he and the President agree. Martin Lippmann, until recently a New Yorker, who. went to Spanish Honduras to engage in the banana industry, was found in a cornfield five miles from Port Tela, murdered. He had a bullet hole in the back of the neck, indicating that he had been shot from ambush. Lippmann was 56 years of age. The effort of the United States government to introduce its new currency into the Philippine Islands has not met with the success that was anticipated. Although a large quantity of the coins minted at San Francisco have 'beached the islands there is considerable prejudice against their use, especially in the provinces. v A combine, believed to be the “department store trust,” which will acquire and run mammoth businesses all over the United States, was chartered in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J„ under the corporate name of the Cash Buyers’ Union First National Co-opera-tive Society, with a nominal authorised capital «C $6,000,000.

PIUS X. IS CROWNED.

GREAT CROWD WBTT FETEIPB TO WITNESS CEREMONY. Oorgaoßi Spectacle Navar to It Pargottaa Vifty-aevam Ye are Mite* Similar Function Many faiat la Ma* Crash—Memorable Day ia S*mk. The ceremony of the coronation of Pope Pina X. took place Sunday in the basilica of Bt. Peter’*, Rome, in the pretence of the princea and high dignitaries of the church, diplomat* and Roman nobles, and with all the aolemnity and splendor associated with thia, the meat magnificent rite ia the Roman Catholic Church. « As Cardinal Macchi, the dean es the cardinal-deacons, placed the triple crown on the head of the venprable pontiff, the throng *of 70,000 persona gathered within the cathedral buret into unrestrained acclamations, the choir intoned a hymn of triumph and the bells of Rome rang oat a joyful peal. It ia fifty-seven years since the Roman* and Enrope assisted at such a function as was held in St. Peter’s Sunday. The great basilica, popularly supposed never to have bpen quite full, wo* overflowing with humanity. The papal throne, a bewildering mixture of gold, red and silver, was erected in front es the high altarContrary to cnatom on these ceremonious occasions, there were no galleries, and the basilica consequently bore more of its normal aspect. On the altar, which was dressed in white, stood the famous silver gilt candlesticks and a magnificent crucifix. When the doors were opened the In rush was terrific; many who started from the bottom of the atepa outside were lifted off their feet and parried into the cathedral. It was a great human torrent let loose, thousands of people mailing, crushing and squeezing amid acreams, protests, gesticulations and cries for help. But one© in the whirlpool there was no ercape and the compactness of the crowd proved to be the safety of those caught in it

Inside the Vatican palace there was movement and bustle as the papal procession, composed of about 500 persons, all of whom had gathered early in the apostolic palaces, was formed. The procession was a long time getting under way, hut afterward, as it moved through the magnificent halls and corridors of the Vatican, it recalled former days, when all was color and picturesqueness within the palace. Pope the Central Figure. The central figure in the long cortege was Pins X. borne in the sedia geststoria. Ilia heavy white robes and the red and gold miter were worn without an effort, making a vivid contrast to those memorable occasions on which Pope Leo XIII. wore them, for Leo seemed always unable to support their weight. Over the pontiff’s head a canopy was held by eight men, while the historic feather fana with peacock tips gave a touch of barbaric splendor to western eyes. Surrounding Pope Pius were the noble guard in new red uniforms and gleaming helmeta and carrying drawn swords, while in front marched the cardinals, a gorgeous bit of color with many handsome faces among them,'The cardinalbishops in their capes, the cardinalpriests, wearing chasubles and the cardi-nal-deacons in their delmatics. The cathedral was illumined with twinkling lights, while the mart™ column* and walla rendered the col,or scheme more vivid. Overhead was the most magnificent dome in the world, np to which floated the harmony of the muslc.

From the throne Pius X., surrounded by his suite, walked to the high altar standing over the crypt of St. Peter, into A hich meanwhile Cardinal Macchi descended to pray. The altar was surmounted by a baldaccliino supported by four historic bronze pillars taken from the Parthenon. The appearance of the ripe in that elevated position called forth another burst of enthusiasm. The Pope then blessed the altar, and after saying the “indulgentiam” the maniple, a symbol of the cord with which Christ was bound on His capture, was placed, with great ceremony, upon the Pope’s arm. At the samo time prayers for the coronation were recited by Cardinals Vannutelli, Mocenni, Agliardi and Satolli. Returning from the crypt, Cardinal Macchi placed upon the shoulders of the Pope the pontifical pallium and attached it with three golden jeweled pins.

Mass was then with great pomp and ceremony, the voice of the Pope becoming gradually more firm and sonorous until it was even audible in the most distant corner of the r immense church. Following this Cardinal Macchi performed the rite of incensing the Pope, whom he subsequently kissed three times on the cheeks and chest, as did Cardinals Segna and Vannutelli. * The whole sacred college gathered about the Pope, ringing Palestrina’s “Corona Aurea Super Caput Ejus,” while the choir burst forth into song. Cardinal Macchi then recited the “Pater Noster Noster” and offered prayer. Placed the Crown. Cardinal Deacon Sagna then raised the pontiff’s mitre, and Senior Cardinal Deacon Macchi placed on the venerable white head the triple crown. At this moment the church waa filled with the ringing of bells, the blowing of silver trumpets, the triumphant strains of the choir and the acclamations of the multitude which could no longer be repressed. When comparative ailence had been restored Cardinal Macchi sddrenaed the Pope In Latin as foll|wa: "Receive the tiara ornamented with three crowns. Remember thon art the father of princee and kings, the rector of the world, the vicar on earth of oqr Saviour, Jesus Christy who is the honor and glory of all countries.” “Amen,” burst forth from the concourse. W r hen the ceremony was over all the exits to the basilica were opened, and within less than an hoar the vast cathedral was empty,

Brief News Items.

Charles Horan fell down a coal A aft, Wilkesbarre, Pa., and was killed. Rev. J. L. Ale worth, Cape Girardeau, Mo., drowned while, bathing in tfcs Mississippi. A tramp at Napoleon, Ohio, cut off Mine Dqra Zertenna’s hate because aha refused him a meal Ha also stole has

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

“Trade advices from nearly every section continue to show a* favorable

Itw York,

conditions a* a year ago, and in many tinea the volume of transactions haa been increased. Jabber* report fall business opening with excellent prospects, and manufacturing plants "are well occupied, with the exception of the cotton mills. Distribution of merchandise is *o heavy that railway equipment already proves Inadequate, although crqpa are not the factor that they will be in a few weeks. Earnings for July exceeded last years by 12.7 per cent and those of 1901 by 20.2 per cent,” according to R. G. Dob ft Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade. Continuing, the report rays: On the whole, news from the farms is less favorable, but no serious curtailment is assured, and many section* made very bright reports. * A* decline of 1.5 per cent in the coat of commodities during July is evidence thflfprice* are less inflated, ranee the chang9'was mainly in meats and other food, which have been' ruling at an abnormal position. Consumption of iron and steel is on a large scale, and in many departments the last week has witnessed the signing of numerous contracts, but there is a tendency to delay purchases beyond early needs. Thia conservatism is not surprising in view of the uncertainty regarding the security and financial markets, together with considerable interruption to structural work through labor controversies. The rate of consumption and the moderate size of orders, however, Indicate that stocks are running low, which encourages furnace men and mill operators t 9 hold quotations fairly steady.

A moderate tonnage of pig iron has been ordered, and in partly finished products the best feature just now ia the bidding of agricultural Implement - makers. More pig iron was imported during July than anticipated, and German billets are still offered *t Pittsburg, but the domestic makers announce their intention of meeting foreign competition. There is less pretuure for tin plates, the peculiar weather extending the canning season and giving more time for delivery of cans. There is full occupation in all branches of this industry, and in merchant pipe also the mills have full order books for many months. Although jobbers report bright prospects for fall trade, it la remarkable that they make so little effort to-eecure forward deliveries. Irregular distribution of orders is reported in woolens, rome lines being withdrawn, while others make little progress. An increase iu number of buyers ia encouraging, and in the aggregate sales are fully up to normal. Hradstreet’a Trade Review.

Summed up in a sentence, it may be said that the past in trade and industry Is satisfactorily secured,.while the future, . despite tome mainly sentimental drawbacks, is highly promising. Divided geographically, it is to be noted thgt the East feels the effect of speculative liquidation, and the dulling effects on manufacturing of high prices of raw materia! or of strikes, while the West and South contemplate the prospects of good yields of staple crops and remunerative prices for the same with confidence, and even optimism. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending Ang. 0 aggregate 3,040,820 bushels,, against 3,191,442 last week, 4,244,383 tide week last year, 8,831,199 In 1901 and 3.318560 in 1900. For five weeks of the cereal year they aggregate 15,047,253 bushels, against 20,793,203 In 1902, "32,507,145., in 1901 and 14,868,797 in 1900. Corn exports for the week aggregate 884,428 bushels, against 928,839 last week. 70,611 a year ago, 990,714 in 1901 and 2,890,754 in IfWO. For five weeks of the present cereal year they aggregate 6,242,093 bushels, against 494,437 in 1902, 7,224,413 in 1901 and 18,249,731 in 1900.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $5.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; com. No. 2,50 cto 51c; oats, No. 2,33 c to 35c; rye, No. 2, Glc to 52c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to slfr.oo; prairie, $6.00 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 14c; potatoes, new, 50c to 62c per bushel, Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, SB.OO to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,75 cto JOc; corn. No. 2 white, 51c to 52c; oats, Mo. 2 white, 32c to 33c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $5.20; hogs, $4.50 to $5.80; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,79 cto 80c; corn. No. 2, 47c to 48c; oata, No. 2,31 cto 33c; rye, No. 2,32 cto 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.25 to $4.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5.60; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,77 cte 78c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; rye. No. 2,56 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.70; sheep, S2JSO to $3.25: wheat. No. 2,79 cto 81c; com. No. 8 yellow, 53c to 56c; oats. No. 3 white, 34c to 36c; rye. No. 2,51 cto 52c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 90c to 91c; corn, No. 3,53 cto 54c; oats. No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; rye, No. 1, slc to 53c; barley, No. 2,57 cto 58c; pork, mess, $13.27. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 79c to 80c; corn, 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 $6.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to. $4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $6.00. New York—Cattle, S4OO to $5.40; bogs, S4OO to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 40 $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 86c; corn, No. 2,58 cto 59c; oats, Ne»2- wMCh, 40c to 41c; butter, creamery, 18c tHft * eggs, western, 18c to 20c.