Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1903 — Page 2

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CIRCLING THE GLOBE

C. I*. Stnub, a retired German capital tat of Indianapolis, wan stricken with paralysis while driving in his phaeton and suddenly became helpless. His faithful old mare dodged street ears, delivery wagons and sought a place of safety on the sidewalk. ■ The Anchor and B mills of the Pills-bury-Wash burn Flour Mills Company and mills C, I>, E and G of the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company in Minneapolis, all of which have been running night and day, have closed. The mills were closed because of the shortage of wheat. Detective Charles C. Grimaley of the Cincinnati police force shot and killed James Mitchell in the western part of the city. Mitchell had attacked Grims ley and knocked him down, whereupon the detective drew his revolver and tired. Mitchell was known to the police as a dangerous man. The Canadian Pacific railroad's steamer Empress of India collided near Hongkong with the Chinese cruiser HuangTai. The war ship ;iank an hour after the collision. The Empress of India saved 170 of the crew of the cruiser. The captain of the Huang-Tai, who re fused to leave his ship, and thirteen of the crew were drowned. Among the business to come before the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Qdd Fellowa at the annual session in Baltimore next month will be a proposition to erect a temple in Baltimore to cost not less than $1,000,000. The temple is intended us a memorial to Washington Lodge, No. 1, the mother lodge of the order, which was founded by Thomas Wildey. The bodies of a well-dressed man, about 24 years of age, and an attractive appearing young woman were found on Broadway, Cleveland. Both were dead, the woman shot through the right temple, the man with a bullet hole behind the left ear. The bodies were later identified as those of William Leutbecher and Martha Faelmrieh, his sweetheart. The new Herrs Island stock yards at Pittsburg, which have been completed at a cost of more than $3,000,000, will be opened formally Monday, Sept. 7, with A. J. Cassatt, President of the Pennsylvania railroad, as the guest of honor. Ten thousand invitations have been sent out for the opening and preparations ure being made to entertain *25,000 people. The organization of the Southern Tex-

tile Company, a combine of Southern , cotton yarn mill*, lias been practically completed, and the mills will soon be taken over. This is tile largest cotton merger that has ever taken place. The company, which is capitalised at $14.000,000, will take over about seventy mills in North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. The dull* in the National League are standing thus: \V. L. W. L. Pittvburg .. .<!(! :J5 Brooklyn ... .50 52 New Y0rk...(11 40 Boston 42 5(1 Chicago <l2 42 St. Louis MO 70 Cincinnati ...55 47 Philadelphia'! .Ml (11 Following is the standing of the clubs In the American League: \V. L. W. L. Boston (15 MO Detroit 49 49 Philadelphia..sß 44 St. Louis 45 53 Cleveland .. .50 4(5 Chicago 40 50 New Y0rk...49 47 Washington.. .32 09 The mutilated body of 4-year-old Alphonse VV'ehne* was found in a lot at the rear of the Michigan Stove Works at Adair and Wright streets, Detroit. The body was discovered by a workman, wedged in between two molding boxes. The hands were tied behind with wire and a red handkerchief had been stuffed down the little fellow’s throat for a gag. The body was partly stripped of clothing. The abdomen was slashed open and the left wrist was nearly severed. Both thighs also had long, deep cuts in them. All the wounds had apparently been made with a knife.

BREVITIES.

The Northern Railway shops in Quebec were completely destroyed by tire. Loss $75,000, covered by insurance. Herbert Moon, a Utica, N. Y., boy, 13 years old, shot and killed Lucien Drew, aged 20, of Ithaca, Mich., after a quarrel. A terrific gas explosion occurred at Bens Uun, W. Vu., u small oil town, along the Ohio river, and two persons were injured' fatally. Mrs. Carrie Nation was fined $lO in Bayonne, N. J., for attempting to use her hatchet in a saloon. She paid , the fine in 10-cent pieces. The Mason & Hamlin Company of Boston, one of the oldest piano and organ houses in the country, assigned, with liabilities estimated at $1,000,000. The blowing out of the controller on a crowded ear in Buffalo and a fire which followed caused a panic among the passengers. Ten of them were injured, four seriously. Two men were fatally injured and fully a score badly hurt by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge in the subway at One Hundred and Third street and Broadway, New York. - A head-end collision took place on the Carthage-Joplin Electric railway three mile* front Carthage, Mo. Motorman .tame* Baker wns killed, Motormai) E. Hedge fatally hurt and twenty-five other persous seriously injured. A cure for lockjaw has been discovered by Dr. S. A. Mathews of University of Chicago and used successfully on the son of J. M. Newman, of South Chicago. Calciam and potassium Salts solution were given as an injection. ~T' A special dispatch from Dawson City says that H. Bratnober. an American miner, arrived there with news that 400 miners in the Tanana country are in terrible straits. He says five men have already died of starvation, and there are scores living on nothing but berries. James Willis Sayre, the Seattle Times globe trotter, reached Seattle over the Northern Pacific. Mr. Sayre had been gone from Seattle exactly 54 days 8 hours and 55 minutes. The best previous record, made by Charles Cecil Fitamorris, was 60 days 13 hours and 29

EASTERN.

Bicfaard Canfield won $200,000 In Wall atreet on Heading. Tba Crucible Bteel plant of Pittsburg will continue abut down until October. Employes expected to resume work tbla waek. C. D. Ellis of New York drove his automobile Into a locomotive in Switserland, injuring the big engine but leaving bia machine unscathed. Fred Vanderbilt names the new mil-lion-dollar dormitory he has given to Yale the “Cornelius Vanderbilt” dormitory, in memory of his late brother. Naretink National Bank of Red Bank, N. J., is closed by the Comptroller of the Currency, shortages and a false report having been disclosed. President Roosevelt reviewed the North Atlantic rquadron in Long Island aound. The destroyer Decatur was rammed by the Barry during the maneuvers, but neither was seriously damaged. Miss Sarah JefTerson, granddaughter of Joseph Jefferson, submitted to an operation at Buzzard's Bay, Mas*., to supply skin for a grafting operation on the wife of her grandfather's coachman. Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York World, has douated $2,000,000 to establish a school of journalism in connection with Columbia University. A building will be erected for the work. Charles G. Emery, a wealthy tobacco dealer of New York, has purchased Grand View Park, an island in the St. Lawrence river, twenty acres in extent, which will he turned into a free sanitarium for poor children. The north elevator on the Navy Department side of the State, War and Navy building at Washington fell from the second floor to the basement. Six clerks were In the elevator at the time, but no one was injured. Edmund J. Smith, former discount clerk In the Merchants' National Bunk of Newark. N. J., Who is accused of having stolen $29,000 from the bank and who disappeared about two weeks ago, has been arrested in Williamson, Va. At York, Pa., while driving to church Mary Long was killed and James Moran seriously injured by being struck by a trolley car. Moran, who was driving, attempted to cross the track in front of a moving car, which could not be stopped. The Amalgamated Brotherhood of Teamsters and Helpers, newly formed at Niagara Falls, N. Y., and representing 150,000'teamsters in the United States, has selected Indianapolis as permanent headquarters and Cincinnati as the meeting place next August. New York State farmers are losing much of their harvest owing to inability to get sufficient help. The only men who enn he secured are “floaters”—anen out of work and stranded, who hire out ns farm hands, and after earning enough to take them to the next city decamp. Mrs. Maria Letitia Lish, known as the oldest woman in Baltimore, died at the age of 102. She had been an inmate of the Church home and infirmary many years. Her husband was a surgeon in the British army and she came to America with him during the Civil War. Pennsylvania Kailroad officials are said to be planning to oust the Western Union Telegraph Company from their lines w.ewt of Pittsburg on the first of next year. The decision may mean a repetition of the destructive campaign waged by the railroad men in the East recently.

WESTERN.

Fire destroyed the Barton salt plant in Hutchinson, Kan. The loss is $50,000. Milton Jeffries, (15, was instantly killed at Greenville, Ohio, in n runaway accident. Fire in the United Verde copper mines in Arizona has burned down to the 700foot level. For the want of harvesting hands much wheat in Kansas is still uncut and will soon go to waste. Seven women were arrested and five were fined $lO and costs for smashing up a joint at Derby, Kan. Prof. YV. J. McGee, ethnologist of the Bt. Louis exposition, has resigned his position in the Smithsonian Institution. Judge Henry L. Ridwell of Clarks Forks, one of the most prominent men of central Idaho, wns accidentally killed. A Denver and Bio Grande passenger train went through a bridge near Nathrop, Colo., causing the injury of fourteen passengers. The explosidn of n thrashing machine engine near Coshocton, Ohio resulted in the death of one and the serious injury of three others. James S. Kevelle, a prominent citizen and widely known horseman of Toledo, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting. No cause for the act is known. Flood in Kansas Uiver and its tributaries, caused by heavy rains, endangered temporary bridges at Ksnsns City. Abilene streets were inundated. Gilbert Grjgg, an insane student, shot a score of persons nt a baud concert at Winfield, Kan., and ended his own life by shooting. Panic resulted, and others were hurt. Gov. Dockery committed the death sentence of Newton J. Privltt of Milan, Mo., to life imprisonment. Privitt was under sentence to hang on Aug. 25 for killing John YV. Wolf. A part of the British display at the world's fair in St. Louis will embrace an exhibit in low temperature investigation, demonstrating the properties of liquid hydrogen. Bank President F. W. Whitaker and Ben Strauss of Hamilton, Ohio, were seriously injured in a collision between a street car and an uutouiobile. Others were slightly hurt. Noah Brooks, once well-known writer and journalist, is dead at his home in Pasadena. Cal., aged 07. He was the author of several books, among them “A Life of Lincoln” aud “First Across the Coni incut.” Thomas R. Morgan, a millionaire lumberman of Oshkosh, Wit., was rtiot and killed by Frederick Hampel, a drunken employe, who afterward committed suicide in his cell by hanging himself with suspenders. Miss Maud Espy, 25 years old. of St. Paul, died at her parents’ summer home at Mahtomedi from hemorrhage of the stomach, brought on by constant vomiting after catfhg toadstools, believing they were mushrooms. ; While crossing a trestle nt Oak Point, • pleasure resort west of Cleveland, four

women were struck by a Lake Shore electric car. One died soon after, while the others receive! injuries which in two cases may prove fatal. Fire that started in the stables of the Armour Packing Company in Kansas City threatened the entire plant for a time. The flames were brought nnder control, having been confined to the stables. The loss is nominal. Mrs. Stephen Wycr was killed and her mother, Mrs. Philip Stateler, and her ■brother, Charles Stateler, were seriously and perhaps fatally injured hi a runaway accident at Fostorla, Ohio. The horse, dashed into a railway train. Four hundred Snake Indiaus have just concluded a prolonged conference, a council of war in the Flint hills near Tucker Spring*, I. T„ where rebellion against the government was again advocated by Crazy Snake and other chiefs. Grooms Texas Bready, lecturer on "Child Labor,” traveler and former member of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, whose home was in Austin, Texas, was drowned while bathing in the Mississippi at the Piasa Chautauqua in Missouri. In St. Louis some party, whose identity is not known, entered the room of Flngislino -Montesnno, an Italian resident, and dangerously stabbed him four times with a stiletto. The assailant is supposed to belong to the Mafia. Manvel, a mining town In the desert near San Bernardino, Cal., has been practically destroyed by, a cloudburst. One man was killed, most of the houses in the place were washed away, and one was struck by lightning and burned. The postofflee building at Sherman, S. D., was entered by cracksmen, who blew open the safe and carried off the contents. The robbers escaped. Notes to the value of $1,500, S3OO In cash and $l5O worth of stamps were obtained. Nebraska Republicans in State conven-

tion commended the administration of President JKooseveit and favored his renomination; declared for the protective tariff and suggested John L. Webster of umahu as their candidate for Vice-Presi-dent. James J. Jeffries retains the world's heavyweight championship by knocking out James J. Corbett in the tenth round in Mechanics’ Pavilion in San Francisco. Youth, weight and strength tell in favor of the sturdy boilermaker after a fierce encounter. Blain Votter, aged 17, shot and fatally wounded a young miner named Burns at a dance at Ivcota, Mo., in a quarrel over a woman. The feeling against Votter is intense. He is in biding and his father refuses to surrender him unless guaranteed protection. Wiiliam Mueller, serving a fifteen-year sentence if t the Ohio penitentiary for murdering' his sweetheart at Columbus, Ohio, four years ago, escaped the other night. He was a trusty and member of the prison fire department and walked away unnoticed. Grasshoppers are so thick near Red Lodge, Mont., that millions are crushed each day under locomotive wheels, and when the engines stop the hoppers make the wheels so slippery It is difficult to start trains again. The insects have eaten the range bare. The engine, the mail car and the baggage car of the Texas express on the Rock Island went through a bridge across Hendricks creek, near Alma, Kan., killing Fireman John Leggett and seriously injuring the engineer, John McSteoit of Kansas Cjty. The Cleveland and New York “flyer” express on the Erie Railroad was wrecked in the eastern part of Cleveland by running into an open switch. Fortunately the train was running slowly at the time, and in consequence no one was killed, though a number were seriously injured. A buggy containing four persous was wrecked by a street car on the Electric Purkline in Kansas City. Moliie Berens was perhaps fatally hurt, and Ida Cross, George Underwood and James Goodwin were seriously injured. The niotorman and conductor were arrested, but later released. Fourteen masked men, supposed to be cattlemen, took a herder from the sheep camp of Joseph Sturgeonr near Dupyer, Mont., and, carrying him ten miles into the mountains, tied him to a tree and whipped him to death. They shot many of the herder’s sheep and drove the remainder away. The printing plant of the Laning Company was destroyed by fire at Norwalk, Ohio, with a loss about SIOO,OOO, fully insured. The company publishes law books and does a genera! printing business. The plant will resume operations as soon as possible. The origin of the fire lias not been learned. At Toledo scrub women have formed a trust. Two months ago they raised their wages from $1 to $1.25 a day; now they demand $1.50 and two meals a day. Cleaners in public schools and office buildings, as well as in private houses, are included. Scarcity of help compels the granting of the demand. Daniel Rudolph, aged 50 years, a thrashing machine operator, was murdered in his home, near Ros.ville, lad., with a hammer, and his hired hand, George B. Potter, is accused of the crime. The murderer also shot Rudolph’s 14-year-old daughter in the head and she was rendered unconscious for a time. Fifteen minutes late and running at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, the limited New York express ou the Pennsylvania road ran into an open switch at the Burt street crossing lu Van Wert, Ohio. One man was instantly killed, another fatally injnred, while fourteen others were less seriously hurt. The 2-year-old child of William Hopkins was attacked by a game cock while playing in the yard at its borne in Elwood, Ind., and so badly injured that it died a few hours later. The spurs passed through the child’s breastbone and penetrated the lungs. Both the baby’s eyes were pecked from the sockets by the rooster. Fire destroyed the three upper floors of the Masonic Temple, at the corner of Superior and Bond streets, Cleveland, and flooded the lower floors with water. The building was occupied by a number of Masonic lodges and commanderies on the three upper floors, while the lower floors were occupied by stores and office*. The directors estimate the loss at $75,000. Wealthy mine owners and high-sal-aried assistants will probably go into the drainage tunnel at Cripple Creek, Colo., and take the places of the union miners who were called out on strike as a result of the refusal of Superintendent Bainbridge to employ only union men. The big bore which will drain most of the

large mines of the district would hare been completed in another week. Judge Rogers in the United States Circuit Court in St. Louis handed, down an opinion to the effect that any company - has the absolute right to dismiss employes because they belong to labor unions or for any other reason; that employers may maintain what is known as a blacklist and give it ont for the use of others: that this is a purely lawful act and has no element of conspiracy. The Commercial Bank at Duluth, Mhin., a private institution, with $25,000 capital, has been wrecked through the defalcation of Erne:«t E. Johnson, who got away with $48,500 and lost it all in stock speculation through local bucket shops. C. F. Leland of the bank announces that the failure is complete. Johnson had been considered a model young man. He first speculated with his own money and later with the bank’s fund*. He has been held to the grand jury in $15,000 bonds.

FOREIGN.

According to reports nt Kingston, Jamaica, tlie recent hurricane killed seventy people. King Edward has issued a public letter thanking the newspaper men who “covered” his Irish trip. A Leipsic court has ordered the destruction of all copies of Tolstoi’s latest book, “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” Of the twenty-four coses of bubonic plague at Pacaamayo, Peru, fifteen deaths are reported. . The situation ia alarming, as the disease appears to be in virulent form. A court martial at Monastir condemned the gendarme Halim to de%th for the murder of M. Rostkovski, Russian consul at Monastir. The sentence was carried out immediately. Became they expressed the hope that Poland would be independent again, fifty Polish girls, three of them school teachers, have been arrested for treason at Gnesen, East Prussia. A horrible disaster has occurred in the sulphur mine near Caltanissetta, Sicily. Gas in the mine became ignited and obstructed the exit of 100 miners. Three of the miners have died. Chinese imperial troops have been defeated by rebels at Hwei-Chou-Fu, in the southern province of Kwang-Tung. Imperial re-enforcements, consisting of 3,000 German-drilled troops, have arrived at Canton. Conspirators who assassinated the former King and Queen of Servia, are said to have a letter from King Peter, written before the murders, promising immunity for all regicides. It is said this letter is being held over him now. There is a persistent renewal of the rumors that the condition of the health of King Alfonso of Spain is grave. According to the reports the physicians have ordered him to stop bathing and horseback riding. It is stated that the prohibition of the physicians is due to the rapid progress that consumption has made. An unconfirmed rumor in Vienna says that King Peter of Servia has threatened to abdicate, claiming he is virtually a prisoner in the hands of the military party. It is also rumored that the entire Servian ministry has resigned, owing to discord between those who aided in murdering the King and Queen and those who did not participate.

IN GENERAL.

Dr. James Brien, of Essex. Ont., says he restored to life by electricity an infant that had been dead apparently for fifteen minutes. Captain Anderson of the Sixth cavalry at Fort Keogh, Montana, has returned the famous jade tablets to tbe Chinese consul general at San Francisco. The Mexican Supreme Court has decided that'Gen. Egan has no title to coal lands for which he paid $700,000, and the property passes into the hands of the Pacific Coast Coal Company. Dun’s Review of Trade says the outlook is promising, the distribution of merchandise continues heavy and railway earnings, increase. Preparations for fall business going ahead with much vigor. The Panama canal treaty was killed by Colombia and the Nicaragua route probably will be decided on by President Roosevelt; amendments by congressional committee will not be accepted by United States. The State Department has been informed by Ambassador Choate that the first meeting of the Alaskan boundary commission will be held at 11 o’clock on Sept. 3 in the British foreign office in London. Tbe Postoffice Department has practically decided on the appointment of William R. Spilman of Riley, Kan., as the successor to A. W. Machen, the deposed and indicted superintendent of free delivery. Steeping car porters employed by the Pullman Company seek the abolition of tips and an increase in wages, saying that fees are decreasing and they are not making enough money. They plan to form a union.

The Rock Island has taken over the Seaboard Air line, thus securing outlet to tide water at six or seven important points. The official announcement of the long-expected deal was made by Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. George W. Beavers, formerly superintendent of the salaries and allowance division in the Postofflce Department and under indictment, is a fugitive from justice. The officials of the department reluctantly confess that the whereabouts of Beavers is unknown to them. YVhat is believed to be a relic of the ill-starred Andree expedition in search of the north pole was brought to Vancouver by a returned mining prospector who has spent the last four years in the wilds of the Mackensie basin. It is thought to be a portion of the silk used in the construction jft Andree’s balloon. The steamer Princets May, from Bkagnay, brings word of a tribal war among the Chilkat Indians of the Kinkwan tribe. For several days a reign of terror was in progress in tbe valley of the Chilkat. Witchcraft, which generally prevails among these Indians, is said to have been at the bottom of tbe trouble. American, Canadian and French fishing veasels returning from the grand banka report that the fisheries there continue a complete failure. Owing to the scarcity of bait over 260 vessels are now iu Newfoundland waters. It is estimated that tbe total catch of the cod fisheries of North America for the present season will be the smallest in twenty yean.

THE CHOP DESTROYER'S TALE.

Thia hi Cb« lenod of the year When always, without fall, *b# Crop Deatroyer finde it pays To tell a Bullish tale. He takes his trusty pen hi hand And wires his daily sear*, The Hot Dry Wind, at hts command, Gome* roaring from Its lair. Forth comes the Ohints Bug, fierce and strong, Anon, there comes the drouth, The wheat at once turns into straw, Obedient to his mouth. As np and down he walks the fields They shrivel at his breath, He blights them here and shrinks them there And marks the path of death. He sums It up, and puts It down. He quotes it Bast and West; His words are final, tense, and grkn And thrown out like his cheat. And good Dame Nature dare not raise A bushel more nor less; She always stands around and waits Till he has made his guess. Then, when he’s killed the wheat croj off, , And all the land’s bereft, His friend, the Ohints Bug, finishing The litt|e that was left, ■ The'fooliah farmer who don’t know The Ohints Bog has been then Goes on upon his fitly coarse. Not asking bull nor bear; And some way, nb one knows just how, He gathers up a crop That staggers all the estimates, And makes the markets drop. The moral of this halting rhynw la easy, don’t you think? It is—in short—you can’t kill whaat By drowning it in ink. —Northwestern Miller.

TORNADO DEVASTATES FARMS.

Building* Blown Down and Persona Injnred—Kansas River at Flood Stag*. Heavy damage was done by a tornado which swept the country ten miles southwest of Norfolk, Neb. The house of a farnfer of the name of Kriger was demolished, Mrs. Kriger was seriously injured, and one of the children hurt. Fields of com were destroyed and outbuildings blown away. The storm struck the farm of Albert Berglund, near Newman Grove. All the outhouses were totally destroyed, including the barn, blacksmith shop and shede. The machinery on the place wae wrecked and scattered. Peter Berglund was standing in the door of the blacksmith shop when the atorm struck R, and was carried some distance with'the building. The only injury he suffered was a broken arm. The storm reached its greatest fury at the farm of Louis Kvam, where a large barn was wrecked, not enough of it being left in one piece to make an ordinary door. A quantity of barley In the granary was carried 150 feet and scattered on the ground. The rest of the barn was strewn over the country for half a mile. Two horses were picked up by the wind, carried some distance, and killed. Twen-ty-five or thirty hoga were also killed. Traffic between the Kansas Cities was practically suspended Saturday, all the temporary pile bridges erected after the great flood in June having been endangered by a rare in the Kansas River, the result of continuous heavy rains. The stopping of traffic over the temporary bridges caused a rush for the flow line bridge, which supports the pipe carrying the efty’a water supply. The gates at each end of the bridge were torn off in the anxiety of those seeking to get across. The bridge Is a comparatively frail structure, and at one time there were nearly 300 perrons on it. There was danger of the- bridge failing, and it became necessary to nail up the gates and force persona from the structure. The James street bridge, the only means of street car communication between the two Kansas Citys, went out Monday morning.- The bridge had been weakened by the high water and gave way when struck by a great mass of driftwood carried in from the west by the mvift current. The James street bridge was built of piles to replace one carried out by the June flood. Part of the Belt Line bridge collapsed Sunday. At Armourdale, which was literally wiped out in the June flood, the river was fourteen feet above low water mark and seven feet higher than the lowest mark recorded since June. At Abilene the water was two feet deep on 4th and sth streets, and many cellars were flooded.

CHASED BY WILD DOGS

Montana Girl Had a Narrow Escape from aa Awful Fate. Chased for more than a mile by a pack of wild dogs, Miaa Gertie Sullivan, daughter of a sheep man living on Birch creek, near Havre, Mont., escaped only by spending the night in an old corral and picking off the animals now and then with a rifle. Mka Sullivan waa riding her pony across the prairie when she eaw, some distance away, pefhaps twenty animals, which at first glance she took to he coyotes. Aa they came nearer, evidently in pursuit of her, the girl saw they were aot coyote*, but wild dogs, of which there are several small packs in northern Montana and jnat aver the Canadian line. It became a ride for life with Miss Sullivan. She had with her a small rifle, but the animals teemed to savage she dared not atop and give them battle. Ae She began to despair of escaping she sighted the old sheep corral, and toward this she ran her horse, reaching it only when the pack waa hot a short distance away. To enter with the pony and quickly close tbe gate waa the work of a moment. Snapping and snarling, the dogs tore *t the poles forming the atockade, bat were enable to gain an entrance. The girl began shooting at the animals, which retreated when she fired and returned to the attack when the rifle was silent. Mips Sullivan was found the next morning by her father and brother, who had been seeking her.

News of Minor Note.

The baby of Mm. C. C. Crook, Rnshville, Ohio, fell into p backet of water and drowned. Screre blow at Carthage, Jasper and Lamar, Mo. Many buildings damaged. No one killed. The independent long-distance telephone syston of Texas has passed into fibs hands of H. E. Hnntingtor. It has oost Kansas SII,OOO to print the journals of the two houses of the ladt Legislature. They make a total of 8,750 \ ■ ...

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

f“7J v . “Earnings of railways Nev lOIX or August thus far show an average gain of 7.7 per cent over last year’s figures and 16.8 per cent compared with 1901. Distribution of merchandise la very heavy, more interruption to traffic being reeorded, and in staple lines prices are steady. Preparations for fall trade are vigorous, many manufacturers working ovetlme to fill important orders. Colections are fully as prompt as usual for the season, although in some lines there is leas inclination to discount bills,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade. Continuing, the report says: Crop news is reassuring. Foreign trada at this port for the last week showed a loss of $1,461,049 in exports, as compared with the same .week last year, and imports decreased $2,127,575. Hesitation in certain branches of the iron and steel industry, incident to the season and aggravated by labor controversies, is indicated with some degree of definiteness by the monthly statistics juat published by the Iron Age. The feature this week has been the liberal purchasing of heavy shoes for next spring by local jobbers. Leather has at last shown the Increase in activity promised by the vigorous operation of factories, and both sole and upper leather find a better market, although no large contracts have yet been placed. Hides continue weak, but the average does not exhibit the fa'll that has been the rule In recent preceding weeks, some lines slightly recovering. Failures this week numbered 174 In tbe United States, against 196 last year, and in Canada 22, compared with 21 a year ago. Bradatreet'e Trade Review. Bradstreet’s says: Developments this week have been largely favorable. Prominent among these is the lessening of pressure at the country’s financial center, which has led to a more optimistic feeling in the country at large. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending the 13th aggregate 3,413,191 bufihels, against 3,040,629 last week. 4,591,805 this week last year, 1,039,761 in 1901. and 3.113,041 in 1900. For six weeks of the cereal year they aggregate 18.4<50.444 bushels, against 25,385,008 in 1902, 41,546,906 in 1901, and 17,982,438 in 1900. Com exports for the week aggregate 707,387 bushels, against 884,428 last week, 93,423 a year ago, 508,807 in 1901, and 3,017,081 in 1900. For six weeks of the present cereal year they aggregate 6,949,480 bushels, against 587,860 in 1902, 7,733,220 in 1901, and 21,266,820 in 1900. ~ The bulls in the stock CiliCdOO. market have now one great 8 * J fear. The corn crop ia very late, should the frosts catch it, great damage would likely result and this would probably mean., an immediate revival of the bears anj a new bear campaign with particular pressure upon the com roads. With good weather from now on the bulk have much In their favor. The West has trouble already over freight congestion. Merchandise is moving in increasing volume. Trade reports on the whole are very favorable. The iron business is brisk, and inquiry for fall merchandise is reported heavy by eastern jobbers and manufacturers.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.30; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2,51 cto 52c; oats, No. 2,33 c to 35c; rye. No. 2,51 cto 52c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $15.00; prairie, SB.OO to $10.50; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 15c; potatoes, new, 55c to 63c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, chipping, $3.00 to $5.35; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3225; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 80c; corn, No. 2 white, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.50; hogs, $4.50 to $5.70;. sheqp, $3.00 to $3.70; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 81c; corn, No." 2, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2,32 cto 33c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.25 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.80; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,79 cto 80c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; rye, No. 2, 56 cto 57c. Detroit—Oattlefi $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.70; abcep, $2.50 to $8.25; wheat. No. 2,83 cto 84c; corn. No. 8 yellow, 55c to 56c; oata. No. 8 white, 30c to 37c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 54c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 95c to 96c; corn, No. 3,54 cto 55c; oata. No. 2 white, 36.’ to 37c; rye. No. 1,52 c to 54c; barley, No. 2,59 cto GOc; pork, mess, $12.75. Toledo—YVbeat, No. 2 mixed, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; oata, No. 2 mixed, 85c to 36c; rye. No. 2,52 c to 53c; doner 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; lamba common to choice $4.00 to $6.00. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5450; hogs, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; com, No. 2,58 cto 59c; oats, No. 2 white, 41c to 42c; butter, creamery, 18c $6 19c; eggs, western, 18c to 20c.

Short News Notes.

John Bnrke, Chicago, said he was tired of life and killed himself. Fire in the Enterprise boiler works at Youngstown, Ohio, did $50,000 damage. One-half of the business section of Biggs, CaL, burned, a loss of $40,000 resulting. A 16-foot shark was killed off the coast of Maine. It had in its stomach a seal weighing 300 pounds. It is reported that the presidency of Trinity College has been tendered to Anson Phelps, Jr., secretary ofl Yak,