Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — Page 6

many im ■ .»■ —».ia.r . * R B. BABCOCK. Publtohar. RENSSELAER, . . INDIANA.

AROUND THE WORLD

A lone highwayman held up ths stage running froin Whitney to Canyon City, ‘Oregon, and got about SIO,OtX). Onethird of thi* amount was in an express package and the remainder in registered letter mail. He took SOO in ourreney from two passengers. The Southwestern Goal Operator*' Association appointed a committee to confer with President John Mitchell and §sjc him to use his influence to have the difficulties in Missouri settled by arbitration. If this ia not done it is believed that every mine in the State will be lied up. Col. A. P. Gorman, Jr., the only aon of United States Senator Gorman, was nominated by the Howard County Democratic convention for tlie Maryland State Senate, having won a decisive victory over his opponents. Col. Gorman is 30 years of age and begins hi* political career where hi* father began thirty years ago. f The announcement is made in Chattanooga by a member of the special board appointed by the ordnance department to make rifle teats at Buffalo that the United State* government has adopted the improved Springfield rifle and will diacard the Krng. The weapon adopted will be seven pounds in weight, while the Krag, now in u*e, weight nine. The Pacific Mail Company’s big liner Corea has arrived in San Francisco from the Orient, bringing leas than 3,000 tons of freight. What her cargo lacked in dimensions, however, it made up in value. It included nearly 1,300 bales of raw silk, and the value of this shipment is more than $1,000,000. She also carried 18,008 cheats of tea and in her treasure room twenty-three boxes of gold and silver specie. In New York Miss Dorothy Lillian Solomon, daughter of Lillian Russell, and Abbott Louis Einstein, son of Benjamin F. Einstein, a well-known lawyer, eloped on Aug. 7 and were married. They are now spending their honeymoon in an uptown apartment without the knowledge of either of their parents. The young couple were quietly married at Jersey City. They expect to soil for Europe in about a month. The clubs in the National League aro standing thus: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .712 37 Brooklyn ... .53 55 Chicago <ls 41 Boston .45 5!) New York.. .<>s 45 St. Louis 38 73 Cincinnati ... .58 41) Philadelphia. .33 07 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston (1!) 30Now Y0rk,...52 52 Cleveland ...01 47 St. Louis. ~. .40 57 Philadelphia. .00 50 Ohiengo 50 00 Detroit 54 53 Washington.. ,35 72

NEWS NUGGETS.

The boy recently born to Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland has been christened Francis Grover Cleveland. Fire'destroyed the Auburn Hotel at Auburn, Cat, and Daniel Christy and W. Bert Maither wen) burned to death. Mrs. Nina Thompson was arrested at Walla Walla, Wash., on the charge of arson committed in Kentucky three years ago. Bight Rev. C. J. h’Relly, bishop of Baker City, Ore., was consecrated at the cathedral in Portland, Ore., Archbishop Ohrhtie officiating. The plant and machinery at the asphalt mines, four miles south of Loco, I. T., were destroyed by fire. Loss $40,000, with no insurance. A man registering as 11. L, Robinson of Georgetown, Ky„ was found dead in the Iceland Hotel at Lexington, Ivy. He had taken carbolic acid. Miss lvuehne Beveridge, the nculptrcaa, was married to William B. Branson of Johannesburg, South Africa, at St. George’s Church, London. The crew of the schooner G. E. Bentley of Mobile is supposed to have been lost with the vessel in the recent hurricane which passed over the West Indies. A north-bound pasrenger traiu on the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling road collided with a freight near the station in New Philadelphia, "Ohio, and five were seriously hurt. The wife of Dr. Robert McLean, pro fessor of surgery at the I'niversity oi California, has sued for divorce. She Claims her husband denies her the right to any opinions differing from lira. The new cruiser Cleveland, built by the Bath Iron Works Company, was given a spin off Booth Bay. Me., to test its machinery before the final official trial on the Cape Ann course. The trial was satisfactory.

A stir has been created in the government printing oftlee in Washington by an order to ail heads of departments, which will be extended to all employes, that the oath of allegiance to the United States must be taken. Five prisoners, including Carlos McCormick. a boy murderer, escaped from the county jail at Tucson, Ariz., by digging a hole in the wall and dropping from the second story by means of a rope made from their blankets. Orrin J. Tovvne, Jr., a former deputy collector of internal revenue for the east■em district tvf Massachusetts, was arrested in Philadelphia by government officers charged with the defalcation of several thousand dollars. The big consolidated cigarette factory in Havana, belonging to the American Tobacco Company and the Ktiglish combine, was totally destroyed by tire with its valuable contents. The loss is estimated at upward of $250,000. According to a Sofia telegram the Turkish repressive measures in Macedonia hare reached tiie utmost limits of barbarism and it is evident that it is the intention to accomplish by degrees the —total sxtlrpation ot the Bulgarian popa 1 at ion. Claus Christenson of Callaway, Neb., aged 12 years, was killed by being buried alive. The boy was hunting for gophers, accompanied by his dog. Searching parties discovered his dog sitting near the dirt walla of a canyon. An investigation diacloaed the boy'a feet protruding from a mate of earth which had fallen on him.

EASTERN.

The river steamer Hastens was barn--04 to thd water’* edge at Ogdensburg, N. Y. The crew narrowly escaped. Lou Dillon trotted a mile at Iteadville, Hass., in 2:00 flat, creating a new world's record and dethroning the great Cresceus. ■Because he was afraid bis wife would survive him and be left without support, Dominie VerChil shot and killed her at Pittsburg. He then stabbed himself. The coroner’s Jury which investigated the accident at the Philadelphia ball park in which twelve persons were killed and 800 injured placed the blame on the old Philadelphia Baseball Club, Limited. By the collapse of % scaffold io the annex to the Joseph Horne Company building in Pittsburg, Pa., Samuel Brooker was killed and B. Thompson and 8. Hopsaw so seriously hurt that they will probably die. Beliance and Shamrock 111. failed to cover the course in the first trial, and the race was called off by mutual consent. Reliance showed superiority over the challenger under conditions especially favorable to the latter. Robert Kilpatrick was hanged in the jail yard at Media, Pa., for the murder in February, 1902, of Elizabeth Bearmore, liis housekeeper. He was the fir.* white man to lie executed in Delaware County in more thnu sixty years. William C. Pettifore of Trenton, N. J., a former slave, is rejoicing over the birth of liis twenty-seventh child, whieh he has named Alice Roosevelt Pettifore. Pettifore is poor, but industrious. He ia a hod carrier and belongs to the union. Judge Alton B. Parker had a narrow escape at Kingston, N. Y., his horse becoming frightened at an auto driven by the chauffeur of Mayor Fleischinann of Cinciuuati. The Ohio official had to pay S3OO to secure the release of the offender. J. P. Jordan & C0.,-wholesale paper deulars, Burton, assigned for the benefit of creditors, numing Charles 11. Davenport of Holyoke and Frank ,W. Tibbetts of Boston as assignees. The trouble is attributed to impairment of credit and heavy losses. Frederick D. Fressler, until seven months ago captain in the United States army, stationed at Seattle, in the paymaster’s department, shot and killed himself in Carroll Park, Brooklyn. He had been in financial straits, and had become despondent. The Reliance won the second race of the America’s cup series, defeating Shamrock 111. after a gallant fight by the narrow margin of 1 minute 19, seconds. A severe storm nfter the race endangered many excursionists and the competing yachts. Fire destroyed the Columbia Ribbon Company’s mill at Haiedon, N. J. It was a two-story structure a block in length. The fire started in the boiler room of the new annex and spread with great rapidity to the maiu building. The loss is about $150,000. Reliance beat Shamrock 111. in the fir 4 race of the contest for the America’s cup by seven minutes and three seconds, nfter deducting the time allowance of the challenger. The race was sailed in “Shamrock weather,” the breeze being brisk and the time fast. After lying unconscious for three days, Bertha Herman, 14 years old, died in a Philadelphia hospital from the effects of being struck on the head with a golf ball. The child was watching the play on the Sharon Hill links, when the ball struck her. fracturing the skuli. Women mixed with men engaged in a street riot in McKeesport, Pa. A number of strikers tried to take a keg of beer from some non-union workmen. Shots were exchanged, but no one was wounded. Several workmen were badly beaten by the uttack of the women. An architect lias completed plans for a mortuary chapel in Calvary cemetery. Long Islnnd, with an underground cavern for the burial of priests, resembling the catacombs of Rome. The idea was conceived by Archbishop Farley while traveling through Rome two years ago.

WESTERN.

“Lucky” Baldwiu has been elected Mayor of Arcadia, Cal. A. J. Powell, son of Robert Powell, a soldier of the war of 1812, shot and killed himself at the Planters’ Hotel, Mexico, Mo. The steamer Queen of the West sank in Lake Erie, eight miles off Fail-port, Ohio. The crew was rescued by a passing steamer. The plant of the Kentucky-Vermillion Mining and Concentrating Company at Vermillion, Mont., suffered a loss of $135,000 by fire. Gen. John C. Black of Illinois was elected commander-in-chief at the Grand Army encampment in San Francisco. Boston was chosen for the encampment in 1004. During a quarrel at Frankfort, lad., Harry Thomas of that city was killed by Harry Loveland. Loveland killed Thomas by striking him with his fist, breaking his neck. Incorporation articles have been filed at Guthrie, O. T., for a railway from Hudson’s Bay to Buenos Ayres, 10,000 miles long. The cost is estimated at $250,900,000. Mrs. Johanna Sclilceinger of St. Louis filed a suit for divon e against her husband, Adolph, in which she charges that during the past two years he has not spoken to her. W. J. Edwards of Plains, Ivan., was shot and killed during the uight. His sons, Dou and Boy, have surrendered, admitting that they did the shooting. No eause is known. , The Wallace paint works at Toledo, Ohio, burned. C. B. Wallace, proprietor, and J. B. Bartholomew and Minnie Leahy, employes, were severely injured. The loss is $30,000. Judge Raymond at Muskogee, I. T., has rendered a decision that the Creeks have a right to levy tribal taxes, an opinion opposite to that of Judge Clayton in the Choctaw ca*e. The Grand Army of the Republic, before adjournment in San Francbco. unanimously adopted a resolution praising the record of Lieut. Gen. Miles as a soldier, disciplinarian and organizer. Fifty passengera off a pleasure steamcr at Indianapolis were thrown into a panic by the explosion of a boiler and sinking of th* boat. A woman and a babe are believed to hare drowned. N. M. tiabele, fireman on the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, fell from his engine naar Bolivar, Ohio, while crossing the Tuscarawas river. His head strode the bridge timbers, killing him in-

stantly, and the body dropped into the river. Robert McAllister, aged 13 yean, who, with his brother, waa visiting at the home of W. M. Watson. Hyde Park, Cincinnati, died as the result of a fractured skull, sustained by falling from an apple tree. Mrs. Lucy Van Her ekes, who recently lost her bustle, containing $7,300, near St. Paul, Minn., waa found dead at her home near Shawnee, Kan. Secreted about she bouse $1,575 ih gold was discovered. A boy was set adrift in Lake Michigan at Chicago by companions as a practical joke, and fix men who tried ho reacne him almost lost their lives. The lifesaving crew and a tug finally landed all in safety. Because the long ungratified mother’a instinct prompted her to steal another’s baby, Hazel Avery, the kidnaper of little Alice Furlong, was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years by Judge McEwen of Chicago. The fence about the Fort Belknap Indian reservation in Montana, which is forty miles wide and sixty miles long, has been finished. It probably is the longest fence in the world and has taken years in building. Two highwaymen who attempted to rob the St. Charles Hotel office in St. Louis, were put to flight by Clerk Dawson, with a revolver, one of them, giving the name of Joseph Wright, being probably mortally wounded. State Senator William P. Sullivan, accused of soliciting a bribe for three votes on the anti-alum hill, during the aession of the Legislature last winter, was found guilty by a jury at Jefferson City and his punishment fixed at SIOO fine. Great excitement prevails at Lugert and Lone Wolf in the Wichita mountains over the discovery of rich minerals at Devil’s Gap, twelve, miles south of Lone Wolf, O. T. It is reposted that valuable ore in large quantities was recently urn earthed. Grace and Sullivan, prisoners at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, induced Private St. John of Company F, First infantry, who was acting as their guard as they worked about the officers’ quarters, to throw down his rifle and belt and desert while they escaped. As a result of the spreading of rails on the Chicago A Northwestern line, three miles soutli of Fond du Lac, Wis., an entire passenger train was thrown down a 20-foot embankment. George W. Zuhle of Chicago was killed and many were badly injured. Fort Sne-lling soldiers are again deferring in large numbers, and an official investigation ns to the cause may be ordered, Immediately after the July pay day twenty-five men deserted from the post, and sinc.e then there has been nearly thirty more absent without leave. Miss Lena Dick, aged 20 years, was assassinated by an unknown person while sitting on the doorstep of her father’s house at Wilburton, 1. T., just prior to retiring. Without warning some person stuck a rifle through the door and fired, the bullet piercing the girl’s heart, death being immediate. An electric car jv«s held up at the west end of Adams street, Los Angeles, Cal., by two masked highwaymen and the mo-torm-an and conductor were robbed of their watches and money. One of the robbers kept tlie car men covered with a revolver while the other searched them, securing sl4 and two watches. A special excursion train on the Northern Pacific, en route to the Elks’ clam bake at Olympia, was wrecked between Chehalis and Centralis, Ore. The wreck occurred on a grade and is said to have been caused by the explosion of the engine's boilers. As far as known there are two killed and about thirty injured. Fred Cox, aged 14, and Edgar Driscoll, 17, prominently connected in Muncie, Ind., were arrested at Columbus, 0., charged with the robbery of the Wachtel department store in Muncie. The booty wag found in their possession. The boys made confessions and agreed to return for prosecution without requisition papers.

Marcy K. Brown, former prosecuting attorney and a prominent lawyer and Democratic politician in Kansas City, shot nnd seriously wounded Frank Hunter, a shipping clerk. Hunter attempted to force an entrance into Brown's house. He refused to stop when Brown fired twice as a warning and a third shot was fired with effect. The Democratic State convention in Nebraska reaffirmed the Kansas City platform. William J. Bryan was the dominating spirit of the convention. Judge John J. Sullivan was nominated for Supreme Judge, and the Populist candidates, W. O. Jones and E. O. Weber, were indorsed for regents of the State University. For the first time in five years the Piute and Digger Indians are holding a big powwow and dance in the lower part of the Yosemite valley, Cal. A big feast was held, pre:rided over by Uncle Paul and Mrs. Unde John, both of whom are over 100 years old. All were in full Indian evening dress. War dances and a “potlatch” followed. Andrew Adams, a waiter, committed suicide at Holy Cross hospital in Sail Lake. He evaded his nurse and went into a bathroom. He got into the tub nnd, placing his mouth over the faucet, turned the water ou full force. He clenched the faucet between his teeth and held on until unconscious. He died within a few minutes.

A cloudburst early this morning caused the Big Blue River to rise sixteen feet within a few hours, sending a great flood of w'ater down the bottoms along that stream. Many inhabitants in (the lowlands south of Marysville, Ivan., were driven from their homes and heavy damage to property was done. One death by drowning is reported. The International Harvester Company of Chicago has purchased the mining interests of the Deering Harvester Company on the Mesaba and Baraboo ranges of Minnesota for $3,500,000. The International Harvester corporation has determined to follow the example set by the Deering before It entered the combine of controlling the raw material. While the street# of Canton, Ohio, were crowded with shoppers a daring thief smashed the show window of W. A, Wortman’s Jewelry store in the heart of the city and grabbing a tray containing $2,000 worth of diamonds escaped before an alarm could be given. The thief cut his hands while reaching for the gems, but beyond this the police are without a clew. A fatal duel over a girl occurred on a ferryboat in Point Township, Ind., between Edward Robinson and Samuel

Lusk. Robinson stabbed Lusk over th« heart and then ctat hie throat, severing the jugular vein. Luak died in a abort time. Robinson gave himself up to the Kentucky officers. The girl over whom the fight occurred saw the tragedy and fainted. Southern Miami County and northern Fulton County, Indiana, were visited by remarkable hail storms and thousands of acres of growing corn was mined. What com was not blown down waa cut by the hailstones, some of which measured seven inches in circumference. Hail drift* wore reported at Walnut, and after the storm the fog was so dense that nothing could be seen fifty feet away. Some live stock wai killed in the vicinity of Miami

FOREIGN.

Lord Salisbury, former British premier, died at Hatfield House, England. Investigation shows that the supposed case of cholera upon the transport Sherman at Manila was merely an attack of severe cramps. Three Bulgarian villages near Tcherkeskoi, vilayet of Adrianople, are reported to have been attacked by Circassians and their inhabitants massacred. The wedding of Mias Gsace Greenway Brown of Baltimore to Honore Palmer of Chicago took place in London, about a score of friends being present It ia reported in London that a British column of thirty whites and 500 natives defeated a superior force of rebellious natives at Burini, Nigeria, and killed 700. Hundreds of Bulgarians were slain by Turks in the destruction of three villages. Fighting is in progress at fifteen places in the villayet of Adrianople. Massacre by Turks is reported. The French steamer Amira) Gueydon, 3,013 tons, which sailed from Marseilles July 15 for Colombo, has not since been rejjorted and lias been given up for lost. There were fifty-seven persons on board the vessel. The fisherman’s ring belonging to the late Pope Leo, which was supposed to have been lost on the day of his death, lias been found on his writing table. Cardinal Oregiia examined the ring and, according to custom, has broken it up. "v. M. and Mme. Humbert were sentenced in Paris to five years’ solitary confinement each. The woman in court asserted that “Crawford” and his millions exist and gives the man’s real name as Regnier, a notorious figure in the war of 18T0. Congress has formally proclaimed the election of President Candemo and Second Vice-President Caldoron, says a dispatch from Lima, Peru. A uew election for first vice-president has been ordered, Senor Alarco, cho.-en for that office, having died. What is believed to have been a plot for the assassination of King Alfonso has; been broken up at Huesca, Spain. Two bombs were found ill a box at the station at that place addressed to a well-known anarchist. King Alfonso is about to make a visit to Huesca, and it is believed the bombs were intended for an attempt to kiil the sovereign. A schooner reports that the Cayman islands were devastated by a hurricane. Many houses at Georgetown, a village near the west end of Grand Cayman Island, were demolished. The vessels in the harbor were driven out to sea. Two subrequently returned, but the others have not been heard of. All the trees and crops were destroyed and a famine is imminent.

IN GENERAL.

It can be announced as definitely settled that former Judge William 11. Taft, Governor of the Philippines, will be Secretary of War to succeed Mr. Root. It is reported in railroad circles that an agreement under which the Grand Trunk acquires control of the Wisconsin Central has been signed. No particulars of the deal are obtainable. The packing house of the Ontario Powder Company at Tweed, Out., was blown up and three men were killed. The explosion broke many plate glass windows in the town and injured buildings. The crop report issued by the weather bureau indicates a general improvement in corn, Kansas and Nebraska leading in this respect. Spring wheat harvest is progressing. Apples show a decline. Dun's Review of Trade says the quieting influence of the vacation reason is barely noticeable in business. Crops tardy in moving to market, but railway earnings continue good. Heavy iron contracts made. The last link connecting Seattle with St. Michael’s by telegraph is complete. Messages are now forwarded to Nome by mail. This marks the completion of the American government’s great Alaskan land system. President Roosevelt highly praised the public services of Secretary of War Root in accepting his resignation to take effect on Jan. 1. Governor Taft will take the cabinet place and be succeeded in power in the Philippines by Luke E. Wright. Analysis of the returns from the census of 1900 shows that the increase of population in ten years in the United States was 20.7 per cent, which is double that of Europe and greater than that of any other country except the Argentine Republic. Charles Carroll Bonney, originator and president of the World’s Congresses of the Columbian Exposition, is dead. As an educator he helped establish the Illinois educational system; as a lawyer he was one of the originators and also the president of the Law and Order League. The American schooner Addie Cole, bound from Key West for Mexico, was Gverhhuled and taken to Havana by a Cuban coast guard boat on suspicion of smnggiing. The investigation showed there were no grounds for the suspicion and the schooner has been ordered to be released. To prevent another Alaskan boundary controversy and to make observations of ■ the climate, geology and natural re. sources of both land and sea of the north ern regions of Canada an expedition fit ted out by the Dominion government sailed, from Halifax qb the, stgamer Ne»tune for Hudson bay. Gov. Dole and other territorial officers at Honolulu have decided to try to float th • $2,000,000 loan authorized by the laat legislature. It is thought that the local banks will take the entire issue. An exhaustive statement has been sent to President Roosevelt in response to bla request for information before approving the loan. ' . A .

ADMIRAL SENT TO SCARE TURKEY.

Rear Admiral Gricger is in command of the aquadron of Russian warships which was sent to Constantinople to impress upon the Sultan the importance of complying with the Russian demands for certain reforms in Macedonia, in order to prevent further occurrences such as the murder of the Russian consul at Monaatir. Krieger is one of the most trowed admirals of the Russian navy. He commands the Mediterranean fleet.

CONQUEST OF WHEAT FIELDS.

The Annual Battle Between Man and Nature in Kansas The annual battle between man and nature fought in the wheat fields of Kansas ended about the 20th of July. The army of conquest, equipped with harvesters and thrasher?, entered at the southern portion of the State, and, sweeping everything before it, progressed north-ward until the Sunflower State was marked by nothing but stacks of grain and fields of stubble. Over vast areas the sheaves of wheat were thraehed out as fast as they were garnered, while in many counties the wheat was left standing in shocks ready for the thrasher in tho fall. According to Philip Eastman, writing in the Review of Reviews for August, this year’s wheat harvest in Kansas waa the largest in the history of the State and the greatest by far of any State in ther Union. Time was when the name of Kansas was associated in the popular mind with corn. But the famous “wheat belt” of the West now includes thirtycounties in Kansas, extending from the northern to the southern boundary. Not a county in this belt raises less than a million bushelc annually. It ia pointed out that the yield of Sumuer County alone—*l,Bl2,lo2 bushels —is more than the combined yields of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mississippi. Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Alabama and New Jersey. Barton County, which ranks next to Sumner, called for 4,400 extra men and more than 2,000 additional horses this year to harvest her crop of wheat. In 1901 Kansas broke her own record In the matter of wheat crops and led the list of all the States, with more than 99,000,000 bushels. This was 19,000,000 more bushels than were raised in the State of Minnesota, although the acreage of wheat sown in Minnesota wus greater than that of Kansas by 853,808 acres.

DANVILLE RIOTER GUILTY.

First Conviction Following Recent Attack on the Jail. Winfield Baker, a young man who was one of the leaders of the mob that stormed the jail at Danville, 111., a few weeks ago, tvas found guilty on the charge of assault with intent to murder Sheriff Whitlock. This is the first conviction growing out of the recent rioting. The punifdvineut is confinement in the State prison on an indeterminate sentence from one to fourteen years. The second trial has begun. It is on an indictment charging Winfield Baker, John Walton, Edward Hart, Clay Biddle, Adam Murray, William Redwine, Isaac Slade, John Robertson, Thomas Bell and Bessie Armstrong with rioting, this being a misdemeanor punishnble by fine and jail sentence. Hart forfeited his bond of SSOO, which was paid by his father. Basie Armstrong was too ill to appear and her case was continued.

THE RAILROADS

The International Association of Railway Ticket Agents will hold its annual convention in Salt Lake City Sept. 12, 13 and 14. A territorial charter has been granted to the Kansas Central, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company, with $20,000,000 capital. The general managers of the different lines running into El Paso have adopted plans and specifications for a union depot to cost $240,000 at that point. Gross earnings of all United States roads reporting for the mouth are $44,903,801, a gain of 12.7 per cent over la * year and 20.2 per cent over 1901. North Pacific coast traffic is developing at a rate that is causing the railroads considerable embarrassment to provide facilities fast enough to take care of it. The annual report of the Atchison for twelve months ended July 30 shows: Gross earnings, $02,350,397; increase, $3,215,312; operating expenses, $38,427,111; Increase, $4,527,842; net earnings, $23,913,287. The Knoxville and Ohio, which » leased by the Southern, hag purchased the Knoxville and Bristol, forty miles long, and also the Tennessee Northern, owned hy the Ltfoitette Qgal and Iran Company. The price paid is said to have been $250,000 and $400,000 respectively. E. H. Harriman, head of the syndicate which controls the California .Northwestern, is planning to mafe that road part of a coast lyctetn' that will eventually have Us northern terminal at Astoria, where connections will be made with the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company’s line.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

” 71 j “Business is well main* N6¥ lOflL talned aside from the quieting influence of the vacation season, which somewhat restricts trade and retards collections. Making due allowance for the period, there is no cause for complaint. The adverse factors that have been operating against prosperity in recent preceding weeks are no longer ae potent, normal influences gradually prevailing. Labor controversies still exist, curtailing the output of a few products and the consumption of all the necessary things of life,” according to R. G. Dun & Oo.’s Weekly Review of Trade. Continuing, the report says: Crops are not going to market as freely as uuial, although the agricultural outlook is distinctly favorable. In spite of several obvious reasons for expecting a check to freight traffic, earnings of railways thus far in August show an average gain of 9.0 per cent over last year and 18.2 per cent over 1901. Complaint Is beginning to be beard regarding the inadequate facilities of the railways, and it now appears that inconvenience and lore must again be experienced, notwithstanding the extensive improvements. Sensational stories of the large number of buyers now at this center and the fabulous sums that they spend cannot be accepted as statistically accurate, but It is probable that an increase over all previous years is actually occurring despite the demoralization in cotton goods caused by speculation in the raw material. Although production of coke at Connellsville has been moderately curtailed, supplies accumulate and prices are depressed. A fairly liberal tonnage of iron has been placed during the past week, providing abundant demand for all the pig that is being made. More targe contracts for iron and steel have been placed by a prominent manufacturer of agricultural machinery, and as much of this business has been held back entirely on account of prices, it is believed that no further concessions are to be expected. In view of the very satisfactory jobbing trade that is reported in dry goods, it is surprising that no reflection of the activity is seen in the primary market. Makers of cotton goods find no business offering except such .small orders for immediate requirements as emanate from urgentilealers. Moderate orders for light-weight woolens and worsteds have been placed for spring delivery. Heavy shipments of shoes from Boston make striking comparisons with preceding years, and the volume of new business promisee to maintain a heavy movement, but it ia noteworthy that there is a tendency to operate moderately and frequently this year, rather than to buy seldom and largely M in other seasons. Somewhat easier price* for the great food staples testify to brighter crop prospects. Failures this week numbered 238 in the United States, against 207 last year, and 8 In Canada, compared with 30 a year ago. Uradetreet’e Trade Review. Weather and crop conditions are still the keynote to fall trade. In the Northwest and South buyers are taking hold energetically, and reports as a whole are as good or better than a year ago. Wheat (including flour) exports for the week ending Aug. 20 aggregate 3,372,789 bushels, againnt 3,413,191 last week, 5,954,759 thiaweek last year, 6,606,980 in 1901 and 2,695,163 in 1900. For seven weeks of the cereal year they aggregate 21,833,233 bushels, against 31,339,769 in 1902, 48,153,896 in 1901 and 20,677,606 in 1900. Corn export* for the week aggregate 569,495 bushels, wgainet 707,387 last week, 51,649 a year ago, 524-,883 in 1901 and 3,493,375 in 1900. For seven week* of the pre*ent cereal, year they aggregate 7,453.975 bushels', against 639,509 in 1902, 8,257,103 in 1901 and 24,760,195 in 1900.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $5.85; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 80c; corn. No. 2,50 cto 51c; oats. No. 2,32 c to 33c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $15.00; prairie, $6.00 to $10.50; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 16c; potatoes, new, 00c to 07c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.85; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $0.15; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 80c; com, No. 2 white, 51c to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.50; hogs, $4.50 to $6.00; sheep. $3.00 to $3.70; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 80c; com, No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2,34 cto 35c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $4.25 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.80; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,82 cto 83c; com. No.’ 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 84c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.70;. sheep, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,81 cto 82c; com, No. 3 yellow, 54c to 55c; outs, No. 3 white, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No, 2 northern, 88c to 89c; corn, No. 3. 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; rye, No. 1,53 c to 55c; barley, No. 2,59 cto 60c; pork, mess, $12.75. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 80c te 81c; com, No. 2 mixed, 52c to 54c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 54c; clover seed, prime, $5.65. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, fair to prime, ftUIL to $6.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to SO.OO. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5-50; hogs. $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, SB.OO to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; corn, No. 2,57 cto 58c; oats. No. 2 white, 4Dc to Ale; butter, rthsanery, 18c to 19c; eggs, western, 18c to 20c.