Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1903 — Page 6

IW MH WM C F, B. BABCOCK, Pubitoher. RENSSELAER, - ■ INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

A sscret service guard knocked up a pistol ahned at President Roo«evelt by an irresponsible man who went to Oyster Bay late at night. Two other prowlers were seen in the grounds, but any connection by them with the attack is denied. L. A. Planving, negro educator, president of the Pointe Coupee Industrial institute and intimate friend of Booker T. Washington, was shot from ambush near Orcar, La. One of the missiles penetrated the brain and caused instant death. I.egal proceedings to secure $75 alleged to be due the plaintiff for services rendered as a “go-between” during the preliminaries for the marriage of Max Sperling of South Omaha and Miss,,Bertha Weinwtein of St. Ixmls, instituted by A. Arnswisky of St. Louis against the father of the bride, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff. The Bulgarian Mjent nt Uskub reports that notwithstanding the Porie’s promise, on the occasion of the Russian demonstiprtion in Iniada Bay, to dismiss twenty-four officials accused of malpractices by the Russian and Austrian consuls, only nine of them have been dismissed, while some of the others have been given higher posts. Henry Townsend Edson, 39 years old, of New York, shot and killed Mrs. Fannie Pullen, 33 years old, and then shot and killed himself. The double tragedyoccurred at Edson's residence. The murderer and suicide was a son of former Mayor Franklin Edson and a brother of Dr. Cyrus Edson. Edson is said to have been insanely jealous of the woman and wanted her to go away with him. Unable to persuade his wife, Nora, to leave St. Louis, William Schlicker shot her three times and then tired a bullet into his own brain. The woman is seriously wounded. Schlicker is dead. While hunting for Schlicker Officers Connors and White fired on each other, under the impression that each was firing on the fugitive. Connors is severely wounded, while White was shot three times by hie companion, it is believed, seriously. The Independent Packing Company was formed nt Kansas City by twentyfive stock raisers. The new concern will erect one plant in the Missouri Valley soon and another, probably in Texas, later. The company will have a capital stock of $5,000,000. and it is provided that it shall always be controlled by actual stock raisers, for the new corporation is formed to fight the older and larger packing concerns, which are charg ed with having formed a trust. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...78 37 Brooklyn ....58 55 New York.. .70 47 Boston 47 65 Chicago 68 47 St. .. .38 7b Cincinnati ...61 52 Philadelphia. .34 72 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 73 40Detroit 56 54 Cleveland . . .64 51 Chicago 52 61 Philadelphia..6o 52 St. Ixmis 52 01 New Y0rk...55 52 Washington.. .36 77

BREVITIES.

A severe storm visited n section north of Mankato, Minn., and for miles con; was cut down by hail. The State Bank of Silver Lake, Minn.. w»» robbed of $2,500 in carb and al) notes and securities. The safe was completely destroyed. The shortage |n the sniraOn product on the Pacific coast is now said to amount to 2,000,000 cases and prices have considerably advanced. The Pennsylvania Democratic convention nominated a State ticket by acclamation and adopted a strong plank pledg Ing the repeal of the Grady-Sahis libel law. Mayor Charles S. Bosch of Hamilton. Ohio, caused the arrest of his own brother, Fred Bosch, on the charge of permitting gambling at his house, the Hotel Atlas. Mrs. Ogden Goelet at New;>ort announce* the engagement of her daughter, Miss May Goelet, to the Duke of Boxburgtie, member of a distinguished family of Britain. After h fortnight’s work, President Riescb of Chili has formed a new ministry, bended by Ricardo Matteperex. It is of the same political compcsition a* the late ministry. Four collieries of the Union Coal Company at Shamokin. Pa., employing 5,000 men and boys, were closed down for an indefinite period oh account of the overstocked coal market. The United States gunboat Scorpion had a big hole stove in her side and was barely raved from sinking following a collision with the steamer H. M. Whitney in the East River. New York. The jury in the case of Charles Jackson, the negro accused of the murder of Charles W. Roxbury in River avenue. New York, in July, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The schooner Minnie M. Cook reached Sidney, Nova Scotia, with Captain Maskell and five of the crew of the schooner Queen of the Fleet, who were taken off their sinking ship thirty miles west of Cajie North in a gale. Deputy Sheriff Louis J. Cook, nt Baldwin, L. 1., shot, and killed one burglar, fatally wounded a second and captured two others. He discovered them trying to break into a house and a desperate fight followed, but Cook escaped injury. Fearing a collision, the passengers on a crowded cable car in Kansas City became panic-stricken on the Twelfth street viaduct that spans the railway yarda and several jumped from the swiftly moving train. Three were seri- . ous'y hurt. At Hamilton, Ohio, Judge Belden retimed a new trial for Alfred A. Knapp, I the self-confessed murderer of two of his wives and three other victim*. The court fixed Dec. 12 for the execution. Knapp took the decision with indifference and made Be statement. He will be taken to Colombo* fer electrocution. •

EASTERN.

A gale swept a long Wretch of the Atlantic coast, causing much damage U> ahipping and imperiling many lives. It transpires that the Olympia’s bottom was damaged by contact with the rocks during the war game off Portland. Wall atreet trading seemed ruled by ftrofessionals and commission house business is at the lowest mark of the summer. The third section of the Barnum & Bailey circus train, composed almost entirely of sleeping cars for the performers, was wrecked at Wildwood, Pa. No one was injured. After thorough inspection at the Brooklyn navy yard the damage sustained by the battleship Massachusetts in striking Egg Rock at Bar Harbor is pronounced trivial. Howard T. Goodwin, who committed suicide in Philadelphia, Ta., last December, Is accused by Cas.*ett & Co., brokers for whom he was manager, with stealing $1,000,000 worth of securities. While a party of young people were driving home from a social gathering near Evergreen borough, north of Allegheny, Pa., their vehicle waa precipitated over a high embankment into Girtya Run, and three were drowned. Two miners were instantly killed and aix others are idle as the result of one of the heaviest cave-ins that ever occurred in the anthracite mines, in the No. 5 mine of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company at Wilkesbarre, Pa. The widow of Wagner plans to bring the scenery, costumes and singers of the Beireuth Opera House, Vienna, to New York and produce "Parsifui” to head off Manager Conried’s production of the same opera at the Metropolitan Opera House. In Philadelphia the long textile strike, as far as it applies to Dobson's mills, is at an end. The tapestry carpet weavers voted to capitulate. The mills will open and 2,000 hands will be given employment to the great satisfaction of the strikers’ families. A live wire fallen from a pole of ths Beaver Valley Electric Power Company cost two lives near Beaver, Pa., on the farm of John Galey at Windy Ghoul. The dead are: Owen Bowen, 16 years old, of Beaver, and George Adams, 30 years old, a colored servant on the farm. An early morning fire damaged the power house at the city poor farm, Marnhalsea, Pa., to the extent of SIO,OOO. The flames for a time threatened tfie buildings occupied by the male and female insane, and the inmates became greatly excited, but they were soon pacified by the attendants. At Scranton, Pa., Mrs. Carrie Nation, by her attorney, filed suit for $75,000 damages against the Mayor, the director of public safety, the chief of police and six police officers of the city, alleging false arrest. Mrs. Nation was arrested four times —once for disorderly conduct and three times for selling her hatchets without a license.

Having produced 40,000.000 tons of anthracite coal since Jan. 1, that being 10.000,000 tons above the normal output for that period, the operators, headed by the Philadelphia and Reading Company, have begun to restrict the output. Orders have been itemed for the closing of all washeries of the Reading Company producing pen and smaller sizes. There are now' on hand 2,000,000 tons of small steam coal, for which there appears to be no market. Some producers began to cut the price to get rid of the accumulated products. This led the Reading to immediately take steps to greatly decrease the output.

WESTERN.

Three persons were drowned nt White Bear Lake, Minnesota, by the overturning of a rowboat. Six lives were lost and heavy property damages reported as the result of floods in Nebraska and Missouri. At O’Keene, O. T., fire within two hours destroyed an entire block of business buildings on the west side of Main street. Ralph Pulitzer, son of the proprietor of the New York World, was bound over at Choteau, Mont., on the charge of killing game out of season. Ralph Pulitzer, son of the publisher of the New York World, is under arrest in Montana on the charge of killing a mountain sheep on government reserves. The New Mexico World’s Fair board has decided to exhibit a turquoise mine in actual operation ns one of the features of its display at the St. Louis exposition. Extensive coni fields in Bureau County, Illinois, have been procured by the Northwestern Railroad, which also has leased the De Pue, Ladd and Eastern line. ’ Hadley Morrison, a contractor on a Montana railroad, was held up and robbed of SI,BOO only a few blocks from the center of Bozeman, Mont. The robbers escaped. Receipts of live stock this year to the end of July at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and St. Joseph, Mo., the principal markets, amounted to 17,734,847 head. A Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger train crashed into a freight train that was taking a siding at Rhinelands, Mo. Fred Daniels, fireman of the passenger, was killed. Judge J. Ci Ellis, one of the best lawyers in western Kansas, died at his home in Pratt. , He had followed a theory of fasting to cure dyspepsia and had gone thirty-seven days without food. Fire caused a loss of $20,000 at S. H. Taft & Co.’s lumber yard in Cincinnati. The charred remains of two tramps were taken from the ashes of a box car that burned while on the siding of the lumber yard. Mr*. Alexander Winton, wife of the president qf the Winton Automobile Company, committed suicide by throwing herself into the lake at Cleveland. Mrs. Winton had been in ill health for several months. Mayor Tom L. Johnson was nominated for Governor by Ohio Democratic convention at Columbur; Bryan wing assured control by capturing State committee members; John H. Clarke indorsed for Senator. The school trustee* hare decided to substitute drum* for pianos in the St. Paul public school*. They found the instrument* of use only when the pupil* were mardhing, and ordered the change tn th* Interest of economy. Th* engine and seventeen cars ot a

freight train on the Burlington road at Kant, lows, went through a bridge that had been weakened by high water, Carrying down the engineer and fireman. Both escaped by swimming to shore. Loss of life and much damage to crops and railway property resulted from an unusually heavy rainfall in lowa, Kansas and Nebraska. Seven Inches of rain fell in twenty-four hours in Omaha. The storm belt extended to ths Atlantic eoast. Two runaway engines and sixteen heavily loaded freight cars, running 100 miles an hour, were destroyed at the foot of Ute Pass, Colo., by colliding with a switch engine. Seven men on board miraculously escaped injury in the wild ride.

Shipping men at Port Townsend, Wash., fear that wreckage found on the Queen Charlotte islands, including a boat marked “Catharin ” is from the Norwegian bark Catharine, which sailed from that port June 2, lumber laden, for Delagoa Bay.

With one of the bullets left in bis revolver after the murder of his bride, whom he bad secretly married a month before, Harry F. Keevil, son of a wellknown merchant, ended his own life in St. Louis. He left no message of sorrow or explanation. Andrew Buehler, a middle-aged patient at St Joseph’s Hospital, St. Paul, is becoming petrified. His stomach and intestines are so hardened that they resist every effort of medicine, and are almost impervious to instruments. Buehler came from Northern Minnesota.

Sam Oohn, who says he is from Spokane, confessed that he blew up the Northern Pacific bridge at Livingston, Mont., last month. When arrested near Arlee he was trying to buy dynamite. Cohn says it is his mission to correct certain evils and destroy railroads, which, he says, are trusts. The second fist fight of the present gubernatorial campaign took place at Bismarck, Ark., when Judge Carroll D. Wood, associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, knocked Gov. Davis from the speaker’s platform some four feet to the ground. About 4,000 people witnessed the affray. County Prosecutor Keeler has brought suit against former County Treasurer M. A. Lander at Cleveland for $5,875 claimed to be fees illegally collected during Mr. Lander’s term of office, from 1900 to 1902. More suits will be brought ngainst Lander and other former county officials on the same charge. Michael Hoolihan, a bartender, while sleeping in a chair in a saloon in Kansas City, owned by his brother, John Hoolihan, was beaten to death with a club. A heavy table leg covered with blood lay near the body. Everyone in Hoolihan’s was drunk. Hoolihan’s skull was crushed and his pockets had been rifled. At Richmond, Mich., 12-year-old Agnes Douglas’ throat was cut while she was asleep. The child’s mother was at a neighbor's and the father says he awoke and found Agnes bleeding on the floor. Mrs. Douglas, her mother, believes that an attempt was made to murder Agnes through mistaking her for an older sister.

Marshal Rider of Donnelson, lowa, shot and killed Dave Blackburn, formerly marshal of Donnelson. They quarreled in a saloon and Blackburn defied the marshal to arrest him. The marshal made the attempt, and when Blackburn resisted drew a revolver and shot him four times. Rider surrendered and is now in jail.

Mrs. Nettie Kirk, wife of George Kirk of Chicago, retired to her room at the West Hotel in Duluth, Minn., after spending the evening with friends apparently in the best of spirits and health. In the morning she was found dead* as a result of inhaling gas. Several months ago she and her husband, who is a bartender, quarreled and she left him. With the inauguration at St. Joseph, Mo., of a strike by the carpenters and plumbers general business is seriously affected and all building operations are at a standstill. For weeks trouble has been brewing between the Employers’ Association on the one hand and the Building Trades Council on the other. Fully 5,000 workmen are affected by the strike.

Mamie Corrigan, an athletic Omaha girl of 18 years, encountered a man emerging from her apartments when she returned home. Miss Corrigan dragged the man back into her rooms, saw the place had been ransacked, and when he attempted to fight she felled him with a piece of furniture, sat on his head aqd screamed for the police. He is now in jail.

Louis Blakely was fined in St. Ixniis police court for attempting to “make a mash” ‘on Mias Lulu Adams. Barney Smith was Miss Adam*’ escort when Smith attempted to get up a flirtation with the lady. Smith gave Blakely a severe beating. Both were arrested, but upon hearing the evidence the judge dismissed the charge against Smith and fined Blakely $lO and costs. H. W. Haynie and Grace Haynie, his wife, have been arrested in Seattle, Wash., and Haynie has confessed to three highway robbeyies. The police believe that he and his wife have been working together, the latter in men's clothing. The couple hired a livery buggy and would drive to some secluded place, where the woman, according to Haynie's confession, would remain in the buggy while he went two or three blocks away to await a victim. Mrs. Haynie was formerly a Seattle high school girl, and ha* been married to Haynie not more than five month*.

SOUTHERN.

As the result of the murder of Joseph A. Sanders, a merchant of Jeanerette, La., by Louis Nicks, a negro, several score of negroes were ordered to leave town immediately by the white people. Several of the negroe* left and others will go at once. Judge Thoma* G. Jones of the United State* Court in Montgomery, Ala.' received a petition signed by several hundred negroe* of Coosa and Tallapoo.n counties asking him to suspend the sentence of George and-Bfarancos Cosby, who pleaded guilty to holding negroes in a condition of peonage. The petition stated that thes* cases have caused a bitter feeling between the two races. The petitioners believe that th* peonage system I* broken up and further say that the Cosbys were good citizen* of the community. It is indicated that there will be several mas* meetings held before long in the interest of harmony.

Thomas Shank, organiser of the miners’ union, was decapitated by a trail* at Huntington, W. Va. Just aa the sheriff waa placing the black cap upon Samuel Stiles, a negro preacher, sentenced to be hanged at Cuero, Texas, an order from the Governor arrived granting a respite. Caleb Powers was sentenced to death on his third trial for complicity in the assassination of William Goebel, Gov-ernor-elect of Kentucky. On two previous trials he had been sentenced to life imprisonment and has served three years.

FOREIGN.

Another fissure has opened in Vesuvius, sending out a large stream of lava, which fortunately does little harm. The sale at auction of the birthplace of Charles Dickens on Commercial road, Portsmouth, England, is announced. The steamer Francais, with a «lief expedition, sailed from Brest to search for the Nordenskjold expedition lost in the antarctic region. Turkish troops sent to re-enforce the garrison at Kirk-Kilissch, near Adrianople, were routed by insurgents, whose numbers are estimated at 6,000. An express train between Budapest and Constantinople was blown up by a dynamite bomb and seven persona killed and fifteen injured. Revolutionists are accused.

The old White Star Line steamship Britannic is on her way to Bremen, where she will be broken up after twen-ty-nine years’ service with her original machinery. Grain importers of Europe will hold an international conference to consider an agreement against buying the American product on certificates which are issued by the American inspectors. Frank Thompson, a young New York boy, was “shanghaied” on the French bark Marechai de Gonfant in that city and started for Yokohama. He was rescued by the collector of the port. Herbert K. Mainzer, an American, left with a guide the other morning to ascend the. Morteratsch Mountain in Switzerland. Both were dashed to the bottom of a crevice 150 feet deep, but they were rescued by another party. They lost consciousness.

IN GENERAL.

Frederick Law Olmsted, the noted landscape architect, is dead. War with Colombia is a possible contingency should the canal treaty fail to secure favorable action.

Dun's Review of Trade says business generally is buoyant, thus disproving pessimistic predictions of a slump. Conservatism is developed because of uncertainty of financial conditions. Sir Thomas Lipton says he may not again race for the America’s cup until England has produced a Herreahoff, and admits he has been beaten in the yacht races by brains and development. The revised edition of the Christian Science Manual contains important changes in the church policy governing “healing,” teachers "being restricted to thirty pupils in each twelve months.

Charles R. Flint announced' that he was organizing a new combination of the box board industries of the country. The new concern will take in the United Box Board Company and fourteen others. Secret meeting of Baltimore and Ohio engineers, firemen and trainmen resolved to demand increase in wages, and intimation has been given that a general strike will be ordered if demand is not granted. Messrs. Stanley, Bixby and Needles, members of the Dawes commission, have requested the Secretary of the Interior to make a thorough investigation of charges Involving their conduct of Indian affairs.

Inspector Van Nertd, who is to be superintendent of construction of the Chicago federal building, has been summoned to Washington for conference with the treasury officials before going to his new post.

Governor Hemming of Jamaica ha* asked the Associated Press to contradict the report that there has been an outbreak of the bubonic plague in Jamaica and says the health of the inhabitants of the island is excellent.

There is danger that Panama will secede from Colombia because of the rejection of the canal treaty. The belief exists that the United States would; speedily acknowledge the independence of Panama and conclude a new treaty. President Roorevelt announced that Henry C. Ide, at present member of the Philippine Commission, would be designated as vice governor of the Philippines in succession to Gen. Luke E. Wright when the latter assume* the office of governor general. The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia has advices from Cuba to the effect that a new and deadly plague has made its appearance in one of the provinces of Santiago. It presents in combination the terrifying and worst features of spotted fever and black fever. Because of continued disasters resulting in loss of life 100 men have quit work in the Treadwell mine, on Douglas Island, Alaska. The men do not make any charge of mismanagement or unsafe condition of the mine. They rather intimate that the property is “hoodooed.” The Cuban Secretary of the Treasury has suspended the captain of the coast guard steamer who unwarrantedly seized the American schooner Addie Cole as a smuggler. The Cole was overhauled and taken to Havana Aug. 20, but the investigation showed that there were no grounds for tuspicion and the schooner was released. The national government of Colombia has approved the recent decree of the Governor of Panama placing a tax of SIOO on all steamers and sailing vessel* entering the ports of Panama or Colon while the danger of introducing th* bubonic plague lasts. These taxes will be devoted to defraying the expense* of the quarantine station. » It transpire* that th* report that Vice Consul Magelssen was killed in Syria is incorrect. An unknown person fired at him, and the bullets parsed close to the rtce consul but did not touch him. The error In stating that Vice Consul Magelssen had been killed arose from a mistake in a cipher telegram. Our warship* have not been recalled, however. The attack on Mr. Magelssen is regarded as an incident which point* to the necessity of r demonstration which will have the effect of insuring the protection of Americas* la the Turkish Empire.

TOO MUCH RAIN INJURES CROPS.

Cold Weather Checks Maturity of Corn Throughout United States. The westtier bureau’s weekly summary of crop conditions is as follows: In the northern districts east of the Rocky Mountains rhe week ended Aug. 31 was abnormally cool, with excessive rainfall, except for a few limited areas. In the Southern States and over the southern portions of the central valleys and middle Atlantic States the temperature averaged about the normal and was generally favorable for the advancement of crops, although portions of the south Atlantic and east gulf districts suffered from excessive heat. Portions of the south Atlantic and east gulf States and of Tennessee, southern Missouri, Arkansas and western Texas are in need of rain, while heavy rains in the Missouri valley and lake region have delayed work, causing injury to grain in shock and retarded the maturity of crops. Showers in the north Pacific coast States have been highly beneficial. Light frosts, causing no serious damage, were of general occurrence in the middle find northern Rocky Mountain districts Aug. 27 and 28. . Over the northern portion of the northern belt cool, wet weather has been very unfavorable for the advancement of corn, which is urgently in peed of warm, dry weather. More favorable conditions prevailed over the southern portion of the northern belt, where the crop has made good progress. The outlook in the upper Ohio valley, where corn has suffered seriously from drouth, has been greatly improved by recent rains. Cutting is In progress in the southern portions of Kansas and Missouri. The harvest of spring wheat is finished, except in the northern Rocky Mountain States and on the north Pacific coast, where rains have delayed its completion. In the Dakotas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin stacking and thrashing have been seriously interrupted and considerable damage has been caused by excessive moisture. While there has been some improvement in the condition of cotton, mainly in portions of the central districts, the crop as a whole has suffered deteriora- 1 tion, rust and shedding being very general throughout the belt, and premature opening in some of the eastern districts, where excessive heat proved unfavorable. Picking is general throughout the southern district* pf the cotton belt.

THE WORLD’S “BREAD BASKET."

Diversified Farming Is Developing the Northwest. Minnesota. North Dakota and South Dakota wifi yield about 200,000,000 bushels of wheat this year, which, at present prices will bring a very respectable income for the farmers of the three States. Add to this a barley crop of 05,000,000 bushels, a flux crop of 35,000,000 bushels and 80,000,000 bushels of oats, and you will have the reason why the three States named have been called “the bread basket of the world.” The Dakotas and Minnesota are beginning to adopt diversified farming and are no longer given up entirely to the raising of grain. It is only a question of a few years when cattle, hogs and corn will be an important industry. This condition has been brought about by the immigration of the last few years. For example, take the territorial line between the Red river and Minot on the west, a distance of 200 miles; from the line of the Great Northern Railroad to the boundary will average about sixty-five miles. More than 5,000,000 acres of land within that section has been recently homesteaded by new settlers from Wisconsin, lowa, Illinois, Indiana. Michigan and northern Missonri, who have brought with them change* in methods of fanning. They have all been trained to the habits and customs and the diversified farming of the Middle States. They are accustomed to having cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry on their farms, and believe that the greatest profit is derived from feeding grain to their stock. Whenever you see this you find a prosperous community.

Tliis'tide of immigration has swept on into Montana, Washington and Oregon uptil at the present time most of the homestead lands susceptible of cultivation from natural rainfall have been taken up, and much of the other farming lands have changed handr. The 'newcomers, having sold their homes and farms in the older States nt an advanced figure, are willing to buy out the oldsettlers, who are willing to sell for price* that a few. years ago were thought impossible. This immigration has given a great impetus to Spokane and the coast cities, which is indicated by the great increase in population and in the building of houses and business blocks.

Brief News Items.

Rudolph Tauch, 40, New York, drowned while trying to rescue his dog. Mrs. Thoma* Carent, New York, wa* drowned while boating on North river. The Trend equoit, American, won the Canada cup from the Strathcona in the fifth and last race at Toronto. Charles M. Schwab flatly contradict* the statement that he is engaged in organizing a combination of tailors in the United States. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the First National Bank of Cowgill, Mo., to begin burners with a capital of $25,000. A dispatch from Boston says Carrie Nation has gone down on the North Shore for the “rest cure” and to convert the millionaire colony. The King f Roumnnia has joined those who are agitating in favor of an economic coalition of European countries against tire United States. The Secretary of the Interior at Havana ha* ordered 'dealer* in firearms to report to the police the sale of every rifle and to take a receipt therefor. William Higgins. 20 years old, Wa* killed in a baseball game at Fontana, Kan. While running between ba.es he was struck on the temple by a ball. It is reported that the Missouri Pacific has a corps of engineers at work in Jie field locating a line between Joplin and Chetopa, Kan., a distance of fifty miles. More than 200 school house* are being built in Kansa* this year. The country school houses colt from SSOO to SBOO each and the city school buildings from SLOOO to $20,000 each. Isis announced that th* Wabash rood is to secure terminal facilities in Milwaukee at a cost of $5,000,000. It will reach that city by mean* of car ferries from Benton Harbor, Mich.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

~ TL 1 “There is still no indfcj IOFn. coWoo of the depression in —— trade and Industry thaw pessimists predicted would follow the decline in securities. Conservatism was veloped by the uncertainty regarding th® effect upon financial conditions, but legitimate business is able to recure funds aa they are required, and the more can; tious progress of business gives promise pf greater permanent gain. Weak spots have been disclosed, ayd the technical position strengthened, ju.'t as occurred in the stock market. Readjustment aftes a period of inflation must of necessity bring some losses, yet the outlook m brightened by the removal of ing industrial clouds,” according to R. G.’ Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade.’ Continuing, the report says: Dispatches from all sections testify to the libera] distribution of merchandib* and the disposition to prepare for greater consumption of all the necessaries of life, 1 while the crops are making good progress aside from some cotton districts in as. The number of buyers in New Yorid la increasing and a 'heavy fall trade ifi anticipated. It is gratifying to find that consumers of pig iron have at last apparently decided to place contracts without waiting for further concessions. The decline had now reached its limit, judging by ths larger amount of contracts offered, ana this is the most important indication of a restoration to normal conditions prosperity in the steel industry. It M estimated that a large tonnage of structural steel will soon be ordered for delivery in 1904, although this is in a largo measure dependent on labor controversies. The railways are still vigorous purchasers of steel, especially as to rails.' There is a fair business iu plates and sheets, but an effort bo resell an oversupply of billets has produced tempo- j rary weakness in tjiat division.

There is sufficient business on the books of Nei\ England shoe manufacturers to assure full operation of machineryfor several months. While large sales of upper leather are reported, there is little demand for sole. Domestic hides again average slightly lower, but small offerings maintain imported hides. Thus far the liberal jobbing trade in dry goods has not affected the situation at the cotton mills, where the percentage of idle machinery has increased. Woolens are quiet, and the only event of importune® in silks was a special sale at low prices.

“7; Much money will be ClliCdQO. needed in the West. While the movement of grain ha* been much delayed, it will come in finally. Early frosts alone can now prevent the maturing of a fair average corn crop. Eight leading railroads, centering in Chicago, reported enough car* to handle their fall business. Since last year these roads have increated their car equipment 12.37 per cent, motive power 11.5 per cent, yard trackage 10 per cent, and general equipment 5.6 per cent. The feature in the traffic field is the volume of general merchandise moving into the West, much of which goes at once iqfo consumption. The movement of grain to the seaboard is light, which is not surprising when it is considered that; the primary wheat movement is over 5,000,000 bushels behind last year.* Against this there is a tonnage of coal, 1 iron and steel heavier than ever before known in Angust. There are some sign* of a lessening of internal trade, but many indications of an increase in foreign trade. The movement of spring wheat will be the determining price factor from now. pn. The weather has been very bad ft* threshing and the effect will be to delay shipments from the country. Cash wheat in Minneapolis, meanwhile, has settled into middle ground, and is 18c higher than a year ago at this time.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $5.75; 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 34c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $13.00; prairie, $6.00 to $9 50; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 17c; potatoes, new, 60c to 66c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.05; ■heep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.10; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 80cf Corn, No. 2 white, 51c to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 36c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $5.65; hog*, 1 $4.50 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.30; wheat. No. 2,80 cto 81c; corn, No. 2, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2,33 cto 34c; rye. No. 2,56 cto 57c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.25 to $5.00; hogs, S4.QO to $5.90; sheep, $2.75 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2,82 cto 83c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,81 cto 83c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 54c to 55c; oat*, No. 3 white, 84c to 36c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c. , i Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 84c to 85c; corn, No. 3,52 cto 53c; oats. No. 2 white. 36c to 37c; rye. No. 1, 530 to 54c; barley, No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork, mess, $12.50. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 81c to 83c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 55c; oat*, „ No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; rye. No. 2,52 a to 54c; clover seed, prime, $5.65. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.00; lamb*, common to choice, $4.00 to $6.00. New York —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.85; hogs, $4.00 to $6.90; sheep, $3,00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; corn. No. 2, 57* to 6fc; o«t% No. 2 wbtjo, 40c to 41c; butter, creamery, 18c to I9c|