Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1903 — Page 6

IM ■! WM J-— —■ j, I < 1 ' ---J P. B. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • • INDIANA,

SUMMARY OF NEWS

A large Mire raged in Piqua, Ohio. It started in the heart of the business section of the city. The Daniels block, the largest business building in the city, was destroyed. The Plaza Hotel was threatened and there was a panic among the guests. The loss will reach close to $150,000. Chas. .Tones, a 12-year-old negro boy, confessed that he murdered Caroline Link, whoso death has been a mystery in Baltimore, Md., for over a week. He climbed the back fence into the store and struck her on the back of the head with a club. He stole a piece of taffy and disappeared. According to the latest reports received from Bogota, the Hay-Harran cannl treaty is now generally regarded in the capital as dead and buried, and it is declared that the United States might as well turn seriously to negotiations with Nicaragua. On the isthmus the people have lost all hope. The big Cripple Creek, Colo., district drainage tunnel calculated to drain the mining area to a depth of 250 feet below the present water level, admitting of deeper mining, is completed. As soon as the last round of shots was fired water gushed out of the mouth of the tunnel at 4,000 gallons a minute. An important find of iron ore has been made on the Mesaba range east of Biwabik, Minn., on lands owned by the IxH’gyear-Mesaba Land Company, of which J. M. Longyear, the Marquette mau who is moving his mansion from that city to Bosjon, is the head. The new find is in a tract lying south of the Miller mine. In Topeka, Kan., Judge Hazen senfenced Mine Operators John Jack and John Bell to jail until such a period as they might conclude to ans wer the questions of the attorneys in the coal trust inquiry. The men had refused to testify on the theory that it might incriminate them. The prisoners will appeal to the Supreme Court. Candy-making has practically ceased in Chicago. In a few obscure places the workers are still on duty, but the big plants, where great machines turn out bits of sugar and nuts as confectionery, have either stopped operations or will close down to-night. The fight is beginning in the same manner as the long, bitter laundry strike. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...83 40 Brooklyn ..,.01 60 New Y0rk...74 40 Boston 52 71 Chicago 73 50 Philadelphia. .39 76 Cincinnati ...64 57 St. Louis 41 84 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: \V. L. W. L. Boston 78 42 Detroit 59 58 Cleveland 1..69 55 St. Louis.... .57 6-1 New York... 61 54 Chicago 54 65 Philadelphia. .62 56 Washington.. .37 83 George Brandt shot and killed his wife and mother-in-ia w the other night. The women were living a>t the farmhouse of Mrw. Mary Murphy, the mother-in-law, six miles from Spring Green, Wis. Brandt and his wife had been living apart for the last two or three years. A 12-year-old son of Brandt was the sole witness to the murders. From his story the man crept upon Mrs. Murphy as she sat on the jmrcli of the farmhouse and killed her with a shot from behind. Then he ran down to the barn, where his wife was attending to the stock, ansi shot her, too, by creeping on her without being seen. Both women dropped dead at the shots. The boy, fearing he ■would be killed, hid and did not stir until Brandt had left the place. Then he went iti the darkness to Spring Green and reported the tragedy. A posse found Brandt in a bam on a neighboring farm. He had scars on his forehead as though he had attempted suicide. He admitted the murders. Doubts of his sanity are expressed.

NEWS NUGGETS.

A man, supposed to be C. T. Barden, a traveling salesman of Boston, jumped into Lake Erie a few miles eapt of Cleveland and was drowned. Two additional victims of the trolley car collision at Pelham, N. 11.. died. The list of dead numbers six, with the possibility of two being added to it. Two persons were killed and a number injured as a result of automobile accidents at Detroit and Zanesville. Barney Oldfield had a narrow escape from death. A bold attempt to hold up the Bitter Root express just east of Stevensville, Mont., was frustrated by the vigilance of the crew. A pile of ties had been placed on the tracks. “Keeping company,” or strolling in pairs, has been utrictly forbidden among the 500 young people in the Catholic school in the parish of Our Lady of Lourdes at Marinette, Wis. Saloonkeepers will be forbidden to grant credit to anyone, and will be forced to sell milk, cotfee, tea and cold food if a bill to promote temperance is passed by the German lawmakers. Officers raided an illicit still at 75 Evergreen avenue, Chicago, seized 800 gallons of whisky and captured two men and a woman who were in charge of the factory, which was admirably equipped. Specials from northwest of Denver tell of earthquake shocks felt in Boulder, Loveland, Longmont and Fort Collins, Cob* The shocks caused doors and windows to rattle and at Boulder the house's shook quite perceptibly. After a separation of a quarter of a century, John Kingston, a railroad employe at Ithaca, N. Y., has just found his son, John Kingston, Jr.. a prorperous engineer of Chicago. The younger Kingston went to Ithaca from Chicago and proved his identity to his father. The Santa Fe Railroad Company announces a wage increase of 2 cents per hour for boilermakers, machinist* and blacksmiths at all the shops on the system proper between Chicago and Albuquerque. This meins an increased expenditure by the company of SIOO,OOO yeariv.

EASTERN.

> Reliance won the third and decisive race in the international series for the America’s cup, Shamrock HL becoming lost in tbo fog and failing to cross the line.

A man who is said to have threatened to shoot President Roosevelt was arrested nt Syracuse by. the police and secret service officers, but no pistol was found on hin). Harry Brooks, alias “Gentleman George” Robinson, who pleaded guilty to five indictments, three of which.charged burglary, was sentenced in New York to twenty-three years' imprisonment. Two young so-ns of M. Epstein, living with their parents over a junkshop, were burned to death in 'Scranton, Pa., in a fire which destroyed the building. The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. Four men were injured seriously during the running of a five mile cycle handicap at Manhattan Bench, New York. They plunged over the track embankment opposite the grand stand while going at a terrific pace. After being missing for some time Theodore A. Shaffer,- president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Workers, reappeared at Poughkeepsie. N.'Y., to make a Labor Day speech, .but again disappeared immediately afterward. Another woman ended her existence by plunging over the Horseshoe falls at Niagara. She was seen to crawl under the iron railing, and before. anybody could reach her she had plunged into the .river mid passed over the precipice. Indictment for manslaughter against directors and officials of a New Jersey trolley line, the result of a fatal accident, was dismissed by Chief Justice Gimmere, who held that the deaths were due to the carelessness of employes of the road. Three persons lost their lives in a well at Neshannock, Pa. They were Joseph Spencer, 35 years old, a well-to-do farmer; his son Walter, 12 years old, and August Miller, 22 years old. They were overcome by black damp and fell into the water. During a heavy storm a cloudburst in the Farmington river valley near Burlington, Conn., wrecked a passenger train on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The train of three coaches was toppled over, and about a dozen pas-” sengers were injured, none, however, seriously. Mrs. Frances McGraw, niece of Levi Z. Leiter of Chicago and cousin of Lady Curzon, was instantly killed at tiie Antietam battlefield by being thrown from the carriage in which she was driving with her 3-year-old daughter and husband, Aaron K. McGraw, a young banker of Hagerstown, Md. The apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Hester, in the Antoinette, a fashionable hotel in Fifty-eighth street. New York, was robbed while the occupants were out for a drive. Mrs. Hester’s diamonds and jewelry, including wedding gifts and heirlooms, all valued at $lO,000, were carried away. Theodore Shaffer, president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, is missing, says the Pittsburg DispatcW— He has dropped mysteriously out of sight, and for several weeks neither fellow officials at the local office nor the members of his family have been able to locate him. Fire in Pittsburg destroyed six large buildings and three dwelling hotises. The property was owned by the Comstock Brass Manufacturing Company, warehouses of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, American Electrical Switching Company, Pittsburg Switch and Signal Company, Thuemler Manufacturing Company and Allegheny Manufacturing Company’s stables and storage yards. The flames originated in the hay loft of the latter company. Sixty hor.es were burned to death. The loss is $263,099.

WESTERN.

Mrs. Roland B. Molineaux has left Sioux Falls, S. D., and goue to New York, presumably with a decree of divorce.

An unknown negro, caught strangling a widow at Armourdale. Kan., drowned himself in the Kansas River rather than take the chances of being lynched. Robert Fullerton, of Des Moines, has been appointed disbursing officer to handle the $5,000,000 appropriated by the government for the St. Louis exposition. The wholesale paint and oil hou.M* of O. L. and P.U. Whitelaw of St. Louis was partially destroyed by tire, with a loss of over $50,000 to stock and building.

Fire at Marshall, Mo., destroyed two blocks of small buildings, causing an aggregate loss of about $30,000. The heaviest loser is the Lacrosse Lumber Company, $16,000. The tunnel that will drain many of the principal mines of the camp at Cripple Creek, Colo,, below their present lowest workings is completed. It is 4,070 feet long and cost SBO,OOO. A Missouri, Kansas and Texas stock train and a freight train met in a headon collision at Mcßain, Mo., as the result of which three persons were injured. Both trains were wrecked.

A special freight train on the Santa Fe Railway carrying thirteen passengers in the caboose backed into an open switch at Enterprise, Kan. Three passengers were seriously hurt. The Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, colored, whose supreme lodge recently held a conclave in St. Ixrnis, paraded several thousand strong and made a very creditable showing. George B. Lathrop, recently from Chicago, committed suicide at Spokane, Wash., by taking laudanum. He left Chicago a yew or more ago and went to the Pacific coast in shattered health. Fifteen hundred spectators were thrown into a panic by a collapsing grand stand at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., twen-ty-four being seriously hurt and twice that number badly bruised. Three may die.

By the collision of a College Hill trolley with a transfer wagon in Cincinnati, Charles Abram, Frederick Perry, M. Menke and Miss Clara Rust were-seri-ously hurt add seven others slightly in--jtired. Perry 8. Heath, formerly Ftr;< Assistant Postmaster General, discovered in Uinta County, Wyoming, while on a recent fishing trip a ledge of coal that proves to be the biggest find of its kind •ver known in the State. The land has

been located and the find ia regarded ae worth now without any development whatever $500,000. A bad wreck occurred on the Friaco road one mile routh of Baxter Springs, Kan., in which twelve people were injured, two fatally. A local passenger train ran into a freight standing on the main truck. Robbers entered the store of M. J. Daniela of Columbus, Ohio, and stole SII,OOO worth of diamonds which he was removing from the window preparatory to closing his store for the night. The men escaped. Fire broke out in the clubhouse of the Woman’s Federation on the State fair grounds at St. Paul, and the building was destroyed, entailing a lo.« of about $20,000. A valuable collection of paintings was ruined. The district attorney and sheriff at Watsonville, Cal., are investigating the death of Mrs. Elvira Scales Greene, an aunt of Bill Nye, the humorist. Mrs. Greene’s death recently was attributed to gas asphyxiation. Frank Kausaan, Joseph Velatine and Morris Vanulte were instantly killed and two other men and a boy badly injured, by an explosion of dynamite in the Bride mine iu the Monte Cristo district of the State of Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth Hill of Chicago have sued Hull Brothers, owners of South Cheyenne Canyon, for $90,090 damages as the result of an encounter in which five shots were exchanged between one of the Hulls and Mr. Hill. The temporary lull in the hostilities in the Sage creek country, Montana, where the range war is in progress, was broken when several unidentified cattlemen approached die sheep camp of John Allen and fired 100 shots into it. Mrs. Theodore Kruse, wife of n bookbinder, was shot and killed at her home in Denver by Mrs. Kate Beruardine. The slayer was arrested. She declined to make any statement. The cause of the shooting is supposed to be jealousy. Elsie Ducket, a 16-year-old girl living near Lebanon, 111., hanged herself after being scolded by her father for receiving the following lines from u boy playmate: “As long as the vine runs ’round the stump I’ll be your darling sugar lump.” Guards surrounding the home of D. M. Pnrry. near Indianapolis, fought a pitched battle with two unknown men. Numerous shots were fired, but the sentinels escaped uninjured. The marauders fled and it is not known if either of them was shot. Martin Zidmair, who was to be hanged, was found dead iu his cell at Ludington, Mont. He is thought to have been deranged. He killed George O. Reider, a lifelong friend, on Trail creek two years ago, and then secreted the body. At Schurz. Nev., an aged Indian named George Sam, unable to witness the sufferings of his young son, who was sick, killed the lad with a shotgun, and then, placing the muzzle of the gun at his own head, discharged the remaining barrel.

Samuel Jacobs, a lineal descendant of Major Andre of Revolutionary fame, is dead at his home in St. Joseph, Mo., aged 82. He was a civil engineer, and surveyed the route of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad across the State of lowa. “Big Joe” Grimes, said to be one of the largest men in the world, is dead at his home in Cincinnati. lie was 34 years old, 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighed 754 pounds. His brother. Dr. G. F. Grimes, who attended him, attributed his illness to his excessive fat. A coroner's jury iu San Francisco has returned a verdict that Martin Bowers came to his death from arsenical poisoning, charges his wife, Mr.< Martha E. Bowers, with murder and recommends that Mrs. Z. C. Sutton, her sister, be held as an accessory. Mike Jesey, John Cranz and Dan Sabin, laborers, were crushed to death by the caving in of a 16-foot bank at the excavation for the site of a new hotel at Sixth and San Joaquin streets, Los Angeles, Cal. Hie men were buried alive under tons of earth.

Mrs. John Henderson and Mrs. William Shaffer were burned to death and their children narrowly escaped at Blue Ash, Ohio. The boiling over of coffee extinguished the fire and the gasoline flowed unnoticed. An explosion followed the lighting of a match. As a result of an explosion at the Bessemer plant of the Republic Iron and Steel Company in Youngstown, Ohio, two men were fatally injured and two others seriously. The explosion was cafised by a valve of the square blowing off while the men were making repairs in a pit. During a severe windstorm the tent in which John Robinson’s circus was exhibiting at Anthony, Kan., was blown down. An immense crowd was in the menagerie, and when the poles and canvas came down a hundred or more people were hurt, of whom fifty required medical attention. While Charles Schmidt, a Cleveland chauffeur, was engaged in preliminary trials of a racing automobile, the steering gear of his machine broke and let the automobile run wild. It dashed into a fence at the side of the track and tore down a dozen rods of it. Three of Schmidt’s ribs were broken. • Sarah and Gladys Hogan, daughters of a farmer fifteen miles northeast of Topeka, Kan., were burned to death. The elder girl of 10 years had the younger in her arms and was lighting the fire with kerosene when the can exploded, scattering the flames over the children and burning them fatally. Frank Futziu was probably fatally injured while trying to “loop the loop” at the fair grounds in St. Paul, Minn. The operator curls himself inside a large ball, which rolls down a long chute and around the loop. On this occasion the ball struck the loop and went half way around, when it fell, striking the iron rafters at the bottom and burst open. Futrin was taken out unconscious. A few days before a young girl who tried the trick was badly injured. With a torch as his weapon some person, supposed to be the agent of a secret society, sought revenge upon Joseph Bova, a saloonkeeper, and endangered the lives of thirty persons in St. Ix>uis. Their escape was dne solely to Carlo Dairaghi,' 3 years old," who, awakening, aroured-his mother. The alarm was sounded instantly and the inmates of the blazing building escaped just in time. The building, a two-story structure of wood, was destroyed with its contents.

SOUTHERN.

Dr. J. J. Taylor has been elected president of Georgetown College nt Georgetown, Ky. Six persons were killed and twentyfive injured, one fatally and two seriously, in a wreck on the Southern Railway near Yorkville, S. C. Miss Cloyetta Brownlow, daughter of Congressman W. P. Brownlow of Jonesboro, Tenn., eloped with Mark E. Pritchett, a liveryman of Jonesboro, and they were married in Bristol, Tenn. Acting upon instructions from Attorney General Knox, suit was instituted at Nashville, Tenn., by United States District Attorney William D. Wright for the government against Sheriff J. W. Fox and his bondsmen for SIO,OOO damages. The government’s claim is on account of the escape of Harvey Logan from the Knox County jail June 27. Logan is the Montana train robber.

FOREIGN.

Twenty Filipino insurgents were killed in a sharp conflict with the constabulary in the Province of Cavite. Baron Henri de Rothschild was sentenced to one day’s imprisonment and a fine of 10 francs for scorching in his automobile in Paris.

In u fight between fifteen French soldiers nnd four Americans in Pekin the French used bayonets, and two of the Americans were seriously wounded. Emperor William condemns the municipal authorities of Metz for the insanitary condition of the water supply, which has caused an epidemic of typhus. Colonial Secretary Chamberlain authorized the bank at Kingston, Jamaica, to advance $250,000 to planters whose property was destroyed by recent storms. Three men and two women have been arrested at Halle, Prussia, charged with insulting Emperor William. The precise nature of their offense has not been disclosed.

Three explosions occurred on the Austrian steamer Vaskapu soon after leaving the Bulgarian port at Burgas en route for Constantinople, by which twen-ty-nine persons perished. Bulgarian reports place the number of victims of massacres by Turks at 1 from 39,600 to 50,000. More than 150,000 inhabitants of Monastic are said to be in hiding, many of whom are starving. The Sultan of Turkey, in an address to the heads of religious communities, declared that all his desire is for the welfare of his people, without distinction in regard to either race or religion. • Mail advices from Pekin say the Empress Dowager is suffering from a facial disease and cannot live a year. The news has caused consternation in Chinese court circles. It is unknown to the public in Pekin, according to the advices. Special dispatches give an unconfirmed report of an attempt on the life of King Peter of Servia at Nish. It is said that stones were thrown at the royal carriage, one striking the King iu the face, and a pistol was fired from a neighboring window.

Many officers of the Servian army, including forty-seven in Nish garrison, have been arrested for conspiracy to kill all the conspirators involved in the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga; plot said to include 700 men. Germany assents, but other powers object, to a proposal of Russia and Austria that coercive diplomatic action be taken at Sofia to sever relations between Bulgaria aud the Macedonian insurgents, and the plan is believed to have fallen through. The Brussels correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says an agreement concerning the Venezuelan debt has been signed between a syndicate of Paris banks and Senor Velutini, the Venezuelan representative. A new loan of $60,000,000, guaranteed by the customed receipts, will be issue*}.

IN GENERAL.

San Miguel, Mexico, where Cortez landed, was entirely destroyed by a hurricane, which caused great loss of life along the whole Mexican coast. The United States has warned Colombia that neglect to ratify the canal treaty unamended will result in measures that will cau:«e regret to the South American republic. Dtih’s review of trade rays there is a reaction mid readjustment in ‘business, following recent unhealthy speculative excesses, and the caution will make for steady and legitimate gains. Sir Thomas Lipton blames Designer Fife for the poor showing made by Shamrock 111., and there is said to be friction between the two because.of an error made in the plans for the yacht. Commander Robert E. Peary will ■make another dash for the north pole next summer. lie is granted three years’ leave of absence and has hopes for success of new methods in his coming venture. The Erie Railroad Company has issued an order for' the discharge of all employes over the age of 35 who have been taken into employ of the company since May 1, 1,901. The order is designed to protect the older employes. President Roosevelt has decided to fill important posts in the consular service hereafter by the promotion of men experienced in the duties of such offices, a reform which has been earnestly urged for years by business men of the country. Mrs. Mattie D. Rich of Chicago, who was recently acquitted of the murder of her husband by the Chihuahua, Mexico, Supreme OOurt, has arrived at the border. She was released from prison a short time ago after serving four years of a fourteen-year term imposed by the Jnarez courts.

The State Department in Washington has received a cablegram from Minister Irishman at Constantinople, in which he rays that a riot occurred at Beirut in which seven Christians were killed and several wounded. Two houses occupied by Christians were pillaged by the soldiery. The panic was general. Estimates for improvements and expenditures at navy yards have been tubmitted to the chief of the bureau of yards and docks. The total /or Boston is $1,080,000; for Portsmouth, N. H„ $3,560,000; for Norfolk, Va„ $2,518,000; for Washington, D. C., $2319,197; fdr league Island, Pa., $3,794347; far San Juan, P. IL. $2,617,180; for Mare Island, Cat, $1,089309

FIGHT FOR A FORTUNE.

Legal Battle to Recover •40,000 for Mrs. Maybrick Begins. Fighting to secure a fortune for Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, whose release from an English prison is expected next July, her New York counsel has begun proceedings to recover more than $40,000. That is all of the cash that is left of the immense fortune of Darius Blake Holbrook, grandfather of the American woman whoee death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and whose release by the British authorities next July has'been promised. Attorneys for Mie. May brick have appeared before a referee to ask an accounting from Hamilton B. Bradshaw and William H. Gardiner bf New York. They were the executors of the will of Mr.

MRS. FLORENCE MAYBRICK.

Holbrook, Who left his vast estate to his daughter, now the Baroness von Roques and a resident of Rouen, France, with a reversionary interest to her daughter, Mrs. Maybrick. Tens of thousands of that fortune went to save Mrs. Maybrick from the gallows, when she was sentenced to death in 1889 for poisoning her husband. Darius Holbrook also owned 2,500 acres bf coal and iron lands in Virginia and West Virginia, and suits to recover them have been instituted. Should they be successful Mrs. Maybrick may become one of the wealthiest women in the United States. Mr. Holbrook was a capitalist of Mobile. Ala. He was associated with Cyrus Field in the laying of tiie first transatlantic cable, he founded the town of Cairo, 111., and was one of the promoters of the Illinois Central Railroad. When he died, in 1868, he was considered one of the wealthiest men in the South.

“HOLD-UP” ON CANAL.

More Money Asked by Colombians in the Proposed Treaty. The bill winch the Bogota Congress is uow discussing, authorizing President Marroquin to negotiate a new Panama caual treaty with rhe United States, contains the following stipulations: The perpetual use of the canal zone is granted provided that at the expinatiou of each hundred years the United States shall pay during the succeeding hundred years 25 per cent more premium and rental than for the preceding term, the premium beginning at $400,000 and the rental at S4OO. The mixed tribunals in the canal zone shall try suits between foreigners or between Colombians and foreigners. The police and sanitary measures shall be practically in charge of the United States. Twenty million dollars is fixed as the price of the concession, besides the rental (sum?) of $10,000,000 payable by the canal company, in consideration of Colombia’s approval of the transfer of shares. The railroad shall in sixty-four years revert to Colombia, but the United States may buy it under a valuation. A term shall be fixed within which the canal must be begun and finished. The contract shall provide for a means to settle differences which may arise between the governments during the construction and execution of the contract.

According to the latest reports received from Bogota, the Hay-Herran canal treaty is now generally regarded in the capital as dead and buried and it is declared the United States might as well turn seriously to negotiations with Nicaragua.

FROM FOREIGN

At Sutton, Ireland, a nest of white blackbirds has been found. The Scandinavians now have an enormous fleet of big fiteel tramp ehips in serious rivalry with the British. For the first time in 150 years nt Constantinople a Mohammedan has published a book on anatomy and medicine. Naples is to have a new quay 250 Bet in length and costing $140,000, principally for the use of her emigrant service. State lotteries in Holland are to be gradually diminished during the next eighteen years, when they will be abolished entirely. Twelve million pounds’ worth of leather is required every year to provide boots and shoes for the inhabitants of Great Britain. At a recent examination in China the candidates were asked to draw a comparison between Po Wang and Na Po Lun (Napoleon). Over 1,000 miles of telegraph poles in full blossom are to be seen in Uganda. The wires are strung from a species of fig tree which has extraordinary powers of germination. Seventy Polish school boys at a German gymnasium have bsen sentenced to terms of imprisonment from six weeks downward for belonging to a secret society. j. So little have the industries of India been affected by the British occupation that the native smith still forges locally made iron on a stone anvil within eighty ■tiles of Simla

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

“ v ’. “A striking contrast apNe¥ lOF ft. poors when comparison la 7 ——— made with the corresponding week last year, Prices were then tending upward in many branchee of industry, new business was coming forward more rapidly thanrit could be handled and in the security market al! records for activity and high prices were being surpassed. Later events have demonstrated that was unhealthy, and speculative excesses have been followed by reaction and readjustment. Conservatism was then the exception; it is now the rule,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade, Continuing, the report nays: Prospects for steady gains and their maintenance are brighter undeh the present system. Legitimate trade -will continue to suffer from the lessee in specnlation, and the high nates for commercial* loans will militate against industrial expansion, but in the long run a larger, degree of caution should prove beneficial. Buyers are still coming to the leading markets in great number, and testify to,, the sound condition of business at the Interior. Manufacturing plants are busy throughout New England, aside from cotton mills, and there is notable activity in wearing apparel at the South, while prospects for a large fall retail trade are .bright everywhere. Already these is traffic congestion at several points, despite the fact that crops have only just begun to move, and railway earnings in August show gains of 9.3 per cent over last year and 17.4 per cent over 1901. Unprofitably low prices have had ths effect of curtailing production in the iron and steel Industry. Labor and other costs of production, with tiie single exception of fuel, are much higher, while consumers are slow to purchase even at the extensive decline that has occurred during the current year. Rails and other track supplies are in good demand, especially foe prompt shipment. and more orders are placed for structural material for bridges and buildings. A brick demand is noted for merchant pipe. Sheet mills and some other of the industry are in an uncertain position, owing to the labor situation.

~~ A more confident feeling ClliCdQO. > n t,le business outlook is * I confirmed in larger dealings recorded by various industrial lines and a wider distribution of products. Bank exchanges exceed those of the corresponding week last year and reported failures in the Chicago district are less in number and significance. Country buying remains very strong and local demand is well maintained. Railroads are liberal buyers on materials for repairs and extensions and have placed contracts for additional equipment involving large expenditures. Traffic, by both rail and lake, exhibits no diminution in volume and earnings of railroads centering here show steady gains. The markets for grain and provisions are fairly active. Tiie monthly statement of hog products in store disclosed a 10 per cent decline since July figures, but compared with August, 1902, there is a gain of 31 per cent.

Trading in the cereals was more animated notwithstanding limited operations for foreign account. Quotations were moderately advanced in all the pits, corn acting as leader. Sales of flour are fair and the market awnmw stronger tone on prospective business for the continent and lessened stocks in hands of domestic dealers. Live stock receipts--297,502 head —are 16 per cent over a year ago. Receipts of produce increased in lard 9 per cent; hogs. 11; flour, 16; hides, 17; sheep, 19; cattle nnd butter. 20; seeds, 32; barley, 38; wool, 45, and corn, 315. Decreases are in dressed beef, 16 per cent; broom corn, 25; cheese,' 40; wheat, 45; oats, 59, and rye, 75.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prim?, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $6.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn, No. 2,51 cto 52c; oats, No. 2,32 c to 34c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $12.50; prairie, $6.00 to $9.50; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 17c; potatoes, 63c to 70c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; bogs, choice Hght, $4.00 to $0.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.10; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 81e; corn, No. 2 white, 50c to 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.50 to $6.00; sheep. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 8lc; corn. No. 2, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2,33 cto 34c; rye. No. 2,54 cto 55c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.25 to $5.00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.90; sheep, $2.75 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2,83 cto 83c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 53c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 00c, Detroft—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; oats, No. 3 white, 36c to 37c: rye. No. 2,54 cto 55c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 86c to 87c; corn, No. 3,53 cto 55c; oats. No. 2 white, 36c to 38c; rye. No. 1,54 c to 56c; barley. No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork, meso, $12.40. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.55; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $6.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $5.75. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 84c to Ssc; corn, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 55c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; rye, No. 2,53 c to 55c: clover seed, prime, $5.65. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5u75; hogs, $4.00 to $6.20; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 86c to 87c; corn. No. 2,58 cto 50c; oats. No. 2 white, 41e to 42c; butter, creamery, 18c to K)c; ♦ggs. western, 19c to 23c.