Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1903 — Page 6

jot mm —m F. B. BABCOCK. PuMtoher. KENBSXLAKR, - - INDIANA.

CIRCLING THE GLOBE

Oliver T. Sherwood, the defaulting cashier of the Southport (Conn.) National Hank, charged with the misappropriation of SIOO,OOO, was sentenced to ten yearn in prison by Judge Platt in the United States Court. He entered a plea of guilty. Seven firemen were injured hy the fall of a blazing roof in a tierce tire which destroyed the Staten Island Rapid Transit Company’s storehouse, Vanderbilt avenue, Clifton, N. Y. The building was completely destroyed, entailing a loss of $45,000. Secretary Shnw authorizes the statement that owing to the scarcity of 2 per cent bonds, both for circulation and as security for government deposits, he will renew refunding o[>erations to the extent of $20,000,000, In accordance with the previous circular. The controversy between the engineers and firemen and t lie Great Northern road has been amicably settled. Neither the company officials nor the grand officers of the two brotherhoods would state just what the terms of agreement were, but it is known chat each side made some concession?. Employes of all the flour mills of Minneapolis struck at midnight Wednesday, and seventeen mills, employing 1,800 men, will be closed indefinitely. Good feeling exists on bosh sides, nnd the mills have been left In the best shape possible, with firemen and watchmen to protect the property. The tug Parnell was capsized in the Niagara river at Tonawanda while towing the steamer Oscar T. Flint. The crew had n narrow e.cape. It succeeded iu getting on the life raft, which floated Off the pilot house when the tug went down, and was finally rescued by the yacht William Mills. Near Michigan City, Ind., within two hours’ ride of Chicago wolves have become so plentiful that the farmers have nppealed to the County Board of Supervisors to restore the old bounty of $5 a scalp. The animals threaten to overrun Johnson, Dewey and Hanna townshinps, hiding in the brushy sections of the marshes. In some instances the wolves have invaded farm yards nnd carried off poultry, but they have occasioned greater loss among sheep. A series of wolf hunts is talked of to rid the county of the animals. The clubs in tho National League ar# standing thus; W. L. VV. L. Pittsburg ...91 47 Brooklyn ..'..(58 (54 New York... 82 55 Bouton 57 78 Chicago 80 55 Philadelphia. .47 85 Cincinnati ...72 03 St. Louis 42 02 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. W. 1,. Boston 87 4(5 Detroit (54 (57 Cleveland ...74 01 St. laiilis 04 (58 Philadelphia..7o 59 Chicago 57 74 New York.. .00 01 Washington.. .43 89

NEWS NUGGETS.

Former United States Senator Charles I!. Far well, Tor half a century prominent in the political and business life of Chicago, is dead at his home in Lake Fort*t. 111. Keports which nro daily received by the War Department allow* that as n result of the new regulations for small-arm firing the men are acquiring wonderful proficiency. Annie It. Sharpley, who caused the postoffleo authorities much trouble through raising postal money orders, has been sentenced at Philadelphia to the penitentiary for two years. Passengers arriving at Nelson, B. C., over the Crow’s Nest road report that another immense slide occurred at Turtle Mountain, near Frank, Alberta. As far as known no lives were lost. Au Albany dog dragged his 7-year-old mistress from a fire occasioned by a gasoline explosion, saving lier life and summoning help by barking. All the hair on the dog's back was burned off. Ooroner Brown of New York does not accept the theory that John D. Kilpatrick, the wealthy young Nebraskan found dead in a hotel, committed suicide, and believes it may be a case of murder. Four masked men held up a Burlingtou passenger train near St. Joseph, Mo., blew open the express safe, and are said to have secured from $5,000 to SIO,OOO. None of the paosetigers was molested. Four men blew open the safe at the South Iladley Center, Mass., post office and secured SIO,OOO worth of stamps. They wrecked the safe and the inside of the office. They then made their escape. Near Hartington, Neb., August Bchmidt, while hunting, pointed his gun at John Houaer and pulled the trigger, kilting Houser and seriously wounding his brother, Peter Houser. Schmidt is under arrest. Installation of the block signal system •long 848 miles of the Uork Island Railroad has been begun, and it is officially stated that the work will be continued until all the main Ipies of this company have been thus improved. Wives of several Toledo council men received anonymous letters saying that if the wishes of the people were not met and the Mayor's veto of the railway frat chise sustained, the lives of the ocuaciF men would be in danger. An nutomobile containing six persons plunged over an embankment and struck fifteen feet below hi the bed of - the Guadalupe river near San Jose, Cal., injuring all of the occupants, one of them, Mrs. DeSaissett, probably fatally. Col. B. F. Morley, manager of the Buena Vista smelter and of the Mary Murphy mine st ttomley, Colo., and Adolph Abrahamson, superintendent of die mine, were killed by foul air while inspecting the mine. The bodies were recovered. James Dormody is at St. Barnabas hospital, St. Paul, with a serious wound in the region of tlte heart, and Fred A. Clark is at the city hospital suffering from a wound iu his left aide. These men with two others indulged iu a street fight and one drew a knife and stabbed the

EASTERN.

| TkrM fishermen, victims of the Atlantic gals, were washed upon the beach at Lewes, Del, I A fire-story brick building under course of construction In New York collapsed. Injuring a number of workmen. Fire destroyed all but the walls of tho extensive slaughter house of Abraham . Levy Sc Co. in Brooklyn, N. Y. The lose la $125,000. Whilo directing the rehearsal of “His Own Way” at the Garrick Theater in New York, Clyde Fitch, the dramatist, was injured by falling glass from a skylight. After being mourned as dead by parents and friends tor thirteen years, Walter Frazec, a former resident of Scotch Plains, N. J., baa returned to that village. V - i . President Itoofevelt, iu accepting the New Jersey monument at Antietam battlefield, praised aliko the heroes who fought on the field and those who are doing battle for decency in civic life. In Buffalo as a result of family quarrels James Means, 70 years of age, shot and fatally wounded his son-in-law, Michael Crotty, 33 years old, and then sent a bullet through his own brain, dying instantly. The Cameron ODd Luke Fidler collieries at Shamokin, Pa., owned by the Mineral Railroad and Mining Company, employing 2,500 men and boys, were closed indefinitely because of the dull coal trade. O. P. Dexter of Norwalk, Conn., a large holder of Adirondack lands in Franklin County, N. Y., was shot and killed while riding along the road near Santa Clara. No clew to his slayer haO* been obtained. One of the biggest coups in Wall street during the recent bear raid was made by young Cornelius Vanderbilt. He cleaned up $10,000,000, it la said, using a margin of $2,000,000. His fortune is said now to exceed $20,000,000 in all. Fish and Game Commissioners Clarke and Wentworth, at Newport, N. H., caused the arrest of Senator Redficld Proctor of Vermont for shooting raccoon out of season. He was fined $lO, with costs of $17.50, which he paid. The closing incident in the career of a bankrupt trust is the sale in New York of the assets of the National Salt Company, a $12,000,000 organization. They brought $337,500. The directors are accused of deliberate!}- wrecking the concern. The slander suit brought against exPostinaster General John Wanamaker by former State Printer Thomas Robinson has ended in a victory for the defendant. The sealed verdict was road in court at Beaver, Pa., nnd found for tho defendant. An innovation in the line of railroad telegraph service has beeu put into use on the New York Central Railroad, between Utica and Albany. By means of the apparatus a single wire can he used for telegraph and telephone messages at the same time. Half a hundred ships and at leant 100 lives wero lost in the hurricane that lias swept the Atlantic from above the coast of Maine to the southern point of Florida. Seventeen of the lost craft were big vessels, most of them schooners, but one was a British steamer, the Mexicnuo.

WESTERN.

Owing to the scarcity of boys in Kansas City, Mo., women are being largely employed us messengers. Three persons were injured in the collapse of a frame cottage at 1352 West Eighteenth street, Chicago. Louis M. Caulk and Dean Ephart of Boston, Kan., fought out an old grudge and Caulk was dangerously stabbed. The board of directors of the \gaociated Press elected Frank B. Noyes of the Chicago Record-Herald president. Omaha, Neb., officers discovered nearly 1,000 young children working in the packing house uud ordered them sent to school. Ed Christy, who was convicted of murder, committed suicide in the county jail at Wellington, Ivan., by hanging himself to the bars of his cell. Cyrus E. Gillespie, a successful inventor, drowned himself in a well near his home in Edwnrdeville, 111. No reason, except illness, js given for the deed. One robber was fatally wounded and another is believed to have been injured while attempting to rob the hardware store of Bronson & Griswold in Trinidad, Colo. Joseph Holdren, proprietor of the Bellevue Hotel at Marietta, Ohio, was Instantly killed by a heavy timber which fell through the elevator shaft from the | fourth story. I Edward Butler, political boss under sentence for bribery at St. Louis, Mo., declares that Joseph Folk, the district attorney who convicted him, should be elected Governor., A Chinaman was beaten to death by a mob at Tonopah, Nevada. Twelve white men visited Chinatown and at the point of revolvers ordered the Mongolians to leave the place. Negroes overpowered the sheriff at Luxotn, Ark., took out a negro named Heliem and hauged him to a water tank. Hellctu was charged with attacking two little negro girls, aged 5 and 10. j Amid great excitement the City Council of Toledo, Ohio, tabled the franchise ordinance vetoed by the Mayor granting a twenty-five years’ franchise to the Toledo Railway and Light Company. Prof. Fred C. Clarke of the Ohio State University committed suicide in Columbus by shooting himself in the forehead with a revolver. Prof. ’Clarke leaves a widow and two small children. A Vandalia freight train crashed into a Monon passenger train at the Crawfordsville, Ind., junction, overturning and demolishing two coaches. Of the ninety passengers several were seriously hurt. Mrs. John McMuado, formerly a school teacher iu Chicago, has been declared a leper. She went with her husband some time ago to San Jacinto, Cal., but always wore a veil in the presence of strangers. Commissioner Richardson of the general land office has decided to retain the local land office at (lass Lake, Minn., instead of removing it to Remidji. The decision has been approved by President Roosevelt. The body of Mrs. Gien D. Cheatham was found burned to a crisp at Aurora, 8. D. She haj) poured kerosene on her dpthes and set fire to them. Her mind

was unbalanced over the hurtling of an only child a year ago. According to a published rtory, J. D. Rockefeller contemplates expending between $30,000,000 and $80,000,000 in tha downtown part 6t Cleveland within the next few years in the erection of sixteen j skyscraper office buildings. A $30,000 fire occurred at the Missouri ! State fair grounds in Sedalia, three large frame horse barns and two beef cattle barns being destroyed. Iu addition ten , Missouri, Kansas and Texas freight cars, some of them partially loaded. Left penniless in his old age, after a loss of $05,000 in the June flood, discouraged nnd despondent, Henry Mockley, proprietor of the Riverside packing house in Kansas City, committed suicide by sending a bullet through Ills brain. Friends of Miss Ruth Bryan, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bryan, following a party given in the young lady’s honor at Lincoln, Neb., announced the engagement of Miss Bryan and William H. Leavitt, an artist of Newport, R. I. Samuel Thompson, aged 88 year-, murdered bis son. Leroy Thompson, aged 51 years, and then killed himself at their home two miles south of Norwalk, Ohio. Two years ago the younger Thompson deserted his wife, which’* angered his father. The unusual occurrence of a “gastropod a I shower” is reported from several parts of the southern section of Crawford County, Ohio. During tho night millions of diminutive sunils felt and iu the morning the earth was slimy with the little-specimens of the gastropod. The Minnesota company that reinsured tho business of the Northwestern Life aud Savings of lowa dropped the tenyear gold bond of the latter and substituted a specific annual dividend policy. The insurance laws of Minnesota are strong and its companies conservative. The famous Senator Sherman back tax case was ended by compromise at Mnnsfield, Ohio. The tax authorities claimed $2<50,t)00, but by the compromise it was determined that $02,500 should be paid. The case has been in litigation many years nnd has attracted a great deal of attention. William Trimble was convicted in the Circuit Court at Evansville, Ind., of taking part in the riot of July 5 lost. The penalty for riotous is from two to ten years’ inipiifstinient in the penitentiary. Trimble first man to be convicted o£ rioting, and there are several more cases.

Graders on Sunset boulevard, just outside the city limits of Los Angeles, found a peck of spurious coin buried by counterfeiters. The coin apparently had been buried many years. There were five and ten-dollar pieces, and although corroded from contact with the damp earth, they were still good imitation?. Mrs. Williamson was murdered and her 12-year-old daughter aud her aged mother, Air?. H. H. Payne, brutally beaten near Lebanon, Kan. All had been horribly wounded with a Cultivator bar. A young man of Jackson, who wished to marry her and whom she'bad refused repeatedly, has disappeared. Harry Emmett, charged with safe blowing; James Massengill, who confessed to attempted criminal assault, and Bud Jones, charged with perjury, escaped from the county jail at Jeffersonville, Ind. The men cut a hole through the iron cage and dropped to the ground by mcaus of a rope made of bed clothing. W. W. Kelley of Gardner, Mass., brother of Manager Michael Kelley of the St. Paul American Association team, was fatally injured in a ball game between the Winnipeg Northern team and a club from Algona, lowa. Kelley was at bat when a ball thrown by Holland, the colored pitcher for Algona, struck him in the temple. Roy and Beech Berry, who were arrested in Colorado on the charge of cattle stealing from Frank Rockefeller's ranch, were discharged for lack of evidence nt their preliminary hearing in Atwood, Kan. The Berrys are the survivors of the Berry family, three members of which were recently killed by the Dewey ranchers in a pitched battle.

Tho house at 1606 McClure street, Marion, Ind., occupied by the Lucabel and Crabtree families, was partly destroyed by an explosion of natural gas. Mrs. Hattie Lucabel was terribly burned and probably fatally injured. Ora Crabtree, 6 years old, also was fatally burned. Mrs. William Crabtree, mother of the children, was burned in an effort to save them. The worst flood experienced iu that portion of the Mississippi valley for years has been submerging thousands of acres of farm lands along the river near La Crosse, Wis., sweeping away stacks of hay and grain, drowning live stock in fields nnd doing immense damage. The flood entered La Crosse and in the lower portion of the north side sixty families were forced to move out of their homes. A wholesale jail delivery was foiled nt the Sedalin, Mo., county jail. One of the prisoners called to Sheriff Dillard to bring a drink to his cejl, and as the sheriff opened the door to the bull pen he was felled by a blow from a club in the hands of a negro prisoner. The blow knocked him to his knees and stunned him, but lie managed to get on liis feet and otnggcr to the outer door, which he closed. Two bandits made a daring attempt to loot an express ear on the Michigan Central Railroad, $25,000 iu two safes being the booty fought. William Gaughran, 382 North Ashland avenue, who was mistaken for the messenger, but who is really a delivery expressman, was beaten into unconsciousness. That the bold plan, which embraced the dynamiting of the safes while the train should he speeding out of Chicago, failed was line to the fact that the thugs attacked the wrong man. The jury in the suit of Frederick Marriott, publisher of the San Francisco Nows Letter, against Truxtmi Beale and T. If. Williams, Jr., president of the California Jockey Club, returned a verdict against Williams for $16,780 damages. Beale and Williams called at She home of Marriott last year to obtain satisfaction for an article said to refer to Miss Marie Oge, now Mrs. Beale. There was a fight and Marriott was shot three times. He charged Williams with the shooting. The mutilated body of Mis« Olive Rayl, 22 years old, was found lying across the Lake Shore Railway track at the entrance of Gordon Park, Cleveland. It was at first supposed that Miss Rays had been killed by a train, but later tba police stated that an investigation devel-

—' oped that the girl had been murdered tad the body placed on the traelt, where a train cut It in two. Mise Rayl lived with her brother, Dr. W. L. Rayl. at Glenrflle, a auburb. Ska waa handsome and highly respected. : At Central City, Neb., Rev. R. A. ■ Gould, a Free Methodist preacher, who ! eloped with Eva Flint, a 15-year-old girl, last March, has been sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. He w*s tried under the kidnaping law, passed by the State Legislature after the Cudahy kidnaping in and hi* conviction was the first under that statute. He was captured jn North Dakota and taken to Nebraska under requisition from the Governor of that State. He had a wlfo and five children. Mrs. Charles Rollins bears on her right thumb a scar that tells of a close call she had in Battle Creek, Mich. She is a professional nurse, and has made her home there since leaving her husband, a Chicago barber, four years ago. Rollins wanted her to rejoin him, but she refused. He went to the home of Miss Annctta Blakely, where his wife—.was working as a nurse, and without a woird of warning tried to shoot her. Before he could fire she grabbed the revolver and the hammer came down on her thumb. Mrs. Mary E. Jahn and her 13-year-old daughter, Pearl, died in. St. Louis from burns caused by lighted gasoline, and Harry, the 10-year-old son of the woman, who turned on the explosive fluid in bis sleep, cannot live. The boy had been in the habit of helping his mother about the stove during the day. He was a somnambulist, and the other night he went through the operation of turning on and lighting the stove in his sleep. A fijre resulted that burned Mrs. Jahn and Pearl, who ran to the boy’s aid. . Charles *Peters and Judge Burson of Starke County, Ind., have engaged engineers to make a survey for a ship canal to connect Lake Michigan with the Wabash river. A number of surveys have been made since 1831, but with the making of this survey it is understood that nn effort will be made to interest the Indiana Legislature in the hope of securing an appropriation and enlisting capitalists in the project. It is said that such n canal would shorten the waterway from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico nearly 450 miles in comparison with the Chicago canal.

FOREIGN.

King Edward unveiled a monument of Queen Victoria in the church at Crathie, Scotland. Prof. Alexander Bain, formerly lord rector of the university at Aberdeen, Scotland, and for twenty years profersor of logic and English literature, is dead. Senator Obaldia has been formally installed as Governor of Panama and reiterated his belief that the interests of the world demand the construction of the Panama canal. Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian dramatist, declares that the story of his ill health emanates from his enemies and that lie is in better health than he had been for months. An explosion of gunpowder and grenades has occurred in Fort Sao Sabastiano, Mozambique, East Africa. Mauy persons were killed or injured. The fort was badly wrecked. Lord Balfour of Burleigh has resigned from tbo British cabinet. Financial Secretary Arthur Elliot has also retired. It is believed the Duke of Devonshire will remain in the ministry. , Fierce fights between Jews and Christians, in which four Christians and two Jews were killed and mauy pex-sons seriously injured, are reported from Gomela, in the government of Moghiteff, Russia. Reports from Sofia say the Turks have destroyed the town of Kastoria, near Monastir, and massacred the entire population of 10,000. Bulgaria is warned by the powers that no help will be given her in case she decides upon war. A boundary dispute has ariseu between Honduras aud Nicaragua and the Central American steamer Breakwater brings authentic reports that an invasion of Nicaragua by Honduran troops is imminent, if it has not already taken place.

IN GENERAL.

Senator Hanna repudiates the story that he had withdrawn his name from consideration as chairman of the national Republican committee. The Panama canal treaty in dead, the time limit for ratification having expired. A new proposal is awaited by Washington and a delay of a year is thought to be certain. Repudiation of an agreement by the International Association of Marble Workers resulted in the beginning of a lockout of the 3,500 marble workers employed iu nine of the largest cities in the. country. R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of Chicago and general trade says the only disquiet for the week was due to fear of frost, but the flurry was only temporary and prices remained stable. Fewer labor troubles are cited as an encouraging feature. The steamship Texan of New York sailed from Tacoma on one of the most remarkable voyages ever made. She will steam without stopping from Tacoma to Delaware breakwater, a distance of 13,5)00 miles, making the longest voyage of the kind on record. The Methodiat Record, organ of the Methodist Protestant Church, contains au advertisement asking for four pastors, who “must have small families, if any, a clear head, a warm and loving heart and big feet well-, planted on the ground of common sense,” for which is offered not to exceed SSOO a year. Dr. H. W. Wiley of the Agricultural Department in Washington acquired while abroad a batch of new theories. Accordiug to the doctor the human race is becoming hairless and toothless as the result of increased intellectuality and the prevalence of “readily chewed" health food*. He declares the day is rapidly approaching when hair and teeth will become as extinct as the dodo bird. With a highly moral force of employes, not a man of whom drinks intoxicants, smokes cigarettes or is addicted to the other vices that impair his reliability, the Rock Island hopes to reduce the percentage of disasters due to human fallibility and to secure a higher standard es efficiency. An order which makes the use of cigarettes or liquor equivalent to discharge from the service has just gone into effect. V

CANAL TREATY DEAD.

COLUMBIAN CONGREBB FAILB TO ACT IN TIME LIMIT. Time for Ratification of the Hay-Her-raa Convention Haa Expired—Tear’a Delay in (Bight—Washington Now ‘ Awaita a New Proposal. j At midnight-Tuesday the Hay-Herran Panama canal treaty became a thing of the past. As Tuesday was the last day for the exchange of ratifications of the treaty, under the terms of the convention, that instrument may be considered as dead. For several weeks, some newspapers assert, the treaty has been used as a blackmailing device for forcing the French Panama Canal Company to give up a portion of the .$40,000,000 it was to receive from the United States-for its plant, concessions and completed channel. The report that the Colombians seriously contemplated “holding up" the United States for a larger bonus has never been fully authenticated, although there was doubtless a disposition to demand better terms from this government until they were advised by the State Department, through Minister Beaupre, that no better offer would be made for the canal concession. The expiration of the time limit for the ratification of the treaty, and the discussion of the probable course of the President and the future status of the Panama route, naturally call public attention to the act of Congress under which the treaty was negotiated. This act was passed at the first session of the Fiftyseventh Congress, nnd was approved June 28, 1992. It authorizes the paymeut of $40,000,000 to the Panama Canal Company for its plant, concessions and unfinished work, and the acquirement by the President from the republic of Colombia “upon such terms as he may deem reasonable” of a perpetual control of a canal strip. It provides for the appointment of a canal commission to have charge of construction, for preliminary appropriation and for the bond issue to defray expenses. Section 4, winch is now the bone of contention between those who favor the Panama route and tho?e who wish the President to turn to the Nicaragua route, provides “that should the President be unable to obtain for the United States a satisfactory title to the property of the Panama Canal Company and the control of the necessary territory of the republic of Colombia, and the rights mentioned in sections 1 and 2 of the act, within a reasonable time and upon reasonable terms, then the President shall,” after having negotiated a satisfactory treaty with Nicaragua and Costa Rica, direct the canal commissidn to proceed *vkill the excavation of a canal by the Nicaragua route. It is contended by some that the language of this section makes it obligatory upon the President to open negotiations with Nicaragua and Costa Rica at once, nnd that the Panama route muet.be abandoned. It is difficult to see now such a construction can be put upon the plain language of this section of the canal ac-t. It eays that should the President be unable to secure the control of a canal strip “within a reasonable time and upon reasonable terms” he shall open up negotiations for a canal treaty with Nicaragua and Costa Rica. What is means by “a reasonable time,” whether six months or two years, is left to the judgment of the President. The Colombian government has signified through Dr. Herran a desire to renew negotiations.

The Political Pot.

Washington correspondence: In Delaware Addicksism is again the issue, but it has been the issue there for so many years that the rountry at large has, apparently, loet interest in the fight. Next to Ohio, Maryland’s election will attract most attention. The increasing boom of Senator Gorman few President tends to add to the interest outside the State. It is announced that Gorman intends to do his utmost to carry the State for the Democrats, and thereby ■till further enlarge hk presidential boom. On the House ride, Representative Crum packer of Indiana will come back prepared to offer again his proposition that the representation in Congress of those States that disfranchise the negro by State legislation be ent down. If Congress does enter into a discussion of the general problem, there is no telling when the talk will end. % It has been well understood foe a year that James K. Jones could not hope to continue at the head of the Democratic national committee through another presidential campaign. Furthermore, he does not want the honor any longer. As for the chairmanship of the committee, that will depend wholly on the wishes of the nominee for President. Federal office holders come back to Washington from Kentucky with a otory that the Republicans may carry that State, but it does not receive credence. Interest attaches to the contests in the States west of the Mississippi. They have been gradually increasing their Republican vote, and the politicians are anrious to see what this year’s contents will Show. Edward W. Carmack’, the junior Senator from Tennessee, has started a lot of talk by his announcement that he proposes to precipitate a general discussion of the negro queslion in the Senate by proposing to repeal the fifteenth amendment, which confers the right of suffrage on the colored man. Of course, no Congrecs would seriously consider such a proposition, but under the rules of the Senate, there is nothing to prevent the Tennessee Senator from introducing hk bill, and nothing to prevent Kim and hie associates from the South talking on the negro question until they get through.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Telegraphic reports te , the International Mercantile Agency regarding the

Hew York.

more important changes and features of the week are summarized as follows: Kentucky tobacco will- grade better than last year. It will amount to twothirds of an average crop. The most significant industrial feature lies iu reduction of wages of 30,000 bar iron workers and announcement of intended action with reference to 100,000 machinists. Loss from strikes this year is .over $600,000,000, quite in excess of last year. General trade is most active in the central and southwestern States. Cleveland says it is unprecedented in dry goods and clothing and prosperous in all leading lines. Chicago reports very active distribution iu seasonable lines with trade taking advantage of discounts. A heavy movement is conspicuous at St. Louis and throughout die States tributary to that city, which extends to all staple lines. The freight car congestion caused by pressure of general traffic centering at St. Louis is being generally raised. *

Dun’s Review of ChiCniCdQO. c * go Tr#de - Issued by R. * ~ G. Dun & Co., the mercantile agency, says:

“Aside from the temporary disquiet engendered by pessimistic views of the dangerous position of the corn crop from frost, trade activity maintains a favorable aspect. The industrial situation is less affected by labor troubles and manufacturers are enabled to overtake delayed work, though many yet require more time to reduce the number of old contracts on band. Necessary fuel and raw materials are more readily obtained than at this time last year, and the capacity of plants is fully tested in various important lines of production. Deliveries are more reasonably prompt, but the railroads are not yet clear of the probability of congestion. The traffic in merchandise and heavy materials maintains enormous proportion*, rail earnings show more gain, aud there is unusual passenger carrying to the Pacific and new settlement* throughout the West. “The current demand for food stuffs shows more volume. Bread stuffs have not advanced permanently, ns might have been expected in view of widespread alarm as to safety of crops. Value* were forced up, but failed to hold at the top, owing to enormous sale* of leading operators, except oats, which appear to be under manipulation. Prices closed lower than a week ago, in corn % cent and wheat % cent. Gat* were advanced 3 cents. Flour met with better demand and shipments on foreign account wero increased. “Live stock receipts, 343,057 head, are 33 per cent over a year ago. One day’s receipts of cattle reached 41,903 head, tha largest number recorded in this market. Buying was spirited and prices advanced 15 cents per hundred weight for choice beeves. Hogs were in good demand at the highest quotation in four weeks. The sheep pens w ere well equipped at slightly advanced values. Sales of provisions exhibit increase, demand being well distributed in domestic and foreign needs. Prices of all hog products are fairly steady, with ribs 30 cents dearer for the week. Receipts increase in dressed beef slightly, seinls 7 per cent, wheat 8, butter and hogs 13. lard 18, flour 34, cattle 35, hides 41, barley 49, sheep 55, wool 70 and com 295. Decreases are cheese 6 per tent, oats 32, broom corn <SO and rye 76. “Bank exchanges, $171,365,758, represent the heaviest business iu over two months, and are 7 per cent more than for corresponding week a year ago. New buildings, $180,409, decreased 30 per cent, and real estate sales, $2,158,545, declined 6 per cent.”

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; bogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $6.30; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.85; wheat, No. 2 red, 77e to 78c; corn, No. 2,45 cto 46c; oats. No. 2,34 c to 36c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c; Lay, timothy, $8.50 to $12.00; prairie, $6.00 to $10.00; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 21c; egg.% fresh, 16c to 19c; potatoes, 00c to 65c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.40; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.30; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,81 cto 82c; corn. No. 2 white, 49c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 3Sc to 40c. ftt. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.85; hogs, $4.50 to $6.15; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,82 cto 83c; corn. No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2,86 cto 38c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.25 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.30; sheep, $2.00 to $3.10; wheat, No. 2,86 cto 87c; earn. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 63c, Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.06; sheep, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,81 cto 82c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 3 white, 38c to 39c; rye. No. 2,57 cto 58c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 84c to 85c; corn, No. 8,50 cto 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 38c to 39c; rye, No. 1,56 c to 58c; barley, No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork, mess, $13.20. lr Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping frteers, $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 $5.85. Toledo—Whest, No. 2 mixed, 81c to 85c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2 mixed, STc to 38c; rye, No. 2, 540 to 56c; clover seed, prime, $6.00. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.30; hogs. $4.00 to $6.10; sheep. $3.00 to $3.85: wheat. No. 2 red. 81c to 82c; corn. No. 2,55 cto 56c; oats. 2fa. 2 <Wt«, 41c to *43c; batter, creamery, 18c -to fflcj eggs, western, 19c to 23c.