Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1903 — Page 6

■11111! P. a BABCOCK, PuWlahefRINBEELAER, - • INDIANA.

AROUND THE WORLD

George Worthington Garwood, a wealthy coal broker, aged 65 years, shot and killed Hilda Vogel, aged 22 years, and then killed himself in a room occu pled, by the couple at I’ittsburg. Jealousy of a rival was the cause of the crime. * A jury in the Superior Court in Put nam, Coon., returned a verdict of manslaughter against Mrs. Mary Manson. who-has been on trial charged with the murder of Mrs. Julia A. Wilson by poi soiling. An indeterminate sentence of not less than eight years and not more than ten years in State’s prison was imposed. Hunted from place so place by officers of the law, whom he always successfully eluded, and dogged by relatives find friends of nearly fifty murdered victims bent on taking his life, “Wild Jack” Sullivan, the most notorious feudist and desperado in Mississippi, was shot from ambush near Mount Olive and fatally injured. Josephine Dow, 14 years old, the daughter of Mrs. Amelia Dow. and Lillian 8 afford, aged 10 ye a in, the daughter of William Salford, both of Maplewood, a St. Louis suburb, ran away from home the other night, and the most diligent search by parents, friends and the police lias failed to find a clew to their whereabouts. The Episcopal Church in the United States is taking steps to organize provinces, to be composed of groups of dioceses. The committee recommends th.‘ election of one of the bishops rerident within the province as primate. The new canon provides for a convention in each province, to consist of two houses, the bishops forming the upper and tin clerical and lay deputies the lower house. Registration books have closed in Richmond, Va., and the result shows that 5,000 negroes have been disfranchised. Less than a thousand are now qualified to vote and they are no longer a factor in local politics. Inquiries in the State at large justify the belief that at least five-sixths of the negroes in Virginia have not. now the right to vote and they will no longer have to be reckoned in the calculations. The Republicans contend that their party will be largely augmented from the Democratic ranks, ns there is now no fear of possible negro domination in the future. «

BREVITIES.

Trolley cars have killed sixty-eight persons in St. Louis this year. Sir Michael Herbert, the British ambassador to the United States, died at l)nvo* Plata, Switzerland, of quick consumption. A severe electric storm swept over Porto Kico. At Ponce the lighting system was damaged and the city was put in darkness. In well-informed circles at Washington it U considered almost settled that Chicago will secure the Republican national convention next year. For the first time in the history of the United States the production of coal lias reached a total of over 300,000,000 short tons, valued at $373,133,84#. By a collision between a Wisconsin Central passenger train and an electric car near the Hawthorne track, Chicago, five persons were killed and nine injured. Twelve hundred schools in Porto Itico were opened and 60,000 pupils were received. Three times that number of children were enrolled and the struggle for preference was great. The Presbytery of New York ha* launched a novelty in church conslructlon in the house of worship just completed for mission work in the borough of The Bronx. The house is portable. Two miners were killed and two others injured by the accidental explosion of a powder magazine at Mammoth mines, a short distance from the -camp of the Black Bear, near Wallace, Idaho. With a force that demolished houses and uprooted trees, a hurricane swept over the Bermuda islands the other day. Hundreds of houses were damaged. The banana industry was badly injured. A cable from Dr. Otto Klots, the Dominion astronomer, received at Vancouver, B. C\, says he lias succeeded in taking the longitude between Vancouver and Brisbane, thereby girding the globe. Chief Game Warden Fullerton of St. Paul confiscated 2,000 ducks killed hv the southern Minnesota marshes by pot hunters in the employ of Chicago firms. The seizure is the largest the State lias ever made. A family reunion party, composed of about a dozen persons, was run down by a passenger train at Sharon Hill, Pa., on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad, and five were killed and tliTee injured. A big white ieghorn rooster, kept in the place of a watchdog by Fritz Riehl, a mill foreman of Portchcster, N. Y„ attacked hi* 4-year-old son. Dm 11, and pecked him almost to death. The boy was rescued by neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. George Bowden and their four children, living on a farm fourteen miles north of O'Neill, Neb., were poisoned by arsenic put in the food they ate at dinner. How the arsenic came to be in the fool is still a mystery. Unable to borrow a cent, even from the New Orleans representative of the millionaire corporation of which he was president, Edward W. Iveegan of Belfast, Ireland, ended his troubles by plunging into the Mississippi river. An attempt was made to burn the agricultural but kirn* at the St. Louis world's fair. One of the guards observed n man acting suspiciously. The man escaped, although several shots were fired at him. Straw and kindling saturated with oil were found. The Packard National Bank at Greenfield, Mass., capital stock SIOO,OOO, and liabilities estimated at $500,000, has closed. The embarrassment is said by the officials to be due to the inability to realize promptly on losns and so satisfy the demands of depositors. They declare that depositors will not lose anything. '

EASTERN.

A milk corner is feared in Boston and the price may go to 10 cents a quart. President Roosevelt and his family have returned to the White House after an absence of thirteen weeks. The Shenango tin mill of Newcastle, Pa., the largest plant of the kind In the world, has closed down indefinitely. Threatened damage from forest fires in the northeastern section of Maine has been averted by a heavy fall of rain. A well-dressed man, supposed to be John Dunlavy of Philadelphia, was thrown from a transit car lu St. Louis and killed. The positive statement has been made In Washington that Nov. 9 has been fixed ns the date for Congress to meet in extra session. Fire broke out In the Hotel Brunswick In Rochester, N. H., and it is believed five persons perished. The hotel was the largest in the State. William Ronemus, a mine guard, who confessed to the killing of Patrick Sharpe, a striking miner, was acquitted by a jury at Norristown, Pa. The plant of the Ferracute Machine Company of Bridgeton, N. J., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss estimated at SIOO,OOO, partially covered by insurance. The farmers’ national congress adjourned at Niagara Fulls. N. Y., after, electing Harvie Jordan, Monticello, Ga., president, and John M. Stahl of Chicago secretary. A fanner at Sound Beach, Conn., has found upon pulling up a cornstalk a heavy gold ring encircling the stalk. Through engraving on the inside it was identified as one lost in 1867. Engineer George W. Boss of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad drove his engine past a danger signnl set dead against him and saved four carloads of passengers from ten train robbers. Dr. James M. Ruckley, editor of the Methodist Christian Advocate, in the current issue of that paper severely arraigns Rev. Dr. Nacy McGee Waters of Brooklyn for his alleged plagiarism of other men’s sermons. Lorrain T. Wilmer was electrocuted at his home in Niagara Falls, N. Y. While searching in the cellar for the cause of trouble with the electric light wires, he received a shock of 2,000 volts, lie was instantly killed. The first accident of the football season in the East occurred in Philadelphia. The victim is Neil Mohan, 11 years old, who was admitted to the Polyclinic hospital suffering from a broken~lcg received while playing in a game.

Robert W. Downing, Comptroller of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, reported to the police that his summer home at Wallingford, l*a., had been visited by burglars. The robberk secured silver plate valued at SI,OOO. Robert Allen, ,Ir., aged 70 years, a promwent lawyer of lted Bank, N. J., was dead in a wagon house at his home with a bullet wound in his head, lie is supposed to have committed suicide because of business troubles. Fire which originated in the electric cable tunnel in the basement of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit power house in Souih ltrooklyn did $200,000 damage and tied up fur several hours the entire surface and L systems in South Brooklyn. The orders for a restriction of the anthracite coal output have affected nearly all the collieries in the Wilkesbarre, Pa., region. Over 43,000,000 tons of coal have been mined since Jan. 1, which is several million tons more than was ever produced for a like period in the history of the mining industry. The present glut in the market and the efforts to prevent a break in prices is the cause of the restriction. __

WESTERN.

James Keffer, murderer of William Warren, an aged stock tender, was hanged in the jail yard nt Lander, Wyo. James Keffer, who murdered A. C. Wnrreu, keeper of a stage station at Derby, Wyo., was hanged at Landen, Wyo. One person was burned to death and five injured in a tire which destroyed the private sanitarium of Dr. B. B. Ralph in Kansas City. Reports from Kansas show that the women hnve won in the school districts and now control a majority of the hoards throughout the State. John Doyle, 35 years old, whose home was in Chicago, was so badly injured in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad yards at Sandusky, Ohio, that he died. Henry D; Lloyd of Chicago is dead. He was a devoted student of economic questions, an advocate of a referendum, and a friend of the laboring masses. “Sam” Parks finally bolted the bridgemakers’ convention at Kansas City, the Buchanan men adjourned without date and the association seems ' almost disrupted. v In Denver, Colo., J. A. Johnson, an engineer on tRe Union Pacific, placed his sweetheart's picture on the headlight of his engine. She has now sued him for damage*. Robbers entered the Merchants’ Exchange Bank at Downing, Mo., blew open the vault door with dynamite, but were frightened away without securing any booty. Dr. Charles Gardiner, one of the most prominent physicians in Kansas, died at Emporia while performing an operation, and his death nearly caused the patient to bleed to death. The Wickham & Chapman piano plate plant was burned in Springfield, Ohio. Thi fire started from a gas explosion in a drying kiln. The loss is SIOO,OOO and the insurance $43,000. One man killed and sixteen injured was the result of the collapse of a building erected by the William Grace Company at Twenty-second street and Fortyeighth avenue, Chicago. J. B. McMillan, n conductor on the Katy road, was killed at Caddo, I. T„ by a gang of tramps whom he was attempting to put off the train. His home was in Dennison, Texas. Frank Siegel, former president of the Slegei-Sander* Live Stock Commission Company of Kansas City, Mo., was acquitted of the charge' of embezzling money belonging to that firm! A head-on freight collision on the Klondike coal branch line of the Cleveland and Pittsburg road east of New Philadelphia, Ohio, resulted in the death ..• ■ - .

of two men and tbe fatal injury of two others. A gigantic federation of employers has been formed in Chicago, embracing the manufacturers of the United States, whose purpose is to protect independent workmen and maintaiu open shops. United States Senator Stone has sued Judge CYisman of the County Court at Kansas City, Mo., for SIO,OOO for maliciously deceiving Stone when he put his money in a Kansas City newspaper. A. Stephenson, Milton George, D. M. Knoll, H. Champlin, M. M. Mayfield and L. Simpsoh, lumber dealers of Hobart, Okia., have been arrested, charged with forming a trust or pool to fix the price of lumber. Orlando Northup and Mrs. Delilah Eversail, aged 75 and 68 years respectively, eluded the vigilance of their children and went from Prospect to Marion, Ohio, and were married by a justice of the peace. In Terre Haute, Ind., Miss Grace Stover and Fred Woerner outwitted friends wbo expected to kidnap the groom after the wedding announced for a certain night by having the ceremony performed the previous evening. Rev. Truman F. Allen, pastor of the Thirteenth Avenue Methodist Church in Minneapolis, was stricken with apoplexy just as he finished what he thought might he his last sermon to the congregation. In three hours he was dead. George M. Collier, chief State inspector of engineers of Ohio, was suspended from his office by Gov. Nash and the Attorney General ordered to bring suit to recover $2,716 on his bond, that being the amount of his alleged shortage. Taxpayers of St. Joseph, Mich., are astounded by the report of expert accountants, who say large sums of money are missing and the municipal books are in wretched condition. Former city officials will lie asked for an explanation. Coniniissfoner Richards of the general land office lias napied Nov. 10 next, at 9 a. m., as the date of the opening to settlement of the 750.000 acres of ceded Chippewa lands in Minnesota, recently segregated from the timber land of that reservation. Five persons were injured, one critically, by jumping from windows to escape death from fire in a building on East Ninth street, Cincinnati. Four of the injured were imprisoned by the flames in the fourth story, and jumped from the windows. Bankruptcy proceedings have been begun in Detroit against the Barry Transportation Company, the petition stating the company is not solvent. The proceedings mark the end of the competition started last spring in lake traffic from Detroit to Cleveland. Willis Allen, aged 28 years, son of the late Judge Allen of Illinois, was found dead at Hematite, Mo. The verdict of the coroner’s jury was that he came to his death from an overdose of some kind of narcotic, administered either by himself or somebody else. Snator Hanna and party, en route to Sandusky, were severely shaken up by the electric car leaving the track near Berlin Heights, Ohio. Although the glass in the car was shattered, only a few slight bruises were sustained by a few members of the party. L. S. Backus of Harvard, Neb., a veteran horseman, fell dead on the fair grounds track at Clay Center, Neb. He had a horse entered in a trotting race, ami was preparing to drive it when he was stricken with apoplexy and expired in a few minutes. He was 01 years old. Another attempt has been made by dynamiters to wreck a Northern Pacific train.' One or two sticks of dynamite were placed on the rail at Sampson Siding, Mont., and.were exploded by the engine of a west-bound freight. The track was badly damaged, but no one was injured.

The grand jury returned two indictments against George H. and P. N. Ford, bankers, of Burton, Ohio, who several months ago failed, with liabilities aggregating $1,125,000. The Fords are charged with obtaining property under false pretenses in accepting deposits after they knew the bank was insolvent. A. B. Brownlee shot his wife at their residence in Youngstown, Ohio, and then sent a bullet through his brain, falling dead beside the lifeless body of his wife. Insanity from ill health is assigned as the cause of the murder and suicide. There is one son, 16 years old. Brownlee was GO yeai-3 old and his wife 55. Thirty leading architects from New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago have entered the competition for the building of the $60,000 Carnegie library at Colorado Springs, Colo. The structure will be peculiarly designed to take advantage of the unusual scenery of the Rockies and the perpetual sunshine. • Judge Lindsey of the District Court at Denver has made a ruling that a railroad ticket has no intrinsic value, but that the sole value consists in the transportation it represents, thus sustaining the Burlington road in offering to put a man on the train who held a rickei which it was suspected he was about to sell. Two Rockford, 111., residents, Frank P. Kessler, a switchman, and Alexander Cope, a newsboy, have Identified Emil Waltz, who is held on the charge of killing little Alphonse Wilmes in Detroit, as the man whom they had seen near Rockford a short time before the discovery of the mutilated body of a little newsboy in that city. At the Confederate reunion in Columbia, Mo., a motion was made to adopt other words in the place of those which have for forty years been sung to the tune of “Dixie.” Almost a riot ensued. A stormy discussion was interrupted by the rebel yell, which settled matters, for the motion was at once defeated by unanimous vote.

Lives of many firemen were endangered in a fire destroyed the greater part of the Standard varnish works, 2020-2040 Armour avenue. Ghicago. The fire was started by an explosion and the fiames fed on the varnish so rapidly that In a short time the firemen were unabie to stop the sweep of the fire. The lossis placed nt $200,000. The grand jury of Lorain County. Ohio, which has been investigating the Reichlin murder case for several days past, completed its labors and reported no indictment. This is "taken to mean that notwithstanding the large number of witnesses examined nothing really definite as to who killed Agatha Reichlin was brought out. The Roman Catholics of Denver diocese are greatly excited over a statement furnished the press by Father Callanan

of the Catholic Cathedral that lie had. lost over $52,000 of church funds in speculation. The money was infested in cheap mining shocks and worthless oil prospects in tbe hope of doubling the fund rsi&ed for the construction of a cathedral. While suffering from temporary insanity Miss Adelaide Pribbenow, a music teacher, whose parents live in Omaha, threw herself out of a third-story window of a fashionable hotel in Kansas City, escaped comparatively uninjured, ran ten blocks to the railroad yards in the north end of the city, threw herself in front of a patoing traiu and was ground to shreds.

FOREIGN.

Alfred Moeely of London, known as a writer on economic subjects, has entered his two sons as freshmen In Yale University in preference to sending them to Oxford or Cambridge. Gov. Taft has decided to build a canal from Lake Taal, Luzon, to the sea at the expense of $200,000 out of the congressional relief fund. This will give Batangas province an outlet for its products. The Turkish government has ordered the immediate mobilisation of sixty-four battalions of the army reserve, half the force to report at Salonica and the remainder to operate with Andrianople as the base. Advices have been received from Bogota to the effect that Congress has passed a law authorizing the President to conclude a canal treaty with the United States on a certain basis, without .the approval of Congress. J. B. Greenhut, who has just returned from an investigation of the atrocities at Kischincff, says the massacre was deliberately planned by the Russian government in order to discourage socialist agitation and the movement for a constitutional government British correspondent at Beirut says the pressure of American warships alone prevented a massacre. Six , hundred Turks have been slain in battle at Kostendi, near Sofia, and many others, died at Kresna Pass. Fresh warnings have been given by the powers to Turkey and Bulgaria. The Gazette of the British island of St. Kitts says: “The moment for the helping hand of the government to be extended cannot be much longer delayed if the laboring population of the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis are to be kept from starvation. An appalling condition of poverty exists.”

IN GENERAL.

President Roosevelt figures prominently in a new novel on the color problem, written by N. J. W. Lecato. The Dominion government at Ottawa, Ont., has received reports from Lake Erie saying there is a great deal of illegal fishing going on. * Ten per cent of 205 cargoes of food and wines shipped from Europe since the pure food law became effective have been barred because they were adulterated. The State Department has received a telegram from United States Consul Hanna, at Monterey, Mexico, reporting that yellow fever had broken out there. Under instructions from the Adjutant General of the army a provisional battalion of Philippine scouts will he organized for duty ut the St. Louis exposition. The ship Marion Cbilcoot, from San Francisco for Honolulu, with a cargo of oil. has arrived at its destination after a tempestuous voyage in which three of her crew were lost. One of the government’s scientists who recently returned from the Orient is authority for the statement that Wu Ting Fang once attempted to commit suicide in a fit of depression. Acting Adjutant General Hall has received a telegram from Gen. Grant, commanding the department of Texas, saying that a case of yellow fever is reported at Laredo on the Itio Grande. President Roosevelt has issued a statement to labor leaders, in which he positively refuses to recede from his decision against any discrimination between union and non-union men in the government employ. Agents of steamship lines nt Tacoma received notice that no more freight would be received by the White Pass and Yukon Railroad for transportation to points below White Horse Pass this season.

The Canadian Soo was practically at the mercy Monday of a mob of unpaid workmen of the collapred Consolidated .Lake Superior Company. The offices of the company were stormed and demolished. The town was left in darkness after a day of serious rioting. The National League season ended with the clubs in the following order: VV. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .91 4!) Brooklyn ... .70 66 New York.. .84 55 Boston ......58 80 Chicago 82 50 Philadelphia.. 49 80 Cincinnati ...74 65 St. Louis 43 94 The American schooner Abbie M. Deering of Seattle, bound to Seattle from Nome, was totally wrecked in the Alzutan pass Sept. 4. She carried thirty-nine passengers, and these, with the crew, landed on Barry island and were later picked up by the revenue cutter Manning. K. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Chicago trade conditions says declines in stock values have not injured local business, which, on the contrary, shows material increases. Despite several unsatisfactory features, business generally throughout the United States is encouraging. The American League closed its season Tuesday with the clubs standing in the following order: W. L. W. L. Boston 91 47 Detroit G 5 71 Philadelphia.. 75 60 St. Lonis 65 74 Cleveland ...77 63Chicago 00 77 New Y0rk...72 62 Washington.. .43 94 Hear Admiral P. H. Cooper, commanding the northern squadron of the Aria tic fleet, has informed the Nary Department by cable of the death at the Yokohama hospital of Commauder E. M. Hughes. Commander Hughes was. assigned to dnty last November on the Asiatic station in command of the gunboat Annapolis. . > Mayor Plummer of Sanlt Ste. Marie and William Coyne, representative of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company, have issued a warning to the newspapers that should any financial loss he caused to the people of that city or to the company by reason of the stories published, steps will be taken to recover from the newspaper*

WEATHER HELPS CORN.

Frosts Hava Been General, bat tba Damage Dona ta Crop la Slight. The weather bureau’s weekly summary as crop conditions is as follows: “The temperature conditions for the. week ending Bept. 28 were generally favorable, although cool nights were detrimental in the south Atlantic, eastern and central gulf States, while light to heavy frosts, for the most part causing no serious injury, occurred in the more northerly districts eattward of the upper Missouri valley. A marked feature of the week was the absence of rain or the occurrence of only very light showers over much the greater part of the country east of the Rocky Mountains, there being only a few areas, of comparatively limited extent, in the upper Mississippi valley. lake region and the coast district's of the middle Atlantic States and southern New Eugland, in which tbe rainfall exceeded the average. “Drouth continues in the Ohio valley and with increased re verity in Tennessee and the central and west gulf. States. No unfavorable conditions are reported from the Pacific coast, although rain in southern California nay possibly have caused slight injury. Southern Arizona nnd southwestern New Mexico received unusually heavy rains for that region. “The principal corn States have experienced weather conditions exceptionally favorable for maturing late corn, and while frosts have been quite general over the central and eastern portions of the corn belt no material damage is indicated. Probably less. than 20 per cent of the crop in lowa is uumatured, and while the proportion yet exposed to injury in South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin is greater, the immature will make good feed. Farther south only a very small part of the crop is still soft. Cutting is general in all sections and some new com has been marketed in southern Kansas. “While the conditions have been favorable for thrashing spring wheat in the spring wheat region, reports of dampness of grain in shock as a result of previous rains continue. Harvest is now completed on the north Pacific coast and thrashing has advanced. “With generally seasonable temperature and practically no rain over nearly the entire cotton belt cotton lias opened rapidly and picking has been actively carried on, a large part of the crop having already been gathered. Cool nights and the very general prevalence of drouth in the central and western districts have been detrimental nnd rust and shedding continue to I>e extensively reported, although rust is somewhat less prevalent in Georgia. On the whole, the crop has suffered deterioration, especially in the central and we.iteru portions of the belt. “Some tobacco remains to be cut in Kentucky and Tennessee, where the late planted has suffered much from drouth, but as a whole the crop is practically housed.”

HERBERT PASSES AWAY.

British Ambassador to United States Dies in Switzerland. Sir Michael Herbert, the British ambassador to the United States, died Wednesday at Davos Platz, Switzerland, of

M. H. BERBERT.

reer as 'a diplomat in 1879 as an attache of the British embassy in Paris. He was sent to Washington in 1888 to be in charge of the British embassy. Then he held diplomatic poets at The Hague, Constantinople and Rome respectively. In 1898 he returned to Paris as secretary of the British embassy with the rank of minister plenipotentiary. In the French capital he was very popular and twice in the absence of Sir E. Monson had charge of the embassy. His American experience proved very valuable to the British government in 1897, when he undertook the duties of British agent during the arbitration on the Venezuelan boundary question. Upon the death of Lord Panncefote in 1892, Sir Michael was called from the Paris post to he ambassador to the United States. Sir Michael Herbert was married to Miss Lelia Wilson, daughter of Richard Wilson, a New York millionaire. Lady Herbert is related to the Vanderbilt, Ogdenfi Goelet and Astor families.

GREAT CHICAGO PAGEANT.

Industrial Parade Was City’s Highest Thing of the Kind. Curiosity seeking and excitement loving Chicago was congregated within the elevated loop Tuerday night to see one of the biggest night parades which ever marched the city streets. From 7:30 p. m. thousands packed the sidewalks and streets of the downtown districts to see the centennial pageant. Three hours later the transportation lines were literally overwhelmed by humanity and many sightseers did not reach home until the early hours of the morning. .

As a pageant embracing historical features connected with the city’s growth and as an exhibition of civic pride the parade was a success. In point of numbers and military discipline it exceeded many similar parades seen in Chicago before. In bebig a parade with many novel features ft was in a class by itself and as for arousing enthusiasm in the onlookers it filled the bill. From the time the head of the procession began to move from Harrison street and Michigan avenue until It reached the point of disbanding. Market street and Jackson boulevard, an hour and a half later, the loop district was a blase of red fire. Nothing like the exhibition of floats which brought up the rear of the procession has ever been seen in Chicago. It was a pleasing and fitting climax to the procession in celebration of the city’s birthday, and well the city’s industrial interests were represented. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and his cousin, George Roosevelt, have returned from a month’s hunting trip in the Black Hilk. They failed to get any big game. Destitute N a tin a miners are reported,’ to be eating horse flesh to escape starvation.

quick consumption. It was known the ambassador had rapid consumption from the time of his appointment t o Washington. He had been gradually growing worse since his arrival at the Swiss resort, but his death was sudden and unexpected. Sir Michael Herbert began his ca-

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

~7. u . R- G. Dun A Co.’a NeV lOrlL Weekly Reviews of Trade —— eaya: Notwithstanding several unsatisfactory features, the volume of trade continues large and the distribution of merchandise taxes shipping facilities. Announcement of a concerted effort to restrict production of pig iron indicates that supplies have begun to accumulate. Railway earnings continue to show gains, for September thus far exceeding last year’s by 8.7 per cent, and those of 1901 by 17.2 per cent! New labor controversies have begun, but a number of serious troubles have been averted, and on the whole tbe number of men idle voluntarily has diminished. Enforced * idleness in the iron and steel industry is more than offset by the resumption of spindles at cotton mills, and there is great activity at footwear factories, although the margin of profit is narrow. Lower prices for the leading agricultural staples indicate a general belief in improved crop prospects.

. The decline in stock valCUiCagO. ues aa reflected on Wall * street creates no hesitation in local trade, and while grain has suffered a sharp decline, the market for breadstuffs is in a healthier condition and trading largely increased. The Industrial situation furnishes no evidence of curtailed production. Labor Is well employed, wages good and the mills and factories are pressed to the limit of capacity. Earnings of westenf roads run ahead of a year ago, and increasing congestion of traffic indicates the urgent need for additional equipment, particularly for the marketing of crops. Distribution of fall merchandise hoe not yet reached the diminishing point. Mercantile collections generally are good. Dealings in breadstuffs were largely influenced by the better crop conditions, and the volume of business was heaviest this reason. Buying both for domestic and foreign accounts was unusually strong, but on the free offerings and reassuring reports of a 2,000,000,000-bushel crop of corn prices weakened in all the pits. Compared with last week’s closing corn declined 5% cents, wheat 4 cents and oats 1% cents. The market cloned at a slight rally on the best export takings of the week. Live stock receipts, 291,883 head, are 27 per cent over a year ago. Heavy cattle were in ample supply and fell 2 cents per hundred weight under a week ago. Hogs and sheep were readily absorbed, both advancing 20 cents.

Bradstreet’a Trade Review. Reports of conservatism and eyyn caution in fall and winter trade testify to the absence of the spur of imistent demand which a year ago gave the selling side such an advantage. Strikes of vessel men on the lakes retard shipments, and advanced freight rates and high prices for cotton, with lack of correspondingly higher prices for finished products, check full resumption of operations. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending Sept. 24, aggregate 3,050,480 bushels, against 1,909,083 last week, 5.077,070 this week last year, 4,470,352 in 1901 and 3,242,810 in 1900. For twelve weeks of the cereal yew they aggregate 36.514.G81 bushels, against 59,009,137 in 1902. 74,127,105 in 1901 and 38,743,668 in 1900. Cora exports for the week aggregate 779,230 bushels, against 787,107 iaet week, 74,952 a year ago, 585,706 in 1901 and 2,156,171 in 1900. For twelve weeks of the present cereal year they aggregate 11,005.251, 991,627 in 1902, 11,224,092 in 1901 and 38,333,118 in 1900.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $6.25; aheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.85; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; com, No. 2,47 cto 48c; oats, No. 2,85 c to 37c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $12.50; prairie, $6.00 to $10.50; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 19c; potatoes, 50c to 58C. 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. 2,80 cto 81c; corn, No. 2 white, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 38c to 39c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $5.60; hogs, $4.50 to $6.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,80 cto 81c; corn, No. 2, 45c to 46c; oats. No. 2,37 cto 38c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $4.25 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.30; sheep, $2.00 to $3.40; wheat, No. 2,82 cto 83c; com. No. 2 mixed, 49c to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c'; rye, No. 2,62 cto 63c, Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,79 cto 80c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 50c to 51c; oats, No. 3 white, 37c to 38c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 82c to 83c; com, No. 3,49 cto 50c; oats. No. 2 white, 38c to 39c: rye. No. 1,56 c to 57c; barley, No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork, mess, $13.00. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, 14.50 to $5.50; bogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $6.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to (4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to fc.Bs. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 81c to isc; corn. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; oats, ftp. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; rye, No. 2*. 54c b 56c; clover seed, prime, $6.00. / New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.08: top. $4.00 to $0.10; sheep, $3.00 to k,85; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn, fc. 2,52 cto *Be; oafs, No. 2 White, ■c to 42e; batter, creamery, 18c to 21c; (gs, western, 19c to 23c.