Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1903 — Page 6

MW! P. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. { i r RBNSBRLABR, - - INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

, Tornadoes took three lives in Kansas, wiped out Aliceville and destroyed nine house* near Hamilton. Six more victims were reported dying und ten others injured. At Hmaha a windstorm blew down the new Union Pacific shops, killing one man. The submarine torpedo boat Shark, during a tTial at Greenport, rammed the torpedo boat Dahlgren. The latter, with her crew of seven men, barely escaped •inking. The quick work of the thirtyseven officers and Jackies at Greenport aaved the Dahlgren. The War Department has received the following cablegram front Gov. Taft: ‘•Gov: Betts reports the surrender to 001. Bandholtz of the constabulary of thirty-three more rifles at Ligao, Albay, making 100 in all. Trouble in the province is reported at an end.” Frank and Thomas Hehus, brothers, 43 and 24 years old respectively, and William Oonn, 41 years old, died in Philadelphia from the effects of wood alcohol. They procured a quantity of wood alcohol from a drug store and with lemon and sugar made a punch of the extract. A terrific storm swept over the Baltic and North Sehs and a number of maritime casualties are reported. The steamer Finsburg foundered in the North Sea and her crew of thirteen were drowned. The bark Clara went down off the coast of Schleswig and her crew of twelve were lost. Russia has notified Chinn that, she will not evacuate Manchuria unless all her demanda, presumably the eight points submitted some months ogo, are complied with. This may endanger the American commercial treaty and render the mucb-talked-of war with Japan measurably nearer. Football as a high school game was officially discountenanced at a meeting of the Board of Education in Fremont, Neb. A resolution was passed charging the superintendent and teachers hereafter to give It no encouragement. The city has heretofore been represented by ono of the strongest tenant in the State. General J. P. Sanger, latterly in charge of the census work in the Philippines, has arrived from Manila. As n result of the census work the government is in possession of 7,00),000 names, representing the civilized portion of the native population of the Inlands. The uncivilized population is placed at about 000,000. N. E. Hammond, alias Bell, who is in St. Anthony’s Hospital in Denver, Col., has made a confession covering all the crimes with which he stands charged. Bell ia nccused of having committed numerous forgeries, swindles and mailpouch robberies over the country, his operations aggregating something like 3500,000. The Supreme Court in Lincoln, Neb., broke the will of Robert Hawke, of Nebraska City, and thereby confirmed to Charles Ford Seovill, of Chicago, the $40,000 devised to Minnie Hawke, a daughter. Minnie Hawke married Scovill, but died without i&ute soon after ht«T father. The will provided in such event that Mrs. Seovill’s share should revert to the other heirs. The Supreme Court ignores this clause. An international sympathy strike, affecting the 00,000 organized bridge and structural iron workers in the United States and Canada, is scheduled to be called in a few weeks. Pittsburg will contribute 3,000 men, completely tying up all bridgo niM structural work tliero and throwing out of employment thousands of men of other crafts in the city. The strike is to be in sympathy with the fight of the New York members against the Cornell Construction Company, members of the big combine.

NEWS NUGGETS.

For the first time In history the United States post office traueae.'ioiis exceed the billion-dollar mark in a year. Sir Thomas lipton proposes to offer a $2,500 cup to bo competed for in races across the Atlantic by fust yachts of all nations. William Sohroodor of Pnpillon, Neb., fell into a grain separator through losing his footing when pitching sheaves to be thrashed ami was crushed to death. Five Bowduin College students were seriously hurt and sixty, others slightly injured in riot with Mo., town boys over “nightshirt’’ parade. William von Hodge, of Galveston, Texas, is thought to be the long-lost Charlie Boss, of Philadelphia, a friend of the family recognizing marks of identification. An attempt to make Professor I<engley’s flying machine fly ended in failure, the aerodrome landing In the Potomac River a wreck. The operator. Professor Manley, escaped with a ducking. Lightning struck a tent in the Rock Island Railroad camp in Kansas City, Kan., daring a violent stonn, killed two men, injured five others and shocked all the occupants, about fifteen in number. Records of divorces in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, show five applications a day, and the courts are unable to keep up with tho demand. The average for a year Shows two divorces to every five marriages. t Dynamite blew up several feet of the Algoma Central Railroad near the Consolidated Lake Superior Company's brick plant in Sault Ste. Marie. They are sup posed to have been disgruntled employes of the Consolidated Company. “General Marion C. Butler, of South Carolina, formerly United Statea Senator, was rtrnek' on the head by a large •tone thrown into the Pullman car in which he was riding. He received a scalp wound and one of his van was nearly severed. ▲ steer forced it* way into Jeremia's restaurant, in Pittsburg, drove everyone oat of the Christy drug store, chased people off the Federal building steps, cleaned the post office corridors and wa« looking for tho local stock exchange when captured by a squad of peMcemen, who need rdpes foe laeaoos-

EASTERN.

A report sent to WaAlngton recommends 31,600,000 improvement* at the Brooklyn navy yard. Willi*, Fred and Barton Van Wormer, brothers, were electrocuted In the prison •t Dannemora, N. Y., for the murder of their ancle. Two men wounded, one fatally, and one man under arrest 1* the outcome of a clash between anarchist* and socialists at Barre, Vt. There is a probability of a congressional investigation of Prof. Langjyy’s alleged use of Smithsonian Institution employes on bis airship. George Vanderbilt will shut up his palatial home, Biltmore, for a year, and perhaps longer, because he Is disgusted i with the peculation! of his employes. The Boston police arrested Guy Tong as he was preparing to smuggle a package of cartridges into a building alleged to be the headquarters of highbinders. The entire plant of the People’s Lumber Company, with the exception of the office, at Moneesen, Pa., was destroyed by fire. The loee Is 350,000, with an in-, surance of 313,000. The dry goods firm of S. E. McGear A Brother of Bridgeton, N. J., has assigned, with liabilities of 307,000 and assets of 300,000. They are the oldest dry goods firm in New Jersey. George B. McClellan was nominated for Mayor of New York by the Democratic city convention; Supreme Court Justice Gaynor w»s put forward by Brooklyn, but defeated 434 to 219. Ruth Bryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, was married to William Homer Leavitt of Newport, R. 1., at Fair View, the summer home of the Bryans near Lincoln, Neb. Checks in a mail pouch lost from a Pennsylvania train have turned up altered in Philadelphia. Postal authorities have two men under suspicion, and believe a big fraud will be unearthed. Mrs. Marie L. Johnson, New York, secretary of United States Playing Card Company, is accused of embezzling $50,000 fronv her employers for stock speculation. Iler husband is a prominent physician. Every third clnss man, as he reports at the Annapolis Nuval Academy, is now required to sign a pledge that he will not do any hazing. Superintendent Brownson is investigating recent acts by upper class men. The police of Middletown, Conn., arrested N. H. Ward, whom they claim to be a clever burglar. It is said he used a yacht and bicycle to carry on his work. Several trunks of plunder were found on the yacht. Wilson S. Bissell, former Postmaster General, died at Buffalo. The end came easily and peacefully. Mr. Bissell suffered from complications thought to bo akin to Bright’s disease, although not well understood. Dashing over an embankment in their automobile, Herbert Bowen, publisher, of Richmond Hill, L. 1., his wife Agnes and their 5-year-old son, Herbert, Jr., were seriously hart while descending a hill in East New York. v Prolonged suffering from sciatica drove Henry L. Maxey, manager for Alfred H. Post & Co., shipping brokers, to take his own life in New York. He was for several years in charge of the Chicago branch of Post & Co.

WESTERN.

Children are dying of an epidemic of formaldehyde milk poisoning in Phoenix, Ariz. A company has been organized in Denver to mine radium iu Routt County, Colorado. David Nation, divorced husband of Mrs. Carrie Nation, was taken ill of stomach trouble at Medicine Lodge, Kan., and died. William T. Baker, ex-president of the Chicago Board of Trade, died at his summer home in Highland Park. His death was sudden. Daniel H. Ogden, a prominent business man of Ogden, Utah, was shot and killed while duck hunting. The wound was inflicted by a stray shot. In a drunken frenzy and for no reason Frank Sepitowski, a St. Louis grocer’s clerk, shot his wife, probably fatally, and then shot himself in the head, but will recover; Stephen P. Hearty, a member of the St. Ixiuis fire department, was shot am! killed by Riley C. Wallace, a carpenter, following an alterontion about the payment of rent. A street duel between two police officers and several negroes in St. Louis resulted in the probably fatal shooting of Patrolman Edward Rice and Sanniel Newby, a negro. While makiug some measurements in n trench twenty feet deep Superintendent of Public Works Robert L. Johnson and a negro workman were killed by a cavein at Columbus, Ohio. Five persons were killed and twenty buildings demolished by a tornado at Sheridan, Wis. Two men was* drowned in Green Lake, near Ripon, Wis. Great damage to property is reported. Miss Jean Durell, aft actress, was stricken with paralysis on the stage while giving au entertainment in Modesto, Cal. Her right side is paralysed. Miss Durell formerly lived in Chicago. A north-bound passenger train on the Frisco system and a south-bound freight collided head-on near Koshkonog, Mo. Three trainmen were killed, a fourth fatally hurt and a passenger was slightly injured. The Wyoming Supreme Court denied the motion of Tom Horn, the stock detective, convicted of the murder of little Willie Nickell in the Iron Mountain country, and resenttfneed him to be hanged Nov. 2a Twelve persons were drowned by the capsfising of the steamer Hackley in Green Bay duriqg a furious gale. Seven survivors were picked up by a passing boat 1 after tossing all night on a bit of wreckage. O. T. Dyer, of Chisago, and salesman for the Shack Floral Company of that city, was found dead in bed at 718 Market street,. St. Louis. A bottle that had contained carbolic acid told the story of his death. “I have just finished a tour of tho Kansas core belt,” said Gov. Bailey at Topeka, Kan., “and I feel safe in saying to the country that the corn yield this year will reach 190,000,000 buahels. There will be 50000,000 bushels more than the grain man are figuring on.”

Got. Bailey is one of the most extensive farmers of Kansas. . __ Mrs. Vet Borden, Mrs. Hurd, her daughter, and two daughters of Mrs. Borden were drowned in the Narrows, Long Lake, near Brainerd, Minn. They attempted to ford the stream, although advised not to. While running at full speed in response to an alarm of fire a track containing six firemen collided with a swiftly moving street car at Ninth and Carr rtreets, St. Louis, and all the firemen were hurt, one probably fatally. The quick work of Engineer Daniel Flynn in applying the air brakes before running into an open switch saved the New York and Boston limited train of the 6ig Four Railroad from a probable bad wreck at St. Louis. • George Warner, aged 10 years, a eon of George Warner, now in the Louisville, Ky.. jail on a charge of murdering Pulaski Leeds, a Louisville A Nashville railroad official, died in Logans port, Ind., of grief over his father’s crime. The 5-year-old son of Fred Wagoner is dead at Neligh, Neb., as the result of an attempt made by two of his playmates to make him eat sand. They dislocated hie neck and a quantity of sand was found in the boy’s stomach. St. Charles, ~Minn., was rased by a tornado, seven persons killed and twentyeight injured. Other deaths from the storm are reported throughout the State. At Independence, Wij., two persons were killed and three fatally injured. Mrs. Minnie Brown-PWllips-Hairis-Cummings, convicted of the murder of her last husband, Dennis Cummings, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment by Judge Douglas in St. Louis. The usual motion for a new trial was overruled. Tom Horn, the notorious cattle rustler awaiting death for murder at Cheyenne, Wyo., will be his own executioner. The sheriff has let a contract for the building of a scaffold which will be self-operating, similnr to that formerly used In Colorado.

A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Carondelet, the southern part of St. Louis. The disturbance lasted about a minute and caused alarm among the cit|zens. At the same time a slight shock was felt in the western portion of the city. Donald Cameron, wife and two babies were struck on the Big Four crossing in Springfield^)!)io, by a belated passenger train. ThP older child was killed outright and the father and younger child died an hour later. The mother Js seriously hurt. Count D’Agrenaff of Russia, a tramp in Europe, a soldier in the Philippines, who lost 330,000 on the Buffalo race track and who claims to have shaved President Mclxinley just before the assassination, is in jail at Omaha, Neb., on a cliargo of forgery. Albert M. Wetter, proprietor of the Massillon Sand and Stone Company, president of the Mnesillon Steel Sand Company, and director of the State Bank of Massillon, Ohio, shot himself through the heart while in his office at the bank. No cause is assigned for the act. Merida, Mexico, has been swept by a 32,000,000 fire. It raged all day, wiping out a street on which are located many of the principal business houses. The guests of the Bazaar Hotel barely escaped with their lives. American insurance companies will be heavy losers. William Fitzpatrick of Chicago is SB,000 richer through the death of an eccentric old uncle, John Fitzpatrick, whose will on being opened in Fremont, was found to bequeath that amount to his nephew. The old man was supposed to be penniless until the 'Will was read. Ed. McCollum, a negro, was taken from the county jail in Sheridan, Ark., by a masked mob. tied to a tree in the court house yard and shot to death. The negro shot and seriously wounded Constable Crutchfield of Davis County while the officer was attempting to arrest him. At Oxford, Ohio, a deputy sheriff stood off a mob as it was lynching Louis Spivey nnd cut the strangling victim from a tree to which he had been strung. The marshal of Oxford, in attempting to arrest n drunken man, precipitated a riot in which five men were wounded, four fatally.

A fence is being constructed entirely around the Lower Brule reservation. It will be sixty-three miles in length, composed of four wires, placed oa posts set a rod apart, cedar and ash posts alternating. In its construction 252 miles of wire will be used. The work is being done entirely by Indians. Sheriff Gilbert was warned by wire by President Moyer, of the Western Federation of Miners of a plot to blow up the four big mills at Colorado City treating Cripple Creek ore. Officials of the miners and millmen’g union confirm the alleged plot, but the details are withheld. The mills arc valued at $2,000,000. R. C. Vernon, a well-kpown politician and a wealthy real estate holder of Madison, Wis.. attempted suicide at the home of his brother in Kansas City, cutting his throat with a razor. At tho hospital it is said he may recover. Mr. Vernon is said to have suffered from melancholia, due to financial troubles. In St. Louis the committee on territorail limits of the presbyteries of the Northern Presbyterian Church settled the negro question in that denomination. By their action the 15,000 negro members of the church will not be set apart as a separate denomination, and the word “negro” will not be used as a qualification of any of the church laws or regulations. „ . A telegram from Naeo, Ariz., says J. W. Dooley, a ranch owner, was beaten and robbed by highwaymen, and those who committed the deed carried the victim to the railroad trite'*?, where they left him unconscious, expecting him to be killed and his remains ft be so mutilated aa to conceal the crime. Dooley was struck by a train and dragged a hundred feet,, but escaped death. “I do find that the deceased, Elizabeth Brenneaian, came to her death from hemorrhage caused by cutting her throat with suicidal intent, caused by despondency, the result of gossip.” Such was the unusual finding of Coroner Lepper of Tiffin, Ohio, sitting in the case of Elizabeth Brenneman, who ended her life Sept. 10, after learning of the evil reports about her circulated by neighbors. Unable to gain an audience of hie sweetheart, who had retired, Tony Saproinski climbed her father’s porch in Toledo and raised an alarm of fire. When the family cams rushing out he seized the opportunity to propose marriage to pretty Victoria Koainaki and was ac-

cepted. After tha bans were called the first time Victoria began to consider how •he had been dnped, and now refuses to marry Tony. A cloudburst did unestimable damage at Pratt, Kan., to property and sent the Nineseah, an ordinary stream, over a mile in width in a brief time. At least three inches of rain fell within the hour and the Santa Fe Railroad tracks were a foot under water. Lumber for the Eggleston elevator, piled on the ground, was washed away and the city water pumps were under six feet of water. No lives are reported lost. An eight weeks’ drought was broken. _ In a Southwest gale on Lake Superior the schooner Pretoria broke away from the steamer Sultana off Cooper Hart>or. The Pretoria was drifting across Lake Superior when she was sighted by the steamers Boyce and GrsJwick and towed to an anchorage under Manitou Island. There she was found by the Snltana with her sails blown away, her anchor and anchor chains gone, her wheel chains parted and her windlass broken. The Sultana succeeded in bringing the disabled ship to Sauß Ste. Marie, Mich.

FOREIGN.

Cases of bubonic plague have been discovered at Campos, State of Rio Janeiro. The whole of the province of Tarapaca, including the port of Iqniqne, the capital, has been declared free from bubonic plague. Seriou! news has been received at Sofia, Bulgaria, from the frontier of fighting between Turkish and Bulgarian troops at Demir-Kapia, both sides sustaining losses. The receipt of anonymous letters threatening the life of Queen Charlotte of Wurtemberg has resulted in the discovery of an anarchist plot. Queen Charlotte is in Bohemia with her father, Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe. Customs returns at Capo Town indicate a falling off for the first time in several years. Money is tight throughout South Africa and the economic outlook everywhere is serious. A general commercial reaction prevails because of overstocking and the severe droughts. An astronomical expedition organized by D. O. Mills is installed on a hill 1,000 feet high close to Santiago, Chili. The mission of the expedition; the observations of which are conducted by University of California astronomers, is to throw additional light on the motion of the solar system through space. Mr. Balfour announced a patchwork ministry and accepted the Duke of Devonshire’s resignation. The cabinet appointments are Alfred Lyttleton to be colonial secretary, Graham Murray to be secretary for Scotland, Lord Stanley postmaster general, Austen Chamberlain chancellor of the exchequer, St. John Brodrick secretary for India, and Ar-nold-Forster secretary for war. A dispatch from the Rila monastery says that the entire population of the district of Razlog has been massacred or has fled. Three thousand women and children, fugitives from the Turkish soldiery, have arrived at Itila. Many villages around Razlog are said to be horning. The town itself is surrounded with tents occupied by the Turkish troops, who avoid fighting, and, according to the dispatch, attack only innocent people.

IN GENERAL.

The cable ship Burnside struck an iceberg and laid the Alaskan cable with its hold full of water. A remarkable exposition which has closed at Dawson proves that the Yukon is self-supporting in grains and vegetables and farming has become an established industry. Major General Corbin, virtual head of the army, has been assigned to command the Department of the East, and will be succeeded by Major General Chaffee, now in charge of that post. General Tyner, former Postmaster General, and several others have been indicted by the federal grand jury in connection with the postofflee frauds, which practically closes the investigation. The State Department has received a dispatch from Minister Beanpre stating that Charles Radford of Georgia, who was sentenced to twenty years’ impri/onment for murder, has.been released by the Colombian government. The government of Ontario has arranged to pay the wage claims of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company at the Soo. The situation has materially improved as a result, part of the military having left for their homes. Former Mayor Pajardo of Mayaguez, Porto Rico, has been acquitted of embezzlement. Judge Irwin (American) dissented. The verdict indicates the acquittal of all those who were involved in the alleged frauds at Mayaguez. Henry Cargill, member of the Canadian House of Commons and a wealthy lumberman, fell unconscious as he was leaving the House after making a vigorous speech. He died later in one of the rooms of the Parliament House. A number of arrests have been made recently in different parts of the country of persons peddling an inferior quality of cigar* made in New York, but having the marks and brands changed so as to make it appear that the cigars were manufactured at Key West from Havana tobacco.

John D. Rockefeller defeated J. Pierpont Morganr'in the battle for supremacy in shaping the policy of the United States Steel Corporation, the directors announcing a cut in the dividend on common otock in accordance with the demands of the Standard Oil Company interests. An unexampled fishery situation prevails at Newfoundland. Owing to the shortage in the Canadian and American catches on the Grand banks agents of the large dealers in codfish in Nova Scotia and Masachusetts are seeking to purchase 100,000 quintals of codfish at St. John’s for disposal in their markets. The local snpply is also short. Cod liver oil, which last year sold for TO cents a gallon, now brings $3. The rioters who were smoted in the Canadian Soo have been tried, and with the exception of Denes pleaded guilty. Leonard Lavergne, Baptiste Roaeon, Albert Robinson, Frank Lalond, Edouard Giasson and Fred Winer were fined $35 or two months in jail for riot and $lO or one month in jail for assault hfoiae Dupont waa fined $25 for riot, as was alio Andrew Denes. The court held tho company waa much to blame in aggravating the rial

TORNADO TAKES LIFE.

BT. CHARLES, MINN., RAZED /K SEVEN PERSONS KILLED. Widespread Destruction of Property Is Reported from the Northwestern Mstss—Twelve Perish in Waters of Orsen Boy. The little town of St. Charles, In Wlnota County, Minn., was practically wiped out by • tornado which struck it at 2:80 Saturday afternoon. Seven people were killed and twenty-eight Injured, many of them seriously. The entire main street of the town was literally wiped out, hardly a business place being left standing. Forty-two residences also were destroyed and the total property damage is estimated at SIOO,OOO. The day had been abnomully sultry for the season of the year, and during ths morning there had been showers of rain, accompanied by fitful gusts of wind. Toward noon ths sky became heavily overcast, but indications of a tornado were entirely lacking. This being Saturday, the country people from the surrounding farms had gathered in large numbers in the main streets to do their customary •hopping. At 2:30 the storm cloud was seen approaching from the southwest, and there was an Immediate scramble for places of safety. Tha tornado struck the town from ths southwest quarter and mads a clean sweep through It, following almost entirely the line of ths main street, and devastating buildings on either side. Then the residences further back from the business center were struck and many of them blown completely away._ The storm seems to have followed ▼ery closely the boundary line between Minnesota and lowa and damage to farm buildings and grain stacks, with injury to human beings nnd death to live stock is reported from several points In that locality. Two boys, seas of Stephen Matter, were killed at St. Cloud, Minn., while seeking refuge from the storm. They bad taken shelter beneath a string of cars on the railway siding and a switching crew backed another string of cars npon them, killing them instantly. The tail end of the cyclone struck Duluth and caused much damage to property, blowing down several buildings and wrecking many boots in the harbor. No one was injured. It is reported that many of the mines of the Mesaba range were flooded by the extraordinarily heavy rain.

Deaths In Wisconsin. A terrific windstorm, approaching a cyclone, swept over Wisconsin, causing death and destruction. At Independence two persons were killed, three fatally Injured and a score of others badly hurt At Eagle Valley the Reformed Church was demolished and bouses on the prairie were swept away. At Racine tree* were blown down, also electric light and telephone wires, and half of the city left in total darkness. Carl Larson, a painter, 35 years old, was electrocuted on State street He ran Into a telephone wire on the sidewalk, charged with electricity. Spectators knocked the wire from his hands with a board. He was taken to a hospital unconßcious and will not live. Thomas Galroth was killed and two men Injured by the demolition of a famehouse at Trempealeau. Baraboo reports a cloud burst more severe than was ever known in that section this afternoon lasting three hours. Fully four inches of water fell Many buildings and wind mills were blown down, cellars flooded and several washouts reported. A tornado which struck Blain and Almond killed five persons near Sheridan, Wis., and blew down twenty buildings as near as can be ascertained. In a field $l,lOO in money was picked np, apparently having been blown there by the stormT

Twelve Pariah ia Greea Bay. During a furious gale that swept over Lake Michigan just at dark the steamer Erie L. Hackley went down off Green island and twelve persona were drowned. Nine survivors, after drifting all night on pieces of wreckage, were rescued the next morning by the steamer Sheboygan of the Goodrich line and taken to Fish Creek. The Hackley left Menominee for Egg Harbor about an hour before the coming of the storm. The day had been hot and muggy, with hardly a breath of air starring. As the sun went down the storm clouds commenced to gather and there wyre unmistakable signs of a coming tempest. Suddenly, from out the northeast, a furious blast swept the lake, causing the ill-fated vessel to careen until the sails almost touched the water. Aa the craft righted itself everyone on board rushed on deck. Then came a second blast, stronger than the first, capsizing the vessel and tending it to the bottom. Honses Are Leveled. A cyclone, accompanied "by rain and hail, visited the vicinity near Neponset, 111., doing much damage to farm buildings and cropa. The bouses of Charles Turnbull and Thomas Morphy were leveled to tfia ground. Peter Johnssgi’s residence was blown thirty feet off its foundations. The path of the storm was forty reds wide and touched at several points in Bureau, Stark and Henry counties. Daring a heavy thunder-storm at Martinsville, Ind., lightning struck Hiram Pearcy’s barn, three miles east, immediately killing John Slongh, a 17-year-old farmhand, and a horse in the barn.

Notes of Current Events.

A. $500,000 independent theater is to bo erected in Indianapolis. A contract for a $30,000 high school in Junction City, Kan., has been let. The Missouri University Boarding Club will furnish board teethe students this year at $1.50 a week. Peter Lenousky of Wilkeebarre was hanged in tbs county jail for the murder of Antbsny Senniek, a companion mins worker, who whs known to have saved money. If Congress appropriates all the money Secretary Moody estimates the navy will gieed the national naval expense account for tbs fiscal year of 190*46 will ba more than $100,000,000. Secretary Wilson has rsfassd to allow a monster steer from Pawnee County. O. T.,. to cross the quarantine Has tor exhibition purposes. He sags It “would -- - ■ r-

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

~Z ... | R. G. Dun A Ox’s New York. Weekly Review of Trade + says: Aside from the reduction In blast furnace activity, manufacturing plants are more fully engaged, and several encouraging reports are received, particularly as to footwear. Wholesale and jobbing trade Is well maintained, many citiee reporting a larger volume than last year. Lateot returns of foreign commerce st this portare favorable, exports increasing, while imports docrease as compared with the same week last year. Rollway earnings thus far available for September exceed those of 1902 by 8.4 per cent and surplus earnings In 1901 by 19.3 per cent. It is practically certain that a reduction of pig iron output will be made, averaging about 20 per cent, and this concerted action to prevent accumulation of stocks has already had a sentimental effect on the market, inquiries increasing in number and extent of tonnage. The week has brought few changes in quotations. Oar shortage has begun to cause trouble, but the diminished needs of blast furnaces relieve the situation at Connellsville, where the coke output has been materially curtailed. ~ With practically six CniCaOO. day* devoted to the jcels* , a brstkm of the city’s firot centennial and the entertainment of several hundred thousand visitor* from all parts, It is characteristic of the energy and adaptability of the citizens to unusual happenings that the progress of business suffered no That the event chronicled was beneficial to trade is emphasised in an fnereased volume of sales both in leading retail lines and throughout the jobbing district. The promise of average crops at prices which compare favorably with previous years strengthens confidence in the future course of business generally, and western merchants are now found to be replenishing their ntock more freely. Mercantile discounts are taken more frequently and local and country collections show well. Grain shipments have exceeded ths 5,000,000 bushei mark. The markets record a large volume of sales, notwithstanding quieter demand for export and milling purposes. Cafih wheat is reported to be lessened, but other cereals are In ample supply. Compared wiih a week ago closing prices show wheat advanced 2% cents. Corn en further improvement of ths growing crop declined 1% cents, and oats weakened % cent. Live stock receipts, 31£j)S5 head, are 3 per cent over the corresponding week of last year. Except a decline of 5 cent* per hundred weight in hogs, prices are unchanged, notwithstanding unusually heavy arrivals. One day’s receipts of cattle, 44,445 head, exceeds the highest number hitherto recorded.

BradstrecVs Trad* Review. Bradstreet’s Weekly Review of Trade says: , Mixed trade and crop conditions still present themselves, although fwme improvement in tone is noted where crop estimates, as in the ease of corn, show expansion. Lower prices for cereals point the way to future large business, and induce a larger foreign interest in our farm products. Trade reports vary with sections considered, the best reports coming from the Southwest, the Northwest and the Pacific coast. A really favorable feature this week is the improvement of collections West and Northwest, the reflection of the beginning of the movement of delayed crops to market.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hog*, shipping grades, $4.50 to $6.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.85; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 77c; corn, No. 2,43 cto 44c;oats, standard, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 2,5.2 cto 53c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $12J50; prairie, SO.OO to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c: eggs, fresh, 16c to 19c; potatoes, 50c to 56c. 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.

Bt. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $5.75; bogs, $4.50 to $6.25; sheep, $3.00 to $400; wheat, No. 2,86 cto 87c; com, No. 2, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2,36 cto 37c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c. , Cincinnati —Cattle, $425 to $465; hogs, $4.00 to $6.20; aheap, $2.00 to $3.30; wheat, Np. 2,85 cto 86c;-tforn, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 87c to 38c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 62c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,82 cto 83c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 49c to 50C; oats, No. 3 white, 37c to SBc; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 79c to 80c; com, No. 3,46 cto 47c; oats, standard, 36c to 37c; rye, No. 1,56 c to s?c; barley, No. 2,63 cto 64c; pork, mem, $11.25. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 81c to 85c; eornr-No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2 mixed, S7c to 38c; rye, No. 2,54 c to 56c; clover teed, prime. $6.00. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $450 to $5.50; bogs, fair to prime, S4OO to $6.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice, S4OO to &.85. New York —Cattjp, $400" to $5.60; hogs, S4OO to $6.10; sheep, $3.00 to $400; wheat, No. 2 rad, 79c to 80c; eon. No. 2,50 cto 51c; onto, No. 2 wHto, 40c to 41c; batter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, western, 2he to 255.