Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — Page 6

m {oumtMM! P. R BABCOCK, Publisher. RBN SBBL AER, - - INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Officials of the foremost bituminous coni companies of Pennsylvania and West Virginia declare, according to the New York Herald, that they have decided to curtail production because of the demoralisation said to exist in the trade. Yellow fever has been found In San Antonio, Tex., and a panic prevails, several railroads having abondoned part of their train service. Autopsies held on the bodies of Jose Gonzales. Miss Clara ltobertson and William Smith showed that they died of the pest. The road commissioners in the rural districts near Chicago have taken steps to prosecute all persons who post fluring bills of any kind on bridges and culverts of the public highway. The roads have been greatly improved throughout a Targe area of northern Illinois ns a result. The new battleship Missouri, steaming over a course of thirty-three nautical miles and return off Cape Ann, made an average speed of 18.06 knots per hour, which, with tidal 'oirectious greatly in tlio ship’s favor, it is believed will advance it to 18.22, a new world’s record for battleships of that class. Lieutenant Governor A. Maitland, of Michigan, general manager of the Republic Irou and Steel Company mines in the Lake Superior region, says the forces at the Republic mines will be cut about 50 per cent this fall and winter, the company having considerable ore on hand that will not be shipped this season.

The many members of the Evangelical Church nho have been agitating for years for lay representation in the conferences hnvc had their efforts rewarded with partial success. After a prolonged discussion at Berlin, Ont., the conference decided by a vote of 87 to 7 in favor of lay delegation in general conferences. Thomas Hartley, nu Insane patient at the Bartonville, 111., asylum, u-ns, according to a Peoria dispatch, killed in a battle with the guards. The men having pinioned the lunntic down to the ground used severe measures and his deatli followed. The explanation given by the nurses is that the man was violent and that the battle n-ns a fight for life. Robbers blew open tlie bank at I’leusantdnle. Neb., at an early hour Tuesday, completely wrecking the huildiug and so badly shattering the vault that the sum of $3,500 in currency was exposed to view. The robbers n-ere evidently frightened away before they could make n search. > The bank contained $30,000, and with a little more u-orlc it would have been easy for the robbers to have secured the entire amount. The Independent Packing Company, the new organization of live stock raisers, will build a lnrge packing house in Omaha. F. W. Fla to, Jr., president of the Flato Live Stock Commission Company, m'lio has been elected treasurer of the independent company, is authority for the statement. He says the company will erect plants in Chicago and at Missouri River live stock markets, including Kansas City and St. Joseph.

NEWS NUGGETS.

The National Spiritualists’ Association of the United States and Canada met at Washington in annual convention. Mayor Ilnrrison has extended an invitation to the Polish National Alliance to hold its next convention in Chicago. The world's mile trotting record was broken by Creseeus at Wichita, Kan., in 1:59% ; records of Lon Dillon and Major Delmar clipped by ■quarter of a second. The War Department has published a proclamation of President Roosevelt creating a military reservation near the old Spanish fort at Sassi, Sassi Province, Philippine Islands. The body of a young man supposed to be ltoy Mills, of Cass City, Mich., was found near Ogdeu, Utah. There, was ft bullet hole in the bend, the indications pointing to robbery. Northern New York bad its first snowstorm of the season Monday. The mountains about Lake Placid. Loon Lake, Chuteaugay Lake and Lake Titus were white with snow. At Pittsburg notice was posted on the doors of the Federal National Bank Wednesday morning announcing that the institution is closed by order of the Comptroller of the Currency. White Cappers with guns and whips took from his tied Isaac Moore, aged 65 years, of Athens. Inti., and whipped him unmercifully. There were twelve men In the gnug, masked with pillowslips. While members of the family of Henry Schwarts, of Newport, Ky.. were discussing the fall of ills picture from a wall they received word that he had been killed under a train at Burgiu, Ky. Advices from Mazatlin, Mexico, state that the terrific storm which visited that city and port a few dgvs ago caused considerable loss of life. In the city sixteen persons were killed and a number of others injured. W. 11. Smith, iu custody at Basin, Mont., lias confessed to complicity in mobbing the jail at Basin last July,when Gorman and Walters, two murderers, were shot by the mob and Deputy Sheriff Prince was killed, Alderman John Sibley was arraigned In the district court at Minneapolis, Minn., on the charge of bribery. He is the third member of the council of 1901 to be so arraigned. He gave $3,500 bonds and will demur to the indictment

When the Superior, Wls., postofflee was opened Wednesday morning the large Taalt was found to hare been rifled of nearly the entire supply of stamps, amounting to $13,000 or $13,300. About SIOO In silver also was stolen. The vault was forced without the use of explosives. Samuel E. Mores, former consul general at Paris, proprietor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, founder of the Kansas City Star and one of the best-kuowu public men in the United States, was killed at Indianapolis Wednesday by falling from the third steer of the Senfinel iuiW«a. s

EASTERN.

Bertel’s tin factory at Wilkeabarre, pa., waa destroyed by firs. The loss la $45,000. Peter Colooaian, an Armenian, waa found murdered in Providence, R. 1., and SSOO which he had collected to found a school is missing. While digging for coal in an abandoned' mine near Draveburg, Pa., two men diacovered a thieves’ cave with $5,000 worth of clothing and valuables. Gordon McKay, inventor of the shoesewing machine, who died in Newport, R. 1., is said to have left $4,000,000, perhaps much more, to Horvurd University. An official order revoking the quarantine against cattle, sheep hud swine in Massachusetts and New Hampshire has been issued by the Secretary of Agriculture. Tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company haa issued orders to cut down the force in the Altoona shops 10 per cent, M’hich will necessitate the suspension of 800 man. George Duncan of New York, a nephew of George B. Edwards, president of the Deposit Bank of Louisville, Ky., was accidentally killed while out hunting. Silver, lead and bullion worth SIOO,OOO has been recovered by wreckers from the bottom of Staten Island sound, -where it fell from the deck of a steamer on Sept. 27. The International Training School of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Springfield, Mass., received a gift of $20,000 toward its endowment fund of $135,000.

* Caleb Simms, leader of the United Colored Democracy, was shot dead in the headquarters of that organization in West Fifty-ninth street, New York, by Alam Padro. Twenty-seven hundred actors and actresses are idle in New York, unable to secure engagements, this being the hardest season for ten years, owing to strikes which have delayed the opening of many houses. John I>. Rockefeller and other Standard Oil directors are reported to be greatly alarmed at the falling off in the production in tli i Pennsylvania field and to be making extraordinary efforts to secure new sources of supply. Eight men wgre killed, tn-o are missing and four were badly hurt by the collapse of a traveler crane on the Pittsburg end of the new Wabash Railroad bridge over the Monongahela river. President Roosevelt, speaking at the nnveiliug of a monument to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in Washington, held up the famous commander as a model American and a towering type of the clean, able and fearless patriot. Peter Elliott of Minnesota, who was arrested at the White House Oct. 5 and who made a violent attack upon the officers who had him, in custody, has been officially adjudged insane and recommitted to St. Elizabeth's insane asylum. John Alexander Dowie and his restoration host of 3,500 persons have arrived in New York ready for the crusade against sin. Mrs. Dowie was robbed of a diamond brooch worth $1,500 nt the ralhvay station immediately upon her arrival. A. E. Bell, the confessed mail pouch robber and check forger, Who was arrested in Denver, escaped from a Pullman car just before the train to u-hich the car was attached arrived at the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Philadelphia.

WESTERN.

The American Flint Glass Workers’ Association will make its headquarters in Toledo, Ohio. The first killing frost of this fall fell in Clay County, Kan., the other night Corn was out of danger. The body of Henry Dixon of Cincinnati, Ohio, who has been missing for several days, was found in the river near Louisville. Dr. Greth of San Francisco made a successful test of a dirigible airship, sailing for an hour over the city and guiding his machine at will. Charles Collard, postmaster at Kiowa, L T., was convicted of the murder of Gip Railey, a traveling man, and sentenced to life imprisonment. William Cnrthew, alleged to have embezzled SIOO,OOO from a New York bank and squandered it on a woman, has been recognised in California and arrested. H. S. Canfield, n well-known writer and newspaper man, committed suicide at the West Chicago Sanitarium in Chicago by cutting his throat with a razor. As a result of a dispute over a mining location William Miller shot and killed George Simmons, a wealthy mine owner of Newark, N. J., at San Bcrnurdino, Cal. Oil has been struck in a well bored eight miles northwest if Pueblo, Colo. It is reported that oil stands übont thirty feet deep in the well and is steadily increasing. Mrs. Kate Lonergan, who, with her 2-year-old son, was lost on the prairie in a snowstorm near Denver, has been found dead in an irrigating ditch into which she had fallen.

Six persons were severely injured in a collision between a Fifty-first street electric car and a Wallace street and Center avenue electric car at Fifty-first street and Center avenue, Chicago. John Nelson, nged 14 years, was fatally injured by being kicked on the head in a football game in St. Paul. His sknil was fractured and the attending physicians say he cannot live. The City Hall of Cheboygan, Mich., was destroyed by fire. Loss $50,000, insurance $25,000. It was one of the finest municipal buildings in upper Michigan. The cause of the fire is unknown. William Alien White, author of "What’s the Matter with Kansas?” and a newspaper and magazine writer, will bo selected as dean of the department of journalism of the Kansas University. Albert E. Bell, who has confessed numerous mail robberies, has recovered sufficiently to be taken from the hospital at Denver, where he has been confined, and will be taken to Philadelphia for trial. The members of the Nebraska State Baukers’ Association voted almost unanimously in favor of tbe repeal of the present bankruptcy law end a resolution asking the Senators,,-and Congressmen from that State to work to that end was adopted.

Gordon Allen, 82 years old, a wellknown mining operator, was shot and killed by Benjamin Ayior of Webb City, at the Ayior mine near Prosperity, Mo. There had long beeu ill will between the men. Hog cholera is devastating the southeast portion of Shawnee and across the line in Douglas County, Kansas. The farmers along the valley of the Wakarnusa lost over 1,000 animals In two weeks. Dairymen and bakers of St. Louis are forming a combine with a capital stock of $5,500,000 to purchase the smaller concerns, deliver bread and milk from the same wagon and thus reduce operating expenses. John Williams, a negro arrested in St. Louis on suspicion of being implicated in the murder of Mrs. Kate Lauman, committed suicide in his cell in the Clayton jail because he fearfed he was going to be lynched. James Murray, the Toronto horse tamer and breaker, received possibly fatal injuries nt the Kansas City horse show. His horse failed to clear a fence in the exhibition of hunters, and Mr. Murray was thrown.

By dressing a 1,200-pound steer in three minutes and thirty-eight seconds Jacob Baer, employed in a Denver packing plant, has reduced the world’s record by twenty seconds, and incidentally won the western championship. Alfred A. Buck, assistant cashier of the State Bank at Mapleton, Minn., who has disappeared, leaving a shortage of $30,000, left a letter saying he had been systematically blackmailed for twelve years by a Chicago family. The spreading of rails caused a freight wreck on the Missouri Pacific near Langley, Kan., in which four persons were killed and six others injured. Two of the latter will be crippled for life. The men were harvest hands. \Yliile alone in his room in the Quivre Hunting and Fishing Clubhouse, in St. Charles County, Missouri, Isaac W. Morton, a member of the St. Louis City Council, committed suicide by shooting. No cause is known for the act. Endangering the lives of thousands of passengers and causing a panic, the Southern Pncific ferry steamer Newark crashed into the ferry steamer Oakland in the middle of San Francisco bay during a dense fog. No lives were lost. One of the concluding acts of the Union Veteran Legion, which held its annual meeting in Dayton. Ohio, was the adoption of a resolution bitterly denouncing the plnn of placing a statuq of General Robert E. Lee in the hall of fame. A strike has beeu declared by the messengers of the Pacific Express Company, and the employes in St. Louis, Wichita, Knn.; Kansas City and points in Arkansas and Texas went out for more wages. About 2,000 men are affected in the Southwest. All five leaders of the Fort Leavenenworth prison mutiny in November, 1901, charged with killing Guard Waldrupe, were found guilty of murder by a jury in the United States Circuit Court in Leavenworth, Kan., and will be given life sentences.

A suit was filed by E. A. Ivamerer, a Cleveland merchant tailor, against the Journeymen Tailors’ Uniou, No. 162, and also a number of individual members of the organization for SIO,OOO damages as a result of the strike of the journeymen tailors in that city. Tiie strike of 300 freight handlers which has been on in Khnsas City since June, has been declared off by President Dobson of the local union, who says: “It is useless to prolong a hopeless struggle.” Men were imported to fill most of tbe places of strikers. Bishop Arnett of Wilberforce, Ohio, presiding over the African Methodist Episcopal Church conference, announced that Kev. H. J. Williams, formerly of Duquesne, Pa., had been dropped from the conference roll because he had permitted a cake walk in his church. The steamer South Portland, from Portland, Ore., for San Francisco, during a blinding fog, ran onto Cape Blanco reef and was completely wrecked. She had on board fourteen passengers and a crew of twenty-two men, besides the captain. Fourteen persons are missing.

Fire which started in the Mack Building at Aberdeen, Wash., wiped out the principal business street of the city and caused a loss of over $1,000,000. Four persons are known to have lost their lives. Altogether 150 buildings, including forty business houses, were destroyed. The body of Miss Annie Hargas, aged 20 years,- who disappeared a week ago from the home of her sister, Mrs. Katherine Nagge, was found floating in the Compton Hill reservoir, St. Louis, from whence the city gets its water supply. There were no marks of violence on the body. Six sticks of giant powder were found on the Northern Pacific tracks near Birdseye, eight miles west of Helena, Mont. A very heavy freight train passed ever the dynamite without exploding it. George Hammond was arrested half a mile from where the explosive was found. In Ainsworth, Neb., Fred M. Hans, a railroad detective, was convicted of murder in the second degree, the jury having been out seven hours. Hans shot and killed David O. Luse April 9, 1901, for resisting arrest on a warrant charging him with killing a horse belonging to a neighbor. For two hours the other morning Newburg, Ore., was under control of a gang of bandits whose object was to blow up the building of the Bank of Newbnrg and plunder the vault. Though several charges of dynamite were exploded, the steel vault failed to give way and the bandits departed. John McCarthy, aged 60, applied per sonally to the Probate Court at St. Paul to be committed to the Rochester insane asylum. He felt that unless he was* incarcerated he would murder his family. He was once a millionaire contractor, but lost heavily on real estate. His request will be granted. With, no excuse to offer other than that they had spent the night quarreling, Charles H. Weiffenbach, at 5 o’clock the other morning, choked his wife to death In bed with his hands in Dayton, Ohio. He then tried to sleep, but hnlf an hour later arose and prepared and ate hia his breakfast. Later he went to the tobacco warehouse where he is employed as foreman and gave instructions for the -day’s work. Then he went to police headquarters, told the story of his crime and was locked up.

Six masked men robbed the Farnam* Neb., State Bank, securing $4,000. On* of the men was arrested. Dynamite was used, and the safe and the bank furniture were wrecked. The safe in the State Bank at Hubbard, Neb., waa blown open. The robbers secured sl,100 and escaped on a handcaj. The loss if covered by insurance. The Bank of Spring Grove, Minn., was robbed by safe crackers. Nine hundred dollars in silver from the outer safe was taken. Fire supposed to have been of incendiary origin destroyed five business blocks and the railroad station, besides damaging several other buildinfs at Galveston, lud. The loss is estimated at $75,000. The telegraph operator at the station reported the fire nnd asked for lieln while the station was burning. He wu» driven away by the flames and the wires were burned, cutting off all communication. The fire departments at Logansport and Kokomo loaded apparatus on relief train* and sent it to Galveston. At 8 o’clock the fire was under control. The Bank of Viborg, S. D., was robbed the other night of $5,000. The robbers were seen by citizens who did not care to venture on the street, which was pal rolled by armed robbers. Half of the money stolen was in gold. The robbers escaped on a handcar. Robbers cracked •he safe in the Linn GrOve, lowa, postoffice the Same night and secured $2,500 in money and stamps. The robbers escaped. An attempt was made to rob the Citizens’ National Bauk in Woonsocket, S. D. Four strangers arrived in the evening, one’ of them offered the city marshal S2OO if he would get off the street and keep quiet,, saying they intended to rob the bank, then steal a horse, drive to Washington Springs, and rob the bank there. The officer arrested the four men.

FOREIGN.

Circumstantial reports have been received that Boris Harafoff, the Macedonian leader, was killed in a skirmish at Pruva, near Fiorina. The schooner Tlione, with a cargo of codfish, from Fogo for Oporto, was sunk off the Grand Banks in a gale. One man of the new was swept overboard and lost. Russia bids China to choose between accepting her demauds or seeing the CzaFs troops permanently occupy Manchuria. The prospects of peace in the far East are considered more hopeful. A dispatch from Odessa says news has reached there from Khorassan that 250 lives have been lost in an earthquake at Turshiz, Persia. , Thirteen villages Mere destroyed and 5,000 persons are now homeless China has signed a treaty giving Russia a monopoly of Manchurian trade and mining rights, thereby violating the agreement with America to open certain ports to the commerce of tlie world. Manchuria is also made practically a Russian possession. Russians in the far East are savage at America for concluding her recent treaty xvith China, and declare the St. Petersburg government will never allow Mukden to be opened ns a treaty port. Russian monopoly rights are said to be infringed by tl|e agreement.

IN GENERAL.

President Roosevelt has issued his call for Congress to assemble in extra session Nov. 9, to take up the Cuban treaty. Congress is to be asked to appropriate at tiie coining session $102,866,449.34 for the support and increase of the navy during the next fiscal year. A crew of British sailors were cast away on the shores of Hiulsou’s Bay, and marched 600 miles with little food and poorly clad, before reaching civilization. Officials of the United States Steel Corporation have decided to reduce the wages of thousands of employes in the general scheme of cutting down expenses. v Finance and labor are reported by Dun’s weekly review ns disturbing country’s trade; railroad earnings 6.2 per cent over 1902; Bradstreet’s shows no urgent demand. The battleship Maine in her endurance run from Newport News, Va., to.Cnlehui, Porto Rico, showed remarkable speed, making 1,185 miles nt an average of fifteen knots an hour and running one stretch of fifty miles at the rate of 16.7 knots an hour. # x Congressman Dayton of West Virginiaihelieves Germany is looking to Sotftfi America for colonies to drain off her surplus population, and that she proposes to build a strong navy in order to antagonize the Monroe doctrine should it become necessary.

The schooner Dione, with a cargo of codfish, from Fogo, N. F., for Oporto, was sunk off the Grand Banks in Thursday’s gale, and one man was swept overboard and lost. The three remaining men rowed for thirty-six hours in a small boat before making a landing. W. J. Bryan has authorised a denial of tiie report which quoted him as saying he believed that free silver would not be considered at the Democratic national convention in 1904. Mr. Bryan said he had not talked with a reporter in lowa City, from which place the report emanated. American Alaskan claims have been granted in all particulars save the Portland Canal, which is awarded by the mixed commission to Canada. This insures the retention by Americans of every foot of land they have believed their own, and at the same time gives the British the ontlet to the sea which they so much needed. By the Alaska award, as officially made known, America gets two islands which dominate Port Simpson, where the Grand Trunk Pacific ia to end. London papers call the decision a sacrifice on the attar of American friendship, while Canada talks of imperialism as dead. The Canadian commissioners refuse to sign the verdict, declaring their country betrayed. The United States cruiser Baltimore has left tiie Brooklyn navy yard to start on a voyage to, the Philippines, whither ■he will convoy five torpedo-boat destroyers. The voyage will be watched with interest by the naval authorities of the world, as it will be the first time a. flotilla of torpedo-boats has attempted so long a voyage—l6,ooo miles. The destroyers probably will never return, but will be kept iu Asiatic waters for a possible emergency. The Baltimore, It la said, will join the Asiatic squadron.

DOWIE IN NEW YORK.

OPENB CRUSADE WITH HIS BAND OF 8,000 ZIONITE& Grant Host Chartres Gotham in Bottle Against Sin anil Satan—Mon Who Hoo Risen from o Penniless Preacher to-w Millionaire Prophet.

The great crusade of John Alexander Dowie against “sin and Satan in Greater New York’’ opened on Sunday. The hoata of Zion, to tlie number of 3,000, swooped down on Gotham early Friday morning In their special trains from Zion City. From the opening sendees iu Madison Square Garden until the closing exercises in Carnegie Hall, this great hoot, who believe that Dowie Is the reincarnation of tlie prophet Elijah, have been carrying on a house-to-house and offlee-to-offlee campaign from one end of New York to the other. Overflow meetings have beeu hejd in Brooklyn, Staten Island and some of the nearby cities in New Jersey. It Is said by Dowie and hia 'modern crusaders that as a result of the trip 5,000,000 persons have been appealed to in the interest of the new faith, of which John Alexander Dowie is the head and exemplar. The cost of the wonderful movement is estimated at $250,000, all of which has been defrayed by the Christian Catholic Church In

JOHN ALEXANDER DO WiF.

Zion —that marvelous creation of hia genius and his energy which he ha,i established on the shore of Lake Michigan midway between Chicago ami Milwaukee. The program for the Zion crusade in New York City waa simple, yet thorough. Every morning the members of the invading army attended the morn services, conducted by Dowie, after which they separated into bands of ten, each band led by a captain, and spread themselves over the city. Every house and office in the city was visited. While exhorting was done, the members had Instructions not to enter into discussions. Invitations were extended to attend the Dowie meetings at Madison Square Gar den, or Carnegie Hall, and literature, consisting chiefly of Leaves of Healing, tho official organ of the church, was distributed. Dowie believes that he will make 100,000 converts to his faith, which really means the acceptance of Dowie as Elijah, the messenger of God and the only true and authentic revealer of the divine will. Dowie'e Wonderful Career. Fantastic as seem the claims of Dowie that he is the reincarnation of Elijah and of John the Baptist, he has led fully 100,000 persons of almost all races and creeds to believe him. In Zion City, on the shore of Lake Michigan, there are seventy distinct nationalities represented among his believers, and throughout the world there are 100,000 adherents of the new dispensation as announced by sDowie. The growth of his cult Is truly astonishing. Dowie le Scotch by birth and at one time was a member of the Methodist Church. Much of hie life was spent in Australia, where stories differ as to his success in the ministry. Shortly before the World’s Fair in Chicago he appeared In that city, a penniless preacher, without a church. He posed as a divine healer and naturally attracted considerable notoriety. He rented a small building on the South Side and soon had a small following. His discourses, being of the sensational order, brought him a good deal of newspaper advertising, and every attack leveled at his pretensions added to his prominence. One of the cardinal doctrines of his creed is that each member must contribute one-tenth portion of his property and income to the church. It was not long under the application of this rule before Dowie began erecting Zion schools and stores and tabernacles along Michigan avenue. He leased the Auditorium, the largest hall in Chicago, and soon the building was too small to accommodate the crowds which thronged to hear him.* Despite a thin, squeaky voice and a alight lisp, Dowie is a most effective speaker. His personal magnetism is great, and in the Auditorium he waa able to hold vast crowd# for hours, listening to his pleading and more often to his fierce denunciations. Being a faith healer, he was savage in his denunciation of doctors and druggists. He was equally severe upon the newspapers, all of which he classed under the general head of the “reptile press,” and he' often pitched into the churches. Modesw is a word not known in Dowie vocabulary. Alternately he talked of God and Dowie with equal familiarity. But no matter what hia subject and no mntter how coarse ita treatment, hia wonderful eloquence thrilled, and men and women of refinement and education were attracted by-him. Two years ago Dowie announced from the platform of the Auditorium that he was Elijah and that this was hia third reincarnation, the second having been in the person of John'the Baptist, the im* mediate precursor of Christ. The announcement shocked some of his hearers who abandoned him. But it attracted others and it has been attracting men and women from all quarters of the world ever since. An artesian well of salt water has been bored at Bison, Kan. Tho watas. was found at a depth of 400 foe*.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

„ .. T“| R. G. Dun A Co.’s n6V iOrlL Weekly Review of Trade ————— says: Whils some contraction in trade and industry has undoubtedly taken place, it is not in proportion to the reduction of 20 per Cent in pig iron output, or tho reaction in prices of securities, although in normal years these have usually proved fairly reliable barometers. Many branches of manufacture, however, are working full force, with large orders still unfilled, while the latest returns of the crops are most encouraging. Finance and labor are the disturbing elements this year, neutralized very largely by favorable commercial and agricultural conditions. The net result is a fairly well maintained volume of trade, offset by conservatism in carrying out protected new undertakings and proposed extensions of facilities. Railway earnings thus far available for October are 6.2 per cent larger than last year and 12.7 per cpnt above 1901. Weekly conflicting reports are received as to the condition of the iron and steel industry. There is evidence that the decline in quotations has been checked, Although it is occasionally stated that special terms are made on important contracts. A better inquiry is noted In the West, pig iron being freely taken by open-hearth steel furnaces and makers of railway supplies, and iu some favored lines the new orders cover deliveries through all of next year.

“ Under the stimulus of CbiCaQO. seasonable weather condia _ tions farm work progresses. satisfactorily, and reports indicate some increased activity in the distribution of goods And in manufactures. October buying is of a gratifying volume, and while this is most apparent in the leading retail lines, the jobbing sections are also doing a fair house trade, nnd make large shipments of dry goods, furniture and carpets, clothing and foot wear. Grain shipments for six days, including 8,922.447 bushels of com, aggregate 6,274,390 bushels aud are 8 per cent over the previous week. The wheat market preseated tlie most interest, owing to stronger buying and the scarcity of that cereal. Com operations were on a large scale, and sales of futures M ere influenced by growing supplies. Compared with closing prices of a week ago wheat advanced 2% cents and corn and oats each declined % cent: Live stock receipts, 81(k503 head, are 4 per cent under the corresponding week of 1902. Buying of cattle and sheep showed less vigor early in the week, but later improved, and closing prices of both show a net loss of 6 cents per hundredweight Arrivals of desirable hogs had a sharp falling off, and on spirited bidding values were quickly advanced 50 cents. Provisions were in fair demand, principally for domestic account. Bank clearing*, $185,475,635, are 10.02 per cent over a year ago. The movement of currency for crop-moving purposes is normal, but there is increased offering of commercial paper and money ia again qnoted firm at 6 per cent Call loans are infrequent

International's Report. Special telegraphic advices to the International Mercantile Agency from correspondents throughout the Uuited States and Canada are summarised as follows: The most significant trade feature of the week is found in a tendency to greater ease in money for mercantile nsee at Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Pittsburg. St Louis bankers anticipate like conditions there soon. 1 . Winter wheat sowing has progressed favorably. Prospects for a top crop of cotton have decreased. Rice receipts at Southern markets have been quite free. Crude oil prices are up 12 cents within two weeks.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, ) $3,000 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $5.05; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.80; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 82c; corn, No. 2,42 cto 43c; oats, standard, . 83c to 34c; rye, No. 2, 50 cto 57c; hay, timothy, SB-50 to $12.60; prairie, SO.OO to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 19c; potatoes, 62c to 00c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light, S4OO to $6.30; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 81c; corn, No. 2 white, 45c to 40c; oats, No. 2 whit* 37c to 88c.‘ St- Louie—r Cattle, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, $4.50 to $5.85; sheep, $3.00 to $8.75; wheat. No. 2,86 cto 87c; corn. No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2,35 cto 36c; rye. No. 2,53 cto 55c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.25 to $4.65'; hogs, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.30; wheat, No. 2,86 cto 87c; porn. No. 2 mixed, 46c to 48c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 87c to 38c; rye, No. 2, 62 eto 63c, Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.90; aheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,84 cto 85c; corn, No. 8 yellow, 49c to 50c; oats, No.. 3 whit* 37c to 38c; ry«. No. 2,56 cto 57c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern. 84c to 85c; com, Np. 3, 4% to 4<’c; oat* No. 2 white, 37c to 88e; rye; Noy, 1, 560 to 56c; barley, No. 2,64 cto 66c; pork, mess, $11.25. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 81c to 83c; com. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; oat* No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; rye. No. 2,54 e to 56c; clover seed, prime, $6.75. " Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $550; hog* fair to prime, $4.00 to $5.80; sheep, fair to choice, $8.25 to $4.00; lamb* common to choice, $4.00 to $5.40. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.40; hog* $4.00 to $5.90; sheep. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; com. No. 2,56 eto 56c; oat* No. 2 whit* 42c to 43c>baM0o, creamery, lSc to tie; egg* woe* m, 21c to 25* , .. Jj