Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1903 — Page 2

P. B. BABCOCK, PuMtoher."” KBWBIILAEK, - - INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

“The Pristine Petrified Phenomenon,” ■ atone giant alleged to have been found in Henderson County, N. C., in April laat year, is now declared to be a second “Cardiff giant.” The North Caroiinn product is declared to be made of Portland cement. The United States Steel Corporation has decided on a 10 per cent cut in wages, by which it is expected to save $15,000,000 annually. The report that the Rockefeller interests have secured control of the corporation is generally credited in Wall street. Andrew J. Stone, naturalist, of New York, who has spent nine summers in Alaska and northern British Columbia, proposes to lead an expedition in search of the north pole. He believes that with a strong steamship the pole may be reached by way of the Northwest passage. Four burglars overpowered the only policeman of Merrimack, Mass., and after robbing him and locking him in the town jail they blew open the postofflee safe, rifled it of its contents and fled. In going away the thieves held up one man at the point of a revolver and fired two shots at another man, both bullets going wide of the mark. Ab the result of the attempt of a gang of Italians to assassinate a policeman at Donors, Pa., two men are dying, a third is wounded, and five Italians are in the Donora lockup. Policeman Isaac Johnson, married, was shot through the abdomen and fatally wounded. A. W. Kallert, aged 25, was shot through the abdomen and cannot recover. Frank Smith, a negro, stabbed an Austrian in the back at the tuunel on the new White River Railroad south of Aurora, Mo. He was captured by a gang of Austrians, who tied him to a tree in the mountains, leaving him there with the intention of starving him to death. A party of hunters from Aurora found him and released him. He was in a critical condition and unable to walk. The prosecutions in the case of Mabel Bechtel, who was recently murdered in Allentown, I’a., were postponed until the next term of Criminal Court. Mrs. Catherine Bechtel, mother of the murdered girl; Myrtha Bechtel, her sister, and Alois Eckstein, Mabel’s Gance, are held as accessories after the fact, and John and Charles Bechtel, Mabel's brothers, were committed in default of bail. The late anthracite strike commission received a blow at the hands of Judge Auten the other day. He ruled in favor of the Llewellyn Mining Company in mandamus proceedings against Justice Lloyd, before whom the Royal Oak miners obtained judgment for lmck pay. The company appealed, and this decision of Judge Auten indicates that the commission’s findings are not binding ou either party. The Chicago City Railway tieup started Wednesday on vote of 800 employes. The cars on south and southwest sides were taken to the barns. The employes’ demands, which the company refused to grant, include increased wages, employment only of union men, and pay for medical attendance and time lost. Over 3,000 employes are involved, with daily pay roll of $0,190; 320 miles of track, 1,874 cars, and 400,000 fares are affected.

BREVITIES.

President Roosevelt has appointed Frank Wyman postmaster in St. Louis, thus settling a long factional light. Cuban Congress voted a gift of $50,000 to General Maximo Gome* in recognition of his gallant services us the head of the revolutionary army. A committee of expelled Finns, headed by Count Mannerheim, endeavored to secure an audience with the Csar to present a memorial, but failed. Seven Chinamen, given heavy sentences at Philadelphia on a charge of policy playing, declared they were poetry students and that the alleged policy klips were samples of oriental poetry. Fall River, Mass., cotton manufacturers have cut wages 10 per cent. Other centers are expected to follow this lead until 90.000 operatives are affected. A strike, though possible, is unlikely. While working in the pump shaft of the Silver King Consolidated mine at Park City, Utah, sixty feet of piping gave way and bore Edward Cutler, a machinist, down 125 feet to his death. Five people were instantly killed and several badly injured on the Erie Traction line eleven miles from Erip, Pa. A car of gravel crashed through the passenger car, which was filled with people. W. F. Cody, better known as “Buffalo Bill,” may sell his Wyoming holdings to an English syndicate headed by Lord Charles Beresford and run automobile conches through Yellowstone Park. The territorial grand jury at Oklahoma City returned indictments against fifteen lumber dealers charging them with being in a combination to restrict trade in violation of the Oklahoma anti trust law. James Thomas, a watchman, and Mary Dure, an Italian, were killed at Ackermanville, Pa. They were passengers on a trolley car that was wrecked by a Bangor and Portland Railroad freight train. A dispatch from Monte Cristo says it is reported that the city of Santo Domingo has capitulated to the revolutionists and that General Jiniinez, a former president, has been proclaimed president of the republic. Lying dead on a rude couch in the kitchen at 2293 Second avenue, New York, where she had lived the life of a recluse for tweuty-fire years, Mr*. Mary J. Oliver, a widow, aged 86, reputed to have been worth $300,000, wits found by the police. Another large leaf tobacco lioese, that of Crump Brothers, 207 Randolph street, Chicago, has been forced into the bankruptcy court. Former Judge Oliver EL Hortofi was appointed receiver for the concern by Judge Kohls a at, his bond being fixed at $200,009, and he at once took goeeiaeien of the property.

EASTERN.

Charles B. Ailing, a millionaire of Derby, Conn., aged TO years, helped fight , a fire in hip Woolen mill and died from hie exertions In Taunton, Maes., Peter Clark, aged 11, wae shot dead by Walter E. Baaaett, aged 13, and the latter is now locked up on the charge of homicide. William L. Elkins, traction magnate, financier and patron of art. passed away in his summer home, Ashbourne, near Philadelphia, aged 71 years. A few hours before he was to have married Lillian Robertson, William Warren, a newspaper man at Chester, Pacommitted suicide in bis newly furnished home. Gordon McKay's will gives Harvard 80 per cent of net iucomo from his $20,000,000 estate and in time the principal. Sous, cut off with small annuities, may contest. It is reported in New York that the Rockefeller interests have secured control of the steel trust and that as a result the ship building scandal will be squelched. Carrie Nation made her debut ou the stage at Elizabeth, N. J., in a revision of “Ten Nights in a Barroom," in which the hatchet wieldcr and grogshop smasher appeared at the heroine. Judge Lacombe, of the Federal Court in New York, ordered the deportation of John Turner, the English anarchist, being the first application of the new law forbidding “reds" entrance here. The Carnegio medals for paintings were awarded at Pittsburg to Frank W. Benson, Salem, Mass., for “A Woman Reading,” and to Bryson Boroughs, of New York, for "Ariadne Abandoned.” Delegates of the Central Labor Union of Philadelphia had a heated discussion over the assertion that a union man violates trade union principles when he allows his wife to mend his overcoat. Colonel A. K. McClure has been appointed prothonotary of the Supreme Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Colonel Charles S. GreeneSamuel J. Parks, the New York walking delegate, warned unionists against having money deals with employers. He has been sentenced to two years and three months at hard labor for extortion. Martin Locw was found dead and Ephraim Stone in a serious condition after being initiated into the Phi Psi Chi fraternity in the University of Maryland. The president of the chapter has been placed under arrest. The little daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Monday will be heir to one of the largest fortunes in the world. Mrs. Rockefeller is the daughter of United States Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island. This is their first child. Commissioner of Immigration Frank P. Sargent suffered a severe attack of paralysis at his apartments in Washington. Mr. Sargent shows rallying powers and his condition is reported much improved. The attack was probably caused by excessive work. Ten thousand women fought with the New York police to sec Miss May Goelet, who was married to the Duke of Roxburghe. They stopped her carriage and climbed on the steps, peering into the windows. Finally souvenir hunters despoiled the church decorations. Clara Josephine Coffin, 17 years old, daughter of a Standard Oil man, living in East Orange, N. J., was hypnotized by a mysterious woman and abducted. At Cedar Rapids, lowa, the school girl escaped and reached the home of her cousin, Postmaster Crow of Omaha. A policeman discovered a printing plant in Lynn, Mass., from which millions of bogus lottery tickets have been sent and sold all over the country in the last few years. William S. Wells was arrested and made a partial confession, implicating men in Dayton, Ohio, and New York.

WESTERN.

The Chicago City Council passed the Patterson ordinance prohibiting the sale of toy pistols and other cheap firearms. H. N. Higinbotham offers $50,000 for a carnation that will excel the fiancee pink, which won the gold medal at the Joliet flower show. A severe earthquake shock was felt at Brasil and other places in Clay County, Ind. Windows rattled and many houses rocked on their foundations. Frank Keefe, a Rawlins, Wyo., merchant, who shot and killed Policeman John Baxter and Lieutenant Thomas King, lias been found guilty of manslaughter. Two freight trains on the Cleveland and Pittsburg road crashed together on a curve between Canal Dover, Ohio, and Zoar and as a result two are dead and six injured. Mary Armentout, aged 7, perished and her two little brothers were probably fatally burned in a fire which destroyed a boarding house on the Scioto syndicate plantation at Sagetown, Ohio. In Omaha, Neb., three masked men held up and robbed a street car near Hanscom Park, securing $25 from the conductor. There were no passengers aboard the car. The robbers escaped. The Mormon Church has purchased for $4,000 the old jail at Carthage, 111., In which Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, and Brother Hirma were killed by a mob in the early history of the State. The entire family of George Bond, living near Rock Bridge, Ohio, was almost wiped out of existence by nil explosion of nitroglycerin. The parents were probably fatally injured and four children wore killed. William Notter, a salesman for the Phoenix Chair Company, committed suicide by jumping from the Smith avenue bridge, 200 feet above the Mississippi, Into the river at St. Pa&l. He formerly lived in Winnipeg. Frank Sbnuklin, captain of the Hanover College football team last year, died at a hospital in Indianapolis from injuries received in a practice scrimmage on Hanover field five weeks ago. He lived at Franklin, In#, Lite savers at LuUiOgton, Mich., towed by a car ferry .Steadier, raced fourteen miles through a terrific storm and rescued two sailors rod the sinking barge A. T. Bliss. Other lake boats were badly crippled by the storm. Safe blowers cracked the safe of the Quick Service Laundry Company, 232 Paulina street, Chicago, Mgnrinr SBSO.

I Andrew Smith, watchman, «■< Wlftfcm Woodruff, a passer-by, were bound and gagged during the burglary," - President David B. Francis, of the St Louis exposition, announces that every building will be ready to taeetve exhibits Dec. 1 and that the exposition will open April 30, 1904, in more complete form than any preceding world’s fair. The bodies of seven men who died In the chase for gold In Alaska have been retamed to Milwaukee. They are: Charles Herman, Charles Schusted, Ferdinand Evenaon, Fred Synder, Chria Swenson, Oden Oyen, Ed. Walter. Mrs. Marin Lindermau, wife of William Lindertnan of Chicago, committed suicide by shooting herself fu the head iu I,os Angeles, Cal. Temporary aberration, caused by nervous prostration, is assigned as the reason for taking her life. Fire in the Keursarge mine, six miles from Virginia City, Mont, killed nine men. The damage to surface baildings ia alight. Among the dead ia Superintendent R. B. Turner, of Butte, one of the best known mining meu in the Northwest. The Methodist general committee of church extension at Kansas City voted against consolidation, the home mission and church extension benevolence £ and refused to abrogate the rule denying assistance to any church whose building cost less than SIO,OOO. By the collapse of a scaffold in the Terminal Railway Association’s subway, near the Union station in St. Louis, twenty-five laborers were buried twentyfive feet to the ground, Oscar Berger, W. H. Mills and Benjamin Schwartz being probably fatally injured. The Kansas Co-operative Grain Association, known generally as the farmers’ trust, has begun proceedings in the courts against the Burlington road, which are generally interpreted as the beginning of a crusade to secure competing elevator facilities throughout the State. A man rode up to the Ames house, nine miles south of Stroud, Okla., and shot and killed Mrs. Ainea, Jackson, a hired man, and wounded Miss Ames, a daughter. The murderer was a young man, but his identity is not known. A motive for the crime is lacking. Two dead and two wounded is the result of a shooting affray, at the entrance of the Opera House iu Wallace, Idaho, just ns the thentergoers were leaving after the performance by the James O’Neil company. The trouble arose over a miner insisting on smoking a cigar in the gallery. Long barreled shotguns, loaded with lead and rock suit, will be supplied workhouse guards in Toledo in the future to enable them to intimidate prisoners who desire to escape. The guards have instructions to use both barrels and not stop until the fugitive has been well salted.

Bibon, a village on the Omaha Railroad, twenty miles south of Ashland, Wis., was destroyed by fire. The villagewas without any fire protection. The fire started in the mill of the Chicago Coal and Lumber Company, owned by J. H. Kreuger of Ashland. The loss will reach $75,000. The steamer Charles Nelson, which departed from Astoria Nov. 3 for San Francisco, became waterlogged off Hecla Head, and was abandoned by its passengers and crew. The trouble resulted from the working of the deckload of lumber in a terrific gale off the Oregon coast. Z. C. Cadle, a white man, was lynched by a mob of ten or fifteen people at Brinkley, Ark. Cadle, in an ultercation, had stabbed Policeman J. C. Cox, who died shortly afterward. A mob secured entrance to the jail, and taking Cadle out, shot him and hanged him to a telephone pole. More than 10,000 coal miners in Colorado went on strike Monday for on eighthonr day, increased wages and other concessions. Of the idle men 0,000 are in southern coal fields, 2,000 in the northern coal fields and 1,800 in Fremont County. One hundred mines have been closed down. Former Lieut. Gov. Lee testified at Jefferson City, Mo., that he paid State Senator Farris $7,000 for the members of the committee on jurisprudence for defeating the bill to repeat the law prohibiting the use of nlum in buking powders. and that he received $1,500 for his own services..ee Eleven hundred tanners employed by the American Hide and Leather Company in Chicago went on strike and the three factories of the company will be closed down until the strikers are ready to talk business. Manager Kiernan of the company said that he had not been able to find out what the strike was called for. Sutter Brothers, an old tobacco house in Chicngo asked a receivership of Judge Kohlsaat, and William C. Niblack and Eugene C. Pearson were appointed by the court to take charge of the business. The liabilities are placed at $1,800,000, approximately covered by the assets. A tight money market is given as the cause of the failure. Miss Bobb Clark Hoyt of Bozeman, Mont, eloped with the sou of the Chinese cook on her father's ranch the other day, and the bridal couple are now on their way to Niagara Falls for a wedding trip. The groom’s name is John Wing Lee. He is a naturalized Chinaman and is a graduate of the Leland Stanford University. A loss that cannot be estimated on a monetary basis was caused by fire which destroyed one of the first orchid collections in the world, besides other valuable and rare plants in the Missouri botanical (Shaw’s) gardens in St Louis. Feur hothouses were ruined by the fire, which originated in an overheated furnace pipe in the boiler room. George W. Dull, who was sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty yetfts for the murder of Dr. Rowland at Herndon, Kan., April 18, 1902, will have to serve his sentence. The Supreme Court has affirmed the decision. No motive was assigned for the deed and Dull was convicted on circumstantial evidence. This was one of the most mysterious murders ever committed in Kansas. Thomas Costello, alias Thomas Murphy, of Omaha, was arrested in South St. Joseph, Mo., by three policemen after a desperate struggle, during which Costello only submitted to arrest when he was exhausted. He quarreled with a woman, who informed the police that he was an associate of Pat Crowe and was one of the kidnfepera of the Cudahy boy. Costello while intoxicated boasted in a saloon of his connection with the crime.

To Captain McNamara he made What ho raid w»a a complete confession. | While responding to an alarm of fii* five firemen of truck company No. 7 wen | seriously injured and narrowly escaped i death on the network of tracks at Wood | and Kinzie streets, Chicago. The truck was struck by a passenger train on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Two of the horses were instantly killed, the wagon was demolished and two of the firemen bad to be taken to their homes. Tho rusli to make entries on the Red Lake lands, which were thrown open for settlement Tuesday, at Crookston, Minn., broke all records. The filings numbered 172. Many persons stayed np all night and spent all their savings to reach the land office, only to fall fainting iu the long line of waiting people or be disappointed. Miss Gustavs B. Anderson, of Elk River, secured the prize, a tract of choice timber land worth $12,000. While students of the Agricultural College at Ohio University in Columbus were witnessing the harvesting of a field of com for ensilage purposes with a machine operated by an old traction engine the boiler blew up and pieces of iron tore through the crowd of students. The engineer, Charles Pepper, was blown about fifty feet from the engine and his body was terribly mangled by the debris and scalded by the hot w'ater from the boiler. John Delgaru, assistant engineer, was fatally injured. Prof. Vernon H. Davis, assistant professor in horticulture, suffered severe injuries to his hand. The explosion was felt in ail the university buildings. With tremendous force the pieces of iron were hurled through the air and blew a great hole in the side of a bam over a hundred yards away.

FOREIGN.

During his visit to the Kaiser, the Czar was informed for the first time of the true details of the Ivishineff massacre. Na Tunk, formerly a boxer, lias been appointed superintendent of the board of foreign affairs in China to succeed Wang Wen Sliao. Emperor William will send his yacht Meteor TB t\ie United States iu the spring to take part in the ocean yacht race for the Emperor’s cup. Sudden news that Emperor William of Germany has been operated on for a polypus in the throat caused the greatest excitement in European capitals. The German Consul at Cape Town telegraphs that the Bondelzwafts tribesmen have invaded Cape Colony and have had an encounter with the Cape police. A serious combat has taken place on the Brazilian frontier between Uruguayan police and Brazilians. Several persons were killed and a number wounded. After a search lasting almost two years the wreck of the British worship Condor, which was lost with 114 men on board, has been found sunk in Barkley Sound. Minister of Finance Rosano committed suicide in Naples. Italy, by shooting. Since the formation of the new cabinet the Socialists had charged him with ruption. During a meeting of a scientific society iu the Athenaeum at Mula, in the province of Murcia, Spain, the building collapsed, killing seven and injuring twenty, some fatally. H. E. Huntington and E. H. Harriman are interested with Edwin Hawley, T. F. Oakes, Frederick Eldridge and other New Vork men in a syndicate to secure important railway concessions in China. A dispatch from Vienna says a rumor is ciinent there that the Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Germany have signed a convention for a defensive alliance in the far East should Great Britain support Japan. The volcano of Malaspina, in Negros, Philippines, is inn state of violent eruption. Malaspina is the loftiest summit of the central mountain chain of the Island of Negros, being 8,192 feet high. It has never been entirely quiescent. Some time ago Gen. Davis, commanding the division of the Philippines, recommended a reduction of the garrison in those islands and the Secretary of War authorized the chief of staff to determine what reduction should be made. Lieut Gen. Young has decided that the garrison iu the Philippines for the present should remain at four regiments of cavalry and nine of infantry.

IN GENERAL.

There are nearly 600 casea of scarletina in Havana, Cuba. Recoveries from the disease are generally rapid, and there have been few deaths. Dun & Co.’s weekly review shows general trade restricted by warm weather, while crop gathering is helped; October railroad earnings 6.2 per cent over 1902. President Roosevelt’s message was read in both houses of Congress Tuesday. It was brief and urged keeping faith with the Cubans, who have fulfilled their agreements. The Fifty-eighth Congress convened in extraordinary session at noon Monday in accordance with the proclamation of President Roosevelt for the purpose of enacting legislation necessary to make effective the Cuban reciprocity treaty. A Chicago company, represented by Dr. E. O. Wald, has bought 150 acres of oil land in the Kayak district of southern Alaska, where the oil produced contains 90 per cent, of illuminates and compares favorably with the best Pennsylvania product. The United States government has extended recognition to the new republic of Panama, which has accomplished its independence by the most rapid work in history, and which is assured of powerful backing provided it shows capacity for self-government. On board the steamer Majestic, which arrived In New York from Liverpool, were twelve negroes from the Southern States, who went to Liberia, West Africa, to experiment in cotton culture with a view to future colonisation by negroes from this country. They say their experiment was a failure and they embarked for home in a penniless condition. A fierce gale has been ragiug along the entire seaboard of Newfoundland and several vessels have beep driven ashore. The American schooner Edith Emery has been lost at Port au Basque and the Canadian schooner Florence is ashore at Forte*a. The schooners Trefoil, Jsnet, Arethusle and a number of other Newfoundland vessels also have , been wrecked-

EXTRA SESSION IS ON.

CONGRESS MEETS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PROCLAMATION. First Day Dmttd to Social Greeting* and Organisation—Lnrgnat Membership la the History of tho Houao In ia Attoadaaco.

Washington cerreepongeacet

rrp HE Fifty-eighth *ir Congress convened W in extraordinary session at noon Monday in accord'i' anco with the procA tarnation of PreslA dent Roosevelt for A the purpose of enacting legislation K. necessary to make jmK effective the Cuban HWBc reciprocity treaty. NBj The day wae de“jL— voted simply to personal greetings ■nlYl and organization. | II I? The House assem- | I* * bled, the largest membership in ita

history, and the scene before the gavel fell in that body was animation both on the floor, in the cloak rooms and In the lobbies and corridors. Crowds of eager spectators, both men and woman, thronged the corridors and rotunda of the capitol early in the day, and the galleries, to which admission was had by card only, were taxed to their > capacity long before the hour for assembling arrived. Many high officials of the government left their desks at the departments to witness the opening of the session and greet their legislative friends. Many strangers in Waahing-

SPEAKER CANNON.

ton had their first glimpse of Congress, while the capitol was the Mecca Of the Washingtonian. Proceedings in the Senate. With galleries crowded, with the chamber a mass of elaborate floral tributes and nearly every Senator in hia seat, the gavel of President pro tem. Fry sounded at noon calling the Senate together in the second extraordinary session of the Fifty-eighth Congress. The special session of the Senate following the adjournment lust spring of the Fif-ty-seventh Congress eliminated much' of the routine work which otherwise would have been performed Monday. New Senators had gone through the formality of taking oaths of office, seats had been assigned and with the exception of the appointment of some vacancies all functions of the organization has been complied with. More than two hours before the Senate was called to order the galleries were filled up with early arrivals. Happy occupation was found in watching the work of pages and messengers placing the constantly arriving floral offerings upon the desks of Senators. Senator Hanna’s pronounced victory in the Ohio election won for him what was one of the most pretentious floral designs ever been in the Senate—n shield three and a half by four and a half feet of blue immortelles, in which was wrought out of California grasses, ribbons and red, white and bine immortelles the design of the American eagle identical with that on a silver quarter of a dollar. Senator Gorman’s triumph in the Maryland election was recognized by the largest floral piece, a handsome wreath more than two feet in diameter, with a crossed duster of roses, carnations and chrysanthemums as the base. Dolans in the Honse. The House of Representatives convened at noon in extraordinary session. The session was full of interest to the spectator, likewise to the new members, bat to the veteran it was only a routine proceeding. The fact that a speaker was to be elected and that this was the first session of at new Congress added to the interest that usually attaches to au opeuing day. Long before the hoar of noon, when the gavel fell, the galleries were filled, women being .largely in the majority. Many more were disappointed, holders of cards of admission even being among this number. - Among the spectators were public officers, diplomats and a great many out-of-town visitors. During the hour or two prior to the opening members kept coming in. The leaden of both sides were 'early on the scene. Old friends and associates, met and chatted. New members were introduced to their colleagues. The hum produced by conversations going on in all parts of the House grew louder and louder as the hour hand on the big dock approached 12. First of importance among the day.s events was the election of Mr. Cannon as Speaker, next was the swearing in of the members and the drawing for seats, The floral display in the Speaker’s lobby was never more elaborate. The popular members on both rides were remembered by friends in lavish fashion. Aa the seats of members would not be determined until after the drawing the flowers were deposited in the lobby. The bright colors of smart gowns the flowers and other scenes usual on a first day lent ptctnresqueneea to the occasion. Many familiar figures of the last Congress wars missed, some retiring voluntarily, others failing Of re-election -end • few going to the Senate.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

| „ „ . I B. G. Don & Co.’s NeV IOTL Weekly Reriew of Trad* ■ii ■ ■■ says: Unseasonably mild weather is making it possible for farmers to secure much late grain and cotton that seemed doomed by early frost, but on the other hand trade is dull in heavy wearing apparel, fuel and many lines that should now be' vigorous. While in the long run this business may be made up and the nation will be benefited by the increased crops, the immediate- effect is unfavorable. Manufacturing activity has increased at cotton mills and several minor industries, but in iron and steel there are more idle furnaces aud mills. Building permits are decreasing, and structural'’ work is not prosecuted with the vigor that was seen last year. Lumber is firm, despite the moderate demand. The railways continue prosperous, earnings for October surpassing last year’s by &2 per cent Disappointment has been experienced by those who believed that quotations for iron and 6teel would go no lower. Ralls are maintained at 128 for standard weight the railroads constantly placing small orders. Reports of extensive export sales are heard and contradicted, but it is certain this branch of trade is reviving as prices become more attractive to foreign consumers. rn Concessions to packing CuiGdQO. house workers averted a a threatening disturbance in the labor situation and restored equanimity where there was probability of serious interference to business. The season of outdoor work is now well advanced and there will be the usual release of help, but this will affect only a moderate number of skilled hands. Aside from implement makers, indications are that most factories will run full forces throughout the winter, and the steel mills are assured full employment. Demand for furnace products and finished iron is curtailed, due principally to large consumers holding off for lower prices. Reported cuts in finished materials and a reduction in price of rails will encourage the early initiation of much heavy Work for some time past held in abeyance. Grain shipments, including 2,080,798 bushels of corn, aggregate 4,907,588 bushels, and are 2(3 per cent over the corresponding week of 1902. Agricultural advices arc satisfactory as to condition of winter wheat and farm work. Supplies of wheat are gaining in the Northwest and millers are enabled to increase the output. Export demand for breadstuffs is lighter and prices tend lower. Compared with last week’s closing, wheat declined 2% cents. Corn advanced %c and oats unchanged. Live stock receipts, 308,509 head, are 8 per cent over a year ago. Bank clearings, $178,363,113, are 6.02 per cent over a year ago.

International’s Report. Special telegraphic reports from correspondents of tho International Mercantile Agency throughout thu United States and Canada regarding the state of trade are summarized as follows: « The intervention of elections in eleven States, with a week of mild weather, has served to check retail sales of seasonable goods, notably clothing and millinery, but a canvass of leading jobbers iu staple lines at important cities indicates that tlie season’s total business is somewhat in excess of expectations. In financial circles features have been the ease with which the Wall street stock market resists shock, the ease with which gold was engaged for import after the first flush of cotton export bills and the increased firmness of money at the West, where, as Chicago bankers ray, continued tension is paomised for the next four weeks. The cotton'crop, representing $100,000,000 more than that of last year, even if no larger, points to further financial drafts to market it.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $5.20; sheep, fair to choice, $2.25 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c-to 79c; corn, No. 2,43 cto 44c; oats, standard, 80c to 37c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 56c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $12.00; prairie, $6.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, fresh. 20c to 23c; potatoes, 50c to 62c. Indianapolis—Cattle, skipping, $3.00 to $5.15; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.15; sheep, common to prime. $2.-50 to $3.25; wheat. No. 2,83 cto 84c; corn. No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c. Bt. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, $4.50 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2,85 cto 86c; corn. No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, Ne. 2,34 cto 36c; rye. No. 2,63 cto 54c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.25. r to $4.65; hogs, $4.00 to $5.33; sheep, $2.00 to $3.25; wheat. No. 2,86 cto 86c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 46c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 86c; rye, No. 2,60 cto 61c. Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, $2 50 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2,80 cto Bfc; corn, No. 3 yellow, 46c to 48c; oats. No: 3 white, 87c to 38c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 3,44 cto 45c; oats. No. 2 white, 37c to 38c; rje. No. 1. 550 to 56c; barley, No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork, -mess, $11.25. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 84c to 86c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; rye. No. 2,54 c to 56c; clover seed, prime, s<>-52. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steer*, $4.50 to $5.50; bogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $5.40. New hog*, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to SS.TS; wheat, No. 2 red. 84c to 85c; corn, No. 2, 50 cto Vie; oats.. No. 2 white, 42c to 43c; batter, creamery, 18c to 22c; on*, western, 25c to 29c.