Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1903 — Page 2

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SUMMARY OF NEWS

At the annual meeting of the shareholders of the De Beers Consolidated mines in Kimberly, South Africa, a report was presented showing that the diamonds produced during the year realized a total of $20,206,800, giving a profit of $11,511,400. A chain supporting a huge ladle of molten metal in the Mesta Machine Company’s foundry at Homestead, I’a., broke and seriously burned twelve workmen. The two most seriously injured were Charles Mitchell, aged 20, aud James Westland, aged 23. Remarkable fatality has attended the family of I’eter Hickey, of Brooklyn, during the last week, five members having died from typhoid fever in that time. Of six persons in the household only one —a little daughter—remains. She is ill and probably will die. The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, widow of James Monroe, the fifth President of the United Stutes, have been exhumed at the Monroe manor, near Leesburg, Va., for removal to Richmond, where they will be reinterred in Holly Wood cemetery. Frank Siegel, former president of the defunct Siegel-Sanders Live Stock Commission Company, charged with embezzling $4,000 of the funds of that company, was acquitted by the jury in the criminal court in Kansas City. This is the second acquittal of Siegel. At the nnnual banquet of the New York Chamber of Coiunieyee Secretary Shaw, in discussing “The Only Unprotected Industry,” declared that the merchant marine was inadequate and that this country would be practically helpless in the event of a foreign wur. The Massachusetts Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen at a special session seceded from the Supreme Lodge because of the increased assessments to meet deficiencies in other Jurisdictions. The rote was 321 to 119 on a resolution to pay no more money so the Supreme Ixulge guaranty fund after Jan. 1 next. Colombia has sent n virtual ultimatum to America, declaring she will consider it time to terminate diplomatic relations unless the United States withdraws her recognition of Pnnama and signifies her willingness to allow an attempt at reconquest. The cnnnl treaty has been signed by Secretary Hay and M. BunauVnrilln and can be ratified by the isthmian commission recently arrived without reference to Pauama. A movement to have all the wealthy Hebrews in America put aside 2 per cent of their incomes to aid the Russian Jew's to come to this country is to be started, according to Dr. Isndore Singer, president of the Zion Eductional Leugue. The Doctor said that an nttempt would be made to have the $45,000,000 left byBaron De Hirsch to the Jewish Colonization Association administered in this country in aid of the work. Two boys were fatally burned in Lebanon. Ohio, ofter they had been bathed by the County Jnil attendants in soapy water and gasoline. The lads were Charles Gray, aged IT years, and George Ross, aged 19. They were sentenced to serve a term on the charge of breaking into and robbing freight cars in Loveland. It is thought the hoys purloined a bottle of the gasoline and deliberately set fire to the cell with suicidal intent.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Houstonville, Ky., was almost destroyed by fire. One block was burned, entailing u loss of 950,000. In a duel between Jack Carlton and Benjamin Hopkins, wealthy rattle men. at Grant, Okla., Carlton was killed. Three anarchists have been arrested at Milan in connection with a plot against the life of M. Deucher, the President of Switzerland. A priest placed the ban on Miss Helen Gould’s sewing school at Tarrytowu, N. Y., because Homan Catholic children ate meat sandwiches at a session on Friday. Mussulmans in the district of KirkKilisch have burned five Bulgarian villages in revenge for an attack made by the Bulgarians on the Mussulman village of Zarasn. While clearing stumps off Dr. J. B. Hartman's stock farm near Columbus, Ohio, Jesse X. Dyer, John Cox, Richard Cox and a man named Sclilitz were blown to pieces by dynamite. Large numbers of Russians are pre-' paring to emigrate to America. The emigration from all parts of Russia has been greatly increased of late by rosy letters received from former emigrants, t The operation for grafting an ear upon the head of a wealthy Western,man was performed in Philadelphia, in'order to avoid interference from the New York authorities, and is expected to prove successful. Arthur Morris Potter, son of T. H. Potter, president of the Rocky Mountain Bank at Central City, Colo., says he lias been disinherited for marrying Miss Clara l>oug, daughter of a Philadelphia banker. Joseph Francis Furlong, of St. Louis, the traveling salesman who shot and killed Irving McDonald, a young St. Joseph millionaire, at the Hotel Metropole, was acquitted by a coroner’s jury and discharged from custody. Edward Dubsky. 24 years old, walked to the rear of his saloon. 4802 I.oomis street, Chicago, and shot himself in the bead, dying instantly. Neither Mrs. Dubsky nor any of her friends could furnish a possible motive for the suicide. Seslne Meyer, the girl who had lain since Dec. 27, 1888, in a trance-like sleep, awoke in the village of Grambke, near Bremen, Germauy, during the clangin* of fire bells. Her case had long interested physicians, and had been the subject of various experiments. Miss Nellie McHenry, leading lady, was serioosly burned during the third act of “M’liss" at Krug's Theater in Omaha. Her turn was to rescue a school- - master from a burning school house. In dropping through the roof her skirts caught firs, and a real rescue by the lead * la* pan followed.

EASTERN.

I Harry Rom, theatrical man, pleaded guilty to killing hie wife in New York. Hie Philadelphia Council committee voted to report favorably on the Carnegie library proposition. Thomas McCauley died in Seney hospital, New’ York, us the result of injuries received in a football game. The City of Chicago, the largest steamboat on Chautauqua lake, waa huiued at Jamestown, N. Y. The Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, In convention at Syracuse, N. Y., decided to hold the nest national meeting at Chicago. A. J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Is trying to sell his town house iu Philadelphia and will live in the country all the time. Gen. William H. Hughes, State Assemblyman, committed suicide at Granville, N. Y., by hanging. He failed in business several months ago. An unexplained explosion destroyed the New York dog pound, injured five men* one probably fatally, and killed hundreds of dogs confined in the place. I‘ollce Marshal Farnam of Baltimore has sent to the grnnd jury the case of Martin Loew, the dental student, who died after being initiated into a college fraternity. Officials of the First National Bank of Duquesuo, Pa., have detectives at work seeking to discover the originators of stories which caused a run on the institution. A negro who attempted to rob a man and shot two policemen in Washington narrowly escaped being lynched in Jackson Square, opposite the residence of President Roosevelt. Strause & Co., importers and wholesale dealers in millinery goods at Philadelphia, have been adjudged bankrupt. The liabilities are estimated at $210,000 and assets SIOI,OOO. Mrs. Frances Sterling, New York, blasted the legend of a stocking as a safe pluco for valuables by declaring she lost from her hosiery on a sleeping car $35,700 worth of diamonds and S3OO in cash. Rumors iu New York are that the Fuller Construction Company, one of the largest building concerns in the country, will temporarily suspend operations because of constantly recurring labor troubles. Father Joseph sCirringione, abducted from his home in Wiliiamsbridge, N. Y., by three men, who hoped to obtain $3,000 he was supposed to carry, was set free after being kept u prisoner for three days. Seventy members of the graduating class of the Western High School at Baltimore mobbed Miss Lilly Buugart, a classmate, whom they accused of “talebearing.” The victim was rescued by the police. Andrew H. Green, known ns the “Father of Greater New York 1 ” and one of the most respected citizens of the metropolis, was shot and killed on his own doorstep by Cornelius M. Williams, an insane man. Twenty-one passengers, ail there were on board, were injured when a Pennsylvania passenger train was derailed just east of the city limits at Buffalo. The body of Engineer Cole was discovered under the wreck. 0

WESTERN.

Half a block of business houses in Fessenden, N. I)., was destroyed, entailing a loss of 950,000. Fire destroyed the Cass County court house at Fargo, N. D. The loss is about $175,000, fiflly insured. G. M. Casey, shorthorn breeder of Clinton, Mo., has failed for $290,000. Local banks are liis chief creditors. Robbers blew open the safe in the First National Bank of Lyons, Neb. They secured 92,000 in cash and escaped. Henry A. Erickson, teller of the Stnte Bnnk of Chicago, has been sent to the county jail charged with embezzling $5,0p0. The Egan, S. D., State Bank was closed by/he State examiner. The deposits were 940,000. Slow- collections caused the collapse. W. B. Hatton was arrested at Luverne, Minn., for setting up forged mortgages for 985,000 on Innd owned by Edward Walsh, of Stillwater. Senator W. A. Clark’s daughter is seeking a divorce from her husband. Dr* Everett M. Culver, and asks the custody of their 8-year-old child, Katherine. A fire which started in Smith Brothers’ general store at Durand, Wis., destroyed five two-story brick buildings, causing an estimated loss of $75,000. Four hundred shingle mills in the Puget Sound country, cutting half the American supply, have completed their combine and will dictate prices to the Enst. jrtIrving McDonald, son of a rich St. Joseph (Mo.) citizen, was shot to death by Joseph F. Furlong, salesman, in a quarrel over actresses: Furlong was arrested. At Minot, X. D., Mrs. Frank Downing, a bride, jumped into the Mouse River to rescue her young sister, who had broken' through the ice. Both were carried under and lost. After five months of debate and consideration the council of Grants Pass. Ore., lias declined the offer of SIO,OOO made by Andrew Carnegie for a library for the city. As a consequence of the general reduction in wages in the iron trades, the mills of the Inland Steel Company, the chief industry at Indiana Harbor, Ind., closed for an indefinite period. Owing to duplicate claims and other reasons, not more thau one-third of the land thrown open in Minnesota Tuesday [ was taken up, although the rush to the j Crookston land office is over. The Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided that the law passed by the last Legislature that plumbers must take out licenses before being permitted to do plumbing work is unconstitutional William Ziegler, head of the alleged baking powder trust, was indicted by the grand Jury at Jefferson City, Mo., on the charge of bribery in connection with the alum bill in the Legislature of 1001. With terrific force an explosion of natnral gas wrecked the home of Benjamin Hight in Mnrion, Ind., and terribly injured the five occupants of the house. The ire was extinguished by the fire department. The first miners’ strike is tha history >

of Utah was inaugurated Thursday I night, when 356 miners employed at the Sunuyside colliery decided to go oat In | sympathy with the striking minora of Colorado. • ~ Four prisoners escaped from the Ohio penitentiary in Columbus by climbing to the roof of the cells through a ventilator and sliding down a rope made of strip* of leather belting to the lawn in front of the prison. Wild rioting marked the first day of the Chicago street car strike, cars being wrecked and a score or more of tbe nonunion men injured. Service on the City Railway Company’s entire system was abandoned temporarily. In Cleveland Judge Disette granted a temporury injunction against work on the Denison Avenue Independent Street Car line. The road would form a nucleus for an independent line on which the fare would be 3 cents. The Sedalia Milling Company’s plant in Sedalia, Mo., filled with expensive machinery, with 15,000 bushels of wheat and 350,000 pounds of export flour, was destroyed by fire. The loss is $50,000 and the insurance $15,000. The Missouri Supreme Court held that the statute prohibiting the giving away of Hqnor in local option counties is constitutional, and fined Boney Handler and Joel Smith for giving drinks to Charles Smith in the town of Phelps. Members of a Kentucky colony In Mexico who have taken refuge from the yellow-fever scourge in the mountains tell of a decision of the authorities of Protera to poison every person as soon as he is taken ill with the fever. Admission was made on the witness stand by Elmer C. W. Penrose, of the Mormon church, in Salt Lake City, that polygamy is freely practiced by the Mormons, through the process of “sealing,” a form of marriage sanctioned by the church. The publishing house of the Heuneberry company in Chicago has been placed In the hands of the Equitable Trust Company ns receiver as the result of a dispute over the validity of a contract. Assets are claimed to be ample to resume business. The steamer Seattle, owned by H. U. Loud, of Oscoda, Mich., stranded on Green Island, in Georgian Bay, in a fierce gale and will be a total loss. She was en route to Detroit from Parry Sound with a cargo of lumber. Her crew escaped. United States Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska, has been indicted by a Federal grand jury in Omaha on the charge of accepting bribes for securing the appointment of Postmaster Fisher, of Hastings, who was indicted on the charge of paying for Lis office. The situation nt South Webster, Ohio, where the employes of the HarbisonWnlker brick works are on strike, is considered grave by the officers of the company, who have appealed to the sheriff for aid. The plant is stoned nightly and shots nrc fired at the buildings. Nearly the entire business portion of Climax, Minn., was destroyed by fire. Four saloons and five store buildings were among those wiped out. The fire is supposed to have originated from a tramp’s pipe. The loss wiil aggregate $45,000, partially covered by insurance. Ella Shivel of Portsmouth, Ohio, has brought suit for divorce against her husband, Chnrles Shivel, because lie lias not, as she alleges, taken a bath since their marriage, four years ago. Shivel has been married five times before. Some of his wives uied and some secured divorces. Frederick J. Harrison, son of a Chicago man, was arrested in Kearney, Neb., charged with making threats to abduct and burn and misuse of the mails. It is alleged be sent letters to several busiuess men demanding money, threatening to burn their bomes and abduct their children. Because of a trivial street car accident two weeks ago, iu Los Angeles, Cal., followed by a courtship on the street ears, Miss Anna Thorne, daughter of a Chicago manufacturer and said'to be wealthy in her own right, became the bride of Wesley Henry Pico, grandson of Gen. Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California. Manufacturers of window glass representing 3,398 pots out of a possible 3,900 pots met in Columbus, Ohio, and completed plans for organizing the Manufacturers’ Window Glass Company, which will control the output of practically all the \tindow glass factories iu the United States. The company will be capitalized at $1,500,000. Mrs. Anna Darmody of St. Paul is recovering after having a bone removed from her lung. She swallowed the bone, which lodged in the bronchial tube, finally making its way into the lung. Tbe doctors ordered a special instrument from Switzerland and successfully performed an operation which they say has never before been performed iu the United States.

Fire destroyed the fertilizing building of the Nelson Morris Packing Company’s plant at the National Stockyards in East St. Lonis, 111. The building was 400 feet long aud 50® feet wide, one story in height. About 100 men were working in the plant, but It is believed all escaped in safety. The loss is placed at SIO,OOO, divided equally between building and contents. Fire which started in Love's dry goods store in Albia, lowa destroyed a block of business houses, causing a loss estimated at $300,000. Tlie fire fighting facilities there consist of only one hose wagon. The flames, fanned by n strong wind, spread rapidly to other buildings. Those destroyed iuclude Strausbcrger's dry goods store, Johnson’s drug store, the Albia State Bank, the Hawkeye Lumber Company’s building, two residences, a feedautore and several barns. Strange circumstances surround the deaths of Dr. and Mrs. Schweeter and their 10-year-old daughter, Marguerite, of Leesville, Ohio. The child died suddenly. Shortly before the funeral Dr. Schweeter fell in convulsions beside the coffin and died. That night, Mrs. Schweeter sent the watchers from the room, and later she was heard to fall to the floor. She was dead when reached. Powder papers found indicated that poison iiad caused the deaths, but the coroner returned a verdict of heart trouble and apoplexy In all three cases. A fire at the car barns at Holmden avenue, Cleveland, cost the lives of three firemen and may result in the death of two more. The fire also caused a complete loss of the barns, valued at $30,000, and contents —several hundred cars—valued at between $200,000 aud SBOO,OOO.

The fire started at 2:45 a. m. in tha rear of sh* main building in a small frame abed also filled with can. A high wind from the west waa blowing and soon the burning building waa a mass of flames. The firemen were unable to keep them under control. The barns burned rapidly to the main building fronting in Holmden avenue. A few minutes after 4 o’clock the fire had eaten the supports away from the heavy front wall. It fell with a crash and five firemen were caught underneath tons of bricks heated almost white hot by the flames.

SOUTHERN.

Brown Rodger, colored, was hanged at Union, 8. C., for the murder of Rodger Fnnt. The booking of a negro troupe at the Klaw and Erlinger theater in New Orleans has caused indignation. George Duy, wanted in Chicago and New Orleans on charges of forgery, was turned over to Louisiana officers by the Atlanta police. In a football game in Nashville, Tenn., between teams of the University of Tennessee medical department and University of Nashville McFerrin, right half back of the latter, broke his right leg. Thirty-four persons were killed in a collision between the Chicago Limited north-bound and an accommodation train on the Illinois Central near Kentwood, La. Many of the victims were burned to death. Rev. J. W. Wynne, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Gainesville, Ga., and 400 citizens assembled at the ringing of the lire bells and went on a “blind tiger” smashing crusade, wiping out every gambling joint in the totvn. Lee Alexander, of Corsicana, wns shot aud mortally wounded in Dallas, Texas, while City Marshal Stiff, of McKinney, was trying to arrest a diamond thief. The thief escaped. It is not known who shot Alexander, the thief or the officer. The suicide of E. C. Zemp, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Camden, S. C., shocked the people of that town a few hours after the accidental death of Colonel E. M. Boykin, president of the bank. The cashier’s death is not explained. Race riots of large proportions are in progress in Scott nml Smith counties, MississippL The white residents hnve whipped the occupants of numerous negro cabins, burned the homes and driven the victims from the State. The negroes have been forced to flee, while their crops remain unharvested.

FOREIGN.

Baron Steck von Sternberg, the German ambassador to the United States has developed a cancerous growth on the cheek. The Canton and FalMian branch of the Canton 4 and Hankow Railway was opened in the presence of Chinese and foreign officials. According to an official statement the Bulgarians killed during the disturbances in European Turkey from April 15 to the present time total 15,000. Many new sayings of Jesus addressed to St, Thomas have been dug up by members of the Egypt Exploration Society near Cairo. The manuscripts show many variations from the accepted text. Colombia’s first expedition against the republic of Panama was abandoned the other day. The gunboat Bogota, loaded with soldiers, ran out of Buena Ventura, headed for the isthmus and went back again. A fire in the mail car of the St. Pe-tersburg-MosCow mail train in Russia is reported to hnve destroyed valuables estimated at $3,500,000. The postofflee authorities attribute the outbreak to spontaneous combustion. .. It is reported at Tien-tsin that Russian troops marching toward Shan-Hai-Kwan encountered a force of imperial Chinese troops and that fighting ensued, the Russians, it is asserted, pretending that the imperial force wns a band of Chinese robbers. The finance minister of Peru lias presented to Congress a project for a State monopoly of the sale of tobacco, in the meantime imposing an extra duty on raw foreign tobacco of $2 per quintal and $2.50 per quintal on manufactured tobacco from Jan. 1. The reoccupation of Mukden has so aroused China that the continued dispatch of Russian troops to the far East is now said to be directed against her. When the Japanese dispute was at its height 250,000 troops were ordered to the far East, and they are being sent Two men boarded a railway train as it was ascending a steep grade between Petersburg and Nylstroom, South Africa, overpowered the guard, looted the treasure car of $50,000, and made their escape. The moneys had been consigned to the Standard Bank at Pretoria.

IN GENERAL.

American emigration to Canada for the year, which it was estimated would /each 100,000 persons, falls to 39,046. The United Kingdom sent 47,541. W. S. Cockrell, son of Senator Francis M. Cockrell of Missouri, is reported to have foresworn allegiance to the United States and become a citizen of Mexico. San Domingo has given away and granted the American demands made on behalf of the San Domingo Improvement Company. .Rebels bombarded the capital President Palma, of Cuba, lias transmitted the budget for the fiscal year 1904 to Congress. The income is estimated at $18,899,600 and the expenses at $17,924,000. Staples were higher on Nov. 1, according to R. G. Dun’s general review; November railroad earnings are 4.8 per cent over 1902; expanding exports are reported by BrUdstreet’s. Admiral Glass called on the Panama junta, the American and isthmian war ships saluting each other's flag as he lands. The Panama aud Colombian en- ■ voya met on the Mayflower when the isthmians refuse to join the mother country- - The Colombian commission, which was unofficial, then returned home.. A new era in rapid transit was opened the other night in the departure of the first Cuba Railroad Company’s daily through train from Havana to Santiago. The train is scheduled to reach Santiago in twenty-five hours. The route is over the Havana United, the Cardenas and Jucaro filfft the Cuban Central railways to Santa Clara aud thence over the Cuba Railroad. Heretofore the journey has taken three days.

CONGRESS

The Senate on Thursday entered upon a discussion of the eligibility of Reed Smoot of Utah to a seat in the upper house, to which he has been elected, Senator Dubois of Idaho taking exceptions to the statement by Senator Hoar that petitions from organizations against seating Mr. Smoot were out of place. ?fr. Dubois argned that these petitions represented the moral thought of the country, and should be approached in the proper spirit. A large number of bills wese presented, followed by a brief executive session. Resolutions of the House on tbe death of Representatives Foerderer of Pennsylvania and Boring of Kentucky were received, and out of respect to their memory the Senate adjourned until the next Monday. In the House Mr. Payne introduced a bill to make effective the Cuban reciprocity convention. It was referred to the ways and means committee. Following the reading of the jodrnal Mr. BalUof Texas was sworn in, and.the Speaker announced the ways and means committee. The House was in session seventeen minutes on Friday, adjourning at 12:17 p. m. until Monday. Mr. Payne (N. Y.). chairman of the committee on ways and means, reported the Cuban bill nnd gave notice that on Monday he would call it np for consideration. By unanimous consent the minority of the ways and means was given* further time in which to submit a minority report. Mr. Livemast (Cal.) rose to a question of personal privilege, and started to criticise President Roosevelt’s Panama policy, but was ruled out of order. Several petitions protesting against Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, retaining his seat in the Senate on the grounds that he is a Mormon were presented in the Senate on Monday, nnd referred to the Committee on Privileges nnd Elections. A large number of appointments of ministers, secretaries and other, legation officers and army promotions was confirmed. In the House consideration of the Cuban reciprocity bill was taken up, Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, reporting a resolution providing that the bill reported from the Ways and Means Committee should be considered to the exclusion of all other business until 4 o'clock Thursday, when a vote will be taken without intervening motion. On a yen nnd nay vote this resolution was adopted by 176 to 155. Those opposing the resolution in speeches were Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, minority leader, and Mr. De Armond, of Missouri. Those speaking in support of it were Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania. Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio and Mr. Payne of New York. Mr.

AVilliams asked unanimous consent to propose an amendment to the rule for a yea and nay vote on the amendment proposed by the minority, with twenty minutes’ debate on each side, a vote then to be taken on the bill. Objected to by Mr. Payne. The minority voted solidly against the rule, in company with the following Republicans: W. A. Smith, Fordney, McLoud and McMorran of Michigan, Brooks and Hogg of California. The message from the President was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affair® and the House went into committee of the whole, with Mr. Sherman of New York in the chair. Mr. Swenson of Virginia discussed the perils which he fears threaten our foreign commerce by the tariffs passed in other countries in retaliation for the Dingley act. Mr. Robinson as Indiana made a speech arguing against the Republican financial policy. The Senate was in session only twenty minutes, Tuesday, nud the greater part of that time was consumed in the introduction of bills and presentation of petitions. Most of the bills were for positions and the bulk of the 'petitions related to the case of Senator Smoot, of Utah. The session of the House was devoted to consideration of the Cuban bill. Mr. Steveus (Rep., Minn.) spoke in opposition to the measure. The other speakers were Mr. Knapp (Rep., N. Y.), Mr. Clark (Dcin., M.), Mr. McClellan (Dem„ N. Y.), Mr. Crumpacker (Rep., Ind;), Mr. Douglas (Rep. N. Y.), Mr. Morrell (Rep., Pa.), Mr. Mason (Dem., Ark.), Mr. Thomas (Dem., N. C.), Mr. Hughes (Dem., N. J.), and Mr. McDermott (Dem., N. J.). In the Senate on Wednesday Mr. Gallinger presented a petition from “The Dames of 184(5” for the increase to S3O a month of all pensions granted on account of the Mexican war. He said the pension committee would give dne consideration to the petition, but called attention to the fact that all survivors of the Mexican wat now receive pensions of sl2. On motion of Mr. Spooner the Senate ordered printed additional copies of the treaty between the United States and New Grenada, which was made in 1846, and proclaimed in 1848. The debate upon the Cuban bill again occupied the entire session of the House, the speakers being Messrs. Grosvenor (Ohio), Clark (Mo.), Richardson (Ala.), Fordney (Mich.), I.bud (Mich.), McMorran <Mich.), Bell (Cal), Gardner (Mich.), Burgess (Texas), Gillet (Mass.), Shaforth (Colo.), and Jones <W ash.).

Odds and Ends.

William Stall lneekor, Jr., a son of the former Congressman and Mayor of Yonkers, N. Y., was arrested in that city for burglary. Humbert Cattlina and Martin J. Pishkur, Italian miners, fell from a cage descending into the Minnie Healy mine at Butte, Mont, and, striking the sump, 1,000 feet below, were instantly killed. Cattliaa’s head was severed from his body. ' Judge John E. Carlaud of the United States Court for the district of South Dakota sustained the anti-compact law passed by the Legislature last winter. Itforbids collusion between fire insurance companies in fixing rates. The estate of A. P. F. Coape, the alleged English lord, who killed himself, his wife and sister-in-law Oct. 4 at Lumberton, N. M., is appraised at $lO,000. Diamonds which Coape was known to have had have disappeared. Their disappearance is the foundation for a . rumor that the family was murdered by | an outsider bent on robbery. _

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Special telegrams regarding the state of trade from correspondents of the International Mercantile Agency throughout the United Sta-—i and Dominion of Canada are summarized as follows: The week has been marked by a somewhat unsettled feeling and renewed conservatism in commercial circles. Distribution of staples is smaller than a week ago at Chicago, and materially so at Pittsburg, where industrial activity baa improved, except for millinery. Cooler weather has improved trade in New England, except for jobbers, where season la ended. Warm weathdr has dulled demand at Baltimore and at Louisville. Collections are rather slow in territory tributary to St. Paul, but iu the cotton regions they are growing easier. Plowmakers report a good business, but moderate collections. Kentucky has a medium tobacco crop, but prices are better than last year. Philadelphia merchant* •ay trade in staples is smaller. October lumber shipments from Minneapolis were the largest of any month this year. Encouragement is felt at the new policy of the steel trust. Consumers will no longer have to go abroad for eteeL Ten thousand tons of rails have been sold to go to China. More mills are opening and some are closing temporarily. Colorado’s coal strike offsets the settlement of Montana's copper war. Fall River’s wage cut was not altogether unexpected. Makers of prints have been losing money at late prices for material and rate of wages. But liigli cotton Is making foreign exchange fast, now that Europe is demanding all it can get regardless of price—tbe most significant financial feature of the week, with cotton, not steel, as king. - Dun’s Review, published by R. G. Dun & Co., says this of business iu Chicago and iu the West: Busiuess at the banks continues ahead of a year ago, but in some important brandies of trade curtailment appears, although not in n more marked degree than usual at this season, when there is less activity in outddor work and lake navigation becomes suspended. Weather conditions also hnve not been entirely satisfactory for a normal consumption of seasonable merchandise and a strike of street car men interfered with dealings at retail. Grain shipments, including 1,649.056 bushels of corn, reach 3.681,191 bushels, nnd are 7 per cent less than a year ago. Increasing receipts and favorable position of Argentine crops affect the general demand, and prices are again lower compared with a week ago. Live stock receipts, 287,984 bead, are 40 per cent under a year ago, when tlie total was abnormally large. Notwithstanding n tendency to withhold supplies, prices do not regain strength. Hogs declined 20 cents per hundred weight aud cattle recovered 20 cents. Demand for provisions shows dullness on export account, but has been fairly good for domestic 1 consumption.

West Is Prosperous.

This has been a busy season for the western farmer, stock raiser, merchant tfnd manufacturer. Their products are bringing good prices nnd the great agricultural belt of tbe Upper Mississippi valley is enjoying a degree of prosperity that is probably unequaled in history. The, crops this year have been good, the acreage larger than ever before known, and the beneficent results of the harvest far reaching enough to have a favorable effect on every man, woman and child in the region. A trip 4HU along the line of the Northwestern Railway, particularly through the rich valley of the Elkhorn, or any other part of Nebraska, is filled with surprising revelations of development and growth. Nebraska will produce 200,000,000 bushels of corn and over 40,000,000 bushels of wheat this year. Her total crop acreage is 15,000,000 acres and the value of live stock is over $150,000,000. In western Nebraska heavy immigration is helping the State greatly. The prospect of future growth is bright and promising for Nebraska, as it is for tlie whole great West.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, $450 to $4.92; Bheep, fair to choice, $2.25 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn. No. 2,40 cto 416; oats, standard, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 55c; 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, 58c to 63c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, $4.50 to $4.80; sheep, $3.00 to wheat, No. 2,80 cto 87c; corn. No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2,34 cto 36c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $4.25 to $4.65; hogs, $4.00 to $4.90: sheep, $2.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,85 cto 80c; corn, •No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye. No. 2,60 cto 61c. Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $4.00 ti $4.85; sheep, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,83 cto 84c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 44c to 45c; oats. No. 3 white, 30c to 37c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 78c to 79c; corn,-No. 3,44 cto 45c; oats. No. 2 white, 37e to 38c; rye, No. 1. 55c to 57c; barley, No. 2,04 cto 65c; pork, mess, $11.25. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 84c to 86c; com, No. 2 mixed. 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; rye, 5»o. 2, 54 c to 66c; clover seed, prime. $6.50. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.25; hogs, fair tch prime, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.00; lambs, common to Choice, $4.00 to $5.65. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.20; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $3.76; wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 86c; corn. No. 2,47 cto 48c; oats, No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; butter, creamery, 18c to 22c*. eggs, western, 26c to 80c.