Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1904 — Page 2

in in Dtm F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

CIRCLING THE GLOBE

It took exactly one minute and fifteen seconds after au alarm of fire had been given to march 750 children out of the Union school, a three story structure in Salt Luke City. A fire was discovered in the basement, the tire drill was instantly called. Crossed electric wires in the main electric power subway under the education building at the world's fair at -St. Louis. Mo., caused a $3,000 fire. Chief Christie of the fair fire department was thrown from his buggy in going to the tire and severely hurt. Statesmen iu Washington are vexed nt the delay of Chinn in ratifying the treaty opening two Manchurian ports to trade with the United States, and it is recalled that one clause, providing for independent-! foreign municipal government, is against the policy of Russia. Determined not to allow negro miners to be Imported into that region. 500 strikers from the Merchants' Coal ComCompnuy in Somerset County, l’a., held up a special train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Garrett and forced most of the negroes to leave the cars. The Pure Oil Producing Company of Pittsburg lias purchased for $1,250,000 the holdings of D. A. Cameron & Sons in Washington County, Ohio, embracing 5,000 acres of land on which there are more than 200 producing oil wells, with a daily average production of 1,100 barrels. A Burlington passenger train crashed through n defective bridge nt Rockford, thirty miles from Deadwood, S. D., and nine persons were injured, several seriously. The locomotive and baggage car got over safely, but the chnir car plunged into the Little Rapid creek and the Pullman rolled down the bank. In St. Louis Thomas S. McPheeters was appointed by Judge Elmer B. Adams of the United States Circuit Court guardian for Percy A. and Francis P. Blair, sons of James L. Blair, in the suit of the Mutual Life Insurance Company to cancel their father's $200,000 life insurance policy. As beneficiaries of the policy, with their mother, they are defendants iu the suit. In Kansas City Wallace A. McGowan was sued for the rent of n flat from which he had moved before the expiration of the lease. The case was decided and the railroad man won. Mr. McGowan, ns a defense for moving and refusing to pay rent thereafter, set up the idea thnt the cockroaches wcj-e so thick that his wife had to sit up nights to keep them out of the children's ears. Because their wages had been reduced 10 to 30 per cent over 2.000 employes of the National tube works of McKeesport, l’a., and the Carnegie steel works nt Homestead. Brnddoek and Diiquesue, who held from two to three shares of United States Steel stock, have surrendered their claims on the certificates subscribed for nml requested that the amounts paid L>y them on the stock lie refunded. The mill workers claim that with the wages they are compelled to work for it is impossible to keep up the payments on the stock. Uncle Sam is engaged in a novel undertaking iu tlie harbor at Benton Harbor, Mich. The lighthouse has been set ou rollers and is being moved about 1,0(X) feet out in tha lake. This work was occasioned by the extension of the main pier into Luke Michigan to the extent of 1,000 feet, and the lighthouse will be moved out to or near the end of this pier, providing it does not topple over and slide into the lnke in transit. When the lighthouse is in its new position it will be possible to see the range lights from fifty to a hundred miles along the Michigan shore.

BREVITIES.

St. Louis banks report aggregate balances of over $8,000,000, the largest in the city’s history. The grand jury at St. Louis has resumed its investigation into the management of city institutions. Marshall Field of Chicago has been suggested by the South Bend, Ind„ Times as the most available man for the Democratic presidential nomination. Forty-three persons have been killed by the explosion of a boiler on the British cruiser Wallaroo. The Wallaroo was proceeding to Ilobart, N. S. W. Lake Shore Railroad detectives are looking for a bandit who held up the operator at the Indiana Harbor station, near Chicago, and robbed him of S2O. Criminal mischief attended the inauguration of a general strike ordered among the hotel engineers in Chicago. Some refused to go out and non-union men replaced others. Thomas A. Ryan, superintendent of the Chicago water department, disappeared after ensiling a lot of city pay checks. He deserted a wife and three children in his flight. The rise in the price Of coffee in the United States, which has been attributed to a bod crop in Brazil, is really due to speculation in view of the remote prospect that the next crop may be smaller. Mme. Lillian Nordica has changed all of her plans for another concert tour through the United Stntes and .sailed for Europe. She is said to be actuated by a fear that the threats against her life will be executed. Chief Roe of the London, Ont, fire department was killed and three firemen were badly injured by the collapse of a wall at a fire. Sterling Bros.’ wholesale ahoe factory and warehouse was burned. The loss is estimated at $50,000. The case of Prosecuting Attorney R. P. Stone of Jefferson City, Mo., charged with accepting a S3OO bribe, was dismissed by Prosecuting Attorney Pro Tern Brown because the prosecuting witness, Lee Trueblood. stood on his constitutional right and refused to testify. Further delays being denied by Judge Kersten of the Criminal Court, the three members of the car barn bandit gang— Peter Kiedermeyer, Harvey Van Dine and Gustav Marx —were placed on trial fat Chicago. Emil Roeski, the fourth member of the quartet, ia not implicated fa the car bam murder case.

PROBING THE HOLOCAUST.

Effort Belnn Mad* to Hi* Responsibility for Iroqaol* Pluittr. Harry J. Pi .vers and Will J. Davis, Chicago malingers of the Iroquois Theater, which burned, killing 501 people, made their first statements under oath Wednesday. Fire Department Attorney Fnlkerscn had them brought before him for examination. In answer to his inquiries both men professed to have no personal knowledge of the management of the theater; were uninformed as to whether employes had instructions for action at time of fires or panic; were uninformed ns to what fire apparatus was in the house; had only given most general instructions to their subordinate manager, and did not know how many people were iu the theater when the fire broke out. “Evidence submitted under oath proves conclusively that had the skylights and ventilators over the stage of the Iroquois Theater been open, and the openings over the auditorium been closed, there would have been no fire in the audience room of the playhouse last Wednesday and no lives need hnve been lost by panic." > This statement was officially made public by Attorney Mouroe Fulkerson of the Chicago fire department in summing up the result of the investigation as conducted under his direction. other points covered by the inquiry and, in the opinion of the attorney, conclusively proved, tell the story of the holocaust as it has not nppeured in detail. In his analysis of the vast amount of evidence heurd up to date Mr. Fulkerson does not attempt to place responsibility. Following are the points which Mr. Fulkerson announced hnve been proved' conclusively by the verified testimony of witnesses: Thnt the fire started from an overheated floodlight twenty feet above the floor by which a linen curtain, which was nearer than usual to the light, was ignited. That both skylights over the stage and the ventilator, or fire flue, were closed during the fire. That both stage skylights were fastened down from the outside ns well ns from the inside, hut that the ventilator was in working order and was not thrown open. That the larger of the two ventilators over the auditorium was open, and thnt the stage doors were open, creating a perfect draught for the death-laden flames which swept over the audience. Thnt the drop of the asbestos or fire curtain was obstructed by a light or light board fastened to the wall of the theater back of the proscenium arch. Thnt there had been a previous fire at the theater, and- thnt the same obstruction at that time prevented the fire curtain's being thrown between the stage and the audience.

That the skylights and ventilator, pr fire flue over the stage, were opened by employes of the Fuller Construction Company the day following the fire, when the property was in the hands of the coroner. That, with one or two notable exceptions, the employes of the theater deserted their posts, or did not understand what should have been their duties at such a time. That there is no evidence that there had been any fire drill or systematic organization of the theat<r employes for the protection of the pu'tic in an emergency. That there was no fire alarm box on the stnge, or in the theater building. “Those are the main points brought out by this investigation to date,” said Attorney Fulkerson. “Evidence showing responsibility, and in regard to crowded aisles, locked doors and inadequate and closed exits, is still to be produced. So far, the evidence I have on these points is largely hearsay information. They have not, been proved. “In the light of the information which is now n matter of record. I desire to make this statement, without the fear of successful contradiction: Had the condition of the stage and auditorium skylights been reversed the catastrophe would certainly have been averted. Again, bad the asbestos curtain worked as it should hare, there is little doubt that there would be a different story to tell. “In my opinion, either one of these conditions in nil probability would have averted the disaster. Certainly, both would have protected the audience. In other words, regardless of any violation of existing laws, ordinances or other regulations in regard to construction, the operation of the safeguards in that theater for just such an emergency would have saved the lives of about 000 people. “Somebody is responsible for the conditions shown to have existed and enumerated above. It is my intention to hew to the line in an effort to establish responsibility.”

PERTINENT PERSONALS

Joseph Jefferson has declined to visit Australia, where, forty years ago, he made a great hit with “Rip Van Winkle.” A tablet is to be erected in memory of John Adam Dasyr, the first shoemaker in Lynn, Mass., and the founder of that dty’a great industry. Senator Tillman of South Carolina is credited with knowing more as. to the contents of the Bible than the average member of the Senate. Senator Daniel of Virginia says the nineteenth century produced five generals who could be called great—Napoleon, Wellington, Von Moltke, Grant SDd Robert E. Lee. John D. Rockefeller proposes to plant three carloads of young maple trees on his estate at Tarrytown, N. Y. A set of silver mounted dueling pistols once owned*by JJeorge Washington was purchased by a New York dealer the other day at an auction. Two Southern Congressmen served in the volunteer army during the Spanish war —A. A. Wiley of Alabama and Wyatt Aiken of Sooth Carolina. At a bear hunt in Maryland lately the Bar. S. M. Engle, pastor of th* Presbyterian Church at Parsons, W. Ya., killed two of the_tbree bears bagged.

WRECK KILLS A SCORE

CALIFORNIA EXPREBB 18 DEMOLISHED IN KAN6AB. Collide# with * Cattle Tmln-Nane Keen pe from Crash Without Injury— Passe age re Are Crashed by the Tele* •coping of the Cere. The Rock Island. California and Mexico express, which left Chicago on Monday night for the west, was wrecked shortly after 1 o’clock Wednesday morning at Willard, Kau., fourteen miles west of Topeka, In a head-on collision with a cattle train. The whole-train was demolished. Twenty persons were killed and •very persou on the train was injured. Many persons from Oklahoma who had taken advantage of the homesteaders’ excursion rates were on the train. It also contained through sleepers and chair cars fqr San Francisco and Los Angeles. The wreck was one of the worst that has happened on the Rock Island system in years.

Occurring as it did nt a small station with a few facilities for aid and in the darkness, there was much delay in removing the dead and injured and In caring for the survivors. The train was composed of a combination baggage nnd mail car, a regular baggage car, a smoker, a tourist sleeper and a standard sleeper. Two cars filled with passengers were demolished, both locomotives were de-

CHICAGO CAR BARN BANDITS ON TRIAL.

atroyed and four carloads of stock were torn to pieces and dozen of the dead animals were strewn over the right Of way. It was in the third car of the passenger train, the first conch having been preceded by a smoker and baggage car, that the greatest loss of life occurred. The first warning given the passengers In this car was when the sudden setting of the air brake shut off the lights, leaving all in darkness. So terrific was the force of the collision that every coach on the heavy passenger train except the last two Pullman cars was piled in a great heap of wreckage. The passenger coaches were telescoped by the heavily laden freight cars. The crash case shortly after midnight when practically every soul in the conches of the doomed train was asleep. Those who escaped clambered out and, not stopping to bind up their bruises, turned every effort to prevent the wreckage from eatching fire, the flames already having seized on the ruins of a uumber of the freight cars. Above the shrieking steam of the battered engines could be heard the screams find groans of the dying and injured. Not even donning their clothes and braving the cold with only overcoats to shield them from the cutting winds men and women from the two sleeping cars which escaped the ruin, began the work of rescue. Body after body was taken from the wreckage, horribly mangled and, in many cases, the features so crushed that they were not recognizable. Most of those in the forward end of the car following the smoker were killed instantly. Thirty in the rear end of the coach, however, succeeded in escaping from that end of the car, which was still unobstructed. No one from the front half of the car escaped. They were crushed down between the seats by the smoker. When rescue was finally possible only three living persons were taken out by the rescuers, who were compelledchop holes in the side and through tjie floor and top of the coach to -reach them.

A MEDICAL MIRACLE.

Ithaca Girl Recovering After a Year’s Sickness with Typhoid Fever. Hopes are now entertained for the recovery of Miss Leona Ireland, who was one of the first victims of the typhoid fever epidemic in Ithaca, N. Y., last winter and who has suffered from the disease ever since. A history of her case Is being prepared, for it is regarded as one of the most remarkable in the annals of disease. Every complication •known by the medical profession to attend and follow typhoid fever has been present In her case, and she is reduced to scarcely fifty pounds in weight. Ever since Jan. 29, 1902, Miss Ireland has had a fever constantly, her temperature reaching!. 106 degrees Fahrenheit every day for weeks. Her heart lias beaten 150 rimes a minute and again at only 20 for hours at a time. During the months of July and August she was kept alive by hourly hypodermic injections of stimulants. She has lived through more than a score of abscesses and is now recovering from general septicaemia. Her mind, which was at one time a blank, is now clear, and /the is able to move her i arms and to feed herself. Her physiI dan believes that she will recover.

BANDITS FACE COURT.

Trial of Van Dine, Neldermsior and Marx Benina in Catcago. The trial 6t the Chicago “car bam bandits" was begun Wednesday In Judge Kersteu’s branch of the Criminal Court, with the three young defendants—Van Dine, Niedermeier and Marx —surrounded with a cordon of Jail guards and deputy sheriffs so formidable that it half filled the court room. Fear that the prisoners would resort to a desperate dash for freedom caused extraordinary precautions to be taken, and to prevent the presence of accomplices among the spectators, no one was admitted unless he had a pass bearing the signature of the sheriff. While the lawyers wrestled with the week’s task of selecting a jury a great crowd of people in the corridors of the building clamored for admission. Bailiffs three deep pushed them back, but finally, apprehensive that they would be overcome, appealed for an order forbidding the elevators to stop on Judge Kersten’s floor. . The issuance of such an edict prevented further trouble. The three prisoners, with shoes polished, trousers creased and hair carefully plastered and parted in the middle, came into the room, through the private passage from the jail, in the center of a revolving wedge of officers, Jailer Whitman at the apex. All of them wore a front of careless bravado, and Niedermeier smirked aimlessly as a guard shoved him into a chair. Niedermeier and Van Dine put their heads together and talked earnestly, while one of the attorneys made a perfunctory plea for a continuance, but

Marx wus not invited into their conference. Marx is an outcast from, his erstwhile companions. He betrayed them after he killed Detective Quinn, and they have little more to do with him. He sits alone, looking vacantly out of his bullet eyes and rubbing his cocoanut-shaped head with his long fingers. The particular charge on which the trio of desperaßoes is being tried is the murder of Frank W. Stewart, the clerk who had charge of the money at the car barns of the Chicago City Railway Company on that memorable Sunday morning when Stewart and Motorman Johnson were shot down without warning. Emil Roeski, the fourth member of the quartet, is not implicated in the car bayn murder case and was not present in the court room.

LABOR NOTES

Fall River (Mass.) waiters recently organized. Arbitration may settle the shoe lockout at Quebec, Can. Efforts are being made to reorganize the tin workers at Boston, Mass. Japanese ’longshoremen are paid 20 cents and sailors from 15 to 25 cents a day. Servant Girls’ Union at Montreal, Can., will act upon the regulation of wages and hours. Enginemen and firemen on the Great Western (Eng.) railway have petitioned for an increase in pay. Continued reductions in wages of New England cotton mill operatives have now affected 88,000 workers. Cook County, 111., has eight local unions of railway clerks, with a membership of nearly 10,000. A bill for a national arbitration tribunal will be introduced in Congress by Senator Culiom of Illinois. Charters were issued recently for new locals of railway clerks in San Francisco, Cal., and Lawrence, Mass. A bitter labor war is expected at Spokane, Wash., resulting from a strike of the plumbers for $5.50 a day. Less than a decade ago trade unionism was almost unknown in Japan; to-day the little country has 300,000 organised workers. A Waiters’ Union, a branch of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ International Alliance and Bartenders’ League, was organized at Toronto, Cap., recently. Two thousand men have been thrown out of employment by the railroads centering in Chicago, 111. The list includes machinists, car workers, blacksmiths and boilermakers. Union bill posters have had a conference with representatives of all the big circuses, and an agreement has been made that none but union men will poet tiiiia for anv show next rear.

FIRE IN IOWA CAPITOL

THE BTRUCTURE DAMAGED TO AMOUNT OF 8600,(XXX Entire Northwest Wing of Build tog a Mass of Chorred Ruins—Regular Legislative Session Not to Bo Postponed— Governor os n Fireman. Fire ruined the northwest wing of the lowa State cnpitol in Des Moines Monday, with an approximate loss of $500,000. The chamber of the House of Representatives Is a charred muss of ruined debris and cannot be fixed up iu time for the approaching session of the Legislature. The fire gained great headway before it was checked. It started about 10 o’clock nnd at noon it was thought the entire building was doomed and Gov. Cummins ordered the contents of all the offices removed. However, it was finally confined to the wing of the cnpitol in which it originated and by G o’clock was practically extinguished. The executive council of the State, consisting of Gov. Cummins, Secretary of State Martin, State Auditor Carroll aud State Treasurer Gilbertson, held a brief session in the evening Jnd announced that the convening of the Legislature would not ba postponed. Arrangements will be made so that the sessious can be comfortably held. \ The origin of the fire is a mystery and Gov. Cummins has ordered an immediate investigation. It started near a shaft in committee room No. 5 and spread upward and all around the ceiling of the House chamber. The fire department was unable to fight tlie flames effectively, the height of the building and elevation of the capitol site making pressure impossible. The only thing possible was to cut off the progress of the flames. The gallery of the House chamber fell with a crash, portions of the debris Blightly injuring two firemen ami endangering the lives of several. The crash end scattering of the burning debris made the saving of the building seem impossible. Gov. Cummins gave up hope and State Architect Liebbe was nlso of the opinion that the building was doomed. The valuable volumes of tlie State library. located near the fire, were hastily removed and the State offices were quickly emptied. The funds of the State Treasurer were hastily loaded on a wagon, supposed by those not in the secret to contain books, and carried to a downtown bank for deposit. Gov. Cummins laid aside gubernatorial dignity and, clad in rubber boots and rough coat, engaged in the work of fighting the fire. At night the beautiful State capitol presented n scene of desolation. The tnarble staircases are covered with ice, the floors are flowing with water and the offices under the burned part of the building are flooded. Many beautiful frescoes In the chamber of the House can never be replaced. The lowa cnpitol is one of the most beautiful in the United States. It is built along the lines of the capitol nt Albany. It has been the pride of the State and of the city of Des Moines and was erected twenty years ago at a cost of $3,000,000. The State capitol commission appointed for this purpose had just completed the restoration and repair of the building at a cost of $125,000, most oLwhich had been expended in the chamber which is ruined. The building was supposed to have been fireproof, but the use of several false ceilings in the House furnished excellent material for the flames. Gov. Cummins said ‘ that the House chamber could not possibly be repaired this winter. The estimates on the loss are varying, Gov. Cummins placing it nt $300,000, but the majority of estimates place the loss at $500,000 to s7oo*ooo.

PULPIT ON IROQUOIS DISASTER.

Pastors in Snnday Sermons Refer to Awful Loss of Life. Pastors of many Chicago churches turned their attention Sunday to the Iroquois Theater horror. They discussed the effects of the disaster on the community, the measures which should be taken for punishing the guilty and the precautions necessary to prevent a repetition of the catastrophe. Quotations from sermons in local pulpits follow: - Civic duty has been neglected for private gain.—Dr. Emil G. Hirsch. Surely the Lord Is speaking to us out of the fire.—Dr. James P. Thoms. We are reaping the harvest of the seeds of lawlessness.—Rev. E. V. Sliayler. It js time something made ns stop and take stock of life.—Dr. Cleland B. McAfee. Shameless inattention to duty on the part of public ofßcials is responsible.— Rev. G. D. Cleworth. We ought not to need the awful warning of calamity to make us faithful to duty.—Dr. Joseph K. Mason. The chief culprdit is a spirit of lawlessness which characterizes our American life. —Rev. M. Edward Fawcett. It costs less to secure obedience to law than to repair the results of disobedience. —Dr. Wjlliam M. Lawrence. The way to avert snch calamities is for the people to insist on the enforcement of the laws.*—Rev. O. B. Antisdel. Chicago has been baptized anew with fire and I trust it may make it a cleaner and devouter city.—Rev. John T. Christian. Do not ascribe it to the Almighty. He did not do it. Ascribe it to men’s vicious disregard of law.—Rev. Frederick G. Priest It is the next thing to blasphemy to call this the providence of God. It is the selfishness of man. —Rev. Frederick E. Hopkins. However responsible the managers may be, the officials of the city government cannot escape their share.—Rev. L. A. Crandall. It has taken this costly sacrifice to rouse Chicago to see that its worst evil U the Boa-enforcement of existing laws. —Bishop Cheney. "Vengeance "Vs mine, I will repay, eaith the Lord.” With malice toward none, let us fix the blame where It belongs; let us not think that the good God sent this calamity; it waa • terrible accident, resulting from human negligence.—Dr. J. P. Brush Ingham.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Dun’s review of Chicago trade says: Favorable developments are increased

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final distribution of footwear, strong demand for foodstuffs, and improving aspect in iron. Following the unprecedented "Christmas trade in leading lines retail current dealings appear somewhat restricted, hut a gratifying exception appears in sales of shoes, rubbed and warm wear lines. Wholesalers report dealings running as expected, various orders for reossprtmeots coming from the interior and the house trade of fair dimensions, but most closed the year in preparation for the annual inventories nnd striking of balances. Mercantile collections generally have shown more promptness and less complaint affects local settlements. Railroad traffic reports still show heavy movement of general merchandise and east-bound shipments of hog products make good comparison with a year ago. Failures in Chicago district number twenty-one, against thirty-six for the corresponding period of 1002. Provisions also shared in the improved demand, pork advancing G 5 cents, ribs 22% cents, and lard 17% cents. Live stock receipts show heavy falling off, due to stormy weather nnd some indisposition to mnrkct at recent low prices. On the paucity of supplies bhldiug became spirited and prices gained in hogs 20 cents and in sheep 15 cents per hundred weight, no change appearing in. the quotatiou for choice beeves.

R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says:

New York.

Violent fluctuations in cotton nnd uncertainty regarding the situation in the far East were the only significant factors in the business situation during the holiday week. Numerous expressions of confidence are heard regarding the future, however, especially nt the West and South. Manufacturing plants have taken a longer vacation than last year. Much irregularity nnd activity is reported iu the markets for minor metals, which are chiefly responsive to speculative operations at London. Despite a sharp break in the foreign market, tin closed the week with a net gain, aud copper is also stronger because of increased interests abroad. Only steadiness can be recorded as to Chicago packer hides, further advances being checked by the diminution of purchases. As to tlie textiles, the week has only augmented unsettled conditions, especially as to cotton good^

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $4.00 to $5.15; sheep, fair to choice, $2.25 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 85c to 87c; corn, No. 2,40 eto 42c; oats, standard, 35c to 3Gc; rye, No. 2. 51c to 52c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $12.00; prairie, SO.OO to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 25c to 30c; potatoes, 08c to 71c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $4.80; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 91c; corn. No. 2 white, 40c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 37c to 38c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 92c; corn, No. 2, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2,30 cto 37c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.40; wheat. No. 2,90 cto 91c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 62c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $4.00 to $4.40; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,91 cto 93c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 3 white, 39c to 40c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern,' 850 to 86c; corn. No. 3,39 cto 41c; oats. No. 2 white. 37c to 38c: rye, No. 1,55 c to 57c; barley, No. 2,63 cto 64c; pork, mess, $12.50. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 “mixed, 89c to 91c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 47c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 38c; rye, No. 2,57 c to 59c; clover seed, prime, $6.90. Buffalo—Catle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.25; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $4.90; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $3.85; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $6.20. New York—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.38; hogs, $4.00 to $4.90: sheep, $3.00 to $3.80; wheat. No. 2 red, 90c to 92c; corn, No. 2, Blc to 52c; oats. No. 2 white, 42c to 44c; butter, creamery, 20c to 23c; eggs, western, 28c to 38c. ■■ . 1 ———

This and That.

C. H. Perham of Chicago was killed and Thomas Peterson, also of Chicago, was seriously injured by the breaking of a derrick at Sayre, Pa. Miss Mnrj- Helen Smiley of St. Louis -has telegraphed her family announcing her marriage to Harry V. Phelps, a wealthy cotton planter of Xittayuma, Miss. School children placed' a bolt on the track before the Rock Island passenger train from the east at a point ten miles east of Colorado Springs, Colo., and the locomotive, baggage car and first coach were derailed. Three trainmen were badly hurt # Charles Hiilsou, aged 30 years, was shot and killed by Mattie Lee in a saloon at Phillipsbnrg, Mont. The woman _ claimed Hillson owed her a small sum of money and followed him into a saloon armed with a revolver. A world-wide observance of March 7, 1904, as Bible Sunday, proposed by the British and Foreign Bible Society, has been approved by the American Bible Society. On that date falls the centenary of tke British society, which during the century has distributed 180.000.00 Q volumes of the scriptures is about 370 languages.