Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ranged and that the warship had abandoned the race and was putting into New York. _ - ~j*. . CHINESE A BIN 6 STAR I Makes Good Showing in Amateur Boxing Tourney In Boston. Boston, Mass., April 13. —One of the most interesting bouts of the amateur tourney here was in the 135 pound class, in which a Chinese boxer, Frank Ah Chung of Salem, was defeated by ■f- Morris of Boston in three rounds. f Ah Chung is a star basketball player and a member of the Y. M. C. A. team of Salem. He is employed as an interpreter by the United States governmenL " ' —te. Lincoln’s Cousin Is Dead. Bloomington, 111., April 13.—Thomas J. Hanks, first cousin of Abraham Lincoln, is dead here. He was eighty-four years old. Bix Below In Colorado. Cripple Creek, Colo., April 13. Thermometers in the Cripple Creek district registered six degrees below zero. SCHURMAN IN FAVOR OF AN INCOME TAX Cornell President Mikes Speech on "National Problems.” New York, April 13.—The hundred members of the St. Nicholas society, which is made up of descendants of the Dutch, German and English families who lived in New York city in colonial times, gathered at Delmonico’s around the gilded weather cock of the New Amsterdam city hall, which was presented to the society in 1836 v by Washington Irving. President Schurman of Cornell was the principal speaker. He talked on "National Problems.” Beginning with the tariff and its relation to the cost of living, he turned to a discussion of the income tax and the inheritance tax. Both of these he considered excellent means of raising money, "because they fall on those who are able to pay, and can not be shifted upon others.” TO LIMIT PENSION BILLS Senator McCumber Seeks to Put Check on Legislation. Washington, April 13.—An effort to limit the volume of special pension legislation will be made by Senator McCumber. chairman of the committee on pensions, before the adjournment or the present extra session of congress. Such legislation has grown rapidly until, in the last congress, 8,000 bills, the object of most of which was to increase existing pensions, were passed. At the present session 1,000 bills, providing for pensions not obtainable under the general pensions laws have been introduced in the senate alone. Don’t give advice V Tn *r to any one; people r • will by and by notice it and come I around asking fqr » Z/jX. A your words of wisdom, and you will ,1 thus be able to collect from them. E It is a good thing to have wise friends, but don’t let them get wise to the fact that you are wise to them. THE MARKETS - - V Cash Grain Market.. Chicago, April IS. Winter wheat by sample: No. 2 red, $1.37® 1.38%; No. 3 red, $1.33® 1.37; No. 2 hard, $1.25% @1.29%; No. » hard, [email protected]%. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, $1.25%® 1.27%; No. 2 northern, $1.24%@1J?; No. 3 spring, $1.20® 1.27. Corn by sample: No. 3, G6%@66%c; No. 3 yellow, 66%@67c; No. 4, 65%@66c. Oats by sample: No. 2 white, 55%c; No. 3 white, 53®54c; No. 4 white, 52® 63 %c; standard, 54 %c. Chicago Live Btock. Hogs—Receipts 34,000. Quotations ranged at $7.40®7.55 for choice heavy shipping. $7.15®7.35 light mixed, $7.35 @7.45 choice light, [email protected] mixed packing. $7.30®7.45 heavy packing, $5.75® 6.65 good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 18,000. Quotations ranged at $6,76®7.15 for choice to prime steers, [email protected] good to choice steers, $4.50® 5.75 good to choice beef cows, $4.76® 6.00 good to choice heifers, $7.00® 7.60 good to choice calves, $6.00® 5.40 selected feeders, $4.40®4.75 good to choice stockers. Live Poultry. Turkeys, per lb, 17c; chickens and fowls, 15c; springs, 15c; roosters, 10c; geeae, 8c; ducks, 14%c. East Buffalo Livo StockEast Buffalo, N. Y„ April I*. Dunning A Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo. N. Y, quote as follows: Cattle—Receipt* 100 cars; market strong. Hogs —Receipts 70 cars; market steady; heavy, $7.75; Yorkers, $7.40® 7.60; pis, $7.00. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts 70 cars; market strong; best lambs, [email protected]; yearlings, $7.00® 7J5; wethers, $6.50® 6.75; eweafl $6.00 ®6JS. Calves—Beat, $5.00®8.50. Elgin Butter Market. Elgin. April 13. Creamery, extras. 2«c; prints. 81e; extra firsts, 87c; firsts, 35c; dairies), extra, 26c; firsts, 22c; packing stock, lie.