Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 45, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 November 1902 — Page 2

Weekly Courier.

c. JASPER. IXDIAXA. Eobhers stole fü.100 from the Stew- I trt county bank, at Iover, Tenn , od the night of the Cxh Restoration of th' canteen is urged by MaJ.-Oen. Corbin. adjutant general of tk ariuv. In his annual it-port. Jlerr Theodore Lews 1 has been ap pointed imperial commissioner from Germany to the St. Louis World' fair. Gen. Toral. h surrendered antiago de Cuba to the American force in Jul v. 1696. has become insane at Muroia. Spain. Senator Hanna vu Initiated as memler of the Li va! Legion f Ohio, at a meeting of the order in Qu land, on the 2th. M. Gottfried, the millionaire Chirago brewer. who had been ill with pneumonia for three v?eks, died at Klkhart Lake. WL-.. on the 3d. Dr. R. C. Kedic. for 40 years proIssssaf of chemistry nt the Mi.h.gan agricultural college, died at Lanire; Mich., on the 7th, aged 79 years. The anthracite strike c-mmissi n er completed a week's tour of the toal belt on the 6th. and adjourned tc meet again at Seranton, 1j . N.vemter 14. The historic Kimball homestead, at Kenosha. Wis., was de-tr t y fire on the 7th. . It was the oldest residence in Ken s ha, having been built In 13. Col. L. Q. Washington, who was related to George Washington through a collateral branch of the family, died at the city of Washington, on the 4th. aged T7 years. President Roosevelt has been in vited to preside at the third annual International live stock exposition, tc be held in Chicago, commencing Saturday, November 29. Joseph Simpson, for many years one of the leading financial men of , western Iowa, and prominent in i-jnua City In the boom days, died at Den er. Col., on the 6th. Kev. (ieorge vvirson. wno anrae.ru much attention btfore ana during ine civil war as a lecturer against slavery, died at his home at Bloomington, liL on the 3d. aged years. .. 4 - ' William P. Cornell, a Chicago newspaper man. was stricken with apoplexy just after easting his vote, on the 4th. and dropped dead in the polling place. Lakerifw town hall. The question of accepting $165 000 from Andrew Carnegie for a public library at Albany, N. Y.. was put to a popular vote, on the 4th. and defeatI br an overwhelming majority. The wheat harvest this year in New South Wales was a eery poor one. th shortage being estimated at 1 1,000.000 1 bushels. Other stf.tes in tht Australian federation also had poor harves's. The king of Sism sent a cablegram to President Roosevelt, on the 8th earnestly thanking him for the kindly reception accorded to the cmu prince on landing in the United Statea Rev. L Wi'lard Puff. r. who wa etrurk by a train at the station at Decatur. 111., on the night of October II. died at St. Mary - b -pital. Decature, on the 3d .as a res. i It of his in Juries. Min President Mitchell, of Workers" union, mav be the elected t: succeed Samuel Gompers aa president I of the American federation of l.ao-.r. which meets at New Orleans November 14. President Roosevelt receded the election news at svter Bay, on the 4th He expressed himself as satisfied with the result, and sent a congratuI .ti.natch to Got Odell on his re-election. il fleTce fire has le-en raping Of the Rosebud Indian reservation, in Nebraska, since the 1st. and Ml head of rattle are knowa to have been burned to death, with several ranches to hear from. Contracts were signed, on the 7th. for the building of an interurhon electric line from Qniney. III., to Hoardstown and from Quincy to Niotn. the construction ef which will rep:ir about $t.000.000. Ge..rge P. Vest, son of S. nat.it Vest. f Missouri. wa nd derol in hii room at the Columbia hotel. Washington. D. C. on the morning f the 6th. He had been complaining of feeling ill the day lef.re. and the immediate cause of his death was convulsions, due to acute ga-tri' Hon. Hale Joh.is in. a prohibition leader of mtioual prominence, and ice-presidential candidate ., the party ia 196. was shot and kille.! by Harry Harris, in an altercition between them, at the village t f Ilogotr., Jai-r.i mty . Ill . on th 4th. Harris was taken to jail at Newton, where he soon after committed suicide by taking poison. Alan G. Mason, a well-known and wealthy business man. wa arretted in Boston, on the 4th. charged with having lcen involved in the many murderous assault ct.se which have occurred in the vicinity of Boston during the pas summer, two ..f which resulted fatally. Ma-.-n ntlv rehacd from an asylum, where hs an treated for mental trouble.

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trK- ' r?:t;i:i ::: CUBBENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Hio. n. a farmer living at Liueville, Ala., stabbed bis own son to death, in self-defen-e, on the J. A. L. llcnnett. champion nrtag shot of the vvi-:. dieil at Crecde, t ol., ou the 4tb, of t; phoid pneumonia. Kev. W. C Rabe, M years old. pastor of a German Hart ist church a: Omaha, Neb., and Miss Augusta BuK-h, aged 31, a missionary und as aistant t the pastor, were found dead in the study in t'i rear of the church, on the morning of the ith, locked if each other's am.-. It i- believed that death was accidental, the theory being that the pair had fallen asleep. , and that the stove flame blew out. the escaping gas suffocating them. At a conference held in the p. -ernor's rick room at SpringlieM. 111. i cn the üth. b twee ,i Private Secret.tr . i Oglesby. Dr. Taylor and Gov. Tatet), it was decided that present conditions would not justify the calling of Lieut. -Got. KorthoOtt to the governor's chair. II. H. Staats, a Wabash freight conductor, slipped od fell under the wheela of his train at St. Charit-. Mo., on the 5th. and before it could he stopped he was literally ground pieces. At Saranac Lake. N. Y on the Ith. John Mooney, vvliile drunk, si. t and killed one woman, fatally wounded his sister, and shot a man through the lur.e;-. In a street fight at Orange, Tex.. on the 5th, Jeff ( henault was shot and k,nej -,v v:U Harris, City Marshal "' joruan was killed bv sn unknown party, and Tonv Jones was killed by , officers as he was trying to escape' after han.linir one of tb ramhat.nt. ' a gun. Leon L. Strause. a tolacco dealer oi Richmond. Va., filed a petition in bankruptcy, on the 5th. his liabilities being $300,599 and assets $450,543. Robbers dvnnmited a bank at RichBrds, Mo., on the right of the 5th, and stole S1.G0. The same bank was robbed six years r.ga, Three men and a boy were drowned by the capsizing of a naphtha launeh in Long Island -ound. on the 5th. Francis M. Cockrell, Jr., son Of the United States senator, and Miss Miller I'-.pe were married at Jefferson City, Mo., on the 5th. Fred. Pennington, a pioneer Minnesota lumberman, died of typhoid fever at North Yr.kinia, Wash., on the 5th. Charb s o. Z.-ig.-nfuss a well-known rtwspaper man, was found dead in a San Fram i-oo hotel, on the 6tb. An cpn gas jet. supposed to have been left open intentionally, leads to the belief that St was a ease of suicide. Joaapfc Farrow and MnrionGimnhad difference over election matters at Grandin. Mo., on the 6th, and fought on tn treet with pistols, with the result tnat totn men were killed. Parson Green, of Eldorado, III., the rolored preacher who has been guard i ed by militia for some months, left I that place, on the 6th, to take up hiresidence at Carroi, III. In a ti re w In b d. st roved a mill an ! j elerator at Nashville. Tenn., on the I fth. 43,000 bushels of wheat and II ' barrels of flour were burned, the total 1 1" '"IT 40.000. Dro(ding over business troublecaused the suicide of Thos. R. Mann s .n of the late Holtert Mann, the as manufacturer, at I.oek Haven pa on the 61h. I Extensive preparations are made at QaJaCjr, III . for the being vv aterways convention called to meet in that city on N"ovemler 11 and 13. James Hell u.i- arrested at Lincoln, 111., on the fth, on a charge of fatally Cabbing Ib-lx-rt Woodward in a quarrel ovet a woman. Robbers blew open the safe of a bank at Herington, Kas., on the 6th. s .cured 3, WX) in currency, and escaped aa a hand car. Mrs. Joseph Sharjte was killed, on the 6th, while cro-ing a railroad track at Hud-on. McLean county. 111. Th" next convc .jtioq of the Bsptist Young People's I'nion of Ameri.a will be held at Atlanta, (.a., in July. IM Eight MM vvere crowned and nun b htppiag destroyed by a storm at N-'tue. Alaska. Oftohtf 14. William Golliday was killed by a Big Four tu n n.ir harb -toi. III., uu the night of the Mh. There wa an advance of two cents in the price of c rude oil at UaM 0 on the 6th. A union station, costing half a million dollars, is to be built at F.I Pua, 1 . v. A. E. Pfleger, a fireman on the Indianapolis A- Vincennes road, my stt rinurly disappeared from his engine, on the 6th. and next day his dead body was found near Martinsville, Ind. It is believed he was jolted from his engine. Flection bets amounting to nearly $400,000 were paid in New York, on the 7th.

J. TT. Robin. w i f.i'allv wounded hy hating his atoll crushed in a tight with a .iilr ad conductor on train mar St. Jo-cph, Mo., on the 7th. The trouble aroii'c over a ticket, the time limit "f whi. h had expirees. The Udy of Harry Frnnk, of Jacksonville. 111., where Iiis father Is a merchant, was found in Lake Michigan, at I on the 7th. with a 30-p.und tOBO tied to one of his feet. Cir.uu. - taneea indicate snleide. Gottlesh Ni !ft ntind, the murderer of his w.r,', father nnd mother, was -eatencd. on the 7th. to le hanged at l'ierce. Neb., on March 13. Hal Mahone, colored, was hanged in the courthouse yard at Nan Hurcn, Ark, on the 7th. In the presence of 5,000 apev'otors. The Missouri Press association will h ld its annual meeting at Columbia January tf r.nd .!. Ten years in the ptnitentiary was the sentence gien to .lohn Stewart, a Halted States soldier, who stohlied to death Emil Kuba, another soldier, at Fort Mi rguv. A In. sjwS !TCMSL A rewnrd of e' 1 1 offered f Benjamin F. Fvun. f olive, BT l body, if dead. Mr. Kgan was a division superintendent :f the Great

Northern railroad 1 Kalispcll. Mont., a,., di-appcared from a party of friends with whom he was hunting in the mountains near that place about November 1. Six persoM w.re injured, two of them internally, by a Missouri Pacific jKissengcr train running into a switch engine at Jefferson t ity. Mo., on the Hfc, Ge... T. Grimtis. of Chicago, pre idem of the F.iiekla vers and Stone Masons' International union, was one of the wounded. John McAt.e. a clerk in a railroad j office in Kr.n-as ( 'ity. Mo., for whom officers had a warrant of arrest on a charge . f attempted robbery, committed suicide, by shooting, on the '.Mb. Mr. Baach Hink shot and killed aar hu-haml at their horue, pear Port Dickinson. N. Y.. on the 9th. jealousy of his uephew having caused the husland t make an asault on her. Burglars dynamited the office of oap manufactory on Herr's island, mar Pittsburg, I'a.. on the 1'th, seenied in money and did $i.l0') damage to the building. Harry Alletna Dir. a professional all player, was fatally shot by burglars whom he tried to prevent r. no' the ii. -t olbce at Mason. W . . . , , '' . .. Ernest Ar., -trong. a brahlMS, feU 1 r"m ''S'" '"r von, ssj on the '.th. and the wheels divided his body in two part- from the chin down. A lart'e iK.iler nt cine of the pumping BtatiSM of New York's vvnter supply exploded, on the Ms, killing two men and totally w reeking the building. George Miller, Alexander Cyr and Anthony M..ns..r were drowned in Wkitefi-h bay. Alpena, Mich., on the lth, by the c apsizing of a sailboat. Gen. Leonard Wood, who arrived in New York from Europe on the nth, expressed himself as favoring the rc-e-tabli-iiin nt of the army canteen. John Snyder, an express messenger, was Ustaantly Ulled in a railroad collision near Williamson, W. Va., on the 9th. At Beate? City. Neb., on the 9th, there was a dr-.p iu the teuicratiire f 40 degre e. A meetlnr of Illinois concrcssmn at Chicago, on tne loth. Indorsed Congressman Cannon, of the Eighteenth. Illinois district, for speaker ol the house of representative to succeed Speaker Henderson. Headquarter will be opened la I kleasjo to further his interests. Sarah Prot. her son and a man who lived with them were found dea.l in an apartment house in Ken Ytv. tl the luth. from the effeet- of Inhal' ing illuminating gas that had accidentally been ull..wd to escape during the night. The British steamer Eliniratnite, bound from Sydney. N". S. W'.. for Auckland, was wrecked on Three Kings islands, a small group II miles Borth west f New Ecalsad. F"Tty-otie people on hoard w.re aved. but yd ar mi--ing. - a result of the careless handling of shotguns by four bnjm at Ottnea wa, la., on the tOth, Frank Perkins was killed, Ass Rot lost hand, Qttvof Fothergill was shot in ihe thigh, and Frank O. Ejka vvas perhaps mortally srosndt d. The United states iraaspeti Bhevl dan arrived nt San Francisco, on the 10th. from Manila, after a very stormy voyage, iii-n. ( Mailer and wife r.nd numb' r of civil ami military officials were pasengers. Cspt. Winfield Packer was shot and fatally wounded at Norfolk, Ya., on the tOth, by a motorman named ( .- h"on. Tucker was attempting t. shoot Cahoon. Pre-i. lent Roose fell has accepted im imitation to be present ami make an address at the Mclv;:.ey menioriul baiujuet, at anion. ( . January If, Five hundred silversmiths employed at Tiffany A Co. 's plant, nt Forest Hill. N. J. went on strike, oa the loth, for a nine-hour working dsy. Preslieni Itooeerrll ami party left H'sahiagtoS), on the loth, for tv.i weeks' trip in the sOOtsV He will take jmrt. in a Ix-ar hunt in MiOslnalppi, Fire broke not in one of the towers Of the new Baal river bridge, at New York, on the tii'lit . f the Kuh. and di'l ilnmage e-timated nt 1900,000, fcuhberi Mtaj open ti. safe of h lumber eorapeai nt Inaeroft, s. D., on the 'Mb. and secured HsV William tiront Uoe. a druggist, corn mitted Uicid at W.o hingt ..n, 1). C., on th b'th, by saOOthsf.

NEWS FROM INDIANA,

Latest Happenings Within the Bor der of Our Own State. taw i Paaad. Wabasl,. Im! . Nov. in. What is reaided a u rtrnttg i ' a la a gimp of robber-. preSVmed to have In Id up ml robbed the express ear of a HurHagtoa iiuin last August, has been diseorersd in the sawmill at Treaty, thi- county, by William W olgamiit h. Lying oa the carrier f the mill was a package of :.'! long express eavelopes, apparently just opened, the fceals being newly broken Each envelope bora the stump of the nessenger oa the Burlington between Omsha and Chi cago, the date. AUfOSl Wj With the amount of money, these sow unt rsry ing from 0BC dollar to 11,800, and aggregating nearly 130,000. The robbers are thought to have dispersed sit er the robbery and gathered at Treaty t make a dlviOtOB. The it. elopes have been turned over t the Amcrieati Express company. Mgateei toteei. Indianapolis, lud., Nov. 10. - The mystery in the disappearance of A. E. Ptb gcr. an Indianapolis N'incennos IreaMta oa fsst freight, who was b--t from his engine near Martinsville, wns cleared when his body was taken from beneath bridge 81, en -sing White river, tive miles this side of Martinsville. Trainmen searched all day and until the body was found by William Kraget, t pSSSCnger condnctor. Pfleger was a promtnoBl rough rider in Roossrelt'l rt giment. It is believed be was jolted .tf hi engine. t stricken I B in 1 1 . Marion, Ind.. Nov. 10. W'illinm Wert and his four children, aged three, rive, eight and 11 years, are in the hospital. The c hildren are nt the Marion bespits ill with typhoid fever, and the father is at the soldier.-' home suffering from an injury received in a fall from a building up. n which he was employed as a carpcnti i. The mother of the children died of typhoid fever three weeks ago. I'rlrllle.l. Fairmount. Ind., Nov. 10. While Sexton Nathan Cog, of Uis city, wa moving I number of bodies fro:r the Yin-oii cemetery near Bummitvilli to the Park cemetery north of thUcity, he found one that had been nearly petrified. The body of an old nomas, w hich had been buried for If yeOfi in a bed Of yellow clay, had turLtd to stoue. t lower I slr. Cnmbridge City. Ind.. Nov. 10 The date of the annual chrysanthemum fnir here has be. n fixed for November 12 to 14. It is given under the auspices of the Daughters of Po. a hon t a-. Kathboae Maters, Daughters of Bebeksk and Woman's Relief corps. There will ben minstrel entertainment hy local talent in connection with the fair. shot Herself. Munde. Ind.. Nov. 10. Catherine Evans, a to-ycar old colored girl, employed as a domestic shot herself with a revolver and i- in a very serious condition. The girl's story of the shooting indicate that she had no intention of committing suicide. She says that a Cartridge exploded While she wa turning the cy linder of the revolver. He nth I'lonrer. Crawfordsville. Ind.. Nov. 10. A. R. Pays a, one of the charter members of the masonic lodge. No. 144, Alan,", i- dead. He would have been s', years old the 24th of next February. lie was well known and respected throughout Montgomery county, hav ing lived in the county over 61 years. taspeetee mei. Terre Haute. Ind.. Nov. in. (apt. A. C Ibiddleston. who has been appointed a special inspector of immigration under Frank P. Sargejit. will be assigned to duty at Montreal. ( apt. Doddlestoa deles not reUaquisa his residence in Terre Haute, where he was born ami has always lived. farr for Tiliill Fever. LogOasport, Ind.. Nov. lO. Perrival Perry, principal of the (Inward high school, was married on It's sick bed to Miss May Reed. Berry had I long Siege f typhi iti fever, and thought be would die. S inee li e weil, ing he it Improving and will recover. itied in tetesna Richmond. tad., Nov. 10 - Word from Kingman. A. T.. convey - BSWl of the ileath of lb v I -;i Montfort, formerly of Wsyne county. He was taken sick on a train near Kingman nr.d tlied at that place the f. . ..wing day. He was about N years old. Haater Katallf shut. M'tneie. Ind.. Nov. 10.- Lewis Penny erst fatally shot while hunt ing. lb was i i i against a ttlmp when his gm Was accidentally ili- hargeil and the load f buckshot entered h'.s body. lull I'riive tnlnl. Terre Haute. Ind.. Nov. 10.- John gbay, a bricklayer, who fell down stairway at the Tult saloon, died frm his injuries. w aesas it sahedi Cireenville. Ind.. Nov in Mr- Kate Martin, nee ( oinlo. of thi- city, was robbed f tlM whleh ike kept in a dirty el the- ba-kit iu a ' -et. Mr. Martin'- husband is a priSOfl ennrd at Auburn. N N ftd nhCWei prepiriiig 0 go to Auburn 10 live. i,imii i assaletedi Mishawnkn. Ind., Nov. 10. The telephone servil betwt en this ity and a -.core of nortl.. in Iti' iana t'.wn nnd eitles has beet, romptett d, IbWi making complete the I lephone loop from central Indiana titles, to seat thf M hIgSS line.

Ill 1 Of WS IM.

President Cai tro of Veue;:uela Makes Triumphal Fntry Iuto Hi Capital. FLIGHT OF THE REBELS CONTINUES. 1 lie HI-neu (lev oliilloinirv BlSBilt ire i naata to teeosust lbs sn, i.i. i, rallnpss of Hi.' itcvi.iuHenmiislen. nlatea Taauahl na- Oaae to Teeaeeaii ( arueas, Vcmv m'hi, Nov. 11. I'resld nt (a-tro made a triumphal entry im. Csrseas, Bunday, at the bead ol e.u'uo troops, Mroidsi Iba ringing ol bells and a display ol tirevv.ul.. The president reached Lo TetjUCSj trom ha Victoria, Saturday, without having encountered any revolutionists' atJ the way there, and left l.os Teipies, Sunday, for Caracas, hy train over the Herman railroad, the luidg. - along the line which bud been destroyed by the revolutionists having been repaired. The llig'it of the anui.s of the revolution coli t i inn s. Not even tlic Caracas revolutionary COBUnlttCi CUB explain the cause of the split among the Laders of tin movement, or say what has beeon f the about 10,000 soldiers who were under arms us late a- November ?. The government ofBeialfl believe Gen. Matos has gone in the directloB ol TUCSCSS (a seaport on Iba Caribbean -,a, miles fnun Puerto CbbeUo). President Castro Intends to reocctipy ( orb... Boroelona, Cludad Bolivar sad ( nniananii Immediately, 0a Saturday he sent 1,500 nu n, under (icn. Leopold Baptist, to attack Corvo. Communications between ( ara.a , Valencia and Puerto Cube IIa is re-established. IN THE HEART OF THE GHETTO Lnadaa'a lefd Mujor'n Paaaaat Tra eaiaes I'ntlniiil tune, l or I lie lirnt Time in llinl.irv. London, Nov. 11. --Monday, for Ihe Bial time in the history of London, the lord mayor's procession traversed the unfashionable thoroughfare of Petticoat Lane, in the heart of the Ghetto, in recognition of the Jewish ancestry of Sir Marcus Samuel, the new b.rd mayor. Jewish London espe eially celebrated the event. The poorest inhabitants of W'hitcchnpel and Houndsditch srere banqueted si the expense f their wealthier eoreligioaists. The quaint tnnusl progress of the executive chief through the metropolis wa- probably inure brilliant than usual. Seven richly-decorated floats and 1". bands representing crack regiment-;, together with the city ..lli. ials, and the London guilds, made up a g.xxlly pageant. unique feature wa- a float representtsttve f the An-glo-.Iapanese alliance, surmounted by the arms of lw'th countries, and surrounded by a guard of Japanese bluejackets. WHAT'S THE SIGNIFICANCE. lint Menus Ilnlfunr. i hantlerlnl n, Ilrodrlek'a nnd Rnaamee William's VUlt lo HnndrliiKliauit New York. Nov. 11. --Hitherto King Edward kas celebrated his birthday in q:iiet fashion at his delightful Norfolk home, but it is certain that I'retoi.r Balfour, Colonial Secretary Chamberlain ud War Secretary Brodarick wie not present, Sunday , merely to wish him raany happy returns of the gay or to extend a welcome, to h'.s imperial nephew, rays a Tribune dispatch from London. Official state mentl Which arc published protest that that kslaer) vtall is quite devoid of political ilgnifleance, but few people her.- re.diy believe that the Geantan emperor has come merely to shoot pheasants. London is anxious to greet klm. The imp. rial visitor will, however, remain at Ssndringhsm for a week, ami then go direct to l...wther castle on a visit to the earl of Lonsdale, for whom he ha- an ext r.i ordinary attachment. FOR ALLEGED GRAFTING. 1 1 1 -Police 4 ii H ii I ii Uoynlhnn, of ew gaeh it, Otsavsjed win, Koa leetlna lut fur ln. New York. Nov. ii After serving over a quarter of a century on the police force. . ( apt. I. C. Mayiiihan has been takes to police headqiiarters und place I in a c-idl there, n prisoner, lie was arte-t. tl at his home on a warrant Issued i lastlcc Holbrook, of the court of ipecinl sessions, on afBdavitS a Worn to by a ward man formerly Connected with the station in which Moynihaa vvas in command predom to hi- retirement, nnd hy two Italian The pecifli ehsrge against the former captain is alleged failure to enforce the law agnlntt a r ort Conducted by Italians, for Whlcb.lt is iSM it. I, be was paid 40 MOTION TO QUASH SUSTAINED. The Missouri Supreme Innrl llrfuae I or. lei avaweattesM ha BSWSed nt l ull nine. JeaVrsoa City. M. ., Nov. U, The Mfkaouri aoprensa courl sustained mo lion to quash the alten alive writ of mandamus laaued at the relation of Dr. W. p. inn. of st. lentis, to compel the state board of eipia lization to iS" seaB corporations In Ml souii nt their full value. No opinion was written ibt the caae. The declalnn inkes the cas out ofthe aancaasM court.

THE CROP YIELDS FOR iqo3.

rrsllmliiMi t llnlliimten ol the Ur..o : meat of Aansvaitare t Mm faiseai t rops l:..u-l Iu I no .. Washington, Nov. 1L The preliasL nar.v clinuitc of Ihe average yield per ucre of corn, ;ts piiblishe.i in the monthly report of the statistician f the aVpariasoat ol asyriaajlttMre 1 ls. kaakebv as lompiircd with an average yield of .0 S bushels in I'.ioi. : lot hels In l'.KKi und Ivei, and u t ui-cr average sf 93.4 bushels. The general averaga as to t iljty 'e go.7 per cent., as pared with "" f jm r in. lust year. W.I par cent, in 1900 and W I per cent, in 1 s 9 ' It is estimated that abOUl 1.9 per as s cent, of the corn Top Of 1901 "as Mill in the hands of farmer- on November i. I00C, as compared with a per cent, ol the crop of 1000 In farmers' hands ,,n November I, I 0', Bttd 4.4 par cent, i f that of 1M la ban is, November. 1000. The preliminary estimate of th average yield per sota of backt heut . ls.i bushels nuainst is.ii !) 1- in ItOtt IS.0 bushels in ItOO an I a tea year average of it.:.' bushels., (if 'lie si ven states having IM.oOO fieri - or npwatda ander this product Including New York und renn yh Ilia, which together contain about Ihrecfoiirths of the entire buckwheat tu I - age of thi country i Bve report n yield per acre in BCesS of their f , 'cti' ten -year averages. Tke general ;.v.rage ii a to quality is Ss.l Der c nt. against (:!.:: jn-r cent, last y ir ani 90.L' per cent . in 1960. The preliminary estimate f the yield per acre of potatoe, is i bushel-, against an avcratr vleld p r acre ff t&J busbela in 1901, - - bushels in 1990 ami a tea-year avorng 7.'..'. bushels. Of the stau- liav.tr lttO.COO acres or upwatd in pOtitt all xcept Now York an I Mtchtu iu re port a yield per acre conaiderahir above their ten-year virag average aa t quality la Vki as compared with "s-i p r November la-t and ss.l per November. l'.'Ui. O! the ii principal sweet fhe r c 'nt. cm. ia nt. in potato producing states, six. Including rgia ami South Carolina, report sver ige yields per acre of sweet p ttut ici in excess of their ten-year average and live, including North ( at. mi. a aul Alabama, report y ields below - ieh Bf er.tg s. The preliminary estimate of the average yield pel acre of hay i- l.ät ton against on average yield of .fg tons In l'.Ol and 1990 and I ten-v. ar bvee age of tons. The preset,! ,. ' 1 i, with the exception of tgfg, the high est ever re Ofted hy the department at agriculture and each of the II principal hay-producing fates reports in average yiebl in excess- of that "f last year and also la excess of the teayear average. The average a- to q . ! Ity is V 7 j, r cent., against I t p r cent, in November la-t. ami 09." ;e ceat, in November. 1990). All of tb ten tobacco Btatem, X cept Pennsylvania, report average yields per acre of tobacco in KCl - 'f their ten-year aver ages. The quality of the t i.ai eo crop is fair. The apple and near Cropa Bl ! COOr siderubly aliove the ten-year av in nearly all the Mates in which the rnbing Of tln-e fruits is of any nipoet nnce, and the grape crop is ,ichty belOW atlch average. AN 0LEÖMARGARINE CASE. I ii I teal Hates Noprenie Court tflirSsS a New llatutshlre Deelalnn In lt -Brd to Color tu Br t.lvru It. Wushingt i n. Nov. IL Hy u .'ivi led courl, the Cnitcd Slates aUpreUM court, Monday, aflrmed tke dei i of the suprcine 'ourt of the state of New Hsmpahire in the ease of I larvata ES, Collins vs. that state. Lie case involved the constitutionality "f the New lln-npshire law rcqtiiritt-' oleomargarine to be given a coloi fereut from the color of butter 0 I " he labeled. The validity of the law was aaatoiiK d by the court below, and Ike cfTeet of tin- action of th i rl ral Ruareme court is to validate tnat opinion. BELIEVES IN A FAIR DI AL. Triuime r "nnaresnmnn Thlaka His QjppnnMH sSatttled to trete that Were mated linlimt HUn. Bristol, Teaa Nov. Ilr-Cong nv man Rhta, democrat, of the Ninth district, Itonday, in a sigas i atate incut says, in reference to the rejection of the precincti of Pattlaon and McadotS in the returns from ,;ist week's election, tbtlt while he is IfO the comadasloners were honest in their belief that the return.'- shoul i !"' rejected. hC believes the VOtCS belong to 81emp, republican, and would proh ably ciei t him: and if a certificate f election is i-sued by the st; (C boaH to Rhea, i:i-eti on the ex I ii Ion of the vot.s naentloned, he will decllBS to accept it. ihe tthnrtnar of t nra. Chicago, Nov. ii. it is aatimated bv conservative and expert traffic men that the demand for cars to mow ths trafbc of the country which i ",,Mr being offered for transportation ia fully "0,000 ill excess of Ihe upply. Colorntlo l.ulil I I ll. Colorado city. Cal Nov. w - B. n. Cliulcsluirv , I prospector ol this . ;i , baa daseurered o Boa gold leid which promises t become an Important ramp, it in located six mill southwest of Colorado Springs, bj '' "r creek canyon.