Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 10, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 July 1895 — Page 2

fifce (founts fjrmmat X. XeO. BTOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. There were light frosts in low places in South Dakota, on the night of the 8th. but no damage was done. Nine Italian war ships paid a com' plimentary visit'to the British fleet at Kpithead on the Oth. Salutes were ex* changed. * The secretary of the interior, on the 11th, directed that the payment of the 3600,000 to the Ner Pprces tribe of Indians in Idaho be resumed. It is thought that a re-survey of Pike's Peak, now being made by government engineers, will prove the peak to be 15,647^ feet high, a gain of 1,100. feet.

The German steamer Nordstrand loaded 325 tons of Alabama coke at Mobile, on the 10th, for Mexico. This is the first considerable shipment of coke from thut port. Failures in the United States during the week ended the 12th, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 253, against 247for the same week last year. In Canada the failures were 53, against (0 last year. Ice formed on water tubs - in the region 40 miles north of Sioux City, la., on the niglit of the 8th. Corn looked as if it had been injured, but it was thought to be too far along to be seriously damaged. • Assistant Secretary of the Interior John M. Reynolds has decided that the father of a deceased soldier has no pensionable status under the act of June 27.1890, during the lifetime of such soldier’s mother. ' The venerable Rev. D. R. McAnnally, senior editor of the St. Lonis Christian Advocate, and one of the most prominent men in the Southern Methodist church, died, on the 11th, at his ' residence, in St. Louis, aged 85 years. The longshoremen in convention in Milwaukee, on the 11th, decided to make their body international, and a fund was set aside to organize on the Pacific, Atlantic and gulf coasts. The amendment to exclude saloonkeepers was lost, — - ^ - Notices were posted in the Atlantic mills at Providence, R. I., on the 11th, announcing that an advance in wages jr will go into effect in the several departments of that concern on the 29th. The notices did not state the rate of inorease. * The state department was informed on the 10th, by Mr. Dcnby, United States minister to China, that Pnk Yonk Hyo, minister of the interior and the practical dictator of Corea, had fled from that country under charges of treason. Mrs. Mary Brown, a monogamian pensioner, died, <^n the 16th, at her home 5 miles from Knoxville, Tenn. She was the widow of Joe Brown, a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was born im 1804. Her husband died . fifty-one years ago. Judge Woods, of Chicago, on the 9th, modified the sentence of Eugene V. Debs from one year in jail to six months, and those of the other directors of the American Railway union from six months to three. -The sentences are now concurrent as the court originally imposed them. Vi ---- Mayor Pingree's five-year fight for three-cent car fares in Detroit, Mich., was crowned with suecesss, on the 10th, when the mayor, as motorman, took out the first car on > Everett & Pack’s new line in opposition to the Tom Johnson road. Mayor Pingree is now sure of a fourth term- * -4A national Cuban presidential election was held, on the 10th, all over the United States, and also in Mexico, Jamaica and South America. There were over 100 clubs controlling as many election districts in the United States. Early returns indicated th< choice of Palma for president.

The question of the ownership 01 several hundred thousand acres of land in Los Angeles county, Cal., recently decided as belonging to the United States, will probably be carried to the United States supreme court on appeal by the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. for final adjudication. Tcixy Scott, John Armstrong and Joseph Humphreys, directors of the Hutchinson (Kas.) reformatory, have tendered their resignations to Gov. Morrill rather than submit to an investigation of the charges of extravagance and profligate expenditures of state money preferred against them. French Deputies Richard and Denoid fought a duel, on the 12th, with pistols, with the usual result, neither being injured. On the same day M. Bassett and M. Archain, members of the Seine municipality, fought a duel 'with swords, with the unusual result that Bassett was wounded in the wrist. / • At the request of the warden of the Clinton (N. Y.) prison, from which he is a fugitive, the state department, on the 9th, asked the French authorities to hold Tom O'Brien, the notorious bunco steerer, in the event he be acquitted on his trial for killing his partner, Reed 'Waddell, of Springfield. ’111., in Paris, on March 27 last. Gen. Greet, y, who has been granted ileave of absence for two months, will attend the International Geographical conference in London, as the delegate (of the National Geographical society •of Washington city. His presence has 'been particularly requested by the •officials in charge, and he will take part in the discussion on the subject ol Arctic and Antarctic explorations.

CURRENT TOPICS. i * .- THE HEWS IN BHEP.

PERSONAL AND GENERAU The improvement in the condition of Bpring wheat brought by the recent rain* may bring the aggregate crop up to 473,000,1900 bushels. The yield will certainly be from 25,000,000 to’r.0,000,000 gresiter than anybody a month ago expected. Corn promises to go above the 2,000,000.000 mark—to very nearly or quite reach the highest figures ever touched. , 4 The coal operators of the Birmingham (Ala.) district, who control seven* eighths of the'output south of Richmond, Va., have completed the formation of a combination for the regulation of prices and the maintenance of u uniform system of securing contracts. Two bombs were exploded near the police barracks at Monopoli, Italy, on the night of the 1st. No one was hurt and verjr little damage was done. Wiixi am Best, the most notorious resident of the vicinity of Paint Lick, Ky.., was shot and instantly killed at Paint Lick, on the 8th, by Speed Nunn, as the outcome of a quarrel. The killing of Best wipes out a family of outlaws who have Wen the terrors of that section for many years. Tiik first section of an excursion train on the Grand Trunk railway from Sherbrooke, Que., carrying pilgrims to the famous shrine of Ste. Anne de Baupre, stopped at Craig’s road crossing, at 3:45 a. m. on the 9th, when it was run into by the second section, causing a frightful wreck in which thirteen persons were killed and twice that number injured. On the 8th the bodies of eight Chinese )vere fouud in the San Joaquin river at. Madera, Cal. The3f had been working in the mines situated in the mountain, 8 miles distant. Foul play is suspected. A troixky car with thirty passengers on board became unmanageable at East Liverpool, O., on the 8th. and slid down the Franklin avenue hill on the north side of the city^ killing one man and injuring>eighteen other people, two of whom will die. David Mkrcikr. or J. West Mercier, better known by his stage name, “Ned; West,” all over the country, was, on the 8th, adjudged insane b}’ the county court of .Madison county^ 111. West was at one time a famous minstrel, and also an acrobat and aeronaut. The secret service of the post office department has issued a circular offering a reward of $3,000 for the capture of Joseph Killoran, Harry Russell and Charles Allen, who escaped from the Ludlow Street jail in New York city, July 4. The men are wanted for post office|robberies and other crimes. One •thousand dollars will be paid for the returh of any one of the trio to the ■United. States marshal in New York. JoiifN Case, alias McDowell, was positively; identified at Riddles, Ore., on the, 9th, as the man who wont through the' coaches and took the booty in the hold-up of the Oregon express in Cow Creek canyon, recently. He was held in $70,000 bail. James Pool was also held in $5,000 on suspicion of being one of the robbers. Two burglars were shot at Poland, Ind., on the night of the 8tli. One named Harry Jackson, a noted Chicago crook, was killed, and another, named Arch Agar, was fatally wounded. He was from Terre Haute. A third man, named Ed Barker, made his escape, A caisson of a large bridge in course of construction by a firm at NasalHama. Egypt, sank, on the 9th, with forty workmen, all of whom were killed. Bv the collapse of a*platform upon which jjUOOO persons had gathered to participate in the Elk festivities in the Inlet Casino at Atlantic City, N. J., on the evening of the 10th, 100 of their number were precipitated to the floor below, a distance of 35 feet, all of whom sustained more or less serious injuries! while some, it was thought, would die. The Cornell creW was hopelessly beaten by the Trinity Hall eight at Henley-on-Thames, on the* 10th. The men were either overtrained or, as the London Times suggests, had been tampered with before the race, as five of the eight showed signs of physical collapse.

i he .>an rrancisco examiner saia, on the 9th, that the stolen will qf esSenator Fair was in the possession of a detective named John Curtain; that he stole iit from the cierk’s office January 28 last and had offered to surrender it to the executors for $5,000, which offer had been rejected on advice of Judge Stock. Judge Gatnor, of the supreme court of New York, on the 9th, admitted exPolice Inspector Win. W. McLaughlin, who had been convicted of extortion, to bail in the sum of $50,000. Mr. McLaughlin was still under $20,000 bail on indictments which had not yet been tried. * Mrs. George Montgomery, of Jeffersonville, Ind., was taken suddenly ill, on the 10th, with what the attending physicians declared to be a well-de-veloped and hopeless case of cholera. Seth Richards, Iowa’s wealthiest landowner and pioneer, died at Oakland, Cal., on the 10th, aged 83. His wealth is estimated at $6,000,000. Ten stores, comprising most of the business portion of Wauwatosa, a suburb of Milwaukee, were burned on the 10th; loss, $50,000. “ The crops throughout Clinton county, Ind.,; were badly damaged by a heavy frpst on the morning of the 10th. A thin coating of ice also formed on water, Gen. F. M. Drake received the republican nomination as gubernatorial candidate at Des Moines, la., on the 10th. | The internal revenue bureau has begun work in connection with the refunding of money paid as income tax. Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton has gone to Europe, and, it is hinted, a reconciliation with her husband may be confidently lookefi for*

Nicolas Pierola, leader of the rev* olutionary party la Pern, has been elected president, and Mr. Billinghurst, vice-president. The election was quiet Senator Vest, of Missouri, sailed from New York on the Westernland for Antwerp on the 10th. He will remain abroad for his health for several months. The committee of the city council of Richmond. Va., which had been investigating the affairs of the gas works, reported, on the 11th, that in the ad•ministration of nine years of the late Wa Adams, a shortage of over $25,000 was found. The face of an unknown negro was found in Waycross, Ga., on the night of the 10th. It had been severed from ! the head, and the body could not be found. The face wore a smile and | the peculiar fate of its owner is a mystery. ‘

The Cornell men at Healey, England, held a meeting*, on the 10th. and resolved, subject to the approval of the University of Ithaca, to send two crews to Heniey in 1896.* The necessary funds were arranged for. The steamer Kite, with the Peary expedition on board, suited from St. Johns, N. F., lor Greenland at daylight on the 11th. The weather waa clear and pleasant and the wind from a most favorable point. Hon. A. K. Angers, Canadian minister bf agriculture, designed from the cabinet, on the lltli, as a result of differences with his colleagues on the Manitoba school question. The governor of Pennsylvania, on the 11th, respited Albert W. Woodley, the Allegheny county murderer, until October 22. He was sentenced to be hanged on the 18th. The secretary of the interior, on the Uth, apDroved two school-indemnity lists in the Sacramento (Cal.,) land district, embracing 12,592 acres. <’ Maj. H. E. Aj.vokd, chief of the dairying division of the department of agriculture, left Washington, on the 11th, for Denver, Col., to preside over the agricultural congress of western farmers, which meets in that city. On the lltli Deputy Sheriff Thompson levied an attachment on the 810,000 that Fitzsimmons, the pugilist, had put in the hands of ‘'Phil” Dwyer, of Brooklyn, as forfeit money for his coining fight with Corbett. .The attachment was grunted by Justice Stover on oehalf of Janies 1J. Tooker, who recently got a judgment for 83,0s7 against Fitzsimmons. The American steam yacht Yampa, belonging to Chester W. Chapin,whipsized in the drvdock in Fay’s yard at 'isbauthampt,m, on t he 12th, and was completely wrecked. The yacht was just about to be launched, all preparations having been made, when she suddenly fell over with a great crash. Several men were injured, two of them, employes at Fay’s yard, fatally. A report was received, on the 12th, of a fight in Jackson’s Hole, south ol the Yellowstone park, between settlers of the region aud a part}’ of Bannock Indians who were unlawfully killing game. One Indian was killed and fifteen captured. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, Cincinnati, Dayton & Ironton, and the Cincinnati, Dayton & Michigan! railroad ,com panics have been consolidated into one company, to be known as the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Co. The vacancy in the Dominion cabinet caused by the resignation of Mr. Angers will not be filled by the government until after the prorogation of parliament. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The Turkish government has failed to pay the arrears due to the "Krupps for guns which they supplied to the forts in the Dardanelles, aud the great gun makers have refused to supply any more guns under the contract and have asked the German government to intervene diplomatically to compel a settlement of the porte’s indebtedness. The emperor of Germany, is in receipt of letters from German princes insisting that unless the services of Prince Bismarck in 1870 have appropriate tribute paid them the princes will refuse to be present at the celebration of German victories to be held in the autumn in Alsace-Loraine. The associated banks of New York city, in their statement for the week ended the 13tli, showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, 81,231,000:

ioans, decrease, 82,512,700; specie, decrease, 8231,000: legal tenders, increase, 89S7,400; deposits, decrease. 81,903,2*»0; circulation, increase, $44,S00. A maruiagr has been arranged between Prince Maximilian of Baden, heir of the grand duke of Baden, and Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Hol-stein, daughter of Prince Christian. The pair met at Windsor recently and Queen Victoria gave her assent to the betrothal. X Mb. Edwin F. tJiH., the. assistant secretary of state ofxhc United States was a passenger on the HamburgAmerican line steamer Columbia, which arrived at Southampton on the 14th. He did not land there, but proceeded on the Columbia to Hamburg. A sinr which was sunk in the Baltic canal lies upon her side near.the right bank of the waterway. Canal pilots were notified, on the 14th, that the passage Of the canal is open, but that extreme care must be observed. The Michigan malleable iron works at “Detroit, which employs between 300 aud 400 men, nearly all of whom are skilled workmen, will voluntarily increase the wages of its employes 10> per cent., beginning August h The London season closed with a state ball at Buckingham palace on the night of the 15th. The princess of Wales and her daughters, the Princesses Victoria and Maud, were present. By an explosion in a powder magazine at Tivoli, Italy, on the 14th, five persons were killed and several injured. The cause of the explosion is unknown. On the 13th the banks of New York city held 833,405,300 in excess of the reqniremen Is of the 25-per-cent. rule.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Trij southern part of Porter count} te a* visited the past week by an army of grasshoppers, which is literally eat* mg up the crops. Whole fields of hay and corn have been taken by them. The damage amounts to thousands of dollars. —

A rkuarkablb instance occurred at Hagerstown. John Rowe, aged 78, the father of sixteen living children, and all but three attended his birthday an* I niversarv at his home near there. ! There were ninety-five relatives present. Sullivan county reports the melon i crop in excellent condition, but with three-fourths less acreage than last year. Du. Joshua H. Kbster, a prominent physician of Hammond, sixty-6even years of age, committed suicide the other morning in his office. When discovered he was lying on the floor with his coat thrpwn over his head, and was apparently asleep, but on examination it was found that the coat had been saturated with chloroform and he was dead. The Elwood Natural Gas and Oil Co., of Elwood, has been sued for $40,000. Jerry Claxton wants $25,000 and Charles Hand demands $15,000 for personal injuries sustained. Mr asd Mrs. Josiah Srelt celebrated their golden wedding in Elkhart. Rev. Hayden Rayburn, of Kokomo, has married 1,270 couples in the past half century. The Studebakers, at South Bend are organizing a fine band among their employes. Gold brick swindlers have struck Whitley county. At Indianapolis Jacob Allen, a young colored man, well known, the other afternoon sprang off a bridge into the canal with suicidal intent. The water was too shallow, but he continued to wade until he found a deep hole, and then sank to the bottom. » A Wabash woman has been bothered by a cat which killed her chickens, and, not being able to induce any of her male acquaintances to kill it, she caught the feline the other day, and, holding it by the neck at arm’s length, shot it full of holes with a revolver. Rev. Omkr Oakes, of Wheeler, Porter county, died the other morning, aged 45. A singular coincidence exists in the death of the Oakes family. All the members, eight in number, so far, have died on Sunday, and the funerals were held on Tuesday. The deceased prophesied his death on that day last Wednesday. Libhif. Moore, aged 1C years old, of Leo. refused to assist in washing the breakfast dishes, and then, it is said, she went to her room and attempted suicide with rat poison. Big Four road has purchased 71 acres of land at Jeffersonville, on which to erect the new’ shops. Walter Lowe, an employe of the American wire-nail works, was badly burned while cleaning out one of the mammoth boilers. While suffering from the effects of a recent siege of sickness, Miss Rose Ellars, living near Peru, ended her life with morphine. While Charles Brothers was digging a well Monday on the farm of Joseph Soppier, near Wabash, the bucket dropped on his head, crushing his skull. He can not live. . The seventeen-year-old daughter of Daniel Shannas, of Parke county, was found beaten to death in the woods near her home a few days ago. A neighbor, a married man. is snspected. Frank Walcon, while painting his residence north of Brazil, fell from a ladder and broke his neck, killing him instantly. New fourth-class postmasters commissioned in this state: W. S. Fowler, Guy; Henry Howard, Phlex; W. D. Boedeker, Voorhees; W. H. McCloskey, Youngstown. At Franklin while cleaning a shotgun, the 13-year-old son of W. F. Hendricks accidentally touched the trigger. One of the shots struck a son of Van West, who was standing near, in the hip, producing a very dangerous wound. West Indianapolis citizens raised $300 for a grand fireworks blowout on the evening of the Fourth. Clay City is reveling in concrete sidewalks. ' >

Edinburg is angling lor an antitrust starch factory. Mii.k dealers at Ft. Wayne have raised the price to eight cents a quart. South Bund has a brood of petty burglars.. Clay county sheep are being killed by dogs. At Muncie Uncle Jimmy Stewart, aged 64, died from the effects of falling down steps, dislocating his hip. At Logansport, while bathing in Eel river Albert, the 14-year-old son of Prof. Graham N. Berry, principal in the Logansport public schools, was seized with cramps and was drowned in the presence of companions. Indianapolis was remarkably quiet the Fourth under the operations of the Nicholson temperance law. There are 350 idle convicts in the prison south. The Union Steel Co., Alexandria, let J a contract for fifty houses to be built near its plant. Mxddlkbury has a new hook and ladder outfit and a volunteer fire company will be organized. At Evansville, the other afternoon, Henry Kirkendall, aged 26. was killed with a Filbert rifle in the hands of Ben Sandefur. Kirkendall was playing ball and Sandefur was in a woods nearby hunting. Sandefur is under Irrest. At Matthews, the Semi-steel Casting | Co., manufacturers of semi-steel and gray iron eastings for rolling mill, smelting works and railroad purposes, I was located the other day by the Matthews Land Co. This company will employ not less than 165 hands at the start. Union City is to have a new court house. \

WIND, HAIL AND RAIN Combine in the Detraction of Ufe nnd property In Several Atlantic Conet 8UtM —TwtDj.riY* Dwelling* Blown Awny and Three Person* Killed nt Cherry Hill, S. J.—The Tobneco Sections of Connecticut Devastated. Cherry Hill. N. J., July 14.—A tornado swept; over this place at 3:30 yesterday afternoon and besides ridding twenty-five families of their homes, killed three persons outright and injured’many others. The depot of the New Jersey & New York railroad was picked up and carried up the tracks nearly 200 feet and then fell on the other side of the track. Agent Wetling claims he went along with part of the depot and war found under a freight car. / A large beam went sliding through the side of the Reformer church, while the edifice was knocked two feet oil its foundation. Condar Friedman was in the act ol closing the upstairs shutters, when the wind blew him out of the window and he landed on his head on the hav scales, death being instantaneous. Mrs. Ahren’s body was found in the ruins when her house aud that of a neighbor were lifted into the air together and came down in a confused mass. Hailstones fell at Hackensack, a mile south of here, but the wind storm was not felt. Struck by a Tornado.

Th* Tobacco Section* of Connecticut Oe. vaa toted. Hartford, Conn., July 14.—A destructive hailstorm, accompanied- by wind, swept through the tobacco sections about here yesterday afternoon between 3 and 4 o’clock, extending over a track about a mile wide. Windsor Locks, Suffield* East Hartford, Glastonbury. Manchester and Wethersfield, were the towns that suffered worst. In Suffield the tobacco crop is riddled and partially ruined. At Wood’s station, just north of Windsor Locks, Harvey Fuller, who had sought refuge in a shed, was struck by lightning and seriously injured. In Glastonbury hail fell two inches deep, and where it fell from the barns and houses it was eighteen inches deep. The tobacco crop in that town and in the south part of East Hartford i is totally ruined. Leaves are stripped ! from the trees and the whole section ; is devastated. t- - j In this city the ha|l was heavy, and in the southwestern section garden I crops were destroyed. The loss cannot be estimated, as the wires are down in many places and telephoning is impossible. It will certaiuly reach over $>00,000. A Premature Twilight. New York, July 14.— Shortly aftei 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon the northern portion of this city was visited by a heavy rain and hailstorm. The heavy clouds darkened, the upper part of the city for a quarter of an hour before the rain began to fall and in the midst of what appeared to be a premature twilight, big drops of rain fell, followed by hail stones as large as hickory nuts. ^ So far as known there was no loss of life or severe bodily injuries. The breakage of | windows aud damage to valuable vege-; tation in gardens and conservatories was considerable. It was reported that two row boats were capsized in the upper Harlem, but the occupants safely reached shore. In the vicinity of One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street and Lennox avenue there were hundreds of sparrows’ bodies lying on the sidewalk and roadway after the violence of the storm had subsided. Hailstones us Big as Walnuts. Redbaxk, N. J.. July 14.—A severe thunder and hailstorm visited this section last evening. Hailstones as large as walnuts fell, covering the ground thickly and doing considerable damage. At Morrisville the hailstones broke several windows in the CathoUc church. Windows in several dwellings were also broken. The corn anti berry crops were badly damaged. The storm lasted about half an hour. „ Thirty Houses Blown Down. Brooklyn, N. Y., July 14.—At 4:15 o’clock yesterday afternoon east New York was visited by a destructive windstorm. ^Several large trees in Cypress Hill cemetery were uprooted. At Woodhaven, L. I., it is reported that more than thirty houses were blown down. One woman was killed and a number of persons injured.

CYCLONE IN NORTH DAKOTA. A House Dashed to Pieces and a Girl Fatally Hurt. Grafton, N. D.. Jnlv 15.—A cyclone struck the farm of 0. D. Elson, sis miles northeast of here, at 6:55 o’clock yesterday evening. It lifted the dwelling up into the air, whirled it around, and dashed it into a thousand pieces. A girl named Peters was fatally hurt. Three miles southwest a farmer named Hudson had the roof taken oil his house and there is undoubtedly more damage done. The twister was plainly seen from Grafton anil 'seemed to be taking a southeast course at one time coming directly toward Grafton, but turned to the east and may have crossed the Red river. East of here reports come in that the grain is badly damaged. THE STEAMER MEXICO Foundered in the Straits of Belle Isle—The Crew Saved. Montreal July 15.—Word has reached here that the steamer Mexico, owned by the Elder Dempster Co., of London, England, foundered in the Straits of Belie isle, and is a total wreck. The Mexico was valued at $35,000, and carried a large cargo of cattle and merchandise, including the first cold storage consignment of butter from Montreal. The crew was saved. There were no passengers on board.

DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW. A St rone and Rapid Flood of RuImn Fa* «**«*! for a MMiainmrr Somnn—A mtrnmtional Fall *n«l Rtrorerr la the Frlec of Wheat-Crop ProapM-U-1 a praremaat la Iron—Woof and CotUm-The Week** FaUarea. New York, July 1A—R. G. Dun 4kCa, in their weekly review of trade,, issued to-day, say: A business flood so strong and rapid that the conservatives fear it may doe harm, is out of season in July. But. the seasons this year lap over and* crowd each other. May frosts and. frights, it is now evident, kept back: much business that would naturally* have been finished before midsummer,, and the delayed cumulation of one season gets in the way of efforts to begin*, another. But the volume of business,, however, it may be measured, is remarkably large for the month. The week has been notable for a ensational fall in wheat of 8 cents, in two days, followed by recovery oft Scents. The sudden drop in prices: was the result of speculative, rather* than commercial influences, though* exports not half as large as last year— 51,097,645 bushel, flour included, from. Atlantic ports, for two weeks of July," against 4,227.915 last year—had their* effect as well as western receipts oft 1,937,474 bushels, against 2,156,918 last year.

JCbe latest news indicates an enormous crop of corn, much the largest, ever grown, if weather favors, but the* price is only three-eights lower than a . week ago. \ - Cotton has not changed, thoughspeculation still turns wholly on prospects, regardless of enormous stoekscarried over. In Europe the manufacture lags, but here it is satisfactory. Speculation in stocks has weakened in spite of better crop prospects, caring more for current prices of sugar, gas and whisky, than for railroad! earnings and tonnage. Railroad stocks, of the better class have beeu fairlysteady, but those liable to assessment are weak. The average has declined. 12 cents per share, while trusts, aftersome sensational changes, average IT cents |ower. The weekly output of pig iron was. 171,194 tons, having risen 13,970 tons, in June, and other furnaces havinggone into operation since July 4. The " rapid rise in prices has brought interoperation many additional works, and there is still a rush to buy beforeprices advance further, 'Infltien- , ttyl manufacturers’ are sendingout warnings that the rise may easily do mischief, and' priceshave in fact advanced nearly 9 per , cent, in two weeks, but are still IS per cent, lower than in October 1892. The demand for structural .forms is enormous. J Wool-is still advancing with enormous sales, 12,714,000 pounds for theweek, and in two weeks of July 26,497,014 pounds, against 11,986,550 in the same weeks of 1892. As the sales ares about four times the weekly consumption, it is obvious that the market is, essentially speculative, but the riseabroad has set the country ablaze so that western holders are asking even, higher prices than heretofore. Seorcitv of domestic wood helps, them and the enormous sales of foreign only compensate for the reported: . decrease in the domestic clip. But. buying by most manufacturers is al—" ready affected, and at the prices m>w~ asked for wool some manufacturers, are doubting whether a corresponding^ value for goods can be realized. Opening prices for many light weight goods shows great irregularity, perhaps majority being on a par with last year, but some lower and some higher. * Cotton goods continue active and-f strong, with comparatively little difficulty as to labor. The northern mills have taken little over 10C,000 baleen in the past three months, since cottom was below 7 cents, but with cotton* bought cheap for five months ahead, they are able to do good business. It is not the season for activity ini boots and shoes, and orders have falleci off. Prices of shoes, leather and hidesa^e as stiff as ever.' Foreign trade is not quite encouraging, exports for July showing aJarge-' decrease. \ The failures for the first four day#% of July show liabilities of 81,258,500, of which $386,434 were of manufacturing and $702,066 of trading concerns. Failures this week have been 253 id the United States against 247 last, year, and 35 in Canada, against 49 lasts year.l

A BURSTING GRINDSTONE Fatally Injure* Two Men at the Detroit*Steel Spring Works. Detroit, Mich., July IS.—A grind— stone at the Detroit steel spring' vorks,. corner of Michigan and Hubbard avenues, .burst at 7:45 o’clock yesterday* morning, probably fatally injuring* Bert Drury, who was handling the-? stone, and Frank Goodman, who was: moving a heavy piece of machinery* through the shops at the time the explosion occurred. The wheel broke? into four large pieces and a number of smaller fragments. Three of the larger pieces were carried through the roof or the Side of the building. Drury’sleft arm was crushed and liis face? smashed, and the bones of the skull were driven into his brain. Littles hope is entertained of his recovery. Goodman’s chest was crushed in and.’ he received internal- injuries. Six: othei* men who were at work in the? room were uninjured. Should Have Known Better. London, July IJt—A dispatch from.) Yokohama to the Pall Mall Gazette- * says that a band,of 700 Chinese made? an attack upon the Japanese at Hain*chu, Formosa, on Wednesday, July 10, -and were repulsed, after a short fight*, with a loss of 200 killed. A number* of them were also tak en prisoners. His Millions Won’t Suva Him. New Orleans, July 15.—Henri Bier*, the millionaire capitalist who was recently convicted of perjury in tl*fi criminal district court, was yesterday* refused a new trial hv Judge Moist. * * - 7, ' * ■