Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 41, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 July 1905 — Page 2

THE PLYjHÄ TRIBUNE PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS Q, CO., . . PuhlisLeri.

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Ith. 2ni V 9th. Cg16th. FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD, j Conrt and Crimes Accidents and Fires, Labor and Capital, Graln( Stock and Money Markets. Indiana Man Drowned While Selnajr. Isaac Morgan, an expert tin plate w orker, was drowned in Big Walnut creek, a mile west of Greencastle, Ind., while scinins? for bass with a part of friends. According to the story told to Coronei Kins, Morgan was helping to drag the seine wh in his foot became entangled in the meshes of the seine and he was pulled beneath the surface of the water, which was about seven feet deep. When the seine was dragged to the bank of the creek Morgan's lifeless body was (angling from the lead line. Dogfish Swallowed Boy. A story which equals the usual warm weather tale3 of the sea serpent comes from Messina, Sicily, and has aroused a great deal of interest. A boy of 8 disappeared several days ago and no trace of him could be found, although a systematic search was made of the entire neighborhood. Yesterday fisherman caught a dogfish which measured seventeen feet. When the monster was cut open the boy's body was found intact in the stomach of the fi?h. The mother of the boy has positively identified the body as that of her son. Lafayette Man Fatally Shot. While drawing a glass of soda, Philip J. Treasch, a well known druggist of Lafayette, Ind.,was shot and fatally wounded by Alexander Kennedy, a member of the state soldiers' home. Kennedy walked into the store and, it is alleged, without provocation began cursing aud abusing the druggist, and soon afterward fired the fatal shot. The attending physicians say the wounded man cannot recover. Kennedy, who had been drinking, was arrested and placed in jail. Car Thieves in South Bend. Fully $30,000 worth of goods have been stolen from freight trains on the Grand Trunk railroad system between South Bend and Chicago by car thieves in the last three weeks. As a result of the heavy losses a swarm of detectives have rven put to work in the effort to catch the thieves. So far, although numerous su?peet3 have been arrested, nothing has been found against any of them that implicates them in the robberies. ' Three Men Perish in Wreck. Three men were killed and two probably fatally injured in a wreck on the Iowa Central railroad, near Richland, Iowa. A car of oil took fire, the tank exploded and burned the bodies of the killed to a crisp. The fire destroyed a bridge over a creek where the wreck occurred and burned six cars. All the dead men live at Oskaloosa. Riot at Hebrew Church Dedication. A crowd of over 2,000 persons fought with the police in a wild scramble to gain admittance to the dedication services ol the new synagogue of the congregation fcharis Sphard at St. Louis, Mo. A number were clubbed but none seriously hurt, hats were crushed, women's dresses torn and several women fainted. Marder in a Saloon Near Terre Ilante. Richard Roberts shot and killed an unLnown colored man in Terry Johnson's saloon at Grant, near Terre Haute, Ind. The stranger reported the loss of $10 io some men and Roberts, apparently without cause, interfered and the shooting followed. Roberts was arrested. Crushed by Suburban Train. Anna Ziehm, 9 years old, was crushed to death by a suburban Pennsylvania train at Jefforsonville, Ind., in the presence of her father, brother and sister. She was walking along the double track and in stepping out of the way of one train she stepped in front of another. ' Texas Bank Assigns. A special from Kemp, Tex., says: The Kemp bank, by Dodge Mason, owner and proprietor, and Dodge Mason, individually, executed a general assignment. Assets are estimated at $175,000 with liabilities of $100,000. It i3 believed creditor will be paid in full. Head-on Collision in Indiana. In a head-on collision between two freight trains on the Louisville & Nashville railroad near Upton, Ind., four persons were killed and eight injured. The wreck was cat.sed by a dispatcher mistaking the number of the trains. Locomotive Boiler Explodes. The boiler of an Atchison, Topcka & Santa Fe freight engine exploded at Kingman, Ariz., killing Engineer Copeland and Fireman Bryant and completely wrecking the engine. Women Killed While at Prayer. A dispatch from Fermo, Italy, says: The roof of the chapel of the Women's hospital fell in during the celebration of mass, killing sixteen women and injuring thirty-two. Fell Into a Roaring1 Furnace. Frank Alis, aged 18, employed at Booth's lumber mill at Ottawa, Ont., met a terrible death. He was caught in the machinery ur.ed for burning saw dust and Tell headlcng into the roaring Ham es. He was cremated and was dead before his body reached the bottom of the furnace. ; . Short $240,000 by Speculation. Henrico Cotti, former cashier of the Edison Company at Milan, Italy, is under arrest charged with having embezzled $210,000, which be lost in speculation. It is probable there will be other arrests. Gasoline Stove Explodes. Mrs. Anna Johnston at her home In Omaha, In attempting to light r gasoline tore mistook leaking gasoline 'or water and applied a match, causing, a terrifle explosion which resulted in the woman's death and the partial destruction of her terns. m tlllllonalrs a Culdde. Tba body of Winthrop Turner, a mill icaaire owner of a mine in Conors, llex t--i found la a pastors at Colxbroox, Öcna- There was a bullrt wound in hb tsj his hand clasp zd a rcToIrer. 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EASTERN. Frank M. Fuller, secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is dead from apoplexy. The Glenn building one of the smaller olfleo buildings in Baltimore, collapsed, killing two persons and Injuring one. A general 6triko of east side New York coatniakers is expected by labor lender i. Ten thousand men will bo affected. President Roosevelt haa named D. W. Barker of Washington for United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Dr. William A. Mcale, a prominent and widely known citizen of Baltimore md owner of the Hotel Stafford there, Jied, after a brief illness. Faxiaosa Inn, a famous summer resort cn the summit of Weygadt Mountain, near Easton, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Loss $150,000, insurance $20,000. Walter Kittredge, the poet and author, who wrote Tenting on the Old Camp Ground," died at Reeds Ferry, N. II. Death was ths result of the infirmities of age. Employes at the navy yard l:i Washington threaten to strike because President Roosevelt has not granted them Saturday half-holidays as ho did last summer. During a severe storm . nine persons were struck by lightning in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y. Several of those struck were slightly injured, but none was killed. Robert M. Moorman of Tennessee, formerly Washington correspondent for several southern papers, died suddenly on the street in Washington. He was about 25 years of age. Morris K. Jessnp of New York has Siren $25,000 for Commander Teary'a arctic expedition, completing the $50,000 needed, nud the explorer declares he surely will reach the north pole. Recent disclosures in life insurance circles in the East have caused many companies to report systems of apportioning dividends and "the shorter term is generally gaming in popularity. The navy yard at Portsmouth, N. II., will bo the meeting place of the Russian and Japanese peace plenipotentiaries, a building haviug been set aside where they will be free from all intrusion. While testing the air flask of a Whitehead torpedo in the works of the E. W. Bliss Company, Brooklyn, N. Y., tho head of the flask gave way under the tremendous pressure and three men were injured. One man was fatally hurt ahd six others had a narrow escape from drowning, when the tug Oneida ran down the fortvfoot naphtha launch Edna in urper New York bay. The launch was cut in two and sunk.

WESTERN. The business part of Gridley. Colo., was burned Monday. Loss $100,000. Judge John G. Schriinscher, a noted Cherokee leader, was killed by lightning at Vinita, I. T. John II. Mulkey, former associate jus tice of the Suprome Court of Illinois, Is dead at his home in Metropolis, 111., at the age of 82 years. It Ts reported thai John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, lost $2,000, all his savings, by the failure of the Devlin bank in Spring Valley, 111. Ross Truesdale, son of a well-known railway man of St. Joseph, Mo., died of lockjaw from elects of a wound in the hand made on July 4 while firing a toy pistoL After killing his wife with a butcher knife and slashing her body brutally, I3d war J K. Mitchell, a mining machinist, in Salt Lake City, committed suicide by banging. Fire again caused damage to the property of the Seventh Day Adveatists at Battle Creek, Mich., the sanitarium barns being destroyed. Fanatics are believed to be responsible. Playing with matches in the absence of his mother, William Anderson, 3 years old, set his clothes on fire in Chicago and suffered burns which caused his death' later at the Michael Reese hospital. William Dwyer and seven Chinese were killed by an explosion at the giant powder works, ten miles from Oakland, Cal. The explosion occurred in the mixing house and all the men at work there were killed. Dr. Frank Billhgs oi Chicago has been elected president of the American Medical Association. Dr. G. L. II. Simmons of Chicago was electee, secretary and Dr. E. S. Talbot of Chicago' third vice president. Two highwaymen, who at Cedarvale, Kan., shot and killed J. C. Calhoun of Kansas City, a special agent of the Santa Fe railway, were surrounded by a posse at Hewins, near the Oklahoma line, and shot aud killed. A remarkable midsummer hailstorm has destroyed fifty miles of corn near Fort Dodge, Iowa. Whole fields of grain, mostly corn, were beaten flat by the downpour of ice. The hailstones were of unusual size and broke many windows. At the earnest request of his qonly living child, the wife of Lieut. Stott of the United States army, CoL W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) will dismiss the appeal in his suit for divorce and make no further effort to obtain a legal separation from his wife. Default judgments aggregating nearly $1,000,000 were taken in Columbus, O., the other day in thirty-six of the 100 or more cases against corporations for fail ing to comply with the State law that re quires annual reports to be filed with the bocretary of State. A notice was posted on the door of the Citizens' Bank in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Thursday, announcing that the institu tion had closed. The reason given is heavy withdrawals of deposits during the last two months. It is thought creditors will be paid in full. Announcement is made that the Ohio 5sh and game commission will try to iave tho Legislature next winter pass a bill abolishing spring fishing in the waters of the Ohio. The bill will be bitterly opposed by fishermen along Lake Erie and by fish dealers. In Salem, Ore., the jary In the case of Charles Monte, jointly ledicted with Harry Wright for murder for having provided Convicts Harry Tracy and David Merrill with guns to escape from the Oregon penitentiary, returned a verdict of. murder in the F.eeond degree. ""Farmers in the vicuiity of Cauby and Eig Valley, in Modoc county, Cal., are set.'ug their wheat fields laid waste by a brz which was at first supposed to be the dreaded Hessian fly. Prof. Vlckers, a .ocal entomologist, decided that it Is not the Hessisn fiy, though it is equally destructive. John D. Rockefeller fears some crank may attempt his life. Aged and of a nervous disposition, he imagines some on Is ready to do him bodily harm and he has given attendants and servants tt his Forest Hill mansion in Cleveland the strictest orders to admit no one to the premises. A plot to kidnap Gov. Otero's son and hold him for ransom has just been ex posed in Cant Fe, N. M. The plan, as revealed by cne of tbe band, was to capture the bid, retire to the wilds of Lln-

coin county, and demand a big sum of money from tho Governor, failing which ttiey would kill the boy. James Bruno, aged 22 years, and John Palmo, aged' 10, were drowned In the Cuyahoga Tiver in Clevelaud while bathlag. Tony Euse, who attempted to rescue them, had a hard fight for his life with both of them, as "they almost had him pulled under water before they released their hold on him. Engineer O. C. Henry of the Wabash "Banner Blue" limited train No. 2 was killed near Taylorrille, 111. Henry was leaning from his cab watching a burning hot box when he was struck on the head by a target and instantly killed. The train ran with a dead man at the throttle for more than a mile. Raymond W. Stough, a bricklayer, who came from Concord, N. C, a few months ago, was shot and Instantly killed during a quarrel over cigarette smoking in a rooming house in St. Louis. T. John Freasier, a painter who, witnesses declare, fired the shot, escaped after a long flight through the 6treets. Rev. Stephen lanes, formerly rector of the Episcopal church of St. Mary the Virgin in San Francisco, will go to Borne to seek papal approval of reparation from his wife so that he may become a priest In the Catholic church. His wife is a party to the petition, as she wishes to enter an order of the church. In Go'dfield, Nev., two blocks of the business and residence section were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $200,000. A wind blowing away from Main street was all that saved the town from total destruction. An automobile factory was blown up and a new $40,000 hotel lasted only twenty minutes. The Oklahoma and Indian territory statehood convention in Oklahoma City, Okla., called to set forth the sentiment of the people of the two territories concerning statehood, adopted resolutions setting forth that the convention represents a million and a half of American citizens who reside in Oklahoma and Indian territories, and declaring the said territories are entitled to and of right ought to be immediately admitted into the Union as one free and independent State on terms of equality as between themselves and on an equal footing with the other States.

FOREIGN. The Princess of Wales was 6afely delivered of a son Wednesday morning. Sixty Korean bandits were recently hanged by order of the Japanese authorities. Moroccan imperial forces defeated the pretender and ISO Moorish rebels were slain. The appointment of M. Witte as Russian peace plenipotentiary has been signed by the Czar, who gives him plenary powers. ' The new Japanese loan is largely oversubscribed, and it is estimated that allotments will not exceed 30 per cent, and may go as low as 20 per cent. Reports received in St. Petersburg say four regiments in Moscow have mutinied and that officers of the Czar's army in Warsaw refused to fire on a mob. The Labrador fishery is reported to be a complete failure, owing to immense ice floes, blockading the coast fleet of over 200 schooners,, which are unable to get north. News has been received of the drowning of over 500 Chinese ns the result of the collapse of an overcrowded mat shed on the banks of the West river near Canton. Mnie. Melba is said to have received $5,000 for sinking four songs at a con cert given by William Waldorf Astor at his London home. She was paid at the rate of $250 a minute. A negro named McGill murdered ten men, a woman and a baby, and caused the scuttling of the boat in which all were sailing from Utilla, on the coast of Honduras, to the mainland. lie has been captured. Robert McField, the negro who killed eleven persons aboard the British trad ing schooner Olympia, was lynched by the populace of Utilla, Honduras, the night after the gunboat Tatnmbia. sur rendered him to the civil authorities there. The London Standard's Christianla correspondent says that the Norwegian throne has been offered to Prince Charles of Denmark, second son of Crown Frince Frederick. Prince Charles is the hus band of Princess Maud Alexandra of Great Britain. The St. Petersburg Nashashin prints a report that Lieut. Gen. Stoessel has been placed under arrest at Tsarskoe-Selo in consequence of the revelations made by the commission which has been investigating the defense and capitulation of Port Arthur, and that the sword of honor given by French admirers will not be presented. An American flag was torn down from in front of the city hall in London, Ont, and trampled under a hundred feet the other night, after one of 800 Michigan men who came to attend an Orangeman's meeting shouted: "To h with Canada. She never showed us yet." The American visitors generally condemn the Insult to Canada. IN GENERAL. The report that Secretary Wi'son of the Department of Agriculture would resign is positively denied. The weekly trade reviews report sat isfactory progress, the absorption of sup plies in the interior being liberal, while collections a: : good. The President has decided to call Congress to meet in extra session Nov. 10 to consider rate legislation and will send in a strong message on the subject. William W. Russell of Maryland, it is formally announced in Washington has been appointed minister to Venezuela, where he will succeed Mr. Bowen. Mr. Russell was minister to Colombia, where he was relieved by Mr. Barrett. Reports from Pocasset, Cape Cod, say that Major General Leonard Wood has undergone the delicate surgical operation of trepanning to remove a bony growth on his head. The operation, it is said, was entirely successful. The operation was made necessarj by an accident sev eral years ago. The Havana Central Railway Company h?.s awarded to a prominent New York electrical company contratu for the con struction and equipment in Cuba "of the largest electrical railway system ever initiated by American Interests outside oi the United States. The company U tc build aud operate a network of interurban lines radiating from Havana. An investigation which, It is believed, will show that the government has lost millions of dollars as a result of loose business method In contracting for armj clothing has oeen Degun. Work on 200. 000 dress coats, contracted for through the Bchuylkill arsenal in Philadelphia. has been stopped by a peremptory ordei of Quartermaster General Humphreya Half of there coats have been finished and paid foi They lie in the storehouse, and in the opinion of experts art absolutely worthless for the purpose foi which they ere made. As yet there art no charges a? fraud.

DIGGING THE CANAL. 1

SLOW PROGRESS BEING MADEON THE PANAMA ISTHMUS. Vexations Delay Seemi Owinc Chiefly to the Dissatisfaction of Americans with Conditions The Rains, YellowFever and Malaria. Slowly and unwillingly the American government is awakening to ' the immensity of the task of digging the Panama canal, writes Jtnius B. Wood in the Chicago Inter Ocan. A year has elapsed since the starling of tbe actual work on the isthmus and all that has been accomplished of permanent value is the excavation of a comparatively trifling amount of material and the partial organization of a working force. Unexpected and serious obstacles both in tho field of work and in this country have impeded the work. Situations which could not be foreseen on paper or accounted for In figured estimates have arisen. On all sides they have sprung up varying from friction with the officials at Washington over problems of policy to squabbles with negro laborers over the necessity of coffee with every meal.. But the problem which is of most interest to the general public, and which has made it almost impossible to form an effective working organization from its shifting personnel, is the dissatisfaction of the American employes. Panama is distasteful to the person THE PANAMA CANAL, FROM Chicago Tribune. from a northern clime. Just as an artistic photograph brings out the beauty and striking features of the scenery, so do the official reports and interviews describe Fanama. Souvenir postals show it to be a land of pleasant sunshine, waving palms and picture.'que houses, gorgeous fruits, and bubbling rivers. All these exist, but the countless odors, the ever present black buzzards, the all covering pall of dirt, the damp, depressing, feverladen atmosphere, the dusky man and woman and dozen children that eat, live and sleep on the dirt floor of the pretty thatched huts, do not show on the postal cards. The person who goes to the isthmus from the United States knows from his appointment papers just what he is entitled to. He can be assured that it will be carried out to the letter, if not in the spirit. He knows the amount of his salary, his hours of work, how many weeks of vacation and sick leave he will receive each year, and that part of his living expenses will be borne by the government. That much of the picture Is apparent, an l he probably adds a little dark coloring on account of current reports of fever and disease. However, not until one sees Panama does he appreciate the dull monotony and the emptiness of life in that section of the tropics. This is the reason why so mauy return to the States on the next steamer; others wait only long enough to earn their passage home; and so few have any sincere interest in their work" or expect to remain for any length of time. That something is wrong with the general conditions is shown by the fact that defections are not confined to the ranks of subordinate clerks and ordinary workingmen, but that men holding supervising änd executive positions are leavEQUITABLE EVIDENCE IS AMPLE. Regarded Sufficient to Begin Civil aud Criminal Actions. The one thing that the Equitable Assurance Society testimony before Francis Hendricks, superintendent of insurance, does is to furnish Attorney General Mayer and District Attorney Jerome ample evidence on which to begin criminal and civil prosecutions against many individuals. Chairman Odcll has announced that the present Legislature must enact remedial laws doing away with c. u. mpew. Wall street control of great companies in which the money of the people ia deposited. Chauncey M. Depew, United States Senator, will, a correspondent say?, have to resign from the board of directors of the Equitable society. He will be given an opportunity to send over his resignation from Europe, where he now Is miking his annual rounds. If it is not forthcoming in reasonable time he will be forced out by the trustees. It is said that Grover Cleveland will not stand longer for Mr. Depew'a connection with the society. A strong demand is being made by Yale men that Depew resign from the Yale corporation, the university governing body, because of the scandal involved in his connection with the Equitable Life Society. ,. The Supreme Court of Cannda at Ottawa has decided In the case of Gaynor and Greene that there is no appeal from the decision of the courts of king s bench at Quebec, which holds that they should be handed over to the United States government ander extradition proceedings. Karl Burnham and a woman accomplice kid japed the man's 15-months-old baby in Kansas City, after exchanging shots with Barnham's wife. Mrs. Burnbaa was alightly wounded.

ing and returning to the States. With such conditions, work has necessarily lagged. A man often does not take time to become more than partially familiar with the duties of his position before he resigns cr quits and a new man must be sent down from the United States to learn the work. Rain nnd Fever. The rainy season started about April 1. All outdoor work until the season closes, in November, 13 now carried on under difficulties which are unknown in a temperate climate. One or more showers cloudbursts they would be called in this country are of practically daily occurrence. Sometimes they continue for hours, or even days, but the usual program is a shower of about an hour's duration every morning and every afternoon. In the intervals when the sun shins things dry quickly, but when it does not appear the atmosphere i3 painfully depressing. Under thi3 downpour the ground becomes moist and unstable, the beds of dry creeks become boiling mountain torrents, and for weeks, and sometimes months, interior towns are cut off from all communication with on-: another, except by way of the oceans. The "dread yellow fever accompanies the rainy season and is most active during July. No precautious thus far found have availed to prevent it. It strikes suddenly and hard, aid within five days the victim is either on the road to recovery or 13 dead. A person may be feeling in the best of health in the evening, but wake up with a splitting headache and with chills and pains in his joints in the morning. Before noon his

temperature will have risen above 100 TELEGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION. degrees, and a quick trip to the hospital 13 the only chance of saving his life. At the hospital each yellow fever sus pect is placed ia a separate wire cage, to prevent mosquitoes biting him and spreading the disease to others. Malaria is more prevalent, and its effect on the system is frequently worse than yellow fever. Many of the men have recur ring attacks of malaria, which can be cured only by leaving the country for a colder climate. Each succeeding attack" seems more severe than its predecessor, until the victim finally is almost a phy sical wreck. Through the country and the nation runs a spirit of depression, due to the hot, humid climate, that unconsciously steals into the most active physique. The native of Panama has no need of even gathering sticks for a fire to warm his sunburned shins. It is a nation without a fireside, and civilization cannot flourish without the hearthstone. A few bananas, a stalk of sugar cane to chew, and a cocoanut to drink, occasionally a little wild game, and some native rum whenever it can be secured, keep life in most of the residents. Trade in Fanama city Is almost monopolized by a few families. Most of the leading business men are related by blood or marriage. So far, Americans have confined themselves to running boarding houses which have been failures. Chinese are the middle class merchants in the city and country. For miles on either side of the canal zone the narrowest point on' the isthmus mountains rise abruptly from the low hills along the coast. Fisher huts and villages are along the shore. Half clothed and dark skinned natives peer from thatched huts scattered over the plains. PUT IN 67 GRAFT BILLS. Grand Jury Charges 23 Milwankceans with Interest in Bribes. Sixty-seven indictments against twenty-five persons have been returned by the Milwaukee grand jury, based upon the confession of Edward T. Strauss as to graft in connection with alterations in the county buildings. Capiases were issued and the men were brought into court Passing over the indictments seriatim, Judge Tarrant briefly stated in each instance the amount of bail to be exacted. In almost every case he made the sum $500. In a few exceptional cases the bond was fixed at $1,000. The payment of a bribe to an Assemblyman for his vote on the primary election law recalls this charge by the Governor: "Opponents of the measure used every possible means to defeat it That women of questionable character were in the capital that winter, employed as stenographers and clerks through their efforts, is one of the allegations against them. It was charged that certain Assemblymen got other members drunk so that they could not be present to vote for the bill. On the occasion of the allnight session one Assemblyman was brought in dead drnnk. "Stories that railroad mileage books and passes wers distributed freely have been common. Members . favoring the bill were allowed to win at cards in the hope of getting their good will. Charges that money was used in outright bribery were less frequent than charges of corruption in other ways." Nates of Current Erents Four policemen rescued four men and three women who were stranded and in great peril on the rocks of the Bronx Kills, New York. Edward Burke, a prominent resident of North Scrantoa, Pa., was killed on the Delaware and Hudson railroad. His body was cut in two. The American Museum of Natural History, New York, has been robbed of $3,000 in gold ores, part of one of the finest collections in the world.

WHEAT AND CORN THRIVING.

Crops Generally in Promising: Condition-Corn Suücrs from Rain. The weather bureau's weekly bulletin summarizes crop conditions as follows: In .he district east of the Rocky Mountain. temperature conditions were generally favorable, though rather cool ia the Missouri valley. Over much the greater part oi the country from the South Atlantic and gulf coasts northward to the lake region, Minnesota and the Dakotas excessive rain fell, greatly hindered the cultivation of crops, caused rapid growth of weed3 and in places injured hay and harvest grain. Thrre was practically no rain in New England, enly light showers on the immediate middle Atlantic coast, and none in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast regions. In central and northern California and portions of Oregon and Washington intense heat prevailed during the latter part of the week. The corn crop ha3 had a week of very favorable conditions for growth, except ia the upper Missouri valley, where its progress has been rather slow on account of insufficient heat and lack of sunshine. While rains have interfered with cultivation to some extent, the crop as a whole is in a fairly good state of cultivation and is largely laid by except in the more northerly districts. Winter wheat harvest continues in the northerly districts and is largely finished elsewhere. Rainy weather has extensively interfered with thrashing and has caused damage to grain ia shock in parts of the middle Atlantic States and central valleys. The abnormal heat on the north Pacific coast during tho latter part of the week probably caused damage to the wheat crop in Washington. In portions of South Dakota and Minnesota spring wheat on lowlands has suffered from overflows, but elsewhere in the spring wheat region the crop is in promising condition. Rust continues in South Dakota and Minnesota, though not materially increasing, and is beginning to appear in North Dakota. Spring wheat continues promising on the north Pacific ccast, though exposed to trying heat conditions during the latter part of the week. Both standing and harvested oats have suffered considerably from wet weather, which has caused lodging, hindered harvesting and injured oats in stack or shock. A fiue crop, however, is generally indicated. In Illinois frequent showers were unfavorable for harvesting, thrashing and haying. Oats are ripening. Many meadows are overripe, but the ground is too wet for reapers and mowers. The condition of corn is exceptionally favorable, some tasseling. Oats generally are standing up well, but some badly lodged. WITTE FOR ENVOY. Czar Appoints Hiui Chief Plenipoten tiary of Russia. Emperor Nicholas has appointed M. Witte, president of the committee of ministers, to be chief plenipotentiary representing the Russian government in the peace negotiations to be conducted next month, in Wnshingtn. Sergius Witte, the Russian plenipotentiary, may be regarded as the leading Liberal statesman of Russia. For the last thirteen years he has been one of the strongest personalities in the Russian bureaucracy, although his political fortunes suffered a setback when he was compelled to resign the portfolio of minister of finance in August, 1003, and again when, after being appointed president of the council of ministers in the same month, his office gradually lost its importance until rumors of his intention to resign and go abroad had been persistently circulated. Witte is about 50 years old and has worked his way up from the position of an underpaid railroad clerk, who occasionally acted as porter, to that of the leading statesman of Russia, in spite of the fact that his enemies are numerous and include some of the most powerful men in Russia. A man of large stature, and muscular, standing over six feet high, Witte has the reputation of being harsh to his subordinates, but his ability has never been doubted even by his worst enemies. He was created a count in 1901. M. Witte is thoroughly familiar with the far eastern question in all its bearings. He understands the Japanese position and fully realized before the war that the aggressive policy pursued under the lead of Viceroy Alexieff and M. Bezobrazoff, president of the Yalu Timber Company, and tho coterie of adventurers connected with them would drive Japan to take up the sword. At one time Witte talked over the situation with Marquis Ito, president of the Japanese privy council and one of the leading statesmen of Japan. Practically it was Witte's disapproval of Russia's far eastern policy and the cnation of a viceroyalty ia the far East which caused his downfall as minister of finance. COLONIZE THE SOUTHWEST Farm ins: Lands There to Be Settled by Kuropean Immigrants. Prominent among the enterprises for the settlement of the great West and Southwest are the various colonization projects being pushed forward by the railroads and even by the foreign governments. The Rock Island passenger department, after considerable effort, has succeeded iu locating a colony of Menonites in Seward county, Kansas. The colony has purchased eighty-four quarter sections of land, one quarter section for each family. This laud, until a short time ago was regarded as arid and utterly worthless. For a long time the land proved utterly unfit for agricultural purposes, but lately it has been found well adapted to the growth of Durham wheat and this is the use to which it will be put by the new colonists. Artificial irrigation in that section is not necessary. The colony has every chance for prosperity. News of Minor Note. The strike among the Montevideo harbor hands is declining. Disturbances have occurred at Villa Cerro, Uruguay, but order is re-established. The Liberals were defeated at the Rome election owing to party dissensions. The Clericals voted for the first time since 1870, uniting with the Moderates. George Rowe and Siephen Bedner, mine workers of Wilkesbarre, Pa., were killed by a water car breaking loose and dashing theai against the side of the mine. Jonas Coleman shot and killed a neighbor named Justice at Riffe, forty-three miles east of Chehalis, Wash., and then committed suicide. There had been trouble between the two for some time. Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at New York, was given a farewell banquet in London. He was presented with a souvenir " in the form of a massive silver bowl on an ebony plinth. The government of Costa Rica has given strict orders that measures be taken to prevent possible contagion from bubonic plague. A special message has been sent ordering the stopping of ships coming to Limon by way of Colon.

IRCIAL Broken weather Interfered in the principal retail brancbe.-?, yet deal Cbicaao. ings reached a large aggregate, due to improved holiday demand, r"l the depletion of merchandise stocks has been of satisfactory extent. Country advices indicate that retail gales enlarged and that this feature is steadily spreading to those sections where barvesting progresses and money becomes more abundant. Records In seasonable goods have bold up well for both Interior and city, testifying to heavy consumption. Wholesale lines report fair advance sales in forward selections for fall delivery and there is sustained shipment in dry goods, summer clothing, footwear and food products. Warebouse exhibits now are being prepared for the approaching advance guard of visiting buyers and the outlook favors large transactions. The rush of building needs maintains good demand for lumber, although receipts of latter are lower, 34,703,000 feet, comparing with 40.430 feet last week. Orders have been liberal for stone, brick, cement and plumbing material. Receipts of bides were 2,114,057 pounds, against 2,S00,S33 pounds last week and 2,107,0S7 pounds a year ago. Consumers made fair purchases and the higher prices were maintained. Primary foodstuffs again furnished active dealings, especially in the leading cereals, which were subjected to conflicting reports as to the status of new crops. Flour, however, has shown no recovery in the general demand, and millers bought wheat only to satisfy absolute needs. Receipts of live stock, 2S4,G00 bead, comparew Ith 240,131 bead a year ago. Tacking operations were large, and the monthly statement of provisions in store showed a smaller reduction than was looked for. Bank clearings, $17S.201,450, exceed those of the corresponding week In 1004 by S.2 pe;- cent. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 10, agaiust 31 last week and 19 a year ago. Holiday Influences, Irregular weather and crop reports and seasonable Nei YcrL shutdowns fcr repairs and inventories have tended to limit the turnover of the week, Too much rain In the West has retarded trade In that section, and from the South similar reports come. In the Central West, the East and Southwest, however, trade is of full volume, with good retail distribution. The sharp advance In raw cotton has had a rather stimulating effect on Southern trade sentiment, though Indicating smaller than expected yields, the feeling being that higher prices will offset reduced production. Tho advance in raw cotton has stimulated inquiry for cotton goods, which have been generally advanced 5 to 10 per cent, and buyers complain of deliveries. Wool Las strengthened, and the market for footwear, though quiet has shown the effect of present high prices of leather and the highest prices for hides in years. Building material of all kinds reflects the demands of a record year In this respect. Pig iron has been dull and moved lower, but heavy finished products have been In good call. Labor Is well employed, and the signing of the new tin plate scale removes the only important threatening feature In industrial lines, which report no important strikes occurring. Railway earnings continue large, the gain in June being C per cent. May net earnings exceed last year by S.5 per cent and the fiscal year will show a gain of 7 per cent 1SSS r 1,1 hj "ft Chicago Cattle, common to prime, 54.00 to G.10; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $3.S0; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2, 99c to $1.00; corn, No. 2, 5Cc to 37c; oats, standard, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 2, 74c to 73c; hay, timothy, $&50 to $12.00; prairie, $0.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, ISc to 20c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, new, per bushel, 43c to 54c. Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to $3.20; hogs, $4.00 to $3.G0; sheep, $2.30 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 93c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 5Sc to 59c; oats, No. 3 white, 34c to 3Cc; rye, No. 2, 77c to 79c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.07 to $1.10; corn. No. 3, 53c to 57c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to C3c; rye, No. 1, SOc to 81c; barley, No. 2, 51c to 53c; pork, mess, $12.C2. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 2 mixed, 4Sc to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, SOc to 32c; rye. No. 2, 81c to 82c; clover seed, prime, $7.40. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $3.90; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.10; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $8.00. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $3.50; hogs, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.00; corn, No. 2, Clc to C2c; oats, natural, white, 37c to 33c; butter, creamery, ISc to 20c; eggs, western, 13c to 18c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.73; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $3.03; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.00; wheat No. 2, SCc to 8Sc; corn. No. 2 white, 53c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $3.S3; hogs, $4.00 to $3.70; sheep, $4.00 to $-3.50; wheat, No. 2, 8Gc to 87c; corn, No. 2, 53c to 53c; oats, No. 2, 31c to 32c; rye. No. 2. 70c to 72e. Cincinnati Cattle, .$4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.73; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 08c to $1.00; corn. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 5Sc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; rye. No. 2, 75c ta

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