Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 44, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 August 1905 — Page 2

THE PLYMOUTH TRIBUNE

PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS Q. CO., - . Publishers. 1905 AUGUST. 1905

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(I L. Q. OvN. M.-I F. Q.ÄP. M V 2Cd rj3Cth 5) 7tv)l4th. PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information . Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many. Seven Hurt in Tenement Hons? Fire. Seven persons were hurt and four over come by smoke in a fierce fire that followed a diabodical attempt to blow up by means of some high explosive, the nature of which is not yet known, the three-story double frame tenement at 614 Lorimer street, Brooklyn, X. Y. The stairs on the ground floor were wrecked and the lower part of the building converted into a mass of seething flames. Four persons cut off by smoke and fire, leaped from windows. The entire family of Mrs. deldart, three children and herself were overcome by smoke and were barely rescued. Two fireman were hurt and one woman was terribly cut by glass. LiRtatnlns Starts $103,000 Blaze. During a severe electrical storm, light ning struck the Caulfield block at Grand Rapids, Mich., setting the building on fire and causing a loss of over $100,000. It was one of the most spectacular fires the fire department has had to fight in a long time and adding to the difficulty of the situation a smaller fire in Dale Bros.' excilsioi works demanded a portion of the fire fight ing force at the same time. The Caulfield building was entirely destroyed. The heaviest lass was sustained by the Harvey & beymour Company,with a loss of $33,000, Engine Plunged Into Day. Engineer Mooney rolled with his engin dwn a steep embankment at Rayonne, N J., into Newark Day and was drowned. The engine plunged out of sight into deep water. A crowded excursion train on the Central railroad of New Jersey was left marooned and with passengers panicstricken cn a trestle above the bay, saved from the same fatal dive only by a break ing coupling pin and the brave- the engineer who went to his death u in th act cf setting the emergency brakes. Bloody Clash iu Russia. St. Petersburg special: An official, accoTrfl received here of the strike on th$ Xovorossisk Vladi Kavkaz railroad describes a sanguinary encounter between troops and workmen, who were attempting to prevent the departure of a mail train. After one Cossack had ben killed th strikers advanced menacingly, whereupon the infantry fired, killing thirty of th strikers and wounding twenty-two. A Timely Discovery. An attempt to blow up a ship In midoeean Ins been reported by Capiain C. Touze, of the French ship Asnieres, which has arrived at San Francisco from Swansea England, loaded with coal. lie left thai poit in January last, and six . weeks later, when far out at sea, a dozen capped fuses, such as r.re use! by miners to explode charges of dynamite, were discovered ia the hold of the ship among the coal. Train Rolled Down Embankment. A Baltimore & Ohio train wa3 wrecked at the Paint creek bridge, twelve miles from Johnstown, Fa., and one was killed aid seventeen injured. J:n where the railroad crosses the creek the rails spread an1 the baggage car and the coach next to it rolled over into the creek, going down twenty-foot embankment and plunged inta the creek, which is a shallow stream. Th engine and last ccaca were not derailed. Mrs. Chadwick Did Well. Creditors of Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick will receive a total dividend of about seven mills on the dollar when the matter is finally settled, according to Referee in Bankruptcy Remington. The assets will amount to $25,000, it is expected, against which ar claims for attornevs' fees and court costs of $11,300, leaving about $14,000 to meet $2,000,000 of debts. Murder at Kok o mo Carnival. While watching one of the features of a carnival. John B. Tate, proprietor of the National Mitten works, Kokomo, hid., was stabbed several times near the heart Cleveland Catt, formerly employed at th mitten factory, has been arrested. The physicians hold out no hope for Tate's recovery. Three Girla Run Doun by Train. West-bound Big Four passenger train No. 19 ran down a horse and buggy driven by the three daughters of Robert Westfield at Danville, Ind., fataliy injuring two cl the girls, one of whom diea later, and se verely injuring a third, ?nsUntly killing the horse and crushing the bugy to atom. Drunken Tiriver Upsets Coach. A special from Cody, Wyo., says that a drunken driver with a six-hone coach loaded with tourists drove over a preeipie in Yellow stone park, killing three passen 4 grs and injuring seven others. . A $50,000 Paper Mill Fire. The Uhlersville paper mills, a short distance from Easton, Pa., was damaged by fire to the extent of $50,000, partially insured. Explosion In Powder Works. The dynamite works of the Nitro Powder Company at Mingo Hollow, about two miles southwest of Kingston, N. Y., was blown up. It is reported that fifteen or twenty lives were lost. Fell Seventeen Stories. Robert Scully, 42, foreman of an iron construction gang, fell from the top of a seventeen-story building in course of construction on Seventh street, St. Louis, Mo. He was badly raengieü. öcuiiy aiea tnree hours later. lie leaves a widow and eight children in Cambridge Mass. Trade Little Girl for Do. The exchange of a 4-year-old girl for a dog was made at Pavilion Center, N. Y Mr. and Mrs. George Xillotson receiving the child and Mr. and Mrs. P. IL Carry, who claim Lansing, Mich., as their home, getting- the dog. The couple asserted the child was not theirs, but had beea left with them bj strangert. L, umber Fire at Preston, Minn. Tho lumber yards at Freston, Minn., were destroyed by fire, with a loss of 50,000. The yards, which were owned by th Cclsn Lumber Company of La Crow, were protected by insurance. The exu of lie fire ia unknown.

EASTERN. The Catholic Order of Foresters held its seventeenth biennial convention in Boston, Mass. Senator Depew declined to discuss his connection with the Equitable seandal and said he was working on a statement to be given out later. A new Equitable ecandal Is hinted by District Attorney Jerome of New York, who says he may need a special grand jury to take up the case. Mrs. Clareneo II. Mackay was elected school trustee in Boslyn, L. I., despite bitter opposition r.ud a charge that she does not si?1! correctly. J. P. Morgan, who Is reputed to have purchased 127 suits of clothes in Europe. surprised the crowd at tho steamship pier in New York by the change ia his appearance. Andrew Wylie. former Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, who presided over trials of the "Star Itoute" conspirators, died iu Washington Wednesday. The Attorney General of New York has begun action against Equitable officers to force restitution of money and apportionment of net surplus among tlie policy holders. The body of a wealthy real estate broker cf New York was brought home by an expressman and dumped in tho vestibule of his house, where his wife fctumbled over it. Alice Webb-Duke was severely scored hy Justiee Giegcrich of the New York Supreme Court, who refused her petition for alimony pending the trial of her husband's suit for divorce. Money aud jewelry valued at $4,000 fell into the hands of expert cracksmen who blew open a safe in the cigar store and billiard and pool parlor of Charles Armbruster & Co. hi New York. Miss Lizzie Schultz, 10 years old, of Ilasbrouck Heights, X. J., was frightened to death by the barking of dogs. She had a nervous collapse, became unconscious and died in a few hours. Ou Sunday five bathers were killed by lightning at Brighton Beach, X. Y., aud one at Graveseud bay, and n great crowd at the former place was thrown into a panic during a terrific storm. Sergius Witfte, Russia's chief plenipotentiary to the peace negotiations, on arriving iu New York issued an address praising the American people but showing no optimism over the meetiug with the Japanese envoys. Members of Mr. Witte' s party, while speaking guardedly concerning the negotiations, say their business first is to secure Japan's tonus. after which it will be determined whether there is auy basis for a further parley.

WESTERN. ' Orlando Burt, a former Methodist minister, now living iu Milwaukee, is accused of bigamy. Thousands filed applications for homesteads at the opening of reservations in Utah and Colorado. Aaron Cilhams, aged S3, has stacked wheat at Goshen, lud., for the fifty-second consecutive season. The southern portion of Illinois is quarantined against the yellow fever districts ia Louisiana aud other States. Members of the Chicago Shippers' Association will appeal to the President to prosecute southeastern roads for rate discrimination. A number of Reno (Xev.) capitalists mtend to bore for artesian water in Warm Spring valley, about fifteen miles north of Reno. Woringrcc-n from Dayton, Ohio, numbering 2,000, arrived at Port Huron and started a uine days vacation camp on the co-operative plan. Martin Sirock und Lis two sons, living near Big Soue City, S. P., were overcome by foul air while cleaning out an old well and died. By the terms of the will of Gen. Lew Wallace all of this author's property, both real and personal, is left to his widow without condition. An automobile expert is to be appoint ed by the city of Chicago to make a thorough personal iuvestigat'on of the competency of all chauffeurs. It is deSnitc'y tated that the Lewis and Clark Exposition Company will make no further effort to close the Trail"' amusement places on Sunday. The Portland exposition officials an nounce that tho milliou mark has been passed, th a total attendance from June 1 to datet including passes, being J.0I3.531. John P. Rockefeller is the greatest criminal of the age, declared Gov. La Follette of Wisconsin, in addressing the Illinois Baptist Oantauqua at Springfield. Geiw James R. Carnaliau, major gen eral of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias, died Thursday at his home in Indianapolis, after an illness of two weeks. The Chicago Employers' Association has decided to ignore the cord teamsters strike and permit the other men who called the strike ciT to seek old places as individuals. A lawyer of Las Vegas, N. M., -tjlls William E. Curtis the natiro inhabitants of the territory, or ''greasers," form one of the best types of citizenship In the United States. Frauk Soleveld, a ce'ery grow?r, and a man employed cn his farm were killed at a crossing near Kalamazoo, Mich., by a train, which struck tho wagon in which the men were driving. A race of perfect hnman beings may be produced by Applying to tha training of children methods similar to those employed in th? culture of weed., declares A California scientist. While unloading dirt car tt a high till on the Topcka aud Northwestern railway, six miles south of Ouarga, Kan., two men were killed and three injured. The trestle gave way. Creditors of Mr. Cassie I. Chadwick will receive a total dividend of about seven mills cu the dollar when the matter is finally settled, according to Referee in Bankruptcy Remington. Disappointed In love, Charles K. Reese, aged 50 years, one of the best known and nkost highly re?pcte men in southern Montana, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Commodore Stevens and Captain puelnS have reported to Admiral Goodrich at San Diego for duty as members of the court of inquiry on tho Renniogtoa disaster, completing the court. . The Arkansas State board of health decided that to enforce the quarantine guard. composed of State militiamen should be placed on all trains entering the State and at all river landings. The United States District Court at Springfield, I1L, ordered Jacob Cohen, a bankrupt junk dsaler, to tuxa OTer $55,953 to the truste in bankruptcy or stand committed to jail for contempt. Charges hare been made that members of the geological aurvey also act as editor of ft Chicago mlnin Journal, . m i .... f. . usln lniormation oi ins uuraiu u rtides they .contribute to me miimnt. Rev. Robert Simmons, pastor of the Christian clinrcu at aionetr, aio is our

in the newspapers telling people that neither collars, cravits nor highly starched shirts need be worn at his church during the hot weather. To prevent the wreck of the westbound Lake Shore flyer the operator at Kendalville, Ind., derailed an excursion train on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, ditching three coaches and injuring several persons. The telegraphers on tho eutiro system of the Northern Pacific aud . Great Northern, numbering 1,750 men, were called out on a general strike Tuesday night by President Perham of the Order of Railway Telegraphers. A skill containing Edith and Goldie Technor, sisters, their brother and Mrs. J. W. and Mrs. O. E. Tague of Vera, Minn., capsized and its occupants were thrown into Swan river, all being drowned except Mrs. O. E. Pague. Former Lieut. Gov. Lee of Missouri, according to a dispatch, admitted at the trial for bribery of State Senator Farris thr-t while In office he received money from tho baking powder "trust" to create a sentiment in Missouri against alum baking powder. As the result of being vaccinated three years ago, Elmer J. Benson died iu Chicago tho other day. Benson was vaccinated at Beatrice, Neb. Abscesses formed on different parts of his oody, and for longer than two years hn had been confined to his bed most of the time. While oao man held the villagers of Royal, 111., at bay two companions blew open the safe of the Freeze & Vandorn bank, carrying off $4,000 a their booty. The safe was blown to pieces and the building was wrecked by the heavy door and parts of the safe, which were hurled through the sides. Miss Gussie Stratton of Findlay, Ohio, probably will lose her hearing on account of having Alles? her car with ink, while attempting to answer a telephone call. Miss Stratton, hearing the phone bell, reached for the receiver without looking at it. Instead she grasped an ink bottle, which she placed to her ear. Countless army worms have swept clean 500 acres of timothy as voll as much oats and barley near the southwest corner of St. Joseph county, Ind., aud are still advancing. Farmers are staying the ravages by plowing deep furrows. The same locality in the same way was

swept about forty years ago. The farmers of Shelby county, Indiana, have been experiencing great difficulty in getting men to assist in threshing their crop of wheat. This is due to the report that the wives of the farmers iu many localities met and signed ironclad obligations not to cook the lavish feasts for threshing as heretofore. To prevent the Bell Telephone Company erecting poles along the roads of their locality, farmers near Cincinnati gathered their children and placed one in each hole that had been (lug. Over half the school children in the neighborhood were iu the earth up to their chins when the telephone people abandoned their work. FOREIGN. The bulk of the Russian garrison of Sakhalin Island surrendered to the Japanese July 31. Britain will demand pay from Russia for merchant steamers sunk after battle in Sea of Japan. A Coalition ministry has been formed in Swedea, the majority of its membersbeing in favor of a peaceful solution of the dilliculties with Norway. The failure of Jules Palusot, a Paris speculator, for $3,000,000 caused a panic in the sugar market. He is said to have lost in a war with the bears. American commercial interests have gained decidedly iu tariff negotiations at St. Petersburg, the Czar's representatives being willing to withdraw retaliatory duties on machinery from the United States. Seven sailors were ki'led and eight severely injured by the explosion of a submarine mine during mining practice near Stockholm. Sweden. A boat containing the victims struck the mine and was blown into the air. Diplomats seem to regard the peace outcome as uncertain; Russia fears that Japan's terms will be too exacting and humiliating and Japan doubts the good faith of the Car's representatives. Armistice and Sakhalin are issues. American Aonr and glass, will be driven from the markets of Venezuela by the action of President Castro in granting concessions which practically give a monopoly to two persons engaged ! i:; th manufacture nf irlus ntnl fl.inr Electr!? arc lamps are to be discarded in Londoa and incandescent gas lights will be used for street lighting. The gas lamps will b cheaper and more effective, says Consul Halstead in a report sent the State Department from Birmingham. What is described as a new textile fiber has been discovered at Rodelo, near Rio de Janeiro, by an Dalian rancher. The plant which in appearance is very like flax, grows abundantly in a wild state, and the rancher observed that the Indians made very soft and beautiful materials from it. The scientific world of England and America is vastly interested In a new exponent of long life Sir Janus Crich-ton-Browne, who declares that the normal life of man Is one hundred years. Physicians on both sides of the water have taken the matter up and the papers are full of suggestions how to prolong life and how to live that anyhereditary disease which would tend to shorten a man's years may be overcome. IM GENERAL Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture will not resign his position. Marine service doctors may be guilty of fraud in giving Chinese immigrants bills of health. "Literary graft" in the Department of Agriculture Is the subject of charges against many of the expert scientists. The superintendent of United States soaools at Unala,ska says that white girls are sjld and held as slaves in various places Iii. 'Alaska. , Cotton growers want the. entire bureau of statistics overhauled and many changes made to prevent leakage of figures on the crops. The commissioner general of immigration finds that too many undesirable Immigrants are admitted to this country and stricter laws will be enacted. attorneys are barred from practice bej fore the for deceiving old soldiers and Wrerament with forged papers and false w tnesses. The League or wnicu ouuici i, asuiugioa is president will hoia us sixtu annual convention in New York City. Four hundred negro business men, representing every State in tue union, are expected to at tend. The executive committee of the isth mus canal commission has about decided to tuspend any attempt at digging the canal unül better prepareti foP the work f cables a correspondent at anama. The j present sanitation will be replaced by vigorous reforms.

THE SIEGE OF YICKSBURG 1905.

Chicago Inter Ocean. NATION TO FIGHT PEST. President Act9 on Request of the Louisiana Governor. The federal government will take full control of the yellow fever situation. Gov. Blanchard of Louisiana Friday afternoon sent a request to that effect to President Roosevelt, and the latter immediately directed Surgeon General Wyman to take every step in his power to meet the situation. Gov. Blanchard's appeal to the President was the result of the action of a mass meeting of citizens in New Orleans, at which the opinion was expressed that federal control would result in an immediate restoration of confidence throughout the South, and would do away with all danger of cunüict between the States over quarantine regulations. While it was declared there was no intention of . admitting that the situation had got beyond the control of the local authorities, it was the belief of those present that Surgeon Genral Wyman would be able to send a force of physicians to New Orleans thoroughly eqniiped for handling the fever situation, because of their experience in Cuba, Mexico and at different points in the United States, and that the government would have the facilities for enforcing a scientific campaign not possessed by the lucal authorities. President A. Brittin of the cotton exchange presided at the meeting. The announcement of the actim taken at first created some alarm ia the city, which was quickly allayed when it becama known that the authorities had a.-tel simply in the belief that the prompt action now in turning over the direction of affairs to the marine hospital service would almost certainly ' avert au epidemic. Friday morning the launch Tom of the Louisiana fieet, with Lieut. Ivy iu command and Sheriff Nunez of St. Bernard Parish on board, captured the Mississippi boat Tipsy, in command of Captain English. The captain and crew were placed under arrest by Sheriff Nunez and sent with their boat to St. Bernard Parish, where the officers and mea were taken to the parish prison. The Tom was running through Lake Borgne when the Tiisy attempted to head it off. The Naval Reserves on the Tom con cealed themselves and allowed the Mississippians to board their beat before disclosing their identity. The Mississippi quarantine boat Grace was also forced to haul down its quarantine flag while in Louisiana waters. Four other launches joined the Majestic and Marie and nearly all of the loo available men of the Naval Reserves are on the scene, only enough being held in New Orleans to man the United States steamer Stranger, which is unable to navigate Lake Borgne, but is held in readiness to proceed to Mississippi sound in case she is needed. Hundreds of people are temporarly moving out of New Orleans into St. Tammany parish, which is practically the only nearby haven to which people from the city can go. The parlh has refused to put a quarantine, nnd has opened its doors to all refugees. No case of yellow fever has ever developed there, even during the most serious epidemics. Cases have been taken to the parish, but whether the patient died or recovered there has never been auy extension of the infction. The reason for the immunity of St. Tammany is that the stegomyia has never existed there. KINGS SPURN CANAL WORK. Italian and Japanese Rulers Won't Iet Labor Come to "Isthmus Graveyard." The government has run against a snag in connection with fhe Panama canal which will in all probability delay the work considerably. It had been planned to contract for the employment of G.000 foreign laborers. 2,000 each of Italians, Japanese and. Chinese, but the project will have to be abandoned. Shortly aftr the plans of the canal csmmissioners became known, the Italian government objected to the employment of its sub jects on the canal, and sent out official instructions to its officials to put a stop to this project, '.inis had the effect oi depriving the government of 2.000 Italians. The Italian government, it is said objects to putting the King's subjects on the same level with the yellow men of the OrieAt. When Tokio heard of the action of Italy the Mikado took swift action, but tried to be polite about it. lie has decided to prevent the hiring of his little yellow men f a the canal. It Is not started, however, that' the Tokio government's action is directly dne to the action of the Italian government. The refusal to permit Japanese labor ers to come is laid to the report of a "roval Japanese commission," which has lately been making secret observations on the isthmus. It is stated m Tokio that the report of this commission was to the effect that Panama is a human graveyard and therefore hot a good place to send the Mikado's subjects. In the report of this commission it is stated that conditions in the canal zone are "unsan itary, there being a lack. of medical attention, and the water, is too vile to drink." Arrests are anticipated in New York witJ.in a short, time as the result or a seizure of cheap stogies reported by dispatches from St. Louis. The consignment taken by government agents numbered 48,000 and bore internal revenue washed stamps.

RUSSIAN ROUT COMPLETE.

Great Distress Compels Surrender on Sakhalin Island After Lonu Flieht. A report giving details of the final pursuit and surrender of the majority of the Russian garrison on Sakhalin island on July 31 has been received at Tokio as follows: "An independent cavalry column on the afternoon of July 2S attacked the enemy south of I'aleo and routed him, driving him southward, capturing two field guns, besides a number of rifles and a quantity of ammunition. "Oil July 20, the cavalry, being reejiforced, vigorously pursued the enemy south of Taylan. which lies twenty-five miles south of Rykoff. The enemy halted at Onol. twenty-live miles south of Taylan, and at o o'clock on the morning of July CO sent a letter under a flag of truce to the Japanese commanding officer from Gen. Liapnoff, the Russian Governor, saying that the lack of bandage material and meJicines, and the consequent inability to succor the wounded, compelled him from a sense of humanity to terminate hostilities. "The commander of the Japanese force replied, demanding the delivery of all war supplies and property of the Russian government, the uninjured, and the delivery of all maps, records and papers relating to the Russian civil and military .i.Vniinist ration, and requiring their delivery in reply at 10 o'clock on the morning of July 31. otherwise an attacking movement would immediately be started. "Col. Tolivitch, on behalf of Governor Liapnoff, met Col. Koizumi, Japanese chief of staff, on the morning of July 31, and accepted the proposed terms. Governor Liapnoff. seventy officers ami 3.200 men of the Russian garrison then surrendered. The spoils, consisting of clothing, papers and military supplies, are now under investigation." Almost tropical rains are falling in Manchuria, and the hilly regions are impassable fur trains of artillery. Every mountain path is a torrent, and every valley a quagmire. Important opera tions apparently will be impossible for a long time to come. The alternation of rains and fervid sunshine has a depress ing effect on the health of the army. Dispatches received from Korea re port that the Japanese have begun a simultaneous advance from Kuanchodcri against the Musarict and Piatsabaug passes, but that both columns were checked under pressure cf the Russian advance detachments. The Russian losses, the dispatches say, were insignificant. Japanese warships are reported to be cruising off the mouth or Peter the Great bay, on which Vladivostok is situated, their lights often being visible from Rus sian island. The Japanese are most active in es tablishing trade relations in southern Manchuria. Over a score of large busi ness houses have been established at Yinkow, and 5,000 Japanese sutlers and larger traders follow close on the heels of the army. PFISTER IS INDICTEO. Milwaukee's Leading Capitalist and Politician Caught in Graft Dragnet. Charles F. Trister, Milwaukee's leading capitalist manufacturer, banker, street railway magnate, newspaper owner, hotel man and head and front of the stalwart or anti-La Follette Republican faction ia Wisconsin politics was indicted by the grand jury Friday, together with four other victims of the graft investigation. Aside from the Bigelow defalcation, no sensation ever has stirred the metropolis of Wisconsin as did the news that flew over the city that the wealthiest citizen and one of the foremost business men of the West the man who saved the First National Bank when its president stole millions had been caught in District Attorney Francis E. McGovera's dragnet. The District Attorney, when he started the present graft inquiry, declared there were big fish in sight, if they only could be vaught. Tfister is the biggest fish in all the surrounding waters. The indictment against Mr. Pfister caused a double sensation, inasmuch as persons first hearing the news assumed that it might be the opening to disclosures in connection with the street railway franchise grant of a few years ago, regarding which there has been all manner of talk. The charge against tho millionaire politician, however, is that of appropriating to his own use $14,000, through the use of which the Wisconsin IJendering Company had expected to get a garbage contract from the city. Ho-s Killed by Hallstonrs. The worst hailstorm iu the history ot eastern Iowa occurred recently between Tipton and Mechanicsville. The hailstones were flat in shape and were 12 inches across. Many hogs were killed ia the pastures, and horses and cattle, blinded by the terrific pounding of the icy missiJrs, stampeded into wire fences, and many valuable animals were badly cut np, besides being bruised by the hail. The storm covered an area of a mile ami a half. Xo wind accompanied it, or the damage would have been much great er. Nearly all the windows were broken in houses in its path. The hailstones strnek the plowed fields with such force that they were buried in the earth, soft ened by the week's rains.

CROPS Ifl GOOD SHAPE.

Weather Bureau Sajs Corn Is Making Favorable Progress. Crop conditions are summarized as follows ia the weekly bulletin of the weather bureau: During the week ending July 31 the Ohio valley and northern portions of the middle Atlantic States and New England experienced temperatures too low for best results, but elsewhere the temperature conditions were favorable. Rains interfered with farm work in the Mis souri valley, northern Texas and in portions of the lower Ohio valley and east gulf coast districts, while rain is needed in Georgia, portions of Florida, northern Missusipp,, northern Illinois, Ohio and northern New Jersey. In the Ohio vall.y the growth of corn

has been somewhat checked by cooipieia iein neavy, ana aie uuwe

weather, but elsewhere in the principal corn States this eron has made excellent progress. Throughout the Atlantic coast districts a fine crop is indicated. In Tennessee, Arkansas, Indian Territory and t - m -i .. ; I nonnern xexas me common ol coru is Thra interrupt Tllinrtis and norti lev and middle Atlantic States, but elsewhere this work has advanced satisfactorily. Winter wheat harvest is finished, except a small part of the crop in Michigan and New York. Spring wheat harvest is in progress in Nebraska, Iowa and tho southern portions of South Dakota and Minnesota. This crop has made favorable progress, no rust damage being reported, except from scattered fields in South Dakota,

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where smut aud blight are also prevalent Dotei more frequently, while commerto some extent. Late spring wheat was cial defaults are slight and collections

materially damaged in Washington by hot winds of the preceding week, but the early crop escaped injury. Harvest i3 general in Oregon, with about the average yield and quality. Oat harvest has progressed favorably and is now becoming general in the more northerly States. With the exception of some damage to harvested oats ia Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia the reports respecting this crop are highly favorable. Some improvement in the condition ot

cotton over most of lexas is indicated, tity of cereals handled aggregate 1 and, while too rank growth and unsat- 7.010572 bushels, against VJU3,74S in isfactory fruiting are reported from Ok- , , - irjl. , . ' . , t . . . ,.. . corresponding w eek of 1001, the relahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missis- .... . , , ' , , sippi, a general, but slight, improvement cf!Its bei- J.01S,.JS bushels and the is also shown in these States. In Ala- lpments a,W7,7s0, an increase of 21

bama the crop has generally deteriorat- Per cent and 23 per cent, respectively, ed; in Georgia it is fruiting rapidly The market for provisions was affeotwhere sufficient rains have occurred, but ed by shorter supplies of the raw main other localities cf that State rain i tcrial and warehouse stoeks have been badly needed, and shedding, rust and reduced. black root are prevalent. Rank growth , , and shedding are also reported from Ink clearings, $1 . .,101,021. exceed Tennessee, the Carolinas and Florida, in thoso of v corresponding week hist which States no improvement is indicat- J'ar by 22.1 per cent, cd, except on clay lauds in South Caro- Failures in the Chicago district were

lina, while on sandy lands in that Stata the crop has deteriorated. LIVING EXPENSES. It Requires Much. More to Support a Family Than 13 Years Ago. In the last bulletin issued by the bu reau of labor it is shown that the living expenses of the average trmily during the period between 1S0O and 1D01 have increased from 23 to 50 per cent. xeaus ami sait ueei nave gone up io per cent, lard IU per cent, butter J per cent, cornmeal 38 per cent, crackers 18.9 per cent, molasses C per cent, eggs 70.0 per cent, herrings 58.0 per cent, salt 13 per cent, pepper CÖ.3 per cent and currants 30 per cent. These are only a few of the prticles which show an increase. Although the bureau of labor claims that articles classed under the general head of "Food have increased ia price only 7.2 per cent, the argument is a false one. is tho claim ot me iew aoik oriu. While it is shown that floTir has In-

creased SG per cent and eggs 79. per heavy movement of winter wheat has cent in price, nutmegs have decreased helped collections and developed a lit53.7 per cent and prunes 44.0 per cent, tie more activity in flour milling in the

Nevertheless they are all lumped in Southwest. The Iron trade shows some together under the head of "Food," and quietness after the exceptional activan average increase of 7 per cent is ob- ty noted in pig iron last week. Other

tained. This is the merest sophistry. Since 1S94 canned goods have advanc ed over 23 per cent on the dozen cans. The Standard Oil Company has advanced tho price of oil S cents a gallon in the same time. Dread is still 5 cents, al though the price of flour has risen 3G per cent. This is because the bakers, to protect themselves, were forced to make the loaf smaller.The hens of to-day produce four times as many eggs as a similar numoer uia ten years ago. The advance in price has been phenomenal. The art of cold stor age is the one great barrier which pre vents commodities from finding a natural price level. These cold storage plants are controlled by the trusts. We eat eggs laid a year ago. We eat chickens and game that were killed last year and beef that has been on ice for years. You may find 5. these cold storage houses barrels ot trozen turkeys which were killed last Thanksgiving day and which you may probably eat next November. Soda crackers have decreased 10.5 per cent in price and about 50 per cent in size. Fresh vegetables cannot very well be kept for next year's consumption, consequently they have decreased naturally in price wuu me ainuuce iu -ruuu lartuVOal ua9 viauiucicu tue avaic wu,b uas cuiuiuereu up me scare awui 10ftn . , l . . .n since 1800, without counting the ugh figures reached in 1903. r , ... it a , . $2 a ton extra h A n ilvthinft nf f An fl a n n a1 a fio. va 14.1 per cent, common boots and shoes 1G.2 per cent, women's dress goods 1G.8 per cent, blankets 18.3 per cent, and thrnri fn 1 r,er rent The laborer nays more by lo per cent for his furniture now than ten years ago. He pays about 10 per cent more for the commonest kind or dishes and table cutlery, and for the luxury of tobacco 17 per cent more. TnMt Peats at Panama. I Rn serious has become the scourge of insects ply from the sanitary officers on the isthmus. A renuisition sent by the army medical department for 3S tons of various insecticides revealed the fact that there were but 20 tons of the needed materials in New York. It is believed by the medical officers that the quantity desired on the isthmus exhausted the supply in the country. There were purchased at the same time -O tons ot suipnur anu ju iron pots in wiich to burn it, together with lo tons OI newspapers, uieu "c ucc-uii m the fumigation oi tne nunuings oi mo istnmus. ... . hört Sein Note. An indictment containing six counts against Select Councilman Frank II. Caven was returned by the grand jury in Philadelphia, Pa., alleging violations of his oath, of offlce by being interested in city contracts. TV- Willi.nm TT. Ke v of Alhnnv. N. I v M,;f vererinsrian of th New York 4LS ... "-"tf v ... Department of Agriculture, has been appointed by the State Department at w.Wnrtftn na rfpleirat for th TTnirfid States to the international veterinary congress to be held a Budapest, Hua - gary, Sept. 3-9.

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Agricultural conditions form a leading considera Mm. tion in business circles at thjs time, these entering larelv into pIang anJ commitments for the imtnewrfI f 41 , . Aiartslc"a m lue uuriuuru iföu. hw other crops to be making a scasonable advance, corn carrying the most excellent promise in Illinois. All indications favor an enormous increase jn financial returns to the farmer. DcmaU(ls upoa factory output show" of orders for fall staples, especially in clothing, footwear, food products and textile wares. Satisfactory reduction. proceeds in merchandise stocks and widening buvinsr nnnn.-ir in f.irm sunPijes. The wholesale district cains in. activity, personal selections showing a wide variety for both city and country trade and the bookings included much for early delivery. Dis?ount taking is generally Improving in promptness. Mill and factorv production suffers Jess than the usual interruption from uu tPmnorntnrns Vow lmiMm work is more In evidence and additional ef forts are making for the prompt com pletion of various large structures for mercantile and financial use. Primary foodstuffs were in steady request, but the offerings were Ilbaral in the grain pits and a lower average cost was established. The total quanis, against IS last week and 32 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. Crop reports and fail trade advices are more unanimously favorable Ks York. than at auy preceding time this season. Confidence in the crop situation is rejected by good fall orders and a -volume of .wholesale and retail trade cortainlv in excess of a voar as and r . . . .. . tully c!iual average at this season" lcciaI acllvlt-v 13 notea in cotto:i Soods, which are in eager demand at iu?J prices, with scarcity of desirable makes widely reported. Trade in woolcn fabrics is good, confirmation of this being found iu freer buving bv mauufdcturers of raw material at ruling h!gll 1)rice3 imports from the shoe anJ cIotbi ,Iaes flnJ thQ ,u,nl hardware auJ other buI1Jlns material ,. .. . lines are senerany satisiaerory. a industries show considerable activity. Business failures .In the United States for the week ending July 27 number 195, against 103 last week. 171 in the like week of 1904, 100 in 19)3, ICS in 1902 and luO in 1001. In Canada failures for the week number 2$, as against 22 last week and 17 in this week a year ago. Bradstrcet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. si.OO to $5.90: hogs, prime heavy. $4.00 to $0.03; sheep, fair to choice, $3.0) to $3.00; wheat, No. 2, SGc to 'S7c: corn. No. 2. 53c to 53c: oats, standard. oG t0 o-c: rve -0 j 59c to 00c: hay. timothy, $S.50 to $13.00; prairie, $0.00 to $n.00; butter, choice creamery, ISc to o0c; eg?s Tresh, 13c to 17c; potatoes, nevVf per bushel, 40c to 53c. Tn.i:,n,'Sr.m!v cMnn:nr M.ftrt rn AI1U1UUUIJ xv T " T r. 1,,,, 1,;, liaorr S-lflfl t, $1 IT- . ,.,;, o rj , j- lu. sheep, common to prime, vJ to ?o.w. l y 2 to sSc; corn. No. 2 , .. ' . -r. , . Vrt 0 white, 5c to uoc; oat, - o. white. St. Louis Cattle, $4.o0 toSo.iu; hog. ?LOO to $G.20; sheep $4.00 to $4.. 5; wheat, No. 2, 80c to 81 cj corn. No. 2, 50c to 52c; oats, No. 2, 2oc to 2bc; rye. 10 Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $4.i; hogs, $4.00 to $G.15; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, 2so. J, tvc to 81c; corn. Xo. 2 mixed, 55c to 5Gc; oats, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 2, 59c to Detroit Cattle, to $o.OO; hogs. 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2, COc to G2c. Milwaukee W heat, No. 2 northern. $1.0G to $1.08; corn. No. 3, 54c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, die to J2c; rye. No. 1, 59c to GOc; barley, No. 2, 50c to 51c; pork, mess, $13.0o. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed. S3c to SGc; corn, No. 2 mixed. 51c to. 53c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 2 to G2c; clover seed, pnrne. $7.50. UnffAln Cattle, rhoie Finnin, et. i00 t0 ?5 70; hogSf fair t choi m trt cV4n- sheen, romnion tr p--! !t.,1 im t0 $5.25. iamb fair to cho:0(. 1 ' " en OO tn S7.50. . , Xew York Cattle, $4.00 to $3.33; hogs, $4.00 to $G.33; sheep, $3.00 to $4.G2; wheat, No. 2 red, S7c to SSc; I corn, No. 2, GOc to G2c; oats, naturaL white, Sue to SGc; butter, creamery, 10c I to 21c; eggs, western, ISc to 20c. - , The international longshoremen. Marine and Transport Workers Associa1U "u,;uu a' Detroit, I elected Daniel J. Keefe of Detroit nresident and Henry C. Barter of Detroit 1 secretary-treasurer.

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