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TäN. IL T F. Q. T35 F. M. (T L. Q. VSi2nd. ) 8th. vylTth. Vj -th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH. HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. Jill Sides and Conditions of Thins re Shoiti. Nothinz Overlooked to take it Complete. Merry Party Hurled to Death. A foam-specked pair of horses that tore through the streets of Spring Valley, X. Y.. between them a splintered wagon pole, brought to the village the first news of a grade crossing accident in which ninft members of its most prominent families were either killed outright or frightfully injured. The horses came to a stop at the livery stable of George Young, from whom they had been hired the night before to take a pany of men and girls to a basket ball game at Nyack. Returnbig in the early hours of the day, the wagon load of merrymakers was run down at a West Nyack crossing by an , Ontario & Western express train. Four of the party were, Instantly killed, two died while being removed to the Hudson County Hospital at Hoboken, N. J., and the other three lie in a serious condition at that institution. The Gates Train is Derailed. The special train bearing the Charles Gates Mexican touring party was derailed at Orrville, twelve miles north of Laredo, Texas. Thirty people are reported injured. According to the dispatch every car in the tra.'a left the track and all were thrown Into the ditch. The train consisted of tine cars, fire of which were sleepers. Most of the passengers were from Toledo, Ohio, and Chicago, but a number of San Antonio people were on board the train. A special train was sent from Laredo with doctors and nurses and another from San Antonio. Late adrices say the, wreck was due to a broken axle on the engine. None of the passengers were killed. One was Dead, Another Dying. James Christ was found dead in bed at 548 West Washington street, Indianapolis, Ind., and his roommate, John George, was in a dying condition. George was removed to the city hospital. The men were Hunyaks and occupied a small room in a business block at that number. In the room was a small gas heater and the men apparently left the gas trrnad on while the burner in the heater was unlighted. The room was full of gas when the door was opened. Another "Black Hand" Threat. In a letter signed "Black Hand," and addressed to Commander Braunsrueter, in charge of the United States naval magazine at Ionia Island, tho threat has been made that the enormous stores of smokeless powder on the island will be blown up unless the married men discharged from employment cn the island January 1, 1903, be put back to work at once. Among the men discharged, most of whom were laborers, were mmy Italians and Sicilians. Ten Killed In Riot In Persia. Ten persons were killed and a score or more wounded, including' several ecclesiastics, as a result of a riot in the streets of Teheran, Persia, during the passage of a religious procession, celebrating the Mohammedan Muhrram religious festival, held during the first month of the Mohammedan year. Blood Poison Kills Surgeon. Dr. I. 9. Trimbell, a well-known surgeon, died at Baltimore, Md., of blood poison. He was infected while working on an operation, and in spite of all precautions and several operations his life could not be saved. Dr. Trimbell was professor of anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. A Ghastly' Find. The arm of a man was found wedged between the trucks of a mail car on the Santa Fe road when it arrived in Chicago. The car was part of mall train No. 8. It Is believed the man was killed at some point outside of Chicago while stealing a ride on the trucks. Big Ranch is Sold. The A. B. Clark ranch, one of the largest in Montana, comprising 20,700 acres, has been sold to W. II. Dye, of Indianapolis, Ind. Eastern Manufacturer Dies. Wm. IL Prescott, vice-president of the United States Envelope Company and one of the most prominent envelope manufacturers in the country, i3 dead at his home In Rockvllle, Conn. Inventor Edison Under the Knife. Thomas A. Edison, the Inventor, 13 a oatlent at the Manhattan (N. Y.) Eye. Ear and Throat Hospital, where he underwent an operation intended to relieve him of trouble In the left ear. Death for Slayer of Cripple. Claude Brooks, a negro, who confessed to killing Sidney IlernJon, a well-to-do bachelor, in his apartments in Kansas City, Jan. 12, was found guilty of murder in the first degree and his punishment fixed at death. Herndon wis a cripple, scarcely five feet in height. Shock of Good News Kills. Romeo Burns, lumberman and veteran of the Civil War, dropped dead at his home in Sylvania, Ohio, when informed by physicians that his son. who was injured in an interurban wreck, was out of danger and would recovtr. Held for Candy Poisoning. Blanche Morasch, aged 17 years, was arrested in Kansas City in conrection with tfae death of 4-year-old Ruth Miller of Kansas City, Kan., who died fmm the effects of eating poisoned candy which had bei sent by mail to her half-sister, Ella Vaa Meter. The latter also ate the randy, but recovered. Women Are Fatally Burned. By the explosion of a can of gasoline Mrs. E. L. Dodder and her sister, Mrs. Hamilton of Glade, Pa., were fatally burned in Omaha. The women were tleaning glovjs.

WORK OF CONGRESS

After a brief executive session Monday tho Senate ordered the Ionrs closed and for several hours discussed the WethersHon nomination. An agreement was reached to consider the o-ean mail subsidy bill on Wednesday. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, one of the large supply measures of the government, was passed by the House. The amount carried by it is practically as reported by the committee $32,no.-, . In the Senate Tuesday the Aldrich bill was opposed by Mr. Stone of Missouri. He arguej in advocacy of the plan for covcrniuent guarantee of deposits in national banks, and Senator 15 .con of Georgia took occasion to oppose that proposition. Mr. Bacon declared that if such a plan were put into effect State banks would le put out of business, as their deposits would find their way into na-" tional banks. The bill to revise the criminal code was considered during a couple of hours. Speaker Cannon's presidential boom was given a boost in the House when Mr, Iioutell of Illinois brought the subject to the fore as the climax of a half hour's speech. His remarks were based on the fact that Tuesday was the thirtyfourth anniversary of Mr. Cannon's first speech in the House. Most of the day was taken up by a discussion of the bill to provide for taking the next census. A speech by Senator Johnston of Alabama on the Aldrich currency bill and a statement by Senator Hale, chairman of the committee on naval affairs, concerning the proposed investigation of charges of defects in construction of battle ships, were the chief subjects of interest before the Senate Wednesday. The bill providing for the taking of the thirteenth census occupied most of the time of the House. Progress with it was slow because of numerous amendments offered. The bill was amended in one important particular, however, and that was limiting the census to the mainland of the United States, Alaska. Hawaii and Porto Rico. Mr. Henry of Texas urged the Republicans to bring in an employers' liability bill and a bill requiring notice before" the issuance of federal injunctions. "The Senate adjourned a few minutes after convening Thursday morning out of respect to Senator Latimer of South Carolina, whose death was announced. Most of the time the House was in session was consnmed by the reading of impeachment charges offered by Mr. Waldo of New York against Federal Judge Lobbius R. Wilfiey of the United States Court at Shanghai, China, which were referred to the committee on the judiciary. The House adjourned early as a mark of respect to Senator Latimer. Senator Perkins of California Friday spoke in the Senate in justification of expenditures for the upbuilding of the American navy and of the policy of sending the fleet into the Pacific Ocean. The Tillman resolution, authorizing the Attorney General to prosecute the transportation companies of Oregon that have received public lands and have violated the terms of the grant, was adopted. The time of the House was devoted to consideration of the District of Columbia street railway bill, providing for extension of street car lines to the new union station. Na business was transacted by the Senate Saturday. Immediately after prayer by the chaplain. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Vice President Fairbanks called Senator McCumber to the reading desk and the North Dakota Senator read Washington' farewell address, after which the Senate adjourned until Monday. Washington's birthday was commemorated in the House of Representatives by a lively debate on the negro question. It arose out of an effort by Mr. Heflin of Alabama to amend the District of Columbia street railway trackage bill by requiring separate cars for whites and negroes. The bill without the amendment was passed. It provides universal transfers on the basis of cash fares, or six tickets for 25 cents. At 4:35 p. m. the House adjorrned until Monday. Lemol lie's Tliamond Formula. Discussion still continues in European papers concerning the case of Mr. Leir.oine, the alleged diamond maker of Paris, who Sir Julius Wernher of the De Beers Mining Company recently prosecuted on the charge of swindling him out of $320,000 in connection with the financing of a company to exploit Lemoine's artificial diamond formula. Since Lemoine's arrest it has come out that he did not confine his operations to Wernher, but sold a half interest in his secret to one Edgar (Folien, a London capitalist, who has made public the formula attached to the contract drawn at the time of his investment. The main points of this formula are the heating of a mixture of iron 30 parts, boron 55 parts and animal charcoal 15 parts in an electrical furnace heated to a temperature of 4,000 degrees. A current of carbonic acid gas is turned on at the same time to drive out the oxygen. Diamond makers and chemists appear to be skeptical about the genuineness of this formula, notwithstanding that Armstrong asserts that he saw Lemoine's secret diamond making process, and that it is entirely bona fide. The late M. Maissan. who received one of the Nobel prizes for his discoveries, succeeded in making very fine particles, known as diamond dust, but which had no commercial value. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. Fire destroyed the Pine Tree Worsted Company's plant at Putnam, Conn. Loss $t 0.000. Fire destroyed the roundhouse and machine shop of the Central New England Railroad at Fishkill Landing, N. Y. Loss $100,000. Miss' Alice Hollis. who is totally blind, sailed from New York on the steamer Statendam, on her way to Weisbaden, Germany, where she hopes to recover her sight. Mrs. Hannah Stanhope, the woman who had Enrico Caruso, the oiera singer, arrested for annoying her in the monkey house of Central Park, New York, last year, was fined 1 cent in court for intoxication and disorderly conduct. Because they refused to give bond in answer to indictments for requiring or permitting others to work on Sunday, Judge Wallace in the Criminal Court in Kansas City ordered O. I). Woodward of the Auditorium, E. S. Brighatn of the Gilliss, J. R. Donegan of the Century and Martin Lehman of the Orpheum to jail. Later Judge McCune issued writs of habeas corpus. Farmers of the northern end of La Crosse county, Wisconsin, have taken a fresh start in the war against the telephone companies by the circulation and liberal signing of a pledge to pay no more than $1 per month for complete telephone service. If this is not granted, they will establish lines of their own. An examination of the skeleton found at Elmhurst, Cal., shows the corpse to be that of a man of probably 43 years of age and of medium build. A minute inspection of the bones was made by Dr. R. II. Eveleth of Elmhurst, who found unmistakable evidences of murder. The skull had been fractured above the left ear, and the bones cut clean.

OHIO VALLEY FLOOD CAUSES BIG DIKE

Rise of Several Rivers Is Reported to Be the Highest in Many Yccrs. SUFFEREES FLEE TO THE HILLS. Boat Invades Flooded Cornfield to Save Farmers and Stock Sickness Follows Privation. Tho flood throughout tho Ohio valley, caused by hivy rains and melting snows, is reported to bo tho liijrhest since ISTt?. Lives have ' been lost, homos, bruises and fences swept away, and crops and roads ruined. Hundreds of families have been fhxxlbound in I he overflowed areas. Tlu Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio. Wabash and smaller streams have all contributed to the destruction which has moved down the Mississippi toward the (hilf of Mexico. Pittsburg, iterhaps, has been the greatest sufferer from the flood which has been sweeping down the Ohio valley. Any one acquainted with the location of the Smoky City knows why Pittsburg is annually, and sometimes several times a year, a victim of high water. The Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, uniting to form the Ohio, each flows through a narrow ravine and when the waters of the mountains and highlands come down in unusual quantities, owing to prolonged thaws or persistent rains, the flood of necessity must overflow the narrow point between the ravines, thus inundating more or less of the city. In the vicinity of the junction of the Ohio and Wabash rivers flood sufferers abandoned their homes to the raging waters and fled to the hills. Hero they have been quartered in huts, sheds and deserted buildings and as a result of the exposure and privation pneumonia has become prevalent. Teople along the lower Ohio River have prepared for the siege in store for them. Nearly a hundred families on the Indiana side, opposite Uniontown, Ohio, were removed. The big Ohio River steamer City of Siwttsville cut across a cornfield and brought out several families, with 200 hogs, eighty mules and fifty cattle. The rescued flood victims had spent two nights in terror and fought incessantly to keep their stock from drowning. Residents at Shawneetown, 111., are apprehensive, as the levee has been weakened by the excessive rain and the three floods of last year. A constant watch Is being kept of weak places. The Evansville and Terre Haute Railway Company has been anxious about the safety of its embankment which parallels White River, and thousands of bags filled with sand have been placed to strengthen it This place is now known as the "Black Hole' Im enuse of the disappearance of a train .. . :.

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some years ago. All efforts to fill this hole have been futile. As a result of the heavy snowstorm throughout the Middle West, railway traflic has been greatly impeded and telegraph and telephone service crippled. Dispatches tell of several trains being snov-lmud for many hours; The area of the storm is large, extending from Texas to the northern boundary of the country, and east from Denver to New York. In several sections the snow is more than a foot deep on the level. Stock is rejtorted suffering in the Western States and the loss is expected to be heavy. Drifts have made travel over country roads In wagons impossible in many places. IMMIGRANTS SHOW DECREASE. Greatest Falling Off in Percentage Is Shown by Japanese. At the Cabinet meeting Wednesday Secretary Straus of the Department of Commerce and Lalx)r laid before the President some significant ligures as to immigration and emigration. The figures show that for January there was a large decrease In Japanese arriving in tho United States. The total arrivals for both the mainland aud Hawaii were 071, as compared with J,X) for January, 1007. As to the Immigration from other countries, the total for January was, in round figures, 2,700, as compared with 5,400 in January one year ago. For the months of July, August, September and October the total immigration was 43,000, while the emigration for the same ;eriod was l'JO.000. Ilrlraont's Daughter Suffocated. Mrs. William I. Burden, daughter of O. II. P. Belmont, was f -und dead in bed in hor New York home, bavins been killed by escaping gas. Ice Trat o Be Trobed. Gov. Hughes of New York has designated Attorney General Jackson as special attorney to take up the prosecution of the American Ice Company, commonly known as the "ice trust," as a monopoly in restraint of trde, thus displacing District Attorney Jerome, who has neglected to commence the prosecution. It is expected that action will be taken immediately. In an interview at Jackson, Mich., Leslie M. Shaw said he would like to see J. Pierpont Morgan President of the United State.

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Fair and Mild. Rain and Warmer. JACKIES AS TARGETS. Remarkable Test to Be Made by . Navy Department. The Navy Department has under consideration the most startling tests of the penetrating iwcr of shells, danger to life, and the resisting power of armor that ever has been tried in. any navy. The proposition Is ti have the monitor Arkansas fire a 12-inch sliell weighing S50 iounds from a C0-ton gun a distance of two miles and have It strike the turret of a sister ship, the Florida, which is being placed in readiness for the trial. The astounding part of the test is the proposition to have In the turret of the Florida at the time of the impact the full turret complement of twelve men. All paper figures, all statistics so far as weight of metal thrown, heat generated by impact, resisting power of armor, and other details would indicate that the men in the turret would come out unscathed except for the shock. Of course, there Is no record in existence of a monitor, the turret protected by an 11-Inch armor belt, being struck plump by 13-Inch shells of fiöO pounds weight. All figures are purelj' theoretical. The possibility of missing Is indefinite! r small. All shots -.ire now tired

FLOOD RAVAGES PITTSBURG AND HUNDREDS

. . ...ft-:-.'Xvv.....A. Aw'-v. from a geometrical deduction and with machine precision. The shell will doubtless land just where aimed for, an3 then If the theory of the naval experts holds good, it will be deflected and the turret left uninjured. Naval attaches from all parts of the world are anxiously scrambling for an opportunity to witness it, but the department has declined all applications; in fact, it Is said the test will be made far out at sea, so that observations and deduction by foreign powers cannot le made. The chiefs In charge of the work to be performed by these two monitors have rxK'n instructed by the Hoard of Ollicers in charge of the exjteriment to say nothing to the pres.. and the result Is to be kept solely for the information of the United States navy. Xo Demand for Locomotive. The Cooke and Rogers branches of the American Locomotive Works at Paterson, N. J., have recently laid off several hundred more men, so that oi the 5,000 ordinarily employed at these plants, only half are now working, and these are mainly engaged in making repairs to old locomotives. The reason given at both shops is that no orders for new locomotives are coming in, either from domestic or foreign railroads. The proceedings of the government looking to the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company were continued before Judge Ferriss at St. Louis. E. Dana Durand testified that in the case of the Cuicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad shipments of oil were way billed at 11 cents per hundred pounds, while part of such shipments wore tarried at cents per hundred, and part at G cents per hundred. All of the testimony brought out by Mr. Kellogg, counsel for the government, was designed to show that the Standard was enabled to obtain a monopoly of the ietroIeuni business through a system of secret rebates paid by the railroads. The indictment of 123 counts returned last month by the grand jury at Salem. Mass., against Speaker Colo of the House of Representatives has been quashed by Chief Justice Aiken of the Superior Court. Mr. Cole was charged with a solicitation of reduced railroad fares for school children, and this action by the court is regarded by his attorneys as a complete vindication of his course. In Rerlin the jiu jistu, the Japanese method of wrestling, is to be introduced into all the military and naval gymnasia of Germany at the express command of the Emperor.

THE WEATHER THAT'S PROMISED AND THE WEATHER WE GET.

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ARE MADE HOMELESS BY SWELLING WATERS.

... - - Tfcrx- , ..v..... -nana i out of work end rendered thousands B. A: O. station. On the left i a coal the ice floe. The court recommended that the death sentence uion Lieutenant General Stoessel be commuted to ten years' Imprisonment in a fortress and that he be excluded from the service. For his services in the campaign against the Roxers in 15KX) Stoessel was made a lieutenant general and stationed at Port Arthur, where he began strengthening the works, little dreaming at the time that he would be called uixm to defend he place against the assaults of the Japanese. In February, 1004, when the war broke out, Port Arthur became the center of the conflict. Cut off by land and sea, Stoessel and his men held out for nearly two years before lie was compelled to surrender. At first he was given great praise by the Russians. Emperor Nicholas conferred uion him the title of aid-cV-camp to the Czar and the German Emperor gave him an order. Then his critics became busy and a commission appointed to investigate the surrender recommended that Stoessel be dismissed from the army and shot. His trial followed. General Stoessel's sentence, which is "without the loss of rights or honor," is generally regarded as intended to satisfy' public opinion. It Is expected he will be pardoned after a brief imprisonment. CURRENT NEWS NOTES. Mark Twain has returned from Bermuda, benefited in health. A block of business houses at Tarpon Springs, Fla., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $00,000. Death or life imprisonment for confirmed criminals is favored by ex-Judge Chas. S. Whitman of New York. At the annual convention of th National Canners' Association at Cincinnati it was decided to hold next year's convention in Chicago in connection with a huge exhibition of canned goods at the Coliseum. Samuel Corners told labor delegates who met in Washington, D. C, to organize a department of building trades, that any proposal to cut wages would be resisted. The entire business section of Williamson, W. Va., was threatened with destruction from a fire that started in the Moose hotel. Reside the hotel, the Williamson Rank building nnd five residences were destroyed. Loss $70,000. Memorial services in honor of the late Rev. Dr. Denis Joseph Stafford, pastor of St. Patrick's church in Washington, D. C, were held in that city. Addresses were made by Vice President Fairbanks, Senator Beveridge of Indiana and others.

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I. Warmer Weather. Hot and Sultry. WASHINGTON'S HEIRS. Discovery of Ohio Property Brings 5,000 of Them to Light. Over r.000 heirs-at-law of George Washington, father of his country, yet a childless man, have recently been found in different parts of the United States through the recent discovery that there is a large tract of land in Ohio which belongs to the first President of the United States, having been deeded to him many years ago. These heirs, through Lawrence Washington, who has a position in the Congressional Library at Washington, are preparing to make a fight for the proiKTty. Should they succeed through the courts, they will very probably deed the land back to the State of Ohio for a big national park to ' be known as Washington Park. Of all these r,0CO heirs of the collateral branch of the family, the descendants of the four brothers and two sisters, there is one who has the double distinction of lcing a descendant of the Immortal George on both his father's and his mother's side. This is George Steptoc Washington, a merchant of Philadelphia. On his mother's side ho is descended from Colonal Samuel Washington, the oldest of George's brothers, and on his father's side, he is n descendant of John Augustine, the ft 1lltr fE ... ... ' '- wr: : X: homeless in Pittsburg alone, shows tipple wrecked by ice and carried youngest of the Washington brothers. He was born on the ancestral estate of Harewood, in Jefferson County, West Virginia, the birthplace of his mother, which was built jointly by George and Samuel Washington. It was by act of Congress that the gift of the Ohio proierty was made to the first President of the United States. Whether or not he accepted it, or, if he did, to what use he put it, is not known by the Philadelphia descendant; but he dos knovy that the estate Is very valuable now and would make a magnificent site for a mammoth park. Workfthop for Unemployed. At a meeting of fifty men interested in charitable movements of New York City it was decided to erect a $2(0,000 building to be used as a home and workshop for the worthy unemployed, who are willing to work. It will make no appeal to the professional vagrant or tramp. Dr. Harvey Furbay, one of the founders, says that charity lodging houses are rauch imiwsed ujou by the drones of society. Tho new plan is expected to separate these from the earnest unfortunates. It is expected that the work will make the charity self-sustaining. The statement was made t hat out of 007 men of tho better class of unemployed SO were foud to be college graduates. Three thousand miners employed in ten mines owned by the Pittsburg Coal Company went on strike Feb. 4, aud it is feared that within a few days a general strike throughout the district will be declared. The cause of the strike was the enforcement of the rule that the minors must use smokeless powder instead of the ordinary black jiowder. which has been used exclusively heretofore. The mine inspectors and operators insist that their only object in ordering the use of smokeless powder is to prevent the mine horrors which have cost more than 700 lives in. the Pittsburg district within two months. As a result of the London conference of the managers of the trans-Atlantic steamship lines the passenger rates for ocean travel have Wn materially increased, in some cases the rntes being nearly double those recently in force. These are to continue for tiiree years, and that they will cause some reduction in the volume of traffic is gent rally believed in shipping circles. Plans have been made by the Catholic officials of New York to ray off the debt at St. Patrick's cathedral April IN',, iQ connection with the centennial of the diocese.

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CHICAGO. Discussing trade iu Chicago and its vicinity, R. G. Dun & Co.'s report says: Allowing for the adverse effect of unusually severe weather and difficulties of transportation and communication, busi Doss as a whole has held up better than might have been exieeted. Recovery ia now expedited under brighter prospects and more animation , a pi tears in new demands, although many outside buyers have been delayed in reaching this market. The exhibits this week of the State banks came timely and the details of condition indicate that the lending power is satisfactorily recuperated. . Money remains freely cut led at G per cent for commercial paper and the supply of the latter begins to increase, but general improvement in the demand for funds is not looked for until next month and there is a feeling that borrowing will have to cost less to stimulate the principal industries. February settlement at the banks make satisfactory progress and increasing currency returns from the interior cause luore expansion of deposits here. Additional gain is noted in machinery and labor employed in the iron branches, but outputs are yet short of normal and new bookings make a meager aggregate, although there is hesitancy in rails, structural shapes, wire and pipe. Orders for hardware, brass and electric goods are yet running light, but there is fair activity in furniture-making and footwear. Leading retail trade suffered some decline from the severe storm and decrease in purchasing ability, yet seasonable goods were required and both local and interior stocks of merchandise met with gratifying reduction where heavy winter lines had accumulated. Many visiting buyers made their selections in the wholesale district and there was substantial increase in forward orders for dry goods, millinery, boots and shoes and furniture. The total business made a closer comparison with the high figures a year ago and there is an improving tone as to the outlook throughout the agricultural regions. Bank clearings, $204,509,000, are 0.9 per cent over those of the corresponding week in 1907, which had only five business days. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 41, against 33 last week and 22 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $5.000 number 12, against 10 last year and 5 in 1907. NEW YORK. Widespread stormy weather has had the effect of dulling distributive trade, interrupting railway traffic and restricting the movement of grain to market to the smallest volume in twenty?two months. In addition floods in the Ohio and tributary valleys have restricted industrial operations for a time. Jobbing trade, judging from the reports received, continued as recently noted, a good-sized aggregate of small orders for immediate or near shipment being reported at leading .markets. Millinery, dry goods and kindred lines are in chief demand, with staple goods preferred to novelties, which latter are rather neglected. Retail trade is at a transition point, and is quiet as a whole, resYonding to the decreased purchasing of the Mageearning classes. . Talk of reduction In wages by railroads and others is widespread. Industrial affairs show little "change, with shutdowns or shcrt time about co mterbalancing resumptions. There is, for instance, more doing in finishing lines of iron and steel, but in crude forms rather less is doing, and the leading producing interest in woolen goods reports 03 per cent of its looms idle. Shoe shipments are a little larger at the East, and full time has been resumed at the leading Western manufacturing center, but shipments are still well behind a year ago. Cotton goods are no lower, but prices are very irregular, with jobbers in many instances cutting below manufacturers' prices. There is considerably more doing in export trade in light weight cottons for China, some prices reported being below European offerings. Rradstreet's Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.0t? to $1.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, 91c to 92c; corn. No. 2, 5ßc to 57c; oats, standard, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2, 80c to S2c; hay, timothy. $9.50 to $15.50; prairie, $8.00 to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 32c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 25c; potatoes, per bushel, G2c to 70c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 95c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 57c to 59c; oats. No. 2 white. 52c to 53c ; rye. No. 2, 83c to 85c Milwaukee -Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.04 to $1.00; corn, No. 3, 55c to 57c; oats, standard, 51c to 53c; rye. No. 1, Hc to 81c; barley. No. 2, SGc to S7c; pork, mess, $11. IK). Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steerv, $4.00 to $5.S5; hogs, fair to choice, $3.5C to $4.(X); sheep, common to good mixed, $1.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.05. New York Cattle, $1.00 to $o.C5; hogs, $3.50 to $l.:x); sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 97c ? corn. No. 2, C2c to 03c; oats, natural white, 5Sc to Glc; butter, creamery, 27c to 32c; eggs, western. 21c to 24c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 "mixed, 93c tf 95c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 5Gc to 57c oats. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 53c; rye. No 2, 79c to 84c; clover seed, prime, $11.50 Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, . $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $4.70; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 94c: corn. No. 2 white, 53c to 55c ; oats, No. 2 white, 51c to 52c St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $6.00; hogs. $1.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, 97c to 99c; corn. No. 2, 55c to 57c; oats. No. 2, 4Sc to 49c; rye, No. 2, 79c to 80c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $1.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 90c to 97c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 57c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c ; rye, No. 2, 85c to SOc. Ohio Trust Indictments Void. The Supreme Court of Ohio has dIared void all the indictments brought against the bridge trust in Ohio. The decision is based on the ground of indefiniteness in that the indictments simply charge the parties with conspiracy in restrain of trade, without stating the definite times of violation, and becaus? the law makes each day's violation a separate offense, and hence the basis of a separate indictment. Honore Coquelin, Jr., famous French comedian, has been taken to a private sanitarium in Paris, a victim of insanity.

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Lutie A lor, of LawrencfbuPK, Attempts ta Commit Suicide. Lutie Aylor, shipping clerk for the McCullough Drug Company, attempted suicide at his home in Lawrenceburg by shooting himself twice in the head with & revolver. Iiis daughter Katherine, 12 years old, found him lying on the floor in an upper room. The shots will likely prove fatal. Aylor is 37 years old. The cause for the attempted self-destruction is attributed to ill health. Mr. Aylor is prominently identified with the holiness church and is conspicuous in the AntiSaloon League, lie has a wife and five small children. The recent failure to close the saloons in the city, in which attempt he was very rauch interested, is said to have weighed heavily on his already weakened mind. PROBE OUSTS POOR FARM HEAD. Superintendent of Intitntion Re--ftfgns Follow ins: Investigation. As a result of an investigation by W. C. Ball and Judge S, B. Davis, representing the State board of charities, Supt. L. II. Gunn resigned as superintendent of the Terre Haute poor farm. His resignation was written to take e.Tect in September, but the investigators said unless ht left the institution by March 1 evidence would be submitted to th$ grand jury. The report is not to be made public, but is said to contain allegations of biutal treatment of innx-ites. ACETYLINE TANK EXPLODES. Kenneth Kins Hurled Across Room and Terribly Injured. An explosion in an acctyline tank wrecked the home of Kenneth King, near Walton. Windows were shattered, furniture was broken and King was terribly burned about the head and face. It feared he will lose the si of one ye. The tank is used for lighting the house. The other night the lamp failed to work properly and King leaned over it to ascertain the trouble when the explosion occurred, hurling him across the room. WARNS BACHELORS FROM TOITB. Unwed AX era n Carve Ilia Own Epitaph Recommending? Marriage Hugh De Witte, a Mexican war veteran at the Indiana State soldiers home in Lafayette, who died the other nijbt, aged 93 years, was buried beneath a tombstone on which he himself had carved this epitaph: A bachelor lies beneath this sod, who disobeyed the laws of God ; advice to others here I give don't live a batch as I did live." The epitaph wa carved by De Witte several months ago. Earned Gold Watch I by Bravery. While the recent ice porge was moving it swept away the wharfboat and coal barge moored at the foot of Short and Walnut streets, Lawrenceburg, and Councilmen George Kunz, president of the People's Coal Company, who was on one of the barges, was swept down when the barge sank. He was rescued after great personal risk by Henry Jordan, colored, and Mr. Kunz presented Jordan with a handsome gold watch in recognition of his bravery and devotion. Desperate Xegro Dies la Prison. Harry Wilson, negro, convicted in Lj . gansport two years ago of highway robbery, is dead in prison at Michigan Citj. Wilson robbed an aged colored companiqj, and at the time of bis arrest he narrowly escaped lynching. He was wanted for killing a man at Toledo, Ohio, and for slashing another man's head at Columbus. Suicide Found to De Chirasroan. The body of the man who threw himself in front of a Lake Shore train at La Porte was identified by relatives as that of Paul Bnnta of Chicago. Bunta. who leaves a wife and four children, con mitted suicide, it is thought, from his inability to find employment. Teachers Ask Thavr's Release. ' School teachers of Washington town-4 ship, in Gibson county, have signed a petition to be sent to the lunacy board in New York asking for the release of Harry Thaw from the insane asylum at Mattea wan. Child Kills Little Brother. Flossie Ford, 6 years old, accidentally 1 shot and instantly killed her 3-year-c!d brother with an old revolver at Whitestown. The father, Quincy Ford, was so shocked by the news of the tragedy that be became a raving maniac Baker's Hidden Wealth Pound. The family of Charles Bertram, a Terre Haute baker, who lost Iiis life when his bakery was destroyed by fire, was surprised to find $3,000 cash in an old iron box which stood in a corner of the store. Losses Cause of Suicide. Despondent because of financial reverses, James Blayney, 37 years old. a prominent resident of Wabash county, committed suicide by taking chloroform. Child Fatally Wounds Brother. While playing with an old revolver the 8-year-old son of George Fureman of Dubois county, shot and fatally wounded his C-year-old brother. SHORT STATE ITEMS. Fire destroyed the main businesi action of Bicknell, including a new Misosic hall. Loss $10,000, with no insurance. Dawson Daugherty, a farmer of Taylor township, has been acquitted of the charze of assaulting Mrs. John Dickey of Scotland. Andrew Johnson of Chicago and Edward Vanderen of Green Bay, Wis., were killed by a train at Porter, while walking on the tracks of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad. George W. Blacker, 22 years old, confessing burglary at the W. II. Davidson hardware store in Lawrencoburg, has been sentenced under the new law to from ten to twenty years in the Indiana reformatory. The court was inclined to le lenient, but under his plea of guilty could do no less. Francis T. Boots, president of the First National bank at Connersville, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. lie had been in bad . health for several months. Mr. Boots served several terms in the legislature and was identified with a number of business interests in Connersville. Fire broke out at the Indiana reformatory in Jeffersonville, due to electric wires in the library, which is in a room immediately below the chapel. The discovery was made by Alfred Wild, night captain, who turned in an alarm and a well-drilled fire department turned out and was at work in a few minutes. The fire was restricted to one room and the damage to the woodwork did not exceed $50, but 4,400 books were practically destroyed by fire and water, with an estimated loss of $3,500. Walle in the act of loading a shotgun Jasper Jerrell, a wealthy farmer of Gibson county, shot and killed his sister, Mrs. Columbus Bimble, 25 yean old.

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