Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — Page 3

AN INDIANA PRISON.

STRANGE AND SILENT LANGUAGE OF THE MEN IN STRIPES. Bxtiaonlinu; liflaeiM Which the Hope of Portion Ha* Upon Every ConvictGood Time Serves a Similar Purpose— Some of the Carton* Cases tn the Prison Indianapolis News. * A trip through the [State’s Prison, North, a sight of shaved heads and pale faces, and slouchy forms in ill fitting striped clothing ought to make a man feel that nothing can-induce him to break the lawß of the land, yet in the Prison Nortfi are criminals who have served term after term. The prisoners work on the contract system. The shoes they make are by contract —and by the way here is the only shoe shop where a leather sole is put on a rubber boot successfully; the chairs are as well made as any in the country; good substantial barrels are built by convict coopers, and every branch of the woolen business from heeling a sock to making a blanket is done by laborers in stripes. The prisoners have tasks allotted them, and when done they are allowed pay for overs time, and this pay is their own; For instance, in the Cooper shop eleven barrels is a day’s work; John Underwood, during August, made $lO for overtime, and this he sent to his brother. Some of the men allow the prison authorities to keep their extra money until they are released; others spend it for luxuries, and still others send it to ouside friends to pay lawyers’ fees. The discipline is very strict. The prisoners are not permitted to converse with each other; they can not leave the spot on which they are working for a drink of water or anything ' else except by permission of the guard this permission being secured by raising the hand as a child attracts the attention of his teacher in school. Under the law a prisoner is allowed "good time,” which is a reduction of sentence if he is a good prisoner; but if he violates the rules he loses his ‘-‘goodtime” and may be put into the "dungeon.” There are no easy chairs and sofa lounges in the dungeon. Nothing but hard stone, r.r.d instead of oysters _ ftnd Little Neck _ clamß, To bewashed down with champagne, the prisoner receives cold water and hard bread until he gives up and is willing to work. The most refractory don’t stay in the dungeon very long. Lon Barrett, the counterfeiter, sent up for five years by Judge Woods, refused to work and was placed in the dungeon. He remained in the" dark hole for some time, when he was brought to this city to testify against Rinehimer. When he was taken back he didn’t want any more dungeon and gladly went to work. He is now 4, model prisoner. The hope of pardon helps to keep down a revolt. Not a prisoner but has some friend on ■the outside who is interested in him, and who is trying to securo executive clemency in his behalf. Should he revolt or infringe the prison rules all hope of pardon is gone, and the good time allowed him is lost. Therefore it is only desperate criminals, with long terms to serve, who ever make an attempt to "beat the prison.” Inside the walls the guards, ushers and attendants carry no weapons except heavy canes. So should the prisoners make a rush and disarm the guards they wjould secure no deadly weapons, and besides it prevents a hot-headed guard from injuring a convict when a milder punishment will serve the purpose. Chicago is the Mecca toward which all "escapes” make their way, and the police of that city generally pick them up. There has not been an escape ior a long time—the/last one being the desperate attempt of Charles Havens and Frank Whiting, two desperodoes sent up from this city in 1885 on a fourteen sentence for assault and battery with intent to kill.

CAPTURING A TRAIN. Tho two men were working in the third story of the old shoe shop. In front of the building is located the railroad tracks, and through an opening in the wall an engine comes every morning at 10 o’clock to pull out the loaded cars and haul in cars to be loaded at the various shops. The plot to escape was laid by Whiting. One morning, armed with the small, sharp knives used at their work, the two desperadoes dashed through the door and down the stairway on the outside of the building. They had boarded the engine which was in charge of only the fireman, and he jumped for his life. Havens grasped the throttle and turned on the steam with such force £hat the wheels spun around like lightning and it was two or three second s before the locomotive moved forward, pftiis gave the guards time to recover, and as the engine passed through 'the Opening one of the guards on the wall above discharged both barrels of his <run, loaded with buckshot and slugs, nto the cab. Whiting was instantly . killed and Havens so severely wounded that he was soon recaptured. When die had recovered he was brought to (this city as a witness, and was identified as the murderer of a street car driver. When his fourteen years has expired he will be rearrested on a charge of murder. AN UNWRITTEN LANGUAGE. The convicts are not allowed to talk with each other, yet they have a language of signs so that they can make .themselves understood, and when the guard is not too near they do not hesitate to whisper. The prison authori- j ties have never been able to learn this | unwritten alphabet sod have about given up trying. "We let them have the daily papers to read,” said Charley Murdock, Prison Clerk. “We might as well, because they find out everything that is going on, anyhow.” An ex-convict told the writer that a prisoner is not in a great while until

he learns that wearing a cap A-certain way means something, a rolled-up sleeve, an unbuttoned shirt, an, unlaced shoe, a [hundred little signs all have their significance, and the prisoners can talk freely, though under the eyes of a dozen guards. ... DINNER AND THE LOCK STEP. The prisoners eat dinner at 11:45 o’clock. At the sound of the steam whistle the men in the various shops stop work and form in line and at successive signals each lot of men walks to the dining room "onthe lock step.” In the dining room are long tables reaching the entire length of the room and each shop has its own place. When all the prisoners are standing at the tables, a signal is given and they seat themselves. Each prisoner carries a knife, fork and spoon in tho pocket of his blouse, and these are produced. There is a rattle and clatter and the meal begins. Guards are star tioned throughout the room, and Chief Deputy Warden Donnelly sits in a raised box on the north side where he has a view of the entire room. So familiar with the men are the guards that shpuld one of them be out of his place or act peculiarly he is detected at once and carefully watched. The menu consists of bread, meat, vegetables, coffee, soup, and once in a while delicacies. After dinner lines are formed, and back the men go to work "on lock step.” After supper tehy are taken to the cell houses and locked us). The cells are small narrow holes, with white washed walls. Each is lighted with electricity and the prisoner can put out his light at any time, but at 9 o’clock all lights must be extinguished. Some of the prisoners sit in their cell and read, others sew, write letters, and some who are expert with a knife whittle toothpicks andiancy ornaments from beef bones which they sell to visitors. There are others who pace their cells like animals in a cage, restless longing for liberty. In the cells, too, the "unwritten language,” a sort of telegrapic code of signals is used, even the flashing of the electric light having its meaning. At nine o’clock a -guard passes through the cellhouse and finds out if each convict is in his coll and then locks him up. There have been instances when a dummy was discovered on the convict’s bed and the convict himself gone. CONVICTS AT SCHOOL. Imagine the juvenile class in the primary grade of our public schools. Take from the desks the curly-haired girls and laughing-eyed boys, and in their stead seat hard-faced men with close-cropped hair and striped suits, and you have a mental picture of the night school at the prison North. The apartment is fitted up like a school room with desks, blackboards, charts and everything to be found in the first grades of schools. The pupils are divided into classes, and it looked strange to see a man serving a hue sentence for murder, a ten year man for burglary and two horse thieves stand up and painfully labor over their pi itaers like children trying to repeat their a, b, c. Many of the men sent to prison cannot read or write, and if they are good prisoners and so desire, they are taught the rudiments and soma have even educated themselves in the higher branches and become conversant with Greek and Latin. The night school at present has fifty scholars, from twenty-one to fifty years of age, who have committed every crime in the decalogue. Some of the classes db simple sums in arithmetic, others take writing lessons and all seem proud of their work. It is a perfect school and when the writer complimented a tough looking darkey (serving fourteen years for a terrible crime) on his neat writing, the fellow .grinned very wide. The others held up their slates for inspection, the old murderer wearing glasses gleefully remarking that he is able to do sums in long division. Beside its benefits the school is a relief from the monotony of prison life, and it helps to keep out the thoughts of other days. "We try,” said Clerk Murdock, "to treat the prisoners like human beings and along with the punishment they have brought upon themselves we endeavor to give them some of the benefits of a State institution. If they are not benefited it is their own fault.” SOME OF THE PRISONERS. There are 750 convicts in the Prison North at this time, and of the number fifty-eight are "lifers.” There are three prisoners in solitary confinement; one has not spoken for months, another is so violeafc*Jjhat visitors are not allowed to see him, and the other is a harmless fellow, continually shaking his head and muttering to himself. The .three are insane, One of the characters about the place is William Robinson, or "Old Bob,” as he is called. He was sent from Wayne county for murder in 1857 and was transferred from the Southern Prison when the Northern penitentiary was built; in fact, he helped to erect the walls. He has no other home and wants none* He would not accept a pardon if offered him, and once when by accident he was obliged to remain I outside the prison walls over night he was nearly heart broken. He roams about as he pleases, and Is a great hunter. A dog owned by him he fairly idolizes and would not sell for fifty tousand dollars; if he had that much money he would’t know what to do with it, and so he prefers the dog, for there is a wonderful bond of friendship between the canine and old Bob. He lcoks upon the‘prißon as his personal property Ehd is very jealous of its management. Another character is Pick Webster, sent up from Fort Wayne in 1865 for life. An Italian family was murdered and their bodies burned. Webster was foreman of the coroner’s jury that investigated the crime, and evidence was adduced that caused him to be sus-

pected. His arrest followed, and after 'nnmerous legal battles he escaped the gallows. Every Governor has been petitioned to release him, but he ha 9 been kept in prison through the influence "of one man, Civil Service Commissioner Edgerton, who was largely instrumental in securing his con vie, tion.

THE FAIR SEX,

Princess Christian sent ,a beautiful old Chippendale escritoire as a wedding gift to Miss Fairbank last week, and the Princesses Victoria and Louise presented an ivory and white lace parasol, paid for out of their own pocket money. The bride is the daughter of the late Dr. Fairbank, family physician to the royal household. The Queen of Denmark took the trouble to write out a summary of Siberian horrors and post it to the Czar of Russia. Now the unfortunate monarch is in receipt of an open letter from Lady Florence Dixie, with an autograph copy of her new book, "Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900.” If this sort of thing goes on, his majesty will become very weary of the woman question. A young woman who has a dressmaking establishment in East Thirtyfirst street, New York, makes her rent by storing furs, wraps and winter, dresses for her customers during the warm weather. ; The garment is cleaned, renovated and packed away, and when called for is freshened with new linings, ribbons, buttons or frills, and a suffleint sum charged to covfer the bill, including insurance. Mrs. Ellen Mitchell, who has been a member of the Chicago Board of Education for the past two years, was a friend of the Brownings, and corresponded with the poet up to the time of his death. Some of the letters she received are in the Fortnightly Club, a society composed of a few brilliant women, and a lot of purse proua women who are not so literary. But they pay the bills and the blue stockings do the edifying and mystifying. Mrs. Theodore Tilton is a sad and lonely woman, with silver-streaked hair, a careworn face and stooped figure, who freqents Lincoln park in Chi-" cago with her grandchildren. Every pleasant morning in the year she goes to the pleasure-ground, but is seldom recognized and never seen speaking to any one. She lives with her married daughter, who contributes to the family income by waterscolor paintings, many of which are very lovely in conception and treatment. Mrs. T. R. Gibbs, a resident of Newport and a lover of little people, gives a July fete every year to which every small boy and girl in the city is welcome. At the last fete the poor little ones were entertained in a pink and white tent big enough to cover a circus at which many society ladies assisted. There were music, recitations and games, and each youngster received a small flag, a big seed cake, a box of ice cream and a box of candies. Annie Miller is too wise a doctor to accept her own dresses, even in small doses. The long coats, reefers, evening toilets and walking , costumes, in wnich she bewitches her audiences, are all carefully, fitted over a French corset. When she mounts the dress-reform ladder her whalebone is laid aside, and the auditors are at liberty to climb up, too, and feel for themselves. The apostle of reed waist |ind divided skirt- is a very beautiful woman, but she couldn’t be hired to risk her grace in her own garments. Like tho pill people, her goods arc made to sell. The Rev. Phoebe A. Hanaford, of New Haven, Conn., is one of those sweet, good women who in progressj ing find time to speak gentle words ! that soothe the heart and do the little kindnesses that help so much to smooth over the rough places. 1 ‘Let not one heart be sad” is tho tenor of her song. The reverend lady is the author of a number of books, including l "The Heart of Siasconsit,” "Daughters of America,” "The Captive Boy in Terra del Fuego,” and "Field, Gunboat, Hospital and Prison.” She also wrote the lives of Lincoln, Dickens, and Peabody, and a volume of poems bears her name.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Fully three-fourths of the babies of the world go naked until they get to be five or six years old. The Canadian Indians keep their babies naked up to a certain point, __ and as for the little Coreans, they wear nothing but a short skirt until they are as old as our sehooi-boys. When the Queen had read "Alice in Wonderland” she personally solicited its author by letter to send her an-, other of his - ‘charming books.” Then the droll gentleman, who is a fellow of Christ Church College, sent her Majesty his treaties on the “Differential Calculus.” A retired English Army officer of means is on a tour through the Western States of America. When he down to dinner a day or two ago he. met with quite a surprise. The waiter who took his order was his son, who had run away from home to scalp Indians seven years ago. Here is the witty answer by which a hero, whom Bismarck was commis-, ■ioned by the Emperor to decorate with the Iron Cross of the first class, discomfited the Chancellor's attempt to chaff him. "I am authorized,” said Bismarck to him. "to offer you a hundred thalers Instead of the cross.”. "How much is the cross worth?” asked the soldier. "Three thalers.'* "Very well, then, your highness, I’ll, take the cross and ninety-seven thalers.” Bismarck was ,bo surprised and pleased by the ready shrewdness of the reply that he gave the maq both the crols and the money.

OUR PLEASURE CLUB.

FORTUNATE. Lie. Mrs. Pancake (to tramp). And have you any children? Tramp. No, mum. Mrs. Pancake (with a sigh of relief). That’s lucky for them! Lady (horse running away) —"Dear, dear, dear, what will become of me?’’ New coachman (grimly)—"Madam, it depends on your past life. I’m all right.” V i CERTAIN DEATH. Town Topics. Count Olcarlaga. If you a reject a me I will a take a drink a. No, I will 1 do worse, I’ll, I’ll-a-a-Maud. Take a bath. PARADOXICAL AS IT MAT SEEM. When I was younger than I am to-night, In days gone by that memories endow Cjlth golden glamour, shining pure and bright. I was not quite as old as I am now. —Courier-J ournal, OF CORSET IS. In spite 0f ail the awiul things That Jennet* Miller has to say The corset with its springs and things Is Here To Stay. —Chicago Mail. SHOOT TEE WOLF. Beggar—Help me, good siri I have a large family and can scarcely keep the wolf from the door. We are in need of food. Crusty—H’m! Have you got a gun? "Yes, sir.” ‘•Well, here’s five cents. Go and buy some ammunition, and the next time the wolf comes around kill him and sat him.” \ GILDING THE PILL. ••What did yeri git?” "An offer of work. What did yez git?” •‘A bit ov beef, but it’s work all the same.” , "Yis; but it’s a more delicate way ov putting it.” AETER THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL PICNIC. First Deacon—There are nearly a hundred sandwiches left over. What shall we do with them? Second Deacon—Store ’em away in the vestry; they’ll do for next year.

HELP WAS NEEDED.

• ‘Help!” cried Colonel Kaintuck, who had fallen into the Ohio river at Louisville. "Help! 1 shall drown!” "No, you won’t,” said a man on the bank. 1 ‘Hold on to that log while I get a boat and help you out.” "But the water’s getting into my mouth!” yelled the Colonel desperately. All the bystanders immediately rushed to the rescue. GLOOMY OUTLOOK. "What did the preacher preach about to-day?” "Future punishment.” "He did?” "Yes; he said he hoped to continue preaching throughout eternity.” AN EXCEPTION TAKEN. "There is only one cure for smoking, and that is death,” said the club man. ••That isn’t always sure,” said the Presbyterian, significantly. TOO NEW FOR HIS BUSINESS. Beggar—My dear madam, can you not give me a pair of old boots? Lady—Why, those you have on are quite new yet, Beggar (in a whining voice) —That’s just it; the horrid things ruin my business. DESERVED CREDIT. "By George!” said the weary, patience tried passenger on a local train to the conductor, •‘I guess you men who run this trin deserve a great deal of credit.” "What for?” "For keeping it from going backward.”

Poverty of the Mexicans.

Denver Times. The poverty of the poor of Mexico is extreme, and the conditions of the lower class of laborers must be dreadful, and you see them doing work only done by horses elsewhere, and loads carried on burros which, in other countries, are carried on wheels. Blockß of a peculiar building stone are brought into the city on the backs of those patient creatures, so that even the poor burro is not exempt from sharing the condition of his owner. No wonder buildings go up slowly here. You see the men carry lumber, heave boxes, poles, and nearly always on the trot. Even the dead are carried to their burial and yesterday I witnessed on the plaza a relay of carriers. while the burden was being shifted to fresh shoulders. Two or three woraqn and some children stood around while the exchange was being made. The coffin, it is presumed, represented the hearse. They have here on their street railroads a funeral car, capable at accommodating the coffin and a number of mourners, which is, I think, an idea well worthy of imitation. The young Viscount Belgrave, grandson of the Duke of Westminster, if he lives to inherit his patrimony, will be the richest man in the world. By the time he attains his majority his income will amount to between 4|10.000 and $20,000 A day.

S0 MEWHAT CURIOUS.

There are, said to be 13,000 different kinds of postage stamps in the world. A Georgia woman is the v mother of twentyvsix children, all of whom aro alive. Th Yokohama, with a population of 78, 000, the number of electors is under 800, / In Buenos Ayres the polioe alone have the right to whistle in the street, Any other person whistling is at once arrested. In 1606 any one absent from church on Sunday was fined 1 shilling. An act for restraining amusements on Sunday was passed in 1625. A Williamston, Mich., man whose well ran dry found that the roots or a grown a distance of 24 feet, coiled up on the bottom in a solid mass, and were carrying all the water into the foliage. Within the past three months injunctions have been given against 150 saloons in Dubuque lowa, a prohibition State, and not one has been closed. The California papers are filled with notices of the large sums made by fruit growers there this season. One man's peach orchard netted him $1, 210 /to the acre. The champion butter producing cow of the world is named Euratisimas, owned in Massachusetts, and hpr record is 945 pounds and nine ounces of butter in one year. A kitten in Hood River, Ore., caught a lizard but will never catch another. The reptile, in attempting to escape, ran down its enemy’s throat, where it lodged with fatal results. A contemporary remarks that "salt, is an absolute essential in the diet of man.” Nevertheless the Indians do not use it, and in one case, at least, not even after becoming civilized. A boy was recently discovered in Midland county, Michigan, niear Pleasant Valley, whose body is covered with scales marked similar to a mud turtle. He will be put upon exhibition.

_ There is an inmate of th 6 Georgia State Lunatic Asylum who imagines, in his insanity, that he is a grain of corn. He will not go into the yard, fearing the chickens will eat him. A blind old soldier, asking for alms at Manchester, England, church door, had a board hung round his neck inscribed as follows: "Engagements, 8; wounds, 10; children, 6; total, 24.” It is said that flocks of sheep can be protected from coyotes, wolves and other wild beasts by placing a good sounding boll on each animal. Western men say this device is effectual. It is said that the health of operatives improves where electric lights are used. Their appetites and their ability to sleep increases, This result is quite marked in some cases in London. The light is also said to be better for the eyesight. An ordinance InSterling, Conn., exempts blind persons from taxation. Farmer Barbour claims exemption under the law, and proved to the satisfaction of an intelligent judge and jury that, though he could mow, hoe and load hay on a cart he was stone blind.

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The presiding elder of the M. E. Church in Rohilkvnd district is appealing for eight hundred pastors to labor among the recently baptised converts in North India. The M. E. Church is also asking for funds to establish eight hundred village schools for Christians and inquirers. During the months of October and November the Methodist laity are to vote on the question whether women be admitted to the General Conference, the legislative body of the church. Elections for that purpose will be held in every meeting house; they will be by ballot and members of twenty-one years and over may vote. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew is to hold its fifth annual convention in Philadelphia, Oct. 16-19. This conferences will be held in St. George’s Hall, and the public services in the different churchesjin the city. Bishop Potter, the Rev. Drs. Rainsford and Holland. President Seth Low, of Columbia College, and others will make addresses.

Mrs, Bennett, of Greenville, Ala., one of the few persons who has lived to be more than a hundred years old, did cot unite with any church until she was 112, when she was immersed by a Baptist minister of twenty-two. She is now said to be 115. She" is in excellent health, walks three miles to church and reads the hymns without glasses. The Independent soy: Some of the religious papers are quoting and commenting on the statement that the forthcoming census of the religious denominations will show that there are 25,000,000 church members in this country. This statement is wholly without authorization, We are assured that it has no basis in any returns received by the Census Cfflce, but is wholly due to the_ imagination of some reporter, The Congregationalist says: "The circulation of the Bible is the most wonderful thing in the literary history of this century. The British and Foreign Bible Society was organized in 1804, and the American Bible Socie. ty in 1816. The total receipts of the two societies have been $78,185,925 and they have issued 176,695,121 Bibles, testaments and separate books oi the Soriptures. During the la9t yeai they have printed 5.288,820, an average of nearly 17,000 daily.

WORLD'S FAIR MATTERS.

The Commissioners Consider Plans of Procedure. Four tentative plans for the Worid’E IFair buildings have been presented by the local Chicago directors of the committee [having charge of the exposition architect ture. Two of the plans omitted any consideration of the lake front as an integral part of the Fair. Roth were ordered discarded and the two others tyere taken unv der advisement E. E. Jaycox, who has been connected with the Chicago & Northwestern RailWay, was chosen traffic manager of th* exposition. Col. H. C. Corbin, who ha* been suddenly ordered from army headquarters in Chicago to a post at Los An* geles, was asked whether the change would prevent his proposed connection with the World’s Fair as an attache of the National Commission. Col. Corbin replied that the order might possibly be changed. Requested to give an outline of his plans for the celebration of the Columbian quadri-centennial week, Colonel Corbiii said: "I consider it of the greatest importance to make the celebra*. tion whiejh will begin October 12* 1892, of such a character as to arrest the attention of the world. If it is made abig success, it will have a great influence in exciting people to attend the Fair. My idea is to consume the entire week in displays that shall partake of the char* acter of parades. Let Tuesday be devoted to early history. Let the landing of Columbus be actually represented with ships and crews in the dress of those days.' On that day, also, let there be an indus_ trial parade showing thg primitive industries. Wednesday I would give over to the various Civic organization and labor organizations of the day, ; "Thursday should be devoted to the Grand Army, as it is generally understood, that the encampment will open on that day. The fourth and last days should be devoted to a military display. I would have every period in which we have made military history represented, from therevolution down to the late war. I would have the parade led by. a battallion of soldiers in colonial uniform and the rear brought up by the,National Guard of the, day. Following would be a series of prize drills, the details of which I have not yet considered. That is a rough plan for thej celebration of that week.”

PIRATES ARE PUNISHED.

i By the High Executioner, Who Slices off Their Head*. A San Francisco special of the 13th says: The last time the revenue cruiser Ling Long came in, says an Amoy paper, she reported having seen between Foo Chow and here a large pirate junk firing on a peaceful trader. A gunboat was at once sent out by the authorities and shortly; afterward returned with eleven prisoners,* who had been captured from the piratical’ craft. On the 2d inst., all these men were beheaded. One of them went raving mad. and refused to kneel before the execution-, er, so the latter had to take “potshots” ah him, and eventually decapitated him in slices. It is rumored that about 100 pirates: came down to the execution to try and es-J feot their rescue, but the large number of| troops present effectually overawed them. News has Just come in of a frightful, atrocity committed by a pirate craft, haw ing seized a trading junk and murderedj In cold blood the of thirty-' nine men. \ Japanese advices received by the steam er Belgic, which arrived on the 10th. state that there is a movement on foot to plant s colony of Japanese in Mexico. A Mr. Vogel, representing a colony of Mexico,, has been in Japan trying to induce the gov-, ernment to accede to bis scheme. He has received semi-official sanction and expects to send over 2,000 laborers before the eud of the month, at wages of 60 or 70 cents » day. Chinese advices state that there has been greet gambling in silver in Hong Kong,, and the Hong Kong and Shang Hai Bank* is said to have made millions out of the deal. When Mexican dollars were valued] at 34 cents and before the silver bill passed the United States Congress the bank purs chased ah th Mexican dollars it could get.' When the »iiver bill became a' law the! value of the Mexican dollar took a jump and the bank sold all it bad for 95 cents. Before the deal the bank’s shares were quoted at |125. Since then they have been almost unprocurable at $226.

POLITICAL.

Mr. Everts will not be a candidate for re-election to the Senate from New York. The New York City Republicans will iry to put a coalition ticket in the field against Tammany.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, October 13, 1890. j grain, | Wheat. Corn. Oat*." Rye - Indlanapoll*,. 2 r’d 97 w 49% 2 w 40%' 3 r’d 92 2ye4B t Chicago r 2 r’d 96)4 48 38%>. Cincinnati 2 r’d 99 63 42 Bt. Louis. ; 2 r’d 98 48 37 1 New York 2 r’dlol% 65 44 Baltimore 96% 65 42 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 96% 65% 44 Clorer Toledo 98 60 89% 416 Detroit. 1 wh 97 60 40 Minneapolis ; 99 IxmUTille uri STOCK. Cams —Export grades Good to choice shippers 4.00(<54.30 Common to medium shippers.... 3.25<(53.g5 Stockers. 600 to 850 1b........... 8.75(98.15 Good to choice heifers 2.70(98.10 Common to medium heifers 2.10(92.50 Good to choice cows 2.60*12.75, Fair to medium cows 1.90(92.30 Hoes—Heavy 4.40(94.02 Light 4.: 5(94.65 Mixed 4.30(94.45 Heavy roughs..: 8.'0(94. to Suksp —Goodto choice... 4.25(94.05 Fait to medium. .... 8.80(3 i. 15 UISCKLL ANIOUS. Biggs 16c. Butter, Creamery 2! (928; Dairy 18, Good Country 9c.. Feathers, 85c. Beeswax, 18®»; Wool 30(935, Unwashed 2% Poultry, Hens 7 %o. Turkeys 100 toms 6o Clover seed 3,25(33.50. ;