Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1893 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Minister Blount has returned, from Hawaii. New York Populists have nominated a State ticket Three cases of yellow fever developed at Philadelphia, Thursday. . Mrs. Sarah Middleton, of Georgia, died from the effects of a katydid’s sting. A cyclone destroyed the farm house of W. Jackson, near Winona, Kan, and killed two children. The California mid-winter fair managers have accepted plans for four buildings, to cost $360,003. The Standard Wagon Works, of Cincinnati, assigned, Thursday. Assets, <1,200,000; liabilities, 1750,000 George Bradley, an old citizen of Pittsfield, Mass., while insane, committed suicide by disemboweling himself. Antonio Carlove, aged fifty, died from cholera on Swinburne Island, New Yorn, Sunday night. The autopsy confirmed * the diagnosis. - - Wheat and all staples are lower on the Chicago market. Delayed action on the ♦ part of Congress is given as a reason by leading operators. At a meeting of unemployed men in New York resolutions were adopted calling upon workingmen to pay no rent until conditions are improved. Wm. J. Jamison, a negro doctor, who atrociously murdered Chas. Aron last April, near Quincy, 111., was hanged for the crime in that city, Friday. A special train left Chicago on. the 14th with 1,600 Swedes ‘on board, en route to their fatherland. They intend coming back to America when times get better. Impeachment of President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle is demanded by the organ of the Kansas Populists for failure to purchase the prescribed quantity of silver in July. The Oliver Iron and Steel Works, of Pittsburg, went into a receiver's hands, Thursday. Capital stock, <1,600.003; indebtedness, 1700,000; bonded indebtedness, 1585.000. Jacob Kaiser, residing near St. Charles, Mo., while playihg near a plank fence, accidentally pulled a harrow over on him. He was instantly killed, a sharp tooth having penetrated his skull. H. C. Frick, of the Carnegie Steel Company, has had his salary of <50,000 a year ,as President ciit down <15,000 on account of the general reduction of 30 per cant, affecting all salaries of <SOO and upwards - per month. West Point cadets to the number of 280 arrived at Jackson Park, Friday, and will go into camp for ten days on the World’s Fair grounds near the. government building. They met with an enthusiastic reception. Pontifical mass was celebrated by Mgr Satolli at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, Tuesday morning. The building was jammed and the immense crowd forgot all propriety and broke down the pew doors in order to get seats. Chas. Walton, a negro, who murdered Sam Keith, was hung by a mob near Morgapfield, Ky„ Thursday. Keith was a boy but thirteen years old, and was deliberately murdered by Walton for the sake of <4. which the lad had made by selling watermelons. . The ehair rollers at the World’s Fair, excepting fifteen negroes, went on a strike. Tuesday, for an increase in wages from ’sc a day and. 10 per cent, of the rbceipts to <l,lO per day. The officials did not grant the demand, but express confidence that a satisfactory sttlement can be arrived at. Alleged rain makers at Chenoa, 111,, had a contract with a canning company to produce rain. The rain arrived, and the men claimed the <7OO which they were to receive for their services. The canning company paid the bill without grumbling. A barbaric exhibition was given by four Quackahi Indians on the float in the Grand Basin. Thursday at the World's Fair. The horrible ceremony was known as the torture dance. Thongs were passed under strips of flesh cut in In their backs, by which they were driven about like horses. The total gate receipts of the World's Fair to Aug. 7 were <3.457,057.51; receipts from concessions, <1,178,546.08. The directors are now encouraged to hope that there will be a margin for stock dividends, after clearing up other expenses and liabilities. The attendance is increasing rapidly every day/ 4 A terrible accident occurred at a trestle on the county line east of Milton, Va., Wednesday morning. Two passenger coaches and a sleeper were precipitated , sixty seet, killing seven persons outright and injuring a number of others. The loss to the railroad will bo very heavy. Matchwood and Bruce Crossing, two small towns on the Duluth. South Shore and Atlantic railway, were destroyed byfire, Monday. The flames crept from the burning forests, and everything was so dry that the towns were in flames before the people realized their danger, and they barely escaped with their lives. The Chicago postal employes were paid their salaries, Wednesday, In gold, the amount ' being <50.000. Sub-Treaaurer Tanner stated that the Government, hereafter. intended to pay regularly in gold, . the change of policy being made under instructions from Secretary Carlisle, and being due to the surplus of the yellow metal In the Treasury. Governor lien Tillman, of South Carolina, is seeking governmental authority to use the sobriquet of the State, "Palmetto,” as a trade mark for his dispensary liquors. The patent office has refused to patent the label, as the statute provides only for the registration of trademarks owned by persons, firms or corporations and the officers decide that a State of the American Union is neither a person, a firm nor a corporation. Three thousand unemployed men in Chicago held a mass meeting on the lake front, and decided to march, some day next w< «‘k, to the City Hall, carrying the banners of their various unions, and demand work of the city. Resolutions were passed demanding action of Congress in fixing a true standard of values: demanding that the government employ Idle mfn on the roadways; that the hours of toll be reduced, and warning laboring men throughout the country of the situation in Chicago. • A conference of delegates from the various trades unions of Now York was held In that city, Sunday afternoon, to devise means to assist the unemployed. President Gompers made a speech hi which

be laid the trouble on the wealthy classes, and also said the evil was largely due to ov- < r-production caused by the introductionof machinery and the use of steam and electricity in manufacturing. He advocated a general system of public improvements as a means of furnishing work to the unemployed. A crisis had been reached, and relief could not be delayed. “It is a fine commentary on our civilization,” said he, “when criminals are sent to prison and work found for them, while honest men walk the treats in idleness.” FOREIGN. Fifty miners were killed in a German mine. There are “rumors of war” between France and Italy. Three cases of cholera have developed at Berlin, The religious riots were resumed in Bombay, Wednesday. A large number were killed and wounded. Several mosques were robbed and burned. All the public buildings are now guarded by troops. The authorities hope to be able to quell the disturbance without further bloodshed.

IN ALL HIS GLORI.

The Rajah of Kapnrthalia at the Fair in Royal Raiment.

The Rajah Maharallah of Kapurthalia gave the people of democratic America* a glimpse of Eastern splendor. Tuesday. His Highness appeared in royal raiment, attended by the pomp and ceremonies that are the custom of his dominion in India. The Rajah was invited by the DirectorGeneral to review a military and naval pageant,that had been arranged in his honor. It was a great cardfor the Fair. A multitude flocked to see royalty in royal raiment, and they struggled with elbow and shoulder for points of vantage about the lagoon through which the Rajah and his suite coursed In an electric launch, decorated with native banners and rich Indian fabrics. The barge used to convey His Highness was decorated with carpets and shawls and handsome embroideries, the decorations being after the manner of those obtaining in Kashmir. His Highness wore a military costume over which loosely flowed a robe of silk, ornamented with gold and glittering at the neck with jewels. An attendant held over him a gorgeous silk umbrella, and another serv,ant cooled him with a great fan of peacock feathers. The grand plaza east of the Administration Building was black with.people when the Hindoo King arrived at the landing by the Macmonnies fountain. He was heartily cheered by the crowd. A bright red carpet extending from the landing to the grand stand had been laid to protect His Highness’s feet from thorough gravel walks. At the landing he was met by DirectorGeneral Davis and a number of World’s Fair officials. A military band had been stationed at the reviewing stand and as His Highness approached it played “The Star Spangled Banner,” The Rajah was touch pleased with the tune and asked the Director-General what it was, and when told expressed himself as highly delighted that one of America’s National airs should be played in his honor. The Rajah was seated on a throne. By his side sat the Director-General and around them were seated World's Fair officials and foreign commissioned. The troops which marched in review were the Illinois National Guard, a regiment from Louisiana, the United States Marines, the French, Italian, Spanish and Russian sailors, the sailors from the caravels, the troops at the military tournament, the Bedouins and other organizations from Midway Plaisance.

RIOT IN NEW YORK.

A Mob of Unemployed Men Enter a Hall By Force. A crowd of more than 5,000 men attacked Walhalla hall, on Orchard street. New York, Thursday, because admittance was denied them. They smashed the plate-glass windows to atoms, forced in the doors which had been turned against them and forcibly took possession of the place. Several persons were cut by the flying glass. All sorts of missiles were used and finally the police reserves from the El'dridge-st. station were ordered to the scene. After a fierce struggle the ringleaders were arrested and held for trial. A howling mob followed the officers to the very door of the police station. The proprietor of the hall insisted that the men be allowed to hold their meeting, and this was done. Various speakers said that the object of the meeting was to devise some means to find employment, and that they had intended no harm to the hall in the first place. They said that many of their families were starving. They demanded employment from the Government, that tney might live. Resolutions were passed condemning the police for their conduct, and asserting that they were peaceably disposed; that they want work and must nave it; and warning workingmen to be prepared in the future to resist the police more effectually.

ITALIANS BY THOUSANDS.

The Exodus to This Country 14 Increasing and Unchecked. Over 1,030 emigrants have left Italy for this country since the outbreak of cholera in Naples, and 42,000 immigrants have come from Italy this year. According to the official returns 75 per cent, of the immigrants who come to this country from Southern Italy can neither read nor write, and they are largely of a class described in a recent dispatch from Naples who “hide Jheir sick under beds,” believing that cholera is.the result of the upper classes trying to poison the lower, in order to reduce the population. Considering the fact that Bradstreet reports that over 1,000,009 men have been thrown out of employment in this country in two months, and that thousands are crying for bread, it seems extraordinary that we should allow these people to come here and take the bread from the mouths of our own , people.

Can’t Help Themselves.

New York Weekly. He— If there is anything I detest its a flirty woman, She—Humph I Why not a flirty man? He- Oh, well, a man has some excuse. Women aresp attractive, you know:

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

South Bend police are raiding the gamblers. Jackson county farmers are plowing for wheat. * Gold coin is being freely circulated at Kokomo. Liberty has a fuel-gas plant in successful operation. The blacksmiths of Clay county have organized a union. The Claus spring factory is a new industry at Elkhart. A boy playing with matches burned three barns at Plainfield. Leroy Templeton and others have es’ tablished a bank at Oxford. The corporate town of English is dead, after a precarious life of seven or eight years. The new union station at Terre Haute, costing <350,000, was opened to the public, Tuesday. Fifty men are employed in blasting the rock at Momence so as to drain the Kankakee valley. 8 The Citizens National Bank of Attica suspended, Monday. Assets, <136,000; liabilities, <69,000. x It is surmised that natural gas in paying quantities can be found in the vicinity of West Lebanon. Hon. P. W. Gard, the well known lawyer of Frankfort, died of consumption in that city, Tuesday, aged sixty years. One farmer who two weeks ago estimated his corn crop in Bartholomew county at 1,500 bushels says now he will not have 100 bushels. George Stahl, near Vallonia, whose watermelon patch was plundered, trailed down the thieves with bloodhounds and compelled them to settle. Miss Daisy Garland, daughter of the former Attorney General, disappeared from her home in Washington, Friday. Search is being made for her. Arrangemenes are nearly complete for the location of the Raub Locomotive works at Elwood. The company will employ twenty-five hundred men 6 A horse belonging to Ephriam McMurray, of Montgomery county, was bitten by a mad dog, and twenty-six days afterward the animal died in horrible agony. Silas Jones, of Posey county, deputy United States Marshal, has resigned and has brought suit against Marshal Hawkins for alleged breach of contract. After a rain storm at Summitville an alligator twenty inches long was found in Zack Bramble’s corn field. It was alive and squirming, and is now in captivity. The State natural gas inspector is looking after the waste of natural gas by oil men in Jay county. Suits will be brought against different oil companies for violating the law.

4 Columbus will have ©sanitarium in connection with a sulphur well recently sunk at that place. The wSfer has been analyzed and is said to be unexcelled for medical purposes. 1 Walter P. Davis, a cousin of Secretary Gresham, has received notice at Corydon of his suspension as a pensioner. He is almost blind. He drew under the old law <l7 per month. Frankfort has been overrun by tramps, and the Mayor has decided that hereafter all tramps arrested and fined for any ordinary offense shall be put to work on the streets of that city. Magic Muncie has fifteen well developed cases of small pox, and there is great alarm. Two of the cases are fatal. The eases are all in the district known as Industry, except one in Avondale. Altogether nearly one hundred inmates of the Soldiers’ Home at Marion have been notified of a discontinuance of pensions pending further examination. Twen-ty-two received notice in one batch. Henry Ehrlich, twenty years old, son of Peter Ehrlich, a coal operator of Clay county, was bitten in the leg by a spreading viper. Ehrlich’s leg swelled to enor : mous proportions, and it is feared that he will die.

A gang of tramps, headed by a fellow carrying a lantern, took possession of Sturgis, and robbed every man who presented himself. Fully a dozen persons were plundered before the city marshal organized a posse and drove the rascals out of town. The only saloon at Fairmount w’as blown to pieces, Monday night. Numerous attempts to establish a groggery there have been made, but the proprietor of this one alone succeeded in opening a place. Angry citizens exploded a charge of dynamite under the building, utterly wrecking it. Eugene Todd, aged twenty, died at Bristol, from Injuries received Sunday night in company with a young woman? He was seated in a hammock in the telegraph office, where he w'as employed, when a forge letter press, to which one end of the hammock was fastened, fell from the top of a high cupboard, and striking Todd, mashed his sxull. Charles G. Yelm, a traveling salesman of Lafayette, reports that while in Davenport, la., he was given a silver dollar In change by the hotel clerk while paying his bill. The coinage date was 1804. Mr. Yelm sold his find to an attache of the First National Bank of Chicago for <855 cash, and was afterward chagrined to discover it was worth twice that amount. 1 The great Gas Belt Electric bubble has burst and the chief conspirators have fled the country to escape the consequences of their acts. The laborers and teamsters who have worked faithfully for the past three weeks will not receive one cent for their work. Many of them are destitute of the necessaries.of life. Several .arrests arc likely to follow the explosion of the scheme.

Patents were Tuesday issued to Indiana inventors as follows; R, C. Elliott, Prairie Creek, picture exhibitor; H. C. Miller, Fort Wayne, engine; A. J. Will, Aurora, drill press; J. Marshal), Mentoka, rake attachments for mower; P. O'Brien,South Bend, tire setting apparatus; G. M- Pitcher, Logansport, brace: J. Teeter Hagerstown, mail crane; G. H. Shoemaker, South Bend, spark arrester; O. Watson, Crawfordsville, collar fastener. The Elwood Daily Call denounces as absolutely absurd the reports |hat fifteen hundred workmen are'prcparing to leave that city because of lack of employment, or that the. plate glass-works will postpone the resumption of work until May, 1894. While no definite time has boen set, the managers report that work win resume as soon as the market permits. The Press also says that the window-glass and bottle-works of that city arc preparing to resume September 1. Job Holmes, of Monticello, is lying at

his home with one eye shot out and the other seriously injured by bird-shot. He offers no explanation, but it is surmised that he was included among the party who stoned Hugh Davis’s residence until driven off by a shot-gun discharged in their midst by Davis. It is claimed for Holmes that he was simply an onlooker, taking no part in the affair. r The Roby prize ring is threatened with a dry rot that promises to do the duty that officials fail to accomplish. The Shed came near being destroyed by fire, Tuesday night, while filled with a crowd of 6,000 people. Afterwards hoodlums attacked the building with stones and nearly wrecked it. The disgraceful scenes in and around the building were never equaled in the history of the prize ring. The special policemen were powerless to preserve order and the Chicago toughs had .it all their own way. The officers of the club have fallen out. Matchmaker Houseman has resigned, and other officials threaten to do the same because of President O’Malley’s action in excluding newspaper men and causing the Western Union wires to be removed from the building. The car wheel inspector at the Union Station, Indianapolis, Wednesday morning, while engaged in his duties, found a portion of a man’s leg, dripping with blood, under a Vandalia coach hanging to a truck. Later in the day telegrams were received from various points on the line announcing that other parts of a human body had been found. One from Brazil told of the finding of a head and trunk of a man near that place. In the pocket of -the vest that was found with these ghastly regains was a note that read: “I am Marsh Gibson, aged twenty-four years, and live in Brazil, Ind., Clay county. My father and sister live in Brazil.” Information from Brazil discloses the fact that Gibson was seen near the scene of the accident sometime during Monday night, and that be was intoxicated. His father was present when the remains were found along the side of the track. Indiana Odd Follows are looking forward with much interest to “their day” at the World’s Fair. They will journey from their State, Sept. 23d, by every road leading Chicagoward, headquarters at the Hotel Fraternity, The parade occurs on the 25th, when it is hoped will be given the greatest civic display of the century. Odd Fellows’ Day at the Fair is Sept. 26, and it is expected that the Fair people will be privileged to report 250,030 paid admissions on that date. There has been arranged a programme of especial interest to the members of the order, which includes prize drills, fireworks, a ball, and banquets. Several of the Cantons of this State will attend in uniform, and Canton Elwood will drill for first prize, which includes the State’s medal. J. E. Bodine, Indianapolis, will send information to any siring information as to rates, etc.

THE MARKETS.

Angust2l 1893 Indianapolis. GRAIN AND HAY. Wheat—No. 2 red, 57% c;No.3 red, 52%; rejected, 40@50; wagon wheat, 57. Corn—No. 1 white, 40c; No. 2 white. 40%c:No.3white,40c; No. 4 white, 30c;Nb. 2 white mixed, 39%c; No. 3 white mixed, 38%c; No. 4 white mixed,3oc; No. 2 yellow, 39%c; No. 3 yellow, 39c; No. 4 yellow, 30c; No. 2 mixed, 39c; No. 3 mixed, 39c; No. 4 mixed, 30c; sound ear, 45c for yellow. Oats—No. 2 white, 27% c; No. 3 white, 2i%c; No. 2 mixed, 24%c; No. 3 mixed, 22c; rejected, 18@22c. ILyk 40c Hay—Choice timothy, <12.00; No. 1, <13.50; No. 2, <10; No. 1 prairie, <7; mixed, <8; clover, <9. Bran, <ll. LIVE STOCK. Cattle—Export grades< [email protected] Good to choice shippers [email protected]) Fair to medium shippers 3.20@3.(0 Common shippers [email protected] Stockers, 500 to 800 2.00(02.75 Good to choice heifers [email protected] Fair to medium heifers 2.50(03.00 Common to thin heifers [email protected] Good to choice c0w5...... [email protected] Fair to medium cows. [email protected] Common old cows [email protected] Veals, common to good. [email protected] Bulls, common to fair [email protected] Bulls, good to choice [email protected] Milkers, good to Choice. [email protected] Milkers, common to fair..... 15 [email protected] Hogs—Heavy packing and shipping<[email protected] Mixed [email protected] [email protected] Pigs.... [email protected] Heavy roughs 3.50(04.40 Sheep—Good to choice [email protected] Fair to medium Common thin sheep...... [email protected] Lambs [email protected] Bucks, per [email protected] POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. (Prices Paid by Dealers.] Poui.TRY-Hens, 8c lb; young chickens, 8c turkeys, young toms, 7c slb ; hens. 8c $ fi>; ducks, 6c V lb; geese, <4@ 4.20 for choice. .. ..-..1 Eggs—Shippers paying 10c. Bi tter—Grass butter, 14@15c; Honey—lß@2oc. Feathers Prime Geese, 40c D Bi mixed duck, 20c f) lb. BEESwax—2oc for.yellow; 15c for dark. Wool —Fine merino, 16c; medium unwashed, 17c; coarse or braid wool, 14@16c; tub-washed, 18@23c. Detroit. Wheat, 61c. Com, No. 2,43 c. Oats, No. 2 white, 30c. Minneapolis. Wheat, 59%c. New York Wheat, No. 2 red, 68%c. Com. No. 2, 47%c. Oats. 30c. Lard, <9.00. Butter, Western dairy, 15@18c; creamery, 17@ 25c. Chicago. Wheat. 61%c. Corn, 3s%c. Oats, 23%c, Pork, <12.40. Lard, <3.20. Short-ribs. <7.75. Cattle—Prime steers, <[email protected]: others <[email protected]. Hogs—Heavy mixed and packers, <[email protected]; prime heavy, <5.00(05.25; prime light, <[email protected]; other lights, <[email protected]. Sheep —Natives, <2.20 @4.00; lambs, <[email protected]. Cincinnati. Wheat, No. 2 red, (0;; Com. No. 2 mixed, 42c: Oats, No. 2 white western, 28c; Rye, No. 2, 49% c; Mess Pork, <14.00; Lard, <8.12; Bulk Meats, <8.50; Bacon, <9.75. Butter, creamery fancy, 22c; Eggs, 10c. Cattle, [email protected]. Hogs, <6.25@<6.90. Sheep, <2.50@<4.75. Lambs, <[email protected]. St. Louis. Wheat. No, 2 red, 58%c; Com. No. 2 mixed, 34%; Oats, No. 2,23%c; Butter, 20e. Butmio. Cattle. <3.50(04.80. Hogs, heavy. |5,[email protected]; mixed, <6.10@ <6.20; light, <7.00@<7.10. Sheep, native, <[email protected]; Texas, <3.25@ <4.75. Philadelphia. Wheat. No. 2 Red, 65%c: Corn. No. 2 Mixed, 49% c; Oats, 33c; butter, creamery, 21c; eggs, 15c. Baltimore. Wheat. No. 2 Red. 66c; Cora, mixed; 47% c; Oats, No. 2, White Western. 13c, Rye, 53%c; P0rk,<16.62; Butter, creamery, 25c; Eggs, 13c.

A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.

‘•Wait TUI the Clouds Roll By.” Don~ Sell Your Wheat—Prien will Surely Advance. The American Agriculturist’s annual review of the crop situation shows that there is a' great shortage in the world’s supply of wheat and all other crops are short. The harvest of 1893 in the United States is in many respects similar to that of three years ago, but with every prospect that home consumption and increased foreign demand will so advance values as to yield as large a net return to farmers as on the average of recent years. Indeed the review makes a distinctly encouraging exhibit in spite of the prevalent drought, though admitting that the financial stringency may interfere with the early movement of crops and have a temporarily restrictive Influence on prices. The cotton crop will be nearly the same as lastyear but will be harvested from fewer acres. The Agriculturist believes that the present dullness in American manufacturing is only temporary, there being an actual scarcity and not a surplus of nearly all staple goods. MUIS are already starting up to fil orders. Present indications point to a crop of 1,750,C00,030 bushels of corn, contrasted with 1,630,000,000 last year and over 2,000,000,000 bushels in the immenseyield of thetwoseasons previous. But unless abundant rains prevail throughout the corn belt In August, followed by mild weather, production may shrink to the 1890 crop, when we harvested less than any year for a decade, with a single exception. The reports of good rains all over Kansas between August 9 to 13 are erroneous, as in four of the largest corn growing counties not a drop fell in that time and only little patches have had enough to lay th© dust in four weeks. The out-turn will net exceed 443,000.000 bushels, according to the Agriculturist’s own reports and its interpretations of government returns, compared to 614,000030 as the averag'6 for the past two seasons and 400,000,000 bushels in 1893. Nearly 2,500,000 lesa acres were devoted to wheat than last year and the bulk of this decrease was in the surplus States, which bid fair to have 78,0t0,000 fewer bushels than last year and 125,003,000 bushels under th© surplus States’ product of 1891. Available supplies of old wheat are 40,030,000 bushels greater than twelve monnths since, but even allowing that the farmers also hold 17,000,000 bushels more old wheat now than then, the total supplies for the ensuing year are only 503,000,000 bushels, or 114,009,0(0 less than the average of the two previous crops. Our home consumption has averaged 365,030,(00 bushels annually, leaving an apparent export surplus of 135,030,000 bushels against exports last year of 192,000,003 and the season before 225,000,000. The wool clip is somewhat heavier than last year. Australia’s new clip is reduced owing to large losses the past year from drought. Imports into the United States are decreasing, but domestic trade is flat, with a prospect for an upward turn when buying begins. There is a shortage also of the livestock supply. There is an increased domestic crop of sugar, but a shortage in the world’s production of 303,l0),090 tons. There is a reduced yield of tobacco. Potatoes have felt the drought, but the yield will be nearly the same as last year. Two years ago the yield was 245,000,000 bushels; this year’s crop is estimated at 165,003,000, The conclusion is justifiable that present prices of all grains are abnormally low, as there is little evidence of our ability to spare as much wheat as Europe wants unless a forge under-consumption prevails in the United States. The hay crop is believed to represent a value to the farmers of a thousand million dollars. Corn at 45 cents a bushel comes next with a total of <735,000,003, followed by wheat valued at <3(0,000,000 if worth €0 cents a bushel, and by oats worth <185,000,000 if valued at 30 cents on the farm. Potatoes promise to net an average of 70 or 75 cents per bushel, or a total of <125,000,000. This last is about one-half the prospective value of the cotton crop of 1893, reckoned at <35 per mile.

SENATOR SHERMAN’S VIEWS.

He Believe* That the Financial Stringency la Being Slowly Believed. Mr. 8. J. Ritchie, of Akron, 0.. has received the following letter from Senator Sherman: Senate Chamber. Washington. Aug. 13. S. J. Ritchie: “My Dear Sir:—Yours of the 14th is received, and has been read with much pleasure. I believe that Congress is addressing itself to provide a cure of our present financial difficulties, but this cannot be hastened in a body composed of 450 senators and members. In the meantime, events are relieving us slowly, but surely. The incoming of gold, the large increase in our paper money and confidence in our ability to maintain the bimetallic standard of silver and gold' at a Rarity with each other, are helping to reeve our financial situation. Ido not intend to be in a hurry in expressing my opinions on the best mode of relief, for I think it is better to move slowly. It is a great mistake to suppose that Congress is Indifferent to the wants of our people. There is an honest difference of opinion among the people with respect to the best remedy, and there is a growing feeling that all that is needed is an increase of currency of the national banks and the suspension of further purchases of silver bullion. The latter I do not regard as important, except to dissipate the fears of the capitalist. Very truly yours. “John Sherman.”

CITIZEN TRAIN’S INCOME.

H* Hu BIS a Week, and That la AH He Want*. Geo. B. Bcmisg, Mayor of Omaha, nephew andat one time private secretary to George Francis Train, received a characteristic letter from the Citizen. Thursday. Inviting him to Chicago and the Fair. The Mayor, discussing it, explained how Train manages to get an ihcome, which has been a mystery ail over the world. “When Train was making money he turned over several thousands to his wife and daughter. The Citizen's daughter in that way received .at least 9200,000. She has not forgotten the old man, and gives him an income designated by himself. That income Is but 912 a week, 95 being for a room and other little weaknesses. Train says if had 913 a week he would be bothered to know what to de with, the extra dollar.

IOWA REPUBLICANS.

State Coaveattaa at Dm Moines Nominate# a Tteket. « . . The Republican State Convention of lowa met at Des Moines, Wednesday. After the Organization was perfected' the committee on resolutions reported as fol*, lows: 1. That the monetary stringency and prevailing hard times are but the fulfillment of Republican predictions, and are due to the known capacity of the Democratic party to distress and afflict the American people. 2 - ?^ Bt l 1 prevailing conditions are not due to former silver legisfotion or the Sherman law. but are the result of the

FRANK JACKSON.

threatened overthrow of the McKinley bill and our system of protection. 3. That we are in favor of maintaining both gold and silver as legal tender, and that every dollar—gold, silver or paper—shall be kept of equal value. We denounce cheap and depreciated money. 4. We endorse the administration of Benjamin Harrison. 5. We denounce the attack of the present administration upon our pension system, and assert that Its pretexted economy is an attempt to destroy the whole pensionsystem. 6. Prohibition Is no test of Republicanism. Our prohibition law is strong, but its retention or repeal must be determined by the General Assembly, and we relegate to that body the regulation of the liquor traffic. At the conclusion of the committee’s report a full State ticket was nominated. Gen. I. D. Jackson, of Des Moines, receiving thetaomination for Governor. ’

SECRETARY CARLISLE'S STATEMENT.

Why Silver Dollar* Cannot Bo Exchanged for Gold. Secretary Carlisle sent to the Senate, Friday, the following communication in reply to a resolution passed by the Senate on Wednesday, requesting certain information as to the redemption of treasury notes issued under the Sherman act: “In response, I have the honor to say that during the present month treasury notes issued under the act of July 14,1890, amounting to <714,6%, have been redeemed by the government in silver dollars. White I do not pretend to have knowledge of the degree of information possessed by the holders of the notes so redeemed, I am of the opinion that they were fully advised at the time of such redemption that they could have gold instead of silver if they so desired. “In further response to the resolution I have to say that recently gold coin has* been presented at an office of this department and silver dollars asked in exchange therefor, and that the exchange was not made for the reason that all silver dollars in the Treasury at the time were required, under the provisions of the laws relating to the currency, to be held in the Treasury to cover outstanding silver certificates and treasury notes issued under the act of July 14, 1890. At present the department would not and could not exchange silver dollars for gold coin if requested to do so by holders of gold for the same reason; but if the conditions of the Treasury were such as to afford a margin of silyer dollars in excess of silver certificates and Treasury note* outstanding, such exchange would be made.”

THE LATEST GAME.

A new swindle upon honest and unsuspecting farmers has been brought tonight, and this is the wftx the scheme is operated: Swindler No. 1 calls opon a farmer with a patent wagon tongue and informs him that, having made a big thing of it, he is on his way home, with only this county to sell. He tells the fanner that he can have ft for 8250, and If he wants it to write to him. In a few days patent right man No. 2 comes along. He has been told that the farmer has the right of the county for the patent wagon tongue, and as he has made a big thing of it in Pennsylvania, he wants to buy the right of the county, and offers the farmer 8400, and pays 810 to bind the bargain. The farmer writes to No. 1 and sends him his note for <250. He never hears of either of the> men again, but his note comes up for collection in a neighboring town, and Mr. Fanner is out 8240. —Bluffton Banner.

CROWDS AT CHICAGO.

More people have already paid to visit the World’s Fair than passed through the pay gates at the Centennial during the entire six months of that exposition’s existence. The record of the Centennial was broken. Thursday, long before the gate* closed, though counting the total adwi - sions, paid and free, of the two expositions, the Centennial was surpassed several days ago. More than that, those most interested in the success of the Fair assert that the crowds have just begun to come to Chicago, and the next two months will see Jackson Park so crowded each day that the Centennial attendance will be more than doubled. The paid admissions to 4he Fair. Thursday, numbered 140,404. Of the many financial schemes proposed . to speedily relievethe stringency In money, that regarded by treasury officials as the most practicable is the one to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue currency against the seigniorage or profit upon the coinage of silver bullion in the treasury. There are now 130,001000 ounces of silver bought under the act of 1890, and notes isssued against the seigniorage on that amount would add nearly 990,000,000 to the circulating mediufn. A large proportion of the notes are already printed and could be put into circulation, it is said, the day after Congress authorized the Secretary to ack