Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1899 — Page 2

gw**‘ WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. oeo. e. MARSHALL, Publisher. iRENSSELAER, - ■ INDIAN-.

CUBANS IN STRAITS.

BOTH WORK AND MONEY ARE SCARCE. Instead of a Rainy Seasons the Island’s Crops Have Been Rained by Drought —Clever Robbery of an Omaha Fur Store. William Willis Howard, general manager of the Cuban industrial relief fund, and who has recently returned from Cuba, says: “Cuba is in a pitiful state. Instead of a rainy season, Cuba has had a drought. The result has been disastrous. The United States weather bureau reports that all small crops have been ruined. Sugar cane has been so damaged that the crop next year will be less than the crop ground this year. The most distressing feature of the drought is the destruction of the corn crop. Business in the cities is desperately dull. The hotels tire empty, restaurants are idle, and all small affairs are lifeless. Large business concerns are scraping along as best they may, in the hope that the future of the island may be definitely settled. The gradual withdrawal of the American troops has materially lessened the amount of money in circulation. There can be no return of prosperity in Cuba until the farmers have been helped back to their homes.” CHARGED WITH THEFT OF FURS. Two Men Are Accused of a Bold Robbery in Omaha, Neb. Charles Dennis, called “Danny, the Burglar,” and Micky Lavery, called “Mack, the Crook,” said to be well-known crooks, are charged with robbing Furrier Shukert of Omaha a few weeks ago of $20,000 worth of furs stored in his shop. The men were captured at Joplin, Mo. A third man, Charles Prince, escaped. The capture was made by Chicago detectives. The three men went to Omaha and rented a room adjoining the furrier’s store. One night the vault was blown open and furs stored were carried away. It is charged that the men now in custody carted the garments through an alley to their room, where they took their time in packing them into trunks, which were shipped out of town under the very eyes of the police. The furs have not been recovered. YAQUIS ATTACK THE MEXICAN?. Cowboys Put to Flight by a Body of Indians at Sonora. Twenty-five Mexican cowboys were at- . tacked in Sonora by mounted Yaquis, who opened fire on them, swooped down and drove away horses and cattle guarded by the Mexicans. Seeing themselves outnumbered the jiexicans put spurs to their horses and ran away, but one vaquero, a young man of indomitable courage, remained and fought the whole body of the Yaquis, killing many of them, but was finally shot. It is said his corpse was shockingly mutilated. S DESERTED BY SERVANT GIRLS. —— I They Have Left Kansas Towns for ChiE cago, Wages Being Higher. Kansas towns are in the throes of a | servant. girl famine. Five hundred servant girls of Topeka and vicinity have • gone during the past thirty days to Chicago, where they say they can get $5 per week. They have been induced to flock to Chicago by circulars sent out offering the wages named. Lawrence, Leaven- ? jyprth, Atchison and Fort Scott also complain that servant girls are going to Chicago and St. Louis. Big Fire in Los Angeles, CaL Practically an entire block of buildings was destroyed by fire at Los Angeles, Cal. The losers are the Los Angeles Farming and Milling Company, the Perry Mill and Lumber Company and J. R. Holbrook, dealer in iron pipe and well casings. Three men were injured in the fire, two of them probably falally. The property loss will reach $250,000. Rev. G. F. B. Howard Whipped. i.. At the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary Rev. G. F. B. Howard was compelled to E bend over a box while a lusty guard vigorously applied a hickory paddle. Howard was lately returned to the penitentiary, from which he escaped Sept. 12, 1894. He was captured at Horton, Mich., where he was pastor of the leading congregation of that village. $50,000 Fire Loss in Chicago. <5 Fire which started in the basement kitchen of Seaver’s bakery, at 86 State street, Chicago, spread into the Economical drug store and for a time .threatened ■ the complete destruction of the entire | Borden block, the first floor of which is by these concerns. The flames r caused damage estimated at $50,000. - Race for the Pennant, i The standing of the clubs in the N'aJ. tional League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. | Brooklyn ...89 38 Chicago 67 64 | Philadelphia 83 49 Pittsburg .. .63 69 | Boston 80 51 Louisville ...61 70 ‘Baltimore ; .75 53 New Y0rk...53 75 |fit. L0ui5....75 59 Washington. 49 81 Rj&indnriati <f 73 60 Cleveland .. .20 119 SIOO,OOO Fire in Rochester. Bri Fire destroyed the Ira S. Debro box jt! factory and the J. H. Chase flouring mills ;$t Rochester, N. Y., and also damaged #adjoining property. The loss is SIOO,OOO. Suicide Follows a Murder. | Frank Goodrich, 37 years old, a pro--1 dace peddler of Weathersfield, shot and KOled Mary Berrigan, 15 years old, at 'Hartford, Conn., and then killed himself. * BSPH Get More African Land. Britain and Portugal, it is reiported, are about to sign a convention by Iwhich the latter leases to the former cerKiiln territory and stations in Portuguese IKwt Africa. Germany, it is said, has I also secured similar advantages from » Jen. R- A. Alger has given out a letter fay iiiniscl/ in York oept. o.

ELOPEMENT LEADS TO TRAGEDY. Irate Father-In-Law Kills One Man and Commit* tuicide. Panola County, Texas, especially Beck, ville, is excited over a triple tragedy. The trouble started with the marriage of James Forsythe, a highly respected young man, and Miss Ollie Simpson, a belle of the neighborhood. Forsythe did not have the approval of the girl’s father, Andrew Simpson, but with several young jnen he succeeded in eloping with the fc'oung woman and they were married. This so angered the old man that he saddled his horse and loaded a double-barrel-ed shotgun and took his pistol, declaring that he would kill the whole party concerned. As Simpson rode up to Forsythe’s home he saw his son-in-law fleeing through the orchard. He brought him down with seven buckshot in the groin, leaving him for dead. King H. Forsythe, father of James, came out unarmed to see what the trouble was and was instantly killed with a load of buckshot in the abdomen. Simpson then dismounted and ran into the house with his pistol, saying that he would kill his daughter, but the mother of young Forsythe ran between them and held his pistol until the girl escaped. Simpson then walked out the front gate, put the pistol to his forehead and fired, killing himself instantly. CONSUL BEDLOE INNOCENT. Hia Troubles Due to a Money-Makins Chinese Interpreter. As a result of the investigation of charges against Dr. Edward Bedloe, United States consul at Canton, it is stated that he will either be ordered back to Canton or be given another position on |he consular service equally as good as that he occupied in China. The responsibility for Dr. Bedloe’s trouble is placed entirely upon his interpreter, a Chinaman named Chung, who, fearing punishment upon the discovery of his crime, fled to Macao, so as to escape the vengeance of Dr. Bedloe and the Chinese Government. The complaint made against the consulate by the Chinese Government was directed against Chung as well as Dr. Bedloe, but the Tsung li Yamen is willing to again receive Dr. Bedloe, now that Chung had been dismissed. Chung not only used a counterfeit seal of the consulate and forged the signature of the consul, but he is alleged to have followed other methods to provide certificates for Chinamen desirous of visiting the States. COMBINE IO BUY GOODS. Wholesale Grocers of Illinois and lowa in an Agreement, Representatives of four prominent wholesale grocery houses of lowa and Illinois met at Des Moines, lowa, and completed final arrangements for a brokerage concern with a capital of SIOO,OOO, to buy goods for them in all parts of the world, with offices in Chicago. The firms represented own a large majority of the stock. They are: Warfield, Howell & Pratt of Des Moines, Letts-Fletcher Company of Marshalltown, H. L. Spencer of Oskaloosa and the Warfield Company of Quincy, 111. Russell Pratt and G. F. Letts have gone to Chicago to open the office. Other lowa houses will buy through the concern. PASSENGERS HAD TO WORK. Alaska Steamer Libeled for Wages and Discomforts. The steamer Cleveland has been libeled for $5,400 by eighteen second-class passengers who arrived at Seattle from St. Michaels, Alaska. The suit grows out of trouble the vessel had between St. Michaels and Dutch Harbor, when, by reason of running short of coal, the secondclass passengers were employed to break up for fuel all the loose lumber and superfluous woodwork on the vessel. In addition to their wages libelants sue for damages for the discomforts suffered on the voyage in consequence of pool - sleeping accommodations. Fix Bodies Washed Ashore. The first authentic news of the disaster to the Jessie party, which occurred at the mouth of the Kuskowim in June, 1898, and by which fourteen persons lost their lives, was brought to St. Michaels, Alaska, by Dr. Romig of the Romig mission at Bethel. Dr. Romig had with him many articles taken from the bodies of those washed ashore at different points. Six bodies are reported to have been found. Bank Desires to Liquidate. President James A. Leech has made application to the Comptroller of the Currency for his consent for the liquidation of the affairs of the City National Bank at Louisville, Ky. The bank has a capital of $200,000. Its affairs are said to be in such shape that the depositors will be paid at once. Indiana Woman Horsewhipped. Mrs. James D. McFerran and her daughter went to the home of Mrs. David Talbert at Shelbyville, Ind., and, procuring admission, horsewhipped Mrs. Talbert and then covered her face with cayenne pepper. Mre. McFerran says that Mrs. Talbert had alienated her husband’s affections, thus causing desertion. Freight Wreck Kills Fonr. A wreck which occurred on the Chicago, Rock Island ami Pacific Railway twelve miles west of lowa City resulted in the death of four men and the injury of seven others. An east-bound special meat train crashed into a west-bound extra freight on a curve. Twelve cars were wrecked. Mother and Daughter Burn to Death. Mrs. Beatrice Markalana and her daughter, Angelina, aged 16 years, were burned to death and Joseph Markalana, her husband, badly injured at their home in Cleveland as a result of an attempt by the girl to start a fire in the cook stove with coal oil. Royalty at an Unveilinjc, A monument commemorating the Schleswig wars was unveiled at Copenhagen, Denmark, in the presence of King Christian, the Czar, the Czarina, the dowager empress of Russia, the King of Greece, the Princess of Wales and other members of the Danish royal fa mily. Murdered His Parent*. John King and his wife, an aged couple of Fiskdale, Mass., were killed by their son Peter, who was crazed from the excessive use of liquor. The skulls of both were crushed by a heavy instrument The murderer also attempted to kill his brother. Boston Ont of Commission. The United States cruiser Boston has gone out of commission at Mare Island j navy yard, California. The members of her crew have either been discharged' or transferred to other vessels. |

WHEAT FROM SIBERIA

ANTICIPATED RIVAL FOR AMERICAN GRAIN. Foil and Climate Said to Be Perfectly Fnited to Its Successful .cultivation The Touching Story of a Returned Klondike Gold Seeker. American farmers are to have competition from a new quarter in the wheat market of the world. Consul Monaghan, at Chemnitz, in a report to the State Department at Washington, gives interesting details of the agricultural possibilities of Asiatic Russia—a vast region which is being brought into touch with the European market by the Construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Mr. Monaghan says that this vast territory is destined to be one of the world’s richest and most productive sections. It is particularly well adapted to the growing of wheat and other cereals, and, since the building of the Trans-Siberian road, wheat from this region has already found its way to the European market. At present the resources of this region are largely undeveloped and must remain so for many years, as the population is as yet very sparse, there being fewer than one inhabitant to each square mile. Immigration from European Russia is setting in, however, and 400,000 persons entered the region last year. FUNDS FOR EXTENSION GONE. Rural Mail Delivery’s Spread Stopped Pending New Appropriations. Citizens of many sections will be disappointed to learn that the appropriation available for the extension of the rural free delivery service has been exhausted and that the Postoffice Department has issued notice that the service cannot be further extended until Congress has made a new allowance. July 1 $300,000 became available for the service, one-half being Set apart for ths maintenance of the service then in existence. Of the $150,000 left for the extension of the service SIB,OOO remains, and this will be retained for emergencies. THREE MEN KILLED IN WRECK. Freight train Crashes Through a Bridge <>a Missouri Pacific. About 5 o’clock on a recent afternoon an accident occurred on' the Missouri Pacific eight miles south of Nebraska City, Neb., resulting in the loss of three lives and the destruction of twenty freight cars and an engine. Train No. 124, a freight, ran into a bridge which was on fire and it gave way. The engine, with Engineer Gilian; his fireman, name unknown, and Head Brakeman Foster, went into the ditch and some twenty cars piled- upon them. The wreck took fire and, a strong wind prevailing, it was soon a blazing mass. The men Were burned to death. FORGETS HOME AND NAME. Aged Prospector from Alaska Is in a rad Predicament. Among the many prospectors that have returned from Alaska this season is an old man, now in Seattle, who cannot tell who he is or where he came from. There is a clot of blood on his brain, due to typhoid fever, which has caused a paralysis of speech. The only words he can utter are an indistinct yes or no. By the aid of a map it was learned he came from Cambridge, Mass. A man who accompanied him from Dawson says his name is something like “Fisk.” Efforts are being made to establish the man’s identity. His limbs are also paralyzed. To Build a Mexican Railway. Charles Patil McKie, representing a syndicate of New Y’ork capitalists, is negotiating with the Mexican Government for the construction of the Chiapas Railway, 274 miles long, including all its branches. The road, which will run from San Geronimo, on the Tehauntepec Railway, to the Guatemalan frontier, penetrates a very rich tropical country. It will cost $4,000,000 in gold. Appalling (rime of a Mother. As a result of domestic difficulty, Mrs. Earne Phillips of Scotia, Neb., forced her two children, aged 1 and 2 years, to take carbolic acid and then swallowed a dose of the poison herself. The husband found all three lying upon the floor dead when he returned from the field, where he had been at work. Explosion Near Lima, Ohio. A nitroglycerin magazine of the Hercules Torpedo Company, three miles southwest of Lima, Ohio, exploded. The building was blown to atoms. One man was found some distance away in the woods, unconscious. It is not known what caused the explosion. Fire in Lincoln, Neb. Fire started at Lincoln, Neb., in the Jacob North printing house, a three-story building, containing an immense amount of printing machinery and the home of many publications. The North building was completely destroyed. Women Killed in a Wreck. A north-bound passenger train on the Southern Pacific Railroad ran into the rear end of the Porterville accommodation train at Formosa, Cal. Three women were killed and three men seriously hurt. Three Murdered by Robbers. Mrs. Jane Barber and her two sons, Wiley and Levi, were murdered by unknown robbers in a cross-roads store in Otastoke County, Texas. A sack containing SIOO in silver was secured by the robberte. Killed During a Panic. ■ Advices from Kalisch, in Russian Poland, say that thirty-two persons were crushed to death in a panic in a synagogue there, caused by the upsetting of a lamp. The victims were all women and children. Many others were injured. Negro Preacher la Murdered. At Thomson, Ga., H. B. Battle, a negro preacher, was killed by air unknown white man. Battle had preached a strong sermon against lynching. Reason’s First Hard Frost. The first frost of the season damaged corn, late potatoes, buckwheat and tender vegetables in sections of Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. Lone Bandit Robs a Stage. The Calistega and Lakeport stage was held up near Napa, Cal., by a solitary highwayman, who made off with the express box.

GIRL RESCUED THREE WOMEN; The Daughter of a Lighthouse-Keeper Faves Bathers. Miss Vertie Griggs, 17 years of age, a daughter of thq lighthouse keeper at Cape Henry, Va., is a real heroine. She saved the other day three other young women from drowning. The rescued are Rosa Freeland. Nina Russell and Priscilla Russell, all of Virginia. The young life-saver herself had a narrow escape. The rescues were made in plain sight of the Cape Henry life-saving station. At this point is a shelving beach. The young women were not aware of the sudden and sharp declivity and each stepped beyond her depth. All were at once carried seaward. As if by a miracle a heavy swell cast Miss Griggs, upon a shoal, where she regained her footing. She is an excellent swimmer, and she daringly made her way through the big waves, and one by one brought her companions ashore. There was no one to help her to resuscitate them, and she saw that it needed quick action to do this. It required much hard work before she succeeded. LIVE STOCK COMBINE A GO. Promoter Claims Hie Efforts Have Met with Success. “The live stock combination is practically assured.” So said George B. Loving of Fort Worth, Texas, after a conference with prominent New York and Boston capitalists. “At last I see that success is to attend my efforts,” said Mr. Loving just before his departure for Chicago. “1 shall return to New York after the Dewey day bustle has subsided and complete the organization of the combination. It will have a capital of not less than $30,000,000 and will take in about all the ranches and live stock in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Thirtyfive additional ranch owners have given us options which have not yet been considered.” KILLED ON GRADE CROSSING. Four Persons Meet Sudden Death East of Logansport, Ind. The west-bound Panhandle passenger train No. 41 struck a carriage east of Logansport, Ind., instantly killing the four occupants. Mrs. Harrison McVety and her two daughters, aged 16 and 18, respectively, and her son, aged 12. The train was running forty miles an hour and the victims were thrown twenty feet in the air and terribly mangled. Engineer John Manes and Conductor James Kinney were in charge of the train. Sleeping: Car I-urns on a Run. The rear sleeper on a through Wabash express from New York to Chicago was discovered to be ou fire when about four miles from Montpelier, Ohio. The passengers were quickly bundled into forward cars. The crew was unable to extinguish the flames, so the car was cut off. It was burned to the tracks. Philadelphia Plant Destroyed. The Richardson & Ross Asphalt Block and Tile Works at Philadelphia was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of SIOO,000. The blaze was caused by the boiling over of crude oil and asphalt. Albert E. Lewis, a fireman, was severely injured by falling girder. Scientific Expedition Back. An expedition of four University of California professors has just returned from Alaska. The expedition was undertaken to explore the coast of Bering Sea wijji a view to studying the botany of these regions. A large number of specimens was secured. * Two Killed, Two Injured. Two men were killed and two injured in a collision on the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad near Baird station, Pa., between the pay train and a freight train. The accident was caused by a misunderstanding of orders. North Dakota Bank Robbed. At 3:30 o’clock the other morning the safe of the bank at Davenport, N. D., was blown open by burglars and S2OO in silver and a number of valuable papers taken. For an Antarctic Expedition. The British Association for the Advancement of Science has granted £l,000 toward the expenses of an antarctic expedition. Custodian Held for Forgery. Malcom T. MacAuley, formerly bookkeeper for the American Exchange Bank of Duluth, Minn., has been indicted by the grand jury for forgery. Cornelius Vanderbilt Is Dead. Cornelius Vanderbilt is dead at New York. Death was caused by a stroke of paralysis, the second which he suffered.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago— common to prime, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2,32 cto 33c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 16c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn. No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $7.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,22 cto 24c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75: sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c .o 25c; rye. 58c to 60c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22a; rye. No. 2,57 c to 59c; clover seed, new, $5.05 to $5.15. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 68c to 70c; corta, No. 3,32 cto 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 1,57 cto 59c; barley. No. 2,44 cto 46c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair, to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4:50 to $6.25. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2, 89c to 41c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; butter, creamery, 18c to 24c; eggs, westera, 13c to 17c.

TO FIGHT THE TRUSTS

CONFERENCE RESULTS IN FORMING NATIONAL BODY. Call for a Convention Will Be Issued '» hortly, Pending; Organization All Over the Country—Closing; of the Big; Meeting in Chicago. As the result of the trust conference in Chicago a new anti-trust organization, national in scope, has been formed. The object of the organization is the crystallization of the anti-trust spirit throughout the country, which the promoters assert has been greatly strengthened by the deliberations of the convention. The meeting was attended by many of the delegates to the conference who believe the time is ripe for the formation of a body whose strength shall eventually overthrow oppressive capitalistic combinations. With that object in view a huge anti-trust conference is to be called in the near future, the date and place of meeting to be arranged by an executive committee which has the matter in charge. Fifteen addresses were listened to by the delegates to the conference on the second day of it§ session. Many additional delegates were present at the conference, whole delegations having come from some States, and an increasing interest in the problems and the means of utilizing the suggestions made about them for the public good was manifested. After deciding in the morning to have a special committee to receive and consider resolutions concerning trusts, effects of the tariff in causing the growth of trusts were considered. In the afternoon the conference listened to several accounts of the industrial situation from the farmers’ point of view, and also to an anarchist’s solution of the truts problem. The evening meeting was the liveliest and most exciting yet held. Enemies and advocates of trusts followed each other in quick succession, making all of them strong assertions of their confidence in their positions. The day had many humorous moments, both during the debates and while the papers were being read, and the attendance on the part of the Chicago public was larger at each successive session. Bourke Cockran was the speaker at the third day’s session, whose address was most eagerly listened to. What he would say for himself, and what for the New York delegation, of which he is* perhaps the most prominent member, had been speculated upon since the opening of the convention. The evening program was changed by the omission of Mr. Bryan’s address, and a great audience which had gathered in part to hear that leader was disappointed by being informed that the Democratic leader was to talk Saturday morning. The session of the conference Friday morning was devoted in the main to the addresses of labor advocates, William J. Bryan spoke at the trust conference for nearly two hoiurs in the morning session Saturday, and the galleries, packed an hour before he spoke and attentive and enthusiastic while he talked, emptied themselves when the Nebraskan had taken his seat again among the delegates. The audience was with Mr. Bryan before he rose. The galleries went wild over his periods and shouted and stamped and applauded all his striking sentiments. .At the conclusion of the address Mr. Bryan grasped an outstretched hand here and there and made his way to a seat, only to arise twice in acknowledgment of the prolonged cheering. As Bryan had been the striking feature of the morning session, there was another and similar scene in the afternoon and final session, when he and Bourke Cockran were plunged into, a debate on the platform, where the evening before Mr. Bryan had explained that it was agreed to be not in keeping with the character of the conference for them to debate. Nevertheless that was what happened after the general discussion of the final afternoon had gotten into full swing. There was no interruption for Mr. Bryan save that which came from applause and brief and indistinct interpolations. But with Mr. Cockran it was different from beginning to end. Thomas J. Morgan and others wanted to start a mixed debate and partially succeeded. Finally the New York man was led into a continuous closing argument with a peroration that took the auditors fairly off their feet.

USED DEATH AS A REMEDY.

Physician Declares He Has Killed Suffering Patients. Dr. Nehemiah Nickerson of Meridian, Conn., has created a sensation by declaring that he had put an end to the suffering of patients who were ill beyond hope of recovery by administering chloroform, thereby causing a peaceful and more speedy death. “There is no reason,” Dr. Nickerson said, “why the sufferer should not be given chloroform if he such action and be assisted to pass out. I have administered chloroform under such conditions, and have always thought that I was doing a humane act. Why 'a person should be obliged to suffer by the aid of medical skill is more than I can see. According to my mind a person has a perfect right to say what shall be done with his life.. He may live or die. Suicide is justifiable in many cases, provided the suicide has no obligations. I do not believe a doctor should hasten a patient’s death without full consent of all near relatives and the patient himself.” This declaration was brought out by the address of Judge Simeon E. Baldwin of New Haven before the American Social Science Association, of which he is president, at Saratoga, N. Y., on Sept. 4, in which he said that in the case of a patient suffering from a fatal malady he believed the prolongation of the sufferer’s life was a misapplication of the healing art, especially when the patient would prefer a speedy death through an anaesthetic. ___ France Reaped Fees. The profits of the Government telegraph during, the Dreyfus trial are reported the heaviest in the history of France. Tables just compiled show total receipts of $90,000, which represents payment for nearly 9,000,000 words of telegraph matter. The heaviest day’s business is reported on Saturday, when telegrams to the number of over 3,000 were filed and sent. Pau) Roehncbt, New York jeweler, was shot dead while attempting to evict Kate

HARVEST IN THE WHEAT BELT.

Busy and Interesting; Days in the Great Northwest. The hum of the threshing machine will be heard for the next ninety days from the east line of Minnesota to the farther boundaries of the Dakotas. The land to dotted with grain stacks, usually in groups of four, though occasionally a fanner, who makes a herd or a flock the prominent feature of his husbandry, will have his entire crop stacked in a semicircle round the north and west sides of his corral. At intervals slender columns of smoke tell of a “steamer” at work from dawn till dark. A stranger in the country seeing the steamer moving from one job to another might Easily mistake the outfit for an "innovation in railroading. First comes the traction engine, not unlike a locomotive engine, although smaller and painted in brighter colors. Immediately behind the engine is the tender wagon fitted with a rack for hauling straw. Nearly every engine In the Northwest nowadays is a straw burner. Then comes the separator, a monster machine with 36 to 48-inch cylinder, and often a 60-inch separator. Behind the separator comes the tank, resembling very closely a Standard oil distributing wagon, which hauls water for the engine from the nearest windmill pump. Then the “trap wagon,” carrying the loose paraphernalia of the outfit, and the clothes and bedding of the men. If the threshers board with the owner of the grain this constitutes the train, but if, as is generally the case, the owner of the machinb boards his crew, the “grub shanty,” an ordinary house wagon, brings up the rear, making a train from 100 to 150 feet long. The modern separator comes pretty near being the “whole thing.” Instead of the threshing crew of our boyhood days—drivers, feeders, oilers, bandcutters, four to six pitchers, measurers and half a dozen straw stackers —the crew consists of a manager, usually the owner of the machine; engineer, oiler, waterman, six pitchers and a cook. Twenty years ago $1 a bushel was considered only a moderately “paying” price for wheat. Ten years back, when the market had worked down below 75 cents, the wheat farmer faced certain bankruptcy with a groan. Now, farmers in the Northwest are selling wheat, and making money, at 50 cents a bushel. Many factors contribute to make this possible, but heavier crops and lower wages are not among them. Lower prices on nearly everything he buys, especially machinery, leave the farmer a larger surplus from a given sum, but the result is brought about most of all by the improved machinery

Points Made by Trust Conference Speakers.

WM. J. BRYAN—I want to start with the declaration that monopoly In private hands is indefensible from any standpoint and Intolerable. * * * The entire defense of the trusts rests upon a wrong argument. ♦ » • But I protest In the beginning against settling every question upon the money argument. I protest against the attempt to drag every question down to the low level of dollars and cents. * » » Money was made to be the servant of man, and I protest against all theories that enthrone money and debase mankind. • ♦ ♦ The first advantage of a monopoly Is to lower the price of the raw material furnished by the people to that combination. * » * When there Is competition every employer has to get a good man to meet competition. * * * I believe we ought to have remedies In both State and nation, and that they should be concurrent remedies. * * * What is the first thing to be expected of a trust? That it will cut down expenses. What Is the second? That It will raise prices. • » ♦ When you prosecute a trust In the United States Court It hides behind State's sovereignty, and when you prosecute it in the State court it rushes to cover under Federal jurisdiction. * • • Congress should pass a law providing that no corporation organized in any State should do business outside of the State in which it is organized until it receives from some power created by Congress a license authorizing ft to do business outside of its own State. * * ♦ If it is unconstitutional and so declared by the Supreme Court, I am In favor of an amendment to the Constitution that will give to Congress power to destroy every trust in the country. W. BOURKE COCKRAN—The remedy, then, is simply to define a practical penalty, a serious one, and then provide for publicity, and if you provide the proper statute of publicity you need" not enforce the penalty. * * * Our patience, our vanities, our hopas, our ambitious are but the delusions which bind us to the cause of human progress, making each one of us discharge some tribute which he owes to all humanity. * * • Any Industrial system which operates to swell the volume of production should be commended: anything that operates to restrict it should be suppressed, * * * I believe "a close study and careful examination will satisfy everybody of this fact, that the great strikes of this country have arisen from the refusal of the employers to discuss the question at issue between them and their employes with the agents that the employes select. ♦ * * Ari industry or a combination of capital, or anything you may choose to call it. that dominates a market restricted competition that delivers the consumer to it on its own terms necessarily depends upon a narrow output and large profits, extorted, not from the excellency of its service, but from the helplessness of those with whom it deals. • * * These are my suggestions: Publicity for corporate mismanagement, prohibition under penalties for special favors, right of action against any corporation whose service is suspended except an absolute defense proved that it was at all times ready to discuss with its employes questions at issue between them by agencies of their selection. GOV. PINGREE—The trust is the forerunner, or rather the creator, of Industrial slavery. • » » increase of wealth of the country is greatly to be considered, but if the people are to be degraded to Industrial slaves wealth under such conditions Is a curse. » • * I favor complete and prompt annihilation of the trust—with dueregardfor property rights, of course. I care more for the independence and manliness of the American citizen than for all the gold and stiver in the world. It is better to cherish the happiness of the American home than to control the commerce of the globe. • • ♦ The degrading process of the trust mean* much to the future of a republic founded upon democratic principles. A democratic republic cannot survive the disappearance of a democratic population. GEN. G. R. GAITHER—The control, regulation and direction of all trusts, whose business is carried on in more than one State, should be placed under the Jurisdiction of Congress. A similar jurisdiction over such combinations operating in a single State AouM be reposed in the respective State Legislatures. JEFFERSON iDAVIS—We have got to reconstruct our judiciary. I am here to say that if we ever have another civ'll war—and God grant we may not—it will be brought about, in my judgment, by judge-made law. SAMUEL H. GREELEY—Bailroads are the "mother of trusts," special rates of freight the food that prolongs their existence. When freight rates are as stable aS postage stamps monopoly will then receive its first blow. JOHN W. HAYES—I further assert and maintain that these great combinations are an assault upon the inherent and constltuSrtiSßsuM: stra as ss potlc control over labor. ■„ ■