Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1901 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN, QUO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

SON FINDS FORTUNE.

WEALTH OF LONG-DEAD MAN IS DISCOVERED. Broker Supposed to Be Very Rich l ies and Money Could Not Be Found for Twenty-five Years—An Unprofitable Hold-Up in Chicago. The mystery of the disappearance of the fortune of $3,000,000 left by Isaac S. Holbrook, a New York stock broker who died suddenly in 187 G, is at last to be cleared up. When he died he was regarded as a millionaire, but on the settlement of his affairs his wife and his three children were unable to get track of the bulk of his property. Holbrook’s home at East Marion, L. 1., worth $75,000, passed out of the hands of his family on a small claim and is now owned by the wife of Commodore Latham Fish. Suit has been brought to recover this property and the investigation prosecuted in respect to it has revealed the existence of other property of the estimated value of $3,000,000. Isaac S. Holbrook, Jr., was a baby when his father died, but is now 26 years old. He has been prosecuting the search for his father’s estate with vigor. There are now, as a Result of his exertions, in a lawyer's office two big battered tin boxes in which repose the original title deeds to millions of dollars’ worth of real estate purchased by his father in the early 70's and which could not be traced before owing to the fact that the deeds were not in Holbrook’s name. In those boxes are the' deeds to 462,000 acres of land in Kentucky, part of which is said to be rich in oil and mineral deposits. The value of this tract of land is said to exceed-$2,000,000. Then there are deeds to a tract of land in the city of Elizabeth, X. J., a conservative valuation of which is not less than $500,000. HOLD UP 19, BUT GET ONLY $6. Robbers Ought to Have Known Better than to Visit a Lodging House. Two men, armed with twice as many revolvers, held up nineteen guests ■ and the clerk of the Barnett House in Chicago. When they had partly completed their job they were interrupted and calmly backed out of the hotel and mingled with the crowd on the street. The clerk and the roomers were lounging in the office when two men entered and adjusted masks. Then they drew two pairs of revolvers and commanded the roomers to line up against the wall. When this order was obeyed they cleaned out the money drawer and then rifled the safe. Their reward in this direction was but SO. Held Up by Masked Men. While a bus was on its way to North Valley City, S. D., about 7 o’clock the other evening, it was held up by masked men and a number of the passengers relieved of their valuables. There were seventeen passengers aboard the vehicle and about half of them lost money and other valuables, the amount secured being about S4OO. Insult to Uncle Sam. A sentinel at Tequendama Falls, Colombia, declined to honor the passport of United States Minister Charles Hart and fired one shot at the minister. The diplomat was not hit by the bullet. The government has severely punished the soldier and is seeing that the minister is fully protected. Absorbed by the Santa Fe. The Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railroad has been turned over to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Company, President Ripley of the Santa Fe accepting the former line from Frank W. Murpliy, president of the short road. Shot Holding Up Gambling House. One bandit was killed and one injured as the result of an attempt by three masked robbers to hold up the gambling house of Deel &Co at Naco, Ariz. The dead bandit has been identified as Will Cravens of Dog Springs, N. M. Killed in Duel with Fists. Joseph Carter, aged 22, killed E. Campbell, aged 44, with a fist blow over the heart at Enid, Ok. Both men were farmers. Campbell had threatened Carter with a knife and finally challenged him to a fist fight. Leader of Mutiny Captured. Frauk Thompson, negro leader of the mutiny at Fort Leavenworth penitentiary, has been wounded and captured. Lawrence Lewis, another fugitive, was fatally shot while trying to escape from a posse. Roys Sink and Die in Sand. While playing in a sand bank, Walter Ivingsland and James* l l.ove, 13 and 8 years old, were buried alive, near Bateman Station, Wis. A few minutes later when the bank was dug out the bodies were recovered, but life was extinct. Breaks Down Under Test. When half way through the test that the government requires for final acceptance the torpedo bout Blakely, which was built by Lawley & Sou of Boston, broke down at sea. Killed in Football Game. Johnnie Buckner, a negro, aged 11 years, died at Ivirksville, Mo., as the result of injuries received during a football game. French Fqnadron Leaves. Admiral Caillard’s squadron has left the Island of Mityleue. Marriage Bureau Agents Convicted. In Kansas City the federal court jury in the case of Charles Miller and Mrs. N. C. Collins, alias Grace Arnold, found them guilty on indictments charging them with operating a bogus marriage bureau and employment agency through the United States mails. ■ > Dictate Terms to Sheriff. Kansas sheriff and his deputy, pursuing two convicts escaping from the Leavenworth penitentiary, were captured by the fugitives, wlwl dictated terms and were permitted td3imtinue their flight.

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

FIND HOUSE OF TRAGEDY. Chicago Police Say the Natoli Murder Mystery Is Solved. The murder of Antonio Natoli has been explained to the satisfaction of the Chicago police. The wagon in which it is supposed the body was carted away and thrown out on the prairie has been discovered, and the house in which the police believe the murder was committed has been located. The occupant of the house, Felipe Rini, is under urrost. With him was found Giovanni Scarafai, but it is not believed he had anything to do with the murder. Natoli, the police say, was decoyed to the home of Felipe Rini, 192 North Union street, murdered, his body placed in a barrel, and removed, with the assistance of a gray horse and covered wagon. Frank Colby, a private watchman, informed the police that he saw two men take a barrel out of the basement and place it in a wagon, which was backed up to the front door. Of the two he recognized one ns Felipe Rini. the peddler occupant of the house. When the police entered the house thry found nothing to indicate that a tragedy had .been committed there. The first floor apparently had not been occupied for several days. Passing down the half dozen narrow steps lending to the basement, the.searchers found a different scene. The walls and floor were bespattered with blood. Clothing hanging against the wall was damp, showing that a seeming effort had been made to remove the blood stains. Concealed in the corner of the basement were two hatchets, while a knife lay on the table. All bore blood stains upon them, although efforts had been made to remove the dark marks. The crime was undoubtedly committed to obtain the S3OO which. Natoli was known to have had. “CORPSE” WANTS TO GO TO WORK. Man Pronounced Dead Proves to Have Had a Fit. John Sesler gave a Painesville, Ohio, undertaker the scare of his life by his refusal to consider himself dead. Sesler is subject to fits. He had one on his way to work and fell unconscious to the sidewalk on the main street of the town. A passing physician pronounced the man dead. Some one telephoned an undertaker, and an ambulance was soon on the scene. The body was placed within the ambulance, and the horses started towards Sesler's home on the outskirts of the town. Half way there the supposed corpse sat up and asked where he was going. The driver gasped that they were taking him home. “I don’t want to go home,” said Sesler. ”1 want to go to work.” So the driver had to turn about and take him back to town. There Sesler climbed down and Avalked away whistling. THREE HUNDRED HORSES BURN. Excelsior Hauling and Transfer Company Stables at St. Louis Destroyed. In St. Louis fire completely destroyed the stables and barns of the Excelsior Hauling and Transfer Company. Together with the buildings, sheds and about $12,000 worth of feed in the lofts, 300 head of horses and mules lost their lives in the flames. Col. Ed Butler, president of the company, said that $150,000 would be a low estimate of the total loss. He said that the stock was insured for SIOO per head and that there was insurance on the contents possibly covering one-half or two-thirds of their value. Jumps from Steamer in Miillake. The Barry steamer Stafford, which reached Grand Haven, Mich., from Chicago the other morning, reports that a well-dressed young man, who secured passage on the boat, jumped into the lake. He was not seen to make the jump, but his hat, overcoat, shoes and other effects were found on the deck. In his stateroom was found a note, in which he signed himself J. 11. Bissell.

Woman Commits Fiendish Crime. Thomas Kelley, 38 years old, an engineer of Williamsburg, lies in the Eastern District hospital in New York, blinded and his face shockingly mutilated by carbolic acid. The attack upon him, for which Kelley claims to he unable to account, was made by his wife Elizabeth, he says. Kill Fire in Bradford, Pa. One of the worst fires in the history of Bradford, I’a., occurred the other morning. It originated in the livery stable of Frank P. Beamer and consumed a dozen buildings, including the $35,000 city hall. Thirty-seven horses in the livery stable perished in the flames Attempt to Burn Nebraska Capital. The watchfulness of an engineer alone frustrated the attempt of an incendiary to burn the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln. The incendiary set the fire in an underground passage leading frotn the eapitol to the steam-heating plant 100 yards distant. Sailor Surrender, to Police for Murder At Erie, Iht., Jnmes Dempsey, n sailor, confessed to Chief of Police Reynolds that he killed a man in Baltimore in 1896. He is in jail awaiting the disposition of the Baltimore authorities. Lartre Cement Work. Burned. The large Alma Portland cement works at South Wellston, Ohio, was almost destroyed by fire. The plant was one of the largest of its kind in the United States. The loss will exceed SBO,OOO. Young Man Periou.ljr Stabbed. At Northfork, W. Va., Bernard Burton, son of wealthy parents, was seriously stabbed by a negro, whom he shot to death while the latter was thrusting a dirk into his body. Mr*. Vent Vent. Her Anger. William Vent of New York told hia wife he guessed he would have to go to Philadelphia for a few days on business.

A few nights afterward Ml’S. Vent, with her son, went to a Harlem music hall, and during the middle of the performance the luckless Vent came trailing down the aisle with a blonde woman. They took seats in front of Mrs. Vent, who, without hesitation, ripped the blonde's dress open and tugged furiously at her hair. MAY BE THE TRAIN LOOT. Woman Arrested Carrying $50,000 Believed to Be Robbery Proceed*. lu St. Louis the police have made another important arrest in connection with the Great Northern express robbery of July 3 near Wagner, Mont., and took a valise containing between $30,000 and $50,000 in notes of the National Bank of Helena, which are supposed to be a part of the proceeds of that haul. A woman who registered at the Laclede Hotei as “Mrs. Rose”-was taken into custody by city detectives and escorted to Chief Desmond’s office, where she confessed that she had forged the signatures of officers of the bank to the notes. Beyond that statement the woman would not say a_ word other than to deny any knowledge of the man named Arnold, whom the police arrested the previous night in connection with the robbery. The arrest was made just as “Mrs. Rose” was leaving the hotel. She carried a bag in which was a bunch of S2O bills. This, with her trunk, which was> being loaded into an express wagon, is at police headquarters. "Mrs. Rose” did not know how much money the valise contained. When she counted it last she said there was on hand between $30,000 and $50,000. She had spent much mouby since her arrival in St. Louis. LIVES LOST IN THEATER FIRE. Flames Quickly Devour Frame Buildings in Hurley, Wis. Eight persons, one of them a woman, were burned to death at Hurley, Wis., in a tire which consumed the Klondike Theater. Three women and one man, members of the troupe that had been playing at the theater nightly during the week, were injured by leaping from their sleeping rooms when awakened by the roar of the flames. The theater, as also five other buildings destroyed, was of frame and burned with terrible swiftness. The sleeping actresses and actors, when they were awakened at 4 a. m., found themselves surrounded by flames, from which escape seemed almost impossible. Those who saved themselves leaped from the second and third story windows, receiving severe injuries. None had time to dress or save valuables.

anarchist up for murder. New Jersey Weaver Arrested on Charge of Slaying Traitorou* Comrade. Antonio Livenro, a silk weaver, was arrested in New York charged with the murder of Frank Panizzone at Summitt, N. J., on the night of March 17. Livenro is an avowed anarchist. It is asserted that he killed Panizzone, who was a friend of Bresci, the slayer of King Humbert, because Panizzone was believed to have given information to the authorities about Italian anarchists. Panizzone conducted a hoarding house in Summitt, N. J. Oil Trnst Wins a Victory. Judge A, S. Tibbets and C. C. Wright, referees of the Supreme Court of Nebraska, filed a reply in the case of the State against the Standard Oil Company. The suit was to debar the company on the ground that it was a trust and doing business contrary to the anti-trust law of Nebraska. The referees find that the evidence does not sustain the allegations of the State. Guilty of Child’s Murder. At Fort Wayne, Ind., Charles Dunn was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The jury was out twenty hours. The crime with which Dunn was charged was the murder of 10-year-old Alice Cothrell, whose body was fished from a cistern beneath Dunn’s kitchen at Wallen, July 7 last. China Slaps at the Powers. Na Tung, former Boxer leader, has been appointed to the Chinese foreign office by an edict received in Pekin the other day. This appointment is considered a test of the attitude of the Chinese ministers toward the restoration of the Boxers to imperial favor. Michigan Hotel Burns. The Phoenix Hotel at Charlotte, Mich., a three-story brick, was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Beardsley of St. Joseph, Mich., and Mrs. James Metcalf of Syracuse, N. Y., were carried out of the third story on a ladder. Loss, SIO,OOO, partly insured. Collision in Detroit River. The car ferry Landsdowne collided with the schooner Sophia Minch in tho Detroit river just off the foot of Woodward avenue, Detroit. The bow of tho Minch was crushed iu and the forward deck was badly broken. Kiltclor Injured in Railroad Wreck., A Chicago Great Western freight train ran into a trolley car at the James street intersection of the Ivaw river in Kansas City. Kan., injuring six persons, two of whom may die. Caillard Seize. Turkish Porta. Admiral Caillard, with his squadron, arrived at Island of Mitylene and seized three ports, customs of which will be administered until French claims against Turkey are satisfied. “Mother” Bickerdyke I. Dead. “Mother” Bickerdyke of army fame died at Bunker Hill, Kan., of old age. She was born in 1817 and was a native of Knox County, Ohio. Vast Railroad I. Finished. Tha last rails of the line connecting Moscow with Vladivostok, according to a dispatch from St. Petersburg, have been laid.

BOYS SENT TO WAR IN AFRICA. 4 Shipped to Caps Town from an Em* ployment Agency in St. Louis. Frank L. Porter, a merchant of Logansport, Ind., has complained to Congressman Georgb W. Steele of the Logansport district that his son, Lenon Porter, aged 16, who left his home Aug. 13, in answer to an advertisement of a St. Louis employment agency, is being shipped, with twenty-two other boys, to South Africa, where, it is said, they will be forced into the British army to fight against the Boers. Congressman Steele has promised to submit the complaint to the State Department with a view to having young Porter intercepted when he reaches Cape Town. The senior Porter went to St. Louis to see the manager of an employment company which ships muleteers to South Africa. His visit was prompted by the receipt of a letter from a man named Cable in New Orleans, telling him that Lenon has shipped from New Orleans for South Africa, Oct. 17, on the steamer Monterey. After his return to Logansport he announced that he had discovered that the St. Louis employment agency was virtually a British recruiting station and that the management received $3 for each recruit. The manager of the agency denies Mr. Porter’s charges and says he knows nothing about the latter’s son.

ROB A WINDOW OF DIAMONDS. Brilliant Electric Lights Do Not Pre* vent Daring Thieves. Tuesday morning between 1 and 5 o’clock the Duhme Jewelry Company’* show window, on Fourth street, Cincinnati, was broken by burglars who got away with about $20,000 worth of diamonds. They left a trail of diamonds clear to Fourth and Vine streets, dropping them as they ran and showing tho direction of their flight. Further than Fourth and Vine there was no trace and there is absolutely no clue to the identity of the burglars. Several gems were found by messenger boys and the detectives picked up ten on the street. An ordinary cobblestone was hurled through the show window at a point where a tray containing seventy-five loose diamonds was located on a shelf. This they took and several pendants, hut their work was evidently done in a hurry and many valuable stones were overlooked. The window was brilliantly lighted. Herman Kock, president of the company, said: “We are out about $20,000 if we don’t get our diamonds back.”

WOMAN SAVES FORCE. Reveals Plot of Filipinos to Massacre Moncada Garrison. A plot to massacre the American garrison at Moncada, province of Tarlac, Island of Luzon, has been revealed by the wife of one of the conspirators. Several of the town officials are implicated in the murderous scheme. The woman who revealed the plot hid a detective beneath a house in which the leaders of the conspiracy were meeting. Arrests followed, and many incriminating papers were seized. The plan was to set fire to a house close to the barracks, after dark, and when the soldiers canje out to assist in extinguishing the flames, 150 conspirators, armed with bolos, were to rush oh the guard, capture their arms and proceed to massacre the garrison. Convicts at Liberty. While Warden It. .W. McClaughry was absent 400 convicts mutinied and seized arms at the new federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan. A long and desperate battle with the thirty guards followed. As the result one convict was shot dead, one was injured, four guards were wounded by the mutineers and twenty-six desperadoes escaped into the woods. Three Trainmen Meet Death. Three trainmen, ali of Springfield, Mo., were killed on the ’Frisco road in North Springfield, in a collision between a switch engine and a “double-header.” The engineer and the fireman were caught between the tank and the boiler of the rear engine of the “double-header” and scalded to death. Callahan Acquitted of Perjury. James Callahan, charged with the kidnaping of Eddie Cudahy and subsequently with perjury in connection with hia defense, has been finally set free at Omaha. The jury iu the perjury case brought in a verdict of not guilty after being out thirty-three hours.

Admits $57,000 Steal. Charles B. Thompson, supreme finance keeper of the Supreme Tent of the Knights of the Maccabees, is a self-con-fessed defaulter in the sum of $57,000. He took the money to aid his own imperiled business interests. Mr. Thompson’s office is at Port Huron, Mich Fire Damage* Steel Plant. The plant of Dihvorth, Porter & Co., manufacturers of steel rods and railroad spikes at Pittsburg, was damaged by fire to the extent of about $250,000. The plant wns the largest of its kind in the world, with an output of 100,000 tons. Turkey Yields to France. The Sultan of Turkey has yielded to all the demands of France. He has sent to the French embassy drafts on the enstoms department in full payment of the Lorando and Tubini claims and in settlement of all other claims. Tap. Blue Gras. Region. A $7,000,000 syndicate for building interurban electric roads between Lexington and other cities of the central blue grass region was organized at Lexington, Ky. The syndicate is backed by New York, Chicago and Detroit capital. Award. Dewey Prize Money. Justice Bradley, sitting as a United States District Court, passed upon the destruction of Spanish vessels in Manila Bay by Admiral Dewey and issued a decree awarding the prise money.

SULTAN BACKS DOWN.

DEMANDS OF FRANCE ARE CONCEDED BY TURKEY. Abdul Hamid, Driven by Alarm, Pay* Lorando and Tubini Claims in Full— Convicta Overpower Guards at Leavenworth Prison and Escape. France has scored a complete triumph in the Turkish disputes. The French foreign office Friday morning received

ABDUL-HAMID.

the situation in which he found himself because of the energetic measures adopted by France, sent Friday to the French embassy drafts on the customs department in full payment of the Lorando and Tubini claims and in settlement of all other claims urged by France. President Loubet presided Friday at the cabinet council. The foreign minister, M. Delcasse, announced that the Porte had advised him that it had decided to give satisfaction in the caae of the various French demands, to which M. Delcasse replied that so soon as the Sultan’s order regarding the Porte’s decision was communicated to him Admiral Caiilard’s squadron would leave the island of Mitylene.

CONVICTS IN A MUTINY.

Overpower Gnarda and Escape from Leavenworth Prison. Two men were killed and three injured In a battle between prison guards and convicta Thursday at the new United States penitentiary building, Leavenworth, Kan. After the guards were overpowered by the leaders of the jail breakers the gates were thrown open and all the 450 convicts given a cltance to escape. Only twenty-six broke out and they made good their escape, hiding in the tall woods near the prison. The attack on the guards and the escape was the culmination of a well-laid plot, carried out in the most daring manner.

The meeting took place at the new prison building, where the convicts were at work. The thirty guards in charge of the men weTe surprised. Then the ringleaders in the mutiny urged all the prisoners to join in the revolt. The movement spread, and the stockade was in wild excitement. Twice repulsed in efforts to break from the stockade the convicts finally carried the main gate by assault, and once outside started a reign of terror. They drove the persons living near into their homes, captured wagons, buggies and more arms, and holding close together they started on their flight. As they went the mutineers spread terror through the country. The escaping convicts started in to get citizens’ clothing by making farmers, either in the fields or roads, strip and exchange for the numbered and striped convict suits. Meantime all the prison guards had been using every effort to prevent a general uprising. The military at Fort Leavenworth was called on to help restore order at the new penitentiary site and held in check the convicta who did not leave the stockade.

Some unknown person had passed in three revolvers to the ringleaders. Gus Parker, one of the plotters, secured the weapons unnoticed and he was joined by Frank Thompson, a big negro, and the two men held up the office of Frank Hines, the contractor, and compelled Mr. Hines and his assistants to march before them as a shield while they attacked the guards on the towers. Ford Quinn, a convict, and J. B. Waldrup, a guard, were killed. Three other guards were injured. Early Friday morning an increased number of guards, well armed and mounted, were started out from the penitentiary, and the day was spent in as exciting a man hunt perhaps as has been experienced in that part of the country since the border days. The convicts and the pursuing party—forty guards and a tTOop of federal cavalry—met In fierce battle about seventeen miles southeast of Leavenworth, and a desperate conflict was waged.

PULPIT AND PREACHER

St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Tomah, Wis., has secured a rector in the Rev. A. F. Todrig of Gloucester, N. J. The Rev. George W. King has been chosen as assistant to Dr. McKittrick oi the First Presbyterian Church, St. Louis. O. P. Miller has been elected superintendent of the Rock Rapids, lowa, Methodist Sunday school for the nineteenth time. The Methodists of Anderson, Ind., hav* let tho contract for the construction ol a new church. The contract price is $16,692. The Rev. A. W. Shaw, late of Chichester, N. Y., has assumed charge of th* work of the Episcopal Church at Waverly, lowa. The Rev. R. A. Crlckmer has resigned the work of the Episcopal Church al What Cheer, lowa, and has accepted that at Waterville, Minn. The Rev. James Addison Ingle, the new Bishop of the Episcopal Church at Hankow, China, was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1888, and soon afterward went to China as a missionary. He has been in charge of the Episcopal Church at Hankow for aeveral year*. The vestry of St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Springfield, 111., haa extended a unanimous call to the Rev. Frederick A. D« Roasett, archdeacon of Cairo and rectoi of the Church of the Redeemer,-Cairo, to be rector of the pro-cathedral in placs of the Rev. Frederick W. Taylor, elected blahoD coadjutor of Quincy.

advices announcing that the Sultan had yielded to the entire demands formula te d by the French government and only the question of form regarding the execution of the engagements remained to be settled. The Sultan, having become thoroughly alarmed at

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

j That gold shipment a 1 Hew York. s h° u, d b e made at this seaLI son is somewhat surprising, l hut without bearing on the financial sit-! uation except as it tends to draw down* the surplus reserves of the New York: banks. AS gold goes out at New York it comes in from the Klondike and Australia, and besides those two sources there is a steady and large supply from the, mines in this country. About $12,000,-; 000 has been received from the Klondike,; and nearly as much from Australia, so; far this year. The mere sending of this: metal that comes in at the back door out* of the front door is ineffective so far as 1 it concerns the gold store of this country, now at its highest point. England is l still cut off from its base of supplies in! South Africa. The war completely stopped the output, and latterly troubles with Kaffir labor, resulting from the demoralizing effects of the contest with the Boers, have presented new obstacles. Under the circumstances, with the money markets -relatively easy here and! more or less demoralized throughout Europe, America can spare considerable! gold. It owes some for loans contracted* In Europe this spring to raise funds for: bridging over purchases in connection with the Northern Pacific difficulties.; These loans are maturing, and Paris andj England are unwilling, pel’haps unable, to renew them. t AIM districts of the country, no * less than in the large centers, remains active. Colder weather hasr helped retail trade. Iron and steel mills are sold well ahead for domestic consumption. This industry is suffering more than any other for the lack of freight cars.. Greater attention has been attracted to the New York stock market by the improvement of prices, but this is the result more of professional trading than of public interest. Wheat prices on the Board of Trade advanced during the week 2% to 2*4 cents and sentiment seemed more in favor of the buying side than it has been for mouths. There has been a lot of buying on the belief that with corn at 60 cents and oats at 40 cents wheat should he selling at least at 80 cents. Corn is selling at 60c in the' West, and around 62c to 63c in Kansas City, but receipts everywhere are small and the primary movement for the week, was only 1,735,(XX) bushels, or about 800,000 bushels less than last year. The western farmer has become thoroughly imbued with his importance as a master of the situation, and, while he has little corn to sell, he expects fancy prices. In Chicago December advanced above 60c last week, and May touched 62%c, or within 3%c of the high point of the crop. Oats sold at the highest price on tho crop—4o%c for May, equaling the top figure on the August bulge.

CAR FAMINE STILL SERIOUS.

Steel Furnacea C’osel Owing to Inability to Secure Fuel. According to It. C. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade, little relief has been afforded the leading manufacturing industry in the matter of transporting facilities. In fact, the situation on the whole is less satisfactory since inability to secure coke has brought about the banking of twenty furnaces. This in turn tends to burden the market for pig iron, though no actual alteration iu prices haa occurred, except at Philadelphia, where 25 cents more a ton is readily paid. As this industry is considered the best business barometer, present conditions and future prospects are certainly most encouraging, for orders are abundant and plants enlarging capacity in order to handle the growing business. Material is purchased now for much structural work ia the “oriug, and additional contracts are seeki.i t -acceptance.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.30; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $6.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.60; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2,58 cto 59c; oats, No. 2,38 c to 40c; rye, No. 2, Stic to 57c; hay, timothy, $9.00 to $13.50; prairie, $5.50 to $13.50; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 22e; eggs, fresh, 21c to 23c; potatoes, 68c to 75c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.15; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.70; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 60c to 61c; oats, No. 2 white, 39c to 40c. St. Louis— Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn. No. 2, 60c to 61c; oats, No. 2,39 cto 40c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 59c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.90; sheep, $2.25 to $3.00: wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 64c to 65c; onts, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 61c to 62c; onts, No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; rye. 53c to 54c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 59c to 00c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 38c to 39e; rye, No. 2,55 c to 57c; clover seed, prime, $5.05. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 3,59 cto 00c; oats, No. 2 white, 41c to 42c; rye, No. 1,5 Se to 57c; barley, No. 2,58 cto 59c; pork, mess, $14.92. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $4.00; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $0.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; lambs, common to choice, $4.50 to $4.90. ’ iNew York—Cattle, $3.75 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 2, 65c to 66c; oats, No. 2 white, 46c to 47c; butter, creamery, 19c to 22c; eggs, western, 23c to 25c. Revenue officers arrested Moonshiners Everett Lily, Wirt Roles and O. C. Har* »ey, Odd, W. Va.