Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1902 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN qeo. e. Marshall, publisher. RENSSELAER. • INDIANA

ODD CHRISTMAS BOX.

FARMERS* SONS TREATED TO A HOLIDAY SURPRISE, Mutilated Cadaver Is Found Enclosed Instead of the Expected Toys—Body of Murdered Mine Manager Fmind at Bottom of Shaft. The citizens in and about Bowers, Ind., were excited the other day over a ghastly Christmas box sent hontc by Charles Campbell, a farmer. Mr. Campbell has been on a visit in Dakota for some weeks, and before he left home he instructed his two small boys to open the Christmas box he expected to send them. A box was received and delivered at the Campbell home. The boys opened the box and found that it contained the body of a woman. The xtyms had been severed close to the bodwTo allow it to be crowded into the box;' It was learned that the package hud been misdirected and that the body belonged to Dr. Campbell of Lafayette, Ind., who procured it at a medical college at Indianapolis, Ind., and was shipping it home fdr dissection. He was able to convince the officials that everything was regular. Dr. Campbell claimed the body and took it to Lafayette. FOUR DIE IN WREjpK. Crash on Chicago and North western Is Disastrous to Life. Four persons are dead, three others seriously wounded and twenty-two scalded, cut and bruised as the result of a collision soon after daylight Sunday morning on the main line of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway at Malta, 111. Two locomotives, two sleepers, two passenger cars and eight freight ears filled with oats and corn were entirely demolished, and nearly the whole of the woodwork of the wreckage was consumed by fire within half an hour after the accident occurred. The wreck was one of the most serious that have occurred on the Northwestern road for several years. It was caused by a seemingly unaccountable error that brought a freight train from a siding on to the main track at the moment when the accommodation passenger train No. G, east bound, flew past the little depot at a rate of fortytwo miles an hour. MINE MANAGER IS MURDERED. Body Is Found at the Bottom of Shaft in Cripple Creek. Martin Gleason, 50 years old, superintendent of the Wild Horse, Damon and Deadwood mines at Cripple Creek, was found dead at the bottom of the Kalamazoo shaft, 500 feet below the surface of the ground. The ground around the mouth of the shaft bore marks of s struggle and it is evident that Gleason was murdered, although no motive for the crime is known. Gleason disap peared the previous day. POLICE FIGHT WITH ROBBERS. Capture Two Who Secure SGOO from > Man at Martin’s Ferry, Ohio. Masked robbers etnered the home ot Thomas Y. Ingling, a butcher at Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, and forced him at the point of a revolver to give up S6OO. Later the police had a battle with two of the robbers, who were captured after a lively exchange of shots at close range. The men gave their names as James Elliott, alias Taylor, of Chicago and Harry Hoyt of Wheeling. Four of the robbers escaped. Mad Love Leads to Death. Robert McElfresh, who recently went to St. Joseph, Mo., from Chicago and entered the employ of Swift & Co. as a clerk in the general office, was found dead in a cell at the police station from the effects of morphine poisoning. He had taken the drug some time after his arrest on a charge of disturbing the peace of a young woman with whom be was madly infatuated. Cage in Mine Shaft Falls. At shaft No. 1 of the McAlester Coal Company, Hartshorn, I. T., while the cage was ascending with eight men it jumped its guidings about 100 feet from the bottom of the shaft. Six of the eight men were killed. They were caught between the cage and the buntings and their bodies dropped to the bottom of the shaft. Adirondac k!* Lose 7,500 Deer. The New York State forest, fish and game commission reports that express companies which operate in the Adirondaeks carried 1,280 deer dtiriug the last season. This is believed to indicate that 0,500 deer were killed in that section during the year. Let Children See the Hanging. At Trenton, N. J., several hundred children had the opportunity to see the haugiog of the negro Robert Ilenson, who murdered Mary Van Lieu and her child and then burned the home to cover •up the crime. The hanging took place in the yard of the old Mercer jail. New Judge for Philippines. D. S. Ambler of Salem. Ohio, has been appointed a federal judge’in the Philippine Islands. He will leave for the islands the latter part of March, going first to Hebo, but later will be stationed at Manila. Clew in Ely-Kogers Affair. An Evanston detective, aided by n dog, hat found the clothing discarded by Miss Florence Ely and her nephew, Frank Rogers, on the day of their disappearance. \ Wrecked,by Wind and Band. A terrific sandstorm raged all over southern California, unroofing buildings, devastating orange groves, breaking windows, and in many cities bringing traffic almost to a standstill. The principal sufferers were Colton, Pomona, Hun Bernardino and Santa Ana. Two Killed by Gambler. Ghatka, MeKuight, a fato denier, shot Urn! m B

BIG PAPER PLANT DESTROYED. Champion Coated Paper Works at Hamilton, Ohio, Burned. At Hamilton, Ohio, fire in the Champion coated paper works caused a loss of from $750,000 to $1,000,000. It was the largest plant of the kind in the United States and employed over 400 persons. A stock of $250,000 worth of enameled book and magazine paper was wholly destroyed. There was also a loss of a great quantity of valuable machinery. The fire was caused by the explosion of a can of gasoline in the hands of John Kopp, Who was using it for cleaning some portion of the machinery. Kopp was severely burned. The plant is owned by a company of which Peter G. Thompson of College Hill is the largest stockholder. The company has just completed a $750,000 pressed brick building, which the fire department succeeded in saving. The capital stock of the company is $1,500,000, but its stock is held’at a much higher figure. BOLD WORK OF ROBBERS. Battle with Watchmen, Overpower Them and Then Blow Safe. After assaulting, overpowering and gagging two watchmen, ten burglars who forced their way into the building of the Chicago Wrecking Company, Thirty-fifth and Iron streets, Chicago, robbed their victims of their valuables, ascended a stairway leading to the offices of the company, and with the aid of dynamite wrecked the safe. Then they made their escape after rifling the contents of the heavy iron compartment, securing everything of value. The robbery occurred shortly after 11 o’clock Sunday night. Some three hours later one of the watchmen dragged himself up the stairway to the offices of the company and turned in a still alarm of fire. Firemen who responded released the watchmen. The safe contained a considerable sum of currency which was appropriated by the cracksmen. Son of Murderer SVt Free. At Butler, Mo., William Gartrell, charged with complicity in the murder of D. B. Donegan, a Colorado miner, for which crime his father, Dr. J.L. Gartrell, is under sentence of death, was released and the case against him dismissed. The testimony at the trial of Dr. Gartrell showed that the son was asleep when Donegan was killed. Soldiers Poisoned by Beef. At Cheyenne, Wyo., eighty members of Company F. Eighteenth infantry, were poisoned while eating breakfast, and for a time over half of them were in danger of death. The post surgeon was hurriedly summoned and administered an antidote. The surgeon examined the food served at breakfast and is of the opinion that efie poison was in the beef. Fire Cripples Coal Mines. The buildings connected with No. 8 mine, belonging to the Brazil Block Coal Company at Brazil, Ind., were destroyed by fire, incurring a loss of over $25,000, with but $13,000 insurance. The fire originated in the engine room. As this plant furnished power and light for two other mines several hundred persons have been thrown out of employment. Killed by Explosion. As the result of the explosion of gas in the store of E. Bartholemevv in Kenton, Ohio, Carl Shields, 15 years old, was killed and several other persons injured. The explosion was caused by a plumber looking for a gas leak with a lighted candle. The building was partially wrecked, and the front windows of several adjacent stores demolished. Three Dead in Rains. The finding of three bodies in the ruins of a cabin in the Italian settlement at Millinooket, Me., has led the authorities to begin ah investigation. It is reported that revolver shots were heard in the cabin before fire broke out, and that one of the bodies had a wound in the head. The other two were badly burned. The dead men were Italians. Guilty of Stealing Cattle. At Helena, Mont., the jury in the United States Court in the case of Robert K. Lee and Samuel Garvin, charged with stealing 700 cattle from the Indians on the Crow reservation, returned a verdict finding both defendants guilty. Fire Truck and Car Collide. While fire truck No. 7 was responding to an alarm in Toledo. Ohio, it collided with a street car, resulting in the death of Captain J. B. Ward of the tire company and the injury of several other firemen, one of whom may die. Killed in a Midnight Fire. One child was burned to death, its parents were seriously injured and two other young children were slightly injured as a result of a fire at the home of James H. Connelly, 3976 Wyalusitsg avenue, Philadelphia. Rathbun Declared Guilty. At Jeffersonville, Ind., Newell C. Rathbun was found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the death of Charles Goodman. His punishment was fixed at from two to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. Death of William E. Charming. William Ellery Channing, an author of marked originality aud poetic power, publisher of nine notable volumes, died at his residence in Concord, Mass. He was \ae last of the brotherhood including Thoreau, Hawthorne and Emerson. Fonr Killed in a Wreck. The local express and a working train on the Canhdian Pacific Railway collided between Snult Ste. Marie, Ont., and Webbwood while running at full speed. Four men were killed and several were severely injured. Centenarian Frozen to Death. William Fay, who was an English soldier in the Crimean war, died at Osage City, Kan., aged more than 100 years. Until a few weeks ago his mind was vigorous. The ol| man wandered away aud was badly frozen. Strike* Gao in Minnesota. Eugene Gardiner was drilling a well on the farm of Willet Brunk, near Pelican Rapids, Minn., when he struck n vein of gns, which came up with a terrific noise and when lighted burned to a great height. Four Die in Steamltoat Fire. The steamer Hun, employed In the jind Fulton trade on the Missis . Ll to wnur •'« «’'<*?<• >n ' 1111 >ll - ;i i<l l ■•ii r In n W ....... .... V

TAKE PAY ENVELOPES

ROBBERS STEAL WAGES OF LEAVENWORTH EMPLOYES. Masked Men Make Raid on Office of Abernathy Furnace Company—Young Girl Saves House and Young Children from Death by Fire. , Two masked men the other evening held up and robbed the Abernathy Furnace Company at Leavenworth,-Kan., of SI,BOO while Omar Abernathy, sou of the proprietor, was alone in the office with his stenographer, Miss Mordannt, Ms. Abenathy drew the money to pay the employes from the bank during the afternoon and it was in envelopes ready for distribution. At 5:56 o’clock, while waiting for the whistle when the employes would file through tlie office and draw their money, two masked men walked into the office, covered Abernathy and the’stenographer with revolvers and seized the money. The alarm was given and workmen pursued them with tools and clubs. The robbers were chased several blocks, but escaped. The whole police force was later sent to capture the highwaymen, but no trace of them was found. YOUNG GIRL PROVES A HEROINE. Saves House from Destruction and Prevents Injury of Children. In St. Paul, Minn., 8-year-old Maude Peterson, at the risk of‘ her own life, saved her sister's home from being destroyed by fire and probably saved the lives of her three little nieces, aged 0, 4 and 2 years. Maude was left at the home of her sister, Mrs. Charles Hanley, to care for the house while Mrs. Hanley went to do shopping. Two slender lines bung with clothing suspended over a lamp on tWfe table caught fire. The flames mounted to the ceiling. Maude, with rare presence of mind, climbed on the table, grabbed the burning mass, and ran to the door. Fortunately the flames did not communicate to the little heroine’s clothing. When the firemen arrived the girl had extinguished the flames and was trying to dispel the fears of the little ones. HURT IN FIGHT WITH THIEVES. One Robber and One Pursuer Wounded in Minnesota Man Hunt. Glyndon, Minn., varied the usual monotony of holiday celebration by indulging in an exciting man hunt. Two burglars were caught entering C. G. Tracy’s store, but broke away from their captors and took to the prairies, where they were pursued and retaken after the exchange of many shots. R. B. Webb, one of the captors, was shot in the leg and one of the thieves was shot in the face. The prisoners gave the names of Daley and King. They are said to be leaders of a gang that has been operating at Ulen Bemidji, and are suspected of having shot the marshal at Lake Park a few weeks ago. INCREASE IN RAILROAD PROFITS Net Earnings Show a Gain of $35,577,218 Over Last Year. An increase this year of $35,577,218 in the net earnings of railroads operating 192,193 miles of line is shown in the preliminary report of the’interstate commerce commission covering the period up to June 30 last. The total of net earnings was $555,007,924. Gross income was $1,587,104,205, against $1,487,044,814 last year. Of the earnings this year $1,114,740,770 was from freight, and $420,909,210 from passenger traffic. Dividends declared amounted to $121,108,037, an increase of $13,000,000 over last year. Killed by Electric Current. D. P. Wheeler, cashier of the Citizens’ National Bank of Akron, Ohio, was found dead in frpnt of the vault in the bank. He had been killed by an electric shock through handling a socket of an incandescent lamp and opening the vault door at the same time, thus forming a fatal current. Bridge to Cost a Million. The American Bridge Company has secured the contract for the steel superstructure of the Wabash Railroad’s big cantilever bridge over the Ohio river at Mingo Junction. The amount of the contract is over $600,000. The whole cost of the bridge will be $1,000,000. Riot at the Presidio. Soldiers at the Presidio, San Francisco, engaged in a riot growing out of a and fought with the police who attempted to make arrests. Six officers, were injured and sixteen soldiers arrested. Maclay Discharged by President. Maclay has refused to resign as an employe of the navy, and President Roosevelt immediately ordered his discharge. It is hoped in Washington that the controversy over Schley will now be permitted to die. Clothing Firm Is Bankrupt. The Simpson Clothing Company, a promnent retail establishment at St. Joseph, Mo., hns made an assignment. Liabilities $30,000; assets tlie Same. Unusual liberality in extending credit is said to be the cause of the failure. Sliaw Accepts Place in Cubinet. Official announcement of the appointment of Gov. Leslie M. Shaw of lowa to succeed Lyman J. Gage as Secretary of the Treasury has been made from the White House. * Flour Mills Entirely Destroyed. Fire entirely consumed the flour mill of the Elks Milling and Manufacturing Company at Lowellville, Ohio. The loss was $50,000 and but a small amount of insurance was carried. Train Wrecked and Burned. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas north-bound passenger train was wrecked and completely burned six miles south of Dallas, Texas. Three persons were injured, but no one was killed. Bhaw for the Cabinet. Gov. M. Shaw of lowa has been -tendered the portfolio of Secretary of the Treasury, the position having been declined by Gov. Crane of Massachusetts, who pleads a presgof p^a^^buslneas. Four l>ir in Kfl t r - I'!*- iM'u 11 . i!.. • V A ■ j - '

WOOL AND TARIFF.

NO CHANGE IN DUTY SCHEDULES IS DESIRABLE. Unstable Conditions Are Injurious Alike to the Manufacturers and to the American Sbeep and Wool Growing Interests. Most opportune is the publication of the year’s domestic wool clip by Mr. S. N. D. North of the National Association off Wool Manufacturers. Reciprocity schemes and methods for the benefit of one industry at the expense of others have thrown upon Congress an avalanche of literature, and some of the recommendations indicate that selfish constituents are willing to sacrifice the sheep raisers if they can thereby secure personal profit. That no change is desirable in the tariff on wool will appear obvious after a little study of experiences in this industry under tbe last three revenue bills. Dur-* lng the wise operations of the McKinley law domestic ranches increased and the home production of wool rose to 348,538,138 pounds ih 1893, while imports were but 55,152,685 pounds. Immediately after the enactment of the Wilson bill foreign wool was thrown upon this market in such abundance that Imports rose to 350,852,020 pounds In one year, an increase of 530 per cent over the receipts from abroad under the protective tariff, and exceeding even the high record of domestic yield. Meanwhile the home grower found no profit in competing with Australian and other cheaply raised wool, so that sheep were sold for mutton, and investors in the industry lost large sums of money. The annual yield in the United States steadily decreased until only 259,153,251 pounds were clipped in 1897. With the resumption of a reasonable barrier against outside producers there came a renewal of domestic interest in this crop, and each year brought a larger total, until the report just issued shows a clip of 302,502,328 pounds. The question of prices has been the most remarkable feature of the situation, although less bewildering when studied in connection with the records of imports and general business*conditions. According to the circular of Coates Brothers, one hundred grades of domestic wool averaged 22.78 cents a pound on May 1, 1892, when the country was prosperous under a sound tariff law and woolen mills were actively engaged. By Sept. 1, 1890, the full effect of free trade was being felt, aud the same grades of wool averaged 12.22 cents a pound. This fall of 40 per cent In price was not only due to the competition of outside production, but also to the disastrous condition of all industries and business under low tariffs, whlcb rendered the wage earners unable to purchase freely of warm clothing. With the reversal of tariff policy and restoration of a duty on wool there came prompt recovery in this business, together with such confidence that the speculative Influence became prominent. Despite large stocks there was inflation of prices, and in December, 1899, the average price was 24.70 cents, nearly two cents higher than in 1892. That the advance was obtained too rapidly has since appeared in the reaction to 17.06 cents, July 1, 1901. Numerous and heavy failures were precipitated by these erratic fluctuations, not only among growers, but dealers and manufacturers. Misfortunes must of necessity follow unstable conditions, and these irregularities are directly traceable to tinkering with the tariff. It is not difficult to understand why the recovery In all departments of this industry has been slow, and only within the last few months have distinctly satisfactory conditions prevailed. In addition to the enormous quantity of woolen goods of all kinds that were accumulated by importers, the receipts of raw wool from abroad during the three years ending July 1, 1897, amounted to 787,797,405 pounds. No amount of prosperity could absorb, this enormous stock In a short time, and It was a short-sighted policy that permitted the violent advance of prices, which was naturally followed by severe reaction. Even after the flood of cheap foreign wool had subsided, home producers and holders of domestic wool made the mistake of Inflating quotations all out of proportion to the gains made in prices for the finished products. Consumptive demand, it Is true, was greatly increased by the healthy tone of all business, but the rise In price of woolen goods was slow. Manufacturers were compelled to resort to the usual method under the circumstances, which was a reduction In quality. Shoddy and cheap substitutes were used, while adulteration with cotton was general. Ultimately the lack of orders produced n SMutary effect on the wool market, and prices were brought down to a point where the mills could do business at a profit. Within a very short time the situation lias developed signs of an encouraging nature, and a slight recovery In prices Is recorded. Manufacturers have orders assuring full occupation of mills until well Into next year, and within a few weeks tlielr purchases of raw material In the Boston market established a new record for a single week’s transactions, while the resulting movement also produced the largest week’s shlpr ments. At the same time there Is every evidence that supplies will be ample for nil needs until tbe next clip be-North’s-report places tbe pounds, t l.'H'l* it must lie BBaraigb|§g., in 11,1 Kdu« changes,

even if special advantages might H| crue to some other industry by reciwlg cal arrangements. Every State Agf Territory In the Union bas a tbe raising of sheep. Even little Rhode Island is officially credited with over 10,000 head, while half a dozen States average about three million each. Struggling against greater ensadvantages than any other industry, at last wool and woolens appear to have attained a sound position, and capital no longer hesitates to lend Its aid to further expansion. At such times it is impossible to overestimate the harm that might be done by disturbing the situation in regard to customs duties. —American Economist. . This Nation’s Balance Sheet. The season Is at hand when a business man compares income and expenditure and strikes a balance. It is fitting now for the American people to do the same. In the last three and one-half years we have extended our national business. We have fought a foreign war and put down an insurrection. We have added Porto Rico, the Philippines, some smaller islands, and virtually Cuba to the area for which we are, financially responsible. Aside from any question of moral obligations thus incurred, what is our financial standing now as compared with three and one-half years ago? On April 1, 1898, our national debt was $847,366,680, and our cash on hand, or working balance, was The Spanish war increased our debt on Nov. 1, 1899, to $1,046,049,020, but on Nov. 15, 1901, we had reduced it by $92,021,870, or to $954,027,150. Nor was this all the saving, for we had also cut off $54,548,424 interest Which we would have paid in the next seven years bad we not reduced our debt. Our interest charge has been reduced from $40,347,884 to $28,471,228 annually. Our decrease of liabilities from Nov. 1, 1899, to Nov. 15, 1901, including Interest saved, was really $146,570,234, while our cash on hand, or working balance, was then $322,514,732. Nor -has this decrease of liabilities and increase of assets been obtained by placing heavy burdens on tbe people. In fact, no one to-day dreams of increasing taxes, notwithstanding the enlargement of our national business. Our Income is more than sufficient for our needs, and the only question is whether we shall reduce taxes and-thus reduce our debt more slowly, or keep up taxes and reduce our debt more rapidly. Furthermore, we are the only great nation that is not Increasing either debts or taxes or both. As the American people look at their national balance sheet and see their liabilities being reduced at the rate of $46,000,000 a year (nominal) and $73,000,000 a year (actual), counting interest saved, and note that this has been accomplished in the face of foreign war, insurrection, aud considerable extension of business, and compare their condition with that of other nations, they have every reason to be satisfied with the policies and the management that have produced these results.—Chicago Inter Ocean.

And the “Horrid Man” Fled.

He was a Columbia man and she was a Barnard girl. Chance sent them down town side by side In an Amsterdam avenue car. He was big and good looking, and dressed in typically collegian style. She was quite pretty and refuted the aphorism that there are pretty girls and girls who go to Barnard. She was writing vigorously in a blue and white notebook, and he kept trying to see what she was writing by peering over her shoulder. She seemed not to mind at first, for apparently# she thought him rather nice. Gradually he became more flirtatious and more eu-* rious. Suddenly she lifted her paper so he saw quite plainly that she was writing to a girlfriend. “There is,” she wrote, “a horrid man staring over my shoulder at every word I write.” He started, but she didn’t act as if she thought he saw, so he continued unabashed. Then he read*. “Dofi’t you think you have read all you really need to of this letter, Mr. Man?” He took one glance'at her, says the New York Times, and fled hastily from the car, while she erased her last sentence and serenely continued her missive.

Siguificant.

Ottinger—l do not understand the significance of the private signal you fly over your naphtha launch. Henrlques (working over naphtha engine, heatedly)—The white polka dots on the blue background represent an Indefinite number of drops of perspiration rampant In an atmosphere blue with profanity. My wife suggested it after watching me start tbe engine a few times.—Brooklyn Engle.

Truthful.

She—Oh, Dr. Plllsbury, I nm so anxious about poor Mrs. Perkins. She Is In your hands, Is she not? Dr. Plllsbury—She was, but 1 have left off attending her for the uresent. She—Oh, that’s good. She js ont of danger then.—London I’unh. I

Innocent of Poker.

“Henry, Isn’t your club hen Ad?” “Why, certainly, my dear.”* “Then how is It that I Ward you mumbling In your dreams a Exit ‘cold feet In a freeze-out’?” In seventy-nine separate al distinct national cemeteries the bodlA of nearly 300,000 soldiers who died Airing the Civil War are interred. Ko& of the cemeteries contain each a iAjt army of over 10,000 soldiers. In R«p,l rnnks, marked by the white oa nearly half offrvbleb 4s inflKpcd ’’Unknown.” ft j

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

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“Holiday trade reached its maximum this week, nearly all sections of the

country reporting exceptional distribution. While the class of goods especially stimulated by Christihas demand occupied the position of greatest prominence, general merchandise was not Jar behind in activity. Transporting interests were just beginning to overcome congested conditions when severe storms made the situation more complicated than before. .In njany industries it is not a question of finding buyers, but securing the privilege of postponing deliveries beyond the date originally specified,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade. Brndstreet’s says: Retail trade has held th(/‘■enter of the stage this week, stimulate* as it has been by the dual influenc'd of exceptionally cold weather throughout the country and a rather more pronounced holiday demand, which promises to be of record-breaking character, not only as to volume but as to quality and grade of goods purchased. While jobbers in many lines, notably shoes, clothing and rubber goods, report a good reorder business growing out of the above conditions, wholesale trade as a rule has been seasonably quiets exceptions to this being noted in woolen goods, raw wool, lumber, leather, coal and last, but by no means least, iron and steel in a myriad of forms. Nothing is heard of the usual conservative waiting for the new. year’s arrival to place business, and order books of leading producers are filled for long periods ahead. Hardware is in good demand at most markets. Talcs of rate cutting at the West contrast strangely with reports of car shortage and incidentally returns of earnings, which show that fifty roads earned S per :enl. more in the first week of Decent be" this year than they did last, while for the second week forty-two roads show a gain of $500,000 over the middle week ot December, 1900. Again, October gross earnings of 105 systems increased 10.2 per cent on a total of $119,212,770, while net took on 20.5 per cent, the total being $40,092,955, as against $38,249,005 for v etober last year, when the coal miners’ rtrike held sway.

Conditions in the wheat market have assumed a more bullish tone, and those

Chicago.

who had been bears and worked for lower prices for a week found it impossible ‘o dislodge any amount of long wheat ber; 80c, and, although * hey forced tuo price down to TOe on t.vo days, a - advance'followed, and the price Saturlay was up to 81 to 81'/4c, and closed at file. It was at 81c a week ago, but bro'-u :o 70%e at the close. The net gain lor the week was l',4e. There is evidence ot' a tenacious country holding. The latter have made up their minds that wheat is going to bring more money, and with corn selling very high, they are keeping tbeir wheat for an advance. The foreigner has bought Manitoba wheat largely at the seaboard, and has reduced the discount under the American. This Manitoba wheat is moving freely, going from Winnipeg to the seaboard by rail, and is taken iu. preference to the American. We nre nearing the period of increased consumption and depleting stocks, and on this basis the bull has the best of it. There was nothing but a scalping trade In coarse grains, and conditions have not changed from those of a week ago. The range on May corn was 6G J 4c to <>7%c, and oats 44%c to 45%c. The close iu both was at a net loss of %c to %e for the week. Western offerings were small and shipping demand limited, although at the close Liverpool accepted small lots of corn for the first in a long time. The [•ar scarcity both East and West has restricted the movement, and cold weather has also been a factor. The low temperatures, with snow on the ground, has increased consumption on the farms, and Western holders are indifferent sellers.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to’ prime, $3.00 to $0.70; liogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $0.75; sheep, fair to choice, SB.OO to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 85c to 80c;. corn. No. 2,02 cto 03c; oats. No. 2,44 c to 45c; rye, No. 2,04 cto 05c; hay. timothy, $9.00 to $14.00; prairie, $5.50 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh,- 22c to 23c; potatoes, 71ct to 84c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.85: sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,83 cto 84c; corn, No. 2 white, notv, 08c to 09e; oats, No. 2 white,. 49c to 50c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $0.35; sheep. $2.50 to $3.80; wheat, No. 2,85 cto 80c; corn. No. 2, 05e to 07c; oats, No. 2. 47c to 48c; rye,. No. 2,05 cto 00c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $0.15: sheep. $2.25 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,85 cto 80c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 08c to 09c;” oats. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2. 09c to 70e, Detroit—-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; ho^ r $3.00 to $5.95; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50: wheat, No. 2,80 cto OOo; com. No. 2 yellow, 07c to 08c; oats, No. 2 white, 40c to 50c; rye, 00c to 07c. , Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 87c to 80c; com, No. 2 mixed, 00c to 07c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 47<f; rye. No. 2 r 04e to 00c; clover seed, prime, $5.80. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 71k* to 78c; corn, No. 3,03 cto 04c; oats. No. 2 white, 47c to 48c: rye, No. 1,03 c to 00c: barley, No. 2,03 cto 04c; pork, mess, $10.85. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, fnir to prime. $3.00 to SO.tSO; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.90; lambs, common to choice, $3.75 to SO.IO. New York —Cattle, $3.75 to $0.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00: sheep, $2.50 to $3.85; wheat. No. 2 red, 80c to 87c; corn, No. 2, 70e to 71cJr oats. No. 2 white, 53c to 54c; butter, 22c to 25c; eggs, western, 23M» 28c. was fuucpurnious one with mills, the output lieiug next to wer turned out.