Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1902 — Page 2

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

NOT GAME OF CHANCE.

BETTING ON HORSE RACES NOT AGAINST THE LAW. Kansas City Court Renders Decision that Is Very Favorable to Pool-room*-Short afire of Louisville's Dead City Treasurer Amounts to $40,520. Charles Oldham, the proprietor of a pool room, was acquitted at Kansas City of the charge of '‘conducting a gambling device.” The decision was prepared by Police Judge Brumbeck and declares that bertting on a horse race cannot, in view of the decision of the Missouri Supreme Court, be held to be betting on a game of chance, because if the race is honestly run it is only a question of endurance and speed and if dishonestly conducted la a swindle in which chance takes no part. “Judge Brumbeck could render no other decision with the evidence at hand,” said Chief Hays. “When the question first arose the Mayor wrote to Manager Woods of the Western Union Telegraph Company to discover if the pool rooms actually telegraphed the money to Louisville or other cities to be placed as bets on horse races. I found that the keepers of the room actually sent the money to be placed in Louisville. The decision will have the effect of allowing any number of pool rooms to open in Kansas City.” FOUR BIG BUILDINGS FALL. Detroit Wholesale Houses Lose $200,000 by Strange Collapse. Four buildings, each four stories high, in the heart of the wholesale district of Detroit, collapsed at 8:30 o’clock Sunday night, without any apparent cause. All that now remains of them is a smoldering heap of ruins. The buildings were occupied by five concerns. The loss on stocks is estimated at $152,500; on build ings, $50,500. The buildings joined each other at Jefferson avenue and Shelby street. Experts from the Detroit Gas • Company’s office made an examination of the ruins, but were unable to find evidences of a gas explosion. Had the wreck occurred during business hoiirs the loss of life must have been appalling, as 200 persons were employed by the various firms. Furnaces in the buildings set the ruins on fire and the wooden work was •burned. There were no watchmen about the premises, consequently was injured or killed.

SUICIDE’S SHORTAGE $40,520. Experts Report on Accounts of Former Treasurer of Louisville, Ky. Former City Treasurer Stuart R. Young's shortage is placed at $40,520 by the experts who examined the books at Louisville. Young committed suicide in November, when news of his shortage was published. The report says Young’s method was to make out a eheck for a large amount to himself and record on the stub of the check book the name of another man and a smaller amount, or leave a blank anA make the amount nominal. The firs*money appropriated was by a check dated Oct. 28, 1899. The receipts of the office during Young's incumbency were $10,332,090. FARMER AND NIECE KILLED. " Robbers Murder Couple at Greenleaf, Kan,, and Loot House. Carl E. Holt, aged 55, and his niece, Miss Hilda Peterson, aged'3o, his housekeeper, were discovered murdered at the Holt home, three miles from Greenleaf, Kan. The people had been missing several days and the other morning a searching party went to learn the cause. The old man was found in the kitchen with two bullet holes in his head. The woman was lying on a back porch with one bullet hole through her head and one through her neck. The house had been rifled. To Cut Oregon Timber. Eastern capital in excess of $500,000 is to be invested in Oregon timber lands along the Columbia ahd McKenzie rivers, and plans.will be made this year for the building of sawmills to convert the standing timber into- marketable lumber. Benjamin Sweet, W. G. Collins and W. H. Bradley of Milwaukee have inspected timber in Oregon, Washington and California. Powder Package Explodes. J. W. Martin, a Knoxville, Tenn., postoffice clerk, was injured by the explosion of a package of powder or an infernal machine. He was stamping letters and packages, when a package addressed to a hardware house exploded as he struck It with the stamp. Examination showed on it the name of a New York smokeless concern. Dodge Taxes on Millions. It now appears that an important rea•ou why .the. -banks in a recent week showed only half as large an increase in cash as the known movements seemed to indicate is that considerable amounts had been lodged in Jersey City to cover the * day when personal property was declared in New York City. Fire Rages Over a Town. The business portion of Edinboro, Pa., was swept by fire the other night, several important business buildings being destroyed. The damage amount* to about $35,000. The town was entirely without fire protection. Report Favors Panama Route. The isthmian canal commission has •ent to President Roosevelt unaniniptiw report in favor of accepting $40,000,000 Panama offer. Killed in Missouri Mine. Four miners were killed, one dangerously hurt and a number of others seriously injured by a cave-in at the Ada mine, located at Carterville, Mo. Others were hurt, but their injuries are not serious. The accident was caused by the prematura explosion of dynamite. Norwegian Dark Rinks. The Norwegian bark Arab Steed, Captaln P. Pedersen. which left London Dec. 0 for Qiristianin, has sunk in the North Bea and twenty-two persons Were drown-

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

SAYS HE BLEW UP THE MAINE. Spanish Officer Did It to Cause War and Revenge Himself on Weyler. A remarkable story is published in an Omaha paper regarding the blowing up of the battleship Maine. The report say* that information has come from the Pine Ridge agency that a Spaniard on a ranch had confessed while drunk to blowing up the ship, saying that he did so in the hope of causing war between the United States and Spain. . The tale goes on to the effect that the Spaniard was once an officer in the Spanish army in Cuba, and that during Weyler’s campaign he became angered at the brutal treatment accorded prisoners, and said so, Weyler at once ordered him under arrest. The Spaniard’s name is said to be Manuel de Silva Braga. He was discharged from the army after a court martial. The blowing up of the Maine was done to get even with Weyler. Braga knew all about the harbor and was familiar with explosives. His first idea was to blow up a Spanish ship, but finally decided upon the Maine as the best calculated to get Weyler out pt-power. Dressed in his army uniform he had no trouble in passing the guards in. the fortification, and with his own hand he touched the button that destroyed the Maine. Instantly he changed his clothes and escaped on a schooner as a sailor. - —-- ACTRESS ROBBED OF CHILD; Mrs. Laura Richards Reports Daughter’s Abduction in St. Louis. Mrs. Laura Richards or Kline, as she is known among vaudeville actors, claims that her little daughter Sallie has been abducted by some one anxious to make money from the child's talents. On a recent afternoon Sallie was sent out from their temporary home in St. Lortis to buy bread. She has not returned. Her mother has reported the matter to the police and fears she never will see tbo girl again. She says that less than six months ago her little son Bertie Richards, half brother to Sallie, mysteriously disappeared and has not since been heard of. Bertie and Sallie were members of the Kline trio of juvenile performers, who have appeared in Eastern vaudeville houses during the past two years and were attractions of St. Louis summer gardens last year. Mrs. Kline says they earned $l5O a week each.

RAID ALMOST COSTS A TOWN. Citizens Wreck Dakota “Blind Pig,” but Have to Fight Fire They Set. Desperate but unsuccessful efforts have been made to get rid of a “blind pig’’ at Leola, the county v seat of McPherson County, S. D. The place was kept by a man of the name of Odenbach. Citizens gathered in force and upset his building. A stove set fire to the structure and the hardest work of the raiders was devoted to putting out the fire and saving the town from destruction. Odenbach had his shanty placed right side up and then got H” license from the county commissioners to conduct a saloon. Patient and Doctor Both Die. Mrs. Edmund Bachus, Jiving on the fourth floor of an Elm street apartment building in Cincinnati, was taken suddenly ill with_hearjt trouble. Dr. G. H. Thurman was called. She died just as the doctor entered the apartments, end the doctor died immediately on entering from exhaustion, caused by climbing the three flights of stairs. Farmer Shoots a Woman. Near Shawnee, Kan., Carl Fishnet, a farmer, shot and probably fatally wounded Mrs. Mary L. Wallace. She was traveling overland in a covered wagon from Rich Hill to Custer County, Neb,, with her family, and was accused of stealing corn. —■- Army Captain Seeks Death. Captain W. J. D. Horne of the Ninth Cavalry, United States Army, made a sensational attempt to commit suicide in the street in San Francisco, by cutting his throat with a butcher-knife. As the knife was blunt, the wounds are not dangerous.

Policeman Shoots Two. Policeman Cruze shot and probably fatally wounded Lon and Alex Nelson in Knoxville, Tenn. Cruze was returning home from the police station when, he claims, he was fired*upon, and on investigation found the-Nelsons, with other men, on a near-by corner. Give Up Hope for War Ship, Hope for the safety of the British warship Condor is all but abandoned. Naval men at Victoria, B. C„ are convinced that she went to the bottom during the recent typhoon while on her way to Honolulu. Ended His Life in a Saloon. W. H. Martin, an insurance solicitor. Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head while in a saloon on Jefferson street, Louisville. He was to have been married in three weeks. The cause of the suicide is not known. Perish in a Burning Mine. A fire broke out in the new slope No. 7, at Dow, one of the principal tributaries of the Choctaw Coal system, near Hartshorne, I. T. 'lt is thought that fourteen men perished. t Seven See Parente Killed. At Eureka, Cal., J. H. G. Saffol, a res-taurant-keeper, shot nud killed his wife in the presence of bis seven young children. and then ended his life. Domestic infelicity was the cause of tho tragedy. George H. Phillipa Fails. George 11. Phillips, the former corn king, has been forced to the wall on the Chicago Board -of Trade. Inability to cover margins on a long line of rye caused the failure. Two Hurt in Wreck’?" A fast Panhandle passenger train, from New York to Chicago, and some time behind its scheduled hour for arrival.

crashed into the rear end of the Panhandle train from Cincinnati, at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossing at Western avenue and 49th street, Chicago, and, though a score of men and women were severely shaken by the-im-pact, only two men, attaches of the train, were severely hurt. BHAK KN DX EXPLOSION. Nitroglycerin Magazines Blow Up Near Marion, Ind. Fifteen hundred quarts of nitroglycerin stored in two magazines owned by the St. Mary’s Torpedo Company and Empire Glycerin Company in a ravine two miles and one-half southeast of Marion, Ind., exploded, shaking the entire northeastern part of the State. Business blocks, and dwelling houses shook and swayed as if rocked by an earthquake. A yawning hole in the bottom of the ravine was all that was left to tell the story. It is thought that the explosion was caused by a gas jet in one of the magazines, which set fire to the buildings. So far as known no one was injured. Telephone inquiries indicate that bouses were shaken fifty miles away. HEADLESS BODIES FOUND. Evidence of Murders Comes to Shore on Puget Sound Islands. - People of Whidby Island are in a state of excitement over the finding of another headless body on the beach near Fort Casey, Wash’. Recently a body was found with the head and hands cut off and the clothing removed, and later another body was found,, with the head severed. As no residents of the island are missing, the mystery increases and the authorities are of the opinion that murders have been committed at a point up the sound, that the heads have been severed to prevent identification and the bodies cast into the water. A fact which increases the mystery is that the same man found both headless bodies. DEFEAT FOR STEEL COMBINE. Supreme Court Wrests u Rich Land Claim from the Trust. A decision was handed down by the United States Supreme Court at Milwaukee in the famous section 30 land cases in favor of Margaretha Lonstorf, Frank W. Eaton and Leonidas Merritt. The decision affirmed the opinion of the Supreme Court of Minnesota and is a complete victory over the Midway company and the United States Steel Corporation. By the decision title is given to 320 acres of land on the Vermillion iron range, Minnesota, and is so valuable that the United States Steel Corporation, it is said, is ready to pay $8,000,000 to the victor in the long struggle for ownersTHfr'.

Poolroom Is Terrorized. Two young men of slight build, with handkerchiefs tied across the lower portion of their faces, entered Harry B. Chick’s pool room at 907 Baltimore avenue, Kansas City, and with drawn revolvers commanded the proprietor, cashier and three other employes who were in the place to lie down on the floor, secured about $2,500 and escaped. Morris Plant in Kansas City. Nelson Morris, the Chicago packer, through his confidential agept, Joseph H. Agnew, has purchased a big meat warehouse in the west bottoms formerly occupied by the Cudahy Company as a market, at Kansas City. It is stated that this is the first step of the Chicago packer to establish a plant in Kansas City. King Shields Army. At the opening of Parliament by King Edward public interest was centered in the two leading issues of the nation—the Boer war and the Irish question. The King's speech from the throne “defended the conduct of the war, and despite reports of cruelties by the British soldiers praised their treatment of the Boers. Oath Taken by Payne. In the presence of the President and his cabinet, the entire Wisconsin delegation in Congress, Gov. Durbin of Indiana, Senator Hanna and a number of other friends, Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin was sworn in as Postmaster General in the cabinet room at the White House. Sacrifice Big Medicine Man. "Padre,” a big medicine man of the Yuma Indians, who lived on a reserva..tion near Yuma, Arizona, has been offered as a sacrifice, in accordance with Indian custom, andlhas expiated the sins of the tribe, which are held responsible for an epidemic of smallpox. Two Killed in Train Wreck. Through malicious tampering with a switch on the Rock Island road two lives were lost, seven workmen were injured and many were placed in peril in a collision between a freight and u work train nt O’Keene, O. T. Chicago Railway Station*Aflre. Fire in the ticket office of the Union station. Canal and West Adams streets, Chicago, imperiled sixty railway employes, caused a' panic among 200 patrons of the roads in tire big waiting room and wrecked $12,000 worth of property. Louis Botha Escapes Capture. I.ord Kitchener reports to the London war office that Gen. Louis Botha has escaped Gen. Bruce Hamilton after a seven miles' chase. One Boer was killed and thirty-three taken prisoners. Some rifles, cattle, etc., were captured. Gorman Elected Senator. Arthur Pue Gonnan has been elected by the Maryland Legislature United States Senator to succeed George L. Wellington. The total vote was: Gorman (Dem.), 68; Jackson (Rep.), 52. Robtxfrs Got $2,000. - The People’s Bank nt North Enid, O. T.J was robbed of $2,000. The burglars blew open the safe with dynamite. There is no clew twtlra-identity of the robbers.

ROBBERS STEAL A BUILDING. Structure Hauled Away, the Thieve* Attempting Also to Sell Lot. Two robbers paid a Visit to Newburg, Ohio, the other day, and not only stole a building from another man's lot. but after they had entirely removed the structure, tried to sell the lot itself to people residing in the vicinity. The stere building is the property of David Waiters, who used it as a marble shop during the summer. Que day Walters found occasion to go to his shop, and great was his astonishment to find that his building had entirely disappeared and that there was not a chip left on the ground to" mark the site of the structure. He at once instituted an inquiry among the residents of the locality, and found that two men had come there early the previous morning with a team of horses and a hay rack and had proceeded to tear the building down and load it on their wagon. The buildidg whs practically a new structure, one story high and about 20x 30 feet in dimensions, and the burglars worked hard nearly all day tearing it down and loading the timber upon their ■ wagon. FOUNDS COLORADO SANITARIUM. General William J. Palmer Gives $250,000 for the Purpose. Gen. William J. Palmer has given 100 acres and $250,000 to found a sanitarium in Colorado Springs, Colo. As already planned, two buildings will cost $200,000 and $50,000 respectively. The first will accommodate 100 patients, who are able to pay a fair price for treatment. The class who can pay little or nothing will be accommodated in the other building to the number of fifty. Revenue from the larger building will mainly support the smaller one. The site will be east of the city to secure the purest air and freedom from dust and smoke. The Childs-Drexel Home for Printers will be a near neighbor. STEAL SIXTY DIAMOND RINGS. Robbers Smash Jewelry Store Window and Shoot at Proprietor. Whlie Main street, in Cincinnati, was crowded with pectple robbers smashed a show window of William Fink’s jewelry store and stole a tray containing sixty diamond rings, valued at $2,500. Mr. Fink pursued the robbers, but was delayed by being forced to break open the door, which the robbers had fastened on the outside With a rope. The robbers escaped after firing several shots at Mr. Fink.

BOX FUGITIVE ARRESTED. Military Prisoner Who Escaped from Steamer Is Canght. Frank Holt, the military prisoner, who escaped from Alcatraz Island by concealing himself in a box which was taken on the steamer McDowell, is in custody again. He got out of the box on the vesssel, saluted the officer of the deck when he landed, obtained $2 from a stranger to whom he told his story, rented a room an 1 was arrested the first time he ventured out. Train Held Up by Robbers. A south-bound Kansas City Southern passenger train was held up half a mile north of Spiro, Ok., by seven masked men. The express and mail car were entered. The local safe in the express car was opened, but nothing secured from it. The robbers tried to open the through safe, but failed. Then they rifled the mail car. Gusher in New Territory. One of the most important developments at Beaumont, Texas, is the discovery of a gusher which is not on Spindle Top Heights. It is a hundred feet from the hill, 199 feet from the nearest well, ffnd In a territory where two or three gassers have failed, so far, to develop into oil spouters. e .Fire in Loa Angelea, Cal. In Los Angeles, Cal., the Rees & Wirsching block was almost totally destroyed by fire, together with the saddlery establishment of the Hayden & Lewis Company and the coffee and spice house of Newmark Brothers. Loss $150,000. Girl Kills Little Sister. Nellie Corneilison, the 11-year-old daughter of George Corneilison, a laborer, cut tho throat of her 3-year-old sister Laura in a stable at Wichita. Kan. The child died soon afterward. Her father’s razor was the weapon used. No motiye for the crime is known. Dry Goods Stock Destroyed. At Stillwater, Minn., fire destroyed, the dry goods store of Peterson, Papineau & Co., and a number of people had a narrow escape from death. The plate glass windows were blown out by an explosion. Wborkerwnnd School Children Donate. Col. Myran T. Herrick, the McKinley Memorial Association, says few contributions have been received from wealthy men. and that the bulk of the memorial fund has come from wageearners and school children. Held to Grand Jury. Lieut. John W. Stark of the Virginia State Guard, charged with sending obscene matter through the mails to the President of the United States, has been held to the grand jury, which meets at Richmond, Va., in April. a Crime. That to hare smallpox is a Crime because of the possibility of preventing it by vaccination is declared by Dr. H. M. Bracken, secretary of the Minnesota Board of Health. Shirt Factory Is Destroyed. The fouy-story building at 1008 St. Charles street. St. I-ouis, occupied by the Premium Shirt Manufacturing-Company, was burned and the contents destroyed, causing an estimated loss of $250,000.

Congress.

On Tuesday the Philippines were the subject of an address by Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts, who spoke on his resolution introduced providing for the appointment of a Senate committee to investigate the administration of those islands. He spoke at some length regarding the unreliability of statements on the situation in th* Philippine* and the causes which led to the outbreak. Mr. Lodge, Mr. Hoar’s colleague, said he regarded the resolution as a reflection on the Philippine committee, of which he was chairman, and the necessity for the latter would cease were this resolution to be adopted. The discussion was leading rapidly to an opening up of the whole Philippine question, when it was agreed that the resolution should go over until Wednesday. A concurrent resolution was passed appointing a joint committee of Congress to consider the question of a site for a hall of records to be erected in Washington. The House continued the debate on the pension appropriation bill and devoted much time to the proposition advanced by Mr. Rixey of Virginia to open the doors of the soldiers’ homes to ex-Confederate veterans. Two notable speeches were made in support of the proposition, one by Mr. Gardner, a Michigan Republican, and the other by Mr. De Armond, a Missouri Democrat. The Rixey suggestion met with much opposition on the Democratic side on the ground that it was utterly impracticable. There was a sharp controversy in the executive session over the confirmation of S. G. Sharp as marshal for the new eastern district of Kentucky. The two Senators from Kentucky, Deboe (Rep.) and Blackburn (Dem.), took opposing positions. Blackburn objected to confirmation on the ground that Sharp had presided over a mass meeting held in front of the executive mansion in Frankfort in 1899 while the Goebel-Taylor controversy was at its height and a few days before Goebel was assassinated.

A spirited discussion was precipitated in the Senate Wednesday by remarks submitted by Mr. Hale of Maine in respect to bills relating to the formation of a naval reserve which he introduced. Mr. Hale took strong ground against the organization of a naval reserve, his comments being construed -by several Senators Into a reflection upon volunteer soldiers and land militia. Half a dozen Senators were on their feet in an instant to defend the volunteers and the National Guard of the various States, and the debate took so wide a range that Senators ■went back in their reference to the days of the Revolutionary War to seek illustrations for their arguments. The House passed the pension appropriation bill, which has been under discussion for thi ; ee days, and then adjourned until Saturday. The resolution prepared by the special committee on the McKinley Memorial exercises providing for an 'address by Secretary of State John Hay in the Hail of Representatives on Feb. 27 was adopted. A joint resolution to appropriate $90,000 to pay the expanses incurred by the West Indian and South Carolina Interstate Exposition at Charleston, S. 0., in connection with the government exhibit at Charleston, was passed. The Senate on Thursday for a brief time had under consideration the bill creating a department of commerce and th 6 discussion tended to show that the measure will have to be amended in many particulars before it can receive the approval of the Senate. Serious objections were raised to the transfer to the proposed department of several important bureaus now a, part of other departments of the government. It was pointed ont that if the bill as reported became a law it would create the greatest department of the government and that the secretary of commerce would have more power even than the Secretary of the Treasury. Notice of several important amendments was given. The House concurrent resolution providing for McKinley memorial exercises by Congress in the hall of the House of Representatives on Thursday, Feb. 27, was adopted. By a strictly partisan vote a favorable report on Senator Frye's ship subsidy bill was authorized by the Senate committee on commerce on Friday. The committee made several important amendments to the bill. One allows mail carrying vessels to be either iron or steel, instead of steel only, as originally pro*vided. Another reduces to 1,000 gross registered tons the vessels receiving n bounty. The Democrats voted solidly for striking out the general subsidy provision. The House of Representatives was in session less than an hour Saturday. Only routine business was transacted, the most important feature of which was the reporting by Mr. Cannon, chairman of the committee on appropriations, of an urgent deficiency bill. The bill carries $16,701,415, distributed among the different departments. Among the more important items included in the bill are the following: Rebates ra tobacco manufacturers as provided in the war revenue reduction act, $5,150,000; completion of public building at St. Paul, Minn., SIOO,000; completion of statue of Rochnmbeau, $15,000; establishment of permanent military post nt Manila, $500,000; military ordnance, $250,000; naval ordnance, $300,000; expenses of congressional party to funeral of President McKinley, $6,200; rural free delivery, $518,000.

Washington Notes.

House committee on rivers nn<l harbors heard delegations from the Chicago drainage canal and other organizations who explained the necessity of deepening and otherwise improving tha Chicago river. Gov. W. M. Crane of Massachlisctts is said to have been selected as the successor of Secretary Long. According to the protram, the change is not to bo made until after the adjournment of the Massachusetts Legislature. House committee on agriculture decided to grant public bearings on oleomargarine tax bills. Senate committee on military affairs exonerated Gen. Corbin and Col. Heiatand in the hemp inquiry. There is a growing sentiment in Con-, gress to adopt soma plan to relievo the President from the importunities of ofllco seekers. Cuban merchants have appealed to Secretary Root to have Congress enact a law giving the island tariff concessions. It is declared if this is not done the industries of tho island will be ruined.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

"7 T - 1 Nothing has ' happened NBV IOH. tbus far in the new year to, *-—■ indicate that the hopes of continued prosperity so generally entertained throughout the country are fallacious. The one place where there have come to the surface conditions disagreeable to contemplate is Cleveland, where it has long been suspected by banking interests that trouble was brewing. The difficulties of the Everett-Moore syndicate and their consequences are purely local. They are not due to any weakness in business in the country at large. The lame observation applies with equal fotce to the rubber situation, which has been the subject of wide comment in the East. It is a source of relief to merchants and manufacturers that transportation facilities are easier, now that the holiday trade, the greatest in the country’s history, is finally disposed of, but these facilities are not equal yet to the requirements of the vast volume of business. The railroads have not yet delivered all the structural material which has been delayed in shipment. These delays have interfered seriously with building operations in many quarters. Nevertheless orders for this kind of material are pouring in on the mills. This is a good indication Of activity in. building during the coming summer. An idea of the magnitude of the new Equipment which railroad companies are acquiring may be gained from the fact that one of the largest car manufacturing companies built in 1901 05,000 ears, of which only 500 were passenger cars, and that orders in this industry continue to be enormous. James J. HilLin speaking to the farmers of the Northwest, said the country has outgrown the capacity of most of the trunk lines.’ _ The rail mills are kept so busy by home orders which it will take a long time to fill that little attention is being paid to foreign business. The English mills have been able to get an order for 105,000 tons of rails for Mexico because the American steel men did not deem it worth their while to make a bid. It is understood that the mills are receiving liberal orders to be filled during the second half of this year. They will not be for the present the active competitors in foreign markets that they were a few years ago.

p, . Chicago business mainLUICdQO. tains a good volume, as is —— shown by a gain of 19.3 per cent in bank clearings. The advance made by the Underwriters’ association in insurance rates was not expected, but the insurance men claim the heavy losses in the classes of property affected justify the change. . This never is nn active 'season of the year in real estate, but there is less activity than there was twelve' months ago. There is less eagerness on the part of owners to sell and more inquiry by men who have money to invest and who are coming to the conclusion that they can do better in real estate than anywhere else. The government crop report indicated a total wheat yield in 1001 of 678,661.400 bushels, the greatest ever known in the country, but this does not reach the amount estimated by some of the private statisticians. May wheat closed at cents, a loss of three-fourths of a cent for the week. The crop prospects will soon become a point of vital concern to the New York stock market, as a decreased yield this year will raise tho question of a reduction in the earnings of the railroads, whose business will be chiefly affected by short crops. Prospects for the Brazil coffee crop are not satisfactory, owing to continued drought. Eggs are scarce and some of the large houses have been heavy buyers, but the Eastern apprehensions of a corner are not entertained here. Sugar continues low, and authorities in the trad;'"' think prices will rule low.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.50 to $6.50; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to 0.55; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; corn, No. 2,59 cto 60c; oats, No. 2,43 c to 44c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 62c; hay, timothy, $9.00 to $13.50; prairie, $5.50 to $13.00; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 21c to 24c; potatoes, 71c to 76c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.10; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,87 cto 88c; corn, No. 2 white, new, 65c to 66c; oats, No. 2 white, 49c to 50c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $6.05; hogs, $3.00 to $6.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,86 cto 87c; corn. No. 2, 62c to G3c; oats. No. 2,46 cto 47c: rye, No. 2,63 cto 64c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $6.35; sheep, $2.25 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 91c; com, No. 2 mixed, 66c to 67c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 48c to 49c; rye, No. 2,69 cto 70c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $6,201 sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,87 cto 88c; com. No. 3 yellow, 01c to 02c; oats, No. 2 white, 47c to 48c; rye, 63c to 64c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 80c to 88c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 62c to 62c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; rye, No. 2, 52« to 53c; clover seed, prime, $5.95. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 70c to 77c; com, No. 3,58 cto 59c; oats. No. 2 white, 46c to 47c; rye. No. 1,63 c to 04c; barley, No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork, mess, $10.47, Buffalo- Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $0.75; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $0.55; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; lambs, common to choice, $3.75 to $6.00. Z New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $0.25; hogs, $3.00 to $6.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.40; wheat. No. 2 red, 86c to 87c; com. No. 2, 00c to 07c; vats. No. 2 white, 52c tv 53c; butter, creamery, 22c to 23c; eggs, west* era, 25c to 28c. The National Bank of Chanute, Kam, has been authorised to begin builuesa with a capital of $50,000.