Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1902 — Page 2

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

CARNEGIE’S BIG DAY.

GIVES AWAY 38 LIBRARIES 84 HOURS. P- AH Part* trf the Country Are Represented in List of Towns to Be i Benefited—United States May Fight to Protect Cable Communication. Andrew Carnegie recently announced at a dinner tliat that day had been his “library day" and said he had just given . thirty -eight new- libraries.--A list of towns where the libraries are to be placed, with the amount allotted to each, has been compiled. Forty-two towns are mentioned. Mr. Carnegie since the dinner has added four other towns to his list, which is as follows: New Brunswick, N. J., $50,000; Reno, Nev., $15,000; Baraboo, Wis., $12,000; Greensburg, Mo.. $15,000; London, Ohio, $10,000; Blue Island. IIL, $15,000; Littleton, N. 11., "" $15,000; Paris, 111., $18,000; Msqtroketa, lowa, $10,000; Redfield, S. D., $10,000; Denver, Colo., $200,000; Las Vegas, N. H., $10,000; Goodrich. Ont, $10,000; Bozeman. Mont., $15,000; Saratoga, N. Y., $10,000; San Bernardino, N, M.. $15.000; Danville, Ind., $10,000; Kokomo. Ind., $20,000; Santa Rosa, Onl., $20,000; Charlotte, Mich., $10,000; Brazil, Ind., $20,000; Fulton, N. Y.. $15,000; Oskaloosa, lowa. $20,000; Yankton, S. D.. $10,000; Berlin, Ont., $15,000; Benton Harbor, $15,000; Victoria, B. C.,* $50,000; Little Falls, Minn., $10,000; Newton, Kan., $10,000; Atlantic, lowa, $12,500; St. Thomas,.Ont., $15,000; lowa City, lowa, $25,000; Beatrice, Neb., $20,000; Cedar Falls, lowa. $15,000; Dennison. lowa, $10,000; Hampton, lowa, $10,000; Athol, Mass.. $15,000; New Albany, Ind., $35,000; Tipton, Ind., $lO,000: Mount Clemens, Mich., $15,000; Chicago Heights, 111., $10,000; Waukesha, Wis., $15,00(1 UNITED STATES MAY FIGHT. Likely to Resist Colombia's Order to Censor Official Cablegrams. The State and Navy Departments in Washington have been informed of the purpose of the government of Colombia to censor all cablegrams _ between all diplomatic and consular officers on the Isthmus of Panama and their home governments. The notice came from Captain Reisinger of the cruiser Philadelphia, now at Panama. The American government being under obligation to protect isthmian transit, undoubtedly would hold that the free use of the cables and telegraphs is necessary to the exercise of that power and would not permit any interference with it. PAIR PRESIDENT IN RUNAW AY. Head of St. Louis Exposition Has Accident During Formal Inspection. While making his first formal inspection of the progress of the work on the world’s fair site in St. Louis, President Francis, accompanied by Director of Works Isaac M. Taylor, in an open carriage drove by a traction engine. The horses became frightened and ran away •t breakneck speed over the pitfalls of the site, finally plunging over the embankment of the River Despores into the bed of the muddy stream twelve feet below. Francis and Taylor were partly Stunned and bruised, but sustained no broken bones. . STONED TO DEATH BY BOYS. Charge in Case of Ead Who Expired After Row with Playmates. Francis Matlock, 12 years old. died suddenly at his home in Liudenwald, Ohio, and the police say he was stoned to death by playmates in a quarrel, lie had been playing in a barn with Joseph Oarr, Allie Stillwaugh, Frank Bartell and Edwin Henderson. Neighbors heard cries and went to the barn. The - boys went homo. Matlock told his parents that the other boys had stoned him. A few hours later he became sick and died. His body shows •rreral bruises.

Oil Macnate’s ll| Health. Joi&n D. Rockefeller bas"l>eeu so trails- ' formed by tlie recent affliction, which has rendered him totally bald and robbed him of his mustache, eyebrows and eyelashes, that his friends barely recognise him. He has become as emaciated ns an eastern famine sufferer and as white as the proverbial ghost. — ~ l Fast Destroyer Launched. The Barry, the third of the series of torpedo-boat destroyers which have been built for the United States government by Neafle & Levy, was launched at Philadelphia. Miss Charlotte Barnes," a descendant of Commodore Barry, after whom the craft is named, christened the boat. Ricli Widow Found Dead. Mrs. Julia B. French, widow of Benjamin French, millionaire dealer in photographers’ supplies, of Boston, was found dead by the police on the top of an elevator in her home. She is supposed to have stepped through the doorway on the top floor and to have fallen forty feet to the basement. • mm____ mmmm Convicted of Killing Mis* Cropscy. In Elisabeth City, N. C., James Wilcox was found guilty of the murder of Nellie Cropsey. He was sentenced to be hanged April 25. No Evidence Against Miss Barns. Justice Mayer of New York has released Miss Florence Burns, saying there is no evidence connecting her with the death of Walter Brooks. Fire in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Fire broke out in the Canadian Pacific Railway freight office at Winnipeg. Man., ABd the flames burned steadily until after midnight, when the entire building, occupied by offices, was demolished. All freight records of the last twenty-two years were destroyed. f Oirl Dies En Route to Colorado. Miss Florence McCoy, aged P.l, of Frewabnrg, N. Y., died on an Erie train . a few miles east of Kent, Ohio. The swung woman was afflicted with tuberculosis, and was on her way to Colorado.

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

RECALLS BIG CONFIDENCE GAME. Decision Involving Estate of Gny C. Barnum, an Adventurer. A decision rendered at Columbus, Neb., by Judge Griminson awarding the $30,000 estate to Guy C. Barnum to his widow, formerly Maria C. Delomcl of Galveston, Texas, .recalls one of the boldest confidence games ever carried offt in the West. Barnum was once associated with Charles B. Thompson 4a the Jehovah Presbytery of Zion, a community founded by the two men at Preparation, lowa, which once numbered over 1,200 members, possessed oyer $500,000 worth of property, and paid to the two loaders, who posed ag ‘‘o-verseera"- or. 2ste wards of God,” an income of $75,000 a year. The community flourished from 1855 to -IB6o;—when-it was brokcn up lry the ex~ posure of the leaders, who fled. Since then Preparation has disappeared and the property of the colonists has been apportioned among its members. Barnum a few years ago was worth SIOO,OOO. He had been a Senator in the Nebraska Legislature, and otherwise prominent in the State. But his reason left him, and he spent several years in the Nebraska asylum. When allowed his liberty he roamed over the country, spending his money right and left, and finally ending with his marriage in Los Angeles in 1809 to Marie Delomel. Barnum met the woman in the morning and married her in the afternoon. The other heirs fought the will giving her his property, but it has been sustained by the court. ASS A SSI NS ATTACK PASTOR. Dr. Honst of Elizabeth, N. J., Murked for Death l>y Assassins. Would-be assassius attempted to take the life of the Rev. Dr. Houst, pastor of the German Lutheran Church in Elizabeth, N, J., Sunday night. The police believe his assailants were Italian anarchists. Wnen President McKinley was shot Dr. Iloust preached a sermon in which he denounced the anarchists. Last November his son Ivan mysteriously disappeared and letters have since been received by the minister that, lead him to believe the anarchists have marked him and his family for death. An attempt has also bee-n made to kidnap liis little girl, but it proved futile. Dr. Houst had just returned from church vvhen attacked Sunday evening. He was stabbed with a stiletto and struck over the bead. Dr. Funk, who examined the wounds, said the stab was not serious, but -he blow ou the head might prove fatal. PASSAIC BOY FOUND DEAD. Fuils to Return Home from Stroll and Seureh Is Instituted. Peter Fengay, John Kenetz and Chas. Majacke, all aged about 10 years, went into the woods near Passaic. _N. J_„ for_a stroll. At 10:30 that night the boys had not returned, and, fearing some accident, a search was begun. The dead body of Kenetz was soou found in a field, with a bullet hole directly above the heart. The police were notified and the search for the comnanious of the dead boy was begun. It is supposed that the"three boys quarreled and that Kenetz was shot in the fray. Finest Station for Capital. Washington is to have what is claimed wilj be the largest and most beautiful railway station in the world. Plans for a union station to cost $6,000,000 ami to be used by all the roads entering the city, drove been submitted to the Senate committee on the District of Columbia by Daniel H. Burnham, architect for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Will Found in Old Paper. Harvey L. Wkeeloek of Chicago tiled the will of Ills father, Jerome WlieMock of Worcester. Mass..in the Probate Court through his counsel. Henry F. Harris. Mr, Wheelock could not find the will for some time, but it was discovered’ rolled up in an old newspaper. It disposes of nearly sGiH),ooo»iu bequests. Band Buries Four Workmen. Four laliorers were buried by the cavein of a sand bank at Forty-eighth street and Eighth avenue. Brooklyn. Louis Tremaine was taken out dead; Carlo Cenato died oil the way to a hospital; Tony Castori was Injured inierUiltly, find niffy tie. and Angelo Moutellibo had three ribs broken. Thrcc-Ccnt Fares in Cleveland. The Cleveland City Council has pass 'd the 3-eeut fare franchise ordinance. There was no demonstration when the .vote resulted in 29 to 2 in favor of the passage of the measure. The franchise provides for nbout twenty miles of double track railway. Fire in Newark, N. J. Fire at Newark. N. J.. destroyed the big building occupied by the American Rofiuing nnd Crucible Company, the Calcutta Manufacturing Company, ami the Crystal Lead aud Chemical Company. Loss $ 75.000. Tornado Wrecks u Church. A tornado visited Scotch Plains, a Dunkard -settlement near Belleville, Kan., and did much damage. Several houses were blown down and the Dunkard ehnrch completely demolished. No lives were lost. Senate Passes Subsidy Bill, The Senate passed the Hanna-Fryc ship subsidy bill by a vote of 42 to 31. Six Republicans, including Allison, Spooner, Dolliver and Quarles, votod against the measure. No unfriendly amendment was adopted. Will Not Repay Htone Ransom. The Turkish government has made a flat refusal to repay the United States the $72,500 given to the brigauds as a ransom for Miss Stone aud her companion, Mnie. Tsilka. , Robbers Wreck Bank Safe. Bank robbers wrecked the safe of rile Citizens’ Bank at Star City, Ind. The heavy steel outer and inner doors were

blown from their "fastenings. Then the thieves tried to blow open the time-lock doors of the money vault, which contained $5,000, but before they could get the money tber were driven away b.v the citizens. For all their time and trouble the robbcrs secured only S2O in money. RULES BOYCOTT IS LEGAL. • S 3 ft * ~~t. 3 Missouri Supreme Court Decides in - Favor of Labor Unions. In the Supreme Court sitting en baac at Jefferson City, Mo., an opinion was handed down declaring that courts of equity have no power to enjoin labor organizations from enforcing boycotts on" corporations. The rendered by Judge Sherwood, affirmed-.the judgment: of a lower court which had refused the npplieation of -the Marx-fel ia-as jeons Clothing Company of St. Louis for an injunction to restrain Anthony Watson and other officers of a local Knights of Labor organization and a branch of the United Garment Workers of America in that city from pushing a boycott. The Supreme Court holds that if the labor, unions of the State are not permitted to tell the story of their wrongs or their supposed wrongs by word of month or with pen and print and to endeavor to get other persons to aid them by all peaceable means in securing redress of such wrongs, free speech is affected. LOANED $3,000,000 TO FRIENDS. Collis P. HuntiuKton Estate Will Lose Vast Sum Through Generosity. The late Collis I’. Huntington leaned at least $3,000,000 to personal friends who could not pay it back. The executors of the estate and the State’s'transfer tax appraisers have discovered this feature, and the executors say they cannot hope to realize any large sum from these -accounts. The total estate will amount to between $28,000,000 and $29.000,000 and the transfer tax to the State will foot up about SBOO,OOO. NO LIQUOR FOR”STUDENTS. Texas Saloon-keepers Must Not Sell to Them Says Supreme Court. Tinder a decision of the Supreme Court of Texas, just handed down, saloonkeepers may not sell liquors to students of educational institutions without making themselves liable to suits for damages. The word “knowingly” was inserted in the law governing the sale of liquor to minors by the last Legislature, but the court holds that this does not apply to students, who are not all minors. REFORM SCHOOL IN FLAMES^ 287 Initiates Believed to Have Got ■ -- V-- ' Out Safely. - ■ - . The State Sdliool of Reform at Lexington, Ivy,, in which 287 children are coufined, burned down. All the children are believed to have got out safely. At 1:10 o’clock the boys’ building collapsed.. The institution was erected at a cost of SIOO,000. There are eight buildings. Plot to Destroy Warships. A sensation-lias been caused in Vienna by the discovery of a plot to destroy rite Austro-Hungarian warships Habsburg and Arpad, which are stationed at I’ola. A large quantity of dynamite was recently stolen at Trieste and the government has been informed by an anonymous letter that the Habsburg and Arpad were imperiled. Three Workmen Killed. Three Slavish workingmen met death in the iron mills at Steubenville, Ohio. John Salvador and Michael Üboski were caught in a cave-in and smothered to death at the La Belle iron works. John Cibere’s head was crushed to a pulp between a buggy of steel and a railroad car at the National steel works. Damage Done by Field Mice. Theorists who have been figuring the matter state that the annual damage to the crops of Hancock County, Ohio, by field mice reaches the enormous sum of $20,000. Many farmers in the eastern part of the county threaten a wholesale purchase of cats. Ohio Coal Companies Unite. Tbe Continental Coal Company of Cleveland announces the purchase of the property of The Columbus Coal Company and the Summer Coal Company, whose output was handled by the General Fuel Company. The consideration Is unknown. Fight Duel to tlicjlcnth. Reese Evans and A. A. Smith fought a duel with Winchesters at eight feet distance at Purdy Station, Nev. Each received injuries from which death .resulted. The quarrel was over a strip of almost worthless land. Knew How to Fight. Lieutenant dropped at West Point for weakness in matbeuintics has returned wounded from the Philippines, where he fought fifty bolomen single-handed, killing three and holding the rest till rceuforeemeuts arrived. Irish Member Ruises Big Scene. One of the liveliest scenes witnessed in the House of Commons since the palmiest days of the Irish Nationalists ended with the suspension of John Dillon, due to his eulliug Joseph Chamberlain a liar. Leeds Buys Famous Villa. William B. president of the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific ltailroud, has purchased from the estate of Henry Hilton the famous villa known as ♦■>tter Hocks, at Bellhaven, Conn. Bryan Moves to Farm, W. J. Bryan celebrated his forty-sec- I ond birthday by moving to his farm, where be will live in barn till new bouse is completed. Named for Alice Roosevelt. Emperor William has directed that a former torpedo boat, now used as a gnardsbip, shall be renamed “Alice Rodsevelt.”

STALLED TRAINS FREE. Railroad Lines Closed by the Late Blizzard Are Opened. Traffic on the three: transcontinental lines which cross North Dakota has been resumed since the great March blizzard. The Soo was least affected. The Northern Pacific blockade lasted 131 hours, and the first train from the Pacific coast to arrive in Sti Paul after the sto*»j came in six days later. Six east-bound limited trains were caught in the drifts. Two of them' were annulled and the equipment was used in making up trains west of the blockaded area which were sent back to the coast to care for the business of the trains sent from St. Paul and caught by the drifts. The Great Northern-fa red worse than the other lines. The blockade lasted' 144 hours—the longest interruption of traffic the system has ever experienced. Although put to great expense* to clear the tracks and suffering heavy losses in traffic, the railroad officials were pleased with the heavy snow because it gives needed moisture to the Dakota wheat fields. This fact also seemed to please the new settlers, more than 2,000 of whom have passed through the St. Paul gateway to their new homes within twenty-four hours, coming from Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Kansas and Missouri. SAFE BLOWERS CAUSE BIG FIRE. Start $150,000 Blaze in the Commercial Hotel at Marissa, 111. Safe blowers are responsible for a fire which destroyed $150,000 worth of property at Marissa, 111., Tuesday night. They entered the Commercial Hotel,' where fifty persons were asleep, shortly hefo re mid night, and blew the safe. .Obtaining $2,500, the. robbers escaped, leaving the building in flames. The fire Spread rapidly and was not checked before a dozen business buildings and several residences, with their contents, had been destroyed. The Commercial Hotel was burned to the ground. The flames then spread to the following buildings: Lyon <& White’s drug store, Fume's barber shop, Ilassoug's barber shop, Wilson’s millinery store, Brown & Co.’s grain elevator, A. D. Matthews’ grocery store, Hamilton & Co.’s bank, S. Rejaii's dwelling and icehouse, Lyon & White’s lumber yard and A. L. Kenna's residence. Several persons narrowly escaped death in the flames. REBEL EEADIiR GIVF.S UP. General Lukban’s Successor Agrees to Turn in -lOQ Rifles. Gen. Lukbau’s efforts to lead Guevarra, who recently issued a proclamation -declaring himself the stieeessor of Gcn.I.ukban in the Island of Samar, P. 1., to surrender have been successful. Both Gen. Smith, in command of tiie United States forces on the Island of Samar, and Guevarrn have agreed to an armistice to facilitate the collection of Guevarra’s men, with their rifles, when the formal surrender will be made. The arms will hi at the fort. Gen. Sndth cables tTnifGuevarra has 400 rifles,# and that- he guariftteesthepaoification of his men. ** ~~ ; • . ■ Tiffin Woolen Mills Close. The Tiffin, Ohio, woolen mills are in the hands of a receiver. Frederick Ba■ioian of Saginaw, Mich., one of the members of the firm, filed his petition in the United States court at Toledo, asking a "dissolution of partnership and the appointment of a receiver. The Guardian Trust Company of Cleveland was appointed. Three Newark Banks Unite. U. 11. McCaster, president of the Fidelity Trust Company of Newark, N. J., has made public the plans under which several Newark banks are to be consolidated. The institutions are the Second National, German NaTioual and the State Banking Company. Lake Navigation la Opened. Navigation on Lake Erie was opened for the season of 1902 by the steamer City of Detroit of the Detroit and Cleveland line, which left her Detroit dock bound for Cleveland. The City of Detroit had a full cargo of freight aboard and seveyty-five passengers. Big Dock Fire in Hoboken. Fire at Hoboken destroyed the Phoenix Line and Barber docks, the steamer British Queen and a number of lighters. Nearly a score of persons were drowned or burned to death and the property loss is nearly $1,000,000. Refused by Harry Garfield. Harry A. Garfield of Cleveland, a son of President Garfield, has been offered the position of civil service commissioner to succeed William A. ltodenberg, resigned. Mr. Garfield declined the appointment. Assaults Rich Woman. Mrs. Ellen Carey, a wealthy old woman, who recently inherited several thousand dollars in cash from a sister, was mysteriously attacked in St. Louis by a strange man, who left her in a dying condition. * Six Life-Savers Lost. Capt. Eldridge of the Monomocy, Mass., life-saving station and fixe of hiscrew, who started to the relief of a distressed barge, were drowued by the caj>sising of their lifeboat. Only Surinam Ellis of seven men who started escaped, n- ■ ■ Danish Upper House Approves Bale. The landstbing, the Danish upper house, in committee of the whole and in executive session, voted to ratify the treaty providing for the sale of the Danish West ladies to .the United States. Paper from Borghniu Cane. Plans were completed at Appleton, Wis., for a paper mill to be bnilt at Independence, Kan. The new mill will manufacture paper from sorghum cane by an improved process.

Congress

For three hours on'Tnesday in the Senate the bill providing for the protection of the President of the United States and for the punishment by United States courts of those who commit assaults upon him was under consideration. Mr. Bacon opposed the bill and Mr. Hoar and Mr. Mason supported it. Earlier in the day a lively debate was precipitated by the effort of Mr. Rawlins to hnve printed as a document some Philippine correspondence. Eventually the matter was ordered printed as requested. Thirty-nine private pension bills were passed, the calendar being cleared. An executive session preceded adjournment. The general debate on the river and harbor bill was enlivened by Mr. Hepburn (Iowa), who majje his annual onslaught on the meas"ure. "The other speakers were Messrs. Ball (Texas) and Lawrence (Mass.), both members of the committee, and Messrs. White.(Ky.), Thompson (Ala.) and Burnett (Ala.), who spoke in favor of improvements of interest to their districts. April 20 was sot aside for memorial ser-' vices on Representative Stokes of South Carolina and Representative Crump of Michigan. During most of the Senate session Wednesday the bill providing for the protection of the President of the United States was under consideration. Mr. Culberson offered a substitute for the bill. It makes the assassination or attempted assassination of the President or VicePresident, or the sovereign of a foreign country within the jurisdiction of the United States, punishable by death; while those who shall counsel or advise the killing of the President, or who shall conspire to kill him or the sovereign of any foreign country, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twenty years. Mr. Bacon introduced a bill for the deportation and exclusion of alien anarchists. It was the one which, introduced by former Senator Hill of New York, had been passed by the Senate but had failed in the House. A brief executive session preceded adjournment. In the House fair progress was made with the river and harbor bill. After the close of general debate, twenty-seven of the 110 pages of the bill were disposed of. Several members took advantage of the latitude allowed in general...debate, to discuss other topics. Mr. Snook (Ohio) spoke in opposition to ship, subsidies, Mr. Lewis (Ga.) favored tariff revision and Mr. Powers (Mass.) advocated irrigation in the West. Mr. Burton, in charge of the. bill, in closing the general debate, answered the criticisms advanced against it. Thursday in the Senate was devoted to consideration of the bill to protect the President. An agreement was reached to vote on the measure and amendments at 4 o’clock Friday afternoon. Mr. Aidrich, chairman of the committee on finance, reported the bill to repeal war revenue taxes, and gave notice that he would call up the measure for consideration Friday. In the House slow progress was made on the river and harbor bill, only thirty pages being disposed of, leaving Tifty pages still to be considered. "The* river and harbor committee succeeded again in defeating every amendment Offered, though none was of general importance. Mr. Bellamy of North Carolina during the debate took occasion to denounce the Cpdmpacker proposition to investigate Southern election laws as designed to stir up sectional strife. lie appealed to the, conservative Republicans to defeat the resolution. firthtr Senate cm FYidrry passn ge of the hill to protect the President by a vote of 52 to 15, and of the war revenue repeal bill, without division, occupied practically all of the session. A*i*ill appropriating $125,000 for a marine hospital at Buffalo, N. Y., was also passed. On motion of Mr. Froetor, chairman of the committee on agriculture, the oleomargarine bill was made the unfinished business. After an executive session adjournment until Monday was taken. In the House the river and harbor bill was passed without division. Mr. Sulzer (N. Y.) attempted to force a record vote, but only three members. Messrs. Smith (Iowa), Fitzgerald (N. YJ and Cochran (Mo.), supported him. Several minor committee amendments were adopted, one authorizing the Michigan Power Company, with certain restrictions, to take water from the. St. Mary river for use in its power canal. During the debate 11. C. Smith (Mich.) complained that the $20,000,000 charged to Michigan in the bill benefited the commerce of Chicago, Duluth, Buffalo and Cleveland, and not a single port in Michigan. Adjournment followed final action. Consideration of the contested election case of Moss versus Rhea from the,Third Kentucky District, occupied most of Saturday iu the House. The committee on elections divided on party lines, the majority sustaining the view that Mr. Moss had been elected and the minority that Mr. Rhea, the Democrat, was entitled to retain his seat. In the face of the returns Mr. Rhea had 156 plurality. Aecording to the contention of the majority certain votes rejected under the Goebel election law would transform this plurality for Rhea into a plurality for Moss of 71. Mr. Mann (111.) nnd Mr. Smith (Iowa) spoke for the majority, and Mr. Burgess (Texas) for the minority. An agreement was made whereby tie vote shall be taken on Tuesday. Before taking up this case tbe unanimous report of the committee in the case of Spears versus Burnett from the Seventh Alabama District, confirming the title of the sitting member to his seat, w as adopted. Several bills of minor importance wore passed at the opening of the Session, including one to authorize the Secretary of War to loan tents for the use 'of the Knights of Pythias encampment to be held at San Francisco.

Washington Notes.

New national bank note* of the 11)02 series are a radical departure in design from former issues. Miss Alice Roosevelt will not attend King Edward's coronation, her father concluding that the visit would cause complications with Germany and too much notoriety for his daughter. William J. Bryan recently visited W asbington and informal reception in the Honae. Rumors are circulated that he is willing to make another attempt to be elected President.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

'‘Business in Boston was Completely paralyzed by the sir lice of freight handlers

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and teamsters, which directly affected 30,000 men and indirectly rendered other thousands idle by holding back supplies of raw material. Fortunately this struggle seems in a fair way to settlement. Outside of Massachusetts, however, the labor situation is exceptionally free from controversy, and even in the’ coal mines there is less than the usual agitation as April approaches. Distribution of spring merchandise is making rapid progress, the most sanguine expectations being fully realized in all sections outside the strike area,” -according to 1L— G. Dun & Co.’s Review of Trade. Continuing, the report says: “Consumers of iron and steel products are still anxious regarding conditions during the next three months. ,'jly l it is believed that deliveries will be ample. According to the Iron Age the weekly capacity of- pig iron furnaces in blast on March 1 had declined to 330,710 tons, or about 10,000 tons from the production on Feb. 1. Considering the numerous disUirUmg _ fac.toxs at work during the _ mouth of February, it is gratifying that much heavier curtailment of output did not occur. All records prior to Feb. 1 are still eclipsed and the resumption of many idle plants this month practically assures new high water marks in the near future, unless some unforeseen interruption occurs. As operations at steel works-were also retarded, furnace stocks of pig iron declined only about 25,000 tons during Febrnary. The most important event of the week was the heavy buying of steel bars by makers of agricultural implements in anticipation of higher prices becoming" effective on April 1. Billets command largo premiums for spot delivery, and more purchases are reported from foreign makers. Pipes and tubes are more active

Official indications of farm reserves on March 1 were not surprising as to

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the corn, dealers anticipating that supplies would be only about one-half last year’s, but the statement that 23 pur cent of the enormous wheat yield remained in farmers’ hands was not calculated to sustain values. Needed rains in the Southwest made the market lode more favorable for the next cebp. A sustaining feature was the interior movement of only 2,618,819 bushels, against 3,902.650 last year, while on the other hand total exports from the United States were but 2,598,472 bushels, compared with 4,902,674 a year ago. As to corn both comparisons were striking, receipts aggregating only 1,8t)3,950 bushels, against 4,131,837 a year ago, while Atlantic exports fell to the lowest record for many years, 90.109 bushels, against 8,339,902 in 1901. The corn traders had the government report on farm reserves last week shojying 29 per cent, or 384,000,000 bushels, held March 1. This is the smallest oti record. It was expected to stimulate new buying by outsiders, but the close Saturday found prices only %c higher than the previous week. No surplus producing State has over 32 per cent, and Kansas only 14 per cent of its crop left. With an ordinary consumption there is not a surplus bushel, and the high prices will necessitate continued husbanding of supplies to get through to the next crop. The small farm stocks mean the same thine as last year; we will go into the new crop in the fall with no stock. It hr also taken as indicating good prices for several years to come. The country movement is light, receipts last week being only 820,000 bushels, and shipments 814,000 bushels. The movement both ways is about 50 per cent of last year’s. Farm reserves are as estimated a week ago. 30 per cent, or 198,000,000 bushels, the smallest ever reported. Prices for May are wit,.' i l%c of the top price, which makes sho, ts uneasy. .

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $8,50 15 $8.65; hogs, shipping grade*. $4.25 4o $0.60; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2,57 cto 58c; oats, No. 2,42 c to 43c; rye. No. 2,50 cto 57c; hay, timothy, $9.00 to $14.50; prairie, $5.50 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c;* potatoes, 75c to 83c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to SG.SO; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $0.20; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.25 wheat, No. 2,80 cto 81c; corn, No. $ white, G4c to (pc; oats. No. 2 white, 45c to 40c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $0.75;-hogs, $3.00 to $6.35; sheep, $2.50 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 77c; corn, No. 2, 59c to 00c; oats. No. 2,44 cto 45c; rye, N'O. 2,59 cto Goc. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $0.00; sheep, $2.25 to $5.05; wheat, No. 2,81 cto 82c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 02c to 03c; 5a ts. No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; rye, No. 2,03 cto 05c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $0.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,81 cto 82c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 60c to* flic; oats, No. 2 white, 47c to 48c; rye, 59c to (30c. Toledos-W’heat, No. 2 mixed, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 59c to t3oc; oats, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c: rye, No. 2, Clc to 02c; clover seed, prime, $5.37. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 3,57 cto 58c; oats. No. 2 white. 44c to 45c; rye, No. 1, 580 to 59c; barley, No. 2, 04 cto 05c; pork, mess, $15.50. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $<3.50; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $6.80; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 te $5.75; lambs, common to choice, $3.75 t* $0.90. ■ New York—Cattle. $3.75 to $7.00; hogs, $3.00 to $6.25; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; * wheat. No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; corn; No. 2, 06c to 07c; oats, No. 2 white, 51c to 52cj butter, creamery, 28c to 80c; eggs, western. 15c to 10c. A fire in the business section of Gypsum City, Kau., caused a loss estimated at SIO,OOO.