Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1902 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. <JEO. B. MARSH ALU Publisher. RENSSELAER, . - INDIANA.

HIS LIFE ATTEMPTED.

INFERNAL MACHINE MAILED TO PATTISON OF PENNSYLVANIA. Means of Ignition Had Been Omitted, So Contrivance Does Not Explode— Mexican City la Swept Away by Great Tidal Wave. An attempt upon the life of Robert E. Pattison, former Governor of Pennsylvania, and the present Democratic nominee for that office, was made in Philadelphia a few days ago, and the news has just now come to light. An infernal machine containing several pounds of gunpowder in a contracted and highly powerful form was sent to him by mail. The senders had neglected to place the means of ignition in the parcel, trusting to circumstances for the working out of the dastardly plot When Mr. Pattison received the package he opened it, and was under the impression that he had received a sample of some culm, which is being treated by a company of which he Is a director. SOBBED TRAIN PASSENGERS. ..■.■■■■l Porter and Barber on Northwestern Limited Arrested by Detectives. Lewis Solden of Chicago, a porter, and Wayne Shoup, barber on the Union Pa-dSc-Northwestern overland limited train, were arrested a few miles east og Omaha for stealing from passengers. The detectives who made the arrests say the men have systematically robbed passengers while in the barber chair. The plan was to remove from pocketbooks left in coats hanging on a hok such an amount as they believed would not be missed and returning them to the pocket The detectives had a pocketbook full of marked money, and after leaving the barber shop part of it was gone. The arrests followed, and the missing money was found in the men's possession. SAD ENDING OF A PICNIC PARTY. One Killed and Eight Injured in Collision with Electric Cur. By a collision between a Page avenue electric car and a furniture van containing eighteen boys and girls returning from a picnic in the country Henry King was killed and eight other occupants of the van injured in St. Louis. Whore the collision occurred there is a steep incline. Just as the van turned into Etzell avenue it began A Page avenue car came around the curve and started down the incline in the direction of the van. It was impossible for the driver to pull his team out of the tracks, and the car struck the wagon, overturning it. Young King fell on the roadbed and one leg and an arm were cut off. He died en route to the hospital.

TIDAL, WAVE WRECKS CITY. Town of Altata, Mexico, Reported Swept Into Ocean. The lower portion of the city of Altata, on the Pacific coast, just west of Culiacan, Mexico, has been destroyed by a tidal ware, and not loss than fifty persons are known to hare been drowned. The tas of life may be several timea...thai_ number. The property loss is heavy. It is reported that several smaller coast towns situated above Altata were washed away by the tidal ware, and that the loss of life in these smaller places is heavy. League Baae-Ball Race. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .71 24 Cincinnati .. .45 51 Brooklyn ...55 45 St. L0ui5....45 53 Boston 49 44 Philadelphia. 38 60 Chicago ....51 47 New Y0rk...34 G 4 The clnbs of the American League stand ns follows: „ W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 53 40 Cleveland .. .48 51 St. L0ui5.... 53 41 Washington. 45 53 Boston .....55 44 Baltimore ...40 57 Chicago ... .52 43 Detro : ‘ ..;. .ov 56 -lOrm Havoc in the South. Severe electrical, wind, hail and rain storms raged in North Carolina for three nights. At Statesville a hotel was struck by lightning and destroyed. At Concord the St. Andrews Lutheran Church was blown down. The Odell cotton mills were damaged $6,000 worth, the Liphard mill was unroofed and the Cannon manufacturing plant was damaged to the extent of $2,500. Foil Plot to Wreck Train. Night Operator Coyne at Wolf Summit, W. Vs., prevented a disastrous wreck of a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train. Having heard a suspicious pounding on the rails, be set the danger signal and stopped the train. Investigation revealed that a switch lock had been broken, the switch turned and an iron driven into the frog. Shoots Wife and Boarder. J. C. Surles, a Kansas City blacksmith, coming home unexpectedly and finding Albert Hayes, a boarder, in company

with his wife, shot both with a shotgun. Mrs. Sarles probably will recover. Hayes may die. Sarles had pretended to go fishing, and returned to the house quietly. Boer Generals Visit Edward. Boer generals visited King Edward on board the royal yacht at Cowes, and are highly pleased with their reception. Dog Eats Gems Worth •1,000. Mrs. McMaster Mills’ bulldog swallowed three of her diamond rings, worth 11,000, at Greenwich. Conn. Boy Slain in Melon Patch. Andrey Newman, a 15-yesr-old boy, was shot through the heart by a guard at the water melon patch of William Kim bro, near Jefferson City, Tenn. New Gold Field in Trans-raaL A new gold reef has been discovered In the Transvaal, which is said to traverse a 'large extent of territory. Local geologists think the strike is a continuation of the Witwatersrand main series, but the discoverers declare they have found hew gold fields that will be the Wftoal in size of the Witwatersraud

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

BIG FIRE AT HAMILTON, OHIO. Large Dry Goods Store Destroyed and Bank Building Damaged. A most destructive fire started at Hamilton, Ohio, about midnight Thursday and was not under control until 4 o’clock the .next morning. The large dry goods store of T. V. Howell & Son, where the flames originated, was destroyed. The Second National Bank building, adjoining the Howell block on the west, was damaged considerably by fire and water, but the bank escaped with slight damage. While this fire was burning another broke cut in Walnut street in a small grocery, and Cincinnati was asked for help. Two engines were sent in response, but when they arrived the fire was under control and they were not taken from the train. The Walnut street fire was easily extinguished. Hicks’ stationery store, in the basement of the Howell block, whs destroyed. The large carpet store of Creighton & Hoeven, adjoining Howell’s, was saved from serious damage. The losses are estimated at a quarter of a million, mainly Howell’s and the Second National Bank. The loss of T. V. Howell & Son is estimated at $200,000; Second National Bank, $40,000; Holbrook Brothers* dry goods, $12,000, and Heck, stationer, $2,000. Several offices of dentists, physicians and architects were in the Howell block, and were destroyed. No statement of the amount of insurance carried has been made. MYSTERY IN COLLEGE FIRE. lowa Agricultural Institution at Ames Suffers SIO,OOO Loss. The south wing of the main building at the lown State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts at Ames was destroyed by fire. The north wing of this building was destroyed in a similar manner in December, 1900. The portion now burned has been condemned by the State architect and was to have been torn down to make room for a new building provided for by the last General Assembly. The loss to building and contents will not exceed SIO.OOO. The valuable botanical collection and equipment, together with the museum and the oflice and school furniture, were saved. The origin of the fire is a mystery, as there was no fire about the building during vacation.

GREAT HIGHWAY PLANNED. New York and Chicago Association Formed to Improve Route. The New York and Chicago Road Association has been formed to promote the building of a short cut highway from New York to Chicago. The idea of the association is to reduce the distance of 957 miles to 850 miles and put the roads in good condition. The association is composed of representatives of the automobile, cycle and. road-making assoeiations. Col. A. A. Pope is president. The intention is to have the road run through Newbury, N. Y.. Binghamton, N. Y., Elmira, N. Y., Horning, N. Y., Jamestown, N. Y., Conneaut, Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, Sandusky, Ohio, South Bend, Ind., and Hammond, Ind. Many Stores Are Burned. A chemical explosion in Terry’s drug store, which fatally injured Dr. W. B. Terry, at Princeton, Ky., started a fire which destroyed the Urey block, the opera house, Terry & Frayer’s drug store, A. Cash & Brother's dry goods house, Henry & Butler’s dry goods store, the Cumberland telephone exchange and the Postal Telegraph offices. The total loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Sells Himself to Pay Debt. Jerry Lov."r-,'hn. negfo JaHifOr of »3xate Supreme Court at Knoxville, Tenn., has sold himself to Gerald Stuart, clerk of the court, for SI,OOO. For this sum he agrees in a written contract to serve and obey Stuart as his legal master from now until the time of his death. Logan has lately been worried by debts, which he will pay now from the sum to be paid him for his liberty. Makes 72.8 Miles an Hour. The Twentieth Century limited on the Lake Shore made the best long-distance run ever made by the train. The run was made between Kendallville, Ind., and Toledo. The distance of ninety-one miles was covered in seventy-five minutes, which is at the rate of 72.8 miles an hour. Morris Buys Big Beef Plant. Nelson Morris & Co. of Chicago have purchased the business of the United Dressed Beef Company, whose main plant is at Forty-first street and First avenue, New York City. It is said the consideration was $5,000,000. Chicago Policemen Killed. Charles T. Pennell and Timothy Devine, patrolmen connected with the West Lake street station, were shot and killed in Chicago while in the discharge of their doty. The murderers are at present unknown.

Three Men Dodge Avalanche. Rocky Mountain sheep scratching above them hurled rocks upon a party of Western Union men working on the side of Pike's Peak. J. P. Cook of Chicago, J. J. Dickey of Omaha and Maj. Seels narrowly escaped death. New Find at Cripple Creek. A strike of sulphide ore carrying 4,000 ounces of silver and a large percentage of copper has been made on Ball HUI, the center of the Cripple Creek district, Colorado, at a depth of 1.305 feet Exposition Gold Dollars. Two hundred and fifty thousand gold dollars, one-half to contain the head of Thomas Jefferson and the other half the head of William McKinley, will be coined for the St Louis exposition. ■U.-U, , . i , , , Ten Thousand Rendered Homeless. The State Department has - beeu informed that the provisional' government of Hayti has notified the United States

legation that' Gonavos, Pont de Paix, Petit Goave and St. Mare are in rebellion and that the government troops captured Petit Goave after a strong resistance Many lives were lost. Firmin’s force set fire to Petit Goave before abandoning the place, which was totally destroyed. Ten thousand people are reported homeless and in dire want, FRIGHTENED INTO CONFESSION. ■?' . ___ ‘ ' • Mrs. Wiurchowski Admits That Hus* band Was Slain by Boarder. Mrs. Ignatz Wiurchowski has made a written confession to the Cleveland police that the man who shot and killed her husband was Charles Janaski, a former boarder at the Wiurchowski home, and who is alleged to be infatuated with Mrs. Wiurchowski. Mrs. Wiurchowski and her husband were on their way home late Sunday night when a man rushed from the bushes and killed Wiurchowski instantly. Mrs, Wiurchowski told the police that it was a robber that committed the crime. Since the commission of the murder Mrs. Wiurchowski and Janaski have been under arrest. The other night two of the city detectives went through the crime in mimic as nearly as possible from Mrs. Wiurchowski’s description. One detective acted as escort for Mrs. Wiurchowski, while the other rushed at them from die bushes. When the revolver was pointed at the detective’s he'ad the woman went into hysterics and cried out: “My God! it’s Charles Janaski.” The confession was verified later and written out FOUND IN FATHER’S BARN. ■" - ’ ’• Chatham, N. J.. Divinity Student Discovered In the Hayloft Reading. Wilberforce Ogden, the young divinity student who disappeared from the home of his father, William Ogden, at Chatham, N. J., on Aug. 4, and for whom a persistent search has been made ever since, was found in the loft of his father’s barn, where he was comfortably ensconced in the hay and engaged in reading, a. book. Young Ogden returned some months ago from the Vermont Theological Seminary, his health having become impaired by hard study. When found he told his father that he had been hiding in the barn ever since his disappearance and that he had lived on food which he obtained in nightly visdts to his home. He appeared to be in good physical health, but his mind is still affected.

FARMERS 1N550,000,000 COMBINE. Co-operative Company Formed to Secure Better Prices. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Secretary of State at Pierre, S. D., by the Farmers’ National Co-opera-tive Exchange Company, with a capital of $50,000,000. The principal object of the corporation is to enable farmers •to secure better prices for their produce, and sell grain, live stock and all kinds of produce on commission and otherwise. A chain of grain elevators, warehouses, cold storage plants and stockyards will be built. TRAGEDIES AT "BLIND PIG.” Proprietor Shoots Customer and la Killed by Deputy Sheriff. At Edmore, N. D., Carl Okelson, with three other men from Walsh County, went to a “blind pig’* run by Frank Pelke. When Pelke opened the door he shot Okelson in the face. When Deputy Sheriff George Hanson and Constable John Johnson, with a warrant, went to arrest Pelke the latter drew a revolver, but Hanson w-.«.'tdo quick and snoi'rilm iju*<ne left side. Pelke died an hour later. Okelson is not expected to live. Harvester Firms in Giant Trust. Most of the large harvester manufacturing concerns of the country have been united as the International Harvester Company, with a capital of $120,000,000. Incorporation papers were filed at Trenton, N. J. It is understood that among others interested is the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company of Chicago. Sheriff Shot by Chicken Thieves. Sheriff W. C. Barnhill of Henry County, Ohio, was shot and probably mortally wounded by chicken thieves. He was summoned to the southern part of the county, where some farmers had three thieves with wagons located. When Barnhill and two deputies attempted to arrest them they showed fight. Minister Kills Himself. Rev. Dr. M. M. Sweeney, pastor of the Bellevue Methodist Episcopal Church, Bellevue, Pa., committed suicide at his residence by cutting his wrists. He bled to death before his condition was discovered. Dr. Sweeney suffered a stroke of apoplexy two weeks ago and it is thought was temporarily deranged. Weds at Age of 84.

James Moonan of St. Louis, aged 84 years, not only outwitted his two score descendants in his elopement with a woman herself a grandmother, but landed in jail as well. She is Mrs. Josephine Marti. * r Big Cattle House Falla. The Riverside Ranch Company of Ashland, Neb., owned by George E. Ricker & Co., suspended payment. The company is the largest breeder of thoroughbred Hereford cattle in this country, selling mostly in car loads. War on Dirty Money in Cleveland. Health Officer Friederich has begun a war against the use of dirty money In Cleveland. He says there is more dirty money afloat in Cleveland than in any other city oatside of New York or Chicago. . ' Bethie he m Steel Company Sold. The Bethlehem Steel Company, for which Charles M. Schwab paid $7,500,000, has been sold to the United States Shipbuilding Company at a figure stated to be $26,000,000.

NO WHITE MEN ON MINDANAO. C. G. Stone,-Who Studied the Island Races, Telle What He Found. A story disputing the existence of a race of white men on Mindanao island was told in San Francisco by C. G. Stone, who was recently a member of the army engineering corps in the Orient and who returned- recently. Stone was commissioned by Capt. Baldwin to make a tour of the island with the purpose, in part, of ascertaining the truth of the reports that a race of people distinct from the typical Moros inhabited the interior portions of Mindanao. Stone acquired the dialects of several tribes and was afforded unusual opportunities for investigation. He declares that the statements made as to the existence of native white men on the island are not founded on fact. He met many persons whose facial characteristics denoted Caucasian ancestry, particularly in the matter of complexion when contrasted with the Moro skin, but his inquiries led to the development that these lighter-hued people were descended from Castilians who had long ago settled on Mindanao and had married native women. LOVE CONQUERS FUTURE KING. Kaiser’s Son Threatens to Renounce Throne for American. Another victory for the all-conquering American girl! No less a person than the heir to the German Empire has been added to her string of royal lovers, for Prince Frederick William, eldest son of the Kaiser, is said to be willing to give up his right to the imperial throne for the sake of marrying Miss Gladys Deacon. Miss Deacon is the daughter of the late Edward Parker Deacon, who figured in a famous divorce suit in Paris a few years ago. She has refused to consent to a morganatic marriage with the joung prince, declaring that both a legal and religious ceremony would be necessary if the prince wishes to marry her. The prince certainly does, and has presented her with a ring which he had sworn to give only to his future wife. This action has led to a violent quarrel between the Emperor and his son, who declared that he would even renounce his rank for the sake of marrying the beautiful American. Prince Frederick William is 20 years old and is still a student at the University of Bonn.

PLOT TO BLOW UP PAUPERS. Dynamite Found in Inmate’s Room in Adams Infirmary. A plot to destroy the Adams County infirmary and kill the forty-four inmates was unearthed at Decatur, Ind. A. W. Butler, secretary of the State board of charities, was making an inspection of. tho buildings. In the room of Charles Echerman he found a pile of rubbish, which he ordered removed. Buried beneath the rubbish sixty pounds of dynamite, two fwn-pnnpd dypomite bombs and 115 feet of fuse were found. Echerman has been an inmate of the infirmary over twelve years. He was reprimanded recently and since that time has been sulky. When the discovery of the dynamite' was made he disappeared and no trace of him can be found. It is known thaf he has a dynamite bomb with him. One Pugilist Kills Another. Roy Streeter, a colored lightweight pugilist of some note, was shot and instantly killed on the street at Custer City, S. D., by another pugilist, John Gorman, better known as “Kid Hogan.” The men met and renewed a former quarrel, and Gorman emptied the contents of a shotgun into Streeter’s body. Gorman., ’isiniier - •""'J' ~~ Chain Mail Saves Life. Polish papers report that Prince Obolensky, Governor of Kharkov, Russia, who was shot at and wounded at Kharkov, received some time ago a formal sentence of death from the central revolutionary committee and since that time the prince has worn a waistcoat of chain armor, which saved his life. Skaguay Shaken by a Quake. A severe earthquake was felt at Skaguay, Alaska. The first shock was fifty seconds long. Several large plate glass windows were broken and chimneys in the northern part of the city tumbled down. The water in Lynn canal rose five feet very suddenly, then subsided as quickly. New York as Financial Center. Application to New York Stock Exchange to list imperial Russian rentes has been made through J. P. Morgan & Co., and is taken in Wall street as another step in recognition of city as financial center of the world. Charles Holada Makes Confession. At lowa City, lowa, Charles Holada has made a confession in which he states that James Gaullagher was murdered by Mrs. Gaullagher with bis complicity and that the crime was committed because he and Mrs. Gaullagher were in love.

Chosen Supreme Chancellor. Tracey R. Bangs of Grand Forks, N. D.. for the past two years supreme vicechancellor of the Knights of Pythias, has been exalted to the supreme chancellorship by the unanimous vote of the supreme lodge. ■, Youth Confesses Murder. Levi Perham, aged 19, at inquest over body of Marcus Rogen at Bennington, Vt., confessed that, assisted by Rogers' wife, he bound her husband, chloroformed him and threw the helpless man into the Wallgomsuc river. Finish Perilous Voyage. Capt. Newman and son Edward arrived at Falmouth, England, in thirty-eight foot kerosene launch, after perilous veyage across Atlantic. Extra Session in November. Advice* received in Washington indicate that President Roosevelt will call the-Benate in extraordinary session early in November. : . „

ANDREWS IS GUILTY.

DETROIT BANK WRECKER IS CONVICTED. He Got Away with $1,576,000 Money Believed to Have Been Lost in Stock * Speculation Plunges—The History of a Sensational Case. Frank C. Andrews, former "Vice-presi-dent of the Detroit City Savings Bank, has been convicted of looting that institution of $1,576,000, wrecking the bank and sweeping away the savings of hundreds of persons iu moderate or poor circumstances. When the verdict was announced Andrew's became deadly pole. “It’s a ter-" ror,” he gasped. “It is unjust. I never intended at defraud or cheat anyone. God knows it.” The trial had been in progress four weeks. Recorder Murphy gave the case to the jury at noon and a verdict was reached at 1:15, but was not brought in until 2 o’clock. Only two ballots w’ere taken. The first stood ten for conviction and two for acquittal, but the latter two soon joined the majority. Attorney Kirchner, representing the defendant, immediately moved for a stay in pronouncing sentence, announcing that an appeal W'ould be taken. Recorder Murphy granted a stay of sixty days to permit the taking of an appeal. Lived in Fine Style. , A few months before the crash came which swept away his fortune and left him in a felon’s cell, Andrews was one of the richest and most prosperous men in Detroit. He lived in magnificent style in a house on Woodward avenue, which cost him $100,000; he was police commissioner, he owned stock in half a dozen banks, in several electric railroads and in numerous valuable properties, was the vicepresident of the City Savings Bank, controlled a leading newspaper and was the treasurer of three trolley lines. Within six months he liad lost every farthing of his wealth, and to feed his passion for speculation had robbed others of very nearly $2,000,000. Rise Was Sudden. Andrews’ career is an illustration of the proverb concerning the beggar on horseback. He was born about thirty years ago in the little town of Romero, Mich., and until 1890 his ambition had not enabled him to rise above a clerkship in a country store. In 1890 he went to Detroit with $5 in his pocket and secured a job as a clerk in a real estate firm. His push, his tireless energy and bis inordinate love for work won him quick promotion, and at the end of his first year of service he" had $3,000 in bank. Then he went hojpe, married his sweetheart and returned to Detroit to begin “real work.” At the end of the two years Andrews had cleared $25,000 and was still winning. He was placed at the head of the loan department of the real estate firm and began his third year hi Detroit as a full partner in the house. In 1895 the rising young capitalist and financier first felt the fever of speculation which was ultimately to prove his ruin. Thus far he had wisely invested his savings in bank stock, and was now a power in the financial world of Detroit. His fortune waxed larger and larger, until in 1900 he had acquired so much of the stock of the City Savings Bank that he succeeded in getting himself elected vice-president. The president—of the bank was Frank C. Pingree, a brother of the late Hazen Pingree, but the actual management of the institution was largely in the hands of the daring young financier from Romero. - X - Methods Were Open. Andrews had by this time proved .himself a successful speculator, and he was open in his advocacy of that methodof getting rich. He speculated freely, bet. on stocks with the coolness of a veteran, and, as was generally believed, won some millions in his But the day on w hich he was drawn into the betting on Amalgamated Copper stock was the beginning of his downfall. r TK-Wlrei •piiri'G by degrees he added property after property to the burning pile. His railroad stocks went, then his real estate, then his home, then his stock in the banks of other cities, and finally he saw ruin staring him in the face. Looted the Funds. One day in January last President Pingree took a little trip to New York to be gone a week or so. The first day that Andrews was left alone he overdrew his account at the bank for $1,000,000 ami cashed worthless cheeks for $600,000 more. Then came the explosion, but the buoyant young financier did not seem to care. He was cheerful In his prison cell, and did not worry about the mean things said of him in the papers. Although he had many friends before his fall, it was only with the greatest difficulty that he secured bondsmen for the SIO,OOO at which his bail was fixed.

NO MORE TRAIN COLLISIONS.

A South Dakota Clergyman’s Device Makes Them Impossible. Railroad collisions will become a thing of the past if a new invention of Rev. Kurtmauu Mueller, pastor of the German Lutheran Church at Hartford, 8. D., comes into universal use. By it twotrains cannot, it is alleged, get within 2,000 feet of each other on a single track. When the trains reach a point where they are 8,000 fbet apart a danger signal in the form of an electric globe is lighted in the engine cab directly in front of each engineer. If the engineer for any reason fails to stop his train the engine will automatically stop itself. The train moves 2,000 feet after the danger signal is first displayed, and then the device automatically blows the whistle as a warning and stops the train. __ The keel of the battleship Nebraska was laid in Moran Bros.’ Company’s shipyard at Seattle, Wash., in the presence of an enormous crowd. Gov. Savage of Nebraska and Gov. Henry Mcßride of Washington drove the first rivet. ———- James Brady, formerly a wealthy merchant of St. Joseph, Mo., died at the county farm, at the age of 85. He had been In St. Joseph fifty years and was well connected. Helena, Mont., Independent has been bought by Senator Clark.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

” ’ “Bright prospects in ag1611. rieuhural sections far out-' - weight the adverse Influence of labor disputes which are still retarding trade and manufacture. Confidence in the future is unshaken, dealers everywhere preparing for a heavy fall trade, while contracts for distant deliveries run further into next year than is usual at this date. Activity has been noteworthy in lumber regions, and fish packiag made new records. Railway earnings are fully sustained, the latest returns showing an average advance of 3.9 per cent over the corresponding time last year, and 21.8 per cent over 1900.” R. G. Dun & Co.’a Weekly Review of Trade makes the foregoing summary of the trade outlook. Continuing, the Review says: “Aside from the fuel scarcity and some congestion of traffic, the iron and stdtl situation continues propitious. Coke ovens in the Connellsville region maintain a weekly output of about 250,000 tons and find ready buyers at full prices. Much more could be used to advantage. Conditions are indicated by the number of orders going out of the country which domestic producers cannot undertake. Thus far the imports have had little influence on domestic prices, except as to billets, which are freely offered below the home market level. New contracts for pig iron were placed this week covering deliveries in the second quarter of 1903, and structural material is desired for bridges and buildings that will not be received until even more remote dates. “Splendid growing and harvesting conditions have prevailed in most sections of the country, especially where the larger and more important crops are raised. It is now almost certain that the agricultural returns will be far above the average as to quantity, while the low stocks at the opening of the season are calculated to sustain prices, and there is prospect of a return to the low quotations of preceding years of bumper production.

~ ’ The week was marked by CwCdQO. a gain in all wes tefn railI road traffic and an increase in the volume of west-bound tonnage. This means the beginning of the period of active buying that has been predicted ever since it became evident that this would be a good crop year. In the Northwest the harvest is practically made, and conservativeness and hesitation through fear of possible eleventh-hour calamity are giving way to confidence and a desire for further business expansion. The West has begun buying heavily and is ’ taking a full share of luxuries. The unusually large proportion of high-class freight carried, with its wide distribution, is highly gratifying to western railroad management. This western prosperity has been the keynote in everything of comment upon the general business in the country at large. Some 300 locomotives were added to the equipment of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Soo roads during the year. The facilities for handling tbie Northwestern cr,ops are materially increased over last year, yet even with this there is more concern lest the roads be unable to handle everything with promptness nsually demanded by shippers. There will certainly be more tonnage this year than ever before and there is the opportunity for railroad earnings in the Northwest surpassing every previous record by far. The grain trade ia waiting for an estimate of the Northwestern wheat yield. Wheat prices, meanwhile, have been on sharp decline under influence of the favorable crop news. Looking over the whole field, everything in sight at present seems bearish. Statistically there are some things favorable to wheat and while they are naturally ignored at this time, they may be important later. For one thing, the world’s visible supply of whejL\ 'ipff stjypjg 47,376,000 Xushels. A year ago at this time*iV was 71,920,000,000 bushels; two years ago 89,888,000 bushels, and three years ego, 90,192,000 bushels.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.75; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $7.10; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2,55 cto 56c; oats, No. 2,32 c to 40c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c; hay, tin*, othy, $ll.OO to $17.00; prairie, $6.00 to $9.50; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potatoes, new, 40c to 60c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $8.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.15; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,64 cto 65c; corn, No. 2 white, 60c to 61c; oats, No. 2 white, new, 28c to 29c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $8.00; hogs, $3.00 to $7.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,63 cto 64c; corn, No. 2, 52c to 53c; oats, No, 2,26 cto 27c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c. Cincinnati —Cattig, $4.50 to $7.50; hogs, $4.00 to $7.10; sheep, $3.25 to $3.85; wheat. No. 2, 682 to 69c; oom. No. 2 mixed, 58c to 59c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.35; hogs, $3.00 to $7.10; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,69 c 70c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 66c to 67c; oats, No. 2 white, new, 35c to 86c; rye, 51c to 52c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 73c to 74c; com, No. 3,60 cto 61c; oats. No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; rye, No. 1,49 c to 51c; barley, No. 2,70 cto 74c; pork, mess, $15.97. • Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 60c to 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 59c to 60c; oats,No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; clover seed, prime, $5.17. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $7.10; hogs, $3.00 to $7.15; sheep, $4.00 to $4.10; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75e; corn, No. 2, 62c to 63c; oats, No. 2 white, 62c to 63c; butter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, western, 18c to 20c. y ****»— ■■■<*. Buffalo—Cattle, choicVßN MAJriB, $4.00 to $8.25; hogs, faS um» to $7.30; sheep, fair t«4 $4.25; lambs, common t/ 1 $6.2& [