Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1902 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. •~ - ♦

SLAIN IN BOXER WAR.

DETAILS OF RECENT OUTBREAK IN CHINA. Many Killed in Battle and Other. Taken to Cbangtu and Decapitated— Geological Survey Finds New River - and Lake*in Canada. Mail advices received from the Orient Include official reports from Kwei Chun, ex-viceroy of Sze Chuan, detailing the recent Boxer outbreak there. After relating the incidents leading up to the destruction of the churches in the two districts and the murder of many native converts, the report says: “Several regiments of troops were sent to the disturbed places and besides slaying 200 or 300 of the insurgents the troops succeeded in capturing several, • who were brought to Ghangtu and decapitated. Between 5,000 and 6.000 Boxers had assembled in Hwayong Hsien, Chintang Hsion, and Chein Tow, where they occupied the market towns and killed as many captains of the train hands as they could get hold of. A small force was *ent to the Boxers to exhort them to disperse. I did not take stringent measures on this Occasion, because I feared that among the Boxers there might be many famine stricken inhabitants who were not disposed to do evil, but were simply misled by the Boxers. A fight followed and 200 . Boxers were killed and the others driven back. The force sent was obliged to return.” Concluding, the report says although there still exists elements of disorder, there is not much to be feared from the Boxers, because all the rebel chiefs have been exterminated. SHOOTS OFFICER! KILLS SELF. Forrest, Ohio, Plasterer Commits Suicide to Escape Arrest. At Forest, Ohio, Janies Young, a plasterer, shot and badly wounded a policeman who sought to arrest him, and then, committed suicide by blowing out his brains. Young became intoxicated for the first time in fifteen years, and when he discovered that he was going to be arrested for beating his wife and breaking the furniture, hid himself in a room upstairs and shot John Hannchey, a policeman, as he was nearing the house. The policeman’s face was terribly lacerated and disfigured for life. The shooting caused a gathering of armed and excited citizens at the Young home. An attempt was made to arrest Young, but he committed suicide before the officers could reach him. EXPLORER FINDS NEW RIVER. Large Stream in Canada I. Discovered by Member of Geological Survey. W. J. Wilson, an explorer of the Canadian geological survey, has returned with his party from a tour through the unexplored country to the southwest of James bay. Mr. Wilson reports the discovery of a large river, hitherto unsurveyed, and running between the Albany- river on the south and the Ottawapicket river on the north. The newly ißscovered river has a course of over 300 miles, and near James - bay divides into two branches, emptying into Hudson bay. Several new lakesalso were discovered by the exploring party. Daring Hold-Up in St. Louis. Three masked men with drawn 10volvers entered a saloon in North St. Louis and attempted to hold up the occupants. During the scrimmage that ensued Richard Garrett, an insurance agent, who was sitting at a table, was shot in the stomach and will probably die. The noise frightened the robbers, who ran without securing any booty.

Acquire Portucaese Colonies. The secret clause of the Anglo-German treaty relates to the acquisition of the Portuguese colonies in Africa. By this clause Germany will acquire the northern part of the Portuguese possessions as far as Beira, while Britain will take over the remainder, as well as Delagoa Bay and Lorenzo Marques. Thieves Get SB,OOO in Jewels. Emanuel Jacobus, a lawyer of New York City, reported to the police that his residence in Madison avenue was entered by thieves while the family was at din•ner and that SB,OOO worth of jewelry and a quantity of valuable clothing was stolen. Railroads Fear Car Famine. The railroads of the country face a ear famine of grave proportions, threatening seriously to interfere with enormous' business now being transacted. Large equipment orders have been placed, but manufacturers are unable to meet demand for cars and locomotives. What Rural Delivery Costs. The annual gross cost of a complete rural free delivery service throughout the United States will approximate $24,000.000, according to the annual report of First Assistant Postmaster General Wynne. Murderer Sentenced to Gallows. At Pierce, Neb., Judge Boyd overruled the motion for a new trial in behalf of Gottlieb Niagenfiud and sentenced him to hanged March 13. Niegentind murdered his wife and father-in-law. Russian Czar Is Melancholy. According to information received nt the Danish court. Emperor' Nicholas of Russia is greatly depressed in mind and is melancholy. Reciprocity with Newfoundland. The Bond-Hay./ treaty, providing for reciprocity between United States and .Newfoundland, has been signed. £■ j''. ■ sin—.m ~1,, I.UII - Gen. Corbin's Recommendations. Marriage of young United States army officers is opposed by Adjt. Gen. Corbin in his annual report; pay declared insufficient and family cares detrimental to service; restoration of canteen is urged to stop desertions. Phonograph at the Funeral. Rev. Samuel Pearson, pastor of the First Congregational Church of I*avenworth, Kan., used a phonograph to supply the music at the funeral of Daniel P. Williams, an old resident, and calls the experiment a puccesa. - - ,

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

HIS NAME AMONG THE DEAD. Soldier Reported Killed in Rattle Returns to His Sister’s Home; When Mrs. Katherine Follard, -*>f Jamestown, N. Y., opened the dOor of her home the other afternoon in response to a gentle knock and beheld a silverhaired gentleman standing there who announced himself as her brother the lady drew back' as though she had seen a ghost. She recognized the caller as one who for many years had supposedly been dead. Now this brother, F. A. Smith, of Aberdeen, Kan,, and Mrs. Follard are enjoying each other's society after a separation of forty-five years. Smith went to the front with the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers in the war. As a sergeant he fell supposedly mortally wounded at Newmarket, Va., and with other prisoners was removed to the Andersonville prison, where he languished for about nine months. He was reported among the dead to the War Department and official information of Smith’s fate was forwarded to his relatives, who afterward changed their location. When liberated Smith, unable to find his relatives. went to Kansas. At the last G. A. R. reunion he learned where his sister lived. MURDER AND BURN FATHER. Three Boys in Nebraska Take Revenge for Alleged Cruelty. Gerhard Borchers, a farmer who lived several miles northeast of Humphreys, Neb., has been killed by his son Herman, aged 14 years, who used a shotgun, ■which he had purchased for that purpose. Then, with the help of his two brothers, August, aged 10 years, and John, aged 8 years, Herman dragged the body of his father to a straw stack and set fire to it. The three children were taken into custody. Each of the children practically told the same story, the only variance being in the degree of culpability in the killing accorded each. Herman, who is said to have fired the gun that killed his father, implicates his younger brothers equally with himself, whife they put the blame on him. The only motive for the crime given is that the father, with whom the children had lived alone since their mother’s death, had not treated them kindly. Neighbors of Borchers say they know of no cruelty on the part of the former. >■ BATTLE WITH MASKED ROBBERS. Safe Blowers Secure $6,000 from State Bank at Greenwood, Wia. The State Bank of Greenwood. Wis., was entered by four masked men and SB,OOO in gold and currency fetolen. The men blew open the vault and safe with dynamite. The noise of the explosion attracted several citizens, including the cashier of the bank, who happened to be; on the street. - The citizens surrounded the building, but in spite of the trap the robbers fought their way through and escaped. A dozen shots were exchanged, but no one was hurt. The thieves escaped with a team which was in waiting, leaving, however, a bottle of nitroglycerin, a.sledge and professional burglars’ tools. The bank will resume business ns soon as.a new safe can be delivered. Depositors will not lose aught of their deposits.

Will Set American! Free. Ambassador Qlioate has reported to the Secretary of State at Washington in response to instructions in relation to the repatriation of American citizens detained by the British government as prisoners of war in Ceylon that Lord Lansdowne has informed him that it is purposed to send the prisoners in question to the United States by the first steamer. Senator's Son Found Dead. George Vest, Jr., son and private secretary of Senator Vest Of Missouri, died at the Columbia Hotel in Washington. When the clerk called at the room he found Mr. Vest dead. The immediate cause of death was convulsions, due to acute gastritis. Mr. Vest was about 42 years old. He leaves a widow and children. : —r~ Stage Coach in an Accident. The stage coach which runs between Ouray, Colo., and Red Mountain met with an accident on one of the steepest grades of the road, and together with the fourteen passengers 'fell down the mountainside 300 feet. One of the horses was killed, and the coach rolled over several times in its descent. All the passengers were hurt. Accidents in the Mines. Four fatal accidents occurred in the Wyoming region, Pennsylvania, within twenty-four hours. James Boyle was killed by a fall of coal in Conyngham mine. Joseph Mathews was killed by the falling of the roof of a mine at Sugar Notch. Two foreigners sustained broken backs by falls. War Renewed in Hayti. A troop of 1,200 Fotichardists which entered Port au Prince, Hayti, returning from the campaign against Gen. Fjymin, had a conflict with the civil authorities. There was heavy firing throughout the night. Seven persons were killed and many were wounded. The situation is grave, threatening a new civil war. Motorman and Conductor Held. Euclid Madden and James T. Kelley, motorman and conductor of the electric car which collided with President Roosevelt’s carriage Sept. 3, waived examination on a charge of manslaughter at Pittsfield. Mass., and were held to the grand jury. Killed by Good Fortnne. With a fortune of $160,000 to be turned over to him, John H. Heaton, of Havre De Grace, Md., died suddenly, following a stroke of paralysis, believed to have beetucaused by excitement relative to receipt of the good news. Review Statehood Claims. Senator Beveridge of Indiana has gone to Washington to confer with IL B. Nixon, financial clerk of the Senate, and

hrrange for a tour through New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma proposed for a subcommittee of the Senate committee on territories. The trip of the subcommittee is preparatory to the consideration by the committee of the application of r hese three territories for admission to statehood. MINING KING SENT TO JAIL. '.-/f Letsou Ballett, Convicted of Fraud, Is Sentenced in lowa. Judge Munger of the United States. District Court at Des Moines refused to grant Letson Balliett, known as lhe “mining king,” a new trial and sentenced him to pay a fine of SI,OOO and to spend a year in the county jail. Balliett was convicted this spring of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. In 1000 he poF 7 chased what is known as the White Swan mine, at Baker, Oregon, which had been deserted by the owners, and began to exploit it through advertisements, selling stock on the monthly payment plan. It was shown at the trial that more than SIBO,OOO was received by Balliett from small investors all over the Unjted States. It was also shown that not a dollar was expended upon the mine, although representations were made to the contrary in the advertising matter. Balliett gave notice of an appeal. The case has been tried twice and has cost the government $50,000. INDIANA POSTOFFICES ROBBED.

Burglars Dynamite Safes and Get Away with Stamps and Cash. The safe in the postoffice at Cloverland, Ind., was blown open the other night by five masked men and the contents, consisting of several hundred dollars in stamps and cash, carried away. Robert Tabbert. who was passing the store in which the. postoffice was located, was captured by the robbers and tied to a chair, where they left him when they finished their work. There is no clew. Burglars blew the postoffice safe at Culver, Ind., and got away with SI,OOO worth of stamps. There were-three explosions of dynamite and the safe door was blown through the side of the building. The robbers escaped. FORM BICYCLE TIRE TRUST. Directors of Chicago and Indianapolis Concerns Elect Fame President. An informal combination of the Hartford Rubber Works, the Indianapolis Rubber Works Company and the Morgan & Wright Company has been effected. Lewis D. Parker, president of the Hartford Rubber Company, of Hartford, Conn., has been elected president of the Indianapolis concern and of tfie Morgan & Wright company, their former presidents having resigned. The three corporations will retain their individuality, but all will be operated on a community of interest basis under President Parker's supervision. ESTIMATE FOR BOER COLONIES.

Additional Grant of $40,000,000 May Be Allowed for the Year. A civil service estimate has been issued in London placing the additional amount required as a grant to aid the Transvaal and Orange River Colony during the present financial year at $40,000,000. The sum of $15,000,000 is to be devoted to grants to burghers, $10,000,000 to British sufferers by the war, and $15,000,000 is to be used for loans promised by the 'terms of surrender to aid in resettlin gthe colonies.

Higher Wages for Carmen. Thirty-five hundred trainmen in the employ of tile “Union Traction and consolidated lines in Chicago receive an increase in wages of over 10 per cent dating back to Sept. 15, according to the findings of the board of arbitration, which made its report, after having had the demands of the street car men under consideration for nearly two months. Republicans and Democrats Win. In the general election on Tuesday Republicans carried Illinois, Indiana. lowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania. South Dakota, Wisconsin. Rhode Island, Delaware and Oregon went Democratic by small majorities. Big Iron Furnace Explodes. The big ir6n furnace of the River Furnace and Dock Company in Cleveland, blew up with terrific force. Although fully 125 men were at work near the furnace no one was seriously injured. A number, however, sustained severe bruises and cuts. Commander Takes Up Dnties. Commander Thomas J. Stewast, the recently elected chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, has announced that he has formally taken up the duties of his new office, and has issued his inaugural address to the old soldiers. Freight Agent Kills Himself. John B. Barrett, local freight agent of the Detroit Southern Railroad, committed suicide at Springfield, Ohio, by shooting himself twice in the right temple. The deed was committed in the Elks’ lodgeroom. Steals Engine for a Ride. A tramp, stole a locomotive from the Rock Island yhrd at Albert Lea, Minn., nnd went north at express speed. A pursuing party went after the fugitive and five miles out found the engine. The man who stole it had disappeared. Mitchell Presents His Case. President Mitchell has filed with the strike arbitration commission statement of miners, giving arguments why demands for advanced wages, shorter hours and recognition of union should be granted. _ Official May Hit* Perished. Superintendent Egan of the Great Northern is lost in the Montana mountains. Severe storms have been prevailing. and it to feared he may hare perished.

HAZING PRANK PROVES FATAL. Student Is Dropped Fifty but Pool of Water Breaks Fall. Though every member of the faculty denies positively that such was the case, an attempt to haze astudent of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville resulted in an accident which nothing but a miracle prevented from being niore serious. J. L. Willford, of Memphis, was the victim of the prank, and unless he was internally injured, as feared, he will recover. A party of hazers seized him, but he escaped and fled to his quarters in Humes Hall. There the door he had locked was broken down' and he was seized and dropped out of a third-story window. A pool of water was all that broke his fall, a distance of fifty feet, and even then his shoulder was dislocated. His comrades, who regarded him highly, realized what they had done almost instantly, and have since done everything they could to atone for the trick. The utmost secrecy has been preserved, and local papers print stories to the effect .that it was altogether accidental. LAND OFFICE MAKES REPORT. Commissioner gays 10,488,535 Acres Have Been Disposed of During Year* The annual report of the commissioner of the general land office shows that the public land disposed of by the government during the year aggregated 19,488,535 acres, an increase of 3,925,736 acres over the previous year. Of the aggregate, 1,757,793 acres were sold for cash, 17,614,792 acres were embraced in miscellaneous entries, and the remainder were Indian lands. The commissioner makes many feeommendations and advises legislation giving the president general authority to set apart as national parks public laud tracts having scientific or historic interest or containing springs of medicinal properties. A little over 5,000,000 acres of land were certified and patented to railways during the year under the land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads. During the season the interior department allowed 1,197,000 sheep and 459,137 head of cattle and horses to graze in reservations. UPHOLDS THE ANTI-TRUST LAW. Nebraska Supreme Court Declares the State Statute Constitutional. The Nebraska Supreme Court has given a decision sustaining the constitutionality of the State anti-trust law, which had been attacked by the Nebraska Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association, as defendant in a suit for damages for forcing a retail dealer out of business. The law exempts laboring men. The court holds the association to be •.inlawful, but dismisses the suit as to the association, because it is not incorporated. The members of the association are held liable for damages' resulting from their acts. Fruit Ship Rams Schooner. The United Fruit Coinpany’s steamer Admiral Sampson reports that she collided with the three-masted schooner Charley Bucki, bound from Eddyville, N. Y., for Boston, about ten miles off the Cape Cod lightship. The schooner was sunk and Captain Freeman Huntley of Jonesport, Me., Ulmer Huntley, the mate, and two seamen of the Bucki were drowned. Six Hundred Workers Quit. Six hundred men and women employed at the Morgan & Wright factory of the rubber trust in Chicago have struck. The workers claim that the company is not living up to an agreement entered into with the union a few days ago, after a board of arbitration had adjusted grievances. Seven Killed by Yaquis. Persons returning to Arizona from San Marcial, Sonora, bring reports of a crime by Yaqui Indians. On the way to San Marcial, in company with half a dozen Mexicans, J. E. Sullivan, superintendent of a mine at La Meza, was attacked and the entire party was murdered. Wireless Dispatch Over Ocean. Signor Marconi, in Nova Scotin, has received a brief dispatch from his station at Poldhu, Cornwall, which was entirely distinct. This is the first full message which has ever been received, the previous work having been devoted to the transmission of a signal, the letter “S.” Premature Explosion Injures Fifty. By a premature explosion of fireworks in Madison Square, New York, ten persons were killed and nearly fifty seriously injured. The explosion took place among the fireworks that were to be set off to celebrate the announcement of ’he election returns. Two Die in Car Accident. A heavy trolley car on the Broadway line in Kansas City jumped the track at Fifth and Broadway and crashed into a saloon. Two passengers, a woman and a negro, were killed, and «ix others were injured. Reject Gift by Carnegie. The question of accepting #5165,000 from Andrew Carnegie for the erection of a library building in Albany, N. Y„ was put to a popular vote and defeated by an overwhelming majority. Prominent Man Under Arrest. Alan Gregory Mason, son of the founder of the firm of Mason & Hamlin and member of a leading Boston family, has been arrested, charged with “Jack the Slugger” crimes. Fatal Ftornu on Nome Coast. At least eight men were drowned, three vessels driven ashore and practically every lighter on the Nome beach wa. wrecked in a storm. i Industrial Activity Continues. Weekly trade reviews show continued activity in business, slow freight movement because of car shortage being only ' drawback. ■4F • ••*

MESSAGE FORECAST.

THE PRESIDENT’S PROBABLE RECOMMENDATIONS. Roosevelt’s State Paper Probably Will Ask Restriction of Trusts, Appointment of Permanent Tariff Commission and Arrangement of Reciprocity. President Roosevelt has his annual message to Congress far advanced toward completion. Although the contents of President Roosevelt’s message will be* kept secret until it is forwarded to Congress, enough is known as tp the way in which some of its topics will be treated to enable a forecast of these features to be made. That there has been no change in the attitude of the administration on Cuban reciprocity will be made apparent, but whether the message will urge legislation or will promise the transmission of a Cuban reciprocity treaty to the Senate probably will depend upon the progress that may be made in the next two weeks toward the negotiation of a reciprocity treaty. Probable Action on Trusts, Interest in the forthcoming message is largely centered in what the President may have to say on the subject of trust regulation. The President will urge Congress to consider this subject carefully, with the view to the enactment of legislation which will regulate the trusts without endangering the industries in which they are engaged. He has already indicated that he will favor a constitutional amendment, if such an amendment is necessary, to enable Congress to act effectively. He has been advised, however, by such a capable lawyer as Attorney General Knox that the necessary power already exists, and he will recommend legislation along the lines of the Attorney General’s 'Pittsburg speech. The message probably will refer to the strike in the anthracite mines and to the progress being made toward an adjustment of the difficulties between the mine workers and the mine owners. > There will be nothing in the message savoring of the abandonment of the principles of protection, but this wilLimt prevent him from recommending the reduction, by direct enactment or by reciprocal agreements with foreign nations, es rates of duty which may no longer be needed for purposes of protection. It. has been announced by a member of the cabinet that the message will favor such reductions, and that it will also urge the creation of a permanent commission which can at all times give expert consideration to the needs of the government and of the varying interests, thus enabling it to make recommendations to Congress which will save the committees charged with the preparation of revenue laws a great deal of labor and insure a more, intelligent framing of such laws.

Views on Currency Reform. Closely allied to the question of revenue is the subject of currency and banking reforffi. Secretary Shaw is heartily in faVor of the establishment of a system of asset banking which would give greater flexibility to the national bank currency of the country, and would enable the banks themselves to tide over many periods of monetary stringency, in which they must now appeal to the treasury for help. If the President does not specifically recommend such legislation in his message he probably will call the attention of Congress to the recommendations of the Secretary of the Treasury. \ The message will indorse the recommendations which Secretary Moody will make in his aiinual report for tlie~ increase and improvement of the navy. One of the questions which may not be finally disposed of by. the President until just before his message is .sent to the printers is the reference which he will Thake to the Panama canal. As a result of the report of Attorney General Knox, he will be able to inform Congress that the United States can acquire an undoubted title to the property of the French Panama canal company, and, if the negotiations with the Colombian government had advanced as rapidly as had been hoped, he would be able to announce that the way was clear for the beginning of construction work at once. The Colombian negotiations have dragged along in such an unsatisfactory manner, however, that it is doubtful if he will be able to tell Congress that a treaty has been negotiated complying with the terms of the Panama canal act.

CUT CANCER FROM HIS TONGUE.

Rather than Go on the Snrgeon’a Table -» He Operated on Himself. The friends of Andrew Murray, a vellknowu Brooklyn veterinary surgeon, are anxiously awaiting the outcome of a remarkable experiment and exhibition of nerve on his part. He is a tall, strong man of 50 years whose health has been uniformly good uptil very recently. A few months ago a back tooth began to ache and he had it pulled. Shortly afterward his tongue and neck became affected. He was a heavy smoker, so he stoppl’d using-tobacco, but the growth in his mouth increased, until he could scarcely eat. Meantime the glands in his neck swelled ominously. Mr. Murray consulted a specialist and was 'advised that he had cancer in pronounced form. Mr. Murray was told that he must submit to an operation or succumb within eight months. Rather than take his chances on the operating table, under ether, Murray resolved to operate on himself. With a veterinary surgeon’s knife in hand he stood up before a mirror and, pulling out his tongue, cut into the underpart and side of it, where the growth protruded.. His tongue shows the marks of the keen knife, and the growth seems removed. Mr. Murray declares that he never felt better tn his life. Whether or not the cancerous growth is entirely removed or whether it will agrfin appear so<>u in more virulent form is the question upon which surgical opinion is divided. Mrs. Alexander Small, sister of United States Senator Shelby ,M. Cullom, died at her home in Chicago. She was 74 years old. * A statement just published by a British journal says that the national debt of Great Britain is $4,000,000,000. It has Increased $500,000,000 In the last three rears.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

fZ ~ ~l ‘‘Complaints are increasnfil lOtt. * n K as t 0 tbe tardy move* W——-——' naent of freight* miles of cars being stalled by the lack of motive power, and many roads refuse to accept further shipments until the blockades are' relieved. Lower temperature has stimulated retail sales of seasonable merchandize, but frost comes too late to seriously injure agricultural products. Liberal consumption sustains Quotations In most lines; domestic demands being supplemented by large exports.” The foregoing is from the Weekly Trade Review of EL G. Dun & Co. It continues: Operating expenses of the railways 'have increased in many cases to such a degree that net earnings are somewhat curtailed, but gross earnings for October thus far exceed last year’s by 4.7 per cent and those of 1900 by 13.5 per cent. Undue significance is attached to the announcement .that the Frick Company will not advance next year’s price for coke above $3. Although this is in line with other conservative efforts of leading interests to prevent inflated prices, the probable influence on the outside market will not be great, as the bulk of output ■will go to the various plants of the United States Steel Corporation. Meanwhile sales are being made at sl6 in extreme cases, and the scsircity has closed more blast furnaces. The future course of the iron and steel industry will be largely influenced' by this fuel shortage, much business being permanently lost to home producers, and prices in some departments already show the effect of disorganized conditions. Railway needs have not diminished, numerous large orders constantly appearing, while the pressure for locomotives is causing large premiums -to be ' Offered. Structural shapes for bridge and ship building are next in point of urgent demand. Agreement on the tin plate wage scale may secure a lot of business that now goes out of the country, and some reduction in prices is expected. Wire nails are also cheaper, but as a rule quotations are well maintained. Conditions at the cotton mills are healthy, a scarcity of goods being general, while there is no disposition to force transactions. It is early for supplementary buying of spring woolen goods and fall trade is finished, so that these divisions of the market are naturally quiet. Raw wool is very firm at the leading eastern markets, which are shipping freely to the mills. Bradstreet’s report giving grain figures says: Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending Oct. 30 aggregate 5,997,620 bushels, against 7,060,417 last week, 6,672,888 in this week last year and 3,612,421 in 1900. Wheat exports since July aggregate 91,428,937 bushels, against 106.728,939 last season and 63,847.564 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 153,200 ■ bushels, against 84,564 last week, 606,159 last year and 3,920,110 in 1900.

777 The Northwest would LDICdQO. welcome a turn of bright, —— cool weather. Business in the aggregate was hardly up to the mark, warm weather having covered a portion of the week, holding back retail demand in some degree. The week in its early part witnessed a rise to for December wheat, but on laterd trading a 2-cent reaction was made. This was hardly surprising in view of the almost uninterrupted rise for three weeks that carried December up from 67%c. Flour demand has not been so brisk, but the Minneapolis mills are oversold to Dec. 1, and are grinding about 1,750,000 bushels of wheat every week. Receipts there meanwhile are moderate and even with the increase of 791,103 bushels in stocks last week, and another increase of 603,624 bushels this week, there is a total of only 3,057,133 bushels in Minneapolis elevators, a remarkably low stock for the season. The transportation situation is, if anything, a little worse, the railroads having hard work to handle the freight. All over the country side tracks are filled with loaded cars, while in the Northwest the grain shippers complain that even after they get the empty cars and load them out it is often seven to twelve days before they reach their destination.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, SI.OO to $7.25; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $6.82; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats, No. 2,27 e to 28c; rye. No. 2,48 cto 49c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $13.00; prairie, $6.00 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 19c to 22c; potatoes, 35c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to 83.75; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No.-2 white, 46c to 47c; oats. No.' 2 white, 31c to 32c. ■fit. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $7.00; hogs. $3.50 to $6.65; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 69c; corn. No. 2, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2,29 cto 80c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 47c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $4.50 to $5.65; bogs, $4 00 to $6.60; sheep, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat. No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 56c to 57c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c. Detroit —Cattle, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $6.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2. 74c to 75c; com. No. 3 yellow, 64c to 65c; oats, No. 3 white, 31c to 32c; rye, 52c to 53c. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 northern. 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2,57 cto 58c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 1,50 c to 51c; barley, No. 2,59 cto 60c, pork, mess, $16.70. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; clover seed, prime, $6.65. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.25; hogs, fair to prime. s*l.oo to $6.80; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $3.75; lambs, common to choice. $4.00 to $5.20. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $0.40; hogs, $3.00 to $6.25; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 76c te 77c; corn, No. 2,64 cto 65c; oats, No. 2 white. 36c to 87c; butter, creamery, 23c to 25c; ' Mgs, western, 20e to 24c. .