Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1903 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. CEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, . - INDIANA. Ilin II

SHOWS ODD MACHINE.

AN INVENTOR THINK£ HE HAS . SOLVED PERPETUAL MOTION. .Arkansas Man’s Contrivance Exhibited at, Kansas City and Appears to Work t Satisfactorily—Employes of American Company Ordered Out on Strike. J. S. Grimes, a mechanic, who was born in Yell County, Arkansas, and can barely read and write, exhibited a perpetual motion machine in the office of the' Kansas City Journal that runs for hours with no other power than that furnished by the machine itself. The invention is simple, but it is the, result of twelve years’ work. Grimes first took a circular piece cut from a thick board and trimmed down the edge to resemble a circular switchback railway. In the center of this board he fastened a second circular board on a steel post that fitted into a ball-bearing bicycle, axle. To the top board was fastened, by means of a rod, a small wheel, which was so fixed that it would strike at each revolution of the upper board at a point near the top of the incline plane of the lower board, the lower board being slightly inclined. Grimes then placed a weight on top of the upper disk, placed the wheel at the top of the inclined plane, released it and the machine began to more and continued in motion until stopped by its inventor. The machine is started by the wheel running down the incline on one side. This takes the weight on the opposite side away from the center of gravity and it carries the machine around until the wheel strikes the Top of the incline again, when new force is imparted to the revolving upper disk. Grimes says he worked for six years before he discovered a way to force the carrier wheel over the highest point of the circular track, although the distance to overcome was less than an inch. A company is being organized to exploit the invention.

STRIKE AFFECTS 10,000 MEN. All Employes of American Bridge Company Ordered Ont. The Executive Board of the Structural Ironworkers* Union at a meeting in Philadelphia voted to order a strike of all employes of the American Bridge Company throughout the country for the enforcement of the wage scale in the Philadelphia district. By this order 5,000 men will be affected. The board further decided to order all members of the union in the country to refuse to handle any of the American Bridge Company’s product that may be used by any other construction company or contractor. This order will affect 5,000 additional workmen. Philadelphia is the only city in which the union scale is not paid by the American Bridge Company. The demands are 50 cents an hour for an eight-hour working day. League Base-Ball Race. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pi.fsburg ...C» 21 Cincinnati ...42 48 Brooklyns2 43St. L0ui5....42 51 Chicago ....50 42 Philadelphia. 37 56 Boston 46 42 New Y0rk...29 62 The clubs of the American League Stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....51 39 Cleveland ...44 49 St. L0ui5....50 39 Washington. 43 50 Bostonsl 43 Detroit 39 48 Philadelphia 45 .40 Baltimore3B 53 Chicago Murderer Hanged. Lewis G. Toombs, convicted of the foul murder of Carrie Larsen last winter, was hanged in the county jail.in Chicago. The trap was sprung at 11:29. At 11:45 the sheriff s jury of doctors pronounced " Toombs deid, and the body was cut down , and turned over to his widow for inter- ' meat. Chicago Capitalist Killed. Walter A. Scott, reputed millionaire, clubman and president of the Illinois Wire Company, was fatally stabbed by Walter L. Stebbings, a civil engineer, in his Chicago office, as the result of a quarrel over an account. Russian Influence Declining. Itussia is losing influence in Corea: defiance of latter in appointing Kato, a Japanese, as court councilor over Czar’s protest is now explained by Japauese- . British alliance. General Lucas Meyer Dead. The Brussels Petit Bleu announces the sudden death of General Lucas Meyer of heart disease. General Meyer was attacked several times with this illness during the war in South Africa. Michigan Senator Dies. United States Senator James McMillan of Michigan died suddenly of congestion of the lungs, complicated with heart failure, at his summer home at Mauchcster-by-the-Sea, Mass. Attorney General in a Row. Attorney General Knox was assaulted in a case at Atlantic City, N. „J., by Charles T. Schoen, Pittsburg millionaire, and Theodore Cramp, shipbuilder. Boats in Collision. While the schooner Bissell, in tow of the steamer Nipigon, was rounding off Detroit, she was struck by the steamer Presque Isle and badly damaged. Coronation in Westminster Abbey. Edward VII. was crowned King of the at Westminster Abbey in London. ■ Bryan Is Not a Candidate. 'William Jennings Bryan will not be a ■ candidate for President in 1904. He made a declaration to that effect at Mus.Xfttine, lowg, when shown a recent lucent Interview In Mason City, which he declared was unreliable. Government Will Control Cable. President Hoosevelt has decided on the conditions under which the Commercial Cabla Company may Uy its’ cable to China and the Philippines. As arranged the conditions practically give the government control of the cable.

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

GIRL HEADS ROBBERS' BAND. Vaudeville Actress ,la Arrested Leading a Brigand Life. Attired in a sailor’s custom of white tnd blue canvas which set off her figure to the very best advantage, Theresa McDougall, the acknowledged leader of a large band of thieves, was arrested by Deputy Talyerds, of Rochester, N. Y., and his assistants. For some weeks complaints have been coming in to the Sheriff of the depredations committed by this band of tramps in the vicinity of Chili, N. Y., but it seemed almost impossible to locate the rendezvous of the band. The other night the Sheriff got a clew which led him to an abandoned farm house on Block Creek, where he surprised the captain and her lieutenant, W. H. Smith, both of whom were taken into custody. The leader was known to her band as “Jimmie McDougall,*' and that Is the name she gave to the officers. After spending several hours in a cell she broke down and sending for the matron she confessed thatahewas a woman. After being properly clothed in garments of her sex the girl told her story. She said her maiden name was Theresa McDougall, and that she was 21 years old. She was formerly an actress on the variety stage in Cleveland, her home. Several years ago she quit the stage and married Max Denhart, a stage carpenter. The girl said her husband abused her and she, becoming tired of living that life, resolved to run away. She had no money, so adopted the dress of a man in order to rough it in her travels without exciting suspicion. She left Cleveland over ten months ago, accompanied by W. H. Smith, the two beating their way on freight trains as fares Rochester, where they encountered the others that went toward making up the band of which she was the captain. KILLED IN TRAIN COLLISION. Misunderstanding Results in Fatal Wreck Near Collins, lowa. In a collision between a freight train and a work train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, four miles east of Collins, lowa, eleven men were killed outright, two have since died and about thirty were injured seriously. The trains came together in a deep cut and on a sharp curve, when it was impossible for either engineer to see the other train more than three or four car lengths away. Each train was making good speed, the freight to make up lost time out and the work train to reach a point to meet the freight. The flat cars on which the laborers rode were telescoped and the men thrown in all directions and buried under the debris. It is said the wreck was due to a misunderstanding of orders on the part of the conductor of the work train. MANY SHIPS TO BE BUILT. Yards on the Lakes Are Engaged for Whole Winter. It is expected that $10,000,000 worth of steel steamships will be built on the American side of the great lakes for service In 1903. Twenty-four freight ships are under contract and every berth at the lake yards is filled for the entire winter. No more can be taken to be done before late In the summer of 1903. As for two or tferee years past the new construction is by individuals and the iron ore and steel making companies that have large Beets seem to be drifting out of the idea of owning more vessels. The present season will be the most active in the history of ship building and transportation ever known on the American lakes. Sight Returns at Prayer. Mrs. Sarah Nessler of Denver, Colo., who has been blind for seven years and whose affliction was pronounced incurable by oculists, says she has recovered her sight in a miraculous manner. While praying at a revival meeting of the Holiness sect, sometimes called “The Jumpers,” she says a white light broke upon her eyes and soon she was able to distinguish objects. Capital Is Now $10,000,000. The Southwestern Slate Manufacturing Company of Slatington, Ark., has just filed articles of incorporation increasing its capital stock to $10,000,000. The stockholders are principally Eastern capitalists. The company has slate quarries at Slatington, and a railroad is to be built at once from there to Hot Springs. Admits He Slew His Son. On his deathbed William Thompson of Vilas, Colo., has confessed that he killed his son, Benjamin, aged 13, and that Zeb Nicholson, who was convicted of having murdered the boy and is serving a sentence of ten to twenty years in the penitentiary, is innocent. Train Hold-Up Prevented. An attempt to hold up the Great Northern eastbound overland train near Everett, Wash., proved a failure. Bandits fired three volleys at the coachers, but the train crew refused to stop. A cook In the dining car was slightly wounded. Inventor’s Widow a Suicide. Mrs. Anna V. L. Pierson, widow of Dr. William Hugh Pierson,,said to be the inventor of celluloid, committed suicide by hanging herself at her home in Glen Ridge, N. J., owing to continued ill?' -health.: ;: Shoots Himself on Lake. A man rented a boat at the foot of Jackson boulevard. Chicago, and rowed out on Lake Michigan. There he shot hitqaelf.,/The name of the man as. -not known. Boy Tries to Murder GirL Because she told him that she did not love him, Fermin Santos, 12 years old, tried to cut the throat of Conchita Perdomo, aged 10, at Tampa, Fla. Disabled Boat Towed Into Port. The Italian steamer Sardegna, from' Genoa and Naples, arrived in New Yofk towing the American schooner Notice of

Providence, R. 1., from Brava. Cape Verde Islands, with sixty-four persons on board. Captain Montana of the Sardegna said he found the Notice disabled and drifting helplessly with the gulf stream. John F. Pina, the schooner’s mate, reported that the Notice was disabled by a squall. SHIP SENT TO BOTTOM. City of Venice Strack by Seguin and Three of Crew Drowned. The steamer City of Venice was struck and sent to the bottom of Lake Erie in fifteen minutes by the Canadian steamer Sequin off Point Rondeau at 1 o’clock Tuesday morning. Three of the Venice’s crew went down with their ship. The lost steamer was bound down Lake Erie from Lake Superior with a cargo of 2,500 tons of iron ore and was on the Buffalo course when she met the Canadian boat. Many of the passengers of the ill-fated ship jumped overboard in the panic following the collision, but were saved. The loss will be one of the most serious of the year to the marine insurance companaies, as the Venice was valued at SIBO,000, and insured for nearly that amount. The’Wilson, lost off Duluth, was of higher value, but was not insured. The VenIcewas owned by the McGraw Transportation Company of Bay City, of which Thomas Cranage is the head. She came out in 1892 and measured 2,107 tons. Her dimensions were: Length, 301 feet; keel and beam, 42 feet. The Sequin is a small steel steamer of 828 tons. The City of Venice went down«4n very deep water less than fifteen minutes after the collision. After standing by for an hour the Seguin beaded for Cleveland with the survivors. The cause of the collision is not known. There was no fog and the night was fairly clear. The lights of the City of; Venice were burning brightly. BOY RECOVERS FROM LOCKJAW. Antitoxin Injected Into the Spinal Cord Effects a Cure. Physicians connected with Harlem hospital, New York, have announced the recovery from lockjaw and discharge from that institution of Joseph, a son of “Silent Mike” Tiernan, who was for many years a member of the New York baseball team. On the Fourth of July he shot himself in the hand with a blank cartridge. He was taken to the hospital on July 12. Lockjaw was well developed and it was decided to inject antitoxin into the spinal cord, and not into the brain, as in previous cases. The injections were made between the first and second lumbar vertebrae. On the fifteenth day the jaw relaxed. COUPLE ADOPTS 22 CHILDREN. Michigan Farmer Wanted a Boy and GottheWhole Asylumr" Mr. and Mrs. John Shandrow, who own a fruit farm near South Haven, Mich., are childless, and, having decided to adopt a boy, wrote to the Smith Foundling Asylum in Minneapolis asking that several children be sent for a summer’s outing, with the privilege of choosing from them in case they so desired. The institution promptly forwarded twentytwo boys and girls over 3 years of age. The couple has decided to adopt all of them. ESCAPED PRISONER KILLED. Son of Man Whom They Are Robbing Kills One of Two Fugitives. Fred Herron, white, and Robert Johnson, a negro, prisoners in the county jail at Leavenworth, Kan., overpowered the guard and escaped. The next morning they entered the house of Carl Gitsch, on a farm four miles south of the city, held a pistol to Gitsch’s head and demanded his money. A young son of the farmer came downstairs with a shotgun and killed Herron. Johnson fled and has not been captured. Americans Buy Friars’ Laud. Reports current in Vatican circles in Rome are to the effect that an American syndicate has purchased the land of the friars and religious orders in the Philippines. Government officials at Washington say that it is a wellknown fact that companies have taken over considerable of the friars’ property, but the conditions of the transfer and its purpose are yet a secret. Love Conquers Their Temper. Thirty-six years ago Capt. William W. Smith quarreled with his first wife and left their home in Illinois, going to Sharon. Pa- Ten years ago he married Ora Sawyer, who died ten years later. Recently a reconciliation took place between him and his first love and the pair remarried. Fire Destroys Buildings. Fire of incendiary origin broke out at West Alexandria, Ohio, and burned six business houses and two residences. The Arcade Hotel guests were driven from rooms before they had time to secure their personal effects. Heroic work saved the hotel. Loss $15,000. Boer War May Be Renewed. The Giornale de Italie at Rome pub-' lishes an interview with the son of exSecretary Deits of the Transvaal, who dias arrived at Naples, in which Reitz declares that war in the Transvaal wiU recom m en ce a few years henee^ — Watchman Found Dead. Daniel Sweeney, a watchman employed by the Delaware, Lackawanna jy, Western ijnaoany-Mthe-Rrigs cdliiwy in Hanover township, Pa., was found dead in a field. Proclamation of King Edward. On the eve of his coronation King Edward issued a proclamation to his subjects. thanking them for sympathy and prayers during his recent illness. Family of Five Burned to Death. Leo Wilder, wife and three children K’ere burned to death at their country ome near the village of Elliott, CaL 1

RETURN SANS TREASURE. Men Who Sailed to Hunt Hidden Gold on Cocoa Island Unable to Find It. The elaborately equipped expedition which set sail from Victoria, B. C., early in January on the brigantine Blakely to search for the mythical treasure of Cocos Island has returned, like other expeditions which have visited the island, without having seen a sign of treasure of any kind. This latest expedition was an utter failure. The instruments which were to locate buried wealth failed in all instances except in giving the members work in digging in different parts of the island. The Blakely was 101 days reaching the island from Victoria, getting a taste of heavy weather which prevailed at times, and arriving at the island April 17. After a day’s reconnoitering the instruments were brought out and the men started work at a place to which the apparatus pointed. After sinking a shaft twenty feet deep, another trial was made with the so-called gold finder, and it pointed in another direction—in fact, every time it was brought out it pointed in a different direction. Finally, getting disgusted with it, Captain Whiilden decided to test it with some gold coin on the beach. It failed to find the coin, and then a search for the treasure wa,s made independent of it. Holes were sunk where the crew of H. M. S. Imperius and the schooner Aurora had searched, 1 without better results. Provisions getting low, it was decided to make-a start for home, and after a supply of corn had been loaded the vessel was turned northward. This was May 11, only twentyfive days having been spent on the island. Captains Whidden and Hackett still believe the treasure is there, but place no confidence in the instruments of Messrs. Gilbert and Enyeart. SAVES CHILD FROM FLAMES. Great Bravery of a Young Girl Jja Cleveland. But for the cool bravery of Frony Rushton, a 12-year-old girl, John Farrar, aged 2, who lives next door to her, would have been burned to death by his 4-year-old brother Dewey, in Cleveland. The two little boys were left alone in the house. The Rushton girl, hearing the boy screaming, ran to the door of the Farrar house and found his clothing in flames. The elder brother was holding him in a corner of the kitchen stifling the hoy’s screams by pressing his hand over the little fellow’s mouth. The boy had locked the screen door and the girl could not get into the house. She called to him to open the door, but W refused to move. She then frightened him by telling him her father was coming, and the boy ran into a woodshed adjoining the house. Quickly the girl ran to an open window and called the litfTe fellow to her. His clothing in flames, he ran to her and she dragged him through the open window. She then beat out the flames with her hands. The boy was badly burned about the body and face and his hair was partly burned off. FOUND DEAD IN CENTRAL PARK. Multimillionaire’s Son the Victim of Foul Play or a Suicide. A body found in Central Park, New York, with a bullet hole in the head, has been identified as that of Herman Kellar, said to be the son of a Breslau multi-millionaire. Kellar resided in New York City. His widow says he left home on July 17 and that bank deposits of several thousand dollars to his credit have been withdrawn. The pockets of Kellar’s clothing were torn out. and when his body was found no pistol had been discsovered near the spot. Don Cameron Badly Hurt. While former United States Senator Don Cameron and Mrs. Cameron were driving from Fort William, Invernessshire, Scotland, to Invernlochy castle, Lochaber, which he has leased for the summer, the horses shie<|,.and the carriage collided with a cart. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron were thrown out. The ex-Senator was severely injured. Killed in a Runaway Auto. Mrs. R. B. Swing of Valparaiso, Ind., was killed at Pittsburg in an automobile accident. She was riding in Schley Park when 'through the loosening of a screw an automobile in which she was ridiug coursed wildly along a driveway. r Jhe woman Nrinted from the rush of air and fell from the runaway machine. Corpse Found on Prairie. The body of a young woman was found on the prairie at 74th and State streets. Chicago, and later identified as that of Minnie Mitchell, and the policehave found evidences of murder. The disappearance of William Bartholin, her lover, and his mother deepens the mystery. Pool Ends Elevator War. The Elevators Association and the Western Elevating Company at Buffalo, N. Y., reached an understanding with the result that all the elevators of the two organizations are now in single pool. >.The elevator rate war is practically over. The elevator rates have been advanced. Inheritance Law Is Void.. The State of Minnesota has rto Valid inheritance law on its statute books. Judge Bunn of the Ramsey County Court Folds that the invalid. Decisions of other courts already have found irreparable flaws in the laws of 1897 and 1902. Sixteen Men Reported Dead. Sixteen men are known to have been killed and some others are reported missing as the result of an explosion of gas in one of the mines of the Union Coal and Coke Company at Bowen, Colo. 'Andrew D. White Resinas. Ambassador White mailed his resignation as minister to Germany to the United States several days ago. It.ia to take effect early in November.

ROB EXPRESS TRAIN.

MASKED BANDITS TAKE 52.00 C FROM BURLINGTON LIMITED. Torpedo Track Near Savanna, IIL, and Hatt Flyer Northbound—Train Crew Forced to Remain Quiet While Safa Train No. 47 of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad waa held up by six masked robbers at 11:30 o’clock Tuesday night, the express car blown up with dynamite and the safe robbed of a sum estimated to be $2,000. The robbery took place about 125 miles from Chicago between Savanna, HL, and Marcus, a flag station eight miles north of that place. Torpedoes were placed on the track by the bandits and as the north-bound train exploded them the engineer shut off the steam and applied the brakes, thinking that there was danger ahead. T"he moment the train came to a stop »ne of the masked robbers sprang aboard the engine and thrust a revolver into the face of the engineer and another at the fireman. Both members of the engine crew were threatened with death unless they obeyed the commands of the robbers. Cut the Train in Two. Meanwhile another bandit stepped between the express car and the passenger coaches and cut the train in two. He then sprang aboard the engine and ordered the engineer to pull up the track. When the engine had proceeded a short distance to a point far from any human habitation the robbers ordered a halt. The engineer, with a revolver muzzle pressed close to his ear, had nothing to do but obey. The robbers were well equipped for the task before them. They drew sticks of dynamite from bulging pockets and went toward the express car, taking along the engineer and fireman. Arriving at the door of the express car, the robbers set off the dynamite in their possession. This blew the express car to pieces. The big safe in the car .was .then shattered by another explosion of dynamite. ' The money having been revealed when the safe was blown, one of the robbers began to pick up the cash and throw it into a bag he took from a pocket. Vi Robbers Flee Into Woods. When the pile of money in sight had vanished inside the Fag the “coin collector” gave the signal and his confederates marched the engine crew back to their posts. The engineer and fireman were told to pull out as fast as possible from the scene. The moment the locomotive began to move the robbers fled into the blackness of the night and the big patch of woods that lined the railway track. As they were disappearing in the brush Express Messenger Byl fired and killed one of them. The authorities have been unable to determine the identity of the dead man. Meantime a flagman on the train of coaches that had been left a few miles back on the road, suspecting at once what had happened, started on the dead run for Savanna to give the alarm. On the way he heard the sound of the double explosion that wrecked the express car and the safe. After a run of several miles the flagman arrived at Savanna. He was then breathless, but he managed to tell a short story of the fate of the train. Officers Start in Pursuit. Policemen and railway officials were hurriedly summoned by the station agent, to whom the flagman had reported. It was then 1 o’clock and some difficulty was encountered in getting engines and men together. ’ At o’clock, however, an engine was attatfhed to a coa£h and the latter, filled heavily armed officers and railway enfployes, started from Savanna for the scene of the robbery. It was the intention of the officials to beat the woods on both sides of the railway in an endeavor to catch the bandits.

TRACY KILLS HIMSELF.

Outlaw, Surrounded by Posse, Ends His Life Near Fellowes, Wash. Harry Tracy, the bandit, shot himself and died almost instantly in a wheat field near Fellowes, Wash. He was surround-

HARRY TRACY.

this his last battle. The members of Sheriff Gardner’s posse also escaped without injury. Reports received at Creston, Wash., Tuesday night stated that Tracy was fljprrounded in a swamp near the Eddy fatm, eleven miles southeast of the town. Jack McGintfls brought the news and sought re-enforcements. Shortly before midnight McGinnis left Davenport, Wash., with twenty-five heavily armed men in a wagon. Before they arrived Tracy had left the shelter of she swamp and taken to the open country. It is thought he expected to overawe his enemies and repeat the remarkable successes that marked his career. He had been hard pressed for many hours and the theory is that he found his strength leaving him. Disdaining to fall by any but his own hand, the worst,“bad man” that ever killed his man in the “wild West" shot himself and prevented the distinction of being Tracy’s slayer from falling to one of his pursuers.

Brief News Items.

Secretary of War Root has started on a several weeks* European tour. John W. Mackay left deeds dividing his real estate between his wife and son. King George of Saxony, who succeeded to the throne Jnne 19 on the death of his brother Albert, is suffering from pneumonia. „ Prof. Aloee Fortier, professor of Romapce languages at Tulane University, New Orients, Lt., since 4880, has been decorated evUh the <ffoas of the Legion of Honor MTranee.

ed by a posse which had been successfully held at bay for hours. Armed men from miles around were on the outlaw’s trail. The exchange of shots between the bandit and his pursuers was at bug range. None dared approach within reach of Tracy’s deadly weapons, and he was not wounded in

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

li. v i. 1 from heavy rains in • iOIL Texaß . 'the week’s crop ■ 'news is encouraging. Manufacturing plants are well occupied as a rule, iron and steel leading, followed by textiles and footwear. Fuel scarcity is still causing delay, although coke ovens are surpassing all previous figures of output, and bituminous mines are vigorously operated. At most points retail trade is active and preparations continue for heavy fall sales, while spring lines are opened with good results. Railway earnings thus far available for July show a gain of 3.3 per cent over 1901 and 20.8 per cent over 1900. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade gives the foregoing summary of the investigation. Continuing, the review says: With business insight for at least a year, the leading departments of the iron and steel industry may properly be considered prosperous. Notwithstanding the rapid increase in producing capacity, consnrFpHve Feman3~has grown still faster,', and the recent official report of a new high record of pig iron production at .8,808,574 tons, for the first half of 1902 is accompanied by the statement that unsold stocks at the end of that period were only 29,861 tons, compared with 372,560 tons a year previously. The first month of the second half of 1902 has brought no diminution in inquiries, but some decrease in output owing to scarcity of fuel. Imports are very large in order to keep the steel mills provided with material and offerings of foreign billets have checked the upward tendency of prices. Of engines, machinery and heavy hardware there is a serious shortage, orders for delivery in 1902 being out of the question. Steel rails and structural material contracts have been booked far ahead. Grain prices declined sharply as the month of speculative manipulation drew to a close and legitimate trading resumed a more normal volume. Cotton held fairly steady, more because of the large short interest than the floods in Texas. Thus far it is probable that rains have done more good than harm. Demands for consumption contiue liberal. Meats have also shown a tendency to seek slightly lower quotations, but light receipts and higher quality do not promise any extensive relief in the immediate future. Business failures for the week ending July 31 number 168, as against 178 last week, 160 in this week last year, 173 in 1900, 156 in 1899 and 189 in 1898. The outlook, viewing the ClliCdQO. country in its entirety, is ’ better than last week, in that the generally favorable conditions are maintained, while the crops are a step nearer maturity. Heavy shipments of wool and cattle are giving the Western railroads enormous earnings. It looks now as if these roads will maintain their good showings on present tonnages, and break all records after the crop movement gets under way. The Northwest holds to a good vo.ume of trade in the leading jobbing and manufacturing lines. The Minneapolis flour trade, while not as heavy as could be wished, showed improvement over the several weeks preceding. In lumber there is talk of further price advances. Wool is steady at a level several cents above prices at this tirrie last year. In the grain trade there is a feeling of satisfaction over the closing of the July option. Every prominent grain market had its tightening up in July, and with the lightest supplies for years in wheat, corn and oats there was opportunity for price manipulation to the closed With "the nervous hesitation naturally attendant upon market conditions in some degree artificial, now gone, the grain markets will be on a basis where normal influences will be given more weight. As was quite to be expected, wheat prices declined. This in response to the ex-, tremely favorable spring wheat reports. Let anything of danger to the Northwest crop arise, and the sharpest price reactions may be expected.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.35; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $7.57; sheep, fair to choice, $4.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn,*No. 2,56 cto 57c; oats, No. 2,26 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; hay, timothy, SII,OOO to $16.50; prairie, $6.00 to , $10.00; 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 $7.60; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,65 cto 66c; corn, No. 2 white, 62c to 63c; oats. No. 2 white, new, 30c to 31c. St. Louis —Cattily $4.50 to $8.25; hogs, $3.00 to $7.40; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,65 cto 66c; corn. No. 2, 55c to 56c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.50 to $7.25; hogs, $4.00 to $7.50; sheep, $3.25 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 62c to 63c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2, £»c to 56c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $7.45; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 66c to 67c; oats. No. 2 white, new, 38c to. 40c; rye, 54c to 55c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 3,61 cto 62c; oats, No. 2 white, 60c to 61c; rye, No. 1,48 c to 49c; barley, No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork, mess. $16.65. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 68c to 69c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 56c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; clover seed, prime, $5.17. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $7.60; hogs, $3.00 to $7.65; sheep, $4.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 63c to 64c; oats. No. 2 white, 69c to 70c; butter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, western, 18c to 20c. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $8.25; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $7.95; sheep, fair t< choice, $3.25 to $4.25; lambs, common > choice, $4.00 to $6.00. Time will demonstrate whether the strawboard combine is a combine of straw.