Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1903 — Page 2

Jplft v REPUBLICAN. CEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. BENBSELAER, - • INDIANA.

NEW EVIDENCE FOUND

pENDS TO ESTABLISH AMERICAN CONTENTION. Briefs in Alaskan Boundary Dispute |T Filed ' ln Washington and London— Kartbquake and Hurricane Alarm pFitoide of Arico» CfcUi, ... t The American brief in the Alaskan boundary dispute has been filed at the British embarey in Washington. It covers |BSO printed pages. The British contentions were also filed at the United States in London. The American commission, which is composed of Secretary Boot, Senator Lodge and cx-Senator Turner of Washington, will go to London In July to take up the dispute. The | American,, brief contains a lot of new proof, secured after a long search into musty records of the War Department and old Russian and British documents, which it is believed will convince the rßritish umpires that this country’s claims are right. In any event, the worst the flJuited States can get out of the arbitration is a continuance of the modus now in force and which shuts the British out of a deep water porf, which Is what they want most. None! of the PPlmerican commissioners will yield a sin- ‘ *le point. The Canadian member of the ggfanmission will be equally stubborn, but Secretary Hay is confident .that at least one of two Englishmen will be convinced of the legality of the American claim. VIOLENT SHOCKS IN CHILI. People or Arlca Greatly Alarmed by Karthqnake and Hnyrleane. Reports of seismic disturbances at Arica, Chili, have been received. At 10 - o’clock -one-night a violent hurricane! swept over the city and lasted until 4 o’clock in the morning. Street lamps were thrown down by the force of the ’ wind. At 7 a. m. a strong earthquake ruhock was felt there. This waa.followed by a second windstorm of greater viopteace than tire fitst.. Theatmosphere became hot and suffocating and clouds of dust darkened the city. The people of Arica were greatly alarmed and nil business houses closed their door . The disturbances are supposed to be due to an eruption of the neighboring volcano of Huallatire. 11 , , f 1- FUN ON THE DIAMOND. Big League Club, In Race for the Pennants. The clubs in the National Longue are standing thus: ~ W. L. * W. L. Nsw York.. 9 4 Brooklyn ... t» 7 Pittsburg ...10 T> St. Louis.,.. (! 9 Chicago .... S tiCincinnati ... 5 !>» Boston 8 7 Philadelphia. 5 10 Following is the standing of the clubs In the American League: W. L. W. L. Chicago .... 0 9 Washington..' 5 5 Detroit ...... 0 8 Boston ...... 5 7 Philadelphia. 7 5 St. Lou;--.... 3 5 New York.. 5 sCleveland ... ‘2 G |i* Takes Title from Russell Sage. The Supreme Court of Minnesota sustained a decision of the Ramsey County Court whereby Uri Lamprey, of St. Paul, is declared to be entitled to 50.000 acres of laud valned at $100,009, claimed by Russel) Sage, of Now York. In ISS7 the St. Paul and Chicago Railway Company entered into a contract with Lamprey to - convey to him About 400,000 acres of land, and later, claiming a failure to complete the purchase, the corporation deeded the land to Russell Sage. This division confirms the title in Lamprey on payment of $G2,2G2.

Host on Abattoir Prims. B- Fire at Boston, destroyed the Brighton ' abattoir, used ns a slaughter house and butterine factory. The loss is $150,030. I Four firemen anil a number of other perrons were injured, none fatally. The heaviest loser is the Learned & Bird Oil 'Company, makers of oteo oils and tmv.t rIne. with an approximate damage of SIOO,OOO. Heavy Frost Kills Fruit. The temperature fell below freeling f and fruit trees and early vegetables suffered much damage from frost in many places in northern Ohio. lee formed at •amorous points. In some cases the de-r-Otruction of the fruit crop is reported to complete. Bishop John F. Hurst Ilcnd. Bishop John F. llurst, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at Washington. He was stricken witlCphralysis in. London last Se'ptemhi r a year ago while attending l the eeummieial conference. and had been in failing health Since. Violence Attends n Criiuitlc. Methodist Church. 3825 Kpcarlvoru street. Chicago, was partly twreckid by a bomb, after ltev. U. C. j Ransom, the pastor, preached a stirring V Oernion on the evils of policy playing and started a crusade against that form of gambling. Kxplosion in Clevelan 1 Torpedo Plant fr. Three persons are dead nml twenty | eight injured n* a result of an explosion . which wrecked the plant of the Thor Ejfinufaeturiug Company in Cleveland. I: The company manufactures toy torpedo I ...canes and other explosives. The pecuDiary loss will not exceed SIO,OOO. Knalne Mow i Down Merrymakers, L A fart passenger train on the Grand | Trunk plunged into a crowd of a thou- >, aand merrymakers at Detroit, mangling Eoeorea of persons. Eight nrt> known to gIUKe been killed and about forty injured. Pornt Flret in Adirondack*. HnM*t fires in Adirondack* north «.f I'ticri, N. ’ V.. damaged uncut timber. | camps and village* sl.<X>U*o*»: lit:rd If destroyed; las* cf life is unknown. [£§l*pre«« Comm r Feld Linb>. a In a decision filed at St. I'nul, Mi ni.. State Kupri iu.’ Court i.-.id* it.u « Pjnrrdief recovered l>y a shipper for dam «gaituit an express company for ■fird* confiscated from .tin* express eemEpmo bjr the kStjitc game ward n is war, ,

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

'// L DU CJIAILLU DEAI). Succumbs to Paralysis. Paul “de Chaillu, noted American nutlior and explorer, who was stricken with partial paralysis the other day, died in St. Petersburg. The death of Paul Belloni dn Chaillu puts an end to a career brim full of adventure, and robs the world of a man whos% fascinating personality bad endeared -Aim to' thousands of persons in almost every country on the map, whose books of travel and adventure wcAt, the delight of a wide circle of readers. During the course of his travels he had 22,000 wives offered to him from among the dusky daughters of the native tribes. He -died a bachelor. Dq Ghaillu's series of books concerning his African adventures includes “Ashango Land,” “Explorations Ht Equatorial Africa,” “Stories pf the Gorilla Country,” “Wild Life Under the Equator,” “Lost in the Jungle,” “My Apingi Kingdom” and “The Country of the Dwarfs.” Finally he reemed to weary of the tropics and turned to the lands and peoples of the north. He was the inventor of' the title, “The Land of the Midnight Sun.” DESTRUCTIVE FOREST FIRES. Town of Kimball, AVIs., Is BurnedMillions of Kect of Lumber Gone. Kimball, a small town near Hurley, TCis., was destroyed by fire Monday afternoon. Most of tlie citizens escaped wily- with the clothes they wore, nnil Many of them are homeless and destitute. Forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Ashland, and, fanned by a fortymile -gale. . threaten __ta .destroy .several towns, and will burn millions of feet of timber. Citizens of Bayfield have been fighting the fire within a short distance of the town. Many homesteaders- are believed to have been burned quE" Dense smoke overhangs Han cock" anil Houghton, Mich., nnd the county to the south. Everything in thq. woods isns dry- ns tinder, ns there lias been no rain thus far this-season, and if a heavy rain does not fall soon the fires may spread to an alarming extent.

SWINDLE AGED MILLIONAIRE. Montreal Septuagenarian Loses sl3-. 000 Through the “Badger Game.” Delpliise Camille Bronssrau, a millionaire merchant of Montreal, Que., nearly 70 years old, was the victim of the badger ganie, in which he gave up $13,000 in cheeks anil notes to a man who gave his name to the police as C. A. Barber, and a - woman, who gave hey name as Mrs. Barber Allison. The old man managed to escape and told Chief Detective Carpenter, giving an exact and minute description of the pair, by which Mr. Carpenter recognized the suspects anil arrested them. The couple are known in Chicago. Duluth. St. Louis, Minneapolis and Winnipeg. Forest Fires Destroy Towns. The Worst forest fires in the history of that section of Pennsylvania have been in progress, nnd property valued at over $1,000,000 has been destroyed. Watsonville is reported destroyed, and it is feared that a number of lives have been lost. -At—Simpson,—where -the—forestis thick and there are many oil wells, the fire swept over an area of two miles, taking everything iu its path.

Laundry StrilyC in Chicago.

—Three —thousand —employes irf fifty of Chicago's largest laundries' struck because their demands for piece work and increased wages have been refused. The laundry owners contend that their business will not permit of higher wages, unless the public is made to pay them Through a raise iu the prices of laundry work. Mapping A nsku Timber licit. The federal government has undertaken the cruising and mapping of the. Umber belt of southern Alaska. YV. A. Lnngille, an expert timber cruiser, has start ed north, accompanied by Collector of Customs Jttrro of Sitka. Laugille wifi probably work jas far uorth as Skagway this year.

Eighty Mutineer* in Irons.

Almost a hutidred men took part In a mutiny on the’ receiving ship Wabash in Heston, ami during the battle an officer was severely beaten. About eighty men are now in double irons serving a sentence of live days’ imprisonment on bread and water on the United States prison ship Southory. % " »• Win. R. llearsY Marrit*. Congressman elect William Uaudolph Meant, proprietor of the New JtrfT 1 American, Chicago Amerieajju-'flfitf the San 'Francisco ExgwftttTiAvus married in New York to Miss Millieeut Wlllaon, daughter of George H. WiUsbn, president of the Advance Music Con); pnny. ' Waives Coat of Blockade. As forecasted some days ago, Great Britain has withdrawn her contention for a submission of the question of the cost of the blockade to The Hague tribunal. and Veue/uela in turn is willing that the scope of the tribunal’s arbitration be increased considerably. Kill Fund to Aid Striker*. The Common Council of Lowell, Mass., passed an order to appropriate $500,000 to aid the striking textile workers. The Aldermen unanimously killed the... order on the ground that they could noti legally vote money for such a purpose. Thirteen Hurt in Wreck. A Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton train,’ consisting of an engine, baggage car and two coaches, was derailed at Bate’s siding, four miles south of Toledo. Thirteen people were injured, aeren seriously, but none fatally. Bibcock May Upset Rook*. Dr. Bte|4iyn Moulton Babcock's announcement of bis thforwth.it the weight "Jf a body of matter is mversely proper • % * * »’

tionnl to its inherent energy, whleh is the result of twenty years of study, has -nraused much-internal.among other members of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. The scientific members of the faculty Say the theory is one of the most important contributions to science made in the present generation. - ~ W< GIRL 18 BRUTALLY SLAIN.I Priest’s Bister at Lorain, Ohio, Murdered by Intruders. Intense excitement prevails at Lorain, Ohio, ns a result of the brutal murder of Miss Agatha lieichlen, a handsome and popular young woman, by an unknown man. Miss Iteiehlen lived with her brother, Rev. Father Reichlen of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, who was absent from the city when the crime was committed; A younger brother of the victim and Father Wallace were guests at the priest’s home. Late in the night they heard Miss Reichlen scream. They believed she was ill and rushed to her room. In the hallway they met a man, wlm ordered them away, rushed to the Window and jumped out.' Miss Reichlen was found dead. Her head was crushed and a stone stained with blood was

found, showing how the. crime had been committed. No motive is known. Some hint at burglary, but this is scouted by the police, who think there is a deeper mystery. The intruder had put a ladder to the roof of the house and crawled from the roof into the attic window. Nothing was disturbed m the house, though there were many valuables lying about easily accessible to a thief. HOLDS UNIONS CAN BE SUED. niture Workers* Plea Wrong. In the furniture workers’ injunction case in the Superior Court at Evansville, Ind., Judge J. H. Foster in sustaining a demurrer of the largest furniture company to the furniture workers’ idea in abatement, held that n union, even in its unincorporated condition, may be sued when the suit pertains to questions affecting the attitude of union members to public safety and order. The furniture workers in their plea contended they could not be sued. To this the manufacturers demurred, and Judge Foster, in admitting the demurrer, said unincorporated unions were in the same status as unincorporated lodges and churches, and could be sued.

MAY UNCOVER PLOT TO DEFRAUD. Arrest of Western Union Field Men Made In the East. The nrrest of four men in Pittsburg may uncover a systematic scheme, to defraud the Western Union Telegraph Company by field men between New York and'Chicago. It appears an organized gang has padded expense accounts for securing rights of way, purchasing poles and ether supplies, and by overcharging for wages and necessities. Ten men have been arrested in New York, one at Clarion nnd one at Butler, Pa. Oth* r arrests are expected.

Russia Makes Denial.

The State Department has received a dispatch from Ambassador McCormick, at St. Petersburg, to the effect that the Russian minister of foreigh affairs has assured , him that there is no foundation for the report that Russia demands that China shall refuse the requests of other powers for treaty ports-and consulates ia Manchuria.

Derailed to Avoid Crash.

As the Little Miami and Baltimore and Ohio trains leaving Columbus, Ohio, at 7:13 a. m. were approaching the crossing west of the city the derail was thrown against the Miami train to prevent a collision, and the engine, the baggage car and one passenger coach went into the ditch. John Kanaher, baggagemaster. was badly hurt. Cornell Flayer Missing. 11. G. Webb, the big guard on the .Qortiell football team last fall aud a sophomore in the engineering department of Cornell University, is missing. He was seen last in Ithaca about April-1. but had not been in attendance at Cornell for a month previously. Dedication in St. Linii." v v v . St. Louis held n most elaborate dediciv' tion of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Thursday. President Roosevelt and ex-Pcesident Cleveland being the most notable guests. The city was full of troops and visitors. Business all over town gave way to the celebration. Woman Justified In Kitting,

Holding that her action iu defending her; elf ami family against an intruder into her homo at dead of night was eu tirely justifiable, Judge Ely of Boston discharged Mrs. Isabella Viola, who was arrested for shooting Lieut. Kelly of the tire department. Kite Salt Plant Destroyed. The plant of the International Salt Company at South Chicago was destroy ed by fire, three grain vessels, hoisting machinery aud acres of docks also being consumed. The loss is placed at sl,250,000. . •_ Aida the Salvation Army. John D. Rockefeller has sent his check for slo.txfcl to the Cleveland officers of the Salvation Army to aid in the erection of a new SIXI.OOO citadel which the army is putting up in that city. Cold Wave tame* Damage. The recent cold wave is said to have transed damage figured in the millions "to farmers, fruit men and truck growers-. In southern districts cotton and com wifi have to be replanted. Greeted by the French. King EdwaH of England was welcomed at Paris by President Lonbet and staff; large crowds cheered him rn tout*from station to British embassy and Ely see palactr. ,

EIGHT KILLED BY EXPLOSION. Powder Plant Blows Up, Hurling Workmen Into the Air. The plant of the Cresson powder works, owned by Pittsburg capitalists nnd loeateil on Piney creek, ten miles south of Hollidnysburg, Pa., was wrecked by an explosion. Eight workmen were killed. Superintendent Harry Taggart of Pittsbiirg ( was fatally injured. Tho powder factory is located in a remote portion of the county. Near the factory are limestone quarries of the American Wire and Company, where 500 men are employed. These quarries have been deserted by the workmen and all who lived in the neighborhood hurried to places of fofety. In the magazines and storehouses of the factory are 1,400 blocks of explosives. Fourteen men and sixteen women were employed in the factory which was destroyed. The women managed to escape from the building before the explosion came that hurled their fellow-workmen into eternity. All were cut and badly burned. The force of the explosion was so great that it wrecked all buildiiigs in the vicinity nnd broke window panes in towns five miles away.

SAVED BY A SECTION HAND. Erie Road Officials in Wreck—Rescuer Thrown Into Whitewash. A special train on the Erie Railroad containing officials of the road on a tour of inspection narrowly wrecked, on a current the Kttffwood avenue crossing in the suburbs of Rochester, N. Y. The engine was derailed and the occupants of the train were roughly shaken. That the entire train was not ditched was due to the action of John Long, a section hand. Ou a hand ear manned by a crew which was whitewashing the mile posts along the road were several tubs of whitewash. The men had anchored the car and were at work with their whitewash brushes when the special rounded the curve nnd bore down on the car. They immediately took to the woods to escape the collision. At this juncture Long came up the track, and at the risk of his life ran to the hand car and tried to remove it from the track. He had succeeded in getting one truck off when the special struck the car. Long was thrown into the air and landed in a tub of whitewash. ADVENTISTS WILL MOVE EAST. Action at Battle Creek, Mich., May i Split the Organization. After a fight lasting more than a week the stockholders of the Seventh Day Adventists’ publishing house at Battle Creek, Mich., decided to move their plant east, t]he name of the city not yet being decided on. This action shows that the majority of the stockholders believe in Mrs. Ellen White, a leading prophetess of the society, who predicted disaster Jf the plant were not moved and the Adventists colonized in Battle Creek do not scatter to various parts of the country. It is believed the action taken will have a tendency to split the denomination into two factious.

Desertion Record Frnkeu. There has been ah epidemic of desertions from the navy on the Pacific coast, but this mouth’s report boats the record. It is said that 150 men have failed to return to the receiving ship Independence since the last pay day. When the enlisted men are asked why this is, all say that it is because of the poor and scanty fare. Cattlemen Prepare to Fight. The Denver Times says: “Twenty-five million dollars lias been subscribed for stock to a co-operative company by members of the National Live Stock Association to fight the beef trust in the event the latter successfully carries through the merger of the Chicago packing companies and allied interests.” Blast Kill* Ohio Banker. • Reinhard Scheidler, one of the foremost manufacturers of Newark, Ohio, vice-president of the Newark Savings Bank and former owner of the Newark and Granville Electric Railway, was killed and eight other men were injured in an explosion at the Scheidler machine shops,. Made Homeless by Flames. Fire in the Jewish quarter in the vicin"TTy of .Pittsburg street, Cleveland, destroyed twenty dwelling houses, rendering 200 persons homeless. The fire started iu a near by cooperage shop and spread to the dwellings before it could be checked. The money loss is placed at $50,000. Howard Get* I.ife Sentence. The jury in the case of James How-ard,--trial at Frankfort. Ky., for the murder of William Goebel, found the defendant guilty and fixed the punishment at life imprisonment. The jurors took only one ballot. "" Seventy-five K<iled by Volcano. A volcanic explosion near the town of •Frank. N. W. T., on the line of the Crows’ Nest Pass Railway, occurred early Wednesday. Seventy-five persons are reported killed. Po.itoffice Hnbbed of SIO,OOO. Burglars entered the postoffice at Ravcuswood. W. Va.. blew open the safe and escaped with nearly SIO,OOO without leaving a clew to their identity. tuart Hobson I* Dead. Stuart Hobson, the veteran comedian, succumbed to an attack of heart Unease at New York after only a few days’lllness. * Big Auditorium Barns. • The big prohibition auditorium at Port Richmond, Staten Island, was destroyed by fire, together with two small reddeuces near by. causing a loss of $21,000. Chief Executive of Wyoming Dies. Gov. Deforest Richards died al his home in Cheyenne, Wyo., of acute kidney disease.

RUIN BY JACK FROST.

FARM AND GARDEN CROPS INJURED BY COLD. Frigid Wave Causes Great Damage Throughout the West—Loss Is in the Millions— Cotton and Corn in the Bouth Must Be Replanted. The recent wintry weather has cost fanners and gardeners millions of dollars and given a setback to early vegetation from which the people of the en-tirer-cojintry will suffer. Killing frosts from theln-ke region as far south as Tennessee and Arkansas and light to heavy frosts in northern Texas have ruined many crops and retarded nearly all-oth-ers.' . Michigan peach trees, ever the subject of solicitude in unseasonably cold weather, are believed to be considerably damaged, but the exact conditions have not yet been ascertained.' Ice an inch thick formed on ponds in the vicinity of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, near the southern edge of the famous fruit territory in the western part of the State. The blossoms on the trees were just coming into bloom. But the injury to the smaller fruits and vegetables throughout the wide area covered by the cold warve can be told immediately. With a temperature that went below the freezing point in Illinois and Indiana after the vegetation had obtained a good start the growers find that from 25 to 75 per cent -of their crops have been badly damaged or killed. Strawberries, asparagus, potatoes and other products of the soil suffered severely from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast. Cotton and corn in Oklahoma and Indian Territory will have to be replanted. The cold was fatal to young live stock in a number of localities, and not a few farmers face almost total ruin. All along the Arkansas valley the ipjury to crops has been great, but not "less than in northern New Y’ork, where snow fell as heavily in the Adirondacks as it did at Duluth, Minn.

MANY TOILERS STRIKE.

May Day Walk-Oftts, It Is Estimated, Involve Nearly 83,000. Workmen to the number of almost 80,000 in all parts of the country quit their tasks ou May 1 to enforce demands for shorter hours, higher wages or other improved conditions. While these strikes involve- directly and indirectly between 300,000 and 400,000 persons, there was no such upheaval in the labor world as had been Expected several weeks ago. In many places the demands of tens of thousands of workers had' been granted in the last few weeks, and 4#' these branches of industry there was no interruption. Notwithstanding the large number of persons idle, no disorder was imported from any place. An.-idea of the number of men out and the cities and industries affected may be gained from the,.following table: New York City, excavators 30,000 New York City, teamsters 4,000 New YorkVity, Iron workers 350 New Y’ork City,, marine engineers.... 200 New York City, flour millwrights.... 200 Philadelphia, building trade 5......... 8,000 Bedford, Ind., stoneworkers 5,000 Toronto, building trades 5,000 Baltimore, building trades 4,000 Boston, building trades 3,500 Pana, 111., miner 5.......... 2,500 Providence, I!. 1., building trades 2,300 Newark, N. ,T., masons 2,(XX) Newark, N. J., laborers 500 Newark, N. 3.. marine engineers. ... . Pitlsburg, building trades. 1.000 Pittsburg, boiler-makers ............. 1,000 Springfield, 111., building trades- 1,000 Wllkesbarrc, l'a., building trades 1,000 Wilkosbarre, Pa., barbers 100 Omaha, building trades 1,000 Omaha, teamsters 800 Omaha, waiters 400 Cincinnati, building trades 700 Akron, Ohio, carpenters..... 500 Bloomington, 111., carpenters...... 501 Bloomington. 111., horseshoers. 100 Laueaster, l’a., building trades 500 Scranton, Pa., plumbers 300 Pueblo, Colo., steel workers 800 Lafayette, Ind., carpenters 200 Duluth, Minn., waiters 200 Allentown, l’a., carpenters 200 Elizabeth, N. J., ship'workers 200 Elizabeth, N. .1., masons 200 Huntington, \V. Va., elgarmakers.... 100 Elkhart, lud., plumbers 50 Madison, Wis., plumbers 50 South Bend, Ind., plumbers.':' 50

Netv York heads the list of strike-af-fected cities. There the work on the great tunnel is seriously interfered with by the walkout of rock workmen and excavators to enforce their demands for au eight-hour day and an increase in pay. There were some distressing and unusual features of the strikes. Thousands of persons who eat at restaurants in Omaha and Duluth were caued much discomfort by the refusal of waiters to serve them. Householders are being importuned to make room nr their tables for the transients and help iu relieving j£e famine. Wilkesbarre. Pa., is nnShaven and unshorn. Barbers refuse to work and those without home outfits and the skill to use them must face warm spring weather with full beards. In the case of all the workers shorter hours is the principal object sought. The most numerous class of strikers Is that of the building trades. In Boston about 10,000 men, representing nine trades, made demands for higher wages and shorter hours aud about 6,500 of them secured what they asked without striking. In Philadelphia the carpenters are demanding $4 for an eight-hour day and the hoisting engineers $21.50 fog a week of forty-eight hours. At present 8,000 men are idle, hut if the strike continues a week over 40,000 will b# thrown out of employment. BaltimorejTorouto, Newark, Pittsburg, Akron, Wflkesbarre, Cincinnati, Omaha, Bloomington and Springfield workmen demand an eighthour day and higher wages. The quarry and mill men at Bedford. Ind., quit work to secure an equalization of the wage scale. Plumbers at Madison, Whs., Scranton, Pa.. South Bend aud Elkhart, Ind., demand an eight-hour day and increased wages. A dispute over wages is responsible for the Idleness of the miners In the Pana, 111., district.

“I would willingly give SSOO to nnyone who *ma;-bes any camera that hohls a snapshot of me,” exclaimed J. Pierpont Morgan after he had gone aboard the Whitc j Star line Cedric by way of the second cabin gang plank in an effort to evade a score of photographers. Latest statistics in Berlin show that fifty two persons lost their lives as a result of the recent norm in the eastern province*. The staldcs of Anson Phelps Btokes at la'nox, Mas*., were burned. Loss $55,000.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

r~7 ~ ~| “Trade responded N6W Ml P rom Ptly to better weatbei —— LI jn many sections of the country, notable activity appearing in seasonable lines of wearing apparel, yet wholesalers report conservatism us compared with earlier months this year, although business is more active than it was a year ago. Some branches are still backward, and there is more or less complaint regarding collections, while fenewals. aro frequently asked. Outdoor work is vigorously prosecuted, agricultural communities endeavoring to make up lost time, and structural undertakings call for large quantities of lumbpr and building materials, sustaining quotations,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade. Continuing, the report sayst-"" Labor problems are being solved with encouraging celerity. Lake navigation has had the expected effect in reducing rail freight congestion, and shipments are. more prompt, yet there is no diminution in the splendid increase o$ gross railway earnings, which show a gain of 13.1 per cent over last-year’s figure for April thus far and 25.3 per cent over 1901. Ample supplies of fnel mako it possibel for blast furnaces to turErout pig iron in abundance, as this was the only drawback, and a new high water mark of production may be expected for the mopth of April. Augmented stocks of coke and pig Iron, however, fail to result in sufficient steel as yet, billets being in urgent request. A rail mill has commenced work on billets, and other similar changes are contemplated, which indicates the pressfire, as steel rails are more readily marketed than any other product. TTJ ‘ We are told that never uDiCdQO. before was the question of good crops more important to the West than this year, that never before have the.eastern financial centers in this connection watched the West more closely. This is true. There has been a widespread speculation in farm lauds over the West and Northwest. This enters into the situation in an important manner. While the Northwest went through the drought of 1898 which -eut the wheat yield almost oue-half without hardship, it is_ probable such a disaster occurring under existing conditions would be-felt more severely. Iu the Southwest we now find the winter wheat very fine. Of course, there is a long time to pass before harvest, and anything may happen. But the promise now is so fine that all the land is jubilant. The railroad men are looking at it in pleasant anticipation. Should the crop come out anywhere near what is now indicated the yield will be heavy beyond all precedent. Then what of price maintenance against a phenomenal yield and a large surplus? Only this, that on Wednesday of this week the official German crop report was given out and showed the wheat and rye crops of Prussia to be about 33 per cent under last year in condition. France has had some bad weather and Paris grain men say the yield will iu nil probability be under the average. Other parts of Europe are not up iu condition. No one is going to venture any estimate of the European wheat yield at this time, but there seems little doubt that Europe will need much more wheat than she imported last year, and since it is promises for the future that we are here dealing with, we cannot be blind to the fact that this makes a brilliant promise. Some fall business is already being worked up, the northwestern flour mills have resumed operations, collections are easy, railroad earnings large and failures less numerous. Anil the outlook now is that Europe will need to buy more than a normal quantity of our wheat; we will have the wheat to sell her, and if this ; shall materialize there will be a further [ period of prosperity in our country equal to anything we have ever known.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—--Cattle, common to prime, £3.00 to $3.10; liogs, shipping grades, £5.50 to $7.15; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.30; wheat, N't). 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn. No. 2,43 cto 44c; oats. No. 2,31 c to 32c; rye. No. 2,49 cto 50c; hay, timsthy, $8.50 to $10.50; prairie. SG.(H) to £13.50: butter, choice creamery,’ “Oc to 2le; eggs,, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, 30c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis —Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.40: hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn. No. 2 white, 41c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.50; liogs, $5.00 to $7.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75: wheat. No. 2, (59c to 70c; corn. No. 2, 39c to 40c; oats. No. 2,32 cto 33c; rye. No. 2,47 cto 48c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.50 to $5.50; hogs. $4.00 to $(5.90; sheep, $3.50 to £4.35: wheat, N«- 2,75 cto 7Gc: corn. No. 2 mixed. 45c to 4Gc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 2,5 Ge to 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50: wheat, No. 2,75 cto 7Gc; com. No. 3 yellow, 44c to 45c; oats. No. 3 white, 30c to 37c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 northern, 77c to 7Se; Coro, No. 3,43 cto 44c: oats. No. 2 white. 34c to 35c; rye. No. 1,50 c to 52c; barley. No. 2,59 cto COc; pork, mess. slt.Boi Toledo—rWbeat, No. 2 mixed. 73c to 75c; com. No. 2 mixed. 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 3Sc; rye. No. 2, 51 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $7.70. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $7.30; sheep, fair to choice. $4.00 to $5.00; lambs, common to choice. S4OO to $7.35. New York —Cattle. $4.00 to $5.70; hogs, $4 00 to $7.25; sheep. $3.00 to $6.00: wheat, No. 2 red, 80c tq 82c; corn. No. 2,52 cto 54c; oats. No. 2 white, S&c to 40c; butter, creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, western. 13c to 16c.