Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1903 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. 080. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - * INDIANA.

SON SHOOTS FATHER.

FATAL ENDING OF A FAMILY H QUARREL Murderer, Who I* Hard ware Merchant at Hamilton, Ohio, Claims to Have Acted in Self-Defense—Ameri-cana Stop Seditions Performance.

John K. Moebus, 63 years old, one of the ltest known business men of Hamilton, Ohio, was shot to death by his bon, Edward C. Moebus, in the latter's store. The tragedy was the result of a family quarrel of long standing, which became acute when the father, who was a widower, Indicated a purpose to marry a woman much younger than himself. The wounded man died an hour after the shooting. The murderer was arrested and held without bail. "There have been disagreements between Edward Moebus * and his father for years,” said Mr. Andrews, his attorney. “Domestic matters of which I cannot speak recently made them acute. This afternoon the elder Moebus entered bis son’s store really to quarrel, nominally to inspect the ledger. After looking at the book he ■aid: ‘Ed, if you interfere in my affairs again 1 will kill yon.’ The son requested him to leave. He refused and a scuffle followed, in which the father drew a penknife which he had already open in his pocket. Edward seised a pistol from a desk and fired in self-defense.” * BASK BALL SCORES. Standing of the Clubs in Big Lea Cue Games. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. New York... 16 7 Cincinnati ...13 13 Chicago 18 9 Brooklyn 12 13 Pittsburg ...17 11 Philadelphia.. 619 Boston 12 11 St. Louis 8 19 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. W. L. Chicago 15 8 St. Louis 10 10 Philadelphia..l-1 11 Cleveland .... 9*ll Boston 12 11 New York.... 10 13 Detroit 11 11 Washington .. 8 14 SEDITIOUS PLAY IS STOPPED. —Americans at Manila Break Up Performance in a Theater. A party of Americans in the audience at the Libertnd Theater in Manila droye. the actors out of The house and broke np the scenery and furniture. The play which so incensed the Americans is a histories] piece, at the climax of which tijpr heroine tears down an American flag, ies it under foot and unfurls the * the Kotipunanlmsret .society. was reached the anger f*ericans could not be restrained .uoy proceeded to put a stop to the .formuiiee. Col. Tolentioo, who wrote die play, will probably be prosecuted. Double Tragedy in Hotel. George M. Feterson and Mrs. T. M. Fairchild were shot and killed at the Ramonst House in El Paso, Texas. The hotelkeeper, awakened by rapping on his door, found Peterson in the hall. The nun said he had been shot by Mrs. Fairchild and she had shot herself. The proprietor went to call assistance and while he was gone three more shots were tired. When he came back both the man and the woman were dead. Long-Lost Son Is Fonnd. After a mysterious absence of almost two years George Walls, the son of Martin Walls of Pittsburg, has been found in the village of Riverton, near Harrisburg. While his father was offering a reward of $20,000 for information concerning him the young man has been working, under an assumed name, as a mechanical engineer within a few hundred miles of his father’s residence. Seven Injured in Yacht Explosion. Mrs. J. G. Gibson, of New York, her two guests and four sailors were badly burned by an explosion of gasoline on her yacht Vagabond, which lay at anchor in the Hudson River. The yacht, which is one of the best in the of the Harlem Yacht Club, has an auxiliary gasoline engine. Jews Fleeing from Russia. A ministerial decree forbids Jews in Russia to protect themselves. The order is likely to result in wholesale emigration to The United States. Movement has been begun in Philadelphia to bring to the United States 00,000 Jews who are fleeing from Russian cities. Strikers in Bloody Riot. Thirty-two persons were injured at Bridgeport, Conn., in a riot incident to the street car strike. The sheriff blames Mayor Mulvihlll for his open sympathy with the strikers. Farm Laborers Are Scarce. Westers farmers are facing a “hired hand” famine because of exodus of young men to city; “liberal salary” aud “light work” are offered to city folks who are anxious to spend summer in the country. Industrial Outlook Encouraging, R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review declares the industrial situation exceptionally encouraging except for army of strikers; May railroad earnings 13.4 per cent greater than for 1909. — — isPrlMi for A ■SOB. Ex-Mayor Albert Ames, of Minneapolis, has been sentenced to six years at hard labor in State prison for his share in she boodle scandal. Two Women Burned with Acid. In Bt. Louis Mrs. Elsie Strieb and Mrs. Sophia Wumrch were seriously burned and probably disfigured for life by acid thrown into their faces by Franlj Strieb, husband of the former woman. Big Cathedral la Burned. Fire starting at midnight destroyed the interior and roof of St. John’s cathedral, the largest Protestant Episcopal church In Denver. The loss is estimated at 1100,000. The cathedral was built in 1881. The fire Is thought to bare been

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DIB IN BURNING BUILDING. Flumes Destroy Apartment House, Bringing Death and Injury. Three persons met death, two were probably fatally injured and many more less seriously hurt in a fire which destroyed the Westchester apartment building, 5017 to 5025 Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago. Twenty-seven families were rendered homeless. Two bodies were recovered, and the third is supposed to lie beneath the water and wreckage which ffn the basement. The blaze is believed to have started in the laundry in the basement of 5017 Cottage Grove avenue beneath the grocery owned by A. P. Flynn. Within a few minutes flames were shooting up three air shafts and spreading to the flats above. Many persons living in the building had ropes beneath their beds or in places whdre they were accustomed to sleep. But for this precaution, it is believed, more lives would havei been lost in the blaze. Many of the occupants of the structure say that thgy feared a fire and had supplied themselves with ropes as a means of escape. The building was erected in 1893 as a hotel. There are twenty-five flats in the building. It was valued when built at $50,000. The structure was nl--mogl_ entirely destroyed and Mrs. Frances Chave, TJrp~7rwneiy-«stimates her loss at $35,000. The loss on the confehTs-fc estimated at $15,000. NEW INJUNCTION AT OMAHA. District Court Issues Order Against Striking Restaurant Workers. On a petition of attorneys representing several of the largest restaurant owners of Omaha three judges sitting in the District Court granted an injunction restraining the striking restaurant workers from interfering with the business of the proprietors. The order is simifar to that granted by the federal court against the teamsters. Fifty emergency deputy sheriffs appointed recently, and who were union strikers, were dismissed and nonunion men sworn in their places. The union officers were charged with persuading nan-union drivers to leave their work. Eighteen of the largest laundries in the city closed, lockiug out 500 lauiidry work-, ers. .KLONDIKE OUTPUT IS LARGE. Yukon Advices Estimate Clean-Up of Various Camps nt 25,000,oOl). Yukon advices state the clean-ups now in progress in Klondike, Atlin, Forty Mile, Rampart nnd Nome camps will produce $25,000,000 gold. Heavy snows are providing a maximum of water, enabling the miners to quickly wash out the immense dumps piled up during the winter. The Klondike output is estimated at $15,000,000. Hydraulic aud dredging outfits now being installed will greatly augment the output of all these camps by another season. Picks Up Check for $21,000. Patrick Moore, a flagman at the New Brunswick avenue crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Rahway, N. J., found a cheek for $21,000 which fluttered out of a window of tlie Long Branch express. The check was drawn on the Merchants’ National Bank of Chicago in favor of Mrs. Isabella Stewart, but the name of the maker was undecipherable. Five Men Poisoned; One Dead. J. B. Ficker, an Adams Express employe, and four fellow employes in Cincinnati, William Stevens, George Eherle, Louis Burbauk and William, are dangerously ill from drinking liquor which they supposed was whisky, forwarded from Memphis and addressed to Kate Nobbe, of Cincinnati. The liquor was found to be arsenic and whisky. Drastic Libel Bill Is Now Law. Governor Peunypacker, of Pennsylvania, has approved the Grady-Salus libel bill, against which delegations of the loading editors of the State have argued. The terms of the bill are drastic in the extreme and ninny editors have declared that if it became a law the liberty of the press would be a thing of the past. Cloudburst at Jacksonville, Flu. In Jacksonville, Fla., the recent rain cnlmfuaTed In a cloudburst, nnd as a result one square mile of the city was under water. Many citizens awoke to find their homes surrounded by water, aud every railroad track entering the city ; was flooded. The flood loss is estimated at $400,000. The rainfall for twentyfour lipurs is 8.41 inches. Menaced Life of President. Clay Taylor, alias Prof. Plutte, was arrested at San Jose, Cal., for supposed designs upon the life of the President. He has served three terms In prison. It j is alleged that he wrote to the President, advising him not to visit San Jose. He is also accused of recent anarchistic utterances. Navi Will Avoid Ftnoke. Compressed powder will be substituted for black powder In the ignition charges of the guns of the vessels of the North Atlantic squadron which are now repairing at the New York yard. This change is siade to avoid the smoke encountered In the use of black powder. Offers Colombia $12,000,090. It is reported in Panama that the Panama Canal Company has offered the Colombian government $12,000,000 of the $40,000,000 the company receives from the United States government for the property. Many Workers on Strike. Twenty thousqpd workmen are idle in Chicago because of strikes; 6,000 Deering harvester works employes out and 1,100 at Lassig iron works; 1,200 National Biscuit employes locked out; 1,000 •lectrlcal workers quit. Alfred Knapp Trial June 16. The trial of Alfred A. Ivnapp, the Indianapolis “Bluebeard,” has been assigned for Tuesday, June 16. at Hamilton,

Ohio. Knapp, who made a written confession of strangling five women and children, will be tried on a charge of choking his third wife, Hannah Goddard Knapp, and throwing her body in the river. Knapp repudiated his confession and declared he wrote it only to get rid of the police and newspaper men. EXPLOSION WRECKS CLUB. Bui Id Inc at Hartford Budljr Damaged and Guests in a Panic. An explosion at the Hartford Club, at Hartford, Conn., wrecked a part of the building, and a panic was caused. There were one or two dinner parties and the reception and reading rooms were well filled. Suddenly there was a roar in the kitchen nnd tho whole building seemed to be lifted. The boiler attached to the range had exploded. The brick wall was blown across the lawn 100 feet, barring the main entrance to the club. Over the kitchen were the grill room and billiard “hail. These were filled with men who were thrown in heaps with tables, chairs, pictures and glasses. The supports of tho floors were broken, but did not go down." Not a whole piece, of glass or crockery was left in this part of the building, and in the main part doors were blown off and elegant furnishings damaged. The main dining room, the _priyate dining rooms and the pantries and basement "are a jnass of wreckage. RAILROAD YARDS ON FIRE. Mills, Elevators and Freight Sheds at Buffalo Burned. The Diampnd mills, owned by Churchill & Co., an elevator owned by the same company, the transfer house of the Lake Shore and Erie railroads and about forty cars were destroyed by fire in Buffalo. A score of small houses in the vicinity of the big blaze were damaged by fires started from sparks, and it was only by the combined efforts of all the fire fng aj) p aratus. aiul-- firemen —hr the city 7 that a more extensive conflagration was prevented. The loss is estimated at $250,000. Lieut. Clark was struck *by the coupling of a hose which burst and was hurled against a wall, fracturiug his skull. He will die. - HESSIAN FLY ENDANGERS GRAIN Belief that Fully 75 Per Cent of Wheat Crop Is In Danger. There is much anxiety among grain men at the condition of wheat. It-has been found that the Hessian fly exists nt McPherson; Kan., to an alarming extent. From the samples of wheat brought in it was found that all grain is infested witli from one tb flies. Many of the stalks are already brqken in two. One-grain firm estimates that fully 75 per cent of the crop is in danger. All volunteer wheat seems to be completely "infested without exception. Beyond Reach of Courts. The State Auditor of Minnesota is beyond reach of the courts, according to a decision rendered in St. Paul by District Judge W. L. Kelly. The beet sugar company sought a mandamus to compel the auditor to draw a warrant for $20,000 due under the bounty law-, but the judge decided that he had no authority to issue siicli a writ against a State officer. 1 <• Engineer of Limited Dead. John Ilaley. engineer, was killed in a wreck on tho Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago aud St. Louis Railroad at Ivorydale, near Cincinnati. The Southwestern limited ran into an open switch, striking a switching engine on the siding. The two euginees were badly damaged and the baggage car was ’derailed. End of Deerinjr Strike. The Deering Harvester Works strike in Chicago was ended through the Chicago Federation of Labor’s efforts. The nine hour working day and permission to join labor unions was given by the company. Other differences will be arbitrated. Hill Forced to Grunt Concessions. The Great Northern has receded from its’ position, and the strike which threatened to tie up the entire system has been avoided. The trainmen have won a victory, and have forced concessions from President Hill, which have resulted in a new agreement. 3,000,090 Acres Purchased. A telegram confirms the purchase, by A. D. Davidson of Duluth aud associates of the entire land grant of the Canadian and Northern Railway, exceeding 3,000,000 acres. The consideration was $12,.000.000. , * ConTlctel Under Sherman Law. The Federal Salt Company has been convicted in the United States Court at San Francisco on the charge of maintaining a monopoly. The decision nftfks an Important victory for the government under the Sherman anti-trust law. Turkish Soldiery in Wholesale Murder Dispatches from Monastir state that Turkish soldiers and baslii bazouks have joined the Mussulman populace in the neighborhood nnd are killing Christians in cold blood. Houses are deserted and all shops are closed. Bull Player Fatally Hurt. In a baseball game between Cednrville College and Wilberforce University at the Wilberforce grounds, not far from Springfield, Ohio, Charles Glenn, center fielder for the Cedarville team, was fatally injured. *, Injunction Against Employers. Strikers at Omaha secured an injunction against the business men forbidding them td boycott union men or to hold meetings to conspire against the men now out. Chicago Attorney la Chooen. Washburn College of Topeka, Kan., has selected Ernest B. Coo ant of Chicago as dean of the new law £Chpoi which the college will establish this summer. Mr. Conant is a graduate of Harvard.

TRICK TO FREE MURDERER. Discovered In Time, and Prisoner la Sentenced to Penitentiary. Thomas Kelly was to the penitentiary by Judge Horton in Chicago for fourteen years for the murder of Thomas Tully. Kelly was a saloon-keep-er and Tully was a switchman. The quarrel was over 60 cents. Before the case was brought to trial Assistant State’s Attorney Carey discovered that the name in the indictment was Taljay, instead of Tully, and a second indictment was necessary. A peculiar condition of affairs developed that led the State’s Attorney to believe some one had tried to secure Kelly’s discharge by having the oarne of the murdered man appear incorrectly in the indictment. It was learned that when the coffin plate was made it was inscribed with the name “Tully,” which was correct. Then this plate was destroyed and one substituted bearing the name Tallay. A sister of Tully was brought from Ohio to establish his true name. Tully was 32 years old and unmarried.

DEATH ENDS LONG SEARCH. J. T. Toohey’s Demise in Chicago Reveals His Whereabouts to Brother, Michael Toohey of Hamilton, Ohio, after remaining forty-five years in ignorance of the whereabouts of his brother, J. T. Toohey, got news of him through a Chicago press dispatch. His search of nearly half a century was ended when he read that John T. Toohey, a millionaire of Australia, had died at the Auditorium Hotel in Chicago. Michael Toohey went to Chicago. When he arrived the widow and three daughters had started for Australia with tlie body. Mr. Toohey said that his brother left their father’s home in Ireland for Australia nearly fifty years ago, while lie._starteff for America. He - a letter two yearsJater-asElng him to come to Australia., but he lost it and was uever able to learn his brother’s address. BEATEN TO DEATH WITH BIBLE, Effort to Cast Out Devils Results in Arrest for Murder. A native Hawaiian at Honolulu was beaten to death with a Bible in the bands of a kuhuna, or native sorcerer. The victim was ill in bed and after being treated by a regular physician sent for a kuhuna, having more faith in the native “medicine man.” The kuhuna declared that the patient was possessed by devils and proceeded to cast them out by beating him over the head with a Bible. The "wife of the sick man was also induced to do some beating and then the kuhuna resumed operations. The man died as a result of the beating. The kuhuna has been held for manslaughter. - '’

Ramifications of Umbria Plot. The scene of the investigation into the plot to destroy the steamer Umbria has shifted to Chicago, and evidence was found showing that the infernal machine was made by George Russell, who roomed n week in a flat at 267 Washington boulevard. Belief that the plot was the work of anarchists and not the Mafia is strengthened by investigation. German Baron Is Found Head. George Kettler, who twenty years ago is said to have had the contract for manufacturing boots for the German army, and who as Baron vou Ketteler, owned half a million dollars in Hanover, was found dead in bed in his little shoeshop in Argentine, Kan. Women Hurt in Collision. Two street cars, the second and last in a string of three cars bearing a trolley party of officers and delegates of the national convention of the Royal Neighbors, collided on Central avenue at 17th street, Indianapolis. Ten women were more or less injured, three seriously. Girl Dies of Rnptured Heart. An autopsy on the body of lona Mason, the 13-year-old girl who it was supposed had committed suicide in Cleveland by drinking carbolic acid, showed that her death was caused by a ruptured heart. Lilliau Russell Is n Loser. Lillian Russell lost SI,OOO on Je Hune at the St. Louis fair grounds. Miss Bussell was accompanied by her daughter, Mira Lillian Russell Solomon, and between them they easily divided attention with the performances on the track. Kisses Come Hich. James P. Tittemore, the village blacksmith of Galway, N. Y., kissed Misa Frances Pettit 1,230 times in fourteen years and then refused to marry for which the'court gave the woman judgment for $3,000 damages. Jumps from Hotel Window. Laura Stickler, aged 25, jumped from a hotel window in Chicago to escape from Homer C. Reed, who had accompanied her to the hostelry. She is not seriously hurt. Reed, who Is n prisoner, denies the story told by Miss Stickler. Oldest Man in Ohio Dead. Peter Stansley died at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, at the age of 110 years, after an illness of seven weeks. He is survived by a widow 10G years old, to whom he had been married eighty-five years. He was the oldest man in Ohio. Fatal Kxploaion in Postoffice. Postmaster Hedges was instantly killed at. Kossuth, lowa, and the office destroyed by an explosion. Robbers are believed to have caused the explosiou. Florida Crops Are Injured. Reports from Florida indicate that the heavy rain and storm did much damage to • growing crops, early vegetables and fruit. Moros Make a Mistake. Six Moros attacked Capt. Pershing’s rear guard near Lake Lanao, in Mindanao, slightly wounding Lieut. Rugglaa. The guard pursued and-killad all aix.

SLAUGHTER OF JEWS

BHOCKING ATROCITIES REPORTED FROM KISCHINEFF.,* Horrible Details of Fiendish Barbarities by Russians Woman Disemboweled in Street—Children Flung from Windows and Trampled by Mob.

The victims in the Kischineff massacre number 1,000, according to the latest information received by the Jewish Chronicle of London. Of these at least sixtyfive were killed aud more than 300 maimed or crippled for life, while hundreds escaped with serious injuries from which they will eventually recover. The damage to property is estimated at 1,000,000 rubles (about $510,000). This amotfht, h.swever, may be largely increased by later news. The Jewish Chronicle says editorially: “We charge the Russian government with responsibility for the Kischineff massacre. If ‘Europe dots not on the present occasion disassociate itself from the leprous taint of this barbarian power it writes its humanity down a sham and its civilization as organized hypocrisy. “The cardinal fact of the whole tragedy is that the massacre was organized nnd abetted by Russian authorities. The killing and pillaging was done under cover of the troops nnd the police. During the two days the massacre lasted the governor did not leave his house. Telegraphic communication with St. Petersburg was stopped. “All the participants in the slaughter —who were chiefly imported hirelings—wore red shirts. An eyewitness is quoted as saying: ‘The police and troops formed circles in the center of which the slaying and looting was going on, the police pointing out the houses of the Jews to the mob.’ “The newspaper Weschod of St. Petersburg was suppressed for printing the facts. “Jew baiting is now spreading throughout southern Russia, stimulated by stories of so-called ritual murders. The judicial inquiry into tho massacre is not intended to disclose the facts, but to smother them up.” Tortured by Fiends. Dr. Doroschewski, the head physician of the National hospital at Kischjneffr after examining has given riic--£c r it6\viug specific instances of-hideous cruelty, says a dispatch to the New York World: “A Jewess named Sura Fonarschi was brought here with two nails, seven inches long, driven into her brain through her nose. “One Jew was brought in with one hip, both ankles and wrists broken, his severed iMuids-mtd -Jeet daugiiag. by the skim “A Jew named Charifop had lost his upper and under lips, which had been cut away with a kitchen knife, after Tvhieh Iris tongue and winapipe had been pulled out' through his mouth with pincers. “The ears of a Jew named Solzer had been cut away and his head battered in twelve places. He was a raving maniac. “A carpenter was surprised at work and both of his hands, were sawed off with his own saw. “A Jewish girl was assaulted by several brutes, who then cut her eyes out with a pocket knife. “One woman, after trying to defend her children, was thrown upon the pave ment disemboweled and feathers and horsehair from her bed were stuffed into her body. “Small children were flung out of windows and trampled upon by the mob. “Forty-seven were killed on the spot, eighty died of their injuries and 300 are under treatment. Many will be cripples for life. “Four thousand Jews are without food or shelter and it is impossible for them to get away.” , , The central committee of the relief of the Kischineff sufferers, upon the treasurer's report that there is on hand in the treasury the sum of $12,000, has decided to direct the treasurer to forward an additional 25,000 rubles by cable to Kischineff.

LABOR NOTES

Ogdensburg, N. Y., servant girls have formed a union. Bakers at Albany, N. Y., have inaugurated a movement to abolish night work. Schenectady, N. Y., has 8,856 trade unionists, an increase of over 6,000 in two year?. Electrical workers in Ohio met In Cleveland recently , and formed a State association. In Austria women are employed as hod carriers, and receive from 25 to 30 cents a day. Bricklayers and masons employed on State contracts in Holland receive 7 cents an hour. Blast furnacemen in Lancashire, England, have been given notice of a reduction of 8% per cent. Laundry workers nt San Francisco, Cal., will insist on a nine-hour day, with no decrease in pay. Iron and steel workers in Wales have been granted an increase of 3% per cent, datiug from April 1. Of the total number of skilled workmen in printing trades in Qermnny, 25 per cent are organized. Textile operatives in England hare formulated a new wage schedule calling for an increase in wages. A movement has been Inaugurated la Germany for the restriction of night work in some laborious Industries. Peoria, 111., painters demand 40 cents an hour and a forty-four-hour week, instead of 81 cents an hour and a forty-eight-hoar week. Another new political labor party has been started in Greater New York. It is a branch of the "United Protective League of Labor of the United States of America,” which was organized June 10, 1802, and has ita headquarters in WarhIngton, D. C. Richard J. Waldron, flnancial secretary es ths Amalgamated Painters and Decorators, is the organiser for the boroughs of Manhattan,' Richmond and the Bronx.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

T| “ ““I “Unrest in the ranks of Hew York. lalsor h as increased rather J than abated since May 1, when difficulties of this sort usually culminate. No single struggle of great magnitude is in progress, but the frequency of small strikes is disturbing, and in the aggregate tr large force Is idle, while important industrial undertakings are checked. Good reports are received from footwear factories, shipments from Boston for the year thus far surpassing all records, and clothing makers receive duplications of spring orders in addition to getting out fall samples,” according to R. G. Dun & Co’s Weekly Review of Trade. Continuing, the report says: Prices of commodities declined slightly during April, Dun’s Index number failing from $99,267 to $98,561. A year ago the highest point of recent years was touched at $102,289. Railway earnings in April were 13.4 per cent larger than in last year nnd 28.7 per cent above 1901. Cancellation of orders where deliveries failed to be made according to contract and new business at lower quotations indicate a tendency i toward more normal conditions in pig iron. This is highly desirable, and gives assurance that present activity in iron and steel may be maintained. Pending contracts for. about 50,000 tons of structural material have been closed, and other orders are only postponed by uncertainty regardingtha" labor situation. Railway requirements appear to have no limit, and the proposed extensions will consume large quantities of steel. Billets are one of the scarce articles at present, even imports being arranged with difficulty. 'lmplement manufacturers are surpassing all records in their purchases of merchant steel, machine shops are working at full capacity, and there is a brisk demand for plates, pipes and tubes. All leading machinery-markets report satisfactory conditions. Trade in hardware is of good volume, orders assuring activity for snipe time and new business still coming forward freely, especially at the South. Textile manufacturers at the East have not improved their position during the past w’eek. Jobbers are buying only small quantities, exercising a discrimination that indicates dull markets elsewhere, and salesmen are being withdrawn from the road. With large print mills closed, there is no activity in print cloths, nor fa the movement of brown sheetings and drills of any account. Abnormal prices for raw cotton might be expected to stimulate inquiry for goods, but the only effect Is to prevent sellers from making concessions. Higher figures are expected next week at the official opening of the season in carpets. More woolen mills have closed, and the market is featureless, but the new wool clip is firmly held. A steadier tone is noted in silks owing to reports that production will be curtailed. Bradstreet’a Trade Review. Business continues large and industry active, in most cases surpassing previous years at this date, despite unseasonable cool weather in some sections and a swarm of vexatious labor troubles. Most of the-measures of trade and industrial volume still titake farol-nble showings. The simply enormous gain in gross railway earnings reported for April, 15 per cent over the best in previous years, is proof that past good reports of trade and traffic were fully justified. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending May 7 aggregate 3,201,680 bushels, against 3,418,289 last week, 3,302,240 this week last year and 4,178,872 in 1901. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 191,503,163 bushels, against 219,166,728 last season and 180,939,973 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 1,631,709 bushels, against 2,210,155 last week, 126,755 a year ngo and 1,583,831 in 1901. For the fiscal year exports are 57,011,659 bushels, against 25,655,355 last season and 158,222,268 bushels in 1901.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.20; hogs, chipping grades, $5.50 to s6.S)t>; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2,43 cto 45c; oats, No. 2,31 c to 32c; rye. No. 2,49 cto 50c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $15.00;. prairie, $6.00 to $13.00; butter, ehoiee creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, 40c to 51c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $0.65; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No, 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c. Bt. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.25; hogs, $6.00 to $6.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.15; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2, 42c to 44c; oats, No. 2,32 cto 33c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.50 to $5.25; hogs, $4.00 to $6.45; Rheep, $3.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; oata, No. 2 mixed, to 35c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 55c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.40; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 70c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 3 white, 36c to 38c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 53c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 3,45 cto 46c; oata, Ko. 2 white, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 1,61 c to 63c; barley, No. 2,67 cto 58c; pork, mess, $18.60. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oata. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; rye. No. 2,61 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, $4.00 to $7.35. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.45; hogs, $4.00 to $6.50; sheep, $3.00 to $6.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn. No. 62c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; butter, creamery, 20c to 22c: eggs, western, 14c to 17*.