Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1903 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. aeo. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

PLOT TO ROB BANKS.

MEMBER OF GANG GIVES ACCOMPLICES AWAY, Hidden Tools and Explosives Found Where Writer of Anonxmou Letter Specified More Government Land to Be Thrown Open for Entry. Janies A. Cline of Onialm. national bank examiner, has in his possession a letter received by the First National Bank of Pilger, Neb., in which oue of a gang of robbers discloses the plans of a series of bank robberies in the West. The writer of the letter told where dynamite, nitroglycerin and tools for the robberies had been hidden in Filger, and the fact that the bank officials found the stuff at the place designated! leads Mr. Cline to believe that the letter is no joke. The letter in part says: “Your bank is going to be robbed on ther fnrst cloudy night that comes. I am trying ter warn yer. They nin’t done me square, an’ I am sick an’ tired of this yore life. If yonse will look under ther depo,' youse wil fine a bag which hes got dinamit e» a bottye of nitroglicerin in it an’ chisels en a hamer en some fuse. Ts youse will look in ther same place youse will fine a crowbar. They intends to dig thru the wall of yonr vanlt en then bloc ther safe. These things youse will find as told below on this diagram.’’ (Her? the diagram is drawn.) He names a long list of banks throughout the West which his baud planned to rob. The letter is undoubtedly genuine and the banks have been notified. BASK BALL SCORES. Stand ins of the Clubs in Big League Games. The clubs in the National League are Standing tbus: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...So 17Cincinnati ...24 2(1 New York... .3G 17 Boston 20 32 Chicago 36 20 Philadelphia. .15 3(1 Brooklyn .... .27 24 St! Louis.. ... 15 40 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American, League: W. L. W. L. Boston 32 20 Chicago 23 24 Philadelphia.. 32 20 New Y0rk....21 24 St. Louis 24 21 Detroit 21 20 Cleveland . . .20 23 Washington.. .14 35

FQUATTKRS ARK DRIVKN OUT. Gaverument to Throw Open More Lend for Entry. Edward Dixon, a special agent of the Interior Department, is now in eastern Oregon, warning cattlemen ami others who have fenced in government lands to tear down the obstructions. Those who fail to obey Mr. Dixon's orders will he prosecuted by civil and criminal proceedings being instituted. Over 500.000 acres of government land will be thrown open to entry by this action of federal officials. Negro Dies at Hands of Mob. Northern men, led by a Virginian, lynched George White, a negro murderer, within four miles of Wilmington, Del., burning him at the stake and firing many bullets into his body. Vhe lynching had l>een preceded by a battle with guards and policemen at the Newcastle County workhouse, in which several persons were wounded by bullets. The negro's victim was Miss Helen S. Itishop, the 17-year-old daughter of Rev. Dr. E. A. Bishop. Child Kills His Sister. Johnnie Kenzer, aged (5 years, shot and instantly killed his I'2-year-old sister. Gladys Kenzer, in St. Louis, while the little girl was endeavoring to take a rifle away from her brother. Lottie Lindsay, a playmate, wan present and saw the tragedy. When Johnnie realized what he had done he tried to cut his throat, but was restrained. Actress Is Fatally Shot. Ollie Foster, a variety actress, was shot and fatally wounded as she sat in a balcony box of the Imperial Music Hall, Coney Island. New York, by a well-dressed young man who says he is Edward Geets, 21 years old, of New York. Immediately after shooting the woman he tried to kill himself, but the revolver missed tire. Fatal Explosion in Cincinnati. By a terrific explosion the building of the Central Manufacturing Company, at Court and Russell streets, Cincinnati, was wrecked. Fred Pape, they principal owuer. was killed, and his partner, Joseph Kitchkowski, was fatally injured. Several girls, employed at the plant, were injured, none seriously. Many Flocking to America. The emigration figures for May. liHi.'t, show that more than twice as many poteons emigrated from Denmark to America as during the sanie period last yeatv and the ‘'American fever” shows no signs of abating. < Wool men Adopt Rate Plan. The Modern Woodmen's convention in Indianapolis adopted the lowa plan for the re-adjnrtment of rates by a vote of 215 hi to IWS. This provides for a graded increase ranging from 25 [mt cent to 100 I»cr cent. Convicts Escape nnd Are Retaken. Fifteen Canyon City (Colo.i convicts overpowered the guard*, seized the warden’* wife as n shield, blew the gate open, and escaped. The guards killed one, wounded two, and captured all. Vesuvius in Fall Krnptior. According to a special dispatch from Naples the volcano Y r eanvius is in full eruption. Heal Estate Dealer knnkrnpt. John A McAnJey, a real estate dealer gud builder, filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States courts at Columfitis. Ohio. His liabilities are scheduled at $00,03!) and assets at $7,705. Holt Hits Djrnaaiitel Fix Dead. Lightning struck a hut in which was •lured 3,000 pounds of dynamite at the new mines now being opened near SenecsviHe, Ohio, during a storm, and killed siz men and injure. 1 a score of others, besides ruining The mine shaft ami breaking nearly alf fne windows ia Kn -Ilia.

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

RUMOR OF ATTACK ON CZAR. Attempt Said to Have Been Made on Life of Kmperor A dispatch dated at Moscow says reports were current that an attempt upon the life of the Czar was only prevented at Hie last moment the other day, in the palace of Tsarskoe-Selo, on the eve of the departure of the court for the imperial villa in New l’aterboff. The wouldbe assassin attempted to gain access to the presence of his majesty by donning the uniform of a superior officer of the gendarmerie. There is much mystery about the affair, which has been hushed up in fear of its coming to the knowledge of the Czar, who, it is said, lias been in a highly nervous state since the Belgrade bntcherv. The Czar’s uneasiness over the Belgrade catastrophe arose from the fact that the regicides were military officers. About the personality of the man who attempted to assassinate the Czar at Tsarskoe-Selo nothing has yet transpired, and if the policy, and the minister of the interior can prevent the matter from becoming public nothing more is likely to he heard of him. EXPERT KILLED BY LIVE WIRE. Electrician Bent from Berlin Meets Death in Philadelphia. Otto Thornert, an electrical expert from Germany, was instantly killed by touching a live wire while inspecting a new switchboard for the Germantown, Pa., Electric Light Company. Shornert had been in America only a few weeks. He was formerly assistant supervisor of the electric light system of Berlin, and was an authority on electrical construction. He was sent here as an agent of a Berlin firm. Thornert was making the final adjustment of the switchboard when the accident occurred. Workmen in an adjojAiug room saw a flash, heard a heavjrfall and later found Thornert lying twenty feet from the switchboard, dead. It is supposed his hand came in contact with a switch, sending 2,500 volts through his [body. BRIDGE FALLS WITH CROWD. Nearly 200 Suffer in Carnival Crush at Eau Claire, Wis.—Two Will Die. The approach to the Madison street bridge in Eau Claire, Wis., went down under the weight of a big crowd gathered to witness the street carnival. Nearly 200 people who wete on the approach at the time fell to the bench below, a dis-v. tance of twenty-five feet. Six are badly hurt and two will die. Twenty-five others received serious injuries. The accident occurred during an illumination of th# street carnival booths along the main streets of the city. Hundreds of people had gone to the bridge to watch the illumination from this vantage point. The illumination was ended at once and every aid .that the city could give was extended to t&e suffering. Dubuque Cars Again Run. The Union Electric Company resumed the operation of street cars in Dubuque, lowa. They were shunned except by dwellers on the hill returning from church services in the morning. In the afternoou patronage was inconsiderable notwithstanding the ball game and the presence of several thousand excursionists. No interference was attempted by the strikers. Election Jml ires Sentenced. Three months’ imprisonment in the county jail was the punishment meted out to John J. Kelly,\Harry O’Donovau and Hiram B. Sherman, judges of election, by Judge Carter) of Chicago, who found them guilty of contempt of court for what lie termed tne most flagrant misbehavior at the ballot box that had ever come to his notice, i T 4 Branding May Kill Pupils. Clarence Mason, son of the chief of police, and Joseph Mclntyre maj*i die of Hood poisoning at New Bedford. Mass., as the result of being branded at an initiation into a secret society in thle local high school. Greek letters were burned into the foreheads of the candidates for membership by means of nitrate of silver and nitric acid.

Oil Trust “Gets Even." The Standard Oil Company has raised the price of oil in South Dakota 1 cent a gallon to counteract the effect of the law passed by the South Dakota Legislature, requiring a test for kerosene. It is estimated that this will greatly increase the profits of the company over and above the value of the oil which may be rejected under the test. \Hi:r Hailstones Kill Cows. A hailstorm covering a strip of land a tmile and a quarter in width passed over eastern Allen County, Ind., for a distance of three miles and covering New Ifavcn. In [daces the hail fell to a depth jf two inches and crops are ruined. Many daws were killed. \ Dismissed for Crooked Work. James T. Metcalf, chief of the money order division of the Postofflee Department, has becti summarily dismissed for attempting to persuade the lowest bidder for a contract to withdraw, leaving the company that now has the contract the* lowest bidder. Bad Washouts in Mon ana. Washouts on the Northern Pacific between Big Timber, Mont., and Billings were even worse than at first reported. Near Columbus a steel bridge thirty feet long was swept away. Oliver Bassett of Park City lost about 2,500 head of sheep. Arnold Gives Himself Up, E. J. Arnold, under several indictments in connection with the operation of get-rich-quick concerns in St. Louis, surrendered to the authorities. He wenl lo police headquarters accompanied by his wife and attorney. ■ a Lyddite Factory Blowa Up. Twenty men were killed and thirteen injured by an explosion in the lydditt factory at the Woolwich arsenal in Kng-

land. Several of the victims were literally blown to pieces. The building was wrecked, the roof was blown off and the interior collapsed. The explosion is attributed to the bursting of a shell. There were many pathetic scenes about the gates of the great arsenal, where thousands of relatives! of employes besieged the officials for information. BOY CAGED WITH ANIMALS. Stolen Child Tells of Terrible Treatment by Bhowmcn, Kidnaped by circus hands, John Layton, a G-year-old hoy, told the police at East St. Louis that his clothes had been taken from him, that his face and hands had been discolored as a disguise, and that he had been locked in a cage with monkeys as a wild boy. He trembled with terror even as he told the story of his terrible experience, and not even in the company of his father, Patrick Layton, would he be comforted. His body is covered with scars. His tortures have left him a nervous wreck and the sight of a stranger drives him into a fit of hysterical fear. For more than a week the child had been missing until the other day, when the .police found the terrified little one running into town. Sylvester Baker, a negro attache of tl{e carnival show, is under arrest, but he: has been taken to Belleville to prevent W possible lynching. \ MEXICAN OFFICIALS BRUTAL. , American and English Travelers Said , to Have Suffered Indignities. R. B. Bryan and wife have arrived in Aberdeen, Wash., after six months in Mr. Bryan tells a, story of many indignities suffered at the hands qf Mexican officials at Guaymas, which is almost incredible. With his wife Bryan hoarded a at Alamos Topolobampo for Guayamas, stopping at Mazatiau to put off mail. There they were quarantined and both men and women were treated iu\ a scandalous and brutal manner. Oue Englishman, lie says, tried to escape and Was subsequently found dead, with a bullet hole through his temple. Bryan says that the whole affair was presented tc the American and British consuls at Guayamas before the officers would take any action. ROBS FBL jOW UNION MEN... Hntmaker of Nriwark, N. J., Forces Payments for His Extortion Fine. Accused of attempting to extort money from employes iii\ a hat factory._Da.vid Richman has beei\ fined $999.99 by the II at makers’ Union at Newark, N. J. About eight mouths ago similar charges were made against Ribhman. He was lined $99.99. He declares that the new charges are trumped up and that he will not pay the second finb. The complainants asserted before tlije union that Richman had forced them to pay him $2 a week out of their wages with which to pay his first fine. They also declared that they know he was receiving money from other men in-(he shop. Richman, they said, told them that the money was to go to the firm. LEOPARD TEARS A WOMAN. Animal Trainer Fatally In jured While Taming Dangerous Beast. . Mine. M. L. Morreli, a professional trainer of wild animals, was torn nearly to pieces by a 6-year-old leopard while she was attempting to teach it tricks in one of the big cages of Rostock’s animal show at Coney Island, New York. The great animal leaped on her back from above, and before it could be driven off by Rostock and his assistants had torn and scratched the woman almost fatally. Held for Alleged Bribery. George Eaton, cashier in W. Wellington Company’s bank at Corning, N. Y., was arrested by Deputy United States Marshal Sanforifi Deved on the charge of attempting to bribe Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ‘Taylor. The treasury official, it is said, had charge of the matter of selecting a site for the new federal building at Corning. Belgian Steamer Loati Eight Drowned The Belgian steamship Rubens sank off Cbristiansand. The captain, mate and six sailors were drowned. Seven survivors drifted twenty-three hours in an \open boat, aud three of them died from exposure. The other four were picked up by a Norwegian steamer.

Chicago Waiters’ Strike Ends. Striking hotel and restaurant employes in Chicago have capitulated, joint board through Steam Power Council making overtures in writing to employers for peace, agreeing to submit all differences to arbitration. New Servian King Recognized. King Peter of Servia has been formally recognized by Russia, Italy and Austria, but latter!* sovereign practically commands punishment of conspirators who killed King Alexander: there will be an outbreak if he is obeyed.

Battleship Rains a Schooner, The schooner Martha T. Thomas was rammed and nearly sunk in Massachusetts Bay by the battleahip Massachusetts on a clear night. The cargo of pine prevented its sinking. An investigation is likely. » End of Textile 6trike. The Lowell (Mass.) textile workers’ strike hns been declared off .and 17,000 operatives will resume work at former pay. About $1,300,000 were lost in wages. Cleveland Nat Seeking Nomination. Former President Grover Cleveland has broken Ins silence and declared that he does not want the nomination for the presidency. Bad Weather a Setback. R. G. Dun & Co. report merchandise distribution hindered by weather, with trade generally satisfactory; Jane railroad earnings 5.8 per cent over 1902.

FORCE WORK ON WARSHIPS. Government May Act in United States Ship Building Company Tangle. The government of the United States is interested to the extent of $15,000,000 in the proposed reorganization of the United States Shipbuilding Company, having war craft to that valuation under contract in the various yards, and may take some positive stand in the matter. In every contract between the government and a shipyard there is a clause providing that in, case of delay the former may take the details of construction away from the contractor and complete the vessel by government officers and employes. Lewis Nixon, head of the Shipbuilding Company, who is to retire July 1, has stated that there will be no delay in the work on government contracts, but if the bitter fight between the dissenting bondholders and the company results in a receivership the delay incident to the termination of legal proceedings over the property may be sufficient to cause the government to take its warships elsewhere. LOCKS OUT 10,000 EMPLOYES. Tie-Up of the Building Trades in New j York Is Made Complete.. / Ten thousand employes of the George /A. Fuller Construction Company were I thrown out of work by order of the company, thus inuring the lockout in the building trades complete in New York. While not joining the Employers’ Association in membership, the Fuller company took this sympathetic action on the same grounds as those maintained by members of the association. The 150,000 laboring men who are idle because they are members of building trades unions have been served with the ultimatum of the combined contracting constructors that they will remain idle as long as the individual unions refuse to sign the plan or agreement of arbitration and conciliation proposed by the Employers’ Association. BANK OFFICIAL KILLS SELF. Frank Dean, Vice President Seaboard National, New York, a Suicide. Frank Dean, a vice-president of the Seaboard National Bank at 18 Broadway, New York, committed suicide at his home at Orange, N. J. He arose at the usual hour aud went into the cellar, where he shot himself in the head. Mr, Dean’s family advances no motive for his act, but at the bank the officers said Mr. Dean was despondent over domestic afflictions. Mrs. Dean has been an invalid for years and an only son, about 12 years old, recently was stricken with pneumonia. It was stated emphatically at the bank that Mr. Dean’s act was not because of financial matters, as he was involved in no divestments. Until a few months ago Mr. Dean was cashier of the Fifth Avenue Bank. He was about 40 years old. To Merge Vanderbilt Lines. Important changes, it is asserted, are pending in the Vanderbilt railroad systems. President Ledyard of the Michigan Central is to retire Aug. 1, and W. H. Newman, president of the New York Central and the Lake Shore roads, will be made the president of the Michigan Central. This is but the beginning of other changes. The Michigan Central, it is added, will lose,its identity. Safe Robbers liet $1,003. RobbeTS' dynamited the Pennsylvania Railroad safe in the station at Struthers, Ohio, and secured SI,OOO in money, after cutting the railroad and telephone wires, and escaped. The vault of the Struthers Furnace Company was also broken into and $97 secured. \ Death of Major Pond. Major James Burton Pond, famous as a manager of lecturers and singers, {lied at his home in Jersey City as the result of au operation, in which his right leg was amputated. He had been ill for a month. Lynchers Are Foiled. The attempted lynching of George White, the negro, alleged to have murdered Helen Bishop near Wilmington, Del., was prevented by the workhouse prison warden. The girl’s family advised againat violence.

Knnsas Nee 'e Harvest Hands. T. B. Gerow, director of the Kansas free employment bureau, has received final estimates us to the numbey of outside harvest hands to be needed this venr. The total number foots up to 28,100. Minister Dies from Hunger. Rev. Frank Hayes, a superannuated Methodist minister, died from exposure and hunger endured at North Topeka, Kau., during the recent flood. His house was surrounded by water and he was without food for fonr days. Postofficc Robbed of S3OO. The postofflee at Rhodes, lowa, l/4 «vas entered by burglars and the safe wrecked with dynamite. The booty secured by the robbers was S3OO in cash and stamps. There is no clew to their idem tity. ■ American Derby Winner. The American Derby was run at Chicago /Saturday in 2:33. It was won by The Picket, with Claude second aud Bernays third. Rmaib-Up on Illinois Central. Ten persons lost their live* when the Omaha-Chicago )imite<fr,wn the Illinois Central, collided head-on with a freight train just west of Raymond, lowa. U. A Grant for Second Place. The San Diego, Cal„ Union announce* that U. S. Grant is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Vice-Presi-dent next year..

Henry F. Greene Named. Henry F. Greene Of Dulnth ha* been appointed civil service commissioner to succeed Mr. Garfield. Mr. Greene is a lawyer.

CLEVELAND BREAKS SILENCE Bay* He Ha* No Desire for ■ Fourth Nomination. The New York World publishes a dispatch from Princeton, N. J., quoting exPresident Cleveland as saying: “It is perfectly absurd to suppose for ah instant that I have any desire to reenter public life. Nor have I remotely ■entertained the thought since I left Washington, more than six years ago. The matter is as far from my thoughts as it was in 1890; when, all must admit, it was not within my hearing or sight I have no higher aspiration than to pass my days in peace with my family around me and take no part in politics which any private citizen cannot take with the utmost propriety. “I have never spoken to anybody on the subject of a fourth candidacy. I have nevet written to a single political friend one way or the other, nor have

GROVER CLEVELAND.

I been written to or spoken to by them. There is not a political leader of qny prominence endeavoring to advance any movement to nominate me in any State so far ns I have been advised, nor do I anticipate that, any such effort will bS made by any leader, prominent or obscure, in any locality in the country. “I have on several occasions within a year undertaken to perform the labor which usually falls to the private in the ranks, but there has not lurked within me the hope of any reward save the consciousness of having made an effort to assist in bringing about salutary conditions in the party.”

JETT JURY DISAGREES.

Reports Inability to Reach a Verdict and Is Discharged, When the jury in the Jett-White trial came into court at Jackson, Ivy., a third time Friday and reported that it was unable to agree, Judge Red wine dismissed the jurors. This was followed by the announcement that the case would be transferred to C.vnthiana, Harrison County, for the second trial. It was believed that there was only one man between the verdict of guilty or not guilty. It was conceded that one juror was then for conviction and that the question of punishment had not been considered. Later the jury again reported it was unable to agree and shortly after 9 o’clock it was discharged. The dominant faction evidently expected acquittal, but- there was nt least one juror who w : ould not so report. Gov. Beckham was asked on receiving the news from Jackson what he would do, if anything. He said: “I cannot say at this time what I will do. I must refuse to make any statement.”

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

After a trial in the Criminal Court, in which the law and the evidence were pretty thoroughly threshed out on both sides, a jury, after deliberating only a few minutes, acquitted Miss Kate Mason, principal of one of the Indianapolis schools, from the charge of assault and battery for whipping a boy pupil. Under the strong and clear charge of the court the jury could not have done anything else. The court’s charge was good law as well as good sense, and the verdict of the jury was right. The charge was all good, and part of it is worth repeating. The judge said: “Without the power and authority to compel by all reasonable means and methods order and obedience the millions of dollars spent in this country for the care and management of our schools—the great bulwark of our country—are as good as wasted. The law in cases like this not only presumes that the teacher is innocent as charged, but the law also presumes that in this punishment she lias done her duty in the enforcement of obedienfce and order in her school. * * • Do you think or believe that a fine wrongfully or erroneously assessed in this case will aid the teachers ,in this school in their attempt ~to enforce good order nnd obedience, or would it have a tendency to cause others to rebel and disobey and prosecute, when the teacher endeavored to compel obedience? The welfare and best interests of all school children in this country in the future, the good of the common schools, law nnd order, cnch and nil demand that you make no mistake in this case.”

The court emphasized the importance of sustaining teachers in fheir efforts to maintain discipline, and deprecated interference by parents to prevent a reasonable exercise of authority. It pointed out the fact that under the laws of the State “teachers have the same rights and authority to pnnisb children *inde£... their charge, in a reasonable manner for all misconduct,-that the parent of the child has, alad the law will not interfere unless the punishment inflicted is cruel and unreasonable.” —Indianapolis Journal. One of the most elaborate edutpUional systems in the country is that of the Young Men’s Christian Association, which embraces the following lines, jrf study: Association libraries, reading rooms, practical talks, educational lectures, study clubs and evening institutes. The system embraces class work of the public schools and the lecture and library work of technical schools. New York teachers’ college has bought four lots for $50,000. which are to be used as a garden, with green houres and flower beds, and it will lie au outdoor laboratory for nature study. '•

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

“Eicegt in those branches of business that are always quiet at this

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season reports indicate a steady demand and prices of commodities are firmly mainlined. Manufacturing returns are irregular, idleness in textile lines partially offsetting the good effect of activity elsewhere. Earnings of railroad* reporting for the first week of June are only 3 per cent larger than last year and 7.8 per cent greater than in 1901, a condition due entirely to western floods. That furnace stocks of pig iron increased only 40,000 tons despite the unprecedented output testifies to the great consumption of the steel industry. Quotations are without alteration, although much business is delayed by labor troubles. In case of a general settlement of these conflicts there would be resumption of work on many buildings, aud, including the requirements of railroads, a heavy tonnage would be sought.” \ R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade makes the foregoing summary of the industrial situation. Continuing, the review says: It is an evidence of confidence in the future that blast furnace operators nre forcing production beyond all previous maximum figures. While the demand for structural steel has diminished, there is notable inquiry for rails and plates. Machinery and hardware lines are doing remarkably well for the season, which is usually quiet in these departments. Coke ovens are surpassing allprevious records for activity, and the output of anthracite coal promises to establish a new high water mark this year above 00,000,000 tons. Failures this week were 215 in the United States, against 102 last year, and 14 in Canada, compared with 20 a year ago.

Two widely divergent views came out during the week almost simultaneous-

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ly, through inquiry prompted by the reports of lighter trade received from some by the course of the securities market, which was on a steady decline. One interview was with an American who has been styled the leading merchant of the country; the other opinion emanated from the head of the London branch of the great hanking house of Rothschild. Marshall Field of Chicago sees in the labor situation, in the continued disaffection and persistent demands of various labor organizations for increased compensation, a menace to the welfare of tho country. Labor, in his opinion, has gone too far in our ebuntry, and there is a day of reckoning to come, when with a lessening of trade activity and recessions all around, labor, too, will find its value on decline. This day, he believes, is being hastened by the laboring men themselves in their insistence upon concessions which employers are obliged to grant under tho stress of a temporary labor scarcity; concessions which having been wrung out of employers through threats of ruinous strikes, will be the less likely to hold long after an easier tone develops in the labor market. While noting every element of an adverse nature, Mr. Field would put the labor question above them all in importance as bearing upon the question of a setback to American industry. Lord Rothschild confined his observations principally to stock market affairs. He says: Two years ago when’Wall street was almost crazy with ball speculation no American talked of anything but further advances. To-dayi--wjth a record of heavy declines, there has been and there still is much pessimism and the prediction of further heavy declines yet to come. It is often true that one must stand outside his local environment to see the conditions surrounding him in their proper relation to conditions of wider extent, and it is probably true that Americans are more likely to be;blinded by the light of their own fires in which they stand, than arc the men who watch them from a distance. The time for the American pessimist is gone. • A year ago there was a chance for the cautious business man to go on record as predicting a turn of lessened activity, and some few did this and had their predictions fairly well borne out. But the man who turns pessimistic now, after the passing of some of the most unfavorable features and the full discounting of the unfavorable features that still remain, is likely to be ns wrong as was the man who shouted for still further expansion when the country was honoring beyond the limits of safety.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, commoh to prime, fG.OO to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $5.00 to $0.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 'to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 75e to 77c; corn. No. 2,48 cto 49c; oats. No. 2,35 c to 37c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 51c; lujy, timothy, $8.50 to $16.00; prairie, $6.00 to $15.00; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, 75c to 90c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $3.85; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn. No, 2 white, 49c to 50e; oats, No. 2 white, 39c to 40c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.30 to $5.10; hogs, $5.00 to $6.07; sheep, $3.00 to $4.60; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 80c: coni.- No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2,41 cto 42c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixcd( 72c to 73c; com, No. 2 mixed. 46c to 47q; oats, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye. No. 2,52 c to 54c; clover seed, prime, $6.00. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $0.25; sheep, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $7.25. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.45; hogs, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 -to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 83c to S4c; com. No. 2,57 cto 58c; oats, No. 2 white, 45c to 40e; butter, creamery, 20c to 21e; egg*, western, 15c to 18c.