Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1903 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. QEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, ■ - INDIANA.

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END OF PECULIAR MAN IN AN | ALMSHOUSE. Harvard Graduate Xa Victim of Star* vation and Kxpoanre After Life of Solitude—Com mission Appointed to Battle Dispute Over State Line. Rescued from starvation and exposure, • graduate of Harvard College is dead la the county almshouse at Bethany, N. Y. He was James C. Hall and during forty years he bore the name of the Alexander hermit. No one ever knew what drove him from society, but durtat two score years he lived absolutely •lone on his farm of 160 acres near Alexander. The place ran to weeds and brambles, barns and sheda rotted away, every room in the house but the kitchen was closed. In one of the rooms was found a library of 300 or 400 volumes on philosophical works, many of great value. Early in March a rural mail carrier, not having seen any signs of life about the house for several days, entered and found Hall, who was 75 years of age, propped up in a chair. He was greatly emaciated and said he had eaten nothing in several days. The authorities removed him to tho almshouse against his vigorous protest and succeeded in saving his life for a time. Hall died without revealing the secret of his strange life. BASK haILl scores. Stand Ins of the Clubs in Bis Leasns Games. Thdfclubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. - W. L. Pittsburg .. .50 21 Brooklyn ... .34 34 New Y0rk...44 24 Boston 27 42 Chicago 43 «P St. Louis 26 40 Cincinnati .. .35 33 Philadelphia. .20 49 Following is the standing of the clubs In the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 45 25 Chicago 32 33 Philadelphia..4o 30 Detroit 32 33 Cleveland ...36 31 St. Louis 28 35 New Y0rk...33 30 Washington. ..19 48 BURN MAN IN WOMAN’S GARB. Ohio Men Saturate Party Dresa with Keroaene ane Fet It on Fire. John Ryan, aged 52, donned a woman’s party gown and entered a Cleveland saloon. Several men who were standing •bout the bar began to jeer him. Finally one of them poured coal oil on the trail) of the gown and touched a match. Before Ryan was aware of what had happened the flames shot up about his shoulders. "He ran shouting from the room. Before he could be rescued the flames had consumed the, dress and burned Ryan so badly that he will not live. The police are investigating and an arrest will probably be made. WILL DETERMINE 6TATE LINE. IHapute Between South Dakota and Nebraska to Be Settled. Gov. Mickey of Nebraska has appointed C. Swanson of Oakland, Dr. F. Q. Robinson of Hartington and E. A. Lundberg of Wayne to act as boundary commissioners to determine the State line between South Dakota and Nebraska. The appointment was made by virtue of an act passed by the last Legislature. The change in the channel of the upper Missouri river is in a measure responsible for the boundary line dispute. The commissioners from the two States will meet soon. Decrease in Potato Acreage. The statement of the potato crop made In the monthly crop report rent out by the Agricultural Department has proved tomewhat misleading. The total estimated acreage for potatoes exclusive of sweet potatoes for the entire country is 2,916,855, or 49,000 acres less than the potato acreage of last year. Losses Caused by Flames. The Bellefonte Window Glass Company’s plant and the car barn of the Bellefonte Central Railroad and adjacent buildings at Bellefonte, Pa., were destroyed by fire. The loss on the glass plant is 560,000, insurance 511,000. Other losses, 55,000, with a partial insurance. Hanged by Trousers’ Belt. J. Marshall Funek, city solicitor of Lebanon, Pa., and one of the best known lawyers in that section, committed micide in his office by hanging himself with bis trousers belt. New Passenger Station Opened. The new Chicago passenger station of the Rock Island, the Lake Shore and the Nickel Plate railroads, said to be the font in the United States, h%s been opened. The structure cast 53,000,000. Nurse and Child Drowned. Josie Merry, a girl, and Miss Ashton, a professional nurse, were caught by the undertow and drowned at Wading river, Long Island, while bathing. New Powder Is a Wonder. The German Minister of War has appointed a commission to test a new explosive termed sophrait, said to surpass •11 other explosives a hundred fold. Killed by Live Wire. Moses Blewett of Duluth and George Rabiachund, an expert electrician, Minneapolis, were instantly killed at Duluth bjr coming in contact with a live wire. Chicago's Population Increases. , Chicago's population, based upon compilation of the 1903 directory, is 2,231,000. j Girl Kills Herself. Arabella Edeeus, 16 years old, daughter of Philip Edeens, a farmer, committed suicide at her home in North Carton- _ ville, W. Va. Tire girl had committed an offense for which her father whipped her •everely. &■’ Niue Hurt in Collision. In • collision between a south-bound Halated street car and a Wan Buren •treet electric motor in Chicago, nine persona were painfully injured and many more were bruised and cut. Both cal'

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS

HANNA’fe HANDS ARE NOW FREE. Ohio Senator Bells All Business Interests for Sake of Politics. Senator Hanna will from now on devote all of his attention to politics. He has disposed of his business affairs in such a way as to leave himself care free. His steamship lines, liis iron ore mines, bis coal mines, and last, but not least, his street railwnys have been disposed of so effectually that he could not only take a two weeks’ vacation but one lasting ten years or more without any thought as to how they would be Conducted during his absence. In fact, it is stated the only tangible property possessed at the present time by the M. A. Hanna Company is the office furniture on the sixth floor of the Perry Paine building in Cleveland, where it has its offices. For a long time the business affairs of Senator Hanna have been a source of great worry to him. It has been his ambition to devote all of his time to public affairs, and even though his business enterprises were varied and important, he has yearned for the freedom which would enable him to pursue any given course without regard to the details of a business. UPSETS NEW MINNESOTA LAW. Supreme Court Say* Inheritance Tax Statute la Unconstitutional. The Minnesota Supreme Court lias declared the inheritance tax law of 1902 unconstitutional. The court’s opinion comes in a case hffeeting the estate of the late Sol Smith Russell, the actor. Mr. Russell’s wife, as executor of his estate, applied to Probate Judge Harvey of Minneapolis for the distribution of the residue of the estate to her as sole devisee. The Probate Court refused to do this on the ground that (the estate was subject to an inheritance tax of 5575.55. The District Court iieued a writ of mandamus on the judge of probata, but the judge of probate appealed. The Supreme Court affirmed the order. The Supreme Court declares the law unconstitutional iu its entirety.

THREATEN NEGRO HARVESTERS. Kansas Farmers Appeal to the Governor to Protect Employes. In several localities In the Kansas wheat belt negroes have been imported to help in saving the wheat. In all of these disturbances and threats of violence have been made by the white men. Four Edwards County farmers wired Gov. Bailey for protection against threatened' mobbing of negro harvesters by white men. Gov. Bailey wired that they must apply to the sheriff for the protection asked for. Negroes are flocking into the wheat belt on every traiii. Pratt County the other day advertised for 500 additional men, and the next day 100 negroes from Missouri were en route there. Trouble is expected. Fleot Sent to China. The Navy Department lias ordered the battleship Wisconsin, the first class cruisers Albany, Cincinnati and Raleigh to the gulf of Pechili. China, to augment Rear Admiral Evans’ squadron. In addition. the nrmored cruiser New York, the cruiser Marblehead and the gunboat Bennington, now on summer cruise under command of Rear Admiral Glass, are to join Rear Admiral Evans’ squadron at once. Debt of 30 Cents Causes Mnrdcr. Because Frank Thompson owed him 30 cents as the result of a game of poker which they had just finished, Enoch Burrell killed Thompson at Davis City, lowa. Burrell struck Thompson on the temple with liis bare fist twice. Death was said to be instantaneous. Burrell has been arrested and is in jail at Lamoni. Fireman Killed, Many Hurt. A head-on collision occurred at Berlin Center, Ohio, between a passenger and freight train on the Pittsburg, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railroad. Passenger Fireman Cecil McKnight of Espyville, Pa., was instantly' killed and several others were hurt. Just what is the cause of the accident is not yet known.

Mob Exiles Man and Woman. At Hokab, Minn., a mob of thirty-five citizens took Mrs. Ruby Santros and William lieode from bed in the former’s home, stripped them nuked in the public square, applied a coat of tar and feathers and whipped them out of town, leaving them, with the warning that if they returned they would be lynched. Makes Bis Haiti on Gamblers. Kansan City, Kan., the rendezvous for the gamblers of the middle West, was the scene the other day of a raid by the police, when more than 300 slot machines were turned to the wall and seven gambling houses closed. The poolrooms were not molested. Eighteen Entombed Miners Saved. Eighteen miners were entombed when a gangway caved in at the Heading Coal and Iron Company’s Big Mountain colliery at Shamokln, Pa. A rescuing party drove a hole into the mine through an old slope and reached the miners, who were alive and uninjured. To Revise Methodist Ritual. A commission of fourteen bishops and delegates of the Methodist Episcopal Church North and the Methodist Episcopal Church South is holding sessions nt Ocean Grove, N. J., to revise the catechism and ritual of the two churches so that they will conform to each other. Live Wire Kills Poor. During a heavy rainstorm lightning struck a trolley wire in Pittsburg. It snapped and one end fell into a wagon containing ten persons, killing three men and a woman and badly shocking the ether occupants. Posad Dead with Skull Crushed* Mrs. Mary Gilmore, aged 60, and who lived alone in west of Terre Haute, Ind., was found dead. , Her skull was fractured and there was evidence of a desperate struggle. A woman living

nearby says she saw a man quarreling with her and that they went into the hut Mrs. Gilmore is supposed to have had a small amount of money in her possession, of which no trace was found. v KINSHIP PREVENTS MARRIAGE Cincinnati Girl Finds Intended Husband Is Her Brother. Heartbroken ‘ because she could not marry a man whom she had only recently discovered was her brother, Miss Henrietta Distler, aged 18, committed suicide in Cincinnati by taking poison. The girl and her brother, George, nged 20, came< to this country when they were infants. They lost their parents and were cared for iu the children’s home in Cincinnati. Subsequently the girl was adopted by Herman Niederhelnx and the boy by another family. They never knew of their relationship until after an intense affection had sprung up between the two. Two weeks ago the young man discovered that his betrothed was his sister, and told her so. She returned to her home and took poison, and died several hours later. She left a pitiful farewell letter, in which she declared her love for her brother and requested him not to marry for two years after her death. IS KIDNAPED BY DETECTIVE. Charles Marco, Wanted in California, Is Abducted in Chicago. Charles Marco, wanted in San Francisco for grand larceny on the charge of having stolen 50,800 in cash from Mrs. Julia Klein, was kidnaped at Chicago and taken to Joliet by Detective Sergeant J. F. Dinan, and the aame night he was taken on a Santa Fe California lipaited bound for San Francisco. The officers feared that Marco’s friends would eecure a writ of habeas corpus and prevent them from taking him out of the State. Marco was arrested in Chicago about fifteen days ago and placed under 58,000 bonds. When the case came up before Justiee Prindivillc he was discharged, as the crime was committed in California.

SISTERS BATTLE WITH FLAMES. Show Pluck in Combating Fire in a Kansas City institution. Before firemen could arrive Sisters of Charity from the House of the Good Shepherd assisted in fighting a fire that destroyed the sexton’s house -in Mount St. Mary’s cemetery, Kansas City. Although the sexton and his wife were forced to flee for their lives some of the sisters entered the burning building and assisted in saving the furniture, while others played a stream of water on the flames with a garden hose. B. J. Donnelly was burned sdlightly: Outlaw* Kill a Marshal. \J, B.' Jones, a United States deputy marshal, was shot and killed neiyr Big Heart, in the Osage Nation, I. T.j, by outlaws. Particulars are meager. As deputy marshals have been chasing the Ben Cravens gang iu that part of the territory, it is believed that Jones was killed iu a fight of officers with the outlaws. Dallas Official Is Killed. L. A. Moore, secretary of the city of Dallas, Texas, was shot and almost instantly killed by his son Ernest, nged 22 years. Moore, it is alleged, had been drinking and had attacked liis younger son. The other son, Ernest, was remonstrating with the father, who turned upon him, when the son fired the fatal shot. Extra Session In Colorado. Gov. Peabody of Colorado has called an extra session of the Legislature to meet July 20 for the purpose of passing n new general appropriation bill for the support of the State institutions. The bill ns passed at the last session was declared illegal by the courts. Line to Dawson Is Ready. The last link of the United States government telegraph system connecting St. Michael, Alaska, with Seattle lias been connected, but vast forest fires have interrupted communication. Miles of telegraph poles have been burned in the wilderness through which the line runs. Bridegroom Ends Life. In Springfield, Ohio, Charles Fidler, who was married only five months ago to a beautiful young woman, had a quarrel with his bride. Immediately afterward he took a revolver and blew out his brains. Pardoned by Kansas Governor. A. J. Fatterson, convicted at Concordia, Kan., and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for withholding 55,000 collected from the illicit saloons at Clyde ns license payments while he was County treasurer, was pardoned by Gov. Bailey. Alarm Over Damage to Wheat. Alarm is felt over the presence of army worms in the northwestern piypt of North Dakota. Reports have been sent to Prof. Waliron of the North Dakota Agricultural fcollege that the worms are devastating some of the wheat fields. *' Italian la Killed in Riot. In a riot between citizens of Milford Center, Ohio, and a gang of Italian laborers employed on the Panhandle Railroad, one Italian was shot and killed, another seriously 'wounded and several citizens stabbed. Longatreet Loses Left Eye. Gen. James Longstreet of Gainesville, Ga., now in his eighty-first year, will submit to an operation for the removal of hia left eye, destroyed by cancer. Gen. Longstreet has beeu in ill health for several months. Governor Durbin Forbids Trial. Gov. Durbin of Indiana has forbidden the immediate trial of Robert Lee, murderer of Patrolman Massey at Evansville, declaring that be would not be sore of a fair hearing at tha present time.

.SUPPORT KOCH THEORY. Experiments with Animal Tuberculosis Confirm the Professor’s Claims. The Berlin Medical Society has heard Prof. Kossel of the imperial health office report the results of the prolonged experiments of the tuberculosis commission in infecting calves with human tuberculosis. The results were that nineteen calves subcutaneously treated did not show the slightest effect, nine showed after four months the slightest changes of condition, and seven showed- more marked symptoms, but the propagation of tuberculosis in the body did not occur. On the other hand, four inoculations from tuberculosis children infected calves with a disease which resembled a weak type of animal consumption, and two of this number died from, tuberculosis. The commission summarizes as follows: “The series of experiments strengthens Prof. Koch’s view that animal consumption ns the cause of human consumption does not play the role generally attributed to it; but definitive judgment requires further experimentation.” NEW PERIL IN PEKIN. Foreign Legations Sail to Be Preparing for Chinese Rising. Word has reached St. Petersburg from Pekin that a rising similar to the Boxer outbreak is imminent and that the foreign legations are so greatly alarmed that thpy have asked their governments for protection. The report comes from Pekin through a semi-official paper published at Blagovestchensk, which says: “The legations have again taken precautions for eventualities. Quantities of provisions have been hurriedly stored in the legation buildings and the guards have been re-enforced. The European governments have received disquieting information.” The same paper says it is credibly reported that the American legation at Pekin has urgently asked assistance from Washington. Popular feeling in China is once more assuming a highly dangerous character, and a fatal explosion may result at any time.

FOREST FIRE HERO IS KILLED. Engineer John E. McGowan of Northern Pacific Dies at His Post. John E. McGowan, one of the oldest and most widely known engineers on the Duluth division of the Northern Pacific, was killed by the overturning of his engine, which jumped the track at Dellwood. McGowan gained great renown during the Hinckley forest fire. He was fireman on the train that Engineer James Root pulled through the blazing forest, thus saving over a hundred lives. While Hoot stood at the lever McGowan stood on the tender, constantly dashing water ovefr the burning locomotive and its engineer. Mob Attempts a Lynching. Constable H. F, Bierer was murdered at Greensburg, Pa., by a bullet from a 38-caliber revolve?', said to have been tired by Charles Kruger, whom Bierer was trying to arrest. When the news of hia killing was made known a posse of citizens started in pursuit of the murderer. Kruger was captured and later taken to Latrobe to protect him from the angry and excited, crowd. Men Blown to Safety. One of the greatest and most peculiar mine gas explosions which has ever occurred at Pottsville, Pa., took place at the Walshville colliery. The force of the concussion was so great that the dense air of the mine was blown ahead of the gaseous flames and thus was the novel cause of saving .many men from being roasted alive. Failure of Big Shoe Firm. The Shoe and Leather Mercantile Agency of Boston has announced the assignment of the large boot and shoe manufacturing firm of Ara Cushman & Co. of Boston and Auburn, Me. The firm did a business of 51,250,000 a year and has liabilities estimated between 5400.' 000 and 5500,000. Negroes Sold in Kansa*. A telegram from Russell, Kan., says two negroes were placed on the auction block for harvest hands. They were John and Harper Porter and known as good workers. The bidding was spirited, starting with 52.50 a day. August Reinhart finally secured them ou a bid of 53.21 a day. Dn Chnilln a Poor Man. By his will, filed in the surrogate office in New York, the late Paul B. Du Chaillu. explorer and writer, bequeaths all his estate to his friend Henry R. Hoyt. The petition which accompanied the will set forth that the testator left personal estate worth less than SSOO. Ball Game End* in RioL A decision of the umpire at a ball game In Perrysville, Ohio, caused a riot in which 1,009 people took part. Before It was over a score of persons were more or less injured and a dozen arrests were made by the village officers. May Head Carnegie Work*. The tyttsburg Leader says: “From undoubted authority it has been learned that Alvar-C. Dinkey, superintendent of the Homestead mills, will soon be elected president of the Carnegie Steel Company when President Co fey resigns.” Child Labor Law la Killed. The House of Representatives of the Georgia General Assembly, by n rote of 89 to 75, killed the child labor bill, which prevented employment of children in cotton mills under a certain age limit. Wlodftll for Mealey. A woman left sll,llO at the door of James Mealey of Schuylerviile, N. Y., with no other explanation than that it w*s “from a friend.” Sculptor Kills Himself. Despondent over bad luck, John Donoghne of Chicago, a sculptor, committed suicide at New Haven, Conn.

CONDITION OF LEO.

PONTIFF SAID I*o BE SLOWLY SINKING MONDAY. Condition of Hia Kidneys Found to Be Bad and He Sees Shadows —Mental Confusion Appears, with DizzinessRelieved by Stimulants. Monday afternoon the malady .against which Pope Leo has kept up so marvelous a struggle for nearly two weeks seemed to be making inroads upon his wonderful constitution, enfeebled by his years and greatly weakened by his most recent illness. Two new symptoms that developed caused grave apprehension. Examination showed that his kidneys were performing their function less perfectly, and about noon his holiness suffered a, attack of dizziness that was attended with fleeting hallucinations. The dizziness from which the Pope suffered was a kind of mental confusion, during which he seemed to lose consciousness of ids surroundings, while he believed he saw a vision. After recovering somewhat he said that he thought lie saw an undefined shadow moving about the room and slowly approaching his bed, whereupon he became agitated and called for his valet, Pio Centra, saying: "Pio! Pio! W‘ho is ft? Who is it?” Dr. Lapponi and Centra went to the patient’s bed and soon succeeded in quieting him. Incidents nt the Vatican. At both the Vatican and the house of Dr. Lapponi patent medicines, surgical instruments and apparatus of all kinds have been received, accompanied by assurances that his holiness would recover if they were used according to directions. From Vienna came machines (for producing artificial respiration and for making oxygen. Mgr. Pifferi, confessor of his holiness, felt offended because he was not allowed to enter the sick chamber. He - was especially dissatisfied with the attending physicians, believing it was because of them that lie is excluded. Monday morning he again asked to be permitted to see Pope Leo. On hearing the request the pontiff said, “When I need him I shall fiend for him,” and Mgr. Pifferi left the Vatican, considering himself an injured man. According to the rules for the government of the Noble Guard, one of the principal duties watch assiduously the person of the Pope when li is holiness is reriously ill, even the papal apartments passing under the guard’s responsibility during such periods. After 1870 there was a gradual curtailment of expenses at the Vatican, and this resulted In a reduction in numbers of the Noble Guard, which now contains about forty men. Nat all of these are at the Varican, owing to illuers or other causes, and the work of those on duty is heavy, ns they mount guard, six at a time, for six hours.

LABOR NOTES

In Paris 250,000 occupy but one room each. Minneapolis mill owners will fight the carpenters’ union. Japan’s shipyards turned out forty-one steamers last year. Toronto labor unions will elect labor candidates for city offices. in New York City have more than 300 telephones each. Cincinnati has raised horse shoeing prices from $1.75 to $2 per set. New York union plasterers will receive $5.50 a day. The wages of the laborers at the Bethlehem Steel Company’s plant hr.ve been increased from $4.75 to $5 a ton. About 3,000,000 wage earners will be represented by the American Federation of Labor-convention at Boston in November. ' , The railroad telegraphers’ union* report shows that the organization increased from 10,339 to 25,234 members in the year ended April 30. Louisville master barbers have decided that they will try to close all the shops on Sunday, and the journeymen are believed to be in fuvor of the move. International Longshoremen and Transport Workers’ Union is now the third largest organization of labor in the country, having 152,000 members. What is said to be'a unique strike settlement irt New Orleans labor history put an end to the rawmill troubles at Luteher, La., when the strikers went back to* work with their demand for a ten-hour day granted upon the express condition that no union be formed. The Porto Itico FederaHon of Labor has formally requested (iov. Hunt to investigate the condition of labor on certain large sugar plantations of the island. The Federation claims that pov-erty-stricken laborers, averaging 40 cents a day, are compelled to accept “chips” instead of money, and to trade at plantation stores, where inferior and often injurious goods are soltl at uu exorbitant, price. The Western Federation of Miners, which recently held its aunual convention in Denver, is said to be the richest labor organization in the world. It hns been in existence but twelve years, and lias 200 affiliated local unious with about 75,000 members and $3,000,000 in its trensnry. - It hns secured au eight-hour day for all of its older unions among the miners and smeltermen in the western country.. The Order of Railroad through n committee, is investigating several sites nenr Chatta’nooga, Tenn., for a home for disabled members of that organization. If a suitable location is found, the organization will purchase the ground and build a $25,000 borne. '(he unions of butchers at the stock yards have donated $1,300 to members in Kansas City who suffered losnes through the recent floods. An additional sum of SSOO hiss been sent by the international organization, and more will be contributed as rapidly as it can be distributed. '

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

“ “ ~| “A new> fiscal year haa Jjgl YOrK. commenced under more favorable auspices than appeared possible a short time ago, the improvement being due in jio small measure to the greater conservatism that was all outgrowth of unsettled conditions. Seasonable weather has also contributed to the better distribution of merchandise, besides encouraging buoyant sentiment in the agricultural districts. Railway earnings and output of pig Iron were larger, while insolvencies were fewer. Earnings of railways thus far reported for June surpass last year’s by 10 per cent and those of 1901 by 19.4 per cent," according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade. Continuing, the report says: More inquiries for pig Iron have appeared, and although the actual contracts are for comparatively small quantities, the tone is distinctly better. Bessemer iron is not offered for the third quarter by the association and orders accepted for early delivery are taken by middlemen who have stocks on hand. The situation has been complicated during the past week by the strike of coal miners In Alabama, which threatens to restrict output of Southern iron. Bradstreet’s Trade Review. Warm, forcing weather has been ths keynote of the situation this week, inducing favorable conditions for the winter wheat harvest, special progress by corn and cotton, enlargement in retail trade in summer goods, generally heretofore backward, and, what is most important of all, bringing about a much more cheerful feeling as to the future outlook for business generally. Failure returns are likewise favorable, ■ In that six months’ embarrassments were the smallest In number reported in twenty years, though a comparatively few large suspensions, widely separated and generally unrelated to each other, swelled liabilities 5 per cent above those of last year. Businers failures In the United States for the week ending with July 2 number 162, against 171 last week, 138 in the like week of 1902, 145 in 1901, 146 in 1900 and 136 in 1899. Canada failures not reported. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending July 2 aggregate 2,966,682 bushels, against 3,518,152 last week, 3,211,215 this week last year and 8,787,639 in 1901. Wheat exports for the cereal year ending Juno 30 aggregate 224,084,801 bushels, against 251,879,565 last season and 218,965,363 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 1,420,172 bushels, against 1,285,724 last week, 127,969 a year ago and 2,240,933 in 1901. For the cqreal ’ year exports are 60,800,864 bushels, against 2G,450,882 last season and 177,325,343 in 1901.

777 The rains appear to have LtllCdQO. come in time to insure a Nurthwest this year. In some places they may have been too late to give an average crop, but so far as moisture contributes to the result! the crop as a whole is now believed to be in good condition. Taking the country over,” the important crops promire at least average yields. Thus the danger that threatened business a week ago has gone. So far as bountiful crops may go id insuring a continuation of prosperity the outlook is now very satisfactory. Good crops mean good railway freight earnings and a vigorous commercial movement the nation over. Before sailing for Europe the other day Marshall Field, the great Chicago merchant, described the business outlook as precarious, and named the labor disputes as the chief factor of evil. Bart there seems to be a distinct tendency to Improvement in this respect. The adoption of a full plan of arbitration by the building trades’ unions and employers’ New York is a notable instance of this tendency. Another good sign is the increasing number of employers’ associations.* These will tend to prevent excesses by the unions, just as unions tend to prevent excesses by the employers. In labor circles there is, too, beginning to appear a wholesome fear lest the goose of the golden egg be ilain, Altogether the first week of the fiscal year starts out fairly cheerfully. There is now no reason to apprehend any perceptible letting down of the good times.

THE MARKETS

* Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.15; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $5.65; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2,50 cto stc; oats, No. 2,87 c to 39c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 51c; hay, tim-* othy, $8.60 to $15.00; prairie, $6.00 to $14.50; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, new, 60c to 80c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, s3.oo'to $5.00; hogs, choice light, S4OO to $6.05; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 white, 51c to 52c; oats, No.. 2 white, 40a to 4j2c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.25; hogs, $4.50 to $5.90; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn. No. 2, 49c to 50c; oats. No. 2,38 cto 39c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 51c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.25 to $5.00: hogs, $4.00 to $5.90; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; -wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; cm, No. 2 mixed, 50c to 52c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 39c to 40c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.40; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75: wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 52c to 63c; oats, No. 3: white, 42c to 43c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 34c. * Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern--85c,t0 80c; corn, No. 3,49 cto 51c; oats. No: 2 White, 38c to 39c; rye. No. 1, 52c* to 54c; barley, No. 2,69 cto U#c; pork, mess, $15.50. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 78c 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47e; oats, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 54c; clover seed, prims, $6.00.