Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1903 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. OGO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher, RENSSELAER. - - INDIANA.

BRINGS DEAD TO LIFE.

COMMON TABLE SALT SAID TO HAVE OVERCOME DEATH. Child Declared to Have Been Dead la Now Well on the Way te Recovery— Bathe re •“Overcome in Salt Lake— Newa in Brief. In New York common table salt has accomplished the undisputed resurrection of a child declared by reputable physicians to be dead. The child no longer breathed. Her heart had ceased to perform its functions. Her limbs were cold and the fixity of was in her frame and features. In an inspired moment the operating physician, Dr. John Hubbel Schall of Brooklyn, applied a saline solution consisting of a teaspoonful of salt to a quart of water to the intestines of the patient, upon whom an Operation had been performed at the Brooklyn Memorial hospital for appendicitis. This was followed by an injection of the solution into the veins of the child. It was a forlorn hope. For twenty-four hours the patient remained in a comatose condition. Keen-eyed physicians and vigilant nurses watched her every minute, and slowly but surely the spark of life was fanned into a flame, and to-day in a cot in the Memorial hospital, surrounded by her playthings, she is well on the way to recovery. Another instance showing the value of salt i§ reported, from Indiana. With one ounce of common salt, six ounces of pure water, six ounces of alcohol, mixed in an ordinary glass dish, and two ounces of aqua ammonia, distributed in five small plates, all covered by a glass tube and air tight, Dr. Charles \V. Littlefield of Alexandria, Ind., demonstrated the. other afternoon that he had created life in the form of thousands of atoms of animated substances similar to well-developed germs of life and trilobites.

BALT LAKE BATHERS OVERCOME. One Drowned, Another Braised from Head to Foot. Bruised from head to foot and delirious from nil-night buffeting with the waves of Great Salt lake, Roslyn Wells was found lying on the rocks about 100 feet from the shore of Antelope island. The body of bis companion, Roy Larkin, aged 15 years, has not been found. Wells and Larkin, with Miss Pomeroy, went In bathing Thursday afternoon at Saltair. They waded far out until deep water was reached. Here they floated for some time in the buoyant brine. A strong breeze sprang up and when they attempted to return Larkin, who was unable to swim, could make no headway. Mias Pomeroy reached the pavilion, but ‘rescuing parties were unable to find nny .. trace of Wells and Larkin, and Wells said he had lost Larkin about 3 o'clock Friday morning, after havfng supported him all night. This is the first drowning that has occurred in the lake for several years.

BASK BALL SCORES. Stand ins of the Clubs in Big Lengus Games. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .55 27 Brooklyn ... .39 39 Chicago 52 35 Boston 33 45 New York.. .47 32 St. Louis 32 52 Cincinnati ...43 41 Philadelphia. .26 56 Following is the standing of the clubs In the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 52 29 New York.... 37 38 Philadelphia..4B 34 Chicago 30 43 Cleveland ...43 37 St. Ixuiis 33 43 Detroit 39 38 Washington.. .27 50 PASTOR SHOOTS, BAYS GRACEKills One Man, Wounds Another, Then Offers Thanks at Table. After killing one man and fatally wounding, another, Robert l>ee, a minister at Linnie, Casey County, Ivy., said grace at the jail table in Liberty. Lee became involved in a quarrel with Ellis Woods and the latter's sou and the shooting followed, in which the preacher proved himself more than a match for both of his opponents, for he succeeded In killing Woods and fatally wounded his •on. The “fighting parson” was then arrested and taken to the jail at Liberty, where be peacefully returned thanks at the table with the other prisoners. DIES IN DENTIST’S CHAIR. Woman Takes Chloroform, WjUcea Up, Then Expires. While fitting in a dentist’s chair nnd having teeth extracted, Mrs. Nora Blue of Juuiatn, Neb., died in Hastings from the effects of chloroform. Before the drug was administered to alleviate the pain Mrs. Blue was examined and pronounced nble to take the necessary quantity. After fourteen teeth had been taken out she revived, sat up in the chair, spoke to the dentist and then sank back and died. Option on Islands Expires. The treaty providing for the acquisition by the United States of the Danish West Indies officially died Friday. If Denmark should conclude to selil the Islands to the United States it will be possible to revive ,tlie provisions of the treaty which just failed. Meantime the poaition of the State Department is comfortable, having done its part toward Completing the bargain. Bor Btajers Hunted. Claude O'Brien aud Earl Whitney, boya in years, were banged at I-exington, Ky., for the murder of A. B. Chinn. Accident on -Chicago Great Western. Four were killed and twenty-five or thirty injured in a collision between the Twin City limited on the Chicago Great Western and a fast freight irain. - . Colorado Assembly Adjourns. The Colorado General Assembly adjourned at 1 o’clock Sunday morning after having passed a general appropriation bill, for 'which the session was called. The House defeated the Senate joint resolution calling upon the farorid'a fair board to disband.

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

POWER FROM THE CLOUD?. Chicago Man's Plan to Draw Elec*' triclty with Magnet anti Wires. Existence of electricity in unlimited quantities above the clouds, the praeti/ cability of bringing such electricity tl> earth for commercial purposes, nnd a disputation of Newton’s tlieoity of gravitation—such are the basic ideas leading to experiments about to be conducted on Pike’s Peak by F. X. Schoonmaker of Chicago, acting for Prof. Gallatin Whitney, for years professor of science at the University of Illinois. From machinery of special and peculiar design, installed at the top of the peak, feet above the sea, it Is intended to discharge a magnet upwad. To this magnet will be attached thousands of feet of thin copper wire. It is believed tlwit when this magnet reaches a certain altitude the influence of the earth will cease to be felt and the magnet will remain suspended in space. This altitude is expected to be about 20,000 feet. The theory by which this startling result is hoped to be obtained is that Newton was wrong in thinking that objects arc attached to the earth by the pull of gravitation. They are really kept to the earth, say believers in Whitney’s doctrines, by the pull of electricity. This pull becomes lesser the greater the altitude. At a certain point it ceases to be felt altogether, and at this point, it is claimed, there exist vast reserves of electricity in the ether. Having attained this altitude, the magnet will gather tremendous masses of the ether electricity about it. By means of the wire the electricity will be tapped and conducted to the earth. Here it will bo stored and become available for purposes of commerce.

EMBARGO ON KANSAS CITY. Two Railroads Refuse to Receive Grain for 1 hat Point. Tiie Missouri Pacific and Burlington railroads have announced that they will not receive grain shipments for Kansas City, and thq Missouri •.Pacific is also refusing to recoive-grain routed .through Kansas City for other points. The railroad officials contend that the flood brought about conditions making it necessary to refuse grain shipments. Unless the railroads take speedy action to relieve the situation a serious blockade will result. Under normal conditions nearly all of the Kansas wheat crop passes through Kansas City, but this year the congested condition obtaining will-compel the-shipments of grain by circuitous routes to points other than Kansas City.

SELLS MONEY AT HALF PRICE. Bidders for Spanish Coin nt Manila Will Make Fortune. The War Department has directed Gov. Taft to accept the highest bid, amounting to 8131,582, for the subsidiary Rpanish coin which was found in the treasury at Manila when the place fell into the hands of the Americans. This is about half the face value of the coin nnd it is said that the purchasers, if, the sale is completed, expect to make a handsome profit through the shipment of the coin to some of the South American republics it is current. There may be, however, a hitch in completing the transaction, as the Spanish government has made formal claim to the money under that section of the treaty of Paris whieh provides for the return to Spain of movable public properties, THREE CROPS COME AT ONCE. lowa Farmers Face Peculiar S.tnation Owing to Weather. Climatic conditions this season have placed the lowa farmer in a most peculiar situation. . In every direction he is found at work on three different crops, each of which is demanding immediate attention. On every hand farmers are plowing their corn, while in the adjoining field a neighbor is harvesting the big hay crop, and another neighbor is harvesting eafly oats. This situation is due to the la{e, wet spring. Sweeping Injunction Issued. A injunction, sweeping in character, was issued in Chicago by Judge Holdom against the teamsters and truck drivers, as affecting the Kellogg plant, and Judge Brown instructed the grand jury to return indictments against rioters. Steps to procure peace have been taken by the National Business League and the names of a Committee of arbitrators were submitted to the unions. t Kills Son Who Slept Late. Because his son Charles, aged 16, refused to get up when called William Liard shot and killed the boy as he lay in bed at Knoxville, lowa., chased a younger son to the home of a neighbor In an attempt to kill him also, and then turned the weapon upou himself with fatal effect. Kill Millionaire in Nome. In a fire that destroyed the /.Golden Gate Hotel at Nome, It. M. Ilays, a millionaire of Pittsburg. Pa., his wife nnd Sherman D. Gregg of Freeport, Pa., lost their lives, says a dispatch from the Alaskan city. Nearly a block of buildings was burned. Fruit Shipped to London. The first shipment of California fruit for the London market went out from New York Wednesday. The shipment Includes 7 .fall boxes of pears. 2,204 boxes of plums, 10 boxes of peaches aud 645 boxes of prunes. Pope Leo XIII. Dies. Leo XIII., the venerable poutifex maxImus of the Roman Catbalic Church, departed this life at 4:04 Monday afternoon after a death struggle which lasted a day and an illness whose culmination he had fought for two weeks and a half. Postal Official Out. One more bead fell into the ppstofflee basket Wednesday. It was that of Charles Hedges, the tuperiutendent of

' -v. .V----free delivery in all the cities of the United States, and long the rightdiand man nnd confidant of A. W. Maehen, the indicted superintendent of free delivery. Olr. Hedges is removed for alleged falsification of his per diem accounts as a postofflee inspector. GEN. WOOD AS DICTATOR. The Philippine Commission Puts Him Above Law in Mindanao Island. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood has been made supreme military nnd civil dictator of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. The Taft commission has passed an act conferring on him most extraordinary powers—powers that have not been exercised by any other American ruler. Mindanao’ is inhabited by Mores, with whom the United States troops have had much difficulty. Gen. Wood is empowered to appoint all subordinates in the civil branch, the district governors, lieutenant governors, treasurers and secretaries. He may of his own motion suspend any district officer and after due] hearing impose a fine or even dismiss the offender. Should a judge of a court of the first instance be unable to enforce his decrees. Gen. Wood may go to his assistance w-ith the constabulary and the municipal police, which are placed directly under the general’s control, Wood is given other powers.

WANTS WHEAT HELD FOR sl. Chief of Einitjr Society Appeals to Furmcrs to Await High Prices, J. A. Everett, president of the American Society of Equity,- a farmers’ organization, with headquarters iu Indianapolis, has issued an appeal to farmers to hold their wheat for $1 a bushel. The appeal is addressed especially to the farmers of Kansas, among whom organizers and lecturers are now working. “The farmers of the wheat belt of Kansas hold in their hand the control of the bread juff markets of the world at this momopt,” said Mr. Everett. “If they should dump their 160,000,000 bushels of wheat on the market the speculators’ organization will rule.” The president says the organization is spreading rapidly throughout the wheat-producing States, Canada and some European countries.

CROPS AND BUILDINGS KALL. Severe Storm in lowa nnd Minnesota Causes Immense Jtauiage. A rain, wind and hail storm of great severity and extending over sections of Minnesota, lowa and South Dakota prevailed Monday. The crop damage in Itock County, Minnesota, is estimated at $ 1,000,000. Bert Feichester was killed by lightning near Lake Benton, In northwestern lowa all crops in the path of the storm were destroyed, and telegraph and telephone wires laid low. At Atlantic the court house, Methodist Church and other buildings were"destroyed. While the storm lasted less thah ten minutes, over two inches of rain fell. The hail stripped trees of their leaves and riddled the growing crops. FRKE TOO LATE TO SEE MOTHER. Man Pardoned after tewing 17 Years for Killing Man Found Alive. Minard L. Haulenbeek returned to Des Moines to see his aged mother, but she had died two weeks before his arrival. He was pardoned from the Colotado State prison July 8, Paul Miller Cook, whom he was found guilty of having murdered in 1883, having been found to be alive. He was imprisoned in 1880 and served seventeen years fqr a crime which he did not commit,'and was pardoned too late to see his mother. BEAST TRIES TO STEAL BABY. Indiana Mun Rescues Bis Child Just in Time. Wednesday night about midnight Frank Sedler, who with his family was camping on the Ohio river above Lawreueeburg. Iml.. Was awakened by the screams of a child, nnd found his babe struggling in the clutches of a creature apparently half human and half beast. The animal dropped the child and disappeared. Sedler believes it was a baboon, which had escaped Jfrom a boat show. The child suffered no injury. Lightning Destroys Monument. Lightning practically destroyed the $20,000 Floyd monument at Sioux City, lowa, erected to the memory of Sergt. Charles Floyd, member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It was intended to send the monument to the St. Louis exposition. Crash In Wall Street. Talbot J. Tiiylor & Co. and W. L. Stow & Co., big Wall street brokerage firms, were forced to suspend Friday owing to the constant decline in stocks. Head of tin* Taylor house is a son-in-law of James It. Keene. Millions of dollars are involved iu the failures. Ancient Graveyard Found. The burial ground of the aborigines has been unearthed near Bceville, Texns. Scores of human skeletons have been found. Many arrow heads and spears and other implements of Indian warfare were uncovered, indicating that it must have been the scene of a great battle. Whips Eight Men in tJnlforni. A squad of militiamen at the Lake Contrary (Mo.) encampment made some remnrks about a girl who had accompanied Marvin Winton to the camp. He resented it nnd whipped eight men in uniform. Carnage in a Captnre. , In the capture of Ciudad Bolivar by tfie Venezuelan force* over 1,300 men were kilhsl or wounded on both aides. The capture wna due to treachery. Business Unnsnally Active. Dun & Cot’s Review of Trade says business is unusually active for th? midsummer season. . *' - * ‘a—

KANSAS CORN CROP NEAR RUIN. Hot Winds and I/ack of Rain Menaca Heavy Yield Expected. Hot winds have been blowing in southern and southwestern Kanr-as and in western Oklahoma, and corn growers in tiiose regions are somewhat concerned. Reports that corn is suffering already from the dry weather come also from Leavenworth, Phillips, Geary and other as widely separated Kansas counties, but the conditions in all these regions are local, there being large areas between of abundant moisture and booming corn. Over the greater corn growing area of Kansas the need of rain is seriously felt and the crop is now at a critical stage. The weather of the next two weeks will dbtermine in great measure what the harvest will be. Reports from several counties in western Kansas indicate great heat. In Rice County the thermometer reached 107 in the shade, the highest ever" known there/ Harvey County reports high temperature, and corn, which is just tasseling, damaged 50 per cent by drouth and hot winds. Pawnee County reports 110 in the shade. Corn nnd feed crops damaged. It will take the most favorable kind of weather for the next six weeks to make'anything like a corn .crop in most of the Kansas counties. The flood in May made it necessary for most of the crop to be replanted. The corn had barely started to grow, when the ground baked hard around it. The weather since then has been excessively hot most of the time and the plants have had no chance To grow.

DROWNS IN SAVING CHILDREN. Rescuer’s Strength Gives Out When When He Is Alnfost in Safety. Henry F. Kruse, a Lafayette, Ind., business man. aged 62 years, was drowned in the Wabash river opposite the State Soldiers’ Home. He and his two children, Henrietta and Laura, and Mr. ai*l Mrs. M. A. Metzger and. children, George and Mary, left Lafayette on their houseboat to spend the dny nt the Soldiers’ Home. As about noon the children went out on a sandbar to play. Laura Kruse and George Metzger jjot beyond their depth, and Mr. Kruse, seeing the peril of the children, went in and rescued them. He succeeded in getting the children to a place of safety, but overexerted himself and was so exhausted that he had not strength to puli himself out, and was drowned before aid could reach him. KANSAS FARMERS NEED CARS. Railroads Unable to Move Enormous Wheat Crop Promptly. On the eve of marketing the great wheat crop of-Kansas a serious car famine exists. “It would be an impossibility,” said Cyrus Anderson, secretary of the board of railway commissioners, “for the railroads to get enough cars into the State to iwevent a ear famine. There are not enough cars in use on the roads to prevent the famine. The wheat crop is so large that it Will require all of the available freight cars to haul the first installment of it to market.” Owing to the high market price for wheat, most farmers are preparing to rush their product to market, and it is believed that comparatively little grain will be held for a rise. JUMPS INTO BED OF COALS. Little Child in Ohio Ha* Flesh Cooked to the Knee?* Flaying on top of a tile kihi at Carey, Ohio, Marie Livingston jumped off and struck a bed of hot coals heaped from another kiln. The child was barefooted and the flesh on her legs was cooked to the bone and up to her knees. She attempted to run, but was. overcome and fell into the coals, burning her hands and anus. Big Coal Deal Concluded. Thomas Lowry of Minneapolis and James J. Hill of St. Paul virtually now own all the thick vein coal lands of southern Illinois. Mr. Lowry has just acquired 30,000 acres > adjoining 20,000 acres purchased by the Burlington Railroad several months ago and the two interests combined include nearly all the coal in the district south of Springfield. Famous Stallion Burned. The handsome barn on’Homburg place, near Lexington, Ky., "John E. Madden’s noted stock farm, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Imported Mirthful, valued nt 8100.000 and sire of Aceful, Skillful, Mexican, Glassful, Bardolph, Dimple, Jocund nftd other noted ones, was burned to death in his stable. Nebraska Professor Drowns. W. C. Phipps, until recently professor in the department of English literature at’the Nebraska State University, drowned near Crawford while hunting with a party. Phipps and his companions were caught in a cloudburst. He was unable to swim. The others escaped. An Immigrant Is Lost. John E. Anderson, an immigrant,' en route from Sweden to this country, mysteriously disappeared from the train between New York nnd St. Paul, and no trace of him lias been found. Anderson had 8400 oil his person at the Sue Union far Damages. Three St. Louis manufacturing firms brought Bnit for $40,000 against the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America for damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of a strike. Trace in Chicago’s Traction War. Four months’ truce in Chicago’s traction war has been secured by the passage of two noncommittal measures by the Council. Union Traction leaders give a written promise that they will again taka up, negotiations. Earthquake Shocks iu Utah. Several slight earthquake shocks wera felt at various points in Utah early Thursday morning.

ILLINOIS RACE RIOTS.

SCENES OF BLOODY VIOLENCE AT DANVILLE. Negro la Lynched and Burned—County Jail and City Prison Are Almost Demolished Troops Are Ordered to the City. (L_ , After the terrible scenes of Saturday night, when for six hours-Danville, 111., was at the mercy of a howling, bloodthirsty mob of frenzied and half-drunken men, the city is quiet. It is the quiet, however, that is brought about by the glitter of rifles in the hands of soldiers Who are licensed to kill. On the surface all is peaceful, but underneath the rtorm Of rage and hatred is boiling and threatens to break forth anew when the troops shall have departed. Tossed here and there on the public square, as the capricious winds will it, are the fragments of clothing, bits of bloody hay and splintered wood, grewsome mementoes of Saturday night’s sickening tragedy, when the negro Mayfield was dragged to death and bis corpse hacked to bias and burned. City Is in Dread. Close by is the county jail, not a whole pane of glass left in the windows, and the doors and walls bearing the marks of the assault by the mob. Three blocks away is the city prison, demolished by the mob. In the hospitals are a dozen or more men suffering gunshot wounds, and many more slunk away after the sheriff made his determined stand, bearing with them testimony In the way of buckshot, that he was a man of his word. Public feeling ngainst the negroes had been wrought to a high pitch by a terrible assault upon a white woman by James Wilson, a negro in the jail, and there had been much talk of lynching, but it had not crystallized until Saturday evening. , Shot by Negrc. About 8:30 p. in. a negro named Metcalf became involved in an argument with Henry Gatterman, a young‘butcher, in front of an East Main street saloon, which ended in the negro shooting Gatterman dead. The negro was caught and with much difficulty the police took him to the city prison, followed by a crowd which rapidly grew into a mob that yelled itself hoarse in demanding that the murderer be lynched. The police, assisted by Sheriff 11. H. Whitlock, gathered in the city building trying to keep the mob out, but were finally forced to admit a portion of them. , The colored murderer had previously been locked in a vault in which the police records are kept and the officers hoped that the mob would not find him. Dragged from Jail. The leaders were told that Metcalf had been taken out of the rear door and carried into the country in a buggy, but they refused to believe the assertion. Some went for railroad irons and others for sledge hammers, and a few minutes later the lock had been knocked off the vault door and the' negro was dragged forth amid the exultant shouts of his captors. The victim made a fierce struggle, but the blows that were rained upon him soon brought him to the floor of the police station, and a revolver in the hands of one of the members of the mob put a sudden end to his sufferings; Body Is Riddled. The mob then dragged the dying man from the building, nnd placing a rope about his neck dragged him one square south to Main street nnd then five squares east to the saloon where he killed Gatterman, where his body was struck up to a telegraph pole and riddled with bullets. Cries of “Burn him!” “Bum him!” were then heard, and the mob leaders soon had the lifeless body of the negro cut down and were dragging him south on the Wabash Railroad tracks. At South street the mob leaders decided to take the body to the jail, where James Wilson, another negro captured at Marshfield, Ind., charged with trying to assault Mrs. Mary Burgess, a white woman, the previous day, is imprisoned. “On to the Jail.” As soon as the word was given the mob yelled, “To the jail,” “Mob the other nifeger,” etc. and made a wild charge for that building, where quite a crowd had already congregated in anticipation of another lynching. Arrived at the jail, the body of the negro was placed in the center of the converging streets, where dozens of frenzied men and boys kicked nnd jumped upon it. The body was totally naked, and blood was oozing, from dozens of bullet holes. Some one then threw an armful of hay upon the body and touched a match to it, after which the mob backed nwnv a short disfhnce and watched the awful spectacle. Demand More Blood. Growing tired of this grewsome sight, the mob turned its attention to the county jail and demands were made upon Sheriff Whitlock to surrender Wilson. A dozen or more deputies and policemen had hurriedly been gathered together and placed in the jail, heavily armed. Sheriff Whitlock remonstrated with the mob, but without effect. Finally a peephole was opened nnd the barrel of a Winchester gun was thrust through it and another demand from the sheriff, this time from a window in tire second story, for the mob to disperse, was made. Fbot Angera Mob. No attention being given to it, a shot was fired the heads of the mob. The shot eeenjed only to anger the mob, and a Charge wag made with the battering rum upon the door. The gun was again fired, this time into the dense crowd wielding the railroad iron, and several men were seen to drop to the ground. Several more shots were fired from the jail door and windows by the officers inside, and the mob began to scatter, leaving four or five on the ground bleeding from ballet wounds. Others limped away, showing that many of the buck•hot and ballets had taken effect.. From Far and Near. The contract for the Oklahoma building at the St. Lonis world's fair has been let for $15,500. The Oregon delegation is to ask Congress for $ 4 00,000 for the Lewis and Clark exposition.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

"Conditions continue satisfactory outside the region of speculation, many re-

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ports indicating further improvement. During recent months the two disturbing factors have been labor controversies and weather conditions, but each week has brought better things in these two respects until' the outlook contains much that is encouraging. Crops are making rapid progress, and the army of unemployed is diminishing,” according to It. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade. Continuing, the report says: Railway traffic is heavy, earnings thus far reported for July exceeding last year's by 13.6 per cent and those of 190.1 by 19.2 pCr cent. Retail trade in seasonable merchandise is fully up to the average, and there is less than the customary midsummer quiet among wholesalers, while the preparations of jobbers and manufacturers indicate confidence in a large fall business. Unsettled conditions still exist in forge and foundry pig iron markets, while Bessemer iron is only barely steady. The chief difficulty appears to be the inclination of prospective purchasers to wait for the lowest possible quotations. This is a condition to be expected in a declining market, but appears unusually aggravating in the present instance. Current consumption is heavy, and the delay is only in connection with distant deliveries. Structural steel begins to reflect the settlement of labor troubles in the building trades, but several important undertakings have been postponed until nextyear, two large buildings at Fittsburg being conspicuous examples. Merchant steel and pipe are in better demand, several large contracts being under negotiation. Steel rails are sold well into 1904, and other railway equipment is still one of the best features in the industry. Southern iron furnaces and steel mills are affected adversely by the coal miners’ strike, although there is a belief that settlement will not long be delayed. It is a season of uncertainty in the manufacture of cotton goods, and nothing in the nature of improvement can be expected until the artificial position of the raw material is radically altered. Supplies of cotton goods in first hands are low, and there is rfb effort to make spot sales. Buyers fill their requirements for immediate distribution, but in no department of this great industry is there any inclination to anticipate needs of even Jtlie near future. As supplies diminish there i*n corresponding stiffening of quotations. Mills are steadily curtailing production both here and abroad. New lightweight woolens are being opened, with fair results only, buyers exhibiting no anxiety regarding the future. Silks are firiruowing to curtailed production nnd the high prices codmianrled by the raiW material. Western jobbers ary operating freely in the Boston footwear market, both on contracts for spring goods and supplementary fall orders. Eastern wholesalers are also purchasing additional fall supplies, and New England factories are fully occupied. Brndstreet’s Trade Review. The salient features in trade reports this week are the better ton# of trade advices from the Southwest, where the feeling grows that a large business will b» done. Hides and leather are rather weaker at the East, but eastern shoe shipments are far in excess of last year for the week and season. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending July 16 aggregate 3,652,084 bushels, against 2,380,410 last week. 3,775.222 this week last year, 5,221,880 in 1901 nnd 3,029,381 in 1900. For two weeks of the cereal year they aggregate 6,033,194 bushels, against 8,179,337 in 1902. 10.238,029 in 1901 and 5,859,291 in 1900. Corn exports for. the week aggregate 1,402,404 bushels, against 1,525.08-4 last week, 130,679 a year ago, 1,114,081 in 1901 and 4.152.159 in 1{K)0. For two weeks of the present cerehl year they aggregate 2,927.488 bushels, against 315,SlO in 1902, 4,514,819 in 1901 and 8,204,227 in 1900.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, 53.00 to 55.25; hogs, shipping grade®, 54.5 p to 53-70; sheep, fair to choice, 53.00 to ?4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; com, No. 2,49 cto 50c; oats, No. 2,37 c to 38c; rye. No. 2. 49c to 50c; hay, timothy, 58.50 to 515.00; prairie, 56.00 to 513.00; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, new, 38c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping ,53.00 to 55.25; hogs, choice light, 54.00 to 55.95; sheep, common tu, prime, $2.50 to 53.50; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 white, 50c to 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c. St. Louis —Cottle, 54.50 to 55.45; hogs, 54.50 to 55.80; sheep, 53.00 to 54.00; wheat. No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2,33 cto 34«; rye. No. 2,49 cto 50c. Cincinnati —Cattle, 5425 to 54.75; hogs, 54.00 to $5.80; sheep, $3.00 to $3.90! wheat, 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye. No. 2,56 cto 57c. Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 to 55.00; hogs. 54.00 to 56.40; Sheep. 52.50 to 53.75; wheat. No. 2,76 cto 77c; com. No. 3 yellow, 52c to 53c; oats. No. 3 white, 38c to 39c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 84c to 85c; cbm, No. 3,50 cto file; offta. No. 2 white, 37c to 38c; rye, No. 1,51 c to 52c; bnrlcy, No. 2,57 cto 58c; pork, mess, 514.05. Toledo—Wheat No. 2 mixed, 75c to 76c; com. No. 2 mixed, 51c to sec; oats. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye. No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, 55.65. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping 54.50 to 53.40; hogs, fair to prime. 54.00 to 56.00: sheep, fair to choica, $4.00 to 55.00; lambs, common to choice, 54.00 to 56.35. New York—Cattle. 54.00. to 55.55; hogs. 54.00 to 56.00; sheep, 53.00 to 54. <0; wheat. No. 2 red, 80c .to 81c; corn. No. 2. 56c to 5Tc; oats. No. 2 white, 41c to 42c: butter, creamery} 18c to 20c; 4Kga, western, 15c to 18c.