Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1903 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. fMßßßaagga, ' ' " QEO. B. MARSHALL. Publisher. RENSSELAER, . * INDIANA.

May BE STORE TRUST.

COMPANY WITH BROAD POWERS IS INCORPORATED. <_ New Jersey Charter for Concern to Bstablish an* Conduct Department Stores Ini Many States—Lake Steamer Comes Near Sinking with People. There was incorporated in Trenton, N. J., the other day at the office of the Secretary qf State what is thought to be a department store trust. The articles of incorporation were prepared in the' office of Janies B. Dill, the trust solicitor, who procured the charters of the United States Steel Corporation and other great concerns. The corporate title of the company is “The Cash Buyers’ Union First National Co-operative Society,” with an authorized capital of $5,000,000, divided into 500,000 shares of the par value of $lO each, 250,0Q0 shares to be preferred, carrying a cumulative dividend of 7 per cent. The incorporators are Gerald A. Griffin, 800 shares; Frank It. Series, 100 shares, and Joseph Gerrardt, 100 shares. These men are clerks in the office of the New Jersey Registration and Trust Company, East Orange. The objects of the corporation are “to establish, conduct and manage general department stores in . every State of the United States and Europe, to manufacture, buy and sell all kinds of merchandise; to manufacture all kinds of raw material into finished products, own, acquire and conduct printing, lithographing, engraving and publishing business; to construct, own, operate or lease warehouses in every State of the United States and in foreign countries; organize and operate schools of instruction and libraries; to carry on any business of public decorators, sanitary engineers, electrical engineers and contracting in all the branches thereof; gas fitters, coal and wood dealers,” and many other kinds of business. D NEAR GOING TO THE BOTTOM. * Lake Passenger Steamer Is Beached to Keep Her from Sinking, With the seventy-five passengers on board in ignorance, of their peril, water rushed into the hold of the steamer Enterprise, says a dispatch from Ottawa, Ont., until the fires under the boilers were extinguished. While- tile other officers were engaged in keeping the people on board from knowing the condition of the boat the captain changed his course -to-the- nearest-shoee. The engineers by heroic efforts managed to keep enough steam in the boilers to keep the steamer under headway until shallow water was reached, and not until the lurch of the vessel told that her bow had struck the beach did the passengers know that anything was wrong.

BASK BALL SCORES. Standing of the Clnbs in Big League Game*. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .61 32 Brooklyn ... .43 47 New York.. .55 36 Boston 38 50 Chicago 58 40 St. Louis 35 61 Cincinnati ...51 45 Philadelphia. .31 01 Following is the standing of the clubs In the American League: IV. L. * W. L. Boston 58 34 Cleveland ....47 45 Philadelphia. .54 39 Chicago .. ... .42 49 Detroit 47 43 St. Louis 42 49 New York,-. .45 41 Washington.. .29 62 Tornado Uita Mines. A tornado passed through the thickly populated mining district north and east of Pittsburg. Kan., destroying hundreds of houses, mine tipples and buildings of every description, and converting /ito ruin a strip of thickly populated territory eight miles long ami two miles wide, and leaving death! and desolation in its wake. At least two persons were killed and fully sixty injured in the storm. Negroes Bent on Lynching. Dan Perkins, a negro, arrested at St. Louis on the charge of having probably fatally nhot Warden Taylor, another negro, narrowly escaped being lynched by a crowd of negroes who endeavored to take him from police officers at Eleventh and Morgan streets. One of the officers was knocked down, but re-enforcements arrived and dispersed the mob. Afraid of American Coins. The effort of the United States government to introduce its new currency into the Philippine Islands has not met with the success that was anticipated). Although a large quantity of the coins minted at Sau Francisco have reached the islands there is considerable prejudice against their use, especially iu the provinces. Nine Killed and 200 Injured. Nine people were killed and probably 200 more or lose seriously injured, a •core perhaps fatally, by the collapse of a rotten balcony at the Philadelphia* baseball park. New Pope la Crowned. The coronation of Pope Pius X. drew an immense throng to St. Peter’s in Home, a similar splendid spectacle not baring been witnessed in fifty-seven Team. Biok Shocks Financiers. New York financiers are shocked by a new book by a former secretary of Carnegie’s, throwing new light on methods and successes of the ironmaster. Anarchist Attempts Assassination. A man snpposed to be nn anarchist attempted to assassinate Premier Combes of France at Marseille*. “Enemy's” Fleet Is Detected. The naval war game came to an end off Bar Harbor, Me., with detection of the “enemy's" fleet trying to raid coast; success of dereaders being made i>oiilbk# by use of wireless telegraph. * i r> - ■ - L>ot< ths Bank. " —'The l v-3|.>g" Thomas W. Dewey, cashier Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bonk of New hern. N. C., proves to be f 125,000. Dewey left only f 1,300 in cash hi the bank. Reported speculations in cotton futures is said to be one way in fafdch the money went.

FROM THE FOVE QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

STORM KILLS WORKMAN. - ‘ I Several Others Are Injured and Con- • atderqble Hamate Was Done. The severe storm of Wednesday nfternoon struck the world's fair at St. Louis with full force, killing one man. injuring another so that it is feared he will die, and hurting a dozen more. The storm tore down a great quantity of scaffolding on the buildings and did other damage that will require some time to repair. The blow did not last over twenty minutes in all. Theodore Itichter, a florist from Kirkwood, was on the ground running to shelter, when a flying plank struck him, killing him instantly. The wind next struck the machinery building, and one of the two towers, 360 feet in height, was stripped of scaffolding in a twinkling and two wo&men hurled to the ground in the debris. Both escaped with severe bruises. In East St. Louis Mrs. Margaret Riechmann, aged 47, fearing a repetition of the 1896 tornado, dropped dead from fright. Three 160foot smokestacks at the street car power house were thrown down. Specials fJbun small towns in Illinois are to the effect that the storm caused one death, several persons were injured, and considerable damage . was done. At Carrollton roofs were lifted from many business houses and piled in the streets. Several persons were injured by flying timbers. At Kinmundy great damage waS done to the telephone system by lightning. At Trenton the wind was particularly severe in razing trees, and a number of head of cattle were killed by lightning.

FOUND WITH THROATS CUT. Man la Thought to Have Killed Woman and Himself. Frank Foss, wkilqboa his way home at Northboro, Mass., heard screams in the direction of Grange Hall on School street. Hastening in that direction lie camo upon two bodies lying in a yard close to the sidewalk. According to the police they were the bodies of F. I*. Egan and Mrs. Sadie Booth, both of Spencer. Mrs. Booth was 28 years old and had been living for the past month with her sister at Northboro. Her throat was cut almost completely across. A- razor was found under her body. Death had been almost instantaneous. The man’s throat was cut in a similar manner, but not quite so deep. There was another cut higher up and on the left wrist. The theory of the police is that the man cut the woman’s throat and then killed himself.

TERRIBLE HEATH OF SHEN. Report to Conger (shows Executioners at Last Strangled Him. Edward T. Williams, the Chinese secretary of the United States legation in Pekin, has made an extensive investigation of the execution of Shen Chien, the reform Journalist, who was put to death July 31 by order of the empress dowager, and he has handed Minister Conger a detailed report, proving that-the executioners, after beating Chien for three or four hours, despaired of being able to fulfill the dowager empress’ orders, and, yielding to Shen's pleadings to end his misery, * -angled him with their hands. Dowie Made a Citizen. John Alexander Dowie, general overseer of the Christian Catholic Church, was made a citizen of the United States the other day by Judge Gary of the Superior Court iu Chicago. Dr. Dowie, by his affidavit filed, renounced all allegiance to the sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland and swore to support the constitution of the United States. Rich Gold Ore Is Found. The most sensational gold strike recorded in Montana in recent years is announced from one of the claims recently taken ever by the liose Gold Mining Company near Jefferson City, Mont. .Tames M. Fly, manager of the company, is in Helena with samples, which cause the eyes of even early day prospectors to open with amazement. Lamp Explosion Proves Fatal. As the result of a lamp explosion Harry Siple is seriously, perhaps fatally, burned, and his wife and 10-year-old son, Elwood, are dead, as the result of a fire which occurred at their home iu Washington borough, a little towu on the Susquehanna river, three miles below Columbia, Pa. President Schwab Resigns. President Schwab, of the United States Steel Corporation, has resigned and is succeeded by W. L. Corey. Mr. Schwab still retains the largest holding of stock, his membership in the directorate and finance committee. Pope Pius Honors Americans. American pilgrims have been shown unusual consideration by Pope Pius, who granted them’an audience in advance of diplomatic corps and other distinguished persons. Message of greeting was sent by the new Pontiff to Americans. President Gives tr> Baby. A check for f 100 has been received from President Roosevelt for Theodore Roosevelt Signel, the boy born to Mr. and Mrs. William 11. Signel of McKeesport, Pa., some weeks ago and which is the twentieth child born to Mr. Signel.

Lehr's Latest One. Harry Lehr, originator of the monkey party and the rag doll promenade at Newport, now wears a wrist bag, in which he carries change and a lead pencil. 4 UUI Will Invade China. James J. Hill, who built railways in tbe Northwest when everybody raid he could nos make them pay, will attempt the equally difficult undertaking of building railways in China. 8e« 13*000 Errors in the Rating, j Attorneys for Mrs. Lena Lil He. cooricted of the murder of her husband. Sled in tbe Supreme Court at Lincoln,

Neb., an appeal containing 13,000 allegations of errore.t The work is in four volumes and is the longest appeal ever filed in the State. Mrs. Lillie was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Harvey Lillie Oct. 24, 1902. He was shot asleep in his bed. RARE FINDS IN CALIFORNIA. Bones of Extinct Animals In Caves— Indian Traditions Verified. The expedition conducted by Prof. John C. Merriam of the geological department of the University of California. which explored the of Shasta County, has made several finds of interest to science. Two new caves have proved rich in paleontological remains, yielding up bones of animals now extinct and of a species hitherto unknown to scientists. Bones of mountain lions, a bison, a wolf,, a porcupine, a cave bear and a ground sloth were found, with all the bones of the extinct porcupine, and also an almost complete specimen of a small cave bear. In one of these caves an old tradition had it that an Indian woman wandering about had stumbled into a well, the bottom of which could never be reached. This well was explored, and at the bottom was found the skeleton of a woman, fairly well preserved, who fell or was thrown into the well about a hundred years ago.

FAMILY ROW Ends in MURDER. Man Kills His Daughter and Seriously Wounds Her Husband. During a quarrel between Gottlieb Schultz and" members of his family in the sown of Seif, Wis., Schultz shot and killed his daughter, Mrs. Patrick Leydon; Patrick Leydon, a son-in-law, was shot through the breast and is iu a critical condition; Schultz’s head was crushed with blows from a pitchfork nad Mrs. Schultz is badly bruised and prostrated by nervous shock. Schultz had been under bonds awaiting trial'for attempting to murder his wife some time ago. A theory has been advanced that he is insane. GIRL SLAVE IN SOUTH DAKOTA. Sold in Infancy to Ranchman, She la Rescued After. Fifteen Years. A slave for fifteen of her seventeen years, Louise Haby has escaped and taken refuge in Chicago. The girl was sold to a South Dakota ranchman for $25 when 2 years old, it is said. Her existence has tfhen one of horror. Without friends or education, she was made to work on the ranch until a few days ago, when her uncle, John Mayer of Chicago, discovered her plight and formed a posse of neighbors, rescuing her and taking her to his house.

Farirner Shoots Wife and Self. At Cridersville, Ohio, George Slein, a middle-aged farmer, shot his wife, inflicting injuries from which she afterward died, and then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Jealousy on the part of the husband caused a separation some time since, but a partial reconciliation had been effected, and the cause of the tragedy is not known. Pittsburg Strike la Off. As a result of a conference in Pittsburg between the Builders’ Exchange League and the Building Trades Council, when the Builders’ League submitted conditions of settlement, the Building Trades Council decided to call off the strike at the A. & S. Wilson plant. Dynamite a Governor’s Palace. A special messenger from Monastir reports that the Bulgarian insurgents have dynamited |he kouak (governor’s palace), in the town of Krushevo, twenty-three miles north of Monastir. Fifty Turks were killed. Gold Found in Porto Rico. Dr. John Clayton Gifford, formerly of Cornell University, who is exploring the new Luquilla forest reserve in Porto Rico, reports the discovery of new gold streams, the soil iu which is crudely panned by a few natives. Two Trains Wrecked. Tint Boston and Chicago special was wrecked at Charlton* Mass., depot in a collision with an cast-bouud freight.-Both engines were wrecked and two cars of the express derailed. The damage is estimated at over $30,000. Kansas River Eating a Town. At Lawrence, Ivan., the north bank of the new channel of the Kansas river is constantly giving way to the force of the current, aud the port of North Lawrence next to the river is going iu the stream at the rate of twenty-five feet a day. j Youth Commits * uiclde. Charles Saufley, aged 18, and a member of a prominent family, died at Stanford, Ivy., from the effects of a dose of corrosive sublimate. Saufley was recently appointed an alternate naval cadot by the President.

Many Hnrt In Ohio. The soutli-bouud Norfolk and Western passenger train No. 8 was wrecked at East Portsmouth, Ohio, by the rails spreading. The engine left the track and turned over. Twenty-five persona were hurt. Seven were fatally injured. Johnson Oat for Governor. Couuty Clerk C. I*. Salen, campaign manager for Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, announces that Mayor Johnson has consented to permit his name to be presented tor the gubernatorial nomination. 1 Oregon Town Almost Destroyed* The town of Halsey, fifteen miles from Albany, Ore., was time* entirely destroyed by fire. The loss is $70,000, with very little insurance. Kills in Self-Defense. John C. Weller, foreman in the cornice factory of E. A. Rysdon & Co. in Chicago, killed a union cornice maker when attacked by four men.

STOCK FIRM SUSPENDS. Sharp & Brynn, Wall Street Traders, Have Failed. The suspension of the firm of Sharp. & Bryan was announced on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday. Charles S. Bryan of the suspended firm was elected a member of the governing committee of the exchange at the last election. The firm was organized July 2. 1891, the individdal members being W.. W. Sharp and Charles S. Bryan, both board members. Its office is at 25 Broad street and the members are known as specialists in Virginia-Caroliua Chemical, United States Realty and Construction and Southern Railway. The firm had a mercantile agency rating of $200,000 to $300,000. G. 11. Sullivan of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell was made assignee. Mr. Cromwell, counsel for the assignee of Sharp & Bryan, made the following statement; “The firm made the general assignment for the purpose of insuring equality among its creditors without preference. The cause is directly attributable to the sudden and treme shrinkage ~iir. the mafEef ~vaTue of the securities of the firm. The pliabilities, mostly secured, are about $6,000,000. The value of the assets, almost exclusively Stock Exchange securities, to the amount of several million dollars, is dependent on market conditions. Most of the creditors, recognizing that present conditions are short-lived, are very fairly and wisely withholding their securities from sale.”

BOAT BURNS) ONE LIFE LOST. Steamer Sandusky Ig Destroyed hy Fire in Touawanda N. Y. In a fire starting in the forecastle of the schooner Sandusky one sailor was burned, to death, but his sleeping companions were saved. The Sandusky was destroyed, with a cargo of 800,000 feet of lumber. John Kent of Baraga, Mich., was the man who lost his life. The Sandusky had just arrived from Lake Superior and was lying at her dock at Tonawanda, N. Y., when the fire broke out. A watchman on deck attempted to extinguish the blaze, but failed. Then he ran to the crew’s quarters and sounded an alarm. The sailors were aroused just in time, as their quarters filled with smoke. Kent alone failed to scramble to the burning deck. He is believed to have been suffocated in his berth. The Sandusky was a wooden vessel, built in 1873 and owned by M. A. Bradley of Cleveland. She was 178 feet long, 33 feet beam and measured 837 tons. LOST TREASURE AT BOSTON. Sacred Jeweled Tree from Forbidden City Reaches Art Museum. One of the mysteries connected with the Forbidden City of Pekin has come to light in Boston with the appearance in the Boston Art Museum of what is said to be the famous sacred jeweled tree belonging to the imperial family of China. For more than two centuries this treasure, made of Chinese precious stones, standing two and a half feet high, had been guarded day and night, few persons knowing of its existence or where it was kept. Its disappearance several years ago, before the Boxer outbreak, caused a sensation among Chinese officials. The tree is said to have arrived at the museum through unknown channels and an effort will be made to restore it to the Chinese government.

Drowns Negro in Indiana. A posse of armed citizens in Bartholomew County, Indiana, pursued William Garrett, a negro, aud chased him into Flat Rock River, where he was drowned. Garrett had been acting strangely and started out to do damage. He ran about brandishing a razor, threatening to kill every person he met. A party of citizens drove him out of town. Filipinos Plan New Rising:. W. C. Deering of Chicago, who arrived from the Orient hy the steamer Tacoma, in an interview says that, although the people of the United States may not be aware of the fact, the insurgents in the Philippine Islands are organizing and drilling and the trouble there is far from over. Apple Crop Will Be Good. The National Apple Shippers’ Association held its ninth annual meeting at Niagara Falls with a large attendance. Although the statistics have not been fully prepared, it is said the apple crops In the United Statos and Canada, will be good. In n 5 State will the crop hie a failure, though it will be light in some, Beats Friend, (steals Wife. Harry Riley, nn ex-convict who was released from the Salernf Ore., penitentiary the other day, beat Elliott Parkliurst and forced Mrs. Parkhurst, daughter of J. T. Janes, formerly warden of the Salem penitentiary und a niece of exGovernor T. T. Geer, to run away with him. Reports of Trade Reviews. Weekly trade reviews of Dun and Bradstyeet show favorable conditions in nearly every section of the country, merchandise freight already taxing capacity of roads, although crop denynid for cars is not yet urgent. Collide at Durand, Mich. Two trains carrying the Wallace Bros.’ circns collided in the Grand Trunk yards at Durand, Mich. Twenty-one men Were killed, several others may die and jnauy were injured. Will Bnild New Railroad. The firm of Streeter & Lusk, Chicago and Drover contractors, ha* been hwarded the contract for constructing the new Moffett railroad that is to 1>« built from Denver to Balt Lake City. Church P*tyOnlxe» Boxing. Several spirited boxing bouts for points exclusively were the feature of a lawn entertainment given by members of All Saints’ parish on the church grounds >t 63d street and Maple avenue, St Louis.

SHOW TRAIN WRECK.

OVER BCORE OF PEOPLE KILLED AND FIFTY HURT. Circus Trains Collide at Durand, Mich., and Men nn.l Animals Perish —Wallace Brothers* Show in Terrible Ac-cident-Air Broken Fail. Twenty-two persons were killed and about fifty injured in a wreck on the Grand Trunk road half a mile from Durand, Mich., Friday. One section of Wallace Brothers’ circus train crashed Into the other. The dead were men -connected with the show and employes of the Grand Trunk Railroad, on which the terrible wreck occurred. Failure of the air brakes on the rear train to work caused the collision. The scene in the Grand Trunk yards after the collision was appalling. The wreckage of the engine and four cars was strewn about and piled high, while the shrieks of hhe injured victims and the bellowing of the frightened animals coaid bo heard above the hiss of escaping steam and the excited shouts of the rescuers. It was some hours the injured were rescued from the wrecked cars. Some of them were in terrible agony. Some of the bodies were crushed and mangled so that identification was difficult. It is customary to send a number of special men with circuses and that accounts for the presence of the road officers who were killed. Air Brakes Cause Crash. One elephant, two camels and a SI,OOO bloodhound were killed in their cages and many of the* other animals were injured. The cause of the collision was the air brake on the second train getting out of order and failing to work when the engineer saw th* red light of the first train which had come to a standstill. v The Wallace circus travels on two trains. In each train there are about thirty-five cars. The circus Thursday exhibited at Charlotte. Friday it was to have given an exhibition at Lapeer. The route the circus was traveling was the Grand Trunk main line. The two trains left Charlotte about midnight, or perhaps a little later. According to the rules of the railroad the second train kept half an hour behind the first train. When the first train reached the Durand yards, half a mile from the depot, it stopped. As the rules require a red lantern was promptly hung on the rear end of the last car. . When the second train came along, in half an hour, the first train was still on the main track in the yard. The red danger signal on the last car was. burning clearly. The engineer on the second section admits that he saw jtliered light in time to have stopped iiis train before it reached the first train if the’ air brakes had worked all right. But the air brakes refused to respond. The engineer could do nothing to check his train and it crashed without any cl;eck into the first train, and seven cars — L rear cars of the first train and forward cars of the second train, in which many people were sleeping—were totally wrecked. The scene after, the first.crash was terrible. Nearly every one in the train was asleep and the cries of the wounded and dying as they awoke from their sleep were horrifying. In the ears just ahead were the animals and their keepers. Some of the ears were partially demolijhed, setting loose the animals. People killed in the passenger conch consisted mainly of the show drivers and a few performers. They were all men.

DEFENSE OF LYNCHING.

Sam Jones Compares Negro Criminals with Wild Beasts. Rev. Sam Jones, the Georgia orator who was one of the speakers at the Bloomington (Ill.) Chautauqua, was asked what, in his opij»i<sn, was responsible for the i-ace wars in the North, particularly the DanYille and Evansville riots. He said iu response: "I have lived among the negroes all my life and know them pretty well, and in my mind there is not much in tills excitement about them. Now this lynching bhsiness is not anarchy. If a mad dog or a wild beast runs through the streets and bites some one the thing to do is td kill it, and kill it before it does any more harm. There is not much difference between a wild beattt and a negro who will attack white women.” Why, in the South the respectable blacks help the whites lynch the. brutes. Of the 11,000,000 negroes in the South the great mass are peaceable, law-abiding citizens. Since we have got rid of the Yankee scalawags who were stirring them up we don’t have much trouble with them.' They know their place and they keep it. “There nicy be a thousand bad negroes in the South, and thpy are the ones who make the trouble. It wis the enfranchisement of tiie negro that made tho trouble at first. In Georgia we have not disfranchised thorn. They can vote at the general election, but they cannot vote at the primary. We have a white primary, and as nomination is equivalent to election the black vote does not interfere. Education is doing a great deal for the blacks. The only education that I think is useful to them is manual training. Booker T. Washington is doing the most for them. He is dignifying labor and t&acliing them to work.”

Told in a Few Linces.

Heavy rains have flooded streams in southern England. Many basements in London are submerged. James J. Hill and E. H. Hairiman, it is said, are trying to “corner" the lumber lands of Washington and Oregon. The Secretary of War has directed that all officers yho have been on detached duty for a period of four years must return to their regiments or companies. George K. McCain, Philadelphia newspaper man, has bought the Colorado Springs Gazette and will change its politics from Democratic to Republican. At the annual meeting in Detroit,, Mich., of the Society of the Army of Santiago do Cuba all the old officers were re-elected. Moj. Gen. William R. Shatter is president. Calvin Price and Jerry Graves were hanged at Marion, 111, for the heartless murder last February of Mrs. Nellie Richelderfer, a popular teacher. Both men before the drop ‘fell maefe confessions.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Tj y T - ] “Further evidence of the nSy lOf ft. solid basis upon which legitimate trade' is established has been furnished by the equanimity with which commercial and financial institutions regard the recent speculative collapse. Much more harm has been done to the country’s manufactures and trade by the inflated prices of cotton than by the depression in stocks. Reports are almost unanimous as to the heavy distribution of merchandise, and this is shown statistically by the increase In railway earnings thus far reported for July, 12.5 per cent over last year’s and 23.1 per cent above 1901,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade. Continuing, the report says: As a rule retail trade in summer fabrics has continued heavy, and jobbers report fall business opening well. Labor is well employed throughout the country except where voluntarily idle. Agricultural news is favorable. Foreign trade is maintained, both exports and imports from this city showing gains over tlie corresponding week last year. Moderate improvement is noted in the tone of the iron and steel industry. There is striking absence of urgent orders, however, especially in lines outside of railway equipment. There is less anxiety regarding the danger of over-production, although dozens of new blast furnaces are in course of construction, and an active capacity of twenty million tons annually is now assured. Cables report spirited bidding by European rail mills for large contracts in America that home producers cannot consider, owing to their over-sold condition. Coke is moving freely, but the Alabama coal strike still disturbs furnacemen. Another decline has taken copper to about 13 cents. Textile industries are still waiting for re-adjustment or evidence of permanence in the present position of prices for raw material. Failures this week were 190 in the United States, against 193 last year, and 19 in Canada compared with IS a year ago.

77"! Wheat 1 arresting is now Ulieago. general throughout the a Northwest. As to the yield of the wheat crop it is thought that with all the recent improvement and with a yield in South Dakota approximately 10,000,000 bushels more as partial offset to losses elsewhere, the total is likely to ' fall under last year, but there will be a good yield on the whole, and a yield for which the Northwest may be very thankful in view of the fact that a month ago the entire crop stood iu imminent danger of destruction from drought. The coarse grain crops that come to harvest earliest 'hf all are turning out well and there is a big hay crop. Flax is standing well, and the temperatures of this week, although, the cause of some nervousness, were not low enough to hurt it. The smaller crops are good. The flax farmers will have to take less for their crops than for several years past when prices were really abnormally high, but coarse grains are bringing (airly remunerative prices aud wheat will sell above last year on the average. As the fall season approaches the stream of merchandise flowing into /the West is becoming heavier. Of all surprising things in the general outlook the most surprising is’ the continued heavy tonnage of the railroads. There is no abatement gs activity save in a few unimportant instances., Merchants in the West, especially the central West, say they are enjoying the best cash business for years and are unable to accumulate a surplus of goods in any line. Car shortages in the Southwest are a feature, this due in part, however, to the crippling of many roads by recent floods. The railroads are in better shape this year than ever, and this is a very good thing, for it is likely nil the additional equipment will be needed this fall to prevent a repetition of the car famines and freight congestions that were so serious a handicap to business during tbe late fall of last year.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to 95.00: hogs, shipping grades, 94.50 to 95.50; sheep, fair to choice, 93.00 to 93.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; coni, No. 2,50 cto sl*y oats, No. 2,33 c to 35c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c; hay, timothy, $6.50 to 915.00; prairie, 90.00 to 912.00; butter, choice creamery, lop to 18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; pdra'toes, new, 50c to 62c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to 95.25; hogs, choice light, 94.00 to 95.(50; sheep, common to prime, 92.50 to 93.50; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 white, 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2* white, 32c to 33c, St. Louis—Cattle, 94.50 to 95 20; hogs, 94.50 to $5.70; sheep. $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 80c; corn, No. 2, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2,31 cto 33c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle, 94.25 to $4.75; hogs, $4.00 to 93.(50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.(50; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34e; rye. No. 2. 56c.t» 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, 94.00 to $5.70; sheep, $2.50 to 93.25: wheat, No. 2. 79c to) 80c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 53c to 54c; data, No. 3 white, 36c to 37c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 87c to 88c; com. No. 3. 51c to 53c; oats. No. 2 white. 36c to 87c; rye. No. 1,51 c to 52c; barley, No. 2,57 cto 58c; pork, mess, $13.27. Toledo—TVhent, No. 2 mixed, 7T)c to XOc; corn. No. 2 mixed. 51c to 52c; out*, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 36c; rye. No. 2,62 c to B*c ; clover seed, prime, 95.65. .Buffalo-—Cattle, choice shipping steers. 94.50 to 95.40; hogs, fair to prime, 94.0(1 to 95.75; sheep, fair to choice, 93.25 to 94.00; iambs, common to choice, $4.00 to 90.00. * New York —Cattle. 94.00 to 95.50; hogs. 94.00 to $5.85; sheep. $3.00 te 93-50; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 84c: corn. No. 2,58 cto 59c; oats. No. "2 white, 39c to 40c; butter, creamery, 18c to lil«3 eggs, western, 15c to 19c. . „ .