Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1903 — Page 2

'WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. ■ ______ OMBQ. 15- MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA,

WOMAN GETS $50,000.

NEW YORK EMPLOYERS CHARGE HER WITH EMBEZZLEMENT. Mr*. Mary Johnson Accused by United State* Playing Card Company of Stealing Large Soma—Union of Presbyterian Churches Planned. Mrs. Marie Layton Johnson, n beautiful young woman of 29, is locked up in New York charged with her "fonfrcr"employer -of $50,000. She is the„ ■wife of Albert M. Johnson, a dentist of Larchmont, N. Y., with an office in the metropolis. The warrant specifically charges her with the larceny of $2,000. The total amount of her defalcation* twill probably amount to $50,000. The dom- ” plain ants are Officers of the United States Playing Cards Company, with home offices iu Cincinnati and a branch in New York at 685 Broadway. Mrs-. Johnson, whose maiden name was 3>larie Layton, was bookkeeper in the New York office and in addition acted as ..private secretary to Mr. McCutcheon. She was married to Dr. Johnson in 1901. but did not leave ber position after the marriage. In April of this year discrepancies are •aid to have been discovered in her accounts, according to the statement given out by Inspector McClusky, "and an examination is said to have revealed a shortage of SIO,OOO between Jan. 1 and April 15 in the accounts of the Ne-w York office. She wils discharged, and the investigation continued with developments as given above.

CHURCHES PLAN TO UNITE. Basis o t Union Will Be Submitted to General Assemblies. The committee* on co-operation and union of the Presbyterian Church and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, •which had been in session in St. Louis four days, two days of which were occupied in joint session, adjourned. “While no agreements were reached at this meeting,” said the chairman, “encouraging progress was made toward outlining a proposal of a basis of union* to be submitted to the two general assemblies.” Wreck on Southern Pacific. The Atlantic Express on the Southern Pacific collided head-on with a freight train at Beowawe, Net., one person being killed and twenty injured as a result. A passenger coach telescoped the smoking ear for half its length and thre9> engines are locked together. The engineer of the express did not see the flagman sent to warn him in time to prevent a collision. Kansas Corn Yield Is Rig. “I have just finished a tour of the Kansas corn belt,” said Got. Bailey at Topeka, Kan., “and I feel safe in saying to the country that the corn yield this year will reach 190,000,000 bushels. There will be 50,000,000 bushels more than the grain men are figuring on,"Gov. Bailey is one of the most extensive farmers of Kansas. Health Rnined by Cold Path. Sait has been begun against the city of Philadelphia on behalf of John F. Rapp and his wife, Maggie K. ~KappT who ask for heavy damages because Mrs. Rapp under orders from the board of health was taken from her home to the almshouse hospital and there given a cold bath, from which she became seriously ill. Earthquake In St. Louis. A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Carondelet, the southern part of St. Louis. The disturbance lasted about a minute and caused alarm among the citizens. At the same time a slight shock was felt in the western portion of the city. * St. Charles, Minn., Destroyed. St. Charles, Minn., was razed by a tor- * nndo, seven persons killed and twentyeight injured. Other deaths from the storm are reported throughout the State. At Independence, Wis., two persons were killed and thpee fatally injured. Lives Lost in Green Bar. Twelve persons were drowned by the capsizing of the steamer Hackley in Green Bay during a furious gale. Seven survivors were picked tip by a passing bout after tossing all night on a bit pf wreckage. Wedding of Ruth Rryan. Ruth Bryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, was married to William Homer Leavitt of Newport, R. 1., at Fair View*, the summer home of the Bryans near Lincoln, Neb. Storm Takes Several Lives. Five persons were killed and twenty buildings demolished by a tornado at Sheridan, Wis. Two men were drowned In Green Lake, near Ripon, Wis. Great damage to property is reported. Corbin Is Displaced. Major General Corbin, virtual head of the army, has been assigned to command the Department of the fcitsf, and will be •ucceeded by Major General Chaffee, now in charge of that post. Turks and Bulgarians in Battle. Serious news has been received at Sofia. Bulgaria, from the frontier of fightlug between Turkish and Bulgarian troops at Demir-Kapia, both sides sustaining losses. Carrie’s Ex-Husband Dies. DaTid Nation, divorced husband of Mrs. Carrie Nation, was taken ill of stomach trouble at Mediciue Lodge, Kan., and died. Pledge Against Hazing. Every third class man, as he reports ft the Annapolis Naval Academy, is now required to sign a pledge that he will not do any hazing. Superintendent Brownson is investigating recent acts by upper clans men. Cane Rnsli Will Be Fatal. In tlis annual cane rush between the freshmen and tophoniorc classes at the opening of Tula no University, New Origins. tbs attack became a desperate one aud several men were injured, oue fatally and a second seriously. /

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

BURN HUMAN BODY IN WOOD. $ Strange Women Mourn Over Myateriona Midnight Funeral Pyre. At a late hour the other night a closed carriage was hastily driven to the woods belonging to Frederick Ivrump, south of ’“Brazil, Inti, •On . arriving at a dense clump of bushes four men and three women got out of the vehicle and carrying a heavy bundle wrapped in white clotti, hurried into the woods. The men were closely followed by the three women, who carried cans evidently filled with coal oil. When a dry cluster of brush was reached a pile of sticks was quickly heaped together, thoroughly saturated with oil and the men placed the object they were carrying on it and ret it on fire. The flames lighted the woods for some distance and three men watched, the movements of the party while the object, which is supposed to have been a human body, was being consumed. The women seemed to be weeping and it was some time after the fire died out before the three onlookers dared to go to the place, where they found an accumulation of charred bones. Prof. A. C. Fishback, who examined them, says they are human bones and look as though they had been sawed or broken. The purpose of this was evidently so that the bones could be burned to ashes. The people departed in the carriage as mysteriously as they came. The authorities are investigating. :*;■ ~.-h PERIL. AT A 810 FIRE. Chicago Firemen Endangered When Standard Varnish Work Burn. Lives of many firemen were endangered in a fire which destroyed the greater part of tho Standard varnish works, 2620 to 2040 Armour avenue, Chicago. The blaze was started by an explosion and the flames on the varnish so rapidly that in a short time the firemen seemed unable to check the sweep of the flames. The explosion threw barrels of varnish through the roof of the building and two large tanks fell to the basement. Firemen on ladders were compelled to leap for their lives, and one, Guy Anderson, fell under the ladder. He was partly stunned, but Policeman Lacey of the Cottage Grove avenue police station dragged him away before the falling walls reached him. The loss is placed at $200,000. CANDY STRIKE 18 BROKEN. Owners Lift Lockout and Worker* Retarn to the Factories. In the wake of the many other premature strikes called in Chicago the last year the candy makers returned to work the other day defeated in their controversy with the manufacturers. The strike of 500 candy workers in thirteen factories, called a month ago, which was followed by a lockout throwing 1,500 out of work, has been broken. Fully 75 per cent of the strikers returned to work when the lockout was lifted. Birthplace of Dickens Sold. The birthplace of Charles Dickens, 387 Commercial road, Landport, near the Portsmouth dockyard, where his father was a clerk, and in which the author spent the earlier part of Ilis life, was sold by auction at Portsmouth, England, nud bought in for $5,625 by the Mayor, representing the city of Portsmouth. It was announced that a Dickens museum would probably be established iu the house. ' No Indictment for Hcichlln Mnrdcr. The grand jury of Lorpin -County, Ohio, which has been investigating the Keichlin murder case for several days past, completed its labors and reported no indictment. This is taken to mean that notwithstanding the large number of witnesses examined nothing really definite as to who killed Agatha Keichlin was brought out. Officer Stands Olf Ohio Mob, At Oxford, Ohio, a deputy sheriff stood off a mob as it was lynching Louis Spivey and cut the strangling victim from a tree to Vhich he had been strung. The marshal of Oxford, in attempting to arrest a drunken man, precipitated a riot in which five men were wounded, four fatally. \ " - -• American Leairne Season Ends. The American League closed its season Tuesday with the clubs standing in the following order: # W. L. \V. L. Boston ..... .91 47 Detroit 65 71 Philadelphia. .75 60 St. Louis 65 74 Cleveland ...77 63 Chicago 60 77 New York... 72 62 Washington.. .43 94 Stricken at the End of Sermon. Ilev. Truman F. Allen, pastor of the Thirteenth Avenue Methodist Church in Minneapolis, was stricken with apoplexy just as he finished what he thought might be his last sermon to the congregation. In three hours lie was dead. First Footl»«ll Victim East. The first accident of the football season iu the East occurred in Philadelphia. The victim is Neil Mohan, 11 years old, who was admitted to the Polyclinic hospital suffering from a broken leg received while playing in a game. Canal Treaty May lie Reopened. Advices have been received from Bogota to the effect that Congress has passed a law authorizing the President to conclude a canal treaty with the Uuited States on a certain basis, without the approval of Congress. Government Will Pay Wage*. The government of Ontario has arranged to pay the wage claims of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company at the Soo. The situation has materially improved as a result, part of the military having left for their homes. Yells Flrei Bees Sweetheart. Unable to gain an audience of his sweetheart, who had retired, Tony Saphsiaskl climbed ber father's porch la To-

ledo and raised an alarm of fire. When the family came rushing out lie seized the opportunity to propose marriage to pretty Victoria Kosinski and was accepted. After the bans were called the first time Victoria began to consider how she had been duped, and now refuses to marry Tony. •' TROOPS SEIZE COLORADO PAPER. Victor Record Suppressed Because It Criticised the Military. The military under command of Gen. Chase surrounded th ©offices of the Victor (Colo.) Record TTiT'ofBerTiTgBTTJWr demanded the surrender of all the employes who were at work. The same tactics were employed as though actual war was in progress. An orderly entered the and ordered all hands to line up tyetween files of soldiers preparatory to marching to ihe famous bull pen that lias 1 defied the laws of habeas corpus. The following complied with the instructions: Editor Ivyner, Walter Sweet, Circulator H. J. Richmond, Foreman Frank W. Langdon, linotype operator, and -George Basham, reporter. The office boy was told to stay to look after the safety of the property, and then the word of command was given and the tropps marched-down the streets-.- Tho excuse for the summary arrest was this fact that for several days articles have been appearing criticising the conduct of tlie military in making arrests without authority of law or warrants of any kind.

JAPAN GIVES REASONS. Sending of Troops to Korea May Mean Possession for a Time. Information received through official sources at St. Petersburg "shows that the explanation of Japan’s moving troops to CoVea is intended to remove suspicion concerning her intention. The number of troops moved is estimated between 8,000 and 10,000. Japan explains that the movement is part of a plan of experimental mobilization for the purpose of showing her ability to mobilize a considerable force fn connection with the friction between Japan and China, but that it lias no connection with differences between Japan and any other power. TURKS DEVASTATE DISTRICT. Inhabitants of> Razlog Either Mass*Driven t»nt of Country. A disp&teh from the Rila monastery says that the entire population of the district of Razlog has been massacred ors has ttedi Three thousand women and children, from the Turkish soldiery, have arrived at Bila. Many villages around Razlog are said to be burning. Titer town itselfis surrounded with tents occupied by the Turkish troops, who avoid fighting, and, according to the dispatch, attack only innocent people. Robbed and Laid on Ralls. A telegram from N'aco, Ariz., says J. W. Dooley, a ranch owner, was beaten and robbed by highwaymen, and those who committed the deed carried the victim to the railroad tracks, where they left him unconscious, expecting him to be killed and his remains to be so mutilated as to conceal the crime. Dooley was struck by n traiu and dragged a hundred feet, but escaped death. "Warned of a Dynamite Plot. Sheriff Gilbert was warned by wire by President Moyer, of the Western Federation of Miners of a plot to blow up the four big mills at Colorado City treating Cripple Creek ore. Officials of the miners and millmen’s union confirm the alleged plot, but the details are withheld. The mills are valued at $2,000,000. Dun's Trade Review. Dim’s review of Chicago trade says business has been improved by the presence of thousands of centennial visitors; the industrial situation is clearer and better crop reports are coming in. For the country generally the outlook is encouraging. Mob at Canadian "Soo.” The Canadian Soo was practically* at tho mercy Monday of a mob of unpaid workmen of the collapsed 'Consolidated Lake Superior Company. The offices of the company were stormed and demolished. The town was left iu darkness after a day of serious rioting. liic Game Boizure Made. Chief Game Warden Fullerton of St. Paul confiscated 2,000 ducks killed in the southern Minneeotn marshes by pot hunters in the employ of Chicago firms. The seizure is the largest the State has ever made. Massachusetts Democrats Nominate. W. A. Gaston has been nominated for Governor by Massachusetts Democratic convention; Gen. Miles was called in resolutions “foremost American roldier,” “snublied” by President Roosevelt, “a chance participant in small fight.” Far Whites at Horse Bhow. The Warrentou, Va.,*horse show, under the auspices of the colored people, will he held Oct. 21 and 22. This will bo th© first exhibition of its kind. No white person will be permitted to ride or drive in the show ring. Three Trainmen Killed. A north-bound passenger train on the Frisco system and a south-bound freight collided head-on near Keshkonog, Mo. Three trainmen were killed, a fourth fatally hurt and a passenger was slightly injured. McClellan Named by Tammany. George B. McClellan was nominated for Mayor of New York by the Democratic city convention: Supreme Court Justice Gsynor was put forward by Brooklyn, but defeated 434 to 219. Great Coat Food action. For the first tim* in the history of the United States the production of coal has reached a total of over 300.000,009 short tons, valued at $373,133^43.

PLUCKY GIRL DEFIES PLAGUE. Daughter of Mayor of Linares. Mexico, Conducts Affairs of City. Miss Manuela Flores Gomez, the 18-year-old daughter of the Mayor of Linares, Mexico, has attracted the attention of President Diaz through her heroic conduct during the yellow fever epidemic, and the Mexican Congress will vote her a medal. This high honor is inreCOgnltion of her self-sacrifice and bravery in remaining in Linares and taking upon her shoulders the duties of the Mayor and other city officials. Surrounded by dying victims of the dreaded disease and her father stricken with the malady, the girl stuck to her post and has directed affairs, in a masterly manner. When her young woman associates were fleeing to the mountains they tried to induce Miss Gomez to accompany them, but ehe refused, insisting she had a duty to perform and that she would do all possible to save life. When the plague began the city had a population of more than 15,000, and now through death and flight to avoid the disease the number of residents has been reduced to fewer than 3,000. TAKE VOTE FROM NEGROES. Five-sixths of Colored Population in Virginia Disfranchised. Registration books have closed in Richmond, Va., and the result shows that 5,000 negroes have been disfranchised. Less than a thousand are now qualified to vote and they are no longer a factor in politics. Inquiries in the State at large justify the belief that at least five-sixths of the negroes in Virginia have not now the right to vote and they will no longgy have to be reckoned in the calculations. The Republicans contend that their party will be largely augmented from the Democratic ranks, as there is now no fear of possible negro domination in the future. FINDS COTTON CROP SHORT. Texas Pap-r Estimates Worms and Weather Killed 500,000 Bales. The Houston, Texas, Post publishes a report showing that great damage has been done to cotton over the Staje by the boll weevil, the boll worm, the sharpshooter and dry The TSfltnale of the probable crop, based on the reports frlim country correspondents, is placed at 2.500,000 bales, provided the frost is late. The popular estimate six weeks ago was 3,000,000 bales. The reports of insect damage come from eightynine counties. It is stated that there is absolutely no chance for a “top” or second crop. New Episcopal Organization. The Episcopal Church in the United States is .taking steps to organize provinces, to be composed of groups of dioceses. The committee recommends _ the election of one of the bishops resident, within the province ns primate. The new canon provides for a convention in each province, to consist of two houses, the bishops forming the upper and the clerical and lay deputies the lower house. Texans Lynch a Negro. At Marshall, Texas, a mob of several hundred men forced their way through the brick wall of the city jail with the aid of a telephone' pole and with sledge hammers and crowbars, took out Walter Davis, a negro, and marched him to the west side of town, where he was hanged to a tree. The lynching was the result of the killing of Constable Hayes while he was taking a negro to jail. Playing of Boys at His Door. Two Rockford, 111., residents, Frank I’. Kessler, a switchman, and Alexander Cope, a newsboy, have identified Emil Waltz, who.is held on the charge of killing little Alphonse Wilmes in Detroit, as the man whom they had seen near Rockford a short time before the discovery of the mutilated body of a little newsboy in that city. Massachusetts Republicans Meet. Secretary of the Navy Moody, the principal speaker at the Massachusetts Republican State convention, rapped the Democrats for their attitude on labor, their comments upon the postal investigation and their treatment of negroes in the South. The entire State ticket was renominated. 27 Indicted for Lynching. Twenty-seven white men have been indicted for lynching a negro in Tennessee, the coroner’s verdict charging them with -“malicious, premeditated and deliberate murder.” Fourteen have been arrested and three have turned State's evidence. Train Runs Down a Party. A family reunion party, composed of about a dozen persons, was run down by a passenger traiu at Sharon Hiil, Pa., on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad, and five were killed and three injured. President t) Labor Lender*. President Roosevelt has issued a statement to labor leaders, in which lie positively refuses to recede from his decision against any discrimination between union and non-union men iu the government employ. , Harricnne Sweeps Bermndo. With a force that demolished houses and uprooted trees, a hurricane swept over the Bermuda islands the other day. Hundreds of houses'were damaged. The banana industry was badly injured. Harder* in Drunken Frenzy. In s drunken frenzy and for no reason Frank Sepitowski, a St. I.ouis grocer’s clerk, shot hit wife, probably fatally, and then shot himself in the head, but will recover. Death of Henry D. Lloyd. Henry D. Lloyd of Chicago is dead. H* was a devoted student of questions, an advocate of a referendum, sad a friend of the laboring rouses.

TORNADO TAKES LIFE.

BT. CHARLES, MINN., RAZED AND SEVEN PERSONS KILLED. Widespread Destruction of Property Is Reported from the Northwestern States—Twelve Perish in Waters of Green Bay. The little town of St. Charles, in Winota County, Minn., was practically wiped out by a tornado which struck it at 2:.>0 Saturday afternoon. Seven _peo:.. pie were killed and twenty-eiglit injured, many of them seriously. Tne entire main street of the town was literally wiped out, hardly a business place being left standing. Forty-two residences also were destroyed and the total property damage is estimated at SIOO,OOO. The day had been abnomally sultry for the season of the year; and during the morning tTiere had been showers of rain, accompanied by fitful gusts of wind. Toward noon the sky became- heavily overcast, but indications of a tornado" were entirely lacking. This being Saturday, the country people from the surrounding farms had gathered in large numbers in the main streets to do their customary shopping. At 2:30 the storm cloud was seen approaching from the southwest, and there was anA immediate scramble for places of safety. The tornado struck the town from the southwest quarter and made a clean sweep through it, following almost entirely the line of the main street, and devastating buildings on either side. Then the residences further back from the business center were struck and many of them blov'n completely away. The storm seems to have followed very closely the boundary line between Minnesota and lowa and damage to farm buildings and grain stacks, with injury to human beings and death to live stock is reported from several points in that locality. Two boys, sons of Stephen Matter, were killed at St. Cloud, Minn., while seeking refuge from the storm. They had taken shelter beneath a string of cars on the railway siding and a switching crew backed another string of cars upon them, killing them instantly. The tail end of the cyclone struck Duluth and canned much damage to property, blowing down several buildings and wrecking many boats in the harbor. No on© was injured. It is reported that many of the mines of the Mosaba range were flooded by the extraordinarily heavy rain.

Deaths in Wisconsin. A terrific windstorm, approaching a cyclone, swept over Wisconsin, causing death and destruction. At Independence two persons were killed, three fatftlljs.injured and a score of others badly hurt. At f'/irglfUA’nlley the Reformed Church was demolished and houses on the prairie were swept away. At Racine trees were blown down, also electric light and telephone wires, and half of the city left iu total darkness. Oarl Larson, a painter. 35 years old, was electrocuted on State street. He ran into a telephone wire on the sidewalk, charged with olcctrieHy. Spectators knocked the wire from his hands with, a board. He was taken to a hospital unconscious and will not live. H Thomas Galroth was killed and two men injured by the demolition of a farmhouse at Trempealeau. * Baraboo reports a cloud burst more severe than was ever known in that section this afternoon lasting three hours. Fully four indies of water fell. Many buildings and wind mills were blown down, cellars flooded and several washouts reported. A tornado which struck Blain and Almond killed five persons near Sheridan, Wis., and blew down twenty buildings as near as can be ascertained. In a field $l,lOO in money was picked up, apparently having been blown there by the storm. Twelve Perish ia Green Pay. During ri furious gale that swept over Lake Michigan just at dark the steamer Erie L. Hackley went down off Green inland and twelve persons w'ere drowned. Nine survivors, after drifting all night on pieces of -w-reckage, were rescued the next morning by the steamer Sheboygan of the Goodrich line and taken Jo Fish Creek. The Hackley left Menominee for Egg Harbor about an hour before the coming of the storm. The day hot and muggy, with hardly a breath of air stirring. As bhe sun went down the storm clouds commenced to gabber and there were unmistakable signs of , a coming tempest. Suddeulf, from out the northeast, a furious blast swept the lake, causing the ill-fated vessel to careen until the sails almost touched the water. As the craft righted itself everyone on board rushed on deck. Then came a second blast, stronger than the first, capsizing the vessel and sending it to the bottom. Houses Are Leveled. A cyclone, accompanied by rain and hail, visited the vicinity near Neponsct, 111., doing much damage to farm buildings and crops. The houses of Charles Turnbull and Thomas Murphy were leveled to the ground. Peter Johnson’s residence was blown thirty feet off its foundations. The path of the storm was forty rods wide and touched at several points in Bureau, Stark and Heury counties. Dunpig n heavy thunder-storm at Martinsville, Ind., lightning struck Hiram Pearcy’s bam, three miles east, immediately killing John Slough, a 17-year-old farmhand, nmLm horse in the barn. Notes of Current Events A $500,000 independent theater is to b« erected in Indianapolis. A contract for a $30,000 high school in Junction City, Ivan., has been let. The Missouri University Boarding Club will furniiii board to the student* this year at $1.50 a week. Peter Lenousky of Wilkesbarre was hanged in the county jail for the murder of Antliouy Sennick, a companion mine worker, who was known to have saved money. „ If Congress appropriates all the money Secretary Moody estimates the navy will need the national naval expense account for the fiscal year of 1904-05 will be more than $100,600,060. Secretary Wilson has refused to allow a monster steer from Pawnee County, O. T., to cross the quarantine line for exhibition purpose*. He says it Would be a dangerous precedent

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

l» « j I B- G. Dun & Co.’s NeW I OrK. Weekly Review of Trade ' says: Notwithstanding several unsatisfactory features, the volume of trade continues large ~and the distribution- of merchandise taxes shipping facilities. Announdement of a concerted effort to restrict production of pig iron indicates that supplies have begun to accumulate. Railway earnings continue to show gains, for September thus far exceeding last year’s by 8.7 per cent, and those of 1901 by 17.2 per cent. New labor controversies have begun, but a number of serious troubles have been averted, and on the whole the number of men idle voluntarily has diminished. Enforced idleness in the iron and steel, industry is more than offset by the resumption of spindles at cotton mills, and therq is great activity at footwear factories, although the margin of profit is narrow. Lower prices for the -leading agricultural staples Indicate a general belief in Improved crop, prospects. ■ 0 ~ The decline in stock valLDICMO. ues *** re fl eete d on Wall a street creates no hesitation in local trade, and while grain has suffered a sharp deeline, the market for breadstuffs is in a healthier condition and trading largely increased. The Industrial situation furnishes no evidence of curtailed production. , Labor is well employed, wages good and the mills and factories are pressed to the limit of capacity. Earnings of western roads run ahead of a year ago, and increasing congestion of traffic indicates the urgent need for additional equipment, particularly for the marketing of crops. Distribution of fall Merchandise has,not yet reached the diminishing point. Mercantile collections generally are good. Dealings in breadstuffs were largely influenced by the better crop conditions, and the volume of business was heaviest this sea Son. Buying both for domestic and foreign accounts was unusually strong, but on the free offerings and reassuring reports of a 2,000,000,006-bushel crop of corn prices weakened in all the pits. Compared with last week's closing corn declined 5)4 cents, wheat • ♦ Cents and oats 1% cents. The Market closed at n slight rally bn the best export takings of the week. Live stock receipts, 291,883 head, are 27 per cent over a year ago. Heavy cattle were in ample gupply and fell 2 cents per hundred weight under a week ago. Hogs and sheep were readily absorbed, both advancing 20 cents.

Bradstreet’s Trade Review. Reports of conservatism and even caution in fall and winter trade testify to the absence of the spur of insistent demand which a year ago gave the selling side such an advantage. Strikes of vessel men on the lakes retnrd shipments, and advanced freight rates and high prices for cotton, with lack of correspondingly higher prices for finished pro-, ducts, check full resumption of operations. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending Sept. 24, aggregate 3,059y--480 bushels, against 1,909,083 last week, 5.077,070 this week last year, 4,470,352 in 1901 and 3,242,810 in 1900. For twelve weeks of the cereal year they aggregate 36,214,681 bushels, ngainst 59.009,137 in 1902, 74,127,105 in 1901 and 38,743,068 in 1900. Corn exports for the week aggregate 779,230 bushels, ngainst 787,107 last week, 74,952 a year ago, 585,706 in 1901 and 2,156,171 in 1900. For twelve weeks of the present cereal year they aggregate 11,605,251, 991,G27 in 1902, 11,224,692 in 1901 and 38,333,118 in 1900.

THE MARKET

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $0.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.85; wheat, No. 2 red, 7Cc to 78c; corn. No. 2,44 cto 45c; o-ats, No. 2,35 c to 30c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $12.50; prairie, SO.OO to $10.50: butter, choice creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 19c; potatoes, 55c to 03c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.40; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $0.30; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 81c; corn, No, 2 white, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 38c to 39c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.50; hogs, $4.50 to $0.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 87c; corn. No. 2, 44c to 45c; oatr. No. 2,37 cto 38c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 55c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.25 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.40; sheep, $2.00 to $3.40: wheat, No. 2,85 cto 80c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48v. oats. No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; rye. No. 2, «lc to G2e. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $3.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, $:;.50 to $3.50; wheat, Nol 2,82 cto 83e,* corn. No. 8 yellow, 50c to 51c; oats. No. 3 white, 37c to 38c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 50c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 80c to 81c; com, No. 3, 40<T to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 38c to 39c; rye, No. 1,60 c to 57c; barley, No. 2,03 cto 04c; pork, mess, $ll.BO. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 lylxed, 81c to 85c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; rye, No. 2,54 c to 50c; clover reed, prime. SO.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers. $4.50 to '56350; hogs, fair to prime, S4.W) to $8.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $5.86. New York —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.40j boge. $4.00 to $0.10; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00: wheat. No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; con. No. 2,52 cto 63c; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 42c; batter, creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, wee tern, 20c to 24c. • *