Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — Page 2

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

BLAMES OTHERS, TOO.

SENSATIONAL ALLEGATIONS MADE IN POISONING CASE. Father of Mrs. Kranss Declares She Did Not Murder Her Stepdaughter Without Aid—Accidental Shot Kills Two Women in Crestline, Ohio. With the confession of Mrs. W. It. Krauss of Hartford City, Ind., to the murder of her stepdaughter. Crystal, by giving her poison this sensational ease was supposed to have come to an abrupt end. But scarcely had the prison doors closed on the self-confessed murderess Ilian other sensational rumors, believed to be well founded, are in circulation. Dr. F. YV. Auderman, father of Mrs. Krauss, stated that others are as deep in the crime as his daughter. He says that she did uot commit the deed without help and Instructions. Attorney J. A. Hindman, who bad Mrs. Krauss’ case iu hand, did not know his client intended to plead guilty until he was called to the court room ten minutes beforehand. He «aid he was in possession of facts that convince him that Mrs. Krauss was in consultation with some one who instructed her in the crime. He asks how would she know what kind of poison was in the Krauss drug store and what kind of strychnine was on sale in the Logan drug store, where the poison was purchased. Some erne, he says, who knew these facts must have told her. MANY KILLED IN MINE BLAST. Twenty-one Are Dead in Underground Explosion in Colorado. A terrific explosion occurred at mine No. 3 of the Pocky Mountain Fuel and Iron Company at Tercio, Colo., and the number of dead is estimated at 21. The mine caught fire and in all likelihood the bodies will be cremated. Nearly all the miners employed are Slavs. The mine was opened only a year ago and extended 2,000 feet into the hill. The explosion is supposed to have been caused by dust. F. J. Foreman, government inspector, who saw- the explosion, says it began with a low rumbling sound like an earthquake. Out of the airshafts timbers two feet in diameter were shot and broken to splinters. Pieces of rock were thrown over the camp a quarter of a mile, and many persons were hurt by the shower of missiles. BULLET KILLS TYVO WOMEN. Stray Shot Hits One, Other Dies From Heart Disease. A stray bullet from a revolver fired by William Heffelfinger, formerly a merchant of Crestline, Ohio, resulted in the death of two women. The bullet was tired to frighten two companions of Hef-fe-lfiiiger who were escorting him home. The bullet went wild and struck Mrs. Harry Kimley, the wife of a Cleveland man, who was visiting at a Crestlinfe home, in the head. She died within a few minutes. Her friend, Mrs. Carrie Shafer, on learning of the tragedy, fell dead from heart disease. Heffelfinger was locked up. Holds Wilder Will Valid. The Minnesota Supreme Court has decided that the Wilder will, which provided for a trust or corporation to take charge of Mrs. Fanny Wilder’s estate, including that of her daughter, Mrs. Appleby, valued at about $3,000,000. was valid. The provision which was attacked established a trust for the maintenance of a charity to aid the worthy poor of St. Paul. Excludes Pupil) Must Pay. The Massachusetts Supreme Court bas decided that a school Committee can not exclude a pupil from school without first giving him a full opportunity to be beard on the question of his exclusion. The case was that of YY r . F. Morrison against the city of Lawrence for his suspension by the principal of the Lawrence high school. Morrison was given a verdict of $750. Buffalo Klevafor Collapses. From some cause which cannot be explained the Ontario elevator in Buffalo, N. Y., collapsed and sank into the waters of the Evans slip. The elevator contained about 370,000 bushels of barley, a large port ion of which lies at the bottom of the slip. The loss on the grain and the building is estimated at $330,000. Fatal Collision in Missouri. Three persons were killed and twentythree passengers were-injured, five seriously, iu a collision between two sections of the world's fair special on the Missouri Pacific railroad in Tipton, Mo. The trains were tilled with visitors to the exposition returning to their homes. Forest, 7ires Cause Big Loss. Forest fires have been raging iu the Blue' Ridge mountains, spreading over 20,000 acres of timber and brush land and along a tract twenty miles long eastward from Wind Gap, Pa. Scores of fa rmers and squatters have been forced to flee with their movable possessions. Sixteen Perish at a Wedding. At a lire following a wedding in the poorer part of St. Petersburg, Russia, eleven of the guests were burned to deutli. Five others nre missing, und it is feared they also have perished. Amount of Church Property Exempt. Ecclesiastical and charitable property exempted from taxation in New York City reaches a total of $21(3,05H, 105. France the Peace Preserver. France should have the credit for averting a war between , Russia nud Great Britain, according to Statements made iu St. Petersburg, where it is said that M. Delcasse proposed The Hague plan to both nations at the sanne'time. Magazines Exploded Jn Port Arthur, Japanese shells fired during a general •Hack on Port Arthur destroyed the only smokeless powder magazine iff the town, and a conflagration followed which lasted « day. The Japanese captured several Important positions.

THE DEMANDS GROWING.

Tropical Products Brought to United States Show Increase. The growing demand of the people of the I'niicd States for tropical and sub*, tropical products in pointed out in the annual report of the chief of the bureau of statistics, issued by the Department of Commerce and Labor. It shows that the total Tahie of tropical and subtropical products brought into the United States during the fiscal year 1904 amounted to $430,556,775, including those brought from the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico and the Philippines. In nearly ali of the tropical anil sub-tropical products the importations of the fiscal year 3904 are materially larger than ip earlier years, while in quantity the increase is even greater than that in value, because of the declining prices of many of these articles. The total quantity of sugar, for example, brmtght into the United States in 1904 from the tropics, including that brought from Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands, is 4.675,027,813 pounds, against 3.305,037.790 pounds Til 1900; 2,232,820,896 pounds in 1890. 1,829,280,030 pounds in 1880, and 1.190,002.049 pounds in 1870. Coffee importations in 1901 amounted to 998.831,292 pounds, against 787,991,911 pounds in 1900, 499.159,120 pounds in 1890, and 235,250,574 pounds in 1870. Importations of raw silk in 1904 amounted to 10,722,017 pounds, including all classes of unmanufactured silk under this title, against 11.259,310 pounds in I!HX>, 5,934,300 pounds in 1890, 2,562,230 pounds in 1880, and 553.589 pouhds in 1870. Importations of fibers in 1004, including those from the Philippine Islands, amounted to 299.951 tons, against 249.300 tons in 1900, 193,332 tons in 1890, 111,751 tons in 1880, and 43,533 tons in 1870. Cocoa imported amounted to 72,277,000 pounds in 190-1, against 41,746,872 pounds in 1900, 18,200,177 pounds in IS9O, 7,403,043 pounds in 1880, and 3,640,845 pounds in 1870. Tea importations in 1904 amounted to 112,898,010 pounds, against 84,845,107 pounds in 1900, 83,880,129 pounds in 1890. 72,102,930 pounds in 1880, . and 47,408,481 pounds in 1870. Fruits also show a rapid increase in importation, the value of tropical anil sub-troipical fruits brought into the United States in 1904 being $24,990,800, against $19,203,592 in 1900, $14,028,90 Sin 1880, anil $7,410,592 in 1870.

BRIDE CONFESSES TO MURDER.

Rae Krauss Serving Life Term foi Slaying Stepdaughter, After many weeks of stout denial in tbe face of almost absolute proof, Mrs. Rae Krauss confessed in court at Hartford Oity that she administered strychnine that killed her stepdaughter, Crystal Krauss, who -died in convulsions Aug. 2. . The confession was a surprise even to the woman’s lawyer. After the admission the woman was sentenced to prison for life and wfts taken at once to the women’s prison in Indianapolis. A mob at the station hissed Mrs. Krauss and uttered threatening cries as she boarded a train for prison. It came out that the confession was drawn from the woman by lrer husband, who, with that idea in view, visited her etei-y day in jail. He was instructed in liis actions by State’s Attorney Burns. An indictment was returned and -the trial was begun at once, iu accordance with the prisoner’s demand. Late in the afternoon a jury was secured, and when the usual questions as to guilt or innocence was put, Mrs. Krauss replied, calmly, “Guilty.” The word startled the court room, ai? a fight had been expected and the defendant's attorney hud consulted with her up to the opening of court as to her defense. At tile dramatic -moment Mrs. Krauss produced a paper and handed it to Judge Vauglin. It was -her written confession. She said in her statement that she did not realize what she was doing. and expressed deep penitence. Crystal was 18 years old, and her stepmother, who was married to YV. R. Krauss, a prominent druggist, only two months before the murder, is 27. Both women were active in church affairs. Krauss intended to leave his fortune of about $20,000 to his daughter. The girl died suddenly, after a meal. Mrs. Krauss advanced the suicide theory. YY'lien suspicion began to point strongly toward the older woman a chemical examination of the contents of -the dead girl’s stomach showed she had been killed with strychnine.

LABOR NOTES

\Y r e pay about $7,000,000 a year for bananas. Japan, has recently placed orders for $2,000,000 worth of American machine tools. The dock workers’ strike at Marseilles, France, lasted forty days and cost the community $10,000,000. A number of towns on the northern coast of France are now connected with London by -telephone. The charge is $2 for tliree minutes. « According to the reports of the geological survey of Canada for the last year, recently issued, since 1890 upward of $97,000,000 worth of gold has been shipped out of the Canadian Y’ukon. As tending to show how Southern California is tilling up it is noted that Imperial Valley, in San Diego county, which had not a voter two years ago, had, up to Sept. 24, registered 557 votes. Things are going along well in the steel industry iu the vicinity of Pittsburg, Pa. Hardly a day passes that new mills are-.not put into operation, nud those that have been working on single turn are now doubling tip and working to their full capacity. The day of the brass megaphone is over. The latest thing in a megaphone mouthpiece is one built like a big morning glory and colored accordingly, red, white or blue. They are very showy and dealers expect a Mg sale for them. A Cleveland man has started a business which promises to be a great success. He has hired an. office, a large number of. expert stenographers and a number of telephones. Business men call tip by telephone, dictate their letters over the wire to a stenographer and the letters are later sent back by messenger boys to be signed.

PROGRESS OF THE WAR

The battle of Shakhe River, as Marshal Oyama officially names it. wore itself out on Get. 20. The bard fighting began on Oct. 9 with an attack on Kuroki, commanding the Japanese right. The battle lasted eleven days. The Russians, by their own reports, lest 12,000 killed and 56,000 wounded. The Japs casualties are not known. Strategically, according to the Chicago Tribune’s view, the battle was an unqualified triumph for the Japs. Kuropatkin started south from Mukden on Oct 4 with the avowed purpose of rolling back the Japanese and relieving Port Arthur. Ills exact words were: “Now the moment to go to meet the enemy has come, and the time has arrived for us to compel the Japanese to do our will, for the forces of the Manchurian army are strong enough for a forward movement.” The outcome of the Russian attempt was that they failed to gain a rood of ground toward Port Arthur. Indeed, the Jap lines are fifteen miles farther northward than were on the day of Kuropatkin’s proclamation. Kuropatkin’s purpose—to relieve Uort Arthur —was utterly defeated. Oyama’s purpose—to prevent the relief of Port Arthur—was entirely successful. Strategically, therefore, the victory indubitably rests with the Nipponese. Tactically the result was not so decisive. On Oct 9 and 10 Kuroki gave ground after a slight resistance. On the 11th the battle raged six miles north of Y'entai and hung In the balance. Hard fighting continued on the 12th. On the 13th the operations distinctly favored the Japanese. Oyama reached his high water mark on the 14th, when the ( Japanese defense stormed across the Shakhe and the Russians seemed about to retreat to the Hun, several miles north. Up to this point the Japs had captured a large number of guns, variously reported at from seventy to 112, and had lost none. Gen. Oku, In command of the Japanese left, was doing the hardest and most successful fighting. Opposite him lay the Russian right, which was desperately clinging to the railroad. If Oku could shove this Muscovite flank off the railroad to the eastward IvuropatkiiFs entire nrmy would lose its main line of communication. Oku bent his nrmy Into the shape of a hook and tried to insert the tiplof the hook across the railroad behind the Russians. Maj. Gen. Yamada’s mixed brigade was the tip of this hook. At first he tore up things on the other side, but the tip was not strong enough, and a sudden Russian blow separated it from the shank. The net result, fourteen Jap guns captured, 1,500 men put out of action, and the remaining 4,000 fighting their way back to tho main body. This exploit occurred on the evening of Oct. 10. Simultaneously the Russians made their gallant attack on Lone Tree hill, a precipitous and tactically valuable eminence on the Shakhe River. The Japanese thereafter failed in several efforts to retake Lone Tree hill. From the evening of the 10th to the end of the fight the current set against the Japs; they gained no further positive advantages, though on the night of the 'l7th they successfully repulsed a general Russian assault on the whole Japanese line. Tactically, therefore, the advantage lies with the Japanese, though not overwhelmingly. They captured a considerably larger number of guns than they lost and at the end of tho fighting they occupied the battlefield from which they pushed their enemy. Why is it that the Japanese, neither in the battle of the Shakhe River nor in that c-f Liaoyang, did not achieve a more complete victory? There was a point in each of those fights wheu the Russians were in a bad way, when it looked as if the Japs could involve

Some Wireless Yarns.

They tell some funny yarns about the operation of wireless telegraphy in the present war. YY’lien Admiral Togo was at his island shelter, some miles from Port Arthur, he was the victim of what might be called a “Russian” joke. The Russians knew that Togo’s ships were equipped with wireless apparatus, so the Russian wireless station at Port Arthur sent the following message: “Russia’s fleet coming out,” and signed the name of Rear Admiral Dewa. Togo came rushing up, with his whole fleet, forced draft, four boilers, four belLs, Uppity split, anxious to get there in time to intercept the Russians. In the meantime the Russian joker was leaning against a fortification, laughing in his beard, and uttering strange sounds of mirth. Admiral Togo did not consider it much of a joke at nil, according to Uhefoo rumors, and the same afternoon blew the top off of a prominent hill near the signal station.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Andrew Leouhardt was hanged in Baltimore for the murder of his wife in 1903. Fire.destroyed the cotton compress and 700 bales of cotton at Ellisville, Miss.; kiss $75,000. The Polish Roman Catholic triennial congress in Pittsburg voted to establish schools between the elementary and college grades. Memorial exercises dealing with the life of Senator Hoar were held at all the public .schools in Worcester, Mass. Stephen W. Townley is dead at Mobile, Ala., of sunstroke. This is the first fatal sunstroke recorded in the history of ‘be city. Thomas Y\. Williams, a mining contractor of Wilkeabarre, Pa., and brother of former Congressman M. B. Williams, was accidentally killed In a coal mine. Owing to an attack of rabies, it has been necessary to destroy the bounds of the Chester Valley, Pa., bunt, said to bo one of the’ most valuable In America.

MAP OF THE THEATER OF WAR.

them in disaster by one more-lift. Why was the one more lift not forthcoming? Probably because the Japs did not have one more lift left in them. They had thrown their reserves into the battle line already. They had no more fresh weight to throw into the scale. The Lull in the Fighting. Since the lighting of last Sunday afternoon anil evening we have no news of engagements between the armies of Kouropatkiu and Oyama more serious than occasional skirmishes between outposts, or a little desultory artillery fighting. Both armies seem to be well concentrated, and facing each other at a distance of only two or three miles, except possibly bn the Japanese right, which is the Russian left, where tho hilly country necessitates division of forces. It may be, the Chicago Record-Her-ald says, that the heavy rain, fflooding the rivers, has been the main factor which has occasioned the temporary lull In the lighting. Again, the exhaustion of the men and the need of bringing up fresh supplies of ammunition may have had more to do with it. Neither army seems Inclined to retire, but which will first take the offensive no one can say. The Siberian Railway seems to be given over entirely to troop trains hastening re-enforcements to Kouropatkiu, but if his losses are nearly as great as seems probable It should take perhnps three weeks merely to make them good with new troops. However, a Mukden dispatch says that had it not been for a new. downfall of rain Thursday Kouropatkin would again have taken the aggressive that night. Oyama, it will bo remejnbered, said In one of his dispatches toward the end of the .hard fighting that he had attained Ills first object, leaving It to be inferred that his plans included a second object already definitely determined upon. That ■may be an advance upon Mukden. The weather In Manchuria will not seriously interfere with fighting for at least a month more. Then the rivers will begin to fill with floating ice, making them difficult to ford, especially for transport services. The surface of the ground will freeze about that time and form a crust, which, over soft pnid beneath, will only make teaming more difficult for the time. By Christmas the ground Is usually frozen to a depth tijat makes trenching impossible. The fuel problem will be very serious for both armies, as there are said to be no forests on the hills within the sphere of the present operations, except In the neighborhood of the imperial tombs near Mukden. Port Arthur is steadily weakening. The Investing lines are constantly growing tighter,. The garrison persists in desperate sorties, which are invariably repulsed with slaughter. It is said that the defenders now number less than 5,000. That is below the da tiger line. Such a slender garrison could, with difficulty, man the long perimeter of the Russian defenses. A few more sorties, a few more bloody repulses, and the place must fall of its own weight —because its defenders have been killed off.

War News in Brief.

The Blacii Sea fleet may join the Baltic ships. Gen. Kuropatkin is holding hia center and right to allow the left to retire. Both armies are waiting for fine weather to make further carnage practicable. The Japanese are working out some flanking movements that may be heard from soon. Every one of the Cossacks commanded by Capt. Tourgenieff was wounded, and the captain fatally. The Baltic fleet will go East in two divisions, by the way of the Suez canal and Cape of Good Hope. The Eighth Russian army corps' is reported to have reached Mukden and Ku-ropatk-in will begin new plans. A correspondent with the Japanese army tells something of the progress of that army to its present position at Port Arthur. Japanese ostimnte Russian disunities at 00,000 and they admit about 40,000. It is thought the total may be for both armies 80,000. The Japanese protest against the use of Chinese clothing by the Russians has .reached YY’ushingtou and been forwarded to St. Petersburg. The German Red Cross Society will offer to establish a hospital nt Irkutsk and equip a train, and a similar offer will be made to Japan. To settle a wager made in the Union League Club, New York, a« to the color of Thomas Jeffersou’s hair, a committee visited the YVliße House and Inspected the famous oil portrait by Stuart, and decided the former President’s hair was of a sandy color, and not red. President Roosevelt has refused to approve the plan of the War Department to have the tailoring at -the Schuylkill arsenal done by contract instead of by the widows and orphans of the men in blue who now earn their firing by making the soldiers' clothes.

Chilian Miners Powerful.

pjrhaps the greatest weights borne * or any distance on men’s backs are the oads of ore brought up from the Siin# ot the AD(les b y ‘he mln ers of £hil? ‘Darwin visited a copper jnipe j,j u i ravine leading from the main j.yjjle of the Cordilleras, where tho horli was carried on by such primitive fo ea *B that, though the mines had jiggn i worked in the mountains for at * at |two centuries, the water was rev '1 In some by carrying it up snafte lea ther bags 011 inen ’ s ba cks. Sir ; Francis Head, when visiting a simila r mine - found-that all the ore waß c arried up to the surface, a vertc4l q limb of 430 feet, by tbe mlnersanil' t bat tlle average weight carried was fi* 50 P° un ds. This loud was not cathW U P a winding Btalr * but BP r,*otcJie d trunks of trees, set almost uprfg*t J ne touching another. The fo °d of the Chilian miner, accoidinr to Darwin, consisted of rations I’s slx teen figs and two small loaves of bread for breakfast; for dlnner pjiled beans, for supper wheat crushed and roasted. They scarcely ever ta s f ed Bieat.

Cured Her Rheumatism.

Diep Vallb - T > Pa -* Oct 31. —(Special.) 'pfcfr deep interest in Green county over tbe cup® of the little daughter of I. N. Whipkey of Rheumatism. She was a great sufferer for five or six years a nd nothing seemed to do her any goc d till she tried Dodd’s Kidney Pijj s j ghe began to improve almost at onoe und Ilbw sbe is cured and can run and iplaP as other children do. Mr. Whipkey soys: “I op. Indeed thankful for what Doddßjjfxidney Phis have dona for lny (iJßhter; they saved her from being a>^PPi e perhaps for life.” Doinufc Kidney Pills have proved that 1 C pj(nnatism is one of the results of ’dia,va?d Kidneys. Rheumatism is eausefchel Urlc Acid in tbe b '°°d- If the KF—Jys are right there can be no Uric AciC in the blood and consequently no Rheumatism. Dodd’s Kidney Pills maf e the Kidneys right.

Not Reassuring.

A man and his wife who were about to take a trip to Washington, deeded that, as it was the beginning 0 f tbe season they had better invest in ; some new clothes. The.Y grown-up j children made fun of their “new” ap > (>a ranee, but it was not until the patents were safely settled in their seat? and had opened their bags that thev 'BsCbvered the joke that had been plim' d u P° n them. One bf the R rown ’ u P children had filled both Satchels with rice, and when father nml toother opened their bags the grains fivere scattered broadcast Of oi/ur#® there was at once an amused sn li,e 011 everyone’s face, and the mother felt herself getting redder than shi) li a( l ever been in her life before. She ' vvas m£ >de no more comfortable by a fat German woman sitting opposite, v bo leaned over and said, quite audits “Ach ne vor mind! I’m a vlilder voman n\ow bl ‘t by dis time next veek I’ll be infill same fix to’aelf.”

The Passing of the Pen.

“The typewriter lias destroyed the golden ftfture that we foresaw for our business,” 6aid a manufacturer of pens, “if the typewriter's field of usefulness lieeps on enlarging there will scarcely be an y need of pens 50 years hence.” 1 The m.-iIP sighed. “YVhen’l entered the pen trade in mv boyhol 01 ! seemed,” lie said, “that this, abov a all trades, was the one destined to (Trend. In my dreams I saw the v| ll0 le world, educated at last, writing w| tb pens of my make. Then the typeyfNlJ' came. I sneered at it In the i)t-f Infttag, I called it a toy. But "'HI do everything a pen will do. * 1 make out bills and checks*, at lress envelopes of every shape, mn :e entries in all sorts of books. YY’ 1 penmpkers are beginning to suffer f m the typewriters advent. Our busin. s8 t instead of enlarging healthily, 8 shrinking a little like a man whom consumption has attacked. We are sht ‘thg down. YVe are laying off hands. D lB easy to see that the dav w j|j co m< when pens will only hi used for pc correspondence and for the signatu re -’

BY PROXY.

"Wjjg t he Baby Needed. I sufferei l ’ roin nervousness and headache u M one day about a year ago it suddi nl " occurred to me what a great coffee > Tinker 1 was and I thought ma r te this might have something to do vih my trouble, so I shifted to tea foi ’ awhile, but was not better, if uny {hhg worse. “At that f tin® I had a baby four months old t b * we hnd to feed on the bottle, until a* old lß dy fri end told me to try P< )St im Food Coffee. Three months ago I 1 using Po®. turn, leaving « the tea and coffee, and not ©nlj biv e my headaches and nervous trou entirely disappeared, but since the 1 I have been giving plenty of nurse or m y baby and have a large, health 7 c'DIId now. “I have no desire to drink anything but Postum a nd know it has benefited my children, Bnd I h °P e " H who hav ® children will tr J Postum and find out for themselve 8 what a really wonderful food drint ■ Name ff ,ve » by Postum Co.. ] Ja » d * Creek - Mlch - Both tea ai d | coffee contain quantities of a poll onous drug called Caffeine that dll tetly affects the heart, kidneys, stomi «h and nerves. Postum is made from cereals only, scientifically blended t 0 £ et th « coffe ® flavor ; Ten days’ trln' f Poßtum ,n P lace °* tea or coffee v HI show a healtljsecmt worth more th * old m,nfl ThereS a reason. < „ . . _ „ Get the boo k* “The Road to Wellvlllo,” in aacb Pkg.l . - '

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Dun’s weekly revieup ? of Chicago trade says: The variable, weather

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conditions were somewhat of a hindrance to retail lines, but notwithstanding this there was little indication of reduced consumption In the necessities. Th 6 production of leading: manufacturers maintains a steady advance and Is better distributed, whileprices exhibit a rising tendency in furnace product. New orders are notable in ship-build-ing and rolling stock in anticipation of transportation expansion by lake and* rail. These commitments involve largeexpenditures and are indicative of the improved confidence felt throughout business circles. Developments In the line of new enterprise are found encouraging and building requirements disclose no diminution. Lumber receipts, 45,436,000 feet, are the heaviest this 'season, and compare with 39,134,000 feet a year ago, The re«?nt drain on yard stocks is followed by a prompt replenishment, anil heavy factory needs arebeing provided for. Distribution of other commodities has widened, and railroad traffic returns exceed those of the corresponding week last year. East-bound .forwarding made a sharp gain in foodstuffs, especially of pack-ing-house product. Wholesale dealings* make the best showing within the last two years. Buying is more characterized by discount taking, and. whilemerchants select cautiously, the disposition to limit their extent is less apparertt than during last month. Interior advices generally are satisfactory as to merchandising and crop conditions, winter wheat having made an excellent start. The situation In metals attracts considerable attention, and the remarkable reawakening to activity imparts* limcli strength throughout other industrial departments. Aside from rails, contracts reached a heavy aggregate, and while pig iron is in best demand there was also liberal buying of structural material, plates and merchant forms. Factory supplies have run into much tonnage for early consumption by ear and machinery interests. Hardware and farm machinery producers report a steady gain in output, and the furniture and woodworking branches are all busy.

Bradstreet’s trade report for the week baa this to say: ,

New York.

Good feeling, in some instances closely approaching optimism, dominates the general trade situation, bur the undertone is withal one of conservatism, and there is a general desireto avoid overtrading. Past reports of good wholesale trade ore reflected in an increased speeding of the wheels of industry, but, except in portions of the West and Southwest, where cool weather has helped retail distribution, and in tlve South, where good prices for cotton induce free marketing of the crop, there is a disposition Jo regard the weather as too warm for best results in final distribution. Hallway earnings turned the corner in August, the roads of the country showing a gain of a fraction of 1 per cent in net over 1903. Collections have continued' to hold the improvement noted last week, being especially good at theSouth.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $0.25; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.75 to $1.50; wheat, No. 2, sl.lO to $1.17; corn, N T o. 2,53 cto 55c; oats, standard, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,77 cto 79c; hay,, timothy, $8.50 to $13.00; prairie, SO.OO to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 18c to21c; eggs, fresh, IGe to 18c; potatoes, 30c to 37c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to$0.00; hogs, choice light. $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.00;. wheat, No. 2, sl.lO to $1.18; corn. No. 2 ■white, 53c to 55c; oats. No. 2 white, 30c to 31c. St. Louis—Cottle, $4.50 to $0,10; hogs, $4.00 to $5.20; sheep, $3.00 to $4.15; wheat, No. 2, $1.13 to $1.14; corn. No. 2, 49c to 51c; oats. No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye. No. 2. 70c to 71c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $4.55; hogs, $4.00 to SSJSO; sheep, $2.00 t 053.25; $3.25; wheat. No. 2, $1.21 to $1.22; corn. No. 2 mixed. ssße to 59c; oats,\ No. 2 mixed, 3lb to 32c; rye, No. 2,84 cto 80c. Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 to $4.85; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep. $2.50 to $3.50;. wheat. No. 2, $1.19 to $1.21; corn. No. 3yellow. 57c to 59c; oats, No. 3 white, 31c to 83c: rye, No. 2. 83c to 85c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 southern, $1.14 to $1.10; corn, No. 3,53 cto 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye. No. 1, 80c to 82c; barley. No. 2. 02c to 54c;. pork, mess, $10.90. Toledo —Wheat,, No. 2 mixed, sl.lO lo$1.19; corn, No. >2 mixed, 50c to 57c;. oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 2, 80c to 81c; clover seed, prime, $7.45. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00’ to $5.60; sheep, fair to choice. SB.OO to $4.15; iambs, fair to choice. $4.00 to $6.00. _ New York—OatUe, $3.50 to $5.10;. hogs, $4.00 to $5-60; sheep, $3.00 to - $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, sl.lß to $1.21;. com. No. 2,57 cto 69c; oata. No. 2 whiter 85c to 37c; batter, creamery, 19c to 21'cf egg*, western, 22c to 24c.