Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — Page 2

' WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. QEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. —bess= ■ .. i— ■■■ """1 1 . RENSSELAER, - • INDIANA.

FINDS ROTTEN TIES.

KANSAS RAILROAD COMMISSIONER MAKES INSPECTION. Personally Walks Over Stretches of Missouri Paollle Tracks nml Announce* Discoveries Nnrlhrrn KcSNm Not Waaled as Teachers. Railroad Commissioner Charles A. Rjkcr of Atchison, Kan., and a repre* •entative of the press walked over the Missouri Pacific tracks between Hutchinson and Yaggy, the first station west of there. In one mile, between mrle posts Nos. AS and 49, 807 rotten, broken and weakened ties were found in the track. In one rail length there wrre nine bad ties out of seventeen, and hundreds of •pikes could he pulled out on a mile of track. Commissioner Ityker walked over some of the Missouri Pacific it racks near Anthony on the Kiowa division and found conditions worse than on the Hutchinson division —two or three ties out of five twin? bad. Ilyker says the rondbeds of both this and the Kiowa divisions are very' unsafe for heavy tonnage or for train*. BASE BALL STANDINGS. Games Won and I.oat by Claba la w- ■- Prlßctjal LeagnM. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. U W. L. Chicago ....47 HI Cincinnati ..29 35 New Y0rk..30 21 Boston 2G 32 Pittsburg ..34 25 Brooklyn ...23 38 ' Phil delpbia 33 20 St. Louis.,. .10 51 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. - W. L. Chicago ....40 21 New Y0rk...27 30 Cleveland ..39 24 St. Louis... .27 37 Phil’delphia 33 26 Boston 22 39 Detroit ... .32 20 Washington. 18 37 : AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. V. L W. L. Toledo 40 20 Louisville .. .30 35 Columbus ..40 24 Milwaukee ..30 38 Minneapolis 39 27 St. Pau1....28 38 Kansas City3o 33 Indianapolis 20 43 WESTER N LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Des Moines.3o 24 Sioux City..2o 30 Omaha ....38 2S Denver 23 37 Lincoln ....33 31 Pueblo 25 40

NORTHERN' NEGROES BARKED. Kukvlllo Ttwlew P«tUr« tions’* CUt Them (or Work. A tacit conclusion has been reached by the Nashville, Tenn., board of education that only negroes born, bred and educated in the South need apply for election as teachers in the colored public schools of the city. This action was taken because negroes from the North have “notions” and “are not familiar with southern traditions and sentiment.” Manual training is to be introduced into the negro schools, and among the applicants for the position of supervisor were graduates of Harvard and other eastern universities. One other applicant, a big aouthern-bred negro, was given the position. _ Shaken hr Earthquakes. Earth tremblings that shook houses perceptibly were felt at intervals in Portsmouth, N. H„ Saturday. Windows •book and rattled and bric-a-brac clattered from the shelves. Sometimes half an hour would elapse between the vibrations, bat before sundown 100 shocks had been ~:*atr Americans la Fatal Clash. During a dash with the police of Holguin, in the province of Santiago, Cuba, resulting from the alleged refusal of four American soldiers of the Eleventh Infantry to pay for drinks. Corporal P. J. Green was shot and mortally wounded and his companions were placed under arrest Alabama Fire Caaaea Bis Loaa. Fire which broke out at 1 a. m. destroyed the Chalifonx building at First avenue and Nineteenth street, Birmingham, Ala., entailing a loss of $300,000. It was a five-story office, building and as all space Was occupied, the loss will affect many persons. The origin of the fire is unknown. Country's Moat Prosperous Year. The fiscal year just closed has been the most prosperous of all in the nation's history. Uncle Sam’s income was $070,000,000. _ New Lawe In Effect. The new immigration laws which went Into effect July 1 are expected to put several million dollars annually into the United States treasury. Hope to Dominate World. Optimistic trust builders in England have formed a steel combine of companies capitalized at $130,000,000. with which they hope to dominate the world. f 18,000,000 Coffee Loan for Brasil The Brasilian chamber has approved the guarantee of the Sao Paulo coffee loan of $15,000,000. Unwritten Law Upheld. A Jury at Huston, Va., acquitted fortner Judge Loving of the charge of murdering a man accused by his daughter. Wife Slayer la Excreted. James Cordelias, the Canton wife raurdeter, who was reprieved three times by j 4Jov. Harris, was electrocuted in the annex at the penitentiary in Columbus, O. ■ He killed his wife Sept. 17, 1900, by crushing her skull with a window weight. She bad sued for divorce. Jamas Duke to Wed Ayala t It Is reported that James B. Duke, president of the tobacco trust, who recently was divorced, is to marry Mrs. Inman, a beautiful southern widow, in Curoos next month.

SALOON NOT OUTLAWED.

Daetaloa a* Jo dare Christian Reversed by Supreme Juatlcea. The Supreme Court of Indiana has reversed the decision in the “Sopher case” in which Judge Ira Christian of Noblesville held that all the liquor laws of lodiajaa were unconstitutional and that a saloon was a nuisance per se. Judge Jordan said, in deciding the case, that the position of the State was wholly indefen-, sible. lie went back to the common law and showed that as early as 1535 the EagHsh-parliament had~undertakgn~foTi r cense and control the liquor traffic. Coming down to Indiana he showed that as early as 1807 a territorial law was passed for the licensing of t&verns and dramshops, and that this practice was continued under the first State constitution and also under the second. “While the overthrow of the statute of 1875.” the decision continues, “and the lnws supplemental thereto, such as the Nicholson law, the Moore law, etc., on the peculiar and untenable doctrine advanced by counsel for the State would no doubt be very gratifying to the latter and to those who concur in their peculiar views, nevertheless, it is manifest that such a result would not conduce to the interest or furtherance of the cause of temperance, for, as affirmed In Haggart vs. Strhlin, it would operate to restore all persons to their unrestricted rights under the common law to retail intoxicating liquors and all who desire to engage in the traffic could do so without regard to their fitness, or in other words, absolutely unrestricted. While all citizens of this State have a perfect right to cry out or declare upon the hustings or before the Legislature or other assembled bodies that the liquor traffic cannot be legalized without committing a sin, and, while their arguments might be sufficiently potent to persuade or •induce the Legislature absolutely to prohibit the traffic, they could be of no avail before -a- court which ean neither make nor unmake laws." TENEMENT FALLS; SEVEN DEAD, Old Bnlldins In New York Sunken Down by Subway Train*. Seven persons, six of them members of one Italian family, the Torchinos, were killed in the collapse of a ramshackle tenement in the downtown Italian quarter in New York. Three other members of the same family, including the father and mother, are in a hospital, painfully injured, but will recover. Cosmo Bellucci, a lodger, was the seventh person killed. There were some exciting scenes immediately following the accident, one of which was the rescue of an old man from a twofoot ledge, forty feet from the ground, this portion of the fallen building having adhered to the adjoining structure long enough to permit the firemen to get to the scene, raise a ladder and take the man, Jacob Iteigler, safely to the ground. Then it also fell into the ruins. The collapsed building was a four-story affair, built over fifty years ago, and was at Walker and Lafayette streets. It belonged to the Mose 'Taylor estate and for some days has been in a dangerous condition because of excavations for a new building on the adjoining premises. It had been shored up, but constant shaking by subway trains a block away was too much for It ip its weakened condition, and it fell in.

AROUSED AT KING OF PORTUGAL. People Ready to Establish Republic Unless Carlos Recedes. A correspondent says in a letter mailed from Lisbon a few days ago that King Carlos’ throne, is in imminent danger of being swept away by the rush of a great democratic wave, swollen suddenly to dangerous proportions by the act of despotism which he permitted on May 1. The people do not forget, the correspondent says, that last year the king condemned premier Ribeiro’s attempt to dissolve the Cortes and they contrast this attitude toward a conservative premier with the curious illogical license he has given to premier Franco. The general feeling of the country is one of advanced liberalism. ■rnds'FepetTtlon of autocratic buugl Ing can only have one result to-day in Portugal, the writer says, namely, the deposition of the king and the establishment of a republic. Mlanlng- Gtrl Found Murdered. The body of Grace Burns, a 15-year-old girl. who disappeared from her home in Fargo, N. D.. was taken from the Red river. An examination of the body indicates that the gtri had been assaulted and then killed. There is no clew to the murderer. Eight Die, 35 Hurt, lu Collision. ■ Eight workmen were killed and thirtyfive injured in Hartford. Conn., when a passenger train on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad crashed into the rear of a work train. Mother and Son Killed by L.lwhtnlniy. M rs. Clara M. Lemon and her son, Clarence, aged 14. were killed by lightning in St. Paul, while taking the family washing from the clothesline. The electricity ran along the wire. * Tribute to American Humorist. Mark Twain was guest of honor in London at the Pilgrims' luncheon, at which men of letters and public affairs united to pay him the greatest tribute ever given a visiting author. Rouiaa Police Capture One. Russian police discovered that a department of the war ministry in St. Petersburg has been used as the headquarters of a revolutionary group, but only one man was captured. Kataer'a Son to Wed Princess? There ds a rumor in court circles that the Princess Thvra. second daughter of King Frederick of Denmark, is betrothed to Prince Adelbert, third son of the Kaiser. Ten Infernal Macblnra Hurled. Ten bombs were thrown into Eriran square, in the center of Tiflis. Transcaucasia, which was thronged with people. The missiles exploded with terrific force. Many persona were killed or injured, and windows and doors were shattered over a large area. Polaon Kills Geldffeld Magnate. J. C. Clark, a wealthy mining man of Goldfield, whose home ia in Milwaukee, died at the Santa Monica Bay hospital. Las Angeles, of ptomaine pi loon lag.

LAW IMPERILS CROPS

KANSAS PROTEBTB TO INTER. BTATE COMMISSION. ■ ,j.,i i’. ii in f *- ■ * / Railroads Do Not Now Make Favorable Rates for Importation ot Harvest Hands—Woman Slashes Sis-ter-In-Law Fatally with Knife. ~ T. B. Gerow, director of the free employment bureau of Kansas, has sent a letter to E. E. Clark, a member of tie interstate commerce commission, protesting against the manner in which he assorts the Hepburn law interfered with the sending of harvest bands into Kansas. “Heretofore we have been able to send five men in a party at a low rate," wrote Mr. Gerow. “Now we must have a party Of fifteen. Further than that, pay agents are sending them from stations to places where they are not wanted. Farmers are telegraphing me about the trouble in getting men. We cannot afford to have our wheat crop destroyed in this manner. I wish to make my protest now.” RUIN IN TORNADO’S WAKE. \ Three Men Killed In Indian Territory—Oil Wells Are Wrecked. A tornado with a path sixty miles long, followed by a cloudburst, swept through the heart of the northern Indian territory oil fields at 8 o’clock Wednesday morn-' ing, leaving death, ruin, floods and fire to mark Its course. Three men were killed at Sapulpa, Frink BopCr being among the victims, the other two bodies having not been identified. Water rushed down the streets of Sapulpa a foot deep, sweeping small buildings from their foundations and almost drowning several people. The general loss in the oil fields will be enormous. It is thought $500,000 would be a very conservative estimate. One hundred and fifty derricks are reported down in the Glenn pool, and it is said all the oil derricks in the Osage nation have been swept away. Fiftyfour derricks are reported down at Turley, I. T. At Maize, I. T., houses were oyerturned and brick buildings demolished. Many wells are running wild, the oil flooding the land. The combination oil and gas well at Sapulpa was struck by lightning nad the fire cannot be brought under control. SUICIDE’S WIDOW CUTS THROAT. Mother Perhaps Fatally Wounds Boy and Girl. Mrs. Peter Johnson cut the throats of her two children and her own in Formosa. Kan. Her husband, a wealthy stock and grain dealer, killed himself three weeks ago by drinking carbolic acid. She has been acting strangely ever since. The other morning she went into the kitchen where her sister was getting breakfast. 1 Breakfast not being ready, she returned to the bedroom, where her two children, a boy of 10 years and a girl of 7 years, were asleep. Locking the door, she picked up a water pitcher and struck the little girl a blow on the bead, breaking the pitcher. Then taking a piece of the broken pitcher, she cut each of the children across the throat. She then ran upstairs and with a piece of broken glasscut her own throat, severing the windpipe. The children may recover, but she will die.

WOMAN SLAIN IST FAMILY FIGHT. Mrs. Walter Herd Cuta Slster-ln-Lan'a Throat with Butcher Knife. In a family fight near Bristle Bridge, a small settlement six miles southeast of Warrensburg, Mo., Mrs. Walter Herd killed Mrs. James Herd, her sister-in-law, slashing the latter with a butcher knife. According to the report of the affair received, the women with their husbands had been drinking and a quarrel ensued, in which the women led. Finally Mrs. Walter Herd secured a butcher knife and attacked her sister-in-law. cutting her throat in a horrible manner and causing a wound from which she soon died. The sheriff at Warrensburg was notified and went to the scene. Knocks Out Antl-Claarette Law, Because the first section of the Illinois anti-cigarette law Is broader than the title of the act, it waa declared unconstitutional by Judge Chytraus. in the Superior Court in Chicago. The section which is declared void prohibits the manufacture, sale or giving away of cigarettes, while the title provides only for regulation of the traffic. Uongkonx Playhouse Burned. Advices from Hongkong say that 500 Chinese in a theater there and ten actors were burned to death when the nntive theater was destroyed by fire. The flames spread rapidly, and the building collapsed, blocking the entrance with burning debris. Wholesale Grocer Found Dead. Arthur W. Weuham, senior member of the wholesale grocer firm of A. J. Wenham & Son, was found dead in a room at the Euclid Club, in Cleveland. The cause of death has not been officially determined, but it is supposed to have been heart disease. Terrorist Organisation Revived. The Russian terrorist organization has ’been revived, $40,000 a month has been assigned for the manufacture of bombs and attempts on lives of intended victims, and the Czar and Premier Stolypin may be marked for death. Harrlman the President’s Prisoner. E. H. Harriman was arrested by President Roosevelt’s naval representative at the Ilarvard-Yale boat rate for intruding on the course, and was held a prisoner for some time on a revenue cutter. Clergyman Under Suspicion. Walter Swinburne Hancock, former assistant pastor of St. James’ Episcopal church, Chicago, is under police surveillance in Ixuidon on a charge of having caused his wife’s death. Epidemic Threatens New York., Mobs kept non-union men from carrying away New York's garbage, refuse filed the streets, the city was in danger of an epidemic and the sufferings of the residents were increased by a strike of ice drivers.

WHY ORCHARD CONFESSED,

■e Claims It Was tor Relief of Ce»> ■denee and Not tor Reward. Of no less absorbing interest than the story of his crimes was the testimony which Orchard, the multi-assassin, gave In the final stage of his cross-examina-tion at Boise, Idaho. He wept when he told how he came to confess. In opening this part of the cross-examina-tion Richardson tried to show that coercion had been attempted by the penitentiary authorities to obtain a confession from Orchard after his arrest for the Steunenberg assassination. Orchard testified that he was placed In a new cell house, In a steel cage, with ■olid walls and steel-barred doors. He was taken to the penitentiary without his consent and not advised as to his rights. He was permitted to speak only to the guard and to the man in the next cell, who was Bob Wetter, a condemned murderer. His meals were served in the cell. He was not allowed to exercise nor leave his cell, nor was he permitted to read books or papers. After about ten days Detective MePartland visited the penitentiary and Orchard was taken to the clerk’s office to talk with him. He did not know who he was, until he was told that the visitor was a Pinkerton detective. He complained to McPartland about the treatment he was receiving and they had a mutual talk about their past lives, McPartland telling him about his part in the Molly Maguire affair. Later McPartland talked about the Bible, telling how King David was a murderer and had repented and how St. Paul had been transformed from a bad man Into a good one. McPartland told -him about- “Kelly, the Bum,” who was Implicated in the Molly Maguire outrages and was permitted to leave the country after turning State’s evidence. Orchard said McPartland had not been the first to turn him to thoughts of religion ; he had been thinking about them himself. McPartland told Orchard that he believed he had something to do with the Steunneberg murder and that he was aided by officers of the Western Federation of Miners, but made no promise to him If he would confess. Richardson took Orchard back to his boyhood in Canada and hud him tell that he went to a Methodist Sunday school when a boy and to church with his mother and his first wife. He attended Quaker meetings with his mother and had also gone to Christian Endeavor meetings. He never belonged to the Salvation Army. Returning to the first visit with McPartland he said the detective upon leaving told him to think over his past life. The next time the detective came he told Orchard be could do the State and country a great deal of good and that the State usually acted fair with Its witnesses. Orchard said he knew what McPartland was after and had no faith In what he said about the State’s treatment of its witnesses. On the third visit Orchard commenced to tell the detective some of.his wrong doings. McPartland then told Orchard he was a tool of the Western Federation. About this time he had made up Ills mind to tell all, as he did not _are to live any longer. In fact he was tempted to kill himself. He did not want to put the crime on anybody else, but had thought of his past life and what a monster he had been. He did not care much what happened to him and yet he was afraid to die, for he believed the grave did not end it all. A Bible was sent to him by a missionary society In Chicago, and after reading in it he came to the conelu-sion-that he would be forgiven if he repented and made a clean bfeskst of his crimes. Since that time be has never been in doubt. He had told Steve Adams, who by this time had Ween brought to the penitentiary also and occupied the same cell as Orchard, that he Intended to kill himself with the crystal of his watch, by cutting an artery. He said he belonged to Colburn Lodge of Masons and knew that Peabody, Bell, Goddard and others whose lives he sought to take were high degree Masons, but did not know that Steunenberg was. Even after he confessed be contemplated suicide. His confession he believed to be a duty to God, country, society and himself. He did not get this language from McPartland. Steve Adams was arrested on the strength of Orchard’s confession. Upon his promise to the penitentiary authorities he urged Adams to make a confession and said that the truth would come out some time. He told Adams then that If he ever got out he would “cross the pond,” meaning that he would go to Europe. He did not say this because any promise of escape had been held out to him. lie bad never received a promise of immunity.

Laws Repealed by Duma.

Three obnoxious laws were repealed by the Russian douma, as follows: Providing for the punishment of persons expressing approval of political crimes; excluding from military service persons accused of political crimes, or under suspicion, and penalizing private instruction in Poland. The douma voted for the abolition of the re-establishment of field court-martial for the punishment of civilians implicated in spreading revolutionary Ideas in the army.

Croker Wins Derby.

Richard Croker, the one-time master of New York City, as the leader of Tammany Hall, who has been living in England and Ireland for several years, and devoting himself to the breeding of race horses, achieved the greatest distinction of the English turf when his 3-yfar-old colt, Orby, ridden by the American Jockey, Reiff, won the Derby race at Ep>som Down*. The stakes amount to $32,800, and Mr. Croker is said to have won SIOO,OOO additional in bets at ths prevailing odds of 10 to i

REVOLT IN PORTUGAL

ONE HUNDRED ARE KILLED IN RIOTS. Mobs Fight to Dethrone King Carlo*, bat Soldier* Cat Down Hundred*—Civilian* Harl Brlclfi* and Boiling Water. Six rioters were shot aod perhaps 100 were killed in street conflicts between mobs and government troops in three northern towns of Portugal. The dissatisfaction is spreading to the army and reports from Oporto advise the War Department of the mutiny of six battalions of artillery. Conflicts are numerous all over the nation, and strenuous efforts are being made by the authorities to quell the uprising against King Carlos. Fired on by the troops, hunted down like rabbi a through the narrow streets, and finally pursued by cavalry which rode down men, women and children Indiscriminately, many are dead and wounded in the three northern towns of Braga, Villa Real and Vianna Do Castello. The mobs paraded the streets shouting “Down with absolutism,” and decrying King Carlos for his attempt to rule th£ country without Parliament. Soldiers sent to disperse the rioters were attacked by stones, bricks and other missiles. They replied with volleys which stretched scores of the rioters in the streets. This did not quell the mob entirely, however. Persons in houses continued to bombard the troops with stones, while hot water was poured on them. Angered beyond all control, the soldiers began firing again, shooting down persons like rabbits as they fled. Cavalry rode down every person who could be found. The large cities are practically under martial law and armed bands of peasants and workmen parade the streets intimidating women and children and attacking the police wherever they try to offer any resistance to the progress of the rioters. The troops only are able to awe the dissatisfied, and the indications that mutiny has honeycombed the army with sedition.and treason are becoming more evident every day. King Carlos, surrounded by an army of his most faithful followers, has planned for a rapid escape in case the crisis becomes too great, and steam is kept up continually on the royal yacht, which Is manned by English sailors who are faithful to his cause.

REDS HURL BOMBS.

Latest Outbreak of Russian Terrorist* Occurs at Tlflis. Ten bombs -were hurled in Erfvan square, in Tiflis, Trans-Caucasia, exploding with terrifie force. Many persons were killed and injured and the houses over a large area in the neighborhood were shattered. The bomb horror is but another evidence of the growth of the Russian revolution. Tiflis is in the extreme southern portion of the Russian empire, not a great distance from Baku, on the Caspian Sea, the scene of the oil riots, when many were killed, a few years ago. There had been no signs of an outbreak and the police and troops were taken wholly by surprise. It was undoubtedly the work of she terrorists, whose plots and intentions wer* unlooked for. Shortly after daybreak a crowd collected in Grivan square, apparently without cause. When commanded by the soldiers to disperse there was no response the sudden reports of the exploding bombs. The noise was deafening. It was more than an hour before the terrified troops could be induced to return to the square to begin the work of removing the injured. The exact number of dead will probably never be known, as many persons were blown to such fragments they can never be identified.

POLITICIANS

Winston Churchill announces that he will not this year be a candidate for Governor of New Hampshire. Certain Wisconsin Republicans have begun to organize with a view to presenting Senator La Foliette to the national convention as Wisconsin’s favorite son. The two bills providing for a recanvass of the votes cast in the New York mayoralty election in 1905, one of which had been repassed by the Legislature, .despite Mayor McClellan’s objections, and the other passed to overcome some Of bis objections by throwing upon the city the cost of the recount in districts suggested by him, were signed by Gov. Hughes with a notable memorandum. The Governor says that the failure to test the correctness of this election canvass had become a public scandal, and that widespread doubt existed as to the accuracy of the count He added that it must be taken for granted that the ballots "had been preserved until shown otherwise. The attorney for William R. Hearst, the contesting candidate, had already announced that Mr. Hearst would ask for a recount in every election district in the city. Ths canvass will be made under the authority and direction of the Supreme Court. Senator Daniel of South Virginia says that In his opinion geographical considerations ought to have nothing to do with the selection of a presidential candidate. His advice ia to “take the • right msn from anywhere—New England, the West, the North, the South." The public utilities bill has been signed by Gov. Hughes of New York. This Is one of the most far-reaching reform measures ever passed by an American Legislature It places under direct State control every public-service corporation except the telegraph and the telephone.

COMMEPCIAL AND FINANCIAL

■ - CHICAGO. _ zzzziz. The remarkable strength of trade stands out more distinctly now that the first half of the year is reached and it is found no diminution affects production in the leading industries or the accumulation of assured forward work. Other favorable factors are lessened, mercantile defaults, largely increased payments through the banks, higher dividend disbursements, and an unprecedented movement of grain. With the seasonable weather results in leading retail sales make an excellent exhibit, and comparisons here with former experience are entirely favorable, notwithstanding the drawbacks interposed by the backward spring. Merchandisestocks here and at Interior points now undergo rapid depletion and the probability of forced clearing sales is smaller. New demands at wholesale measure Opto expectations in the staples, and in dry goods, footwear, clothing and furniture fully equal advance selections a year ago. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 20, against 22 last week and 13 a year ago.—Dun’s Review of Trade.

HEW YORK. ~ Seasonable summer weather has further improved the general crop situation, enlarged retail trade and favored a larger volume of reorder trade with jobber* and manufacturers than seemed pasaihlo a fey weeks ago. Six months’ results in wholesale and jobbing lines show the ef** feet of recently improved conditions, but also reflect the large gains in trade noted in the first quarter of the year. Taken, as a whole, leading wholesale lines will show a six months’ business 5 to 10 per cent at least in advance of 1900. Very much the same report is made by leading industries, which have generally surpassed records made in the first half of a year ago. Business failures in the United State* for the week ending June 27 number 150, against 165 last week and 146. in the liter week of 1900. Canadian failures number 29, against 15 last week and 22 in this week a year ago. Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for theweek aggregated 3,598,724 bushels, against 2,850,222 last week and 1,902,555 this week last year; for the last fifty-two weeks, 170,770,800 bushels, against 134,019,519 in 1905-06. Cora exports for the week are 1,173,375 bushels, against 988,832 last week and 870,237 a year ago. For the fiscal year to> date, 71,693,05 S bushels, against 110,250,530 in 1905-06. —Bradstreet’s Commercial Report.

THE MARKERS

Chicago—Cattle, commc - to prime. A $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $6.05; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,94 cto 96c; corn, No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats, standard, 41c to 42c; rye, No. 2,85 cto 86c; hay, timothy, $14.00 to $21.00; prairie, $9.00 to $15.00; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, new, per bushel, $1.25 to $1.40. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.65; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $6.35; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 t 054.75; $4.75; wheat, No. 2,589 c to 01c; eorn, No. 2 white, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2: white, 45c to 46c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $6.90; hogs, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.90; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 94c; corn, No. 2,50 cto 52c; oats, No. 2,43 cto 44c; rye, No. 2,81 cto 83c.

Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.85; hogs, $4.00 to $0.10; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 94c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 55c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; rye, No. 2,80 cto 88c. Detroit —Cattle, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.30; sheep, $2.50 to. $4.50; wheat, No. 2,92 cto 94c; corn, No. 8 yellow, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 3 white, 46c to 47c; rye, No. 2,86 cto 87c. ' Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, SI.OO to $1.03; corn, No. 3,51 cto 52c; oats, standard, 42c to 43c; rye, No. 1, 86c to 87c; barley, standard, 750t0 76c; pork, mesa, $15.92. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.(X> to $6.40; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.00; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.25. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $6.10; ho£s, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.00; corn, No. 2,60 cto 62c; oats, natural white, 50c to 51c; butter, creamery, 22e to 25c; eggs, western, 13c to 16c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 92e to 940; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 56c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 47c; rye, No. 2,78 cto 80c; clover seed, prime, $9.30l

Sparks from tbe Wires.

The Brazilian chamber has approved the guarantee of the Sao Paulo coffee loan of $15,000,p00. Advices from Washington, D. C, say the prospects are that the treaty between the United Btates of Colombia and the Republic of Panama new being negotiated will not receive its final touches until next autumn. The plant of the Utica Drop Forge and Tool Company of Utica, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss ot - $200,000. Gov. Hfinly of Indiana addressed the first synod Of the West of the Young People’s Societies of the United Presby terian church at Pittsburg. A plot to steal $50,000,000 from the Banian government office at TSchita, where the money was kept for enterprises in Siberia, has been discovered and thirty Banians arrested. They had mads a ton nel 120 yards long from a" hotel to As