Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. OEO. 8. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - » INDIANA.

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IMPROVEMENT OF BHERMAN STATUTE SOUGHT. Tnfle te*c«« Wmati AH»el*(loaa •t Carrtem LeealUed Pan! y , P. 1., Terrorised br Mlier»*n(, — Kill with Polraard Rapier!. ■ j li.n . i Amendment of the Sherman anti-trust law so as to permit associations of common carriers in a given territory for- the purpose of establishing rates and classifications was urged at the meeting of the board of directors of the National Industrial Traffic League at the Great Northern hotel in Chicago. Such associations and agreements, the league decided, are essential to any sort of satisfactory trade conditions. The league recommended, however, that all agreements and associations of this 1 sort be under the direct supervision of the interstate commerce commission, and President Roosevelt’s attitude, as reported in press accounts, was cited as favorable to this plan. The league represents 40,000 shippers. It further an record as favoring the addition to the interstate commerce commission of • practical railroad man or two and some one fully conversant with the needs of the shippers. Members of the board 1 of directors seemed not inclined to accept what the interstate commerce law defines as the shippers’ responsibility. It was contended that the railroads should be entirely responsible for rates quoted to shippers, and the assertion was made that not only couldao outsider make sense out of a railway tariff, but that railway employes themselves are often unable to do it. After much debate the meeting declared that the interstate commerce commission has no jurisdiction over car-ser-vice rules or those. covering demurrage, holding that In these instances the railway acts simply in the character of a warehnnwnun. The next meeting of the league will be held in 'Washington Oct. 10.

BASE BALL STANDINGS. Game* Won and Lost by Club* In Principal Leaxnn. NATIONAL LEAGUE. h W. L. W. L. Chicago ....88 32 Rrooklyn ...54 64 New Y0rk..67 4S Cincinnati ..50 68 Pittsburg . .68 49 Boston 43 73 Phil’delphia 64 50 St. L0ui5....35 85 AMEBIC AN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Detroit ....69 44 New Y0rk...54 61 Phil’delphia 68 46 Boston 52 08 Chicago ....70 49 St. L0ui5....47 67 Cleveland ..68 49 Washington. 34 78 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. W. I. Toledo 79 53 Indianapolis 63 70 Columbus ..76 53 Kansas City. 62 70 Minneapolis 70 63 Milwaukee ..61 69 Louisville ..66 OS St. 1*au1....52 82 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. I. W. L. Omaha ....74 51 Denver 54 00 Des Moines.o9 49 l’ueblo 52 67 Lincoln ....66 56 Sioux City.. 46 74

CATASTROPHE ON INTERURBAN.

Cara Meet In Head-On Colltalon Near Charleston, 111.

Thirteen persons were killed and sev-enty-six injured so Jjadly that their recovery is not expected, in’ a head-on collision between a train, consisting of a motor car and trailer, and an empty express car on the Charleston and Mattoon interurban line at 10:30 o’clock Friday morning one mile west of Charleston. 111. Both cars were running at high speed and met aa they were rounding a sharp curve. The Impact was deafening. The train was telescoped by the express car and both were reduced to a tangled mass Of wood and iron. The passengers had not a moment’s warning of danger and were killed or injured without opportunity to save themselves. The scene of suffering and death that followed was appalling. The dead and dying were jammed together in a mass, while many less seriously injured l*y near by. A confusion of orders received over the telephone is said to be responsibly for the catastrophe.

TICKLE WITH POISON RAPIERS.

Covrrnmriil Aikrd to Sippma Mphl Haiders la Paaay, P. I. Night raiders, who steal upon their sleeping victims' dwellings with poisoned rapiers, and, inserting them through cracks in the floor or walls, sting the sleepers to death, are causing terror in the Province of Antique, Island of Panay, P. I. The points of the instruments ■take no perceptible wound, and onlywake the victims by a tickling se&sarion. In a few days the victim dies. So frequent have deaths resulted that the military and civic authorities have been called upon to suppress the raiders. People have been advised to stuff up the cracks in the floors or to sleep high. The authorities are. doing everything in their giower to capture the gang. Mr*. Warner Wiaa Salt, Judge Cochran of Clinton, Ill* has ruled against Vespasian Warner, commisaiotxT of pensions, and In favor of his ■tepmofber in the sensational suit over the Warner millions. l ho> ra Kpidrnilr la Thlaa. The epidemic of cholera among the Chinese in the lower Yangtse ports is spreading. About 200 persons die dailyin the streets of Wn-Hn, Province of Xgan-liwei, and Kiu-Kiang, Province of Kiang-Sf. Richard Maaalrld Dies. Richard Mansfield, the best known actor on the American stage, died Friday at his summer residence. Seven Oaks, Ocean avenue, New London. Conn. Death was jHrectly due to disease of the liver, aggravated by compilation a.

f CARS CRASH) SCORE HURT. Flit Chicago Train Smashes Trolley ■ > Coach Crowded wllh People. A score of persons were injured, one dangerously, in a terrific smasbup on the St. Paul railroad in La Crosse, Wis. A fast Chicago’ passenger train ran into a street car which was crowded with passengers. The heavy train remained on the track and the passengers in its coaches were uninjured except for a severe shock. The engine, was badly wrecked, however, and it was two hours before the track was cleared and a new engine obtained to continue the journey. Tb p train was due in North La Crosse at a. m., but was late. At the grade-crossing the motorman did not see the approaching enJtiije, which was going unusually fast for a. train entering the city. It is regarded as miraculous that all the passengers Qn the crowded street car were not killed outright. The street car contained sixtyfive persons. A great panic ensued among the passengers, and for a time it was feared that many had been killed, and ambulances and a corps of physicians were hastily dispatched to the scene. James Gaskell, aged 00, had both legs broken and crusjied and was taken to a hospital in g serious condition.

Nebraska mob lynches man. Hans* Laborer Who Killed Farmer and Wife Last Spring. Loris Higgins, who A murdered W. L. Copple, a farmer, and his wife, near Ttosalie," Neb., May 12, was lynched at Bancroft Monday. Sheriff Young of Thurston county went to Omaha Sunday night to get his prisoner, who had been in the Douglas county jail since his capture, and took hint to Bancroft on a train which arrived there about 8 o’clock in the morning. Twenty men took Higgins from the sheriff, hauled him off in a dray and hung him to a tree. When the sheriff left for Omaha Sunday he was accosted by citizens at Bancroft, who asked him what he would do if they should attempt to lynch Higgins. “Shoot the first man who tries it,” he said. “Well, we just wanted to know. —Chances are you will have soma shooting to do.” Higgins’ crime was a wanton one. He had worked on the Copple farm and had some trivial dispute with Mr. Copple. Anger over this is the only suggestion of a reason for the murder of the farmer and his wife. He killed both in the barnyard with a gun. Ha was a-young man, and after his arrest become radically religious, participating in every service held at the jail.

BOY STABBED BY FATHER. Interferes When Parent* Quarrel and I* Slain by Frenmied Sire. While his mother, in whose defense he gave his life, wept hysterically at his bedside, John Oster, Jr., 23 years old, died in Mascoutah, 111., early Wednesday from knife wounds inflicted by his father, 60 years old, at the family home during the night. The elder Oster is a man of violent temper and during a quarrel with his wife struck her violently in the face. The son rushed to his mother’s assistance and was attacked by the father. During a struggle the old man drew a knife and stabbed his son repeatedly in the body. The wounded boy fled from the house pursued by his frenzied father*. The latter is lame, but kept up the chase until the son collapsed near the home of a neighbor, who saved him from further injury. Y’oung Oster was carried into the house and attended by a physician, but he had lost so much blood during the pursuit that he was unable to rally. He died a few hours later. The mother is broken-hearted, and demands the prosecution of her husband, who has been arrested.

MAN THOUGHT DEAD RETURNS.

Kidnaped Jaat Before Wedding, Escape* In Mexico from Captor*.

Like one risen from the grave Frank Montgomery, 25 years old, has returned to the home of his parents in Lancaster, Pa., after an absence of more than a year. Montgomery left Lancaster last August for Gapland. a town in western Maryland, to wed Miss Malvfna Castle. He states that while walking along the street he was felled by a blow on the head. When he recovered consciousness he was in a strange country in the custody of four men. They finally entered Mexico and one night last June Montgomery escaped near the town of Alafto.

Two-Year-Old Boy la Acquitted. ‘T will not hold this defendant on circumstantial evidence alone. He is therefore discharged and the prosecutor will pay the costs.” There was a wild shout of applause from 300 spectators. It was the case of Frank D. Fisher of Hadewood against George Wilson Shaffer, aged 2 years, and the hearing was before Magistrate W. P. Armstrong in Pittsburg. The charge was malicious mischief, Fisher saying the child bad dug a hole in his lawn. Brokea Rati Causes Accldeut. Twenty-one persons were injured, none of them seriously, by the derailment of a north-bound train on the Southern railway at Red Hill, nine miles south of Charlottesville, Va. The entire train except the engine and tender was overturned. Powder Blast Kills Two. Two men were blown to pieces when three tons of nitroglycerin exploded with terrific force at the Dupont de Xemoures powder works at Sobrantc, on the bay shore, sixteen miles north of Berkeley, Cal. Mutiny on IT.l T . S. Warship. The officers and men of the United States cruiser Raleigh, at Honolulu, complain of having no shore leave for the last two months. As a result there has been almost a mutiny on board. The coaling of the cruiser has been delayed. Toledo Sobers 5150,000 Fire. Fire of unknown origin, which started In the upper stories of the Moreton Truck and Storage building in Toledo, Ohio, caused a loss estimated st about 1150,000 to $200,0001 The building was occupied by the International Harvester Company. # Many People for Csss4u Lord Strath cons, in an interview in New York, said that before the end -of the century Canada’s population will be as great as that of the United States BOW.

MANY HOUSES SLIDE.

LAND IN PITTSBURG SUBURB SINKS 30 FEET. Excavation of Deep Cot for Railroad Track* It Came of Trouble— Early Fire Brluar* About SIOO,OOO Lou in Rochester. With their houses creaking, windows breaking and chimneys sinking deep into the earth, several hundred - foreigners have fled from their homes in Port Vue, a South Side suburb of Pittsburg, fearing death in a landslide which threatens to bury Scott street’s twenty five dwell ings. One hundred yards below the street the Pittsburg and Luke Erie railroad recently began to make a cut for additional tracks. The earth between the cut and the hillside on which the houses stand is underlaid with soft shale and soapstone. The whole mass is slowly slipping toward the cut. During twenty-four hours the street for 10& yards dropped thirty feet below its original level, bursting gas and water mains and leaving half the village without light or fire protection. Three hundred men have been endeavoring to check the landslide, while crowds of hysterical women and children watched the widening fissures.

STEAMER SUNK IN CRASH. • Isaac L. Elwood Goes Down -la Colwllh Brower. The steel freighters A./i. Brower, up bound, and Isaac L. 101 wood, down bound, collided off Bar Point in Luke Erie the other night, and the Elwood went to the -bottom with a large bole amidships. The Brower is of 3,582 tons, 34G feet long, was built in 1902 and is owned by the United States Transportation Company. Her bow is stove in and her forward bulkhead full of water. The Elwood, of 5,904 tons, 478 feet over all, and built in 1900, is owned by the Pittsburg Steamship Company. The Elwood vrss drawing twenty feet and now lies in twenty-two feet, her decks awash amidships, but the deckhouses well out of the water. Neither boat is in the way of navigation.

FIRE LOSS AT ROCHESTER. Damage of 9100,000 I* Caused by Flames In Dry Good* District. Fire that started at 4 o’clock Thursday morning in the basement of the Rochester Marshmallow Company’s factory on Mortimer street, Rochester, N. Y., threatened the destruction of the Cox building and adjoining structures in the wholesale dry goods district. The flames shot up the elevator shaft to the top floor and ruined the three top floors of the rear “L” of the Cox building before the firemen got the flames under control. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. lOWA FAIR DAMAGED 9100,000. Windstorm Cause* Havoc—Airship Struck by Lire Wire Burned. A windstorm struck the lowa State fair grounds in Des Moines the other day, causing damage estimated at SIOO,OOO. A live wire w T as blown against the Knabenshue airship and captive balloon, setting fire to them and destroying both. The big tent of the International Harvester Company was blown down and the exhibit was ruined by heavy rain and fire. Doctor by Day, Thief by Night, In West Chester, Pa., Judge Butler sentenced Dr. Benjamin Holbrook, who was convicted of robbing school houses and railway stations, to five years’ imprisonment. Dr. Holbrook by day was a well-bred, courteous physician. By night the doctor became an audacious burglar, looting railway stations for miles around Coatesville. Four Burned to Death. Searching for an exit from the death trap that confronted them, and hemmed in on all sides, four persons were burned to death in a fire on East Grand avenue, Oklahoma City. The dead: Lillian Raje, Vergie Wallace, Sadie Ward and Walter Ward. The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin.

Big Newspaper Plant BurJa. The Courier-Journal building, at Fourth and Green streets, Louisville, in which are located, the plants of the Cou-rier-Journal and Evening Times, was destroyed by fire. The fire started at the top of an elevator shaft, supposedly from defective insulationelectric wires. Fire Ruin* Jap Seaport. Fire started in the flimsy native structures of Hakodate, Japan, and before it could be got under control nearly 70 per cent of the city was in ashes. With the exception of the American, all the consulates were burned. Great distress prevails among the people. 84 Worker* Die In River. Eighty-four bridge workers were hurled to their death when three-quarters of a mile of the new bridge across the St. Lawrence river five miles below Quebec, suddenly collapsed and bore them into the water. Farmers Plan Big Merger. A big merger of farmers’ elevators in Minnesota is to be formed. The plan is to secure the co-operation of 200 farmers’ elevators in one central organization. It is estimated fully 20,000 farmers will be represented. Steamer Sink* Tug| Five Drown. The tug Gerry of Wilmington. Del., was sunk in a collision with the British steamer Barnstable in the Patapsco river, off Sparrows Point. Five men of the twenty-five on the boat are believed to have lost their lives.

Postpone Sensational Resolution. The Amtakan Bar Association, in session at PgrtTand, Me., refused to put itself on record as indorsing the unwritten law, and indefinitely postponed a sensational resolution on the subject. —————— ' - Western Vnlon Offlte Burned. The office of the Western Union Telegraph Company in Arkansas City, Kan* together with all instruments, office records and furniture, was destroyed by fire. The building was ruined. The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin.

FOR GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP; VnlnnUti Urge Consolidation of Telegraph with Postal System. President Small of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union has called on the United States and Canada to take over the control of the telegraph lines now owned by the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies. At the" same time he began a campaign to secure a congressional investigation of the conduct of those companies in this country. To this end the union has established two funds —one for the direct support of the strike and the other to pay the expenses of the government ownership campaign. He asks tnat trade unionists in general and telegraphera In particular begin at once to raise $2,000,000 for these purposes. The strike was further strengthened by the calling out of leased wire operators In many brokers’ offices, anfTtr was expected that the cable operators would also join. On the other hand) the telegraph companies claimed to be taking care of all business offered, and say that the strike Is a closed incident so far as they are concerned. Washington heard that Commissioner Neill was about to submit a report regarding the telegraph strike to the President. The strikers charge that the companies are taking most of their business subject to delay, and that the dispatches, instead of being put on the wires, are sent by messengers In sult cases from one city to another, to be copied and delivered by local messengers. • ~ It Is said that a bill Is to be introduced at the coming session by Congressman Samuel Smith, of Michigan, which will authorize postal telegraph systems operated by the Post Office Department. Congressman Smith says: “We provide for carrying the mails by the swiftest known method, steam, electric railways and pneumatic tubes. Why deny the right to the use of the telegraph? We carry tke mails at a loss. Why not use the telegraph not only as a convenience and blessing to all our people, but to help wipe out the annual postal deficit? Who doubts that the telegraph is an essential part of an efficient postal service?” The constitutional right to establish a postal telegraph system is unquestioned. The government started out by owning the telegraph system. In 1845 the government had built a telegraph

line between Washington and Baltimore, costing $30,000. Two years later, under a notion of economy’, it was turned over to private ownership. Among the public statesmen who protested against this course were Henry Clay* and Cave Johnson. Prof. S. F. B. Morse also prophesied the evils of private ownership. Justice Brown, of the United States Supreme Court, has said: “If the government may be safely intrusted with the transmission of our letters and papers, I see no reason why it should not also be intrusted with the transmission of our telegrams, as Is almost universally the case in Europe.”

Language of Seagulls Found.

John B. Watson, professor of psychology in the University of Chicago, has just returned from the Dry Tortugas Islands, off the lower coast of Florida, where he carried on investigations at the Andrew Carnegie station. lie says that he''has found that the sea gulls have a language of their own which can be imitated by a human being. He finds that they live in family groups in houses consciously built for their purpose, and he believes that they have politics in their governmentahaffairs. For several months Prof. Watson has lived in a hut of boughs on these tropical islands, taming the great ocean birds and getting close to them. He thinks that these birds converse with each other by means of the volume, tone and duration of their vocal sounds.

Board Favors Octopus.

The Naval Submarine Board, which conducted competitive tests ht Newport, has reported unanimously that the Octopus isthe superior of the boats tested and the equal of the best now owned by the United States or under contract. The opinion is also expressed that a bhat simT- 1 lar to the Octupus. but larger, would be a superior naval weapon. The Oregon Trust and pavings bank. Portland, with deposits, of $3,200,000 and liabilities of $3,200,000, closed its doors. 4+

NELSON MORRIS "DIES;' -~H Pioneer Chicago Packer and Million! alre Passes A wap. Nelson Morris, pioneer Chicago packer and multimillionaire, died Tuesday. Nelson Morris was the third member of tbo famous “big four” packer!, Philip D. Armour aad Gustavus F. Swift preceded him to the grave, and Michael Cudahy is the only survivor of the city’s pioneers in the packing industry.- Mr. Morris* death was due to chronic affection of tha heart, with a kidney complication, which had its origin some time ago. Nelson Morris was born in the Black Forest, Germany, Jan. 7, 1840. His father originally was a wealthy cattle dealer, but he became reduced to poverty after joining the revolutionary movement to unite the Black Forest to Switzerland. The father was an exile until the non paid his ransom twenty years ago. Carl Schurz was a fellow exile of young Morris, who, when he landed in Philadelphia penniless was 11 years old. The young man walked to New York, where he hired out to haul charcoal in Lakeville, Conn., for $5 a month and board. Later he worked his way on a canalboat to Buffalo, thencs walking to Chicago. Here he went to work in the old stockyards. Five dollars a month was his salary the first year, increased to S4O the second year. All he saved from his earnings he sent to his relatives across the ocean. He began to buy hogs when he was 15, making enough to start himself in the cattle business a year later. The packer used to tell how at first he killed and dressed his own cattle. He slept on the slaughter house floor at night in order to be on hand early dn the morning with his beef and pork. His first financial reverse came when he was 18 years old. When he was 25 years old Morris suffered another reverse. H* indorsed papers for creditors who went back on him. Within a year, however, he had recovered from his loss. He started his packing house in 1862 and during the latter part of the war supplied the army of the West with beef. Mr. Morris was the first to export live cattle from this country to Europe. He received the first contract ever given to, supply a government with beef... He ot>tained important and profitable contract# with France, England and Germany.

Restricted Birth Rate Desirable.

Prof. Edward A. Ross, head of the Sociology Department of tha University of Wisconsin, in a lecture to the students, said that “restriction in the birth rate Is a movement which at the bottom is salutary, and the evils in its train appear to be minor or transient or self-limiting or curable,” thus taking direct issue with President Roosevelt’s well-known idea as

IT’S COMING TO THIS?

to race suicide. Prof. Ross says he if “with those who hate famine, war, saber* toothed competition, class antagonism, degradation of the masses, wasting of children, dwarfing of women and cheapening of men,” and asks if the time will come when the mother of more than three is “regarded as a public benefactor and placed on the pay roll of the State.” Prof. Ross himself is the father of three children.

The Massachusetts Labor Bulletin, aa digested in American Industries, shows that fifteen States now have free publie employment agencies in operation, as follows: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Eleven of these have State systems, with twenty-eight offices in twenty-six cities, and five States have eight municipal offices. The motives advanced to justify these agencies are the belief that State competition would drive unscrupulous private agencies out of business, the need of assisting the unemployed, and the bringing together of laborer and employer with the result of reducing the army of unemployed.

A girl baby was borta to Gov. and Mrs. Charles E, Hughes at Albany the other day, it being their fourth child. William W. Prosser, St. Louis, city passenger agent ol the Clover Leaf A ate, died at Laporte, Ind., while visiting relatives. Three Japanese belonging to a traveling acrobatic troupe have been arrested in Russia with plans of fortifications and mother secret military documents in their possession. A foreign government, supposed to be Russia, says the London Chronicle has , awfifded to h British firm of shipbuilders la contract for several battleships, cruisers and gunboats. Nelson Morris, the Chicago packer, baa leased 750,000 acres of graiing land in the Standing Rock reservation. South Dakota, comprising one of the finest cattls tracts in tbs Northwest.

Free Employment Agencies.

Short News Notes.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

CHICAGO. Another notable increase in the volume of payments through the banks testifies tosustained activity in commerce, and the defaults reported are Remarkably low. There is, however, evidence of heavy speculative operations in securities and grain, and this interferes with more general confidence in the trade outlook. Other adverse developments of recent origin im“gress more conservatism in large enterprises, and the position of money offersno encouragement. Notwithstanding thedrawbacks, demands are found equaling: expectations in the leading industries, and there is no perceptible recession in production and distribution. Heavy shipments of currency to movecrops draw sharply upon deposits, and the discount rate is firm at the highesfT quotation this year, but reserves are well maintained and most mercantile interestsare provided with requirements at thistime. Country banks have absorbed considerable commercial paper, and the indications are good that western resourceswill be found ample to satisfy legitimatefinancial needs during the next few months of pressure. Crop reports reflect seasonable headway in harvesting, and the condition oF corn to Illinois and lowa steadily Improves. Visiting buyers from the West and South arrive in the greatest numbers this.’ season and are active in selecting fall and winter requirements. Demands comparefavorably with this time last year in sales* of dry goods, millinery, clothing, footwear and food products. Bank clearings, $221,123,655, exceed those of corresponding week by 13.6 per cent. Failures reported in the Chicago dis- ’ trfet numbered 14, against 22 last week and 19 a year ago.—Dun’s Review.

„ NEW YORK. Buyers’ excursions have been a feature of the week, and the leading primary markets of the country have been filled with country merchants. As a result house trade has been stimulated and orders for dry goods, clothing and shoes show considerable improvement. Fall business, except at a few centers, is said to equal a year ago at this date, the volume being made up of numerous orders rather than by any new interest or of heavy business. In fact, many merchants display a disposition to go slow, fearing that orders may fall off, not because of a decline in consumption, but more particularly of tightness of money. Business failures for the week ending Aug. 22 number 153, against 156 last week, 155 in the like week of 1906, 176 in 1905, 185 in 1904 and 142 in 1903. Canadian failures for the week number 19, as against 30 last week and 10 in this, week a year ago.—Bradstreet’s Report.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime* $4.00 to $7.30; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $6.40; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,89 cto 90c * corn, No. 2,58 cto 59c; oats, standard* 48c to 49c; rye, No. 2,81 cto 82c; hay, timothy, $14.00 to $21.50; prairie, $9.00 to $13.00; butter, choice creamery, 21cto 26c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 19c; potatoes* per bushel, 58c to 68c. * Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.15; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $6.40; sheep,, common to prime, $3.00 $4.75 ; wheat, No. 2,84 cto 85c; corn. No. 2 white, 56c to 57c; oats, No. 2 white, 4oc to 46c. St. Louis—Cattle, S4J>Q to $7.10 ; hogs, $4.00 to $6.70; sheep, $3.00 t 055.75; $5.75; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 91c; corn* No. 2,56 ctd 57c; oats, No. 2,44 c to* 46c; rye, No. 2,76 cto 78c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $6.00;. hogs, $4.00 to $6.90; sheep, $3.00 to*s3.oo; wheat, No. 2,88 cto 89c; corn* No. 2 mixed, 61c to 62c; oats, No. 2: mixed, 46c to 47c; rye, No. 2,79 cto 81c. Detroit —Cattle, $4.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,89 cto 91c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 62c to 64c; oats, No. 3 white* 55c to 56c; rye, No. 2,80 cto 81c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern-, 99c to $1.03; corn, No. 3,60 cto 61c; oats, standard, 55c to 56c; rye,. No. 1, 80c to 82c; barley, standard, 84c to 85c * pork, mess, $15.77. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping 84.00 to $6.75; hogs, fair to choice, $4.06 to $7.00; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice* $5.00 to $7.75. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $6.65 •* hogs, $4.00 to $7.25; sheep, $3.00 ta $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to 98c; corn, No. 2,67 cto 69c; oats, natural white, 66c to 67c; butter, creamery, 22cto 26c; eggs, western, 17c to 21c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 89c to 91c; corn, IJo. 2 mixed, 63c to 64c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 49c to 51c; rye, No* 2,75 cto 77c; clover seed, prime, slo.oo*

Brief News Items.

Party of Russian Jews on way tei America waylaid and twenty-five were slain. Theodore Roosevelt Is not the first ta give Oyster Bay presidential distinction. George Washington once spent two days there. Prof. E. Clayton Wyland of the school for the deaf in Frederick, Md* himself a mute, is the first person so afflicted to be admitted to membership into the Knightm of Pythias. H« is a member of Lodge 29, and it waa necessary for the initiating committee to learn the sign language. If the rate of consumption in 1905 were maintained indefinitely without change, our coal would last approximately 4,000 years, bat if the constantly increasing rate which has marked the consumption daring the last ninety years be maintained, our coal supply will practically be exhausted within 100 years.