Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — Page 2

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IOWA GUARDSMAN IS GUILTY.

EF,- , _ C«Pt. Oliver tv. Kulp Disobeyed Ordm,ta K«Fll»PPliiK I'rlme E l*hi. ’" ’Capt. Oliver W. Kulp of the lowa National Guard, commanding a Davenport company, yas convicted Of discjiedienee of orders in failing to stop the prize fight tin Davenport on Nov. 21, and sentenced to be reprimanded. This verdict was MBMnmunicated by the recent court-martial *» Gov. Cummins, and was disclosed with the findings of the executive, who say* officially that, as he has no power to "increase the penalty and no desire to lessen it, he is compelled to' approve it- The telegraph companies are held to have been i,! «bsolutely without justification or excuse” and guilty of “gross negligence”, in failing to deliver telegrams from the adjutant general to the captain of the Davenport company, and it is decided that their coarse could be accounted for “only by their desire to have.jthe exhibition take place.” •• • •• 6irl comes far to aid lover. Journey* 10,000 Miles to Ask Nebraska bovernor tor .Pardon. As the result of a romance John B. Martin, now confined in the Nebraska State penitentiary, may secure a pardon. He was convicted of swindling. Inga Anderson, Martin’s sweetheart, filed’ application for the pardon, and appeared before Gov. Sheldon and urged her petition. Among other things she told the Governor she had traveled 10,OQO miles to see him and to ask for her lover’s release. Martin and Miss Anderson have been ■weethearts for several years. Three. years ago Miss Anderson’s father moved to Alaska, taking the girl with him. The father died and the girl began mining for herself. She 6truck it rich and is now very wealthy. USE PICTURE TO HELP INSANE. Illuminated Painting of Christ Shown to Hospital Inmates. The physicians at the State Hospital tor the Insane in Massillon, Ohio, tried the experiment of exhibiting to the patients a big painting of Christ illuminated by electric lights. It Is believed that by thus concentrating the attention of the insane upon this picture a beneficial therapeutic effect will be produced in their recovery. Many of the patients, recognizing the subject of the painting, raised their hands in supplication toward it and •ome fell on their knees and wept.

Meningrltl* Cure Discovered. Cerebro spinal meningitisyrtlie dread disease, which in 1905 took more than 1,000 lives in three months in New York City, has apparently been conquered by Dr. Simon Flexner, head of the Rockefeller institute for Medical Research. Dr. Flexner, after almost three years of research and hundreds of experiments, has discovered an anti-toxin serum with Which to combat the merciless “spotted fever.” Moorish Roler Twice Victor. Recent fighting near Morocco has resulted in two victories for Abd-el-Aziz, the Sultan of Morocco. The ReSamnas, followers of Mulai IJafid, the “southern sultan,” attacked the Shragna tribesmen, partisans of Ahd-'el-Aziz, but were repulsed with a loss of 200 jnen. After receiving 800 re-en forcemontarfrom Mulai Hafid the Rehamnas attacked a second time, but again suffered defeat. „ —-• "v . i ■ Poors Molten Lead Into Ear. James H. Conkling. a prominent business man, is in the Thrall hospital- in Middletown, N. Y., unconscious as the result of molten lead being poured into one Sf his -ears.- There is a theory t hat Conkling injured himself while mentally un- • balanced. He has been in poor health for some time and disappeared a few days 4 Mikado Wants Only Pence. Secretary Taft is the bearer from the Mikado of Japan to President Roosevelt of the. positive assurance that the island empire wants “peace and nothing . but peace” with the United States. Provision Prices Lower. Wheat prices are high, sustained by a strong world's situation and a heavy local holding. Provisions'"lire lower than last year. Consumers are buying slowly of. all foodstuffs: ►* Arrested; Kills IljpntselL Immediately following lift arrest on a charge of violating postal regulations and after being a fugitive since February, Dr. C. C. J. Wachendorf shot and killed-him-self in Sioux Falls, S. D. -si Accidentally Kills Mia Nephew. While taking part jn a dove drive near - shot the top of his nephew's head . off. causing instant death. Tyler afterward tried to kill himself. Woman and Child Die in Fire. Mia. Boyer and one child were burned to death and another child ba'dly burned In the fire that destroyed their home near Hamden, - Vinton County, Ohio. Umli SI,BOO in Jewelry. Rings, watches, lockets and trinkets to the value of |1, 800 were stolen by a thief, who broke the front, window of the Enterprise Jewelry Company's store in Denver. Three Children Drowned. At Nortbfield, N. 11., the daughter and two sons of Enos Pie no were plaving on the ice, when it gave way and they were drowne<i - Bnda Life In Fit of Remorse, h Remorseful because he had broken a ( temperance pledge in the absence of his family, Frank Ames shot and killed himself in Hastings, Pa. The family, coming [ home from Clearfield county, found his body.--- , - . y < Jobs for Davis* Daughter*. __ " . Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas found St ‘his disposal as Senator after he took' the oath two small appointments, one a private secretary at $1,800; the other a laborer at S9OQ a' year. He conferred the appointments on this two daughters.

BLAYB RECALLED WIFE. _____ , Attempt nt Reconciliation Ends In Murder at Feast. 5 Having reassembled his family for a reunion after an estrangement which had lasted for a year, Dr. Walker K. Amesbury, formerly a British army suegepn, at dinner in Hyde Park, MaSs., shot and killed his wife, who was formerly Anna Reese, a concert singer. At the doctor’s request his wife: had returned-from Danville, Va., where she had been teaching Roanoke college,"’ and ,hl* son*. Walkey, aged 30, and Ira, aged 17. had returned from New York, where they had lived since [the family was broken’up about a year ago. Mrs. Amesbury’s mother, Mrs. Jennie Ree»e, was. completing the dinner preparations when the doctor and his wife became engaged in a quarrel. The .two sons admonished their father to remember the day,, when Suddenly the doctor drew a,revolver aniL/fired at his wife’s breast. ; The \voman £ell unconscious and died within a few ipdments. T. MATRIMONIAL RUSH IN N. Y. V» • * - - _ .* * Hundreds Seek to Wed Before? License Law Makes It Difficult. Cupid hak 'been having aß,mning ip New York. Beginning Jan. 1 a new law requiring licenses to wed will be in force, and- hundreds of couples have been rushing tp' the - ministers to esCape ‘the pub-' licity; which will; follow the' recording of -all marriages. There are commonly about 250 marriages a day in the city, but for. a week this number has been increased threefold,"bringing the biggest matrimonial rush the city has ever seen. One minister announced that he married twen-ty-five couples in one week and,had engagements to unite twice that number be- - fore Jan. 1. There are many objections to. the new law voiced-by ministers and others. The objeclors say. that the law makes marriage more difficult .while they believe that all difficulties in the way of matrimony should* be smoothed away. They believe that the new law will induca elopements.

vAnderbilt wedding is off. Society Folk Hear Count I« Dl*»at--1 slled with the Settlement? New York society is stirred by a report from Newport that the wedding of Miss Gladys Vanderbidlt, heiress to the $12,000,000 Vanderbilt fortune, had been called off owing to dissatisfaction on the part of Count Szeclienyi, the Hungarian to whom she was betrothed, with the amonirt of'Ehmnarriage sett lenient which was to be made to him. In all the salons of Newport the story went that the sturdy Americanism of Alfred G. Vanderbilt and Reginald Vanderbilt, the prospective bride's brothers, bad revolted against the marriage of tlieir sister to a man who they believed had revealed himself as a fortune hunter and that they had per; shaded their sister after much trouble that the foreign nobleman is unworthy of her. The Vanderbilt family, however, will go no further than the admission that the wedding has been postponed, PUT PUMP ON PIVOT, Warring Families In Double House Evolve Unique Plan. A war has been in progress for some time between two families using the same well’in Marion, Ohio. The man who built the houses occupied by the two families drilled a well exactly on the line between the two lots. The purchasers “fell out," and as„a result there has .been a lot of bad feeling whenever one family trespassed on the lot of bite Other to get water. A neighborhood Solomon suggested fbat-the pitmp be so adjusted that it would turn around, permitting the handle and spout to be over the lot of the family which-wanted to use it. The suggestion was followed. Each family is so pleased over the solution that the contention is about ended.

THINKS WEST TROOPS. _____ _____ _ % If Navy Foils, Olilcer Says, 20,000 Japanese Coaid Control Coast. Col. T. C. Woodbury, acting commander of the department of the Columbia, U. S. A., in a statement said that the whole Pacific coast would be helpless in case s the navy should prove unable to prevent the landing of a force of 20,000 Japanese or other foreign army at any of the numerous unprotected bays along the coast. lie said there are not 2,000 regulars on the coast to resist an attack by land, .while 15,000 infantrymen are needed; Frisco Has n $200,(100 Blaze. Fire destroyed nearly the entire block bounded by Mission, Jessie. First and Second streets, in San Francisco. Several factories and stored were burned out and the loss will amount to more than $200:000. Most of the buildings destroyed were only temporary affairs, so that the loss was principally in stocks carried -by the firms involved. Euglneer Fail* (o See Signal. Five Jnen were killed in a collision on Mich., due to the engineer, of a fast passenger train failing to see a signal set against him. llis train crashed into a double-header freight-train standing on the track, and three engines were piled in a heap. Children See Mo(her Dle. Mrs. Mary Colcott of ' Youngstown. ■.Ohio. 27 -years old., was giving the finishing touches to a Christmas tree when her two children, coming down stairs, saw her drop dead. She Ijad been seized with a hemorrhage. ' j - ' ■_ : A. G. Benunlsne la Dead. Albert G, Beaunisne, assistant publisher of the Chicago Daily News, died suddenly of heart ..disiuise niter a treatment recommended by his physician. . Entire Family la Cremated. Five persons were burned to death in"a fire which destroyed the . house., of John Clark at Watertown, a Boston suburb.--Every member of the Clark family met death in the flames. - V *V- ... . Morder on laelin Estate. The body of a well-dressed young "man has been found on property owned by COliver Iselin, near Mount Vernon, N. Y., There was a bullet hole behind the right l sal*. It„.,is .not believed that the vuan killed himsell. ' ,

BANK ROBBERS GET $2,500. Flee After a Battle wttk Citizens, but Aye Captured by a Pour, The Bank of Camden Point, at Cantden Point, Mo., thirty miles southeast of St. Joseph, was robbed by three men at 3 o’clock the ether morning and $2,500 was taken. A battle between citizens and the robbers occurred and many shots were exchanged, but tfie robbers, escaped. They were pursued by a posse and' Captured about noon near Edgerton Junction. The robbers were discovered by Prof. Barhan, president of Camden Point college, who saw a light in the bank’ and areiised she citizens. Three explosions .occurred after the alarm was given,. and, the safe and interior of the bank were wrecked. FOEMAN FOLLOW YOUTH FAR. . Relative* All Slain, Austrian Plee* bnt I*'Wounded in Ohio. Radiyagi Rakich, a young Austrians was shot and fatally wounded at Bedford, Ohio, as a result of a vendetta which had .-been-carried on'in bis native land for years. Rakich, the last of his family,-fled from Lodz, Austria, to this country, but was followed, according to a diary which he kept, and which was found in his pocket after the shooting. The other day he withdrew his money from, a bank and was about to leave for another city, fearing, pursuit, when lie was .shot from,a®" Biish. Three . unknown foreigners, who have been seen loitering' about Bedford, are suspected and farmers are in pursuit.

VOTES "DRY” TO GET BIG GIFT. Kndion, Ohio, Take* Preliminary Step to Obtain Ellavvorth BenefitBecause a gift of $200,000 supposedly made by J. W. Ellsworth, millionaire New York coal man, which’ promises to make the town a model village 'provided that the sale of liquor ceases before the money is paid over, Hudson, Ohio, voted out saloons by a vote of 200 to 188. The town’s sentiment is overwhelmingly “wet,” but the chance to get municipal light add gas plants, with a sewage disposal plant and the remodeling of the old Western Reserve College at a cost of SIOO,OOO overcame the saloon sentiment.

FIND CHILD’S TONGUE. >-> , - ii »i ... Clue to Disappearance of Girl Causes Arrest of Father. Sheriff Bauman of Fremont, Neb., directed that Olaf Olsen of Rosalie be arrested, and that" MTs.'Oteen and; herd wn children be sent to Fremont. This is_the result of the sheriff's investigations of the mysterious disappearance of 4-year-old Lille Olsen, daughter of Olaf, two weeks ago. A thousand men searched for her'in Thurseton and adjoining counties. One day Sheriff Ran man discovered a piece of flesh in a wheat shock on the Olsen farm. Physicians pronounced this a portion of a child's tongue. CHICAGO SOLDIER ENDS LIFE. Anton Gnrlscli Commit* Suicide In Akron, Ohio, by Drinking; Poison. Anton Garisch, son of Andrew Garisch of Chicago, and honorably discharged from the Fifty-fifth United States artillery ret Fyn-f Hancock. New Jersey, a month ago. committed suicide in Akron, Ohio, by drinking carbolic acid. He was out of work and despondent. A year ago near Fort Hancock Garisch captured an Italian murderer of a policeman, receiving a stab in the side Which laid him up a month. For this act he received a reward. A'erdict of Chicago Jury. Thomas. Chamales, the Greek proprieof the Savoy, t > a saloon in the levee district of Chicago, has been found not guilty by d jury of his peers. Chamales was chtirged With keeping his saloon open on Sunday and with selling liquor on that day; he admitted the truth of both accusations; the court ruled that such actions were in violation TjUthe law—the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Mrs. Bradley After Money. Mrs. Annie M. Bradley has brought suit in Salt Lake to. break the will Si the late United States Senator Arthur Brown, whom Mrs. Bradley shot and killed in Washington in December, 1906., She wants the estate for Brown'S two children.

Pennsylvania Trains Crash. Three persons were killed and seventeen others were injured in a rear-end collision on the elevated tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad a short distance from the station in Camden, N. ,J. The oars were thoroughly smashed. Fire added to the difficulties of the work of rescue. Spoon Oar Inventor a Suicide. James B. Itensley, 87 years old, inventor of the spoon oar and maker es oars for most of the prominent boat clubs of:, the country, committed suicide by shooting himself in Poughkeepsie, N, Y. Rensley invented the spoon oar in 1853. Beal Admiral Evans Entertained. Sir Thomas Moore Jackson, British governor, entertained in honor of Rear Admiral Evans at Port of Spain, and toasts were drunk to King Edward, President Roosevelt and the United States navy. Breaks Neck Hiding: Presents. _ Jackson S til ley, 50 years old, a wellknown resident of West Elizabeth, near Pittsburg, while stealthily trying to escape the eyes of the younger members of the. family and hide Christmas presents, fell down stairs and broke bis neck. Dutch Cabinet Is Out. The Dutch cabinet resigned following the defeat in Parliament of army estimates. • ” '' • - ' Court Orders Sale. Judge Grosscup has ordered the sale of the Union Traction properties in Chicago to the Chicago Railways Company, which means that the traction question is settled and the rehabilitation work for the North and West Side lines will progress, . Many ghlldren Disappear. Reports tpi »t. Petersburg police show , many abandonments ©U babies, the discovery of many bodies of dead infants and tlie disappearance 6f many boys and girls from the schools. ’ -

GRAIN CROPS SHORT, BUT WORTH FAR MORE

Government Final Estimate Shows Gfsfit Decline in Cereal Production. ; . i ' ! v< ; PRICES MAKE FARMERS HAPPY. They Will Get Half a Billion -of Dollars More This Year thfiii Liuft. ’' * ’ -Y'-rw— r.~~ * Tjfc r -~rT-~r". The government report ‘shows a shortage of 785,987,000 bushels in total crops as compared with the crops <Jf 1900, which were the largest ever raised in this country, and a shortage of 377,287,000 bushels as compared with the yields of 1905, which were also very large, The ' chief shortage is in thg * corn crop, with 335,000,000 bushdls, oats with 211,000,000 bushels and Wheat with'lo1 ,000,000 bushels. There is something of an offset to the big losses in the feeding grains In the increase of 0,431,000 tons -of hay as compared to that of 1.906, and of 3,045,388 tons as compared, to the crop of 1905. Prominent features of the final revision of its crop estimates for the year by the Department of Agriculture were the increases made in the reports of area seeded to spring wheat, corn and oats. In each of these particulars as well as in the estimated weight of spring wheat and oats the official reports. ran more or less counter to the general Impressions of speculators. In a few instances, such as the weight of oats, the figures given were at variance with all the experiences of the trade for the year to date. Figure* of the Report. The report gave final estimates of acreage, production and value of farm crops, showing winter wheat acreage to be 28,132,000, production 409,442,000 bushels and value per bushel 88.2 cents. Spring wheat acreage was 17,079,000,

CROPS OF UNITED STATES FOR THREE YEARS.

1907, bu. 1990, bu,- 1905, bu. Winter wheat . ? ; 409,442,000 493,888,004 428,462,834 Spring wheat 224,045,000 242,372,906 204,516,655 Total wheat... G 34,087,000 735,200,970 692,979,489 Corn 2.592,320,000 £927,410,091 2,707,993,540 Oats 754,443,000 904,904,522 953,210.177 Rye 31,500,000 33,374,833 27,010,045 Barley . 153,317,000 178,910,484 130,051,020 Buckwheat 14,290,000 14,041,937 14,53;*,082 Flaxseed ... 2.>,851,000 25,5 1 0,140 28;477, i 53 Potatoes 297,942,000 305,038,382 200,741,294 Total .... .~.Ty. .. j±t.... 5,137,903,000 5,923,890,235 5,515,189,889 Hay, tons .‘f. 03,577,000 57,145,959 00,531,012

production 224,645,000 bushels and value 86 cents. _ Corn acreage was 99.931,000, production 2,592,320,000 bushels and value 51.7 cents. Oats acreage was 31,837,000, production 754,443,000 bushels and value 44.3 cents. It was announced .that the total value of the farm crops for 1907 was $3,404,000,000, an increase of $428,000,000 for 1906. :_t 1_ . The farm value on Dec, 1 of the four crops already mentioned follows: Corn, $1,340,446,000; winter Wheat, $361,217,;, 000; spring wheat, $193,220,000; oats, $334,568,000. The comparative prices for the grain cr%ps for the past three years follow: 1907. 1906. 1005. 1904. Wheat ~.*.81.7 66.7 74.8 92.4 Corn 51.7 89.9 41.2 4-1.1 Oats 44.3 81.7 29.1 31.3 Rye 73.1 58.9 60.7 68.8 Barley ~..44.3 41.5 40.8 42.0 Buckwheat 69.8 SS.Q 58.7 62.2 Flax 95.6 101.8 95.0 09.3 Potatoes ....01-7 51,1 61.7 . 45.3 Hay ....$11.68 $10.37 $8.52 $8.72

FARMING IN A DESERT.

There Are Colonizing Possibilities Even in Death Valley. The craze of “homestaking” which is seems to have reached its limit in the choice of Death Valley as a colonizing possibility. Wrth the idea of transforming the most arid and most desolate portion of the great American desert into farm land, a number of tracts have been homestaked, irrigation systems have been planned, and other preparations are now In progress fo’fr beginning the reclamation of Death Valley. A railroad is already built from Greenvvater, at the southern end of the valley, to the borax works owned by the celebrated “Borax” Smith of 20mule team fame, and there is an automobile stage line through the valley. Even enthusiasts do not claim that piping water from Telescope Peak across the Ftfneral range into the valley is also under consideration.

State Holds Waters-Pieree Company.

• The Texas Supreme’Court has decided that it has final jurisdiction in the disputed receivership for the debarred Wat-ers-Pierce CHI Company and" Attorney General Davidson has moved the appointment of a Stale receiver to take charge of the property, pending a final disposition of the penalty and ouster proceedings. A " ■ 5" Col. A. S. Colyar, aged 90 years, noted' jurist, statesman and author, died at bis home" in Nashville, Tenn. He was a member of the Confederate congress.

JEFF DAVIS’ DEBUT.

Arlcanaas Senator Dellvero |ffal4m ■ jifxitejhJr Breaking all traditions and precedents, United States Senator Jefferson Davis, pf Arkansas, addressed his col-

. Senator Bevy eridge reduced the, tim c *-l\mlt torial .apprenticeship by. sneaking after, three months* wcilpiitlon'df a seat. Davis’ purpose- to cstabdl ish ‘ft new, record/had been widely advertised and there-was a large, crowd tp bear him. . In 1898 Davis was Attorney General of Arkansas and, while'in this position, secured the Democratic noriiffiatioM sos Governor.* AlHiough bitterly opposed * by practically, .every uiewspaper Jsu the TState he was elected by, one, of tlm ; largest majorities ever given in Arkansas. TlifOe times he wtltr ieICT-fed 1 Governor. He is of a restless, nervous* temperament, devoted to hisjumily, an enthusiastic lover of bookstand a studepf of men. He is of fiiie appearance,/ beliig over stX 'feet tall. Ills daughter is his constant companion and stenographer. Senator Davis . te a nephew of the illustrious Southerner whose name he bears. ‘ . -

TWO NEW BATTLESHIPS.

Government J7ew Building Largest in the World. Coincident with the departure of the Atlantic fleet for the Pacific, there was laid down in the Fore River shipyard, at Quincy, Mass., the keel plates of the battleship North Dakota, which Is expected to be far more powerful than the most effective ship now under the command of Rear Admiral Evans. The biggest vessel in tlie Pacific hound fleet is of .10,000 tonnage, but the North Dakota will be of 20,000 tons displacement; nearly 2,000 tons heavier than

the famous Dreadnought, of the British navy, and _2_3 per ceut more effective in guu-fire than the latter. The North Dakota will be 510 feet long. It is already figured out that the launching will take place next October, or in ten months frojn the time of the laying of the keel. iAlthqugh the keel was laid only recenny / the North Dakota Is regarded as nearly 8 per cent finished. . Long before the keel block* were placed in position the ship was completely laid down in the mold-loft and over 50 per cent of all the plans In the construction of the ship were developed . ««a * approved. The North Dakota is a sister ship of the Delaware, now being built at New port News.

The Comic Side oF The News

Money is suffering from bad circulation. Pennsylvania miser who spent only 3 cents last year is dead. He just couldn't bear the increase in living expenses. An Aurora (Ill.) physician has discovered that peanuts are a beauty diet: This ought to be a circus for some people. An Eastern banker says, “We. want more common, sense.” We want also more dollars, which are not so common now. If prices of bread and meat keep on coming down, pretty soon the average man can afford to eat three meals a day. Chief Sprybuck, the Indian who drank a quart of blue paint, is carrying the “decorative interior” fad to an extreme. With 1,300,000 divorce suits in ten years, the United States is plainly in need of a national “Stay-Married Association.” Secretary Corteiyou is trying to irapies's us with the fact that stockings were made to be worn and not to hoard money in. ' '■ James J. Hill says the., railroads need" billions of dollars. From present prospects, it will be sometime before they get ’em. ;•■•■ ~ •; After a while it may dawn on the army recruiters that the average soldier doesn’t look upon sl3 a month as any great graft An Italian count one American heiress married turned out to be an ex-convict S.ome of the other counts haven’t yet been convicted. . . Those people who will fail to notice the absence of “In God We Trust” fronr+hw now ten-dollar gold pieces will be largely in the majority, * \ Astrofctfmers are worrying over the fact that the rings of Saturn are disappearing. Maybe the hard times have eompeHed hat to pawn ’em.

leagues on ."trust coptrdl of busl- . -ness;’’ after - nlus days’ Up ttm aft kit It was an umvritteflr law* that*"' no • genptflr should- ad-; dress, his fellows in'll set speech un- * l'esS he had Served ’ iit least ime term-.

COMMERCAIL AND FINANCIAL

CHICAGO. Business for the year ill isow VirtuMly completed, and the peceSsfiry' *pArteto--ttous r*pftirs*ta''mach) pef/• eifiglge’ i Deveiopttntms this week have not been without etfSourageinent for the future. Banking conditions 'inaffe'ff ilOser * approach to the normAlr jpkyiex iiM*re freely and . the • Uhristmas trade roir t,o proportions -|vhi(3j “iffcrta'ilng cbeerfiilifess Dx change .'Nexy. t3 Yoik.. ; . works i StHdotbiy, .country’ baiiks bid oftener for campertiaV paper -and the for local aeoo\yit is leSß.*i;igid* 4 ''still'f|uott‘cj at 7,-i>er cent, .Mercantile (SoWfictibhs hifife not ¥romi|Aneks aL.wtStern points, but they bring less: 'lrohble, and, the' -recntfL' of .defaults; re* thahis, cfiSlparatiyeiy. uniinportahf. , -Manufaethrifig reflect ftfrthcjj/turtaik'd prvUuctitfa dad -temporary r’iduefion in epaployed, , that inquiries afe aubstanfmiiy. better in pig iron and stroctUraS- steel, whif# the rail and wire mills have bookings- running months ahead. . . ; ’ Failures reported- ifr district number -22,: against 284 last week and lj a yea? ago. Those with liabilities ever $5,000 number 7, against 12 last Week and 4 in 1906.:—IWu’s Review of Trade. «* '•• *. . - . - . I ; t • NEW YORK. Trade as a whole has'been quiet and industry has slackened perceptibly, but the financial situation has eased, except where, as in the case of .New York, large end of the year disbursements have to be provided, for.: Mild weather is still complained of as affecting retail trade in seasonable goods, such as clothing, shoes, rubber footwear and kindred lines. At some cities the usual January reduction sales Were held in December, in many instances occurring before Christmas. Jobbing hade was quiet till after the latter date, when the usual clearance sales pf wash and other dress fabrics were made, arousing a fair amount of interest. Wholesale business has been quiet and both this line and the jobbing trade note the receipt of many requests to delay shipment of goods. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Dec. 26 number 246, against 300 last week and IGI in the like week of 1900, 212 in 1905, 218 in 1994 and 209 in 1903, Canadian failures for the week-number 50, as against 40 last week and 18 in this week a year ago.— Bradstreet’s Commercial Report. -

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $0:15; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $4.70; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,97 cto 99c; corn, No. 2,58 cto 59c; oats,' standard, 47c to 49c; rye, No. 2,77 cto 7i\j; hay, timothy, $ll.OO to $17.00; to $12.50; butter, choice creamer>\ 24c to 29c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 27c; potatoes, per bushel, 50c to 60c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $4.00 to $4.85; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,97 cto 98c; corn, No. 2 white, 53c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 49c to 52c; V St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.85; hogs, $4.00 to $4.65; sheep, $3,00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, $1.02 to $1.03: corn. No. 2, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2,47 cto 48c; rye, No. 2,75 cto 79c.. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.25; hogs, $4.00 to $4.70; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,99 cto $1.01; corn, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 56c; pats, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; rye, No. 2,81 cto 84c. Detroit—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $4.40; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, sl.Ol to $1.03; corn, No. 3 yellow, 60c to 61c; oats, No. 3 white, 53c to 54ej rye, No. 2,80 cto 82c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No, 2 northern* $1.07 to $1.10; corn, .Effv.te. 3Sp| oats, standard, 49c to otic: rye, No. 79c to 80c; barley, No. 2,97 cto $1.00; pork, mess, $12.30. ’ * Buffalo—Cattle, chdbw skipping steers, $4,00 to $5.90; hogs, fair to choice, $3.30 t<T $4.?0; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; iambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.25. “ New York—Cattle, S4.QO to $5.80; hogs,, $3.50 .to $3.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.05 to $1.06; corn, No. 2,64 cto 66e; oats, natural white; 55c to 57c; butter, creamery, 25c to 30c; eggs. \vcstmr, '22c to"'24c; ' Toledo- Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SI.OO to $1.02; corn, No^.2 mixed, 5!Jc to GJc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2,79 cto 80c; clover seed, prime, SIO.OO.

TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

--S Attorney General Davis of .Texas, after a conference at I>a Hits, decided to rim for a third term on the anti-Bailey issue. The schooner Jesse Barlow was run down near Pollock Uip lightship on Cape Cod. The crew of six men had a narrow escape. .' —— Seth- Low, former president of Colombia university, has been elected president of the National Civic Federation to succeed August Belmopj at the New York, meeting. Admiral Dewey gave a dinner at his home in Washington. ' Ilis birthday is Dec. 2(1, but the dinner was held whon it was so thhT the President might "attend. .. _ ”” Ex-Senator W. A.l Clark atllontana is acting as mediator at Butte in, thefight betwegn. tbelabor unions and the— Reeky Mountain Bell Telephone -Company. ~ The national board of arbitration, in which newspaper publishers and the International Typographical Union are interested, met,at Indianapodis land discus*ed the printers' scale paid In Chicago.