St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 3, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 August 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, . . _ INDIANA ~~ — ’ 1 FRANCE IS HORRIFIED. another terrible wreck in OHIO. ■Frightful Results of an Excursionist's Sonse oss .loke—Whisky Fire at Balas, Toxas-They Hugged the I entity—Two Sisters Drowned—Hided by Lightning.

A PARISIAN HORROR. Fifty People Killed and Many Injured in a Railway Wreck. Just out of Paris, Franco, a collision between excursion trains oecurre I at St. Mando, in which fifty persons were killed and 100 injured, and three carriages Wiceked. Both trains were returning from a musical festival at Fon- i tenoy. The guards’ van and the three rear carriages of the first train were wrecked and caught lire from the gas. Most of the dead victims are legless, thc.r limbs hiving been crushed off through the jamming together of the seats. The driver and fireman of the second train were burned alite. It is reported that the stationmaster has gone mad and decamped. "^IANY SLAIN OR HURT. Seven Persons Killed and Over a Score Injured in a Railroad Wreck in Ohio. While the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton excursion train of fourteen cars was returning to Dayton, Ohio, with working people from a picnic at Wordsdale Park, a fre ght train crashed into it at Middletown station, and seven per sons were killed and between twenty and thirty wounded, many of them fatally. The excursion had stopped at Middletown to repair some broken couplings, caused by one of the passengers jokingly pulling the air-brake cord BASE-BALL. Standing of the Different Clubs According to the Latest Contests. Following is a showing of the stand- ■ Ing of cahof the teams of the diffeient I associations. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. Vc. W. L i?c. Chicagos... .46 32 .5 0 Philadelp’s. 37 40 .4*l ; New Yorks.. 42 SO .58sjBrooklyns.. 35 41 .461 I Bostons 42 34 .553jCincinnati3.33 45 .423 j Clevelands. .41 39 .512; Pittsburgh. .30 45 .409 j AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. Vc.l W. L. ^c. | Bostons 56 25 .691 Columbus.. .42 43 .491 I St. Louis... .56 30 .651 Cincinnatis.36 48 .42!! i Baltimores..46 32 .599 Louisvilles.,29 66 .326 j Philadelp’s.. 41 4C ,506;Washingt’n.25 53 .321 WESTERN ASSOCIATION. VZ. L. sc. W. L ^c. I Omahas 43 21 .642 Kansas C’vs.3B 41 .481 I Milwaukees.49 32 ,f 0.5 Sioux Citys.3B 42 .475 I Idncolns... .41 35 .53.) Denvers 32 41 .421 Minneapo's..i4 39 .530 Duluths 27 . 5 . 329 l Escaped Under Cover of a Hug. Mrs. Ada Avery and Mist Fanny Kelley arc in jail at Birmingham, Ala They have a brother named Will Tanner, who was being conveyed 10 Coalburg as < a convict. The women met the deputy, gathered him snugly in their embrace । and held him until their brother torn —i— mounted the deputy's horse and fled. I He is still at large. U Floods Threaten St. Joseph, Mo. There is now but little doubt that the ’ Missouri River will change its channel for several miles just west of St. Joseph, Mo. In that event the city will be left by the side of a boggy slough and the I 81,000,030 bridge and two ra Iroa ls will I be swamped. Since the cutting began this spring two farms have been lost Too Good to Be True. There is afloat a rumor that the Illinois Central Railroad is really ready to build a passenger station at Chicago which will not only protect waiting passengers from the rain but which will entirely lack that ancient fishy odor which has been the chief characteristic I of its ruins of ’7l. Whisky in Fltmes. At Dallas, Texas, a fire, broke out in J. B. Cowan & Co.'s big liquor house and spread rapidly to the Benbroeck School Furniture Company’s place, the Brewers’ Storage Company's warehouse, and Wolfe & Co.'s cotton gin. The total loss will foot up 8250,000; insurance §200,000. Was Sunk a Century Ago. Divers from the Newport, R I , torpedo station have discovered in the outer harbor the remains of an ancient sunken vessel, supposed to be at least one'hundred years old, fro n which they have taken a couple of guns They have I buoyed the vessel for further search. Sad Fate cf Jennie Kurtz. The body of Jennie Kurtz, the pretty, 16-year-old daughter of Charles W. Kurtz, of Lafayette. Ind., was found Lu the Wabash River. Mr. Kurtz ob> ted j to his daughter receiving the attentions j of Ellwood Good, and severely chastised her with a strap for disobeying him. Stanley’s Serious Fa’!. Henry M. Stanley has met with a serious accident, according to information receive 1 from Muerrcn, Swit erland, where Stanley is staying with his wife. The explorer fractured his left thigh-bone by accidentally slipping while mountain-climbing.

Thrashers Injured by Lightning. During a thunder-storm a gang of thrashers near Ligonier, Ind., took refuge under a thrasher. Lightning struck the machine, destroying it and seriously injuring all the workmen, Ed Morrow fatally. Seven Were Drowned. A dispatch from Seven Islands, on the Lower St. Lawrence, reports the drowning of seven children. A boy only 7 years old showed extraordinary courage and succeeded in saving one of his companions, a girl 8 years old. Sawed Their Way Out of Jai!. At Santa Fc, N. M., four convicts sawed their way out of the penitentiary amd made good' their escape, being assisted, it is alleged, by three of the night guards. _

EVENTS OF THE WEEK. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. The New York Grand Jury found an indictment against Charles O. C. Hennessy, city editor of the New York Daily News, charging him with misdemeanor for publishing an account of the recent electrocution at Sing Sing. There is a bad break in the Erie Canal five miles west of Schenectady, N. Y. Van Slyck's aqueduct, seventyfive feet long, with heavy stone arches, has been carried away, and it may take ! a month t > repair the damage. Diking a drunken row between lumbermen and Italians employed in grading an extension of the New York. Lake

.... wwi* J Ui n, LjttKU Erie and Western Railroad, near Glenha.zcl, l’a , Horace Fisher, a jobber, was fatally stabbed in the abdomen by Paolo Passuzzi. The latter then made his escape to the Italian camp and has not yet ; been captured, although the County I Commissioners have offered a reward of 8503 for the murderer’s apprehension. Soon after the murder the Italians at ' j Glenhazel flung the national flag of Italy to the breeze and boastfully defied arrest. The woodsman then began to talk of shooting every dago in the town. Their blood is at fever heat and they are deteimined that the brutal murder of their companion shall bo avenged. A west-bound freight train broke in three sections cast of Waterboro, N. Y. Two of the sections camo togcthei on the center of bridge No. 6 with such force as to derail the cars and throw them into the main trusses nf tlm bridge thereby break» LASioffTr"’*" - - ® • ing the structure. Nobody was injured, i Samuel W. Lewis, the New York broker, was sentenced to seven years and a half at. hard labor on a conviction , for grand larceny. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. The wheat crop of the Palouse country, in Washington, will be enormous ■ this year, and the railroads will be taxed to their utmost in carrying it all to ' market. A hailstorm swept over the western j part of Dickey County and a portion of McPherson County, S. D. A strip three miles by twelve was swept over, but the damage is less than at first supposed, as i the district visited is not very thickly 1 settled. Stock on the range was stam- ' peded and badly battered by the hail. Sr. Paul has been made the headquarters of a national movement by the United Farmers' Alliance of the country to corner the entire wheat crop of the United States. For several days a large force of employes has been engaged in sending out circulars with the view of having not only the alliance men of the United States, but all classes of farmers keep back their wheat crop until the bears have all been killed off and ] rices have been advanced to a high point. In other words, the 1 Alliance I'ress Bureau, the Reform Press Bureau, and State Press Bureau are working together, endeavoring to unite thefarmersof the Fnitcd States in a gigantic win at trust, in which the producers shall be the stockholders, and by which the speculators and wheat buyers will be squeezed to the wall. By the explosion of the boiler of an । , engine in the Burlington and Missouri roundhouse at Plattsmouth, Neb., Charles Hazmero an.l .U.bn il.-i roQ ■ employes, were Instantly killed. Wm. Fitzgerlld, convicted of murdering Policeman Freed at Youngstown, Ohio, was sentenced to be hanged Novemb r 19. At East St. Louis George Anderson, a saloon-keeper, shot and killed Pennis Ryan, another saloon keeper, and then committed suicide. A si’ECiAT. from Sedalia. Mo., says: Startling c idoncc lias recently come to light in ti e case of Tom Williamson, condemned to be hanged August il — evidence hat would indicate that lie was not guilty of the crime. Ar Cincinnati, Procter A Gamble's warehouses on Central avenue, were destroyed by fire. Loss 840,000, covered by insurance. The adjoining packing house of Maeseher A Co. was t lso damaged to the extent of 810,000. Four persons were killed ar d six injured by a collision on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, near Carlile, Col. B li.ings, Mont, has been overrun with tramps and hard characters. An old citizen was assaulted in his place of business by three of them and brutally murdered. The murderers are in the custody of the Sheriff. Excitement is high, anc may eno in a lynching.

SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. A statue of Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson was unveiled at Lexington, Va. Gens Wade Hampton and Jubal Early were the orators of the o casion. The Citizens' Bank, of Jefferson, Tex., ' has c osed its doors. A special from Henderson, Texas, ' says: A negro named William Johnson, aged 17 years, was taken out of the County Jail by an armed,,, mob, who । overpowerd! the ja Her. getting posses sion of his keys and securing their victim. They very quietly took him to a | tree near the square and hanged him. Gilbert I’akkes, of the real-estate ; firm of Blair, I arkes & Co., shot his brains out in the Nashville (Tenn.) j American oilice. Charles M. Ozburn, who murdered James AI. Bradley on May 5, ispo. was hanged at Atlanta, Fa His neck was broken by the fall. Near I.a Grange, Ky., Milton Fer-

guson shot and killed C. 'Williams. They had started home together, and quarreh d over a horse trade. Williams tried to shoot Ferguson, but Ferguson shot first. Ax unknown man shot and killed James Nesbitt at Chicopee, Mass,, and also injured another man. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, The record of the proceedings of the court-martial in the case of Lieutenant George 11. Evans, Company G, Tenth Cavalry, stationed at Fort Grant, Ariz., has reached the War Department. The court found the accused guilty of the charge of drunkenness on duty, and sentenced him to dismissal from the service. The order of the War Department distributing the genera! service employes

to the military departments^ZT^ 81,000 clerks, two 81,100 clerks 8 ^ ten at 81,200, and five messengers to ° ne partnwnt of the Missouri Do " Quarters at Chicago. ’ m 1 hoadThe shipments of currenov * West to “move the crops” has ° tbo lively, the sum of 8538,000 insman? ( UP being shipped in one day from ° teS Treasury to Cincinnati and Chu tho exchange for deposits at New YoS g ° *" The Washington Representative C if sens Committee, selected for tho n IP pose, has prepared an address evtenato the Grand Army of the p > dln ^ hearty in vital ion to hold it- C encampment in 1892 in that city 1 at '° Da INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

A strike and rot occurred at the Nottingham colliery, near Plymouth Pa., and it is feared that it is the ire The Pennsylvania Steel Works, at Steelton, were shutdown, owin- to the over thc sale „ r WM „ 1 he trouble between tho convicts and miners at Coal Creek. Tenn., has been adjusted, at least until the session of the Legislature, when the miners expect the convict labor law to be repealed. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Cholera is spreading at Mecca, the deaths occurring chiefly among tho Turkish pilgrims. steamer Emptess of India, state that the whole of the southern portion v. China is in a state of turmoil. Law anil order are set at defiance, and armed bands of plunderers make business almost impossible. Le Wing Chucn, Governor General of Formosa, is in very bad health, and not expected to live long. It is believed his death will be the signal for revolts, and ” genera! uprising against Chinese rule. London Tnt^i prints a startling story j of another mutiny in the British army. ’ Strange to remark, the facts seem to have been kept quiet up to the present Tin: Liberals elected their candidate for Parliament to succeed the late C. W. Selywin, Conservative, in (ambridgeshire. The majority was 260. ERESH AND NEWSY,

The famous old sloop-of-war Brook} lyn has been given to the flames at Nut Island. Mie was burned for her metai work. Tin: duty collected at Vancouver, B. C., on Chinamen for the year was 815, 958, an increase of 812,395 over the pre vlous year. 'The amount collected frotij each Chinaman is 8120. The Secretary of the Treasury had

directed a suspension of the order sot the deportation to China of a Chinamail recently convicted at Fort Huron 1 Mich., of illegal entry into the Unito* States. Abel Ady, recently graduated from Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio,- I will sail from San Francisco on thc first J vessel to Valparaiso, to enter the service J of tho Chilian insurgents. Tur. General Grand Chapter Royal I Arch Masons oloetod .loseuh P. lluj»^" I hi «»i»w nwiHIHU. - Priest for the ensuing triennial period. J I'he Bureau of American Republics has received information from Guatemala that tho coffee harvest for 1891 will reach 700.003 quintals, representing 816,000,000. In ten years the production has more than doubled and thc price ms more than quadrupled. R. G. Di n A Co.'s weekly review of trade says: s in • improvement In the business sltua- I tion Is still noted. There L more actual I trade In most of the leading branches, and | more general confidence as to thc future. Hut the monetary situation does not grow i clearer A speculation in products is j springtag up which threatens to make 1 trouble when tho crop movement becomes j large. Distribution of circulars in enor- 1 mous number from Minneapolis and Washington, professedly by the Farmcis’ Alliance, advising all farmers to hold their wheat, does not yet affect actual receipts, but stimulates speculators to buy largely, in expectation of a iwom, and much money has already been locked up in carrying accumulating stocks. With the utmost freedom in movement of wheat, the recovery from Europe of thc 870.600,000 gold shipped this year would be difficult, but with wheat exports checked for somo m< nths scarcity of money would be felt In all markets and in all branches of industry. The condition of trade Is generally more favorable than a week ago.

MARIiKT KKFUKIS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime 53 50 @ G. 50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 @ 6.(M Sheep 3.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red & .90 Corn—No. 2 6)>a@ .61 Oats—No. 2 33'!;@ .b7^ Rye—No. 2 69 & .70 Butter—Choice Creamery 16 & .17 Cheese—Full Cream, flat's C 8 & .09 Fogs—Freeh 14 @ .13 Potatoes—New, per bu 65 & .75 INDIAN APOLIS . MW*. |S Sheep—Common to Prime 3.50 <g> 4.00 । Wheat —No. 2 Bed 81 @ .82Cobs—No. 1 White 62 v 4® .63^ Oats —No. 2 White ^1 @ 32 ST. LOUIS. Catt1e................. ......... 3.50 & 6.00 Hogs ASI & 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 86 @ .87 Corn —No. 2 60 @ .62 Oats- No. 2 32 @ .33 Pour—Mess 11.50 @11,75 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.53 Hogs 4.00 @ 5.75 Sheep i'.OO @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 84 @ g; Cork—No. 2 62 @ '63 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 40 @ 42 DETROIT. I Cattle 3.00 @5 25 | Hogs 3.00 @ s',oo Sheep 3.00 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 86 @ 87 1 Cons—No. 2 Yellow 62'4 <9 631^ Oats—No. 2 White 41 @ ’43 TOLEDO. ' Wheat—New go @ 94 Corn—Cash 62 @ 54 Oats—No. 2 White 41 @ '43 Clover Seed 4.15 ul 495 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 4.53 @ 6 <lO Live Hogs 4.25 @ 575, Sheep 4.00 @5 25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.05 @lO6 Corn—No. 2 G 6 @ .67 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 90 @ ,94 Corn—No. 3 59 @ .61 Oats—No. 2 White 39J.',@ .40 a Rye—No. 1 82 @ '.84 Barley—No. 2 69 @ .71 Pork—Mess 11.50 @l2 0 NEW YOLK. Cattle 3.« @ 6.50 Hoss 4.00 @ 6.0) Sheep 4.25 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 93 i >ol Corn—No. 2 69 @ ,71 1 Oats—Mixed Western 39 @ .44 ' Butter—Creamery 14 @ jg Pork—New Mess 12.75 @13.25

PEACE NOW RESTORED. F,NAL settlement of the mining troubles. or w,,at M,sht Homo R S « rh ’"* Matter-Mi HU Tro n w e ReS ° ll,tlo!l ’-O r i g ln ‘he which seemed i ? t’? 8 ’ and tho tro , ub le, Ing down^tbSlv ,Onec ^ i,at ‘’ stoot

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I ■■■’-v.ua loom COL. SEVIER, OF MILI TI A. * ’’ ha ’ f an the troub’o was end d.'" Ihe lion. Dennis Leahy, a-t the beginning of the session, presented the draft of a series of resolutions, which were unanimously received. The rocnhoi

were presented to the Knoxville committee of Citizens, and by tho m approved and signed. An interview w a s - then had with '5’ ov ‘ Dnchanan At t o r n ey say ttat ‘the opportunity t o

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Obtain peace '“olne Merrill, the without blood- miners’ leader. mndlvX a nt PUtS “' 0 thi ^ "' , lovo “eetlng” followed in

wnich all took part. Follow ng are the resolutions: ® 1 ' " 10

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Priceville and toal Greek, ami in the Interest of harmonv, do submit the following. trusting that it "ill meet with your favorable conskier-i---tion: 1. The status quo to bo restored, ami guards ami convicts not to be molested on their return to the II) ill OS. n i. »11

1 . »V n ill iff. E. GOODWIN, ASST..' I ^’! 4°H li, l ' ary suit. OF convicts. ,' ? . d honorable I !•*» f * lucuns to prevent nnv l Interference with them. I 2 Reposing confidence In our Governor and bellev ng the General Assemble, when they meet in extra session, will give us the necessary relief from the oppression that now hangs over us, we will endeavor to eonduct ourselves as law-abiding people so 1 asjo maintain the confidence and sympa- <

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thy Mie public in the future us well as in , the 1 3. si wo do hereby vxpi ess thanks to Goviiti Buchanan f r the kind consid- ’ I erat®n holding the ml.ilia in this city । and ikeby preventing a conflict that might ( hav#uited In bloodshed 4.11 to the committee of citizens wo alsfress thanks for the interest they 1 j havlown by their counsel ami udvb o in thefrorts U» adjust the existing difhcultjj.J Josiah T. Thomas, J. W. Harpin. s. K. Pickering. S. F. Moore, W. F. Smith. who citizen committee, hereby approve of fabove. J >t sos Leahv. WILLIAM UfLE, J. C. J. Williams, D. A. Carpenter. : is ends the trouble in the mining di cts. The militia were drawn up at di parade and orders read releasing th from strict discipline. The orders tv received with tumultuous cheering, fclhe troops did not relish a week or OSHTHE COAL CREEK DEPOT. — I tv>‘ in the mountains. The fourteen coitinies left for their homes on a speciarain. The convicts will be removed to ticeville and Coal Creek at once. Th#ntners’ committee remained in Kno^Ue to accompany the guards and convis to guarantee protection when the tin arrives at Coal Creek. This aetio^iii not meet the fu’l approval of , all tLminers, but the terms of the agreeint will be kept ■ Nevijn the history of labor agitation have kgal acts been committed in as orderly fashion as were those of the jCoal Chi Valley miners. They are so i thcrougy disciplined and so thoroughly < control!’by t',c miners’ union that it is universe conceded that the end of the struggle^ come. "Lx OF THE TROUBLE. Last Wk about 403 armed strikers 4 attacked p guards who had charge of fifty felo' at Briceville and liberated them, th Buchanan was immediately notified ai reS p O nded by' ordering two companie^om Chattanooga and one from Knol]] e +q the scene. Os the fifty convi^ tak n from the guards at Briceville () ,aped and the others were broug t 0 Knoxville. When the militia arr^ thev took the convicts

■ J’ th tnom and warned the mob that they would protect them at all hazaids. Gov. Euchanan at once pro Sained Seat of double and P ev r.;-. thc LSXto -rV.„ »"> s “rough />«lr Omlhe, or’" "'or tU bl'Zdi *" “'is legged cigarette-smoking dudes” » that they would bo nl.d ! 'Ullltla wo“ d

-ex noxv I 11 O special says: H hen the situa--11 o n looked to those on the inside more dangerous than, at any time since the beginning of the Priceville a g i t a t i on, tho miners’ commit-

• w -of H Handled by the outmutterin^nf i ° ‘ h " re at once arose mutu rings of discontent. Had the Ton aXtu -T ning ( ” m P a uy noVmX of m'. ,2 h'" ‘‘? Uvict lahor inst «ad thou.rht 1*1”^ 10 lroc ni| ners, it is thought there would have been no c all 01 troops at the company's mines The peop e could have endured the convicts they had had to fight against for years waslabod ° K: OTchl olseu horo, i hart 1 m.t >' 1 Indl & na tion reached a fever good b‘l bHt f ° r the coy| heads and good judgment of the leaders there » ould doubt.ess have been b oodshed.

EARLY DAYS. Building „ Log Cabin on Iho Deso!afo frontier. Log-cabin building was great fun to the boys although they did not find it easy work Ihere was a certain novthS ? e of the structure that tv as to be a home, and an mten t m US ® ° f rudfl tools ' tha t lasted until the cabin was finished, ami th “I 1 Ht and th i P wed « es - the row a I D 16 mftUl lnt eaJed for it, and all the other means and appliances of tin building were all new and strange to these bright lads. b fnS lrS u tl)e \ ize of tho eabin > twelve feet wide and twenty feet long, was narked out on the site on which it was to rise, and four logs were laid t de Sis These were the sills of the now house. At each end cf every log two notches were cut. one on the under side and one on the

per, to fit into similar notches cut in the log below, and in that which was to be placed on top. So < ach corner was formed by these interlacing and overlapping ends. The logs were piled up, one above another, just as children build “cob-houses” from odds and ends of playthings. Cabin-build-ers do not say that a cabin is a certain number of feet high; they usually say that it is ten logs high, or twelve log's high, as the case may be. When the structure is as high as the eaves are intended to be, the top logs are bound together, from side to side, with smaller logs fitted upon the upper logs of each side and laid across as if they were to be the supports of .a floor for another story. Then the gable ends are built up of logs, shorter and shorter as the peak of the gable is approached. and kept in place by other smaller logs laid across, endwise of the cabin, and locked into the end of each log in the gable until all are in place. On these transverse logs, or rafters, the roof is laid. Holes are cut or sawed through the logs for the door and windows, and the house begins to look habitable. The settlers on the Republican Fork cut the holes for doors and windows before they put on the roof, and when the layer of split shakes that made the roof was in place, and the boys bounded inside to see how things looked, they were greatly amused to notice how light it was. The space between the logs was almost w ide enough to crawl through, Oscar said. But they had studied log cabin building enough to know that these w ide cracks were k be “chinked” with thin strips of wood, the i efuse of shakes, driven in tightly, and then daubed over with clay, a tint bed of which was fortunately near at hand. The provident Younkins had laid aw ay in his own cabin the sashes and glass for two small windows; and these he had agreed to sell to the newcomers. Partly hewn logs for floorjoists were placed upon the ground in side the cabin, previously leveled oft for the purpose. On these were laid thick slabs of oak and hickory, riven out of logs draw n from the grove near by. These slabs of hardwood were “puncheons,” and fortunate as was the man who could have a floor of sawed lumber to his cabin, he who was obliged to use puncheons was better off than those with whom timber was so scarce that the natural surface of ground was their only floor. — St. Nicholas. A NfW York girl, suffering fiom the grip, meditated suicide. Then, changing her mind, she sought relief in another way—she got married.

nOPE TO BELL WHEAf alliance men appeal to the farmers. Agriculturists Jn-orme<l that the European Crop Is Much l-elow the Average and Advi SO(l to Hold Their Grain Until ■» rices Are Much Higher. lv l iH„ Far ^ rS ' A’iiance folks are greatJ mtoiested in the reports of small pS o "'™?' a';;""*' “ d bZen nrm/A AHiailCo Prophets have wheit P nnd h ng t rlS ® in thc Prbeof to hnld fl d - bave been advisf ng farmers to hold their crops as long as possible in crea<e tO u e h ' L ® adva Mage of the Inan t Jt nas been said that the Alliance was going to try to make a corner ienT S,!™’ b" 0 A,lto "'» best in f Gy o ay they have do!ie ‘heir tion of t f ? t ie farmers of the condithat thov crops of thc worid ’ so on in u , lna y kn ™ what tocaleu ate on in making their sales Through the in th?' 1 Ht eSS bureau ’” " hich is located patch tm * S a^- a Wash ington dispatch, the All lance leaders are send lng out a circular pre! pared some time ago v and ’ recently adopted for circulation 11 amo^g !n £ rme - S ’ w,ich cn ‘ crß ^to 1 lull discussion of the condition cf tho crops predicting an excel ent crop in this country and quoting the indications in crop reports that the foreign crop will be short and prices high. The recommendation to the farmer is that he hold his wheat for the rise in price whenever F-th P o°A?‘ C f ° r ‘° d 0 So ' Sjncc ‘he 1-th of tins month 400,000 of these circulars Lave been sent out to the farmers Two hundred thousand will be sent out circulating LOOP,<O(/copies ‘it t’ " " pected that the result will be slow shin' ho f ° t 0 tho markets, and that the farmer himself will Haim the ncreased value of his product, instead of giving tho 1 ’ "U^eaa or

profits In SA, . e Den out Os the Uu., Wa „ y U \ cl ^ ul arsaysin part: ’ even nSJ “ ral Apartment issue 9. I the crons M Governmen t report about 1 | ' cr °ps. These reports estimato tl>« number 01 acres sown and give the ne“■'I""”" A 100 is a Somewhat ideal crop and would indicate a yield of thirteen bushelsand a faction to the a. re. It has bXm "ur ls\ S o e v i On ‘\F“ C “~ nanioly ’ in thc year m th p , cond ition at harvest was 104 and the yield thirteen and one-half LtoX r tot O h Urp ^^ is somewhat j simi ar to tho crop of 1884, the Government report report making the aXge!ess‘ a in , a L d c< » d ition somewhat less. In 1884, at harvest time, the con98 and" o’f 1 ' Wheat WaS ^Ported at 1 and of spring wheat at 99 This year the condition of winter wheat Is 96.0, and that of spr ng than the final report of 1884. As the harvest of 1884, the largest we ever had was 312,600,063 bushels, tho last Govern- ^ n A.5 e P° rt wou ld indicate a cron of 494,000,000 bushels, say f. 00.000.000 in

round numbers. The home consumption has increased with the population and is certainly over 350.003,0c0 bushels, probably 300,000,000, which leaves us 140 - 000,000 for export. During the last ten years wo exported 127,000,000 yearly in. average, of which Europe r. ceived IO” 000,000 and the West Indies and South “Europe will receive the aX tity of about 107.000,000 bush<^ no more, as we have no reserves tOTrrrr—upon. “This u’ou'd make both ends meet there if Europe had a good average crop, but Europe has not a good average crop; in fact, it has the worst crop failure of the century. Last winter was phenomenal all over Europe in its severity and duration. Snow and ice covered Italy and Sj ain and were actually carried far into Africa. Vessels on the Mediterranean came into port thickly covered with ice, and this abnormal weather worked incalculable damage to the winter wheat in all the countries of the continent. The spring has been late and very unfavorable, and even in June snow and frost de- royed most of what was left in half of Germany and a great part of Austria. That the crop disaster is not local or moderate,or exaggerated can be clearly seen by the action of the different governments. Russia appointed a. commission to investigate the crop damages, which reported wheat 17 per cent, beloxv average and rye much worse. It is the custom of that government toquiet the alarm of the people, and the damage, therefore, is surely not less than reported, but probably much more.” The circular discusses generally the condition of the foreign crop and tells the farmers how to take advantage of the situation to got the full value of their I product. “There will be very few', in- । deed,” the circular suggests, “unwilling i to hold off to see what will become of ■ this move, as in view, of the situation. I prices could never be lower, but even if I one-half or more of the fanners shou'd be persuaded by the arguments of railroad and elevator men to rush theirwheat into the market, the result ..would be the same, for if a considerable number of those wh-> are in the habit of I marketing early hold back, in a little while the farmers’ deliveries .would fall short of the requirements, and the effectwould be the same as if no wheat had been brought in at all. There is, however, little danger that any considerable number of farmers could be induced to market their product in hot haste at present prices. They all know that the remnants of last year’s crop are smaller than ever, and that present prices are entirely out of proportion to the conditou of the world’s crop. No cropsthat can be raised this year can change | the fact that the world's sup. ly is im- | mensely below th? requirements. The ; Ameri an farmer is into ligent enough } to know that whoever ma kets his products late in a year like this receives the best prices, and there is really no danger that many will show enough sympathy with the speculattr to come toI his rescue. ” Atchison Gobuios. If we were a young woman hired to collect bills, we s lould not wear a lead pencil in the knot of hair oa the back of our head. A max will deny that your flattery has any effect on him. I.nt he can nr t deny that somehow he is feeling more satisfied with himself th an he was. The worst old tough in town may not know much, but he knows enough to clap you on the shoulder, and call you ■ by your first name, when yon are in good 1 company, and are trying to pretend thatyou don’t know him.