St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 19, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 November 1891 — Page 2
WALKERTON INDEPENDENT, WALEERTON, . . . INDIANA FONSECA HAS FALLEN. BRAZIL’'S BRAZEN DICTATOR “RESIGNS.” Surrender of Authority to the Vice-Chief, | Floriano Poixotto—l\llnnonpolls Gets the | Republican (Hun’on(lun——ln(llanu'n Governor I)cud-~-lh~structl"o Cyclone in Washington, i " | Fonseca Resigns, ' INTELLIGENCE has been rece'ved in | London that an insurrcetion has tak n | TR SRETN IR T 8
Place in Rio Janeiro, and that the oblect of the outbreak is the overthrowof [~:(.,1_ Seca. Negotiations betwaen Fonseca and the Junta have been broken off, and both partes are prepa~‘ng for war. It was later positively swated that the | dictator had resigned in favor of Peix- | . otte. The news that Fonseca had ro--8.2 V S 2 dispatch from Rio de fli&m : mtrwhere it was recelved with enthusiastic cheers and exclamations of satisfaction. Th> provine:s have not yet been heard from. but it is , believed from the advices hitherto rec2.ved in regard to the growing opposi- | tion throughout the ecountry to Fon- | seca’s supremacy that the news of his | downfall will evervwhere be received | with the same satisfaction as at the | capital, ; Cyclone at Washington. A TELEPHONE message at Baltimore. | Md , from Washington reports that a | cyclone and waterspout struck that city, | Seven persons were killed and Metzer- | ott hall was on fire. The stirm struck | Baltimore and communication with | Washington was cut off. Says adispatch | from New York: A terrible wind and rain storm is advancing up the coast. | Telegraphic communication with points
south of Washington was cut off,. A | dispatch from Washington said that the | worst storm ever experienced in that city | was raging and wires in all directions were going down. Ignatius Donnelly Sued. IexATIUS DONNELLY, the politician and author, has been sued by the Peale Printing Company, ( hicago,in an assumpsit suit for $6,20) camages. “Some years ago,” sa’d N. A, Partri lge. att rney for plnintiff, “Mr. Donnelly went t» Mr. | Peale to have his eryptogram publishe I, | and Mr. Peale advanced him 24,000 and took a note for it Os course Donne'ly hoped to pay the note out of the profits of his book. but the book turned out a m& Not alone were tnhere no profits, | p6Z 40 OZE2-28C ere was a great loss, and the note e | Du‘gwg; SIOO,OOO Arkansas Blaze. ‘ %%‘NVWH;)GE broke out in the Bertig Block, Would. Ark, destroying Bertiz | hers’ famous dry-gools and cloth- | ing store, Dr. Hicks’ drug store, Galla- ,; more's saloon. J. H. Bryant’s saloon, M. | G. Newsome's grocery store, and E. | Goldman's dry goods. There was a l
S gs E o pera riothe oiovks. Lhe loss is estimated at $100,0600. Peculiar Collision. NrArR St Joseph, Mo, the Kansas City, St Josepn and Council Biuffs train from Creston, Jowa, to Kansas City, colI'aed at Arkoe with a freioht car which " during a storm was b'own from the side track at Maryv.ile and r'n six miles before it was stonped. The engine was demolished, the freight car burned an Express Messenger Mack Bletherade, of Creston, so bad'y hurt it is expected he w:ll die at any time. Opium Smuggling on the Increase. Tag Treasury Department has organ- | ized Minnesota, Mcntana, Idaho, and the Da’ otas into a separate district, and assigned as its chief special agent Jerry Crow.ey, with headquarters at St. Paul. This change has been necessitated by the rapid increase of opium smuggling and illicit distilling on the I'akota and Minnesota border. Mr. Crowiey remo: es to his lew headguarters I'ec 1. Diphtheria Raging DiprTHERIA is raging in Belleville, 111, and amounts almost to an epidemic. It broke cut in September and since I st i A a L
that time its ravages have been very severe and a large number of deaths have occurred It has assumed such alarming proportions that a larze number of citi ens have withdrawn their children from the pub ic schools. Pamc at a Fair. At Pittsburg, the explosion of a gasoline stove at the Auditorium, where a fair for the benefit of the South Side Hospital wasin progress, cau el a panic, and a number of persouns were slightly injured , Governor Hovey Dead. i GeEN. Auviy P. Hovey, Governor of ; Indiana, is dead He had been i'l for | some time, but it was believed he was | improving. His death is a shock to the whole State ; Minneapolis Has 1t MIXNEAPOLYIS will have the next National Republican Convention So the Naticnal Committee decided on the slubae ss Lo B R AL L Y PRERR . o e S e
seventih baliot. 'lhe convention will be held June 7. Will Accept the Bishopric. Tae Rev. Dr. Kinslow Nelson, of Bethlehem, Pa., who was ¢'e ‘ted to the oTice of Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Georgia, has decided to accept. Fatal New York Fire. THREE servant giris anl a child lost their lives in a hotel fire at Jamestown, N Y. o Absconded with Over $50,000. Gracixto ErirAarric, an ITtalizan, who has car.ied on a steamship agency, general store, and banking business among t:e prorer cla ses of h s countrymen in Philadelphia is believed to have absconded with upward of 250,000. Robbed His Countrymen. Leoxy LaArr, of New York, has disappeared. He did a bankinz and ticket brokerage business with the Kussian Po'es, and has decamped with $7,000 of their money. .
’ ] EASTERN OCCURRENCES, ° FRANK ArLmy, who has been on t.{al at Plyn.outh, N. H., for the killing of ='/Christie Warden, was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentenced - | to be hanged in December, 1892, ] At Egypt, N. J., Mrs. Caleb Hopkins, ’ a few days ago, gave birth to triplets, | I two girls and a boy. They have been | named Grover Cleveland Hopkins, Fran- | ces Folsom Hopkins and Ruth Hopkins. f HorAcke Hirr, a machinist, of Nor- ,' wa'k, Ohio, was kilied by falling down- j | stairs. Hebron Diamond and J. Dav:d I | wexre run over by the Pennsylvania ex- | | press at E{ab th, N. J:., and killed. ;’ At a point on Line Mountain, twelve | ' miles from Helfenstein, F'a., a band of | hunters had a terrible exp rience, in[ GIReSR e & B o
which one of th ir number was fafa!!y injurel and the rest badly torn in a combat with two bears in a cave.
| Jupae Hupsox, at Newberry, Conn., | has made an important decision fn re- ' gard to the taxation of bank stock. | The Comptrolier General crderod all l | bank stock returned at its market price | | Instead of its face value, as has hitherto been the rule. The bauks all over the State resisted the change, and the test » ecided in favor of the banks. ~ AT Nas "N. H., the rolice raided ‘the Belmont House and took several | persgons and the proprietors to the station While the raid was being made a | man who was in bed jumped up and out | of a window with only his night shirt | ,” on, mounted a bicycie ani rode aw;tyl | nearly naked. Marshal Eaton has his | | clothes awaiting the owner, but he has | | not appeared. ' | At Syracuse, N. Y., the audience had ; ' just been dismissed at 'the Standard | ' Theater when fire broke out in that part | ' of the building occupied by Jakes & | ' DeGrasse's Eden Musce. The flames i started afresh after it was thought | they had been fully extinguished. and | the fire extended to the theater and te entire building was gutted. The build. | ing was valued 'at £200,0)). The losses will foot up nearly $350,000 . Witriam J. Frorexcr, the actor, died |
at the Continental Hotel, in Philadel phia. Death came as a startling surprise to those in attendance upon the - sick man for tho reason that his (‘(Hl‘f ~dition had been considered as improving i In the afternoon and early evening. Only | Mr. Florence's sister-in-law, Mrs. Bar- | ney Wiliams of Brooklyn: his sister, | Mrs Norman Wiard of Wa-hington: and Dr. Patrick Doinellan were with him | when Le passed away. He had been apparently getting better, and the physi- I clans had no idea that the end was so | near. Dr Pancoast, who had charge of | the case, had left the hotel an hour and | & half before, secure in the idea that his | patient was doing as well as could be ex- | pected. < - WESTERN HAPPENINGS. TuE Grand . ury ha: indicted A TI. Roberts on the charze of wrecking the ] Southern Pacific overland passenger train near Co‘.fg.x, Cal., Uc}. 18. i ~ Tue large block occupied by Griggs, Cooper & Co, wholesale grocers, St ’ Paul, was entirely cestroyed by fire | The loss wi'l reach neariy half a million; ! fully insured ‘
[ $1,000,000. There was also a £200,000 fire in Minneapo is th: same day. ' } Tuae whaling schooner Nico'ine, ('ap-i | tain Herendon, arrived at San Francis. | €o, after an absence of o er two years in ‘ | the Arctic Ocean. The schooner had | | several times been reported as lost ,' . LaANGLoms & Sox’s store, at Racine. ' Wis, was partly burped \\'m!nosday.,f John Lang!lois, Jr., one of tho proprie- | tors, was_suffocated with smoke ILoss on property, £25,0.0; in\‘ur:m({v. 814, 000. 3 At Duluth the United Gas Improve- | ment Company, of Phi adelphia, has en- | tered suit against the Duluth Gas ani | Water Company, claiming SIOO,OOO dam- | ' ages for alleged infringement of the Lowe patents for manufacturing illum- ; fnat ng and heating gas ! Wirrniam Kxox, of Celina, Chio. went suddenly insane and, attacking his mother with a knife, woundel her so . that she died soon afterward. He then | commenced to slash himsolf, and was | only preventel from killing himself by the interference of friends & Tne Minneapolis lumber season is | over and the cut for the year reaches | 447,713,252 feet, 207,221,000 shingles and | | 97,697,500 lath. This beats all records |1
- y e SR L e WO T Ve VR wwe s &WkW Ny and exeeeds the output of 1800 by 103, - 138,800 feet of lumber, 45,0603.:00 shingles and 17,422,250 lath. A SPECIAL from Fairmount, Neb.. says: A collision cccurred here between ' & freight and a passenger train. The conductor aud brakeman of the passenger - were killed, and severa! passengers were | seriously injured. Erwian Hardy, an ; Omaha man, was thrown on a stove and ; - his back badly burned. ‘ | NEAR Fairmcnt, Neb., a collision oe- ' curred between a freight train and al | passenger train. The conductor and | | brakeman of the passenger were kilied i 'and several passengers were se jously f injured. Edwin Hardy, an Omaha travel- { ing man, was thrown on a stove and his! back was badly burned. . Burowx, & laborer at the World’s Fair grounds, fe't the need of stimu ant 80 badly that for diversion and exercise he bit a picce out of th: che 'k of W. 11. McClay, a cook atthe grounds The me n were fighting, and Brown’s assault was
1 B ana ] (fin:y quick encugh to escape an angry | ] thrust of McClay's knife. ! 1 “THE CoUNTRY CiRCUs” is a comp'ete | | novelty from the beginning to the ring- F master who announces the performers | - in bombastic and e:aggerate i language, | - and claims the “performance is only half } over.” 'There is the g and procession, | more thin a mile lonz, ri-aling the | tritm- hs of the Koman emuerors There | ] ~are cavalcades of ladies and gent'emen ‘ . on horsetack. Roman chariots chariots | of gold, groups of Grecian ma‘dens. | knights of the middle ages. and o ery- | thing that goes to make up a real circis £ : parade of our childiood. After the | -~ parade a regular circus tent and all, i - and it is a good one. No one should fail ;' 110 sece “The Country Cl:cus” at M- iy , | Vicker's Chicago Theater. It will re- L main there for neariy two months. i | THE main business part o Correc- i' | tionville, lowa, was destroyed by fira. [‘ . | Twenty buildings were consumed, with , 1 ,| an aggrezate loss of $100,600. The fire | | . | originated in the Laab Block, whichl | . | contained the opera house. The largest . 1 Joss is that of G. W. Fletcher & Co., ]
amounting te $25,000, with only 812, ¢ 'men on November 7, has not yei' insurance. . ched Southampton, and great anxiety | At Stockton, Cal.,, Marvin drove P@elt for her safety. f Alto, the game Electioneer 8?&1"0!1, MR. McCoRMICK, the English Wor'd’s [ 2:08%, breaking the world’s stallion r Commissioner, said at London that L ord and winning for the Palo Alto -tRe Interest in Great Britain in the Exble all the r.cords of the world. | Dsition is increasing daily and perme- | made the mile without a skip, breaks, - throughout the provinces. after he had passed the finish. It wy Wirtiam H. Ropgs, who, from Sept. wonderful performance. His quartey 1850, to 1854, represented the United 1315, 1:0315, 1:361¢, 2:083¢. E e C: 4 ¢;t Poteres = AT los Angeles, Cal. Judge Ross P 8 %s Consul at St. Peters i s . A : t pad at Tenby, the well-known water--5o £ nited States Court, has seaten hg-place on Carmarthen Bay, Wa'es. { three Yuma Indians to death forf T IS 016 American schooner | brutal murder of an old medieinr ma, EEDR CAD 2T = [ their tribe some, months ago. T. mgryilliam L. Ifrujll(sy, which sailed from | cine man had failed~ to bring rain wiharleston, S. C., Oct. 5, for W eymouth, - requested by the tr.be to do So, and Mass., and which was abandoned Oct. cording to the laws of the Yuma %3, reported on arriving at London that such a failure is punishable by deat @ crew took to the boats and were Mgrs. Geo. KorpERS, of Minne ‘drowned. City, Minn., died from the effect THE British bark Kate Sancton was s e e T ISR s AR S ilbe i
" poisoning. She had taken the head ,mat,vhes and swallowed them [n [ coffee. She had been quarrelingg , her husband. She suffered a slow ’liugvr.'ng five days. Deceased w f years old and leaves four children, whem live in Germany. She hal tempted suicide once before. & News reached St Paul that f_f killed three children of Andrew Gus - ut the iron rolling mil's, neawd | Brighton, ten milas vontm@d 5- 1 ‘ During the grewt-fres in Pt ) September great droves of wolvelgs driven southward inte Ramse _' Anoka counties, and they have | subsisting on sheep in the neighbénd lo{ the Twin City stock vards afiw | Brighton. A drove of 125 wolves e l secn together in that viecinity. Je | Gulick childien wandered away - home into the woods and were att: and devoured by the wild beasts. e ~cries were heard, but before Le'p reach them they had been kill jartially eaten. Twenty-five d ‘mcn with hounds set out attcfhe wolves, surrounded th'm in a s¥p, and killed eleven of them, the othegscaping northward. Three hundregen will attempt to surround and extifnate them at their resting place the Anoka County line. 2
SOUTHERN INCIDENTS TuE first steel derrick ever mg in the United States was rafsed the her day at the granite quarry of Q‘E. Taylor & Co., Barre, Vt. The bochas a radius of seventy-one feet ar the mast is ninety-nine feet high, irthe | highest unsupported metal coian in | the world. i GoviekNor Joves spoke at Bluegeek Mines, near Birmingham, Ala., ledn a dance afterward, and Kkissed theboss miner's wife once. The next nighfaptain Kolb, his opponent for the nolna- | tion for Governor, spoke at the plac led 1 the dance atterward, and kissed thooss miner's wife twice. It is said theboss miner himself is weary. : | WiLLIiAM STRICKLAND, & wall-kdywn butcher of Little Rock, Ark, met gith an accident that may result in his dath. While ad usti.g an apparatus futhe celling of his shop he. fell from thtop of a step-'adder o :to an immense ;ob hook. He was ca ght below thddeft ribs and remained hanging for ral minutes before assistance could be ob-
idered himself, saying that he , Frank Queensbury. Bingham ‘'and Queensbury are near neighbors vy quarreled over the depredations of lome hens, and Queensbury assaulted! the | minister. who shot him in self definse. | one story says, wiile anot' er re !si ‘ that the minister shot quensburg:e- i ,c.msw he had mistreated one of i z-‘ ’ ham’s daughters Bingham was w(enl to Glade Springs for a pro’ iminary Bar- | ing It is rumored (ueensbury has | died f ' At Cynthiana, Ky., at the Citns-,‘ Martin marpviage, a wax taper bu'pedf low and cet fire to some dovoratfim,! making a huge blaze right over the ! bridal pariy. The audience was pajic- | stricken at once. and a grand rushfor | the door was made. The brida’s moter | and many othor ladies fainted ind ' the minister broke througzh the wre | windows and jumped, followid by gv- : eral ladies. aud there was the willest | excitement. In the meanwhile the @n- | tiemen attendants put out the fre With their coats. At one time it looked a§ if i’ the house would burn and the fire n- : gine was called out, but the blaze was | smothered. The minister, who hadre- | turned, and the brida! pair, who hadill | this time stood as statues:, proceededas ! if notaing had happened < .
1 St Psianacinadiiaiiay est : g i f THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, é Tne Bell Telephone Company has - i | cured letters patent on the tcfepbé)ei improvements of Emile Berliner, whith | they securced by purchase from the b ! | ventor some years ago. It is alegd | ' that they have delayed taking art | patents that the life of the telephote | monopoly may be prolonged as ongz s | possible, g SURGEON GENERAL WrwAN, of th | Marine Hospital Service, gt Wasl- | ington, received a telegram frok | Surgeon J. H. White, who wa | ‘sent to take charge of the smal-pok; epidemic at Harris Neek, Ga. He rod@B ports: "Total cases. B 5: deaths, 139 convalesecent, 30; 42 stil active I’roh : ably more yet to Le found. Fifteej ! hous:s known to be infected. So far 1 cases in one two-room house. There § awfuol overcrowdinr and den‘ritulimy Saw three families, ten versons, almos ' .‘\t:u‘\in:. lopulation infe:ted distrist
OB TPV e TECIE SR between 600 and ©oo. a1 }m(; hundreq have Dbeen vaccinated recentiy. Ha,v! employed s x men temporarily as Wateh men and to feed the (lt‘.fi[l(llle. Une o} these, a local magistrate of influency with the colored people, is in cha-ge ti} I return. Employed 'female nurse and tought two davs' rations Househo!dy are rotten with accumulateg filth of year:. Absolutely no railroad or steami)oat communication, ? FOREIGN GOSSIp, Ture Hon Robert T. Lincoln, Uniteq States Minister to Great Britain, whe has been Branted leave of absence, has arrived in Rome. Tie Supreme Court of Satony has decided that remaining seated while the Emperor's healin is being drunk ig g, act of high treason. Tae government of Austria will prosecute the persons who started the sepsational reports Which caused g banic on the Boerze Saturday, . Tur North German Lloyd Steamer Eider, which saileq from New York for
F R e- Y T WAL N AVNGAVO Ml vra WKIE, bandoned in the North Sca by her crew | f thirteen men, nine of whom died be ‘ ore being picked up. 'The crew of the merican schooner William S Bradley | abandoned the vessel, and it is belioved | that all are drowned. Il A LETTER written by United Consul Leonard at Shanghai has been for-'i warded by the Treasury Department to "| Collector Phelps. lt* ie a protest against d.the refpsal o, 1) ‘ollector to land Chi- | e n the Intendente's certificates ‘Lrevised by the Consul certifying that the bearer is a merchant. Collector Phelps states that of all cases before him for examination, only one came from a resident of Shanghai. Others were Chinese from Hong Kong, who went to Shanghai and there procured certificatds from the Intendente upon payment of S2OO. Any one, he says, can get a certificate who will pay this amount. ; A pisrAtrcn from Havre announces { the arrival in that port of the ship Shen't andoah, the first in the great ocean race | which began at San Francisco on Aug. 1. | The four competitors were all grain laden and left San Francis o for Havre, | but none of them, with the exception of l‘the Shenandeah, has since been heard o fiom. The Shenandoah’s time is 110 ) | days from port to port. She is the i largest woo len sailing ship afloat, leing
3.408 gross tonnage, and on her present trip carried 5,000 tons of wheat. Her captain is J. F. Mur hy, and she has a crew of thirty-seven men. | CENERAL NOTES, Ax atttempt will be made at the coming session of Congress to have the remains of General Grant removed to ‘ Washington. ATt Port Townsend, Wash., a ship's Loat be'onging to the barkentine North Bend and containing five of her (rew was capsized in a gale Two of the sailors were picked up by a passing vessel alter drifting about for some time. but the other three became exhausted and were drowned The North Bend was boind for the Fiji Islands. SPECIAL AGENT SnoNeceyx, of the United States Treasury, left Winnipeg for Chicago Shonezen believed the tory that Tascott s living with the Indians in t'e ‘Turtle Mountains, and Inspired by the promfsed reward of 850, (0 for the fugitive's capture set out last week from Kiliarney for the mountains. He had
ground. While driving through a little valley skirted by woods he suddenly found himse!f confronted by a pack of wolves, Without stopping t» make closer ac juaintance with the animals hoe retreated to Killarney with all possible speed. He says he will go back for Tasi cott when the wolves are not o hungry as they appear to be at present. Hervaxy J. SwvLnries, one of the specfal ,commissioners sent abroad by the Treasury department to scour Fulrope In search of fr ts regarding the {llega! landing of pauy rsin this country, arrived in New York among the steer--age passengers of the Cunard steamship Sorvia, disguised a: a pauper Commissioner Schuities disguised himself in Holland as a Dutch laborer. siecpng in emigrant houses where committees gathered destitute cand dates for Amerfcan work houses, and worming himse!f into the system. Whenever he made any open inguiries he found himse!f baied at every turn. When he went in disguise, and actually underwent the experiences of the emigrants, he found the facts to be exactly oppo-ite to those given to the public Everywhere 1:» found evidences that governments, committes:, b siness houses, powerful steamship lines and railways in Europe and America were all Joined together in one vast socr t comB s T g L o &
oination, driving over the cocean whole popu ations, regardless of law and deoency or of the result to the American republic. . - ITARKET REPORTS, CHICAGO. CATTLE—COommon to Priwe. ... €3.50 @ 6.50 Hoes —Bhipping Grade 5......... 3. @ 4.09 SH:EP—Fair to Ch0ice.......... 300 @ 5.95 VNS MO % 80d.............. 94 @ 95 8.. .............. BB K e ... ........... 2 @ 289 B e, @ .95 Burrer -Ch sice Creamery...... 48 &8 98 CasrsE—Full Cream, fiats...... .12 @« .13 A ... B @ 0 Poratoes—Car-loads, {»_c-r SO, 00 o 8 8 b INDIANAPOLIS, FOCATILE-—Bhipping. .............. 8.25 @ 575 | Hoss—Choice Light............. 859 @ 40) | eP—Common to Prime...... 3.00 @ 4.25 amNo S Red. .. ........... 94 g .95 O White. .. ........... .5¢ W Elo=No, SWhite... ...~ ....... .13 @ 8% | ST. LOUIS, Seiae . ... . B @ 6.00 | H’)(,s 3.50 @ 4.00 WEHEAT S led . - 4o @ .93 SIS ... a 4 B e.. 3 a3 31y ey it
nTORTR PSR S RTee) Tk, egLVSLT eo B W R e VI O 2 CINCINNATTI, ; B . 850 880 | .. 500 B 0 | { anP 3.0 @ 4.75 B BNAY-No 2Heda J 6 @ .98 | B C0nx—N0.2.....‘................ 40 @ .42 % OusS No. 9 Mixea 1T N & 5% | lé DETROIT, ! CA.”: 3.00 @ 500 | ; Hae .00 @ 400 i bflLhP 803 @ 195 | l) WHEAT — No. ‘.’Rcd.............. & 10 : COrRN—No. 2\'&110".’.............. L 0 @ .41 %1 OATB—No. 2 White. . iliisviiee.s B 0 @ 35 5 TOLEDO, , faman New..... ... . ... .. .o a@ 93 | { C R3—No. 2Ye1x«n';.............. o 6 @ .58 l er5——.\’0.2\‘\hit0......‘........ =0 @ 32 | : 1{1'1; O a9, 1 ! BUFFALO, | et At e ... 40 @ 5.7 K TiviHo s.| seianca L 400 478 - WHEAT—No. 2 Bed oo 10l @ 108 fvonee Noa 2 o .. . 6y @ .65 | MILWAUKEE, ; i WHBAT N 0.2 Bpidng. ... .. .. .01 @ 93 | COI{N-N0.!!..............‘...‘... A3 @ .45 i ’ ()ATS‘—-A\'0.2“'}.”.‘4'3..-..........‘. <2 @ 74 FIMEND .9@ 45 RURELY - NO. 2. 93 @ 6y | { PORE—Mess.... ................. 1125 @1L.75 } A NEW YORK. : : SCATILE, . ............ ............ 350 @ 6.0 i BHRER. . ... .. 40D @ 4.50 | B ... 850 @ 525 EWHEAT N 0.2 Red.............. 1.(55@ 1.2?% : e B ... e m q foATs—Mixed We5tern.........., .57 @ 40 | {BUTTER —(yeamery.............. 2)é@ .30 l ] I'Ponx——New Moes ... 1050 @nda
R T T S Y oe S 5S S 'CARS ARE IN DEMAND ‘ . FARMERS RUSHING GRAIN TO ‘ MARKET. ] | Fears of a Blockade In the Northwest, ‘ Where the Need of Early Cash Returns Is Imperativo—Raillroads Bending Every | Energy. Thousands of Cars Short. . “We could use 2,000 more cars to great | advantage did w 2 bave them and the i locomotives to pull them,” said Assistant i(}enera,l Freight Agent Keeley, of the { Chicago, Miilwaukee aud St. Paul Rail- | road Company. “In the far West and ; Northwest every available cubic inch of | space under cover is filled to overflow- | ing with grain. We are striving to the ,i utmost to give the necessary ald. We
| give the remote sections the preference, ‘ { and to demoustrate how earnest our | leflorts let me say our locomotives are . worked as they never were before. The \ | moment one crew leaves another takes i the engine in hand. Seventeen crews to | six engines is the present record. lhe | farmers, nearly every one of them, are ‘ | behind in their payments and must have imoney. Should the snow prevent the ' movement of grain starvation will in ;many localities end the suffering of struggling famil!les. They must have €oal and food. To obtain these they‘ must secure & market for their crops, " and if the country buyers cannot move ! the grain then no money can be paid for it.” . The Chicazo and Northwes‘ern tells the same story. An oflicial says: The lines connecting with the seaboard are crowded to their greatest capacity. | There are no cars for rental. Even the ! Southern lines are without extra “ompties.” The Nor.hwestern is doing fts utmost to break the blockade. . Every available car is sent to the Northwestern gra'n belts. But traffic is unusually heavy in all commodities and - the cars must go out loaded. There are - few empty cars in the country at the ' present time. ‘ihe farmers, owing to ' their need of ready money, are striving ' to deliver to the buyers at least 50 per - cent. of their crops. There is elevator
room for only a small portion of this ! vast amount of grain. | - Georgze H. Ross, superintendent of car ! and special freight service of the Chi- | | cago, Buflington & Quincy, said the | company could use 1,000 cars more than | it now bhad to good advantage. L‘ornl would soon begin to pour in, and then a | greater shortage in cars would le made | apparent. The new crop would be in | \ s('t.?'e movement during December, and | a grain blockade would be almost cer- ‘ tain. The Eastern lines were now un- | able to meet the demands made upon them. What would be the situation in December he¥ared not predict. “God help the farmers of the Northwest should there be a snow blockade this winter.” . This is the sentiment expressed by the ofticials of every railroad over whose lines the products of the great grain belts are to be moved. By reason of the anxiety of the farmers to convert their crops into cash at the earliest possible moment the carrving capacity of each company is far too limited to meet the . clamorous demand. How long this freight-car {amine will continue is solely & matter of conjecture. The enormous yield of all cereals, estimated at more e A A . . o e
' demand for commodities of every kind ~are the reasons why the railways are - short from 200 to 2,500 cars each All employes, all locomotives and all cars | are being worked to the utmoss limit | . 'The poor crops of the last two years reduced the tillers of the soil in the Northwest to extreme poverty. Money | th y must bave. The lavish kindness of nature in the wheat teds of Isul. has zaln filled with hope vhe hearts of these ?nrmnrs. The interest on their mortgages may now be paid. ~Nced for next year's sow ng Is-assured. But sheir surpius grain must be ('on\‘crted‘lnt(gafih. These are the principal rea ons why the peop'e of thte Northwest are climoring for cars. Their ¢ evators—of limited capacity—aros filled. Bins, bed rooms, barns, and even tents zre bursting with grain. Five hundred million bushels not yet thrashed are stacked upon the prairles. The buyers can take no more. 1 hey have no place tostore it To give relief the railway companies are doing all that is possible. Every railway through the great Northwestern wheat belt has made sSpecial preparation for hauling to market the phenomenal wheat crop. More fr ight cars were purchss>d than in any other year in the railr .4 history of this section. In addition the cars were en-
larged and 700 bushels of wheat has become a standard car instcal of 500 as heretofore, but all preparations are inadequate, and every road reports a car famina. Tue crop is moving even more rapidly than was expe-ted and cars cannot be supplied to imeet the demand. The Railway Commission has received and investigate i a score of complaints and in every case it has been shown that it was sheer fnability on the part ot the companies to furnish sufficient cars. The roads having the longest hauls are suffering the mostse.erely, with the exception of the Northern lines, from whose | territory little complaint comes. The | greatest apprehension is now felt for the coal supply. Through that great section of Western country supplied with coal via the lakes and Duluth the demand for cars is now the greatest for the crops, and the pre ent cold*nap has so stimulated the demand for coal as to excite the fear that the car famine will | be intensified later on. ' So great is the shortage of freicht |
B ENEL RSI e e U et S SA S LS SIS DR S S S S S . cars on the Atchison, Toncka and Santa ¢ Fe that the farmers of Kansas and the Southwest are terribly depressed over the poor prospect of an carly movement - of their crops. The company is exerting ' every effort to move the corn and wheat, { and would willingly pay a premium over and above the mileage for empty cars. ' The farmers of the Scuthwest. while they need money quite as badly as their | brethren of the Northwest, do not face . starvation as do the latt r by reason of the inability of the railroads to handle ' the grain. | AN Aloug the Gamut, THE receipts of the Barreuth festival were $£165,000. HANs vox Burow has been called the Boulanger of the piano. | A SACRED music congress will be held at Milan early in November. | GouNoD said recently to a friend: “My | career as a composer is ended. ? Tuar Crown Prince of Germany is tak- f ing violin lessons of De Alma of Eerlin, i Tae only woman counductor in Italy ! directs at one of the theaters at Poggibonsi.
B P A P AT R T SR I \ CURRENT COMMENT. i The Red Rag. i It becomes more ev'dent each day that I one flag is enouzh for this coun.ry.— : Lawrence Journal. i The red flazg of the anarch'sts is a ' danger signal, and we all krow what is like.y t> happen when danger signals are disrezarded.—Philadelphia Inquirer. 1 'The Chicago police did just right in r~pelling those rampant anarchist: to i display the Amer.can flag at their revo- | lutionary meeting.—Utica Lerald. | Some of these days Chicago will have i & lynching in comparison with which the | hanging of the Mafia assassins at New | Orleaus will appear irivial —Louisville , | Courier-Journal y It is only a small red flag—a harmless eQeta bol S e d Bl sl Ml il
plece of ciloth—buat that red Laz repres nts a s ntiment that is at war with everything that is distinctively Ameri- - can.—Knoxville Journal. \ The Chicago police are looking after ‘ the anarchists who seem to be growing bold azain.~ It would seem that the iast \ les:on should not have ' een so soon forgotten—Peoria Trans« t. \ The insistance that 1 ¢ American flag be raised at a meeting the anarchists in Chicago a’'ong w.th the red tiag was very proper. 'Lhe anarchi ts, it is to be hoped, will leain wirdom with experivnow - Milwaukee Nows. We do nct aprre’ end muc et .. American institutions frcm the avarchists as long as they confine their operations to Chicago, for that city has shown that it knows how to deal with gentry of this stripe —New Orleans Delta. The red flag can be the symbol here of nothing but murder and robbery. Peo- | ple who want io keep green the memcry of Spies and Parsons can hardly be held | too strict y to a respect for the symbol | of law and order. —New York \World. | Dom Pedro. , Dom Pedro is reported to be as | “willin’ ” as was the somewhat noted | Mr. Barkis —Worcester Spy. | It really looks as though I'om Fed o | woulld rot only return to P'razil to dle,
! but to reign some time before his death. | —Bos on News i Dom Pedro has grown tired of being l “out in the cold world,” and is ready to | return to Brazil, no matt'r how torrid i it may be there —iKansas City Times | There would be s ronger and more | general confi .ence in his peace-restoring !t power if he had made a fight for his | throne when it was #irst assailed.—Den- | ver Sun. ’ Ex-Emperor Dom Pedro, late of Pra- ! zil, is in the hands of his irieacs, and is { ready to resume business at the old I stand whenever his country calls him.— | Boston Herald. | Dom Pedro is announc d as a deep | sympathizer with the pcople of Brazil. | A k:ng or emperor oit of a job always | has very keen sensibilities touching the | peopie who have deprived him of his . situation. —RBrooklyn S andard-Union. ! Dom Pedro says he is “ready to return ' {f the nation desires dis presence, in or- | der in his old aze to render a finai ser- | vice to the union, integrity and great- ‘ ness to his fatherland.” Really the ex- - Emperor is too kind —Minneapolis ’ Tribine. | It was a pathetic picture to see old
Sy bgn e i i , ex’le ‘ lutely pitiful to see him looking across | the water to his distracted country and i hoping to be recalled. There is net | much of the emperor in it, but much of | the fo.lish old man that touches the ' heart deeply.—Baltimore Uerald. i Pale Luna’s Eclipse. I There was an eclipse on the moon's - eclipse. but wmevertheless science got in . some of its best work on the uneclipsed . part of the proceeding —Washiugton ‘ Star. | The eclipse of the moon as advertised took p'ace sure enough. 1 una always | keeps her engagements. Tut she deesn’t pretend to guarantee the weather.— ! Ut'ca Observer. | The eclipse passed off without our learned astronomers learning the secret i of the moon’s composition. The green cheese hypothesis stil! holds sway.—Min- ! neapolis Times. The pale, inconstant moon disappointed Paltimore in her eclipse engagement. - Clouds veiled her from view. Perhaps the ‘ade was off flirting with Jupiter.— Ba timore Herald. Chicago is growling because the clouds Obscured its view of the eclipse. Everytody knows Chi ago wants the earth,
and now it appears she wants the moon as well.—Toledo Blade When she was all ready for the eclipse the moon quietly drew her face behind a bank of gray clouds. It seemed an act of delicate shyness very worthy o’ pale Luna But do you remember Yum Yum’'s scng in the opera? But pray make no mistake, We are not shy, We're very wide awake, i The moon and L. . Much too wide awake, this gay and flirty moon, to miss the chance of fooling the earth’s expectant scientists.— New York World. | Train Robbes. Train robbery is to modern society . what piracy was on the high seas in the days of the buccaneers.—Philadelphia Record. ! Isn't it about time for trainmen to be - properly armed. thorouzhly drilled, and ' prepared for these individua's>™—New { York Recorder.
v i , Another train robbery is reported, this y | time near Milwaukee. The ihieves, es- | caped, of course, but it is “momentarily , - expected” that the passengers will be - promptly placed in custcdy.—Columbus i Journal. | The train robberz have come out of | the wi'derness and are now plying their ! avocation at the very gates of metropolitan cities. If something is not dine | to stop them express cars and locomo- . tives will have to be fortified as they were during the war.—Louisville Com- { mereial { Sitting safely in an easy chair it is not ! hard to demonstrate how ridiculous it is for a few men to subject a whole train- | load of passengers. ILooking into the | mouth of a big revolver you have gquite | a different job l e‘ore you —Miiwaukee Journal. { Train robbers are fully alive to the improvements of the aze. They now i employ bombs to break cpen cars, but i these fa'led when they came to the | treasure boxes. Next time they will ' probably provide themselves with on 2 of i the recently invented armor-piercing - projectiles adopted by the governments - —Pittsburg Dispatch.