Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 19 April 1895 — Page 2

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HISTOKY OF A WEEK.

THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE. Political, Religion. Social and Criminal Doings of the Whole World Carcfullv Condensed For Our Readers. The Ac cldent Record.

The ten-round boxing- contest between Hite Peckham and Jack Ryan of Chicago at Alexandria, Va., was won by Peckham in the fourth round. W. S. Tutts, general merchant and saw mill operator at Withee, Wis., assigned with assets $40,000 and liabilities $12,000. The election of C. A. Parish, Capt. J. A. Nelson First Lieutenant, Company B, Fifth Infantry, Taylorville, III., is confirmed. Oscar Carpen's resignation from Troop A, Chicago, is accepted and an election will be held April 20. The training ship Alliance sailed from Newport, R. I., Monday. Southampton 'will be her first stop. A motion has been filed in the district court at Sioux City for the removal of T. A. Black from the receivership of the Boston Investment company, and the appointment of B. L. Burgess in his stead. The Iowa Construction and Manufacturing company, of Sioux City, dealers in plumbing and steam fitting supplies, has failed. Assets are said to eiual liabilities. The company was capitalized at $30,000. The Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias has Instituted suit against the City National bank of Fort Worth, Texas, for $150,000 deposits and Interest due the order. The bank failed April 5, and Is now in the hands of receivers. The annual convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, of Cumberland county, closed at Greenup, 111., with a lecture by Miss Marie C. Brehm, district president. Mrs. Mary Sandf er was elected secretary, and Miss Brehm president. The annual election of Ohio directors at Springfield, Ohio, resulted in the election of the old directors, with the addition of W. L. Malcom, of New York. Extensions to Columbus and Cincinnati, to connect with the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus, will be pushed. A road to Chicago and Milwaukee is under consideration. Northern Pacific lists of railway lands have been approved for 14,353 acres in Minnesota and 1,060,646 acres in Washington. Monday's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $185,391,991; gold reserve, $90,313,692. Secretary Carlisle said that he would like very much to take part in the approaching campaign in Kentucky and would certainly do so if his official duties would permit. A delegation of colored men called on the President and asked him to review the Emancipation day parade Monday. Notwithstanding it being a cabinet meeting day the President consented. The following officers of the revenue - cutter service have been placed on the retired list: Capts. T. W. Lay and M. L. McKeen, Chief Engineers W. C. Wheeler and J. M. Chase, Second Lieutenant Samuel Howard and First Assistant Engineer James T. Keliher. Dr. L. Hayman, rep., was elected mayor and Fred P. Walker, rep., treasurer at Roscobel. A majority of the aldermen are republicans. The new board of education at Akron, Ohio, is solidly republican, and the first board in that city to be composed entirely of one party.Two of the fifteen members are women. T. P. Kessler, a wealthy farmer, shot and killed himself at Waterloo, Ind. He had lost $1,500 recently In a business transaction, and this is regarded as the cause. Sam Roland, aged 18, during an altercation with a companion " darned James, in a baseball game east of Macon, Mo., was struck over the head with a bat and instantly killed. Fannie Fox, aged 18, daughter of a farmer living near Rives Junction, Mich., died at the Good Samaritan home in Jackson as the result of malpractice. Curtis Harwood, of Leslie, an admirer, has been arrested. At Shamokin, Pa., during an argument between Walter Rupp and William Cowker, aged 13 and 15 respectively, Rupp stabbed Cowker three times in the face and neck, one blow severing the windpipe. Slight hopes are entertained for the boy's recovery. William De Moss of Denver shot and killed Joseph Rosso. They had trouble over a girl. Manuel Dungan, a negro, was found dead with a rope about his neck near Birmingham, Ala. A gang of thieves was afraid he would tell the grand jury all he knew. Angus D. Gilbert of Boston, the alleged murderer of Alice Sterling, has admitted to the police that he buried the body of the child under the barn where it was found, but declares he found her dead. At Rutland, Vt., in the trial of Henry Harris for the murder of Henry D. Lawrence, Albert Brown, a state wit

ness, confessed that his father and himself killed Mr. Lawrence at their home and Harris knew nothing of it. George McKenna, a gripman, was killed in the Springside mine at Pana, 111., by being run over by a car. Three residences, one boarding house and three dry kilns at Texarkana, Ark., property of the Central Coal and Coke company, burned. The loss is $50,000; insurance, $32,000. The empress of Germany is suffering from a severe cold. The British steamer Clyde is reported in distress off Cape Finisterre. Mr. Gladstone received a deputation of Armenian refugees at Hawarden and made a speech denouncing the outrages. The Cornell Law school has lengthened its course to three years. Cleveland police arrested a man who Is believed to have been a member of the gang which tortured and robbed Mr. and Mrs. Merritt E. Childs, an aged couple living near Bradford, Pa., the night of March 20. The grand lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Indian territory, convened at Checotah. two months ago Stella Marrs, 13 years old, of prominent parents, died at Huntington, W. Va. Her father, H. A. Marrs, and her stepmother have been indicted for her murder. William Jackson was sentenced, at Greenup, Ky., to 99 years' imprisonment for polsonhur his wife

POLITICAL. State Treasurer Henry M. Phillips of Massachusetts sent in his resignation to the governor to take effect on the election of his successor by the legislature. Gov. Morton of New York has submitted to the legislature a message requesting it to provide a proper exhibit for the coming cotton states exhibition in Georgia. The Pulaski county (Ark.) grand jury adjourned until May C. The papers in the alleged legislative bribery case were laid before the jury by Prosecuting Attorney Pemberton, but no action was taken. Col. J. W. F. Hughes, the colonel of the militia, who was removed by Gov. Lewelling of Kansas and court-martialed for not driving the republican house from the legislative halls two years ago, has been appointed majorgeneral of the Kansas militia. The Tennessee senate adopted by a vote of 11 to 10 a joint resolution asking congress to enace a free coinage law at a ratio of 16 to 1. The Walton election law of Virginia, was declared constitutional by the court of appealls. It disfranchises nine-tenths of the colored voters. The Michigan house passed a stringent liquor law providing for a uniform license of $500. The senate passed a bill providing for a general charter for the fifty-three cities in the state of the fourth class.

FOREIGN. The Duke of Connaught (Queen A'ictoria's son) has given orders that the army officers under his command at Aldershot shall qualify themselves to be judges of the food supplies furnished by army contractors for the troops, and also of the storage for horses. With a view of creating oases in the barren waste land of the interior, the authorities of South Australia are boring for artesian wells in a number of places. They will also plant Algerian trees in the neighborhood of these wells, should water in sufficient quantities be found. In a recent speech in the French chamber M. Lockroy inveighed against extravagance in the naval department, claiming that the English could build a war ship for about half what the same vessel usually cost in the French yards. It is said that . two members of the house of commons who desired to visit Constantinople before the opening of parliament, to inquire into the grievances of the Armenians, were prevented from doing so by the refusal of the Turkish authorities in London to vise their passports. The Paris Soleil says France is not inclined to abandon its demand for the extradition from England of Dr. Cornelius Herz, the Panama canal lobbyist. Three refugees from Sassoun who have arrived in London were eye witnesses of the Armenian massacres, and their evidence confirms the reports of the atroeities. Lieut. Col. Ludlow, military attache of the American embassy at London, who was recently appointed military engineer of the Nicaragua Canal commission, sailed for New York. Charles Baxter, executor of the estate of Robert Louis Stevenson, says it will probably prove worth between $100,000 and $150,000. Most of this will be from profits from Stevenson's books. CRIME, Thomas Hayes of Brightwood, Ind., vas found dead in a barn, apparently murdered. Henry Long, who lived near Purvis, Miss., shot his wife and his brother-in-law and blew out his own brains. In a drunken brawl among Hungarians at Maltby, Pa., Mrs. Anna Tonish was fatally stabbed by George Line. Her husband, Alexander Tonlsh, received nine knife wounds. At New York Charles Janda, 20 years old, a Bohemian tailor, shot and instantly killed his sister-in-law, Mrs. Camilla Janda, and then committed suicide. The postoffiee at Montpeller, Ind., was robbed of $200 in cash. The explosion aroused the police, who wounded one of the robbers, but all escaped. J. F. Maranda, city treasurer of Spring Valley, 111., pleaded guilty at Princeton to embezzling $3,000. He had unsuccessfully tried to fix the blame on ex-Mayor Jack. The parsonage of the German church at La Porte, Ind., was robbed, and the Rev. C. A. Loeber of Chicago, who was a guest, lost $100. Banker M. A. Thayer was placed under bonds for $12,000 at Sparta, Wis., charged with obtaining deposit money unlawfully! A new trial was denied Julius Schwabacker, son of the millionaire distiller, and convicted of burglary at Peoria. 111. James Miller, superintendent of police at Muncie, Ind., is charged by ten of his patrolmen with accepting bribes from criminals. John Kelvee, leader of the mob of strikers that attacked the Pratt mines in Alabama last July, precipitating a fight in which a deputy sheriff and four negro miners were killed, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Edward Fady, John James Fadv. Stephen Fady and John White were drowned while shooting at Catalena, Trinity Bay, N. F. John Brown, colored, was sentenced to two years in prison at Waukegan, 111., for stealing an overcoat. Carl Shaw, treasurer of Blaine county, Ok., has been imr-isoned for embezzling $7,000. G. W. Moffatt, of Bradford, III., shot and killed himself because of despon dency. OBITUARY. James W. Scott, proprietor and publisher of the Chicago Times-Herald, died at New York. Apoplexy was the cause of death, which was peaceful and unexpected. Prof. James D. Dana of Yale univer sity, probably the greatest scientist in America, died at his home in New Haven, Conn. SPORTING NOTES. S. S. Hale, chamnion nt Missouri rip. feated Tom Marshall of Keithsburg, 111., at Burlington, Iowa, 70 to 68 in a 75 Hvei bird match for $100 Thursday. Hale will shoot a 100 bird match against Dr. Carver. Arthur Clarkson has signed to Ditch fcr St. Louis.

CASUALTIES. Benjamin W. Burnett was instantly killed and A. C. Gordon slightly injured by a Rio Grande passenger train in the outskirts of Denver. The steamer Continental of the New Haven line, which plies between New York and Now Haven, Conn., ran on a rock. None of the passengers were injured. The opera house at Maquon, 111., was struck by lightning and was destroyed together with lour stores. The total loss is $10,000. Joseph Hayden, ex-president of the Donifan County bank, was killed by a runaway at Troy, Mo. John Reed was killed at Union City, Ind., while attempting to shake an electric light wire from a tree the wire was burning. A hunting party of three unknown1 men are believed to have drowned near Oshkosh, Wis. Their boat was seen upturned on the lake. The body of W. J. Aul, of Dayton, O., who, with his wife was drowned at the time of the wreck of the New Orleans steamer Longfellow, March 8, has been found below Ludlow, Ky., and taken to the Covington morgue. The Savannah, Ga rice mills burned. Loss, $125,000. The Sterling mills at Lowell, Mass., employing 250 hands, were closed by a strike of seventy-five spinners, who demanded the restoration of the 10 per cent cut in wages made sumo time ago and 5 per cent additional. Nellie Bradley, 5 years old, daughter of A. W. Bradley, a prison guard at Columbus, Ohio, was fatally burned. Her clothing caught fire from matches with which she was playing.

LABOR NOTES. The war among Massillon, Ohio coal men has resulted in a reduction in the price of coal to $2.25. The Grosvenordale, Conn., Mill company, employing 1,200 hands, will make a general increase of wages April 22. Armed deputies are guarding negroes who have taken the places of strikers at the Corona mines in Walker county, Ala. The importation of western men to act as engineers and firemen on the Georgia, Carolina, & Northern railway has elicited a protest from the old employes. MISCELLANEOUS. Secretary Hoke Smith reached Athens, Ga yesterday to look after the confirmation of the sale of the Georgia Southern Florida railroad, for which his fee amounts to $40,000. The Tennessee Press association will meet in Chattanooga, June 4. After the business meeting the association will make an excursion to Cumberland Island, off the coast of Georgia. The state convention of the Tennes see Travelers' Protective association is in session at Nashville. Major General Scofield has accepted the invitation to attend the interstate drill and encampment at Memphis in May. The Cole furnaces at Sheffield, Ala., have passed into the hands of Pennsylvania capitalists and will be known as the Sheffield Coal, Iron and Steel Company. The new company obtains 70,000 acres of mineral lands in Walker, Winston, Jefferson and Fayette counties, Alabama, and the Gamble & Elliott coal mines near Jasper, Tenn. Mrs. Frances Stark's suit for $10,000 damages against Edward Bindley is on trial at Brazil, Ind. He had accused her of stealing jewelry worth $600 while she was a servant in his family. All live in Tere Haute, Arapahoe county has appropriated $100,000 toward the expense of the International Mining and Industrial exposition, to be held in Denver, Colo., in IS96. A new organization among negroes is being established in North Carolina under the name "National Equal Rights Council of the United States." Its main purpose is to secure "equr'l rights" for colored people at hotels ai..i all public places and the right for colored men to marry white women. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Flora of Huntington, Ind., have been sued for $10,000 by J. W. Smith, their son-in-law, on the charge of inducing his wife to leave him. The Personal Liberty association of Dubuque, Iowa, has decided to fight the mulct law, and is willing to spend $25,000 in the contest. It is announced the proclamation opening the Yankton reservation will be withheld until certain protests from Pierre, S. D., are setttled. The interior department has overruled former decisions in holding an acting assistant or contract surgeon during the civil war has not performed such military service as entitles him to a pension under the act of June 27. 1890.

LATEST MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle Common to pnme.$1.75 6.50 Hogs Spring grades 3.25 5.30 Sheep Fair to choice 2.75 5.00 Wheat No. 2 red 54 .54 Corn No. 2 45 g .45 Oats 2$A .28 Rye No. 2 55 Butter Choice creamery.. .7 .20 Eggs a Potatoes Per bu 63 72 BUFFALO. Wheat No. 2 6UiS .61-4 Corn No. 2 yellow 51 .5 Oats No. 1 white 34 35 PEORIA. Rye No. 2 54 54 Corn No. 3 white 44 .45 Oats No. 2 white 31"4 .31 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 2.00 6.2a Hogs 4.70 5.20 Wheat No. 2 red GG1 Corn No. 2 42 Oats No. 2 29 .30 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 spring 591.4 Corn No. 3 ,4$ Oats No. 2 white 32i, Barley No. 2 52 Rye No. 1 56 u, KANSAS CITY. Cattle 1.40 6.40 Hogs 4.70 S)5.05 Sheep 3.25 6.00 NEW YORK. Wheat No. 2 red 60 .60 Corn No. 2 51 Oats 338 Butter 8 ,20u3 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 57i Corn No. 2 mixed AhVit Cats No. 2 mixed....' 31V4

NATURAL CfAS TRUST.

IMMENSE SYNDICATE FORMED IN INDIANA. All fttil Two Pipe Lines Owned by One Company Lumber Manufacturers Combine Double Murder and Suicide Cieneral Northwest News. Wabash, Ind., April 15. The Wabash Natural Gas plant will witlXn the next week pass into the control of the Dietrich syndicate, composed of wealthy New Yorkers, represented in Indiana by Charles Stuart and James Murdock of Lafayette and C. F. Dietrich, Indianapolis. Negotiations for the sale of the property were begun last year, but no agreement was reached until Saturday evening. Included in the transfer of the natural gas property are the plants at Somerset Mler and Herbst and the Wabash Artificial Gas plant, having a capital of $30,000. The Dietrich syndicate has issued bonds to the amount of $2,000,000 on its Indiana natural and artificial gas properties and the bonds have been placed in Europe while the syndicate holds the stock. It has a practical monopoly of the gas supply of Indiana cities and it is said controls all fuel gas patents which it will utilize should natural gas fail. MURDER, AND SUICIDE. Laborer lit Cleveland Found Dead in His Cell After Double Killing. Cleveland, O.. April 15. At 4 o'clock yesterday morning John Sejhar, a Bohemian laborer, aged 2S years, shot and instantly killed Carl Richter, aged 35, and fatally wounded Albert Richter, aged 22, the brother of his first victim. THE REPUBLIC OF JOSE MARTI.. PRE5IDENT REVOLUTIONARY PARTY IN UNITED STATES. MAXIMO 60M E Z , 6 THE MAN WHOM THE The Cuban revolutionists of Santiago ! have declared a republic and have sent i emissiarles to Washington and other capitals to sue for recognition. It Is believed that at least so far as this country is concerned the revolutionists Two hours later the murderer was found dead In a cell at the Central police station, wThere he had been taken after his arrest. The shooting occurred at No. 99 Poplar street, Carl Richter, with his brother Albert and his wife and five children lived at that number. Sejhar lived in the rear in a house owned by the Richters. All had been drinking until early in the morning, when Sejhar started to go, and a general quarrel ensued. What followed can only be guessed at, but Sejhar evidently opened fire on Carl Richter first. He then shot Albert . Richter, after which he left the house, going to the home of his sister, a few blocks away. The police were notified and followed the murderer, who was arrested as he was leaving the house of his sister, where he had hidden the revolver in a bed. The prisoner was placed in a cell by himself in an upper part of the prison. An hour later, as an officer was passing the cell, he saw the body of Sejhar hanging from the grating of the door. The murderer had hanged himself with one of his suspenders and was dead when discovered. BIG LIMBER COMBINE. Organized at Rock Island, III., to Secnro Equitable Freight Rates. Rock Island, 111., April 15. The lumber manufacturers operating on the Mississippi river from Winona, Minn., to Hannibal, Mo., formed an organization here to consist of all manufacturers and dealers In lumber on the river. The object is to work in harmony and secure equitable freight rates in the commodities they manufacture to points of consumption, both east and west of the river. The present tendency of the railroad companies is to make much lower rates proportionately from the extreme north and extreme south to points east and west of the Mississippi river, than from the middle Mississippi river towns to the same points. The organization was called the Middle Mississippi River Lumbermen's association. The following officers were elected: P. M. Musser, president; H. M. McCarthy, vice-president; F. C. Denkman, secretary; William Carson, Jr., treasurer. Freight committees for the Winona, La Crosse, Dubuque, Clinton, Davenport, Rock Island, Muscatine, Burlington, Hannibal and Louisiana districts were appointed. Think Prof. McAdams Is Dead. Alton, 111., April 15. Prof. McAdams, a noted geologist of this city, the man who had charge of the Illinois state exhibit at the World's Fair in Chicago, who is author of the anthropological and the geological history of the state of Illinois, is supposed to have been drowned in the Mississippi river some time between Thursday night and Sunday morning. He set out Thursday morning in a skiff with sail power to Join his son and a party of others at their camping place some miles up the river above Alton. His son has returned here and has not seen his father, but his skiff and his dog have been found at a point seven miles up the river. Two yachts have gone in search of him or his remains.

FOR A NEW CANADIAN ROAD.

It lei Proposed to Iluild It from Quebec to .James Hay, Quebec, April 15. One of the biggest schemes proposed in Canada since that for the construction of the Canadian Pacific railway has been proposed here by City Engineer Balllarge of Quebec, and will shortly be placed before the public and the government of the Dominion. it consists of a proposal to construct a railway from Quebec to James bay, the southern extension of the Hudson bay, and of the establishment at the latter place of a permanent colony of fishermen and fishing vessel'. At the present time the only communication with James bay is by the long sea voyage around by Hudson strait and owing to the difficulty of navigating the strait and the few weeks in the year that it is open to navigation, it is now only possible for fishing vessels and whalers to make one trip every two years to the bay. If the road Is built It is said the vessels can make up two cargoes each year. FROM THE CHICORA. Message In a Dottle Sent When All Hope Watt Abandoned. Benton Harbor, Mich., April 15. J. H. Graham of the Graham and Morton Transportation company received a telegram from Mrs. W. J. Hancock, wife of Clerk Hancock of the Chicora, stating that a bottle picked up at Glenn Pier yesterday morning was in her possession. It contained a message written by Engineer McClure. The message is given as follows: "Are lost; Stlnes and Clark washed overboard yesterday; engine broke down; could see land but for snow. M'CLUHE." The date was not given. Ths Mr. Graham believes to be genuine, judging from the style of construction of CUBA IS DECLARED. . SECRETARY OF THE DELEGATION E N E R A L IN CHIEF. SPANIARD'S FEAR. will be readily recognized, and by this act given a very essential lift toward independence. Above are portraits of the three leading Cuban patriots. Senor Gomez is provisional president of the new republic. the message, and leads to the belief that other messages written earlier and some later are still afloat and will be found before many days. FLOODS IN NEW ENGLAND. Bridges Washed Away, Logs Lost and Travel Interrupted. Montpelier, Vt., April 15. The rains of the last forty-eight hours have caused all the rivers and streams of this state and New Hampshire to rise to flood stages. The highway between this city and and Green Mountain cemetery is eight feet under water and all the houses in the lower end of the city are uninhabitable. At Bethel the boom of the Fall Mountain Paper company went out this afternoon and 4,000,000 feet of logs are on their way to Long Island sound. The Mascoma river at Lebanon, N. H., is the highest known in twenty-five years and six bridges have been carried away. The river at Plymouth, N. H., Is nineteen feet above the danger mark and the entire valley system of railroads has been washed away. Travel in all directions is suspended and the rain is still falling in torrents. Colorado Cattle Wintered Well. Denver, April 15. Reports all show that Colorado cattle are doing finely and have gone through the winter in better shape than for five years. But for the unfortunate sandstorm of a week ago the loss In Colorado would have been practically nothing. Returns from the northeast show from 10 to 20 per cent loss. The average Is put In Denver for the northwest portion of the state at less than 15 per cent, while in. the Arkansas valley the loss will not exceed 3 per cent. Union Pacific Reducing Wages. Omaha, April 15. Complaint is made by Union Pacific shopmen that the company is now violating the order of Judge Caldwell prohibiting reduction In wages. Many men were let out during the last few months and then reemployed. When they were discharged on "account of slack work" they were working eight hours per day, and now when they are hired again they are put to work ten hours per day at the same wages they were getting for eight hours' work. Serious Conflicts in Oklahoma. Ferry, Ohio, April 15. Advices from Beaver county, Oklahoma, are that serious trouble exists there between cattlemen and homesteaders. The county is sparsely settled, only about one-tenth of the claims having been taken, the cattlemen having fenced in nearly the entire county, causing many conflicts with the homesteaders in doing .so. There have been many serious coniiicts and several killings have occurred. A public meeting has been called to take some action to restore order. Nicaragua Will Comply. London, April 15. An answer to the British ultimatum to Nicaragua has been received at the foreign office. It is understood that the reply Is so satisfactory that the action which the government threatened to take will not now be taken.

STRIKES IN THE WAY.

DISTURBING FEATURE IS BUSINESS CONDITIONS. On the Whole Some; Improvement 1 .Shown, Although Progress la Slow Prices of .Staple Commodities Averagea Shade Higher than a Year Ago. New York, April 1.4. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Progress toward better business continues, but it is slow and meets many obstacles. In speculative aspects and in wholesale demand for goods the week shows improvement Money markets are undisturbed and a little more active. But among the chief obstacles is the anxiety of operatives to securebetter wages, even while many manufacturing works are running without profit and others at the risk of loss. In a number of establishments better wages have been conceded, thus Increasing the purchasing power of the people, but strikes have largely over balanced settlements, several of importance having thrown about 12,000' workers out of employment this week. Retail trade has improved on the whole I since March, as the approach of Easter brings more business, but distribution j to individual consumers still lags hehind purchases of jobbers and such demand for products as springs from building and other investments looking into the future. Crop prospects will greatly affect the course of trade for some months, and the government report had little influence to discourage. For consumers the worst feature is the rapid advance in mrsits. "For the first time In s long period prices of commodities average a shade higher than a year ago, and In Great Britain also, owing to different causes, a slight advance occurred In March. On both sides of the ocean the lowest level ever known may naturally be followed by some rise. Wheat has yielded nearly a cent, although Atlantic exports for two weeks have been 3,706,645 bushels, flour included, against 3.599.688 last 3'ear, with western receipts only 2.0SS.467, against 4,223,434 last year. "Receipts of corn are about half and exports about a fifth of last year's. Decrease in receipts of cattle are exaggerated, 659,406 having arrived at Chicago, against 789,543 to date last year, and the prevalent opinion is that Western packers are helping nature to some extent. "The output of pig iron April 1 was 158,132 tons weekly, practically the same as March 1, with a decrease of 1.0S0 tons in unsold stocksduring the month. Sales of wool are particularly interesting, amounting for the week to 6.030,200 pounds, and for five weeks previous to 25,621,200, against 25,277,676 in the same week of 1892. No improvement in prices appears, and domestic wool does not respond to recent advances in foreign -markets. The low price encouraged manufacturers to compete much more vigorously with the foreign goods of many klnd3 than they had expected, and for the medium and cheaper grades of goods they have more than the usual demand because purchases of consum-, ers have for two years been comparatively small. The better goods fare not so well, foreign competition being more , effective, but there is a good demand for dress goods. In cottons continued strength appears, with further occa- -. sional advances of a quarter and an eighth In print cloths, and the aggre- :- gate is fair. Many agents are sold well ahead. "Failures for the week were 207 in the United States, against 218 last year,' and 27 in Canada, against 34 last year." WYOMING OIL LANDS BOOM. Rise in the Price of the Product Causes the Advance In Values. '' Casper, Wyo., April 15. The rise In the Standard Oil company's product in the east caused an advance of two cents per gallon at the storage tanks here. Wyoming oil men are jubilant over the prospects of a rise in lubricating oil, which is pumped directly from the wells in these fields in a marketable condition. All of these oils are finding a ready market, and it is expected their prices will go up with the Standard's. To-day a sample run of illuminating oil was made, and it made a beautiful water white, fully up to the standard test. There is considerable activity in oil lands, and there are many inquiries from eastern capitalists. The Salt Creek producing wells now number five, with No. 6 nearly finished, and the piping and material now in transit to complete six more. JAMES W. SCOTT DEAD. Proprietor of the Chicago Times-Herald Expires In New Tork. w New York, April 15. James W. Scott, proprietor and publisher of the Chicago Times-Herald, died at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon In his room at the Holland house in Fifth avenue. Apoplexy was the cause of death, which was peaceful as unexpected. Mr. Scott arrived here Friday evening from Chicago, accompanied by Mrs. Scott, and a niece, Miss Grace Hatch, At that time Mr. Scott was apparently in the best of health. He had intended to pass a few days in this city and then to proceed to Cape May and subsequently to Virginia Beach, near Old Point Comfort, From there the Scotts were to proceed to Chicago. RUNAWAY CONVICTS CAUGHT. Mattewan Asylum Authorities Rnn Down McGnlre and O'Donnell. Mattewan. N. Y., April 15. Patrick McGuire and Michael O'Donnell, two of the five convicts, who escaped from the Mattewan asylum Wednesday night, were captured at Pine Plains yesterday by Attendant James Coyle, of the asylum. This leaves only Perry, for whose arrest a reward of $2,250 is offered, and Davis, who is said to be even more desperate andadring than Perry. When Superintendent Allison learned last night that Perry had broken into a house at Hughesonville Thursday night and stolen a quantity of wearing apparel he at once dispatched attendants to all important points north of here. Mother and Child Perish. Chattanooga, Tenn., April 15. Fire broke out last night in the residence of Mrs. Jennie McFarland and before the. department could respond the houss was destroyed and Mrs. McFarland ant her Infant child burned to death. T"a. mother had escaped from the buildh.ft, but returned to get the child and ished in the fire.