Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 July 1903 — Page 2

<Tljc 3ndepeniJcnt. . -A. Y, I*ii I>ll h)i or. WALKERTON. - - . INDIANA. AROUND THE WORLD At Jackson, Ky„ Monday. Judge Red wine impaneled the special grand jury to investigate the tend matters, appointing C. H. Bailey and the man who was foreman of the jury that indicted Jett and White to summon witnesses. The Ewen arson ease was first taken up. A storm of rain and hail swept Chicago, the hailstones being of unusual size and wounding many persons. A matt was killed by lightning and a girl was slain by a piano being blown over on her. Horses, frenzied by the icy fusillade, ran away and injured several persons. D. O. -Mills, a director of the Harriman railroad system and controlling owner of the Bellingham Bay and British Columbia Railroad, has formally ordered an extension of the Bellingham Bay across rhe Cascade mountains to Spokane. It wilj there connect with the Oregon Railroad and Navigation line, now running from the main line at Huntington to Spokane. which

full-speed -steam trial in Chinese waters. A. report of the trial received at the Navy Department from Rear Admiral Evans, commanding the Asiatic fleet, shows that the vessel, built to make 14% knots an hour, ran eight hours and five minuter ®t an average speed of 11.78 knots. The clubs in the National Dengue are standing thus: w - L - W. 1.. Pittsburg ...53 26 Brooklyn ....38 36 New Y0rk...46 29 Boston 30 44 Chicago 49 33 St. Louis 29 56 Cincinnati ...41 36 Philadelphia. .23 55 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 49 28 Detroit 36 3G Philadelphia.. 46 32 Chicago 34 40 Cleveland ...40 35 St. Louis 31 40 New Y’ork.. .36 35 Washington. ..25 51 A tidal wave of liquor prohibition is sweeping over Texas. One hundred and. thirty counties have voted total prohibition and fifty-nine others have partial prohibition that is, the country precincts are prohibition, and in the larger towns only, like Pallas and Fort, Worth, is the sale of liquor permitted. This leaves only fifty-seven counties in which Iniuor is sold unrestricted bv any subdivisional lines. Most of these are the sparsely settled border and panhandle counties. Fully four-fifths of the population of the State is living under the jurisdiction of the local option law. BREVrriES, Building trades tie-up in New York is broken, nearly 50.000 returning to work' Irish land bill passed its third reading m the House of Commons bv a vote of 317 to 20. Horse traders resisted arrest at Eddyville. lowa, and four persons were shot, one fatally. President Roosevelt, through Secretary a message of condolence to -Cardinal Rampolla. Japan is not satisfied with the nasur^^■mn’^TFfiWmTSaTgiven'tSieX uiteS State

regarding Manchuria. Cardinal Oreglia is in temporary control of the Roman Catholic Ohurch pending the election of a Pope. Ciudad Bolivar, the Venezuelan rebel stronghold, was captured by the government forces after a two days’ tight. Fire destroyed the New Britain opera house at New Britain, Conn., one of the best known theaters in the State. Loss $50,000. Prominent men in ail parts of the world express sorrow over the death of Pope Leo and pay high tributes to his character and work. Matthias Zimmerman shot and killed his w-ife with a rifle at Mosher, Ark., then turned the gun on himself, sending a bullet through his heart. King Edward and Queen Alexandra reached Dublin Tuesday and were given a splendid welcome by the cheering thousands in the streets. Employes at the government printing office at Washington threaten to strike because of the reinstatement of an objectionable assistant foreman. Edward Davis, for several years pastor of the Central Christian Church of Oakland, Cal., has forsaken the pulpit and entered upon a stage career. John Bohee, who was widely known as the “hairless man,” is dead in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He was the marvel of physicians,' who puzzled in vain to account for the entire absence of hair from his body. • By the capsizing of a sailboat in the -harbor at Everett, Wash., Miss Nina E. Solomon, a telephone operator: Miss Edna Warner, a school teacher, and P. G. Foster, an insurance man, were drowned. As the result of an automobile accident near Scbeneetady. N. Y., W. F. Steers and A. F. Knight have sustained serious injuries. Both men are well known in society circles and Mr. Knight is a well-known golfer.

in the finest legation in Lisbon. He Itrented the entire fir.-t floor of the manificent Palacio Foz. formerly the te.idence of Marquis De I oz. Mvin Lasswell. aged 17. is undoubtedlv the youngest railway general passenger and ticket agent in the wot Id. 1 home is at ('ampbell. Mo and he . b complete control of fifty miles of railway in Missouri and Arkansas. The Philippine scouts and rural conetabulary defeated 250 rebels in the greets of Albay, the capital of the Island of Albay. on Thur-Jay last, killing tit teen and wounding fifteen. Frank V. Laßountie, confidential clerk and bookkeeper for the law firm of M d- .. „r nofFutn is renorted a de-

son & Smith ot Buffalo, is n-pmu™ . , faulter for S3OOMBO or more, which he lost in real estate speculation. Ex-MarSbal James M. Rice of Lamar, Ma, was fatally idiot by Berl it is said the two men were mats toi the affections of a widow, ami quarreled. Rice was a prominent politician. J Negro convicts showed welts on their | backs to the Georgia prison commission as proof of the charges of cruelty mad< against wealthy planters owning prison campsDr. A. B- Storms has formally accepted the presidency of the lowa Stave College and will sever Ins connection with active church work in which he has been engaged for nineteen years. Mrs Sayles of New Orleans, who with j/ H Besse and Mrs. Besse, was mjtired at Providence, R. L, by the overturning of an automobile, has a chance Mr. B«™ '"‘".-1 injuries and M interior fraclwa of l Mkull and is thought to be fa-alb hurt.

eastern. Anna Rosemond Borchers, a Chicago teacher, is missing in Boston. Severe liquidation continues in Wall : street, though selling pressure is congest- , cd in a few issues. ■ W all street proposes to use all its influence in favor of a new financial law al j the fall session of Congress. I I oiice were called to New York hospital to quell tight between patients, who broke up furniture and made she room a wreck. । Absence of failures a! New York is taken as evidence that brokers had fortified themselves against shaking out in stock market. Judge Kirkpatrick at Trenton. N. J., appointed receiver for Southern Car and Foundry Company, with plants in Alabama and Tennessee. President Roosevelt has ordered the reinstatement of an assistant foreman the public printing office removed because expelled from labor union. George Wilson, an old resident of Rochester, N. Y.. wVho was pronounced dead, came to life, suddenly jumped up and swore at thp undertaker. Senator Plgft .of New Yot'k suggests his colleague Aldftdh as Republican candidate for V ce-Presidg^t, .and favors Chicago as next convention city?"/ - Mr.^and Mrs. C. "H. Sheldon, whose daughter Edith was recently married in London to Anthony Hope;Hawkins, returned to New^Aork on the Majestic.

I Because her husband, E. F^th Renkle I of Riga, near Rochester, N. Y., painted their home a bright red and trimmed it in sky blue his wife applied for a divorce. The final decree granting Mrs. Euith E. Bigelow an absolute divorce from Poultney Bigelow was signed in New Y’ork by Supreme Court Justice Giegerich. Rufus Young, considered the most accomplished horse thief in New England, died in Rutland. Yt.. of wounds received in a battle with a sheriff’s posse at Arlington. Dr. \\ alter I*. Kountz, convicted recently of killing John E. Walsh, i wealthy contractor, was sentenced at Pittsburg, Pa., tn five years in the penitentiary. he Mercantile Trust Company of New York has liegun suit at Trenton, N. J.. to foreclose $15,000,000 mortgage against the United States Shipbuilding Company. W arrants have been issued for the arrest of Park Densmore at Rochester. N. Y., on the charge of forgery and grand larceny. The police say the amount will r^fteh $25,000. buying of American Securities for European account is expected to relieve the situation in New York and give bankers funds for crop movement without coir; tracting loans. A federal judge at Brooklyn issued- a bench warrant for George W. Beavers, formerly chief of the division of salaries and allowances in the Postoffice Department. on an indictment charging bribery. John Bohee. who was widely known as the “hairless man,” is dead in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He was the marvel of physicians, who tried in vain to account for the absence of hair from his body. WESTERN. The Epwortii League convention next year will meet in Denver. t Baseball has- been tnadeuh eompnlsorv exercise for the Duluth police. The Chicago stock market continues

.wew iorK. The Epworth League convention at Detroit was pronounced the greatest in the history of the organization. One-sixth of the business portion of San Luis Obispo, Cal., has been burned out with a loss of over SIOO,OOO. The daughter of Maj. Gen. Young is engaged to Lieut. Hanney, now stationed at Fort Cop^ near Omahiw Neb. A. H. Krueger of Toledo, Ohio, a clerk in the postoffice, was killed by being run over in the street by an automobile. Archbishop Katzer of the Milwaukee diocese passed away at Fond du Lae. the end being painless and without incident. One man was killed and ninety persons injured, four probably fatally, in collision between electric cars near Ober- ’ lin, Ohio. McPhee & McGinnity’s paint, oil and glassware house at Denver burned. The loss is estimated at $200,000, covered by insurance. A mob attacked the jail at Basin City, Wyo., and killed two murderers and deputy county clerk, who was acting as one of the guards. In Chicago fifteen warrants were sworn out by StateJ?actory^lnspeetor E. T. Davies against violators of the new child labor law. The captain and fifteen sailors of the Mariette steamer I. Watson Stephenson had a desperate battle for life in a gale on Lake Michigan. The Colorado Legislature reconvened to pass a general appropriation bill, the one passed at the regular session having been declared illegal. Justice Brewer, in an address before the low's Bar Association, indorsed the policy of the injunction, and said he would extend its scope. Dora Wright was hanged at South McAlester, I. T., for the murder of Annie I Williams, a 7-year-old girl. She mounted I the scaffold without a tremor. A plan to draw electricity from clouds bv means of magnet and wires and store com vn-o’s Peak by a Chicagoan.

on rise S . .. , , Bishop Fallows, in a sermon to Uh - " Ldsmen in camp at Springfield, said trade unions make their greatest mistake in opposing Nationa Territory Sntedan'attempt to drag him from his horse. .. workMajor Willard, in reporting on woik ( lays i? is not likely to be finished tm th Four persons lost their lives in a fire ea*'^ ■iK. S' ^ cntecn miles WCBt of

Bryan, the principal speaker at 1 th e picnic of i'liib bitter v arraigned tonuer i CkilSta liis policy white ■" ' ecutive chair. , 1 * Gov. Davis and Supreme Judge Mood, a candidate for Governor almost fought a joint debate at Compton At. M struck at Gov. Davis and a fist fi B nt narrowly averted. , John McGrath, superintendent of U in front of a Baltimore and Gm and was instantly killed. Joseph Clark 1-^^ ^ea su rer bus Citv school board an ■ .. ’ head off with a rifle. Id heaitn financial trouble was the cans . a n ± 1 , , „ Patrick H. Sheehan and , i Two laborers, 1 atncx n. ‘ 1 John Peterson, were crushed to death

Portland, (Jm.. by -4i e falling of a mass of sand from a bank fifty feet high which they had struck with their picks. Attorney Clarence Darrow of Chicago was married Thursday to Miss Ruby llammerstrom of Galesburg, 111., at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Gregg, friends of the bride, at 5401 Indiana avenue. Gen. Nelson A. Miles rode ninety miles on horseback to prove he is still hale on the eve of his retirement at 64; journey made from Fort Sill. Okla., to Fort El Reno, between 5:10 a. m. and 2:20 p. m. Dr. A. C, Yengling, Grand Army department commander in Ohio, has inaugurated a movement to change the date <>f Memorial day from May 3<» to tt later •Lite, liecause of “desecration” by sporting. Seven Illinois towns wore struck by a cyclone Friday evening, and a numner of persons lost their lives, while scores afore were injured, many of whom will die. five vere killed at Streator and nearly .a -Score fatally injured. Four lost their lives at Mendota, while many were seriously hurt. A report was received also that eight persons were killed by a cyclone at Verona, while further loss of life is reported at Ransom, Pontiac and Kernan. SOUTHERN. Major EdwOfiS 'Hughes, the aged exchief of the Ixmlsville fire department, was killed by a trolley car. Ed. Claus, a negro, was lynched bv a mob near Eastman, Ga., while his vic-

} dm, Miss_Sji^ie_JohnHon t was looking-on. ] The New Orleans District Attorney, j J. Ward Gurley, was assassinated in his office by Clarence Lion, a liquor dealer. i Federal grand jury in Alabama reports ! the finding of ninety-nine true bills • against eighteen persons, charging peon- . age and conspiracy. Fire destroyed the Sabine Hotel and Natatorium at Port Arthur. Texas. The buildings are the property of the Port Arthur Town Site Company. The loss is SIOO,OOO, partly insured. ■ Flet.< her Tun Ur. a white man. in the lulled States Court ar Montgomery. Ala., pleaded guilty to the charge of holding in age Glenny Helms, a negro youth. Turner was fined SI,OOO. Morris B. Belknap of Louisville, a wholesale jncrchant widely known throughout the country, received the nomination for Governor on the first ballot on the second, day of the Republican State convention. A stranger appeared near Red Oak. Ky., and was recognized by Russell Ellis and Ernest Fox as Harvey Logan, the escaped train robber. The former procured weapons and attempted Logan’s amet. A battle ensued, but Logan wus too quick for them. Ellis was shot through the chest and Fox wounded in the head. Logan escaped, FOREIGN. James McNeil Wbis:k■r. foremost I American painter, died ip Chel-^a, England. The Venezuelan government has paid to the representatives of the allied powers the last installments of the indemnity as stipulated by the protocol. A message from Kishineff, Russia, J says that a gardener has confessed the , killing of the boy whose murder was blamed on the -lews and caused the mas- . sacres there. An uncle of the boy is said . to be implicated in the crime. Leo XI IL, the venerable pentifex max iinus of the Roman Catholic Church, de , parted this life at 4:04 Monday afternoon ; after a death struggle which lasted a day 1 .nrd an illness whose culmination he had i j LA ^rli t- for, J * il 11 j

At s. — tee of the Pilgrims’ Club in London a committee was appointed to give effect to the recent suggestion to erect a statue to George Washington in London. It was decided that the subscriptions should be entirely confined to British subjects. The Manchurian question has been । settled satisfactorily to this government, i ,Assurance^ have bpyi received from the whinese government that it w ill open as treaty ports several ports now closed to the world’s trade. The Russian government has conveyed formal assurance to the Lnited States that it will not oppose such opening in any way. According to the Press Association a curious rumor was ^urrent in the lobby of the House of Commons in London to the effect that some United States war ships had seized about twenty small islands off the coast of Borneo, which it is un^qr^tuo'i belong to Great Britain, and had planted the American flag on them. The allegation is denied in Washington. IN GENERAL. > f Postmaster General Payne is said to be on the' verge of collapse. Winnipeg industrial exhibition opened, many Americans attending in spite of unfavorable weather. Grains show declines for the week on disposition of cash grain men to await , new crop marketings. Walter Wellman says financiers retain j confidence in prosperity of general busi- , ness, despite slump in Wall street. . Nicola Tesla, electrician, claims as result of experiments that wireless photo- , graphs may be transmitted to any part ' of the world. Recent discoveries by Marconi are expected to simplify wireless telegraphy, and may render tall masts and suspende ed wires obsolete. 1 More immigrants arrived in the United States during the fiscal year ended $ June 30 than in any previous year. Italp ians head the list. I I >„„•< Review of Trade says business mtions are emto<u.«;,.-». H r and settlement, of labor deputes , ...

weatiivr am* bein" the main factors. The East and West are divided on * lof currency reform, former lavorlllet ShftW ’ S Plan 1 ~ Postmaster General Smith SXoS ' , f civil service commission says, women M Plum posi . i()ns la rge majoritTof'appointments being from men eh- ■ giblcs. , vhiph credits the Rockefeller

Rock Island, nas “ t railroad circles. » ‘ Maurice Kaufmaim. the Ar^ mi t linist ‘ to’ tour the United < Henry • winter beginning in an orStates next > • York city about . chestral conceit m - t1... MU i sentation at the 1 i a bill ad- | ^^When" it >s imported direct by the consumer. United States Senator Manon I. returned to from \t„ Geo, from a trip to the Monterey. - aulipas ., where he closed a StatC °t with the Bo?r generals, Joubert C nd O^Doimell for 100.000 acres of land ?o D used for colonization purpose, by t the Boers.

: DEATH RIDJS A STORM , i ■ a fatal blast! sweeps over s CENTRAL ILLINOIS. > , f—i Five Killed at Strtotor and Font nt Mendota —Nearly* Hundred Persons Meet with Seriots Injury — Fallinu Buildings Crush Out Lives. ■ A furious windsttrm, in some places taking on the chanicter of a cyclone, i swept over central Illinois about 6 o'clock Friday night, leaving death and destrue tion in its wake, b'iyje persons are known ■ to have been killed at Streator, four at Mendota and one at Campus, while many ’ were injured at eat h of there towns. . . There were unconfirmed reports in the early evening that lie town of Gardner j had been destroys 1 and many people killed. All wires leading to the town ‘ were down and no definite information could be secured. • The storm was general throughout Bu- ! •reau, McLean, Gdundy. La Salle and Kendall counties, Jmt the greatest drmi age was done at e points abe\e mentioned. Reports from \napolis and other cities in Indiana ir icate that the northwestern section of he State was visited early in the evenit r by a furious storm. Mauywcj-o report L killed. _ At Streator, HF., the tornado lulL-d'-firT’ perrons, injured fi ‘ty others and caused a property loss of sKjo.OtX). 'Die storm, xvhich came fron the southwest, was about one-quarter ’f 11 mile "ide and in Us path everythin wa* swept. This inctedes the Vulcan - Western works, the buildings being enl'Cted three years ago I at a cosx exceeding ' $150,000; the Stauber pants factory, wht lUO employes had left the building f ive minutes before it waa struck. The three-story building, with all its machim >r . v and stock on hand, amounting to SSO .000. is a total loss. 'llie Dickermann , I’chool house, baseball park and amphitl I tenter. Electric park, with all its buildr >K S - numerous private residences, Schurr uann’s big icehouses and stock therein —all are down. The splendid buildings the Streator Racing Association at •*! which would have been completed wi kin two or three days are a total xvrecJ t- This includes the amphitheater, jud» stand and the immense barns. It « as here that the greater number lost tl ie ’ r lives, all but one of the dead being face horse men. Niue trotting horses we r ‘‘ killed. West of town a couple of miles, in the dairy farm of A. L Daugherty, his wife and three children and 11 n > a « employed on the farm were «D dangerously hurt, the residency beit K blown to atoms. Damage and Penth Elsewhere. Emington ami Campus. two small towns on the Wa aisli Railroad, suffered severely from the storm. At Emington several houses w f, re utterly dem-dished and four people w “fe seriously if m-t fatally injunsl. At Campus one man was killed, while tv. others sustained in juries whidi may prove fatal. The cyclone was accomi ani'-d by a terrific rain storm, which wt s-hed out bridges, culverts and tbonsa xls of L et "f railroad track. Reports from these two towns are to the effect/ t l' e l° ss t 0 build ings and crops is 'ffy heavy. The tornad^i fruck the northwestern part of Mcnd»t HI., killing four p.r sons, seriously ’.ioriiig ten oth<-rs am! leveling hoire- 52£!" i and trees in in path. TJie Tfatt 11 ‘ h '’ st rn ; :i ' ir row nn/1 <lll miles in Tensm. 1^

^-members ot the B .is I refuge in tb« er'V ’ n j>:r<4. 1 .-y ’"k the storm and th on approach of A cvclone pns< house fell in. part of Bureau C 1 though the . rthern . farm buildings mg “""'.v. damaging crops. I deuce of Henry J residences. Ihe rem- ; of Sheffield, was Smi! '• / "n l ”’ north and his sister w wrecked ami Mr. Smith The storm origh ere J 1 ”' 11 ha<l, 7 passwl south of g ted ” Par Mineral ami lilts and bn th* i ^dtord and Man Moille. At the o , rUI outskirts of La small buildings v "“‘‘T l ,lace numerous A severe st. rr ere " reeked. em Indiana late ‘ TT 1 * ^'rough northme.nse damage to n! £h • d ung :m lives are reports and property, l ornmore injured nor ' a ” d a score or A terrific elect! :h of I-afnyette. ied over southwe ' ,e an ’ ra,n ^rm pa so hour Friday moi'l?™ I°™ at an early age to the crop ””*• *’<”"« «reat damjust readv for t ,f s ™ a " gra ‘ n " hlch 1S । barns and other 1 ”; ^ arveR t- Numerous bv lightning and . ™r ■ struck : life is reported. ^troyed. No loss of , Secretary Asse Short * s There M ill Be a i je of Corn, Secretary \\ ils , , . ed to Washington” who lias ed Ohio. Indiana a that . sota and South- I°™. Mmne- ■ the farming cotP^'. sald "In e good ami some o dl ? ons a ^ generally . yield, the corn C the a . ; -The abnormW ^ort. r ' said, -has retart 11 *' ™ol weather. he the corn crop. ‘ ° high waters the ons; tlle " lld ■ . ed: and on the lu^P has I”* 1 , 1 d » ' saturated the cof el la n< lß that ,)a ™ D’en best corn is alof ”' IH » ot nia ’. l ’ r, ‘- rbt 1 but even there f tllc dr -V rolling lands. . , vented the crof'% copl ReasoH has I’ re - 1 should be at tldj.l™™ beln K wl,i,t 11 ' average cm? T lrtie - We may have an i ture is fgvorablef* ™ather in the fus it is hard to sa 4 ” 11 ls K contmues cold I ■The grass cr to at extent the^e

many years. . ored the grow tP will be the finest for ley, and that cool weather hae favwheat crop* of oats, wheat and barlook for the ass of products. The been paying nerally good. The -outaroni. We ar. ner is good. IVe have macaroni this", 10,000 annually for mac- — growing all of our own Told it sr.”

On account of- - given up th< ta Lines, reunion. It wil flood damage Lawrence i ns on. ^Kansas State G. A. R. President Stry { probably go to II utchE j announces# that t tions to the col :e. of Hamilton College. I Andrew Carnegi niong the recent donaXt the request wa-s SIOO,OOO from

State Departnie the Argentine I' of Secretary Wilson, the mouth disease i it has officially informed States. epublic that no foot and George‘Morr. exists in the United lived at Splitlog in Kansas City son, 45 years old, who ond story window avenue and James street, his neck. Deatl Kan., fell from a secSt. Louis wor ,v at his home and broke pended over i resulted imcantly. tracts for work d s fair officials have exgattf up to $lO. 00,000, and have let center sum has bee hat will bring the aggreappropriation w 900,000. When the latThe annual c ‘ spent the congressional mother church 1> * hen become available, denomination, t ommunion service of the tian Scientists, of the Christian Science ’ .Hall in Boston, ie first church of Chrisi nations aggrega; was held in Mechanics’ I Mass., Uie three congremg over 15,000 persona

CHINA TO OPEN PORTS. Russia Will Not Oppose, aud Mancha- 1 rian Question Is Settled. The Manchurian question has been settled satisfactorily to this government. । Assurances have been received in Washington from the Chinese government that it will open as treaty ports several ports 1 now closed to the world’s trade. The Russian government has conveyed formal assurance to the United States that it will not oppose such opening in any way. Although the ports to be opened are not specified, it is inferred from the communications received that they are Moukdon, the principal inland port of Manchuria, and Ta Tting Kao, at the mouth of the Yalu river. The State Department is highly gratified over this outcome, feeling that it has secured not only for American commerce but for the commerce of the world at large a substantial gain. It develops that the meeting of Russian officials at Port Arthur was one of ! the steps, and an important one. which ! the St. Petersburg government had plan- ; ned in execution of its purpose to place j matters of internal administration in , Manchuria in such condition that the । ports desired by the United States and Japan could be opened to trade without causing disturbance or undue sacrifice of Russian interests. It already had been presented that much of the friction over the Manchurian question was caused by a triple, yet independent, administration of affairs in Manchuria by representatives of the different branches of the Russian government. The result was that one official would not feel bound by the pledges made by another, so that foreign nations complhissA r of bad faith. It is understood that now, following the Port Ar- | thur conference, a compact and responi sible direction of affairs has been arrang- ■ ed, and orders from St. Petersburg are j certain to meet with quiet and exact com- [ pli mce. Although no time is mentioned in the promise to open the imrts. it is believes! that this will follow soon after the Rus- | si«n evacuation in September. KNAPP DOOMED TO DIE. Self-Confessed Slayer of Women Convicted of Murder. Death in the electric chair awaits Alfred A. Knapp, the murderer of women, who Thursday was found guilty at Hamilton, Ohio, of killing one of his wives, Hannah Goddard. The self-confessed slayer of at least five victims, all of whom he choked to death, accepted the verdict with indifference, and the opinion that he is is-.ane has not bt-en changed, I his attitude snd the testimony of his relatives at the trial showing that his life from childhood has been that of an unbalanced criminal. This verdict ends one of the strangest criminal cases in the United States, rivaling that of IL H. Holmes. The jury stood ten for cmvietion without mercy , I and two for conviction with mercy, the I twelve men being unanimous on the man's guilt. । Feb. 25 Knapp was arrested, and the following day he added a sensational chapter to criminal history and placed ! himself in ft class with IL IL Holmes when he confessed five murders. Among I his victims was Ida Gebhard, the West 4 ; Indianapolis girl found dead in a stable July 3. 1895. Knapp served five prison terms, two i nt Jeffersonville. Ind., one at Columbus. Ohio, for an attack on a Cincinnati school I teacher; one at Joliet for larceny in Chi- , eag>, and one at Michigan City. Ind., L r an attack on a 13-year-old Indianapul— Hirt. The generally accepted police

opinion is fhnt Knapp is a degenerate, ; prompted by an insane frenzy for crime ! against women and children. For years he had been a strangler. | pouncing upon children and choking them j to death. Insanity was the only defense made hy his parents and sisters, as well i as by his attorneys. Knapp’s first wife was Emma Stubbs of Fort Wayne. She secured a divorce, i Knapp's fourth and surviving wife lives at Indianapolis, where he was arrested last February. WHEAT YIELD IS LESS. Ihrashinc Returns in Several Western States Encanraging. Reports from editors of leading coun- ■ try newspapers covering the greater part J of the winter wheat belt in the States of Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Ne- ■ braska, received in answer to special I inquiries addressed to them by the Chicago Evening I’ost, give the gratifying assurance that as far as the quality is । concerned, this year’s wheat crop will ! be much superior to that of the year be- i fore. As regards the quantity of the season’s production, there is less reason for congratulation. Returns from Kansas vary as to the yield, and some echoes • from the springtime floods are heard. The general result for the State, as far as covered by these reports, is a fair crop of good wheat. Nebraska and Okla- i homa likewise indicate considerable va- ‘ riation in yield, but in general a fair re- ‘ turn, and better than that of the previous harvest. From Missouri comes one unvarying complaint of greatly reduced yield per acre as against the great crop raised in that State in 1902. Last year the Mis- ; souri wheat crop was the largest ever I raised, and compared with that phenom- | enal season this year's may by comparison look to the farmers like a famine, but as compared with an average harvest for that State it does not seem so bad. Brief News Items. Pier H of the Lehigh Railroad, New i Y u rk - ■— •■•.-I '•

This is awful. Marie Corelli. New X ork, says men are worse companions ! than dogs. . Cowboy “Red” Cutcheon. Culbertso: , Mont., will marry Miss Edith O’Mara, who reformed him. Skeletons found in excavations at Newgate prison. Ixmdon, will result in an I official investigation. Mrs. Samuel Sloan Chauncey, formerly of Richmond. Ind., cakewalked before King Edward. He enjoyed it. A New- York woman has refused aid. saying that she and her child can live on S 4 a week. She's a dishwasher. Millionaire G. M. King. Augusta. Me., married Miss Elizabeth E. Glidden, an i

1 j operator in a manicuring establishment. * ■ Control of the Central stock yards at i - i Louisville. Ky., has been purchased by Samuel W. Allerton of Chicago. The J ! consideration was not made public. I The annual convention of the International League of Press Clubs ended at ’ ' Atlantic City after the selection of Salt ■ Lake City as the next place of meeting. , I Mine operators in Missouri, Kansas, i Oklahoma and Indian Territory have or- . । ganized under the name of the South- ! western Interstate Operators’ Associa- ! tion. The association will stand for of- ! sense or defense. I I The XVar Department has telegraphed to Gen. Grant, commanding the depar* ! ment of Texas, asking information con- ! cerning Lieut. Max Sulnon, Twelfth cavalry, who some time ago was granted five days’ leave of absence, but has not returned to his station. Ilis record is clear and it is fear’d some disaster has occurred to him.

CONDITION OF THE CROPS. No Unfavorable Effects from tbe Cool Weather z\re Apparent. The weather bureau's weekly summary i »f crop conditions is as follow-. “While the lemper i’iire in the central valley-, the lake region m I the AUannc const districts has averaged < msiderablj ; below normal, no unfavorable effects | from cool weather are app irent from the I report .. except in portion- of the middh am! south Atlanlie States, where growth was cheeked to some extent Tbe need of rain continues in portion- .if the lower Ohio and central Missis ippi valleys. North. Dakota, northern Minnesota and western Texas, and is beginning to Isfelt in the central gulf States. Oklahoma, southwestern Kansas and portions of the : Carolinas. Local storms, in places accompanied by hail, proved damaging in the upper Missouri, upper Mi sissipp: and Ohio valleys and the lake region. Conditions on the I’acifie coast were favorable, although light frosts caused slight damage in Washington during the early part of the week. ’■<'oni has made favorable advance meat in all dts.ricts, but in the principst corn States it is variable as to size and condition, being generally small, especially in the central and eastern districts of the belt. As a result the crop is in a good state of cultivation except in the upper Ohio valley and middle Atlantic States. In portions of Indiana, Missouri, southwestern Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas corn is in need of rain to a greater or less extent. High xvinds flattened considerable corn in the lake region on the 17th and 18th. “Winter wheat harvesting is practically completed, except in a few of the more northerly States. Weather conditions have been favorable for threshing, which

is in progress, the yields continuing light. “Reports respecting spring wheat are ' not favorable. The late sown in the Red River valley in Mimiesota is believed to be beyond recovery, while heavy rains ' have kept the lowlands in the southern I | portion of the State flooded and have I ■ caused lodging in the uplands. Rains in the southeastern and ex:rente northeast- : I ern portions of North Dakota have imI proved the crop and in South Dakota | spring whe.it is filling well, but in southI eastern port ion and in lowa it is un- I ■ favorably affected by rust. In Wisconsin I a ml' Nebraska and on the North Pacific <-o:ist more favorable reports are reeeived. ■'Much ms: in ortts is reported from the States, of the Ohio and upper Mississippi valley- and lake region, and upon the whole the condition of the crop :- below recent anticipations. Harvest- ' ing is in progress. ■ “Further improvement in the condi- , tion >f cotton is general throughout the j cotton Iwlt. although it is grassy over a large part of the eastern districts. Cool nights were somewhat detrimental in the , Carolinas, ami need of rain is beginning to be felt in Oklahoma. While rapid growth is ri-p. rted from nearly till dis- . triet-. the crop continues late, and ir is ' well cultivated ill the central and west- j >1 ern districts. Bol] weevil are reported 1 as doing little damage in Texas. 1 : "Haying has continued under favora- । * Ide condition- in the lower Missouri and . upper Mississippi valleys and the lake t regiop, where .-in excellent crop is being e < secured. In the Ohio valley and middle I Atlantic States the yield is better than 5 ' expected.” Chicagoan’w Wheat Estimate. ‘ After a tour of the wheat producing States of the central West and South. H. S. Kennedy of Chicago, secretary of the National Millers' Federation, said •' e avcratre

.....—— —mni-M L - I milling quality. Mr. KenmMy perhaps । is in closer touch with exact crop condii lions than any other man in the United 1 ' States. His estimates are as follows: Texas-—-Gms] crop, 18,000.000 bmJiels. Oklahoma—Fine crop, 30.000,000 bush- ! els. Kansas—Excellent crop, 90.000.000 i bushels. Indian Territory—A new wheat country. 10.000.000 bushels. Southern Illinois. Indiana and Ken- ' tucky and Tennessee—Half a crop. Ohio —Fair crop. Boston cigarette makers have organ- | ized. Bricklayers' International Union has a • membership of over 80.000. Few people realize that the trade , I unions are among the greatest temper- : mice • rganizations on earth. Boston's Central Labor Union has indorsed demands of llie ’longshoremen's | union which call for a ten-hour day ami sll a week. The call has been issued for the gen- : oral convention . f the Brotherhood of electrical workers, which will mt et in Salt Lake City, beginning Sept. 14. Armour Insiitute of Technology. Uhii cago, has instituted a four years' course i in fire protection engineering, leading to i 1 the degree of bachelor of science. The school teachers of Santa Clara : County. Cal., have organized a union with jurisdiction over all schools outside of the city of San Jo e, where a similar union already exists. The Connecticut State board of mediation and arbitration has been organized. J. Hlirmirt - Wfe..

; ' " "• * * b M mu* MI ■ Hartford. Hiram IL Fox of New Ha- | ven and Josiah 11. Hubbard of Middle- | town. In a few weeks' time the Gorman Emi peror wilt open the only suspended elec- : trie railway to be found in the whole > world. It has be n built between Barmen, Elberfeld and Vohwinkel. and for part of the way in runs over the River Wupper ami for part through the-e three busy towns. The Employers' Association of Kansas < ity has started a movement to have al! city ordinances in favor of union labor repealed. One of the laws objectionable ; to the employers i- that requiring the । union label to be placed on printed matj ter paid for by , h- city and the letting of ; printing contracts only to firms employing i union labor ex> !n<:ve]y. The emji'oyers : also want rhe esgbt-hmir law new enforced by the city administration repealed, । as also th • law requiring engineers to pass :m examination before a board composed of unioii men before thev can receive a license. I ri, mis < t I'nomas J. Dnfft put his name forth ;:s the younge.-t national president of a lala r union. <■ . v weeks ago there w. s published an ar >im' of the supposed yoimgest pr sid.-nt -ayinv he was 27 years old. Mr. Duffy, a resident of East Livei-pool. Ohio, and well known in labor eindes of Pittsburg, was 26 years old when elected national president of the Brotherhood of Operative Potters of the United States. He was morn May 13. 1877. and installed president May I.J. l!«l3. on the twenty-sixth anniversary of his birthday. It was a birthday present no other man of Ins a g.. ever received.

W^SCIAL tRNAfgIAL"' ” ~ ' I “Conditions continue satNev York. -n-ide th- region ] L——— Jof specnlauon. many reI ports indicating further improvemeut. During recent months the two disturbing factors have been labor controversies ami i weather conditions, but each week has brought better thing- in these two respects until tbe outlook contains much that is encouraging. Crops ar- making • rapid progres-. and the army of ememploytsl is diminishing.” according 'o R. G. Dim A Co.'s Wi-eklx R-view of Trade. Continuing, the report says: Railway traffic is heavy, earaiac- thus far reported for July exceeding ,st year's by 13. G per cent and thus- of 1901 by 19.2 per cent. Retail trade in sea- ! tonable merchandise is fully up o the | average, and there is less than th- <-ns--1 : tomary midsummer quiet among whole- ■ ! salers, while rhe preparations of jobbers ' j and manufacturers indicate confide me in a large fall business. ■ J Unsettled conditions still exist in forge 1 i and foundry pig iron markets, while Be - ’ ; semer iron is only barely steady. The chief difficulty appears to be the inclinaI tion of prospective purchasers to wait for the lowest possible quotations. This is -a condition to be expected in a d-CbZ^g * market, but appears unusually aggruvat- > ing in the present instance. Current con-

sumption is heavy, and tlfe delay is only in connection xvith distant deliveries. Structural steel begins to reflect the settlement of labor troubles in tim building trades, but several important undertakings have been postponed until next year, two large buildings at Pittsburg being conspicmms examples. Mer-hant steel and pipe are in better demand, several large contracts being tinder negotiation. Steel rail- are sold well into 19<>4. and other railway equipment is -til! me of the best features in the industry. Southern iron furnaces and stee! mill- are affected adversely by the coal miners' strike, although there is a belief that settlement will not long be delayed. It is a season of uncertainty in the manufacture of cotton goods, ami nothing in the nature of improvement can i»e expected until the artificial position of the i raw material is radically altered- Supplies of cotton goods in first hands are low. and there is no effort to make spot । sales. Buyers fill their requiremen -for immeiliate distribution, but in m> department of this great industry is there any inclination to anticipate needs of even the near future. As supplies din::ni-h there is a corresponding stiffening of quotation*. Mills are steadily curtailing production both here and abroad. New lightweight woolens are being opened, with fair results only, buyers exhibiting no anxiety regarding the future. SiJ^s are firm owing to curtailed production and the high prices commanded by the raw material. Western joblmrs are operating freely in the Boston footwear i market, both on contracts for spring ! goods ami supplementary fall orders. Eastern wholesalers are also purchasing additional fail supplies, and New England factories are fully occupied. Failures this week were 213 in tae Unitetl States, against 213 last year, and 16 in Canada, compared with 20 a year ! ago. Bradstreet’s Trade Review.

'saTien^fearure^Ti!^ ; this week are the better tone of trade ad- | vices from the Southwest, where the feeling grows that a large business " ' done. Hides and leather are rather weaker at the East, but eastern shoe shipments are far in excess of last year : for the week and season. Wheat, including flour, exports for the i week ending July 16 aggregate 3.»>52.<»4 bushels, against 2.380.410 last week. 3.775.222 this week las: year. 5.221.880 in 1901 and 3.029.381 in 1900. F ~ two weeks of the cereal year they aggregate 6.033,194 bushels, against 8.179.337 in 1!»2. 10.238.029 in 1901 and 5.859A91 in I‘hmi. Corn exports for the week aggregate 1.402.404 bushels, against 1.525.084 last week. 130.679 a year ago. 1.714.081 in 1901 and 4.182.159 in 1900. For two weeks of the present cereal year they aggregate 2.927.488 bushels. agai:;s- 315,810 in 1902. 4.514.819 in 1901 :1 8.204,227 in 1900. f hicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.00 to $5.25; _ ■ ..i .. - s $4.50 to .8'5.811; siieep. fair ’o ch". $.3.00 to $4.25: wheat. No. 2 red, 75.- t 7*'w; curii. No. 2. 48e to 49c; oats. No. 2. 37c to 3S<-; rye. No. 2. 49<- to sO< : .. <>thy. ss.so to $15.00; prairi . s<.<>o ■ $13.00; butter, choice creamery. I s - . 19c; eggs, fresh. 12<- to 14c; po g -s. ! new. 45c to 55c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. >s.o<i to $5.25; hogs, choice light. s4.<»o - 85.85; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 ■ s :.5o; wheat. No. 2. 74c to 75c; • rn. X 2 white. 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2 wi. -» . 4Oe to 41c. St. 1. mis—< ’nr . $4.50 85 25 $4.50 to $5.80; sheep. $3.00 $4.00; wheat. No. 2. 75c t’. 70 ; e,,r:i. No. 2.

No. 2. 4fk to 5; ie. Cincinnati—Cattle. $4.25 to sac, 5; hogs. S4JMi to $5.55: sheep. $5. <u ; , $3.60; wheat. No. 2. 77'- to 7's. • >m. No. 2 mixed. 49c to s<». ; mixed. to 4<» ; rye. No. 2. s<'. 57c. Detroit—battle. $3.50 to ssjr< aogs. s|.lM> to S6.4<i; -G-ep. $2.59 to 53.75: wheat. No. 2. 76c to 77c; corn. No. ■’ tv, 32c to 53c: ats. No. 3 • 3Sc to 3!>c: rye. No. 2. 7»2- o> 53-Milwaukee—-Whetff. No. 2 no- jern. si’h- to S7c; corn. No. 3. 50,- to 51 oats. No. 2 white. 3S- to 3!h-; rye. No ■ ',\- to 52--: barle?. N 2. s!c to 6 m -ss. $14.15. I’tdcdo—Wheat. N". 2 mix» ,I. 77 - 7 S ><-; corn. No. 2 m \,d. 5b- , 52No. 2 mixed. 3!»<- t -■ 1 N 2. 52e to 33c: clover prime. $5.63 Buffalo—•'at' ". ■ ’i< ■ shipping ■ ■ r-_ $!.50 :o S3.in; hogs, fair to j;rn:,e. S4.ih> to s*>.<Hl. sh' • > raoieo. SI.OI • , ss.<i:i: iambs, common to choice. St ,i-i :-7.<M>. New York—<'attic. s4.in to 55.7 n; hogs. S4.<hi to sho,.p. s;; $3.75: wheat. N . 2 -J, so -, sNo. 2. ooc to o'l- ; oat-. N 2 41e to 42c; butter, creamery. IS ■ ■ • eggs, ws e.-n. 15 - to is . The preliminary report of d;e •• • •ial examiner on the hooks and a,-.- :rrs of former <'ity <'lerk D. <'. We, .im! - f •Tipple Creekl <'oio_. says accrued to the city which may r 7. >‘25,- • M M). J. (' St. John, preside::: of th- .<>- rado Springs. Colo.. • ity C ritic;. •- 'ed on a charge of having accept ••! .i r ailroad pass as a bribe, was aca