Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 August 1903 — Page 2

Jn&epeniient. w. A, ULKY, Publisher. WALKERTON. . ■ ■ INDIANA, EVENTS OF THE WEEK Ihe north-bound Missouri. Kansas and I "° miics iw>rth Os Schell ( ity. Mo., and twenty passengers were injured. The postal car the combination ma il ear and a ehair ear were splintered and three others were derailed. A lovers’ quarrel over Florence Maek^v, an Indian girl at the Cree camp i Cree Loin and the serious injury of two other members of the band. Arqffit/ a -Mexican half-breed, is supposed to have done the shooting. He escaped. £ Lizzie Aiken, a negro woman, 40 years 12 rT committed to jail at Columbia, jo' C. tor beheading her two daughters, ^3 and o years old. The heads were sevsavht -1 11 ? n “ a " adm,ttvd the crime, sa^ng she had received a message from God ordering it. 1 A bride of four months, Mrs. Edgar ' £ h^r a h \ 19 yeaFs ’ dead ’ ' eJerk of Lancia- ; ~ter. Pa. ’Wfnrtz vs , of morphine which he swallowed after tiring two bullets into his wife. Frantz

left a note in which he said they had agreed to die together. Policeman Charles Vodeman of Brooklyn was shot and probably fatally wounded by Vincent Thomas, a safe expert, in a quarrel at Coney Island, N. Y. The shooting caused much excitement in the crowds about the resort and a mob chased Ihomas. He was captured by the police and landed safely at the station. Fifty prisoners in the county jail at Carthage, Mo., mutinied at midnight and made a demand for better food. The tire department was called out and turned a stream of water on the prisoners, who, after turning the lights out in the corridors, hurled empty bottles at the firemen and jail officials. The prisoners were finally subdued. Pauline Stowe was shot by her husband, Kent Stowe, aged 24. in their home on fashionable Richmond avenue. Buffalo, N. Y., and almost instantly killed. He then turned the revolver on himself and shot himself through the mouth. The Stowes are young married people in good circumstances and no reason has yet been discovered for the double tragedy’ Mrs. .John Webster (Nellie McHenry) has discovered securities amounting in value to about SSO,(MH) which had belonged to her late husband and herself and which were supposed to have been lost. These securities were found, it is said, in the vaults of two safe deposit companies in New York and now are in the possession of the theatrical manager’s widow, The Omaha police are looking for Bordsall Ayres, aged 12 years, of chieago, who has disappeared from Florence, a suburb of Omaha, where he had been for several weeks visiting an aunt Several days ago the father of voting Ayres came from Chicago to accompany the boy home and when he arrived at Florence he found that his son and another boy had run away. * i The clubs in the National League are standing thus: w - L. w. L.

32 Brooklyn ..44 48 II ’”77. .38 50 Chicago .58 40 St. Louis 35 62 Cincinnati .. .51 45 Philadelphia. .31-61 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 60 34 Detroit ..... .40 44 Philadelphia..s4 41 St. Louis 42 4!) New Y0rk...47 41 Chicago 42 51 Cleveland ...49 45 Washington.. .29 04 NEWS NUGGETS. Postmaster Albert Ennis at Reams Station, Va.. shot and killed a negro who was trying to rob the office. In an explosion in a canning factory at Rutland. Ohio. John Mutchler, Said Mar and Dele Rawlins were killed and a dozen others injured. The police have learned of the disappearance of the night clerk at a Chelsea hotel and SIO,OOO with him. Chelsea is a suburb of Atlantic City, N. J. A belated blast in the Homestead mine at Lead, S. D., caused the death of Charles Beretti and the serious injury of Louis Barlatti and Louis Dettrick. Twenty men were killed by the explosion of an English boiler in the Santa Rita cotton factory in Canete, Peru. The factory was insured in native companies. Charles Loeffler. nephew of Mrs. Charles Fair, who, with her husband, was killed in France, has been seriously hurt in a runaway pear his New Jersey home. He probably will recover. The packing house of the Dupont powder mills at Carney's Point. Del., blew up. No one was injured, as there were no employes there at the time. The loss is trifling. The cause of 'the explosion is unknown. John D. Rockefeller has joined with Charles Sweeney in organizing a merger of tiie Coeur d'Alene lead mines. The concern will have a capital of $30,090.000. ami will engage in the smelting of ores as well as mining.

• A tornado- struck the town of Salt Fork, thirty miles southwest of Blackwell. <lk la.. nnd_ eomplejtely- demolished tTm town, though no one was killed and but one person. a section boss on the ’Frisco Road, seriously injured. W. S. Stone of Elden. lowa, division. No. 131. has been elected to fill the unexpired term as grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. made vacant by the deaths of I’. M. Arthur and A. B. Youngson. Because he married the divorced wife of a brother clergyman. Rev. (Jeorge F. Ketteli, assistant rector of Christ Church, one of the fashionable Episcopal churches of Baltimore. Md., has been forced to resign from his position and will be deposed from the priesthood. Building operations in Chicago are paralyzed because of contractors’ pools and tlie heavy cost of labor and material. The Union League has abandoned its plans to erect a new club house, and other persons who had proposed to erect buildings have decided to wait for more auspicious conditions. George A. I’atterson of Detroit, who traveled for George W. Lane A Co., tea importers of New York City, was found •lead in his room at the Southern Hotel in St. Louis. IL- was -itting in a chair, fully dressed. .H>parently not having retired. Uis death is attributed to heart failure. In a running tight with car thieves in the Illinois Central Railroad yards in Chicago Matthew McGrath, first assistant to Special Agent Patrick O'Keefe of rhe secret service force of the railroad company, was shot ami instantly killed, and Daniel O’Brien, also a detective employed by the company, was shot four times and seriously wounded.

eastern. . A Ne ^ ark . N - J - physician believes - he has discovered away to exterminate mosquitoes with an X-ray machine. New York financiers are shocked bv a . new book by a former secretary- of Car- • negie s, throwing new light on methods and successes of the ironmaster. Alter rescuing his mother from drowning in the surf at Coney Island Frank - asters, an expert swimmer from Brook-

jn, lost his life in the undertow. Four young men were drowned off the coast ot Maine by leaping from a gasoil e aunch which had caught fire. Two others were badly burned, but rescued. Nine people were killed and probably - more or. less seriously injured, a score perhaps fatally, by the collapse of a rotten balcony at the Philadelphia baseball park. game came t 0 an end J „ Harbor, Me., with detection of ttePt tr -ving to raid coast, hv defen ders being made possible by use of wireless telegraph. Conrad Schroeder, one of the wealthiest contractors and builders in northeastern I ennsyKania. shot himself in the sXm! J eranton and died almost iny. He was rated as a millionaire. Jessie Hart a pretty young domestic V’ reeeived «o rd the other day from Seattle, Wash., that her uncle. rVV es , ^“'Hey, a mine owner, had lier his entire fortune of •¥’*»Wv,vUv. Columbia has been in existence at Brooklyn navy"

, yard for several days, because Chief Carpenter s Mate Isaac Miller, negro, insists on dining with petty officers; Washington - officials may interfere. Hie Boston and Chicago special was 1 wrecked at Charlton, Mass., depot in a collision with an east-bound freight. Both engines were wrecked and two cars of tke express derailed. The damage is estimated at over $30,000. A $5,000,000 failure startled Wall street. The firm that failed is Sharp & Bryan of 25 Broad street. The cause is directly attributable to the sudden and extreme shrinkage in the market value of the securities of the firm. A certificate of incorporation of th* Pittsburg Union stock yards has been filed in Jersey City. The company was organized for the purpose of buying', selling. slaughtering and packing live stock. The capital stock is SIOO,OOO. Keeper James H. Gunderman was shot at the New York State reformatory in Elmira by a convict named Moore, whom he had threatened to report for violation of the rules. One bullet wen' through Gunderman’s shoulder. WESTERN. The department store of Fred Blube at Refield, S. D., was gutted by fire, entailing a loss of $50,000, partly covered by insurance. John C. Weller, foreman in the cornice factory of E. A. Rysdon & Co. in Chicago, killed a union cornieemaker when attacked by four men. The plant of the Little Rock Mil] and Elevator Company at Little Rock. Ark., burned. The loss is between $75,000 and SIOO,OOO, with insurance about $40,000. The main building of the American school Furniture Company at Piqua O 1 r™™ StrOyed by fire ’ ca « si n« a loss of ■ soo.ooo, partially covered by ihsurance. Albert Seavis, colored, and Frank 1 Case, escaped Folsom convicts, have been 1 captured near Davisville, Cal. This ’ leaves nine of the thirteen fugitivCs^llll ' at Jarge-

circus collided in tliebrand Trunk yards at Durand, Mich. Twenty-one men were - killed, several others may die and many s were injured. William Hamilton, who murdered 13- 1 year-old Mabel Richards of Asotin Conn- 1 ty. Wash., was hanged by a mob. The 1 jail at Asotin was stormed after Hamil- 1 ton had confessed. Several spirited boxing bouts for points exclusively were the feature of a lawn entertainment given by members of All Saints’ parish on the church grounds at 63d street and Maple avenue, St. Louis. County Clerk C. P. Sakn, campaign manager for Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, announces that Mayor Johnson has consented to permit his name to be presented for the gubernatorial nomination. By the collision of electric cars on the Cincinnati and Eastern Interurban line between Mount Washington and Bethel. Ohio, two crowded ears were badly damaged and sixteen persons hurt, four very seriously. The dismembered and headless trunk of a human body lias been found floating in the Mississippi river near the dam of the St. Paul Boom Company. It has been in the water so long that it was impossible to identify it. Ordered on a march of 150 miles two weeks ago. thirty-live of the 240 artillerymen sent to Camp Douglas, Wis„ have deserted, according to reports received at Fort Sheridan. The Eleventh and Twen-ty-fourth batteries were sent. Albert W. Diebel. teller of the City National Bank at Canton. Ohio, who is accused of embezzling $22,000, pieaded not guilty before United States Commis- ’ sioner R. 1. Gilmer and was held to the District Court under $20,000. At Lawrence, Ivan., the north bank of the new channel of the Kansas river is constantly giving way to the force of the ' current, and the port of North Lawrence j- next to the river is going in the stream at the rate of twenty-five feet a day. A fire caused by an explosion of a can • _ £ . •. i. .. . in i 11t<411 q Ti i 1 Hol-

of pitch resulted in several thousand dollars’ damage to. the .pt;eau„Cify ink works in Cincinnati. William Miller. Harry Oberding and Joseph Warbes, all employes of the plant, were seriously injured. Little Ted Kendall, who disappeared from the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kendall, in Indianapolis, and for whom diligent search was made by neighbors ami the entire police force, was found dead m a cistern a few doors from the Kendall home. Fire partially destroyed the Perry block in Fort Scott, Kan., causing a loss estimated at $70,000. The principal losers: W. J. Calhoun & Co., dry goods, $25,000: C. H, Harbison, building, $20.000: Masonic lodge. $7,000. Losses are well covered by insurance. Suit has been commenced by stockholders of the Standard Motive Power Company of Canal Dover, Ohio, to put the company in tin- hands of a receiver. ’The company is capitalized at $10,000,000 and the action is owing to alleged misrepresentation by Manager Blake. President Roosevelt in a letter to Gov. Durbin of Indiana says lynching, which is a form of anarchy. is growing at an alarming rate and threatens the very existence of the republic. He suggests speedy trial and punishment of criminals as a remedy for mob violence. The stockholders of the First Natioua and the Coal and Iron National banks ol Cleveland, at a joint meeting ratified th* 1 proposed consolidation of the two con ' cerns. The capitalization of the com J billed banks will be $1,000,000 and thi reorganized bank will be known as tin ’ First National. Carl W. Von Riehtofen, a partner it a bird store in Omaha, is missing and h

is JeffeW fir hav^ been robbed of $« 00(1 ] and killed. Ihe other day he received the, money by express from an estate left hub in Germany. He did not return homa as usual that night and has not been heard from since. The first practical test overland of the I e I’ orest wireless telegraph system was made at Cleveland. Signals were received from Buffalo, a distance of ISO miles direct, three-fourths of this distance be-

- jng overland. It is claimed ‘this i 8 a longer distance overland than message > have heretofore been sent. Surgeons at the city hospital in St ’mT „ h - art ° f Alo,a " V - V ? r '° ld girI ’ who had stabbed by her aged lover, Thomas Barnes, hud it on her breast, examined This " h ” nlnjnred and replaced it. his is he eleventh operation of the Kind m the annals of surgery. One of the most remarkable atmosSma C ?() ’rT ’ S Hom Oacoma, S. I), hollowing the hottest dav ‘• ’er experienced there came an atmos'Td la r tiDß ° nly a few min ‘ utes, but fatal to live stock and greatly < human beings. During the Oacom^ffi kitten in the vicinit y Oacommdied. apparently from the effects ' ,na,to «* <lr A d oie was seen coming down from the hats, when six of them fell dead. SOUTHERN. _As a result n f old^mily troubles John shot and killed Welborn lie Kemper made 1 I his escape. Dewees

—o vovupc. tzewees was u ...umiTTdHWBW ucator. Representative Mills of the Georgia Legislature testified at Atlanta that he had been offered SSOO to vote against the cind-labor bill by a man who, he thought, represented the cotton manufacturers’ interests. The contest in the primary election throughout Mississippi f or the United Mates Senate between Gov. A. H. Longmo and Senator 11. D. S. Monev for the term beginning March 4, l!)os,'resulted in victory for Money. Fire broke out in the wholesale grocery house of the Curry Grocery Company at Junction City, Ky. The loss on building is Slo.ooo ami on stock of goods over • ’io.oim). Ihe ( oipmereiaL Hotel was burned, with a loss of $2,500. In Louisville fire caused by lightning destroyed the Bourbon stock yards and two buildings adjoining. Four hundred and fifty head of sheep were burned. The loss is about $250,000. with insurance one-half. Captain Eberhart Dillman and I ipeman Richard Moore were injured bv falling, timbers. Mrs. Arville Turner, armed with a revolver. entered the home of Mrs. John laylor at Newport. Ky., ami carried rdf ' her own (i-year-old child. Mrs. Taylor I lied at sight of the revolver, and Mrs. 1 1 timer broke open the serden door, secured the child, and running to the street, escaped in a wagon. FOREIGN. Lisbon was .shaken the other night by a violent earthquake. The coronation of I’ope Pius X. drew an immense throng to St. Peter’s in Rome, a similar splendid spectacle not I having been witnessed in fiftv-seven i years. 1' ire and panic on underground electric i railway in Paris caused the death of probably 1()() persons ami injury to doz- ; ens. Eighty-two bodies were taken out i within a few lioury.

cow fuxvwpnper, m sixty ue.uns since Aug. 5 through conflicts between the strikers and the troops. Russia demands that Turkey punish the murderer of consul at Monastir and all military or civil officials in any way responsible for the crime. Macedonian committee has appealed to powers to intervene. Phil May, the artist and illustrator of Punch, the Graphic and other periodicals, died at his residence on Camden Hill. London, after a protracted illness of phthisis. The end was probably hastened by his bohemian life. An engagement near Sorovitch between Turkish troops and Macedonian insurgents closely resembled a battle. Four battalions of Turkish soldiers, supported by several batteries of artillery, attacked 1.700 insurgents, most of whom were Bulgarians and well armed. The Bulgarians, although outnumbered nearly four to one, fought desperately and were only defeated after many had been killed and wounded on both sides.

IN GENERAL. -» James J. Hill, who built railways in the Northwest when everybody raid he could not make them pay. will attempt the equally difficult undertaking of build- i ing railways in China. A Government report has been issued showing that there will be a good average crop yield, resulting in an advance j in the stock markets. Business men are : confident that prosperity will continue. Weekly trade reviews of . Dun and j Bradstreet show favorable conditions in nearly every section of the country, merchandise freight already taxing capacity of roads, although crop demand for cars is not yet urgent. Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, upon his retirement from command of the army the other day, issued a general order bid-, ding farewell to the army, in which he i urges the nyn to keep the service untar- • nished and Honorable.

Dr. John Cb:yton_Gijy<wd,_js - Cornell TTrnyersit-y. who is exploring the I new Luquilla forest reserve in Porto Rico, reports the discovery of new gold streams, the soil -in which is crudely panned by a few natives. American pilgrims have been shown । unusual consideration by Pope Pius, who granted them an audience in advance of diplomatic corps and other distinguished 1 persons. Message of greeting w^s sent by the new Pontiff to Americans. Gen. Nelson A. Miles has issued an ’ order, with the approval of the Secretary । i of War, to prevent the "docking” of , 1 horses in the military service. Gen. i ’ Miles regards this practice as brutal, and ’ on this point he and the President agree. | Martin Lippmann, until recently a New Yorker, who went to Spanish Hon- " duras to engage in the banana industry, ‘ was found in a cornfield five miles from e Port Tela, murdered. He had a bullet e hole in the back of the neck, indicating 1 that he had been shot from ambush. " Lippmann was 56 years of age. The effort of the United States government to introduce its new currency into h the Philippine Islands has not met with n the success that was anticipated. Alc- though a large quantity of the coins s minted at San Francisco have reached Is the islands there is considerable prejudice, against their use, especially in the ‘proval inces. if A combine, believed to bo the “departle ment store trust,” which will acquire and n- run mammoth businesses all over tha n- United States, was chartered in the offlea ae of the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. he j. under the corporate name of the Cash Buyers’ Union First National Co-opera-in five Society, with a nominal authorize^ he | capital of $5,000,000.

PIUS M L WNED. GREAT CROWD I iTER’STO WITNESS ONY. Gorgeous Spectacl ■ Forgotten — Fifty-se ears Since

I Similar Functioi ny Faint in 1 the Crush—Memo n ay in Heme. The ceremony of coronation of Pope Pius X. took Sunday in the basilica of St. Peter’ ' me . iu the pres ’ ence of the princes high dignitaries of the church, diploi and R° niau n 0" bles, and with all solemnity and splendor associated 1 this, the most magnificent rite in t Boman Catholic Church. As Cardinal Macc the dean of the cardinal-deacons, plat th e triple crown on the head of the v -cable pontiff, the throng of 70,000 pen s gathered within the cathedral burst if unrestrained acclamations, the choir htoned a hymn of triumph and the bellJ of Rome rang out a joyful peal. It is fifty-sevejTyear^^ the Bomans and Europe assisted ■ uc ^ n function ns was held in St. Pejm”s Sunday. The great basilica, popularly supposed never to have’been quite full, was overflowing ’filth humanity. Th?«’apal throne, a bewildering mixture of iX°' d - r <d , an ? was erected in iron thc hlgl ‘ Contrary to custom o c'-remonious occasions, there werf galleries, and the nf its

Ot - basil altar, which was i normal aspect. On |d the famous silver . dressed in white, stg a magnificent cru- ( . gilt candlesticks ani > cifix. V'vc opened the in M hen the doors jL who started from rush was terrific; m'^ outside were iift- , the bottom of the Strfarried into the ca- ; ed off their feet andfeat human torrent thedrah It was aI of people rushing, let loose, thousands Jing amid screams, crushing ami squems and cries for help, protests, gesticulatioi rlpool there was no But once in the whiictness of the crowd escape ami the comp ety of those caught । proved io be the sal . In it- n palace there was I j Inside the Vaticfl as the papal proves- ' movement and bustle about 51.H1 persons, ' sion, composed of (thered early in the ■ all of whom had gni formed. I'ae proapostolic palaces, waltime getting under cession was a long las it moved thrm^li w ay, but afterward, I mid corridors ot lie the magnificent hall- ’former days, when 5 atican, it recallet .turesqnew s wac.in

all was color and p. the palace. tral Figure. Pope the den in the long cortege j The central fig’ n the sedia g-stMo-I j was Pius N. bort ( > robes ami th ■ red 1 ria. His heavy x • worn without an and gold miter d contrast to t. ’*'L effort, making a on which Pope Leo ; memorable oceas ■ Leo scented always NHL Hoi”* them, I their .'eight. Over, enable to suppor’ catmpy was hold by the pontiff’s head historic fea'hcr lens eight nu n. while t gve a touch ot barwith peacock tip^ darn oyer. baric splendor ti Pius were the noble I Surrounding dforms and gleaming guard in new r ig drawn swards. ■ helmets and e; k| the cardinals, a while in front t with many hand gorgeous bit of* fem. the cardinal some faces nmoi pes. the cardinal- I bishops in their t >ublcs and the eardi priests, wearing cl yhnaties. nal-deaeons in tin illumined with The cathedra b> the mnr'-M co|- ■*•»«*«**• the color

“ $ JUG J *Jereti tr.e <oc>i most magnifier .11 .0.“""; — to which floated —. Hro world, up gi c . ^armouy of the muFrom the thro j by his suite. w;i*| Pius X .urrminded standing over the ed to the high a which meanwhile rypt of St. Peter, into scend.d to pray. Cardinal Marchi demounted by a bal The altar was sur- , four historic bron Hechino supported by the Parthenon. 5 pillars taken from Pipe in that eleva e appearance of the i another burst of J position called forth then blessed the husiasm. Ihe lope , the “indulgentiam ar. and after saying b<d of the cord x °the maniple, a symbound on His ear ith which Christ was ' i great ceremony, tv re. was placed, with the same time pray n the Pope s arm. . I were recited by ’ vs for the coronation ‘ Moccnni, Agliardi 'ardmals \ annub .u, ing from the crypt, 'ml Satolb. Return- ’ ed upon the shou Cardinal Macehi placpontilieal pallium ers of the Pope l ie 1 three golden jewel nd attached it With

Mass was then d pins. pomp and ceremm Liebrated with groa. Pope becoming gra V". the voice of the sonorous until it wi inally more him an most distant cornc 3 even audible in the church. Following r of the immense performed the rite ( this Cardinal Macehi whom he subsequen 4 incensing the 1 op., on th- cheeks and c Uy kissed three tunes Segna and Vannutf test, as did C ardmals Tiie whole saerc Hi. about the Pope, fling d college gat ien. rona Anrea Super jug Palestrina s "( othe choir burst forth Caput Ejus. wmle Maechi then recite. • into song ( ar..ma. i Nester” and offered l the "Pater Nosier । , , Spray er. I’laced t Cardinal Deacon 1 ie Crown. j pontiff’s mitre, and agna then raised Lie eon Macehi placed oi Senior Cardmal D-a-h >ad r he triple crox t the venerable v. m o the church was tillel >• _ At this moment bells, the blowing oi with the ringing o triumphant strains silver trumpets t ie i acclamations of th the choir and the I could no longer be r multitude which JJmrakr, v- h-j -essed. U hen com-

Mm-ehi add^ ~toved^i^^^ Latin as-fnh'ows: _ "Receive the tia" three crowns. Rei . ornamented with father of princes a. mbpr thou art (he of the world, the v j kings, the rector Saviour. Jesus Chris u , on carth of our and glory of all com r who , g the honor “Amen," burst io' .tries.” course. from tsre conWhen the ceremot exits to the basilica wag over the । within less than an । were opened, and । dral was empt.'- tour the vast catheBrief New Charles Horan feV H Items. Wilkesbarre, Pa., ad (lown a coa . Rev. J. L. Alswor 1 waa killed. Mo., drowned while Cape Girardeau, sissippi. lathing in the MisA tramp at Nap s Miss Dora Zertanna leon , Ohio cut off refused him a meal. hair because she earrings. 4 He also stole her W. E. Brubaker, I Kan., fell from a 1 ??nt]v of To p cka> Texas, while trying t ( i ge at EJ p aso> bicycle and his neck across on his rocks at the bottom t broken on the While at work ft -canyon. ground in Guthrn feet n y )Ove a lineman for the r rp p g Bland, phone Company Kansas Valley Tele- । with his back and ached a live wire । I The citizens of s instantly killed. J miles from Ithaca “uville, a village ten coat of tar and fe. y. administered a ‘ 1 derwood, who a W... rg to Theodore u n - . I Ithaca for the murd , ago was tried in । It is reported that U * of j E Teeter . i wife and three childr aderwood drove his »n from hom^

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*' IB* MILES’ CAREER AT END. CominandinE General of the Army Reaches the Age of Retirement. Secretary Root has announced the retirement of Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles as head of the United States army. Gen. S. B. M. Young succeeds him as commanding general for the space of six : days, after which time he will take up his permanent position as chief of the general army staff. Brnctically the office 1 of commanding general ceases with the j retirement of Gen. Miles, though Gen i Young will be the last to bear that title ! and will be the first to wear the dignit? ,of chief of ataff. The new regime wil

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To in m-eordanee with the new army bill, which was so strenuously opposed by tint retiring general. Gen Miles entered the army ns a vol uni.er officer of the Twenty-second Mas saehusetts infantry when only — year-, old He served with distinction during the Civil War and at. the age es 25 wain command of a brigade. He aho won fame as an Indian fighter on the plains after the close of the war. He was in charge of Jefferson Davis when i the latter was a prisoner of war. ''ith his command he forced the surrender of Geronimo and of many other noted lnI dian chiefs. SPENT $3,000 FOR S3O STEER. Missouri Farmers Have Fought in Court for Four Years. Two wealthy Missouri farmers are . , sounding the tocsin of their respective i elans, preparatory to lining up for the 1 > battle of their lives. The black flag has i * .. ..-11l ttnit lx

been run up, and quarter xvill be neitner shown nor asked. When farmers John Massengale of Macon County and Elijah E. Rise or nortii Chariton County went into a Lee Branch justice court in November. 1889 i over a S3O steer, they never dreamed I I that in the summer of 1903 they would still be lighting, xvith increased tierce- , t.ess, over’ the same scrub. But that s the unfortunate situation. These two determined Missouri farm-| ers and their army of witnesses have confronted juries four times m justices i and Circuit courts, and the case has been . Mo the Kansas City Court of Appeals. I q'] ie costs noxv amount to more than so,I 000. and are still growing like interest on , a past-due note. . John Massengale, the plaintiff, is a tvpieal westerner. He is about 60. large, oner'’etic, and endowed with a deposition'that brooks no suggestion of coer- ' cion. , , If a poor man came along and wanted 1 to take a couple of steers from his farm ■ until he could raise, the money to pay ~ . . ti, p nr- ebni- xfasss—-

gale would give them to him without other security than a belief in his honesty. If a regiment of soldiers undertook to remove from his promises a yellow dog that Massengale knew belonged to him j he would stand up and empty his Win- i Chester at the soldiers until he was shot 1 down. In Macon County no citizen stands higher for rugged honesty and courage. Mr. Rice, the defendant, is a good citizen, has made money by thrift and enterprise. and is possessed of much of the tenacity that characterizes his rival. It is simply a ease of an honest diference of opinion, and it has grown into a vital principle that must be maintained ■ at all hazards. Telegraphic Brevities. An Indian has been arrested at Park Rapids, Minn., for the murder of another Indian. .The Grand Opera House building at Pittsburg, Pa., has been successfully moved twenty feet. George O. Jochheim. 26 years old. of Baltimore, Md., committed euicide by inhaling illuminating gas. George Newsome, a boilermaker, was struck by W. I. Bishop, corporal of Company M. Sixth United States infantry, and instantly killed in Leaven worth, Kan. Bishop struck Newsome with his fist and broke the latter’s neck. Jesse Ammes, the 11-year-old son of James 11. Ammes. was drowned at South McAlester, I. T., Monday while paddling a skiff on the reservoir of the Choctaw Railroad. He was unable to swim and his 7-year-old companion could give him no assistance.

! COLD WEATHER DELAYS CROPS. Grain in Northern Portion of Country Is Considerably Retarded. The weather bureau’s weekly summary of crop conditions is as follows: Throughout the northern portions of the country from New England to the ! north Pacific coast the temperature was i too low for best results, light frosts occurring in North Dakota, but in the Southeni States it was more favorable.

although clear and warmer weather is i needed in the west gulf districts. Borations of the south Atlantic ami east gulf States and the central ami lower Mississippi valleys need rain, but elsewhere east of the Rocky Mountains rains have been ample, being excessively heavy in central and northeastern Texas, in the eastern portions of Nebraska and Kansas and over areas in the Ohio valley and ! east gulf States. It is now very dry in the central and southern Rocky Mountain ; districts. i Corn is greatly improved and especially in lowa, Nebraska. Kansas and portions of Illinois and the lake region, the least favorable reports being received ! i from Missouri and Ohio valley States. Tlie crop continues late. An excellent crop is now as&ured in the Southern States. Threshing of winter wheat has continued under favorable conditions, harvesting having been finished, except in j portions of New York and Michigan and ■ on the Pacific coast, with disappointing yields. General rains in the spring i wheat region of the upper Missouri and i Red River of the North valleys checked i the ripening of spring wheat and caused of the heads. Harvesting

, is in progress, some of the early sown ! grain being cut in the northern portion, ' but was delayed by rains in South Dakota and Nebraska. Harvesting is also i in progress in Oregon, with light yield, but of excellent quality. In W ashingI ton the crop is maturing slowly, but is : filling well. Rust in oats is quite extensively re- ' ported in lowa, Minnesota. Wisconsin S I and portions of Pennsylvania, but late ' rains have benefited the crop in Minne- ; i S ota. Harvesting is well advanced in the more northerly sections, being largely ' completed elsewhere, with yields^ genere i ally lighter than anticipated. The im- ; provement in cotton continues generally ® throughout the cotton belt. Tobacco is needing rain in portions of the Ohio valI ley and Virginia, but the general eondih ! tion of the crop is promising. Ram^ _ I caused injury to hay in Texas, New York i and Michigan and delayed haying m South Dakota and New England; elsewhere this work has progressed under favorable conditions. Some plowing for r .ii ixwm donp in Oklahoma.

fall seeding has been none m Missouri and Michigan. Reports were received from the following central ■ States: Illinois Corn benefited where rain °ccnrred but n<!\niicemer.t not entirely sat Isis'uwm characteristic of < vop Is unevenness ■mi -izatiwi will -n-t.e. hill “““tn g o«t. prn< ti ally finished, threshing progressing, yield generally below barlev and rye yielding well, but wh<-at Sappolntlng: large hay crop seern^L se end crop of clover making good k'vowth ight crop of apples promised; Irish and sweet po tatoes promising. , indlumi Threshing J".' 1 r^itlhL onts nearing <-mpletlon. yields fn'r to 1 H t ! corn late, needs rain and in some io<allti s Is suffering seriously from drought, enily ...Mums plentiful, bnr small; late potatoes. I tomatoes, cucumbers, tobacco, gardens. and , pastures rn-d mb . apples promise light to fair erep of rally inferior 'l" all, L Ohio Brought relieved In m-st districts, weathei favorable for harvesting ana threshing, yield of wheat low. oats fall, barley poor; hay < rop large, especially. in cast pastmes Improving; eh ver seed pros- . peet fair, eein liupiovlng. but out ook. 'ety poor, potatoes and garden crops fair. a PP* es I growing well, plums, grnpes and blackberries plentiful; p< aches and pears poor m, .>. v. ,i. - -'bm for

Tarvi'stworTi and -rop grow tn except In upper peninsula, where some hny was damaged- hav, wheat, rye and barley mostly well ( secured; oats harvest becoming general. , corn mneh Improved nnd quite promising. be i’’s sugar beets and late potatoes doing flnelv; peas yielding well; apples continue falrlv pi-omi-ing; peaches ripening nicely. Wisconsin Corn improving, but still backwnrd; spring wheat maturing rapidly, eood <TO'C b.irlev nearlv all secured; some threshed, yield satisfactory, quality excellent; -at:< nearlv matured, badly rusted In most sections; potatoes gcod; tobacco excellent gardens, field pens and sugar beets good; apples, light crop. । Minnesota Generallx moderate rains and cool weather delayed ripening of green wheat and outs and Improved filling, barley • nearlv all ent; mits cutting well advanced and wheat and tlax cutting begun; wheat on -'tinnier fallow In north good, but on other lands generally poor; southern wheat and oats rusted; barley and rye being threshed; corn backward. lowa l'"iw to five days n. good weather for oomph ting hat . e-t and threshing; latest . nmorts as to output . f wheat and oats quite varl-ilde and somewhat disappointing; copi- ' ous showers have been beneficial; early corn . earing finely, with sufficient moisture to ’ teach maturity; apple crop doing well. ’ South l>nkota General rains retarded . . ‘ it. enrintr vuhDflt

harvesting and haying; early spring wneat harvest '-coming general, but in bloux vallev Increased injury from blight and some' bv Hessian fly reported, some smut ! north; bnrlev harvest closing; outs harvest well admneed; corn thrifty, early earing, hav outlook improved; flux thrifty. Ncbra-ke ' old. wit week; rain delayed harvesting in northern counties and stackin' and threshing in southern; small local damage t" fruit by severe storms, but geni erallv ruin verv beneficial: spring wheat bein- cut. -rop light: corn has continued to grow" well and to improve in condition; potatoes less promising; grass and pastures g< KanSns Corn much improved, early well i eared late ^rowing rapidly, good color; I wheat tliroshing continues, good yields in west fair in central, disappointing in east; | oats vlehl light; haying progressing, crop l very light in north; spring wheat not well tilled. " SECRETARY HAY IS A GSUNDPA.

MRS. J. W. WADSWORTH. Mrs. J. W. Wadsworth, Jr., daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, is the mother of a healthy girl baby. It has been named Evelyn, after Mrs. Hay, the grandmother. Sparks from the Wires. The Eighth street market house, in Wilmington, Del., burned, causing a loss of $100,066. J. A. Taylor, postmaster at Girdner. Mo., has been arres.ed on a charge of rifling the mails. The British government has decided to keep permanently a force of 25,000 soldiers in South Africa. Some well posted grain dealers are estimating the wheat crop of Oklahoma at over 40,000,000 imshels. The management of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition has sent by express a gold medal to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay in commemoration of his visit to the world's fair during the dedication ceremonies. Col. Fred Ames, superintendent of police of Minneapolis, Minn., under the administration of his brother. Mayor A. A. Ames, was taken to Stillwater to begin I his six and a half years’ s.wvice in the State prison for bribery.

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1 “Trade advices from • Ne* York. 'W J tmne to show as fav .rabi. conditions as a year ago, and in many lines the volume of transactions has been increased. Jobbers report fall business opening with excellent prospects, and manufacturing platits are well occupied, with the exception of the cotton mills. Distribution of merchandise is so heavy that railway equipment already proves inadequate, although crops are not the factor that they will be in a few weeks. Earnings for July exceeded last years by 12.7 per cent and those of 14)01 by 20.2 per cent.’’ according to R. G. Dun A- Uo.’s Weekly Review of Trade. Uou- ! tinning, the report rays: j On the whole, news from the farms I is less favorable, but no serious curtail ment is assured, and many sections in de very bright reports. A decline of 1.5 per cent in the cost of commodities dm ing July is evidence that prices are less inflated, since the change was mainly in meats and other food, which have been ruling at an abnormal position. Consumption of iron ami steel is on a large scale, and in many departments ;l.e last week has witnessed the smnmg^

of numerous contracts, but there is ei. dency to delay purchases beyond early needs. This conservatism is not surprising in view of the uncertainty regarding the security ami financial markets, together witli considerable interruption to structural work through labor controversies. The rate of consumption and the moderate size of orders, however, indicate that stocks are running low. which encourages furnace men and mill opeiators to hold quotations fairly steady. A moderate tonnage of pig iron ! >as been ordered, and in partly finished pro- ■ duets the best feature just now is the bidding of agricultural implement makers. More pig iron was imported durJ ing Julv than anticipated, and German - billets are still offered at Pittsburg, but - the domestic makers announce their in--9 tention of meeting foreign competition. < There is less pressure for tin plates, tin 1 a peculiar weather extending the canning !- season and giving more time for delivr cry of cans. There is full occupation m t ali branches of this industry’, and in meri. chant pipe also the mills have full ordi i

t il <1 111 I’ 1 1 ' books, for many months. No eh.-inge is noticed in the attitude jd cotton goods. Buyers appear determined to postpone btisinefs until th- readjustment of prices for raw material. Owing,to the gradual reduction in mill stocks there is a similar disposition to delay | undertaking new contracts, and the result is further addicted to idle 'machinery. In view of comparative steadiness of retail prices and the activity in dry goods trading at many points, it i- evident that stocks in other than first hands were larger than was believed when the speculative advance began. Although jobbers report bright pros- , pects for fall trade, it is remarkable that they make so little effort to secure for- ; ward deliveries. Irregular distribution of orders is reported in woolens. ;oine i lines being xvithdraxvn, while others make ; little progress. An increase in number J of buvers is encouraging, ami in the aggregate sales are fully up to normal. Herlihy conditions continjg in . s r L..,,!'- .41 ■^Fiicing ill' idhw.nV.~o'

H■ii'i 11 New England shops are not able to accept orders lor delivery in si >i.al months. There were ITS commercial failures this week in the United States, against I'.IO last week. 191 the preceding week •md 196 the corresponding week of last vear. and in Canada 19. against 19 last week, 19 the preceding week and 14 last year. Bradstreet’s Trade Review. Summed up in a sentence, it may he said that the past in trade and industry is satisfactorily secured, while the future, despite -ome mainly sentimental diawbacks. is highly promising. Divided geographically. it is to be noted that ihe East feels the effect of speculative miui-d-ition. and the dulling effects on manufacturing of high prices Os raxv material (;r of strikes, while the West and Smith contemplate the prospects of good yields of staple crops and remunerative prices for the s-ame with confidence, ami exen optimism.

Wheat, including flour, exports I < L e week ending Aug. 6 aggregate Lb »-’E6 ■ bushels, against 3.191.442 I; ’ S J '/ 244.363 this week last year. ■ . "L •'• '' I'lol ami 3.318.760 in 1900. U • live weeks of the cereal year they aggregate 15.047.253 bushels, ng a nst 'L" T.HI2. 32.507.145 in 1901 and 14.868.<.L ; I in 1900. ('urn ex pons for the week aggi 1 554.428 bushels, against 925.559 !"-t 1 week. 70.61 I a year ago. 990.714 in 1901 : -md 2.890.754 in 1900. For live weel.- ! i,f the present cereal year tl. w aggr'-in:- ’ (1242.093 bushels, against 49L4.>< ui 1 1902, 7.224.413 in 1901 and 15.249. V I in 1900. I — I

Chicago—Cattle, common to . $3.00 to $5.2.5; hogs, shipping Jra-I -s. $4.50 to $5.75: sheep, fair to choics3.oo to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 78c to 70c; corn. No. 2,50 cto 51c: oats. No. 2,33 c to 35c; rye. No. 2. 51c to 52c; hay. timothy. $8.50 to $15.00; prairie. $6.00 to $11..50; butter, choice creamery. 17e to !!><■; eggs, fresh. 11c to 14c; potatoes, new. 50c to 62c per bushel. Indianapolis —Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.2.5; hogs, choice light. $4.00 to $.5.60; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2. 75c to 7Gc; corn, No. 2 white. 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c. St. Louis- —Cattle. $4.50 to $5.20: In-g«. $4.50 to $5.80; sheep. $3.00 to $3.50: wheat. No. 2. 79c to SOe: corn. Ne. 2. 47< to 4Sc; oats. No. 2. 31c to 33-; rye. No. 2. 52c to 53c. Uineimititi —Uat.le. $4.25 to 51,7.5; hogs. $4.(Hi to $5.60; sheep. S3.DO to $4.00: wheat. No. 2. 77c to 7Sc; corn. No. 2 mixed. .52c to 53c; oats. No. 2 mixeil, 33c to 34c: rye. No. 2,56 cto 5,1-. Detroit—Cattle. $3.50 to $5,00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.70: sheep. .82.5:1 to ■ 3.25; wheat. No. 2. 79e to Sic: c rn. No. 3 yellow. 53e to ,55c; oats. No. 3 whte, 34c to 3t>e; rye. No. 2. 51c to .>2. . Milwankee—Wheat. No. 2 nor: .--rn. 90e to tile; corn. No. 3. 53;- to 5 0 . oais. No. 2 white. 36c io 37c: rye. No. 1. ole to .53c: barley. No. 2. oiC to ,»8e; p 0;,,. mess. $13.27. New York—Uatile. $4.00 to $0.40; hogs. SI.OO to $6.01i; sheep. $3," i to $3.50: wheat. No. 2 red. 84c to Sse: corn. No. 2. 58? to 59e: oats. No. 2 white. . 40c to 41c; butter, creamery. ISc to IPc; | eggu. western. IS<- to 20c.