Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 November 1903 — Page 2

adcnt. .x . I’ubU-Oior. WALKERTON, - • - INDIANA. ABOUND THE WORLD Coroner Willoughby has received a telegram from the justice of the peace tit Hayden. Mont., saying five men were blown to pieces in an explosion. The explosion is supposed to have occurred in a magazine belonging to grading contractors. Samuel Hunkin, aged 55 years, was instantly killed in Cleveland, and Miss Mattie Fitzsimmons so badly injured that she died while being taken to a hospital. They were driving, ami while attempting to cross the tracks their carriage was struck by a train. Elections were held in several States Tuesday. Geo. B. McClellan was elected Mayor of New York and the Democrats also carried Kentucky. Maryland and Rhode Island. Republicans were victorious in Ohio, lowa. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and New Jersey. After Frank Anderson, a white num, " death, and B. Vinson, a lawyer of InWl^' HMT. .Joseph FFSWiV and Ella McDowell had been wounded at Lake Village, Ark., Henry Johnson, colored, was taken from the police ami lynched. The tragedy was the result of a race war. Twelve shots were fired at Captain R. J. Ewen, the star witness in the feud cases recently tried in Breathitt County. Kentucky, as he passed along the dark end of Walnut street, in Lexington. Oue went through his hat and another through the lapel of his coat, but none of them touched him. Le Combat, in Montreal, publishes an editorial in favor of the annexation of Canada to the United States. The paper points out that independence is impossible for Canada, and that annexation is the only alternative. It is argued that each province of the dominion should lie represented by two Senators, and that if these were given Canada its interests would be quite safe. The body of John M. Young, manager of the Great Northern building in Chicago. was found in one of the safety deposit vaults of the building. A bottle labeled “carbolic acid" lay beside Mr. Young, and burns on his mouth and hands showed that he had drunk the poison. “There is no doubt." said Joseph Uhrig, brother-in-law of Mr. Young, “that the suicide was caused by despondency.” With a force of 400 men constantly at work tiie Pennsylvania and Lake Shore railroads are laboring with all their power to save their lake front tracks for a quarter of a mile in the heart of the city of Cleveland and within a few hundred feet of the Uniop depot. The sinking away of the land which began a few days ago. has taken on an alarming aspect. The Avails of the new Pennsylvania freight house, an expensive structure, fell, injuring five men. The quicksand caused the tracks to sink three inches an . hour. - ====== X NEWS NUGGETS. A. McGuinis of Huntington W. glar.

K Scandinavian State railway will ly send a committee of engineers to ■rica to study the system of railways. Unprecedented precautions are being taken to protect the person of the Czar when he visits Emperor William at Wiesbaden. While a funeral party was crossing the main line of the Southern Railway at Glass Station. N. C., a train struck it and four were killed. In a fight over a game of craps in Springfield, Mass., Arthur Duford struck Tony I‘epo a blow on the solar plexus and Pepo died almost instantly. R. E. Glass, a well-known mining man, disappeared from Deadwood ten days ago and has not been seen since. As be took $2,500 with him, murder is feared. Abbott Raub. a well-known sporting man of St. Joseph. Mo., was shot and fatally wounded by Oscar Kleiubrodt, proprietor of a saloon where the shooting occurred. Roman Catholics of eastern Kentucky celebrated the golden jubilee of the foundation of Covington diocese and the consecration of its first bishop, Rt. Rev. George A. Carroll. The large plant of the Avil Printing Company at 3943-3947 Market street. West Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire and much surrounding property was damaged. The loss is estimated at $200,000. One trainman was killed and four others were seriously injured in a collision of the Butler passenger accommodation and a freight. engine in the Allegheny yards of the Pittsburg and Western Railroad. Mrs. Eliza C. Hendricks died at her home in Indianapolis. She was the widow of Vice President Hendricks. Site was stricken with paralysis three weeks ago and death had been expected several days. While engaged in political discussion William Frazer stabbed and killed his best friend. Thomas Barrett, in a Brook^u saloon. Frazer snrreylcroJ qtyl the police he had not stabbed Barrett intentionally. Election day in Kentucky was marked by scenes of violence, several men being murdered and others fatally wounded in clashes of feud fashions at the polls. Two election judges were killed and one man fatally wounded in a Virginia fight. The north-bound California express plunged through a burning trestle near the Tehama crossing near Redding. Cal., and the fireman, a man named Morris, was instantly killed. Several persons were injured, and the Florodora company lost its scenery, costumes and baggage. E. H. Renreatli. of Minneapolis, shot his Wife dead at 22d street and Washington avenue and then took a big dose of carbolic acid. His wife died within a few minutes. Renreatli was taken to the city hospital, where he is reported to be in a dying condition. One person dead and possibly twd, a | dozen persons injured and a property loss of more than $200,000 is the result of a fire which occurred in the block bounded by the Schuylkill river. Race. Vine and Twenty-third streets, Philadelphia. The Coshocton, Ohio, opera house, owned by Miller & Robinson, was burned the other morning. The probable loss is SIO,OOO. Charles Rosskain's Chicago stock company lost all scenery and trunks. The fire is alleged to be of incendiary origin. George K. Brown, of Bay City, Mich., one of the actors, was seriously injured by falling timbers while attempting to save his trunk.

EASTERN. * Thousands of miners in the Pennsyl- = vania districts paraded and held meetings in honor of “John Mitchell" day. - । Roland Turner, an Atlantic City kite „ j flying expert, will make an effort to fly - I a big kite across the ocean about Nov. i I ,5 ‘ I I William Hays, the colored murderer ' I <>f Edward Perkins, colored, at Mason- j , town a year ago, was hanged at Union- I ' low u, Pa. rhe works of the Johnson Forge Com- I i pany in Wilmington, De!., were destroy■ed by tire. I'he loss is about $125,000, , ' partly covered by insurance. Two persons were killed, many injured. S(H) made homeless and property worth $1,000,000 destroyed by a fire which swept the Bowery at Coney Isl- ’ and. An agreement has been reached between the Interborough Rapid Trans ; t Company and the motormen. whi h averts the possibility of a strike in New York. One man was killed and at least a dozen injured in a lire which ' swept througn Kingsbridge, in New York, leaving in its wake the ashes of twenty houses. The Girard Avenue Theater, in Philadelphia, was destroyed by lire, entailing a loss of $50,000, of which $25,000 was on the building and the remainder on the contents^. A Swiss crank tried To" se<g.tlu> dent in Washington and appeal for protection from Dr. Koch, who he said was, pursuing him in an air ship, bent on his destruction. Thomas Bechtel, arrested at Allentown, Pa., in connection with the murder of his sister Mabel, committed suicide in jail; police declare his death is confession of guilt. John Bietner, conductor; Benjamin Brown, engineer, and Alexander Thomas, brakeman, were killed in a wreck of a Baltimore and Ohio freight train near 1 Confluence. Pa. “Sam" Parks has again been convicted at New- York of extortion and overthrown by Frank Buchanan, who de--1 nounced him before his union and secured vote for peace. One man was killed, three were seriously wounded and a score wounded in a slighter degree by the premature explosion of an aerial bomb at a crowded fusion meeting in New York. WESTERN. The First National Bank of Toronto, I S. D.. was robbed of SSOO in silver. Chief of Detectives Desmond of St. 1 Louis has gone to Guadalajara to bring ■ back Boodler Kratz. Isaac Grindie, who ate “rat biscuit” at Springfield. Ohio, not knowing they 1 were poison, is dead. J. Pierpont Morgan and a party of r railway officials visited the tomb of McKinley at Canton, Ohio. Fire at Aberdeen, Wash., destroyed the Commercial block, containing seven stores and the postofflee. The arm of a man was found among the iron ore unloaded from the schooner D. K. Flint at Cleveland. i A Panhandle freight train was wreck-’ j ed east of Newcastle, Ind., by a broken wheel under a loaded car. In a mob riot at Milan, Ohio. Henry Strickradt, the leader, was shot in the face and seriously if not fatally injured. William H. Engel, secretary of the ■ Vincennes (Ind.) Distillery Company, burThe

An entire block of business buildings was destroyed at Elk City, Oklahoma, the loss being $40,000, with small insurance. An eagle became entangled in the electric wires at Whittier, Cal., shutting of! the power and closing down all the factories. Thg steamer Lotus Sims burned to the water’s edge at St. Louis. The loss is placed at $30,000, on which there is insurance of $9,500. W. J. Burnett, a banker of Sapulpa. I. T., committed suicide in a hotel at Oklahoma City by shooting uimself through the head. Three thousand members of the Salvation Army attended rhe special funeral services for Mrs. Booth-Tucker in Princess Rink, Chicago. Attorney James J. Rogers shot and killed himself at Boise. Idaho. About a year ago he attempted to drown himself in the river at Chicago. Aberdeen, Wash., which was the scene a few days ago of a $1,090,1)00 fire, was visited by another disastrous con fl a gra tion W ednesd ay. Peter Williams’ team of mules was not worth $l5O and when he sold them to William Razee at Beatrice, Neb., he gave Razee his wife to boot. Three Nome steamers —the Senator, Roanoke and Ohio—reached Seattle. Wash., bringing a total of 1,200 passengers and over $500,000 in treasure. A second battle between a Wyoming posse and Indians resulted in ten Indians being killed and nine captured. The redskins are taking the war path. A fire supposed to have originated by spontaneous combustion damaged the establishment of the Curry Wooden ware Company, Cincinnati, to the extent of SIOO,OOO. While drilling an oil well at Baldwin, on the Ohio-Indiana line, the gas caught fire from the boiler, and three men were burned, one fatally. All the victims live at Lima. Wencil Rezac, who on May 28. following a quarrel, murdered his wife and Then aTt<nnptetf*siiicftle, was^senrencedHiT’ Cedar Rapids, la., to prison for twen-ty-five years. Mrs, Booth Tucker was fatally injured in a Santa Fe wreck at Dean Lake, Mo., and died half an hour later. Seven or eight persons are reported to have been injured. Peter J. McCarthy of Cincinnati, a convicted vitriol thrower, has asked Mrs. Anna Haslam, the woman whom he blinded, to become his wife and she has accepted him. William Miltenberg, an electrician at Pocatello, Idaho, received a shock from a wire charged with 33,000 volts of electricity. and physicians say he will probably recover. The Scott County Bank, a private institution at Jordan. Minn., owned by Minneapolis parties, closed its doors. Inability to realize on securities was the cause of its failure. A detail of cavalry guarded $1,500,i 000, shipped from 'Washington to St. Louis to relieve the banks. An attack on the treasure was feared owing to tha expressmen's strike. Humberta Cattlina and Martin J. Pishkur, Italian miners, fell from a cage descending into the Minnie Healy mine, and, striking the sump 1,000 feet below, were instantly killed. The Baldwin oil well, which exploded Tuesday night at Fort Wayne, Ind., with fatal results, has not been harnessed. It spouts oil to the height of 175 feet at each explosion. Train wreckers loosened rails, causing the Santa Fe Colorado to Chicago flyer

I to crash through a bridge over the Apishapa Creek in Colorado. Thirty persons were injured, but none killed. | Gen. Nelson A. Miles is in Seattle, ' where he has been looking after property ( interests. He denies that he has made i heavy investments in Texas oil fields and I intends to make that State'his home. I Charles Gavin, alias Goebel, aged 48, । has been arrested at Hot Springs, Ark., । charged with robbing a Denver bank in J 1882 of $30,000. He is also wanted in I Bisbee, Ariz., for a $5,000 diamond robI bery. Holliday Harvey, aged 21, son of “Coin” Harvey, of financial fame, was killed by a train at Hugo, I. T. The deceased was a brakeman on the Frisco and fell between the cars and was mangled to death. Drivers of St. Louis express companies to the number of -100 went on strike because the demands of the Pacific Express Company's employes for a wage increase of 10 per cent have not been granted. Joseph Hush, aged 110, died nt the residence of his daughter in South Bend, Ind. He was born Sept. 15. 1793. in I New Jersey. Until a few months ago he was vigorous enough to walk eighteen miles in a day. The body of T. J. Mulcahey, a telegraph operator, who was called to Newark, Ohio, from Garrett, Ind., to go to work, was found in the river under the Panhandle bridge, where it had been _thrown by a train. Eight hunuiauT Inlioryi^-^.jajombers ..of—the Laborers’ Protective Union of the American Federation of Labor, have quit work at the world’s fair in St. Louis. The walkout, the men claim, was because the exposition company has not complied with an agreement by which the issue of employing non-union laborers was settled. Attorney General 11. J. Hamlin of Illinois declared at the laying of the corner stone of the new DeKalb County court house that 25 per cent of the appropriations made by the Illinois Legislature is wasted before the funds reached the institutions for which they are appropriated. Three men. he said, are employed by the State where one man could do the work. FOREIGN. Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Chili are likely to get the new cardinals promised to "America.” Vatican authorities think it improbable any more hats will be sent to the United States for some time. The Philippine friars materially reduced the price they are asking for their insular lands, and consequently both Gov. Taft ami Mgr. Guidl now hope the sale will be completed before Mr. Taft leaves for America. War is said to be certain both between Japan and Russia ami Turkey and Bulgaria, though hostilities are not expected to commence until the spring. China has appealed to America for aid against Russia and been refused. A collision occurred in a fog off Hadodate, Japan, between the Russian Yushen Kaisha Company’s steamers Progress and Tokai’-Maru. The latter sank. Os the 100 passengers and crew on board the Tokai-Maru only fifty-six were saved. TJie new land ir.w has gone into effect in Ireland, ami Walter Wellman sa; s that good results are to be expected. Ai ready the flow of immigration is stopped a^id there is talk of Irishmen in the Wnited States returning to buy land in Inland.

■ a?.till”!'* IJ. Dole. Governor of Hawaii. judge of the United States District Court of the territory, to succeed the Irfte Morris M. Ektee. George R. Carter, secretary of Hawaii, has been appointed Governor, to succeed Gov. Dole. Severe thunder storms are reported from all parts of Italy, and many fires have been caused by lightning. The royal hunting lodge nt San Roisare was struck by lightning while King Victor ami Queen Helena were then . The King and Queen were not injured. Fire at the Vatican destroyed three rooms and manv valuable literary treasures were drenched with water The Pope sent for Italian aid, and while personally directing the firemen had Rome s civic officials admitted in their official capacity for the first time in many years. Cable advices from Bluefields. Nicara gun, tell of the destruction by fire the southern end of the town, entailing a loss of nearly $300,000. It started Sunday in a Moravian church, and a north west wind drove the flames down to the coast, where the big business houses were located. IN GENERAL Tb.e much-opposed internal revenue taxation law is now in effect in Cuba. Morgan's shipping trust has begun its long threatened war on its greatest rival, the Cunard Lit e. A British magnate says America and England will both have to look soon to I West Africa for their raw cotton. A ministerial organ in Canada declares for independence from Great Britain. or at least a mere recognition of King Edward’s sovereignty. For the first time the ship channel between Montreal and Sorel. Canada.was illuminated by electricity Thursday night, making it as navigable as during the day. Increased industrial activity is reported by Dun’s and Bradstreet's general trade reviews; setback in steel is shown. October railroad earnings were 5.9 per --cemTtWW ±9021" ‘ The Cuban Congress met m regular session Monday and President Palma. in his message, expressed hope for speedy action on the reciprocity treaty by the United States Congress. The American Railway Association ha» decided to abolish the train order system for the block signal system on double track lines. Safety, simplicity and cheapness will be gained by the change. Acting Secretary of the Navy Darling has sent orders to the Norfolk navy yard for the cruiser Baltimore to proceed forthwith to Puerto Plata. Santo Domingo. to look after American interests at that blockaded port. Sir Thomas Lipton withdraws his offer to present a cup for a transatlantic yacht race so us to pave the way for the acceptance of the similar offer made by the Kaiser. A transatlantic race next vear is said to be certain. Receiver Smith, of the United States shipbuilding combine, has made a sensar - tional report, giving details of the formation of the trust and charging "falsification, swindling and fraud in its formation," and a deliberate plan to wreck the company and deceive the investing I public. i After a tramp covering 8,200 miles I and which took two years, Charles E. j Norris, almost GO years old, walked into । New York from San Francisco. When ' ' he started Mr. Norris was afflicted with tuberculosis and weighed only ninety-six I pounds. When he reached New York his , lungs were sound and he tipped tha ' ; scales at 137.

■ ■M. Fifteen Football Players and Friends Perish in Wreck. Fifty of 1.200 from Purdue University Are Badly Injured. Special Lafayette Train Strikes Coal Cars (Entering Indianapolis. Coaches Holding College Boys Are Smashed an/d Hurled Down a Stejup Bank. -—- Fifteen —w - * University, among them members of the football team, wele killed and fifty or more others in a total of 1,200 players or “rooters” on a (special train were injured in a terrific. collision on the Big Four Railway wll'e entering ludlanup > lis Saturday metning. 'The students’ special from Lafayette ran into a coal train at Riverside Park, crushing to splinters a coach containing seventy students and friends, telescoping a s. . nd coach and hurling it down a 15-foot embankment with its 100 occupants, ami upsetting and smashing the third coach. In the tangled masses of twisted iron and broken wood the victims wri- mnnI gkd, beheaded er held prisoner till n--cuers could chop them out. As fast - the willing boys ami men extricated tin | corpses the unconscious and less serio I ly injured, and carried them to adjacent I grass plots, the girls and w >men among ' the excursionists lent their aid in minis ' tering to the sufferers. Holiday dresses | were stained with blood, but no one ■ thought of them. Agonizing groans tilled ' the air and these came no less from the injured than from the more fortunate, for all were close friends. The collision took place nt 10:20 o’clock, while the students wen' enter ing the city for the football game b.1 tween Purine and Indiana univei-it for the State championship. A swi:, I engine was l acking a cut of cni cars i on tiie main track nt a gravel pit. wL re ; a deep cut obscured the track ahead o. I each engineer. Blame for tie- d.-. -tiw > ■ collision has not yet been placed. । “We had no orders to vacate the । track." said Lop Akers, conductor of the freight train. “The fur. t. if theris any. cannot taW "hn our shoulders. We have orders to g«t out of the way of regular trains. Nyorders wore given us that a special w,y conn: , in.” Name .s' the i’< ad. Following : -of the dead: Cor ’ -

I substi | Fui „.*ersburg. Ind.. gun nW Grube. Char . But’cr. Ind , substi tute plnyer. Hamilton, W. j D., Lafayette, center rush. | Hamilton, JayJ Huntington, Ind., sub stitute. Howard. N. I .. Lafayette, problem 1 of the Indiana 18 aundrymen’s A>-„ iation. . MeClair, Pntjgi.. Chicago, traitor. Powell. R J., Corpus ( hris i. Texas, end player. Price. Bert. Spencer. Ind. sw- ’•-.•i Robertson, E. C.. Indmimp- assist ant coach ami ca; )tain of team two years ago. Roush, Walter L.. Pittsburg, Pa., sub stitute. Shaw. G. 1... i afayette. In.l. Squibb, Sammi, Lawrenceburg, Ind., substitute. Truitt, Samuel Noblesville, Im!., substitute. Details o f the Collision. i Tb.e special tea n l>ore the P n-l n- foot ball team—pro! essors. students aa 1 i "root* rs"—num’- ring ahogeth r near’.. 1.290. It consii ted of twelve -■osi-ke' and was running as the fir t -tion at high spei d. In the first co toll back of t' - engine were the Purdin footbail team, substitute players and managers. Three play ers. the assistant coach. trainer and s.-v---en substitute players of the university team were killed and every cue of tT fifty-three other lersons in the car were either fatally or seriously injured. I From the tweDo coaches were coming the joyous cries < f 1.200 root-rs for Purdue clad in gah. dress, with colors streaming, while in the front coach sat twenty great muscular fellows, on whom the hopes of a brilliant victory on the gridiron was confidently placed. I Around a curve at the Eighteenth 1 street cut Engineer W. 11. Schumaker found directly in'front of him the freight engine nnd coal <|ars moving slowly from a switch leading out of the gravel pit. --Ht—. Vu-mt a-gine and ju in ped. The crash hurleA the passenger engine I nnd three front eoaehes against the steel freight cars loaddd with coal that plowed their way through and buried under a pile of wreckage weighing many tons fully sixty college boys. The first car, ijn which were the players. was completely demolished, the roof being torn away hnd landing across a car of coal, while tl^e body of the car was reduced to kindling wood against the side of the steel freight car. The second coach, containing the band musicians, was partly telescoped, while the third coach was overturned and hurled down the 15-foot embankment. The other coaches did not leave the track. President Stone of the university, with his family, was in the fifth coach ami was not injured! Girls Assist the Dying. Immediately after the shock the passengers, men ahd women, began the frantic work of gearing away the wreckage and pulling out dead and dying classmates and fraternity brothers. The young women, dressed in bright colors for the holiday, performed heroic work. A general alarm was sounded and every assistance the city could afford was rushed to the wreck, which was three miles from the business center. Surgeons dashed up in automobiles, fire wagons, ambulances, express wagons, undertakers’ vehicles, private conveyances and even delivery wagons were sent to carry away the dead and injured. While these were being carried to the morgues and hospitals the work of tearing away the wreck and rescuing those pinned beneath I went on.

SAM PARKS GUILTY. Jury Finds the New York Labor Hou Extorte I. Samuel J. Parks, walking delegate of | Housesmiths and Bridgemen’s I nioq, local No. 2, of New York, was again con- ' victed of extortion in the Court of Gen- ( eral Sessions Friday afternoon, It took j the jurymen just twelve minutes, in which time they took two ballots, to ' agree that Parks had extorted SSOO from tiie Tiifauy Studios Co., a firm of contractors, under threat of keeping them from continuing work on buildings last January. It was shown at the trial that Parks had obtained the SSOO as an “initiation fee” when the housesmiths and bridgemen were on strike on three of the Tiffany contracts in New York City. Parks claimed that this money was a fine levied by his labor union. Later the fact developed that Barks had I een disloyal to his union, inasmuch as he permitted the Tiffany firm to employ non-union men on jobs after having received the SSOO. When Parks heard his doom pronounced all his former bravado left him; he was hanging over the railing, his head bowed ^ith shame and grief. He was the very picture of despair. The convicted walking delegate looked about the court room for his followers, but not one was on hand. While the jury uas out the court room had been cleared and the doors were locked. it was feared that there might be a demonstration. When the jurors filed out of court and Parks was led back toward -the leifrMif the court room there was a wild rush in the outer hall. Parks’ friends wanted to get into the court room. He saw them at the door. He halted as he reached the gate that leads to the prisoners’ pen. “I want to seo the gang. I want to shake hands with the gang,” insisted Parks. But Captain Wheelock of the court squad and the other officers pushed Parks along, and a moment later the door had closed behind him. SCOREDIE IN BURNING BUILDING Many Lives Are Sacrificed in a New York Tcneni -nt-House Fire. Fire early Sunday morning in the tenement at 42*1 Eleventh avenue, known as the "lb use of All Nations,” New 7 ork. caused the death of from fifteen to twenty persons. At 3 o’clock twelve bodies l ad been reC"Vered and the fire < !.!• : < stir. :ed that at least eighteen persons were killed. Most of them died • from s .•location. Among the number w. re - .H-a won; u and childien. I”. •' ' - snppo-ed to be of incen- , d.:ry ermin .1 akhough it burned but । a short time the smoke was so dense , that whole fa:;. . s weie nveicome. On '' e ■ ft.i I’"' .■ > b< lies were recover■d. the stairway leading to this floor , Immug bmaed away. In the dense daikm-ss a terrible panic prevail' d, among the tenants of the house, many of whom . evidently had fallen over the furniture in t'.. :r apartmcuis and m< t their death by suffoenm.n. , So ;i . ~f ti e unfortunates, madib-ned by terror at the nppr< sch of the flames. 1 from the windows in their frantic ■bolt- !■> reach the fire escapes, which , v. ite C r mded witii smoke. The neigh- ! 'od w in a wild stat' of excite- , i. ' : m I for a time th • reserves of the , V. est Thirtii'th str. t station were powerh'ss >,> hold tl > crowds in cheek. !’■ -ilivd occupants of the tenement 1: cis. on ea h side of the Imming struc’io - threw their 1 ogseiio’d goods from the windows, littering the street with a mng’v of broken furniture and shattered trunks. ;

Z i' W M - now more miles of ■ rm. . m ih.;n of steam railway lim -. I ike Si -■: ...is announce that 9. ir ..II _• Z t y r-ls at Elkhart. Ind., ;>t. 1 i olimwood, Ohio, are now open. ’v.; ri r/-'- wi ! l 1-- higher next year. A :. -■ A thi nt i.- ; •; t rail .Im- ha w- as-'-■nt-'d to tin- a lvalue of 10 per cent in the inland rates. S’ of- i.ifrom California this s-.-.-a are < timaied at 28,090 to. noil c-.r I . 1-. Last year they were 23j».M - ar loads. It is announced m Chicago that the eflicers - f the w .M- operating west of ' P! i ligo ere -b-o .।1 to inaugurate a i-h.-i i in v . m of reserving Pullman bet ti s in advance. At‘ : <-s of eoii.-oifidation of the Yomig-t 'wn • 1 South-rn an l the Y gstown and Salem, under the name : of the former, have I filed with the : Sts retary of State of Ohio. The Texas railroad commission has i ruled that certificates of weight on cotton | from point of shipment to destination I shall lake r-receileace ami then affidavits | of railroads and consignee in the order ■ named. At the invitmion of the trunk linos the । advisory committee of the western immi- i gration bureau will meet with the repre- < sentatives of the trunk lines at New i York at an early date for a general discussion of the immigrant situation. At the last meeting of the Central Passenger Association the roads discussed the proposition to discTmtlnue the practice of granting reduced rates for merchants’ meetings in the larger cities. A similar proposition is pending before the Trunk Line Association. The production of steel rails in the United States in 1902 was 2.57G.293 tons, which is only a slight gain over 1901, but it is much more than double the output of any year in the country’s history previous to 1890. In ISG9 there were only 8.G16 tons of steel rails produced in the United States, and those were at the rate of $132 a ton. In 1902 the price was S2B a ton. Third Vice-President William C. Brown of the New York Central confirms the reports that the roads making up the A auderbilt system have dropped a large number of men from their shop i payrolls. "This does not mean the inau- । guration of any new policy on the part | of the management." says Mr. Brown. ■ "It is simply a business step taken to ‘ suit certain conditions growing out of j the industrial situation.” A joint conference was held in New I York last week between the import committee of the trunk line association and a number of traffic oflicials of western roads. The object of the meeting was to fix all import rates on a stable basis, such as will prevent the shipment of foreign goods to points in the West at a lower rate than is made for the same class of articles from points in this coun!ry. It was agreed to establish a fixed tariff of rates from ail ports with the rates from Baltimore as the basis, the gulf railroads to have a 10 per cent differentia in their ^avor

CARLOTTA iS DYING. — The Cnfortnriat - V. i :ov. of Maxiniilinii can \ >| I.iv, Carlotta, the wif. of Maximilian, the : ' Austrian archduke who conquered Mex i ico, has been insam- sima l Napoleon 111. i refused ■ her pleas that he aid her hus- , band, who was finally captured and shot. She is now dying in her prYon, the Chateau de Bonehat. near Brussels. She j still holds a mock eourl daily, fancying herself yet Empress of Mexico, for slid i has been bereft of reason for thirty sev- ( ■ en year . 'i'o humor her tile attendant i l i pretend that she presides over their en- I tert ainments. Carlotta was 17 when she became Maximilian's bride in 1857. It was a : love match and the ten years of their fH- w ’■W MBi CARLOTTA. wedded life were a continuous honeymoon. But .Maximilian was overthrown, ■ captured, led out behind a hill at dayi break and shot by the "execution guard.” Before the capture of the Emperor the Empress pleaded with Napoleon HI. and with the Pope to aid her husband. Her pr;iyrs were ummswered. The first symptoms of mental derangement xvere manifested on the day on which she had her last interview with Napoleon. Her m.itr i is harmlesis. King Leopold seldom i sees her. It is a- public scandal that hi' dissipated her fortune. The most pathetic feature of Empr 'ss ; Cariotta’s fate is her hallucination that ; her hu ‘baud is alive. She talks of him frequently, and often begs courtiers to send her husliand to her at once. NAMES DAY OF THANKSGIVING. President Roosevelt Issues the Annual Proclamation. The President has issued bis annual । Thanksgiving proclamation in the following terms: "By the President of the United States of America: “A Proclamation. "The season is at hand when, accord- ' ing to the custom of our people, it falls upon the President to appoint a day of praise and thanksgiving to God. "During the last year the Lord has ' ; dealt I »tmtifully with us. giving us peace ■■ at home and abroad and the chance for our citizens to work for their welfare unhindered by war, famine or plague. It behooves u.s not only to rejoice ’ greatly because of what has been given us, but to accept it with a solemn sense of responsibility. realizing that under heaven it rests with us ourselves to show that

thus been intrusted to our care. "in no other place and at no other | time has the experiment of government j of tin- people, iiy the people, for the peo- j pie, been tried on so vast a scale as here ! in our own country in the opening years • of the twentieth century. Failure would J not only.lie a dreadful thing for us, but ’ a dreadful thing for all mankind, be- j cans-- it would mean loss of hope for all who believe ill the power ami tin- right-eousm-ss of liberty. Therefore, in thanking God for the mercies extended to us in ti. ■ past, wo beseech Him that He 1 n ay not withhold them in the fufnre. nnd that our hearts may be roused to 1 war steadfastly for good and against all | th-- forces of evil, public and private. I We pray for strength, and light, so that ' in the coming years we may with clean- i lim>-«. fearlessness and wisdom do our | .iiloit.-d work on the earth in such man- I m-r as to show that we are not altogeth- I - :• one i-r'.hy of the blessings we have re- ■ ceived. "Now. th-n-for-. I. Theo,loro Rooso-v-lt. President of the United States, do; hi I'eby d -<igmile as a -lay of general I thank sgiving Thursday, the 2Gth of lite ; commg November, ami do recommend that throughout the land people cease I from their wonted Occupations, and in their several homes and places of wor- j ship render thanks unto Almighty God i for His mnni 1 mercies. "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the ; United States to be affixed. "Done at the City of Washington this j 31st -lay of October in the year of our I Lord one thousand nine hundred and I three of the independence of The United S’at. s, the one hundred and twenty- । eighth. "THEOI>ORE ROOSEVELT. "By the President: "JOHN HAY. Secretary of State." THE COTTON-BOLL WEEVIL. New Enemy That Threatens the Rtrin of a Mighty Business. A new enemy to King Cotton has appeared in the Southwest so formidable a- to cause the very throne of that mon- ! arch to shake. Individually, this f.-,- 1 of tli" cotton plant is small and insignificant, only a tiny insect; but in its collective capacity, where it forms a host in numbers like the sands of the sea. it becomes a scourge more to be dreaded than the GoMis and Vandals of the olden times. The mime of this pest is the cotton-boll weevil. The creature is believed to be a native of Mexico. It crossed the Rio Grande a few years ago and invaded Texas, where it has already executed vengeance in a more terrible form than any army from over the southern border could ever have done. It has .Iready inflicted damages to the cotton crop of Texas: estimated at not loss than S4IMI,(HK 1,009, and nothing has yet been I discovered to stay its ravages, although the State government has offered the I handsome sum of $5,000 to anyone who I will devise a remedy. The weevil host ' is marching steadily northward through Texas, ami there is great fear that it : may reach the cotton fields of the other ; Gulf States, and threaten a great iudus- | try with ruin. The creatures are about the size of the I common house fly. of oval shape, dark ! gray color, winged, and six-legged. The j body is broad at the roar and tapers toward the head, which is supplied wil l a long, curved proboscis ami two delicate antennae, or feelers. In their working state the insects are exceedingly | lively an-l not easily captured. They I are able to fly long distances, and ap I pear suddenly in new and unexpected i places. The weevils' power of endur- I ance is very great, a fact which adds ; much to their formidable character. *

1 Wrife ;r„ w i I>un Co.’s [New York. Weekly Review of Trade Industrial activity has increased soni' what, many plants resuming and others preparing to reopen Monday. Several pending labor coutn-versies have reached amicable adjustment, adding to the ag- : gregate of wage earners employed. On i the other hand, strikes are ordered and 1 Borne mills will be closed by lack of new 1 business, while the struggle for control lof the copper properties has thrown thousands out of work. While there is evidence of a setback in the steel industry and some hesitation in textiles at the East, the general tenor of these reports is encouraging for a continuance of prosperity, particularly in the sections where agriculture is the chief occupation. Collections arc causing some uneasiness, and financial conditions are unsettled. Merchandise is freely distributed; earnings for October thus far surpass last year’s by 5.9 per cent and those of 1901 by 13.4 per cent. Purchases of iron and steel products are still restricted to immediate requirements as a rule, although the decline in quotations appears checked. Some trade authorities anticipate an avalanche of business when buyers are convinced that more attractive terms cannot be secured, but other experts believe contracts will not be freely placed until financial coni ditions improve to such an extent that । the railways and other big consumers can serve funds readily. Some increased interest is noted in structural material for office buildings, warehouses and bridges, but orders are insignificant when compared with last year's business in this line. For the first time this season it is possible to record a distinctly better tone in the market for cotton goods. Print cloths are firmer, occasional small advances being ipioted, and the market for I staple and fancy prints is strengthened by the paucity of supplies. A slight .n---crease in sales of woolens is not sufficient to recover lost ground, nor is - pplemontary business up to th- v n ime that should be coming forward at this time. Failures this week .were 253 in the United States, against 233 last year, and 15 in Canada, compared with 22 a year ago, | YU Although the curtailChiCdOO. i ment of production in fin- । J isheJ iron and a partial ' strike of packing house workers for more wages has created a disturbing feeling, but little appreciable reaction appears in the aggregate volume of current business. Freight traffic shows no falling away. The distribution of merchandise through wholesale and leading retail j channels compares favorably with a ’ year ago. and there are larger dealings ' ! at the banks and in foodstuffs. Weather ■ | conditions have favored the progress of ■ seeding and farm work, and the marketing of crops adds to a wider circulation of money throughout the interior. The prices of agricultural products maintain unusual firmness. Machinery find hardware factories are kept quite Cusy, some of the latter working hard to overtake ,

a satisfactory showing, arnTTlie number of reported failures for the f'Licago district does not exceed same week of 1902. Grain shipments for six davA. including 2,757.330 bushels of corn, aggregate 5.550.740 bushels, and are almost 29 per cent over the previous week and fully double those of a year ago. The general demand has been fair and prices well sustained compared with closing a week ago. Live stock receipts. 324,528 head, are slightly over the corresponding week of 1902. Sheep advanced 15 cents per hundred weight. Choice beeves declined 15 cents and hogs closed weak with 50 cents loss. Dealings in pr--vi?ions showed best on domestic buying, and closing quotations were unchanged in ribs. 5 cents higher in lard and 32Z cents better in pork. Chicago—Cattle-, common to prime, S3.GO to $5.40; hogs, shipping grades. s4..'>o to $5.35; sheep, fair to cl:"? e.S3.GO to $3.80; wheat. No. 2 red. 81c t -82 c; corn. No. 2,43 cto 44c; oats, standard, 34c to 3Gc; rye, No. 2. 55c to 56c; hay, timothy. $8.51) to $12.00; prairie. SGJH> to $11.50; butter, choice creamery. ISc to 21c; eggs, fresh, ISc to 20c; potatoes, 52c to 62c. I mlianap--!is—Catt!--, -hip; ini. >3- to $4.75; hogs, choice light. $4.90 to $545; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $3.25; wheat. No. 2. 83c to S4c; corn. No. 2 white. 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 white, 36c to 37c. St. Louis —Cattle. $4.50 to $5.69; hogs, $4.50 to $5.35: sheep. $3.00 to $3.65; wheat. No. 2,85 cto SGc; corn. No. 2, 39c to 40c; oats. No. 2. 34c to 35c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $4.25 to $4.65: hogs. $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.25; wheat. No. 2. S6c to 87c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; ' mixed, 35c to 37c; rye. No. 2. _ Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 to .>5.00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.40; sheep. 82.59 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2, SGc to 87c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 46c to 48c; oats. No. 3 white, 37c to 39c; rye. No. 2. 56c to 57c. Milwaukee —Wheat. No, 2 northern. Sic to 82c: corn. No. 3. 44c to 45c; oats. No. 2 white. 36c to 37c; rye. No. 1.55 c to 56c; barley. No. 2. 64c to 65c; pork, mess. $11.25. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixed. 84c to 86c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 47c to 4Sc: oats. ?’o. 2 mixed. 37c to 38c; rye. No. 2. 54c to 56c; clover seed, prime. $6.40. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers. $4.59 to $5-50; hogs, fair to prime. $4.00 to $5.80; sheep, fair to choice. $3.25 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $5.40. New York —Cattle. $4.00 to $5.20; hogs, $4.00 to SS.GO; sheep. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 re-1. 86c to 87c; corn, No. 2. 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2 white, 42c to 43e; butter, creamery, ISc to 22c; eggs, western. 21c to 25c. This and That. Bertha Tipple, aged 12. arrived at Shelby. Ohio, having run away from Dowie's city to go to her sister, Mrs. Albert Peltier. The manager of a St. D-uis transit company was finc-1 again the ether day for not running cars through to their destination. Twenty-one more anti-trast suits against the Pullman Company ami the roads over which it operates have been filed st Austin. Texas.