Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 48, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 June 1904 — Page 2

®l)c J n impendent. W. A.. EADLEY, I’ubllshor. WALKERTON, . INDIANA. AROUND THE WORLD Jacob Wurm, a miner, and his nephew, Leo XX urm, both of Frugality, Pa., were instantly killed by lightning, while another nephew, Henry’ Wurm, was seriously injured. They took refuge in a toolhouse, which was struck by’ lightning. Gen. XX ade, in command in the Philippines, has given orders to stop neglect of post cemeteries in the islands where in some instances graves were found without headstones, headstones wore trans- : post'd and fences down, permitting eat- 1 tie to overrun the plots. * . 11. Dorry, aged 60 years, and his wife, Lizzie, 40 years of age, were found 1 dead at their home, 1408 South Juniper * street, Philadelphia, death in each case ’ being due to a buffet wound. It is the * belief of the polish that Dorry shot his wife and then killed himself. F The flagship New York, cruiser MarUmIBF bh'iKcC ;’xj^oa6^Rminington am’ ‘pUB

-a- t>u. . . .^U PesiU' tile showed fight and was kmeu u. . mother. Henry Trautfether, Jr., shot and hilled Ernest Coritz near Oak Lake, Minn. The dead man’s brother chased Trautfether a few miles when he jumped from his wagon and shot himself. A year ago Coritz insulted Trautfether"s wife and was just released from jail by the court as no indictment was brought against him. Gilbert P. Dodge, a well-known horseman of Pueblo, Colo., shot and killed his wife and her friend, Mrs. Maud McKinney, while the two women were riding in a buggy. The murderer then tried to end his own life, but was arrested before he could do so. Dodge refuses to talk, but his friends say he was actuated by jealousy. Three suicides and three fatal accidents was Cincinnati’s record Sunday. The suicides were John Pennieh and Thomas Maxfield, laborers, and Frank Ilder, brewery’ employe. Ilder disappeared after supposedly drinking enough rat poison in a glass of beer to kill a dozen men. All the suicides were on account of matrimonial troubles. An attempt was made by a gang of highwaymen to hold up Superintendent W. H. C. Ramsey and Secretary Frank li'ward of the Johnstown Water Company, while they were taking SIO,OOO to pay off their 500 men at Dalton Run dam, near Johnstown, Pa. A revolver battle followed, in which the two horses in the paymaster’s party’ were killed. Secretary Howard escaped to a farm house with the money. In Lexington. Ky., Police Judge John J. Riley revived the whipping post when he sentenced Simon Scearse, a 15-year-old negro lad, to be whipped in the public square. Scearce had struck a white boy. The court decreed that the boy’s mother take the negro to the public square and give him twenty lashes with a buggy whip. In the presence of a crowd the mother administered the punishment as directed. This is the first time such an incident has been witnessed in Kentucky since the Civil War. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. New Y0rk...30 15 St. Louis 21 22 Cincinnati ...31 16 Brooklyn ....19 29 Chicago 29 15 Boston 17 28 Pittsburg ...23 22 Philadelphia. . 9 32 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 32 15 Cleveland ....23 20 New Y0rk...26 19 St. Louis 21 22 Chicago 27 21 Detroit 17 27 Philadelphia..2s 20 Washington... 835 Standings in the American Association are as follows: W. L. W. L. Columbus ...28 IS Indianapolis. .26 23 Milwaukee ..30 21 Toledo 19 27 St. Paul 28 20 Minneapolis.. .20 30 Louisville ...29 24 Kansas City.. 15 32 BREVITIES, John Alexander Dowie was practically driven out of London and took refuge in France. Every London hotel was closed to him. For the loss of an eye Bessie Dresser of Standish, Me., has been awarded $18,500 damages against the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company by a jury. While the Taihoku was engaged in laying mines at the entrance to Port Arthur a mine exploded, killing one officer and eighteen men and wounding two officers and seven men. Mrs. Murray’ Branney died at her home in Rahway. N. J., death being due to fright caused by a burglar. The woman was retiring when the thief entered her sleeping room and she fell in a faint. End of the long strike which has tied up commerce on the great lakes has been readied through the buneqder of the Masters and Pilots’ Association. The captains have been ordered back to work. Sheriff Sim D. May of Crenshaw County, Alabama, was arrested on a charge of peonage. He is said to have held a half-witted negress under a contract to work out a tine which had been remitted by the Governor. A Louisville court has ordered the administrator of the Craik estate to sell the historic bookcase presented by George Washington to Dr. James Craik, his family physician. The Mount Vernon Society has offered $1,600 for it. R. B. Torrence was killed and Rivers Torrence, Prof. G. W. Perkins, Dr. Holton and a son of the last named were seriously wounded in a street battle at Elk, Texas, with shotguns and revolvers. A quarrel over the selection of a school teacher caused the tragedy. In Kingfisher. Oklahoma, Joseph D. Oke pleaded guilty before Judge Graham to spanking his mother-in-law, and was given the minimum penalty of $5 and costs. The judge, impressed with the extenuating circumstances in the case, publicly expressed his regret that two spankings do not go with one fine. Counsel representing Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps filed in the District Court at Denver a petition for a reopening of the ex-parte hearing at which her husband, Laurence C. Phipps, was appointed custodian of their children. It is claimed she received no notice of the steps then taken. The Federal District Court nt Boston appointed Atherton N. Hunt trustee in bankruptcy for the Dr. Green Nervura Company, which recently failed, with Pettingill & Co. Claims aggregating SIOO,OOO were approved, and the assets were reported as about $46,000. Claims of Pettingill & Co. for between $400,000 and $500,000 were not presented.

EASTERN. Jacob Frankel, a merchant of Baltimore. filed a bankruptcy petition. Debts, $63,000; assets, $125. Lawrence C. Phipps, a wealthy steel magnate of Pittsburg, kidnaped his two daughters from a hotel at New York, where they’ were with their mother. Reginald X anderbilt, disgusted at what he termed unfairness at the Philadelphia horse show, left the ring without the customary courtesies to the judges. After having paid SSOO for an oil painting of her late husband, made by Thomas Nast, Mrs. Andrew Reasoner of < East Orange, N. J., ordered it burned. । In Margaretsville, N. Y., George J. Gould has obtained a verdict of 6 cents ] against John Crispell, a farmer, who ; was caught fishing on the Gould prem- ] ises. , i Iwo battalions of midshipmen in i Annapolis fought for forty-five minutes t in sham battle for possession of the old armory building. The holders had to ( evacuate. ( Two workmen were fatally injured t and several others seriously burned by < an explosion of a mixing furnace at the « plant of the Monongahela Steel Com- t pany at McKeesport, Pa. Fire was discovered in the seven- I story storehouse of McKesson & Rob- t -’ps, the who'esale druggists in Ann ; __ A New York. The building was r The loss will be heavv. X -a

The new $700,000 medica» laboratory of the University’ of Pennsylvania was dedicated the other day. It is considered the best equipped institution of the kind in the United States. Meyer Guggenheim, aged 76. head of the family of multi-millionaire mining and smelting men of New York, lias been made defendant in a breach of promise suit for SIOO,OOO. Mrs. Isadore Apfel, frantic with fear when she found her home in Hames, hurled her baby to the street, killing it. and prepared to leap when the New York firemen rescued her with scaling ladders. William 11. Payne, a negro. who on May 19, 1902. shot and killed Alfred Austin at Crow’s Run in a fit of jealousy, was hanged in Beaver. Pa. This was the first hanging in Beaver County in forty-three years. WESTERN. A heavy snowstorm began at Leadville, Colo. Four inches of snow covers the ground. Cowboys in Colorado killed in battle one of the trio of bandits that held up a Rio Grande train near Parachute. Twenty-seven persons were injured by the wrecking of an electric ear returning from the lowa G. A. R. encampment at Clear Lake. The Hotel LaPintoresca, at Pasadena, Cal., was transferred from Milton D. Painter to George XX'ilson. a hotel man of Chicago, for $125,000. In Kansas City John XX'. Tulley was given a verdict of $1,500 against John Bowling, his rival, who whipped him in the girl’s presence and won her. Many fires on the Northwest and XVest Sides in Chicago caused a property loss of $500,000 and lead the police to believe that incendiaries are at work. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided that taxation of credits is constitutional and does not constitute double taxation, as contended by the State commission. The customs offices, the XX’ells and Fargo express office and the Southern Pacific freight and ticket office at Nogales. Ariz., were destroyed by incendiary fire. In a battle between three alleged postoffice robbers and a posse of citizens in Marshfield, Mo., two of the robbers were badly wounded and captured, while the third escaped. Five members of a family named Smith were drowned at Wadena, near Antlers, I. T. The father, mother and three children were the victims of the unprecedented flood. * Major E. J. Taggart, U. S. A., located at Fort Leavenworth, has brought suit at Wooster, Ohio, for divorce from Grace Viola Culvert Taggart of Chicago. He alleges desertion. L. C. Phipps, who created a sensation in New York by having his children taken from his wife’s apartment in a hotel, has filed suit in Denver for divorce. The complaint was not made public. A. C. Jenkins, living six miles east of Norton, Kan., while beating his wife, was shot dead by his 11-year-old daughter. Jenkins was insane, and had often threatened to kill his whole family. The worst storm for years, wind, rain and hail, raged near XX’illiston, N. I). Several barns, houses and windmills were blown down, but no one was hurt. The wind blew seventy-five miles an hour. Au explosion of gas in the intercepting sewer at 39th and II listed streets, Chicago, killed Guy Miltimore, an assistant city engineer, and three workmen and injured several persons. A pumping station was wrecked. Clifford Boylan was fatally wounded and two other white men were severely injured in a revolver and knife battle between white men and negroes in Canton, Ohio. Seventeen negroes were arrested to save them from the whites. Denver and Rio Grande passenger Uuiu. 3, west Luuud from Denyer, was held up by five masked men three miles west of Parachute, Colo. Oue sealed bag containing specie was taken from the express safe, which was dynamited. An effigy of Gov. Davis was hanged from a pole in a conspicuous place in Rector, Ark., as a mark of disapproval of the Governor's refusal to save from the gallows Martin X’owell, an aged murderer, who was hanged at Paragould. Captain Frederick S. XX’ild, commissary of the Thirteenth infantry, was shot in his room at Fort McDowell, Cal. He died almost immediately. The officers at the post believe his death was caused by the accidental discharge of his revolver. The body of Annie Jones, 18 years old, was found in a buggy five miles north of XX’ichita, Kan. There were six bullet wounds in her body. William Ward, an intimate friend, with whom she had been driving, cannot be found. No reason is known for the murder. Three passengers were injured in a collision between a heavily loaded Minneapolis and St. Louis excurtion train and an empty Northern Pacific passenger train in Minneapolis. The force of the collision telescoped the baggage and first coach of the excursion train. During a funeral at Seville, Ohio, a panic occurred when the floor of the church gave way, precipitating the entire congregation into the cellar. The funeral ceremonies were being conducted over the body of Herbert Secrest, and the little church, building was crowded. Nebraska on Friday celebrated its semi-centennial. The principal exercises were held in Omaha, where a grand military and civic parade marched through the downtown streets, following which formal exercises were held at the Auditorium. Henry D. Estabrook of

men need apply for work.” All strikers ! have been paid off and informed they are no longer on the pay rolls. A man who committed suicide at the Arcade Hotel in Los Angeles by inhaling illuminating gas has been identified as E. D. Sheets, who for the past twenty years had been in the employ of the Snyder-Trunkamp Company of Cleveland. Albert Blackmore and Charles Bittner, each 17 years old, were drowned in the Maumee River at Toledo, Ohio, through the capsizing of their rowboat. Joseph St. John, Fred Bollin and Albert Clifton, also occupants of the boat, were saved. A Newfoundland dog taken from Omaha to Portland, Ore., when his owners moved there a year ago, has returned to his old home. His blistered feet and shaggy coat are sufficient evidence that a large part of the 1,800 miles was covered on foot. The general synod of the Reformed Church in America, at its session at Grand Rapids, adopted strong resolutions enjoining ministers from marrying divorced persons, excepting where the separation was in accordance with scriptural teachings. ; An order has been issued by Gov. Peabody of Colorado making effective 1 the suspension of martial law in Las I Animas County, where a strike of coal miners, members of the United Mine - Workers of America, has been on for ‘ “’ v 1 'nonth« I ‘

was asked for." resulted in no at the home of,Antone Schoen i*. City, which caused the death of Schoen's wile and injury to three other persons. The woman, supposing she was using vinegar, poured from the jug into a skillet on the stove and an explosion and tiro followed. Ten lives wire lost the other night in the floods in Indian Territory and Oklahoma. A cloudburst carried away a house in Mil! ('reek m whh’h Mrs. R. 11. XX ilson. her 2-year-old babe and Miss Fai Davis were asleep. In Kinmiebi X alley five children of Tony Jones were drowned and a child was swept away at Bengal. In Hobart. Okla., Charles Hennessy was lost (Tossing a flooded creek. M. T. Rattiff, section foreman at Kenosha, XX’ts., whose promotion has been ordered lw the railroad company for his supposed heroic work in saving a passenger train from destruction, has confessed that his story was a fabrication and that he piled ties on the track himself in order to appear in the role of hero. The police forced the confession. Rattiff will be discharged. SOUTHERN. Mary X'irginia Rhodes. tin alleged heir to Cecil Rhodes’ estate, who was missing, has been found at Asheville. N. C.. where she is a missionary and the wife of a man named Baker. Mrs. J. (L Wilson of Knoxville, Tenn., died from the (fleets of the bite of a black spider. She was in her room dressing when the insect bit her, and the poison spread so rapidly physicians were unable to cheek it. The home of Henry Suthern. near Maggard, Ky.. was burned the other night and all of the occupants perished. The charred remains of Mr. and Mrs. * Suthern and their daughter. Jennie, were I found by neighbors. George Billups of Norfolk. X'n.. a cabin I passenger on the old Dominion line I steamer Princess Anne, from Newport ; i News and Norfolk, jumped overboard . while the vessel was steaming Up the lower bay off the Romer shoal. The body j w. s iccovcred and taken to New York. , H. S. Banta. 55 years old, a clerk in ■ the mailing division of the Louisville I posioffire. was arrested on the charge of I tiffing the mails. lb admitted his guilt. . Bi nta has a wife and children. He ; say; he stole because he could not sup- I port his family on a Salary of S6OO a year. FC REIGN. The Japanese captured Siuyen after a hard battle lasting nearly all day. Kuropatkin reports that the Russian loss in the fighting at Saimatze war. 100 killed and wounded. Admiral Togo reports that lie is informed that the Russians evacuated Yinkow. the port of Newchwang. after the recent shelling of the shore near that place by Japanese war ships. Eight hundred Russians are reported to have fallen in a fight near Pulantien. The Japanese led the enemy into a trap by a feigned retreat. A dispatch from General Kuroki’s headquarters says that only outpost fighting is going on. aud the Japanese are bringing up their supplies without delay. The Russian minister in Berne. Switzerland, M. X'. X’. Jadovski, was shot in the street and seriously injured in the head. His assailant was a Russian named Ilnitzki. He had been in Berne for several weeks, and complained that the Russian authorities had confiscated an estate belonging to him. Two battalions of Japanese fell into a Russian ambush in a ravine thirty miles southeast of Hai-Cheng and nearly every man was killed by the close range fire from infantry and artillery. The disaster took place during a flanking movement from Fengwangcheug to get around the Russian right at Hai-Cheng. The Russians in the ravine succeeded in escaping. The London Daily .Mail asserts: ’Two infernal nachines wore found oti a recent night concealed in tobacco boxes in the Tsarskoye Selo Palace, where the Russian Emperor is now residing. One of the machines was in the dining room, the other in the audience chamber. The mechanism in each was working when discovered. The strictest secrecy is observed and this statement. although True in every detail, is sure to be categorically denied. IN GENERAL. The weekly trade reports show improved tone because of encouraging crop news, good collections aud investment activity. Steerage rates from London have been cut and the rate war is expected to bring an undesirable class of immigrants. The fare is as low as sls and even $lO. The passenger steamer Canada, of the Richelieu and Ontario Company, was run down aud sunk by another steamer in the St. Lawrence River near Montreal, five persons being killed. Engrossed in large Chinese characters, the deed to the American legation building site in Pekin has been delivered to the State Department in Washington. No one there could read it. John D. Rockefeller is perfecting a $2,500,000,000 mine combine, having secured control of the greatest mining properties in the country. He expects to control almost the entire output of leading minerals. Theophile Belanger, a murderer, standing on the gallows, died of fright in Montreal, Que., an instant before the । trap was sprung. He was dead when । the trap fell. The autopsy showed his heart was ruptured.

BLOWN I —- - MO DIE DASTARDLY^ UNI Charge of Dyn H NCXV York EX’ Crowded Der SteaMd". ence, Colon aud Others J As the res. WILD PANIC kill non-umor dead and dis. Injured, while ence and Crij tricken Sunday School dependence, ^ ea p j n f 0 g a y e About 200 [ plodcd to destr raised a crow and parts of urso ns perished in up a long dis crowded steamer the blast. ’ .. , ... , .... t New X or,; <\ ednesthere is only ground to tel. e faster is the most the most cru Iroquoir Theat. r lire miners’ strike 0 . Like the Iroquois spot of th^dl inghter of the innoThe explo» , , Monday mot than 1,3,1 llr s ‘ * ” a Pla*' wi’ 1)O: ^ 'vero childr. n. ^irryins ’he Sumiay yr. Mark's German

caught f.re in the & jute, ami was The (‘.xcu. .-..oiist ’. were nicml ers of an Evangelical Lullnran Church. Th? great triple-deaked. excursion .steamer which for yeat^ Ims pled between New X'ork and'Rockaway Bench was crowth'd with Hie g:ty crowd wl:e:i ii left its ph r. Chih r.m, wo men and a scattering of uien thronged the uppe.' (leeks. The ihurri.ane deck was thronged, the niddle deck packed and the lower deck tilled. The tire broke out just as the ex ursionists aboard the Slocum had finally settled down to enjoy their ride through the idcturesquv Heli Gate and up the Sound to their picnicking gtounds. A brass band was clashing out one of the latest popular airs and the children were singing and dancing. Flags were flying from every staff of the great boat. .More than one tuglwiat or steamboat 'pilot turned around in his wheelhouse as he swept by the General Slocum to watch the gay and joyous crowd. As many of the women ; md children as possible were crowded together in thick, huddled masses on the Innricane deck when the Hames l>rid<e out. The first sweep of the Hanies not only cut off escape from this liurrii ane deck of the big boat, but also burned away the light wooden work on which it was erected. Many of these people who had been sitting on the hurricane deck must have been birmsl to death in the blazing furnace which roared unI derneath. XX ithin a few seconds after the first | burst of flamt' ami smoke the happy j crowds of people were tinned into a I mad. fighting m<>b. Mothers tried to i save their children and were torn from them by otiyo- mothers in sear< h of ; i iheit • hllditJL. Men fought together | । and everyth*(g was in wild tumult. The excursion lx»at. wrapped in ’ flames anti smoke am! with the people i on board fighting and sen anting in । panic and distress, was finally mound- ' ied on the northwes spit of North Brothers’ island. There some of the passengers managed to make their escape. XX’hen the boat was l>ea< he 1 it was ablaze from stent to stern and practically gutted out. XVhat could be seen of the rails and guards on the decks of the boat showed that tin y had bi on splintered and torn as the crowds on 1 board fought in th“>r mad panic. They i showed also that numbers of people • jumped or v,ere pushed from the decks I to death as the boat went tip the | river. THOUSANDS OF ELK. So Nmnerous in Montana that Farmers Find Them a Nuisance. As a result of the law in tiiis State prohibiting the killing of elk. these animals have become an unqualified nuisance to the ranchers and stockmen residing along the north boundary of the Yellowstone National I’,-irk. So numerous and so bold have the animals become since the enactment of the law protecting them that the ranchers who suffer from their depredations would willingly see the statute that gives the elk the liberty of the land and an undue share of the fullness thereof wiped out of existence. Since the decree went out from Helena some years ago that it was illegal to kill elk, the animals have multiplied bejond all reason, andrhave become so emboldened by a few years of freedom from molestation thnlt now they appear to have little or no fear of man. Between Livingston and the Yellowstone Park there are thousawls of them running at will Oil the rr’’! t', ami ft is nft unenmmi>n sight to ei/’antcr herds of twenty or more in - ^^adleys and about the ranches at any time of the day. It is chiefly in the valleys, where man has gone in. dug ditches, and by means of irrigation created garden spots in the desert of twenty years ago, that the elk are seen both in summer and winter. In the summer season, while the various crops are glowing, the farmer ; complain iliat the elk are by far the worst cm my I with wliich they have to contend. Sparks ftrom tlie Wires, A tornado in Oklahoma resulted in the death of Mrs. Thomas Payne in the town of XX’alters. Considerable damage was done. , Curtis Jett, under life sentence for j the murder of Attorney J. B. Marcum at Jackson, has been taken to the prison at Frankfort. ■ An unidentified man was shot aud ini stantly killed by Frank XX’. Ironside, a s Butte, M<jnt., saloonkeeper. Ironside > claims the man was attempting to hold him up. Salt Lake police are searching for • Henry Baxter Kingsley, tt wealthy New ’ Yorker, who disappeared last Novem- ■ her. and who is believed to be in the vicinity of that city. i XX'illard H. Myers, bookkeeper for the • National Safe Deposit. Savings and I Trust Company of XX’ashington, has lis- •' appeared and Is alleged to have stolen L the proceeds of stock*’, valued at $17,006. As the result of a conference at i XX’ashington between Secretary Moody J and navy bureau chiefs, a board will i be appointed to recommend a general ’ plan for the projected improvements for the Guanfonomo naval station. j

LOSIZ CVLR S I 00,000,0G0. Farmers Hard Hit by Diseases Which Injure Plants. Losses to crops through plant diseases are estimated now as mounting into hundreds of millions of dollars yearly. According to the report for 1903. just issued by the Department of Agriculture. the damage to the potato crop through blight and rot was $10,000,009 in New York State alone. From all parts of the country reports of plant diseases affecting all sorts of crops come and make up a total monetary loss that it is wellnigh impossible to estimate. The cotton root rot in Texas prevailed to a greater extent than for many years, the loss being estimated at about $2,000,000. Anthraonose has been generally prevalent from North Carolina to Georgia and locally injurious, especially to sea island cotton in south Georgia. XX’ilt continues to spread slowly and now occurs ii. limited areas in North Carolina and South Carolina, and is widely prevalent in south Georgia and .southeastern Alabama, in connection with root rot. Rust occurred as usual on the poorer soils and was unusually severe in Texas. The potato blight and rot caused widespread destruction, being especially enormous in New York, Penusylvania, northeastern Ohio, Michigan —t++ul—Wtsmtrri-H 'PM* eherry shot hole fungus was injurious in New York and Pennsylvania and prevailed destructively in lowa and Nebraska. Crown gall is becoming more serious every year as a nursery pest throughout the country. The black rot of grape was more general in Connect!cult and Rhode Island, the loss being 40 per cent. Corn smut caused heavy loss in Maryland and was common in New York. Corn leaf blight was general in Connecticut, Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania and Nev. - Jersey. Alfalfa rust affected Ohio and rice blast was felt especially in t!ie Cooper River section of South Carolina, where the crop was over 100,COO bushels short. The loss from the spread of this disease in the last six years is estimated at $1,000.- < m hl Asparagus rust is increasing in the East and important canning districts are badly affected. XX'atermelon wilt is spreading in the South and cantaloupe leaf blight was injurious, especially in the South, the loss in Florida being 40 per cent. Apple sc.th was much less injurious In the East, but it seems to have been more destructive in 'he XVest, ('specially in XVisconsin. Eastern Nebraska and Missouri. Apple canker or brown rot was prevalent in Connecticut, Ohio, New York and Michigan. Black heart, a disease affecting the wood of apple trees, was reported from Montana, Nebraska, lowa. Kansas and adjacent States. Brown rot was again less injurious in the Eastern States, but was very destructive to Southern peaches, the loss amounting to from 30 to 60 per cent of the crop in Georgia. Pencil leaf curl seems to cause immense loss'es each year. In Ohio, in Ottawa I County alone, the loss from leaf curl I was $.'.0.000. The department in a report on the principal injurious Insects of 1903 says I the eah'ndar year showed smaller loss- * es than in many years. Certain pests I caused great injury in limited locali- ■ ties and several new insect enemies | of crops were di>-oven'd. The Mexican cotton boll weevil, j which spread into Louisiana, is stampJ ed as the most important insect pest i of the present time. The mileage of the railway system of Mexico now aggregates 10,078 miles. The Southern and Louisvjlle and Nashville will erect a joint brick and stone passenger station at Decatur. Ala. Negotiations have been reopened by the Memphis Freight Bureau to induce the Cotton Belt to continue its Memphis business. American capitalists will build a railroad between Culiacan, State of Sinaloa, Mexico, aud Topia, State of Durango, a distance of about sewnty-five miles. It is rumored that the passeuger department of the Erie is giving favorable consideration to a plan to equip the road with its own sleeping and parlor cars. The new steamships wliich are being built by Mr. James J. Hill for the traffic between Puget Sound and the Orient will each carry 22,000 lons of freigld. The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern has established a new sleeping car service from Chicago to Charleston, XX’. Va., in connection with the Ohio Central. The Pittsburg. Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis and the Louisville and Nashville have entered into a 64-year agreement by which the terminals, switches i and other facilities of the two roads ale to be used in common. Amended articles of incorporation of the Kansas Central, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad have been filed at Guthrie, changing the name of the company to the Dominion and Gulf, and increasing the capital from $20,000,001) to $50,000,000. ! Shipments of flour and grain all-rail to the East last week from Chicago were the largest in a month. Flour increased 9.965 barrels for the week, and 59.241 barrels over last year. Grain increased 370,000 bushels, and was L< (0,000 bushels over last year's. In the jirovision traffic there was a gain of 645 tons for the week, and 5.609 tons over last year. The Louisville and Nashville is said to have purchased land in Atlanta, Ga., under the stipulation that freight terminals to cost SBOO,OOO be erected thereon. The Southern Pacific passenger department reports that 23.904 homeseekers arrived in California during tne months of March and April, an increase of 3,000 over last year. The railroads having refused to comply with the laws of Missouri requiring railways to furnish free return transportation to shippers of live stock, the commission of the State has ordered a hear- ' ing on the complaint of a shipper, and j will test the law before the courts.

NAMING A CANDIDATE FIGURES PROVE IT A COSTLY UNDERTAKING. The Two Leading National Conventions Will Involve Expenditures Exceeding Two Millions of Dollars — How the Enormous Expenses Are Divided. The country is getting ready to spend rather more than a million dollars in nominating a candidate for the presidency at Chicago in the three or four days beginning June 21, when the Republican national convention is to be held. In three or four days beginning July 6 at least as much will be spent for a like purpose by the Democratic national convention, to be held in St. Louis. As the Democratic convention seems likely to be the more strenuous of the two and may last longer, more money will probably be spent in St. Louis than in Chicago. It will certainly cost $2,000,000 to place the two leading presidential candidates before the peo< pie, and this big sum will be considerably larger if either nomination should be hotly contested. These figures may seem excessive, but here are a few facts to bear them out: Needs Small Army. In the first place, it will take between 4,000 and 6.000 men and women to run the convention and report its proceedings. This small army will be divided into five general classes, of which the delegates will be most important, numerically as well as otherwise. They will number about 2.000, half being actual delegates and half alternates. To be exact, so far as the Republican convention is concerned, there will be 972 delegates from the States, and an average of four each from the six territories of Alaska. Arizona. Hawaii, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Porto Rico, or 24 in all, making a total of 996, or a grand total of delegates and alternates of 1,892. The ''convention staff” includes deputy sergeants-at-arms, ushers, messenger.q pages and doorkeepers. Based on the average of past conventions, tiiere will be 200 deputies, 200 ushers. 200 mWsengers, 200 pages and 100 door keepers—9oo all told—and there may bo more. Next come the newspaper men—and women—including shorthand reporters, correspondents, photographers, artists, telegraphers and messengers. Tiiere will probably bo about a thousand of them in all; between 400 and 500 press seats are always reserved in the con- > venlion hall, with the assumption that at least half of the newspaper representatives in the convention will do their work elsewhere than in the hall itself—-at the hotels, in committee rooms, etc. Possibly the number of actual working newspaper folk at the national convention may not be more than 400 or 500, but at least a thousand press credentials are undoubtedly given out always. Last comes the miscellaneous class, and it is very miscellaneous indeed. It Includes the national committeemen (45 in number, one from each State), their private secretaries, stenographers and clerks, the working office force of the sergeant-at-arms (as distinguish- , cd from his ’‘convention staff”), the employes at the various candidates’ headquarters, and "all not otherwise classified.” These latter would swell the miscellaneous class to 500 at least at a convention before ^hlch several candidates were to be placed in nomination, as may be the case at St. Louis this year. The "visiting attend- . ance” averages about 20.000. Kailroad and Hotel Rills. It is safe te assume that the average rvnnd trip railroad fare paid for th.- 4.400 persons who run and report I th? convention will be sls each, or । sr..;.(MM» —some of them will pay a good <le:d more, for they come from ail parts of the country—and that the "visiting attendanco” pay $5 in round trip fares each, or SIOO,OO0 —$166,000, ail told, for the railroads. The returns to Che hotel and other entertainment f purveyors will be much larger, even if the convention lasts only three days. 1 This will lie its minimum length, no 1 matter how peaceful its deliberations. • Figuring the hotel and other expense? r of the 24,400 people who will run, re- ’ port and attend the convention at $lO 3 a day each, the total will be $732,000, and the grand total of money paid te the railroads and the city will be $898.- ’ 000. The Associated Press will probably be called upon to expend $20,000 ii) , convention reporting. It takes about 1 ten stenographic reporters and fifteen correspondents and editors to cover a , 1 convention for the Associated Press. . The cost of convention reporting is in t uirect ratio to the length and strenuousness of the gathorhig. Nearly all the big daily newspapers r of the country deiHmd upon the Asso- • ciated Press for their routine convention reports, though some receive them through other sources, and there are at 1 least UK) that send from one to ten ’ or fifteen people of their own to the I convention city to do special stunts of , । one sort or another. At a low esti- ■ mate these papers will spend $100,600 f ! for special reports, telegraph tolis, phoP * tographs, etc. Besides, there will be । special expenditures, extra wires, prij ; vate messages and the like along tele- . ; graphic lines, quite outside the news- ; j paper service, of at least SIO,OOO. I i Thus a grand total of $1,103,000 for 3 j a three-day excursion is at the rate of 1 i $367,333 a day. or about one-third as 1 much as it cost to carry on the war 1 with Spain. From Fur and Near, r 1 . Cliff Slougatir. aged 20. died at Chillicothe, Ohio, from an abdominal stab 1 wound inflicted at a wake by Clarence ’ XX’elsh, aged 16. The Comptroller of the Currency has approved th application to organize the Coalgate National Bank, (’oalgate, I. T.. i with $5O,o<X) capital. 3 George F Clewell. former secretary 5 and treasurer of the Federal Trust Com pany of Cleveland, was indicted for embezzling sl.S,o(>o$ 1 .5,0(>0 of the bank's funds. ; XVindow glass factories aggregating in capacity .1,500 pots have suspended operations until September, aud the uew orgauizalion of workers, known as the 1 Cleveland or third union, hopes to close every factory iu the country.

'wXnClC' Reports made to the NOV York Internationa l Mercantile '■ — agency from special correspondents at trade centers throughout the country indicate some improvement in general business during the last week. This has keen most noteworthy in the South and Southwest, where excellent sales have brought the volume of better distribution. Hats and caps are active, but boots and shoes in certain sections have not done as well as usual. The St. Louis district reports increased prosperity in most lines of trade, owing to the inrush of exposition visitors. Sales meet expectations and merchants in the immediate vicinity expect even better results as the attendance becomes heavier. Increased travel to St. Louis is also helping business in contiguous territory. Jobbers in many sections report improved business, although country merchants in some instances have been prevented from visiting trade centers, owing to increased business at home since farmers have finished planting. Retail trade is strong, and if fall business turns out as well as advices now indicate tlie total for the year to Sept. 1 will average fully as much as that reported during the corresponding period of 1903. Labor difficulties on the Great Lakes appear to be nearing solution, with the prospect that most of the congestion in traffic will be relieved within a fortnight or so. At Milwaukee the strike has already been partially broken, and negotiations at other points are progressing satisfactorily. The tieup has been vpry disastrous, and losses sustained aggregate a very much larger sum than was looked for when the disturbance began. ■ Business throughout New England is still depressed by unsettled condi tions in manufacturing, due to the shutdown of the cotton mills. XVoo! prices are uncertain and mills run on orders only. Some activity is reported in leather goods, but the tendemw everywhere 'manifested is to "go slow.” their weekly review Cbicano. of Chica «° trad « u - Ga I Dun A Co. sjy: Agricultural prosperity being an essential basis In progressive trade ways, it is gratifying to note that harvesting has started auspiciously, and that crop reports, as a whole, are decidedly encouraging. Prices of products are at a high average, and in view of approaching plentiful supplies it is not surprising that heavy liquidation and declining values have appeared in the grain markets. Further recessions will stimulate improved buying, especially for milling and foreign account. Provisions have Ie • n ’. -trong lemand with quotatic: • •!, and this has impart''ll -.. to live stock, which now prvseut La re? r returns to growers. Receipt- at th ■ primary markets indicate heavier marketings and railroad traffic is correspondingly benefited. Local developments were favorable to easier general business <• -I.tions, there being less difficulty in rh; 1 movement of merchandise and h?,(dway made iu settling labor qitesii< n>. Mercantile collections for both eiiy and country were good, while financial conditions favored investments and new improvements, reflecting confidence in the future. Manufacturing lines experienced no notable change, but in the distribution of staple goods and in the volume of retail trade there were distinct signs of renewed strength. XX'holesale dealings disclose some gains in fall orders. Sales reached a seasonable aggregate in textile products. clothing, and footwear for the interior,. Country advices indicate! ste.ady inroads upon stocks, the farming classes being now free buyers. Iron and steel transactions were rather limited, the l>est business being confined mainly to merchant and structural iron. Inquiry for rails made a better showing, but little new commitments are expected to be made until later on. Furnace products were in slower request, and the downward tendency of prices has not ceased. Implement and hardware factories report a steady run of work on hand, and distributers of plumbing and building materials made large delivr> Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.46); hogs, shipping grades, s4.(>l> to $5.07; sheep, fair to choice, $2.75 to $5.15; wheat. No. 2 red. $1.02 to $1.03; corn. No. 2. 47c to 49c; oats, standard, 4Oc to 41c; rye. No. 2. iOc to 72c; hay, timothy, SS.SO to $14.00; prairie, $6.01) to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 17c: eggs, fresh. 12c to 14c; potatoes, uew, $1.35 to $1.50. St. Lottis—Cattle. $4.50 to $16.50: hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2. $1.03 to $l.O-1; corn. No. 2, 46c to 47c: oats. No. 2,39 cto 40c; rye. No. 2. 6Sc to 70c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $4.00 to $5.50; hogs. S4JHt to $5.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.35; wheat. No. 2. $14)6 to $1.07; corn. No. 2 mixed. 49c to 50c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 43c to 44< ; rye, No. 2,78 cto 80c. Detroit —('attic. $3.50 to $6.25: hogs. $4.00 to $4.90; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. N<>. $1.05 to $1.07: corn. No. 3 yellow. Me to 52c; oats. No. 3 white. 43c to 45c; rje. No. 2,72 cto 7-D. Milwaukee —XX'hcat. No. 2 northern. 96c to 97c; corn. No. 3. 4 v to 19c; oats. No. 2 white. 41c to 42c; eye. No. 1, 74v to 75c; barley, No. 2, Glc to 64c; pork, mess, $12.25. Toledo- —XX’lieat, No. 2 mijed, 99c to sl.<jo; corn, No. 2 mixed. '»Uc to 5(»e; oats, No. 2 mix'd. 42c to 43c; rye. No. 2, 73c to 75c; clover seed, prime, SC.IS.