Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 June 1904 — Page 2

3niktpeni»ent. W. A. EKUI^EY, Publisher. WALKERTON. - - - INDIANA. SUMMARY OF NEWS Edmund Morewood Ferguson, for many years prominent in the linaneial and business affairs of Pittsburg, is dead. Mr. Ferguson, who was reputed to be worth $25,000,000, was boru m Stamford, Conn., about seventy years ago. The jury in Grafton, N. D„ which has been trying James Barry for having murdered Andrew Miller, his hired man. returned a verdict of guilty. He will be sentenced to life imprisonment. An appeal to the Supreme Court probably will be made. By wedding his pretty widowed daugh-ter-in-law Frederick Selje. a retired builder, of 1145 Gerard avenue, New York, who is reputed to be worth half a million dollars, has stirred up a bitter family feud. The bridegroom is 68 years old and his bride 29.

Two attempts were made in Kokomo, ■gg, Inr>***^Yvreck the Clover Leaf exposiswitch at th ^canning _, factory was found open. XVWWi an hour the switch again was found thrown open and the signal light smashed. A posse is guarding Hie switch. For the second time within a year Agnes Kersey, aged 10, has proved herself a heroine by swimming after and saving a boy of her own age who was drowning at Savin Hill beach, Boston. With one hand holding the boy by his bathing suit the brave girl struck out with the other for shore amid cheers of the other bathers. The Urbana, Mechanicsburg and Columbia Electric Railway Company has Increased its capital stock from SIOO,OOO to $2,000,000. Senator Foraker has become largely interested in the road, ■which is in operation as far northwest as Marble Cliff. The name has been changed to the Columbus, Mechanicsburg and Western. William H. Moody, an inventor, aged 80 years, has applied to the poor department in Minneapolis for transportation to his sister’s home in Pillsbury, Minn. He is a cousin of Secretary of the Navy Moody, and at one time was worth sl.000,000. Some years ago he owned a plant at Chicago for the manufacture of tin cans, but it was burned. A four-story brick building at Third and Delaware streets, Kansas City, occupied by the Black Sirup and Refining Company, partially collapsed, the result of an explosion of ammonia on the third floor. Fifty girls on the upper stories and several men and boys were thrown into a panic. Six persons were buried in the debris. The others escaped down an alley fire escape. The clubs of the National League now stand thus: W. L. W. L. New Y0rk...36 16 St. Louis 25 26 Cincinnati .. .34 19 Boston 21 32 Chicago 31 19 Brooklyn ....2134 Pittsburg .. .28 25 Philadelphia. 12 37 The table below shows how matters stand in the American League: W. L. W. 1.. Boston 34 17 Philadelphia. 27 23 °° • *’s_ * '»■ Cleveland ... ’ — Standings in the American Association are as follows: W. L. W. L. Columbus .. .34 20 Indianapolis. 28 27 St. Paul 34 21 Toledo 21 33 Milwaukee . .32 25 Minneapolis.. 23 33 Louisville ...33 27 Kansas City. .18 37 NEWSNUGGETS, Washington Park race track in Chicago has been closed by order of the directors and all purses and stakes are declared off. Herr Kubelik, the violinist, received news in London that at the Castle Kolin in Bohemia, his wife. Countess Czaky, had given birth to twin girls. Typesetting machines are to be installed in the government printing office, and next December the Congressional Record for the first time will not be set up by hand. Cardinal Gibbons, in a statement issued at Baltimore, denied alleged interviews ascribed to him regarding the letJer of the Pope on the subject of church music. Fire broke out in the mill of I. A. Hall in Paterson, N. J., and spread quickly to the Van Kirk lumber yard near bv, causing a loss estimated at $300,000. President Roosevelt has formally invited Paul Morton of Chicago to become a member of his official family as Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Morton has the matter under consideration. President Roosevelt has named a commission to investigate the General Slocum steamship disaster in New York. The testimony before the coroner’s jury showed much alleged laxity. Two robbers in Forest Park. St. Louis, tore the earrings from the ears of Miss Mamie Williams and took SIOO from her escort, John S. Dewitt, after beating him with a wrendu The robbers escaped. No. 2 Canadian Pacific express, bound east, came near being a total wreck near Grand Soule, N. W. T.. owing to a broken rail. Two sleepers were overturned into the ditch and the dining and tourist cars left the track. Four great dredges are to be built to mine for gold in the bottom of the Stewart river in Alaska, which empties into the Yukon about 150 miles above Dawson. The big machines will be constructed at a cost of about $.>00,000. Fire on Grand avenue. Allegheny, Pa., destroyed the plants of the Allegheny Carpet Cleaning Company, the Duff Construction Company, Allegheny Cornice and Skylight Company. Allegheny Automobile Company and Allegheny foundry, entailing a loss of $75,000. Sixty-five thousand dollars’ worth of costly machinery was ruined by heat from a fire in the shops of the C.. B. & Q. in Havelock, Neb. The shops are worth $500,000. The blacksmith shop and boiler room were destroyed. The shops were saved from further injury by the firemen. The North Coast limited, the finest train on the Northern Pacific, east-bound, was held up near Bearmouth, Mont. Three explosions of dynamite demolished the express car. The engineer was killed in a fight with the robbers, of whom there were two. The plunder is believed to be large. Harry Allen, aged 14 years, living near Osceola. lowa, was found dying in the road by his brother, with a bullet in his head. He lived only long enough to say that he had been shot down by a strange man who rose from the bushes as he passed along the road. It is believed some one living in the vicinity fired the shot.

EASTERN. Four boys standing under a cheyry tree on a farm near Felton, Pa., whiph they were guarding from pilferers, were killed by a stroke of lightning. Nine hundred persons, mostly children, perished by the burning of the excursion steamer General Slocum, near Hell Gate, In the East River, New York. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Rayroad has been sold to a syndicate of Boston men. The deal was officially aunounced by Eugene Zimmerman. William J. Bryan was ordered by the Probae Court in New Haven, Conn., to pay at once to Mrs. Philo S. Bennett $75,000 in cash in lieu of her dower rights in the estate of her late husband. Former Mayor Robert Van Wyck of New York, so his friends say, has cleaned up $1,200,C>00 on the bear side of the market, and although a delegate to the St. Louis convention is going abroad at Snce. W. K. Van Ruypen of Washington was elected president of the Red Cross Society. Richard Olney of Massachusetts was selected as counselor and Mrs. John A. Logan’s resignation was accepted as acting president. Dr. George F. Lee, a Philadelphia chemist, announces that he has discovered a method of producing radium

which will reduce the cost of the element from Its present price of $16,000,000 a pound to $500,000 a pound. hen arraigned in Philadelphia on the cKSFge or forging orders. W. A. Snyder, who claims to be an evangelist, was handed a prayer book and told to read a paragraph. Before be finished he broke doo and confessed. Alfred Farlow was elected president, Stephen A. Chase treasurer and William B. Johnson clerk by the First Church of Christ (Scientist) at Boston at the annual meeting and the report showed 30,534 members, a gair of 3,102 in one year. The executive board of the Elevator Constructors’ International Union ordered on strike the 7,000 men employed by the Otis Elevator Company in New York. The strike is in sympathy with the workers in Boston and Philadelphia. Captain R. B. Bradford of the battleship Illinois has sent a wireless telegram to the torpedo station at Newport, R. 1., saying that he believes the Illinois, in her recent target practice off Cape Cod. has broken previous marksmanship records. Miss Katie Klinger, a young Shamokin, Pa., school teacher, saved her mother, who had fainted, from a rattlesnake, by killing the reptile with a rifle at twenty-five yards. The bullet cut off the snake’s head just as it was ready to spring. The National Association of Credit Men, at its annual convention in New York, elected Frederick W. Standart of Denver, president, and F. M. Gettys of Louisville, vice president. Memphis was selected as the place for the convention next year. WESTERN. Gov. Herrick in Chicago, by long distance telephone, reprieved a murderer in Columbus, Ohio penitentiary within two minutes of electrocution. Two mysterious disappearances of lowans were reported at the St. Louis world’s fair, the missing men being Dr. Fisher of Yale and Captain Randolph Sry. W. H. Mayes, arrested on a charge of forgery and false entries in the failed Elk City National Bank of Elk City, , Okla., of which he was president, shot himself and will die. * A large four-horsed tallyho, on which Was seated twenty-three passengers, fell down an embankment about ten miles east of Cleveland, and six persons are said to be seriously hurt. Another board of inquiry in the Sarah C. Schafer murder case has been petitioned for by citizens who fear the Bedford man suspected will take French leave and escape punishment. In a fight between union and nonunion structural iron workers in Cleveland Edward Lamb of Dayton and David Jennings of Cleveland, non-union, received bullet wounds and may die. David F. Day, editor of the Durango Democrat, one of Colorado’s old-time newspaper publishers, has gone to jail rather than pay a S3OO fine imposed because of his criticism of Judge Russell. An increase in the assessment of the railroads in Nebraska has been voted by the State Board of Equalization, the 70 per cent rise voted meaning in round figures an added revenue of $19,000,000. Arkansas Democrats in State convention raised the race question in their platform and side-stepped the silver question by leaving it to the national convention to make a declaration on that issue? Charles Netcher, who began life in Chicago more than thirty years ago as a bundle boy in the Boston store, died Monday owner of the same store. Mr. Netcher had been operated upon for appendicitis. A raft upon which four boys were playing overturned in a pond at Collinwood, a Cleveland suburb, with the result that two of the lads were drowned, while the others were rescued with the greatest difficulty. . Moses Johnson, the negro murderer of Portsmouth, Ohio, was electrocuted in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus. Five distinct shocks were necessary to complete tlfe execution, and the scene was harrowing. The Commercial National Bank of Cambridge, Ohio, and a branch, the People's Savings Bank of Byesville, failed to open the other day. The Commercial had $25,090 of city and $12,000 of school funds on deposit. The International Brotherhood of Bookbinders at St. Paul voted to do away with the practice of one union appealing to another in case of strikes or trouble without first appealing to the international officers. Chicago bank deposits have reached the highest point in their history, having increased more than $19,000,000 since the end of March. The total of deposits in fourteen national and thirty State banks is nearly $549,000,000. On petition of the stockholders of the Commercial Bank of Cambridge, Ohio, R. B. Orne was appointed receiver of the bank. The petition alleges defalcation by P. C. Patterson, the cashier, and H. O. Barber, one of the directors. By the capsizing of a rowboat near Grand Rapids, Ohio, M. N. Bryan and daughter, Gertrude, of McComb, and a Mr. Holbrook of Hoytsville, Ohio, were drowned. Mrs. Bryan, who was in the boat when it capsized, was rescued. Firecrackers thrown by students at Ann Arbor in the midst of a herd of elephants in a circus parade caused them to trumpet and charge the crowd, creating a panic among the women and children, but fortunately no one was seriously injured. The board of regents of the University of lowa refused to remove President George R. Mac Lean, but asked for the resignation of Dr. L. W. Andrews and Prof. A. V. Sims, who are alleged to have inspired the attacks on the President. Samuel Ross, for forty-one years in 4*

j the service of the Pennsylvania Raili road, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. D. Brickell, In Columbus, Ohio, aged 87. In his forty-one years of service as fast freight agent he traveled 2,534,837 miles. On petition of creditors whose claims aggregate $25,751, Judge Kohlsaat in Chicago appointed Edwin C. Day receiver In bankruptcy for the assets of W. H. Laidley & Co., one of the largest stock and grain commission firms in Chicago and the West. Passenger train on the Baltimore nnd Ohio Road near Vincennes, Ind., crashed into freight train and then engaged in a mad race for St. Louis that the fifteen persons injured might be given proper attention in the hospitals there. Three of those hurt may die. At Kansas City, Kan., Louis Gregory, aged 19, the negro boy who shot and killed Roy Martin, a white high school boy, last April and who narrowly escaped being lynched, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. In Kansas this means life imprisonment. A dispatch from Harbin Springs, Cal., announces that Jeffries was operated on by his physician and will be confined to his bed for some days. An examination disclosed that the water on Jeff’s knee, instead of being absorbed, increased. It was then decided to puncture the knee. Judge Elmer B. Adams, in the United States Circuit Court in St. Louis, decided that a woman illegally married can become the legal beneficiary of an insurance policy on her husband’s life, proviueu site is u«,ore upon him for support than the man’s legal wife. Blacklisting cannot be remedied or prevented by injunction, according to a decision rendered by Judge Littleford, in Cincinnati. He has refused to restrain the proprietors from blacklisting members of the Cab Drivers’ and Hackmen’s Union, who recently were on strike. Shooting of three men in the crowd before the Wild West show on the Pike at the St. Louis Exposition, created almost a panic. Ernest Morgan, aged 18, a bystander, innocent to the altercation, was wounded, probably mortally. The shots were fired by Zach Mulhall, the frontiersman. Highball ■won the American Derby in Chicago, giving the East its first triumph after many unsuccessful attempts to capture the Western turf classic. Woodson, a long shot, was second, and Rapid Water, John A. Drake’s entry, was third. The time, 2:33, equals the performance of The Picket, who last year established a record for Derby speed. Oue hundred and ten weary seekers for land lined up before the United States land office in Cass Lake, Minn., Wednesday before the doors of the office were open in order to file on government lands within the confines of the Chippewa reservation. Among the number were four women, who bravely withstood the vigils of a long wait during the night. The first man to file was Daniel Caldwell, who got 169 acres located sixteen miles southeast of the village of Northcome. Driven insane by long confinement for a crime he did not commit, William Murphy, alias William Waltham, at last has a prospect of release from the penitentiary at Deer Lodge, Mont. Dispatches from Kansas City have informed the authorities that William Miles, 60 years old, had given himself up to the police there and confessed that he and not Murphy was the man who in 1884 killed John Edwards, a freight brakeman, in Montana. For this Murphy is serving a life term. Four men who entered the South Chicago Brewery, a branch of the United Breweries, about 2 o’clock the other morning assaulted Henry Ruess, the engineer, and bound him to a chair, but were frightened away by the engineer a short time later before they succeeded in blowing open the safe in the office of the brewery. By a ruse the engineer secured his freedom, ran from the place and summoned the police before the robbers secured any booty. Before the arrival of the police the men had fled. Two riots, in one of which two men were wounded and which almost resulted in a lynching, came as the climax of the paper mill strike in Neenah. Wis. Fred Potter of Chicago, while escorting half a ! dozen men to a hotel for supper, was set upon by a mob. Potter fired his revolver, slightly wounding two men. Potter was arrested and taken to Oshkosh. While Edward Boardman was making his way back to the mill he was stoned. Boardman shot into the mob, made a dash into the office and was safe. The police dispersed the mob. FOREIGN. The Vladivostok squadron sunk two Japanese transports near Mogi, causing the loss of nearly 1,999 lives. A telegram from Liaoyang states that in the battle at Haicheng the Russians lost 5,990 killed and wounded. Consular reports at Constantinople confirm the destruction of many Armenian villages in the Sassun district, estimating the number killed at 3,900 persons. Japanese victory in a battle near Fuchow, Manchuria, in which 1,000 Russians are lost, is reported from Tokio to London newspapers. Seven * thousand Russians are said to have fled in disorder, leaving all of their guns. Gen. Bobrikoff, governor general of Finland, was shot and mortally wounded at the entrance to the Finnish senate at Helsingfors. , The assassin, a man named Schaumann, a son of Senator Schaumann, immediately committed suicide. The Japanese-h-ttve-e^xplgiiuaLxu^ inner forts defending Port Arthur, losing 1,000 men, according to a report received in Chefoo. General Oku, who commanded the victorious Japanese in the battle at Telissu (Vafangow), reports that the Russians left 600 dead oh the field and 309 men and seven officers wore captured. The Japanese loss is 990 killed and wounded. IN GENERAL. A cyclone accompanied by unprecedented rain, has caused great damage about Santiago de Cuba. Dun’s and Bradstreet’s agencies note depression in trade incident to presidential campaign; industry quiet, capital cautious. The planing mill of the Rat I’ortage. Ont., Lumber Company and thirteen dwellings were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $100,009. Major Gen. Henry C. Corbin has been ordered to command the division of the Philippines, succeeding Major Gen. J. F. Wade. The order will take effect in October. President Roosevelt, in an address at Valley Forg*;, drew lessons from the lives of Washington as father of the country and of Lincoln ns its savior. He said their heroism marked the greatest epochs in the history of the nation. More than 1.599 miles of railroad, it is said, are to be built in Mexico under the direct auspices of the Mormon ' church. Bishop W. D. Johnson, who represents the church in that country, is arranging for the construction of the i road. _ __ t

WAR DURING WEEK. ACTIVITY OF COMBATANTS ON SEA AND LAND. Russian A ladivostok Fleet Sinks Japanese Transports, While the Mikudo’v Land Army Wins Victories in thu A icinity of Vufuugnw. When file Bogatyr, 6,750 tons, went on the rocks a month ago the Russian squadron in Vladivostok was reduced to three armored bruisers, the Russia. 12,139 tons, 20 knots speed, with four 8-inch, sixteen 6-inch, twelve 3-inch guns; the Gromoboi, 12,336 tons, 20 knots speed, carrying four 8-inch, sixteen 6-inch, six 4.7-inch, and twenty 3-inch guns, and the Rurik, 10,923 tons, 18.7 knots, with a main battery of four 8-inch, sixteen 6-Jnch, six 4.7-inch rifles. The three [made up a formidable aggregation oif warships, combining as they did sjjeed, greater armored protection thtiAi any except firstclass battleships,-and large batteries of medium size gims. The three big ships crept out of Vladivostok, presumably at night, when they Avould be !> liable to observation. By dawn v were 100 miles out ng south for the Korean straits, 44 >nese shipfe carrying „ ICS 4Vv in the field mun cross. Wednesday earning, June 15, at 7 a. m., off Iki > and, the Rossla and the Rurik cam|i upon the transport Hitachi, carryh|. 700 soldiers. The B : ..y fa. i i O’ / y t rjrdrarcwo MAP SHOWING NAVAL MANI VVEKS. Russians signaled the transport tc stop, which it did. At 10 o’clock, how ever, the Japs taied to run for it. but were fired upon by the two cruisers and sunk. Most of its crew and hu man freight went down with it. The survivors, numbering about 20 per cent, by clinging to the wreckage managed to reach some of the little islands in the straits of Korea. Later on the same day the Russians came upon the transport Sado, which was also loaded with 700 men. After some parleying this boat. too. was shelled and torpedoed, most of its passengers and 'crew being killed. The hull, howet^^remalned afloat ami finally ProuOT^j^i-HH! east coast of Uki (or Ikiy/ I S Mnd. It does no? appear whether the Sade was sunk by the Gromobol alone which was not present during the at tack on the Hitachi, or whether the whole fleet reunited and destroyed the Sado. Os the 1,400 Japanese soldiers j on the two transports 900 were killed I Their raid having been successful, the Russians decided to return home again, but they evidently did not wish to risk the straight passage from Korean straits to Vladivostok, choosing I instead to make an easterly detour along the coast line of Nippon. Doubtless the Russians hoped to fall in with a few stray merchantmen on their journey. Thursday the Russians were sighted off Oki Island, and Saturday off Tsu garu Straits at the north end of Nippon. At 4 p. m. Saturday the Russians disappeared off Aomori steaming westward. The exploit of the Vladivostok squadron during the last week added some sadly needed feathers to the Russian naval cap. Campaign on Land. On land there was a considerable battle, which begau in the neighborhood of Vafangow, on the railroad, sixty miles aorth of Kinchou and Nanshan hill. On the afternoon of Tuesday, Jun'j 14, at 1:49 o’clock, the fighting began and continued until dark, the Japanese pushing the Russians back f»r some miles.. After the cessation of firing, under cover of darkness, a Japai*ase column occupied Fuchau, flankiljjthe Russian right. In the mo i f ing the fighting started again. The Russian general, Baron Stackelberg, “ried to turn the Japanese right flaik, but at the same time the brigade Ich had been sent to Fuchau dur the night struck him '“onhTs ; ^eriTHtplclfTlTnirTi^At the sarre’G'u^ «he piain Japanese body, marohiag UP railroad, struck him in the center! and he was forced to retreat to th/jnorthward. The Japanese captur<Fj c fourteen quick firing guns and j ^prisoners. The total Hussdan losV, are about 2,009, while the Japs ackne ’’lodge only 1,000 casualties. As at I ossing of the Yalu and Nanshan 1 <e fate of the day was largely d< ned by the wonderful Japanespractice. In the Vafango^W^Jtoament the numbers engaged —lout 35,000 Russians and 40.(90 >,OOO Japanese. The Japs eiga^Ao^\ this fight were not a part o. Cg^cral Oku’s second army, which is concentrated around Port Arthur, but Avere attached to General Node’s third army, which landed some ^hile ago at Takushan. When Stackelberg pushed south, menacing Oku’s nar, Nodzu moved westerly/from Takishan and struck Stackelberg in the lank, rolling him north- . ward. WarNewa in Brief. Eight bunded Russians are reported to have faller in a fight near I’ulan- : tien. The Japtnese led the enemy inta ■ a trap by a ftgned retreat. 1 Admiral To^ reports that he is in. > formed that the Rissians evacuated Yin- > kow, the port of S'ewchwang, after th, » recent shelling oi the shore near that pl^ge by Japauesyvarships.

RUSSIA MEETS DEFEAT. Reports of Japanese A'ictories on Both I.and and Sea. Three Russian armored cruisers, the Rossla. Gromovol and Rurik, of the Vladivostok squadron, have been captured Dy the Japanese fleet under Admiral Kamimura after a running fight ! of two days in the Korean straits, ac- । cording to a cablegram from Tokio via the Cologne Gazette. The three Russian cruisers were reported in a terrific battle off Tsu Island, their escape into the outer sea having been cut off. According to dispatches from Nagasaki the Russians were pursued north by four Japanese cruisers from Admiral Togo's fleet, and as they were approaching the straits pleading to the open sea three other Japanese warships appeared from the north, thus preventing their escape. Russian power on the sea In the far East is practically destroyed, if this report Is true. The Rossia, Rurik and Gromovoi are first-class armored cruisers. All doubt an to the sinking of the 1 transports Hitachi and Sado by the Russians has been removed. Three hundred ami ninety-seven survivors of the Hitachi arrived at Moji and 153 survivors of the Sado have arrived at Kokura. Details of the destruction of the transports and the number of the casualties are not obtainable. s rumored, at" St. “ f’ererm) drg Thursday that General Stackelberg had sustained a disastrous defeat at Vafangan. The battle at Vafangan, north of Port Arthur, was in progress for three days. Losses on the Russian side—more than 399 Tuesday—show that the fighting was of a desperate character, and General Kuropatkin's report proves that both armies are determined to force matters to an issue. Operations leading up to the battle of Vafangan dat# back to June 11. when two Japanese divisions, one commanded by General Nozu, advanced from the Pulantien-Pltsewo line, probably prompted by intelligence that the Russians were receiving re-enforce-ments. A sharp skirmish took place the night of June 12 at the A'illage of Oudiaden, five miles west of the railroad and seven miles south of AVafangtien, nnd another skirmish occurred on the heights near the Village of Lidiatun, ten miles east of Oudiaden. The Japanese were repulsed, but the Russian advance posts retired. June 13 two Japanese divisions were five miles north of the scene of the skirmish. theta left wing resting on the A'illage of A'afangan and their right on the Valley of the Tassa, which flows parallel with the railroad, going into the sea ten miles south of Pitsewo. After a day’s rest the enemy advanced fifteen miles June 14 and attacked the left of the Russian position four miles south of Vafangan. The Russians had the best of the first day's fight, annihilating a Japanese cavalry squadron and taking some prisoners. Wednesday’s battle extended over a rough country, where artillery Avas very effective. The Russian lines extended between the villages of Lanchau, near the railroad, and Fafanvopen. The Japanese were between Tafanchau and Hunchau. Stackelberg’s reserves were held at Sisan, a short distance from the A afangau station. The Japanese reserves were south of Tafanchau. General Nozu’s artillery began the day by shelling the Russian right, while his sharpshooters I were busy with the other wing. Stackj elberg was not certain whence the i main attack would be delivered, and sent out cavalry to the heights of Lanchau to reconnoiter. Having ascertained that the enemy was not moving in that quarter he attacked the Japanese confer and left to drive the enemy against the railroad. The Japanese countered by moving up reserves in an effort to turn the Russian right. PREDICTS A WORLD WAR. Officer Says Germany, France and Russia Will Attack England. Capt. August Niemann of the German army has written a book, entitled "The AA’orld War,” in which he predicts that Russia, France and Germany will engage in a war with England, the result of which will be a fresh apportionment of the earth. "Although,” says Capt. Niemann, "the responsibility of a world war is great, and although the idea of peace of nations is very pleasant, valuable acquisitions are won only by t. - expenditure of blood and iron. “If the German people intend to participate in the struggle for the domination of the world it must accustom itself to the idea of the coming war. In the course of long years England has grown great through the dissensions of continental powers. For centuries past England has reaped advantages from every war, most of which were instigated by herself. “It. required the genius of Bismarck to awaken the German empire to a sense of its power. Shall Germany be content to be dependent on England foi light, air and for daily bread, or has she retained, some of . the. power which won ■ her victories? “Will the three powers which stood together after Japan’s victory over China to thwart England’s plans—will Germany, France and Russia remain longer idle, or will they combine for their mutual benefit? “I see in spirit the armies and navies of Germany, Russia and France advancing against the common enemy— England—which like an octopus encircles he world with its tentacles. “My dreams of Germany bring clearV before me the war and the victory of three great nations—Germany, France and Russia—over England, and the fresh apportionment of the possessions of the earth as a final result of this mighty struggle.” News of Minor Note. There are 199 graduates this year of the Kansas State Agricultural College. A freight collided with a work train on the Southern Railway near Harrodsburg, Ky., killing two men and injuring six. Reading matter for the blind, books ana manuscripts in raised letters, may be sent free through the mails, according to an order issued by Postmaster General I’ayntA A monurnefit commemorating the death of John Quincy Marr, the first Confederate soldksr killed in actual conflict, has been unveiled at Fairfax Court House, Va. In the recent battreship target practice the Oregon was first, Wisconsin second and lowa third, according to semi-official announcement in Washington. The peasant is expected to go to the Oregom

For several months, Prof. AA’iloy, I rhernist of the Agricultural Depart- | ment. has been conducting experiments | lo determine what effect preservatives used in foods and beverages have upon the human system. All of the twelve roung men composing the “drug squadron" show ill effects from eating the drugs used as preservatives. One or two of the men are on the verge of a breakdown, but the identity of members of the "poison squad" is concealed. The results of the experiments Show some of the preservatives are deadly, causing inflammation of the digestive organs. This experiment tends to explain away the poison mysteries following the eating of canned goods. Results of these experiments will be made public in a short time, but pending the publication of the report by Secretary AVilson Prof. Wiley will not discuss the subject. All the food was prepared in the most appetizing and hygienic fashion. At first poison was put into the food Avithout the squad knowing which dish was doctored. The effect upon the mimr of ale squmr i whose stomachs finally began to rebel at the best of food, even that unpoisoned, caused a change in the method and the poison avhs administered in capsules. Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, of Ohio, in a speech on the pension order fixing 62 years as the age when a soldier may be considered disabled, said that it was a right ruling, and that men who reached that age were disabled. Os course, he meant were disabled for manual labor, as a number of Senators called attention to the fact that if the idea was followed it would leave the Senate almost Avithout a quorum. The following Senators have passed the 62d milestone: Morgan. 80; Pettus, 82; Berry. 62; Perkins, 64; Bard. G 2; Teller, 78; Patterson, 63; Platt (Conn.), 76; Hawley, 77; Bacon. 64; Cullom, 74; Allison, 74; Blackburn. 65; McCreary, G 5; McEnery, 66; Hale, 67; Frye, 72; Gorman, 65; Hoar. 77; Burrows, 67; Alger, 68; Money, 64; Cockrell. 69; Clark (Mont.), Gibson, 73; Millard, 67; Stewart, 76; Gallinger, 67; Dryden. 64; Platt (N. Yj, 71; Depew. 71; Mitchell. 68; Quay, 70; Aldrich, 62; Bate, 67; I roctor, 72; Foster (Wash.), 67; Elkins, 62. A warning has been sent out from Washington to prospective home-seek-ers who may be interested in the irrigation plans of the government. An organized gang of swindlers is at work in the AVest, and less actively in the East. In cunningly worded advertisements they assert that they have inside information as to the plans of the government engineers, and promise to place settlers on the best of the lands which the government purposes to irrigate, for sums ranging from fifty to two hundred dollars. The fact is that they have no information that will not lie given by the Interior Department to any inquirer. AVhen the proper time comes for throwing the lands open to homestead entries the Secretary of the Interior will announce the fact through the press. In a letter defending the estimates of population recently issued by the census bureau, Director North incidentally gives an estimate of the population of the United States under the census to be taken in 1919. placing the figure at 89,041,436. The director says that this indicates a percentage of increase of 17.2, as compared with 29.7 in the decade ISIKM9OO. but he admits that events are possible in the future development of the country, which will put this estimate awry. Speaking of the estimate recently published Mr. North says that it has been of very great benefit to the country. He says, however, that the estimates are in no sense a census nor do they represent local conditions. Government ownership of all wireless telegraph stations at points Avhere over-the sea communication is possible has been decreed by the cabinet, and the Navy Department is putting the order into effect. One result will be that Marconi will be forced to move his stations to Canadian soil. In place of the Marconi station on the Nantucket lightship the department will establish its own plant, using a modification of the Slaby-Arco system in its eight stations. The government will make no charge on messages to and from ships at sea. Senator Dolliver, of lowa, tells this story on himself: “I reached a certain small town during a campaign," said he, and found tlhat the proprietor of the hotel where I usually stopped was in jail. He had gone there of his own accord rather than pay a judgment which he considered unjust. He asked the sheriff to let him out for two hours to hear his old friend Dolliver speak. The sheriff agreed, and sent an order for the release of the prisoner for two hours for that purpose. Then he considerately added at the end of the order, ‘The rest of your punishment is remitted.’ ” In a recent report an Agricultural Department officer expresses regret that the statistics of milk production are reported in gallons, since milk is sold more generally in quarts or in pounds, according to the use to which it is put. The gallon he reg.-,rds as an unnatural unit. One argument for the metric system is that it would provide absolute units. Now we often i know that a quantity is six or eight hundred something, but do not remember whether it is feet or yards, miles or leagues, gallons or quarts. Employes in the AA’hite House for a long time have been in the habit of soliciting subscriptions from and offering tickets for sale to persons who call at the executive mansion. The custom had become so general as to be a nuisance and an order has been issued putting a stop to the abuse.

GWffiCIAL wfipSttoj. f p. . B. G. Dun & Co.’s j ClliCdQO weekly review of Chicago I trade says: The volume of business reflects less hesitation ami in some respects there are indications of gain. Bank exchanges exceed those of a year ago; shipments of grain and flour are larger than the previous week's, and more activity is seen in’both manufacturing ami jobbing. Iron and steel producers made new bookings, insuring steady work at the rail mills for the last half of the year and an increased output of pig iron. Crop reports have continued favorable, and the agricultural outlook is bright, with prices well sustained in cereals and higher for live stock. Termination of the lake tie-up brought relief to the ve tel interests, together with a rush nrk along the docks and the res ' ’>nrmal conditions in th I forest products, coal road traffic genera ’ .nrzMLnxnout owing t freer marketing of products. AA’holesale me ..udise dealings maintained satisfactory proportions, with the buying for fall delivery better in dry goods, clothing and shoes, and retail distribution in the leading lines are very s eady. Interior merchants report seasonable reduction of stocks. Western collections occasioned little complaint and city settlements are fairly prompt. Except the machinists’ strike, the labor situation presents few hindrances in the manufacturing branches. Grain shipments, 2.413.942 bushels, compared with 1,747.573 bushels hist week and 4,353.918 bushels a year ago. The general demand remained very poor, and prices closed under those of a week ago, in wheat 2 certs a bushel, in oats 1% cents and in corn % cent. Live stock receipts, 275.585 head, compared with 293,719 head last week and 293,367 head a year ago. Failures reported in the Chicago district number twenty-six, against twen-ty-two last week and tAventy-six a year ago. r~ “ Industry suffers from New York. an epidemic of ultra conservatism, emanating apparently from the theory that a season of depression must come every ten years, while the coincidence of a Presidential election furnishes another precedent. As a result stocks of merchandise have been reduced, railway traffic is lessened, preparations for future business are curtailed and less money is distributed in the form of wages; while those having capital to invest confine their attention to the highest classes cbonds or hold back for still lower security prices. All these factors have combined to produce a reduction entirely out of proportion to the natural readjustment that was really started by abnormally high prices of raw materials and other excessive costs of production resulting in accumulation of goods that could not be sold at a profit. The Iron and Machinery AA'orld, the organ of the AVestern metal trades, says in its issue last week: Either the iron and steel markets in the AVest have improved or the trade has become accustomed to the dullness. The tone is certainly better. Business is not comparable with what it was a year or two ago, but there is a disposition to accept the present modified orders with a reconciled spirit. Several conditions are persistent. One is that users of almost all kinds of metal material are buying in small quantities. It is a habit acquired during the declining markets and will perhaps continue until an unmistakable upward turn in values occurs. Another feature is that the actual consumption has been to some degree impaired. But the wants of the country cannot be permanently neglected and there are some indications of an improved demand. In pig iron there is reported a slight improvement in the demand. Foundrymen frequently report some letting up in their own trade and the requirements of the melters are not up to their maximum capacities. But there will be wanted for use during the last half of the year a large quantity of iron ai'd a livelier inquiry is appearing. The buyers are testing the market and it is evidence of the hardness of present prices that nr ' a r reductions are to Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.35; hogs, shipping grades, $4.00 to $5.30: sheep, fair to choice, $2.75 to $5.15; wheat. No. 2 red. 98c to $1.00; corn, No. 2,47 cto 48c; oats, standard, 40c to 42c; rye. No. 2. 64c to 65c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $14.00; prairie, $6.00 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 17c; eggs, fresh. 12c to 14c; potatoes, new, sl.lO to $1.25. St. Louis —Cattle. $4.50 to $6.75; hogs, ! $4.00 to $5.10; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75, wheat, No. 2, $1.03 to $1.04; corn. No. 2, 45c to 47c; oats. No. 2,40 cto 41c; rye. No. 2,68 cto 70c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.65; hogs, $4.1X1 to $5.25; sheep, S2.(X) to $4.35; wheat. No. 2. $1.03 to $1.04; corn. No, 2 mixed. 48c to 49c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; rye, No. 2,78 cto ■ 80c. Detroit —-Cattle, $3.50 to $6.25; hogs, $4.<X) to $4.90; sheep. $2.50 to $5.1X1; wheat. No. 2. SI.OO to $1.01; corn. No. 3 yellow, 50c to 51c; oats. No. 3 white, 43c to 45c; rye, No. 2,72 cto 74c. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 northern. 95c to 96c; corn, No. 3. 48c to 49c; oats. No; 2 white. 41c to 43c; rye. No. 1. 70c to 71c; barley, No. 2,63 cto 64c; pork. mess. $12.40. Toledo —AA’heat, No. 2 mixed. SI.OO to $1.02; corn, No. 2 mixed, 49c to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 42c to 43c; rye. No. 2, 71c to 72c; clover seed, prime, $6.10,