Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 52, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 July 1904 — Page 2

independent. W. A. KM)LEY, WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. CIRCLING THE GLOBE Fire broke out in the kitchen of the American case, in the Jerusalem conceslion at the St. Louis world’s fair grounds, and for more than an hour threatened Festival Hall, the west pavilion and the whole Jerusalem exhibit. The loss is estimated at $15,000. Dr. Rollin 11. Burr, a graduate of Yale and an instructor in the Yale forestry school at Milford, Pa., has been drowned in the Delaware river. He was canoeing with some boys when his boat capsixed. In attempting to save one of his companions Dr. Burr was drowned. Young Vaughan, who said he fired the shot that killed Attorney R. Dee Suter near Louisville, Ky., made a statement contradicting his former announcement in every particular. Vaughan now says he took the blame upon himself to shield another member of the party because he is a married man and prominent in business circles. The story is being investigated. At Harrisburg, Ohio, F. A. Chamberlain, a hardware merchant, was shot twice by a man named Barsh and is •fatally wounded. Barsh was arrested at ~ ouce. who did the shooting, was the village policeman. He entered Chamberlain’s store and said something to him in a low tone of voice which those present could not understand. Chamberlain ordered Barsh out of the store, but he refused to go. When Chamberlain attempted to put him out Barsh drew his revolver and shot him twice. The clubs of the National League now stand thus: W. L. W. L. New ’ York,- - -48 17 St. Louis 31 31 Cincinnati .. .36 25 Brooklyn ... .27 42 Chicago 37 26 Boston 26 41 Pittsburg ....35 28 Philadelphia. .16 46 The table below shows how matters stand in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 41 22. Philadelphia. .16 46 New Y0rk...39 23 St Louis 27 38 Chicago 39 28 Detroit 27 35 Cleveland ...32 27 Washington.. 11 50 Standings in the American Association are as follows: W. L. W. L. Columbus .. .45 24 Indianapolis. .36 34 St Paul 43 27 Minneapolis.. .31 38 Louisville ...42 32 Toledo 22 46 Milwaukee ..37 31 Kansas City. .22 46 jf NEWS NUGGETS. Gust W. Nordlin, 18, and Mary M. Larson, 16, were drowned at a picnic at Horseshoe Lake, Minnesota. Two others in the boat were saved. At Stillwater, Minn., three daughters of John Young, 15, 12 and 10 years, were drowned in the St Croix River in a sinkhole while bathing. Health bureau figures she r that Chicago set a new mark for mortality in June, the city’s record being lower than that of all other big municipalities. John J. Hill, en route for Manila to take an advanced position in the transport service, was found unconscious on the water front at San Francisco and died. - The People’s pArty national convenThomas E. Watson for President and T. H. Tibbles, of Nebraska, for Vice President. Portus B. Weare has been txpelled from the Chicago Board of Trade, of which he has been a member for forty years, the charge being “dishonest conduct.” A Dutch expedition in North Sumatra attacked the natives and with insignificant loss to itself killed 432 Achinese, more than half of them women and children. Five thousand pupils were registered at the vacation schools, which opened in Chicago the other day, and 2.000 children were turned away for lack of accommodations. Railways and steamboat lines in Maryland have put in force the “Jim Crow” law passed by the last Legislature, requiring separate compartments for white and negro passengers. Fire in Boston destroyed the Boston and Maine piers and elevators, causing $1,250,000 loss, and damaged the Allan liner Austrian. The crew of the steamer jumped overboard and three are missing. A duel with pistols was fought in Athens, Greece, between M. Stais, minister of worship and instruction, and M. Hadji-Petros, a member of the boule, or parliament, in which Minister Stais was killed. Max Wollenberg, a Paterson, N. J., storekeeper, was shot and killed by Arthur Lasker, a negro, w’hom he caught stealing articles in his store. The negro was captured after wounding one of his pursuers. A loss of nearly $400,000 resulted from a fire which completely destroyed the Electrical Vehicle Equipment Company’s factory in Brooklyn, N. Y. The building covered nearly two acres and was owned by the Edison Company. Gen. Piet Cronje of Boer war fame married Mrs. Stertzel, widow~bf a Boer soldier. The ceremonj^^^s performed V’ ----fjt; Jjouis grounds, and was private, j^^^reception was held. "▼The President has removed William 11. Smead, agent of the Flathead Indian agency in Montana, and appointed Captain Samuel Bellew of Missoula, Mont., ns his successor. Smead was charged with administrative irregularities. A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Kiel says Emperor William is so annoyed by the manner in which the American yachts there have been sailed that he refused to take part in the races Friday and did not attend the distribution of prizes. John Dobson, a millionaire carpet manufacturer, has been held responsible for the death of three persons who were killed by an explosion of firew’orks in an Arch street store in Philadelphia. Mr. Dobson is the owner of the building and his failure to provide fire escapes is said to have resulted in the fatalities. Most of the 200 men thrown out of work by the shut-down of the SmugglerUnion mines at Telluride, Colo., departed from San Juan County the other day. Gue of the men claimed the non-union men protested against being assessed a dollar a month to maintain the guards who were protecting them. John D. Womack aud Robert Adams of Galveston, Texas, who hired forty cattlemen to attend a cargo of cattle to Lorenzo Marques on the British steamer Cranley. have engaged lawyers to institute suit against Harper's Weekly for $25,000 damages each, for alleged defamation of character in charging that they left the men stranded in London.

EASTERN. 1 ■"' Forty-three firemen were overcome by ' gmoke and gas at a fire in Broadway, New York. Four of the men may die from their injuries. W. H. Maxwell, superintendent of instruction of New York, was elected president of the National Educational Association for next year. Lehigh Valley Railroad firemen havo been notified through their grievance committee that a slight increase in W’ages has been granted. William Hay Bockes, the missing cashier of the First National Bank of Saratoga, N. Y., has not been found. His accounts are straight, and it is believed he has gone to seek a needed rest. A 13-year-old lad, Alexander Johnson, has hanged himself at the home of Frederick K. Allen, president of the village of Pelham Manor, N. Y., because his sister —a maid in the family—compelled him to retire early. William H. Owen, manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company's office in Elmira, N. Y., and his wife were found dead in their home. According to the police, who reported the fact, the couple had been dead two days. Erysipelas resulting from a blow in the face has caused the death of Mrs. Christina Gessman of New York, W’ho was rescued from the ill-fated steamer General Slocum. The blow was struck by a fireman who rescued the woman from drowning. Over 500 homes, business houses and school houses, a short distance from Pittsburg on the Pan Handle Railroad were inundated in from two to ten feet of water In Robinson Run hollow and the Chartiers valley by a cloudburst. Many buildings and bridges were washed away, horses and cattle were drowned and at least one life was lost. There were many narrow escapes. In the Bastian Hotel, McDonald, Charles Hayes, the engineer, was caught in a room in the basement. Almost without warning the water poured in upon him. He reached safety by crawling through the transom. The flood did not subside until daylight. The only fatality reported so far W’as the drowning of an unknown Italian, whose body was found floating in Robinson run. The damage will reach SIOO,OOO. WESTERN. Minnesota Republicans nominated Robert C. Dunn for Governor by acclamation; the platform indorses Roosevelt. Aiderman Michael Mullen of Cincinnati gave an outing to the 35,000 men. women and children of the Eighth Ward at Coney Island. The control and management of the Minneapolis Times have been acquired by Albert Dollenmayer. H. Billman, managing editor, will remain. During"a heavy storm two trains collided at Chaska, Minn., and O. B. Segafoos of Excelsior, Minn^ fatally injured. Two others werqjiurt. w More than 2^6 Illinois convicts have been made idle by a peculiar legal complication, in which a federal injunction and a new State law come in conflict. The American rolling mill, employing 300 men, at Middletown, Ohio, was shut down pending the signing of the scale of wages submitted by the Amalgamated men. John L. Mitchell, former United States Senator from Wisconsin, is dead at his home in Greenfield, Wis., as the result of complications following an operation for intestinal trouble. O. L. Hayes, former president of the Galion National Bank of Galion, Ohio, ®as bound hver to the United State*” hw vt. iatse entries in the bank books. Mrs. Charles Netcher, widow of the late proprietor of the Boston store in Chicago, has been elected president and treasurer of the corporation, and will manage the great business. An attempt was made at South Haven, Mich., to lynch Charles L. Allison, well-known citizen and Sunday school worker, who was arrested on the charge of attacking a 4-year-old girl. Col. Joseph H. Brigham, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, died in Delta, Ohio, suddenly. He was on his way to St. Louis to attend a meeting of the government board, of which he is chairman. Cashier Jacob H. Plain embezzled $90,025 from the German-American National Bank of Aurora, 111. The money was lost in speculation, steel stock causing his final downfall. Plain is under arrest. A horse attached to a milk wagon ran away on Walnut hills, Cincinnati, and, stepping from one street, broke through the roof of an apartment house on the street below and into the living apartments of Joseph Adler. “Dan” Emmett, an old time minstrel, famous as the composer of “Dixie,” died in Mount Vernon, Ohio, aged 86 years. His last public appearance was four years ago, when he toured the country with a minstrel company. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Furst of New York City, who, with their daughter, are stopping at the Park Hotel in Mount Clemens, Mich., were robbed of diamonds valued at $5,000. The diamonds were in a trunk in Mrs. Furst’s room. H. Burton Strait, proprietor of a bank at Jordan, Minn., was convicted in Glencoe of having received a deposit when he knew his bank was insolvent. The trial of his partner, H. P. Schreiner, on a like charge, will now be taken up. Jacob H. Plain, who admits taking $90,000 of the funds of the German American National Bank of Aurora, 111., says that in speculating with the institutious funds he did no mure than halt the successful Chicago cashiers have done. A mother aud son were fatally injured and a daughter killed in a trolley accident at Findlay, Ohio, and three trainmen were killed and two injured, one fatally, by the explosion of a Pennsylvania locomotive boiler near Ehrenfeld, Pa. Dr. Eymour Jarecki, former county physician and one of the most promising doctors in Denver, was murdered in his home at 4 o’clock on a recent morning by an unknown person, who called the physician to the door and fired through the screen. Having been accepted by the State free employment bureau forty men have started from New York for the wheat fields in Kansas and Nebraska, where harvests are waiting for the reapers. Several college students are already on the way. The coroner's jury in the case of the victims of the Victor, Colo., riots, June G, charged President Charles H. Moyer and W. D. Haywood, secretary-treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, and thirty members of the union with murder and inciting riot. Charles G. Stillman, son of a multimillionaire banker of New York and himself worth $6,000,000, is working as a baggage smasher for the Southern Pacific Railway in San Francisco. He wears overalls and works as hard as any other ordinary employe. Discouraged by an examination for I life insurance which showed that he was afflicted with an organic disease that was • bar to insurance and would terminate

| his life before long. Allan T. Simpkin-s, > secretary of the Renault Lead Company in St. Louis, shot and killed himself. Perry S. Heath has been deposed as political manager for Senator Thomas B. Kerns and as manager of Kerns’ two newspapers, the Telegram and the Tribune, in Salt Lake City. Heath has gone to Nova Scotia. He said before leaving that the time of his return was uncertain. Jerome Penn, a business man of Washington Court House, Ohio, has not taken food for fifty-three days. He has subsisted entirely upon drinking water. His mind is clear, but he is much emaciated. His inability to retain food on the stomach caused him to take to the water diet. In a wreck on the Wabash road near Litchfield. 111., twenty persons were killed and fifty-eight were injured. Fire added horror to the disaster when the cars were thrown into the ditch. It is believed the accident was caused by some person or persons unknown having turned a switch. The Supreme Court of Nebraska decided that Mrs. Margaret Lillie of David City, Neb., must serve a life sentence in the penitentiary for the murder of her husband, Harvey Lillie, a grain dealer. The crime was committed in October, 1902, and the District Court sentenced Mrs. Lillie to imprisonment for life. The prosecution charged that Mrs. Lillie had been speculating in stocks and that she killed her husband in order to get his life insurance, with which to carry on her speculations. George Christian and George Upton, two prominent society and club men of Minneapolis, received injuries from which they will probably die and five other persons were seriously hurt in an explosion of a gasoline launch, the Eleanor, at Tonka Bay, Lake Minnetonka. George Christian was entertaining a party of six grown persons and two children, and his boat was headed for the bay, when the explosion occurred. It was caused by a leak in the gasoline tank. The boat was wrecked, and it is due only to the fact that a number of sailboats and rowboats were in the bay that the party escaped death. The boat was burned to the water’s edge as it was being towed to the shore. Nine millions of acres of government land in Nebraska were thrown open to homestead entry Tuesday under the provisions of the Kinkaid law, by which the homesteader may file upon 640 acres. At the United States land offices in Nebraska many persons, a large percentage of women included, had gathered to secure choice sections. These crowds ranged from fifty at North Platte* to 2,000 at Broken Bow, 2,000,000 acres being subject to entry at the latter named place. Considerable strife was indulged in by prospective entryrnen for first place in the lines, and nt Broken Bow the authorities were at one time afraid they would be unable to handle the crowds. Railroads carried a great number of persons to the land offices at O’Neill. Alliance, Sidney and North Platte’. SOUTHERN. The Coleman cotton mills at Concord. N. C., the first owned and operated in North Carolina by negroes, has failed and was bid in by the mortgagees for SIO,OOO. New Boston, Texas, a town near Texarkana, Is reported at least partly wiped out by a cyclone and several persons are said to have been killed. The storm also struck Denton, Texas. The body of Miss Pauline Edwards, a 16-year-old girl, was found in a shallow creek near her home at Danville, Va. There are evidences that the girl was attacked and murdered. ^F^rGN. George Frederick Watts, distinguished English painter, died in London. Senor DuPuy de Lome, who was Spanish minister at Washington up to the breach between the United States and Spain, died in Paris from cerebral hemorrhage. H. S. Hart, a jeweler and a prominent citizen of Shreveport, La., was fined sl,000, and in default of payment was sentenced to two years’ work on the public roads, on conviction of having sent an insulting note to a young woman. Twenty-two sailors were drowned at the Baltic works, St. Petersburg, during experiments with the torpedo boat Delfin, which had been converted into a submarine boat. The signal was given to submerge the boat without first properly closing the manhole. A tornado swept Moscow, Russia, causing enormous damage. Forty-five persons were killed aud thirteen injured. Two villages in the track of the storm near here were destroyed. One hundred and fifty deaths are reported there, while eighty-five persons were hurt. The Japanese won a desperate battle within ten miles of Port Arthur, one Russian regiment being annihilated in a brilliant charge, and the islanders occupied the Wolf Mountains, giving them practical command by means of siege guns of the approach to the fortress. Cut rates in steerage passage eastward already have resulted in an enormous increase of that class of passenger traffic to Europe. On some of the English steamers it has been remarked that a comparatively large number of young college men are seizing th'e opportunity of passing the summer in Europe. The steamer Norge of the Scandina-vian-American line was lost in the North Atlantic and more than 700 persons perished. The steamer, bound from Copenhagen to New York with Danish emigrants, struck a dangerous reef 200 miles off the coast of Scotland and went down in ten minutes, while the lifeboats were crushed by the waves and the passengers leaped into the sea in panic. The survivors number 128. IN GENERAL. Twenty-five dead, 1,977 injured was the harvest of Fourth of July celebration in the country; fire loss $177,800. Paul Morton has formally assumed the duties of Secretary of the Navy, succeeding Mr. Moody, who becomes Attorney General of the United States. The weekly trade reports indicate strong conditions, the buying of seasonable merchandise showing a considerable increase. Harvesting proceeds favorably and the demand from the interior is good. Premier Sir Wilfrid Laurier created a sensation at a banquet to the officers of the Ottawa military district by declaring that Canada must prepare for war even with so good a friend as the United States. Rev. Silas C. Swallow, the “fighting parson” of Pennsylvania, was nominated for President and George W. Carroll of Texas for Vice President by the Prohibitionist national convention in Indianapolis, this action being taken unanimously after Gen. Miles formally withdrew his name. Devastating storms in greater number and more severe than the country has seen in the past ten years are predicted for the United States during August, September and October by W. T. Forsi ter. an unofficial forecaster of Washington, These storms, he says, will be tropical hurricanes aud transcontinental cy. clones.

WAR DU JING A WEEK RUSSIANS AN D japs FIGHTMANY minor Engagements. Kuroki’s Armj Takes Some Ixnportant Places in Itq Advance, but It Hus Met with PK n ty o f Fighting—Rainy Season Retai^g Campaign. t At the t>cgli n ing of last week, according to thel Chicago Tribune’s war strategist. Genl Oku, with 80,000 men, was moving nfrfh on both sides of the Port Arthur railway. Simultaneously Kuroki had advanced from his bases at Siuyen and Fengwangcheng and xvas proceeding oV er three roads to Kaichou, Tatlheklao, and Haicheng, with the hopejjf striking the Russians on their left a^d roar. In the course o f if g advance Kuroki's army met plenty of fighting before It managed to Mko the three important passes situate* one O n each of the three roads all n g which he is advancing. I The details df the fighting for Motion pass are not own, the Japam**c ,\>minander havii*. no report. Gen. Kouropatkli) rates merely that the enemy attar *d the pass on June 26, bringing to “at least eight hnttiiHons and tea *“ns.” “On the morning ofWUSHßtfiWitlffues IfTe" nd-A'lnn ■

JIAP OF THE THEATER OF WAR. I—I, |„ 'P - s ( '‘h i \ vM^^**’* C j c*' ■ i COPEA Star No. I’marks the position of the battle for Motien pass. The Japanese attacked on June 26. with eight guns and 8.0(H) or 16,000 men. The pass was taken by frontal and flank on the 27th. Casualties not reported. Star No. 2 show’s where severest fighting of the week took place. On June 26 the Japanese wer? three times repulsed in their efforts to take Genshui. The battle was resumed at midnight nnd continued till nearly noon of June 27. when the Japs took the hill commanding the pass after a flanking diversion on the Russian rear. Übe Russians had about 10,060 men. thirty-six guns and two machine guns. 'llie Japanese had 20.000 men nnd ample artillery. The Japs lost 1,170 men. The Russian losses are unknown. Star No. 3 shows Ta pass, which the Japanese captured on June 27 by first frontal and flank assaults. The Japanese had 20.060 men engaged. The Russian forces are unknown, but they report their casualties at 200. Star No. 4 marks the peak near Fort Arthur upon which the Japs have mounted their siege guns. The place was taken on June 27 after a two-day battle. Star No. 5 indicates the skirmish nt Senuchen on June 27. where the Russians, after losing eighty men, were f‘-rved to retreat. Star No. 6 shows the location of the naval battle allegedly witnessed by the captain of the German steamer Chefoo.

i . i■ ' ■ , general, "the Japanese occupied Motien pass.” j The fighting pr Fenshui pass was severe, the Japanese, by their own report. having suffered 1.170 casualties. The Japanese troops engaged in this i operation were part of the Takushan ; division, concerning whose composition so little information has leaked out of Tokio. The official report, as given out to the press, does not contain the name of the victorious general. but refers to him merely as -‘the commander of the Takushan division.” The attack on Fenshui began on the morning of the. 2(>th. The lighting lasted until dark; the Russians main- 1 taining their position. At midnight the i Nipponese soldieri were quietly aroused | and launched once more again at the i enemy. The Japanese artillery got into ; a bad mess in this fight, and the loss ' of their guns w:^ threatened, but the ; Kamada mon d ■ e the attackers off and the vtricated. Mean--whlle " ; d been sent by a e rear and leftaM^^^^w^ " them to lose their freedoi i.” As a result, the Russ:: > of their frontal position r ?d. The Jap infantry, ass^;^ igineers. then dashed up the hili vo '-ides, cut the wire entahgiema, ‘stroyed the obstacles, stcrffied the\ 'on, and occupied the heights at li?* in the morning. The Russians retreated northwestward, six of their officers and eighty-two of thoir men being captured, while over too were left dead on the field. The Russian position at Fenshui wa« exceedingly strong, betaking the nature of a serni-prYmnuent fortification. The Russian engineers had been con structing it for three months. The Russians probably had 10,000 and the Japs 25.000 in this engagement. Tiie fight at T^iass .".Iso took place on the 27th. The position was first shaken by heavy artillery fire, and then taken by simultaneous frontal and dank assault. A Russian correspondent reports? that in this engagement ‘‘the Japanese redemonstrated their reliance upQh artillery.” In every fight in which they have yet been engaged the Japanese success has been largely due to tlibjr accurate and copious artillery prance. The Russian losses at Ta pass hvere 200; Japanese losses not stated, ' I I I S ■

The following day, again June 2T, the Japs took Lounvantlan, driving the Russians off. No more details of this action. The Japanese are now’ mounting siege guns on Lounvantian height, and have already begun to cast their shells from the laud side into Port Arthur. Meantime the northern section of the second army had not been particularly busy. It did not carry on its advance vigorously enough to get into a severe fight. It was engaged in one two day skirmish for the possession of Senuchen, which object it achieved on June 27. The Russian losses were fifty; Japanese losses not stated. It is a most significant thing that these live engagements were concluded on June 27. It must have been more than a coincidence. Oku’s array occupied Senuchen on the 27th, and took I.ounvantian on the same day. Kuroki’s army took Motien pass on the 27th. “The commander of the Takushan division” took Fenshui pass on the same day. The Japs also took Ta pass on the 27th. This successful simultaneous forward movement in five places indicates the perfect co-opera-tion and system of the Japanese commanders. Probably on the night of June 28 or 29 the three Russian cruisers quitted Vladivostok again. They were accompanied by ten torpedo boats. The entire squadron appeared off Gensan on the "cjurt' roil'd of Korea early on the morn- I

ing of June 30. Six of the torp< do boats went into Gensang harbor and sank a Japanese merchantman and a coasting schooner which they found there. I Then, after firing 200 shells into the town, they sailed out to rejoin the I cruisers. Their entire visit lasted an hour and fifty minutes. ■ Tokio reported that the Russian ships proceeded southward to Korea Straits, where they fell In with Ad- j miral Kamimura s squadron and an j engagement ensued. The result was not know n. At the present writing the authenticity of this report has not been । confirmed. A German steamer brought to Chej foo the story that thirty miles south of j Tort Arthur a great naval battle was ■ m progress between an unknown num- : bet oi Russian ships and a Japanese । fleet of two battleships and five cruis- , ers. The German captain’s story has not been confirmed. 't he rainy season has begun. Gen. Kourapatkin reports torrential rains in the Tatchekiao district. These rains have continued for four days. They 1 have even drowned some men. Dry stream beds have become converted into swift rivers. The miserable roads through which the rival armies are । now operating will be made impassable. If the rains do not entirely stop the campaign they will greatly retard its movements. The advantage lies with Kouropatkin, because he has the railroad to move his provisions Humorous News Notes. Some people who remember Dan Voorhees. call Senator Fairbanks the “tall seekin’ more of the Wabash.” Chicago is receiving some grim lessons as to the inadvisability of raising the speed limit for automobiles. If the men are going to church f'.unday evenings in shirt waists in New Jersey that should interest the mosquitoes. Attendance at the St. Louis exposition is picking up. The people of the city have found out that they have a great show. President Hadley of Yale wants graduates to avoid the tendency to make wealth. Most of them will find it an ea^y thing to do. It is not because the Sultan of Morocco would not like to that he does not wring Raisuli’s neck. The old recipe about first catching the rabbit applies here.

LINER NORGE LOST Strikes Rock in Atlantic and More than 700 Drown. ONLY 123 SURVIVORS, Steamer Crowded with Emigrants Runs i on Reef Off Scottish Coast. Great Boat Goes Down in Ten Minutes— Lifeboats Crushed by Waves and Pasletigers Leap into Sea in Panic—Captain Bravely Sinks with Skip, but Comes to Surface Again aud Is Rescued. Over 700 Danish and Norwegian emigrants bound for New York are believed to have been drowned in the north Atlantic. Out of nearly 800 souls on board the Danish steamer Norge, which left Copenhagen June 22, only 128 are known to be alive and for the rest no hope is held out. When last seen the Norge was sinking where she struck on the islet of Rockall, whose isolated peak raises itself from a deadly Atlantic reef some 296 miles off the w’est coast of Scotland. Early on the morning of Tuesday the Norge, which was out of her course in heavy weather, ran on to the Rockall reef, which in the distance looks like a ship under full sail. The Norge was quickly backed off, but the heavy seas poured in through a rent in her bows. Lifeboats Are Capsized. The emigrants, who were then awaiting breakfast below, ran on deck. The hatchways were scarcely built for these hundreds of souls and became clogged. The Norge quickly began to go down by the head. Eight boats were lowered, and into these the women and children were hurriedly put. Six of these boats smashed against the side of the Norge and their helpless inmates were caught up by the heavy seas. Two boat loads got safely away from the side of the sinking ship and many of the emigrants who were left on board, seizing life belts, threw themselves into the sea and were drowned. The Norge foundered suddenly and some 600 terrified emigrants were thrown into the water or drawn down with the sinking ship. Those who could swim tried to reach the boats, but these were already too full and ' their occupants beat off the drowning wretches with oars. Two Other Boats Missing. The boats kept together for some hours. Fract ! ally all of their occupants were passengers and were not used to handling such craft. The boat occupied by the survivors lauded at Grimsby was a lifeboat. One account says that three boats w ere successfully launched, the other two bolding about ten persons each, i The lifeboat made faster progress and i fell in with the Salvia. The rescue of those on the lifeboat took place at 8 ! c clock on the morning of Wed>i»'.sday. the survivors consisting of twenty men, one of them a seaman, six women ai <1 a girl. One of the survivors said that when he got on deck the Norge was half submerged and was rapidly getting lower in the water. Half mad with fright, the survivors ail struggled for places in the boats. They fought their i way to the big lifeboat and an officer j stowed in the six women and the girl i and then told the men to get in. Heroic Officer Drowns. The officer then took charge and got ' the boat away from the side of the Norge. Seeing that the boat was alj ready overloaded, the officer, with great heroism, jumped into the water and tried to board another boat which was not so full. He failed and was ' drowned. In the sea by this time was a mass I of struggling men, women and children, gasping and choking from the effects of the water. The boat rowed clear of this seething inferno, and just as she drew away the Norge went down. Survivors of the disaster now are known to number 12.8. 162 having been picked up by English and German vessels from lifeboais in which they were adrift on the ocean. Among those saved is Captain Guudel of the Norge, who was carried down when the -'np sank. He rose and swam for a lifeboat filled with other survivors. For more than a year the Norge has been bringing over a mixed class of emigrants. She could easily carry 1.060 or 1,200 passengers. Os late her passenger list lias included Danes, Norwegians and Russians. The Norge, which had been in the Copenhagen-New Ab ri; service of the Scandinavian lino for a number of years, was an iron vessel of 3.318 tons gross and 2.121 tons net. Her principal dimensions were: Length, 340 feet; breadth, 40 feet, and depth. 25 feet. The vessel was built at Glasgow by A. Stephen w Sons in 1881. when she was christened Pieter Da Coninck. When she was purchased by the United Steamer Company of Copenhagen she was renamed the Norge. Told in a Few Lines. Edmund Bersch. a former member of the St. Louis Council, pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe of $2,560 fur his vote. A tramp sentenced at Philadelphia for vagrancy claime 1 he was the long-lost Charlie Ross and that he had escaped from a Michigan lumber camp, where lie had been kept a prls >nor for years. George Overbaugh. about 50 years old. a retired stock broker of Goldsboro. N. C.. committed suicide in New York by drinking a quantity of carbolic acid. Overbangh went to New York to be treated for nervous insomnia.

Advices from special New York. correspondents of the International Mercantile I Agency indicate that heavy rainfall in I sections of the Southwest has proved I a deterrant to general business. This, however, will be more than compensated for through benefit to the crops. Although jobbing interests still complain of slow trade, results already achieved are better than a yenr ago, with promise of increased July volume. The outlook is excellent in sections tributary to St. Louis. . Boot and shoe manufacturers still have more work than they can attend to. Most of the large factories are up to their limit. Millinery has not been in so good demand this week. Hats and caps are showing up well and orders from country districts suggest increased consumption of groceries and drug sundries. As soon as the presidential campaign takes definite shape an element of uncei^alnty which has had Important bearing'i^on rhe eral business situation ated. The South has become this week the brightest spot In the whole country, so far as sustained trade and general consumption is concerned. Texas reports a heavy business in retail buyI Ing at a period which Is usually re- ! garded as the dullest of the year. Louisville is showing up well, with average conditions fully equal to last year. Chicago wholesalers arc doing I a fair trade in general merchandise. I Pittsburg for the first time in many I weeks is becoming hopeful over the i steel outlook. Sellers are refusing to ■ tie up at low prices, and while furI naces continue to go out of blast I shrewd observers expect a revival of railroad business as soon as increased earnings, which are now becoming more pronounced, are effective. The feeling is general that toe heavy purchasers of steel rails will be forced into the market before long through. । sheer necessity. Prices of pig iron and billets are being shaded somewhat, but everything hinges on the rail situation, which is the strategic point in an outlook that 'is complicated by seme interesting I cross movements. The industry in general is picking up. Textile manufacturing is still at low . ebb, with little prospect of immediateimprovement. In New England the shutdown of milling interests is restricting consumption of general merchandise. , The outlook for excellent yield of all grains is all that could be expected. r ; R. G. Dun & Co.’s Ctncaoo. review of Ch ca- ! go trade says: Business r conditions generally ness and were stronger in we demand ; throughout the leading retail lines, the ; buying of seasonable merchandise hav- ’ ing reached an enlarged aggregate in both local and country dealings. Trade 5 in the staples is now influenced by theagricultural outlook, and it is satls- ’ factory to note that wheat harvesting ' proceeds favorably and that other ; grains are In excellent position. ’ Transactions at wholesale included ' more liberal selections for the interior in cotton goods, woolens, clothing and footwear. Buyers have shown more confidence in placing orders, while indications pointed to increase appearing in the requirements for fall delivery. Sales of groceries and collateral lines were of fair volume, and bakers’ and confectioners' supplies were in good request. Mercantile collections caused little trouble, but weremore satisfactory on interior bills than, locally. The manufacturing situation disi closed no disturbing features. Labor ‘ difficulties are undergoing adjustment and the-usual mid-year inventories and i repairs will occasion teitporary clos- ' ing down of some plants. Most i branches, however, are well engaged. : and the interruption of production will be slight. > Grain shipments. 2,835,763 bushels, - compared with 2.385,959 bushels last > week, but are 24 per cent under those I a year ago. Receipts have shown some : decrease, and the buying lacked im- : provement for export account. Compared with the closings a week ago > wheat gained \\ cent a bushel, but i corn and oats both declined 114 cents. ■ Receipts of live stock. 281,742 head, i compared with 271.727 herd last week > and 284,938 head a vear a.go. ws Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades. $4.00 to $5.47; sheep, fair choice, 82.75 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 req. 98e to $1.00; corn, No. 2,46 cto 47c; oats, standard, 36e to 37c; rye. No. 2,63 cto64 -: Ley, 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, $1.35 to $1.45. St. Louis —Cattle. $4.50 r > $6.25: hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep. §3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2, $1.03 to corn. No. 2. 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2,40 cto 4lc; rye. No. 2. 65c to 68c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4. X> to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sleep, $2.00 to J'3.50; wheat. No. 2, $j ,03 to $1’.05; corn. No. 2 mixed. 49c to 50c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; rye, t-j. 2,78 cto 80c. I Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 t< $0.25; hogs, i S4JD to $4.50; sheen, $2 50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, SI.OO to $1 On; cor;:. No. 3 I vellow. 49c to 51c; oats. No. 3 white, 41c ! to 42c; rye. No. 2. 72c to 7&-. I Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern. | 95c to 96c: corn. No. 3. 48c to 49c: ! oats. No. 2 white. 41c to 42: ; rye. No. 1, ; 66c to 68c; barley, No. 2,33 cto 64c; I pork. mess. $12.40. | Toledo —Wheat, No. 2ml ted, 99c to i $1.1*0; corn. No. 2 mixed. 4sc to 49c; oat;".. No. 2 mixed. 41c to 42c rye. No. 2, i C7c to CSc; clover seed, prime, $6.10.