Walkerton Independent, Volume 30, Number 4, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 August 1904 — Page 2

®ljc Jnbepcndcnt. W. A. E2XI)IjEY, l^ibllhhor. WALKERTON. - • - INDIANA. SUMMARY OF NEWS Canadian enforcement of the alien contract labor law by deporting Americans •nay lead to a row with the United States, especially as the Dominion at the same time is proselyting in the United States to obtain farmers for the North ■west. A new price record for fancy poultry has been established in America, if not in the world, by George H. Northrup, of Raeeville, N. Y. He sold a flock of nineteen birds, three cocks and sixteen hens, for export to Berlin, Germany, for $3,400. In a collision on the Rochester, Charlotte and Manitou Electric Line near Rochester, N. Y., four persons were fatally hurt and nine othe" passengers seriously injured. The two trolley trains met on a sharp curve and the motor cars were telescoped. As the result of a cloudburst the towns ■of Douglass and Silver Star, near Sodaville, Nev., are reported to have been ®wtp f owav. ■>>'<_ was that the flood, in waves four feet deep, erty damage was wrought. Japanese army under Kuroki, fighting two battles several miles apart, captured Yangze Pass and Ikhauven, important (positions in the defense of Liaoyang, and are believed to be within striking distance of Liaoyang itself, one point of outside defense being left. Bishop Potter’s action in standing as one of the sponsors for the Subway Taviern, a saloon in New York designed to lessen the evils of intemperance, has (raised a church storm. Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee leading in an attack on the distinguished New York prelate. The body of Joseph Lamar, Jr., of Pittsburg, was found in an advanced ®tate of decomposition in a chimp of willows on the river shore, near the heart iof Wheeling, W. Va. When the body was lifted a knife with a three-inch blade 'fell from the inside of the shirt and an ■examination showed that it had been plunged through the heart. Sheriff Lenhart and his posse and more 'than 200 armed citizens have been .searching for the three Italians who mortally wounded Patrick CampbeH, paymaster of the Puritan Coal Company, and killed his driver, Charles Hays, near Portage, Pa. The robbers fired on the men without warning from ambush, afterward robbing Campbell of $3,000, representing the wages of the miners. Campbell crawled to a farmer’s house, where he gave the alarm. The forthcoming report of the United States Geological Survey will show that the United States exceeded all previous records in the production of coal in 1903. The total amount of the output of the coal mines of the country during that year was 359,421,311 tons, an increase of nearly 58,000,000 tons or 19 per cent over‘the preceding year. The value of the product of 1903 is given as $504,190,733, an increase in value of 38 per cent oxer the preceding year. The clubs of the National League now stand thus: W. L. W. L. York... 62 24 St. Louis 47 41 Udeago 53 34 Boston o 3 57 Cincinnati .. .52 37 Brooklyn ... .32 59 Pittsburg .. .50 36 Philadelphia. 22 63 The table below shows how matters stand in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 54 33 Philadelphia. 48 38 Chicago 55 35 St. Louis 34 47 New Y0rk...51 34 Detroit 34 51 Cleveland ...47 37 Washington.. 18 66 Standings in the American Association are as follows: W. L. W. L. St. Paul 62 38 Minneapolis.. 46 48 Columbus ...58 36 Indianapolis. 46 52 Milwaukee . .57 40 Kansas City. .34 60 Louisville ...54 45 Toledo 30 68 The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Colo. Springs.sl 31 Des Moines... 44 48 Denver 54 33 St. Joseph... .36 48 Omaha 45 44 Sioux City.... 29 55 BREVITIES, A sanctimonious looking jailbird, who attended services Sunday, robbed worshipers at Trinity Episcopal Church, in Omaha, while kneeling in prayer. Delbert R. Baxter of Helena, aged 18, and Patrick McDonough of Stearns, aged 16. were drowned while bathing in a reservoir near Wolf Creek, Montana. Jack Carr, a carpenter, shot and killed Chris Hartman, a hostler, at the Atlantic House iu Nebraska City, Neb. Carr was shot by officers and will probably die. Mrs. Nelson A. Miles died in West Point, N. Y., of heart disease. She and General Miles had been visiting their son, Sherman, who is a student at the military academy. The body of an unknown white man was discovered at the fair grounds in Owensboro, Ky. A stake had been driven through his throat into the ground, then bent over the walls and nailed. Governor Mickey, of Nebraska, dis guised himself as a laborer and mingled with the Omaha packing house strikers, to see if there was disorder or illegal methods. He has decided that troops are not needed. Governor Van Sant, of Minnesota, set aside the custom of Friday hangings when he set Tuesday, Aug. 30, as the day of execution of William Chounard, who killed his wife after drinking eighty glasses of whisky. Mrs. Augusta Kent, aged 25. formerly of Kewanee, 111., was shot and killed by her husband. Julius D. Kent, aged 30. in Kansas City. Kent then turned the weapon upon himself, firing a bullet through his'heart, dying instantly. He b.ad recently sued his wife for divorce. In response to an order issued by the president of the Order of Railway Telegraphers. 450 telegraphers employed by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway System stopped work. The action is the result of demands made several months ago for an increase in wages and other concessions. Russian police say the assassination of M. von Plehve is the result of a wholesale conspiracy to murder ministers of which they have important evidence. The assassin, who will recover from his wounds, tried to baffle the efforts of the officials to establish his identity and nationality. Receiver W. G. Taefel of the Newark (Ohiol Savings Bank and supreme secretary of the American Insurance Union, was found dead by Samuel Oden iu Licking river. He left a note saying that he was innocent of any wrong leading to the failure of the bank and that he was ruined financially and therefore had decided to kill himself.

EASTERN. The Pullman company has discharged 2.000 men since July 1 because of drop in ear business. A strike of 75,000 miners in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania is considered imminent. Fifty persons were injured, eleven of them seriously, in a collision between trolley cars in New York. A bear at the Philadelphia Zoo so mangled the leg of an inquisitive boy that the member will be amputated. Milton Kennedy, president of the Outing Automobile Manufacturing Company, was hurt in an automobile accident at Flushing, L. 1. At Oyster Bay, L. L, President Roosevelt was notified formally Wednesday of his nomination for the presidency by the national Republican convention. Trainer in a “zoo” at Coney Island, N. Y., was attacked by a lion and almost torn to pieces in a desperate struggle which was witnessed by 3,000 persons. The estate left by William C. Whitney is valued at $21,243,101, and Harry Payne Whitney, the executor, paid a tax on that amount of $222,222.84 to the New York State comptroller. Explosion of a dynamite bomb or infernal machine wrecked a New York grocery store, whose proprietor had received letters threatening him with death unless he gave $2,000 to the writer. The group of four buildings of the Ornamental Terra Cotta works, owned by Conkling, Armstrong & Co., in Philadelphia, was destroyed -Uy —iirg;—ktssr $150,000, fully covered by insurance. Detective Michael Reilly, of Mount Vernon, N. Y., in attempting to arrest a highwayman, was shot at close range. His life was saved by a celluloid collar, which stopped the force of the bullet. Several survivors of the steamship Norge arrived at Boston on the Ivernia from Liverpool. Mrs. S. Ojakoski, who escaped from the Norge, died on the Ivernia from the effects of her experience. Robert E. Pattison, who was twice Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania and twice Comptroller of Philadelphia, died at his home iu Overbrook, a suburb of Philadelphia. Pneumonia, complicated with a weakness of the heart, was the cause of death.

WESTERN. Twelve business houses were destroyed by fire in Mora, Minn., causing a loss estimated at about $70,000. The board of directors of the world's fair has reduced the salaries of all employes from 5 to 25 per cent. The Union Pacific has adopted a plan to build electric lines into thickly populated rural districts as feeders of the main lines. Henry Peters, president of the Fairfield County, Ohio, bank, has been appointed receiver for the Lancaster bank, a private institution. Merger of Missouri Pacific and Wabash railways is reported on reliable authority in St. lamis; it will mean system of over 8,000 miles. Russell Harding and other Missouri Pacific officials on a special train barely escaped death on a burning bridge over the Platte river. A battle was fought between nonunion men and strike sympathizers in St. Joseph. Mo. Five men were seriously injured and many more suffered lesser hurts. Delegates from the United States, England, Japan and Mexico were present at the first world's international curfew congress ai the St. Louis world's fair grounds. The Louisville and Nashville and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads filed suits against St. Louis ticket brokers to restrain them from dealing in nontransferable tickets. Twenty-three persons were hurt as the result of a rear-end collision between two large trolley cars on the shore line of the Cleveland, Eastern and Painesville Railroad near Nottingham. Ohio. The house of John Harper nt NewHaven, Ohio, was burned and Mr. Harper and his wife, both over 80 years old, were burned to death. It is supposed an overturned lamp started the fire. During a thunderstorm in East Liverpool, Ohio, lightning struck five house' and injured six persons. One of the victims, Mrs. Caroline White, aged 70 years, may die. The others will recover. Olga Davis, living in the village of Dunkinsville. Ohio, shot anil killed his grandmother. Mrs. Harriet Davis, while she was passing through his room. In the dim light of the room he thought site was a burglar. Chester McCreary, aged 10, shot and instantly killed his brother William, aged 12, near North. Lewisburg, O. The boys were at play when Chester became angered, and, seizing a shotgun, discharged its contents at his brother. Forest fires in the Gila forest reserve. Arizona, which have raged for the past two months, defying all efforts of forest rangers, and devastating an area of fifteen square miles of fine timber, have been put out by heavy rains. Crazed by drink, Girolema Mele, aged 61. shot and killed Mrs. Maddlaena Mandora, aged 55, in Cleveland and then blew out his brains. Mele had a wife and four children in Italy, but had been living with the woman for six years. Robert Womack, discoverer of Cripple Creek, which has yielded others more than $.150,060,000, is dying in a Colorado Springs sanitarium. He did not benefit by his discovery and for several years has been a street laborer in that city. A granite shaft thirty-seven feet high, erected by Mrs. William I”. Mack, of Cleveland, Ohio, in memory of her son. William H. Mack, the Monmoy life-sav-ing crew and the crew of the barge Wadena, was dedicated at Chatham, Mass. From Jan. 1 to July 27. inclusive, 77,825,866 Japanese yen have been received at the United States mint in San Francisco and converted into money for the Philippine Islands. The aggregate amount in American money is $38,812,933 Arthur Nutt and Amelia Davis were killed at Swanders, Ohio, their automobile being struck by a work car on the electric line. Nutt was an Ann Arbor student home for a vacation and Miss Davis was a former student at Oxford. Ohio. A tornado and heavy rains prevailed In portions of Kansas and Oklahoma Sunday. Ten miles north of Norton. Kan., a tornado wrecked several farm buildings near the Nebraska line and killed a number of live stock. No person was hurt. John Palm and Harold Perry, alias “Curly” Terry, the youths accused by James Formby of assisting him in the hold-up of a Western avenue trolley car in Chicago the night he killed the conductor, George Beckler, were arrested in South Bend, Ind. A fire in the Swift & Company lard refinery threw alarm over Packingtown, in Chicago. Tho fire, which was caused by a defective electric motor, was confined to the upper floor. The damage was $4,500. with property valuetl at $250,000 menaced. Cyrus P. Walbridge of St. Louis was Dominated for Governor of Missouri on

the first ballot taken by the Republican convention. The platform follows closely the features of the national party principles and takes a firm stand against boodling in the State. The Michigan Central elevator in Toledo, Ohio, operated by the Paddock Hodge Company, was destroyed by tire, at a loss of $200,090. The insurance on the building amounted to $189.0(10. 'rhe building contained 150,000 bushels of corn and 75,000 bushels of oats. Five thousand rioters gave the police their first tierce battle of the present strike at the Chicago stock yards. A frenzied mob hurled stones and bricks at the bluecoats, injuring a number of the men. Two buildings were wrecked and a patrol wagon was demolished. In Pueblo, Colo., Mrs. J. J. Allley was killed by a bullet from a revolver in the hands of her lover. John Anderson, who immediately afterward shot himself through the heart and died in a few moments. Jealousy appears to have been the cause of the double tragedy. Mrs. J. M. Pritchard is dead and Mrs. Ray Smith, Mrs. C. \V. Jones, Mrs. Johanna McCarthy ami Mrs. M. A. Wood are not expected to recover from ptomaine poisoning resulting from eating ice cream at a function of the Rebecca lodge at Gallipolis, Ohio, at which they were guests. (Ira White of Michigan City. Ind., who piloted Admiral Dewey’s flagship, the Olympia, into Manila bay. May 1, 1898, will profit by the recent decision awarding prize money for the capture of Spanish vessels. White's share of the $828.600 to be distributed" wTil amodilV to $.”.,000. A heavy rain and hail storm has swept a path four miles wide through Centerville. Ohio, and vicinity, mowing down fields of grain and destroying fruit. Big fields of tobacco and corn were ruined. The tobacco crop, which is always the largest income of the farmers in the Centerville district, was utterly destroyed. \\ indows were broken in houses in the village and trees were blown down. The people became frightened, fearing a cyclone would sweep their homes away and took refuge in cellars. The loss is estimated at from $50,009 to $75,000. Edward and Morris Newton, brothers, aged 1. ami 22, have been arrested about twenty-five miles south of Medicine Lodge, Kan., where they were camped with the wagon and horses of Patrick King, a wealthy farmer, who was found dead near the Jerry Simpson ranch. After arrest the boys confessed to the murder of King. The younger prisoner said that he had killed Kiugk by a blow on the head with a neckyoke and had tied and gagged him and hauled him over twenty miles and then threw him into the river after taking all his money, about S4OO. The money was found in the possession of the elder brother, who has been a school teacher at Alva, Ok., tor several years. It is thought that King had about SI,OOO and that the boys buried a large part of it. expecting to return and get it later. FOREIGN. Russia’s squadron has returned to Vladivostok from a raid which costs commerce a total of $7,500,000. The people of Great Britain are face to face with hard times, with no money iu circulation and all business in a condition of stagnation. The Japanese army under Gen. Oku. in a night attack on five divisions of Russians, who had 100 guns, stormed Taiping mountain ami drove the enemy from the positions south of Tatchekiao. The Japanese losses are reported at 800 dead and wounded. The I’run* h cruiser l.nv Isior rived at St. John s. N. F., after a two weeks' cruise of the treaty shore. The commander of the Lavoisier has compiled data respecting fisheries on the French shore tor the information of the French cabinet. M. von Plehve, Russian minister of the interior, was assassinated while driving to the Warsaw station to visit the Emperor nt the Peterhof palace. A bomb was thrown under the minister’s carriage, completely shattering it. M. von Plehve was terribly mangled. The assassin was arrested. 1 lie true mu robe f malaria has been discovered by two doctors of Medellin. Colombia, according to a report to the State Department from Consul Plnmacher at Maracaibo, Venezuela. These doctors say the microbe can be cultivated in mediums prepared with flowers of cry- i thrina ducara. It is reported that a Norwegian whaler has picked up north of Spitzbergen a letter from Prof. S. A. Andree dated 1898. The text of the letter is not disclosed. Prof. Andree left Spitsbergen in a balloon July 11, 1597. with the intention of crossing the north pole. He iias not been heard from definitely since. IN GENERAL. F. P. Sargent. Commissioner General of immigration, has issued the June bulletin on immigration ami it shows 23,376 immigrants less than in June last year. The United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations, in session at Sault Ste. Marie, elected as president A. L. Butheil of Shelbyville. Ind. Weekly reports show that trade is at a low ebb, the usual midsummer dullness being increased by labor disturbances, in the country the outlook is better because of the prospects of large crops. Cost of living has increased, but the rise in wages is keeping abreast of the advance, according to the report of Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor, in his report made public in Washington. President Roosevelt is implored in a letter received from George F. Herzog of Berlin to stop the eastern war. Herzog, in giving his reasons for making this request, says that war always causes bad weather, and the latter makes bad crops. Acting Postmaster General Wynne has signed an order, effective Aug. 1, 1994, wherein the postal administration of Hongkong has concurred, limiting the value <>f parcels post packages exchanged between the United States and Hongkong to SSO each. Secretary of the Interior James Wilson announces that this year’s crop outlook is highly satisfactory. Corn looks better at this time than for several years, he says, and the wheat outlook is also more favorable. Crops of hay and oats are reported good. In the cotton belt the prospect is highly encouraging. According to the accident bulletin issued by the interstate commerce commission in Washington, there were seventynine passengers and 840 employes of railroads killed and 1,590 passengers and 10,854 employes injured in accidents on railroads in the United States during the quarter which ended March 31 last. Acting on a forma! protest from the American owners of a portion of the cargo of the steamer Arabia, seized by the Russians, the State Department at Washington ordered Ambassador McCormick to obtain a full statement of the affair from St. Petersburg. The British government filed a protest and will demand full reparation for the sinking of the Knight Commander off Tokio, a salute of the British flag and the full protection of neutral shipping. The protest contains a threat of further action if an apology is not forthcoming.

RUS-. JST KNEEL. t BRITAIN DE IDS APOLOGY FOR Sil NG SHIP. i Warlike Ord .roes to Envoy from KiiiU Edwa England Will Use korce to Get edress if NecessaryCzar Receives \. 1 timatutn. Russ'a must htake ample amends for the sinking df the steamer Knight Commander ami f or the seizures of British ships Ur the Red Sea following the recent (agreement that such seizures would b e averted by the czar’s government. Such is the decision arrived at By the British government. Preliminary to obtaining satisfaction the government sent. Instructions to Sir Clullos Hardinge. British ambassador t<i Itussla, to protest energetically agMnsl the sinking of the Knight Comma!Kley by the Russian N iadivostok sqtl tdren. The British note does not mention the amount of iiulenmity Russia must , paj' tne owners of the ship and British subjects haying goods on board the vessel, but Ail that is sought is the establishment of the principle of indemnity amL^nj^^ovy. A salute of _the British •nw.^^con^cede^ .111 I‘The protection <>f neutral shipping nst’ re ^* The attitude tile British govern- ' meat is the resi Ut ts thorough consid- . eration given t<' ~lp from Sir Claude MacDoi lald ' Rrin sh minister ■ at Tokio, and 1 fae ^aniination of International law authorities by legal experts. The dispatcho 5 frnm Slr c, 't’'(le confirm the reports r at the Kni « ht Commander had Saraband of war on l board for Japan The government and Mi TUEM ,E “ BAUO,T - all th? British authorities, it is assert ed, unite on tl ,e P 0 ” 11 that ,hen ‘ " ,is no justificatlor ' or tbe sink:n « of ,h ’‘ vessel It is !n government rir cles that the Kn! g ht Uomnmnder in ‘ flows the Red Sea selzcident oversha ~ tires, which pi nct, "«Hy have 1 m’just.M. but w I!ch baVe failpd ... .. 41 of the rights of non : tie the questh ■ trnl commerce i That the B ; stiS \ governuumt r - I gards the sink i,p of tb ® kulphl ( ” t!: , mander as a u-eneh of nternntimm law was con rued * Premier Bal four in-A l S “ ‘ ° u,tnons ‘ Au ■erf w-utidx qi tlon of the s .^’7, and ll ‘e ('‘‘izure of the Malacca I l n I . he bopi'd to be in a pi> premier ^l.l, a lir)pf stat! , nient ■ sltion to ma a!acf . o t , n> garding the M Rni hf , a . I sinking of the , ~ . . f . . . ?tted that inform.it> >n said be ‘regr ; me conarn)(>(] , his ) ^hieh reaehet urrenec grettable occ .. , ... is no question of K-s s added: Fhert . ... , mn afraid ti ere is a iof life, but I i„. r , , . breach of international | question of a ‘ n 'j . , in the Rnsso-Brizish re1 lie tension 7 t . i u i!) Loudon to have reI unions was so I , , , J and a nipt are is r.<>r : laxed Ihursdj

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Hint Benckendorff, the probable. C< gsador to Great B( . itain< Russian ambni Lansdowue that if Kus . Informed Lon. - Ged a wrong she was sla had comf to f u u reparaready and w, 4.^ an y ac qj O u could be tion. but Commander case -.lte — 1 Tvernmcnt must have the the Russianreceiving the report of opportunity ot > Vladivostok the commaiu d L anst jowne was not squadron. Li rpsg Gle ma rt er unduly disposed to p , wa jt a reasonable and promisee ti nie - Tr se of Commons Premier In tie on acU ( C 6 tage of ® al ® ai , icidents had passed, and the e ea • Rn vo ] nnteer fleet vessels that the Russ hdrawll He laid down would jew that no belligerent the B " tS V lid issue from the Black war ships coi the volunteer flGet ves . S^a and that , therefronii if thev took ■e sin Issum; tJ()n either had n J right e igeren ac r jg k t to take such action. to Issue or no -t News Notes. SEoi . . . , lockray died in Lawrence, ml. 11. 1.• ;e of g 9. B e f ore t he Civil Kan., at the c , capta i n of t j le niei-ciiant War he was 3r j ng the Wftr J|e was ca sarnie and d anboat n ^ So o with rhc J a,n , the ' ladron of the Atlantic. He blockading sqi etirement in Lawrence for has lived m ■ rs> an(l for a long time seventeen yea o walk or t 0 himself been unable in any way. , . s are bing made at IlerFreparatiot for the expcntion bv mosi 10. Mex |en Mexicans, under senshooting of murder nnd robbery of the tence for the therg and Enwh Maxwell bre e E1 Tigre> flbout two wort on 1 (The Maxwells were promimonths ago. men wbo bad come t/} nent businesi ^; ne gome m i nes nnd ba( j D o ™ 1,1 odworth as a guide. •inployed <

IN PERIL FROM HER OWN MINES. : -fl It —-Chicago Daily News.

According to census figures there are I in the United States 6.180,093 persons | I 10 years old or more who t.mnot read lor white. Os this number 3,200.(X)0 are I whites and 2.98i>.()(>0 negroes. The mai jority of the white illiterates are foreign born, but New York State al me has 47,060 natives who cannot read or write. No branch of agriculture made the gains in the last decade that fruit growing did. There were over 3.700,(HK) acres I in orchard fruits reported by the • t| census . nd at present there must be over ’ •I.tNMI.tKHi acres devoted to that purpose. I in value the fruit crop now ranks eighth. : In the year before tue u.cio the value, <>f the c th crop was $8_ , ''.2.55.32t>; liny. I $lB-1.256.''111: cott n. im 1 Mmg cotton, s <d oil. 7-16; whe $3119.945.1320; ":it< $217,098,584; potat —. sllß.1’263.811; vegetables, $113.'•71.842; fruit. • I $92,301,703. The apple is the most wide- • ly distributed fruit grown in the country j and is found iu every State, north ami , ■ A special r« j —rt of the census bureau • shows tiiat 1.7.50.178 chihiren in the. Un.teil Stites are compelled to work for: their living. They form more than 6 . p< r Tilt of t o total number of workers. । ami ' ie b y' outnumber the girls almost i thr« to ■ . tlie figuies being 1.364.11 l !• .i and t'5.7t17 ga ls. That t w Amer- ( i ai nation is not made up entirely of , vol era is sb >wn by the t tai. 29,075.- , 233, which is only one-half of the popu- • lation of 19 'ear' of age and over and । ! about two-lifths of the •■mire population. Slid, the proportion of workers has increased almost 3 per cent over the former statistics. The lust place to which a man would I i ! ’ I. :•» •in sr-roU n f n history of | the growth <>f the electrical tire-alarm , system in the United States would be , to the reports of the Bureau of the Cen- . sits. Yet there is where l.e would find i an interesting and comprehensive discus- I i sion of the subj. Tl e census reports i :re not mere tables of figure.'. They are a history of tiie progress ■!' Indus,ry and ! invontioti t.o I ini' i States. Take. I this hii'icby "U t.ie fir- i i;:n -y-tem. for | instance. (Inc is told how. beginning ns • e.Tiy as 1,8.39, invntors tried to apply j ‘ tl.e principle' of the Mectri' telegraph ' . t'» the trnnNT;ii<si«*n of !i’’’ Fixnn.s. ' I nr :hat i: w; < iD,t tUI that a- ’ ces./ul sys K-m W; s f.mml. Tin- metlmd I

' • at first used was crude, and from that : time to this improvement after improve- . । ment has been adopted, until now it is i practically impossible for confusion to ' I arise in interpreting the signals sent in * from the alarm boxes in any part of the i town, and until even the most excited j and inexperienced person can give the ■ ; alarm successfully. All Be has to do is ' | to pull a lever and an automatic machine ; does the rest. Although one might not : think it, the Census Bureau bulletins j make interesting reading for summer as- , ternoons. Domestic woes of various sorts have ’ a great deal to do with woman's invasion ' j of the business world, for the census man ; states that 55 per cent of the divia-ced I women are working and 32 per cent of j | the widowed. American married women are a class <>f housewives, for the records ' demonstrate that only 6 per cent can be classed as bread winners. This is shown still more conclusively when it is stated that 31 per cent of the single women are pursuing gainful occupations, which would indicate that few remain at work after marrying. The figures in the report do not bear out the general complaint that household servants are scarce. About 40 per cent of the women employed are , in domestic or personal service, against : { 25 per cent in manufacturing and me- [ chanics and only 9 per cent in trade and ■ I commerce. The professional women com- : prise only 8 per cent of the workers. In spite of the constantly increasing ’ ! immigration, the proportion of foreign j born in the working population has not increased. The extent to which the world of business is drawing people from the country is given emphasis. Manu- ■ factoring, trade and transportation and the professions show constantly increas--1 ing numbers of workers of both sexes. ■ while the agricultural cla«s represents a • j diminishing proportion, although 40 per 1 I cent of the workingmen is to be found on j the farms.

SLAIN BY AN ASSASSIN. Bomb Ends Life of Russian Minister of the Interior. M. von Plehve, Russian Minister of i the Interior, was assassinated at 10 i o'clock Thursday morning while drivj ing to the Warsaw station to visit the ; Emperor at the Peterhof palace. A . bomb was thrown under the Minister's i carriage, completely shattering it. M. ! von Ph-hve was terribly mangled. The ‘ assassin was arrested. The coachman was killed and the ' wounded and maddened horses dashed wildly away, only the front wheels of the carriage remaining intact. Iminei diately there ensued a scene of he : wildest confusion. Police and genr T”” m j A I vox PI.EHVE, “THE TEHKIBLE.” darnifs hurried up from every diree- ' tion ami vast crowds gathered about the spot where the mangled body of :th • Minister lay in his blood. For 100 'ds the roadway w.ts strewn with ' I the wr.-ckage of the carriage and I । pi. -es of the red lining of the Minis- ' I ter’s official overcoat. A few yards I from M. von Plehve's body lay the | I body of the coachman Guarded by police the body remained < in the sw.- t imtil the arrival of the I - mding to Amertean coroner, even in the case of the most : powerful Mi .ister of the empire the I law requiring that this formality had I to bo obs Tved before the body could l . . ' ■ :-c i - I. A:: ri:'--. i had I viewed the bony it was placed in a carriage, covered by a robe and was driven slowly to a little chapel adjoin- i ing the railroad station and then to ■ Plehve's magnificent town residence, i adjoining the Ministry of the Interior. I The prefect of police notified the Em- ' peror of the tragedy immediately upon its occurrence. The Emperor, who was i at the villa Alexandria, at Peterhof. ; was greatly affected by the news, com- ; ing, as it did, after the bad tidings j from the scat of war. with fears of in- , ternational complications and the strain incident upon the hourly expectation of an event so close to the father's heart. Recent assassinations and attempts j at assassination of officials in Russia include the following: M. Bogolepoff. Minister of Education, Feb. 27, 1901. M. Sipiaguine, Minister of the lute- 1 rior, April 15. 1902. Prince Obolenski, Governor of Kharkoff (wounded), Aug. 1^ 1902. General Bobrlkoff, Governor of Finland. June 17. 1904. Viatsheshaff Constantinovitch von I’lehve. Minister of the Interior, July 28, 1904. N. This is the lime Mrs. Maybrick's freedom is not a gold brick. St. Louis h is the big show all right. All it needs is a I’. T. Baruum as a press , agent. A peculiar feature of Mrs. Maybrick’s . latest release is tiiat sue has been al- I lowed to go free. Between being free and constructively free Mrs. Maybrick probably notices quite a difference. If Russia’s in-atiab e demand for trouble can be gratified in no other way it might advertise for more. By its activities on the Red sea and ! the Black sea Russia is playing a kind of diplomatic game of rouge et noire. One New York policeman shot another by mistake. It was certainly a mis- ' take if a New York policeman bit any- ■ thing.

Ite? ;r — -i The advices received Ne?/ York. > tbis week froa > "P •« J agents of the International Mercantile Agom-y at the lead ing trade centers of the . Hiutry are. In the main, satisfactory. The spirit of optimism is growing and confidence in a good fall and winter business increases from week to week. Current activity in the different industrial ? lines is not great, but it is better than I it was a year ago, with the very wholej some influence of a faith iu better 1 things. A decided reaction has occur | red in the movement of stocks, but : this is not due to any material change : in business prospects. There has been good growing weath- ; er for the crops which are appronching harvest under continued improved eonditions. In the spring wheat sections of the northwest some rust has been discovered which will reduce the yield. Harvesting is in progress in nearly ; all of the leading winter wheat States, and the results are better than farm-

ers thought they would be two weeks ago. It is beginning to be believed, though, that the total yield will leave a small exportable surplus, and that the price of wheat and flour during the next twelve months will lie high. The speculative months are now at tho top prices for this movement, having been helped by a war scare which produced an opposite effort on siocks. i The returns oil wheat in the southwest ' have stimulated business in that part of the country. Collections in the St. I Louis district have far exceeded those ' of last year. The first symptom of discouragement that has been shown at Kansas City is apparent this week in reports of a slack condition of trade in most lines. Chicago retailers are said to be more pessimistic than they ought to be in view of actual events. The packinghouse strike easts a shadow over trade there, even with advance orders for clothing, men's furnishing, shoo, and wearing apparel quite satisfactory. Indianapolis indicates some improvement in dry goods and shoes, though with hardware behind last year. The most gratifying trade statements of all are those from Pittsburg. This is due to the improvement that has come about in the iron and steel trade. The tone in t-his basic trade is certainly much better than it lias been in a year, and a sharp revival in it is not improbable after election. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Chieko, i wcekly review of cbica s° I a I trade says: Ti e week I closes a month usually one of the dulli est iu business circles, and few important 1 ranches have shown activityexceeding or equal to that of a year ago. Stocks of general merchandise laroughout the interior experienced a satisfactory reduction and this encouraged improved orders in the selection of full lines by country retauer- Local conditions, however, were not condueive to better than a normal eon- ! sumption in necessities, due mainly to the accumulation of labor troubles, curtailed production and consequent diminished pun lmsing power of many wage-earners in voluntary idleness. The situation may be slow in right- ; ing itself, yet indication" ar- 1 ;mt iaeki ing which present the outlook in a i brighter ii>iiw-t. Agricultural reports | reflect successful Harvesting thus far I and the growing (Tops plenteous and ! rapidly maturing. Aside from the inteiTUpLon due to I strikes the manufacturing industries ' show no csnecial change, tqo some I effort to respon ’ jirompily -•> new demands i' voiving increased output. This i applies mostly In tin* manufacture of I farm machinery, elect: ;c ipplian' es, ■ furniture and mill work. New bnild- ' ing plans are more mim.er,m,< than I those a year ago and ieieiire • mi'.deri able quantitii-s of material, thus pr<>- । viding much work for prodw-ers. "Grain shipments. 3.14' '.30 ba-ht A. I nre 1 •.7 percent over those । yem- ago I Foreign buying renmP -d narrow ami I the increased ;-hipnionts are du ■ to I growing <lome.- 1 ic re.|i:iren;oms. sbe-ks ; of flour being regarded in i >w •■ondi- ; tion. Cm pared with I.:-- w- ‘k’> <os ing, prices advanced in wheal 3 1 , eenls a bushel, ia <■ ।;s 2’ s ••••:. - ij cent. Receipts of a "la k. ’ 279 he:; I. are barely orm-balf A • i i . 1 :of same week last year. Sheep . nine" ! weakened 5o c‘'nts. t-ui •hJ ■ • b - . < ' held steady ami heavy ' ogs id I 25 cents a humin dweiglit. ' f’AFyYitfTTt?' —• /TVte'ten4) Chicago—('attic, eomm-m t > prime. s4.o:> to $5.55: 'lu ep. t.: ;• m .'2.75 to $4.00: wheat. No. 2 r.-’. 92c to ; corn. No. 2. 5o • to 51.-; •• o hml. I 35c to 37e; rye. No. 2. 70.- to 71c: hay. timothy. 88.5 i( t • s’.4.no praui", S'Di'i to $11.50; butter. <-h.,i. r• • a.. 1 .-. 16c to 17c; eggs, fresh. 1 I to PA-; ; i sOe t<> 55c. St. Lo ii'— '' Utle. $I 5" to S6OO hogs I sl.oo to 85.40; -! •••■;•. 8.1.00 to $4.25; it. No. 2. 88c :■■ 89c: i. No. 2 50.• to s’c; oats. No. 2. 35.- :o .I' . rye. j Uineinaati—('Ctrl.-. SUM •, 85 5«. i hogs. $-1.00 to >o.s. ’ . .pp tg.it > t>> $3.85 1 2 ■ ; -js । 2 mixed. 39c to H>, : ;; .. No. 2. 74c to Detroit—-4'u:tie. 5",.50 -• $5.5 q ho^s I $4.00 to 85. !•»: !■• • ••. sg.so , 53.75; I wheat. No. 2. 98c to 99 ; corn. No. 3 Iv< How. s_. 53.■: oats. No 3 whit •. 11c ito 43a; t.-. No. 1.7 -to 72.\ Mi. x ni(Vheat. No 2 nort era, I !»<:<• to $1.01; - orn. No. 3, 5’ to 52.-; ' oats. No 2 w ire. 11 to 42 r.ve. No 1. 74e to 75c; barley. No. 2. 56 - • . 57. ; I pork. mess. 512.97. Toledo—Wheat. N- 2 n x-1. !»2.- to nl<-; corn. No. 2 min-d. s_c- ■ > .54c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 41c to 42c; rt • No. 2. | 61. to do. ', clover sf 1. pr: ii". $65 j.