ffRCIAL
AnCIAL
i CHICAGO.
Nert to the Immediate stimulant from
lower costs established for various
fael makes, the most Important favorable
I rralopment waa the government forecast
if the early crops and Its magnificent
Vromlse under normal condition of ag-
S cultural enrichment. Business geaer
Jj reflect a strengthened tone and the
erauook Has a brighter aspect, aitnougn
jTVs volume of new demanda la manufae-
Vtaf branches does not yet aUow the ex
lesion etLocted. Where heavy commit
fjnta are involved definite action la witfc
laid until after the deliberation! of the
publican convention next week. En
jCnO rage men t la depended upon from that
Jjflrce in aiding recovery from trade de
gression. It is dosirable that indorsement
ajiould be placed upon the effort to secure
xiece adequate waterwavs and minimum
ffeighk cost for the promotion of this
city a commerce. - '
. Seasonable weather -greatly aided the
activity la retail dealings, and the demand
for men and women's apixtrel, housewares
QpA vacation goods made a gratifying ad
vance. Merchandise stocks nave under-
tne sharp reduction, and this has caused
Jequent replenishmenta for both local and
country needs.
Mercantile collections throughout the
Interior occasion little trouble, and the
fecord of defaultsVjnalntains the recently
(noted betterment.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis-
let numbered 21, against 22 last week
bd 14 a year ago. Those with liabilities
var $5,000 numbered 8, against 5 last
reek' and 3 in 1907. Dun's lleview of
ide.
NEW YOBK.
Weather, crop and trade reports dis
play irregularity. It has been too wet
and cool in the Southwest and Northwest
Cor best retail trade and crop develop
ments, but east of tie Mississippi river
conditions have been better and mora
favorable reports come from the latter
tactions. In wholesale lines evidences of
improvement la fall baying are seen, bat
Tardbasers an generally cautious, while
flalea for Immediate shipment are confined
tn strictly filllng-ia requirements. Polit
ical and crop ascertain ties seem likely to
influence distant purchases for some time
to come, and trade Is hardly better than
Ouiet to fair the country over.
Business failures in the United States
tor the week ending Jan 11 number 253,
Jrhlch compares with 220 last week, 161
ft the like week of 1907, 170 In 1900,
179 in 1005 and 181 In" 1004. In Canada)
there were 80 business faUuressaaagaii.at
f 2 last week and 22 in the same veek
01 1007 Bradstreet'a Oommerclal He port.
Chicago Cottle, common to prime.
$4.00 to $3.23 ; bogs, prime heavy, $4.00
to $3.85; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00
to $5.25: wheat, No. 2, 2o to 94o;
corn, 'No. 2, 67o to COot oats, standard,
60c to 61c; rye, No. 2, 78 to 70c: hay,
timothy. $8.00 to $12.50; prairie, $8.00
$o $11.50; batter, choice creamery, 20c
to 23c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 10c; potatoes.
- new, per bushel, $1,835 to $1.40.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00
to $7.26; hoga, .good to choice heavy,
43.50 to $5.70; alien, common to prime,
'$3.00 to $425 wheat, No. 2, 00c to
vie; corn, No 2 white, 68c to 60c; oats,
Is'o. 2 white, 51c to 63c. , .
6t Lols Cattle, (4.00 to $3 JO; bogs,
14.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3,00 to $4.l0;
wheat. No. 2, 04c n 905c ; corn, No. 2,
71c to 72c; oats, No. 2, 80c to bio; rye.
No. 2, 79c to 80c.
Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $fl.75i
bogs, $4.00 to $5.00; aheep, $3.00 to
$4.00; wheat, N. 2, 90o to Die; corn,
fc'o. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c; oata, No. 3
fcixed, 62o to 53c ( rye, No. 2, 84c to 80c
iDctroit Cattle, $4.00 to. f 6.00; hogs.
$4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $4V0O to I4.S0;
wheat, No. 2, Die to 92c; com, No. 8
yellow, 73c to 74c; oats, No. 8 white.
W to 53c; rye, No. z, JOe to 77c.
Milwaukee -Wheat, CNo. 2 northern.
$1.07 io $1.10; corn, No. 3, 70c to 71c
pats, standard, 51c to 63c ; rye. No. 1,
77c to 78c; barley, No. 2, 64c to 65c J
pork, mess, $18.72.
Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$4-00 to $7.75; bogs, farr to choice, $400
to $6.00; sheep, common to good mixed,
84.00 to $5.80; lanaha fair to choice,
$5.00 to $0.60.
New York Cattle, $100 to $7.85 J
hogs, $3.60 to $6.05 ; sheep, $3.00 to
$5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 97c to 09c;
Corn, No. 2, ,70c to 77c; oats, natural
white, 58c to 00c; butter, creamery, 21c
to 24c ; eggs, western, lie to 10c,
Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 00c to
81c; corn, No. 2 mjed, 70c to 71e;
oaU, No. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; rye. No.
2, 80c to 81c ; clover seed, October, $7.42.
FACTS FOB FABMEES.
From Minnesota, the Dakotas and Wis
consin crop reports are all favorable.
Iowa farmers are complaining of too much
rain.
Near Alma, Wis., John Grimes of Clear
Lake and J. W. Erachern, with a pack
of wolf bouniln, killed 11 wolves in three
WeekaX 1
The graduated land tax bill which by
excetuilve taxation seeks to prevent the
wniug of more than 640 acres of land by
ue person In Oklahoma, was finally
pawted by the Lcgmlature and sent to the
Governor. The income tax bill and the
lnueriiance lax uiu are in me uovernor s
band alo.
The total wheat exports from tbe Unit
ed States last month amounted to 3,505..
501 buxhela, of which fortUnd contrib
uted 1,108,314 bushels; New York 667
714 buHliels ; the combined ports of Puget
onuI. U.Vt,X;t bukbels, and Philadelphia
Imring a tliuniler storm near Alma,
Wis., lightning strut k the barn of Jacob
CdKfk'berff In the town of Nclnou, killing
t'nrteen liorsrs, and aeveral calves and
Kstroying the haro. William Kaufman
of the town of Ivldere lout three horses
by lightnlug. ...
During tbe worst elwnrie etorm wit-r.-(J
In V? Fiuiuaiilt couuty,
.Iian.. uir. i.o. a I limnn were struck.
On ibr !: --!i il f.irm the barn
auu w-i'ebit-rj 4-.iv-.: fr hurued. The
baru uf lit -1. .1. 'Ic-t-aiiKlilin, in 8t.
1'aul, wa in.'.'. 'I .ii' V.tiu'm dwelling
oa a farm r.' -r ' (!?' mitt south of the
c'tjr a sSij, ! r. ej. .
TAR I1AMED FOB PRES1-
Nomination of Ohloan Amid Stir
ring; Scenes In the National
v- Convention.
FIRST BALLOT BRINGS RESTTLT
Platform Is Adopted and Speeches
At Made in Favcr of Other
"Favorite Sena."
William II. Taft, of Ohio, Is the nom
inee of tho Republican pnrty for Presi
dent of tho United States. The nom
ination was made on tho first bnllot
at the national convention Into Thurs
day afternoon. The vove stood as fol
lows:
Taft ..." ..702
Knox 8
Hughes 07
Cannon 58
Fairbanks 40
La Follette 25
Forakcr 16
Roosevelt 3
The platform was adopted after n
three hours' debate and without a halt
the convention swept on to the nomina
tion of a presidential cundldute. Tired,
scorched, hungry and restless, the spec
tators sat through tho nominating
speeches. Sweltering under the great
roof of tho Col tecum the crowd of 15,-
000 grew light-headed from the heat
and became bo lout to control while
Gov. Hanly of Indiana was nominating
Charles Warren Fairbanks, that Chair
man Lodge had to threaten that the po
lice would clear the galleries.
On the call of States, Illinois was
tho first to be reached, having a "fav
orite son" Representative H. S. Bou
tell presented the namo of Joseph G.
Cannon, Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives. Then Vleo President
Fairbanks and Governor Hughes were
presented. Congressman Burton, of
Ohio, took the platform at 2 :20 o'clock
and placed the name of William How
ard Tuft iK'foro tho convention, and
afterward the claims of Senntor Knox
and Senator La Follette were offered.
The nomination of Taft was made
amid wild enthusiasm. The great build
ing rang with shouts as Ohio placed
her favorite son In nomination, and
even greater applause marked the be
ginning of the vote. On the only ballot
taken he received 702 votes out of 078
WII.HAM ilOWAUU 1AkT.
cost, two delegates out of tbe 9S0 mak
ing up the convention. Tbe nomination
wus made unanimous on motion of Gen,
Stewurt L. Woodford of New York,
seconded by tbe delegation chairmen ot
all the other favorite sou States.
llieraM IIU Itaaalau Mto.
Congreasman James S. HUenuun of
New York was uouilnuted for Vtco
President by the Republican uatlonal
convention at the Friday morning ses
sion. Timothy Woodruff of New York
mudo the nominating spoeth, and "Un
cle Joe" Cunuon, Siieakor of tho Na
tlouul House, seconded Uie Shermun
nomination. '
Delegates and spectators, tired after
tbe strenuous efforts of the previous
day, at the Republican national con
vent Ion, wore slow lu assembling Frl
day morning, and wheu Cualruiun
Henry Cabot Lodge rapinxl tho couven
tlon to order for tbe start on tho fourth
day's sesaion he faced hundreds of va
rant chairs In the galleries and not a
few delegates were absent.
When the delegates entered tho Coll
seum to untile a running mate to Secre
tary William II. Taft It was practical
ly settled that Congressman James S.
Sherman of New York would get the
nomination for the Vice Presidency.
Conferences extending far Into the
night had mado apparently appreciable
progress toward clearing up the sltun
lion. rew lorn mate, in a caucus.
had suddenly dfopiicd Its waiting atti
tude, burled tbe difference which had
kept the Empire Stiue from being
much of a factor In the convention,
and pressed to tlm forefront of the vice
prewldency situation wltn its solid
strength of Reventy-elght votes behind
Congressman James K. Sherman of tho
Kmplre State.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
The clubhouse of the Buffalo Yacht
Club, stationed at Point Abluo, Buffalo,
was burned. Loss $7,0W.
A labor paier Is being started in the
interest of the organised workers of Lex
ington, Frinkfort aud Covington, Ky.
Seeing her son stabbed by her husband
with a butcher's knife, Mrs. Caroline
Campbell of Kast Ninetieth street, Xew
York, rushed between tbe couibaAnts aud
received a knife thrust which caused her
Instant death. The husband, Cornelius,
la suder arrest.
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17 i
WlU Me , liit'U:itl :i of Senator Del
liver hjJ Uc.vrnor ( u-mili., of Iowa,
assurances of aupp.-rt for Sherman bj
several oilier .'tales mid general 'real
Iziiflou of the plvotil value of New
York's thirty nine ! tornl votes gavi
this Hi,- p.. it of New York
an lin;-rt.ii!co h.Scuntly recognized bj
all thy leadirs.
When tho convention opened tbort
wns evident di-Klre on the part of both
duli'gs'Hi and officers to rush through
the tusk remaining of nominating I
Vlcv President, rending off the name
of committees to notify the two nomi
ness and adjournment. Rhcfinan wai
nominated and chosen on the first bal
lot, aud the fourteenth Republican Na
tional convention, tfter ft session ol
four days, lind completed Its work.
The convention adjourned shortly be
fore noou, and amid wild enthusiasm
the vaBt crowds broke from the flag-
IAS W.riWii
JAMES 8. BIIEUUAN.
decorated Coliseum and scattered to the
four quarters of the country. Breaking
camp ut the hotels, dulegutea, alternates
and their fimlllos beat a hasty retreat
torains for lionte.
French Aeroplnulat to Kvont.
I'oii iH'lngrcnge, the French student o
aeronautic, has come to the front wltb
a new record in unx-honlcnl flight Junl
an the Ann-ricnn Wright brothers had
1 8 lieu the lond in t'heir testa at Kill Devil
hill und had decided to take the public!
into their confidence. Delagrange in
public trial over the military field at
Rome, llnly, iiflvignted his aeroplane ovei
nine circuits of tbe field, a dint mice ol
nlmoHt ten miles, in the time of 15 min
iitcn and 30 seconds, when the gasoline In
his nmi'Uine wne nearly exhnpMted. It wal
shown in other trials that tHie Dela
grange mtu'liiue would not operate in
strong wind. Once it fell to the earth.
While the Wrights have no public or
witnessed records of flight to compare
with this, they assort that they hnv
rlpied the distance covered by the French
num. In making public, the main fea
tures of their gliding ' aeroplane the
Wrights cxprese confidence that they hnv
solved the problem of mechanical flight
and say that they hold patents on most
of the points of their Invention in every
European country, as well as in tlm
country. In appeamnce their machine ia
a great box kite with two parallel planet
40 feet long and CMi feet wide, made ol
muslin on spruce frames. Between them
and JiiNt under the upper plane Is a motor
which drives the propeller, which Is in
the rear, (I foot behind the discs of the
plum-. There Is a rudder in front and
an arrangement by which the edges o(
the planis may be lowered or raised, so
as to maintain an even keel when cross
currents strike the ship. In this year's
model the oierntor may sit upright. Be
low the frame toward the front is a pair
of runners, or skids, by means of which
the lauding Is made smooth, and in the
center nenr the bottom there is a small
double-wheel truck, which runs on a sin
gle rail, while attaining the requisite
spe'ed to rise. THie rail is portable. The
motor weighs l(K) isiunds and tbe entire
weight with two riders is 1,100 pounds.
The principle of Its flight la the old one
of the whirling disc.
llondlxMik of C hild Labor.
The "BMW Handbook of Child Labo.
Legislation" has been issued by the Na
tional CoumiiiMrs' League. It is compiled
liy Josephine C. Goldmnrk, and contains
accurate Information about the present
status of child llior laws in ths several
States reduced to convenient form for ref
erence. Copies of this handlook can be
had from the otliccs of the league at 105
F.ast Twenty-second street. New York. It
la also priuted in connection wttii the
Mar issue of the Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
The haudlKsik reminds the public that In
South Carolina thsre Is still no statutory
limit to the age at which children may
begin work, save that they must have at
tended school four months and know how
to read and write. In Georgia all waifs
and children of widows or deserted wom
en may work at 10, and In North Caro
lina, while the 13th birthday has been set
as the limit, the exception in favor of ap
prentices opens the door to a large num
ber of child slaves not yet in their teens
In a very large number of States the
children may Isgln work in the mills at
12. Including Vermont ami New Hamp
shire, hist of the Northern Mates ia
which the work may go on in vacation
and out of school hours. Most of the
States In the North now provide some
educational attendance for child workers
of 12 to 14. 4ut all the Southern States
exi-ent Kentucky ami Tennessee treat the
l'-Jih birthday a the appropriate time for
boys and girls to begin their life of ton.
' To no Aftef Olympian Honors.
Tho American Olympic Comiujttee met
nt the Astor House, Kew York, mid se
lected from a big list of asylronU the
team of athlete who will represcut this
count rv in the Olynvnic games in Lou
don. Knglund, next mouth. Dvery one Is
a ohautpioii in his class, and the team
nuinlKrs seventy-six.
Minnesota instructors will hohl forty
fanners' Institute throughout the State
Jurlug the next four weeks. Thee groups
f lecturers are In the hM.
For tlie first time ia Its history the
Prussian diet Is to have five socialist
members, four having been elected from
Berlin and Its suburbs and one from Hun-
over.
At the trial of thirty-two prisoners ac
cused of plottiug dynamite outrages in
Montenegro, two of the witnesses declared
that the bombs lu nucstion had been man
ufactured by Servian artillery olliTs on
the dire-t order of Friui s Ueorge, the in
lent ion being to use them agalust the
Moutenegro government with the object
of overthrowing the existing regime. Se
vlaus denouuee the testimony as false.
4, xwfym
Jan Frandaeo chauffeurs basw orgasm
bed a utrioa.
A branch of the Union Label League Is
to be organized ta Memphis. . -
Vancouver, B. C, will soon have a
building trades council in working order.
At Lethbridge, Canada, with a popula
tion of 4,000, there are about 1,000 trade
unionists.
Rational Brotherhood of Operative
Potters will meet next month la Atlantis
City, N. J.
Allnnrapolls will entertain the 1909
convention ef the International Musicians
Association.
The night-hour day for all municipal
rork has been Introduced In the City
Council at Louisville.
The Women Suffrage League of New
York City wishes the support of the labor
organizations la Its agitation for political
quality.
The Moyagana Railway Company of
6ao Paulo baa Just constructed In Ita
shops the first locomotive which baa been
built In Braail.
The Central Labor Council at Rich
mond, Contra Oosta county, Col., recently
reorganized, has already fifteen unions
affiliated with it.
Boston (Mass.) Upholstery Union Is
admitting mattress makers to ita ranks f$f
tbe first time In its history, and has al
ready taken in nearly 100 of thosa men.
San Francisco Laundry Workers' Unloai
has decided to contribute 10 cents per
capita on the membership in support of
(he movement against Japanese laundries.
The child labor law, with fourteen years
aa the age limit and the eight-hoar day
for persons under 16 years of age, waa
recently passed by the Kentucky Legisla
ture. The recently organized Building Trades
Council of ian Mateo county, CaJ., how
baa fifteen anions affiliated with It, and
the aggregate membership Is hi excess of
1,000.
The extra appropriation given the Low-
all Textile School by tbe Stats of Massa
chusetts, will enable the trustees to lay
the foundation for a thorough engineering
eduaation. .
A resolution providing for the estab
lishment of a labor naner at San Juan.
Porto Rico, bV Just been passed at a
convention there of representatives of 110
unions having affiliation with the 'Ameri
can Federation of Labor. " 1
The call for tfhe.New England conven
tJon of tbe Metal Polishers', Buffers',
Platers' and Brass and Silver Workers'
unions has been issued. It will be In
Boston July 5. ' The Boston unions are
requesting the International f6r a per
manent lfoston organizer. v
The Scottish coal owners have put for
ward a demand for a reduction in wages
of 25 per cent. Only a short time ago a
matter of reduction was referred to arbi
tration, as the conciliation board could
not agree. The award was for a reduc
tien of OVi per cent ; now comes the claim
for 25 per cent.
The subject of a State industrial col
lege Is being considered In Massachusetts..
It is purposed to establish the institute
in Boston or vicinity, and that it shall
maintain both day and evening classes.
The main object of such a school is to
develop men for the lower and middle
supervisory positions.
The last reports presented to the Gas
workers' Union were to the effect that all
(W members of the Jurisdiction, which In
cludes the unions in San Francisco, Qnl.,
San Jose, Oakland and Sacramento, are
ot work, and that this craft has been par
ticularly fortunate in having work for the
membership during tbe last ten months.
The new wage agreement between tie
cotton manufacturers at Fall River,
Mass., and the Textile Council, which
will be In force until next November,
became effective last month. Under the
agreement the 25,000 operative accept a
wage reduction of 17.04 per cent. The
cut swells tbe number ot cotton opera
tives In New England whosa wages have
been reduced this spring to about 170,000.
Labor Is to have a newspaper system
covering the entire country. A syndicate
boa beea formed and the enterprise capi
talized, it Is said, to the extent of Issuing
a paper in the cities of New York, Phil
adelphia, Washington, Chicago, St Louts,
Dearer and San Francisco. Publication
will begin Kept. 1, and the policy wid be
one of ultra conservation, the object be
ing to restrain Che labor move aval fro si
merging wlaV the mora radl car 'Socialistic
lament that has been making great In
roads on the membership of the unions
tomposlng the skilled crafts.
HARD LUCK TALES.
Fay Allen, the 0-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Allen of Waterloo,
Iowa, was stunned for several hours by
ttghtnlng that struck the Allen borne. The
bolt passed along the wall against which
Fay had ber bed. ,
At nopktnsville, Ky, Rev. J. M. Gor
don, a prominent missionary of tfhe Dis
ciple of Christ denomination, at Mun
goli, India, was asphyxiated In a bath
tub at the residence of Rev. II. D. Smith,
whom he was -visiting.
High waters in rha Mississippi drove
thousands of low land residents from
their homes. At nannibal, Mo, citizens
organized an armed guard which patrolled
la boats the flooded distnet with the
avowed intention of shooting any one
caught looting deserted houses.
At Jackson, Tenn, twelve men were
Injured in a rear-end collision between
two passenger trains in the Illinois Cen
tral yards.
Arthur Andcxgna, the 11-year-old son
ot August Anderson of Kennedy, Minn,
was drowned while swimming in a pond
near that place.
As the result of the explosion ot an
old four-inch eanuon which was being
used t fire a salute to the passing At
lantic fleet, one man was Instantly killed,
three women and one boy dangerously and
a dozeu more slightly injured at Center
vllle I'.edi, C'al.
Suddenly losing his mind, and with a
mania to end his own life, Carl Lents,
for years one ot tbe most prominent farm
ers of Potter couuty, has been commit
ted to the State hospital for the Insane
at Yankton. He had made three attempts
to commit sulcide,-
Leaving the supper table at his broth
er's house, Alfred Melander, 30 years old,
2504 Ninth street south, Minneapolis,
crawled into the cupola at the rear of
the bouse and, with a "dolk," a Swedish
dagger, inflicted two ghastly wounds In
bis throat, one of which severed tbe jug
ular vein. Poor health and lack of work
waa Hie cause of tbe suicide.
I
-ALIEN TDJ2 IS HALTED.
frnmlgratlon Officials Seek Reason
T?hy Foreigners Do Hot Coma.
Immigration oMIdals who at first ret 1
garde the decrease In Immigration
of u teuijMirury character have deter,
mined usm an investigation to discover.
Its cause. Tbe continued falling oty
cannot Is; accounted for, aud it Is cou
sidered necessary to take steps to ascer
tain whether anything not now appar
ent to the United States is being done
to deter people In foreign countries
seeking new homes from finding them
here.
k
It Is known that the peonage Investi
gation In the South bus resulted In the
posting of notices in some countries of
EuroH warning its laborers not to
come to the United Stutes, but this has
never boeu seriously regarded as a re
flection upon conditions here.
Wheu the unusual departure of the
laboring classes to Europe occurred dur
ing the early winter it was attributed
to the dull times following the finan
cial flurry. It Is doubted If this condi
tion, which has now been to a consider
able degree supplanted by a steady de
mand for lalwr, can be held responsible
for the continued decrease which rec
ords kept now show. Serious objection
Is made in certain countries of Europe
to the rate at which emigration to the
United Stutes has reduced their popu
lation. The United States will now
seek to learn through Ita representa
tives abroad whether the methods taken
to keep Immigrants from this country
are such as to misrepresent conditions
here.
The number of immigrants for May
was 30,317, as compared with 184380
last year and 150,027 in May, 1900.
The Immigration from Russia, which
was 35,500 In May east year and 28,817
In May, 1900, this year dropped o
3,880. Immigration for six months, In
cluding May, show nn equally large
falling off, the total for the period
being only 227,283, as compared with
074,084 last year and 010,508 the pre
vious year.
Austria-Hungary, Italy and Russia
show the lnrgest decreases. The de
crease of those coming from Italy for
the month of 32,501 suggests that peon
age prosecutions have been well and
perhaps not truthfully advertised.
Small Increases are shown from China,
the Pacific Islands, British North Amer
ica, (British Honduras and Mexlcoj all
other countries show decreases.
MA3RIAGE SHY ON LOVE.
Women Blamed by Anthony Corn
stock for Number of Divorces.
"Why are there so many divorces, o
nmiiy unhuppy marriages here in New
York and elsewhere?" asked Anthoy
Comstock, secretary of tbe Society for
the Suppression of Ylco, leaning baek
In his revolving chair lu his office and
repentliiathe question that had been
put to him by a newspaper correspond
ent. Til tell you why," he answered,
pounding his fist ou the desk. lid. "It's
the system of things. New York women,
and women everywhere else In thi
country, too, have only themselves t
blame. There nre plenty of men who
treat their wives like brutes, to be sure,
but there Is another side to the ques
tion. "People do not wed nowadays
great mony of' them from the holler
sta:idiM)lnts of absolute love for one
another. They marry for position ; they
marry for money. After a while a life
with this kind of a partner becomes
Irksome. 'Whatsoever a man soweth
that shall he also reap.' And the har
vest from such marriages can only be
divorce or misery. There Is that un
yielding spirit too much evident here;
that nagging which is driving men and
women out of their minds. People are
estranged from each other to-day right
In their own homes.
"Many men In New York are under
tremendous pressure all day long. When
they come home, they want peace and
rest, and they are not allowed to have
It Home Is an aggravation; not a
place of retreat from care. If the men
con't get rest at home, they will get It
somewhere else. And so New York
some when
womeL nt
this busy
nnd other women elsewhere in
country of ours, have only
themselves to blame."
INSANE CLERGYMAN SHOT:
Pastor Resists Neighbors Who Seek
to Capture Him.
At Stolper, 5o, the Rev. Valentine
Strauss became violently insane and
was slain during an attempt to capture
h!tn. Ills wife led the attacking party.
The clergyman became ylolent and
drove his family from tlfc parsonage.
He wns heavily armed and Mrs. Strausa
feared he would do himself bodily
harm. She alarmed the village and or
ganized a pnrty to capture her husband.
The pastor opened fire on the possa
and It wns returned In order to frighten
him. Ono of the shots went wild and
killed the clergyman. Tho parsonage
was n veritable fortress.
Form I na a l'lano Trqat Now.
'Die largest combination 6t piano mak
er yet undertaken was incorporated in
New Jersey, under the name of the Ameri.
can Piano Company, with a capital of
$(!,IXK1H0 of 7 per cent stock preferred
and $11,000,000 of common stock. This
merger includes at the outset the follow
ing concerns : Knabe & Co.. Checkering &
Son and the Foster-Armstrong Company.
With the other companies to be controlled,
t'.ie output of the trust is estimated at
1S0)) pianos a year, or about 70. per
-cut of the hlsrh-gmde pianos.
Ilwet l'rlres 81111 lllarher.
The beef tnist again has advanced the
price of meats to wholesalers to a point
mie-third beyond the high mark reached on
June 1, and retail prices are higher than
nt any time In over ten years. The scarc
ity of cattle I given by the packers as the
reason for the latest advance. This is at
tributeds to the money panic, which pre
vent etl the cattlemen and farmers f rota
carrying through tbe winter the usual
nuuilier of young animals. Then It Is said
lhat farmers could not afford to feed the
corn to the cattle owing to the high price
that cereal brought during the formatloe
of the comer by Patten.
GROVEfl CLEVELAND
IS GALLED BY DEATH
Only Surviving Ex-President of the
United States Succumbs to
Long Illness.
END COMES UNEXPECTEDLY.
Country Shocked by Nows of Demise
ot Democratic Leader Twice
Elected President.
Graver Cleveland, the only surviving
ex-President of the United States, died
suddenly Wednesday morning at his
home In Princeton, N. J. While It was
known that Mr. Cleveland had for the
past three months been suffering from
a severe attack of rheumatic gout and
aeuto indigestion, his death came as a
coinplote surprise to the country.
Ho had been a sufferer from gout nnd
dlabetos for more than two years. Early
in 1000 be wns stricken with an attack
of Indigestion, Jhe result of diabetes,
and for weeks was unable to partake
of any except liquid nourishment A
mm
sojourn in the South improved his
health considerably.
Early last year he had a repetition of
the attack of Indigestion and for some
weeks his condition was such that litx
life was despaired of. Mr. Cleveland
made a eplendld Aunt for life and won.
In Fobruury last diabetes began to
mako itself felt again, nnd Mr. Cleve
land became subject to spells of tiu
coiiMcUiutiuctfs. coupled again with in
ability to assimilate food. Death final
ly came nt 8:40 a. m. Wednesday.
L,lt of Cleveland a Bumy One,
( j rover Cleveland, the twenty-Heconil
and twenty-fourth President of the Unit
ed States, was born March 18, 1837, in
Caldwell, N. Y. In 1S41 the Cleveland
family removed to Fayetteville, N. Y
where young Grover received his firxt
schooling, and where later at an early age
he served aa a clerk in a small country
store. Still later; when bis parents net
tled In Clinton, N. Y he pursued his
studies further, and when only 17 he waa
appointed aaeiataat teacher in the New
York Institution for the blind. In 1S."m
Cleveland served a clerkship with the law
firm of Rogers, Rowen & Itcgers at Ituf
falo. It was In that office that Cleve
land began to read law. He was admit
ted to the New Yo.k bar in 1S.Y.1. Mr.
Cleveland received his first public office
when apipolnted axeiRtant district attor
ney of Erie county. ''in 1810 he joined
tho firm of tanning, Cleveland Folsom.
In 1881 he waa nominated aa the Demo
cratic candidate for Mayor of Buffalo and
was elected by the largest majority ever
given In that city, nlthough the Repub
lican State ticket waa carried. In 18SJ
Mr. Cleveland ran for Governor of New
York against (tharles J. Foljrer, thfn
United States Secretary of the Treasury,
and won by a plurality of nearly 200.000.
Ills administration waa notable for the
slmplft and unrmten tat Ions way In which
he conducted the business of the State.
At the Democratic national convention
held In Chicago In July, 1SS4, Cleveland
waa nominated by his party aa ita candi
date for the presidency of the United
States and at the election in tho follow
ing November was, chosen to that office.
It w. tir':-.;; his tiift tenn that C!eve-
SPARKS FROM THE WISES.
It baa been officially stated that $'i.34.0
represent the loan to the Great .Northern
Exprea Company in the robbery of the
company's atmiiiT box by two bandits in
the Great Northern tunnel between Spo
kone and Seattle, Wash., .recently.
In Stanley county, S. D., thi year
there has been Khooting of stock which
attempt" to treHi on the croiw of the
homesteaders. Two homesteader near
Wukamn, were arrewed a few days sgo
and bound over on a charge of maHcious
mischief, charged with shooting into the
herd of cattle owned by K. E. Olney.
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mitM "'' ' ' ' M" Knr
iWif' O rover, Cleveland 'tJs?
CLE VELA J i' CA-UilSR IN SHORT.
lo:n at Cnl l" e:l, Ksex fonnty.'N. J.,
Ktireh 1sA ls:7. OrlMeued 8tephea
tirover riereland.
In 1141 family removed to KnrettevllJe,
K. Y.
Kerved an rlerk In a country tore.
In 1N."3 mm npimlnrel awitnt teacher
of the Nenr York Imlhutlnn for the lillnd.
For four years, from 18.V, awdufcert bis
unrte In preparation of "Amerlcen Herd
Hook." and bad a clerknldp Id a law firm
In ItulTnlo.
Admitted to (lie bar In IfOO.
Ar)xlntol Aulstant Mstrlct Attorney Of
Krle County Jan. 1, lNrt3.
liefest e I for the District Attorneyship ot
Erie County In lKU.'i.
I'ritctleerl law.
Kleeted Sheriff of Erie County in 1870.
Kleeted Mayor of KufTalo In I8H1.
Elected (invernor of New York In 1882
by a plurality of 2OO.0OO.
Kleeted president nf 'the T'nltod States In
IBM. Majority In the elertoral college, 87.
Rroke all records by vetoing 113 out of
l)ST 111 1 In.
Married Frances FoUom In the Whlte
Houve June 2, 188(1.
Defeated In campaign for reelection in
ISM.
Knxnged In the practice of law In New
York.
F.'vi'ted President of the. United States in
1NI2.
Kettle! Venezuela boundary dispute In
lS!5.
After lenvlnit White ITonfe In lfWl estab
lish e1 home for Ills family la 1'rlnceton,.
N. J.
kind married In the White House Miss
FreuceH Kolsom, June 2, 1KS0. She waa
a daughter of his former law partner.
In l)iHS he was a candidate for a Sec
ond term, but was defeated ift the election
of thnt year by Benjamin Harrison. After
IiIm retirement from public life he settled
lu New York city. At the national Dem
ocratic convention held In Chicago ini
June, 18fi2. he was' for the third time
named a hia party's candidate for th
4
preKidency and in the following Novem
ber was elected. After his retirement
from public office Cleveland lived with
his family at Princeton, N. J. Five chil
dren were"born to Mr. add Mrs. Cleve
land, of whom four, two daughters and
two sons, are living.
THE "WHITE HOUSE BKEDE."
Sir.- France Folaom Cleveland,
Widow of the I.at'e Ex-Prealdent.
Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland, the
"White House Dride," who is left to
mourn the death of Former President
Cleveland, was (he youugest iplstresa
the Yv'hlte House ever had, as well as.
.he most favored by diplomatic society.
Her grief Is shared sincerely by a boat.
MHS. OROVER CLEVELAND.
of friends, nnviy unknown jHTsiinnlly te
ller, who- were made In every Stati
while she was In the public eye as vMfa
of the President.
Mrs. Cleveland Is the daughter oL
Osnir nnd Knimu C. Folsom, nnd her
father was the law partner of Mr.
('leovluiid in Buffalo, where she was
born July 2t. iNVi.
Miss Fulsom became the wife of
President Cleveland on June 2, lNSd.
the wedding ceremony being performed
in the ltlia ItiKUii nt the White House
:i the cil 'st nf a brilliant nssembln-'e
In response to Inaiiirien from commis
sion men the State airy and food com
mlssion U serving notice that the veal
of calvoa lesa than four weeks old cannot
be sold ia Minnesota. A law passed Id
IIHCi prohibits it and imposes a penalty
of a fine of $."() and $HK) or imprison
ment for not to exceed ninety days for a
violation of its provisions.
largely increased imports of sugar and
a continued falling off iu the value ot
diamonds brought iuto the United States
sre features of the May reiport of Ap.
praiser Wauauiaker of the jKirt of New
York.
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