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DAKOTA COUNTY B DERALDo - MOTTO All Tho Neirs When It Is News. State Hi'storkul Society - VOLUME XVII DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1909. NUMBER 47 LATEST BY TELEGRAPH SUMMARY OF THE NEWS OF THE WHOLE WORLD. TEXAS COAST STORM III" MAN TOLL OUTSIDE OF GAL. YESTON IS TWEITK. Rased Buildings, Prostrated Wires, Demoralised Train Service and De stroyed Crops Left In Wake of West Indian Gale. Tho West Indian hurricane which swept from one end of the Texas gulf coast to the other Wednesday claimed a toll of twelve human lives outside of Galveston, fatally Injured four oth ers and seriously wounded sixteen, ac cording to the details of the storm available In Houston, Tex., Thursday night. Whole towns were devastated and the wreck and ruin to property will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some of the towns along or near the Texas coast where It Is feared great damage may have been done, but from which nothing yet has been heard, are Lavain, Indlanola, Rock port, Golcad, Victoria, Columbia, Ed ena and Matagorda. In Louisiana points In Cameron pariah are reported to have suffered severely from the hurricane. At Bay City about 50 per cent of the business section was damaged, includ ing the opera house, one bank, the courthouse, the new high school build ing and the city jail. In the Jail the cages were left standing and the pris oners were exposed to view, but were safe. Every building In Velasco near Bay City was unroofed or practically demolished and the town is under four feet of water. Eagle Lake seems to have suffered on a parity with Bay City. But few houses there escaped the fury of the storm. The same situation is reported from Lissle, Nowatta and East Ber nard, though there were no fatalities. Corn fields were leveled, but cotton withstood the storm well. At El Campo the electric light plant 1s wrecked, all elevators are badly damaged and almost every church In own Is demolished or partly wrecked. In the oil field around Marshall der ricks were blown down and wells stripped of machinery. " '' BODY FOUND IN TRUNK. Gruesome Discovery In Lodging House at Lynn. Mass. A body, believed to be that of an Armenian, was found in a trunk In a lodging house at 148 Liberty street, Lynn. Mass., Thursday. The head was mutilated and there was a bullet wound over the heart. The body was fully clothed and In a pocket a bank book was found bearing the name of Ml nan K. Morljian. The room was rented eight weeks ago by Frank Jones, a shoe factory worker, who, it Is said, had not occupied it recently. The body was discovered by Mrs. Bessie Rollins, the lodging house peeper, and her husband. On May 80 a. new trunk was brought to the house for Jones. Mrs. Rollins said that there never had been any disturbance in the room and that nothing ever had been no ticed there to arouse suspicion. In the bank book was a note which read: "If anything happens ,to me notify L. B. Adams. 388 Center street, Ja maica Plains." How long the body had laid In the 'trunk Is not known. PROG HESS ON CANAL. 'Work Going Forward Rapidly Ah Along the Line. Substantial progress in canal con struction all along the line Is shown by reports coming to the Washington of fice of the Isthmian Canal company. Excavation work approximates 80, 000,000 cubic yards, almost as much as the total quantity of dirt taken out by the French during the period they were engaged In operations there. Less than 100,000,000 cubic yards of earth remain to be removed from the ditch. Col. Ooethals has estimated that the great waterway will be ready for the transit of ships by January 1, 1915, Four hundred and eighty concrete monoliths had been laid when the north section of the floor of the great Gatun dam spillway was completed recently. Thirty thousand cubic yards of concrete were used in this sec tion, each monolith being thirty feet long and twenty feet wide. The sec tion, which is one of three necessary to complete the spillway, is 960 feet long and 300 feet wide. Sioux City Live Stock Market. , Thursday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow: Best bceve, $6.00. Top hogs, 17.66. Harry Orcliard Baptised. Harry Orchard, murderer of former Gov. Steunenberg, of Idaho, accord ing to his confession, was baptised at the penitentiary at Boise, Thursday. The service was read by a Seventh Day Adventlst. More Ind for Settlers. Approximately 906,000 acres of land In Wyoming were Thursday designated by Acting Secretary Piarcs as coming within the enlarged homestead act. GALE AT GALVESTON. Tempest of Hurricane Volume Strike ' City. Ten dead is the total number of lives lost, so far as Is known, In the hurricane which swept over the gulf of Mexico and struck Galveston Wed nesday morning and continued until after mid-day. While the city of Gal veston was held safe against the fury of the storm by the government's $2, 000,000 sea wall, far out in the gulf on the Tarpon fishing pier, seven miles from the city, where the storm whip ped over the Jetty into the bay, ten persons were washed from the rocky promontories Into the gulf. Those drowned were members of a fishing party and employes of the Tar pon pier marooned In the Jetty. Fortified behind her 17-foot sea wall and elevated to a point above the danger line, the city passed safely through a hurricane which resembled somewhat in Intensity the disastrous storm of 1900. Part of the island upon which the city is situated was again Inundated, the overflowing sea water reaching a height of seven or more feet. That portion of the island which has been protected suffered comparatively little harm. No lives were lost and the property damage will not be very large. The water backed up into the main streets of the city and for a time heavy losses were feared. The plncl pal damage, however, was confined to the beach front, where bath houses and pleasure piers were swept away, but shipping was undisturbed. It Is reported that there has been considerable loss of life at Palacos and Blessing, two small towns on the gulf In Matagorda county. It Is also re ported that Bay City suffered greatly from the hurricane. BANKER COMES FORWARD. St. Louis Realty Dealer Gets a Loan at Point of a Gun. Being refused a loan. M. L. Dawson, a realty dealer, Wednesday at St. Louis, Mo., demanded that Mr. Zeellg, Louis, Mo. at the point of a revolver, demanded Mr. Zeellg, president of the Savings Trust company, give him all the money he had In his pock ets. Zeellg gave Dawson S890, and as soon as Dawson left the bank Zeellg opened Are with his revolver. Daw son fired In return, but ail the bullets went wild. Dawson surrendered to the police and Zeellg went to the police station to appear against him. NEW PREMIER OF FRANCE. if. Bourgeois to Be Offered Voeant Portfolio. President Fallleres will offer the premiership to Leon Bourgeois, former minister of foreign affairs. This de cision was reached late Wednesday night, but as M. Bourgeois is not ex pected to reach Paris from Hamburg until Friday, his actual attitude with regard to the appointment is not known. Parliamentary circles, how ever, foresee that he will decline the honor, as his health is far from ro bust. Nevertheless the cabinet crisis promises to be of short duration. Summer Hotel Burns. Two hotels and seven business houses were destroyed at Long Branch, N. J., Wednesday night. The fire swept a block in Brighton avenue be tween Second and Salrs avenues, caus ing $100,000 damage. The local fire department was forced to ask aid from Asbury Park. Crusade Against Vloe. Attorney Way-man's spectacular cru sade against "protected vice" in Chi cago resulted in 105 Indictments against resort keepers and gamblers being returned by the grand Jury Thursday. The men were resort keep ers In the west side levee district and "blind pig" men in the suburbs. Sells an American Pulntlng. "The Canal in Winter," by E. W. ftedfleld, of Center Bridge, Pa., the only American picture to receive a medal at the spring salon of the so ciety of French artists, has been pur chased by the French government for the Luxemburg gallery. Aoriul 11 ant Incorporates. The New York Aerial Manufactur ing and Navigation company, of Brooklyn, was incorporated at Albany, N. Y., Thursday, to carry on the busi ness of transporting passengers, freight and o'her commodities by air ships of all kinds. IXe Restores Salaries. Official announcement was made at the Erie railroad general offices in N'cw York Thursday that the board of directors had passed a resolution re storing salarie of officers and em ployes which were reduced some time go. Fire, supposed to have been started oy a spark from a locomotive, des 'royed nearly 200.000 feet of lumber 'longing to the Mahlum Lumber Co. if Brainerd. Curfew Iaw for Negroes, The police commissioners of Mo alls, Ala., established a curfew law for negroes. Commencing Thursday night all the blacks must be off the itreets at 10 p. m. Old Ammunition Sunk. Thirty-one thousand Melinite shells, the caliber of which no longer corre spond with any of the guns on French warships, were taken out to sea Thurs Jay and sunk two miles off the coast. BUTLER STRIKE OFF. Standard Steel Men Return to Work. ' The strike which for four days tied up the Standard Steel Car com pany's works was settled Tuesday at Butler, Pa. The 3,600 employes of the plant will return to work. Both sides yielded points In an effort to reach an understanding. The strike was brought to an end through the efforts of Rev. Father Becsweskl, of the Polish Catholic church In Butler, under whose advice the men have been acting almost from the beginning. Following the presen tation of an ultimatum by the men. Attorney Levi M. Wise and Father Becsweskl were called into consulta tion with company officials. The lat ter agreed to take back all of ths workmen and consented to a reduction of 8 per cent on delinquent rents taken from the pay envelopes of the men each week. Father Becsweskl, actliiL for the strikers, then agreed to aban don the men's demand for an Increase in wages and consented to the com pany's statement that it would follow Its usual custom In such matters. An agreement was drawn up, which was ratified by the strikers. Following the announcement of the settlement of the strike. It was agreed that the twenty-three men In Jail In connection with the labor troubles be released Immediately on a nominal ball. The first effort ever made In the United States to enjoin both the prin cipals and the commonwealth failed Tuesday when Judges Ford and Brown, of the common pleas court, sustained the demurrer of the Pressed Steel Car company to the petition for injunction made by the Public Defense association of Pittsburg against the company, the striking employes and the sheriff of Allegheny county. PRIVATE O'NEIL CAPTURED. Soldier Who Killed .His .Sweetheart Threatened to Suicide. After being pursued all day by 600 cavalrymen, Private Charles O'Nell, who killed his sweetheart, Minnie Sharbeno, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., was captured by Private William Os thuyzer, of the Fifteenth cavalry. O'Nell ran Into Lake Merrltt and threatened to drown himself when cornered by his captor. He waded out Into the water up to his neck, but finally was induced to return to shore and surrender. Osthuyzer was commended for the capture and was promoted to be cor poral. He Is a veteran of the Boer war, and was Interpreter to Gen. De Wet. . , . FALL OF FRENCH CABINET. Clcfnencvau and Ills Ministers Send In Their Resignations. The Clemenceau cabinet resigned Tuesday night. The fall of the cabinet came over a discussion of the investi gation recently held Into the depart ment of marine, which was strongly condemned In the special commission's report. On a vote of confidence in the government the vote stood 176 in favor and 212 opposed. M. Clemenceau and his fellow min isters immediately proceeded directly to President Fallleres and offered his resignation, which the president ac cepted. John A. Cooke Paroled. John A. Cooke, former clerk of the circuit court of Cook county, 111., who has been serving a sentence for misus ing public funds, was paroled by tho state board of pardons Tuesday. His release was granted without delay owing to the reported Illness of his mother. He was taken to Chicago In an automobile by a party of friends. Negro Strung Up. Without firing a shot a mob took Albert Lawaon, the negro who shot Sheriff R. F. Compton, at Paris, Tenn., Sunday, from the Paris Jail at 9:30 Tuesday night and hanged him to a mulberry tree a few yards from the prison. About thirty minutes later the body was cut down. Three Thousand Made Homeless. A fire which broke out early Fri day in a Chinese restaurant on Hai leybury road, near Cobalt, Ont., caused a loss estimated at $100,000. Three thovsand have been rendered homeless and the entire business sec tion north of the square has been de stroyed. . Fires Still Rage. The forest fire In Merced canyon In the Yosemtte valley, is still raging In the gorge bounded by Point cliff. Pan oramic cliff and the half done. Cav alrymen are trying to prevent Its spreading across the trail to the un. touched portions of the canyon. Sir Robert Hart to Itct.'re. Sir Robert Hart, who has spent a year's leave of absence In England, the first vacation he has taken in more than twenty years, hus practically de cided to retlro from the position of director general of Chinese customs on account of 111 heulth. "Hunger Strike" KueccKHful. The success of several suffragettes In obtaining their release from Drlson In London by carrying out a "hunger strike" has caused all of the suffra. gettes in Holloway Jail to adopt this method for gaining their freedom. Six Loe Lives. Six men employed on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad were killed several miles from Ulalrs town N. J.. Tuesday ASKft FATHER MURPHY WINS. Court Refuses to Grant Order of Blsli op Bonacum. - The Injunction ease of Bishop Bona cum, of the Catholic diocese of Lin coin, against Father Murphy came up In the district court at Seward Tues day. That tribunal refused to make permanent the restraining order against Father Murphy which was made as a result of the bishop recent ly attempting to take charge of the Ulysses church. Tho court declared It had no power to restrain Father Mur phy from performing duties pertaining to his calling, and refused to make permanent the restraining order Issued against the priest. The result of the court's action leaves Father Murphy In charge of the church ut Ulysses and he stated that he would say mass In the edifice Sunday morning. What further action Bishop Bonacum will take was not stated. TAXPAYERS KCOftE EXTENSION. Thurston County Residents Do Not Like Addition to Allotment. The extension of ten years in the trust period of the Oninha allotments has caused no little disappointment among taxpayers of Thurston county. Most of tho allottees, they say, are liv ing in idleness anil luxury from the Increase of their lanilj which are ex empt from taxation. These lands have becomo valuable under the cultivation by the white people. The rents each year are Increasing, varying from $2 to 17 per acre, with no Improvements on the land except what Is put there by the renters In most cases. Tuxes upon these lanfls are needed for schools and public highways, all of which are In bad condition. Residents of Thurston county are severe in their criticism of representatives In con gress in permitting this extension. They say it means retrogression to In dians as well as the white man. KANSAS SHERIFF TO JAIL. Stringent Measures Taken with Officer at Nebraska City. Sheriff F. M. Monaugh, of Stockton, Kan, arrived In Nebraska City Satur day night having In charge James Rankin, an insane man, and attempted to turn him over to Sheriff Fischer, claiming that he was a charge belong ing to Otoe county. The officer re fused to accept the prisoner, and when the Kansas sheriff attempted to leave without taking his prisoner with him he was arrested and placed in Jail, being unable to give ball. He is charged with attempting to dump a pauper on Otoe county. Young Ran kin and his mother-were former resi dents of Otoe county and -he was sent up to the Insane asylum In 1907, but paroled in 1908, and went to Kansas with his mother to make their home, Mrs. Rankin owning some land in the vicinity of Stockton. ' SHOOTS INTO A CROWD. Colorado Mnn Kills n Negro In an O inn I in Saloon. A names giving the name of Jess Smith, of Trinidad, Colo., Monday night fired five revolver Bhots into a crowd In a saloon at Tenth and Doug las streets, Omaha, killing James Robblns, a colored piano player, seri ously injuring James F. McGlnnlty, a bystander, and slightly wounding an unknown man. Smith had been ejected from the sa. loon for threatening the bartender and returned with a gun to "clean out" the place. He was captured and placed in Jail. RICH FARMER ENDS LIFE. Shoots and Kills HtiiiKclf In Railroad Yards at Holrircge. Sam Larue, a wealthy farmer living near Ingham, shot and killed himself In the railroad yards at Holdrege Tuesday afternoon. He was on his way home from Omaha, where he had old two carloads of fat steers. It is known that he received over 12,000 for the stock, but when the body was taken over by the coroner but $9 were found. It Is supposed that he lost his money and that this brought on sudden insanity. Larue's father died In the Insane asylum at Hastings. Fierce Flst at Fremont. Frank Stratton, who came to Fre mont with some race horses, was sen tenced to ninety days In the county Jail for assaulting William Lewis, a fellow employe, and kicking him In the right eye and mouth. Lewis had most of his upper teeth knocked out, a bad cut In the mouth, one eye closed and perhaps seriously Injured, and It took a surgeon some time to get him fixed up to appear In Justice court. Beer Must Be Labeled. It Is not unlawful for a saloonkeeper of Havelock to deliver beer In Lincoln providing the beer has been bought and paid for In Havelock and every case labelled with the name of the consignee. It Is unlawful for a saloon keeper to send In beer on a wagon unless each chs Is labelled with the name of the consignee. That is the decision of Judge Kisser, of the Lin coln police court In the case against the three Havelock saloon men. Waterworks for Beaver. Waterworks extension bonds car ried In Beaver City by 18 majority. Municipal Ownership Pays. That Grand Island's municipally owned and operated water and light ing plant has paid well Is the sub stance of a report made to tho mayor and council by an expert accountant, who has Just completed a thorough checking up of tho light and water commissioner's office. Change in Telegraph Office. J. G. Wolf, for a number of years manager of the Postal Telegraph com pany In Lincoln, will become manager Of the Omaha office August 1 HEDil STATE REUS I BOY HURT BY ST It 1 .101' CAR. Eddie William Received a Slight Gash on Head, Little Eddie Williams, son of J. A. Williams, of Lincoln, while riding hli wheel In some way collided with a Havelock street car at the corner of Sixteenth and O streets and had quite a gash cut over the left tye. Ho was not seriously hurt. Ir. Miller, who happened to be passing on the Kreet near by, took tho boy In charge at once and dressed the wound, putting In one stitch. Tho boy did not lost consciousness from the force of the rhoek, but kept Insisting that he must hurry on to the bakery to finish his errand of purchasing some cinnamon buns for supper. Tho Havelock car was going east on O street at the comer of Sixteenth when the accident occurred. The boy, according to tho story of bystandrrs, was turning tho corner at Sixteenth to get on O street when the car and bicycle struck. No one seems to know Just what part of the car struck the lad, but ho lay In the middle of the track behind the car when he was picked up. The enr was very crowded. The boy Is 7 years old. LAND SELLS HIGn. Prices In Merrick Comity Arc Hlttln, the llirh Finer. The price of Merrick county land Is still hitting the high places. In splto of the fact that tho big drain age ditch project through the county was knocked out by the board of su pervisors. Lester Hylnnd, of Sweet water, has purchased the Flower farm, east of Central City, In the Warm Slough section, paying $110 per aero for the eighty acres. Wun derllck & Havellck, of Duvid City, have sold tho half section of land owned by them east of Central City, and Included in the old Hart ranch, or Smith estate, receiving an even J 100 per acre as the result of the deal. Dave Burke, who owns tho Wlthraw quarter section, about a mile west of Central City, has refused an offer of $105 an acre for the land. An other deal Is about to be consummat ed which will Involve the sale of an eighty within a mile and a half of the town for $128 per acre. FALLS IN FRONT OF SICKLE. Farmer Is Fn tally Injured Whllo Drlv. Ins a Binder. Christopher Meyers, a farmer liv ing three miles cast of Berlin, was fatally Injured while driving a binder In a wheat field on his farm. One of the fcurhorsea that he was driving shied at some object and the others started to run away. Mr. Mey ers was unable to control the fright ened animals. He lost his balance and was thrown In front of the sickle bar. The unfortunate man was dragged for a distance of fifty feet and the bone In one of his limbs was severed above the ankle. One cf the guards on the machine penetrated his lungs. Several bones were broken and his back was also badly lacerated. He re ceived other Injuries. Mr. Meyers was taken to his home and medical aid was summoned. The attending physician fears that the In jured man will not live. He Is about 55 years old. BLOODHOUNDS FIND A CHILD. Llttlo one Is located After a Lon( Starch. Tho 2-yenr-old child of Mrs. Myrtle Troyer, of Lexington, who has been lost In the hills twenty-six miles northwest of Lexington, was found early Friday morning after a search of forty-two hours. Mrs. Troyer was visiting 'at the home of a brother living north of Lo max. Tuesday whllo she was absent from the house, the child wandered away and all efforts to find it were unavailing. Bloodhounds and about 200 people Joined In the search. The bloodhounds finally located tha child In the hills. When it was found It appeared to be but little the worse for the exposure. STREETS FLOODED AT WAnOO. Lightning Destroys a Large Barn Dur ing the Storm. A heavy rain fell In the vicinity of Wahoo last Friday. In less than an hour and a halt 2.32 Inches fell. The streets were flooded and many cellars were filled. The big excavation on the Smlth-Hultln-Anderson company's new building was filled with water to the depth of a foot and a half, necessi tating the use of a gasoline engine to pump it out. No rain was reported a mile north of town nor six miles west. During the storm lightning struck and destroyed a large barn of H. J. Litzman two miles west of there. Two horses and a cult were burned. Slander Suit at Prndcr. John M. Commons hns filed In the district court of Thurston county a suit against Thomas L. Sloan, of Pen der, for $10,000. Mr. Commons is superintendent and special disbursing agent In charge ot the Omaha Indian tribe In Thurston county. Boy Finds Lost Diamonds, The diamonds lost Saturday at Nor folk by Mrs. C. II. Bowers, valued at $1,000, were found on a sidewalk by 12-year-old William Mueller, son of Uev. J. P. Mueller, and returned to the owner. Fourteen Years for Clarence. In district court at I'lattsmouth Judge II. D. Travis overruled the mo tion for a new trial and sentenced John Clarence to servo a term of four teen years in the state penltentlury at hard lubor. . Extending Telephone System. The Bell Telephone company has, it Is said, sold Its local Interests ut Lyons to Fred Enfield, of that place, who is blocking oijt new cable systems and making considerable improvement mm ffiANDj mNANCIAL CHICAGO. The UBual Indices of trade nctlvlty continue to reflect accumulating strength and better disposition toward Increasing active capacity in manufac tures. Weather conditions favor the growing crops and marketings of farm product! are well sustained, those ot live stock Bhowlng considerable In crease. The markets for breadstuffs remain quiet, but packing is more ex tended, and there la good absorption ot provisions for both domestic and export consumption. High tempera tures stimulated demand for season able needs in the leading retail lines and there Is ample reduction of mer chandise stocks here and at Interior points. Wholesale trade in the principal sta ples promises to show expansion. Buy ers come forward in large numbers, and the demand Is strong in textiles, slothing, footwear, fod products and furniture. Compared with this time last year, there Is larger forwarding of goods to country stores, whllo cur rent bookings indicate gain In deliver ies to be made of fall and winter lines. High prices and reasonable as surance of great crops make a remark ably prosperous position in agricul ture, and this encourages more effort In the distribution of flnlHhed prod ucts and farm needs. Bank clearings, $209,236,328, exceed thoBe of the corresponding week In 1908 by 14.7 per cent and compare with $243,4S3,589 In 1907. Failures reported In the Chicago dis trict number 29, against 20 last week, 30 In 1908 and 21 In 1907. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number 12, against 3 last week, 10 in 1908 and 5 In 1907." Dun's Weekly Review ot Trade. NEW YORK. Despite Irregularities In crop and weather conditions, midsummer influ ences In trade and Industry and con servatism In placing orders ahead, business Is of fairly good volume for the season ot the year and shows a perceptibly steady advance toward nor mal proportions. In retail trade clear ance sales are universal, but there are numerous reports that reduced pur chasing power offsets the stimulus of fered by this means of Inducing buy ing. Wholesale trade for Immediate delivery and Jobbing business in sum mer goods Is of a light volume. Fall trade reports are still relatively the beat of any branch. Still, there are reports of quiet In the Southwest, and Chicago seems to be the moat active market In the country, with the North west coming next as regards favorable reports. BusliysB failures In the United States for the week ending with July 15 were 206, against 182 last week, 215 in the like week of 1908, 177 in 1907, 18 in 1906 and 165 in 1905. Ca nadian failures for the week number 36, as compared with 27 last week and 28 the corresponding week of 1908. Bradst reefs. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4,00 to $7.50; hogs, prime heavy, $4.60 to $8.32; sheep, fair to chiVce, $4.25 to $5.40; wheat, No. 2, $1.25 to $1.30; corn, No. 2, 71c to 72c; oats, standard, 50c to Die; rye, No. 2, 81c to 82c; hay, timothy, $8.00 to $15.00; prairie, $8.00 to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 26c; eggs, fresh, 17e to 21c; pota toes, new, per bushel, 65c to 87c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $8.10; sheep, good to choice, $2.50 to $6.15; wheat, No. 2, $1.30 to $1.33; corn, No. 2 white. 74c to 75c; oats, No. 2 white, 53c to 64c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $7.15; bogs, $4.00 to $8.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.40; wheat. No. 2, $1.27 to $1.30; 1 corn, No. 2. 72c to 74c; oats, No. 2, 55c to 56c; rye, No. 2, 80c to 82c. j Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, : $4.00 to $8.10; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.30 to $1.40; corn, No. 2 yellow, 74c to 75c; oats, No. 2 white, 63c to 54c; rye, No. 1, 82c to 83c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.31 to $1.35; corn, No. 3, 66c to 69c; oats, standard, 55c to 56c; rye, No. 1, 79c to 81c; barley, standard, 70c to 72c; pork, meBS, $19.65. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $8.20; sheep, common to god mixed, $4.00 to $4.90; lambs, fair to choj-e, $5.00 to $8.70. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.38 to $1.40; corn, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 72c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 61c to 63c; rye, No. 2, 81c to 8Cc; clover seed, $0.65. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $6.25; lings, $4.00 to $8.35; sheep, $3.00 tc $4.50; wheat. No. 2, $130 to $1.35; corn, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 64c; rye, No. 2, 81c to 86c. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $7.00; he as, $3.50 to $8.40; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, Nc 2 rod, $1.40 to $1.42; corn, No. 2, 77c to 79c; oats, natural white, 64c to 68e; butter, creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, western, 17o to 23c. I Work of Congress S Tha Senate was in session twenty minutes Tuesday, adjourning at 12:20 until Friday. The major portion ot the time of the sitting was devoted to a discussion of the unanimous consent agreement not to transact any busi ness while the tariff conference is la progress. Senator Carter tried to have passed a bill pertaining to the affairs of the District of Columbia on the ground that the bill was "such a little one" that no harm could result from Its passage. But Senators Lodge and Culberson, standing guard over the In terests of the two sides of the cham ber, objected and thus prevented ac tion. The House was not In session. The Senate was not In session Thursday. After a lively debate the Democrats In the House railed In their efforts to hare a provision brought In by Mr. Tawney appropriating $25,000 for President Taft's traveling expenses ruled out or stricken out of an urgent deficiency bill. The latter ' measure was under consideration throughout the session. Members on the Demo cratic side were unsparing in I their charges ot bad faith, because the House at the last session, as they al leged, pledged Itself not to make any additional allowances to the President. Mr. Rainey of Illinois gave as the rea son for its presentation at this time the desire ot the President to "boost" the League of Republican Clubs) throughout the country. The Senate was In session only eighteen minutes Friday, adjourning at 12:18 p. m. until Tuesday. In ad dition to the swearing in of Senator Clay, ot Georgia, the business consist ed of the presentation ot petitions and tho Introduction ot bills ot minor Im portance. Feverish excitement over the baseball game scheduled between teams representing the Democratic and Republican sides of the chamber was responsible for a short session of the House. Chairman Tawney'a desire was to conclude consideration of the ur gent deficiency appropriation bill, but strenuous pressure was brought to bear upon him, and the Speaker caused them to agree to let the bill go over until Monday. The only action of Im portance in connection with the defi ciency bill was the striking out of the appropriation of $30,000 for participa tion by the United States in the Brus sels exposition. At 2:44 p. m. the House adjourned until Monday. The Senate was not In session Mon day. Having gotten over Its baseball '"spree"' of the previous Friday, the House transacted a general assortment of business. It began by passing an omnibus bridge bill, then listened to an apology by Mr. Hobson, ot : Ala bama, for having last February made some uncomplimentary statements alut Ambassador O'Brien at Toklo, and further considered the urgent de ficiency bill. There were several live ly tilts, one of which culminated in an announcement by Mr. Macon of Ar kansas that he would resign his seat it it could be proved that he was a legis lative obstructor. The most serious discussion centered about Francis J. Heney, special assistant to the Attor ney General. Chairman Tawney, cf the Appropriations Committee, made the statement that Mr. Heney had re ceived during the last year $23,000 for services he did not render. HAS REPTILES TO TRADE. Bnalce Expert at Bronx Zoo to Hake Exchanges in Europe, Raymond L. Ditmars, curator ot the reptile house at the Bronx boo, New York, has gone to Europe with several crates of poisonous American snakes and a number of surplus animals which have found birth In the soo. These he will trade to the zoological gardens In England, Germany, France and other countries for other snakes, and animals which the Bronx too de sires. In specially constructed crates he has taken a dozen vipers, a dozen diamond rattlers, a dozen common rat tlers, a dozen coral snakes, several lance-head vipers from South America, a dozen moccasins and a few other deadly reptiles. In exchange for these Mr. Ditmars will bring back specimens of the cobra, asp, and other deadly snakes which are to be found in the East, The snakes and small animals of the Bronx zoo have been multiply ing so rapidly that It has been found advantageous to trade them abroad for specimens not represented here. NUBBINS OF KSW8, Official orders have been Issued at Winnipeg, Man., prohibiting any Unit ed States circus from parading the streets unless tt flies a British instead ot an American flag. The Alabama Supreme Court de cided that liquor when kept in lock ers by Individuals and is not for sale Is personal property and that any mu nicipal ordinance prohibiting such, possession Is void. Sherburne M. Becker, known as the "boy mayor of Milwaukee," arrived in San Francijco the other day on his return from a vUtlt to the canal sooe. where he went cn the invitation of Piesldent Taft. Two daughters of u Montana ranch er named Mueller, living at Helena, slipped Into the Missouri river from, the bank ar.J wera tlro.vued. They wero 20 and 16 ysars o?a. A brother, aged 13, was drowned trylug to save, tueui.