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MOTTO All TSift News YrTien It Is News.
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NUMBEIl 50
DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FIUDAY, AUGUST 13, 1901).
VOLUME XVII
WORLD'S DULY HEWS'.
CAREFULLY COLLECTED
AND CONCISELY STATED
THAW STILL INSANE
HELD DANGEROUS TO rUBLIC
PKACK AND SAFETY.
Incision By Justice Mills Xo Crumb
of Comfort in 7b00Yord Opinion
- Joroino's Victory I OmipU-t'c
Ordered Recommitted.
Harry K. Thaw's latest attempt to
gain his liberty met with defeat Thurs
day when Supreme Court Justice Isaac
N. Mills dismissed the writ of habeas
corpus and declared that the release
of the petitioner would be "danger
ous to public peace and safety."
The signing of an order sending
Thaw back to Matteawan, a formality,
took place Friday morning in Justice
Mills' chambers at Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
There Is no crumb of comfort for
Thaw in the 7,000-word opinion hand
ed down by Justice Mills. All the con
tentions of his old adversary, District
Attorney Jerome, are supported, and It
Is declared that Thaw Is still Insane,
still suffering from persistent delu
sions and still as much a paranoiac as
on the day he shot Stanford White.
The order for Thaw's recommitment
will be presented to Justice Mills and
Thaw's attorney will then have a
chance to oppose It or strive for a
modification.
Thaw received the news with an
outward calmness which appeared,
however, more forced than real.
The members of his family and his
attorney seemd stunned by the thor
oughness of their defeat. Thaw de
clined to give out any extended state
ment, contenting himself with the as
sertion that he was not disheartened
and vould at once continue .his fight
for liberty.
FIRE IX XKV JERSEY.
Is Started by Overturning a Pan of
Grease.
Washington Park, a pleasure resort
on the Delaware river, ten miles below
Camden, N. J., burned Thursday.
About 4,000 persons were attending
a picnic of the Baltimore and Ohio
Veterans' association on the grounds,
j The fire was started hn the kitchen
of the" park' restaurant by the over
turning of a pan of grease. Miss Jane
Dagan, a cook, was scalded and died
shortly afterward. The fire quickly
.spread and the building was soon a
mass of flames.
The fire continued to spread to the
surrounding buildings, which are user?
tor various amusement purposes.
KILLS GIRL HE LOVET.
Chicago Man Angered Because Womai
Did Xot Love Him.
Angered because the woman of hit
choice failed to reciprocate his affec
tion, Thomas Kutsne? Thursday, in
Chicago, boarded a crowded street
car and shot and killed Victoria Ka
waleo, the girl he loved.
Katsnes then shot himself, infllctfng
a slight wound. Katsnes was former
ly a restaurant keeper and his victim
was employed as a waitress In his res
taurant. Bodies Found In Well.
With her Infant girl clasped in
her arms the body of Mrs. James H.
Rltter was found In an abandonee'
well by the husband and father at Mc
Comb, O., Friday morning. The cor
oner pronounced It suicide. Mrs. Rlt
ter had been In ill health.
Ml! lake Causes a Tragedy.
The first fatality growing out of the
strike at McKees Rocks, occurred
Thursday when Steve Horvute, one ol
the strikers, was shot and killed b4
Major Smith, a nero, whom a crowd
of two score striking foreigners had
attacked by mistake, thinking he wa
a strike breaker.
To Be Head of Great Western.
It was officially announced in St.
Paul, Minn., Thursday that Samuel L.
Felton, president of the Chicago and
Alton railway, will formally be chos
en president of the Chicago Great
Western railroad when the reorganlza.
tion Is completed.
Jack Johnson Is Arrested.
Jack Johnson, the heavyweight pu
gilist champion of the world, was ar
rested In Chicago for exceeding the
automobile schedule limit In Michigan
avenue. He was released after depos
iting $50 as security for his appear,
ance In court.
I
Sioux City Live Stock Market.
Thursday's quotations on the Sioux
Tity live stock market follow: Top
beeves, $6.60. Top hogs, $7.65.
lie gent of Abyssinia.
In view of the precarious health ot
King Menelik, full powers of regency
have been granted to Rai Tesama, the
guardian of Prince Lldjl -Peassu, th
beir presumptive to the throne.
100 Persons Injured.
Mor than 100 people were Injured
fcy the collapse of the roof of a build
ing at Pachuca, Mex., Sunday. Among
the number is Bezearos, the opera
finger, who was seriously hurt
7.000 VKTF.RANS ON PA HADE.
nnunl Grand Army March
at Suit
Iakc City.
Midsummer heat thinned the an
nual parade of the Grand Army of the
Republic, the feature of the forty-
third reunion at Salt Lake, Utah,
Wednesday, and wrought still more
Kufferingamong the hundreds of child- j
ren who participated In the forma
lions of the living flag. So oppressive '
was the heat that the plan calling for i
ih llvino- floe in the procession was I
abandoned.
At least 100 children and 20 old sol
diers were taken from the street. Many
of the victims, young and old, recov
ered as soon as they were placed In the
shade. Those treated at the emer
gency stations numbered about forty,
fifteen of them Grand Army men and
thirty children. There were no fatal
ities. Three relief stations attended
by trained nurses insured prompt and
capabla aid for all sufferers. The
hours of the parade were the hottest
hours of the hottest days since the be
ginning of the encampment. At 11
o'clock, when the column got under
way, the weather bureau thermometer
registered 85 degrees. Notwithstand
ing the discomfort, the parade was a
great success. The 5,000 and more
old soldiers, walking four abreast, had
the complete right of way. Fully 100,
000 persons saw, or tried to see, the
spectacle. The Nebraska delegations
carried ears of yellow corn. The Mln
nesotans were bearers of sheaves of
wheat, and the Green Mountain boys
of Vermont wore sprigs of pine in
their hat bands. Arkansas had the
distinction of sending the smallest di
vision there were but four wearers
of her badge. Illinois made the larg
est numerical showing.
WILL THY TO BREAK WILL.
Kansas City Saloonkeeper Left $117,
(100 to Charities.
A suit to break the will of Charles
Schattner, a wealthy saloonkeeper and
politician, who died a few months ago
at Kansas City, Mo., leaving $117,000
to local charities and about $25,000
to negro employes, has been filed by
Eugene Schattner, a brother. The es
tate was valued at $200,000.
Eugene Schattner alleges that his
brother was addicted to the use of in
toxicants, which Impaired his mind
and made him incapable of making a
will when the instrument was drawn.
He also alleges that Mary E. Yates,
a negro housekeeper, to whom the
will gave $10,000, exerted undue influ
ence over his brother. A negro porter
and a negro nurse were also beneficia
ries under the will.
FLOODS IX MEXICO.
Scenes of Desolation Confront City of
Monterey 14 Dead.
The Santa Carina river returned to
its banks Wednesday leaving a scene
of desolation and destruction in the
southern part of Monterey, Mexico.
Fourteen lives are known to have been
hist and estimates place the number
as high as fifty. The exact figures will
never be known as the district known
as San Lulsto, where most of the
damage occurred, is Inhabited by the
poorer classes mostly and many occu
pied houses,. which were washed away.
Over 6,000 houses have been washed
away in this one district and precisely
all those left standing are more or
less damaged.
CLYDE LINER ADRIFT.
Breaks Tail Shaft and Is Being Driven
Ashore by Wind.
The steamship Arapahoe, of the
Clyde line for Jacksonville and Sa
vannah from New York, broke her tail
shaft Wednesday afternoon at 3:45
o'clock and was reported by wireless
message received at Beaufort, N. C
at 4:50 o'clock that she was adrift
helplessly. The ship at the time she
Hashed "C. Q. D." was twenty-one
miles off the Diamond Shoals light
ship. The wind was strong from the
northeast and is driving the ship on
shore. She is heavily loaded and has
a number of passengers on board.
Negro Admits Guilt.
"Doctor" Walton, alias Williams, a
young negro who murdered Mrs. Hat
tie Duncan in Chicago August 4. was
arrested Wednesday. He was taken
from a barricaded room after a fight
with the police. He confessed, ac
cording to the police, that he killed
Mrs. Duncan, and that he killed a
woman In Memphis, Tcnn., several
years ago.
Shot I wn In the Street.
Victim of a vendetta. Rafael Cas-
cone, defended by Albert T, Patrick,
and befriended by Harry K. Thaw,
whom he came to know In the Tombs,
died at a hospital where he had lin
gered since he was shot down on the
street In New York Wednesday by a
boy of 16 years.
CeiiHV!i Sucrvlors.
The names of more than 300 super
visors of the thirteenth census to be
appointed by President Taft will be
made public next week by the presi-
1ent.
Moors' Camps Shelled.
A captive balloon in the Spanish
army Wednesday discovered two new
camps f Moors, which were promptly
shelled by the Spanish artillery. The
Moors were driven out, carrying away
their dead and wounded.
Five deaths and a total of forty
seven new cases of infantile paraly
sis have been reported to the health
department at St Paul, Minn., seven
mm eases being reported Wednesday,
tex people ni nrr.
Haines Destroy a !otcl lit V -non,
British Colunibln.
Ten lives were lost In a ftre that de
stroyed the Okanagan hotel at Vernon,
H. C, Tuesday. The flames were dis
covered about 2 o'clock a. m., and so
I nuddenly did they sweep through the
building that when the firemen ar-
i riven the stairways were burning ana
scarcely had a stream of water been
turned on tne blaze Derore tne entire
nuiiaing was anaine. Most ot tne six-
ty guests escaped, but some were un
able to get out of their rooms. The
dead were all western people.
There were many heroic rescues. A
man named Hlckllng lost his life
in the attempt to save the life of one
of the servants after he had saved the
life of a daughter of Julius Sigalete,
one of the proprietors.
The firemen abandoned attempts to
save the hotel and after carrying
many guests through the windows
they turned their attention to the ad
joining building, for the fire threaten
ed the entire business portion of the
town. t
When daylight cr.me the work of
searching the ruins for the dead be
gan and all the bodies were recovered.
Several were seriously injured and
were removed to hospital!.
The loss on the hotel Is $25,000.
IS A PECULIAR CASE.
Woniun Is In Hospital end Companion
Older Arrest.
Suffering from hysteria and what
the police say are the effects of a
drug, Mrs. Elizabeth Nosker, who be
fore she collapsed on the Twenty
eighth street subway platform In New
York early Wednesday, described her
self as the wife of a Chicago business
man, is unconscious in a New York
hospital. William H. Lehlan, of Bay
Ridge, Brooklyn, is being held a pris
oner under a charge of disorderly con
duct until Mrs. Nosker Is able to ap
pear in connection with the case. At
the hospital It Was safd she would re
cover. Lehlan's arrest followed a report to
a policeman that a man was trying
to drag a woman from a cab Into a
hotel near Twenty-eighth street and
Madison avenue early Tuesday morn
ing. When the officer appeared the
woman broke away from the man and.
according to the policeman, fell on her
knees on the sidewalk crying: "Take
me away! Save me from that man!
For God's sake take me home!"
The officer accompanied her to the
subway station, where she collapsed.
suffering from what the ambulance
surgeon declared was the effect of a
drug.- The man who had followed her
there, and "rotesled that he was her
friend and that there was nothing the
matter with her, was arrested. Hfe
gave his name as William S. Lehlan.
Whenjie was asked about the trouble
he said:
"There Is nothing in the case. 1
have known her since she was 15 years
old. I used to live In Chicago and we
were playmates. I am the best friend
she has and she knows It."
KILLED BY MASKED MEX.
A Well Known Kentucky Farmer Is
Assa-ihiuntcd.
John Simpson, a well known farmer
of Scottsville, Ky., was called from his
cabin Tuesday night by six masked
men and shot to death.
It Is said the killing was the out
come of a suit instituted ny a Mrs.
Douglas to recover the custody of her
child, in which action, it Is alleged,
Simpson took a prominent part In her
behalf.
Heir to n Fortune.
Mrs. Joseph Anderson, whose Indian
name lis "Wompucoca," a poor wash
erwoman of Des Moines, la., Wednes
day night was notified that she will
receive from the government $60,000
as her share of the distribution of
$20,000,000 due tho Choctaw Indian?
from Uncle Sam.
Greek Flag Iluuled Down.
The Greek flrf?" which was run up
over the fortress and the Cretan mili
tary barracks at Cueun, Island of
Crete, on July 27, the day after the
evacuation of the Island by the Inter
national troops, was lowered Tuesday
as a result of the protests of the four
protecting powers.
Summer Hotel Bums.
Forty guests had narrow escapes
from death Tuesday when the Hotel
Hessel, at Hcssel, Mich., eighteen
miles northeast of Macklnack Island,
was burned to the ground. A number
of them escaped in their night cloth
Ing and lost all of thel:- belongings.
Town Nearly Destroyed.
A disastrous fire swept through the
business section of Montlcello, the
county seat of Sullivan county, N. Y.,
destroying fifty or more stores, the
postofftce, a bank, the Palatine and
Mansion hotels and driving hundreds
of Bummer colonists Into the street.
Itussiun Cholera Plague.
During the twenty-four hours ended
Tuesday there have been 41 new cases
of cholera and twelve deaths from the
disease at St. Petersburg.
Col. Pope Succumbs.
Col. Albert A. Pope, the pioneer bi
cycle manufacturer of the United
States and well known as one of the
first advocates of the existing good
roads system, died at his summer
home in Cohasset, Mass., Tuesday.
Drought is Alarming.
The drought throughout eastern
Pennsylvania Is becoming so sever
that unless rain comes soon the crops
will be ruined.
NEBRASKA
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CORPORAL CRAIITREE'S TRIAI
Cotirtiintrtlnl Retiring Scl for August
10 nt Fort Crook.
Corporal Claude Crabtree, of Troop
B, Second United States regiment,
who shot his commanding officer,
Capt. John C. Ruymond, In the com
pany quarters at Fort Pes Moines, In..
In June last. Is to be tried by a general
courtmartlal at Fort Crook. The date
set for the trial is Monday, August 16.
The transfer of the courtmartlal to
Fort Crook has been made In view of
the prejudice prevailing against the
accused man at Fort Des Moines, the
scene of the murder, and the further
rule has been adopted to eliminate all
officers of the Second ravniry from
participation In the trial.
The general courtmartlal has full
power In case of conviction to intlict
the death penalty, ruliject to the ap
proval of the president.
COMPLAINT TILED IN LINCOLN.
Anti-Sulooii Lccftiu Asks Governor to
IToiinil Against I in hi mil ii.
Application was made to Gov. Shal
lenberger Monday to request the at
torney general to brlnw proceedings to
oust Mayor Duhlmnn and the members
of the police hoard of Omaha for fall
ing to revoke the license of a saloon
keeper who was convicted In police
court of violating the 8 o'clock clos
ing law. The application was signed
by B. F. Fellman, president, and Har
ry Stone, secretary, of the nntl-snloon
league of Douglas county, and It was
supported by an affidavit setting out
the conviction of the saloonkeeper
and the failure of the board to revoke
his license.
TABLE ROCK BOY KILLED.
Thrown frwin His Horse and Fiitnlly
Injiired.
James Hruska, the 16-year-old son
of the late James Hruska, met with
jan accident near Table Rock which
: resulted" In his death. He had been
assisting In threshing and started for
home on horseback, riding in consid
erable haste to get up his cows before
dark. His horse stepped into a go
pher hole, stumbled and fell, ' whether
on him or not Cfi hardly be deter
mined, as no one witnessed the acci
dent. He was found a little later by
the threshing crow, but was never able
to explain how the accident happened.
170.CO0 FILING FEE.
MbtHourt Pacific Pays Big Sum Into
Nebraska Treasury,
The Missouri Pacific Railway com
pany Monday paid to Secretary of
State Junkin $70,000 as a fee for filing
its new articles of incorporation.
Thirty-one thousand dollars of this
was paid under protest on the ground
thajthe Increas in the capital stock
of tne company did not jusiiry tne de
mand for the $70,000 when a fee had
been formerly collected under the old"
corporation. The fee Is the largest
ever received by the state of Nebras
ka from any one company.
Runaway Accident.
Dr. Shellhorn, of Peru, had a nar
row escape In a runaway accident last
Saturday and as it was he was severe
ly hurt, his daughter badly bruised
and his buggy was totally wrecked.
He was driving when one of tlsa hold
back straps broke and let the tongue
down. The buggy ran down on the
horses, causing them to run away,
completely wrecking the buggy and
throwing the occupants Into the street,
severely bruising the doctor and
breaking his nose.
, Hnnd Torn Off by Belt.
Seth Hall, an employe of the Wood
River roller mills at Grand Island,
had his hand severely crushed. While
Blipplng off a belt the hand was
caught and thrown Into a cogwheel
and all of the fingers excepting the
first were torn oft and most of the
palm of the hand was crushed. Am
putation of most of the hand was nec
essary. Session Imws Ready.
Another batch of session laws was
received by the secretary of state,
which, with those already received.
will be enough to supply the members
of the legislature and the various
counties of the state. Another batch
will be sent In from York and these
will be placed on sale In the office of
the clerk of the supreme court.
Big Apple Crop.
York county will have one of the
largest crop of apples ever raised, and
every apple Is nearly perfect. The
orchurd on the furm owned by the
Herman Behllng estate will yield
6,000 bushels. York county farmers
are reluctant about selling for the
reason that York county fruit, owing
to its quality, will always bring the
highest market price.
Child Bitten by Mud Dog.
A child of Will Warren, at Weston
wis budly bitten about the head and
face by a dog supposed to have hy
drophobia.
Right of Way 400 Feet Wide.
That the right of way of the Union
Pacific Railroad company embraces
an area of 400 feet In width, or 200
'eel from the middle of the tracks on
each side is established by a decree
Juft handed down by Judge W IT
Munger in the United States clialt
court at Omaha.
May Lom) Ills Sight.
John Cannuld, of Bradshaw, by rea
son of a serious accident, may lose
the sight of both eyes, which was
caused by his starting up his team
suddenly, breaking a staple, which
flew, Htrikiug him in both eyes, punc
turing both eyeballs.
Cattle Di-stroytng Crops.
Hooker county homveteaders have
.petitioned Gov. Shallenbsrger to come
'to their assistance and save their
crops from cattle, which are being
grazed without being herded.
STATE HS
BLA7.E AT lIXON
Firr lit the Nebraska Town Causes a
Ijosm of $25,000.
Six buildings In the heart of Dixon,
a bank, general store, warehouse, sa
loon. meHt market and restaurant,
were burned to tho ground Saturday.
The town has no waterworks nnd all
the wells were pumped dry. The ori
gin of the fire Is unknown. It started
In the rear end of the warehouse.
There was Insurance on the bank,
store, saloon and meat market. The
loss Is estimated at $25,000.
The parties losing property in the
fire are:
A. G. Rahn. banker, building and
fixtures, $1.K00; J. Curley. store build
ing. $1,300; Llndahl Bros., general
merchandise, $5.f00; K. O. Flaherty,
building and stock, $2,200; D. C. Car
roll. Miloon, $2,000; Long & Son, $2,
800; W. P. Truax. $1,600.
The owners of the burned bulldlngr
say they vill rebuild at once.
DIKES FOR DECATUR.
Government will Try to Stop Damage
Being Done by Missouri.
The federal government finally has
come to the rescue of Decatur, which
for ten years has been threatened with
destruction by the Missouri river.
Some of the buildings In that town
have been moved from seven to ten
times In that period to keep them out
of the hungry maw of the river until
soma of the inhabitants' have become
so used to moving that they would
be disappointed if they didn't have to
move out of danger every year.
dipt. E. H. Schultx, the engineer in
charge, has set aside $5,600 to build
two three-row pile dikes, each 800 feet
long, which he believes will divert the
current of the river and stop the cut
ting. As soon as the necessary plant:
can be sent to Decatur the dikes will'
be built. If they don't answer the
purpose olher dikes will be built.
PREFERS DEATH.
Old Man Hangs HiniMilf Rather Than
Go to Poor House.
Rather than go to the poor house,
where relatives had arranged to have
him taken, Jacob Flowers, 70 years
old and a pioneer of Seward, hung
himself In the door of the coal shed at
the home of his daughter, where he
had been living.
Flowers' case is a sad one. He has
a number of well to do relatives who
have refused to support him. Since
he became too decrepit to work he
has been living with his daughter on
founds furnished Hy" the county. Re
cently his relatives decided to send
him to the poor house. When ' he
learned of their decision he grieved
over it Until he decided to end hit
life. . . .
NEGRO KILLED Btf WOMAN.
Used Dagger on Man Who Had Beaten
Her.
Tom Phillips, a negro who was liv
ing with Dessie Smith, a white woman
and who passed as his wife, is dead.
At their home in Omaha Saturday
night he demanded that she give him
some money. She replied that she did
not have any, whereupon he knocked
her down and beat her. She managed
to get away and obtaining a small
dagger, stabbed Phillips five times
with fatal result. Twice the blade
penetrated his heart. The woman was
placed under arrest.
Pullman Rates Reduced.
Tlio Mlnle rnllwav commission issued
an order reducing Pullman rates in
ViihfnaL-n Tim minimum of 12 was
cut to $1.60 and the muxlmum from
$3.50 to $2.50. Instead or seats do
ir.o. ok eenli K0 rents and on ud at a
Jump of 25 cents, 6 cents was the
unit. An arbitrary rate or Z6 cents
.Km. maAa tintween Omaha and Lin
coln and from Lincoln on the rate Is
5 cents additional ror every ten miies.(
Gage) Company Bond Issue.
The state railway commission hat
.riven net-mission to the Quae County
Gas, Light and Power company to Is
sue funding bonds to tne amount or
itfifi nno. Under the new law enacted
by the recent legislature It Is neces
sary for corporations to secure permis
sion from the railway commission be
fore issuing stocks or bonds.
Held for Bastardy.
Fay Woodford, of Sioux City, la.,
who was arrested at that place, wfts
given a hearing In Beatrice on a com
plaint sworn out by Lizzie Krobowsk,
charging him with being the father of
her child, born last April. The young
man was bound over to the district
court, arid in default. of $600 he was
lodged In the county jail.
Kcurncy Man Caught In Crash.
While digging a Bewer back of the
city hall at Kearney the ground
caved In on C. J. Burke, completely
burying him. After several minutes'
work he was taken out unconscious.
Mr. Burke Is an old-time resident and
Is at the head of the firm of C. J.
Burke & Son. His recovery Is doubt
ful. Lightning Plays Pranks.
During the heaviest electrical storm
for years around Neligh, lightning
struck and burned a barn for Mrs.
Huthuway, a stack of alfalfa for P. D.
l hompson and struck the residence of
Columbus Penn.
Right of Way Man.
The state railway commission has
employed Joseph M. Shlvely as right
of way man to the state engineer and
he will have charge of the work of
placing a value upon the right of way
of railroads under the recently enacted
physical valuation law.
Reward for Phillip.
Gov. Shallenberger has offered
reward of $200 for the apprehension ef
James philips, who Is charged wttfc
having murdered Marsh Hamilton IA
Omaha.
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CHICAGO.
The sustained improvement in bus!
ness Is omphaslzed by a high aggre
gate of payments through the banks,
smaller trading defaults, and widen-
ing demands upon productive capac
ity and transportation facilities.
Tariff revision as an accomplished
fact removes some uncertainties and
the way is made easier to decide upon
new projects. Iron and steel condi
tions "have entered upon a most en
couraging outlook, and the success of
tbat industry Imparts strength to
many other industrial branches.
Factory outputs begin to approach
tbe best previous records, The aggre
gate 'of new demands for Mulshed
products assures increasing employ
ment ot facilities and labor, although
the subject of adequate profits may
for a time cause some hesitancy in
commitments. .Movements of commod
ities are seen to be steadily expanding
and high temperatures causo wide
spread supplementary buying In the
leading retail lines here and at the
interior.
An expected advance In some costs
faas brought increased activity In
wholesale lines of general merchan
dise, the attendance of visiting mer
chants being far above the numbers
usual at this season. Crop report
remain uniformly good, particularly
aa to corn, and this prospect of an
unprecedented addition to the pur
chasing power la construed as favor
able to capital Investment and renew
ed enterprise in commercial chan
nels. Freight movements both east
and west now draw more exhaustive
ly upon available equipment, and
grain marketings are exceptionally
large and promise to continue so fot
months.
Bank clearings, 1257,815,620, exceed
these of the corresponding week in
I!)08 by 21.2 per cent.
Failures reported In the Chicago
district number 22, against 29 last
week, 21 in 1908 and 24 in 1907.
Thoso wlfh liabilities over $5,000
number 6, against 4 last week, 4 In
1908 and 4 in 1907. Dun'e Weekly
Review of Trade.
NEW YORK.
With the advent of August the net
tariff has become an accomrahed
fact, the leading crops are assuming
more tangible form with some temper
Ing of earlier exuberant estimates
of yield; high premiums on old sup
plies of farm products are disappear
ing and the usual fall buyers' excur
sions are bringing purchasers to lead
ing markets. There is also noted this
year what waa absent for two preced
ing years a growing scarcity of la
bor. On the other hand, there are som
features of the trade and the indus
trial situation not as yet clearly de
fined. High raw material cost makes
for caution In placing orders in seme
lines of cotton goods and the advance
In the prices of some lines of finished
iron and eteel Is claimed to have dis
couraged some new business.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending with Aug.
5 were 184, against 223 last week,
205 in the like week f 1908, 157 in
1907, 137 In 1906 and 166 In 1905.
Canadian failures for the week num
ber 27, which compares with 34 last
week and 19 in the corresponding
week of 1908. BradBtreet'i.
Chicago Cattle, common to prime
$4.00 to $7.50; hogs, prime heavy, $4.5(
to $8.15; sheep, fair to choice, $4.26
to $5.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1.02;
corn. No. 2, 65c to 67c; oats, standard
39c to 40c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 74c; hay,
timothy. $.C0 to $15.50; prairie, $8,011
to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 22
to 25c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 23c; pota
toes, new, per bushel, 50c to 68c.
St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $7.10;
hogs, $4.00 to $8.05; sheep, $3.00 tt
$4.50; wheat, No. 2. $1.06 to $1.07;
corn, No. 2, 65c to C6c; oats. No. 2, 36c
to 37; rye, No. 2, 79c to 80c.
Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs,
$4.00 to $8.10; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00;
wheat, No. 2, $1.05 to $1.06; corn, No.
2 yellow, 73c to 75c; oats. No. 2 white,
48c to 50c; rye, No. 1, 72c to 73c.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern,
$.125 to $1.26; corn, No. 3, 66c to 67c;
oats, standard, 51c to 53c: rye, No. 1,
79c to 80c; barley, standard, 70o to
72c; pork, mess, $20.00.
Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping
steers, $4.00 to $6.30; bogs, fair to
choice, $4.00 to $8.35; sheep, common
to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs,
fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.50.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00
to $5.50; bogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $8.00; sheep, good to choice,
$2.50 to $6.15; wheat, No. 2, $1.08 tc
$1.10; corn, No. 2 white, 74c to 75c;
oats, No. 2 white, 53c to 54c.
New York Cattle, $4.00 to $7.00;
bogs, $4.00 to $Y40; sheep, $3.00 tc
$5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.13 to $1.14;
corn, No. 2, 78c to 79c; oats, natural
white, 49c to 51c; butter, creamery,
23c to 26c; eggs, western, 21c to
:4C.
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LIlSTTORIAN
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1492 Columbus embarked from Pale,
on his first voyage of discovery.
1619 First legislative assembly la)
America met at Jamestown, Va,
1684 Treaty of peace concluded at Al
bany between the Colonists and
the Five Nations.
1711 A British and Colonial fleet sail.
ed from Boston for the conquest ol
Canada.
1773 The city of Gaiitfcmnla laid to
ruin by the earthquake and the
eruption of a volcano.
1776 The Declaration of Independence
w-ns engraved and signed by the
members of Congr4j.
1782 Rhode Islaad refused to glvs
Congress the power to levy an Im
port duty of 5 per cent.
1789 First Issue of the Pittsburg Qa
rette, the first newspaper west ol
the Allegheny'mountains.
1734 Fall of Robespierre and end ot
the Reign of Terror.
1795 Commissioners of the United
States met the Indian chiefs ol
Western tribes at Greenville, Ohio,
and concluded a treaty of peace.
1802 First issue of the Western Spy
nt Cincinnati.
1816 First Presbyterian congregation
in Missouri was organized at
Bellevue settlement, in Washing-'
ton County.
1822 The New Orleans Prices Current
appeared in New Orleans.
1834 Opening of new bridge across
the Thames River In London.
1842 Abolition riots took place la
Philadelphia.
1846 Congress passed a tariff bill re
during the duties on Imported
goods.
1850 Delegates from Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick and' the New En
gland States met at Portland, Me,
to discuss the project of a railway
from Halifax to Portland.
1854 Yellow fever became epidemic in
New Orleans.
1850 Kansas rejected the Lcompton
constitution for the second time.'
18G4 Federals made an unsuccessful
assault upon Petersburg, Va.
1866 Race riots in New Orleans on
the reassembling of the State con
ver.tlon....Oen. William T. Sher
man commissioned Lieutenant
General.
1868 Proclamation by the Secretary
of Stnte that the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of
the United States had been rati
fied by three-fourths of the States.
1870 Benjamin Nathan, a wea'.tby He
brew citizen of New York, found
murdered In his home; tho mys
tery of the crime was never solved
1872 Cuban privateer Pioneer seized
by the United States marshal at
Newport, R. I.
1873 Large section of Portland, Ore,
destroyed by fire.
1874 Kansas militia engaged in battle
with Comanche Indians on tht
Canadian River. .. .Gen. Custer's
expedition reached the Black Hills,
1876 Colorado admitted to Statehood.
1883 Southern exposition opened la
Louisville.
1884 The Imperial Federation of Great
Britain and Her Colonies formed
in London.
1894 War declared between China and
Japan.
1895 Serious flood in Fort Scott, Kan
sas. .898 Military expedition, under Gen.
Brooke sailed from Newport Newl
for Porto Rico. .. .Spain accepted
the American conditions of peace,
1899 Final sitting of the Peace Con
. ference of The Hague.
1900 Lord Roberta proclaimed the an
nexation of the Transvaal to Great
Britain.
1908 Typhoon at Canton, China, sank
the Chinese vessel YlngKlng,
drowning 800 natives. . . .Forest
fires 'devastated several towns ot
British Columbia.
Wu of Labor Valoaa Bta.
A test of strength between the Uni
ted Mine Workers of America and the
members of a local union known aa
the Provincial Workmen's Association
at the Sydney (Cape Breton) collieries
of the Dominion Coal Company waa
begun when the former organization
ordered a strike to enforce its demand
for recognition. The local union, which)
was formed originally with the aid and
consent of the union, remained loyal a
a body, although some of Its members
had been won over to the American
organization. The company charges
that the American labor leaders have
sought to divert the Canadian coal
trade. Stockades have been built
about the mines and preparation
made to prevent any forcible Interrup
tion of the work. Armed deputies war
placed on guard.
A New lllamlaaat Offered.
The Engineering and Mining Jon
nal recently reported the successful
commercial introduction ot a new IV
lumlnant called blue gas in Germany.
It is delivered to customers In liquid
form In steel cylinders, from which it
la poured Into the gasometer of a given
room or bouse. It is said to bo cheap
cr than petroleum, while giving mora
powerful light and mora Intense beat.
It la hydrocarbon compound, tree)
from carbon-monoxide,