THE O’NEILL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. J-NEILL, NEBRASKA One of the features of the reliability trials by the London Automobile club at the Crystal palace was a dust “trial.' At three points in the banked* up circular cycle track half the road way was covered with an inch layer of flour mill sweepings. One automo bile acted as pilot to the competing car, in order that the speed, which was ap proximately thirty miles an hour, might be gauged, and as the competing car flew through the Hour two cameras recorded the cloud of "dust.” The les son taught by the dust trials was that the lower and more cumbersome the gear and boxes under the body of the car the greater is the dust raised. Peter Veregln, leader of the Doukho bors in Manitoba, is trusted by his fol lowers with large sums of money, a good deal of which he carries about with him in cash. A reporter who visited him In Winnipeg a few' days ago found the leader in a poorly fur nished room with thousands upon thousands of bank bills scattered around. Veregln had purchased 300 teams of horses and great quantities of farm machinery for use by his follow ers lit their settlements. Over 800 stoves, five complete flouring mills nnd dry goods of ail kinds are also among his investments. New York Times: "I was passing through a classroom in one of the big downtown school? the other day,” said Superintendent Maxwell during a lull in a board meeting, “when I heard a remarkable definition of ‘average.’ In answer to the teacher’s request to de fine the word a little black-haired beauty cried out: ‘The thing that hens lay eggs on.’ When the teacher told her she was wrong she produced a book In which she pointed nut the phrase, a hen lays on an average of five eggs a week.” Down In Wall street they are tell ing a new story about “Jakey” Field. It seems that he took a few minutes off to have hts hair cut. Wishing to he friendly with the barber, who appar ently was a German, "Jakey" In his sal utation fell into German: "Guten morgen," said he to the tonsorial artist. "Wte geht’s?” The barber sadly looked at Mr. Field for a moment and then, !n broad Irish said: “To the divll with Morgan and Gates. I’ve lost enough money already.” Dr. Frank Snow, with a. small party bf Kansas University students, has been bug catching In southwest Ari zona. They brought back fifteen thous and specimens of which some one hun dred are new to science. Of these. 6,430 arc beetles, 4,600 are files, 1,926 are but terflies and moths, and the rest on the 1st are bees and wasps. The butter flies and moths were collected at night by spreading on a tree near the camp a mixture of beer and molasses. The Lewis and Clark fair, planned to be held In Portland, Ore., In the summer of 1906, Is to commemorate the centennial of the crossing of the con tinent by the explorers whom Jefferson Induced to undertake the difficult task loon after the completion of Ills bargain for the Louisiana territory. They went up the Missouri river, crossed the Rocky mountains and followed down the course of the Columbia river to the Pacific. A special correspondent of the London Times, who has been Investigating the conditions of labor In German factor ies, and has visited many of the prin cipal cities, reports that the shortest week In his list is fifty-seven and one half hours, and the longest slxty-two, both In textile mills. It may be said generally that the normal German working day is ten hours and the nor mal week sixty hours. The Chatham Islands are a group In the South Pacific, 380 miles east of New Zealand, of which colony they form a part. They are mainly used for cattle and iheep breeding for the pur pose of supplying whalers and other vessels calling to refit and take In stores. Only 8.3 per cent of the 1,330,697 Ger man born males In the United States have failed to become naturalized, while 13 per cent, of the English, 35 per cent, of the Russians, 53 per cent, of the Italians and 80 per cent, of the Japanese are still aliens. A friend of the late Patrick Gleason bf Long Island City once met the for mer mayor on the ferryboat and in quired the cause of the latter's dis gruntled expression. "Oh. this boat always makes me cross," was the re ply- __ _ It has been found that the Anopheles mosquito, which is responsible for ma laria, likes red and blue objects, but has a pronounced aversion to yellow. This Is considered a further argument in favor of khaki uniforms In tropical regions. TTp to 1870 Paris was the Mecca of English medical students. After that date the larger number began to go to Berlin or Vienna; but the Russian. rnthern European and South Ameri can students still frequent Paris. According to official statements just published, there were In Russia, at the beginning of 1902, 17,786 Industrial es tablishments employing 1,710,375 per sons, of whom 73.2 per cent, were males and 26.8 per cent females. Queen Wllhelmlna’s pet amusement Is taking photographs. She goes about on foot, snapping a passing peasant, a group of children coming from school or a bit of scenery, whenever an agree able subject presents Itself. Exploration of the Yenisei and Obi rivers, of Siberia, which empty Into the Antartlc ocean near Nova Zembla, has shown them to be navigable to ocean steamers for a distance of nearly 1,000 miles. Baltimore American; Naggsby— Aren’t those baggagemen destructive cusses? Waggsby—I should say so. They treat a trunk as If It were a promise, and they were the sultan of Turkey. In September Scottish shipbuilders launched eighteen steamships, aggre gating 23.000 tons. Orders are scarce, and prospects for the next few months are not good. Of 400 natives belonging to the Amer ican mission at Rahuri, Bombay, India, who were Inoculated against plague, only one girl caught the disease, and she recovered. A single American system, the Penn sylvania, carries more freight than all the lines combined In any other nation of the world. Some splendid specimens of tur quoise stones are being found In the mines on the upper King river, Vic toria, Australia. * ELMWOOD CITIZENS ARE MUCH EXCITED Man Called at Bank Wanting to Deposit Box Containing $80,000. PROVED TO BE MISTAKE Caldwell Is Man's Name—Afterward Admitted to the Sheriff That Box Was Empty and He Had No Money. Plattsmouth, Neb., Oct. 31.—Sheriff J. D. McBride received word that the .citizens of Elmwood were very much ..excited over the strange actions of a man who gave his name as Caldwell, and who had been staying there for about one week. It stated that Cald ,we!l secured a team, drove out Into the .country a short distance, dug up a box and drove buck to the village. Then he went to a bank and Inquired about a 'safety deposit vault. The banker told 'him he had no such place. Caldwell said he wanted to put away $80,000 for a few days. The story leaked out im mediately und the citizens began to speculate. Visions of train holdups and robberies and the blowing open of .a safe with dynamite and the robbery [of the Commercial bank In Louisville, |ln this county, flitted before their 'vision. As requested, Sheriff McBride '.went to Elmwood and investigated the matter. From him It Is learned that Caldwell Is a man about 35 years of age. medium height and build, with a light must**be. So far as known he has no relatives nor acquaintances in the vicinity of Elmwood and nothing was town of his past history. The fellow admitted he had no money and .was just fooling the people. There was ■no $80,000 nor any other sum of money in the box and the sheriff said CaldSell did not act right and he thought he was mentally unbalanced. BANK CHANGES OWNERS. °resident of Wauneta Falls Bank Sells His Interest to Cattlemen. Wauneta, Neb., Oct. 31.—A very im portant financial transaction took place here when the former president of the Wauneta Falla bank sold out his Interests and good will to John Woods, a prominent cattleman of Chase county. This bank lias always enjoyed the confidence of the entire community, and Is now In position to retain this confidence, and to handle the hanking business of Wauneta and vicinity. F. T. Dlmick will continue as cashier, and have general supervision over the bank. THROWN FROM HORSE. Small Boy Suffers Fracture of Skull by the Fall. York, Neb., Oct. 31.—Little Pete Day ton. son of W. E. Dayton of the York Republican, with two other boys, was attempting to ride a horse. The horse i objected to carrying all three of the boys and threw them off. The other two boys received slight injuries, but little Pete Dayton was thrown onto some brick, and lighting on his head he received a very hard Jolt. From Sat urday evening until Tuesday he was unconscious. Physicians In attendance think now he will recover. There was no fracture of the skull, the Injury be ing supposed to have caused concus sion of the brain. GOVERNOR AS FARMER. Will Accept an Invitation to Help Thresh at State Asylum Farm. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 81.—Governor Mickey announced that he nnd accept ed an Invitation to be present at the beginning of the fall threshing at the Insane asylum, near Lincoln, and. that be would go Into the field tomorrow and help In the work of threshing the crops there. The governor was a farmer several years ago. and wants to keep his hand In. He will wear the garb of a harvest hand, and v'lll work alongside the em ployes of the farm. BIG LAND DEAL. A Real Estate Transaction Comprising Five Farms for $65,000. Randolph, Neb.. Oct. 31.—A big land (teal has Just been closed here by which John G.-Spencer, the well known Are Insurance solicitor of this section, has purchased the balance of the Living ston & Nichols real estate holdings. Fifteen hundred acres of Improved lands comprising five farms, all near Randolph, Is the extent of the deal. The purchase price was 865,000. It Is con sidered the biggest land deal of the year In this section. Politicans Active. Schuyler. Neb., Oct. 81.—The final ef forts of candidates are being made this week, and while there has been little activity heretofore, no time Is being wasted now to have the last say to the electors. There has been a great deal of Interest manifested In the Judicial contest, and the friends of Judge Grimison are not feeling at all sanguine of his success, and the re publicans are hopeful of compassfiig ills defeat. Hunter Too Careless. Beatrice, Neb., Oct. 31.—Some care less hunter Is responsible for the death of a tine colt belonging to F. H. Ktm iberllng, who resides a few miles north of the city. The animal was slwt In one of the hind legs, and the veterinary isurgeon succeeded In extracting the bull, but the animal died from the ef fects of blood poisoning. A Grand Experience. Albion, Neb., Oct. 31.—Company M ot the Second regiment, Nebraska National Guard, returned from the maneuvers at Fort Rllev, arriving over the Northwest ern. The boys stood the trip In fine shape, but It seems to be a debatable ques tion with some of them as to whether It I was a pleasure trip. All admit, however, they had a gland experience, and one that names to but few In times of peace. The health of the company was excellent all of the time It was gone. ALLEGE A GREAT PLOT. Armenians in New York Say Sagoun. Wat One of a Long List. New York, Oct. 31.—Armenians In thi city are beginning to talk more freely about the murder of Sagatel Sagounl In London Monday. These men, who re fuse to permit the use of their names, dreading the vengeance of their or ganized enemies, Insist that Sagounl was the real head of the Armenian rev olutionary party and that he was mur Cdered by an assassin in the pay_ of a j certain European government. ~ GOOD YEAR FOR BEETS. Average Is Large and the Rains Ad* Sweetness to the Root. Norfolk, Neb., Nov. 3.—This has been an exceptionally productive year tacr sugar'beets In Nebraska, and the result Is that while the heavy rains and con tinued wet weather have In some places injured the corn the saccharins bulbs have thrived better than ever and the more acres of the white roots that a farmer planted this year the bigger is his bank account this fall. Nebraska always has been a great stale for the sugar beet. That is why the Oxnards came in here years and years ago, when the industry was but In its infancy, and began to manufac ture sugar. The soil Is essentially well fitted for saturating the beets with the purest sweetness in the world, and it will always be a paying proposition from whatever viewpoint. While every year—even the worst of years for other crops in this state—is generaliy'-good for beets, such years as the exceptionally wet one which has just passed prove eminently satisfac tory to all parties who are concerned In this industry. The only difficulty that we experienced at all from the rainy season was the hindrance it gave to beet weeders and the chance it gave to the fields for getting filled with for eign vegetation. Otherwise every drop of water that fell put the beets in bet ter way and when we began to harvest them four weeks ago we were agree ably surprised with our results. --f ABUNDANT CROPS. The First Complete Crop Report Showi That Yield Is Good. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 3.—The first com plete crop report in Nebraska shows that prosperity will again prevuil In the state as a result of abundant crops. It is interesting, too, because condi tions in Nebraska are practically those of adjoining states, and the crops will be proportionate. On barley, hay, po tatoes and alfalfa the returns are not complete, but the report on corn, wheat, oats and rye are authentic, be ing gathered from officials and corre spondents. The corn crop is the small est In six years, with one exception, and all crops fall below those of last 'ear. INQUEST WILL BE HELD. Suspected That Jefferson Smith Wat Victim of Slow Poisoning. Falrbury. Neb., Nov. 3.—Jefferson Smith, publisher of the Falrbury Times, dlde after an illness of several weeks, but only confined to his bed for a cou ple of days. The physicians In charge of the case reported to the coroner that there was reason to suspect slow poi soning as the cause of death and an in quest was ordered and commenced yesterday afternoon. An autopsy was made and the stomach sent to Lincoln tor analysis of Its contents, pending which the Jury will withhold its ver dict. Mr. Smith was about 60 years old and had lived In Falrbury twenty-two years. He leaves three children by his Hrst wife, who died about ten years ago, and a second wife to whom he was married last spring. WORE MAN’S ATTIRE. Woman Has Been Following Vocations of Man for Years. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 3.—A dermatolo gist and specialist practicing in this city today made the discovery that a patient who for ten years has followed the vocations of a man, wearing man’s attire and keeping the company of men. Is a woman. The identity of the wom an could not be learned by the news papers, but the confused woman ad mitted that she hud been masquerading for yeurs, and the dermatologist, from whom the name was withheld, too. says that In a partial confession this woman tbld him of having been the member of a prominent Des Moines, la., fam ily. "Mr. Arger Baker, Sibley, la.,” Is the name this strange woman has assumed. When she was a girl she used to shave with her father’s razor "for fun." 'fills made shaving a necessity soon, and shame later at having a tine beard like a man’s drove thb woman to take man’s attire and live as a man. She has worked In offices and has been a ranger In Wyoming, according to her >wn statements. TEACHER KIDNAPED. Strange Woman Stopped at Schoo House and Made .the Steal. Norfolk, Neb., Nov, 3.—A sensational kidnaping Is reported from Petersburg, where Edith Reynolds, an 18-year-old school teacher, who has been in charge of a school ten miles east of town. Is missing and Is supposed to have been stolen and taken to Colorado by an aunt. The girl’s father, B. P. Reynolds, who clerks in a store, left this after noon for the western state in search of Ills daughter. The school was to have been closed last night for a month's vacation. Her father drove to the district school house and was given the startling story that his child had been gone since Tuesday night. It was discovered that a strange woman had driven to Foster and that she had Induced the young teacher to accompany her. A man was also In the carriage. A family feud Is said have existed for years and the father Is confident that It Is the Colorado \unt who lias made the steal. _▲_ GREWSOME DISCOVERY. Fisherman Drags in Articles That Re vive an Old Murder Case. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 3.—A fisherman's grewsome discovery at Cutoff lake yes terday has revived Interest in the my sterious murder of Mrs. F. E. Knight last April. Tony Foots, warehouseman, had his fishing line caught fast by an dbptacle on the bottom of the lake near where he sat angling. When the line was dragged In a piece of a woman’s skirt throwing off a strong odor of human flesh was attached to It. Foots’ further casting brought up other parts of the skirt. The cloth was said by de tectives at the police station to corre spond with the dress worn by Mrs. Knight at the time of her mysterious disappearance. The woman’s husband practically admitted guilt of her mur der In a letter written to a friend. Po 'lce are dragging the lake. - NEW CHURCH DEDICATED. Roman Catholic* Have Erected a j Building at Cost of $16,000. Hastings, Neb., Nov. 3.—The large Roman Catholic church, the corner stone of which was laid last spring three miles north of Roselund. has been completed and was dedicated with an impressive ceremony. The services were conducted by Rev. Thomas Ilona - cum. bishop of Lincoln, assisted by many other priests. This building has been erected at a cost of J1R.000. and is the most magnificent country chu.< in the state. MANY STUDENTS ARE KILLED IN A WRECK Fated Special Was Carrying Students of Purdue to a Football Game. COLLIDE AT HIGH SPEED I _ - Engineers on Both Trains Which Col lided Disclaim Responsibility— Fearful Mutilation of Many of the Bodies. Indianapolis, Ind. Nov. 3.—A special train on the Big Four, bearing 954 La fayette passengers, including several hundred students of Purdue university, was wrecked Saturday near Riverside park, at the edge of the city. | Fifteen dead have been taken from the wreck. Forty passengers were in jured, twenty-four of them seriously, j Among the dead are several members of the Purdue university football team, i which was to have played Indiana uni ; verslty for the state championship here i this afternoon. The dead thus far identified are: W. H. GRUBE, substitute player, In dianapolis, Ind. | WALTER FURR, member of the team, Texas. | E. C. ROBERTSON, assistant coach. WALTER R. ROUGH, Pittsburg. R. J. POWELL, Corpus Christ!, Tex. ! W. D. HAMILTON, center rush, La fayette. i GABRIEL S. DROLLINGER; be headed. I SAM SQUIBB, Lafayette. JAY HAMILTON, sub-player, Hunt ington, Ind. N. R. HOWARD, Lafayette. WALTER ROBERTSON. PATRICK McCLAIR, Chicago, as sistant coach; died at hospital. SAMUEL TRUIT, Noblesville, Ind , sub-quarterback; died at hospital. G. L. SHAW, student, Lafayette. List of the Injured. i ne injured: William Sprau, Sandusky, O.; I bruised hip. H. C. Adams, Frankfort, Ind.; ankles ' fractured. John C. Taylor, Lafayette; bruised. Harry Van Tuyle, Indianapolis. J. C. Coates, Burwin, Pa.; left side crushed; may be fatal. Louis Smith, Purdue, student; back hurt. A. L. Holler: leg crushed. J. R. Whitehead. R. W. Rusterbolz, Lafayette. S. Miller, student. O. Nichols, student. E. W. Frank, Lafayette. R. S. Mills, student. W. W. Taggart, student. D. S. O’Brien, student. Hendricks Johnstone, student. Walter Rush, student. R. Wilmore, student. M. Steele, Canton, O. J. W. Mowrey. Indianapolis. G. G. Leslie, student. L. P. Rush. Pittsburg. John Miller, player. Prof. A. W. Bitting of Purdue; dislo cated hip. W. G. McManus of Davenport, la.; legs crushed. Carlk Meyers of Monticello, Ind. T. A. Bailey of Richmond, Ind. H. O. Wright of Pendleton, Ind.; in ternal injuries. The accident was due to cars run ning down from a switch at the gravel pit at Eighteenth street. The engi neer of the special saw the cars ap proaching and jumped from his en gine. The first coach was cut in two and the engine thrown on its side. 1 Many of the students who were in the rear coach were shaken up. The sec ond car, occupied by the Purdue band, was telescoped. The special train bore the Lafayette rooters, numbering nearly 1,000. It consisted of twelve coaches and tvas running as the first section at a high speed. At the gravel pit switch near Eighteenth street the switch engine, with the cut coal cars, collided with the passenger. The passenger engine and first three coaches were almost totally destroyed. The first coach was crushed to splin ters, the second telescoped and thrown down an embankment fifteen feet high, and the third overturned and thrown across the track. Engineers Disclaim Blame. There is confusion as to what caused ! the accident, each engineer insisting he had the track and did not know of the other train. The deep cut prevented a clear view of the track. The crash of the two trains threw the coal cars through the first two coaches in which ' were many players and substitutes. | The engine, two coal cars and two coaches were crushed into a confused mass of wreckage. Under this pile of debris were fifty or more students of the university. The uninjured ones in the rear coaches hurried to aid the vie- \ tims. The condition of some of the dead was frightful; one body was entirely be headed; others terribly mutilated. Two of the dead Hamilton boys were broth ers; one lived at Lafayette and one at Huntington. Scenes were Lnstrescing. At 3 o'clock it was learned the list of dead reached fifteen. The wounds of the injured were temporarily dressed and they were hurried to hospitals, u few going to the homes o' "’ lends. All the killed were in rst coach, which was smashed to kim.dng wood. They were found, mangled and bleed ing, with the injured pinned against them. All were young. Seventy per sons were in the coach, and those re taining consciousness urged friends to hasten to the telegraph office and in form friends of their escape with a few injuries. The number of Injured will reach about thirty, many of whom it is feared are fatally hurt. The Injured are be ing cared for at hospitals, and surgeons have already amputated several limbs and are still at work over the danger ously wounded. Incoming trains brought friends and relatives of the in jured students, who at once began to search the hospitals and morgues. Downtown 1.300 cheering students ar rived on a special from Bloomington. When the news of the disaster reached them the cheering ceased and the bands stopped playing. The colors were In stantly lowered and tears followed laughter, college yells fading Into mournful expressions of heartfelt sym pathy. Iowa Stockman Bankrupt. ' Creston, la., Oct. 31.—"M. C. Sanders, one of the best known stock raisers and shippers of this section, has tiled a pe tition in voluntary bankruptcy. Mellen Goes to New Haven. New York, Oct. 31.—Chas. S. Alellen was today elected president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail road. j RUSSIANS IN MUKDEN. China Much Worried arc! Empress Dowager Calls Conferer.ee. Pekin, Nov. 4.—A conference of high I officials with the dowager empress con ! cerning the reoccupation of Mukden by Russian troops was held at the summer • palace today. Yuan Ski Kai, governor general of Chi Li province, was sum moned hastily from Tien Tsin and pro ceeded directly to the palace. The Russians have a Tartar general at Mukden and the province is In the cus tody of his yaraen. The Chinese government is greatly disturbed at the reoccupation of Muk den, the capital of Manchuria. The foreign office Is appealing to friendly foreign legations for helo and advice, admitting Its own helplessness in the matter. The Russians returned to Mukden on Thursday of last week. According to advices received by the Chinese gov ernment, 1,500 Russian soldiers took possession of the official buildings there, barricaded the gates ar.d evicted the Chinese officials. There are be tween 10,000 and 12,000 Chinese troops in and about Mukden and the Chinese commanders In Manchuria have been given imperative orders in no wise to resist the Russian government and to use every effort to avert collisions. The circumstances leading to reoccupation of Mukden are as follows: Brigand’s Head Cause Trouble. The Russians employed a notet brigand, who was accused of many crimes against the Chinese, as chief of one of the irregular bands of police they are organizing in Manchuria. The Chinese authorities repeatedly request ed the surrender of this man and the Russians recently consented to give him up. When this became known the Russians demanded the execution of this officer within five days, giving as an alternative the seizure of Mukden. The-Chinese foreign office was nego tiating with Paul Lossar, the Russian minister, on the matter and offered to banish the officer in question, pleading that he had exceeded his instructions, and to remove the taotai, his superior, from office. There was a misunder standing as to the time limit set for the negotiation; the Chinese thought It ex pired yesterday. Before the negotia tions were completed the news was re ceived here that Russia had fulfilled her threat to reoccupy Mukden. The fact that Viceroy Alexieff has moved headquarters from Port Arthur to Vladivostok has caused great sur prise in Peking. It is generally con jectured that he was unwilling to risk passing the winter at a port which the Japanese would undoubtedly make a strenuous attempt to blockade in the event of war. FATALITY AVERTED. Engine Jumps Track and Nearly Pushes Elevated Train Into the Street. New York, Nov. 4.—A great fatality was narrowly averted here today when an engine jumped the track on the ap proach to the Second avenue bridge over Harlam river and crashed into the rear car of an elevated train, de railing it and all but pushing it from the bridge to the surface fifty feet be llow. Luckily the engine was running so slowly that the guard rails kept the car with its load of passen.*»rs from falling from the bridge, and the collis ion itself damaged the car but slight ly and injured no one. Among the 400 passengers on the train there was slight panic. 6ERMAM CHAMPIONSHIP "Jr. G. O. Webster, American, Takes Golf Honors Formerly Held by Englishman. Berlin, Nov. 2.—Dr. George O. Web ster, American, has won the golf cham pionship of Germany from H. H. Dobbs, Enblishman. Webster also won the handicap championship. THE MARKETS. Sioux City Live Stock. Sioux City, Nov. 3.—Sioux City Stocl, Yards.—Hogs—Light and butcher, $4.90@) 5.00: heavy, $4.60@4.85. Cattle—Fat cows and heifers, $2.20@3.50; 1 stock cows and heifers, $1.5L@p'.00; stock ers and feeders, $2.50@3.70; butcher steers, $4.00@5.50; yearlings and calves, $2.2o@3.50, j Chicago. Chicago, Nov. 3.—Hogs—Receipts, 20,000. Heavy o@10c lower; light 15@2oc lower. Good heavy, $4.80@6.2u; light, $4.80@6.27Vfe; mixed arkl butcher, $4.S5@5.35; rough heavy, $4.oO@4.8U. Cattle—Receipts, 7,500. Market steady. I Sheep—Receipts, 25,000. Market for best = steady; others lower. Closing: Hogs—Bulk, $5,157/5.43; good heavy, *5.15@5.5o; light, $o.l5u3.50; mixed | and butchers, $3.20@5.6u: rough neavy, $4.90 @5.15. I Cattle—Steady, with beeves quoted at $3.50@5.75; cowa and heifers, $2.00@4.25; stockers and feeders, $2.23@4.00. Sheep—Steady to strong at $2.25@3.85; lambs, $3.25@5.75. South C^.iaha. South Omaha, Nov. 3.—Cattle—Market steady. Native steers, $3.75'g.5.40; cows and heifers, $3.00@4.10; western steers, $3.15@ 4.40; stockers and feeders, $2.50@4.00; calves, $3.00@5.25. Hogs—Market 6@10c lower. Heavy, $4.85 @5.00; packers, $4.96@5.00; light, $5.10@5.25; pigs, $4.80@5.20. Sheep—Market steady. Yearlings, $2.40 i @3.70; wethers, $3.20@3.50; ewes, $2.75@3.15; ! common to stockers, $2.00@3.50; lambs, $4.00 . @5.00. < Kansas City. Kansas City. Nov. 3.—Market weak to 10c lower. Native steers, $3.40@6.45; Texas and Indian steers, $2.00@3.00; stockers and feeders, $2.25@4.25; calves, $2.50@6.00; west ern steers, $3.00^/4.60; cows, $1.75@2.65. Hogs—Market 5@10c lower. Heavy, $5.05 1 @5.27^; packers. $5.20@5.3U; medium, $5.25 @5.40; light, $5.30@5.40. Sheep—Market steady to strong. Mut tons, $2.GO@3.95; lambs, $2.90@5.25; range vethers, $2.10@3.25; ewes, $2.25@3.45. GRAIN MARKETS. Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Nov. 3.—Cash quotations were as follows: Flour—Market firm. Wheat—No. 2 spring, 81@84c; No. 3 spring, 75©S2c; No. 2 red, 81!fe®82%c. Corn—No. 2, 44-%c; No. 2 yellow, 44?i@ 45 Vic Oats—No. 2, 3614c; No. 3 white, 35®38c. Rye—No. 2, 56c. Barley—Good feeding, 4Ci@44c; fair to .choice malting, 47®66c. Timothy Seed—Prime, $2.80. Clover—Contract grade, $10.6ogil0.75. Provisions—Mess pork, $11.25®U.37%; lard, $6.62H<&«-55; short rib sides, $7.00® '7 50; short clear sides, $7.25 \ FuR FIFTY PIS I — Two Carloads of Dynamite Caused a Heavy Loss of Property. WAS TERRIFIC DISASTER -- Not a Structure in Main Part of Crest* line That Did Not Suffer—Many People Badly Frightened and Made Sick by Shock. — Crestline, O., Nov. 3.—Two carloads of dynamite in the western end of the Pennsylvania railroad yards exploded last night as a result of a jolting into other cars, blowing a hole forty feet deep in the ground, twisting tracks out of shape for a long distance, smashing glass for a mile, shattering waits, top pling roofs, rocking many persons to seasickness and setting fire to BOO load ed and empty cars. Burning brands and splintered ties were hurled a quar ter of a mile. The ties crashed through roofs, while the brands set fire to strings of cars. The explosion occurred about two miles outside of Crestline, and save jolts and bruises, few, it is believed, were severely hurt, though the police are searching for possible victims, It will be many hours before the tracks can be cleared. The property loss will amount to many thousands of dollars. The con cussion was felt several miles away, and the report of the explosion reached persons fifty miles from Crestline. Church congregations were thrown into consternation. Several buildings were wrecked. Several persons say that the vibration due to the explosion caused them to experience nausea and vertigo. People rushed from churches and houses to ascertain the cause of the shock. Yardmaster Courtier and Clerk Gei singer, who were at work in the yard office half a mile away, were severely hurt by the falling debris in the build ing in which they were working. Hundreds of Pennsylvania employes worked all night searching the ruins for possible dead or injured. The west yards of the Pennsylvania road are a wreck. Many cars were shivered by the blast. Locomotives a mile from the explosion were thrown from the rails. In the downtown portion of Crestline there is not a building that has not suffered damage. Many persons who were on the streets were cut and oth erwise hurt by flying glass, and hun dreds of women were frightened into •ysterlcs. All physicians were kept busy dur- A ing the night administering sedatives. W The streets were filled for several hours by people who were afraid to go home. Sidewalks and roadways were littered with shattered glass. The mayor has sworn in many extra. - policemen to guard exposed property. All the churches were holding serv ices when the explosion occurred. Doors were blown off and windows smashed in many of the buildings. The (lames from the burning cars produced a spectacle that drew the attention of many for a long time. TWENTY-FIVE DEAD. Terrible Loss of Life in a New York Tenement House. New York, Nov. 3.—Twenty-one men, three women and a baby were burned to death or suffocated in a fire that caused $7,000 damage to the "house of all nations,” a flve-story tenement house at 426 Eleventh avenue. The police believe the fire to be of in cendiary origin. The dead are mostly Italians. The fire was extinguished in twenty minutes. The only person injured is Mary Jane ljuinn, who was burned about the face and hands and severely bruised by leaping from the second floor. In several apartments in the tene ment Hallowe'en parties were in prog: ress and guests at these added greatly to the number of persons in the house and the crush and jam to escape more Lhan it ordinarily would have been. Al though plentifully provided with fire escapes front and rear escape was cut off a few minutes after the fire started by the bodies of the dead which wedged In the openings leading to the ladders. The fire started in the basement and rushing upwards attacked the stairway leading to the apartments. In a short space of time the flames enveloped the stairway. The house from the third floor to the fifth floor was destroyed. At the windows, front and rear, bodies of men and women were Jammed, showing that a desperate struggle to escape had resulted in the choking of these exits to the fire es capes and had been the cause of suffo cation. When the firemen reached the build ing there was a mass of flame burst ing through the roof, while the air was filled with the screams of women and the curses of men. Many daring res cues were made by the firemen, who at times had to use violence in their at tempts to disentangle the mass of writhing human beings struggling in vain efforts to reach safety from the crowded fire escapes. One fireman climbed to the fourth floor where a window was filled with a mass of peo ple jammed in and fighting to get okit. He struck the heads of all the men'he could see with his fist and they fell back. He then handed down to the firemen on ladders below three wom en and a baby. Another firemen per formed a similar feat and rescued two girls from the fourth floor. Life nets played a prominent part in the work of rescue. The firemen dropped men and women, dead and alive, from one floor to another and, finally, men standing on ladders on the v first floor let them fall into the nets held by policemen and firemen in the street. MORGAN AT TOMB. A Brief Stop at Canton With Pennsyl vania Railroad Officials. Canton, O., Nov. 2.—J. Pierpont Morgaitf * with a party of ten officials of the Penn sylvania railroad, visited the tomb President McKinley. The party was on the way from New York to Chicago in a special train. It was the first time Mr. Morgan had been in the vicinity of Can ton since the president's death and it was at his wish that the train was stopped here and a visit made to the vault. Through the corporal of the guard, the party ob tained permission to go as far as the gates of the tomb. Besides J. P. Morgan, the members of the party were President Lar imer of New York, head of the Fort Wayne railroad; Mr. Spencer, secretary of the road; Thomas Rood of Pittsburg, chief engineer of the Pennsylvania rail road, and the division superintendent, E ; T. Whiter, kJ c