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J HEAT CLIMBS HIGH
Cereal Advances Five Cents in
Twenty four Hours
EEACHES88 CENTS
Sudden Spurt Due to Cable
Reports of Small Yields
igJieat Price Since 1802 Sbort Crop
nt Home and Scarcity Abroad Make
thj Market Active Veteran Oper
ators Think It Will Keep on Climb
iC Upward Say It Wilt Be Cheap
ta Dollar Pandemonium in the Pit
September wheat sold at SSVC cents on
the Chicago Board o Trade Wednesday
and the cash article was quoted at from
90 to 13 conts according to its quality
This up to that day was the highest price
since Marwi liJ2 Tliere was nothing as
high as J0 cents in 3 SOS 1894 1S05 or
1S9G Tho advance last year culminated
aromid ix5 cents Wednesdays advance
was 5 cents making an advance of almost
25 cents within five weeks July G Sep- j
tember wheat sold at 04 cents There
has not been such an advance as Wednes
days since the days of the ltusshin pro
hibition that sweetest memory of the man
who iur thinks wheat high enough An1
men who think they know a thing or two
about the pit ct least other men in the
pit listen respectfully while they -express
their views are talking about wheat
cheap sx a dollar
It has been six years since the prioe of
wheat was boosted so high in a single day
The lowest price for wheat Tuesday was
83 cents a bushel and the highest price
Wednesday wis SSlj cents a bushel This
is a net advance of 5 cents a bushel which
is considered a big thing by those who
liave it to pcy The traders in the pi
climbed oer one another in the excite
ment Hint was occasioned by this unusual
advance
When Ihc vtrading for the day was clos
ed the men who emerged from l3je pit
looked as if they were tired and their
clothes did not fit them They had been
having a hard time during the trading
Lours Every cable dispatch relating to
wheat prices that came told of advances
and the reports on crop estimates from
the wheat regions told of small yields The
two kinds tff
other iiuniiiking the price of wheat go up
-and every time it advanced a point the
noise in -the pit was increased and the
4reslivukitkns of the traders became more
violeat Wheat fluctuated in a manner
ntlicittilv lively to cause come 4000 ex
tra yollsin tlie pit
Whca closed Tuesday ight at S3
cents Y3ien time was called in the morn
ing the bulls laid their horns under the
cereal gave a concerted heave and thivw
it to a heigLl of S5 cente All over the
jit could beUieard the moaning of hookad
vbears and the strongest men turned pale
o see the way in which some of those fat
old millionaires grew purple at the
thought of losiutr a brick or so out of their J
new corner mansions
Then the bears inserted their claws and
began to jerk- 7it 11 oclock wheat had
fallen to S4rs eeius1 and the agonized bel
low of the average bull filled the pit with
a baiel of sound liiat resembled nothing
eo ratch as a convocation of terriers with
n cannon cracker in a barrel lTp and
down rfiot the prices only an eighth or so
at a j map and the roaring yells of An
five eighths An a half Gotchcr Come
on come on Take 3000 bushels at that
Wow Woof Who said three quarters
Take itHoJilqn jOnJy three eighths
Oh murder rang and rattled along the
walls till Hi women in theguHery wanted
to know why they didnt get axes or use
dynamite en one another
Several places sent in reports of esti
mates of the wheat crop which had a ten
dency to force up prices early in the day
It wns previously holieved the wheat yield
of Manitoba would be 30000000 bushels
but advices from there were to the effect
that one half of that figure would be
about riglt The crop of Minnesota and
the Dakotis was previously leported as
amounting to 200000000 but a report
cnnie that SQ000000 would be about
right
Notwithstanding the break in prices
Tuesday the cable -brought -word from
Sverpoo that wheat had jumped 1 cent
and on top of thi a dispatch from Paris
tliat the nmrket opeafcd after a two day
Jiuliduy R jJt an advsneffof G cc nts The
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WHEAT MAKES A GBEAT CLIMB
clearances from Atlantic ports of wheat
and Hour in three days was equal to li
500000 bufchels of wheat The short crop
at home and the scarcity abroad when
brought to the attention of traders in such
forcible manner -was what made wheat
jump 5 cents a bushel It was confidently
asserted by traders that wheat would go
up until a single bushel would be worth
1 The millers are said to be taking ad
vantage of the advance in wheat to raise
the price of Hour
At St Louis it was one of the wildest
days -ever experienced in the wheat mar
ket Early in the morning a strong bull
movement set in and before the close of
trading foi the day the price of Septem
ber option had advanced 5 cents over
the previous days close It has been
years since such a tremendous bulge lias
been recorded September opened at
cents an advance of cent over the clos
ing price of the day before from that ft
sold down to 90 cents and fluctuated
back to 91 cents then down to 90 cents
went back to 91 cents and started off on
the wildest kind of a flyer after call On
the call cash wheat was 91 cents bid
with 92 cents asked while it sold by
pie at 12 cents for No 2 red and 69 to
90 cents for No 3
Kiae in New York
High water mark for the season was
reached in the New York wheat market
Wednesday not only on values but as to
the volume of transactions as well Prices
advanced 44 to 5 cents for the day and
sales reached the total of 16315 000 bush
els Excitement prevailed in the market
from st irt to finish but particularly in
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the last hour when the advances became
so rapid that frequently the fluctuations
f were marked by c fractions instead of
and l 16c changes that are ordinarily
seen The total raDge on September was
from 91 to 94 against S9 the lowest
price Of Tuesday Not jn years haa there
been such an -extraordinary movement in
wheat values as took place Wednesday
Even the old traders were amazed at the
stubborn advances while those who have
heretofore scouted tii dollar wheat the
ory were obliged to admit that there was
every prospect of -September going to that
figure
The day in the San Francisco wheat pit
one of the biggest booms ever seen oc
curred There was a sharp and ig ad
Tance that hit hard a good many of the
bears Though no failures were announc
ed it is expected that several firms will
go under December futures opened at
153 In consequence of the sharp ad
vance in Chicago and strong French ca
bles the upward movement was steady all
day December closed firm at 156
May 1S9S openedjit 153 and sold
freely closing at lo5 The days busi
ness represented about half a million cen
tals The estimated crop of the State is
950000 tons and at present prices 155
per cental for spot the value of the
States crop is over 29000000 Choice
milling wheat is selling from 100 to
1G5 per cental and millers are buying all
they can secure at these figures One
UNQLE -SAM HAS WHEAT TO FEED THE WORLD
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j year ago spot wheat was selling slowly at
io to uo cents per cental
WH EAT IS HOINBD
Crop Throughout the Northwest Suf
fers Great Damage
Estimates as to the wheat yield in the
Northwest grow smaller every day A
month ago it was predicted that the yield
would amount to 200000000 bushels
while now the most sanguine say it will
not be over 140000000 Many others
place it at a much smaller figure Lhe
crop will be the smallest for years im
ports received in Duluth are more dis
couraging every day The acreage was
very large but thousands of aores have
been drowned out Iiutead of twenty
bushels to the acre as was figured s
month ago the yield will not average over
from ten to twelve bushels to the icre in
most sections Rust and smut are also
appearing all over the vaoit couutrv and
over 50 per cent of the wlu at cut so far
has failed to grade anywhere near the
best On high lands wheat will probably
be of fair quality but on hrx lands what
little tliere is of it will not grade at aI
Telegraphic Brevities
Lillian Pussell assures a New York in
terviewer that wouldnt marrv for
uuuuuiu settles it for several
of us
George King a nephew and
Sarah Birkhead i niece have been ad
judged entitled to the 20000000 estate
of X illiam H King of New York
And now it is charged that Clevelands
Indian bnseball player has dovelnnprf
great u thirst for firewater Big Chief
Tebeau should promptly Sockalexis
A third attempt by incendiaries to burn
the town of Moran a place of 1000 peo
ple in Allen County Kan almost proved
successful Eight business buildings were
destroyed and the loss is artimateo at
froD 25000 fo 30000
HUNTED TO HISDEATH
ENRAGED FARMERS KILL A MAN
NEAR CHICAGO
Human Brute Attacks Mrs Fenska
Is Driven to a Cornfield Holds Pur
suers at Bay for Two Hours and Is
Finally Overpowered
Details of the Trazedy
Swift vengeance was meted out Thurs
day afternoon to a man who made a mur
derous assault upon Mrs Paulina Fenska
wife of Karl Fenska a poor German
farmer living in Leyden township one
mile from the village of Franklin Park
Cook County 111
A party of infuriated fanners armed
with rifles revolvers pitchforks and oth
er implements started in pursuit of the
man who had fled from the lonely farm
house into the nearby corn field The
man who was a stranger in the locality
and whose identity is still unknown made
a vicious fight for his life He was armed
with two huge revolvers and he fought
his pursuers until his body was riddle
with shut and he fell helpless to the
ground
When this moment came the farmers
acted like mailmen They jumped upon
the half unconscious wretch and almost
tore his body to pieces They kicked him
stamped upon him beat him over the
head with rakes hoes and rifle barrels
and pinned him to the earth with the
sharp prongs of the pitchforks When
they were through the man was little
more than a mass of battered flesh and
blood His body contained a score of
bullets and his head was beaten almost
into a jelly
The battle between the fugitive and the
men who hunted him lasted over two
hours The stranger repeatedly loaded
his revolvers with cartridges which he
carried in his pockets lie held the farm
ers at bay again and again notwithstand
ing his legs had been riddled with bullets
He attempted many times to kill the fore
most of his assailants He avouUI take
deliberate aim and fire four or five shots
at the nearest man to him
Pursuers Are Unharniel
But his marksmanship was bad and he
failed to wound any of his pursuers He
fled from corn field to corn field took his
stand behind trees and rail fences was
hunted like a wild beast and fought with
all the desperate courage of a man who
knows that his life is at stake and that
there is only one chance in a thousand to
escape The stranger took this chance
He fought like a rat in a trap and died
like one
Mannheim is thirteen miles from the
Chicago Union depot on the Chicago Mil
waukee and St Paul road It is part of
the incorporated village of Franklin Park
There is a large settlement of small Ger
man fanners about Mannheim
Thursday morning Karl Fenska along
with other farmers in the settlement
went to Tohann Hansons place to help
him thrash his wheat The field in which
the thrashers were at work was 300 yards
from Fenskas dwelling
Stranger at the Door
At 1 oclock while Mrs Fenska was
at home looking after the children a
stranger appeared at the door His first
utterance showed that he was a German
Where is your husband asked the
stranger
He is working on Hansons farm
thrashing wheat replied Mrs Fenska
Is that very far away queried the
man
Not very far she answered
But how far again asked the man
insisting
The woman then went on to explain just
where hr husband was working and this
seemed to satisfy the visitor who imme
diately btgan to make himself at home
Mrs Fenska has four children They
are Gustav aged 9 Friedrich aged G
Augusta aged 4 and Mary a babe in
arms The man went over to where little
Augusta was playing on the floor and be
gan to pet the child patting its cheeks
Mrs Fenska told him he was not wanted
and had better go away The man pulled
out his watch and remarked that it was
11 oclock Mrs Fenskas clock showed
1130 and he said her clock was fast The
man wrs undoubtedly figuring at what
time Fenska and the other men were like
ly tu come to the house for dinner
Ptrikca Her a Terrible Blow
And you want me to go do you re
marked the man The next moment he
struck her a terrible blow in the face Avith
his list knocking her against the wall
He then hit her again and knocked her
to the floor where she remained in a half
conscious condition The brute began
kicking hei as she lay on the floor and
bruised her frightfully around the body
The woman crawled along the floor to
the water pail and washed some of the
blood out of her eyes She then picked
up her baby and crawling and stagger
ing managed to make her way to the field
where her husband was at work
Tells the Thrashers
She gave a general description of the
man and then fell unconscious There
were fifteen or twenty hands at work
thrashing the wheat when Mrs Fenska
appeared and told her terrible story With
shouts of auger they dropped their work
and hurried away for firearms Among
these farmers were Frank Baker Henry
Wiemerslaire Fritz Kossack T Tonrv
Bhoda Karl Linneway Adolph Kolfs
George Koltze Tohann Nettinger Louie
Koltze Fied Koltze Jr Henry Kanberg
William Konzoele Tohann Hanson
The men soon re enforced by others
quickly aimed themselves with pitchforks
clubs army muskets and stones and with
in an hour had their victim surrounded in
a corn field He ran from cover to cover
one pursuer climbed a telegraph pole and
though he was the target for a score of
shots from the desperados revolver kept
his companions informed of the hitters
position Not until the hunted nhin had
expended all his ammunition and been
wounded so severely as to prevent further
flight was he overpowered
Notes of Current Events
J C Parnierlee a leather merchant at
Sedalia Mo made an assignment Lia
bilities 10000 assets about same figure
Gov Atkinson of West Virginia is very
domestic in his tastes and when through
with the cares of office amuses himself
playing the violin
The tenth annual meeting of the Ameri
can Association of Obstetricians and Gyn
ecologists began at Niagara Palls Tues
day AJiuut 200 physicians were i at
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