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5 ft K i A THE WORLD OVER LATEST NEWS FROM EVERY LAND KENTUCKY EIGHT ON CIVIL AND MILITARY TIES CLASH AGAIN lattcr Refused Admittance of to the Oapilol Building for Purpose of Arresting Two Men Oilier Items Frankfort Ky The situation here reached a point of excitement on the 10th insL almost approaching that of stirring times immediately following the assassin ation of Goebel The reinstatement of he military power in complete control of the slate executive building and the refusal the military authorities to allow the local police and civil officers to enter the building for the purpose ot arresting -Secretary of State Caleb Towers and Capt -John W Davis charged with being ac cessories to the Goebel assassination and the probability of a conflict between the -civil and military authorities made the -situation look serious during most of the day During the forenoon City Marshal Richardson applied to the executive build ing and demanded to be admitted for the purpose of arresting Powers and Davis but was turned back and the warrants fturned over to Sheriff Suter The latter also presented himself at the executive building and demanded admit tance He was referred by the officer in charge to Col Morrow and the latter being found said I am sorry Mr Sheriff but it is against Gov Taylors orders to let any one into the building today During the evening tho two men slipped aboard a train unobserved and proceeded to Lexington Sunday all was quiet at the capital but trouble was looked for at any moment FRENCHMENS PROPOSAL They Intend to Go to the Klondike by Automobile 2ew York The French liner Aquitaine which came into port March 12 from Havre brought three Frenchmen who say they intend to make the attempt to go to Klon dike by automobile They are Jeanne de Lamare who has been t the Klondike and was for a time editor of the Klon dike Review Raphael Merville who as a brother-in-law ccf de Lamare -end who holds a fast automobile irecofd and E Crom private secretary to M de Lamare The three travelers sent ahead of them to this country an aulomo bile of five horse power and a motorcycle -of three horse power The vehicles have been forwarded to Vancouver whence they will begscnt to Skagway and on to Lake JBemfett by way of the Yukon and the 3Vble Pass Railroad M de Lamare said lhat he intended to start on Wednes day for Montreal and on April 19 to start by automobile from Lake Bennett for Atlin r i f ANTI PRIZE FIGHT BILL Representative Hepburn of Iowa Introduces the Bill Washington Representative Hepburn of Iowa has introduced a bill providing lhatno picture or description of any prize 4ight or pugilistic encounter or any pro posal of betting on a fight shall be trans knitted in the mails or by any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce whether in a newspaper or periodical or in any other form Any person sending or knowingly receiving such matter for transmission is made liable to imprison mnent not exceeding one year or fine not -exceeding 100 with a provision tlmt the acts shall not apply to any person not in the preparation publication or sale of such prohibited newspapers peri odicals or pictures FAiAL FIRE IN BOSTON Onp Fireman Killed and Another Probably Will Die Boston Early Monday morning fire in ithe office of the Massachusetts Macaroni Company on North Street caused the death of one fireman the probable fatal injury of another and the serious injury of three others besides entailing a proper ty loss estimated at from 75000 to 100000 Hoseman P I McCarthy was instantly killed He was standing on a laJder when the roor fell m and he was hurled to the gi md Christopher Curran while on the roof was swept to the ground bj one of the many streams and was probably fatally injured Lieut Walter MacLean -was hit by falling debris He will recover Hoseman Galloway and Hoseman Cava ghau sustained severe injuries DEMENTED WOMANS DEED Cuts Her Husbands Throat While He Lies Asleep loliet 111 Mrs John Gallagher aged 50 years while in a fit of temporary insan ity Monday night arose from her bed pro--cured a razor and returning to the bed room cut her husbands throat from ear to ear He died before the police arrived on the scene The demented woman is now an jail Two small children were sleeping in an adjoining room but were not mo lester The Gallaghers were sturdy codb people and the murdered man wav well known among steel mill men Iron Pipe Falls and Kills Two New York A bundle of iron pipe which fell from the window of the sixth 1loor of H C F Koch Cos department store on West 124th street struck two men who were unloading a truck at the curb si one below They received injuries from which they died within a shore time Sixteen Miners Killed Ximes France Sixteen miners weio killed by an explosion in a coal pit at Messages The galleries of tho mine col lapsed burying the bodies of the victims 1 GREAT OIL DEAL Standard Company Swnllo vs be Cudahy Interests in Ohio Toledo Ohio Through an English syn dicate the Standard Oil Company is cred ited with having sscured control of the Cudahy oil interests in Ohio and Indiana mate it at 7500003 is credited with having engineered the deal The Cudahy holdings consist of about 500 producing oil wells with a daily output of 2000 barrels the Indiana Pipe Line and Refining Company the Ohio and Indiana Oil Company the Cumberland Oil Company the Cudahy Ojl Company and the Indiana Tank Line All of the clerks and office force of the Cud ahy interests were quietly moved from Chicago to Lima several days ago with the books records and papers of the office The Manhattan Oil Companys holdings embrace a large oil refinery at Walker Ohio about thirty miles south of here pipe lines in the Ohio and Indian fields a system of tank cars about 400 producing wells and several thousand acres of oil property mostly in the Ohio territory KRUGER SUES FOR PEACE Appeals to Snlisbury for Cessation of Hostilities London Lat2 on the 9th inst it was learned the peace rumors were founded on the fact that Kruger had appealed to Lord Salisbury for a cessation of hostilities of- fering at length by cable the terms which he is willing to accept These however are not taken seriously as they include practically nothing more than what the Transvaal government offered prior to the issuing of the British ultimatum Official circles here regard the propo sitions as merely a ruse of the Boers to gain time and do not consider the sweep ing demands which Great Britain will make as a reimbursement for the loss of life and great expenditure It is understood Krugers advance met with the emphatic rejection at the hands of Salisbury who is believed to have said o such attempt to retain the independ ence of the Transvaal can be considered for a moment by the British government FIRE IN MINNESOTA HOSPITAL Fifteen Thousand Dollars Damage Done at St Peter St Peter Minn Fire which started in the laundry building of the state hospital gutted the entire building together with nearly all the machinery The origin of the fire is not known but it started in the drying room of the laundry The loss is estimated at 15000 The upper part of the building was used as a dormitory for the women employed in the kitchen the sewing room and the laundry All of them got out safely but some with only their night clothes All their personal property was destroyed The St Peter fire department responded promptly and with the aid of the depart ment of the hospital prevented a holocaust such as visited the institution in 1879 One of the large mangle machines exploded with terrific force and parts of the machjne were found many blocks away VpKK DEBS FOR PRESIDENT Consents to Be the Standard Bearer of the Socialists Indianapolis Ind Eugene Debs after declining the nomination for president b the amalgamated socialists has consented to accept it At Fridays session of the social Democi atic party convention the nomina tions of Eugene V Debs of Indiana for president and Joseph Ilarriinan of Cali fornia lor vice president were confirmed The social Democrats are happy They say the candidacy of Debs will attract hundreds of thousands of voters to the party Moonshiners Kill a Detective Lexington Ky George W Drake the famous mountain detective and former deputy United Stales marshal together with a man named Ford were shot to death near Torrent Ky by William St John Drake had run down more moon shiners and criminals in the mountains of eastern Kentucky than any other officer in the service of the government City Officials Not in Contempt Madison Wis The supreme court on Feb 2S handed down a decision quashing the contempt proceedings against the mayor- city clerk and twenty five alder men of the city of Milwaukee for passing and approving the street railway ordinance after tliey had been enjoined fromdoiugso by the superior court Prisoner Kills Himself Ilelena Mont Fuller E Brown SB years of age committed suicide in the city jail by dashing his brains out upon the ce ment floor He was to have been arraigned for forgery but when summoned by an officer jumped headforemost from the up per tier of cells lie came to Montana from Kansas American Sent to Prison Knnberley Benjamin Silpcnt born in Itussia and alleged to be an American citizen has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at haid iabor for signaling to the enemy during the siege Postoftlce Fraud Order Washington A fraud order has been issued by the postofnee department against LD Bass the Union Teachers Agencies of America and the Bureau of Civil Service Instruction Children Fall Through Ice ChampaignvIllv Three sons of Jacob Zieglerufarnier living north of here fell through the ice in a creek and werQ drowned while looking for sove wood The bodies of the children all of whom are less than 9 years old have not been recovered Opposed to Paper Currency Santiago Chili Owing to the person nel of the present Chilian congress no fear is felt by the country of a uew emission of paper currency a BIG QUAKER CITY FIRE 700000 Blaze in the Dry Goods JistKot of Philadelphia Philadelphia A lire emailing a loss of over 700000 occurred early on the 7th inst in the letail dry goods district The con flagration originated in the engine room o andthe properties of the Manhattan Oil Sherman Urns dry goods and millinery Company The deal was jnade several days ago but quietly The price was not made public but conservative oil men William C Whitney store at Eightu and Arch Streets A eial aiirni was soundeJ but alleffors to save the buildings were fruitless The loss is 5300003 Maries Bros dry gools store adjoining was partly damaged by smoke and water and their storehouse was completely gutted entailing a loss of 1300030 The flumes spread to the six story building on Cheiyry Street occupiedby Myerholl Bros manu facturers of womens and childrens cloth inn and the Philadelphia Electrical Equip ment Company Nothing was left of this place but the walls The loss is 200000 Several smaller buildings were more or less seriously damaged About 1C0 persons were thrown out of employment by the fire EXPENSES IN THE PHILIPPINES Statement Made Showing tires of 348028066 Washington Acting Secretary Meikle john sent to the bouse of representatives a statement of expenditures by the war de partment covering the military operations in the Philippines iucludingoutstanding liabilities from Maj 1 1503 to Nov lt ISOJ The total is given at 4S9280p0 the prin cipal items being Quartermasters department 23715001 of which 17186861- is for army transpor tation subsistence department S930 0D0 medical department 1081S4 N oidnance 1S60239 FEARS FOR BIG LINER Increasing Anxiety Regarding Fate of Overdue French Steamer Havre The anxiety in regard to the overdue French line steamer Paullillac which sailed from Xew York Feb 5 for this port is increasing The officials of the company express the hope that the Paullillac having her machinery deranged has drifted out of the track of Trans Atlantic liners and is trying to reach port under sail Bank Wrecker Found Guilty Caledonia Minn Tho jury brought in a verdict of guilty of grand larceny in the first degree as charged in the indictment in the trial of Clements the La Crosse man on trial for complicity in wrecking the Fillmore County Bank Clements claimed to have severed his connection with the bank some time before the fail ure but his partner Todd testified that the books had been altered to make out such a case in order to keep 40000 worth of property from their creditors City Employes Guilty of Fraud Cleveland The jury in the case against Albert E Davis and Samuel G iirooker charged with defrauding the city in con nection with the so called city hall steals brought in a verdict finding both of the accused men guiltj They were t trged with making out and receiving money on false bills to the extent of many thousands of dollars Exchange Ratifications of Treaty Washington The ratifications of the Sanioan arbitration treaty were exchanged at the slate department March 8 by Secre tary Hay for the United States Lord Pauncefote for Great Britain and Dr von Holleben for Germany The treaty sub mits the claims for arbitration to King Oscar of Sweden Queens Visit To Ireland Dublin The announcement here of the queens intended visit caused much good feeling Her majestys visit will -be of a private character such as she is in the habit of making periodically to the south of France It will probably extend for more than a fortnight Kartville Postolllee Fobbed Ilartville Wyo An unknown person broke into the postofiice here and got away with about 15 The ribbery was com mitted in broad day light and while the postmaster was in an adjoining room making up the mail - MARKET QUOTATIONS Sioux Citv Cattle common to prime 300450 hogs 465472 K sheep L0625 wheat C2c corn 2L23c oats 1P2uj buttsr dairy 2022 creamer v 72S Chicago Cattle common to prime 300 to 023 hogs shipping grades 300 to 500 sheep fair to choice 300 to Ju73 wheat STo 2 red G4e to 05c corn Xo 2 35c to 30c oats No 2 23c to 24c rye No 2 55c to 50c butter choice creamery 24c to 25cr eggs fresh 15c to 17c potatoes choice 35c to 50c per bushel Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to G00 hogs choice light 300 to 500 sheep common to priuie 300 to 525 wheat No 2 08c to 70c cbrn No 2 white 34c to 30c oats No 2 white 2Gc to 2Sc St Louis Cattle 325 to 000 hogs 300 to 525 sheep 300 to 575 wheat No 2 72c to 74c corn No 2 yellow 33c to 33c oats No 2 24c to 25 c rye No 2 55c to 57c Cincinnati Cattle 250 to G00 boss 300 to 523 hheep 250 to 023 wheat No 2 73c to 74c corn No 2 mixed 3Gc to 3Sc oats No 2 mixed 23c to 27c rye No 2 50c to Glc Detroit Cattle 230 to 000 hogs 300 to 325 sheep 300 to 575 wheat No 2 70c to 72c corn No 2 yellow 35c to 37c oats No 2 white 27c to 2Sc rye 5Sc to GOc Toledo Wheat No 2 mixed 70c to 72c corn No 2 mixed 35c to 37c oats No 2 mixed 24c to 25c rye No 2 57c to 5Sc clover seed old 400 to 500 Milwaukee Wheat No 2 northern G3c to G4c corn No 3 33c to 34c oats No 2 white 23c to 2Gc rye No 1 5Sc to 50c barley No 2 42c to 44c pork mess 1025 to 1075 Buffalo Cdttle good shipping steers 300 to G25 hogs common to choice 325 ro 525 sheep fair to choice 300 to 075 lambs common to extra 451 to 800 New York Cattle 325 to 025 hogs 300 to 550 sheep 300 to 025 wheat No 2 red 77c to 7Sc com No 2 41c to 42c oats No 2 white 31c to 32c butter creamery 20c to 27c evgs west ey luc to lGc - v HHrfl n tj z STATE OF NEBRASKA NEWS OF THE VEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM Omaha 3ran Tried on Charge of Murdering Two Men Acquitted in One Case and Convicted in the Other Evidence Was Identical Unless John Shannahan secures a new rial or obtains relief from the supreme sourt penitentiary stripes await him in axpiation of the double killing which oc curred in his South Omaha saloon July 13 last year At the close of a weeks trial on the charge of taking the life of Ed Callahan a jury in Judge Bakers iourt has found Shannahan guilty of man jlaughter The penalty is from one to ten years in the penitentiary A peculiar phase of the ease is the fact hat when Shannahan was tried a few veeks ago for killing Ed Joyce who was Callahans pal the jury found him not zuilty Both men were killed at the s une jine and place and under exactly the same circumstances The evidence in each sep irate trial was identic U In short the rial on the Callahan charge was in every respect a duplicate of the trial fotrhe death of Joyce Shannahan set up the plea that he shot Joyce and Callahan in self defense that ne believed theni to be highwaymen and hat after they had made an attack upon lim his suspicions were confirmed and he began to shyot Damage Case Lengthy The case of Beebc against Dodge County it Fremont in which the plaintiff seeks to recover the sum of 5000 for damages al leged to have been sustained by his firm by lk 2 construction of the new drainage Uitch west of Ames has taken up the time of Judge Hollenbeck and a jury in the dis trict court for two weeks -and will take a week or two longer The plaintiff intro duced twenty three witnesses who swore the plaintiffs land will be reduced in value from 10 to 12 per acre on account of the ditch ami the defendant has an equal number testifiying that the ditch will not afiecUthe value of the land or if it does in any way will be a benefit to it The ditch is being dug and will probably be finished long before the hist of the twelve damage cases against the county is heard Thad Clark Bailed Out Thad Clark the pal of Viret Hawkins whom Sheriff Secord shot and killed some time ago was release from the Clay Center jail on bond furnished by XV L Gaddis of Harvard Clark was arrested about the time that Hawkins was shot and had a preliminary examination before Judge H C Palmer who committed him to jail un der 800 bond The citizens of Harvard and vicinity are wild with indignation at the action of Gaddis in going his bail Nebraska Board Upheld The supreme court for a second time but indifferent cases has affirmed the consti tutionality of the law giving the state board of transportation power to regulate telegraph and telephone rates The Ne braska Telephone Company sought an in junction preventing the board fiom acting on a complaint and the district court of Lancaster County refused to grant it On appeal the supreme court sustained the lower court Burglars Still ICnjoy Liberty The bloodhounds brought to York from Anrora failed to trace the burglars who robbed Harry Hopkins store The bur glars broke the window in the rear of the store and stole 25 in monoj and an Eng lish sovereign over 100 years old and a gold watch The hounds traced the burglars to the mill pond near the ice house and there lost the trail Losses of Sheepmen The report has reache 1 Chadron of the loss of 300 sheep in thelloclc of I Griffith a recent investor in a llock of sheep They packed up in a shed and smothered nearly 2G0 in one night During a storm the next llf Him- irVi jwl -lull o Iw w r the llock was lost When found a tew days later 100 had been killed by coyotes George Coil Convicted The jury in the Coil minder case at Chadron brought in a veidici of guilty of murder in the second degree Cod was charged with the murder of a ranchman named Ryan He admitted the killing but claimed he acted in self defense The trial has attracted a great deal of interest as both parties were well known Burglars in lied Cloud Burglars entered the house of A Gal usha at Jted Cloud the other night and took his watch and chain They also entered the borne of G Y Lindsey just outside of the nty and took his vest con taining his watch and chain and about 20 rn money It is thought tliey entcicd with skefetoit keys Bid on Ttledioal TVork Dr J B Conways bid for me iical and surgical work at the York County poor farm was the lowest The doctor offered to furnish all the medicine surgical sup plies and to prescribe lor one year fi 2U0 Farmer Takes Strychnine James Kontuik a Bohemian farmor living a few miles south of Lin wood com mitted suicide by drinking the contents of a bottle of whisky with which he had pre viously mixed a quantity of strychnine Bones Broken While Skating The 12-year-old boy of X T Migoe jvhile skating with his schoolmaster at Fairmont fell on the ice and another boy that was skating with him fell on him breaking both bones of ihuleg below the knee ayments of Insurance Shortage Several more pay menus on the iusuraucit fee shortage were made a day or twoago by insurance companies bringing the total leceived up to date to 320 Brakemans Arm flashed i Eil LuHderigamof Alkanc va brakeunn had Ins rigllt forearm bail 13- smashed at liroken Bow while attempting to adjust a coupling pin i Viola Harlockers Case The next term of the district courtcon vnnesat Hastings March 10 with Judge Edward L Adams or Minden presiding There are several criminal eases to be tried at the term among them the Ilar Iockcrcase which has boon attracting the attention oftho public for some time past Bay Gets Ten Years After all the evidence was in in the case of the state agiuHisb J Jay at Auburn tTio prisoner changed his idea and plead guili3 to manslaughter Ug was sentenced to teu years in the penitentiary jr A fi A Jfc CARNIVAL OF BLOOD Jealous Husband Attempts to Kill llin Wife and Then Suicides As a resilt of jealousy Frank Steele of Omaha shot his w ife and killed himself at the home of IJev A F Nelson on the 7th inst Steele fired six shots five of which took offer tin ee in the body of his wife and two in his own body Mrs Steele was taken to the Clarkson Hospital and the body of Steele was removed to the coro ners office where it was found that he had shot himself -in the center of the fore head and jutt below the heart Steele was formerly employed ty the Swift Packing Company at South Omaha but for some time has been out of employment The of the ciime as told by 3fr Nelson is as follows 0i March 3 Mrs Steele who hid been ill for some time went to the office of a plnsician in this neighborhood for consul tation Our family had been acquainted with her for some time and while she was up in this neighborhood she came to call 011 1113 wife While hhe was here she be-came-so ill that she could not return home and remained here all the tune- Wednes day evening about six oclock Steele caine to the lions and entered the dining room where my wife lip Steele and mvsoJ were sitting He Iseeaied in excellent spirits but ins wife appeared to be afraid of him and she has since said that he had threatened to kill her While talking to the women he drew a revolver from his pocket and 4oid his wife that it was loaded lie sat holding the revolver and talking when his wife left the room My wife followed her to the kitchen and then Steele went into that room he passed he 1 women and stood between them and the outer door I heard wife scream and ran toward the kitchen when Steele fired tiie bullet grazing my lingers and burying itself in the wall Mrs Steele and my wife carrying her baby ran past me through the dining room and out of the front door Steele following them fireing as he ran He fired five shots in the house The women ran around the house and into the basement through a rear door where Mrs Steele fell Steele after he left the house fired two shots into his own body and fell dead When the reporter visited the house Mrs Steele was reclining on a sofa in the basement of the house She wasiconscious and took a lheh interest in the arrange ments I eing made for her removal to the hospital but was growing rapidly weaker through internal hemorrhage She said Frank was jealou of me He accused me of having improper relations vuth various men and his sister who lives- in town supported him in his accusations He was crazy through jealous3rT and for a long time has leen acting quserly Last Easter he ran away Irom homo and went to Chicago He stayed there a day or twe and came back home Since then he has been quarreling with me Have they made arrangements for his funeral But J suppose his sister will do that Do you think if I am strong enough they will let me sea him before he is buried J 1 would like to see him againon earth Dr J E Summers of the Clarkson Hos pital said that the indications were favor able for Mrs Steeles recovery REPUBLICANS WIN IN OMAHA Carry the Entire Ticket by Slajori tics of irom oOO to 1200 The Republicans carried the cit elec tion in Omaha by the full party vote which shows a of between 500 and 1200 votes The entire Republican ticket including nine councilmen is elected after the bitterest contest in the history of the cit It was accomplished by all factions working in harmqnj They were brought together reason of the fear of losing the machinery or the city government for the fall elections involving the selection of a legislative delegation which must vote for two United States senatois Fire in Indianola A disastrous lire giitled the JstalpBank uiiding atlndianola The fire originated in the Reporter printing office upstairs from which nothing was rescued By he roic efforts trie Masonic temple was saved The State Banlc loss is l000 Ip 00 partially insured The Reporter office suffered a loss of 00 covered by insur ance S R Smith editor of the Reporter lost on stock material blanks and fixtures 500 insured Dr McKenzies loss was 100 with 200 insurance V In Memory ol Veterans Great preparations are in progress at Columbus for the dedication of the line monument recently erected at Frankfort Park in memory f the eterans of the war The iijlroads have made a rate of one and one tiiiul fare for the round trip from an3 place in the state and a large at tendance especially of soldiers is ex pected Defeat Court Houe Proposition The proposition to levy a1 ax Tor build ing a court house at Gnnd Island was Je featcd at the polls b3r u decisive majority Nebraska Short Notes Dwelling houjw arein demand at Bloom iugton The Table Rock Clay Company has its sheds completed and Its new machinery has arrived ami been placed -in position li is ready for fnismess Humboldt Rtynibuoan papers mention Judge Tucker as acandiiJate r fyrone of the delegates sfrom the First- Wn gircs sioiifil dislncHote national Repuolican uon vent ion The Broken Bow creamerv has started in bUMiiess with a good patronage The big miow recently has made the ground better for spring work than or Mme years Farmers are preparing for spring wrc The final muster roll blanks forc theor ganiz v i m of a conipanv of Nebraska Guard in OXeil have lCn re ceived Futv members luve been secured The orgmiz iSion has not yet been effecte I but it is exported a meeuir will be hebi next week to organize ami elect uilh trs The musOr in will follow as soon as the men are organized - - - I he lower Siois of congress passed the bll tntrofucal by Repra eufhtiveBhrkctt of Nebraska providing for a rcsurvey of Frontier County in this state - Work has been commence I on the new Catholic Church at Petersburg Albert Colson the student accused of pilfering from the college students amj stealing a bicjcle lamp pleaded guilv at Yoik and was gheu a fine of 3 ami tosts During tho fast yo ir in which the Kan sas iy stock buyeis have been operating in Webster County over 1201 head of horses and mules have bean shipped from Red laud representing a cash expendit ure among ihii farmers of about 53000 The buyers assert that more animals have been shipped from that place than any other town in Nebraska They are being bought for war use GRAIN TRADES GAIN TREASURY DEPARTMENT ISSUES HISTORY OF VAST TRAFFIC 1 Hew ttontea for Shipnicnte AVheat nud Plonr Diverted from Imkc 3Iicijiai to Lake Superior Porta and from Bast vcm to Southern Seaboard The Grain Trade of the Unifcd -States is the title of a monograph just published by the treasury bureau of sta tistics as the first of a series of studies upon the production and transportationoE the great staples and upon the interipl commerce of the country Tho artiSe points out the immense increase in the agricultural production of the country the rapid and continuous westward shift ing of the area of population and the phnnoc in the routes bv which western I grain reaches the eastern consumers and tne European alie ueveioo nieut of the grain production and trade is traced from colonial times to the opt ing up of xhc Mississippi route by the ilur ehase of Louisiana when the shallow barges and later the steamboats descend ed the Mississippi and Isew Orleansshipr ped grain tc Xew York and Boston After the completion of the Erie ianal in 1S25 and the settling of tJieLakb Michigan territory the great bulk of western grain traffic moved eastward over the lakes and the canal and New York became the great grain skipping port of the country The discussion shows how from Chicago a network of railways radiated to all points and acted as taries to the lakesr and later how the uni fied and amalgamated railwaj s competed with the lakes for the east bound freight The traffic in corn and flour was diverted from the lakes to the railroads and while the lakes regained part of this lost traffic later the Erie canal was unable to compete with Hie railroads from Buf falo and grain- which formerly reached tidewater at Xew York f now largely di verted to Philadelphia Baltunore and more southerly ports Two Now Grain- Rontea Tho monograph also presents what pear as the two most recent development of tho grain trade of the United States Firstly the partial diversion of the wheat and flour trade from Lake Michigan to Lake Superior ports and the rise of a great milling industry at Minneapolis andv Duluth Superiorr secondly the increased movoment of grain and notably of corn to the gulf ports partly by river to a greater extent by rail from St Louis t and near by points and to an over-growing extent by direct rail routes from cities in- the southwestern corn belt The statistics contafned in this report throw light upon the present grain and more especially wheat situation of the United States They show that the ex portation of grain is increasing with great rapidity that both the production and exportation of corn arc assuming a greater volume and tnat a constantly growing portion of our wheat is exported in the form of flour During the last thirty two years the amount of corn pro- dnced has increased from SG8000000 toj 1924000000 bushels an increase of 121i per cent while the exports of this cereal increased from 1G000000 to 177000000 bushels or overl000 per cent During the same period our production of wheat increased from 152000000 to G7y00O 000 bushels a gain of C44 per cent while our exports increased from 12G to 222G millions of bushels or almost eighteen fold and our neE exports of this grain increased at a still more rapid rate The United States Lead The year 1S9S shows the United State to be easily tiie first wheat pro dtfqins country of the world our produeffiont amounting to G7300O00O bushels or nearly one fourth 234 per cent of that of the whole world Russia both Euro pean and Asiatic is second with 173 per cent then France with 129 per cent British India with 84 percent andAus4 tria Hungary with 59 per cent Our precedence in wheat production is largely due to our immense tracts of available fertile land our admirable transportation facilities the remarkable system of band ling the grain both physicallj and com mercially and the exceedingly low freight rates which obtain on our railroads and lakes C t gm JV Wffi Xew York has 9321 officials on the payroll c The Empire State has fifty lawyersin its Senateand 150 in the Assembly The American Political Lea gueV aigw organization will hold a national con vention in Boston July 4 Felix HcWhirter of Indianapolis has resigned as treasurer of the Indiana State prohibition committee Congressmen and Senators have 15 000000 packages of seeds tojdistribute among -their rural constituents The Mississippi Legislature has passed a law forbidding the sale of cocaine ex cept when prescribed by a physician The Italian Union Republican Club of Philadelphia has led the clubs of that city in subscribing 200 toward Philadel phias national convention funfl Objection was made to the CitizensV ticket for local officers in Chester County Pennsylvania on the ground that it was nominated on Sunday and so was illegal Maryland has ahout 45000 voters reg istered as illiterate of whom 18500 are white and 20500 are colored The Democratic Silver Republican and Ppulist committees of Idaho have de clared for a union of all silver forces in the State A bill is before the Marynd Legisla ture asking that the rigorous provisions of the Sunday law be modified in their re lation to Baltimore The Massachusetts House of Itepre sentatives has passed a bill providing for the use of reformed spelling in the public documents of the State v
