Government Estimate Lower Than
Expected by Experts in
Grain.
WHEAT CONDITION NOW 82.2
"Winter Cereal Par Below Av rage
- for Ten. Years , and High
Prices May Continue.
The crop reporting board of tie ! bu
reau of statistics of the United States
Department of Agriculture estimates
from the reports of correspondents and
agojits of the bureau that the average
condition of winter wheat on April 1
AVJIS 82.2 per cent of u normal , against
9J.3 on April 1 , 15)08 ) , 89.9 on April 3 ,
1907 , and 8G.G , the average condition
for the past ten years on April 1. The
decline in condition from Dec. j , 11)08 ) ,
to April J , 190' ) . was 3.1 points , a ; ? com
pared with an average decline in the
past ten years o'f G points. The aver
age condition of rye on April 1 was
87.2 per cent of a normal , against 89.1
on April 1 , 1908 , and 89.2 the average
condition for the past ten years on
April 1. Comparisons for important
winter wheat States follow :
ConForty - Con
dition year dition
April 1 , 1008. averDec. . 1.
100 ! ) . April 1. age. 1008.
, SG ! ) . " 80 5)2
Indinna os no 81
Nebraska 8(5 ( 00 80
Missouri 70 S ! ) 00
IllinoiH 70 SO 72
Ohio 00 81 (52 (
Pennsylvania 87 s : ? 87 88
Oklahoma S.'t 1)4 sr SO
California oi : 88- 02 02
Texas 015 SO 00
Tennessee 0t : < ) . " 84 87
Michigan 7. ! ( > SI 74
Virginia ! > 7 00 S5 00
ainrylaud DJ ( st : S7 erse
Kentucky 81 . ) . " > so
Washington ! ) ( 04 i f < < > fls
North Carolina ! ) : ' , 0 ] S7
Oregon ! )7 07 &S
New York 88 00 RS 02
TJnited States 82.2 91. : { SG.(5
Lover Than Bxpeelcrt.
Government estimates of the winter
wheat condition fell below the popular
estimate , although some of the profes-
THE TA IEF MGET.
Senator tElkins' Bitter Attack on
New England Solons.
The framing of the new tariff bill
is proving a subject of great difficulty
to our national lawmakers. Apart
from the widely divergent views of the
members of both houses of legislation ,
there is n storm of criticism of the
Payne bill pouring into Washington
from every section of the country.
Thousands of protests from the "ulti
mate consumer" against dear clothes
dress goods , women's gloves and hos
iery suul n variety of articles used in
feeding , clothing and housing the people
ple are reaching Congress by letters ,
petitions and complaints. These are
having their effect upon.the lawmakers
and are putting them in a rather nerv
ous condition.
While the tariff struggle in the
House is causing deep anxiety , the
Payne bill is also milling the placidity
of the Senate. One noted feature of
( he discussion iu that body was the
Hank attack made by Senator Elkins ,
of West Virginia , on his own party.
Senator Elkins , who seldom addresses
the Senate , took the floor and bitterly
raked the New England senators Aid-
rich , Hale and Lodge members of the
Finance Committee , which is in charge
of the tariff bill , lie said that the time
had come when there ought to be a
protest registered in the Senate against
the disposition of New England sena
tors to "crucify the South. " New Eng-
laud. he asserted , was in favor of free
trade in all products of the South
which were raw material'for New Eng
land , but was willing that the South
should pay protection prices on all the
products of New England manufact
urers. Tie declared that he stood ready
to protest against placing on the free
Ihrt such articles as coal , iron and
hides , products of the South , in order
that New England might enjoy free
raw materials. He charged that the
three New England members of the
Finance Committee were playing on
the traditional tendencies of the South
ern Democrats toward free trade in
order to carry out the scheme of free
raw materials for New England.
An attempt was made by Senator
Lodge to deprive Senator Elkins of the
privilege of the floor by moving an ex
ecutive session , but this was side
tracked , and Senator Elkins resumed
ENGINE DASHES INTO DEPOT
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THE DISASTER AT TIIE WINDSOR STATION.
Six persons were killed and several
seriously injured when a locomotive at
tached to a Boston and Maine train
crashed through the walls of the wom
en's waiting room at the Windsor sta
tion at Montreal. The train , which
was made up of a locomotive , a bag
gage car and three passenger coaches ,
liad few passengers. When passing
( Highland station , a few miles from
Montreal , a plug blew out of the en
gine , and the engineer was thrown
Bional speculators were in a measure
prepared for it by the unfavorable crop
Deports recently issued by a few of the
States. The condition of S2.2 indi
cates a total crop of 423,456.000 bush
els. The promise on April 1 last year
was for a winter wheat yield of about
494.000,000 bushels , or over 70,000,000
bushels larger than the present crop.
[ The finally harvested yield was 437-
908,000 bushels , after there had been
BU abandonment reported in May of
1,318,000 acres , or 4.2 per cent of the
area seeded in the fall of 1907.
The decline of only 3.1 points in con
dition from that of 85.3 reported last
December , as compared with 6 points
as the average winter loss of the last
ten years shows that the percentage
of abandoned acreage this year is like
ly to be small. The report is likely
to bave a far-reaching effect both at
home and abroad. The present scar
city of winter wheat even from a much
larger crop than is now indicated for
1909 promises that supplies will be re
duced to a small total at the beginning
of tbe crop year , and that the new
crop will bave to go at once toward the
replenishing of empty bins.
Sparrow'Started. Fire.
A sparrow building a nest in the
trough on the house of John Taylor , of
Terre Haute , Ind. , incautiously tried to
use a match as part of the building ma
terial with the result that in pecking it
to make it fit in the structure the match
was lighted and the straw of the building
material was set on- fire , sta rting a blaze
n the roof.
from his cab. The fireman tried to
stop the train , but the brakes would
not work. Arriving at the Windsor
station , the train plunged through sev
eral barriers and a brick wall , landing
in tbe women's waiting room an.d
crashing through the floor. The fire
man was pinned beneath the wreck
and instantly killed. A man at work
in the room below the waiting room
also was killed. Another victim was
a girl who was sitting in the station
his speech long enough to call the New
England senators ' 'alert , adroit , like
tigers , dominating the Senate. " He
sharply criticized the unfair treatment
accorded the South in the make-up of
the Finance Committee , it being en
tirely ignored while New England bad
three representatives on the commit
tee.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
Figures compiled at Reading , Pa.
show that there is sufficient anthracite
coal on ttie surface to supply the trade
for the next eight months in the event
of a coal strike.
The published tariff rate of a railroad
on an interstate shipment must be col
lected by the railroad
, according to a
decision in the district court at Marshall-
town , Iowa , by Judge J. M. Parker.
Over 20,000 acres of agricultural land
in Koochichiug County , Minnesota were
thrown open to settlement. The rush at
the Cass Lake land office was so great
that many homeseekers were almost ex
hausted by the long wait before they
could file. ,
Attorneys for the steel corporation have
purchased from an English syndicate , Isle
Royale in Lake Superior , the largest isl
and in fresh water in the world. It is
believed that the trust intends to cut
the timber on the island and to exploit
its abandoned copper works. :
J. Ogden Armour , the Chicago meat
packer while in Atlanta
, was quoted as .
follows : "Meat is high , too high at pres
ent , but this is because of the increased
:
cost of feeding stock just now. This sum
mer we expect the price of corn to go
down and then mer * will be cheaper. "
S WEEKLY
, ' JL
1 / / > -
1000 Henry Hudson sailed from Hollanc
in search of the Northwest passage.
1774 The hill for closing the port of
Boston received the royal assent.
1773 New York Colonial Legislature
held it.s last sc.-sion. '
1799 The New York Legislature passed
a law for the gradual abolition of
slavery in that State.
1801 A French cruiser blockaded the
port of Charleston , S. C All the
territory ceded to the United States
by the State of Georgia , north of the
Mississippi territory and south of
Tennessee , annexed to Mississippi by
act of Congress.
1812 Congress passed an embargo law
for ninety days Badajos , an im
portant barrier fortress in south
western Spain , surrendered to the
French under Marshal Soult.
1829 A large section of Augusta , Ga. ,
destroyed by lire.
1830 Survey made for laying out the
city of Chicago.
1841 The foundations of the Mormon
temple were laid at Nauvoo , 111.
3850 More than 400 persons perished in
the wreck of the steamer Royal Ade
laide off Margate , England.
1852 Trcmont Temple , Boston , destroy
ed by fire.
1854 First treaty between the United
States and Japan signed..A com
bined force of Americans and En
glish attacked and routed a Chinese
imperial army of 10,000 at Shanghai.
1855 Bronze equestrian statue of uen.
Andrew Jackson unveiled in New
Orleans Gore expedition left St.
Louis to explore the headwaters of
the Powder River in Montana
The State prison at Nashville , Tenn. .
destroyed by fire The electric
telegraph between London and Bal
aclava completed.
ISO ! South Carolina convention ratified
the Confederate constitution.
1SG4 House of Representatives adopted
resolutions declaring that France
would not be allowed to form a mon
archy in Mexico.
1SG8 Michigan voted against negro suf
frage.
1870 A bill re-admitting Texas to rep
resentation in Congress was ap-
. proved.
1872 Earthquake at Antioch , resulting
in the loss of 1,000 lives.
1873 Nearly 5CO lives lost in the wreck
of the steamship Atlantic off the
coast of Nova Scotia.
1875 Riots of striking coal miners in
Pennsylvania.
1881 Decennial census of the Dominion
of Canada showed the population to
be 4,324,810.
1882 Steamer Golden Gate burned near
Memphis , with loss of twenty lives
. . . .Jesse James , noted desperadOj
killed by the Ford brothers , at St.
Joseph , Mo.
1883 Ship of war Hawk burned at Port
Discovery , Washington.
1884 House of Representatives passed a
bill for the redemption of the silver
trade dollar. . . .Rioters attacked and
burned the court house in Cincin
nati.
1888 Four thousand persons killed by
earthquake at Yunnan , China.
1892 Mormon temple at Salt Lake City
completed.
1894 President Cleveland vetoed the
Bland silver bill.
1895 The Iowa Supreme Court sustain
ed the construction of the mulct law
of 1894.
1900 Queen Victoria visited Ireland ,
landing at Queenstown The Ken
tucky court of appeals declared Beck-
ham Governor.
1903 Statue to William E. Gladstone
erected in A restminster Abbey.
1901 Chicago voted for municipal own
ership of street railways.
1908 The Czar dissolved the Finnish
diet for expressed sympathy with the
Terrorists The Fifth Avenue Ho
tel of New York closed its doors
General suspension of bituminous
coal mining occurred pending settle
ment of new scale.
PRAIRIE DOGS TO BE POISONED.
Coated Wheat In to Be Fed to Enemy
of Farmers in the "West.
Poisoned wheat is to be used as bait to
kill off the prairie dogs , the stockmen's
enemy , that now infest Arizona and New
Mexico and have become a menace to the
forest ranges there. On ranch lands prai
rie dogs have been destructive to wheat ,
grain , potatoes and sugar beets ; while
on grazing lands they destroy so much
grass that the grazing capacity of the
land is reduced to 75 per cent. Last
spring a successful campaign was waged
against the prairie dog and this year it
will be conducted on a larger scale. The
poison is prepared by coating the wheat
with a preparation of strychnine , cyanide
if potassium , anise oil and molasses.
Births in America Decreasing ; .
According to figures compiled by the
1'ensus Bureau , the birth rate in this
country has fallen off , decidedly. In 1790
he average family in this country con
sisted of 5.8 persons and in 1900 it was
mly 4.0 persons. The ratio of children
.o women since 1790 has been cut in
lalf , the number being in 1900 one child
o each woman over 16 years old , the
ame as the ratio in Great Britain at
hat time. In France it was , and in
Sermanv 1.1.
CENSUS SHOWS RACE SUICIDE ,
Average Pamily in the United
States Has Decreased.
The size of the average family in the
United States has decreased from 5.8
persons in 1790 , the date of the first
census taken in this country , to 4.G in
the 'same area in 1900 , according to a
volume no\v being published by the
census bureau. Of especial interest
from a sociological point of view are
those statistics in the book which deal
with family life. In 1790 families com
posed of no more than three persons
represented but one-fourth of the entire
number of families , while in 1900 fam
ilies of similar size made up nearly
'
40 per cent of all the families. Fam
ilies composed of six or more persons
represented in 1790 more than one-half ,
but in 1900 scarcely more than one-
fourth of the families enumerated. On
the basis of the proportion shown iu
1790 there would have been in conti
nental United States in 1900 , 39,500,000
children , whereas there were less than
24,000,000.
The number of children under 1C
years of age to each white family was
2.8 in 1790 , as compared with 1.5 in
1900. The ratio in 1790 of two chil
dren under 1C years of age to each
white female 1G years of age and over
declined to one in 1900. Of 3.171,000
white persons enumerated in 1790 , ap
proximately 2,000,000 survived thirty-
years later , 11,500 in 1880 , while in
1900 there were twenty-three persons
who reported their ages as 110 years
and over , so that at the census of 1900
it is possible that there were still liv
ing persons enumerated in the first
census , taken 110 years before.
In 1790 the Smiths led all the rest ,
there being 33,245 of this ubiquitous
family in the country , while other fam
ilies followed in the sequence given :
Brown , Davis , Jones , Johnson , Clark ,
Williams , Miller and Wilson. These
names represented about 4 per cent of
the total white population of 1790.
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mam IN mm sm
Prince Michael
Iliikoff , whose
death has been
reported from St.
Petersburg , had a
romantic life story.
Successively a dis
satisfied young
man on his fath
er's estates , a
poorly paid labor
er in a Philadel-
p h i a machine
shop , an employe of a contractor who
was building a railway in South Amer
ica , the manager of an Argentine rail
way , a student in an English locomo
tive building shop and engine driver
and locomotive superintendent in Rus
sia during his earlier years , he rose to
be the czar's minister of public ways
and railways , a high oflice he held for
eleven years. To his energy and skill
is ascribed much of the success of Rus
sia in building the great Trans-Sibe
rian railway aud in sending more than
300,000 troops across the GG77 miles
of this line within ninety days , togeth
er with enormous quantities of provi
sions and army supplies , during the
Russo-Japanese war.
"I am a good bit of a Yankee my
self , " was Prince Hilkoff s greeting to
the members of the World's Columbian
Exposition , committee on transporta
tion when meeting them in western Si
beria on their trip around the world.
"Here is further proof , if you want it , "
he added , with a smile , raising his
hand up to the tuft K iron-gray beard
that grew on his chin "Uncle Sam"
fashion. This tuft he wore from early
manhood to old age. He was a Yankee
in more than appearance ; for many
years he had studied closely the won
derful development of the United
States and had striven to adopt meth
ods in use in this country to the rail
way problems of Russia.
A clockmakers' union was recently or
ganized at San Francisco , Gal.
Work is being done in the matter of
unionizing the brewers in El Paso , Texas.
The Gas \Vorkcrs' Union at Sacramen
to , Cal. , has made an application to be
come affiliated with the State Federation
of Labor.
The San Francisco ( Cal. ) Journeymen
Stone Cutters' Union has under consid
eration a proposition to establish a sick
benefit fund.
A union of hard soldercrs of New
York has been organized. The name
adopted is the Independent International
Union of Hard Solderers.
Many pastors in Brooklyn , N. Y. , have
promised to help the grocery clerks in
their movement for a shorter workday
and Sunday closing.
A dispute has occurred in a section of
employes in the lace trade in Nottingham
ham , England , which , it is feared , may
lead to an extended strike.
Sixteen hundred men employed in the
collieries at Aberaman , Wales , are locked
out.
Among nut and bolt workers in Penn
sylvania the returns of the chief factory
inspector show the fatal accident rate
during ten years to have been 5.4 per
1,000 and in miscellaneous steel and iron
work 4.3 per 1.000.
A co-operative company has been or
ganized by workingmen of Brooklyn , N.
Y. The name of the company is the
Brooklyn Mechanics' Co-operative Com
pany , and the announced object "to start
operations for mutual benefit. "
Wabash , Ind. , Massillon and Toledo ,
Ohio , Struck by Tornado and
Lives and Property Lost.
MANY HOUSES AEE IN EUINS
Northern Mississippi Visited by Gala
Which Causes Death of at Least
Nine Persons in One Place.
Death and destruction were wrought
by tornadoes which swept the Missis
sippi Valley States , the States in the
great lake region , and the lower portion
tion of Canada Monday , Monday night ,
and early Tuesday.
The storm struck northern Missis
sippi Monday night in a tornado that
attained a velocity estimated at from
seventy-five , to 100 miles an hour. Nine
persons are reported killed , fifteen were
injured , some "of them fatally , and
thousands of dollars' worth of damage
done to buildings and crops.
Great Losses In Tenne.snee.
This tornado , passing north into Ten
nessee and Kentucky , caused heavy
damage to buildings , wrecking a school
house at Buutyn. Tenn. , and imperiling
the lives of 300 children. Meager re
ports as to fatalities couie from these
sections , owing to the wrecking of tele
graph wires , but several deaths are re
ported , not verified.
Passing into Indiana and Ohio Tues
day the cyclone destroyed factories and
other large buildings in its pathway. At
Massillon , Ohio , the high wind , tearing
the roof from a foundry , menaced the
lives of 400 employes , killing one. At
Wabash , Ind. , the havoc was wide
spread , the loss being estimated at from
$100,000 to $200,000. Two dozen dwell
ings were demolished , while their in
mates fled for their lives. A woman ,
with her children , was pinned under
the wreckage of her home , which
caught fire , and she will die from burns.
The city's electric service was wrecked
and the toyn was in darkness through
out Tuesday night The wind was fol
lowed by a cloudburst , and many
bridges are washed aWay. Many fami
lies are homeless. Fifteen are injured ,
two fatally , in Toledo.
jVortlieru Indiana Suffers.
In northern Indiana the storm lafy
Tuesday night killed one man at Al
bion. Two hundred houses were de
stroyed in small villages.
At Cleveland the fishing tug George
Floyd with seven men aboard and the
snndsucker Mary II. with a crew of
nine men are missing , while the barge
Norman Kelley , with a crew of four
persons , three men and a woman , near
Sandusky , was rescued after a desper
ate struggle as a result of a fierce wind
storm which raged on Lake Erie.
In Michigan a boy was killed by the
flying roof of a house at Brighton , two
boys were drowned in a small boat in
the Detroit River , and three fishermen
were drowned by the capsizing of their
boat near Wyandotte. Lightning killed
a child at Ionia and set fire to thou
sands of dollars' worth of farm houses
and barns. A child was probably fatal
ly injured in Detroit by flying debris.
At Jennings , Mich. , three young men
were killed by being caught under a
wall that was blown down by the wind.
The damage to roofs , chimneys , plate
glass , etc- . , probably will reach $75,000
in Detroit.
Wisconsin IN Wind Swept.
A terrific wind storm swept Wiscon
sin Wednesday. Many boats were re
ported overdue at various ports along
Lake Michigan aud at Milwaukee ,
while the northern Michigan copper
country reports from five inches to two
and a half feet of snow.
Southern Canada was a heavy suf
ferer from the storm , incomplete and
unverified reports showing that the loss
in small towns will reach the hundred
thousands. Six persons were injured
and one young child fatally hurt and
property loss of $75,000 entailed at New
London , Out.
At Buffalo , N. Y. , the gale reached
a velocity of seventy-five miles an hour.
Four persons , badly injured by flying
bricks and debris , are in hospitals , and
several ships have been beached , while
a dredge was sunk. One man was
crushed to death by a falling cornice.
The wind reached a velocity of sixty-
eight miles per hour in Pittsburg. It is
estimated that damage done throughout
the city will be in excess of $100,000.
About thirty persons were hurt , and
two of them are so badly injured that
they may die.
An airship owned by the Eagle Aero
plane Company of Pittsburg was about
ready for flight when the gale struck
the tent it was kept iu and blew both
tent and airship away , demolishing
both.
Woman Admits Theft $ End * Life.
Leaving a confession of the theft ok
$3,000 worth of silks and laces taken
from a dry goods house in San Bernardino
dine , Cal. , where she was employed , Mrs.
Clarence Allen committed suicide by tak
ing carbolic acid.
15OOO Bushels of Wheat Burned.
Fire supposed to have been of incen
diary origin destroyed t e flour mill of
J. A. Hinds & Co. , hi Rochester , N. Y. ,
together with 15.000 bushels of wbeatr
The total loss is $100,000.
CHICAGO.
Aside from the few labor troubles ,
tvhlch are responding to mediatory ef
forts for settlement , the business con
ditions generally indicate seasonable
advance. April payments through th *
banks reflect an enlarged use of money
and the record breaking total of clearIngs -
Ings for March testifies to substantial
recovery in the leading activities , al
though some branches of production ,
have not yet completely reduced their
Idle capacity. March permits for exclu
sively commercial structures and exten
sions were fifty-three In number an S
$2,316,500 in value , and compare with
fifty In number and $517,450 in value
for March , 190S. Other investment of
capital is seen to be exceptionally large
in real estate transactions , bonds and
stocks , local securities showing increase
in aggregate sales of 150 per cent over
this time last year. Local deposits con
tinue at the highest level , but country
withdrawals are unusually small , co H
siderlng the spreading of farm worJc
and expenditures for spring planting
and Improvements throughout the in
terior.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 21 , against 34 last week ,
16 in 1903 and 13 in 1907. Those wit *
liabilities over $5,000 number 4 , against
9 last week , 3 in 1908 and 3 in 1907. *
Dun'a Review of Trade.
NEW YOBK.
Trade and crop reports are irregular
and business the country over is stlD
quiet as a whole. There are , however ,
evidences of a growth in optimistic feel
ing , partly due , no doubt , to more
spring-like weather conditions. Cur
rent demand at wholesale Is of a be-
twesn-seasons character and Jobbing
distribution is confined largely to fill-
infj-ln orders , but there is reported in
several markets a disposition to take
hold more freely for next fall.
Exports from leading industries are
not materially different from last week.
Wage reductions are more numerous ,
but strikes are not frequent. In irott
and eteel there is more business re
ported , but evidently at the expense of
prices. Pig Iron is dull and lower.
A strike and lockout has been avert
ed in the anthracite coal trade , and the
usual spring reduction in prices is an
nounced. Bituminous coal Is still dull
and weak. The shoe and leather trades
are quiet , with little business yet book
ed for the fall season in shoes.
Business failures for the week ending
with April 1 were , in the United States ,
204 , against 226 last week , 247 in the
like week of 1908 , 137 in 1907 , 151 in
1906 , and 170 in 1905. Canadian fail
ures for the week number 23 , whicbT
compares with 35 last week and 32 in
1908. Bradstreet's.
Chicago Cattle , common to prime.
$4.00 to $7.25 ; hogs , prime heavy , $4.50
to $7.15 ; sheep , fair to choice , $3.0Q
to $6.75 ; wheat , No. 2 , $1.25 to $1.27 ;
corn , No. 2 , 64c to 66c ; oata , standard ,
51c to 52c ; rye , No. 2 , 79c to 80c , hay.
timothy , $8.00 to $13.50 ; prairie , $8.00
to $11.50 ; butter , choice creamery , 25c
to 29c ; eggs , fresh , loc to 20c ; potatoes ,
per bushel , 85c to 95c.
Indianapolis Cattle , shipping , $3.00
to $6.50 ; hogs , good to choice heavy ,
$3.inJ to $7.25 ; sheep , good to choice ,
$2.50 to $6.15 ; wheat , No. 2 , $1.29 ta
$1.30 ; corn , No. 2 white , 63c to 65c ;
oats , No. 2 white , 51c to 52c.
St. Louis Cattle , $4.00 to $7.10 ; hogs ,
4.00 to $7.10 ; sheep , $3.00 to $6.50 ;
wheat , No. 2 , $1.35 to $1.40 ; com , No. 2 ,
65c to 67c ; oats. No. 2 , 53c to 54c ; ryen
No. 2 , 79c to SOc.
Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $6.25 f
hogs , $4.00 to $7.25 ; sheep , $3.00 tu
$5.75 ; wheat , No. 2 , $1.31 to $1.32 ; corn ,
No. 2 mixed , 67c to 6Sc ; oats , No. 2
mixed , 54c to 55c ; rye , No. 2 , 82c to 84c
Detroit Cattle , $4.00 to $5.50 ; hogs ,
$4.00 to $7.00 ; sheep , $2.50 to $5.oO ;
wheat. No. 2 , $1.28 to $1.30 ; corn , No. 3
yellow , 67c to 68c ; oats. No. 3 white ,
56c to 57c ; rye , No. 2 , 81c to 83c.
Milwaukee Wheat , No. 2 northern ,
$1.15 to $1.17 ; corn , No. 3 , 65c to 67c ;
oats , standard , 53c to 54c ; rye , No. 2 ,
79c to SOc ; barley , No. 1 , 64c to 65c ;
pork , mess , $16.50.
Buffalo Cattle , choice shipping steer *
$4.00 to $7.35 ; hogs , fair to choice , $4.0(1 (
to $7.20 ; sheep , common to good mixed
$4.00 to $4.75 ; lambs , fair to choice
$5.00 to $8.50.
New York Grfttle. $4.00 to $6.65 ;
boss. $3.50 to $7.20 ; sheep , $3.00 t
54.75 ; wheat , No. 2 red , $1.27 to $1.28 ;
corn , No. 2 , 74c to 75c ; oats , natural
white. 57c to 59c ; butter , creamery , 25
to 29c ; eggs , western , 17c to 21c.
Toledo Wheat , No. 2 mixed , $1.27 U
$1.29 ; corn , No. 2 mived , 66c to 68c {
oats. No. 2 mixed. 54c to 5. > c ; rye , No >
2 , 83c to 85c ; clover seed , $5.45.
For the first time in fifteen years thi
Hamburg-American Steamship line hai
failed to declare an annual dividend. Th
depreciation in the company's earnings
it is stated , is due to the depression in tht
ocean-carrying trade felt in all parts oj
the world , but in addition the directors
refer to 'the deadly competition forced 05
the German line by the two giant floating
palaces of the English line , the Lusitanij
and Mauritania. They say that the com
Ktruction of these boats has precipitate
an era of the most overburdeusome
pans * .
