Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 3, 1901, Page 2

The Herald--Review. By E. C. KILEY, AND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. South Australia holds the best honey records of the colonies, nearly 150,000 pounds being produced in one year alone. The asbestos mines of the province of Quebec supply nine-tenths of the asbestos produced in the world. The mines were discovered in 1878. Science has proved that moonlight is more fatal to the complexion than the sun in his splendor, and they are now selling in Paris little moonshades made of a double thickness of mous- seline de soie with a light fringe, the handles of which fold back like those of the marquises of our grandmothers’ time. Prince zu Loewenstein, president of the German Catholic Union, has un- dertaken a systematic campaign against duelling. He has therefore drawn up a statement, to which he has obtained 118 signatures among his own friends and acquaintances. The prince declares that the number of sig- natures would already be incompar- ably larger if officers of the active army thought they could publish their real views without imperilling their military position. Captain Smiley, of the Fifteenth regiment, U. S. A., returned recently from the Philippines, where he was on the staff of General J. C. Bates, was recently telling of his visit to the sul- tan of the Sulus at his island capital. “The sultan, the day I saw him,” said the captain, “wore a dress suit with- out collar or cuffs. For headgear, he had a skull cap, on the front of which was set an enormours diamond. He is a little man, with a no more strik- ing personality than is given him by his costume. When standing he hard- ly comes above the elbow of the aver- ege American.” , The loss to the country by forest fires, largely preventable, has been es- timated at $50,000,000 every year. In regions where wood and water are abundant the tendency is to take them for granted and forget all about them. But without cheap lumber our indus~ trial] development would have been se- riously retarded. And agriculture de- mands water. All through great parts of the West the people are coming to see that on forestry and irrigation to- gether depends their future prosperity. Vice President Roosevelt has called this the greatest internal question of the day. According to a Cairo correspondent the directors of the great French com- pany enjeying the practical monopoly of the Egyptian sugar and molasses industry have just completed arrange- ments by which they become conces- sionaires for a number of years of some 40,000 acres of land in the vicin- ity of their great works at Nag- ‘Hamadi, in upper Egypt. These lands will be devoted principally to the cul- ture of beetroot. The company al- ready possesses extensive fields of canes. Egypt is now not only able to cater for herself as far as sugar is concerned, but has begun to success ‘fully compete with French and Aus- trian sugar in the Levant markets. Jewelry stealing under cover of ac- complished skill in dentistry is the lat- est device of Parisian rascaldom. Its practitioner is an ingenious and ele- gant young man of 26 named Pasteur who operated by preference among ladies of a certain class. One of these whom he met some weeks ago -com- plained of toothache, which he under- took to cure, and did so ‘effectually This cure obtained him many patients upon whom he operated at their own residences. After his visits articles of jewelry were missed, and complaints were made to the police, but they were quite unable to obtain any clue to the culprit, until the other day one of his vietims accidentally saw him in a cai. and promptly gave information which secured his arrest. A case was recently before Judge Case of Hartford, in which a bicycle rider brought suit to recover damages for injuries sustained by being thrown from his machine by the attack of the defendant's dog. Judge Case found for the plaintiff, but, as the latter had been riding on the sidewalk at the time of the injury, he had this to say in his memorandum: “The question here is whether the dog was really re- a | From Washington. The American army in the Philip- pines will be materially reduced. Col. Stowe, consul at Cape Town, de- clines new offers for additional salary in connection with the place. A grand demonstration of Uncle Sam’s war vessels will be made on the occasion of the ceronation of King Ed- ward. The president has appointed R. S. Reynolds Hilt of Illinois third secretary of the United States embassy at Paris. Mr. Hilt is a son of Congressman Rob- ert R. Hilt of Mlinois. Secretary Root has appointed Charles A. Conant special commissioner of the war department to investigate the state of coinage and banking in the Philip- pines, and report to the secretary of war recommendations for remedial leg- islation. Admiral Dewey and his associates on the general board of the navy have re- quested Secretary Long to appoint Ad- miral Bradford chief of the naval bu- reau of equipment, as an additional member of that board, and the secre- tary has issued the order of appoint- ment. The treasury employes who place the seals and numbers on notes of the United States have reached the number 100,000,000 on the $1 silver certificates of the series of 1899. The numbers will not go any higher, as the printers have been instructed to turn back to No. 1 of letter A. The navy dpeartment has decided to have the battleship Wisconsin com- pleted at the Puget sound naval station and arrangements have been made with the contractors, the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, for a reduction in the last payment on the ship commensurate with the work to be done in the gov- ernment yards, The war department has been ad- vised that Brig. Gen. Ludlow, invalided home from the Philippines on account of ill health, has arrived at Convent, N. J. He stood the journey from San Francisco nicely, and will be treated by specialists for lung trouble. He will remain at Convent, unless it is demed advisable to remove him else- where. Casualties. John O'Connor of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, was suffocated in the Laclede hotel in Ottumka, Iowa. Eighteen other guests had narrow escapes. David Anguish, sixty-one years old, while threshing near Adrian, Ill., fell from a straw stack and was impaled on a pitchfork, dying soon after. The handle of a pitchfork caught in the wheel of a threshing machine near Hills, Ill, struck Jewell Rogers on the head and crushed ‘his _ skull, killing him. Fire at Aberdeen, Ohio, destroyed the large tan yard of Martin & Riedley, together with several small dwellings and other houses, entailing a loss of $50,000; partly insured. Fire destroyed the business portion of Huntsville, a village in Schuyler county, Ill. Four stores, a blacksmith shop and five residences were burnea. Loss, $30,000; partly insured. Mrs. Ora J. Tallmar of Valparaiso, Ind., died at University hospital at Kansas City, being the twenty-third victim of the Chicago & Alton train wreck to succumb. She was on her The building of the Indianapolis Bridge Building company in Indianap- olis and two large buildings of the Van Camp company were burned. Loss, $75,000. Of this the Van Camp company lost $35,000, insurance $25,000; bridge company, $40,000, partially insured. A dispatch from Cisco, Tex., reports @ waterspout which’ washed away ten miles of the track of the Texas Central railroad between Lueders and Albany and between Albany and Moran. An engine went through a bridge, and En- gineer Thomas Beene was killed. While Mrs. D. Sherman was waiking along the sidewalk in Covington, Ky., she stepped on a match, which ignited her dress, and she burned to death in great agony. Her mother was so pros- trated when the burned body was brought home that her recovery is de- spaired of. A whole family was burned in a Penn avenue, Pittsburg, tenement fire. The mother and three children are dead and the husband is badly burned, and he is now at the hospital. The explosion of ot] was the cause of the fire. The dead are: Mrs. Sophia Ratza, mother of children; Viola Ratza, aged eight years; Kashner Ratza, a boy aged five years; Wadock, a boy aged two years. Foreign. A heavy falling off in business is re- ported from Germany. Lord Pauncefote says that the Pana- ma canal must be neutral. The czar has modified the arbitrary press restrictions in Russia. John Henderson, the well known shipbuilder of Glasgow, is dead. Criminal. Two young farmers of Marietta, Ohio, are in a dangerous condition as a result of a fighting duel over a girl with whom both were in love. C. J. Dillon and William Morgan of Three Mile, W. Va., were the parties involved, They used shotguns. At Knotchey Creek church, near Knoxville, Tenn., a quarrel arose over remarks James Crabbs is alleged to have made concerning a lady, and dur- ing the encounter Moses Hooper stabbed Crabbs, killing him instantly. Hooper fied and has not been captured, On Sunday Benesh and Agnes Jirsa of Walford, Benton county, Iowa, en- gaged in a lovers’ quarrel. Late Tues- day night Benesh induced the girl to go with him for a walk, and on the outskirts of the village he shot her, He then turned. the revolver on him- self. Probably both will die. J. P. Simpson of Mississippi was stopped by Detective Tyler of Newark, N. J., as he was about to cash a draft of $750 on the North Ward bank to give the money to a green goods man. At the same time Detective Murphy arrested Walter Gordon outside of the bank and took him to the police head- quarters. Valentine Miller of West Chicago was tarred and feathered by a mob for al- leged wife beating, and was given a ride to the outskirts of the.hamlet on the edge of a scantling. Miller almost lost consciousnesss from fright. Lead- ers of the mob interfered to prevent lynching, which was threatened. People Talked About. Fred Harting, a famous race track plunger, and widely known all over the United States, died at Freeport, Ill, of | consumption. Fred Harting, a famous race track plunger and widely known all over the United States, died in Freeport, Ill, a victim of consumption, Joseph R. Hixson, general Eastern agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, died at his home in Elizabeth, N. J., aged sixty. The Rev. E. B. Widge of Columbus, Ind., who originated the roof garden church in that city, has been given a call to La Porte, Ind., where he held a pastorate four years ago. Count de Lichtervelde, Belgian min- ister to the United States, will retire from the post at his own request. He will be succeeded by Baron Moncheur, Belgian minister to Mexico. Dr. J. S. Hurd, a pioneer physician of Franklin county, Iowa, died suddenly from the effects of the heat. He was seventy years old and had resided at Hampton over forty years. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt is the guest of Regis H. Post of Bayport, L. I. The vice president is accompa- nied by two of his sons. The party will take a two-weeks’ cruise on Mr. Post's schooner yacht in Great South Bay. ‘The engagement of Miss Myrta French, the prima donna, and Jean Paul Kuersteiner of Philadelphia is an- nounced. The couple will reside in the Fast. Miss French will retire from the operatic stage. She is visiting her home in Milwaukee. Howard E. Case, an American prom- inent in Paris and London, died sud- denly at Lancaster, Eng. Mr. Case, who had been in England a couple of months, had been under the care of physicians, who had been treating him for heart disease. His death is attrib- uted to syncope. } General. It has been decided that the national bundesfest shall be held in New York in 1904. It is reported that negotiations are on foot looking to a consolidation of the large mixed paint concerns in America, The steamer Hating, frcm Skagway, brought to Vancouver, B. C., forty pas- sengers from Dawson and $300,000 in gold dust. . Dressmakers of New York have or- ganized.the Dressmakers’ Importing association, for which articles of in- corporation have been filed. As a result of the mosquito plague a female brass band has refused to ful- fill an engagement to play nightly in a concert garden near Fort Hamilton, N.Y. The library of the late Prof. Max Muller, composed of 13,000 volumes, ‘has been purchased by Baron Iwasaki for presentation to the University of Tokyo. License was defeated by a special election in Salem, Ill., by eleven ma- jority. The city has been “dry,” is in debt, and has no money to pay run- ning expenses. Rev. Calvin W. Stewart of Tacoma, ‘Wash., has made a formal demand for $4,000 in payment for soliciting the library donation for the city’s new li- brary from Andrew Carnegie. Application has been made by busi- ness men of Kansas City to have the army headquarters of the Department of the Missouri removed from Omaha CROPS ALL RIGHT ALL DOUBTS AS TO EXISTING CON- DITIONS OF GRAIN CROPS SET AT REST. CORN FAILURE OFFSET BY WHEAT Telegraphic Reports From Three Hundred Points in the Corn and Wheat - Producing States of the Great West Dispel Rumors of Disasters—Wheat Grades Higher Than Expected. i Chicago, July 30.—All doubts as to the existing condition of the great Western grain crops on which the gen- eral prosperity of the entire country during the coming year will largely depend are set at rest by the following telegiaphic reports from the largest producing states. Each correspondent at 300 points in the’corn and wheat belts was instruct- ed to ignore all reports or rumors of disasters in other districts, but to send an accurate estimate of the percent- age of a full crop of corn and wheat likely to be harvested in his own im- mediate district. As to corn, the most important single crop in the country, the results are summarized below. Table showing in- dicated average percentage of corn yield in 300 districts of the eight prin- cipal corn-producing states, based on accurate reports of special corres- pondents: s. g 3 z8 ee Eg 8 ge By $% ss Btates— es £3 e3 ae 85 : Bs : g2 50 264,176,226 182,033,113 62 305,859,948 189,393,167 30 163,870,630 49,161,189 @5 81,794,708 20,606,560 30 180,710,404 54,218,121 Nobraska 48 210,430,064 101,006,430 North Dakota... 42 881,184,000 160,097,000 Bouth Dakota... 71 82,418,819 23,017,361 Corn crop last year, 2,105,102,516 bushels. ‘Value of last year’s corn crop, $751,- 220,034. Average price of corn per bushel at the farm last year, 35 cents. Indicated average yield, based on re- ports from eight principal producing states, 49 per cent of maximum crop. Crop will not much exceed 1,200,000,000 bushels. This indicates a corn crop for the coming year—although conditions may be slightly improved if hard rains come in the next fortnight—of a little more than 1,200,000,000 bushels. Last year’s crop was a bumper—2,105,102,576 bushels, worth to the farmer an av- erage of 35.7 cents a bushel, or $751,- 220,034—a stupendous sum to divide among American farmers. A loss of 900,000,000 bushels—burned up by this year’s unprecedented hot wave and drouth—would mean a loss of over $50,000,000 to the farmers at last year’s prices. But corn was selling at 13 cents a bushel higher yesterday than on the same day last year, so that & crop of 1,200,000,000 bushels would be worth at this year’s prices $156,000,000 more than last. The actual loss to the farmers at the worst will be $200,000,- 000. The reports show that this loss will be partly offset by a wheat crop even larger and richer than any one has es- timated. It will far exceed last year’s crop of 582,229,505 bushels, worth $323,- 615,177, an average of 62 cents a bushel. All the reports indicate that this year’s wheat, wherever threshed, grades high- er than expected. As Western farmers have carried over a vast quantity of corn from last year’s crop, and this year’s wheat crop will partly compen- sate them both in quantity and value for the shortage in corn, the dispatches clearly indicate that 1901 will not be known as a year of crop failures, al- though of corn this will be the poorest crop in eleven years: The drouth is broken. From nearly every part of the sun-scorched terri- tory repcrts came last night of heavy rains and coolelr weather. SHOT INTO THE CROWD. Fatally Wounded and An- other Seriously. Cleveland, Ohio, July 30.—In a row at Forest Park Otto Seefried, manager otf the park, is claimed to have shot into the crowd that was raising a disturb- ance and injured Thomas Murtagh, probably fatally, a bullet going through his abdomen. Edward Yarnham was shot in the knee, but is not seriousily injured. A squad of policemen from the Broadway station found Seefried inside the engine house with a revolver inhis hand. A number of persons sur- rounded the engine house and were in an angry mood over the shooting. The policemen dispersed them and sent Murtagh to St. Alexis hospital, where he lies in a dying condition, Ong Man REFORM IN CHINA. New Foreign Office Recognized in an Imperial Edict. Shanghai, July 30. — An imperial . PATCH UP STRIKE. Fight Between Steel Workers and Employers May Be Settled, Pittsburg, July 30.—The strike of the steel and tinworkers of the Amalga- mated association against the United States Steel corporation will probably be settled this week. The conference held in New York Saturday between the officials of the United States steel corporation and President T. J. Shafer and Secretary John Williams of the workers’ organization has resulted in paving the way for a renewal of ne- gotiations between the conflicting in- terests, It is said that a basis for such a conference has been arrived at. This basts is still locked up in the minds of -the officials of the two organizations and will not be divulged until later in the week. If the basis shall prove satisfactory to the general executive committee of the Amalgamated asso- ciation the conference between the as- sociation and the’ manufacturers will proceed at once. If, on the other hand, the basis is not what the Amalgamated association will permit to be consid- ered as negotiable grounds, the strike will be continued with the same vigor as at present, and with indefinite time for its ending. President Shaffer and Secretary Williams of the Amalgamat- ed association returned from New York yesterday. They spent many hours in conference with the leading officials of the steel trust, had evaded all New York reporters and came home with hopes for v An Early Ending of the present contest. In Pittsburg little was known of the conference, but the greatest interest in the outcome was shown among the manufacturers. Secretary Williams was found at his home last evening. He promptly ad- mitted that he had been with Presi- dent Shaffer in New York and had seen J. P. Morgan, but as to what haa taken place there he said with firm- ness tpat he was pledged to secrecy and could not talk. Additional in- formation regarding the New York meeting of the industriai leaders was afterward gathered frem_ reliable sources. It was stated that the two Amalgamated officials left Pittsburg Friday night, and reaching New York they went direct to the pricate office of Mr. Morgan. The meeting between the Pittsburg men and Mr. Morgan lasted five hours. During the confer- ence President C. M. Schwab and Judge E. H. Gray were present most of the time. Another conferee was Mr. Dawkins, one of Mr. Morgan’s part- ners. The Amalgamated officials talked almost entirely with Mr. Mofgan and President Schwab. They went over the grounds on which the strike be- gan and discussed a settlement basis. It is believed that before the end of the week the mills will all be ready to run again, providing repairs shall be completed that have been undertaken since the strike began. Should the whole project fail of coming to an amicable end, however, the fight prom- ises to be more bitter than ever. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, July 30. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 69 1-2@70c; No. 2 Northern, 68@68 1-2c. Corn—No, 3 yellow, 55 1-2@ 56c; No. 3, 551-4@553-4c. Oats—No. 3 white, 401-2@41c; No. 3, 40@40 1-2c. Minneapolis, July 30. — Wheat — No. 1 hard, 70 3-4c; No. 1 Northern, 68 3-4c; No. 2 Northern, 671-2c. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 55@551-2c; No. 3, 54@541-2c. Oats—No. 3 white, 40c; No. 3, 87 1-2c. Barley—Feed grades, 33@35c; malting grades, 35@45c. Rye—No. 2, 52@52 1-2c. Duluth, July 30.—Wheat—Cash, No. 1 hard, 72 5-8c; No. 1 Northern, 7ic; No. 2 Northern, 66c; No. 3 spring, 62c; to arrive, No. 1 hard, 725-8c; No. 1 Northern, 69 5-8c; July, No. 1 Northern, Tic; September, No. 1 Northern, 69 5-8c; December, 701-2c; oats, 35 1-2@35 3-4c; rye, 531-2c; flax, cash, $1.85; Septem- ber, $1.62; October, $1.55. Milwaukee, Wis., July 30. — Flour is dull. Wheat easier; No. 1 Northern, 72c; No. 2 Northern, 7lc; September, 713-8 @ 711-2c. Rye steady; No. 1, 661-2c. Barley. firm; No. 2, 60c; sample, 40@5ic. Oats steady; No, 2 white, 40@411-2c. Corn — September, 56 1-8@56 1-4c. : Chicago, July 30.—Cash Wheat—No. 2 red, 711-2c; No. 3 red, 70@701-2c; No. 2 hard winter, 701-2c; No. 3 hard win- ter, 691-2c; No. 1 Northern spring, 711-2c; No. 2 Northern spring, 70 1-2c; No. 3 spring, 68@70c. Corn—No. 2, 55@ 55 1-2c; No. 3, 54@55c. Oats—No. 2, 38@ 38 1-2c; No. 3, 37 1-2@38c. Sioux City, Iowa, July 30. — Cattle — Beeves, $3.80 @ 5-55; cows, bulls and mixed, $2 @ 4; stockers and feeders, $2.25@3.50; calves and yearlings, $2.25@ 3.60. Hogs, $5.60@5.80; bulk, $5.62 1-20 5.72 1-2. % South St. Paul, July 30. — Cattle — Prime butcher steers, $5@5.40; good to choice, $4.50@4:90; fair to good, $3.75@ 4.25; common to fair, $3.25@3.60; prime butcher cows and heifers, $3,804.25; good to choice butcher cows and heif- ers, $3.35@3.75; fair to good, $2-75@3.25; canners and cutters, $1.50@2.60; good to choice butcher bulls, $3@3.75; bologna $2@2.75; god to choice. veals, $5@ ; good to choice feeders, $3.15@3.40; to good, $2.90@3.10; common, $2@ 2.75; steer calves, $3@3.40; good to choice heifers, $2.50@2.75; fair to good, $2.25@2.40; common, $1.75@2.15; heifer calves, $2.25@2.75; good to choice milch cows, $35@40; fair to good, $30@35; com- with horrible torture. ‘was filled with promises of such untold perpetrators. Hearn treated as a joke, stated that unless $2,000 was placed in a certain . spot Miss Maude would be kidnapped coming conference of the leaders of the two contending forces is looked forward however, predominates, and peace is confidently expected by the majority of those interested. - FATHER TO BE MADE A WITNESS) OF HIS DAUGHTER’S MUTI- LATION. KIDNAPPERS DEMAND MONEY” Wealthy Capitalist of Mattoon, ML, Receives Letters Making Horri- ble Threats Against Himself and His Thirteen-year-old Daughter— Police Will Attempt to Unravel « the Plot. , Mattoon, Ill., July 31—Richard Hearn, a@ wealthy retired farmer of this city, has received three threatening letters) - from unknown parties within the past: week, demanding $2,000 or himself and - only child, Maude, a girl of thirteen, will be kidnapped and put to death The last letter torments that Hearn yesterday made ~ public the affair and the police are in possession of clews, which, it is be- lieved, will result in the capture of the - The first missive, which and held for ransom. It was followed by a sterner letter in which the writer declared that not only would the daughter be stolen and safely hidden, but the Father Would Be Slain for his parsimony. As this failed to - bring the desired ransom a third com- munication was sent which caused Hearn great agony and he acted with promptness. “This is you last chance,” the writer lared. “Unless the money is forth- coming you and the girl will both be captured. In your presence her eyes will be burned out and her heart cut from ler body. like fate.” Then you will meet a Hearn says he is not alarmed for his own life, but would do anything for his daughter’s safety. is best to refuse the demands of the kidnappers, fortune of $75,000. allowed to leave his side and the resi- dence will be under guard until the ~ police are enabled to unravel the plot and apprehend the guilty parties. He believes it although possessed of a His daughter is not HOPE FOR PEACE. Settlement of the Great Strike Con- fidently Looked For. Pittsburg, July 31. — Everybody is on. the qui vive in strike circles and the to with mingled hope and fear. Hope, “The executive committee of the Amalgamated association will meet in the headquarters of the organization at 10 o'clock soon thereafter as possible and take up to-morrow morning or as the proposition of the United States Steel Corporation for a settlement of the steelworkers’ strike.” This statement was made yesterday by Secretary Williams, of the Amal~ gamated association. Beyond this he declined to discuss the strike in any form. There was no change in the po- sition of the two contestants yesterday. Both sides held firmly to the plan of watching each other. The officials of the Wood mill of the American Sheet Steel company made no effort to start the plant, and indications pointed to their remaining imactive until the strike negotiations are decided one way or the other. It was a busy day for President Shaffer gnd the executive of- ficials of the Amalgamated association, There was a steady stream of callers from early in the morning and innum- erable conferences bearing on the pro- posed Settlement of the Strike. President Shaffer was firm in his de- termination not to talk on the strike situation until after the meeting to- day or until the decision had been reached by the executive committee concerning the propositions of the United States Steel corporation. It was estimated, however, that there was a very strong liklihood that ‘the com- mittee would not adjourn to-day until they had met with the officers and formally discussed the settlement of the strike. If this should be the case, actual peace is possible in a short time. The following terms of settlement of the strike come from an authoritative source and can be relied upon in all human prokability as the outcome of the meeting of the conferees: The Amalgamated association is to drop contention for the signing of a scale for all mills. All mills are to be “open” mills in the fullest sense of the term. The company is to have the right to place a non-union man.in any plant and keep him there. The Amalgamated association is to have the privilege of organizing the , men in any of the plants. JOINTS AND PUMPS WRECKED. Threshers Are Angered Beenuse They Couldn’t Get Booze. i The reports of missionaries to China show that terrible conditions exist. Army officials are watching the oper- ations of aerial navigation at Paris. Parisian scientists have built a circus to watch the reasoning process of ani- mals. There is talk in London of forming an anti-American league of all European powers. { In reply to an inquiry, Lord Kitchener has cabled the government of Queens~ land that he would be glad to have more mounted men. ‘The rise of the North Sea coast or the sinking of the sea level has been con~- firmed, says the Berlin correspondent of the Standard, “by observations at the mouth of the Kaiser Wilhelm canal. ‘There is shown a decrease in the depth of the water at the mouth of the Elbe of sixteen to eighteen feet since 1895.” Sir Thomas Lipton has declined to accede to the demands of the fifteen men from Shamrock I, whom he wished to take to America to help sail the sponsible for the mischief and directly caused it. I think he was and did, and that under our statute, which throws a considerable responsibility upon dog owners, the defendant is lia- ble. My personal sympathies are with any self-respecting dog in his efforts to keep bicycle riders where they be- long, in the street, and I believe he should be accorded some latitude in his “ methods, but Mr. Hulburt’s dog went too far.” pe SELEY OE Sar £4 The coal mines in Japan now yield some 4,000,000 tons annually, of which more than three-tourths hail from the mines at the island of Kiau-siu. In the year 1899 the exports of coal from Japan amounted to 2,500,000 tons, the rest being consumed at home for rail- ways, steamers and factories. Private individuals hardly use coal at all in Japan, From the harbors of Kiau-siu the exports during 1899 were about edict just issued recogizes the new Chinese foreign office, which replaces the old tsung li yamua. Prince Ching is appointed minister in charge. The new office is made the leading one of the seven boards which now constitute the federal government. Wichita, Kan., July 31—Eight thresh- ing machine crews came into the town of Colwich Sunday and because they could not get liquor on account of the Sunday law they smashed five joints and in addition wrecked a number of town pumps. The citizens organized a party to cause their arrest, but the threshers made them retreat. The riot- ing was resumed yesterday, when the citizens again tried to arrest them, but again they bie to give up. The sheriff has been ed to ccme at once to the scene. ” to Kansas City. The matter is under advisement in the war department. Application has been made by busi- ness men of Kansas City to have the army headquarters of the department of the Missouri removed from Omaha to Kansas City. The matter is under advisement at the war department. Children are being taught in regular books of the Sunday schools of Chi- cago that the Bible account of the cre- ation is not historical and _sctentific and that the story of the fall of man may be allegorical rather than literal. . On the advice of the city hospital physicians of Cincinnati, Rev. H, D. Moore, aged seventy-eight, one of the most widely known preachers in Cin- cinnati, was sent to the Longview asy- lum. He was suffering from senile de- mentia- A box marked “Mrs. McKinley, Can- ton, Ohio,” was brought into Charotte harbor recently on the North King from Coburg, Ont. It contained a knit wool- mon, $25@30. Hogs—Light, $5.50 @ 5.75; mixed an@ butchers, $5.55@5.85; heavy, $5.40@5.85, pious $3@3.50; stags, $4:50@5.25; bij 1B. Sheep—Good to choice spring lambs, $4@4.75; fair to good, $3.50 @ 4; fat wethers, $3.40@3.60; fat ewes, $3.28@3.50; good to choice stock and feeding lambs, $3@3.25; fair to good, $2.75@3;* feeding wethers, 96@3.25; stock and feeding ewes, $2.50@3; thin sheep, $2.25@2.75; killing bucks, $2@2.25. ‘Westerns: Wethers, $3.50@3.75; se eros ‘ Chicago, July 30. — Cattle — Good to Mad Mallen. Reston, prime steers, $5.25 @ 5.80; poor to medi- Aden, Arabia, July 30.—In a'fight be- | um, $4@5.25; stockers and feeders, $2.40 tween the Mad Mullah and the British | @4; cows, $2.75 @ 4.50; canners, $1.25@ July 17 the former was routed, losing | 2.25; bulls, $2.2504. calves, $3.50 @ 70 killed. The British casualties were | 5.75; Texas fed steers, $3@4.50. Hogs— Lieut. Fredericks and 12 men killed and |} mixed and butchers, $5.€5@6.05; good to Lieut. Dickson and 20 men wounded. choice heavy, $5.90@6.15; rough heavy, $5.60@5.85; light, $5.65@5.90; bulk of sales, $5.80@5.921-2. Sheep, $3.30@4.50; lambs, $805.35. © ¥ ' Fire Causes Heavy Loss. N. H., July 30.—A fire in the Railroad Bridge Destroyed. Carbondale, Ill., July 30. — Fire yes- terday destroyed a bridge on the Gal- ena division of the Illinois Central rail- road, completely tieing up all traffic perding @ rebuilding of the structure. RUSSIAN COPPER MINES. A. Clark Forms Partnership With Grand Duke Michael. London, July 31.—W. A. Clark’s min- eral enterprises in Russia have been the subject of much speculative gossip. ‘The latest story is to the effect "that he has entered into a partnership with Grand Duke Michael to work copper mines in tl Ural mountains. It is said that grand duke, who owns the mines, offered Mr. Clark a share w. Firebugs in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, July 30.—Fire of incen- @iary origin dectroyed the mills of Schwade in the northeastern double what they had been four years | Challenger. Sir Thomas offered the | . shoulder cape for Mrs. McKinley. | section ‘ . | Keene, on previously. Most of the coals go to | men ® bonus of £8 in adaltien to MGk | the cape was knit by Mra. U. 8. Grant, ) mated octane eutacrereee ta tarvee | Sanne ete mative: Grocers eee | tn shes 1 be RON ee AC Obina and Bong Kong. —- ands are being obtained. | widow of Gen, U, 8, Grant, now at Co ee pa Meter Feet cay $4,000,000 in the property . eo i