Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 24, 1901, Page 2

The Revald--Review. By E. C. KILEY, GRAND RAPIDS, - MIN The number of Protestant Chris- tians in Ceylon has increased in fif- teen years from 446,780 to 753,641. O'PA, In size, not counting colonies, the European powers stand in this order: Russia, tria, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy. Residents in England have £110,- 000,000 invested in mortgages in for- eign countries. These investments an- nually drain the foreign countries of about £5,500,000 in cold cash. In 1818 the sugar products of Louis- fana amounted to 25,000 hogsheads, the whole of the cane being ground by cattle, the use of steam in the grind- ing of cane and the manufacture of sugar not being introduced until 1822. The annual report concerning the food supply of Paris for 1900 contains some interesting figures. Here is the oficial average of what a Parisian eats and drinks in one year: Two fhundred and forty-two eggs, 19.25 pounds of butter, 3.05 pounds of ready- cooked butcher's. meat, 34.92 pounds of fish, 154.74 pounds of beef, 25.88 pounds of pork, and 27.83 pounds of fowl and game. A cooling tower made of brush and twigs is in operation at the power- house of the Los Angeles railroad at Sherman, Cal. The cooler consists of a timber framework 60 feet long, 12 feet wide and 13 feet high, filled up with brush and twigs, and it cools the condensing water for a 300--.orse-pow- er compound engine and a 460-horse- power compound engine working on a railway load. The Kongo ivory as, indeed, all Af- rican ivory, is far more highly prized than the Asiatic product. It is harder, of a finer grain, lends itself more eas!- ly to workmanship, and has fewer fis- sures. The tusks of Kongo elephants are as a rule very large and weigh on an average of 60 pounds. Some of them are of extraordinary size. At the Brussels exhibition a pair of tusks were on show each of which weighed 156 pounds. i —. A rare phenomenon attended an earthquake that visited a little town in Mexico recently. Having wrecked several houses in the town the tremor passed on to a lake in the neighbor- hood, the waters of which it put into violent agitation. The agitation ceased after a few minutes, and then the water gradually disappeared, leaving the bottom of the lake exposed, when ft was seen that the earthquake had opened a fissure in the bottom and thus drained it. “What did God give you a crook in the army for?” Bishop Creighton once asked in an address. “Why, surely to hook {t into some other fellow’s.” Upon few friendly arms do so many persons lean for help over hard places as on Chautauqua’s. Over one hundred and twenty of its assemblies are to be held this summer in thirty-four different states and territories, with a prospec- tive attendance aggregating a million persons. Moreover, this is Chautau- qua’s summer work only. A pleasant accompaniment of the hot weather this summer is the in- creasing tendency on the part of city teamsters to provide their horses with head coverings. The really fashiona- ble thing in equine millinery is a walking-hat of straw, with a high crown and holes in the brim through which the horse’s ears protrude. Some of the teamsters who have feminine friends and,a sense of humor have provided their animals with trimmed hats, generously deeorated witb chif- fon, bright-colored ribbons or a gaudy quill. The hats themselves are a con- siderable protection against the sun, and when, as is usual, a wet sponge is placed in the crown, the horse can do his work without danger and in greater comfort. It is a sensible in- novation. Juvenile courts and the system of probation for young offenders have proved so successful in Eastern cities, especially in Boston, that much good was expected from the introduction of the plan in Chicago. The results are disappointing. The fundamental idea of the system is that for a first offense @ young lawbreaker shall be placed on probation, during the term of which he is to be under the care of suitable per- sons. In Chicago at least twenty-five probation officers are needed. The cit) e@ppointed only five, each of whom has charge of about three hundred boys, and the whole fifteen hundred are herded together in a reformatory school which does not reform but cor- rupts. It is a pity that American cities are so slow to learn that anything which prevents an increase in the num- ber of criminals is a saving in dollars and cents, to say nothing of the moral gain. German folk-lore tells of a peacock which thrust the glory of his plumage upon all other poultry till a young hen eackled, “Just look at his feet!” The peacock had forgotten his ill-formed extremities. “Just look at his feet!” is not an uncommon expression today. The growing summer fashion of dress- ing children’s feet with sandals only bas much to commend it. It will cre- ate a healthy sentiment and a good “understanding” that will refuse to wait for the millennium to know why shoes are invariably made foo tight. we tee From Washington. Lieut. Wallace Bertholf of the Unitde States navy, has begun shipping 12,090 reindeer from Okhotsk post to Alaska. The navy department has selected Rear Admiral Mortimer L, Johnson, now in command of the Port Royal na- val station, to succeed Admiral Samp- son in command of the Boston navy rd when the latter officer shall retire. Secretary Gage has appointed W lace HH. Mills chief clerk of the treas- ury department as the treasury mem- ber of the government board of the St Louis exposition. J. H. Brigham, sistant secretary of the department of agriculture, is chairman of this board. Acting Secretary of the Navy Hack- ett has sent to Capt. N. H. Hall, who commanded the legation guard at Pekin @urirg a part of the critical cri- sis there, a letter of commendation for the heroic services of those under his command during thcse trying circum- stances. It is stated at the treasury depart- ment that there is no truth in the story that a young Pole named Dembit- zky, said to be the heir of Baron Lud- wig Napoleon Dembitzky, has a credit of more than $2,000,00¢ in the United States treasury. It is pointed out that the government never receives private deposits of any character. The Indian office has been advised by George C. Bateman, who recently €n- tered into an agreement to cut the Oscattered timber remaining on the Lac Court @’Oreilles Indian reservation in Wisconsin that owing to the extent of the enterprise he will be unable to carry out his contract. The depart- ment has accordingly canceled the agreement. Accidental Happenings. Four-fifths of the town of Farsund, on the North sea, has been destroyed by fire. About 1,200 peowie were ren- dered homeless. While standing on the walls of the canal at Sault Ste Marie waving adieu to friends on a steamer, Judge John A. Couch fell into the lock and narrowly escaped drowning. The steamer Idzumi Maru brings the news that ten Chinese workmen were burned to death while engaged in re- pairing the United States steamer Arethusa, at the Hongkong docks. Two large buildings owned by the Hafner-Lothman Marvfacturing Com- pany of St. Louis, consisting of planing mil! and sash and door factory, were burned, entailing a loss estimated at $1£0,006 Damage amounting to thousards of dollars has »een done to citizens of Kentucky, especially those who ecupy the valley farms. It has been rairing for several days. and there are no signs of abatement. The heaviest rainstorm this season has occurred at Prescott, Ariz. Five bridges on the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix railway are reported washed out. A cloudburst in the Black Hills between Prescott ani Jerome did much damage. A heavy locomotive drawing a mixed train on the Denver & Rio Grande road exploded a mile east of La Vela. The shock was terrific, and the engine is a compizte wreck. Engineer U. P. Woods was killed, being blown to pieces, and Fireman M. S. Maple was so badly hurt that he died in a few hours later. The girls’ summer camp at Catskill, N. ¥., was in a panic recently. Sixty young women, mostly residents of Al- bany and Poughkeepsie, ‘vere suddenly taken alarmingly ill, displaying symp- toms of poisoning. On inquiry it was found that the girls had partaken of corned beef. not the canned variety, however. Physicians say they will re- cover. Foreign’ Gossip. Boers continue to surrender in large pnumbers, Harvesting in France is over and the wheat crop is very short. The new Chinese tariff places cereals and flour on the free list. The situation in Venezuela and Co- lombia seems more warlike. Judge Carland decided the South Da- kota maximum railroad case in favor of the railroads. The price of whisky advances as a result of the decrease in the yield of corn, rye and barley. Universal peace is almost assured, notwithstanding petty jealousies of some European countries. Miss Harriet Boyd, an American woman, has located and uncovered forgotten cities in Crete. The house of commons decided that the words “defender of the faith” shall remain in King Edward’s title.. Commandant Pretorius, who was re- cently shot through the eyes, is dead at Jagersfontein, Orange River Colony. Havana cigarmakers declare that the United States must grant tariff con- cessions or Cuba must ask for annexa- tion. Francis B. Loomis, the new United States minister to Portugal, had an audience with King Charles and pre- sented his credentials. The Berlin Reichst Anzeiger an- nounces that the Prussian government has sanctioned the loan of 40,000,000 marks to be negotiated by the Province of Posen. Mr. Kruger has confirmed the rumor of his intention to visit the United States, but said he had not yet fixed the date on account of “possible events in Europe.” The Court Cireular announces that King Edward, wher. receiving Count von Waldersee in audience at Hom- burg, invested him with the military cross of the Order of the Bath. In a pistol duel at Pressburg, Hun- gary, Volunteer Corporal Hastinger was mortally wounded by his officer, Col. Dillmann. The latter had boxed Hastinger’s ears for impertinence. Julius Lieban, who for many years has been connected with opera in Ber- lin, will retire at the expiration of his present contract. He is already under special engagement for opera in the United States. bo srcined , jing and bathing beach, SR eb Be BASE SRE lea S Crimes and Criminals, One of the Chicago banks was recent- ly victimized out of $30,000 in cash. An effort is being made to keep the matter secret, and not even the name of the bank is given. The bonds of Walter N. Dimmnick, former chief clerk of the United States mint at §an Francisco, who is under arrest, charged with embezzling $30,000, have been placed at $37,000. Jacob Gerhardt, contractor and build- er, at Shamokin, Pa., killed his wife by shooting her through the heart. Ger- bardt then placed the revolver against his own head and fired, but did not kill himself. He was arrested. It is said that discoveries have been made which are believed to establish conclusively that wholesale smuggling of Chinese from British Columbia into the United States, throvgh Santa Bar- bara, Cal., has been carried on. George S. Kinnock, aged twenty-one, and Robert Shuler, aged twenty, dent- ists of Allentown, Pa., have been ar- rested in Denver, charged with robbing the jewelry store of Robert Stevens of Allentown of jewelry worth $3,000. At Jacksboro, Texas, in a pitched battle between a sheriff's posse and two men wanted by the authcrities, named Miller and Roberts, Posseman G. M. Leftwitch was killed. After driving back the officers, the two men escaped. Eben L. Brice was executed at Taco- ma, Wash., for wife-murder. He col- lapsed when summoned for the march to the gallows, and was revives, and as he ste) don the scaffold, said: “Iam a soldier still.” His neck was broken by the fall. ; Wiiiiam Clinton and Charles J. Leon- ard, ticket brokers, were arrested at St. Louis charged with swindling @ customer. A search of their office re- vealed a large number of railway tick- ets that are declared by local railway officials to be counterfeit. William Hutchman, proprietor of the Certral hotel at Aberdeen, Wash., was arrested just after setting fire to the Methodist church. He confesses that his plan wag to burn the Central hot2l for insurance, setting fire to it while the derartment was at the church. People Talked About. Mrs. A. F. Friggman, wife of the American artist, is dead in Paris. Sir William Laird, the Glasgow iron- master, is dead. He was born in 1830. A firm of cotton-buyers in Atlanta, Ga., anncunce thac they have taken Richmond P. Hobson into partnership. Charlemagne Tower, United States ambassador to St. Petersburg, and Mrs. Tower, have gone to Switzerland for a short stay. Christian Mack, president of the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Savings Bank, one of the best known banks in that state, and proprietor of the largest dry goods store in that city, dropped dead in his store. He was the father-in-law of Willis J. Abbott, the well known jour- nalist. Solomon Bamberger, well known in the wholesale liquor trade throughout the country, was found dead in bed ina rocm of the Equitable hotel, et the Bowery and Grand street, New York. There was a strong odor of carbolic acié in the room. He left three letters, two of which were for his wife. Bishop F. R. Graves of China, who is visiting relatives in Princeton, N. Y., says the war in China is r.ot over, and that anarchy almost exists in the northern part of the country. The peo- ple are dissatisfied with the present rule, and he thinks Kwang Su will oc- cupy the throne as soon as a leader ap- pears Perry T. W. Hale, Yale’s full-back of last year, is seriously ill a+ the Hart~ ford (Conn.) hospital with internal in- juries, which a physician on the staff of the hospital says were traceable to the training incident to football and to injuries received by Hale in the Yale- Princeton and Yale-Harvard games of last year, General. Milwaukee is threatened with a milk famine. David Nation, husband of the joint smasher, brings suit for divorce. A South Carolina man has sued Senator Tillman for $10,000 for alleged slander. The weekly government crop report shows but little if any improvement in the situation. ‘An agreement between the National and American leagues will probably be arranged next winter. The Amalgamated Copper company has bought, for $1,000,000, the Clipper- Boss Tweed group of gold-producing mines in Madison county, Mont. As a meeting of the stockholders of the National @lass company it was unanimously: decided to increase the aggregate bonded indebtedness of the company to $2,500,000. Bugs have appeared in large num- pers in fields of volunteer wheat in Texas and threaten to destroy the sec- ond growth as completely as they did the first crop in the sprirg. Beno Gabried tried to flirt with Mrs. Vera Frazee at State and Illinois streets, Chicago. The beating he re- ceived at the hands of Mrs. Frazce and two lady companions will mar his beauty for weeks to come. All is in readiness for the issuance of the invitation to the nations of the world to take part in the Louisiana Purchase exposition in 1903. The invi- tation will be in the form of a procla- mation by President McKinley. The Llincis department of agricul- ture has {ssued a swrery of reports ficm crop correspondents, dated Aug. 1, The area of wheat harvested was 1,870,000 acres, with the estircated yield of 31,100,000 bushels, the largest crop produced since 1894. Sugar Island, about five miles from Gananoque, Ont., has been purchased by the American Canoe association for use as a permanent camp site. The isl- and is about thirty miles in extent, and is well wooded, with numerous bays and coves which give good land- i GAINS BY BOSSES. FRENZIED MOB DRIVING THEM OUT AND BURNING THELR HOUSES. . NEGRO CREMATED IN HIS HOUSE Enraged White Element Aveging the Murder of a White Woman— Local Arsenal Raided and Militia Rifles Appropriated—Negroes Are Hiding in the Surrounding Woods —Wrong Man Lynched. Pierce City, Mo., Aug. 22—¥For nearly fifteen hours yesterday this town of 3,000 inhabitants was in the hands of a mob of armed whites, determined to drive every negro from its precincts. In addition to the lynching Monday night of Will Godley, accused of the wanton murder of Miss Gazelle Wild, and the shooting to death of his grand- father, French Godley, the mob yester- day cremated Pete Hampton, an aged negro, in his home, setting the torch to the houses of five blacks, and with the aid of state militia rifles stolen from the local company’s arsenal, drove doz- ens of negroes from town. After noon the excitement died down, the mob gradually dispersing, more from lack of negroes upon which to wreck their hatred than for any other cause. Many of the negroes who fled the city are hiding in the surrounding woods, while others have gone greater distances in seeking safety. Every negro has left town except a few railway porters known to be respectable, but who Must Also Leave. The citizens of Pierce city say that as negroes have committed several such crimes in the last ten years none shall live there in the future. The same feeling exists at Monnett, four miles east of Pierce City, and the end of the Frisco passenger division. It may be necessary for the road to change all porters at Springfield hereafter. It is now believed that man, Wil? Godley, lynched was not the real cul- prit. A negro named Starks, under ar- rest at Tulsa, Ind. T., across the border from here, tallies exactly with the de- scription of the murderer. He is held there awaiting identification. Unless the man is brought back here it is be- lieved there will be no further trouble. Iz returned here he will surely be lynched. Artother suspect, Joe Lark, is under arrest in Springfield, Mo. Eu- gene Barret, also known as Carter, in a confession while a rope was around his neck, accused Joe Lark, a Frisco rail- road porter, of being Implicated in the Crime, and Lark was arrested at Springfield. Yesterday afternoon Lark gave a de- tailed statement as to! his whereabouts Sunday, and he is not believed to be guilty. It is not likely that either sus- pect will be taken to Pierce City while th2 excitement runs high. Some here think that Barret told any story in order to save his life. Pierce City is near the junction of four railroads, and trains from all directions brought’ in large numbers of armed men yesterday, bent on bloodshed if necessary. When the mob went to the section of the city occupied by the negroes, some one in the cabins opened fire, but no one was hit!) The mob then destroyed the five ‘houses, but the financial loss is small. Reckless firing broke several plate glass windows and a train was fired into. None of the passengers were hurt. The ritles taken from the militiacom- pany, it is expected, will all be re- turned. 1D BY A MOB. BU Negro, Pays Frightfal Penalty for a Henious Crime. Dallas, Tex., Aug. 22.—A dispatch re- ceived here from Whitesboro, Tex., says the negro Alf Wilder, charged with the murder of Mrs. Caldwell, the wife of a Grayson county farmer, at her home on Saturday last, was captured by a mob and burned at Nelson’s ranch, two and one-half miles east of Reed ranch. The burning occurred early last night. The mob was composed of 300 men. The negro was taken to a tree and swung up in the air.. Wood and fodder were piled beneath his body and a hot fire made. Then it was suggested that the man ought not to die too quickly, and he was let down to the ground, while a party went to Dexter, two miles distant to procure coal oil. This was thrown on the flames and the work completed. Captured by a Posse. Wilder was captured near Dexter about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon. He had been seen the day before by a negro who knew him, and who had in- formed the citizens of the fact. A posse was at once organized and the work of beating the Red river bottoms began. It is said that it was the intention of the mob to take Wilder back to the scene of his crime, and there lynch him, put messages by telegraph and tele- phone gave warning that the authori- ties were hastily repairing to the scerie with a considerable force and the work of execution was expedited. At Whites- boro a great crowd had gathered in an~- ticipation of a chance to participate in the lynching, and when it was learned the work had been done they expressed great disappointment. Mrs. Caldwell was a bride of but six months. Dexter is far from railroads, there are no tel- egraph facilities and it will be some time before all the details of the lynch- ing can be learned. A $100,000 Blaze. Omaha, Aug. 22. — The freight sheds and twenty-five loaded and twenty-five empty freight cars belonging to the Union Pacific railroad were burned at the transfer depot of that company in Council Bluffs yesterday afternoon, causing a loss estimated at $100,000. STONED TO DEATH. Four Youngsters in Custody fo the Deed. Kokomo, Ind., Aug. 22. — Four boys, Roy and Lester McVeta, and Ray and Freddie Marvin, all in knickerbockers, ranging in age from 6 to 10 years, have been arrested for stoning another boy, Eddie McKee, to death. One of the children was old encugh to write his name on the bond. The children were playing on the raflway when the Mc- Kee boy, who was older, came along, and the fight which followed resulted in his death. itoring Crippled Properties. Pittsburg, Aug. 21.—The United States Steel corporation made a series of gains yesterday in the restoration of proper- ties crippled by the strike of the Amal- gamated association and its sympa- thizers, The steel mills at Monessen, after a long period of inactiv were partly put in motion by strike-breakers gathered in some of the Southern states, two more mills in the Painter plant were also started up, and another large mill at the Clark property was also operated for the first time. There was some disorder in the streets of Monessen during the day, but the local police never lost control of the demon- Strative crowds and there was no seri- ous trouble. The reopening of the Monessen mill is believed to be the first of a scries of aggressive moves on the part of the steel corporation, Prepara- tions are known to be in progress for reopening the Star tin mills in this city and for increasing the force at the Lindsay & McCutcheon mills, and it is thought to be only a matter of time be- fore the strengholds of the strikers, like Newcastle, McKeesport, Wheeling, Bellaire and Mingo Junction Will Be Invaded. The strikers deny that any real progress has been made at either Monessen or Painter’s, and say that they are not to be frightened by the burning of a lot of coal and the mere operation of machinery. They say that skilled men cannot be secured outside of their ranks, and that none of their men are deserting despite claims to the contrary. The managers of the Painter mills, which now have four mills on, claim that part of their two new crews is made up of old employes who have come back to work. At the Clark mill, where the ten-inch mill was started for the first time yesterday, and where everything except a small eight-inch’ mill is now being operated, it is as- serted that more skilled men are of- fering their services than can be ac- ecmmodated. Fifty more were taken on there yesterday, bringing the total force up. to 600. It was claimed that there were 200 men at work in the Painter mills and that fifty of them were skilled. The greatest fight in this district is for mastery at the Duquesne mills of the Carnegie company, Both sides are Working Secretly, the Amalgamated association to extend its organization and strength among the workers, and the steel company to block any plan to get the men out. Neither side has shown its strength yet and it is impossible to get any line on the ultimate result. Assistant Sec- retary M. F. Tighe returned from the West yesterday and was closeted for several hours with President Shaffer. He was given a very enthusiastic re- ception by his associates and returns a stronger figure in the organization than when he departed. Discussing his re- port, Mr. Shaffer said: “All that/ Mr. Tighe told me was in the papers last week, and there was nothing aside from this. The Chicago mill.mem- who remained at work are now no longer members of the organ- ization. They are not entitled to a trial and will have none. They are at liberty to act as they see fit now, but if they go out they will do so on their own responsibility. We will do nothing about the matter from now on. On the whole, the strike is going on very well. We are getting out more men every day and will continue to do so. The fight is hardly begun yet. There will be plenty of trouble for the trust before long if they keep on in their present course.” AWFUL DISASTER. Sixty- Seven Lives Lost in the Wreck of the Stemer Islander. Port Townsend, Wash., Aug. 21.—The steamer Queen haz just arrived from the North, bringing news of one of the most appalling marine disasters on the Pacific coast. The steamer Islander, sailing from Skagway on Aug. 14, when nearing the scuthwest end of Douglas island at 2 a.m. Aug. 15, and running at full speed, struck a floating iceberg and in less than twenty minutes went to the bot- tom of the deep channel, carrying men, women and children to watery graves. The Islander had 108 passengers, and all of them were in bed when the vessel struck. The shock was so severe that many were thrown from their berths, and the wildest excitement prevailed. Word was soon passed that the vessel was doomed, and a general scramble for the lifeboats ensued, many jumping overboard and attempting to swim to the shore, the distance being short. In the Scramble to get into the boats many were hurled headiong into the chilly water, which, according to passengers arriving from the scene, seemed alive with human beings. Before all the passengers had left the vessel she gave a lunge and went down bow first. It is known that sixty-seven lives were lost. It will be some time before their rames can be definitely learned, as the purser lost his passenger list. Pilot La Blanc, who had charge of the steamer at the time she struck, says: ‘i “The night was fine, and as we all ex- pected to meet ice, a sharp look-out was kept. About 2:48 a. m. the crash came. The boat was under full speed and no ice was in sight, and there was no fog, but the wind was blowing and it was dark and cloudy. The fatal berg was no doubt even with the water. Af- ter she struck I stopped the engines, when Capt. Foot appeared with the night watchman, who reported the ship Leaking Forward. I told Capt. Foote that we would bet- ter head for the beach, but he de- murred, and when he decided to do so the ship was taking water so fast that she would not answer her helm. Then I cajled the mate and ordered the boats. This was cone and they were lowered with passengers. Many passengers jumped overboard with life preservers on. I jumped overboard and was in the water two hours and a quarter before securing a piece of wreckage.” The pilot also said that many of the men acted badly, attempting to jump into the boats before they had been launched. Had it not been for this crowding and rushing he thinks all would have been saved. The crew, on the other hand, behaved splendidly and looked to the safety of the passengers The recent operations in Cape Colony have frequently shown that Boer wo- men are riding about gathering horses for the use of the commandoes, THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and’ Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, Aug. 22. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 69 1-8@69 3-4¢; No. 2 North- ern, 67 1-8@67 3-4c, Corn—No. 3 yellow, 5S 1-2@59c; No. 3, 571-2@581-4c. Oats— No. 3 white, 37 @ 371-2c; No. 3, 261-2@ sie. Minneapolis, Aug. 22.—Wheat — No. 1 hard, 7c; No. 1 Northern, 68¢; No. 2 Northern, 66c. Corn — No. 3 yellow, 56 1-4¢; No, white, 36 1-2c to arrive; No. 3, 36@36 1-2c for spot. Duluth, Aug. 22.—Wheat—C: hard, 721-2c; No. 1 Northern, No. 2 Northern, 671-2c; No. 3 spring, 621-4c; to arrive, No. 1 har No. 1 Northern, 71¢ Northern, 70 1-2c; Northern, 71 5-§ barley, feeding, 50@56c; maiting, corn, 551-2c; flax, to arrive and $1.62; September, $1.57; October, $1.53. Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. —Fiour is steady. Wheat steady; No. 1 Northern, 711-2@721-2c; No. 2 Northern, 7@71c; September, 70c. Rye steady; No. 1, 591-4c. Barley firm; No. 2, 64 @ 65¢; sample, 45@631-2c. Oats steady; No. 2 white, 39c. Corn—September, 1-8e. Chicago, Aug. 22—Cash Wheat—No. 2 red, 701-2c; No. 3 red, 69 1-2@70c; No. 2 hard winter, 69 1-4@70 1-2c; No. 3 hard winter, 691-4970 1-2c; No. 1 Northern spring, 71@74c; No. 2 Northern spring, 70@72c; No. 3 spring, 67@71c. Corn—No. 2, 573-4@58c; No. 3, 57@571-4c. Oats— No. 2, 35 1-2%36c; No. 3, 35 1-2c. Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 22.—Cattle —- Beeves, $3.05 @ 4.40; cows, bulls and 2.4043.50; stockers and feeders, calves and yearlings, $2.75@ 15.95; bulk, 4 Chicago, Aug. 22.—Cattle — Good to prime steers, $5.50@6.30; peor to medi- um, $3.75 @ 5.35; stockers and feeders, $2.25@4.40; cows, $2.50@4.40; heifer: @3.25; canners ; bulls, 4.50; calves, $3.25@ $2.50@5; Western steers, $45.10. —Mixed and butchers, $5.60@6.25; to choice heavy, $5.76@6.3 rough heavy, $5. light, $5.55@6.05; bulk of sales, 80@6.10. Sheep, $2.35@4.35; lambs, $3' . South St. Paul, Aug. 22. — Cattle — Prime butcher steers, $5@5.40; good to choice, $4.50@4.90; fair to good, $3. 4.25; common to fair, $3.25@3.60; prime butcher cows and heifers, $3.80@4.25; good to choice, $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 bulls, $2@2.75; good to choice veals, $5@5.50; fair to good, $4@° 4.75; good to choice feeders, $3.15@3.40; fair to good, $2.90@3.10; common, $2@ 2.75; steer calves, $2.75G3.25; good to choice heifers, $2.50@2.75; fair to good, $2.25@2.40: common, $1.75@2.15; heifer calves, $2. 5; good to choice milch cows, $35@40; fair to good, $30@35. Hogs — Light, $5.60@5.85; mixed and butchers, $5.65 @6; heavy, $5.60 @ 6: Hogs good rough packers, $5.25@5.55; boars, $3 @ 3.50; stags, $4.50@5.25. Sheep—Good to choice spring lambs, $4@4.60; fair to good, $3.50@4; fat weth- ers, $2.25@3.40; fat ewes, $3@3.25; good to choice stock and feeding lambs, $3@ 3.25; fair to good, $2.7543; feeding weth- ers, $3@3. stock and feeding ewes, $2.5093; thin sheep, $2.2592.75; killing bucks, $2@2.25; Westerns: Wethers, 40. $3.40@3.60; ewes, $3.15@: AND WORSE. WRSE Horor of Golconda Disaster Grows as Details Become Known. Paducah, Ky., Aug. ‘The horror of* the City of Golconda disaster at Cot- tonwood bar, four miles above here, Monday night, grows as body after body is brought into the city and taken to the undertakes. The boat's register has not yet been recovered, but it is certain the death list will number seventeen, and, perhaps, twen- ty-two. An official investigation will be made as it seems certain that the most culpable carelessness caused the catastrophe. M. A. Peck, the pilot, claims the engineer deserted his post and that he could not manage the boat with the engines helpless. The engi- neer denies this and claims that he re- mained at the throttle until the water was waist deep. Frank Enders, one of the passengers, corroborated by several others, de- clares that the effort to land, brought the side of the boat around so that the wind struck it full force. There had been almost a gale blowing for ten min- utes, and one man, who could not swim, went to the pilot house and begged the pilot to land. When he did finally con- sent to land, the hurricane, visible as a huge black streak sweeping across the river, struck the boat as it swung around in a position liable to resist it. Early yesterday morning the work of searching for the remains began. The reason the work of recovery is so slow is because the boat’s furniture is piled on the bodies. The boat is being dis- mantled as she lies in eighteen feet of water in order that the dead may be reached. Hundreds are on the scene as spectators and voluntary assistants. The crowd is so great that the wreck- ing crew has difficulty in working. PERMANE NT PEACE ASSURED. Argentine Minister of Foreign Af- fairs Says Relatic With Foreign Powers Are Excellent. Buenos Ayres, Aug. 22, — In,the Ar- gentina senate yesterday Dr. Amancio Alcorta, minister of foreign affairs, after the adoption of a resolution of confidence in the attitude of the gov- ernment toward the forthcoming Pan- American congress in the City of Mex- ico, announced that the Argentina- Chilean governments had formulated a moral compromise not to increase their armaments by a single rifle. He said it was this resolution which had led to the resignation of the Chilean cabinet, and he declared tnat the maintenance of peace between Argentina and Chile was assufed. In reply to an interpella- tion he reiterated that the relations of Argentina with all foreign powers were excellent. Chile's Minister Dend. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 22—Senor Don Carlos Morla Vicuna, minister from Chile to the United States, died yester- day morning. Senor Vicuna was one of the best known South American states- men. He came to Buffalo from Wash- ington July 18 to attend the ceremonies incident upon the formal opening of the Chilean building at the Pan-American exposition. He took to bed the day af- ter his arrival, the result of a cold ¢on- tracted on the journey. This developed - into pneumonia. ‘r | i ]