JUST TO SHOW WE'RE NAVAL POWER Mai Meaning of the Big Fleet Demonstration. MS A GUARANTEE OF PEACE Tie Rapid Transfer of Our Fighting Strength-President Roosevelt Desires the Far East and Whole World to Sao What the Newer and Greater American Nsvy Is Like. Oyster nay, N. Y. (Special). The significance of Roar Admiral Brown son'a addition to the somewhat meager Information which has come from President Roosevelt regarding Hie contemplated two-ocean maneu vers of the Atlantic battleship fleet, la regarded here as having been over looked In the comment, expert And otherwise, which has since been In dulged In on both continents. Admiral Brownson come to Oyster Say Friday to take lunch with the President, professing entire Ignor- ?oe of the maneuver plans. When left Sagamore Hill to take the Jn for Washington, the Admiral id one thought which he wished iphaslted that it was desirable d Important to demonstrate to the arid how quickly the American Tavy conld transfer Its fighting cngth from one ocean to the Her. Thin was distinctly an addition to tte PreBdient's previous statement nod through Secretary Loeb. aereln the object of the maneuvers said to bo an exercise nidfement sr the benefit of the Navy, to per- us training in Ileet exercise on An extended scale, the purpose and fleet of the plan being for tho ben efit of the Navy alone. The President's View. What came from President Roose Tlt through Admiral Brownson is decidedly a different and much Iroader design. President Roose velt has been consistent in advocat ing a large navy as the surest guar antee of peace between the United States and all foreign powers. Here tofore a large navy has been reckon ed solely from the point of view of the number of ships, their tonnage. Armor, guns and fighting capacity. With this Idea the American Navy nas grown steadily, ship by ship. To the somewhat uninteresting ar y of ships and tonnage President Roosevelt now proposes to give the world a somewhat startling demon stration of what the Amerlran Navy la capable of doing to protect either or both of the extended shore lines of the United States. As Admiral Brownson said. "There la no time like tho present for such demonstration," n time when the United States is at iierfect peace "with every nation. In everything thrt has come from the President regarding the move ment It has been indicated that the fleet, wherever it may go, Is to be brought back to the Atlantic, and that the return is to be as much a demonstration of speed as the outward journey. A Guarantee Of Peace. While it Is asserted with all pos sible emphasis that (here is no foun dation for apprehension of trouble, either Immediate or future, between the United States and Japan, the pro posed demonstration with the fleet can be looked upon in no other light than that President Roosevelt In tends to use the American Navy for xactly that purpose for which he has advocated Its augmentation a guarantee of international peace. It was stated here Sunday that Ambassador O'Brien, who has been Invited to Sagamore Hill the latter part of the present week, will not be able to confer with the President before going to bin new post in Tokio. The Ambassador finds it necessary to devote some time to his personal affairs in Michigan, and will not find It convenient to return to the East before departing by way of San Francisco for Japan. It was remarked that there was no occasion for a conference between the Presi dent and Ambassador O'Brien other than the formality of official eti quette. 17 DIED IS TORNADO. Others Futally Injured In Wi-consin Disaster. St. Paul. Minn. (Special). It is now bellev.nl that at least seventeen lives were lost !n the tornado which swept Western Wisconsin. Numer ous other persons were Injured, and much damage to farm property and to dwelling houses Is reported. According to reports received here, Oakdale, on the Chicago. Milwaukee, nd St. Paul Railroad, near Camp Douglass, was wiped out. Four per sons are reported to have been kill ed there. At Grand Rapids, Wis., there are said to be five dead, but communica tion has not been re-established with that place. Sthmit Again In Court. Ban Francisco (Special). Former Mayor Eugene E. Schinltz was before Judge Dunne to answer thij indict ments charging him with accepting $55,000 as a bribe from the United Railroads and $3,275 from the gas oompany, but, as the prosecution had failed to have ready transcripts of the testimony taken before the grand jury, the case was continued to next week. Schmitz returned to Jail. THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Domestic The three-masted schooner Joseph E. Elliott Impaled the fishing schoon er Mattie Brundnge at sea, carrying the fisherman three miles before the vessels could slow down and be sepa rated. The Department of Justice fears that the appearance of John D. Rockefeller before a Chicago court In rebate cases may grant him Im munity from possible criminal prose cution. Judge Charles Swayne, who was held by the Knifed States Senate on charges of high crimes and misde meanors In office, but who was ac quitted died in Philadelphia. (leneral Bookkeeper McMlllen and Assistant Teller Menzemer, of the defunct Enterprise National Bank, of Allegheny. Pa., were sentenced to the penitentiary. One man killed and nine seriously wounded Is the result of a conflict botween clashing Interests In Alaska. A 15-year-old youth, five days without food, was found starving In a railroad box car at Cleveland, Ohio. Fire destroyed 23 bouses In the village of North Lawrence, N. Y. United States Attorney Devlin has received a letter from Attorney Gen eral Bonaparte asking htm to make an Investigation Into the actfon of the San Francisco authorities in re fusing to grant licenses to employ ment agencies conducted by the Ja panese. Under the auspices of the Gadsden Chapter. United Daughters of the Confederacy, a monument was un veiled at Gadsden,, Ga., to Emma Sansom, a heroine of the Civil War. Henry C. Howclls, a prominent New York real estate broker, com mitted suicide. He Is said to have had heavy losses In Wall Street. After being out 23 hours, the Jury in the case of Joseph Schuite. on trial for shooting Alton Cameron, failed to agree. Andrew Olrwlln, of Larksvllle, Pa., shot and probably fatally wound ed his wife and then fled to the mountains. At least four persons were killed and several were fatally Injured In a tornardo which swept over Wiscon sin. Six train robbers Held up a freight train on the Lackawanna and carried off their plunder in a wagon. The plant of the Larrabee Flour Milling Company at Stafford, Kan., was burned; loss, $150,000. Paul Monroe, a motorman, was killed in a collision of three electric cars at Providence, R. I. "Joe Legs" Llndeburger, of Chi- j cago, earned $300,000 in the wheat market In six weeks. Three men were killed by a 525- ! foot fall down n coal mine shaft at , Sprlngville, 111. Henry C. Morrison was elected president of the American Institute of Instruction. The former president and vice I president of the defunct Southern Bank and Trust Company of Fort Smith, Ark., were sentenced to the ' penitentiary for using the mails to defraud. Judge Blanchard, of New York, 1 has granted an Injunction restrain- ing a proposed merger of the Equl- table and Mercantile Trust Com- j panles. Jean Peplnos and James CaJas, two Greeks, were sent to jail by a New York magistrate for selling live j lizards to women as ornaments. A number of men were blown out of the window when the four-story Structure of Levi T. White, Clncln- j natl, O., collapsed. An ordinance has been introduced IS the Chicago City Council which plans to honeycomb the city with subways. The excursion steamer City of Lawrence ran on the rocks In Long Island Sound with 100 passengers aboard. Gone to the Game. " Cartoon by Brewerton, in tho Atlanta Journal. IS SI6NED BY TWO MILLIONS Raise For Ulwn Workers. Pittsburg (Special). Notice were posted by the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, of Pittsburg, that begin ning next Monday an Increase of 25 per cent, in wages will be paid in Sllitite plants operated by the com pany. The advanco will put the wages of the flint-glass workers to where thoy wore prior to January 1, 1907, when a decease of 25 per cent was made. Wrecked lly Uiukemuii. Littleton, N. C. (Special). Sea board Air Lino passenger train No. S8, from Atlanta to Portsmouth, was wrecked here by tho deliberate act Of a negro hrakemao employed on frvighht train, who leaped to the Around while the passenger train was leaving the station aud threw a switch open. The train was split, the dining oar and a day coach were wrecked and the cab of a freight train on the siding was smashed. The negro boarded a passing train, but was arrested at Weldon. Foreign, Carlos Waddlngton, son of Luis Waddlngton, who was charge d'af faires at Brussels, was acquitted of the killing of Senor Balraaceda, sec retary of the Chilian legation at Brussels, the defense being the un written law Andrew Carnegie, Alfred Vander bllt, Allison V. Armour and other American millionaires, upon the In vitation of Emperor William, visited the royal porcelain factories and model farm In East Prussia. King Leopold Is said to have de termined to solemnize his marriage under a religious ceremony with the Baroness Vaughn, by whom he has a two-year-old son, with a civil cere mony. Foreign MInlBter Plchon, of France, In an address to Parliament, spoke of the good relations between France and Germany. Peter Curran, a Socialist and trades union official, was elected to represent .farrow In the British House of Commons. A sharp engagement between Mo roccan rebels and imperial troops occurred on the north coaur. of Mo rocco. The Berin police recovered Jewels worth $60,000, which an actor had stolen from a dealer at Nuremburg. Forty Croatln deputies quit the lower house of the Hungarian Parlia ment In a body as a protest against the decree requiring the exclusive use of Hungarians In the railroad service. The French government has con ferred the cross of the Legion of Honor on Richard Strauss, the com poser. Petroff, the murderer of Premier Petkoff, of Bulgaria, was sentenced to death. A combination of Honduras, Guate mala and Salvador has been formed to checkmate President Zelaya's scheme to consolidate the five repub lics of Central America under one government with him as dlctutor. President Cabrera has caused the arrest of 180 .men. nearly all of whom are influential citizens of Guatemala, on the charge of com plicity in an attempt to assassinate him. A Tokio newspaper owned by the successor of Viscount Hayashl, in the Foreign Office, declared that "neither Washington nor the Tokio government can remain inactive in view of the latest action of the San Francisco authorities against the Japanese." Ilerr Gruber, editor of the Mun chener Post, of Munich, who was sued by Dr. Peters, the African ex plorer, for calumny In scouting him of cruelty to the natives when be was German Imperial commis sioner for East Africa In 1S91, was sentenced to pay a fine of $125 and costs. American Petition Presented at the Hague. MISS ECKSTEIN CONGRATULATED. Progress Made on the Propositions for the Establishment of an In ternational Prize Court snd With Reference to Laying Fixed and Floating Mines. The HaguetBy Cable) President Nelldoff, of the Peace Conference, re ceived Miss Anna Eckstein, of Bob ton, Mass., who presented a petition signed by over 2,000,000 Americans In favor of a general arbitration treaty. M. Nelldoff congratulated her on the number of signatures and said the petition was In the right di rection, for If any limitation of ar maments was possible it would be through arbitration. Russia, he con tinued, had not renounced her origi nal program, but to carry it out It was necessary to have recourse to ar bitration. The development of in ternational law and international courts must be dictated by a better understanding between the state and people, the furtherance of mutual good will and love of Christ. The conference, M. Nelldoff added, would discuss whether It should meet periodically, but he did not believe that the present conference would ar rive at a definite decision on the sub ject. Robert Treat Paine, president of the American Peace Society, who was present at the interview between M. Nelldoff and Miss Eckstein, said that it assumed greater Importance owing to the fact that it occurred on the Fourth of July, which he considered a good omen. The subcommittee of the Peace Conference on the proposed prize court, M. Bourgeois (France) presid ing, met and discussed the Anglo German propositions regarding the establishment of an International su preme prize court Baron Marshall von Blebersteln (Germany) made a speech explaining the German pro ject, and Sir Edward Fry (Great Bri tain) and several other delegates made brief statements on the sub ject. Gen. Horace Porter said the Americans wished to present their statements In writing. Four out Of the eight questions forming the set on the subject were approved. M. Bourgeois said that the presi dents of committees had agreed with the view of hastening the work; that no new questions shall be Introduced after the end of the present week, and that further modifications can only be proposed as amendments. THE QUEEN OF OREGON. Old Mrs. Wood Is A Wonderful Woman. Portland, Ore. (Special). One of the most Interesting features of the Fourth of July celebration In this city was the naming of Mrs. Mary Ramsey Lemox Wood "mother queen of Oregon." Mrs. Wood, who is 120 years of age, and well in possession of her faculties, did not participate actively in the exercises, It being deemed an unnecessary hardship to bring the old lady from her home, nt Hlllsboro, Into this city, but following appro priate exercises Gen. (leorge H. Wil liams, attorney general under Presi dent Grant, named her publicly as queen, applauded by hundreds of people who had gathered to witness the exercises. General Williams Is himself 84 years of age and a man of remark able preservation. Mrs. Wood was born In Knoxvllle, Tenn., May 20, 1787. In 1852 she moved from Missouri to Oregon. 37 DEAD. 2153 HURT Result Of Excess Of Patriotism In The Land. Chicago (Special). The Tribune says 37 men, women and children are dead and 2153 are maimed, lacerated or burned as a result of lost Thursday's excess of patriotism In the United States The number of the dead does not include five drowned during the day. The roster of the dead is four more than last year's mortality. A year ago 33 persons were dead on the morning after the Fourth, not including five drowned. Unfortunately, the death roll will Increase day by day, and even the late days of August will witness additions to it. Tetanus claims Its victims by scores, and even by hun dreds, for weeks after the Fourth. New York lendB all the cities of the country In the number of killed and Injured. Ten persons are dead In that city, while six more are so seriously hurt that it Is expected they will die. At the New York hos pitals 423 Injured persons were treated. No record was made of the number of dispensary cases cared for. There were 116 fires In Greater New York during the day. Those figures break all Fourth of July rec ords for the big metropolis. Pitts burg ran New York a close second In the grim race, nine persons yield ing up their lives on the altar of frenzied patriotism. Chicago, although the second city of the country, added only two dead to the nation's total. Springfield, 111., supplied three vic tims; Chatham, 111., two, and Aber deen, S. D., two. The total number of injured, 2163, is under last year's figures, which were 2789. The figures show that this year, as last, most of the casualties were due to carelessness In handling fire crackers and other forms of "harm less" explosives. The crusade against the deadly toy pistol seems to be bearing fruit, as this year only 205 victims are report ed, as against 304 last year. $199,800,000 IN 3 YEARS Vsat Earnings of Standard Oil Told of on Stand. Chicago (Special). With John D. Rockefeller as the central attraction and other officers of the Standard Oil Company as satellites, distinct progress was made Saturday by Judge Land Is In his efforts to dis cover facts upon which to base the amount of fines to !e Imposed upon the Standard Oil Company of Indi ana, convicted of violating the law. Judge Lnndls brought out from Mr. Rockefeller and tne testimony of the four other witnesses -Frederick A. Ward, Harry E. Felton, E. M. Stanton and Charles M. Pratt- Infor mation which It Is believed shows conclusively that th-- parent concern Is liable for the acts of the convicted Indiana corporation, and such fig ures as to assets were made known that lawyers and others who heard them thought no great hardship would be; Incurred If Judge Landls sees fit to assess the limit fine of $29,240,000 on the 1,462 counts, in stead of the smaller limit fine of $1,462,000. The examination was attended by the most remarkable demonstration ever seen around a Chicago court, the curiosity of the people to see the "richest man In the world" nearly carrying them beyocd all bounds. Two hours before the trial began the corridors of the Federal Building were thronged with people of nil walks of life. Every ascending ele vator was crowded with people, who disembarked at the sixth floor and stood about the hallway leading to Judge Lnndls' courtroom. As the hour for opening court approached tho crowds Increased, and the efforts of the United States marshals and their deputies, tocsther with the blue- coated policemen, were taxed to the utmost to keep the crowd In check. Declared Himself Ignorant. Mr. Rockefeller was an apparently willing and an equally unsatisfactory witness. We was ready to tell all he knew, but he said that he knew practically nothing. , The corporation's counsel fought every step with nil their might, but the Judge was not to be deterred from his purpose. Although Mr. Rockefeller proved n:i unsatisfactory witness, In that he could not give definite answers, the Judge did man age to pin him down once or twice to answers which contributed to the sum total of information the Judge desires. But from the fither witnesses more detailed Information was obtained, and when the trial had adjourned for the day these facts had been sifted from the answers: The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey holds $499,500, of the MISSING TELLER liOMMEBGUL COLUMN. HIS SPENT $41,907 ( Weekly Review of Trade and Latest Market Reports. Runyan Captured With $54,410 Left in Suitcase. BETRAYED BY WOMAN FRIEND. Whereabouts Revealed to Police by Woman is Whose Company Fugitive Hsd Been Since Saturday-Female Companion Identified Man Through Pictures in Newspapers. New York (Special). Bet.rayeo by a woman of the Tenderloin, on whom he had lavished money, to whom he had promised thousands of dollars, and who knew him only as "George," Chester B. Runyan. the defaulting teller of the Windsor Trust Company, who Is charged with stealing $96,000. .was arrested at a Pistol's point. He was caught In a three-room flat at 619 West Ons Hundred and Forty-fourth Street, which be bad rented for the woman, whose acquaintance he had made R. G. Dun ft Co.'e Weekly Rvlew it Trade says: Midyear dry goods clearance sales I were satisfactory, local Jobbers sell ing freely to the Interior where de liveries could not be secured from he mills. Sales of fireworks wrs stlmated as 20 per cent, larger tha.: last year. i Quiet conditions In the primary markets for cotton goods are more largely due to indifference of manu facturers than the holldny season or '"( k taking. Most deliveries are tardy, and mill agents do not seek new business until there Is better prospect of making desired ship ments. Results of inventories are very satisfactory, disclosing no ac cumulation of stocks In the hands of producers or Jobrers. Medium lines of woolens are now well opened, but there Is little activity outside of staple lines of men's wear. Pew luplcate orders for the heavyweight season have yet appeared. Inventories by shoe manufacturers less than three weeks ago, and for i "" whom, apparently he had no affer- , ave prevented any aggressive efforts tlon. Many features of the remark able case suggest tho old theory of two Identities. Mrs. Laura M. Carter reported at the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Station this afternoon that Runynn wa In her flat. Five detec tives at once accompanied Mrs. Car ter to the house. She furnished them with a key to the apartment, and two of the detectives entered the room, while the others remained outside. As the detectives entered Runvan was standing in front of a chiffonier. Me turned suddenly on the officers with a revolver In his hand. The detectives rushed at him, telling him 10 inrow up his hands. He there upon dropped the revolver and calm ly submitted to being handcuffed, saying "The Jig Is up." Since midnight last Saturday 11 hours after his sensational departure from the trust company's office he hnd not been out of the house, nor had he hnd his clothes off. His In difference amazed the police. He had not been drinking and, apparently, was in perfect health. He made no Inquiries concerning his wife, who, completely prostrated ovor his dis appearance, was kept In Ignorance of his arrest in the company of a woman, for fear the shock would have a fatal effect. Money to the amount of $5 4.41" was found in the suitcase which Run ynn carried when he left the bank, and which since that time, filled with yellowbacks, h.d been knocking about the Harlem flat. There 1b miss ing $25,000, and the police say they believe the woman has the sum hld- Killed By Night Watchman. Boston (Special-). One of two robbers who entered the scrap iron and junk warehouse of Philip Bloom field ft Co., In South Boston, at mid night, was shot and Instantly killed In a duel with the night watchman. William Daniel. In the exchange of shots Daniel received a bullet In the left breast and Is In a critical condi tion. Before they were discovered the thieves had blown open and rob bed the safe of several thousand dollars. $1,000,000 worth of the capital stock den. She denies she has a cent and of the Standard Oil Company of In diana. Outstanding capital stock of the Standard Oil Company of Now Jer sey amounts to $9K,300,000. Net earnings of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey for tho years 1903, 1904 and 1905 approxi mate $199,800,000. Dividends paid on the capital stock of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey during those years approxi mated 4 0 per cent, of the amount of the stock, or nearly $40,000,000. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey holds "by far the major por tion" of the stock of tho Union Tank Line. Union Tank Line Company, with a capital stock of $3,500,000, is $6, 000,000 in debt and lias paid no divi dends since 1901. Mail Pouches In OSTS Lander, Wyo. (Special) Two mall sacks stolen In a stage holdup near Myersvllle in February, 1906, have been found In a cave, und the letters, of which there were 700, have lieen sent on to their destination. The pouches were taken by robbers who held up the regular stage. The reg istered letters had been opened, but the ordinary ones were i disturbed. Inspectors have worked u.i the case ever since the robbery. TIm- Exodus From Japan. Victoria. B. C. (By Cable ).it it expected over 3,000 Japanese will arrive in British Columbia during this month from Japan and Honolu lu, and as many, If not more, are expected in August. The steamer Kumerlc will bring the first contin gent of 2,000-Jspsnese from Honolu lu, tobe followed by other British steamers bringing a similar number. The pumbers being brought across the Pacific are constantly increasing. Five steamers due during the next two weeks from Japan have a total ,ot over 9,000 on board. IT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. Corporation, partnerships and In dividuals engaged In the flour mill ing trade of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri have lodged Berlous com plaints with the Interstate Commerce Commission against the Missouri Pa- cinc ana other western rnilroads. The United States District At torney for Arizona has heen Inatriw. ed to make an investigation Into the auegea Kidnapping from Douglas, Ariz., Into Mexico of Manuel Snrnvin an alleged Mexican agitator. Rear Admiral Evans, it is said, will command the great fleet of 16 battleships to make the trip to the Pacific. Care will be taken tn nvnM Japanese waters. The Fort Dallas National Ttant, r.t Miami, Fla., was closed by order of me comptroller or the Currency. The liabilities are given as $808,466. American ImportB Into China fell off several millions in 1906. War Department officials complain that the railroad companies charge the government flrst-class rates for transporting troops and furnish the worst cars. Sir Chen-Tung Liang Chen, the Chinese minister, took offices) leave of the officials In the State Depart ment. President Roosevelt appointed Gen. James B. Aleshire to be quar termaster general of the Army. The average condition of cotton was reported to be 72.0, as compar ed with 70.5 on May 28. Secretary Taft has decided to close the i'anama Canal Commission of fices in Washington. President Roosevelt has appointed Ormsby McHarg, clerk of the Senate Committee on Pensions, to investi gate alleged land frauds lu New Mexico. Upon his own application, Briga dier General C. F. Humphrey, quar termaster general of the Army, was placed on the retired list with the rank of major, and Major James B. Aleshire, assistant quartermaster general, has bssn appointed to be qusrternisster general. FLYER CRASHES INTO FREIGHT. Three Trainnient Killed and Twelve Faawengcrs Hurt. Sunbury, Pa. (Special). Three persons were killed and many In jured when the Buffalo express, east bound, on the Pennsylvania Rail-' road, crash, i Into a freight train which was taking the siding two miles from this city. The accident occurred at a sBarp bend In the road. The express, which was a few minutes late, was going at full speed In order to make up lost time. Because of the bend, the engineer was unable to 8ee the freight engine, which was backing a freight from the main track. See ing that a crash was inevitable, En gineer Ulmer called to hU fireman to wimp while he stuck to his post and applied the air. Tho express struck the freight en gine crushing It to scrap Iron and wrecking many freight cars. The baggage and express cars, which were immediately behind the express en gine, were broken to pieces. The dining car and two coaches were al so badly damaged. Trunks were broken open aud their contents, to gether with considerable mall, were scattered along the tracks. declares she does not even want the reward of about $7,000 $2,000 in a lump sum and 10 per cent, of the sum recovered to which she is en titled, whether she Is hold as nn ac complice or not. She gave Runyan up, she asserted, because she feared he would kill her. That he threatened to do, she declared, when she suspected for the first time, Thursday, that he was the absconding teller whom the police of the entire country were seeking. Runyan's story differs materially from hers. He declares he gave her $5,000 last Sunday, handed her $10, 000 In yellowbacks Friday morning after she had threatened to surrend er him to the police unless he did so, and asserts that she helped her self to $10,000 more just before she went out to summon the police With so much actual cash In his poscsslon Runyan had apparently lost all Idea of the value of money. Ho bought $000 worth of jewelry last Saturday for the woman, gave her money with which to buy a piano, gave her several lump sums of $100 and handled the huge stack- of green and yellow backs Just as If they were so much paper. He had no plan In mind. He did not have any idea of going away for his health. He "said he lost $1 6,000 In speculation nnd that he took the remaining $80,000 just, because be wanted It. Buttle In Ecuador. Guayaquil (By Cable). The town of Quevedo, an Important center In the Province of Los Rlos, again has been attacked by a band of rebels, who were, however, repulsed by the government forces. The rebels had eight men killed and several wound ed, while the government forces had six killed nnd two wounded. Record-Breaking Pecan Crop. Waco. Tex. (Special). Reports frjjni all parts of Texas are to tho effect that the pecan crop promisor to be the largest ever known. Texas raises nearly all tha pecans raised in the United States. Killed In Court. "Preslonburg, Ky. (Speclul). An dy Coburn was killed In the court room here by Joe Fltzpatrick while court was in session. F. A. Hopkins was arguing a case before the jury when the shooting occurred. Fitz patrlck walked from the room dur ing the excitement and escaped. Co burn bad been Indicted on the sjnsrge oi Killing vimam r nzputricK, a con Inventor Of Glsnl Powder Hand. Akron, O. (Speclul). Hiram J. Ayers, the inontor of giant powder, died here aged 84 years. He manu factured giant powder here In the forties, drying It on the roof of hi workshop. Ayers later Interested Eastern men, und they manufactured the explosive extensively a( Ogdcn. Utah, and In California and other points. Death was duo to the In firmities of old ago. Hosiery Interests Merged. Nashville, Tenn. (Special). The National Hoseiry and Yarn Compnny, with a capital of $1,000,000, was formed here. The company is com posed of the Interests now represent ed in tho Nashville Hosiery Com pany, the Royal Knitting Mills, of Mount Vernon, and tho Jefferson Hosiery Mills, of Birmingham, Ala. Tho headquarters of the company will be In Nashville. to get new business during the post week. The result for the six months las been larger shipments from Bos ton than In any previous year, ex cept 1906. Prospects are now considered aright for fall business, and factories Save begun cutting In preparation tor large orders, of which a sur- itantlal quantity has already ap peared. Wholesale Market Baltimore. Wheat Southern old crop brought SO cents per bu. Wes tern opened steady. Spot and July, 94 c; No. 2 red Western, August, 95. Corn Cob corn In moderate de mand and quotable at IS. 4001. 49 per brl. for carloads prime 'yellow on Bpot. Western opened steady; tpot and July, 60 (Ti 601,4c; August, 60 61: September, 61 61. Oats We quote; White No. 2, 5050c; No. 3, 48 49; No. 4. 4747. Mixed No. 2, 47 47c; No. 3, 4046; No 4, 45 46. Cheese Market steady. Jobbing prices, new, per lb., 1313c. Eggs--Market quiet and prlcei unchanged. We quote, loss off, per iloz. : Maryland, Pennsylvania and nearby, firsts, 16 c; Western, firsts, 16; West Vlrglnlu, firsts, 16; Southern, firsts, 15. Guinci eggs, 8 sl 9c. New York. Wheat Receipts, 4 I , 000 bu.; exports. 23,705; No. 1 red, $1.01, elevator; No. 2, $1.03, f. o. b., afloat; No. 1 Northern Duliith. $1.13, f. o. b afloat; No. 2 hard winter, $1.06, f. o. b., afloat. Corn No. 2, 63c, elevator, and 62, f. o. b., afloat; No. 2 white, 63, nnd No. 2 yellow 63, f. o. b., afloat. Oats Mixed, 26 to 32 lbs., 49c; natural white, 30 to 33 lbs., 50 51; clipped white, 36 to 40 lbs., 50) 54. Butter steady. Renovated, com mon to extra, 16 21; Western factory, common to first, 17 19. Cheese steady and unchanged; re ceipts, 14.113 boxes. Eggs firm; re ceipts, 26,521. State, Pennsylvania and nearby fancy, selected, white. 20 21c; choice, 1S19; brown and mixed extra, 19; first to extra firsts, 16 17; Western firsts, 16 (official price, first, 16); thirds to seconds, 1 3 15. ' Philadelphia. Wheat firm, c. higher; contract grade, July, 94 95c; Corn firm but quiet; July 6060c. Oats quiet but firm; N'o. 2 white, natural. 50 51c. Butter firm, fair demand; extra Western creamery, official price, 24 c"; Btreet price, 25; extra nearby prints, 27.. Esgs firm, good demand; Pennsyl vania and other nearby firsts, free cases, 17c at mark; Pennsylvania and other nearby current receipts, in returnable cases, 16 at mark; Western firsts, free rnBes, 17 at mark. Cheese firm, fair demand; New York full creams, choice, 13fd 13 c; do., fair to good, 12 12. Potatoes dull and weak; old, per bu. 20 25c. Live poultry firmer, good demand; fowls, 14 16c; old roosters, 10; spring chickens, 20 26; ducks, old, 12 13; do., spring, 13 14, IN THE FINANCIAL !OKL& Surplus reserve of the Philadelphia banks decreased for the week $2, 022,750. Loans increased $566,000 and deposits fell $1,702,000. Up to date $25,SOO,O0O gold has been exported in the present move ment. A Philadelphia consumer of copper aays his firm Is paying an average of 8 cents pound less,for the metal thau It did last Wlntor. A Wall iltreet mersage to a Phila delphia hanker said: "Great North ern preferred is cheap. Snow's last wheat eatlmato puts the crop at 605,000,000 bushels Ills corn prediction Is an acerage of 117,911,000 acres against 95.372,000 last year, and a condition of 85.2 against 7S per cent., which was the l,IV Stoc" Chicago. Cattle Market steady; ?ommon to prime steers, $4.60 (ft 7J5; heifers, $3 4-75; bulls. $3.30 5; calves, $37.25; stockers and feeders, $3 ' 5. Hogs Market steady; good to prime heavy, $6 6.10; medium to' good heavy, $5.95 6.05; butcher weights, $6.05 6.26 ;. good to prime, mixed, $6 6.15; light mixed, $6.06 6.20; packing, $5.25 5.80; pigs, ! f5.606.15; selected. $6.150 6.30; bulk of sales, $66.10. Sheep - Market strong; sheep, 3.756; yearlings, $5.50 6.25; lambs, $6 7.75. New York. Beeves Feeling -steady for choice steers, weak for others. Dressed beef steady at 8 10c. per lb. for native sides. Calves Trade slow und feeling weak to a shade lower; common to choice veals sold at $5 0 8.15 per 100 lbs.; buttermilk at $3.75 4.25; city-dressed veals Bteady at 8 12 He per lb.; country dressed at $6 11. Pittsburg. Pa. Cattle Market steady; choice, $6.30 6.50; prime, $6.10 6.30. Bin of Joe, and the case was set for acresge fpr the past five y a hearing at this term of court Thaw's ounsel Withdraw Motion. New York (Special). A. Russell Peabody and Daniel O'Reilly , attor neys for Harry K. Thaw, served on Acting District Attorney .Smyth no tice of withdrawal of the motion re cently made In the Supreme Court for an order direct Iuk District At torney Jerome to show cause why be should set Thaw's second trial for the October term of court Thaw hss decided that the District Attorney wieuas to act fairly by him lu the matter of briuglna him to trial ss soon as possible. this season Commercial failures In the United States, according to statistics com plied by Dun, were 6,607 lu number and $68,668,662 in amount of de faulted indebtedness during the first half or 1907. This Is the best state ment as to number of hunkruutcles for the corresponding six months of any year since I 899. opinio;; of lending brokers are till diverted in respect to the future course of the market "I'm s bull," wired the representative of a big international bouse. Conditions all point downward." kald the head of s large speculative house, with exten sive wire tonuactioua. THIS jAND THAT. The Nev" York city government expends $1,016,000 each day. The rallrouds of this country are said to use 84,000,000 ties per an num. The Twine Trust may And a rival In the Mulva 'Castella, a new Philip pine fiber plant. The transparent glass ruler, an in novation, U of great assistance to draftsmen lu their work. A graduated rod, which rises and falls with the bottom's variations, Is now used to churj. rlv.jir A Bango newspaper estimates that the lumber cut In Maine during tbs winter Just parsed aggregates 75, 860.000 feet, a decrease of 60,000, 000 feet from the season of 1905-06. Games of chess and draughts for travelers on long journeys have been Introduced by the English Midland Railway Company. There is no charge made by the com pat..-. . and when the game Is finished the con ductor collects the pieces.
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