A COLLAPSE OF INDUSTRY.
SUN'S REVIEW OF TRADB
For the Past Year. A Drop In Business
Which U Almost Without
Precedent.
R. O. Pnn Co ' Weekly Hevlevr ol
Trade, New York, seys, under the caption,
" Ths Year 1P03":
Starting with the largett trade ever known,
mills crowded with work and all business
stimulated by high hope, the year 1S03 haa
proved, in sudden shrinkage of trade, in
commercial disasters and depression of in
dustries, the worst for SO years. Whether
the final result! of the panic or 1837 were
relatively more levere the acanty records ot
that time do not clearly abuw. The year
closes with the prices of many products the
lowest ever known, with millions of workers
seeking In vain for work, and with charity
laboring to keep back suffering and starva
tion in all our cities All hone that the
new year may bring brighter days, but tb
dying year leaves only a dismal record.
The review of diflerent deportments of
trade giveneihlbits a collapse of industry
nd bu-lness which is almost without pre
cedent. The iron industry tuslaineda week
ly prod union of IM.AM tons ing Mav I bnt
by October 1 the output had fallen to"3,R!i3
tons, and the recovery to about lOJ.O.K) De
cember 4 still leaving to per cent, of the
lorce unemployed
It is carious that tbe only trade showing
any increase as yet is in groceries, the ag
gregate sn es being 1 percent, larger than in
the last half of 1M!I2.
In 37 years, covered by the records of this
agency, the number of failures has only
once risen a little above 14,11.50 in a year.
In 13 the number reported has been 18.630
The aggregate of the liabilities in all fail
ures reported has in sis years risen above
iOO.OOCi.UOO. This yer the strictly com
mercial liabilities alone have exceeded
t l.JJ2.Ui!i. the liabilities of banking and
financial institutions have been (l'10,!)3G64
and the liabilities of railroads placed In the
hands of receivers about l,l!12 217,8.11.
Asall reports hitherto have been to some
extent erroneous through inclusion of fail
ures not strictly commercial, the classified
returns show 3,L'W manufucntring failures
with liabilities o! HW.707, 4 til; M.iWS fail
ures in legitimate trade with liabilities of
IWS .V7.Wi-i, and 302 other failures including
brokers and simulators, with liabilities of
a.1fi.B.7:iV The average of liabilities in
manufacturing is M.OOn; in legitimate
trading towand other failures tU.UOO.
STATE BANK NOTES.
The Minority Beport on the Regulation
of Their Issue.
The sub-committee of the Committee on
Hanking and Currency of the House, to
which was committed tbe question of re
pealing the State bank tax, divided on the
matter, Mr, Cox, of Tennessee, submitting
a report embodying unconditional repeal,
and Mr. Warner, of New York and Mr, Hall,
of Minnesota, reporting In favor of condi
tional repeal.
The bill drafted by Messrs. Holland
Warner repeals the 10 per cent tax, but pro.
vides that the issue of Sta'e hank notes shall
beconlined to the .State in which the banks
are incorporated ami if the notes are used
outside of the State thee are to be aubject
to a tax of 10 per cent of their lace value,
ritate banks are authorized to Issue circula
ting notes subject to regulations that will
guarantee as well as can be done the pro
tection of their face vslue to their holders.
BET SAIL FOHHIO.
Crulaer New York Ooea Thither to
Strengthen the American Fleet.
The cruiser New York received orders to
vail for Kio de Janeiro and left New York
harbor on Wednesday passing quarantine
at 5.C8 p. m. The great warrior received
many salutes from boats In the bay. The
promptitude with which the New York was
made ready for sea and tbe fact that the
work of coaling her was pushed all through
Christmas, leads to the conclusion that the
Becretiiry of the navy considers her presence
at Kio of great urgency. No destination
baa been fixed for the Miantnnomah, but it
is extremely probable, a naval offlcial says,
that she will also go to Kio a soon as she
fa in readiness for the trip. :t is supnos,
th it a fear of confusion in thj H azllian
government and consequent danger iioiu
violence, is what has caused the centering
of a formidable force at Kio.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Emile Zola, the French novelist, is fifty
three. Ti Frlneess ot Wales haa been suffering
from Influenza,
Diaz, the President of Mexico, la sixty
three years of age.
Sabah Bernhardt, the octrees, was early
la life a dressmaker's apprentice.
Bib Philip Wadehocre Rcbsie haa beei
appointed British Ambassador to Turkey.
Miss M. E. BBAnnon. the authoress, began
life u a utility actress In tbe English prov
isoes. r
Bikce the birth of the daughter of Count
as Herbert Btsmarok tbe ex-Cbanoellor is a
grandfather six times.
These are three khans Khiva, Kbokand
and Bokhara who date the origin ot theli
families back to the Turkish Invasion ol
Europe.
w MtTB4t ruddy, portly, white-
Haired and blue-eyed, young as he was
twenty years ago, continues to give at least
twelve hours out of every twenty-four to his
Journalistic! and literary work.
Bexatob Wolcott, of Colorado, went to
Paris to be treated for double hernia. His
trouble was found more serious than was an
ticipated, but the operation performed was
suooaaslul, and he is rapidly improving.
The Empress of Russia is very fond of the
Danish blank or rye bread, suoh as Is baked
for the soldiers. During Her Majesty's vis
its to Denmark ah eats this kind of bread
vary day, and when in Russia a loaf is sent
to Bnstla every fifth day.
' Katbak Fabxbb, President of the Man
chester (N. H.) National Bank, Is said to be
be oldest bank offioer in active aervios In
the United States. He celebrated bis eighty
fifth birthday recently by giving a dinner to
tbe employes ot his bank,
r FttnixAXD dk Lessem was eighty-nine on
November 19, but November 19 is not the
only anniversary of his life. His crowning
work, the Hues Canal, was completed on No
vember 19, and the highest honor be has at
tainedthat of the Grand Cross of the Le
srton of Honor was conferred upon hi") on
the same date some years later.
' Ma. CarjttF, the oity editor of the tondon
Times, who has Just -beau retired on a band
soma pension, looking baek over his long
ooniiectlon with that paper, reokons the ob
taining of the exolusivesnaounoament of the
orisia la the affairs of tbe great banking
bouse of tbe Barings tor hts paper aa the big
gest beat be ever accomplished.
Mnu of the favorite idaas ot the late Em
peror Frederick of Oermany has Just been
realised through the aid and money of bis
Widow. Shortly before Ms death be planned
the establishment of a children's home at bis
aoantry seat, Bornstedt. His widow deter
as lass) to carry out bis Wishes, and a tew
slays ago tbe home was opened wttfc laipga
. hg oajrsjfiaonjaa
LATER NEWS.
CHIMES Attn rttKAI.TIXS.
Kllza Blood, a wealthy maiden living In a
remote part of Oroton, Mass., was robbed Sat
urday night of (8,000. The burglar entered
a window, seized th woman, bound her
band and took all th money they could
And.
CAVlTAt AKD I A BOB.
The directors of a Peoria (III,) street rail
way have decided their men must Work
fifteen hours a day instead of twelve, with
out extra pay.
Th entire establishment of th Pennsyl
vania Steel company, at Pteelton, Fa., with
th exception of th frog switch and signal
department and two furnaces, have closed
down for an Indefinite period.
The management announced that as soon
as they received a sufficient number of
orders to Insure continuous running in any
or all of tbe departments, Work will be re
aumed.
At Johnstown, Fa., there Is a boom In all
departments of the Uauntier steel works.
They are two months behind orders Over
1,0)0 men are working overtime, many 13
hours a day.
According to the police census there art
5,013 people in Boston who are unemployed
and who are anxious to get work.
The repair shops of the New York and
New Kngland railroad at Norwood, Mass.,
were closed and about t)0J employes were
throw oat of work with no notice wbet
they will return.
Ohio River railroad officials her reduced
employes' wages 10 per cent
WASHIXOTOX.
The President, Secretary Uresham, Secre
tary Carlisle and Capt Kobley D. Evans, of
the navy, returned to Washington from
their ducking tripdown tbe rotomac.While
they did not have much sport they bad lota
of "fun." Tbe President evidently is much
benefited by his rest.
runts.
Lawrence, 111., a small town near Vlneen
nes, Ind., was practically wiped out by fire
on Friday morning.
FARMS OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Important Stattstlca From the Census
Bureau.
Secretary Klge tf the State Board of Ag
riculture of Harrlsburg has secured from
the census bureau at Washington a tabu
lated statement of farms In the various
counties of Pennsylvania, Including lands,
fences and buildings, according to tbe cen
sus of 1S!M. This will be incorporated in
his forthcoming annual report, in connec
tion with a tabulated statement of the value
of farms in the state according to the census
of 1 "SO and the estimated value ot farm
products in 1840 and 183).
The censua of lsno shows a decrease; In the
form valuation of Pennsylvania of ,V1,14'I,
177 from that of 1st'), when the total valua
tion wast7.iHfi,41i). Only 22 counties
shows gains in the valuation of their farm
over the census of 190, and nearly all of
them are in the western part of the state,
where oil, gas and coal were discovered dur
ing the intervening tune between the census
of I 'HO and that of 1H!I.
The farm valuation In the state according
to the census of 1H.V) was 4u7,870.0tki. The
census of ISHOgives the valuation at Ki2,
ftV),"i)7: 1701.043 4M.W2: 1W) !I76,S:I.
410: 18!)!l22 210,22). The high watermark
in the farm valuation of Pennsylvania wns
reached between the census of I .St id nnd
that of 170. during the war period, when
wheat sold at 3 a bushel, and other farm
productscorresponding In price. The dif
ference between the farm valuation given
by the census of 1X70 and the last census is
1 1 21, 21, a III or a loss of less than 11.7.5 per
cent.
The 22 forms which show an increase in
their farm valuation in the census of lSIKj
over the previous census are Allegheny,
where there has been an increase of H,ft!7,.
374; Heaver. SI. 111.301; Cambria. IG.KU72;
Cs'ceron. I67,UW. Carbon, 221,64J; Clesr
H.1S8 MI7; Crawlord, ll,fltti.87.V Forrest,
fiii.iUO; Ureene. l.MO3,0U2; indisna. II, M4,-818-
Jefferson. 8!t.xiH; Lackawanna. M3.-
f!!2; Lycoming, t.VM.275; Mckean, 134.till;
.Montgomery. fz.HZH.zni; I'liiiaueipnia,
Cl.nSU.aiO; Pike. 330,2i7- Porter, 9H!l,7n.'S;
Sullivan, 121.M4; Venango. 17M.142;
Wavne. 30,U03; Westmoreland, I2.U3J.-
67!)
The largest Increase has been in Allegheny
county, the census of 1880 giving its valua
tion at t40.411.liS6, and that of 1300 at 47.-
079.330.
Theestlmateof 18!0 gives tbe SEKretate
value of farm products in tbe state at 121,-
j28.348. or f8.432.128 less than the estimate
made 10 years previous. Allegheny shows
a decresse of $714,718; Armstrong. 128)1.172,
Butler. 208 OtlS; fsyelte. 102.171; Law
rence 72la3l; Adams. 145,093; Blair, U
MI8; Columbia, 375,049; Cumberland, 1429.
203; Frsnkiin. 39.80l; Juniata, 1109.92V
In a few counties there bas been a decrease
m farm valuation and au increase m tbe
ralue of farm products.
MONEY IN STORE.
Amounts and Kinds of Coin Vnol Sam
Has in Hia Vaulta.
There are stored in th United States
vaults at Washington a total of 1742,193,000
tbe part consisting of coin weighing about
5,000 ton. Tbe following are the amount
and description of money in the eight
vaults: Standard silver dollars tl4H,R60.Ou0;
rold coin Ill.o00.00l); fractional stiver f333,
QO0;national bank notes for reilemptlon,S3.
500.000; mixed moneys received daily for
redemption 1.000.0Qd; mixed moneys for
daily use 11.000,000; bonds beld aa security
for national bank circulation 1260,000,000;
beld as a reserve to replace worn and muti
lated notes unlit for circulation 32S,000,000.
MADE AOOOD HAUL.
An Express Messenger Knocked Down
and Bobbed by a Negro.
A express messenger A. K, McCullocb
and F. Neardall wars transferring tbeir ex
press bags from th Texas 4 Pacific pass
anger train to tb New Orleans PaclBo
train at Marshall Texas, McCullocb was
knocked down by a negro, who snatched a
pouch from bim and ran. Neardall fired on
shot at the robber as b fled but failed to
stop bim. Tbe robbery was committed on
tbe depot platform under lb glow of lea
trie lights. while there weie probably on
hundred people (landing around. The ex
press people did not tell tbe amount secur
ed, hat it i estimated at from to.OOO to 8,-
Th If isntonomeh Bails.
Th Miaatonomah left New York under
sealed ordera for Fortreas Monioe, Virginia.
She will replenish ber coal supply titer
and await further instructions from th
navy department. Her destination i be
lieved to be Klo Janeiro,
Th making ready of lb Miantonomah
for ses was without doubt with th idea of
ending ber to Kio. But there is reason to
doubt whether she will go beyond Norfolk
now, unless a future development in Rio
should call for a Mill further lucre or tb
lore lhr.
TICKINGS OFTHE TELEGRAPH
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
What I Transpiring th World Over.
Important Event Briefly Told.
'Hal. Latter aa Ia4trlt.
Report to Rradstreet'i agency from 119
points In tb United State show that more
than 801,003 employe In industrial and
other lines are now In enforced Idlenees.and
that 1,956.000 person are dependent directly
upon them for support.
J. R. Harnett, proprietor of a tannery at
Little Kails, N. Y., has notified hi 400 em
ploye that after this week tbelr wages will
be reduced 10 per cent
Philadelphia carpet weavers have formed
union and the mills of the Kensington
district start up with the employe work
ing at a 10 per cent reduction.
The Aetna Standard and Langhlln Iron
mills and Spence A Sons' foundry at Mar
tins Ferry, O., resumed work. Aboutl.OOO
Idle men sre again employed.
Next Monday another general reduction
In wages will go Into effect at the mill oi
th Pottsvill, Pa., Iron and Steel company.
It will arerate from 0 to O per cent
throughout tbe works.
The employe of Dorman Bros, of Phila
delphia have agreed to accept a reduction
of 10 per cent in their wage and the big
ingrain carpet mill, which lias been closed
since November 2, will be started Friday,
giving enipoyment to about 400 band.
The Waltham, Mass.. bleachery, wbicb
bas been cloed some time, began running
witn a full force of 200 bands on Thurs
day. About 4,000 shopgirl in New Y'ork city
lost their situations with tb end of th
Christmas rush.
Otitis ana I'enaltlp.
A bold robber relieved th railroad
agent at Danville, Tenn.. of an express
package containing S.WO Railroad detectives
are at work on the case.
Mrs. Klir.abeth B. Tettj-, an eccentric
miser, was murdered In her bom atNewark
N, J., for ber money. She was 03 years old.
A dynamite bomb was thrown by some
person unknown in Oakland, Pittsburg. Pa.
on Wednesday night and two bouses were
wrecked and windows broken In all bouse
I th neighborhood. No one was hurt
seriously but many had narrow escapes
There is a mystery enshrouding the das
tardly deed which the police are unable to
penetrate because they can find no motive
unless it be that the bomb thrower Is acting
out of depravity of mind. The explosion
occurred in Howard's lane about 8.05 p, m.,
iti a quarter where many negroes and Ital
ian live.
Waahtnetea New,
Miss Pollard, the plaintiff in the sensa
tional breach of promise case against
Representative W. C. P. Breckinridge, of
Kentucky, has left tbe Home of Mercy,
where she has been, and gone out of the
city. It is rumored that a conference with
the congressman will be held with a view to
securing a compromise. The attorneys
deny it
lltsnsierat arrlilrnia nnit rnfnlttles
Three boys, Tracy F, and Oscar llinghani
sons of Bishop Bingham, and John Ash
lander, were drowned while skating on a
creek at Kiverdale, I'lah.
Financial nnrt t'ninmerrlnl.
At Milwaukee the Reliance wire
and
iron works, the Phoenix Suspender com
pany and the White Fish Bay association
assigned,
lllscellnaeos.
The public authorities of Maspetb. L. I,,
buried on Friday a child that was born last
Saturday In a lien coop. The mother of the
child, Alice Warwick, with ber mother;
rented the coop for 23 cent a week, because
too poor to have a better place. Tbe coop i
about 10x8 feet
Mayor Gllray of New Y'ork lias been given
0,003 barrels ot flour by a leading milling
company for distribution among th poor.
At Philadelphia dandelions were in bloom
on Christmas
BEYOND OUB BORDERS.
Thero were thunder storms in Europe on
Christmas day and it was abnormally warm
in Russia
A pleasure party boating on tbe river lit
Kiama, near Sydney, N. 8. W was carried
out to sea and wrecked in tbe surf in the
presence of hundreds of spectators. Seven
out of eight persons were drowned.
Secretary Morley slated in tho House of
Commons that during the six months ended
September 30 lust 179 person bad been
evicted by Irish landlords. Since that date
ISO tenants bavo been evicted.
A Queer Murder,
Gtorge Clancey, aged 45 years, brother
ol Congressman John il. Clancey, was tuur
dered by Timothy McDermott In a saloon
on Hudson avenue, New York. Clancey
was standing at th bar when McDermott
cam in, and, stealing up behind Clancey,
lifted op the flaps or his coat tails and slash
ed across both Ug witb a long knife. Th
injured msn bled profusely and when an
ambulance surgeon arrived he found that
the arteries of Clancey's legs bad been sev
ered snd thst he could not live. H was
taken to tb boapital and died.
A CUT IN WAOEB REFUNDED.
A Proflt-Bharlng Compnny Able to Do
Xt and Declare a Dividend by a '
Bevivsl cf Businea
Tb employe of th N. O. Nelson Manu
facturing Company of 8t Louis, conducted
on th profit-sharing plan, when tb money
stringency becam sever last August
cheerfully accepted a cut of 25 per cent In
wages.
On Wednesdsy a meeting of director was
bald and Mr. Nelson announced that a dlv
idend of 7 per cent would be paid for tbt
current year and tb loss by cut in wanes
would be returned in caab to each employs
op Jannsry 17 next. Tb company em
ploys 600 men. Revival of tb business is
ascribed a tnacauss of this action.
Treasury Bslancs Lowsr Than Ivr,
Tb National Treasury net balance on
Thursday declined to th low figure ol 88,
614.000. nf wbicb 82,024,6WJ il in gold
and 6 k8,300 is in currency. This Is tb
lywest point ever reached by tb Treasury.
PRENDERGAST IS GUILTY.
ASSASSIN OF CHICAGO 8 MAYOR
Doomed to Hang, The Condemned Man
Now an Occupant of Murderer's Row
With a Ecath-Watch Set on Him.,
T'nlessthe law shall Interfere, Patrick
Eugene Prendergast the murderer of Chi
cago' Mayor, Carter II. Harrison, will die
on th gallows. Twelve representative cit
Irens of Cook County on Friday afternoon
adjudged bim responsible for bia cowardly
deed on tbe night ot October 28, and tbt
death watch now tits outside his cell In tbt
connty Jail atChlcago.Tbe verdict of thJuiy
wa agreed upon after a deliberation of I
little over an boor. Prendergast "crossed''
himself, according to the Catholic faith
when it wa announced, but uttered nt
word.
Preston Harrison was the first to approach
Attorney Trude and thank him earnestly
for hia services and personal interest in
meting out Justice to the murderer of his
father. His remarks were free from exilt
aut feeling. He believed that Justii only
bad been done.
Prendergast created no Scene when h was
returned to his cell, ami the verdict was
kept from bis fellow prisoner as long as
possible. They soon received word through
visitors, however, and Jailer Morris re
moved the condemned man at once to
"Murderer's row." hia cell being thai next
to Painter, who hrs been given a respite by
(Jov. Altgehl until January 12. Prendergast
tent word that he would not see any visit
ors, newspaper men especially.
Shortly after Prendergast had arrived at
the Jail he was called on by his brother John.
Tbe meeting between the brothers was
painful. They shook hands silently and
neither spoke for several minutes. Then
Jobn said :
' Don't lose bop Gene, we'll do all w
can for you."
Th assassin bowed his head but made no
reply. Later he talked quietly to bis brother
for some time. During the evening Messrs.
Mcloorty, Kssex and Heron, his attorney,
called upon htm and talked to him in a
manner calculated to cheer bun up, but
tbeir efforts did not appear to have the de
sired effect. Tbe awtulness of his sentence
seemed to have cowed tbe assassin and to
have broken his spirit.
From the evening of October 18, whsn
Preudergsst fired the fatal shots which
murdered the city's chief executive, until
the end of his trial, one nf the most promi
nent and powerful motives which has seem
ed to actuute him has been an abject fear
that through some negligence of police or
sheriff's deputies he might become tbe vic
tim of mob violence. November 1, on the
way to Uraceland where the body of Mavor
Harrison was placed in a vault, tbe proces
sion passed by the Jail where Prendergast
wascontlneil. He was in abject fear then
and asked bis attendants for stronger pro
tection. So great was his apprehension
that in their greif for the murdered mayor
the people might become uncontrollable and
mob the jail that he tried to hide under tb
cot in hia cell.
A DEN OF THIEVES.
Governor Fiahback Call the Attention
of the Preaident to Train
Robberies,
Governor Fishbsck of Arkansas ha
written a letter to President Cleveland, com
plaining of the fnct that the Indian Terri
tory is an asylun for dangerous crlm nals
of all kinds. Th letter is in part as fol.
lows:
To the President-
The developments Incident lo the recent
train robtiery and murder at Ol pliant, In this
Mate, renders it proper, it seems to me.thut
1 call your attention totbe dnngerous rela
tion which the Indian Territory west of us
occupies to the States of the L'nion, and
especially to the adacent States of Arkan
sas, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma Terri
tory. I'pon the person of one of the captured
robbers was lound a map of the route they
had taken from the Indian Territory, 17a
miles, to the scene of the robbery and also
a map of the country around Chattanooga,
Tenn., showing thai another robbery was
contemplated at or near that city.
I have good reason to suspect that a very
large percentile of the bank and train rob
beries which take place west of the Alle
gbenieaand east of the Hocky Mountains
era organized or originated In tbe Indian
Territory. Let me add that the refuge which
this sparsely settled rendezvous of outlaws
affords to criminals isaconstant temptation
to cnnit in all the country around.
During tbe past 12 months there have Is
sued from the States of Arkansas, Texas,
Kansas and Oklohoma Territory til requisi
tions upon the Indian Territory authorities
for lugitives,while we have reason to believ
that as many more are hidden among tbeii
comrades in crime in this asylum for crim
inals. Criminals who Hilda refuge In thli
Territory sre rapidly converting the Indian
territory into a school ol crime. The Fed
eral jail at Fort Smith is at all seasons near
ly full ot prisoners from this territory and
the Federal Court bold session continuing
through nearly every month iu the year.
This state ot semi-chaos and the farces of
government that exist in this Territory sug
gest th very serious question whether ths
time has not arrived for the Federal Gov
ernment to assert its rights of eminent
domain and to change its political relations
with the United States. Not only the pub
lic good, but publio sarety as well as ths
highest interests to the Indian himself, de
mands ths suggested cbsnsa
THE LABOR WOULD.
. t
' Tbibb are 60,000 Union trainmen.
Ohio sweating shop employ 85,000.
Gxbkaxk's navy employ 20,006 men.s
Chicago saloons employ 24,000 persons.
Cabfehtebs work nine hours In 400 towns.
Momtbeal's oo-operatlve bakery Is thriv
ing. Tb American Railway Union I spread
ing. Fbcssiax agricultural laborer get 975 a
week.
Mobtaxa gold miner are Booking to Afri
can mines.
Italiabs are being Imported for Southern
plantations.
Female worker are debarred fro 31 tb
leotrloal union.
Most workers In Switzerland labor about
eleven hours a day.
Bohtob atone masons bay re-Joined tb
International Union.
Bohtos garment workers have appealed to
tbe Mayor for work or assistance.
Sovebeios, tbe Grand Master Workman of
lbs K. of L., says 3,000,000 are Idle.
Boston teamster have reduoad their
hour In order to make plaoea for idle men.
The Kings County (Brooklyn) 'Elevated
Railwayman's Union pays 7 a week during
Illness.
Ubions protest against tbe establishment
of a shirt factory in tbe Uassaubusutts Stat
prison.
A Washimotox (Fenn.)oonorn saourajan
Injunction preventing former employe from
ougregatlng about tbe works.
Pbivatb families are doing tbelr own
sewing, and seamstresses, etc., are finding
yen lea to do than ordinarily.
Isob mine owner ot th Upper Peninsula
of Michigan bavs deoided to relieve tb
starving by resuming operations.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Coi.oBAno has a State Rllver League.
Manitoba devotes 1,000,000 acres to wheat.
Uncut 8a hsa 1822 railroad corporations.
PiTTsacarj Is taking a census of the needy.
Ica near Albany, N. T., ha stopped traffle.
Tarnt are 998 abandoned farm In Maesav
ohusetts.
Fbabce oyster Industry Is th largest oi
Its kind In Europe.
Taoor have been sent to 81olly to put
down anti-tax rioting.
Flobipa Is eald to be the only Southern
State without a brewery.
Trebb are 10,000 eases of influenza In th
province of Rhine Rease.
UrWABDs ot ts.ooo.ooo worth of American
bicycle were exported last year.
Trre production of akatea this season I
probably the largest In any on record.
Russia's standing army, whlnh comprises
800,000 men, Is the largest in Europe.
Tnx American sweet tooth Is annually sat
isfied with SO,000 tons of mapla sugar.
A hew Krrjppgun.reoently tested at Essen,
threw a projectile thirteen miles in seventy
seconds.
The new Rlmplon tunnel from Itrleg, In
flwltnerlnnd, to Isella, In Italy, will be w
miles long.
Tbe world' herring eatnh every year Is
890,000 tons, which Is all consumed before
tbe next season.
The world's pastures every year produrat
and th world consume 19,000,000 tons of
beef and mutton.
Tre monster water wheel at the Calnmet
and Hecla eopper mine, Lake Superior re
gion, weighs 200 tons.
DrjBiKn October and November 2030
tramps passed through Tucson, Arizona, on
freight trains bound East
A LABoantti man at Nendorf, near Stras
bourg, has been sent to prison tor a year for
snouting "Vive la Franoel"
A Bad Year For Railroads.
.The railroad bankruptcies for 1893 Involve
iScompanies, 81,878 miles of railroad, and
11.811284 in bonds and stocks. One-fifth
of the railroads of ths United States
"r now in the hands of receivers.
The canllBl stock of tbe companies is 1030 -P.IS.OOO,
and it wouldn't bring 10 cents on
the dollar now.'
Christmas in Boats.
The Grand river overflowed its bsnks
at Brentford, Out., and the residents were
paying Christmas visits In gondolas. Tbe
damage will reacb up into thousands,
MATIKLTS.
rtTTsntBo.
Tni WHOLESALE I'HICE A HE GIVER RFLOW.
nmis, n.ni'R a.nu reti.
WHEAT No. 1 Red 65 O f
No. I Hed tM
CORN No. 2 Yellow ear... 44
High Mixed ear 41
No. 2 Yellow Shelled 40
Shelled Mixed if)
OATS No. 1 White V
No. 2 White tSJ
No. 3 White m
Mixed HI
RYE No. 1 fit)
No. 2 Western. New ft3
FLOUR Fancy winter patf 4 00 4
Fancy Spring pnteots 4 10 4
Fancy Straight winter.... 3 30 3
XXX Bakers 8 SH 8
Rye Flour 8 25 8
Biicknheat Hour. -'J
HAY Haled No. 1 Tlm'y.. 13 50 14
Baled No. 2 Timothy 12 .V) 1)
Mixed Clover 10 50 11
'J'iinotliv from country... PI 00 18
FKED-No. 1 W'h Md V T 17 W 18
No. 2 White Middlings Moo 17
Brown Middlings lr) SO 10
Bran, bulk 15 7ft 10
ETItAW Wheat 0 50 f)
Oats H 5)
lltlUV I'UMtiri'TM
tit
45
44
41
40
854
85
83,
82
f7
54
25
:
M
50
50
81
no
0l
50
00
00
00
00
oo
75
75
BUTTER Elgin Creaiuety
Fancy Creamery
F ancy country roll
Low grude V cooking....
CHF.F.SU Ohio, new
New York, new
Wisconsin Swiss
Limbunrer (New niak)...
31
20
20
10
11)
121
15
13
82
28
22
15
Hi
121
i;t
14
FHl'IT ASH VF.OKTAIILF.H.
APPLES-Funcy, V bbl... 4 03 4 50
Fair to choice, ) bbl.... 2 21 8 CO
BEANS
N Y A M(new)BeansVbbl 1 75 1 81
Lima lleiuis, 3 4
Potatoes
Fancy V bu CI 63
Sweet, per bbl 2 00 8 75
CAHBAtiK per hundred.. 8 03 6 00
ONIONS YellowUlobe IP bu 60 65
Mixed Country 40 60
Spanish, per crate 00 1 00
TURN IPS purple tops 40 60
POt'LTBY
Live chickens V pr..,
ETC
45
45
I 00
8
0
11
11
8
25
65
48
20
60
60
I 10
9
10
12
12
0
20
60
60
85
A.ivs micas pr
Live (.eese l pr
Live Turktvs Vf
Pressed chickens V lb....
Pressed ducks Vrr
Dressed turkeys V lb.....
1 tressed geese
EKiS-l'a& Ohio fresh....
FEATHER-
Extra livetieese f) Tb
No 1 Extra live geese ji lb
Mixed
MIIH II.I.AMOUS.
TALLOW-Country.Vlb... 4
ity 4
6EEDS-Clover 6 65 6 75
Timothy prime 2 00 2 05
Blue grass 140 1.70
RAfiH Country mixed.... i U
riONEY White clover.... 14 1
Buckwheat 10 12
MAPLESYKUP. new crop. 60 100
CIDER country sweet bbl 6 75 7 25
CINCINNATI.
FLOUR 13 102 75
WHEAT No. 2 Red , 58 58J
RYE No. 2 63 54
CORN MiEed 87 871
OATS 80 304
FXrGH 20 21
BUTTER 19 80
PUILA1KLFH1A.
FLOUR II 903$3 75
WHEAT No. 2. Red 63 63J
CORN No. 2, Mixed 41 42
OATS No. 2, Whit 84 84)
BUTTER-Creamery Extra. 24 80
EUOS Pa.. Firsts 25 26
NEW VOBK.
FLOUR-Fatents 2 00 85
WHEAT No Red 65 bt)
RYE Western 60 62
CORN-No. 2 43) 44
OATH Mixed Western 88 8i
BUTTER Creamery 18 28
EOGB State and Penn 24 27
LIVE-STOCK REI-OBT.
EAST LIBBKTV, PITTHlfkii STOCK TABD.
Per 100 lbs.
CATTLE.
Prim Steers I 4 75 to 6 40
tiood butcher. 8 75 to 4 65
Common 8 45 to 8 75
Bulls and dry cows 2 00 to 3 25
Veal Calves 5 00 to 6 60
Fresh cows, per head 20 00 to 45 00
SIIKXP.
rrimeOS to 100-tt. sheep.... 8 60 to 8 65
Good mixed 8 40 to 8 25
Common 70 to 75 lb sheep... 160 to 2 00
Choice Lambs 2 60 to 4 60
lioos,
delected
Prim Yorker
5 40 to S 60
6 86 to 6 45
Heavy 5 00 to 6
Bough. 8 76 to 4
6 00 to 6 25
60
a.notner Kccentrlo Character Gotjej
There died In Mawmtown, Pa., laal
week, at the ago of 70, an exceed Injfl
Bncentrlo character named Richard
Webber. Ho lived In an old cabin
built n the moat valuable land in
town, and although It wa believed
that he had considerable money he en
loved none of the comforts of civlllinrl
life. One of hia whim was to keep
two old hordes In the hou?e with him
self. They were always kept in tins
order, and ho drove them about town
nearly every day In an old wag-on with
Iwo wheels. The harness was made of
rope. He used llnsed oil on hie bread
Instead of butter, and his favorite ds
tert was flaxseed oil and elderberries.
Aa Oversight.
Th-re was on oversight at tb Great Ex
position at Chicago in not having In fail
view, by easy arrangement, some compara
tive vital statistic of our own general health
as compared with other nations, and our
sclentlflo facilities for tb relief of buraaa
suffering. Then It would have appeared
bow much we are misrepresented and bow,
even In all those minor 111 which beset man.
kind, we are mostors of ear and alleviation.
In the lino of general ailment which alt
nations have In common, snob as rheutnatls
or neuralgia afflictions, there Is so prompt
and permanent eure lo the world tbe equal
of what we could bay shown. St. Jacobs
Oil, for Instance, for this purpose, would
have taken any premium, that might bar
been offered. It ha done so at many of th
great fab of tb world. As for th ordinary
casualties of every-dsy, busy life, suoh a
sprains, bruises, burns, wouaJs or euts, of
course It Is well known a th superior
remedy of th age. Perhaps doctors dis
agree, but the people are never m 1a taken la
knowing what is best.
About India.
The census of India, just published,
gives the population as 27,OOO.OtK),
uhout one-fifth of the entire population
ol tbe earth. Nearly three-fourths of
the Inhabitants are enzued In agri
culture. The birth rate Is higher than
that of any European country, except
Russia, reaching 48 In 1.030, and the
death rate 41 per thousand. About 26
per rent, of the children Lorn die dur.
ng their flrst year.
Raw's This t
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
anycaeuf Catarrh that cannot beourvd by
Hall's catarrh cure.
F. .1. t'lirrrrv Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. 1. Che
ney for t he last 15 year, and lielleve bim tier
fectlv honorable In all b'iint traftactlona
and tlnanc'ally abl to carry out any obliga
tion made by their firm.
West Thuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
Waliuso, Riisvas) A Ma it vi n. Wholesale
llrilgglsts, tn. Kt , Ohio.
Ha l's Catarrh Cure l taken Internally, act
lr, directly upon the blond and mucous sur
faces of the system, Testimonials sent free.
Price, 75c. per boltld. Sol 1 by all UruKKlsta.
A Barmouth, North Wales, fisherman
Caught 50,0 1) herring in one night recently.
A Oi-jih, C ir.rt on Hi'n Thicmt sh-mld
not lit nmlejlod. l;itows-' Hit ixi ill t.
TicvHe ar.t a situ ill rj-naiy, mil givo
lirom.it rjlier. 2.) cents a box.
Napier's coin weighing macMne was put
in use in the Hank of England in 1M4.
Beerham'a Pills instead nf alohy mineral
waters. Beecuam's uo others. 2b vts. a box.
Pisiderius Erasmus was always thrown
into a fever by the smell of llsh.
Sore throat eurad st once by Hatch's Univer
sal Cough Syrup. t cents at driigKlsts,
A goose 30 years o'd Is owned by a farm
er at Kllicott t'ltv, Md.
BAD CASE OF S0K0FULA
I was a great sufferer from scrofula, having
dreadful sores In my ears and on my head,
sometime- like larire bnlls, discharging all the
time. My hil.-liatid liilted that I titke Hood's
SaniaAMirilia. At the first bottle
MV APPETITE IMPROVED,
and I felt e-imewbat better. Ho I boniht an
other bottle, and br t time It was b f irons
the scrofu a had entire y dUappeare.l. I am
now entirely tree from scrofula and was never
in batter health.
IMIOD'H HA It st.t PAR 1 1, LA
also cared me of a terrlb'e pain In my side,
wbicb was mused bv neuralala of tbe heart."
Man. A. C. Mkulch k, Orleans, Ind.
II sod's Pill uura eoastlpatloa, biliousness.
P N U 1 '
'94
"August
Flower"
Miss C. G. McClavb, School
teacher, 753 Park Place, Elmira, N.
Y. "This Spring while away from
home teaching my first term in a
country - school I was perfectly
wretched .with that human agony
called dyspepsia. After dieting for
two weeks and getting no better, a
friend wrote me, suggesting that I
take August Flower. The very next
day I purchased a bottle. I am de
lighted to say that August Flower
helped me so that I have quite re
covered from my indisposition."
Mothers0
Friend1
PIKES WD BIRTH EASY.
Oolrln, Xa, Xsm. g, 1SM.-Ky wits used
OTBXa'B niSMD before) her third
sonflnsmast, and aaya aha would not be
Ttthont It for huadrods of dollars.
SOCK MILLS.
.Ssatbysapeessearscelptof price, SljH per bat
Us. book " To MotWs " uailad Iras.
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