The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 12, 1907, Image 1

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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE. Vol A! MIC X Vi.il, CAM DUN. S. C.. FRIDAY. 12. li>07. N< >. 27. CONE TO THE GAME. MR . , ? U& Vi^ OFF rcE JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER'S PASTOR SAYS WORKERS NEED A SUMMER VACATION The Only Medicine That Will Rest the Body and Clear tlie Brain Is to Be Found In the Quiet Places of the lojntry. tints TOO BUSY AND TOO CROWDED FOR RIGHT LIVING AND RIGHT THINKING ?Cartoon by Breworton, in the Atlanta Journal. Now York City.? Tho Rev. Dr. I Charles F. Akod, tlio high salaried \ past0* brought from England by | .foiln L). Rockefeller, preached, his i last, sermon for^lie summer at the! Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, and advised the members of his congre gation to get out of town, rest, for jit-'l liOilbio ??. dcbtiJ, ReVSpSpP!'?, 1r?lp_ phonos and business. City life of to- i day, especially In such cities as'Xew York, is almost enough to drive men -crazy, said J)r. Aked. and the only medicine that will rest tho body and clear the brain in to be found in the quiet places of the country. "Thei-e has boon 110 day in the his tory of the? world when such counsel was mom needed than to-day," he said. "There art1 no people 011 tho face of the whole earth who have more cause to heed it and profit by It than we. Our cities are too vast and too crowd ed. "Man, like the other animals, was meant for the fresh air and the open fields, for the storms, the snows and the sunshine. Rut he claps a stone box down over his head, sets it in the midst of a hundred thousand other stone boxes as ugly as 1 his own, stretching away in bewildering squares and parallelograms, shutting out God's air and light, until he is ready to faint on a warm day and 1 freeze 011 a cold one, and die of pneu monia?or terror?if the east wind blows upon him. "This crowded, rushing, pushing, ?crushing city life gets on our nerves. We live too fast. We live faster than men ever lived before. We live more than twenty-four hours in the day and more than seven days in the week. We burn the candle at both ends, and then, for fear that our neighbor will get' ahead of us, we light it in the middle, too. We are | ?consumed by the fever of living. We exhaust our vital energies in unend ing stress and strain. '.'We have 110 time to think. It Is as much as we can be expected to do if we earn bread and chees? nnd lay by a pound or two against a rainy day. The great majority of us are just as capable of flying as we are of thinking. Leisure for quiet eontem plation of the world which we live In is denied us. There is no grass be neath our feet, no blue sky over our head. The world of trees and flow ers and singing birds is not for us. Art and poetry and gentle culture, ex ist, only in a world of dreams. While if'^we onco gnve ourselves pause to meditate upon the deep things of God and the soul, on time and Its meaning, life and its mysteries, heav en and the glories which we thrust a\yav, why?wo might miss the next car! "The injunction which Insults n|e every time I travel In the subway Is: ?Step lively, now! Hurry up, thoi*e!' Hurry by all means,' for we could not live if we did not kllj ourselves to get somewhere else." <? Dr. Aked repeated Lewis Morris* "Evensong," and said: "There Is one consideration which we cannot es cape. What of the myriads tH our brethren pent up In mean streets. 2 prisoners of the counting house and the shops, slaves of the mill and the mine of the poor and heavy laden of ovcry nameless class, to whom these " Hurricane Killed 200. A hurricane, accompanied by im mense waves, swopt the Carollno group.' At least 200 perished, Mexican Republic CentcftmUl. ? president DUa has tatted a ffC tam at I on, propoilaj a f** ?*? "'-oto csntit'T oT 111? repnwic u MfltpoM White Man Ljwched. f nock Posey, a akWlHtpi wblt? 1 1, had confeased to aasanltlnf U -* ***** ?? ? ?? TO* iHBH words are bitter mockery, for whom no chancing seasons bring cessation from toil and weariness. What of thorn in these days of summer sun shine and joy? "There should be nono such, ex cept the vicious. And Christianity cannot rest while such mortals live, disfranchised of their right to rest and happiness. The unaccomplished mission of our fa.it 11 Is the redress of every economic, inequality. There ib no gospel which is not a gospel of so cial service. We live to bring all mankind into the family of God. But meanwhile, while such poverty re mains, while such evil conditions sad den and appall us, what right have we to our holidays, to our happiness? Can we sit at our feast blindfold, or dare we open our eyes? What right have we to any feast, while our broth ers starve in the midst of plenty? None, if our lives are wrong. If we, are living for ourselves, thinking, planhing..accumulating for ourselves, none. But if all life to us is a sacred trust', if happiness is only so much stored up energy to be expended In divine redemptive toll, then go. keep the feast, charge your blood and brain with health and flood your soul w.lth Joy. "For the present go away and for get! It is a counsel of perfection and you would not follow it, else I should say to you, go where you can hhve no letters, no newspapers, no telegrams, where the ring of the tele phone bell Is never heard, and where even the Marconi cannot come. But at least do your best to forget. For get your business. Forget your debtB. Forget your debtors. Forget that, In this world there Is suffering, sickness or sin. ? Only remember that the sun shines for you, the moonlight and the starbeams are for you, the tides ebb and flow for you, the gorse upon the hillside, the purple heather i and the fields dressed living green are for you." I ) Dr. Aked said he hart no patience with the attitude which makes a sad and doleful thing out of the practice and forms of Christian worship. "Let us have done with these sol emn hypocrisies of conventional wor ship," he said. "Let us frankly claim our heritage of happiness in a world whose maker and builder is God. One day Pacton Hood had to preach In a Yorkshire church. It was a glorious summer morning. A good brother gave out: 'My thoughts on awful subjects roll, Damnation and the dead ' "But Paxton Hood leaped to his feet and said. 'Oh, no, they don't! My thoughts do not roll on<anythlng so dreadful. Let us sing: 'Come W us join our cheerful songs, With angeis round the throne.' "We pray God to forgive, our sins, we ought to pray to be forgiven our sadness. There is 110 virtue In mis ery. The melancholy person is not necessarily a superior person; and If he were the superior person Is gener ally detestable. A face as long as a fiddle and a voico liko a crow's will not be Imputed to us for righteous ness. We shall not go ?0 heaven for our tears or to hell for our smiles. Humor Is a gi/t of God as well as pa thos.'V The beat way to spend Sunday or any other hoIWhts* ?ald Dr. Aked, was to follow Christ's *4vice to His dicl ples: "Come ye yottr^elves apart into a desert place and rest awhile." Ti-Vsel Wlcf-CYrw Lo*t. Sf^ar Iceland. The French schooner Vlolctte, with nine hands, has sunk oil the coast of .Iceland. : For Ikiyard. Trtbvtaa to the memory of Thomaa F. war* paid by Qnmr Clm taad. Judge George Gray ,and others at the uvtlltBg of the Bayard statue la Wllmlagton, Del. Gave Life For Snapshot, fc Seymour Spalding, twenty years old aad wealth* was drowned In Lo caat Creak, at Brookfleld, Mo., while ?wlaalBf la m dangerous spot la order that a young woman might take a saapabot of htm. . JOB 0. RBGKF.FELLER 3d IDE WITNESS STAND Secretary Pratt Roveals Standard Oil's Huge Profits. MADE $81,300,000 IN ONE YEAR Witness is l'utlent?Says He Itctircd Vi'nr.s Ago ? \ Hiwlitf Rebuffs 11 i tn?(iri'ai, Curious Crowds (Jri'i'l Him. Chicago.? OesflRo resistance U|) to the last moment by his lawyers, John 1). Rockefeller was compelled to how to the law, f?o on the stand before United States District Judge Kene saw M. Landis, and answer questions like any other witness. Incidentally ho found ht< was on a plane no higher than any other citizen, for he came into conflict with a bailiff when at one moment he tried to leave the? courtroom and was compelled to go back to his seat and await the pleas ure of the court. What Mr. Rockefeller told did not amount to much, so far as it related to the effort of Judge Landis to de termine iiow large a line he should assess in the rebate case against the Oil Trust, lie revealed Ignorance of the Standard Oil Company's affairs. Really his place as president of the company was merely honorary. He had not looked after details for twelve years. He had not even been to the office in eight years, lie was not certain whether Its capital was $100,000,000 or not, ami could only guess that the dividends were some where in the neighborhood of forty per cent, of that amount. Judge Landis, however, obtained the information ho had sought. He calmly overruled the multltudlous objections of the Standard Oil law yers and pressed questions upon other witnesses. The most impor tant of these was Charles M. Pratt, secretary of the company. He had to admit that the parent New Jersey corporation controlled the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, which had | been convicted of so many instances i of rebating that it stood liable to a ! line of $29,240,000. Under the skil- I ful questioning of the Judge he had to admit more. He bore testimony that Mr. Rocke- 1 foliar did not know about details, for the capitalization of tho New Jersey company was a matter of almost $2,000,000 under the $100,000,000 mark o^t by its president. Rut thi* figure did not represent the full value pf its properties, ho admitted, for they were worth "vastly more." This assertion was well borno out when Judge Landis led him to tell of earn ings. The yearly dividends of tho trust had averaged about forty per cent, of its outstanding capital, but here was what its net earnings were in tho three years covered by the case at bar: 1903?SSI,300,000. 1 1 904 ? $61,500,000 1905?$57,000,000. TROLLEYS KILLS 2, HURTS 10. ! Car (Joes Over anEmbankment When Filled With Passengers. Clarksburg, W. Vu.?Heavily la den with passengers, who were en joying an outing, an ypen trolley car on the Fairmont and Clarksburg Traction Company's system, jumped the track An the Grasseli division just Outside the city limits and crashed over an embankment, instantly kill ing two, fatally injuring one and se riously injuring nine others. How the car left the track is a mystery the traction company officials cannot explain. It was running up hill, around a curve, at moderate speed. After bounding along the ties for a short distance tho car went over thd* embankment and landed,, on its side, pinning the dead and injured underneath. Motorman James and Conductor Fitzpatrick escaped with slight injuries. Most of the injured were taken to the* city hospitals and some to their homes. Several pas sengers besides those whose names are given were slightly hurt. The dead: Miss Grace Markerl, Clarksburg, skull cru^Jjed; W. T. Gray, engineer Washington Carbon Works, Clarksburg, head crushed. . TORNADO'S PATH OF DEATH. Twenty-one Killed and as Many In jured in Wisconsin's Storm. St. Paul, Minn.?Twenty-ono ner sons are now known to have lost their lives ih the tor .ado which swept a path 100 miles long and from a mile to a few rods wide through the coun ties of Central Wisconsin. Details of the damage done by the tornado are still coming in slowly and it is be lieved that the death list will bo somewhat Increased when all points visited by tho tornado are hoard from. In addition to those killed a score or more persons were injured, some of .them so seriously that their re covery is doubtful. ~ The property damage lias not been accurately estimated, but undoubted ly will be more than $100,000. v : - ; Object Lesson to All Nation*. President Roosevelt's plan of sond ' lng the fleet to the Pacific. it was an nounced froitv OyRter Bay, was de vised to give an object lesson to all nations and Includes a speedy return to the Atlantic TWO KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Boy imI Mm VkthM M Storm at Hoath Mndtcttcr, Cms. 8onth Manchester. Conn. ? In a heavy electrical storm tiers George Piatt, Jr., eleven years old. was struck and Instant!* killed by lt|htnlnt. The boy was ssai on an errand by his mother, and mos after he left his horns hs fsll to ths sidewalk dead. ~ Ths dead body ot Frank R, Wlleoa, ha was standing over a etor*. wnijnfj Pin pitv Threo Year Secret Fight to Save Minneapolis. I'er Many Wars on Foundation TlirciilttiiliiK t'l'iimlili'i?(ileal i'rops I in 11 ( I'rlxiili'ly. Minneapolis, Minn.-?For the last three yours, unknown to Its clti/ens, jtho city of Minneapolis has boon in I peril of destruction. The City Kn gineer's Department mad<? known the character of a work that lias loan been in progress for the x .urpose of preventing u calamity. The entire business section of Min neapolis Is built over a series of subterranean lakes and caverns, said to bo as mysterious and hallllug us the Mammoth Cuvo of Kentucky. Into these dark recesses waters rushed, and the constant wearing away of the soil cause*) a weakening which threatened the stability of the ground upon which the city was built. An investigation made by the city ollicials three years ago partially re vealed the extent of the danger, and showed that the peril of the city was becoming greater daily. Ueneath the Security National Hank, one of the largest ilnnnclal institutions In the city, the soil had become so honey combed that burglars might have worked their way undetected directly into the treasure vaults. Another great washout had taken place un der the Andrus Building, one of the tallest stuctures in the city, and had practically undermined Nicollet ave nue, the. thoroughfare of which Min ueapollans always boast. After the .discovery a hurried con sultation or city ollicials was held, tho gravity of the situation was discussed and action decided upon. Working secretly, large sums of money were appropriated and repairs went on, until now all danger is removed and the city rests llrm on Its artificial foundation. Tons of concrete have been used, huge waterfalls have been harnessed, underground streams di verted, and '.he entire system of un derground lakes lids been filled in 1 and made a firm foundation for the city. I The real extent of the underground i caverns has not yet been determined, owing to the difficulty of exploration, and the city.will appropriate a largo sum of money to have it thoroughly Investigated and mapped. FRENCH WARSHIP SUNK. Suspicion Caused by Firo Near Hot-he's Magazine in Duck. Toulon, Franco.?The battleship IIoch<*'ihad a narrow escape from de struction. Fire broke out near her powder magazine, and to prevent tho spread of the Hani us the battleship was sunk in a Klip adjoining the 0110 in which the battleship Ieua was wrecked by an explosion, with great loss of life, on March 12 last. The fir?, which broke out In (ho sailroom, as did tho ilre which de stroyed the French torpedo school chip Algeclras here on November 25, 1906, resulting in the loss of tlireu lives, is a mystery, and as this la tbu third conflagration to break board ships at Toulon within a radfcf the incident has created mtich.-dhj quietude in naval circles, and a/rlgh Inquiry is being made. MARRIED ON HORSEBACK. Cowboy Bridegroom at Cody, \VyoM Chased Bride Around a Racetrack. Cody, Wyo.?The marriage of John C. Dodge and Mrs. O. F. liazen hero was a spectacular affair. County Judge Brundago and the witnesses went to tho grandstand at the race track at 10 a. m. Five minutes later the couple, mounted on fleet ponies, dashed into tho grounds and circled the track at top speed. When *they reached tho grandstand Dodge seized Mrs. Hazen. pulled her on to his horse and they were married while a brass brand played softly the plan tation melody, "I Want You, Ma Honey." DANK FAILS IN MA COX, Exchange, With Assets and Liahlli ties of $2,000,000. Macon, Ga.?Judge U. V. Whipple, at Cordele, appointed I). P. Oneal, T. N. Haker and A. D. Schofleld receiv ers for the Exchange'Bank in Macon. The assets are stated to be $1,9;">S, 973.55 and-liabilities the same. ? President Cabaniss gave out a statement to the public that on ac count of a run on the bank for sev eral days all the availablo eash of t^he bank has been exhausted and that" it is impossible to continue tho bank "as a going concern." Rich Mill Owner Killed. Christopher Horandt, a wealthy silk manufacturer of Paterson, was klllod, his nephew perhaps fatally in jured, and Mr#, liorandt and her daughter seriously bruised and shocked In a collision between an a*> lomobilc And a railroad train at Koy port, N. J. Commission For .Mrs. Kdtly. Judge Robert N. Chamberlain, of the Merrimack County Superior Court, of New Hampshire, appointed two co-masters to assist Judgo Ald rlch to determine tho competency of Mrs. Mary Balcer G. Kddv to transact business and care for her own in terests. Chinese in Africa l)cfk>rted. Nineteen hundred and forty-eight repatriated Chinese laborers sailed fi*om I^urban, Africa, for homo. Governor Heches Calls Legislature. Governor Hughes, of New York, called a special session of the legis lature, to convene nt Albany for un finished business. ' Hscn?tA>Veirlirfr Cmufht. George Delconr, who shot two po at Lake Placid, N. Y.. was 46 the woods near Bloom . ., ? ? 4 ' BITS E HEWS ?V Vshi\(;to\, Sir Chemung Liang-CliciiK, reUrlnt Minister from China, l?jft lo rcluiL to liis native country. Ucar-Admiral 10 vans left for Now York to prepare the Atlantic Hoot for its voyage to tho Put* I tic. Quartermaster-General 11 umphroy was placed on the retired list at his own request. Secretary Taft announced that J. 11. Hishop, secretary of tho Panama Canal Commission, wonUl make his headquarters on the Isthmus. Tho itinerary of tho President's trip West early in October, which was made public at Oyster Hay, showed that he would not go further South than Memphis. Plans were announced for a pro posed National Department of Kino Arts. Chief Engineer Goethals in a tentative report favored tHe division of the Panama Canal work into sec tions and letting contracts for them. Secretary Taft left for a mouth's vacation at Murray Hay. The American Hankers' Associa tion presented a complaint to the Interstate Commerce Commission against tin loading express com panies acting as bankers. Ol'lt ADOPTED ISLANDS. Corporal P. J. Green, of tho K1 ev ent h United States Infantry, who was shot at Holguln, Cuba, on June 2S by a Socsi policeman while resisting arrest, is dead. President Roosevelt promoted Al fred S. llartwoll from Associate to Chief Justice of*tho Supremo Court of Honolulu, and appointed Sidney Miller Hallou Associate Justice of the same c<tTn?t> General Smith has returned to Manila after a month's tour of in spection in the northern provinces. An Englishman returned to Lon don from the Philippines says the people expect Japan to seize them. There are 101,127 persons in the Philippine Islands qualified to vote (500 pesos property qualification), and of this number only 123,937 voted at the last municipal elections. DOMESTIC. New York City's bond sule resulted in bids for $2,121,K40 of tho $29, 000,000 offered, being saved from complete fiasco by llfty-sevcn small bids. Federal Judge Landls, at Chicago, refused to recall tho subpoena for John D. ^Rockefeller, summoned to give Information of Standard Oil 11 nances in the Alton rebate case. The Wisconsin State Assembly, by a vote of ?>9 to 15, passed the Senate resolution providing for the naming of a United S.ates Senator by direct vote. Secretary Metcalf stated at San Francisco that a squadron would remiid Cape Horn and visit that har bor. About 1000 delegate attendr/l tho ! sixteenth annual convention df the j Baptist Young People's Union at Spokane. Judge Edgar Aldrlch, of Littleton, kN. If., was appointed master to du l^t^rrolne the competency of Mary jvWaker G. Eddy to conduct her own affairs. Magnus Thompson shot and fatally wounded Minnie Phatum at New Richmond, Wis., and blew ofT tho top of his own head. Tho girl had re fused to marry Thompson. Leo C. Tliurman, of West Point, Ky., arCbsted. at Vancouver, B. C., in April for the murder at Norfolk, Va., in February, 1900, of Walter P. Dol sen. of Michigan, the victim of a trunk mystery, has been sentenced to be hanged September 2 7. Turns Bixby, of Muskogee, I. T,, for ten years a commissioner for tl*ji Five Civilized Tribes, has retired. J. George Wright, Indian Inspector, suc ceeds him. A jump from a moving train near Denver, Col., killed Frank Schmelzor, I of the Western Federation of Miners, who was going to Boise to testify for Haywood FOREIGN. Hie master of the rolls of the Kildare Street Club, of Dublin, de cided that the expulsion* of Edward Martyn was Illegal. Japanese authorities in Korea were astonished at the appearance of a Korean delegation at Tho Hague Con ference, and accuse the Emperor of bad faith. Sif Edward Grey said in the House of ^Commons that Britain's claim against China was based on the dam ages actually Incurred in tho Boxer rebellion. The British Government demanded of Morocco that prompt steps tc\r tho release of Sir Harry MacLcnn bo taken. r Forty Croatian ' Deputies loft, tho Hungarian Parliament as a protest against the Government's railroad bill. A dispatch from Berlin said that Japan had placed an order with the Krupps for a number of twelve-Inch naval guns. Prance took formal possession of the new Siamese territory awarded under tho recent treaty. - Tfr<?-Kns?lnTi -Gayfiuimentjig.hasten ing to carry out the recant order Tor distribution of land to peasants on easy terms, and has ordered tho re laxation of measures against tho Jews. Count Constantino Nigra, the well known Italian diplomat, died at Rapallo. ? t . Horace O. Knowlee, American Min ister to Servla and Rumania, who succeed Jbfcn W. Riddle, now Ambas sador at St. Petersburg, present* his credentials to King Peter. a<U Bel ^It was announced at Rome that the Italian Government would grant amneetF to all political press offend ers, with the exceptlba of anarchists, on the eocaslon ot the centennial, July 4, ot t*e hlrth.^1 Giuseppe Gael baldl. ru v? " ?" VVliolosftte Prices Qiioicd in New York Mine. The Millc Kxchatme price lor standard quality i? 2 Vie. per quart. JIOTTRIt. dreamery \Vextern, extra.? 24,/fcfJ?!j! 25 Kirxtx. 23 (<H 24 State dairy. linent 23 <?; 23>,a (jood to prime 21 (<i) 22 Factory, thirds to lirxts... 17 (ji) 10% JIKANS. Marrow.? choice ? 2 1.1 Medium, choice (\? 1 <0 Kcil kidney, choice 2 4.1 2 ftO IVu <?/) 1 7.1 W'liile kidney 2 X" (ii) 2 8.1 Yellow eye I SO Ofi I 85 ltl i. lv turtle soup 1 75 0Q I 80 T.iiiui, Cal ? (<? 3 6.1 'if en trxi:. Mate. full ereani.... ..... ? (n) 12'4 Sninll - (>i) 12?,i 1'art ski nix, j^ood to pi niie r>\j(o) tl'/j l ull xkiinx. 4* 1 (<i) 2 k.oon. Jersey? l?'a my ... 20 <<i> 21 Sutc-liood to elioiee iH'&fttf 10 Western?Fii-xtx 10VH") 17 KHUITM AM) IIKII It I |-:S ? t Apples- I'aldwin, per l>lil.. ?? f<i? 7 00 Strawberries, per qt.. 5 oi< 13 Blackberries, per qt lo f?> 13 lliirkleherricH. per qi 12 (?) 01 (iooseherricx. per qt 7 (<? 13 I'eaehex, per enrrier 1 ."it) ty 3 110 ? i.'lierriex, per 811). basket.. 40 {it) 1 tK> LIVE I'OUI.TJIV. Fowls. per lb ?- (>f> If Chickens, spring, per lb... -- (o '.W Roosters, per lb ?- 0i) 0 I'lirkfj-i!, per lb ?? in} it Duck*,I,,in- lb II (?' 13 liw?>. per lb rt hi) 10 lli?oons, per pair ? (<i) 35 nitKNKKD t'oui.mr, 1'urkeys. per lb 10 (ii) 14 Fowls, per lb 013',J Ducks, spring. per lb lti (it) 17 Squabs, per dozen 1 2.1 C'() 4 00 HOI'S. State. 190(1, eboicc Ill (<t) 17 Medium, 100.1 3',?(4 f> I'aeilie ('oaul. 1000, choice.. ?? <?' 10 .Medium, 1905 ft (nj ti VEOKTAIU KH. Potatoes, State, per sack.. 75 Oi] 1 12 Maine, per hag 00/?s(m> I 2ft iSweetH, per basket 1 5j1 rtrt-J.,50 romatocH, per carrier.\ i*> Oi' 3 0tt KgK plant, per box../...., 1 00 Ov 1 75\ Squash, per bbl 75 (?} 1 75 ' Peas, per basket 50 (.?> 1 25 : l'ep[icr?, per carrier 1 00 (<i> 1 75 Lettuce, per bbl. f>0 (?) 75 Cabbages, per bbl 1 25 0i> 1 (9|l String bean*. per basket... 50 tit* 2 3i Onions, N. O.. per hag.... 1 <K> (<}} 1 50 Carrots, per 100 hunches.. 1 50 Oil 2 50 Beets, per loo himchcs.... 2 00 (?} *t tXl Turnips, prf TOO hunches.. 2 00 f<i* 3 00 Okra. per carrier 1 !K) (ai 2 50 l'arsley, per bbl 5 00 (<filO 00 Spinach, per bbl 50 0. 75 \VaterereHH,per 100 bunches 75 (if) 1 <XI Limn beans, nor crate 2 <0 (n) 4 00 Kale, |ii'f bbl *.40 oi* (V) Shallots, per J00 bunches.. 2 00 (.i) 3 00 Radishes, per-. 100 hunches.. 50 (?Q 75 Ciicuinh'erK, per basket..... 1 00. Or 2 00 Leeks, per 100j hunches..., .2 00 (<i> 3 00 Asparagus, per ?lo/.. bunches 75 (ti) .'I 25 Rhubarb, per 100 bunches.. 1 <K? (<i) 2 00 Mint, per 100 huiwhcs..,. j 00 (ii> I f>0 Cauliflower, per bbl 50 Oft 1 50 Gil A I.N. KTC. Flour - Winter patents.... 4 ?>ft (? 5 00 Spring patCnH.. ...... 5 15 w 0 05 Wheat. No. 1 N. Duliith... ? (a) 1 1:1% So. 2 red 1 01 <? 1 03 Corn, No. 2 white ? (T/j 03% No. 2 yellow ? 0'} 03V& Oats, niijced ? (?) 40 Clipped white SpVif") 54 Lard, city.. ........ ? (<$ 8'/? L1VS 6TOOK. Beeves, city dressed 10 Calves, city dressed 8 (a] 12V4 (Country dressed 0V4<") .11 Sheep, per UK) |h 3 50 (a> ft 00 Lambs, per 100 lb ? 25 (Si 7 75 ' Hogs, live, per 100 lb 0 00 (a} 7 00 Country (tressed per lb.. 0% CHOP CONDITIONS IMPROVED. Railroad Official Finds No Riniinu* tion In Traffic on RoadM. Now York City.?W. C. Brown, senior vice-president of the New York Central lines, said that in his recent trip through the West he found that the improvement in crop conditions had been pronounced. He believes that If the favorable weather in tlio West continues crops will reach a state of development nearly equal to that of previous years, when the conditions earlier were normal. Speaking more in detail regarding weather and crop conditions in the West, he said that warm rainB, fol lowed by warm weather, had foreed tho crops ahead with almost remark able rapidity. Mr. Drown also said that he was unable to discover any falling off In business in'the West or in the traffic of the railroads. Tho New York Cen tral lines ,are getting all tho business they ran handle promptly. At .this time last year these lines had 4iew equipment amounting to about $25, 000,000 under contract. At the pres ent time they have no new contracts for equipment outstanding, princi pally because of tho inability of all railroads to get additional capital on favorable terms. Mr. Brown belleveti that if the railroads are compelled to withhold orders for new equip ment much longer their action will not be reflected to a very great ex tent in general business, but that nat urally the equipment manufacturing companies and tho manufacturer! of the materials used in the construction of ears and locomotive* will exper ience a material slackening in their output. a Machinery Not Idle. Little machinery is idle In the lead ing industries, except where repair* or inventories inferT6r?,~?nd at -\ mills the stoppage will be brief ow ing to the urgency of consumer* and the large, contract#. 1 ? Profitable For Ranks. Tt has been a profitable half year for tho banks, many of whom oro said to have made their year's divi dends tn ill months. Financial CnsHiisti ?*<*??thg. ' .'William Rockefeller jleclared lh ah Interview thatcohmdcncs tjr the tea* elal situation la returning. Apflea ? Good apples. It I*.t*W. are illfety to cost more >M%W tttl winter*. "190 KICIiMS OF THE FOURTH Statistics of Casualties Caused by Excess of Patriotism. 1 lih'l >Men, Women and Cltil* dreii Are Dead and 'riwiustuuU Maimed l<'or Life. Chicago.? Tho Tribune swyBt "Thirty-seven men, women and children nro dead and 2153 ar?* maimed, lacerated or burned, owing to excess of patriotism in the United States on tiio Fourth. Tho nufnber of tho dead does not include five drowned during the day. "The roster of (lie dead in four more than last year's mortality. A year ago thirty-three persons 'were dead on the morning after the Fourth, not including live drowned. "Unfortunately, tho death roll will increase day by day, and even tho late dayB of August will witneBs additions to It. Tetanus, that grim aftermath of gunpowder wounds, claims its vic tims by scores, and even by hundreds, for weeks after the Fourth. "Chicago, although the second city of tho country, added only two dead ' to tho nation's total. Springfield, 111., supplied threo victims. Chat- . hum, ill.,,two, and Aberdeen, S. D., two. No other town or^'city In the country nave up more than one of Its own to death. "The total number of Injured,. 215 8, Is under last year's figures, which weru 2 783. The figures show that tills year, as lattf, tho most of tho casualties were due to- careless ness In handling firecrackers ,v and other forma of 'harmless explosives,' Victims of gunpowder this yoar stand second in number, but show a marked decrease from lost year's figures. "The crusade against the deadlro toy. pistol seems to be bearing frulfiT asttils year only 205 victims are rfc? ported, as against 304 last year." Violent Deaths in Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa.?All records of fa talities following tho celebration of Independence Day In PlttBburg were broken this year. Fifteen violent deaths were reported to the Coroner," while tho number of injured will ex ceed three score. . Many of these,.^ is said, will die. The list of dead, which was com piled from caseB reported at tho Cor oner's ofllco and morgue,Included ?\tfo alleged murders and one suicide. ?* ... ?? KII/IiHD HY TROLLEY, S3 HURT. Cars Meet in North Tonawanda Run* ning at High Speed. ** # Tonawanda. N. V.?'iwo ot U?? wis 4* trolley cars of the International Rail way Company's Lockport line met head-on In, North Tonawanda. The . ears were making about fifteen mile* an hour. The vestibules were, smashed, but the cars held the tracks. Daniel Halllnan, a motorman, waa crushed and died soon after. Motor man Butler and Conductors McClo#-- ? key and Murphy^tfere fatally injured. Of the thirty passengers on tha^ two cars only a few' escaped 'without Injury of some kind. Tho most serlouBly injured are: William H. Weber, a Buffalo groCefy man^sjrhQ was hurt Internally; Mr* Weber 'mm their two children. BETRAYED BY A WOMAN; Windsor Bank Defaulter Ranjraa Caught In New York dtjr. - . New York City.?^Chester B. Run yan, the paying tellfcr of the Windsor Trust Company, who. emhesziedf 317.75, was arrested In an apartment at 619 .West. 144th street, whore h?, had been" hiding since hodisappeared* Mrs. Laura M. Carter, with whom ho had been living, betrayed him to the police. Of the $96,317.7t> which Runyau stole from the trust company, $54, 410 was recovered by the police, and ? 16,000 of the rest TiaS been accotiiit^ ed for as lost , by Ruayan in apecttla* tlon. o V REWARD FOR'OLD FAVOR. . Oswego Woman Snda Money to Girl Who Befriended Her. Flhdlay, Ohio.?Miss Ethel Bieb?* of this city, received 920,000 from Mr.'. Mary M. Kendall, of Oswego. N. Y., whom she befriended threo years ago in Toledo. Mrs. Kendall was Injured while lot tho street, and Miss B/F?h saw that shor was Riven proper attentipn. Mrt. Kendall promised a reward at tho time. r AIJ08HIRE APPOINTED. Heroines Quartefmaster-Cteneral fas A Place of General Humphries, prater Bay, L. 1.?Tho President Appointed Genera! James B. Aleshlro to be Quartermaster-General of Army with tho rank of Brigadier-Genera). General Humphries, tho present Quartermaster-General, will retire. > Battleship Rumor Denied. Tho report that battleships from the Atlantic fleet wero tb*ho ordered to the Pacific wero emphatically, do nted both at Washington and Oyste* Bay. * ? Killed at Marriage Festivities. ??hot QOd frilled John Carroll at Dalton, Ga., larilf an ante-nuptial celebration la Car*, roll's honor. Uiloas Ceeo Ofrer to Socialism. By a vote of IDS to if, tfao*e*vw tlon or tho Western PeAiiatlpi of Minora adopted at Dearer. Oel^ % now preassbte fer whleh.laaffect; ^fedgeoaatfaoflMM^ bora to SodoKua. - ? Cottoa ot the ra' kotr uiSWat