The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-11-29
THIS MEANS TROUBLE
RATE WAR IMMINENT IN THE
NORTHWEST.
Trade Improvement Slow, but Labor
Is More Largely Employed Fears
for an American Lincr-Harvard
Loses to Yale.



a new traffic agreement with the Great
Northern and Oregon hallway and \avi-
CATION Company, which gives the 500, i'll
other words, the Canadian Pacific, Il
through line to Portland and all interme
date points. The 500 proposes also 10
enter Eastern Washington and Oregon
rs an aggressive competitor for all bust
ness originating or terminating east of
st. Paul, especially for New York and
Boston business.
X. G.. Dun L. Co.'S Weekly Review Of
Trade says: There is some change for the
better. The gain is slow and in some di
rcctiOns not very distinct. but the signs
of it are Il little more definite than last
week. The most important of them is
larger employment Of labor. answering
better demand on the whole for manu-
featured products. Much of this is due
to the unnatural delay of orders for the
winter which resulted from prolonged un-
certainty, but it means actual increase
In earnings and purchasing pow
er Of the millions, and so gives promise of
u larger demand in the future. Prices of
farm products in the aggregate do net i'm
prove, but the prevailing hopefulncss is
felt in somewha larger transactions.
The American liner Indiana, Captain
Townsend. from Liverpool and Queens
town for Philadelphia. with Il crew Of
seventy men and l. 10 Stecrag. passengers,
is six days overdue. Captain Hunter, of
the British steamship Calvin, which
reached Girard Point Sunday morning
from pOrti. says that on the 10th inst,
while weathering Il terrific gale, they OBJ
served on the crest of Il wave a part of Il
passenger vessels life raft. 1t was paint
cd snow white. and the figure go was
plainly visible on one end. Pilot Schcl-
linger says that the raft closely rcsem-
bles those carried by the American line
boats. Close to the raft was floating IL
wooden buoy.
In Saturdays great football game Mt
Springfield, Mass. Yale defeated Har-
ward by a score of II to 4. though Har-
ward played the most scientific game Six
men were hurt so they had to be carried
from the field, one having his collar bone
broken.
The New York National Shoe and
Leather Bank has been robbed of S::'54.-
600 The man accused is Samuel G..
Seely. For fourteen years Seely has been
Il trusted bookkcepcr in the institution.
For more than nine years. it is now al
legged. he has been stealing the bank 5
funds intellectually and pcrsStcntly. aid
cd by one of the banks depositors. Both
men are missing.
Charles +. Allen. aged GO. of Craw-
louisville. Ind. rendered respondent by
his aged wife's approaching death, cut
his throat.
At New York the ferryboat Neither
lands. in making her slip. struck the
bulkhcad, tearing out part of the men $
cabin and injuring four passengers.
Miss Victoria A. Stein, of Chicago. has
sued Clarence a. Saulpaugh. of Mankato
Mimi, for $4,000 for breach of prom
Use.
Proceedings have been begun to inn
peach Tamn;tny Justice Diver at New
York. lie is charged with malfeasancc.
bribery and general incompetency.
Obituary: At Titlin Ohio. General Viii
liam Ill. Gibson. AT Denver. Colo.
Bridget Duffy. 1O1. formerly of Chicago.
AT Oshkosh. Wis. Paul ]. REYNOLDS
At Virginia, ILL.,. Mrs. Mary Kennedy,
1O0.-At Paris, DIR. Claudio Jannet.
The usual Friday cabinet meeting did
not take place ut Washington, being post
pOned because the President was not
ing the govt and sprained foot which have
kept him indoors at Woodley for sever:,
days.
Joseph A. Beck. u leading architect OF
Toledo, Ohio. committed suicide. His
body was found by tramps hanging t" 4
tree fully five miles from the city. He
was supposed to he prosperous in his bus
mess and entirely free from any domes
tic troubles.
The ravages of smallpox aud diphthera
have thrown the city of Detroit into .
partial panic. The spread of the latte,
disease. particularly. has been rapid. and
the Board Of Health has ordered the clos
ing of six public aud FIVE paroctia
schools. The epidemic is confined to ch,i
dren. and the mortality is great. Ihs
new hospital just completed for sInallIo,
patients will be turned to the use Of ,liph
liberia cases.
George w. I.slerer. the theatrical man
ager was divorced from his wife ut 30,
y. III. ON Thursday and within an hnu
was married in Hoboken to Miss Abel,
Rice. Il pretty society girl. with whom h
clored and who had rot known him fo
more than six weeks.
by the explosion of Il boiler in Il saw
mill At Monticello. Ont. two men wer
killed and 4 number seriously injured.
Samuel Carson. an escaped convict
who has been Il Chicago cahman for te,
years. has fallen heir to $1,000 and SUI
rendered himself.
Rev. John l. Dudley. formerly con~pi.
nous in western CONGREGATIONAL circles
died in Boston. aged ~ years.
Carleton Il. Hutchtis. inventor at = r.
frigcrator car and a large MANUFACTURED
died in Detroit OF heart failure.
Western lines are SO unanimously il
favor of new passenger association tl,,
there is little doubt of its organization.
Airs. W. L. Evans. of Perluma Cal
saturated her cloihins with coal oil an
thea set her garments on fire. She W.,
burned to death. She had been previous
ly inss ne. but had been released fro:a til
asylum
J. Edward Addicks. a millionaire ,