Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-04

~ - ssutMs Az jump ~ issss 49,
Acalotty 81 and higho: quota tOns for slata
apd mails hays teadsd TO produce temper
ny scarcity. Improving wheat conditions
have nAally convinced many 10 the trade
that there ~ likely 70 be tully 42o,Oso,-
90 bushels harvested In the United States
this year, which, with profitable avail.
able surplus Of 100000 being carried
over ct this time, points 70 only 1O0, 000. 600,
possibly 10000, 90 bushels or more, avail
able for export during the next twelve
months, which II less than any year since
1890. With short crops abroad in some in
stances this can hardly fail 70 bring Z
higher range Of prices. It will doubtless
prove disappointing to learn that the ex-
ports Of wheat land flour - wheat), both
coasts Of the United States and from Mon
treal, have amounted to only 1894 ,402
bushels, against ASS7 900 bushels last
weak. The decrease 10 largely in hour
shipments from Newport News, Boston,
New York and SanFrancisco. There are
few evidences Of revival Of general trade
ct the south. Wheat Is being exported
from San Francisco a. fast a. It can be
loaded into ships. Tho only changes west
and northwest are continued improvement
In cereal crop conditions and the stimulus
TO business by continued frmness Of de-
mand for iron and steel.
BosToN special: The largest and
most powerful lens ever constructed
has Just received the finishing touches in
the establishment of Alvin G. Clark &
Sons Of Cambridge. The lens is intended
for the observatory on the spires on Lake
Geneva, Wis.,, which is gift for the
Chicago University by Mr.. Yerkes, and
which is to be known as the Yerkos OBJ
servat0ry. This lens is forty one and one
half inches on the surface diameter and
weighs 900 pounds. The exposed surface
or aperture of the lens will be forty inches,
the other inch and half being taken up
by tho casting. This makes 1t four inches
larger than that OF the Lick telescope in
California, which heretofore has held the
place Of honor.
WASHINGTON special: Assistant Sec
rotary Hamlin, who has been in telegraph
lie communication with Secretary Carlisle,
at Marion, Mass, declined to say any
thing for publication In regard to the bond
contract or whether any part Of the gold
which was to have been paid in foreign
coin was domestic gold. He also declined
to answer the direct question whether the
contract had been modified.
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, special: Reports al
the Christian Endeavor state convention
show 102, 600 members and 1900 societies,
divided among twenty five churches and
denominations. A sensation was created
by Belle K. Adams Of Cleveland, charging
that President McCauley insulted her by
sSying she was no lady in addressing him
without introduction.
VINCEENEs, md, special: Lawrence
County, Illinois, is excited over shooting
ct Westp0rt. Wash Carter, drunken
negro, shot an in0tfensive and highly re-
spected white man named Jasper Mont
gomery. The wounded man may die, and
II he does the negro, who was captured
and taken to Lawrence and placed in Jail,
will be lynched.
CLEVELAND special: Secret Service
Agent Nanley and Deputy United States
Marshal Hillands arrested at Mansfield
Ohio, Amos Lehman and James Matthews
sons of wealthy farmers, on the charge Of
trying to pass counterfeit roney. 1t il
not suspected that they are counterfeiters