New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10
Obs Feature is Intended Especially
for the Busy Man

Gin amount of defaulted liabilities the total
is greater than in any year since 1908. and
with this exception, larger than in the last
ten years.
lone of the greatest corn crons in .be
history Of the United States is indicated bv
the government report OF conditions on Julv
i, just published. AS figured by Henry
Helnzer, statistician Of the Produce En-
change, the Indication is for a crop Of
| 5,u4,ze6,Ooo bushels. which compares with
an indication OF s,1s1, 174. 600 bushels on July
L, 1908 The record corn crop was that of
1873. which amounted to 2.s27.41s.os1
For wheat, however, the outlook is
darker Deterioration in the spring wheat
crop fully as great as had been indicated
IN the many recent dispatches from ex-
I.perts in the Northwestern States is shown
AS figured by Mr.. Heinzer, the report on
spring wheat indicates a harvest OF only
1se,523.0oo bushels, comparing with the
June i indication OF 27S.3 900 bushels and
with the 1903 harvest of 29o. S23, 600 bushels
Mr.. Heinzer estimated the harvest of
winter wheat at ABS. $50 900 bushels, against
&24, 042. 600 bushels on June and last years
harvest of 446.536, 0eo bushels. The esti-
mate for the total wheat crop is 625, 1ss, 600
bushels, which compares with the estimate
of 702. 600 bushels as of June and with
the actual harvest Of 1877. 15e, 900 bushels last
year.
"A check for t5,5ooooo. drawn on the
Mercantile Trust Company by Robert w.
De Forest as representative Of Thomas F.
Ryan and his associates in the Metropoh-
tan Securities Company and OF the Inter
borough metropolitan Railway Company.
Maid m a1r ~eFeiypr
for the New York City Railway. The check
was in settlement of the claim Of s16,115,-
554 brought by the New York City Railway
against Ryan and the others.
Pleas OF guilty were entered by the
Southern Pacific Company to eighteen
counts Of the indictments charging rebat-
ing and discriminating in rates. Fines ag-
gregating $500 were imposed by sudge
Van Fleet, Of the United States Circuit
Court. in San Francisco.
Charles r. Heike, who was convicted on
June 10 last by jury in the Criminal
Branch of the United States Circuit Court
Of conspiracy to defraud the government
out of customs duties by means OF under
weighing imported sugar, resigned volun-
tarily as secretary from the American
Sugar Refining Company Of New Jersey
and as secretary and treasurer Of the New
York company. The directors will meet
next week TO act on the resignation
The largest advance in wages ever
granted voluntarily by the New Haven
railroad was announced when il was stat
ed that six thousand non-union employees
Of the company would receive an increase
Of per cent. They had not asked the
company for a raise, but the directors
voted it because they had recently signed
& new payroll granting an increase Of SINH
lar proportions to the union employees OF
the railroad. The rise will cost the road
$500. coo annually. II includes employees of
all grades from the car knockers TO the
clerks in the sleeping car and dining ser
vice.
ION petition of the International Paper
Company Judge Colt, IN the United States
Circuit Court. at Boston, appointed receiv-
ers for The Boston Herald Company. In
Guiding a bond issue Of 400, ooO the in
debtedness is about 50 10000. For many
years The Boston Herald was one Of the
best known newspapers in the country. It
was established in 1916.
THE general strike Of the cloakmakers,
preparations for which have been going on
for more than six months, began in Man
haitian, The Bronx. Brooklyn and in New
ark, N J., involving about seventy-five
thousand workers, 10 per cent of whom are
women. II is the first general strike Of
cloakmakers for sixteen years, and is prob
ably the largest strike IN a single trade
that has ever taken place in this city. Bet
ter pay and shorter hours are demanded
THAT potatoes are sold in short barrels
as trade custom in New York was dis