THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Hems of i!je tMedu 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 25, 1887. 
Seyerai, other failures in Chicago, Mil¬ 
waukee and Duluth have followed from the 
collapse of that monstrous Chicago wheat cor¬ 
ner; but the worst and most infamous failure 
has been in Cincinnati, where the real man¬ 
ipulators of the corner had held honorable po¬ 
sitions for years. The most prominent of 
them is E. L. Harper, Vice-president of the 
Fidelity Bank, who with the aid of Cashier 
Baldwin and Assistant Cashier Hopkins, 
robbed the batik in the most outrageous way, 
dumping its capital stock, deposits, etc , into 
the wheat pool. Harper was in the habit of 
receiving from Baldwin and Hopkins large 
sums of money, aggregating over 81,000,000, 
on mere pencil memorandums, which were 
counted as cash, no entry being ever made on 
the books. A false statement of the condition 
of the bank was made under oath to the Con¬ 
troller of the Currency by the same officials, 
and the very day before the corner collapse 
Harper solemnly assured the other directors 
of the bank that had not speculated to the ex¬ 
tent of a cent and w as not mixed up iu any 
sort of speculation; yet at that time he had 
thrown into the corner his own for¬ 
tune of nearly 12,000,000 and nearly 
all the assets of the bank. Not only 
has he and his confederates utterly ruined 
the bank, but it is reported that he 
secured great sums by forgery, and he stuck 
a large number of other banks which dealt 
with the Fidelity, in Ohio, Chicago, New 
York, and other places. The total loss is esti¬ 
mated at from $6,000,000 to 810,000,000. The 
stockholders of the bank are responsible for 
double the amount of their stock, so many of 
them will he ruined, or nearly so. The direc¬ 
tors, all of whom were grossly deceived, are 
said to be responsible for the debts of the 
bank to the full extent of their fortunes, so 
that most of them will be ruined, and in 
spite of every thing, the poor depositors of 
the bank will hardly get 25 per ceut. of their 
deposits. The morning of the collapse the 
stock of the bank was worth $150 a share, in a 
few hours it was worth a great deal less than 
noth'ng, as all who held it were liable to con¬ 
tribute toward paying the bank’s debts. 
Harper, Baldwin and Hopkins are in jail, 
but will soou be out under heavy bail. Al¬ 
ready mawkish sentimentality is gushing 
around the rascals who have brought poverty 
and ruin on hundreds, and the end isn't yet_ 
According to this morning's Bradstreet’s, the 
total number of industrial employees striking 
and locked out during twenty-four days of 
June, is about 7,800, against 16,IKK) during the 
whole of June, 1886. But the failure of the 
Chicago bookmakers’ strike, where the men 
lost over $2,000,000,is offset by the prospect of 
a strike of the Amalgamated Association at 
Pittsburgh and elsewhere for an advance of 
10 and 15 per cent, in wages, to begin on July 
1. It is not improbable that concessions 
may be made and a strike avoided, as 
in several previous years. 
. .Natural gas has been found iu large volume 
in Cumminsviile, 25th ward of Cincinnati, at 
a depth of 280 feet.... . . 
The Missouri Supreme Court has at last 
confirmed the judgment that Walter H. Len- 
nox-Maxwell, the St. Louis Preller murderer, 
must haug. Crime committed April, 1885.... 
. In one of his tirades against Sheridan 
Gen. Rosser said be deserved hanging as much 
as did Gen, Early for burning Chainbersburg, 
Pa., iu 1863. Early now calls Rosser a “con¬ 
victed liar aud falsifier.”.Alexander 
Mitchell’s widow, who was left $200,(100 cash, 
and $50,000 a year instead of dower, has de¬ 
cided not to coutest her husband’s will, though 
the value of his estate is estimated at between 
$15,000,000 and $30,000,000, all of which her 
son John inherits ..“The Battle of the 
Flags” still rages stubbornly in the papers, the 
Republicans making all the capital possible 
out of it, and the Democrats belittling the 
President’s order, and throwing all the blame 
on Adjutant-General Drum, who started the 
idea, aud Secretary of War Endicott, who 
brought it to the President’s notice. Drum 
submitted a similar proposition to Sec. of 
War, Lincoln, who is said to have approved it; 
but Arthur’s Administration disapproved it 
All parties agree that the order was uncalled 
for; even Jeff. Davis says the order to return 
the flags “was a violation of all known military 
precedents.”. .That"RubberTrust” will soon be 
in operation. Appraisers are now valuing 
the several properties for which the Trust will 
issue certificates for a good deal more than 
their appraised value, and then, having a 
monopoly of the rubber business iu the coun¬ 
try, they will exact from the public profits 
enough to pay a large percentage on the capi¬ 
tal thuswatered”.Mrs. Fannie Folsom 
Cleveland has been having a glorious week 
among the “girls” of her Alma Mater, Wells 
College, at Aurora, N. Y. She reaches Wash¬ 
ington to-day.The Swedes of Chicago 
are going to erect in Lincoln Park, a $50,000 
monument to Linnaeus, the famous botanist. 
It will be the finest in Chicago, and is to be a 
fac-simile of the Linnaeus statue at Stockholm. 
... The Atlanta, Ga., City Council has passed 
an ordinance refusing to license bucket shops. 
.It is reported that an Eastern syndicate 
has bought the “Jumbo” gas well at Fair- 
mount, near Wabash, Ind , and will lay pipes 
to Chicago. 158 miles distant. The well i9 the 
largest in the State, having a daily capacity 
of almost 12,000,000 cubic feet.English- 
made ammunition will be served out by the 
Dominion Government for brigade camps this 
summer. This will about exhaust the stock of 
English ammunition. Canadian made ammu¬ 
nition will then be used exclusively.That 
National Drill at Washington eutailed a debt 
of $20,000, and an assessment of 40 pel cent. 
*has been levied on the contributors to the 
Fund to pay the bills off promptly. 
... .The following is the official statement just 
made of the exports aud imports of this coun¬ 
try for the periods mentioned: 
EXPORTS. 1897. 1S86. 
Five months cmlorl V:iy 8!,.. .$282,859,Ml $271 ,70.1,570 
Eleven months ended May 81. 66B,852,898 628,(117.526 
Twelve mouths ended May 81 724,558,702 672,100,516 
IMPORTS. 1887. 1886. 
Five months ended May 31... .$296,290,244 $274 877,614 
Eleven months ended May 81. 631,129,821 581,221,138 
Twelve months ended May 31 SS5.341.S19 620,536,790 
.The Farmers’ Institute, of West Rid¬ 
ing, Northumberland County, Ont., Canada, 
last Wednesday passed a resolution in favor 
of unrestricted trade between (-anada aud the 
United .States. This appears to be the gener¬ 
al sentiment of Canadian farmers, as ex¬ 
pressed at all their representative meetings. 
.In the Dominion House of Commons, 
Wednesday, on the third reading of the Cus¬ 
toms Amendment act, Sir Richard Cartwright 
entered a final protest against the new iron 
duties. He maintained that they would in¬ 
flict on the farmers of the country a burden 
ten times greater than the revenue they were 
likely to produce, and predicted an early re¬ 
duction of the tariff. The act w-as fiually 
adopted, however.The trial of arch 
briber Jake Sharp is slowly progressing in this 
city with a fair cbauce of conviction. Sharp 
is now' in jail, as the Sheriff wouldn’t take the 
responsibility of letting him go at large on 
bail, however heavy. He has the best lawyers 
money can get, opposed to whom are only 
the second-rate lawyers of the District At¬ 
torney’s office.The harmless crank, 
Daniel Pratt, known as “The Great American 
Traveler,” died in Boston, Monday, aged 76.. 
. .McGlynu aud George’s followers were to 
have a grand parade of 50,000 men marching 
in column here last Saturday; 6,000 marched, 
and 9,000 friends and curiosity seekers looked 
on_The sentence of “boodler ” ex-Alderman 
O’Neil, of this city has been confirmed by the 
State Supreme Court—will hardly be taken 
to the Court of Appeals—the “court of fiual 
arbitrament.”,...Two Chicago “boodlers” 
have been convicted aud jailed for three years, 
.No liquor seller will hereafter be 
received into any Masonic lodge in Dakota 
either by initiation or ufliliation .The 
Rhode Island Legislature has adjourned with¬ 
out having accomplished any busiuess because 
of the partisan deadlock. The members’ 
pocket pay and the mileage all the same, 
however ...Sinclair Tousey, for many years 
president of the Americau News Company, 
died Thursday, aged 6eventy-two years... 
John Russell Young, ex-Uuited States Minister 
to China, was elected president of the Anti¬ 
poverty Society of Philadelphia the other 
day The venerable Dr. Mark Hopkins, ex¬ 
president of Williams College, died at Wil- 
liamstown, Mass., Friday, in his 86th year.... 
The Maine Medical Society lias passed resolu¬ 
tions condemning Governor Bod well for his 
informal veto of the law’ agaiust “ quacks.” 
....An epidemic called “Sardinian fever” 
prevails along the western coast of Mexico. 
It resembles yellow fever and proves fatal in 
most eases_Thirty-five persons have been 
excluded from a Methodist church in Cincin¬ 
nati for worshiping two women who pretended 
to work miracles-The first, train to run any 
distance with oil as fuel, west of the Allegha- 
nies, has made the trip from Altoona to Pitts¬ 
burg with great success,... Returns from the 
local elections through Wisconsin show that 
several thousand women voted at the city, 
village aud township elections under the new 
law-The Dominion Cabinet bus agreed to 
ask an appropriation of $560,000 to assist the 
755,000 French-Canadians now resident in the 
United States in returning to Canada .. 
.... Thursday Gov. Hill signed a bill restrict¬ 
ing the list of authorized practicing physicians 
in this State to those already regularly licensed 
and over 21 years old. Hereafter none will be 
admitted to practice unless they have either 
graduated from an incorporated school or 
college, or received their degrees from the 
Regents of the University of the State of New 
York; or graduated from incorporated medi¬ 
cal institutions abroad which have been ap¬ 
proved by' the institutions of this State. All 
physicians must register in the country in 
which they practice. No person convicted of 
felony will be allowed to practice.... 
Wednesday last 2.12 inches of rain fell here, 
and 1.81 op Thursday, total in two days 3.93: 
total for the fleet 24 days in June 7.51 inches— 
the highest of any June on record. Heaviest 
day’s rainfall ever seen in this .city 14.51 
inches on June 23. 1882 . The Amer¬ 
ican Protective Tariff League is securing a 
list of 1,000 protectionists who agree to devote 
not less than $100 annually for the distribu. 
tion of protective tariff literature. 
The marriage license bill has been vetoed by 
Gov. Hill, so that in this State marriage may 
still be contracted in a looser way than in any 
other place in the world.... He has signed the 
bill prohibiting the use of stoves in railroad 
cars after May 1, 1888 ... Powderly pro¬ 
poses to purge the K. of L. of all Anarchists.. 
....The report that Nina Van Zaudt is pining 
away appears to have been false or grossly 
exaggerated.Gladstone writes to a gen¬ 
tleman in Washington that his a;e and the 
Irish question prevent his visiting America... 
-The World balloon collapsed near Centra- 
lia, Ill., 55 miles from its startiug place, St. 
Louis.. By the burning of the Steamer 
Champlain, on Lake Michigan, Sunday, 22 
lives were lost.The Bernhardt Amer¬ 
ican season brought in $1,000,000 gross. Her 
part of the profit is put at $.300,000. 
Tuesday Gov. Hill signed a bill providing that 
every member of the N. Y. State National 
Guard, who shall be disabled or wounded, or 
has been disabled or wounded within the past 
10 years, while in actual service within the 
State, while Suppressing riots, etc., or drilling, 
shall receive from the State a pension like 
that received by persons in the U. S. service 
under similar conditions, aud in case of death 
the widow or minor children shall receive the 
pension. Summerville, S. C , the 
center of the earthquake disturbances, bad 
the worst shock for months last Sunday. 
... The last candidate for H. W Beecher’s 
pulpit is his nephew, the Rev. Charles Stowe, 
son of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, uow a 
prominent preacher in Hartford, Conn...... 
Another train robbery in Texas; from $15,000 
to $20,000 taken from the express car aud 
passengers on t lie Southern Pacific, Saturday 
morning.Claude Spreckels, the sugar 
king of the Pacific Coast, who owns vast sugar 
plantations iu the Hawaian Islands, is said to 
be inciting an insurrection there against his 
old friend and debtor, King Kalukua, who is 
deeply in debt. Queen Kapiolani’s visit 
to England is chiefly for the purpose of bor¬ 
rowing $2,000,000, or as much of it as she can 
get. The 20,000 Chinese residents are especially 
turbulent... 
The collapse of the Chicago corner, the fail¬ 
ure of the Cincinnati Fidelity Bank, and 
widespread financial distrust, caused a tre¬ 
mendous tumble in all sorts of stocks here 
yesterday; but especially iu the Manhattan 
Elevated Railroad stock of this city, which, 
in 10 minutes dropped $42 per share. Jay 
Gould, Cyrus W. Field, aud Russell Sage, are 
the chief owners of the stock, aud the fall 
was aggravated by a rumor of the sudden 
death of Gould, which was contradicted in 10 
minutes. It is said that Gould and Sage have 
added greatly to their millions by the panic, 
as they bought in heavily at low figures, to 
cover short sales. Many say the report of 
Gould’s death was spread by himself, to bear 
the market. A vast flock of “lambs” were 
slaughtered. Market rapidly recovering from 
the almost Black Friday panic. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 25, 1887. 
Ass. Sec. of Treasury Maynard, on July 30, 
will give a hearing to producers of wrapper 
leaf tobacco, upon the classification of Suma¬ 
tra tobacco N. Y. Dairy Commissioner, 
Jonah K. Brown, after investigating matters 
in New York and Brooklyn, says nearly all 
the dealers in bogus butter in both cities have 
been forced to abandon the business, and that 
very little oleomargarine is to be found iu the 
New York market. Like the loaves aud 
fishes of old, however, this very little feeds a 
vast multitude, as “ordinary folks” have no 
trouble iu buying nleo. when they want it, but 
a good deal of trouble to avoid buying it 
when they rlou’t want it. The Com. says the 
milk sent here by farmers is exceptionally 
good, but there is conclusive evidence that it 
is largely adulterated iu New York aud 
Brooklyn. Lively times ahead, in the way of 
prosecution, promised...The loss by the 
floods that have been devastating the river 
sections of Hungary, is put at. $5,000,000, the 
farmers being the heaviest sufferers. .. .... 
At the “commencement” of the Mass. Ag’l. 
Coll., Wednesday, a class of 18 graduated- 
one of the largest the college ever sent out. 
Pres. Goodell^ was J highly eulogized by the 
trustees, who requested him to withdraw his 
resignation.Owing to the great scarci¬ 
ty of storage room in Chicago during the late 
corner in wheat, one elevator, with a capacity 
of 400,000 bushels, was built from foundation 
to roof-tree in fourteen working days, and on 
the 15th 10,000 bushels of wheat were poured 
into the bins 1.There are rumors of a 
“corner” here iu rice.A Canadian Or¬ 
der in Council has been passed, removing the 
tolls on grain passing through the. Welland 
Canal......The Association of Official 
Agricultural Chemists will meet ut Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., August 1(3. The objects of the 
association are to secure uniformity and ac¬ 
curacy in the methods and results and modes 
of statement of analyses of fertilizers and 
other agricultural materials. A num¬ 
ber of Western fair associations have decided 
to make the Market Day feature of their ex¬ 
hibition as strong as possible. The last day 
will be devoted to the sale or exchange of live 
stock or farm goods. Au auctioneer is fur¬ 
nished by the society to its patrons. 
Ocean freight rates on live cattle have 
averaged about $7.25 per head in the past 
year. Rates are now about $2 50 higher. 
It is said that, in 1886, the Northern Pacific 
Railroad killed 1,200 head of cattle along the 
liue of its road, of which number two-thirds 
were in Montana.In the 11 months, 
ending May 31, we exported 85,303 live cattle, 
against 104,077 iu the corresponding time a 
year before; of hogs, 62,189, against 55,845.... 
....For the first eight weeks of the present 
quarter there were 99 outbreaks of pleuro- 
pnenmou-H reported in Great Britain, and 415 
cattle attacked.It is sta’ed that the re¬ 
frigerator works at Medora, Dakota, will be 
started up about July 1, aud it is exjiected 
that 20,000 head of cattle will be slaughtered 
there this season .In the week ending 
Saturday last Chicago received the largest 
number of cattle on record, 53,559 head. The 
largest number ever previously recorded was 
52.192 head—the week ending October 20, 
1883.The Cattle Trust claims to 
have closed a coutract with the French Gov¬ 
ernment, for canned goods and beef extracts, 
which will require from 75,000 to 100,000 head 
of cattle.It is proposed to fit up scouring 
establishments at Fort Worth, Texas, and send 
the wool eastward clean, to save freight. The 
Inter-State Commerce law is calculated to 
hasten this preparation . Wool Journal: 
Wo believe that two-tliirds of the clip of the 
(Western) country has already lieeu sold by 
the growers. The bulk of what remains iu 
growers’ hands is at remote Western points or 
where a lute shearing has hitherto prevented 
marketing ... In the first four mouths of 
this year the United Kingdom exported to the 
United States2,262,200 pounds of wool, agaiust 
3,134,200 pounds in the same part of 1886 aud 
1,713,800 pounds iu 1885... 
... .It is stated that no less than $25,000 is sent 
monthly to Oregou to purchase cattle for the 
British Columbia market, as the ranges of the 
interior cannot be drawn upon for some time 
yet, owing to the poor spring feed and 
wretched condition the cattle are in....Re¬ 
ports from every county in South Caroliua 
show that the crops are better than they' have 
been for 25 years.... Labor agitators who have 
been at work iu the northern counties of 
South Carolina have been warned by the far¬ 
mers to desist from their incendiary teachings 
on pain of death .. A famine is prevailing on 
the Cieilis plain, in Asia Minor, caused by the 
failure of crops several years iu succession. 
About 80,000 people out of a populatiou of 
180,000 are destitute. Appeals for relief will 
be made to the American people_Sixty-t.wo 
sheep iu a field near Oshtemo, Michigau, were 
killed by a stroke of lightning during a storm 
Sunday afternoon. There are more reports 
than ever before of destruction of live stock 
by liglituing, this year. 
....At the recent convention of seedsmen at 
Philadelphia Philip L. Reeves of New York, 
charged that of the $58,360.88 expended by 
Commissioner Column for seeds in the last 
fiscal year, $51,914,48 were paid to two con¬ 
cerns—A. B. Cleveland & Co of Cape Vlreent, 
N. Y., and Northrop, Braslan, & Co., of 
Minneapolis, Minn. Within eight months 
the first received $34,187.40; while the second 
after having been in existence only a few 
weeks, received $17,729,42 in the month fol¬ 
lowing Dee. 31, 1885. He says both firms 
sprung into existence under the auspices of 
the Commissioner, or at least immediately 
after he came into office. Mr, Cleveland, it is 
stated, is a relative of the President, aud the 
Commissioner is accused of giving the orders 
to secure the latter’s favor. Reeves believes 
the Minneapolis concern is merely a branch of 
Cleveland & Co.,and that the Commissioner is 
pecuniarily interested in the firm. Cleveland 
& Co., is said to have attempted to bribe 
Reeves by offering to buy $10,000 worth of 
seeds of him, but they failed to do so. This 
charge, with Reeves as accuser, has already 
appeared in several papers as far back as 
