Show NEW YORK EDITOR IS MURDERED new york sept S jacob H thompson exchange editor of the new york times was found 1 in his apartments in the st james hotel today died at flower hospital tonight without having regained consciousness ness mr thompson was fully clothed when found he was in an apparently dying condition there is mystery surrounding the case coroner scholar expressing hta belief that the injuries sustained by mr thompson were the result ot the fall after a stroke 0 apoplexy while the hospital physicians maintain that murder was done coroner sender was with the injured man to the end hoping he might regain consciousness and make a statement tho theory of a crime is concurred in by the surgeons at the hospital the entire staff agreeing in the statement that mr thompson had been beaten there is however no known motive for a murderous attack on the editor DISORDERS AT KOBE sept S disorder has occur ed at kobe last night thursday the statue or marquis ito was from its pedestal and pulled through the streets HEAD OF SPANISH WAR VETERANS milwaukee sept 8 major charles R miller of cleveland ohio was this afternoon elected commander in ahse of the united spanish war veterans DUNS REVIEW OF TRADE new york sept S duns review ol 01 trade will say commercial news continues most satisfactory improvement being reported in almost every case except ins further decline in prices of securities crops are being harvested under most favorable conditions and a few weeks booro without severe frost will put the yield of corn and cotton beyond danger con the prosperous conditions labor struggles aro exceptionally few liberal consumption has a further slight rise in the level of commodity prices duns index number on september advancing 0 o from a month previous and a year apo han business was much less vigorous some congestion of traffic is noted and railway iu august 63 per cant larger than in the samo month of foreign commeria com merca at the short week showed gains of in experts and in imports as compared with the movements or a year ago A firm tona continues to prevail in tho hide market although there ia some evidence ot irregularity failures this week numbered ISO in the united states against last year and 23 in canada combar id nuh 10 a year ago |