Show villages in parts of spain are being deserted v madrid sept 21 dispatches from the famine district of andalusia say that entire trains of emigrants are leaving to embark for south america many families are abandoning their homes and farms some villages in gacicia have been totally deserted through despair of receiving the promised relief the steamship companies announce that fifteen steamers loaded with emigrants will leave Andal ports in october the press Is urging the government to adopt energetic measures against wholesale emigration to america IRON TRADE cleveland sept 21 the iron trade review this week says the market continues fully as strong as it has been on such products as rails plates and structural material and on some products such as sheets pipe and boiler tubes on which prices have been irregular and the demand limited there Is a noteworthy improvement the scarcity of crude steel Is more pronounced in chicago forging billets are held at a minimum of 35 while for quick shipment 39 per ton has been paid for carload lots in the pittsburg district one regular producer of steel la in the market for five tons consumers are unable to placa orders to cover their requirements and thera is no open market to quote while few large sales of pig iron are reported there is steady buying with prices firm and tending upward at chicago inquiries aggregating nearly tons mostly for requirements of the first half of 1906 and embracing nearly every grade of iron northern and southern are pending iron is being shipped long distances to chicago on the basis of 1080 delivered in that city there has been considerable buying of lake superior charcoal one contract tor tons having been made by a chicago car wheel interest the united states steel corporation has purchased tons of bessemer pig at 16 valley for late september delivery and it is expected that the corporation will buy steadily during the remainder of the year the southern markets stronger and sales below 12 birmingham are now very rare an advance by several large southern producers is expected about tons were eold by cincinnati agencies the first part of this week while it was not expected that the buying of rails would be continued at the unprecedented rate of the preceding two weeks the tonnage placed within a few days has been very large among the orders of tho week were the following philadelphia and reading tidewater railway chicago indianapolis di and louisville chesapeake and ohio apalachicola Apala chicola and northern norfolk and western wheeling and lake erie central new jersey 5 oregon and western at the mill rail tonnage taken on during the week amounts to about including tons from pennsylvania AT SEA ON A RAFT portland ore sept 21 A brief message from marshfield ore was received bv the tonight which stated that tour men and a woman on a life raft were sighted deome distance off shore at a point fourteen miles south of bandon ore at 2 this afternoon john ald nam who sighted the unfortunates said that there could be no mistake and that he spent over an hour trying to signal them added that all five of th e occupants of the raft wera standing he could not discern whether or not there were any provisions on the raft A BOLD ROBBER coolest piece of work ever witnessed in tacoma tacoma wash sept 21 three saloons in the business section of the city were held up and robbed by a genteel highwayman between the hours of midnight and 2 this morning the man wore a black mask and carried a large revolver which he flourished in a farm but apologetic manner in each instance he politely requested the bartender and patrons 0 the place to hold up their hands and when he had lined them up with backs toward the bar the robber rifled the cash register and disappeared the first place visited by the lone robber was swiss hall saloon 1908 jefferson avenue he then came farther up town and held up the josh saloon C street and munsons Mun sons saloon 1110 south eleventh street HB secured about 40 in each place it vas the coolest piece of work ever witnessed in this colv and the entire police force is searching for the man DISASTER believed to have been caused by explosion from outside boklo sept 21 regarding italie loss of the battleship in daae bo harbor strong doubt is entertained that is was caused by a fire which started at the base of the main mast it Is thought by some that it must have been due to an explosion from the outside followed by the greater explosion of the magazine otherwise the disaster ia declared to be impossible of explanation |