Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 10, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 December 1907 — Page 2

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1907 DECEMBER 1907

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N. M. F. Q.F.M. I L. Q 5th. V 11th. 19th. V 27t!L PAST AND PEESEXT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered foj- the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many. Klas Osrnr II, of Sweden. Head. Oscar II, kins of Sweden, died at 3 :10 o'clock Sunday morning. The death of the monarch occurred in the royal .apartment of the pa'aee at Stockholm, jmrrounded hy th. niemlers of his family, including the queen. Sophia, and the crown prince. Oscar Gustav, and tugh ministers of state. The inevitable end had been awaited, while outside the palace great crowds stood with bowed Leads and tearful eyes Ions after the announcement came of the death of their beloved sovereign. The!r hearts filled with grief, for Cscar was something more than a ruler to his people, and had endeared himself to them as Intimate and personal friends. When the flag on the palace was dropped to iialf mast there was a moan of anguish from the assembled multitude and many of them cried "Our dear old king is dead." Vaat A mount of Property Burned. "Five hundred "Night Riders" masked nd heavily armed, marched into IIopfcinsville, Ky and destroyed property valued at over $200,000 while the citizens, in terror of their lives, feared to even open their windows, and the police, fire department, telegraph and telephone offices, and even the railroad stations were In possession of a wild mob, shooting right and left. The flan es from burning buildings in the meanwhile lighting up the city and the surrounding country until It seemed that the whole town was ablaze. Win--dowa in the back and front of business houses and banks on the main treet of the city were shot out and the entire front of one newspaper which had been especially severe in its condemnation of the raids of the night riders, and which was owned by the mayor of the city, was demolished. Crackamea Blow Safe la Ohl. Tb-ee armed men deliberately exploded nine dyanmite cartridges, blowing on! the front of the safe in Joseph Urmston's private bank at Reilly, a mall town west of Hamilton. Ohio, ud then disappeared with $500 in currency and a large number of notes, of which about $1,000 was negotiable paper. The robbery was witnessed by Dr. Urmston. Dr. W. M. Smith and Liveryman Bachover, but the armed men terrorized them and were unmo 4esteel, the police not belag notified. The bank had only opened a little over even months. A a flpldrmic of It obT tries. That riore burglaries and robberies tave occ jrred in New York City during the last sixty day than at any other tike period in the history of the city Is the statement of the agents of half a dozen burglary Insurance companies 'It is also said that burglaries and robberies have steadily increased for several years. Last year It is estimated the loss In the city from theft amounted to 13,800,000, while the loss from fires was only $0,800,000. Two Saloonkeeper Suicide. Two Chicago saloon keepers committed suicide under remarkable circumstances and the members of their families attribute their deaths solely to worry lest Sunday closing agitation of the Law and Order League ruin the saloon business and cause the saloon keepers to lose the savings invested in the saloons. Chlraso Get Convention. Chicago, 111., on June 1C, 1008. The former is the place and the latter the time at which the Republican National -Convention for 100S will be held. Both points were decided by the Republican National Committee in conference at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D. -C, last Saturday. Ship Sinks; Thirty Drowned. The Brazilian coasting steamer Gusse. Captain Ramos, wen; down o3 Parana gun, Brazil, as the result of a collision with an unidentified vessel. Thirty persons on the Cuasca were drowned. "Woman Fatally Darned. Urs. Patrick Duffey, of 223 South Arsenal avenue. Indianapolis, Ind.. was perhaps fatally burned and her husband was painfully Injured in an accident that resulted from an explosion of kerosene can at their home. Mrs Taft Dead. Mrs. Louisa M. Taft, m,;her of Secretary of War William II. Taft, died at 12:20 a. m. Sunday at tr homo la 41 11 bury. Mass. Tries to Escape, Fatally Shot. James Payne, a foundryman, was shot And fatally wounded by Policeman Henry C Smith in San Francisco. Payne was trying to escape after being arrested for disorderly conduct. Hallway Official a Suicide. Frank D. Myers, a railway olllrial with Yi;ting cards in the ehief coiamercia dabs of the United States. and credentials from leading railways, was found dead ia his room at the Nicollet hotel in Minneapolis. The coroner inclines to the theory of suici !?. Myerv bad no money and left no note of any kind. Millionaire Dies in Hotel. George F. Porter, a milliounife attorney and theater owner of Minneapolis, was found dead in his room at the Paxton hotel in Omaha. Heart trouble is as--erted as the cause. Hid wife and children aie traveling in che South, and may te m Cuba by this thee. Prominent Chicagoan Dies. James Bolesworth BradwJ, noted as pioneer lawyer, lawmaker and jurist, died sit his daughter's residence in Chteago. For more than a year he had beea in feeble health, but the illness that carried oS lasted little more than a week.

GETS TRAIN ROBBER TO CONFESS.

Fellow Prisoner Obtains Story of Great Northern Hold-Up. Peter F., Redl r, who is said to Iiave been an agent of See-ret Service Agent William J. Burns, and is now held in San Francisco on a charge of latveny, has obtained a confession from John Worthington of complicity in the robbery of the Great Northern train in Montana several months ago. in which letwecn $50,000 and $00,000 in coin and currency was stolen. The confession is in the hands of the local police, held on instructions from Koller in the hope that he may obtain a part of the reward offered for the capture of the train roblers. Boiler got the confession from Worthington while the two were together in the t ity prison at Portland, Boiler at the time being on his way to Sau Francisco in the custody of Detective Rh -hard McSorley of the local police force. Worthington has been held in the jail for some time, suspected of complicity in the train robbery. Three men were engaged in the crime, two of whom were captured with incriminating evidence, and the confession of Worthington runs the last of the trio to earth. The train robbery was a daring one. Three men, two of whom are now in jail in Montana, where Worthington is shortly to be taken, comjielled the engineer to run ahead with the engine and then they blew open with dynamite the safe in which the treasure was being carried. The railroad company and express company offered large rewards for their arrest. CLOVER LEAF SECRET OUT. Projected Line to Complete Shortest Transcontinental Route. The secret of the purchase of the Chicago and Alton recently by the Clover I.nf is believed to be revealed in the plan to construct an air line from the intersection of the Clover Leaf and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton at Mctcalf, Ind., to Springfield. 111., a distance of ninety-seven miles. With such a line there would be established the shortest and most direct trans-continental line in America. At Toledo the Clover Leaf would connect with the Lake Shore or Nickel Plate for the east; From Toledo to Springfield it would run over its own tracks, and from Springfield to Rrtnsas City over the Alton tracks, via the Murrayville air lire, which the Alton has recently completed between Springfield and Murrayville on its western division. From Mctcalf to Springfield the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton has a line.. It is understood that the Alton-Clover Leaf people will attempt to buy this line and reconstruct it. Failing in that, work wdl begin on a new road early in the spring. The construction of the now air line would make the Alton and Clover Leaf mutually helpful to each other, something that they cannot be at present. MRS. BRADLEY NOT GUILTY. Is Exonerated by Jury from Murder of Senator Arthur Brown. "Not guilty" was the verdict rendered by ti jury in Washington in the case of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, charged with the murder of former Senator Arthur M. Brom, of Utah, at a hotel in that city Dec. 8, 190G. Amid the applause of i crowd that filled the courtroom, Mrs. Bradley, her eyes tear-dimmed, was discharged from custody. Throughout it? deliberations the jury, Into whose hands the case was given by Justice Stafford lu United States Criminal Court, stood 11 to 1 for acquittal. On the final balbt Juror Julius II. Prigg, who was holding out for some punishment, yielded. The jude thanked the jury for the manner in which it had performed its duty and the jury through its foreman expressed to the court and counsel it thanks for the consideration and court! sy shown. The jury was then discharged. Mrs. Bradley expressed gratitude over the outcome of the trial, and when asked what plans she had, replied that there was little mapp(?l out. SCHOOLBOYS ARE TOBACCO USERS St. Paul (Minn.) Official Says 2,000 Pupils Smoke in that City. Superintendent S. L. llecter, in a report to the board of school inspectors in St. Paul, said that 2,(KX) boys in the St. Paul public schools under the age of 10 years admitted that they used tobacco. This information, Mr. llecter said, had been obtained by an examination conducted by the teachers and principals of the various schools. In the report Superin-J tendent llecter showed facts in relation to the percentage of boys who smoke and their standing in the schools which surprised the members. He stated that boys who smoke do the iooret work in the schools and are hardest to manage. . JURY HITS HARVESTER COMBINE. Company Found Guilty on FortyTwo Counts by Kansas Jury. After being out an hour, the jury in the case of the State against the International Harvester Company reached a verdict in Topeka against the company on forty-two counts. This verdict charges the company with being a trust and entering into an, unlawful combination to control the pric? of harvesting machinery and to force dealers to handle its products exclusively. The maximum penalty which may be imposed is $1,000 on each count, staking a total of ?42,Ol)0 which may be assessed by the court against the company. GASH IN SKULL; MONEY MISSING. Eugene Carney, "Wisconsin Politician, Found Murdered in Barn. Eugene Carney, G-l years old, former sheriff of Washington county, Wis., and prominent in Democratic politics, was found murdered in the barn on his farm thtee miles south of Waukesha, on the Mukwanago road. Tuesday night. There was a deep gash in his skull, believed to have been inflicted with a spad' found near the body. A sum of money which he was known to have carried was missing. A former farm hand is suspected. Body of Suicide Found. The body of David It. Rankin, tin missing caskier of the Merchants ani Planters' Bank of Lawton. Okla., whicli recently failed, was found by a Comanche Indian boy in Cache Creek, two miles north of Lawton. where it had remain ! since the evening of Nov. S, the day of nis disappearance. lie is believed to have committed suicide. Rankin owed t!r bank $3,100 and his accounts were $0'' short. Tilg Purse for John Mitchell. A movement has been started in Ilazleton. Pa., to raise a fund of $20,000 among the United Mine Workers of America as a testimonial to John Mitchell upon his rr-tirerient from the presidency of the union. Mr. Mitchell's retirement is due to ill-he: 1th. It is proposed to hand him, the. testimctiial at the national convention in I.idianapolis next month. 275 Saloons Die in St. Louis. Excise Commissioner Mulvihill's report to the State Treasurer shows that 27." seloons have gone out of business in St. Louis since Jan. 1, RH)7. This was clue, he said, to the stricter enforcement of the ni?ht and Sunday closing laws and the $100 increase recently made in the cost of State license. Cocain Fiend Shoots Seven. Crazed by cocaine, Wash Mussay, a negro, ran amuck in Augusta, Ark., shooting seven wite people, two of whom were wonienrjf The negro was finally corraled and tfyot to death.

K0LD TOWN AT BAY.

Five Men Cow Populace at Carney, Ok., and Rob Bank. "It pay to b a robber with nerve." This was tl: sign roughly lettered on the bank in Cr.rniy, Or la., by burglars, vho lit Id th whole town at bay while they calmly walked away with their loot. The writing was done in phosphorus preparation v. lil' Ii the robbers had used to blow the bank safe, and the words winked and blinked KMM-kingly at the enraged citizens who had assembled in the public square to capture the marauders. But the bandits, live in number, kept up such an incessant Iii- with their titles that the townspeople, although armed, were afraid to charge them. They escaped with $",- (KM in coin. When the bandits entered Carney they made no attempt to conceal their mission. While two men forced the b.vnk dir the other three stood at different angles of the building, keeping up a constant ririe ;ire in all directions. Immedii'.tely the whole town was aroused, hut when a citizen emerged from his house to ascertain the trouble he was instantly the target for three rifles. This did not appeal to the individual townsmen of Carney. But when the robbers blew open the safe and one window of the bank to an accompaniment of loud cheers, enraged Carney could stand the in -alt uo longer. One daring spirit dodged his way to the church and set tie alarm bells ringing. The minute men and vigilance committee respond!, but their courage failed before the hot fire of the bandits, litis daring band vanished into the darkness after a parting fusillade. AOKI SUMMONED TO TOKYO. Ambassador Will Report to Japan's Government on Immigration. Ambassador Aoki has been summoned to Japan by his government to expla:a personally and in detail the precise situation in this country in regard to the Japanese immigration problem. The ambassador has been making careful 'inquiry dn his own account and through the various Japanese consular officers into th extent of the reported race feeling existing in foaif sections of the Uni'.eJ States toward Japanese immigrants. But it is believed that the puriose of th? Japanese government in summoning Vhcount Aoki to Tokyo is to secure from hi-n information which Baron Ishii could not possibly have acquired during his short stay iu America regarding the attitude of th administration Irre with particular reference to the measures which recently have been applied by the Japanese government to restrict the departure fron Japan for America of the coolie element. Also the Japanese government desires a prudent forecast of the likelihood of congressional action in the direction of legislation providing for ihe exclusion :f Japanese immigration. There is no intimation that Aoki is not to return to Washington. UNCLE SAM HAS "WINTER COAL. Sets Good Example by Laying in Supply for Army Posts Early. Acting on specific orders of the President, the War Department made every effort in its various branches to acquire before the first of October all of the coal nec-essary to be used at army 'posts throughout the coming winter. In issuing these orders the President followed the suggestion of the interstate commerce commission, acting on a recommendation of the Northern Pacific railway, that the federal government should set a good example by laying in an adequate fuel supply for all its offices or branches in the Northwest well in advance of winter to avoid a tdiortage. This year's, contract prices are from 20 to 25 ikt cent higher than those of last year, when the prices wer 15 per cent greater than those of the preceding year. THIRTY BATTLE HIGH IN AIR. Frenzied Men Tight on Fire Escape and Police Club Them Into Reason. Battling in frenzy on a fire escape three stories high, thirty men struggled to flee from a lire in a men's rooming house at 12S North Sixth street, St. Ioiis. Po-licrmf-n were forced to use clubs to subdue the panic-stricken men.' James Clarke, a vertrau cf the Crimean war and a pensioner of the British government, was seriously burned. Frank Evars,.nged 72, one of those overcome by rmcVe. will probably die. Four others wer iujured, not seriouslj. The damage amounts to about $1,HI0. Holds Corpse on Freight Car. When a south-bound freight train on the New York Central rolled into Poughkeepsie the other night Harry Finkle, aged 'S years, of Chicago, was found on top of a car clasping the body of his brother Charles, aged ." years. Eleven miles up the road Charles Finkle's head stnuk a bridge and he was killed. They wire stealing a ride. Judge Rewards an Alleged Thief. 'Because the complainant failed to appear in court to prosecute John Burrs, charged with stealing a lap robe. Judge Byan of Fargo, N. D., dismissed the prisoner and gave him the robe. Judge Uyan took this course to teach non-appearing complainants a lesson that they must appear to prosecute. Four Hundred Miners Are Killed. Four hundred miners are known to have been killed by. an explosion of black damp, or methane, in mines Ncs. 5 and 8 of the Consolidated Coal. Company of Baltimore at Monongah, W. Va. Five men esc a jkhI, ' more dead than alive, through air shafts. Hope for their recovery is entertained. Leaves Lid Off; Fined $100. State Senator J. C. Bobinson was fined $100 on th charge of malfeasance in office when he 'was Mayor of St. Cloud, Minn., over a year ago. The prosecution was the result of the failure of Senator Bobinson. as Mayor, to enferee the Sunclay closing law. The fine was paid. Three Killed in Wreck. In a wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio Bailrnad at Shenaudoah Junction three passengers were killed and a dozen wen? injured. W. L. F. Hoffman and his daughter Nellie of Baltimore and an unidentified white man lost their lives. .Tries to Murder Guild. Seeking to kill Cov. Cuild of Massachusetts. John Steele invaded the State house at Boston and seriously wounded Edward Cohen and Denhis 1). DriscolL labor leaders, in an ante-room of the executive office. Bryan Fires First Gun. William Jennings Bryan, in firing his first big gun in his campaign for the presidency, declared in Freeport, III., that the platform of 1 SI has been thoroughly vindicated by subsequent events and tendencies. Logan's Grandson Marries. Lieutenant Ixigan Tucker, U. S. M. C son of Colonel and Mrs. V. F. Tucker nnd grandson of Mrs. John A. Logan, and Mrs. May K. Broome were married in Washington by Rev. Frank M. Briscol of the historic Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church. National Conventions Located. Locations of the Democratic and Republican national conventions have beea practically decided upon. The Republican convention will be held in Kansas City and the Democratic convention ia Chicago.

HEAR YE ! U. S. MINT IS BUSY GRINDING GUT CASH. People Throughout the Whole Coun try Are Making Incessant Calls for Money. GREAT YELLOW STREAM OF GOLD Millions of Dollars in Bullion Now Pouring in to Be Made Into Coin. This is the busy season In the United Suites mint at Philadelphia. All th country Is cttllinjj for money. Evcry bit of coin-making; machinery In the big institution is working overtime. Secretary Cortelyou .as ordered the coinage of $a,ooo,XH) in 20-dollar gold pieces within the next three months. The mint machinery has a capacity of 4,000 of these coins an hour. Meantime, there is an Insistent demand from all over the country for silver coin of th? smaller denominations. The mint olficials have been wholly unable to sup-plj-these calls. Day and night, coiners, assayers and th countless other specialized workers have been working overtime, some of them fourteen and sixteen hours a day. They have succeeded only by giving each city less than half what was requested. Peremptory demands have been made for an unlimited amount of dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollars. . Within the last two weeks $2.000,000 in gold has leen coined. Kvery department has lcen ordred to get busy. About $40.(KtO,(KJ4 in bullion Is already within the vaults. More Is coming. It Is nil to be coined without delay. Massire new machinery has been added lately and is now being tried for the first time, very satisfactorily. The mint ollkials are coidideut they can complete the task on time. The new issue of gold eagles will have forty-six stars around the edge Instead of forty-flve as heretofore, Oklahoma having lecoine a state. None will carry the motto "In Cod We Trust." This motto was added in 1STS by Sttpt. James Pollock, with the sanction of President Buchanan, and after nearly fifty years has been taken off by President Roosevelt. The gold bullion supply comes to Philadelphia by express and is delivered in ordinary express wagons iu charge of two men. The officials laugh at danger of theft. The bullion is in bars, securely Ixixed, and so heavy to the box that a. man could not run two squares with it without becoming exhausted. Oppottintt ChrUtmn (.Ifln. To( make of the Christmas holiday a genuine day of joy without the "evil cf gift giving" is the aim of a crusade now begun by the Chicago Woman's Cluo, upon tlie suggestion of its president, Mrs. I. S. Blackwelder, and Mrs. Ellen M. Henderson, chairman of the reform committee. They say that the whole custom of giving at Christmas, with the fihoppin mania, is pernicious and a symptom of degeneracy in Americans. InnIelil- Law It u led Out. Although New York's new law making Infidelity a crime has been in operation only a few weeks, it is already regarded as a dead letter, without a single conviction having been made under it. This is due to the fact that the Siecial Sessio-s Ccurt required such absolute evidence that convictions were all but impossible. Henry I. McCrca, son of Captain Henry McCrea. one of the best known of American naval officers, now in command of the battleship Ceorgia, ins resigned from the navy, in which he h-icj a commission as paymaster, to go on the stage. Joseph Kessler, steward of the steamer Monohansett, had a narrow escape from death when that vessel burned on Thunder bay. He could not be awakened when the rest of the crew got off and smashed through a small window, nearly suffocated, into the lake. The reK)rt of the bureau of manufactures just issued sets the value of the annual production by manufacturers in the United States at $l."i,000,0K). The Attorney General of Missouri ietitioned the Supreme Court to oust the International Harvester Company from the State.

HEAR YE ! THE COURT IS NOW IN

p 5 . JURY BOX,

gHO (OLLlEtSES Educational leaders are still discussing with unabated interest the proposition put forward by Thomas L. Burt recently in the Independent, n.ime!y, that the schools should be open all the year round. Sundays ar.d the few public holidays alone excepted. Mr. Burt's ilea is that this would lave about UOO school days, which would vary in length of session from three hours in summer to five or six in winter. He says that no educator will deny that this distribution of school time would enable the pupils to cover more ground and make much greatc progress than under the existing plan. One of the principal objects gained would be, in his opinion, to keep the children o!f the streets in the summer time and to make their development steady and continuous. The fact that most parents c glad to send their children to summer schools is regarded as favorable, lie proiwses to make the pay of the teachers "accordingly higher," in money and not in holidays and vacations. He argues, further, that short hours, Saturday and Suu'tay holidays and long vacations, "instead of producing the habit of study among teachers probably increases laziness.' According to this proios;il, n'o teacher would teach all day, but two or even three should occupy the same room during successive sessions. In the revised course of study which has been adopted for the public .schools of Boston, says the School Journal, English has been made the central feature. Arithmetic has been simplihVJ, and made practical in its relation io practical life. In geography stress Is laid uioii human life, commerce and industry. Commercial geography is given a prominent place. More time is given to spelling than before. Physical training has been ahnost revolutionized. Hygiene has been given precedence over physiology. Weight is given to knowledge of the health of the home and the community. Beginning with elementary personal hygiene, pupils are taught correctness in food, exercise, posture, sleep and habits. Iu the next grades personal hygiene, that teaches how to make the body beautiful, strong and graceful, has place. In the seventh grades comes, for the first time, a little physiology ; then more personal hygiene, together with home hygiene. In the eighth grade attention is given to public hygiene. Uuder the guidance of Principal (iib son of the Agassiz school, Boston, the boys of the sixth grade are devoting live hours a week to practical industrial work, at present being engaged in making pasteboard boxes, but later to advance to wood and metal work. The course extends over three years., and the object is to give the boys practical apprentice work in various trades. The time taken in the making of every OPiicIe will be noted and the record of the workers thus kept before them. Eleven teaching fellowships have been established at the University of Kansas for graduates of special merit. Each fellowship entitles the holder to ?1Vm, an I he is obliged to teach not more than seven hours a week. The remainder of the time is to be devoted to investigation leading to an advanced degree. Announcement is made that Columbia university has received an anonyiuoi-s giff of $i 00,000 to establish in memory of the late Henry Bergh a foundation to i'iculcate a spirit of kindness and consideration toward the lower animals. A semi-official indorsement of Esperanto as an international language has been given by the College de France of Paris, at a recent general congress, representing J'10 learned societies. It having been proposed to study the various international languages and to adopt the best, the congress selected Esperanto, owing to its relative perfection and extrusive use. Prominent professional and club women are taking issue with the recent opinion advanced by the president of Harvard to the effect that higher education in future must recognize the fact that tlje majority of women take up the occupation of training children, the married ones as mothers ami many of the others for the mothers. He said that this "normal occupation of women bad not been duly recognized because it had not been regarded as an intellectual pursuit, whereas in fact it was the most intellectual occupation in the world, calling always for great moral and carefully trained mental lowers. President Winston of North Carolina State university is reiwrtej to be disapioi'ited with the results of his recent advice to the freshmen and sophomores to "light like men in the open" rather than underclass men engaged in a series of hazing. Taking him at his word, the underclass men engaged in a series of brawls or rushes on the college campus, in which several students were seriously hurt. Class hostilities were intensified, rather than lessened, and hazing was not abandoned. The trustees of the Catholic university at Washington has voted to send to the Pope, declaring its adhesion to the recent encyclical on "modernism."

SESSION.

PLEADS FOR CHANGE IN MONETARY SYSTEM. In His Annual Eeport to Congress Mr. Cortelyou Advises a More Elastic Currency System. Disaster to trade, commerce, labor and investment can lc effectively prevented only by a reorganization of the national monetary system, according to the report made by Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou to Congress. The Secretary deplores tlia tender existing laws his hands are tied during financial emergencies such as stirred the country lately. He has no specific plan for monetary reorganization, but he makes strong appeal to Congress for immediate remedial legislation. The report declares that banks as well ns individuals hoarded money during the financial stringency. Ihe reiort gives in detail the attempt made by the Secretary to he-ad off bank" failures hud business suspensions in the East by the deposit of government funds. The government is .shown to Ie In an exceedingly prosporous condition with a surplus at the clos,. of the fisc al year of SS43t "SG.lX) of receipts over expenditures. "What has happened, not only this year but many times before," says the Secretary, "should serve as an admonition to enact wise laws for the prevention, in the future, of disasters due in part, at least, to the imperfect organization of our monetary system." The Secretary points out that the increasing rate of interest charged for call money and time money, ns well as discounts on commercial bills, indicated a progressive diminution of available cash during the early part of the year. To offset this, distributions of $20,000,(;00 of government funds were made among several banks. Four days prior to the Eastern crisis $.T,t00,000 more was transferred from the treasury to banks, for which State, municipal and railroad securities acceptable to various States were taken as collateral. On Nov. 11 the sum of ?22J,S3C.2:i7.0t was on deposit in national bank depositaries throughout the country. "It Is said that many of our ieople have hoarded money," the Secretary states in his reiwrt. "This Is undoubtedly true; but so have many of the banks." The reiort shows the totid receipts of the government from all sources for the fiscal year ended June 30, 11K)7, to be $M0.7L,.".:kJ!, and the expenditures ?7U!,4SSt7.VJ, leaving a surplus of $S1,2no,5S. Comparecj with BM'K tlie receipts increased $N4.3G8,4;;ij and the exIKMidltures :V2Ö,11 1,11 I'M. The report states the total debt of the United States to be at the close of the fiscal year $2,457, lSS.OtJl..--!, against the payment of which there Is in various forms of cash in the treasury or to the credit of the treasury, the sum of $1,S8,(VJ7,0JS.S3. There were G5S2 banking associations In existence at the close of the year, with an authorized capital, of $004,404,77,". At the close of the fiscal year, according to the report, the money In circulation amounted to J?2.772,ort;.4.V, or a per capita of $H2.2L rtil!e the iercentage of gold to total circulation was $il.!o. Pnier currency was issucd during the year amounting to $iä$.27.1.000, and the redemptions during the same period were $."82,002,000. 'The treasury holdings of gold at the dose of the year 1;h"h amounted to .$S07,0rl,)0;jO, and this had increased at the end of 1007 to $004,091,700.11. ( nrnenle Alinllahcft Aigc Limit. On observing his 70th birthday anniversary recently Andrew Carnegie expressed the opinion that a man's usefulness increases with age. When asked if a man could accomplish as much at 70 as at 40, he replied : ".More, bless yon, mar1. Al' things being equal, a man's efficiency is increased at 70.' lie is equipped with greater experience." The recipe he ga for happiness was "To obey the judge within and make others happy." Congressman Hull of Iowa says Uoosevelt will be forced to accept nomination for President and will be elected. In Cairo at the present time there U an endowment expressly for the Jodgiug and feeding of homeless cats. . Boys in Camden. N. J., are trapping and skinning cats for their hides, which sell for JO cents apiece. Western headquarters of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company will be removed from Cincinnati to Chicago. Fire at Devil's Lake, N. I)., destroyed a two-story business block, causing a loss of $15.000, and damaged the city hall to the extent f 55,000.

FIVE HUNDRED ARE ENTOMBED IN MINES

Harrowing; Catastrophe Reported in Shafts of the West Virginia Coal Company. EEAVY LOSS OF LIFE FEARED. Garth Kent by Tremendous Shock and Explosion Is Heard Eight Hiles Away. Five hundred men were entombed as be Rsult of terrific explosions In mines os. 0 and S of the Consolidated Coal C'ompany at Monongah, W. Ya. The nine management did not know the ?ause of the blast, but experienced miu?rs declare it must have been dust. Mine No. G is on the cast side of the Monongahcla Jtlvcr and No. S is on the west side. The blast was heard for i distance of eight miles. t The first explosion occurred in mine So. V It was followed by the blowing up of the iKiilbrhouse in No. S. The ?ntry to No. S Ia caved in and filled. The two mines were connect eel with ach other. Immediately after receipt f the news physicians and special cars vero sent to the scene from Fairmont. :ut the mine was tes full of gas and smoke for rescuers to po In. The earth seemed to be rent at the uoment of the shock, and an idea of the forc-e of the explosion may be gained from the fact that props from the -nine were not only blown out of the mtry, but were Iiurlenl across the west fork of the Monongahcla River. Many Sllnern Ar American. The town of Monongah has a pjptiJition of about G.OOO. Although the minrs are largely of foreign birth, there are nany American workmen. Probably the largest steel tipple in the itate s at Monongah. The mines are both shaft and dope mines, U'ing worked with the rope ind haulage system. They lie on both ides cf the West Fork Hiver and are eoi -lected by a steel pier 1) ridge owned anc', )perated by , the coal company. Until ilMjnt ten years ago only American miners ivere employed. At that time the miners f Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and 3h io were on strike. Tlie coal company is one of the largest n the country and is capitalized at $20,)0.000. It ha upwards of 100 producing proierties. Clarence W. Watson is :be president, with headquarters at Baltimore. Lee Ma lone is the superintendent )f the properties and is said to be one )f the most careful men in the mining industry . No. S mine was opened only two years lgo and was considered the most modern aiine in central West Virginia. It was equipped entirely with electricity and considered absolutely safe. Electric motors r.T re used exclusively, and the shaft throughout was lighted by electricity. Mining machines were used. Federation Defend Boycott. Argument before Judge Gould in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has been made in the case brought by the Buck ktove and Range Company of St. Louis for an injunction to restrain the American Fed ration of Labor from boyrotting the firm's products. The tenure of the argument for the defense was to ask the court to judge the nets of trades auions on the principle of common" law, whereas the plaintitf has invoked the Sherman anti-trust law, holding that thj boycott if a conspiracy and combination in restraint of trade. Counsel held that the federation bad a right to do ia combination what an individual might do, namely, urge others not to buy a particular product. Attack on Com pern neneired. American Industries, the organ of the National Manufacturers Association, in its issue of Nov. 15 renews its attack on the activities of the American Federation of Ijibor as directed by President Samuel liompcrs. It publishes the report of a firm c2 JMblic . accountants whic h it had employe! to examine the monthly reports af the federation, as published in the American Federal ionist. The findings bf these accountants is supposed to reflect seriously on the management of the affairs of the federation, particularly in connection with its organ, the Federationist. At the convention of the federation in Norfolk. Mr. Compers, who presided, asked for permission to reply to these attacks on the following day. This was granted. To Fluht Vivisection Fnrm. Mrs. Spencer Waert, a prominent member of the Ne- Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs, whose country home adjoins the property recently bought to be used by scientists in the employ of John I). Bockefeiler as a vivisection farm, ha begun a war upon the whole undertak ing. She will enlist the various State and national societies to protect animals. In an interview f he said: "Stretch John I). Rockefeller out on a table with his hands and feet tied. Somebody take off the skin of his head in order to find 'for the good of science' why his hair doesn't grow. Then he may decide to give his money for better purpose than a vivisecting farm, where ior animals are tortured in a most agonizing manner. ' linn on Cigarette Smoking. Th- Pittsburg Railways Company, operating all the street car lines in that city, has served nqtice on its emploves that it will rigidly enforce the rale against the use of cigarettes or liquor while tlie tneiiJare cither off or on duty. There is talk of a strike. Thread Company I'roflt. The report of the J. & 1. Coats of Pawtucköt, R. I., thread manufacturer, shows the most successful year, with profits, of $15,'JS0,025, or about IK) per cent. FROM FAR AND NEAR. Six persons perished in ti hotel fire at New Haven, Conn. Former President Cleveland went rabbit hunting and returned with a surprisingly full hig of game. Only 254 women were among the -11,-l.'M matriculated students fit the 21 universities of Uormany last year. There are 17,000.000 children in Russia between the ages of 0 and 11 receiving absolutely no education. Kaiser conferred title of excellency oa Prof. Robert lyocli, who ruceessfully treated "sleeping" sickness." Richmond P. Ilobson proposes to introduce a bill in Congress t pension. Confederate veterans, according to a letter to (Üov. Hoke Smith of Ceorgia. Fingering-out their marriage vows on the keyboard of a typewriter, Carrie Lemke of Cando, N. I)., and Chris 1. Anderson of Willow City, 1., both deaf and dumb, were married at the court house in Minneapolis, Minn. Jewelry will not figure as largely as usual among Christmas gifts, according to New York manufacturers. Many big orders have been canceled. In twenty mouths preceding Sept. 1 last, about $70.000.000 of the new gold output of the country was used by jewelers.

CHICAGO. Business activity, as reflected b the oiume of payments through banks, makes the liest exhibit in four weeks, and there is also a gratifying decline in commercial defaults reported. With the close of the year so near, it is not to be expected th&t improvement in new demands will develop to any notable extent, but the conditions are more encouraging, and it is clear that the process of readjustment in finances RiK'. manufacturing is creating a better basis for future operations. With the national bank statements wued this week and those previously given out by the State institutions, a clear reflex of the money position is obtaiuecl, and the effect is favorable. It is now seen that ample reserves have been established. Liquidation is yet in evidence in various directions, but, notwithstanding the pressure upon some raw materials and finished products, no violent declines appear in prices, and there is more disposition to guard against over-accumulation of supplies. Receipts of primary materials for this has not prevented further decline in values of hides and wool a nadnG..NN value of hide and wool ind an easier tendency in costs of iron, lumber and leather. Failures rejorted in the Chicago district number 18, against 23 last week and 2( a year ago. Those with liabilities over $5.000 number 7, against 13 last week and 7 in 1000. Duns Review of Trade. NEW YOEK. Improvement is Ktill largely confined to financial matters. Accompanying this has come an accentuation of the more confident feeling noted in general trade line? and in a few industries, further reinstatement of orders canceled In a panicky way some time a?o, some renewal of buying for quick shipment from jobbers, and. where mori' treasonable we&ther has permittrd. as in the Northwest and South. some stimulation of the dmand at retail for winter apparel and for holiday specialties. At liest, however, trade as a whole is still very quiet, and industrial activity is below the normal for this feasor of the year. Business failures in the United State for the week ending Dec. 5 number 272, against 258 last week. 21G in the lik week of 1000. 203 in 1005, 123 in 104 and 211 in 1903. There were in Canafa 20 failures for the week, as against 4G last week and 32 in this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. $1.00 to $U0; hogs prime heavy, $1.00 to $5.22; Kheep, fair to choice. $3.00 to 51.75; wheat, No. 2, D3c to Doc; ecru. No. 2, 5!)c to Clc: oats, standard. 477 to 40c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 80c; Lay, tj iothy, $11.00 to $18.50; prairie, $J.00 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 27c; potatoes, per bushel, 48e to 55c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $d.23; hogs, good to choice heavy, $1.00 to $5.."i0; hep, common Co priiv. $3.00 to $4.75 ; wheat. No. 2, 03c to :tc : corn. No. 2 white, 53c to 51c; oats. No. 2 white. 47c to 40c. St. Louis Cattle. $4.50 to $G.OO; hogs. $4.W to $5.10; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, 07c to JSc; com. No 2. 57c to 58c; oats. No. 2, 47c to 4'Jc; rye. No 2. 75c to 70c. Cincinnati Cattle. $1.00 to $5.15; bogs. $1.00 to $5.30; heep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 07c to 90c; corn. No. 2 mixed, Clc to (2c; oats. No. J5 mixed, 40c to 50c ; rye, No. 2. 70c to Sic. Detroit Cattle, $1.00 to $5.00; bog. $4.00 to $3.10; sheen. $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, J Sc to t0c; corn. No. .1 yellow, t5c to.OGc; oats, No.' 3 white, 51c to 53e; rye. No. 2, 70c to SOc Milwaukee Wbat, No. 2 northern. $f.03 to $l.0G; corn. No. 3, Glc to C3c: oats, standard, 51c to 53c; rye. No. 1. 80c to 81c; barley. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.02; lork, mess, $12.05. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steer. $4.(K) to $G.25; hogs, fair to choice, $3.50 to $5.45; sheep, common to good mixed. $J.l0 to $5.."i0; Iambs, fair to choice. $5.00 to $7.00. New York Cattle. $L00 to $5.70; hogs, $3.50 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 tc $1.75; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.00 to $1.02; ccrn. No. 2. GGc to eVSc; oat, natural white, 5(ic to 50c; butter, creamery, 5c to 27c a eggs, western, 2tc to 31c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 05c 0('c ; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 57c : oats. No. 2 mixed. 50c to 52c; rye. No 2, 7Sc to 70c ; clover seed, prime, $0.85. 92,JOO,000 to Aid Science. Supplementing his previoas gifts of $1,200,000 to the Rockefeller Institut for Medical Re? ?arch by another donation of $2,000,000, John D. Rockefeller insurr the permanency and efficient equipment of the institution. The entire endowment will provide a yearly income of somethiug over $100,000. In notifying the director of this last gift Mr. Rockefeller expressel his gratification with the results accomplished by the institute since its op?ning in UH1. He told the facials that they were at liberty to use the income iu any manner they saw fit to promote th work and offered no suggestion as to hOT it might best be employed. NEWS OF MINOR NOTE. Five trained police dogs from Belgium are added to the New York foree. Brazil will hoon tie able to raise all the rice needed for home consumption. President Roosevelt let it be known that he seeks a law whereby - the PreMdent may have the power to suspend illegal trusts. ' Oil producers of the Indian Territory decided to make a protest to Secretary Carfield about the government regulations concerning leases. A valet iu the home of Paul Thebaud. New York millionaire, shot 17-year-oIl Paul Thebaud. Jr., as be dcpt, and theo committed suicide. Cnited State- Treasury officials at Washington admitted the justice of the St. Iouis claim for financial relief, and promised to send a stream of cash flawing into the Missouri metropolis. The opening of tht electric street railroad lines in St. Petersburg has been delayed indefinitely, owing to the susjiension of the credit of the Russian Wesiinghouse concern, which is unable to oh tain cars or equipment without cash payments. It was announced that the prosjwet were good for the ignited States making a $5.000.000 appropriation for the world' fair to be held in Tokio in 1912. A British Indian and his wife bav been acquitted by a Maritrburg (Natal) jury oa the charge of murdering a fellowcountryman, who bad insulted the woman. The jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. L R. Baker, assistant cashier of the Cnion Bank and Trust Company of Lexington. Ky has confessed to defalcation at $10.277.K). The amount has been made good by the directors vad the clearing house committee has ass'-rted the bank's solvency.

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