Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 46, Number 27, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 March 1904 — Page 2

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Weeklu Courier. THE NORTH RIVER

TUNNEL IS DONE

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INDIANA.

HHfUff of W ar Taft has a an inflation to t an d Tük sa. Kas , cl Mi.

Jrhn W White, h aj alien.) Modern Wood mi d, i i a ! of 1!

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Final Excavation Made and Lt Tube Riveted.

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Erastu Iiw Pali Sculptor, died at Albany. 9th. at his home in iLa eighty-seventh year.

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The o!Btial copy of the d' is .on oi Tht- Hague tribunal in the Venezuelan races has just been reteiv.d at the stae department in Washington.

One of tha worst dust stormln many ears swept over the central !art of Kana on the loh. The wind waa terrific It ia believed wheat was badly damaged. MaJ William H. Old. n. of Springfield. Ml., veteran of the civil ar and prominent citizen, was found dead la bed on the 9th, at his home He was 70 years old.

Pr I r Wilson, of P at III gt 1 past grand high priest of the Iowa Royal Arch Graad Chapter, dropped dead, on the 9th. of heart disrate. He was 07 years of ace. Senator Tillman, of South Can I r.a. was operated on to relieve an abscess of his left tonsil on the lth. The rota!: was pronounced satisfacor;. and his condition was reported to be much better. .

NOT AN INCH OF DISCREPANCY

rwrnl) Min. Ili-mli-il li l'rclil-ii t If -l.liiii, lMrl I hrfiuiih f ti I uuitlrli-tl luuurl tntli-r tlt' llutlaiiu Hl t-r. Ntw York. March 11 The North rher has been obliterated at last. A dream that has stirred Um pulse of tMO great i.iies for M years has become a r- ilay. Twenty mm parsed through a completed tunnel und r the Hudson river Saturday. The gang of men pushing the cutting shield under tha bed of the rivv broke through into the New York heading just before noon, and the last ring of tha cat iron casing plates waa riveted into place at 11: S3 a m. That ended IL i.l an Inch of ! r-n nry. So exact had teen the talc, illation of the enim-trs that. when the closing shielJ was opened, the tunnel a as found to X-e connected without an ir.ch of dtecrepfcacy. The first to look through the shield into the New fork

ILL 01 KB THE STATE, Events in Various Portions of Indiana Told bv Wire. Denies Boy's Confession. Misimwaka. Ind. March H. -Gray haiii'l and I'i'tit. U'i' it. other of Clur enee Itloe. arrested for crand larceny, .-tubtmrnly refuses to utter a word wish might serve -tnnijthen the ca-e ac.tius: her son who is accused of : aliti ft JOI from the Old Na Uoaa) l-ank h re She ha d ti I the officers for two weeks, in spite of the testimony of her son. who swore he gae her the money v. h-n about to fie. The frail old woman la now in jail and prefers remaini: If there to admitting the truth of her son's confession. The sweating' prOMM has failed to break her d termination tc -hieid him. Found in Indiana. Indianapolis. Ind., liar h 14 --Lieut. F B Haw km-, of the Twenty seventh infantry a; Kort Sheridan, IM . who left his poal to come la Indianapolis for the purpose of laspsctiai the Indiana national guard, ir- critically ill at the residence of MaJ Flinty, who served in the Philippine- with him. The latter notified the adjutant in Oaf"

that Hawkins jeas lere MaJ.

Finery refuses to discuss the reports of Hawkins' disappearance further than to sav the lieutenant ! came IP

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SUPREME COURT

Three of the "Car Barn" Murderers Convicted at Chicago.

Canal Work Resumed. Indiana Harbor. Ind., Marth

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J. H. Neff. editor of a local stock rat r at Kansas City. Mo . and well

known to stock men throughout the, ld to "chew for 'bar life'

country, was nominated for mayor, on ! the 11th. by the republican city con en t ion.

heading was Sunerintendent Jas. Pra

dy. lie yell. d with delight a he gazed , Work " Wp ' anal to

M the faces of the Now York gar. - of workmen Before entering the first air-lock, where the atlasifa a; W pounds to the square inch, eaih member of the party was banded a box of gum and

Cap' W. W Gibson, ordnance V S. A . now on duty In the Philippines. has been substituted as a representative of the United State army with the Russian troops for Capt. W. B Kerr, who has fallen ill

Ma j. Thomas V. Raymond, surgeo ha- been ordered to St Lou:- for cial duty at the Louisiana Purchaexposition, with a view to t v fc.-.t. supervision over the sanitary coad tions on the exposition grounds.

the I mversity of UlBOU a elf ted commissioner of ed the New York legislature, i ratify inj he action of the caucus. The term is for six

ear.-v

All cases against union miners charged with different tra t: the Vindicator mine disaster and others. hav been nolle prossed on request of District Attorney Tnwhriee bstbtS Justice Lewis at Cripple Creek. Col.

nlln. Swatlsw inllow.

"If you feel that you are about to turn inside out." remarked a doctor, cheerfully, "swallow, swallow, s v. allow, as fas' as you can." Th is . . i raged. President McAdoo and his companions set out on the first stage of their journey. The air roared Villa the pressure was being turned on Seated in the small cable cars which had been used to carry out exava-. : :: r- r. : the pary r ld along the rails and through the electrically illuminated steel tube now into the dark, now into the brilliant licht; down and down, to the lowest point, far under the bed of the Hudson: then graaually up until they had traveled 4. 'K feet from the entrance. t I Of Ibr rtaM I in U. There they reached th end of the first lock, and crawled through the sti :t steel doors into the second lock, where the pressure was evn greater. ' Chew gum and swallow hard." wa. the repealed warning of President McAdoo as they made the!.- way on foot

connect India. n H:'.r!or a:i i Ka.-t Chi

; ago has been resumed During the , winter two hyrauih dre lires. the bta gest of their type on the Vikfs. have been built, and are to cut their av . from Lake Michigan to the Calumet river, four miles away, leaving a chan : nel KM feet wide and 2 fsd dSSfl as they pro'fed They are Sxpscted to open a route for deep draught boats bv June I. Cutes Ills by Fasting. Indianapolis, Ind . March H T J

of Kokcmo. who completed a fa-r n days recently, said: I never

reit b't'er in my life than while fast np As to banger, I was not hungry luring the who'- fime My tir-t meal

a light one I ate all I dssln I serves wer stSS tier than I have known them before Before my I had suffered mu- h with rheuma bill 1 believe I have driven F

A Stricken Family.

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paraiysis upon : t.g to the eping a brother -ire. The

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up the long line of the tuntel to th !hordr:r.E uiKn Insanity; with grave nolnt where the connection had been fears as to bis reoovetT. Ti e fat 1 er is

The firrt substantial rain since lat 0tober fell in Wichita. Ka . on th Sth It will aid the growing wheat and put the ground in good condition for plow ing for corn and oats. Th s. rra extended Throughout East OklahomaThe steamer Sunshine, plying betwnr. Memphis and rin r.r.ai wadestroyed by fire near Tp'onville Tenn . on the 10th. The crew escapH but loth boat and cargo wre lost The

Sun-hme was owned by & Cincinnati Pa-ket Co at 'M-'

the Memphi? . and valued

E Benjamin Andrew, head of T"nivcrs:'y of Nebraska at Linenln at the Chicago Baptist hospital suff lag from the grippe Dr. Andrews r wi in Chicago on the :-h. en r OS HV w- York, but was compelled to aba dn the trip, for the prent at le owing to his illness.

The Pittsburg district iatSfBhsl tc the joint convention of coal miners and operators at Indianapolis returned hoSBS on the vn They expressed themeive as opposed to a StTÜBS at this time and say President Idan will gc through ihe district and urge th miners to voe againct s strike. First Lftsat Arthur O ?harpley. of the Twelfth cavalry, having been tried by a general court martial at Manila and found guilty of serious charges aflactiSM hit moral harafter. has ln rr.'' r.i d to dismissal fnm the army The papers have tieen prepared in th war department f..r transmiwior. to lbs president.

While nothinr definite has ln decided, it is fearei' that laue of the death of his youngest son. Fr'nc Henry will ask the emperor not lo appoint htm as head of the commission which will represent Kmperor William at th anveiling in Or'otr of the statu of jftÜMh k the ;ret. th gift of the emperor to the Am rwan people

maiie wih ihe New York heading just a little while before. Gasping for brenth. they hurried j thn.-gh. 'he sn'.Jd r-ik c-it w... h .al given the engineers the greatest trou- , ble. At one stage of the Journey Thief '

Fr.gineer Jacob told the party they were only ten feet under the bottom of

the river, with millions of tons of wa- j ter a!ove them, and a stout steel tube ; as their only protection i aasMasA Ms leeosMI i.eu. Thttmck 'he floor of the seer.nd lock

he members of the party crowded and !rew up in a cluster in the New York heading, rurrounded by the workman. Through two more locks tbey passed on foot, experiencing at each lock a diminuaMon of the air pressure, and then were conducted to the final I hara- ' er containing only the normal pre- - :r'- ' : atmosphra Th r. th-y were drawn tip to th ssaface None was worse for the experience. Two !' Ilolidar. The S ars and Strings were run np amid cheers President McAdoo ad-dress-the workmen, giving two days holiday with pay and th party, af'er a final round of chers. resumed ordinary attire and dispersed UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. n sfsteaisise BsMMsieei win nr vim!.. Hi ihr BC. I.onia Westsrs I lr.

issessor of his township Indian Piir.cc Killed. Fort Wayne. Ind . March 14 Princn John (lodfrey. a- ! ' . and a dSM -nd-int of Little Turtle and Chief Francis 'lodfrey. of 'he Miami Indian 'ribe. was killed on the reservation treat of Port V.'ayne by his -on. John Godfrey Ir . .'i years oi l. The father, yosuag John and Franc-is. a younger son. ha hen drinking and got into a quarrel in Prince John':- saloon, and John. Jr., hot bis father.

Chicago T'niversity exh.bit at

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rsity of Cuic t at the St. I a tnounced

H Plans of the igo for an exten -ve ouis exposition hav The exhibit Is to

Prevdent k.-. .. . , an cutive order, on the imh. to all offi cials .f the govern m tit. etell, military and naval, to not only akseewi the proclamation of neutrality in the pnd Ing war between Russia and Japan, but to abstain from either art ion ot Speech which conld legiumateiy cause. Irritation to either of the combatart

The government has Issnrd a warn Ing to irrigators in Nebraska snd Col oraU that the Platte river la some dry, owing to light snow In the mountains, and that the vater should be ued now. It feared that no natter how much water !- Sjaed now there wi Im suffering for it la r a the litlie saew there is in the mount

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1 plaed in a large pavilion in the educational building, near the pav. lions of Yale. Harvard, the I'nlverslty of Michigan and Washington university. Chicagos pavilion, whkh will be modeled after the styl of the uiiversity buildings, will be an exhibit of .istrtrnomical plates from the Yerkea observatory, a model of the college compus and buildings, publications of the university press and of all the professors, photographs of the interiors of the various groups of buildings and statistics and chans covering the details of nriversity work. Spare in the pavilior. also will be c.. n to exhibits of the rhu xo manual training school and the School of Education aaatai t he ah a Mar. Washington. March I V Count Cassini called on Secretary Hay. Friday, and rrsonaIly and officially thanked the seretary. and through him the government of the I'nited States, for the exer-itive order Issued by the president.

U" soon. All the westI at" in unfavorable co

Opp...rH Jim I ,n IMP. Balf.tcr. Md.. Marth V Cardinal O bbons has expressed himsMf in unaustakabl language as being opposed to the Jin ("r w ' btll now before the lagMatara, and is anxious to see Ihs m ca.- ireS ft. f..a;ed.

Story Left Unfinished. Marion, lad., March 14 While writ Ing and moralizing on this life, telling r.f a lesolve firmly made ar.d kept to remaii on the lieht side of life, rather than vi the dark side. James M Kuhn acr-d 74. a naval rcteraa, fell tlead from his "hair at the national military home He was w riting under the caption of "An Old BokMer! Dreasi '' The article was tot piile COSSPtete wbrr. hedied. Gets the Medal. Notrs Dame ad March 14 - The Iaeiare medal, the highest expression of esteem within the gift of Notre Dame unlc rsity. ba t n conferred upon Bit :.ard C Kerens, of St. Ixiuis. The medal is bestowed annually upon r.t.e Am -ban Catholic lay man or noral excellence, civic w -or th and extinguished servlee to humanity. Plant Blown Up. Knigh'stown. Ir.d March 14 The plat t of the Knightstown Torpedo maany, twi sstles north of this itjr, was rte'iroyed by an xplosion of nitroglycerin. Bteaaeo ciark. nn ssapioya, was blown to pieces as were a tam of hordes hitched to a wagon. Evt ry plate :la.-s it this place wa- brok n Lengue Orpanized. fmblin. Ind. March 14 The Indiana Hasehall league has now been permanently arsjaaiaed an I the following cities of central Indiana have bsaa decided UKn: Indianapolis ( Reserves , Muncle. Klwood. Montpeiier, Bbiffton. Anderstm. Richmond and laekeiBe. To Be Advanced. Indianapolis. Ind. March 14 On April 1 the post offices at Brownstown. Mot r la rills and oiom win at atfsaaccsl o the presidential lass. Jury Ends Its Task. Bedford. Ind . March 14 After wrest

Ing with the mysterious murder of Miss Sarah Si naftf for four weil- ,, urand Jury has laaottBCSd that It will report toi!av The indications are that Jam- McDonald i.ow under arrest, will be indicted Child Has Perfect Sight. Koknmo. Ind. March 14. A child

i haing BOTfeul siglit has lieen Ioru to i Mr and Mrs William Brinkmar.. of j this city The parents have been blind i since batqraeow and were edaaateJ at I the state blind Institute a Indiana

President Roosevelt's Recent Executive Order Commended. COMMENTS OF RUSS'AN PRESS

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ihiiiiui' in tea sulseai Seartteaeal Willi Iti-uuril in llii- null nil in u NatStMMb St. Patatraburg. March 1" I'n sident Booacrsit's raotal prta laaiatlfwi regarding the observance of neutrality by all ollii lals and the ab.-tetition from cither action or Speech which mithi cause irritation U) either .lapan or Russia has Bfoduced a ginul imprcsisiiM here. The new.-paiers print prosshsi lv articles comnn nding the ubscaiut and spirit of the proclamation in ih( highest terms The oftuial ga.ett iicc.pts it tin rcsercdly a.s a complete answer to the. barges that the American govern m nt ia hostile to Russia, and facJaMS that hereafter, dealte any seemingly SBtOward itic Ideal Which ma arise, it w ill l)e QOaildnrSlI settleil ome for all. that "the American government ha tak-n a friendly attitude towards our aim.- and policies in the far east, adding: "This undoubtedly marks a change in American sen. i me nt. the peopl there realizing the danger of supporting Japan " The Moroetl hails Ih anaatcloaa initiative of President Koos4'vclt in the interest of universal pea and gcnl relatioiisihip BSt ween Russia and the I'nited State, saying. He wields unlimited power in rc i;ard to the policy of th-- (ountry. Becretary Hay submitting to the will of the president.'' The Raas web i oin s 'he jiro lam.it ion as convini ing eeideaca of a ajoffa friendly feeling on the part of the Americans for Russia. The Bderse Gazette remarks: Theodore Roosevelt was the first ruler to respond to the- warning ry.

Issued many years ago by BmperoV William. ng&inM the yellow jwril ' The St. Petersburg Zeitung a that the pnxlamation leaves no further desist that the I'nited States ha- a firm intention to observe strict neutrality, and adds: "It U ars the imp of :tr.-ng an 1 most distinguished personality." The papers alM make a d:p'.ay of a denial of the New Chwarg report that the I'ni'ed States intends to support the arotaal of the commander of the Ualtad States gunlioat Helena again-'.. Rnaata'l plan to sink Junks at the entrance to the Liao river, evidently considering that this puts an end to th statement which caused a flurry here, and that further comment is t;nnrces--ar"-The Alexander committee announces that in addition to the regular army pen.-in. a supplementary pension of $25 a year will lc given to the widow and orphans of the non-commissioned officers and $24 to those of soldiors and sailors killed in the face of the enemy THOS. TOBIN ELECTROCUTED

Ihe Munlrrrr if C np. Jnin-a U. 'rnft ITIt iFQflSd at Ihe kln4 Ha fhi ! I'enltt-inlnr. Ossining. N. Y . Marc h II Thomas Tobin was put to death. Monday, in the electric chair in Sing Sing pri.-on for the mardar Of Capt Jwre - 15 Craft, in New York city. He walked to the chair uttering a prayer that his mother had taught him whe n a c hild Three shocks vere given before he was pronounced dead. Tobin. an ex-convict, was employed in a tenderloin salc n in September. iaf'5. when f'apt Craft, a wealthy Ixng Islander, visited the place. The captain displayed some money, and r drug was put into his liquor He piickly became unconscious and was robbed. The victim falling to recover ron-c :cni-ne.o, Tobin dragged him to the ftyn.ace room, cut off his head with a cleaver and threw it into the fire. After his conviction Tobin exhibited signs of violent in.-flntlty. and was expmlned ' i by c naimi-i-ion-. th" second of which reported that ha was shamming. NO SUCH CRIME KNOWN THERE MnnliT onfeaai-d to II l.uta MitrL Nut linciH.i if a I I amp C.. I.IH. Ul, I id.

Colorado Springs. Col . March 15 A special to the fJaette from Camp Goldfield states that no such crime as (ustav Marx, the i hie ago bandit, describes In his confession, has been committed in the Cripple Creek district within the past year All crimes committed in that district have been run to earth and fastened upon some persons.

Neither the police nor the militia know

of any such crime with whh h Marx could have been connected line In nraln I er-r. 8t IxMils. March 1" Patrolman John Csuley of the Siath district, became suddenly deranged while at th' substation at the fair grounds Sunday night and attacked Setgt. Monaha and officer Hec Ken r iwx'ors ay he

brain fever.

I lie It.ind.o llearS Ihr-Ir II' oa Sflldll Tht Jmrt II. 'Haled I r a limr um lira lb I r ll. Chwago. Marth 13 Hanslng .'or ad was the verdia t-f 'he Jury in the Hot murder case of the so-called ' car barn bandit-. Haivey Van DtAO, IWel Kiedermeyer and (Sustav M:rx. hJ a'taincd notoriety by desperate allCay battle that btarted ia a dugout near 4verpool, Ind.. where Ihe tr.o had taken refuge after a series of re

markable crimes, including the murder of two employ cs of the Chicago City Railway Co . at one of the company's barns In this city, the motive in Mcb instance leing robbTy Kmll RcK-ki who was with the bandits in the dugout, and who participated in many of ihe.r crimes. U tt 1 tried separately, not having been implicated directly in the particular murder for which his a.-s late were first arraigned. The verdict of the Jury was delayed from Friday afternoon until Saturday on account of a temporary division ol opinion as to making the punishment alike for all the defendants A confession on the pan of Marx led to the discovery of the hiding place of the other banoits. Marx entered s plea of guilty and begged for mercy, while the other prisoners tried to brazen out a plea of innocence. Epibpsy. a result of heredity, wai also pleaded in the case of Van Dine The bandits heard their doom stolidly. The moihcr of Van Inne was in the courtroom Niedermeyer's mother wss also present Neither woman made an outc ry The mother of Marx did not appear She was said to be at home in a state bordering on collapse Contrary to the general expectation, ts was Van Iine' fate, not that of Marx, that caused the i'.elay in arrir-ing-at a decision. IOWA'S REQUISITION LAW.

Ante nil in r-nl lt-f..rc the l.r-cialatar uuK'-'tril lit Ihr I a r ( Hn. II-. ! lln.ilir Dee Moines. Ia . March UL A measure prepared by Att'y -Jen M il an. amending Iowa .- req a-ition laws -o as to eliminate the possibilities of murderous agent -ie in one state tarrying out their object In another. Is liefore the legislature. The amendment is frame 1 so as to cover cass similar to the recent Dye proceedines. when it was found Impossible, under the present

statutes, to extradite a Boone (Ia. woman if used of sending a box of

poison fd candy through the mail- to Miss Rena N! r, of Pi. rre. 8. D. because the former was not a fugitive. THE DYNAMITE EXPLODED. A Mne.V rar-oll Bor l alalli Wan-. al-il II y a lit iiamltr : t pluaiuaj at Sralllr. aa. Seattle. Wash . Marth 1.1 A terrific dyr-amite explosion that shook th? eo-

tire northern portion of the city resulted in the instant death of Iterance Scott, a nine-year-old boy. A large j quantity of the explosive was placed In a kettle to thaw and left near the open fire. Five minutes afterward. Just as i yaag Scott drew near the fire, the I explosion came. The boy'n mangled I body was hurled 30 feet through the

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Northern Securities Combit.-t j Declared Invalid.

HARLAN CALLS IT A TRUST

ort Molil thai Ihr Mrrln a ,. N. i ill. n. I'm ilr aae l.rral N -rtMira t uuaiaalra a la V iiilallua .( law. Washington. Man h 15 In the ed States supreme court Monday an opinion was delivered in the asergi r tase of the Northern Securitb'-i r. versus the I'nititl Stad -. in favor of the government's run'ention that the merger was illegal The opinion of the court waa handed dewn by Jit Harlan, and it upheld the durethe vtrcuit court for the district of Minnesota in every particular. Four ej the justices dissented frtn the five com-t.-tuting the majority. The division in the court was due to a difference of opinion as tc the right of federal control of 'aic corpora' The majority opinion proseeded on tha theory that congress has a right, under the constitution, to control inter-tate commerce, no matter by whom onducted, while the minority or diss f iac opinion eras based oa the theory that in the present case the effort to regulate the ownership is not IntsST vate traffic. lire-1 II a I lrrlrd ' An effort was made by the cCMSffl tc prevent the knowledge of the fact that the opinion was to be renderedMonday from getting to the pul lie. but nev-r-

1 theleea It was quite generally nuder- . stood amor.-- r w pa per men. attorn rfl ; and others for an hour or so befor- the I convening of court Monday that 'he j decision wouiü be announced. When. I therefore, the members of the tosal filed into the chamber at noon, they ' were me; by an expectant crowd w all n filled (very seat both inside and (Mi

lbe bar Seated am ne th were Attorney General

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when, promptly the court. Justice livery of the op

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J law and sustain the contentions ' government. The jruitlre read his 1 ion from a printed copy, which cc 3-? pages, and consumed about at

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irt ha ! ditie. and ere t develop-d

I Tided on the questions at the opinion was announce

j that not only bail there been a v. ry 1 1 lose shave for the government, but j that one of the member. of the court

no rat ms vote tor ti. mar:'y entertained opinions of his own. whi b fact rendered the division of all more marked end interesting. This was Justice Brewer, who. while he con

curred in the result, ar.i

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Jnilite Mnnlun lll 8t. .Iweph. Mo. Mat . 'i U William M. Stanton, aged ."t years, presiding Judge of the Buchenau county BOSfft, If believed to be dying at his home mat Agem I fori. He has been s factor la actio. rat U politics.

New York. March 13 A great ce'd wave is prevalent in the republic of Guatemala, according to a Herald dispatch from Panama There Jjt a hey mantle of snow covering the mountainous region 3irtO feet from the summits, a condition which has never before been seen by Guatemalans, so far as is known. There was a slight earthquake in Guatemala City Thursday, but it caused no damage. BIG FIRE AT BIP0N. WIS. lld Trrntiint Hm:-, t mm ran a aj r 1 1 a

Reeragaapee riam and aeeessd otli. r lliilIrllaK Hariri. Ripon. Wis Marc h 11 Th- old Trmont house. Commonwealth newspaper plant. Masonic hall and several stores were destroyed by fire Saturday Loss $:.OOo. Fire thief R A Rrauer. of Oshkosh. Wis . was badly hurt by a falhng wall. IIa. H . 1 1 r. .1 rum Or Tarf.

Middletown, N. V , March II Gen B K. Tracy, secretary of navy under President Harrison and for a number of years, a prominent breeder ef trotting horses, has disposed of all his racing stock and retired permanently from the turf

I'rianner Otrnpti al-la. Hsrrlsburg. Ill . March 13 Charles MtClellan, in Jail here charged with burglary, at Eldorado, attempted suicide. Friday, by taking strychnine. Prompt action by Sheriff Mooney. who MbW d a phvsic ian. saved the man 'a life

II. rr rl nr A lill . Muscogee, I. T . March 13 Three men are in jail at this place charged with having tapped a barrel of whisky oy baring through the Utttom of s car, loa3Ml with liquor, at Crowder Ci'y, entsigned Ü Kewt Smith.

independent of Inion of hi own that he held the view that previous anti-trust decisions had been mof sweeping than waa justified. Foir of the nine justices fatasSshSi

ewi rieht These Wfw Chief Jtt Fuller and Justices White. Petkhm ' u4 lWlmes The opinkias of Jos'tc-

llarlan and Whi'e were long. wbl' those of Justice Brewer and Höings were comparatively brief. AH told, the court consumed two hours and threequarters in disposing of th case. Thfl fact was noted by several persons i.at the argument in the rase was oerun r erem ber 14. Just three months nrevious to th decision For so Impo tant a case this Is considered a very brief interim between the arguments an he dee i - r. Mataws 1 Ifce C a. The case decided Monday was brought by the I'nited States against the Northern Securities Co . a corp ration of New Jersey, the Great Matth em Railway Co. a corporation of Minnesota; the Neerthern Pacific Railway Co.. a corporation of Wisconsin: James J Hill a ritien iJ Mmre-wt.i ind

j William P. Clourh. D Willis Jam's, I John S Kennedy. J. Pierpnnt Mot an.

Robert Bacon. Georg F Baker and Dante! Lamont. citizens of New York. Its general object was to enforce, as against the defendants, th provi -mM of the statute of July 2. 1190. cornu; nIr known as the anti-trust act, and entitled "An act to pr-itect trade and com

merce against unlawful restraint and monopolies ' llarrlraaa Rrfatr ta Talk New York. March 15 R H. liar rim an said: I must digest the opinion and consult with my friends before talking about It." (.CIV V , MT I.MlTlltKO. la- e;eranr f Wlaaevnfa Ktareaaa III t.rntlfl .itlora St Paul. Minn . Mnrth II -Gor. Van Fant, when told of the decision In the riergr case, was high'y elated. Ifs said: "I am much rrafin. : with the re suit of the decision in the merger suit for In my opinion the decision means more to the people of our country than any ever since the great civil war It will for all tint prevent th formalins

of Illegal trusts and unlawful tomb. nation '