Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 December 1902 — Page 2

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Established October 10. 1901. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. Telepnoue "o. 27. JFF1CE la Blsssll Block. Comer Center and Laporte Street. liVKKTI81N(i KATES will be mw) snowi on application. Entered the Postoffice at Plymouth. Ind.. as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year In Advance $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 40 cents, delivered at any postoffice. . The Only Republican Paper in the County Plymouth, Ind., December 25. 1902. United States Minister Bowen now has charge at Caracas of the interests of Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Holiand, besides those of this country, lie is the most manifold minister on record. Commercial affairs in the Philippines seem to be looking up. Notwithstanding the depression of silver and the constant fluctuation el its value, the great lack of labor and means or transportation, an epidemic cf rinderpest among the cattle and a strict quarantine because of the cholera, there was considerable increase in tiie trade this year. The mayors of most of the cities in Illinois have been questioned to ascertain their opinion of the proposition to authorize women who pay taxes to vote at municipal elections, and have declare! in the affirmative, A bill granting that power will be presented to thel-gisiature. Why should not a taxpayi.ig woman have as muh right to vote for officers who levy taxes as a nontaxpaying many Charles S. lleruley, former chairman of the republicau state committee, is not going 10 get an office from the present administration. Housevelt doesn't like hlin, and Hanna and Payne are "dead set" against him. It is reported that House velt and these leading members of the national committee think that Ilernley demauded too mucii money for Indiana in the campaigu of 1900. It is announced from Caracas that the Venezuelan trouble will be arbitrated, and that United States Minister Bowen will be one of the arbiters. This announcement followed an appeal by prominent citizens to President Castro to place the whole question in the hands of Minister Bowen for settlement. The pride ol Venezuelans has been deeply wounded, and there is much bitterness and sorrow. We are in the midst of a period of prosperity aad plenty, and therein lies the danger of extravagant expenditures, both private and public. The time is auspicious for the reduction of state, county, tow&üip and city indebtedness, rather than for any increase thereof, and officials of all classes should exercise the most scrup"ulous care in husbanding their resources." From Governor W. T. Durbin's address ät the convention of - the Indiana Trustees Association. The British-Germ in-VenezuelBn af fair shows how suddenly a serious com plication may develop. The Indian apolis Journal does not believe the present one will involve the United States in trouble, but it might, and it shows the necessity of being prepared for unexpected complications. At the present stage of world development that means the necessity of maintain ing a strong navy. Now and hence forth the seat of power, in an inter national sense, is on the ocean, and no nation can expect to maintain Us pres tige without a strong navy. The Elkhart Ileview thinks "it will be an irony of fate if theonly Vander bilt who amounts to anything, Corne lius, should succumb to the dread ty phoid. Of all the scions of the great family he is the only one who displays any ability in the management of his fortune and his own capabilities. If he is spared the great wealth which he possesses will be of value to the world, but if he dies it wfll be scattered, and without direction and unification will be dissipated in force." The president, Secretary Hay and other members of the cabinet, Mr. Cullom, Mr. Hitt and other members of the foreign affairs committee are using their best efforts to prevent a discussion of theVenezuela episode in congress. They tell everybody that there is not the slightest danger that the United Mates will get mixed up In the hostilities, and the larger number of nations that participate In the demonstration, the less likely will we be to have trouble in defending the Monroe doctrine. Although American politics and freedom of speech is pretty well understood by the authorities of the European governments, the newspapers and the people over there are apt to resent unkind criticisms, and a congressional discussion would certainly do no good. Home Seekers and . Pleasure Seekers Attention. On the first and third Tuesdays In Dec. 1902. Jan. Feb. March and April 1903, the Lake Erie & Western will sell one way, and round trip ticket to certain points in the west, south and southwest at very low rates. Good service and quick time. J. M. Daubenspeck, Agt.

Government and Men. An interesting question was raised in the United States Court of Appeals at Chicago daring argument of a motion for an injuction restraining fourteen railroads from cutting rates in violation of the interstate-commerce acts. The court was sitting in bank with Judges Grosscup and Phillips on the bench Both of the judges granted temporary restraining orders against the roads last spring, and the present motion was to make the order permanent. The suit was brought by the government at the instance of the Interstate-commerce Commission, and counsel for the railroads contended that it was Improperly brought. At one point In the argument the following passage occurred between the court and counsel: . Judge Grosscup interrupted the argument by asking: "If the majority of shippers along a certain line of railway are discriminated against and driven out of business are not the hundreds of farmers along the same line injured by having to sell their products to only one purchaser?" "That point seems to lie outside this bill," said Mr. Dickinson, "though I admit that the wrong is sufficiently set forth as to grain shippers." But who can assert the right of all these farmers if not the government under the interstate-commerce act?" asked Judge Grosscup. "They can assert it themselves," was the reply of Mr. Dickinson. "Thev can apply for an injunction against a repitition of the wrong." "Is not that the very ground on which the government interferes? Does not the attorney general ask injunctions here so that all these individuals w ill not be compelled to bring separate actions?" inquired Jndge Grosscup. Mr. Dickinson did not answer this question directly. "That is the question that will have to be adjudicated," be said. The interesting question raised here is whether the government in its organizad capacity has a right to institute proceedings in the interest of a considerable body or whole class of citizens, or whether they must assert their rights individually. This goes to the root of the question of the relation .of government to the people. The people existed before the government, ond the latter derives its power from them. Government is the people organized. One of its main objects is by organization to protect the people in the enojyment of their rights. Jefferson said: "It is to secure our rihrsthat we resort to government at all." It was "We, the people of the United States," who ordained and established the constitution, The laws enacted by congress derive the'r binding force from the people. The constitution makes it the duty of the executive to see that all laws are enforced. . The laws prohibiting rate cutting were passed to protect the people in their right to have uniform rates and against extortion from' any class of citizens under the guise of discriminating rates. It is as much the duty of the government to protect the people in the enjoyment of this right as of any other, and it is its duty to see that the interstate-commerce laws are enforced, as well as all others. Indianapolis Journal. Ohio Tax on Corporations. The statement of Auditcr of State Gullbcrt of the collections under tne Ohio excise law. will certainly prove a revelation and a surprise to people not familiar with the laws of Ohio, and Incidentally it may prompt Indiana to action in the direction of improved tax laws. Besides the payment of the taxes upon their tangible property in each county and municipality of the state at the local rate, the quas-public corporations are required to pay one per cent, of their gross earnings into the treasury of the state. This form of taxation has grown up in Ohio during the past ten years, and has the indorsement of the leading students of the taxation problem, affecting, as it does, in a great measure a stoppage at the source, of property that might by concealment otherwise escape taxation. State Auditor Guilbert's report shows that the quasi-public corporations of Ohio last year had gross earnings of $143,209,792, and paid into the state treasury $1,432,097.92 under the Cole law, passed by the Seventyfifth legislature, and increasing the tax from one-half of one per cent, to one per cent. This tax was distributed as follows among the various classes of quasi-public corporations; Electric light, $ 24,910 28 Artificial gas 55,751 65 Natural gas 48,688 59 Water works 5,412 98 Sleeping car 4,920 00 Pipeline....1. 61,442 79 Messenger and signal... 2.169 97 Express 12,339 65 Street railways 155,545 01 Railroads 1,010,885 80 Freight line 6,451 10 Telephone 40,384 58 Telegraph.... 3,295 58 Grand total $1,432,097 92 As a result of this great showing the general revenue fund at the close of last week showed a cash balance of $2,768,115.97, as against $88475.78 on the same day in 1901, and $771,385.92 in 1900, The cash balances in all the funds aggregate $3,422,767.18. Tell yonr neighbors about the good qualities of the Tribune.

An Advanced Step in Finances. The republican members of the house committee on banking and currency have taken an advanced step to relieve the country from possible monetary stringencies for a period of several years at least. They have agreed on a bill permitting national banks to issue credit currency notes equal to 25 per cent, of their capital to be redeemed in gold and to be safeguarded by a guarantee fund. As an additional measure of precaution the bill requires banks to maintain a reserve against the notes equal to the reserve now held against deposits. The existing law which prevents national banks from retiring more than $3,000,000 in any month is repealed so far as the credit currency is concerned. The notes are to be redeemed over the counter of the issuing bank and New York, Chicago and SanFrancisco are named as redemption cities. No bank shall pay out the credit currencv notes of another bank located outside of its own market, but shall forward them to some bank in the district to wulch the notes belong or to some bank in the redemption city or its own district, If all banks in the national svstem should avail themm selves of the privilege of the bill the total amount of currency that could be issued under it would be $175,000,-000.

AntMynchinj Law. The Indianapolis Sentinel Washington correspondent says; Congressman Crumpacker believes that the coming legislature can perform a great service for the state if it will enact a new anti-lynching law. "I have in wind," said he, "a statute which I believe would do more than anything to eradicate the lynching evil from our state. I think that the legislature should enact a law imposing an arbitrary penalty of $10,000 on any county that allows a lynching to occur within its borders. 'One half of the amount should go to the next of kin to the person lynched and the other half should be covered into the school fund. The law removing the sherilf from office is not adequate and it is not altogether just. Often the sheriff is not to blame and what du the lynchers care if the result of heir act is nothing more than to deprive a man of office? If the sum of $10,000 is collected from the taxpayers of a county every time a lynching occurs they will soon begin to look upon lynching as a costly business and nothing, in my judgment, would so quickly foster a sentiment that would preyent further lynching." Not a Question of Ships. Some ingenious but ill-informed journalists ar.5 printing pictures showing how much bigger than the w hole American navy are the combined navies of Great Britain and Germany. i$v inference we ought not to interfere with German and British piracy in American waters. Facts have traveled ahead of this kind of argument. The vital question is not of power but provender. It is not arsenals but granaries that menace the world. The nation that control the food of the world governs the world. Great Britain imports 85 per cent of her food. Directly she gets nearly half from us. Indirectly we control her entire importation. Great Britain can never again safely indulge in protracted maratime war against the opposition of the United States. Our patrol of the grain paths of the oceans gives us the primacy alike in peace and war it we have at the head of our government intellect and nerve to use our situation wisely. As -for Germany going it alone, where would she get coal for her war ships during a hostile stay in our waters? Chicago Chronicle. Rockefeller's Modest Check, Somewhere . between the general postoffice and the home of John D. Rockefeller there is lying a small, plain envelope containing a check for $4,000,000. The check was mailed yesterday. Mr. Rockefeller will find it beside his break fest plate tomorrow morning. It will not give him enough access of appetite to make him eat more than his usual sparse, carefully weighed and measured modicum of crackers and milk. That $4,000,000 check is Mr. Rockefeller's share of the Standard Oil Company's dividend fcr the last quarter of this year. The National City BanK, which acts for the oil trust, sent out yesterday checks amounting to $10,000,000. They are all payable tomorrow. The dividend on Standard Oil stock this year is only 45 per cent, a falling off of 3 per cent from the dividend of 1903. But even with this reduction Mr. Rockefeller's income from the oil this year will amount to $18,000,000. New York Post. A glass or two of water taken half an hour Dbforo breakfast will usually keep the bowels regular. Harsh cathartics should be avoided. When a purgative is needed, take Chamberlain's Stomach and liver Tablets. They are mild and ge-utle in their action. For sale by J. W.Hesa. - '

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS

The Ross House.----A First Class Hotel Where Guests Receive Careful Attention. America is peculiarly a land of travelers. Her intricate net-work of railroad lines, her lake steamers and the innumerable vehicles constantly in motion, all go to show that the American nature is locomotion. Still people must rest at times, and when away from home nothing is so cheering as a first-class hotel. That America has by far the most comfortable hotels in the world is so universally admitted by travelers of every nationality no argument is necessary to its confirmation. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland and San Francisco have all become deservedly famous for their excellent hotels, and although less is known by the untraveled public of the hotels in our smaller cities and towns yet in Plymouth. THE ROSS HOUSE. located on Laporte street in the business part of the city, J. B. Bowell, proprietor, is well known to the public. For the information of the general public, however, we will submit a brief discription of this hotel, feeling assured that those who have received its hospitality will bear us out in what we claim for it, as the best and most popular hotel between Fort Wayne and Chicago. Futhermore, these articles referring to the leading business interests of Plymouth would be incomplete without a mention of this hotel, for it forms one of the prominent interests of active business life in this city. Mr. J. B. Bowell the proprietor has conducted this hotel for a period of fourteen years, taking possession of it when it contained only seventeen rooms, but through his untiring efforts to please the traveling public and his good management he has increased its custom yearly and has enlarged the house to meet public demands till it now contains 85 rooms, 50 of which are sleeping rooms, and he has also provided it with modern improvements, and accommodations for the comfort of guests. The house is kept scroupulously neat, and a homelike air prevails that is at once noticeable. The house is heated by a system of hot water and is lighted with electricity, and provided with hot and cold water. ITS ARRANGEMENTS. On the first rtror there are a large office, reading and writing room, a large reception room handsomely furnished; also a purlor containing an upright piano, and a dining room that will accomodate 100 guests at a sitting. There are also three sample rooms and a wash rootn on this floor. The culinary department is equipped vutn a large modern range and other conveniences. There are toilet rooms on both floors and a good bath room on the second floor. THE t'EKVICE. The dining room is attractively arranged. The tables are laid witn pure ubite linen and handsome table ware, iii.l the waiters are experienced anW courteous. The ciimr is exce'Scnt, ui.-fl itjr!fcd 1ms i-een a. (aid to advertise the houl, for the tables are provided w ilh the delicacies and substantial of the season, cooked in a manner to tempt the appetite, and no person leaves the Ross House tables reeling hungry. THE SLEEPING ROOMS. The second floor is devoted to sleepin rooms which are well ventilated, handsomely carpeted and furnished with dressing case suites. The proprietor knowing well that the weary traveler alw ays appreciates a good bed, has provided the sleeping rooms with spring beds, soft mattresses and clean, sweet linen which is indeed inviting to the tired guests. The table and beds of the Ross House have become deservedly noted through their excel lency. THE MANAGEMENT. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bowell have a wide acquaintance with the traveling publio which places them in a position to know what they require, and they use their best endeavors to accomodate all who favor the hotel with their patronage. The clerks are also attentive and well liked, and the guests on leaving finds themselves wishing there was many more as good hotels on the road as the Ross House at Plymouth. The Tribune can cordially recom mend the Ross House to those who visit Plymouth on business or pleasure, and feels confident that they will find in it every element of comfort and convenience, having shared its hospitality, thus speaking from personal experience. It has always been known as the leading hotel in this city. A bus is run to and from all trains. To Have no Inaugural Bail. There will not be an. inaugural ball in Nebratka this winter. This is the edict which has gone forth as a result of an order of Governor-elect Mickey. Preparations for this unusual function were in full swing when he was consulted regarding some of the arrangements. This was the first time the matter had come to his attention, and he immediately set his foot down. He is a stanch Methodist. '

MORTUARY

George Sindell. George Sindell, sr,, one of the old and respected citizens of Marshall county, died at his home three miles northwest of Plymouth, Saturday night, aged 80 years. Mr. Sindell had been in declining health for several months and his death was not unexpected. He leaves a widow and one son to mourn his death. Two daughtejs and a son have died with .consumption during the past four years. Deceased was a good citizen and had many friends. Funeral services were held at the Catholic church Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Miss Lela Day. Lela, adopted daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Elias Day, of Cando, North Dakota, died Thursdav, Dec. 18, 1902, at the home of her uncle, Frank Bollinger, in Donaldson, aged 10 years, 6 months and 14 days. Her death was caused by consumption, Mr. and Mrs. Day brought her to Chicago several weeks ago for treatment by a specialise, but the best medical skill did not avail. The funeral was held at Donaldson, at 10:30 a. m. Sunday. Letter From Western Kansas. Cold water, Kan., Dec, 18, 1902. Editor Plymouth Tribune: Thinking the readers of your valuable paper would like to hear about the west, I will try to give you a few items. We left our home near Argos, Wednesday, Sept. 3, tor Coldwater, Ivan., going overland in wagons. We arrived at our destination Nov. I, having had an enjoyable trip. We saw some good land and some poor land. Illinois was the richest country we passed through. Land ranged from $80 to $150 per acre. They had a good corn crop this year but the land along the Illinois river was awfullv flooded; nearly all their crops were gone. The principal crop is corn. Kansas has some good grazing land and there is some timber along the creeks. Most of the money is made by rais ing cattle, but some men have pros pered by farming, raising wheat, kaftir corn and cane. The kafflr corn and cane being used for feed. Some oats and corn are raised. Land in this (Comanche) county ranges from $3 to $10 per acre. I will close by asking you to send the Tribune to Coldwater, Kansas. David Boyce. The Band Concert. The concert and oyster supper given by the Plymouth band at the opera house Friday night was one of the most enjoyable of the social occasions of the season. A large number of Plymouth people accepted the invita tion of the band boys to come out and hear them play and partake of the excellent oyster supper prepared by the wives of the band boys, The music rendered was good and reflected much credit upon the members of the band, which, under the leadership of Mr. Ben Seybold, has achieved such cfliciency. . The band has not been organized long.but its playing denotes ireat care and rapid progress. The drum solo bv Mr. Ben Linkenhelt was heartily applauded and he was repeat eiilv encored. The band is a valuable acquisition to our town and isdestined Jo be an important feature in the social life of the citv. Much credit is due the friends who interested them elves in the sale of tickets and help ed to make the evening a success. River to be Straightened. The job has been let in Laporte county to straighten all of the Kan kakee river running between that county and Stärke, a distance of 42 miles by the old course, which made straight cuts it down to 18 miles. The new river or ditch will be cut 70 feet wide for that distance and the job was let for $120,000. When completed it will send the water down into Porter, Lake, Jasper and Newton counties so rapidly that It will probably compel land owners to carry it on in a straight course or be flooded with every continued rain. The work has finally been started right and it will have to be continuad to the Illinois line before the Kankakee is thorougly drained. Chicago's Old Rival. It is not generally known that the little village of New Buffalo, Berrien county. Michigan, located on Lake Michigan and close to the border of Indiana, 60 years ago was Chicago's rival for commercial supremacy. Now how great the contrast. The Michigan town never got far in the race and while Chicago sped ahead until it has reached the place of the second city on the continent with a population of over 2,000,000 souls, New Buffalo is struggling along with less than 2,000. Old Flour Mills in Alaska. That whjat was grown in Alaska by the Russians a century ago is proven by the discovery of two old flour mills built by the subjects of the czar. One of these has been discovered on Wood island, in south-eastern Alaska, and the other in the interior. The former mill has just been Investigated by R. B. Taylor of the Smithsonian institution. He says that the old flour mill was built by the Russians early in the last century.

KOENDOF TESTIMONY

As to the State of Things in the Anthracite Region During the Strike. LETTER OF PRESIDENT KT0H0LLS Indicating That He Knew What Was Going On -What the Witnesses Told. Fcranton, Pa., Dec. 20. Non-trnlc n men, some of their relatives, and others to the number of thirty, appeared before the anthracite strike commission yesterday and told their stories of boycotts, intimidations, dynamiting and violence in various forms during the late strike. Each witness called was a sufferer In one form or another at the hands, he alleged, of union men. Four witnesses said attempts weie made to blow up their houses, one house was badly damaged, many of the witnesses were threatened with bodily harm, several were beaten, one was shot in the leg, every one stoued. boycotted or hung in enigy. Ramification of the Boycott. One school teacher testified having lost his position because his father did not strike. One man was asked to resign from a Roman Catholic temperance society, and another witness w as expelled from a local lodge of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, after a membership of twenty-six or twentyeight years, because they were classed as unfair workmen. Joseph II. Duan. the man who was requested to give up his membership In the temperance society, remained at work doine repair work and acting as a watchman. He wept whi on the witness stand as he told of how they ordere-d h'm to leave after many years of pleasant social relations with its members. They Used His Own Tacket on Him. lie was active in the society, and drilled many of those who have grown to manhood in the military branch of the society. He said he had been stoned and otherwise badly treated, and added that a good clubbing would not have hurt half as much as the action of the society in throwing him out of the order. The boys he had drilled in the society stoned him on the highway, and when he displayed his revolver they all dropped flat on the road. C. S. Darrow, for the miners, asked the witness if he thought the union taught them that, to which the witness replied that he, as captain of the military company of the society had taught the boys the military tactics which they resorted to when he flourished his pistol. LETTER FROM PRESIDENT MCHOLLS Promising Peace "So Long as He BehaTes Himself Accordingly." An Italian named Frank Fidati, who was a striker, but who was hired by a coal operator to watch the home of a non-union man. was shot in the leg by other f-trikers because he would not stop protecting the man's house. The non-union man who lived in the house, and subsequently quit work, was next called, and produced a letter written by President T. D. Nicholls, cf district No. 1. in which he stated that the witness had quit work and was a good union man and that all union men should treat him in a friendly manner "so long as he behaved himself accordingly." John Conliu, a mine boss and president of the school board of Plains, near Wilkesbarre, testified that a committee of a local union called on him and asked that school teachers whi-fee relatives were working In the mines be not reappointed as teachers. Frank McCarty, a teacher in Miners' Mills, was next called and said he was not reappointed, and the only reason given was "politics." His father was a mine foreman" and was working during te strike. He knew of a female teacher whose father did not strike who failed of reappointment All the other witnesses testified to having been hung in effigy once or more times, that grocers, butchers, milkmen and Icemen refused to serve them, because they were afraid their business would be boycotted, and that they were severely beaten and socially ostracized. During the session Chairman Gray recalled the Incident when the accuracy of the Pennsylvania company's wage figures had been questioned because, the number of them earning a certain sum per year was not given. Gray said that at tha time the figures were supplied the company auditor had notified the commission recorder that be could not tell In all cases the number of men engaged in the earning of a specified wage. GLAD HE IS "OCT OF IT" Feeling of the Man Expelled from the A O. H. More Specimen Boycott James Mitchell was the man who was expelled from the Hibernian society. He said he worked during the 6trike as a repair man, and did not consider It 'unfair" because he did not mine any coal. He had been a member of tae society twenty-six or twenty-eight years, and at a meeting one night during the strike the question of his "unfairness" came up, and the members present unanimously voted to expel him. He had been paying dues all these years and was In good standing, but he added that he was now glad he was out of It A Polander named Max Lasar, who did not quit when the strike was inaugurated told of how a man threw a quart bottle of plant powder, to which a lighted fuse was attached, Into the parlor of his home. He extinguished the fuse. The powder was shown to the commission. Eugene Detty, In no way connected with, the strike, said he was mistaken for a non-union man at night and so badly beaten that he was laid up for two months. Thomas Kennedy, aged 15 years, worked In a drug store in Carbondale. His father was an engineer in the employ ,of the Delaware and Hudson company and did not quit work, when the strike started. Tne manager of the drug store was requested by a com

mittee from the union to discharge him, and rather than have the store boycotted the druggist told the boy to quit The father corrolorated the story, and added that he had to keep his children from the public schools as they were being abused. David E. Lew's, a foreman working for the Delaware and Hudson company, said the authorities of the 1 orough of Olyphant made no attempt to keep the peace. Most of them were mine workers, or relatives of mine workers. John Lewa ndof ski. who worked during the strike for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western company, testified to an attempt being made to blow up his house with dynamite. The explosive and the fuses were producpd before the commission. HE BELIEVED IN INSURANCE Whayne's Estate Will Probably Foot Up About Haifa Million In Life Policies. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 20. Additional insurance policies have been discovered on the life of It C. Whayne, who was found dead with a bullet wound In his chest Thursday night near his home at Jacobs Park, a suburb of Louisville. The newly found policies amount in all to an additional $50.0OO, and it Is not certain that the end has been reached. Already the total, including $00,000 in accrued dividends due from the Equitable Life Assurance society, has reached $430.000. This does not include two policies of $25,000 applied for respectively with the Manhattan Insurance company and the National Life Insurance company, of Vermont If an effort is made to collect these two policies the exact amount of Insurance claimed by the estate will be a half million dollars. ELISS DOES NOT AGREE Governor of Michigan Says the Hc-Oor era -Young Corbett Fight Can't Come Off In the State. Lansing, Mich., Dec. 20. Governor Bliss will not permit the McGovernCorbett fight which was to have been held In Detroit next month before the Metropolitan Athletic club, as had been planned. He wrote yesterday afternoon to Sheriff Dickson, of Wayne county, calling his attention to the law on the subject and telling him that he expected him as sheriff to see that the fight was not held in Detroit In the letter the governor calls the sheriff's attention to the decisions of the supreme court against fights in Michigan and tells him that If he needs assistance to prevent the fight it wUl be given him. Detroit Dec. 20. Matchmaker Considine insists that the proposed Mo Govern-Corbett bout is not to be a prize fight but a sparring contest within the law.

Pretty Suspicions Insanity. Waukesha, Wis.. Dec. 18. George Bowers, the convicted murderer of his father, became Insane in the court room when a life sentence was Imposed. The united efforts of four deputy sheriffs were required to get him out of the court room. Proceedings in the House. Washington, Dec. 19. The house yesterday passed the bill to reduce the duties on the products of the Philippine islands coming into the United States to 25 per cent of the DIngley rates. The discussion of the pure food bill, which has been made a continuing order until disposed of, was begun. The resolution calling on the state department for the correspondence In the Venezuelan embroglio was adopted. The senate was not In session. Found Its Resources Weak. Madison, Wis., Dec. 19. The Bank of Westby, Vernon county, has been closed by State Bank Examiner Bergh, who found it insolvent Assistant Attorney General Buell has left for La Crosse to move for a receiver. The bank is a private one, owned by Carl O. Byre. Prorogation of Parliament. London, Dec 19. Parliament has gone out of business until Feb. 17. The king's speech proroglng the body leaves nit the usual references to foreign relations and devotes more space to Imperial matters. It gives a paragraph to the Venezuelan trouble. New Kind of Rabbit Develops. Muncie, Ind., Dec. IS. Delaware county hunters who go around in. search of rabbits are about as likely to come back with their game bags filled with Belgian hares as anything else, so many of them assert All through the woods, apparently mingling freely with the common rabbits, Belgian hares are found that are probably the progeny of those that have been turned loose by former owners. W1U Preside at Concordia College. St Paul, Dec. 20. Rev. II. H. Fotenhauer, of Hamburg, Minn., president of the Minnesota and Dakota synod of the German Luthern church, has been chosen for the presidetjicy of Concordia college at Fort Wayne, Ind. UEW8 FACTS IN OUTLINE Four hundred thousand persons are reported to be destitute and starving as a result of the crop failure In Finland. A semi-official announcement places the Italian claims against Venezuela at $2,000,000. Mrs. Lelia Monson was arrested at Ashford, Conn., charged with poisoning Mrs. Julia A. Wilson, an old and well-known resident of that town. The Luetgert sausage factory at Chicago has been purchased by a furniture manufacturing firm for a furniture factory. An attempt was made to kill Governor Jennings, of Florida, by a lunatic named Holt "who escaped from a Georgia asylum. Engineer James Murphy, Kane Pa., and Engineer Charles Dleffebach, Erie, Pa., were killed in a wreck near Wilmore, Pa., on the P. and E. The czar has granted amnesty to the students banished for rioting on his name day. David FlemlDg, of Elizabethtown. N. Y., threw his golf stick into his caddy's eye and knocked It out for which he has to pay $6,000, 6ays the jury. It is now known that nearly LOCO persons were killed by the earthquake Dee. 16 at Andijan, Russian Central Asia.