Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 47, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 August 1904 — Page 2

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ATI Q. N. M. E P. Q.F. M 4th. 11th. J 17th. yg '25th. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. 11 I2ea and Conditions of Thing are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Paraguay Revolutionists Defeat Gov: eminent. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says: An artillery engagement has been fought between the San Jocomino battery of the Paraguayan army and a body of revolutionists, in which the latter succeeded in dislodging the guns of the government forces. The losses on either side are not stated. There has been no bombardment of Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, since last reports. The insurgents have established a provisional government with the capital at Villa Del Pilar, 112 miles from Asuncion, and have nominated General Ferrerira. their leader, for President, and Gönz iles Novoro, for Vice-President. Four secretaries also have been named. Fnrions Tornado in Minnesota. A dispatch from St. Paul says: Fifteen people were killed in the fierce tornado which overwhelmed the Twin Cities and which wrought devastation in this part of the state. The aggregate property loss is conservatively placed at $3,000,000. Of this amount St. Paul suffered to the extent of $1,000,000, Minneapolis' damage is estimated at $1,600,000, while in the outside districts it is feared that $500,000 will not cover the damage done to crops and farm property. Mayor E.A.Smith said that he would issue a proclamation calling a special meeting of the city council to provide aid for storm sufferers and for repairing damage done to city property. Claim Jnmpers Killed. Two men are dead and a third is missing as the result of a fight over alleged claim jumping on Marble Creek, near St. Maries, Idaho. The bodies of P. Boaly and O. Lindsay have been found on the trail between Marble Creek and Gordon. Bouly's body had thirteen bullet holes in it. The bodies were some distance apart. A third man named Tyler is missing. It is said that Bouly and Lindsay were claim jumpers. Nothing is known about Tyler. Two Men Killed by Train. New Brunswick (N. J.) special: The dead bodies of two men were found beside the Pennsylvania tracks near Plainsboro, both having been apparently killed by an express train while walking on the tracks. From papers in their pockets the men were identified as Harry Pffely, discharged last Saturday from the cruiser Topeka, and Harry Williams, of Mount Pleasant, Pa. Pffely had enlisted in the navy at Fort Wayne, Ind. Turner's Bid IIish. M. L.Turner of Oklahoma City,ahitherto unknown factor in the financial world, was the successful bidder for the entire $3,000,000 issue of Phlllipine certificates of indebtedness. When the bids were opened, at the war department, it was found that Turner's was the highest. It was 101.410. The next highest was that of Harvey Fiske & Co., of New York, 101.877. White Caps Whip Husband. White Caps took Wood Turk from his home, on East Washington Street, Martinsville, Ind, and beat him severely with buggy whips. Turk, aged 23, has a wife and little baby. He says eight men took him from home and tied him to a tree, fifty yards away, accused him of neglecting his family and cruelty. He says he knows them and will get even. Firemen Hnrt in Chicago Fire. Fire, the result of lightning, caused a loss of $75,000 to the plant of the Nubyn Paint and Varnish company. Fifty-first avenue and Moffitt street, Chioago. Explosion of tanks of oil and varnish endangered the lives of firemen, five of them and a volunteer being overcome by the gas and smoke. Slain by Thunderbolt. During a storm at Punguitcb, in Southern Ltah, lightning struck the steeple of the Mormon tabernacle, and following the roof downward and coming in at a window, struck and killed M. J. Burgess. At the moment of his death he was putting down the window to shut out the rain. School Teachers Strike. The school teachers of Allen county, Ohio, have gone on strike. In four townships they ref?e the offer of the trustees and will not open school until allowed full pay for attendance at the iastitu'e, and given additional promises for the next school year of an advance of $3 a month. ' British Gunboat Wrecked. St. Johns (N. F.) special: The British gunboat Columbine, one of the vessels of the squadron patrolling the New Foundland fisheries, struck on a rock, in Snooks Arm, Green Bay, and it is feared that she will become a total wreck. Santa Fe Train Meets Disaster. Santa Fe passenger No. 17 was derailed at Tecnmseh, six miles east of Topeka, Kas., and five cars are off the track. A number were injured, but no definite figures are given In the report reaching this city. Warden of Ohio Penitentiary Dice Buddent. Edward A. Hershcv. lrderi of thn Ohio penitentiary, died k ldenlyof hem- J orrhage of the stomach. He was 49 years , id, ana naa served as warden since I August, 1893. - j Elevated Railroad for Cleveland. Negotiations are about closed for an elevated railroad extending from Dover Bay on the west of Cleveland to Wickliffe on the east and through the heart of the city. Boston capitalists have secured the right of way from the Nickel Plate Railroad, which will use another route. Six Prisoners Escape. Six prisoners escaped from the Camden, N. J., jail by sawing the bars of a window. Among those who got away was Alfred Harvey, colored, who was nearly lynched because of an attack on a white girl.

SHOOTS ALLEGED BOY THIEF. Detective Kills Lad When Called to tiearch .for Burelars. Chester Saverson. leader of an alleged gang of boy thieves, was shot and inotantly kiL'ed by Detective lleardon in Chicago. At 11 o'clock the other night the station was notified by the watchman at the Illinois Smelting and Refining Company that four thieves had entered the tlant Sergt O'Connell and Detectives Reardon, Morrissey. J. W. Ryan and Dil Ryan went to the plant. Failing to find the burglars, they hid in the neighborhood to watch for thera. Detective Reardon stationed himself in the rear of a barn, near the plant, and there was attacked by three youths, who climbed out of a window in the barn. Iieardon was knocked down and beaten, but drew his revolver and fired at one of his assailants, who proved to be Severson. The youth was hit in the heart. The other three were captured. None is over 17 years old. The three boys arrested are: Albert O'Dell, 13 years old; Herbert Dixon, 15 years old, and Elmer Gavin, 12 years old. With Johu Anderson, 30 years old, they were taken to the police

tation. The police say the three boys confessed to having tried to break into the smelting plant and intimated that they knew of other "jobs." DETECTIVliS RAID LOTTERIES. Pan-American mid Italian National Located and Promoters Arrested. ' Over 2.OW.O0O lottery tickets, in quarters, halves and wholes, were secured by Detective Wooldridge and several other detectives in a raid on the head--quarters of the Pan-American and Italian .National lotteries at 754 Fullerton avenue, Chicago. In the raid Edwin Ilarris and C. K. Champion were arrested in the sumptuous flats to which access was hard to get. The raid on the "headquarters" resulted in the arrest of the two alleged managers of the concern, which is said to have been in operation for over seven years. It was at the flat in the fashionable building at Fullerton avenue and Clark street that the lottery tickets were confiscated by the police. There tickets for a near-by drawing of the Pan-American lottery were first found.. Other tickets in the Italian National lottery for the drawing of Oct. 4, 1004, were confiscated, besides many tickets for the drawing in the Pan-American lottery of Sept. 21, 1904. PORTE'S PROMISE GIVEN. Formil Note Confi rming Pledjje as to American Schools Received. The Porte has addressed a formal note to the American legation in Constantinople confirming its undertaking to accord to American schools and kindred institutions the same treatment as that granted to the most favored nation, "subject to the accomplishment of the usual departmental formalities." In spite of the seeming reservation, it is not believed that the Porte will raise further difficulties in executing the agreement or run the risk of creating a fresh crisis, which American diplomatic circles declare would follow failure to carry out the arrangement There is some comment in diplomatic and official circles on the alleged incompleteness of the American settlement compare! with the settlement obtained by France on the occasion of fie occupition of the Island of Mitylene in 1901. American circles, however, point out that Minister Leishman obtained what he demanded and is awaiting the execution of the undertaking. GIRLS CARRY RURAL MAILS. Two in Kansas Prefer Outdoor Work to Employment in Office. Two Kansas girls would rather carry mail on rural routes than work in a business office or school room. One of them is Miss Kate Waters of Junction City, who has been notified that she has been appointed carrier on a rural route. She passed the highest examination in a contest with other applicants, all of whom were men. Miss Waters is a stenographer, but prefers outdoor work. Miss Hannah Blatchford began to carry mail on a rural route at Manchester recently. She is a school teacher, but says carrying mail pays better and is easier work. HEAVY RAINS IN THE WESI". Fall of Six Inches in Missouri Coal Mines Flooded. Western Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma have been visited by heavy rains. At Rich Hill, Mo., the fall of rain was estimated at six inches and it is feared that the Marias des Cygnes river will again overflow the lowlands. All coal mines at Rich nill are closed on account of being flooded. The rain in Kansas will prove beneficial to corn. It has broken the drouth, which existed in Illinois, Iowa and other mid-central States. Unable to Enforce Neutrality. A Japanese torpedo boat entered the harbor of Shanghai and anchored opposite the Russian cruiser Askold. The American torpedo boat destroyer followed and took up a position between the two craft. The Chinese announce that they are unable to enforce the. rules of neutrality oa the Russians. Russian Crniser Novik Beached. The Russian cruiser Novik, the fastest protected cruiser in the world, was beached in a sinking condition at Korsakovsk. Island of Sakhalien, after a two days' running battle with the Japanese cruisers Chitose and Tsushima. The Japanese sustained small damage. The fate of the Russian sailors is not known. Fi eures on Crop Prospects. Experts place the total damage to the wheat crop at 143,000,000 bushels in the United States and Manitoba. This is a cut in previous figures, and the yield in United States is estimated at 533,000,000 bushels. $75,000 Fire in Gv if port. Miss. Fire which started in 'the Younghusband building in Gulfport, Miss., resulted in a property loss of $i;,000. Six business buildings, all of them practically new, were, destroyed. Three men were hurt by falling timbers. Davis Notified and Takes Honor. Henry Gassaway Davis was formally notified at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., that he is the nominee of the Democratic party for Vice President of the United States. Mr. Davis accepted the nomination in a brief speech. Japan Issnes Statement. Japan, in a formal statement, asks for fair play in Chinese neutrality, pleading justification of the seizure of a Russian torpedo boat at Cheefoo and charging the Czar with bad faith. Wife Slayer Goea to Death. Alfred A. Knapp," convicted of the murder of his wife, Hannah Goddard Knapp, and who confessed to five murders, was electrocuted in the annex at the Ohio penitentiary in Columbus. Fine Grain Crop in Russia. The harvest in the government of Samara, in the east of European Russia, is the best in many years. The grain crop, mostly wheat, aggregates about 854,084,G00 bushels. ' Death of Perry Hannah. Perry Hannah, one of the wealthiest lumbermen in Northern Michigan, died at his home in Traverse City. He was

rtrieken with jpralysls. Mr. Hannah was known as the father or Traverse City. He made a number of large gifts to the city, among them being a church site and the site for a Carnegie library. He was senior member of the firm of Hannah, Lay & Co.

BOY ASCENDS 200 FEET. Caught in Meshes of Balloon Ropes by Heels. The closing incident of Thursday at the Sparta, Wis., fair was the carrying of a boy by the heels 200 feet into the air bv an ascending balloon. The lad came to earth uninjured and aft erward told the aeronaut that he would make the trip with him again the next day. Oscar Frederick, 14 years old, watching the filing of the big gas balloonbecame entangled in the ropes of the bag. When the balloon was cut loose the boy was carried up with it feet first. While the boy was wriggling and screaming for help. Aeronaut Henry was smiling and bowing to the crowd. Women anil girls fainted. Some tried to shout to the aeronaut, but they could not make him understand. At last he heard the boy, and, looking up, he ordered the little fellow to turn his face up and not to look at the grouud. After the parachute had risen 200 feet into the air, Henry opened the valves of the balloon and came gently to the earth. The boy was uninjured. REGULARS KILL MILITIAMAN. Clash in Streets of Athens, O., Results in Death of One Man. Regular army soldiers, said to be membors of a cavalry troop connected with the I'irst brigade at Camp Annitago, near Athens, Ohio, attacked members of a provost guard of patrols made up of members of Company I, Fifth Ohio National Guard, Cleveland, and one man was killed and three wounded, the latter all being national guardsmen. The regulars escaped without any casualties as far as is known. The guardsman who was killed was Corporal Charles Clark, whose home is at Warren, where the company is located. He was 21 years old and a machinist by occupation. The regulars, who used pistols, scattered for camp and none of them has been apprehended. Fifteen minutes after the shooting Gen. Dick, in command of the national guaxlsmen, and the regular army officers had declared the town under martial iaw. and hundreds of regulars were rushrtd into the city and patrolled the streets to prevent further trouble. BUILDING WORK STOPPED. Men on Four Structures Culled Out by Union in New York. The Building Trades Alliance, against which :he lockout recently declared by the Building Trades Employers' Association' was directed, has made itä first move since the lockout was established by calling out all the men employed on four of the large buildings iu course of construction in New York City. The buildings affected are two apartment houses, the "Hippodrome," at Forty-sixth street and Sixth avenue, and the new Wanamaker building on Broadway. Pickets were stationed about one of the apartment houses in an effort to prevent the employment of non-union men. HAIL, DEVASTATES ORCHARDS. Storm Causes Great Damage to Southern Michigan Fruit. One of tho worst hailstorms in years, accompanied by a gale from the southwest, swept over the southwestern part of Michigan Tuesday night. The devastation it caused in the fruit orchards was tremendous. Many thousands of bushels of various fruits were destroyed. Myriads of peaches, pears and plums were blown from the trees to the ground. The loss to" the fruit growers will undoubtedly i each thousands ot dollars. Conductor of Car Killed. One person was killed and seven were slightly injured by the overturning of a car on the Camden & Trenton trolley line, at Hatch's Corner, near Delair, N. J. As the car approached the sharp curve the brake chain broke. The car jumped the track and toppled over. Conductor Robert Holloway fell underneath the car and was crushed to death. No Danger in Morocco. Reports from Morocco indicate that the Sultan's unpleasantness with Great Britain over the confiscation of the property of a British subject will be settled amicably. In any case the thoroughly cordial understanding between France and Great Britain suffices to prevent the incident from assuming a serious aspect. Mrs. Lightie Refunds Insurance. The suits iustituted by five life insurance companies against the wife of Dr. Lightie of Little Rock, Ark., to recover $21,000 paid her on the life of her husband have been dismissed, Mrs. Lightie having returned the money voluntarily, being convinced that her husband was not dead. Colorado Has Radium. Radium ore is said to have been discovered at three places in the Cripple Creek district, Colorado. At two places the ore has been found in a well-defined vein, averaging from eighteen inches to two feet in width, while at another place it is scattered in tha float on the surface in large quantities. Deportations Are Resumed. A Cripple Creek mob has resumed deportatio. of miners and their sympathizers. Victims were herded together and marched out of town under a heavily armed guard. The move was justified by the charge that a plot had been discovered. Tornado Strikes Exposition City. Another tornado visited St. Louis, killing two persons, injuring twenty, wrecking many buildings and causing a panic throughout the city. A delug3 of rain following the wind brought loss at the World's Fair. Fatalities are reported in Illinois and sveral other States. Fight Over Right of Way. A fierce fight, in which a number were injured, took place between 200 Michigan Central section hands and an equal number of employes of the South Chicago Street Railway over a question of right of way across the steam road's tracks in Hammond, Ind. ' Biihop Would Coerce Turkey. Bishop McCabe of the Methodist church declares the time has arrived ftor the whole Christian world to compel Turkey to grant religious liberty to the Armenians, and says he would favor the use of warships if necessary. Watson Accepts Nomination. Thomas E. Watson, in accepting the Populist nomination for the presidency in New York, delivered a scathing arraignment of both the old political parties, charging Wall street rule and the be trayal of the interests of the people. Weekly Reviews of Trade. Weekly trade reviews indicate a slight increase in wholesaler' activity, but the general business situation reflects uncertainty as to the condition of crons. Weekly Crop Report. The weekly crop renort shows lack of moisture in several important corn States, but favorable conditions for the harvesting of spring wheat.

DEATH IN A TORNADO.

LIFE AND PROPERTY DESTROYED IN ST. LOUIS. Sudden Storm Wrecks Many Buildings in Exposition City, Then Crosses River Into Illinois Woman Killed In Her Home in Venice. A storm which assumed the proportions of a small tornado swpt over a block and a half of the residence district of North St. Louis Friday, causing the c.eath of one person, the slight Injury of probably fifty, and damaged property to the extent of $100,000. The storm then Jumped across the Mississippi River into Illinois, near Venice, where one person was killed and ten Injured and considerable property damage done. Trees were blown down and a number cf houses unroofed. Mrs. M. C. Beal, of Venice, 111., was killed by the falling debris of her home, which was blown to pieces. John Ellington, at St. Louis, was killed in the destruction of part of the Madison Cooper Works. Breaks Without Warning. The storm which broke over St. Louis without warning was preceded by a shower earlier in the day, but there had been no rain in North St. Louis. Tho sky had cleared and its atmosphere had become murky and hot when a dark cloud approached from the southwest Suddenly an arm seemed to shoot to the ground like a gigantic cable, twisting and turning. The end touched the ground at Nineteenth and Anelrodt streets and swept along Angel rodt for ten blocks, then turned north and swept three blocks along Broadway, when it jumped eight blocks northeast to the foot of Breman street and the river, where considerable property along the river front was injured." The tornado then Jumped to about the middle of the river and encountered a ferry boat, which was turned and tossed about, but was not sunk. Leaving the ferry, the storm struck the Illinois shore near Madison, where it demolished severa' Wellings, the Liederkranz Hall, am Llew dctvn a portion of the Madison cooper works, killing John Ellington. Severe damage was done also to buildings in Granite City, which adjoins Madison, and a number of persons were injured, but none seriously. Trolley Car Is Buried. A Broadway trolley car containing eleven passengers was buried under six telegraph poles which crashed into the top and wrecked the ear. The passengers had a remarkable escape from injury, and only the motorman received slight bruises. The roof and one-half of the top story of Sommers Bros.' Tailoring Manufacturing Company's establishment were blown away. Trobably the heaviest loss suffered by a single concern was at the Niedringhaus rolling mill. The big smokestack was blown down and half the plant was demol ished, entailing estimated damage of $25,000. Six employes were injured in this plant. Tart of the roof and two cupolas were blown from the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel. The side of the Backus Stove and Range Company plant was blown In. A concert was in progress in Fes tival nail, at the Exposition, during the heavy thunder storm in the evening, when suddenly there was a flash of lightning, and immediately all the lights went out. A panic was only prevented by a woman's voice taking up the strains of "America," the others joining In. Other familiar songs fol lowed, and the audience left the building singing, but without excitement In the Chinese village, on the Pike, SCO Chinamen, just arrived, were being watched over by immigration officers temporarily when the storm strack. The celestials became panic stricken, and the officers were forced to draw revolvers to subdue the excitement Lightning struck near by, and one Chinaman was severely shocked, whilo another jumped from the roof of the building and broke his arm. The band stand in the Plaza at St Louis was struck by lightning and was burned. Ibsen takes great interest in tit RussoJapanese war. Martin Hume, novelist, writes equally good stories in Spanish as in English. M. Caesar Decock, the oldest and oni of the greatest of Belgian painters, is dead at 81. Kubelik, Bohemian violinist, is said to have made over $500,000 in the last three years. Pope Piii3 wants to reduce the allowances or incomes of the cardinals, but his wishes may be defeated by the opposition. M. Turc, an engineer in the French navy, has devised a new form of craft with the idea of minimizing the pitch and roll of ocean vessels. Vice President Vela do of the republic of Salvador is on a vacation trip ia the United States. Sarasate is 00 years old now, and has played on the same violin since he was 12 years of age. Russia has lost one of her most learned astronomers in the death of Theodore Brodikhiue., No explorer before Stanley found exploring a lucrative vocation. He left nearly $1,000,000. Gabriele d'Annunzio only gives his autograph when the one who solicits it buys a copy of his works. - George Frederick Watts, the English artist who died recently, rarely worked from a living subject. Undoubtedly the oldest living poet is Colun Wallace of Oughterard, Ireland. He is 10S years of age. Mary Qaeen of Scots, although she left but one child, has descendants In every court in Europe. The late George Frederick Watts al-v-ays said the ethical value and influence of pictures was greater than that of sermons aud lectures. M. Paul Dupuy, editor of Le Petit Parisien, which has the largest circulation of any paper in the world, is visitlag the United States.

CORN SUFFERS FROM DROUGHT. Lack 'jf Moisture Hurts Cereals in the Central Valleys. The Washington weather bureau issued the weekly crop report, as follows: 'The Atlantic coast and east gulf districts have suffered from excessive moisture and lack of sunshine, a large part of the central valleys from drouth, the lake region from low temperature and the northern Rocky mouutain and north Pacific coast districts from heat and drouth. The temperature was favorable over the eastern Rocky mountain .slope aud in the central valleys and middle and south Atlantic States. Rain would prove beneficial generally throughout the corn belt, over a large part of which, more particularly the southern and eastern portions, corn is suffering niori or less seriously from drouth. In the central Missouri valley, while needing rain, corn has made gooJ gr;wth and is in promising condition, but in the Ohio valley and Tennessee there has been a marked deterioration in the condition of the crop, some ia Indiana having been injured beyond recovery. In Iowa corn has made satisfactory progress and a normal yield is promised. In tho Southern States early corn is being gathered, cutting being in progress as far north as southern Kansas. An excellent crop is now practically assured hi the north and middle Atlantic States. In the lake region and the Dakotas corn is backward and is growing slowly. The weather has been favorable for spring wheat harvest, which is far advanced iu the Koutheru portion of the spring wheat region, and the crop is ripening rapidly in the extreme northern portion. Reports of damage from rust continue from the Dakotas and portions of Minnesota. Hot winds hare proved injurious in Washington and yields below tho average are reported from Oregon. Oat harvest is now finished except in the extreme northern districts, where this work progressed uuder favorable conditions. A good crop is generally indicated. A more or less decided deterioration in cotton is indicated over much the greater part of the cotton belt. With the ex

ception of Oklahoma complaints of shed ding are received from every State, and rotting of the lower bolls reported from portions of the central and western dis tricts. Reports of too rank growth, how ever, are much less numerous than in the preceding week, but continue from por tions of the central and eastern districts Boll weevils are causing much damage in the southwestern, central, eastern and coast districts of Texas and are proving destructive up to the northern tier of counties. In that State, however, the plant and fields are in good condition. In Oklahoma and Indian territories. Mis houri and portions of Arkansas cotton is doing well. Picking is general enly in southern Texas, but has begun In the southern portion of the eastern dutricts. where, as a rule, very little is open. Tobacco has suffered much from drouth in the Ohio valley, but has made satisfactory progress In the midd'e Atlantic States and New England. Cutting is in progress in Ohio and Virginia. As a rule a light crop of apples is promised in the central valleys and louthern portion of the middle Atlantic States, but the outlook is generally promising in New England, New York, Michigaa and portions of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Haying is finished except in the more northerly sections, where it has continued under favorable conditions. A larg crop of hay of good quality has been secured in most sections. Good progress with fall plowing has been made in the middle Atlantic States, but in the central valleys this wor has been much hindered by the dry. condition of the soil. GRADE CROSSING WRECK. Four Persons Killed and Twenty-five or More Injured in Chicago. Four persons dead, one fatally injured and twenty-five or more hurt is the toll of human life and suffering exacted by a Chicago grade crossing Wednesday. Three streit cars, coupled into one train, carried their load of living freight on tho tracks of the Chicago Great Western Raiiway and were crushed and crumbled before a fast-moving passenger train. The motorman, Michael Ryan, proved the hero of the catastrophe, for he stuck to his post, vainly trying to stem the coming disaster, and his life may be the forfeit. Following the collision the crew of the passenger train and the conductors on the street car were arrestod. Three cars filled with people going to the Hawthorne races were running on the Consolidated' Traction Company's Fortyeighth avenue line. Struck by th locomotive, the motor car was splintered, and Motorman Ryan, still clinging lo the brake lever, was hurled into the ctir and fell fifty feet from the scene of the impact His skull was fractured and he was unconscious. The second cur also was . wrecked and the debris wa scattered over 100 feet, and men and women were thrown to the street or under the broken timbers and twisted iron. Three women and one man were killed and were found pinioned beneath the wreckage. This was the third railway disaster within a few weeks in or near Chicago which has claimed a large list of victims. The total fatalities in Cook couaty for the last six months, due to steam or surface railway, accidents, are shown by the following table: Month. Killed. Month. Killed. February 41 June 34 March 3S July 46 April 41 May 27 Total 227 Odds and Ends Green McCurtain was re-elected Governor of the Choctaw Nation in the last tribal election. Thomas S. Lippy, millionaire, amateur athlete and philanthropist is president of the Seattle Y. M. C. A. branch. At the convention of the Twentyninth Illinois Senatorial district, held at Dixon James Brennen of Sycamore was nominated. F. F. Matthews, Democratic nominee for. Congress in Oklahoma, say a he will kiss every baby in the territory to win the election. Deer Park, Md., is becoming a popular resting point for St Louis travel from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. The steamer Miowera brings news to Victoria, B. C, of a terrific storm on the southern Australia coast, which paralyzed all shipping for a while. Thirty-three passengers and four trainmen were injured in a collision between two Louisville and Nashville passenger trains near Horse Cave, Ky. It Is announced that the New York Central has acquired control of the Toledo Railway and terminal property, gen erally known as the Toledo Belt In 1809 the railways of the United States performed services equal to carrying 14,591,327,013 passengers and 223,007,257,153 tons of freight one mile. John F. La Follette waa chosen at Portland, Ind., by the Jay County Republican central committee as a candidate for judge to succeed George W. Bergman, who committed uicide. Tha candidate is a brother of Assistant United States District Attorney Jesse J. M. La Fcllttte of Jndianapoli.

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mykktL JA If J Ua Conditions of trade In the Chicago district arc epitomized in R. G. Dun's Chlcaga weekly review as follows: Despite the extension uf labor controversies business generally exhibits more strength and widening activity. The hindrances recently interposed have become less disturbing and seem likely to make an early disappearance. Notwithstanding the injury to spring wheat it is notable that simultaneously with the government crop report there developed a bcter demand for factory products and necessities. Metal branches are making larger output in both finished material and pig iron, and the new business coming forward reaches a larger aggregate for combined foundry and railroad use. The movement of grain shows gratifying growth and there is heavier lake carrying of ore, fuel and forest products. Visiting buyers wore more numerous in the distributive markets ami wholesale houses gained in their bookings for fall delivery, good orders being placed in dry goods, woolens, clothing and footwear. Retail trade slightly exceeded the previous week's and presented an encouraging tendency. Mercantile collections in the Middle West were fairly prompt and defaults decreased. Failures in the Chicago district number twenty-live, against thirty-one last week and sixteen a year ago. Reports to the International Mercantile Agency from commercial centers New Ycrt. indicate distribution of merchandise in the West and South, with an excellent outlook for a brisk fall trade. Adverse factors, such as strikes and crop damage, while curtailing local business in some part., of the country, have not been generally effective, interfering little with business as a whole. For these reasons the outlook is encouraging, although trade may remain quiet until after election, when the outlook for the fall can be mere clearly discerned. Conditions in the West are especially satisfactory. Jobbers in dry goods, clothing, shoes and men's and women'3 apparel are preparing for a heavy fall business. Advance orders are satisfactory and the outlook is regarded as encouraging. Increased travel to St Louis is stimulating trade in districts tributary to that center, with the result that wholesalers are booking larger orders than usual. In territory affected by the excitement over the reported damage to wheat certain branches of business have shown some falling off, although the decrease has not been important or much below the volume in sight at this date a year ago. The South shows up well, with reports of excellent business at Louisville and in the surrounding country, which appears, to be unusually prosperous. Dry goods in that section hold firm, with few price changes and collections satisfactory. Although quiet the boot, and shoe industry shows a heavier movement than last year, and Increased orders for manufactured tobacco indicate strong conditions in the trade. Pittsburg reports a revival of hope in the iron trade owing to better in quiry for future deliveries and gradu ally stiffening prices. Far-reaching disturbance is not expected to follow the cut In billet prices which one pro ducing concern this week prouiul gated, and unless unforeseen obstacles are encountered there will be disruption of the so-called billet pool. Conditions in general confirm the reassurance derived from the Iron Age's summary of July pig iron production, showing a falling off of 200,23 tons for the month. Owing to the interference of the lake strike coal tonnage Is heavy, with indications that the decrease in spring business may be made good. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.D0 to $3.00; hogs, shipping grades, $4.00 to $5.55; sheep, fair to choice, $2.75 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.03 to $1.11; corn, No. 2, 52c to 53c; oats, standard, 31c to 3Gc; rye, No. 2. 72c to 74c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $13.00; prairie, $0.00 to $10.00; butter, choice creamery, 10c to lSc; eggs, fresh, 14c to 10c; potatoes, 43c to 45c. St Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.43; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat No. 2, $1.07 to $1.09; com. No. 2, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2, 32c to 33c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 71c. Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep. $2.50 to S3.73; wheat No. 2, $1.07 to $1.09; corn, A'o. 3 yellow, 57c to 50c; oats. No. 3 white, 33e to 35c; rye, No. 2, 71c to 73c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.0S to $1.10; corn, No. 2 mixed. 5Cc to 5Sc; oats, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 33c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 74c; clover seed, prime, $7.03. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $3.73; hoss, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; lambs, common to choice, $5.73 to $0.75. New York Cattle. $3.50 to $3.S0; hogs, $4.00 to $3.S3; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat No. 2 red, $1.11 to $1.12; corn, No. 2, 5Sc to 59c; oats, No. 2 white, 42c to 43c; butter, creamery, lGc to 17c; eggs, western, 17c to 21c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern. $1.15 to $1.1S; corn, No. 3, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 3Gc to 37c; rye, No. L 73c to 74c; barley, No. 2, 54c to 53c; pork, mess, $11.70. . Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 - to $3 23; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 new, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 50c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; rmye, No. 2, 72c to 73c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $3.75; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat No. 2, $1.05 to $1.07; corn. No. 2 white, 55c to 56c; oats, No. 2 white, new. 33c to 34c.

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BRIEF COMPILATION OF tNDl. ANA NEWS. What Our Neighbors Are Dolnsr Matters of General and Local Interest Marriages and Deaths -Accidents and Crimes Personal Pointers About Indtanlans. Brief State Itci. Incendiarism destroyed a barnlelonsing to Dr. Orville DeLong at Azalii. Loss $500. Calvin Mann, threshed in one day, on the William Bennett farm, near Muneie, 2,021 bushels of ots between 8a.m. and 6 p. m. Eugene Foster was alarmingly injured, at Richmond, by attempting to alight from a rapidly running train, striking on his head. Stephen I). Rarnes.Shelby County Commissioner, while overseeing repairs on a bridge, was thrown by an accidental fall, breaking three ribs. According to the new Anderson directory the population of that city has Increased 2,101 since the winter of 1302, and now numbers .11,000. At Portland, Allen Harber wis seriously injured by the collapse of the three-pole derrick which he was raising over a gas well on the Louisa .Starr farm. Laborers excavating for the foundation of a barn on the farm of James S. Learned, near Muneie. unearthed tr.e skeleton of a full-grown man; v. h-u turiedls unknown. John Morris, living near Evansville, bought mussel meat of mussel digers, with which to feed his swine, and his daughter, walking through the hog lot, found a pearl which she sold for $2. August Anderson, a farmer of Starke county, had an abrasion on hi riht hand, and he was bitten on the affected part by a mosquito. Blood poison developed and he died in a Chicago hospital, where he was taken for treatment. Isaac Watkins of Muneie. originally a coal black negro, but who has been turning white for years, an', " bo is now nearly all white with the exception of a few dark blotches, is seriously ill of the nervous disease that brought &bout bis changing colcr. The city and county boards of health, at Brazil, have started a movement to guard against an epidemic of small-pox this winter. Two small-pox patients are now in the pest-home. Houses "ln-re small-pox existed last wir.tcr have ben fumigated. Pattents have been granted to Indianians as follows: It. Saidburger, Fort Wayne, assignor of one-half steam boiler pattentto Franz Burger and II. M. Williams; W. II. Edwards, Terre Haute, door opener; M. B. (ibsseock, Angola, hors shoe: .lohr. C. Zutt, Evac.sviile, window opener. Haghey Bray, an employe of th3 night gang of the Wabash Paper Mills, fell from a ladder, while at work making repairs, and broke his neck, dying three hours after the fall. The ladder was imperfectly placed by him, and slipped while he was at work. Bray was years old and leaves a large family. Land ia the Miami Indian reservation, near F rt Wayne, embracing 32') acres, and including the bick house ovned by the late James CJo lfrey, a full-blooded dcc?ndant of the late Chief Francis Godfrey, leader of the Miamis in the early fights with the whites, has been sold at Sheriff's sale for $14,0 JO to cover judgment on note drawn in 1S76 for J7.C00, and which, with interest and costs, called for 519,0 j;. The last owner, James Godfrey, was killed by his son a few months ago. The observance of "Indiana day" at the St. Louis exposition has been formally proclaimed by Governor Durbin for Septem-ber 1. In making bis proclamation the governor called attention to the fine showing made Ly the state at the exposition, and urged all citizens who can conveniently go to be present at the exposition on Indiana's day. Indications are that there will be a large attendance on September 1. Special railroad rates will be granted from Indiana points to St. Louis. The Indiana celebration will begin in the morning with a military parade from the administration building to the Indiana building. Governor Durbin, with his staff, will be followed by a battalion of federal troops and one from the Phillippine service. Governor Durbin will make the principal speech of the day and responses will be made by President Francis of the exposition and by the Lieutenant Governor. In the evening a large reception will be given to Governor and Mrs. Durbin. Amos W. Butler, Secretary of the Board of State Charities and Miss Rex ford, an agent of the State Board, were at Columbus recently and visited the Bartholomew County jail. A visf. was made to the jail last year and several changes were recommended. This time Mr. Butler complimented John W. Phillips, the Sheriff, on the manner in which the jail is being conducted. One thing that impressed Mr. Butler was the work of Calvin A. Adams, a prisoner, who has confessed stealing three horses. Since Adams was imprisoned, about two months ago, he has been a model prisoner. He has helped to keep the jail in good condition and recently wrote a et of rules, which he pasted on the wall. He holds a "kangaroo court," and when any one of the rules is broken the offend er must pay the penalty. Mr. Butler read the rules and was very much impressed with them. He said that when the State Board issues a set of rules for the government of jails it would be, in themain, the same rule made by the horse-thief. Frank Lowe of Kokomo, awakened from ileep by a noise in the kitchen, lighted a lamp to investigate and was met by a burglar, who ms.de him put down the light and return to his rocm, after which the intruder jumped through the window and escaped. Orris Jefferson, 15 years old, living north of Newcastle, was accidentally killed while hunting in the woods near his home. Harry Showalter, a companion, reports that Jefferson was leaning on his gun at the time It was discharged, the load passing through his left side. Death was instantaneous. Koy Keitley, employed in a furniture factory, at Evansville, while in the storeroom, filling a can with benzine, was overcome. by the fames and felJ. The spigot was open and the benzine con tinued to pour upon his mouth and nostrils and he was dead when found. W. E. Nutter, one of the best known residents of Martinsville, was shot through both legs above the knees, while camping party, of which he was a member, was preparing to break camp, at Cataract, in Owen County. The bullet passed through the right leg and into the left. The injury was accidental, occurring, while one of the party was removing shells rom a gun. -