Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 October 1904 — Page 2

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(TU Q.TN. M.TN F. Q.F. VJ 2nd.i r 8th. ) 15th. v; 24 M 24th. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Things are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Street Battle at Memphis. Memphis (Tenn.) special: In an effort to arrest a desperate negro, known in police annals as John Pop, one policeman is dead, two others shot, and the negro killed. Robert Jamieson, a member of the police force, was shot through the groin and died a few minutes later. John Moncrief, another policeman, was shot through the lese and seriously wounded, while Capt. O. II. Terry was wounded in the "hand. The negro ran when the officers attempted to arrest him but soon turned and opened fire with the result stated. The negro was then shot and killed. Every shot the negro fired struck his man but the numbers were against him and he sacrificed his own life. Bis Schooner Lost at Sea. A report from Provincetown, Mass., 6ays: The schooner EI wood Burton was wrecked on the outer bar at Peaked Hill and the captain and three men of the crew were lost. The other three members of the crew came ashore on bits of wreckage and were rescued in the surf by life-savers. The crew of the Peaked Hill life-saving station made every possible effort to save all the shipwrecked men, but the sea was so rough that they were unable to launch their life-boat, it being capsized in the surf several times, and the gun could not throw a line to the wreck, the distance being too great. , Target Practice Gun Burst. Winthrop, (Mass.) special: Several men were killed and a number injured by the bursting of a gun during target practice at Fort Banks. It is said tha: provost Sergeant Nevins. In charge of the firing squad, had his bead blown off. Corporal Banister had an arm blown off and received other Injuries from which he will die. Several of the others are so terribly maimed that they cannot live. Captain 'Frederick W. Phisterer, in whose company, the eigtyninth coast artillery, the killed and injured were enrolled, is reported to be among the Injured. Trainmen Charged with Manslaughter J. II. Preston, conductor, and J. D. Horton, engineer of the Missouri Pacific freight train that collided with a passenger train killing twenty-nine persons, were brought to Warrensburg, Mo. The Prosecuting Attorney filed information charging each with manslaughter in the fourth degree. Information was also filed against E. Zeigler, one of the brakemen of the freight crew under indictment for robbery and manslaughter. L.L. Haines, his fellow brakeman, is in jail and will be held jointly with the crew for manslaughter. Wrecked the McCoy Home. The residence of T. J. McCoy, president of the defunct McCoy Bank at llennsselaer, Ind., against whom indictments were recently returned for alleged complicity in the wrecking of the bank, has been dynamited and totally destroyed. The house was a frame structure valued at $23,000 and considered one of the most beautiful homes ia northern Indiana. When the explosion occurred the house was unoccupied. Convicts Escape from Jackson Prison. Bobbin Terry, James McGee, Mont Harding and Harry A. Gilbert, convicts at the state penitentiary at Jackson, Mich., escaped. They, with two others, had been detailed to paint a smokestack. Choosing a moment when the guard was not looking they stole a ladder from a tool house, placed it against the north wall and dropped down outside. Liitls Ones Perish in Fire. An inc-ndiary fire in a big five story double decker tenement in the Williamsburg ghetto, of New York City, caused the death of five children and one woman, the fatal injury of six other little ones and the injury of mx more. A number of persons are missing. The fire was flirted for the purpose of revenge or to conceal robbery. Wreck on Nickel Plate. The Boston and New York express train No. 5, on the Nickel Plate Railroad, was wrecked at South Wranatah, Ind. The engineer and fireman were slightly hurt, but no passengers were injured. The wreck was due to a misplaced switch. The engine and combination baggage coaches were derailed. Army Tragedy Near Manila. A dispatch from Manila, P. I., says: Second Lieutenant Wm. D. Pritchard of the Thirteenth Cavalry, killed Second Lieutenant Fred L. Dean, of ' the same cavalry and then committed suicide.' The murder and Micide occurred at the camp rat Stotsenburg. , ' Attractions at the Masonic Temple Theatre, Fort Wayne. Week Oct. 17 The Ashland Dramatic Co. Oct. 24 The Price of Honor. Oct. 7 Michael Stragoff. Serious Wreck in Colorado Three people are known to be dead and several injured as a result of a head-on collision on the Denver & Rio Grande Kailroad between the east-bound California limited passenger train No. 6 and a westbound freight train at Beaver Creek, twenty-eight miles west of Pueblo, Colo. Town Wiped Oat. The town of San Bias, Mexico, has been partially destroyed by a hurricane. Nearly 2-0 Leases were blown down and wliile there is no definite news concerning the los9 of life, it is believed to be considerable. Explosion II arts Xllner. Ia m explosion hi mine No. 8 of Crs TJnJoa Pacific Coal Company at Hcci Spring, Wyo.. seven miners wer cut, bruised and burned. The explosion waa caused by a miner carrying a can of fifty pounds of powder coming ia contact with Iivs wire. Cafe Thief Gets C4.1C0. JTjay Faust's restaurant at St. Loui ixrts robbed of '$4,100. The polica ere now looking for Henry Stetten, alias Uenry Ctegger. who was employed ia the caf 8 pxrt cf the saloon d is now mirsfci. CTba money was kept in a small express safe behind the bar.

JEALOUJ. BROTHER KILLS BABE.

Two-Year-Old, Displeased at Arrival ; of Sister, Slays Her. Emmet Robinson's "nose .was out cf ! ioint" a month ntrn whpn a little sister I came to his home in Nyack, N. Y. lie j was two years and seven months old, the first and the only child, when the wee Gladys blessed his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Nicholas Itobinson. They said to him: "See your new sister, Emmet. Look how sweet she is, your helpless sister. When you both get big it will be for you to protect her." But the boy tried to thrust them aside, tee himself from them, ran away, hid himself and was found, his eyes red with weeping, sobbing, choking with childish rage, heartbroken. Mrs. Robinson left Emmet in a room with the sleeping Gladys. He was on the floor playing with a bronze statuette. Five minutes passed. Mrs. Robinson heard Emmet's shrill voice calling: "Mamma, hurry; come look at baby." She rushed into the room. By the cradle stood Emmet grasping the statuette, which was covered with blood. A glance at the baby's head told the mother that Gladys was desperately injured. When the doctor arrived Gladys was dead. Her skull was fractured. Coroner Bittig. who held an inquest, said: "It is a remarkable instance of infantile crime. After my inquest I rendered the only verdict I could, that Gladys Robinson was killed by her brother, whose tender age makes him irresponsible for the deed." FAVORS ALLIANCE WITH AMERICA British Official Organ Says Anglo-Saxon Nations Should Stand Together. Deep regret is expressed by the St. James Gazette over what it terms the neglect, to which the paper alluded a few days ago, of Londoners to extend hospitality to their 'American cousins aboard the Olympia and the accompanying vessels of the American navy which have been anchored in the Thames for several weeks. The article continues: "It has been left for the Pilgrims a private society, to undertake the entertainment of our guests, which should have been seized as a precious opportunity by the. municipal authorities. An occasion has come, and we in London have signally failed to rise to it. We appreciate the American navy, respect the fighting power and sympathize in its growth. We have shared in its triumphs with generous recognition, and we like to feel that if ever the shock of general warfare should dye the high seas, the red and white ensign and the Stars and Stripes would cover in close alliance the fighting ships of Anglo-Saxondom." FOR DEEP WATER CANAL. Section Will Be Bnilt at the Month of the Illinois River. The first positive step taken in connection with a deep water route between St. Louis .and Chicago is the building of a ship canal at the mouth of the Illinois river. -The canal will be a fourteen-foot channel and supersede all plans and schemes which have heretofore been proposed and submitted as a means of solving the navigation problem in the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. By order of the War Department the Mississippi river commission has caused to be made surveys, plans and specifications for tho St. Louis Alton canal, and these will be finally formulated at a meeting of the commission to be held in St. Louis on Nov. 10. WINNIPEG HAS $800,000 FIRE. Three Big Business Blocks Burn Amid Many Explosions. Fire which started shortly before midnight Tuesday destroyed four of the finest basiuY-ss blocks in the heart of Winnipeg, Man.", entailing a loss estimated at $800,000. No lives were lost. The blaze started in the Rullman block and leaped across to the Ashdown Hardware Company's store, where powder and other explosives prevented any attempt to check the flame. The Rialto block was the next to go. in which was the Great Northwestern Telegraph Company's office. The 'Woodbine block and the new Dufferin block were badly damaged. Because of the' danger from live wires, the electric lisht ami powec service was shut off, and the city was in darkness. Did Not Say Kansans Are Crazy. The reported statement by Prof. W. C. Wilooi of the State University of Iowa, that the people of western Kansas are "crazy more than half the Jime," raised a storm of protest in Kansas. Prof. Wilcox says he did not make such a statement, but. said inferior natural advantages in that section had led to discontent and a willingness to adopt radical views of things. Moody Thrown in Runt way. : - Attorney General William II.- Moody met with what might have been a serious accident in Washington. While he was taking an early morning horseback ride a team of runaway mules collided with his horse near the Treasury Department and he was thrown to the pavement. He sustained no injury beyond a shaking up. Bays 600,000 Acre of Land.? The biggest land deal in the history of Mississippi closed in Jackson when 600,000 acres of pine timber lands In the Pearl river and Harrison counties were sold by Comstock Brothers to the Edward Ilinea, Lumber Company of Chicago. The price is not stated, but it is understood to be about $2,000,000. Insane from Drinking Tea. Mrs. Anna Fitch of SL. Paul was sent to the Rochester insane asylum by Judge Probate. Yellow streaks in the wall paper of her room caused her insanity, she thinking they were tongues of flame, though the tea habit is alleged really to be responsible for her condition. "Virginia Elopers Fonnd Dead. Miss Bessie Stone and'Robert Gill, who eloped from Ashland, Va., were found dead with their hands clasped near a pond in that vicinity by a searching party. A bullet hole in the head of each told the story of supposed double suicide or murder and suicide. .- Fire. Loss in Argentine, Kan. A loss of $100,000 was caused by the burning of three buildings of the United States Zinc and Chemical Company at Argentine, Kan.' Thousands of fish in the Kaw river were killed by escaping acids and chemicals. Life Term for Horse Thieves. Representative M. W. Yeneer'will introduce a bill in the next Indiana Legislature making the crime of horse stealing punishable with life imprisonment. It is asserted that Indiana is being fairly overrun with horse thieves. ... ... 85,000 Russians Surrender The Japanese army has administered another crushing defeat to the Russians, 5,000 of whom have surrendered. Tha Slavs were driven back twenty miles, have 13,000 wounded and lost seventy guns. Order Indian Land Sold. The Secretary of the Interior has larued an order directing that the 130,000 acres of unsold lands of the Red Lake Indian reservation in Minnesota be placed on sale immediately under hornsctead entry at $4 an acre. ITJ-ht Pclice with Hot IrcJ. Armed with red-hot irons, friends of Edmund Hurray en-aged In en til-day

battle with the police. . who sought to evict Murphy from his home near Fells port, . Ireland. The police charged the tenantry with bayonets and scores were injured in the rioting. A parish "priest finally ended the battle by inducing Murphy and his friends to surrender. Thirty arrests, were made.

MURDER INSTEAD (F CURE Doctors Say Thonsands Have Probably Died Through Bogus Drug Ring. Evidence in the hands of the New Tork police shows that 500 drug stores in Manhattan and 250 in Brooklju have been selling for years the adulterated and deadly drugs of a band of swindlers in lieu of the legitimate articles called for in the prescriptions of physicians. Sev eral medical men who were seen said that it was very probable that hundreds of persons, and perhaps thousands, had been killed by overdoses of the poison during the nine years that the swindle has been perpetrated in the city. George B. Hayes, who is rooting out this dangerous element in the city for Bayard & Co. of Elberfield, Germany, said: "We are just beginning to find out what a powerful murder corporation has been operating here. Hundreds of drug store proprietors have been parties to tht swindle and we have the evidence to prove it. When a legitimate prescription from a physician was presented they simply substituted the 'official' drug. The fact that the articles were sold only on prescriptions shows how dastardly was the act. I wouldn't care to say how many.person have been killed by taking the stuff which the druggists substituted for the drugs called for in the prescriptions. Probably there are also thousands of druggists throughout the country who took the band's drugs, believing them to be gen nine." PASTOR AS GIRL DUPES FARMERS Writes Feminine Letters,' Gets Money und Is Betrothed to Two Rv. Homer L. McKinney, for yean one of the best known evangelists In tht Erie conference, but for some time past proprietor of a crayon portrait establishment at Freeport, Pa., 'has been committed to jail by United States Commissioner Lindsay to wait a court hearing. The reverend one is charged Vith getting money by fraud and qsing-the mails. He has, according to the postal authorities, been passing himself off as a girl, not as one girl alone, but as two different girls, and has been making violent love to California farmers by mail, becoming engaged to two of them and collecting money for a wedding dress from each. Postofflce Inspector J. II. Wardle of Philadelphia and United States Deputy Marshal William Henry of Fittsburg made the arrest, and they say that the evidence shows one of the best schemes ever run down by the PostoffiYe Department. "Annie Hall", and "Mary Roberts" are the aliases under which the parson made his love and conducted hs campaign. William Tilley and J. N. Cuff, wealthy ranchmen of Eureka, CiL, are the two victims who appear on the surface. HELD IN FAMINE GRIP. People In Goteburg-Bohas Province, v Sweden, Suffer from Hunger. Hunger has the people of GoteburgBohus province in its deadly grip. The province lies on the west coast. of Sweden, and the failure of crops has led to the pitiful conditions existing, which are said to be worse than thosein Norbot ten two years ago. In fact, the famint is more severe than any that has afflicted the country since 1S26. The government has refused to grant reduced freigh: rates to the district, and the agriculture' society has raised $17,000 to pay for such charges. The relief fund ahead aggregates $10,000. It is expected thai the 400.000 kroner which the central authorities tardily voted to aid Norbotten, but which now lies idle in the Nor botten treasury, will be used to anay th distress in Goteburf-Bohus. "Fortunately the district is near Gothenburg, which" i easily accessible by sea all winter, an hence supplies can easily be placed h the center of destitution. WALL NO THIEF BARRIER. Minnesota Burglars Burrow Throujjl Stone to Reach Banks Funds. Burglars entered the Bend bank a Viniug, Minn., and robbed it of $S00 They gained an entrance to the vault b: digging a hole through its stone wall The inside safe was cleaned out and throbbers escaped on a hand car. Burglar broke into the postoftice in Wabash Minn., dynamited the safe and obtaine. nearly .1,200 in stamps and currency About $700 was in cash and the rest ii stamps. Many residents were arouse by the explosion and ran from thei houses just as the burglars were escap ing. Number of United States Employe According to the census bureau report issued the other day at Washington, th. United States has a total of 271,100 em ployes in the executive branches. Th average annual salary in the governmen offices at Washington is given as $1,071 average age of employes 41, and averag period of service ten years. Roosevelt Acts in Gen. Slocnm Blatter President Roosevelt has discharge 1 three steamboat inspectors in New York ordered necessary changes made in tl) laws affecting excursion steamers in au. way and instructed Secretary Metcaif o the Department of Commerce an$ Lab to adopt the suggestions of the comnüV sion of Inquiry. - . - s - . ' , City to ,Enforce Curfew. In St. Paul Minn., Chief of Folic O'Connor hasannounced mat the curfe ordinance will be strictly enforced. H has 'given orders to the police to see ththe streets are kept clear of young boj and girls after 9 p. m. The ordinam was passed some years ago, but. has lai dormant. ; : Btf.nb Puts End to Romance. Henrj Ilogknkamp threw a bomb, a Maggie itatT in Buffalo and both Hogai kamp and the weman are dying in ho pital. Hogankamp had been paying 'a' tentions to the woman eight years. The quarreled two weeks agoi . 'Allesed Slayer Ends Life. Frederick J. Keffcrty of .tlantl City, indicted for killing John Biddle i a quarrel over Biddle's wife in Ne York last May, has committed suicide i jail at May's Landing, N. J., by cuttin his throat with a razor. ' Union Men Sentenced to Jail. Eight union teamsters who were cot Ticted last spring on the charge of coi piracy in bringing about a teamsten strike in New Haven, Conn., were sei tenced to three months each in the coux ty jail. . , Russians Turn Tide of Battle The Russians, after losing 50,000 mei checked retreat, took the aggressive an recaptured Shakhe; Japanese losses ma be less than 10,000. Col. James P. AveriU Dead. Col. James P. Averill, national jnnio vice commander of the Grand Army o the Republic, died at. his home in At lanta, Ga. His death was sudden. ' Catlafactory Trade Gains. Satisfactory gains la trade in the Ch cago district and the country at larg are ibown by Dun's and Dradrtrtct'c

King Edward has approved the appointment of Earl Grey as Governor General of Canada, in succession to the Carl of Minto. Albert Henry George, fire fourth Earl Grey, has been Lord Lieutenant of Worthu mberland since 1S99. He was born in 1S51 and ras married In 18 7 7. II e o w n s about 17,000 acres V of landed estates. lie is one or tue most notable men in the present British peerage, and has made himself known to the world in several conspicuous ways as a financier, a philanthropist, and an industrial promoter.' He was associated with the late Cecil Rhodes in the development of South Africa, and is executor of the will under which the Rhodes scholarships are assigned. Earl Grey is also widely known among temperance workers at home and abroad as the projector of the scheme known ss the Public House Trust Company, by which It is proposed to mitigate the evils of saloons by turning them, so far as possible, into decent resorts, and making the sale of strong drinkn secondary feature and without profit. The passing of Henry C. Payne, Postmaster General, takes from public Me a prominent figure. For nearly ein a T t rr r rT-twenty-five years General Payne, whose home was in M 1 1 w a u kee, was a living exhibition of the power of mind over matter. He r e f u s ed several offers of cabinet positions before he was induced to meet at the council board of President Roosevelt, He succeeded well in a financial way, though much of his. work in finance and politics was tmde-conditions which would have irivefi most men to seek repose in travel. , Probably no man since Samiel J. Tilden has been so handicapped. Neither of these men ever knew what t.was to be physically robust, to fol'ow the devices and desires of his own leart, without at first taking counsel )f bis physique. -: Prince Sviatopolk-Mirskl, the new Uusslan Minister of. the Interior, who succeeds the murdered Von Ple'hve, ias been successvely Governor of Penza, Marshal of he Nobility of the Province of Kharwoff and Ekaterinod.iv, and Assistant Iinister of the Inerior . under M. 'Iplftguine, who :lao was nssassinited. The prince Is -7 years of age. Ä5 nd began his camiXCE MIK3KJ. oer as a soldier, but later entered the ivil service. He is said to possess a lorror of religious persecution. His ather was a famous general during he reign of Alexander II. The prince's vifa Is a great admirer of Count Toltol. Mrs. Stephen B. Elklns, wife of the resent Senator from "West Virginia ad daughter of a former Senator from the same State, is an a c c o m pllshed woman. Clever as she undoubtedly is, it must tax her mental resources to maintain a proper and sympathetic appearance of Interest in the contAflictin y ambition: N74.-- members g political imbitions of the members of her immediate family. Her husband,- SenURS. ELKIXS. or Elkins.-is Uiev foremost Republic m In his State and is also most acte and influential in national affairs, ier father, Henry Gassaway Davis, rraer Senator' from West Virginia, is Democrat and the nominee of his irty for the vice presidency. Associate Justice Henry Clay Phelps, ' Lee, Mass., who unconsciously'made mself famous by imposing a fine on British diplomat, imed Gurney, is it inflated cranlIy over the inirtant figure he it In international ;f a 1 r s . Judge !ielps, as every e in Lee calls m, is at the head an important lnistry and also nducts a bard- hesbt c.' phklps. are store. He is about GO years of re and is a man of considerable eans. He comes of old New England )ck and holds law and religion above I things. -: :- Dr. .Norman Bridge, who declared fore the Chicago Medical Society at tuberculosis is not inherited . and can be prevented, is widely known as a writer on medical subjects. He was born at "Windsor, Vt., in 1844, but was educated in tLtj West at the University of Michigan and Chicago Medical C o 1 1 e ge. He was professor V r or. w. BBiDGK. of patiiology at the ilcago Woman's Medical College and r a long time was lecturer, professor A trustee of Rush Medical College, r. Bridge now lives in Los Angeles, at

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mm Ml m One Hundred Years Ago. Swedish subjects In France were detained in consequence of the state of affairs between the two countries. At a meeting of the inhabitants of Indiana territory, a resolution was adopted proposing an alteration In the form of government of the territory. Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States, left Savannah for Wash ington to take his seat In the Senate at the beginning of the session. Tho French minister of police mado a strong protest to the bishops of the church reproaching them for their at tachment to the Bourbon cause. All communication between Holland fend England was stopped, letters to Rotterdam being seized and conveyed to the French general. The French fleet at Boulogne again was attacked unsuccessfully by the British. Both England and Russia declined to acknowledge the new title of "Emperor of Germany," which the ruler of Prussia assumed. Tho crops in the Mont Blanc province of France were destroyed by freshets. Seventy-five Years Ago. Bustaroante led a revolt against Gueirero, proclaiming the "Plan ol. Jalapa." The new steam locomotive "Rocket" traveled from twenty-five to thirty-five miies per hour. The new London postofflce was completed. Many Jesuits were expelled from England by the passing of the Roman Catholic relief bill. Dr. Alexander Duff, the first missionary of the Church of Scotland, sailed fcr India. Locomotive steam carriages were used on the railroads in England for the first time. A workingmen's college was established In London by Frederick A. Maurice. An explosion caused a great Are at Gateshead, England, fifty being killed and the money loss being over $5,000,000. Tifty Years Ago. The zinc works at Bethlehem, began operations. aM The entire Austrian army was placed on a war footing. . Santa Ana issued a decree calling for the people's voto on the powers of the President of the Mexican republic. A motion to impeach the government was carried by the Danish house of commons by a vote of SO to 6. A. H. Reeder (Democrat), first Governor of Kansas, arrived at the capital of that State. The ships of the allied forces were greatly damaged by fire during the bombardment of Sevastopol. Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephen A. Douglas to a Joint debate In the canvass for the Senate. forty Year Ago. Chief Justice Roger B. Tnncy died at bis home in Baltimore, Md. A fight between Sheridan's cavalry and the entire force of Confederate pavalry in the valley, of the Shenandoah resulted in the routing of the latter and the capture of eleven pieces of artHlery and 300 prisoners. The bank of Monroe. Wis., was looted by burglars and $25,000 In currency pecurel. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll addressed a mammoth union meetibg at Bryan Hall, Chicago. - Hairison H. Dodd escaped fromconflnemut at Indianapolis during his military trial at which much was developed concerning the operations of the Knights of the Golden Circle. Federal troops and militia vere under arms all day and night at Memphis Tenn., expecting an attack by the Confederate force under Chalmers. A letter from President Lincoln, urging the adoption of an anti-slavery clause was read at a mass meeting in th? Interests of a new State constitution In Baltimore, Md. Elections in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania were a decisive victory for Lincoln und the administration of the war and rebuke for the peace party. Thirty Years Ago. A building at Aspatia, Spahl, used by the Carlists- to manufacture ammunition was blown up with great loss of life. William II. Wickham was unanimously nominated by Tammany Hall for Mayor of. New York. Shanghai dispatches announced the declaration of war between Japan and China. ', A report of the Illinois board of equalization said there were eighty-five corporations In Cook. County and about 400 In the State. The Sultan issued a decree forbid ding the exporting of cereals from Morocco for three years. Bryan Waller Procto? ("Barry Cornwall"), the English author and poet; died. President Grant visited Vanlta, L T., and addressed the Cherokee Indians. v

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IweKty Yeers Ago. The fourth annual convention of the organized trades of the United States and Canada opened In Chicago. K

Dun's weekly review of Chicago trade says: "Developments throughout Cbicaga the prominent branches of production have been progressive, encouragement being seen in a better demand for raw material and a resumption of forces recently idle. It Is gratifying that these Indications of returning strength are not confined to minor Interests, but are diversified and especially apparent among enterprises affording much steady employment. Railroad statistics testify to notable gains in the movements of merchandise, aside from the marketing of Crops, which maintains a high volume. "Weather conditions were favorable to the disposition of wearing apparel and other necessities. Wholesale trade reached satisfactory proportions In most of the staple lines, the demand being strong in dry goods, woolens, clothing, headwear and footwear. Local retailers were good buyers of necessary supplies. Reports from the interior reflect confidence In a good fall trade, the agricultural classes being well supplied with money and disposed to purchase freely. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 27 against 22 last week and 19 a year ago. Bradstreefs weekly trade review on business conditions throughout the He YorL country says: Popular estimates of leading crop yields continue to enlarge. Corn has passed out of danger of serious frost damage in the West, and distribution, both at wholesale and retail, expands as cooler weather approaches. Additional favorable features are the continuance of the good tone In pig iron, freer buying by railways of material and rolling stock and heavy general crop movement, helping collections North and South. While the buying of dry goods, hardware, groceries and clothing continues of good volume, particularly at the Wost, conservative Influences find reflection in the small but frequent orders, calculated to meet necessities. The transportation movement is heavy and railway earnings how an expanding tendency, the gain for September promising to be 6 per cent over 1903. Business failures In the United States for the week ending Oct. 6 number 195, against 179 last week, 197 in the like week In 1903. 170 in 1002, 183 In 1901 and 200 in 1900. In Canada failures for the week number nineteen, as against twenty-one last week and nineteen in this week a year ago. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades. $5.00 to $5.70; sheep, fair to choice, $2.75 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.13 to $1.17; corn. No. 2, 51c to 53c; oats, standard, 2Sc to 29c; rye, No. 2, 7Gc to 7Sc; hay, timothy, $S.50 to $13.00; prairie, $G.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 10c to ISc; potatoes, SOc to 42c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.S0; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.00; wheat. No., 2. $1.13 to $L1G; corn, No. 2 white, 53c to 55c; oats, No. 2 w'Jte, 80c to 3lc. . St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.55; sheep,. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.13 to-$1.13; corn. No. 2, 50c to 52c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 71c Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $4.85; hogs, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.40; wheat. No. 2, $1.18 to $1.20; corn, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 5Cc; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; rye. No. 2, S4c to SCc, Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to $4.S5; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.17 to $1.19; corn. No. 3 yellow, 55c to 57c; oats, No. 3' white, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 2, 83c to 84c. ' Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 . northern, $1.12 to $1.15; corn. No. 3, 52c to 53c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 1, 79c to 81c; barley, No. 2, 52c to 53c; pork, mess, $11.00. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.14 to $1.16; corn, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 56c; oats, No. 2 mixed, SOc to 31c; rye. No. 2, 80c to 81c; clover seed, prime, $7.40. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.50: sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; lambs, fair to choice, $4.50 to $6.00.' ; New York Cattle, $3.50 to $5.40; hogs, $4.00 to $i.0O: sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.10 to $L18;, corn, No. 2, 5Gc to 57c; oats, No. 2 whits, 85c to 37c; butter, creamery, 19c to 21c; ejgs, western, 17c to 22c Tsld in a Fevr Lines. George Frame, charged with helping to lynch the negro Maples at Hnntsville, Jüa.. kwas acquitted. William S. Alley of Alley, Conger & Co., and S. L. Blood of S. L. Blood & Co., were suspended from the New York Stock Exchange for one year each. The will of the late, Mrs. Sarah Potter of Boston provides for public bequests aggregating $1,000,000, $250,000 of which is to the city of .New Bedford, Mass. . 3. Pierpont Morgan and other eastern creditors of the Pacific Packing and Navigation Company Intend, it is said, to purchase the properties of the $25,000,000 company and reorganize it on a new basis. The International Brotherhood Carpenters, in convention in Milwaukee, reelected President W. D. Huber and increased the per capita tax from 20 to 25 cents to raise a defense fund against the open shop.Judge Frank M. Owers of Leadville, Colo., issued an injunction against the members of the Leadville Mining Association restraining them from compelling miners to forsake the Western Federation of Miners and from discriminating against union miners. A monument to Gen. William Clark of th Lewis and Clark expedition was unveiled In Bellefontaine cemetery, St. Louis. It was erected under tha provisions of the will of Jefferson Keaney Clark, the youngest son of th es-

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The annual report of the Superintendent of Indian Schools, Miss Estelle Reel, has been submitted to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. It Is shown that educational advancements have been made during the year in the general field of Indian education. The Indian child Is taught to ?peak English in a shorter time than formerly. The policy of giving agriculture the foremost place In Indian education has been continued during the year, and the results obtained are satisfactory. The report states that marked improvements have been made in the method of instructing the boys in the various trades and the girls In cooking, sewing, laundry work and general housekeeping. A feature of the report is the evidence it gives that the Indian is altering his ways of living to meet the requirements of an advancing civilization, through the educational Influence of the schools upon the children, who are being taught the white man's way of living. Daring plans to wreck the battleship Illinois, and the partly successful efforts to disable the battleship Connecticut, are now declared by federal officials to be evidences of a great plot to destroy the United States navy. Every energy of the secret service Is being concentrated on the discovery and arrest of the conspirators. Officers in the Brooklyn Navy Yard admit that no warship in the yards is safe so long as the conspirators remain undiscovered. The guard of marines thrown around the Illinois is equally as strong as that on duty about the Connecticut. As the Illinois is to be in dock about three or four months, during which time her hull will be exposed, Admiral Coghlan has given orders that the utmost vigilance be maintained during the entire time she is in drydock, and a strong guard of marines was posted about the dock before the pumps were set to work to clear the basin of water. i Following close on the whisky fatalities in New York and the revelations of bad liquor made there, Dr. II. W. Wiley, chief of the government bureau of chemistrVt ias expressed the opinion that fully So per cent of all the whisky sold in this country, in hotel restaurants, clubs and bars, was nothing less than a cheap imitation. Dr. Wiley said: "Agents of this bureau will obtain as many samples as possible of the different brands on sale throughout the country, known to us as the compound, or imitation whisky. These will be obtained from ciubs, hotels and bars of every description. Comparisons will be made with the real whisky, and the ingredients of both will be carefully analyzed. From what we have heard from dealers in whisky I am led to believe that fully 85 per cent of the ordinary whisky of commerce is the adulterated article. It is a fraudulent transaction and should be prevented." When the Russian cruiser Lena had teen safely placed in a dry dock at San Francisco and her crew paroled with the explicit agreement that they must not leave the United States, It was believed the incident could be looked upon as closed. But recently the officers of the ship have shown a disposition to violate tr conditions of the parole and return to Russia to participate again in t"ie fight against Japan. This would be such a palpable? violation of International law, and steh a bad breach of faith with Japan, that the American authorities could not condone it even if a refusal meant a breaking of diplomatic and friendly relations with the government of the Czar. Acting Secretary of State Loo mis has cabled Consul General John Goodnow, at Shanghai, permission to return immediately to the United States to answer charges preferred against him of maladministration of affairs in his office. All the papers in the case are in the hands of Mr. Peirce, the third assistant secretary of state, who has begun the preparation of a re port to the President on the subject The effect of the decision to allow Mr. Goodnow to be heard personally will be to postpone final action In his case until near the end of the year. The 1900 census shows that white farmers operated 4.070,129 farms In this country, with a total of 798.Ö0S.1S7 acres, and valued at $19.t!91,431,SS9. exclusive of products. Negroes operate 746,717 farms, including 3S,233,933 acres, and valued at $499,943,734. Indians had 19,910 farms, valued at $3S,S29.478. Chinese 1,842 farms, Japanese 570, and Hawiiilans 4S9. Of the entire number of farmers 3,149,314 owned their entire farm and 451,515 were part owners. Despite the fact that the census reports show that Americans are steadily drifting toward vegetarianism, we are still the greatest mnt eaters in the world. Oür meat still costs us every year $100,000,000 more than our vegetable?, including impoited vegetable foods. In the aggregate we Americans pay every year about $2,250,000,000 for food, or about $C0 a year (for the raw food) for each person. - The membership of the American House of Representatives has 236 lawyers out of a total of 357. The House of Commons, on the other hand, has only 129 lawyers out of a total of 670, while the French Chamber shows an attendance of 139 lawyers in a total of 584. President Roosevelt considers U Inexpedient to try to get the powers together for a peace conference at The Hague until after the Russo-Japanesa war. The call for the conference, of course, may be issued long before Is declared.