Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 6, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 November 1904 — Page 2

THE PlYAIOÜTOÜNE PLYMOUTH, IND. HEKDRICKS CO.rTT Publishers.

1904 NOVEMBER. 1904

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(TU Q. TN N. M. 7 F M M 30-h- 7th. y 14th. s.22nd. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Condition of Thing are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Wikl Scene in French Chamber of Deputies. . A dispatch from Paris, France, says: The chamber of deputies held a tumultuous session over renewed interpellations on the subject of the policy of War Minister Andre, alleging that he was personally cognizant of the system of spying upon officials. During the time when the minister was making his reply there was a scene of intense confusion. lie said that during the Dreyfus alTair some officers participated la manifestations against President Loubet and he cited other instances showing intolerance and lack of discipline among officers. The minister further declared that this was fomented by political and clerical agitators. During the maneuvers, he added, a regimental colonel had dared to replace the tri -color by an ensign bearing the insignia f royalty. The, war minister's declaration erased a wild demonstration, General Jacquey exclaiming that the minister lied. The presiaent of the chamber threatened to cent ure troneral Jacquey, who withdrew his words and the minister continued his statement amid great excitement. Treaty With Germany. Negotiations have been initiated for a treaty of arbitration between Germany and the United States. President Roosevelt suggested to Baron Sternberg, the German ambassador, that a treaty of arbitration betw3ra the United States and Germany would in his judgment be very desirable. Ambassador Sternberg coincided with this view and told the president that he woulJ inquire of his government what steps, if any, it desired to take in the matter. Ambassador Sternberg later called on President Roosevelt and informed him that the government had expressed itself as entirely agroeable to the president's proposition and that he had been directed to open formal megotiations for such a treaty. These negotiations will be conducted by Ambassador Sternberg on the part of Germany and Secretary Hay on the part of the United States. A Missionary Was Murdered. The assassination of Dr. Joseph P. Cochran, medical missionary for Westminster Church of Buffalo, N. Y atUrumiab, Persia, is feared. Rev. Benjamin Labarre was killed there last spring by a Sayid (a Persian lord) and some Kurdish accomplices. Some .time ago S. M. Clement, president of the Marine Bank, and representative D. S. Alexander went to Washington and laid the matter before President Roosevelt. The President took immediate action, sending a special envoy to the Shah from the United States diplomatic and consular sen-ice in Turkey. Word has come that the Kurdish accomplices have been executed and it is supposed that this action Is the result of the representation of the President's envoy. Kills His Drnnken Father. Edward Howard, a patternmaker, who lived at 501 Fort Street East, Detroit, Mich., was shot and killed by his son Arthur, ag-1 21 years, while the elder man was holding his wife and daughter to the floor by their throats. Howard had been drinking and quarreled with Mrs. Howard because she would not give him more money Tirith which to buy liquor. The shooting, it is claimed by the son and mother was accidental. The young man entered while Ms father was beating the two women, rushed upstairs and secured a revolver. Hastening back, he caught hold of his father, who turned, and just then the revolver was discharged. xoung Howard Is under avrcst Died Try ins to Save His Wife. Joseph Cappel, a hotel-keeper of Chauncey, Westchester County, N. Y., after saving his aged mother, father and three children from his burning hotel, lost his own life by rushing into the flames when he learned that his wife had not escaped. The bodies of Cappel and his wife were found later in the cellar, lying side by side, burned almost beyond recognition. One Hnndred Drowned. A dispatch from Bona, Algeria says: A hundred persons were drowned by the sinking of the French steamer Gironde, after having been in collision with the French steamer A. Schiaffino, near Herbillon, 23 miles from Bona. The Gironde left Bona with 110 passengers, of whom 100 were Algerian natives. Locomotive Explodes,' Inj urine Two. While running, on the n. & E. tracks ear Belmont Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind., the boiler of I., D. & W. switch engine No. I exploded, injuring Engineer Harry Nichols and Fireman Ed. Bell. The boiler head was blown through the end of a box car, the roof of which was hurled against the yard office. Horses Are Cremated. Twenty-two driving horses were incinerated in a fire which destroyed C. O. McFarland's livery stable at Crawfordsville, Ind. The loss is estimated at $3,000, with $3,000 insurance. , M'Cne Found Guilty. D. J. Samuel McCue, for two terms-mayor of Charlottesville, Va., and for many yean a lawyer at the bar before which he was tried, was found guilty of murder in the first degree on the charge of having killed bis wife. This carries the death penalty. Caught on Bridge by Big; Four Train. While walking across the railroad bridge spanning Ea;;le Creek, near Zionsville, Ind., Benjamin Ayres, aged 79, and his brother George, 77 years old, " were struck Hr a P.lrr Vrmr Mqepnrrpr train Thft v'Avr was instantly killed. GeorgaAyrea will die. f-aya Cigarel Tblt Lead. Sheriff L. B. Barker, of Cleveland county, Oklahoma, for the List year has been keeping a complete record of hi? prisoners?, in which he recorded all their likes, dislikes and personal habits. During that time he has had in his jail over 00 prisoners, and he says that 70 per cent of the prisoners are addicted to the cigaret habit. 'Elow a iafe? Steal $30,COO. A special from Warsaw. N. Y., says the safe of James L. Blodgett at Ilerait-t-"$ was blown open and from C23,CC3 to CO.CCO stolan. Blodgett has correct: J c rriTzU txni fcr ti.a Izzt four reir.

OALDWIN MACHINE A SUCCESS. Dlrljrtblo A'nh'p Fi'es Successfully at the World's mir. The aerial problem at last seems sol veil and by an American, whose genius challenges the best inventions of SantosDumont and whose machine may win for r.im the $100,000 prize. The dirigible airship constructed by T. S. Baldwin and known as the California Arrow made a successful ascent at the St. Louis world's fair grounds and obeyed every wish of the operator, Iioy Knabenshue. It was one of the most marvelous demonstrations of the possibilities of aerial navigation ever siren. Knabenshue was in the air twenty-eight minutes, rising to a height of 2,000 feet, and brought his machine safely to a landing inside the Aerodrome at the world's fair a few feet from the starting point. He handled the huge vessel as an oarsman handles a canoe. It answered every move he made with the rudder. Jt soared or sank as he willed, it sailed with or against or across the wind, as he directed, and In its flight back to the landing place it came true as a carrier pigeon and landed so lightly that there was not a jolt. Knabenshue was caught by the cheering crowd as hsprang from the narrow seat from wh he had operated the machine and hands wer "rn Tier until Via wot yc

lie was elated and joyfully ran rom one end of the machine to the other, patting and caressing the cross pieces and bars whenever h , : i, j,. f. " vuuki ucv uu uauu nviu those who pressed around him. As he got clear of the machine sixty volunteers caught it and carried it into the Aerodrome. After sailing around in circles and fancy figures for some minutes Knabenshne finally turned his machine back westward toward the Aerodrome and landed it safely and gracefully within a few feet of the starting point. Knabenshue's second test of the Baldwin airship was declared by all who saw it to be the most successful ever accomplished in America and probably s wonderful as any ever made by Santos-Du-mont in France. FLAG TKAIN, SEIZZ ROBBERS. Ohio Officers Capture Four Wen Who Looted a Posofftce. Top" Shipman and Will Murphy of Martin's Ferry, both notorious crooks, Clyde Hawley of Bellaire and James McLaughlin of Niles, Ohio, were arrested at Barton, Ohio, by the Bridgeport, Ohio, police, headed by Mayor Junkins and Chief of Police Thompson. The polic flagged the Cleveland express train and after a desperate battle in which all ex changed shots the robbers were taken nd lauded in the county jail at St. Clairsrille. The officers had been notified of the men's coming by police at UhrichsTille. Ohio, where the bandits lobbed n postoffice. Some of the stolon goods, about a pint of nitroglycerin and a full kit of burglar tools were taken from the prisoners. SON DEAD; LOYS SHIELD MOTH-H Impersonate Lost Lrother and Save A rd : Und Parent from ? hock. That their mother, aged and blind, may not know of the loss of her first born, the two reinaiuing sons, in Philadelphia, have decided that one shall impersonate the lost brother until her death. The mother is Mrs. Katherine Kelly. One son, Lawrence, died suddenly at the home of a sister, where he Tended, and was buried the other dav. Matthew and James, fearing the news might kill their mother, decided Matthew should impersonate Lawrence. When the mother called for "Larry" Matthew responded: "Here I am. mother." "I wondered why you were so Tate in getting home." she replied, and dozed off to sleep again. BANK IS ROt BED OF S30.000. Masked Men Blow Open Safe and Secure Lar? Amount n t ah Four masked men entered James L. Blodgetfs bank at Hermitage, X. Y.. blew open the safe and stole $30.000. Miles B. Smith, in night attire, followed the robbers, who fired several shots at him. The shots and cries of Smith aroused the town. In a few minutes a posse was organized. Banker Blodgett I the "David Harum" of Hermitage, fcevcral years ago he was robbed of $12,000 which he kept In his house. Printers' V. aht ghfHour ay. The International Typographical Union has voted to establish an eighthour day, beginning Jan. 1, 1906, and has ordered an assessment for that purpose, according to the report on the count of the referendum. All six propositions voted for carried, it is reported, except that increasing the salaries of the president and secretary. Woman Kii t.oted Desperado. William Morrow, a noted desperado, has been shot and killed at Burnsville, N. C., by Mrs. John Phillips, a young married woman. Morrow was infatuated with Mrs. Pnillips. His advances were repulsed and finally she fired the charge lu two barrels of a shotgun at him. Morrow, it is said, had committed several murders. Ftr Has Balance o" 584-1,253. According to a financial statement issued by the Louisiana Purchase Expmition Company, covering a period from the opening on, April SO to OcL 1, ther-j was a balance in the treasury at tin; latter date of JS41.253. The total receipts were $22,073.721, and the total disbursements, $21.832.407. ' rrmon' In t lmn cn Crnve The will of Itev. John K. Melhorn. Eled in Pittsburg, instructs his administrator to have all the sermons which he had written in life gathered in a pile on his grave and destroyed by fire. No explanation is given, but the request has Leen complied with. Train Saved by a Woman. Mrs. Horace Spaulding, residing north of La Crosse, Wis., mounted a pony and galloped three miles in the darkness over t country road, aroused the section hands tt De Soto, and saved a Burlington train from going through a burning bridge. L'berals V'n in Canada, At the Canadian parliamentary elec Hons, held Thursday, the Liberal or Laurier government gained a sweeping victory, winning a majority of sixty or seventy seats in the nouse of Commons, which is composed of 214 members. Cor,ceston to American Jews. The State Department la Washington has received a cablegram from the American embassy in St. Petersburg which warrants the assumption that the Russian government soon will agree to recognize the passports of American Jews. One Hundred Person I'rown. A hundred persons were drowned by the finking of the French steamer Gironde after having been In collision with the French teamer SchlafSno, near Herbillon, twenty-three miles from Bona, Algiers. MuMsr of Ameroin Avensrad, Mr. Pearson, United States minister to Persia, has cabled the State Department that he has reiterated his demand for the punishment of the murderers of Dr. Larabee, the American missionary. Work of Train Wreckers. Express train No. 3 of the Susqchanca and Western from Jersey City was trrcckei near Uiddletown, 11. Y. Ths

engine and three coaches left the track and turned over. ' The engine was demolished, but Engineer Polliso- escaped inJury. No passengers were hurt. Tae cause was a fish plate driven between the rails apparently for the purpose of wrecking the train.

CALL TO THANKSGIVING. Kentucky MayoriUrn Charity and Ci vei . hanks for lb es. Mayor J. H. Powell of Henderson, ixy., nas issued a Thanksgiving proclamation that gets far away from the ordinary official papers. The proclamation is as follows: "By authority vested In me, as Mayor of an unpretentious little city, I do thus publicly proclaim: Whereas, In accord with Christian custom, Thursday, Nov. 24, 1904, hath been set apart as a day of thanksgiving an! prayer, I do beseech saints and sinners to go to church and be good. Whether chanting hymns, shooting quail or sipping delicious poison from the eyes of beauty, 'keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last. Let us be thankful that our colonels are not o full o: corn as our corn Is full of .ernels. Though the surrounding soil, ucklcd with a hoe. Is laugh! jg with a harvest, poor folks are still with us. rrom thin soup and cold potatoes, good Lord, deliver them. O! Christian men and women, astonish the stomach of the starving sufferer with oysters, turkey and mince pie. Adorn the ragged pauper with comfortable clothing. An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. Dearly beloved, let us play upon a harp of a thousand strings a new song of praise, give thanks unto the Lord for the most charming crop of beautiful babies ever born in the old town since creation dawned and the morning stars n ng together. Sweet, dainty darlings, smile on, like sunbeams In shady places. Kick up your little heels and make of earth a heaven." BOLD BANK RAIDERS. Wyoming Outlaws Attempt Fobbery and Kill Cahlr. Four heavily armed outlaws from the nole-in-the-Wall country raided the Flrt National Bank of Cody. Wyo., and, after shooting and killing Cashier Frank Mlddaugh of the bank, had a running ILjht with cowboys and hunters and escaped into Rattlesnake mountains. The Ilole-in-the-Wall gang are noted as the aot desperate outlaws in the West and Cody posses are determined to wipe the tand out of existence. Buffalo Bill himself, having with him a nnrtr nf Htlwl ttiiffIishmen and two of his Sioux Indian scouts, will pursue the band to the death. Just befor the close of the bank Monday afternoon a party of four roughly dressed m ii rode up to the First National Baik. Three men dismounted and entered the building. The fourth stayed out and guarded the horses. Aa soon as the outlaws entered the bank one of them covered Cashier Middaugh, who grabbed a revolver and made a game hshL Middaugh was excited and his bul lets went wild, while the single saot sent from the outlaw's gun passed through the banker's brain. The shooting attracted the attention of a party of hunters and as these rushed around the corner of the hotel they opened fire." Under cover of each other's fire the outlaws mounted and rode away into the prairies and from thence Into the mountains. TAKES A DIVE TO DEATH. Headforemost PlunR from Fourth f loor to Basement. George Connor, ' of Anderson, Ind., committed suicide at St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, by diving head foremost from the fourth floor to the basement in a shaft which rontnini n cir cular stairway. Connor, when taken to tne city prison for safe keeping several weeks ago, attempted to kill himself by diving from the toD of a cell ranee to the stone floor. He had been removed to tne hospital for treatments BANDITS RAID TOWN. Thieve Invade McCoysbure. Ind.. Loot f'ostoff ce and ' tenp. A wholesale raid was made by robbers at McCoysburg. Ind., tue other night Five stores and the postoffice were cobbed. In the postoffice the richest booty' was obtained. Here the . g safe was blown to Dieces with nltrn the 9tATnDS find ninnpr fn1n.1fn iAma VM"-e t mviuiu OUUiV church funds that had been deposited mere, were tairen. The amount stolen is not given out by Postmaster McCoy. $ 1 5,000 Vä,m Are stolen Six exquisite vases, valued at $15,000, have been stolen from John S. MlrW a New York lawyer and art collector. Mr. Melcher recently moved into a nsw house. He prized the vases so mnoh that he asked to have them carted la a separate van. Thieves learned of this re quest, backed up to Mr. Melcher's house with a van, packed the vases into it and coolly drove away. eek to Hon Vovinjf Train. According to the crew of the Philadelphia and New York express train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, two unsuccessful attempts were made to hold cp the train at Havre de Grace and Perryville, in Maryland, by two men. one of whom ws a negro." The men escaped. ov. in Play, Shoots Sister. Lillie Brown, aged 11 years, was shot and killed by her brother, Nicholas, aged 14, at their home near Kemington, Ohio. Lillie was playing peek-a-boo behind her mother's apron when Nicholas, playfully, pointed a rifle at her. Thinking he had drawn the charge he pulled the trigger. Barffe sup. MlMncr Two. iVo workmen were killed, two others seriously, and seven slightly Injured by a. . 1 tf . a. . me suaaen supping irom tne clocks of a big steel barge at the yards of the Fore Biver Shipbuilding Company In Qulncy, Mass. Report Japanese Gains. Great earns in the Port Arthur si er during the last three months are shown in the detailed reports made public in Tokio. Both the Russian army and fleet hare suffered severe losses. Fishermen Wantonly Slain. Thr coroner's jury at HulL England, found George Henry Smith and William Loggett of Gamecock fleet were kill?d by shots fired w ithout warning or proTOcation from Russian warships. icjtvnsky, Is Promoted. Vice Admiral Itojestvensky has been promoted, despite the blunder of his squadron in the North Sck, and Russian icports state that there is no Intention of humiliating the fleeL Flni Grandson's Crave Mrs. Julia Van Alstyne, of Auburn, N. T., after a search of three years for her grandson, found his body In an unmarked grave in New Yoik City. Cracksmen luder A Dank. Burglars entered the bank at Beeker, Minn., broke opon the -safe with nitroglycerin, secured 3,000 in currency an3 made their escape on a hand car. tleld Up In tlMet. Arthur GundzlSnger and his wis were held up la their rooms in the Hotel Dorchester, Can Francisco, tzi rcttzl cj jewelry val:J tt C2,CCa

WAß FOR A WEEK.

SEVEN DAYS' HISTORY OF THE EASTERN STRUGGLE. fhrillina: Stories of Bravery and Heroism Come from Russo-Japanese Battlefields Desperate and Prolonged 6eie of Port Art our. During the week the world received the two most thrilling accounts of the operations of the present war which have yet been published. The first was the story of the battle of Llaorang, told by Frederick Talmer In Collier's Weekly. The other was th3 account by the Associated Press correspondent of the operations about Tort Arthur during the last three months. Both of these stories will hereafter rank among the classics of war correspondence. The Port Arthur story leaves one Involuntarily with the feeling that war, though a horrible and brutal thing, is yet redeemed from part of its ugliness by the lustrous heroism, self-sacrifice, ind devotion of its victims. Was there ever a more wonderful story told of forjjetfulness of self and love of country than this account of the Japanese soldiers who fell mortally wounded on the slopes of Port Arthur's forts, smiling because they felt they had done their part well? Or was there ever a practice of cooler daring than that of the Japanese pioneers who, sent forward to cut the entanglements which prevented the Infantry charges, tum bled over as dead before the wires, where they waited until night fall, then stealthily crawled on their backs to the barbed wire and. nipped it with their pincers? The enthusiasm among the privates and under officers was brought out in the great charg without orders. Two attacks had been repulsed on the morning of Aug. 21. Gen. Nogl was in a quandary. He called his officers together. The troops were left to their own devices, and spontaneously by tens and twenties rushed up the blood Btalned hill. "Twice they were rolled back, but the third time made their efforts good. It seems as ii each single Japanese soldier is the stuff of which martyrs are made, and Is glad to die for his religion, which Is Japan. What sort of men, then, must the Russians be, who, for over five months, have hurled the Japanese troops reeling back time after time; who have met Japanese cunning with equal cunning; who have met Japanese bravery with equal bravery; who have met Japanese persistence with equal pel sistence? In the lighting on the tiü. of the Llaotung peninsula each side has acquitted itself so creditably that for hundreds of years there will be inspiration to the people of both countries In the word 'Tort Arthur." Oyama and Kouropatkln still face each other across the Shakhe. Artillery duels are not Infrequent Skirmishes are occasional. But neither side has yet shown any purpose of taking the real Initiative. The Japanese authorities have acknowledged that in the early part of June, their first-class battleship, the Yashima, 12,300 tons, struck a min and sunk. The fact was reported at the time unofficially, but was officially uenled by the Japanese government The donial was justifiable, for strategical deceit Is legitimate In war. In the battle of Aug. 10, therefore, Togo had but four battleships, against the Russians' six, and was outnumbered. However, he whipped the Muscovites badly, scattering some of them and driving five of their battfeships back to Port Arthur, where they have since been rather severely damaged by the fire of Nogl's guns. If the fleet attempts another sortie it will be far easier work for Togo than It was on Aug. 10. In their statement about the Yashima it would not be surprising If the Japs had been guilty of another gentle little deception. Though the Yashima was sunk in June, by this time it may have been raised and repaired. When Rojestvenrky reaches the far east he should no; be at all surprised If he meets five first-class battleships under Togo. But whether Togo has four battleships or five, he probably will not have much trouble with Rojestvensky and his cavalrymen. The Seies of Port Arthur. General Nogi announced to his army Oct 25 that there would be a bombardment of the whole eastern ridge of the Port Arthur defenses prelimls.y to an attempt at Its capture. This bombardment began the next day, and under cover of the fire the Japanese regiments drove the Russians out of their trenches on Sungshu and Rlhlung Mountains, and on the southern part of Pohslan Mountain. The artillery practice continued for three days longer, and on the night of the twenty-ninth the Japanese reserves were moved up through the network of trenches in front of the Keekwan forts. Right here our direct information ends. It is probably true that even though the Japanese capture one of the forts on this ridge they cannot hold it unless they capture all or nearly all of them. If they accomplish this greater feat they will not indeed, have ended the siege, but they will have finished the heaviest part of the task. Certain forts along the seacoast southeast of Port Arthur will remain in Russian bands, although perhaps not tenable against land attack; also certain large forts west of Port Arthur, the forts of the Tiger Tall Peninsula, and the hill forts at the end of the Llaotieshan Peninsula. In these General Stoessel can continue his desperate resistance for a time longer. Of the situation on the Shakhe River we hear but little. The expectation early in the week that a great battle was impending proved false. Tha Japanese have had several smill successes, but while they are In all probability in a much beuer position to attack than the Russians, they show no desire to take the aggressive Cenor C Rodriguez of Bilbao is In the finite Rfntpp for the nurnose of arranzhis an uudErstandinir be'iveen the naval ; rtorts dtalars of the United EtatcJ aa3

FARMING BY ELECTRICITY.

In Illinois They Expect to Use the Current for Plowing. Kane county. Illinois, has taken tht lead in utilizing electricity as a power for farms. The current that is used by tne electric railroad hues is being switch ed to the farms through which the roads run for the purßos of running feed choppers, pumping water, sawing wood, operating creameries and for many other purposes. During the first part of the present year a number of experiments were made by progressive farmers whose land is worth from $100 to $125 an acre. The best parts of the county of Kane are reached by the third rail electric systems, and it has been the current that has been generated by one or the other of these extensive lines that has furnished the power for some severe tests. During the first six months of 1904 George P. Lord by the use of an electric motor installed oa his farm thrashed corn, cut feed, ground grain, separated milk, pumped water, and sawed wood at an average monthly expenss of $4.45. This work was done in CO per cent less time than if it had been done by hand power. Kane county is the first community of farmers and dairymen in this country to make an extensive practical use of electricity on the farm, and it is claimed tht power will be made use of to plow the fields and to cultivate crops. Many farms employ electricity to illuminate farm homes and buildings. At the Kaae county farm a new barn has recently been completed, and In it has been installed a powerful motor that cuts all of the feed required for the big institution and in doing a great variety of other work. When one stops to consider the wonderful spread of the electric rail lines, which are the means of supplying cheap power to the farms, some idea of the possibilities in this line may be bad. If the farmers take to the use of electricity as a farm power they will have abundant opportunity to contract for a supply of the current that the rail lines are wiring acmes the fields from one end of the State to the other. MONTH SWELLS PUBLIC DEBT. Total Now $0S6,787,600-October Defi cit 83,032,500. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the closqof business OcL SI, 1904, the public deDt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $9S0,787,CT)2, which is an increase for the month of $4,404,713. This increase is princi pally accounted for by a decrease of $3,0C1.3(3 in cash on hand. The debt is recapitulated as follows: Interest bearing debt $ S93.157.770 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity. .. 1,027,750 Debt bearing no interest.. 3SG.334,979 Total $1,2S3.140.449 This docs not include $1.021,550.009 in certificates and treasury notes outstand ing, offset by an equal amount of cash held for their redemption. The cash in the treasury is $1,409.935.S90. against which thererare demand liabilities out standing amounting to $1,113.5S2,503, lea ring a cash balance of $290.332.797. The monthly comparative statement of the government receipts and expenditures shows that for October, 1904, the receipts were $48.990,G0S, an increase as compar ed with October. 1003, of $2.027,393. The expenditures last month were $52.943,122, an increase as compared with Octo ber, 1003, of $1,032,644. The deficit last month, therefore, was $3.932,514, as against a deficit of $4,047.205 for the corresponding month !t vi r. PRESIDENT HAo N HnOvY ESCAPE Thrown from Ilia llorse and Lies Un conscious in the Road. President Roosevelt had a narrow es cape from death by being thrown from his horse, while riding through the country near Washington on a recent Sunday afternoon. The President was approaching a hizb fence at top speed when his horse stum bled and fell, throwing Mr. Roosevelt off forward. He struck squarely on hi9 head and was so severely stunned that he was uuconscions for some time, just how loLg he does not know, as he was ridinz entirely oJone. When he regained his senses he found his horse standing near him. The President tried to mount hut was so dizzy from the shock that he could not stand, and it wits some time before he regained full control of his legs and arms, lie then remounted and rode at a slow pace to the point where his orderly waited. By that time there was a great lump on the right side of the President's head, and blood was trickling from a long, hallow wound above the right ear. John T. Trowbridge, author and poet. Is 74 years of age. Abel Putnam, third cousin of ,Old Put" is dead. He was born in 1819. Gold win Smith, the historian and publicist, was 80 years old a few days ago. Mrs. Baden-Powell, mother of the defender of Mafeking, is nearly 80 years old. Jacob Songer, aged SO, or Rising Sua, Ind., is the oldest mail carrier in the UalieC States. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, said to be the greatest living botanist has pasted his eighty-eeventh birthday. M. Van Dusen, 81 years old, Man cheater, Iowa, claims to be the first creamery butter maker In the world. George K. Perrin, first cousin of Admiral Dewey, is dead. He waa one of the oldest lawyers in Indiana. Patriarch Fish, a Seminole, aged 119, Is said to be the oldest Union soldier. He serred with the Indian. home guards. Austin K. Jones, the bell ringer at B'arvard, is 75 years of age, and has rung Harvard's bell for forty-seven years. The late Dr. Moritz Lazarus, who died at Meran, aged 79, left a manuscript of reminiscences hi twenty chapters. It will be printed. Senator Depew says the best after dinatr speaker he ever knew was Gladstone at 0 aud the next best was xzaoa Cameron at 00. The Earl o Wemyss, now 87, sat la the Housa of Commons forty-two years, and has been a member of the house of peers since 18S3. Caikah Imamudda, regimental chaplain of the Eighteenth native Bengal Infantry, ctationed at Firt St George, Calcutta, India, i 130 yeurs old. and reads without spectacles. Rev. H. S. Brtmson of Lafayttta, lewa, has been preaching for dxty-flve years. He is hale and hearty, afcboch 1 vcr CO years of age, and eontJaccj L j preach Iczg ejsd vigorous icroca

Dun's weekly review of Chicago trade says: The business situa CblcacQ. tion generally presents additional evidence of reviving activity, collections show improvement, and the defaults are of slight significance. Gold exports and heavy operations In Wall street stocks attract some attention, but are devoid of direct bearing upon financial conditions here. While money is in ample supply to meet local demands, the maintenance of the prevailing cost is due to normal causes, most commercial banks being well loaned up and awaiting requirements of the approaching corn movement which will Involve employment of considerable funds. Weather conditions were more favorable to steady sales throughout the retail trade. Wholesale dealings maintained the recent large aggregate. There was better buying of cotton goods, carpets and furniture, other selections being well distributed among the seasonable lines. Heavy distribution on country and city orders for prompt shipment of necessities and more discount sales are features of the current transactions In the jobbing district Industrial concerns busy on present demands are steadily Increasing in number, while new business is making headway, although there Is no pronounced rush for requirements, except materials Immediately wanted in the construction or new Dunaings, many of which are now being pushed forward to early completion. Lumber receipts maintain enlarged totals, the demand being much stronger from the factories, and In some qualities cost has advanced. Lake traffic remains the most active of the season, while some congestion, due to lack of necessary cars, interferes with east-bound forwarding. Developments in iron and steel reflect further progress toward greater output, and extra efforts are made to obtiin more liberal reserves of iron ore and coke to meet growth In future use. Failures reported In Chicago district number 20, against 33 last week and 30 a year ago. Bradstreet's weekly report on tne general trade of the country is Ks York. as follows: Cooler weather has helped retail trade at the West and South. This is reflected In some reorder buslnss from jobbers and wmdesalers. whose trade while steady, and bettet than last year at this date, is not entirely up to expectations. This is possibly due in a measure to the close proximity of election, which is credited in a few reports with holding back some business. The Industries give quite satisfactory reports. Iron in Its cruder forms leading, with active demand at advancing prices. Seasonable conditions help the coal Industry, but lack of water in the coke regions and the same trouble in eastern streams tends to restrict some manufacturing operations. Collections as a whole are classed as good, being relatively best at the South. Railway earnings for the first half of October will run over fl

per cent ahead of those of 1003. There he telephoned for the fire department, süll appear unmistakable signs that wmn stone of the Bicknell ui h caution and conservatism have not lost school building has been laid. Thebuildtheir value as yet. and that these qual- ing will ct joooo, and will contain lties still weight the tendency toward . fourteen classrooms, and the auditorium on optimism noted In recently preceding the third floor will seat 1,000 people. The

weeks, Features in this week's dispatches are the good reports from leading ; Western centers as to retail trade. Eastern shoe manufacturers are well employed on late fall orders. Leather Is firmer, and some upper leather has been advanced one-half cent per pound. Boston reports demand for cotton goods at first hands retarded by the rt?ent drop in raw material. Woolen ed. Raw wool is less active at tht East but firmly held for what sup plies are available. Anthracite coal la in rather better shape. Bituminous also Is picking up. Business failures hi the United States for the week ending Oct 27 number 180, against 227 last Week, 217 in the like week In 1903, 194 in 1902, 172 In 1901 and 1G3 In 1900. In Canada failures for the week number 2. as against 39 last week and 23 in this week a year ago. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, 2.00 to $6.10; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to $3.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.75 to $4:23; wheat No. 2, $1.15 to $1.16; corn, No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats, standard. 2Sc to 29c: rye, No. 2, 77c to 79c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $12.50; prairie, $0.00 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 19c; potatoes, SOc to 38c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, choice light $4.00 to $5.10; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.00: wheat, No. 2, $1.10 to $1.17; corn. No. 2 Elite, 53c to 55c; oats. No. 2 white, SOc to 31c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $6.25; hogs, $4.00 to $5.20; sheep, $3.00 to $4.10: wheat. No. 2, $1.11 to $1.12: corn. No. 2, 49c to 51c; oats, No. 2, 2Sc to 30c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 71c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $4.75; hogs, $4.00 to $o.23; sheep, $2.00 to $3.60; wheat No. 2, $1.17 to $1.19; corn, rso. z mixed, uoc to o7c; oats. No. mixed, 20c to 31c; rye,' No. 2, 5c to 7c. Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $4.00 to $3.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.23; wheat No. 2. $1.18 to $1.20; corn, No. 3 yellow, 59c to COc; oats, No. 3 white, 31c to 33c; rye. No. 2, S5c to 87c Milwaukee Wheat No. 2 northern. $1.12 to $1.14; corn. No. 3, 53c to 57c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 32c: rye. No. L 82c to Sic; barley, No. 2, 52c to 51c; pork, mess, $11.00. Toledo Wfheat No. 2 mixed. $1.16 to $1.19; corn. No. 2 mixed, 5Cc to 57c; cats, No. 2 mixed, COc to 32c: rye. No. 2, CCa t 21c; clover seed, prime, C7.3.

H00SIEE HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Onr Neighbors Are Dolnc Blatters of General and Local Interest Murriages and Death Accidents and Crimes Personal Pointers About Indianians. Brief State Items. Claude White, a negro football player, lied at Elkhart of typhoid pneumonia. Alloys Guire, a prominent farmer east of helbyville, fell dead in the street of heart lisease. Frank Mahoney of Coxville, a coal miner, mmarried, was caught by falling slate and nstantly killed. The new Long-distance Telephone Company is preparing to build a line between Columbus and Hope. J . W. Chittenden, aged 78, owner of the famous Chittenden picnic grove near Bennington, was found dead iu bed Mrs. George Heckathorn of North Manchester, fell on a lighted table lamp and was probably fatally burned. Bert Bobbins, who voluntarily returned from California, surrendered to arrest for wrecking the Farmer's Bank, of Auburn. Charles Wciand had his arm tern off in a corn shredder at Royal Centre. He is a man of family. It is the first shredder accident this season. James Sutton, who charged admission to his fifth wedding, has announced that he would run for Mayor of Evansville on the Golden Rule platform. J. J. Loyd, SO years old, married and an employe of the Alexandria Mirror Woiks, had his leg caught in machinery, and it was crushed above the knee. Samuel Eastham was drowned in Lake Mürel, near Tcrre Haute, by the overturn- , fn of a boat in which his father and mother were fishing. Thej- got ashore safely. William Ryker, aged 23, son of former County Assessor Willis Ryker of Madison, was kicked in the forehead by a horse. His skull was broken. He is in a critical concition. Mrs. Josephine Vannatta, wife of a farmer near Newcastle, is sumg the Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company for $1,000 damages, because she was carried a mile beyond her stopping place. Henry Ehlers of Indianapolis, and Miss Elizabeth bchaeffer, daughter of Mr. and j Mrs. R. C. ikhaeller of Columbus, were married at the home of the bride by the Rev. Frederick R. Wambsganss. Both are well known in German society. Alfred Salisbury, 21 years old, a porter at the btandaid Hotel at Elkhart, grasped hold of the 1 rass-litting incandescent light to swing it into another position, and instant death was the result. The accident was witnessed by James Hess, another porter. The farmhouse of Mrs. Emma Goodman, near Hazleton, burned and Mrs. Goodman, who is an invalid, was alone and bedfast at the time. Her son, who was working in the field a mile away, rushed to the house and carried his mother out just as the roof was falling in. Mrs. Alvy Lundy secured a divorce from George W. Lundy, on proof of ill treatment, the decree carrying with it custody of three children, and within a few hours she was the wife of George W. Robinson, the Rev. Charles S. Shiney, of the Second Presbyterian church, officiating. A log, belonging to E. E. Georgia, of Muncie, prevented a fire that might have consumed a number of valuable houses. At one o'clock in the morning the animal ran to the bedroom of its owner, where it barked until Mr. Georgia was aroused, and, observing the fire, which by this time was thrpatpninor the houses in that irinitv. local Masonic lodge had charge of the exercises, with visiting lodges from Vincennes and other points. George E. Grimes of Ladoga, was master of ceremonies. The school children of Bicknell attended in a body. The cries of her 4-year-old baby daughter, "Please, mamma, wake up; I'm getting cold," led to the discovery of the body of Mrs. William Dillar, of Kokomo, who had fallen dead in a chicken house. When found the body was cold and rigid, and the little daughter, who had followed her mother to the chicken house several hours before, was almost frozen. The child thought her mother was asleep, and was trying to awaken her. James Adams, who w as paralyzed, presumably by a shock from a telephone which he was using in the oflice of the A. A. Branch Coal Company, at Indianapolis, is slightly improved. Dr. non, the attending physician, thinks there is no doubt that an electric shock produced the paralysis. Adams was in perfect health, he said, and had no symptoms of apoplexy. The telephone men werf irclined to believe that Adams suffered r. stroke of apoplexy. Thomas Boen ing, City Electrician of South Bend, has just been dismissed from a hospital, where he lay several days after receiving a severe shock from a live w ire. For five hours after the accident Drs. Carter and Daughterly were unable to detect any heart action. They would have given up the case as hopeless had they not discovered by the use of a mirror .that he breathed slightly. For five daj s after his heart beat became perceptible his pulse could not be felt because enough electricity remained In the arms to retard the circulation in the wrists. Mr. Boening's health is fully restored. Mrs. Matthew Moansey of West Marion, bjcame violently insane and drove.her husband from the house with a chair, broke up most of the furniture and then set fire to the house. When her husband attempted to extinguish the flames, she attacked him with a clab, and he was compelled to leave. Calls were sent to the police station and to the fire department. The flames were extinguished before much damage was done. Mrs. Munsey was taken to jail, and she will be returned to the Richmond hospital, from which she was discharged a month ago as cured. Excessive cigarette smoking is said to have caused her insanity. David Young, employed in the American Machine-equipped Glass Factory, in Hartford City, while engaged in dipping a sheet of glass in a vat of water Hrongly impregnated with muriatic acid, slipped into the vat. His legs were terribly burned. While Louis Hassman, in vn tor of chemicoal, a substitute for natural coal, and who has also devised a method for making concrete impervious to water, was experimenting in his room In Elkhart, there was an explosion ani two windows were blown, out A pedestrian called the fire department, but its services were, not needed. Hassman escaped injury, being cn ths opposite side of the room from the fcxca cf the explosion.