Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 November 1904 — Page 2

THE ' PLYWIH.TRISÜNE PLYMOUTH, IND. DENDRICXS d CO.. . - Pvblishcrs.

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S 30th. 7th. V 14th. 22nd. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All SIdee and Conditions of Thlng-a are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Unwortliy Men are Dismissed. Henry Bloecker, local inspector of steam ressela at Grand Haven, Mich., and James W. Nicholson, local inspector of steam boilers at Norfolk, Va., were dismissed from the service by the secretary of commerce and labor. The charge against Bloecker waa that he inspected a small steam yacht, the Julia, at Spring Lake, Mich., although she was aground, partly filled with water, and in no sense a proper object of Inspection. In connection with this case, the department calls attention to the report of the Slocum con .mission which denounces as vicious the present salary system, which makes the salary of an inspector dependent upon the number of vessels he inspects and passes. Nicholson was discharged for excessive use of intoxicants. He was recently warned zrA asked to submit his undated resignation. He did better nfter that and his resignation was returned to him. He celebrated vthis event in such a manner that the supervising inspector deemed it well to recommend his dismissal. Tenement House Fire. Smothered before they could reach the fire escape iL a burning tenement building at 1S6 Troutman street in the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, N. Y., twelve persons met death. Two entire families, those of Maranino Triolo and Charles Polognio, are wiped out, the last living member of each being now in a hospital, with no hope for their recovery. They are Charles Polognio, 83 years old and Tony Triolo, 13 years old, both of whom are terribly burned. Although, in the opinion of the coroner, all the dead were suffocated, the bodies were badly burned before they could be taken from the ruin? by the firemen. Chauffeur Slain by Bank Robbers. Shot dead in an automobile by bank robbers, whose plot the victim of the tragedy had discovered and whose plans he had frustrated, is one explanation of the mysterious death of William Bate, a chauffeur whose corpse and machine were found on a lonely roadside near Chicago. This theory was advanced by Bate's employer, after an investigation of the circumstances The idea is that the men who hired the automobile were bank robbers and contemplated a raid on some bank in soma small town. ' i Atlantic Steamer Ashore. 1 New York special: Captain Van Wy eklen, of the Long Branch Long Island life saving station reports that the British! steamship Sicilian Prince, from Marseilles, Naples and Palermo for New York, with 612 persons aboard, went ashore about half a mile west of the life saving station. The steamer lies in an easy position. The sea is smooth, the wind calm and the atmosphere smoky. Five tugs, two of them wreckers, are on the scene and are waiting for high tide, when an attempt will be made to pull the Sicilian Prince oS $700,000 Cincinnati Fire. Fire caused a loss in the central part of Cincinnati, O., approximating $700,090. It started in an abandoned building in the rear of the Pounsford Stationery Company. There was a strong breeze that caused the flames to spread so rapidly that, with the whole Are department at work, it required several hours to get tae conflagration under control, and a general conflagration was threatened. Four Fatally Injured. An explosion of dynamite at Ore ton station near Uallipoolis. O., on the Hocking Valley Road, caused the death of Peter Doyce and fatally injured Wm. Art!?:, William Ellis, Wm. Wisemm an( Noah Stout The explosion occurred while tit men were tramping dynamite. Confessed to Murder. Joseph Carmacini, aged 16, and Lenardo Geduleaged 20, two young Italians arrested at an Italian boarding house in Hazelwood, Pittsburg, Pa., after being swoa-ed for several hours by Inspector Bailey ; aud Lieut. Emmett, confessed to the killng of Gueseppi Folio, who was found with aeven knife wounds in the abdomen and died before regaining consciousness. Grand Trunk Boiler Explodes. The boiler of Grand Trunk passenger engine No. 29 exploded at Haskell, near Valparaiso, Ind., scalding Fireman Edward Clouney of Kalamazoo, Mich., so badly that he died at a hospital in Valparaiso several Lours later. Engineer Connerly escaped With slight injuries. Police Looking for Pat Crow. Pat Crow, for whose capture Cudahy, the millionaire packer of Omaha, Neb., t reported to have offered a reward of $25,000 as the kidnapper of his little son. Is thought to be in Mexico City, Mexico, A the police are endeavoring to locate him. Foster's Store at Lafayette Borna The big store of the Foster Furniture Company in Lafayette, Ind., was almost totally destroyed by fire and the estimated loss is $20,000, partly insured. Blew Up a Saloon at ßtockwell, Ind. As the result of bitter feelinz against tha liquor trade In the town of Stockwell, east cf Lafayette, ina., a two-story irana duuriincr. in which John J. Guntle was to have opened a saloon, was destroyed by dynamite. N o one was nun dj tae expicsica. Floor Gave Way. More than a score of women and children were hurled into the basemi'ut of St. Jarlath's Roman Catholie Churpfi, Chicago, by the giving way of the flocr in a vestibule. A number of persons were Injured. No fatalities resulted. C70O.0OO Fire La Cincinnati. Fire caused a loss in the central part cf Cincinnati approximating $700,000. It ctarted about noon in an abandoned building in the rear of the Pounsford Ctationery Company and s ept the south tide of Fourth between Walnut and Ziain streets. . Corcaers Jury Returns Verdict. ' Id the Weber case in Auburn, CaL, the ccrcner's jury has brought n the followfcS verdict: "We find that Julius Weber, llzry Wttsr and Bertha Weber came to thrlr tl-th by pistol shot Tioucd, and it b t!.e belief of thU jnry that slid vounds ytre izZlzizl by Adolph. J. Weier.,',

EASTERN. The raalthouse of the Frank Jones Brewing Company at Portsmouth, N. Y., was burned, causing a loss of $150.000. Arthur Caton, prominent in business, legal and social c;rcles of Chicago, died suddenly of peritonitis in his room at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York. Former Judge Thomas A. Moran, one of Chicago's most prominent attorneys, died suddenly of heart disease in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City. Five men, all of whom are said to be well-kdown "green goods" swindlers, were arrested in Brooklyn, N. Y. Postollice Inspector Boyle brought about the arrests. . Governor-elect Frank Higgins of New York has certified that his election expeases were $22,180, the largest sum spent for this purpose in many years in that State. , Captain A. T. Bouse of the Royal Naval reserve of Great Britain committed suicide by taking carbolic acid at his lodgings in New York City. He was 55 years of age. Four men were asphyxiated by gas at Dover, N. J., at the plant of the Dover, Rockaway and Port Oram Gas Company. They constituted the entire working force of the plant. Albert Rolytra, chief of the redemption division in the office of the treasurer of the United States in Washington, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head while at his desk. Robert Hunter t and his wife, the daughter of Anson Phelps Stokes, have given up their mansion in Madison avenue to continue settlement work in the lower west side of New York. y Otto Froelich was chopping wood in hi father's back yard in Nyack, N. Y. Suddenly the ax slipped and cut off his left thumb. He howled. A dog ran up, seized the thumb and disappeared. Captain Edwin Rose, friend of President Roosevelt and a . member of the same Masonic lodge, committed suicide in Oyster Bay, N. Y., by shooting. He was Avell known in yachting circles. George H. Hoyt, oue of the wealthiest men in Connecticut and a director of many important corporations, dropped dead from heart disease ct Stamford, Conn., while on his way to church. Joseph Watson, an 18-year-old colored boy who murdered Henry Osborn of Hartford last August, paid the penalty for bis crime when he was handed in the State prison in Wethersficld, Conn. A revival of business, on the railroads entering New York City has resulted within the last six weeks in the re-employment of more than "0.000 men who were dropped from the pay rolls last spring. The first serious skating accident of the season resulted in the death of three leys. Edward Cary, George Stiles and Albert Hawkes broke through thin ice on a clay hole near Lynu, Mass., and were drowned. Samuel Hess, a senior at Lehigh University and son of former State Senator J. S..IIess. died in Bethlehem, Pa., of concussion of the brain superinduced by bting thrown in a flying tackle in a football game at Hellertown. Alton Brooks Parker, lately of Esopus, has. opened an office as attorney and counselor at law at 32 Liberty street, New York. The office adjoins that of William F. Sheehan, but it is announced there will be no partnership.

WESTERN. Fire supposed to be incendiary destroyed 300 cottages on the Urbana, Ohio, Chautauqua grounds. Loss $100,C00. The idleness of the convicts at the Joliet, 111., penitentiary, caused by the new State law, causes an increase of insanity. Jehu A. Wilson, aged 43, a driver, committed suicide in Hamilton, Ohio. He is the second of his famiiy to commit suicide lecently. Lawrence J. Currnn, czar of the Freight Han Vers' Union in Chicago, announces he is disgusted with Unionism and will resign. Reports show nearly a score of hunters injured wnce the season opened in Ohio. One man, Roy Herbst of St. Marys, was -illed. One man was killed, one probably fatally injured and seven others seriously hurt in the explosion of a switch engine of the Southern railroad in that company's ynrils in East St. Louis, Hi. John Vancise of near Cleveland, Ohio, clunf all night to slippery rocks at the foot of an eighty-foot cliff wjth his dead daughter in his arms, to prevent the body from being washed out into the lake. The snm of $101,850, the last installment on the federal loan of $4.000,000 nxsde to the world's fair several months go, has been paid into the United States sub-treasury by the St. Loui3 exposition officials. The body of a youth, les,s than 20 years old, was foiftid In a plowed field two miles southwest of Stockton, Tjal., a knife wound in the throat and the victim's pockets turned inside out. There is no clew. The will of the late Eldridge M. Fowler of Pasadena, Cal., gives the widow $500,000and valuable real estate. Nearly $1,000,000 goes to two daughters, a son-in-law and nephew, and there are large charitable bequests. The Hotel Olympia, Olympia, Wash., one of the largest frame hotel buildings in the State, has been burned to the ground. The loss will aggregate $100,000, with $1G,000 insurance. All the guests escaped safely. Three masked men made u raid on the Northwestern railroad station in Evanston, 111., and bound, gagged and robbed the agent. Burglars operating in Chi cago despoiled the homes of City Prosecutor Taylor and Rev. Camden Coburn. Peter Miller, a negro, whose barber shop in Cripple Creek. Colo., was wrecked by dynamite, procured a warrant for Henry H. Hand, capitalist and mine owner, charging him with the outrage. Hand says his arrest is an attempt at blackmail. Fire caused a loss in the central part of Cincinnati approximating $700,000. It started about noon in an . abandoned building in the rear of the Pounsford Stationery Conany and swept the south side of . Fourth between Walnut and Main streets. The widespread reports as to the seriousness of Gen.- Lew Wallace's condition rre wholly unwarranted and hae been a source of much annoyance to the general and his family- Gen. Wallace is in better health now than he has been for two months.- ' ,Willi.tm r. Hayde, 42 years old, for many years county license Inspector In Kansas City, killed himself at his home. Hayde sat up in bed next to his young ton and fired a bullst into his head. dvimr .within a few minutes. He had worried over financial matters. Clement I. Clark Is dead and three ethers are seriously irdcrcJ C3 the result of a tire which dc-ircyei th3 tr z.-. cf the Denver Gas azd E!:ctn3 Ccnrny erthsitcl at C,CCO. Tis Crs r;s crrca ci by rpcr.tzr.ccuj ccn' -ztlcn. Ths fcl:r-l rrzl Jy L ecr-enrj O c::d c: tl3 ycUi:::: iz. ::x

rer arrested. Gale Smith, aged 9 years, living at Wheatfield, is charged with sending unlawful matter through the mails. Government officials are puzzled as to what to do with the youth. "C. W. Post, a millionaire of Battle Creek, Mich., was married quietly and unexpectedly the other day to Miss Leila Youngs, his private secretary. The bride is twenty years younger than the bridegroom. Post's first wife obtained a divorce from him two weeks before. Explosions in sewer manholes shook South Broadway, St Louis, rocking houses like an earthquake and throwing womer. and children to the ground. Nobody was injured and the damage was slight. Sixteen or more iron manhole covers were blown off the sewers. Relatives of Miss Florence Yocum, who, with her father, lKrry C. Yocum; was lest in the wreck of the Yocum yacht in the Gulf of Mexico in January, 1800. began suit in St. Louis against Martin V. Kacer. administrator of the estate, making allegations of fraud. In the Weber case in Auburn, Cal., the coroner's jury has brought in the following verdict: "We find that Julius Weber, Mary Weber and Bertha Weber came to their death by pistol shot wounds, and it is the belief of this jury that said wounds were inflicted by Adolph J. Weber." In a rear-end collision on the Pere Marquette railroad in Elmdale, Mich., three persons were killed and nine or more iiijiuinj. The foremost train had branched ci? on a "Y," and those in charge had neglected to turn the switch, so that the rear train also took the Y." Mrs. Jacob Bounisteel. wife of the local ice king, invaded Stahl's saloon in Bellaire. Ohio, on a hunt for her husband, whom she found. She ran every one out. it is claimed, and opened the beer and whisky spigots until the floor was flooded. She also broke the fixtures. All the pupils in "A" grade of the Norwood High school, consisting of sixteen sons and daughters of the most prominent families in that Cincinnati suburb, were indefinitely suspended because they took down the American flag from the school flagstaff and substituted the class colors. Fear of arrest caused Leroy Messner, aged 12, to take carbolic acid at his home in Council Bluffs, and he died. Several boys had stolen some chocolate from a freight car, but it is not believed that Messner was implicated. His playmates, to frighten him, said that the police wonhl nie after him. Three full-grown African lions of the Robinson circus escaped while being' transferred from the railroad cars to their winter quarters at Terrace Tark, a suburb of Cincinnati. They were captured several hours later. William Johnson, an employe, was slightly injured by being struck by one of them. Much mystery is attached to the sudden death in Cincinnati of C. A. Farker, second vice president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway. Parker had been despondent since the suicide of his son in St. Louis, six months ago, and it is stated he had been worried over rumors of the road's sale to the Erie line and the possibility of his losing his position. Within the past few months it has developed that a great number of fullblood Cherokee Indians in Iudian Territory are becoming cocaine fiends. A little investigation shows that druggists are disposing of a great deal of this drug, but what is more startling still, is that there are a lot of persons who have been going into the country and selling cocaine to the Indians. With a crash like a mighty bombardment a number of tanks under tremendous pressure from charges of acetylene gas exploded in the plant of the Chicago acetylene gas branch of the Fyle National Electric Headlight Company, spreading death and destruction. Forty men were at work close by when the blast, came. Many of them were picked np crushed and mangled at long distances from the scene of the explosion. By permission of the War Department, Antaero, a 14-year-old head hunter of the Igorrote village at the world's fair in St Louis, will be adopted by Dr. Will O. Campbell of that city, and Tabae, a Moro girl, 10 years old, will enter the home of Mrs. Charles Wentz of Baltimore. They will be expected to take the little Filipinos into their homes, send them to school and educate them into American clothes as well as . language and pursuits. Fire destroyed the Missouri building

;t the St. Louis world's fair, and in re sponding to the alarm one fireman waa killed and two others were injured, one probably fatally. After the fire was under control the south wall of the building fell, injuring two city firemen, one of these probably fatally. Several rescues were made by firemen. The fire was caused by the explosion of a hot water heater in the basement The loss is esti mated at $225,000, on which there-, was no insurance. The two outlaws who made a raid on the First National Bank of Cody.'Wyo., recently and killed Cashier Middaugh, and who since have been pursued by posses, came out of their hiding place in the Owl Crek mountains and bld up and robbed a saloon and gambling horse in Thermopoli. The two robbers entered the place each heavily armed and ordered everybody to hold up his hands. This the occupants of the place did and they were hned up. One of the robbers covered the customers while the other went through their pockets. The report also says a large sum of money was secured. The men-backed out of the place and made their escape on fast horses. IN GENERAL. Fourteen miners were killed at the Carbondale mines, near Morrisey, Man., by an explosion of coal gas. Rough Riders and Troop A of Cleveland have been selected to act as President Roosevelt's escort on inauguration day. Gen. John C. Black of Chicago, a Democrat, has been selected for appointment as commissioner of pensions by the President Ten persons were injured in a collision of the Chicago express, west bound, on the Grand Trunk railroad and a light pilot engine near St Catherine's, Ont. The weekly trade reviews report a continuance of .favorable conditions, retail business ' being active, country demand good and collections reasonably prompt Frank J. Hecker of Michigan has resigned from the Fanama canal commission, recalling dissension that is said to hamper the work. It is alleged that the board, is too large. Following the plan recently adopted by many large railroad companies, the Erie reduced its passenger tram crews, dispensing with . one of the brakemen in each crew, t This change is made for economy. An unknown boy, about 12 years of age, was found tied to the rails on the ßouthampton branch of the Grand Trunk road, one .mile north of Hnrriston, Ont ne was securely tied vith his hands bohind his back just a few minutes before the 3:50 express from the north was due. A tlcycla was found cn the track, evidently to throw c2 czicion. The boy cays he and a man nan:i Jira, with the boy's fathtr, c:c3 fren New York. LT ctatC3 thrt ,thr7 tied bin there to cci tJl cl Liz.

WAR FOE THE WEEK.

LITTLE INFORMATION FROM THE FAR EAST. Great Port Arthur Fortresa Remains TJnconquered Sappin; and Minlnjf No or Taking Place of Direct Aeeaults Stoessel Believed to Be in Distress. The lack of information from Japanese sources concerning conditions at Port Arthur is sufficient evidence that the great fortresses are still unconquerable, and that further sapping and mining by the besiegers has taken the place of direct assaults. There have been neither official nor semiofficial statements from Tokio, nor censored dispatches from General Nogi's headquarters, which bring information down later than Nov. 7. At that time the Japanese were retaining the Keekwan moat, but were suffering heavily from Russian ilre. On the other hand, It is clear that if General Stoessel had had any success in driving the Japanese out of posi tions they won in attacks at the end of October we would have heard of it The arrival of the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Rasirropny at Chefoo was the event of the week, but, what ever dispatches it may have brought, i the authorities at St. Petersburg have not seen fit to make public any con taining facts of later date than Nov. 2. The Rastoropny was sunk by the Russians themselves, and such a sac rifice of a valuable vessel justified the inference that its mission had been one of the gravest Importance. It was natural to think that General Stoessel was asking the Czar for permission to ' surrender. At St Petersburg it is In- j sisted, however, that General Stoessel FORT BLOWS VP BY JArtJ. reports that conditions are good, and that he will be able to hold out for months to come. Rumors, nevertheless, persist that he has informed tha Czar that unless he can be supplied with food and ammunition the end of his power of resistance will 60on come. The general has himself been wounded in the head, but not seriously enough to prevent bis continuing to exercise the command. Artilery duels along the Shakhe River seem to be increasing !n severity. The Russians attacked C-ku on the west of the line early in the week, and later Kuroki made an attack on the east Neither attack was on a large scale. Winter weather nas now set in, introducing entirely new conditions for fighting A Shanghai correspondent says a steamer which has arrived from Chefoo reports that three other Russian torpedo boat destroyers left Port Arthur with the Rastoropny, which was sunk by its commandir in Chefoo harbor. The Japanese caught two of them, but the other escaped and has not been heard from since. An official report received at Tokio states that as a result of the success of the Japanese in blowing up Songshushan fort the occupation of tho "outer embat. -ment" of Port Arthur became complete. Another official report says that a shell from a Japanese naval gun exploded a powder magazine on Saturday, near the arsenal at Tort Arthur. The words "outer embankment" In the first official report are believed here to mean that the Japanese at last have succeeded In cnpturlng the chain of forts constituting the "fortified eastern ridge,' Including the forts on Songshushan, Erlung and Keekwan mountains. It is declared at St Petersburg that there la avery indication that Field Marshal Oyama Is gradually developing a big movement with the object of occupying Mukden. Dysentery and typhoid fever hare appeared at tho fortress, and the deaths from these diseases average ten dally. It is stated also that the dissatisfaction among Gen. Stoeesel's subordinates is increasing. Short Itewa Notea. Gov. Odell o'.! New York, according to the New York Times, has been offered the presidency of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and will accept after retiring from office as Governor. At the Russian embassy in Rome the belief is expressed that the Russian second Paci6c squadron will go from Suez direct to Jibutil, as Massowa and Assab, the ports of Erythrea, lack provisions, coal and dockyards; but. If necessary for urgent reasons, there is nothing to prevent them from landing there if they respect Italian and neutrality laws'., f i. Clifford nawley shot and instantly killed Simon Donahoe and wounded William Mordow at Masontown, Pa., over a political argument The light-grade rail plant at the Edjar Thomson steel works at Braddock, Pa., went on double turn, giving .employmput to 200 men. M. J J Kellcy, secretary of the BoothRelley Lumber Company, says there has been no sale of a half interest la ths tonrpsny'a holdings to eastern catalirt3. Notices have been pelted announcfr i turpec-ioa cf work at tha cclllcriu ci tla Phi!d:!;hix tnJ Rc-lr- Czz.1 czl tea C:-Z?.Z7 b tl2 C;-r;:ilU fr;2.

STRUGGLE FOR PEACE.

Japaa Making Desperate Effort a to Force Russia to Cry "Enough." A Tokio report declares that the Japanese people are anxiously awaiting the coming of the Baltic fleet, so that Togo may crush it. Confidence of this sort has its home in Japan. What Togo did to the Port Arthur squadron will be repeated upon the arrival of the Baltic ileet, Tokio believes beyond a doubt. London encourages this belief." Moreover, the view is largely held in America that Japan will preserve her naval supremacy. The reason that Japan is a favorite does not lie in the number and superiority of her ships, but in the excellence of their manipulation and in the greater effectiveness of Japanese gunnery. The world at large has a small opinion of the Russians as sea fighters. The North sea incident hurt Russian naval prestige almost as seriously as the dismal show of the Tort Arthur squadron against Togo and the Vladivostok fleet against Kamimura. Moreover, the Baltic fleet will arrjve in Asiatic waters in a fouled aüd racked condition, and, from all we know, at a time of year when it will be impossible to make Vladivostok for cleaning and repairs. And yet. says a correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, Tokio is wrong to regard the destruction of the Baltic fleet as certain as its arrival within striking distance of the capable Japanese admiral. Togo himself has been weakened by the hard service of the year, and his losses, while small in ratio to the damage administered, are at the same time greater than the world has been gireu to understand. He will have to face a preponderance of battleships and a sea force that has everything to win and no shores threatened or armies cut off if it lose a force that has the example of its predecessor by which to profit and a prize of incalculable value for victory. With Togo, on the contrary, rests the life of his nation. A thousand junks will rush into Port Arthur if he lift the blockade. If he is whipped tLe Japanese army is cut off; the shores of the island are It ft unprotected and com-E-.erce, the vhality of Japanese finance, is destroyed. Togo is the pericardium oi Japan. Tokio believes that the destruction ol the Baltic fleet will put Russia in a frame of mind in which she will gladlj listen to proposals of peace on terms satisfactory to Japan. The Jiji- Shimpo. highly representative of the Ja panes press, urges Japanese arms to push the conflict with, such fury that the enemy will have to sue for peace. Tokio pray that the continuation of the battle ol the Shakhe ri -e will result in the complete shattering of Kuropatkin's forces, so that Russia , will be forced to desisl from hostilities. Japan wants peace badly. She is terrified as the game unfolds, mile after mile. The monster that sh has driven and pummeled will not staj whipped, but quietly and without nerve or noise, augmtnts and returns to th fight Japan perceives the unsubstantially of England's support; that It i of the press and not of the treasur house. English bankers make her paj exorbitant interest for the money sh borrows. England is not yet In her dot age; she is for England still. Japan is fighting for peace, and fighting magnificently; but her enemy, unless rent by civil war, will not be the on to cry "enough!" This is not Russia'! way. She knows that years will crush Japan if her troops cannot. She realizes vividly that if she lies down to Japat now the integrity of her domain will not long survive China's. ROOSEVELT SAYS GUARD HOME. Makes Addretts at a Washington Catholic Church Anniversary. Speaking at the 110th anniversary ol the founding of St. Patrick's church ir Washington President Roosevelt said: "While in this country we need wise laws, honestly and fearlessly executed, and while we cannot afford to toleratf anything but the highest standard in public service of the government, yel in the last analysis the future of th country must depend upon the quality of the iudividual home, of the individual man or woman in that home. "We have grown to accept it as an axiomatic truth of our American life that the man is to be treated on his worth a! a man, without regard to the accident! of his position; that this is not a government designed to favor the rich man as such, or the poor as such, but that il i designed to favor every man. rich oi poor, if he is a decent man, who act? fairly by his feJIows. The fiehl for charitable, philanthropic religious work is wide and that while a corner of it remains untilled we do a dreadful wrong if we fail to welcome th work done in that field by every man, nc matter what his creed, provided onlj he works with a lofty sense of his duty to God and his duty to his neighbor." A winter which will try the soul of the innocent bystander is threatened in Muk den. Turkeys are so plentiful this year that their price will be higher than ever be fore. In looking for a place to make his last stand Gen. Stoessel finds the standing room scarce. Gen. Nogi has a faint idea as to where he will eat his Christmas dinner if he cares to do so. Russia is going in for reform and can stand a lot of it without feeling any particular surfeit In taking Port Arthur the finishing touches appear to b? about as difficult as the preliminaries. St. Louis wants to run the fair while the weather permits. That should be all winter along the Pike. In other words, 'Gene Ware is going to mount his old reliable Pegasus and canter back to Kansas. Perhaps Tort Arthur has had so much practice in not falling that it does, not knojv how to go the falling act. Everybody has to tread lightly in the vicinity of the French cabinet these days, for the slightest jar might upset it It is a pity that narry Thaw's mother did not have a barrel stave at hand and the ability and inclination to use it When Gen. Kuroki decides to have his obituary written he will not hire a Rus sian correspondent for so particular a job. . Unconfirmed rumor will have to eat several horses and thinks like that be fore it will be atle to kill off Gen. Kuroki. When the cruel siege of Port Arthur La o'er Japan will have a lot cf second hand tu"iul3 for which it will have no earthly use. Uncle Cam is teliin? the kcuefrJ rillplr.3 that' If he will watch Ccrreca close ly be will tee a Uttla tirJl czzzi czt czi

The weekly review of Chicago trade, published by R. G. Dun & Co., says: Bank deposits and clearing-hour ex changes are largely ahead of those a year ago, and for the first time in lo cal history both simultaneously record their greatest volume! While official statements disclose ample cash resources, there are indications that money, is now working into better general, demand, and the discount rate soon may advance from its present minimum. Trade has fully sustained recent fa vorable developments. Ueavy distri bution of manufactures continued and freight tonnage gained but while the weather was good for shopping it held too mild for a satisfactory disposition of seasonable retail wares. Wholesale shipments of staples and holiday lines to Interior points made a good aggregate. Late buying" has been well main tained for the country, and city merchants bought more freely, most of the demands including dry goods, milli nery, men's furnishings, woolens and food products. Demand for jewelry, silverware and smokers' articles showed a moderate gain. Orders for reassortments were of limited extent, but discounting of bills purchased was frequent and mercantile collections generally were reasonably prompt Raw materials exhibit increased re ceipts. Iron ore, coal, lumber and hides make the best comparisons with a year ago and provide against ex panding needs of manufacturers. Prices disclose firmness In all supplies for factory consumption. Advances were effected in quotations for pig iron, bar Iron and wire product without creating lessened demand. Metal producers have booked many orders for future delivery, and there are commitments indicating a variety of finished materials required for railroads, shipyards and business structures. Lumber receipts exceeded 4S,000,000 feet, the largest quantity in a long period, while shipments also reached increased figures, country demands having shown notable improvement Woodworking, electric machinery and 6hoe factories report gain In production and new business coming forward more liberally. Operations In grain were Influenced by poor outside buying and heavy Argentine shipments.. Forwarding from this port was only 2,074,327 bushels, a decrease of 37 per cent as compared with corresionding week last year. Values suffered a sharp decline, corn being weakest and closing 5 cents a bushel under a week ago. Provisions were In fair request, but producers made liberal offerings and quotations ruled slightly under last week's. Receipts of live stock, 301,071 head, fell considerably short of those a year ago. Sheep brought an advance of 15 cents a hundredweight, while hogs and choice beeves both declined 20 cents. Bradstreet's weekly report on trade conditions throughout the Rev York. country says: Reports from the great basic Industries are more favorable and wholesale and jobbing trade in holiday and spring goods displays a more confident tone. Interior buj-ers appear more willing to stock up, and are meeting with fair success, despite the fact that unseasonable weather, activity In fall farm work and some holding back by farmers retards retail trade and collections in the West and Northwest Cold weather at the East and seasonable conditions at the South induce better reports as to distribution from those sections. Trade generally is showing gains over corresponding periods a year ago, and the aggregate year's business In most lines will m.ike better comparisons than at one time seemed possible. Money displays remarkable ease, crop moving necessities are about satisfied and a return 'flow from the country Is apparently in sight. Gross railway earnings show a tendency to Increase late gains and to swell earnings for the year to totals above those of 1903. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Nov. 17 number 100, against 1S4 last week, 234 In the like week of 1903, 201 in 1902, 223 in 1901 and 215 in 1900. In Canada failures for the week number 24, as against 25 last week and 16 in this week a year ago. -ÄS Chioago Cattle, common te prime, $3.00 to $o.9o; bogs, shipping grades, $4.00 to $4.90; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.13 to $1.14; corn, No.2, 51c to 52c; oate, standard, 31e to 32c; rye. No. 2, 82c to 84c; hay, timothy, $3.50 to $12.50; prairie, $0.00 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 22c; potatoes, 30c to 42c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $G.40; hogs, $4-00 to $4.S3; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.10 to $1.11; corn. No. 2, 51e to 52c; oats. No. 2. 29e to 30c; rye, No. 2, 70c to 71c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.25; hogs, $4.00 to $4.S0; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.17 to $1.19; corn. No. 2 mixed, 57c to 5Sc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to S2c; rye, No. 2, S3c to 85c. Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $4 00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2, $1.18 to $1.20; corn, No. 3 yellow, COc to C2c; oats. No. 3 white, 31c to 33c; rye, No. 2, S5c to SGc. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.10 to $1.12; corn, No. 3, 55c to 57c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; rye, No. 1, C3c to C5c; barley, No. 2, 52c to 51c; pork, mess, $12.00. - Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.13 to $1.19; corn. No. 2 mixed, 50c to Clc; oats, No. 2 mixed, COc to C2d; rye, I. 2, Clc to Cc; cloTcr cccd, prirse, Z7.i

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BRIEF COMPILATION' OF INDIANA NEWS. What Onr Neighbors Are Dolnjr Matters of General and Lrocal Inter" est Marriage and Deaths Accidents and Crimes Personal Pointers About Indianlana. Brief State Items. Complete rural free delivery of mail will oe effective in Adams county I)ecemlcr 15. A dust explosion in the Fontanet mine at Clinton seriously injured two shot tirers. The diphtheria epidemic at Shideler is ander control and the schools have reopened. Mr. and Mrs. James Morgan of Muncie, nave celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mrs. L. M. Abbott of Lilierty Mills, swallowed sulphate of zinc, mistaking the potion for -salts, and narrowly escaped leath. The local butchers of Newcastle have formed a combination and hereafter the customer refusing to pay his bills will be blacklisted. Councilman Henry Fate, missing for several weeks, has returned to his home in Pendleton, and he is now seriously ill of typhoid fever. Claude Lee, the 11-ycar-okl son of James Lee, jumped off a moving freight train at Bedford, falling under the wheels and losing his left leg at the knee. Mr. and Mrs. William Middleton of Russiaville, have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mr. Middleton is fx-treasurer of Howard County. The Rev. M. S. Kenworthy, instructor in the Biblical department of Larlham College, Richmond, has been called to the pastorate of the Friend's Church in Portland. Andrew J. Fleener, aged 61, a farmer, while attempting to kill a hawk was accilentally .shot and killed near Nahville. The trigger of his gun was caught on the loor. Harry Kinnerman, 12, is at the joint of leath at his home at Cambridge City, from a fall received while playing. His foot jlipled on a banana peel. The fall injured his spine. Typhoid fever has appeared at Evansville among the children in the White Orphan Asylum and six children in one ward are ill. The cause is aitributed to the water supply. Jacob btotsel, an Austrian of Clinton, started to walk home across the railroad track. While attempting to cross a high bridge he fell to the creek bottom below and was killed. Rev. L. C. Howe, pastor of the East Main Street Christian Church of El wood for several years, will shortly resign his charge to accept a call elsewhere. He has several under consideration. The local supply of natural gas at Alexandria is better than for several years, there being fewer customers, while a number of pumping stations surrounding the eity have shut down and removed elsewhere. A lunacy commission at Warsaw has declared that Daniel P. Tuigg, the newspaper solicitor, who shot several persons w hile aboard a Pennsylvania train a few weeks ago, is not insane. Tuigg will be tried in December. i Hugh Pogue died at Madison from the effect of morphine, taken with suicidal intent. He was a fine young man of good habits, but left a not saying, among other things, that he was too bashful to make life a success. Mrs. Stuart Shirkie, who for several years has successfully operated coal mines near Clinton, has announced that she will retire from active life. She will dispose of her properties by sale and distribute the proceeds among her children. ' A.A. Reynolds, who for several years has been in charge of the real estate department of the Winona Assembly Association, was stricken with paralysis while in the County Recorder's office at Warsaw and sank unconscious to the floor. At the Hotel Doxey in Anderson, when two employes were moving $26J worth of cut glass to the basement to be washed, thej- dropped it down the elevator shaft, and it broke to pieces. The men were so excited that they slid down the roie of the elevator to the basement and picked up the pieces. Samuel Bales, who was living "at the home of Mrs. Elraira Drake, near Harveysburg, is reported to be missing, under peculiar circumstances, and his friends are conducting an investigation. Mrs. Drake was recently acquitted of poisoning her husband, after a trial noted in the criminal history of Fountain County. The contents of a shotgun intended for burglars almost ended the life of Barney Thurber, a well-known La Porte County farmer. Awakened during the night by a noise, he grabbed the gun and pet in a heavy load of shot. The trigger struck a chair and the gun was accidentally discharged, part of the shot striking Thurber in the head. Five elephants, belonging to Wallace's Circus, while being placed in winter quarters at Peru got away. Two used for moving wagons pursued a negro about the quarters and their trumpeting gained the attention of three other elephants in the barn. ' The five elephants then tore down the road creating a panic. , People ran in fear, and at an auction at the home of Jonathan Jones, when the elephants appeared, business was immediately suspended. Keepers pursued the animals and finally arrested them. The huge fellows had gone through wire fences as if they were made of thread, and rail fences went down like so much paper. Ira M. King of Smithfield Township, DeKalb County, will probably always remember Tuesday, November 8, 1904. It was the twenty-first anniversary of his birth; he cast his first vote and was united in marriage to Miss Mary Hess on that day. Abraham McGintis was shot and fataMy wounded while hunting with James Meyers, south of Clinton. As Meyers was climbing over a fence his shotgun was accidentally discharged, and the contents struck McGintis in the leg. The wounded man was taken to his home, but befcre medical aid could reach him he bled to death. Charles Dust of La Porte, a veteran omploye of the Lake Shore Railroad, is diad, as the result of grief over the killinr of Frederick Waak, w ho was struck three months ago at Tipton Street Crossing, by the fast mail train. Dust was the guard at the crossing, but had failed to lower the gates. Every telegraph operator on the Fort Wayne branch of the Lake Shor; Railway, which runs from Fort Wayne to Jackson, Mich., was taken from his post and a man was left in charge cf the cflice business in no way regularly employed therewith. The regular operators were taken via a special train to Hillsiale, Midi., to receive instructions, frcm the new bcc'.i cf rules, recently I:scd by it 2 cc; any.