Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 22, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 March 1905 — Page 2

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Z U Q. N. M. "Tv F. Q.F. M V 27th.- Cth. V 14th. 21st. PAST AND PRESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many Thirteen Persons Killed in a Church. Thirteen persons were killed and upward of fifty injured, some probably fatally, by the collapse of the flooring of the Fleet street. African Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, N. Y. Of those killed ten were women, two men and one ..child. The building was an ancient, ramshackle frame structure erected sixty years ago in the heart of the colored section of Brooklyn. Funeral services were being held in the auditorium, w hich is on the second floor of the building, the ground lloor being used by the Sunday school, and was crowded, with an audience of upwards of S00 persons, of whom the majority were wdmen. The congregation was waiting in silence for the arrival of the body and Pastor Jacobs, was standing at the altar awaiting the .summons to meet the funeral professionat: .the door, when. a splintering of lumbers was heard and in an instant the half of the auditorium nearest the door collated, carrying down more than 10) persons, who were crushed m the wreckage of the flooring and pews. A great volume of dust for a few moments hid from view the victims. The remainder of the congregation, finding themselves cut off from the door and expecting every instant the rest of the flooring would collapse under them, fought madly to reach the windows and in some instances leaped from them and sustained serious injuries. Mine Horror in West Virginia. Welch (W. Va.) special: Beiorts from the scene indic ate that the mines of the United States Coal and Coke Company, eight miles eas:, where an explosion occurred are a se-'thing mass of rlames. The rescuingarty has been prevented by the flames from entering for any great distance. It is stated that at least fifteen are known to be dead. There are rumors that the total death list will greatly exceed this. The explosion; which was in Shaft No. 1, cut off telegraphic communication. The number of men employed in the shaft where the explosion occurred was about SCO, but it is said only a few had entered. All the physicians from here were sent to the scene on a special train. Ul-Fated Boat is Sunk. The ferryboat Katherine, which plies between Cairo and Bird's Point, was struck near Cairo, 111., by a large piece of ice and sank in several feet of water. Many passengers were aboard the boat, including a number of Cairo traveling men, and a panic followed the sinking of the vessel. The passengers, after much difficulty, were all taken off in safety. The Katherine is an old boat and had been in service many years. Ten yrars ago she was 'overed' in the middle of the Ohio River by a severe storm and a dozen or more lives were lost. The boat was in command of Capt. J. W. Hacker. Confesses a Murder. , James Neal, 18 years old, who has been living at Denver, Col., under the name of Hoy Ballew, Lks given himself up to the police and confessed that lie killed Cynthia Johnson, a widow, who lived on a farm near Kennison, I. T. Neal declares he killed the woman because she had drawir a gun on him and said she was going to kill him. He says the crime was committed on June 28, 11M3. and that he was driven to confess the crime through remorse. Uurjjlara Captured After a Fight. The postoffice and general store in Oakshade, eleven miles north of Wauseon, O.iio, was dynamited by three burglars. The cracksmen secured $100 in stamps and about $223 in casti and escaped in the direction of PettisUlle, where they were located by Sheriff Shinaberger. The three men showing fight, the sheriff sent back to Wauseon for assistance. Sheriff Shinaberger captured two of the robbers. The third got away. Skaters Found Dead Body in the Ice. The mystery surrounding Henry Miller's disappejirance was solved when his body was found in the river by skaters. The body, which was removed by the police, is in an excellent state of preservation The deceased was an old and wealthy resident of Mishawaka, Ind. It is believed that death was accidental. Court House Barns. The Monroe County court house at TVixxlsfield. Ohio- burned, causing a loss of 40,000, witli insurance of $23,X0. The fire, started in the grand jury room and is thought to be of incendiary origin. This f tb third court house of Monroe Countv to be destroyedly fire. Most of the records were saved. DoDr e to Hang in June. Judge Y V 'McMahon at Hammond, Ind., refused new trial to Edward Dona hue, convicted of murder in the Lake Cir cuit Court, and sentenced him to be hung in the Michigan City prison on June 9. Find Hidden Fortune. The sum of $10,800 was found 'in the home of Mrs. Jacob Frank of Cockran, Ind., after her death. Tiie money was in cold and bills and represented the savings of fifty years! It was tied up in sacks and secreted about the house. ; Great Disaster at Bari, Italj. Twenty thousand people are homeless and whole families have disappeared in a flood which haa inundated the city of Bari, Italy. The authorities worked by torchlight trying to rescue some of those caught by the t?ooo. New Bevoluti-jn in San Domingo. An attempt has been made to assassinate President Morales of San Domingo. Washington regards the news as Indicating the outbreak of a new revolution, and American marines may be landed. Offers $1.000 for Bill Thief. TH lower house of the Missouri Legislature has unanimously adopted a reso lution offering $1,000 reward for the ar rest cf the person or persons who stela the original of the amended mil passed by the House repealing the breeders law and prohibiting pool erilijij on torse

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EASTERN. A court in New York has decided that

Hannah Elias need not return the $G85,000 given her by her aged admirer, J. R. riatt. Twnty-one buildings in the. heart of Cape May, X. J., including the Bellwue hotel, were destroyed hy tire. The loss is $75,000. Boot and shoe manufacturers of the United States have formed a national organization at New York, with John Hanan as president. Fire which originated in the opera louse at Midland. Md., destroyed the greater portion of the business section of the town, causing a loss of 23,000. Found euiltr of dancinc. Miss Nora Dubois was dismissed from the Method ist Episcopal church in Clayton. N. J. The action is the result of a crusade against dancing. Jonathan Boss, former chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and former United States Senator, died of injuries received when his sleigh was struck by a train and Mrs. Ross killed. Twenty-one building at Cape May Court House, N. J., including the Gazette office, Bellevue Hotel and the gen eral store of J. D. Richard son & Co., were burned, causing a loss of 75,000. For a third time in two years the entire business section of Lawrenceville, Pa., was destroyed by fire. It is believed that this fire, as well as the two previous nes, was of incendiary origin. The es timated loss is 50,000. For the first time in the history of the city Baltimore is without oysters at this season. Dealers say lovers of the bivalve must expect to do without them until a thaw couies which will enable the dredg ers to get a fresh supply. Robert Sheaslcy, a laborer, has re tained attorneys' to further his claims as an heir to the estate of William Rice, the New York millionaire, for whose murder Attorney Patrick was convicted. Sheasley is a second cousin. The Pittsburg special, west bound over the "Pennsylvania railroad, was wrecked between Altoona, Pa., and Tyrone by running into a light switching engine. Two passengers and' the two engineers and two firemen were injured. Prof. Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard university has announced that the Ger man emperor had presented to Harvard that part of the German exhibit at the St. Louis exposition which represents the social ethics of Germany. That the best work of the world is accomplished by men under 40 years of age, and that men orer CO should be retired or chloroformed, were the startling declarations made by Dr. William Osier, on leaving Johns Ilopklus university. WESTERN. Whistling of hymns by men who can't sing has been introduced in Emmanuel Methodist Church in Evanston, 111. . Receiver W. T. English of the East End Savings Bank of Columbus, Ohio, says that the bank will pay depositors about 50 cents on the dollar. Grove Walter, former assistaut State s attorney of Chicago, who mysterious y disappeared in Los Angeles several days ago, was located in San Diego. The Adolphus Busch glass works building in St. Louis has been destroyed by fire, with a loss of $75,000. The loss of the plant throws 500 employes out of work. While a woman performer was lancing about the stage of the Chicago Opera House in that city a man in the balcony committed suicide by shooting himself. Johnson Ricu-i-ds, a young Chicagoan estranged from his bride and mourning her as a victim of the Iroquois theater horror, has found her in a Detroit hos pital, and a reconciliation followed. Fire in Hot Springs, -Ark., caused the death of three persons and a property OSS of more than $1,000,000. Two thou sand persons were made homeless. The fas'aionable hotel section escaped damage. Major James C. Carlton, president of the National Mexican War Veterans Association, is dead at Bedford, Ind., as the result of a stroke of paralysis. He was 1 3 years old and a member of Scott Legion. One of the largest department stores in Omaha has issued orders that all female clerks shall wear black garments, part their hair in the middle and discard ill jewelry. The clerks may strike rather than comply with the order. The Standard Oil Company is said to nave purchased two independent concerns in Kansas in an effort to buy up all firms outside the "trust" and acquire control of any evidence that might be damaging in the pending investigation. One fireman was killed, five were in jured, and property valued at between $35,000 and $40,000 was destroyed in a fire which started in the planing mill of the International Woodwork Company on the south side of Milwaukee. The roof of a buiiding being recon structed for a theater collapsed in Marysnlle, Cal., on account of a defective truss. A. Merry of Sacramento, proprietor of the theater, was killed and Guy Putnam and Charles Bagge, workmen, were seriously hurt. Adolph Weber, aged 20, who is ac cused of killing his mother, father, sister and brother and of burning the family residence in Auburn, Cal., to hide the crime, was convicted of murder in the first degree for taking the life stt his mother. The jury was out fifteen hours. The lower house of the Missouri Leg islature has unanimously adopted a reso lution offering $1,000 reward for the ar rest- of the person or persons who stole the original of the amended bill passed by the House repealing the breeders lf.w and prohibiting pool selling . on horse races. Gov. Hoch has signed the bill providing for separate high schools for whites and blacks at Kansas City, Kan. The whites demanded separate schools as the result of the stabbing . of a prominent white pupil by a negro boy. He signed the bill, he says, because local conditions demanded it. In a mm to get to lunch, Walter Nettleton of Grand Marais, Mich., aged 10, fell into a vat of boiling logs in creosote. With weather below zero and his body literally cooked from the waist down, he ran home one mile and died. lie refused to be carried to save his father the shock. Edward Donahue will die on the gallows for the murder of A. N. Northrup last October. Donahue induced A. K. Northrup of Benton Uarbor, Mich., a wealthy farmer, to drive with him to Miller station, Ind., shot him, it is alleged, and fled with the farmer's horse. He was captured at Syracuse. The Supreme Court in Bismarck, N. D., affirmed the decision of Judge Pollock giving a judgment to the Reidler & Robinson Lumber Company against the Coe Commission Company for $S,GG7 for money claimed to have been lost in gambling transactions by an agent of the lumber company at Gasselton, John Henry Vier, United States deputy marshal of Indian territory, has been shot and killed- in the territory sixteen miles west of Ciloara Springs, Ark., by Charley Wickley, a Cherokee ' Indian. Vier, with a posse, was hunting hog

thieves. Wickley is wanted for the shooting of a deputy marshal over a year ago. President William R. Harper of the University of Chicago is afflicted with cancer.. Such is the revelation made by the operation performed at the Presbyterian hospital in that city, and the location of the malignant growth barred the sargeons from attempting its removal. An official bulletin says there is "reasonable hope" that the course of the disease mi y be checked. The demand for farm hands has already begun and Supt. Jemison of the Kansas free employment bureau is receiving requests every day for them. A man who owns a truck farm west of Argtntine sent in a letter in which he asked Mr. Jamison to save him some strawberry pickers. He expected a good crop, he said, and wanted to put in his order early so as to get choice pickers. The heavy ice gorge in the phio river at Maysville, Ky., was dislodged Friday afternoon by a rise from the Kanawha river. The steamer Big Kanawha was torn from her moorings and floated down with the ice. A quarter of a mile down the ice tore a hole in the hull of the steamer, when she sank. Captain Edward Williamson and the crew had narrow escapes. The steamer Tacoma was also badly damaged by ice. The total damage cannot be estimated, but will probably go into the thousands. Floating ice in the Kaw River has completely wrecked the pile bridges of the Kansas City Belt Line and the Rock Island Railroad in Kansas City. The material of these structures has been saved, but the railroads have not yet decided whether they will rebuild the pile bridges or hasten the construction of steel bridges. It is said that the railroads may be enjoined from rebuilding the pile bridges, as they , are considered a menace to other property. The Kansas City Belt Line now has no connection with the: packing house district and the Rock Island will have to use other roads to move freight from' the west bottoms to Armourdale.

SOUTHERN. Galveston is to have a northern settlers congress on April 21, 22 and 23. Governors of surrounding States are to be invited. Railway men state rates will be cut almost to nothing. Col. Charles S. Arnal, one of the best known insurance men in the South and a distinguished citizen of Atlanta, committed suicide at his residence by shooting. No reason is known for the act. The Illinois Central terminals at New Orleans, covering nearly a mile of river frontage, with fifteen cottages, hundreds of cars and immense quantities of merchandise, were burned, with a loss that may exceed $5,000,000. An investigation committee yesterday reported to the West Virginia" Senate that Gov. White and Senator Caldwell had withdrawn the charges they had made against each other and that the matter was ended. The Senate tabled a resolution refusing to permit the withdrawal of the charges. Twenty-three miners are supposed to have lost their lives by an explosion in No. 1 shaft of the United States Coal and Coke Company at Wilcoe, W. Va., and it is possible the number of dead may be much larger. The cause of the explosion, which shattered glass in windows a mile distant, has not been determined. Berea college in Richmond, Ky., was fined $1,000 for. violation of the law passe! by the General Assembly of Kentucky at its last session, prohibiting the co-education of the white and colored races. To test the law there was a technical violation, and the college as a corporation was indicted. The conviction and fine followed as a matter of course. Reports of large losses of cattle as a result of the recent blizzards, snow, rain, and sleet storms are received in Dallas, Texas. Telegrams from Armarillo, San Angelo, El Paso, Howe, Mesquite, Texarkana, Mabank and Grogan, covering approximately the entire cattle range district from east to west and well down into central Texas, show losses aggregating many thousands of head. Many horses that were running free on the range were frozen to death. It is estimated that not less than 10 per cent of the range cattle will die, and if mild spring weather does not set in within a short time tiie losses may reach 25 per cent. FOREIGN. A battle south of Mukden was caused by an advance on Kouropatkin's part to secure the fords of the Taitse River and resulted in a disastrous setback, although the Japanese losses were heavy. Anarchy prevails throughout entire Russian Transcaucasia; rioting, arson and pillage at Baku, Batoum, and half a score of cities; hundreds of persons were killed. Warsaw has been isolated. The North Sea commission in Paris decided that Admiral Ilojestvensky'a Baltic fleet was not justified m firing on the Hull trawlers, and that there were no hostile torpedo boats about at the time. s ' An attempt has been made to assassinate President Morales of San Domingo. Washington regards the news as indicating the outbreak of a new revolution, and American marines - may be landed. ' The Czar has rejected the peace overtures made through the Washington gov ernment by Japan, and will risk one more battle in Manchuria, where a general engagement between Oyama and Kuropatkin may be expected soon. The trial of thirty-one Christians accused of the murder of a Jewess named Spiwok during the anti-Semitic riots was concluded in Kishineff with the acquittal of nine of the defendants, while twentytwo were sentenced to a month's imprisonment. ! Long Acre, the center of the motor car and carriage industry of London, was the scene of a disastrous fii, resulting in damage estimated at $1,250,000. Hundreds of automobiles which had just been returned- from the exhibition were destroyed. Rome is on the verge of a bread fam ine, according to a . dispatch from that city. The strike of bakers has become general, and the government has ordered the army bakeries In the barracks of the garrison to prepare bread for general consumption in the city. IN GENERAL. The Lake Shore and Miehlean South era railroad announced an increase in firemen's wages of from 5 to 20 cents per 100-mile run. The bursting of mill stones in the flour mill nt- t!ie Traonist nxmasterv at Ofc-a Que., resulted In the dt th of two monks onrl the severe woundine of an nwlcfant Weekly trade reviews report an im- . 1 ! J provement in uusmess uu io me passing ihtptp winter weather. Johhp p& kept busy and the retail movement grows. The Mexican forces under Gen. Torres, nnmbrinff 400. killed fortv Ynnnl In dians and took 167 prisoners In a two days' battle in the mountain nzzt La Colorado, uexico.

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WIMHIBalUJd The Senate Tuesday passed the military academy appropriation bill and began consideration of the Indian appro-, priation bill. The bill for the government of the isthmian canal zone also came up, and an agreement was reached to meet an hour earlier Wednesday in order to advance it. In response to a question. Mr. Elkins, chairman of the committee on interstate commerce, expressed the opinion that it would be impossible to secure railroad rate legislation during the present session of Congress. Ex-Senator Kiggins finished his preliminary statement in opening the defense for Judge Swayne, and one witness was examined. The House passed the Philippine tariff .bill practically as it came from committee and with little discussion. The river and harbor appropriation bill was taken. up, but it was soon laid aside, and several measures passed, the most important of which authorizes the Secretary of War to return to several States Union and Confederate battle flags. -: :- The Senate on Wednesday considered the bill providing a civil government for the Panama 'caiual zone. The question of the government's ownership of the Panama railroad and its relation to the general question of government ownership of railroads generally" was debated freely. A number of wKresses were exammed in the Swayne impeachment- case. Washington's farewell address was read. After a brief but spirited ' debate the . House sent back to conference the army appropriation bill". All Senate amendments again were disagreed to with the single exception of one appropriating $'J3,000 for continuing the cable from Valdes to Seward, Alaska. There was renewed discussion over the Miles feature of the bill. The rest of the session was devoted to discussing the river and harbor bill, which was not completed. -: :- The Senate on Thursday passed the bill providing a form of government for the Panama canal zone after accepting an amendment authorizing the purchase rather than the condemnation 0T the remaining stock of the Panama Railroad Company. At 1 o'clock the Swayne impeachment trial was resumed, continuing until adjournment, with an intermission of two hours. The taking of testimony was completed nt 9:20 p. m., and Mr. Olmstead began the argument for th prosecution. The House passed the river md harbor appropriation bill, carrying an appropriation of $17,234,057. An amendment to strike out the provision providing for the transfer of a government dredge from Boston to Lake Michigan was defeated, 21 to 112. The military academy bill was sent to conference after the Senate amendments to appoint Senator Joseph Ilawley and Gen. Peter J. Osteraaus brigadier generals on the retired list had been agreed to. The time of the Senate Friday was iivided between the Swayne impeach ment trial and tiie motion of Senator Jeveridge to appoint conferees on the joint statehood bill. In the Swayne case Messrs. Perkins, Clayton and Powers made arauments for the prosecution, and Mr. IUggins responded in Judge Swayne's behilf. Senator Morgan anagonized the motion to appoint conferees on the statehood bill and held the' floor n opposition when the Senate adjourned for the day. A large part of the bession of the House was devoted to the sundry civil appropriation bill. The appropriation of $130.000 for rental of the old New York custom house was stricken out, 93 to 77, after an excited debate, and the measure was still under discussion at adjournment. Mr. Hull present ed a further conference report on the army appropriation bill, which was or dered printed. The Senate amendments o the Panama canal government bill were disagreed to and the bill sent to conference. Mr. Mann of Illinois introduced a railroad rate bill randone to enforce the common law responsibilities of com mon carriers, and Mr. Hinshaw of Ne braska a resolution for printing 1,000 ad ditional copies of the "Jefferson Bible." A bill was passed making the holder of five shares of stock in national banks with $25,000 capital eligible as a director. The Senate Saturday sent to confer ence the statehood and Panama' Canal government bills, and then proceeded with the Swayne trial, in which the con cluding arguments were mode by Mr. Thurston for the defense and Manager de Armond for the prosecution. The Senate then went into executive session to deliberate on the case, and adopted a motion to begin voting Monday at 10 o'clock, a separate vote to be taken up and Senators Hale and Gorman united la condemning the rapid increase of the navy. A large number of private bills, Including 3G5 pension bills, were passed. The sundry civil bill occupied most of the time of the nouse, action being taken .on a number of mirrr amendments. Bills were passed amending the statute providing a " penalty "for making false statements in seeking to enter publications as second-class matter, and the Mann bill regulating the construction of bridles across navieable waters. At 3 o'clock special exercise were held ac cepting and thanking the State of Texas for statues of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin. i . In the National Capital. The President has sent to the Senate the nomination of George E. Anderson of Illinois to be consul at Amoy, China. President Roosevelt has signed the measure providing for the construction and maintenance of roads and schools and the care of insane persons in Alaska. The House committee on the judiciary, by a vote of 8 to 5, ordered a' favorable report on the Clayton bill repealing the bankruptcy laws. Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheng, the Chi nese tilnister, has received a cablegram from his government stating that abso lute peace prevails in China and that there is no sign of anti-foreign agitation. President Roosevelt intends to give Gen. Thomas L. Resser of Virginia a federal appointment, probably either the postmastersh'p of Charlottesville or the internal revenue collectorship of the sec ond Virginia district. The President has appointed Col. W. R. Nelson, editor of the Kansas City Star, as a member of the board of visit ors to the naval academy at Annapolis for the present year. Senator Iodge has introduced a bil authorizing the striking of bronze medals of honor for persons displaying conspicu ons courajje or undergoing great danger in paving lives in railroad wrecks or in preventing such wrecks. The House committee on Immigration and naturalization has authorized a f.n vorable report ou the Adams bill to pro hibit the entry luto this country of nion than S0.O00 persous from any oiie coun

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INDIANA LAWMAKERS.

In the nouse on Tuesday the codifica tion commission bill on drainage was advanced to engrossment with amendments. The rights and privileges committee re ported for passage of codification com mission's eninent domain bill that passed the Senate. In the nouse the House bill for State laboratory of hygiene, un der direction of State Board of Health, was passed. The Ulrey Senate bill for track elevation in Fort Wayne was passed. The House bill for registration and examination of trained nurses, under board created by bill was passed with amendments. A legislative reapportionment bill was introduced by Senator Kirkman. A new graft scandal was uncovered in the Legislature Wednesday, when Representative Ananias Baker flashed a sealed envelope before the eyes of his as tonished colleagues and shouted that it contained a bribe given him by the tobacco trust to vote against the anti-cigarette bill. Amid silence he tore open the en velope and held up a $100 bill. This dra matic episode was followed by swift action. The members within ten minutes had passed the bill by a vote of 74 to 17. An investigating committee was at once form'ed, and got into action with such celerity that the same evening an affi davit was issued for the arrest of O. A. Baker 'of Marion, a former State Senator and now a tobacco' trust lobbyist, charging him with attempting to corrupt Representative Baker. The House . passed the Newhouse railroad commission bill, Which already has passed the Senate. The measure creates a railroad commis sion, composed of three persons, to ad just freight and express rates, supervise passenger traffic, and adopt regulations necessary to govern car service and the ocation of switches and sidings. Scandal is piling on scandai in the State Legislature. Frank Fitz Gerald, a well-known young attorney and son-in-law of D. M. Parry, acknowledged Thursday that he had "handled" several members of the present House and Senate in the interest of different corporations. His declaration came on the heels of testimony that a number of envelopes containing money and similar to the one received by Representative Baker, whose statement started the present graft investigation, had been sent to a number of members. The names of these members are in the possession of the investigating committee. In the meantime Oscar A. Baker, former State Senator and agent of the tobacco trust, who is charged with having attempted to bribe the legislators to vote' against the anti-cigarette bill, has disappeared. The House, by a vote of 35 to 9, passed the Davis anti-pass bill, which prohibits the issuance of rail road passes to any citizen of the State. The bill provides heavy penalties for vio lations of the law. Senator. Davis of Monroe and Greene counties introduced a bill in the Senate to prevent whites from marrying persons having more than one-eighth Filipino blood. The bill grew out of a situation at Bloomington, where Filipino students are attending the State university and are flirting with white girls. Parents of these girls are fearful of marriages and have requested the passage of the bill. A powerful plea for the abolishment of capital punishment in Indiana was made by Senator Khnbrough, in the Senate Friday, when he introduced amendments to abolish capital punishment, to the (House) codification commission's bill on criminal code, on second reading. The Senator said that if he could be instrumental in abolishing cap ital punishment in Indiana it would be the accomplishment of one of the dreams of his life. The Senate refused to adopt the amendment by a vote of 15 to 2G, and after a long discussion the bill went to enossment. The ways and means committee of the Indiana House, through its chairman, Mr. Sayre, introduced a bill transferring the sinking fund levy of 3 cents to the general fund for the years 1905, 190C and 1907, and providing for its restoration to the sinking fund in 1908 and 1909. This is to provide for the heavy expenses in establishing new State institutions without adding to the total tax levy of the State. The House concurred in the Senate amendments to House bill No. 32, for a State laboratory of hygiene. The Ruick bill, to repeal the Sunday baseball law, was defeated in the House when it came up on third reading, as a special order, at 11 o'clock. The vot was extremely close, and was taken amid great excitement. With only ten members voting against it, the Guirl bill to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies, more commonly called the Guirl anti-trust bill, was passed in the House Saturday, after a compara tively mild discussion lasting little more than a quarter of an hour. It passed as amended on second reading last week, the vote being C3 to 10. The House bill providing for track elevation in Indian apolis was taken. up and.jpassed .by a unanimous vote under suspension of .the rules, notwithstanding the fact, thats it had already passed the Senate bill on the same subject. This was by way of! precaution against any. questions arising regarding the validity of such a bill orig inating in the Senate. The House also passed unanimously the Senate Fort Wayne track elevation bill, which was taken up at the same time äs the Indianapolis bill. The Senate passed the Hcuse criminal code bill, not, however, without amendments, and the bill will go back to the House for concurrence. . Bills Sisroed bx the Governor. .S. B. 14. Hendee. To legalize the in corporation of Lapel, Madison county, Tmerirenev. II. B. 25. . Sweeney. To change the time of holding court in Perry. Craw ford and Harrison counties. Emergency. H. B. 79. : Denbo. To legalize the incorporation of the town of Greenville. Bills on Third Readlncr Senate. S. B, 284. Bell. Allowing school trustees to issue bonds for school Durposes before the redemption of bonds already issued and unpaid. Passed, 37 to 0. S. B. 59. Tarks. Repealing law making it necessary for contracts for agency for the sale of real estate to be in writing. Passed, 27 to 11. U. B. 109. Rock. To legalize the incorporation of the town of Shirley, in Hancock and Hendricks county. Passed, 40 to 1. S. B. 24. Lyons. Providing that in case a change of venue from a Circuit court is granted the case must be sent to the judge of an adjoining circuit, instead of to any circuit in the State. Passed, 40 to 2. n. B. 191. Wade. To legalize the incorporation of the. town ct Grif2n, Posev county. Passed, 40 to 0.

INHERITANCE TAX PILL.

m port ant Revenue Measure Before the Legislature. tn diana polls correspondence: Senator Wickwire of the SteubenDekalb district, is the author of the important inheritance tax bill which has passed the1 Senate, arid yet the measure does not bear his name.. Attorney Gentral Miller discovered that the bill, being a tax measure, must under the constitution originate in the House, whence all revenue measures must spring. He therefore has had a duplicate of the bill introduced in the House, so it will be Senator Wickwire's bill after all, which. if passed, will become the law. The Legislature passed a bill of this character two years ago, but it was thought to be faulty by Gov. Durbin, who felt constrained to veto it. This year Senator Wickwire made a searching study of the Illinois law on the subject, and incorporated the main features of the Illinois act in his bill. As the Illinois courts have pas-sed upon the act, this seemed the safe thing to do to insure a law which would stand fire in litigation. Senator Wickwire spoke in behalf cf his bill, which passed the Senate with a big majority. Among other things, he said: This is a bill to raise revenue with which to meet the expenses necessary to ttie conduct of the state government. Demand after demand is made upon this Legislatur for appropriations; many of these demands absolutely must be met and most of them are eminently just. But money must be collected before it is paid out. There is but one way in which the State can collect money and that Is by the Imposition of taxes in some form. The right of a government to levy taxes depends upon the protection it pivr-s to those by whom the tax is paid and therefore, as every owner of property has the protection of the law, he is Justly required to pay a share of what it costs. It has been proposed to Increase the general tax levy In order to Insure the necessary Income. I say to you that the common people pay taxes enough. 1 am opposed to the placing of heavier burdens upon the men of moderate means. They are now taxed upon everything which they have and the State ought not to add to the burdens that they bear. I find upon the statute book of the State f Illinois a law which has beea in operation In that State for ten years, ad ling to its revenue the sum of $1)17,377 lu two years. Senate bill 153, which Is modeled on the same lines, provides: That the direct descendant who receives under the statlute of descents, or by will, an estate In excess of JlO.Ooo, shall take the excess over SlU.ooo, less $1 on the $100. That dollar the State keeps as toll. It tolls the secoud $10.000 to the amount of $ln onlv. It tolls what he gets over $10,000, but takes nothing from him that he has. Under the proposed law those who are collateral kindred to the decedent will take their legacies subject to a toll on amounts so received in excess of $,000. Those who ar not kin to him, but strangers to his blood, will take what they get subject to a toll in the excess of $GuO. GOSSIP ABOUT CARDINALS. STaeta Not Generally Known Regarding These Church Dignitaries. There are at present sixty-one cardinals and nine vacant places; thirtyseven are Italians, six French-rCar-dinal Richard of Taris, who Is SJ, being the eldest member of the sacred college; five Spaniards counting Cardinal Merry del Val, aged 39, and the youngest of the cardinals, as u Spaniard; five Austrians and Hungarians, three Germans, one Portuguese, one Belgian, one American, on 3 Irishman, one Englishman and one Australian. Of the entire sacred college Cardinal Oreglia is the only survivor from the consistories of Pius IX.; Netto of Lisbon is the oldest living of Leo's creations, and after him come Moran cf Sydney and Capecelatro of Capua, each of whom has been cardinal for twenty years. Cardinal Gibbons follows with nineteen years in the cardinalate; so his eminence of Baltimore is now in order of seuiority among the princes of the church. Rarely in history has the sacred college been composed of such a great proportion of men over 70. There are no fewer than twenty-three of them who have surpassed man's allotted span of threescore and ten: Cardinal Richard is SO; Gruscha, 85 Capecelatro, 81; Steinhuber, SO; No cella, 79; Goosens, 78; Perraud, DJ Pietro and Oreglia, 77; Couille (who was received In private audience bythe holy father recently) and Manara, 7G; Moran, 75; Lecot, 74; Vaszary, Macchi, Kathschaler and Agliardl, 73; Sancha and Cretoni, 72; Gotti, Gibbons, Casana and Serafino Vannu-. telll, 71. Thirty of the cardinals reside in Rome and are engaged in different congregations which form the central administration of the church under the supreme guidance of the sovereign pontiff, and of these thirty only four are non-Italians the Spaniards, Merry del Val and Vivos; the German, Steinhuber, and . the French, Matthieu. Ten of the cardinals belong to re ligious orders there are two Oratorians, two Benedictines, one Jesuit, one Dominican, one Capuchin, one Franciscan, one Carmelite and one Augnstinlan. Eight of the cardinals are simple priests, and with the death of Cardinal Martel a few years ago the last of the cardinals who never advanced as far as the priesthood passed away. Freeman's Journal. Real Riebe s. . ... "Who Is the richest man In the world?" asks an exchange and begins measuring ' millions against millions. All wrong.- The richest man In the world is the one that gets the greatest amount of 'happiness but of what he has, whatever it Is. It is an old truth, but it was never truer than it is to-day. Pueblo (Col.) Chief tain. Among Onr Neighbors. John Arlex, a Russian miner, acci dentally shot and fatally injured äiipself v-hile hunting near Clinton. The Castalian Literary Society ha? been organized by the young women students in Moores Hill college. About 200 people living near Hartsville, Hope and Newburn took part in the first fox chase which has been held in this county for years. A large gray fox was routed out shortly after the drive began, but this animal made good its escape, and no others were seen. Sparks ignited a pool of oil on the banks of the Wabash river in Terre Haute and the flames menaced the plant of the Citizens' Gas Company for some time. As a result of a threatened investigation by the grand Jury and the crusade started against the gambling element, the gamblers in Rushville have taken to their heels and places where gambling has been carried on have been closed. A jury In the Circuit Court in Marion found John Vance guilty of a charge of stcaliaj fifteen chickens and fixed- hit -cuinlcc at from one to three years in the State penitentiary. Vance was convicted on purely circumstantial evidence.

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inAnuAL The weekly re dew of CNCulQ I hIca trade, published I by R. G. Dun & Co.. says: Business activity derived some stim ulus from the improved weather in the last few days, d a closer approach to normal conditions has brought recovery In distributive lines, but the adverse effects of recent storms and unusually low temperatures are seen lu further lessened .marketing of farm products and coal famine at various in terior points. Grain and live stock re ceipts make an unfavorable exhibit, and,- though there wras much general freight and passenger carrying, railroad earnings present a smaller per centage of gain. These drawbacks, however, now are being rapidly remedied, and it Is reassuring that the snowfall provided ample protection to growing crops, the position of wheat and rye. being reported good. Leading retail trade quickly revived. and the buying was sharply increased In foodstuffs, apparel and household needs. Visiting merchants arrived In fair numbers, considering the discouragements of travel, and satisfactory progress was made in the jobbing lines. the bookings In dry goods, millinery. clothing and footwear indicating that country requirements for spring deliv ery will be large. Frequent reorders appeared for urgent shipn ents to several points where winter stocks had fallen low and replenishment was imperative. The demand for groceries and collateral lines was steady, and hardware forwardings for farm use were large. The strike of teamsters having been settled and deliveries assured, trade at the lumber yards again became brisk, material for building purposes here and on the outside being in strong demand. Manufacturers had no trouble in getting necessary raw material and fuel, and plants were run steadily, some of them employing more hands. Pig iron sales remained quiet, but there was strengthened demand for rails and other finished forms. Some of the principal factories gradually are working Into enlarged productions, and these have bought more freely of supplies. Grain dealings were largely speculative, spot transactions being limited, and aside from a manipulated rise In wheat valuees closed but slightly higher than a week ago. Receipts of grain, 3,009,003 bushels, compared with 4,343,37S bushels for the same week last year, and the shipments aggregated 1,740,743 bushels, against 2.101.679 bushels, tb? total movement exhibiting a surprising shrinkage. Failures reported In the Chicago district numbered 30, against 21 last week and 33 a year ago. Bradstreet's we e k 1 y commercial report says: Cold, stormy weather. Kev YorL the most severe and widely distributed in some respects of the winter, has had a depressing effect on the trade at wholesale and retail and has disorganized railroad transportation in some sections, Interfering with various lines of industry, such as coal mining, coke and iron manufacturing and shipping, heretofore active. Relatively the worst effects on opening spring trade are noted in the Northwest and West. The result is a curtailment of the activities of salesman over a wide area which, taken in conjunction with the occurrence of a holiday in many States, has reduced the week's trade to very small proportions. Business failures In the United States for the week ended Feb. 10 number 243, against 207 last week, 231 In the like week in 1904, 1SS in 1903, 22S in 1902, and 221 in 1901. In Canada failures for the week number 17, against 20 last wek and 23 in this week a year ago. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $5.75; hog?, shipping grades, $4.00 to $4.95; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 t $6.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.18 to $1.19; corn, No. 2, 4 He to 45c; oats, staudard, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 2, 75c to 7Sc; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $13.50; prairie, $0.00 to $10.50; butter, choice creamery, - COc to 34c; eggs, fresh, 25c to 27c; potatoes, 28c to 37c Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to $4.C5; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.20 to $1.21 ; corn, No. 3 yellow, 4Cc to 4Sc; oats, No. 3 white, 32c to 34c; rye, No. 2, S4c to SCc. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.11 to $1.15; corn, No. 3, 42c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye. No. 1, 81c to 83c; barley, No. 2, 51c to 52c; pork, mess, $12.S0. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.16 to $1.18; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye, No. 2, 81c to 83c; clover seed, prime, $7.57. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, 4.00 to $;.50; hogs, fair to-choice, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $G.00; lambc fair to choice, $4.50 to $8.50. New York Cattle, $3.50 to $5.70; hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep. $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.19 to $1.22; corn, No. 2, 52c to 54c; oats, natural, white, 37c to SSc; butter, creamery, 27c to COc; eggs, western, 27c to 31c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.00; theep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.73; wheat, No. 2, $1.18 to $1.20; corn, No. 2 White, 43c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $5.90; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep. $1.00 to $6.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.12 to $1.14; com, NcJ 2, 43c to 45c; oats. No. 2, 32c to 34c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 72c Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $3.25; ho ts, $4.00 to $5.20; fheep, $2.00 to $3.40; wheat, No. 2, $1.19 to $1.21; corn, No. 3 mixed," 45c to 47c; oats. No. 2 nixed, 31c to C3c; rye, No. 2, S4c to