Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 26, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 March 1905 — Page 2

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a U Q.N. M. F. Q.F. M 12 26th. ;r? 4th. I 12th. y lDth. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides aud Conditions off Thins are Shown. Nothing Ore r looked to make it Complete. Train Struck by Landslide. Passengers on the Keystone express, eastbound on the Pennsylvania railroad, had a narrow escape when a landslide caught the train at Packondale, five miles west of Altoona, Pa. D. C. Ingram, a passenger, residence unknown, was the most seriously injured. Tons of earth and rock came down off the mountain just as the train was passing, burying the front of the engine, but it did not damage, the other part of the train. The train was derailed. The passengers were thrown into a panio by the mishap, and traffic was delayed for several hours. Strack by Tornado. The little town of Louisburg, Minn., in the extreme western portion of the state, has been practically wiped out by a tornado and seven persons were seriously injured. It vras also stated that from two to seven were killed. A tornado struck the business portion of Eldorado, Kas., unroofing several business houses, wrecking a hotel and schoolhouse. Mrs. Ida Madison was reriously injured by her house falling and ci.tching her in the rains. Loss $30,000. Anhenser-Bnsch Beer Depot Burned. The freight depot of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, located in the center of its immense freight yards in the southern part of St. Louis, Mo., was totally destroyed by fire together with seventeen relrigerator cars, the property of the St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company, of which Adolphus Busch is the president. The total loss is estimated at $125,000. The loss is covered by insurance. People Mourn Death of Ilevo. . A dispatch from Rome says: The notorious Catanian brigand Groce Levispis, has been killed by a Land of Carbineers near Pelagona, where he had .gone to receive $10,000 blackmail from a rich farmer. Levispis offered desperate resistance when attacked. With a revolver in each hand he gave the Carbineers a hard fight. The people are mourning him as a hero. Burned to Death in Bonfire. Mrs. Mary Bard, 53 years old, of Union City, Ind., was burned to death while burning trash, ller clothing was ignited by the bonfire. Tonia, the 3-year-old daughter of Charles Gille, who lives near Nashville, Ind., was burned to death. The child was watching her father burn trash In the side yard. Her dress caught fire. Peculiar Accident. While Arthur Ilughes.aged 15, was playing ball in a vacant lot near an oil plant in Parker City, a few miles from Muncie, Ind., the ball struck a can of nitroglycerine supposed to be empty. Ills eyes were blown out by the explosion which followed, and physicians say he can not live. Ray Char'.es, a companion, was also badly injured. Attempt to Kill South Bend Man. An unknown man vainly tried to assassinate T. W. Norton, foreman at the Studebaker works at South Bend. Ind., by firing through a window while the family was at supper. The would-be assassin is supposed to have been an aggrieved employe. The police are busy looking into the case. Boys Striket Men Idle. About 500 men were rendered idle through a strike of over 200 boys employed at the D. O. Cunningham glass plant at Pittsburg, Pa. The boys have been receiving $4.50 weekly, but they demand $5. A detail of police was ordered to the factory to prevent disorder. Found Body of Missing Man in Hirer. The body of Henry Talkemier, aged 60, of Vincennes, Ind., who disappeared six weeks ago, was found in the Wabash river by two fishermen. The body was identified by an old resident, who came from Germany in company with Talkemier thirtyfive years ago. Mississippi Village Destroyed by Fire. Sixteen buildings, fourteen residences, a drug store and a grocery, were destroyed by fire at Walters, Miss. 'The estimated loss is $50,000. Insurance, $20,000. Walters Is a village two miles north of Vicksburg. Attempt to Assassinate Russian Chief of Police. Warsaw special: A bomb was thrown Into the carriage of Baron Von Nolken, chief of police of Warsaw. It was reported that the baron was severely wounded. Forty Box Cars Burned.. Over forty box cars were destroyed by fixe in the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad yards, four miles from Evansville, Ind. Loss, $50,000. Barrymore la Dead. Maurice Barrymore, the actor, who has been an inmate of the Long Island Home, Amityville, L. L, for the past six years, died of paresis. He was the father of Miss Ethel Barrymore and Jack Barrymore, the well known actor. Eight Soldiers Killed in Hungarian Landslide. A great landslide occurred at Semlbx, Hungary. A squadron of soldiers who went to the rescue of a buried woman suffered severely, eight of their number being killed and nineteen injured. Cervantes House la Burned. All but the lower part of the Duke of Medina's house at ArganvcLUa, Spain, in which Cervantes wrote "Don Quixote," has been burned. The fire is attributed to an unknown man smoking in the garret The destruction of this national treasure is greatly lamented. Orders Submarine Boats. The Fore River Shipbuming Company of Quincy, Mass., has signed a contract to construct four subcarine torpedo bo,r:s of the Holland type for the United States government. Ti e contract provides that the boats shall be completed within eighteen months.

EASTERN. Jonathan Reed, who since the death f his wife eight years ago has lived in her tomb in Svergreen cemetery, New York, has been stricken with apoplexy. The Brockton, Mass., relief committee has issued an appeal for contributions for the sufferers by the recent factory fire there. The relief fund nw amounts to $29,607. One hundred dollars, stolen by a burglar from David Thompson, an old, infirm man, in Center Moriches, N. Y., has been returned. It was found tied to the outside doorknob of his residence. The Rev. Elmer U. Capen. D. D., president of Tufts college, died at his home in Medford, Mass., of pneumonia. Dr. Capen was C7 years of age. He had been president of Tufts since 1875. Maurice Barrymore, once famous as an actor, died in a sanitarium at Amityville, L. I. His last appearance on the tage was in a monologue act in a variety house in New York City four years ago. Delaware Legislature adjourned sine die without having elected a United States Senator, and the State will be without its fall representation in tl

upper branch of Congress for at le;; two TP.irs ronro I Charles urd of St. Louis, a lawyer, 35 years old, was found in his apartments at the Hotel Imperial in New York suffering from a self-inflicted bullet wound in the left temple. Mr. Erd declared that he had not attempted to kill himself. During a heavy fog William Higgins, a ferryman, attempted to row five men across the Monongahela river at Charleroi. Pa., in a skiff. The boat was carried over the dam and capsized, the occupants thrown into the swollen stream and swept out of sight. The Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Mass., has signed a contract to construct four submarine torpedo beats of the Holland type for the United States government. The contract provides that the boats shall be completed within eighteen mouths. WESTERN. Winter wheat in Nebraska is reported to be in very fine condition. A little Wyoming girl stuffed her baby sister with cotton to make her fatter and nearly killed the infant. As a result of a quarrel over some land, James Blee shot and killed Isaac Sailer, a half-brother, at Swan, Iowa. The King anti-trust law has been declared unconstitutional in Arkansas in a test case on the arrest of a St. Louis house commercial traveler. Miss Leslie Reece of London, England, and Charles HoMsworth of New York were married on the stage of the Bijsu theater in Kenosha, Wis. A windy shot in the Princeton. lud., coal mine caused a fearful explosion, killing six men and injuring three others. Many more were entombed in the mine. Marie Bower, a child in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, swallowed the contents of a bottle of pills and died from the effects. She had found them on the sideboard. Alonzo J. Whiteman cf Dansville, N. Y., a former Mayor of Duluth and a former member of the Minnesota Legis lature, has been acquitted of a charge j of grand larceny. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," was defeated in his suit for divorce in Sheridan, Wyo. Judge Scott in refusing the decree praised Mrs. Cody and made some unique rulings. Navigation opened on the Mississippi river Thursday, the ice on the upper river going out in a general movement. The opening of navigation is a week earlier than last year. Elmer Browning, who was held for the murder of Sarah Schafer. was set free by Judge Wilson in Bedford, Ind.. the grand jury having failed to find evidence to warrant an indictment.Frank Ely Rogers, the boy who disappeared from his home in Evauston, I1L, four years ago, returned, but refused to reveal the whereabouts of his aunt, Florence A. Ely, who vanished the same day. Burlington train No. 40 was wrecked in West Lincoln, Neb., and thirty-three persons were injured. The smoking car and rear coach turned completely over. The engine and baggage car did not leave the track. Moderator Gladden, of the Congregational Church, in a sermon in Columbus, Ohio, denounced John D. Rockefeller as chief of plunderers and says the acceptance of his $l(A,00O gift would merit th. scorn of honest men. The body of Mrs. Hnry Fail, who was overcome in a snowstorm and frozen to death, was found three miles from her home in Judkins Park, Colo. Her 13-year-old sou lay beside her; still alive. He probably will die. Niki von Braun, said to be a German nobleman, in prison in Michigan City, Ind., for larceny, may be returned to his native land on parole. The German consul in Chicago is making plans to send Von Braun back home. While working over a washtub, Mrs. Anne Ellsworth Werner, wife of a Cinnati contractor, dropped dead from heart trouble. In preparing the body for burial $3,000 in bonds and $151 in cash were found in the bustle she wore at the time. Albert F. Bell, one of the msst notorious mail-pouch robbers in the United States, made a successful dash for lib erty from the United States prison on McNeil's Island, Tacoma, Wash., and scaped into the woods near the prison. The battleship Kansas is to be christened with oil instead of the traditional bottle of champagne, according to a statement made by Gov. xioch, who added: "It will not be Standard oil or Independent oil. but just Kansas crude oil." A Great Northern west-bound passenger train was wrecked by a rock slide near Katka, Idaho. ' Engineer Owen Jones of Hillyard was killed and his engine plunged into the Kootenai river. None of the passengers was seriously injured. At Anoka, Minn., indictments for murder in the second degree have been returned against Churlus Hammon, Olin Kaedermet and John Kolb. They are accused of killing Freddie King, a child, who was with his father in a saloon when robbers entered. In a storm an electric power wire was broken and fell across a door knob of the home of John McGovern, engineer at tho asylum for the insane in St. Louis. McGovern was instantly killed by the electricity as he started to open the door after dinner. A second attempt, by means" of crowbars imbedded in the ties, was made to wreck the Twentieth Century flyer on the Pennsylvania west of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The discovery was made in time by track walkers, who have been specially vigilant since the first attempt. One of the largest transactions ever recorded in the Minneapolis grain trade was made Wednesday. The F. IL Peavey Company sold, in a single trade, about 2,000 cars of wheat to a single purchaser, said to be the WashburnCrosby Company. The transaction was for cash. Urs. Adam Cteiner, aged 35, xrent vrith her 2-year-old baby to tadxt hex

husband fight a prairie fire close to their home near Stanley, N. D. When the fire was extinguished Mrs. Steiner was found burned to death. Her baby, who was standing near with all its clothes burned o?, died later. After awakening from a nap, Fred Schmidt of St. Louis was stricken speechless just as he was about to call to his wife. He had been ill for several days. Physicians stated the case to be motor aphasia, and say he may become permanently speechless. Schm'dt's bearing is unaffected. In Pomeroy, Ohio, the jury in the noted county treasury robbery case returned a verdict of not guilty against Treasurer T. J. Chase. The trial grows out of the robbery of the county treasury of nearly $15,000 last September, in which Chase claimed he was held up by masked men and robbed. Dr. W. P. Spring, a prominent physician and former county coroner, died in Minneapolis after having been unconscious more than sixty hours. Dr. Spring vas developing photographic negatives ir a dark room in his office when he was overcome by gas fumes from a defective connection on a gas heater. Frasier McGowan, 3 years old. and Wilfred Bondi, 4 years old, were found dead on the ice on Lake Mendota in Madison, Wis., by A. McGowan, father of Frasier. The ce gave way while the children were trying to cross with their sleds and although the water was only three feet deep they were unable to climb out. Fire which started in a paper bin in the basement of the Columbus Dry Goods Company's store in North High street. Columbus. Ohio, destroyed the structure and for a time threatened the destruction of a four-story business block and a slxstory apartment house adjoining. The leas is estimated at $200,000. Four firemen were slightly hurt. It is announced that a contract for eight-inch pips for a line from the Chanute h1 field to Kansas City, where it is purposed to erect an independent refinery, has been let by J. B. Levy, formerly of Ohio, representing eastern capital, to a company at Kansas City for $211.000, work on the line to commence in forty days from date. With the robbery Wednesday of substation No. 4 in Des Moines, the third postofflce to be robbed in as many days, the postil authorities have become convinced that a ".system is being worked there, and United States secret service men will be sent for. The robberies are committed In a similar manner. Indicating that the same gang is doing the work.

FOREIGN. The British House of Commons by a vote of 254 to 2 adopted a resolution declaring against a protective tariff and discredited the Chamberlain policy. Dispatches from Russia say all classes 'reaiize that carrying on the war would be folly, and reports from Paris declare that a preliminary peace conference already has been held in Stockholm. The Russian war office has issued a statement that 774,554 officers and men have been sent to the far East. From this it is figured that the Russian losses up to the present time are about 500,000 men. It is reported that Japanese torpedo boats have sunk the Russian battleships Navarin and Sissoi Veliky of the Baltic fleet, which sailed recently from Nossi Be, Madagascar. The report cannot be confirmed. All but the lower part of the Duke of Medina's house at Argamasilla, Spain, in which Cervantes wrote "Don Quixote," has been burned. The fire is attributed to an unknown man smoking in the garret. The destruction of this national treasure is greatly lamented. It is announced from Caracas ' that President Castro has replied to Minister Bowen's final proposal for arbitration by denying that Venezuela has questions pending with the United States and saying the case of the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company must remain in the courts. A member of the nobility and two more pages have ben dismissed from court service. Bays a dispatch from St. Petersburg. Something of a sensation was caused by the news, following so closely the dismissal of another page a few days ago. The Czar is in great terror of assassination. Ten peasants were killed and fifty were wounded, eleven fatally, at Lamenta, Russian Poland, by infantry sent to quell disturbances. A crowd of peasants from Benignowa proceeded to Laments to induce the farm laborers to strike, and rioting took place. The shooting is said to have been wanton. Jules Verne, the famous French novelist, died Friday at his home in Amiens. He was born at Nantes in 1828. Like many other famous authors, he began his career by studying law, but he found this profession not congenial and began to gratify his taste for writing. At that time the stage offered the best inducements to a young author, cid he wrote play3 and librettos, and for a time was secretary of the Theater Lyrique. In 1803 he published his "Five Weeks in a Balloon," and this decided his future. He had discovered his power to combine in the form of a sttry daring flights of the imagination with the operation of the laws of nature. For thirty-seven years he wrote an average of two stories every year. His most popular books are "A Journey to the Center of the Earth," "Around the World in Eighty Days," Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," "The Mysterious Island," "Michael Strogoff" and "From the Earth to the Moon." IN GENERAL. Dr. Ami of the geological survey is of the opinion that diamond wealth is hidden in that part of Canada between the great lakes and Hudson bay. The weekly trade reviews show an encouraging expansion in all the principal branches. Distribution is liberal and railroad earnings are larger on enormous tonnage. Sandercock and MacDoaald, highwaymen, were sentenced by Judge Richards in Winnipeg to fifteen and ten years respectively, with seventy-five lashes, for robbery with violence from Winnipeg merchants. Aoieail Becker, famed in song and story throughout Canada, is dead at her home at Walsingham Center. Unaided she saved the crew of the schooner Conductor, wrecked at Long Point, on Lake Erie, in Novemoer, iCk5. or her braverv the government gave her a farm, Buffalo ship owners $1,000 and the New York Life Saving Association a gold medal. President BDsvelt has approved the sentence of the court-martial inflicted upon Midshipman Arrowood of North Carolina, recently tried for desertion from the navy. The sentence carries with it dismissal from the navy and the law bearing on the case provides that a man so dismissed shall not hereafter be elisibl to any of the rights ct citisenship. Arrowood deserted becaure he claimed that he could not oDey orctrs in the nary and remain a Christian and a

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WILL THE STAYING HAND GLADDEN WEARY EYES?

Chicago Tribune. MUCH WORK BY CONGRESS. Record Shows Last Session to Have Been the Busiest on Record. F. H. Wakefield, docket clerk of t'.e House of Representatives, has prepared a statement showing the amount of work done by the Fifty-eighth Congress as compared with previous Congresses as far back as the Fifty-second. The report shows that the number of bills and resolutions introduced aggregated 20,074. The various House committees reported on a total of 4,904 measures, including Senate acts and resolutions. The House passed U,t5G of its own bills and resolutions duriD? the second session and 551 of the G20 Senate acts and resolutions that had been reported from committees. At the close of tho session it left on the union calendar unacted on 112 bills, of which thirty orig inated in the Senate, having passed 247 of the 359 bills and resolutions ref ern d to that calendar. Upon the House calendar, to which there were referred 409 bills and reso lutions, only sixty-four remained unacted upon, of which fifty-three were of House origin, and eleven of Senate. On the pri vate calendar, to which was referred a total of 3,841 bills and resolutions, 232 remained unacted upon, of which twenty-eight were of Senate origin. Of the House bills sent to the benate for concurrence only 122 failed to be acted on. while twenty-five House bills were indefinitely postponed in the Sen ate, xnese were largely private pension bills and were postponed mostly because of the death of the proposed beneficiary. For the same reason the Senate recalled twenty of its own bills after the House committee had favorably reported them. Of all the House bills sent to the President for his approval only one failed to receive his signature and become a law. The work of the House in the Fiftyeighth Congress, as compared with the Fifty-seventh Congress, shows an in crease of 2,514 in the number of bills introduced; an increase of 2o per cent, or 983 in the number of reports made, and an increase of 104 in the number of pub lic acts. The number of private cts showed a gain of 1,156. From the Fif ty-second to the Fifty-eighth Congress the numbar of bills and resolutions in troduced increased in number from 10,623 to 20,074; the nuuber of reports made from 2,613 to 4,904; the public laws enacted from 39S to 574; the private laws from 3-4 to 3,467, and the number of pages of the Congressional Record from 2.C20 to 4,246. The num ber of days of actual session of the House in the Fifty-eighth Congress were 190. as compared with 340 In the Fiftysecond, 447 in the Fifty-third, 2S0 in the Fifty-fourth, 242 in the Fifty-fifth, 11)7 in the Fifty-sixth, and 222 in the Fiftyseventh'. DIVORCE DENIED COL. CODY. Wyomlngjndiie Praises Wife and Cen- ! nres the Showman. "Buffalo Bill" has lost his suit for divorce. The District Court at Sheridan, Wyo., decided against CoL Cody, holding that he had failed to prove any of the charges made against his wife. In cidentally the court gave high praise to Mrs. Cody, while severely censuring her husband. Judge Scott in rendering his decision said: "Mrs. Cody was an overindulgent mother and wife, who always took pride in his success and always looked forward to his homecoming and made great preparations to receive him. She entertained his guests with cordiality. She did not use profane language. The poisoning of his pet dogs was accidental. She never spoke disrespectfully of him to his friends or guests. She always accompanied him to the depot on his departures and was there to receive him on his returns. . In her home she has a large statue of him in the hall; in her bedroom she has his portrait done by a famous painter, and on her table she has his photograph, while the dishes she used were souvenir ones stamped or etched with his portrait ouch, in brief, is the character and conduct of Mrs. Cody extending over a long period of her married life. "In return for this wlf . . devotion the plaintiff has been cruel U her, and heaped indignities upon her." DETAILS OF JAPANESE LOAN. New York and London Each to Take $75,OOO.QOO of the Amount. The final details of the Japanese loan were concluded in London Friday with the exception ef the exact date of issue. This has not yet been decided, but it will not be delayed. The amount Is $150.000,000 with interest at 4 per cent The price of issue Is 90 and the security will be the net receipts of the tobacco monopoly of Japan, amounting to $16,000,000, according to the budget for the next fiscal year. The loan will be issued simultaneously In New York and London, each of these cities taking $75,000.000. The American Issuing banks are Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and others participating in the previous loan, while the. British half of the loan is handled by the group of banks which was responsible for the earlier flotations. The lean is redeemable after five years. Some subscription is expected in Holland and Switzerland. It is said here that although German banks exhausts every effort to eecare participation in the loan thev have been rigorously excluded, as Japan found no diacuhy in securing the amount requirsd in New York and London.

CONFLICTING RUMORS OF PEACE.

St Petersburg dispatches say that the Czar, alarmed by the prospect of utter disaster which now seems to confront the Russian arms, has put up his hand and turned an unwilling ear to the peace party. The ministers and other court advocates of tentative advances to Japan, looking toward the closing of the war, are Jubilant. They believe they have triumphed over the grand dukes and their followers. It is declared on the very highest of authority that an actual move is about to be made; if, indeed, it is not already under way. Ln the conflicting rumors Issuing from St Petersburg there is little upon which to base an accurate estimate of the situation, but that counsels of peace are now obtaining a more favorable hearing among Russian high offlJOHN U. HARLAN. RIVAL CANDIDATES clals than at any previous time since the war opened is manifest The war party still maintains a threatening front and declares that the idea of seeking a settlement is ridiculous. That the ministry Is seriously weighing the possibility of getting an honorable and not too costly settlement however, cannot be doubted. If it could have definite assurances that the penalties which Japan will exact are not too severe It probably would begin peace overtures at once. Just what price Japan will demand is still wholly a matter of conjecture. The Chicaco Daily News says that un doubtedly Japan will require the ces sion of Port Arthur and the Liaotung peninsula, international control of the Chinese Eastern railway and the permanent withdrawal of Russia from Manchuria. If this Is all it requires Russia apparently is likely to strike a bargain. If it adds a cash indemnity or a demand for the cession of any Russian territory, none of which has yet been occupied by Japanese forces, Russia may conclude to continue the war. It has still to consider the possibility that Rojestvenskyl's fleet may accomplish something and it may be that negotiations are now delayed only to see what the result of the approaching naval battle will be. Meantime Japan continues Its preparations for further fighting and pays no heed to gossip of peace. The interviews of its diplomatic representatives Indicate that Japan means to insist upon a cash Indemnity. If that is to be its attitude the probability of an early peace would seem to depend largely upon whether the victor is willing to make the dose less disagreeable by allowing the payment to be made under some other name. In its present plight Russia might agree to pay a handsome sum ostensibly to reimburse Japan for divers Incidental expenses. All Aromttd the Globe. The Bryan Cotton Oil Company's plan in Bryan, Texas, was destroyed by fire. Loss is $100,000, with $60,000 insurance. A machine is being perfected in a Birmingham, England, shop that la to turn out from 90,000 to 100,000 finished wire nails an hour. Three murderers and two thieves were freed from jail hi Madisonville, Ky., by some one outside cutting Iron bars from a rear window. -, - The plant of the Jewett City Textile Novelty Company at Jewett City, Conn., was totally destroyed by fire. Loss $80,000, insurance' $50,000. At a meeting of the creditors of the General Metals Company at Colorado Springs, Colo., an order was issued providing for the sale of the Telluride mill. William G. Edens' of Chicago is one of the leading candidates for the position of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, made vacant by the resignation of J. L. Bristow. An explosion in the Yough mine, Lrwin, Pa., caused by a miner igniting a blast, started a fierce fire in the shaft and endangered the lives of 1W men who were at werk at tha tica.

STREET CARS THE ISSUE.

An Extraordinary Municipal Cam pal en in Progress in Chicago. Two candidates for Mayor, who propose to achieve municipal ownership of the street railway system by different methods, are giving Chicago one of the most picturesque campaigns in its history. One is John Maynard Harlan, the Republican nominee, and the other is Judge Edward F. Dunne, the choice of the Democrats. Judge Dunne is generally looked upon as the real municipal ownership candidate. The Municipal Ownership League has indorsed him, and many of the Socialists have announced their intention to vote for him. Dunne proposes to offer the traction companies a fair price for their tangible properties and a reasonable compensation for the franchises which have yet a term of years to run. If the companies refuse to sell, he proposes to go at once into the courts. He will endeavor to JUDGE E. F. DUNNE. FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO. have each franchise forfeited as soon as it expires, and to have the traction companies outsted from the streets. Then he proposes to build rival city lifis on the principal streets. Such a course, in a few years, would leave the existing companies without downtown connections. Harlan proposes to grant the existing companies a new franchise, at the expiration of which they are to sell out to the city. If they refuse he proposes to build rival lines. The campaign is just now in full swing. The Republican nominee, in a fast automobile, rushes about to various portions of the city, making four speeches In the evening. The Democratic leader has been forced to place a substitute on the bench and take the stump in his own defense, and Is making one speech a night. Millions in Patent Medicines. Take all the cocoa and chocolate manufactured in this country in a year. Add all the blacking and bluing, the flavoring and extracts and the axle grease. Take next a year's product of that beet sugar Industry which was important enough to hold up a great treaty for two years in the Congress of the United States. Throw on all the glue, the refined lard, the castor oil, the perfumes and cosmetics, and the kindling wood. Finally put on top of the pile the entire output of ink and mucilage. The total value of this accumulation will still be less than that of a year's product of what we call "patent medicines." The census of 1900 placed the value of "patent medicine" produced in this country annually at $59,611,335. As the average profit is about one-third, this means that the lump paid over the retail druggists' counters, taking no account of increased consumption in the last four years, Is something like $S0,000,000 a year, about a dollar for every man, woman and child in the country. London Truth asserts that "now, for the first time in centuries, England possesses, in Sir Edward Elgar, at least one composer of international repute." The Czar of Russia and the German Kaiser might each sleep in a different house every night for a month and not exhaust the number of his palaces. Prince Adalbert, the Kaiser's sailor son, a midshipman on the cruiser Bertha, now in the Indian ocean, is being entertained royally wherever he goes. J. M. Bacon, a distinguished aeronaut who died recently, was a scholar of Trinity college, Dublin, was ordained and held a curacy, and later turned to science. King Leopold of Belgium, who has never signed a death warrant during the thirty-nine years of his reign, thus keeps the promise made his mother on her deathbed. Bizet died three mouths after the first production of "Carmen" in Paris, it being a failure. The thousandth performance of the opera has just been had in the French capital. Admiral Togo received his early naval training on the British man of war Worcester. It was commanded by Captain John Henderson Smith, R, N. R,, who dlt4 a few days ajjo.

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IAL Dun's review of Chicago trade, published by It G. Dun & Co., the mer Chicago. cantile agency, says: c Developments have continued favorable to business, and the volume of production and distribution steadily expanded, new demands Imparting a more encouraging tone In operations, especially with reference to futura employment A larger use of money now is evident, and the showing of the local national banks creates a good impression. With the seasonable weather which rtiainly prevailed, the leading retail lines were enabled to make a satisfactory advance. Personal buying was very largely augmented throughout the jobbing division, and the manufacturing .branches added materially to bookings. Iron and steel gained additional strength from the orders receiv d for rails, pig iron, plates, and structural material. Trices have maintained firmness and became higher for sheet3. Inquiries show that the railroads will make further notable purchases of rolling stock and track material, and considerable bridge work is contemplated. The market exhibited well distributed demand, and notwithstanding the large supplies there was satisfactory absorption and steadiness in values. Leather and sundries were in good request, and the leather working branches, particularly shoes, obtained a fair amount of new business for fall delivery. Breadstuffs experienced a pood demand, and the wvement of grain reached unusually large proportions. Bank clearings, $19S,052,99S, were 19.4 per cent over those of corresponding week last year. Money was In steady demand, and the discount rate for choice commercial paper ranged from 4 to 5 per cent Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered twenty-five, against twenty last week and twenty a year Bradstreet's weekly review of the country's trade is as follows: Nev YorL Spring trade and outdoor activities gather force as the month advances. Better weather, small interior stocks, and confidence in the future induce a wider distribution in practically ali sections except the South, where considerable irregularity appears, some markets reporting expansion, while others advise of contraction, compared with a year ago. Dry goods, clothing, groceries, shoes, hardware, farm implements, lumber and building material show relatively most activity. All reports indicate great activity in railway circles. Merchandise shipments and high dass freight are very large, grain tonnage is heavy for this season, and complaints of car shortage still come, though the situation has improved slightly. Gross receipts for January gained 6 per cent, while net increased 12 per cent. Collections still lag, but money has tunrl. firmer, probably a reflection of increased demands in regular trade lines.. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to 53.73; hogs, shipping grades. $4.00 to $5.47; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.00; wheat No. 2, $1.12 to $1.14; corn, No. 2, 4Gc to 4Sc; oats, standard. 29c to SOc; rye, No. 1, 7Cc to-7Sc; hay. timothy, $S.50 to $13.50; prairie, $6.00 to $10.50; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 10c; potatoes, 'JOc to 30c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00: wheat No. 2, $1.12 to $1.13; corn, No. 2 white, 49c to 51c; oats, No. 2 white. Sic to 33c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $3.35; sheep, $4.00 to $G.00. wheat No. 2, $1.13 to $1.14; ccrn. No. 2, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 72c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.00 to $5.25; wheat No. 2, $1.15 to $1.16; corn, No. 3 mixed, 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 3k; rye, No. 2, S5c to 87c. Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.30; sheep, $2.50 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, $1.12 to $1.13; com, No. 3 yellow, 49c to 50c; oats, No. 3 white, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 2, 85c to 87c Milwaukee Wheat No. 2 northern. S1.0S to $1.12; corn. No. 3, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; rye. No. 1, 83c to 85c; barley. No. 2, 50c to 52c; pork, mess, $12.85. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.16 to $1.17; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye, N. 2, 81c to 83c; clover seed, prime, $7.85. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.65; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $6.25; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to 8 50. New York Cattle, $3.50 to $5.S0; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $6.00; wheat No. 2 red, $1.14 to $1.15; corn. No. 2, 52c to 54c; oats, natural, . white, 37c to 3Sc; butter, creamery, 20c .r to 25c; eggs, western. 15c to 17c Notes of Current Events In a Cincinati saloon fight yesterday, Julius Farney, colored, wps shot and killed by David McClure, a bavteeper. By the breaking of a , c-ble in the Shrewsburg coal mine near1 Ch. 'lestowa, W. Va., four miners were killer and tea seriously hurt - ' The Imperial Ricet Frpd 2omr.rn. , with a capital of $100,OOJ. organized in Upper Sandusky bj Cb .o capitalists. , G. K. Morrow 6i 'J.'Acagb 'rt.. president and J. C. O'Brien ct Chicago vice president More prayers were offered by Phüar delphia, Pa., ministers for "Sinful Joha" Weaver, the Mayor of the city, and, incidentally, the ministers prayed for themselves, the city generally, boys who emoke cigarettes and other persons who bshave Improperly.

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