Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 April 1905 — Page 2

TUE PLTOUTIITRIBÜNE PLYMOUTH, INE. UENDRICKS a CO.. . . Publiker.

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CI Q. T N. M. TV F. Q.F. M 25th. z J 4th. y 12th. , gy ISth, PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Bides and Condition of Thing are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to nake it Complete. Female Bandit Forfeits Life. Washington special: Apolona Caetra, a notorious female bandit of Batangas province, in the Philippines, has been killed by the constabulary, according to information received here. She held the rank of lieutenant under Lucio De Vega, the outlaw chief, and led his companies with the skill of a veteran. When a detachment of constabulary scouts, under Lieutenants Vealsquezand Estrella, surprised her in the mountains she refused to surrender, and by the example of her reckless courage, caused her men to stand by her in a fight to the death. IShe dres ed as a man and had disdained woman's attire ever since she embarked on her career of crime. Bad Wreck on the Bis Four. The third section of incoming Big Four freight train No. 90, was wrecked at North Indianapolis, Ind., near the scene of the disastrous Purdue University special wreck two years ogo. Two men were killed and at least one was injured. The train was running about thirty miles an hour. As it was passing from the main track to the belt the rails spread and four cars were' wrecked. The engine toppled against the water tank. Major McKlay, the engineer, and Head Brakeman W. C. Duncan were buried under the tender and are dead. C. Delph, the fireman, is injured. All are of Indianapolis. BigeloCT is a Defaulter. Frank G. Bigelow, president of the First National bank of Milwaukee, Wis., and formerly president of the American Bankers' Association, has defaulted the bank's funds to the extent of $1,500,000. The directors of the bank have deposited in the bank a sum sufficient to make the institution perfectly solid. Mr. Bigelow has not been arrested. The capital of the First National bank is $1,500,000 and the surplus Is $1,200,000. Mr. Bigelow has signed over property to the bank amounting to $300,000, making his net defalcation about $1,200,000. Voting Machines for Marion County. Four bids were opened by the board of county commissioners at Indianapolis, Ind., to furnish ISO voting machines to Marion county next October. Interest in the bidding was manifested by a crowd of bidders, agents and spectators. The bids were as follows: United States Standard, $97,500 or $750 a machine; Winslow, $97,500 or $750 a machine; Columbia, $78,000 or $600 a machine; National of Indianapolis, $81,250 or $S25 a machine. No contract has been let. K a pool Goes Free. Ali Salaman Kapool, the Syrian, of Fort Wayne, Ind., who has been on trial at Hamilton, Ohio,for the surder of Mahmud Hamzy, a fellow countryman, was acquitted by the jury. It was shown by the statements of witnesses that Kapool was attacked by Hamzy with an axe when the latter was caught robbing Kapool's pack of goods and that Hamzy was killed in self defense. Moros Attavk City. A dispatch from Manila says: The walled city of Jolo was attacked by Moros on April 9. They fired into the officers' club and dispersed those present at a ball which was in progress. On April 10 the secretary of Governor Scott was ambushed and killed witnin range of the sentries. A datto refugee from Borneo has organized ttie Moros, who are defying the Americans. Electric Car Runs Wild. Thomas Moore was probably fatally hurt mnd three persons severely Injured as a result of the rupture of a brake chain on an electric car while descending Hill street, Dubuque, Iowa. The car contained sixteen pasftngers. It ran wild for 300 feet, left the track at a curve and tore the front out of a building. Moore was standing on a gidewalk and was struck by the ar. Four Killed by Escaping Gas. Four men were asphyxiated and two ser.Souäly overcome by gas at the Edgar Thompson blast furnace in Braddock, near Pittsburg, Pa. They were working in a brick tunnel, fifteen to twenty feet square, and about twenty feet under ground, connecting furnaces lC" and MD." The men perished in pairs, the second pair dying In trying to rescue the first. 8pone Gets Life Sentence. The Jury in the case of Charles Spong, charged with the murder of Wilson Addington, formerly clerk of Grant county, in the latter's livery stable at Marion, Ind, on the night of June 17 last, returned a erdict of murder in the first degree, imposing a sentence of life imprisonment. The jury was out five hours and forty minutes. Store Wrecked by Explosion. Several people were injured by an explosion of powder, coal oil and gasoline during a fire in the general store of Rize. & Lang ford at Eby, a few miles north of Booneville, Ind. The store was demolished. $30,000 Fire at Bedford. Fire destroyed the poultry house of Railstack & Hadley at the corner of Thirteenth tnd I streets, Bedford, Ind. Four hundred tad fifty cases Ot eggs, 500 chickens and 150 geese and fifty barrels of produce were burned. The loss is estimated at $30,000. John K. McClaskey Commits Saicide. Attorney John Edward McClasky, one cf the most widely known lawyers In northern Indiana, committed suicide at his home in Lagrange, Ind., by shooting. He died within a few minutes after firing lh fatal shot. Immigration Records Droken. Immigration records at Ellis Island, Kew York, were broken Friday, when 11955 immigrants rere landed from tight blx liners and the authorities were forced to hold up three vessels. The arrivals were the greatest ever known for a single day. Dhiinrfelnhla Swept by Wind. A wind ttorn of cyclonic velocity cwept over Philadelphia and vicinity, doiderable damage. Mrs. Margaret Long. ase l s0 uas ataUr fctfured, aad rrob-.blj a score cf otaer persons mm. la all parts of the city roofs of houses xrere blown off and walls blown down.

EASTERN. United States Senator Orville II. Piatt of Connecticut died from pneumonia at his home at Washington, Conn. Fire partly destroyed the Stanton building at 540 Penn avenue, Pittsburg, occupied by a number of business places, causing a loss of $50,000. Gov. Pennypacker of ' Pennsylvania Jias signed the Greater Pittsburg bill, vhich provides for the consolidation of Pittsburg and Allegheny City. The four-story brick warehouse of Stern & Co.. furniture manufacturers, in Philadelphia, was gutted by fire of unknown origin, the loss being $50,000. The four-story brick warehouse of Stern & Co., furniture manufacturers. 220 South Second street, was burned in Philadelphia. The loss Is estimated at $50,000. General sgents of the Equitable Life Assurance Society at a meeting in New York demanded a new charter that will permit mutualization. President Alexander was indorsed. Janitors in New York schools hay the best salaries of any public officials in the city, some of them receiving as much

as $10,000 a year, says an examiner in , the comptroller's office. Protests of the officiating clergyman failed to deter Mrs. N. O. Gritfln. 00 years old and worth $1,000.000, from marrying her coachman. John Wood, aged IS years, at Whitehall. Pa. As the result of a jealous quarrel at 10 K street, Washington. D. C, Frank Jones shot Kate Norbcck and Rutledge Robinson, aged 62, and then stabbed himself. The girl probably will die. Patrick J. Kearr.s, said to have been treasurer of the failed Storey Cotton Company of Philadelphia, was arrested in Couey Island, N. Y., on the charge of having used the United States mail to defraud. A receiver was applied for in Trenton, N. J., for the Basic Company, a mining concern with $100,000 capital stock, the claim bein made that the assets have been dissjpated through stock jobbing. Dr. William Osier of the "old-meu-:hloroform" theory told the students of the "University of Pennsylvania that too many students committed mental suicide tfter college days by ending their studies. Sterling Stuart, son of Ruth McEnery Stuart, the author, who suffered an injury to his spine by a fall while trying to enter the second-story window of his mother's home in Flushing. L. I., a month ago, is dead. The appointment of a receiver for the trading stamp firm of Benedict & McFar!ane, 150 West Twenty-third street, New York, resulted in a crush of holders of stamps who sought to get premiums before the receiver took hold. WESTERN. . A tornado at Peoria, 111., wrecked four houses and a number of barns and slightly injured six persons. Fire started by lightning destroyed tbv Grant W. Kenaey elevator at Argentine, Kan., causing a loss of $100.000. The Diamond sawmill, owned by H. II. Smith, was destroyed by fire in Minneapolis, the loss being estimated at $50,ooo. Three hundred South Omaha. Neb., children who struck because they objected to Japanese pupils declared strike off and returned to school. Forest fires in northern Minnesota are doing much damage and threaten many frontier towns. Lake Superior is covered by a dense pall of smoke. A miniature cyclone tore up things in southern Iowa. At Melrose freight cars were carried bodily from the track, sidewalks torn up and buildings unroofed.' President W. K. Harper of the University of Chicago carries radium in his vest pocket as an adjunct to the X-ray treatment for cancer and receives much ienetit. The body of Lizzie Booth, an lS-year-ld girl, was found in a Chinese opium en in Havre, Mont. The body was covered with bruises. Toy, a Chinese gambler, has been arrested on suspicion. Johu Alexander Dowie of Chicago has closed negotiations and obtained options m a tract of 2,000,000 acres of land in the State of Tamulipas, Mexico, where he proposes to found a new Zion City. Eight hundred men at the Arkansas Valley smelter at Leadville, Colo., struck because the wheelers and weighers were not Included in an agreement for an eight-hour day made with the employers. John Butler and John Haddick, prominent farmers, living near Mason City, Neb., quarreled over a fence line and Haddick shot and instantly kttled Butler, iiaddick at once surrendered to an officer and is in jail. After a week's struggle with the heavy ice field in the Straits of Mackinac the down-bound fleet of vessels from Chi cago and Milwaukee succeeded in forcing a passage and sailed into the open waters of Lake Huron. C D. Crawford, who was found guilty of having murdered Ileino Lundeen in a box car at Elk River, Minn., was sentenced to be hanged, and Arthur Lazee, his accomplice, was sentenced Jo serve thirty years in prison. The annual .school enumeration of South Bend's First Ward, just completed, shows that in that ward, largely made up of working people and with over 8,000 population, over half the families enumerated had no children. In Mount Vernon, Ohio, Fred W. Jones, a railroad contractor, killed his wife and committed suicide by shooting. The two quarreled over money which had been bequeathed to Mrs. Jones, and which the husband demanded. Burglars robbed the postoffice in Sweetser, Ind. Stamps valued at $300 and a small amount of money were taken. The postoffice is in a jewelry store owned by Elmer Veach and jewelry valued at $100 was also stolen. Charles Finch was arrested in Cincinnati, charged with throwing Loretta Krekeler, aged 9 years, from the Liberty street viaduct to the ground below, a distance pf eighty-three feet. The girl may recover. The man was crazed by cocaine. Without debate by a vote of 75 to 12 the Wisconsin Assembly Tuesday passed the administration railroad rate commission bill. The Assembly concurred in the Senate bills prohibiting tLi sale of giant firecrackers and forbidding spring shooting. 0 ' For - the purpose of robbery an unknown assassin stabbed Mrs. Gatherine Gurka, 55 years old, to death in the parlor of her cottage, 04 Front street, Chicago, and then escaped, leaving but few clews behind. The murderer got $12, but overlooked $140. Peter Ziolkowskl, aged 17, who has been In jail in Fergus Falls, Minn., on a charge of murdering his father, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty and was sentenced to PL Cloud reformatory for life. No special motive for the crime has come to light. In Newark, Ohio, the grand jzrj In dicted Mary Lingafelter for aiding in the recent Homestead Building Associate forgery. Her husband, Caibier

James Lingafelter, and son Robert were convicted of forgery. Now the entire family is involved. Mrs. L,a-ira Black' publicly horsewhipped C. E. Sheridan, a teacher tu the public school of Yukon, Okla. She caush1 his arrest on a charge of punishing her son cruelly, and declared that after he was acquitted he made objectionable statements concerning her. Frederick Uterbark, a Cleveland saloon-keeper, committed suicide by deliberately kneeling and placing his neck across the rail in front of a Lake Shore passenger train, which was moving at a high rate of speed. The head was completely severed from the body. The body of Miss Miranda Bricker, nged 55. who had been assaulted and strangled to death, was found in the rear of the home in Mount Vernon, Ohio, wheve she had been employed as housemaid. The woman had been dragged 500 feet from the place where she was first attacked. At. Subert, Neb., George Huiggle fired five shots into the body of his wife and, going to a room upstairs, shot himself through the head. It is believed both will die. Mrs. Huiggle was hanging clothes on a line when her husband cam up behind her and fired. Huiggle and his wife hare not lived together for some time. Elections were held in a .majority of the cities and towns of South Dakota Tuesday for Aldermen and members of the boards of education and in some places for Mayor, Assessor and Justices of the peace. Party lines were not closely drawn, hut the question of license or no license to sell liquor was the issue in most instances. License carried in mo:than two-thirds of the cities and town!

SOUTHERN. Joseph Jefferson, the best-loved come dian on the American stage, died Sunday night at his home at West Palm Beach, Fla., eged 76 years. Senator James P. Talliaferro was for mal'y re-elected United States Sena to? from Florida by the joint Assembly of the State Legislature at Tallahassee for the term ending 1911. Fire destroyed half the town of Clendennin, Vj. Va.. al! the business section being burned. The blaze was started in one of the stores, which was set on fire by robbers who had looted the place. W. J. Oliver, a wealthy Knoxville (Tenn.) business man, procured an injunction commanding a Miss Cross to refrain from calling herself Mrs. Oliver. Miss Cross i suing for breach of promise. Col. D. W. Emmons, founder of Huntington. W. Va., and one of the most prominent citizens of West Virginia, was stricken with apoplexy while seated at the breakfast table and died in a few minuter. He was 7S years old. An attempt was made on the life of Mrs. Florence Hogan of Mobile, Ala., by means of a box of candy sent her through the mails. The woman detected a peculiar odor and an analysis showed the confection contained poison. In an attempt to escape from the parish jail in Ponchatoula, La., three men et fire to the structure. Two of them, Harry Taylor of Vine Mont, Ala., and James Reilly of Philadelphia, were burned to death, and Lncien George De Las of Lafayette, La., was probably fatally injured. The main building of the Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn., destroyed by tire, will be rebuilt, the plans being perfected at the next meeting of the board of trustees. The destruction of the main building will in no way interfere wih the operation of the school. Many priceless treasures were destroyed. An explosion in the Cabin Creek Mining Company's mines near Kayford, W. Va., may result in the death of five miners and the fatal injury of three others. Nine men were within the mine when the explosion occurred. Of these four managed to reach safety with the assistance of friends. Three of the number were so badly injured that they are not expected to live. FOREIGN. Japan has filed in Washington formal complaint against France for harboring the Russian fleet and representations have been made direct to Paris. The allies of the belligerents may be drawn into a world war. The first American baby to be born in the canal zone is reported to have arrived on March' 18 at Corozal, in Panama, the parents being Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Stewart of Washington, D. C. He has been given the name of Wallace Waldron Stewart. Commander John B. Briggs, U. S. N., has been acquitted of the charges preferred against him by the naval court martial which tried him in Manila. Commander Briggs was in command of the cruiser Baltimore when that vessel grounded in the Straits of Malacca about six months ago. With four dead sailors and the remainder of the crew helpless from beriberi and smallpox, the American bark Minerva drifted into the harbor of Labuan, Borneo, a few days before the transport Sherman sailed from Manila. The only person who was capable of being on deck was the captain's servant, a Filipino, who was completely ignorant of navigation. IN GENERAL, Weekly trade reviews report seasonable progress in business activity. Railroad earnings are larger and the crop outlook is good. The upper house of the colordal Legislature has passed Premier Bond's bill excluding American fishermen from Newfoundland waters. A gas buoy in process of filling on board the government steamer Scout ex ploded near Kingston. Ont, killing one and injuring four of her crew. Miss Eliza Lowery of Rodney, Onr.. was murdered at her home by a masked man. She had refused him money and he beat her to death with a club. Capain A. H. Laffln, said to be the oldest ailing officer in the national quartermaster's service, has been reinstated to his old position, that of commander of the cable-ship Burnside, by President Roosevelt v A disastrous fire broke out at an early hour Friday and reduced to ashes the convent in the little village of St. Genevieve, Que. One nun, four othe; women and eight girls lost their lives. The firo started about midnight. As soon as the fire was discovered the villagers hastened to the scene. Bucket brigades were hurriedly formed and every possible effort was made to save the building, but the fire had gained such headway that it was soon apparent that there was no chance to save it from destruction. The occupants, hurriedly aroused by the smoke, attempted to grope their way out of the building. Notwithstanding all efforts, unfortunately, ihere was a deplorable loss cf life. The fire started in the ;ld women's hospice and the smoke was so thick that the children on the floor above were unable to get down. The convent was called Ste. Anne's and was a branch of the convent of the Sisters of Ste. Anae'a of Lachine.

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HORDES OF IMMIGRANTS. Influx of Aliens Is Greater than Ever Eefore in Our History. A tidal wave of immigration is now creaking on our shores. It is computed by immigration authorities that 1,000,000 aliens will have landed in the United States in the fiscal year which ends on Tune 30 next. The figures for March arrivals amply sustain this prediction. As compar?d with former years, immigration has been steadily rising ever since last November. It is unusual for the rush to et in during the winter season. It seldom begins earlier than March and .be high-water mark is reached in April nd May; yet the opening months of this year showed almost double the arrivals of the same months of 1904, the record for last January being 41,405, as against 23,129 in January, 1904, and for February, 48.GG0, as against 28,007 in 1904. This anomalous increase setting in so early in the year portends nothing less than a deluge of foreigners. To carry them over every available passengercarrying ship ha3 becu put in commission and many tramp steamships have been chartered in addition, while all tha regular passenger boats are booked to their full capacity for the next three months. Strange as it may seem, industrial and other conditions in the United States are known almost as well in Europe as they are here. To every town and hamlet America spells prosperity and gigantic operations in which every man may have a share. Many come here early in the spring in readiness to work on farms, but by far the greater number are laborers who expect to find employment on construction work. Every nook and cranny of Europe is apprised of the vast railroad and rapid transit developments now in course of construction or projected, and it is the prospect of work along these lines that is now largely responsible for the unprecedented rush of immigrants. For purposes of comparison it is interesting to look at some of the immigration figures for last year. The total number of alien steerage passengers who arrived at the port of New York during the fiscal year ending June SO, 1904, was 008,922. These brought with them $15.03G.340, or $24.G9 per head. Of nationalities the south Italians led with a total of 140,225: then came the Hebrews, with 84,910; Germans, with 59.327; Pok. with 50,313; Scandinavians, with 38,274: north Italians, with 35,087; Irish, with 2G.1S5; English, with 23.500; Slovaks, with 22,42.1. and Magyars, with 20.C28. A CONSUMPTIVES' CITY. Movement to IVandnch Community in Texas or New Mexico. Physicians, bankers, business men, fratcrnalists and military engineers of St. Louis, and nearby cities are interested in a plan to found in New Mexico or Texas a city of consumptives. They have organized th National Fraternal Sanatorium for Consumptives for the establishment of this odd city. Last month a committee of physicians, business men and a sanitary engineer left St. Louis for a three weeks' tour of Texas and New Mexico to look about for a suitable site. They traveled 4,000 miles and visited seventeen different places. The competition for the site was keen, some places offering from 4,000 to 100,000 acres of land for the proposed settlement, and one railroad official pledged to the sanitarium $100,000 in cash and lands if it should be placed along his line. The site has not yet been chosen. The proposed sanatorium will be a departure from the usual lines along which such institutions have heretofore been conducted. It will be a community rather than the usual camp city, in which there will be opportunities for the consumptives to live amid healthful surroundings the ordinary life of those in good health, working at farming, stock raising and other outdoor vocations. The sanatorium will be conducted on the municipal ownership plan, with absolutely no commercial features. The revenue for the administrating expenses will be raised by a per capita tax on fraternal and other organizations to whose members the sanatorium win be open. It will be open to all fraternal societies, churches, clubs, cities, counties and States in the United States which contribute a per capita tax of one cent a month a member: to all union men of ;very occupation, as well as to all other labor, benevolent cr other organizations contributing a per capita tax to the support of those whom they send to the sanatorium. The patients thus sent will live there as the guests of their respective organizations, with a minimum of personal expense. The Temple of Fraternity at the world's fair will be removed to the site as soon as it is selected, ind will serve as the administration auilding of the colony. WORKMEN KILLED LIKE CATTLE. Pittsburg a Veritable Slaughter Rouse Says an Official. . "On account of insufficient lawp regulating the matter, and the utter disregard for the laws which do exist, Pittsburg is Öeing turned into a regular slaughter house, and huudreus of workmen, mostly foreigners, are being killed each year ike so many sheep and cattle in the steel mills, the blast furnaces and the coal nines." Coroner Joseph G. Armstrong made mis startling statement in addressing n soroner's jury investigating the death of a Hungarian killed at the plant of the American Steel and Wire Company. Adelbert Merle, Austro-IIungarian jonsul general, backed by the coroner, proposes to petition the State and federal tuthorities to ascertain if something :annot be done. An attache of the consulate said the lumber of fatalities were never fully reported, but that every year an investigation was asked of the esses of men who were reported to have disappeared. Two men cases now being ,riiuired into were those of men employed at the tops of blast furnaces, who had probably made a misstep and followed the ore they were Jumping into the furnaces, where thei. fate was something horrible to conttm-clata.

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3A t J7' WANT TO BE CONSULS. Tremendous Crush of Applicants for Foreißii Berths. Never before since the government began has there been such a crush of applicants for consular posts as has been witnessed at the White House since the inauguration, says a Washington correspondent. Some of the men applying for consular billets present remarkable reasons for their desire to take office under thi3 government in foreign countries. One of them, on his way to the White House to see the President, stopped at the State Department and filed a formal application for a post in Spain which he had been informed was soon to be vacant. "Do you speak Spanish?" the youns man, a citizen of central Illinois, was asked at the State Department. "Nope don't know a word of the !ingo," was the applicant s reply. "That's one of the main reasons why I want the job want to leara Spanish." Another applicant for consular preferment, this one from Iowa, told the State Department people, upon whom he called to make preliminary inquiries, that he wanted the consulship held down by a very competent man who is not going to be disturbed at a German city near which a famous spa is located. He was asked why he had fixed his mind upon just that place. "Well," he replied, quite offhand, like a man sure of his ground, "I'm all run down with the rheumatic, and I'm informed that them Dutch baths fix a rheumatic feller up in no time. I want to git near 'em so's I can git boilei? out." Not les3 engaging was the reason offered by a young Michigan man for desiring a consular berth in an Italian city of the second grade, this place also being occupied by a man who is going to be let alone. "You see," he explained at the Statt Department, "a sister of mine married a Dago up in Detroit three or four years ago Dago who paints, or sculpts, or something of that sort. He took her to this town in Italy the place where I want to go soon after they were married. The folk at aome have heard from various sources not from Sis herself, because she never writes a word about it that he isn't treating her on the square, neglects her, and all that. I want to be appointed to that Italian town so's I can be near Sis, and if I find that she's getting the worst of it, so's I can punch the nose off the Dago. I guess that's a pretty good reason, isn't it?" A Swede gave as a reason for wanting a consular office in his native land that he had a rich uncle there and wished to be near him when he died. "He may loaf me and leave me somet'ang in his will." The usual crowd of colored applicants for the Liberia n post have come to Washington. One of them, a jolly, very fat and very black man from Arkansas, gave a singular reason for his desire to be appointed to the post on the east coast of Africa. "Ah'm dun tiuhd o dese hyuh nigguhs in dis country whut wants tuh be w'ite folks," he said. "Ah wants tuh mix up wif sho 'nough- nigguh nigguhs, dat doau want tuh be nothin' else, fo uh change." They don't permit trainmen to remain en continuous duty beyond a certain time limit on the Chicago and Northwestern railway,, and the management is receiving much commendation from the press on the subject of the recent order intended to crystallize this policy. On the Northwestern Ifne, under this new rule, the men are not only not required to work belond a reasonable limit, but the man who wants to increase his day's earnings is restrained from doing so, and ten hours of work with eight hours' rest is made the standard beyond which the men must not go without a reasonable amount of rest. No engineman or trainman is allowed to go out on the road without meeting this requirement, and an elaborate checking system is employed to insure the observance of this rule. The New York Central lines have formed comprehensive plans requiring the expenditure of more than $200,000,000 with a view to obtaiuing a firmer hold on the enormous tonnage originating in and passing through Chicago. In this latest Vanderbilt scheme many millions of dollars are to be expended in ex tending the Big Four Kailroad into Chicago, and in connecting the Lake Shore, the Michigan Central, the Nickel Tlate and the Big Four with all of Chicago's important industries, and also in giving these four systems physical connection with all of the railroads centering in Chicago. The plans will firmly entrench the Vanderbilts in the second greatest tonnage center in the country. The railroad mileage in the United States is increasing at the rate of about 5,000 miles a year. At this rate in twenty years there will be 100,000 more miles of railroad n the country. If the country continues to develop during the next twenty years as rapidly as it has during the last two decades it will require fully 10,000 more miles of railroad to handle the increase in the volume of traffic. A portion of the $13,000,000 for improvements to the B. & 0. will be spent in additions to rolling stock. These additions will consist of 175 consolidated freight locomotives, 35 passenger engines, 40 switch, engines and 10,000 cars. The official report shows that the company now has in service 1,811 locomotives and 83,200 freight cars. The matter of the readjustment of the wages of locomotive firemen on the Michigan Ceuti'ul has been practically set -

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CROPS DELAYED BY COLD.

Government Report Shows Conditions Throughout the Country. Crop reports from all sections of the country are summarized in the weekly bulletin of the weather bureau as follows: Over nearly the whole of the country the week ending was abnormally cold and unfavorable for germination and growth. In western North Dakota the temperature fell nearly to zero on the 16th, and on this and the following date exceptionally low temperatures for the season occurred throughout the country east of the Rocky Mountains, freezing temperatures occurring as far south as the northern portions of Alabama and Georgia and central South Carolina, with light to heavy frosts in the central portion of the east gulf States and light frost at Jacksonville. The damaging effects of this cold period, which came at the close of the week, are not fully covered in the reports collected at the climate and crop centers on the 17th and used in the preparation of this bulletin. Heavy rains were unfavorable in the south Atlantic and central gulf States, while the need of rain Is beginning to be felt in portions of the lower Missouri valley and on the extreme north Pacific coast. The temperature conditions on the Pacific coast were unfavorable. While corn-planting has continued in Kansas, Missouri and southern Illinois, none has been planted farther north nor in the upper Ohio valley and Middle States. Preparations for planting have been active in the central valleys, where planting will be vigorously pushed as soon as temperature conditions are favorable. In the south Atlantic and east gulf States planting is about finished and early corn is being cultivated. Winter wheat continues in promising condition generally throughout the country, but is beginning to need rain in portions of Kansas and Michigan. Very slow progress was made with sprinj wheat seeding over the northern portioa of the spring wheat region, as this work could be prosecuted only in the afternoons on account of low temperatures. The early sown spring wheat does not appear to have sustained injury from, re cent cold, except in Nebraska, where some fields were slightly damaged. Oat seeding was also delayed in the Dakotas, Minnesota, lake region and portions of the middle Atlantic States. While growth of .the early sown has been checked and some injury sustained in Nebraska, the general situation re specting this crop continues promising. Cotton planting is much delayed in Mississippi and Louisiana and is later than usual in Texas and the Carolinas, Better progress with this work" has been made in Alabama and Georgia and in the southern portions of these States is near ing completion. Fair to good stands of the early planted are reported from Ala bama, Georgia and Florida. In Texas the early planted is reported as promis ing. While fruit must necessarily have sus tained injury from the severe "cold during the latter part of the week in the cen tral and southern districts, it is.proba ble that in the more northerly sections to the eastward of the Mississippi river the damage has been less serious. In New England and the northern portion of the lake region it is probable that no serious injury has been done. TO HOLD UP COTTON PRICEa Planters in the South Organize to Re duce the Acreage, The cotton growers of the South are organizing for the purpose of keeping up the prices of the commodity by curtail ing the number of acres devoted to its cultivation. The normal cotton crop of the South, writes William E. Curtis In the Chicago Record-Herald, is about 10, 500,000 bales, and it pays a reasonable profit if middlings, that is the average grade, sell anywhere above 8 cents. Ten cents a pound is the ideal price, and al lows the planters to live in the greatest luxury. Middlings are now quoted at about IVi cents, which leaves only a small margin of profit. If the crop this year is all gathered it will run as high as 15,000,000 bales, but about 10 per cent of it is still left unpicked in the fields, and it is calculated that 12,000,' 000 or 13,000,000 bales are already gin ned and ready for market. In order to keep the price at 10 cents it is proposed to withdraw 2,000,000 bales of the present crop from the market and reduce the acreage cultivated 20 per cent next year. To do this it is necessary to organize the farmers. Conventions have been held in all the cotton States and agents have been appoint ed to canvass every one of the connties in which cotton is grown. They are call Ing the farmers together and conferring with them, explaining the situation, per suading them to join the Southern Cot ton Association, which is organized to promote the general welfare, and the Cotton Planters Holding and Commis sion Company, which is to provide the ways and means to hold back 2,0Q0,000 bales of this year s crop from market Harvie Jordan, president of the associa tion, is directing the movement, In which not only planters are engaged, but bank ers, merchants and other business men whose interests are involved in the cot ton crop and there are few people la the Southern States whose interests are not A big convention which was held In New Orleans in January sent a commission to Washington to confer with the President and to ask Congress to appoint a commission to discover means by which the exports of cotton may be promoted. At present about 60 per cent ol the normal crop is sent to foreign coun tries, and about 40 per cent is consumed at home. Telephone Company Beaten - After fifteen years of a bitter war be tween the American Bell Telephone Com pany and the anti-Bell companies, of Iowa, the former has at last capitulated and announcement is made that hereafter exchanges controlled by that com pany will connect with those of its rivals. Both sides lost great amounts of money during the long continued war. Millions have been invested in the duplicating of small exchanges and toll lines. The Bell Company would not permit its subordi nate companies to connect with lir.es equipped with other than Bell Instru ments.Legislation and litigation alike failed to force connection. The fight has caused such a wonderful development of talephone business in Iowa that a recent bulletin of the census department credits that State with one-third of the rura telephone business of the country, almost all Iowa farmers having anti-Bell 'phones in their houses. It is expected that the Bell Company's surrender in Iowa will be followed by litigation all through the West Workmen Iose a Million. Because, notwithstanding hard times, the employes of Messrs. Yarrow of MUIwall, on the Thames, would not take time and a quarter for night work and Insisted on "time ana a half," the buili hij cf 23 destroyers and torpedo tazta for Austria will be done at Trieste, laetead of on- the Thames. The lcc3 t tij wcrknea is about 5i.CO0.CCa

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AnCIAL R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Good news still predom M Yorl inates In trade and industry. Easter business Is of large volume; dry goods, clothing, footwear, and all lines of wearing apparel reporting an unusual ly good demand, and shipping departments are taxed to their full capacity in many cases. The country as a whole is experienc ing more settled weather, which Is re flected in a better retail distribution of merchandise. Jobbing trade In goods for fall delivery is broadening, and there is more inclination to prepare for the future. Manufacturers report less idle ma chinery, the iron and steel industry leading with an unprecedented output of pig iron, yet consumption is also above all records, for there Is no ac cumulation at the furnaces. Textile mills are also well engaged, as a rule. and forwardings of footwear from Bos ton make favorable comparisons with every year except 1900. A few labor controversies are threat ened, but none Is of sufficient magnitude to materially check progress, even if expected settlements are not attain ed, for the number of hands involved is comparatively small. Bradstreet's Commercial Agency makes the following report: Spring trade at wholesale apparently has passed its zenith, but reorders, especially at the West are unusually cod; iron consumption is unprecedent ed, winter wheat promises excellently, and the acreage in other cereals will be large. Building and build'ng material are active, export trade displays signs of improvement railroad earnings show 10 per cent gain for March and an in crease of 5 per cent for the quarter. and bank clearings show continued heavy Increases over last year. Retail trade is good in sections, but has been retarded by cold weather or heavy rains and the lateness of Easter at other points. Meat fish, and poultry prices are conspicuous exceptions to the otherwise easing tendency of food products. In meats, lessened receipts and higher prices for cattle, Lenten influences, and other causes .re assigned for this. . The weekly reViev of Ctl'Cu'IÖ Cüica trade, published iJby R. G. Dun & Co.. says: An unsually good official crop report increased use of money and further broadening in demands upon productive branches have been encouraging developments and favorably affected the business situation generally. A material addition to activity was derived from the opening of lake traffic and a large Initial water movement of necessary nw material. Country advices indicate that faro work Is advanced several weeks earlier thau usual, and this has given decided impetus to trading. Jobbers sales have exceeded the total of a year ago in most of the staple lljies. dry goods, footwear and clothing leading. Road, salesmen continue turning in satisfactory orders for warm weather goods. Board of Trade operations improved In magnitude, breadstuffs and provisions exhibiting more firmness on increasing demands. Receipts of grain. 6,555,974 bushels, were unexpectedly heavy, and compared with 4.294,173 bushels last week and 3,390,959 bushels a year ago. Shipments were the heaviest of any week during the last seven months, these reaching 4,708,925 bushels, an increase of fully 100 per cent over the corresponding week last year. Live stock receipts aggregated 378,S48 head, against 304,631 bead last week -and 223,528 head a y ar ago. racking was maintained on a large scale. Prices closed slightly lower for wheat pork, ribs, choice beeves and sheep, but unchanged for hogs and fractionally higher in corn and oats. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $G.05; hogs, prime heavy, $4-00 to $5.57; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat No. 2, $1.13 to $1.15; corn, No. 2, 4Gc to 47c; oats, standard. 29c to 30c; rye, No. 1, 76c to 78c; hay. timothy, $8.50 to $13.50; prairie, $0.00 to $11.00; butter, choice reamery, 2Sc to 31c; eggs, fresh, 15c to lCc; potatoes. ICc to 25c Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, $2.50 to $5.75: wheat No. 2, $1.07 to $1.0S; corn. No. 3 j-ellow, 49c to 50..; oats. No. 3 white, 32c to 34c; rye, No. 2, 83c to 4c Milwaukee Wheat No. 2 northern, $1.07 to $1.0S; corn, No. 3, 4Cc to 4Sc; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; rye, No. l S2c to 83c; barley. No. 2. 50c to 52c; pork, mess, $12.30. Toledo Wheat No. 2 mixed, l.OO to $1.10; corn. No. 2 mixed. 4c to 50c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 2! Sic to 82c; clover seed, prime, $8.35. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers $4.00 to $6.65; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.70; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $6.15; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to JS.00. New York Cattle, $3.50 to $0.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat No. 2 red, $1.07 to $1.09; corn, No. 2, 52c to 54c; oats, natural, white, 35c to 3Gc; butter, creamery, 29c to 32c; eggs, western, 13c to 18c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.63; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $5,00; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.07 to $1.08: corn. No. 2 white, 47c to 4Sc; oats, No. 2 whi"re, 20c to 31c. St Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $6.50; hogifc $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $4.00 to $5.50; wheat No. 2- $L00 to $1.01; coro, No. 2, 45c to 47c; oats. No. 2, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 72c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $0.20; hogs, $4.00 to $5.65; sheep, $2.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to $1X3; corn, No. 2 mixed, 4Sc to 50c; oats. Ho. 2 mixed, 30c to C2c; rye, No. 2, CZz ta