Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 May 1905 — Page 2

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(TU Q. N. M. "X P. Q.P. M 25th. 3 4th. S) 12th. x ?s 18th. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE.' All Sides and Conditions of Thing are Shown. Nothing Orerlooked to lake it Complete. Vanderbilt Boy Indiana Coal Mines. John S. Bays, acting for a Xew York syndicate, has purchased seven of the best mines in Sullivan county. The consideration is in the neighborhood of $2,5X,000. The syndicate will take over the property June 1. The mines purchased are: Hymera, North Jackson Hill. Sullivan County Coal Company, Union Coal Com pany and Keller coal mines, owned by j Harder & Hafer, of Chicago, and th'eGlendora mine, owned by the W. S. Bogle Coal Company of Chicago. The deal Includes 10,000 acres of Sullivan county coal land. The names of the men interested in the syndicate have not been given out, but In- j diana operators say that Vanderbilt inter- ' ests are back of the deal. In Memory of John Paul Jones. Paris special: The Frnch government bas decided to make the removal of the remains of John Paul Jones, the naval hero c the American revolution, the occasion for a great demonstration in honor of his memory and of showing France's regard for the great sister republic. The arrival of the American squadron which will convey the body to the United States will be celebrated with a great military and naval demonstration. The coffin containing the remains of the admiral will be borne in state through the streets of Paris escorted ' by French soldiers and sailors as well as ! government representatives. The occasion ; will be made a memorable one. Dr. Fassig to Search for Ziegler Arctic Exploration Party. Dr. Oliver L. Fassig of Johns Hopkins University, and the local weather bureau, left Boston for New York, whence he will sail on the Teutonic for Liverpool. Dr. Fassig is on his way to Shannon Island, on the east coast of Greenland, in search of the original Ziegler exploration party, which went in the direction of the north polo in July, 1903, and from which no w ord has been received. Dr. Fassig expects to reach Norway about May 15. Here hew ill find the Belgica, a whaler, waiting for him. . Special Train is Wrecked in South. The sjecial train bearing the Ogden educational party on its. southern itinerary, ran into a switch engine as it was entering the yards of the Southern railway at Greenville, S. C. The engine of the sjecial and several of the cars were derailed. The baggage and dining cars were telescoped and caught fire. The two dining cars were destroyed. A flagman and three negro employes of the dining cars were killed and several of the Ogden party were injured. - Ohio Man Murdered and Robbed. The dead body of George Turner, an employ at the Marion sewage disjwsal plant, was found under the railway platform at Owen Station, five miles south of Marion, Ohio, w ith a bullet wound in the neck and marks on the throat, showing he had been choked. Turner went to Owen Station to collect some money. Three men who were seen at the station are suspect ed of the murder, the motive for which was evidently robbery, as Turner's valise had been rifled. Indiana Town Wiped Out by Fire. The town of Sedalia. north of Frankfort, Ind.,wis almost wiped out by lire, which Started in O. C. Hendrix's livery barn. The town has no fire protection, and the citizens and farmers fought the flames as best they could with buckets of water. Frankfort was called upon for help, but the department did not respond, as it-would have been of no service. The loss i? $15,000. Struck by Trolleyi Two K. d. i William Daugherty and Miss Bessie Thompson are dead as the result of injuries received in a collision between their carriages and a trolley car on the Dayton fe Muncie traction line near Greenville, Ohio. Fred Hughes and Miss Mary Yeaney were badly hurt in the same accident. All the parties are from Union City, Ind., and all are under twenty years of age. Vain Attempt on Bank. Safe crackers made an attempt on the bank at Jasper, Mich., but were frightened away after cracking the vault door. They stole a horse and buggy from Xelson Delano and drove nearly to Adrian, where they got out and started the horse back for home. Bloodhounds were unable to follow the trail. He ward for Göll. The directors of the Tirst Xational Bank of Jlilwaukee, Wis., offered a reward of $1,000 for former Assistant Cashier Göll. The report is published that Göll was seen In Chicago, but is not confirmed. PotoPce Robbed. ThepostofEc a-; Waymansville, a few miles south of Columbus, Ind., was entered by burglars. The safe was blown open with dynamite and about $(300 in cash and checks taken. Strike at Paterson. A teamsters' strike is on at Paterson, X. J. As yet there has been no rioting, but the strike has inconvenienced many citizens. The teamsters recently made a demand for a half holiday. The employers refused to agree. About 400 men are out. Thirteen Miners Are Entombed. Thirteen miners, were entombed and probably killed by an explosion in the Missouri, Kansas fe Texas Coal Company's mine Xo. 19, four miles west of Wilburton, Okla. There Is little prospect of their bodies being recovered for several days. University to Ee Rebuilt. The main building of the Vanderbilt university. Nashville, Tenn., destroyed hy fire, wül be rebuilt, the plans bein;; perfected at the next meeting of the board of trustees. The destruction of the main twill in no way interfere with DUllUiUI, - ...... the operation of the school. Many priceless treasures wc cohujcl. T-Tillar Injunction Suit. W." J. Oliver, a wealthy KnoxvilJe rr Knc?np;s. man ' nrooiired an ir ixtruu. Junction commanding a .Miss Cross to retrain iroul Ulliug uciacu .uio. Viim llis3 Cross is suing for breach of prom Lse.

EASTERN, Acting Battalion Chief Wieland was killed at a New York lire that did $200,OUO damage. Charles Ilollenbeck, aged 48. a glove cutter, committed suicide at Johnstown, X. Y.. by drinking carbolic acid. Fitzhugh Lee hero of several wars and former leader in the Confederacy, died Friday in Washington. D. C. The annual meeting of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis will be held iu Washington. Charles M. Schwab has taken out a ".000.000 tire policy ou his new mansion in. New York. It is said to be the largest ever written. Failure to obey a policeman's order to stop running resulted in the death of W. De F. Lappe, aged 20. a prominent Pittsburg society man. Charles P. Kaster was killed in NewYork in aw automobile accident. He was tc have been married and his bride to be was at his side when he was killed. Chicago's leadership in the working out of problems of city government was discussed in the annual convention of the National Municipal League in New York. The annual convention of the American Electro-Chemical Society has been held at the Massachusetts Institute ot Technology in Boston. lr. William II. Walker presided.. Mrs. Laura McKenna stole her child from its guardians in a Kittanning, Pa., church, and later, while trying to escape with it from the sheriff, fell down a flight of stairs and was seriously injured. Policy holders of the Equitable Life Assurance Society have begun suit at New York, asking for a receiver for th' surplus fui.d, an accounting and an injunction to prevent the society holding the surplus. A gift of $10,000,000 by Andrew Carlegie, to provide annuities for college professors who are not able to Contimit in active service, is announced by Frank A. Vanderhp, vice president of the National City Bank of New York. James II. Hyde of the Equitable Lif Assurance Society "and associates" have Leen made defendants with others in a suit brought by Daniel Leroy Dresser to recover $2.000.000 alleged to have been lost in the shipbuilding collapse. Albert T. Spargo shot and killed his wife, Elizabeth, and then put a bullet through his own head, with fatal results, at his home in South Quiney. Mass. Tue. tragedy is believed to have been caused by jealousy on the part of Spargo.

WESTERN. Fire which started in the City Hotel of New York Mills, Minn., destroyed several buildings. Plans have been completed for therection in Kansas of another independent oil refinery. The teamsters' strike i:i Chicago ha spread, taking in express and department store drivers. It is said that 23,000 men ore out. Salt Lake City bonds worth $4.000. have mysteriously disappeared and the city oöicials are making an effort to locate them. Reports from many counties of Nebraska indicate that the Hessian fly is busy and many wheat fields will be devastated by the pest. Judge Crumpacker before the United States Supreme Cour assailed the Chicago Board of Trade and holds it no bet ter than bucket shops. The Solar Carbon works at Bavenna, Ohio, owned by the National Carbon Company of Cleveland, burned. Loss $45.000. insurance $30,000. ' The jury in the case of James Oliver, who killed J. C. Casey on March 10 last, acquitted the defendant at Wichita. Kan., on the ground of insanity. Frank G. Bigelow, defaulting bank president of Milwaukee, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, scheduling liabilities of $3,277,000 and assets of $1,480,800. Violations of the Sunday closing law in St. Louis County, outside the city limits, were so open that Governor Folk is expected to send the militia there to enforce the law. The city directory of St. Louis, just out, contains 285,710 names, on 'which the directory company makes an estimate of 714,200 as the population at the beginning of 1005. Governor McDonald of Colorado has signed the anti-boycott bill passed by the Legislature at the urgent demand of the Citizens Alliance. It was bitterly fought by labor organizations. By his mother's will, Harry Clawson of Cincinnati will have the income from $50,000 for life if he keeps sober and behaves himself for three years. If he does not he will have $5 a week for life. William Patton, the union iron molder who shot and killed Samuel Weakley, a nonunion molder, on Oct. 7, 1904, entered a plea or guilty to tne cnarge oi manslaughter in Cincinnati and will be sen tenced later. The excitement in Milwaukee banking circles caused by the defalcation of Frank G. Bigelow, late president of the First National Bank, has entirely subsided and business has again assumed normal conditions. A fatal duel was fought midway between Willow City and Calmer postoffice, N. D., between William Clark and John Coldmeyer. The men had been drinking and quarreled. Clark was killed and Coldmeyer badly injured. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Pfeil were burned to death in the destruction of their home at Riley, Kan. The police advance the theory that the couple were murdered and- the house set on fire to hide the crime. Pfeil was a retired farmer. Adolph Pricken, under indictment in Philadelphia tor embezzlement and forgery, was arrested in the Bismarck hotel in Chicago. Two hours later the prisoner left in custody of a detective. It is said Pricken's peculations will reach 25,000. George Ashcroft, a wealthy farmer of Coshocton, Ohio, fell dead across the foot of his bed when he arose to put extra covering over his wife, who had been ill. In less than three hours, she, too, died from the shock. Both were born on the same day. Charles A. Semler was granted a new trial at Akron, Ohio, on the ground that the evidence in vhe case showed a different crime from that charged, which was that of procuring $5,000 from the Second Xational Bank of Akron under false pretenses. Referee in Bankruptcy Ilarold Rem Ington at Cleveland, Ohio, made an order directing Trustee Sullivan oi the Aim man Company to sell thep lant of the corporation at Canton on May 9 for not less than the appraised value, which is about $250,000. West bound freight train Xo. 57, on the Union Pacific, was buried by a rock slide a few feet west of Edson tunnel, 100 miles west of Cheyeanc,v Wyo. The 1.000 foot Edson bore is ailed With wrecked cars, and three live are known to have been lost. Mangled by splintered gla3s and crush ed UDder broken timbers, thirty persons

were injured, when a Chicago and Milwaukee trolley car jumped the track at Wilmette, 111. The car was packed with students and tr eir friends returning from a baseball game. Newton Walker and Dave Burton fought a pistol duel at Havilah, Cab which resulted in the death of Burton and a man named ' Bagsey. Walker is hiding in the mountains. A feud has existed between the Walker and Burton families for years.

Edward F. Smith, tax collector of San j Francisco, has been suspended from ; office by Mayor Schmitz and Chief Book- i keeper James McKay has been placed in temporary charge. Taxes to the amount of $30,112 paid into the tax collector's j office are missing. Gus Tieman, section foreman at Nor way Ridge, Minn.; Charles Ericson and j an unknown man were killed instantly, an I a fourth man, also unknown, was injured fatally while riding on a handcar on the Duluth. Missabe and Northern. A locoiMotive struck the car. I bert W. Manly, chief deputy in the internal revenue ptiice at Chiilicothe. Ohio, has been appointed acting collector. Collector John C. Entrekin having died. Col. Entrekin was a veteran of the Civil War an 1 had been prominent in politics and State affairs all his life. Arthur E. Ireland, national organizer for the American Federation of Labor, was sentenced in the District Court in Wintield, Kan., to six months in jail on conviction of a charge of assault on J. I. Harrity, a non-union machinist, at Arkansas City, Kan., last July. Miss Margaret J. Evans of Northfield. Minn., who has for the past twenty-five years opened each annual meeting of the Minnesota branch of the women's board of missions of the interior, presided at the opening of the twenty-eighth annual meeting in Minneapolis. Reports from officials of the Yellowstone Park Association indicate that the new geyser in Norris Basin, in the great National Reserve, is a permanent additional attraction, it has been named the Skyrocket because of the peculiar appearance it presents when it spouts. Union labor leaders in Elgin, 111,, have organized the American Co-operative Association under the laws of Arizona, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, to place label goods on the market and to give union men the profit from the- sales. Branches are to be established. Fire destroyed the north half of the live-story structure of the Hansen Empire Fur Company in Milwaukee and badly damaged the stock in the piano warerooms of William Bohlfing & Sons, causing a combined loss estimated at IvlOO.OOO, fully covered by insurance. FOREIGN. The British steamer Yuen-Wo has been destroyed by tire at Tungchou. It J is feared that 150 Chinese lost their lives. Miss Alice Pearburu of New York, 25 years of age, fell from an upper window of the Hotel de Ville in Florence, dying immediately. Norway refuses to negotiate troubles with Sweden until she is granted separate cousular system and assured of independence in other ways. Germany has notified the United States that the present trade agreement will terminate March 1, 1&3G. Failure to enter into i new convention, it is declared, may provoke a tariff war. The pearl crop of Ceylon Is enormous this season, more than 20,000,000 of pearl oysters having been fished up so far, 3,000,000 more than at any previous time. Consequently pearls promise to be lirt cheap. The State Department in Washington las received advices that there is great linger of a rupture between Chili and Peru growing out of the Tacna-Arica territorial dispute, and this has' demon strated the necessity for the immediate selection of an American minister to succeed Mr. Wilson at Santiago, Chili. Arthur IL.O.ilton Lee, civil lord of the admiralty, speaking at Gosport. Eng land, said the lessons of the Russo-Jap anese war had necessitated changing the lesigns of projected British warships. The admiralty, he said, is preparing to begin the construction at Portsmouth of the most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, and to build it in the shortest time on record. IN GENERAL The government crop report shows that the cool weather has given farmers a setback. Of the seventy-five candidates who last week took the mental examinations for admission to the naval academy as midshipmen forty-seven passed. The American Window Glass Com pany, or trust, which makes window glass by blowing machines, has announced a cut in prices of 90 and 40 off the list price. The Alaskan shipment this summer will make a record. The districts are now cleaning up enough to make the total $20,000,000 quite a load of gold for a season's shipment. . The building occupied by JR. Walker &'Co. of Moutreal. dealers in rags, and the Montreal Blanket Company was dam aged by fire to the extent of $50,000; covered by insurance. Secretary Taft writes a letter showing goverament ownership of Panami railroad may be utilized to destroy the mo nopoly now enjoyed by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Assistant Secretary of State Loomis virtually is accused by Minister Bowen of having accepted $10,000 from the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company while minister to Venezuela to protect the interests of the company. Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor received a cablegram in Washirgton, D. C, from Gov. Winthrop of Porto ICico saying the right of peaceful meetings on the part of the workers there has not been abridged. Four burglars broke into the Merchants' Bank of Lancaster, Ont., and attacked Teller Herman Von Metzke, who was sleeping above the bank. In the struggle the teller fatally shot one of the men. when he was knocked senseless. The old-style guns on the Iowa and other battleships are to be replaced with modern pieces, it is reported. Commander Knight and Prof. Alger, who went to rensacola by direction of the Navy Department to investigate the accident to one of the Iowa's 8-inch guns, the muzzle of which was blown off while the ship was engaged in target practice, have returned. It is said that the gun, having been designed for brown powder, was not sufficiently strong at the muzzle for the smokeless powder now used. An order will soon be issued by Pnt. master General Cortelyou forbidding postmasters from taking an active part in the management of party politics in their districts. The question of activity on the part of the postmasters has been twice raised recently and the Postmaster General has now before him a request for a ruling on this point from Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, chairman of the State committee of that State. The other case arose in Maryland, where a factional fight was being waged between federal and Stute faction-

From a stenographer to a millionaire In ten years Is the story of the romantic rise of Miss Mollie O'Brien, of Cripple Creek, Colo. Ten years ago Miss O'Brien lived In Lake City, Colo. She began the study of stenography and thought that whatever slice she carved out of fortune's wheel must be made with her fingers. On the advice of a friend MISS O BRIEN she went to the young mining camp of Cripple Creek and soon her quick insight and exceptional ability drew n good trade among mining men. She was quick to grasp details and her retentive mind absorbed the rudiments of mining usage that later proved of inestimable value to her. Her foresight told her that possibilities in the incipient gold district were great aud she bought stocks. These rapidly rose in value and soon she had a bank account of sufficient size to enable her to buy property. Then sue organized stock companies. To-day she is the principal owner of some of the most valuable mining properties in the district and her wealth is conservatively estimated at over $1,000,000. Prof. Henry Miers says there is no knowledge of the depths to which the South African diamond mine may be worked. The deeper they go the richer they are. Like his predecessor, Carroll B. Wright, the new labor commissioner. Charles P. Xeill, is an expert in eco nomics. He began his academic career at Xotre Dame University at South Bend, Ind., and completed it at Georgetown University, near Washington. He took postgraduate courses at Chicago University and at Johns Hopkins and since 1S95 ciiakles i xeill. had been a professor of economics at the Catholic University at Washington. He was assistant recorder of the anthracite coal strike commission, having been chosen at the recommendation of President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers. Jeremiah Barber, a Xew York policeman, inherited $200, o flora an uncle in California and before the day was over $100,000 from another uncle in England. Mrs. Donald McLean, of Xew York, the new president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, probably-has made more speeches on the subject of patriotism than any living woman. She has spoken in schools and at celebrations in half the States of the Union, and has been active In other ways in patriotic educational work. She is a mrs. m lean. charter member of the D. .A. R. Her campaign for the presidency was made on an "Ameri can" platform. Mrs. McLean was bora in Maryland. -: :- Maxim Gorky, so it is said, has been offered $150,000 for the English rights to his next novel. Nansen, the arctic explorer, though not a politician, is frequently mentioned for prime minister of Norway in case that country breaks with Sweden. m Daniel Murray, once an assistant in the librar7 of Congress, is preparing an historical review of the exploits of negroes and persons of mixed blood in literature and other fields. -: :- Senator Orivlle n. Piatt, who died at Ids home in Washington, Conn., recently, was a lawmaker of the old school. and had served for twenty - six years fx consecutively the United States Senate. His death was the outcome of a second attack of pneumonia. II c K' Ny was 78 ' years old and a hard winter's work a t Washington had so weakened his otherwise robust phy sique that he could senator tlatt. not withstand the disease. . Gov. Frazier of Tennessee, who will be the successor of the late United States Senator Bate, had the remarkable experience of being chosen Governor from private life. -: :- A memorial to Edward Rowland Sill, a poet of some repute, has bee-j unveiled at Oakland, CaL -: :- Capt. Leonard of the marine corps will sail for his new post as attache of the United States legation at Pekin April 1. Miss Anna Boecker was the only woman saved from the wreck of the steamship Elbe, which was lost sev eral years ago with 300 souls on board. She displayed great heroism . at. the time. Herj5olicitor has gone bankrupt, and at the age of 29 she is penniless and broken In health owing to her wreck sufferbolcker. ings. -: The real name of Maarten Maartens, a well-known novelist, i? Van dt Poor-tn-Schwartz.

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COOL WEATHER DELAYS CROPS. Plantinc and Growth Retarded br Low Temperatures, The weekly summary of crop conditions issued by the weather bureau is as follows: In nearly all districts east of the Rocky Mountains the week ending April 24 averaged decidedly cool, and was unfavorable for germination and growth, damaging frosts occurring as far south as the northern portions of the east gulf States on the 17th. Rains interrupted work in northern Indiana, while drought is becoming serious in central and eastern Missouri, and rain is needed in Montana and the Dakotas. Rather slow progress with corn planting was made, except in Missouri and Kansas, where this work advanced satisfactorily. Preparations for planting have been actively carried on in Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois, but no planting has been done in these States, except in southern Illinois, and further east none has been planted northward of the Ohio river with the exception of a little in Ohio. The cool weather has proved injurious to corn in the South, much having been killed in the South Atlantic and East Gulf States by the frost of the 17th. While the growth of winter wheat has not been rapid, owing to the absence of warmth, the condition of this crop continues promising in all districts. Spring wheat seeding is now well advanced in the northern portion of the spring wheat region and is practically finished in the central and southern portions. Germination and growth of early sown have been very slow, and some injury has resulted from freezing in South Dakota and Nebraska. In Colorado, Utah and on the North Pacific States spring wheat is coming up and growing nicely. Oats also need warm weather to promote growth, which has been generally slow, but on the whole the outlook for this crop is favorable. Some damage by freezing is reported from South Dakota and Nebraska. Seeding is, well advanced in the more northerly sections, except in the northern portion of the middle Atlantic States and in Xew England, where slow progress has been made. Cotton planting has been active, under favorable conditions, over most of the cotton belt, but was delayed by rains in Oklahoma and Indian territories, Arkansas and northern Texas. The frost of the 17th killed much cotton in portions of Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. Chopping has begun in southern Texas and portions of the eastern districts and cultivation in southern Georgia. Fruit prospects have been further lessened during rhe past week throughout the Ohio valley, east gulf States and on the Atlantic coast south of New England, peaches suffering most. In the States of the upper Missouri valley and in the lake region and New England the fruit outlook is more promising.

BABIES SLAUGHTERED. Adulterated Foods Killed Nearly a Half Million Last Year. Are food adulterators responsible for the death in this country last year of nearly half a million babies? That is the all important question which wa3 brought prominently to the front at the recent meeting in Chicago of the executive committee of the National Association of State Dairy and Food Departments. The assertion of the enormous fatality among infants last year resulting from impure food was made by J. N. Hurty, secretary of the Indiana State Board of Health. Mr. Hurty produced figures to show that C5 per cent of the total deaths of infants in America last year was due to poisons administered in impure foods and the deadly concoctions placed on the market by fraudulent food manufacturers. He produced statistics to show that more than 700,000 infants died in the United States last year. In speaking on the subject Mr. Pierce of Chicago said: "If Mr. Hurty's figures are correct, and I believe they are, an army of 45o,000 infants was murdered last year by food adulterations. They were poisoned by infant foods and dyes and chemicals contained in the diet their mothers have fed them in an effort to appease their appetites, to satisfy their natural desires for nourishment and rear them healthfully to maturity. "When such conditions are harassing our land, when these baby killing food adulterators are permitted to blight our homes, feeding on the lives of our children to fatten their purses, is it not time that pure food workers regarded some other subject of greater import than whisky, to the adulteration of which they have lately devoted most of their inquiries ?' ASSAILS SOME WOMEN'S CLUBS. Grover Cleveland Sees in Them Serious Harm to the Home. "What a blessed thing it would be if every mother, and every woman, could realize the everlasting truth that 'the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world,' " says Grover Cleveland, in the Ladies' Home Journal's current number, sternly arraigning a certain kind of woman's clubs, whose objects and intents, he declared, are not only harmful, but harmful in a way that menaces American homes. The ex-Fresident sees in the trend of woman's clubs a discontent with home life, with motherhood, and all of their consequent labors and sacrifices. He says it appears in the movement to secure to women the right to vote, and otherwise participate in public affairs. Mr. Cleveland says: "Let it here be distinctly understood that no sensible man has fears of Injury to the country on account of such participation. It is its dangerous, undermining effect on the characters of the wives and mothers of our land that we fear. At a recent meeting of these radicals a high priestess of the faith declared: No matter how bad the crime a woman commits, if she can't vote, and is classed with idiots and criminals and lunatics, she should not be punished by the same laws us those who vote obey "It is a thousand pities that all the wives found in such company cannot sufficiently open their minds to see the complete fitness of the homely definition which describes a good wife as a woman who loves her husband and her country with no desire to ruin either.' " Major Resmarets, the senior officer on the retired list of the French army, entered the military service In 1815. The Emperor of China has bestowed upon President Diaz the first grade decoration of the Order of the Double Dragon. The King of Portugal ranks well as sn amateur painter. His pictures have oeen awarded several medals at exhibitions. Robert Friesen, a German traveler recently returned from Iceland, says the Icelanders are the most highly ' educated ESCll ia the .-world,

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The weekly review of Chicago trade, published by R. G. Dun & Co., says: CliicasQ. Seasonable progress has been made and business activity is more generally diversified, the increased volume involving the employment of additional working forces and capital. Xew demands are well sustained, and heavier receipts of mine and forest products testify to expanded consumption of raw material. Grain marketing wasJ fully r0 per cent larger than for the corresponding week last year, and shipments were almost trebled, the movement mainly being for domestic use. Arrivals of live stock and hides were 1'beral, packing proceeded vigorously, and the primary markets for foodstufls exhibited further activityOther favorable features are satisfactory dealings in the jobbing and retail branches, together with advices indicating that the agricultural conditions are excellent and country trading advancing. Mercantile collections for both city and interior are found reasonably prompt. Distributors report more cash buying than formerly. Grain receipt, 3.320,721 bushels, compared with G.555,074 bushels last wek and 2,70.3,407 bushels a year ago. The shipments vere 4,102,122 bushels, against 4,708,02.1 bushels last week and 1,479,5ÖS bus-hels a year ago. There was more steadiness in the demand for rlcur, and dealings increased in wheat and the coarse grains. Crop conditions influenced board of trade operations and realizing sales appeared. Provisions were in good supply ou enlarged packing. Live stock receipts, 320,477 head, compared with 2SG.9G3 head for same week last year. Demand slackened for sheep and hogs, but choice beeves were sought. Compared with closings a week ago, cattle are slightly higher, and lower quotations appear in the grains and provisions. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 20, against 23 last week and 21 a jear ago. Bradstreet's commercial report for the week says: New York. Trade reports are irregular In character, distribution of seasonable goods at retail being retarded by cool or rainy weather at the West and Northwest. Industries, how ever, are active, jobbing trade at some centers Is still good and retail business toward the latter end of ,the week became more animated. Building is brisk, money is firmer, bank clearings have increased heavily, prices in general display a defwnward tendency, weakness in grain and securities being especial features. Railway earnings are still on the up grade and Western wheat crop prospects continue favorable. Business failures in the United States for the week ending April 20 number 1S3, against 18G last week, 199 in the same week in 1904, 152 in 1903, 181 in 1902 and 214 in 1901. In Canada failures for the week number 21, as against 21 last week and 11 In this week a year ago. R. G. Dun's Weekly Review of the general trade of the country says: Erratic weather has tended to make trade reports somewhat irregular, but on the whole the week's results were satisfactory. Early delays were followed by increased activity, particularly in what might be termed Easter lines. It is noteworthy that much business for fall delivery has appeared, and more supplementary spring and summer contracts are being placed than jobbers anticipated. Mercantile payments are also increasingly prompt. Industrial activity expands. Failures this week numbered 200 in the United States, against 241 last year, and twenty-one in Canada, compared with twelve a year ago. ÜEB Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $0.50; hogs, prime heavy, ?4.00 to $5.30; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, Xo. 2, SSc to 90c; corn, Xo. 2, 45c to 47c; oats, standard, 2Sc to 29c; rye. Xo. 1, 73c to 74c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $13.50; prairie, $0.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 25c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, 18c to 27c. Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50; hog, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep. $2.50 to $5.75: wheat. No. 2, 99c to $1.00; corn, Xo. 3 yellow, 48c to 49c; oats, Xo. 3 white. 32c to 33c; rye. No. 2. 83c to S4c Milwaukee Wheat, Xo. 2 northern, 93c to OGc; corn. No. 3, 45c to 4Gc; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 1, 78c to 79c; barley. No. 2, 50c to 52c; pork, mess, $12.10. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 09c to $1.01; corn. No. 2 mixed, 48c to 50c; oats. No. 2 mixed, COc to 32c; rye. No. 2. Sic to S2c; clover seed, prime, $8.75. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $4.00 to $CG5; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.40; she?p, fair to choice. $4.50 to $0.15; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $8.00. New York Cattle, $3.50 to $0.35; higs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep. $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, Xo. 2 red, 90c to 91c; corn, Xo. 2, 53c .to 55c; oats, natural, white, 35c to 3Cc; butter, creamery, 25c to 28c; egg3, western, 15c to ISc. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.75; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. Xo. 2, 91c to 93c; corn. No. 2 white, 47c to 48c; oats, Xo. 2 white, 29c to 31c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $G.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.35; sheep, $4.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2, S9c to 90c; corn, Xo. 2. 45c to 4Gc; oats. No. 2, 2Sc to 29c; rye, Xo. 2, 70c to 72c Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $G.10: hogs, $4.00 to $5.G5; sheep, $2.00 to $5.00; wheat, Xo. 2, 9Sc to 99c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 48c to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, SOc to 32c; rye, No. 2, 82c to 8Gc

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HO OSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our Neichbors Are Dolnsj Matters of General and Local Intertst Marriages and Deaths Accidents and Crimes Personal Pointers About Indianians. Brief State Items. Thomas Curtis is erecting a handsome country home near Hillsboro.to cost $8,00). John A. Bell, aged 15, was killed by th cars at Blackburn, near Petersburg, while stealing a ride. Lulu Usher, 4 years old. of Russiavilte, strangled to death. A grain of coffet became lodged in her windpipe. On order of Maj or Charles G. Covert 50C money slot machines were removed from the saloons and billiard halls of Evan ille. The old St. Clair homestead, now th property of William St. Clair, near Henryville, was destroyed by fire w ith a loss oi $1,200. Moses Jordon of Russiaville, carenter. fell from an eight-foot scaffold, striking upon his feet with such violence as to crush the bones of his right leg. Ivan Banhard of IndianaiolisThas bought the harness mare. Lady Squirrel, at Xew Harmony, for $500. The mare took first prize in the last Evansville horse show. Charles Smith, while riding on a box cat In the Vandalia yards, Logansport, was jostled off, losing both legs. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital in a dying condition. The town of Auburn, with its 4,000 population, had 206 prisoners confined in its jail between January 6 and April 6, 1903. This is at the ratio of one prisoner for every six inhabitants. James Lillis, employed in the Pease foundries at liegewisch, was caught by a belt and whipped up to the shafting, where he was wound round and round. His thigh and several ribs were broken. Maggie Oser, 4 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Oser of Batesville, attempted to clamber on the steps of the Oldenburg hack and was thrown under it, crushing her skull. She died in a few minutes. The retail dry goods store of Ziesel Bros, at Elkhart, wai entered by thieves and $1,500 worth of silk was stolen. That the robbers were experts is proved by the ease with which they selected only the finest grade of goods. Winburn F. Conrad of Indianapolis, says he has invented a machine to revolutionize the brick-making industry. It turns out 6.C00 cement bricks an hour. Experts 1hlieve that with a few improvements 75j)0 bricks an hour can be turned out. The plant of the Star Shovel and Range Company at Vincennes, recently completed at a cost of f 100,000, has closed indefinitely. One hundred men are thrown out of employment. It is said the shut-down is due to low markets produced by the combine. The B. F. Bow en Publishing Company, publishers of histories, who have offices in Groenfield, have sent the Indiana writer. Daniel Henderson, to Prince Edward's island. Mr. Henderson will spend considerable time there in collecting material preparatory to writing a thorough and exhaustive history of the islond Many cattle in Hamilton county are afflicted with consumption. A chemical test of the milk from the cows has proved it to be very impure, and it is likely that health officers will order all of the animals killed to keep the disease from spreading. The state board of health has taken the matter up and suggests that all the cattle which have the slightest symptoms of the malady be slaughtered. Miss Mabel Bonscll of Thorntown, now employed as teacher in the schools a Franklin, has been selected by a Yonkers, (X. Y.) book publishing house, that has the contract for printing school books for the Philippines, to compile an arithmetic for use in those islands. She has already prepared part of tho copy, which has been accepted. She taught school in the Philippines for two years. A drenching rain accompanied by a downfall o'f salt water crabs, was experienced in Hartford City. One crab, weighing a quarter of a pound, was picked up in the back yard of Charles Reed. It is on exhibition in an uptown show window. Several smaller ones were found in an adjoining field. It is believed that the crabs were carried inland by the clouds as the result of a storm at sea. The large stone crusher which the Monon has been operating in its quarries at Paoli, has ceased operations. The scarcity of labor is said to be responsible for the shutdown, notwithstanding the fact tha', the company recently raised wages. About twenty men were thrown out of employment, but the work will probably be resumed again in November, when the busy season for other labor is over. A. M. Scott, cashier of the defunct bank of Ladoga, has turned over to Capt. J . C. Knox, receiver, his home in that place, a business block, wif interest m water . ck, wit1 interest m water . of hand, stocks in mining a H s, building and loan, etc., aJ ?gating $26,052.52. It is s works, notes oil companies, gether aggregating Afr Snntt'a rmrrknsA in lpavp Ladoga. j,-.-.-- 0. has secured permission to occupy his home until the middle of September. While Ravmond Woodward and Albe. " Jones were making a natural gas connec tion with an egg incubator at Mr. Woodward's home at Lapel, escaping gas was ignited by a lamp, and both men were painfully injured by the explosion following. Mr. Woodward, whose weight is nearly 200 pounds, was hurled like a ball through a window into the yard, carrying away part of the sash and part of the window frame. The explosion wrought havoc to the incubator, and set fire to some cloth ing in the rear. The Indiana State Medical Association will hold its annual meeting at West Baden Springs, June 7, and the Xational Association of Nurserymen will meet there on the same date. The Hon. A. J. Rhodes of Paoli, will deliver the welcoming aöfdres to the nurserymen. La Rue Taylor, employed in the ConleyBirley table factory, Shelby vi lie, caught his left hand in a machine set for -inch timber. The roller pulled his hand in, and the flesh was scraped from the bon is clear to the elbow before the machinery could be stopped. Part of his arm had to be amputated. J Miss Lydia Scott of Anderson, whose throat was cut by Shirley Doyle, a jealou' lover, March 9, has so far recoveredtfct the bandages have been removed, althoug it is doubtful if she recovers the full use of her throat and tongue. She can not swallow rapidly and it Is difficult for her to talk distinctly. The northeast part of Brown county will be stripped of its cross-tie timber this summer. Already thousands of ties are cut and being hauled along the line of the Indianapolis Southern line. Cross-tie buyers are invading the territory, even south of Nashville, buying ties and havmg them hauled ten aijd twelve miles to the railroad