Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 35, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 June 1905 — Page 2

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j 24th.W 3rd. S) lOthAgjnth. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Thins Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete, Cincinnati Brokerage Firm Fails. Ilolzman & Co., bankers and brokers, in the Union Trust building, Cincinnati, Ohio, and members of the New York Stock ExChange, assigned to Lipman & Levi. AFf red Uolzman, a member of the firm, says the assets and liabilities are about equal $100,000. He attributes the embarissment to rumors concerning tho loss of $55,000 from the reserve fund of the German National bank, the recent ran on the Union Trust Company bank and the withdrawal of a former partner. Their main indebtedness is to Cincinnati banks and is amply secured- The causes above mentioned produced the withdrawal of many accounts. Wild Girl Lives in Sewer. A number of persons have reported to the police authorities of Richmond, Ind., having seen a strange wild-looking female w ho disappeared in the mouth of a big trunk sewer, where it was said she is making her home. Much excitement has been caused. David Bradshaw determined to investigate and started into theda?k sewer, lie came out hurriedly with face and hands bleeding and says the wild creature attacked him in the dark w hen he was 100 yards from the mouth. The police will make an effort to capture the girl. Coal Operator Murdered. Isaac Walter, secretary of the Mississippi Cannel Coal Company, was found shot to death in front of his home at Woodlawn, a suburb of Birmingham, Ala. He had been robbed and the indications pointed to a fearful struggle with the murderer. Walter's pistol, with one chamber empty, was found nearby, also another revolver, evidently that of the murderer. Walter went home on a midnight car from Birmingham, and never afterwards was seen alive. There is no clew to the murderer. Fonr Killed by Pennsylvania Train. Mr. and Mrs. Gust Miller of Louisville, Ohio, and Mrs. Howell and daughter, Anna, of South Bend, Ind., were struck by a passenger train on the Pennsylvania railroad while out driving and all were instantly killed. The accident occurred just outside of the village of Louisville, a mile south of Canton. Mrs. Howell was a sister to Mrs. Miller and she and her daughter were visiting at the Miller house. Miller was 65 years old and his wife 60. All the bodies were badly mutilated. Had Money to Throw Away Charles Leightner, a traveling salesman, was arraigned in Jefferson Market Court, New York City, charged with disorderly conduct in having thrown $40 away in Union Square. "I'ni from Chicago, Your Honor," he said. "In Chicago, when we traveling men wish to change our luck, we Just throw away a little money. A bit like $40 is a trine, and it is a superstition that by doing so you'll get more quickly." He was discharged. Arrested at Iiis Father's Grave. Elkhart county officers, arrested E. L. Kirkendahl at Leesburg, south of Goshen, Ind., while he was at the grave attending the funeral of his father, lie now occupies a cell in jail at Go? hen awaiting the outcome of the injuries of Clarence C. Coats, who is thought to be dying in a hospital at Elkhart: Kirdendahl and Coats quarreled over a valintine. Coats was found unconscious with his head cut open and his skull Xractured. Strike at Losansport. Fifty of the Italians and Americans engaged on the big we3t side sewer contract at Logansport, Ind., have struck. The men had been working for $1.25 a day and demanded an increase of twenty-five cents. Their demand was refused by Contractor Dennis Uhl, who declares that the places of the strikers will be filled at once. A detachment of police was ordered to the scene, but there was no disturbance. It Will Help Some. Louis Thomas, a paintev of Benton Harbor, Mich., who for twenty years has struggled hard to support a family of ten children, has been informed that there is held to his credit in a New York bank $75,000 as a legacy from his grandfather, which has been accumulating interest for twelve years. Indianapolis Man Lands Foreign Job. A special from Washington says: Arrangements were made whereby Paxton Hibben of Indianapolis, Ind., shall take office as third assistant secretary of the United States legation at St. Petersburg on July 1. The position has just been created and Mr. Hibben will be the first person to occupy it. Safe Blowers at Goshen. Burglars blew the safe in the harness works of B. F. Hattell, Goshen, Ind., and secured a considerable sum of money. Dynamite was used. Child, Falls Into Boil in c Water. An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Clem Van Horn of Hartford City, InL, fell into a tub of boiling hot water and was frightfully burned. The flesh on the child's back and limbs was literally cooked. The Injury will prove fatal. South Bend LCan Electrocuted. . John Bashwurs, aged 19, of South Bend, Ind., an employe of a local factory, is the third victim in as man v davs from electro cution. He was working near an electrie lamp and fell against a live wire iind wu Instantly tinea. - Tlandita Loot Store Window. After cutting telephone wires leading to the jewelry store of Louis Antoine, 312 North avenue, Chicago, three young robbers ft atened the front and rear doors cf the place with iron bars, then smashed in a large plate glass window la the front and escaped with diamond rings and gold ratches valued at $2,500. llonon Fast Mall Is Wrecked Fast mail train No. 31 on the Monon TLaatm struck & broken rail fire miles nnti of Lowell. Ind.. derailing the In iizi-olls sktrcr. which contained about tea rr No one wts ccrlszily kv

EASTERN. Charles Henry Webb, author and inrentor, is dead at his home in New York. He was 71 years old. Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia caused a sensation by dismissing two members of his cabinet in his fight against the gas "grab." . Noil Burgess, the actor, was declared a bankrupt in the United States District Court in Trenton, N. J. His petition was filed some time ago. Scores of banks, including several in Chicago, face loss In the failure of Burnett, Cuniniings . & Co., Boston brokers, with debts of $1,714,000. William Strenibler was killed and thirty-five persons were injured in a collision of two trolley cars returning from Westport, a suburban resort near Baltimore, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, the wellknown writer and reformer, died at her home in Melrose, Mass. Bronchitis and s weak heart hastened the end. Mary Ashton " Livermore was born in Boston, Dec. 19. 1S20. While catching in a game of baseball ia Brooklyn, N. Y James Miles, a youth, was almost instantly killed by s pitched ball. Miles wore no mask while bebind the bat A fast ball, which he failed to stop, struck him between the eyes. Joseph Schoefski, S years old, whose parent live at 1500 Webster avenue, Pittsburg, was drowned, as ho stood upright in a pool of water, ne sank lato the mad. The water reached just above his eyes. Uuabls to extricate himself, he drowned. The trustees cf the Mormon church at Salt Lake City havo purchased forty acre3 of farm land in South Iloyaltoa, Vt., where they will erect a monument, shrine and cottage on the site of the birthplace of Joseph Smith, the founder of their faith. August W. Machen, under sentence of two years' imprisonment for his connection with postal fraud. pleaded .guilty in Washington to conspiracy with Crawford and Lorenz in the purchase of letter carriers' satchels. He was sentenced to an additional two years' imprisonment. Its money frittered away on the securities cf almost worthless companies, organised by its officers, the Merchants

Trust Company passe J into the hands of ' a receiver in New York. The receivers are Douglas Robinson, brother-in-law of President Roosevelt, and the New York Trust Company. One dead, five injured, several hundred ratrom thrown into great excitement and an entire establishment ia darkness was the result of the explosion of a large steam pipe in tho basement of the Manhattan Hotel in New York. The dead man was James Doran, a coal passer, 40 years old. He was scalded to death. western: Senator Clarke's great copper mine at Jerome, Ariz., has caved in from the surface to the 700-foot level. No lives were lost. I). S. Berry was shot and killed at the door of his office in Savanna, 111. There is no clew to the slayer or to the motive for shooting Mr. Berry. Gov. Herrick was renominated for Governor of Ohio by tho Republican State convention. The nomination was by acclamation and amid great enthusiasm. Two men were asphyxiated in a cheap lodging house fire at 210 Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis. Both are strangers, one registering as Frank Green and the ether simply as Fox. Secretary Taft, addressing the Ohio Republican convention, said either the revenue taxes or the tariff must be changed to meet the nation's deficit, and calls for a moderate rate law. Gov. La Follette in a message to the Assembly at Madison, Wis., denounced scathingly lobbyists who operate at the capitol. and urged the passage of a law to make the practice a penal offense. William Ivell, uncle of Marion Ivell, the famous opera singer, for many years head of a department in a Minneapolis dry goods store, committed suicide by asphyxiation in the Niles hotel in that city. On Sept. 14 the fourth anniversary of the death of William McKinley, the corner stone of the national monument will be laid on Monument Hill, Canton, Ohio. Justice William R. Day Will place the corner stone. The .supreme assembly, Uniformed Rank, Knights of Pythias, now in sixth biennial convention in Indianapolis, decided to hold the next national encampment of the Uniformed Rani, in New Orleans. This will he in September. Edward W. Nash, president of the American Smelting and Refining Company, was stricken with paralysis while attending a dinner at the home of Herman Kountze, a , prominent banker of Omaha. There are hopes of his recovery. Edwin Steppens, who lived at Ross Valley, CaL, killed his wife, shot his five children, three of whom will die, and then committed suicide after endeavoring to kill a passing milkman. Steppens is supposed to have suddenly become insane. The first case of Michigan strawberries for this season was shipped to Chicago by Ernest Dunham of St. Joseph. The biggest crop of strawberries in the history of Michigan will be gathered this year. It is now estimated at 1,500,000 cases. M. W. Murray, a contractor of Roswell, N. M., on his way to Lincoln on a pleasure trip, was crossing the Rio Grande, when his wagon, in whiCh he and his family were riding, overturned, resulting in the drowning of his wife and six children. In Savanna, 111., the mystery of the murder of Daniel S. Berry was cleared away by the bullet, fired by his own hand, which blew oat the brains of Rothwell Pulford, Savanna's Wealthiest citisen, whose name had been connected with the Berry assassination. The Presbjterian general assembly at Winona Lake, Ind.. upheld the orthodox creed of the church when it voted down a proposition presented as an overture from the Nassau, N. Y., presbytery providing for a brief statement of faith in place of tho Westminster confession. The long talked of Ohip River and Lake Erie ship canal is to become a reality at last through private capital. The undertaking is to be put through by Pittsburg capitalists who have formed a company with a capital of $2,025,000, which will be Increased to $30,000,000. Wesley G. Parker, until the oAer day exchange teller in the Arkansas National Bank of Hot Springs, is missing, and it is claimed bis accounts show a shortage of $10,000. . President C. N. Rix of the bank admits the shortage, and says that the institution is fully secured by a bond. The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the direct inheritance tax law by affirming the decision of the Darke county Circuit Court In the case of Hostetter vs. the Etats of Ohio. While the law is upheld, the Supreme Court makes it very plain that the inheritance tax cannot be retroactive. While the infant chili of Preston lie-

Ilmaine of Evansville, Ind., was sleeping in its crib a large house cat leaped upon its breast and badly lacerated its face. Several .large holes were torn in the cheeks of the child, and it lived but a short time. It is supposed the cat had hydrophobia. The Standard Oil Company's new pipe line from the Sugar Creek refinery, recently established on the outskirts of Kansas City, to Whiting, Ind., is about completed. The Standard then will have a continuous pipe line reaching half w,ay across the continent, the eastern terminus being Bayonne, N. J. M. E. Walley was killed by an explosion of nitroglycerin on a vacant lot in Denver. Whetner ft was a suicide or accident has not been determined. Fragments of the body were found three squares distant from the scene of the explosion. Walley was a union miner, who formerly lived at Cripple Creek. Judge Cray of the District Court in Mankato, Minn., set July G next as the date for a third trial for Dr. G. R. Koch, who Is charged with the murder of Dr. L. A. Gebhardt at New Ulm on the night of Nov. 1 last. Two Juries hare disagreed In trials of this case. Dr. Koch has been released on a $20,000 bail bond. The Goldfield Bank and Trust Company, in Goldfield, Nov., has failed with liabilities of $7S,227. The assets so far discovered nre $4,821. cf which $4,S00 is in notes. There was $10 In the vault and a $3 gold piece was found under the counter. The most disorganized state of affairs seems to exist in the books of the bank. The Rio Grande river, now almost a mile wide, is flowing through the middle of. rhc village of Tome, N. M., twenty miles south of Albuquerque, while' the C00 inhabitants are camping on the hills and watching their homes being swept away. The entire property of the villagers is destroyed, along with their crops. II. V. Jones, the Minnesota crop expert, has returned from his inspection trip throughout the Southwest. His report on conditions shows 42,000,000 bushels 1 ess than the government's conditions on May 10. His highest estimate of the winter wheat crop is 425,000,000 bushels, and his lowest, in view of possible adverse conditions, 375,000.000 bushels. The Canton State Bank, with individual deposits of more than $G00.000, closed its doors in Canton, Ohio. The directors say the bank will not be able to resume business. The failure was brought about by heavy loans to W. L. Davis, vice president of the bank, by the cashier, Corwin B. Bachtell, without the consent of the other directors of the bank. The boiler of an engine that was standing near the Hocking Valley railroad roundhouse in Columbus, Ohio, exploded and killed six men. The men who were within range were thrown into the air like so many pieces of cork. The engine had been overhauled and was practically new. It was demolished, part of the boiler being blown 300 feet. Th engine was being tested for its first rur after rebuilding when the explosion occurred. Four other engines standing near were wrecked. The bodies of the six men were terribly mangled. One man is -believed to have been blown into the river and is noi accounted for.

SOUTHERN. Mrs. Tip Sar rs drowned herself and three children i a creek near her home, two miles sout1 of Sulphur Springs, Tex. The tragedy, it is said, was the result of domestic troubles. Robert Shaw, a supposed crazy negro, after killing one man and wounding seven others while defying arrest near Waitman, Ky., was driven from his house by fire and riddled with bullets. Siegfried Röchling, grandson of the builder of the Brooklyn bridge, is missing at Asheville, N. C, without apparent cause. Some fear he may have been kidnaped. He is 14 years old. President Roosevelt has turned down the Republican machine in New Orleans and will appoint L. G. Skipwith, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, appraiser of the port. Skipwith was one of Roosevelt's Rough Riders. The four-story dormitory of Roger Williams university, an institution for the instruction of negroes, was destroyed by fire in Nashville. The loss is about $4,000. The school is managed by the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Fire destroyed the Standard Oil warehouses in Raleigh, N. C, and the charred remains of the night watchman, William Strickland, were found in the ruins. It is presumed that the watchman, whose skull was crushed in, was murdered by robben, as the safe had been broken open and a small amount of money aken. FOREIGN. The British House of Commons was closed by the Speaker after disorderly scenes due to efforts of the opposition to force a declaration from Balfour. . Southern Caucasus is aflame with racial strife betweea the Moslems and Armenians and armed mobs control the villages, the authorities being helpless. ... Three-quarters of a million people have died of the plague in India this year, according to figures furnished by Indian Secretary Brodrick in the English House of Commons. The mortality from Jan. 1 to April 1 was 471,744, while another 215,961 succumbed during the four weeks ending April 29. Most of the white population of Lahaina, on the Island of Maui, Hawaii, including the military, are prisoners ia the court house, surrounded by striking Japanese laborers. One Japanese was killed and two were wounded by the plantation police during an attack on a plantation mill. The entire 2,300 Japanese laborers on the island are now on strike and are showing a violent mood. IN GENERAL. The alarming increase in immigration has been taken up by President Roosevelt, who will bring the problem before Congress and the country soon. The general assembly of the Presbyterian church has appointed a committee to outline a plan for consolidation with the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Railroad legislation will be urged ahead of tariff reform in the President's recommendations to the special session of Congress which he has decided to call next fall. A telegram from the acting commissioner of the Yukon Bays the business portion of the town of White Horse h&s been destroyed by fire. All the business part was burned, from the postofflce to the telegraph office, but these two buildings were saved. Two methods of restricting immigration will be recommended to Congress, and both will be indorsed as practicable! The administration will urge that the laws be amended either by increasing the head tax to a prohibitive amount, or by restricting the number to be admitted each xnonth.'The officials who hare given the matter closest attention believe that a head tax of $25, instead of the present tax of $2, would keep out xaost of the undesirable foreigners.

THEBES BRIDGE NOW OPEN. Structure One of the Great Engineering Achievements of the Age. The new gateway to the Southwest, the Thebes bridge, constructed by the Missouri Pacific, Iron Mountain, Cotton Celt, Illinois Central and the Chicago ind Eastern Illinois, across the Missislippi at Thebes, 111., was Thursday formally opened anrI dedicated. Appropriate ceremonies mp.rked the opening. A large party of representative railroad tnen and many prominent officials, business men and newspaper men of Missouri and Illinois' were present. Gov. Joseph W. Folk of Missouri was the principal orator of the day. He outlined the immense advantages to the Southwest to be derived from the opening of this new bridge, the only one across the Mississippi between Memphis and St. Louis. Gov. Folk in his address pointed out that the new bridge does away with the slow and tedious car ferry, which has been the method of transportation across the river since the Illinois Central and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois m.ide their way to the Mississippi to exchange business with the Cotton Belt system. Ground was broken for the bridg on July 8, 1902, and the first train passed over it. on April 18 of this year. The cost of its construction was approximately $3,000,000. It is a magnificent structure of double-track width and, on account of its procainent location, presents a most imposing appearance. . The bridge approaches are on a gradual and moderate incline, making it possible to run. trains of great length over it, which tends to great expedition and economy in operating freight trains especially. The bridge proper consists of a continuous steel structure of five spans, built on the Cantilever system, and weighs about 2S,000,000 pounds. The central or channel span is G51 feet long, each of the other spans being about 5-1 feet long. The approaches to the bridge are of concrete, made of Portland cement, as are also the pieces upon which the spans and archos rest. This concrete, of which nearly 1,000,000 cubic feet were used, constitutes the chief peculiarity of the bridge. Except the face

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stones of the piers, which are of buff Roman Oelitic stone and the bridge seats and nose stones for the upstream cut water, which are granite, there is no solid stone work in the entire structure. The steel bridge is approached at both ends by a series of concrete arches. The total length of the bridge proper, including the concrete approaches, is 3.S17 feet, and the total length of the entire double track construction, including grade approaches, h 4.7 miles. The total height of the-bridge, from the bottom of the lowest foundation to the top of the highest point on the superstructure, is 231 feet. INDIANA'S CIGARETTE LAW. Variously Interpreted, It Causes a Large Number of Suits. Test cases are now in progre&s to determine the ralidity of the law made by the last Indiana Legislature on the subject of cigarettes. The law seems to be variously interpreted and there have been some odd cases growing out of it. Oa the morning after the law went into force a traveling man lighted a cigarette in a hotel at Logansport and an officer placed him under arrest. The smoker had come in on a late train, knew nothing about the Indiana law, but had to pay the penalty of his ignorance the next day, when he was fined. A few days later a young man came to Indianapolis from another State. As he came out of he Union station he lighted a cigarette and walked up the street, smoking. The police refused to arrest him because the local judge had held that the law did not apply to smokers. Further up the street the stranger asked someone the way to a certain business house. lie lighted another cigarette as he received the information and gave one to the person he had stopped. He was nabbed for giving away a cigarette. A youth was seen smoking a cigarette and was asked by an officer where he got it. He pointed to a friend standing by, and the latter was searched. Cigarette paper and tobacco " were found in his pockets and he wts arrested for having "makings' in his possession. While, therefore, in Indianapolis men are smoking with impunity they cannot give a friend a cigarette, nor can they have the "makings" ia their possessioa. But despite this fact hundreds of Indianians get all the cigarette paper they want, and get it, too, without expense.. Cases involving all phases of the law are now pending in the courts. For instance, W. W. Lowery, a young attorney of Indianapolis, went into the court house a few days ago when he knew that the grand jury wa? investigating cigarette cases. He stood in the hall and accosted the jurors as he smoked a cigarette, and thus invited an indictment. He was accommodated, of course, and the case will go to the Supreme Court. It is said that the tobacco men do not expect the Supreme Court of the State to set aside the law in respect to dealers, but this phase of it will go to thf: United States Supreme Court. It does expect, however, that the State court will set aside the law as it relates to private individuals. CP Protecting River Banks. A new way of keeping the Mississippi and other great rivers of the West from washing away their banks has been designed by western engineers. It is called a mattress, because it Is actaally woven from the branches of willow trees. These mattresses are iamense at'airs, sometimes being nearly a hundred feet in length and 30 or 40 feet in width. The branches are put on in boats, and when the mattress is finished it is abound around the edge with wire ror?, then p.'aced against the water, side of the levee, being partly out of the water and partly submerged. It is held la place by covering it with huge stones, und when the work is properly done it offers a barrier which the water cannot break through.

GREAT BUNDES TURNFEST TO BE HELD AT INDIANAPOLIS.

When the Bundes turnfest is held at Indianapolis June 21-25, thousands of the visitors, no doubt, will visit oue of the show places of the Hoositr capital, which is photographed in the illustration the soldiers' monument. The gathering will be under the auspices of the Nord Amerikanischer Turner Bund, and 2,000 athletes from all parts of the United States will take part. The Deutsche Turnerschaft will be represented by a team of twenty young men, the pick of the German turners, under the leadership of Prof. Kessler of Stuttgart. Strong men from the dominions of King Victor Emmanuel also will attend in the persons of twelve members of the Italian Gymnastic Union. THE MERCILESS GRAFTERS. Philadelphia Case Shows Their Capacity for Loot Is Limitless. Is Philadelphia to pay a heavy penalty for its shameless leniency to municipal thieves? It looks so. Mayor Weaver says he thinks his plan will circumvent I. -yk w ....v,.....v. the scheme of the looters, but his veto power offers no greater resistance to the tido of evil than would a straw dam to an onrushing current. He can give his official disapproval, but unless the Councilmen and the arch grafters whose agents they are can be made to feel that public sentiment and the law can reach their persons and their purses there is little hope. Having for years tolerated corruption such as no other city knows, her protests against the gas steal may fail to scare the plunderers. Both houses of the Council voted by enormous majorities to give away the city's gas plant for seventy-five years to a syndicate that offers ia compensation a mere trifle compared with what the city has been offered for similar rights by honest men. Mayor Weaver has vetoed the grant, but the Council's majority is so overwhelming that his veto may be meaningless. Philadelphia is said to have the worst municipal government in the country. The people are now aroused as never before and ropes are suggestively used at mass meeting where the Councilmen are discussed. A few days ago 100 ministers visited Mayor Weaver and fell upon their knees while a speaking committee addressed the Mayor. Pobiedonosteff is another Russian leader who has just been amputated from a good thing. In Texas and Kansas tornadoes seem to have become a regular feature of the weekly blowout. First prize at the fiorse show this year goes to the horse that can pass the new millinery without shying. It is sometimes hard to determine whether the Equitable struggle is' for the last word or the last dollar. The trouble with many of the Czar's promised reforms is that they never develop beyond the promise embryo. "The Isthmus is the mother of yellow fever," says a pessimistic exchange. Yellow Jack's Panamamma, as it were. To judge from the Philadelphia reports they might make the City Council room a jail and not have to let a single one out Mr. Rockefeller may continue to make donations ia retura for legislatioa with4 out fear that anything will be said about the taint. Any parent equipped with a fairly substantial shingle should prove a satisfactory strike breaker in the case of school strikes. "Thieves! Thieves!" cried the citizens in attendance when the Philadelphia gas lease bill was passed and they guessed it the first time. In arranging her exhibits for the fair at Portland, Oregon appears to have overlooked the fine display of land frauds which might be made. Having been trained in the land of Castro, Messrs. Bowen and Loomis should be able to put up a fight worthy of the public's attention. An Omaah financier stole $100,000 and then committed suicide, doubtless because he knew he wasn't in the Cassie Chadwick-Bigelow class. The difficulty about the competition which manufacturers hail in awarding contracts for canal supplies is that it may be only on the surface. . Nan Patterson is to get $1,800 a week to appear before the footlights and let people see how sweet and bewitching a real wicked girl can be when she gets out of her troubles and decides to be good. '

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ONE YEAR'S RECORD.

Resmlt of the Tirelve Months Military Operations in the East. One year ago Russia Lad an army it. Manchuria, a garrison at Port Arthur and an imposing navy in eastern waters; Japan had an army driving the Russians northward in the vicinity of Feng-Wang-Cheng. Port Arthur was invested by land and sea, and the Mikado's fleet was supreme. To-day both nations have armies of approximately equal strength, numerically, and while Japan still has a powerful navy Russia has mustered a fighting strength on the seas that threatens the supremacy of Japan. The net gain from the year's campaiga has beea the capture by the Japanese of Port Arthur, the destruction of practically all the Russian vesyls in eastern waters at the outbreak of the war, and the forced retirement of the Russian army to a point some two hundred miles further north. To-day, aside from the fall of Port Arthur and the release of the forces employed in its investment, Japan occupies relatively the same position it did twelve months ago. It succeeded in putting a quietus on Russia's naval operations only to be confronted by another fleet. Driving the enemy back into Manchuria has been rather to the disadvantage of Japan, taking her troops further from their base of supplies and complicating the problem of providing for them. In one respect only has Japan reaped an advantage, . says the Detroit Free Press. Its prospective indemnity demand has continued to swell until it has assumed startling proportions. Every day the struggle is prolonged, should Japan eventually prove victor, increases its claims agafnst Russia and adds to the estimated amount. The developments of the year go far toward confirming the opinions of those who from the outset have contended that in a long drawn-out contest Russia was bound to win. With her vast resources it would prove possible for her to put a new army in the field each year. That is virtually what has been accomplished, and there is no pood reason why it should not continue. There will be no lack of warships so long as the money therefor is forthcoming; with the men which the Czar has at his command the recruiting of an army is not a serious task. Should Admiral Rojestvensky meet with even a reasonable degree of success the Russian war party would be strengthened to a degree that would materially simplify the situation now confronting it. and make a continuation of the struggle much easier. It is this fact that gives the developments in the far East such importance. Japan's only hope lies in conducting a sharp, decisive campaign, such as marked its progress earlier in the proceedings. If Admiral Togo can dispose of Rojestvensky's fleet and Marshal Oyama overcome Gen. Linevitch, Japan's prospects will once more become encouraging. Doubtless there is a good reason for the inactivity which has existed in Manchuria for weeks, but the seemingly dilatory tactics of the Japanese have thus far only resulted in Russia's strengthening her position, and are not calculated to inspire confidence in Japan's ultimate success. OUR VAST BUSINESS GROWTH. What We Have Accomplished in Twenty-five Years. A comparison of the growth of the export trade of the United States with that of other countries gives us reason not only for pride in our own country but confidence in the future of its commerce and of its power to invade the markets of the world. The three great nations which we may consider as friendly rivals in the struggle for the markets of the world are the United Kingdom. Germany and France. Our exports of domestic merchandise grew from JjUJOO,000,000 in 1S71) to $1,435,000.000 in 15)04. an increase in 25 years of $73G.000a)0, or 105 per cent. In the same period the domestic exports of the United Kingdom have grown from $932,000.000 to $1.4(U.000,000, an increase of $532,000,000, or 57 per cent. From Germany the domestic exports have grown in like time from $GGO,000.000 to $1.231,000,000, an increase of $571,000,000, or SG1! per cent. From France the exports during this period rose from $023.000.000 to $SG3.000,000, an increase of $240,000,000, or 38 per cent. Our manufacturing development shows up even more encouragingly. Our production of pig iron has grown from less than 4,000,000 tons in 1SS0 to more than 18,000,000 in 1003; of steel, from 1.250.000 tons in 1SS0 to 14,500,000 in 1003 of petroleum, a little over 1,000.000,000 gallons in 1SS0 to over 4,000.000.000 in 11)03; of coal, from less than 04.000,000 tons in 1SS0 to 319,000,000 in 1903. There is another measure of our astonishing growth and prosperity. The value of the internal commerce of the United States in 1SS0 was about $8,000,000,000; inlOOO, $20,000,000,000; in 1904 $22,000,000,000. This stupendous sum of $22,000,000,000 is twice as great as the value of the merchandise entering into the international trade of the entire world in the same year, 1904. The wonderful fact that the domestic commerce of the United States is twice a3 great as the imports of all the nations of the world, suggests the wonderful importance of our home market and the encouragement which should be offered for a free interchange among our people for the varied products of our great country. The banks of our country are also remarkable in the growth of business. The deposits in savings banks alone in 1SS0 were $8,119,000,000; in 1904 this had gone to $21,918,000,000. The result of this enormous business activity has been that the wealth of the country has grown from $42,500.000,000 in 1880 to $05,000,000,000 in 1900, and is now more than $100,000,000.000. This wealth when matched with population gives us $1,220 per person to that of $Sov in 1SS0, or over 50 per cent increase. Meanwhile the country's finances keep pace with corporate, firm and individual prosperity. The public debt has been reduced from a little less than $2,000,,000,000 in 1800 to considerably less than $1,000,000,000 to-day. At the same time the money in circulation has increased from $973,000,000 in 1SS0 to $2.519,000,000 at the present time, giving us a larger sum of money in circulation than that of any other country in the world. All Around the Globe. The box factory of C. E. Ward, corner of Eaton and Morrison streets, St. Paul, Minn., was destroyed by fire. Loss $50,000. It is reported that Mr. Heagelmueller, the Austro-nungarian ambassador, who is now on leave of absence, is seeking a transfer to a European post Daniel Henry Chase, the oldest graduate of Wesleyan university, and who as valedictorian of his class, that of 1833, received the first diploma issued by the then newly founded new Wesleyan college, died at Middletown," Conn., in his 91st year. The faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, by a vote of 57 to 5, has disapproved the proposed union of the institute with Harvard university. The matter now will be submitted to the alumni, after which the trustees will take decisive action.

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. j The hurtful influence of LlliCulJO. Jthe protracted teamsters' oiii&c aaiii cciivuoij s.a.fected business ia the distributive lines, and broken weather also was an adverse factor. Notwithstanding these hindrances, deliveries improved and accumulations of delayed freight were reduced. While labor troubles have swelled the ranks of idle workers, the tendency to further spreading diminished, and there is no direct Interference with manufacturing operations and other important activities. Earnings of western railroads have kept up close to recent gains, indicating that transportation continues of the highest aggregate. With farmers busy tilling tbe soil, It is not surprising that the marketing of grain exhibits a sharp falling off and poorer demand may account for shipments from this port, 19.4 per cent under those of tho corresponding week last year. Country stores are seen to be making satisfactory sales of seasonable wares, and, although mercantile defaults show increase, collections occasion little complaint Manufacturing as a whole has not encountered any retrogression. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 33, against 15 last week and 24 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. Adverse weather conditions are n leading source of complaints this "week. M York. but clearing skies, now reported throughout a large area of the country, bid fair to reinforce existing optimistic views as to late summer and fall trade. Cold or rainy weather, except In a few sections, has affected general trade, further retarded an already late corn and cotton planting season, given rise to rather less optimistic winter wheat crop reports and bulllshly stimulated grain, pork and cotton prices. The great barometer of trade and Industry, the Iron trade, is less active for the cruder forms despite price concessions, but the disposition In usually well-informed quarters is to regard this as an Instance of the general breathing spell which Is noted In many lines of wholesale business. Business failures in the United States for the week ending May IS number 191, against 15S last week, 215 In the like week In 1904, 155 In 1903, 152 In 1902 and 192 In 1901. In Canada failures number 17, as against 18 last week and 11 in this week a year ago. Wheat, Including flour exports for the week ending May IS, are 1,512,550 bushels, against S99.355 last week, 1,225,763 this week last year, 5,293.373 In 1903 and 5,1S4,839 in 1902. From July 1 to date the exports are 55,999,999 bushels, against 124,877,004 last year, 149,CS3,031 in 1903 and 224,999,109 In 1902. Corn exports for the week are 1,CSS,299 bushels, against 1,52S.299 last week, 118,337 a year ago, 1,814,1SG In 1903 and 90,909 in 1902. From July 1 to date the exports of corn are 73,195,685 bushels, against 49,607,443 In 1904, 00,192 in 1903 and 24.335.1S0 In 1902. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to ?G.40; hogs, prime heary, $4.00 to $5.47; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.85; wheat No. 2, $1.07 to $1.11; corn, No. 2, 59c to 60c; oats, standard, 29c to 31 e; rye, No. 2, 77c to 78c; hay, timothy, $S.50; to $13.50; prairie, $G.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, 18c to 23c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $G.23; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $5.65; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat No. 2, $1.02 to $1.04; corn. No. 2 white, 50c to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, SOc to 32c. St Louis-Cattle, $4.50 to $G.25; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $4.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to $1.01; corn. No. 2, 50c to 52c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 31c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 72c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5.65; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat No. 2, $1.05 to $1.07; corn. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 54c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to S2c; rye, No. 2, SOc to 83c Detroit Cattle. $3.50 to $3.85; hogs. $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat No. 2, $1.04 to $1.00; cora. No. 3 yellow, 53c to 55c; oats, No. 3 white, 33c to 34c; rye, No. 2, 7Sc to 80c Milwaukee Wheat No. 2 nsrthers, $1.05 to $1.11; corn. No. 3, 51c to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; rye. No. 1, 81c to 83c; barley, No. 2, 50c to 52c; pork, mess, $12.45. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.25; hogs, fair ta choice, $4.00 to $5.60; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $5.00; lambs, fab? to choice, $5.00 to $6.75. Toledo Wheat No. 2 mixed, 09c to $1.01; cora, No. 2 mixed, 4Sc to 50c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 2, 81c to 82c; clover seed, prime, $7.00. New York Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, J3.00 to $5.25; wheat No. 2 red, $1.07 to $1.09; corn. No. 2, 55e to 57c; oats, natural, white, 35c to C7c; butter, creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, western, 15c to 18c News of Minor Not. Smallpox has broken out among the prisoners ia the Blair county jail at Hollidaysburg. Pa. ' Gen. Miles has proposed that the Massachusetts militia wear cocked hats and knickerbockers after the old continental army style. The New York Stato Department of Agriculture has started a campaign to attract farmers, dairymen and farm laborers to the State. William E. Strong, a well-known banker and broker, is dead in New York from pneumonia. He was born ia Chiilicotas, Ohio, in 1830. Charles Short, & gas fltter of Philadelphia, employed by the United Gas Improvement Company of Chenandoah, Pa wts raurdtred by Acguxtiao Earricko, ia iUlUn ojrgan jJ-.-lnierat Glrardrrillx