Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 37, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 June 1905 — Page 2

THE PLYMOUTH TRIBÜNE

PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS acaTT Publishers. 1905 JUNE. 1905

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Vg 24th. Q 3rd. D 10th. i) 17th. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides nd Conditions of Thins are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. $130,000 Fire at Kokomo. One life believed to Lave been lost, $150,000 damage and 225 men bereft of employment is the result of a fire of unknown origin, which destroyed the local plant of the National Flint Cass Company known as the Jenkins factory, with $25,000 worth of stock in the extreme south portion of Kokomo, Ind. The loss is covered by insurance. Two firemen were injure? by falling walls. A search of the ruins will be made for the body of Roy JIarbert, who is unaccounted for. Telephones of the factory being out of order, the alarm was spread by a man on horseback. The fire department being engaged in distinguishing a burning residence caused a delay of more than an hour in reaching the factory, permitting the fire to get beyond -control. Priest Attempts to Murder Canon. Rome special: An attempt was made to assassinate Canon Bonifacio while he was standing in a window of is residence in the town of Fanni, a suburb of Foggia. The would-be murderer was another priest who was jealous of Bonifacio because the latter had been promoted to be arch-priest of the cathedral. lie fired a revolver at Bonifacio but missed hisaim. The wouldbe assassin was arrested and taken to prison. The parishioners, who take the hide of the assailant, attempted to rescue him from the prison and it was necessary for carbineers to charge upon the crowds to drive them away from the prison. Ten Years at Hard Labor for Blgelow. . Frank G. Bigelow, the defaulting bank president of Milwaukee, Wis., pleaded guilty to an indictment of ten counts returned by the federal grand ury, charging violations of the national banking laws, and was sentenced by United States District Judge Quarles to a concurrent sentence of ten years at hard labor in the federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. lie VarU Charged with Wert as Mnrder. Levi Be Yard, 37 years old, was arrested on the swern affidavit of Eva Wertz, aged 14, and charged with the murder of her grandmother, Mrs. Wertz, near Dry Creek, four miles north of Newark, Ohio. June 1. Be Yard is a son-in-law of Mrs. Wertz, who was murdered in her home with a club. It is said Mrs. Wertz and BeYard quarreled some time before the murder. Convict Inherits $10,000. William Caldwell, convicted three years ago in Indianapolis, Ind., for murder and sentenced to prison in Michigan City, received a fortune in the sum of $10,000, left him by a wealthy relative In New York. Caldwell has been a model prisoner and will be given his final pardon in a few months. Bank Safe Blown bj Bnrgtars. The safe in the Ex change bank of Garrison & Sargent, at Yernon, Mich., was blown by expert cracksmen. They secured $1,500 in money belonging to the bank and $2,000 postage stamps and $200 deposited in the safe by the postmaster. The thieves escaped in a buggy stolen from a resident. ! Mary Rogers Mnst Uang. ; J ustice Rufus W. Peckham of the United States Supreme Court, denied an application for a writ of error in the case of Mrs. Hary Rogers of Vermont, convicted of the murder of her husband. The writ was applied for that an appeal might be made to the United States Supreme Court. Infant Heroine Crashed to Death. In a successful attempt to save the life of Dorothy Cole, a little playmate, Valetta Plumer, 7 years old, of Indianapolis, Ind., was caught under the rear wheel of a heavily laden lumber wagon, which passed over her head, crushing it to a pulp. Dorothy Cole was uninjured. Thrown From Car and Killed. F. X. Schramm, formerly of Fort Wayne, Ind., was killed near Greenwich, Ohio, while serving as baggage agent for the Big Four railroad. Schramm was thrown from the car while the train was rounding a curve. The body will be taken to Fort Wayne for burial. World's Largest Floating Dry Dock. The government dry dock Dewey, recently built by the Maryland Steel Company at Sparrows Point, has been successfully floated and will be towed to Manila. The Dewey is the largest floating dry dock In the -world. It will lift 24,447 tons and cost $1,125,000. Dixon Grain Elevator Barns. Sinsrer Eros.' elevator at Dixon. Ind.. was entirely destroyed by fire. It is supposed that the fire originated in ine engine room. The elevator contained about 2,000 bushels of wheat and 1,000 bushels of corn. The total loss is about $10,000, with $6,000 insurance. Bridge Builder Killed. John Callahan, SO, a bridge builder from Marietta, Ohio, fell from the highest part of the new Baltimore & Ohio railroad bridge at Parkersburg, W. Va., 150 feet into the Ohio river, ine Doay was re covered. Filipino Insurgents Killed. A dispatch from Manila says: Enrique Biguhob, the leader of the insurrection movement in the island of Samar, was vnioH rtorpther with thirtv-nine of his fol- . aVllXlu, T - lowers, June 4, according to advices just received. a . Pennsylvania passenger train 23, fron Trmftinn. Ohio. As the oil tank WBIU burst the engine fires ignited the oH and Jjngineer iiwsfu uuuu tuu cueuun Charles Pryor of Columbus were burned to death. o V7 TVvt Pmi Cnccecaor. C W. Post, chairman of the Postuia Cereal Company, xaiue vrees, &i.icn., nrcirtnt of thm National CAtV W Cici.". r ' Iztns' Industrial Association to succeed riT3 ei ittss cf tt cr-anhutioa at the rs

EASTERN. tin. Barclay II. Warburton. of Philadelphia, lost or was robbed of a pearl Necklace valued, it is said, at $G0,000. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology corporation has decided in favor of amalgamation with Harvard university. The extensive mills of the Granite Linen Company at Wortendyke, N. J were destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $150,000. The body of a man supposed to be Jacob Alder of McKeesport. Pa., was found in the grass near Euclid park in Cleveland, Ohio. A 15-story hotel, to cost $15,000,000 and to hare nearly 1,000 rooms, and to rival any similar structure in the world, is planned for New York. A new high-price for real estate has been marked in the sale of a lot at Broadway and Wall street, New York, for $598.20 a square foot. Maude Adams, the actress, is in New York recovering from an operation for appendicitis. For a time, it is said, her life was believed in danger. The will of William Ziegler leaves the bulk of the $30,000,000 estate to hi adopted son, and makes no provision for continuing arctic expeditions. , The last will of the late J. MonJ.fonery Sears, Boston largest taxpayer, which disposes of an estate of about $25,000,000, has disappeared. Warren A. Carpenter of Woonsocket was nominated for Governor of Rhode Island by the Socialist party and James W. Higgins of Washington for Lieutenant Governor. A warehouse of the New York Dock Company at Conover and Reid streets, Brooklyn, which was filled with a large amount of cotton and hemp, was burned. The loss is estimated at $75,000. John Jay Tonkin, millionaire of Oswego, X. Y., offers $50,000 for the name cf the person who fur months has terrorized his family by letters demanding sums of money on pain of death to his child. Beriah Wilkins, owner, editor and publisher of the Washington Post, and formerly representative in Congress from Ohio, died suddenly of heart failure at his residence in Washington, aged 50 years. Mrs. Josephine Hone, widow of Chas. Russell Hone and the only daughter of the late John Hoey, who was the president of the Adams Express Company, is dead at a sanitarium in Westchester county. New York, from paralysis.

WESTERN. A cry of fire in the Academy of Music in Chicago started a panic that was stopped with great difficulty. A ferryboat capsized in the Elkhorn River near Hooper, Neb. Daniel Foley and E. C. Neal were drowned. Anouucemeat has been made at St. Louis of the consolidation of the Star and Chronicle, evening newspapers. While Henry Davis was being arraigned in Newark. Ohio, for larceny his child drowned. The indictment was quashed. A cloudburst covered the Rock Island tracks to a depth of over a foot and washed out the track between Belleville and Scandia, Kan. Three persons were killed and seven were injured in a storm which swept southern Michigan. Many buildings were destroyed by wind. The President has established a forest reserve in southern Colorado to be known as the San Juan reserve and to contain about 1,500,000 acres. George Gudgeon, aged 45 years, city foreman of construction of the Western Union-Telegraph Company of St. Louis committed suicide by shooting. The Masonic Temple in Toledo, Ohio, the most elaborate building of its kind in the country, and furnished at a cost of $425,000, was dedicated Tuesday. John Wythe Lewis of Fulton, Mo., a junior, has won the first prize of $73 in the George Augustus Sandham oratorical contest in New York university. Three men were killed and two seriously injured by a cap blowing off one of the boilers at the American Steel and Wire Company's furnace in Cleveland. Attorney J. D. O'Brien was brought back to Yinita, I. T., from Lewiston, Idaho, and placed in jail on charges of forgery preferred by the federal grand Jury. At a meeting of the trustees of the John Huntington estate at Cleveland it was announced that the sum of $500,000 would be expended to erect an art gallery. E. N. Welsh, a farmer, who resided three miles north of Nevada, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. He had been in ill health for three years. Frank E. Snow, stndent at Michigan and member of a prominent Detroit family, was probably fatally injured while learning railroading as a bra Item a a near Hammond, Ind. George Craner, aged CO, and Mrs. Benjamin Craner, aged 21, are dead and Benjamin Craner and Harry Winters are in serious condition from damp in a well at Marion, Ohio. Gen. William J. Palmer of Colorado Springs has given $100,000 and Andrew. Carnegie has donated $50,000 as a nucleus to the $500,000 endowment fund the Colorado college is raising. Fond du Lac city and county, Wisconsin, have been swept by a flood, entailing a loss of $150,000. Buildings were torn from their foundations and shattered, the fragments passing out into the lake. The Colorado Supreme Court has affirmed a decree permitting the United States Mortgage and Trust Company to sell the Brown Palace Hotel of Denver on a foreclosure of- a mortgage amounting to $050.000. . President Roosevelt has proclaimed a new forest reserve in California to be known as the Lassen Peake reserve, which covers part of the northern Sierra range and contains a fraction under 900,000 acres. James R. Broderick, a wealthy St. Louis contractor, has married Miss Martha Matilda Bemarkl, a waitress. The romance began in a restaurant where the groom was served by. the future bride. News from Sheridan, Ark., says John R, Sneed, while perpetrating a practical joke, was shot and killed by his best friend. Will Woolum, who mistook him for a wild animal he wa imitating m the darkness. John Frazier, a negro, was hanged ai Des Arc, Ark., for the murder of Webster Southerland Nov. 5 last. The killing was over a dispute about, money. After the tragedy Frazier escaped, but was captured. Jesse James, son of the famous bandit, was acquitted by a Jury in a Kansas City justice court of the charge of exacting usurious interest on a loan. The verdict was that the evidence did not support the charge. Qor. Johnson of Minnesota refused to honor a requisition from the Governor of Iowa for Itios. Moran, who U now serving a sentence at the Ctillwater Cut prl:c3. ITcrra's jcatccee will expire la

a short time. He is wanted ia Iowa for larceny. .It is asserted that the United States grand jury in Milwaukee has found three indictments against Frank G. Bigelow and four against Henry G. Göll in connection with the defalcation in the First National Bank. Nels NelsoD, butler to Gov. Herrick, was swakenod and saw two men in the lower hallway of the Governor's residence in Columbus, Ohio. He called the polict. but the men escaped after being shot t twice by the police. Tte train of the Gaskill Carnival Company wts wrecked in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe yards in Atchison, Kan. Four cars were piled up and Jack Osborn, Harry Teeter and Henry Witz, employes, were badly hurt. Clarence B. Young, who attempted to rob the express car of the Northern Pacific train two miles east of Bearmouth, May 27, after he had dynamited the c,ar, has been sentenced to serve fifty years In the Deer Lodge penitentiary. A cloudburst occurred at Bellefontaine, Ohio, and the city was flooded. Every street was a raging river and many families were forced from their homes. Hundreds of. dollars damage has been wrought to the macadam streets recently built all over the city. In the Merchants' Bridge case, from St Louis, the Secretary of War has decided that there is no warrant for the government to take possession of the structure, and that there has been no violation of the contract between the bridge company and the government. Charles McGinty, a wife beater, received twenty lashes on the bare back in Portland, Ore., being the first sufferer under the new State law. The lashing was performed by the county jailer under the direction of the sheriff and a physician. The whip was a braided blacksnake made of rawhide, with four lashes. The first annual report of the settlement of the estate of the late James L. Blair of St. Louis, win died Jan. 15, 11)04, was filed in the probate court by John F. Lee, executor. The report shows that the estate comprises notes amounting to $27,354.12; stocks, $31,050; cash in bank, $1.034.70; total balance now on hand, $00,038.82. The Edgar County National Bank on the north side of the public square in Pari, 111., was wrecked by dynamite at 4. o'clock Thursday morning. The charge also demolished Bradshaw's jewelry store and Wetzel's shoe store, which are adjacent to the bank. The vault was wrecked. The smaller safe, in which were the bank funds, was overturned, but is still intact. A strange circumstance is that Walter Juntgen, the bookkeeper of the bank, has a broken arm, which he says was caused by a brick flying into his window across the square from the explosion.

FOREIGN. Native reports have been received at Capetown to the effect that Warmbad, the German headquarters in southwest Africa, has fallen and that the garrison has perished. The Italian cruiser Umbria bombarded Pender Island, a British port, for three hours -Wednesday. The onlcers say they were at target practice and miscalculated the distance. A bold address adopted by the zemstvo congress in Moscow takes the Czar tx task for failure to keep his reform pledges and demands a national assembly to decide on peace or war. President Roosevelt has sent a message direct to the Czar, offering aid in bringing about peace negotiations. It is believed that serious work ia this direction already has been begun. The Norwegian tricolor was hoisted Friday over Akershus fort, at Chris1 tiania, and throughout the country in place of the union flag. The substitution was attended by great ceremony at the fort. The Czar followed the appointment of Treo ff with dictatorial powers with prohibition of zemstvo congress, inaugurating a stern policy of repression as the answer of the throne to the cry for peace and reform. Oxford University, England, is to confer on Dr. William Osier the degree of doctor of medicine and on Prof. B. L. Gildersleeve of Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, Md., the honorary degree of doctor of letters. An explosion occurred at the Inverness coal mine, Halifax, N. S., in which sixteen persons were injured. It is feared several miners may have been entombed. The blast was terrific and the entrance to the mine was blocked. Crown Prince Frederick William and Duchess Cecilia of . MeeklenbunrSchwerin were married by Dr. Dryander, the court chaplain. In the small chapei of the palace in Berlin, according to the ritual of the Lutheran church. The Canadian government has decided to make an 'attempt to establish the lobster fishery on the Pacific coast. This industry in Canada is confined to eastern waters and all previous experiments on the Pacific have proved failures. Russia and Japan have agreed to negotiate for peace as a result of the efforts of President Roosevelt An identical note to both belligerents urging the termination of the strife hR3 been made public at the White House, with their consent. ' v Submarine boat A-8 was lost off the breakwater at Plymouth, England. Three explosions are said to have occurred on board before she foundered. She had on board eighteen officers and men, including her regular crew and men who were in training. Fourteen of this number were drowned. The storthing at Christiania on Wednesday declared the union between Norway and Sweden under one king to be dissolved and held that the king has ceased to act as King of Norway. The storthing empowered the present state council to act as a government of Norway until further notice. IN GENERAL, The President has issued an order creating the ratings cf tailor and assistant tailor In the navy. Hereafter any sailor may pick out a suit of clothing and without charge the ship's tailor will make any alterations necessary to make it fit neatly. Judge Lafontaine, Canadian extradition commissioner, has given judgment In the case of the United States vs. John F. Gaynor and Benjamin D. Greene, committing both for extradition and ordering them back to jail to await surrender to United States officers. The Canadian cruiser Yigilant sighted a fishing tug six miles east of Middle Island, Lake Erie, and about five miles north of the boundary line. The tug proved to be the Grace M. of Lorain, Ohio. The Vigilant signaled her to stop. The tug steamed away and Captain Dunn of the Vlgilaat fired several shots across her bows. In dodging the tug collided with the cruiser, rolled over-and sank. The crew of the Vigilant rescued Captain Galbraith'and two of the tcjs travr. hnt two fishermen. Martin Olun I ' W mi - www, .... cf ClareUnd and William Anderroa ci Lcrilo, wer crowctd.

PEACE SEEMS AT HAND

RUSSIA AND JAPAN AGREE TO OPEN NEGOTIATIONS. President Addresses an Identical Note to Both Powers Cxar Casts the Die, and Says He Will Accept Terms if Not Humiliating. Peace negotiations between Russia and Japan will be instituted as a result of the efforts of President Roosevelt to end the war. The two nations will deal directly with each other, to prevent any attempt at Interference from any European power, and it Is not unlikely that the negotiations will be conducted in Manchuria between the truce-stilled armies of Oyama and Linevitch. Through President Roosevelt, Russia knows In a general way of the most Important demands Japan will make and is satisfied with them. The way that leads to peace has been cleared and those who are familiar with all that has been done are confident that no obstacle will arise to block it. The conclusion of the President's efforts to establish a working basis on which the belligerents could discuss and agree to peace terms was announced at the White House Friday night by giving out a formal and identical note which Mr. Roosevelt sent to Russia and Japan, urging them "for their own sakes and in the Interest of the whole civilized world to open direct negotiations for peace." This note was the final word from the President in a seres of exchanges through which compliance with his request had been guaranteed. The President's offer to assist in arranging the time and place for the peace conference Is purely a formality, an evidence of friendship. There is no idea that either Russia or Japan will call on him to act in that Capacity, for It is well understood that they are to deal directly with each other. Japan has declared from the beginning tnat when the time came to end the war she would Ueal with no other power than Russia and through no other power. The Czar took precisely the same position when he was approached by Ambassador Meyer and announced that as a condition precedent to any peace negotiations it must be understood that Japan's terms would be reasonable and involve no humiliation for Russia and tha the two nations would be left to settle their quarrel between themselves and on their own terms. Text of President's Note. The text of the President's note to the belligerents is as follows: The President feels that the time has cone when, in the interest of all mankind, he must endeavor to see if it is not possible to bring to an end the terrible and lamentable conflict now being waged. With both Russia and Japan the United States has inherited ties of friendship and good will. It hopes for the prosperity and welfare of each, and it feels that the progress of the world is set back by the war between these two great nations. The President accordingly urges the Russian and Japanese governments, not only for their own sakes but in the interest of. the whole civilized world, to open direct negotiations for peace with one another. The President suggests that these peace negotiations be conducted directly and exclusively between the belligerents; in other words, that there may be a meeting of Russian and Japanese plenipotentiaries or delegates without any intermediary, in order to see if it is not possible for these representatives of the two powers to agree to terms of peace. The President earnestly asks that the governments addressed do now agree to such meeting and is asking the governments likewise to agree. While the President does not feel that any intermediary should be called in in respect to the peace negotiations themselves, he is entirely willing to do what he properly can if the two powers concerned feel that his services will be of aid in arranging the preliminaries as to the time and place of meeting. But if even these preliminaries can be arranged directly between tHe two powers or in any other way the President will be glad, as his sole purpose is to bring about a meeting which the whole civilized world will pray may result in peace." RUSSIAN NAVAL LOSSES. Tiong L.iat of Vessels Destroyed Hlnea the Beginning of the War. Since the beginning of the war between Russia and Japan the former country has lost warships, the aggregate value of which runs up into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Two splendid cruisers, the Korietz and the Vafiag, were sunk at Chemulpo harbor, Korea, on Feb. 9, 1004. Admiral Uriu commanded the Japanese squadron. The vessels destroyed at Port Arthur were the Peresviet, 12.C74 tons, which the Russians themselves sunk before the capitulation; Petropavlosk, a battleship of 11,354 tons, blown up by a Japanese mine; Pobeida, 12.G74 tons, sunk by the Russians; Poltava, 10.0GO tons, sunk by the Russians; Retvizan, 12,700 tons, sunk by the Russians; Sevastopol. 10,000 tons, sunk by the Russians; Bayan, a cruiser of 7.72G tons, sunk by the Russians: Novik, cruiser of 3,0S0 tons, sunk by Admiral Kamimura after the sortie from Port Arthur on Aug. 10; Boyarin, a cruiser of 3,200, sunk by striking a Russian mine; Pallada, cruiser of, .6,030 tons, sunk by the Russians. In addition the battleship Czarevitch, 12,912 tons, the cruiser Askold and the cruiser Diana, the former of 5,905 tons and the latter of G,C30 tons, took refuge in neutral ports after the sortie from Port Arthui last August and were disarmed. At the beginning of the war the Russians had four powerful cruisers at Vladivostok. Of these the Uurik, of 10,923 tons, was sunk in battle with Admiral Kamimura: the Gromobor, 12,330 tons, was damaged In the same engagement, but is now. repaired; the Rossia, of 12,130 tons, was damaged, but la again in fighting trim, and the Bogartyr, of C,G45 tons, ran ashore at Vladivostok, but is now either repaired or nearing the completion of her refitment The recent defeat In the straits of Korea adds enormously to Russia's naval losses. A Million Immigrants. The immigration authorities at New York estimate that 1,000,000 aliens will land in the United States during the year. Last year the country received 812.S70 Immigrants, and now aliens are pouring into our ports at a greater rate than ever before.

MORTON IS CHOSEN.

Secretary of the Navy Named as Head ot Equitable Society. James H. Hyde has sold his majority stock in the Equitable Life Assurance Society o l syndicate of financiers and tendered his resignation as vice president of the company which his father founded in 1859 and which has ever since been in the absolute control of the Hyde family. By his action the Hyde family ceases to be a factor in the management of the Ecmitable Life. JAS. H. HYDE. paul Morton Sec. retary of the Navy, who recently accepted the presidency of all the New York City transportation lines controlled by the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, was elected chairman of the board of directors of the Equitable Life. He will not assume the duties of president of the transportation system controlled by the Metropolitan, but will devote all of his energies and time to the management of the Equitable. The purchaser of Mr. Hyde's stock is a syndicate headed by Thomas F. Ryan, head of the Metropolitan street railway system, who is planning to build subways in opposition to those of the Interborough company, of which August Belmont is president. Mr. Hyde sold 501 shares of Equitable Life stock. The entire issue is 1.00) shares, so that Mr. Ryan's holdings constitute an actual majority of only one share. The price paid was not defin i t e 1 y announced, but is said to be less than $4,000,000. At the outset of the trouble in the Equit-1 1 1 - M XT, F ILM(7 .'Iii 11J UC V ts&i'-Wti.'t J offered for his $5,000,000 stock coniSSiMWaUedi trol by a syndicate PAUL MOKTON. headed by Henry C. Frick and Edward H. Harriman. In addition to that of James II. Hyde the resignations of five other officers were placed ia the hands of the new chairman of the board, Paul Morton. These men were President James W. Alexander, Second Vice President Gage E. Tarbell. Third Vice President George P. Wilson. Fourth Vice President William II. McIntyre and Financial Manager Henry Rogers Winthrop. None of these resignations was accepted. Mr. Morton took them with the understanding that if the report of State Superintendent of Insurance Francis Hendricks discloses the unfitness of any of these officers to continue in the employ of the Equitable that the resignations will be accepted. Conditions of the Hyde sale provide for mutualization of the Equitable. ILLITERATES AND PAUPERS. What Investiscation of the Immigration Statistics Shows. Anyone who has the patience to plod through the statistics of the bureau of immigration can learn all he wants of the illiteracy and poverty of our immigrants. Walter Wellman has done this. Selecting a number of the most important races the English, Irish, German, Scandinavian, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese and Russian it appears that the English have the advantage over all others in their average provision of cash, while the Scandinavians have the advantage in literacy. Of these same races the Italians are most poorly equipped with worldly goods and also most illiterate. Among the Scandinavians only one out of 108 of the immigrants is illiterate. The English show one out of 92, the Germans one out of 30, the Irish one out of 31, the Japanese and Hebrews one out of five, the Russians one out of four and the Italians two out of five. Turning to cash, it appears that twothirds of the English bring in over $50 each, one-half of the Japanese, one-third of the Germans, one-sixth of the Irish and Russians, one-seventh of the Scandinavians, one-ninth of the Hebrews and one-eighteenth of the Italians. Figuring on a different basis, it appears that the average Englishman brings in $00, the. German $49, the Japanese $44, the Irish and Russian $30, the Scandinavians $24, the Italian $10and'the Hebrew $15. Although the Hebrews and Italians bring in about the same average amount of cash per person, the proportion of Hebrews bringing in over $50 is twice that of the Italians, but this is doubtless due to the fact that thjj Hebrews bring their families with theii. The "$50 or more" is figured for heads of families, and this makes a material difference in relative rank in the two estimates. These facts are worthy the attention of all persons interested in. the problem of our increasing immigration. The syndicate underwriting the recent issues of $32,000,000 Atchison convertible bonds took a profit of something over l.G per cent. , The Erie Railroad has placed an order for 12,000 tons of ninety-pound steel rails to be u ed to replace he lighter rails on about 100 jniles of track on the company's main line. L. W. Hill, vice president of the Great Northern railway, announced at St. Paul that the Great Northern would be extended to Omaha and that the extension would be built on the Nebraska side of the Missouri river. Subscriptions to the $50,000,000 Western Pacific 5,s are said .to have reached a total of about $125,000,000, and regular subscribers will probably get less than 25 per cent of the amounts applied for, owing to heavy withdrawals. An indication of the recent understanding between the Hill and Harriman interests in northwestern railway matters was the announcement in New York that the Northern Pacific Railway Company and Oregon Short Line will jointly build a road several hundred mile? in length Into the Nez Terces country. The Interstate commerce commission in the case of the St. Louis Hay and Grain Company against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and other railroads decided in Washington that when a carload of hay destined to East St Louis is delivered at a warehouse designated by the shipper or consignee prior to arrival in that city, or to the proper switching road, or is pltced upon the team track of the railroad (ia caae no specific delivery is nametl), the railroad may insist that such delivery Is proper and it qp ha accepted by the consignee.

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Business was favorably Influenced by more seasonable weather and the Chicago. distribution of commodities expanded, reflecting a sustained high volume of consumption. The labor trouble continue a cause of disquiet and hinder investment in new enterprises, but other developments have added to confidence in the commercial outlook. Manufacturing remains very active in leading lines, and has gathered further strength from the well maintained demand for future output and steadiness in prices. Reports from the farming sections show spring work almost ended, crop prospects advancing, and the demand gaining for necessaries and Improvement material. Mercantftfaylefaults are seen to be comparatively few, less complaint is heard as to collections generally and money remains ample for ordinary purposes. Factory work presents more activity, particularly in farm Implements, hardware, special machinery and electric supplies. Building material of all kinds remains in Avidespread request, and receipts of lumber were 40,079,000 feet, against 32,507,000 feet a year ago. Board of trade operations largely centered in the winding up of the May options In the two prominent cereals. Cash dealings were limited owing to the high prices which prevailed, and growers secured their profits. Export demand was poor in all the breadstuffs, irrent quotations being a discouragement. Grain receipts, 3,54G,1SG bushels, compared with 3,003,13S bushels a year ago, and the shipments were 2,020,115 bushels, against 2,479,304 bushels. Receipts of live stock wore less than expected, yet these fully met the demond, and prices fell slightly. Compared with the closings a week ago values advanced In oats 1 cents a bushel, in wheat 1 cent, ribs 22Va cents, pork 172 cents and lard 15 cents, and declined in corn 10 cents, cattle 5 cents, sheep 10 cents and hogs 15 cents. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 13, against 20 last week and 23 a year ago. Dun's Trade Review. Ke YorL Trade reports, crop conditions, and, to a lesser degree, collections, display an improved appearance, the result of better weather conditions. Clearing skies and more seasonable weather have made for better retail trade, improved reorder business with jobbers in seasonable goods, and last, but not least, have cleared the crop situation, and allowed some measure of ascertainment of the damage done by excessive rains, high water, or low temperatures in widely separated areas. Weather and crop irregularities color trade reports, but It Is to be noted that the Northwestern cities return very optimistic reports, the central West is cheerful, and some Southern points report trade better than anticipated earlier. Effects on trade of the backward spring In the East are being repaired. Building is active the country over, and, except at Chicago, Tabor troubles are not seriously hampering. Business failures in the United States for the week ending June 1 number 154, against 179 last week, 194 in the like week in 1904, 157 in 1903. 154 in 1902 and 1G3 in 1901. In Canada failures for the week number 10, as against 15 last week and 20 In this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Wheat Prospects. The May wheat report of the Department of Agriculture is of especial interest as the last authoritative report of the condition of winter wheat before the harvest, which begins this month and is finished in July. The May report shows that the area under cultivation in winter wheat is about 29,723.000 acres, which is 4.G per cent less than the area sown last fall, but 10.G per cent greater than the area of winter wheat harvested last year. The average condition is reported at 92.5 against 91.G April 1, and a mean of 83.7 for May averages for the last ten years. These figures promise a crop of about 401,000,000 bushels. The yield of winter wheat last year was 332,935,34S bushels. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $5.S0; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $5.37; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 99c to $1.01; corn. No. 2, 51c to 53c; oats, standard, 31c to 32c: rye, No. 2, 78c to 79c; hay, timothy, $S.50 to $13.00; prairie, $G.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 14c; potatoes, new, per barrel, $1.75 to $2.50. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $G.00; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $5.35; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to $1.02; corn, No. 2 white, 51c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32e. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, $4.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 90c to 92c; corn. No. 2, 49c to 51c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 2, 70c to 72c. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50: sheep, $2.00 to $4.10; wheat. No. 2, $1.05 to $1.00; corn. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 54c: oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 2, 80c to 83c. Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 99c to $1.00; corn. No. 3 yellow, 54c to 56c; oats, No. 3 white, 32c to 34c; rye, No. 2, 78c to 80c. Toledo Wheat No. 2 mixed,' 09c to $1.01; corn, No. 2 mixed, 4S$to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to S2c; rye, No. 2, 81c to 82c; clover seed, prime, $7.00. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.05 to $1.03: corn. No. 3, 51c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to S3c; rye, No. 1, 81c to 82c; barley, No. 2, 50c to 52c; pork, mess, $12.50.

CROP OUTLOOK FAIRLY GOOD. Floods and Cut Worm Hurt Corn, but Wheat Suffers Little. Crop conditions are summarized as follows in the reekly bulletin issued by the weather bureau: The week ending June 5 was the most favorable of the season in the Rocky mountain region and over the western portions of the central valleys. Generally favorable conditions also prevailed in the middle Atlantic and Southern States, but in New England low temperatures, with light frcsts and lack of rainfall, have prevcuted growth. Portions of the Ohio valley, upper x lake region, Oklahoma and southern Texas have suffered from excessive moisture. On the Pacific coast the conditions were generally favorable, although portions of California and Oregon experienced temperatures too low. In the States of the Missouri and central Mississippi valleys corn ?s much improved and good progress with cultivation has been made. In the upper Ohio valley much planting remains to be done, and in the middle Atlantic States considerable replanting will be necessary on account of cut worms. In the Southern States corn is being laid by in good condition. Winter wheat has advanced favorably, fewer reports of injury from rust being received from the greater part of the area previously affected. In Ohio and Nebraska, however, although in promising condition, damage from rust and insects has increased somewhat. Winter wheat harvest is in progress in the Southern States end i3 beginning in Oklahoma and in southern Kansas, and wheat is ripening in the lower Ohio and central Mississippi valleys. Harvest haj also begun in California, where wheat is maturing rapidly. On the north Pacific coast winter wheat is in promising condition, having experienced decided improvement in Washington. Under decidedly better temperature conditions in the spring wheat region spring wheat has made good progress and is stooling well. In portions of the Dakotas, however, the crop is thin and weedy in localities. In Washington spring wheat is in splendid condition and has made rapid growth, and while the outlook in Oregon is favorable, low temperatures have beeu detrimental. The general condition of the oats crop is very promising, an improvement being reported from the middle Atlantic Siates and Missouri valley. Oats are heading as far north as Kansas, Missouri and central Illinois, and harvesting is in progress in the south Atlantic and east gulf States. A general improvement in the condition of cotton is indicated. With the exception of southern Texas and portions of the east gulf and south Atlantic States, where heavy rains have fallen, the weather has afforded opportunity for much needed cultivation, which ha been actively carried on, although a large part of the crop is still in grass, with insufficient labor. Cool nights over the northern portion of the central districts have checked the advance of cotton, but, as a whole, growth has been satisfactory, especially in the eastern districts. Some planting remains unfinished in portions of Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Good progress with tobacco plmting has been made in the Ohio valley and middle Atlantic States, where the outlook for this crop is promising, although cut worms are causing injury ia Virginia and Kentucky. In New England and portions of th middle Atlantic States the grass crop has been materially shortened by drouth, but throughout the central valleys and lake region a good hay crop is promised.

PREACHED AT HIS OWN FUNERAL Kentucky Pastor Who Influence Was Active Even After Death. Although Rev. Henry C. Slade, Kentucky's famous "feud breaker," created perhaps more sensations during the course of his life than the average mountaineer of his State, he broke all records when, the other day, his own voice preached a funeral over his dead body, directed the music and made one last, impassioned address to the rough pec pie among whom he had lived and worked for so many years. When this man, who in his I ttle mountain church had won widespread fame, was breathing his last in his humble cabin under the mountains he asked that by means of a phonograph he might be allowed to direct his own funeral services in the church at Rideout. On the day of the minister's burial the wondering mountaineers and miners of the Cumberland district gathered from far and near. On horseback and afoot came the crowds. Superstitious and ignorant disciples of the dead minister trembled when they heard the dead man's voice. Miners and mountaineers iu rough attire and women in coarse homespun bowed their heads in awe and fear when from the horn of the phonograph came the last words of the minister. All listened in awe and wonder to the most solemn and impressive funeral service they had ever heard. E. H. Sothern, the actor, is soon to issue a book of his poems. Anthony Trollop's son is about to publish a careful biography of Moliere. John Jacob Astor owns twenty-two automobiles and W. 1C Vanderbilt fourteen. The late George S. Boutwell's will provides that his daughter shall publish his writings. He was once Secretary of the Navy and Governor of Massachusetts. Gov. John I. Cox of Tennessee worked on a farm in that State for 25 cents a week when a lad. President Roosevelt will visit the Tuskegee institute and address the students of that institution about Oct. 10. James Henry Smith, the New York millionaire, talks so little in business or society that he is known as "Silent Jim." . Postmaster General Cortelyou is one of the finest pianists in the country. It is said that at one time he seriously considered the idea of making music his profession. Henry Caldwell Robinson, recently appointed superintendent of the Boston and Maine railway, rose to his present position from the shops. George Wesley Atkinson, ex-Governor of West Virginia, and United States ex-, district attorney, has been appointed; judge of the Unued States court of claims. He is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan university. Justice Oliver Wendell nolmes of the Supreme Court, in a recent opinion oai a stock gambling case, said that dealing in futures was the "self-adjustment of society to the probable." The "Autocrit of the Breakfast Table" could have dsn na better.