Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 38, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 June 1905 — Page 2

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(TU (1 Tv N. M. "T P. Q.F. M V2 24th. KhJ 3rd. i) 10th. 17th, PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Things are Shown. Nothing Over looked to make it Complete. Eighteen Killed in Wreck. At least eighteen persons are believed to have been killed and a score or more injured in a wreck on the Western Maryland railroad at Patapsco, Md., a small station between Westminster and Finksburg. The fatalities and injuries were to the crews of the engines and to the workmen employed by the railroad. Passenger train No. 5, west bound, was running at a high rate of speed when at the point named it crashed into a double header freight running east. All three of the engines were reduced to scrap iron, the express and baggage. cars and passenger cars were smashed and a number of the freight cars were splintered. The passenger coaches sustained little injury and almost without exception their occupants escaped with nothing worse than a bad shaking up. Horror at a Negro Hanging;. Harvey Smith, John Collier and Will Jackson, negro murderers to hang at Decatur, Ala., were sent there on a special train under escort of Troop D, Alabama National Guard. The three men were hanged together, but when the drop fell the knot slipped off Smith's neck and he dropped to the ground crying out: "Thank God, I am free; yes, I am free." He was picked up in a semi-conscious condition and hanged a second time, the rope drawing so tight that it cat deep into his flesh. Smith was practically unconscious when the drop fell the second time and he had to be held up on the scaffold. as the rope was adjusted. Both Smith and Collier protested their innocence to the last, while Jackson claimed he killed Officer Steel in self defense. Mishawaka Girl Fights Two Robbers. Miss Bertha Quaintance, 20 years old, outwitted two burglars who were looting the home of her parents at Mishawaka, Ind. In a struggle with one of the robbers who held watches, money and silverware, she was knocked unconscious. But her plucky fight forced the burglars to surrender their booty. Her parents found her unconscious with a gold watch clasped in each hand. Blood on the rugs denotes in juries to the thief. Her injuries are not serious. Lightning Kills Two at Lagrange. Great damage was done at Lagrange, Ind., two persons being killed, the electric light and telephone systems burned out and several farm buildings burned. Mr. and Mrs. Hart, living west of Lagrange, were seated in their dining room when a bolt of lightning struck the house, killing Mrs. Hart and rendering her husband unconscious. Another farmer living east of Ii a grange, whose name was not learned, was killed about the same time. Illinois Towns Wiped Out by Fire. Fire has practically destroyed the entire town of Johnston City, 111. Forty build ings, including the entire business section, were burned. Among the principal build ings destroyed were the First National Bank, Elles Brothers department store, Duncan & Baker, hardware, and the Herrin Stotlar Luraber Company. Fire depart ments from Marion and Ilerrin assisted In extinguishing the flames. The loss U es tiaiated at $200,000. - Two Killed near Edgerton. A. T. Brown and wife of Edgerton, Ohio, were killed and Mrs. Rathburn perhaps fatally injured by the Lake Shore fast mail train east of their home. In company with a number of young people they had walked out the tracks to a new coal dock the com pany is building and in attempting to get out or the way or a freight train stepped in front of the fast mail. The Browns were horribly mangled. Others in the crowd escaped injury, . Steamer Stink in Collision. Sault Ste. Marie, (Mich.) special: Dur !ng a thick fog, which has prevailed on the upper lakes for the past week, the stee freight steamers Etruria and Amaza Stone collided ten miles off Pretque Isle light in Lake Huron. The Etruria was damaged so badly that she sank within a few min utes, her crew narrowly escaping with their lives. $300,000 Ice House Fire. The great Armour ice houses at Pewaukec, Wis., were struck by lightning and practically destroyed, leaving their contents of 200,000 tons of ice go to waste. The los3 Is between $225,000 and $3G0,r00. Insurance is not known. COO Persons Killed by Explosion. A dispatch from Ekaterinoslav, Southern Russia, says: Five hundred persons were killed in the explosion which occurred at the Ivan colliery at Khartsisk, belonging to the Russian Donetz Company. Spiceland Sacked by Barglars. A band of burglars sacked Sriceland, Ind. They forced the windows of the post office, the Davis Evans general store, the Evans furnishing store, and the GriffinRatüff sore. More than $1,000 was taken. They refused to take stamps or anything but money. Sheriff Cristopher and several deputies are at work and the United States inarshal will probably co-operate. Fonr Million to Charity. A report from Vienna states that Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, who died June 13 left $4,000,000 to be distributed for variouj charitable purposes. Refuse Carnegie Building. The board of trustees of Mississippi university, Jackson, has declined the offer of Andrew Carnegie to erect a $50,000 library building on the campus of the university at Oxford. Got. Varrlaman lejrie fight against the acceptance of the gift. Two Indicted for Lend Fraud. The federal grand jury in Ct Paul reported trua bills against William T. Horsnell of Ct Paul and Royal B. Ctearns of Pfcrre, 0. D., who are accrued cf conspiracy to defraud the United CiattJ oct of a best 13.C0O acres of homestead lands in NcrthDakota.

EASTERN. Nr Yorkers are living sa rapidly that they are dying in large numbers of

heart disease. The New York Board of Health plans building a factory for the manufacture of vaccine and antitoxin. The Philadelphia Council's Committee on Street Railways gave Mayor Weaver a setback by refusing to favor the repeal of franchises. The heirs of Mrs. Mary J. Winthrop estate have reached an agreement by which Princeton Theological Seminary will receive $1,750,000. Putnam Bradlee Strong, husband of May Yohe. has filed a petition in bank ruptcy in New York, giving liabilities of $1,088 and assets $100. Thomas P. Wiekes, a prominent New York Lawyer, has been indicted by a grand jury on a charge of blackmail, and is said to have led a dual existence. Returns of the State census so far re ceived indicate that the population of New York City is 3,987,154, an increase of 549,952 since the Federal -census of 1900. While walking through Carney's tunnel on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Greensburg, Pa., three unknown Italians were run down by a freight train and killed. Robert Hagadorn, 30 years old, shot his mother four times, fatally wounding her, at the family home, near Alomond, N. J. He then put a bullet into his temple, dying instantly. Police Captain James Wilson of Allegheny, Pa., accused of accepting. bribes, was found guilty, but the jury commended him to the mercy of the court. This was Captain Wilson's third trial. A verdict for nearly $30,000 was given Architect A. J. Haydel against Howard Gould at Mineola, N. Y., it being claimed that Mrs. Gould swore at the architect during a business talk. Andrew Carnegie will, it is said, furnish the means to back the New York Antipolicy Society in its fisht against the re-estahlishnient of this most demoralizing form of gambling in New York. Colonel Henry W. Comstock, a wealthy mine owner, was robbed of $150,000 in stocks on the steamer Puritan, on the way from New York to Boston. Colonel Comstock is a cripple. Abram W. Harris, LL. D., president of Jacob Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Md., recently was offered the position of president of Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill., and accepted the call. WESTERN. Governor La Follette signed the railroad rate bill for Wisconsin. A $40,000 Carnegie library was dedicated at Topeka, Kan. Among the speakers were President King of Oberiin College and Rev. A. M. Brodie, D. D., of Chicago. The bribery cases against former Speaker Charles Kelley of St. Louis are to be dismissed because he turned State's evidence and because he is now a physical wreck. The effort at Minneapolis to make No. 2 northern wheat contract grade was defeated. The vote was 225 for the change, 182 against, not the necessary two-thirds. Thomas Satterwhite, a former Attorney General of Arizona, committed suicide in his office at Tucson by shooting. During the past year he has been suffering with nervous prostration. William Jukes was shot to death by Joseph Brown in the latter's home at Glenville, Ohio. The cause of the crime, it is said, was the attempt of Jukes to gain entrance to the Brown home. Wesley Hannon and John Smith, two well-known miners, have been found dead at the mouth of the tunnel of the Cashier mine, a mile above Eureka, Colo. It is believed the men were caught in a snowslide. Word has been received of the drowning, near Maltoneyville, on Pickerel Lake, South Dakota, of Oscar Smedistad, aged 23, and Annie Pustad, aged 18. Their boat was overturned and they could not swim. Lewy Brothers & Co., jewelers at State and Adams streets, Chicago, reported to the police that their store had been robbed. The burglars cut a piece from the show window and took watches and other jewelry valued at $2,000. While four men and a woman were trying to cross the Missouri River at Judith, Mont, on the ferry the boat capsized and two of the men were drowned. Their identity has not been determined and their bodies have not been recovered. Articles of incorporation for the National Board of Trade, with headquarters at Kansas City, have been filed at Jefferson City, Mo. It grew out of the recent decision giving the Chicago board a property right in its grain quotations. Mr., and Mrs. Richard S. Sayer of Englewood, N. J., were killed, and their two sons were injured so seriously that physicians fear they will not recover, in an automobile wreck near Goshen, lnd. Mr. Sayer's machine was struck by a locomotive. Mrs. George Campbell, wife of a ranchman living four miles west of Tucumcari, N. M., became insane, and with a rifle chased her husband from home. Before he could return with help she killed her five children and ended her own life by shooting. Mrs. Paul Klass killed her four small children and then committed suicide at her home near Kieler, Wis. The woman used a large butcher knife, cutting each child's throat. The eldest child was 6 and the youngest a baby. The woman had been in ill health. Governor Hoch was asked if he would object to the battleship Kansas being christened with wine when launched in September. He said: "If I am consulted I shall recommend and advise that the ship be christened with some fluid other than an intoxicant." At a meeting in the offices of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company in New York representatives of the Detroit. Toledo and Ironton Railroad purchased control of the Ann Arbor Railroad for $5,500,000. The consolidation of the two roads will be effected within thirty days. Thomas B. Clement, president of the defunct First National Bank of Faribault. Minn., was arraigned before Judge Lochren in the United States District Court in St. Paul and pleaded not guilty to eighteen couns and entered a demurrer to the other counts. The demurrers were overruled. Colonel Wliliam Colville of Red Wing, Minn., who led the famous charge of the First Minnesota Regiment at the battle of Gettysburg, was found dead in bed at the Minnesota Soldiers Home in Minneapolis, where he went to be ready to celebrate the reunion of the regiment. He was 75 years old. President Roosevelt has approved the court-martial findings sentencing Captain George W. Kirkman to three years' confinement in the prison at Fort Leavenworth and dismissal from the amy. Kirkman was connected with the sensational suicide of the wife of another army officer at Lincoln, Neb., in 1904. All speed records for breach of promise triab were broken in the Court of Com-

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Myrtle B. Goodsite, a dressmaker, secured a verdict of $2,000 against Frank Link. It took five minutes to hear the testimony and the charge to the jury, and thirty minutes later the jury returned the verdict. Link married Miss Welter and Miss Goodsite then sued. A lump of copper and gold ore weighing seventy-five pounds has been found by workmen excavating in one of the principal streets of Helena, Mont., for water mains. The contractor whose workmen made the discovery is having the ore assayed and will then decide whether to conduct a search for the ledge, which, if found, would mean a fortune if it turned out as rich as the sample. May Hill, 5 years old, is hovering between life and death at the home of her parents in Shelbyville, Ind., and a mob of hundreds of enraged men are hunting the negro who wounded her. The child was playing in the yard. She detected the black in the act of burglary. He struck her a vicious blow on the head, and then threw her, unconscious, under the house. She regained consciousness and told who had wounded her. Frank G. Bigelow, the Milwaukee banker, who on Monday began serving his ten-year sentence at the United States penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., is on the verge of a complete physical breakdown, and is now in the prison hospital. It will require a couple of weeks to build him up so that he can undergo the Bertillon measurements. It is said that Bigelow feels keenly the confinement. He was an inveterate smoker, and cutting this off tends to increase his nervousness. FOREIGN. Fire caused by lightning destroyed Scott's furniture store in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Theodore P. Delyannis, the premier of Greece, was stabbed to death by a gambler who resented the closing of the gaming-houses. Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, brother of the head of the Austrian branch of the firm, died la Vienna. . He had been seriously ill for a long time. A cyclone in Constantinople caused enormous damage to property. It demolished the house of General Vassif Pasha, killing the pasha and his family. In Windsor, England, on Thursday occurred the wedding of Priucess Margaret of Connanght, eldest daughter of the Duke of Connaught, to Prince Gustavus Adolphus, eldest son .of Crown Prince Gustavus of Sweden. A dispatch from Zanzibar announces the death of Tippoo Tib, the noted Arab chief and slave, dealer. When traveling through the dark continent in 1S7G, Henry M. Stanley met Tib and described him as a most remarkable character. The German steamer Tetartos was sunk by the Russian auxiliary cruiser Don, according to information received at Lloyds in London. TLe Tetartos was on her way from Otaru, Japan, to TienTsin with a cargo of wooden "sleepers." Washington has been chosen as the place for the peace conference, Japan' and Russia uniting in the decision. The negotiation of a protocol and the declaration of an armistice, the nest steps toward eubg the war, are expected soon. It has been learned that on April 25 Prince Ahmed Kemal Eddin, the Sultan's brother, was strangled to death in his bedroom in Constantinople by hired assassins, and it is believed that the Sultan ordered the deed. The Sultan feared his brother was plotting against him. The first locomotive, drawing an inspection train in charge of the chief engineer of the Peihan Railway, crossedthe Yellow River bridge, one and seveneighths miles long, in China, June 11. The opening of the line for general traffic will take place, it is expected, in November. The boycotting of American goods by the Chinese guilds is daily assuming more serious proportions. The guilds are determined to carry the boycott through and the prospect for American manufacturers is rather gloomy. The native newspapers are refusing advertisements of American goods. - Vast frauds in the expenditure of from $30,000,000 to $35,000,0000 for army stores during the Boer war are revealed ' by the blue book containing the report of the war-office committee issued in London. The report censures a number of officers who are alleged to have worked in collusion w!th contractors. IN GENERAL. Weekly trade reviews report an Increase in business despite labor troubles. Orders for future delivery are liberal and collections prompt. The weekly government crop bulletin reports improved conditions, with wheat harvest well advanced, but corn backward in some important States. Cardinal Gibbons says h' trusts American women will never . the authority to vote, "for when wo- an mingles in polittcs she loses her in .nness.1' Shipments of cotton "from the United States for the nine months ended May 31 aggregate 7,590,089 bales, indicating a record-breaking total for the year. Chief Justice Fuller is to retire from the Supreme bench and to be appointed by the President as a member of the International Board of Arbitration. Secretary Taft is to be appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court to succeed Fuller. All members of the United Danish Societies of America are compelled to carry life Insurance or be expelled. Until now it was optional. At the convention in Racine, Wis., it was decided by a close vote that each member should carry insurance after Jan. 1, 1907. The insurance will be on a Co per cent basis, and $050 will be paid plus the amount paid in. The wage conference of representatives of the Republic Iron and Steel Company and of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, which has leen in session in Detroit, resulted In a compromise for the year ending July 1, 190C Under the agreement the men will receive an increase averaging 7 per cent, which is a restoration of the scale of 1903-'04. A thorough enforcement of the antilottery law is urged on postmasters and all other postal employes in a general order - promulgated by Postmaster General Cortelyou. It call on all employes to examine mail matter, especially publications, with the greatest care consist ent with prompt transmission and deliv ery, and to withdraw or exclude all such relating to lotteries and like enterprises. such as guessing contests, endless chain schemes and gift concerns. A surveying party of twenty nr.en in charge of R. M. Leyland has left Seat tie to locate the line of division between the United States and the Canadian possessions In the vicinity of Chilcoot Pass and Kotsina River. There are to be three parties in northern territory this summer, each having a certain division of the work. They will work la con junction with parties of surveyors ap pointed by the Canadian gortrnment They will indicate the line of division as decided by the tribunal which met ia Loc Jaa in -

General Linevitch, who is said to have reported to St Petersburg that owing to the destruction of the Russian fleet his troops practically are in revolt, has been in command of the forces in Manchuria since March 15 last, when he succeeded Kuropatkin. General Linevitch was born In 1838, and first saw military service in the gen. Linevitch. Caucasas from 1859 to 1864. Next he fought in the Turkish war, and was made a colonel in 1885 while battling with the Turkomans in North Persia. In 1895 he was first sent to Manchuria, and in the Boxer outbreak in China In 1900 he participated in the march to Teking. When the war with Japan opened Linevitch was in command of the First Siberian Army Corps. Twice he has received the Cross of St. George for marked personal valor. Henry Clay Frick, chairman of the committee that made the report scoring the lax business methods of officers of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, is well known as a manufacturer and capitalist. He controls the H. C. Frick Coke Comnany. the largest coke producing concern in the world; is chairman HENRY C. FRICK. of the board of directors of the Carnegie Steel Company, and in various financial enterprises takes a leading part. Mr. Frick was born at West Overton, Pa., Dec. 19, 1849. He began life as a clerk, but after a few years embarked In the coke business. During the strike at Homestead, Pa., In 1892, he was shot by a striker. George Von Lehgerke Meyer, United States Ambassador to Russia, who conducted the correspondence between President Roosevelt and the Czar, with the object of effecting arrangements by which Russia and Japan might be brought within reach of peace negotiations, is a distinguished and wealthy citizen of Massachusetts, He was appointed ambassador to Italy MINISTER MEYER. in 1900 and a short time ago was transferred to the Russian capital. Ambassador Meyer is 47 years old, and was graduated from Harvard University In 1879. He has been a member of the Boston Common Council and of the Boston Board of Aldermen, and also has served in the State Legislature, having been Speaker of the House three terms. He is a director in various corporations. John F. Stevens, chosen to be railway expert of the Philippine Commission, has attained an enviable reputation as a civil engineer and in railway operation. His first engineering service of note was in connection with the City of Minneapolis. Later he located the Sabine Pass and Northwestern, served in the engineering departments of the Denver and Rio jonw r. stevens. Grande, St. Paul, Canadian Pacific, Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic, and Spokane Falls and Northern. In 1S89 he became chief engineer for the Great Northern and served In that capacity uutil he accepted the position of second Vice President of the Rock Island System In charge of operation. Rer. Dr. Eric Norelius, who has been re-elected President of the Swedish Lutheran Augustana Synod of Ameri ca, is one of the pioneer church workers' in the West. This is the third time he has been elected to the office, having ben first chosen In 1874 and again In 1898. After graduating from the Capital University at Columbus, Ohio, he was ordained in 1855, and DR. NOnEUUS.' seven years later founded at St Peter, Minn., the school which has developed into Gustavus Adolphus College. In 1903 Dr. Norelius was mide a knight of the Order of the North Star by the Swedish King. i -: :- John Kendrick Basgs, recently editor of Puck, is preparing an adaptation of 4The Taming of the Shrew" for comic opera purposes. -: :- Lieutenant General Constantine Malimovltch, recently appointed governor of the city of Warsaw, is not an object of envy even f to the venal military satraps who make officehölding in Russia the scorn of the civilized world. The present disturbed condition of the Polish capital makes the incumbency of maximovitcii. one of the oppressor's hated oQciais a task involving many dlficulties and not a few positive dangers, llie new executive Is reputed to be a genial and fair minded man, and he is hcaktng a great effort to conciliate the discontented and unruly industrial masses.

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WASHINGTON IS CHOSEN. Selected ns Place of I? ns-so-Japanese Peace Negotiations. Washington, and not The Hague, has been selected by Japan and Russia as the official meeting place for their peace plenipotentiaries. Japanese diplomacy thus gained a vict(jjy, and international recognition of the commanding lufluence of the United States in inducing the belligerents to enter Into negotiations for the termination of the war. The Russian envoys will be able to increase their kiowledge of American institutions, which the Japanese consider will be of future advantage to their country; and the Japanese agents, by getting In touch with the American people, will convey to Japan the idea of friendliness which prevails here for the Far Eastern empire. The meeting of the plenipotentiaries in Washington will mean absolute freedom for the peace commission from all political pressure such as would have been exerted by the Old World had the conferences been held at any point In Europe. Russia, which Is aware of the pro-Japanese sentiment existing in this country, depends upon the historic friendship of America for the Russian people to prevent the exercise of any extraneous influence to hamper the negotiators in their delicate task. Thi3 also Is Japan's wish. The selection of Washington as the place for holding the peace negotiations is a logical choice. It is logical because the United States has no political interest In the objects or the prizes of the war. With China, Manchuria and Corea the United States has and desires nothing but friendly commercial relations. On the Aslatfc mainland we desire no territory. So that it be a government capable of observing its international obligations and willing to give our country a fair and equal opportunity, we care not who or what the government there is. Furthermore, with both Russia and Japan our relations have always been most amicable. We have received friendly services from both, and most notably from Russia. In Japan's progress we have taken a peculiar interest, because we were the means of inducing her to emerge from her ancient seclusion and start upon the road which she has so successfully pursued. We could not urge Russia and Japan to make our capital the scene of tueu peace negotiations. All we could do was to suggest that they try to adjust their quarrel. Their agreement upon Washington is a concrete recognition of our benevolent disposition toward them. So far as the President is concerned, It may be stated authoritatively that it Is his purpose to observe a strictly neutral attitude. lie will Interfere only. upon the request of the two belligerents to facilitate an agreement, or in case American interests are threatened by any proposal that may be made. The selection of the United Svates was not in accordance with the expressed desire of the President. He would have preferred some other conntry as the scene of negotiations. He feared It might be said that having initiated the negotiations, he was attempting to put. the United States unduly forward as a peacemaker. The objection which the President entertained, however, was swept aside by the direct requests received from both belligerents.

ALEXIS GIVES UP NAVY. Grand Dnke, Uncle of Czar, Re6ignj as . Head of Kussian Fleet. The sensational announcement was made in St. Petersburg Thursday that Grand Duke Alexis, the high admiral, who is an uncle of the Emperor, and Admiral Avellan, head of the Russian admiralty department, had resigned. This announcement was followed immediately by an imperial rescript relieving, the Grand Duke of the Supreme direction of the navy, which he had. held since the days of the Emperor's father. Although from time to time since the war began there have been rumors that the Grand .Duke would retire on account of the savage criticism, not to use harsh er terms, directed against the adniinis tration of the navy, especially in the con struction'of ships, the announcement of his resignation came like a bolt out of the blue. The instant disposition was to regard the retirement of Grand Duke Alexis and Admiral Avellan as a con cession to puUic opinion, following the crowning tragedy of the Sea of Japan. Charges of mismanagement and ineffi ciency and tales of corruption an I even worse against the marine department have been rife for years. Grand Duke Alexis himself did not escape personal attacks and scandal was so busy with his name that he was sev eral times the subject of public demon strations. The name of the Grand Duke was high on the list of those condemned by the terrorists, and after "Red Sun day" (Jan. 22 last) it was reported that he had fled abroad, but it developed that he was merely keeping closely within his palace. . . ARIZONA WILL FLOURISH When Artificial Irrigation Is Applied to Its Arid Acres. Perhaps the most striking illustration of "the benefits to be derived from the artificial irrigation of arid lands is to be found in the territory of Arizona. Of the 72,792,320 acres of land in this terri tory, but 5,C28,CG2 acres have been appropriated to private ownership, about 22 per cent of which is under actual cultivation at ' this time. The natural flow of mountain streams has been taxed to its utmost to supply water to irri gate this land, often failing to provide enough for a single crop from four to seven crops of alfalfa being harvested from the same land under favorable con ditions. ' When the rains come, the I streams are swollen and the flood water rushes off to the sea. Water sufficient to irrigate millions of acres is carried off without rendering more service than to soak the ground to a depth of an inch or more. It frequently happens that the long delayed rains come in the form of cloud bursts in some sections, overflowing the cultivated lands and completely destroy ing the crops. Agriculture under such unfavorable conditions is an uncertain and hazardous pursuit . With 10,000,000 acres of land in the territory of Arizona susceptible of irn gation, but 250,000 acres are actually cultivated. Storage reservoirs and sys tems of irrigation would increase forty times the wealth prodncing power of this one territory alone, and there are thirteen more States and Territories with similar conditions existing.

IÄL NAnCIALWith the advent ol summer weather business conditions continue1 to improve and prevailing strike trou ble Is the only disturbing feature. Ths virulence of this has not abated, and Its end does not appear to be in sight. Manufacturing operations, however, are vlgorosuly carried on and other important activities show no slackness except in a limited way in building trade, owing to some check In the delivery of material. Production of finished goods in all lines is heavy and orders are coming in freely. Wholesalers in staple mer chandise report a very fair volume of trade and larger deliveries. The re tail trade has been stimulated by the weather, and has done a very good business in seasonable- articles and materials. Money has been in fair demand without change in rates, and bank ex changes show a large Increase over those of the corresponding week in last year. Advices from country points are of a generally satisfactory nature, though temepered by reports of heavy rains and floods in certain sections. Harvesting is in progress and growing in breadth steadily. Live stock receipts were much heavier in all classes, and especially in sheep. Receipts of hides were 4,313,109 pounds, against 3,521,327 pounds a year ago. Receipts of cheese and butetr showed large gains over those of a year ago. Receipts of wool showed a decrease of over 3,000,000 pounds. Grain receipts were 5,410,214 bushels, against 3,507,592 a year ago, and the shipments 3,273,029 bushels, against H,3S4,274 bushels, being a decrease of 3.3 per cent. Board of Trade operations were upon a rather erratic market throughout the week and closed at some decline in speculative values of the two leading cereals. Failures in Chicago district number 19, against 13 last week and 22 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. The situation this week may be summed up in the phrase "better feel ing," which is predicted on rather more seasonable weather allowing better crop progress, a larger volume of retail trade and improved reorder business at wholesale. These in turn are reflected in a more assured tone as to fall business in distributive lines. Relatively best advices come from surplus crop producing regions. Against this is to be noted some temporary quieting, due to rains or cold weather In the Northwest, the lake region and the East, while new business in iron and steel is smaller and prices are easing. All measures of trade movement still point unmistakably to large gains in all lines over a year ago. Business failures for the week ending June S number 194. against 154 last week, 171 in the like week in 1904, 181 in 19C3, 1C5 In 1902 and 1SS in 1901. In Canada failures number 21, as against 19 last week and IS in this week last year. Bradstr.eet's Commercial Report . Chicago Cattle, common to prime, 54.00 to SG.20; hogs, prime heavy. ?4.00 to $5.42; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 90c to OSc; corn, No. 2, 52c to 54c; oats, standard, 2te to 31c; rye, No. 2, 7Cc to 77c; hay, timothy, $8.30 to $12.50; prairie, $0.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, ISc to 19c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 14c; potatoes, new, per bushel, 50c to 55c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $3.40; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 98c to 99c; corn. No. 2, white, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to S3c St Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, $4.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2, 90c to 92c; corn. No. 2, 50c to 51c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 2, '70c to 72c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.G5; hogs, $4.00 to $5.45; sheep, $2.00 to $4.15; wheat, No. 2, $1.02 to $1.04; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 5Cc; oats, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 2, 80c to S3c. Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to $1.02; corn, No. 3 yellow, 5Gc to 5Sc; oats. No. 3 white, 32c to 34c; rye, No. 2, 78c to 79c. Milwaukee Wheat No. 2 northern. $1.0G to $1.10; corn. No, 3, 52c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 1, Sic to S3c; barley. No. 2, 50c to 52c; pork, mess, $12.70. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 99c to $1.01; corn. No. 2 mixed, 48c to 50c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye, No. 2, Sic to 82c; clover seed, prime, $7.00. . Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $G.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.G0; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $C75. New York Caltle, $4.00 to $5.85; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to ",4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.04 to $ LOG; (pro, No. 2, 59c to COc; oats, natural, white, 35c to 37c; butter, creamery, ISc to 19c; eggs, western, 15c to ISc. Telegraphic Brevities. D. B. Bean, president of -the Tennessee Coal Company, died at Knoxville. The corner stone of the Lane-Johnson memorial building of the Washington (D. C.) Cathedral school was laid by the Bishop of Maryland, Right Rer. Dr. William Paret Secretary of the Navy Morton received information that the original commission of John Paul Jones as a captain in the navy had been located in Philadelphia, and he will endeavor to obtain it for the Navy Department Charles W. Burns, alias John Roberts, pleaded guilty in St Louis to the charge of fraudulently using the mails and was sentenced to a year and a day in the penitentiary. He admitted attempting to blackmail St Louis ministers.

AROUND Ä BIG STATE.

BRIEF CO?V!PILATION OF INDI ANA MEWS. What Onr Neighbors Are Dolnc Matters of General and Local Inter est Marriages and Deaths Accidents and Crimes Personal Pointers About Indianlans. Brief State Items. The young women of Clifford have organized a cadet corps, with Emmet Butler as drillmaster. Wert Butt of Yeedersburg, was instantly killed by a Big Four freight train. He waa struck by the engine and the entire train passed over him. Burglars entered the cigar and newsstand owned by E. J. Gilbert at Newcastle, stealing $5 cash and a gold watch, besides a quantity of cigars and tobacco. Charles Police, employed in the Tee Wee mine at Linton, while working on the dumper, was killed by an accidental fall, lie leaves a widow and five children. Miss Myrtle K. Symonds, aged 19, of Evar.sville, died in a bath tub at her home, while the members of her family were at church. Heart disease caused her death. Clarence Sellers of Bourbon, is alarmingly ill of lockjaw, the result of impure vaccination. Physicians from Warsaw were called to counsel with local attendants upon the patient. A creosoting plant will be established at Iloward's shipyards, Jeffersonville, to creosote the lumber required in building thirty barges for the government. Heretofore this woik has been done at Indianapolis. Claude Morgan, age 22 years, living with his parents at Gilman, near Alexandria, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. He left a note bidding his parents good-bye, but assigning no reason. lie w as widely known. During a storm an electric bolt struck the roof of the Fort Wayne & Wabash Ysdley Traction Company barn at Fort Wayne, setting the building on fire and causing $3,000 loss. Several summer cars were damaged. The market rrice of wool in Peru is thirty-three cents, the highest it has been in many years. The quantity is also greater than ever, and buyers are finding themselves crowded for room in which to place the wool bought The Retail Merchants' Association of Attica has been organized, with a membership of sixty. The main purpose is said to be to regulate certain illegitimate advertising schemes said to have been indulged in by Attica and other merchants. William Orr of Vernon, while riding a bicycle from North Vernon in the path running along the edge of the cliff in the 4,Narrows," fell over the embankment, which is fifty feet high at that point. He sustained severe injuries, but no broken brines. Burglars entered Bryan & Coble's store at Paragon and wrecked a small fireproof safe, used for storage of books and valuable papers. There was no money in the safe, as the firm always forwards its daily receipts to a bank at Martinsville at the close of business. Home talent is under suspicion. Fred Snyder, alias ''Dofhead," and Samuel Mortimer, alias "Coon," two Bourbon boys scarcely out of their teens, are fugitives from justice. They are accused of stealing wool and flour from local merchants, selling their plunder in adjoining towns. Warrants have been Issued for their arrest. The Indiana Union Traction Company announces July 5 as the date when tho steam railway system of tickets and collection of fares will become effective on all its lines. By that time between forty and fifty ticket agencies will be ready on the system, and the sale of tickets by conductors will be stopped. John Eagle, aged 9 who, it is thought was the oldest printer in the United States, died at the home of his granddaughter in. Indianapolis. On account of his luxuiant growth of flowing hair several artists and photographers have wen national prizes with pictures for which he posed. Ue was born in Philadelphia in 1815. Judge Williams has granted a new trial to Charles Lafontaine of Martinsville, convicted during the first part of the court term of assaulting W. W. Wilson, and adjudged guilty of attempted murder. Lafontaine shot Wilson during a business cisagreement. The last named was severely wounded, but recovered. Prof. J. W. Howard of Muncie, for sevf ral years conducting the Muncie Business College was adjudged insane and sent to the Richmond asylum. He made two unsuccessful attempts at suicide. His w ife, a woman with high attainments, associated with him in business, died two yeirs ago, f.nd constant brooding over her loss ruined his mind. While beneath his locomotive and unable o evtricate himself from his perilous position, Guy Sutton, a fireman for the Muncie Belt Railway Company, was seriously ücalded by the blowing out of the cap from a steam plug. Escaping steam scalded him about the face, arms and legs and he would have perished but for the prompt work on the part of other railroad employes. William Crawford, a barber of New Albany, Is dead from the effects of small particles of hair which were inhaled while he was following his trade and entered his throat and lungs. He began complaining several months ago of severe pains in his throat and lungs, which increased in intensity until he was compelled to g'ive up work. His suffering for several weeks before his death was intense and his screams during the severe paroxysms of pain could be heard throughout the neighborhood. Crawford was 66 years old. The body of Willie Chamberlain, 14 years old, of Lafayette, was found atPerrysville, in Vermillion county. He was drowned while bathing In the river, and the body floated fifty miles before discovery. The father offered a reward of $100 for its recovery. - Henry Sutton, one of the oldest citizens of Crawford county, was struck by a Southern express train at Milltown and instantly killed. The body was horribly mangled. He was at one time one of tho wealthiest men in the county, but through adverse circumstances had been reduced to poverty. Miss Lelia Christman, 17 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Christman of Bluffton, has undergone amputation of the right leg above the knee, due to a cancerous growth which had its origin in a bruise sustained while visiting her sister Irs. Vollie Forsjthe, at Indianapolis, a year ago. ; Miss Alice May, 18 years old, while boating with a young man on Bass Lake, near Wiaamac, was drowned by the upsetting of the boat on the high waves. Her companion escaped by clinging to tha boat. ;The lake was dragged for her body, which jvas found two hours later. She was the 'daughter of William B. May, a well known farcer of Franklin town&hii