Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 September 1905 — Page 2

THE PLYMOUTH TRIBUNE.

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(TU Q. fTvN. M.-pv F. Q.F. M j 21st -r-rüSth 3 SthAglSth. PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Mauj. Trolley Cars in Collision. in a collision between an Indianapolis Northern motor car and a line car on the rort u ayne & abash alley road on the grade of the overhead crossing, cast of Logansport, Ind., Jfotorman Walter Pruitt, of the tirst named line, and William Webb, of the second, narrowly escaped instant death, while a dozen and more passengers on the Indianapolis Northern car were badly shaken. Both motonnen jumped lefore the collision occured, rolling down a steep embankment for forty feet or more, and beins badly scratched. The passengers. taken by surprise, remained in the ear and received the full benefit of the collision. China Prepares for Great Army. Information has been received from Pekin that the Chinese government ha ar ranged to open large credits before the end of the year with banking houses in London, Paris and New York for the purpose oi making purcnascs or military ana naval suppwes. u is aiso stated that ine l mnese officials are preparing to circulate among ine powers a l .rmal notice of their intentum to disregard the prohibition placed JV?lrermf eir- a otf V ,-imef the relief of Pekin m 1900, forbidding the me powers a l rmai notice or tneir intenIllipuuailUll Ul iUIU5 äUU UI1IIUU111UOU IIUOIp Charles Howard Drowned. After a disappearance of several days the body of Charles Howard, the invalid son of ex-Chief Justice Howard, of the Indiana Supreme Court, was found in St. Mary's lake near South Bend, Ind. The body was found with a walking stick grasped in the right hand and it is believed that death was accidental owing to the steepness of the bank at the place where the body was found. Fear Epidemic in German Capital. Ten cases of cholera have been discovered in Berlin and one death from the dis ease has been reported. The other eases have been isolated and precautions are be ing taken to prevent a spread of the disease. Notwithstanding what is boincr done ly the health authorities it is feared an epidemic may follow. Printer Winning in S-IIour Struggle. A bulletin issued from the office of the International Typographical union, at Indianapolis, Ind., shows that 221 subordi nate unions are now workinir on an eiuht hour basis, or have arranged to io so not later than January 1, 190. Since Septem- I ber 8, such agreements have been signed m sixty-eight cities. - I'icasiire 1'arx tor Huntington. uapi. r. ji. x.ugingion. wno nas tue Lwauiigprnuegesai jkiversuiepaiK ai in4. t ' 1 .4 I dianapolis, and H E Negley have leased a iiavi oi iau'4 uu jjiiut; titer, in me neun ui Huntington, Ind., and they will start a park in that city. It will be known as Riverside park. Amusement features w ill be estab lished. Vandalism in Catholic Cemeteries. Following similar attacks on the Roman Catholic cemeteries at Oconto Falls, Peshtigo and Birch Creek.vandals went through St. Joseph's and St. Anne's cemeteries at Escanaba, Mich., and demolished the crosses on over two hundred monuments, causing damage estimated at $4,000. Bomb Explodes in Private Car. Pekin (China) social: At the Pekin railw aj- station, zs a train carrying one of the

four missions ordered abroad to study for- shot and dangerously wounded by a highcign political methods was leaving, a bomb wayman in the wholesale district in KanTvas exploded inside a private car, killing Sas City. Van Waringa fought in the

four minor officials, and wounung over twenty otners. Riot in Chicago. The police were called to quell a riot in the Russian ss nagogue, Clinton and Judd streets, Chicago, where Adolph Kraus was addressing a Jewish meeting. Several persons received slight wounds and ten men and women were arrested. Wouldn't Kill the Sixth Bull. Twelve thousand spectators of a bull fight at Nimes, France, broke up the chairs and boxes and set hre to tne barriers sur rounding the arena because the matadors refused to kill another bull as an encoro after they had dispatched five. Million Dollar Fire. Fire causing a loss estimated at $1,000,000 consumed the entire business portion of Butte, Mont., lying between the Shodair biock and Rerahaw alley, on the south gide of West Park street, and rartially destroyed the public library. Insane Man Kills Wife and Self. tVilliam Harvey, 27 years old, living at Harpenfeld, Ohio, shot and killed his wife and then killed himself. Harvey had been confined in an insane asylum in Cleveland, but recently escaped and went Thp eastbonnd California fiver on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad was wrecked at Walton, Kan. Fred Kempnick of Chicago, second cook on the dining car, was uauiy scaiaea. five persons were injured. No one vas killed. Epidemic at Annapolls. Ten cases oi uipmeria nave aeveiopeu among tne sw or more memoers oi um - . iL. fourth-class at the Naval Academy at An napolis, Md., but no deaths are expected. Tbe medical staff is at a loss as to the causa of the sickness. Burzlar Rob3 a Foorhouse. In the county poorhouse ia Denver, Frederick Miller, a pauper aged 0, was robbed of th money he had saved to nay for his funeral by a burglar, v. infA tSa fnsMtnMnn- Sheriff NTsbett has arrested II. P. Hamlin for the crime. Miller was beaten so badly h probably will die. Girls Take Poison In Suicide Paot. In carrying out her part of a suicidr compact entered nto with her chum, Cleo Messier, who committed suidde at Munde a month ago, Cnloe Thrmpson, Xed IT, swallowed arsenic In iVlarioo,

lad- and deatn resulted.

EASTERN. A clerk in the marine hospital service I In Washington admits the taking of

$20,000 through fraud. Defin'tfe announcement that the Erie road is to acquire the C, II. & 1. and Pere Marquette system is made. Dr. Musser, a member of the pneu monia commission, declares in Philadel phia that pneumonia germs exist in the ungs of everyone. Nan Pattersou, who was the central figure in tbe Caesar Young murder case, has been married to he former husband, Leon C Martin Gen. I. J. Wistar of Philadelphia leaves hi riht arm, his brain and an estate of $2,000,000 to the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. II. Francis Allen, 70 years old, a wealthy retired merchant of Plainfie'd, X. J., has been sued by Joseph 15. liarkins, 23 years old, who alleges alienation of hia wife's affections. One car of an express train bound for Boston was overturned in the New York Central tunnel in New York. Twelve persons are reported to have been in jured. The accident was caused by au open switch. The Allegheny (Pa.) Presbytery of the United Presbyterian church has adopted a resolution authorizing women to at tend its sessions and authorizing them to vote on all subjects. Heretofore women have been barred from even attendance. It is announced by Corresponding Ste retary Hart of Harvard university that Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of President Roosevelt, has passed his entrance examinations to the college and will be a member of the freshman class this fall. S( of mpn in the nower house of the United Electric Light and Power Company on East Twenty-ninth street, New York, narrowly escaped death when a 1,000-horse power boiler exploded, filling the place with steam. Five of the men were seriously injured. Charles Edwards, a notorious cracks man, was found dead m a stable in New York. ' The kick of a horse had torn the top of his head off. Edwards was a member of the Jimmy Hope gang, and was known as "Second Story" Edwards. He had been in jail thirty eight times President John Mitchell of the United Mjne Workers of America announces that the convention of mine workers of h thro n..il.r; d;triot t whieh the three anthracite districts demamls will be formulated to tbe anthracite coal ut ; w,u be helJ at to be preii companies snrmrr lviTl n lml.l n t Shomnlfin Dqq H WESTERN. Two men were seriously hurt and two others slightly injured when a scaffold fell in the public library building in Chicago. Dr. W. R. Harper, president of the University of Chicago, again submitted to an operation and friends fear the outcome. George M. Cook, formerly editor of the .Marietta, Ohio. Leader, committed suicide by drowning in the Muskingum river. Rain-in-the-Face, the noteJ Sioux In dian chief, who fired the shot which killed Gen. Custer, died oa the Standing lit or-L- riirrn t!on in Smith Dalrotri Tobies Sepano of Butte. Mont., shot his wife, from whom he had separated five times, and then cut his throat from car to ear, dying in a few moments. II. F. Blanchard, an expert from the Agricultural Department at Washington, will conduct experiments designed to increase the gluten in California wheat Fifty persons were injured when the tent of Ringling Brothers' circus was blown down at Maryville, Mo., imprison ing 15.000 spectators under the canvas. Mflivurm of Chicairo was elect ej resident and M. J. MeCarthv of Chi- " " cp.-retnrv th Stntf ImtMrirP Li uor Dealers Association at Peoria. The supreme lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Houor in session at Indianapo lis, adopted a new insurance policy of $2f0, and elected officers for the coming year. O. O. Barber will build in Akron, O., p. JiMHi.'AW cnurcn iasaione;i alter tue Madeleine in Paris. It will be one of the finest structures of the kind in the country. A. D. Souteia and Frank Meyer were drowned at St. Louis when a barge in which they were crossing the Mississippi river capsized. Four ether passengers scaped. Harry Van Waringa, a musician, was p.ocr war. Canton Lucas No. .1 of Toledo, Ohio. won the $iX0 prize in the competitive ri11 at tlie annual communication of the sovereign lodge? of tho Odd Fellows in PhiladelphiaWilliam Kastor of Chicago became J the husband the other evening of Miss Cecilia Bearman of St. Joseph, Mo. Two brothers of Kaster are husbands of two sisters of the bride. George Ford, who is believed to be insane, cremated his wife and three children in Madison, Ind., by setting fire to uicu ill uuui3uii, iini., vj arums ui c t.v .it u-i i i i it the house in which they were asleep. All four perished in the flames. Gov. Ilanly, in a public speech at Hamilton, Ind., declared that former Auditor Sherrick is a common gambler, and that speculation, gaming and drinking made him a defaulter. The Secretary of the Interior has ordered the withdrawal from entry of S00.000 acres of land in the Roswell, N. M land district on account of the Carlsbad irrigation project. Calvin L. Davis, a soldier in the Phil ippines, has been pardoned from the Mis souri penitentiary by John McKinley, acting Governor. Davis was sentenced on a charge of robbing a Chinese doctor. I Tne liank or sorstrana, Aiinn., a private institution, of which A. W. Norton ia resident, has closed its doors. The bank is capitalized ot $10,000. It is not connected with any other bank in the State. A mob of 10000 clamored before the aoors of the banking house of Schiff k I nn . ;tnM Wfl -tAi.l hr thilt s,i;ff ,vflS n innkrnnt and I . " 1 " j fletL The dead body of Joseph Ballo, an Italian, was found by St. Louis police with one deep stab wound, indicating murder. Catolito Duco and Frank Buffa, two Italians, were arrested, charged witK the crime. The Minot National Bank in Minot, N. D.t failed to open its doors for busi ness the other morning. Excessive and I nniioVJa am frWon na tha phtia of the suspension. The last statement showed deposits of $115,000. Levi P. Bevard, who was indicted for the murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Frances L. Werts, by the grand Jury, was arrested at Newark, Ohio, while cutting corn. lie declared that he could prove his innocence. Louis Steeger, 7 years old, was fatally hart and two young sons of Joseph

Sprich received serious injuries in St. Paul as a result of the explosion of powder which they found in a cave in the sandstone bluffs on the West Side. Joseph Crambeau, 7 years old, a confirmed firebug, burned his infant sister to death in her cradle in Wausaukee while left to care for her. His mother saved the home and rescued the boy. The father is in jail for making threats to kill. Nebraska Democrats and Populists in convention at Lincoln effected fusion and named William G. Hastings of Wilbur for justice of the Supreme Court and

I). C. Cole of Osceola and Louis Light ner of Columbus for regents of the university. James Allen MacLeod, a prominent architect, was probably fatally hurt ia an automobile accident in St. Paul. The machine swcived and collided with a trolley pole. MacLeod was thrown heavily to he pavement and the automobile ran over him. Tho body of a man supposed to be August Julius was found on the Lake Shore tracks at Bryan. Ohio, horribly cut up. There are indications of foul play. The address of John Julius of 1224 Grand avenue, Omaha, was found on the body. YS illiam Hunter, arrested In Detroit on his honeymoon for alleged complicity in the Denver election frauds, was taken to Tojedo, Ohio, on the charge of de fraudier a hotel. Hunter has confessed to forging checks on his father, a prominent business man. Four officials of the Schwarzschild & Snlsberger i'acking Company pleaded guilty before Judge J. Otis Humphrey iu the federal court in Chicago to accepting railroad rebates in a conspiracy to violate the Elkins law, and they were fined a total of $23.000. Chicago's colony of bankers in the Joliet penitentiary was increased by one Wednesday when Judge Kersten sen tenced William II. Hunt, president of the defunct Pan-American bank, to serve a sentence of from one to three years. and to pay a fine of $298. The fine is just double the amount of money Hunt received from Attorney A. G. Murrell after the banker knew his institution was insolvent. With a crash that was heard for blocks an overcrowded band stand col lapsed at I) o'clock the other night at the carnival and street fair at Belleville, 111., fatally injuring three persons. It is believed that 200 men. women and children sustained painful injuries. Seven hundred persons were crowded upon the band stand when it went down, and great excitement prevailed among the several thousand who witnessed the ac cident. These sustaining injuries which may prove fatal vere: Mrs. Michael Damricl. Frank Dietz, Jr., and Miss Bertha Schrieber. FOREIGN. Three men were killed and two fatal ly injured by the collapse of ascaffold in Montreal. It is rumored the Czar is negotiating with shipbuilders in Great Britain for a whole new lleet. The town of Baramula, in the Kash mir district of India, has been destroyed by fire. One thousand buildings, mostly houses, were burned George MacDonald, the novelist, died Monday. Mr. MacIonald was born in I Scotland in 1S24. He was educated at Iving's College and the University of ALerdeen. A landslide in Antwerp, Belgium, caused the shipping quay to sink for 150 feet of its length. Two thousand men are at work endeavoring to pre vent further damage. Revolution is reported to have broken out in Colombia following President Reyes' action in declaring himself dictator and imprisoning members of the supreme court at Bogota. Several Norwegian newspapers are op posing the offer of the throne to Prince Charles of Denmark and demand that the people be given an opportunity to choose betweea monarchy and republic. The steady progress on the new for tifications on the Bosporus is causing friction between the Russians and the Porte. The fortifications were hastily begun at the time of the mutiny on board the battleship Kniaz Potemkin, Turkey seizing upon this pretext as a means for carrying out a scheme ot fortification which she had long desired, but which always had been opposed by Russia. Felizardo, chief of the outlaws in the Province of Cavite, P. I., who for a long time have made trouble for the authori ties, was surrounded the other day near the Batangas border and jumped over a cliff. He was killed by the fall. The death of Felizardo, it is believed, will end the disturbances in the Province of Cavite. Jan. 4. 300 Ladrones. led by Felizardo and Montaleon, attacked the town of San Francisco de Matabon, loot ed the municipal treasury of $2.000, killed Contract Surgeon J. A. O'Neill and ab ducted the wife and two children of Governor Trias. IN GENERAL. Sixty buildings were destroyed by fire at Nome, Alaska, causing a loss estimatI , . . . onA JWl rrl . cd at close to $200,000. The city hall a ' . !. small building, was destroyed, but the records were saved. No loss of life is reported. Some one threw a quantity of dirt on the escutcheon bearing the arms of the unueu öim ".u 1 uer iae en trance of the American consulate at Cienfuegos, Cuba. This is the second time an outrage of this kind has oc curred. The Ontario fisheries department will make a rigid investigation of alleged il legal fishing by American hrnis In Geor ffiflii Bay aud Lake Erie. It is claimed that thousands of tons of fish illegally taken are shipped to the United States every week. m . n l A. I 1 Ann f v An , i ne Oiaie iias oeen in. formed that the Nicaraguan court in ses sion at Ocotal, in the province of Se govia, has convictea uiiam S. Albers, the American at Jalapa oi tue iort .muu mpauj, on the cnarge oi nv,ss ana inSuiting rrtsiucui c.ua. ... . 'Xnlnvn Henry uramoot-r, h wiueir tamed eonper expert, declares that he has found in Alaska what he believes will prove to te me gr i ,ue world, le says a cu, ua3 uCeu jormed to develop tne uem ana aiiU,UOO,000 Will be spent m ouuuiug a xuu-mile ra 1road to the property and ia putting in smeuers. Old-time iueinoaisis gasped in amaze .1 " A ment when they looked over the new hymnal of their church, which was seen for the nrsi i"e u wieir nouses of worI chin Sunday, l Here were new hymn by writers who Had no degree of divinity. auu - "e w we modern scuoiw, a aeciaealy MirVi In m.inY of the ni-aa Tr ....... wmn nded in "Amen." a fact whi,h vi l.flodir caused eommnnleunf. nf , to nrotMt. m thT A V1U .-"uv' - -V such a finale is ritualistic and is too much like the services of the Roman Catholic and Protestant Episcopal churches.

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lililllllUtl'JUlliiiltiiu ri Chicago Record-Herald. AGENTS GROW RICH. Secrets as to How New York Company Enriches Kinplorcs. That nearly all of the first year pre miums on new business brought to the New York Life Insurance Company goes back to the pockets of the agents was shown during the session of the Armstrong investigating committee in NewYork Friday. In one year, according to the testimony, the total direct and indirect cost of the new insurance was a little less than $lo.000.U00, and the first year premiums on the same new insurance amounted to a little over $13,JOO,(XK). Theoretically an insurance com pany must not pay over 50 per cent of the first "premiums. This and many other secrets of the or ders of life insurance were laid bare when Inquisitor Hughes turned his investigation to the "Nylie," the organization of the company's agents and a'gency direetors. which, it was revealed, was designed to give away money to New York Life employes. For a time Mr. Hughes switched to the Equitable and its affairs, reading a letter which he had just received from G rover Cleveland, who told what had been done by the Ryan trustees toward mutualizing the society. Mr. Cleveland declared h and his associates were well satisfied with the progress of their work, although realizing the great difficulties that were before them. Regarding the Nylie, Mr. Hughes first discovered that it is divided into two branches and that its sole purpose is to furnish bonuses for employes. The Nylie for agents provides them with money in excess of their earnings as solicitors and writers of insurance. The Nylie for practically the agency directors does same service for salaried agents. This interesting institution is peculiar to the New York Life and takes its name from the initial letters in the words making up the charter name. The Nylie has various degrees, like other orders. The degrees ruu from freshman Nylie. through first, second and third degree Nylics to senior Nylics. There are only three senior Nylics in the service of tke New York Life. There are 400 freshman Nylics and 501 Nylics of the first, second and third degrees, making a total of 01G Nylics of the main body. In addition to the Nylics there are about r,0!X ordinary agents working on commissions and getting no profit out of tho Nylie. Only the active commis sion agent who writes as much as $o0,000 a year can be a Nylie. Up to a short time ago it required only ?2.j,000 insur ance work to make a man a Nylie. The association is a mighty thing for certain agents. A senior rsylic is a man who does not have to work at all. All he has to do is to draw enormous commissions every month on the insurance he has written iu the past. Vice Presi dent Buckner said a man would have an independent income after being a Nylie for twenty years. A senior Nylie gets s commission of C 1 M f Ai arurr 1 IlftO nf t n eil r i n he has written that is still in force. Lp to a short time ago he got $1.50 a month per $1,000. Then, if he had $1,000,000 insurance in force, he was paid $1,500 a month without working. The other degrees of the Nylie do not give such great advantages. A freshman Nylie gets only 25 cents per month per $1,000 until he has worked five years, then he goes up by degrees every five years. A senior Nylie with $4,000,000 insurance m force would draw under the old plan $0,000 a month and continue to draw this amouu; unt;l his death. JAPS STIRRED ANEW. Fresh Wave of Indignation Sweeps Over the Kingdom, A fresh wave of indignation is sweep ing over Japan at the announcement that. in sp5te of rremie,r Katsura's assurance to the contrary, there does exist in the peace treaty with Russia -an article by which Japan undertakes not to fortify Soya strait. The populace is aroused to a high state of indignation. The agreement not to fortify Soya strait is deemed among the influential classes to be the greatest humiliation Japan has ever suffered. The restriction thus placed on her territorial liberty is looked upon as being an unbearable indignity and as constituting the blackest record in the history of a country which hauJa of other natlons. The number 0f direct memorials to the MlPmio frmn different associations and in I v- -' .i:Mia .l.mnm tho trpntv ..t.t,;o. ntifio.l btpmU forty, among which is an address signed by six professors of the imperial universitv. one of whom was recently placed 0u the retired list owing to his strongly Uorded nnti-peace thesis ti,; mmftril cH-one-lv iirc-e-r!ie nocess;tv of refusing to ratify the peace i . I . T w.u -w lnjr tlie purpose Ol Uie nar i vi luriu in the declaration of hostilities. It also is stated that indisputable reasons exi?t for refusing to ratify the treaty, which is deemed to bo pregnant with elements üf humiliation and future danger to the natIonal interests. The Roadmasters and Maintenance of Wav Association, in session at Niagara Fulls. X. Y.. elected C. Buhrer of ToI . . , . i it? Tf ledo, Ohio, president auu . ornery oi Chicago one of the vice presidents, and selected Chicago as the next meeting place.

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CUBA IN A TURMOIL. Political Hatred Threatens to Plunge Ifcland Into Bitter Strife. Cuba was plunged almost into a state of terrorism on the eve of the struggle for the election of a president. Six persons, including a congressman, are known to have been killed. The list of wounded is long. Bombs were found stored in several places, and pistol fights occurred in a number of cities and towns. An ritempt was made to assassinate Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, liberal candidate for the presidency. Thousands of adherents of the two political parties, moderates and liberals, armed with guns and revolvers, gathered in the l.irger cities. Train loads of rural guards were dispatched to points where the turmoil was greatest, iu an attempt to restore peace. An extra session of the House of Representatives was held, at which the disturbances were discussed. Extra editions of the liberal papers were issued, placing the blame for the prevailing conditions upon the government. The Mayor of Havana issued a proclamation forbidding the carrying of canes or weapons of any kind with or without licenses in the vicinity of the polling places during the election of members of the election board. An ofllci.il dispatch says that the Mayor of Cienfuegos issued a similar proclamation and has also prohibited the sale of alcoholic liquors. Official dispatches received from Cienfuegos announced the killing of Congressman Enrique Villuendas, leader of the liberal party and the most able orator in the lower house, and the chief of police of Cienfuegos, during a conflict between the two political parties. Private advices give the number of persons killed as six. with twenty-five wounded. Two policemen are said to be among the dead. Government advices say the police had information that within the hotel in which Villuendas resided a quantity of arms had been deposited, and they went to the hotel to investigate the matter. As the police ascended the stairs they were met by a party of liberals, who fired on them, killing Chief of Police Illance. The police returned the fire, killing Villuendas and wounding several others. A search of the hotel revealed two dynamite bombs in the room occupied by Villuendas. SIGN PACT FOR PEACE. Delegates Representing Sweden and .Norway Agree on Disunion Terms. An agreement reached Saturday at Karlstad by the negotiators of Norway and Sweden concerning the dissolution of the union of the two countries was formally signed there in the afternoon. The understanding was arrived at duriug the final session of the delegates, which lasted longer than three hours. In May last the Norwegian parliament by an almost unanimous vote passed a bill for a consular service independent of that of Sweden. This bill was vetoed by King Oscar aud in consequence the Norwegian ministry resignel. The king refused to accept the resig nation and then on June 7 the parliament in Christ iania adopted a resolution declaring that the union of Norway and Sweden under one king was dissolved in consequence of the king's having ceased to act as a Norwegian king. An address to King Oscar reciting the step taken and the reasons therefor was also adopted, but the king refused to receive it, declaring that the action taken was revolutionary. The next move was on the part of King Oscar, who summoned a special meeting of the Swedish riksdag to consider the situation. This body authorized the government to negotiate a loan of $25,000,000 for works of defense and declared the harbors of Stockholm, Karlskrona, Gothenburg and Parosund to Le war ports from which all foreign naval vessels were to be excluded. For a time the outlook was warlike, but the excitement gradually calmed down and the riksdag finally adopted resolutions agreeing to the dissolution of the union on certain conditions. One of these was that the people of Norway should take a referendum vote on the question of separation. When the votes were counted it was found that 3S0,200 were for separation and 1S4 against it. Committees were then appointed to consider the details of the dissolution of the bonds between the two countries. They met at Karlst.id, in Sweden, some weeks ago, but they had great difficulty in arriving at the agreement. Brief News Items. The American Zinc and Chemical Company's plant at Utah Junction. Colo., was destroyed by fire. Los. $70,000. Fire in the tobacco district iu Danville, Va., destroyed three buildings entailing a loss which will exceed $100,000. Mack Murray killed Mrs. Mary Orris, who was in company with a rival suitor, at New Kensington, Pa. A razor was used. The British steamer Chatham, from London for Yokohama, caught fire ia the Suez canal and for a time all canal trafiic was blocked. The Thomas W. Lawson property in Back Bay, excepting one house, was sold for -unpaid taxes, the Boston broker keeping his word not to spoil the auc tion. President Pajd Morton at the meeting oi the agents of the Equitable Life at Manhattan Beach declared he wanted Ufa insurance removed as far as possible from the field ef politics.

PACKERS PAY FINES.

Indicted Chicago lcf Men Admit G1t ing liebstes. Four officials of the Schwarzschlld & Sulsberger Packing Company, Chicago, pleaded guilty before Judge J. Otis Humphrey in the federal court to accepting railroad rebateä in a conspiracy to violate tho Elklus law, and they were fined a total of $25,000. This marked the first victory of the government in its prosecution of the packing companies in what are now known as tho "beef trust eases." A certlfled check for $25,000 was handed to the clerk of the court, and the four defendants were released. "Toil are indicted under section 5440," said the court in opening hi3 sentence. "You are charge! with conspiracy to commit an offense against the 'United Statc3 laws. Your counsel has entered pleas of guilty, and if you have anything further to say other than has al ready been spoken, you are at liberty to speak." The three youuger defendants shook their heads; the fourth, the man of years, looked at the floor and said nothing, nor did he make a sign. "Punishment for this offense as fixed by Congress has a wide range, giving tho court unusual lititude, ranging from a nominal fine without imprisonment to a heavy fine and two years' imprisonment, all in the discretion of the court. I havo heard on your behalf all of your side of this matter and what the government wished to present. I am disposed to consider this case with reasonable moderation. Tho sentence of the court in the case of the defendant, Weil, will be a fine of $10,000 and costs and commitment to the county jail until the fine is paid, and in the cases of Todd, Skipworth and Cusey a fine of $5,000 and costs, with the same provision in regard to the payment. The costs may be distributed among the four defendants." To compete with the others it was stated, according to good authority, tho ind pendent concern acccptad rebates from the railroad companies. A representative of the four defendants conferred with the Attorney General and subsequent trips to Washington were made with the result that an ULderstanding was reached whereby, upon a plea of guilty, a fine should be assessed and the imprisonment clause waived. If the case had gone to a trial the defendants would have met tho government with a motion to quash the indictment on the ground that it was faulty. It is declared iy the defense that they are charged with violating the. Elkins act which went into force on F-b. ID, 11K)3, but the crime alleged to have been committed is charged to have been perpetrated Feb. 3, i;03. Attorney Boycsen in his opening statement in court mentioned this fact, but declared that his clients did not wish to avail themselves of any technicalities. He had been instructed, he said, to enter a plea of guilty. T H E BURGLARS' HARVEST. New York Has the Worst VUitaticn of Such. Crimes in Her History. There are more robberies in New York City at present than ever before in tho experience of the metropolis. On the East Side burglars and sneak thieves are so active that men and women sit up nights with all manner of rearms handy to repel attacks. Five thefts in the region bounded by Bradford and Fulton streets, Arlington and Miller avenues were reported recently in a single ni;;Iit. In the eastern section of Harlem oO burglaries have occurred in the past ten days. In spite of strongest safes, more cunning electric alarm systems and more complete methods of identifying criminals, the burglar seems to be feared nowadays much more than he used to be. An evidence of this is the tremendous growth of the burglar insurance business in this country in recent times. A little more than ten years ago practically all attempts to insure people against theft proved futile. Companies were organized for this purpose, but after many vicissitudes they ended in failure. Since that time nearly a dozen corporations have come into existence, and so large is the business they do that in the last year they paid over $3SL147 in burglary losses. In the same time they collected $1,3SG,G10 in premiums. This increasing dread of the burglar is due to the fact that he never was more formidable or more active than at the present time. In these days of greater wealth those temptations which are so alluring to the thief have been multiplied. Consequently there are more diamond robberies and crimes of a similar character now than in the past. The discovery of more effective tools and more powerful explosives has also aided the robber, and although he does not attempt as often as ho did to blow up tho big city banks, because of their alarm systems and special patrols, his ravages in country districts have grown to an alarming extent. At the present time four out of five bank burglaries are committed in towns of less than 1,000 inhabitants. In the last eight years 770 banks situated in such communities were attacked, with a loss of $1,250,000. Safes once regarded as burglar proof have been tbown to be little stronger than eoap boxes In the hands of expert thieves, and consequently many companies will not insure country banks at all. The modern burglar is more waat&niy destructive than his predecessor. His use of "dope" or nitroglycerine often causes a greater damage to a building than the loss made by the theft itself. Even when he fails of getting loot he leaves a scene of wreckage behind. Of the $1,250,000 in losses incurred by banks, of which mention has already been made, more than $300,000 represented destruction of property. In robberies of dwelling houses and apartment houses the damage averages about cuetenth of the total loss. Told Itk. a Few Linea. The home of Attorney Warren Leslie, New York, was robbed of peveral thousand dollars worth of property. Miss Marie Hamill, a society girl, and her fiance, Neil Woif, were killed in an auto accident near Acto, X. J. The criminal court at Stamboul has condemned to death the Armenian, Ghirkis Vartanian, a naturalized American citizen, for the murder of the Armenian merchant, Apik Uudjian, Aug. 20, who was shot by Vartanian in the Galata quarter of Constantinople. Jerry Simpson, who is at Roswell, N. M., is now reported to be suffering from aneurism of the heart, and attending physicians say there is small hope of his recovery. Rainmaker Hatfie'd closed a contract for a large sum at Los Angeles, CaL, with the British government, the Kimberly mine owners and sheep ranchers to break the drought in South Africa. M. McCormick and A. WhltUker cf Chillicothe, Mo., and B. Vaughn and John Llnsey, negro porters, were killed and twenty-seven persons were injured when a freight train on the Buriiugton railroad crashed into a passengor train at Brush, Colo

1HAHUAL While tbe new demands disclose no recession in the heavy industries, Chicaro. money and distributive operations made distinct advance. Bank exchanges reached their highest total for one week since early lu May. The absorption of currency for crop moving purposes encroached upon deposits to the largest extent this season, and there was wider request for commercial loans, most of the latter being negotiated at 5 per cei.t. This rate probably may now become the minimum for choice mercantile names, and bunking profits during the next quarter will have an improving ratio. Wholesale dealings in fall and winter staples made a substantial gain. Shipping rooms are worked day and night in the effort to overtake prompt forwarding. Notwithstanding the heavy business already completed, the attendance of buyers remains unprecedented, and a higher average cost proves no bar to liberal selections of necessaries. Unusually large transactions are noted in dry goods, clothing, footwear, men's furnishings and woolens, and further good orders appeared for millinery, cloaks, groceries and canned fruits. Former impressions of an excellent outlook for both city and interior retail trade are well sustained. Stocks of merchandise among retailers are at a low point, and generous replenishment proceeds satisfactorily. Collections make a good showing, while the commercial mortality again is comparatively lower. Bank clearings $107,W.S55, exceed those of the corresponding week ia 1IM") 4 by 15 per cent. Failures reported in the Chicago district number IS, against 10 last week, and 35 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. Trade and industry continue remarkably active in nearly all lines. Fall Hsv York. distribution is in full swing and in portions of the West is of unprecedented volume. Interior merchants are stiil greatly in evidence in many primary markets, three-fourths of the corn crop is out of danger of frot, iron ami steel are in exceptionally good demand with outputs lieavily so!d ahead and prices tending upward and building and building material are apparently as active as at any preceing period this year. Collections generally are good for this season of tbe year, despite the fact that retail trade in the agricultural regions is still retarded by active farming operations. Gross railroad earnings for August were 5 per cent in excess of a year ago, when the present wave of r.ctivity first manifested itself. Business failures in the United States for tbe week ending Sept. 14 number 1SS. against 137 last week. 107 in the like week of 1001. 170 in P.wXJ, 1S2 in 1002 and 15S in 1001. In Canada failures for the week number thirty-two, as against twenty-five la.t week and twenty-nine in this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. 4.00 to $0.20; hogs, prime heavy. $1.00 to $5.80; sheep, fair to choice. $3.00 to $4.l0; wheat, No. 2, S4c to S5c; corn. No. 2. 51c to 52c; oats, standard, 20c to "Oc; rye. No. 2. 70c to 71c; hay, timothy, .S.r0 to $ll.r0; prairie, $0.00 to $10.50; butter, choice creamery, lSe to 20c; eggs, fresh. 10c to ISc; potatoes, per bushel, "0e to 50c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, S3.00 to 0.00: hogs, choice heavy. $1.0 to $.1.75; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to 1.50; wheat. No. 2, 82c to 84c; com. No. 2 white, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 28c. Sr. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $4.00 to $5.M); wheat. No. 2, 85c to SSc; corn. No. 2. 50e to 53c; oats. No. 2, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 5Sc to 00c. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $5.00; hops, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $2.O0 Vj $1.50; wheat, No. 2, 8c to 87c; Corn. No. 2 mixed, 54c to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 2Sc to 29c; rye, No. 2, COc to 02c. Detroit Cattle, $4.50 to $5.00; hogs. 4.00 to $5.40; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, S3c to Sic; corn. No. 3 yellow, 55c to 5Gc; oats. No. 3 white, 2Sc to 30c; rye, No. 2, C5c to C7c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, S3c to 85c; corn. No. 3, 51c to 52c; oats, standard, 27c to 20c; rye. No. 1, OSc to COe; barley, No. 2, 51c to 53c; pork, mess, $15.00. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 85c to SOc; corn. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 53c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 2, 54c to G2c; clover seed, prime, $7.00. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to choice, $4.O0 to $5.70; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.00; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.05. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $5.80; ho-s, $4.O0 to $5.05; sheep. $3.00 to $1.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 87c to 80c; corn. No. 2, 58c to 59c; oats, natural, white, 33c to 34c; butter, cre.imery, l'Je to 2lc; eggs, western, 20c to 22c. Short Personals. Peter Henry Chevantier, who made a fortune in toy balloons, is said to be in poverty. M. Carolus Duran is to paint the portrait of his holiness the Pope. Henry Marr, a farmer who lives near Columbus, Bartholomew county, Ind., is said to be the center man of the entire population of the United States. Phillipo Lebou, who took out a patent in JS01 for the use of gas for lighting purposes, is to have a statue erected to his memory in Paris. He was murdered in 1S04. Peter G. Emmett, a soldier now stationed at Fort McHcnry, Baltimore, has in his possession Volumes V. and VI. of that rare old publication, "Letters of a Turkish Spy."