Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 1, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 October 1905 — Page 2

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V 21st 'SfrSSth j) 5th. C a? 13th. PAST AND PEESENT AS I J COMES TO US FROM ALL. CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many 10,000 Chinese Swallowed Up by Sea. Victoria, (R. C.) special: The steamer Tartar which recently arrived from the orient brought the news from Shanghai that the loss of life of natives of the island at the mouth of the Yaigtse river as a result of the typhcon at the beginnh-g of September was tremendous. To the east of Tamagming, two islands, one cilled Yawoshwa, the other Shipowasba, di. tant about twenty miles from Woosung, suffered much from the typhoon, nearly all the inhabitants having been swept away. The islands have only been inhabited a short time, comparatively speaking, as they are of recent formation, and are not much above high water mark. It is reported that nearly ten thousand people have been drowned on these two islands and on smaller islands adjacent. Tamagming island itself has not suffered much, being safe above the high water mark. Terrible Conditions in Moscow. Special dispatches from Moscow state ibat many persons were killed or wounded in the riotincc on the TversUoy boulevard tt the site of the monument to the poet, ; Alexander Pushkin, and in the gj eat square fronting the monestery vhere the troops ! used sabres and rifles, firing point b'auk! into the riotors. The authorities issued a ' proclamation giving the police absolute power to prevent assemblages. Many of, thos3 arrested were made tu run the gauntlet of c double line of Cossacks in a long, narrow court yard, the soldiers brutally, beating them with knouts and the butts of rifles until they dropped fainting or dead at the end of the line. Noted Educator Under Arrest. X. C. Dougherty, for many years city superintendant of schools at Peoria, 111., and one of the most prominent educators In the country, is under arrest, following an indictment by the grand jury charging forgery. The jury which is now in session, has been examining the books of the Peoria school board. Within a comparatively brief space of time a shortage of $73,0;)0 was discovered and the further discovery was made that the peculations have been extending over a long term of ears. The shortage, it is said, will reach' hundreds of thousands of dollars. Street Car Men Buy Atitoa. The national convention of street railway employes, held at Chicago, has appropriated $20,0 for the purchase of ten automobiles to be used by the union to convey passengers wherever there is a street car strike, the pro tits from which Is to go back into the defense fund, where the $20,000 came from. The union owns three automobiles, which were used dura strike in Saginaw, Mich. Others were leased daring a strike in Bloomington, III. Costly Forest Fires in California. Disastrous forest fires which str.rted above Santa Barbara, Cal., are raging. The flames swept over a space five miles long and three miles wide, extending along the foothills. Fires are now burning the densely covered valleys and the mountainsides. The flame3 have burned over thirty ranches and destroyed houses, barns and other buildings on twelve farms. The loss to the ranchers in buildings alone is $50,000. Fatal Antomobile Accident. Walter Palmer of Athens was instantly killed, Chaffeur Blake of Kalamazoo was fatally injured, and Mrs. Walter Palmer and her daughter, Frances, were badly bruised in an automobile accident two and one-half miles west of Athens, Mich. The automobile while traveling at good speed swerved out of the road into a marsh and capsized. Fire in Colorado Mine. A defective electrical generator started a destructive fire at the Fremont coal mine, near Florence, Col. All the buildings, including the shaft houses were destroyed. Fifty men were working in tho mine at the time the fire started, but all were rescued ive through the air shaft. No estimate of the financial loss has been made. Three Killed in Wreck. Three men were killed, one man was injured and a carload of race horses were either killed or so badly hurt that they had to be shot as the result of a collision at the Junction of the Lykens Valley branch of the Pennsylvania railroad a quarter of a mile south of Millersburg, Pa. Death Penalty for Assault. The jury in the case of W. R. Fletcher, a white man charged with erindnal assault on Mary Gladder, a German gill at Kusselville, Ky., returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the punishment at death. Bloody Tragedy at Marion. James D. Gregg, S3 years old, of Marion, Ind., shot and fatally wounded his wife Maud Gregg, and then shotf arid killed himself. m Natural Gas Near Michigan City. A strong flow of natural gas was struck east of Michigan City, Ind., oy workmen who are sinkins? a well for drinking water. Or tions have already been taken on properrymtbe vicinity of the gas pocicei ana wells will be sunk at once. Cholera Epidemic in Manila. Cholera is again epidcmie in Manila according to advices received at Washingbin. The authorities are tampered' in combatting the disease by the attitude of the natives who endeavor to conceal cases nd avsda tliA onarantin reaulations. Asks for New Tax Law. Tax laws of Missouri are declared to be a menace to business and moral life by the St. Louis grand jury which has been investigiting tax dodging, and the enactment of a new statute is recom 22tnded. eialn In Texas Home. Mr. A. J. Couditt, a dauznter of 13, and three boys from 0 to 10 years old, were reordered at their home near Eona, tt The mother and daarbfjr were brutally disSzured. A baby was the ni one left alive. All of them seem ed to hare been ilata with some blunt List rum erst. '

, EASTERN. Workmen dicing ia New York found a large meteorite. The will of Jacob Litt, the theatrical manager, filed in Xew York, disposed of an estate of almost $250,000. Massachusetts Republicans la State convention i:i Boston declared for tariff revision and nominated u ticket headed by Curtis Guild, Jr. Alleging that union men aro being ousted the 500 employes of Morca colliery of the Dodson Coal Company, MaLa iioy City, Pa., struck. . Frederick K. Carlton, Brooklyn bisamist, was given a 19-ye:ir sentence and : mob of his old neighbors sought to ynch him a3 he left court. Xew York police have decided that Harry Leonard, the buy -who robbed fhe National City Bank of $359,000 j.-urtk of securities by means of a forged check, had no accomplices. William 11. Hearst was nominated for Mayor cf Xew York unanimously by more than o,oOO men who attended the meeting cf the Municipal Ownership Leugne in Grand Central Palace. A great commercial war igainst the United States by combined Europe is prophesied by G. II. Andel son. president of the Pittsburg Cham ?r of Commerce, who says the tariff must be revised. Hugh Hamilton, a pottery . manufacturer of Greensboro, Pa., was-shot and mortally wounded in a crowded hotel dining room in Pittsburg by Anthony W. Olesou, whom Hamilton says he never saw before. The Baltimore and Ohio Fairmont express, for Pittsburg, was derailed at Bound Bottom,, eight miles north of Morgautown, Pa. The accident was due, it is said, to spreading rails. Eighteen persons were injured. PostolIIee Inspector Frank A. O'Brien arrested Ceorge F. Sulzback in Pittsburg fur operating a "get-rich-quick" concern, who, upon being indicted, escaped to Xew York, where he was arrested, bat jumped his bail. Henry Lear, former president of the Doylestown. Pa., Xatioaal Bank, was convicted of willful misapplication of the funds of the institution. Pending an appeal bail was increased from $7,500 to $10.000. Tina was Lear's third trial. William Ftotley, an expert swimmer, who had won medals in swimming contests, was found drowned in the Monongahela river at Pittsburg in three and one-half feet of water. He was 30 years oid and had been acting as watchmarn. Charles' E. Hughes, chief inquisitor for the insurance investigation, has been nominated for Mayor of Xew York by the Republican convention, but declares that he will not run. Another candidate ca the ticket also refuses to accept. Henry A. Leonard, who was employed by Halle & Stieglitz, a prominent firm of Xew York brokers, as a clerk, has made a confession that it Was he who robbed the National City Bank of that city of securities worth $.'150,000. Leonard, who was arrested Sunday while on the way to church, had been for several years a trusted employe of Halle & Stieglitz and lived quietly with his mother in Harlem. He is about 25 years old. Ieonard told the police that he conceived the idea of the theft three or four months ago and had been planning during that time to execute it and show how easy such a scheme could bo practiced on the banks of Xew York.

WESTERN. Sheriff Shellenbarger of Newark, Ohio, shot by Frank Hildrcth last June, is dead. The St. Louis City Council has an ordinance before it to make efToits to flirt with women punishable by a fine of $230. Burglars entered the Bank of SpringHeld, S- I)., and blew open the door of the vault. The marauders took all the cash there was $5,200. In a terrific explosion of nitroglycerin at the Etna Powder Mills at Miller's Station, Ind., two men were blown to atoms and the building was destroyed. The commissioner of the general land office has ordered the withdrawal from entry of about 700,000 acres of land in rizona to be set aside as forest re serves. Miss Kathryu Kidder, the actress, daughter of Henry M. Kidder of Evanston. 111., has been married to Louis K. Anspacher, Ph. D., of Columbia uni versity. Two electric cars on the Mahoning Valley line collided east of Hazelton, Ohio, killing the motorman, Hugo Wasch, and badly injuring two other persons. Charles Sender, . indicted on two counts for obtaining $10,000 under false pretenses.pleaded guilty at Akron, Ohio, and was sentenced to the Mansfield re formatory. W. F. Lawrence, an aged and wealthy icsident cf Yankton, S. D., who a few days ago created a sensation by marry ing his young hired girl, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. Tho Illiuois Railroad and Warehouse Commission is reported to have reached a decision in the freight rate cases that will mean a loss of $8,000,000 annually to the railroads in this State. The American Caa Company factory in Davenport, Iowa, was burned to the ground, causing a loss of $150,000, partly covered by insurance. Three hundred men are. thrown out of employment. Two students suffered broken legs, a score of ribs were fractured and other severe injuries inflicted in the annual tighte between the freshmen and sophomores of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Henry V. Lucas, former St. Louis millionaire, who lost most of his fortune trying to promote the old Union Baseball Association, has taken a job as inspector in the street department at $05 a month. A terrific explosion of gas under the floor of the county commissioner's office at the coiii.; house in Cincinnati killed George Zimmerman, chief clerk of the commissioners, end Kussell Blair, an assistant clerk. Nebraska cowboys wrecked the office of a Mullen, Neb., lawyer who testified for the government in the prosecutions for illegal fencing in of land, and several witnesses have appealed to Governor Mickey. - A prisoner is seeking a habeas corpus writ before the Supreme Court of Michigan on the grounds that he once escaped ' to Canada, after being declared insane and that Insanity is not an extraditable offense. Judge Swing of Cincinnati has decided that a $5 bill is not legal tender for car fare. The case involved the putting of a woman off a car because the conductor was unable to change a bill, and he had no other money. Papers valued at over $50,000. which were found on a Cincinnati street by a 3 5-y ear-old boy, are the property of Jämes Deterson. who lost them while passing through tht city on his way to Virginia from the Northwest. A passenger whose name is. supposed to have been Michael ShleldiYudther of Bakorsfield, Cat., or Portland, Oregon.

committed suicide on a Texas and Pacific train between Dallas, Texas, and Fort Worth. He cut his throat. A bull fight, in which the animals and the men were armored in fxrtball costumes, was held near Los Angeles. Xot a bit of gore was spilled and a wild outburst from the arena followed the decision of the judges in favor of the bulls.

j Albert Mescl of Leavenworth, Kan., ; and B. B. Osborne of St. Joseph were i drowned m Lake Contrary, near St. Joseph. Mo. The men lost an oar while crossirg the lake in a boat. In trying to recover the oar the boat was overturned. A mischievous boy tossed a lighted match through an open window at the dyeing establishment of Cook & McLain in Chicago, and a titty-gallon tank of benzine exploded. Panic and fire resulted, in which several persons were hurt. A home for foundlings, with infat incubators, will be erected by John D. Rockefeller in Cleveland for the Humane Society. "I am opposed to race suicide," he is reported to have said in announcing his plans to the Humane Society officers. The National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio, rejected the demand of a committee of the machinists union for the reinstatement of 300 men discharged. A general strike involving every department of the plant is threatened as a result. An entire block of wholesale houses, bounded by Salmon, Taylor and Front streets and the Willamette river, burned in Portland. Ore. The Toss was $110,000. The tire started in the basement of the Xew Era Paint and Oil Company from spontaneous combustion. Newton C. Dougherty, president of the Peoria, 111., National Bank, head of that city's schools and prominent in educational and financial circles throughout the country, has been iudicted by a grand jury, charged with forgery and misappropriation of school funds. While awaiting the arrival of a patrol wagon after his arrest on a forgery charge, Thomas G. Connor, 40 years old, committed suicide iu Sc. Louis by drinking carbolic acid. Connor was arrested oa the charge of passing two worthless checks, aggregating $150. George L. Dobson, former Secretary of State of Iowa, has resigned as consul general at Hangchow, China, after only a few weeks of work. He has written to friends in Washington complaining of the mode of the life of the Chinese. He says the natives are rude and coarse. Owin'r to a reduction of the salaries of the -Jerks at the postoffice in Goldfiold. ;v.. from $120 a month to $S3 a monia, by direct orders from Washington, ten men walked out and only were persuaded to return by Postmaster Collins personally guaranteeing their former pay. Fire in the lumber district of Rhinelander. Wis., destroy ed property valued at $000,000 and rendered 400 people homeless. The fire started in the lumber yard of the Brown Brothers Lumber Company, and after sweeping it clean spread to the Bobbins Lumber Company yards, which were entirely destroyed. A high wind was blowing, which carried the fire into the residence district adjoining the lumber yards, destroying about seventy-five small dwelling houses. About 40,000,000 feet of lumber was destroyed. After burning over the greater portion of eight blocks the fire was got under control. The homeless people were cared for in the city hall and other public buildings. The total insurance is about $400,000. FOREIGN. Senator Carlos Walker Martinez, an eminent politician and leader of the Conservative party in Chili, died at Santiago. Fresh disturbances between the Germans and the Czechs broke out at Bruenn, Austria. Many persons were injured. Awed by a British cruiser, the Sultan of Turkey has settled the claims for attacks on British vessels in the Red sea by piratical Arabs. Six men. supposed to be bomb throwers, including two who are not Chinamen, were handed over to the viceroy at Tientsin for investigation. Prof. Behring, the discoverer of the anti-diphtheria serum, announces, according to the Paris Matin, that he has found a cure for tuberculosis. The nature of his cure, Prof. Behring says, he will divulge next August. As a sequel of the breaking off of diplomatic relations between Roumania and Greece Roumania will denounce the commercial convention with Greece, withdraw the recognition hitherto accorded to the Greek communities, increase the tolls on Grecian vessels entering Roumanian ports and tax property held by Greeks in Roumania. IN GENERAL. Joseph Ramsey, Jr., has been ousted from the presidency of the Wabash road, this action being a temporary victory for the Gould faction. Charles E. Shively, supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, holds an Indian is not eligible to membership iu the Pythian order. The weekly trade reviews report continued activity, the absence of speculative operations being an encouraging feature cf the situation. The sealing schooner City of San Diego returned from the Bering Sea to Victoria. B. C, with 732 sealskins and reports that the season's catch will exceed that of last year and be better than for a long time. According to later information received at Tokio the American cruiser Cincinnati was tloated without assistance, after being aground for seven hours. - She has been reported passing Shimonoseki, bound for Shanghai. It is reported that the notorious Cuban bandit. Chino Oreill. has been killed by rural guards. Oreill had been condemned to death for several murders. Many attempts had been made to capture him and dirlng these attempts two men were killed in the belief that each was Oreill. John D. Rockefeller, in . conformity with his promise of last June, has turned over to the general edecation board $10,000,000 in cash, which, members of the board expect, will yield an annual income of $500,000 for the cause of higher education in the United States so long as schools shall exist. Chester Donaldson, United States consul at Managua, Nicaragua, has arrived at San Francisco en route to Washington to explain the case of two Americans, named Albers, now in prison. The evidence, Donaldson says, will show that the men were wrongfully imprisoned and he intends to justify the stand he took to gain their liberty. Charles Rillict, who was with the Fiala polar expedition, declares a wealthy St. Louisan has agreed to back him in a daring drift through Behring strait to the north pole. According to Itilllet it is planned by tnose who will make tue urtsu -" uii iiom the mai.. ship of the party and, leaving all hope behind, they will make a quick d.ifih over the ice-bound region for the pole.

Edward W. McKenna, who was elected Second Vice President of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad at the ann u a 1 meeting of the directors in Milwaukee, is one of the most widely known railway officials in the railway service. He was born in Tittsburg and entered the service of the Pennsylvania sysw. m'kekxa. tern In 1SG3 and rose steadily in the service of tha: company until 1SS7, when be became division superintendent of the St. Paul Road, becoming general superintend ent In 1S90. In 1SÖ4 he transferred his services to the Great Northern Rail road in the same capacity, where he remained. till the autumn of 1895, at which time he had developed an inven tion for rerolling steel rails and at once launched a company, which has since made a fortune out of the process. Mr. McKenna resumed his ser vices with the St. Paul Road as assistant to the President Feb. 1, 1004. Jacob Henry Schiff, who testified be fore the insurance investigating committee in New York that the directors knew nothing of the secrets of the Equitable, that he never heard anything of the numerous "trustee" accounts, and that he doubtexl the correctness of entries in the Equitable book recording the purchase o f $500,000 o f Union Pacific JACOB 11 stock for "holding account," is one of the noted financiers of the country. He is a member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Is a director in several banks, trust companies and railways and also is a director of Equitable Life and of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Mr. Schiff was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main In 1S47 and came to the United States in 1SG5. He Las served as vice president of the New York Chamber of Commerce and is the founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary of the Semitic Museum at Harvard University. Last winter he was decorated by the Japanese em peror for services In connection with floating the Japanese loan. -: :- Mrs. Estelle Townsend Smith, of Richmond, Va., was sentenced to five years in the Virginia penitentiary. Judge Clopton denied the motion for the woman by her lawyers, who sought to have the verdict of the jury set aside and a new trial granted. Counsel for Mr?. Smith will appe.il to the Virginia Supreme Court. Mrs. Smith was recently convicted of the MKS. E. EMITII. killing of her 5-year-old son Ralph, by repeated and severe beatings and othe? cruel forms of punishment. The commonwealth's attorney moved the court to dismiss the warrant against Sheppard K. Smith, the husband of tho convicted woman, who has been in custody awaiting trial on the charge of complicity in the killing of the child. The court agreed to the motion an1 the husband was released from custody. John M. namiltoR, former Governor of Illinois, who died recently, was for many yvars a prominent figure in the politics of the State, ne was a schoolmate of Vice President F a I r -banks and of Senator Foraker. Mr. Hamilton was a member of Hesperia Lodge, A. F. and A. M., in Chicago, and was also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. JOHN . HAMILTON. Frederick L. Cutting, Commissioner of Insurance for Massachusetts, has come into wide notice on account of a severe arraignment of the methods of big Insurance comoanies incorporated In his annual report. He especially condemned the Equitable, the Mu- : 1 -iiuai itiiuh iuu nun t i w : t tin n riii -v a York Life. He characterized some of the officials as Jndases and aliudfred l. cuttixg. ed to one as the "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Company." He referred to "dubious schemes" and "schemes for getting enormously rich." He also touched on fraternal societies and mentioned the Royal Arcanum In particular. J. B. Fowler, of Portland, Ore., is the inventor of a device which, if successful, will make him the peer cf - Edison, Marconi, Tesla and all the ther wizards of electrical discovery. - i claimed for this newest of wonders that by mean of It one may see the Image of the person with whom he is talking phooe. Its disco?- J' a F0WLEn' erer call it the "telerue." Mr. Fowler, until recently was a laborer la a railroad she?.

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M'CALL MAKES ADMISSION. 8aya More than Half Million Wae Used in Legislatures. John A. McCall, president of the New York Life Insurance Company, was on the witness stand the greater part of

Wednesday before the Armstrong- investigating committee in New York, and in sharp contrast with his first appearance two weeks ago he made no secret of the immense payments by his company to "Judge" Andrew Hamilton to influence insurance legislation in various VtVS JOHN A. M'CALL. States of the Union. Much of the proposed insurance legislation in various States he characterized as blackmailing attempts. It was brought out: 1. That since 1000 the New York Life has paid to "Judge" Hamilton $47G,027.02 for legislative purposes, and has also paid to others larjre sums for similar work, bringing the total of such expenditures up to $500,127.02. 2. That in addition to these payments to Hamilton, President McCall expects him to render bills for his services during the present year which will aggregate about $1C3,000. C. That, besides these payments to "Judge" Hamilton and in addition to the $235,000 paid him in 1003, ostensibly on account of real estate deals and for which he has rendered no account to the New York Life, he was also paid $75,000 in June, 1004, for which he has rendered no account. The total of the sums given him, so far as is known, for which he has rendered no account now stands at $310,000. 4. That John A. MvCall, who is a director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, borrowed $75,000 from that institution at 1 per cent interest. On July 1 last, shortly before the appointment by the Legislature of the insurance .investigating committee, the interest rate on this loan was increased to 22 per cent, at which it still stands, the loan being unpaid. 5. That John R. Hegenran, president of the Metropolitan Life, in addition to borrowing $50,000 from the New York Life at 1 per cent, also, it was intimated, borrowed money from his own company, be Metropolitan Life. C. That the New York Life encourages its agents to get new business on the deferred dividend plan by paving t'jem CO per cent commission of the first year's premiums and only 40 per cent commission oa annual dividend policies. This, in face of the fact admitted by the chief actuary of the 'ew York Life that it is easier for au agent to get new business on the deferred dividend system than on the plans for which the smaller commission is paid. 7. That the eost to the company of getting new business on the deferred dividend plan is so excessive that in 1003 the New York Life had to borrow from its surplus accumulations over $7,000.000 to pay the expenses of business which ia premiums yielded only in that year about $3,400,000. 8. That, although diligent search has been made during the past two weeks, no record whatever has been found on the New York Life of anyone of the three $50,000 payments to the Republican national campaign committee. 9. That four relatives of President McCall, all of them employed by the New York Life at large salaries, live in an apartment house at 40 West Seventysecond street, owned by the company, at rentals which yield the policy holders only 2C-10 per cent on an investment of $203.000, the cost of the property. 10. That President McCall admits there should be a limitation to the business which a life insurance company may roll up and that the legislative committee should give that subject serious attention. NATION BREAKS RECORD. Foreign Commerce Total for Fiscal Year Is $2,633,070,333. All records were broken by the foreign commerce of the United States during the fiscal year which closed June 30: For the twelve months the exports and imports were valued at $2,035,970,333, compared with $2,451,014,042 during the previous year, which was the largest on record. The imports were valued at $1,117,507,500 and exports at $1,518,4C2,833, both new high records. An unusual feature of American foreign commerce is the small increase in customs revenues, notwithstanding the large increase in imports. Dutiable merchandise imported reached a value of $000,071,238, an increase of $03,114,107 over the previous year. Nevertheless, customs duties last year amounted to $202,000,518, or less than $1,000,000 in excess of the duties collected in 1004. Reciprocity with Cuba reducing the duties on sugar and tobacco, together with imports remaining in warehouse upon which duties haven ot been paid, account for the sma!l increase in revenues. The articles showing the largest increases in exportatioas during the eleven months for which details are available: Corn, an Increase of $1G,000,000, as compared with the corresponding period of 1904. . Copper manufactures, an Increase or $2o,000.OU0, about one-third being In exports to China, where large amounts of copper are In demand for coinage purposes. Cotton manufactures, an Increase of $22,OOO.OUO, principally In exports of cotton cloths to China. . Itaw cotton, an Increase or $0,000,000 during the twelve months. Iron and steel manufactures, an Increase of ?jy,ouo,ouo. lue principal articles showing decreased exports for the twelve months are: SEDUCTION. Vfhea $32,000.000 Wheat ßour 28.000.000 Fruits and nuts .5,000,000 Provisions 5,000,000 Unmanufactured wood 0,500,000 The reduction of exports of wheat and wheat flour was due in part to the inadequacy of the domestic crop to furnish any considerable surplus over Ihe home requirements, and in part to unusually large crops in foreign wheat-producing countries. Exports of wheat from the United States during the fiscal year just ended have been even lower than the year before. Jewels valued at several thousands of dollars have been stolen from the home cf II. Van Rensselaer Kennedy, . in Hempstead, L. I. The night law school of the Cincinnati Young Men's Christian Association, known as the McDonald institute, has been endowed by Alexander McDonald. Mrs. Mary Klngmann, 40 years old, wag burned to death and eleven other persons were injured by fire in a remarkable series of accidents at St. Louis. Acting Secretary Oliver has ordered thq establishment of post schools for the instruction of children of oScers and enlisted men and civil employes of posts where there ere now no nearby school facilities.

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Fall distribution of comcomodities is of exceptional proportions, indi Chicago. cating that business generally is making satisfactory progress. The demand for money for commercial purposes has not suffered from the advanced cost of borrowing, nor is healthy expansion in industrial enterprise interfered with, funds being ample for known needs. Dealings were seasonably stimulated in fashionable retail lines and the aggregate buying reflects improved consumption of necessaries. Heavy shipments Lave been made to many points in the West and Southwest, but the pressure upon forwarders has not yet ceased. Farm work in the winter wheat sections is about over, and this permits increasing activity at country stores in personal and farm requirements. The markets for raw materials exhibit further strengthening in demand and higher prices developed In pig iron, steel bars, leather and hides, the latter material scoring the highest average in forty years. Iron and steel commitments again were on a record-breaking scale, the added demands extending the period of assured work into next midsummer. Other factory work is more animated, more hands being employed, and improvement is seen in machinery, heavy hardware and furniture making. Leather working trades are more fully engaged and building construction discloses no abatement. Failures reported in the Chicago district number thirty-two, against thirty-nine last week and twenty-two a year ago. Dun's Review cf Trade. Hb York. September, a period of almost unexampled activity in an lines ot uisirisjutive trade and industry, closes with little abatement visible in demand and with optimism as to the future widespread. Favoring the satisfactory winding up of the month's work have been good weather conditions, allowing the maturing of practically all food crops without damage from frost Additionally helpful to distributive trade and collections have been the . beginning of a free movement of spring wheat, large sales of cotton at good prices South, an unprecedented demand at top prices for all kinds of building material, marked freedom from industrial friction and a market for labor and Its products active as rarely before in the country's history. Business failures in the United States for the week ended Sept. 2S number 1S5, against 173 last week, 179 in the like week of 1904, 153 in 1903, 1G4. in 1902 and 173 in 1901. In Canada failures for the week number 2S, as against CO last week and 21 in this week a year ago. Bradstrcet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. $4.00 to $0.40; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $5.S0; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.15; wheat, No. 2, 83c to 84c; corn. Xo. 2, 49c to öle; oats, standard, 2Gc to 28c; rye. No. 2, 07c to (J9c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $11.50; prairie, $G.OO to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, ISc to 20c; eggs, fresh, 10c to ISc; potatoes, per bushel, 30c to 47c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to S0.00; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $3.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.23: wheat, No. 2, 84c to 83c; corn, No. 2 white, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 2Cc to 2Sc. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $3.90; hogs, $4.00 to $3.00; sheep, $4.00 to $4.90; wheat. No. 2, 84c to S3c: corn. No. 2, 4Sc to 49c; oats. No. 2, 20c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 5Sc to COc. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $4.S3; ho-s. $4.00 to $3.70: sheep, $2.00 to $4.73; wheat, No. 2, S7c to S9c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 54c to 5Gc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 2Sc to SOc; rye, No. 2, COc to 70c. Detroit Cattle, $4.50 to $5.00; hosrs, $4.00 to $3.43; sheep, $2.50 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2, 83c to S4c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 53c to 57c; oats, No. 3 white, 2Sc to COc; rye, No. 2, 07c to OSc. Milwaukee Wheat No. 2 northern. Sic to 83c; corn. No. 3, 52c to 53c; oats, standard, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 1, CSc to C9c; barley. No. 2, 52c to 54c; pork, mess, $15.00. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.S3; hogs, fair to choice, $4.C0 to $3.75; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $3.23; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.33. ' New York Cattle, $4.00 to S5.40;" hogs, $4.00 to $3.90, sheep, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2 red. SOc to SSc: corn, No. 2, 57c to 59c; oats, natural, white, C2c to 23c: butter, creamery, 19s to 21c; eggs, western; 20c to 23c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, S3c to SOc; corn. No. 2 mixed. 51c to 53c; oats, No, 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 2, 54c to C2c; clover seed, prime, $7.5 Short Personal. Sousa, the American bandmaster, detests 8peechmaking. Caruso, the celebrated Italian tenor, is the son of a Naples engineer. The late Ensign Worth Bagley, who Tas killed at Cardenas, Cuba, is to have a monument erected to his memory at Raleigh, N. C. , Victor Herbert has just finished an opera entitled, "Dolly Dollars," and is at work on two otkers, one for Fritzi Scheff. - Dr. Gion Shimose, Inventer of the explosive bearing his name, was born ia the province of Hiroshima forty-seven years ago. Anthony Hope, the British novelist and playwright, was educated for the law, but, says he turned to writing in self-defeuse. CoL James R. Randall, the wellknown Southern author and veteran journalist, has accepted the editorship of the' Morning Star, a New Orleans Catholic paper.

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BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Onr Neighbors Are PointMatters of General and Local Inter est Marriages and Deaths Accl dents and Crime;; Personal Pointers About Iudianians. Brief State Items. The 2-year-old chiid of L. S. Page, near North Salem w as run over and fatally hurt. The home of M. Montgomery at Walkersville was destroyed by lire. Loss $1,500 with $000 insurance. The 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cassel, who reside near Dundee, was suffocated by natural Ras. As the result of a recent visit of State Food Inspector Bristol several dairymen of Terre llautc will be prosecuted. The jury in the case of Jesse Dowen, indicted for killing Albert B3-ers, marshal of Diamond, returned a verdict of acquittal. Mrs. Jeptha Staton of Kentland, fell from a hammock receiving injuries that developed into lockjaw, causing her death. She was 30 years old. James S. Mackey, aged S3, of Logansport, freight train conductor on the Pennsylvania railroad, fell between two cars at Red Key and was killed. Will Raymer of Peru, sold $100 worth of new furniture he had ler.sed for $30 to a secondhand dealer and was landed in jail on a charge of grand larceny. In the suit of Mrs. Fanny Powell of Indianapolis, against the city of Portland, demanding damages for alleged injuries sustained on a defecthe sidewalk, the jury returned a verdict ir. favor of the city. The stock and feed barn owned by Benjamin F. Davis of North Salem, on his farm near that city, was consumed by fire, originating from an unknown cause. The loss exceeds $3,000, with $2,500 insurance. A 5-year-old son of Rev. J. I. Slater of Lebanon died as a result cf terrible injuries inflicted by an infuriated sow. His right arm waf broken in two places, his breast crusfied and one :usk penetrated the brain. A postal money order for $1.12. secured at Jefferson vi lie and made payable to John Moore of New Albany, wis raised to $00.12, and was passed on Ü. V. Bishop, proprietor of the St. Charles Hotel at New Albany. Moore cannot be fund. One of the best oil wells crer developed in Hamilton county was drired in recently on James's Morton's farm, near Hortouville. Land in that vicinty 1 on a boom on account of the discovery, and other vell3 will be put down as fa'st as the work can be done. Frank Grimmer, 33 years old, of Miller's Station, and L. V. Nicholson, aged 40, of Lake Station, are dead as tic result of an explosion at the Aetna Powder and Glycerine works at Miller's Station. Both men were blown into fragments. How the explosion occurred is unknown. Two wholesale liquor heuses belonging to Andrew Evans, of the tc wn of Win slow, eight miles from Petersburg, were fired by incendiaries and burned to the ground. Bitter feeling exists between members of the Good Citizen's league and the liquor element, and further trouble is expected. Clayton McLane, 18 years old, awaiting trial ai Brazil for larceny, suddenly be käme violently insane, and attacked Amos Stamper, a fellow prisoner. He also destroyed his clothing and committed other excesses until he was overpowered. He will be removed to the Central Indiana Insane Hospital at Indianapolis. One of the old-time gusher oil wells was brought in by King & JUsel of Lima, 0., on the Pittenger lease, north of Muncie, which pumped 20 barrels the first twelve hours and 400 the first twenty-four. It is believed to be good for a settled production of 100 barrels a day or more. Other wells on the same lease; and on adjoining farms are to be drilled in at once. Ora Williamson, a merchant of Red Key, was arrested charged with assault and battery with intent to commit murder. He is charged under the grand jury indictment with having fired the shot which struck Timothy Murphy during the crossing war last month in which Wm. Purdy was killed. Murphy is the foreman of a section on the Pennsylvania railroad and lives at Logansport. Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Rosenthal and City Clerk Hickok and wife of Muncie, while enroute to North Manchester in an automobile, were thrown into a ditch by the wheels slipping on a muddy surface and Mrs. Hickok suffered a broken rib, Mrs. Rosenthal was hurt internally, and Mr. Rosenthal was badly bruised. Mr. nickok escaped unhurt. Mr. Rosenthal was acting as chauffeur. Bert Larkins of South Bend, a motorman for the Indiana Railway Company, w as caught between a passenger car and the baggage car on the trolley road at Ilishawaka and rolled between the two coaches until he became unconscious. Larkins had been standing at the side door of the baggage car when a west-bound car struck him. His spine is hurt and he suffered internal injuries which are expected to prove fatal. The boldi'st day light robbery which has ever occurr! in Yincennes happened the otherday when Joseph Green veil, a fanner living near Oaktown, was knocked unconscious by a man who rifled his pockets, obtained about $35 and then placed Green well's unconscious form across the B. & O. railway tracks. The robbery occurred near the union station, and had it not been for the assistance of several women, who witnessed the work of the assailant, Greenwell wouldhave been ground to pin:es under the wheels of a passenger train which was fast approaching. Mrs. Susie Johnson, widow, and sister-in-law of ex-Sheriff Iraylor of Jasper, was found dead in a cistern at her home. It Is not known whether her death was from foul play, accident or suicide. Augustus Kraner, a farmer near New Corydon,has taken the risk in the development of his farm for oil that is usually left to the professional oil operator. As a result he has an oil income of nearly $000 a month. On top of this he now has a new -ell that is making eighty-five barrels oi aday. nisl60-acre farm will be de.doped by drilling one well to every seven - ves. William G, Lamm&r of Piinceton was instantly killed at Haubstadt, while makhis first trip as a brakeman on the Evansyille & Terre Haute railway. He attempted to leap from the pilot and fell underneath the engine and was grcund to pieces. Gecrge Stratner, a farmer, while returning to his home six miles west of Petersburg, with a big roller which he had purchased, fell under the roller. He was terribly mangled nd was taken home in an unconscious condition. At the time of the accident he had a three-year-old baby in his arms, but by the merest, chance the baby was throw out of harm's way and uninjured.