Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 21 December 1905 — Page 2

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XL, Q. 0 N. M. T F. Q.F. M VJ lth sy25tb, ) 3rd. 2 11th. FEATURES OF INTEREST QONCERNIN3 PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD. Conrts and Crimes Accidents and Fires Labor- and Capital Grain 8tock and Money Market. Four Dead in Theatre Fire. Four lives were lost in a fire which destroyed the Verbick theatre at Lorain, Ohio. The dead: James Dwyer, aged 28, Mrs.Williani Marsh, aged 24, and two caildren. The Marsh family had apartments in the front of the building. William Marsh was stage manager of the theatre. Dwyer, an employe of the theatre, stept in the basement, where the fire originated, from which escape was cutoff. Mrs. Marsh and her children were suffocated by the smoke which poured up the narrow stairway. The loss on the theatre, which was comparatively a new one, i3 $35,000. The loss on the entire building is $50,003. The theatre was owned by the Verbick Amusement Company of Oil City, Pa. Five Killed in Explosion. Five men were killed by ?n explosion at the Dupont company's dynamite works at Marquette, Mich. About 1,400 pounds of nitro-glycerine exploded in the mixing bouse of the compary's factory, which is three miles distant from Marquette. The explosion badly damaged the plant and caused much excitement In Marquette. The dead are all workmen employed by the Dupont company. The men were blown into shreds. Of the thirty buildings "in the plant, few escaped damage and some were badly wrecked. In Marquette windo a s all over town were smashed and in the business district much plate glass was splintered. Fonr Million Dollar Internrban Deal. The Indiana Railway Company, owning and operating interurban lines connecting South Bend, Mishawaka, Goshen and Elkhart, was merged with the South Bend, Laporte and Michigan City Railway Company, owning and operating an interurban line connecting a road between South Bend and Laporte. The companies merge under the name of the Northern Indiana Railway Company. The capital stock is $4,000,000. Spotted FeTfr at Naval Academy. Five cases of illness which have been diagnosed as spotted fever have appeared at the United States training station at Newport, R. I. As there are about 1,500 boys there, this is viewed with concern. One of the patients, George Henry Cradock,who gave his residence as Minnesota, but who enlisted at Brooklyn, is dead. The patients aw isolated on board the Heina 3Iercedes, formerly a Spanish cruiser. Farmer Slain and Bobbed. The body of Joseph Luzy, a wealthy farmer living two and one-half miles south of Milton, Ind., was found in a bedroom of his home with a large gash on the side of the head and the skull badly crushed. lie had about $400 on his person and robbery Is thought to have been the motive for the crime, as no money was found on the body. There is no clue to the murderer. $7,500,000 Needed for African War. A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, says: In the Reichstag, Baron Von Stengel, secretary of the imperial treasury, said the government had asked for a supplementary appropriation of $7,500,000 for the Afncan wars. Among the purchases which the government had been obliged to make during the parlimentsry rectss was 1,000 camels. Otto Cook Sentenced. Bluffton (Ind.) special: The jury in the ease of Otto Cook, charged with complicity in the murder of Preston Sanderson, reached a verdict, finding the defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter and he will serve from two to twenty-one years in prison. A motion for a new trial was mad'; and will be heard December 28. Whole Family Burned to Death. Peter Martell, his wife and three children, were burned to death in a fire of unknown origin in their home at Red Lake Fall", Minn. The position of the bodies indicates Martelle took all three children to the kitchen, then went back for his wife and the flcor gave way. Barton Hall Damaged. A dispatch from Constantinople says: Barton hall, the American college for girls in the suburb of Scutaria, was partly de stroyed by fire. . The students, including a number of boarders, were in bed when the 2 am es were discovered. All the in mates were rescued. Three Boy Drowned at Toledo. Thin ice on the Maumee river at Toledo, Ohio, was the cause of the death of three boys who were skating. Tho drowned boys are: Melvin Kraft, aged 1L, Frank Klauser, aged 9, Charles Harris, aged o. Aged Woman Fatally Burned. While building a fire in the kitchen stove, Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, 83 years old, of I.afavette. Ind., was fatally burned. Her clothing caught fire from the kindling wood. - $200,000 Blaze in New York. The larsre Cooper building. Bedford av enue and Fulton street, Brooklyn, N. Y.t together with the Windsor cafe and a row of dwelling houses were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at John Shoemaker Dead. John Shoemaker, who was for many

years one of the most prominent figures of the civic list of Indianapolis and of the gtate of Indiana, died at his home in Indianapolis after an illness of almost four weeks. Mr. Shoemaker was nearly eighty jeaxs old. El U Skirts TVot m Necessity Silk skirts are not a necessity for trires. and husbands cannot be compelled to pay for them. Judge Gates ruled in 8 suit in the Circuit Court In Kansas City The suit was brought bout by Carleton King's refusal to pay a bill of $16.50 for a silk skirt purchased ty his wife. Fire Earns Entire nioclc. Oae whole block of the business port:aa of Solway, Minn., was destroyed by fire. On account of a strong south Triad the city's fire department was uncllt to gain control of the fire. The tatal lo I 50,000. .

JOHANN HOCH TO DIB. Death Sentence Imposed on Wife SInrderer Upheld. The gallows once more confronts Johann Hoch, convicted wife murderer and accused of having innumerable wives. The Illinois Supreme Court at Springfield handed down its decision upholding the judgment of the Criminal Court in Chicago, which sentenced Hoch . to hang for the murder of Mrs. Marie Welker Hoch. Unless his lawyers manage to secure another delay, which is declared unlikely,' Hoch will be hanged Feb. 23. The prisoner, who once before was ready for the inarch to the gallows, received the news calmly. Hoch's career, in aud out of court, has been a spectacular one Last summer he came as near to being hanged and yet escaped the gallows as any man in the criminal history of Illinois. After a long trial he was convicted of killing his next to last wife, and sentenced to be executed June 23. Gov. Deneen was appealed to, and on the representation that funds would be secured to carry the case to the Supreme Court a respite wes. granted until July 28. Plotke's attempts to secure funds, however, proved futile, and going to the jail the night of July 27 he bade Hoch goodly, seeing no hope to save the prisoner. It looked as if the prisoner could not escape the gallows, and that night he was placed in the death chamber. The case reached a dramatic climax the next morning Hoch was to hang at noon when A. II. Thompson, a lawyer, rushed into the jail and volunteered to contribute $500. At the moment Hoch wis in the death chamber, and the gallows had been tested. Hurried telephone communication with Gov. Deneen followed, with the result that another respite was granted until Aug. 25, and Hoch was giveu a new lease of life.- Soon afterward he engaged J. J. Neiger and Frank Comerford to act as his counsel. About 9700 was collected by Hoch aud his friends, and night and day his lawyers worked in preparing a record of the case for the Supreme Court. This was accomplished, but as this decision proves, it was in vain. The Hoch case attracted notice all over the country. Accused first of having two wives, the number grew until nearly every State in the Union boasted of a "Mrs. Hoch."

MEniWETHER SENTENCED. Cadet Confined to Academy for One Year with Public Reprimand. Midshipman Minor Meriwether, Jr., who was tried by court-martial for causing the death of Midshipman Branch, has been sentenced to confinement to the limits of the naval academy at Annapolis for a period of one year and to be publicly reprimanded by the Secretary of the Navy. Secretary Bonaparte has ordered that the sentence be carried out, but that so much of the penalty as would debar the accused from serving on any practice ship attached to the academy be remitted. Representative Broussard, of Louisiana, who had a conference with the Secretary regarding the case, after reading the findings announced that he was entirely satisfied with them. Midshipman Meriwether was acquitted of the charge of manslaughter and found guilty of the other two charges namely, violation of the third clause of the eighth article for the government of the navy which prohibits midshipmen from engaging In fisticufls and conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline. MAN'S DEATH MAY DE SHAM. Beckwith, Indicted for Chadwick Frauds, Reported Alive. Is Charles T. Beckwith, president of the Citizens National bank of Oberlin, Ohio, alive in Canada? According to a report he was seen there several days ago. Beckwith was supposed to have died at his home last March and his friends claim that his body lies in Westwood cemetery in Oberlin. He was caught by Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, his bank wrecked and he was ruined financially, breaking down in health as soon as the facts became known. The secrecy surrounding his illness, death and burial, when everybody except relatives was denied admittance to the Beckwith house, tends to confirm 'the report. Six Children Burned to Death. ' While C. P. Lester, L. P. Meyer and Arnold Webb, with their wives, were attending the theater in Galveston the Lester home was destroyed by fire anu the six children of the three couples, who had been left there in charge of a maid, were burned to death. Mrs. Lester was perhaps fatally iujured in attempting to save her child. All the children were under 4 years of age. Indict the Chlcnjro and Alton. The federal grand jury in Chicago returned indictments against the Chicago Sc Alton Railway Company, John N. Faithorn, former vice president, and J. A. Wann, former general freight agent, for granting rebates to Schwarzschild & Sulzberger, and giving free transportation to employes of . the same company. Fatal Fire In Llndaey, Pa. Six children were burned to death at Lindsey, near Punxsutawney, Fa., and William Morgan and wife, tho parents, with their two remaining children barely escaped with their lives. Both the father and mother were badly burned in attempts la save their little ones from their burning home. Cock ran In Fiery Speech. W. Bourke Cockran, in a speech before the House of Representatives, flayed the officials of the big insurance companies and said he is appalled 'that their confessions have not landed them behind the bars. lie declared it is im possible to put the possessor of $10,000, 000 in any jail. Indicted by Federal Grand Jury. Fourteen indictments were returned by the Federal grand jury at Kansas City against packing companies, rail roads and individuals who are accused of violating the interstate commerce law and the Elkins amendment in re gard to, giving and accepting rebates. More Annapoll Hasina:. Jerdone P. Kimbrough, a midshipman at AnnaDolis. was hazed by a party of his fellows until he fainted. Two of the culprits have been suspended and face dismissal. The practice, once abolished, is said to be in full swing again. Governor Loses Only Shoes. The shoes of Gov. Johnson of Minne sota were stolen from under his berth on a sleeping car as his train was approaching Spokane, Wash. The weather was very cold and he was forced to remain in his stocking feet for several hours. , Set Up Nevr Government. Peasants in Livonia have set up a new government independent of the Czar, proclaimed a separate state and confis cated land, killing or expelling land owners. Lieut. Darbaak Convicted. Confidential information has been re ceived at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., that First Lieut. Sidney 8. Barbank, Sixth

infantry, was found guilty by a court martial of deserting his Filipino wife, denying his marriage, embezzlement of company funds iurrusted to his care, and of forgery. He is under sentence of dismissal from the army and fifteen months' imprisonment. TOBACCO WORKS BLOWN UP. "Hill Blllle' of Kentucky Charged with Destroying Factory. The tobacco factory owned by Mrs. M. B. Penyck and operated for the tobacco trust by the American Snuff Company was blown up by dynamite in Elkton, Ky. There was no loss of life, but the factory was destroyed. There was no insurance on the plant, as the insurance company a few days ago canceled the policy owing to the excitement caused in that locality by the tactics of some of the members of the Dark Tobacco Growers' Association. The force of the explosion was felt for a long distance. Several houses and the depot were damaged. The deed is thought to have been committed by parties friendly to the Dark Tobacco Association, but the latter has severely condemned such actions. A few days ago the representative of the American Tobacco Company at Elkton received notice not to receive any more tobacco from people favoring the trust, but he paid no attention to it. For a long time the Dark Tobacco Growers' Association lias opposed an element in its organization known as the "Hill Billies," whose depredations while nightridins have caused muc.i uneasiness in the district, where nearly all the dark tobacco grown in the world is raised. The head of the Dark Tobacco Association is F. G. Ewing of Nashville, Teun. It is lea rued that a tobacco factory at Trenton, Ky., was burned several night ago. The fire is thought to have been the work of incendiaries.

GOOSEBOXR SAYS MILD WINTER. Prnnrlvnnla Monofrenarlnn Prophenlea of Weather to Come. Elias Hart, of Reading, Fa., aged 02, the goosebone weather prophet, helped to eat his first goose of the seasou the other day. Looking at the breast bone after it was dried, Mr. Hartz saw very little of the usual purple coloring and at once declared emphatically that the coming, winter would be very mild. Along about the holidays, or during the early part of January, a sharp drop in the temperature is indicated, but it will not last more than a few days. The remainder of that month will be mild. About the first of February severe cold weather with plenty of snow, and probably a blizznrd, may be expected. Real winther weither is predicted for that month and it may extend into March. The bone is perfectly clear until the middle of winter, when a dark spot is si own. Then it again clears aud remains so until the closing mouth of the winter. HEAVY LOSSES ON LAKES. Amount In Over 5,250,000 and Infi urn nee Men Are Hard Hit. Seventy-nine vessels on the great lakes have been destroyed by storm or fire during the season just closed. The total loss to shipping is estimated at $4.25,000, while the loss to cargoes has been $750,000. These figures are. staggering to marine insurance men, and they are talking of higher rates for next season. The total number of casualties reported during the year was 740. Last year's list comprised 430. Of the vessels lost or dai.iaged, 317 went ashore, 137 were in coi'lslon, 232 were disabled and leak ing, 21 foundered and 33 were destroyed by fire. KANSAS BREAKS CROP RECORD. Value of Year'-. Wheat, Corn and Live Stock I f 400,000,000. The com and wheat crops of Kansas lave broken all records in values. Official figures from Secretary Coburn show the total yield of wheat to be over 77,000,000 bushels and of corn to be nearly 191,000,000 bushels. The total value of this year's wheat, corn and live stock is $400,000,000, the nearest approach to this being in 1903, when the amount aggregated $3S7,500,000. The State is richer in live stock than ever before. The year's aggregate value of farm pro ducts and live stock is sufficient, if equaly divided among the State's inhabitants. to give each adult and infant $204. BulldlnK Wrecked In Lorain, Ohio. Because the master plumbers declared for an open shop in Lorain, Ohio, three buildings vrere wrecked at midnight and J. W. Selser, a carpenter who indorsed the action of the employing plumbers, was murderously assaulted. The Steve Majesse block, which was nearly completed; the John RosenfeM block and the Dobos blocU were wrecked. Four Break Through Ice. Four school children were drowned while skating on Iv Hogg's pond in Amsterdam, N. Y. A i . y of ten boys and girls were skating ' a circle 200 feet from shore when the eader, a girl, broke through the ice. Before the children who were following her could check their speed all plunged into the water. All but four of the children were rescued. Seven Injured In a Fire. Seven persons were injured and six firemen were overcome by smoke and acid fumes during a fire resulting from an explosion of peroxide of hydrogen in the factory of Henry K. Wampole & Co. in Philadelphia. Emma Itose, aged 10 years, an employe, was probably fatally burned. Child Heroine Saves Sister. When flames from n bonfire ignited the dress tf 5-year-old Rosie Szafranski, in Chicago, her sister, Stella, 8 years old, beat out the blaze with her hands, which were badly burned. The younger girl was taken to Provident Hospital, where it is said her injuries, although serious, may not prove fatal. Ready for Another Rattle. Thomas W. Lawson, in a notice those participating in his bear nool to in copper stocks, admits a loss of 30 per cent, due to the recent rise, but refuses to abandon his tight ami puts in all h personal fortune, $11,000.000, for a; other attack on the "system." Lightship Crew Is Saved. The lishthouse tender Azalea arrival at New Bedford, Mass., with the crew of the Nantucket south shoal liehtshin The lightship foundered eighteen miles west of its station, while in tow of the tender. Rack Draft Kllla a Man. Daniel Kelly was fatally burned half a dozen other workmen seriously . i j ii , . . injurea m me uuiier room oi me liaison Power Company's plant in New Yr.rir The men are supposed to have been, the victims of a back draft Dridrgroom la Kidnaped. 'A son of President Zelaya of Nicara gua was kidnaped on the eve of his marriage to a Washington 'young wotasu and sent under guard to his father in Central America.

CHRONOLOGY OF 1905.1

BRIEF RECORD OF YEAR'S PRINCIPAL EVENTS. Internal Disturbances In Russia and Independence in Norway Close of the War In the East Many Great Nantes In List of Dead. Most significant of the events of 1905, because it Indicates unmistakably the Inexorable advance of mankind toward high ideals of liberty, justice and perfect civilization, Is the political and economic upheaval now taking place ia Russia. Wearying under a load of taxation, ren dered well-nigh unbearable by added burdens Imposed by the prosecution of a disastrous war, the peasantry and common people started a revolt against the tyrannical aristocracy, and have been able to force from their unwilling ruler many con cessions tending toward a free citizen ship. Massacre and rapine, in which the Jews were the chief sufferers, are part of the price pay for the advan tage gained. Another impressive proof of civilization's advance is the blood less revolution by which Norway has dissolved its political connection with Sweden and seated a king upon its long unusued throne. The recent ex posures of graft and fraud in high financial circles and last summer's labor troubles in Chicago are only inci dents of the constant conflict being waged for the establishment of justice and fair treatment between man and man. The Russo-Japanese war, after a brilliant series of land campaigns, during which one after another of the strongholds of the Russians in Man churia fell Into the hands of their op ponents, end a decisive battle on the Sea of Japan, that is said to have been one of the greatest naval contests of all history, has been brought to a close, and largely, we believe, by American influence. The completion of the great Simplon tunnel was the accomplishment of another great engineering feat, and the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Port land, Ore., presented to the world a record of achievement in all lines. Great disasters have been fewer than usual, though tornadoes In Oklahoma and Kansas destroyed more than five hundred lives, and earth quakes, fire and railway wrecks have done their dread work. The year's list of famous dead con tains the names of many men and women noted in the arts, statecraft, philanthropy and business. The principal events of 1005 are briefly summarized below: January. 2 Surrender of Tort Arthur. 5 Towboat Defender blown op on Ohio River: 20 lives lost. 4 Death of Theodore Thomas, orchestra leader, r 5 Admiral RoJestvenskv's flacshln Knlaz Souvaroff sunk off Madagascar. a Death of Louise Michel. French an archist. 13 Combes ministry In France resigns. 16 Secretary Hay advises China to re main neutral.. ..Earthquake at Shemakha, Ilassla, buries hundreds of people. 18 Ead of textile strike In Fall River, Ma rs. 19 Attempt to assassinate Czar and Rus sian royal family. 22 Massacre of worklngmen by Czar's troops In St. Petersburg. -i Revolt spreads through Russian cities. 23 Liberals defeated In Ontario ceneral elections.... Czar issues proclamation prom ising rerornis. 20 Kouropatkln's army driven back from Sandepas by Gen. Oku's forces. 30 Czar signs document granting great reforms to Russian people. February. 1-2 Extreme cold wave sweeps NortHern States and Canada. Glendive, Mont., has temperature of 54 degrees below tero. 7 Death of Joseph II. Man!ey of Maine. I... Senate passes Statehood bill. 8 Roosevelt and Fairbanks declared elected after count of electoral votes in Con gress. y House passes Townsend-Escb railway rate bill. 10 Death of Hon. Chas. n. Ilactley of Muskegon, Mich. 13 Severest cold wave of winter. 15 Death of Gen. Lew Wallace. 1 Death of Jay Cooke, noted financier. 17 Grand Dnke Sergius killed by bomb In Moscow. .. .Frances Willard statre dedicated in Statuary Hall, Washington. 20 Explosion in Virginia City coal mines, near Bessemer, Ala., entombs 132 inlnero. ....Fire destroys piers and ships at Charlestown, Mass. 24 Borlnff of Simplon tunnel under the Alps Is finished. 25 $1.000.000 fire in Hot Springs, Ark. ....North Sea Commission announes decision against Russia. 26 Illinois Centrtl terminals In ftew Orleans burn with loss of $0,000.000. .. .Thirtyfive miners killed by explosion at Wllcoe, W. Vs. 27 Death of Geo. S. Boutwell of Massachusetts.... Judge Swayne of Florida acquitted by United States Senate.... Eleven persons killed by collapse of church floor In Brooklyn, N. Y. 28 Death of Mrs. Leland Stanford Id Honolulu. March. 3 Czar of Russia slgDs rescript giving, people a right to representation la lawmaking body.... Thirty persons killed "st wreck of Inauguration special trains near Pittsburg. 4 Roosevelt Is Inaugurated.... Ead of 53th Congress.... Will J. Davis and two .Ihers indicted as responsible for Iroquois tire. ...Chas. Thomas found guilty of Mab;l Scofleld murder. 7 Big traction strike begins In New York. 8 Japanse win battle of Mukden, after eighteen days' fighting. 10 Mukden captured by Japanese. 11 Mrs. Chadwick convicted of conspiracy In Cleveland. 14 Nineteen lives lost in New York tenement house fire. 17 Death of Gen. Joseph R. Ilawley of Connecticut. 18- 1J Twenty-four miners kllld by expliplon In mines near Thurmond W. Va. U) Explosion and fire In Brockton. Mass., shie factory causes 103 deaths. ;4Death of Jules Verne. April. ' i President Roosevelt leaves Washington on vacation trip. ...Explosion In Leiter mines at Zelgler. III., kills thlrty-flve men. ....Russian artillery depot In Harbin blown up and seventy-five men killed. This Funny World. "A man doesn't really get any sense until he Is 40 yeara of age." 'Wliat'3 the application?" "And then no business house seems to eare to employ liim." Philadelphia Bulletin. Gettlnor A Ion r. "fs see; Willyums was married a little over a year ago, wasn't he? How doew he and his wife get along?" "iiplendid." "That's good." "Yes, they're divorced now." Would Cover It. "Lovely sleeping nytnph," isn't It?" Te-es." "Do you notice the glamour the artist Las thrown over It?" "So, I . don't. But If it was mine I T?vUld throw a horse blanket over it."

K Earthquakes In India devastate wide range of country and destroy hundreds of lives. C Chicago teamsters strike la' sympathy with garment workers. 8 Collapse of water reservoir nt Madrid kills or injures 400 persous. .. .Battleship Minnesota launched. 16 Hard frost damages early fruit and garden truck in Central and Southern States. 17 Four boys killed in panic In Indianapolis Masonic Temple. 20 Thirteen lives lost In burning of convent In St. Genevieve, Quebec. 2:i Death of Josenh Jefferson. 24 Frank G. Bigelow, president of Milwaukee First National Bank, acknowledges himself a defaulter for $1.500,000 of bank's funds. ...Teamsters' strike x Chicago supposed to be ended.... Earthquakes near Bombay, India, kill fifty persous. 23 Chicago teamsters' strike on again. 28 Death of Gen. Fltzhugh Lee.... Rioting In Chicago. ...Tornado at Laredo, Tex., kills sixteen persons. 30 Thirteen miners killed by explosion near Wilburton, Ok. May. 1 One hundred persons killed in disturbances in Poland. 2- 4 Serious strike riots in streets of Chicago. G--Pat Crowe gives himself up to authorities In Omaha, but disappears later. 9 Tornado destroys thirty-five lives and much property in Marquette, Kan. 10 President Roosevelt entertained In Chicago Tornado in Oklahoma kills 500 persons. 11 Fifty persons killed and 100 Injured In railway accident at South Uarrisburg, Pa. 12 Nan Tatterson released in New York. 14 Death of Jessie Bartlett Davis. 16 Northern and Southern Baptists meet In Joint convention In St. Louis. .. .Czar issues rescript prantins sweeping reforms In Poland and Baltic provinces. 21 Death of Judge Albion W. Tourgee in Bordeaux, France. 23 Death of Mrs. Mary A. LIvermore. 26 Death of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild. 27 Russian Baltic fleet tinder Rojestvensky defeated in great battle in Korean Straits by Japanese under Tor. 28 American yacht Atlantic wins Kaiser's cup In trans-Atlantic race. 29 Death of former Premier Francisco Sllvela In Madrid, Spain. 30 Bomb thrown at carriage of King Alphonso of Spain and President Loubet of France In Paris June. 1 Opening of Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland. Oregon. .. .Earthquake in Montenegro.... Two hundred drown in overflow of reservoirs at Prlncetown, Natal. 2 Japan shaken by earthquakes. 6 Crown Prince Frederic William of Germany weds Princess Cedle of Mecklenburgschwerin Norway declares her independ

ence or Sweden. 9 President Roosevelt arranges for peace negotiations between Japan and Risla. 13 Theodor Delyanuls, Grecian premier, fatally stabbed by gambler. 15 Marriage of Prince Gastavus Adolphus of Sweden and Princess Margaret of Connangbt. 17 Death of Cuban leader. Gen. Maximo Gomez. 23 Death of Jndge Stephen Neal, author of Hth amendment, in Lebanon, InL.... Bloodv strike battles In Lodz. Poland. 25 $750,OUO fire lu retail district of Nashville. 28 Great mutiny and rioting at Odessa, Russia. July. 1 Death of John Hay. Secretary of State Paul Morton Is succeded as Secretary of the Navv bv Charles J. Bonaparte. 2 Cloudburst In Guanajuato, Mexico, destroys l.OUO lives. 5 Tornado in North Texas. C Elihu Root appointed Secretary of State to succeed the late John Hay. 11 Fire damp explosion In Welsh colliery kills 12G miners. 16 Deatn of Gen. W. W. Blackmar, G. A. li. National Commander. 20 Strike of Chicago teamsters Is ended. 21 Boiler explosion on I. S. S. Bennington in San Diego harbor kills thirty-seven and injures ninety-seven others. 23 Death of Daniel S. Lamont. 24 Bones of John Paul Jones placed In vault la Annapolis. 25 Yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans. Aasnit, 8 Collapse of 6tore in Albany, N. Y., kills twelve persons. 9 Russian and Japanese peace commissioners meet at Portsmouth, N. H. 10 Fiala-Zelgler expedition, rescued by the steamer Terra Nova, reaches Honningsvaag, Norway. 13 Referendum in Norway favors separation. , 16 Reciprocity convention in Chicago. 17 Fifty passengers drown when excursion train runs into open draw near Norfolk Va. 21 Earthquake felt In Illinois. Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee.... Death of Mary Mapes Dodge. 20 Russian and Japanese envoys agree upon terms of peace. September. lAlberta becomes new State of Canada. 2 Five million-dollar fire In Adrlanople, Turkey. 4 Death of nezeklah Butterworth, historian. , . 5 Treaty of peace between Russia ana Japan signed in Portsmouth, N. II Peace riots in Tokio, ...... 8 Earthquake In Southern Italy destroys 400 lives aud twenty villages. 0 Rand powder factory. Falrchance, Pa., explodes, destroying thirty Uvea. 11 Mlkasa. Admiral Togo's flagship, burns and 5Ü9 lives are lost. 14 Death of Patrick Collins, Mayor of Boston. 15 Death of George McDonald, novelist. 24 Great fire in Butte, Mont. 26 Manila swept ,by typhoon. October. 4 Six hundred thousand-dollar flre in Rhlnefander. Wis. 13 Norwegian treaty adopted by Swedish Parliament.... Death of Sir Henry Irving. 14Close of Lewis and Clark Exposition In Portland. Ore Treaty between Russia and Japan signed by Czar and Mikado. 17Katal tornado at Sorento, ni. 19.20 Storm on Great Lakes destroys shipping and costs several lives. 23 Death of Congressman Jerry Simpson of Kansas. SO Czar grants representative govern ment to uuifi.ins. November, 1 Sweden unfurls her new flag.... Bloody riots in Russian cities. 3 Enormous loss of life In massacres In cities of Sonthern Russia. 4 Czar signs manifesto giving freedom to Finland. 12 Bishop Stephen M. Merrill, prominent Chicago Methodist, dies.... Prince Charles of Denmark chosen King of Norway. 14 People of Isle of Pines declare freedom from soverehnty of Cuba. 18 Torpedo boat sunk in German naval maneuvers and thirty-three men drowned. 19 One hundred lives lost In wreck of steamer Hilda in English Channel.... Thirty-nine men die iu Glasgow lodging house ÜI25 state entry of King Haakon VII. and Queen Mande Into Christiana. 26 Eighteen persons killed and twentyfive Injured In railway wreck near Lincoln, Maw Fleet of allied powers seize TurkUh Island of Mytilene. . 27 Drunken Russian soldiers at Alexandrovsk burn barracks and eighty political prisoners. . , 28 Severe gale canses much damage to property In Great Lakes district. December. 1 Cuban elections a landslide for moderate party. . , . 2 Iron missile thrown through window of President Roosevelt's special train in Philadelphia. 4 Fifty-ninth Congress meets.... Wisconsin Legislatu-e meets In special session.... Bilfour ministry In England resigns. 6 Lieut. Geu. Sakha roll slain by woman in province of Saratoff, Russia. 8 Mrs. Mary M. Rogers banged Id Windsor, Vt. 11 Death of Edward Atkinson, political economist. Odds and Ends An atom of matter Is probably a crystal of electricity. The total commerce of Abyssinia Is about $0,3000,000 a year. National bsnk notes are one-sixth of the money in circulation. Japanese and Germans have the same average brain weight. New Orleans and Galveston now export more wheat than New York. The birth rate In Berlin declined from 4C per 1,000 In 18TC to 27 In 1902. A shell from a 12-inch jrun makes its flight of nine iriiles in forty-two seconds. The banking capital of New York City has been donblcd .within five years. More than $10,000,000 worth cf sporting goods were sold in the United States last year.

Spirited debate was occasioned in the Senate by the introduction of a bill by Mr. Tillman authorizing the interstate commerce commission to fix maximum rates. Mr. Foraker declared that the bill proved that its author believed the present law sufficient to correct all transportation evils except excessive rates. Mr. Tillman responded that he had thought the present laws adequate until the investigation begun by Judsou and Harmon into the Santa Fe case had ended in a miserable fiasco. The Panama Canal emergency appropriation bill was received from the House, and after considerable discussion, during which the high salaries paid employes was criticised, it was referred to the Appropriation Committee by a vote of 40 to 23. The death of the late Senator Mitchell of Oregon was not mentioned during the session and the erasure of his name from the rolls follows. Announcement of committees was made in the House. A resolution was passed slightly increasing the membership in several important committees, owing to the fact that the membership of the House has grown from 350 to SSG. Mr. Lamar (Fla.), a Democrat, who with Mr. Shackleford (Mo.) had been left off the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, was stopped from voicing open criticism of Mr. Williams, the minority leader, only by the latter's strong objection. Mr. Sulzer (N. Y.) introduced a resolution of sympathy for the Russian Jews. The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill authorizing the Rock Island, Arkansas and Louisville railroad to construct bridges across the Oaachita and otiier streams in Arkansas. In the Senate Wednesday Mr. Allison presented the report of the committee on appropriations on the Panama canal bill, giving notice that he would call it up for consideration Thursday. A communication from Secretary Shaw saying that only a few small campaign contributions had been made by national banks was read. A controversy over committee appointments in which Mr. Lamar (Fla.) and Mr. Shackleford (Mo.) bitterly attacked Mr. Williams (Miss.) took up nearly all the time in the House. The subject under discussion was the committee distribution of the annual message of the President, which was not completed when the House adjourned. The Senate Thursday discussed the Panama canal emergency appropriation bill, but did not come to a vote. A separate bill regulating the issuance of bonds for the canal and placing tlieni on the same basis as other government bonds was passed without debate. A pure-food bill was reported by Mr. Heyburn. Mr. Elkins made a statement from the committee on interstate commerce expressing the opinion that the committee would report a rate bill within a reasonable time. Debate on the recommendation in the President's annual message regarding insurance regulation occupied the House again without a conclusion. The pending resolution refers the question to the ways and means committee, and in its defense Mr. Payne argued that the only way Congress could control insurance was through the taxing power. After a number of long speeches the House adjourned. The Senate Friday adopted a resolution of Mr. Stone requesting the Postmaster General for information as to whether college periodicals are admitted to the mails as second-class matter and whether a preference is shown some such periodicals over other similar publications. Mr. Gallinger reported the merchant marine bill. The Panama Canal bill was laid before the Senate and Mr. Bacon presented an amendment requiring quarterly reports giving lists of officers and employes of the commission above the grades of laborer and the sal: aries paid them. After debate by Messrs. Tillman. Spooner, Money, Hale, Culberson and Allison an ngrement . for a vote was reached and the Senate adjourned. The House devoted nearly all of the session to a lively debate on the possibilities of controlling insurance companies. Mr. Sherley (Ky.) stood for the doctrine of States' rights and Mr. Cockran (N. Y.) attacked the officers of the big life insurance companies. A message was sent to the Senate returning its bill regarding canal bonds a a usurpation of the constitutional right of the House to originate revenue legislation. The hazing incidents at Annapolis came up for much criticism. National Capital. Xotea. Speaker before national conference said America treats child toilers same as Russia does. John Sharp Williams, minority leader of the House, prevented washing of Democratic linen anent committee appointments. Negro students at Howard university rebelled against President accused of race prejivlice; riotous scenes marked exercises in chapel. Secretary of War in annual report showed condition of army and recommended addition of 5,000 men to sea coast artillery force. Commissioner General Sargent of immigration bureau said ia annual report that influx of aliens into America is nation's gravest problem. The board of trustees of the Carnegie institute has elected Prof. Welch of Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, a member of the board in place of the late John Hay. Attorney General Moody instructed subordinates whenever possible to prosecute railroad officials and shippers who violate rebate law for conspiracy and send them to jail. Postmaster General Cortelyou, in annual report, called Chicago postoffice notable example of lamentable deficiency in certain essentials; deficit held less important than efficiency. The Philippines tariff committee of the Merchants Association of New York, at the War Department made an argument for a modification of the Philipoine tariff on cotton goods. Events In the West Indies and South America are watched with anxiety by the administration; trouble in Venezuela, Santo Domingo and Brazil. Senator Foraker's bolt of President Roosevelt's rate program and threat to tie up statehood bills is believed to be part of his political policy. A petition from ex-Queen Liliuokalani asking for the payment of $10,000,000 to her has been presented to the Senate by Vice President Fairbanks. Luke E. Wright, Governor of the Philippine Islands, had a conference with the Secretary of War concerninj matters in the archipelago.

Bank exchanges, the measure of trade, usually are expected to reflect Chicago. some growth duri.ig December, but.the total this week Is doubly interesting In that It largely exceeds the corresponding week last year and makes a new high record for this city. This evidence cf progress is not weakened by any present or approaching indication of diminution In activity. Iron and steel production shows unexampled cohesion; ore nevr before was more eagerly secured against future needs, and prices of both raw and finished materials have acquired txceptlonal firmness, notwithstanding th ? rapidity of recent advances. This situation is not surprising when it is considered that the leading producers are away behind their orders and that capacity will be taxed to the limit well into next year. Operations In the distributive branches continue to be of unprecedented volume. The lack of adequate transporting facilities has become a subject of greater, anxiety wiui me close of lake navigation. Bank clearings, S23(Ul,r.27, exceed those of corresponding week In 1001 by 12.7 per cent. Failures reported hi the Chicago district number 31, against 22 last week and 23 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. Holiday trade, begun earlier than usual, promises to break nil records. Nev York. but retail trade in seasonable goods, reflecting the irregular weather, firctuates in volume. The wholesale trade notes a quietness as the stock-taking period approaches, but spring sales continue encouraging. Industries remain active, iron and steel and building in all its branches especially so. In the textile trades activity is still a feature. The recent large advance in cotton and talk of 15 cents for the balance of the crop is a disturbing element in future business. Business failures for the week ending Dec. 7 numbe r 203. against 1SS last wee, 231 in the like week of 11)04, 241 in 100a, 247 in 1002 and 223 in 1001. In Canada failures this week number CI, ag.iinst 25 last week and Z in this week a year ago. P.radstrect's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prim?. $4.00 to $J.25; hogs, prime heavy, $4.(0 to 5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $0.00; wheat. No. 2. SSc to 80c: corn. No. 2, 44c to 40c; oats, standard, 20c i 30c; rye. No. 2. OSc to 00c: hay. timtthy. $8.50 to $13.00; prairie, $0.00 t $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 20c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.25; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $5.05; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, SSc to 00c; corn. No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c. St. Louis Catle, $4.50 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $4.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2, 90c to 03c; corn. No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2, 30c to 32c; rye, No. 2, C7c to CSc. Cincinnati Catti. $4.00 to $4.S5; hogs, $4.00 to $5.10; sheep, $2.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 90e to 92e; corn. No. 2 'mixed, 45c t 4Gc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 5c; rye, No. 2, 70c to 71c. Detroit Cattle. $4.00 to $5.00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, S7c to SOe; corn. No. 3 yellow, 45c to 47c; oats. No. 3 white, 32c to 35c; rye. No. 2, GSc to COc. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern, S4c to 87c; corn. No. 3, 41c to 42c; oats, standard, 30c to 32c; rje. No. 1, COc to 70c; barley. No. 2, 53c to 55c; pork, mess, $13.00. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 87c to SSc; corn. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 4Cc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 2, C7c to COc; clover seed, prime, $8.20. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.15; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.05; Iambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $7.90. New York Cattle. $4.00 to $5.40; hegs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $3.30; wheat. No. 2 red. 00c to 92e: corn, No. 2, 50c to 51c; oats, natural, white, 37c to 38c; butter, creamery, 21c to 24c; eggs, western, 27c to 2Sc Short Personals. Dr. Glennon of St. Louis is the youngest archbishop in the world. He is 42 j-ears of age. Shaban Rey, a leader of the Albanian insurrection against Turkey, has arrived in this country to try to interest the American board of foreign missions in his project for a boys school in Albania. . Mr. Carnegie never smokes. No one dres light a cigarette in Skibo Castle. He does not play cricket, is not devoted ro riding, never followed the hounds in his life, and does not shoot. Railroad magnates are supposed to be hard worked, but they are long lived. James J. Hill 07, Marvin Hughitt Is 04, and E. T. Jeffrey, Roswell Miller aud Thomas Lowry own up to 12. Robert B. Roosevelt, an uncle of President Roosevelt, is going to make an attempt to have the scrub pines of Long Island destroyed and supplant them with more beautiful and useful white pines. William H. Levering of Lafayette, Ind., is said to have the largest, most complete aiid most valuable Sunday school library in the world. Lord Teniplemore, the "father of the House of Lords," sat in that, body for tweuty-eight years before he delivered his maiden speech and his effort consisted of twenty-one words. Admiral Lord Charles Bcresford claims the distinction of being the first European who was allowed, by invitation, to meet personally the Mikado of Japan. The meeting took place iu 1SCS. The Duke of Abruzzi is reported to ba organizing an expedition to explore ceatral Africa.