Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 15, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 January 1906 — Page 2

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V 17th 24th. Tnd. ysylOth. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Things are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Bloody Conflict at Tiflis, Cancasia. Nearly 350 persons were killed or injured as an outcome of an attack made by Cossacks on the Armenian seminary at Tiflis, Caucasia, following the throwing of two bombs from that institution at a passing patrol. Four Cossacks were wounded and a boy was killed by the explosion of the bombs. Artillery was immediately called up and the seminary was surrounded and shelled. The building soon burst into names and the bomls and cartridges stored therein exploded. Thirty persons perished during the conflagration, while 3.J0 were injured by fire or wonnded by shells. The troops subsequently shelled another Armenian house where lombs and weajons were hidden and killed eight revolutionists. Cassie Chadwick in the Pen. Cassie L. Chadwick, the "wi.ard of finance," is now a federal prisoner in the Ohio pen at Columbus, She will be confined for ten years on a charge- of conspiracy to rob a national bank. The prison authorities are convincl that Mrs. Chadwick is no ether than Madam De Vere,who was a I.ucas county prisoner in the pen twelve years ago. Iii r new record on the pen books is as follows: "Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, alias Madam De Vere, conspiracy to rob a national bank; Cuyahoga county, received January 12, l'A-ti; sentence expires January 1-, 1916. Youth Confesses Horrible Crime. Mrs. Bessie Hollister, 3) years old, the wife of Fru-.klin C. Hollister, of the printing firm of liflliter Brothers, of Chicago, was murdered by Kichard Ivins, 21 years of age, who had attempted to assault her. The body of Mrs. Hollister was found lying on a pile of stable refuse in the rear of the I vins residence at 3S Beiden avenue. Around the neck was twisted a line copper wire and death had leen caused by strangulation. Ivins, who pretended to find the body and reported the fact to the police, confessed to the crime a short time after lie bad been taken into custody. Two Indictments Against Shcrrick. David E. Sherriek, former auditor of täte, was arrested and brought into the criminal court at Indianapolis, Ind., on two indictments, one charging conspiracy and the other embezzlement and grand larceny. V. S. Wiekard was indicted Jointly with Sherrick on the first charge. Bherrick gave a new bond in the sura of $10,000 and was released. The trial was et for February. Sixty People Rescued. The passengers find crew, sixty in all, of the Clyde line steamer Cherokee, bound from San Domingo for New York, which went aground on the Brigantine shoals, were rescued by the sloop yacht Alberta, after twenty-four hours anxiety and landed at the inlet of Atlantic City, N J. Capt. Archibald, two mates and the ship's car penter elected to remain aboard the J steamer. I Snow Causes Fuel Famine. A report from Fort Worth, Tex., stated that the Texas Panhandle country is covered with snow an 1 a fuel famine prevails In many counties on the plains, with consequent suffering. In Floyd and other counties people are burning corn, maize and other crop products wuicü sell for $3.00 per ton. Coal costs $2J per ton and wood, when it can be obtained, is $10 per cord. Montreal Hotel Burn. A section of the Windsor hotel at Montreal was destroyed by tire, causing a loss estimated at $15J,uOU. The hotel is one of the largest in Canada. Heavy brick walls and fireproof doors confined the II am es to the section where they originated. The The guests had plenty of f ine to remove their belongings and at no time was there anything like a panic. Three Children Cremated. A dispatch from Winnipeg, Man., says: In a fire which destroyed the farm residence of II. A. Brazil, in the Portage La Prairie district, three children were cremated and the parents narrowly escaped with their lives. The fire occurred in the dead of night and the home was totally destroyed. lloosier Town Partly Burned. The town of Oolitic, Ind., was in danger of total destruction by tire, which d istroyed the King Brothers' lumber yards, the town jail and a few residences. The fire was of incendiary origin. The loss is estimated at $12,000. Avalancjje Kills Seren. A dispatch from Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, says: Seven theology students, out of a party of twelve, were overwhelmed by aa avalanche while on an excursion in the Hall Valley. Colored Murderer IIinsed. Charles Long, colored, was hanged at Trenton, If. J., fcr the murder of Mathew Cunainghnm, also colored. CI. ltd Burned to Death. Sylvia Thompson, aged 3, war, burned to d.ath at her home in Frankfort, Ind. Her clothing caught fire from a stove while she was putting wood in it. Riß Fire in the City of Panama. A special from Panama states that a fire practically destroyed two blocks on Malntnbo street, which was inhabited bv the j-iorer classes. It is currently reported that the carelessness ot employes or the uitary department is responsible for the tire. Employes of that department were fumigating houses when the tare started. $100,000 Lumber Loss. The Urge dry kiln of the WillUki Hitter Lumber Company, containinf 4.000,000 feet of dressed oak and poplar lumber, was destroyed by fire at Panther, W. Va., with a loss of $100,000. Tries to Kill Commandant. James Long, an inmate of the St soldiers' home in Hot Springs, S. D., w arrested and placed under $300 bonds by Judge Appl?gate on a charge of assault In i CoL Goddsrd, commandant of the home, with a piece of lead pipe. Inter ference by another inmate of the horns cared the commandants life. Wants Negro Boy as Her Son. Mrs. L. V. B. Ferguson, a grand niece f Oliver Wendell Holmes, wishes to adopt a negro boy as her son. Mrs. Ferguson lires on her wealthy husband's ranch la Routt county, Colo. The lucky nd dusky youngster will hare two charming "sisters by adoption." Life Inquiry for Ohio. Ohio will investigate the national and Ctate insurroce companies. A griddle been prepared for the concerns, and the Legislature will be asked to light th Cre under It. The probing may rival thj Ciniua Nrsr Tori inquisitiea.

ARREST IN STOCK FORGERY CASE Brooklyn Newspaper Man Said to Have Had Bogus Railway Shares. Samuel Humphreys, vho says he is a newspaper w riter living ia Brooklyn, has been arrested in New York ia connection "with the forgeries of stock certificates of the Norfolk and Western railway. Humphreys is charged with going to the office of Barnard & Clark with a letter introducing himself as "Mr. Collins," a wealthy builder of Philadelphia, and presenting two forged certificates f the Norfolk and Western, which he wanted disposed of at the market value, between $14,000 and $15,000. The lithograph stone from which the certificates were made has been found. It was traced by means of an alleged forged order and a proof of the certificates found last September in a Wall street office, but to which no importance was attached at that time. Humphreys is believed to have had an accomplice in the office of the Norfolk and Western, who furnished him with oflice stationery. Charles Augustus Seton, a promoter, arrested near Elkton, Md., charged with grand larceny, is said to, have received one of the bogus certificates. It is believed that he will prove a valuable witness.

EXPOSE CAUSES A SUICIDE. St. Louis Police Sergeant, Implicated in Graft Charges, Ends Life. Folice Sergeant George Colestock, formerly in charge of that part of St. Louis known as the "bad lands" and recently transferred to an outlying district as the result of the connection of his name with an expose of graft in the police department, was found dead in a room in the Windsor hotel, his revolver lying by his side with one chamber empty. Several members of the police force were named specifically in an alleged confession secured from OIlie Roberts, who formerly lived in Colestock's precinct and is at present serving a term for murder in the penitentiary. She claims to have kept a record of all sums offered to the police for protection and the board of police commissioners for several weeks have been conducting an investigation of the graft charge?. BUNS fa: in stockings. "Woman Escapes from Bobbers and by Flight Causes Arrests. Frank Humes, captured with James Collins and Bryce Ilallwood, confessed to Chief Dundon of Columbus, Ohio, that Ilallwood is the robber who shot Samuel Wise in the thigh the previous night. The three prisoners bound and gagged Mr. and Mrs. Wise, but failed to find much money. Mrs. Wise escaped in her stocking feet and ran one and onehalf miles in snow to a neighbor's to notify the Marysville marshal. SECEDE FROM PANAMA. Tribes Numbering 30,000 Return to Allegiance to Colombia, Capt. Lovelace of the Panama gunboat OnVnte brought a letter to President Am.-idor of Panama, written by Innannaquina, grand chief of the San Bias Indians, on the lower Atlantic coast of Panama, announcing their secession from Panama and the renewal of their allegiance to Colombia. There are about C-0,000 of these Indians along 110 miles of the most fertile part of the coast of of Panama, and in all the villages the Colombian flag is being displayed. $75,000,000 FOR HOSPITALS. New York Plans Chain of Municipal Institutions Throughout City. Details are made known of plans for a chain of municipal hospitals, which, when fully realized, it is declared, will give New York the greatest system of free treatment for the sick that the world has ever seen. Mayor McClellan, ex-Comptroller Grout. Bird S. Coler, president of the borough of Brooklyn, and Comm;rioner of Charities Robert W. Ilebbard are the leading advocates of the project. An estimate of the total cost is $75,000,000. Bridge Falls with Train. At Jackson, Ky.. the Kentucky river bridge on the Louisville and Nashville railroad collapsed as a welt-bound freight train was passing over it. The engine was in the middle of the bridge when the structure fell, precipitating three freight cars and four passengers into the river. The passengers were rescued. Price of Hemlock Rises. The Northwestern Hemlock Association has decided upon another increase In the price of hemlock lumber of I0 cents to $1.50 a thousand feet. It is said that the demand for hemlock in recent weeks has been unprecedented. Weather conditions in the Michigan peninsula have not been conducive to profitable logging o0;rations. "Straw" Men on Pay Rolls. George II. Smith, a clerk in the di vision superintendent's office of the Great Northern railway in Minot, N. D., has been placed under arrest charged with carrying "straw" men on his pay rolls. Bogus checks aggregating over $200,000 have been located. Smith was arraigned and bound over to the District Court. . Luke Wright's Son Poisoned f A young man, who is believed from papers in his possession to be Luke E. Wright, Jr.. son of Luke E. Wright, the Governor of the Philippines, fell unconscious in a restaurant in Arkansas City, Iva a., as the result of morphine poisoning, and his recovery is considered doubtful. Woman Convicted of Murder. Fourteen years in the penitentiary was the sentence imposed on Mrs. Virginia B. Troupe by a jury in Judge Smith's court in Chicago for the murder of her husband Aug. 9 last. Audible signs of surprise were heard in the court room when the foreman of the jury read the findings. Political Rivals in Duel. Sheriff W. J. Thompson of La Plata c-7.ty, Colo., and Policeman Jesse Stensel of Durango exchanged a dozen shots with revolvers on the main street of that city and both were mortally wounded. There had existed a feud between the two men since the late election. Spencer F. Eddy Is Engaged. The engagement of Miss Lu:line Spreckels of San Francisco and Spencer F. Eddy, secretary of the American embassy at St. Petersburg, has been announced. Miss Spreckels, it is said, some day will inherit $20,000.000 or more from her father and her grandfather. Boston Warehouse Burns. Fire in the Wormwood warehouse in A street. South Boston, Mass., caused $100,000 damage. The Railway Supply and M"ufacturing Company had a stock cf bout 3,000 bales of shoddy wool aid aste in the building burned. Lynch He o Captive. I Btn Harris, the negro charged with the murder of Ozro Palk at Berings Mill. Texas, who was taken from officers at La Salle by a mob, was lynched at Moscow. There were about seventy men in the mob. Death of "W. R. Harper. William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago, died peacefully at his home in that city Wednesday, after planning his funeral arrange ments. - Cruiser Brooklyn iJamaged. A cable-gram has been received at the Nary Department in Washington from Gibraltar announcing the arrival there

of the flagship Brooklyn and the other vessels of the third division. The squadron encountered exceedingly rough weather on the trip over and during a gale the Brooklyn, whose davits are quite low, suffered some damage to her boats, which are rigged close to the side.

FROM COMEDY TO TRAGEDY. Boarder Entertaining Children Is Choked to Death. Ernest Dozois, a man of middle age, who had lived for twenty years at Mrs. Annie Boocks' boarding house in Brooklyn. N. Y., started to play with her three children after dinner the other night. He took a piece of beefsteak from the table and amused them by tossing it in the air and catching it between his teeth, growling while he did so. He did it many times and the chilren were greatly amused. At last he began to laugh a good deal himself and while he was laughing heartily he caught and bit the beefsteak again. It went into his throat and caught in his windpipe. Dozois stopped laughing suddenly, making motions with his hands and coughing hard. The children thinking this part of the game laughed all the more and ran to tell their mother. The woman realized at once what was the matter and forced her fingers down the man's throat in an attempt to extricate the meat. She was not successful, however, and the dying man's jaws closed on her fingers, cutting them to the bone. Dozois died and his jaws had to be pried open to release the woman's fingers which were cauterized, to prevent blood poisoning. TAKE GANG AFTER CHASE. Philadelphia Policemen Get Men Thought to Be Station Robbers. Three men, believed to be t.ie postofBcq and railroad station robbers who have, been operating along the North Penn railroad, were captured after i five-mils chase by Policemen Jesse Sands and Private Watchman Hobb of Glenside, a Philadelphia suburb. They also are suspected of being the men who shot Frof. E. L. Loux at Souderton. The prisoners gave the names of William J. Jones, Cin cinnati. and Harry Keebly and Frank Johnson of Philadelphia. Njne of thq trio is over 23 years of age. They wcra nil armed with revolvers of large caliber. The men were prowling about the Glenside station at an early hour, when they were discovered by Sands and Hobbs. The intruders fled and the officers gave chase. One of the fugitives discharged his revolver as he ran, but the bullet went wild. The officers cut through tho fields and headed off the alleged robbers, who, taken by surprise, surrendered with out resistance. TO BUILD VAST ELECTRIC PLANT. $50,000,000 Company Will Generate 400,000 Horse-Power with Water. A "project to take up the waters of Feather river in northern California and carry it through tunnels and aqueducts until i(X),(HKVhorse power, enough to supply all the towns of the Sacramento valley, Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley with electric power has been developed, is the purpose of a ."WHJ0,000 corporation organized by I. Brown Wilson & Co. of New York and San Francisco. The corporation is backed by F. II. Ray, Edwin Ilawley and A. C. Bedford, New York financiers. The project is said to be the nucleus of similar projects which will extend through Oregon and Washington and for which $10,000,000 is to be set aside. HELD FOR BURNING STORES. Disastrous Fire at Manchester, O., Laid to Restaurant Keeper. William K. Iregory was brought tt Ironton, Ohio, from Donner, Ky., where he was arrested on the charge of setting fire to his restaurant at Manchester, Ohio, which resulted in the destruction of eighteen business stores in that village. Gregory's arrest was caused by the testimony of a farmer who claimed that while driving through the village at 2 o'clock in the morning he saw a man, whom he later recognized as Gregory, setting fire to the Gregory restaurant. It also developed later that Gregory before his flight to Kentucky and several days prior to the fire had shipped two trunks full of goods to Ken tucky towns. J. M. Pattison Inaugurated. John M. Pattison of Cincinnati, who was inaugurated Governor of Ohio Monday, in his inaugural address commended President Roosevelt's efforts for national supervision of insurance companies. He -Iso urged the Legislature to pass no partisan Jaws, said the Sunday closing law should be enforced throughout the State, and declared in favor of local op tion. Sheepherders Killed by Cattlemen. Twenty masked and mounted cattle men raided the camps of two Utah flockmasters, near Burnt Fork, Wyo., murdered Herders Robert Alleg and A. H. Garsitc, slaughtered the sheep and burned the camp outfits. The range on which the fight occurred is claimed by the cattlemen as their exclusive pasture. A spread of the trouble is feared. Great Steel Works Burns. Fire, starting from an explosion, de stroyed the works of the Carnegie Steel Company in Greenville, Pa., entailing a loss of between $400,000 and $000.000. Two men were burned, but not totally. A flue in the boiler of a heating furnace blew out, deluging the furnace below, which exploded, scattering fire in all directions. Oklahoma Marshal Is Slain. City Marshal Thomas Radford was shot and k"i!ed in Enid, Okla., by John Cannon, formerly city jailer. The city marshal bad ordered out of town a woman who occupied rooms in a house owned by Cannon. The latter is under arrest and has been taken from Enid to avoid danger of mob violence. Tries to Wipe Out Family. Nels Nelson, a logger at Walkason, Wash., killed his mother with a razor, cutting her throat, attempted to kill his wife and two children and then, thinking they were dead, killed himself with a revolver. His mother was slain while trying to protect the wife and children. The wife and children may recover. $500,000 Is Left to Tuskegee. By the will of Awfrew J. Dotger of South Orange, N. J., the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute eventually will receive a bequest (about $500,000) that promises to be the largest individual bequest in its history. Blow Out the Gas. Adam Hauck, aged 25, and CLiIallan Glauser, aged 55, of Eureka, S. D., blew out the gas when retiring at a hotel in Aberdeen, S. D., and were found dead in the morning. Favors Popular Vote on Senators. The Ohio Senate by unanimous vote declared in favor of the election of United States Senator by popular vote, taking the position now held by twenty-two States in the country. Losses Cause Broker's Suicide. Entangled heavily in disastrous stock speculations, and, it is .believed, fearing exposure of his losses, Leland W. Prior, a member of a large brokerage firm of Cleveland, committed suicide. McCall Is Repaying. John A. McC-.Il and wife have filed ft trust deed on their country home to secure the payment of $150,000 to the New York Life Insurance Company.

U 1 ocu urf U US Vy GÖ UCA .i I CONGRESS 1

The debate on the Philippine tariff bill continued In the House Saturday, Representative Hill of Connecticut speakic? in favor of the measure. The opposition was led by Representative Mondcli of Wyoming, as a champion of the bot sugar interest?. Representative Lawrence of Massachusetts spoke in favor of the reduction of the tariff on hides by the Republican party. The House adjourned at 5 o'elock until Monday. The Senate was not in session. The Senate Monday ears attention to the Panama canal, the situation in Santo Domingo and the- merchant marine shipping bill. The canal matter came up in connection with a message from the President transmitting the annual reports of the isthmian canal commisiioa and the Panama Railroad Company, which were referred to the committee on interoccanic canals. The Dominican discussion arose oa Mr. Tillman's resolution making inquiry of the President concerning the status of affairs in the islanJ republic. Mr. G.ilüngcr opeu-d the debate on the incicti;;nt marine chipping bill. Legislation iVr the District of Columbia had the right of way under the rules in the Ho.e and the few bills on the calendar from the District committee were drposed of. Mr. Sullivan of Massachusetts then re-ke strongly for tnri.T revision from the Democratic standpoint, the Philippine turitf bill being up for discussion. The Senate Tuesday i.doj.ted two re-solutions of inquiry. 0:i2 authorizes an investigation by the committee on interoceanic canals into the general conduct of Panama canal affairs and the other an inquiiy by the Guancc committee into the question of the exchange rate on money on the isthmus. The remainder of the open session was devoted to & speech by Mi. Morgan r.u the railroad rate question, his bill being referrcJ to the committee :n interstate commerce. At 1:C0 p. m. the Seunte went into executive session to take up Mr. Bacon's resolution calling o?i the President for information regarding the titituJe of the United States government on the Moroccan question. The Philippine tariff bill was the riegle topic of consideration ip. the Houe. The speeches were uniformly against the measure und in general allowed to go without answer. The Senate Wednesday disposed of considerable br.s'w, about eighty bills being pissed, leaving only six or seven on the calendar. Most of the measures grant private pensions or authorize the construction of bridges. One favorably acted on appropriated $200,000 for the marking: of the graves of Confederate foldieiF who died in northern prisons during the Civil War. Then attention was given to the question of Panama canal salaries, for pure food measure and the merchant marine bill. b'Jt without taking action on them. The Senators fought shy of the Moroccan controversy, and when the resolution dealing with the subject was reached on tho calendar an executive sess:on was taken to .-.void discussion. Consideration of the Philippine tariff bill was continued in the nouse, Mr. Dated! (Pf..1 speaking for it and Mr. Keifer (Ohio) loading the prios'.tion. The incident of tue ejection from the White Houiv dices of Mrs. Minor Morris was briv,!ht up by Mr. Shcppard (Tcxa). In the Sonate Thursday Mr. Hepburn spoke in support of his bill creating a national board for the control of corporations. Tho message of the President, transmitting the letter of Secretary Taft to him on the fubject of Poultney Bigelow's article on the condition of affairs in Panama, was received and ordered printed, together with the Bigelow article. Mr. Bacon revived his Moroccan resolution, and the doors were closed for discussion. It was decided to leave the resolution on the calendar, which virtually ends the incident. The Senate adjourned until Monday. Debate on the Philippine tariff bill occupied the entire session of the House, Messrs. Grosvenor, Williams, Adams and McKinley speaking. Debate on the Philippine tariff bill again occupied the entire attention of the House Friday, and the number of speeches to be offered on this subject resulted in nn agreement whereby the discussion was to continue for two days more. The Senate was not in session. National Capital Xotss. . The President has nominated A. O. Marsh as pension agent at Indianapolis. Among the nominations sent to the Senate the other day was that of Logan Tucker of Illinois, to b a lieutenant in the marine corps. II is a sou of Lieut. Col. W. F. Tucker of the pay corps, U. S. A., and a grand sea of Gen. John A. Logan. Representative Fowler (New Jersey), chairman of the House committee on banking and currency, has introduced a bill providing for tlu current deposit of public moneys with national banking associations at 2 per cent a year io amounts not exceeding 50 per cert of the paid up and unimpaired capitil of the banks. Tho bill also provides that any national bank may issue an amount of national bank notes not exceeding 50 per cent of its unimpaired capital without de positing United States bonds. Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture has asked Congress for an appropriation of $13o,000 for addi tional inspectors and microscopists to fa cilitate increased exports of pork to meet the growing demand abroad. The State Department has received news from San Domingo that cx-rrei dent Morales has offered to resign if he will be allowed to leave the couatry in safety. This proposition, it is understood, will be accepted. The Doraiuican congress has temporarily suspended the constitutional guaranties throughout the republic. The State Department has received a cablegram from Nicaragua announcing that the Albers brothers, who have been in prison there, have been pardoned by the Nicaraguan government. Representative John Sharp Williams, minority leader of the House, has re turned to Washington from his home in Mississippi, where he was called by the serious illness of his daughter. President Roosevelt, in a letter to Congress transmitting the annual reports of tho isthmian canil commission and the Panama Railroad Company, praised the work being done on the big ditch and replied in a vigorous manner to hostile critics. A scheme is now before the British parliament for the establishment between Dover and Calais of a service of ferryboats that will carry railroad cars so that passengers will not hare to change between London and Paris. Lady Wyndham Quin, the daughter of Lord Dunraven, is among the practical horticulturists of the peerage, and owns a wonderful violet farm. When he can wear his left shoe oe fl ill i hl3 rljht foot your pessimist will please 1.

DR. HARPER IS DEAD.

President of University of Chicago Succumbs to Lontr Illness. William Rainey Harper, president of tho University of Chicago, is dead. His long struggle against the ravages of an intestinal cancer a terrible, tra gic, losing fight of nearly twelve months' duration ended Wednesday afternoon, when, exhausted by suffering and wasted from lack of nourish ment, his life slowly flickered, out. Ills' last words, before he passed into the tinal coma from which he never awokei were murmured, half-incoherent mes-j gages of farewell to the members olj his family, all of whom were at thc( bedside. The sentence, "God always helps," was repeated often by the dy ing man. Six weeks ago it became apparent to Dr. Harper's physicians that the sands of bis life were almost run. His friends, his wife and children, and even the patient himself, recognized that the end was at hand. His strength failed rapidly, and the pain that tortured him became so ex treme that opiates were administered constantly by hypodermic injection, DR. HARTER IX HIS SICK ROOM. Last Saturday morning his mind be. came clouded, and then Dr. Frank Bil. lings and Dr. Charles P. Small, bis at. tending physicians, informed the pa. tient that be bad but very few morq days to live. With indomitable reso. lution the dyingeducator occupied hii lucid and quiet moments in arranging his and the university's affairs, and in planning the details of his funeral. In the death of Dr. Harper the University of Chicago, tho groat city of which that Institution has for years been tho pride, tho whole educational world of America and the cause of disinterested, earnest scholarship have sustained a severe loss. Dr. Harper was a wonderful organizer and administrator, and his achievements In that capacity have had ample recognition. But he was a'so a true educator; Inhad a passion ur his profession and for learning, and bis ambition was to make the University of Chicago not merely one of the biggest but one of tho noblest, loftiest and most genuine seats of culture. 47 MILES OF BUILDINGS. Vnlue of Ctaloanro Structure Erected In 100r 1 02,000,000. The equivalent of over forty-seven miles of buildings, single frontage, costing approximately $02,000.000 a record exceeding only by the phenomenal activity of 1S02, the year preceding the world's fair represents the colossal building operations in Chicago during the past year. The real estate transactions of the year, with a total of ap proximately $140,000.000, also exceeded those of any year since 1S92. Considering all the circumstances, this record is probably the most remarkable in the history of the city and testifies to its phenomenal growth and prosperity. While abounding in interesting details, there is probably no other feature ot the year's building operations of so striking and suggestivo a character as that covering apartment house or flat con Etruction. This has been on an unpre cedentedly large scale. For 1901 the total reached $14,339,000, as compared with $7,030,.10O for 1903, breaking all previous records. The figures for this year, estimating the last half of Decern ber, show tho enormous total of $21, 809,000, counting only permits of $5,000 and upward. It should be said that in eluded in this are buildings containing both flats and stores, but these cut a comparatively small figure in the total These figures are fairly staggering in their magnitude. But when it is said that the total residence construction, minting only permits above $5,000, amounts to $2,S49,000, somft idea may be had. of the rapidity with which Chi cago is becoming a great city of flats. It also serves to suggest the rapidity with which the city is growing. For despite all these new buildings, builders and agents having them in charge report that they are being filled as soon as com pleted. The fact that rents generally are being well maintained would seem to confirm this. Spark from the Wires A severe earthquake in the Harpoot district in eastern Turkey was reported ia a cablegram received by the Ameri can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Boston. Many are said to have been made homeless and destitute and relief is asked. Manning C. Talmer was convicted of misappropriating the funds of the failed American Exchange National Bank of Syracuse, N. Y., and sentenced to five years in prison. The Importers National Association closed its offices in New York after an existence of two years. The organization was formed to protect the trade from unjust customs exactions. Martin Green of Worcester, Mass., who had charge of the Chicago River tunnel plans, has announced his engage ment to Mrs. Joseph Sampson, formerly of Chicago and now of Wareham, Mass. The Foreign Misisonary Society of the Christian Church received two Christmas gifts amounting to $10,000 for missions. The names of the men, who gave $10, 000 and $0,000, are withheld. Gibson Packer, a former attorney fo? the Carnegie Steel Company, who was sued by Mrs. Mary L. Vetter, a Pittsburg widow, for $100,000 for breach of prom Ise, filed a plea of no indebtedness. The new school law forbidding the em. ployroent of children under 14 in mills. factories and svores, which went intq effect in Massachusetts Jan. 1, bars fron employment between 4000 and 5,003 children. Count von Moltke, nephew of thi great commander of that name, will sootj become field marshal of the Germaa army. The officers of the Retail Coal Deal era' Association of Cleveland, indicted on the charge of violating the anti-trus law by conspiring to raise the price o coal, pleaded guilty and were fined $50J each. The fifth trial of the suit of Receive! Stevenson of the Indiana Banking Comi pany against John C. New and John Q Wright to annul thi sale to the lattel company of stock of the First Nations Bank of Indianapolis, has resulted in terdict for the defendants.

INA CIAL Trade returns Indicate that the turn into the new year was made with Chicaao ittle interference to production. An nual balances and repairs have been well advanced wit!i brief loss of time, and the activities generally progress under the encouraging influence of a promising outiook. Prices of all raw material sustain the high level recently attained, and bid fair to maintain continued firmness. Important com mitments already have been closed in manufacturing branches and new business structures, whi'.e inquiries show that heavy orders impend in iron and steel departments, rolling stock and railroad construction. Wholesale lines have accumulated bookings of spring staples which compare favorably with the aggregate a year ago, especially in best grades of dry goods, clothing, footwear and household needs. Interior advices reflect enlarged sales last year, and sat isfactory reduction of stocks, suggest ing that replenishment will be upon a liberal scale. Retail dealings now arc mainly con fined to clearances, the more winterlike weather inducing a fuller dispo sition of warm apparel. Mercantil collections continue to show up web, heavy defaults being unusually small in number. . January interest disbursements reached the largest total hitherto known, and this created much activity in banking circles. The payments re leased a considerable volume of funds. With this also appears increasing re turns from tho agricultural sections. These features favor increasing depos its here, but the demand for money has not subsided, and the discount rate for all desirable loans is unchanged at ( per cent, long datings being preferred. Failures reported in the Chicago dis trict number twenty-five, against nineteen last week and twenty seven a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. While unse isonable weather adversely affects retail trade and reorders New Yeri from wholesalers it at tho same time highly favors the leading industries and outdoor activities and facilitates railway transport. Spring trade really shows rather more than usual life, requests for prompt shipments being in evidence earlier than usual. Clearance sales are a feature of retail lines and the season as a whoie in heavy wearing apparel has been so far disappointing. Collections North and West feel this influence likewise. Bank clearings break all recon',s for a holiday period, reflecting hea ry end of the year disbursements and stock speculation. December was perhaps the best month of 1905 for the railways, with an Indicated gain of 12 per cent over December, 1004. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Jan. 4, 1900. number 220, against 212 last week, 27S in the liku week of 1905, 202 in 1904. T.3G in 1903 and 3iG in 1902. In Canada failuren for the week number 22. as against IS last week and 40 in this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Repcrt. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $0.25; hogs, prime heavy. $4.00 to $5.47; shep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $0.00; wheat. No. 2, 87c to SSc; corn. No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats, standard, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 2, G7c to CSc; hay, tomitby, $S..r0 to $12.00; prairie, $0.00 to M1.50; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, 55c to G4c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2, S9c to 90c; corn. No. 2 white, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c. St. Louis attle. $4.50 to $5.90; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; thcep, $4.00 to $0.00: wheat, No. 2, 90c to 93c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 42c; oats. No. 2, 30c to 32c: rye, No. 2. C7c to GSc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.55; sheep, $2.00 to $5.10: wheat. No. 2, 91c to 92c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 mired, 33c to 34c; rye. No. 2, CSc to 09c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $4.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5.30; sheep, $2.50 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, S5c to 87c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 44c to 40c; oats, No. 3 white, 32c to 34c; rye, No. 2. CGc to CSc. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 83c to 84e; corn. No. 3, 41c to 43c; cats, standard, 30e to 32c; rye, No. 1, CSc to C9c; barley, No. 2, 53c to 54c; pork, mess, $13.07. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, S7c to SSc; corn, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 40c; cats. No. 2 mixed. 30c to 32c: rye. No. 2, C7c to C9c; clover seed, prime, $S.10. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.C0; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.75; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $8.00. New York Cattle. $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5.S5; sheep. $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 90c to 91c; corn, No. 2, 49c to 51c; oats, natural, white, 37c to 38c; butter, creamery, 21c to 27c; eggs, western, 20c to 24c. Emerson Hall, the new home of the philosophical department of Harvard University, was dedicated the other day. It was named in honor of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The ceremonies were attended by members of the American Philosophical Association and the American Psychological Association, which began their annual conventions at Cambridge. Nathan Scott, son of United States Senator N. E. Scott, was beaten into insensibility at Bethany, W. Va., by John Whitsett, who 'had just been married and was being made the victim of a charivari. The Swiss government has notified the Italian government that it will be represented in the international chamber of agriculture created by King Victor Emmanuel at the suggestion of David Lu bin of California. Patrick Fox, a passenger on the steamer Titlis, who arrived in Galveston from Havana, is at a hospital, isolated and thoroughly screened, suffering from yellow fever. Indians on thv Colville reservation, In Washington, have agreed to cede the south hah of the reservation to the gor eminent.

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TEN DIE IN FIRE.

DUaetrous Hin re in West TTtelf Minneapolis. Fire In the West Hotel at Minneapolis early Wednesday morning cost the lives of ten persons, damaged the great hostelry to the extent of $25,000 and gave throngs of siectators views of thrilling rescues by the firemen that called forth cheers from the crowds. Feats of heroism by the firefighter kept down the death list, althoirg'i Captain John Berwin of hook and ladder company No. 1 perished while working to lower a woman from the fifth story. The fire was discovered at 7:15 o'clock and the guests and employes were given prompt alarms by the hotel's system of electric Itells. Fire escapes cut ofl! by roaring flames, fanned by a cold and strong wind, and halls filled by impenetrable smoke caused three people to jump from windows to ihoir deaths. The firemen had the flames under control within nn hour and at S :30 it was reported that it was extinguished. The West Hotel has for many years been regarded as the leading hostelry of Minneapolis. It was built nearly twenty years ago by the late Colonel John T. West and was made as nearly fireproof as possible. Located at 5th street and Hennepin avenue, it occupied a commanding position in the city and was regarded as a show place and one of the leading attractions of the city. The facilities afforded by the hotel brought scores of conventions and other gatherings to tho city and rarely were its accommodations overtaxed. The Republican national convention of 1S92 was secured to Minneapolis chiefly because of the West Hotel. The vast lobby, declared to be the largest In the United States, was easily able to accommodate the crowds which filled the place. Many other notable gatherings were held within its walls and in the afternoon and evening it was the center for business and professional men to gather. With the death of Col. West the property passed Into other hands. WALTER WELLMAN. Journnllwt-Explorer Aaln to Visit the Polar RVkIohm. A new interest in Arctic exploration has been aroused by the announcement of Walter Wellman that he and Santos Dumont, the aerial navigator, will start in the near future upon an expelition which they hope will carry them to the North pole. They will go in an airship and will describe their journeys as they proceed northward by aid of the wireless telegraphy and submarine cables. It is the most spectacular undertaking in the history of Arctic exploration. Walter Wellman is an able journalist, Washington correspondent of leading dailies, and a reliable writer. He is aUo an explorer, having twice visited the polar regions. On his first expedition in 1S94 he reached the Slst degree. His ship was crushed in the ice and he suffered many hardships. On his second expedition 1S9S-9 he went to Franz Joseph Land, by way of Archaugel, Russia, having SI dogs with him. After fruitless efforts to push his ship farther north iu waters which the following year were free of ice (an example of the luck that runs in the Arctic), he V 1 S IG reed o establish his base at Cape Ya get huff, latitude SO degrees 4 minutes. In the autumn an outpost was established 70 miles farther north. From this outpost Wellman and his men eventually mured north and explored hitherto unknown regions, but their cherished hope of going further north than other explorers was spoiled by an injury to Wcllman's leg and by the destruction of some of the camp equipment. Ever since the second expedition Mr. Wellman has beea a close student of Arctic work and conditions. Probably he has never been able to get the polar fever entirely out of his system. In addition to his newspaper and magazine work he has written much on geographical and exploration topics. He has lectured before the Royal Geographical Society of London, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Geographical Society of Washington, the Arctic Club of New York, and other similar bodies. WAGES SMALL FOR BIG FAMILIES Child-Labor Secretary Dltrnnie President' Theory. President Roosevelt's declaration in favor of big families was discussed before the New Rochelle People's fcr' i in New York Sunday. The Rev. Owen R. Lovejoy, secretary of the National Child Labor committee, declared that except ia special cases the President was mistaken in promulgating such ideas among the American people. Msny men, he said, were working to-day at the bench and in the factory for less wages than their fathers received for the same amount of work and it was costing them more to live. Such men, he said, if they were of conscientious type, would hesitate at the responsibility of bringing children into the world to struggle and toil for a bare living without prospects of advancement. Mr. Lovejoy estimated the number of children employed at manufacture and mining in the United States at 2,000,000. which, he said, is far too many, as they are crowding men and women out' of work and lowering wages. He said that the National Child Labor committee, in conjunction with the National Consumers' League, would go to Washington this winter to try to have Congress pass a bill to establish an additional child-labor bureau, which would raise the condition of working children to that of France and Germany. Short News Notes, rickering College, at Pickering, Oct., was destroyed by fire. The loss is $75,000. Walter B. Hill, chancellor of the University of Georgia, died in Athens, Ga., of pneumonia. Eight persons were wounded by promiscuous shooting during the first minute of the new year in Philadelphia. The municipal ferry operated by New York City between Staten Island and the city is costing $500 a day more than the receipts. C. L. Demon of New York has bought the side-wheel steamer Olympian, in Oregon. The boat will be towed around Cape Horn and used as an excursion boat A letter from Walter Scott, the cowboy miner who was reported murdered in Death Valley, some days ago, was received at Los Angeles, Cal., stating that Scott had been shot but not seriously hurt. Governor Johnson of Minnesota has agreed to give $500 as an. additional reward for the arrest and conviction of the men who murdered Charles O. Bader in his hotel. This makes a total reward of $1,000. Mme. Bernhardt, as a French citizen, has appealed to the French ambassador to protest against the alleged indiscrimination of the theatrical combine in the United States. At the meeting of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, Italy, held at Cornell University, announcement was made that an endowment fund of $100,000 had been secured. H. C. Dale, cashier of the Stockman's National Bank of Rushville, Neb., and William C. Smoot, government farmer at Pine Ridge Agency, were arrested on the charge of subornation of perjury b connection with land frauds.

AROUND A BIG STATE.

CRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing Matters of General and Iocal Inter-est-Marriajres and Deaths-Accidents and Crime Personal PointersAbont Indianians. Krief State Items. Alexander Norman of Princeton, was instantly killed by a passenger train. Arthur Kirkpatrick, a well known bandmaster of Milford.has been adjudged insane. Edward Miller, 16, was fatally cut at Lynnville by his half-brother, Clem Rickctts. Lydia, the 4-year-old daughter of August Stencil of Elkhart, fell into a cistern and was drowned. . The retail merchants of Indiana, through their state organization, are preparing to fight the parcels post bill now before congress. The voters of Valparaiso and Center township voted to construct fourteen miles of gravel road at an estimated cost of Fire in Henry Kross grocery at Anderson ;ind in the second story of the Burke business block caused $000 loss to the stock and building. Colonel E.E. South, General Agent of the Big Four at Terre Haute, fell down stairs in his residence and was probably fatally injured. A safe in Albaughs store at Shoals was robbed of $2,o0 cash and f 11, MM in government bonds. The safe was dynamited and the robbers escaped. Alexander Jack, aged 72, a manufacturer and a former member of the City Waterworks board at Evansville, died seated in a chair in his factory. J. A. Shock, superintendent of schools at Warren, lias resigned to accept the position of chief of the mathematical department of the schools at Lafayette. Miss Lydia Wilson, a very attractive young woman of Mishawaka, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. The cause of self-destruction is unknown. Daniel Nolan, 66 years old, a veteran of the civil war, was run down and killed by a Panhandle passenger train at Walton. It is supposed that he went to sleep on tho track. Frank Kleyla while working at the grain elevator atliobbs ran against an iron spike in the wall, the eye being i?net rated, and be remained impaled until rescued by -tlier workmen. Mrs. Harriett Provgh committed suicide at her home in Jefferson township. Wells county, by cutting her throat with a butcher knife. Mental derangement is said to have been the cause. Dr. Lehman II. Dunning, professor of women's diseases in the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis for jears, died of heart trouble. He was born at Edwardsburg, Mich., in 1K00. Edward Naugle, 15 years old, of Vincennes, while shooting at a target, using a small-caliber rille, sent a bullet through the neck of Stephen Madigan, PJ years old, to his serious injury. Dr. II. (). Wells, manager of the Red Cross Medical Society of Fort Wayne, was arrested on a United States warrant, charged with using the Red Cross emblem of the National Ued Cross Society without authority. The home of Taylor Ileggs, two miles east of (Jreenwi od, was destroyed by lire. The family was asleep, and only awakened in time to escape in their night clothes. The loss is $5,00, partially covered by insurance. Hoy Patterson, H years old, son of F. W. Patterson of Logansport, ran against a tiglitly stretched wire and nearly cut off his nose. The recoil threw him backward with such violence that be suffered concussion of the brain, and may not recover. The contract for the new library building for Indiana University at liloominglon, was awarded by the trustees to W. F. Stillwell of Lafayette, whose bid of approximately $yi,oxK) was the lowest of three propositions. The work will begin at once. Thornton F. Vaugban, lfi, of Yincennes, after spending the evening with friends, returned home and, while in the act of retiring, fell dead. In falling be struck a dove, breaking it. iiut for the prompt iiscovcry the Louse would have been set :n lire. During the temporary absence of the mother from her home in LogansiKrt, John Fickle, a farmer, who had separated from his wife, called in a wagon and spirited the child1!! away. Ihey are aged repectively, 5 and 6 years. The iolice have no trace of the fugitives. In the case of Gustave Pacholko against William Urinckmann at Laiorte, a jury awarded Pacholke $3,000 for injuries received in a runaway caused by his team frightening at lirinckmann's auto, allegedly driven in excess of the seed limit fixed by the Crumpacker automobile law passed by the last legislature. The ury held that the owner was responsible, though the car was in charge of a chaffeur. Mrs. Emma R. Simons, the woman who barricaded herself in her home at Huntington several weeks ago, seeking to avoid transfer to a hospital, was arrested by Sheriff Malum ey and Deputy Anderson, who kicked open the kitchen door and surprised her. The supposed loaded rifle proved to be a crowbar, but she was armed with a fine revolver. She was disarmed by force, after which she willingly accompanied the sheriff to Logansport. Mrs. Simons is the woman whose mind became unbalanced becaus? of intense grief over the death of her son, who was murdered in Montana four years ago. Of recent months she sought a secluded life. An accumulation of gas in the drum of a stove in the bome of Samuel H Anderson at Marion exploded with great force and ignited the Interior of the room. The upper part of the house was burned. Fire broke out on the third floor of the department store owned by D. F. Lane !fe Co., Muncie, and destroyed all the goods on that floor, where a stock of carpets and tapestries was kept-, and water did considerable damage to goods on the second floor. The loss on goods is estimated to be between $25,030 and $30,000 and the loss on the building is about $3,000. The building is owned by Fred W. Heath. James Ford, who sustained Injuries in a fight with Hrrry Craig several weeks ago. at a livery barn in Crawfordsville, is dead. Craig was arrested ac Darlington and taken to Crawfordsville, where he is confined in jail. He declares he struck Ford in selflefense. Eee Bickey and Fred Hughes, of Lafayette, while engaged in frescoing the new chool building at Linden, were thrown to a cement floor, twelve feet below, by the collapse of a scaffold. The timbers fell on hem. Both suffered sprained ankles, and me of them received a broken leg. Two other men on the same scaffold escaped unhurt. Fickle Woman. Museum Lecturer The bearded lady's husband has been dead only two months, and she's sprucing up again. Manager What are the symptoms? Museum Lecturer Why, this afternoon she appears on the platform with her whiskers trimmed Vandyke style. Ejtotism. She I wouldn't marry the best man iu the world. He Pardon me, but your remark was eutlrely uncalled for. She Why, pray? i He Because I cever asked jca ta xuxr ca.