Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 February 1906 — Page 2

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XL Q. N. M. "C F. Q.F. M. V 15ih r23rd ) 1st. 9th. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Things are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to mike it Complete. Lives Lost in Hotel Fire. A special from Lowell, Mass., says that several persons are thought to have lost their lives and more than twenty injured In a fire which partly destroyed the Richardson hotel, one of the leading public houses in that city. The llichardson hotel is a moderate-sized structure of brick and is four stories high. When the firemen reached the scene the flames had pcnetrated to several of the floors and dense moke was issuing from the windows to which many of the quests in the upper part of the structure had fled to escape suffocation. The firemen and police rescued many guests, twenty or more of iffhom had been injured. The firemen reported that they had seen a half-dozen bodies of women on the fourth floor. Another of Slater's Pals Caught. The third member of the tri-state robber horde, led by Harry Slater, who was killed by a Lima policeman, was captured on a street car at Lima. Ohio. Though giving the name of James Casey, he has been identified as James Donovan, alias James Cassidy, alias "Tennessee," an alleged desperado and bank robber, and was turned over to the Pinkertons to be taken to Winchester, Ind., to answer to a charge of being one of the men who robbed the IlidgeTrille bank last October. Casey had in his possession a regular cracksman's outfit. Fingers' Burke, an alleged member of the "Si-ler gang, was recently arrested at Toledo. Sherricka Shortage Over SÖO.OOO. The coramitte appointed by the governor f Indiana to investigate the state auditor's office made a report to Gov. Ilanly, showing that the amount still unpaid and due the state from David E. Sherrick. exauditor of state, is $50,847.02, about $7,000 la excess of what was thought to be the um due. Based on the figures submitted to the governor at the time of the Sherrick xposure, after subsequent payments due, was figured at $43,000. This amount had been raised and was ready to be paid over to the state, but payment was delayed to ascertain whether or not that was the sum needed to square t!ie account. Boy Tramp Burned to Death. In a rear-end collision between a freight and a wrecking train on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Miller's Station, Ind., James McCafferty, 11 years old, was killed In a peculiar manner and two companions, Arthur Ormsby and George StonehilI,both 16, were seriously injured. McCafferty was standing on the rear platform of the caboose when the wrecking train crashed into it. McCafferty was caught on the beadlight of the engine, smashing the class. His clothing became ignited and he burned to death. The dead and injured were sent to Morgan, Ind., which is believed to be their home. Lake Shore Flyer Escapes Wreck. The westbound Lake Shore century flyer narrowly escaped being wrecked at Wavraka, Ind., east of Goshen. An axle on an eastbound freight train broke and threw a wheel on the passenger track. The century flyer, running at frightful speed, hit the obstruction, the small trucks of the engins being derailed, but no other damacre was done. At Ligonier a new locomotive was attached. All the passengers were badly frightened. Charles Sparklin of Xlkhart, the century passenger engineer, says the escape was miraculous. Eli Lntman Gets One Year. Eli Lutman, the pension attorney of Corunna, Ind., who was indicted by the federal grand jury last fall on the charge of forging the names of prominent parties of DeKalb county to certain pension papers, was convicted in the federal court at Auburn, and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. Coachman Kills Millionaire's Wife. Mrs. Canfield,wife of C. A. Canfield, millionaire oil magnate, was shot and instantly killed by a discharged coachman as she sat on the front porch of the family residence at Los Angeles, Cal. The assassin was captured a few minutes later. Alice Gets Presents from China. A dispatch from Pekin says: The dowager empress has sent to the American legation a number of wedding presents for Miss Alice Roosevelt. The presents consist of costly jewels, silk and ermine robes. Wreck on the Missouri Pacific. The Missouri Pacific express train, west bound, crashed into a freight train standing oo the main track at Jelferson City, Mo., and nearly 200 passengers were bruised but none was seriously hurt. Naval Training Station Burned. Several buildings connected with the United States naval training station at Coaster's Harbor Island, near Newport, R. I., were destroyed by fire, causing an estimated loss of $300,000. Sir Edward Thornton Dead. A dispatch from London states that Sir Edward Thornton, former envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States in 1S67, and who later held similar post in Russia and Turkey, is dead. Six Sailors Drowned. Victoria (B. C.) special: A telegram from Bamfields says that the fishing schooner Ella G. has turned turtle and sunk and six wen on board were drowned. Among them was Alexander McLean, who -was the commander of the illegal sealing wuul Carmencita. Eighteen Blown to Death. An explosion of dust in the mines of the Kanawha-Detroit Coal Company on Point creek, about twenty-five miles from Charleston. W. Va., entombed a score of miners. Eighteen are reported killed. The explosion could be heard for miles. Accused of Indiana Crime. William Barnes, a car repairer in the Rio Grande shops, was arrested in Denver. Colo on request of the authorities of Bedford, Ind. lie is charged with complicity in the murder of Miss Sarah Schaefer at Bedford about two years go. Depew Has Melancholia. CTjise friendä of Senator TJepew in Washington are informed that he suffers from aphasia and melancholia. He believes that every one is hostile to him, and it is announced in New York that he has given up all social affairs. "Woman's Slayer Is Hanged. -William Vandalsen, a white rran, aged 23 years, was hanged in Louisville for the murder last fall of Miss Fannie Porter. Vandalsen occupied his time in fail by making- toys, among them being a minLiturt iirs with a body impended.

I? AltTJETtS ALLEGE BOYCOTT. Charge Duluth Board of Trade with Combining Against Them. The Duluth Board of Trade is charged by the Minnesota Farmers exchange with boycotting grain from their elevators and shutting it absolutely out of the Duluth market. Complaint has been filed with Attorney General Young, who has taken the matter under consideration to see whether it constitutes a violation of the anti-trust law. The Minnesota Farmers' exchange is the big co-operative, organization formed to dispense with middlemen and to enable the fanners to market their products and buy their supplies direct. The exchange has a line of country elevators, but no terminal. Its grain comes io Minneapolis and is bought by members of the Chamber of Commerce. This is not permitted in Duluth, the complaint charges. Members of the board will no longer handle their grain and there is no way whatever for the exchange to sell at the head of the lakes. The exchange claims this is an unlawful discrimination. The Duluth board is termed a combination in restraint of trade.

FLOODS SWEEP WEST VIRGINIA. People Wade Waist Deep to Safety Barber Shop Carried Away. A heavy wind and rain storm resembling a waterspout passed over the southeastern portion of West Virginia Tuesday, flooding Cherry, Holly and 21k rivers and carrying away bridges, houses and many million feet of valuable timber. In I 'ich wood the water rose five feet in the houses and three feet in the waiting room of the passenger station. The water came up so suddenly that men, women and hüdren had to wade waist deep out of their homes to the mountain top. At Curtin a barber shop, with all its furniture and fittings, went down with the current, every chair remaining in its place. Over twelve miles of the Holly River and Addison railroad was washed away. The losses will aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars. A report that fifteen lives were lost was not confirmed. FAMILY IN TRAGEDY'S CLUTCH. Hother Accused of Infanticide; Father Killed; Son Dead. The discovery of the body of a child in a drain at Slatington, Pa., revealed a strange chain of tragic incidents in . a family. The body is alleged to be that of an infant of Mrs. Sarah Strohl, whose husband was killed some time ago in a slate quarry. The woman herself is in a dying condition. A 3-year-old son of the woman died, and another son was sentenced to two years imprisonment on a charge of larceny. A boarder, named John Jones, has been arrested on a charge of being implicated in the death of the baby, and Mrs. Strohl is accused as a principal. She is the mother of ten children. GIRL SAVES MANY LIVES. Flags Two Trains and Prevents Crash Into Huge Bowlder. Two passenger trains on the Northern Central railway were saved from being wrecked by Mary McCall, aged 1G years, the daughter of a track walker living at Clark's Ferry, Pa. The girl saw a huge bowlder roll from the mountain side on to the tracks near her home. Taking a lantern she ran down the track and stopped the Erie express within a few yards of the obstruction. She then hurried in the other direction and stopping the Erie fast line. The tracks were later cleared of the rock by a wrecking crew. BURIED IN QUICKSAND. ZJiner Rescued Alive After Being Ten Hours in Treacherous Dirt. Victor Peltoniem, a workman at the Lincoln mine, near Virginia, Minn., was rescued alive after having been buried for nearly ten hours under twenty feet of sand. Peltoniem owes his life to a large bowlder weighing several tons which fell in such a way as to rest upon some mining timbers and form a small cavity about his chest and head, the other parts of his body being held as tightly as if gripped in a vise. Find $200,000 Block of Gold. A brick of solid gold, supposed to be worth about 200,000, was discovered in dismantling the Elf Albemarle mill in the Jemoz mountains, north of Albuquerque, N. M. It was hidden under the foundations. It is supposed to have been stolen and placed there by some former employe of the miJl when the latter was in operation ten years ago. Landslide Holds a Train. The passenger train which left Joplin. Mo., for the first through trip on the White Itiver line the other morning has been held up all day near Branson by a landslide that nearly filled the cut at that place. All night through the storm the passengers were compelled to stay in the coaches without knowing when they would receive relief. Measures Will Now Pass. The Republican insurrection went to smash when the House in Washington, by a vote of 1S7 to 157. adopted a rule which insures the passage of the joint statehood bill. Action also has been taken which indicates the end of all opposition in the lower body to the rate regulation measure. Wagon Factory Burned. Fire which originated in two different portions of the building simultaneously and which the firemen and police say was undoubtedly of incendiary origin, practically destroyed the contents of the four-story brick wagon factory of Fred L. Meckel in Chicago, causing a loss estimated at $23,000. Davis Must Be Tried. Will J. Davis, manager, will have to stand trial on the charge of manslaughter in connection with the Iroquois theater fire in Chicago unless the opinion of Judge Kavanagh refusing to quash the indictments against Davis, is set aside by a higier tribunal. Vessel on the Rocks. Battered by high waves, the steamer Valencia, with 100 persons remaining on on board, was fast on the rocks at the base of a cliff on Vancouver Island, while the few persons who reached the shore told of a panic and many deaths attending the launching of the lifeboats. Gen. Joseph Wheeler Dies. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, U. S. A., who won fame ns a dashing Confederate cavjlry leader during the war of the rebellion, but fought on the side of the Union in the clash with Spain, died of pneumonia at the home of his sister in Brooklyn. Haytl Expels Five Aliens. - The Moniteur Official at Port au Prince, Ilayti, published a decree of arrest and expulsion against five foreigners, three Frenchmen, a German and an Austrian, who have been convicted of conspiring to disturb public order. .Ingalis Daughter Weds. Miss Marion Ingalis. third daughter of the late Senator Ingalis, was married Thursday to Dr. Jesse Edwards Hunt of Atchison, Kan. Their wedding tour will include a trip to Europe. Statehood Bill Is Passed. The joint statehood bill was adopted In the Ilouse by a vote of 190 to 154 and the measure was passed along to the Senate, where the fight promises to be even more bitter than in the lower, body. Dead Robber Was Noted Crook. Tae bank robber killed in the general fight in the town of Montague, Texas, when an attempt was made to capture a

bandit gang has beea Identified as Patsy Flannigan, a noted Chicago and New York crook. He had served a term of eleven years in Sing Sing. A hunt is being made for two of the robbers who escaped. MOB ATTACKS TENNESSEE JAIL. Two Shot in Attempt to Lyts:h Negro and Troops Are Called Out. Two men were shot in a battle between a mob which stormed the county jail in Chattanooga, Tenn., determined to lynch the negro who assaulted Miss Nevada Taylor, and the prison guards, and Troop I of the State guards was called out to surround the prison. The mob dispersed after being convinced, through two committees that were allowed to enter the jail and examine the prisoners, of the truth of the county officials statement that the negro had been taken to Knoxville for safe keeping. Before the troops arrived the mob forced its way into the jail, and, being driven out by policemen, battered down doors and shattered windows, firing revolvers and rifles constantly at the building.

DIES IN SAVING A CHILD. "Jug" King, Town Character, Gives Up His Life in Rescue at Fire. After plunging through the flames Into Charles Henderson's burning house at Montgomery, W. Va., and safely bringing out one of the children, "Jug" King, a well-known character, was killed by a falling timber. The cottage in which the Hendersons lived caught fire -and the flames wire under full headway before the family wtis aroused. Neighbors who had gathered discovered that one of the children was still in the house. King plunged through the ring of flame, wrapped the child in a blanket and was almost out of danger when the walls of the house fell outward and he was killed. The child was not hurt. FARMER WORSTED BY EAGLE. Bird Tears Out Eye and Leaves Man Unconscious. While hunting in the woods near Arlington, Ohio, Carl Stevenson, a farmer of Jackson township, was attacked by an eagle. In the fierce fight that followed th? bird scratched him about the body, tore out his left eye and left him unconscious. His family was alarmed at his long absence, and a searching party was organized. He was discovered in the woods by George Donaldson and his brother, John Stevenson. The farmer says he shot at the bird. He missed and used his rifle as a club. PENNYPACKER MARKED TO DIE. Governor of Pennsylvania Among Those Doomed by Anarchists. Gov. Pennypacker and other prominent men of Pennsylvania were marked for assassination by a band of Italian anarchists, according to evidence unearthed by officers who are seeking the murderers of Michael Carrazola, a wealthy Italian who was shot at Dunlevy recently. Papers and documents revealing a deep-laid plot were found in a shanty near Washington, Ta., and John Spiada, alleged president of the anarchists, was arrested. KILLED THE WRONG MAN. Russian Revolutionists Admit Error and Will "Rectify." Col. Prosorovski. chief ot the gendarmerie at Pensa, East Russia, has been informed by the local revolutionary organization that the recent murder of Col. Lissovski, commanding the Seventy-eighth infantry division, by members of the organization was a blunder. lie had been mistaken for Col. Prosorovski. The organization has notified the latter that the error will shortly be "rectified." MRS. NATION SELLS TO SALOON. Reported Harvest Home Mission Is Turned Into Liquor Store. Mrs. Carrie Nation has sold her twostory brick building in Guthrie, Okla., known as the "Harvest Home Mission" to Shewnate & Laughlin, wholesale liquor dealers, for $10,000. As Mrs. Nation's office was moved out, barrels of liquor were moved in. Mrs. Nation has been waging continuous warfare oa the ruin evil in Oklahoma, declaring that every saloon should be blown up with dynamite. Hapgood Is Acquitted. Ten minutes of deliberation rfsulted in the acquittal by a New York jury of Norman Hapgood. accused of criminal libel by Justice Joseph II. Deuel, part owner of Town Topics, after a tpeech by District Attorney Jerome which sounded more like a defense than an effort to convict. Ordered to Slay by Police. Orders were given by a high police official in St. Louis to shoot Oliver J. Beck, a judge of elections, and John W. Wheeier, according to Andrew J. Gordon, a negro, who was dismissed from the detective department for accepting graft from negro clubs. New Breed of Grafter. The New York insurance investigating committee, which unearthed many kinds of graft, finds itself fast in the clutches of a new brand. The State printer h holding back all copies of the life report for sale and the Assembly has been appealed to. Many Perish in Bush. Fire. Bush fires are raging throughout Victoria, Australia, and great stretches of country have been devastated. A wall of fire 100 feet high, which was driven by a gale, passed with appalling swiftness over Mount Fatigue, killing at least fifteen persons. Cremated in Michigan Jail. Dennis J. Collins, a sailor who stole a coat for the avowed purpose of getting warm lodging in jail for the remainder of the winter, was burned to death in the village lockup of Alanson, Mich. The cause of the fire has not been discovered. Girl Sleeps Many Days. Medical specialists are greatly puzzled over the long sleep of Florence Parker of Deer Lodge, Mont. Miss Parker, the daughter of Col. L. C. Parker, a wealthy farmer, has been asleep for more than two weeks. Killed on Steam Railroads. A bulletin issued by the interstate commerce commission shows that during the months of July, August and September last 1,053 were killed and 1G.3SG injured among passengers and employes of steam railroads in the United States. School Building Bums. The Lowell school burned in Sioux Falls, S. D. The loss is $00,000, insurance $22,000. The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin. A man was seen running from the building a few minutes before the fire bhoke oat. Crash on "L" Road. Three persons were injured and scores of others badly frightened when a Logan Square train crashed into the rear car of a Humboldt Park train on the Metropolitan West. Side Elevated railway in Chicago. Rescuers Abandon Search. Rescuers have abandoned the search for survivors from the wrecked steamer Valencia on the coast oc' Vancouver Island after saving forty 1'ves, making It certain that 128 persons perished. Fourteen Hurt in Wreck. Fourteen persons were slightly injured in the collision at Glendora, Cal., between the Santa Fe limited, west bound, and a local train. All the injured wer , passengers on the locaL

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GEN. JOSEPH WHEELER DEAD. Fa m oa Cavalry Leader of Civil War a Victim of Pneumonia. Brig. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, the famous Confederate cavalry leader and a brigadier general of the United States army since the war with Spain, died Thursday afternoon at the home of his sister, Mrs. Sterling Smith, in Brooklyn. Pneumonia which developed from a cold caused his death. Gen. Wheeler fought in about 200 engagements on the Confederate side in the Civil War, being renowned as one of the greatest cavalry leaders of that GEN. JOSEPH WHEELER. conflict, He lived to again wear the blue and fight for the stars and stripes in the war with Spain. He was born at Augusta, Ga., in 1S3G and graduated from West Point in 1S50. When the Civil War broke out he resigned his commission in the army to fight for the South. He entered as a lieutenant and in two years was a major-general. At the close of the war Gen. Wheeler practiced law in Alabama and servod eight terms in Congress, uutil he resigned to accept a commission in the army for the Spanish , war. At the close of that war he was made a brigA-dier-general in the regular army, retiring in 1000 upon reaching the age limit. ANARCHIST BAND BROKEN U', Leaders of a Gans Which Plotted Aaslnntlon Are Arrested. Not since the hanging of the Moby Maguires in Central Pennsylvania bus a more dangerous gang been broken up than that which has terrorized residents of Washington County, Pennsylvania, for some time. Two ringleaders art now under arrest, warrants are out for three more and warrants will Le sworn out against thirty-three others by District Attorney Owen Underwood. Revelations following the raid on anarchistic headquarters at Baird, Pa., are of a character to shock the American people. It is clear that several murders were planned by the anarchistic group at Baird and at Pateiso. N. J. In two cases the mea marked for assassination have been assassinated. In other cases the plans to khl the Governors of Pennsylvania . and Ohio and other public men had bevy completed when the police authoritiad took action. The anarchists In this case are Italians, but they plot against mea of thciy own nationality as well as against native Americans. They strike at the Republican Governor of Pennsylvania and at the same time lay plans to assassinate the newly elected Democatlc Governor of Ohio. In some cases they demand money; in others they plan assassination without reference to the character or polltics of the public officials to be assassinated. Operating on one line they intimidate or rob men of means, and ojerating on another line they seek to terrorize a nation of S0,000,000 people by assassination of State and National officers. In other words, a few hundred men driven from the country of their birth or coming to the United States to enjoy greater freedom or to secure more lucrative employment assume the right to rob and the power to rule, through Intimidation and murder, the people of the country that gives them heiter and employment. The declared purpose of the Baird and Paterson a narchists is to abolish republican farm of government and exterminate putltc officials from President down. Cheating Scale at New Yvk. . The chief of the New York City bureau of weights and measures has reported to the effect that the city's butchers, grocers and tradesmen generally are cheating right and left by the systematic use of short weights and measures. The poor and middle class are the chief victims. Some have scales especially manufactured to provide short weights. The public is also robbed by the means of lightweight packages put up during periods. Vigorous prosecution has been begun. All the shops of the Reading Railway Compar" at Reading, Pa., go on ninehour day schedule instead of ten. A splinter of steel three inches In length was removed from the brahi of John Nail of Winston, N. C, at the Jefferson hospital in Philadelphia. The patient is doing well. Four men were blown to pieces as the result of a dynamite explosion at Bushuell, N. C, among them being Captain J. M. Powers of Asheville, N. C, superintendent of construction. The Fortuna, a steam yacht owned and 'navigated by H. B. Slaughter, a Chicago capitalist, arrived in Mobile after a cruise of 4,000 miles. The party left Chicago July 1, 1903.

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BATTLE ON STATEHOOD BILL.

IIoie Pasftpn Measure by Vote of 14 to ISO. By a vote of 104 to 150 the Statehood bill passed the Ilouse, and the fight was at once transferred to the Senate. The end of the Insurrection against President Roosevelt, Speaker Cannon and the Ilouse organization was peaceful. The vote upon the passage of the bill was perfunctory, there being no excitement whatever. The galleries were crowded, but the attendance upon the floor was not as large as the preceding day, when the opposition attempted to prevent the adoption of the rule for the consideration of the bill. Philippine tariff reform, Statehood for the remaining Territories of the mainland and railroad rate legislation the three subjects of greatest concern at the beginning of the Fiftyninth Congress have now been put up to the uncertain Senate. The Statehood bill, which in Its present form proposes to erect Oklahoma and Indian Territory into one State and Arizona and New Mexico into another, has boon thrashed over in all its aspects for several years. The desirability of admitting the two first-named Territories to Joint Statehood is nowhere questioned. Oklahoma has advanced rapidly and promises to become a wealthy, influential and progressive State. Whatever may be said against the joint admission of Arizona and New Mexico, many think that they should come in together, if at all. Neither is sufficiently developed to merit Statehood alone, and the idea of giving such sparsely settled commonwealths a senatorial representation of four in Congress is declared to be preposterous. Capt. Frank Frantz was inaugurated as the seventh Governor of Oklahoma at Guthrie. John M. Gearin, recently appointed United States Senator from Oregon, will be the poorest man in that body. Joseph II. Choate, former ambassador to England, has been elected president of the New York State Bar Association. Herbert II. D. reirce, our new minister to Norway and a native of Massachusetts, is a relative by marriage of Senator Lodge. Marcus A. Smith, who is again representing Arizona in Congress, is dean of the territorial delegates, this being his eighth term. President Roosevelt is to be honorary president of the American Bison Society, which has for its object the preservation of the American buffalo. President Roosevelt is to be invited to attend the commencement exercises of the Missouri university next June, there to receive the honorary degree of LL. D. The extraordinary session of the Pennsylvania Legislature summoned by Gov. Pennypacker to institute numerous re forms began its sessions at Harrisburg. In his message the Governor refers to the "wave of popular and political unrest and commotion which has spread over the country." A somewhat striking feature of the second day's session was the prayer of Chaplain Moore, as folGOV. PENNYPACKER jows . And noWf O Lord, help these men, for they are reformers, to get down to work, for the man who refuses to indorse the acts of reform will be consigned to political oblivion in November." Many reform bills have already been introduced. William McNeir, who succeeds Andrew II. Allen as chief of the bureau of rolls and library, Department of State, at Washington, was once a page in the House. It is estimated that nenry Labouchere, who is about to retire from Parliament, has spent more than $1,000,000 in defending libel suits brought against him as editor of Truth. Senator Aldrich is said to be one of the leading figures in the new $30,000,000 company formed to operate in Mexico. His son-in-law, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is also in it. Adt. Gen. Percy naly is coming in for full credit for the defeat of Joe Blackburn for Senator from Kentucky and the election of Judge Paynter. Haly was a pupil of the late Gov. Goebel and is only 20. A classmate at Williams of ex-Gov. Briggs, explaining why he always wore a black stock and no collar, says the Governor was interested in a young man who was a drunkard, who, when remonstrated with on his tippling, said: "If you will never wear a collar' again I will never drink again." "Agreed," said the Governor, and he never wore a collar again, and the young man never took another drink. The resolution introduced in the New York State Senate by Senator Brackett, calling upon Chauncey-M. Depew to resign his seat in the United States Senate on account of his connection with insurance irregularities, was promptly voted down, Iirackett being the only Republican Senator to vote for it. The Democrats were excused from voting. Nevertheless, Brackett gave notice that an effort would be made to trace the "yellowdog fund,' even if the track should lead to the door of the Senate. Representatives Huff of Pennsylvania, Haskins of Vermont and Connor of New York look so much alike that only their immediate friends distinguish them.

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CONGRESS 1

Abuses in the expenditure of " appropriations was the text of the discussions in the House Saturday during the consideration of the urgent deficiency bill. Little progress was made with the bill. The $2.015 Knox portrait was again a topic .of unfavorable comment and department heads generally came in for criticism. .The most animated debate took place on the amendment to increase the amount for the transportation of silver coins. One argument advanced was that to cut this appropriation meant distress to the interior sections of the country, where silver money is used, but the opponents of the amendment declared that the appropriation was abused by the express companies, for whose benefit, it was stated the appropriation was made. The amendment was lost by a vote of 70 to 74. A bill was passed providing for the holding of a Federal court at Grand Island, Neb. There was no session of the Senate. Right to bridge St. Andrews bay. Fla., was granted the Birmingham, Columbus and St. Andrews Railway Company by the House on convening Monday. The urgent deficiency bill was taken up. District of Columbia day being passed over until the next Monday. Senators Piatt and Depew were in their seats when the Senate convened, the first appearance of either for some time. Both gentlemen were given warm welcomes and were heartily congratulated upon their appearing in good health. Senator Clay addressed the Senate on his resolution relating to the governmental power to fix maximum future charges by railroads. In the Senate Tuesday Mr. Spooner defended the course of President Roosevelt in appointing delegates to the Moroccan conference and in relation to Santo Domingo. Messrs. Tillman and Culberson also spoke, insisting that in the Dominican affair the executive had usurped the powers of the Senate. In the Ilouse the urgent deficiency appropriation bill was under consideration. An amendment abrogating the eight-hour day for work on the Panama canal was defeated, and another, providing that canal commissioners nay not receive additional compensation besides their salaries, was passed. The item of $2,015 to reimburse the Department of Justice for an oil portrait of former Attorney General Knox met defeat. A bill creating a new land district in Montana, to accommodate settlers in the Great Crow reservation, which will be opened for settlement in August, was passed. - In the Senate Wednesday Mr. Lodge defended the course of the President with regard to the affairs of Santo Domingo and the Moroccan conference und Mr. Teller spoke in support of the Senate's prerogative in treaty making. At 3 p. m. an executive session lasting fifteen minutes was had and then the private pension calendar was taken up. The forces opposed to the joint statehood bill, consisting of the Democrats and the Republican insurgents, met their first defeat in the Ilouse when a motion ordering the previous question on the adoption of the rule for debate prepared by the Republicans was passed by a vote of R2 to IGo. Several members had left the chamber when the vote on the rule itself was taken, the result being 1S7 to 1Ü7. Mr. Crumpacker of Indiana took the chair and debate on the bill in committee of the whole was begun at once. After passing a bill to create jury commissioners in Oklahoma the Ilouse at 5:J3 p. in. adjourned. A discussion of foreign affairs occupied the session of the Senate Thursday, Messrs. Money and Heyburn speaking. The consular reorganization bill was read at length, but was not acted upon. At 4:15 p. m. the Senate went into executive session and at 4 :2o adjourned until Monday. The Ilouse passed the statehood bill by a vote of 194 to 150, according to the schedule. Only thirty-three insurgents went on record against the measure. The resignation of Claude A. Swanson, recently elected Governor of Virginia, was presented to the Ilouse. The first attempt at filibustering at this session took place in the Ilouse Friday in a Democratic endeavor to defeat the provision of the urgent deficiency bill waiving the eight-hour day for foreign laborers on the Panama canal. The amendment was placed in the bill after much maneuvering. Secretary Wilson came up for censure because of his request that more funds be given the Department of Agriculture for meat inspection. The Senate was not in session. National Capital Noten. Ensign Wade, U. S. N., has been acquitted on all charges in connection with the Bennington disaster and has been restored to duty. Among the nominations sent to the Senate was that of Capt. William S. Cowles, the "President's brother-iu-law, to be chief of the bureau of equipment of the Navy Department Alexander Goehr and Harry J. Collins, at one time officers in the United States army, were arrested at Sau Francisco on the arrival of the transport Sherman from Manila. They will be held pending investigation. The Secretary of the Interior has withdrawn from all forms of disposals except under the mineral laws, 1,300,000 acres of public lands lying in Missoula and Flat Head counties, Montana and Kootenai county, Idaho, for the proposed cabinet forests reserve. William I. Buchauan has been selected by the President as one of the delegates to the pan-American congress in Rio de Janeiro next July. Mr. Buchanan was a delegate, to the secoud congress, which met in Mexico five years ago. Charges against James W. Raynolds, renominated by the President as secretary for New Mexico, are being cousid-' ered by the Senate committee on territories, and the confirmation will be held up until they can be investigated. He is charged with being an offensive partisan. A joint resolution pending in Cougress asks the international waterway commission for an early report on the use of the water flowing over Niagara Falls. Republican House leaders have agreed to rush through the three important measures recommended in the President's message the Philippine tariff bill, the. statehood bill and the railway rate bill. Prominent European statesmen, educators and publicists have joined in a petition to President Roosevelt asking him to attempt to bring to an end the outrages in Turkey. The petition was presented by James B. Reynolds of New York. President Roosevelt has issued orders to the various departments of the government to curtail the amount of public printing so as to make a big reduction in the expense of that department. Secretary Taft tent a communication to the House Committee on interstate and foreign commerce recommending that a military cable line be constructed to connect the mainland of- the United States with the Panama canal zone. Steps to save the old frigate Constitution were taken in the House of Representatives when a resolution was adopted directing the committee on naral affairs to ascertain the annual cost of proper care for the old warship.

The commercial position maintains exceptional strength. More sea Cbicago. sonable weather brought a good demand for winter apparel and household needs and retail trade generally experienced a sharp reduction of , stocks which hitherto moved slowly owing to comparatively mild temperature. Construction work is impeded but slightly, nor has there been Interruption to unprecedented consumption of all kinds of building material. Manufacturing moves forward very steadily, with the outlook for the year most encouraging. Rail capacity is now engaged ahead for fifteen months, while new commitments draw more extensively on structural shapes, plates nud rolling stock. Pig iron exhibits a firmer tone in quotations, bookings being equally plentiful for both current wants and forward delivery, indicating that meltcrs are well provided with work. Factory operations disclose more activity in implements, heavy hardware and electric output, and there is a fair request for heavy machinery, automobiles and vehicles. In the leather working lines most activity appears in shoe and belting factories, but orders increase for saddlery, trunks and specialties. Distributive branches of general merchandise report satisfactory conditions. Mail orders for spring delivery come forward in good volume for the principal staples. Interior merchants are-buying confidently, many requiring early shipments, and house sales are stimulated by increasing numbers of visiting buyers. Movements of commodities, as reflected by railroad returns, show no diminution. Bank clearings, $222,920,507, exceed those of corresponding week in 190-j by 12.4 per cent. Deposits are recovering, money is easier in tone, and on more bidding for commercial paper the discount rate ruled at 5Va per cent. Failures reported in Chicago district number twenty-five, against thirtytwo last week and thirty-one a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. Mild weather continues a source of complaint by affecting retail trade, New York. collections and some reorder business from wholesalers, but compensations are found in continued activity in outdoor inquiry, practically unchecked building operations, better than ordinary midwinter transportation conditions and uninterrupted progress in all manufacturing lines, particularly iron and steel. Spring trade prospects continue as favorable as heretofore, there Is considerable looking around, shipments on earlier orders are heavy and the feeling favors an earlier than ordinarj opening of wholesale operations in drj goods, millinery, Bhoes and kindred lines. Building materials were apparently never so active before at thif stage of the season. Bank clearings again break all records for the week. Money is easier at nearly all markets. Summed up, thrn is nndiminishpd confidence in an Immense if not. Indeed, record bust J ness for six months at least Business failures in the United States for the week ended Jan. IS number 274, against 2SG last week. 304 In the like week of 1905, 20G iij 1901, 2;3 in 1903, and 292 in 1902. It Canada failures for the week numbei thirty-six, as against forty-six last week and thirty-seven In this week t year ago. Bradstreet's Commercia' Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime $4.00 to $0.25; hogs, prime heavy, $4.(K to $5.52; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 ti $5.90; wheat. No. 2, S5c to SGc; corn No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats, standard, 20c U 30c; rye, No. 2, GGc to G7c; hay, timo thy, $8.50 to $12.00; prairie, $0.00 U $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 23c ti 25c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 19c; potatoes 53c to OOc. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.CK to $5.75; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 t $5.G7; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 ti $5.00; wheat, No. 2, SSc to S9c; corn No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. i white, 31c to 32c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $5.90 hogs. $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $4.00 ti $6.25; wheat, No. 2, 91c to U3c; corn No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2, 30c ti 31c ; rye, No. 2, 67c to GSc. Cincinnati Cattle, $1.00 to $4.S5 hogs, $4.00 to $5.72; sheep, $2.00 ti $5.25; wheat, No. 2, 91c to 92c; corn No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 1 mixed, C2c to 33c; rye, No. 2, GSc t 70c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SGc ti 87c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; rye. No 2, GSc to G7c; clover seed, prime, $8.20 Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers $4.00 to $5.50 ; hogs, fair to choice, $4.0( to $5.S5; sheep, common to good mixed $4.00 to $5.75; lambs, fair to choice $5.00 to $7.85. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $5.55 hogs. $4.00 to $G.00; sheep. $3.00 ti $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red, SSc to 90c corn, No. 2, 50c to 51c; oats, natural white, SGc to 37c; butter, creamery, 2b to 20c ; eggs, western, ISc to 20c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $4.75; hogs $4.00 to $5.30; sheep, $2.50 to $5.25 wheat. No. 2, 85c to 87c; corn. No. J yellow. 44c to 4Gc; oats, No. 3 white 32c to 33c ; rye, No. 2, GGc to GSc Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern S3c to S4c; corn. No. 3, 40c to 41c oats, standard, 30e to 32c; rye, No. 1 67c to GSc; barley, No. 2, 53c to 54c pork, iness, $13.80. Briet News Items. The second national conference foi the reform of primary and electiou lawf will be held in New York Murch 5 to 7 Many civic bodies and punll ofüeiali will be represented. A' reward of $1,000 is offered for th arrest of Jacob R. Weaver. He is ac cused of securing a $2,500 loan froa Dr. George E. WTasher of Laporte. Ind. by a forged deed to a farm. The D. J. Hennessy Mercantile Company of Butte, Mont., whose 'store wai robbed of $3,000 by two robbers, hai authorized an offer of a reward of $5. 000 for the capture of the bandits. Financial embarrassment, sa d to have resulted from the failure of the John R Walsh banks of Chicago, caused G. Cenedella, & contractor of Milford. Mass to make an assignment. Cenedella had large contracts in connection with thi construction of Indiana railroads.

HOOSIEE HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Onr Nelchbor Are Dolnc Matters of General and Local Interest Marriaces and Death Accidents and Crimes Personal Pointern Aboat Indianians. Brief State Items. The postoffice at Chandler was robbed of 2,000 one-cent stamp. A proposition to incorporate is Inning considered by residents of Economy. Frank Rigsby, 35, was struck by a street carat Anderson and probably fatally injured. Henry Miller, a wealthy farmer living near Waterloo, committed suicide with carbolic acid. Fire almost totally destroyed the Pennsylvania roundhouse at Logansport. Eleven engines w ere burned. Frank Orman, aged 4), was killed near Henryville while cutting timber. A falling tree crushed him. A Ion zo Perry. 25 years old, of Knightstown, is being held for trial at Newcastle on the charge of bigamy. Boger Barber, aged 83, fell from the bath room window in the St. Edward's hospital at New Albany, and was killed. Arthur Harris, 20 years old, of Bryant, was sent to the reformatory for larceny under the indeterminate sentence act. Andrew Kicker, deaf and dumb, living at Maplewood, was struck by a C, II. fc D. passenger train and instantly killed. In a quarrel over a nickel at Evansville, Ivobert Braker, white, was fatally stabbed by Robert Hill, colored. Hill was arrested. Miss Eliza Grief, aged 2S, of New Albany, committed suicide with a revolver. Two bullets took effect. No cause is given. Newton Turner, 18 years of age, of Madison, was killed by coming in contact with a live w ire which had fallen to the sidewalk. Alex It. Keavis, aged 40, of Oakland City, was struck by a train at Fort Branch, lie was taken to ahospital atEvansville.wliere he died. Oaktown suffered a serious fire, the los being estimated at ?5,ow), with an insurance of 2,000. The origia of the tire is unknown. Cornelius Meyers, 20, of Ilymera, formerly of Linton, while eating dinner, choked to death before medical aid could reach him. At a dance nearKoekport, Sherman I'urtlock was fatally wounded in a pistol battle with Clarence and Frank Miller and several other men. Henry Ilesch, a young merchant, died at Mishawaka as a result of blood poisoning. Ileseh had a tooth extracted, and his gums became infected. Mrs. John Cook is dead and four persons are injured as the result of an explosion of acetyleine gas at the Cook home, three miles east of Richmond. Ten minutes after accepting employment in the Big Four railroad coal chutes at Lafayette, Robert Hamilton, a laborer, was killed by a passenger train. The boiler in the Ferdinand brewery at Jasper, exploded, seriously scalding County Clerk Peter Huther. George Brenner and John Hang were also injured. The Central Academy building at Plainfield, was destroyed by lire. Some of the furniture was saved. The lo on the building is estimated at J10,OjO. Oliver Harris, 4.2 years old, in khe neighborhood of Chrisney, became suddenly insane. He was removed toth Southern Indiana hospital for treatment. James J. Cooper, aged 75, expired suddenly from heart failure at Indianapolis. He was State Treasurer in 18S2, be;ng elected on the Democratic ticket. Otto Afflerbaugh, 18 years old, son of Daniel Afflerbaugh, a well-to-do farmer, tyelve miles north of Morgantown, was struck by a tree while felling it and died from his injuries. Mrs. Louise Lechlitner of Mishawaka, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. A friend named Julia Wilson killed herself in the same way and it is aid the second suicide was in sympathy with the firs;. Emma Cooper of Newcastle, filed a cross complaint for divorce from Frank W. Cooper, demanding $20,000 alimony and the custody of the children. She has a f5J,000 alienation suit pending against Anna D. Welsh, a wealthy w idow. Fire caused $2,000 damage o the home of Miss Elizabeth Ames at Greencastle, and the house filled so rapidly with smoke and flame that neighbors had difficulty in rescuing Mrs. Henry Ames, the invalid mother of the owner. The loss is partly insured. Edward Shaw of Newbern, while attempting to remove a cartridge which had jammed in a gun, caused the same to explore and fragments of the shell were driven through his glasses into his right eye, necessitating the removal of that organ. The eye was almost blown from its socket. John Stillman of Marion, attempted to pass between the strands of a heavy belt used in driving a saw, and was caught and carried f the driving wheel, where his clothing was torn from his body and he was thrown to the ground, receiving very severe injuries. There was surprise that he was not instantly killed. A tank containing 50,000 gallons of water, en top of the plant of the Pittsburg Glass Works at Kokomo, gare way under pressure, tearing out a portion of the west wall and flooding the interior. Several of the workmen had narrow escapes. The accident is attributed to defective hoops, binding the staves together. The estimated loss is $5,000. Charles Goldsmith, employed in the Vulcan coal mine at Linton, was caught by falling slate and his spine and arm broken. After twenty hours deliberation, the jury in the Johnson Circuit Court returned a erdict, finding John I). Martin not guilty of the murder of Jake Kelly, at Trafalgar, last October. Martin's plea was self-defense. Proceedings in the Eacock blackmail conspiracy trial at Lafayette, ended with the announcement that Attorney Joseph Eacock, defendant, has suddenly lost his r-son. A week's continuance was üed. Eacock's condition is serious, aier Turpin, employed in the Atlas l. ..c at Linton as a driver, was accident- . ady killed. The mule is supposed to have kicked him, throwing him under the car. Frank Smith, arrested for attempting to kill Frank Batton. has bel released, having acted in self-defense. Several wealthy Gibson county fanners organized an oil company to drill a test well m what is known as the Indian Creek tettlement southwest of Princeton. The drill passed through a vein of coal five feet, thick at a depli of 800 feet, and at a depth of 4 feet a vein eight feet thick was drilled through. A company is now being formed to mine the coal. Different Karnes. MI suppose, said the romantic cit'ten, that you are greatly lauded for your generosity 7 "Well, not altogether, responded the Pittsburg millionaire. "Some call it generosity and some call it restitution Louisville Courier-JourntL Wanted the Frame. Auctioneer (pot-boiler sale) Going! Going! Gone! Here, sir, it's yours. Great bargain, sir! The frame alone b worth the price. Connoisseur (ripping out the picture) The frame was what I wanted. New York Weekly