Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 22, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 March 1906 — Page 2

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fTL O. TN N. M. "TN F. P. M. lj 17th24th )) 3rd. (V) 10th. FEATURES OF INTEILEST CONCERNING PEOPLE. PLACES AMD DOINGS OF THE WORLD. Com its and Crimes Accidents and Fixe Labor and Capital Grain, Ctock and Money Markets Tea Thonsand People Lost in Storm. The steamship Mariposa, which arrived ctSan Francisco from Tahita, brings news that on Feb. 7 and 8 a destructive tornado wept the Society islands, causing damage to the amount of $1,(300,000 at Tahiti and a similar amount in Tuamotu islands. Ten thousand persons are said to have perished during the storm and several of the islands nave disappeared. - The city of Papeate was inundated and seventy-five houses were destroyed, including the American consulate and French government building. XI and reds of Fins Afloat on Ice in Sea. A dispatch from nelsingfors, Finland, tays that 830 fishermen with their families, who are afloat on the ice in the gulf of Finland, are doomed to perish. About a fortnight ago about 1,000 persons who had with them their horses were fishing off the cast land when the ice parted and was driven by the storm into the Baltic sea. Later the ice split, the wind changed to 'cast and a block on which there were 200 persons came ashore at Fredericksham. The fata of the others is unknown. Million Dollar Prairie Fire. A special from Roswell, X. Mex., states that more than 1,'W0,000 acres of pasture, land in the westenrpart of the Fanhandle, just cast of Portales, S. Mex., have been burned in a prairie fire that has been sweeping east and south for two days and U still beyond control. J. P. White, of the Yellow lloute ranch, and L. F. Douthit, one of the largest stock raisers in the southwest, state that the loss is already $1,000,000. Probably a dozen ranches have been robbed ct their feed. . Italiun Village Falls Into Lake. Tbe village of Tavornola, built on the perpendicular cliffs above Lake Iseo, in lie province of Brescia, I lily, w as almost entirely destroyed by a rock suddenly givi3 way, apparently because the lake had eaten into the base of the cliffs. The disaster wax preceded by a . loud, roaring rcund, which alarmed the 1,000 inhabitants la time to make their escape. One fishernan was killed. About 200 feet of rock cad the houses on it were swallowed up by the lake. Powder Magazine Blown Up. A powder magazine stored with 100 tons cf powder and dynamite, belonging to A. XL Easbaugh & Co., railroad contractors, Ideated near Safe Harbor, Pa., blew up. The explosion was terrific and the property damage to buildings in the vicinity is heavy. In Lancaster, twelve miles distant, houses shook as if by an earthquake. The cause cf the explosion is unknown. The discembere d body of James hweeney, watchsaaa, was found some distance from the xsene. Fire Panic in Chicago lloteL Fire of unknown, origin starting in the basement created a panic among the guests of the Park Gate hotel at Chicago. Escape t7 means of the stairways was shut off, and fire escapes furnished the only means of exit until the firemen arrived and ladders placed to the windows. All the guests got vut safely and no one was injured. - Tramps Blow Up Hotel. A number of tramps who had been expelled from the four-story Salvation Army hotel at Chattanooga, Tenn., secured entrance to the hotel, placed nitro-glyoerine In the stove and escaped just as the explosion almost wrecked the building. Charles Kinney was arrested later. Killed His Wife and Shot Himself. Henry I. Whitbeck. a physician and dentist of Buffalo, N. Y., killed his wife with a hammer and then blew his brains cut with a rifle. She had been an invalid cxny years. Whitbeck recently had 4jcen a patient in a sanitarium. Both were about CS years of age. Philippine City Destroyed by Fire. Tacloban, the capital of the island of Leyte, P. I., has been destroyed by fire. The financial loss is reported to be $60,000. Tacloban was the fifth city of the island ud was situated in an important hemp district. A number of warehouses were C-stroyed. XCaaaway Train Wrecked One Dead. Two enginei and thirty-two loaded coal crs ran away for three miles on the Chesjeake Jk Ohio railroad, crashing into twenty empty cars at Thurmond, W. Vn., UTeciing thirteen coal. cars, demolishing both engines and killing Engineer M. A. Perkins. CCO.OOO Couatry llome Burned.' Tbe palatial country home of Thurston Callard. sr., at Glen View, a suburb of Xoulsville, Ky., was destroyed by Are. Loss $3,000, covered by insurance. Safeblowers Rob PostoQce. Candits used nitro-glyeerin to blow open Che safe in the postofflee at Grant Park, 111., racuring nearly $000 in cash and stamps. Woman Gored to Death. Urs. Rudolph Funk, wife of ä farmer Irring eight miles north of Logansport, Ind., was gored to death by an angry bull. The animal was tied in the stall and attacked Mrs. Funk as she was doing the chores about the barn. Boy Held on 3Inrder Charge. Joseph Knight, aged 18, is In jail at Huntington, Ind., charged with killing Kenneth Willets, aged 14, at Andrews. A quarrel arose between the . two boys and Willets was killed with a knife thrust into the brain. . . T7onan Dies in Smoke. C!inded by smoke in her attempt to scape from a burning flat building at W550 Washington avenue, Chicago, Mrs. John Ilanly, 55 years old, lost her way while groping for the exit, and when found by Fire Captain Goctz she was suffocated. Oaalc Robber Shot and Capto red. Three robbers blew open the vault of the Missouri City bank at Missouri City. Officers were aroused and the robbers fled after a fight with pistols. One of the robbers, Leonard Bell, alias Edward Dancan, was overtaken at Randolph, shot in the back and captured. FUb 3Cent City Car Lines. Believing the Metzger bill will pass Cleveland officials are planning ordinances giving the right to parallel at least five car line3 to the lowest bidder. The Metzger bill prowdes for a vote of the people Should taey approve, work on 3-cent lines would start tt once unless the monopoly capitulated. Confesses Trrenty-slx Murders. Confession that he plotted the death of former Gov. Steunenberg and murdered nreuty-ix persons, made by Harry Orchard under arrest at Boise, Idaho, for murder, has been revealed in a statement israed by Got. Gooding.

EASTERIT. Jacob A. Rlis, the reformer, ud friend of the President, Is at a New York hospital, suffering from heart trouble. Col. A. F. Walcott. a Civil War veteran and turfman, died in New York, lie was born in Salem, Mass., sixty-eight years ago and was well known as a horseman. Small holders of Western Maryland stock began suit at Baltimore to have the $30,000,000 of stock and bonds issued since the Wabash secured the road declared invalid. Tbe family of 'Anderson Fowler, wealthy packer, learned on the arrival at New York of a steamer on which the remains were shipped, that the body was buried at sea by the boat's officers. New business of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, owing to the insurance scandals, shows a falling off of $81,000,000 in 1905, as compared with the previous year, while the value of policies surrendered triples. Because her hair was . turning gray, Mrs. William Thomas, a young matron of Eleanora, . Pa., committed suicide. She swallowed caustic potash, and when a doctor was called threatened to kill him if he would not let her die. While attending a theater in Tittsburg "AI" McPhail of New York, one of the best-known circus men in the country, suddenly became blind. A physician was summoned and announced that McPhail had been stricken with apoplexy. Fire caused by the explosion of a gas stove destroyed the storage and distributing plant of Armour St Co. at American and Norris streets, Philadelphia. The loss Is estimated at $150,000. . The building was filled with dressed meats and provisions. Three foreigners were fatally injured and a house destroyed In Qreensburg, Pa., by an explosion of a can of powder. Two men, who worked in the Jamison mine, attempted to open the can with a pick and the powder was ignited from a spark. Richard A. McCurdy, ex-president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, and, Mrs. McCurdy and Louis O. Thebaud and Mrs. Thebaud, Mr. McCurdy' daughter, have sailed for Europe on the Hamburg-American steamship America. The price of ice has been raised by the American Ice Company in New York from 30 cents to 40 cents a hundred pounds. There is reason to suppose the price will go still higher toward June. Never before has there been such a bad year for , Ice. North college, the oldest dormitory at Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., containing ISO rooms, was destroyed by fire. All the students rooming in the building escaped, but lost all their effects. The fire, it is thought, started in the attic. The loss is heavy. Tbe tug Daniel Willard, which left Gloucester, Mass., bound for York, Me., last night, struck a rock off tbe Rock port breakwater and sank. Three of the five men on board are believed to have been drowned. Two were rescued by the lifesaving crew from rigeon Cove.

YTESTERH. Fifteen forged certificates covering 4,800 acres of Oregon school land were presented at Salem by Frank T. Toland of La Crosse, Wis. Frank Clark, cashier of the bank of Brandeis & Son in Omaha, was shot three times by a highwayman and no hope of his recovery is entertained. The seven vessels of the Pacific squadion wkich have been in the harbor at San Diego, CaL, for two weeks sailed for Magdalena bay for target practice. Constable Joseph Slais was shot and killed by Mrs. Lawrence Baker, 000 West Chicago avenue, Chicago, when he called at her bouse with an assistant to levy on an execution. ' , Councilman Jeremiah Anderson was sentenced to pay a fine of $500 for soliciting a bribe from a sewer pipe company in Akron, Ohio', in the Interest of proposed legislation. Six more houses were set afire in the race rioting at Springfield, Ohio, Wednesday night, eight companies of militia being unable to put down the mob bent on driving all negroes out. . A mob at Springfield, Ohio, bent on lynching a negro assailant of a white man, burned dwellings of blacks, wrecked a saloon and injured two officers. The calling out of troops was necessary. Aa expert accountant's examination of the books of Allen C. Bates, secretary of the Mississippi Valley - Elevator and Grain Company, who committed suicide in St. Louis Feb. 14, shows a shortage of $15,000. Over half the flour mills of Minneapolis have shut down. "There Is no demand for flour, our sales have dropped off heavily and we are forced to suspend operations for two weeks at least," declare the millers. Joseph Wilder, a negro, was convicted in the St. Louis police court of having seized and hugged two white girls on the street end was fined $1,000, tbe maximum penalty. He was unable to pay and was locked up. Constable Slais, killed in Chicago by Mrs. Baker, carried a mask, a glass cutter and pliers in his pockets, besides his revolver. These articles were shown at the inquest and may be used by. the defense in court. ( David Tennyson, a wealthy farmer, was shot and killed at his home one mile east of Frankfort, Kan. Tennyson was killed as he sat close to his wife in his parlor, the murderer firing through the window. The Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railway Company, of which A. C. Frost Is president, has been granted a franchise by the Milwaukee City Council to operate its interurban line to the heart of the business district. The Ohio House of Representatives voted 70 to 25 to repeal the inheritance tax law. The Senate previously passed a bill repealing the law, but It was killed by the house committee on taxation, to which it was referred. The board of health in Topeka, Kan., ordered the board of education to discontinue the distribution of drawing pencils to pupils In the schools. Danger of infection by the promiscuous use of lead pencils caused the action. A thief, who evidently thought he was obtaining jewels which would support him for life, looted a case in the State mining exhibit of good window glass imitations of the crown jewels of effete monarchies in San Francisco. A man giving his name as John II. Waterhouse of Seattle, Wash., was arrested in St. Louis on the charge of forgery while presenting for payment a check for $100 bearing the name of William Loeffel, a St. Louis jeweler. Kansas traffic managers have - decided to defy the maximum freight rate law and increase the charges for transporting oil. The move, if successful, w'll ruin Independent dealers and again turn over the State into the hands of the Standard Oil Company. The Equitable Building, Loan and Savings Association, with a capital stock of $2,000,000, was placed" in liquidation in Elkhart, Ind., on a resolution of the board of directors. This is another echo of the Indiana National bank failure three years ago. The worst dust storm experienced around Wichita, Kan., in years prsvailed Thursday. For three days a high wind, varying in velocity from thirty to forty miles an hour, had swept the country. The air was filled with dust, giving the sky a leaden hue. Death came to Bessie Cole, daughter f Stephen Cole of Bloomingsburg, Ohio, after a spell of sneezing which lasted ten hours. A physician was summoned, but Lis efforts to check the sneezing wert of

ns avail. The breaking of a blood vessel'

caused the death. As Minnie Vorhes, the 12-year-old daughter of Lee Vorhes of Sarahsville, Ohio, was on her way home she was attacked by a big bird dog and before assistance could be given her side and hip were mangled. The dog gave every evidence of having rabies. W. J. O'Connell'of Middletown, Ohio, a saloonkeeper, was probably fatally shot by Charles Gay, a Cincinnati private detective, who had been employed to assist the Middletown police in breaking up gambling in that town. The detective says that he shot in self-defense. The opportune arrival of several workmen prevented the contemplated suicide of Fritz Biebighausen aged 25, who lay on the Erie track at Galion, Ohio, awaiting the coming of a fast train to strike him, and was rescued just in time to escaps being struck. He was despondent. A. G. Spalding of New York and Chicago has turned farmer and Is going to reclaim the largest tract of arid land ever put under Irrigation by a private individual in the United States. Mr. Spalding has acquired 104,000 acres of land in the Mimbre valley, twenty mile north of Dealing, N. M. A strike of 100,000 flint glass workers of the United States and Canada was averted by their agreement to accept a sliding scale, which means a reduction of 20 to 30 per cent for many of the worker s. This will, it is said, enable the independent manufacturers to fight the socalled trust. John F. Wallace of Chicago, former chief engineer of the Panama canal commission, has been employed by George Westinghouse at a salary of $05,000 a year. He will assist in the construction of a number of electric railways paralleling steam railroad lines in many parts of the country. John R. Walsh, former president of the now defunct Chicago National bank, has seen arrested on charges of making a false report of the condition of that bank shortly before It failed, and was required to give a $50,000 bond for his appearance before United States Commissioner Foote. s la Independence, Kaa., Mrs. J. T. Brock, wife of a farmer, was awarded $5,000 damages In the District Court for injuries sustained when her horse, frightened by an automobil driven by Georg Francis, ran away. The jury' held that Francis did not make proper efforts to avoid the accident. By the collapse of the upper floor of one of the buildings of the big cabinet works of Theodore Knndtz in Cleveland, one man was killed, one fatally injured and ten others had a miraculous escape from death. The man killed is Joseph Anteil, who was caught beneath the debris and crushed to death. Fifteen women members of Rebecca lodge, Eastern Star, were badly shaken up and some of them seriously injured by the overturning of a bus at Inver Grove, a suburb of St. Paul. In driving across the railroad tracks at Inver Grove the driver of the bus made a sharp turn which upset the bus and sent it rolling into a deep ditch. C. E. Dodd and J. W. Murphy, who were jcted from the waiting room of the depot in Mount Carmel, 111., while drunk, began shooting through the windows on the waiting crowd within, killing two men, one of whom is believed to have been from Youngstown, Ohio. Dodd and Murphy are in jail. Public feeling is high against the prisoners. The Ohio House of Representatives, by a vote of 55 to 49, defeated the Metzger bill, which proposed to give the people of Ohio cities the right to vote franchises for street railways without the consent of property owners on the etrvets wherein the franchises were sought. The bill was urged by Mayor Johnson of Cleveland to aid his project for a 3-cent fare street railway in that city. William Arnold and hit , wife were found with their threats cut at II. II. Arnold's home in Herrington, Kan. The husband was dying. The body of the wife indicated she had been slain several hours before the discovery. Arnold is a railroad man, who came a short time ago from Rock Island, 111., and was working at McFarland. His wife was staying at the home of his brother. No reason for the deed is known. WASHINGTOir. Secretary Shaw has decided to deposit $10,000,000 of the public funds in existing depository banks in important centers for at least four months, and tbe ection is expected to result in quick relief in the monetary situation. The Senate committee on Philippines on Friday -refused to report the Philippine tariff bill. By a vote of 8 to 5 the committee voted against a favorable report and by a vote of 7 to 6 it refused to report the bill adversely for consideration of the Senate. This effectually disposes of tbe measure. . A cablegram to the Navy Department from Las Palmas says the damage to the dry dock Dewey in its passage across tbe Atlantic will be repaired by March 12, when the Dewey will continue from the Canaries on the way to the Philippines. The damage consists of loose rivets and rivet beads broken off. FOHEIGN. A cure for cancer is said to have been found in "trypsin," a destroyer of disease cells discovered by Dr." John Beard of Edinburgh university. Advices received in Paris state that many persons were killed In a hurricane which destroyed the village of Mahanoro, east coast of Madagascar. Americans and Filipinos will tender a banquet to James F. Smith, future Governor of the Philippines, at Jolo, prior to his departure on a vacation. Persons who have lately visited the Pope report that his state of health is very poor and that he appears to be broken down by recent events la France. The London Telegraph correspondent at Shanghai says it is reported that the taotai has received a secret telegram announcing the empress death. The New York Tribune correspondent at Shanghai says this report is denied. Thirty men were drowned by the wreck between Haugesund and Bergen of the Norwegian coasting stetmer Thor. The vessel's cable broke during a hurricane and she was blown ashore and sank. Only three of her crew were saved. The German courts have decided that the three eldest sons of Mme. SchumannHeink, the singer, shall be permitted to accompany her to America in April and have also awarded her the fortune of her late husband, Herr Helnk, on the ground that it was earned by her. The Chinese government has instructed the Governor of Nanchang, province of Kiang-Si, where six French Jesuit missionaries and four British subjects were killed Feb. 25, to punish severely all participants in the massacre. It declares its willingness to make without question any reasonable reparation demanded. The Kaiser' second son, Prince Eitel Frederick of Prussia, was married Tuesday in. the chapel of the imperial palace in Berlin to Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg. The ceremony was attended by upward of 1,000 invited guests, including members of nearly every royal family In Europe. Fred A. Thompson, treasurer of the province of Moro, in the Island of Mindanao, Is In San Francisco iu the interests of that territory. His mission is to Inform capitalists that the province of Moro has Deen granted a land law , by the insular government under which It Is permitted to sell or lease to any cor- j poration which applies 2,500 acres of ; land for the cultivation of hemp, rubber, sugar and the other plants and grain which may be raised in the island with profit.

TORNADO RUINS TOWN

DEALS DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN MERIDIAN, MISS. Twenty-one White Persons and Over lOO ZVeRroes Arc Killed Fire Helps to Add to Loss, Which Will Reach at Leant $1,300,000. A destructive tornado visited. Meridian, Miss., at 0:30 Friday evening, killing twenty-one white persons and over 100 colored reophj and damaging property to the extent of $1,500,000. There were also scores seriously injured by being caught In wreckage of bouses. The tornado caught the city on the southwest and traveled to the northeast and traveled In two suburbs, where many negroes were killed and injured, a whole ' tenement district being wiped out. Two large wholesale stores, one smaller one, tbe principal hotel, the electric lighting plant and all the smaller property between the Mobile & Ohio Railroad depot and the business part of. the city were badly damaged. Twenty -one men were caught In a restaurant and several were killed. Two stories of the Y. M. C. A. building were wrecked and other buildings suffered In the upper stories. Hard Flr ; with Fire. The negro tenement district in tbe north of the city was demolished and the debris caught fire, threatening a new danger, but the local department, with the belp of hundreds of citizens, overcame this after a hard fight They were assisted by the torrential rain following the tornado. The known path of the storm was about C00 feet wide and one mile in length. The Union and Queen and Crescent depots were among the buildings demolished and It is estimated that more than a score of dead are among the wreckage. ' D. E. BennetL Claud Williams, and Frank Woodruff, employes of the Meyer Neville Company, were buried in the debris when that building ent down. Bennett escaped, but the other men were cau&ht beneath the ruins. Plow Way ThrooKh City. The cyclone, accompanied by a heavy rainstorm, struck Meridian shortly after dark. Tbe storm center was In the southern portion of the city and particularly heavy along Front street, one of the principal business' streets of the town. Nearly every bouse on Front street Is reported to have been demolished. The Armour packing plant was left standing and the roof of this was gone. The city was plunged Into total darkness, the electric lighting plant having been put out of business. Tbe cyclone did severe damage at other points adjacent to Meridian and all trains entering Meridian were delayed considerably. The Western Union Telegraph Company reported having lost fifteen miles of wire and the Postal Telegraph Com pany also suffered great damage. The wires were all down between Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis and other points. Whole Squares Devastated. The tornado passed over in about two minutes and during that period several squares were devastated. A conservative estimate places the numler of buildings blown down at between thirty and forty. Among the heaviest losers are the Meyer '& Neville Hardware Company, Tom Lyle & Co., wholesale dry goods and groceries ; Josh , Moore, wholesale dry goods and groceries. The New Orleans & Northwestern Railroad lost Its freight depot and other buildings were destroyed. The Mobile & Ohio depot Is safe, as wel as the' Southern hotel, but the Grand Avenue hotel was considerably damaged. From the business center tbe tornado Jumped to the east end, where a number of residences were blown down. Ohio's Bride; e Trust Probe. Attorney General Ellis of Ohio has made his preliminary inquiry into the operations of the American Bridge Company and its subsidiary corporations in tbe State, and estimates that the combination has been taking over $$00,000 a year out of the pockets of the people of Ohio since 1S92. He has evidence showing that it has been the practice of the various companies to have their agents form a secret pool in bidding for all bridge work, allowing a big margin of profit to the members of the trust over and above the profit to the company doing the work. The presumption is that county commissioners knew what was going on and prosecutions are anticipated. The Legislature has been asked to amend the law so as to compel witnesses to testify without self-incrimination. Marconi Wins Patent Case. The United States Circuit Court at New York has awarded to William Marconi priority as the originator of wireless telegraphy, as claimed in his suit against the De Forest company. The judges say Marconi was the. first to describe and the first to achieve the transmission of definite, intelligent signals by means of the Ilertzren waves. Note of Current Events King Edward wrote a cordial letter to the Kaiser on his birthday. Berlin is pleased at the resumption of friendly relations with Britain. Trof. R. S. Williams, who has been in the Philippines two years for the New York Botanical garden, said that the Filipinos are too lazy to work. Ex-Premier Balfour has declared for a tariff on corn and other foreign products. This brings him into accord with Chamberlain, but free trade unionists are indignant. ' Plans are under way for one of the greatest military posts in the world at San Francisco. E. II. Harriman is to establish great terminal stations at Jamaica Bay, L. I., at a cost of $25,000,000, where steamers can unload instead of at Manhattan piers. In an informal opinion Joseph II. Choate said that the Mutual Life Insurance Company could force restitution by the old management of money to which they are not entitled. The Shanghai correspondent of the London Standard cables that an attack was made on a foreign mission at Nganking, province of Nganhwei, recently. There was no loss of life. M. Gavey of Troy, N. Y., arrested after rendering valuable assistance at the Courtland (Va.) fire as Leo C. Thurman, alleged slayer of Walter P. Dolsen in tbe Norfolk trunk murder case, proved not to be the right man. Suit in equity was brought in the federal court iu Omaha, Neb., against the Nebraska Land and Feeding Company and its officers to compel the removal of fences alleged to have been built on government land and inclosing 400,000 acres. Bartlett Richards and W. G. Comstock, officers of the company, were convicted last December of land frauds and Secretary C. C. Jameson is now under indict-xnenL

1 CONGRESS i

In the Senate Monday Senator Tillman reported the Hepburn railroad rate bill. Senator Aldrich made a brief statement f the position of the five Republicans ivho opposed it in committee. Mr. Cul!?rsen moved that his own bill on the ubject be substituted for the Hepburn Measure, and it was ordered printed and iaid on the table until the rate bill is uiken up. Mr. Clapp called up the bill to dispose of the affairs of the five civilized tribes in Indian Territory, and it lv 38 discussed at length. Mr. Dick, a the aiternoon, occupied the floor, speaking in behalf of the statehood bill. A nuci:er of bills of local importance were passed, including one for the erection of i $75.000 public building af Alton, 111. Legislation for the District of Columbia .Kcupiei the first hour of the House selion, eight local bills being passed. Two hours of hot debate on the question .of illowing the incorporation of the Lake F.rie aud Ohio River Ship Canal Clipany followed, but m the matter did not xmie to a vote.. -: :- The Senate Tuesday agreed to vote on :he statehood bill Friday, March 9. Mr. Hopkins made a speech in support of the measure. The remainder of the day was ieyoted to a discussion of the bill proriding for the settlement of the affairs of the five civilized tribes of Indians, the greater part of the time being tfven to the provision for the disposal of the coal lands in Indian Territory. A bill was passed extending the time allowed to the Kensington and Eastern Railroad Company for the construction of a bridge across the Calumet river in Illinois. Military matters held th? attention of the House, the army appropriation bill being under consideration for amendment. That Gens. Corbin and MacArthur might become lieutenant, generals the provision kbolishing that rank was eliminated. Only right of the fifty pages of the bill were passed npon. The Dalzell bill chartering the Lake Erie and Ohio Ship Canal Company, with an authorized capital of $00,DOO, was passed. A resolution of inquiry aimed at the State Department was ordered canceled and destroyed, as Mr. Van Duze (Nevada), by whom it was purported to have been introduced, repudiated lu Senator Foraker's speech opposing railway rate legislation occupied three hours af the session of the Senate Wednesday. A further discussion of the railroad land grant in Indian Territory followed, with the result that a resolution was passed extending the tribal government of the five civilized tribes until March 4, 1907. An executive session was had at 4:15 p. tnM but the doors were reopened ten minutes later r.nd the remainder of the day n-n Aa-rt ail tn tho nnsc.i nf rtrivate Tn ision bills. The. army appropriation 6ccupied the attention ot tne liouse, dui its consideration was not completed. The discussion was marked by a controversy between the members of the appropriations and military committees over the amounts carried in the bill, and honors were about evenly divided. A proposed amendment to pay $5,000 each to the widows of two San Francisco firemen who lost their lives in the recent fire on the transport Meade was ruled out of order. Provision for more than 300 clerks employed in the staff and at army division headquarters also went out when it was shown that there was no authority in law for their employment. A resolution was adopted calling on the Postmaster General for all information on which he based his order withholding the rights and privileges of the mails from the People's United States Bank of St. Louis. '-: u The discussion of the railroad rate question was continued in the Senate Thursday by Mr. Dolliver, who spoke in support of the Dolliver-IIepburn bill. The remainder of the session was. devoted to the bill providing for the settlement of the affairs of the five civilized tribes of Indians after the termination of their tribal relations- No action was take-. The House passed the army appropriation bill, carrying about $00,000,000. Provision for a cable ship for the Atlantic coast and for a ship for mine planting on the Pacific was eliminated on points of order. The powder trust came in for an attack in the debate, and an attempt by Democrats to have the government begin the manufacture of its own powder consumed considerable time, but met with defeat. The Foraker bill providing for the marking of graves of Confederate dead In the North was passed unanimously. The Seuate jcint resolution continuing the tribal government of the five civilized tribes of Indians in Indian Territory until their property shall have been disposed of was agreed to. -: :- The Senate Friday passed the bill providing for the settlement of the affairs of the five civilized tribes of Indians. Under the guise of considering the measure, practically the entire session was given over to a discussion of the railroad question, raised by Mr. La Follette's proposed amendment to the Indian bill prohibiting railroad companies and their stockholders from acquiring the coal lands in the territory. This amendment, together with all the Indian committee's amendments, was laid on the table. At 5:32 p. m. the Senate went into executive session and at 5 :40 adjourned until Monday. The first private claims session of this Congress occupied the House, twenty-five bills being passed, all for small amounts. Opposition to many of the measures accounted for the small number put through. Five which were reported favorably by the committee went over because there was no quorum at 5 :30 p. m., when th? House adjourned until Monday. Notes of the National ?apltal. An Investigation of alleged railway ownership of oil and coal companies has been otiered by the Interstate commerce committee of the House. President Roosevelt has decided to veto any rate bill which does not meet his approval. This warning has been served on the Senate committee. A conference at the White House between the President and merchants, appraisers and other officials resulted in a refusal to have the right of open hearings in caes of contested valuations. Gov. Magoon of the Panama canal zone testified before the Senate committee denying the charges made by Poultney Bigelow. Senator Foraker claimed sixteen Republican Senators would join the Democrats in defeating statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. The Senate committee on naval affairs has reported favorably the bill introduced by Senator Terkins to prevent hazing at the naval academy. Secretary Root, in a letter to a Congressman, explained that the United States was not in position to suggest move in Congo country. Inquiry into the relations of the railroads to the coal and oil industries is assured by the Senate agreeing to the House changes made in the Tillman resolution. President Roosevelt is growing suspicious that China is not acting in good faith; military preparations continue; Gen. MacArthur is to command American forces if army is landed; the Chinesa minister denies trouble is coming. William Nelson Cromwell, New York la wye., whose interference in Fanama canal affairs led Engineer Wallace to resign, testified that he never has received a penny from United States and had a dramatic clash with Senator Morgan,

WALSH IS ARRESTED.

Head of Defunct ChlcaRo National HanU Taken into Cnntodr. John R. Walsh, former president of the now defunct Chicago National Bank, was arrested by the federal authorities Friday. He was held In bonds of $50,000 to answer charges of perjury and embezzlement made by the United States Government. If he 13 found guilty bis punishment can be nothing less than five years Imprisonment in the penitentiary. Against the millionaire banker , the government charges that he willfully misapplied $:J,000,000 of the funds of his Chicago National Bank. Also that he committed" perjury in falsifying entries in a report of tbe condition of that bank, which he made to the Comptroller of the Currency. The siecific charge on which Mr. Walsh was arrested is that he made false entries In a report showing tbe condition of business in his bank nine days after tbe reort had been signed and sworn to by himself and three directors. It is charged in the bill of complaint that Mr. Walsh: Made false entry In the report to the effect that at the close of business Nov. 9, 1005, tbe amount of loans and discounts of the bank on which officers and directors were liable was $245,000, when in reality the amount of such loans and discounts was $3,000,000. Made a false entry In the report to the effect that the amount of loans and discounts on which the officers and directors were not liable was $10,053226.G4, when the amount of such liability was in reality $7,500,000. As president of the Chicago "National Bank, unlawfully and willfully misapplied the funds and credits of the bank with intent to injure and, defraud the bank and its shareholders, John M. Smyth and William Best teing named as among those affected, by wrongfully converting the bank's funds to his personal and private uses by loaning the money to himself without tbe authority of the directors and without any proper authority whatever. In a statement issued by Walsh two hours after his arrest he declared that he Is innocent. When' he was arraigned before United States Commissioner Foote later In the afternoon he asserted his arrest was "persecution" and a "blow below the belt" Some of his closest friends said that Chicago bankers who hate him and his business methods are at the bottom of the prosecution. x CHICAGO OFFICIAL RESIGNS. City's Commissioner of Public Works Declares for Socialism. Joseph Medill Patterson, Commissioner of Public Works in Chicago, and the youngest official ?n the City Hall, tendered hi resignation Friday to Mayor Dunne in a most remarkable letter, in which he avowed himself a Socialist. The inference contained in the communication is that youiig Mr. Patterson's mind had been turned toward Socialism thiough his experience at the head of the Department of Public Works, where he had every opportunity to observe the flagrant contempt and disregard for law exhibited by wealthy corporations and the power of money in all things. In his letter of resignation Mr. Patterson says that money seems to be power and dominion. "In life, money means everything, and theiefore anybody will do anything to get it. It enslaves those whom it possesses, and it likewise enslaves in a more sordid way those who have none of it. The man who has money masters the destinies of those who have it not." ' ''rThe directors of the New York, Nevi Haven and Hartford are said to have voted for a reduction In passenger- rates from 2Va cents to 2 cents a mile on recommendation of President Mellen. An official of the Wisconsin Central railroad is reported as saying that the Standard Oil has acquired a controlling interest in that property aud is financing the extension to Superior and Duluth. The growth of the American railroads has been phenomenal. Between 18G5 and 1S75 the mileage in the United States more than doubled. This was repeated during the "next decade, and in the last five years 25,000 miles have been added to the trackage of the country. The agricultural and horticultural resources of the Grand Valley, Colorado, are most entertainingly set forth in an attractive booklet, "The Little Empire of the Western Slope," now being distributed by the passenger department of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad. ' Pennsylvania railroad officials are now testing the Strang gas-electric motor vehicle designed to run upon any standard track at the speed of the fastest passenger train. In general appearance it is much like the ordinary tarlor car, but in a 12-foot space at one end there is a 78-horse power, five-cylinder gas engine that operates an electric generator giving a 50-kilowatt electric current. The car will take any grade that the heaviest locomotive can climb. The Altoona shops of the Pennsylvania railroad have been ordered to turn out 100 special box cars designed for the shipment of automobiles, in anticipation of a big boom in this trade next spring. A report issued by the interstate commerce commission 6hows that railway capitalization in this country has increased at an enormous rate in the last few years. From $9,804,005,239, or $59.73 a mile in 1893, it had increased in 1904 to $13,213,124,079, or ?G4.2G a mile. The increase in freight rates augmented the receipts and made possible an increase of $230,000,000 in dividends last year. The New York City board of Aldermen is considering the advisability of investigating the Interborough Metropolitan traction merger as proposed by Borough President Coler. It is charged by the opponents of the Belmont-Ryan deal that $108,000,000 in watered stock and bonds has been injected into the city's street car interests without the purchase of a single car or a new rail. Gross earnings of $07,500 a mile are Bhown by the annual statement of the Pittsburg and ' Lake Erie, a subsidiary line of the New York Central, which gets its revenue mostly from the bituminous coal traffic out of Pittsburg. The dividends have been 10 per cent since 1902. By the transfer of $10,000,000 of the stock of the Pacific Coast Company E. H. Harriman is said to have got control, so as to secure terminal facilities at Seattle by means of the Columbia and Puget Sound railroad. This, if true, pats Harriman's system on an equal footing with Hill and the Great Northern. In order .to make closer connection with the Burlington, and get transcontinental mails into New York several hours earlier, the New York Central lines have installed a new fast mail train over the Lake Shore. Although it will not be the fastest train carrying mail to the East, yet it will make the gait of soma of th "flyers" look like a snail's pact.

MOT

The general coutse of trade maintains an encouraging tone, the .lead Chicago. ing Industries exhibiting well rounded activity and the distributive branches having increasing demands for the principal seasonable staples. Special efforts are made to rush new construction, the accumulation for this year being unusually extensive and assuring much continuous employment. Factory production Is better distributed than a year ago, this condition causing a heavier drawing upon raw material and prices of the latter maintained firmness, although the average of cost stands high, particularly In the metals and wood. Retail trade has made a satisfactory aggregate and less apprehension Is felt as to the extent of heavy wearing apparel to be carried over. Tbe wholesale markets are largely, attended by buyers, the" number from tbe interior being much ahead of last year. Dealings in staple goods bare moved forward to a large aggregat and all indications point to 'the heaviest trade ever done In spring merchandise. Personal buying Is strongly supplemented by heavy mall orders in dry goods, footwear, men's furnishings, and headwear and there is also steady buying of hardware, furniture and carpets. Shipping departments are doing extra work, many of the bookings being marked for early forwarding. Advices from the country create a good Impression as to business conditions. Farm reports show winter wheat and rye to be well protected and there are preparations under way for the early resumption of cultivation. Failures reported in Chicago district number twenty-nine, against twentytwo last week, and thirty a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. Springlike weather stimulates Jobbing distribution, including a larger M York. volume of house trade and also helping retail business in spring and summer fabrics. Shipments on orders are heavier than ever before, and no complaints of freight congestion are heard. At practically all points an early and long spring soason Is predicted. At the same time th?re is. an air of conservatism as to the more distant future, due mainly to the larger stocks of winter goods carried over, and also because of the recent drop in raw cotton, making buyers for next season cautious In placing orders. Like conditions are noted in the leading industries. Business failures In the United States for the week ending Feb. 22 number 185, against 208 last week, ,220 in th like week of 1905, 200 In 1004, 1S3 In 1903, and 204 In 1902 Bradstreets Commercial Report. i.Ä ff IT" U kr. ChicagoCattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $03; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.30; 'sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.15; wheat, No. 2, 81c to 82c; corn. No. 2, 39c to 40c; oats, standard, 2Sc to 30c; rye. No. 2, 64c to 07c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $11.50; prairie, $G.00 to $10.00; butter, choice creamery. 23c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 10c; potatoes, 40c to 48: Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75 ; " hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0.35; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, Kk to 84c; corn. No. 2 white, 40c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c. St. LouisCattle, $4.50 to $C.10; hogs $4.00 to $0.40; sheep, $4.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2, 80c to S9c; corn. No. 2, 3Sc to 40c ; oats, No. 2, 29c to 30c ; rye, No. 2, 07c to CSc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00' to $5.25; hogs, $4.00 to $0.42; sheep, $2.00 to $5.40; wheat, No. 2, 87c to SSc; corn, No. .2 mixed, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 2, C5c to 07c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.10; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00: wheat. No. 2, 84c to S5c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 42c to 44c; oats. No. 3 white, 31c to 32c; rye. No. 2, 64c 00c Milwaukee Wheat, . No. 2 northern, 78c to 80c; corn, No. 3, SSc to 39c; oats, standard, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 1, 04c to C5c; barley. No. 2, 53c to 54c; pork, mess, $15.30. , Toledo Wheat, No.. 2 mixed, SGc to 87c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 3?c; rye, No. 2, GGc to 67c; clover seed, prime, $8.25. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.75; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.00. New YorkCattle, $4.00 to' $5.80; hogs, $4.00 to $0.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 85c to 80c; corn, No. 2, 47c to 4 Sc ; oats, natural, white, 35c to 3Gc; butter, creamery, 24c to 28c; eggs, western, 14c to 16c Told in a Few Linea Alexander Legier, 22 years old, was arrested in Hoboken, N. J., charged with burning his brother Carl to death to secure $3,000 insurance. Parts of the city of Campos, Brazil are under twelve feet of water. The Parahiba Do Sul has broken its banks and much damage has resulted. The Bolivar County bank of Cleveland, Miss., a State institution, failed to open its doors the other day. Its assets are given at $130,000, with liabilities of $110,000. Mark Twain at a Gotham banquet drew a new moral from the hatchet and cherry tree story. He said George was too cute to lie, as he krew the size of the chips would give him away. The Belvidere Hotel, the largest and most fashionable in Baltimore, Md., was placed In the hands of receivers on application of the Union Trust Company, trustee under the first mortgage. Attorneys representing Chicago and Sheboygan (Wis.) firms have filed en involuntary petition in bankruptcy at Little Rock, Ark., against the Falk-Ottenheimer Company, wholesale hatters. The liabilities are placed at $85,000 and the asseu at $S0,000. Since the favorable decision in the Federal Court of Appeals in Chicago, In dianapolis regards 60-cent gas as a certainty and much stock is being subscribed in the new company. William N. Amory of New York In Al bany accused District Attorney Jerome of conspiracy with the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. He said he would ask Gov. Higgins to remove Je rome. Engineer Arthur Breen of the North ern Pacific was blown through the side of the engine cab and John Thompson, a brakeman, had one of his legs broken by a boiler explosion tt Fraiee, Uha. Bsta may die.

H00SIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Oar Neighbors Are Dolnr Matters of General and Local Interest Marriages and Deaths Accidents and Crimes Personal Pointers About Indianians. Brief State Items. Schad's saddletree factory at Madison, was destroyed by fire. Loss $1,530, with $600 insurance. rhefarm residence of Thomas Ayres,ten miles east of Kokomo, was destroyed by fire. Loss $2,000, with no insurance. James Glascoe was stabbed and seriously Injured by James Monday during a political discussion at Jefferson ville. Monday voluntarily surrendered to the police. James McCarthy, fireman, and Frark Meyer, brakeman, were seriously injured In a collision bet ween two freight trains on the Erie & Western railroad west of Hammond. James Jones, marshal of Mitchell, was found guilty by a Lawrence county jury, of grand larceny, and it was recommended that he be imprisoned for not less than three ye Lon Wilson, colored, S5 years old, shot and killed Mrs. Irene Jackson, also col ored, at Dunkirk. Wilson escaped. He is sam to have been drinkinir. but the cause of the quarrel is not known. Patrick McLaughlin, f,3 years old, while crossing the Wabash railway tracks at Lafayette, was struck by a switch engine. Utting off both legs. He was removed to M. Elizabeth's hospital, where be died. A barn on the Noah Combs place, two miles east of South Whitley, was burneL The building, with a lot of grain, hay and farming implements.was totally destroyed. The fire is supposed to be of incendiary origin. The motion for a new trial in-'ue case of Alonzo Lewis, convicted of rflurdving Lis wife at Indianapolis last fall has been overruled. Lewis was given a sentence of I rem two to twenty-one years in tlm Michigan City prison. The board of health has found twenty cases of smallpox at Michigan City. Most of the ratients are children who attended one of the ward schools. The school has been closed and other children who were exposed have been vaccinated. The strike at Turner mine, near Terre Haute, begun in June, 1S04, because the opeiator insisted that the mule drivers tako the mules t. the barn after the day's work, was settled the other day by the operators building the barn nearer the mine. John Bohn, Joseph Cameron, William Patterson, James Martin and William Clark, the alleged yeggnan," accused cf the Albaugb robbery at Shoals, entered a plea of guilty and were committed to prison under the indeterminate sentence act. While intoxicated and in a fit of jealous rage, William Mosteller, 22 years old, shct and mortally wounded his wife. Flora Mosteller, 17 years old, in a boarding house tt Terre Haute, and then killed himself, 'he woman was taken to St. Anthony's hospital. Warren Mitchell of Lawreneeburg, lost his life while testing an apparatus w hich he had invented for preventing the loss cf life from skating on thin ice. Mitchell took his contrivance to Tanner's creek, and while skating, he fell, the ice gave way and he was drowned. While the family of Chester Hock cf Princeton, was attending the burial cf their youngest child, the 9-year-old daughter, who was left at home, accidentally fell into an open well. She was rescued by a neighbor, but was unconscious when taken from the water. She will recover. Fire destroyed the plant of the Fort Was ne Brick and Tile Company, north of Fort Wayne. The loss is $20,000, with $5,000 Insurance. The plant had Jus, been built and it was the first fire after the winter's Inactivity. Tbe plant was too far out for the fire department to reach and it wts totally destroyed. While Miss Pearl E. Elryn, of a Chicago stock company, was playing to a large audience at Linton, she took occasion to roast" the spectators. One of the men, who is believed to have been drunk, drew his revolver and fired at her, the bullet striking her in the leg. The woman's condition is not serious. The man escaped through the crovd, and has not been arrested. Albert Kaiser, serving a sentence In the county jail at Lawrenceburg for cruelty to animals, and John Godfrey, who had been arrested for intoxication, indulged in a fight in which Godfrey was terribly beaten and may die of his injuries. But for the interference of the- sheriff and his deputies, Godfrey would have been killed, as he was helpless because of his intoxicated condition. As the result of ill-feeling of long standing between Hungarians and American miners at Antioch, a small plice six miles west of Linton, a general riot occurred In which over one hundred Hungarians and about twenty Americans participated. Dee Hawkins was seriously cut and Creed Patrick was perhaps fatally stabbed. A number of others on each side were cut and struck with stones. The grand jury will again take up the Schaefer murder case at Bedford. It is said that much new testimony is in possession of the state. A portion of the testimony refers to clothing which was thrown In a sink on the night of the murder. The concealment was witnessed by a woman and her son, who were threatened with death if they ever betrayed the men conrned. Afterward there was an attempt ja the life of the son. This deterred both woman and son from speaking of the af fair till recently. Th? dwelling of Charles Snow, two miles from Bedford, burned with a loss of $3,0. A molasses furnace started the fire, which was discovered by a neighbor nearly a mile away, who called the telephone exchange and the operator notified the imperiled family, who barely escaped. An automobile, with farm machinery, hay, grain, etc., belonging to Elmer Cooper at Cadiz, burned, together with a large warehouse, in which they were stored, entailing a loss of $3,000, with $330 insurance. The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin, growing out of the antipathy to automobiles. Nicholas Banioff, 70 years old, a veteran of the civil war, and leading the life of a hermit, six miles south of Boouville, was found dead in his home by a neighboring farmer, who had been commissioned to draw the old man's pension. The dt4 body was lying on a bed, with a lamp burning close at hand. Charles E. Klmbrocgb an engineer on the Rock Island railroad, whose home is in Logansport, is the inventor of a voting machine, just patented, which he says will do its work better than the $500 and $700 machines now on the market, and can be sold for half the price. He has capiUl to start manufacture on a limited scale. Aar Old TMS. "Oh, yes, she used to tay that do rl should marry until sts found ta l:-l man to lovs her. -And now?" "Well, now Eh ho Cropped tla IdeaL "Philadelphia Led-cr. Ob the Links. "Does that man pay you ncci t;? being his caddie?" asked one boy. No," answered the ether. TI caly gives in some small charts for bting eiddii, but he gives rz $2 fr? cot ttll- ; whit bt cij xrtvi Li : ' i f : oaiL"