Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 23, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 March 1906 — Page 2

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TL- Q.TNN. ÄLTS P. Q.AP.M. g 17th ) 24th. j) 3rd.Cs;i0th. FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE. PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD. , Ourta and Crime Accidents and Fires, Labor and Capital Grain Stock and Money Market. Two Killed and Fifteen Hurt in Wreck. Two persons were killed and fifteen inJared in a wreck of two freight trains and fast passenger train, No. 7, on the IJ. & O. railroad, which occurred about two ailes from Bloomdale, Ohio. The engines were completely wrecked and the mail and express cars, two baggage cars, two pasvnger coaches and four freight cars were completely demolished and later burned. Ttvi freight train had stopped for water at the scene of the wreck, when another freight train bore down on it, pushing it onto the westbound track. A minute later tM fast B. & O. passenger train came along at a high speed. Three cars of the passenger tain were telescoped. Several trainmen were pinned beneath the wreckage and those near the engine suffered from escaping steam. ' Another Outbreak in Santo Domingo. The revolution in Santo Domingo will not go down. The navy department in Washington received a dispatch from Naval Commander Southeriand at Jlonte Christi, stating that while the terms of anxrender recently .negotiated were being carried out the revolutionary leaders violated their promises and in the ensuing fight two officers, including General Cepin, end six men were killed. The dispatch does not state whether those killed were revolutionaries or government adherants. The revolutionists escaped to the bush. This probably means an indefinite continuance of the trouble in the northern part of the repntttic. Auto 5?uns Down Gypsy Woman. J. W. Tarbell, a prominent and wealthy young man of Cincinnati, Ohio, while -Ärivinghis automobile at Peples corner, T7alnut Hills, ran over sud killed Mrs. Hary Johns, a gypsy womau, belonging to ft wandering band at preset camping at Carthage, a suburb of Cincinnati. The woman was carrying a baby when the machine struck her, but threw the little mc aside and it was not injured. Tarbell was arrested and a charge of manslaughter placed against him. , Frightful Disaster in France. Paris special: A terrible explosion occared in a coal mina in the Courricre district of the Pas de Calais, eighteen, miles from liethune. It has been learned that nt of L793 men who descended into the citato work, only 591 have come up, leavMvm uuiicu iu in ujicc pi is. nescue jxxrties that have come to the surface say that all further attempts at rescue are useless., the galleries of the mine havin-r fallen in. PaMenger Train Collide Mead -on. The Burlington passenger trams Ncs. 1 end 14 collided head-on two miles west of Akron, Colo., on a curve in a deep cut. George II. Sherwood, mail weigher, was tilted and four other trainmen were InJared, two seriously. Two engine;, a mail ear and a baggage car were reduced to wreckage. No passengers were seriously Injured. It is said the wreck was caused py the failure of the operator at Brush to deliver an order. "A Wedding in Uinta Life. In sight of more than 10,000 people, who crowded the streets and alleys for five fclocks in all directions and with housetops end roofs dotted with men and women, George P. Lenfers and Miss Ora D. Wil-. Hams were married at Evansville, Ind., on top of the gas company's new smoke stack, 123 feet from tLe ground. Operator Establish Publicity Bureau. A publicity bureau covering negotiations In the anthracite dispute was established la New York by the committee of seven anthracite operators now engaged in conjridering the miners' demands. The bureau is for the purpose of issuing information upon the p. egress of the negotiations between the niners and operators. Four Killed Many Hart. . An engine running light on the Pennsylvania railroad near Radebaugb, Pa., crashed into a work train on which were seventy-five Italian laborers employed on a aew pipe line. Pour of the men were killed and thirty-five others injured. Xtace War in the South. A race war occurred at Wilraer, Ala., a email lumber town twenty-four miles west cf Ifobile. Several whites and blacks wtre killed in the conflict. Forty Austrian Bliners Killed. Vienna special: By the collapse of the gallery taging in Earls mine at Raible, district of Tarvis, forty miners and one engineer were killed. i Br. Haugh Guilty of Murder. Jt. Oliver C. Haugh was found guilty of nsrdcr in the first degree by the jury at Dayton, Ohio, after nearly three hours' Caliberatlon. Eaow Avalanche Kllla Slany. A dispatch from Trondhjem, Norway, rays : A snow avalanche at the Lofeton islands buried a number of fishermen's hula. Rescuers extricated twenty-one dead and thirty-nine injured. ZXrs. Tolla Escapes the Gallows. The court of pardons met at Trenton N. J. and after a very brief session commuted Urs. Tolla's sentence to seven and a half years. Mrs. Tolla was to have ; been executed March 12. This is the first time that the death sentence has been commuted to anything bat life imprisonment. Open Powder Can with Pick. Three foreigners were fatally Injured and a house destroyed in Greensburg, Pa., by an explosion of a can of powder. Two men, who worked La Che Jamison mine, attempted to open the can with a pick and the powder was ignited from a spark. Dltr Dos; Blangles Little Girl. As Minnie-Vorhes, the 12-year-old daughter of Lee Vorhes f Sarahsville, Ohio, was on her way home she was attacked by a big bird dog and be ore assistance could be given her side and hip were mangiea. xne aog gave every evidence of having rabies. Death of Gen. Sehofield. Lieut. Gen. John M. Sehofield, TJ. S. A, retired, former head of the army, died t St. Augustine, Fla. He was attacked by cerebral hemorrhage. Iiis wife and young daughter were with him, as also were Gens. Wherry and William B. Enal of Gen. Schofield's personal staff. XXay Hare Trouble with Canada. America, by claiming sovereignty over lands in the far North where the flag was planted by her explorers, faces a clash with Canada which is likely to result in valuable fishing concessions to citizens of the United States even if it does cot extend this country's territory.

ASTEB9T. Three deaths followed the wreck at n Delaware and Hudson train at Saratoga, N. T. Charles Brewster, convicted of the murder of Marshal Stryker, his stepfather, was hanged in the Potter county jail in Coudersport, Fa. Three officials of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company have been indicted on charges of grand larceny and forgery by the grand jury in New York. George E. Green, a former State Senator of New York, has been acquitted of charges of conspiracy to defraud the government through Postoffiee Department contracts. New York contractors, who Lave a strike of iron workers on their hands, have fnrther trouble, an iron worker throwing ammonia into the face of their paymaster. Contracts for the construction of a filtration plant in Philadelphia, involving millions of dollars, have been taken from chiefs of the Republican machine, who are accused of fraud. John Wood, aged 24, of Troy, Ta and Miss Rose Xaddox of Corning, N. Y., were instantly killed by a train at the Centerville crossing of the Erie railroad in Corning., The two were driving across the tracks. Gay clothes for men, including gray evening suits and gaudy waistcoats, have been introduced by Philadelphia tailors who have combined in a revolt against London styles and hope to set fashions for America. Tha Philippine Railway Company of Hertford, Conn., has filed a certificate .of incorporation with the State secretary. The company proposes to own and operate team and electric roads in the Philippine islands and elsewhere. The sentence of death Imposed upon Sirs. Antoinette Tolla, the Bergen County murderess, for the killing of Joseph Sonta, was commuted to seven and onehalf years' imprisonment by the court of pardons in Trenton, N. J. The ote stood G to 2.

WESTERN. Patrick Kearney of Wood River, Neb., wandered five . days on - the Wyoming plains in a blinding blizzard without food, drink, shelter or sleep. He will live. ' Attorney General Coleman of Kansas has brought suit to oust Sheriff Welfelt of Cowley county, Kansas, alleging that he allowed a prisoner too much liberty. More than 1,000 acres of fine pasture land just east of Portales, N. M., has been burned over in a prairie fire. The loss is estimated at cot less than $1,000,000. Matt Vranesh, aged 22 years, one of the Austrians arrested for the murder of II. Tolovic, a compatriot, at West Duluth, Minn., confessed that he fired the shot that killed Toloic. In spite of several efforts to force boa is .through the ice near the Booth dock at D'ilath, Minn., an unknown man who had Un clinging to a cake of ice drowned before help could reach him. Twenty-two modern rifles and ammunition were found in the quarters of the Chinese crew on the Pacific liner Manchuria at San Francisco. Two other boxes of rifles also were found. W. A. Brothers, government disbursing agent for the Pathfinder reservoir project, with headquarters at Casper, Wyo., was arrested on a charge of embezzling government funds to the amount of $5,000. Attorney General Hadley of Missouri is said to have agreed to a proposition not to force John D. Rockefeller to testify in the ouster suit if IL H. Rogers and other witnesses will answer all questions. By the collapse of the concrete roof over a section of the huge new roundhouse of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad in Pueblo, Colo., one man was Instantly killed and three others badly Injured. The Illinois' Coal Operators' Association expects a struggle for supremacy with the United Mine Workers . April 1 and has decided to make a fight for concessions by the miners, meantime closing all pit. " , ' Because he cannot continue to live with his wife's parents, to whose home they went after marriage, Joseph Blain of Chillioothe, Ohio, has asked for a divorce from his wife, Emma, who told him he must find another place to lire. Sensational, vicious and suggestive bill board pictures were condemned by a resolution adopted ' in Detroit at the quarterly meeting of the board of directors of the Associated Billposters and Distributers of the United States and Canada. Falling to build up the navy in time sf peace so that it will be prepared, for war is a crime, said Secretary Bonaparte at a banquet given by the Swedish-American Republican League of Chicago in honor of John Ericsson, inventor of the Monitor. Harry Vaughan, Charles Raymond and "Icebox' Ryan, charged with the murd?r of Gatexnan John Clay in the attempt of several convicts to escape from the penitentiary on Nov. 24, were found guilty of murder in the first degree in Jefferson CHy. Mo. Pat O'Brien, one of the prisoners who escape! jail in Omaha and is still at large, was one of the men who blew op and robbed the Canadian National bank of $100,000 six years ago. The leader of his gang, MChi Red," died In the Chicago jail. Tho Sr:atc of Ohio adopted a joint resolution requesting Congress to call a convention of the various States for the purpose of submitting an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of the United States Senators by direct vote of the people. 1 An inch of snow and ice covered w entern Missouri and the south and southwestern part of Kansas Tuesday. Ice formed on telegraph and telephone wires, greatly interfering with the service, while many trees were broken under the weight. Damage to fruit is feared. The Ohio House of Representatives defeated the Spangler anti-treatinr, bill, which made It an offense to buy for any person, to buy or give another & .drink of intoxicating liquor. Forty-four members went on record for the bill, while forty seven votes were cast against It. In Caldwell, Idatjo, indictments charge ing murder were returned against Charles II. Moyer, William D. Haywood, George A. Pettibone, Harry Orchard and Steve Adams, who are under arrest on the chars of killing former Gov. Steunenberg. Jack Simpkins, who has not been captured, also was indicted. Chicrgo Masons purpose to build a club house on Michigan avenue to cost $1,000,000. As the grand lodge could not handle the movement a new society the Most Excellent Order of Ancient Chaldeans has been organized expressly to carry o:t the project. Only Masons are eligible tut membership in the Chaldeans. Seattle, Wash., has been converted to municipal ownership. Judge William Hickman Moore, candidate for Mayor on the - municipal ownership ticket, was elected after one of the closest fights in the history of the city, the count of the vote showing his plurality to be but fifteen, with a total of 10,965 votes cast. Henry V. Bemis, president, of the Bemis-Richelieu Importing Company, one ot the best-known hotel men of the country, killed himself at his residence in Chicago. At one time he was all but a millionaire, but he died leaving his wife, the only close relative, little more than a small life insurance. He was 74 years old. Th? Western Union Telegraph Company has made answer to the State of Minnesota in its suit to collect back taxes to the amount of $33,000. The committee denied the debt and the outlook row is for a repetition of the fight Just concluded. The taxes demanded are

for the year 1001 to 1004 on the valuation of $1,000,000. A fire in the Neenah Paper Mill Company' plant in Neenah, Wis., caused a loss estimated at $300,000, covered by insurance. The fire started from spontaneous combustion of a hot box attached to one o: the machines. The flames communicated to bales of stock and then spread throughout the building. The mill was practically ruined. A new trial was granted in Council Bluffs in the mining suit of James Doyle against James F. Burns involving shares and dividends of the Portland Gold Mining Company of Crippl. Creek valued at $0CKV00. Tmo trials have already been held, in the first of which Doyle secured a judgment for $447,000, the second resulting in favor of Burns. "Any student attending classes to-day will be ducked in the sulphur springs," was the edict of the students at Ohio Wesleyan, Delaware, Ohio, after the faculty had refused to grant a holiday as a celebration of the double victory in debate the previous Friday. But one student, W. W. Neary of Mount Vernon, defied the edict. He was quickly taken from the class room and the promised bath administered, i Eight were found guilty of rioting by a jury in Springfield, Ohio as the result of the race war there a few days ago. Thos convicted were Harry Garber, John Pierpont, George Epprecht, Carl Kloehfer, Glen Johnson, Frank Young, Carl Wise and Kemp Reeder. Leniency was recommended and the court was asked not to impose a workhouse sentence. None of those found guilty is over 2.1 years old. James Brain, alia Brady, 18 years eld,

held at the police sUUon in Los Angtles, Oal., on suspicion of being a pyromaniac, confessed that he had started at least six fires within two weks. Accompanied by detectives, he went to the scene of several of the fires and showad bow he had started them. . While admitting that the young man is at least morally irresponsible, the detectives believe he is conscious of his guil:, and they will ask that a felony complaint be made against him, charging him with arson. Brain is said to be a member of a respectable Chicago family. ; WASHINGTON. President Roosevelt has given heads of all departments orders regarding the combating of consumption. Secretary Taft has' sent Congress a joint resolution authorizing the War Department to sell the surplus coal on hanl at For: Davis, Nome, Alaska, to alleviate the suffering of the people there, who 'are experiencing a coal famine. Arizona and New Mexico were eliminated from the joint statehood bill as passed by the Senate, only Oklahoma being admitted to the Union. The decisive vote was 37 to 35 and the measure went back V to the House, where insurgents hope for victory. 1 Associate Justice Henry Billings Brown of the United States Supreme Court intends to retire from the bench and Las so notified President Roosevelt. The President offered to appoint Senator Thilander C. Knox of Pennsylvania to the vacancy, but the latter declined. President Roosevelt read a sharp lesson to Congress1 in a special message regarding the resolution to investigate the railroids and the oil and coal monopolies, whica he says he signed with hesitation because it gives the impression of insincerity and is made almost inoperative. President Roosevelt has decided to appoint William II. Taft to the next vacancy in the United States Supreme Court. That vacancy Is to be created by the voluntary retirement of Assistant Justice Henry B. Brown. When Chief Justice Fuller retires provided it is during' the administration of Mr. RooseveltMr. Taft will be promoted to his position. Th extent to which the biercle and tricycl industry has fallen off during the last five years is shown in a bulletin issued by the census bureau in Washington. This industry was at its height during and just prior to the census year 1900. Since then there has been a material decrease In all branches of the industry with the single exception of the manufacture of motor cycles. The decrease In the number of bicycle establishments In 1903 as compared with 1900 was C9 per cent, , the number of establishments being reduced frcta 312 in 1900 to 97 Jn 1905. Where formerly 2,034 salaried officials, clerks, etc., were employed, only 300 were engaged In the work during 1905. In contrast with these figures, the motor cycle establishmer 'a increased from 159 in 1900 to 2.2S9 in 1905. FOREIGN. Fred Klengbeil, aged 70, a farmer near Belleville, Ont., s in jail charged with having beaten his wife to death. A British blue book says the British empire contains 11,908,378 square miles, or ov-?r one-fifth of the land area of the globe. The population is 400,000,000. Princess Ena of Battenburg has been received into the Roman Catholic church, preparatory to her marriage to King Alfonso, the ceremony being held at San Sebastian, Spain. Edmond Kelly will present a brief, concerning the case of Elliot F. Shepard, sentenced to three months' imprisonment for killing Madeline Marduel with his automobile, to the French minister of justice. Many jersons have lost their lives and hundred of homesteads were destroyed owing to the bush fires in the Gippesland and Victoria districts of Australia. The number of cattle burned to death is unprecedented in Australia. Wooden legs will soon be a thing of the past, as extinct as the dodo, if the surgical work of Dr. Emil Maertens of Ghent Belgium, is duplicated by the surgeons of the wotH. He has succeeded in growing aew bone through artificial mean. Paraffin Is the agent which has made it possible. An important action between American forces and hostile Moros has taken place near Jolo, P. I. Fifteen enlisted men were killed, a commissioned officer was wounded, four enlisted men were wounded and a naval contingent operating with the military sustained thirty-two casualties. The Moros lost 000 men killed. Although the recent manifesto and ukasos referring to the national aavmbly in Russia leave considerable vagueness regarding the exact status of the parliament under the new political scheme of the government, It is made clear that Russia has not been grant-sd a written constitution. The cabinet, ai In the German system, remains quite independent of the majority in Parliament. The government believes It will control the new Parliament and proposes to fight further concessions to tho radical parties. That it expects to succeed is evident by the fact that Premier V.itte has definitely changed his plans and will not retire on the opening of the national assembly. IN GENERAL. The Canadian Parliament was opened by Lord Grey at Ottawa. Weekly trade reviews report an active spring business, purchases for. the interior exceeding all former records. An American corporation backed by New York capitalists, is in a controversy with the Cuban government and international complications may break out between the United States and Cuba. President Talma has annulled the 99-year concession of the Havana Subway Company, which was acquired in 1903, and which allowed the company to lay conduits qnder the streets of Havana for the purpose of renting them to any company wishing to lay underground wires. Mr. Blundell, president of the rompany, said: "Our lusses are very heavy." George M. Painter of Chicago has the contract for tht subway.

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Band of Moro Outlaws Exterminated by U. S. Troops. BATTLE LASTS 2 DAYS Fifteen Enlisted Men and Three of Constabulary Are Dead. Fierce Flht Take Place on the Tale of Jolo Amcricau Lift Their Cannon T.00 Feet, Scale Volcano and Destroy Strong Fort In Craler All the Defenders of the Stronghold Are Killed Thirtytwo Soldiers Wounded. An important action between American forces and bostile Moros took pla.?e near Jolo. Fifteen enlisted men were killed, a commis sioned officer was wounded, four, enlisted men were wounded and n naval contingent operating with the military sustained thlra a 111 rf xy-x. w o - casualties A4? The Moros lost 000 . - men killed. Major General gen. wood. Leonard Wood, commander of the division of the Philippines, rvports as follows from Jolo, capital of the Sulu Islands: "A severe action between troops, compoed of a naval detachment and constabulary . and hostile Moros has taken place at Mount Dajo, near Jolo. The engagement opened during the afternoon of March C and ended In the morning of March 8. 4 "The ncton Involved the capture of Mount Dajo, a lava cone 2,100 feet high, with a crater at Its summit and extremely steep. The last 400 feet were at on angle of CO degrees and there were fifty perpendicular ridges covered with a growth of timber and strongly fortified and defended by an invisible force of Moros. "The army casualties were fifteen enlisted men killed, a commissioned officer and four ensted men wounded. The naval casualties numbered thirtytwo. Ensign II. D. Cooke, Jr., of the United States steamer Pampnnga, commanding the Pampanga fort, was severely wounded, and Coxswain Gllmore was severely wounded in the elbow. "The constabulary casualties were Captain John R. White, wounded In the thigh, severely; three enlisted men killed and thirteen wounded. Captain Tyree Rivers sustained a slight flesh wound in the thigh. Lieutenant Gordon was slightly wounded in the right hand. Lieutenant Wylle T. Conway of xhe Sixth Infantry, was slightly wounded In ihe loft eye. All the wounded are doing well. . "Colonel Joseph W. Duncan of tha Sixth Infantry directed the operations. "All the defenders of the Moro stronghold were killed. Six hundred bodies were found on the field. "The action resulted in the extinction of a band of outlaws who, recognizing no chief, had been raiding friendly Moros and, owing to their defiance of the American authorities, had stir red up a dangerous condition of affairs." Facts About the Moros. Jolo, or Sulu, is the capital of the Philippine archipelago of the same name and is about u40 miles due couth from Manila. It is the residence of the sultans of the Moros, who have here a large market place in ich fruits and vegetables are sold. The town has been occupied by American troops ever since 1S98, and but little trouble has been had with the natives, those in the lake region of, Mindanao having proved to be the most intractable. Moro is a general designation for the Mohammedan Malay people with an infusion of Semitic blood, living in the southern part of the Phillippines, chiefly ,in the Sulu archipelago and the adjoining portions of Mindanao. Mohammedanism was introduced from Borneo in the fourteenth century. The Spaniards, who arrived in 1521, were never able to conquer these races nor to convert them to the Catholic religion, though many forts and a few towns were build among them. Maji Gen. Leonard Wood, President Roosevelt's particular friend. Is in . command of the troops in the Philippine Islands. The entire command is divided into three departments. In tho department of Luzon, Maj. Gen. J. S. Weston is in command. Itrlg. Gen. J. A. Buchanan commands the department of Visayas. Big. Gen. Casper H. Blisa commands th department of Mindanao. Moros Desperate Flarhters. The Moros are desperate fighters and treacherous. The' last battle, except that af a year ago. was on Dec. 19, 1.899. The war in the Philippines, much of wnich was against the Moros, may be reviewed as follows: War begun May 1.1S9S Peace proclaimed July 4, 1902, Duration of war.. 4 yrs., 2 mos., 3 days Cost of war $170,318,580 Estimated American lossesDead 0,000 Permanently disabled G.000 Interesting New Items. Three stores and a hotel were damaged to the extent of $25,000 in a fire at Upton, Ky. The roller mill of Flegle Brother at Bardwell, Ky., was burned, entailing a loss of $25,000. The paper mill of J. E. Henry & Sons at Lincoln, N. II., was burned, the loss being estimated at $150,000. The New York Central F-iderated Union decided to abide by the arbitration agreement with the Building Trades Employers' Association. The Edward Hines Lumber Company of Chicago hai purchased 30,000,000 feet sf lumber from the Tower (Minn.) Lumber Company. J. Milton Turner of St. Louis, ex-minister to Liberia, is in Washington pushing a plan to employ negro labor on the Panama canal. The bodies of three white men were found at Knoxville, Tenn., under the Tennessee river bridge of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Robert Core, water surveyor of Jersey City, N. J., dropped dead after an Inquiry by the water board into an alleged water steal. The business committee of the National Municipal League has decided to hold the next annual meeting of the Ieagne in Atlantic City April 21 to 27. The class of 1900 of Vassar college has the unusual distinction of having thirty-four honor graduates, twenty-four honor girls and ten honorable mentions. James II. Bacon of the engineering department of the Canadian Pacific railroad, who, under Major Gil.ette, had nude a survey of Cumberland Sound, testified in the Greene and Gaynor trial at Savannah, Ga., that the jetty work done by the defendants was of so poor a character that it had practically disappeared.

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RB 83 In the Senate Monday numerous bills on tho calendar were passed, among them being one appropriating $100,000 to pay th expenses of the delegates to the third annual conference of American States, one providing for compulsory education in the District of Columbia and another regulating the selection of officers in the revenue cutter service. Senator Knox submitted extracts from the railroad laws of several States. At 3:30 o'clock the statehood bill was taken up and read and then Mr. Nelson resumed his discussion of the measure. Legislation by unanimous consent under suspension of the rules enabled the House to pass several bills of considerable importance. A resolution of inquiry as to whether any criminal prosecutions have been inaugurated in the Northern Securities Case was adopted after some heated debate. Mr. Shackelford of Missouri attacked the concentration of power in the hands of .the Speaker in a speech on a' bridge bill. The Senate measure providing for a delegate to Congress from Alaska was passed The question of enlargement of the army by disposing of contract surgeons and replacing them with surgeons who shall be given the rank of army officers occupied the attention of the Senate for the greater part of Tuesday. Mr. Hale criticised the bill severely. Senators Carter and Gallinger also spoke against it, and Senators Warren and . Blackburn in Its favor. The measure was not disposed of. Senator Long spoke in behalf of the statehood bill. Senators Clapp, McCumber and Du Bois were appointed to confer with a House committee for the settlement of the affairs of the five civilized tribes of Indian Territory. A unanimous resolution was pased deck ring Anthony Michalek a citizen of the United States, a resident of Illinois and a duly elected member of the Fifty-ninth Congress. The bill permitting tobacco growers to sell leaf tobacco through agents without paying the tax of O cents a pound heretofore charged was passed without discussion. The remainder of the day was devoted to tariff discussion,' precipitated by the Indian appropriation bill. -: :- Two speeches on the railroad rate bill were made in the Senate Wednesday. Mr. Scott spoke In opposition to the pending measure, and Mr. Clapp supported it. The remainder of the session was devoted to statehood, Messrs. Perkins and Spooner speaking in opposition. Under the cover of the general debate oa the Indian appropriation bill the liouse indulged in a flood of oratory. " Mr. Burke (S. D.) told of the prosperous condition ot the Indians; Mr. Kline (Pa.) advocated reforms Iu the' fiscal system; Mr. Brantley (Ga.) spoke against federal licenses for pilots ; Mr. Haughen (Iowa) opposed the establishment of a parcels post; Mr. Gardner (Mass.) urged additional immigration restrictions, and Mr. Gaines (Tenn.) defended Henry Clay from the charge of being a standpatter. The entire time of the Senate Thursday was devoted to general debate on the statehood bill. Messrs. McCumber and Patterjon opposed the measure as it now stand, while Mr. Beverldge supported 'it. He had not completed his speech when adjournment was taken. The House passed the Indian appropriation bill, carrying $7,785,528. Only a few minor amendments were made. The members then proceeded to entangle themselves over, the bill to Abolish the grade of lieutenant geneva!. The result was an adjournment for lack (( t quorum, but the vote to consider the bill showed an overwhelming sentiment In its favor, and it probably will be passed In due course. The following resolutions were passed: Calling on the Secretary of State for the report of Herbert H. D. Peirce on the. condition of Amertf-an consulates In the Orient, and especially Shanghai; requiring the Postmaster General to report to the House whether Town Topics is admitted to the mails and whether the government assists the puollcition in ' its ocupatioh of extorting money by blackmail." The latter was irom Bourke Cockran. . -: :- , The Senate Friday passed a bill for the admission of a new State to be called Oklahoma, and to be composed of tha present territory of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. It was the House joint statehood bill with all the provisions relating to Arizona and New Mexico stricken out. The motion to eliminate these territories from the measure prevailed by a vote of 37 to 35. The House railroad rate bill was made unfinished business. During the "morning hour" a bill appropriating $10,000 for the Improvement of the mouth of the Columbia River was passed. The House passed 408 private pension bills and devoted three hours to the consideration of a bill providing for a uniform system of naturalization, the chief feature of which requires an alien to wiite either his own or the English language and to speak and rea'd the latter, and to declare !fls Intention to reside permanently In the United State before he can become an American citizen. It met with many objections. A resolution calling on the Postmaster General to inform the House why the Indahoma Union Signal of Shawnee, Okla., is excluded as second-class mail matter was laid on the table. Both houses adjourned until Monday. Notes of the National 'Capital. Congressman Hopkins urges Congress to check the flow of dangerous class of immigrants. Free distribution of seeds will cease and the government will save $250,000 a year if Congress approves the recommendation of the House committee on agriculture. Secretary Shaw announces himself In favor of the reduction of internal revenue duty on grain alcohol. Congressman Hill, speaking for the army bill, told the House the nation should prepare for trouble with China. A great chance for American commerce in Manchuria as a fesult of Russian development is predicted in a State Department report. Legal experts of House Judiciary committer hold life insurance cannot be considered commerce between States, and federal legislation on subject, therefore, is improbable. The argent deficiency appropriation bill agreed upon at the conference of Representatives of tbe House and Senate committees on appropriations 'carries an appropriation of $10,273,022. or $1,001,8S5 more than the deficiency bill of the House contained and $180,177 less than the bill carried as It passed the Senate. The judiciary committee of the Senats authorized a favorable report on the socalled "cotton leak" bill. The bill provides for the punishment by fine or imprisonment of all officials and employes of the government who take advantage of any information obtained directly or Indirectly by reason of their position affecting cotton or other grown products. The House has passed a bill to increase to $20,000 a j-ear the federal appropriation to each State and territory for agriculture experiment stations and a bill repealing the present law granting American register to foreign ships wrecked nad repaired on the American coast. Senator Flatt of New York introduced a proposed amendment to the bill, which passe i the House the o her day, to incorporate the Lake Erie and Ohio ship canal which provides that no feeder to supply water shall be connected with or draw water. from the Niagara river above Niagara Falls or any lakes, riven, streams, water courses or reservoirs within the State of New York.

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SENATE PASSES HALF AND ADMITS OKLAHOMA. Indian Territory Is Merged Into New State Arizona and New Mexico Are I-ef t Out Meanr Non Goes Back to House. The statehood bill, with Arizona and New Mexico eliminated, passed the Senate Friday evening by a vote of 37 to 35. Oklahoma and Indian Territory are to be admitted Into the Union as a single State.to be known as Oklahoma, under the provisions of the emasculated measure, which now goes back to the House for concurrence or noueoncurrence. Thus has ended, as far as the upper branch of Congress Is concerned, one of the last of the nota ble fights over making States out of territories that ever will agitate the country. Previous to the adoption of the amendment removing the Arizona-Nev? Mexico joint statehood' feature, the Foraker amendment providing for the referendum as to those territories had been adopted by a vote of 42 to 29. All the Democrats with the exception of Senator Clarke of Arkansas, who was paired 'against the position of his party, voted to strike from the bill as It came from the House all reference to Arizona and New Mexico. The Republicans who voted with the - Democrats were Alger and Burrows of Michigan, Bulkeley of Connecticut, Carter of Montana, Flint and Terkins of California, Foraker of Ohio, Gallinger of New Hampshire, Hansbrough of North Dakota, Ileyburn of Idaho, Scott of West Virginia and Spooner of Wisconsin, twelve In all. For the second time within the last two years the Senate refused to follow tha lead set by tbe House in enacting statehood legislation recommended by the President Last session when the joint statehood bill was passed by the Senate it provided for the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one State and of New Mexico as another, the Senate striking from the bill at that time all reference to Arizona. The bill went back to the House, where it remained until the adjournment of Congress without any action being taken upon it i The bHl passed by the Senate goes to the House, where tho insurgents will make an effort to have the Senate amendments agreed to without the reference of the bill to committee. They fear that should the bill reach the committee on territories it will be kept there until the end of this Congress a year hence, rather than risk a fight with the Senate. The insurgents claim that If the House is given an opportuni ty to vote on the Senate amendments they -will be accepted. The passage of the bill by the Senate does not end the fight Statehood con tests are always Important and hard fought. Few bills have been before Congress in recent years which have awakened the degree of interest shown In -this measure. The debates In both houses on the subject filled the galleries, and few absentees were recorded when the rotes were taken. Commerce Commission Reversed. " Another decision of the Supreme Court bearing upon the interstate oommerc law was rendered recently as to what constitutes illegal pooling of freight traffic by railroads. The case was brought about five years' ago by the California citrus fruit growers association against the Southern Pacific tnd Atchison lines on the charge .that' there existed a pooling arrangement by which the fruit traffic for the East was apportioned among 153 railroads, and by which joint rates were fixed. The interstate commerce commission ordered that shippers might decide on the route for tlivir consignments. But the railroads Tefused to obey, and the case was carried to the higher courts. The decision reverses the commerce commis sion'. order by affirming the practice ol joint tariffs. If a railroad agrees to transport beyond its own lines, it might choose bv what route the goods shall be forward?d. The court, is also of the opinion that the routing arrangement tended to break up the practice of rebating. The court aljo decided that the roads party to this agreement are not competing roadt within th meaning of the law. At th same-time that it stopped rebating, the effect was to end active competition. Cannon on State Powers. A strong protest was made by Speaker Cannon in his address to the Philadelphia Union League Club against the present tendency to seek federal legislation for evils that the States have power to remedy. He referred particularly to the recent appeal of Gov. Dawson of West Virginia to Senator Tillman, saying that his State was powerless to compel proper facilities from the railways within its border. "We are all sovereign men," said the speaker, "with the power to assert our rights, yet sometimes we sit supinelj down and cry to the national government to help us." When they came to him with such a plea, he told them to go back, for they had the necessary power. He spoke of the 1,500 bills introduced in the present Congress, which It would tak ten years of constant work to .enact. Short News Notes. An Olowment of $125,000 to the New York Metropolitan museum of art bj George A. IJearn is announced. J. I. Harbison remarried his divorced wife at Youngstown, Ohio.' Harbison some time ago killed L. V. Bergman, whom he found in his wife's room, and was acquitted. Robert J. Thompson of Chicago, secretary of the Lafayette memorial commission, has written to Washington setting Oct. 19 as the date for the dedication ol the Pari.r monument. William M. Ivins charges District At torney Jerome of New York with having received a large slice of his $100,000 campaign fund from the Mutual Life Insurance Company. Surgeon General Nicholas Senn of Chicago has been appointed a member of a committee from the Medico-Legal Society to secure papers to be read at the international medical congress in Lisbon, April 19. Friends of Ellis Wainwright, the wealthy brewer, expect him to return to St. Louis from his European exile, as it Is declared that the death of Charles H. Turner has removed the principal witness in the "boodle" case. The Greenwood Lake division of the Erie railroad was blocked by 300 tons of rock near Hewitt, N. J. Passengers were transferred around the landslide. A New York scientist paid $20,000 for the Willamette meteorite in Oregon. He will present the fifteen-ton mass to the American Museum of Natural nistory. Union and non-union printers clashed at thd Knickerbocker Tress, New Rochelle, N. Y. The police called on the sheriff fc aid to suppress the trouble. First Lieut. Arthur II. Freshwater, Twenty-ninth infantry, has been dropped from the rolls of the army by direction of the President for desertion, havinf been absent without leave three months,

The high volume of business exhibits no special change, aside from Chicago. the usual expansion which comes with approaching spring activity. Weather wnd it ions favor the distributive branches and construction work, the hading producers are exerted in the effort to fill orders and the demand for raw material is unabated, the markets reflecting no declining movement In consumption or values. Hides make :io recovery In available supplies and prices slightly under those of a month ago are due to poor quality usually marketed this time of year. New building prospects show steady accretion. The season opens up full of excellent promise, this involving a consumption of lumber and other materials which forces early placing of heavy orders for future delivery and gives further strength to prices. Shipyards have all the work vhich can be completed this year, and ) lake navigation offers little interference to resumption of freight traffic much earlier than customary. The Industrial situation generally maintains a most satisfactory outlook, confidence being felt that labor questions will have timely adjustment Retail trade for February closed better than expected, despite the unseasonable mildness which prevailed. Stocks of heavy clothing were reduced more than anticipated and other , winter wares went Into increased consumption, although the entire clearance was not fully effective.' ' Demand has opened , up well for spring goods, and buying at the State street stores Is much aided by an unusual presence of visitors. Interior merchants have attended the wholesale markets in large numbers and bring encouraging reports as to conditions throughout the West and Southwest. Farm advices are also unusually good. Country stocks have been satisfactorily depleted, ,money Is freely circulated and the outlook strengthens the confidence of buyers In making commitment. Current dealings in the principal staples exceed former aggregates, the demand being well distributed In dry goods, footw'ear, woolens, clothing and household utensils. Heavy sales also are made of hardware, sporting goods and food products. The shipments of general merchandise make the largest volume known, and the bookings entail additional heavy forwarding this month. ; Railroad earnings of Chicago roads are conspicuously gratifying In their gains, due to enormous freight tonnage and ease in operating equipment Failures reported in the Chicago district number twenty-six, against twenty-nine last week and twenty-one a year ago. rDun's Review' of Trade. Favorable features still largely predominate. Country buyers an more In evi New York. dence than at any previous time this year and have bought liberally. Winter wheat crop reports are as good as ever, and the probability that a general coal strike may fce avoided after all lends strength to Industry of all kinds. It is true there is rather more conservatism displayed by buyers for the more distant , future and prlce-si of some commodities are being shaded, but It is apparently regarded as certain that an enormous spring business will be done, that building will approximate, !f not surpass, last year's huge totals, and that crop and trade developments of the future will take care of next season's trade. Business failures In tbe United States for the week ending March I number 180, against ISO last week, 20G In the like week of 1905, 195 In 190-1, 171 In 1903 and 178 In 1901 In Canada failures number 30, as against 32 last week and 22 in this week a year ago. Bradstreet's 'Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to', prime. $4.00 to $G.35 hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.40; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $0.23 ; wheat, No. 2, 77c to 7Sc ; corn, No. 2,' 40c to 41c; oats, standard, 2Sc to 29c ; rye, No. 2, G3c to G5c ; hay, timothy, $X.50 to $12.50; pairie, $0.00 to $10.00; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 2Cc; eggs, fresh, 13c to. 15c; potatoes, 40c to 50c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.10; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 81c to 82c; com. No. 3 yellow, 42c to 44c; oats. No. 3 white, 31c to 32c ; rye, No. 2, G4c to C5c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 74c to 77c; corn, No. 3, SSc to 40c; oats, standard, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 1, Clc to 62c; barley. No. 2, 53c to 54c; pork, mess, $15.00. Toledor-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SGc to 87c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45o; oats. No. 2 mired, 31c to 33c; rye. No. 2, CGi to 67c; clover seed, prime, $8.30. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.70; hog, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.60 ; sheep common to good raixei, $4.00 to $5.75; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.25. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $5.57; hogs. $4.00 to $0.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 85c; corn, No. 2, 4Gc to 4Sc ; oats, natural whit 35c to 30c; butter, creamery, 24-; to 27c; eggs, western, 13c to 15c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75 ; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $14.1; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2, S2c,to 83c; corn. No. 2 white, 40c to 42c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 31c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.30 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $G..,0; sheep, $4.00 to $3.50 ; wheat. No. 2, SGc to SSc ; corn, No. 2, 3Sc to :59c; oats. No. 2, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 67c to 6Sc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.35; hogs, $4.00 to $0.43; sheep, $2.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2, S5c to S7c; corn, 'No. 2 mixed, 41c to 43c: oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 2, OSc to 70c. .. Roy Mendenhall, who three weeks ago shot and killed Mrs. Eva Kenncy at Dayton, Ohio, because she refused to marrj him and then twice shot himself, died at a Dayton hospital. Secretary Root upheld the Monroe doc trine in a speech at the dinner in his honor given by the Brazilian ambassadoi in Washington. South American diplomats were much interested. Philippine telephone and telegraph bonds valued at $10,000 were a part of the loot secured by tb thief who stole a ac of registered nail in S&a Francisco.

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INTERESTING FACTS AC0UTTHI3 COMMONWEALTH. Some Statistical Data Aboit Indiana, Its History, Topograph y, Fltiirri, Transportation aad Products, by Joseph II. Stubbs. Indianapolis correspondence: The following facts relating to In diana, revised to Include 1903, havs been compiled by Joseph II. Stubbs, chief of .the Bureau of Statistics: 1. Indiana Territory was organized July 4, 1S00. 2. Indiana was admitted m a State, Dec. 11, 1S1G. 3. Indiana's first constitution was adopted June 29, 181G. 4. Indiana's present constitution was adopted Feb. 10, 1S57. 5. Indianas greatest length is 27a 140 miles. 6. Indiana average bretdth is miles. 7. Indiana's area is 35,010 equare miles or 2.X35G.629 acres. . 8. Indiana has 281,400 aores cot? red with lakes. ' 9. Indiana's center of population is la Deoatnr county. 10. Indiana's taxable pieperty was $1.57S,132.94G in 1903. 11. Indiana's gain per cent in taxable property In thirty years was 139. 12. Indiana's deductions on account of mortgage exemptions In 1903, was 13. In 1003, 102,728 persons took advantage of the mortgage exemption law. 14. Indiana's real estate was valutJ at $513,094,450 in 1905. 15. Indiana's personal property was valued at $377,410,730 in 1903. 16. Indiana had 0,900 mil is of stein roads ia 1905. 17. Indiana had 847 miles of in tern rDan roads in 1905. 18. Indiana's steam roads, earned $218,397,093. in 1005,19. Indiana's interurban roads, ia 1903. earned $0,757,730. 20. Indian's steam road, carried 53,556,120 passengers. in 1903, 21. Indiana's interurban roads, la 1903, carried 112,838,003 passengers. 22. Indiana's steam railroads were o sewe-l at $165,873,309 in 1905. 23. Indiana's, interurban roads rere assessed at $13,700,394 in 1905. 24. Indiana's factories numbered 7,912 in 1903. 25. Indiana aad $311,52G,023 invested in factories in 1905. . 2G. ' Indiana paid $72,178,239 in wage ia factories in 1905. 27. Indiana's factory products, ia 1903, were $394,1C5,S3S. 28. Indiana's eight leading cities ia manufacturing, in 1903, were: Andersen, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis. Muncie, New Albany, South Bend cn3 Terrs Haute. 29. Indiana's output of coal in ICC 4 was 9,857,940 tons. 30. Indiana's pd miners in ICC!, $3,341,099 in wages. 31. Indiana wheat crop in 1CC3 xrz3 1,644,119 acres, or 2D,CC9,521 bssbslx 32. Indiana's corn crop in 1005 wra 4,018,432 acres, or 170,003,929 bushels. 33. Indiana's oat crop in 1905 wu 1,9S1;47G acres, or 08,082,325 bushels. 3-t. Indiana's hay crop in 1905 w&a 3,929.110 tons. 35. Indiana's wool clip in 1905 xrz 3,2-tö.412 pounds. 30. Indiana produced ia 1905 33,003,793 pounds of butter. 37. Indiana sold in 1903, C1.372.C37 dozen rggs and 1,534,800 dozens of poultry. ; 38. Indiana's apple crop in 1903 was 1,6S5,913 bushels. 39. In 1905 Indiana ranked third la the production of corn. 40. Indiana ranked fourth in the output of coal in 1905. 42. Indiana leads in production cf poultry and eggs. 42. Indiana had. in 1905, 145,047 miles of t telephone. 43. Indiana had, ia 1905, 1G,9C0 miles of fne gravel roads. 44. Indiana built, in 1903, 1,2S3 miles of gravel road. : 45. Indiana has but two counties without a railroad. 4a Indiana had, in 1905, fifty-two cities, each having a population of 5.C00 or more. 47. Indiana had, in 1905, cighty-fira cities and 343 incorporated towns. IS. Indiana's oil wells, in 1905, yielded over $20,000,000. 49. Indiana has the second largest school fund. 50. Indian leads the world in bailding stone. STRANGELY DLCCOING TO DEATH Dedford Han's Cae Pussies Paysl clans Ailment Is New. Ixster Grissom, living near Bedford, is in a critical coudiuon from a peculiar disew. He is bleeding from all parts of his boy, and especially from his mouth and gums. The Hood keeps oozinj through the flesh, and the efforts of his physicians to check the flow so far havt proved fruitless. Courthouse Under Quarantine. The xrt house of Fulton county was quirantfod the other day because George Collins, employed in cleaning the building, was a smallpox patient. Roy Swick and Miss Carrie Hoover were not able to procure a license and had o postpoat their wedding. k Aared Couple Killed at Cro Henry Henley and wife, aged 05 and 60 years, were killed at a crossing near, Carmel by a passenger train on the Monoa railroad. They were driving and did not notice the approaching train. To Dalld New Ilailroad. William Kenefick, a Kansas City capitalist and railway contractor, is organising a $23,000.000 company to build a railroad from Chicago to Evansville, touching several of the principal cities of this State. Fire In Ioaraaaport Theater. Dating the production oX "Wtsn Knighthood Was in Flower in Loganspvt fire underneath the stage almost caused a panic. Smoke filled, the thea-. ter, and Miss Roseile Knot, the star, reassured the audience. Elephant Dies After a Ficht. ' A fine elephant belonging to the Wallace circus died in Peru as a result ef a fierce fight with its companions. This Is the tenth elephant lost by the Wallaces. Salmon May Cause Deaths. Frank Arnold, superintendent of tts public schools at Otwell, and Mrs. Arnold ate a quantity of canned salmon end may die. Young Girl Fatally Darned. Tbe 9-year-old daughter of J. E. Raasey was fatally burned while playing rttar the fire in Evansville. Two Killed by a Train. Bert Ruley, aged 56 years, and U. 13. Grace, his son-in-law, aged 25 yen, were killed by a Pennsylvania rtirrtid train at Valparaiso. Dedicate New Chare a. - The new Central Methodirt Episccril church at Evansville was dedicated. I he address was made by Bishop David L!cre of Portland, Ore. The number of students at tho frrrc--ty-two universities of Germany C!j winter Is 42,300. Berlin tzs c:ir!j o fifth of then e,C31.