Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 25, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 March 1906 — Page 2

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il l 0.TN. M.TV P. Q.F.M. 13 15th Xz) 23rd. ) 1st. 8th. FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD. Coarta an 1 Crimes Accident and Fires, Labor and Capital, Grain, Stock and Money Markets. Frightful Deed of a Maniac. Walter Potee, an insane man, 2S years old, entered his mother's house at Brooklyn, Anne Arundel county, Md., just as friends and relatives w ere gathering to attend the funeral of the brother's little child, opened re with a revolver, set fire to the house atd himself died from gunshot wounds, but whether self-inflicted or not is unknown. The mother and sister-in-law of the maniac were caught In the kitchen and held prisoners for some time. Potee then locked himself in the house and fired upon everyone who approached. Nine people were injured more or lesä seriously by his shots from revolvers and a repeating shotgun. The building was almost gutted by fa'. On the second floor was found the body of the maniac badly burned and with, a shot wound over the heart. $75.000 Smashnp on the Lake Shore. Three freight trains crashed together on the Lake Shore railroad near Goshen, Ind., probablyfatally injuring Conductor James Simon, and injuring Brakema F. E. Hall and Engineer A. A. Merrick, all from Toledo. Five hundred hogs were killed, fifteen cars demolished and four engines damaged, the total loss being estimated at $75,00o. A live stock train had stopped for water and was run down by a second section of the same train. Another train coming from the opposite direction crashed into the wreckage. Body Fonnd in a Trnnk. The baggageman at the Southern Pacific station at Stockton, Cal., discovered the remains of a man about SS years old, Jammed into a large trunk. Officers who have been working on the case assert that the man was placed in the trunk whilo yet alive. Developments show that the dead man was Albert X. Mc Vicar, who had been employed as timbennan in the .Rawhide mine at Jamestown. The police are endeavoring to locate Mrs. Me Yicar,who was in Stockton with her husband. Shoots Wife and Kills Himself. A suicide and probable murder was enacted at Downville, Ohio, a mining village In Athens county, when Fred Carey, after probably fatally shooting his wife, turned the revolver on himself, blowing out .'als brains. Mrs. Carey was shot through the breast and no hope of her recovery is hell oat. The crime is attributed to Jealousy. Carey kept a saloon In the village whe! the tragedy occurred. Fifty Horse Cremated. Fifty horses perished in a fire which destroyed the Conkling livery stables and several adjoining buildings at Bucyrus, Ohio. The origin of the fire is unknown. The flames spread so rapidly that only residences nearby could be saved. The The feed sheds and 100 buggies of the Conkling barns were destroyed. The loss Is estimated at 125,000. .... ci.k . i Watchman Walter Putnam was killed at Sodus, N. Y., by robbers in an unsuccessful attempt to blow the safe of the Bank of ßodus. The same gang blew open and robbed two safes in the Rome, Watertown & Ogdenburg railroad office earlier, but secured less than one dollar. The gang escaped in sleighs stolen from barns in the Tillage. Two Negro Marderers Hanged. Rufus Johnson and George Small, both colored, were hanged at Mount Holly, N. J. The crime for which Johnson and Small were hanged was the murder of Mi Florence W. Allinson, who was assaulted and killed in a barn near Moores town, X. J., on January 13. ' Fire In St. Panl Hotel. . Fire started in the roof of Magee's hotel at St Paul, Minn., a four-story building. The guests were aroused by bell-boys and fied from the building clad only in their night attire. Firemen soon had the fire under control. So far as known no one was injured. Prison Term ior Banker. Thomas M. Casey, former general manager of Salmon Brothers' bank at Clinton. Mo., pleaded guilty to the charge of forgejyof a note and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Two other indictments on similar charges were dismissed. Three Children Burned to Death. The three children of Junius BacLris -were burned to death in their home near Oxford, Fla., during the absence of the parents. Chicago Murderer Sentenced. .Richard G. Ivens was found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Franklin C. llollister at Chicago and the death penalty imposed. Headache Powder Kills. Mrs. John Jefferson of Kokomo, Ind., swallowed a supposed headache powder that hid been thrown on her porch as an advertising sample. It proved to be poison and the woman died in a few minutes. SJ 1,480,000 for Jamestown Exposition. The national house committee on industrial arts and expositions decided to recommend a total appropriation of $1,480,000 for the Jamestown exposition. Of this gum $250,000 Is a direct appropriation. The exposition sought a direct appropriation of $1,000,000. Attempt of Wreckers Falls. An attempt to wreck the east-bound limited train on the Pennsylvania railroad near Greensburg, Pju, was frustrated by a shifting crew finding a switch and frog splice L The discovery was made just two rvun:;et before the limited was due. ' ' Lst Sleepy Operator Flee. S. F. Frank Lively, the operator who admitted that he slept and caused the wreck on the Rio Grande at Adobe, Colo., has left the State. He went openly, and no effort was made to detain him. He boarded the east-bound Missouri Pacific train and does not intend to return. Fatal Wreck In Colorado. In a head-on collision on a curve sear Adobe, CK'o., about 2 o'clock Friday morning, the heavy New Mexico and Colorado express and the Leadville-Denver local No. 16 of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad were turned into a mass of wreckage and thirty peron were killed, killed. Torrn of Tustin, Mich., Barns. The business section of the village of Tustin, Mich., was destroyed by fire which started in the basement of the Hotel Compton from a furnace. Four persons were burned to death. The property loss Is about $22,000.

EASTERW. The Mutual Life suit against Richard A. McCurdy asks damages of $3.250,000 on the grounds of wastefulness and neglect of duty. John La Farge in New York pronounced the valedictory of the Society of American Artists, which amalgamates with the National Academy of Design. An explosion resulted in a fire which destroyed one of the largest of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company's power houses, with a loss of $175,000. John D. Rockefeller III., the new son of John D. Jr., is the richest baby in the world, as, if he lives, he will inherit the fortune of the head of Standard Oil. Dr. Francis J. Van Horn of the First Congregational (south) church, Worcester, Mass., has accepted a call from the Plymouth Congregational church, Seattle, Wash. Thirteen residents of Granby, Conn., have been served with writs in a suit for $10,000 damages filed by Willis Griffin for injuries received at the hands of wliitecaps. The steamer Persian reached Boston with the crew of the ßchooner Lejok, which was abandoned after a collision with an unknown four-masted schooner off Sandy Hook. William Waldorf Astor will give his son Cliveden castle as a wedding gift and settle on him $100,000 a year upon his marriage to Mrs. Nannie Langhorn Shaw of Richmond, Va. John Cline of Pittsburg solved the objection of a church to the establishment of a saloon in its neighborhood by buying the church property and forcing the congregation to move. John D. Rockefeller journeyed in secret from New Jersey to his son's residence in New York City, and saw his grandson. Attorney General Hadley called off his process servers for the event. Paul Trapi and Giuseppi Cagliano, arrested as being members of the Black Hand band which wrecked the store of Giocanio Fazio at Scranton, Pa., with dynamite, were held in $9,000 bonds each. A New York contractor of prominence, according to Dr. Josiah Strong, recently told him that the killing of workingmen was cheaper than protecting them. Nine men are killed every day In New York in accidents which are for the most part avoidable. The entire family of John II. Williamson, postmaster and station agent at Glen Osborne, Pa., on the Fort Wayne railroad, were found unconscious from asphyxiation. The family consisted if the father, mother and three children. The house was filled with fumes of gas.

"WESTERN. As a result of a civic league crusade Sheriff Quinn notified all gambling houses u Butte, Mont., to close their doors. ' Henry G. Wheeler, aged 85, for fiftyone years a resident of Duluth, Minn., Is dead. His father was a revolutionary soldier. An intercollegiate conference on international peace and arbitration will be held at Earlham college, Richmond, InL, April 13 and 14. . Prof. II. A. Hames of the University of Colorado, at Boulder, Colo., has been appointed head of the department of pedagogy at Harvard. President Roosevelt has been asked to stop the deportation of two deserters from the Russian navy, held at San Francisco, as victims of tracoma. Gen. Thomas J. Henderson of Illinois was elected at Washington as president of the Society of the Army of the Ohio, to succeed the late Gen. Schoßeid. Fire destroyed the remains of the Camp Bird mill, near Ouray, Colo., which was wrecked Sunday by a snowsllde. The mill cost $500,000 to erect in 1898. The Western Pacific, George Gould's new line, has paid $4,500,000 for extensive terminal facilities in San Francisco, for Its branch line to San Jose, Cal. The Ohio Senate at Columbus passed a bill providing for the fine and imprisonment of students found guilty of hazing and of members of college faculties who permit it.' The body of Johann Most, the anarch1st was cremated in Cincinnati. There was no religious ceremony, but some of Most's comrades delivered brief addresses before the cremation. Arthur Upson, a poet and literary instructor in the University of Minnesota, moved by a sudden impulse, leaped from a high bridge at Minneapolis and had a' narrow escape from death. Matthew Kehoe of Ponca, Neb., a wealthy Nebraskan, was compelled to appeal to the Associated Charities for money to pay his fare home because nobody in Omaha could Identify him. - Iowa representatives have passed a bill aimed at the Standard Oil Company, preventing rate-cutting in one part of the State to kill off competition while prices are being raised in another. Thomas M. Huntington, a banker of Gordon, Neb., was arrested on a charge of subornation of perjury in connection with alleged land frauds. This is the thirteenth arrest in these cases. Judge J. Otis Humphrey at Chicago granted the immunity pleas of the sixteen individual packers indicted for conspiracy in restraint of trade, but holds the five packing firms for trial. Dr. Shipman, a prominent Omaha physician, has made the sensational statement that of 500 patients operated on for appendicitis there during the last year less than 10 per cent had the disease. President Lillian Wyckoff Johnson of the Western College for Women at Hamilton, Ohio, announces that Andrew Carnegie had offered $50,000 to complete the (250,000 endowment fund now being raised by the college. Judge J. II. Beatty in the United States Court at Boise, Idaho, quashed the writs of habeas corpus . in the cases of Charles II. Moyer, William D. Haywood and George A. Pettibone, alleged slayers of former Gor. Steunenberg. Violation of the law by great commercial enterprises is the most vital problem of the country; socialism is a false remedy, and the true solution lies in aroused public sentiment, says Attorney General Hadley of Missouri in a speech. An enormous snows ide coming down In the Winfield and Clear Creek mining district of Colorado, killed, it is reported, at least half a dozen men. Among the dead is Harry Wineborn, the pioneer prospector and mining man of Chaffee county. Chicago trades unions are to be asked to send representatives to a convention to be held for the purpose of enlisting the Interest of union men and other organizations in a movement to form an independent political party which will nominate candidates for all offices. Robert Grace Zellner, a prominent young church worker, and her fiance, Roy Shank, a molder, were found dead in bed at a boarding-house in Mansfield, Ohio. Shank had shot her and then killed himself. It is believed that the young woman was decoyed to the man's room. While operating a snow plow on the Dayton and Troy traction road at Chambersburg, Ohio, William Pumphreys, Bert Hoover and Gustavus Nico I were instantly killed, the plow striking a horse that had become fastened in a bridge. The plow was upturned and the men were crushed beneath twelve tons of steel. True to his promise that if elected he wouM proceed vigorously against corporation misdeeds, Prosecutor Lyman W. Wachenheimer has presented to Judge Moores of the Common Pleas Court in Toledo, Ohio, the return of the grand jury Indicting five ice companies, ten bridge companies and an alleged briber. While operating a snowplow on the Dayton and Troy traction line at Chambersburg, Ohio, William Pumphreys, Bert Hoover and Gustavus Nicol were killed.

The plow struck a horse that had become fastened in a bridge and was overturned and the men were crushed under twelve tons of steel that had been placed on the car to weigh it down. The victims lived at Tippecanoe. Curtis Jackson, a 17-year-old negro boy, was hanged at Poplar Bluff, Mo., for an attack on a white woman. Dean Norman, husband of the injured woman, sprung the trap and Mrs. Norman tnrself witnessed the execution. The crims was committed Feb. 2, and the next day the n-grc was saved from lynching only because the sheriff ordered the arrest of the woman's husband, who led the mob. School authorities in Otee county, Neb., have decided female school teachers must sign a contract not to marry during the school year before they will be given positions in the schools. Teachers in most of the districts in the county have married recently, causing great inconvenience to the educational system. There is much opposition to the order, but the officials insist it will be enforced to the letter. Three freight trains were mixed up in a wreck on the Lake Shore road at Goshen, Ind. An east-bound freight train containing a number of cars of live stock stopped for water and was run into by a second train, demolishing many cars and killing a large number of hojrs. Some of the wrecked cars were thrown ver on to the west-bound track and wero run into by a third freight train. Three trainmen were injured. . The Ohio Senate passed the anti-hazing bill which originated in the House, and it now goes fo the Governor for his signature. The bill provides that any student of any university or school, public or private, found guilty of hazing 6hall be fined not more than $200 or imprisonment for not more than six months in jail, or both. The heads or instructors of schools who knowingly permit hazing are amenable to a fine of not exceeding $100. At Columbus, Ohio, Louis Thyrium left Mount Carmel hospital with seventeen feet of silver wire in his body. He entered the hospital In such a condition that it was thought he would never leave it alive. He was injured in a street car accident in Chicago and was "twisted up' internally. Doctors took the case in hand and several weeks ago performed a most remarkable operation. Thyrium had a lung and his heart displaced by being hit by the car and was not expected to live.

WASHINGTON. A garbled version of a letter frcm President Roosevelt, used by Mrs. Storer to boom Archbishop 'Ireland for cardinal, is said to have caused the recall of Ambassador Storer from Vienna. The House committee on judiciary decides that the federal government has no power to control insurance companies, the report drawn up by Chairman Jenkins citing the opinions of the United States Supreme Court and holding that Corgres; cannot impair the police powers of the States. President Roosevelt received a memorial from Samuel Gompers and a delegation from the American Federation of Labor setting forth the desires of labor in the matter of legislation, and in reply declared that the requests, in a number of instances, are against what he considers good national policy. Mrs. Roorevelt's cruise on the yacht Mayflower to the West Indies will be taken because of the impaired condition of her health. The wi!e of the Präsident has been far from well for the last six weeks, and the strain of the festivities attending the wedding of Miss Alfce Roosevelt and Representative Longworth adt'ed to her indisposition. She will be accompanied by Miss Ethel Roosevelt and Kermlt, Archibald and Quentin. An organisation to be known as th Lake to the Gulf Deep Water Way Association was formed at a dinner given in Washington by Representative Lorimer of Chicago. Mr. Lorimer was elected chairman and Mr. Rainey secretary of the organization to carry on the preliminary work. It was decided to hold a convention in St. Louis Nov. 15 and 1G, at which will be present the delegates from all the cities along the line of the proposed waterway in which clubs were organized last summer, when Mr. Lorimer made a trip over the route. Twenty-two States are Interested in the project, which contemplates the expenditure of $31,000,OK). FOREIGN. Nineteen lives were lost in a storm that swept Vera Crus on the Mexican coast Monday. The rumor Is curent In hi.j Russian circles that Count Witte is tt resign the premiership. Three Mexicans have been condemned to death for killing an old woman they believed to be a witch at Toluca, Mexico. The first smoking car ever reserved for women in Great Britain left a big London terminus Wednesday for Liverpool. The windows bore a label reading: "Lidies Smoking." The Innovation attests the spread of smoking among English women during recent years. Premier Moret of Spain having announced to his colleagues his Intention to resign after the passage of the Judicial reform bill, all the cabinet ministers have placed their resignations in his hands. The departure of King Alfonso for the Canary Islands has been deferred pending a settlement of the cabinet crisis. Three men are in Beiern prison, City of Mexico, under ' sentence of death for having killed in Toluca, capital of the State of Mexico, an old woman whom they believed to be a witch. Belief la witchcraft prevails among the lower classes in the rural regions and. many crimes have resulted from the superstition. XZT GENERAL. The battleship Oregon is returning from the Orient to Bremerton navy yard for repairs. The Ancient Order of United Workmen's grand lodge raises insurance rates of members over 55 years old 35 per cent. Mrs. Gus Kleiser of Toronto was seized after crossing the river from Detroit to Windsor on the charge of smuggling jewelry into Canada. A dispatch from Juneau, Alaska, reports a fire which destroyed the Louvre Theater in that city. The despatch follows: "Theater burned Saturday night. John King dead." The Louvre was a two-story building of wood and was erected fifteen years ago It cost $25,000. John King did the fire-eating act. Florists have been producing green carnations for several years by steeping the stems of white blooms In a chemical solution. They are now trying to develop a rose with the American flag distinctly portrayed for use on Memorial day. Fourth of July and other holidays. A Jet black carnation is also being developed. The commissioners appointed to inquire into the Valencia disaster made their report at Victoria, B. C, blaming Captain Johnson for grave errors in navigation and for lack of discipline among ths crew, and making recommendations for the betterment of the protection to shipping traversing waters contiguous to the Vancouver Island coast. The full report of the tests made at the government coal testing station at the St. Louis world's fair grounds has been made public It gives in detail the records of experiments, which show that by using coal as a gas producer and using this gas in gas engines, manufacturing plants can save half or more of the cost of burning the coal under steam boilers and getting the power from steam engines. The report also shows the manufacturer exactly the cost of producing gas from coal, the best coal to get gas from, the cost of transportation, and of making the change from the steam plant to the gas producing plant.

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CONGRESS! The rate bill monopolized the attention of the Senate Monday, Messrs. McCreary, Bailey and Heyburn making speeches. After passing a bill for the establishment of a fish culture sta Jon in Nebraska adjournment was taken. The bill abolishing the grade of lieutenant general of the army was passed by the House, with an amendment providing that it go into effect Oct. 12 next, so that Gens. Corbin ai'd MacArthur may be promoted before their retirement. A bill reclassifying the consular service and providing for increases in salaries amounting to $170,000 a year was passed. In the afternoon the legislative appropriation bill was taken up. A joint resolution providing for the extension of time to Aug. 15 next for the opening of the Shoshone reservation in Wyoming was passed. The recent battle at Mount Dajo was the theme for an exchange of compliments among the representatives. Several bills of local importance were passed. -: :- The Senate Tuesday passed the pension appropriation bill, carrying $140,000,000. The railroad rate bill was laid aside for the day, and the fortifications appropriation bill taken up. All provision for defenses in the Philippines was eliminated and the amount for Hawaii cut to $2G0,000. Consideration of the measure was not completed. At 5 :05 the Senate went into executive session and adjourned fifteen minutes later. The House was bound up in matters of small moment, that section of the legislative appropriation bill fixing salaries for the officers and employes of the House being up for consideration. Many proposed increases were lost on points of order and great economy was exercised. Having covered less than twenty-five pages of the bill, the House adjourned. Wednesday the entire day in the Senate was devoted to the consideration of the railroad rate bill. Mr. Culberson presented an amendment prohibiting corporations coming under the operations of the proposed law from making campaign contributions. Mr. Bailey then offered his "just compensation" amendment, and spoke on the subject. Other speechei were made by Messrs. Dolliver, Tillman, Patterson, Heyburn and Knox. Mr. Bai ley was interrupted by the announcement of his father's death. At 2:32 p m., the Senate went into executive session to consider the Isle of Pines treaty, and adjourned at 4:08 p. m., when the death of Representative George R. Patterson was announced. The House adjourned immediately after it was called to order out of respect for the late Georg R. Patterson, a member from Pennsylvania, who died in Washington durinj the morning. The statehool bill wai made the first order of business for Thursday. -: :- The railroad rate bill occupied prao tically all of the time of the Senat Thursday. Mr. Lodge spoke in tdvocacj of his amendment looking to the enlargement of the interstate commerce commission and replied sharply to some recenl utterances by Commissioner Prouty. Mr, Spooner devoted a speech to the technical features of the measure. A joint resolution extending from June 15 to Aug. 15, 190C, the time for opening to entry thi ceded portion of the Shoshone reservation in Wyoming was passed. At 4:53 p. m. the Senate went Into executivi session and five minutes later adjourned The statehood bill was taken from thi Speaker's table in the House, placed lo the hands dt three selected conferees and a request made of the Senate for a conference. There was much opposition, bui the final vote was 175 to 15G. The legi lative appropriation bill constituted thi subject for th? remainder of the day Criticism was made of the management ol the library of Congress, 'and Mr. Hard wick (Ga.) found himself opposed bj both sides of the chamber in his endeavoi to restrict the White Honse appropriation so as to eliminate a social secretary for the wife of the President. -: :- Mr. Spooner concluded his speech 01 the railroad rate bill in the Senate Friday and Mr. Tillman replied to his arguments. The fortifications appropriate, measure was taken up and passed. It carries an appropriation of $125,000 foi the erection of a government powder factory and provides for a total expenditurt of $5,278,993. The House continued discushion of the legislative bill and a grea; deal of friction developed. By a etricl application of the rules Mr. Prince (111.) and Mr. Hardwick (Ga.) wrought havo with the force of the civil service com mission wherever Increases of salary oi force were proposed, as well as other positions for which the managers of tb bill could find no law.- An amendment bj Mr. Gaines (Tenn.) providing $100,00( for a private car for the President wai defeated on a point of order. After onethird of the bill had been considered th House adjourned. Notes or the National Capital. An immense volume of trade p&ssei over isthmus of Panama without a canaL Ambassador Meyer may be given placi in President's cabinet in the event ol Taft's retirement. Charges that railroads grant rebates os sugar shipments are being Investigated bj Attorney-General Moody. Furniture and other heavy matter cannot be franked through the mails in th future, according to house postofSce committee's decision. A provision limiting the salaries of th government clerks over 65 years of age, to $1,000 a year has been attached to the legislative appropriation bill. United States and republic of San Marino, oldest and smallest in existence, have entered into treaty of extradition. The President has decided to appoint Manly Lawton, son of the late Major Gen. Lawton, to be a cadet at the military academy. J. E. Market, asked by Senate committee why he got contract for hotels in canal rone when competitor's bid was lower, couldn't explain. Alarmed at the spread of tuberculosa among government employes, President Roosevelt issued instructions as to th methods of fighting the disease. Hearings on the Philippine tariff will have been completed by the Senate Philippine commission soon and report made. The House committee on the District of Columbia decided unanimously ts grant Representative Webber of Ohio n hearing on bis bill for absolute prohibition of the sale of liquor in the District of Columbia. Senor Garbiras, the newly appointed charge d'affaires of Venezuela, has taken chargo of the legation. When asked concerning the condition of affairs between France and Venezuela, the new charge d'affaires stated that nothing new has developed. He denied that President Castro bad any aggressive plans. Tho sub-committee of the House committee on postoffices and post roads which has been considering appropriation for the Tcstoffice Department, practically completed a bill fixing the appropriation for tho department at about $192,000,000,. or $10,000,000 more than the last appropriation. This in Tease .is designed to meet the increase in the business of the department, which averages about 8 per cent annually. A large delegation of the National German American Alliance appeared before the nouse commitee on Judiciary to oppose the Hepburn Dolliver bill for the prevention of C. O. D. shipments of liquor into prohibition districts.

ROOSEVELT TO LABOR.

Blnnt 'Talk to Com pern and Other Lender at White House. Some plain talk on labor questions I was indulged in by President Roosevelt in addressing President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor and the executive council of that body, when the delegation called at the White House and presented the appeal previously given to Congress. Those parts of the document referring to legislation by Congress the President did not touch upon. He said with vigor that the .laboring men could easily kill the pending bill limiting writ of injunction. He favored It, but Congress, he declared, was In no mood to pass It. He said that during his adminstration he had never sought an Injunction against a labor organization, but that he had applied for more than twenty Injunctions against capital. He denied that the Chinese exclusion law was violated, and said that there were fewer Chinese in the United States than ten or even twenty and thirty years ago. He spoke plainly on the eight-hour law. He favors its application in the United States, but declared it would be an absurdity on the Panama canal, where only West Indian negro labor was employed, and where the men work not more than half the week. On immigration, the President said no undesirable Immigrants should be admitted and the country could not have too many good Immigrants. Washington political circles were considerably stirred over the attitude adopted by the Executive Committee of the American Federation of Labor as a result of their interview with the President and Speaker Cannon. The concluding paragraph in the address of the Federation was construed as a threat that the great labor organization would go Into politics and be an important factor in the impending Congressional campaign, and perhaps the Presidential campaign. ' The paragraph reads as follows: "Labor now appeals to you, and we trust It may not be in vain. But if perchance you may not heed us, we shall appeal to the confident and support of our fellow citizens." Mr. Gompers said these words had been chosen carefully, and their meaning Is clear. If Congress fails to redress what the organization regards as grievances it will enter the field of politics and endeavor to have organized labor elect men to Congress to represent Its Interests. Jerome After Insurance Grafters. At last, after an interval so long that the public had begun to distrust his motives, District Attorney Jerome of New York has made his first open move against the despoilers of life insurance companies in the form of a presentment by the grand jury, before which he had made a detailed statement of the evidence. The grand jury asked for the court's advire as to whether certain acts of insur ance officials in connection with the pay ment of political contributions was a violation of the law. It appears that Jerome has divided the various phases of the evidence into distinct groups to avoid com plications. Later, the grand jury will look into the matter of syndicate deals, falsification of books, false reports, bribery, perjury, etc. The matter was re ferred to Judge O Sullivan of General Sessions. . "W w Kansas City will establish a parental school. Chicago will in future put in only slata blackboards. Ten of England's premiers have beea educated at Eton and five at narrow. There are 500 Indian teachers in the Indian schools of the United States 240 men and 2C0 women. Utica, N. Y., Dr. M. G. Benedict, superintendent, has bought the vacant lots adjoining nine different school build' ings in the city. In a cosmopolitan school in New Brit ain. Conn., it is the practice to require children to give talks in the class on the land of their ancestry. Cambridge, Mass., allows any teacher ts take a year off for study, and draw a third of the Halary. It is a great advant age to teachers and to the city. In Tarkersburg, W. Va.,."in grades one to eight inclusive, minimum salary shall be $45 per month; annual increase $5 ppr month ; maximum salary,, $60 per month." President Tucker of Dartmouth College declares that he is not willing to accept the Republican nomination for Governor of his State, but prefers to continue his duties as college president. The late Bishop Mandell once was asked the difference between an Oxford and a Cambridge man, and replied : "An Oxford man looks as if the world belonged to him ; a Cambridge man as if he didn't care to whom the world belonged." The department of superintendents of the N. E. A. at its recent Louisville (Ky.) meeting recommended the following changes In spelling : "Buziness for busl ness, "enuf" for enough, "fether" for feather, 'mesure for measure, "plesure for pleasure, "trauf for trough, thru" for through, "tuf" for tough, "tung" for tongue, "yung" for young. Fully two-thirds of the towns of the State of Connecticut are now committed to the principle of free text books in the public schools, just as the State stands committed to the pubhc school system. This was determined at the elections re cently. American women in London are trying to raise a fund which shall do for women what the Rhodes scholarships do for men. The plan is to send one or two students from each State for a course in one of the English universities. It is hoped that ten million dollars can be raised for the purpose. When Senator J. T. Morgan was asked by a Britisher at what college he was graduated he replied that the first time be was ever on a college campus in his life was in the Civil War, when, with his command, he took refuge from the Yankee bullets behind the brick walls of the Col lege of William and Mary,, in Virginia. Prof. William Ostwald of the Univer sity of Leipsic, who has been lecturing in this country, gives his impression ' ot American student life as follows: "The personal interest of the students, next to their studies, is concentrated alone on snort, which draws their attention alto gether from intellectual or esthetic pur suits." Lead pencils are probably responsible for the serious epidemic of diphtheria which prevails at Yates Center, Woodson County, Kansas. This is the diagnosis of Dr. S. J. Crumbbine, secretary of State Board of Health, as result of his discovery that the public schools of Yatss Center have used lead pencils' from a common supply, purchased by the school board, distributed indiscriminately to the pupils each morning, and collected each afternoon at the close of school. Dr. Crumbbine ordered that the entire stock of "co-operative" lead pencils be Immediately burned. He also issued orders forbidding the continuation of this parmi clous custom.

wNANCIALT

The belated arrival of stormy weather stimulated renewed demand In Chicago. lines which . previously had lagged somewhat, but its effect was not severe qnough to Interfere seriously with construction and transportation. A better demand followed for fuel and heavy apparel. Manufacturing proceeds steadily, the leading producers in iron and steel having all the work which can be overtaken, while there is more effort to increase output in carbuilding, farm implements, heavy machinery and electric supplies. Buying of raw materials is unabated and the average of prices exhibits no change, although hides have been subjected to slight fluctuations. Leather continues strong and there Is considerable activity in deliveries from the tanneries. Building work exhibits sustained gain for this season, and there is further remarkable absorption of lumber and other needs, all bringing high prices. Distributive trade Is strengthened by conditions which mainly favor the outlook for spring business, shipments remaining exceptionally well sustained. The jobbing market shows unusual activity, many Interior buyers being present who make liberal 'purchases in the principal staples. This month's sales thus far exceed those for the same period last year, the gain being conspicuous . In drygoods, footwear, furniture and men's furnishings. Failures reported In the Chicago district number 29, against 28 last week and 25 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. The widespread winter storm has delayed the opening of spring trade at Nev York. retail, causing some complaint of bad roads and interruption to personal buying at leading jobbing centers. On the other hand, the benefits of accompanying heavy snows or rains to the crops probably far outweigh the damage due to this cause or Injury caused to small fruit and truck Interests by the freezing weather. Wholesale trade and industry show no signs of hesitation and even the building trades have given little heed to the temporary weather setback, In view of the immense business for spring and summer offering. The coal strike situation Is still a flaw In the situation, but signs of the conflict being localized are seen, and a general suspension of all work Is scouted. Jobbing trade at leading centers Is large and re-orders for spring delivery are already reported at Western centers. Railway earnings for February and the first half of March break al) records for season, collections are classed as fair to good, export trade is of a large midwinter volume, and there are signs that lowered prices of cereals have found response in Improved foreign buying. Business failures in the United States for the week ending March 15 number 187, against 177 last week, 18C In the like week of 1905, 193 In 1904, 194 in 1903 and 197 In 1902. In Canada for the week the number Is thirty-three, as against thirty-four last week and twenty-two In this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Report Chicogo Cattle, common to fprime, $4.00 to $G.30; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $G.52; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $G.25; wheat, No. 2, S3c to 84c; corn, No. 2, 43c to 44c ; oats, standard, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 02c to C3c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $13.50; prairie, $6.00 to $10.00; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 2Gc; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, 43c to 62c. . Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0.57; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 83c to S5c; corn. No. 2, white, 45c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $G.30; sheep, $4.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2, SGc to 89c; corn. No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats. No. 2, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 2, C3c to G4c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.35; hogs, $4.00 to $6.72 ; sheep, $2.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2, 85c to 87c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 2, C8c to 70c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, $2.50 to $510; wheat, No. 2, 83c to 85c ; corn, No. 3 yellow, 45c to 47c; oats. No. 3 white, 32c to 34c; rye, No. 2, 64c to 65c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, ,75c to 79c; corn, No. 3, 41c to 43c; oats, slandard, 30c to 31c; rye. No. 1 C2c to 64c ;. barley, standard, 52c to 54c ; pork, mess, $16.00. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 86c to S7c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; orrts, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 2, COc to 67c; clover seed, prime, $7.87. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.75 ; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.85; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.90; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.15. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $3.C7; hogs, $4.00 to $6.70; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 80c; corn. No. 2, 49c to 51c; oats, natural white, 36c to 37c; butter, creamery, 24c to 27c; egjs, western, 13c to 15c. William Willett, who is suing Mrs. Mary Thaw for $1G,000 for the art window she gave to the Third Presbyterian church of Tittsburg, alleges that she appropriated his plans, had a window built by Tiffany, which was unsatisfactory, then had him rebuild it and refused to pay him. Circuit Judge Douglas at St. Louis overruled the motion of the police boarJ to vacate Chief Kiely's temporary injunction restraining the board from trying him on thirteen charges of neglect of duty, and also decided that Kiely could not be tried on charges antedating his present commission. The Minneapolis City Council passed an amended 80-cent gas resolution, under which a committee is to demand that the gas company grant an 80-cent rate or submit the question to arbitration. Dr. J. B. Mathews, charged with killing his wife, was found guilty of murder in the second degree at Greensboro, N. C, and sentenced 10 imprisonment for twenty years. Mrs. Edward Standifer shot and killed her sister, Miss Chappell Whisenant, at Atlanta, Ga., because, she alleged, her husband had been too attentive to tha other woman.

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1369 Battle of Monteil. 1519 Fernando Cortez and his band of explorers attacked by Indians. 1521 Insurrection and massacre in the island of Majorca. 1590 Battle of Ivry. 1021 Plymouth colonists received first Indian visit.... Complaint against Lord Bacon for corruption presented to the House of Lords. 1032 Treaty of St. Germain, by which s Canada and Nova Scotia wer restored to the French. 1G44 Roger Williams obtained charter for incorporation of Providence, R. I. 1G76 Narragansett Indians attacked Northampton, Mass. . . .Settlement of Warwick, R. I., destroj-ed by the Indians. 1680 First Assembly of New Hampshire met at Portsmouth. 171S First person inoculated for smallpox in England. 1757 Admiral John Bying shot at Portsmouth, England, for cowardice. 17GG Celebration in Boston over repeal of the Stamp act. . 1776 Boston evacuated by the British. 1778 Engagement at Quintan's Bridge, New Jersey. . 1781 French surrendered island of St. Bartholomew to the British. . . .Cornwallis retreated from Guilford court house. 1793 Battle of Linden. 1800 British sldp Queen Charlotte destroyed by mi explosion off Leghorn. 1S02 Military institution established at West Point. N. Y. 1S0S King Charles IV. of Spain abdi- - cated in favor of his sat. 1S13 Delaware river blocked by British ships. V1815 Kingdom of the Netherlands proclaimed William I. as King. 1848 Insurrection at Milan; flight of the viceroy. 185S Nankin taken by rebels; 20,000 massacred. 1855 First train across Niagara bridge. 1858 Lucknow taken. 1S61 Kingdom of Italy established. 18G3 rrince William George of Denmark elected King of Greece. 1865 Battle of Bentonville, N. C... Lincoln issued procl lination to punish persons supply? ag arms to Indians. . . .Confedera e arsenal at Fayetteville, N. C, destroyed by Sherman. 1S67 Mexico evacuated by the French. 1869 Revolt of convicts in Sing Sing ' prison ; a keeper killed. 1871 Tommun-'st uprising in Paris.... Siege of T$ ris -begun. 1872 Execution of three Commuristi at Satory. 1 1873 San Salvador destroyed by aa earthquake. 1875 Tornado devastated Rienzi, Miss. 1878 Great strike of weavers in England. . . .O'Donovan Rossa riot in Toronto. 1882 "Billy the Kid" captured in Minneapolis. 1883 Collision on Edinburgh and Glasgow railroad at Central station ; seventy-four killed. .. .Alleged attempt to assassinate Lady Florence Dixie at Windsor. 1S84 Egyptian troops defeated at Khartoum. .. .Tribal rising in Egypt from Kassala to Berber. 1885 One hundred and thirty-seven miners suffocated in Rhenish Frussia. lSSu Geronimo and band surrendered to Lieut. Maus in Arizona. 1887 Train fell through a bridge la Boston; forty lives lost.... Fire destroyed Richmond hotel in Buffalo; thirty-two lives lost. 1SSS Santa Fe railroad tied up by strikers. .. .Morocco refused errands of the United States. 1889 Coper panic in Paris. 1S00 Boomers invaded the Cherokee strip. 1891 Steamer Eutopia sunk in Gibraltar bay; 571 lives lost.... Keys tone National bank in Philadelphia closed its doors. 1893 $500,000 fire in Milwaukee..,. Jules Ferry, president of French Senate, died. 1894 Walter Wellman, Arctic explorer, sailed from New York. 1895 Missing Spanish warship Reina Regente found sunken near Gibraltar; 420 persons lost.... Two hundred thousand bootmakers on strike in England.... Revolt crushed in Colombia. 1905 Cruiser Washington launched at Philadelphia. .. .James II. Teaboy declared Governor of Colorado.... Gen. Llnevitch appointed to succeed Kuropatkin in command of Russian army.... More than a score killed In coal mine explosion at Thurmond, W. Va. Notes of Current Events. The national convention of wholesale grocers will meet in Buffalo June 5-7. An Italian prisoner confessed that there is an anarchist plot to kill the King of Italy on April 18. Charles E. Leland, the last of seven brothers, all of whom were hotel men, died in Broadalbln, N. Y. He was 63 years old. Mr. Mollie Meyers has filed suit for $25,000 in New York against Dr. Herman J. Boldt. She alleges he sewed a towel up in her body after an operation. Major D. Price, commandant cf Fort GreWo, R. L, who disappeared several week ago. has been found in Syracuse, N. Y. His actions will be investigated. George A. Soper, a sanitary engineer, severely criticises the sanitary administration of the New York subway, alleging that filth is allowed to collect near stations. Rev. G. C. Forter has resigned the pastorate of the First Presbyterian cLurch at Laurel, Neb., to become a Socialist orator. Prof. G. W. Cavanaugh of Cornell university has discovered a process of powdering milk. He claims it will eventually cheapen the milk. John Varley was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of $3,000 in Cripple Creek, Colo. Counsel for Felix Gaidsis, detained on an embezzlement charga in New York at tha instance of Russia, declared that tht charge was "trumped up." as Gaidsis was wanted to tell of revolutionary plots.

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BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Our Neighbors Are DoingMatters of General and Local Interest Marriages and Destbs Accidents and Crimes Personal Pointers Abont Indianlar.i. Brief State Items. narry Chester of Elkhart, widely known, as poet, politician and lawyer, is dead. A. O. Shiplick of Brazil, a brakeman,. was killed by a train at Indiana Harbor. Charles Whitcomb, aged 22, was struck by a train at Valparaiso and instantly killexL Mrs. Bernard Keselk died from burns received in escaping from a burning building at Wanatah. Fred Schmidt, aged 28, of nammond,wa killed by the accidental discharge of a shotgun while hunting. Four prisoners sawed out of the new Knox county jail at Vincenncs. All werelocked up on miror charges. Seven students were expelled from Purdue University, Lafayette, for taking part in the hazing of another student. While scanning the columns of a newspaper Mrs. Michael Capper, 50 years old, of Hartford City, went suddenly blind. Mrs. Margaret Tucker, 70 years old, a widow, was brutally assaulted by a burglar in her home at Washington. Her condition is crit'cal. Charles Johnson of Laporte was awarded $15,000 against the Lake Shore Railway Company for the loss of a leg and an cjvi. He sued for $50,003. Fred Moon was accidentally shot and killed by Orville Bennett, at South Bend, while playing with a loaded revolver. Both are 18 years old. John Stanley, veteran of the Ninth Indiana regiment, was killed at Elkhart by a switch engine on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad. Vernor Henning Petre, formerly of Cannelton, and now located at M&nila, has been appointed assistant collector of customs for the Philippine Islands. Passenger train No. 12, on tho B." & O. S. W., ran into an open switch at Washington, badly diMnaging the engine.wrecking several box cars and injuring three persons. The 3-year-old child of George Williams, living three lilies from Princeton, was burned to deaih. . In the absence of its mother the child's clothing caught fire from a stove. George T. May field of Madison , ex-county treasurer, whose accounts were found to be $9.200 short, has returned the principal with $3,S22 interest. The shortage datesback six years. The Elks at Elkhart are issuing bonds to members for the ereetion of a $40,000 clubhouse. The new building will have a gymnasium, roof garden, swimming pool and lodgeroom. Dr. F. W. Achilles of Evansville, died ts the result of a fall downstairs. He was t5 years old and was at one time connected with the departmJit of chemistry of Indiana University. While oiling a line shaft at the Empire Mirror and Beveling Works at Alexandria, the slipping of a box threw Roy Slater, foreman, against the shaft, tearing off his left arm at the elbow. Fire which originated in a chicken incubator in the kitchen of the home of John Francis, at Marion, destroyed the dwelling and a large part of the contents. The less is $8,000, partially insured. Mrs. Dat ius Se well, living ten miles northwest of Wabash, shot herself tt. Ice in the head with a 22-caliber revolver. Her injuries will probably prove fatal. The cause of the act was ill health. Phillip Stark, aged 52, committed suicide in the cellar of the Salvation Army home at Evansville, by hanging himself. He was a native of Germany. Despondency is assigned as the cause for his act. Mrs. Delia Jones, aged 15, of Evansville, sued ber husband, Elvis Jones, for divorce, alleging that she married him when IS years old against her will, and her father conspired and forced her into the match. She came from Jeffersonville. Eli Jones of New Albany, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the barn on the farm of Mrs. Cooper, two miles north of that place. It is thought that be w as smoking in the barn and fell asleep. His charred body was found in the ruins. G. B. Gresbam, a brakeman on the Southern railway, was killed and Brakeman Orville Smith was seriously injured by being swept from the top of a train by tree branches near the mouth of the Edwardsville tunnel. Both men live at New Albany. An active war is to be waged against Indianapolis drugists,who have been selling morphine and cocaine in packages to fiends without a physician's prescription. Among the indictments found by the March grand jury, it is said, are several against prominent druggiKS. Mrs. Darius Seweil of Paw Paw, owes her life to her vanity. She determined to commit suicide, and not wishing to shoot herself in the forehead because the wound would disfigure her in death, she placed her revolver against the back of her head and fired. The bullet inflicted a serious wound, but the woman will recover. The clothing store of M. Lowenstein at Muncie, was destroyed by fire, evidently caused by a safe blower who used nitroglycerine. It was a bad job of burglary, as the entire life was blown to pieces. It contained about $200. The loss is estimated at $15,000; t insurance, $8,R00. The shoe store oT Koöns & Manok was also damaged to the amount of $1,000, fully covered by insurance. Frank McXeal of Columbus was sentenced to serve two to fourteen years lor forgery. McNeal fled the city the day before Christmas and it was alleged he left forgeries of 125,000 on the name of his brother, Lon McNeal. Whilo talking by phone with his fiancee, Miss Elizabeth Buchanan, at her home in Indianapolis, Dr. Ellis Dixon, a dentist of Frankfort, oommitted suicide by shooting. Miss Buchanan, hearing the shot over the wire and being unable to get any response from Dr. Dixon, became alarmed, called up another friend at Frankfort and learned of her fiancee's deed. A new hospital, to take the place of SL Joseph's, is to be built in Logansport this year. The site has been purchased by th1 Sisters of ft, Francis, who have been operating St. Joseph's hospital in that city for tht last ten years, from the estate of the late Andrew J. Murdock, at a cost of 19,000. A handsome new three-stcry brick structure will be erected at a cost of about $50,000 with accommodations for a hundred patients. Frank Hall of Terre Haute, who killed Clyde Brown in December last, has been indicted for manslaughter. Hall claimed that b was assaulted and was compelled to use his revolver in self-defense. Oa the Oceam DIae. "When that storm was blowing yesterday," said the vivacious girl, "I just threw up my hands in despair. "Well," returned her escort, griraly, "something got the matter with me, too, but I didn't er er I didn't throw up my hands." Prelim laarr Trmlnlaa. Uncle Josiah First time you ever milked a cow, is it? Well, you do it thunderin sight better than most city fellers do. Visiting Nephew It seems to come natural, somehow. 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