Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 26, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 April 1906 — Page 2

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15th23rd y IstAgJeth. FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOINGSTOF THE WORLD. Courts and Crimea, Accident and Fires, Labor and Capital Grain Block and Money Markets. Many Hurt in Nickel Plate Wreck. Thirty-one persons were injured, soma of them seriously, in a frightful wreck oa the Nickel Plate railroad two miles west of South Whitley, Ind., when a broken rail sent eastbound passenger train No. 2 into the ditch. Many of the cars were reduced to wreckage, and they carried the unfortunate passengers down into the mass of crashing debris. Few in either the smoking car or the two day coaches escaped ii Jury, and it is a miracle that Cozens wert not killed outright. The injured were tak n to St. Joseph's hospital in Fort Wayne. Kxclti'jfr Scene at Negro Hanging. Isaac Winder, the negro murderer, was hanged at Towson, Md., for the murder of an aged toll-gate keeper named Reinhardt a few weeks ago. The condemned man struggled and fought desperately for ten minutes until he was beaten into submission by Sheriff Elliott, Chief of Polite Sfceei, Deputy Sheriff Anderson and two assistants and placed over the trap and his body finally launched into eternity. , It was the most exciting scene ever witnessed at a hanging in Maryland and the great crowd loudly cheered. .Lutheran Minister Assaulted. A mysterious attempt was made to murder the Rev. John Kopp, pastor of the German Lutheran church at East Port Chester, N. Y., while on his way to the church. It is believed a hatchet was used in the attempt to kill the clergyman, and such an instrument covered with blood was later found by the sheriff in the home of Albert Depaul, .organist of the church. Depaul, whose wife is choir leader, is missing, and the police have sent out a general alarm for his arrert. Mr. Kopp's condition is critical. Hidden Treasure Found. By a storm uprooting an apple tree recently at English, Ind., $8,000 of the treasure hidden by George Patten, forty years ago, was unearthed. Thi3 find caused the search to be renewed by hfs family and the discovery of $13,000 more was made. It is believed that the total amount hidden was $100,0J0. Patten claimed to have been robbed and apparently became mentally affected. He lived to be very old and never cut bis hair,shaved or wore a coat after the alleged robbery. Killed Two Miners and Injured Four. A skip that was being hoisted from the bottom of the Ottawa mine at Ironwood, Hi ch, fell, killing two miners and injuring four. Immediately afterward the miners made a demand on the superintendent that work be stopped until the bodies were recovered, lie refused to grant the request smd the men threatened violence. A panie Xellc-rred in the pits and the mine was idle for an hour. ' Uantington Cabman to Prison. In a verdict returned by a Jary in the Huntington Circuit Court, Boston Weston, a cabman of Huntington, Ind., who had been on trial for the killing of Roman J. Holthouse of Decatur, was found guilty of manslaughter and his punishment was fixed at from two to twenty -one years in la state's prison. llxsterious Fire at Marion. There is much mystery as to the origin tl a fire which almost destroyed the National Sweeper Works at Marion, Ind. The loss will amount to about $100,000, TriZh about 60 per cent, of it cot ered by insurance. The factory probably will be rebuilt. About 200 men are employed in thr f Actory. Jatal Fire at Ree: City, Mich. Fire destroyed the tbrie-story Tonsbury & Patterson brick building at Reed City, Mien. Falling walls crushed an adjoining oae-story building and crushed to death C. F. Uollacker, the proprietor, and Plato Lacey, who were working to save the building. Kote Teller Under Arrest. ' Joseph P. Turkey, SO years a note teller in the National Bank of North America at New York City, was committed to the Tombs without bail on a charge preferred by tne president of the bank, Albert II. Curtis of the larceny of $34,000. The peculitfcn is said to have extended over five years. Trains Crash in the Subway. Two passenger trains crashed in the Pennsylvania subway at Thirty-second and Harket streets, Philadelphia. Both trains caught on fire. . The accident was a head-end collision between two local trains. Neone was killed. The passengers were all rmrved before the trains cpught fire. Poverty Caused Murder and Suicide. Ifxrvn (tiescball, a machinist at St. Lcais, Ho. aged 60 years, fatally shot his wife, agerl 50, and then killed himself. The cause assigned for the tragedy is poverty and inability to meet a street Improvement assessment. K Three Hurt in Oas Explosion. The explosion of an acetylene gas plant at the German Baptist church in West GonL Ind.. wrecked a one-storv brick ad dition at the rear of the church and badly ) injured three men. TLtmrwy Fire Loos in Texas. Fire completely destroyed the stock an 1 three-story building of the Wads worth Cameron wholesale drug company at Fort Worth, Texas. The loss is placed at $1Ü,OCO on the stook and $20,000 on the building. The fire originated in the basesacnt. Csvd , Season on the Coast. Eighty-five lives were lost and fifty-four hips were wrecked along the coast- of New England and the maritime provinces the past winter. While the season up to rhe present month was comparatively mild on shore at sea it was one of extreme severity, especially in waters off the provinces. ' ABMtner Colorado Snowsllde. An enormous snowslide coming down in the Winfield and Clear Creek mining district of Colorado, killed, it is reported, at least half a dozen men. Amng the dead is Harry Wineborn, the pioteer prospector and mining man of Chaffee county. . Fish Concerns Combine. Fearing an attempt of the bejf packers to secure control of the cured fish business, four of the largest concerns In Gloucester, Mass., entered into an agreement to work together in resisting competition.. Pays f40 to Hold Fight. In the ouster proceedings against County Attorney Gibson held in Kansas City, Ivan- S. E. Peate, secretary of the Barbers Union of that city, testified that lie paid $40 to M. II. McIIale, the alleged collector for the county attorney's oce, for the privilege of giving a prixf f -St and chicken fight.

2AST2EU. Ttks ashes of the late Johann Most, the anarchist, are on view in New York. Two business blocks at Auburn, N. Y., wer burned, the loss being $175,000.' Gov. Higgiiis again declared himself in favor of investigating the New York State banking department. The lumber yard of J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., in West Philadelphia, was burned, the loss being $300,000. As the result of the explosion of a gasoline engine a large part of the town of Kane, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Four firemen were killed and a loss of $100,000 caused by fire, accompanied by explosions, in a New York factory. Isaac Winder, a negro, executed at Towson, ML, made a desperate fight for life on the gallows while a crowd of 2,000 looks on. Major James Lowe, collector of custom of the port of Niagara Falls, was found dead in his bathroom. He was 70 years old. Jacob II. Schiff of New York was decorated with the order of the Rising Sun while in audience with the Emperor of Japan recently. , The New York board of trade and transportation passed resolutions favoring the early ratification of the Santo Domingo tfeaty by the Senate. . , Charles M. Dunn was sent to jail in default of bail in New York on the charge of stealing a 100-share certificate of United States Steel preferred stock. Archbishop Ireland visited Cardinal Satolli, the former papal delegate at Washington, and also the papal secretary of state, Cardinal Merry del Val. Michael Petite, 14 years old, was sentenced to the reformatory for three years by a New York magistrate for stealing a penny from Priscilla Summers, 10 years old. Lading just one month of being 100 years old, Mrs. Bridget Coleman died at her home in Albany, N. Y. She was bora in Ireland in 1800 and came to America in 1849. , The Meriden Theater and a four-story brick building adjoining it at Meriden, Conn., were burned, the loss being $115,000. Two firemen were injured by falling timbers. ' Following the world's convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Boston the national body will hold 'its national invention in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 2G to 31. For 'stealing a penny from Priscilla Summi rs, aged 10, Magistrate Crane of New York sentenced Michael Petite, four yeats his victim's senior, to three years in the reformatory. James B. Watson has been named receiver of the Pennsylvania Paper Mills Company at Catawissa, Pa. The receivership grows out of the failure of the Freeland National bank. The Young Men's Christian Association of Washington has selected Edward W. Hearne for general secretary to succeed Lyman L. Pierce, resigned. Mr. Hearne is a native of Iowa. John J. McCaffrey, who was arrested after he had fired through a window in the residence of former Judge James Gay Gordo u. Mayor Weaver's private counsel, at Philadelphia, was held in $2,000 bail for court. ' Stephen D. Puter of San Francisco, wanted by the government as a witness in the Oregon land fraud cases, was arrested In Boston, but overawed with a revolver the deputy United States marshal who had captured him and escaped. William H. MacDonald of New York, the well-known opera singer and one of the founders of the famous "Bostonians," died of double pneumonia in his apartments at the Nelson hotel, Springfield, Mass., after an illness of only two days.

T3T3TEHX7. Wichita has an epidemic of smallpox. There is a great demand for farm laborers in Kansas. Kansas farmers say this Is the year to expect the 17-year locusts. The Kansas white population has Increased 70,000 the past five years. Jerry Simpson's will has been probated. It shows his estate to be worth $10,000. The Passmore Paper Company at Butte. Mont., suffered a loss of $100,000 by fire. A vast amount of corn and cotton will be planted in Indian territory this year. The Kickapoo Indians watt to dispose of. their reservation In Brown ' county Kant as. Gov. Pattison of Ohio continues to impiove, but his doctors will not say that" be will recover. J . An Oklahoma money shark was arrested for charging a Cheyenne Indian 1,200 per cent for a loan. , Old river men predict that the Mississippi will be open to navigation earlier this year than usual. A hunter in western Kansas killed , a black eagle that measured 56 inches from tip to tip of the wings. A road was oiled at Hutchinson, Kan., a fen months ago as a test case. So far it has proven satisfactory. ' The Bank of Victor, at Victor, Coloin the Cripple Creek district, was robbed of $10.000 during Wednesday night. Morris Buck, who shot and killed Mrs. Car Seid, the wife of the oil millionaire, war sentenced in Los Angeles to be hanged Tune 1. The introduction of testimony in the proceedings to , unseat Senator Reed Smoot of Utah was concluded shortly before noon Tuesday. Hundreds of families in Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa, were made homeless by the breaking of levees, which flooded larg. portions of both cities. Mrs. W. T. Bull, wife of a New York surgeon and formerly the wife of James G. Blaine, Jr., was robbed of $137 and jewels wrth $500 at a St. Louis hotel. Despondent because she could not gel work, Gertrude Lake or Shand, a stenographer, formerly of Pittsburg, committed suicide in Salt Lake City by taking carbolic acid. St. .Louis stockholders filed a petition for a receiver for the Consolidated Troup Mining Company, alleging that they were induced to subscribe for stock by false representations. Opal, the 20-year-old daughter of J. S. Burney, a farmer, near West Union, Ohio, was fatally shot. She was cleaning her brother's overcoat when a revolver in the pocket was discharged. Judgments were entered at Cincinnati against former county treasurers, charged with receiving "gratuities" from banks in which public funds were deposited, amounting to $211,174. Henry Hughes of Fremont, Ohio, the first of eighteen bridge agents and corporations to be tried on a joint indictment charging conspiracy in restraint of trade, was found guilty. Flora Watts, alias .Jones, aged 16 years, was found guilty of manslaughter in Columbus, Ohio. She was indicted for second-degree murder for the killing of James Jones on Christmas night. A temporary receiver for the Supreme Congress of Samaritans was appointed at Elkhart, Ind., Attorney General Miller holding that the order, which has 8,000 members, chiefly in Indiana, is insolvent. Charging wastefulness, Robert II. .Fitzgerald of San Francisco has sued he Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, now the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company, for the surrender value of a $5,000 policy. I . By the collapse' of a scaffolding around the tower of the new St. Mary's church ha Dayton, Ohio, Charles Sanders and Gecrgs Ellison, stone workers, fell 100 feet to the ground and were fearfully mangled. Jean Bougere, a second lieutenant in Second Hussars, a son of Gen. Bou

gere. chief of staff of the French army, arrived at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the other day to enter the infantry and cavalry college. The business meeting of the thirtyseventh annual session of the Lexington conference of the" Methodist Episcopal church, comprising Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and eastern Illinois, began in Columbus, Ohio. Because they feared a cut in their wages eighty girls, employed in the Standard Oil Company's candle works in Cleveland, inaugurated a strike. Following the lead of the girls the men tmployed In the candle shops went out. Because the words "daily ledger" were used instead of "daily journal" In an indictment against Teller C. II. Van Home of the wrecked State bank at Canton, Ohio, the court dismissed the case, holding the indictment faulty. Robert Nicholson. 38 years old, a porter at the Taylor hotel, Green and West Madison streets, Chicago, fell into an elevator shaft at the hotehwhile walking in his sleep. He dropped three stories and escaped with a slight cut on the wrist. In Denver James Ducey, a dentist, who was graduated 'about five years ago from the University of Chicago, shot through a window at his wife, who had announced her intention to obtain a divorce, after she refused to admit him to her apartment. Col. C. J. Lydecker and Col. C. E. L. B. Davis, United States engineers, who have been gathering statistics at Detroit regarding the cost of a twenty-five-foot channel all around the great lakes, have decided to report that the project be delayed. Amid scenes of excitenjent almost unprecedented in Ohio legislative procedure the Senate on Tuesday afternoon passed the Aiken House bill increasing the saloon tax from $350 to $1,000 and sealed its action by voting down a motion to reconsider. . . The coroner's jury at Canon City, Colo., which has been investigating the Denver and Rio Grande wreck at Adobe returned a verdict finding the telegraph operator careless, but not malicious, and recommending that no criminal charge be held against the railroad. ( Jacob Kurtz, aged 47, former superintendent of the American Wine Company in Sandusky, - Ohio, hanged ' himself so quktly in a room adjoining that in which his , family was sleeping that they knew nothing of the deed until morning, when the body was discovered. 4 In a' shooting twenty-five miles from Chickasha, I. T., G. W. Dean and a man named Mullens were killed ; Mart Anderson was shot twice In the neck and back and is in a serious condition, and a man named Meeks is severely wounded. The trouble arose over a division fence. Daniel F. Spires, a well-known ex-slate who purchased his freedom in 1851 for the sum of $000, died near Wellsville, O., at the age of 103 years." The old man earned the money with which he "purchased his freedom by draying after coming north. . He leaves considerable property. A bill granting Immunity to witnesses in prosecutions under the antj-trui:; law, which passed the House the other day, was passed by the Ohio Senate. The bill was urged by the Attorney General to assist the pending prosecutions against the so-called "bridge trust." Efforts have been made for six years to secure the enactment of such a law. . ' The Ohio Senate by unanimous vote passed the House bill by Mr. Werts creating a State .. railroad commission and providing for the regulating of freight rates. The bill was amended in some important particulars, the most Important being the insertion of an anti-pass provision. This prohibits any State or other public officer accepting free transportation under penalty of forfeiture of office and a fine of from $500 to $1,000. ' At Caney, Kan., a burning gas well has defeated a sixth attempt to smother the flames. . An eight-inch pipe was lowered into the well and the flame confined to the upper end of the pipe. .A hood was placed about the mouth of the Well and around the pipe and then .a . effort was made to close a valve In the top of the pipe. As this valve was clot d gas burst through the hood below and soon the well was a mass of flame again. , The hood was removed and the well is burning as fiercely as ever. '

vAsnmaToiT. President Roosevelt has decided not to grant the request of bituminous coal operators for the appointment pf a commission to Inquire into conditions In Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and will take no action until either .'the prosperity of the country Is at stake or until the . miners and operators are1 willing to submit their differences to arbitration. FOREIGN. Hungarian elections will be postponed a few months in order to give the government a chance to obtain a majority. The Sultin of Turkey has been notified that America will make no customs concessions until certain demands sre satisfied. , ' The salvation army in London is unable to secure sufficient accommodations for emigrants to Canada. Already 2,600 have been shipped. ; By an explosion in the Takashlma coal mine near Nagasaki, Japan, 250 miners were killed. A fishing boat struck a floating mine off the coast of the Province Echizen, and was blown UP- .. The village of Muelhelm Germany, is threatened with destruction by a hill which has been gradually slipping into the val'ey for several days. Up to this time 150 houses have been1- damaged and 300 persons rendered homeless. The Austrian government is embarrassed by President Roosevelt's summary action in the Storer case, and the executive's request that ' the ambassador be superceded before he has presented his letter of recall violates precedent, nr GENERAL. Coal-carrying railroads, believing a strike in the bituminous fields certain, refuse to carry coal to market, and will store it for their own use. The United Mine Workers have called a strike which may Involve 450,000 men. Workers in both the anthracite and bituminous fields join in the struggle, following a final disagreement at Indianapolis. A federal policy for water power which will prevent the export of energy developed at Niagara to an .extent to starve Canadian industries has been announced In the Canadian House by Minister ' of Public Works Hyman. The usual reduction on April 1 of SO cents a ton In the price of hard coal will not be made this year on account of the impending strike. The Philadelphia and Reading Company made this announcement, and all the other anthracite producers are following suit. They say, however, that there will be no advance in the price. Manufacturers on several lines of railroads running out of New York were notified by circular that in the event of a coal strike coal consigned to the manufacturers would be confiscated and paid for by the railroads should necessity demand it. There is a national law which permits the confiscation of coal by railroads in certain, emergencies. The sealing steamer Diana, with 24,000 seals in her hold, and the Vanguard, with 22,000, arrived at St. Johns, N. F. Both steamers report that the remaining ships of the sealing fleet are continuing the large catches heretofore announced, 'conservative estimates placing the number of seals already taken at 350,000 -the largest catch of. the last forty years. It is believed that the 400,000 mark will have been passed before the fishing season ends th latttr part of April.

I CONGRESS 1

There was no session of the Senat Saturday. Hazing at the Annapolis naval academy was dealt with by the Housa in the passage of a Senate bill with a House substitute. An amendment, making it the duty of cadet oflicers to report infractions of the rules was accepted. The biil repeals that portion of existing law which makes it compulsory to dismiss midshipmen guilty of hazing in any degree and substitutes punishment according to the nature of the offense. Pension bills were taken up and 235 were passed. Discussion of the rate bill occupied most of Monday in the Senate. Mr. Overman spoke at length in support o the measure and Mr. Teller declared against undue haste. Senator Foraker offered an amendment prohibiting the issuance of passes; Mr. Scott one to compel roa'ls to make connections, and Mr. Culberson one prohibiting interstate roads from making campaign contributions. Mr. Tillman presented a letter from Millard F. Snyder of Clarksburg, W. Va.. protesting against discrimination by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad ngaiust independent coal mine operators. Mr. Piatt, chairman of the committee on printing, presented the report of the committee to reform printing and binding. Several bills of local importance were passed. Several resolutions intended to prevent tha wasteful printing of public documents were passed by the House. District of Columbia legislation occupied most of the day. Numerous bills of local importance were passed. -: :- The Senate Tuesday listened to Mesärs. Tillman and McCumber. Mr. Tillman made special inquiry concerning the status of his resolution relative to the use of national bank funds in politics and touched on the insurance and Beef cases. Mr. McCumber devoted himself to the rate bill, finding many flaws in the measure, but announcing that he would vote for it if it was properly amended. The joint resolution regulating the allotment of documents in the government printing office and aiming to prevent unnecessary printing and binding, passed Monday by the House, was adopted. A bill amending the law fixing fees and expenses of witnesses In the federal courts in the Western States was passed. The House witnessed a most unusual scene when Speaker Cannon arose on the floor in the midst of a spirited discussion on reciprocity and tariff revision to reply to an attack by Mr. Shackleford. The urgent deficiency bill was passed and a few paragraphs of the legislative appropriation bill were considered, Messrs. Trince and Uardwick continuing to defeat many provisions by point of order. A bill permitting the building of a dam across the St. Joseph river in Berrien county, Michigan, was passed. ' : j Mr. Knox mado his first set speech In the Senate Wednesday, his subject being the railroad rate bill, and he dealt almost exclusively with the legal features of the problem. The . conference report on the bill regulating the final disposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians was taken up, and much objection was expressed to many of the' changes. Messrs. La Follette, Clark (Wyo.) and Tillman voiced disapproval of the provision authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to lease the coal lands. The matter was still under discussion when the Senate, at 5:12 p. m., went into executive session, to adjourn a few minutes later. In order that the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill might be considered without being subject to limitless points of order, the House passed a rule prohibiting that method ,01 fighting the measure, by a vote of 1G0 to 109, twenty Republicans voting with the minority. This appears to have been the first special rule ever reported from th committee on rules directly affecting an appropriation bill. The remainder of the day waj devoted to the consideration ol the measure, and more progress was made than in all the days heretofore givefi to It. At 5 p. m. the House adjourned. -: :- ' , The Senate Thursday listened tc speeches on the railroad rate bill bj Messrs. Clay, Carmack and Newlands. All indicated a purpose to support tht measure, but Mr. Clay favored a limited court review amendment. The bill providing for the reorganisation of the medical department of the army by authorizing the appointment of oflicers to take the plaw of contract surgeons was passed by a vote of 42 to 5. Among the other bills, passed was one authorizing a dam across St. Joseph river at Berrien Springs; Mich. Mr. Lodge presented th conference report on the consular r;organization bill,' which was agreed to. Considerable progress was made with the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill in the House. The committee on appropriations suffered a defeat in committee of the whole, when, by a vote of 53 to 22, a paragraph relating to the division of the railway mail service was expunged from, the measure, on the ground that it was properly a part of the postofficc bill. For confidential agents of the Interior Department to aid In ferreting out land frauds $20,000 was allowed. The conference report on the consular bill wa adopted. ' There was no session of the Senati Friday. The House passed the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, carrying $30,000,000, after considering the measure two weeks. Th paragraph creating an age limit for government clerks, which had caused much controversy, finally was eliminated. Efforts to discontinue ' the so-called "postage stamp agency" and the services of special agents to investigats trade conditions abroad failed. , National Capital Notes.. Senate will amend llepburn rate bill so as to provide a court review feature and president will a free. Many Senators admit that they are confused on the rate- bill, so many plans of settlement being oifered. Juan Francisco Sanchez, late minister of foreign affairs of San Domingo, under the Morales administration, called at the State Department to see Secretary Root, but was unable to see him. He says he is here on a mission for Morales which he cannot discuss until the mission is acromplished. The State Department received from the Christian Herald, through the Red Cross and has forwarded to the American embassy at Tokio $50,000 for the relief of the Japanese famine victims. This is a total of $S0,000 which the Christian Herald has forwarded to the department for this purpose. - Senator La Follette introduced a bill making it the duty of the interstate commerce commission to prescribe the maximum number of hours above which a common carrier shall not require or permit emrloyes to remain on duty. The purpose of the bill is to promote the safety of employes and travelers upon railroads. Representative Fowler, chairman of the House committee on banking and currency, introduced a bill giving authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit public funds in national banks without requiring security and upon which the banks shall pay interest at the rate of 2 pr cent per annum. Such deposits are to be distribnttnl equitably among Jha banks, of , all funds in excess of $50,060,000, which amount is to be retained as the working balance, in the treasury. President Roosevelt was a guest at dinner at the home of Representative and Mrs. Longworth the other day. Others present were Speaker and Miss Cannon and Miss Marjorie Mott. (

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. - 1330 Edmond of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, beheaded. 1521) College of France founded. 1549 Thomas Seymour, Lord High Admiral of England, beheaded. 155T Archbishop Cranmer burned at Oxford. 1C03 Queen Elizabeth died. Succeeded by James I. 1730 British Parliament prohibited British subjects lending money to foreigners. 1744 France declared war against England. 177(J Washington's triumphal entry into Boston .... Congress authorized employment of privateers. ' 17S2 Spain acknowledged independence of the United States. 1801 Paul I., Emperor of Russia, assassinated.' Succeeded by Alexander I. 1504 Duke of Enghien shot by order of Napoleon. . 1505 Murat entered Madrid. 1814 Battle of Tarbes. 1815 The "Hundred Days Treaty" of Vienna concluded by England, Austria, Russia and Prussia.. 1S19 Augustus F. Kotzebue, German dramatist,' assassinated. 1821 Naples ocupied by Austrian army. 1823 Abdication of Sturbide. 1820 Duel between Wellington and Winehelsea. 1 1S31 Insurrection of slaves in island oi Antigua. 1S39 Anti-Corn Law league formed. 1848 Abdication of King of Bavaria. 1S49 Raditzky defeated the Sardinians at battle of Novara. 1854 Two earthquake shocks felt at Macon, Ga.' 1800 Ossion of Savoy and Nice tc France by treaty of Turin. 1SG2 Gen. Shields defeated "Stonewall" Jackson at Kernstown, Va. 1867 Winter Garden theater burned in New York. . . .Labor riots renewed in France.... Gathering of Fenians at St. Albans, Vt. 1SCS Earthquake shock' at San Fran cisco. 1871 Marriage of Princess Louise and . Marquis of Lome. .. .French Assembly removed from Bordeaux to Ver sailles. 1375 Destructive tornado in- Georgia. 1877 John D. Lee executed for complic ity in Mountain Meadow massacre. 1878 Faul Boynton swam the . Straits of Gibraltar in five hours and five minutes. 1881 Candahar surrendered to Ameer Rahman. '. . .Boer war ended ; British terms accepted... Potchefutroom sur rendered td tE Boers. . 1S83 Destructive floods in Halifax. 18S5 Earthquake shocks felt in Panama and Aspin wall. .. .Arabs defeated at Hasheen. lSSG-rCity of Helena, Ark., nearly destroyed by fire.... Steam er Carthags passed through Suez canal at night by electric light. .. .Kansas City switchmen's strike ended. .. .Great strikes in Belgium. 1889 Chief Justice Fuller's daughtei eloped with Matt Aubrey. 1891 rrince Napoleon burned at Turin ....St. IauPa Episcopal, church at New Orleans burned. 1S93 Bering sea court of arbitration as sembled at Paris. 1895 German Reichstag rejected propos al to send birthday congratulations to Bismarck.... Sixty miners killed by explosion at Evanston, Wyo... ' Attempted assassination of Li Hung Chang at Simonoseki, Ja pan.... Chi nese-Japauese peace conference be- ' gun at Shlmonoseki. ' 1S97 Blockade of Crete began. 1905 Fifty-eight persons killed by boilei explosion at Brockton, Mass. Steel Trusts' Bis; Earnings. Ihe report of the United States steel corporation for 1905 shows an increase of over $46,000,000 in net earnings, or a total of nearly $120,000,000. The total undivided surplus on Dec. 31 was $84,738,450. The gross receipts reached thi vas: total of $585,331,730. There was de cided improvement in the export trade, both as to quantity and price. In defense of the practice of selling to foreign cus tomers at lower prices than those prevail ing at home, the report says that in thii wa surplus stocks are disposed of, thus preventing increase in cost of production and the shutting down ot works. Ube number of employes increased to 180,158. Dur ing the year 12,250 employes subscribed for 23,989 shares of preferred stock at par. The Church in Insurance. Rev. E. F. Blanchard of Paterson, N. J., writing to the Christian Work of the recently exposed rascality In the msur ance companies, says that the underlying motive of present-day insurance is , un Christian, namely, selfishness, or the en richment of a few promoters. He advo cates a system of Christian insurance as one of the needs of the times. Its pur poses would be to help people out in the hard places of life. He suggests that churches adopt a system of benefits for their people. ; Moral Conquest of China. President James of the University ol Illinois has laid before President Roosevelt and Secretary Root a proposal to have an educational commission sent to study the social, intellectual and indus trir.' condition of the Chinese, with a view to their ultimate regeneration. He pro poses to have the commission extend to the young Chinese a formal Invitation to avail themselves of American institutions of learning. He argues that the nation which educates the Chinese will reap the larzest return in moral, intellectual and commercial influence in times to come. Humor of Steel Monopoly. An unconfirmed but persistent rumor was current in Pittsburg to the effect that the United States Steel Corporation had arragned to take over eighteen great rival independent plants together with the valuable ore lands owned by J. J. Hill and the Great Northern , altogether said to be appraised at $1,242,313,100.. If this deal went through it would make tne steel trust an actual monopoly. The report was denied somewhat guardedly by Chair man Gary of the steel corporation. A $50,000 memorial statue of Joseph Jefferson, as Rip Van Winkle, is planned for Central Park, New York.

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GKEAT STRIKE IS ON.

THOUSANDS OF COAL MINERS MAY GO OUT. Conference at Indianapolis Falls and the Greatest of Labor Contests Is Begun Strike May Involve arly 500,000 Men. The conference of bituminous coal operators and representatives ol the miners of the central competitive dis trict at Indianapolis, held at the sugges tion of President Roosevelt, has ended In failure. Coincident with the failure of the conference 100,000 miners In the three anthracite districts were ordered to suspend work pending the meeting of the .miners' scales committee and that of the anthracite operators in New York. Taken together the developments of the long negotiations looking to peace in the mining industry mean' an imme diate and general strike of soft and hard coal miners throughout the country, an industrial conflict on a scale unparalleled in the history of the United States. At .a meeting held late Thursday night, after the die had been cast for a strike, the bituminous coal operators decided to make an appeal direct to President Roosevelt, requesting him to nppoint a commission to investigate the dispute and make recommendations regarding' the scale of wages which should be paid for allclasses of labor In and about the mines involved. The arbitration proposal did not avert the inauguration of the strike. Failure of the bituminous operators and miners in the southwest district to reach an agreement In their conference added to the gravity of the situation. As a result of this action 30,000 more bituminous miners will quit work at once, bringing the total number of bituminous miners ordered to strike at the beginning of the month up to 145,000. These, with the 100,000 anthracite men ordered to suspend work make the total number of miners idle at the start 305,000. , 600,000 Miners May Go Oat. If the strike becomes general at least 500,000 miners will be idle before the struggle has progressed far. Every mining district In the country takes its cue from the central. The strike decision reached by the central district Is therefore equivalent to a strike decision in the others. With complete or at least partial paralysis of the coal industry in prospect, stored up In the country are millions of tons of fuel. EVen the vast preparations against a coal famine, however, are Insufficient to last more than four months at the most liberal estimated. Conservative' coal operators nay that stocks of coal on hand throughout the country amount to approximately 50,000,000 tons. Of this 30,000,000 tons are bituminous and 20,000,000 tons anthracite product John H. Winder, leader of the bituminous operators,, estimated that the visible coal supply will last from sixty days to four months. Other coal men who are In close touch with the strike preparations believe it will be exhausted In a much shorter time. All advise the most careful economy by consumers. TO AFFECT 2,000,000 PERSONS. Loss of f 2,500,000 a Week to Miners In General Suspension. Statisticians on both sides have made some estimates of the effect of a general suspension of coal mining. They figure that there are now about 450,000 union miners and mine laborers, and 150,000 of them are estimated to be in the hard coal field. This altogether would mean strike conditions to about 2,000,000 persons. Estimating the average miner's wages at $425 a year, the miners' loss in wages would be $2,500,000 a week. It has been estimated that the reduction of 5.53 per cent in wages accepted by the miners two years ago reduced their aggregate annual wages $18,000,000 or $20,000,000 a year. The great 1902 anthracite strike was declared May 12 and it ended Oct. 23. The estimated loss of receipts by the operators was $46,100,000; the loss of wages to mine employes was $25,000,000. There was a decrease in freight receipts of transportation companies amounting to $28,000,000 and incidental losses added many millions more, bringing the aggregate loss far above $100,000,000. The miners at this time have a little more than $3,000,000 in hard cash available for a suspension. The fully paid up membership is 325,000. The per capita defense fund In all of the treasuries is a little less than $10 to the man. However, these funds are not evenly distributed. More than $900,000 is in the Illinois district treasury, and it belongs to the Illinois miners absolutely. Ohio has approximately $150,000 in Its district treasury; the two Indiana districts an aggregate of $125.000, but many of the improvident districts have practically no funds of their own on hand. .Note of Current Events. Charles M. Schwab has denied a rumor that he had established a residence in Nevada, with aspirations for tbe United States Senate. X Andrew Crnegie has offered $73,000 toward a geological and biological laboratory for Amherst college, provided an equal amount is raised by the college. Mme. Nordica, twfee heroine of accidents in tbe Metropolitan Opera House, New York, added another exploit by pulling two swords from beneath a horse's feet. ' Owing to the outcry against condemnations without trial, the Russian government has ordered that political prisoners be given a hearing within twentyfour hours after arrest. A nephew of Gen. Rivera, who commanded Spanish troops in the Philippines, assaulted Deputy Sogiano in Madrid for criticising acts of Spanish commanders in Cuba and the Philippines. Leonard B. Imboden and James A. nill, convicted of conspiracy to wreck the Denver Savings bank, have started to serve their sentence of nine to ten years at tha penitentiary at Canon City, Colo. The Rv. N. E. Clemenson of Logan, Utah, declared in New York" that Senator Reed Smoot had three wives, ne gave the names of the alleged polygamous wives as Rose Hamilton and Lottie Greenwood. In the by-election at Basingstoke, England, caused by the death of A. F. Jeffreys, Conservative,' A. C. Salter, Unionist was elected by a narrow margin, the Liberal vote being split by an independent candidate. A statuette of Roosevelt holding a she bear by the neck and a cub in his left hand, has been barred from a New York art exhibition. L. O. Murray, steamboat inspector, who investigated the Valencia disaster on the Pacific coast, has returned to Washington. Representatives of the Presbyterian church, Presbyterian church south, United Presbyterian church, Reformed church In the United States, Reformed church in Amer'ca and the Reformed Presbyterian church will meet at Charlotte, N. C, on Maren 14 for the purpose of preparing a basis for the federation of the denomina lions.

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Spring activity opened up under the stimulus of well-balanced demands In Chicago. both manufacturing and distribution. Hindrances interposeu oy severe weather are being rapidly overcome, and business generally exhibits an encouraging outlook, the leading .industries having capacity engaged farther ahead than at this time last year. New building, bridge and track construction provide an exceptional aggregate of work about to be started. The markets for raw material remain strong lu prices, iron and steel producers have added largely to bookings for distant delivery, and dealings in the principal foodstuffs have expanded. Factory operations reflect heavy needs, metal consumers have increased output, while orders are more plentiful in wood-working and leather branches. Liberal commitments for rails and cars Indicate that railroad managers show more disposition to specify for considerable future work at the inllls and equipment shops. Current orders for pig iron do not Include any special features, but avail able stocks have declined, and , this gives firmness to prices. Domestic requirements show a good volume In farm Implements, heavy machinery and hardware, and the lumber market is exceptionally strong for both building and factory woods. Failures reported in the Chicago district number thirty, against twentynine last week and twenty- four a year ago. Duns Review, of Trade. Trade reports are still Nev York. rather mixed In character. T lness feels the effects of contL t?d winter weather, heavy snowfalls and freezing tempera tures, which have hurt early fruits and truck interests, retarded retail trade and affected jobbing sales and ship ments. Building has been interrupted, but this is only temporary, and the winter - wheat crop has been put be yond harm' by the heaviest snowfall In years at this period. Uncertainty as to tbe coal strike Induces hesitancy In some lines of industry, but has im mensely stimulated coal and coke. Pig Iron is dull, . but steel rail sales are numerous and Immense expenditures for railway building west and north west are projected. Demand for money Is active, hence rates are firm and promise to continue so well into the balance of the year. Collections are backward, an outgrowth of the slow ness of retailers to remit on late win ter and early spring business, and warm er weather, it is confidently ' believed. would remedy this condition.- Business failures In the United States for the week ended March 22 number 170, against 187 last week, 2X)4 in the like week of 1905, 215 in 1904, 175 In 1903 and 183 In 1902. In Canada failures for the week number 29, as against 33 last week and 18 In this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $6.23; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.52; sheep, .fair to choice, $3.00, to $0.35; wheat, No. 2, 84c to 83c; corn, No. 2, 41c to 43c; oats, standard, 28c to 30c; rye No. 2. G2c to G3c; hay, timothy, $8J0 to $130; prairie, $CO0 to $10.00; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 2Gc; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, 55c to (4c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping $3.00 to $3.73 ; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0.52; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2, 83c to 85c; corn. No. 2 white, 45c to 4Gc; oats, No. 2 white, 30e to 31c. St. Louis Cattle, $4JjO to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.43; sheep, $4.00 to $0.50 ; wheat, No. 2, 85c to 89c ; corn. No. 2, 40c to 42c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 2, 63c to 64c Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.25; hogs, $4.00 to $6.55; sheep, $2.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2, 87c to 88c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 46c to 48c ; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; rye. No. 2, 6Sc to 70c ' Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $0.45; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 84c to 85c ; corn. No. .3 yellow, .46c to 4Sc; oats. No. 3 white, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 2, 64c to 65c . Milwaukte Wheat, No. 2 northern, 77c to 79c; corn. No. 3, 41c to 42c; oaa. standarä, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 1, 64c to 66c ; barley, standard, 52c to 54c ; pork, mess, $16.25. , Toledo Wneat, No. 2 mixed, 83c to 85c corn, No- 2 mixed, 44c to 46c ; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c ; rye. No. 2, 66c to 67c; clover seed, prime, $7.72. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.75 ; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.70; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $6.00; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.10. New York Cattle, $5.00 to $5.75; ho-s, $4.00 to $6.90; sheep, $3.00 to $5.60; wheat, No. 2 red, S3c to 83c; corn. No. 2, 50c to 52c; oats, natural white, 35c to 37c; butter, creamery, 24c V) TT; eggs, western,1 14c to 17c 1 m Telegraphic Brevities). Fatrell, a waiter on the United Spates army transport Logan, committed suicide by jumping overboard. Alton B. Parker- predicts that Theodore Roosevelt and George B. McClellan will be opposing candidates for the presidency in 1908. i Two firemen were killed in the collision of a double-header freight with a passenger train on the Grand Trunk near Sarnia, Ont. Midshipman Minor Meriwether, Jr., has for the second time offered his resignation from the naval academy to Secretary Bonaparte. A man believed to be a French spy was arrested In Essen, Germany, after offering a soldier money to secure a plan of mobilization in the Essen district. The Department of Commerce and Labor has issued a bulletin on the development of the Island of Formosa, taken from Japanese government publications. The total loss in the nineteen Russian provinces during the agrarian troubles last year was $15,500,000 and not $155,000,000 as reported. Mrs. Robert S. Osgood of Chicago, while dining at the Waldorf-Astoria fie other day, found a pearl in an oyster. The gem is said to be worth $200. A cablegram received at Wilmington, Del., announced a fatal accident to Leonard Bright Roth, aged 26 years, at Rochdale, England. lie was the fiance of Miss rauline W. Bancroft, daughter of John Bancroft, secretary and general superintendent of the Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company of Wilmington, and was to have been married in Jane

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BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Onr Neighbors Are Dolos:Blatters of General and Local Inter est Marriages and Deaths Accidents and Crimes Personal Pointer Abont Indianians. Brief State Items. The state convention of the socialist party will be held April 12 at Indianapolis. James Thomas, 70 years old, of Union, was struck by a train and Instantly killed atllazleton. - Fire at Princeton damaged McCarty & Co.'s implement stock and building $5,000. The origin is unknown. Paul, the S-y ear-old son of Conrad Burk - bardt of Madison, ran in front of an electric car and was killed. The 11-year-old of James Wheeler, farmer, of by, was probably faially poisoned from eating canned sardines. A defective flue caused the destruction of the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Vance Fulton, near Cambridge City. Loss $3,500, The 2-year-old daughter of Arthur Rose Barry of North Vernon, died from injuries sustained in falling Into a kettle of bot water. Chauncey Connelly aged 73, was struck byaG. R. & I. passenger train at Winchester, receiving injuries which caused his death. ' t The 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Milton Crowder of Noblesville, choked to death during a violent paroxysm of coughing. While playing with a loaded shctun at Centerville, Herbert lioore, a 13-yeir-oId boy, shot and instantly killed Charles Heffner, ap ?d 11. Benjamin Wilson, a farmer living near Galveston, was killed at a crossing near Walton by a car on the Fcrt Wayne and Wabash traction line. Thomas Douglass shot and instantly hilled his wife at Brazil and then sect a bullet through his heart, dying instantly. Jealousy caused the act. Ed. Williams, who shot and killed Ed. Gateskill a few weeks ago at Grecasbarg, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for from two to fourteen years. Gladys, the 3-year-old dr.sghter cf Chris Parker, farmer, near Ireland, was fatally burned by her dress catching fire, while playing in front of a grate. Drillers putting down a well for John W. Pruitjaraile south cf Bedford, struck a flow of oil at a depth of lit) tect, and the oil stands sixty feet m the hole. While duck hunting with a companion, Maurice Hazenon, aged 20, was drowned in the Wabash river about five miles north cf Terre Ilaute by the capsizing of a boat A Monon railway coal train was wrecked two miles east cf Linien and the crew accompanied the caboose in a somersault down an embankment, hut escaped serious hurt. A celluloid comb exploded and set fire to the hair of Miss Anna Michaelson of Cbelbyville, while asleep near a grate tire. A shawl was thrown over ner head and the blaze smothered. Edward Matthews, aged 23, was killed at the plant of the United btates Cerxent Company at Bedford. He was at work In a bin when several tons of coke caved in, suffocating him. Paul Roberts, 15 years old, of lndUnapolis, shot himself through the heart in a retiring room In the Pennsylvania railroad station at Logansport. There is no known cause for the act. Solomon Rice, aged, 79, a farmer near Newtonville, Spencer county, committed suicide by blowing his head off with a shotgun, lie had been in poor health for number of years. Francis Earl Wagner, the S-year-oli son of Frat.k Wagner of Indianapolis, choked to death on a bean. The little fellow was dead before the family physician could reach the Wagner home. Charles Amick of Anderson, is dead as a result of being scalded by the bursting of a locomotive boiler flue while he was tiring the engine at the roundhouse of the Big Four railroad in that city. Five tons of coal accidentally released from a chute in the yards of the Michigan Central Railroad Company at Michigan City, fell upon Richard Purcell, aged 17, an employe, and crushed him to deth. Joseph H. Hodapp, president of ths Ilodapp Hominy Company of Seymour, committcd suicide at his residence by hanging himself to the gas chandelier in his rocm. Business worries ar assigned, as the cause. The locomotive department of the Chicago & Erie railroad sttops in Uuntirgton has been closed down, due to the threatened coal strike and falling off in business incident thereto. About 00 men are thrown out of employment. Marion Gragg, living near Macey, narrowly escaped injury when a stove was blown to pieces by the explosion ot gun powder in a stick of wood. Tbe kitchen furniture was wrecked. Mrs. Gragg is in a seriois condition as the result of the shock. James MoWilliams, ex-cashier of the defunct Star Building and Loan Association af Linnville, pleaded guilty of embezzling over $1,000 cf the company's funds and was given a prison sentence of from two to fourteen years, a fine of $200 and disfranchisement for two years. John H. Adams, a rndller at the Highland iron and Steel Works, Terre Haute, shot and probably fatally wounded Harry Miller, employed at the same foundry,during a quarrel in a saloon In the east end of that city. It is alleged that Miller accused Adams of having been intimate with the former's wife. Adams surrendered to the police. As a result of a difficulty in a saloon at English, George Cummins began choking William Ashby, and Asbby used his revolver, fhooting Cummins in the ear and in the groin. The wounds are serious. After the chooting Asbby disappeared. A sky-light collapsed under the weight of a mass of 6now and an avalanche of snow and water fell Into the Morris department store at Shelbyville. The mass narrowly missed two clerks and struck a glass showcase, which was ruined. The fire department was called to clear away the debris. The damage amounted to $353. Frank Harden, aged 14, shot and inantly killed hi; brother, Edward Harden, sged 12, while cleaning a shotgun which he didn't know was loaded. The boys are sons of William Harden of Nashville, Brown county. A clerk in the F. M. Smith hardware store at Fort Wayne stepped on a match in the basement, a spark of which ftartod a fire that gutted the building and damaged the J. M. Kane store and the Boltz saloon adjoining. The Smith loss will be $10,000, insured! The Kane loss $2,000, insured, and the Boltz loss $2,000, with $1,000 insurance. The loss oa the three buildings will be abont $7,000. Dvslness and Fleas ar. "You think you're Johnny on the Spot, sneered the arrested pickpocket. "No, merely a detective on the spot, end you're spotted." Smiling at his own humor, he snapped on the handcuffs. Fat Promts. "You are making a great .deal of money out of your anti-fat treatment, aren't you?" "Tea, but I sometimes get mixed la my accounts, as you see, even cy nzl profits are cress receipts Haiti era cricv