Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 April 1906 — Page 2

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(T U 0.0 N. M. T P. Q.OF. M. V4 15thV23rd y Ist gy 8th. PAST AND PRESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many. Battle on the Streets. "Skip" Wilson, one of the proprietors of a wild west show, is dead and his partner, William Duvall, is fatally Injured as the result of a battle with officers on the public square at Richmond Mo. The fight was between four officers on one side and a band of cowboys, led by Wilson and Duvall on the other. None of the officers were injured. After the battle the cowboys scattered and it is not known whether or not any more of them were hit. The fight was the result of an attempt to arrest Wilson. Jap Fired on Troops and Was Killed. After a battle, in which thirty shots were exchanged, a Japanese was killed by federal troops at the corner of Ellis and Vanness Streets, San Francisco, Cal. The Japanese fortified himself behind an overturned automobile there and opened fire on the soldiers, He could not be captured, bat was finally surrounded and killed. No reason for his attack on the guards is known.. Towns Burned; Thousands Homeless. A special from Manila says: Fire has swept the town of Mariquina, in Rizl province. Many thousands of persons are homeless and starving. Two thousand dwellings are in ruins. The government is rushing assistance to the sufferers. Fire also destroyed Pasil, near , the town of Cebu. Two hundred dwellings were burned and many persons are homeless. Miners Reject Operator Proposition. The international executive board of the United Mine Workers of America, at Indianapolis, Ind., rejected the proposition of the operators of Western Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, wno are opposing the payment of the 1903 wage scale to coil miners and who, through J. H. Winder, their chairman, offered to submit the differences to arbitration. Race War in Kansas City. One of a crowd of white boys, armed with clubs and stones, killed John Moore, a negro, 18 years old, near Tenth and Charlotte streets. Kansas City, Mo., breaking his neck with a club. The white boys escaped and are not known. The attack resulted from the feeling against negroes generally, a reflex from the race hatred at Springfield, Mo. Two Big Four Brakemen Drowned. Two Big Four brakemen were drowned and a number of other men had escapes that were little short of meraculous when a construction train jumped from the new steel bridge at Cleves, Ohio, 25 feet down into Miami river. Frank Wills and Samuel Avery were the brakemen who lost their lives. $20,000 Fire at Sheridan, Ind. A fire which broke out in the paint shop of the Higbee Buggy Company at Sheridan, Ind., caused a loss of about $20,000. The buggy company was the heaviest loser, but serious damage was also done to other business houses of the town. The Christian church was damaged to the extent of $500. Fined for Rebating. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, Darius Miller and Claude G. Burnham, officials of the road, were found guilty in the federal court, at Chicago, of granting rebates in violation of law. The railroad corporation was fined $40,000 and the two officials $10,000 each. Citizens Fight Robbers. A posse of citizens at Degraff, in Logan county, Ohio, had a pistol and shotgun battle with five bandits who had dynamited the postoffice at that place. The explosion aroused the people, and after the exchange of shots the robbers disappeared in stolen buggies. 4,000 Printers on Strike in Paris. About 4,000 printers, employed by varices periodicals, at Paris, France, went out on a strike, demanding a nine-hour day. The daily papers are not affected. Several employers conceded the demands of the strikers. The movement is extending to the provinces. Four Die in New York Fire. Four lives were lost in a fire which swept away a stable and a row of threestory frame flat houses in West Second street, near Park place, Coney Island, New York, and nearly thirty families were rendered homeless. Twenty-two Miners Killed. Twenty-two miners are known to be dead and one other is missing as the result of a dust explosion in a mine of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, forty miles west of Trinidad, Colo. Catholic Boys Protectory Burned. Tie boys' protectory, a Catholic institution, under the care of the order of St. Francis, located near Delphi, west of Cincinnati, Ohio, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $300,000. Twelve Poles Killed in Religious Flght. A special from Warsaw says: A procession of 2.000 Catholics from neighboring villages tried to recapture their church at Lesnos. A furious fight with Mariarites ensued, in the course of which twelve persons were killed and fifty wounded. Duluth Ore Docks Collapsed. A section of the ore docks of the Deluth, Massaba and Northern Company at Duluth, hare collapsed. The extent of the damage and loss of life is not known. A report says several workmen were killed or are in the debris. President Scores Muck Rakers. President Roosevelt, in an address at ths laying of the corner stone of the new addition to the capitol in Washington, branded misuse of the muck rake as an obstacle to real reform and a danger to the nation. He said a law to prevent the essary. Russian Writer Turned Out. Maxim Gorky, Russian writer and revolutionist, was ousted from two New York hotels and threatened with deportation from the country when it was learned that he introduced Mme. Andreieva, a St. Petersburg actress, as his wife. California Orphanage Burns. While funeral services were In procress at the Ladies' Relief Home in Oakland, Cal., fire broke out in the orphange building adjacent and destroyed it. Four invalid children were carried out by their little companions. The building cost $20,000. Want Roosevelt to Run. President Roosevelt's repeated declarations that he will not run for the presitency again have little effect on those who insist that he must be a candidate In 1908, and the many aspirants are puzzled over the situation.

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Frightful Seismic Shock Shatters Half of the Town. Water Mains Broken and Fire Completes the Ruin. Other Cities on the Pacific Also Stricken by the Great Disaster. Appalling Loss of Life and Millions of Dollars Worth of Property Destroyed. Many New and Costly Skyscrapers and Big Stores Fall in Heaps of Debris. Torn and shattered by the earthquake, which was followed by devastatlng fire, San Francisco is a city of ruins. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives have been snuffed out and millions upon millions of dollars in property are lost Where stood its stateliest buildings are piles of twisted steel and ruined stone. The homes of many families were wrenched into fragments and the lives they sheltered taken. The first shock was felt Just at dawn Wednesday, and the disturbances continued for several minutes. The earlier demonstrations were mild, but as they continued the trembling of the earth became so violent that the whole popula- THE CITY HALL. tlon of the city was disturbed and a large proportion turned into the streets. The communication with the outside world quickly was cut off. Swiftly the seismic visitant came, and as swiftly did it go. Behind was a trail of dead and dying. And after that the flames! Nature, that rolled the earth into waves and struck down great piles of stone and marble, furnished a dismal and dreadful aftermath in a tempest of wind. The wind fanned the flames and the flames speedily completed the horrifying work of the earthquake. Thousands undoubtedly owe their lives to the early hour at which the siesmic shocks brought their wide-

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AREAS OF DESTRUCTION The black line incloses the district in damage--the shaded portions of the map skyscraper and wholesale districts. spread ruin. The district most damaged Is the business portion of the town. At the time of the shock--5:13 o'clock a. m.--these structures practically were deserted, and their collapse caused comparatively little loss of life. A few hours later and they would have been veritable human beehives. Then INSURANCE MADE VOID. Not a Cent Collectable on Structures Wrecked by Quake. Millions for fire but not one cent for earthquake. This is the insurance situation in San Francisco. The owners of property destroyed by the earthquakes cannot collect a dollar under their fire insurance policies, even though the buildings that fell were later swept by flames. But in case a structure shattered by the seismic disturbance should spread a blaze to an adjoining building the owner of that building can collect his insurance. As far as the heads of the big fire Insurance

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VIEW OF MARKET STREET, CENTRAL POINT OF DISASTER. The tall, square building on the right is the Claus Spreckels building, in which the plant of the San Francisco Call was located; the next building beyond, is the Examiner building and the last large building on the right is the Palace hotel. The tall building on the left is a new skyscraper, which housed the Chronicle.

the disaster would have been something almost beyond the power of the human mind to grasp. By the time the earthquake reached its destructive period the streets of the city were crowded with thousands of terror-stricken persons, who rushed to and fro and endeavored to keep out of the way of falling buildings. Hundreds were supposed to have been caught In the falling debris and crushed to death or killed later by the fires which sprung up all through the business portion of the city. In general it may be said that the district lying between Market and Howard streets, from the bay as far west as the city hall, has been badly wrecked. The Call and Examiner Buildings, as well as the Western Union Building, have been wrecked. The large department stores in this neighborhood also were ruined. Farther east on Market street toward the Ferry Slips, Is a section occupied by cheap lodginghouses and hotels and here the loss of life is reported to be great. Fire Follows the Shock. Fire followed the crumbling of buildings along Market street, and the firemen were powerless to prevent the spread of the flames. The earthquake had broken the mains on the big street and twisted off the side mains, and it was almost impossible to take steamers through the debris in the streets. Volunteers brought supplies of dynamite and began to blow up the blazing debris in a vain effort to confine the conflagration to the ruined area. All power in the street car and private electric lighting plants was cut off. Wires in tangled masses had been hurled into the streets. Near 4th and Stevenson streets the old red wood buildings made good tinder for the flames. Fire swept through the debris of the poorer buildings and soon got beyond control of the fire fighters. Across the street the fire swept, licking up the debris In front of the Winchester rooming house. Fire spread to the buildings along the west side of 3d street. Desperate efforts were made with powder, dynamite and other explosives, to stop the flames. One block away the Palace Hotel was threatened by the sweep of the flames. With no water to extinguish the fire, the big hostelry seemed doomed. Calls were sent to the Presidio for soldiers to help save the business district from being entirely swept by the IN SAN FRANCISCO. in which the earthquake did the greatest show the areas of the big fires in the conflagration. Powder, dynrmite and other explosives were tried on the blazing piles of debris. On Market street merchants stood in their doors calling loudly for wagons and offering big sums to the drivers who would load up with their goods. Carried by a strong breeze, the companies know, no, policy has ever been written to cover disasters by earthquakes. It was announced, however, that the eighty-odd fire Insurance companies interested had decided to pay dollar for dollar to every one insured with them. The companies, it was said, would not discriminate between fire and earthquake and every one Insured, it was reported, would be paid to the extent of the loss. The flames burned over ten square miles of the heart of San Francisco and destroyed more than 150 city blocks, besides the small fires that raged in different parts of ths town.

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brands from the Market street fires landed on the water front and threatened the lumber, oil and steamship docks. On Fremont street one of the worst fires of the early morning threatened to destroy a block In the wholesale district. Small fires appeared in the debris on California and Pine streets. Soon the flames, unchecked by water or explosives, gained such headway that all the wooden buildings as far as Sansome street were attacked. A strong westerly wind became TERRITORY IN EARTHQUAKE AREA. stronger as the morning wore away. It fanned the several blazes in the heart of the business district and threatened to spread the fire throughout a section filled with valuable merchandise. As the noon hour drew near the flames were spreading in every direction, and the destruction by fire bid fair to eclipse the damage wrought by the earthquake. The loss of life seems to have been confined to the poorer districts and manufacturing territory. On lower Market street the main thoroughfare of the city, block after block of substantial buildings was destroyed. The Valencia Hotel, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, on Valencia street, a five-story frame building, toppled over into the street, burying seventy-five people in the debris. At Eighteenth and Valencia there is a crevice in the street six feet wide and entire sidewalks are torn up. The street cartracks are badly twisted all through the southern section of the city. Davis street, Font street, Battery street, Sansom, Montgomery, Kearney, Spear, Main, Beale and Fremont streets--all were In the area of the earthquake's greatest fury. Early reports indicated that the quaking earth shook all buildings along these thoroughfares from their foundations and piled the debris high. The cheap tenement house districts suffered terribly. Old buildings, constructed In the days of redwood, and dilapidated and tottering, collapsed with a succession of roars. Fires appeared in the ruins, but the fire fighters were almost powerless to extinguish the flames. Big Buildings Fall. The offices of the Postal Telegraph Company, in the Hobart Building, were wrecked. The Associated Press Building at 302 Montgomery street also was destroyed. The $7,000,000 City Hall rocked and creaked in the earthquake, portions of it collapsing, bringing added terror to the people who had rushed into the streets near by. Scarcely had the people realized the extent of the great calamity when reports began to come In from surrounding places indicating that the shock had been disastrous throughout a wide area. Some experts on seismic disturbances estimated that a portion of California 100 miles in diameter had come within the zone of greatest activity. Night added to the horror, and as darkness fell the sky was Illuminated by the brilliant conflagration. There was no light in the city except the light that meant the destruction of homes and the loss of life. The final dying out of the fires leave only a barren sand dune dotted with the blackened ruins of what was a great city. Ten Square Miles Burned. Ten square miles of the heart of the city were burned over, the water sup TRAIL OF HORROR. Ruin and Death Reported from Other Coast Town. Reports from the interior are most alarming. Santa Rosa, one of the prettiest cities of the State, in the prosperous county of Sonona, is a total wreck. There are 10,000 homeless. The loss of life cannot be estimated. As the last great seismic tremor spent its force in the earth the whole business portion tumbled into ruins. The main street is piled many feet deep with the fallen buildings. Not one business building is left intact. This destruction in

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Tiie dead In San Francisco (estimated) 1,000 The dead. Inmates of insane asylum at Agnews 275 The dead in San Jose 65 The dead in Santa Rosa 300 The dead at other points 150 The injured (estimated) 3,000 Estimated property loss $200,000,000 Number of square miles devastated 10 Number of city blocks destroyed 1,000 Number of buildings in ruins 30,000 Number of persons made homeless 150,000 Number of hotels destroyed 8 Newspapers offices in ruins 3 Telegraph and telephone offices wiped out 3 City placed under martial law. Other Places Stricken. Santa Rosa--Town practically destroyed; 300 persons killed and 10,000 made homeless. San Jose--Majority of buildings shattered and 65 persons killed. Palo Alto--All buildings but one of Leland Stanford University thrown down and two persons killed. Santa Cruz--Number of buildings demolished and many persons reported killed. Monterey--Great damage done to property and some fatalities. Gllroy--Large property loss. Agnew--State insane asylum demolished; 275 persons killed and patients running at large. Hollister--Large property loss. ply was cut off because of the twisted and broken mains, and the frantic residents, aided by Federal troops, fought the flames with dynamite in an effort to save the remainder of the city from destruction. The property loss is estimated at $200,000,000. General Funston, in command of the United States troops at the Presidio, declared the city under martial law as soon as the extent of the horror became apparent, and the troops and police worked together to save life, protect property and recover the dead. The earthquake shock destroyed so many of the fire engine houses that the department would have been virtually powerless even had the water supply not been destroyed. The saturnalia of crime and looting which began when the soldiers sacked the saloons broke out afresh with the darkness, and unnumbered, untold crimes were committed on every side. No historian will ever describe the tortures which the homeless suffered; none dare attempt to recount the agonies of those who sought the ruins of their homes and missing members of their household; none may think of the woe and doom of those burled beneath the wreckage or consumed by the remorseless flames. Number of Dead Never Known. It will be many days before the complete story of the ruin wrought by the double calamity of earthquake and fire that visited San Francisco will be written and then there will still remain untold countless tales of pitiful tragedy. The exact loss of life will never be known, as hundreds of unfortunates have been incinerated in the flames which made the rescue of those buried under toppling steeples and falling walls Impossible. Famine in its most terrible form expanded through the devastated city and stricken inhabitants Thursday. Hunger, growing into the first stages of starvation, faced the spent thousands who slept Wednesday night in the public squares, or on the bare pavements of the city's streets. Thirst the most terrorizing of the torments to follow the earthquake, drove men and women mad. Vandals caught in the act of robbing dead bodies were shot without explanation and their bodies consigned to the flames of some burning buildings, without any further formality. The soldiers patrolling the streets were ordered to kill, forthwith, any person seen robbing the dead or burglarizing unprotected places of business. Fully a score of men were killed under this order. The appalling calamity inSan Franisco places that city in a list of Lisbon, Caracas, Naples, and other cities devastated by earthquakes. The horrors of the situation in California are the POSTAL TELEGRAPH BUILDING. greater because San Francisco is a populous and commercial city. The earthquake destroyed at once hundreds of business blocks and the means of saving others from fire. It paralyzed commerce, destroyed railways and bridges, cut off communication with other cities, and desolated the country to the south and east. But, as in the case of Galveston, there will be quick recovery from what seems overwhelming disaster. Naples is a great city in spite of the eruptions of Vesuvius and in spite of earthquakes. Tokio, desolated by earthquakes several times, is the greatest city of Japan. Chicago Is greater because of the fire of 1871. Charleston is none the worse for the earthquake of 1886. And San Francisco will rise superior to the great disaster of 1906. cludes all of the county buildings. The four-story court house, with its dome rising high into the heavens, is merely a pile of broken masonry. Nothing is left. Identification of the buildings is impossible. What was not destroyed by the earthquake has been swept by fire. Reports also tell of the destruction of Healdsburg, Geyserville, Cloverdale, Hopland and Ukiah. This report takes in the country as far north as Mendocino, and Lake counties and as far west as the Pacific ocean. It will probably never be known how many perished in the awful calamity.

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STORY OF THE DISASTER Here is told in paragraphic form the story of the destruction of San Francisco. It is hard to realize the frightful calamity that has befallen the Golden Gate City until the full import of the subjoined summary has been impressed upon the mind and brain by reading and re-reading the awful record. Thousands of residents fled from the city. An embargo was placed on all food supplies. The $2,000,000 new postoffice building is a wreck. Three hundred thousand persons were made homeless. No newspapers were published Thursday or Friday. Cavalry and infantry patrolled the downtown streets. Many dropped dead in the streets from heat and suffocation. The flame-swept area is nearly fifteen square miles in extent. The Moreland Academy at Watsonville was wrecked and burned. Firemen were suffocated in the street by gas from broken mains. The tunnel on the Santa Fe road, several miles out of town, caved in. Scores of mansions are in ruins, blasted by dynamite and leveled by fire. Fearing a tidal wave, steamship companies held in port vessels due to sail. Most of the docks and warehouses on the water front were saved by fire tugs. The Leland Stanford, Jr., University at Palo Alto was almost completely destroyed. The Spreckels sugar factory, three miles from Salinas, was destroyed with loss of $1,500,000. The government's estimate of the loss sustained in United States army and navy stores is $3,500,000. San Francisco's financiers and merchants, gathered at Oakland to plan rebuilding of the city. Details of troops guarded the water front to prevent the frantic people from destroying themselves. Thousands of dollars in money and gems were secretly buried in the earth by the frenzied populace. The gas works was blown up with dynamite to prevent leaks in the downtown district which caused fires. The smoke that arose from the business district took the shape of a funnel and could be seen far out at sea. Scores of injured in the Mechanics Pavilion, which was used as an extempore hospital, were burned to death. In the collapse of the Kingsley hotel, a cheap hostelry on Seventh street, seventy persons were crushed to death. Lives by the score and property by the tens of millions of dollars have been lost through a dozen California cities. The eheds over the Union Pacific's wharf on San Francisco bay collapsed, sending hundreds of tons of coal into the sea. Living victims of the disaster were dug out of the ruins of buildings collapsed by the earthquake, but which escaped the fire. Crowds of frantic citizens strove to beat their way into the banks. The troops beat them off. No bank in the city was open. Nothing worthy of the name of a building in the business district and not more than half of the residence district escaped. The old adobe mission Dolores, built more than 100 years ago, and the nucleus of the old town of Yerba Buena, was destroyed. The greatest death rate was in the poorer districts. The ruins of one cheap hotel on Eddy street was found filled with bodies. The fire that overwhelmed the city spared only some of the homes of the rich. The poor lost everything save what they carried away. The reports indicate that the property loss outside of San Francisco will be enormous, running into the scores of millions of dollars. Skeleton walls that totter with each breath of air threaten to crush the soldiers guarding the ruins of banks and other property. The pastor of St. Francis' church, on the slope of Telegraph Hill, gathered his flock about him on the sidewalk and held a prayer meeting. Chinatown is a ruin. Hundreds of celestials were crushed to death when their rookeries fell. The flames finished the work of destruction. While the center of the earthquake destruction seems to have been in San Francisco, reports from other cities show appalling loss of life. For days there was no street car service in San Francisco, and every vehicle was pressed into service to haul away the dead and the dying. Dynamite, gun cotton and cannon were used to blow up buildings, whole blocks being destroyed at a time in efforts to stop the spread of the fire. The Cliff House, one of the finest pleasure resorts in the country, was shaken from its place on a rocky cape and plunged out of sight into the sea. The property loss at Salinas will reach $2,500,000; San Jose, $1,000,000; Napa, $300,000; Palo Alto, $2,225,000; Valejo, $10,000; Agnews, $300,000. The famous C. P. Huntington art collection, bequeathed to Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, has been destroyed in the Huntington mansion on Nob Hill. The State Insurance Commissioner announced that eighty fire insurance companies have decided to pay dollar for dollar of their policies, not distinguishing fire from earthquake losses. The Metropolitan Grand Opera company, playing at the Grand theater, which was burned, lost all its scenery. The members of the cast, including Caruso, Eames and Fremstad, lost their costumes. The work of the regular soldiers in suppressing disorder, preventing looting, etc., is reported worthy of the greatest praise. Everywhere they showed the highest degree of courage. Several innocent men were shot for vandals by soldiers. One man was killed for washing his hands in precious drink ing water. A bank clerk, searching in the ruins of his bank, met the same fate. The fire, which was believed under control late Friday afternoon, after burning Russian hill and Telegraph hill, broke out afresh in the evening and threatened the water front from Bay street to Meig's wharf, where thousands of refugees were gathered. Orders were issued to all guarding forces to shoot, without investigation, persons seen robbing wrecked buildings or bodies. In the smoldering ruins it was estimated that half a hundred of the vandals were executed Thursday night. The criminals and desperate characters hidden in the city before the earthquake came, came forth from their lairs, emboldened by hunger, thirst and privation, and the further fact that the spreading of the great fire was taking the attention of the guarding soldiers, and made many raids. In one or two instances half a dozen men, seen in the act of committing robbery or vandalism, were executed with one volley from a squad of soldiers

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Mr. Tillman, at the opening of the Senate session Monday, offered a resolution providing for an inquiry by the committee on finance into contributions by national banks to campaign committees. It went over. Mr. Heyburn spoke at length on the railway rate bill. The Indian appropriations bill was taken up for committee amendments, but was not completed. Rules were suspended and a number of important measures passed by the House. One was for the removal of the tax on denatured alcohol rendered unfit for beverages. Another forbade the importation or carriage by interstate commerce of falsely stamped articles of precious metals. A third extended the time when the coastwise laws of the United States shall apply to the Philippines to April 11, 1909. The bill permitting national banks to loan 10 per cent of their capital and surplus to one individual or corporation, instead of 10 per cent of the capital alone, was passed, as was a concurrent resolution authorizing the clerk to restore to the bill providing for the disposition of the affairs of the five civilized tribes the part proposed to be stricken out in one of the amendments of the Senate. In the Senate Tuesday Mr. Tillman called up his resolution directing the Senate committee on finance to enter upon an investigation of the question of campaign contributions by the national banks. Mr. Tillman said he wished the inquiry to extend to the Democratic as well as the Republican campaign committees, and engaged in a sharp controversy with Mr. Hopkin-sconcerning the Walsh banks in Chicago. Mr. Foster spoke for almost three hours in support of the House railroad rate bill. The House bill providing for the coinage of minor coins was pass ed. The House cleared the decks by pass ing under suspension of the rules a number of bills of general interest. Among them were the following: Establishing a national quarantine against epidemics; regulating appeals in criminal cases by permitting the government to have a decision reviewed when a demurrer to an indictment has been sustained; creating a bureau of the reclamation service in the Interior Department; providing for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves. In addition 572 private pension bills were passed. The measure extending the national irrigation act to the State of Texas was taken up as unfinished business. In his opening prayer in the Senate Wednesday Chaplain Edward Everett Hale made reference to the San Francisco disaster. Only routine business was transacted, adjournment until Thursday being taken at 12:50 p. m. to permit the Democrats to proceed with their conference on the railroad rate bill. The San Francisco disaster hung like a pall over the House, legislation being carried on in a perfunctory way. A resolution was adopted directing the War and Navy Departments to place at the disposition of the Mayor of San Francisco such supplies as may be necessary. A resolution of sympathy also was passed. The bill extending the national irrigation law to Texas was passed, and the conference report on the pension appropriation bill agreed to. An appropriation of $4,000 to bring home the bodies of the men killed on the battleship Kearsarge was voted. The Speaker laid before the House and had read the message of the President relating to the decision of Judge Humphrey in the beef cases. Speaker Cannon said he had instructed the Journal clerk to omit the names of John N. Williamson (Oregon) and Malcolm R. Patterson (Tenn.) from the future rolls of the House, as they have not attended sessions and have not been sworn in. He said this statement was due by reason of his ruling that 191 members constitute a quorum. The Senate Thursday passed a joint resolution appropriating $1,000,000 for the relief of the people of California, and an emergency bill carrying $4,000 to pay the expenses of bringing home the bodies of the Kearsarge victims. Mr. Bailey made an explanation of the proceeditgs of the Democratic caucus and Mr. La Follette delivered the first half of an exhaustuve speech on the rate bill. Mr. Tillman and Mr. Hopkins had another spirited encounter concerning the Walsh bank failure in Chicago, which was ended by the presiding officer. The House voted the appropriation of $1,000,000 for the sufferers in San Francisco and other ruined California cities and gave the Secretaries of War, Navy, Treasury and Commerce power to co-operate with the authorities of the stricken cities. Mr. Williams, the minority leader, gave notice that there would be no more legislation except under the rules of the House or a special rule until the conferees on the statehood bill had made a report. Several speeches were made on the tariff. In the Senate Friday Mr. La Follette continued, but did not conclude his speech on the rate bill. The appropriation for the San Francisco sufferers was made available for the purchase of medical supplies and steps were taken toward replacing the public buildings by calling on the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare an estimate of the cost of new structures. A serious altercation between Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio and Frank Clark of Florida was narrowly averted in the House through the diplomacy of Mr. Williams, who had their language stricken from the record. Before the trouble had been smoothed over, however, Mr. Clark made a threat of personal violence against Mr. Grosvenor. Sixty-five pages of the District of Columbia appropriation bill were considered, and the national quarantaine bill was sent to conference. National Capital Notes. President Roosevelt has presented to the War Department for its historical collection a section of a log from the cabin which Gen. U. S. Grant built for his family near St. Louis after his resignation from the regular army before the opening of the war of 1861. Secretary Bonaparte has decided to accept the resignation of Midshipman Miner Merriweather from the naval academy. He will instruct the superintendent of the academy to dismiss the sentence of one year's confinement to the academy grounds, hanging over Merriweather. Speaker Cannon received a letter from Secretary Root urging that the bill appropriating $77.72 to reimburse the French Cable Co. for losses sustained by the cutting of its cables in Cuba in the Span-ish-American war be passed. Mr. Root says the claim is just and should be allowed at this session. Representative Wm. Alden Smith of Michigan has received a petition from Hollanders in Grand Rapids, asking that a duty of 125 per cent be placed on wooden shoes. The petitioners state that this article can be imported into the United States and sold at a price at which the petitioners cannot afford to make it and sell at a reasonable profit. According to a decision by the assistant Attorney General for the Interior Department the 8-hour law is declared applicable to the reclamation service of the geological survey both as regards engineers who are paid by the hour and laborers engaged on irrigation works. The State Department has received through the American embassy at Tokio another assurance from the Japanese government of its firm adherence to he principle of the open door in Manchuria. Business interests engaged in the export trade have been getting apprehensive that this great country was to be swamped and glutted with Japanese goods before any opening was afforded to foreign trade

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Chicago. drawback being the inability to reach a solution of the coal mining troubles. With ideal weather there has been further extension of activity, particularly widespread resumptions of farm work and lake navigation. Retail trade makes an exceptionally good showing in the sales of Easter wares, millinery and fashionable apparel having been liberally bought. Wholesale dealings in staple lines remain satisfactory for this period and heavy shipments are yet made to the interior of country store and agricultural needs. Manufacturing branches are under the pressure of increasing demands adding to the assured activity of future months, this being a conspicuous feature of the iron and steel lines, while more effort is made toward larger output of the forges, foundries, car and machine shops. New building work has become much extended, and this together with heavy construction about to be started furnishes employment for larger forces of labor and involves the consumption of materials in enormous quantities. Mercantile collections throughout the western territory remain reasonably prompt and the final distribution of general merchandise make seasonable headway. Raw material markets reflect easier supplies, but the demand is strongly sustained. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 26, against 22 last week and 25 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. Trade displays more animation, weather conditions, retail business and to some extent collections improving in unison. Easter season influences have been a stimulus even where low temperatures, heavy rains or bad roads have occurred and few complaints as to retiil trade are noted. These latter, by the way, are most in the East Generally speaking, the weather west and south has been good and some lost ground has been regained In planting, though the crop planting season is still fully ten days late. The spring jobbing trade is nearly over, but some reorders are noted and there is free buying of fall goods. Business failures in the United States for the week ending April 12 number 161, against 151 last week, 196 in the like week of 1905, 198 in 1904, 160 in 1903 and 193 in 1902. In Canada failures for the week number fifteen, as against seventeen last week and twenty-one in this week a year ago.--Bradstreet's Commercial Report. THE MARKETS Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, prime heavy, $4.60 to $6.77; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, 88c to 89c; corn, No. 2, 47c to 49c; oats, standard, 30c to 32c; rye, No. 2, 63c to 65c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $13.50; prairie, $6.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 18c; potatoes, 55c to 63c. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to 45.75; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $6.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 86c to 88c; corn, No. 2 white, 47c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c. St. Louis--Cattle, $4.50 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.75; sheep, $4.00 to $5.90; wheat, No. 2, 87c to 95c; corn, No. 2, 43c to 45c; oats, No. 2, 30c to 32c; rye, No. 2, 63c to 64c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $4.00 to $5.25; hogs, $4.00 to $6.70; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 90c to 91c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 48c to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 2, 66c to 68c. Detroit--Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.50; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 85c to 87c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 50c to 51c; oats, No. 3 white, 33c to 35c; rye, No. 2, 64c to 65c. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 northern, 78c to 82c; corn, No. 3, 45c to 47c; oats, standard, 31c to 33c; rye, No. 1, 63c to 65c; barley, standard, 53c to 54c; pork, mess, $16.30. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 83c to 83c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 46c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; rye, No. 2, 66c to 67c; clover seed, prime, $6.25. Buffalo--Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $6.90; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $6.00; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.20. New York--Cattle, $5.00 to $5.60; hogs, $4.00 to $6.80; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 88c to 90c; corn, No. 2, 52c to 54c; oats, natural white, 37c to 38c; butter, creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, western, 15c to I8c. Short News Notes. In his Arbor Day proclamation, Gov. Johnson of Minnesota pleads for the preservation of the State flower, the moccasin. The De Forest wireless telegraph system succeeded in sending 572 words out of 1,000 from Coney Island to Ireland, a distance of 3,200 miles. The great Methodist missionary convention at Huron, S. D., closed with addresses by Bishop Hartzell, Bishop Vincent and many other prominent workers in mission fields. Two daughters of Alex M. Henry, a ranchman, were killed by a jealous Mexican named Ramon, near Conchee, Texas. Ramon escaped. Attorney General Hadley of Missouri is said to be planning a campaign against railroad companies operating parallel lines when his Standard Oil case is finished. John Stead, a colored laborer, was killed and two other negroes were injured by the collapse of a bathhouse on the beach front in Atlantic City, N. J. T. D. Overton, aged 25, was shot and killed at the Beaumont, Texas, rice mill

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by A. Mold, night watchman, aged 60. Mold alleges that Overton had grossly insulted him and attempted to shoot him. Andrew Carnegie visited Joel Chandler Harris at Atlanta, Ga., and showed his liking for the author of "Br'er Rabbit" by hugging him when they met. The grand jury at Charleston, W. Va., refused to return indictments against Mine Superintendent Miner and Mine Boss Townsend, whom the coroner's jury held guilty of manslaughter in the Detroit mine disaster. A bulletin issued by the census bureau giving the statistics for the manufacturing industries of Kentucky for the calendar year 1904 shows the number of establishments as 3,737; capital, $147,282,476;

wages paid, $24,438,684; value of products, $159,753,968.