Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 May 1906 — Page 2

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FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD. Conrta and Crimes Accident and Fire, Labor and Capital Grain, Stock ai'd Money Market, Nine Men Killed in Montana Wrectr. A freight train consisting of forty-one cars of lumber was wrecked near Reid, Mont. At least nine men are believed to have been on the train. " 'iree bodies have been recovered. The train burned. Engineer I. D.Sterne and Fireman Ed Julette are thought to have been incinerated. Brakeman G. A. Murphy's skull was probably fractured. According to Conductor Garber there were at least twelve tramps onboard the train, only three of whom have been found. Locomotive Blown Up. A locomotive was blown, up four miles east of 11 arris burg, Fs , on the Pennsylvania railroad, killing Engineer J. F. Good and fatally injuring Fireman C. II. Lefevre and Brakeman J. K. Wittower, all of Harrisiurg. The engineer's body was found half submerged in the Susquehanna river near by. It is believed the locomotive struck a stick of dynamite accidentally dropped on the track by workmen engaged in railroad Inprovements. ' Big Stone Falls on Workman. A building stone weighing more than 1,000 pounds was dislodged at the third floor of the new K. of P. building, . in course of erection at Massachusetts avenue and Pennsylvania street,- Indianapplis, Ind., and it went down with a crash, seriously injuring O. D. White, an engineman, who was. standing on the sidewalk below. The stone struck White a glancing blow, tearing the flesh from his arm and side. - Miners Fatally Hurt In Riot. Union and non-union miners clashed again at Paint Creek mines, near Wiadber, Pa-where a week ago amob had be in dispersed by a volley from the muskets of the deputies. As a result of the riot two men are dying in the hospital at Windber, a third is probably fatally stabbed, several others sustained serious injuries and seven men are under arrest for inciting to riot. Three Children Bnrned to Death. Three children were burned to death in the destruction by fire of the Presbyterian mission school at Lawrence, Raleigh county, W.Va. The school accommodated both boarding and day pupils. The victims were two sisters named Perry and a girl named Mcginnis. It is supposed the tire caught from a lamp. Two Men Killed By Traction Car. A young man by the name of Dusang and an unknown companionswere struck and instantly killed by a west-bound interurban car enroute from Muncie to Anderson, just west of Chesterfield, Ind., at a private crossing. They were in a buggy and are supposed to have been asleep. " Indictee! tor Perjury William A. Brewer. Jr., formerly president of the Washington Life Insurance Company, at New York City, was indicted by the gTand jury for perjury. The charge gro vs out of a report made to the superintendent of insurance in 1903 regarding the condition of ti" j company. Harvard Professor a Murderer. The Cambridge; police have Issued a warrant for the arrest of Erich Muenter, an instructor m German at Harvard university, on a charge of murdering his wife In Cambridge, Mass., about two weeks ago. It is alleged that Mrs. Muenter's death was caused by arsenic. Chicago Banker Arrested in New York. On the request on the chief of police of Chicago, Gustav Sorrow, tlce president of the Bank cf America, wrecked by its president, ' former Judge Ahner Smith, was arrested at the hotel Marseilles in New York City by detective! irom headquarters. Gasoline Launch Bnrned. . A gasoline pleasure boat was burned in the harbor at Evansville, Ind. WebbDuckett and P. L. Conklin were probably fat'ally burned. Both are prominent citizens of Bowling Green, Ky. The firö was caused by an explosion of gasoline. ' A villa PoetofCce Robbed. Professional safe blowers visited Avilla, Ind., and the postofflce vault was literally wrecked. It is estimated that J 100 in cash and $200 in stamps were secured by the thieves. . Officer In Poland Slain. A dispatch from Lublin, Russian Poland, says that Lieutenant Colonel Pugol, chief of the gendarmerie at Cholm, was murdered. ' The assassin escaped. $100,000 Fire at Evansville, Ind. The bottle blowing plant of the Evansville Glass Works at Evansville, Ind., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,000. British 'Steamer Ioat Off Halifax. A dispatch from Halifax, N. S., says: The British steamer, Havana, was sunk in Halifax harbor by the steamer Strathcona. The captain and seven men were saved. . Jndianlan Killed in Ohio. Elmer Stevenson, of Edinburg, Ind.J was knocked down by u horse and buggy In High street, Hamilton, Ohio, dying of his injuries after removal to Mercy hospital. The horse is said to have 'teen driven by a former county official, an 1 the coroner is investigating. Han Shot and Wife Under Arrest. Samuel Most, a St. Louis turfman, was shot and probably fatally injured in a Memphis boarding house. Mrs. Lily Most, wife of the wounded man. is being held ty the policv. i Boys Kill HegTo Youth. One of a crowd of white boys .armed with clubs and stones killed John Moore, n negro, 1G years old, in Kansas City, breaking his neck with a club. The white boys escaped and tire not known. The rttack resulted from the feeling against negroes generally, a reflex from the race hatred at Springfield, Mo. Filipino Towns Destroyed. Fire has swept the town of Mariquina, in Rizl Province, P. '. Many- thousands cf persons are honnless'and starving. Two thmsand dwellings are In ruins. Fire aUo destroyed Pasil, near the town of CVbu. Two hundred dwellings were burned and many persons are homeless. Tourists' Resort Burns. A dispatch from Livingston, Mont, says that the old Yancey Hotel, in Yellowstone Park, has been destroyed by fire. Tae hotel was founded more than twenty years ago by John Yancey, who made it -. popular resort for tourists.

GERMANY'S CHURCH CRISIS.

Only 25 Per Cent of Her Pastors Believe in Christ's Divinity. Emperor William of Germany and hi jfficial advisers are deeply concerned over the imminent church crisis in Prussia, the rravest since the reformation. The question of the divinity of Christ now threatpns to rend German Protestantism into two great parties, the one liberal, the Dthei orthodox. The revolt in liberal church circles against orthodoxy has been fanned into a flame by the refusal of the consistory and the Supreme Court to sanction the selection of Rev. Mr. Rowen as pastor of the church at Reinicheid, in Westphalia. His offense was that he preached sermons in which he repudiated the divine parentage of Christ, characterizing it ps i" myth inspired by Greco-Pagan influsnces. More thin 1,300 mass meetings Lave been held to discuss the religious situation. Taken together, they form an astonishing revelation of the enormous extent of the growth of the 60-called liberal church doctrines. The ferment is increasing daily, hourly. The liberal pastors and their congregations threaten secession unless the bounds of the creed are widened by the elimination of what they call the supernatural irticles. A leading theologian, who occupies a aniversity chair, says that out of 8,000 German Protestant pastors in active serrice at the present time not more than one-quarter are believers in the literal text of the apostles' coeed, and only onetenth hold to the divine inspiration of the Bible. Should the Kaiser call a general council to recast the creed, the cataclysm may be prevented. Otherwise it is predicted on all sides the Reformed church of Germany will soon be split into warring factions. MODERN STEEL STRUCTURES. Trip Through Fi re-Swept Frisco Shows Their Superiority. A trip through the burned districts of San Francisco after the fire revealed a scene of unspeakable desolation. From mar.y points on Market street, ai far as the eye could reach in any direction, there was nothing but skeleton walls and smold ering ruins. It was fire that wrought the great devastation and wiped out the en tire business section and half the resi dence section of the city. The great modern steel structures were practically . un injured by the earthquake except for cracked walls and displaced plaster. All these great structures, of course, subse quently were utterly ruined by the flames so far as the interior construction is concerned, but the walls are in most cases intact. The most notable cases of prac tical immunity from the shock were the St. Francis hotel, the Fairmont hotel, the Flood building, the Mills building, the Spreckels building, the Chronicle building, and scores of other modern steel structures. " The branch of the United States mint on Fifth street and the new postoffice at Seventh and Mission streets are striking examples of the superiority of the workmanship put into federal buildings. The United States mint building, surrounded by a wide space of pavement, was abso lutely unharmed. The new postoffice building was also virtually undamaged by fire. The earthquake did some damage to the different entrances to the building, but the walls were uninjured. Every window pane, of course, ws broken. The Fairmont hotel, while damaged In the interior, is left intact as to "the walls. WHEAT CONDITIONS GOOD. Winter Has Lifted Its Embargo and the Outlook Is Promising. Winter has lifted its embargo from the Gelds and the winter wheat crop stands forth a strong, likely youngstO, ready to trv for records of the past, even if he should not reach or surpass them. Pres ent conditions foretoken a big yield, and, unless there are disasters between this and the gardening time, the crop of 1900 will be a fit mate for that of last year. Indorsement of this prediction comes In dispatches to Chicago from all the big wheat-producing States. Some of these States are already boasting that this year's yield will exceed that of any previous seasons. Kansas, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Pennsylvania are enthusiastic over the outlxk. Of these, Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma and ISebras&a In particular send information that there has been a marked improvement in gen eral conditions since the last government report in December. gjJD -OILILEfE5 The school teachers of Tittston, Pa., recently dismissed their pupils and told them not to return until the school board should pay back salaries due the teachers. Prof. C. W. Pritchett, after thirty year3 of service as director of the Morrison observatory at Glasgow, Mo., has retired. He is succeeded by II. R. Morgan, formerly of the United States naval observatory. 1 Judge Mack of Chicago has invited a conference with the school board with a view to stopping the practice of suspending . disorderly or unruly pupils, on the ground that it contributes to the juvenile delinquency cases in court. Following are some Ohio statistics : Children of school age, 1,250,000; children in school attendance, 800,000 ; children out of school, 450,000; children within scope of labor law, 900,000; children illegally employed, 100,000. The most notable feature of the latest census bulletin relating to illiteracy among our population is the statement that there are fewer illiterates among the children of foreign-born parents than among those of the natives. This is variously accounted for, but the chief reason for it appears to be based on the fact that the greatest portion of the foreignborn children live in cities, whvre the educational opportunities are better than In the country.. In the country tne illiteracy among children is 89 per 1,000; in cities of over 25,000 inhabitants it is only 10 per 1,000. For the last two years a committee appointed by the National Educational As sociation has been hard at work seeking to establish a system of reciprocity in re gard to the recognition of teachers' certifi catM and diplomas from normal schools and colleges. When the c mmittee first undertook its task, it was found that twenty-two States and territories made absolutely no concession, that all teachers from outside their boundaries were oblig ed by their laws to take an examination. no matter what their credentials and ex perience. Now, after two years' work, only nine of the States ?J1I hold out. These are Alabama, Connccti?i:, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, North Caro lina, New Hampshire and Texas. In all the rest a distinct advance toward reciprocity has' been made.. L The school authorities of Waynesboro, Pa., having declined to enforce the State vaccination law, the matter is to go into the courts. The Attorney General has given the opinion that parents whose chil dren have been debarred because of fail ure to be vaccinated cannot be fined un der the compulsory education law. One of the most interesting figures in Harvard university is Edward Ray, a blind student who hails from a small country town in North Carolina. He has mastered the most difficult courses in higher mathematics, in geology won a de gree from tke University of North Carolina, and is now working for a degree of M. A. at trarvard.

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CLEARING AWAY RUINS. Work of Removing the Debris Is Progressing Actively. The lapse of a week from the earth quake found tens of thousands homeless and hopeless in San Francisco. The general condition could be best de scribed by the term Sherman applied to war. It Is and repeat And It will be that for some time to come. What Is left of the population Is still camped In streets, public squares. Golden Gate Park, at the Presidio and around Fort Mason. " After all the carnage and the heartrending tragetlies of the Civil War, however, when the smoke of battle had cleared away, reconstruction came. With the ruins still smoldering, with the dead lying tinder smoking ruins for many miles, where half-ftarved dogs have been found eating thm, San Francisco has passed through the active stage of the' calamity and has entered on a period of reconstruction. Gangs of men are working here and there, a dis patch of Wednesday says, clearing away the debris preparatory, to the erection of new buildings on the sites of the old new and better buildings, for the spirit in the air Is to make San : V jV:'" -- Tm

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Francisco greater and more beautiful than ever before. Business men of all classes are uniting In this spirit, and the same sentiment Is expressed by alL Along Market street and elr,ewhere the deep booming of dynamite Is heard at Intervals, as dangerous wails are torn from their foundations and toppled to the' earth, making room for the new walls that HALL CT JUSTICE. are to go up In their places. Merchants are hanging out signs or advertising In the papers that they are preparing to tesunie business. Posted on heaps of still hot bricks are signs notifying employes where to report for work for there Is work to do, and work for pay, not labor performed at the point of bayonets held by soldiers. After a thorough Investigation In San Francisco n conservative newspaper estimate of the number 'of dead Is 2,500. It Is singular that Information concerning the most vital feature of this calamity has been all but lacking The facts for which the outside world, and especially, the people of the United States, have been looking , up to this time have been unavailable. This Is a condition due to two causes. First, the suddenness of the calamity, and, second. Its widespread effect. A correspondent asserts that beyond question 20G men, women and children were killed In the Potrero district In the Brunswick House 300 perished. The Valencia Hotel, which dropped into n gap opened by the earthquake. Is supposed to have carried with It 10G souls. At 7th street and Natoma, where large new buildings utterly collapsed, 200 people this Is merely the estimate of first-class authorities undoubtedly were Incinerated.. It Is not a wild guess to say that the scattered dead. Including the unknown, the remains of scores and hundreds who have been completely blotted out, wii: be 1,500. A tragically picturesque and peculiar Item In connection with this Is the fact that many persons have become lost they are dead beyond possible trace. These statements are made by a correspondent In the face of the testimony of the coroner, William Malsh, who declared that the total number of dead resulting from the earthquake shock will be less than 1,000. It is feared that the coroner's office and all the city ofhcials who are cogs In the municipal machine have been stunned by the enormity of the disaster. It pays to advertise in this paper.

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FIELD OF THE EARTHQUAKE. In the territory cross-shaded the earthquake was destructive. .In the 'territory shaded by single perpendicular lines the earthquake was felt, but did no material damage. The rone of greatest force Is about 250 miles long by sixty miles wide, while the field of relatively harmless accV tivity extended 400 miles up and down the coast and 250 miles eastward into Nevada. LIFE RECORDS BUHN. 950,000,000 In Risks Face Serious Complications. The destruction of the San Francisco building of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, which was located at Sansome and California streets, may involve 12,000 policy holders carrying an aggregate of $50,000,000 of insurance in- serious complications. All of the records concerning these 12,000 policy holders were destroyed with the building. Complete duplicate records containing all of the late information concerning the Pacific coast policy holders were not kept at the home office in New York. Officers of the large fire insurance companies having their headquarters in New York City announce that losses by earthquake were not included In the fire insurance policies written for California, and that such losses could not be allowed, even if the companies were so inclined, for the reason that the laws of New York State prohibited it. Xhe ruling3 or .he losses by fire, however, will, it is said, be broad, the insurance companies agreeing that to draw the lines with any severity whatsoever would be extremely unwise, in the face of such an appalling disaster, where the suffering will no doubt be widespread. Railway to Clear Debris. The Southern Pacific railway will aid In the work of tearing away the debris. The railroad officials have begun to build a track through the heart of the devastated city from Harrison street to the bay, and will run flat cars in for the wreckage that must be removed before

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new buildings can rise and normal conditions 1 restored. In this great work it is announced that between 3,000 and 4,000 men will be employed. Millions for the edy. More than $15,000,000 has been subscribed for the San Francisco sufferers. The largest contributors are : New York, $::.riOO,(M) : Congress, $2,500,000; Chicago, $000,000. " Dogs Feed on Doulcs. One of the grewsome scenes that followed the fire was that witnessed on Telegraph and Russian hills and along the entire north beach front of the city, when scores of half-starved dogs were found eating human bodies. The animals were discovered gnawing and tearing at the corpses half buried in the ruins. . Pekln Gives to Itellef Fand. The Empress Dowager of China has sent to the American legation a check for $50,000 for the relief of the sufferers from the disaster at San Francisco, and is sending $20,000 to the Chinese in Oiat city.

CAMPS OF REFUGEES.

REVISED DETAILS OF LOSS IN SAN FRANCISCO. Number of dead, estimated 2.50C Number of injured, estimated 15.00C Number of homeless, estimated S00.00C Property loss, estimated... $400,000,000 Area burned, square miles. If City blocks burned ' 1,000 In Other Cities. City, Town or Village Damage. Dead Oakland $ 500,000 3 Alameda : 400,000 . . . San Jose 3,000,000 1C Agnew (State hospital . for insane) ..." 400,000 27C Palo Alto (Stanford University) 4,000,000 3 Napa 250,000 ... Salinas ........ ....... 2,000,000 . . . Hollister ' 200,000 1 Vallejo 40,000 ... Sacramento 25,000 ... Redwood City 30,000 ... Port Richmond . . . Suisun 50,000 ... Santa Rosa 800,000 30C Watsonville 70,000 ... Monterey 25,000 8 Loma Preita 10 Stockton 40,000 ... Brawley 100,000 ... Sarta Crux 150,000 . . . Fo.t Bragg 150,000 I .Clash Among Officials. It. is the common story that friction among officials, political antagonisms and the crossing of ambitions have conspired to make a bad matter worse in San Francisco. Add to this the circumstances of federal soldiery and State militia at swords' points; the wiping away in an instant of papers, books and documents upon which the local authorities were dependent, and cap the climax with a situation so vast and fearful that it is staggering, and one easily excuses exciting turmoil. . Itir Gani Are Injured. The big fortifications e.t the entrance to the Golden Gate did not escape from serious injury. At Lim? Point the placements of the big guns have been cracked and twisted.' The heavy concrete both on the floor and in the walls of the emplacements bear unmistakable evidence of having been giveu a bad shaking. Condition? are said to be equally bad at the fortifications back of old Fort Toint. As it is now, the great 13-inch guns on both sides of the gate, constituting the main defense, are practically useless. Alcatras Escapes the Shock. There is one place within pistol shot ol ruined San Francisco that the earthquake did not touch, that did not lose a chimney or feel a tremor Alcatraz island. Despite the fact the island is covered with brick buildings, brick forts' and brick chimneys, not a brick was loosened, not a crack made nor a quiver felt. New Location for Chinatown. Chinatown has been obliterated from San Francisco forever. Mayor Schmitz fwiid that all of the Chinese row in the c!t? be collected and placed In and i' 4t -'VV' --- ,7 N Ispt ..-i 1 ! i '.1 f. ' f t - - X near Fontana's warehouses, near Fort Mason, and that the new Chinatown would be located at Hunter's Foint, in the southern extremity of the county, on the bay shore. It is several miles distant from the old Chinatown. Temporary Homes II a lit. Temporary structures have been erected in Golden Gate Park for the housing of 40,000 people. Many Shooting Stories False. Over half the stories printed of the shooting down of innocent men are false. A few ghouls were shot down and one or two men were killed through carelessuess on the part of the guards, but such stories as the killing of half a dozen men who tried to reach the vaults of the mint are groundless. The guards on watch there declared that not a shot had been fired." The New York Building Trades Union voted to send an army of their unemployed members to San Francisco to aid in the work of clearing the city and to help la its rebuildng.

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In the Senate Saturday Mr. Terkins of California made acknowledgment of the cablegram from the Vice President of the Brazilian Senate, expressing the sympathy of that body for the sufferers in California. He also acknowledged the debt of gratitude due the government of the United States, the people of the different States and cities and the railroads for the generous aid granted. On his motion the Vice President was instructed to express the Senate's appreciation. The remaind er of the day was devoted to eulogies on the life of the late Senator Orville IL Platt of Connecticut. In the House a joint resolution making an additional appropriation of $1,000,000 for the relief of the California sufferers was adopted. The District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed, as was another measure providing for the transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement. The message of tbs President citing the necessity for an additional appropriation for the California quake victims was laid before the House. -: The Senate Monday increased to $1,500,000 the second appropriation of funds for the San " Francisco sufferers. Mr. La Follette concluded his tbree-day speech on the rate bill, which is one of the longest addresses in recent years in the Senate. The following bills were passed: Providing for the organization of a dental corps in the army; permitting the building of dams across the north and south branches of Rock river in Rock Island county, Illinois. The conference report on the bill providing for the election of a delegate in Congress from Alaska was adopted. Consideration of the India i appropriation bill was resumed. The House concurred in the Senate amendment to the joint resolution appropriating $1,500,000 for the relief of the California sufferers and spent the rest of the day in discussing legislation affecting the District of Columbia. : :- The Senate spent almost the entire day Tuesday in considering the Indian appropriation bill, and it had not been disposed of when the session was closed. The House bill extending until 1909 the time when the coastwise laws shall go into effect between the United States and the Philippines was passed. There was no session of the Hose. The Senate Wednesday spent most of the time discussing the Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Tillman made an effort to have a day fixed for a vote on the railmad rate bill, but was unsuccessful. Th J message of the President regarding the employment ot labor on government works in the vicinity of San Francisco was laid before the Senate and ordered printed. The House began the consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill, and the ears of the American farmers must have burned because of the lavish praise of the men of the soil voiced by Mr. Candler (Miss.) and Mr. Dawson (Iowa). Mr. Candler seized the opportunity to make a speech in favor of the ship subsidy bill. The President's message recommending an appropriation of $300,000 for the Mare Island navy yard was read and referred to the committee on appropriations. The Senate amendments to the act permitting the build'ng of dams across the north and south branches of the Rock river in Rock county, Illinois, were concurred in. : :- In the Senate Thursday Mr. Spooner spoke for three hours on the railroad rate bill. He devoted his speech especially to an attack on Mr. Bailey's amendment taking from the lower courts the right to enjoin against the execution of the orders of the interstate commerce commission. ' The bill making an appropriation of $300,000' for the employment of extra labor at the Mare Island navy yard near San Francisco was passed. The agricultural appropriation bill again was before the House, but the discussion seldom wandered in its direction. Mr. . Hepburn (Iowa) spoke on the tariff, Mr. Boutell (111.) defended the watch companies, Mr. Sulzer (N. Y,) expounded the cause of the merchant marine and Mr. Simms (Tenn.) brought up the subject of rural free delivery boxes. The conference report on the Alaskan delegate bill was agreed to. -: :- In the Senate Friday Mr. Spooner concluded his two days speech on the railroad rate bill. There was more discussion of the necessity for fixing a day for a vote on this measure and Mr. Tillman gave notice that after the next Monday he would insist that the Senate shall proceed to vote if Senators are not prepared to speak. All the private pension bills on the calendar were passed and Mr. Clapp gave notice that he would call up the Indian appropriation bill. The tariff debate in the House was further continued by Mr. WiJlms (Miss.), who held the floor for two hours expounding the Democratic doctrine of tariff for revenue only. An emergency appropriation bill carrying $170,000 for the benefit of the sufferers at San Francisco and the employment cf laborers at the Mare Island navy yard was passed. During the day 315 pension bills were passed. National Capital Xotes. The latest official cable report received by the American National Red Cross from Japan states that the number of people who have to depend upon outside help is over 300,000. Congress must decide whether the United States needs a new national air. Secretary Bonaparte has advised Julius L. Lyons of New York that after consulting with other members of the cabinet he has decided natkmal music is a subject for legislative consideration and does not fall within the province of members of the cabinet. Sir Leonard Lyell, a celebrated English geologist, was presented to the President by Director Wolcott of the geological survey. Sir Leonard is In America to study the geological formation In the Yosemlte valley, the grand canyon of Colorado and the Yellowstone Park. The total immigration to the United States from all countries during the month of March, 1900, according to a statement issued by the immigration bu reau, was 133,345, or an increase of 70 per cent over March, 1904. The number arriving in March, 1005, is given as 12C,Dr. Seale Harris, professor of medicine In the University of Alabama, at Mobile, talked with the President about the ravages of consumption among the negroes of the South. He expressed the fear that the negro race was likely to become extinct in this country through the rav ages of the disease. Commissioner General Sargent of the immigration service was heard by the House committee on foreign affairs rela tive to proposed amendments to the Chi neso exclusion act. He urged better su pervision and greater care in the issuance of certificates to the privileged class. He also favored re-registration of all Chinamen in this country. Senators uiinnguam and Liong as a sub-committee of the committee on' the District of Columbia heard prominent citizens in favor of the application of the Washington Auditorium Co. for a char ter. The company purposes to use the Iron work of the government building, at the world's fair at St. Louis, and construct an immense amphitheater in which to hold inaugural ceremonies and similar great gatherings of a national character. President Roosevelt has decided to ap point Charles B. Aycock, former Gtv ernor of North Carolina, and Van Leer Polk of Tennessee, members of the delega tion from the pan-American conference which is to meet in July at Rio Janeiro.

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our Neighbors Are Doing Blatters of General and Local Interest Marriages and Deaths Accidents and Crimes Personal Pointer About Indianians. Brief State Items. Adrian, the young son cf Mr. and Mrs. Amos Shaffer, was drowned in the St. Joseph river at Mishawaka. A four-foot vein of good block coal has been found on the Rubottom farm near Coal City, at a depth of only forty feet. A report compiled by State Statistician Stubbs shows that there were 42,074 convictions in Indiana in 1905 for crimes of all kinds. George Paulisscn was perhaps fatally Injured in a fire at his home at Indianapolis. Earl and Emanuel Wroten were also badly burned. With her clothes ablaze from an explo sion of gasoline, Mrs. Carl Lembkers, 69 years oia, or Valparaiso, jumped Into pond. She died shortly after. Grandma Humes, as she is familiar; known, or Star City, while lying in bd smoking her pipe, accidentally set the Irt clothing on fire, and was fatally burned. L. C. Briner. convicted of grand larceny. escaped from the Miami county jail at reru, making a rope forty feet in length with his blankets, suspended from an attic window. The affairs of the wrecked Commercial bank at Andrews were settled the other day, the depositors being paid thirty-four cents on the dollar. The bank failed five years ago. The trial of Wesley Williams, at Evansville, accusedof the murder of James Leigh of Boonville, has been postponed till June 12, on motion of the State. Williams re mains in jail in Evansville. One hundred and seventy-fivo inmates of the Indiana School for Feeble Minded Youth, located at Fort Wayne, were made ill by ptomaine poisoning. None of the children were seriously affected. Jesse Davis, aged 85 shot and killed his wife, aged 83 years, at Columbus, and then killed himself. The two had been separated for'&jfmonths and Davis learned that his wife had applied for a divorce. John Brill, a well-to-do business man of Indianapolis, killed himself during a fit of mental aberration by shooting himself through the head while in a shed in the rear of his home, 708 North Sherman drive, Tuxedo. The , 2-year-old son of Mr. and' Mrs.' Oscar Gray, near Princeton, caught his clothing on fire while playing in the dooryard, and died within a few minutes. The mother was terribly burned wldle trying to rescue her child. An explosion, resulting from an attempt to start a fire with coal oil, set fire to the clothing of Edna, the 7-year-old daughter of James Bowen, of Jefferson township, near Lebanon, and she received injuries from which she died a few hours afterward. , " William Fikf, a farmer, residing near Corunna, and Isaiah Suman, of Auburn, both committed suicide. Fike used a revolver and Suman a rope. The last named was a veteran of the Spanish-American war and in ill health, which induced despondency. The homeof Mrs. Joseph St. Johns, of Kokomo, was destroyed by fire. Loss $3000. The woman kept considerable money in th house, and in her excitement she forgot to rescue it, and nearly $500 in currency was destroyed. The loss on the house is partially covered by insurance. The postoffice at Kewanna was entered . by burglars, who cracked the safe and secured$100 worth of stamps, all the money order books and a pouch of mail. The robbers stole a horse and escaped. The safe at the Osceola postoffice was also blown open and robbed of its contents. While Mrs. William Matthews, of Centerville, was trimming a lamp in her home, the same being lighted at the time, the lamp was overturned, and burning oil set her clothing on fire. Mrs. Matthews ran into the street, where the wind fanned the burning clothing into a fierce flame. She was fatally burned. Fire swept through the large barn of the Warman. Black, Chamberlain Company, at the Union Stock yards, Indianapolis, destroying the structure and burning to death about seventy-five horses. Other horses were killed in the wild run away that followed the fire, making a total loss c? more than 100 horses. The grand ' jury at Newcastle returned thirty-three indictments and . adjourned. Among them is one against Frank Thurman, growing out of the poisoning of Reuben Dailey. No indictment was found In the Starbuck case, despite the many witnesses called to testify in the case. This probably sees the end of investigation along this line. The Reward county grand jury returned thirteen indictments against saloon Wp er, gambling room men and keepers of ill-resorts, at Kokomo, who are alleged to have violated the law under the old police regime. When the cases come to trial there is expected to be some interesting developments relative to how things were, managed under the former polioe administration. A fire at Georgetown, which originated in the home of Mrs. Henry Wolfe, spread to the residences belonging to Mrs. Delia Taylor and Silas Beard, and all were consumed, together with a barn belonging to Benjamin Utz. Georgetown has no fire department, and relief was sent from New Albany. The loss will aggregate $5,000, with $2,500 insurance. The United Brethren church, near the Beard property, was damaged. Daniel Gray, a young farmer of Union township, near Fowler, was fatally injured while hauling a load of fertilizing material from a barn. He was caught between the rack and the side of the barn, and all of his ribs were torn loose and one lung was crushed. , Sidney Sullivan, 26 y?ars old. who was in 'icted for attempting to kill Thilip Miller was arraigned in the Circuit Court at Shelbyville, and on a confession of guilt, was committed to the State prison under the indetermediate sentence act Mob violence had been talked of in connection with this case. Clark Maoy, auditor of Miami county, has filed a petition in the Circuit Court at Peru for an injunction to prevent the County Commissioners from proceeding further with the plans and specifications for the construction of the new courthouse, estimated to cost $2S0,000. Mrs. Taylor Rogers of Frankfort, used gasoline, mistaking it for oil, in accelerating a fire in the kitchen stove, and there was an explosion which enveloped her in flame. With rare presence of mind she wrapped herself in a bedquilt, and escaped serious injury. . Afterward she called the fire department, who saved the house after a loss of $300 had been sustained. Laying- It On.. Nell Did you hear May's Bance rhapsodizing over her complexion? Belle Yes, he certainly did lay It os pretty thick. Nell Yes, but not nearly as thick at May does. Philadelphia Ledger. Unimportant Detail. Mrs. Ferguson (after her return home) "George, I cautioned you particularly about the cat. Did you remember to attend to him last night?" Mr. Ferguson "Yes ; except that I forgot whether you told me to let him in oi put Liza out."

AnUAL

The prevailing conditions are mainly favorable and have imparted further CMCJytt. strength in industrial ind mercantile operations. More demand appeared for heavy materials, and the consumption of necessaries again is of exceptionally high volume, the latter being especially beneficial to seasonable retail dealings. While visiting buyers are smaller in number, wholesale trade maintains a steady aggregate, and general merchandise Is forwarded In considerable quantities, orders from the Interior absorbing much clothing, millinery, footwear, food products and hardware. Country advices show a good start in the buying of spring needs, but greater demand Is' looked for when the rush of farm work ceases. Reiorts as to growing crops convey much encouragement. The Illinois condition and acreage show Improvement over same time last year, and preparations portend , a record-breaking corn crop. Mercantile collect'ons have not been affected by the San Francisco calamity thus far, defaults are lower In number and amount, and the money market Is easier in tone. Furnace and steel mill production bas attained proportions reflecting a demand exceeding all former experiences, and with this there Is renewed beary buying ( of ore, pig iron and structural fJeel, prices being made somewhat .firm er; No diminution Is wen In the active demaid for lumber and building materials, for both local and outside requirement!. Notwithstanding the high cost of construction, evidence of confidence In the business outlook is fnrn'shed by the record of permits for mercantile struct .res, these for the last nineteen day Jeing nearly double the value of tho. for same period last year. Raw material markets are conspicuously strong, with bides costing more and suitable factory woods scarce. Tanning progresses as speedily as the supply of skins permits, but the sustained orders for leather Indicate that the shoe and belting shops are increasing "outputs. Metal consumers have much wort for the future, orde:s being more plentiful In heavy hardware, plumbing, machinery and electric lines. Devastation on the Pa- , clfic coasj and a wldenei breach between anthracite Ne YcrL coal miners and operators were adveres trade factors of grave local significance, but the nation as a whole is responsive to the favorable Influence of good weather for spring business agricultural undertaking and building operations. A special canvass of the winter wheat, situation shows little Injury and large acreage, nnd structural work Is not' checked by the high prices of building material. Manufacturing plants are fully occupied, except some dependent upon hard coal, and the chief complaint In most Industries pertains to the sup ply of labor. Immigration beyond all precedent should relieve this difficulty. If It can be properly distributed. Railway earnings thus far available for April exceed last year's by 7.4 per cent, while foreign commerce at this port for the last week shows gMns of J?1,-3,5S1 In exports and JS00.155 la Iraports, as compared with the figures of 1905. Better reports are received from leading departments of the iron and steel industry than at any previous time this year. Further advances In prices of hides are noted, owing to a fair inquiry and limited available supplies of desirable hides. Foreign dry hides are firm, but without quotable alteration. Leathtr Is strong. Failures this week numbered 190 in the United States, against 200 last year, and 18 In Canada, compared with 21 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trada. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $0.15; hojrs, prime heavy. $J-00 to f0.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,, 87c to S9c; corn. No. 2, 4Gc to 47c; oats, standard, 30c to 32c; rye, No. 2, G2c to C3c; hay, timotby, $8.50 to $14.00; prairi $.00 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, ISc to 20c; efrjrs, fresh, 15c to liv; potatoes, 55c to C2c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to S4.S0; heg $1.00 to $G.50; sheep,' $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 87c to 80c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 50c to 52c; oats,' No. 3 white, 3 4c to 85c; ry. No. 2, C5c to 07c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 7Sc to 81c; corn. No. 3. 41c to 47c; oats, s'Andard, 31c to 33c; rye. No. 1, G3c to 04c; barley, standard, 54c to 50c; pork, mess. $15.67. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 85c to S7c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 46c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; rye. No. 2, COc to 67c; clover seed, prine, $0.20. Buffalo Cattle, choice shippiag Fleers, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, fair to choice, 4.00 to $6.S5; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.40; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.r0. New York Cattle, $5.00 to $5.05; hogs, $4.00 to $CS0; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red. Sc to 00c; corn. No. 2, 53c to 55c; oats, natural white, 37c to 3Sc; butter, creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, western, 15c to 17c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.70; hogs, choice heavy, $1.00 to $0.80; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00: wheat. No. 2, S7c to SSc; com. No. 2 white, 40c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c. St. I-ouis Cattle. $4.50 to $5.73; hogs, $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, $1.00 to $0.00; wheat, No. 2, 87c to 91c; corn, No. 2, 4Sc to 50c; oats. No. 2, 30c tc 32c; rye. No. 2, C3c to Ctc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $3.40; hogs, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep. $2.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 89c to 91c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 50c to 52c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; rye. No. 2, CGo to CSc. There are ten members of the United States Senate who are more than 70. Fatus and Morgan of Alabama, Allison cf Iowa, Cullom of Illinois, Teller of Col9rado, Proctor of Vermont, t Frye of Maine, Piatt ancl Dcpew of New York, acd Alger of Michigan. Joseph Jennings, who died recently st Colchester, England, at the age of ICO years, was the descendant of the orii-l In the lawsuit which was the basis of the creation of Dickens' "Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce Don't punish children by ttriirs then ca tha head. There are ctttr r'-:Y