Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 17 May 1906 — Page 2

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V; I5thV23rd j) 1st. Sth. FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOINGS OF TH WORLD. . Conrts and Crime' Accidents and Fires, Labor and Capital Grain, Stock and Money Market. Tragedy at Bourbon, Ind. William Bates, 65 years old, of Bourbon, Ind., was shot to death while his son, Frank Bates, is fatally injured as the result of an attack made on them by Charles Reddinger, a neighbor. Reddinger is now in jail under a strong guard to prevent a it reatened lynching from being carried oit. The shooting was the outcome of a fued which started last summer over a trivial dispute relative to a bill for threshing.' One of fhf wrwn nttrnetfvl hv th shooting was Bates' son. Keddinger turned on young Bates and shot him through the lungs. Pulijanes on the Warpath Again. ' Manila special: The following dispatch has been received from Acting Governor Cinco, of the island of Samar: "A band of twenty-four Tulijanes, having five rifles , and other weapons, entered Inabangan by the Barrio Wright (Wrightward), named Ja honor of . former Governor General Wright, killing one and wounding seven residents, burning and looting thirty-six houses and taking over twenty residents prisoners. Troops, constabulary, policemen and volunteers are pursuing the band." . - . Three Killed in Trolley Accident. A fearful collision occurred at Chattanooga, Tenn., between a trolley car of Lookout Mountain line and the Chattanooga-Southern passenger train, both of which were bound for the city. Two men were killed outright, one will die, a score were seriously hurt and every passenger was more or less injured. The passenger train was backing into the city when it collided with the rear end of the trolley car. British Honse Passed Coal Mines Bill. A dispatch from London says: The coal mines bill, the object of which is to gradually reduce the hours of work till tfiey reach the eight hour limit in 1909, without reducing wages, was passed unanimously on second reading in the house of commons. The bill affects 670,000 persons. Previous parliaments rejected the same bill four times, although it passed 08 second reading an equal number of times, twice by large majorities. Naval Store Plant Destroyed By Fire. The enormous plants of the New Orleans Naval Stores Company and S. II. Otter fc Co., at Gulfport, 3Iiss., were totally destroyed by fire, six acres occupied by the rosin yard, warehopies, commissary and storage rooms beinf, entirely swept away by the flames.. Tae fire is supposed to have orgiinated in loose hay in the comwith $300,000 insurance. ' Ilaagh Sentenced to the Chair. ' Judge Brown in the common pieas court at Dayton, Ohio, overruled the motion for a new, trial in the case of Dr. Oliver C. Hacgh, convicted of the murder uf his parent? and brother and sentenced ' the prison-r to be electrocuted Wednesday, Augu-t; 29. Dr. I laugh received the sentence with his characteristic Indifference. : Forest Fire Sweeping: Idaho. A special from Sand Point, Idaho, says that a destructive forest fire is burning within a few miles of that place. Sparks from. the engines of the Great Northern trains started the fire which has now burned beyond all control. Kanchers are making efforts only to gave their movable property. ' Children Stricken Blind by Lightning. Four children were asleep In one bed at the Frank Bates home nlre miles from Muskegon, Mich., when the house was struck by lightning. A 4-year-old boy and a 0 year-old-gJrl were stricken blind and leaned about the abdomen, white the other two children were not tcuched. Vesuvius In Eruption Again, ' A special from Naples sa x tt ProfIJatteuccJ. director of the Roj observatory ot Mount Vesuvius, telegraphs that the volcano is in slight eruption. Thick rapors and sand are being expelled and the electrical phenomenon continues, but he says the situation is net grave. Two Children Burned to Death. In a fire that destroyed the residence of Harens A. Woodward, at Clifton, Allegheny county. Pa., two children, Margaret 21 months old, and Marcus, 8 morfths old, were burned to death. Their charred bodies were found in the ruins when the fire had burned itself out." Mrs. Jefferson Davis Is Dying. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who has ten seriously ill at the Hotel Grand in New York city was reported as being in a sinking condition and fears for the worst are felt by the watchers at her bedside. Held Memorial Church Dedicated. The Reid United Presbyterian church, erected at Richmond, Ind., by Daniel G. Reid, of New York, at a cost of a quarter of a million dollars, was dedicated Sunday. Many prominent clergymen took part. Students and Circus Men Clash. One Missouri university student was shot ,and perhaps fatally wounded and several others were injured in a fight with employes of the Cole Bros. circus at Columbia, Mo. I A good riot was threatened but was avel ted by the mayor who hurried to the campus and addressed '-he crowd. 1 T7holesal Hurderer Declared Sane. Th jury in the lunacy inquest into tho sanity of Dr. Oliver C. Haugh returned a verdict In Dayton, Ohio, declaring him sane. IIa ugh is under sentence to go to ths electric chair, having been convicted of first degree murder of his father, mother and brother and the burning of their home. Ends Her. Life In Prayer. Kneeling In prayer in St. Philomena' quiet church in Cincinnati, an unidentified -woman of great beauty and evident refinement took her life by sucking carbolic acid through a Ktraw. Ticker's Song- a Requiem. Corwin II. Spene-.T, millionaire and" peculator, after losing several hundred thousand dollars in the recent slump in Wall street, collapsed while feverishly watching the stock ticker in a broker's office in St. Louis. Three hours later he was dead. Jacksonville, Has $150,000 Fire. Fire in the storage yards of the Wen-ricae-Mariner Chemical Company in the weitem suburb of Jacksonville, Fla., destroyed 13,000 tens of bat ein g draught, a rosin waste used by the company in makfcj oil, Txhti at $150,000.

CHINESE BOYCOTT WANINtf. Apprehension in United States of Growth Surprises Orient. The statements to the effect that there is apprehension in the United States that the boycott of American goods is growing have caused surprise at 1'ekin. All the information obtainable shows that the movement is waning. The Chinese customs report for 11)05 just issued shows that the American imports were 77.000,OOO taels compared with 20,000,000 in 1004. It appears that the importers made enormous speculative purchases early in the year, chiefly in anticipation of war demand, and a decrease in imports would be natural under any circumstances until these stocks are distributed. The report says that the result of the boycott is no; what had been expected. Much suspicion and hostility were created,, but the general verdict is that not much injury has been done to American manufacturers or merchants. The final effect of the boycott, however, cannot be judged until the .close of another year or even later. Only the immediate results are visible. In consequence of climatic, war and boycott conditions combined there is a larger proportion of imports than usual left in first hands. The imports of American cotton increased from 3,700,000 to 12,500.000 pieces and flour about the same in 1904, but the Australian trade is ..-rowing. The market for oil decreased 3,419,000 gallons from the immense import of 1904. The failure of the Russian supply negatived the boycott. Consul General Lay at Canton reports that American imports into southern China during the last half of 1903 decreased $1,250,000, oil decreasing 50 per cent. The friction between the Standard Oil Company's agents and the officials and merchants at several ports probably contributed to this decrease. PRESERVATION OF NIAGARA. President's Message Advises that Water Diversion Be Restricted. President Roosevelt Monday sent to Congress the report of the international waterways commission on the preservation of Niagara falls. The report contains recommendations for the restriction ci the amount of water to be diverted for power purposes and suggests that the amount of water to be diverted be limited either by treaty or legislation. , The limitation is placed at 30,000 cubic feet per second from the Canadian side and 18,500 cubic feet per second from the American side, in addition to 10,000 cubic feet a second authorized for the Chicago drainage canal, tihe effect of the diversion of water by the Chicago drainage canal upon the general navigation in this section ol the great lakes system will be considered in a separate report. The American members are of the opinion that the enunciation of principles to govern the making of a general treaty is not within the scope of their functions; moreover, the jurisdiction of the American members of the commission is restricted to the great lakes system. - METHODISTS WANT NEW CREED.

New Articles of Faith Proposed by General Conference in South. - New articles of faith for the Methodist Episcopal church throughout the world may result from a resolution presented to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, Monday at Birmingham, Ala. It was introduced by II. F. Tillett and. W. R. Lambeth of the Tennessee conference. The resolution, while reaffirming absolute faith in the present articles, continues, "We do not believe that in their present form they meet the existing needs of our church as a statement of doctrinal systems of evangelical Methodist Armihianlsm." . Believing that "world-wide Methodism should unite upon such a statement as is needed the college of bishops is called upon to appoint a committee of fire, "which shall invite other branches of Methodism to unite with us in the preparation of such a statement of our faith." BOOK OF WORSHIP READY. Presbyterians Can Adopt It in Whole or in Part as They Wish. The new Presbyterian book of common worship which has recently been issued by the general assembly committee on services and forms, under the leadership of Rev. Henry Van Dyke, is said by those advocating it as offering a service which shall at once be poetical nad . practical. In spite of considerable opposition , by those who deemed it too ritualistic It was passed upon' favorably by the general assembly at its meeting in New York. It is explained that it is now pla'."ed before the Presbyterian churches, that they may take it in its entirety, in part or reject it as a whole as they see fit, the use which shall be made of it being left to the pastor and the various presbyteries. CALIFORNIA CROP GOOD. Fruit Shipments Will Bring Over $10,000,000 to Orchard Owners. Prospects are good for large fruit shipments from California to the East during the season which has just opened. Fully 7,000 cars of green fruit and grapes will be sent east of the Rocky Mountains before the season closes next fall. This volume of business will mean between $10,000,000 and $12,000,000 to the California orchard owners. The cherry crop throughout the State is splendid and shipments are going forward rapidly. The peach, pear and apple crops promise large yields, especially of apples and pears. Grapes also give great promise. Apricots and plums do not promise, so well. ASUS NEW GRANT OF $500,000. Secretary Taft, in Letter, Presents Needs of San Francisco. The President transmitted to Congress with his approval a letter from Secretary Taft recommending the appropriation of an additional $500,000 to meet conditions at San Francisco. The letter shows that of the $2,500,000 appropriated for the relief of the city $2,405,333 has been expended, or contracts have been made which will consume this sum, as follows: Quartermaster's department, $1,741,004; subsistence department, $329,435 ; medical department, $304,039; signal corps, $15,00); mileage, $14,095 Quake Shakes Nebraska. Wednesday night an earthquake shock lastin? nearly one minute passed through the Elkhorn valley, in Nebraska, the earth seeming to move north and south. No damage is reported from the different towns which .telephoned in the news. Towns in all directions for sixty miles reported feeling the shock. , 4 Convicted of Heresy. Rev. Algernon S. Crapsey, pastor of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal church of Rochester, N. Y has been found guilty of heresy by the ecclesiastical court which tr'ed him, and is assailed bitterly on the ground that he has created dissension within the church by his attacks on the creed. Broker Kills Himself. Edwin W. Clark, 04 years old. a broker and member of the Cotton Exchange, shot himself in the head at his apartment at the Hotel Marseilles, New York, and died instantly. Mr. Clark had suffered several attacks of acute indigestion. Spier Charged with Theft. The defalcations of Charles L. Spier of New York, who killed himself, are discovered to amount to $200,000, with the possibility that they may reach a larger sum. Man Bites Judge to Death. Nedjim Eddin Bey, procurator general of the vilayet of Tripoli, North Africa, has been murdered in a highly sensational.

manner by Ali Shamyl Tasha, former military governor of Scutari. Ali Shamyl rushed upon the procurator general, fixed his teeth in his throat and held on like a bulldog until his victim was throttled to death. - CHINA MAY END FOREIGN RULE.

Appointment of High Customs Officials Stirs Other Nations. Another important step toward the realization of the policy of China for the Chinese has been recorded in the promulgation of an imperial decree at Tekin naming Tieh-Liang as "minister superintendent of the customs affairs," with Tang-Shao Yi as vice minister. It is feared that this moans the complete overturning of the system of foreign control of Chinese customs collections, which has been in the hands of Sir Robert Hart for twenty years. In 1S0S an arrangement was made between England and China, in consideration of which England paid 100,000,000 taels, providing that so Iodj as British trade exceeds that of other countries, the inspector general of Chinese customs should always be an Englishman. Under that arrangement Sir Robert Hart has administered the Chinese customs service with satisfaction to all foreign nations. Now these new offices are created and it is believed that they will dominate, so it is expected that an immediate inquiry will be made by the great powers as to the extent to which this new Chinese decree will subvert the British agreement. LOW BIDDER GETS CUSTOM. u , , , , , Taft Refuses to Buy In America Unless Ordered to by Congress. Secretary Taft has refused to assume the responsibility for an order requiring the canal commission to buy only American goods, and as a result of his stand it is likely resolutions will be introduced in Congress limiting the purchases of toe commission to American markets. Senators Dick and Ankeny and a number of other prominent Republicans in the Senate have urged the commission to abandon the idea of buying in the open market, but Mr. Taft and the members of the commission suggested that Congress should specifically limit buying to American goods if any such provision is desired for the , protection of the interests of United States corporations. The purchase of 20,000 barrels of English cement has been the cause of much agitation for the protection of American manufacturers. The cement was purchased for 3? cents loss a barrel than American manufacturers offered to supply it. CANADA AGREES TO SAVE FALLS. Government Adopts Agreement of International Commission. The Dominion -government has decided to adopt in full the agreement reached by the international waterways commission regarding Niagara Falls and Sault Ste. Marie power and will- ask the United States government to agree to the appointment of a permanent commission on waterways or give the present commission power to settle ail waterways difficulties. The Ontario government has decided to appoint a permanent commission for Niagara Falls with full authority to fix rates at which the companies are to sell power to municipalities or private parties. This price will be based on the actual cost of ths works, the operation and an amount necessary to provide a sinking fund to redeem for the State the whole power. ' DEMAND HONOR FOR OLD NAVY. Officials Want Memorial at Vicksburg for All Who Aided Capture. Naval officers have culled attention to the absence of any memorial in the Vicksburg National Military park to mark the services rendered by the naval forces in the important engagement which caused the park to be established. They cite the fact that Gen.' Grant wrote that without the navy Vicksburg could not have been captufed by twice the number of men engaged! State Legislatures have appropriated liberally for the erection of monuments and memorials to the volunteer soldiers, but as the naval forces belonged to a national organization whatever action is taken toward telling the story of the part they took must be. the work of JCongress. EMPLOYE TAKES $150,000. Philadelphia Firm Hade Bankrupt by Clerk's Theft. ' Thefts, continuing over a period of several years and aggregating $150,000, caused the downfall of .the brokerage firm of Ilarrbon Snyder & Co. of Philadelphia. Edwin S. Greenfield, for twenty years an employe of the firm, is said to have confessed to embezzling the funds of the firm. lie was arrested and taken to Moyamensing'prison. Greenfield was confidential clerk for several years and a coexecutor of the estate of the late Harrison Snyder. When taxed with the thefts he is Raid to have broken down and said he had lost the money speculating. A petition in involuntary bankruptcy was filed against Harrison Snyder & Co. USE FOR ALL GOOD IMMIGRANTS. Commissioner Sargent Says America Has Work for 1,000,000 a Year. "We can admit 1,000,000 immigrants every year for ten years and if they are put in the right place they will prove a benefit to the United States," said Immigrant Commissioner F. T. Sargent while discussing the immigration problem at the semi-annual meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist City Mission. "The American people,' he said, "are greatly stirred up to-day over the influx of immigrants. I do not think there is any cause for alarm. There were 1,020,000 admitted to this country last year ; there will be 1,000,000 more this year. Let them come. We want the right kind of immigrants." ' OBEYS WIFE BY KILLING Trat. Virginian Slew Woman Because She Feared Insane Asylum. Alleging that because his wife feared a return to an insane asylum and thai he fulfilled a promise to take her life in consequence, Julian Pavlinie, an Austrian, entered the polich station in Newport News, Va., and announced that he had killed the woman by shooting her seven times in the head while she slept. The man declared that his wife was discharged from an insane asylum in February last and that he took her life in compliance with a wish expressed b'y her that he do so rather than have her return to the institution. 1 Filled Car Overturned. ' As the Cape May express on the West Jersey and Seashore railroad was round ing a curve on the outskirts cf Camden, a rail became displaced and one of the cars on the train toppleö over. There were about fifty passengers in the car and fourteen were taken to Coper hospital suffering from injuries. Amazing Insurance Deal. W. F. Rechtel, former president of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company, on trial in Minneapolis, has told of big hidden expenditures of funds of the concern which the prosecutor estimates at $1,000,000. Frost Kills' Vegetation. There was a killing frost in parts of Nebraska the other night. Frost covered the ground in Lancaster county and at Broken Bow ice formed. The principal damage will be to fruit. Denver Warehouse Burned. A general merchandise storage warehouse in Wewatta street, Denver, belonging to the Denver Transit and Warehouce Company, was destroyed by fire.

CZAE OPENS DOUMA.

FIRPT RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT IS CONVENED. Mchol.ts, In Speech, Asks 3Icmbers to Aid Him In ItelievIiiK Peasants " nnd Sylvin Nation's Problems Soldlem Swarm About Palace. The first session of the modern Russian legislative assembly, born amid the throes of terrorism, anarchy and revolution, was oicned Thursday afternoon ia St. Petersburg by Emperor Nicholas. Pomp nnd ceremony of the most impressive kind marked the occasion, which ushered in the dawn of liberty for the autocracy cursed, enslaved millions of Russia's masses. From a great golden throne in the magnificent winter palace, the Cziir, clad In gorgeous robes of state and surrounded by his relatives, his ministers", counsellors and navy in glittering uniforms, .addressed the members of the douma assembled before him. The to'ne of the speech from the throne .vas conciliatory. It expressed the Emperor's wish that relief be given to the iK?asants in their present unfortunate conditions and called on the members of Parliament to put their hearts into their work und to co-operate with him In solving the present problems of Russia and in handing down a united and prosperous empire to his successor. The superficial observer who was presentwould never have imagined that this solemn gathering listening to the kind, benevolent words of their mighty monarch represented a great political reform wrung from that same monarch "autocrat of all the Russias" and from his haughty, arrogant nobles, t CZAB MCHOLAS. through sheer terror. Few would have seen this terror still lurking lienenth all the pomp and flashing brilliancy in which the Impressive scene was set. But It was there. Fear I.arkw Beneath .All. r Beneath all their brave finery lurked the ever present fear that gripped the hearts of emperor and prince, noble nnd minister, councillor and. military chief. Evidences of it were easily found In the minute, countless precautions that were taken to guard the ruler and his aids from revolutionary assassins. Cordons of soldiers with menacing bayonets,, supplemented with Gatling guns, surrounded the building. Every corridor and chamber of the building swarmed with soldiers and secret police. ; Every member of the douuia; t 'en, was under the watchful eye of, n member of the secret service. No one was trusteil all were watched. Men were arrested by hundreds all over the city on the least suspicion and thrown Into jail. Troops filled nil the principal streets. All working men were prevented from assembling in the city. Gathering of people on the streets were promptly dispersed and Jill loiterers arrested or driven .to their homes. Hundreds of well-known revolutionists nnd leaders of the worklngmen were arrested in order to prevent the carrying out of any assassination plot Feverish energy was displayed by both police and military authorities in this work. After the report of a plot to kill the Emioror in the very douma Itself, their precautionary efforts were 'redoubled. A"ter an Imposing religious serrlce, cele orated by the primate of the Russian church, Antonius; Emperor ' Nicholas delivered the address from the throne. Lollta Armour Not Cared. Ie return of the little daughter of J. Ogdm Armour, Lolita, for the second time to he Vienna hospital of Prof. Lorenz givj color to the report that the famous operation performed in- this country in l'JO.5, which made so much talk about blooJles8 surgery, has not turned ont successfully. Dr. Shaffer of the Cornell medical school, who was with Lorenz in this couatry; now admits as much. Ncverthelessv he says, this is no criterion of the Lorrnz method, for, to his personal knowledge, three operations performed that year have given the patients complete relief. Statistics indicate that the cures hara been about 20 per cent. Jordan's Theory of Earthquake. President Jordan of Stanford university, which was so terribly shaken up by the recent earthquake, ascribes the disturbance to a slipping of the Sierra Morena mountain chain from three to six feet along the line of a geologic fault. This chain forms the backbone of the peninila of San Francisco, and along its base for forty miles is a narrow valley. Jordan says that on April 18 the old fault reopened and cracked the surface of the earth the entirn length of the valley, causing f.ixe mountain to slip toward the north. Bethlehem Steel Surplus. Tie first annual report of the Bethlehem steel corporation, which was formed by Charles M.1 Schwab and of which the old Bethlehem Steel Company is the principal factor figures out a surplus of $1,H43.C10. . A Xevr Wallham Watch Company. It was announced at Boston Monday that the Waltham Watch Company, with $12.000,000 capital stock, had been organized to take the place of the American Waltham. Watch Company, which was capitalized at $4,000,000. A million will be used to enlarge plant and it will employ 0,000 persons. Educational Agriculture. Trof. W. R. Hart of Nebraska, in a recent address, took the ground that the study of agriculture in our public schools would afford the best possible material for mental discipline. Not only is the farm life and its occupations full of material to cultivate the power of observation, but it Is all connected with the life of the student. What knowledge the country c-hild has is certain and vivid. He has been dealing with realities, instead of with symbols and abstractions. Kir Henry Tascheran, chief justice of ' Canada, has resigned.

WAR ON DRUG TRUC;. Attorney General Moody Orders Action nesan at Indianapolis. Attorney General Moody hs begun a war of extermination on the so-called drug trusf, as a result of investigations by the Department of Justice at Washington extending over several month?. Acting uuder instructions from the Attorney General United States District Attorney Koaling began in the United States District Court at Indianapolis before Judge A. B. Anderson, an action for an injunction against the corporations and individuals comprising the combination which, it is alleged, is dictating the price of drugs to the American people. The drug trade of the country, it is alleged, is so organized that prices for all articles are fixed by the parties to a conspiracy. No retail druggist can buy proprietary medicines or other drugs unless he is a member of the National Association of Retail Druggists, and in order to bo a member he must bind himself to sell at the prices fixed by the manufacturers and wholesalers in their several associations. The retail druggist who refuses to be a party to the arrangement is blacklisted and it becomes impossible for him to purchase supplies except at list prices, which are so far above the prices made to members as to make competition impossible. The Department of Justice announces its determination to prosecute the case with vigor and to leave nothing undone to destroy the combination and bring back conditions of competition in the drug trade." Joseph E. Toms, secretary of the National Wholesale Druggists' Association, denies the charges made by the government in calling the association an illegal combination. Mr. Toms said that such charges as those filed ia the federal court have been made against the national organization heretofore and always have failed of conviction. The manufacturers of proprietary medicines have been wont for years to fix both the wholesale and retail prices at which their product shall be sold, he said. These prices, he added, are fixed by each company, independent of any other organization or corporation. PROGRESS OF CANAL WORK. Chairman Shouts of the Commlsston Gives Ont Statement. In the stafment given out by Chairman Shonts of the isthmian canal commission, he said that during March, 240,000 cubic yards of material had been removed with eleven fetenm shovels working on the average. Nevertheless, the main part of the work is still preparatory. The actual cost of this excavation was 53! cents a cubic yard. Reservoirs have been created to give the active sections of the canal strip a general water supply. There are now fru 22,000 to 2:i,000 on the pay rolls and nn effective force of 17,000 workers. There has been no authentic case of yellow fever since December. Two civil service commissioners. Cooley and Kiggins, accompanied Mr. Shonts on his last trip and decided to create a local examining board to test fituess for promotion of employes and to establish lists of eligibles for the canal service. At the Oulebra cut. Chief Engineer Stephens has got tracks laid and ballasted on each level and a doubk track line through the bottom. 1 Lindsay Dcnison, one of the editors ol a magazine, who was sent to the isthmus to get at the. whole truth about the canal work, with special credentials from the President, makes his report In the May issue. He finds that the task is more impressive in its bigness than he had imagined, that it has been undertaken In com prehensive, American fashion and that an hon st effort is being made to get a fair return for every dollar spent. He admits that there is some petty graft going on, but says it is of no more import'tnee than mosquito Utes on an elephant Voider Magoon-there has. developed a system of government which makes disorder nnd lawlessness out of the question. He has r. police force of 300 Jamaican negroes officered by Americans.

FOUND GUILTY OF HERESY. Episcopal Chnreh Court Decides Against Ilev. Dr. Crnpcey. Rev. Algernon . S. Crapsey has been found guilty of heresy by the Episcopal ecclesiastical court at Batavia, N. Y., before which he has been on trial for his opinions concerning the virgin birth and .resurrection of Christ and tlie nature of the.Trinity. . Rev. Crapsey has been rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal church in Rochester several years, and is 50 years old. He is an ardent student, a REV. A. S. CRAPSEY. man of simple tastes, and is noted for his philanthropy and his services to the poor and sick. He is further described as a lover pf home and family. The charges against Dr. Crapsey were based on his book, "Religion and Politics," and on a sermon he delivered last December, His accusers charged that, in general, he denied the virgin birth of Christ, His.resurrectfon, His miracles and His divine character. On all the specifications it is stated that the court stood four to one against Dr. Crapsey. To the final decision, however, it is said that Dr. Dunham declined to accede. Interesting News Items. George R. Young of Mount .Holly, N. J., who, it is said, was wanted in St. Louis for embezzlement, committed suicide at Mount Holly. Six bridge companies are declared to be in default for failing to file answers by May 1, as required in the ouster suits brourht against them by Attorney General. Ellis of Ohio. . Secretary Taft in Torrington, Conn., spoke in favor of a contract-built lock canal across Panama. Secret service men seized half a ton of Honduras lottery tickets and $2,5X) worth of engraved plates in a raid In New York. A bill has been introduced in the English House of Commons prohibiting plural voting and limiting a man to one constituency. A benefit performance planned to take place in the Presbyterian building, New York, in which a girl was to dance in her bare feet has been barred. Several persuns were injured by the derailing of Santa Fe passenger train No. 5-1, at Horse Shoe Bend, Orange county, California. Dr. Hansteen of Sweden, declares that moss is destined to become the popular food of the masses, owing to its cheapness and nutrition. John B. Brosseau. CO years old, for years an employe of Tiffany & Co., New York, is under arrest charged with thefts that may reach $35,000. Frank O. Stevens of Millersburg, Ohio, convicted of killing Joseph Burke, was denied a new trial by Judge Harter and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Secretary Taft, when in New Haven, Conn., was presented with a huge "banger," or cane, which he had carried when at Yale. Baron Kronpensky of the Russian embassy in Berlin, will be councilor of the embassy In Washington, a new position. He will rank next to the ambassador. A ten weeks' test on nine Yale students who were allowed to follow their appetite's dictates showed less flesh food consumed and greater average endurance. China has taken a stand against foreigners holding property and the first nation struck at is America, which is seeking to buy ground for consulates in Man-

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HESS The Senate was not In session Saturday. General debate on the naval appropriation bill terminated with the close of Saturday's session of the House, one paragraph of the bill being read in order to make it the continuing order before the House adjournment. International arbitration, the reduction of armament, a carefully prepared address" on the achievements of ' the navy and a defense of the naval program for 1907, together with a speech in favor of a monument on King's Mountain battlefield were the features of the legislative day. Those who addressed the House formally were Mr. Bartholdt of Missouri, Mr. Johnson of South Carolina,, Mr. Webb of North Carolina, Mr. Tirrell and Mr. Weeks of Massachusetts. In the House Monday forty-five important bills, "covering a wide range of subieets. were passed. The Senate spent most of its time on a single amendment to the railroad rate bill, and ended by adopting a substitute instead.' The provision under discussion was Senator Foraker's prohibition of the granting of re-' bates, passes, drawbacks, special passenger rates, or discriminations in accommo-' dations to railroad patrons paying equal rates. Senator Culberson finally secured the adoption of the following substitute: "That no carrier engaged in interstate commerce shall directly or indirectly issue or give any free ticket, free pass, or free transportation to any person except to the ofilcers, agents, employes and attorneys exclusively in the service of. the carrier issuing the same, or to ministers of religion, inmates of hospitals, eleemosynary or charitable institutions. 'Any carrier violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall for each offense pay to the United States a penalty of not less than $100 nor more than $2,000." The House devoted Tuesday to the naval appropriation bill and accomplished the reading for amendment of the first fifteen pages. Several topics were discussed, including the difficulty of obtaining enlisted men in the navy, the location of the naval training station on the great lakes, the cost of smokeless powder, and finally the unnecessary expenditure of $100,000 a year for chains for ships. This last matter was under consideration when the House adjourned. Aside from a few minutes devoted to the reception of the Allison amendments to, the railroad rate bill and a half hour given to routine business, the Senate devoted its entire session to the Ineffectual consideration of the Elkins amendment prohibiting common carriers from engaging in mining coal or in the production of other commodities in competition with shippers, and adjourned in a state of great confusion as to the exact subject before it. Nearly the entire time of the House was taken up Wednesday by two propositions first, whether the Navy Department should go into the open market and purchase anchors, chains and cordage, or continue to manufacture these articles, and second, whether the cost of transporting coal from Atlantic and gulf ports to the Philippine Islands, in American bottoms, should be limited to $5 or $G per ton. Mr. Grosvenor's substitute amendment, giving the Secretary of the Navy the right to purchase "in free markets should it be demonstrated that this could be done more cheaply, was adopted, 85 to 70, .The reading ot the naval bill was continued until adjournment. , The Senate spent the greater part of the day again in the consideration of the question of divorcing the production of coal and other commodities from their transportation, and closed that branch of its work by adopting a modified provision formally offered by Senator Elkins, but originally suggested by Senator McLaurin. TTw Senate Thursday completed the consideration of the second section of the. railroad rate bill, and just before adjournment listened to the reading of sections' and 4. The following amendments to the bill were agreed upon : Restoring the imprisonment penalty 'of ths act of 1S87; imposing a penalty of fine and imprisonment against shippers who secure rebates from transportation t companies; giving government business the preference over all other traffic in time of war The naval appropriation bill again was before the House, and an amendment adopted providing that shells and projectiles for the navy, after June SO, 1000, shall be purchased in the open market. Amendments designed to enlarge the navy yards at Washington and Pensacola were defeated. After passing 320 pension bills the House de voted, most of the rest of Friday's session to consideration of a point of order against a new steel floating dock, provided for in the naval appropriation bill. The chair finally held the point of ordtr well taken. The Senate, by a vote of 23 to 54, practically a party ballot, disposed adversely of Senator Bailey's non-suspension amendment applying to interstate commerce commission orders, as covered by the railroad rate bill. Senator Rayner's amendment, confining court review to constitutional questions, was also voted down." National Capital Xotes. Viscount Aokl, recently appointed first ambassador of Japan to the United States, has . been presented formally to the President. ' Lieut. Leigh C. Taliner, attached to the battleship Missouri, has been selected to represent the navy at the nuptials of King Alfonso at Madrid in June. Lieut. U. S. Grant III., corps of engineers, had been previously selected to represent the United States army at the same occasion. The House committee on territories decided to make a favorable report on two bills by Representative Cushman of Washington, regulating fishing in Alaska. One bill prevents aliens from fishing in Alaskan waters, and is said to be aimed especially at the Japanese. President Roosevelt has signed the bills passed by Congress making an extra appropriation of $100,000 for Mare Island navy yard, at Sari Francisco, and making an appropriation of $70,000 to meet emergencies in the rostoffice Department in the State of California. At the late session of the Playground Association of America President Roosevelt, who recently was chosen first vicepresident, was unanimously elected honorarypresident of the organization. The Senate committee on postoffices and postroads voted to report favorably the nomination of Benjamin F. Barnes, assistant secretary to President Roosevelt, to be postmaster of Washington. A resolution extending the thanks of the country to Gen. Horace Porter, former ambassador to Paris, for his enterprise in securing the body of John Taul Jones, was presented to the House by Representative William Alden Smith of Michigan. Postmaster General Cortelyou has submitted to the postoffice committee of the Senate and House at Washington a bill providing for issuing postal notes at all money order and many smaller offices from denominations ranging from 1 cent to $2.50. Secretary Shaw conferred with members of the Senate committee on finance concerning a measure he desires Congress to enact at this session permitting the Treasury Department to hold in reserve $100,000,000 in gold bullion instead of $50,000.000 as provided by the present law. The purpose is one of convenience and to rive greater elasticity in the handling of reserve funds.

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llV-MrV I A PH At AI AHUAL Labor troubles and a relatively large number of commercial defaults are - Chicago. the unfavorable developments of the week. Against these there Is no diminution in new demands for future execution, while current consumption i eeen to maintain its high level and 'äoney movements have turned for the better after the strriu of heavy withdrawals from local bank deposits for San Francisco's account. Notwithstanding the Interruption due to the strikes, confidence In the business outlook has not been lessened and the main Industries make good progress. More support Is furnished by liberal buying of pig Iron and finished steel. ' Hides and leather acquired farther firmness In prices and more plating of orders for fall goods adds to rctlvity at footwear, harness, and belting factories. Board of trade dealings, in view ot the May deliveries, indicated a steady tone in the principal grains. Bank clearings, $230,S90,S54, exceed those of the corresponding week In 1905 by 5.8 per cent Dividend payments were of large aggregate and added to the supply of loanable funds; but the discount rate for choice commercial paper was unchanged at 5!& per cent Failures reported in the Chicago district number 33, against 20 las week and 15 a year ago. Duns Review of Trade. -j. Reports of active retail and Jobbing -trade, of Immense, . in fact unprece Nev York. dented building operations, and of really excellent crops, furnish a sharp contrast to tho weakness of the country's central market for securities. This latter reflects liquidation due to past excesses by a comparatively small number of operators, not apparently, as in some past years, generally shared In by the public at large. Continued favorable weather has allowed good progress in planting, the germination of crops, the enlargement of country retail trade, Improved reorders for summer goods, nnd the placing with - confidence of a volume of fall orders fully equal to a year ago. Collections also have measurably Improved. Easier money for legitimate business needs is likewise foreshadowed. Railway earnings are large, clearings still make records of this season of the year, and call for replacement at San Francisco Is a feature helpful to trade In many. lines. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $0.10; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.55; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 . to $0.00; wheat, No. 2, S7c to 00c; corn, No. 2, 4Sc to 50c; oats, standard. Sic tc 33c; r3-e, No. 2, 00c to C2c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $13.50; prairie, $0.00 tc $13.00; butter, choice creamery, 18c tc 20c;' eggs, fresh l-tc to ISc; potatoes. 40c to 58c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping,, , $3.0C to $5.75; hog3, choice heavy, $4.00 tc $0.50 ; sheep, common to prime,' 2.50 tc $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 87c to 89c; corn. No. 2 white, 4Sc to 50c ; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c. - St. Louis Cattle, -$1.50 to $0.35; hogs, $4.00 to $0.55; sheep, $4.00 tc $0.00; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 94c; corn. No. 2, 4Sc to 50c; oats, No. 2, 31c tc 33c; rye, No. 2, G3c to C4c. Cincinnati Cattle, . $4.00 U $5.35) hogs, $4.00 to $G.rK; sheep, $2.00 tc $40 ; wheat. No. 2, S9c to Olc : corn. No. 2 mixed, ulc to 52c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c ; rye, No. 2. Mc to GSc Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.50; hogs. $4.00 to $G.G0; f.hecp, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, SSo to 91e; corn. No. .5 yellow, 50c to 52c; oats, 'No. 3 white. 34c to 30c; rye, No. 2, G5c to 00c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern 80c to 84c; corn, No. 3, 4Gc to 4Sc; oats, standard, 32c to 34c ; rje, No. 1. Clc to G2c; barlej-, standard, 53c to 54c; pork, moss, $15.10. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 87c tt 89c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 44c 'to 46c; oat.s No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; rye, No 2, GOc to Cfc ; clover seed, prime, $0.25. Buffalo Cattle, choice, shipping steers $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to choice, $4.0C to $0.85; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.75 ; lambs, , fair to , choice $5.00 to $7.00. New York Cattle, $5.00 to $5.C0i hogs, $4.00 to $0.80; sheep, $3.00 it $5.00; wheat. No.- 2 red, 89c to 91c; corn. No. 2, 54c to 50c; oats, natura' white, 3Sc to 39c; butter, creamery, 19t to 21c; eggs, western, 15c to ISc From Far and Near R. C. Lehmann, the English journalisl and oarsman, who Is well known in this country, is a member of the new English Parliament, representing the south or Market Scarborough division of Leicestershire in the Liberal Interest. Winston Churchill, the celebrated Eng Iish author, has just brought upon himself much amused criticism by a ponder ous, if courteous, phrase vhich he used in a political argument, lie referred tc the untruthful statement of an opponent as a "terminological inexictitude." . Sir Harry Johnston, speaking at a public meeting in London, Raid he had traveled extensively in Africa for the pur pose of putting down the slave trade and that it was his experience that there was more misery and destitution in London than in any one separate part oJ Africa. The arme'ed cruiser Washington re turned to the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company at Camden, N. J., after a successful trial trip off the Maine -oast. The cruiser attained a speed ol 22.7 knots an hour, a little more than a quarter of a knot in excess of the government requirements. Sir William Harcourt was entertaininj Mr. Chamberlain at Mai wood while th home rule controversy was on in the House of Parliament. A cynical humorist commented on the fact as a pleasing phase of political controversj-. "Oh," replied Sir William. "Joe and I are alniosl like brothers." '"Yes, responded the cyn ical one, "so were Cain and Abel." Chaplain of the Senate Edward Everett Hale is 84 years old. The Rev, Mr. Hale attributes his excellent health to tht serenity with which he takes life. He sleeps nine hours very night. Daniel Jones, ?Jie last survivor but one of the detail of twenty Union soldiers which captured Jeff Davis in 18G5, died recently at Kokomo, Ind. He was a member of the Sevmty-second Indiana mou ited infantry. 1 P. R. Thompson, registering from Milwaukee, was found dead in his room at the Jefferson hotel, St. Louis. He was connected with the Pioneer Suspender Company of , Philadelphia. It is stated his death was. from 3 natural causa.

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DRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Our Neighbors Are Do i oar Matters of General and Locsl later est Marriage and' Death a-Accidents and Crimea Personal Pointers About Indianians. Brief State Items, Burglars blew the safe in the postoflice at Gaston and cole about $300 in -money and stamps. Charles P. Ualstead, a young contractor of Indianapolis, was crushed to death beneath a heavy column. The public schools at Rock vi lie havebeen dismissed for a week because c scarlet fever and scarletina. Joseph H. Webster, 72 years old, ferner chief of the Indianapolis fire department, died of bronchial pneumonia. Fire of unknown origin broke out in the mess hall at the Soldiers' home in Marion, entailing a loss of several thousaa dollars. While experimenting with phosphorus. Dr. B. V. Chance of Windfall, burned Lis hands so severely that the fiexh dropped off. Joseph Lamey, a prominent citizen cf Vanderburg county, was found dead in a grove near Evansville. .The coroner ix investigating. ' The explosion of a bottle of liquid stcve polish set fire to the clothing of El!:a Torpy, aged SO, in the M. M. Weiler hona, at Hartford City. Death, resulted. Charles Albania of Terre Haute, Romanian, provided a tent for the guests tt his wedding and received two calves, E3 chickens, 1,500 bottles cf beer and 2C3 gallons of wine at the feast. Fire destroyed the Howard fiouxingcill, at Kokomo, built many yers ago, caisir j a loss of $17,000, with $3,0a insurance la 1854 there was an explosion of a bciltr la this mill that killed three men. Tho large barn of Township Trctca Charles Raab, near Brazil, was struck by lightning and was totally consumed by fire. . The loss is heavy. Eight hoscx -were cremated, one cf them a find stalba. Shelbyville Las a duplicate set of pcica as the result of a conflict between its mayor and the council. The old fores zi appointed by the mayor, and the new 00acil appointed a fresh lot and ordered tlzzx to report. i In a riot on an interurban car north tf Anderson, Adam Gaul, the motorman, f Anderson, was fatally stabbed by a pisenger, who escaped. The car ws crowded with people returning from a circus at Marion. Robert Ilanes, a farmer residing thrc miles northwest of Salem Center, Dekali county, fell from a windmill tower asc was fearfully Injured. He dropped fifty feet, and the bones of both leg 1 were fractured by the weight of his 2G0 pounds. Mrs. Dennis Coughlin, thought to have'; been 10t5 years old, died on a farm ctrx Itockvillc. The assertion is made that she was 15 years old at the time of the, battle of Waterloo, which would make her about 100. She was born in County Cork, Ireland. The Winona Interurban Company pliss to carry passengers from Peru to Goshen over its new line by the last of Atzurt. The company has Just completed its $300,000 power house at Winona Lake and Is now using a part cf the Winona Lake and Goshen interurban road for trafc Because c,f despondency, caused, it is said, by domestic troubles, Harry Reed, living north of Bourbon, went to the tern of a neighbor, cut his throat, then set Cra to the barn and, with several horses and cows, was cremated. Beside .Ms" charroi skeleton were found the razor Wad3,whica told the story. Ntaily 2,000 members cf the Ir.diirj lobor unions,' including representatives iroui losaa'pcrtf xon wayne, icrra: Haute and other important state citicx, t?. J , manv cf the most nrominent official! in Indiana attended the funeral services cf Edwin F. Gould, the lateeditor ef Tfcs; Union, in Indianapolis. A prisoner in the county jail at EcJ-' ford notified the officials that John Veizn in Jail for forgery, had been supplied wi2i a revolver and cartridges by a friend and Intended to kill the sheriff on his way to trial and escape. Search of Peters revealed the weapon acd ammunition tzi tbey were taken from him. Noah MeshberRer, aged 12, was killed at his home, east of Bluffton, w hile hitciur.r up a team of horses to a farm wagon, 01 the Albert SiÄerson farm. Another runaway team frightened Meshberger's horses and he attempted to hold them by th bndle. The team carried him along; Hnchorl hiTTrfraint the barn, and the. r.ect yoke struck him on the side of his head crushing it. . He died in a few minutes. A young man named Gray, of Madison, undertook to do a 44slide-for-!ife" from the dame of the courthouse, at Brniford, to the opposite side of the street, a wire rope being anchored to a tree, and stretched from the dome. The bag which bad beca arranged to catch him, failed to hold, an4 he struck the tree with terrible fcrcs, breaking his leg and right arm, tha Isltcz in three places, and also sustaining internal hurts. His recovery is doubtfuL Twenty-two convicts were paroled at tha Indiana reformatory last month, cut cf sixty-one eligibles. The number of pore'ea mnnHi Vit- mnntVi nra amallpr than fhA number of arrivals, but there are also a i number of releases by reason of expiration of sentence. The length of term however, is steadily Increasing, and it is now nearly 40 per cent higher than under tha old determinate-sentence system. There are now over 1,100 convicts in the reformatory, with no sign of, falling below that figure. Tboraas Harrison, a mussel digger in tht , Ohio river at Rockport, found a pearl thai weighed 93)1 grains and was five seven tin of an inch in dUmeter. The pearl is val- . ued at over $1,C00. James n. Martin, 79 years old, fares near Kokomo, was knocked off the L. E A W. railway bridge spanning Wild Ca creek by a freight train, falling into tn river twenty feet belogt. Both of his leff were broken and his right shoulder wa crushed. A brakeman saved bis life b: jumping from the bridge into the wat and dragging him ashore. There is nt obability of Martin's recovery. i. A. Ryder, 48 years old, of Richmond Jrank concentrated lye and water will alleged suicidal intent, and probably wil die. He had been an invalid for a year. In plowing a field on his farm in Webster township recently, near Corydon William Showmaker unearthed sever pieces of silver money, mostly half dollars. Silver money is found in this Celt every time it is worked. Whenever it ii plowed, the owner harrows it over severa times and has his children searching fo money. The farm was once owned bj James Robinson, an eccentric wealthy ol farmer, - who buried his money in tin ground. The Explanation. lira. Jell er s I can't imagine Lott to girls of such dispositions as Vers Pixys and Morn Fryts get along so well to tether, yet they are inseparable cc-;ia ions. Mrs. ChKlIeon-Kearaey That's ezxüj understood. Each thinks she is crirj other as a foil. How It IlappeaeJ. Parks How diJ the ship coiae to lzz. against the rocks? Barks Why, a yourg nan was courting tie lighthouse keeper's dauxhter, and they abat-nlndedly turned tis liJ down low. T7oaaa'a II:5 C:"j"' ;