Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 42, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 July 1906 — Page 2

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I Q. s N. M. T F. Q. P. M. 13th j 21st 2SthAgy 5th. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Thlnc re Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Excursion Steamers in Collision. Fifteen hundred men, women and children faced death when two excursions steamers, crowded to the rails, crashed toether in New York harbor off Staten Isnd. But neither in the collision itself nor in the wild panic which followed was anyone seriously injured. The vessels were the Perseus of the Iron Steamboat Company, bouDd for Coney Island with 500 passengarson board, and the Thomas Patten on the Patten line, bound from Long Branch to New York, carrying 1,000 passengers. The shrill whistles of the colliding steamers toon brought assistance from boats in the bay and the frightened passengers were transferred as qulckley as possible and brought to New York. The Persues and the Patten interlocked and neither sank. Wrecking vessels were sent to their rescue. Two Killed in Carbide Explosion. While preparing for a stereopticon lecture on the San .Francisco disaster in a tent at Greenwood, Ind., a twenty-gallon tank of carbide exploded, instantly killing the Rev. D. 1. Levis, 45 years old, proprietor of the company giving the entertainment, his assistant, George McNeenus, SO ears old, and seriously injuring Ilarry T. .levis, aged 23, a son of Rev. Mr. Levis. The explosion occured before any persons except those in charge of the entertainment had entered the tent. Major Dreyfus Honored. In the presence of a distinguished military assemblage Major Alfred Dreyfus, wearing the full uniform of his rank, received the cross of chevalier of the Legion of Honor. The ceremony, which occurred in the courtyard of the military school in Paris, was rendered doably impressive by being held on the spot where the buttons and gold lace were stripped oil his uniform and his sword broken twelve years ag . Fatal Accident at Eagle Lake. Mrs. Paul Shessler, 40 year3 old, wife of a pr.m'tent meat dealer of Mishawaka, Indf killed at Eagle lake by the accis Jtl discharge of a rifle. A paity from ilisnawaka had just gone into camp, ;0: of the ladies was standing in a boat preparing to shoot at a target, when the boat was overturned, the ritie being discharged. The bullet passed through the body of Mrs. Shessler aud death resulted. Nineteen Killed in Wreck. Seaboard Air Line passer. ger train No. 44 collided with an extra freight train one mile west of Hamlet, N. C. Nineteen; person? were killed and twenty-three injured. Both engines, nearly all the coaches and box care were demolished. The wreck was caused by a misunderstanding cf orders. Train No. 44 is a through trran from Florida to New York. Five Killed by Lightning. Just before a ball game between a local team and a Plymouth (Wis.) nine, a fierce electrical storm swept over Manitowoc, Wis., and a bolt of lightning hit the grand stand where the spectators and players had sought' shelter. Five persons were killed outright and a score or two injured by the shock. Russell Sage Dead. Russell Sage died suddenly Sunday at his country home, "Cedar Croft," at Lawrence, L. I. The immediate cause of death Tras heart failure resulting from a complication of diseases incident to old age. The Teteran financier would have celebrated his nintieth birthday on Aug. 4. Work Train J a nips Track. A work train on the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction line jumped the tracK four miles from Kushville, Ind. Three workmen were badly injured. They are: Roseoe Morgan, badly bruised; Edward Means, collar bone broken ; Edward Moore, leg broken. Farmer Shot the Preacher. Rev. Lemuel Robson, a minister of the United Brethren church at Mitchell, Ind., ws shot and dangerously wounded by A. 1- Wtite, a farmer, who accused the minister of maintaining undue relations with Mrs. White. White was arrested. Public Officii Arrested. City Treasurer Elijah Meyer v as arrested at Jlichigan City, Ind., charged with secreting public records. The records said to Lave been secreted are the street improvement ledger and bond record books. Girl Killed bytKejected Lot er. Walter Smith, who gives his home as Chicago, shot and killed Goldie Moss, 17 years old, in the d'jorway of her home at Kalamazoo, Mich. Smith is a rejected lover. $350,000 Printshop Fire. The entire plant of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, at Mountain View, Cal., was destroyed by fire. Loss $350,000. Children Burn to Death. Miss Annie Wimbish, aged 16, and Robert Wimbish, 6 years old, the children; of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Winbish, of Savannah, Ga., were burned to death at the home of their grandfather, W. G. Jordan, in Fort Valley, Ga. i Municipal 7 7 Plant for Detroit. Mayor George Codd of Detroit, Mich., innounced that he has under way plans for the establishment of a muncipal ice plant in that city which will furnish Ice to citizens at the cost of cutting, storage and delivery. Can Bar Critics. The Supreme Court at New York, la suit of excluded critic, holds that theaters are private places and that proprietors have a right to say who shall be admitted. Dreyfus Restored to Rank. The French Snrreme Court announced Its decision, annulling the condemnation of Dreyfus without a retrial. The effect of the decision ii a complete vindication of Dreyfus,-entitling him to restoration to hLs rank in the army as though he had never been accused. Girl Kills Brother. Esther Mitchell, 17 years old, shot and lilled her brother, George Mitcheli, at Seattle. Mitchell a few days ago killed F. E. OefEeld, loader of the Holy Rollers, whom he accused of wronging his sister. The girl whom he protected took revenge, for the deed. Stokes Joins Socialists. ' J. G. Phelps Stokes, the young New York millionaire who for several years has devoted himself to work In the slums, fcas formally announced that he will cast ls lot with the Socialist party.

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American Investors Warned by Consul in Brazil. Consul Genoral George E. Anderson in a import to the bureau of manufactures from Rio Janeiro charges that while some bena fide Brazilian diamond mines may result profitably that country is full of schemes which are either out and out frauds or which are based upon claims r.nd facts so slight as to make tbem little less than frauds. The report says the United States and Great Britain, especially New York, Chicago and London, are the chief fields of operations for a number of promoters who have never done any mining and tbrt there are a number of so-called mining companies now soliciting stock subscriptions in the United States whose officers are not eyen certa.'n where the land they claim as property lies. The president of a diamond mining company having its offices in New York wrote the Rio Janeiro consulate asking how far a city of Brazil, near which his company claims property, is from a railroad. Diamond mining in Brazil is attended with great difficulties and while the reports of mining experts indicate that diamonds and gold are to be found in a large area there, yet the diamonds are not found as in South Africa in certain large pockets, but in small pockets covering many thousand square miles of territory difficult of access. The report states that experienced men in Brazilian mining fields say that not a single mining company operating in the gold and diamond fields of Brazil has paid a dividend. The consul general adds that it .is a lamentable fact that a large proportion of Brazilian mining enterprises are frauds and that there are now men in the United States with enterprises which represent nothing more than the money they can get from the American public. CLEANLINESS PROVES FATAL. Makes West Indian Negroes Susceptible to Pneumnia. Perfect sanitation and cleanliness are proving fatal to the West Indian negroes employed ' on the Panama canal. Col. Gorgas and his assistants find that sanitary precautions make them especially susceptible to pneumonia and other throat and lung troubles. West Indians are not accustomed to an abundance of fresh air und well-ventilated, "cleanly quarters. Living for generations in small huts wb?re large families crowd into rooms tightly closed against the night air, they have developed lungs with cramped capacity and especially susceptible to changes of temperature. The West Indian laborers cannot be induced to eat sufficient wholesome food to keep them in good health, even when supplies are furnished at cost. Chief Engineer Stevens and other officers agree that lack' of lung capacity and insufficient nourishment, rather than laziness, are responsible for the small amount of work done by West Indians. The negroes are paid only 80 cents a day, while the white men from Spain and Cuba get twice that amount and do more than twice as much work. EXTENDS REPORTS OF CROPS. Department of Agriculture Will Cover Larger Number of Products. The bureau of statistics of the Department of Agriculture has so extended the rcope of its work that its reports will hereafter cover a far larger number of agricultural products than in the past. The added list includes alfalfa, hemp, .broom corn, kafir corn, sorghum, blue grass, millet, sugar be&s, Canadian pea3, cow peas, teans, cabbages, onions, tomatoes, apples, lemons, blackberries, raspberries, strawterries, cantaloupes, watermelons and peanuts. The last issue of the crop report includes a statement bf the condition of the new articles, showing that in none of tbem is there a full crop throughout the country. Montana is the only alfalfagrowing State that comes up to the standird in that article. Minnesota takes the load in hemp with a full crop. California shows the highest yield in sugar beets with 08 per cent. There is a noticeable falling off in apples, several States showing not to exceed CO or 70 per cent of a full crop. A similar condition exists with legard to peaches. ELKS SHOW BIG GROWTH. Gain 27,597 Members, Says Report at Denver Gathering. Tne real opening of the Elks convention occurred at Denver shortly after 8 o'clock Monday night, when public exercises were held at the Tabor opera house. The theater was packed by Elks and their friends, who were kept in good humor until the exercises began by the almost constant playing of several bands of music. The annual report of Fred C. Robinson, grand secretary of the grand lodge, shows that on July 10 there were 224,808 members, an increase of. 27,597. The report also shows that the order is in the most satisfactory financial condition as well as showing an immense amount of relief work done during the year. TO BUILD GREAT DRY DOCK. Structure for Which $1,250,000 Has Been Appropriated. Plans for the largest and best dry dock in the world are being prepared in the bureau of yards and docks at the Navy Iepartment in Washington. The last naval appropriation act contained a provision for a dock to cost $1,250,000 and to be constructed at the Bremerton navy yard, Tuget sound, Washington. This amount is larger than any ever heretofore appropriated for this purpose. The dock is to be constructed so that it can be lengthened if vessel of greater length should be built in the future. It will be thirty-seven feet deep over sill, which will provide for the docking of any vessel that can be built unless a new system of building Is developed. PASSENGERS SAVED FROM SHIP. All of the 200 on Boat Wrecked in Mississippi Are Rescued. Carried on the backs of negro roustabouts, taken from the stern in lifeboats or jumping into waist-deep water at the prow to take refuge in a swamp swarming with insects, the 200 passengers of the steamer Quincy, which - was wrecked near Trempealeau, Wis., were all saved. Socialists Bar Out Reporters. The general congress of Socialist interparliamentary committees opened in London Tuesday. The first action of the congress was to expel the newspaper men present, the foreign delegates fearing that detailed reports of the proceedings would bring them unpleasantly to the notice of their governments. Peace Commissioners Meet. Peace commissioners of Guatemala, Salidor and Honduras, together with two American ministers, are in session on board the cruiser Marblehead off San Jose, Guatemala, and are expected to sign a treaty in a short time. "Recommends Death for Stoessel. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the report of the commission appointed to inquire into the surrender of Port Arthur rpoommends that Lieut. Gen. Stoessel. former commander of the fortress, be sen tenced to death. Sewer Pipe Trust to Quit. The Sewer Pipe Trade Association, fa miliarly known as the sewer pipe trust. has agreed to go out of business rather than undergo an investigation by a fed eral grand jury at Jamestown, N. Y. Lady Curzon Is Dead. Lady Curzon, wife of the former Vicetov of India and dauehter of the late L. 7. Leiter of Chicago, died suddenly in her Lome in London.

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ADMIRAL ENDICOTT REPORTS AFTER HIS VISIT. Sayn JInoh Preiinralorj- Work I nein; Done and Great Deal Ha lleen ccotnii Untied for Sanitation -New In ISrief. Admiral Endicatt, a member of the isthmian canal vommission, has resumed his duties as chief of the bureau of yards and doiks, Navy Department in Washing ton, I. ('., after a trip to Panama, where he attended a meeting of the commission. Admiral Endicott says that the work is progressing, though at present it is largely preparatory work that is being done. He fpoke in high terms of Col. Gorgas, saying that the work this officer has accom plished in the way of sanitation' is wonderful. Chairman Shonts expects to re main on the isthmus for about a month, during which time he will make a thorough inspection of every bitnch of the work and will also examine all the officers under the commission on the isthmus, makin himself familiar with all features of the business. Secretary Bishop will remain with the chairman of the commis sion. FOLK DRIVES AT MAIL ORDERS. Missourian Talks for Country Mer chant and Home Trade. Gov. Folk in addressing the retail mer chants of Missouri at their convention in Jefferson City, spoke against tha mailorder business and favored advertising in the town papers. lie said: "We are proud of our splendid cities, and we want them to increase, in wealth and population, and we also want our country towns to grow. We wish the city merchants to build up, but we also desire the country merchants to prosper. I do not believe in the mail-order citizen. If a place is good enough for a man to live in and to make his money in, it is a good enough place for him to spend his money. No merchant can succeed without advertising in one way or another. Patronize your town papers, build them up and they will build the town up and build you up increased trade and greater opportunities." MAYOR AND POLICES CITED. Executive of Kansas City, Kan., Must Answer for Alleged Offense. W. W. Rose, Mayor of Kansas Ciiy, Kan.; Vernon J. Kose, chief of police, and John F. Kelly, captain of police of that city, have been cited before the State Supreme Court to show cause why they should not be punished for violation of the court's order prohibiting the city to extract revenue from the saloons. The HHM-ific accusation against the three offi cials is that in May, 1?HX, they received irom a large nunber of ier.sons $."0 each, "upon an agreement, express or implied, that they should have the privilege of operating 'joints' without molestation from the police." It also is Alleged that in June, lOtKj, $100 was exacted from each of these persons for the same cause. PLOT IN DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Miscreant Places Charge in Machin ery of Frisco Stone Quarry. A terrific explosion of dynamite, which was placed just where it would create the greatest havoc, wrecked the engine room and hoisting plant at the quarry of the Berkeley Rock Company at Broadway and Second avenue, in Oakland, Cal. Frederick Hoffman, the superintendent of the gnarry, was so severely injured that it is feared he cannot live. Hoffman was hurlfd out of the engine room by the concussion and the building which housed the machinery of the quarry was demolished. Joseph Rosenberg. :he president and general manager of the company, declares the explosion was the result of a plot. There i? n3 clew to the perpetrator. COST OF SOUL SAVING. Atlanta Minister Estimates Expense at $1 for Each Conversion. According to Rev. E. II. Peacock, one of the leaders of the Baptist church in Atlanta, Ga., it costs about $1 to save a söul in Chicago and in Philadelphia, while in Atlanta the expense of salvation is 23 cents. "What I mean," said Mr. Peacock, "is that the salaries of the ministers '.here are much higher than they are hore and it requires so much more to run the churches that soul-savu g in those two great cities costs immeni ily more than it coes here. All the preachers receive from $2,500 to $3,000. and Ut some of the larger churches t."e pastr will have as many as five or six assistants." STARVE 3 TO EXPIATE MURDER. Girl Who Killed Sister to Prevent Insanity Dies in Asylum. After killing her sister to keep her from going insane, Lucy Lloyd starved herself to death in the asylum at Lincoln, Neb., where she was taken immediately following the tragedy two weeks ago. The sisters Jived alone on the farm left them by their father a few miles north of Nebraska City. Lucy admitted she strangled her sister to death and cried for for giveness. She was adjudged insaiie, although protesting she was not. There she absolutely refused to touch food. Richest Londoner Dies. Alfred Beit, the well-known South African financier, who was fated as li richest man in London, is dead. Mr. Beit controlled the output of diamonds and gold in South Africa, and was at one time alleged to be forming a "gold trust," in which the names of prominent American financiers were mentioned. His wealth iu gold and diamonds of South Africa is estimated at from $."00,000,000 to $1,000,000,0(10. Woman Leaps Through Glass. A young womant who was registered at the Hotel Touraine, in Boston, as Mrs. J. Samuel Piza of New York was injured probably fatally by jumping from the window of her room on the sixth floor of ihe hotel. She crashed through a glasscovered porte cochere at the main entrance. Germany to Bar American Meat. Notwithstanding President Roosevelt's official assurance that the new inspection laws will guarantee the purity of American meat exports, it is reported Genriany will enforce new and more stringent regulations after Sept. 15 against imports from American packing houses. Accident Due to Speed. Verdict of ihe coroner's jury which investigated the cause of the wreck at Salisbury, England, in which a score of Americans were killed, is that the disaster was due to violations of the speed regulations by the driver of the train. Low Car Fares for Cleveland. The proposition of the old line street railway companies of Cleveland for an extension of franchises has been formally decided on. Tha companies offer to bind themselves to sell seven tickets for 25 cents and to give universal transfers. Bequeathed in Beit Will. The will of Alfred Beit, the "diamond king," contains bequests cf millions for education and charity and a large fund for railway and telegraph development in South Africa. Taken for Trepoff. Gen. Kozloff of the Russian headquarters staff was assassinated Saturday evening in the park at Peterhof by a terrorist, mho believed he was killing Gen. Trepeft

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St. Louis Republic. OEATH PENALTY FOR STOESSEL. Hero of Port Arthur la Held Re ponalble for Sorrenil.rr. The Czar's commission appointed to Inquire into the surrender of Tort Arthur tu the Japanese during the war has filed its refort. The committee propases that General Stoessel, who was in command during the siege of Port Arthur, be sen1 A . tenoex to ueaiu. (A and that General Fock, who was a member, of Stoessel's sta"' and urged EX. STOESSEL hig cblpf to surreu. der, be condemned to twenty years' confinement In the galleys. It is adde that the commission considers that General Reuss should be expelled from the army and that Admiral Alexleff, former viceroy in the far east, should be reprimanded. The sentences, it is said, will be formalities and will not be executed. Terhnps the only Russian reputation which stood the test of the war with the Japanese, in the estimation of the outside world, is that of General Stoessel, the heroic defender of Tort Arthur, lie served with distinction in the RussoTurklsh war from 1877 to 1S7S. ne was made a colonel in 1SS9 and a major general in 1S0D. The next year he became commander of the Ninth East Siberian Sharpshooters' Brigade. For his service in the campaign against the Boxers in 1900 he was made a lieutenant general. In February, 1904, when the war with Japan broke out Stoessel was appointed commander at Port Arthur, and soon afterward was made commander of the entire army corps ordered to the defense of that fortress. In recognition of his gallant defense Emperor Nicholas conferred upon him the title of aid de camp to the Czar and the German Emperor gave him the German Order of Pour 1 Merke. Philadelphia Icemen Held. Thirteen headj of ice companies in Philadelphia were held in$l,500 bail each to answer the charge of conspiracy through a combination to Taise prices. Similar proceeding' have been started at Pittsburg, Boston, Indianapolis and , several other citic3. The Department of Justice is preparing to take action against an alleged combination of ice manufacturers and dealers f Washington, D. C, and District Commissioner West has instructed the corporation counsel to investigate whether criminal prosecution would, he justified. In the meantime the city has been suffering from ä serious ice famine, due to the slowness of shipments .from Maine. The Circuit Court of Toledo Friday suspended the workhouse sentence of Messrs. Miller, Waters and Breining, the ice trust men, who have been in jail two weeks, wh:le their lawyers have been fighting to get their cases into Circuit Court. Bond la the sum of $5,000 was furnished by each of the men. All five of the convicted ice men are now out on bond. Start of Glldden Aalo Tour. At Buffalo Thursday sixty automobiles started on the 1,100-mile tour of the American Automobile Association through northwestern New York, Quebec and the New England States, to the White mountains, to compete for the cup donated by Charks J. Glidden of Boston. This will go to the man who can show the best all-around touring results on a' schedule which docs not percnit of racing or fast driving. All must run a fixed distance each day, and outside of this period must not tauch their cars. The penalty for getting ahead of the schedule is twice as severe as the one for getting behind. Thir ty-five manufacturers are represented, of whona thirty-two are Americans. Steerase Hate War Desnn. The North German Lloyd Steamship Company has met last week's cut of the Hamburg-American line by reducing the steerage rate from Bremen to New York $2.50. This indicates the way in which our immigration business is boomed in Europe. . Remarkable Resuaclta ilon Case. The life-saving service has received a report of the resuscitation of Robert Mooney near Wakefield, R. I., after he had been under water for twenty-three minutes. The man had been thrown into the water on July 4 by the capsizing of a boat. In the operation one gallon of water was expelled from his lungs. An artificial respiration was kept up for one hour and forty-eight minutes before the first signs of returning consciousness ap' peared. The patient did not recover com plete consciousness until the next day. Jamestown. Exposition Plana. The government commission of the Jamestown exposition, consisting of Secretaries Shaw, Taft and Bonaparte and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Edwards, held a meeting to initiate plans for the government's participation in the exposition. vAn official of each of the executive departments will be appointed to arrange an exhibit for each depart mt'nt. The commission approved the plans presented for a replica of the Wash ington monument to be erected on Jamestown island. It will be of granite, 100 feet high and will have a base 30 feet square. Simplified Spelling for New York. The New York public school authorities have adopted the simplified form of spell leg ."00 words in common use, as recom mended by the committee. It will mean e great boom for the publishers of text books, as those now in use by half a million children will have to be discarded and aew ones substituted. Saltan Objects to Emlnar The Turkish government is said to be strongly opposed to the elevation of the American legation to the rank of the American embassy. The supposed reason Is that it would make more difficult the Sultan's evasion of American tfrcaands.

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LADY CURZON DEAD. Chicago Girl Who Became Wife of Viceroy of India. Lady Curzon, wife of the former viceroy of India and daughter cf the late Levi Z. Leiter of Chicago, died In London Wednesday afternoon of heart disease resulting from general debility caused by the recent hot weather. 'She had never recovered completely from her illness at Walmer Castle in 1901. It was not until noon that Lady Curzon's condition gave cause for anxiety. At about noon she grew worse and two specialists were called in. The remained in attendance till tho end. Lady Kedleston was in her own right possessor of $3,000,000. From Chicago the family moved to Washington and later traveled extensively and enterLADT CTBZOX.. tained lavishly. During a stay in En gland Miss Leiter met George N. Curzon, eldest son of Rev. Allred Nathaniel Holden Curzon, fourth Baron Scarsdale. They were married in 1S95 after Curzon had held the offices of assistant private secrefary to the Marquis of Salisbury, under secretary of state for India and under secretary of state for foreign affairs! In 1S9S Curzon was created first Baron Curzon of Kedleston and in 1S99 was appointed viceroy and governor general of India, which poet he resigned In August, 1905, and was succeeded by the Earl of Mlnto. The Government aa an Employer. In an address to the economic section of the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science at Cornell univer sity Monday, II. T. Newcomb, the railroeJ statistician, challenged the prevalent opin ion that the government is the best em ployer, prove this he quoted statistics showing that while the cost of living advanced 17 per cent from 1S96 to 1904, and while the average wages in private employ had advanced 12.7G per cent, there was not the slightest advance in wages in public employment. He referred alfo .to the restrictions placed on federal ofiict holders, in the curtailment of their polit ical privileges, and reminded his hearers that all except government employes are free to petition Congress. Furthermore, Mr. Newcomb points out that when the government becomes an employer it has the power to compel the service of its employes upon terms of its own choosing, and experience has shown that it will exercise this power. Crime from Stady of Crime. Dr. William J. Tatterson of Denver, Colo., who was an expert in criminology and a university graduate, has been ar rested for issuing a fraudulent $20 check, and is now in the city jail, a physical and mental wreck. Dr. Patterson says that his only excuse is that his long study of crime developed the criminal instinct within himself. "I'm a living exampie," be says, "of a man with criminal instincts highly developed. I could not be straight if I wanted to, and would defraud peop!e at times when I did no need the money and had no possible reason for taking it. Nearly all men' who are convicted of crimes are criminals by nature, and their nature will come out in any environment, whereas, if a man is naturally right his environment is not going to make any difference." Dr. Patterson had previously been committed for forgery. He hai wealthy parents and a wife and two chit dren. Another ''Sweeping- Injunction." An injunction forbidding intimidation and restraining the union from persuad ing and cajoling employes to leave work, was granted to William F. Chatfield, a contractor and builder of Waterbury, Conn., against the bricklayers', masons' and plasterers' union of that city. Chatfield had charged interference which crippled his business and asked $10,000 dam ages. The injunction, which was issued by the Superior Court, is the most sweep ing that has ever been made in Connect! cut. , Matter of Electricity. Dr. Harry C. Jones, professor of physicil chemistry at Johns Hopkins university, in a new work on th alleged electrical nature of matter, says that the line separating matter from electricity is on the point of disappearing. The corpus cle, he says, is nothing but a disembodied electrical charge and contains nothing material. Instead of speaking of the corpuscle we should speak of the electron. Women' Illj&uta In France. For the first time a party group has tecn formed in tie French chamber for the defense of the rights of women, head ed by Henri Cheron. Sliners Win Wage Increase. A settlement of the miners strike in the bituminous field of central Pennsyl vania was made in a conference between the officers of the union and the operators at Philadelphia Tuesday, through which 30,000 miners gain an increase of 5.53 per cent and application of the check syg' tem to miners, but not to laborers. Thii system is the withholding f an amount equal to the union dues, to be turned over to the union. mh - Capt. Aubrey Crocker, one of the best known yachting skippers in America, died at Cohasset, Mass., aged CO. ne won the America's cup with the Puritan la 1SS1

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General Tomas Regalado, who was killed in the battle which resulted in a victory for the Guatemalan forces and the litter rout of his Salvadorean troops, was a toldier of fortune horn in Chili, educated on the continent of Europe and for several years past President of the lit-J tie republic of Salvador. He is de-' scribed as having gex. eegalado. l)eeu a typical "fire eater," ready for a fight always andj reveling in turmoil and excitement. Inj 1S98 he smashed the United States ofj Central America and was a eonirad and beneficiary of that other mysterlou personage, Captain O'Brien, the hero! of Richard-Harding Davis' "Soldiers of Fortune," who was then the chief backer of every general who wanted to annex a government. General Regal ado was" President of Salvador from 1899 to 1903 and was a iopular idol with his soldiery, who, wheu he fell in the battle 'on the Guatemalan frontier, dfbed in precipitate retreat from the field. :- Dr. Elmer E. Brown, who has been apiointed by President Roosevelt as Commissioner of Education to succeed Dr. W. T. Harris, is a graduate of the Illinois State Nor mal U n i v e r s i ty. Since 1S9S he has been at the head of the department of tire theory and prac tice of education at j the University of Paliforni:!. F.diientional affairs in the iL United States and dr. e. e. EROvry. ther t-ountries have attracted much of his attention. Among his books are The Making of Our Middle Schools" ii'd "Secondary Education." He has contributed frequently to magazines and has written a number of reviews on educational topics. IJe has been a member of the National Council of Euucatlou since 1897. After graduating from the Illinois State Normal University be studied at German universities. Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden, envoy of the republic of Liberia to France, is one of the ablest of colored men and has rendered distinguished service to his race, both in Liberia, the British West African colonies and in France. : : - Benjamin V. Barnes, the new postmaster of the city of Washington, has? been attached to the government civil ' ' 'i rrv1-o fnr nvi rlr twenty years. He was born abroad of American parentage Dec. 3, 1803. He was educated In the public schools of New Jersey and graduated from the law department of Georgetown Unlvcr sity. After serving b. r. babxes. as stenographer iu the Posto-dcc Department for a long time he was appointed to a similar post la the .White House during the first term of President McKinley. Later lie was advanced to assistant secretary. Ä nost which he held under President Roosevelt at the time of his appoint ment as postmaster. Mr. Barnes was brought into public notice recently through the forcible ejection of Mrs Minor Morris from the White House on his order. It is said that William Dean Howells, the author, has made such a careful Rtudy of the dialect and expressions of the various sections of the country that ho can tell by their accent what city a person comes from. Clarence Rddy, the orgauist, played the wedding march for his own wed ding and at its conclusion took his place as bridegroom and was married to Mrs. Grace Marie Dickman, formerly isoprano In the Rutgers Tresbyteriau Church. New York. The wedding took place in the apartments of Mr. and Mrs. William MacDonouch. in New York. The playing MRS- eddy. of the wedding march by Mr. Eddy himself was In accordance with an ante nuptial agreement. Mrs. Eddy is a San Franciscan, and Is, perhaps, lest known in London, where she was a protege of Mrs. Ronalds. She is a beau tiful woman with blonde hair and strik ing figure. Both Mr. Eddy and Mrs. Dickman are divorced. Mr. Lloyd-George was recently re-elected from the Carnarvon district, England. When the returning officer ascertained the figures the town hall clock showed 12:24 p. m. The majority was 1,224 Robert Barrett Browning, painter, and son of the famous father of the same name, has been chosen president of the Browning settlement in Lonaon. When he was born Lord Granville Is credited with having remarked: "A third incomprehensible has come into the woild." : j II. C. -Lea, the new M. P. for East St. Tancras, served as a private in the army. He challenged the right of a Windsor hotel keeper to refuse entertainment to a man who wore the red jacket of a soldier and came out of the' incident with honor Subsequently he bought himself out of; the army. Apparently the descendants of the late. Admiral William T. Sampson will be numerous in the United State navy, as two sou . and a grandson are likely to lvj aiemhers of the class which will enter th naval academy this spring. His brother officers used to say of Gen. Sir Redvers Buller in his younger days; that he could make an appetizing dinneij out of old saddles when rations wer(j short on a campaign. a a Lieut. George W. Kellogg has retired, from the Metropolitan musecm after twenty-four years of service. Appointed) in 18S2, he then required only two assistants. So great has been the extension of the valuable contents that nearly 100 were needed this year. A Zionist society of young girls has been organized in Brooklyn, N, Yt

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UAL -i -L lit? irentTiii uiuuiiiuu vi rr- i . , CtajO. business makes a favora1 ble comparison with that of a year ago. In some respects the activity is more pronounced, especially In manufactures, construction and transportation. The government crop report indicating current and protective cereal yields exceeding all former aggregates added greatly to trade prospects and encourages iaore freedom in making heavy commitments for the future. While the average returns for breadstuffs show some decline, agricultural conditions are prosperous, this materially advancing industrial Interests and financial ease. Pre tuction reflects little change over its recent unprecedented volume, but there is a forward tendency In furnace output and factory lines. Local improvements never before were so extensive, this being also true at other points drawing supplies from this market Holidays have caused a smaller movement of raw material and lessened the movement of other commodities, but this is a temporary condition, whicb does not adversely affect value or interf?re with the distribution of necessaries. Seasonable quiet in leading retail trade is fully offset by increasing activity In the jobbing branches, personal buyers of fall merchandise for the interior having made a good start. Provisions bring remarkably high prices, but the demand for grain moderated and shipments declined. The total movement of grain at this port 5.473.GS4 bushels, compares with ,194.49S bushels last week. Receipts decreased 39.9 per cent and shipments C5.9 ir cent, as compared with a year ago. Lumber receipts aggregated 52,2S0.000 feet against 45,091.000 feet last week. Compared with the closing a week ago, prices advanced in oats per bushel, corn lc, hogs 10c, lard 17, cattle 20c and pork $1.25 per barrel, but declined in wheat lc and ribs 2c. Failures reported in Chicago district number IS, against 9 last week and 27 a year ago. Dun's Trade Review. " v j Trade and industry art NSV YOrK. of very large volume for an ordinarily quiet mid summer period. Glowing crop prospects, with close to record possible yields of wheat and corn, and large out-turns of potatoes, barley and cotton, have made for confidence in placing future orders to an extent not usual at this early date. Building continues active without apparent check ; the iron aud steel trades report shorter than usual summer shutdowns probable, and the likelihood of large surplus supple of wheat and com lead to the hope that export trade will show expansion in a short time. Late advices are, however, that low prices check the new wheat movemeats. Bradstreet's Commercial Report Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $t.30; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $I.S5; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $S.OO; wheat, No. 2, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 2, 51c to 52c: oats standard, 37c to SSc; rye, No. 2. Glc to Glc; hay. timothy, $S.50 to $14.50; prairie. $.00 tc $13.00; butter, choice cre.merj, 10c tc 19c; eggs, fresh, 14c to.ISc; potatoes, new, 70c to 7Sc Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0DO; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $4.30: wheat, No. 2, 74c to 7Cc; corn. No. 2 white, 51c to 53c; oats,. No. 2 white, 38c to 39c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $0.00; hoqs, $4.00 to $0.S5; sheep, $4.00 to $0.00; wheat. No. 2, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 51c to 53c; oats. No. 2, 30c tc 37c : rye, No. 2. 03c to 01c. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $5.25; hogs. $4.00 to $0.95; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 75c to 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 54c to 55c: oats. No. 2 mittd, 39c to 40c; rye, No. 2, C3c to 04e. ' Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs. $1.00 to $7.00: sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; what, No. 2, 7Sc to 79c; corn. No. 3 jl'ow, 54c to 5Gc; oats, No. 3 white, 40c to 41c ; rye. No. 2, C5c to 00c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern Sic to S3c; corn. No. 3, 51c to 52c; oats, standard, 37c to SSc; rye, No. 1, 02c to C3c; barley, standard, 53c to 54c; 1-ork, mess, $1S.90. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.25; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.75; lambs, fair t choice, $5.00 to ?S.50. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, $?.00 to $7.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to Sic; corn. No. 2, 5Sc to 59c; oats, natural white, 42c to 44c; butter, creamery, 17c to 21c; eggs, western, 14c to 17c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 7Cc tc 78c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 54c; oats. No. 2 mixed, S9c to 41c; rye. No. 2, 59c to COc; clover seed, prime, $G.IH) New, of Minor Note Andrew Carnegie has donated $11,795 for a library building for Cedarville (O.) college. The Order of Railway Telegtaphexs applied for an injunction at Louisville, Ky., to restrain the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company from discharging employes who join the order. The interior of the new Central Presbyterian church in Hamilton, Ont,, was completely destroyed by tire. Loss $50,000. The American Bond Reserve Company was placed in the hands of a receiver in the United States Circuit Court at St Paul. The new naval wireless station at Point Loma, Cal., has been opened and a station will soon be established at Cap Flattery. - The Swedish Evangelical Covenant adjourned in Minneapolis without bavins settled the question of whether it will publish a paper. . Premier Cantacuzene, acting foreign minister of Hungary, and the American minister, J. W. Riddle, have signed a treaty protecting patents in the two countries. Circuit Attorney Sager of St. Louis dismissed the charge of bribery against T. E. Albright, former member of the St. Louis house of delegates, af'er he had been acquitted on a charge of perjury. The tobacco warehouse of William II. Iluntting and several small buildings at East Hartford, Conn., were burned, en tailing a loss of $200,000. Emmanual Hoffman & Sons of New York wned 2,500 bales of the tobacco that was d ttroy ei,

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HOARD OF BLIND MAN FOLXD. Nearly JplO,000 In Old Greenback DltporrrrJ Inder Death I!e4. At Rochester, in a carpet bag under tbe bed where Jaoob UaiKb.uk died recently were found eleven packages containing currency amounting to $9.940. RaiUba'.'k had been blind for several years and the money must have been tied up by him before he lost his sight, all the bills being turned the same way. He leaves no he:rv. The currency is very musty, and mildew has greatly defaced the money, so tbat some of the fisares can scarcely be socn. Most of it is dated previous to 1S'V. It will have to be scut to the Treasury Department and exchanged. DERRY TICKERS' HARVEST. Girls Lenre New Albany Farm will 940 to f 10O in Gold. With from $40 to $100 in goM coin In their purses, forty young women who have been employed as strawberry and raspberry pickers on a farm ten miles north of . New Albany have left for their homes at points along the Southern railway. During their stay of nearly twomonths their board and lodging were provided. The girls were paid G cents a gallon, and averaged from twenty to twentyfive gallons a day. One of the girls picked a? high as foty gallons in one day. LOCKCD IN 'REFRIGERATOR CAR. i Mini la DUeoiered After Deiner Loeked In for Vour Days. After spending four days locked in a refrigerator car loaded with ice and 'ggs. shivering, blinded and probably dying. Grant Meals, 20, was taken from the car in the Wabash yards at Logansport. Ile stowed away in the car at Clay Ccrtcr, Kan., where it was loadod and billed through to Philadelphia. , He intended making the trip to Philadelphia, and he persuaded a fellow workman at the packing house whore the eggs were loaded to seal him in the car. NEIGHBORS KILL, WIFE DEATEH. Clnb to Death Coal Miner Wlio Dmtally Ponnde! III $powe. Oliver Bryant, an Evansville coal miner, while intoxicated triM to- whip his wife, but her screams attracted the attention of neighbors, and they formed a evjV took Bryant from his home find beat him with clubs si severely that he diod. Warrants were sworn out for a nirr.btr -f men who participated in the attack upon Iiim. The prisoners say that it was Dot the purpose of the mob to kill-Bryant hut simply to punish him for boating his wife. MOTHER AND SIX CHILDREN' DIE. PerUta In Fire TVhtea Destroy llonve at Layfayette, Ind. Mrs. Solomon Gobba and her six chilJ dren, ranging in age from 2 to 10 years. were burned to dcar.Ii at Eatayette. ine husband and father was badly burned, but will recover. The entire family wrs asleep when the fire started. The mother lost her life while attempting with br husband to rescue" the children. Gobba escaped by falling through a window which he was trying to cpon. Whtfttle on nn In calm tor. Fay Porter of Greenville has beta granted a patent cn an incubator attachment by which a whistle is made to blow when tJe temperature of the inrubator becomes too low or too high. It is arranged so that the inculator may be ia a barn or any other place and still hi? connected with the whistle at the houi?. The attachment is attracting considerable attention from chicken raisers. Right to Percentage Questioned. Khightstown has brought suit against. "William C. Hess of Middletown. x-On:n-ty Treasurer, to recovr $t14.12, withheld by the treasurer cs fios for collecting the corporation taxes. The right of a county treasarer to charge a porcentag? for collecting taxej of an incorporated town is disputed, snd it is naid that the case will bt carried to the Supreme Court. Ml TaffKirt Will Not Wed. The reported engagement ot Miss Lury Taggart, daughter of Thomas Taggart, chairman of the Democratic national committee, and George Ade, the playwright, is authoritatively denied. Goe Insane Trie to Kill Wife. Philip Korb, a well-known German farmer, suddenly became insane at his home near Boonville as the result of attending a religious meeting and tried to kill his wife. Pern (Ind.) Ha $35,000 Fire. The Miami Lumber Company and Terre Haute Brewing Company at Peru sustained a $.')5,0u0 loss from a fire of mysterious origin. Hrief State llappenlnc. Forest Bartel, aged 12, of Pike county, had his hands cut of! in a hay machine. Toadstools mistaken and eaten for mushrooms came near causing the drath of Levi Warner, Mrs. Warner and their two children at Winande. By a epark from a forg falling on a keg of powder at a coal mine at Booneville, Cyrus Moody and Daniel Reed received burns from which they died. Aaron Morton, a negro, shot and killed his wife on a crowded Indianapolis street and was pursued several blocks by a mob of 1,000 people bent on lynching htm. The jury in the case against Henry Matzke, charged with Laving sold meat treated with a preservative injurious to health, reported a disagreement to the Marion county criminal court in Indianapolis, afier being out twenty-four hours. John R. Scctt ol Lampton county, Ontario, Canada, and Mrs. Mary E. Frey of Washington county, Ohio, took out a marriage license in Vinccnnes and were about to be married at the county clerk's office when the bride, becoming abashed by the presence of officials and visitors at the office, refused to be married until rll were put out of the room. Mildred Tarier, S- was brought to Goshen for examination under an X-ray. The child swallowed a nickel, which lodged ia the eosophagus, and the doctors feared she would die. The Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company of Chicago has been awarded the $1,500.000 contract for the construction of the harbor at Gary for the United States Steel Corporation. George W. Byers and Sons of Franklin have shipped to Cincinnati 50) bushels of popcorn on the cob, the last cf their lt05 crop. The yb-ld last season from twenty acres of land was over 700 bushels. The delivery ju.-t m.-tde nets the 'producers a little over $1 a bushel. ; Ilarry Martin, 10 years old, of derart, died of nervous prostration following the trhooting of one hand with blank cartridge on the Fourth of July. When he was supposed to be recovering he was rru-fdly taunted about lockjaw by another boy and this brought on convulsions. Miss Grace Geller of Evansville, who has been visiting relatives in Owentboro, Ky., will never be able to Kpeak again above a whisper as a result of swallowing carbolic acid. It is aid that the young woman thought she was taking headache medicine. She was an accomplished singtr, but the vocal organs were burned to uch an extent that she will never be tide to sin; cmothcr sott.