Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 47, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 August 1906 — Page 2

THE PLYJIOUTIITRIBUNE PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS Q CO.. - - Publishers. 1906 AUGUST 1906

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HthVSlSth S) 26th. ) 4th. FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD., Conrta and Crime Accident and Fires Labor and Capital Grain, ' Stock and Money Market. BOMB THROWN AMONG GUEST3. Fifty Killed or Wounded and House is Wrecked-Gen. Min blain. The little on-.of Premier Stolypin vas killed and fifty other persons were aJlUd and wounded when two revolutionary army officers hur'.ed a boinh nt the prime minister lu the inldst of :i rrtAAticn in his home, neur St. I tersburg. Among those killed v.ns General Zameatin, the premier's secv-nary, who was chief of communications Iv the war with Japan. Both of the rebels are reixrtetl to hare been killed iu the explosion. Premier Stolypin I reported to have escaped, though his 3-year-old eon was slain and his daughter was seriously hurt, both her legs being broken. Colonel Stein, who was chief ?vf police nt the Tauride Palace, when; the lower lnuse of Parliament held Its session, also was killed. The two revolutionists who remained in the coach 'were severely wounded by the explosion of the bomb. The assassin was an army officer. The house was partially wrecked. General MIn, commander of the SernInovsy Guard Regiment, who suppressed the riots at Moscow last December, was assassinated at Peterhof. General Min was at the railway station .with his family when he was killed. The deed was committed by a young girl who fired five tfiots from a revolver Into his back, killing him Instantly. Madame Min seized the assassin by the hand and held her until the police arrived. Call for Volunteer in Cuba. j President Palma has officially called for volunteers to compose a natio: il militia of Infantry and cavalry and to co-operate withvthe Government forces under the command o? the chief of the rural guards. The pay of chiefs of battalions and regiments will be $200 a month, adjutants $125 a month, captains $100 a month, and soldiers $2 a day All Volunteers disabled wil receive full pay during the i)eriod of disturbance and in the event of their death the money will go to their dependent heirs. Biff Ohio Elevator Bnrned. Fire broke rut in the large elevator at Belmore, Ohio, and It was burned to the ground. The elevator was owned by Churchill & Company of Toledo, and was considered the largest elevator in the state. At the time of the fire the elevator contained 18,000 bushels of -oats, 83) bushels of wheat and 250 bushels of corn. The elevator was Talued at $35,000. and the cob mill was valued at $5.000, making a loss of between $50,000 and $00,000, which was partially covered by Insurance. Car Hit Fnnerat Carriage. While t funeral process'pn of .six carriages was proceeding In East 105th street, Cleveland, Ohio, on the vay -to a cemetery, a south bound car crashed Into the front carriage con taining the body of an infant. Five members of the funeral party were hurt, Michael J. Lutheran was probably fatally ilp.red. , - Kills Husband and Child. ' A special from Piggott Ark., says: Suddenly becoming insane, Mrs. Frank Folsgrove, wife of a well-known farmer of the St Francis neighborhood, killed her husband and 4-year-old child with an axe and fatally wounded her two other children, a boy of 13 years and a girl of 7. Storm Sweep Southern Michigan. Mrs. William. Richardson was killed and five persons shocked at Detroit by an electric storm that swept over southeastern Michigan Sunday. Crops were ruined, telegraph wires prostrated and much general damage done by the wind. Col. S. 8. Robertson Dead. Robert S. Robertson, veteran soldier and leading lawyer at Fort Wnj-ne, IniL. died after an illness of several weeks. The direct cause of death was liver trouble. Three Tonne Women Drowned. Three prominent young women of Griffin. Ga., were drowned In a pond whlle bathing. f 93,000) for 8tock Exchange Seat. A seat on the New York Stock Exchange was sold the other day for $95,000. This Is the record price for a seat on the Exchange and was reached only once before. - Killed by Fall Down a. Shaft. Daniel Otto, aged 47, for many years an employe of Riley's hardware store of Goshen. IncL, Is dead of a fractured skull, sustained by falling down an t'evator shaft. t Cuba Fears Plot to Sill Palma. According to advice from Havana there are rumors of a conspiracy to as sassinate President Palma. In consequence the palace and the treasury guards have" been doub.ed, the customs employes armed and rifles issued to the police. Large Shortage Alleged. The examiners appointed by Judge Pardee to make an examination of the county treasury filed their report in Akron, Ohio, It charges former County Treasurer Smith with a shortage of $755,385. This amount was found missing from the vanlts. Girl's Author Dies. Rebecca S. Clark, better known as Sophia May," writer of many books for children, is dead at Norridgewock, Me., at the age of 73 years. Legalizes Forest Reserve. The Secretary of the Interior has or dered the withdrawal of all forms of n try of 529,928 acres cf land in southwest ern Colorado for the proposed San Miguel forest reserve. The tract is located la San Miguel and Dolores counties and includes a part of the San Miguel plateau and the San Miguel mountains trod is about thirty-six miles from Tell u ride.

SHOUT Oil CASH.

Not Enough Money to Pay Militia Expenses in Encampments. After a month of hard work Assistant Secretary Oliver of the War Department, in Washington concluded that he had finally made a satisfactory adjustment of tie many difficulties In apportioning the appropriation of $700,000 for pay of the militia at the maneuvers in different camps throughout the country, but it appears that all is not satisfactory. These funds had to be apportioned to the quartermaster's department, the subsistance department and the pay department of the army for the purpose of quartering, feeding and paying the State soldiers. Reports were obtained from different State Governors as to the number of troops that would be sent to the encampment; the distance they would travel, etc., and the apportionment was made on the basis of the reports received. However, in some cases more State troops than had been given in the schedules were sent into the camps and more expense was thus attached. This caused a. deficit in the allotment of funda, especially in the pay for the State troops. The pay department of the 'army decided to pay the troops as long as the funds lasted, those who came last going unpaid. It has been suggested that another adjustment may be made after the camps have finished their work, which is that some camps may not use all the money allotted to them and the funds can be used to make up the deficit elsewhere. Congress may be asked to appropriate money to cover the deficit. MAGNATE'S SON A LABORER. B. L. Winchell, Jr., to Learn Trade of Machinist. ' Imbued w ith a desire for a knowledge of railroading in all its varied details and stimulated by the successful career of his father, B. L. Winchell, Jr., son of the president of the Rock Island and Frisco railroad systems, soon will-enroll himself as apprentice in the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia. This will not be the initial move of the Yale graduate, who is just now convalescing from the effects of an operation made necessary by Illness contracted while working as rodman in a surveying crew, on the construction of a railroad in Texas. As soon as he has recovered sufficiently to take up his work the young man will go to Philadelphia to master the art of locomotive building, on which he expects to build his career. Young Winchell, who is 22 yean, old. was graduated from Yale last year with honors, and no sooner had he gained his diploma than he obtained it- permission of his father to enter the employment of a surveyor engaged .h laying out the right of way for the Trinity and Braros Valley -railroad in Texas. While working as rod and level man with, the surveying party he ras stricken with appendicitis and wasrought hoae to undergo an operation. No sooner had he recovered than complications necessitated 'a second operation and the young man is now recuperating at the Winchell home in Highland Park, near Chicago. MANY DIVORCES ARE VOID. Failure to Enter Decrees Discovered by Investigators In New York. Discovery was made the other day by Investigators for the United States census bureau who ere looking up divorce statistics in New Tork City that many of the divorce decisions in the old court of common pleas are inoperative because no decree has been entered upon the records. In hundreds of cases in which the court has ordered that decrees.of dit jrce or separation should issue the order for judgment has net been submitted to the court by counsel for the successful party. Thus no final order could issue. It is believed that in many such cases the parties to the divorce have been married again. It is stated that such marriages are void and can only be legalized by action of the Legislature and th.it much confusion and inconvenience to the inteiasted parties is certain to ensue. The court of common pleas is no longer in existence. , THREW BABE BEFORE HOUNDS. Inhuman Parent Pursued by Posse Sacrifices His Child. A story of the inhuman treatment of a baby by its father is brought from Smithfield, Ohio. Some weeks ago Reily Ice, who was suspected of a robbery, left the county, but his wife furnished the police with information aj to his whereabouts. Ice returned and after severely beating her, seized his 8-weeks-old baby and wrapping it In his coat threw it before the hounds that were trailing them. Neighbors arrived in time to prevent it being torn to pieces. Ice is still at large. BAIN IS WELCOME. Saves Wisconsin Crops and Stops Danger from Forest Fires. The serious 'drought which has threatened certain crops in Wisconsin, and especially the potatoes of the northern section of the State, was broken the other day by "a drenching rain. Reports from the Vermilion and Mesaba ranges in Minnesota indicate that the rain there vas bountiful and that it came none too soon. Forest fires on the ranges are not smothered entirely, but the danger of a conflagration is believed to have passed. Student Player Killed. Death came tragically to Caspar Musselman, 19 years old, a student at Lehigh University, Allentown, Pa. Musselman spent his vacation playing as catcher for the Catasauqua baseball team. In the game with the Pbillipsburg nine at Mussel man's turn at bat in the fourth inning be was struck over the heart by a terrific Inshoot. He started to run, but fell unconscious six feet off first base. After a few gasps he expired. Ends Career .of Crime. John B. Roper, who murdered two fellow prisoners, named Trawlck aud Crowder, in the county jail in Lufkin, Texas, Auf. 15, beating them . to death with a bucket as they slept, hanged himself.-in his cell, using a strip from a bianket. He acknowledged a few days ago that' he was a member of the Dalton gang of bank robbers at Longview, Texas in 1S02.: Wants His Money Back. Charles V.- Spalding of Chicago, the former Globe Savings Bank president who served a term In the penitentiary for embezzlement, has filed a bill for accounting with the University of Illinois, claiming that he turned over to the trustees property valued at $415,000 when he only owed $231,3C7. ' Race Riot in Delaware. There was a race riot in Seaford, De., in which fo"r men were seriously injured. A negro s'xuck a white boy and the citizens of the town organized and proceeded to run out ef town all the strange negroes seen on the streets. The negroes resented the treatment and attacked the white men, a pitched battle ensuing. . . .i-n i i m f Girl Strangled to Death. A verson as yet unknown strangled to deatr the IC-y ear-old daughter of George Waddell, a fanner of Wayne ' county, North Carolina. Circumstances indicate she was otherwise mistreated. Her body was found in a marble pit. Chilean City Engulfed. City of Quillotta, a place of 10,000 Inhabitants about thirty miles from Valparaiso, is said to have sunk nto the earth during an earthquake, less than 100 of the residents escaping. Irish Potato Famine Feared. A serious potato blight has appeared in the west of Ireland and threatens the failure of the crop. Spraying with sulphate of copper may save it, otherwise a potato famine is feared.

ACCUSED OF BIGAMY.

MAN MISSING FOR 31 YEARS IS ARRESTED. Trof. Freye, Who Retained So Mysteriously to Chlcnuo, Im Said to Have Married In Snath Dakota Jiew Schnfer Suspect. Trof. Charles Freye, who, after an absence of thirty-one years, returned suddenly to Chicago ahJ gave his wife $.",OOp on condition that he need not explain what he had done while away, will be compelled to explain certain things to another woman, who also claims to be his wife. Freye. has been arrested on charges of bigamy and wife abandonment. Mrs. Clara Goddard of Ilerley, S. I)., accuses him. The complaint sets up the allegation that Mrs. Goddard was married to the defendant at HerJev, when he knew his first wife was al.'ve, and that she was deserted by him. When Prof. Freye returned to Chicago iie refused absolutely to tell his daugiter, Mr.. Albert Kirchner, or his wife where he had been, or to reveal the slightest information. E. M. Freye, his son, was unable' to learn anything concerning his father's doings. Prof. Freye is 04 year old. He was once a prominent instructor in the Chicago Normal school and became superintendent of it. One day be left his home, saying he would be back for luncheon. He was never seen again nor hf:rd from by his relatives until his dramatic return. The wife almost fainted, and began asking questions, but he stuffed the roll of bills in her hands and told her the money was for silence. FIFTY-EIGHT SLAIN IN A WEEK. Officials Murdered by'Wholesale and Fifty Bomb Depots Discovered. Statistics for seven days show that fi ft;. -eight officials were murdered and forty-ihree wounded in Russia proper, that fifty bomb depots were discovered, that six safes were rifted of money and that sixty-three persons were robbed. These official figures do not take into account the pillaging in the country, nor do they give the number of military executions or arrests of agitators and revolutionists, and there are no reports showing the number of persons sent into exile. The St Petersburg Gazette says that 2,300 persons were banished in one day from St. Petersburg alone, and that 150 were placed on trains bound for the interior. Prefect of Police Von Launitz has declared his intention of clearing the capital of all "vagabonds." The poliee of St. Petersburg are being trained in the handling of rapid-fire guns at an arms factory outside, of St. Petersburg. A detachment of po lice is sent there daily for training. HOLD NEW SCHAEFEB SUSPECT. Hoosier Arrested for Abduction May Know of Teacher's Murder. Kniest Tankesly of .Bedford, Ind who wa.i arrested in Evansville, and Miss Nellie Ttainey, a school girl of Ileltonsville, a small -town near Bedford, wore taken to Bedford the other day by Bedford offi. cvrs. Tbetjgh the present charge agaiqsl Tankesly is the abduction of Miss Rainey, the police will seek to learn if he has any knowledge as to who murdered Miss Sarah Schaefer, the young school teacher who was killed more than two years ago and whose slayer is still tmknown to the police. When charged by the police with guilty knowledge of Miss Schaefer's murder Tankesly stoutly proclaimed his innocence. Miss Rainey says she will commit suicide rather than testify agaitst him. SAIN FLOODS KANSAS CITY. Residents of "Little, Italy" Have to Be Rescued by Police. A terrific rainstorm prevailed in Kansas City and vicinity the other day, causing perious damage. In Kansas City 5.93 inches of water fell," a record for the time, three hours and a half. Low lying landl, were flooded and the police and fire departments were called upon to rescue persons from basements in Little Italy, in the north end of town, and in' the east and west bottoms,' where the water entered many small houses. . Several downtown basements wre flooded and goods damaged. Trees .vere stripped f their foliage and hundreds of sparrows were killed. ' ' 'One Lynched, Another Saved. While the' Polk County authorities were bringing Will Lawrence, a. negio, to Tampa, Fla., to prevent him from being lynched, an infuriated mob at Mulberry, in Polk County, banged John Rapes, a negro, and riddled . his body. with. Lullets. Rapes attempted to kill Captain Hughes, a prominent white citizen. Canada Cries for Workers. Brigadier General J. V. Cousins of the Minneapolis Salvation Army issued a statement showing that 12,000 immigrants, had been sent from this country to Canada during the past eight months by the Salvation Army. . The officers at Winnipeg say they have 500 orders from farmers for men which they cin not supply. . Venezuelan Coiners Arrested. A plot to counterfeit Venezuelan coins to finance a revolution and overthrow President Castro has been revealed in New York by the arrest of four men,' one of them former manager of the Orinoco Corporation, a $10,000,000 concern holding a concession in Venezuela. ' Leaves 8650,000 for Two Hospitals. By the will of Daniel B. Wesson, filed in Springfield. Mass., $050,000 is given to the Wesson Memorial and Maternity hospitals of Springfield, and the remainder of his fortune of $15,000,000 or more is divided among forty relatives, f Want to Form New Nation, . , . A unionist party has been organized in San Salvador to work in favor of the formation of a central Annerimn republic, to include all the Central American republics as now constituted. . Illinois at the Head. Illinois Is agriculturally the wealthiest State in the Union, according to statistics compiled by the Department of Agriculture. Iowa, Ohio, Missouri and Indiana follow in the order named. Man 'of 60 Kills Foe Aged 72. George C. Peck, aged 72 years, was shot and fatally wounded at Kingfisher, Okla., by Prof. G. R. Halo, aged GO, the result of an old grudge. Insurgents Take San' Luis. . Cuban insurgents captured the city of San Luis Pinar del Rio province, after a battle in which many were killed and wounded, and took fifty Ilurale Guards. Interurhan Accident in Ohio. A Western Ohio interurbaivcar jumped the track while going at full sjieefl at Cridersvflle, killing three persons and injuring over twenty. Fire Destroys Mining Town. The mining town of Johnsville, Cal., was practically wiped out of existence- by fire. Two miners were klllod and twenty-five buildings were destroyed. t Chicago Grocer Faiis. Recent activity in politics spells business failure for Harry It. Eagle, wholesale and retail grocer in Chicago, whose interests now are in the hands of a receiver. ) ; Cuban Revolution a Fact. The Cuban revolution is admitted to be an actual fact. Lieutenant of rural guards were killed and several men wounded in a fight with insurgents near Havana.

A FAMILIAR CRY jTROM THE NORTHWEST.

Sioux City Journal. CUBAN REVOLUTION BEGUN. Insnrrector Kills Lieutenant Capture LMabt of III 31 eu In Hattlr. Government officials in Cuba reluctantly admit a revolution has begun. Reports from the Interior tell of tiie first Important battle ami the danger or fresh uprisings. In a figl:t near Iloyo Colorado the insurrectos killed I.Ieut. Itoque ot the ruralts and 1 sj -dJtV! nptured eight of s men. Two of tne rebels were tlain. president palma. President Falma has Issued a decree increasing the rurale guard force by 2.0U0 men. It is reported that Secretary of Public Worke Montvalvo has been placed in command. According to a Havana dispatch Guerra is advancing to take Tlnar del Uio with S00 men, wao are marching' in three columns. There are only 300 rurales defending the city. The rebel movement' in Pinar del KIo is w.despread. Some estimates place the number of rebel there at 2,000. It Is rumored that Jose Miguel Gomez, "with COO men, is heading- an uprising in Sanctus Spiritus. It is impossible to tell how big the. movement Is. If Goma is in arms it Is a serious affair. It Is also rumored there Is an uprising in Cardenas. It is reported that ? cabinet crisis is imminent and thai Senor O'Farrlll, secretary of the government, will resign. Ever since the riotous disturbances attending the Cuban general elections last year there have been mutterings of dlsxutent and occasional insurrectionary enterprises in various parts of the island. At that time there was a vloJent clash between the moderates and the liberal parties, and Gen. J-jse Miguel GomeÄ. the liberal candidate, openly defied the Talma government, declaring It to be guilty of election frauds and various forms of coercion. Riotous disturbances, Involving bloodshed, followed at Cienfuegos and elsewhere. The present revolutionary movement In the provinces of Santiago, Havana and Pinar del Rio indicates that the men who have been Inspiring thr various riots, dynamite plots and insurrectionary demonstrations that followed last year's elections are stlll'busy. Gen. Gomez is again at the head of the trouble and the movement has assumed. sufficiently serious form to warrant the government in -mobilizing troops, a pitched battle being' already reported. The fact that rebel proclamations are being liberally distributed among the rural guards recalls Gomez's boasts of a. year ago that In a crisis CO per cent of the troops would be found taking sides against the government. There is little to' Indicate that the present movement 'is anything other than an uprising of political malcontents and adventurers bent on getting control of the offices, though the recent action of President Palma la forcing the liberals out of power in the Havana council, causing them to - resign in a body, may be the immediate', exciting cause. ,At the time of the disturbance of last year It was reported that the revolutionaries rear object was' to create a situation which would menace the government with a threat of intervention by the United States. It Is quite probable that their activity now Is for political effect, with an eye to a more even division of governmental patronx Deepenin he Delaware Channel. The active work of dredging the Deaware river channel to a minimum depth af thirty feet was begun by the government dredges at the joint expense of the city and State, which have appropriated $700,000 for this puriose.v Lrnrhlng I'ostals Barrett. Postmaster Ramsay at Salisbury, N. C, refused to transmit postal cards bearing photographs of the recent negro lynching at that place. This action has now been confirmed .by the department at Washington, and the cards will be confiscated. Child Labor Law Undermined. The Philadelphia court of quarter sessions decided that two sections f the rhild labor law, which provide that children from the age limit to 10 must show certificates of their physical and mental qualifications, are unconstitutional, being contrary to the first section of the fourteenth amendment. . TrrPln Not n Cnre for Cancer. The London cancer hospital has discontinued the use of trypan as a treatment for canceras. Its exports have failod to obtain any beneficial results, from experiments made. ICthlc of School Music. Acting on the advice of Prof. Charles II. Thomuson, supervisor of music, the Toledo board of education will restore the music course, , which was cut from the high school three years ago. Prof. Thompson claims that the standard of student mortality has fallen noticeably since music was omitted. Folk Would "Wrlnir Stocks Dry. In advocacy of his plan to create a commission to regulate the rates of all public service corporations, Gov. Folk says the result would be to squeeze the water out of the stock on which the peoBle have been compelled to pay dividends.

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NEW MEAT INSPECTION LAW.

Secretary Wilson Anxlons to Itetore Confidence In Our Products. After the first' day of October 'next every piece of meat which leaves a packing house jr slaughter house will bear a brand or label marked "U. S. i:isjocteJ and passed." And according to regulations which were issued by the Secretary of Agriculture the other day this brand or label will be a notification to the world that the United States absolutely guarantees, under its official seal, that the product is clean, wholesome, and that it was packed and slaughtered under the mögt careful sanitary conditions which the iogenuity of man can devise. According to the census reports of tha year 1000 there were 0"J! packing plants in the Tnited States. The total capital invests in the industry was $237,&K),4 10, and the value of the annual product of these establishments reached the enormous total of $913,914,024. Of course this included a great many small establishments w hich are not affected by the WadsworthBeveridg? 'law, and the Secretary of Agriculture is not prepared to say at present jusf how many of these plants will be subject to goverument inspection, but the Secretary does saj, and he says it with a great deal of emphasis, that no establishment which fails to provide itself with government inspectors will bo permitted to ship a ham, a quarter of beef or a can of foods, in which meat enters as a component-part, to any place outside the Stare in which the establishment is unless it lirst provides for government inspection. The new law will be put into full force and effect on the first day of next October. On that day every ham, every side of beef, every strip of bacon, every can of lard, every package of meat food products, in, fact, every particle of foo4 of which meat forms a part, whether in a barrel, box, can or canvas sack, or in any receptacle or container, or loose, must bear a government stamp before a railroad company will accept it for shipment to a point outside tlfe State in which it was prepared. ... LABOR FAMINE IN NORTHWEST. Agriculture and Industrial Sections Loudly Call for Help. Scarcity of labor is the cry all over the Northwest from the head of the lakes to the wheat fields of the Dakotas, where the demand has reached a critical stage. In many :cases the farmers are offering from $2.fi0 to $3 per day and board and have not more than 50 per cent of the labor they require. The same conditions are being experienced Jh all lines of industry, including the railroads, contractors and miners both on the range and in the copper country. The labor famine iij the Northwest is pronounced the worst in the history of the section. Even. Chicago's bank failures are on a huge scale. . . ' Zion City's call for help is not addressed to the ravens.' No place left for that Syrian leper, it appears, but a balloon. The Monroe doctrine must be pleased at having a hall in Rio na ned after it. That New York woman's hotel is already having trouble with the age limit. In Russia when a workman strikes now the government strikes back with a club. Now that the Longworths are home the country can afford to look cheerful again. Russell Sage's body lies moidering in the grave, but his coin keeps workiug on. . The assassination business seems to be the only thing that is flourishing in Russia. Miss Viola Allen announces one of Ci last of her positive retirements from the stage. General Strike doesn't set in .to be any more of a success than the other Russian generals. There, is a suspicion in some quarters that the Czar's famous "iron hand' is sheet iron. ' ' It will be conceded that Pittsburg is the greatest steel, freight and trouble center in the world. The Standard Oil Company will have to use the card system to keep all its indictments straight. Modern method of running the Russian government is So a moving van from palace to palace. The Chicago courts have decided that Dowie is not entitled to everything that is not nailed down. The Russians didn't like to fight the Japs, but they kill each other with the greatest alacrity. If the revolutionists want the Russian peasants, to rise, they ought to feed 'em on baking powder. It is to b hoped the Pittsburg millionaire example of exchanging good wives for chorus girls will not be extensively followed. Pittsburg is to have a 21-hour national bank. Some of her bank officials have been working overtime already. Mighty bad accounting that would leave so many contributions to the San Francisco relief fund unaccounted for. The Standard Oil Company doesn't notice an indictment half as much as the average man does a mosquito bite. Those uncertain, hesitating, ineffective Russian mutinies remind tis a great deal of certain current presidential booms. A Boston scientist has discover?d 17 varieties of germs on a ten-dollar bill, yet there are rash people who are willing to take the risk.

The principal developments in commerce reflect sustained progress, season Chicago. able stimulus appearing in manufactures and distribution of necessaries. Aside from exciting conditions In pig iron, other leading industries find demands well sustained, heavy construction and transportation show augmentation, while dealings in the staples steadily expand and furnish exceptional activity among Jobbing branches In fall and winter goods. Fine weather and an .enormous influx of visitors have brough a gratifying increase of business to State street. Money circulates freely, trattiug defaults are small, and the purchasing power of the people makes fa vorabfe comparison with former periods. Advices from the tributary territory point to the strong financial i6sition of the agricultural interests, and wholesome Influence noted in enlarged country store operations, depleted stocks of merchandise. Another strengthening element Is expanded deposits of country banks and ability to take care of crop moving needs to a greater extent than heretofore. The markets for grain and provisions present a lower average of values' and lessened demands, but this is not surprising in view of the plenteous supplies. Iu other branches of activity conditions maintain much strength. Demands for finished products of the mills and factories show equal absorption, and this Involves additional pressure upon facilities. Railroads order not only liberal tonnage of rails, but also much required rolling stock and miscellaneous material. Dank clearing, $200,47o,G2S, exceed those of corresponding week in 1003 by 11.2 per cent. Failures reported in Chicago district number 28, against 24 last week and 30 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. Abundant crops aud an oversold steel Industry enSender sentiments of confi New YcrL dence that make the outlook bright for a continuance of present prosperous business conditions. Each week brings a new high water mark in some department, and the net result Is uniformly better than for the corresponding wecK Iu any previous year. The weather - has favored both crops and the distribution of merchandise, while the latter. Is Increased by seasonable bargain sales. Despite unprecedented preparations for 'business by liberal purchase of rolling stock, the railways are facing , a serious traffic blockade that cannot be avoided when the crops begin to move freely. Earnings thus far reported for August were 11.7 per cent larger than last year. No relief appears as to the supply of labor, production being reduced In .-ome cases where consumers are most urgent. Fall dry goods jobbing trade broadens, clothing manufacturers make heavy shipments and the leading Industries are usually -supplied with orders assuring active machinery well Into next year. July foreign commerce for the whole country far surpassed the same month In any previous year, especially as to Imports, which were close to the largest In any previous month, and at this port alone for the last week there were gains of $5.801,408 in imports and $1,510,833 In exports as compared with the same wefk In 1905. Chicago Cattle, common to prime fl.CO to $.r0;. hogs, prime heavy, $4.0C to $(I.4.j; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00. tc .j.3T; wheat. No. 2, 70c to 71c; corn No. 2, 4Sc to 49c; -oats, standard, 28c tc 20c; rye, No.' 2. 5-V to 57c;1 hay, timo thy, $10.00 to $1(1.50; prairie, $0.00 tc $12.50; butter, choice creamery, ISc tc 23c; eggs, fresh,' 10c to 20c; potatoes 4Sc to 51c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.0C to $0.00 ; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 tc $0.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 tc $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 00c to 71c.; corn. No. 2 white, 51c to 52c; oats, No. 5 white, 30c to 31c. St.' "Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $0.50; hogs, $4.00 to $0.40; sheep, $4.00 tc $5.50; wheat, No. 2, COc to 71c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 47c; oats, No. 2, 20c tc 30c ; rye, No. 2, 03c to G4c. Cincinnati Cattle, , $4.00 to $-",50; hogs, $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, $2.00 tc $4.75; wheat. No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c, to 32c; rye, No. 2, 59c tc die. Detroit Cattle, 44.00 to $3.00; hogs. $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 52c to 53c; oats. No. 3 white, 31c to 32c; rye,. No. 2, 50c to 58c. Ruffalo Cattle, choice shipping' steers, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, fair to choice,. $4.0C to $0.45; sheep, common, to good mixed, $4.00 . to $5.50 ; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $S.25. New York Cattle, ; $4.00 to $5.80; hogs, $4.00 to $0.75; sheep. $3.00 tc SS-TO; wheat, No. 2 red, 7Cc to 78c: com. No. 2, 55c to 57c; oats, natural white,. 3Gc to 37c; butter, creamery, 18c to 22c; eggs, western. lGc to 20c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 75c; corn, Ni. 2 mixed, 52c to 54e; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; rye. No. 2, 55c to 50c; clover seed, prime, $7.15. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern. 74c to 70e ; corn, No. 3, 4Sc to 49c ; oats, standard, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 1, 57c to 59c; barley, standard, 53c to 54c; pork, mess,' $17.05. The Lewis and Clarke centennial exposition corporation has declared a dividend of 23'& fer cent of the par value of the stock. Acting Tostmaster General Hitchcock has ordered a temporary postoffice established at Dale creek, on the Union Taeifk railway in Wyoming, to serve the Wat Department's camp of instruction, ten miles from that point. William E. Wilcher was hanged at Lexington, Va., for the murder of Henry J. Smith in August last, and Willian: Marcus met a similar fate at Charleston, S. C, for the murder of his bigamous wife on Sullivan's Island last April. The nation's bill for mineral water last year amounted to $0,811,011, according to the figures of the geological survey, and Wisconsin leads all of the States in the value of its product. Retail coal dealers in the east side of New York have formed an organization to fight the agents from whom they buy their supplies.

A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS.

Myriad of Them Laying Waste the Harvest Field of Hungary. ' Myriads of locusts are devastating the country in the neighborhood of Debreetin, Hungary. They are sweeping through the land, eating evcrj- green thing they find in their path. - The crops on 00,000 acres have already been consumed,' so that the ground is quite bare, and the authorities are helpless to stay the advance cf the insects. All sorts of desperate means are being trid without avail to keep back the invading host. Fires have been lighted, Jmt the locusts -swarm into the flames until they are extinguished, and the survivors continue their march unimpeded. Twelve steam rollers are being us?3 at one place, and roller brooms are sweeping up the dead bodies of the crushed insects. But no apparent progress is made. The locusts cover the earth in many places to the depth of several in?hcs, and defy annihilation. . To make matters worse, a storm has carried clouds of them over the River Theiss, and they have devoured practically all the corn, which was standing in sheaves. What is left is worthle s, as animals refuse to touch it owing to its peculiar smell. The plague first - appeared last year, when a force of 000 men was organized to destroy the locusts. This year the position of affairs is much wors?, and many farmers are threatened with ruin. NEED TWENTY THOUSAND MEN. Canadian Northn-est Canno't Hbn vet "Wheat Without Them. The wheat growers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan have sent forth a cry to the older provinces in the Dominion for men to assist them in harvesting this year's crop of wheat. The yield will be' greater than in any previous .season. Coupled with the yield is the increase in acreage and the farmers do not know-where they will secure sufficient help to harvest the crop. , j The Manitoba government estimates already in the province will be required that fully 20,000 men in addition to those already in the province will be required to care for the, crop of wheat.' The government has undertaken to secure men from the older provinces, and agents iave been placed in the larger cities with instructions to secure men and forward them to Winnipeg, from which point they will be distributed to the grain centers. The general prosperity of the country, which insures work for everyone; the heavy demand for laborers in western Canada and in our own Western States, and the usual demand for extra men at this season of the year for the gathering of the crops, ha-e resulted in an nnusaal shortage of farm help. NONCONTIGOUS TRADE LARGE. I Figures' for Flacnl Year Show Dutnes -vrlth "Dtpendencle." Trade of the United States with its non-contiguous territories amounted in the fiscal year just ended to $119,304,511. A. bulletin issued by the Department of Commerceand Labor says : "The shipments to the non-contiguous territories amounted to $öl,C00.Ok.C7, against $43,500,000 in the fiscal year 1905, this growth of about 20 per cent occurring in the shipments to Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico, but especially Porto Rico, while to the Philippine Islands there was a reduction of about $750,000. "Merchandise shipped from the noncontiguous territories to the United States amounted to $07,GG0.00G.G7, against $75,250.000 in the preceding year, this fall occuring almost exclusively in the shipments from Hawaii and being due chiefly to the decrease in the value of sugar." The value of gold of domestic production shipped from Alaska to the United States in 1900 was $12,500,000, against $9,000,000 the preceding year, and of foreign gold $7,500.000, against $10.750,000 last year, this "foreign" gold being the product of mines in the adjacent Canadian territory shipped to the United States through Alaska. 158 DEAD; CELEBRATED JULY 4. Siedlrai Journal Asserts 75 of These Died from Tetanua. One hundred and fifty-eight persons' are dead as a result of accidents in the United States during the last celebration of the Fourth of Julj Tetanus is given as the cause in seventy-five cases. The total number of injuries reported is 5,303, the largest in four years that statistics have been compiled. These figures are given in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. A comparison of the total of arcidents directly due to the toy pistol In the last four years shows a decrease until this year, when 979 persons were injured by blank cartridges. The report declares tlat the greater number of minor accidents were due to giant firecrackers. Of the injured twentytwo suffered complete IossVf sight, seventy-two one eye. fifty-six legs, arms or hands and 227 fingers. Root to Pan-American Conirrea. Secretary of State Root addressed the Tan-American congress at Rio de Janeiro, with a message of good-fellowship and cooperation, which created a 'most favorable impression. He said American natioas should aid each other, but that the United States coveted no territory. He complimented Latin America on its progress toward stable government. He declared that we wished no victories but those of peace, and no sovereignty except sovereignty over ourselves. No rights were claimed which we would not freely concede to every other American republic. He declared t"at the coming world's congress at fbe Hague, at which all Americ&u countries would be represented, would be "the formal and final acceptance of the declaration that no part of the American continent is to be deemed subject to colonization." . Soldlrra May Shoot Lynch Mob, Gov. Glenn of North Carolina has issued an order to the State militiv giving the right to fire on mobs without waiting for the permission of the local sheriff, as has been the custom. lie warns that every man composing a mob is without the pale of the law. Industrial Kami in Utai. Through the efforts of the f women's clubs of Utah, SOO acres of land have been secured as an industrial farm for friendless children. The cottage system will be adopted. French Farm Worker Win. The organization of the agricultural laborers of France into a union has resulted in successful strikes throughout the country, the employers having granted the increase in wages demanded. The movement hat, lasted only a month and is now spreading into Belgium. Cornertna Rhlnoceroa Market. ' It is said then? is not a single rhinoceros now to be had iu the open market and that collectors and circus owmrs were unable to secure one, and in consequence the price of these beasts in captivity has gone up until nce can be had at less than $25,000. I) mi finds "of Persian Rcfniree. More than 5,000 Fersians have taken refuge in the British legation ac Teheran fearing Turkish persecution during the absence of the high clergy. The priests who, left the city, after holding a, quiet reform meeting, are now at Ium, eighty miles southwest of Teheran, a. place of pilgrimage. The people demand the dismissal of the grand vizier, the reti'n of the priests and the codificati i ; o",. the laws. Five hundred British educators will . come to the 'United States this fall for I the purpose of studying the school system. I They will travel in limited parties. jf

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REPORT 0,352 DEFICIT. Afroaalaiti Sr' Shortage- Exlata ia Michigan City Fonda. Exr.ert accountants employed to audit the books of City Treasurer C K. Meyt-r of Michigan City reported having found a shortage of $0.352 in city funds for the year 1905. Of the deficit $5.473 is in tb street improvement fund. The shortages have bef-n discovered notwithstanding the abstn-e of a ledger and other important books from the city treasurer's ofSee, which have been missing 6ince the work cf auditing began. The accountantjS were employed by a committee of enizens. Whtn the findirgs were reported City CmptroIIcr Henry C. Van Deusen made a formal demand upon Treasurer Meyer for the amount of the deficit. Meyer a?ked fr an itemized statement, and eays if there is any shortage he does not know of it. FIRE AT CnAWFORDSVILLE. Firat Conflagration In That City in ElRhtr-flve Dar. The Crawfordsville fire department received its first call in 85 days, the other night, when fire broke out in Hanilton's livery barn on E. Market street. The barn was destroyed. . Ramsey's fiat building and O'Neal's tenement house also were damaged. The los is placed at $10,000. The lower rooms of the Ramsey block were occupied by Horace F. King, wholesale grocer; th plumbing establishment of Daniel . Pickett ; the offices of theIndianapolis, Crawfordsville and Westen Traction Company, and the urper floor by six families. BinXED DY FORMER HUSBAND Indiana Woman's Sta-ht Dralrarrd with Add at Her Own Door. ?-Irs. Ira Vandevender was terribly burned about the face and shoulders at her jom;?, as she claims, by her divorced husband, George Zumbarn. Mr Widevender .ind his wife have been living cd their. farm north of Tipton, and Mrs Vandevender had not seen Zumburn inc she received her divorce, two years ago She says he came to her door the other night, wearing a soldier's uniform, and without warning dashed sulphuric acid into her face. It is believed her sight is destroyed. , GIRL'S riSTOL HALTS AX AUTO. ReckJeaa Driver of Auto Car Forced to Show Polltenesa. A revolver in the hands of a 16-year-old girl brought a reckless autoist to tine near Columbus, and made him stop his machine in the road while the young woman got her frightened horse under control and drove around the motor car to a place of safety. MisS Margaret Green of Taylorville was the heroine of the adventure, but the same" of the man she subdued has not been exposed. BOLT ENDS CHURCH SXEET1V. One Member of Ladles Aid Killed and Others Injured at Wallaee. While the members of the Ladies Aid Society of the Christian church at Wallace were practicing for an entertainment a bolt of lightning struck and instantly killed Mrs. John Bellis. Mrs. Bessie Phillpot and Miss Una Shoeaf, who were also present, were seriously injured. The church building was badly damaged. I Indiana Solon a Benedict., 1 Congressman Newton W. Gilbert of Indiana, just appointed to the Philippine bench, was married in San Francisco to Miss Sprague of New York. Friends in the East were not Informed by the pair. Two Killed In Trala Vre-. . Truman Webb of Findlay, 111., and another man whose name is not known were killed and a third man was badly injured by the wrecking of a freight train near New Richmond. ' Barn Destroyed and Ilorae Killed. A lirge barn belonging to Marshal) Hess, two miles west of Morristown was destroyed by lightning. A horse was burned to death.

Inch and Half of Rain In 20 Minute An Inch and a half of rain fell in Vincence in twenty minutes. The streets vere flooded and several barns were blown li-wn. Anto Dreaka Boy'a Ljjr. James Stevens, a Chicago autoist, ran his machine .over a small boy in Michigan City, breaking the latter's leg. Indiana Attorney Killed by Train. Robert Co, a Democratic attorney, was killedvby an Illinois Central passenger train in Uvansvi'lc. Minor State Item. The Indiana State board of health has decreed that' kissing between children in the schools thould be barred. Sam Miles, aged 10, of Tell City was shot by his own gun,, the entire load entering his leg. His recovery recossitates the amputation of the wounded limb. The 3-year-old son of John Michalski of. Jackson township is. dead and Michalski and his wife aie dangerously i!l as the result of eating what they 6uppoed were mushrooms but in reality were toadstools. A large display of the pearls taken from the Wabah river is being made by W. D. Kurd, a dealer, in a show window at his home in Vinccnnes, which is attracting unusual attention. Collectively the assortment is worth $200.000. Leo Young, aged 10, arrested in Evansvi:Je for burglary, confessed to the police and said he conceived the idea of being a burglar by seeing moving pictures in a show representing how train , robbers worked. William Painter, a farmer in Parke ccunty. died of hydrophobia frcm a cat bite. In a moment of consciousness before the final couvulsion he caused his attendants to tie him in the bed for fear he would do some one harm in his struggles.' The d?ath convulsion was so strong that he tore the bed in pieces, but hurt no one. While sitting at the dinner table ridiculing his wife because she covered up her face to hide her eyes from a vivid electrical display during a Storni at Hartford City, William Fenner, a farmer, aged 45. was struck and instantly killed by a bolt of lightning. At a b'.g family reunion iu honor of Mrs. WT.JUai Weisse' birthday anniversary, Kolbe, the 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bernard, was drowned in the Wabash river, nine miles above V:nconnes. Sevvra! boys dipped off from the house and went down to enjy a swim after dark. The boys thought they knew the river well enough, but Bernard, it. is believed, ventuied out too far. As a result of a craving for fire Mrs. II. E. Dcnslow. demented, was burned to death. DA II. E. DensJow and Mrs. Eugene B.ilfour were probably fatally burned and Mrs. G. E. Hunt and child were seriously burned In South Bend. Mrs. Den?low, taking advantage of a temporary release from her husband's watchfulness, poured gasoline on ihe parlor carpet and applied a match. She was at once enveloped in flames. The others were burned while trying to rescue the burning woman. The Wabash railway station at Lakeville was entered by burglars. The safa w?s forced by nitroglycerin aci $13 cu - tK..'--1