Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 51, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 September 1906 — Page 2

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1903 SEPT. 1906

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S lOth. ISth, ) 2öth.Vgy 2nd PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Condition of Things are Shown Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Dismembered body found In New York Reveals Shocking Murder Shrouded in Mystery. A burlap bag staniied with the name Z. K. Mano," a strip of woman's skirt and an oil cloth table covering bearing a rude sketch of the landing of Columbus are the only immediate clews to the perpetrators of a revolting murder committed in Nev, York and accidentally revealed by a gruesome discovery in West Thirty-sixth street The dismembered body of a man, apparently an Italian, wrapped in the burlap bag was found in a hole twentyfour feet deep forming a part of an excavation where an addition to a brewery Is to stand. The discovery was .made by the day watchmap for the building contractors and late a systematic search by the police resulted in finding the parts of a man's legs from the knees down and the arms and hands. These were wrapped together In a newspaper of the date of September 10 and bound about the bundle was a strip of a woman's skirt. The bead and thighs of the man are missing. It is the theory of the police that the murder was committed near where the body was found and that three packages of the dismembered parts had been made with the purjwse that they be disjiosed of at some distance from the scene of the crime. The police believe that the persons carrying the bundles became alarmed and hurriedly disposed of them at the nearest hiding place. They expect to find a taird package in the same vicinity. Sixteen Killed in Race War. A race war of alarming proportions took place at Atlanta, Ga. Sixteen "persons are known to be dead, a score of both races wounded and the downtown streets are in jossession of efht companies of the Fifth Georgia mfanti-y, with a battery of light artillery in reserve. The police claimed, with the aid of the military, to have the situation under control. This condition came as the result of, numerous and repeated assaults upon white women by negroes. Dntch Kill Four Hundred Rebels. An official dispatch received at The Hague from Sail, an island near Java, where for some time the Dutch were conducting military operations against recalcitrant chiefs, reports the capfure At Pasar, capital of the vassal state of Badong. of two princes, rheir women and children. The followers of the princes, numbering in all 400 men, were killed in attempting a sortie. The Dutch losses were four Europeans killed and twenty wounded. Chicago Postal Operators Slay Strike, Operators In the Chicago office of the Postal Telegraph Company at a meeting voted to strike to enforce demands for Increased wages and Improved working conditions. Before the strike is put into effect, however, the schedule committee of the Telegraphers' Union will seek a conference with Vice President E. J. Nally In an effort to adjust the differences. Locomotive Kxplodedi teven Injured. A locomotive? blew up at Ferriday, La and badly Injured Engineer Ughtfoot and six other persons. The wounded, two of whom will probably not recover, were brought to the Natchez hospital on a special train. Wolcott-Rhodes Fight Stopped. The twenty-round fight for the welter-weight championship scheduled to take place at Leavenworth, Kas between Joe Wolcott, the negro champion, and Billy Rhodes, was prevent'.d by the police. Three Killed in Wreck. Three men were killed and six Injured In a collision between a freight train and a work train on the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley railroad at Rock Cut, nine miles north of ZanesTille, Ohio. U. S. Gnnboat Reported Lost. It Is reported that the United States gunboat Helena has been lost off the Chinese coast. No particulars have been received. Deaf Mute Killed by Traction Car. William Robertson, aged 27, a deaf mute, was killed by a limited car on the Union Traction Company's line Just out of Ingalls, Ind. Royal Bavarian Mint Robbed. The royal Bavarian mint at Munich has been robbed of a sum equal to $32,500 in newly coined 10-mark pieces. The thieves got Into the mint by creep ing through a dry underground canal which had been opened for cleaning. Dies in St. Joseph Fire. Fire in th livery stable of Windish & fccQulnn, near the business center of St. Joseph, Mo., at 5 o'clock on a recent gtorning resulted in the death of John L. Payne, a driver, who was suffocated. The jroperty loss was $28,000. Two Cents on leather Postals. Postmaster Busse of Chicago has reteived a letter from the Postoffice Department in which the failure of thounnds of leather postal cards to reach their destination was attributed to the fact that they did not carry a 2-cent :arap. New Zealand Is Stirred. The government land proposals, the post drastic in the history of colonial legislation, are creating intense .interest in New Zealand, especially the clauses compelling owners to sell within a decade the frcess of land held beyond $200,000, unimproved value. Strong opposition- it iroused. Austrian "Women Can't Vote. Under the new electoral reform biil is Austria the privilege hitherto accorded t.'omen who are landed proprietors of vot in; at parliamentary elections Is tbok ihed.

RUSSIA FACES FAMINE. Official Report Gives Little Hope to Peasants. The official report, just issued, gives little ground for expectation that the famine, which already has a grip on many provinces in Russia, will be less this winter. Although the winter wheat harvest generally was above the average, spring wheat proved a disappointment. The rye and oat crops also were unsatisfactory, especially the latter. The Volga region, the most fertile in Russia, was below the average in both harvests. The Polish provinces and the Baltics made the best showing, all the harvest being average. The winter wheat harvest was generally above the average, and only poor in the Volga region and less than average in the eastern portion of the central agricultural belt. Rye was less satisfactory, and only above the average in Poland and the six southwestern provinces. .Spring wheat was below the average throughout Russia. In the Volga region the harvest was bad, and in Ufa, Tamboff and Ryazan, among the largest provinces of the empire, unsatisfactory. Oats also made a bad showing, and only in nine of the ten Polish provinces carae up to the average. Barley was somewhat better, being good in all the Polish provinces and fairly good in the Baltics, fae southwestern provinces, a portico of Lithuania and in Vitebsk and Tver. The zemstvo coffers are empty through the failure of the peasants to pay taxes, and all the work of relieving the famine falls upon the central government.

CHEATS AT POKER BY MIRROR. Tiny Glass Attached to Player's Finger Discovered by Victim. In a game of stud poker in the early hours of the morning at the Americas in Pittsburg, one of the leading political clubs of the country, D. Joseph Johnston, a member, was suddenly grabbed by the wrist by Frank Saaer, another player. Johnston's captor twisted around the hand he had grabbed, revealing a mirror about the size of a dime, attached to a ring that Johnston wore on the third finger of his right hand, by the use of which he had taken the visible supply of money of his antagonists. Johnston was arrested on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. The charge was not pressed, but Johnston was forced to pay back to Sauer several thousand dollars Sauer said he had. lost to him and to restore the diamonds which were found in his pockets. He was then fined $50 as a suspicious person and told to hurry out of town. CONGRESSMAN HITT DIES. Veteran Illinois Statesman Expires at Summer Home. Robert R. Ilitt, Representative in Congress of the Thirteenth Illinois District, died Thursday at Narragansett Pier, R. I., aged 72 yr.ars. Iiis demise followed a week's sever illness from heart disease, from which he had been a sufferer for some month. Representative Ilitt occupied a prominent position in Illinois Republican politics for more than thirty years, lie has been the head of his party in his district and it3 Representative at Washington since 1SS2, passing to that office from the post of assistant Secretary of State. He was one of the most widely known Americans, his activities in public life embracing a diplomatic career as well as that of a legislator. The Congressman was born in Urbana, Ohio, in 1S34, and three years later moved with his father to 3Iount Morris, 111., where he has lived ever since. BONELESS MAN GOES TO HIS REST Could See, but Deaf and Dumb, He Attained Majority in a Cradle. Born -without a bone in his body and absolutely helpless Antonio Congro of Brooklyn, N. Y., lived for twenty-one years. lie died on Friday. His case attracted much attention from medical men who frequently visited the home of his father to examine him. From the day of his birth until his death' Antonio was never out of a cradle. He could see, but could neither hear nor talk. He was powerless to more hand or foot and yet was perfectly formed, except for the fact that he had no bones. Antonio was 20 inches in height and his body was broad. Despite the absence of bones, for years he apparently enjoyed the best of health. MODESTY WINS HIS JOB. Paymaster General Rogers Only Eligible Who Filed No Papers. Pay Director Rogers of the' navy, recently designated to succeed Paymaster General Harris, is said to be the only officer eligible to appointment as chief of the bureau who did not have an application on file asking for the place or whose friends had not interested themselves in his behalf. President Roosevelt, in looking over the list of eligibles, was impressed with the fact that Mr. Rogers had not applied for the place, and at once caused a letter to be written to him asking if he would accept. The letter was the first intimation Mr. Rogers had that he was considered. Zion Votes Dowle Out. The last trace of any claim that John Alexander Dowie may have had to the leadership of the organization he established was wiped out the other day in the ejes of the law by the almost unanimous election of Wilbur Glenn Voliva, his more youthful opponent, as general overseer of the Christian Catholic Apostolic church in Zion. Of a total of 1.919 votes cast, Voliva received 1,000, Bills C, and 7 were defective. More Land for Homesteaders. The President has issued a proclama tion opening the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian lands in Oklahoma. The Interior Department will announce the date for the reception of sealed bids under which the 505,000 acres of lands are to be disposed of to homesteaders. Railroad Investigation Scheduled. An investigation . into sensational charges connecting the Union Pacific Railroad Company and its auxiliary, the Union Pacific Coal Company, with exten sive land frauds is scheduled before the interstate commerce commission - in Omaha. Pennant Goes to Chicago. The Chicago National League team cinched the pennant by beating Boston while New York was losing to Pittsburg. Chicago is assured of half of the world's championship games and will . see all of them if the White Sox win the pennant in the American League. Anniversary of Boston's Founding The 270th anniversary of the founding of Boston was Informally observed the other day. The anniversary was marked bv the fonv.?l opening of the official bu reaa of publicity, designed to make known the industrial possibilities of Bos ton. Fourteen Hurt in Wreck. The Missouri River flyer, east bound, of the Topeka ? Santa Fe, was derailed three miles west of Kinsley, Kan. A baggage car, a coach and a chair car were overturned. Fourteen of the passengerj were more or less seriously injured. "Boy Broker" Ends His Life. Charles A. Wilson, aged 22 year3, known as the "boy broker," who made and lost a large fortune as a curb broker in Wall street, threw himself under the wheels of a trolley car at Fort Lee, N. J- receiving injuries from which he died. Wabash Employes on Strike. The machinists,, boiler makers and blacksmiths employed on the Wabash Railroad have gone out on strike to enforce their demand for ta increase is ' wages.

PLOWS OYER GRATES

OHIO FARMER MADE DEFENDANT IN SUIT. Parents of TV. J. Hrynn Said to Rest in Cemetery lie Would Make Wheat Field Of IV if Fire Loss tu Tacoma. George W. Ryiler, a farmer of Boars Den, near Young .town, Ohio, has been sued in court for plowing over the graves of the parents of William Jennings Bryan and others in a deserted cemetery. The plaintiff in the suit is Mary Ilerron. Ryder is also charged with using the In adstones for walks about his farm yard. During the ls!V. campaiim, and later on another speaking trip through Ohio, Mr. Bryan stopped at Bears IKn and endeavored to locate the graves of his parents. He said he was positive they were buried at that place, though he was unable to identify the exact graves. He intended to remove the bodies at some future date. The cemetery was abandoned some years ago, and finally was disposed of at private sale, with the understanding,' Mary Ilerron says, that the land was to be left sacred to the dead. Ryder later got the laid and now proposes to make it raise wJeat. FLEAS TERROR OF MILWAUKEE. Insects Actually Drive Members from the Country Club. Fleas have invaded the Milwaukee Country Club in Milwaukee, Wis., an exclusive organization, and have driven out the members. Match games on the golf links have been suspended, as the players had to devote themselves to hunting the pests and the caddies struck because "they itched much." The insects invaded every part of the handsome club house, driving women from . the spacious verandas and clearing dining and lounging rooms. The second district school may have to be closed because of fleas. Every effort to free the institution from the irritating insects have proven futile. Owners of many big factories have notified the health department that their establishments are overrun with fleas and that they may be forced to close down unless given relief. Dr. Bading of the health department says he can do nothing unless it is demonstrated that the fleas are spreading disease. BIG WIND CAUSES $100,000 LOSS. Tornado' Sweeps Over Springfield, Minn., Destroying Much Property. Eleven buildings were destroyed or dam-. aged in a tornado which swept overj Springfield, Minn., and vicinity, doing damage to the amount of $100,000. No lives were lost, though many people nar rowly escaped serious injury. Many trees were uprooted and grain stacks in the path of the twister were swept away like so many bits of puper. The storm was accompanied by a heavy rainfall, which amounted to almost a cloudburst. The precipitation was the heaviest in that section for years.. BIG FIRE LOSS IN TACOMA. One Woman Believed to Have Per ished in Flames. Fire destroyed the Tacoma Kastern railroad passenger station and freight warehouse and four freight cars, the Puyallup avenue bridge, a large livery stable, a saloon, restaurant and three dwelling houses in Tacoma, Wash. In the livery stable were more than 150 horses,' many of them of blooded stock. Less than half a dozen escaped. The total loss is Ap proximately $150,000. Mrs. Peterson. wife of the restaurant keeper, is believed to have lost her life. Die in Mexican Floods. Fifty-one persons were drowned In the recent floods in Santiago, Ixcuintha and the adjacent districts in the territory of Tepic, Mexico. The bodies, it is stated. were taken from the river. During the f.ood many persons took refuge in trees, remaining there until boats were sent to their rescue. It is reported that 500 people are homeless. Railway Collision in Ohio. As the "result of a head-on collision near Johnston Station, six miles north of Dayton, Ohio, between a south-bound Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton excursion train coming to Dayton shortly after midnight. Engineer J. C. Smiley was killed and Fireman John Turner was perhaps fatally injured. Shoot Russ General to Death. Gen. Nicolaieff of the artillery has been assassinated in Warsaw, Russian Poland. He was erroneously thought to be a member of the field court martial. GeM. Nicolaieff was walking on Wielka street when he was surrounded by five revolutionists and shot dead. The murderers escaped. Saved from a Flat Fire. Two fires in New York, one in a building in West Broad was, adjoining the Cosmopolitan Hotel, the other in a six-story flat house in Harlem, caused an aggregate loss of $50,000, drove the guets from the hotel and witnessed gallant rescues from the apartment building. Abandons Hope of Compromise. Secretary Taft has practically abandoned hope of arranging a compromise between the warring factions in Cuba and believes that American occupation of the Island is the only way to restore peace. He cabled his views to President Roosevelt, who will decide plans for the future. Americans Charged with Smuggling. The Canadian customs officials have seized the American fishing schooner Arthur Binney at North East harbor, N. S. It is charged that the schooner landed smuggled goods at Liverpool, N. S some time ago. The Binney hails from Boston. Stewart Declines Nomination. P. B. S'vart, Republican nominee for Governor of Colorado, has issued a letter at Denver declining to to accept the nomination, his reason being that he will not run on the same ticket with Chief Justice Gabbert, who is up for re-election. John T. Shayne Insane. John T. Shayne, a prominent Chicago furrier, has been adjudged Insane by the County Court and a trust company has been appointed his trustee. Overwork and high living are said to he responsible for his mental decline. Electric Cars in Crash. One man was killed and three others were severely injured when a Pacific elec tric car ran into an open switch and crashed against an express car on a siding in Pasadena, Gal. Extends Eight-Hour Law. President Roosevelt has issued from Oyster Bay an order extending the eight hour law to apply to all public work under the supervision of any department of the government. Novelist Churchill Beaten. Winston Churchill ran a close race with Flovd in the New Hampshire Republica n convention, and was beaten for the nomi nation for Governor by seventeen votes. Oklahoma Bridge Collapses. Eight persons were drowned and more than twenty injured as a passenger train was plunged into a river by the collapse of a high bridge near Dover, Okla. J. M. Longenecker Dies. Joel M. Longenecker, former State Attorney in Chicago, died after a short illness.

MANY DIE IN TYPHOON

DISASTROUS STORM IN KONG HARBOR. HONGVessels Are Sunk and Loss of Life Is Estimated at 1,000 Changed Ocean Currents Held Respoi sible for Recent Shipwrecks. Loss of life estimated at 1,000 has resulted from a typhoon which swept the island on which Hongkong is lo cated. Enormous damage has been done to shipping and other property. This is the news contained in cable dis patches received from the Chinese city. It is reported that the coast for miles Is lined with the wrecks of small sailing craft caught in the storm and driv en ashore. In Hongkong harbor many vessels foundered and officers were driven ashore. The loss of life was heaviest among the crews on vessels in port It Is reported that in numerous cases not a man escaped from the ships. Island in the China Sea. Hongkong is an island situated in the China Sea, off the coast of China, from which it is separated by a narrow strait. It was yielded to Great Britain by treaty in 1842. The roadstead has a we' --protected anchorage. Victoria, the capital, commonly called Hongkong, is situated on a bay of the same name, setting up into the north side of the Island. 4 The port Is a great center of the for eign trade of China. Total exports are roughly estimated at $125,000,000 and imports at $100,000,000. As a British colony on Chinese soil it Is the most Imjwrtant In its political and defensive position, and is the headquarters of the military, naval and mercantile estab lishments. The population of Hong kong, the city, Is about 275,000. Pacific Currents Changed. New York shipping men were much interested In a cable dispatch which stated that the steamer Empress of China on .arriving at Tokyo Sunday reported that considerable changes iir.ve taken place in Pacific Ocean currents. They regarded this as accounting for the stranding of so many steamers in the Faeiflc recently in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands. The steamers Manchuria and Mongolia and the UniTHE ARRIVAL Chicago Record-Herald. ted States transports Thomas and Sheridan have met this fate. The Tokyo dispatch adds that the report of tidal changes harraoulzes with the Kobe observatory's report of a great earthquake In mid-Pacific, which preceded the convulsion at Valparaiso by several hours and Is believed to have made important changes In the bed of the- ocean. As a result of the stranding of the Pacific Mail liner Manchuria and the transport Sheridan, both on their way to the Orient, and now followed by the Mongolia striking a reef near Midway Island, all within less than a month, there Is much congestion of passengers at Honolulu, and the long Interruptions of mails la causing great inconvenience. A Pro-Mutual Committee. In response to a call sent out by James C Colgate, the New York banker, twentyeight policy holders of the Olutuul Life representing $5,000,000 of insurance, met at New York and organized a committee to actively support the present administration. Mr. Colgate is the second largest policy holder in the company, carrying $1,500,000 on his life: , The committee, which will be known as the policyholders' protective association of the Mutual Life, elected James C. Colgate i resident and Wm. F. Harrlty of Philadelphia chairman of the executive conrmittee. They say that the international committee is merely seeking to obtain control and has made false accusations to this end. Man Is Orrn ,lotor Boat. The French inventor who recently astonished Paris by the introduction of motor boats has now adopted the petrol motor, so as to apply water propulsion direct to the human body. The apparatus is devised so as to keep the body afloat by means of air bags and a water-tight box containing the engine and fuel strapped to the back. The user sits on a sort of a saddle and two rods connect the engine with a propeller. The man steers himself by altering the position of his hands In the water. President Urses Religion. During the bicentennial of Christ church at Oyster Bay President Roosevelt said he could not understand why any American citizen fails to appreciate the essential need of religlm for the welfare of his country. He t nought that the different creeds were coming closer together all the time. Catholic Choirs "Sow Stale. In conformity with the decree of Tope Pius, Issued in November of 1003, only choirs composed entirely of male voices are now allowed to sing in nearly all Catholic churches. A Civic "Welfare Coiamlttee. The civic federation of New York City has appointed a general committee of k'xty to aid in improving the working conditions in the various trades and institutions of the cities. It includes many employers, as well as officers of labor unions. Already the first subcommittee, that of the metal polishers, has reported statistics showing the need of ver.tilation devices In the work places of this cralt.' Norfolk, Va., was selected as the meeting place for the next annual convention by the National Association of SpanishAmerican War Curses.

TREPOFF IS DEAD.

Great Russian Reactionary Passes Away Suddenly. Gen. Trepoff. Russia's "evil genius," died at Peterhof Saturday, and it is announced that angina pectoris was the cause, althougn there have been rumors that he was poisoned. Gen. Trepoff, whose name was indelibly linked with reaction and suppression of Russia, was in many respects a remarkable man. lie was a natural despot, a tyrant by inclination. gen. TBEroFF. education and conviction. He wa4 one of those men who have constantly appeared, like evil geniuses, in Russian history just at the time when conditions were more promising for putting an erd to despotism, to turn the Russian rulers from liberalism back into the paths of reaction. It was he who became the guiding spirit of the reaction, after Nicholas II. had issued his famous manifesto, in the fall of 1905, promising the people a share in the government. Holding the position of master of the palace, in league with the court plotters, who were determined to restore the old regime, he constantly had the Emperor's ear. Trepoff's life was many times attempted, but he always escaped. When the Grand Duke Sergius was assassinated, he was named governor general of Moscow. Later Trepoff was summoned to St. Petersburg and given the command of the Imperial Guards and made governor general of the city. He took up his residence in the wintei palace and became in fact, if not in name, dictator of Russia. Anarchy prevailed when he arrived. An uprising on a large scale was momentarily expected. Thousands had fled the city, But, with Trepoff in the saddle, the aspect of affairs changed. Troops filled the streets and dead walls were placarded with notices that the slightest disorder would be suppressed without mercy. Under iron hand the city became quiet. During those trying weeks plot after plot to kill him was discovered and frustrated. Two of his own nieces were involved in the conspiracy. But in his dungeon-like room in the center of the palace, where to bomb could reach him, save by shattering a dozen walls, with the telephone constantly at his side, he issued orders and received reports. The Emperor was made to believe Trepoff alone was capable of safeguarding the lives of himself and the imperial famOF AUTUMN. ily. And so, with the press howling at his heels, he retired to the Czar's palace to become master. Here, in a more congenial atmosphere, he took the direction of the campaign for the restoration of the old order of things. In all, six actual attempts on the life of Gen. Trepoff have been made within the last three years. Consul Milnor reports that SO per cent of th? lace manufactured in Calais, France, is exported to the United States Its value is $0.000,000. Speaker Cannon, Elihu Root, Sc-cretarj cf State, and Grover Cleveland are among tnose invited to the trans-Mississippi commercial congress to open in Kansas City Nov. 1. In an interview W. R. Hearst announced definitely his decision to stand for Governor of New York "as the candidate of the Independence League, but intimated that if the Democratic convention at Buffalo chose to Indorse him he would not object. The three richest men in the House oi Representatives are John E. Andrus of New York. William B. McKinley of Illinois and Wiliam R. Hearst of New York, with George F. Huff and Edward DeV. Morrell of Pennsylvania a close fourth and fifih. Gov. Guild was the recipient recently from the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the Revolution of a replica of the flag of Bunker Hill, hoisted by the colon ists June 17, 1775. Senator Benson, the successor of Senator Burton of Kansas, was one of the three lawyers in the State Senate in 1S81 who framed the first prohibition law the State ever had. Senator La Follette is a vegetarian. His daily menu consists of fresh vegetables, English walnuts and milk, and it is said a prize fighter anxious to get into the pink of condition would envy him. All the efforts of Chairman Quincy ol the Massachusetts Democratic committee, to prevail upon District Attorney Moran to withdraw from the governorship race and to leave the matter to the arbitration of Mr. Bryan, proved futile. Moran contended that no candidate opposed hit nomination. Candidates on the Pennsylvania fusion ticket, composed of Lincoln Republicans and Democrats, were formally notined of their nomination at Pittsburg. Lewis Emery, Jr., the head of the ticket, as well as the other candidates, pledged themselves to specific remedies lor existing evils and called on the public to do away with machine politics. The American Federation of Labor has decided to antagonize both of Cincinnati's Congressmen for re-election, namely, N. P. Goebel and Nicholas Longworth, the President's son-in-law, because of alleged indifference or antagonism to labor legis lation befor i the last Congress. The union organizers say that a list of names will be submitted to the Republicans and the Democrats from which they may nominate candid? tes acceptable to the organization. Neither Longworth nor Goebel appears In this list. Tom Seddon, a son of the late premier of New Zealand, has been elected to rep resent Westland in the New Zealand par I hament, in succession Co his father

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CUBA MUST BE GOOD.

PEACE ALONE WILL INSURE HER INDEPENDENCE. The Solemn Warning: by President Roosevelt Is Followed by Dispatch of Taft and II aeon to the Inland, and Revolution Must Cease. Washington correspondence: Events are c;owding one another in the Cuban situation. The revolt 'which a short while ago the Cuban government regarded with a semblance of contempt, professing itself able to crush in a short time, has develoited un til the l.nlted States has practically been constrained, in the interests of Ioace and order, to intervene. The Palma administration has failed to deal effectively with the revolt, which is now widespread, menacing the industrial, social and political order of the whole island. The first serious International phase given to the Cuban situation came, when three companies of United States marines were landed from the cruiser Denver, at the solicitation of charge d' Affaires Sleeper, acting in conjunction with President Talma. It was represented to the Commander Colwell that the marines were needed to" preserve order and safeguard American interests and they at once took up a position in Havana commanding the ?.- proaches tc President Raima's executive mansion. As soon as the authorities at Washington were advised of this proceeding orders were promptly Issued directing the withdrawal of the marines, with the exception of a guard to be stationed at the United States legation building. To allow the troops to remain around the palace of the President would be construed, it was feared, as an act of Intervention by the United States and as one favoring the Palma government. It was so construed by the insurgents in the field, many of the leaders of whom offered to surrender to the United States authority on board the cruiser Denver. The withdrawal of the marines, however, with the exception of the guard stationed at the legation, obviated this entangling difficulty. First Step Toward Intervention. The second and most important development in the situation came when, at conference held at Oyster Bay between the President and Secretaries Bacon, Taft and Bonaparte, representing the State, War and Navy Departments, it was decided to send Secretary Taft and Secretary Bacon to Cuba to investigate the conditions there and lend their good offices in establishing peace. President Roosevelt in a letter to Senor Quesada, Cuban minister to the United States, clearly sets forth the i sition of our government relative to present conditions on the island. In this letter the President professes his rood will and that of the American people toward Cuba and then defines our responsibility in tüe lnatter This nation, says the President, asks aothing of Cuba, save that it shall continue to deevlop as it has developed during the past seven years, that it shall know and practice this- orderly liberty which will assuredly bring an ever-increasing measure of peace and prosperity to the beautiful queen of the Antilles. Our intervention in Cuban affairs will only come if Cuba herself shows that she has fallen into the insurrectionary habit, that she lacks the self-restraint necessary to peaceful self-government and that her contending factions have plunged the country into anarchy. I solemnly adjure all Cuban patriots to band together to sink all differences and personal ambitions and to remember Aat the only way that they can preserve the SIX HUNDRED JUNKS SUNK. Loss by Typhoon at HonKkong; Reaches AppalllnK FlRures. The entire fleet of 000 fishing junks sailing from Hongkong was lost in the typhoon, increasing the death toll to 10,000 persons. Practically all the Baluchistan troops and GOO of the West Kent regiment are co-operating in clearing away the wreckage of the typhoon. Prodigious efforts are being made to recover the bodies, which are being carried off in cartloads. The full extent of the ivphoon's havoc is not yet known, but conservative estimates place the material damage at $20,000,000. Reports of disasters at sea are constantly being received. The steamer Albatross, with fifteen passengers on board, foundered near Futuamen pass. Only six passengers and two of the cr?w were saved. They swam ashore. The steamer Hongkong also was lost, and its entire crew is missing. The steamer Ying Fat, from Samchun, foundered and 3o0 passengers and ten of its crew are missing. Only two of the crew are said to have been rescued. Doctors DUcr as to Alcohol. During the recent meeting of the- British medical association, Toronto, opinions as to the value of alcohol were expressed. Prof. Woodhead testified that surgeons had come to the conclusion that alcohol interferes with the production of the state of immunity and that it interferes with the recovery of the patient. Also Sir Victor Ilorsley thought that the value of alcohol aa a drug was now practically nil. Continuous Smelling Process. Two Australian Inventors have found a new process for the continuous treatment of Iron ore, which is to be exploited throughout the world. It is a process for directly converting the ore into malleable iron or steel, and is said to effect a saving of 23 per cent. After the ore is concentrated it passes through a revolving cylinder and is brought into contact with the deoxidizing gas ; thence it falls into a bath of molten iron and is converted into steel or malleable iron, the whole process being automatic. Report on National Hanks. The Comptroller of the Currency reports that, with the addition of thirtythree banking associations chartered during August, the total number of banks being 0,102, and the aggregate capital rose to $S3S,SO!,775. The outstanding circulation is $509,852,303. Traut Sued for ,OOl,rtO. The American Banana Company has brought suit against the United Fruit Company, known as the fruit trust, for the alleged violatian of the Sherman antitrust law. The plaintiff charges that it is damaged to the extent of $2,000,000 through acts of the fruit trust. ' ew General of the Jesuits. The congregation of the Society of Jesus, which began its session at Rome Sept. 1, finally chose Rev. Francis Xavier W-rnz, a German prelate, as general of thte society in succession to -the late Father Martin, who died last May. Father Wernz was born in Wurtembrug, Germany, in 1S42, and has been connected with the Jesuit orgaization since the age of 15. He is recognized as a progressive man with modern ideals. Father Wernz will be known as the "black pope." Fire damaged Swift & Co.'s glue factory in St. Joseph, Mo., to the extent of 150,000.

independence of the republic ts to prevent the necessity of outside interference by rescuing it from the anarchy of civil war. I earnestly hope that this word of adjuration of mine, given in the name of ths American people, the staunchost friends and well-wishers of Cuba that . there ai i in all the world, will be taken as it k meant, will be seriously considered and will be acted upon and if so acted upon Cuba's permanent independence, hr permanent success as a republic, are assured. ' Under the treaty with your government I, as President" of the United States, have a duty in this matter which I cannot shirk. The third article of that treaty explicitly confers upon the United States the right to intervene for the maintenance in Cuba of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty. The treaty conferring this right is the supreme law of the land and furnishes me with the right and the means of fulfilling the obligation that I am undor to protect American interests. The information at hand shows that the social bonds throughout the island have roeen so relaxed that life, property and individual liberty arc no longer safe. I have received authentic information of injury to and destruction of America. property. It is in my judgment imperative for the sake of Cuba that there shall be an immediate cessation o hostilities and some arrangements which will secure the permanent-pacification of the island. Immediately after being notified of the action of this government President Palma Issued an order for the suspension of hostilities between the government forces and the insurgents and negotiations have since been under w::y looking toward the establishment of peace. If the opposing factions agree upon a mutually satisfactory ba:, there will not be much for the Taft commission to do beside lending its Impressiveness and authority to the immanency of the agreement If there is shown a disposition to haggle over the situation the commission will boldly grapple with the difficulties along the lines of the President's letter and compel peace under threat of intervention for the protection of life and. property, t'ncle Sara Ready to Act. This government Is fully prepared to intervene should necessity arise. Beside the Denver and the Des Moines, which has taken Secretaries Taft and Bacon to Havana, there are several vessels either in Cuban waters or reaSy to proceed to them. These are the Marietta, Dixie, Tacoma, Cleveland, Newark and Minneapolis. The Newark, carrying a force of marines, is at Havana and the Minneapolis, with -iOO marines. Is also In Cuban waters. The battleships Louisiana and Virginia and the battleship New Jersey are at Havana. From each of the battleships 500 men can be landed, and these with the marines from other vessels would be able to dominate the situation. Tiie general movement of naval forces to Cuba means more than the protection of American Interests. It means thit the navy is being so disposed that a cordon of warships may be thrown around the island republic, Importatloifs of arms and munitions effectually stopped and the revolution thus checked pending adjustment of Cuban affairs. This was done by the United States In Santo Domingo at the request of President Morales of that country. If President Roosevelt d sires to go further the navy will le ready to act. The President, however, docs not want annexation. It is believed that the people who started the present revolt did so with the Intention that ns a result the Uiiited States would annex the island. The present Intention of the United States government, however, Is not to annex Cuba, but to restore peace and leave Cuba in the enjoyment of her Independence. All uill depend, however, upon the disposition the Cubans show to enter Into a sincere and permanent peace.

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A Pennsylvania mail train bvoke all records on that line by the run from Harrisburg to Altoona, 132 miles in 119 minutes. The Illinois Central will soon have its own laundry in Chicago, where will be washed all the linen used on the 4,373 miles of this system. . A San Francisco report says that the Gould lines have secured right of way across central Oregon to some point on the Snake river as a terminus for the Corvalis and Eastern road. The preliminary statement of the Erie railroad for the fiscal year ended June 30, lfKV, shows gross earnings of over $50,000.000, an increase over the previous year of $4.277,000, and an increase in net of $1,547,000. The company incurred an additional expense of only $100.000 in conductiig the transportation of over $4,000,000 additional gross earnings. This is an indication that improvements which have been completed are producing the desired results in lessening the cost of transportation. It is a curious fact that the American stj-le of passenger coach, with end doors, a center aisle and seats on either side, was an English invention, while the European railroads cling to the side-door compartment car and use comparatively few of the end-door coaches. The Canadian Pacific is the first railroad in North America to serve afternoon tea on its trains. Those who wish the beverage purchase tickets at 23 cents each and in the afternoon tea, rolls, cakes and so on are brought into the sleeper. This custom, whhfi is English, will be adopted on transcontinental trains only. The Postoffice Department announced that the Pennsylvania railroad had agreed to put in operation on all its lines 70-foot all-steel postal cars, with a view to protecting the lives of postal clerks. James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern system, now on the Pacific coast on a tour of inspection, appeared before the corporjt'ons committee of the City Council of K -attle and protested against the route which had been selected by the Union Pacific railroad for its proposed entrance into that city. He said there was traffic enough for all, but that the route selected was objectionable to the interests represented by him. Two Japanese railroads have placed orders with an American company to supply them with mechanical block-signal safety devices. This is believed to be the first time the Japs have looked to us for safety appliances. The Illinois Central is to operate a farmers' special train south of the Ohio river. For several years the railroads of the North have run seed and soil specials through the middle West States and now fanners of the South are to be given the benefit of lectures on methods of increasing the diversified crops of Dixie land. As arming in the 6outh differs materially from the North, the talks will be of an entirely different nature.

J p, . i Trade generally derived j UliCäJü. added strength from the

government report confirming previous estimates of an unprecedented com crop. Production In the leading Industries exhibits no diminution, and the outlook is made satisfying by the enormous volume of accumulated forward work and well sustained current demands. Local construction shows seasonable progress, but new building enterprises exceed In value those of a year ago, Indicating that Improvements will furnish much steady work throughout the winter. In wholesale and jobbing departments expectations are fully realized. the orders for staple goods being the greatest In both value and variety this market has ever known. High temperatures caused interference with expanding retail activity, but the aggregate sales have maintained favorable eompailson with the volume of corresponding week last year. Despite Increasing transportation facilities dijüculty In obtaining prompt deliveries has become more widespread, but, while this drawback Is annoying to shippers, It testifies to the remarkable expansion of freight offerings. Traffic movements by lake are seen to he of swelling tonnage, while the earnings of Chicago railroads run far ahead of those In 1905. Money rates have risen to the highest po nt this year, but does not hinder legitimate business commitments, snd mercantile collections make a good showing. Iron and steel producers have not yet reached a position which permits easing of pressure upon capacity, though structural mills can make more prompt delivery than at any time this season. Surplus "'ore readily brings more than the contract price, and furnace product maintains the advance recently established, without any lessening of bookings for output during next spring, while fair tonnages are entered in rails, plates, xrerchant iron and wire. Failures reported In the Chicago district number 25, against 17 last week and 18 a year ago. Dun's Review ol Trade. T. v , j Trade, crop and IndusNSV iCfa. j trial reports are still al most uniformly favorable. An Immense luilEess Is doing In the vVest and Southwest, Southern Jobbing trade shows expansion, and Inability to get adequate supplies of many lines bf goods Is the main subject of complalut . at Eastern markets. September, like August, appears to te scoring heavy gains over the corresponding month a jear ago. OSc'al zrop reports confirm previous public and private advices of very large If not record yields, but price and traffic conditions are a bar to free movement. Car shortages are no longer subjects of speculation, but are an accomplished fact, and terminal facilities are also unequal to the strain. Money is rather easier, especially at the East, where lare gold Imports on special terms have weakened rates. Collections are In the main rather ?asler, although a few south Atlantic markets note delay, due to cotton crop ancertalnties. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.0 to $0.95; hogs, prime heavy, $1.00 to $0.05; sheep, fair to choi, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2. 72c to 73c: corn. No. 2, 47c to 49c; oats, standard, 32c to 35c; rye, No. 2. (Ue to 05c; hay, timothy, $10.00 to $15.00; prairie. $0.00 to $14.00; butter, choice creamery 18c to 24c; eggs fresh, 19c to 21c; potatoes, 43c to 31c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, choice heavy, $1.00 to 6.45; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2. 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 white, 48c to 49c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 33c. SLV Louis Cattle. $4-50 to $0.50; hogs, $4.00 to $0.V); sheep, $4.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2, 73c to 74c;' corn, No. 2. 45c to 47c; oats. No. 2, 31c to 33c; rye. No. 2, 59c to 00c. CincinnatiCattle. $4.00 to $5.40; hojs $4.00 to -$0.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 4Sc to 49c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 3l'c to 34c; rye. No. 2, Glc to 03c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, 72c to 74c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 50c to 32c; oats. No. 3 white, 34c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 5!c to Glc. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 74c to 78c; corn. No. 3, 40c to vSe; cats, standard, 32c to 34c; rye. No. 1, 00c to 02c; barley, standard, 53c to Ii4c; pork, mess, $1CLS0. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping st'-ers, $4.00 to $0.25; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.95; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to che'ee, $5.00 to $8.00. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $533; hogs, $4.00 to $0.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 7Gc to 7Sc; corn. No. 2, 50c to 5Sc; oats, natural white, 37c to 39c; butter, creamery, 18c to 25c : eggs, western, 19c to 22c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; rye. No, 2, 55c to 50c; clover seed, prime. $7.40. Scarcity of Labor Reported. Tke Dry Goods Economist recently sent postal cards to 3,000 of its subscribers in various States asking about the business conditions and the outlook for continued prosperity. Not more than 1 per cent of the replies is pessimistic. The greatest difficult, according to these replies, is the scarcity of labor at prevailing wares. In textile and coal industries the output is only limited by the number of skilled workers available. Fire, supposed to have been of inceniiary origin, destroyed an entire square of buildings ft Leesburg, Ohio. Loss $75,000. Meyer Freidman of Chicago, with two others, lease" a San Francisco business property, paying $1,750,000 for fifty years. The convention of the Chapcr General of America, Knights of St. John and Malta, completed its work in Buffalo, N. Y., and adjourned to meet next year at Philadelphia. : Without any discussion the trades union congress ia Liverpool unanimously instructed the labor members of parliament to introduce a bill providing for ths nationalizing of all railways, canals tz.1 mines in the United Kingdom.