Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 1, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 October 1906 — Page 2

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F. Q.P.M. 24thA?J 2nd. lOth-lTth PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Thine: re Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. France Wins Vanderbflt Cnp. France won the third International automobile road Aice for the William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., tup, completing a record of three straight victories in this event, which was run over the turnpikes of Long Island, the center of the course being about twenty miles from New York City. Italy was second in tba race, France filled third and fourth lit S S m . m position?, wnne uermany iurnisnea tne fifth car. Only these five . machines completed the tenth and last lap of the course, which was 29.71 miles in length. The total distance of the race was 297.1 miles, and Louis Wagner, driver of the winning car, made the distance In 290 minutes 10 2-5 seconds, a speed of more than a mile a minute for the entire distance. . Sensational Kan on Princeton Bank. Depositors of the Citizens' Trust and Savings Bank at Princeton, IncL, made a sensational run on the bank a a result of a rumor , on the streets that the bank was in an unstable condition. After a time the excitement quieted down and after being assured that the rumor was false the depositors replaced their money In the hands of the bank. The rumor was entirely false and the officials of the bank are at a loss to know where it came from. Sufficient funds were on hand to supply the rush of depositors. Mystery Surrounds Woman's Death. , Mystery surrounds the death of Mrs. Laura Ay res. 50 years old, a wellknown 'and active church worker of Shelbyville, IniL, who was found dead In her bed with a bullet In her brain. The coroner and prosecuting attorney are making a rigid . investigation. Charles J. Ayres, the husband of the woman, maintains he heard no shots, although he was sleeping in an Adjoining room with the door ajar. Two Negroes Lynched in Alabama. Two hundred masked men met Sheriff Towers with the two negroes charged with assault at Richardson's" j awitch, three miles north of Mobile, Ala., on the Southern railroad, and took his prisoners from him and banged them on the spot No others were hurt The negroes had been taken to Birmingham for safe keeping and were being brought to Mobile for trial. Lingafelter Found Guilty Again. ' Cashier Lingafelter, who wrecked the Newark Savings Bank at Newark, Ohio, some two years ago, was found guilty of forgery after the Jury had been out eighteen hours. Lingafelter was cashier of the savings bank and was highly thought of by Newark people. He was sentenced to the penitentiary a jear ago, but secured a new trial witl: the above result. Nejiro Murderer Escapes Indiana Mob. Alfred Stephens, proprietor of a street lunch wagon, was shot and killed at Bloom Ington, Ind., by Edward Jones, a negro. Two attempts were made to take the negro away from the officers, but the negro was spirited away in a buggy. The negro demanded a sandwich without paying for It and upon being refused shot Stephens. Twent j-fcur Homes Destroyed. Twenty-four dwellings were destroyed and families rendered homeless with a loss of about $123,000 in a disastrous and spectacular fire which visited Rensselaer, N. Y., Just across the river from Albany, and at one time threateied to Wiie out the entire lower end of the city. Hlg Fire in Louisville, Ky. . Fire in the warehouse of the Mayfield Woolen Mills at Louisville, Ky., did damage estimated at $350.000. It Is cc.ered by insurance. Four hundred people are thrown out of employment temporarily. The fire Is thought to have originated from spontaneous combustion. i Gambler Murders Newspaper Man. William A. Dowell, a prominent newspaier man, connected with the Minneapolis Tribune, was murdered at 21inncaiolis. Minn., by John P. Quirk, an alleged gambler. . The cause Is unknown. Race Riot in Georgia While negroes and whites were at a side show at the fair In Macon, Ga., a quarrel ensued and three men were ahot and a riot followed. Military companies were hurried to the scene to prevent an outbreak. $75,000 Fire in Chicago. The large plant of the Chicago nousewrecklng Company, covering a full square, was damaged to the extent of $75,000 by fire. Cleveland Gas Plant Burns. Fire which followed an explosion in the plant of the Pittsburg Plata Glass Company on West Third street, Cleveland, destroyed the structure and damaged neighboring buildings. The loss is estimated at from $300,000 to $500,000. Divorce Proceedings Threaten. The wife of Senator Thomas C. Flatt of New York is said to be preparing to fight a divorce action. A coachman in the Senator's employ is said to figure in the case, and, rumor says, "a well-known actress, once prominent as a living picture, will be dragged into the proceedings. Gas at 28 Cents. A natural gas franchise, which gives the Kansas City (Mo.) Gas Company the right to serve the city with natural gjs for thirty years at an average rate of 2S cents per 1,000 feet, ha been passed by the City Council and signed by Mayor Bardslee. Two Perish in Burning Barn. Two members of a thrashing crew were burned to death and four others are in the hospital suffering from burns as the result of a fire start d by smokers in a barn in which the crew were sleeping, four miles

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WEATHER FROM WHOLE WORLD. The United States to Beach Out Into Alaska and Siberia. The United States weather bureau is reaching octopus-like and getting its tentacles on the weather business of the world. A great impetus to long-range forecasting has been given by the Russian government's acceptance of a propo sition whereby daily reports will be made to the weather bureau in Washington of weather conditions through Russia and the vast Tegions of Siberia. Co-operation with Canada for a long time has given this government the benefit of weather data from the Canadian northwest as far as Medicine Hat and Edmonton, but to this have Just been added arrangements for reports from Alaska. Daily reports will soon be had from Dawson City, Sitka, Nome, Fairbanks and other points. With the weather bureau in touch with conditions throughout the United States, Canada, Alaska and Siberia, it will practically know what the weather is clear around the globe in the north temperate zone. It is, moreover, in touch with the West Indian region. The wireless telegraph will enable it to know quite accurately what is going on in the north Atlantic. Medicine Hat, Assiniboia, has been known as the place where the weather is made. The weather experts say it has no monopoly and that the origin of much disturbance is in the great Lake Daikal region of Siberia. It is described as the center of a vast region of primary meteorological action, especially important in winter.

DIVES TO HIS DEATH. Prizefighter Leaps from Bridge to Win Bet and Is KilkL Just to show his f rinds he had "nerve" enough to do anything that a former sailor with something of a repitation as a diver could do, Edward Cam on leaped to his death from the middle ol the suspension bridge in Cincinnati.' A saloon argument led to a bet which Cannon made with Lou Baldwin to do a double bridgejumping act. The two men agreed to jump from the middle span o fthe suspension bridge and swim to the Kentucky shore. Skiffs had been stationed in the river below to pull the swimmers into the boats if necessary. Cannon was the first to jump. He struck the water and failed to appear. One of the party involuntarily clutched the other jumper and he fell back to the bridge. That probably saved his life. No trace of Cannon's body was found. "Hags" Cannon was a well-known character to the sporting element. He was a prize fighter 29 years old. Baldwin was formerly a sailor, and his boasts of jumping and diving, it is said, led to the wager which caused Cannon's death. COMMITS DOUBLE CRIME. Fred Athenstadt Returns to Home and Causes Double Tragedy. Returning to the home of his wife and two children whom he had abandoned. Fred Athenstadt, a barber in Chicago, murdered the woman by cutting her throat with a razor and then committed suicide with the same instrument. Mrs. Athenstadt managed to climb a flight of stairs to a neighbor's flat. "My husband " she began, and fell to the floor dead. Mrs. Athenstadt lived at SOG Washington boulevard. Her husband, who is 30 years old, left home a month lgo after she had caused his arrest bemuse he threatened to shoot her. The children, both girls, aged 2 and 8 years respectively, were taken in charge by tb police. - BOLT PLAYS STRANGE PRANK. Lightning Takes an Odd Course Through House One Killed. During a severe electrical storm lightning struck a tree In the yard of J. R. Bateman, in West Stella, Neb., ran down the tree until even with the house and then, tearing off a shingle, entered the house, going through a kitchen cabinet, and crossed the room, tearing off a siding board, then following the water-spouting into the ground. The family was in the room at the time and Orville Bateman was severely shocked. Three miles north of town a horse belonging to Alphonso Bourke was killed, while another horse in the same stall was stunned, but recovered. WILD WEST SHOW BURNS. One Man and Many Animals Lose Their Lives at Geneva, Ohio. Cummins' Wild West show, owned by Walter L. Main, was destroyed by fire in winter quarters in Geneva, Ohio, Tuesday. One employe was burned to a crisp. All the animals except four elephants and two horses were consumed. The loss will be $40,000, with no insurance. The fire is supposed to have started from a lighted cigarette or cigar. Throws His 'Son from Bridge. In Pittsburg Patrick Coyne threw his 3-year-old son over the 22d street bridge into the Monongahela River and jumped after him In an attempt to commit suicide. The boy was drowned, but the father was rescued by some river men and taken to the hospital. The only thing he would say concerning the murder of his son was that he was drunk' and remembered nothing of the occurrence. Lillian Russell Is Robbed. Lillian Russell was robbed of a hand satchel containing many diamond.' shortly after she had boarded the Big Four fast-bound train 'at Dayton, Ohio. The loss was at first estimated by Miss Russell's manager to be $5,000, but she said later in the day. upon her arrival at Columbus, that it would not amount to more than $2,500. Score Hurt in Fatal Crash. A child was killed and a score of men and women injured, five or six dangerously, when a runaway car of the Yonkers, N. Y.f street railway dashed down the steep incline of McLane avenue and jumped the track at a sharp turn at the foot of the hill, turned over, burying the passengers in the wreckage. Bnssia May Have Regent. The Czar's absence from Russia has given rise to discussions in Paris over a report there that his majesty might cease to direct the affairs of his realm. The Petit Farisien in this connection prints a St. Petersburg dispatch saying that court circles are seriously discussing an eventual regency. Would Curb Corporate Wealth. - President Kooseveit in an address at narrisburg, Ta., declared there is need of the curbing of corporate wealth, and that Congress, not the States, must apply the remwly. He opposed government ownership of railroads. Train Runs Into Open Bridge. A passenger train on the Louisville aid Nashville road ran into an open bridge across the Cumberland river at CI ark sville, Tcnn. Engineer Frank Parker and Express Messenger Will Wood are missing. Sixty-one Lives Are Lost. The emigrant steamer Charterhouse, sailing between Hoihow anu Hongkong, foundered off Hainan head on Sept. 30. Captain Clifton and sixty passengers were lost. Mormon President Arrested. President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon church, has been arrested in Salt Lake City on tbj charge of living unlawfully with five wives, the entire proceedings being conducted by fellow Mormons. anUSSBMIMVSS' Suicido of Wealthy Georgian. A man who shot and killed himself on the street in Stockton, Cal., Friday night has been Uentified as J. G. Carmichael, Jr., ton of a wealthy Jackson, Ga., man.

KILLED IN A SUBWAY.

SIX MEfJ DEAD IN PHILADELPHIA EXPLOSION. Escaping Gas in Rnpld Transit Tunnel Under t'onat rnet inn Cniue Accident Tornado Spreads Death and Destruction In Louisiana. A terrific explosion of illuminating gas in the subway of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, under construction at Sixth and Market streets, resulted in the death of at least six men. About a dozen others were injured and property damage that will run into thousands of dollars was caused. The explosion occurred shortly before 7 o'clock, when few workmen had gathered. It was caused by a leak in a city gas main that had been improperly repaired. The escaping gas formed in a pocket and it is believed that a workman carrying a lamp into the great hole ignited it. The corner of Sixth and Market streets is one of the busy points in the city, but there was little traffic there when the explosion occurred. The force of the explosion wrecked the subway for half a block and all the heavy timbering and other structural work, including tons of earth, fell into the excavation. A heavy rain during the night had slightly weakened the walls and added to the damage. Just as the gas ignited a four-horse dirt cart was being driven directly across the covered subway by a driver of the Millard Construction Company, which is 'milding the subway. Vehick, horses and man were blown high in the air and the horses and cart fell into the hole. The driver landed "in the street and was only slightly hurt. Several workmen standing near the derrick were blown across the street and killed or injured, and a number of other persons were hurt by falling glass and signs. ' SCANDAL IN NAVY GRAFT. Boilers of New Warships Said to Be Filled with Defective Flues. The vitals of the United States' crack war vessels are declared to be filled with boiler tubes that were rejected by the government inspectors, according to charges against Pittsburg concerns. The United States government, through the Department of Justice, w investigating charges that defective boiler flues were supplied by the Shelby Steel Tube Company for the new warships Maine, Colorado, Georgia and Pennsylvania : that government' stamps were stolen and used to get defective flues past the inspectors, and that cars, after being sealed by the government, were broken open and defective tubes added to complete shipments. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Newberry declares that as soon as agents finish investigation, action will be taken by the government. The warships directly involved in the charges, and which cost $14.505.000, are the new battleships .Maine and Georgia, and the armored cruisers Colorado and Pennsylvania. DEATH III SOUTHERN STORM. Tornado Strikes New Orleans and Vicinity Four Persons Killed. A tornado passed diagonally across the residence sections of New Orleans about S o'clock Friday morning, taking off roofs, tearing down fences and doing other damage. A dispatch from Hammond, La on the Illinois Central road, about fifty miles from New Orleans, says that a tornado (mck Poncbatoula the same morning, killing four persons and injuring a number. The damage to property wis heavy. The Jai Alai skatinjr rink at Milan and Carondelet streets. New Orleans, was blown to pieces and the debris from it scattered in every direction. Along its whole path of three miles or more damage was done by the storm.'' CHILDREN SEE DOUBLE CRIME. Angered by Divorce Suit, Man Kills Wife and Takes Own Life. Will Remick, a former resident of Great Bend, Kan., shot and instantly killed his wife and then himself. Their three children were in the house at the time and were witnesses to the shooting. Domestic trouble caused the tragedy. The Remicks separated by agreemnt several months ago and Mrs. Reniick was to keep the children. Later the father kidnaped a son, bit was forced to return the child in a few days. Last week Mrs. Remick filed a suit for divorce and this is believed to have incensed her husband. Strikes Child in Falling. Albert Berger and Henry Reidlinger, painters, were hurled from the fourth floor of a building on Woodward street, Cincinnati, by the breaking of the scaffold. Berger sustained a fractured skull, internal injuries and broken arm and leg and will die.' He struck Kosella Nieman, 4 years old, who suffered serious internal injuries and 'may die. Iliedlinger managed to catch the rope and slide down safely. Alaska-Pacific Fair in 10O9. In one day Seattle oversubscribed nearly $100,000 the $500,000 stock issue, of the Alaska-Pacific-Yukon Exposition, which is to be held in that city in 1000. The actual amount of cash in hand at midnight was $489,350. The rest of the subscription is covered by pledges. Accused Man Collapses. Cashier James Lingafelter collapsed in court in Newark, Ohio, at the beginning of his trial on a forgery charge when a message was received saying that his son had been refused a new trial by the Supreme Court. Lingafelter's wife also will be tried soon for forgery. Daughter Born to Governor. A daughter was born to Gov. and Mrs. Charles S. Deneen at the executive mansion in Springfield, III., being the fourth child. The joy that such an event usually brings is shadowed by anxiety caused by the serious illness of Mrs. Deneen. Hauls Burglar to Police. John Wipf, a gardener near Omaha, caught John Smith, a burglar, bound him, took him in a wapron to Omaha and turned him over to the police. Smith offered Wipf $2,000 for his releasf and the police found V had that much money. Mob Attacks a JaiL A mob stormed the county jail in Mobile in an attempt to lynch a negro who attacked a white girl, and two men were shot, one fatally. The Governor called out the troops, and a repetition of the Atlanta horror was threatened. Gotham Fire Imperils Scores. Ninety families were driven from their homes, three firemen were injured, property valued at $50,000 was destroyed and surrounding property valued at millions r-is seriously threatened by a fire in the heart of the leather district of New York. Piatt Gives Away Property. Senator Thomas C. Piatt Is reported to have given away virtually all his estate to his sons and grandchildren to prevent Mrs. Piatt from obtaining a large settlement In suing for 'divorce. i 1 Child Eats Calomel Tablets. In Geneva, Xeb., Fern, the little daughter of Dr. J. Puckett, swallowed forty calomel tablets, thinking them candy, and died three hours later. Two Killed by Caving Dlrit. Two Italian workmen were killed and turee others were injured by a cave-in at the Goodale Park intercepting sewer -in Columbus, Ohio.

AFFAIRS IS CUBA.

UNCLE SAM'S PROTECTORATE IS TO BE ONLY TEMPORARY. Rebels Laying Down Their Arms and Peace Hein: Restored Cuban Elections Are Still a Long Way Off Winthrop Governor. In spite of her shortcomings and of the revolutionary methods which have produced anarchy on the Island, Cuba is to be saved from herself. An American provisional government has been proclaimed by Secretary Taft to take the place of that which ceased to exist when the Cuban Congress failed to choose successors to President Palma and the Vice President, Mendez Capote, both of who.se resignatins were tendered to the Congress. Previously the. resignations of the members of the cabinet had been accepted by President ralma, so that Cuba found herself without a government. Secretary Taft thus became by proclamation the temporary provisional head of the Cuban government. The unique feature of the temporary change of government is that so far 03 possible all public officials are retained, the Cuban flag is kept flying over public buildings and the goverutnent Is being administered in accordance with the Cuban constitution. Formerly, Intervention and protectorates meant the substitution of the flag and laws of the Intervening .power; but in this case there Is no such substitution an object lesson to the world of the disinterestedness of the United States govern .nent. Cubans Well Disposed. The action ci Secretary Taft, representing the United States government, has been received admirably by the Cuban people, with rare exceptions, and now the work of administering the govTROOPS LEAVING FORT ernment, of disarming those who had taken the field In opposition to President Talma and of restoring order and confidence is being carried on smoothly. A commission on disarmament, at the head of which Is Brig. Gen. Funston, was appointed to co-operate with a similar -commission appointed by the insurgents. This mixed commission U visiting the military camps, receiving the surrender of the arms of the insurgents and sending the latter to their homes. , Meantime American marines, who are being strengtbemd by the addition of C,000 troops orde.-ed to Cuba by President Roosevelt, re maintaining order on the Island.' Secretaries Taft and Bacon are now working energetically to effect Internal reforms. They hope to have things In such condition as to e able to leave Cuba soon, feeling satisfied that after the arrival of Gov. Beekman Winthrop of Porto Rico the new provisional head of Cuba, their services will no longer be required.. The first and most pressing reform will be the revision of the election laws. When the new elections will b held has not been determined. The Cuban constitution calls for the election of half the members of Congress a year from next December, but the last election, whereDy the other half was seated, having been declard illegal, and there being no President or Vice President in office, the election of those officials and that half of Congress whose title was questioned v.i'A be held as soon as the Island is thoroughly pacified. An important movement In connection with the Cuban elections, no matter when they may be held, has started among the fortlgn residents who have considerable property Interests on the Island. They all want annexation or permanent American occupation in the form of a protectorate, and they believe one proposition or the other can secure votes of enough Cubans of property to enable them to carry out their purpose if they can get it to a vote. A league Is forming to urge the provisional government to allow the submission to the people at the uext election of these three propositions : Shall Cuba remain a purely native government; shall It be annexed to the United States, or shall It have a government under the protection of the United States? It Is said that all peions with property interests will vote' for one of the two last propositions and that they wir be able to influence so many native votes that one of them will be carried. This, of course, means thaf all foreign residents shall be allowed to vote on the propositions, which they are now prevented from doing by law. Of course In this particular the provisional government will be guided by the attitude of Washington and this attitude Is still unknown. Judging by the time that must elapse before the Cuban elections are held, the American military occupation of the Island will be long continued, for of course the military power of the United States must be maintained until Cuba is again able to look after her own affairs. The C.000 troops ordered to Cuba will, It Is expected, be able to deal with tbe situation, but If necessary, additional troops will be sen. The maintenance of peace and order U the first consideration. Progress of Electro-Thernpeutlcs. The sixteenth annual meeting of the American Electro-Therapeutical Society was held at Philadelphia with an attendance of over 100 physicians. The addresses showed that electricity is steadily gaining ground as a means of curing disease. Dr. F. B. Bishop of Washinon asserted that locomotor ataxia is cur-ole by electric treatment if taken in its early stages, and greatly relieved in its later ttages. Vice President Fairbanks will take part

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DECREASE IN PENSION BILL.

Death Thins Ranks of Civil War Veterans Interesting; Figures. The net decrease in the pension roll of the United States for the fiscal year ending Junv'SO last amounted to $124,470, the largest decrease in the history of the country. These f-.cts are brought out in the annual report of Commissioner of Pensions Warner, which has just been completed. In the report the commissioner expresses the opinion that there will be a still more marked decrease during the present year. During the year there were added to the roll 33,509 new pensioners and 1,405 restorations and renewals, making a total addition of 34,974. The total number of pensioners on the roll during the year was 1,033,415. The number of pensioners dropped from the roll during the year was 47,441, leaving the number of pensioners June 30, 110G, at CS5.971. The maximum number of pensioners in the history of the bureau was reached Jan. 31, 1905, when it was 1,004,1J0, since which date there has been a steady decrease, aggregating to June 30, 1900, 18.225. Death was the principal cause of the decrease of the last year, the number of names dropped on that account being 43,300. Of these 29,208 were those of survivors of the Civil War, leaving 000,453 survivors of that war still on the roll. There are still four pensioners on account of the Revolutionary War, one a widow and three daughters-; COO, all widows, on account of the war with Spain, and 11,472 on account of the Mexican War. The commissioner calls attention to the fact that, while there has been a material decrease in the number of pensioners, the annual value of the roll is nearly as large as it was last year, arising from the fact that the ratings of many invalid pensions are constantly increasing. Pennsylvania has the largest number of pensioners 98.829. Ohio follows with 08.504 ; New York, 89,240. More than 5,000 pensions are paid to persons residing abroad. Of these 3.507 are in Canada, COS in Germany, and 495 in Ireland, the others being scattered. During the year 23,C28 claims were alSHERIDAN FOR CUBA. lowed under Order No. 78, allowing oldage pensions. Since the beginning of the Civil War there have been granted by special acts of Congress 17,215 pensiona. and an increase of pensions of which 10,417 are now on the rolls, with an annual value of $2,937,020. During the last session of Congress 3,507 special acts were passed. The report shows that in the entire history of the country the total expenditure on account of pensions ha? been $3,439,S(0,311, of which only $00,443,444 had been paid prior to the beginning of the Civil War. Of the total $3,259,193,300 was on account of fnc Civil War. The total payment of pensions on account of the Spanish war reaches $13,438,555 up to date. The disbursements for navy pensions during the year were $4,204,004 and the income from the navy pension fund available for the paj-ment of pensions was $303,018, or less than 9 per cent of the amount required for the payment of navy pensions. Since 3670 this fund has been inadequate to pay navy pensions, and the deficiency has been provided for out of the public funds by congressional appropriations. Me - Ji Wmm ' V The Democratic primaries in Massachusetts resulted in a majority favorable to the nomination of District Attorney John B. Moran of Boston. The result of the primary elections in New Jersey was a complete triumph of the regular Republican organization over the reform or new faction. The Democrats of Hawaii have nominated for congressional delegate E. B. Lanahan of Honolulu. He is the first white man to be named for ofüce in the history of the island. Thomas Bentham, a member of the miners' union and an influential leader of organized labor in Ohio, was named by the Democrats at Cincinnati to oppose Nicholas Longworth, the son-in-law ol the President, for Congress. The city of Philadelphia has had the remarkable experience of a reform Mayor suddenly turning upon the reform organization known as the city party, because of its failnre to nominate for district attorney the man whom he favored. An indication of the importance with which Socialism is regarded in Colorado during the present campaign is the acceptance of United State Senator Thomas M. Patterson of the challenge to meet Walter T. Mills in debate. The Socialists are making a most determined effort to enlist the entire forces of organized labor in favor of their candidate. In many counties of Texas Democrats have circulated petitions for conventions to instruct legislators against the re-election of United States Senator Bailey, because of the disclosures in the Missouri ouster proceedings concerning his alleged connection with the Standard Oil Company. Senator Bailey has given out a statement in his own defense. In this he says the same kind of fight was made on him six years ago. He declares that if a man in public olEce has no right to pursue his private business such a doctrine "would confine the public life of this country to only rich men or rascals." In his Chicago speech to open the republican congressional campaign in t'.c midwest, Senator Beveridge of Indiana said that when the American flag is unfurled from Santiago to Havana it would mean" for Cuba the arrival of an era of peace, order and progress. He added that intervention would mean 50,000 American troops in Cuba for a year, to build up that social order which was once established by Americans, but which the Cubans have shattered. When this work should be done once more, he said, we would never again let it be undone. If the American flag went to Cuba, it would go to ty.

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1NARCIAL No striking developments dominate business affairs, but there is a sus Chicago. tained tone of strength drawn from the assurance of great harvests and the enormous aggregate of forward work In manufacturing. Much attention attaches at this time to the distribution of staple merchandise, and it is gratifying that lower temierature has succeeded the recent warm weather and gives a more seasonable stimulus to retail dealings in heavy-weight apparel, footwear and household needs. Another influx of visiting buyers adds to the activity In jobbing branches, and further heavy sales appear In the leading staples, much being marked for prompt shipment to many interior points. The record-breaking sales of dry goods, boots and shoes, clothing and furniture are fully maintained, making it more evident that tbe promise of the largest fall trade ever known here Is being realized. While farm products brought larger financial returns last year, one of the salient features of current operations is the liberal expenditures of the agricultural classes for necessaries and Improvements. Factory conditions exhibit no diminution in the aggregate. output; and, though commitments for furnace product and rails reach only moderate proportions, the new demands make a satisfactory tonnage In semi-finished steel and raw materials. There Is also a steady absorption of structural shapes, plates and merchant Iron, while the capacity of wire mills is engaged several months ahead. Demands involve day and night operation of forges, foundry work is more plentiful, and gains are being made in deliveries of heavy machinery, hardware, farm implements, electric and brass goods. Notwithstanding dear money, there is much use of funds for industrial purposes. Other encouraging Indications are ease in mercantile collections and moderate trading defaults, the latter for this month being conspicuously low. Failures reported In Chicago district number 19, against 22 last week and 32 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. Distributive trade is still of a very large volume, but there is enough New York. irregularity to prevent broad generalization. The close of September finds the usual 'evidences of subsidence In wholesale trade, but retail trade is better on more seasonable weather, except at the South, where severe storms have stopped cotton picking, checked movement, and retarded collections. Cereal crop reports are rather better, thrashing having been resumed in the Northwest, where quality has been injured. Corn has definitely passed out of the range of frost damage, and cutting tf a record crop of fine quality is now general. Industry generally-was never so active, and there Is much complaint of backward deliveries, particularly of Iron and steel and dry poods ordered for fall ana winter delivery. Car and engine shortages are a source of annoyance and tend to become more acute as the movement of the later crops Is added to the already heavy volume of general traffic offering. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.85; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.23; wheat, No. 2, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2, 45c to 40c ; oats, standard, 32c to 34c; rye. No. 2, C4c to 05c; hay, timothy, $10.00 to $15.50; prairie, $0.00 to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, ISc to 25c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 25c; potatoes, 33c to 42c. Indianapolis- Cattle, sliippius, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, choice heavy, $i.00 to $7.00; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 white, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $0.50; hogs, $4.00 to $0.75 ; sheep, $4.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2, 70c to 77c; corn. No. 2, 44c to 45c; oats, X. 2, 32c to 34c; rye, No. 2, 59c to COc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5-40; hogs, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 75c to 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 4Sc; oats, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 05c to 07c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 73c to 75c; corn, Xo. 3 yellow, 49c to 50c; oats. No. 3 white, 34c to 30c; rye, No. 2, C3c le- 07c. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern, 74c to 79c; corn, No. 3, 45c to 40c; oats, standard, 33c to 55c; rye, No. 1, 02c to G4c; barley, standard, 53c to 54c; Iork, mess, $15.00. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.25 ; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.33; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.1)0. .New YorkCattle, $4.00 to $5.90; hogs. $4.00 to $7.00; sheep. $3.00. to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats, natural white, SSc to 40c; butter, creamery, ISc to 25c; eggs, western, 20c to 23c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 4Sc to 49c; oats. No. 2 mixed, -34c to 30c; rye. No. 2, 02c to G3c; clover seed, prime, $8.00. As the result of a collision at San Francisco betweftr two heavily loaded electric cars, William Pierson and John Gelp were killed, and more than a score injured. The International Salt Company raised Its prices on all grades of salt approximately 00 cents a ton. This is said to be the third raise within a period of three months. The seventh quinquennial international homeopathic congress adjourned at Atlantic City after the most successful meeting in its history. The congress will meet in England in 1911. Two checks, aggregating $300,000, drawn to the or(h?r of Joseph R. Wainwright, a wealthy retired merchant of Philadelphia, and indorsed by him. have been found among the papers of the defunct Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia. TDey are said to have been deposited as security for a loan, but counsel for Wainwright says Wainwright never received the money. Quarantine officers at San Francisco refused landing to forty-eight persons on the steamer Siberia, which has just arrived from the Orient, who had unmistakable evidence of trachoma. Of these twenty-seven were Japanese.

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GULLIBLE PUBLIC EASY PREY FOR SWINDLERS. In Tiro Years 450 Fraudulent Firms Have Deen Raided in Chicago .f 150,000,000. Dropped Yearly in 'Get-Rlch-Qii4ck" Schemes. Chicago correspondence: -HERE are more "get - rich - quick" concerns In Chicago than in any other city iu the world. Despite the activity of the police department and the postofllce authorities, which has resulted in the raiding and exposure of 450 firms of fraudulent character during the last two years, every office building In the city contains companies which are operating In the hope that they will be overlooked for a few weeks or months so that the nets that they have cast can be hauled in full. A walk down the hallways of the big buildings, eveu those demanding high rental, will reveal the presence of these business leeches. The offices are furnished in luxury and with an eve to dazzling the man from the smaller town and the country who is lured t'aere by the huge promises made in tht? advertisements. There are many stenographers, clicking away busily. Men are rushing to and fro from rooms marked "private" to the cashier's desk. The telephones are ringing, and an occasional glimpse of the "president's office" reveals a dignified gentleman sitting at an expensive table and-surrounded by Imposing books and correspondence. It is a setting that works like a charm. Scarcely a day passes U at victims do hot appear In the polie; courts to tell the loss of insurance money, etc., at the hands of these shrewd swindlers. The swindlers always are represented by lawyers who are familiar with the technicalities ol the law, and who, if their clients are charged with obtaining money by falce pretenses, insist that the victim Invested money as a result of promises or misrepresentations as to the future returns from the business. If charged with a confidence game, these lawyers claim a mere business transaction, and that conversation merged to a written agreement, or at the most, false pretenses and a misdemeanor. The schemes are so cunningly devised that false representations scarcely eve can be proved. The tentacles of the great system which has centered In this city for so many years have swept out into the farthermost regions of the West, made desolate homes, scattered hard earned savings, and dashed bright hopes. The method Is simple; the bait alluring. Most of the men in the well organized companies that prey upon the public are well educated. They have the fever In their blood as thoroughly as their victims. They have been known to bite on the hobkcast out by some of their disguised "pals," If they would turn their intellects and energies to legitimate business they would make respectable fortunes and be safe. But the lure of the game is as strong as that of the underworld or the wanderlust Tersuasive, clever, picturesque writing forms the main asset of the companies at the start Literature Is the first necessity and tbe money to buy the stamps to mall It Then an office with a high sounding firm titlo on the door and a large bag to hold tbe coin. Hotv the Money Is Dropped. The last year has overturned several pinnacles of graft Here Is the way the money has been dropped In Chicago within a year: Matrimonial bureaus, $1,000,000; employment agencies, $200,000; turf commissioners, $7,500,000; charity homes, $300.000; wildcat insurance $10,000,000; home building associations, $0,000,000 ; bucketshops, $5,000,000; wire tappers, $200,000; book agencies, $1,000,000; mines and oil wells, $8,000.000; medicine companies $300,000. A well-informed official says tbe American public drops annually $150,000,000 In these' "get-rich-quick" concerns. Detective Sergeant Clifton It Wooldridge says : "Were the census enumerators of the United States to compile a list of the 4sucker public the gullible ones would aggregate tens of millionsThere is not a township In this great nation that does not contain its portion of - confiding persous who are ready to believe anything from the rankest catch penny advertisement to a fallacy In theological dogma. My Investigations for years past Into the innermost secrets of swindlers Impel the belief that their faith passes into the domain of Imbecility. Thousands of men are willing to throw money to the man who proclaims that for a few pennies be will Impart the secret of raising the dead, or how tc make one dollar make a million, or how to battle the savants of science after a day's research. Every mall ciir out of Chicago groans under a burden of 'get-rlch-quick mail to be scattered In every direction. The operatives of these schemes are the most dangerous of criminals. They are received with open arms in social and business circles. They contribute to tbe churchos and their wives and daughters visit In automobiles and dazzle at social functions by their silks and diamonds. "Every time a 'get-rich-quick bubble bursts there follows a long, dreary story of misplaced confidence. But as soon as active publicity ceases the dearly bought lesson is forgotten and the 'sucker !s ready to spring to th6 next tempting bait. The victims are numbered among all classes, from the laundress to the lawyer, the merchant to the clergyman." Building operations in Washington, D. C, and vicinity are threatened with an early tieup. Unless there is a quick settlement of the lockout of the plumbers, who have been out for many weeks, the Allied Building Trades will be forced to suspend operations. They will have no choice in the matter. Tercy Bowmaster, aged 33 years, a saloon-keeper of Allegheny, Pa., committed suicide by shooting himself in the head after attempting to kill his wife. Jealousy was the cause. A secret conference of window glass manufacturers is being held in Pittsburg for the purpose, i: is said, f devising plans to abolish the jobber and form a selling pool. The annual report of Treasurer Lee McCluny of Yale University, issued at Nw Haven, Conn., shows that the university is out of debt for the first time in decades, having a surplus of 32,000,

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CHILD TAK:S $482. Girl of Eieren Robs Her Mother d Lives In Lavish Style. After a lavish expenditure of money, for several weeks Opal Collier, 11 ye old, confessed to Chief of Police Smith of Anderson that she had iobbed her mother, Mrs. Maggie Collier, of $482 from a purse containing $4S7 which Mrs. Collier kept in a lounge at the family, home. The child betrayed herself when, she handed her mother $S0, saying the money was given to her by a man whfl said he had robbed her mother. Mrs. Col-, lier then discovered that her money was gone. Her little daughter had ien baying dresses, household articles and entertaining her friends for several weks, but her mother had believed the child's story, of an unknown friend giving her thq money. The child was taken before the Juvenile Court. MAX KILLS WIFE AND SF.LF. Cnts Woman's Throat, Barns Ilodr and Sets Fire to I loa nr. A. R. Ludvig of Mishawaka murdered hs wife with a potrto masher, threw ben body into a closet, poured gasoline oven her, and set fire to the house. He theni cut his throat and severed the arteries In his wrists and in one leg. Jealousy was, the cause. When firemen broke into th house they found Ludwig lying on th flocr. lie was taken to a hospital and is not likely to recover. Upon opening the door leading to a small closet lay the nuda body of Mrs. Ludwig, her nVsh burned t a crisp. It appears that Ludwig's act was premeditated. Ludwig, it is said, had made threats to tbe neighbors against hi wife. Both were prominent in fraternal circles. Mrs. Ludwig, who .was 35 years old, is survived by two children by a former husband. USES CAT AS TAIL FOR KITE. Sooth Bend Youth Kills Animal Ater She Falls and Is Fined. D. A. Harding was fined in police court in South Bend on a charge of cruelty to animals. Harding, who has a fad for flying large kites, has had trouble in keeping them in the air because of a lack of ballast. To remedy this he caught his cat and tied her to the tail of his kite. Unbound success followed, the kite soaring 300 feet before the cat slipped and fell to the ground, sfunnd but otherwise uninjured. To destroy evidence of his experiment, Harding killed the cat. XEGROES SHOOT POLICEMEN. Indianapolis Officers Waylaid Im Dark and One Is Killed. Charles Russell and Edward Pettlcord, ofScers of the Indianapolis police force, were shot down by two negrot-s hidien in a shed. Russell died later at the city hospital, while Petticord is in a very precarious condition. After the shooting of the officers a small crowd gathered, but as the negroes escaped only threats resulted. On; of the negroes supposed to have been implicated in the shooting was arrested by the police later. SEES DEAD LOVER AND DIES. Girl ProTides for Funerals of Doth, Thea Takes Carbolic Arid. Ira Purcell, caught by a train on the Wabash river railroad bridge at Terre Haute, climbed to an abutment to let the train pass. He dropped his hat, which fell into the river. In endeavoring to get It he was drowned. Anna Ier, his sweetheart, viewed the body at the morgue. She then bought carbolic acid acd, leaving word to use her insurance money for both funerals, he committed suicide. SLOWLY CHOKING TO DEATH. Civil War Veteran Is Confronted by Awful Fate. Slowly choking to death and beyond medical aid, an awful fate hangs over the life of James Tarvis, a well-known Civil War veteran of Kokomo. . About a year ago a tumor began to grow in his throat He sought treatment at once, but nothing could stop ihe growth. It has now developed into a cancerous afüiction and the physicians say there is no Lope for the man. For several days he has been gasping for breath. IIlccouKhs for Five Days. Michael Fish, a well-known citi'n, died in Bedford a? a result of hiccoughs of five days duration. He had been nursing a typhoid patient and his stomach became affected. Calls an Eastern Pastor. The official board of the First Christian church of Laporte voted a call to the Rev. n. II. Garrard of Syracuse, N. to fill the vacant pastorate. Fall In Ilaatina Fatal. While hunting squirrels Bernard Soilman, aied 14, of TetcYsburg, stumbled and fell on a stump, dying in an hour from a fractured skull. Woman Confesses Arson Plot. Mrs. Efifa Ross, who confessed to the police that she burned her home at New Lancaster to get the insurance money, was taken to Elwood to stand trial. Minor State Item. Elkhart bankers and. Col. Tnomas Snell of Bloomington, I1L, have loen granted a charter to organize the First National bank at Ggry. Harry Cook, aged 14, attempted to board a train at Valparaiso to ride to Chesterton and fell between the cars and was cut pieces. The boy was returning from school to Porter. While twenty Republican precinct leaders of Hancock County were holding a caucus in the town hall at New Palestine, an acetylene gas tank exploded, killing one man and injuring eight others. William Toon, a rural route carrier, was killed, and Elmer J. Binford, William A. Howe, James F. Reed, W. IL Rock. J. L. McCune, John Branson, John Hittcll, and William Ilobbs were injured. Capitalists from rittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis and Evansville fnet In Evansville and formed a $3.000,000 company to merge traction lines entering that city. Michael Zallas of Laporte has appealed to the Chicago police for assistance in finding his wife, who, he says, ran away with Stephen Juhluski, taking with her $2,000. A Grand Trunk freight train was derailed in the South Bend yards, the accident resulting in damage to the amour of $30.000. One car full of paiqt was so badly " demolished that the right of way was covered with running fluid. Macy A. Brouse, Mayor of Kokomo, ditd- suddenly and mysteriously at the age of 38. For a few hours' he had suffered from what was pronounced tonsilitis, which later seemed to have developed into diphtheria. Suspicions circumstances will lead to an investigation. He was serving his third term as Mayor. II. II. Culver, a St. Loais millionaire, his son and Dr. Funkhouscr of St. Louis, surgeon, in an automobile outraced a Vandalia train to reach the bedside of the former's wife who was critically ill at Lake Maxinkuckee. The timely arrival of the surgeon rescued Mrs. Culver,-who was believed to be dying, and hoca fr fcer recovery are cntertalcci