Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 14, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 January 1907 — Page 2

THE PLYMOUTH TRIBUNE.

PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS CO.. . . Publishers. 1907 JANUARY 1907

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V$ 7th. W 14th j? 21st. ) 21-ttr FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD. Conrta' and Crimea, Accidents and Fires, Labor and Capital, Grain, Stock and Money Markets. DROPPED BO.MD IX BANK. Two Killed and Many Injured In Explosion Bulluln Wrecked. Two men dead, a score of others Injured, two of whom may die, and the beautiful Interior of a bank building laid in ruins is the result of a bomb being dropped in the Fourth Street National Bank at Philadelphia, Pa., by a man who had demanded a loan of $5.000, for which hd could show no collateral. The identity of the perpetrator of the outrage is wrapped in mystery for he was blown to pieces by his own 'engine of destruction. Nothing is left to tell who he is but a bunch of ten keys found in a fragment of clothing belonging to the bomb throwrer. A plate on the ring holding the keys gives the name of "R. Steele, Garner, Iowa, and the police are looking up the man. The other man killed by the explosion was W. Z. McLear, cashier of the bank, who had been talking to the stranger, and had refused his request. Bomb Oat rase in New York. A bomb of giant powder and shot was dropped from an elevated railway station into a crowd of people at the corner of Second; avenue and Fortyeecond street in New Yorfc City. In the explosion that followed three persons were Injured seriously and of these two probably will die. The outrage was Eemingly directed against the proprietor of a fruit store on the corner, Salvatore Ciniluca, aged 39 years, who was dangerously injured. The bomb throwers escaped in the excitement. From Italians living in the section it was learned that the keeper of the fruit store had been summoned by the district attorney's office as an important witness in a secent Mulberry Park Bend murder. The case will be called for trial this week. Fire Skaters Drowned. While trying to rescue her cousin, Joe Wanoskie, aged 9, who had broken through the ice at Spring Valley, 111., Frances Moroskl, aged 16, was also drowned. ... Three persons were drowned in White river near Burlington, Wis., William Schümm, 18 years of age, and two children of Mr. and Mrs. A. Gerlenn, a boy 7 years old, end a girl 5 years of age, were the victims. All were on the .ce skating. Three Die In Hotel Fire. Three lives were lost in a fire that destroyed the Americar Hotel at Delphi. N. Y. The dead: William Winter. 50 years old, druggist; "Aire. Anna Winter, his wife; John O'Connor, tailor. AH were suffocated. They were per-, tnanent guests at the hotel. The other guests escaped by leaping from the windows in their night clothing. Powder Masaslae Explodes. A magazine containing 8,700 pounds of dynamite at the Denn Arizona shaft In Lowell, Ariz., exploded with terrific force. Every window pane in Lowell was shattered and the shock was felt at Douglas, twenty-six miles away. There were thirteen men at work in the shaft, all of whom escaped. Pallnan Car Burned) One Dead. A Pullman sleeper attacLed to Los Angeles limited train No. 8, caught lire near Council Bluffs, Iowa, while the train was running from Council Bluffs to Missouri Valley, en route to Chicago. One passenger is dead and three were injured. The origin of the fire is unknown. No Seat, o Fare Law. The City Council of LaCrosse. Wis., Is considering an ordinance mating it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine for conductors on street cars to try to collect fares from passengers not proTided with seats. ft Family of Six spkyxiated. The entire family cf George Devino, at Wlnooskl, Vt, con Jsting of six persons, were killed by illuminating gas which entered the house from a break In the street main through a sewer pipe. Ohio Murderer to be Electrocuted. Henry White, colored, was found guilty at Lebanon, Ohio, of murdering Marshal George Easore, of Franklin, October 30, and sentenced to be electrocuted on May 29. Big Fire at Menominee, Mich. Fire destroyed two three-ntory tenements at Menominee, Mich., badly burned several tenants and many per eons were rescued without a stitch of clothing. Loss $100,000. XSaolac Huns Ballroad Yarfls. For six hours a maniac ran the switchyards at Cavanaugh, Ind., a junction point near Hammond, where' the Lake Shore and Elgin, Joliet and Eastern tracks cross, but finally was subdued by a train load of deputy sheriffs. Eight Below Zero in North Dakota. Below zero temperatures prevailed the other night in North Dakota, part of Montana and Canada. The weather bureau reports 8 degrees below at Williston, 4 below at Devil's Lake, N. D., and 4 below at Minnedosa. At Imperial, N. D., Frank Warnick was frozen to death. Woman 7eigns Death. Giving no signs of the agony caused by two bullets which her husband fired into her head, Mrs. John J. O'Rourke of Morris Park, L. I., feigned death until her spouse, thinking himself a murderer, killed himself. '., Blow Out the Gas. B. Huston, 55, and F. Kruse, 33, of Auburn Junction, Ind., were found dead in bed in the Riverside hotel in Fort Wayne. They had come to Fort Wayne 'or a good time and upon retiring blew out the gas. Kruse was a bachelor. Hurion was a widowcJ. .

FIND T.ICH MAN KURDEEED. Heir Arrested on Suspicion, but Is Later Beleased. Thomas Fanning, aged &0 yearn, a wealthy property owner who lived aloDe, was murdered at his home at ISIS Olive street in Kansas City. The head had been horribly hacked with a hatchet. The crime was reported to the police by William Lannagan, a nephew. Young Lannagan was held temporarily, tut released when he told a straight story. It has developed that robbery was lot the motive of the crime, as $2.700 was fcund by the police in a chest in the room where the body was found lying. In the old man's pockets were a gold watch, $13 and a deposit slip showing that he had deposited $18,000 in a local hank on Dec. 7. Thos. Fanning had been living alone, occupying the lower floor of a house which he owned since Dec. 21, when his wife died. Four deep gashes had been cut in the murdered man's head, any cne of which would have produced death. The undertaker who was called said .hat the murder must have been committed at . least twenty-four hours before the body was found. The dead man had rold property worth $02.000 during the iast year and he was supposed to be worth $100,000. lie lived practically alone .nd little was known about him. BIO FREIGHT CUT FOB KANSAS. State Commission Makes Compromise Agreement with Roads. All suits now pending in the federal court in Topeka to test the validity of the statute creating the State board of railroad commissioners will be üsmissed, and immediately the freight nite reductions,' aggregating $1,500,000 annually, will be made by the leading itiilroads in the State. This agreement was reached at a conference between freight traffic managers of the Missouri Pacific. Union Pacific, Rock Island and Santa Fe railroads and the railroad commissioners. The agreement was approved and signed by both parties to the conference. By the terms of the agreement the railroads will reduce the freight rate on ctoal 1 mill per ton per mile, making an aggregate reduction of $800,000 to $1,000,000 annually. The reduction on grain and iram products is 7 per cent of the nresent rate. The board had ordered a reduction of only 5 per cent. The saving to Kansas shippers will be from $400,000 to, $000,000. The rate on all kinds of paper from Missouri river points to Hutchinson, Wichita and other western points was cut 10 per cent. ' BEGGING FOR U. S. BULE. Petitions Being Signed by Advocates of American Protectorate. A petition for an American protectorate is ready to be sent to Washington from Remedios, the richest district in Cuba, signed by 200 native Cubans, the poorest of whom is worth $40,000. , Another petition will soon follow with the signatures of more than 500 Cuban property holders at Cienfuegos. Similor petitions are preparing in other parts of the island and money is coming in so fast to further the campaign for a protectorate that a weekly newspaper is to be established advocating th settlement of the Cuban muddle in this way. It is considered by all, serious men that it is time to take some action to relieve the tension under which the country is suffering. The shadow of a prospective new republic is paralyzing business and destroying confidence in the country's future. , MEBCY FOB IMMIGRANT. "Woman with Trachoma , Probably Will Be Admitted. Immigration Commissioner Robert Watchorn of New York says that Mrs. Goldie Weissberg, who, with her four children, came from Russia in December to join her husband, an Albany tailor, and was found suffeiing from trachoma, probably would not be deported. It has been found, Mr. Watchorn said, that her case could be cured easily, and he would therefore exercise his discretion and await developments. When Mrs. Weissberg landed her husband had succeeded in establishing himself so that Re could take care of his wife and children. Ohio Liquor Law Sustained. The validity of the Aiken lawr, which raised saloon licenses from $T00 to $1,000 a year, was sustained by the Superior Court in Cincinnati. On the fate of this case depended an extra session of the Legislature to act on scores of other new laws, as the main point of the opposition was the claim that the late Clor. Fattison was not in a condition of health to know the contents of bills, when he dgned them. Fires at Judge on the Bench. Just after Judge J. A. McDonald of the Circuit Court had convened court in St. Louis the other morning Miss Rosa Weil suddenly arose from anung the spectators and fired point blank with a revolver at the judge. The bullet rcis,sed him. She was a litigant in a case concerning a disputed inheritance that was tried before Judge McDonald two months ago. Causes Wreck to See Havoc. Roy Swartzer, the young telegrapher who was arrested for causing the wreck of an Oregon Short Line train at Peterson, Utr.h, which caused the death of Engineer McFeely and serious injuries to two other trainmen, confessed that he was prompted to the deed by a desire to see the long freight train plunge into the river. , . 30 Hurt In Runaway Trolley. At least thirty persons were injured, one of whom has since d ?d, in the wreck of a runaway electric car on the Warsaw avenue hall in Cincinnati. The motorman lost control of the car, which ran for five blocks before it struck a telegraph pole and turned turtle. Tie passengers were thrown in a heap in the mud. Governor Holds Up Nomination. Declaring ua has heard that !mproper methods were used to obtain the selection of Arthur Hill, a Saginaw millionaire, äs United States Senator, Gov. Warner of Michigan asked that an investigation of the rumors be made before Mr. Hill is given the nomination, and action by the legislative caucus was postponed. Millions Starving; in China. Four million persons are starving as a result of the crop failure and famine in China. Tens of thousands of the utterly destitute are wandering over the country. About 50,000 refugees have reached the vicinity of Nanking in a pitiable condition. The authorities are unable to cope with the situation. Remnant of Troops Returns. A thousand Turkish soldiers, the remnant of about 4,000 sent to the Nojd peninsu'a two years ago to suppress the Arab revolt, have returned to Ilusreh, Asiatic Turkey, in a deplorable condition. Over two thousand of their comrades died of disease or starvation and the rest deserted. Vessel and 70 Lives Lost. A dispatch from IVscadero says that tho Pacific Mail steamship City of Ianama, which left San Francisco on Dec. 31 for South America, has been wrecked near Waddell Reach, about sixteen miles below Pescadero. The ship had a passenger list of seventy and a crew of thirty or more. Former Mayor Is .Josiab Quincy, former ton and long a leader business, has been forced by misplaced confidence hit liabilities being- about Bankrupt. Mayor of Bosin politics and into bankruptcy in his friends, 1150,000, .

I FLOODED BY HAINS.

HEAVY DOWNPOUR CAUSES STREAMS TO RISE. ; Fanners Forced to Flee to High ronnd In Indiana Thouaaniln of Acres ol Nebraska Land Hein Carried Awajr, Ilih waters and threatened floods are reported from different parts of southwestern Indiana along the Wabash and White rivers. At Taylorsville the lttoms are under water, and the 700 inhabitants of the town began moving out. At the confluence of the Wabash and White rivers in Knox county the lowlands are under water, with the rivers r:sing, and farmers are fieeiiia with their families. UfJ the White and l'atoka rivers have 2 ,n,?ir hanks and are flooding thou sands of ncrps of land, farmers began driving their live stock to the hills. Much corn in the bottoms, still unfathered, will be ruined. Traffic on all "ail road operating in the western section ot Kentucky and on several lines in other parts of the State is demoralized as a result of heavy rains. The creeks nd rivers in the southern and western portions of the State are out of their banks. In and around Henderson the Illinois Central. Louisville and Nashville, and Henderson railroad tracks are under water so that trains cannot pas-s. Many trains have been annulled entirely. Constant rain in the Mohawk valley, New York, has raised the Mohawk river to flood r.tage and exceedingly high water prevails throughout the valley. MISSOURI SWALLOWS UP LAND. Thousands of Acres Carried Away and Much Property Is Menaced The Missouri river is rapidly taking into its capacious maw valuable farm lands near the little town of Minersville, a few miles south of Nebraska City, Neb., and it is now showing its teeth at and threatening to destroy valuable railroad, elevator and other property. Since last July 1,000 acres of farm lands have been swallowed up and carried tway by the river, and unless measures are taken to stop its encroachments much more land will . be carried away by it. The Burlington railway has taken steps to move it tracks, station, stockyard and other property at Minersville hack far enough from the river that they cannot be reached by it and the owners of an. elevator near the town will be compelled to move the elevator in' order to save it. For a long distance the railroad track is threatened with destruction. The river's channel is constantly changing near Minersville. and as it changes it cuts into and swallows up farm lands and other property. , WIFE'S DEATH IS PUZZLE. Mrs Mary Anderson, Cambridge, I1L, Shot by Side of Husband.. The mysterious murder of a woman has been added to the record if eight murders and six suicides in or near Cambridge, III., in the last twelve months. Mary Anderson, wife of Henry Anderson, a rich retired farmer, was hot dead while in bed with her husband end a 9-months-old child. Although Circumstances point to burglary as .a motive, other phases lead the authorities to lelieve that some other cause may be responsible. The husband, crazed by the killing, is too irrational to give a correct story. A small rocketbook containing $17 in bills is said by Anderson to be missing. In plain sight on the dressing case lay an open jewel box containing a gold watch and jewels to the value of several hundred dollars. A wallet under the man's pillow containing $103 was untouched, and no disorder wa3 visible In the room. Aged Woman Slain by Robber. Mrs. Wilhelmina Kundy, 70 -jears of nge, who lived with her son at 210 West Fairfield avenue. St. Paul, .Minn., was found in the cellar of the residence dead, with her head beaten to a pulp. In the living room upstairs a box built into the wall, in which $500 in money, the property of the son, was kept, had been broken open and rifled of its contents. There is no clew to the murderer. Washouts Tie Up Arkansas. Heavy rains have caused washouts on practically every division of toth the Rock Island and Iron Mountain system in Arkansas. The Rock Island annulled every freight train between Memphis and the Indian Territory line. The Iron Mountain yards at Raid Knob were under wa ter. Woman Slayer Is Pardoned. A pardon for Mrs. Lena Llllie, convicted of the murder of her husband, was one'of the last official acts of Gov. John II. Mickey of Nebraska. Harvey Lillie was a graiu dealer in David City. On the morning of Oct. 24, 002, he was shot while asleep. Mrs. Lillie's story was that a. burglar killed him. Japan Buys Much Cordite. The Japanese government has bought large quantities of cordite in London. The supplies are being shipped to Japan as rapidly as the manufacturers can deliver it. Japan is replenishing ?ts reserve of explosives, which was exhausted by the war. Standard Oil Must Be Tried. Judge Kenesaw M. Landis of Chicago overruled the contention of the Standard Oil Company that the new rate law pardoned all offenses committed under the Klkins act and held it for trial under 0.325 counts charging the receipt of illegal rebates. Wife Commits Suicide. Mrs. Lulu Brandenburg iveefe, 25 years old, wife of William Keefe, proprietor of a brokerage establishment, killed herself in IKmilton, Ohio. While her husband WPS talking to a traveling man she stepped up to him, kneeled and hot herself through the heart. Appeals to Officials. John Hill, Jr., of the Roard of Trade, alleging that it is almost imposible to have the laws enforced against the rich in Illinois, has appealed to Gov. Deneen, Attorney General Stead and State's Attorney Healy to prosecute the grain warehouse owners accused of secret pooling. Hundreds Are Frozen to Death. Enormous loss of lifo and immense da,nlage to property have been wrought by terrible blizzards which re raging through southern Russia. In oue prov ince from which incomplete reports bav been received 100 deaths have occurred, due to the storms. New President for Pennsylvania. James McCrea of Pittsburg, first vice president of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, was elected president of the Tensylvania Railroad Company by the directors of the latter corporation, to succeed the late A. J. Cassatt. Rock Island Passengers Cremated. Rock Island railway officials report thirty passengers killed and forty injured in a collision of two Chicago trains five miles west of Alta Vista, Kan. Most of the dead were cremated, as the wrecked coaches burned. . Free Passes for Legislators. Passes have been issued by the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads to members of the Legislature and others in North Dakota, and the issuance seems effectual to evade the federal law,

WEALTH OF COUNTRY

ESTIMATED TOTAL OF THE NATION IS $118,742,306,775. Americans the "Richen t People Last Few Years Ilrlnn- Phenomenal Advances, SnrpasNlns Other Periods - Amount per Capita $1,400. The census officials discovered that the total wealth of the ieople of the United States on the 30th of .Tunc, 31MK, was $SS,517.300,775. an average of $1,104.73 for every man, woman ami child in this gre.it and glorious republic. During the last six years the people of this country have onjoyinl unprecedented prosperity. The growth of pojnlation, the increase of wealth .ir.d development of our national commerce and industries have Ix-en more rapid than for any previous ieriod. We have gained more in six years than we have previously gained in any ten years. The totals at the bottom of every column of statistics are rolling up In a marvelous manner. The country Is so big that it tikes a Ions time to tinl out what wA are doing, but our statistics are published more promptly and arc more complete than those of any other nation, unless it be Sweden. We are far ahead of France and Germany. Their statistics are usually several years lehind tb.2 times. England does better. Her statisticians keep up pretty close to date, but are not so prompt in their publications as those of the United States. .' . The returns for 1904 have been compiled and show that on June "0 of that year the total wealth of our people was $107,104,211.917, an Increase of $18,-392.003,142-in four years. Daring those four years the population of the country increased from 75,994.373 to 81.23C.000, or at the rate of 1,315,330 souls iier year. Thert is every reason to nelieve that our increase in wealth has been even more rpid since the 30th of June, 1904, than It was In the fcur years previous to that date, and at the same ratio of gain the increase during the six years and six months from June '.V), 1900, to Dec. 31. 1900, ought to be lot less than $3O227i.0W.000. That would majce the total wealth of this country to-day $118,742,300,773. Thus, sinix the lieginning of the oen-

INCREASE IN WEALTH OF THE STATES.

1900. 1901. Increase. Maine .....$ 082,133,741 $ 773.G22.722 $ 93.4S8.9S1 New Hampshire 472,143,849 310.S09,204 44,003,333 Vermont 329.:10,80S 300.330.089 30.413.2S1 Massachusetts 4,:VS,fK)3,833 4,930.378,913 397,073,038 Rhode Island 710.340.830 799.349.001 88,S02.743 Connecticut 1,198,733,737 1,414.033,003 214,SS1,300 New York 12,303.330.137 14,709,042,207 2,203,7 12,070 New Jers?y 2,733.393,134 , 3,233,19,973 3O2.020.S39 Pennsylvania 9,313.140,110 11,473.020,300 2,138,480,190 Delaware 211,711,483 . 23O.200.97G 18,349,493 Maryland . . . : 1.317,372,938 1,31 l;4S,172 . 184,132.214 District of Columbia.... 98,7:19,773 1,040.383,173 111.W3.400 Virginia 1,102,309,090 1,287.970,180 183,000,484 West Virginia 039.li32.331 840,000,149 180,347,398 North Carolina 082,982,120 842.072.218 . 139,090,098 South Carolina ...i 483,087,048 383,833,222 ' 100,100.174 Geor-ia 930,000,430 1,107,443.071 1:31,443.221 Florida 333,742,909 431.409.20Q 73,000.231 Ohio ...J 3.019,004.433 3,940.909,40G 927,903,013 Indiana 2,000,493.004 , 3, 103.78 1,739 499,288,733 Illinois :.. 0,970.470,400 8,810,330,191 1.840.079,791 Michigan 2,C34,2S1,323 3,282,419,117 . G28.137.391 Wisconsin 2 403.334,427 2,838,078.239 433,323.812 Minnesota 2,313,020,820 3.343,078,070 830,101,230 Iowa 307i09,a"4 4,048.310,070 080,047,022 Missouri 3.244.332,987 3,739.397,413 515.004,428 North Dakota 542,380,.3(i3 733,802.909 213,422.345 South Dakota 332.732.380 079.S40.93J) 127,108.339 Nebraska 1,020,203,203 2.00!).303,i33 3K3,o00.4W Kansas 1.938,000.3 2,233,224,213 313,223,8S0 Kentucky 1,305,1 -WIS 1,527,480,230 102,353.512 Tennessee 950,072,000 1,104,223,979 147,551,979 Alabama 774.082,478 003,014.201 171,331,783 Mississippi 357,381,543 088,249,022 130,0G7,48O Louisiana 815,158,003 1,032.220,0011 210,071,003 Arkansa 004,218.211 803.907,072 199,089,701 Indian Territory " 348,272.043 459.021,353 110.748,712 Oklahoma 403,307,150 039,013,700 175,7(i,550 Texas 222,tÄ?,031 2Ä!X322.033 304.170.402 Montana 013,897,157 740,31113 132.414,O50 Idaho 270.374.800 342.S71.S03 Cfi,M7.(r7 Wyoming 281,132.079 329.527,241 48.095,102 Colorado 938,170,024 1,207,542,107 209,371.483 New Mexico 20.8,283,423 332.202,030 03,982,225 Arizona 203.051,492 ' 300.302.305 - 43.250.813 Utah 412,505,059 487,708,015 75,203,550 Nevada 190.020.987 220,734,307 30,107,320 Washington 78 1,5! KM 1,051,071,432 271.072.309 Oregon 032,879.729 852,053.232 219,173.5a3 California 3,218,573,255 4,135,491.100 930,91 7,S51 Total $88.517,300,775 $107,104,211,917 $18,380,903,142

tury, the wealth of th American people has been rolling up at the rat? of: $4,030,000,000 every yir. $127,339,720 every da. $3.305.S22 every hour of every day. $88,430 every minute. $1,474 every second of the six years and a half since the census of 1900 was taken. This makes the per catt;i wealth in 1904 not less than $1,300.15, an increase of $33 a year in the earthly possessions of every man, woman and child in the United States. The gain has undoubtedly continued at the same rate since June 30, 1904, which would make each of us worth more than Jfl.400 on the day of our Lord, Jan. 1, 1907, and undoubtedly proves that we are the richest people In the world, In proportion to our population, although N?w Zealand has hitherto held that enviable distinction. On the 30tu of June last the total wealth of the United Kingdom England. Scotland, Wales and Irelandwas $45,940,000,000, an average or $1,033 per capita. WIrele Telephone Teat. The German Society of Wifeless Telegraphy announces that it haa ri;ently succeeded in holding telephonic communication without wires between Berlin and Nauen, a distance of twenty-four miles. Prof. Slaby says that the problem of wireless telephony is now solved, and that the time is coming when u man will be able to speak wirelessly with a friend in any part of the wort. Slslnsr Sex In Brain Power. The Columbia university department of psychology, in a series of tests on the male and female students, has found that the women surpass the men in visual memory, rate of perception and sensitiveness to pain, while in auditory. memory and speed cf movement the mau was superior. As to fatigue, perception of weight and 1-jgical memory the ien and women were found to be about equal. Fenaton Syatem on the Santa Fe. A pension system affecting mce than 30,000 men wiil be put into effect by the Santa Fe Railroad Company. The minimum petsion payment provided for is $20 a month. The maximum is $75. The interior of the city hall at New Bedford, Mass., erected in 1839, was burned. The city records were saved. The loss is estimated at $40,000. Eleven stores and the Masonic Hall at Sharon, Ga wer destroyed by fire. The loss was $50,000, partially covered by insurance, ,

A LONG Chicago Journal. GIVES CAUSE OF CAR SHORTAGE. Lane Think Ronds Accepted Most Profitable Traffic. In a report submitted to , President Roosevelt Interstate Commerce Commissioner Franklin K. Lane defined the cause of the car shortage in the Northwest and the resulting coal famine in North Dakota. "It is a fair inference," the report says, "from al! the testimony that the real cause of the coal scarcity in Noith Dakota was such an abundance of westboünd traffic at the bead of the lakes that .cars were not available in the congetted State of that terminal for the carrying of coal to North Dakota a com para lively short haul' for a low-class commodity." In his letter of transmission to ihe President, Mr. Lane says that the report will b-s followed in due course by the special recommendations of the commission as a whole to whatever legislation, if enj', may be deemed advisable. Referring to the report that the coal shortage was due to the presence of a ttmt or combination between dealers in coal which fixed prices in the Northwest and refused to sell to "outsiders" and irreßilars," the report says: "The commission ,has pained indisputable proof of an agreement between coal dealers to maintain prices and to boycott all who do not so agree; but there i. no evidence at all justifying the contention that this combination is chargeable with the coal shortage prevailing, nor that the railroads were party in such a way to such a conspiracy." Short News Note. J. M. Rout well, at present assistant geologist, will take charge on Jan. 1 of the collection of statistics on lead, zinc, and quicksilver for the United States geological survey. Four stores in the heart of the business district of Hartford, Conn., wwe gutted by fire and the loss will be Iarje in view of the stock of furs and silverware that is destroyed. The loss is estimated at $2o.000. John D. Spreckels and associates hae decided to build a railway from Sad Diego to Yuma. Articles of incorporation of the San Diego and Arrzona Railwaj Company have been fded. The company is capitalized at $0,000,000. Translations from German religious papers for the Literary Digest say that another great religious controversy over the apostles' creed is in progress. The new agitation began with the refusal of the pastors of Breslau to confirm a young man on a confession of nis own, who could not subscribe to those portions of the creed referring to the miraculous birth. The radical papers are now in full ory, saying that the creed has outlived its usefulness and that half the theological professors in the 'Jerman universities deny this, doctrine of Christ's birth. The conservative pajers, in reply, say that the great bulk of the church membership sti'l believe, in the creed a"hd that the theology of the universities 'does not represent the church. Nevertheless, Ihe reformers refuse to leave the church, 1 claiming, as they do. that their teachings are within the right of private judgment, which constitutes " the magna charta of Protestantism. A R. & O. order that commission men pay in advance all freight rates on perishable goods has started a fight which may involve the whole Central Freight Traffic Association. Four hundred persons have typhoid fever in Pittsburg. Doctors, have been forced to send patients to the riiunicipal hospital because of the crowded condition of other hospitals. Rishop W. B. Derrick of the .frican Methodist Episcopal church, whose home is in Flushing, L. I., says he does not believe that coler or the race question entered into the President's decision to have the Twenty-fifth regiment colored troops

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MANY RADICAL MESSAGES. Governors Urge a Yijrnrova War on Troala and Graft. Four remarkable messages sent to Legislatures by the Governors of Western States announced the beginning of a fight for reform in the West on an un precede nted scale, writes a Chicago correspondent, laws radi-' cal, some of them perhaps revolutionary ' in character, are urcd. In Misgov. folk. sourl, Michigan, Colorado and Nebraska the legislators were stirred by .vigorous appeals for laws to end ring rule, throttle trusts and make the people at the polls supreme. Railroad rate laws, primary legislation, autl-lobbying measures, municipal ownership, child labor iaws, low fares and anti-trust and antigambling measures were some of the topics touched uron. Gov. Folk of Missouri asks that professional lobbyists be sent to jail, that corporations which do not behave themselves be put out of existence, that railroads. Insurance companies, employers, liquor men, and political parties te governed by rigid laws. He favors direct nomination of United States Senators at the polls, and action by the Legislature to help along the movement for the constitutional amendment to provide for direct election of Senators and for the Initiative and referendum. The reforms he recommends are many and radical. In Michigan Gov. Warner, urged severe regulation of railroad and other coriorations, hieasures to end stock juggling, elimination of professional lobbyists, lower railroad rates. State control of private br.nks, and 'a new pure food law. Gov. Sheldon of Nebraska demanded tlmt "onnsnirators i . i against the common good" be prosecuted and suppressed. He advocated strict laws against lobby In?, a primary law, legislation that will end ring rule in Nebraska, regulation of railroads by means of a State commission and lower railroad rates. He taxed the ' oov. hughes. railroads for their conduct and declared for a new deal and a just one. He said the people of Nebraska have awakened and determined to govern themselves. Gov. MclonaId of Colorado urged anti-trust legislation, a State law to regulate banks and laws for the control of Insurance companies by means of a State department. He urged the lawmakers to use caution' in drafting reform legislation, that Injustice be done to no one, but that the people be protected. Gov. Hughes in his message to the 'New York Legislature espoused the cause of William R. Hearst by recommending that provision be mad for a recount of the ballots cast at the last mayoralty election In New York. City. Railroad control, strict laws to govern political parties and other Important reforms are recommended by the Governor. DEARTH OF MEN FOR THE A It MY. Government. Mnklnjr Extraordinary Cfforta to EnlUt Itecrult. Not in recent years except in war rlrnes has the army been ko badly in need of men as at present. A recent circular addressed to all officers of the recruiting service, made public at the War Department, calls attention to the fact that recruits are needed in large numbers for the coast artillery, the field artillery, the white infantry and the white cavalry. Recruiting officers are enjoined to redouble their efforts to secure recruits qualified for the military service. Officers on duty at the War. Department admit that the situation is one calling for the most extraordinary efforts to get more men, not only to fill the vacancies that now exist, but also those which will occur during the present year among the three-year men who enlisted in 1901. Particular emphasis is given in the circular to the necessity for developing to the utmost recruiting In the large cities, and recruiting officers have been asked if more officers should be sent them to assist iu the work. It is declared at the War Department that the nresent prosperity and the labor famine of the country are more or less re sponsible for the inability to get new men and it also was stated on account of the lack of the canteen a great mauy men were refusing to re-enlist. Hubbard . Medal to Teary. During a banquet of the National Society at Washington, attended by more than 200 scientists, explorers, statesmen and diplomats, President Hubbard presented to Commander Robert E. Peary the Hubbard medal for having reached the farthest north point on his recent polar expedition. The president compared Peary's exploit, with its lonesome perils and hardships, unsustained by associates, to the conditions prevailing in war, where men must have the sense of divided responsibilily, and said that Peary's deed counted for all mankind, reflecting credit oa his country as well as lümsclf.

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The Senate devoted its two and s half hours' session Thursday to the further discussion of President Roosevelt's order dismissing the nef,ro troops of the Twenty-fifth infantry for "shooting up" Rrownsvile, Texas. Senator Culberson of that State, defended the order, closing with an impassioned 8t-itement of the position of the South on the negro question. Senator Foraker replied briefly, urging speedy action on his resolution for an investigation. Senator Lodge proposed an amendment admitting the President's authority as commander in chief of the army to take the action he did. On motion of Senator Hale the resolution was given the right of way the following Monday. Adjournment to Monday was taken. , Immediately after the approval of the journal in the House the credentials of W. F. Fnglebright of the First -California district to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of James Norris Gillett, and Charles G. Washburn of the Third Massachusetts District, vice Rockwood Hoar, deceased, were read, and these two gentlemen proceeded to the bar, where the Speaker administered the oath. No quorum being present and no committees being ready to report, adjournment was then taken until Friday, after a fifteen minutes' session. The Senate was not in session Friday. The "omnibus" claims bill, so-called, carrying appropriations for claims under the Bowman and Tucker acts, and miscellaneous claims on which favorable reports have been made by the war claims committee, was before the House, and for nearly five hours the merits of the measure were exploited. Speaker Cannon announced the appointment of Engelbright of California to a place on the committee on mines and mining, vice Williamson of Oregon, removed. The Sieaker based action on the ground that Williamson had failed to attend a single session of the Fifty-ninth Congress. He has been convicted of participation in land frauds in Oregon. , National Capital Xotea. Senator Lodge introduced a bill to improve the consular service by filling the higher positions by promotion from the lower grades. . ' . . . The sword ' of John Paul Jones n)w rests in the library of the Navy LVpartment, where it has. been placed by Commander Reginald Nicholson, The last bid for government land in the Kiowa and Comanche reservation, known as the "big pasture," was received. The total number is 7,021. With a view to seeming action at the present session, Senator Beveridge iv-in-troduced his general child labor bill as an amendment to the District of Colu nbia child labor bill. v Senator Rayner gave notice that he would ask the Senate to consider resolutions commemorating the life and character of the late Senator Arthur Pue Gorman on Saturday, Jan. 2G. Minister Rockhill has cable! the State Department from Pekin that by agreement with Russia the Chinese government will open to international residence and trade Jan. 14 next the cities of Kirin, Manchurie and Harbin. . It. Klopsch, editor of the Christian Herald, was the first to subscribe funds for the relief of the starving Chinese in response to the President's message, sending $0,000 to be expended by. the American Red Cross in China. The most important engineering problem of the present day affecting marine propulsion Is that of the Ft earn turbine, according to the report of Hear Admiral C. W. Rae, chief of the bureau of steam engineering, just made public. The condition of the famine sufferers in China is worse than at first supposed, according to reports from consuls, and the matter was brought to the attention of the cabinet at the Instance of the American National Ked Cross. Ambassador Thompson has advised the State Department that President Diaz of Mexico has taken prompt uct!,n toward remedying the damage to property in the Imperial valley as the result of the overflow of the Colorado river into Salton Sink. Delegations ret resenting the .eastern rye whisky distillers and the blenders of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Hampshire were given a hearing by Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture ind Dr. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, as to the regulations respecting the labeling of their products under tue new pure food law. The Jamestown exposition commission met in the office of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Edwards to receive a report from President I. W, Johnson and Director General G. B. Jackson of the Negro Development Exposition Company as to what is being done to prepare an exhibition of negro progress. The commissioners were not satisfied with the situation. Withdrawal of all restrictions upon the issue of $0 notes by national banks is proposed in a bill introduced by Representative Fowler of New Jersey, chairman of the committee on currency. There is frequent complaint of inability to obtain sufficient small notes and at present national banks are restricted o that they cannot take out more than one-third of their circulation in $3 notes. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock declared that his withdrawal of 4.00O.0U0 acres belonging to the five civilized tribes, which was criticised by a Senate committee, will stand unless the investigation now in progress shows that he exceeded his authority. The War Department has issued a circular to recruiting officers urging redoubled efforts to secure men to fill vacancies in the army. It is said a great many men refuse to re-enlist because of the lack of a canteen, while the general prosperity and labor scarcity keep away new recruits. Baron Hengelmuller, the Austro-IIun-garian ambassador, denied the rumor that he will resign the Washington mission. The baron communicated with his government concerning the report. Senator Depew introduced a bill authorizing any national bank to be designated as a depository of public moneys. Under existing law no bank with less than $."0,000 capital can be so designated. George Daniel, claiming to be a naturalized citizen, though a native of Turkej, asked the State Department for redress for alleged ill treatment by Persati officials while he was teaching a school at Oroomiah. , Rear Admiral Evans brought to the attention of the Navy Department the action of the New York customs officials in searching the blue jackets who arrived at that port on the battleship Ohio from the Philippines. It is probable instructions will be given to the revenue officers to rectify the matter. The trial of Representative Binger Hermann of Oregon, charged with destroying records when he retired from the office of commissioner of the general land office, has been set for Feb. 1, 1007. Frederick S. Hyde, John A. Benson, Henry P. Dimond and J. II. Schneider, indicted for California and Oregon land frauds, will be placed on trial Feb. 1L

3CIÄL CHICAGO. Favorable developments of the past few days are most conspicuous in money, the return of currency frrm the West being of increased volume, and the failure record lucludiag none of special significance. Leading branches of production started up piomptly -w ithout an indication of diminished activity. In Iron and steel there Is the pressure of an tiAprecedented accumulation of tonnage booked for deliveries tunning well toward late fall, pig iron and rails making an exceptional sbovlng"as to assured forward work. Sjieciücatlons for structural shapes compare favoral-ly in extent with those of i year a;;b, clue to Increase car and shipbuilding needs. A s ight declines in quotations for hides 's not accompanied by falling off in demand for leather, consumers of which remain busy, especially on footwear, belting and novelties. Improvement In receipts of lumber Is maintained, but prices hold firmly. Distributive lines are yet handicapped by difficulties arising from inadequate railroad facilities, and this may interfere with plans to make early forwarding of spring merchandise. Orders coming forward reflect a fair demand for the principal textiles, boots and shoes, clothing and hardware. . Interior advices testify to enlarged sales effected last year. Country stocks are well reduced and the conditions satisfactory for liberal purchases of new goods. Leading retail lines In the city require colder weather to make rapid January clearing sales. Failures reported In the Chicago district numbered 29, against 17 last week And . " . T, 1 . w I Trade. NEW YORK. Quiet prevails In distributive trade, but industrial lines were never so active at this season. Post holiday and weather conditions aect both wholesale and retail trade, the latter line noting slackness in demand for heavy wearing apparel. Clearance sal s ny jobbers have cleaned up stocks, which were at no time burdensome, aiid many cities report retailers already U-glnnir.g to stimulate sales in winter goJs bycut prices. Business failures In the 'Jniled States for the week ending Jan. 3 number 1S5, against 101 last week, 220 In the like week of 1906. 278 In 1003, 22 In 1904 and CTJG in 1903. Canadian failures for the week number 1, as gainst 18 last week and 2 in ix. Wheat, including flour, exports In the United States and Canada for the week ending Jan. 3, aggregated 4.2."5 270 bushels, against 2.494.s:2 last week, 3,S39,941 this week last ynr. 1,411447 In 1903 and 4.S1S.471 in 1902. For the last twenty-seven weeks of the fiscal year the exports were 97,923.504 bushels, against (.020.020 a year ago. 3(i,173.274 In 1904-'03, and 131,009,774 la 1901-'02. Corn exports for the week are J..074,-5-.X) bushels, against l,JrO.UOS last week, G.2C3,333 a year ago and 3,18(5.532 in 1905. For the fiscal year to date the exports are 23.S04.0S8 bushels, againt 43.21SS1 in WO.VOÜ and lS,liS(i,sy(S in 1904-'05. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.00: hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, fair to choice. $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 39c to 40c; oats, standard, 32c to ?4c; rye. No. 2. C2c to G4c; hay, timethy, $13.00 to $1S.00; prairie. $9.00 to $1C50; butter, choice creamery, 27c to 31c; egjrs. fresh, 23c to 2Ge; potatoes, 32c to 43c. lndianai)olis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0.45; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 75c; corn. No. 2 white, 41c to 42ci oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c. St. Louis Cattle. $4.50 to $0.10; hogs, $4.00 to $0.43; sheei, $3.50 to $0.00; wheat. No. 2, 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2, 39c to 40c; oats. No. 2, 31c la 35c; rye. No. 2. 01c to 03c. f' Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.40; !' hogs, $4.00 to $0.53; sheep, $3.00 toy $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 75c to 70c; corn; No. 2 mixed, 42c to .44c; oats. No. 2 miied, 30c to 37c; rye, No. 2, 70c to 72c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.10; hops, $4.00 to $0.45; sheep, $2.50 to $3.23; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 75c ; corn. No. 3 yellow, 43c to 44c; oats. No. 3 white, 33c to 37c ; rye. No. 2, I9e to 70c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 77c to 7Sc; corn. No. 3. 3Sc to 39c; oats, Ktaadard, 34c to 35c; rye. No. 1, C5c to 00c; barley, standard, 54c to 55c; pork, mesK, $1C07. Buffalo (Tattle, choice shipping steers, $1.00 to $0.OO; hop, fair to -boiee, $1.00 to $0.05 ; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $8.00. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $0.23; hogs, $4.00 to $0.SQ: sheen, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 7Sc to 79c; corn, Nö. 2, 31c to 52c; onts, standard white, 40c to 41c; butter, creamery, 30c to 33c; eggs, western. 22c to 20c. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 74c to 75c; corn. N. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; rye. No. 2, CSc to 70c; clover seed, prime, $3.32. New of Minor Note William Pittona of Beaver Meadow, Ta., a saloonkeeper, shot and killed Harry Stewart, a farmer from Quakake Val- . ley, at i ittona s Home. A loss of $100,000 was caused by fire which destroyed the livery and nie stables of Harper Brothers and of Ragsdile & Carlisle at Atlanta, Ga. Insurance $33.000. Sixteen persons were killed and many injured in a wreck on the North BritLb railway netr Arbroath, Scotland. Tts disaster wa caused bv th lipurr tnnwstorm. ' Col. James E. Tepper, Kentucky wti kv kinr and noted turfman. it tv Waldor'-Astoria hotel in New Yori. HIT wife got up from a sick bed and accoxnpanied tue body to Kentucky. George Boote, for many years one of San Francisco's most prominent -i? owners and ship builders, died after a short illness resulting from a fall frcra a street car six weeks ago. He was Ci years of age. For the purpose of erecting a monument at Baltimore to Francis Scott IIe7, the composer of the MStar-Siac!;l ner," the sum of $23,000 has been c-erel by Charles L. Marburg proviici ci-; will furnish, a suitable tits u