Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 31 January 1907 — Page 2

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M. -X F. Q.F. M VS 7th Vyi4th y 21stAE2SttT FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD. Court - and Crime, Accidents and Fires Labor and Capital, Grain Stock and Money Markets. LITTLE TOTS WERE BRANDED Beeaae .Tuey Played With Dolls a ad Assayed Stepmother. Two little tots, Nellie, aged 7 years, and Jennie, 2 years younger, told Magistrate House in the Harlem Police Court at New York City how their step-mother, Mrs. Kate Cravius, had branded, them with a red hot stove lifter when in play they had made too much noise. Twice during the recital, the prisoner, a woman of intelligent and pleasing appearance, not more than 20 years of age, fainted. When restored the woman admitted that she had burned the children but said at the time she was possessed by an unaccountable mania. The two girls, she said, had boen playing with their dolls until the noise and confusion robbed her of her reason and left a resistless Impulse to punish the little ones. Seizing the stove lid lifter, she pressed the glowing end upon the back of the right hand of each child causing scars that the little ones will carry to their graves. A peculiar feature of the case was the apparent affection for the children felt by the prisoner and that the attachment was reciprocated was repeatedly demonstrated in court. When Mrs. Cravias lost consciousness the children wailed in unison. The. prisoner was paroled !n custody of her counsel pending a further hearing and the children given in care of the Children's Society, which brought the complaint. TVartfc) German Lloyd Steamer on Fire. A special from Colombo says tie North German Lloyd steamer Seydlitz, Captain Bowers, homeward bound from Japan and Chinu with passen gers, mail and merchandise, trie arrived at Point de Gale Criton with her cargo on fire. Her fore peak is burned out. The passengers and mails were rescued by the British cruiser Diadem, and brought to Colombo. The Seydlitz carried 103 passengers. She was 400 miles from land, in the Bay of Bengal, where the fire broke out, but fortunately fell In with the cruiser Diadem, who took off the passengers and escorted her to Point de Gale. Carrie Trolley Car a Bloek. A street car was struck at the Third street crossing at Dayton, Ohio, by the east-bound Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati & St Louis (Big Four) Limited and before the train could be stopped the car was carried nearly a block. Kiss Lillian Hiber was killed and sixteen other passengers seriously injured, two of whom will probably die. The car was struck squarely in the middle and demolished. Police and private ambulances were rushed to the scene and carried the Injured to hospitals. Five B7 Perlwh la Factory Fire. The most disastrous fire which has occurred at Dover, N. II., cost the lives of four and probably five young mill operatives and a property los3 of half a million dollars. The fire destroyed mill No. 1 of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company. The bodies of four boys, charred beyond hopes of identification, were found In the smoking ruins and as five boys are known to be missing it Is believed that another body will be discover&t. Twelve Killed la Bllae Erplonlon. Five Americans and seven Italians are known to be dead as the result of an explosion of firedamp In the Pennsylvania Company's mine at Lorentz, TV. Va, Immediately following the explosion the mine caved in and narrowly caused the entombment of all the miners, estimated at 100. $100,000 Fire at Wllkesbarre. The department store of B. G. Carpenter & Co., situated in the heart of the business section of Wllkesbarre, Pa., wa3 practically destroyed by fire. Several adjoining stores were considerably damaged. The loss Is estimated at J100.0ÜO. Jflste Forelg-Bera Killed by Kxploalon. Nine men, all foreigners, were blown to pieces by a dynamite explosion on the Tidewater railroad near Pearlsburg, Va. The laborers were at dinner and a quantity of the explosive, which was being thawed in front of a fire, blew up. Stndent at Wlaona Drowned. Frank Lowe, a senior at the Winona Agricultural Institute, was drowned in Winona Lake, near Warsaw, Ind. Three Hanged for $3.50 Tneft Three terrorists were hacged in a row h the public gardens in Odessa, after kaving been condemned t death bj t irumhead court-martial for the armed fcbbery of a shop. The men executed inly obtained $3.50 from the store which Ley robbed, i v .Say Insanity Is Contagious. "-ainent neurologists testified befor r committee that is investigating tht State insane hospital in Warren, Pa, that insanity is contagious. The State will take drastic measures to check th H read of the disease. Schoolboy as Assassin. The chief of the rural administration aC Smolensk, Russia. M. Krollau, wa killed uy a school boy named DoriookoO n tae chief was leaving a concert hs.!i 11 boy, who fired five shots from a revolver at his victim, was shot and hilled immediately by an officer who was in r?diance noon M. Krollau Tata! Quarrel Over Estate. Ae Ballanec, a Hungarian miner, kill-i-l bis wife and daughter Pearl, aged 1 rar, and then committed suicide at Barto j, Ohio. The family had been qt:trrel- . out th division of aa tstatt,

HOLD TJ. S. DARK AS RUSSIA. Enemies of Child Labor Want Congress to Investigate. The United States government was declared to be on a par with the Russian government in failing to legislate for the protection of women and child wage earners at a mass meeting held in Carnegie Lyceum, New York, under the auspices of various charitable, labor and sociological bodies. It was charged that instead of advancing in such legislation the country had been steadily retrograding for the last eleven years. A resolution was adopted by the meeting calling ou Congress to appropriate $000.000 to defray the expense of a thorough investigation of all women and child labor in the United States. The meeting was presided over by Dr. E. T. Devine of Columbia university. He criticised President Roosevelt for declaring in one of his messages to Congress that it was practically impossible for the federal government to legislate so as to improve the conditions complained of. Among the other speakers was Miss Florence Kelly, secretary of tLe National Consumers' League.

COWBOY KILLS SIX YAQUIS. Bert Seeley Shoots Down His Assailants in One-Two-Three Order. At Beatty camp, on the new Southern Pacific line from Moetezuma to Guaymas, eight miles from Moetezuma, Sonora, Mexico, Bert Seeley, a noted Arizona cowboy, single-handed, shot and killed sir. Yaqui laborers. Seeley, it is said, acted in self-defense. He had words with one of the gang of Indians, with whom he was working on the grade, and they made for him with their shovels and picks. Before they reached him Seeley fired five shots. lie picked the five foremost of the advancing Indians in one, two, three order, stopping their onslaught. Every shot he fired proved fatal. Running down the grade, a sixth Indian tried to intercept him. and Seeley also shot, this one dead. Seeley escaped. He bears an excellent reputation in Arizona. ANCIENT CITY DESTROYED. Polotsk, Seat of a Mediaeval Principality, Is Burned. The central part of the City of Polotsk, in the Province of Vitebsk, one of the most ancient cities of the Russian empire, has been destroyed by fire. The damage is heavy. Polotsk is sixty miles west-northwest of Vitebsk on the River Duena. It was the seat of a mediaeval principality which wai swallowed up by Lithuania and under the Polish kings was a flourishing center of trade. It contained many ecclesiastical structures and an old kremlin. memorials of its former importance. Tolotsk was a Jewish center in the latter part of the eighteenth century and suffered severely as a result of the French invasion in 1812. The population of the city in 1897 was more than 20,000, about half of whom were Jews. TOBACCO STOCK BURNED UP. Revival in Jersey Town Causes Smokers to Quit the Weed. The entire male population of the village of Port Republic, N. J., has "sworn off" from the use of tobacco in any form as the result of a religious revival which has been in progress there for several weeks. One of those converted is Miss Amanda Blake, who was proprietor of the only store in the village where tobacco was sold. She made a bonfire of all the smokeables she had in stock. One of the first to swear off was John Johnson, who is 70 years old, who had used tobacco from boyhood, and he is sick as a result of the unusual abstinence. HAND SETTING IS DOOMED. Public Printer Says Machine Composition Is Ending Old Method. Public Printer Stillings hag issued a general order in which he says the days of hand composition are coming to a close. The order was issued to call attention to the government printing office's night school of instruction ' on typesetting Machines. The school held its first session the other night. Instruction will be free, but no pay is given i'or the work done. In the event of reduction in the force of printers, the public rrinter says, those who can operate machines will be given the preference. Train Nearly Over Precipice. A special train bearing Gov. Winthrop and a number of officials and citizens of San Juan was derailed near Quebradilas, Porto Rico, by a broken truck and the car on which the Governor and party were traveling was stopped within six inches of a precipice 1,40) feet high. None of the passengers was injured. Three Shot in La'jor Union. Two men are dead and another will probably die as a resu't of a shooting affray at a labor union meeting in Sloatsburg, N. Y. Vincenzo Scala, Sr., was killed instantly, Tomaso Cheche died of his wounds the next day and Vincenzo Scala, Jr., who was removed to a hos pital, is not expected to recover. Stevens Will Succeed Shonts. Announcement was made at the War Department in Washington that the of fices of chairman and chief engineer of the isthmian canal commission would be combined, and that Mr. Stevens, the present chief engineer, would he given the appointment. Held by Grand Jury. The grand jury of Porter county, Ind., which has been investigating the Balti more and Ohio wreck at Woodville, returned four indictments against employes of the road. The names of the indicted men will not be made public until arrests are made. Inventory of Field Estate. The executors of the will of Marshall Field filed an inventory in the Probate Court in Chicago showing the personal property, on a par value basis, to be worth about $43.000,000 and the estimated value of the real estate to be about $25,000,000. German Government Wins. The German government won a decisive victory in the election for a new Reichsta?, gaining at least twenty seats, and Having the first district of Berlin, the home of the Kaiser, from the socialists, who received a bad defeat. Senator Bailey Re-Elected. Senator Bailey has been, re-elected by the Legislature at Austin, Texas, but may. lose his seat, as he is pledged to resign if the charges against him are sustained, which his opponents promise. Bailey Denounces Hearst. Senator Bailey, on being re-elected at the joint session of the Texas Legislature, made a fiery speech denouncing Hearst as a "man without character or intellect" and as a "moral leper." Great London Merchant Shot. William Wbiteley, head of London's pioneer department store, was shot and killed by an unknown man who asserts he is the merchant's son, and who attempted to commit suicide. Weaver in Terror of Bomb. A crank called on Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia at bis home and for an hour and a half tried to induce him to finance a road to heaven. The Mayor feared the man had a bomb and was afraid to move. Finally he got to the telephone and called up the pel ice. The officers found no bombs.

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GREAT ENGINEERING WORK NEA.1 HELENA. MONTANA. Largest Thins; f Its Kind in Worl.l Will rurnlxli l'aurr to City Minnesota Cut in Frelcrkt Hates Is It locked Uy Court. A Helena, Mont., dispatch said the gates would be closed in the Ilauser lake d.un Friday. It will be three weeks before the power is turned on, as it will take this time for the lake to fill. The water will back up eighteen miles io the river and through the Prickly Pear canyon, tix miles in the valley below Helena. The dam is 040 feet long and 70 feet wide and is made of steel throughout. It is the largest of its kind in tbe world. Fifteen thousand horse-power will be generated and this, with the Canyon Ferry plant, will make Helena the 'largest producer of electricity of any place iu the wuntry, with the exception of Niagara. Tbe power will run the Washoe reduction works, the Anaconda railway, light, the city and operate man; of the Butte mines. BIG LOSS AT RICHMOND. Damage Through Fires Is Estimated at Nearly $300,000. Fire in the Williams building in Richmond, Va., which destroyed the Richmond Light Infantry Blues' armory and equipment, the Southern aud Adams Express offices and a branch of the Surburg Tobacco Company, causing a loss of about $200,000. was followed by two other fires, one in the large lumber plant of Whitehurst & Owen and the other in tbe building occupied by the B. F. Johnson Publishing Company and the Southtrn Paper Company. The Richmond Light Infantry Blues, the second oldest military company in the United States, with a history of having served in three wars. loses its uniforms, a quantity of government stores and valuable records. During the progress of the Williams building fire several other structures caught, and at one time a terrific conflagration wa threatened. The loss in all the fires except that in the B. F. Johnson building is $295,000, and the insurance is $117,000. COURT BLOCKS FREIGHT CUT. Issues Injunctiou Preventing Bate Reduction in Minnesota. Judge Lochren of the United States Circuit Court in St. Paul granted a temporary restraining order on request of the ten railroads doing business in the State, restraining the State railroad and warehouse commission from putting into effect the reduction in freight rates ordered Dec. 21. The railroads alloge that the order is confiscatory. The order to show cause why the injunction should not be made permanent is mad- returnable Feb. 13. FINDS HER CHILDREN DENA. Mother Discovers Little Ones Suocated in Bed by Smoke. John Machak. 3 years old, and Mary Machak, 5 years old, were suffocated in an upper room of their home in Johnstown, Pa. Their mother put them to ted and told them to remain there until ':he returned from a shopping trip. During her brief absence a small fire started in the lower part of the house. It was quickly extinguished, but Loth children had been suffocated by the smoke. "Idusica. Heart" Fatal. Alvin Shaw, 37 years old, died in the city hospital at Newark, N. J., of a dis ease known as mitral stenosis, or "musical heart." Shaw was an iron worker. In explaining bis peculiar illness to friends he said his heart t ranged like a banjo. He had been under medical treatment for months. Buy Big Plant at Iola, Kan. Harry G. Hamilton, a promoter of Youngstown, Ohio, representing eastern capitalists, has purchased the Portland cement plant at Iola, Kan. It is believed that the new owners are closely allied with the United States Steel Corporation. The deal represents $5,000,000. Guilty f Defrauding Government William T. Martin, Jr., formerly an employe of the Dawes commission, was convicted in Muskogee, Ind. T of unlawfully removing from the government office there the Creek Indian rolls, which later were copied and sold to real estate men. Sentence was deferred. Kill3 Himself in a Hotel. Within fifteen minutes after he had registered at the Grand Union hotel in New York Lathrop Smith, a student in the law school at Columbia university from Kansas, committed suicide by shooting. No cause for the act can be learned. Emma Eames Severely Hurt. Mme. Emma Eames. the prima donna. dislocated a cartilage of her right, knee cap just before she was to appear in a stage performance in New York. She will probably be prevented from going before the public again for some tiae. Fire in Brainerd, Minn. In Brainerd, Minn., fire destroyed three store buildings and their contents, causing a loss of about $70 000, partly covered by insurance. The fire started in the basement of the Reilly block from an overheated stove. $10,000 Fire in Ohio Town. The McKit trick block and the C. W. Jewel hardware store were destroyed by fire of unknown origin in Utica, Ohio. The loss is $10,000. The Newark fire department sent i-pparatus and stopped the progress of tbe flames. Grer.t Northern Enjoined. Judge Hallam at St. Paul enjoined the Great Northern Railroad Company from issuing $00,000,000 new stock without first getting the consent of the State railroad and warehouse commission. Raises Employes' Age Limit. The Pennsylvania railroad owing to difficulties in securing men has raised tht age limit for those seeking employment from 35 to 43 years. Death fo.- Twelve Persons. Twelve persons were killed in fights between the terrorists and Russian police in two cities. Senator Alger Is Dead. United States Senator Russell A. Alger of Michigan died suddenly at his home in Washington, of heart disease. Chokes to Death at Dinner. George Itisslcr choked to death while rating dinner at the Portage county infirmary in Ravenna, Ohio. Mine Workers Adjourn. The annual convention of the United Mine Workers of America closed Tuesday to meet next year in Indianapolis. The tellers' report on the election of international officers showed all old officers to have been re-elected. President Mitchell received 71,000 votes. Twenty Killed by Blast. Twenty miners are reported to have Leen killed in an explosion at a Colorado Fuel and Iron Company mine at Primero, Colo., and the death list may even exceed that number. The explosion is supposed to have been caused by a windy shot.

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The Ohio basin embrace? an area of 201,701 square miles, or 10 per cent of the great Mississippi Valley. The valley is divided Into tlve divisions, of which the, Ohio and its tributaries are second only to the Missouri basin, and include a watershed of 33.000 square miles more than that of the Mississippi Itself above the Missouri River. Waters from fourteen States find their way to the Gulf of Mexico through the channels of the Ohio great drainage system. It stretches as far northeast as New York and as far south as Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. At no point on the Ohio or tbe Mississippi is what is

HUNDREDS DIE IN WRECK. reunlr of the United State F Peril of ltallvny Dlvatters. The people of the United States have a "new peril" to try their nerves and wrench their hearts. It is a ieril of tbe new twentieth century the peril of rail road travel. Approximately 300 passengers have been killed iu the last few nonths in the most appalling series of railroad accidents the country, it is charged, has ever known, brought about by the Yesperate eCcrts of the railroad companies to make more money. It has not br-en a question of signals and switches and regulations: it has been a question of hurrying traVs through the flyer, the fast freight of getting from one end of the line to the other, so that they can-he started hack a?ain. Railroad employes have admittox on the stand that they disregarded signals that they had t, to make schedules. Twenty years ago persons traveled on railroad trains with comparative safety There were some accidents, but few men dreaded a trip by rail. , Even ten years ago the peril was not great. In 1807 only 222 passengers wore killed. Rut look at the last four months! A total of 300 human beings, passengers on trains in the United States, wore torn and man gled, scalded and burned to death in railroad ' wrecks f:23 per cent more deaths in four months than in the whole of 1.X07. The slaughter of the toll of 1007 began with terrible mortality. The railroads are overworked, overcrowded and over capitalized. Earnings that should be devoted to improring and replenishing the equipment and paying for a better class of labor are diverted to dividends to keep up the value of watered stock. The accompanying table gives the worst of the recent railroad disasters. There were many more the country over where the casualties were one, two, or three InDate Killed JureJ. Nor. 12 Woodville. Ind., Baltimore & Ohio, collision.. Sept. 18 Dover, Okla., Kork Island, passenger train, through brlflse Oct. 28 Atlantic City. N. J., West Jersey &, Seashore Electric, o;en draw.... Nov. 9 Lawyers. V.l.. Southern Kallway, Sin'l Spencer, President of Southern, among victims Dee. .8 Oanville, Va., Southern Railway, passenger Aud freight collision Dee. 11 Vergenncs. Vt., Rutland Railway, pissenger and fil 39 C3 18 freight, collision 2S Knderlln. N. D., Milwaukee & St. Taut and Ste. - Mnrle, collision r.0 Terra Cotta, D. ( Raltlmnre & Ohio, collision. 2 VoIIand. Kan., Rock IslanJ, collision 13 Harney, N. M., Hock Inland, open switch.... 13 Waldron. Mo., Rock Island, collision 19 0seo. Mian., Oieat Dec. Dec. Jan. Jan. Jan. 10 S7 CO 55 8 Jan. Northern, rails spread.. Jan. 19 Fowler, Ind., Ilig Four, collision 24 40 10 Jan. 18 Sandford, Ind., I'.'g Four, powder explosion SWETTENHAM QUITS POST. Jamaica (Jovfrnor Also polos;! e for Letter to DavU. In London Friday it was announced on unquestionable authority that Gov. Sjwettenham had sent an apology for his letter to Admiral Davis to jfTi' the CO100'211 KTO- , 1 tary, by whom it t ' AL Vi was transmitted J through the foreign ,x 'iS'r J J secretnry to the f.? SJtnt Upnnrtmcnt sit i?tate Department at Washington. and that fiov. Swettenham had also placed his resignation in the hands of the colonial secretary. It has been freely - '-"Z.t cov. SWETTENHAM. stated in the P.ritish colonial and other government offices that it was quite impossible for Svvettenham to continue in office not only because of the incident involving the withdrawal of the American warships from Kingston but also on account of the protests against his conduct received from the inhabitants from Kingston. All A remind the Globe. The Japanese budget for the next fiscal year, which the government expects to present soon, provides an expenditure of CI 1,000,000 yen (about $.TO.",000,000 ) . The control of fno New Orleans Item, D afternoon daily for the past thirty years, has passed to the hands of J. N. Thompson, former publisher of the Norfolk (Va.) Dispatch. The sentence of V. C. Anderson, th r.nbezzling teller of the First National liank of Kansas City, was reduced by Judge Wofford from four years to two jeers and nine months. The Lackawanna railroad has decided upon Scranton. Pa., as the location for its $2,000,000 locomotive shops. Elmira, Binghamton and several other cities were f-.nxious to secure the shop. Two Japanese, deserters from a steamihip, were arrested at Portland, Ore., on Mispicion of having murdered Dr. Philip Edwards Johnson, the New York physician who was found dead on the street. 'Ihomas Stockton of Outcrop, Pa., was arrested at Morgantown, Va., by llaltimore and Ohio detectives on the charge of removing danger signal lights from a high trestle at Outcrop, one night last August fifteen minutes before the Pittslutg and Western flyer was due.

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CANAL BID IS HELD UP. Unless Oliver Get Partner United States May no the Work. The bid of Oliver & Bangs to complete the construction of the Panama canal for C75 per cent of the x"ost has been rejected so far as Anson M. Hangs of New York is concerned. Put if Mr. Oliver can enter into a satisfactory arrangement with some other contractor, who is finan cially responsible, he wpl be given the contract, it is said. Some of the Washington correspondents seem to think that the government will build the canal Itself without subletting any portion of the work to contractors. While doubt was expressed as to the ad visability of pursuing the contract plan any further, it was virtually decided to advertise again for bids, although not in the belief that any of them would prove acceptable. The chief purpose in readvertising is to afford Mr. Oliver an op portunity to enlist new financial backing and submit another bid. W. J. Oliver of Tennessee, aud the wilderness, -is the largest employer of negro labor in the world, lie has forty contracts now on ?iand. which include tun neling Lookout mountain, damming the Tennessee river and thrusting railroads through Louisiana cypress swamr-s. If his bid is succcssul he will go down to Panama with an army of .",000 southern negroes who have long boon in his employ. organized like an army, with a trained superintendent at the head of each division. It was intimated that Mr. Oliver might arrange to co-operate with McArthur & (Jiilespie. It is known that th financial credentials submitted by Mr. Oliver and the McArthur syndicate have been found satisfactory, and the statement is made that a compromise proposal will be con sidered, provided Oliver suocccds in mak ing a satisfactory arrangement with Mc Arthur & Oillespie. The Oliver & P.angs lid was 0.73 per cent, while the McAr-thur-Gillespie bid was 12.30 per cent. Foreign Commerce Conventloa. The first national convention for the extension of foreign commerce of the United States was in session three days at Washington. Hverj State in the Union was represented, and the move ment was started by the Now York hoird of trade and transiortation. The tarifT, ship subsidy and other pertinent plans were discussed, and addresses wore mado by Secretary Root and the President. Filipino Franchise Falls. The report of the Filipino commission for the last fiscal year says that peace and order prevail except In Samar and Leyte. Under a limited franchise the na tives have elected governors in twentynine of the thirty-eight provinces. It appej'.rs that these elections, though orderly in form, were attended with much ex citement, and many had to be protested and annulled because of fraud, intimidaion and bribery. Gov. Gen. Ido says hat if there has been error it has been n the granting of a larger measure of self -government than the natives were prepared for. Fuel Famine Grown Worse. The commerce commissioners have re ceived word of serious suffering in the rural districts of the Northwest, notwith standing that the railroads have been dong their utmost to get coal cars V the afflicted points. The farmers aro jid to be chopping telegraph poles in .some pltees and destroying outbuildings In their necessity for fuel. The Rev. Laurence J. Kavanagh, 55. J., a professor in St. Joseph's college, Philadelphia, is dead, aged 54 years. He was born in Newfoundland and studied the ology at All Hallow college, Ireland.

known as tbe "'danger line" as high tis at Cincinnati, where? no groat impediment to transportation or inconvenience to residents is occasioned until the 30-foot stage is reached. At other points the danger line varies from 22 feet at Tittsburg to 43 at Cairo, 111., and Vicksburg. Miss., to 16 feet at New Orloans. Although the highest known stage at Cincinnati is 71 feet i inch in 18S4, the big Mississippi and -Missouri flood.-; of 1003 forced the water to a height of 82 feet at Arkansas City, Ark., 83 feet at New Orleans and 105 feet at Melville, Louisiana. The shaded portion of the center of the map Indicates the flooded region.

SHEA CASE WAS COSTLY. Disagreement of 970,000 Jarr May End Prosecution. It is claimed in Chicago that preparations for a new trial in the Shea conspiracy case will begin at once. The $70,000 jury in the celebrated case failed to reach an agreement and was discharged after deliberating .for fifty-four hours, with the ballot 7 to 3 fcr acquittal. The defendants, while claiming they arc anxious for a new trial, do not believe the case will ever be prosecuted by the State because of the great expense to ,4- , ' ' .V. : ; ..(' . (V. . ' 'v.'. T. fUEH which the county has been put already and to the difficulty in securing another jury. , KAISER A VICTOR. Colonial Policy of National extension Indorsed. Kmperor William's policy of colonial, extension and national growth won a sweeping victory in the general election of members of the new Reichstag at llerlin. The radicals, the conservatives and the national liberals who voted for the government's measure when the Reichstag was dissolved Dec. 13, UXHj, materially increased their representation at the expense of the socialists and the clericals. The socialists will lose seventeen or eighteen seats. The result is a complete justification of the colonial policy advocated by Chancellor Von Itulow and Herr Dernburg. The ehmcellor.s appeal to German patriotism was answered by an avalanche of votes which approves of the expenditure of sufficient sums of money and of the use of enough soldiers to maintain the nation's position in world politics. Major Charles R. KrauthofT of the subsistence department, U. S. A., has been act homed by the American National Ked Cress Society to purchase COO.OW pounds .f iiotir to he usod in China among the famine suQ'erers. Two deaths from beri beri and three in a serious condition is the report made by faptain Larson of the Norwegian bark Cl-jlfport that arrived in Mobile, Ala., from Sekoude on the gold coast of West Aftica. The disease was caused by bad drinking water. The fight of independent producers against the Standard Oil Company resulted in the introduction of a bill in the Kansas Legislature authorizing the State, upon the application of ten independent producers, to appropriate the use of any pipe line and require the owner to transport oil at rates to he fixed by th SUt.

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The Ilrownsville affair again occupied the time of the Senate Monday. Senator Foraker introduced a compromise rrsolu tion agreed to by Republican Senators as a substitute for the one introduced by him for an investigation of the matter. Senator Tillman arraigned he Senators who had opposed him in disensing the question, and was replied to by Senators Spooner and Carmack, the latter being especially bitter. The Senate doors were then closed, and when they were reopened Senators Tillman and Carmock apologized for parts of their remarks that had been objected to and vithdrew them. The House pronounced unanimously in favor of enlarging and making more efficient the field and coast artillery. An inter esting political discission grew out of the so-called "political purity bill pro hibiting corporations from making money contributions in connection with political elections. The bill was passed. A bill was passed authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate and report upon the industrial social, moral, educational and physical condition of women and child workers in the United States." The measure already has passed thi Ser.ate. After the passage of a nam ber of bills under suspension of the rules the House passed the District of Colum b!a appropriation bill and adjourned. The Senate Tuesday passed the com promise Foraker resolution authorizing the Committee on Military Attairs to vrstizate the facts of the affray at Brownsville without questioning the lo cality or justice of any act of tbe Pres 1dent in relation thereto. Several substi tute measures were voted down. One by Senator Mallory, declaring that the Pres ident had authority for his course, was tabled by a vote of 43 to 22. Another, bv Senator McCumber, simply providin for an investigation with referencr to the President, was tabled by a viva voce vote. A third, bv Senator Culberson, sim ply indorsing the President's action and providing for no investigation, was tabled bv a roll call vote of 4t to 19. Senator Sutherland occupied the first three hours with a speech defending the right of Reed Smoot to a seat in the Senate. Tbe Brownsville debate then followed. The House passed the diplomatic and consular anDroDriation bill, which carries over J, 000,000, and the military academy appro priation bill, carrying Jl,01o,4S3. Dunn; the consideration of the diplomatic bill speeches were made by Representative Sherley of Kentucky on the "treaty-mak inz cower:"' Representative Slayden of Texas, who urged a more liberal recog nition of the South in diplomatic appoint ments. The Senate Wednesday accepted the House proposition to increase the salaries of Senators, members and territorial dele gates to $7,ryJ0 annually, and those of the Vice President, Speaker of the House aud cabinet members to $12.000, by a vote of f2 to 21. Amendments confining the increase to cabinet officers and ihn juTsiding officers of the Senate and nousc and to postpone the increase until 1313 were defeated. President Rocsevelt gave his views in advocacy of shin subsidy in a special message. Senator Beveridge heran an extended address in support of his pending bill prviibiting interstate commerce in articles the product f child labor. An urgent deficiency appropna tion bill was reported by Senator Hale. The pension appropriation bill afforded u; cppoit unity for speeches by Mr. Hayes of California favoring the exclusion cf Japanese coolies; by Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio on the tariff and by Mr. Crumpacker of Indiana and Mr. Taylor of Ohio on pension legislation. Wiihont reaching the pension appropriation bill under tbe five-minute rule, the House adjourned. The Senate, upon assembling Thurs day, was notified of the suddpn death of Senator Russell A. Alger of Michigan, and after passing appropriate resolutions as a mark of respect, immediately adjourned. The House passed the pension appropriation bill, carrying a total of $138,000,000. An amendment offered by Mr. Dalzell restoring the number of pension agencies to eighteen was defeated by a vote of 58 to 114, and one by Gardiner of Michigan to abolish all agencies and centralize the payment of pensions in Washington was adopted without a division. A message from the President was read relative to insurance, and at 2:30, out of respect to the memory of the late Senator Alger of Michigan, the House adjourned. s Resolutions to check naval officers from "lighting a fire under Senators and members to compel the enactment of the naval personnel bill at this session' were pre sented In tbes Senate Iriday by Senator Hale. The urgent deficiency appropria tion bill, with an amendment granting a loan of $1,000,000 to the Jamestown exposition, was passed. Pension bills were .. , rry i X T 1 tnen aiscusseu. lue nouse. paseu number of bills of a local nature, including CS0 private pension bills. The agri cultural appropriation bill was then taken up, and Representative Kahn of Califor nia addressed the House on fire insur ance companies and their relation to the San Francisco earthquake. The ques tion of the free seed distribution occupied the remainder of the day. National Capital Notes. The President nominated Richard A. Itallinger of Seattle, Wash., to be com- " i i - it: missioner 01 me general iani ihüh, to succeed W. A. Richards, who is to retire It is semi-oGicially announced that llrig. Gm. Williac S. McOskcy, com manding the department of Texas, will be promoted to the grade of major genpral on the statutory retirement on April 14 of Major lien. James F. Wade, commanding the Atlantic division at New York. A petition for a writ of certiorari was received by the clerk of the Supreme Court in the case of Edward L. Flickinger, under sentence in Ohio to seven years' imprisonment ou the charge of con spiring to wreck the uahon National hank. 15. J. rartello, confidential agent of the Treasury Department at Berlin, Germany, will De renrea r eo. x ior me good of the service." It is understood Secretary Shaw believes Mr. Partello gets his name in the newspapers too often. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt en tertained at a dinner and musicale in honor of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor and Mrs. Straus. Other guests included Assistant Secretary of War and Mrs. Oliver, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Newberry, Gen. and Mrs. J. Franklin Bell, Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longwortb, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Curtis and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Patterson. Representative Martin of South Dakota introduced a bill authorizing the President to reserve public coal lands from entry, and restricting the number of acres companies may hold to 1,230 acre where $3,000 in improvements are made and 2,500 acres wbere the improvements are valued at $10,000. Members of the California ' congresional delegation were given a hearing fc-j the House committee on foreign affairs.n epposition to the bill to amend the Chaesc exclusion act by providing for inspection of Chinese at ports in China from which they sail, which is regarded by the Calif ornians as a relaxation of the exclusion &cU

CHICAGO Trade activity is seen Vp bt st-.Jy progressive, money evince.? an easier 1 tone and the seasouable yvealher affords the necessary, stimulus to efleet Clearance sales of winter; stocks la leading retail lines. The period is now entered upon when merchants from tbe interior begin tD throng thi wholesale districts, and it Is noted that Tisiting buyers appear In encouraging numbers and operate fn-eiy, the carders placed making an excellent aggivgate in linens, cottons, notions, clothing, footwear ( and household utensils, - Store stocks here and throughout tlx ! West have undergone atlffactory reductions, and this has' made the est- ; look more promising 'for the future. ; Manufacturing conditions niainbia their strong position, and agriculturists Mug well situated financially auditing for another year of prospcrcus crops, there is much confidence arr distributers. ' Production in the,icadlnz Industrirs ! remains of unabatccl volume and ctputs are more than the railroads cun promptly move. Further notable t:n- ' nage Is booked for pig iron, and or: : ; ity of the furnacey for the entire T? I Is now almost engaged. The car l . i ; and forges obtain additional turj spveifications requiring conipletica ct ! the earliest possible time, rails ars ia j steady request and plates and ctLcr j structural Fhapcs, wire, pipe and rzrr- j chant iron disappear readily zrzzz j , consumers. j The absorption of forest products, woodwork and leather continues upsn a scale Indicating that activity is cn- j usually extended at many of tbe factories, and the markets for raw material exhibit no cTiange in firmness of prices and general demand. Building permits this month Inr-ft business structures to a larger extenfy than the same month last year. H', feature causes a further rush to secure materials iieockJ for construction during the coming spring and adds to tL? feeling that cost may advance. Primary markets for foodstuffs have liecome more animated, and there is a Itettcr demand for wheat, corn and l:::.-j products at higher prices. The totil movement of grain at this port. 7.77.V S04 bushels, compares with (Ul.vT.3 bushels last week and SJ.SK bufhels a year ago. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 21, against 22 last vrri and CO a year ago. Dun's Review cf Trade. ; ne"w youe. While weather conditions are still a bar to widespread activity in trade cr3 industry, evidences of improvement in spring demand and enlarging t.t.!pmcnts are a feature of the week. Additionally favorable Items are an expansion In the grain markets, long staguant, based apparently on. tetter , export Inquiry, rather more cheerful advices frcm South Atlantic States heretofore reporting trade and collections backward, a decide! eesing cf ' money rates with a resumption of demand for commercial paper, and good reports from the winter wheat crcp. Colder weather South has helped retail trade, and that section, aside frcm a few localities, has done well th!j ; year, having had a next to record cctton crop, selling at good prices. In the Northwest heavy snows hare checied wheat movement, and coal tni!-3 still have the right of way In that ruc tion. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. use .Tv mm Chicago Cattle, corrranoa t pribi. $4.00 to $7.10; hogs, priav? heay, to $0.80; sheep, fair to choice. C-ICJ to $0.75 ; wheat. No. 2. 74c t 7Tc ; ccm, No. 2, U)c to 40c: oa", standard, ZZz ta SSc; rye, No. 2. OZc to 6Sc; kay, Cthy, $13.00 to $17.50; pmrie, t $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 27c ta HOC; egjes, frebh, 25c to 2Sc; FCütcci, 32c to 40c. Indianapolis Cittle. shippia to $0.;0; hogs, choice heavy. fl.CD ts $0.80; sheep, common to riae, 2J t $,".75; wheat. No. 2. 74c to 77c; corn. No. 2 white, 41c to 43c; ata, N. 2 white, 37c to ."Do. St. Louis Cattle. $l.rrt f e hogs. $1.00 to $0.00; sheen $0.75; wheat. No. 2, 7Sc to 70c: erc No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats. No. 2, 3CS to SSc; rye. No. 2, 01c to C3c. Detroit Cattle, $1.00 to $5.75; ho.rs. $4.00 to $0.70: sheep. 2-50 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2, 75c to c; coin. No. 3 yellow, 44c to 4c; oats. No. 3 white, t I 30c to 41c; rye. No. 2. Sc to 63c, Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern. Sc to Sic; corn, No. 3, 40c to 42c; oats, standard. 3oe to 3Se: rye. No. 1, (57c to CSc; barley, standard. 50c 1 53c; jork, mess, $1C05. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $1.00 to SG.15; hogs, fair to choice, $1.00 to $7.10; sheep, common to gcvxl mixed. $1.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice, $5.) to $7.S5. New York Cattle. $4.00 to ' $3.10: logs. $4.00 to $7.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red, )c to fi2c; com, No. 2. 50c to 51c; os.ts. natural vhite, 42c to 43c; butter, creamery, 25c to 31c; eggs, western, 24c to 2Gc. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to Sc; corn. So. 2 mixed, 41c to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 37c to 30c; rye. No. 2, GOc to CSc; clover seed, prime, $8.55. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5X5; logs, $4.00 to $G.S0; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2, nc ts 7Sc; corn. No. 2 railed, 43c to 45c: oats. No. 2 ixed, 38c to 30c; rye. No- 2, 70c to 71c. Because of complaints from labor or ganizations that the eight-hour law wa being violated at navy yards, the Secre tary of the Navy has ordered the com mandants of the Boston.. New York and Norfolk yards to suspend all extra work on warships being constructed or over hauled to join the Atlantic ÜM at Guan-i tanamo. Senor Torriente, the Cuban minister ' Spain, who resigned recently, has mt!e public a utatement saying thit tis tclion was caused by i-hame at the neo i tacle his country has presented to hr world. The colonel of a regiment at TouIol, I'l-ance, has refused to give military hoaors at the funeral of a sergeant who con- J r-.5ffeil Rllicirie. Tn thn nnlur tliA I says: "A toldier should not desert life cr the flaj." The airship for the Wellman-Ch.ics.-3 Record-Herald polar expedition has beta tested in raris and was found in perfect cooditioa. It will carry 13,7) izzlt J