Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 18, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 February 1907 — Page 2

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V 5th &?12lh t) 19thArj2itX FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE. PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD. Court and Crimes Accidents and Fires Labor and Capital Grain Stock and Money Market. Car lilt IIaae; Knock Girl from lied. John Murphy, a grocer at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was thrown down as he was walking across a room In his house the other night and his daugh ter. Miss Margaret Murphy, aged 17, was tossed out of bed and severely injured by the impact of a runaway coal car from the New Haven railroad, which struck and partially wrecked the dwelling. The car and its load of coal weighed over 70,000 pounds. It was dislodged accidentally from a switch above the Murphy property. The force of the collision moved the building off its foundation and threw It out of plumb. California Hero Killed la Wreck. South-bound Southern Pacific train No. 150 wa3 wrecked at Poccock, Cal., one and one-half miles north of Dunning, probably by a broken rail. Express Messenger Charles F. Earles was killed and his assistant, A. Smith, was slightly injured. Several passengers were badly shaken up. The express messenger killed was the hero of two hold-ups and three wrecks. He distinguished himself recently in a hold-up in Oregon when the robbers dynamited the express car, by sticking to his post of duty and holding the robbers off with a shotgun. Ttv Dad Fires ia Cincinnati. Fire completely destroyed the plant of the Thomas Kelsall Company, manufacturers of office fixtures and billiard tables, at Cincinnati, Ohio. A numbei of small residences adjoining were aiso damaged by fire. The loss Is estimated at $75,000. The "Day and Night" Tobacco Company's plant at Genesee and Plum streets was also destroyed by fire. Loss $65,000. T Die la Te neu .eat IIoae Fire. Mrs. Johanaa Wolf and Mrs. Mary UcHvain were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Marseilles building, a tenement house at 103 Main street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Several other persons were slightly Injured. All of the other forty families in the building at the time escaped without Injury. The loss to the building i estimated at $10,000. BlaT Aato Show Opern la CUrtg, The seventh annual Chicago automobile show was formally opened Saturday night with upwards of 100 manufacturers of auto cars, and accessories represented. More than 5,000 persons attended the opening, which Is said to mark the most successful year lr the history of automobile manuti ure. Thaw Trial Will Cost $15,000. It is expected that the Thaw trial in New York will last about six weeks and cost about $15,000. This is extraordinarily low as compared with other trials. Nan Patterson cost about $30 040, Roland Molineux $80.000. and Lawyer Patrick's conviction took f DO,00 out of the State's coffers. Edward r. Hippie Commits Suicide. Edward P. Hippie, brother of the late Frank K. Hippie, who committed suicide last summer after the wrecking of the Real Estate Trust Company, shot himself at hi3 home in Philadelphia, Pa., with a revolver. No reason has yet been assigned for the deed. 8aw Avalanche Wreck Twenty Home The Casino and twenty houses in the Tillage of Bareges, France, a wellknown Spa near Lourdes, have been destroyed by an avalanche of snow. Several persons are believed to be hurled in the ruins. Boy Killed by Playmate. Seven-year-old John Bransfleld, who resided with his parents at Roxboroogh, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pa., was accidentally shot and killed with a small caliber rifle by John Neall, ged li years. , Senator Galllaaer Wife Dies Suddenly. Mrs. Jacob II. Gallinger, wife of Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, was taken ill In - theatre at Washington and died shortly afterward. Three Frosen to Death. A woman and two children were found frczen to death in an upstair tenement apartment at Grand Rapids, Mich., with a third child in an adjointag room badly frozen but alive. Costly Blase at IXarrlahnra;, Pa. The opera house was destroyed, two Botels wrecked, another theater and a bank building damaged, and a number of small establishments 'gutted in I rxUIlon dollar fire at Jarriaburg, Pa. Fatal Mine Explosion. Twelve men or more were killed and a hundred others were retcned from death after an exciting struggle in the Pennsylvania's company's coal mine at Lorentz, W. Va. The disaster vas due to an explosion of fire damp. Five of the dead were Americans, the others Italians. Nine Foreigners Killed. Nine men, all foreigners, were blown to pieces by a dynamite explosion on the Tidewater railroad near Pearisburg, Va. The laborers were at dinner and a quantity of the explosive which was being thawed in front of a fire blew up. Duke and Duchess Separate. The disagreement between the Duke nd Duchess of Marlborough has been ettled by an arrangement to live apart on consideration of the titled husband being paid $150,000 a year by W. K. VanderbilL Five Boys Burn to Death. Five boys were burned to death and a number of men and women were injured in jumping from the windows when one of the largest mills of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company, makers of cotton goods, was destroyed by firt in Cover. N. IL 1

MANY DUTCH OFFICIALS KILLED. Serious Be volt Breaks Out in Java Vice-Governor Wounded. A serious revolt has broken out in the province of Kediri, Island of Java, Dutch ast Indies. It is stated that 300 natives lave taken up arms and that many of :he Dutch cflkials and their adherents iave been killed or wounded. The ce fovernor of the province is said to be imong the wounded and the chief of police is reported to Lave leen killed. Troops have been dispatched to the sceue )f the outbreak. The great majority of Ihe natives of Java are farmers or agricultural laborers. By the gift of the last Mohammedan emperor, who abdicated in 1749, in favor of the Dutch and by pur:hase of the native princes since then. :he Dutch government now owns most of ;he entire island. Along with the Moiammedan gift they received the right to Dne-fifth of the produce of the labor of :he peasant. This made easy the introiuction in 1832 of the "culture system," which has since prevailed. This consists !n obligatory service on the part of the peasant under superintendence of the Dutch government. In the cultivation of tobacco, coffee, sugar, indio, tea. etc. Since 1S70 this has been modified and sow coffee only is produced by enforced labor. MEN FLEE A $1,000,000 FIRE. Have llirrow Escapes in Big Baldwin Locomotive Works. Fire which started with an explosion in the paint shop brought out the entire fire department and destroyed one whole section of the hi Baldwin locomotive works in Philadelphia, entailing a loss of $1,000,000. The burned building is about 175 feet long by 150 deep, and immediately adjoining the main otfice. About 1,000 men were employed in the burned building, which was five stories high. The fire was discovered in the east end of the structure, adjoining the main office building, a few minutes before (J o'clock, when the workmen were preparing to leave, and though the flames spread quickly all were able to get out of the building safely. Shortly after the fire started the upper portion of the wall on Spring Garden street fell into the street and one fireman and three workmen were caught by the falling bricks, but received only slight injuries. The firemen, with the assistance of the fire patrol from the plant, succeeded in getting the flames under control within an hour after the fire was discovered. The Baldwin locomotive works is the Iarg?st industrial plant in the United States and employs 18,000 men in Philadelphia.

HEAD OF P3I30N SLAIN. Man Marked by Terrorists Shot Down by Assassin. M. Guidma, governor of the political prison at Vasili Ostroff, a suburb of St. Petersburg, was shot on the main street of the inland and died almost immeditely. The assassin, who was a youth of 18, dressed as a workman, emerged from a teahouse as M. Guidema was on his way horn's and shot him twice in the stomach. The youth also shot and mortally wounded a prison warden who ac companied M. Guidema and who pursued the assassin. The latter disappeared, and the police have been unable to find trace of him, owing to the fact that the popuation of the island generally sympathizes with the revolutionists. Guidema was sentenced to death by the local group of terrorists for the merciless use of the lash in suppressing the "hunger strike" which the prisoners on Basil Island declared i fortnight ago as a protest against the killing by a guard of a prisoner who was leaning out of a window. Guidema caused the prisoners to be flogged to force them to eat. STRANGLES SELF WITH STRAP. Tennessee Banker, Fearing Associ ates Would Hob Him, Suicides. Chafes V. Shulte, a wealthy banker of Memphis, Teun., committed suicide by putting a tra; around his neck a.nd tightening it notch by notch until he strangled himself. His wife found the body in a bain tub where it rad lain for several hours. Shake came to Battle Creek, Mich., two months ag to rest in a sanitarium. He believed his bank associates were plotting to secure his wealth, and that the bank faced a failure. Though not ill, Shulte brooded so contin ually at honve that it was thought a change would do him good. His suicide came without warning. Shulte was 43 years old. His wife is mu(h younjer. t FACTORY EXPORTS $7 10,000,000. Bureau of Statistics Shows They Are 41 Per Cent of TotaL According to a statement issued by the bureau of statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor in Washington, exports of manufactures from the United States in the year just ended aggregated $719,000,000 and formed 41 per cent of the total exports. Figures are presented showing exports of manufactures to the grand divisions of the world and the tdmre whick they formed of all exports to those divisions. The amount sent to Burope aggregated in value $313,503,047 ; that to North America, $182.121,770; Asia, $78,530,251; 'South America. $04,328,900; Oceanica, $29,711.707, and Africa, $12,S27,4SS. Bomb Throws 500 Into a Panic. Scores of families living in the fivestory tenements at 331 to 341 East Twenty-fourth street. New York, were thrown into panic shortly before midnight the other night by the explosion of a bomb in the yard at the rear of No. Sil. No one was hurt. The police think the bomb was thrown from a window to the yard. Engineer Surrenders Himself. Frank T. Dalnour, engineer of the first section of the Baltimore and Ohio passenger train which passed Woodville, Ind., ahead of Che immigrant train that was wrecked, killing sixty-one passengers, has surrendered himself to the Porter county authorities and was released on bond of $3,000. No other arrests have hern made. Soldiers Declared Not Guilty. Lieut. Ralph W. Drury and Private John Dovd of the Ninth United States infantry, who have been on trial in criminal court in Pittsburg, charged with the killing of William II. Crowley, a citizen of Lawrenceville, on Sept. 10, 1903, were both acquitted. 7,000 Naptha Workers Strike. Soven thousand employes of four naphtha works in Baku, Transcaucasia, struck. Their demands include a bonus for 1907, varying from 20 to 80 per cent of their wages for the year. A general strike is being planned in support of the movement. . Women Die at Crossing. Mrs. W. J. Wilson. 32 years old. of Rootstown, Ohio, and her sister. Miss Nellie Shope, 20 years old, of Charleston, Ohio, were killed by the west-bound Cleveland and Pittsburg flyer at Skeels crossing near the depot in Rootstown. Theatrical Trust Indicted. The theater combine has been indicted in New York a. a trust, conspiracy pnd restraint of trade being alleged, and extortionate methods employed were recited. Ice Hoist Kills Superintendent. Charles Hungate. SAeretary and gen eral superintendent of the Omaha Ice and Cold Storage Company, was instantly killed at Cut Off lake, just north of that city, where he was superintending the ice harvest, by being caught in the hoisting machinery. Mr. Hungate was 31 years of age and leaves a family.

HORRORS OF FAMINE

FOUR MILLION PERSONS STARV iNG IN CHINA. One Father Throw flilMren Inb lllver anil Wife nm! IllmneH Fol low In Suicide $t ,000,004 Fire l.o in IlnrrinhurK The appalling conditions in China as the reult of the famine, as told in ( hi ne.se newspapers and otlvr mail ad"ices reaching the State ipa.tment in Wash inton. coupled with the warning given b Consul General Rodgers of the possi ble effects of the outbreaks which daily ar occurring in the famine districts, have attracted the attention of. the government authorities and developments will be closely watched. Some of the incidents of the famine related in the Chinese press are most revolting. A storj' is told of one family the mother and father and two children. The mother left home on a war.-h for fcd. While she was away the father, despairing of aid, threw both chil dien into the river. The mother return ed and learning what happened threw herself. in the river anil drowned. The giief-stricken father followed, and thus the whole family jerished. One of the greatest dangers which the relief workers confront is an epidemic. In the great concentration camps which have been formed b.r refugees who have fled from the tricku districts to the south by the tens of thousands the people live, some of them only partially clothed, others en thtly naked in mud huts held together bv matting. Medical supplies and skill are La dry needed in these self-formed camps, as well as food and clothing. The government has opened public relief works where men can secure employment Estimates have been made of the cost of feeding each starving person and the total amount will reach close to $20,000 daily. This estimate is based upon a calculation that 4.0W.OOO i-ople are actually starv ing. MILLION LOST IN FLAMES. Harrisburg, Pa., Business District Is Visited by Fire. Eight buildings in the center of the business district of Ilarrisburg. Pa., were destroyed or severely damaged by a fire early Friday morning which caused a loss estimated at $1.000.000. The Grand Opera House block at Third and Walnut streets, in which were five stores, was razed. The Duncan building, on the opIcsite side of Third street, also was destroyed. The Perk hotel and Columbus hotel were damaged. The United Telephone Company building, the Security Trust building, the Rijou theater. Roshon's photograph studio, the College block, the ilarrisburg Gas Comiauy structure and the buildings occupied by the Ilarrisburg Cycle and Typewriter Company, the Philadelphia and Albany dentists and E. (J. Hooer. jeweler, also were damaged. The fire started from an explosion in Pyne's hat store in the opera house at 2 o'clock, and within an hour had destroyed the playhouse and stores in the building and had leaped across the street to the Co!umb:s hotel and the College block. SLAYS YEAR AFTER WIFE DIED. John Bell Watches the Clrck to Kill Dr. C. W. Townsend. The confession of John Reil, trolley car conductor, to his Lalf-brothcr, Howard Reil, that he slew Dr. Charles Wilmot Townsend in New Rrighton, N. Y., was in some respects a remarkable one. f He was in the house fully an hour before he dkl the shooting. A greater part of that time he passed in a bedroom on the second floor where the doctor and his wife were sleeping.' In the next room were their two youngest daughters. Most of this soliiiquizing took place near the ted where the doctor ami his wife lay. When Rell's mind finally was made up, he awakened the doctor, who exclaimed: "II you are here to roh, take what you can find, but do not harm my family or mt.1 John Reil is said to have replied: "I want none of your t hint's. I want you.M Then he fired his revo'ver. The half-brother declared he believe I Reil waited until the hand of the clock turned to the minut when, exactly a year Iwfore; Iiis wife haC died after treatment by the physician. WOMAN AND CHILD MTJRDEKED Wounded Negro Says He Fought Slayere, hut Is Held. Mrs. Harvey Morris and her 7-year-old son were murdered a few hundred feet from their home, three miles cast of Roosevelt, Ariz. Mrs. Morris' husband had left home for Roosevelt during the morning, and a negro shortly afterward appeared in the town with his throat slightly cut and other marks of violence apparent He declared that his injuries were received in defending the woman from th assault of two Mexicans who killed het and the child. The negro was held in custody. Falls 83 Feet; Net Injured. Honry Wright, a hod carrier, employed in the construction of a new brewery at Dentleyville, Fa.. lost his footing and plunged eighty-three feet from the roof of the structure. In falling he encountered two 2-inch planks, which were broken In two. Two physicians were summoned and, as they entered the building they were met by Wright, who asked one ol them for a cigaret. An examination showed that not a bono was broket?. Frees Man Held as Slayer. After only a few minutes of deliberation a coroner' jury in the case of William G. Co; ley, who was held by the Washington police in connection with th death of his wife and infant child, which occurred from pistol shot wounds, rendered a verdict exonerating him from anj blame. This leaves the official version ol the affair to he that Mrs. Copley killed both her child and herself. Ctata THTincni-r Tl n rt m a A The South Carolina House of lleprescntatives, by a vote of 74 to 48, passed a bill abolishing the State dispensary. The Senate is committed to the same policy by a majority of three vtes, so that the disicnsary seems to be doomed. i Children Toil in Sweatshops. Thousands of children toil like slaves in New York sweatshops for a mere pittance, according to the reiwrt of Mrs. Maud Nathan, president of the Consumers League. Dies in Hotel Chair. Kirk Riehl, a prominent slate operator, was found dead fitting in a chair in a hotel in Easton, I'a. He was a victim ol heart disease. Dies of Wreck Injuries. Willard Robb of Adrian, Midi., the locomotive fireman injured in the wreck at Riga, Mich., Jan. l.'t, died at St. Vincent's hospital, Toledo. Pullman Company Is Hit. The grand jury of Allegheny county, Ta., has returned six true bills against the Pullman company, alleging the sal of impure milk and cream to its patrons. In addition to these bills more than fifty dealers in Pittsburg were indicted for selling adulterated food. Marlborough Difficulties Settled. The Marlborough family has given out a formal statement that the differences between the duke and duchess have been settled privately, but the public is lefj in doubt as to whether or not they will continue to live separately.

Captain "Rill" McDonald, who will figuro as an important witness in the expected congressional investigation of the "shooting up" VTTSrM of Brownsrille by suiuiers ol me, Twenty-fifth Infantry, has been a Texas Ranger for over twenty years and is captain of the Rangers In the Rrownsville district. It was Captain McDonald who arrested the t Apr. m DONALD, thirteen soldiers who. as alloyed, actually perpetrated the o.u trage, and who later, upon demand of the military commander turned the accused men over to him. McDonald is one of the noted characters of the Southwest. He has been in many desperate encounters and his body is scarred with bullet wounds. His own revolver, however, bears scoros of "uc.tches," but the victims of his unerring aim had all been lawbreakers. Francis J. Heney, who is one of the leading figures in the San Francisco graft Investigation, is the attorney who was selected by Attorney General Moody to represent the government In the Oregon land swindle cases. His activity led to the indictment and conviction of the late Senator Mitchell and other influential politicians. Now he has added to his reputation by col- F- J heney. lecting evidence against the alleged grafters of San Francisco. : :- James McCrea, who has been elected president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, fs one of the noted railway men Iof the country. He .Is credited with I possessing great executive ability and has held the position of first vfe nrosldpnt of V ff I ' " 1 T the Pennsylvania r , .jj-m ' J I 11 . 4. - M T k ! . . n iiues i'M vi x iliaburg since 1891. McCrea was in PhiladelJAME3 m'ckea. pbJa In 1848, and began his railway career in IS 05 as a rodman. He has been with the Pennsylvania Road since 1871, having 6lnce that time filled various position on the different divisims. Since 1890 Mr. McCrca also has been at the head of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Road. For, a long time he has been regarded as the logical successor of the late President Cassatt as executive of the Pennsylvania. -: :- Senator Guiseppe Saracco, formerly premier of Italy and minister of the interior, is dead at Distagne. He was S3 years old. Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, wh, with members of his party, Is afceused of making merry on board a steamer at Ki-igstcn while vic tims of the earthquake groaned and creamed under the treatment of physicians. Is a noted Liverpool merchant and shipowner. Sir Alfred began life as a cabin boy on a vessel of the steamship " line which his coippany now controls and SIB ALFRED J ONE 3. rapidly made his way In life. Ho has been specially energetic In exploiting colonial trade and was made a knight corapfnion of St. Michael and St. George In recognition of his Jamaican and est African services. , Senator Culberson has introduced a bill in Congress prohibiting the sending of ny information regarding dealings in cotton futures either over interstate teletraoh lines or through the malls. -: : - William H. Langdon, district attor ney at San Francisco, has recently come Into prominence In connection with the scandal In the Golden Gate City. Although he was put Into office by the party li power be suspected that the administration was, not free from ofD clal crookedness and A'sZ was Instrumental in having the Mayor indicted for graft,' w. it. laxcdon. Although he was re moved by the administration forces, the courts decided that the action was il legal. . . Capt. Thomas Feabody, who command. ed the transport Sheridan when it ran on a reef off Hawaii last summer, has been suspended for six months. John W. Riddle, the new ambassador to Russia, Is a native of Philadelphia and graduated from Harvard. Mr. Riddle began his diplomatic career as secretary of the American legation to Turkey, a posi tion he held for six years. Then for two years Mr. Rid dle was secretary the American embassy at St. Petersburg., a rsost for which he was specially ntted on joiin w. iiijdia-. account of his facility in the Russian language. After two more years as diplomatic aent nnU consul general in Kgypt he was apitointed to the Servian mission. . . Representative Lowden introduced a bill authorizing the Albany Railroad Rridge Company or the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi at Clinton, Iowa. The. House committee on ways nd means decided to favorably report a bill to enshie small manufacturers to make denatured alcohol. It provides for the locked still and tank system and also exempts denatured alcohol from internal revenue tax when used in chloroform, ethr or other substances where the alcohol li chemically changed.

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DAY OF DISASTERS.

HUNDREDS OF PERSONS KILLED IN VARIOUS WAYS. Chic igo Stock Yard i:&ploIon Take Mne Liven Hundred of Miner Itnrled In foreign foal Shaft Score of Chinese Drown. Nine killed and many injured in explosion of ammonia tank in refrigerator plant of Armour & Co., at the Chicago stock yards; hundreds of coal miners buried in a shaft at Reden, Rhenish Prussia ; Many lives lost in a fire-damp explosion in a coal mine at Llevin, France; over 100 Chinese drowned in Hongkong harbor during a rain squall. This is one day's record of disaster. Wholesale death and injury were caused at the Chicago stock yards Monday Avlieu an ammonia tank in the plant of Armour & Co. exploded, wrecking part of a building in which scores of men were working. Nine men are known t,o have been killed outright by the funics. Eleven others were overcome and were dragged from the building. All were unconscious and terribly injured. Following the explosion thousands of employes in other adjoining buildings were thrown Into psnic, and many deserted their work and went home. Windows and doors of the building were blown out and debris flew in all directions. A call was sent to the stock yards police station, and as soon as possible six police ambulances and five patrol wagons were Hurrying to the scene of the explosion. Calls were also cent to the offices of physicians in the neighborehod and In n few minutes every available means knawn to science was being used to resuscitate those who had be;n overcome. For some time after the first rescuers arrived, the fumes were so strong that those who tried to enter were knocked down. Windows In houses nearly a half-mile distant were shattered by the force of the concussion. Hurricane at Hongkong. A terrific rain squall broke ovoi Hongkong Monday morning and in the spaj of ten minutes sunk over fifty Chinese craft in the harbor, more than 100 uatives being drowned. The harbor was littered with the wreckage of the sunken junks. During the wpiall the river steamer Paul Rean broke adrift, but she was brought to an anchor without sustaining any damage. Hongkong is e.u Island llon?ing to Great Rritain, lying off the southeast coast of China. The island was coded by the treaty of 1S42, made at Nankin, China. The roadstead has a well-protected nuehorage. Victoria, the capital (itself commonly called Hongkong) is situated on a magnificent bay of the same rame, setting up into thi north side of the island. Hongkong is the great center of foreign trade of China. The exerts of the island are roughly estimated at $125.000,000 and the imports at $100,(00,000. As a Rritish colony on Chinese soil it is most Important In its political and defensive position, and Is the headquarters of military and naval establishments. On Sept. 18, 1900, the Island was visited ty a typhoon, when the loss of life was over 5,000, mostly Chinese;, and the damage to property was estimated at $20,000,000. Coal Mine III Baxter. Near Saarbrucken, Rhenish Prussia, nearly 450 coal miners were entombed at the Reden shaft by an explosion of fire damp. When the first report was sent out, 1G4 bodies had been recovered from the mine, seventeen were taken out dangerously Injured and upward of 2o0 miners were missing. The mines at Reden all bc!oiig to the German government. The strata of coal in the region arc oftcu curiously dislodged. A terrible disaster hvolv!ng the lost Of many lives occurred In a coal mir at Llevin. in the Courieres district, France. The catastrophe was due to an explosion of lire damp In fme of the pits. Less than a year ago a similar disaster occurred -at Courrieres, France, near Calais, when 1,210 men were entombed in a burning coal min. A terrific explosion was heard shortly after the force of miners had dlscended or the day's work, and almost Immediately smoke and poisonous gasca poured from the mouth of the shafts and the entire interior became a mass of roaring flames. Some of those nearest the surface made their escapa er were rescued, but of 1,703 men only 57C were brought to the surface, and many of these were dead. The disaster was the worst ever recorded '.2 France, and was traced tfc.ectly to rarelessness. From Far and Near. William Fowler Thompson, president of the Standard Glass Company of Pottsville, Ta., was arrested at Philadelphia. He was charged with obtaining money under false pretenses ou stock subscriptions. William Whiteley was deposed as manager of the Fanners Co-operative Harvester Company at Springfield, Ohio, and the books of the concern were ordered audited. John R. Cavanaugh, formerly of Pittsburg, was rrested at Rochester, N. Y.. charged with misappropriating $20,000 belonging to a department store which he promoted. Cincinnati friends of the Duchess of Manchester, who was Miss Zimmerman, are informed she is to be made a lady in writing to Queen Alexandra, being the first American so honored. George Lever Weidermaun, declared to have been an American, has been found dead in the snow on Mont Aiguille, near Castillon. Exposure is believed to have been the cause of his e'eath. Ernest W. Brown, professor of mathematics at Ilaverford coüege, England, has been awarded a gold medal by the Royal Astronomical Society in recognition of his researches into the lunar theory. Oliver Dyer, who is said to have introduced stenography into this country and was the first shorthand reporter in the United States Senate, died in Roston, aged 83 years. Mr. Dyer was a pupil of Isaac Pitman. The second and subsequent meetings of thj anti-American boycotters were frustrated by tthe action of the viceroy of Canton, China, who ordered the apprehension of the leaders. An Italian named Davis was killed in Buckingham palace, Buenos Ayres, while looping the loop. Davis had challenged Mephisto, who performs the act nightly, and fell to his death while attempting the feat. Vivian J. Fagin, formerly United Str.tea marshal, pleaded guilty before JuJge Spiegel at Cincinnati, Ohio, to the charge of intimidating an officer of 1 :tion. The court announced that It vtvild take the case under consideration.

j WORK OF ? congress

Senator Beveridge occupied the attention of the Senate Monday with a continuation of his argument in behalf of his child. labor bill. The Senate adopted a resolution directing the interstate commerce committee to report as to the position in its employ held by C. S. Hanks, who recently stated before the Boston Chamber of Commerce that railroad rates could be reduced 10 per cent without impairing dividends. The resolution also asks for the facts on which this statement was based. The diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, carrying $3.0.S."i,478, with an amendment repealing the act providing for raising the rank of American diplomatists abroad when foreign governments raise the rtiks of their envoys to thi country, was reported, as also was the fortifications appropriation bill, which carries $7,3.3.rÄ). Senator McCumber introduced a bill to inquire into the salaries of federal officers and employes and report a remedy for inequalities. A joint resolution was adopted continuing the joint postal commission until its affairs can be wound up. Twenty hills relating to the District of Columbia were passed in the House. The Senate Tuesday passed the diplomatic and consular nd fortifications appropriation bills, jthe former carrying $3,0Sr.477, and the latter $2,0-1 1,70ft. Senator Beveridge concluded his sjeeh in advocacy of his child labor bill. Senator Curtis of Kansas took the oath of office for the unexpired term of Senator Burton. The House passed the Senate bill increasing the board of customs appraisers in New York from ten to twelve, and also iassed the Senate bill making provision for conveying a strip of ground in St. Augustine, Fla., known as the "Lines," for chool purposes. Mr. Littauer sought immediate action on a bill to loan $l,OiX,000 to the Jamestown exposition, but so much opposition developed that he withdrew the measure. The agricultural appropriation bill occupied the House most of the day. The free seed distribution item was rest bred. The recommendations of the committee on agriculture to increase the salaries of the chief forester, and the chief of the bureau of chemistry from $3,."00 to $4.500 went out on ioints of order. An important amendment was adopted that no part of the money appropriated for enforcing th national pure food law should le paid to any State, city or district official. Besides fixing Feb. 20 for a vote on the declaration that Senator Reed Smoot of Utah is not entitled to his seat, passing a bill appropriating $2,000,000 to confine the Colorado river to its banks and another placing the management of the Tanama railway under the isthmian canal commission, the Senate Wednesday listened to extended speeches by Senators Carter of Montana and Ileyburn of Idaho in criticism of the Secretary cf the Interior for his order preventing the issit-am-e of patents to public lands until after an examination cn the pound by a special agent. The House completed the agricultural appropriation bill. The diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was sont to conference, the managers on the part of the House being Cousins of Iowa, C. B. Landls of Indiana and Howard of Georgia. The river and harbor appropriation bill, carrying $84,000,000, was taken up. Senator Rayner's address en the expansion of executive prerogatives. Senator Lodge's brief reply and an extended discussion of the administration of the public land laws by Senator Ileyburn constituted the proceedings in the Senate Thursday. The river and harbor appropriation bill occupied practically all the time of tbt- House. The debate was opened by Mr. Burton of Ohio, chairman of the rivers and harbors committee. Other speeches were made by Messrs.' Bart hohlt of Missouri. Ransdell of Louisiana, Snapp of Illinois, Lawrence of Massachusetts, Caudrey of Missouri, Morrell and Moore of Pennsylvania. Bannou of Ohio, Rhodes of Missouri and Juloi Taxrinsga of Porto Uico. The Senate ftispendeil busing at 2 :00 o'clock Friday, according tu a special order, for eulogies for Seuator Gorman of Maryland. Previous to this order many bills of minor importance were passed, including one increasing the salaries of city mail carriers, making the first year's salary $000, with an annual increase of $100 until a maximum of $1,200 has been reached. Other bills passed increase the pension of all Indian war survivors from $S to $10 per month and grant the city of St. Louis an extension of time for one year to construct a bridge across the Mississippi. The rivers and harbors bill continued to occupy the attention of the House. In the main, the Kpeeches dealt with the proposed canal from Chicago to St. Louis and the deepening of the Mississippi river from St. Louis to the gulf to fourteen feet, the speakers including Messrs. Clark of Missouri, Rodenberg or Illinois, Rainey of Illinois, Crumpacker of Indiana. Madden of Illinois, Croff of Illinois, Shackelford of Missouri, Chandler of Mississippi, Mahon of Pennsylvania and Carrct of Tennessee. Bills were passed fixing the boundaries of lands adjoining the Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation in Idaho, iermitting in rsons owning lands in the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian reservations in Oklahoma to commute them for towesite purises, and creating two additional land districts in Alaska, located at Nome and Fairbanks. National Capital Notes. Two appropriations of $10,000 each are asked by the Postmaster General for temporary quarters for the postofilce at Peoria, 111., and South Benf;. Ind., during the construction of new public buildings there. . The Senate passed a joint resolution granting an extension of time until May 15 to certain homestead tntryments in the Northwestern States in which to establish their legal residence. Action was taken because of shortage of fuel in the section affected. The War Department has authorized the prosecution of the owners of a skating rink at Plattsburg. N. Y., who refused to admit soldiers, declaring that the "uniform was barred." The House committee on postoffices has decided to include in the postoffice appropriation bill a provision for increasing the salaries of rural free delivery carriers to $810. They now receive $720. Another attempt to report the Hep-burn-Dollivtr 'bill, making liquors in interstate commerce subject to the laws of States in which they are shipped, was defeated in the House committee on judiciary. The full Senate committee on Indian affairs rejected the recommendation of a subcommittee that the appropriation to the Indian school at Carlisle, Fa., be discontinued and the school be abolished. Independent powder manufacturers were given a hearing by the President to present their charges that the DuPont Smokeless Powder Company is a trust and is using the profits from government contracts to sustain a monopoly. The Senate committee on interoccanic canals authorized a favorable report on Senator Morgan's bill abolishing the organization of the Panama railroad and placing the railroad under the absolute control of the isthmian canal commission.

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To Safeernard Children. The American Federation of Labor's bill limiting the hours of work for children and excluding them from certain kinds of work, was introduced in the House by Representative Kleckner of Cass county. Restaurants, hotels, theaters, bowling alleys and messenger services are added to the list of employers that maj' not permit boys under sixteen and girls under eighteen to work more than nine hours a day or more than fiftyfour hours a week. No girl less than sixteen years may be employed in the manufacture of cigars, snuff or tobacco, goods foi immoral purioses, or any employment that may be dangerous to their lives, or where their health or morals may be injured. No girl under sixteen years shall be allowed to work where the employment fchall require her to remain standing constantly. Mr. McCulIough of Madison .-ounty introduced a bill to make it a penal offense to allow boys or girls less than eighteen years old in a wineroom or jther immoral place. l'rsred by Anti-Saloon I.cmkuc. Senate bill No. 00, Senator Ganiard's 'bfind tiger" measure, passed by the Senate by a vote of 35 to 7, is an amenTIuent to Section 12 of an act of tc Gen?ral Assembly of 1875. regulating and icensing the sale of intoxicating liquors, md is the first measure, the temperance DPOple say, which in an adequate manner ill serve as a basis for the prosecution )f the proprietors of resorts of all kinds ihat sell intoxicants without license in nost instances without government or State license, in some cases with governnent license but without State license. 'Blind tigers" have been a source of rreat annoyance in many cities and ;owns, particularly in smaller towns, and rhe present law has not been effective in keeping them closed. The Anti-Saloon League indorsed the Ganiard bill and the jfficers of the organization have been urg-' ing its passage. Xevr DIU In the IIone. The House session Tuesday forenoon, though three bills were passed and a number killed by concurrence in reports of committee for indefinite postponemeit, was interesting chiefly because of important bills introduced. Mr. BilUngsley of Indianapolis introduced a bill to take the Park Board out of the jurisdiction of the City Council in Indianapolis and to restore their former salaries to the members, and a bill to increase the salaries of Board of Safety members from $XX) to $1.500. Mr. Moon of St. Joseph county introduced the Federation of Labor's bill to abolish contract l;bor at the Indiana reformatory. Mr. Brown of Washington county presented a brief little bill designed to abolish the office of State fish and game commissioner. "Blind Tlarer" nm raM. After a vigorous fight. Senator Ganiard's hlind tiger" bill was passed by the Senate late Thursday afternoon by a vote of 35 to 7. There was an attempt to amend the measure so that persons having intoxicants in "any rooms or building" might not be subject to inconrenience or embarrassment from threatened prosecution, if they were innocent of any intention to violate the law, but had such lienors for their private use. On the vote to amend there were 22 for and 24 against the amendment. Several of the members who voted against the bill, said they took the stand because of the failure to amend, otherwise they would have voted for the bill. Open Fishing Season. Representative Joseph C. Kimmell of Ligonier has a bill which would make an open season the year round for fishing with hook and line. This kind of fishing is now prohibited from March 2Q to May 15. "The farmers wish an open season twelve months in duration." raid Mr. Kimme', "so they may fish whenever they please, and the fish commission looks with favor on the projosition, as it will enable its deputies in the guise of fishermen to detect other more important violations. The closed season was established with a view to protecting fish daring the spawning season, but fish do not pawn at the same time in the various f arts of the State, so the provision is useless." For Flat Two-Cent Fare. The Senate, after considerable debate, amended the IJland 2-cent fare bill by striking out the provision for 2j-cent fares for passengers who fail to buy tickets and pay cash on trains. It was also amended by addition of a provision compelling railroads to carry 1ÖO pounds of baggage without extra charge. The bill as amended was then advanced to engrossment. Otiten Dculre to Dredjce. Senator Kling Wednesday afternoon presented twenty-eiht remonstrances, signed by citizens of Noble. Kosciusko, Marshall and Whitley counties, and the burden of the complaint in each instance was the same protesting against favorable action on Senate bill No. 58, which would prohibit the dredging of Indiana lakes for marl. AKint Tree Dentrnctloa. Mr. Slimp's bill to prohibit unauthorized cutting and mutilation of t.hade trees by telephone companies, jwissed the Assembly with little opposition, only three votes being cast against it. Wife Desertion a Felony. Senator Farber's bill, making wife desertion a felony, was called up on third reading in the Senate Thursday afternoon and was passed by a vote of 38 to 5. Juvenile Court mil Killed. The bill to enlarge the powers of the juvenile courts of the State to the extent that adults charged with contributing to the negligence of children must be tried in the juvenile instead of the circuit or criminal courts, suffered an ignominious death in the Senate. The measure was introduced by Senator Cox at the request of juvenile court officers who believe that in criminal cases in which juveniles are in any way concerned, the trials of defendants, whether minors or adults, should be in the juvenile courts. For Statue of General Wallace. Senator Thomas Moore's bill. No. 28, to appropriate $5,000 for a statue of Gen. Lew Wallace, to be placed in Statuary Hall in the national capitol at Washington, was passed by the Senate. The measure was subject to debate on its second reading the previous week, when the Democrats sought and failed to substitute the name of Thomas A. Hendricks for that of Gen. Wallace, and some of the Republicans made an effort to have the name of Benjamin Harrison substituted for that of Gen. Wallace. The bill passed 30 to 8. StronaT Frlmary Election BUI. A bill to provide for the nomination of candidates lor county, judicial, legislative, city and township offices by direct primary elections has been introduced in the House by Representatives J. Monroe Fitch of Muncie. The bill, owing to its simplicity, is regarded as one of the strongest and best of its kind that has appeared in the Legislature. Its chief provision is that the primaries of all parties hall be held on the same day and at the same place. Heavy penalties 8 re named for violation of provisions sett?ng forth the duties of election officers and of voters.

IAL Sri Mil i j :"-r:.. I CHICAGO. Inability of the railroads promptly to handle all the business offer til them is the only drawback to trade In the Chi-c-a,jo district, a-urd.ing to tlw weekly review issued by R. G. Dun & Co., which says: Mill and factory production is not diminished, and contracts for future execution make a satisfactory agreate in iron and steel, cars and motive power, woodworking and brass. Costs of the raw materials hold firmly to their high average, but there is sustained rapid absorption of available supplies of hides, leather and lumber, and building tuff for early use i- in much request. January permits for new huiMings hare an aggregate value of 23 per cmt in excess of those for same month last year. Business structures included in the foregoing amount to $1.10.2.500. an increase of 220.7 per cent, and indicate au unusual addition to capacity in various commercial lines. Mercantile collections maintain a satisfactory showing, and distributive trde in staple goods is fpon an upward trend. Personal buying is more evident in the wholesale district, there being larger numbers of country merchants present, and their steady purchases of sprinar lines compare favorably in extent with thoe at this time in 1IXV. Bookings have gained in dry goods, clocks and suits, men's furnishings, clothing, boots and shoes and notions. Traveling salesmen forward eo.vl orders fiom the interior, and results thus far inject more confidence in the outlook for an unprecdented movement of. ware to the West and Southwest. Local retail trade lias made effective January clearance sales and winter stocks now are reduced to a comfortable point. learnings of the Chicago railroads exhibit liberal gains, but drawbacks to freight transportation have again become acute, although there is more rolling stock in action and better directed effort to facilitate traffic. The total movement of giain at this iort. 7.104.1 15 bushel, compares with 7,775.fc04 bushel last wetk and 7,401,703 bushels a year agr SEW YORK. Irregular wvatber conditions n:ake for numerous cross currents in n;-iil trad, but there is evidence of en!ar:Mut in some lines of spring business, notably cotton goods, demand for which is limited only by capacity of mills, wholes tilers or jobber? to deliver. In the iroa and slrtl trade conditions vary with the material and sections reported, so far as future business is concerned. The rcJins of the waters has made for a resumption 'of trade and industrial activiti in' the Ohio valley. Colder weather and clearance sales- hae stimulated trade Fast and North. In the Norhwest trad-. trafr.c and contraction feel the effects of heavy snowfalls, coming on top-of an acute car thortage, though that section appears to be gradually winning out. exopt in parts of the Dakotas. There is little change to be noted in crop reports. Tbe cold weather of last week has leea succeeded by rains or snow, end the wheat belt has had a better mow covering thaa at any previous time this winter. Bradstreet't Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy. $1.(X) to $7.0); hheep. fair to choice. $3-W to $5.50; wheat. No. 2, 73c to 74c: corn. No. 2, 41c to 4".c: oos, standard. 35c to 37c; rye. No. 2, GSc to 70e; hay. timothy, $13.00 to S1S.00; prairi. $.1.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 27c to 32c; eggs, fresh, 24c to 27c; iotatoes, - S5c to 4 CC. Inlianaiolis Cattle, ship pin jr. $3.00 to sti.50; hogs, choice heavy, $1.00 to $7.0); nheep. common to prime. $2.50 to $.".r0; wheat. No. 74c to 7.V ; corn. No. 2 white, lPc lo 45c; oats, No. 2 white, -.7c to ?c. St. Louis Cattle. $4.50 to $0.7.".; hots. $4.00 to $7.0:jheep, "..".) f $3.73; wheat. No. 2. e to '7"Sc; corn, No. 2, 41c to 43c; oats. No. 2, 3' to 38c: rye, No. 2, Clc to (Tk Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $3.4i3; hogs. $4.00 to Sheep, $.10) to $3.23; wheat. No. 2. 77c to 7Sc ; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43e to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed. ;iSe"to 30c; rye, No. 2, )c to 7t)c. Detroit Cattle. $1.00 to $3.0): hogs, $4.00 to $0.70; sheep. $2.r.O to $.".00; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 7Sc; corn. No. 3 yellow, 45c to 47c; oats. No. 3 white, 30c to 41c: rye. No. 2. tVSc to COc. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northrs t 7Sc to Sic; corn. No. 3. 40c to 42c; oats standard, 3Cc to 3Sc; rye. No. 1, G7c to CSc; barley, standard, 50c to SSc; pork, nieys, $lt.vs). Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $1.00 to $0.15; hogs, fair to choice, $1.00 to $7.40; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $3.54); lambs fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.85. New York Cattle, $1.00 to $5-S0; hogs, $1.00 to $7.50; sheep. $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, V? to 82c; corn. No. 2, 54c to 55c; oats, natural white. 41c to 45c: butter, creamery, 27c to 33c; eggs, western, 22c to 25c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75c to 7Cc; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 41c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 37c to 3Sc; rye. No. C, CWV to Sc; clover seed, prime. $S.40. Intercut ins Newa Item. James Scheurman of Franklin, Neb., fell down in a hog ten and after a des pel ate fight was literally eaten alive by the hogs. J. P. Morgan's banking house in New York will in future be in the hands of J. 1.' Morgan, Jr., and it is announced that Wall street will see little of th? onior member of the concern in future. The Kentucky Court of Appeal held that warehouse receipts are intangible proi-erty a nc are to be listed for taxation at tbe domicile of the owner. Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, convicted of the

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murder by poison xf Mrs. Deane and f Mrs. Dunning at Dover, Del., will have I to wait three months longer before get- 1 tiig au opportunity of having hvr case ' reviewed by a higher court. h A part of the Wilmington, Del., plant i of the Pullman Car Company was dam- t iged by fiie to the extent of about $100, 000. Included in the loss are fourteen f Pull man cars which had been repaired and were ready to leave the fchop. ? Oidcrs have been issued from beadacartors of the department of the Missouri at Omaha that tbe battalion of CCO ezgineers now at Fort Riley, Kansas, leavtj I that post on Feb. 2.8 and go tc Cuba. V Stepheu Van Wyck of New York n started suit against the estate of the late Harry Vonder Horst of Baltimore to enforce the payment of $12,000 claimed to have been loaned the dead man in a gambling game. , j The breaker and washery of the Brie t Company at Avoca, Pa were destroyed j by Ere, causing a loss estimated at $130,000. The fire is supposed to have orig- j inated from a burning culm back nituit-ii i near the engine room, of tie trcit j (

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