Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 19, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 February 1907 — Page 2

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(TU Q.N. M. T?! F. Q.SF. XI. FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD. Courts and Crimes, Accidents and Firest Labor and Capital Grain. Stock and Money Markets. Firemen Aid Police In Saloon Haiti. "With 5,000 persons looking on, the police of Springfield, Ohio, with the aid of the fire department raided a saloon In East Main street and with ladders scaled the walls of a five-story building and rounded up thirty-one men who had escaped from the place and taken refuge on the roof. The police attempted to go up on the roof through the building, but found themselves barred by a steel trap door. The men cn the roof refused to surrender, but when the fire department arrived with ladders the offlcers ascended with drawn revolvers and no further resistance was encountered. The men were charged with loitering. . Tidal Wave at Xaplea Works Havoe. A dispatch from Naples, Italy, says that the government has sent troops and assistance to Mardl di Catanzaro, the fishing village on the Calabrlan coast where a tidal wave destroyed 122 houses and rendered the population homeless and destitute. The conditions there are made more severe because of incessant rains. The storm also did serious damage in the province of Cozenza, numerous villages being flooded. Tragedy at Kansas City. Dr. E. Verrett H. Merwin, a prominent physician and surgeon of Kansas City, Mo., and Miss Maud Slater, aged 23 years, a patient of the doctor, were found dead in Merwln'3 office in the Hall building, and all evidence points to the theory that the girl shot and killed the phywician and then committed suicide as the result of an insane jealousy. Bold Robbery la New York City. A reckless attempt at highway robbery was made on a crowded Harlem street at New York when a man, who later gave his name as Wolf Parker, a clerk, 24 years of age, knocked down a bank messenger and secured possession of a satchel containing $2,900 in currency. The robber was captured by the crowd after a chase of two block3. AaeJ Defaulter Seateaeed at Lima. Amos Young, of Lima, Ohio, former county treasurer, convicted of alleged embezzlement of funds as secretary of the Allen County Building and Loan Association of that city, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Mr. Young is In his seventieth yaar. The sentence is temporarily suspended pending an appeal. Hotel Fire at Syracuse, X. Y. The Mowery hotel block, in South Salina street, Syracuse, N. Y., caught fire and spread to several adjoining buildings, threatening the destruction of a large part of the business portion of the town. Several Uvea are reported lost. Many were rescued by the firemen. River Recluse Dead from Explosion. James Clements, a recluse who '..ived alone in a shanty boat on the river at New Albany, 7nd., died at SL Edward's Hospltd in that city from the effects of injuries tustalned in an explosion. He placed powder in the stove to blow out the pipe and an explosion followed. Fatal Wreek on the Wabash, A west-bound passenger train on the Wabash railroad was wrecked at Forpythe Junction in the outskirts of SL Louis, Mo., by a defective frog. The engine was overturned and Engineer Louis Wiseman was pinned underneath and probably fatally scalded. The baggage car was smashed. Era. David Badly Darned by Gasoline. While cleaning gloves with gasoline, the fluid caught fire, igniting the clothes of Mrs. W. L. David, wife of Prosecutor David, of Findlay, Ohio, and burned her arm so badly that amputation will probably be necessary. Whole Family Perished. An entire family of seven persons perished in a conflagration at the Mergenthal brewery at Stelnbach, Switzerland. Eight other families narrowly escaped a similar fate. Three Killed la nulas. Three workmen were killed and several Injured in the collapse of the ruins of the Madison Motle General store at Odebolt, Iowa. Lord Rasaell Dead. Sir William Howard Russell, editor of the Army and Navy Gazette, of London, is dead. He was 86 years old. He was a famous war correspondent and In that capacity served on the London Times at the battle of Bull Run. "Drys" Win in Oklahoma. The p xhibition "moderates" won hands down In the constitutional convention in Guthrie, Ok la., which in the committee oi the whole adopted the Rose amendment to the Williams substitute providing for a separate submission of the liquor questions to the voters of Oklahoma. Bequeaths Estate for Toys. In the will of George Ii. Nutt who died in Pittsburg recently, a bequest is made that his entire estate, estimated at $31,000, is to be spent for toys and gifts for the poor children of Allegheny county at the death of his wife. Foraker's Daughter Injured. Mis Louise Foraker, daughter of Senntor Foraker of Ohio, was slightly injured when a street car collided with a rorriage in which she was returning from the theater in Washington. Two Trains Burn in Wreck. A west-bound Baltimore and Ohio freight train on the Pennsylvania road broke in two near Black Lick. Ohio, anr the wild section crashed into a west bound Panhandle freight, reducing botl trains to kindling wood. Fire started ai.J the fanners of the neighborhood pus oat tb flames.

SON" FINDS HIDDEN WEALTH. Charles Tripler's Trunfc Proves Treasure Chest. Considerable interest has been arou-.el there by the announcement of the finding of unexpected wealth on the Tripler mansion on Broadway, in Manha.sset, L. I. A trunk that had been passed over by evfryone coming into the house was finally apened and found to contain valuables and jewelry to the amount of over $35,OOO. The mansion belonged to the late Charles Triller, who gained fame in consection with liquid air experiments, everal years ago 'he came to Manhasset, when his health failed him. and purchased the Haak place on Broadway. He lived there until last fall, when he died. After his death it was found that he had left everything to his wife. She began to make arrangements to settle up the estate when she was takeu ill, and soon afterward died. The only heir to the noted scientist's wealth was his son. L. B. Tripler. lie was recently appointed idministrator by the Surrogate's Court in Mineola. After his appointment he began going over the effects in the house. Most of the supposed wealth of his father was well invested, and was quickly gotten together. In an out-of-the-way place was the trunk that later proved o be the treasure chest. It showed the signs of age and neglect, and very little attention ras paid to it. Finally Mr. Tripler. after looking over everything else, decided to see what the trunk contained. Scarcely had the trunk been opened before the searchers began to be astonished. Neatly done up in packages in the upper part of the trunk were diamonds and jewels of thousands of dollars in value. Then val-. uable documents were disclosed. According to the rumors the total value of the contents of the trunk was more than $35,000. FIND FAMILY FROZEN. Passengers from Stalled Train Come Upon a Ghastly Tragedy. Passengers from a stalled train near Fargo, N. D., report finding a family of four frozen to death in a farm house. A dozen volunteers had left the train to search for food. They cam? to the house and found the door gone. Entering, they saw in a corner of the room the bodies of the farmer and his wife, and nearby the frozen corpses of two children. Every bit of furniture was gone, and apparently had been used for fuel, and the door had been sacrificed as a last resort. There was no clew to the names of the strickeu family. When winter loosens its grip on the Northwest it is feared the death roll will be found to run up into the hundreds. The experience of former stormy winters indicate that not less than 200 have suffered the same fate as this family whose death has just been reported.

RELIGION WRINGS CONFESSION. Woman, After Conversion at Mission, Admits Poisoning Man. The grand jury in Akron, Ohio, began an investigation into a reported confession by Mrs. Pearl Jones, a recent convert to the "Gift of Tongues" belief, that she caused the death of her husband, Herman Swigart, seven years ago. Mrs. Laura Swigart of Akron, mother of the decedent, has repeated to several persons that Mrs. Jones, after her conversion at a meeting at the South street mission in Akron, admitted to ber that she killed Swigart. Fire Started by Safe Blowers. An attempt to rob the safe of the Thomas Ketsam Company in Cincinnati preceded the fire which caused $75,000 damage in the plant on Sunday, according to discoveries made In the rains. It was found that the combination had been battered off the safe and the belief now is that the fire was cither started accidentally by the robbers or else that the place was deliberately fired when the attempt to rob the safe failed. Rockefeller's Crowning Gift. , John D. Rockefeller has crowned his career in philanthropy by a donation of $32,000,000 to promote the cause of education throughout the country. This stupendous gift, the largest of which human history has any record for any purpose whatever, was made to the general education board, the body specially created by Congress four years ago to administer the Rockefeller charities in the cause of education. Finds New Land Fraud. Acting under instructions from President Roosevelt, Thomas H. Neuhausen, an inspector of the Interior Department, co-operating with State Mineralogist Lewis E. Aubury, has been investigating land locations in California, and it is said he has unearthed gigantic frauds which will be made the basis of criminal prosecutions. Clerk Fads School Pay Roll. Chief Clerk Thomas V. Peck, in the office of the superintendent of instruction of the board of education in St. Louis, confessed to padding the pay roll of the substitute teachers for the past four months, and defrauding the office of $330, with the aid of Mrs. Van Trump, who posed as a teacher and cashed the forged checks in the secretary's office. Back Broken; Gets $35,000. A jury in Austin, Minn., awarded Rex Clay, a brakeman on the St. Paul road, $35,000 damages for injuries received one year ago. Clay suffered a broken back and has lain helpless since fhe accident, which occurred at Lyle, Minn., in December, 1905. The plaintiff is only 20 years old. Seven Killed in Iowa Wreck. Seven doad and a score injured is the result of a wreck on the Northwestern Railroad in the city limits of Des Moines, Iowa. It is believed that two or three of the more seriously Injured will die. Conductor Harlan is believed to have been fatally hurt. No blame attaches to any one for the accident. Investigating Widow's Death. Mrs. Ida Binge, a wealthy New York widow, died under suspicious circumstances and officials from the district attorney's office are investigating a report that she was poisoned. Marlboroughs Are Reconciled. The Duchess of Marlborough, her sons and the duke's mother appeared In public in London, giving the first formal and open evidence of the reconciliation of the duke and duchess. Iron-Worker Shot and Killed. George Butler, a structural iron worker of Buffalo, N. Y., was shot and killed at Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio. The murder is believed to be a result of the trouble between union and non-union men. Gives Million to Friend. I. W. F. Herwig, the New Orleans millionaire who died a few days ago, left more than $1,000,000 to his friend, Martin II. Sullivan, the wealthy lumberman of Pensacola, Fla. American to Paint Pope. William E. Cook of Independence, Iowa, has been signally honored by Pope Pius X.. who has consented to give the painter sittings for a portrait. Mr. Cook will be the first American to paint a picture of his holiness. Digging in Culebra Cut. A cablegram received at the War Detriment fiom Chief Engineer Stevens ays: "We took out 500,750 cubic yards rom Culebra cut in January, about twice he best monthly record ioade by he French since tba inception of work by De Lesseps.'

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EACH CITIZEN CONSUMES HALF HIS OWN WEIGHT. (rral Qnnnfity of Sweetenlnar iriel by renple of United States DorInK Year l!OG Governor of rents Victim of AmsmIii. "The average citizen o the United,, States seems to have consumed one-half" his own weight in sugar in the year just ended," Kays a statement issued by the bureau of statistics of the Department of t Tom merce and Iabor. The average consumption ir head was seventy-six pounds. The amount of sugar consumed was ;,rCK,fH ki.(km pounds, at a cost ol over $300,000.000. Of this enormous consumption one-fifth was produced in this country, another one-fifth was imported from our island inssessions, and the remaining three-fifths, or 3,864,03,0(51 pounds, from foreign countries. Of the production of sugar in the United States last year a little less than onehalf was from cane and a little more than one-half from beets. The quantity of beet sugar entering into American consumption was C72,(HX,000 pounds, showing a remarkable increase, and for the first time exceeding the production of the product from cane. There was an increase of 2(50 per ceut in the production of beet over cane sugar from 1000 to 1900. WRECK BURIED IN GRAIN. Engineer Killed When Chicago Train Runs Into Elevator. Engineer M. Coine of Chicago wa killed; a passenger, Mrs. I. N. Koontz of Fort Dodge, Iowa, was injured; Superintendent C. P. Smmble of the Chicago Great Western railroad narrowly escaped death, and several of the train crew were slightly hurt, when train No. 5 on the Great Western, which left Chicago at 11 :30 p. m.. struck a defective switch t German Valley, 111., at 3:15 Thursday morning. Two railway mail clerks are missing. James Marlock, a conductor on the Northern Pacific road, was in the engine cab with Coine when the accident occurred. The engine plunged ahead on to a side track, crashing into several cars of grain, and struck an elevator. The loosened grain threatened to bury the engine, which was overturned. The flood, however, probably prevented the wreck from taking fire. The forward cars were telescoped and the mail and baggage cars were smashed. GOVERNOR OF PENZA SLAIN. M. Alexandrovsky Slain by Young Man as He Leaves Theater. S. A. Alexandrovsky, Governor of Penza, was shof. and killed by a young man as he was leaving the theater in Penza, Russia. In a desperate attempt to escape the assassin also killed the assistant chief of police and a policeman and wounded the manager of the theater. Before he could be captured he shot haself and during the night died at a hospital. The assassin was not identified. The bullets he used in bis revolver were poisoned. M. Alerandrovsky, who was well known as chief commissioner of the Red Cross in the field during the war between Russia and Japan, had just stepped out of the door of the theater when the youth pushed his way through the crowd and shot him in the neck. He fell dead on tL spot. PASS NEW LAW TO RECOVER TOY. Pennsylvania Legislators Enable a Woman to Get Back Little Bureau. The Legislature of the great State of Pennsylvania passed a new law in order that a woman might recover a toy bureau that a woman might recover a toy bureau she played with as a child, and which was sold, by mistake, for $1.25. Mrs. Emma B. Guillou, now of Pasadena. Cal., daughter of the late Judge F. Carroll Brewster, was the woman aided by the Legislature. The bureau was sold with other household effects if her father when he died. The buyer refused to give it up, and the new law so amends the replevin law as to cover the case. REJECTED SUITOR KILLS GIRL. Slayer, a Farmer, Shoots Himself After Murdering Young Woman. Miss Bessie Newton, daughter of a prominent citizen of Ponca. Neb., was shot and killed by Frank Frink, a rejected suitor. Frink then shot himself. He is not expected to recover. Miss Newton was to have been married the following night to Edward O'Donnell of Ponca. Frink, who is a farmer, 30 years old, called on Miss Newton in the absence of other members of the family, and the tragedy soon followed.Evelyn Thaw on Stand. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, on the witness stand in New York, told the story of her life, relating the wrongs she suffered at the hands of Stanford White, the love and kindness of Harry Thaw, and the happenings of the fatal night on the Madison Square Roof Garden when she was avenged by three pistol shots. Snowslide Kills Twelve. At least a dozen lives are believed to have been lost in a terrific snowslide that came down Monarch Mountain about 9 o'clock the other night, completely overwhelming three business houses in Salida, Colo., and burying their occupants under fifty feet of snow and dirt. Chicago Traction Ordinances Pass. Chicago traction ordinances have been passed by the City Council, but Mayor Dunne has issued statements foreshadowing a veto of both measures. Council leaders say in that event the settlement will be approved over the executive negative. Islands Sinking Into Sea. A report bus reached Montevideo by passengers on the steamer Elka that earthquakes have changed the appearance of the New Year's islands and that a portion of one of the islands has sunk several meters. Mansions of Fabulous Cost. Palaces to cost more than $20,000,000 will be erected in upper Fifth avenue, New York City, within the next year or two, and many famous families are living or intend to make their homes in the street, which is called "Billionaire Row." New Jersey Fight Ended. The long fight in the New Jersey Legislature over the election of a United States Senator to succeed John F. Dryden was ended by the election of State Treasurer Frank O. Briggs. Forecast on Men's Wear. Tailors in convention at Washington declared that corsets for fat men and jeweled waistcoat buttons for the "swells" shall be in style in 1007. Oklahoma Women Get No Vote. The Tote by which the proposed amendment to the report of tie committee on suffrage extending the ri&ht of franchise to the women of Oklahoma was tabled by the constitutional convention in Guthrie is indicative of the position of that body on the woman's suffrage question. Eight Hurt in Foundry Explosion. Unable to escape the shower of molten iron which followed a peculiar gas explosion, eight employes of the Insurance Stove Range and Foundry Company, in Covington, Ky.. were terribly burned, and two of them may die.

MRS. THAW TEE WOMAN IN THE LIMELIGHT. AND MRS. WHITE THE STRICKEN WIDOW, WHO HIDES HER SORROW FROM THE WORLD.

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mm .i i. BATTLE FOR THAW'S LIFE. Wife of the Millionaire l'riionrr la AVltneaM for Defense. With the fact of Stanford White's murder by Harry Kendall Thaw established In their minds; with the murderer dally In their presence, self-possessed, unemotional, deeply interested in the movements of the machinery of law upon which his future so largely depends, dutiful and courteous to his mother, gracious to bis wife; with the knowledge that the father of this prince of indolence and intemperance was a man of sufficient genius, industry and acumen to accumulate a fortune of $40,000,000, that the mother has been for years a ruling spirit in the social, religious and philanthropic circles of Pittsburg; that tlie daughters possessed sufficient attractiveness of mind as well as of purse to aiarry one an English earl of venerable title and the other a man of large business responsibilities, and that the prisoner himself was deemed by the administrators of his father's estate capable of handling his inheritance with these things before them, the twelve Jurors who are to determine whether Thaw shall die for the murder which he committed are asked to believe not only that tho accused was Insane when he fired the fatal shots, but that tbe taint of insanity runs through the family. Plainly, from the attorney's opening plea, the Jurors are to believe that the climax of derangement, the high tide of Thaw brain disturbance, was reached when White was slain, and that since then tbe mind of the prisoner has returned to normal conditions. There Is no contention of present Insanity. Such a preposterous claim. In view of the prisoner's attitude In court, might upset the whole defense, which Is not directly a plea of Justification for the act but an Ingenious Rcheme of argument and testimony intended not only to prove Irresponsibility, but to absolve from moral guilt. Insinuatingly and purposefully Interwoven with this plan Is the effort to keep constantly before the tninds of the jurors the stains upon the character of the slain man. especially In their relation to the wife of the murderer, w that while no actual defense ba?ed upon the unwritten law Is introduced this element is present. In the opening address for Thaw it was stated that his attorneys, while relying upon Insanity as a sufficient and reasonable defense, would avail themselves of every defense allowed by the statutes. All things considered, the insanity defense has In it cnuch suggestive of the absurd, yet it furnishes a basis upon which to establish it least a disagreement The defense is not required to prove that Thaw was insane. If It can establish In the minds of a few of the Jurors, or even of one, a reasonable doubt of the defender's mental condition on the night of the murder It will secure a disagreement. Here Is what they are endeavoring to prove: That Harry Thaw comes of mentally tainted stock, because two of his father's cousins and an aunt of his father were confined in insane asylums; that Harry's Inheritance of the family affliction manifested itself when he was a child by his awaking suddenly and unnaturally from his sleep ; that this hereditary tendency made him subject to delusions; that out of his great love for Evelyn Nesbit, after his meeting with her In 1001. was evolved a delusion which had to do with Stanford White; that In the development of this delusion he came to see in White not only an enemy of himself and Evelyn Thaw but of all mankind; that when he killed White he believed himself to be an agent of Providence. It was the disease of his mind which instilled these thoughts In him. However, the Tae Latest A boat Mari. That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort has long been affirmed by the greatest authority on that subjoct. Prof. Percival Lowell of the Flagstaff (Ariz.) observatory. Extended study of the system of Martian canals through the great eye of the telescope has now convinced Prof. Lowell, according to his new work, "Mars and Its Canals" (Maemillan Company), that it is an organized entity, with regular connections over the entire surface of the planet. He believes that this fact Indicites "a community of Interest among -.he inhabitants, and that such a

"NT TVWV '-ki ; ! . . ; . v1 . s WAV defense was careful to bring out the fact that when Thaw asked Evelyn Nesbit to marry hiiu she refused,' "because of an experience in her life connected with Stanford White." To elaborate this point the defendant's wifc herself was placed upon tbe stand. Dr. C. C. Wiley, of Tittsburg, the Thaw family physician, who is connected with the Dismount Insane Asylum, was called as the first witness for the defense. Dr. Wiley, In response to a question by John B. G lea son of Thaw's counsel, said he had devoted his life to the study of Insanity and served as an expert In a large number of cases. Attorney Jerome took occasion to stir up Dr. Wiley by asking him a maze of hypothetical questions, filled with medical terms. Each time Wiley seemed to grow more nervous over the cross-fire questioning. Wiley said he never heard of the "Romberg test" Jerome poked fun at him for his "ignorance." ' Jerome kept up the bewIIderinR Are until Dr. Wiley became hopelessly confused. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, wife of Harry Kendall Thaw, charged with the murder of Architect White, was called to the stand and told the story of her life In an effort to save her husband from the electric chair. She declared she saw White at the Cafe Martin early In the evening of June 25 and that she wrote a no? to her husband in relation to White. This evidence later was stricken out The witness said she refused to marry Harry Thaw In Paris In 1003 because of an incident in her life connected with White. Mrs. Thaw broke down and cried and could hardly proceed as she related her experience with White. Thaw sat with his face burled In a handkerchief. Across the devious paths which they travel who "play at dice with the devil" In New York's half-world Evelyn Nesbit Thaw threw the baleful light of her experiences In wrongdoing, ST AIS FORD WHITE. with the evils that follow in Its wake, blackmail, perjury, slander, the procurement of false testimony, extortion and Intimidation sprouted like poisonous weeds along the way of her narrative, while now and again names, revealed or suggested, were illuminated by some swift turn or twist of the searchlight Reputations shriveled and withered into ashes under that glare. For conviction, Attorney Jerome relies upon the plain, uncontradicted proof of the murder amid the glitter and music of the Madison Square roof garden ; upon the testimony in rebuttal calculated to Impugn much of the defense's evidence relating to White; upon the contradictions of witnesses of defense In the cross-examination; upon the testimony bearing upon the vicious nast of Thaw ; and upon the export testimony of eminent alienists who examined Thaw Immediately after the crime was committed and have onserved him In court. community Is "necessarily intelligent and nonbellicose." Lowell regards war as a survftal affecting chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation, and says that nature practices icace, whether a nation does or not. The Martian climate is one of extremes, where considerable heat follows great cold, "a thinner air blanket actually increasing the amount of heat that reaches the surface," though decreasing its retention. It is thus shown that the maximum heat is well within the line required for reproduction of species. In fact the conditions put a premium on life of a high order.

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ri.revs3r,. 3 'v;-. ---v WHITE,. At the conclusion of the testimony il is expected will be heard two of the most eloquent arguments for and against a human life ever heard In 8 New York court, when Jerome and Del mas will both try to convince the Jurj that his side has presented tle strong est proof. The Thaw-White tragedy docs not constitute a new form of crime, nor does it present any unusual underlying causes. It differs only from innumerable commonplace murders in Its settings, in the environment to which It principals were accustomed, in the clothing and the Jewels which they wore. Yet, while the natural outgrowth of sin must be the same in the case of the rich as In the poor. It is undeniable that the interest which has pervnded the trial of Harry Kendall Thaw for tbe murder of Stanford WThite is due primarily to the fact that murderer and victim were rich men. Beyond the shadow of the Sing Sing death chair, beyond the mound which covers the clay of White, there is the glitter of the Thaw millions and the reflex of the extravagance In which White, the Petronlus of our day, reveled. 4-1 -I t I I I 111 I M I 111 -M i l l i t-; ; lyjORK Of MANY TATEIEGISUTIIRES:: The Kansas Senate passed the bill to abolish capital punishment. A bill to prevent the combination of fre insurance underwriters for the purpose of fixing rates arbitrarily was introduced in the New York Legislature. The lower house of the Missouri Legislature passed a bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale or giving away of cigarets or cigaret papers under a penalty of a fine of from $o0 to $200. Senator Littlepage of the West Virginia Legislature introduced a resolution to investigate Standard Oil operations in that State and ascertain whether the company has a lobby at the capital. The Missouri House of Representatives Tuesday passed the anti-tipping bill, 88 to 39, making it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of $3 to $000 to give a tip to any waiter, porter or other servant. The lower house of the Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill making it obligatory for a judge, where a death sentence is returned with mitigating circumstances, to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. . The lower house of the Minnesota Legislature at St Paul adopted a resolution directing the Speaker to appoint a committee to investigate the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce and tbe Duiutb Board of Trade. A bill was introduced in the Indiana Legislature to place a tax of $3 annually on bachelors between 23 and SO years old, $7.30 between 30 and 40, and $10 over 40 years, the money to be devoted to tbe school fund. The California Senate struck out the words "whereas tbe President of tbe United States is attempting to interfere" in its resolutions on the Japanese school question, and inserted instead "federal government," and then passed the resolutions denouncing such interference as unwarranted. State Treasurer Berry of Pennsylvania in a report to the Legislature has renewed his charges that approximately $3,000,000 was realized on the finishing of the new capltol. He says duplicnte payments for the same work were made to different contractors to the amount of $230,000 or more, and that speci Scat ion were ambiguously worded so as to ptevent fair bidding. Fire destroyed the wholesale establishments of Gus Momsen & Co., hardware, and Thomas & Co., safes, and slightly damaged the station of the Texas and Pacific railroad at El Paso, Texas. Loss $100,000. Two boys were killed by illuminating gas in their home in Jersey City and a man who occupied a room ia the same house was so severely overcome that he may not recover. The boys-- who lost their lives are Thomas Mcincke, aged 17, and his brother William, aged 12. Seventy-five per cent of the Alaska trade has been lost to San Francisco by the earthquake and diverted to Seattle and Tacoma, according to the statements ternal revenue for Washington and of Benjamin D. Crocker, collector of in Alaska,

WORK OF CONGRESS

The Senate occupied the first two hours Monday in perfecting the House bill permitting the government to take an appeal on points of law in criminal cases similar to that against the meat packers. Senators Hcyburn and Newlands spoke oi. the Carter resolution aimrd at tbe recent older of the Secretary of the Interior preventing the issuance of land patents vatil after an examination on the ground by a special agent, and Senator Bacon made a trief statement intended to show that Senator Beveridge had been iu error regaidins the operation of the child labor law in Georgia. The House passed the McCumber service pension bill, the omnibus lighthou-e bill and the omnibus revenue cutter bill. By a vote of 110 to S3 the Senate amendments to tbe urgent deficiency bill, loaning the Jamestown exposition $1,000,000, were concurred in. Resolutions were passed calling for an investigation by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor of .otton exchanges end fluctuations in cotton prices, givin.; a privilege! status to the bill codifying and consolidating the patent and copyright laws, and directing a report by the Secretary of the Interior of the number of existing patents granted to officers and employes of the Uui.ed States. Bills proidin; for the protection of game in Alaska and authorizing a refund of certain taxes collected under tbe war revenue act of 180S were also passed. The Senate spent the entire day Tuesday considering the Indian appropriation bill. The army appropriation bill, carrying $81,300.000, an increase of $0.000,000 over the amount voted by the House, was reported and will be taken up as soon as the Indian bill is disposed of. The Senate committee amendments include $1,372,227 for barracks and quarters, $6,221,100 for promoting and extendirg the efficiency of the artillerv corps, and a provision to exempt officers and men and their families from the provisions of the rate bill and allowing them to accept free or reduced rates of transportation. Senator IIe3'burn introduced a resolution instructing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents on all lands and mining applications where the law is complied with and no protest is filed. Senator Kittn dge reported the copyright bill and Senator Smoot gave notice of a minority report favoring the House ptovision giving mcnufacturers the right to adapt musical compositions to automatic musical instruments. General debate on the rivers and harbors appropriation bill was terminated in the House at 3 o'clock, when the reading of the bill was begun under the fiveminute rule. The reading of twenty pages of the bill was completed before adjournment The Indian appropriation bill was again the sole topic of discussion by tb; Senate Wednesday. The day was spent in a discussion of tbe proposition to repeal the restrictions on the alienation of surplus Indian lands in the Indian Territory. The Senate agreed to House amendments to a Senate bill providing $030,000 for four new revenue cutters. The advocates of a 14-foot waterway from Chicago to St Louis and the gulf met defeat when the House, in committee of the whole on the river and harbor appropriation bill, voted to stand by tbe recommendation cf the committee in opposition to tbe project. The Indian appropriation bill received rough handling in the Senate Thursday, most of the amendments of the committee, and especially those suggested by the special committee, which went to the Indian territory last summer, being rejected. The provision allowing full blood Indians of the Indian Territory to sell their surplus lands was defeated by a toxo of 31 to 22. A bill providing that no homestead entry shall be canceled because of the failure of the entryman to reside on the land during the months of December Januar', February and March was parsed. The House completed and passed the river and harbor appropriation bill, carrying more than $83,000,000. A bill amending the denatured alcohol bill was passed. The Senate passed the Indian apjropriation bill Friday. Senator Fraxier made an address on the subject of State's rights, after which the army appropriation bill, carrying a total f $81.300.000, was taken up. A resolution offered by Senator Tillman, agreed to, calls on th Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor ?id the Secretary of Agriculture, and the interstate commerce commission to immediately report "the number and names of all persons employed by them or under their authority during the fiscal year ending June 30, l'JOC, or who are now so employed, where no specific appropriation has been for such employment and whether such persons are in the classified service." Other resolutions agreed to call on the . President for the report of the Keep commission and on the interstate commerce commissioi for the data submitted to it by Special Employe Hanks. The House passed 723 private pension bills in an hour and a half, establishing a new high record. The naval appropriation bill, carrying $93,420,000, was taken Fire Shuts Off Imprlaonetl Miner. bate, speeches were made by Mr. Lamar of Florida on the railroad rate bill, Mr. Higgins of Connecticut favoring the creation of the White Mountain and Aalachian forest reserves, and Mr. Mondcll of Wyoming on the "limitations of federal authority" and the withdrawal of coal lands from entry. National Capital JVote. The Indian appropriation bill was reported to the Senate. It carries $14,300,210, a net increase of $0.300,132 over the bill as passed by the House. The credentials of Jonathan Bourne, Jr., elected to the Senate for Oregon for Rix years beginning March 4 next, were received in the Senate and placed on file. Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi introduced a bill in the House for an investigation by the Department of Commerce and Labor of the socalled "paper trust" By a vote of 73 to 13G the House in committee of the whole on the agricultural appropriation bill increased the appropriation for the bureau of entomology fiom $73,000 to $118,800. The oath of office was administered in the Senate to Senator F. W. Mulkey of Oregon, electee! to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Mitchell. Mr. Mulkey succeeds Senator Gearin. Secretary Hitchcock announced the temporary withdrawal for forest reserve purposes of 307,700 acres of unappropriated public lands in the State of Oregon west of the present Cascade range forest reserve. The nouse committee on claims decided to postpone action on a bill for the relief of T. J. Aikin, assistant treasurer at tht subtreasury in St. Louis, who lost $G1,000 through the disappearance of thit amount from the office of D. P. Dyer, tht paying teller. The Senate committee on the judiciary discussed the bill giving the government the right to appeal in certain criminal cases and authorized a subcommittee consisting of Senators Nelson, Knox, Spooner and Tettus to perfect tbe measure and report it to the Senate. The measure is the outgrowth of the ineffectiveness of the government's prosecution of Chicago meat packers.

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CIIICAGO. Trade conditions in the Chicago district according to the weekly review. Issued by R. G. Dun & Co., continue encouraging in -pite of the snow blockades and other unfavorable factors. Continuing, the report says: New demands for raw and heavy finished materials remain strong, with tbe average cost for tmpplies a trifle higher. More firmness apjears in hides, leather and lumber, and their absorption is larger than a month ago. Railroad extensions involve much buying of various materials for early use, and new plans for buildings, track elevation and other improvements exceed in amount those of a year ago. It is now certain that the pressure upon capacity is to become mere extended in rails, pig iron and car building. The ship yards are unable to accept further orders for this year's delivery. Distributive trade exhibits an expansion which would be of notable proportions were transportation facilities and weather better. Increai-ing numbers of visiting buyers operate in spring and summer wares, orders exceeding those at this time last year in the textiles, boots and shoes, food products, men's furnishings, carpets and other household needs. Marketing:! of tbe principal grains show further increase, those of corn being doubled, and tbe geneial demand for brcadstuffs and provisions is stronger. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 23, against 20 last week and 32 a year ago.

NEW YORK. First effects of the past week's widespread winter weather have been to dull trade at most markets, to quiet spring demand, retard collections and in sections accentuate the already congested railway situation. Some sections, particularly the South, report benefit to trade . .

in winter good; ?nd footwear. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Feb. 7 number 108, against 211 last week, 204 in the like week of 190C, 207 in 1003, 202 in 1004 and 217 in 1003. Failures in Canada for the week number 18, as against 20 last week and 27 in this week a year ago. Wheat, including flour, exports from the United State) and Canada for tbe week ending Feb. 7 aggregated 3.310,030 bushels, against 2,102,216 last week, 3,241,930 this week last year. 087.773 in 1003 and 4.S00.437 in 1002. For the past thirty-two weeks of the fiscal year the exports are 113,383.475 bushels, against 80.9CO.4S0 in 1903-OG, 41.O49.01S in 1004-03 and 171,410,188 in 1001-02. Corn exports for the week are 2,407,0S9 bushels, against 2,157,077 last week. 3.GG0.73O a year ago and 2,418,430 in 1903. For the fiscal year to dar the exports are 33.63G.797 bushels, against 72,CSS,793 in 1903-00 and 33,492,101 In 1904-03. Bradstreet's Commercial Report uw n An Y?7fv Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.23; hogs, prime heavy, $1.09 to $7.1 T; sheep, fair to choice. $3.00 to $5.30 ; wheat. No. 2, 73c to 70c ; corn. No. 2, 42c to 44c; oats, standard. 3Gc to 38c; rye. No. 2, C,7c to GSc; hay. timothy, $13.00 to $nr00; prairie, $9.00 to $14.30; butter, choice creamery, 27c to 32c; eggs, fresh, 2Sc to 30c: potatoes, 33c to 48c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $0.30; Logs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $7.12; shep, common to prime. $2.30 to $5.23; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 70c; corn. No. 2 white, 43c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 37c to 39c. St Louis Cattle, $41 to $0.75; hogs, $4.00 to $7.10; sheep, $3X0 to $3.50; wheat No. 2, 77c to 7ic; corn. No. 2, 43c to 41c; oats. No. 2, 39c to 41c; rye. No. 2, 04c to 63c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $3.75; hogs, $4.00 to $7.15; sheep, $3.00 t $5.25; wheat No. 2, 77c to 78c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c "to 47c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 38c to 40c ; rye. No. 2, C9c t 71c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.30:'hcs, $4.00 to $7.00; 'sheep, $2.50 to $3.C0; wheat No. 2, 77c to 79c; eorn. No. 3 yellow, 43c to 47c; oats. No. 3 white, 41c to 43c ; rye. No. 2, GSc to 69c Milwaukee Wheat No. 2 northera, SOc to S3c; corn. No. 3, 41c to 43 oats, standard. 38c to 40c ; rye. No. L C7c to 09c ; barley, standard, 58c to COcj nnrl mws. $17.00. ' ' Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, to $7.30; sheep, common to good mixej $4.00 to $3.40; lambs, fair to choiceA $3.00 to $8.15. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $0.00; k hogs, $4.00 to $7X0; sheep. $3.00 to $3.00; wheat No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn. No. 2, 54c to 55c; oats, natural white, 4Sc to 50c; butter, creamery, 27c to 33c; eggs, western, 23c to 27c Toledo Wheat No. 2 mixed. 77c to 78c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 37c to 39c; rye. No. 2, GSc to 70c; clover seed, prime, $8.45. All Around the Globe. The NorweLlan bark D. II. Morris was driven ashore off Chandelier island. Gulf of Mexico. Its captain and crew escaped. Col. Richard W. Blue, formerly a wellknown Kansas politician and attorney, died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Bartlesville, I. T aged 03 years. Following tbe success of the Philadelphia upholstery weavers in obtaining an 11 per- cent increase in pay, tbe Cioth and Dress Weavers' Union has decided to ask for a 15 per cent increase. Alton Cameron, 23 years old, a brother-in-law of Judge William F. Connoly of the Detroit recorder's court was shot and instantly killed by a bartender at Detroit There were 417,573 emigrants from Italy in 1900. Two hundred and eightyseven thousand and ninety went to the United States, 111,818 to Argentina and 13,143 to Brazil. President James Noroton of the Northeastern Metal Dealers Association made public in New York a letter which he has sent to Attorney General Bonaparte, alleging that tbe copper trust has caused a shortage in metal. Knit for S 50.000 was brought anlnrt

John Bryan, formerly of New York, a millionaire author, at Springfield, O-io, by Mary Stentor, who claims that BryaBk broke his agreement to marry her. J 0. M. Levy, third vice president of , thr- Northern Pacif c railroad, announced at the interstate commerce bearing at Seattle that the Northern Pacific wouM ,! spend $73,000,000 for improvements -within the next eighteen months.

The main building, vats and tanks cf. the Cincinnati Reduction Company at Anderson's Ferry. Ohio, burred, the loss being $70,000. Tbe plant is surrouedfi by water from the floods and for txlf aa hour the firemen were cut! t? ct t3 ll(

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