Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 21, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 February 1907 — Page 2

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TBE PLYMOUTH TRIBUNE.

PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS Q. CO.. - - Publishers. 1907 FEBRUARY 1907

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6th Jl2th 19th.Cg?2th. PAST AND PfiESEKT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many. . Paaaeazer Wreck In l'itlMburs Yards. The Philadelphia Express on the Pennsylvania railroad, ran into an Dpen switch in the yards at Fifteenth street, in Pittsburg. Pa. The New York Express narrowly escaped running into the Philadelphia train and caused a panic among the already frightened passengers. One coach on the Philadelphia train was telescoped and two others derailed. The train was late and was running faster than usual through the yards. Five women passengers on the Philadelphia Express were injured. They sustained serious cuts and bruises. They were given medical attention by the hospital and railroad physicians and later continued their journey west. Oatcnarian Din at Plqn, Ohio. Alexander Green, of Piqua, Ohio, who last December celebrated his 100th birthday anniversary, died Sunday morning of old age. Mr. Green was a descendant of the famous, noble and aristocratic German family, von Greenfeld. His father, Baron von Greenfeld, was master of the house of Hanover and Brunswick, the kurfuerst or prince. Mr. Green was an officer In the Austrian wars in Southern Spain, and Italy In the Grecian revolution, in Turkey and in the German revolution of 1848-51. He came - to Piqua In 1831. Aaotaer Ocean Steamship Disaster. The Austrian Lloyd steamer Imperatlx, "while bound from Trieste to Bombay, ran on a rock near Cape Elphonisi on the Island of Crete, and sank soon afterward. All the passengers on board were saved, but forty members of the crew, of whom thirty-two were Austrlans and eight Indians, perished. Among those rescued are the captain, the doctor and the first engineer. Aa4aer Earthquake Shock at Jamaica. A dispatch from Kingston, Jmila, says that a violent shock of earthquake occurred there Friday which caused quite a scare. It was the heaviest shock since the disacter of Jannary 14. No loss of life occurred, but several of the damaged buildings collapsed. Serie a laterurbaa Wreck la Ohio. Ten persons were teverely Injured and miraculously escaped death when a. south-bound car on the Toledo Urban and Interurban railroad 4eft the rails and completely turned over' at Portage, Ohio. The accident was caused by the spreading of the. rails at a curve. Death Sentence Commated. Governor Hz&ly, of Indiana, has xmmated the sentence of William A. Shores, who was to be hung at midnight Saturday t, the Michigan City penitentiary, to life Imprisonment. Chores shot and killed William Fawbush In Ruch county several months ago. Many Hart In Fire Panic. More than a dozen women and children wer Injured, several of them seriously. In a fire In an Italian church at Chicago. Two hundred persons became frightened by escaping vapor. Most of the injured were cut by glass from windows. Fire Deatrajrn Altoona Theater. The Lyceum theatre at Altoona, conducted as Keith's vaudeville, was destroyed by fire. The fire is supposed to have been caused by crossed electric wires on the stage. The loss is about $90,000. High License Bill Killed. The bill providing for $1,000 saloon license in Indiana wtu. killed In the House Friday. The House voted fiftyene to forty-seven to indefinitely postpone the bill, thus practically killing it Car Baraa Bra4. Fire destroyed the barns and contents of the Warren Street Railway Company at Warren, Pa.,' and caused A loss Of $125,000. i Dleknon f the U. B. Church Dead Rev. John Dickson, for many years a, bishop in the , United ' Brethren Church, died at his home in Chambers burg. Pa.', in his eighty-eighth year. f75,00 Fire la St. Louis. The five-story building at the northirest corner of Franklin avenue and Seventh street, SL Louis, Mo., occupied by the Globe Clothing Company, was damaged $75,000' by fire, and three firemen were hurt, but none seriously. Big Mexican Oil Project. Articles were filed with the Secietar if State in Dover, Del., incorporating U Uezican Petroleum Company, the objee f which is to develop oil fields in Mexicc The authorized capitalization is $50,000, 000. The concern is said to be backed bj New York capitalists. (200,000 Fire Loss in Allegheny. A fire which threatened the destruction of several city blocks in Allegheny, across the Allegheny River from Pittsburg, destroyed five business buildings tnd three dwellirß houses, causing an estimated loss of $200,000. Twenty-four Passengers Injured. Twenty-four passengers were cut and bruised and the engineer and fireman sen- . t V , T 1 , OUSjy IlUrl ' w uru ikW-fc iMauu ikis.i.'uk(.i train No. 7 crashed into a switch engine -danding on the main track in the east end yards at Oklahoma Cit Okla. Both yngines were demolished. Letter Carriers Resign. The entire letter carrier force of Butte, ..Mont resigned because the pay is lesi than that of common laborers, and many jther departments of the government ar ' jandicapped by the low salaries allowab.a

WHY WAR WAS LOST.

KonropnUIn Hin me III (i'.iu m!i for Hlumlern In Kvery C'rll.i. General Kuropatkin's "History of the Itusso-JapaiU'si War," which v;h confiscated by the Russian government, lias at last ItcHnio accessible, despite the most extreme precautions to proven: this railing olhVial indictment from reaching the public. As tbe oininander-in-chief of the l'ussian armies in this encounter he claims he was hamiered by the clique in St. . Petersburg which insisted on their own plans leing followed though they were 5.K0 miles away from the firing line ami not well posted as to the movements of the e:imy until disaster played havoc with their soldiery. Kuropatkiu says the Russians were poorly prepared for war. In armament, food and medicines, they were deficient. Then the source of supply, the Siberian railroad, was totally inadequate to the ucetls of the anny. Instead of the war department moving twelve trains a day four were more often the number ami some days only one or two. And this for a host whb-h at one time num!ereil 800,000. On the other hand the Japanese were in perfect condition for lighting when hostilities log;in and the celerity with which they moved men, food, ordnance, ammunition and horses to Strategie iints was unequaled since the great Napoleon's time. With this advantage was coupled a dash and patriotism to which the Russians are strangers and which added immensely to the morale of the Asiatic soldiery. Their superior intelligence tIso counted at every shift iu the field. The marksmanship of the Japanese was wonderful ami their utter disregard of death another attribute. When the carnage was fearful at Liaoyung, where much depend 1 upon the steadiness of the Russians, i charge by the Japanese against (Jen. Orloff's corps of 12,000 men sent theai fly in long before the brown men got within bayonet 'range jmd this turned into a complete rout. the- Russians throwing their rifles, and accoutrements away In a mad stampede to get to safety. Not In any warin which Russia has engaged did her soldiers show the timidity they did in this. Then the general complains of the lack of obedience on the part of officers and men. Generals of divisions refused to obey his orders at times, and this was followed down the successive grades to the private, the reasons assigned being that the changing of the columns of the enemy rendered the or der abortive when It reached them. On the Japanese side the discipline was of the highest, about perfection, and it Is unrecorded where officer or private, no matter how desiorate the task, ever balked In its execution. He places Japan far ahead of any other nation In her soldiery and, on equal terms as to numbers, superior to that of any other nation. The general closes his survey of the cause of the defeat of the Russians with the pathetic reflection that If Russia, had been united and ready to make the sacrifices necessary to safeguard her dignity and Integrity, the "valiant Russian army would have striven till the foe was subdued. 18-HOUR FLYER IN RIVER. Pennsylvania Train Plunge Down Fifty-Foot ConeiuauKh Gorge. The Pennsylvania railroad's elghteenhour train, between New York and Chicago, was wrecked at Mineral Point, eight miles east of Johnstown, Pa. Two sleepers and the observation car were piled up In the south fork of the Conemaugh River. There were fifty-four passengers on the train when it left New York Friday afternoon. A message received at 2:30 Saturday morning stated that twentynine persons were hurt and none was killed. Eight of the Injured were taken to Altoona and several others to Johnstown. Some of the injured, It Is said, were seriously hurt. The train was comiwsed of a combination car. an observation car, and two sleepers. The accident occurred on a sharp curve. The locomotive and combination car remained on the roadbed, but the three cars followed plunged into the south fork branch of the Conemaugh River. The wrecked train was an! hour and a half late and running at full speed when wrecked. The wreck occurred a few minutes before midnight. When the locomotive left the track it tore down telephone and telegraph poles, cutting off all 'communication for a time. The cars which went over the embankment lay on their sides in the shallow water of the river. The wreck occurred at a point nearly a mile from a telegraph office. It Is supposed that the derailment was caused by the brake rigging coming down under the second car. By a vote of 0 to 5 the House committee on ways and means dcided against the plan to establish a new subtreasury in the Southeastern States. The eighteen pension agencies in the country which the House aloIislied in favor of the concentration of the disbursement of all pension expenditures in Washington will be rehabilitated if the action of the Senate committee on pensions is sustained. Vice President Fairbanks laid before the Senate for Liliuokalani, former queen of the Hawaiian Islands, a second addition to the petition filed by her in 1005 praying for the settlement of her claim for overeign lands taken from her. Marcus Braun, who has been investigating the operation of the immigration laws along the Mexican border, has arrived in Washington and will shortly submit s report to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The American vice consul at New Chwang, China,- reported that the plague had broken out in that province.

GENERAL KUKOPATKir.

MANY DIE IN WfiECK.

DISASTER CN THE COAST OF HOLLAND. r:rr,:i.U Sfeninrr Itrrlln Driven Afchore l- (ijile, Striken Snndlinnk Near Hook of llollnntl, Brenk in Tr nml Sink Immediately. A disastrous steamship wreck attended with great loss of life, occurred Thursday off the Hook of Holland, when the Great Kastem Railway Company's steamer Berlin, bound from Harwich, England, to the Hook of Holland, was lost. Of those on board, 141 Iersons in all. of whom ninety-one were passengers, all but one were drowned. The wreck occurred oil the north pier of the Ilcok of Holland. The agents of the wrecked steamer say that although they are not positive regarding the numbers, they believe the vessel carried 120 passengers and a crew cf sixty officers and men. TLe wreck occurred at 0 o'clock in the morning, during a terrific southwesterly pale. The steamer struck the north jetty, while trying to enter the jew waterway at the Hook of Holland. he broke in two, the forward part immediately sinking, while the passengers ind crew gathered on the stern, where they vainly attempted to use the lifeboats. The 'Berlin left Harwich at 10 o'clock Wednesday night, upon the arrival there of the London train with the greater number of passengers who subsequently lost their lives. The steamer should have reached the Hook of Holland at C o'clock Thursday morning and would have then proceeded for Rotterdam. ' ' ' A great gale was blowing in the North Sea when the Rerlin started. As the Berlin was entering the waterway at the entrance of the River Maas, however, she apparently became unmanageable on account of tbe force of the wind and was driven ashore. The alarm was given and lifeboats from the shore went to the assistance of the stricken steamer, but 'the seas were so heavy that the boats were unable to approach the Berlin, close enough to take off any of the passengers or crew and the lifeboat men had to sit helpless while the steamer poundBIRTHPLACE OF EVELYN NE cd until she troke in two and every soul on board was carried down. The steamer apparently struck about amidships, as her forerart broke, off and snnk immediately, while her afterpart could be seen for a considerable period of time afterward. . The waterway in which the disaster occurred Is a new one on the north side of which is the pier and railroad station. The steamer must ,have been within a few minutes of tying up after her rough passage across the North Sea when she was overtaken by the dis aster. Land was but a few yards away and except in the roughest weather those on board the Berlin could have been rescued without difficulty, especially as the waterway is navigable at all tides. The Berlin was a steel steamer, only twelve years old, and popular with travelers to the north of Europe. In summer she usually was crowded with passengers, but at this time of the year her average was about as it was Wednesday night, the number being equally divided between first and second clajis. Mm. Sae'M Fl rut Biff Gift. The rift of $1,000.000 to the Emma Willard seminary, and $1,000,000 to the Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, both of Troy, X. Y., and also $250,000 to the national committee of the Young Men's Christian Association, have been announced. The gift to the Emma Willard seminary is due to the fact that Mrs. Sage finished her education there, and has been for years one of the most enthusiastic alumnae. In a letter to President Ricketts of the Polytechnic, Mrs. Sage says that no conditions are attached to the gift, and that it was made because of Mr. Sage's personal relation to and interest in the school, of which he was a tnlstee. Neither of these gifts imply that Mrs. S'ae ejpecva to specialize her charity in educational lines. It is understood that th money riven to the Y. M. C. A. will be used to erect i building for the executive offices of tbe committee in Twatyniuth street, near Lexington avenue, Kcw York City. Short New Note. A negro national fair will be held in Mobile, Ala., in November, 1007. The President will be asked to visit the exposition. Fire destroyed the Townsend block, one of tbe most substantial structures In Princeton, Minn., causing a loss estimated at $00,000. Two hundred striking Italian laborers threatened violence at the General Electric Sipnal Comj ai y's buildings at Rochester, N. Y., but tbe police prevented a clash. The California Bankers Association is looking earnestly for a man named 0. T. Mott, who is alleged to have forged securities of a trust company. John II. Quirk, convicted of manslaughter for killing W. A. Dowell, a Minneapolis newspaper man, was sentenced to fifteen years in State's prison. The health authorities of Havana are having difficulty keeping confined residents of the zone surrounding Las Animas hospital, where the smallpox is raging. A night bank will he s'tarted soon by the City Bank 'and Trust Company of New Orleans. The bank will be open continuously from 10 a. m. until midnisht. George Wiley, for the last four years treasurer of Contra Costa county, California, shot and killed himself in his home. He told bis wife before he died that the shooting was accidental. Five attachment suits, involving $2.200, have been fiied against James McCausland, secretary of the McCJrew Computing Scale Company of St. Louis, by creditors who claim that he has been away from St. Louis sisce Jan. 2. The factory of the Boston and Lockport Block Company at Boston, manufacturers of marine pumps, and blocks, 100 Condor street, East Boston, was partially destroyed by fire. Four firemen were slightly iiurt. The loss is $100,000.

WIIAT MAY HAVE CAUSED

Chicago Inter Ocean. STICKS TO HER STORY. Erelyn Tbnvr Doe Xot Flter Under Merclle Cros Questioning. Evelyn Xesbit Thaw, young wife of the slayer of. Stanford White, underwent a merciless cross-examination at tbe hands of District Attorney Jerome. The District Attorney Insinuated, cajoled and at times stormed at the witness. She met his every mood. When he spoke softly her answers were soft; when he tried sarcasm she in turn was sarcastic, and, when he raged her answers came sharp and defiant 'And through it all the witness told just what she wanted to tell and no more. When cornered her unfailing refuge was, I don't remember." Mrs. Thaw's memory seemed to have suffered a relapse since she told her 1 BIT THAW AT TARENTUM, PA. story on direct examination and by far the greater part of her answers were in words, "I don't remember." With the exception of these oft-repeated admissions her story was not shaken. The District Attorney brought out the fact that In 1902 Stanford White deposited $1,300 with Instructions tbt It be paid to Evelyn Nesbit at the rate of $23 a week under certain conditions. Mr. Jerome sought to show that these conditions were that the girl vras to get the money when she was out of work on the stage or was ill. This she would not 'admit, and though the questioner tried for hours by every wile known to him to make her admit the conditions, the most satisfactory answer he got was : "I don't remember." The District Attorney delved Into the witness' past life with a familiarity as to details and a store of general knowledge which at times seemed to amaze all who heard, not excepting the defendant's counsel themselves. Mr. Jerome indicated early In his questioning that he bad no disposition to spare Mrs. Thaw's feelings. He questioned the Witness about her manner of posing for artists, and he did not mince words. Many photographs of Mrs. Thaw were introduced in evidence! Mr. Jerome plied the young woman with questions as to" what disposition she had made of the letters written to her by Stanford White. Some, she said, had been destroyed and some she hdd given to her husband. Mr. Jerome was assisted materially in his cross-examination by typewritten statements made by Mrs. Thaw's mother and by Howard Nesbit, her brother. He consulted the statements from time to time and jumped about' from one part of Mrs. Thaw's story and one period of her life' to another, taking every advantage of the ruling which allowed him wide latitude in . testing the credibility of the witness. 'Mr. Delmas, contrary to expectations, interposed few objections. Pasteurisation Only Car. The British royal commission on tuberculosis has finally announced its conclusion that the drink hl g of unsterilid milk is tte chief cause of consumption, thus flatl.v contradicting the' theory of Prof. Koch, the great German scientist, who held that bovine tuberculosis was Got transmissible to man through milk. New York Collect Back Taxes. The traction companies of New York City have now paid in over $3,000 000 of the $19,000.000 due to the city , for 'arrears of the special franchise tax of 1904. Steel Trust's Record Quarter. The report of the United States Steel Corporation for the list quarter of 1900 shows $41,744,908 earnings, which' was more than anp previous quarter La the history of the corporation. The unfilled orders on hand, amounting to 8,489,718 tons, also broke the record. The total earnings in 100G were $15G,CJ9,111, which exceeds by $23,000,000 the previous record of 1002. Notwithstanding that the net surplus of the quarter was $15..ViO,000. there was co advance In the dividend rate of 1 on preferred and 1 on the common, the money goinj to the purchase of new property and equipment, the steel plant at Gary getting $9,000,000. To I red k Upper MIsslivslppI. Carrying more than. $83,000,000 to pay for various improvements in waterways throughout the country, the river and harbor appropriation bill was passed by the House. One of the most important ammdraents provides for a deep-waUv channel in the Mississippi between St. Paul and St. Louis, at an estimated cost of $20,000,000. ; The Day and Night Tobacco Company". plant in Cincinnati was destroyed by fire: loss $60,000.

THE SPOT 02' IUE SU2T.

SMOOT KEEPS HIS SEAT. Four-Year Fight I Finally Settie! by the Sennte. Beed Smoot, Mormon apostle, after, nearly four years of uncertainty, st r '-""wlntion and waiting, was on Wednesday given a clear title to his scat r.s a Senator from Utah. Ills vindication was striking and overwhelming. Those who sugut his expulsion were thirty- two votes short of the necessary two-thirds re SEED SMOOT. quired and seventeen votes below the majority necessary to exclude him. Of the twenty-eight who voted against Smooth there were Of the forty-two in no his Republicans, favor three were remocrats. The three roll calls, Which covered every point in the controversy, came after nearly five hours of debate, to which hundreds of women who had advocated and worked for the expulsion of Mr. Smoot listened. Many of them applauded Senaters Burrows, Dubois and Hansbrough as they denounced Mr. Smoot as unlit to sit in thb Seuate. They frowned In silence upon Senators Foraker and Beveridjre, who defended the Senator on trial for hl seat. All the galleries of the Senate were filled by women. They even encroached on the space ordinarily reserved for men. They occupied every, inch of space and hundreds filled the corridors unable to gain an entrance. Included la the number were the wife of Senator Smoot, who closely followed all the proceedings until the final roll call was announced. Scores of those who have actively worked 'for more than forty-seven months to secure the removal of Mr. Smoot from the Senate, representatives of all til women's organizations In tbe United States, were present at the final scene in the great fight against Mr. Smoot. After a final disposition of the matter had been reached scores of women "crowded into the committee room of Senator Burrows, who had championed their cause, and congratulated him on the good fight he had made, although it proved unavailing. All other business In tbe Senate was abandoned In order that the Smoot case might be given concluding attention. The debate was continuous and Interesting. The existing Japanese treaty expires March 12. President Roosevelt is preparing the way for a new treaty, and has already had conferences with the California delegation. Harry F. Xew of Indiana, acting chairman, and Elmer Dover, secretary of the Republican National Committee, have announced that the office of chairman will be filled at a meeting next December. Philippe Bunaa-Varilla, formerly minister of the Panama republic to the United State, predicts catastrophe for the Panama canal. He says: "If the American persist in fighting against nature the world will be deprived of a perfect highWay for commerce aud obtain, after many years of blind and useless work, an expensive an' unsafe high level lock canal, tht keystone of which, the Gatun Dam, will be washed out at the first earthquake, perhaps even before Its inauguration." President Roosevelt attended a banquet of the foreign commerce convention delegates and spoke of the government's yffort to develop trade relations with the countries south of us. lie also urged the necessity of a ship subsidy bill. Sicffield Ingalls of Atchison, Kan., son of Hhe late Senator Ingalls, is now a member of the Kansas Legislature. There was a tie vote in the election and the two contestants agreed to draw straws for the office, and Ingalls won. The young man looks very much as his father did. Is said to have brilliant gifts, and is a Republican. Representative Nicholas Longworth has failed in his effort to provide a more suitable remuneration for American representatives abroad, his motion being lost upon a point of order. Selecting the case of the British Ambassador as an example, Mr. Longworth said: "When we compare the compensation of the British ambassador here with that of our ambassador to England, who is paid $17,500 a year, with no othr allowance whatever, the comparison becomes utterly and out rageously ab: urd and simply brings us to the fact that undr our system no one but a man of great wealth can represent this government in high diplomatic oüice.'' The Texas House of Representatives passed a resolution calling on the Attorney General to submit all documentary evidence implicating Senator Bailey in dealing with the Standard Oil people. Ne-ertheless, the friends of Bailey passed a substitute resolution in the Senate, 18 to 12, calling for a committed of seven Senators to investigate the charges against Bailey if such an investigation is deemed advisable. This was thought to have the effect of tabling the whola matter. ; The French battleship Brennus broke from her moorings during a severe storm and grounded near Hyeres. Later che was floated much damaged.

I WORK OF 1 CONFESS

As the result of more than five hours' consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill Monday, tlie Senate increased from $3..00 to $.".000 the salary of Gifford Pinchot, chief of the bureau of forestry. Practically no progress was made on the bill. Undr a suspension of the rules tho House adopted the conference report on the immigration bill by a vote of 187 to 101. The House refused to suspend the rules and pass the bill recommended by the interstate and foreign commerce committee as a substitute for the so-called La Follctte bill limiting employment on railroads to sixten hours, the Democrats voting solidly against the substitute. Mr. Overstreet of Indiana asked that general debate terminate on the postofUce appropriation bill at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. A resolution was adopted authorizing the clerk to insert a provision in the bill looking to the reduction of the compensation to railroads for carrying mails to take effect July 1. Senator Reed Smoot's address in defense of his position as Senator was the feature of the Senate session Tuesday. He was supported by Senator Dillingham of Vermont in a speech analytical of the evidence submitted. The Senate spent Several hours in further consideration of the forestry provisions in the agricultural appropriation bill, with tbe result that several amendments were agreed to which restrict the operations of the bureau in several respects. The section of the bill had not been completed when a recess was taken for the evening' session. At the night session several bills which were not of general importance were passed. After passing a number of bills under unanimous consent the House resumed consideration of the postofficc appropriation bill. Speeches were made by Messrs. Gillespie of Texas, Murphy of Missouri,, Robinson of Arkansas, Padgett of Tennessee, Lloyd of Missouri, 'Stcenerson of Minnesota, Finley of South Carolina and Stafford of Wisconsin. Mr. Macon of Arkansas made a point öf order against the paragraphs increasing the pay of clerks in first and second class postoffices and carriers in the city delivery service. A spirited passage of words ensued between M. Macon and Mr. Fitzgerald of New York, wherein the latter gave notice that he would see that a point of order was made against the section providing for the increase for rural carriers. Mr. Macon refused to abandon his position and the chair sustained the pointr- of order. The Senate Wednesday, by a vote of 28 to 42, rejected the resolution declaring Reed Smoot not entitled to a scat as a Senator from the State of Utah. Previously, by a vote of 40 to 22, on motion of Senator Hopkins, an amendment was adopted providing that two-thirds of the Senators present must vote to unseat Senator Smoot in order to make the order effective. The Senate then took up Senator Aldrich's financial bill, which was debated for an hour, when adjournment was taken until evening. At the night session the naval and rivers and harbors appropriation bills were passed. The postoffice appropriation bill was passed by the House. All the provisions relating to increased pay affecting 00 pr cent of the postal employes were restored to the bill. The Senate compieted the. reading-of the agricultural bill Thursday after most of the day hid been spent in debate on the forestry system and the grazing land provision. Smarting under what they considered unfair treatment, the. Democrats resorted to a systematic series of objections against provisions in the sundry civil bill in the House. "They compelled the Republicans to maintain 100 members for a quorum of the committee of the whole and forced the reading of the bill in full, for the first time at this session of Congress, wasting nearly three hours' time. Several times, on demand, a quorum was counted at the night session, and many of the members appeared in evening dress. At 10 :4. p. m. the committee rose, having completed ninety-six pages of the bill, and immediately thereafter adjourned. ' The agricultural appropriation bill took tip most oi the time of the Senate at both the day and night sessions Friday. The grazing amendment was stricken out of the bill on a point of order raised by Mr. Aldrich. The conference report on the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was agreed to. The conferees on the Indian appropriation bill reported, and Mr. Clapp gave notice that he would call it up Saturday. The military academy appropriation bill was reported and passed. It carries $1,974,383, an increase of $33,400 over the amount appropriated by the House. The House devoted practically its entire1 session to consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. The work of special agents of the Department of the Interior was severely criticised as working unnecessary hardship to settlers in the debate on an amendment intended to limit their work to investigations to cases where there is ground to suspect fraud, which was adopted. The conference report on the omnibus lighthouse bill was adopted, and the measure now goes to the President. In committee of the whole GC0 Senate private pension bills were passed in thirty minutes. The sundry civil bill still held the floor when the House adjourned. - ' Jfatlonal Capital Note. The Senate has passed a bill to establish an immigration station in New Orleans. The House has passed a bill creating a new land district in" Valley county, Montana. The House passed a bill providing for a - United States judge for the northern district of Alabama. The District of Columbia appropriation niil, carrying $10,724.532, an increase of $;S7,298 over the amount passed by the I louse, was reported to the Senate. Speaker Cannon has received a letter from Secretary Taft asking for an appropriation of $l,12ti,tK2 to meet Panama canal deficiencies, caused by contract indebtedness prior to June 30, 100C. A commission of which Secretary Taft is president has selected a site on the corner of Connecticut avenue and N street, Washington, for the statue of the poet Longfellow. President Roosevelt has told Representative Stecnerson of Minnesota that he had made a modification of his suspension order of Jan.' 20 relating to entries on public lands. At the request of the National Association of Postal Clerks, Senator Cullom introduced a bill increasing the salary of postal clerks along the line recommended by the House committee on postoffices and pest roads. The Senate committee on foreign relations has authorized a favorable report on a general treaty of the powers looking to the suppression of the liquor traffic io Africa by enforcing a prohibitive tariff. The new treaty with the Dominican republic was the subject of consideration by the Senate committee on foreign relations, but because of Senator Bacon's opposition no progress was made toward securing a favorable report. Representative Murphy of Missouri has introduced a bill to repeal the act of Feb. 27, 11)01, authorizing the East St. Ixuis and St. Louis. Bridge and Construction Company to build and operate a bridge over the Mississippi river.

INDIANA LAWMAKERS.

Dr. Hart?- In llopefnl. "Indiana goes onward and upward. Her growth is not slow. Nothing can keep her long behind other States -in a few things, and she loads in many things. These optimistic utterances, made by Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the State board of health, had reference to the passage of the pure food aud drug law by the lower House. "The first pure food bill," said he, "was presented by the State board of health in 1S07. It was violonily thrown out of the lower house, much in the same way as the health bill was thrown out this session. The State board of health presented it again in lSTiO, and it passed, somewhat mutilated, with efficiency greatly injured, but no provision for enforcement. Strange to record," continued Mr. IIurty, "the man wh put the bill, through voted against the provision for its enforcement. The law consequently lay asleep on the statute books. At the s-cssion of 1001 a bill was introduced by the State board of health to establish a laboratory and provide an appropriation, both being absolutely necessary for tbe enforcement of a pure food law. It took about five minutes for the committee to kill the bill. As it plainly was only a question of education, the State boarS knew the laboratory and the enforcement of the food law would come in time. .In 1003 the bill for the laboratory was again introduced and actually passed the Senate and to third reading in the IIeus when it fell dead. Of course, the bill was brought forward again in 100.", and. lo! it went through, but the amendments of those whose duty it is to get things right weakened it almost to decrepitude. Now, in lt)07, in ten bort years, a new pure food and drug bill, almost as the State board originally presented it, is unanimously passed. , Favors m 'ev Constitution. The Senate went on record the other afternoon, as favoring a constitutional convention to consider changes which it is declared are needed in the State's historic trganic law, adopted in 1S51. The bill ntroduced by Senator R. Wood was passed by the decisive vote of 30 to "I. The bill provides that a special election shall be held in September of this year to. elect delegates to a constitutional convention to be held in Indianaolis in the October following. Senator Wood, in speaking of his bill, said that at the time tbe present constitution was adopted, in 1&Ü1, there were not as manV people in the entire State of Indiana as there are now in the city of Indianapolis. "I know full well," said Senator Wood, "that there are many persons who oppose any propo-' sition to amend the State's constitution, but I believe one of the real duties of the citizens of Indiana at this time is to promote means to bring about changes in the State's organic law. The constitution has in part outlived its usefulness, and it has been conclusively proved that an amend ment proposed at a general flection cannot be successful, and a constitutional convention is the only means to brins about the changes that may be devmed necessary. Senate Passes IHich Lleene Hill. After a debate that lasted more than two hours and in the presence of tte largest crowd of spectators that has been jn attendance since the session of the general Assembly opened, the K-enate Monday afternoon passed the Mattingly $1,000 saloon license bill by a vote of 20 to 18. Galleries and the space on the floor reserved for spectators were filled long lefcre the debate began and as it waxnl warm, the number of visitors increaseL There were saloonkeepers, brewers and temperance workers in the crowd who opposed the high license bill and there were also brewers, saloonkeepers and temperance people present who were said to favor it. The' interest in every speech vas intense, but the great crowd made absolutely no manifestation until the vote had been taken and the result announced. Then there was an outburst of handclapping from every side of the floor and galleries. Itural Route Road Repairs. Senator Mattingly's bill to compel county commissioners, township trustees and road supervisors to keep in repair roads which form the routes of rural mail carriers and making the additional provisions that such roads always shall have preference in road Improvements, and that county commissioners may repair such roads or build bridges without -waiting for appropriations, was called up on third reading. Senator Bowser moved to amend by striking out the provision which would permit the building of..-" new bridge without - appropriations. Tht amendment was adopted. Senator Kimbrough, who is a bridge manufacturer, said -he regarded the bill as one which would open the door of the reform lav and might be dangerous in its results. He believed the bill should be killed. The bill passed, 28 to 1C Crippled Pare Pood Bill Passes. The House passed the Downey State board of health pure food bill without a dissenting vote, 87 votes being registered for it. No objections were made and the author's speech in behalf of it was brief. "This bill merely ' requires that things fchall be what they say they are," he Raid. The Downey bill was seriously crippled by an amendment adopted on second read ing, without protest from the author., (o reduce the appropriation from $20,0C0 to $10,000. This reduction and a change from $3,000 to $2,000 as the salary of the chemist will come so near making the law ineffective, it is believed, that opposition wll appear In the Senate to its passage. Cnnnjrrs in Two-Cent Fare Dill. The House, after a long and earnest debate, adopted the two amendments to the Senate Bland 2-cent fare bill recommended by the House committee on railroads. The vote was r3 to 33. One amendment provides that when passengers fail .to buy tickets they must paj 2 cents a mile cash on trains, but the excess will be refunded at ny station of the company. The other makes the halffare rate limit five to twelve years, in stead of six to twelve, for children, thus making all children over five pay fare. Amendlna Road Law. Senator Carl E. Wood called up Senate bill 247, on second reading and asked that under a suspension of rules the bill be placed on its passage. The bill is to amend the road law so as to permit a county having less than fifty miles of gravel roads to have a 3-cent levy instead of a 1-cent, and is designed to afford reliel in Brown county, where the taxable vaJ uation of property is so small that thf l-cent levy will not produce nufficienl revenue to care for the roads. The rules were suspended and the bill passed by a vote of 30 to 2. Inheritance Tax Bill Passed. The House in the most interesting session of the term passed an inheritance tax bill on third reading and killed Mr. White's (State board of health) pollution of streams bi'I, even after Speaker Branch had changed a large number of votes by a brief speech in favor of the bill at the end of the roll call. Wlneroom Dill Passes. The McCullough bill, making it a penal offense to permit boys or girls under 18 years of age in a wineroom, passed by 9. vote of 73 to 3. "

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CIAL CHICAGO. No disturbing developments hinder a seasonable advance in industrial affairs. New demands come forward freely and the only trouble is the inability to catch up with old contracts involving production of heavy material. In transiwrtation, bank payment and failure returns tbere is much encouragement, all reflecting steady progress. Weather conditions prove unusually favorable to trade generally and more activity is seen in distributing and manufacturing, with retail dealings howinsr. further gain in the cleaning up of winter wares. Leading producers continue under the pressure of an exceptional accumulation of forward liusiness and full available capacity of the furnaces, rail mills and car shops is drawn upon. The outputs add enormous tonnage to the freight handled, and although special efforts have more success in re-enforcing railroad equipment it is not easy to obvain prompt d liveries at various points. "The suppIv of cars has improved to th extent of permitting a largely increared marketing of crops and greater shipment of spring goods to the interior. Factory materials remain in undiminished request, current sales being extended and prices quite firm. Bank clearings, $202 .XlJS.", exceed these of conesponding five days in 100G by 8.1 per cent. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 22, against 20 last week and 23 a year ago. Dun's Review. NEW YOTLK. Actual trade and industrial developments are quite generally favorable, better weather '-onditkms and the easing of the railroad blockades being largely instrumental in this direction. Jobbing trade in the spring and summer fabrics has expanded . at the East, at leading southwestern centers and at prominent southern markets. Better reports also come from the Northwest, where the rail-. roads ftre winning out of the tnow bloc!tuu vu me onn i acme coast, where the car congestion is less acute und preparations for spring trade are noted. Collections are still irregular, but teed to slowness, as retail trade in winter goods is largely over and spring business has hardly begun. Retail stocks of winter good "have, been well reduced, however. Business failures in the United States for the week endjn Feb. 20 number 177, against 204 last wevk, ISd in tbe like week o! ItXXi, 220 in 100:", 200 in 1004 nd 1S5 in 1003. Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the five" days ending Feb. 20 a zzre prated 2,0.52.4'J1 bushels, against 2.500.130 last week, 2..Tj7,CK;8 this week last year, t23,022 in 100." and 3,009,433 in, lfK)2. For the last thirty-four weeks of ' the fiscal year the exports are 118,S1G,'10." bushels, acainst 92,27S,10G in 1003-C 42,500,480 in 1004-5 and 178,105,101 in 1001-2. Corn exports for the week are 1.CS8.C3S bushels, against 1.007.720 last week. 4,403.007 a year ago and 3,827,031 In 1005. For the fiscal year to date the exports are 30.323.155 bushels, , asainst 80.655,055 in 1005- and 42,201,952 la 1004-3. Bra dstreet's Report. . , Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy, 51.00 to $7.17; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50 ; wheat. No. 2, 73c to 74c ; corn. No. 2, 42c to 43c: oats stindard, 37c to 30c; rye, No. 2. G7c to CSc; hay, timothy, $13.00 to $19.00; prairie, D.OO to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 2Sc to 33c; eggs, fresh, 23c to 27c; potatoes, 35c to 45c. , Indiananolis Cattle. sh'DDin 3.00 to $0.50; bogs, choice heavy, $1.00 to $7.05; sheep, common to prime. $2.30 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2. 73c to 75c; corn. No. 2 white, 45c to 4Cc ; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 42c St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $0.73; hogs, I.OO to $7.13; sheep, $3.50 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2, c to T8c; com, No. 2, 42c to 44c; oats. No. 2, COc to 41c; rye. No. 2, C4c to C5c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $3.75; hogs, $4.00 to $7.15; sheep, $3.00 to $5.23; wheat, No. 2, 78c to 70c; com. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 4Gc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 41c to 43c;' rye, No. 2, TTc to 73c. Detroit Cattle, $1.00 to $5.00; nogs, $4.00 to $7.10; shp, $210 to $5.00; wheat, : No. 2, 7 Go to 77c ; corn. No. 3 yellow, 45c to 47c; oats. No. 3 white, 42c to 43c; rye. No.. 2, CSc to COc Milwaukee Wheat. No, 2 northern. 77c to SOc; corn. No. 3, 41c to 42c; oats, standard, 3Sc to 40c; rye. No. 1, C7c to CSc ; barley, fctandard, COc to G2c ; pork, mess, $16.00. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.13 ; bogs fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.30; hheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.40; lambs, fair to choice. $3.00 to $8.15. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $50; hogs $1.00 to $7.50; sheep, $3.00 to 5.25; wheats No. 2 red, 81c to S2c; corn. No. 2, 54e to. 55c ; oats, natural white, 49c to 51c; butter, creamery, 32c to 34c; egs, western, 23c to 2Cc Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 73c to 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 4!c to 45c; oats No. 2 mixed, 40c to 42c; rye, Ko. 2. C5c to C7c ; clover seed, prime, $3.22. All Around the Globe. When fire broke out in the Richard coal mine near Dover, X. Y., 150 men in 'tie pit narrowly escaped. All got out in safety. Charles McGill of the defunct Ontario bank pleaded guilty to having sipaed false returns and was sentenced to five years imprisonment. Seven -Tompanies dealing in naval stores and officers of the companies were indicted in the United States Court at Savanlah, Ga., for violation of the tati-trust law. The Paris police arrested the ringleader f a gang of fifty criminals, who fcive terrorized tbe department of Pas-de-Calais and the Belgian frontier for two years, committing many robberies and murder. The Mikado has proposed to decorate ßobert S. McCormick and George V. L. Meyer, former ambassadors to Russia; Spencer F. Eddy and other Americans for their services to Japan daring tbe Rus-Japanese war. The council of the English Hackney Horse Society has resolved to offer to the New York horse show as a mark of tbo friendly feeling of tbe English breeders a challenge cup valued at $500. Dr. James W. Simpson, the dentist who was acquitted at Riverhead, L. I., of the charge of having murdered his father-in-law, Bartley T. Horner, said he would establish a dental office and win success yet. The German government is expelling aliens who aided socialist enndidate in the recent elections. The chief offenders were Russian students with revolutionary proclivities who made speeches in behslf of the socialists. ,

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