Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 22, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 March 1907 — Page 2

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(TU Q.,- N. M. -N P. Q.F. M 7th y.Sjmth. V 21st.Vgj29th PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many. BOLD ROBRERY IX CHIC A 30. Mall Wagon Stolen and Thieves Secure About T..00O. A United States mail wagon contain ing three pouches, two of which were filled with miscellaneous mail matter and the third with registered mail, was stolen from in front of the Stock Ex change building, LaSalle and Washing ton streets, Chicago, while the driver was nviking a collection Id the building. At the time of the theft the street was crowd.ee? with persons, nuro oi whom saw the thief 'escape with the mall wagon. While the collector was inside the thief drove off with the wagon, which was cne enclosed with a screen, the door of which was locked. Two hours after the robbery the wagon was found three miles distant from the downtown district. The screen door had been broken open and the pouches taken. The postoffice authorities say they don't know just how many checks or how much jewelry the registered pouches contained but were of the belief that the robbers probably secured fully $5,000. Pennay Flyer Damaged by Explosion. The New York-Pittsburg Flyer on the Pennsylvania railroad met with a remarkable accident near Huntingdon, Pa., east of A 1 toon a, and an unknown woman passenger and David Wilcox, of Marlon, led., were injured. Railroad employes were blasting along the tracks and three charges o! dynamite were fired as the train passed. All the windows In the train were broken and several steps blown off the cars. That the train was not blown from the track and many passengers Injured is considered miraculous. Shot a Fellr? Trainman. Charles Carroll, a Lake Shore trainman, was shot . and killed by Frank Howland, a brother trainman. In Howland's home at Goshen, Ind. Howland, having a jealous suspicion of his wife, went home and found Carroll visiting her. He at once drew a revolver and sivjt Carroll died from his injuries In a short time. Barfed Under the Engine. A freight train on the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus railroad ran past the block at Warsaw Junction, near Coshocton, Ohio, and went down a thirty-foot embankment. E. S. Hatton, fireman, of Delaware, Ohio, was buried under the wreckage and is dead. C. T. 3Iorman, conductor, was fatally hurt. ladaturn.- Doea Great Damage. A terrific -windstorm visited Southern Muskingum county Saturday morning. The Riverside grange hall, a three-story building. Just finished, was totally wrecked, entailing a loss of $5,000. The new High school building at Zanesville, Ohio, In course of construction, was also damaged about $2,000. ' Many Hurt la Mine Explosion. Fourteen men are hovering near death in Taylor Hospital and twelve others suffered slight burns through a terrific explosion of gas that swept through a pcrtion of the Clark vein of the Holden mine of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Company at North Taylor, near Scranton, Pa. A Terrible Explosion. A dynamite explosion at Homestead, N. J., killed, it is believed, two persons, injured at least a dozen others, wrecked fifty homes in the village and shook towns and cities within a radius of ten miles. Senator Spooner Resigns. Senator Spooner has written a letter to Governor Davidson, of Wisconsin, tendering his resignation as a Senator of the United States, to take effect May 1 next rtlea Y. M. C A. Balldlag Bnrned. The Y,"?I. C. A. building at Utica, N. YJ, was destroyed by fire. The loss la $155,000. Several stores were also burned. - Three Killed In Wreck. Three persons were killed in a collision on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad a mile and a half below Waterbury, Conn. Tarnado Destroys Arkansas Torrn. A tornado struck the town of Washington, Ark., and almost wiped it out of existence. Two negroes are reported killed and many injured. Many buildings were destroyed including several churches. $1,500,000 in Damage Suits.' Damage suits for $1,500.000 will be instituted as a result of th wreck of th Hrewgter express in New York, In which twenty-two persons were killed an J more than 100 injured. College Given 91,C0O,00O. The receipt of large gifts seas announced at a trustees' meeting of the Teachers college in New York. These amount to about $1,000,000. The money will be used in part for equipment to build a whool for domestic economy and to complete the first $1,000,000 for the endowment fond for the college. Five Frozen to Death. A man named David Trapper arrived at Estevan, Saskatchewan, the other night with the information that a farmer named Radcliffe, with his wife and three children, had been found frozen to death. Kauclide was a homesteader. Body in Dry Kiln. !o?ice of the Canalport avenue station, ?hi ago, believe they have a murder mystery on their hands following the discovery of the body of Touhy Moran, 30 yean old, in a dry kiln in the lunber yard! of T. Wile & Co, West 2 1st and Allport

HISTORY OF CAgE IN ST. LOUIS. David P. Dyer, Jr., Found Short, but Is Acquitted by Jury. David 1. Dyer, Jr., receiving teller of the United States subtreasury in St. Louis, was found $01.500 short in his accounts Oct. f, 1900, and th? disappearance of the money has never been explained. The shortage was discovered b.7 Chief Clerk Johnson after he had detected Dyer taking a package of money from Pay in Teller Ferguson's cage. Dyer adnitted taking the package a.vl said he took it to balance his accounts for the rnspec?ion of the. chief clerk, but stated that he was privately trying to learn the cause of 4he shortage, which he himself had discovered Sept. 27. Dyer's father, Col. D. I. Dyer, Sr.. was and still is United States District Attorney in St. Louis, but a special attorney. F. W. Lehmann, was appointed by the government to conduct the prosecution of the receiving teller. Judge Finkelnburg, the judge of the district federal court in St. Louis, disqualified himself on account of personal friendship for the Dyer family, and Judge Carland tried the case. The jury returned a verdict of acquittal, the foreman explaining afterward that the evidence of embezzlement was entirely circumstantial and not sufficient to warrant a conviction Dyer's promptness in answering the prosecuting attorney's questions and his frankness throughout the trial made a favorable impression on the jury. DENIES EMINENT DOMAIN EIGHT.

Minnesota Court Holds Trolley Lines Cannot Condemn Property. That the electric lines of the State of Minnesota have no right of eminent domain was the gist of one of the most important and far reaching decisions ever rendered that handed down by the full bench of the District Court judges in Minneapolis. The case was that of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Street Railway Company against the village of Excelsior, Minn., a summer resort twenty miles west of Minneapolis, for the purpose of testing the right to condemn property for a right of way. The case, which will be appealed to the Supreme Court, was started by a petition to the court to appoint a commission which should condemn certain land in Excelsior and Tonka Day along the route of the proposed extension from Excelsior to the upper lake at Birch Bluff. It was opposed by property owners along the proposed route. The court, holding that the company is a street railway company, finds that it has no right to "acquire property by eminent domain within the limits of any city or village." As to the tracts of land situated outside of the village, which the company attempted to condemn, the court finds that these tracts would not be useful or necessary unless a right of way were acquired inside the village and denies the petition. TWO FIREMEN ARE KILLED. Ammonia Fume3 in Basement of a New York Building Fatal. Two firemen were killed and eleven others rendered unconscious by fumes in the basement of a building on Eighth avenue,. New York. The condition of two others is serious. The dead were Adam Damm and Harry F. Baker. Damm and Baker had carried a pipe through the basement and into an opening leading to a subcellar, when they called for water pressure, but when other firemen reached them to assist in d:recting the hose upon the blaze, the victims had disappeared. Ammonia fumes poured up through the hole and filled the basement. The fire had melted the coupling of one of the ammonia pipes connecting with the cold storage plant of a market. . Rescuing parties were formed and Damm and Baker were carried from the hole with difficulty. They died soon afterward. Roll call revealed that Captain Bernard Carlock was down in the hole, where he had gone in search of victims of the fumes, and he was brought to the surface. It is believed that he will not recover. PLATT IN A NEW SCANDAL. Mae Wood Sues the Senator Again and Names Sixteen Women. Suit has been brought in the Supreme Court of New York City by Miss Mae Catherine Wood against United States Senator Thomas C. Piatt and there is every likelihood that it will create a sensation when it comes to trial. As the case now stands the complaint and the answer have been served and unless the lawyers go into court with some motion the suit cannot be heard until it is reached on the calendar for trial. Miss Wood, who is at Colon, Mich., is quoted as saying : "I instituted divorce proceedings on Dec. 27 last in New Yor-5 against Senator Piatt through my attorney, Mr. O'Flaherty. I have named sixteen women as corespondents. The trial will disclose crimes of various kinds." WOUNDED PLAYING BURGLAR. Swain Is Shot by Brother on the Eve of His Wedding. Bert Graveldinger returned home in Tiffin, -Ohio, from work at a late hour the other night and attempted a practical joke by impersonating a burglar. So well did he succeed that his 17-jeaj-old brother, Eugene, shot him in the neck, inflicting probably fatal wounds. The injured man was to have been married next week. The brother who did the shooting accidentally shot his mother in the arm recently and two years ago accidentally wounded another brother in the same manner. Robs Cafe In City's Heart. A lone bandit, armed with two revolvers and wearing a mask over the lower part of his face, held up the Albany cafe in Broadway, in the heart of the business center of Oakland,' Cal., at 9 p. m. He secured $800 in cash and escaped. There were five men in the place at the time besides the bartender. Forfeited to City and County. Property and franchises of the Spring Valley Water Company of San Francisco, worth $53,000,000, have been declared forfeited to the city and county by the board of supervisors, on account of excess rates charged by the company. $800,000 Loss at Niagara. The plant of the Acker Process Company was destroyed by fire in Niagara Falls, N. Y. Henry S. Fairchild. an electrician, was caught under a falling wall and killed. The loss is $800,000. Dies to Save Woman and Baby.. In attempting to save a woman with a baby in her arms from death, Aaron Alexander was himself struck and killed by a train in Piqua, Ohio. The woman and child were uninjured. Teacher Sacrifices Life. Sixteen pupils of a school in Montreal died in a fire, and a young woman teacher heroically sacrificed her life iu an effort to rescue her little charges. Dies in Train Wreck. An engineer was burned to death aiid tbirty-nine persons, mostly passengers, were injured when a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train was wrecked near Connelsville, Ta., and destroyed by fire. Great Profits of Harriman. The profits of E. H. Harriman and his immediate associates in the "readjustment" of the Chicago and Alton railroad Lave been shown in the interstate commerce commission's inquiry to have exceeded $23,000,000, and it is said the new securities may be held yoid under the Illinois law.

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legislature: forbids owner. SKIP OF LANDS. (Iifirn:a Assembly Ine Rill Aimed at Thrifty Orientals Town ut Wn-ililnjrton, Ark., 1 Prnclirnlly U'iped Out by Tornado. The loner house of the Legislature of California passed a sweeping anti-.Iapan-cki unci anti-Chinese measure introduced by Assemblyman Drew of Fresno. The bill is known as the "anti-alien propertyholdinc bill." It is aimed at the Japanese and Chinese property owners in that State and is intended to prevent them from acquiring and owning property for a longer period than five years. In urging the passage of the bill Drew stated that since .Inn. 1 of this year one-third of the property transfers in Fresno had been to Japanese. The bill provides that n:iy alien who does not become a citizen of the United Ktttes shall acquire and hold title to lands in the State for not more than five years. If within that time tlrr- alien does not become a citizen the district attorney shall comiel the sale of his lanfi or houses. Japanese and Chinese are not specifically named, but as they cannot become citizens ,the bill is aimed directly nt them and precludes them from owning property for more than five years. Th? measure also provides that no con' tract, agreement or lease of real estate fcr a longer period than one year fcltall be made to any alien and any lease, agreeii'cnt or devise of real estate mada to any aiien for a long period -ha 1 be null and void. TORNADO "WIPES OUT A TOWN. "Washington, Ark., Practically Destroyed and Lives Reported Lost. A Kperial from Hope.' Ark., says that a destructive tornado ft ruck the town of Washington late, Thursday night and almost literally wiped it out of existence. Two negroes are rejiortcd killed and several in-'ons were injured. Among the buildings destroyed were the Freshyteria.t c lurch. Episcopal church. Judge W. Y. iter's residence. T. II. Williams' sfore, he residence of Sheriff Wilson and other srructurep. Washington is a town of about St inhabitants on the Louisville and Arkansas ri.ilroad in the southwestern part of the State. TAKE CHILD FROM GYPSY CAMP. it aid on Nomads Results in Finding Stolen Arkansas Child. Cecelia Demetm, 1'2 years old, daughter of a well-to-do Creek resident -of Little Kock,. Ark.. a ho was kidnaped on March 1, 15HXJ, wa$ found the other day in a gypsy camp it Thornton. III., after a search of nearly a year, in which nearly every gypsy eamp in the South and West had been visited. Accompanied by Lur Chicago deputy sheriffs Leo Demetro. tLe father, went to Thorntor and found the child playing in a camp. Slie was rescued only after threats of violence by the gypsies, the leader of whom displayed a knife. SALTO N SEA DAM HOLDING. . Railroad Spending $4,000,000 In Curbing Colorado River. The overflow of the Colorado river at the Imperial valley dam ha been stopped. The dam has s'ood a test of two weeks and another outbreak of the Colorado is believed to be averted. The building of levees will be finished by April 13. The cost of work on the twenty-mile levee is nearly $l,t00 a day. and the total expense of curbing the river will be between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. This money will be expended by the Southern Pacific. - ; 1 t Seeks to Invalidate Sale. J. A. Fogler, a stockholder in the California jowder works, has brought suit to have declared void the Kale of its property for $ti,7rSO,Q0O to the E. I. Dupont Ie Nemours Powder Company. The plaintiff claims that the sale was fraudulent in that the property fold was really worth $ir,000,000 and that the sale was made for the purjose of throttling competition in the making of powder.v . , Columbus Ice Men Guilty. ' The jury in the cast against the socalled ice trust in. Columbus, Ohio, returned a verdict of guilty against C. Malcolm Kinnaird ai:d W. F. Polley. Nine other defendants were acquitted. The maximum ienalty that can be imposed upon Kinnaird and Polley is a fine of $.",- 000 and twelve mouths' imprisonment in the county jail or workhouse. Two Rich Men Robbed. George B. Swift, ex-Mayor of Chicago, and Lot?s Clarke, a wealthy Philadelphian, h' in learned, were robbed in Palm Beach, Fla., of several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry, and there is small hope of capturing the thieves, although extra attempts hive !H-n made to keep the affair quiet in the hope of capturing the offenders. Four Dead in Railway Wreck. A special train, carrying Gov. Woodruff and the members of Company F, Second regiment, Connecticut National- Guard, collided with a regular passenger train near Naugatuck, Conn., on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, and four persons were killed. The injured number about thirty. Accident on "L" Road. Several persons were Injured by the collapse of a part of the Third Avenue Elevated railroad track at Chatham square, on the lower East Side of New York. One end of the rear car of a train which was passing over the collapsed section fell into the street. Six passenger? were Injured. Epidemic on Battleship. The battleship Connecticut, running a race with (Lath to get those of her crew among whom an epidemic of fever had broken out to the New York navy hospital, passed the Virginia Cape. She reported by wireless that fifteen of the' sick were in a critical condition. and might not live to reach New York. City Opens 18 Meat Markets. In order to check the increasing prices of meat, the municipality, of St. Petersburg, Russia, has decided to open eighteen municipal meat markets, where meat will be sold to the poor at cost. Clerks' Confess Defalcation. Defalcations from the Hamilton National bank in Chicago amounting to $10,000 have been admitted by two clerks when arrested. Calls Stoessel a Coward. Lieut. Gen. -Stoessel, in the secret report on the surrender of Port Arthur, is charged with treason, cowardice and incompetence. Democrats Again Name Rose. W. W. Kose, who was twice ousted from the office of Mayor of Kansas City, Kan., by the State authorities for nonenforcement of the anti-liquor and antigambling Taws, has been nominated .for that office again by the Democratic party. Rose had no opposition. Suit to Conserve Estate. . Suit to have a receiver named for the estate of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, head of the Christian Science church, and the property of the "mother church" in Boston, has been filed at Concord, N. II., by Georg W. Glover, Mr. Eddy's son.

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MYSTERY IN CHICAGO. It Itr Sam Diinppeari from United State Sub-Treanury. Much mystery has surrounded the disappearance of $173.000 from the government subtreasury in Chicago. An error in liookkeopin? .Was at first believed to Ik? responsible -for the discrepancy, but aa examination of the books showed the blame was not there, and It was then given out that a gigantic theft had been perpetrated. Subtreasurer William Boldenweck announced that beyond all doubt the missing $173,000 was stolen. All the money In Chicago subtreasury, amounting to 000.000, was counted last August in eight days and was found Intact. A large part of it is kept In safes for use In emergencies and these safes have not been opened since the recount While Capt. Porter of the secret service forces in Chicago and private detectives were tightening the tolls around the thief or thieves, John E. Wllkie, chief of the United States secret service, hurried to Chicago from Washington to take personal charge of the case. It is believed by some of the government officials- that a cliqr.fi of eniploj-es was Involved in this second largest theft In the history of the treasury department, and that the money was stolen In a carefully studied conspiracy by which the plunder n:ight be negotiated without detection. TUe theory that a ring of thives looted the subtreasury was the only plausible explanation which the government oificials could readily find in the baffling mystery. It was said that Federal employes hi other cities, in the subtreasuries or even in the treasury office In Washington, might be in the consplracy. N While suspicion pointed to some of the clerks connected with the office, all protested their Innocence and insisted that the shortage would be discovered to have been the result of a mis-shipment of money to oue of the "western subtreasurles. It was pointed out that a package of $10,000 bils might haye been, sent Instead of a package of $100 bills. The theft bears many of the earmarks of that which recently took place In the St. Louis subtreasury. Following as It does so closely the theft in St. Louis, government officials are greatly wrought up nnd unusual efforts to fix responsibility will be made. Most of the money in the subtreasury Is in paper and banks, In depositing It, sort it by denominations and style ot Issue. Silver and gold certificates are kept apart and each package containing a certain style and kind of bill is marked plainly on the outside. The count is verified by a teller In the officewho handles -each., and every bill In the package. When the ount has been checked Jbe teller puts bills of the same denomination In packages of 100. In addition to a report on the method in which the Chicago subtreasury was being conducted. President Roosevelt has asked Secretary Shaw to make an Investigation of all the mibt aasuries In ,the United States and directed that the systems be Improved to prevent future thefts. Perpetrators of crimes aga Inst Uncle Sam seldom escape. -The government is vengeful. Whether the loot be $1 or $1,000,000 it Is the same. The entire resources of the departrreiit of Justice are brought Into play to secure the arrest, conviction," and punishment of those who had the boldness to trifle with the powers centered at Washington. But criminals do try to beat the game, and for a time some have succeeded in eluding the secret-service men. But sooner or later they fall Of the big postoffice robberies Chicago has had more than its stare. The largest previous robbery of the government was that the Chicago postoffice on the night of Oct. 20, 1807. The old building on the lake front was the scene of the operations. Thieves tunneled beneath the temporary structure and looted the vaults. Over $74,000 Iu stamps was stolen. Several people were under suspicion, but no arrests were warranted. It stands out ns cne of the few unsolved mysteries of the United States secret service. Other postoffice robberies are reported almost weekly, but the booty Is too small to bring them Into the limelight. These are usually In remote villages and are generally regarded as the work of yeggmcn. San Francisco (Cal.) trade unionists are watchinj with much interest the outcome of the proposed union trading stamp project at Chicago. If adopted and successful it is highly probable that the plau will be tried at San Francisco. A fine of a barrel of apples was imposed upon Robert Stone, a member of the Kansas Legislature, by his fellow members, who charged him with being caught using a pasa on a street car.

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ItlCH CHICAGO "WOMAN CHAItGED WITH HUEDEH. mmmi ? I .:.w:. '.vN.r4 . . . v . . -. V---' ' MKS! M. C. M'DONALD. Mrs. ".Mike" McDonald, wife of the former Chicago gambling king, who is under arrest for the slaving of Webster (Juerin, and who, the police feared, would die in her cell of hysteria after the shooting, has improved since her removal to the county jail hospital. There is no question, declared the jail physician,' that Mrs. McDonald is mentally deranged at pres'.-nt and has been so since she fired the shot that killed Guerin. The question which the authorities wish to determine, according to the physician, is whether the woman was insane before the tragedy. According to the attorney retained by McDonald, the line of defense will depend upon Mrs. McDonald's version of the case. The woman, he says, may have no recollection of the shooting and have been insane at the time, or she may have been atüicked by Guerin and shot in self-defense, or the two mdy have been struggling for the pistol when it exploded. Briet tCcws Items. The deaths are announced at. Cartagena,-Spain, of Vice. Admiral Sanchez Ocana and Rear Admiral Martinez Hies cas. To enable the grand jury to investigate Jennings' election frauds in Louisiana the entire electorate of 310, persons has been summoned. Sir John L. Walton Attorney General of Britain, in a speech at Leeds declared that the House of Lords was out of harmony with modern democratic, institutions and must go. The department store of B. G. Carpenter & Co., situated in the heart of Wilkesbarre. Pa., was practically destroyed by fire. Loss $100,000. William Smith, colored, set fire to "Pinkey" Tigg, with whom he formerly lived, at Gulfport, Miss., and the woman was burned to death. Argentine imports for 1900 aggregated $209,970,521 gold, an increase of over $OI,O0O,000. Exports amounted to $292,530,020, a decrease of $30,590,012. Formal notice of appeal in the case of Chester Gillette, the convicted murderer of Grace Brown, was filed with the district attorney of Herkimer county. J. J. Moore, the millionaire shipping and commission merchant of San Francisco, was kicked by a horse at Ascot Park, Los Angeles, and suffered a skull fracture which may prove fatal. . Land has been bought from the Chinese in Newchwang, China, under military compulsion by the Japanese administration and handed over to the South Manchuria railway, which is extending its concession. Judge Gray of Delaware, recently chosen hmpire in the dispute between the New York yard brakemen and conductors and the various railroad companies for an increase in wages of 1 cent an hour, has decided against the yardmen.

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COUNTRY'S HIGH DEATH RATE. Ccnn It area a Shown Half Million . Deaths by Disease In 10O5. More than . 500,000 persons in s the United States were offered up in 1005 as a sacrifice to disease. Startling as this death rate may seem, it was less than that for the preceding -ear, but was in excess of the number of deaths registered for any other year. This death rate is lower than that of Ireland, Germany and Italy for the same period, but Jiigher than that of England and Wales, Scotland and the Netherlands. . ' ' - The death rate from nephritis" and Bright's disease, apoplexy, cancer, diabetes and appendicitis is increasing, while that from old age, bronchitis, convulsions, peritonitis and scarlet fever are decreasing. The greatest death rate recorded for any one disease in 190." was that from pulmonary tuberculosis, amounting to 50,770, while pneumonia follows closely with a death rate of 39,0GS, exclusive of broncho-pneumonia. Cancer hows a steadily growing death rate, the figures being 24,330.. ' A report has leen issued by the census bureau giving the statistics of .mortality for 1905, together with revised figures for the years 1901 to 1904, inclusive, for the registration. area of the pnited States. The ten .registration States comprising this area are Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. The population of the entire area in 1900 was 30,705,618 representing 40.5 per cent of the total population of continental United States. Of this number 19,900,742 persons, or 26.3 per cent of the total population, were in registration States and 10,804,876 persons, or 14.2 per cent, were in registration cities in non-registration States. The toial number of deatbs reported from the various kinds of diseases in 1905 aggregated 545,533, and those for the preceding year amounted to 551,354. On a percentage basis the death rate was in' 1905, 16.2 in each thousand of popula-' tion. STEVENS QUITS CANAL JOB. , Contraction Work to De Intrusted to Army Knicineers. To the troubled history of the building of the Panama canal two strenuous chapters were added Tuesday "in the Presi dent's decision to build the canal without the aid of contractors, and in the resignation of John F. Stevens as president of ' the canal commission. Stevens will be succeeded by Major G. W. Goethals of the engineer cors, who with other army engineers will do the work as any other J ' Stevens. piece of government engineering is done. Senator J. C. S. Blackburn of Kentucky, who soon retires, was made a member of the commission. Stevens is the third man to throw up the canal job suddenly and without adequate explanation. John F. Wallace, the first president of the commission, said that he could get more money elsewhere. The excuse of Theodore 1 Shonts, Wallace's successor, that he could not afford to work for the government when he was elsewhere offered twice the salary he was getting. .. Stevens makes no excuse whatever, . It is reported that Stevens, who is a Chicago man and was formerly chief engineer of the Rock Island railroad,' has accepted the presidency of a private construction company, at a salary about double the present one. He is said to have expressed himself as being tired of unjust criticism in the public prints. City Is Taken by Storm. , San Marcos de Colon, a well-fortified Honduran city, which was defended by Solomon Ordonez, tho Honduran minister of war, at the head of a strong army, was taken by storm by Nicaragua n forces. An Educational Diplomat. Dr. William R. Shepherd, professor of history in Columbia university, has been selected by the international bureau of American republics, of which John Barrett is the new director, to make a trip to the leading South American capitals during the coming summer, for the purpose of cultivating personal relations with the leading- statesmen and men of letters in Latin America, and to carry to them knowledge of the educational resources and opportunities of the United States. Dr. Shepherd will also collect material for a special course of lectures on South America. Turpentine Trust Indicted. In the federal court at Savannah Indictments were returned against the in dividuals and firms comprising what is known as the turpentine trust, including the S. P. Shotter Company, the TatersonDowning Company, the American Naval Stores Company, and their officers, for violations of the anti-trust law. All were released on $10,000 bonds. Louis Klopsch, Jr., son of the editor of the Christian Herald in New York, and M'dsa Hattie de Klyn of Norwalk, Conn., eloped and were married at Port Chester. Young Klopsch, who was attending school at Norwalk, is only 19.

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The Senate Tuesday passed the sundry civil appropriation bill, -arrjin $114,000,000. It also passed the Aldrich currency bill by a vote of 43 to 14. Conference reports were adopted on the naval, army, fortifications and District of Columbia appropriation bills. The conference report on the bill allowing the government the right ot appeal in criminal cases was agreed to, as was also that on a bill opening for settlement 1,000,000 acres of th? Rosebud Iudian reservation in South Dakota. General debate on the so-called ship subsidy bill was bojrun in the House and under an agreement continued throughout the day. The conference reports on the fortifications appropriation bill and the omnibus revenue cutter bill were adopted. The conference reports on the army appropriation bill and the river and harbor bill were presented. Conferees were appoinU-d on the pnptofiice and agricultural appropriation bills. An order was adopted authorizing the consideration in the House as in the committe of the whole of private bills reported from certain committees. After listening to an argument by Senator Patterson of Colorado in favor of government ownership of railroads, the Senate Wednesday agreed tc the conference report on the river and harbor appropriation bill. The Senate passed without discussion the Daniel bill establishing "the foundalion for the promotion of industrial peace," with the Nobel jwace prize received by President Roosevelt. The expatriation bill also was passed. The House' bill to prevent shanghaiing and fifty minor measures were passed. Conference reports were agreed to by the House on the naval, river and harbor and District of Columbia appropriation bills. The House concurred . in the Senate amendment to the army bill providing for the retirement of certain brigadier generals who served in the Civil War, with the rank of major general. The.President returned to the House without his kpproval a bill for the relief of J. M. Bauer and others growing. out of their failure to make returns for special tax as retail duties on oleomargarine. The conference reports on the commercial appeals bill and the- bills authorizing the allotment and disposal of surplus lands in the Rosebud Indian reservations in South Dakota were agreed to. . The House disagreed to the Senate amendments to the sundry civil appropriation bill and appointed conferees. The ship subsidy bill was debated throughout the day. The Senate Thursday passed the bill extending povcrnmnt aid to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition to be held in 1900 at Seattle, and debated for several hours the denatured alcohol bill, reaching no conclusion on the latter measure. The conference report on the army appropriation bill was presented, and by the Senate receding on the point in controversy its provision for the retirement of paymasters' clerks a complete agreement letween the two houses resulted. The conference report on the military aeadmy bill was agreed to. The Mexican boundary treaty was 'ratified, and the nominations of isthmian canal commissioners sent to the Senate Teh. 15, including Chairman Shonts and Chief Engineer Stevens, were confirmed. General debate on the thlp subsidy bill was closed in the House and the measure was read for amendment undcrthe five-minute rule. An amendment was adopted providing for a line of six-teen-knot ships from the Gulf of Mexico to Brazil, while one excepting the .steamers Sierra, Sonoma, and Ventura of the Oceanic Line from the operations of the bill was defeated. The general deficiency Mil,' carrying $9,847,390, was reported. The conference reports on the military academy appropriation bill and the expatriation bill were agreed to. The night session was devoted to bills on the priva-.e calendar, but little was done, because M. Mahon of Pennsylvania, smarting under hi treatment when bills from the committee on war claims were under consideration, raised the point of no quorum, and a juorum was not secured cntil 10:45. The denatured alcohol bill passed the Senate Friday by a ote of (j to 1. Senator Pettus of Alabama cast the negative vote. Conference reports on the agricultural, sundry t-iv'.L naval and postoffjce appropriation bills vcre agreed to. A bill was passed granting a pension of $50 a month to the widow of the late Gen. Joseph R. Ilawley. The House at the morning session began consideration of the general deficiency bill, aul at 1 o'clock laid it aside for the ship subsidy bill, whose passage developed one of the pret.tifst fights in years. On .the first vote the Democrats and the insurgent Republicans had votes enough to defeat the measure, but. after three hours of fierce contest the bill, as perfected in the eomirittee of the whole, striking out provisions for KtcaiAship mail lines from Pacific coast points to the Orient, was fipally Iassed by a. vote of 162 to 150. The general deficiency bill wa then ta:n up and passed. An amendment by Mr. Orovvenor of Ohio was adapted, giving to all employes ,of Congress one month's extra pay, while the proio.sed rfduction of mileage for Senators and Representatives from 20 to 8 cents per mil went out. The House agreed to the conference report on the postofiice appropriation bill and adopted it. A bill was pass-sl providing for the creation of an industrial peace committee, which is to administer the $10,000 which President Roosevelt received from the Nobel prize fand. National Capital Notes. The Postofiice Department, as a result of the rapid increase of the postal business of the country, asked Congress for an appropriation of $150,000 to cover the salaries of tiOO additional clerks until July 1. The House has sent to the conference the so-called revenue cutter bill. The Senate added an additional boat to the bill to be used as a boarding boat" for officials of the Treasury Department at Cal vest dn, Texas, and failed to change the title of the bill. Speaker Cannon has appointed Representative Dixon of Montana to a place on the committee of Indian affairs, vice Mr. Curtis, resigned. Hearings before tbe House committee on appropriations in Washington developed the fact that there is no hospital in the United States accepting lepers without pay. Senators Knox, Penrose and Dick and Representatives Dajzell and Atche?.a appeared before the Senate committee ou commerce, in nupiiort of the proposition for the construction of dam No. 7 on the Ohio river, which the House refused to incorporate in tbe river and harbor bill. Officials, of the Jamestown exposition filed with Secretary Shaw a contract providing for the reimbursement of the $1,000,000 loan by .the Rovernment to the exposition company. The loan is to be secured by the receipts of the exposition at the gates and from concessions. On motion of Mr. Gardner of Massachusetts the House passed a resolution requesting the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to send to the House any information relative to the introduction of foreign laborers into South Carolina by Labor Commissioner Watson and tbe opinion of the solicitor of the department as to whether the laborers were lawfully admitted.

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Itanlr Vetoes Made Lam mi; Gov. Ilanly has vetoed t'.,e bill Int?r . duced by Representative Faulkner f the purpose of giving the title of c-r submerged land at the Indiana, rLake Michigan to the owners of abutting the lake. It was inTTucec. IUC lUllTCMS OI.U1Q CiliitU .TLaies Corporation and the town of Gary. Tl veto was based on two reasons that th biil in its present form probably is do constitutional, and that it safeguards tb. rights of neither the State nor the ntc corporation. As the bill reads, those owe'' ing property on tLe lake front could rp the title to the submerged lands, out N the dock line, by having prep'ared a pla showing the number of acres thus sub merged. This done, the State, on reeeiy ing $25 an acre, was to turn over the ti to such land to the property owners. Tki submerged land was to be filled in aa? the steel company was to build oa if . The Governor's veto uuggosts that li title shouid not be given until the lru actually l as been filled in. Desire Increase In Salaries. Every member of the IIous cf Rtpr' sentatives, with the possible exceptio Mr. Johnson, of Vigo county, thinks 1 islators get too little pay for their formances services, that is to say, J! Johnson is excepted because be remarL on the floor the other day that legi' tors deserve no more than county co oilmen get or perhaps, he isaid, couii. councilmen deserve as much as Ref sentatives get, which would not .exc him from the original general ntatemei), All are convinced that they do too mc7 and are paid too little. Representtti Daniel McDonald, a Marshall ecu: Democrat, has introduced a bill to c; .V the lons-felt want. It nrovided that sal aries of members shall be $10 a Jay, V..7 stead of $G. The increase, however, wll not affect members of the present sion, the bill stipulating that such saf aries shall be;in with the session of 10'; Vote for Lower Fares. r By a vote of S7 to 0, the lIoue pass the 2-cent railroad passenger fare ,t;jr which had already pas,scd tb Senate. lr' the House, however, it was- amended sf as to require the payment oriZ'i-cenl per mile fa-e where tickets ai'-t pti chased and cash fares offered, :.s,fl conductor must give a rebate chck, wt,, may be cashed at any office of the cvpany taking the excess fare. The cliaL was the rasnlt nf th nrnt(s of rvinil--tors who run on trains in Ohio, where r straight C-cent fare law is in force. Tt) told the comfnittee that the Ohio L gives theiu a great deal of trouble becau' so many persons refuse to purchase ticets. It is believed that the Senate w1 accept the House amendment and that t'J bill will go at once to the Governor ft : approval. ' "' : 1 r llnnly Mens Two-Crnt Clll. fIncluded in an armful of bills that . brought down from home the other mo: ing after coi sidering them the previ; night. Gov. Ilanly had tbe Bland 2-ct fare bill, which he signed along wi thirteen other Senate bills. This V. ' which has no emergency clause, prcviJ ; for a 2-cent fare when tickets are bec; und a penalty of one half cent & rz ahere cash is paid on the train, ti.e p son paying the cash fare to receive a I , ceipt which will entitle him to a rel: of the excess paid. This bill will into effect with the publication cf t acts, about the middle of April. Pavilion for State Fair. ; The House of Representatives fcv over Mr. RatlifTs State board of t; culture bill for the erection of a $100 a live ftock pavilion at the State f ' grounds for an hour, and then pat-rO ? by a vote of T3 to CO. Enough of t i many members who had declared t. 7 love for the horny-handed ons cf w sod thought a big pavilion the beft rac:s of stowing it, and put the bill through t final passage in spite of a very aTtivt opposition. ' ' ' . : Foil CreT BUI SlgVed. j , Gov. Ilanly has signed the fall crrv bill that the representatives of the rail roai men's organizations have been solicitous about. This bill, introduced L' Representative Ilonan, provides fcr h'i additional member of a freight and pr senger train crew. The duty of this ad tional man will be to watch for feigu:! and tend to the signals and Sags on th. train on which he is working. It is si that this is the first State in the Vnidi to pass such a measure. Hotel Keepers Liability Bill Pas ' Senator McDowell's bill to define liabilities of hotelkeepers was passed.; ter being amended so that the hotelkeej. in made liable for the full amount funds left in his care by any gvtN though the maximum sum he can be c1 pelled to take charge of .hall be $rO0. ..' originally drawn the bill filed tbe mvf mum liability at $250. no matter wbe $."XX had been left in the hotelk'. i? charge. Honrs of Railroad Work r.itrlrt Representative Ilottel's bill to preven railroads from working their employe, more than sixteen consecutive hoprs will out eight hours rest has been pitssed the House. i Senate Concurs In Amendments The Senate has concurred in the IIoU amendments to the Senate 2-cent fare as it was passed in the House. t Some of the Feenllar Bills. ? Several freakish bills hare been !n? duced. One was by Representative Pea1. son of Lawrence county prohibiting KtrtFl geese and chickens from running Ibrou ' his premises. Another bill prohibited killing of eagles of which there is nT in Indiana. Another called for a.$ fine for walking on the gxnss in the Mäj Louse yard. Others ' prohibited foo3t playing on Sunday, forbade the "doping of horses to deceive the purchasers a fined children who desert their parent Record for Bills Broken. ' At the close of the session tbVotbl day seven' nw bills were introduce bringing the total up to GG0, j-ost acvt more than were introduced in eith, branch in any session of tbe Xndiaji General Assembly. 4 No Insurance Money fir Politics J The bill by Mr. Joyce, to prevent 4version of insurance companies' funds political purposes, passed a Tote of ( to 5.- A penalty of $1,000 and impris ment not to exceed one year is fixed the bill. , Skippers DIU Goes Tbrsa Hk The shippers bill to regulate tl ne, tion of car service with a yiew j j eating many of the present-day T;ja i. railroads ana to estaDnsmng n- ruis which the shippers of the State ha been clamoring, was passed by tbe without a dissenting voice. Loam Shark -Bill Is rnsaed. The Daily loan shark bill his ! : passed by the House. Tbl is a hard 1 ' et the robber loan institutions thit t their borrowers by charging eacrr rates of interest and exzzzz dirj