Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 24, Plymouth, Marshall County, 21 March 1907 — Page 2

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V$ 7th KlJ th. j) 21stA2Sth. PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Ealichtenment of the Many. Fright fat Explonlon at Clarlnnatl. By the explosion of 250 pounds of dynamite in a shack on the site of the new City Hospital at Cincinnati, Ohio, enormous damage was done to residences and buildings all through the surrounding residence section. All gliss within a radius of half a mile was broken, neighboring store fronts were blown out, furnaces dismantled by shock, sewers disconnected and other damage done. The German Old Wen's Home and the Jewish Hospital were the largest buildings near the explosion, which occurred In Avondale, one of the best known residence sections, and both suffered seriously. The cause of the explosion is unknown but Incendiarism is feared. Robbern DIow Rank Safe. Robbers blew the safe of the First National Bank at Batesville, Ind., but succeeded in getting only a small sum. Charles Meyer, a groceryman, living across the street, was awakened by the explosions and raised a window and was greeted with a pistol shot. He returned the fire and twenty shots were exchangee.. It is not believed any one was struck. The robbers escaped. Miner Flumped to Their Death. A dispatch from Saarlouis, Rhenish Prussia, says that twenty-two miners were killed at the Gerhard coal mine. They were descending one of the shafts in a cage when the cable broke near the top and the miners plunged down several hundred feet. They all met with instant death. The mine belongs to the Prussian government, which has already begun an official inquiry into the accident Steamer on Rocks la Fog. : A dispatch from London says the White Star Line steamer Suevic struck on the rocks near the Lizard in a thick fog. Two life boats have been launched and others have been summoned to go to the assistance of the vessel. The Suevic went ashore on what is known as Maentere Rock, under a lighthouse. On board the vessel were 400 passengers and 160 members of the crew. Jimp from Burning Building and Drown Panic stricken as a result of an explosion and fire at the Warrick Pottery Works at Wheeling, W. Va,, In the flooded district, eight persons, all children but three, lost their lives by jumping from the windows of their homes into the waters of the flood and drowning before they could be reached. The loss is about $100,000. Family of Four Drowned. Four persons were drowned In cn effort to escape from their tottering home at Riverside, W. Va., which was completely Inundated by the flood, to a place of safety. William Francis, his wife and daughter, Esther, aged 18 years, and son, John, aged 9 years, are tho victims. One Killed and Eight Injured. By the burning of Helicon IIs.ll at Englewood, N. J., the home of Upton Sinclair co-operative colony, one man, Lester Briggs, a carpenter of Providence, R, I., was killed and eight of the colonists were injured by jumping from windows. Woman Decapitated by Street Car. In the presence of scores of horrified spectators who were unable to render her assistance, an unidentified woman well dressed and about 45 years old. was decapitated by a south-bound Archer avenue street car at Leavitt street, Chicago. Kill Sweetheart od Himself. Whitney Molier, aed 27, shot and Wied his sweetheart, Edna Dobson, aged 17, at Point Alapachie, La., and then killed himself. He had asked her repeitedly to marry him and she had refused. Seveaty-ftve Miner Killed In Germany. An explosion of fire damp In an underground shaft of the coal mine at Kleinrosseln, Germany, resulted in the death of seventy-five minere and the terrible injury of twelve others. Bit! Fire at London. Three big warehouses In the Finsbury district at London, Eng., the city's busiest industrial center, were gutted by fire, causing damage to the amount of about $1,000,000. Rockefeller to EVueate Chinese. John D. Rockefeller Is planning to give $50,000,000 for the purpose of lifting the Chinese In their own country to the plane of civilization of the American people. Car Goes on a Rampage. A north-bound Bellefuntaine street caf jumped the track on Cherokee street, St. Louis, collided with a south-boend car, veered and ran twenty feet on the sidewalk and was wrecked, resulting in severe injuries to seven persons. Several others received minor injuries. Dreads Easiness Investigation. An autopsy shows that Leonidas Preston, supposed to be a millionaire, who died suddenly in New York, was killed by poifion, and it Is believed be committed suicide to avoid facing an exposure of the condition of Lis business affairs. Pillory Mrs. C. J. Holman. The mother and two sisters of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's father have sent a statement to the press at Pittsburg branding Mrs. Charles J. Holman as an "inhuman mother, who sacrificed her daughter's soul for money on which to live without effort." Fleeing Boss Is Arrested. Abraham Ruef, San Francisco's indicted loss, was quickly arrested when the court appointed a special officer to perform the duties which the fugitive's henchmen repotted themselves unable to

DOVER'S KIDNAPING CASE.

The Four-Year-Old Son of Ilr. "Mar vin Probably Stoleo. No crime is more despicable than is kidnaping. It is an offense which preys upon the hearts as well as uNn the purses of its vicTZ i'i' ii, tm? Jind those oon- & iSrfriYlctcil of nraetife.'jijlcll,s lt sl,0llUl W puuisneu most severely. Even coldblooded murder is tamo compared to the suffering attending the stealing of a child and holding it for ransom. Unfortunately, like the doings of the Black Hand, the despicable work of childstealers is increasing. Tho latest erlui of kidnaping to attract attention is that iorpetrated at Dover, Del. A fortnight ago Horace N. Marvin, the 4-year-old son HOBACTr! MARVIX. of Dr. II. N. Marvin of Dover, disappeared. For a time it was supitoscd he had wandered away and locoaie lost, but the conviction was soon forced upon the distracted family that he bad been kidnaped. Rewards were offered and detectives undertook the search for the boy. A ship captain was arrested on suspicion, but be was speedily discharged. Meanwhile the State Increased the fervor of the search by adding to the personal offers of reward until the sum now amounts to $L'7,000 for the recovery of the boy ami the capture of his fbduetors. '" Philadelphia detectives lelievf1 the child had been carried to that city and they made a careful search of the negro quarters. This belief was based on the statements of Walter Winner that he saw such a child ou Market street in charge of two negro women. At that time he had not read the kidnaping story, but be was struc k by the lioauty of the child and wondered that he should be in such company. Then the State authorities received a demand for pay for returning the boy. This demand came through a New York detective agency to whom It was mailed from the Canadian border near Detroit. The name signed to the letter is that of a big negro with a bad reputation In New York. While the letter may be a fake so much attention was paid to lt that detectives have Iieen sent to the neighborhood from which it came. The disappearance of little Horace was remarkable. Dr. Marvin with bis family had recently moved uion a farm which he has purchased from Charles Goodell. On the day of the dlsapiearance Mr. tloodell was drawing away effects not Included in the sale. The Marvin children and their cousins were playing hide-and-seek and as Goodell was driving away a number of them ran to him and asked if Horace was in the wagon. Mr. Goodell had seen the boy sitting atop of a haystack as he drove by. He told the children so and they ran back. But they could not find the boy and finally gave the alarm. That was the last seen of the child. Eel Spawn at Sea. The fact that biologists have been all at tea about the whereabouts of the eel family's breeding comes to light through the announcement that Danish marine scientists have just completed investigations showing that the eels of Europe spawn at a depth of 3,300 feet in the Atlantic ocean to the southwest. According to the cabled account, from innumerable eggs there appear tiny larva called Ieptoeephali, which are transparent, jellylike and flat, having something of the contour of a tailless herring. It is not known how long the eggs take to develop the Ieptoeephali, but the latter oe.cupy six months in transition to the familiar elvers, which are about 2 inches long. The elvers then migtate in countless swarms to the shore.- of western Europe, traveling in columns sometimes several yards wide and miles long. Nothing stops their progress. If they encounter a ship they separate to the right and left and rejoin in the vessel's wake. Th-y invade every river and waterway on the coasts, ascending steadily landward. They even ascend small waterfalls. jenotrate streams and wriggle over swamp grounds into ponds and ditches. Nrhrankn Win Tax Cain, Tho United States Supreme Court, in a decision announced by Justice Holmes, rules that the Union Pacific and Burlington railroads must pay the tax rate on their property in the State of Nebraska, to the amount of $3,100,000. This includes the taxes of 1004-05-00, with penalties for non-payment. The railroads had offered to settle for $2,200,000. The objection to payment had been made oricinally on the plea that the equalization board, acting under the influence of political agitation, had so increased the valuation of property as to almost double the aggregation payment of railroads in previous years. It was charged that the board took into consideration interstate business and property of the railroads located, outside of the State, but on these points the court decided otherwise. Faror Simplified Spelling. On the ground that they deprecate the hardship and waste entailed upon children by our illogical spelling and the process of its mastery, and because they appreciate the importance of intelligent citizenship, and see how our spelling handicaps foreign-born children in learning our language and in understanding our institutions, the Teachers Association of Illinois has pronounced itself unequivocally in favor of the adoption of the simplified spelling board's recommendations. They approve the action of President Roosevelt, and regret the obstruction offered by Congress, asking their Senators and Representatives to inaugurate- an international movement toward reform spelling. The British government is about to ask Parliament to establish a great technical college for London at South Kensington, the government giving the necessary land and making substantial grants, while great business firms and technical industries will be asked to co-oierate. Many donations have been received, including $1,250.000 from the late Alfred P.eit, the great South African diamond king. The Black Hills foundry, having contracts for all the iron work of the Great Belle Fourche government irrigation project, burned at Dead wood with total loss. It is believed all the patterns for the irrigation works were destroyed. Fire at the plant oZ the Canfield Refining Compeny, Coraopolis, Pa., threatened destruction to the entire works, including fifteen farge tanks containing oil and benzine. Prompt work, however, confined the flames to one tank. Married life on an average lasts twenty-eljrht years

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ON VERGE OF A PANIC.

BIG SLUMP IN STOCK8 JARS WALL STREET. Mont Franlir I.Inldnlion In Yenrw. IlcNullliis In a $500,000,000 Low, C'nnneM Consternation Amonc ni;c KaiiLrrn and Railway Mntfnal-. For several hours Wednesday Wall street was so close to a panic that the thousands who thronged the brokers' ofliees. cafes and other places between tlw? hours of 1 and 3 expected that the crash would come any moment and that the wild scenes enacted in the great panic day of May 9, 1901, would he repented. That there was no actual panic was due almost wholly to the fact that the public, which speculates on margins, has leen virtually out of stocks for three months and the game is almost' entirely confined to professionals, who are usually able to weather such storms.- At one time, however, there were rumors that several of the big houses which trade on their own account were In a critical position, but when the settlement hour had passed it was known they had leeu able to pull through. Wall street charges the day's demoralization to the attitude of the administration toward the great railroads of the country and some iersons discerned in it an object lesson for President Roosevelt. A New York correspondent Fays, however, that most judges of the situation saw In a complete absence of public buying, even at the bargain prices which now prevail, the widespread disgust with the stock-jobbing methods of those who control the great railroads of the country, the stock-watering processes of which they have leen guilty, the general indifference on their part to the rights and interests of the public and the defiance by the corporations of laws designed to regulate and control them. It has been years since the public has failed to respond to the low range of prices which was established by Wednesday's buying. The panic wan not averted by outside buying. Whatever support there was came from the banking interests, who interjKscd their influence to prevent complete disorder. The crash was by far the worst since, the Northern Pacific scare. It was much more radical, for instance, than either of the two recent big market breaks, and it was more significant because, succeeding a. decline of about $000,000,000 in market values from the high of last year, its effect is cumulative. The entire situation Is engaging the attention of the President and his Cabinet, the tfovernors and Legislatures of States and money kings all over the country. President Roosevelt iermitted it to become officially known that he will maintain the attitude he has assumed regarding the railroad interests.' To use his own expression, he will "stand pat." This applies both to anti-trust laws and the Hepburn bllL Expected action by Secretary CcrtelTHE NEW YORK rou of the Treasury Department to item the tide of decline gave a ray Df hope to the street before the openng Thursday. The Secretary anlounced that owing to the stringency in the money market the $30,000,000 f government funds, deposited with ;he banks last September, would not be recalled at once, as bad been intended. Panicky conditions of Wednesday In Wall street were repeated Thursday, lower points throughout the list were reached, and two failures were reported in London. Private Flat on Steamer. The Atlantic transport line, whose steamers ply between New York and London, announce that its vessels will soon be installed with complete private apartments, similar to those in which thousands of people in all our great cities now live. These will differ from the prevailing steamer suite, in that each will have a private hall, bedrooms, parlor, library, bath. etc. Each fiat will be CO feet in length, and have a width of 15 feet, and the windows will look on deck. The temporary tenant's name will be on the front door and a boll will announce callers. Each apartment will have an electric heater,- ou which light meals or the baby's milk tan be prepared, after mother has nnished curling her hair. Complete meals, however, will be served to order in each flat, one of the rooms beinr converted into a dining room. A bill is before the New Jersey Legislature appropriating $10,000 for a building in which to hold electrocutions required by th new law. There is considerable opposition in New Jersey, it is said, to capital punishment by electricity. The executive committee of the Baptist Missionary Union has recently issued a circular showing that the donations from the Baptist churches last year were $11,000 short of the previous year, and only slightly in excess of what they were ten years ago. The Chicago Standard, one of the leading "Baptist papers, asks what Is the matter, and answers that the situation is the result of failure on the part of many Baptisfs to read their denomina tional papers, but adds that the real reason lies in the lack of the "life of Christ in the life of man." Old papers for sale at this ofice.

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MONEY VS. OFLLEGES Schoohinsters in Paris and other large cities of France have been forming themselves into "syndicates" or unions, which are affiliated with the general labor federation. The movement was instigated &3' the socialists, and the teachers do not conceal that their purpose is to spread socialistic doctrines. Thus, the problem is presented of schools supported by the whole jteople becoming the instrument of one political party. Special legislation may be necessary. Supt. John F. Riggs of Iowa, in his annual report, urges legislation to suppress fraternities and secret societies among public school pupils. He regards such organizations as a standing menace to discipline, and as promoters of clanuishness and snobbery, while they place allegiance to the fraternity above that due the school. He says, also, that they lead to extravagance, and sometimes to dissipation, and militate against the democratic spirit of the public school. The latest annual report of United States Commissioner of Education Elmer E. Brown, covering the year 190.", shows a total of 18,800,213 pupils in public am! private schools. The length of the sehoo term in days averaged 150.3. There wer ot work 111,195 male teachers and 34S. female teachers. The cost of public STOCK EXCHANGE education was $3.41) per capita. Commissioner Brown notes the rapid increase in the number of student. receiving secondary instruction. Educational leaders will be watching with great interest the experiment about to he undertaken by the Philadelphia board of education in fitting up a public school house as a sort of public or neighborhood club for the boyi and girls. There will be a reading room, a play room and a place for lectures or entertainments, while provision will be made for manual training, the entire expense to be borne by the city. Tl e building will be open two evenings a w.ek from 7 to 9 and the attendance will be voluntary. A rrize offered in New York for the best school room game for girls has been awarded to Max Liebgold for a game which he calls balloon ball. Instead of balls, small balloons are used, the object of opposing terms being to project them through the air over elevated tape lines representing goals. The lightness of the balloons makes it difficult to direct their course, but only adds to the interest, while the exercise of looking upward and raising the arms above the head is thought to ba beneficial, especially after periods of study, daring which students are bending over their books. In a letter to the Washington Playgrounds Association, President Roosevelt commends the renewed interest in the subject of playgrounds for school children throughout the country. He says that play is at present almost tho only method of physical development for city children, and facilities must be provided if the children are to be strong and lawabiding. The latest educational scheme evolved at Omaha, Ne'j., is to make it unnecessary for children to work for the support of their parents, the younger brothers or sisters, by having the juvenile court: pay to working children who are placed in school the exact amount of their earnings. These funds are to be obtained through regular weck'y appropriations from churches, societies, clubs, etc. A number of the Hebrew students of Columbia university have formed a society for the purpose of obtaining recognition as to certain privileges which they say are denied them on account of their race. One of the charges made against the faculty Is that the awarding of scholarships in the various schools does not give the Hebrews a fai chance, whereas they are supposed to be awarded according to need, character and ability. They also say that in the teachers' colleges the authorities do not try to find places for Hebrew students as the do for others.

Cincinnati Post.

PATRIOTISM.

SEVEN YEARS IN JAIL. Caleb Powers Perliapa Mont Noted Prisoner in the Country. It has been seven years since the arrest of Caleb Powers, charged with conspiracy in the assassination of William Goebel in Kentucky. He is probrbly the most remarkable prisoner in the United States. Iiis long confinement in jail and his three convictions, his two sentences to the penitentiary for life, his one sentence to be hanged by the neck till dead, his hopes of escape from the State courts dashed by the Supreme Court of the dated States all this he has borne with fortitude. Powers' spirit is unbroken. The mountaineer, from his cell in the jail at Georgetown, Ky has voiced a fervent CALEB rOWKKS. protest against the appointment of Judge liobbins as the special judge to sit in his fourth trial, because this is the judge who sentenced him to death in the third trial. This appointment is by Gov. J. C. W. Beckham. During his long stay in many jails, Powers has kept himself constantly employed, that he might not brood over his troubles, and has adhered to a rigid systTn of exercise. As a result he is physically and mentally in good condition and hopeful of being vindicated some da3 Out in the mountains of Knox county a devoted mother is clinging to life in the hope of seeing her son restored to freedom. As before, his case will be (fought with the funds of people all over the United States, who believe hi-j. the victim of partisan hatred. For Caleb Powers declares he was GO miles from Frankfort when an assassin's bullet laid lov William Goebel, who was drivicg the Legislature to name him Governor. Now, the prosecution for the fourth time will try to establish that the fatal shot was fired from the window of Powers office in the State House by a hired assassin. In July, 1900, lie got his first trial, was convicted and sentenced to life. The Court of Appeals rejected the finding of tho court. Again he wns tried and given a life senteace, and saved by the Court of Appeals. In 1903 he was again convicted and sentenced to death, the Court of Appeals also annulling this trial. For a while iu 1905 he was in the hands of the United States Court, but the Supreme Court of the United States sent the case back to the State courts as having full jurisdiction. Notea of Current Event. The three-story wooden grain elevator of O. B. Tilton in Nashua, N. II., was burned. The loss is $1,000. Italian officials have decided that the excavations at Herculanenm will be carried out by the Italian government without foreign aid. Prof. Matteucci of the Vesuvius observatory denies that he prophesied the possible destruction of the world by a comet. A dispatch from Tangier asserts that a French syndicate has erected wireless telegraph stations at nearly all the Moroccan ports, including Tangier. The George Washington university has appointed an alumni committee and a citizens' committee to raise $100,000 to purchase a new site for the institution. It has become known in Borne that Spain is ready to indorse the AngloAmerican proposition at The Hague conference for the limitation of armaments. A report on railroad construction in the Philippines, given out by the bureau of insular affairs shows that 5,500 men are at work on the different lines under way. What is said to be the biggest deal in Columbia river timber laud ever made was completed when the Clark & Wilson Lumber Company, a Wisconsin firm, purchased 100,000 acres near Goble, Ore., for $S00,000. Samuel II. Anthony, a negro, was hanged in Moyameusing prison for the murder of his wife on Sept. 21, 1904. Frank Poplis, an Italian convicted of killing a woman, was respited by the Governor cf Pennsylvania. Francis Godiuo, convicted of the murder of Giuseppe Triberi near Coryville, Pa., last March because he refused demands for money, was hanged at Smithport. An appeal to the Methodist Episcopal church of the United States for $500,000 for the current year has been decided on by the merged freedman's aid, Sund?; school and educational boards of that denomination. Ad exploration party headed by Dr. Donaid E. MacDougal, director of the Carnegie desert laboratory at Tucson, returned and reported that the area of the Saltan sea may be estimated at 700 squar miles.

CHICAGO. Commercial conditions refiect sustained strength and further progress appears in the expansion of activity which usually marks the approach of spring. Wall street's troubles have not impaired confidence in the industrial outlook. New wage scales indicate that Ialor cost keeps advancing, but apart from a strike which interrupts shipbuilding satisfactory agreements are reached, assuring jeace throughout this year. Marketing of farm products again is notably heavy, while the offerings of. freigh are the greatest ever known and trar.sjmrtation earnings steadily exceed the record made by Chicago roads a year ago. Statistics as to product ion and distribution in this district exhibit satisfactory growth in the leading branches. Weather conditions remain unusually favorable to ictail operations. The demand for spring goods on State street proceeds satisfactorily, and reports indicate that country merchandising makes headway under the influence of higher temperature Outside buyers throng the wholesale lines in unprecedented numbers and tho bookings surpass those at this time tat year in principal staples. Bank clearings, $2 19.037,31 b exceed those of same week in 1!HM by 23.2 per cent. Failures rejortcd in Chicago district numbered 25, against 10 last week and 29 a year ago. Dun's Review. NEW . YORK. Spring trade is making a most satisfactory comparison with the volume at this time last year, except in a few sections, where the weather is still unfavorable, and mercantile collections improve steadily despite the high money market. Leading industries have orders covering production well into the future. Textile mills are producing at a remarkable rate without threatening any accumulation of stocks and advanced prices for . cotton goods have not checked demands. In this division the statistical position is beyond precedent, mills being sold ahead for many months and purchasers readily accepting whatever deliveries can be secured. Premiums above regular quotations are willingly paid for early shipments. Most jobbers have now provided for all of the spring trade, but others will not be able to meet the requirements of customers. This is especially the case with western jobbers, who still receive liberal orders. Little interest is shown by the export division, as prices are above the views of foreign markets, but producers need no support from abroad. Pradst reefs Report. BBSS Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $rt.S0; hogs, prime heavy, $1.00 to $0.82; sheep, fair to choice, $.1.00 to $5.75 ; wheat. No. 2, 73c to 75c : corn, No. 2, 42c to 43c; oats, standard, 3!c to 40c; rye. No. 2, CSc to G9c; h a. v. timothy, $13.00 to $18.00; prairie, $D.(H) to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 27c to 29c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 10c; potatoes, 35c to 44c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $(.50; hogs, choice heavy, $4.0) to $7.05 ; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2 white, 45c to 47c; oats. No. 2 white, 41c to 43c. St. Louis Cattle, $1.50 to $0.75; hegs, $1.00 to $0.!H3; sheep, $3.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2, 42c to 43c; oats. No. 2, 42c to 43c; rye, No. 2, Olc to 05c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.65; hogs, $4.00 to $7.10; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, 78c to 79c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; rye. No. 2, 71c to 73c. Detroit Cattle, $1.00 to $5.50; hogs, 4.00 to $7.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 77c ; corn, i No. 3 yellow, 40c to 47c; oats. No. 3 white, 43c to 45c; rye, No. 2, 09c to 71c. Milwaukee Wheat No 2 northern, 7Sc to 81c; corn. No. 3, 41c to 42c; oats, standard, 41c to 43c: rye, No. 1, G7c to GI)c; barley, standard, 72c to 74c: TKrk, iness, ? 13.87. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, fair to choice, $1.00 to $7.35; sheep, common to good mixed, $1.00 to $5.40; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $8.00. New York Cattle, $1.00 to $0.20; hogs. $4.00 to $7.50; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red. S2c to STJc ; corn, No. 2, 81c to 55c; oats, natural white, 49c to 51e; tuttcr, creamery, 30c to 31c; eg?, western, 15c to 17c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 78c-; corn. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 47c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 41c; rye, No. 2, C8c to C9c ; clover seed, prime, $S.75. Telegraphic Brevities The Hariman Rubber Company's plant at Belleville, N. was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $250,' WOThe Y. M. C. A. building in Utica, N. Y., was completely destroyed by fire. Th loss will be upward of $150,000. Crossed electric wires caused a fire at Cincinnati which destroyed the Ohio Carriage Company's plant. , l)ss $70,000, fully covered by insurance. The coroner is investigating the death of Mrs. A. M. Darling, who was found dead with her skull crushed at her home in Oberlin, Ohio. Chief of Police George G. .Sheets of Salt Lake City, charged with conspiracy to defraud tourists by protecting gamblers who fleeced them, was held for trial. While preparations were being made at Spartanburg. S. C. to hang John Shtdton, a nef-ro, convicted of killing his father-in-law, SheriiT Nichols received an order from Chief Justice Pope of the Supreme Court slaying the execution until April 19. Frank M. Mabry, a well-known banker of McGregor, Texas was sentenced to five years in tin Leavenworth penitentiary for embezzlement from a national bank. Major It. W. McCluughry, warden of the United States penitentiary at Leavenwovth, Kan., received word of the detention in Portland, Ore., of James Seymour, one of the mutineers who escaped from the penitentiary Nov. 7, 1901. The judges of the Court of General Sessions of New York may ask the legislature to increase the penalty for blackmail accompanied by threats from the present maximum of five years' imprisonment to a maximum of twenty years. The Iowa standpatters absolutely controlled the making of a federal slate for the State at Washington, and the Cummins faction was not allowed one appointment. Charles W. McWhorters, formerly assistant cashier in the city posto'hVe, Washington, indicted for embezzlement of $10,000, entered a plea of guilty in the criminal court. He was sentenced to one year and one day in the penitentiary. Frank Yan Dusen, chief assistant general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, died of pneumonia at Pittsburg. Two hours later his wife, Mrs, Sarah Yan Dusen, expired in an adjoining room from the se disease

HAVOC IN FOUR STATES.

Flood In Pennnylvanla, Ohio, IndlnH and Wext Vlrgrlnla. With an estimated roiorty damage of $10,rf)0,000, the enforced idleiuss of over 100,000 persons, almost the complete suspension of Pittsburg's world famous manufacturing plants, the sacrifice of two score lives, which probably will be increased; train service annulled, trolley service out of coir.ruission, telegraph and telephone lines crippled, letween 20.000 and 30.000 persous homeless, hundreds of homes undermined and ready to collapse, theaters closed, guests marooned in hotels, thousands of families living in the second stories of their homes and nearly all the downtown section of Pittsburg under water, Is the record established by a sudden rise in the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio. Youghiogheny, KIskiminetas and Clarion rivers, whic-h were swollen abnormally by the combination of warm weather, melting snows and general rain throuhout western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The record of the greatest flood In the history of Pittsburg, which was in 1832, was passed, with the rivers still rapidly rising at a foot an hour. All predictions, prophecies and guesses have already been shattered and every stream in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia is on the rampage. To add to the confusion in Pittsburg numerous jraiall fires occurred in the flooded territory, and the firemen had great difficulty In reaching them. In addition to this, most of the fire engines are engaged In different sections of the city assisting in keeping electric plants free from water In order that lights may not fall. The town of Majorsville, W. Va a community of sixty houses, was entirely swept away by the waters of Big Wheeling Crock, all the Inmses were destroyed, but the people had sufficient time to flee to higher ground. Viola was partly destroyed, twenty homes being carried off by the flood, but the tteople escaped to the bills. " In Wheeling and the surrounding towns of Benwood, Martin's Ferry, Bridgcjwrt, Bellaire. McMechen ' and Moundsville it Is estimated that the flood has wholly or partially submerged fully 3.000 houses, and that nearly 15,000 people have been driren from their homes or to u'jper floors. Almost similar conditions are reIorted throughout western Pennsylvania. The losses in the Connellsville coke region, where mines are flooded and all industries suspended, are estimated at $2.000.000. Johnstown is retorted to be practically a lake, with tho stage of water at eighteen feet, a fxit higher than any known record. Many points in Ohio are exjerlencing the most disastrous floods in several years. The Miami and Muskingum valleys so far are the worst sufferers from the flood. At Zancsville three persons were drowned. In Springfield and vicinity more than $100,000 damage haR resulted to property and 200 families have been made homeless by the sudden rise of Mad River and its tributaries. At FIndlay flood conditions have been serious. Lima, Hamilton, Dayton and Middleton also report great damage. Seven business houses at Gloucester were swept 'away and carried down the river with their contents. All mines In that vicinity are flooded. Government by Crons-rjxnmlnallon. An interesting precedent in executive methods was made by Gov. Hughes of New York, when he called to his office Superintendent of Insurance K"lsey, and there, in the presence of stenographers, reporters and public men, subjected him to a rigid cross-examination as to the conduct of the insurance department, thus bringing from Kelsey's own lips the admission that he had kept subordinates in office whose false reports had already been exposed, and that be, himself, was ill informed about existing conditions. This paved the way for the Governor's formal recommendation for the removal of Kelsey on the ground of unfitness, which went into the State Senate. Tlt:s the Governor, by making good his pre-election pledge to the people, put the matter squarely up to the lawmaking body. . Japan Apparently Sntlxfled. Dispatches from Tokio after the passage cf the American exclusion bill report the tone of the leading newspapers as eminently pacific and quiet. Foreign Minister Hayashi has explained that after the present treaty shall be concluded Japan will then eeek to remove consular jurisdiction, and for this some sacrifice will be necessary. The news was cot taken quite so calmly by the popular, and especially the Japanese in Hawaii were wroth. The latter held a mass meeting at Honolulu and cabled a resolution to President Roosevelt protesting in the name of humanity and liberty against the prohibition of their immigration tc the United States as it enslaved them permanently to the Hawaiian capitalists. Hooaevelt on Family Life. That a woman cannot do the beet work in her home and for her husband if she 'K-eupies a merely servile attitude toward him. is one of the ideas contained in the recent letter written by President Roosevelt to the New York State mother's assembly. He urges that woman should have the same right as man to train her mind, and that she should have wholly outside interests and occupations in addition to her home work occasionally. The New I'oreJit ItewrTfi. The add'tions to the nation's forest reserves made by presidential proclamation since March 1 arc located as follows: State. Acres. Colorado 3,022,720 Idaho 900.9G0 Montana 3.350,140 Oregon 4.052,000 Washington 4,291.000 Wyoming 137,000 Total .I...' 1G,819,S20 . In tfcc above Yellowstone Park, located partly in Montana ar.d partly in Wyoming, gets an addition of 31S,0)0 acres. Twenty casks of blast. ng powder exploded at a grading camp at Twentyfourth and Orville streets in the outskirts of Kansas City, Kan., breaking window panes within a radius of twenty-five miles. The report of the examiners who have been investigating the books of the county officers of Hamilton county, Ohio, was made at Columbus and shows that $520.575 in fees and interest was collected without legal warrant. The will of the late Stephen Salisbury, the Worcester, Mass., millionaire, which bequeathed property valued at between $2,000,000 end $3,000,000 to the Worcester Art Museum was sustained by the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Fire was discovered in the basement of a building at Fourth avenue and Chancery lane, Pittsburg, Pa., occupied by a man who is making experiments with nitric and sulphuric acids. Before the firemen could direct a stream of watjr a terrific explosion occurred which threw the acids and burning oil over a wid area. The loss is estimated at $20,000.

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FI HE DESTROYS OPERA HOUSE. t:at Chicago Phone Girl Ilenialn mi Post While nalldlnc Dams. The Todd Opera House at Bast Chicago was partially destroyed by fire at 7 o'clock Sunday morning. The loss .H1 be about $100,X0. The building was a five-story structure and burned fiercely feveral hours. It was necessary to summon the departments of Hammond and Indiana Harbor. The Amalgamated Association of Puddlers, Iron and Steel Workers local union held a smoker in the hall Saturday evening, and the fire is said to have started from burning cigars carelessly cast upon the floor. L'lla Thompson, night operator of the Chicago Telephone Company, which has ofiices in the building, remained at Ler post until he had summoned assistance from neighboring towns. Then the falling of the. rear wall forced her from the switchboard. The lower floors were occupied by the Käst Chicago Land Company and the First National Rank. The offices of the building were mostly given over to physicians and dentists and professional men. many of whom will suffer a total los of their effects. Wlni it Rhode Scbolarablp. Lawrence C Hull. Jr., grandson of Dr. Nelson S. Darling of Laporte, has won a Cecil Rhodes scholarship, which entitles him to four years' study at Oxford university and an endowment of $1,500 per year for his support. Hull is one of the youngest students ever graduated from the University of Michigan, where he i? now a student in the law department. Lennes In Fabulous Jump. Rich strikes in oil in Vigo county hare convinced oil men of a field this side of the Illinois field. A big boom Las started with jumps in values of leases from 1 cent to hundreds of dollars. Crowds of oil men are coming from all parts of th country. MUkIiik Engineer Is Fostnd. Samuel Reed, the veteran locomotive engineer of the Lake Shore road, wbc wandered away from Goshen on a recent morning while mentally deranged, was found walking toward Elkhart, partially recovered from his aberration. Cough l'p Tooth and Tnlks. Joseph Loder, a 12-year-old boy living south of Terre Haute, who was Ktricken dumb eight months ago, coughed up a broken tooth and commenced at once tc talk. Sleep ThronRh Dynamite CrtvB. Dynamite was put under the house of John Taylor in Evansville and set off and the end of the building was blown out. Taylor and his wife, who were sleeping in the rooai, were not awakened.. Within Our Borderm. A negro normal school was opened at Princeton March 1. It will be the only school for the negroes of the kind north of the old Mason and Dixon line. The plant of the Old Vincennes Distilling Company at Vincennes was partially destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at between $150,000 and $225,000. , George Bird, owner of a coal mine at Francisco, and John Skelton, a miner, were killed in the mine by falling slate, Harry Lance and Oscar BrumDeld, miners were seriously injured. John Hart, 54 years old, despondent, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn near Hagerstown. He wa- a bachelor with but few relatives, and a member of the Pythian fraternity. Mrs. Fred Schwoiaeyer and William Gill died from bullet wounds inflicted by the voman's husband, who returned unexpectedly to his home at Ben Davis and fouLd the two together. The two men had been close friends for years. Looking through a window he found his wife and Gill together and shot them. Big P.lue river will be stocked vita 5,000 small black bass in April. S. Herbert Morris has received this promise from the United States fish commissioner, and'wi'h a proper petition to the fish coratnUsioner, signed., by many of the farmers who wish to stock the streams on their farms be thinks he may be able to obtain a few thousand additional. By their overanxiety to oien the safe in a men's furnishing store in Port Wayne, a gan? of robbers played with the combination, locked the safe door, and lost $150 for themselves The manager of the store had forgotten to turn the combination the previous evening, and the door was left open. Goods amounting to several hundred dollars were taken. Jack Stopher, aged 70, a farmer, attempted to commit suicide. He had made arrangements to meet his wife in 'Aurora for the purpose of looking at a number of residences for sale. Arriving before his wife, he went tc Taylor's livery barn, where he fired three shots at his head with a o2-caliber revolver, one of which took effect. lie may recover. It is thought that the ida of leaving his old home in the country may have made him despondent. Two weeks ago Stantoa L. Dillingham, trustee of Pleasant township, died, and County Auditor Corboy appointed his son Clarence of Valparaiso as his successor. Later a suit was hied in the Circuit Court by residents of the township, alleging that Clarence Corboy is not a resident, and asking the court to enjoin the auditor from approving his Kon's bond, and t enjoiii young Dillingham from assuming the dntis of the office. There were eight candidates in the township for the position. John Henry Rowe, son of Sir Henry Rowe of London, England, now working as a laborer in a little Indiara town, has made application to be restored to the English roll of skilled seamen. He is a graduate of Cambridge. An affidavit charging Charles S. White and Thom.is J. Mason with complicity in the wholesale forgery of Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern shop pay cheeks was filed with Mayor Russell in Washington. White is in jail at Chicago and Mason is in prison at Joliet. Extradition papers will be served when the two men are released. Henry Fortney, an inva'.id, set fire to bis clothing with a pipe curing the absence of his wife and burned to death at Marion. Sister Mary Joseph, a first couin of John Morley, the English statesman and author, died at the Poor Clare's monastery in Evansville. Mrs. Adolph D. Bell of Indianapolis after days of search, has fouad in the debris of the Big Four wreck at Fowler, in which several persons were burnn! to death evidence that her husband was one of the victims. She found in the ashes a key of peculiar description which he carried. Coroner Leatitt in Terre Haute rendered his verdict on the Sandford wreck on Jan. 18, in which fifteen were killed and thirty badly injured. He says he cannot fix the blame, because the explosion destroyed nearly all the evidence. The coroner calls attention to the careless manner in which explosives are shipped. Anna Cummings has sued the Rig Four for $10,000 diinases for injuries she received in the wreck. John P. Walker, former county and city treasurer, charged with embezzlement cf county funds amounting to over $00,000, was arraigned at Evansville. He entered a plea of not guilty and his case waa set for trial April 10,