Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 25, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 March 1907 — Page 2

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L. Ql N. M. t F. Q.F. XI. PAST AND PÜESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by th Few for the Enlightenment of the Many SIX KILLED, SEVENTEEN INJURED Im PaMricrr Wrrfk oo he Santa Fe at Loa Angele. A special train on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway carrying scores of students home from an intercollegiate meet at Claremont, collided bead-on with the outbound limited No. 2 on the same road while both trains were moving at a rapid rate within the city limits at Los Angeles, Cal. Six persons were killed and seventeen injured, several of them fatally. Both engines, one of the baggage cars on the overland limited and the smoking car on the special were demolished. The crash was terrific and was heard many blocks away from the scene. Heer Dank President Held for Murder. Joseph Pettuc, president of the People's Bank, a negro institution of Hattlesburg, "Miss., was arrested and charged with the murder of Edward Howell, the cashier of the bank, who was waylaid and shot to death there on the night of March 19. Pettus and Howell were the only persons who knew the combination to the bank rault After the murder the vault was opened and several notes Pettus owed the bank and $2,700 in cash were taken out. This led to the arrest of Pettns.v Trho Is also charged with grand, larceny. Pettus is a leader among the negroes at Hattiesburg. Get Niaety-nlae Years In Prison. In the Circuit Court at BarboursTiiie, Ky., Fred Stewart, who shot and killed James Higgins at Berths, Ky., last October, was sentenced to the penitentiary for ninety-nine years. The murder resulted from Jealousy, both yotffif men being suitors for the hand of Miss Jennie Green, a young sodery woman. Stewart was a candidate for the Legislature. Train Goes Through Bvldfre. A Norfolk & Western freight train plunged through a twenty-five foot tresL'e near Lucasville, Ohio. The trestle was undermined by the flood. The train fell to the bottom. Fireman D. 6. Hutton was crushed to death and Engineer J. T. Houser was fatally injured. The brtkeman was eaugat in the wreck and his body cannot be found. Glasa r".tory Burned. Factory No. 3, of the North Baltimore Bottle Glass Company at Terre Haute, Ind., entailing a loss of $20,CC0, which is fully covered by insurance. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a spark blown on the roof of the building. The factory will be rebuilt at once. The factory employed about 150 men. Eleven Injured In Street Car Col lis loo. Two people were fatally injured and nine others, all girls, were more or less seriously hurt at Detroit, Mich., when a south-bound Fourteenth avenue street car was struck at the Fourteenth avenue crossing by a Michigan Central railroad train. " Goshen Glove Factory Burns. The plant of the Boreal Manufacturing Company at Goshen, Ind., a glovecaking concern owned by the Eisendrath Company, of Chicago, was destroyed by fire of unknown origin. The loss is partially covered by insurance. The loss was not given out. SpaUIas Sporting; Goods House Burned. The sporting good? house of A. G. Spalding & Bros., on the west side of Wabash avenue, near Monroe street, Chicago, was partially destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at $350.000. 4 Thonssnd Veterans Poisoned by Food. More than 1,000 veterans at the National Soldiers Home near Leavenworth, Kas., are suffering from ptoraAlne poisoning, fie result of eating neat hash at breakfast. No deaths were reported. Wireless Telephone Sueeess. Count Arco, of Berlin, Germany, In his wireless telephone experiments, has succeeded in obtaining distinct exchanges of words in 'a tolerably natural voice at a distance of two miles, by using pole thirty feet high. Baby Drowned la Backet. The 18-months-old child of Edward Ramsey, of Poseyville. Ind., while playing near a large candy bucket filled with water, fell in and was drowned. 7?ix Date of G. U B. Meeting. J. Cory Winans, phiof of staff of the Vational Grand Array of the Republic, has received telegraphic notification from the citiz?ns comm!tee at Saratoga, N. Y ujjng the date of the national G. A. XI. nvampment for the -week of Sept. 9. Mr. Winans wired acceptance. May Have No Conference. Four railroad presidents for whom J. P. Morgan made an appointment with President Roosevelt met in New York, but were unable to agree on the conference, only one declaring that he will seek an interview. . " Cheaper Coal After April 1. Anthracite operators have agreed to make the usual r cent reduction in the price of preia.red coal on April 1, when the new spring schedule will go into effect. If there is any decrease in the price of pea coal it will not be more than 1J cents a ton, the Operator say. "Warns Against Forest Waste. Prof. Macoun has warned the Canadian Forestry Association tlt unless the rlopes of the Rockies are protected from denudation of timber the plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan will become arid.

SAFEBLOWERS CAPTURED.

Chicago Cracksmen Caught After Attempt to Blow Open Safe. Three armed cracksmen who had attempted to blow open the safe in the postoffice at Morris, UK. were captured Thursday after a pistol battle. They were discovered secreted in an empty box car in the Chicago, Kock Island and Pacific railroad yards there, where they had been pursued. The men were taken in one of the most desperate encounters that the police have had in years. The report of the attempted postoffice robbery and safe blowing aroused the town, and hundreds of persons joined in the chase and surrounded the jail when the men were taken. The robbers were discovered just as they were about to dynamite the big safe in the postoffice. The strong box contained $.1.000 in money and valuables. "With their discovery by a local policeman the men dropped their work and fled toward the railroad yards. North on Liberty street, one of the main thoroughfares of the town, the men ran wildly, pursued by the policeman, who called for assistance. The Ions lead pained by the safe blowers prevented the patrolman from using his revolver. hen half a mile had been covered the men reached the railroad freight yards, where many cars were standing. They dodged about the cars until they had eluded their pursuers. Assistance arrived within a short time and a thorough search of the yards was begun. Knowledge that the ciacksrr.cn were armed caused delay in the search. The robbers were finally located in one of the empty cars and the battle followed. One of the men opened fire. The attacking party was under the leadership of Chief of Police John Law. The men were finally overpowered and taken to the Grundy county jail. RICH MAN ELOPES IN OVERALLS. Flees with Mountain. Girl and the Parson Fears for His Fee. II. G. Thillips, 26 years c.d. and Miss Emma Lilly, a mountain girl 17 years old, eloped to Bristol, Va from Shady Springs, W. Va., and were married. The bridegroom was in his working clothe?, and Mr. Burroughs had a suspicion that he might not be able to pay a reasonable marriage fee, but the stranger paid promptly and before he left with his bride Mr. Burroughs learned that be had just received $32,000 in cash from the sale of a fractional part of coal lands owned by him in West Virginia. The j-oung man excused his unpretentious appearance by saying that he was forced by circumstances to steal his girl in a hurry and had not had time to change his overalls. NEW POSTAL REFORM JULY 1. Ordinary Stamps Will Be Good for Special Delivery. The law permitting the transmission of letters and packages for special delivery where the necessary 10 cents postage is attached, in addition to the ordinary postage, will become effective July 1, and is intended to do away with the necessity for the usual special delivery stamp. It is believed at the department that a considerable increase of business will result. The importance of such a law was first suggested to the department by Rev. William E. Parson of Washington in 1905. The regulations are now leing prepared. Bomb Wrecks Philadelphia Store. The store of Joseph Tusa, a fish dealer at S30 Christian street, Philadelphia, was wrecked by a bomb supposed to have been thrown into the place by Black Hand agents. The family escaped. About a month ago Tusa found a note under the front door signed "Black Hand" and demanding the payment of $1,000. TuRa Van warned that he would be severely dealt with if he failed tn pay the money. Robber Gang Revealed. The man named Buttloss, arrested in Paris with $42.000 in American securities in his possession, on the suspicion that he was an accomplice of the thieves who stole a mail bag containing about $400,000 from the French Line steamer La Provence, from New York, has made a confession implicating a gang of international robbers. Bomb at Judge's House. A bomb was exploded in front of Judge Ogden's house in Oakland, Cal. The front of the house was destroyed, but none of the inmates was injured. The bomb had seventy feet of fuse attached, so that the man who fired it had time to escape. Judge Ogden suspects an insane man whose name he has given to the police. Killed by Fall of Furnace. A telephone message from Bessemer, Ala., says that the lining of a furnace of the Woodward Iron f.Vmpany at Woodward, which has been undergoing repairs, fell in and hundreds of tons of brick and mortar buried a number of workmen. Five dead bodies have been taken from the debris. Great Strike of Steel Workers. Twelve hundred employes of the Republic Iron and Steel Company at East Chicago, InL, went on strike because their demands for more pay were refused, bringing work at the immense plant to a standstill. The managers say they will close up the plant permanently. Two Drowned a Venice Island. A report from Venice Island, in the 7an Joaquin river, Cal.. says that Mrs. Maud Menefee and George Eastman, who were passengers on a launch, fell from a small boat while making a landing and were drowned. New York "400" Are Losers. Leaders of New York's "400," both men and women, are said to have lost hugs sums in the recent stock slump, social affairs will be curtp'led as a result, and one young man is said to have sold his big automobile to get ready cash. Ship Blown Over in Gale. The Danish training ship Viking was blown over during a storm in a shipbuilding yard at Copenhagen. She had 100 workmen on board at the time, but lone was killed and only ten were inJtred. Sinclair Crowd Censured. Upton Sinclair and his fellow colonists were censured by a coroner's jury at Englewood, N. J., which investigateJ the fatal fire which destroyed Helicon Hall, for having failed to safeguard the lives of the persons in the building. , - Trainmen May Strike. Trainmen and conductors on all railroads west of Chicago have decided to reject the advance in wages tendered ty the toads and vote to strike if necessary to enforce their demands. Thos. B. Aldrich Dies. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, poet and humorist, died at Boston as the result of an operation performed a month ago. Disapproves Court-Martial Finding. President Roosevelt has formally disapproved of the finding of a court-martial which acquitted Captain Lewis M. Ke-ehier, who, in an appeal to the Secretary of War. had made serious charges agiinst Gen. Wood. Reading- Advances Age Limit. President Baer of the Beading Railway Cocpany has been authorized by the board of directors of his company to advance the age limit of employes from 35 to 45 years. This is in line with the recent action of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

EX-SKXAT0R IS FREE.

JOSEPH R. BURTON RELEASED i FROM JAIL. Will Ixtue Piper After Return to KaiiMis in Which History of Iii ae Will He IulIihetI Wrecker Derail Flying; Train. Joseph Ralph Burton, who, until his conviction in the federal court was United States Senator from Kansas, was released from the county jail in Ironton, Mo.. Friday, having completed his sentence t.f six months, imposed when he was found guilty of appearing before a government department as paid representative of an alleged "gec-rich-quick concern of St. Louis. Burton entered the jail at Ironton Oct. 22. 1!H. His release is under the law which provides for a deduction from a sentence for good behavior. The punishment included a fine of J2..VKI and the statute utder which he was convicted debars lfim from ever holding an office of trust or remuneration under the federal government. The fine, which has not been paid, will be held over Burton as a civil judgment. Upon leaving the jail the former Senator gave out a signed statement in which he said:" "I return to my home at Abilene brim full of life and hope. Only my body has been in jail. My mind has leen. at all times, free, mi stained with the knowledge that I am innocent, I shall take up my life's work with 'malice toward none, and charity for all. I shall talk and write. With pen and tongue I shall stand for policies and principles that, I believe, will make for the general good, and oppose such as I think are bad. I shall have charge 'of a newspaper, unless a fraud order is issued against it before I can arrange for its publication. The history of my case will appear in serial form in the paper. The story will not be sensational ; if will be truthful." BACK TO OLD BAD HABITS. Despite Two Brain Operations Yourg Man Returns to Evil Ways. Harold Hurley of Toledo, Ohio, the first brain surgery subject in the country, after one of the most remarkable experiences that ever befell a boy, has again returned to his bad habits and the other day was taken to Lancaster to be reformed in the old way. llarley's case was believed by officials and surgeons to have demonstrated that an operation on the brain was a speedy and permanent method of reformation. The hypothesis that crime was caused by brain pressure was followed in Hurley's case by two operations. The skull was trepanned and portions of the brain removed. The first orieration transformed the boy from a vicious, w.lgar runaway to an obedient child, with tastes and ambition exactly opposite his former inclinations. While swimming he struck his head on a stone hidden by the water, from which he suffered a relapse into bis farmer bad habits. The second operation was then performed on his brain, which was again successful and transformed the boy. During the last week, however, Hurley again became bad and became so incorrigible that the juvenile authorities decided to send him to the Lancaster reformatory. Hurley seems to have demonstrated that while brain surgery is a temporary success the mental condition of the brain reasserts itself after a time and that a normal mind is not a pure one. THREE CHURCHES WILL UNITE Combinition of Congregational United. Brethren and Methodist. A natienal church un.on was effected the other day as a result of a conference in Chicago by delegates from th Congregational, United Brethren and Methodist Protectant denominations. The ne-v or ganizatiot will have nearly 1,500,00C members and will rank fifth in point of membership among the great Protestant churches of the country. The association is to be known as "the United Churches," and the consolidation will become com plete gradually. Articles of agreement are to be subscribed to by the different churches, but until the union is perfected the individual national and State councils of the three denominations will be continued separately. The missionary work will be conducted jointly, and the young people's -societies also will be united. WORK OF TRAIN WRECKERS. Pennsylvania Flyer Thrown frone Track and Many Injured. Train wreckers are blamed for the disaster that befell the Chicago limited train on the Pennsylvania railway at Stewart, Pa., early Friday. The wrecked train was No. 2,1 and was flying toward Chicago at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour when it was ditched because, it is supposed, persons who ar now being hunted by scores of detectives had tampered with the track. The engine and five coaches were hurled off the rails and one ca. burned, it is reported. Nearly a score of passengers were injured. Navy Develops Hero in Asia. The American armored cruiser squadron has arrived at Shanghai from Nat kin. The officers report a daring rescue by Ensign J. C. Fremont, Jr., while the vessels were anchored off Chin Kiang. Dr. Taul R. Stainaker of the West Virginia fell overboard. Ensign Fremont, although wearing a heavy overcoat, jumped after the doctor and saved him. Former Court Clerk Sentenced. Charles G. Irwin, former clerk of the justice's courts in Columbus, Ohio, who was indicted by the grand jury on three counts for embezzlement, was arraigned and pleaded cuilty to one of the counts and was sentenced by Judge Evans to one year in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $KU. Freight Rates to Advance. In retaliation for the action of State Legislature in providing for 2-cent fares and the public agitation i.gainst them, the railroads of the West have served notice on the interstete commerce commission of an increase of fnight rates on grain, coal and iron. Toss of Her Head May Kill. There is a warning for the girl who tosses her head in the fate of Miss Maine Phillips of Bel I wood. Pa. As Miss Phillips, who is 17, was combing her hair before her glass she gave her head a toss to get the comb at her bact tresses. She dislocated her neck. Nearly 2,000 Locked Out. Monday night saw a lockout against union labor in Seattle when twenty-five members of the Master Builders Association paid off their men. The laborers thrown out of einployrrent number close to 2.000 and construction work on sixty buildings is at a standstill. Powder Explosion Kills Six. An explosion occurred in the Emporium powder mill, located two miles west of Emporium, Pa., which caused the death of fix men three Americans, Charles Eckles, James Thomas ard William Moran, all of Emporium, a-nd three unknown Italian laborers. The cause of the explosion has not been ascertained. More Work for Convict3. The manufacture of farm implements, binding twine, rope and bags by convict labor is provided for in & bill introduced in the Illinois House and favsred by the labor unions.

FINANCIAL CHICAGO. Along with the advent of spring business generally is seen to have icquired further momentum. No eorr-ionding period in previous years was entered upon with production, distribution and transportation more largely engaged, and it is a remarkable index of industrial strength that demands and costs exhibit no reaction. Iabor problems attract attention, but the difficulties obtain prompt treatment, thereby avoiding the danger from a spread of strikes. A gratifying feature is the improvement in railroad facilities, less complaint of car shortage cow being current. Distributive trade has responded promptly to the stimulus of seasonable weather. The wholesale markets are ;ct attended by many oiKside buyers, heavy purchases of spring and summer merchi ndise make a healthy reduction of warehouse stocks, and there is little diminution in the pressure upon shipping rooms, country merchants insisting upon prompt forwarding. Despite high rates for money the commercial demand is well kept up, western collections make a good showing and failures are comparatively low in both number and liabilities. P.ank clearings, $2i.'U4-".727. exceed thoe of corresponding week in ltKKJ by 20.S per tent. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 20, against 2T last week and o0 a year ago. Dun's Review. NEW YORK. Spring trade is at its height, and the turnover bids fair to exceed even last year's, the stimuli heiug furnished bymore favorable weather, the approach of Easter and the visits of country merchants to the larger centers. Improvement is reflected all around, even in the Northwest, which now appears to be Retting back to normal conditions. In fac:, doubt as to the future is nowhere in evidence in the great producing section? of the country. In some points in the West sales of dry goods on spring account are fully 10 per cent above those of last year, while fill business thus far placed is also in excess of that booked at this time in 1000. While the car situation li the West has improved, conditions in the East are worse, but nevertheless a greater movement of cereals to market may now be expected. Business failures in the United States for the -week ending March 21 number 137, against ISO last week and 170 in the like week of 1000. Canadian failures for the week number 32. against 23 last week and 20 in this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $..": hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.43; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $.".75; wheat, No. 2, 72e to 74c; corn, No. 2, 42c to 44c; oats, standard, 30e to 42c; rye. No. 2. G7c to 70c; hay, timothy, $13.00 to $18.00; prairie, $0.00 to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 27c to 30c ; eggs, fresh, 14c to 18c ; potatoes, 35c to Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $.1.00 to $0.oO; hogs, choice heavy, $4.0O to $G.70; sheep, common to prime, $2."i0 to $.".00: wheat. No. 2, T.lc to 7.jc; corn. No. 2 white, 4."c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 41c to 43c. St. Louis Cattle. $4..j0 to $.7."; hogs, $4.00 to $11.50 ; sheep, $3.00 to $."i.35: wheat, No. 2, 77c to 7Sc; coru. No. 2, 43c to 4.V; oats. No. 2, 40c to 41c: rye, No. 2, 4c to k Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $."i.GT; hogs, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, $3.00 to $.Viü: wheat. No. 2, 7Sc to 70c; corn. No. 2 mixetl, 4c to 47c; oats, No. 2 mixed,' 43c to 45c; rye. No. 2, 73c to 74c. Detroit Cattle, $1.00 to $.'.2." hogs, $4.00 to $i.Go; sheep, $2.."0 to $."..i0; Wheat, No. 2. 7."c to 7Jc; corn. No. 3 yellow, 40c to 47c; oats, No. 3 white, 43c to 4." ; rye. No. 2, 70c to 72c. j Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 78c to 81c; corn. No. 3, 41c to 42c; oats, standard, 41c to 42c; rye, No. 1, 00c to 70c; barley, standard, 70c to 72c; pork, mess, $13.G." Buffalo Cattle, choic-i shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.15; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $."i.40; lambs, fair to choice, $r.0O to $8.r. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $0.20; hogs, $4.00 to $7.30; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 80c. to 82c; torn. No. 2, 54c to 55c; oats, natural White, 40e to 50c; butter, creamery, 2!)c to 30c; eggs, western. 15c to 18c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75c to 7Gc; corn. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 40c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 42c to 44c; rye. No. 2, OSc to GOc ; clover seed, prime, $8.05. Peace Congress at Xv York. The first national arbitration and peacu congress ever held in this country is to be convened in Carnegie hall and Cooper Union, New York City, April 14 to 17. Andrew 'Carnegie is to preside and more than 200 delegates, including many men of prominence, will discuss new projects for submission to The Hague conference in June. Among the speakers announced are William T. Stead, Archbishop Farley, Bishop Potter, Rabbi Hirsch, Elihu Root, James Bryce, Wood row Wilson and W. J. Bryan. Nurthneiit I'fmwuRc Vnlnelesn. Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who some months ago succeeded in making the northwest pissage in his little 47ton boat, the Cjoa, has been delivering a series of lectures in Paris. While he says that the observations made by him in the vicinity of the magnetic pole will prove of considerable scientific value, ue thinks that the northwest passage cannot be made practicable for purposes of navigation, thus dispelling the hope which has attracted the atteution of scientific men, as well as dreamers, for centuries. Fishes Hear and Talk. A dispatch from Paris states that at the next meeting of the academy of sciences a paper written by Prof. Koellickeb, director of the zoological laboratory at Naples, will be read, describing the experiments which he made with a special microphonograph in connection with fishes. These experiments, he claims, prove that fu-:h, even shellfish, emit a certain humming, varying their tones and enabling tnom to communicate with each other. lie found the gurnet the most loquacious and so well qualified as to be entitled to the nickname "sea lawyer." Japanese Wireless Torpedo. According to information received at the Navy Department in Washington the Japanese authorities have succeeded in building a torpedo which can be fired by wireless telegraph, although no details regarding its operation have been obtained. President Williman, Uruguay's new president, according to advices from Montevideo, said at a reception on an Argentine cruiser, it gave him pleasure to see vessels built for war co-operate in the work of friendship and concord between nations.

BY .70HN D. ROCEjufELLER

The deire to make money too quickly is our greatest financial fault. Railroads are vastly overcapitalized. If I wanted to work a big scheme I would cot overcapitalize. The penalty is too great. Is it reasonable that a stock legitimately earning; G per cent would be allowed out of the hands of the controlling interests? The railroads are in a very lamentable condition. Labor is going up, while legislatures are cutting down the roads income. Federal control would be better. On its surface the general financial of the country is good. But there is an undercurrent that doesn't look good. I do not think our people are saving enough. We are making more money, but unfortunately spending more. CUBA TO LOSE FREEDOM. American Protectorate Sore to Be Declared Soon. Cuba is practically doomed to lose bcr independence. The United, States will bo compelled by circumstances to declare a protectorate, probably within a year, over the Island. The American flag now, at least figuratively speaking, in tiie ascendancy tlit-re, will never come down. The American military occupation undertaken simply as a temporary move to prevent" a revolution and secure order and stability, will be made permanent. Such is the tenor of dispatches received here from olHclal sources in the Tearl of the Antilles. These remarkable predictions are based on a most intimate knowledge of conditions gained by the chief American officers now in control iD the Island. The following reasons are given for their prophecy : That the regime of the United States in Cuba will continue for many months. Tbut at the inui.icipal elections to be held probably In June the property holders will refuse to vote, and that the ignorant and vicious elements of the population will thus secure the offices. That diplomatic representations will ti?en be made to the United States by England, France, Germany and Spain, which counties will look to America for damages in case of destruction of their proierty In the island. This situation will compel the United States to announce a protectorate over Cuba. In Cuba the conservative property holding class is in a helpless minority. Citizens of Great Britain have at least $100,000,000 invested in Cuba. German citizens have about $40,000,000 Invested In sugar and tobacco, and Frenchmen have about $10,000.000 in the same industries. Spain owns practically twothirds of the landed Interests of the island. American citizens have Investments running to $125.000,000. It is regarded as certain, therefore, that the foreign governments named, in behalf of their citizens, will appeal to the United States to prevent the threatened calamity, accompanying that appeal with the suggestion that they will look to the United States to recoup them for such losses as they may suffer. The United States has already too much at stake in Cuba to willingly assume such liabilities, and the establishment-of a strict protectorate by the United States over the island Is regarded by Cuban commercial and financial Interests as the only possible solution of the difficulty. Cleveland's Inmnrance Drlef. Ex-President Grover Cleveland, as head of the association of life insurance presidents, has taken the first step toward combating legislation proposed in several Western States requiring that each company shall invest 70 per cent of the reserve on policies which originate in any State in the securities or mortgages of that State. It is in the nature of a brief to be used by icsurance authorities in different States. He says that there is a normal demand for nearly all of the securities referred to in the pending bills, and that the insurance companies will have to take only what is left without the guarantee of the State concerned, lie appeals for a repudiation of any intent of one State to gain advantage at the expense of its neighbor. Br let News Item. The Ilumbird Lumber Company's mill at Sand Point, Idaho, was destroyed by fire. Loss $175,000, insurance $100,000. John Lamoreaux of North' Adams, Mass., Republican Representative to the State Legislature, was arrested in Boston, charged with soliciting and accepting a bribe. The Pennsylvania railroad has sent out a plea to the colleges to train more men for railroad -work, reporting themselves constantly short-haudeJ in the engineering department. A fast Pennsylvania train from New York to Chicago was delayed seventy minutes near Pittsburg, Pa., by the breaking of a spring on a Pullman car. The passengers were badly shaken, but none was hurt. Bert Curtis was arraigned in New York, charged with having entered the Misses Lock woods school for girls at Scarsdale, X. Y and stolen $0,000 worth of gems. First Licuti G. W. Sager of the Eighteenth infantry. United States army, is to be court-mart ialed for neglect of duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Sager was a Chicago man. Fire at Charleston, S. C, caused $100,000 loss to the Combahee Fertilizer Company, McMurphy & Co., the Charle&ton iron works, the Southern pick factory and the Goldsmith Mercantile Company. All brakemen in the Pennsylvania company's local service on the SehuylUil and Philadelphia divisions will be given an increase in wages, amounting to 19 cents a clay, advancing the rate of $2.11 a day to $2.30. The steamship Columbia, built at the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, N. J., for the Chesapeake Steamship Company, -was launched, and was christened by Miss Lillie Eliotte Emerson of Columbia, S. C

. Information comes from a highly creditable source that the administration has about decided uion a striking change in its financial poli;y. The action, if taken, will reverse former Secretary Shaw in one particular and may eliminate certuin railroad bonds from the position they nev occupy as giltedged securities. There is an impressiou here that it may have been an Intimation of what was to nunc that sent ' "W W W A XI t 1 " j. i'. 3 1 organ across mo. .uanuc ieiore ;'ho bad time to put the finishing touches to the conference which he trienl to arrange between President Remsevelt and leading railroad presidents. Foreign capital, which Is heavily invested in American railroad enterprises, gives every evidence of extreme sensitiveness over the present agitation. Former Secretary Shaw, in his efforts to establish an elastic currency, ennitted kinks to place with the treasury railroad and ,other iHjnds to the amount they desired, conditional upon the government londs so released leing made the basis for increased circulation. It is said the present head of the Treasury Department considers such a method of finance is unsatisfactory, not conducive to financial stability and not in consonance with the general policies of the government M - Many persons think that the ccwuses are e-ompilations of figures for the delight of statisticians. But all workers for special classes ami special sorts of legislation know that a good census is the foundation of work. To provide proper education for the blind and the deaf It is necessary first to have a full registry of them. To know how to prevent and punish crime we must. list and classify our criminals. It is next to impossible to legislate, even to think intelligently, about divorce until we have divorce statistics. These are examples of the kind of census that we still lack. There are only three States In the Union that have begun to make a proper registry of the blind, only nine that publish divorce statistics. In time every State will have an adequate working census of every class andkind of person that needs public help, and the national census will combine and codify the State censuses. : :- The Board of United States General Appraisers has uiany curious and Interesting questions to decide in regard to the classification of imported articles, anil the rate of duty which they must pay. One of the latest decisions Is that the flag of the United States is not a toy. A Japanese firm of importers In Chicago had brought in a consignment of silk flags, eac-h an inch and a half long, and asked that they be admitted at 35 per cent ad valorem. The appraisers, however, decided that the flags must pay a duty of 50 ier wit, as manufactures of silk. "We lo not think," they said, "that the American flag, however diminutive, is commercially, commonly or nationally regarded as a plaything for children; and we find that the flags in dispute are not t0J3.w . ', President Roosevelt issued an order barring from the United States the Japanese anil Korean laborers, skilled and unskilled, who had received passports to go to Mexico, Hawaii and Canada, and who have heretofore used that means of entering this country. Coincident with this order the President has elirected the dismissal of the two suits filed in San Francisco with a view to testing the treaty rights of Japanese children to enter the white schools. This was in his. pursuance of his agreement to take such action when tlie San Francisco school board rescinded its original resolution excluding children from the schools. This the board has done. The attendance at prayers in the United States Senate is not large, but It always includes Senators Piatt and Depew, who usually sit together and withdraw before the business of the day begins. Sometimes there are only five or six who assemble to hear Dr. Hale's Invocation. Upon a recent occasion there were seven, and a curious observer made a memorandum of their names. In addition to the always devout Piatt and Depew there were Perkins of California, Smoot of Utah. Dick of Ohio, McCreary of Kentucky, and Clark of Montana. . . i Pursuant to the enactment of the new Immigration law containing the Japanese exclusion provision Secretary Root cabled Gov. Carter at Honolulu to notify agents of steamship cey.npanies that Japanese laborers.in Hawaii, with passports only for the islands, would not be allowed to proceed to the United States mainland. -: :- I The new rules governing the admissibility of post cards to the mails require conformity in weight and size to those printed by the government. Ti'he cards must not be folded, and the use of mica, glass, tinsel, metal and similar substances is forbidden unless the cards be enclosed in envelopes. The cards may be of any color or combination of colors which does not interfere with the legibility of the address. It is understood that President Roosevelt will henceforth add the functions of r.n art critic to his other attainments. The committee appointed to arrange for the Washington statue of Kosciusko set aside three models and numbered them In the order of their preference. As a matter of courtesy they invited the President to inspect their selections, and were not a" little surprised- when Mr. Roosevelt said "IUibbish," and forthwith changed the numbers to suit his own particular taste. -: :- The Federal Court at San Juan, Torto Rico, in the case of a native Islander against the American Railroad Company, decided that the employers liability law is constitutionally applicable to Porto Rico on the ground that Congress has supreme authority over the territories of the United States. Ostriches In the United States number 2,200. Of these, 1,500 are in Salt Hirer Valley of Arizona, where the income from this source is fairly satisfactory.

Ttl A M mem P.8't 'i'jX''"4 M!CüJ : J., . ,, . v ÜT,. S.-..- 3 Ytf 'A '.f it hi! 1322 Edward III. defeated the Barons at Boroughbridge. 1369 Peter of Castile. defeated at Montiel. 1470 Lancastrians defeated at battle of Stamford (War of the Roses). 1471 Edward IV. of Eng.and. returned from exile. 1507 Ca?sar Borgia, son of Tope Alexander VI., assassinated. 1G14 Bartholomew Legat burned at Smithßeld for heresy. 1044 Charter granted Rhode Island uniting it with Providence plantation. 1CGO The Long Parliament dissolved by its own act. 1744 The French and Indian war began in Canada. 1757 Admiral John Byng of the English navy shot for failing to do his duty. 17cX) Don Galvez, Spanish governor of New Orleans, captured Mobile from the English. 1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse. 1802 Congress reduced the army to the peace establishment of 1706. 1804 United States land offices established at Kaskaskia, 111.,. Vincennes, Ind., and Detroit. 1S09 Gustavus Adolphus 1V King of Sweden, dethroned; succeeded by Charles XIII. 1820 Maine admitted to the Union. 1821 Victor Emmanuel of. Sardinia abdicated. 1823 John Jervis, Earl St. Vincent, one of England's greatest admirals, died. 1S30 YTucatan declared itself independent. .. .Congress provided . for a boundary line between Louisiana and Arkansas. 1831 Parliamentary reform bill introduced in the British House of Commons. i . IS43 The city of Victoria, B. O, founded by Gov. Douglas. 1844 John Y. Mason of Virginia became Secretary of the Navy. ' 1854 England. France and Turkey formed triple alliance against Russia. 1830 Ferry boat between Philadelphia and Camden sunk ; SO lives lost. 1857 Railway suspension bridge be tween Toronto and Hamilton gave way ; 77 lives lost. 1855 Orsini and Pietri guillotined for attempted assassination of Napoleon III. 1SC1 Island No. 10 bombarded. 1802 Commodore Dupont took possession of Jacksonville, Fla.... Gen. Burnside attacked the Confederate fortifications at New Berne, N. C. 18C3 Unsuccessful attempt of Farragut's fleet to pass Confederate batteries at Port Hudson. 18CÖ Battle of Averysborough, N .C. 1800 Georgia appropriated $200,000 to buy corn for the indigent poor of th State. j 1871 First legislative assembly of Province of Manitoba opened. 1875 Archbishop McCIoskey of New York created a Cardinal. . . .Gold discovered in Deadwood and Whitewood gulches. South Dakota. 1878 England declared war ' on the Kaflirs in South Africa. 1870 Duke of Connaught married to Trincess Louise Margaret of Prussia. 1881 Alexander II. of Russia assassinated. 1884 Osman Digna's forces began their retreat before the English army in the Soudan .... System of standard time adopted throughout America... First through train over Mexican Central railroad. 1SSG Gen. Pope of United States army retired after fifty years' service. 1&91 New Orleans mob lynched eleven Italians accused of murder of Chief of Police Hennessy. 1804 Bland coinage bill passed the Sen- . ate.... British House of Commons adopted resolution advising abolition of the House of Lords. 1895 Negroes killed in 'longshoremen riots at New Orleans.... Illinois Supreme Cmrt declared eight-hour law for women invalid. IfcOSEleven lives lost by the burning of the Bowery mission lodging Louse hi New York. 1900 Bloemfontein taken .... President McKinley signed the Gold Standard currency bill. 1904 United States Supreme Court decided Northern Securities Company was illegal. 190C Supreme Court decided witnesses in anti-trust proceedings cannot be excused from testifying against theif corporations. Mneaslne for the mind. The first regular literary magazine t be published in the English language for the use of blind people, provision for which was made by Mrs. Ziegler, widow of the baking powder millionaire, has made its appearance. It is about eight times as bulky as a copy of the Century Magazine, although containing fewer words. One section deals with important current events of the month. Copies will be pent free to the blind, who. according to statistics, now number 50,508 in the United States. Suicide Unrcao Day. During the first week of tlTe Salvation Army's anti-suicide bureau at New York mere than a dozen persons were said to have been turned from their purpose of Bclf-dest ruction. These had accepted the invitation to tell their troubles to the Salvationists. DrinV, drugs, destitution, disease and unhapplness were the most frequent reasons given for the wish to die. Cordial sympathy, encouragement, good advice and practical help, where possible, are the simple remedies employed. Gen. Booth, head and founder of the army, has arrived at New York on his world tour. Free Loan Philanthropy. The Hebrew Free Loan Association of New York reports that in the last year 14,000 separate loans in sums of $5 to $200, entirely without expense to the borrower. The money is loaned to needy persons on notes . indorsed by business people, the loan being repaid in smaii weekly installments. The association i supported by a membership of 3,478. Dr. Goodchlld, of the Central Baptist Church, New York, has found la highclass vaudeville a means of attracting large congregations, and will continue it.

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FRATEItMTV WAll CLIMAX. nioomlnffton High School Staff ot Teachers Itenlem. A sensation was caused in Bloomington by the unexpected resignation of ten of the eleven high school teachers. The resignations were received by the board at 10;TO a. m to take effect at the closo of school. The reason assigned is that the board has refused to stand by Principal Howard Clark in his investigation of high school fraternities, and that, therefore, he cannot maintain discipline. As a result the principal consulted with the other ten teachers in the high school and they followed him in tendering their resignations, resolving to stand or fall together. The trouble has been brewing for some time, bat a climax was reached two weeks ago when the teachers published a private report, prepared for the board, on school fraternities. Mr. Clark desired the trustees to authorize him to' make a public tatement, but the board refused to agitate the matter further, on the ground that it was a personal affair w;th Clark and the newspapers, and for the further reason that the Legislature had forbidden fraternities by law, and therefore no good could come from continued public discussion of a matter that had been determined by law. GIRL ROBBED PIT IX A SAFE. Cashier In Evanirltle Stre Badly Wounded by Barajlara. Miss Josie Gray, casLier at the stör of the largest furniture company in Etansville, was found in the safe at the store early Sunday morning, unconscious from blows she had received while defending her employers' money from robbers. Several thousand dollars is missing, and the police have no clew to the thieves. When the other employes left the stör Saturday night Miss Gray was still goinf over her books and remarked to one of the salesmen that she would possibly remain for an hour. She failed to reach home at midnight and her parents notified the police. The store was visited and the doors were found to be unlocked. When the polico entered Miss Gray could not be found. . Manarer Gumberts was called, and when he oi ;ned the safe therelay the body of the c ihier, showing that she had been struck' over the head several times with soms heavy instrument. Her skull was not fractured, and, though her injuries are severe, it is believed they are not fatal. THIS ARDE.V REGAINS LIFE. Iloosler Who Disappeared Returnto Spönne Wbo la IVott Widow. The return of Richard Harrison from the Klondike to South 'Becd has developed a tale almost the parallel of that of Enoch Arden. The story came out with the departure of Mrs. Etta Harrison for a Michigan town, where Richard Harrison, her former husband, is wealthy and the owner of a big fruit farm. Harrison left South Bend fifteen years ago for the gold fields, but after leaving Seattle nothing more was heard from him, and his wife mourned him as dead. One year ago she was married to Arthur Parry, whodied four months ago. A telegram from a Michigan city reached Mrs. Parry, telling her that her first husband was alive and well and :hat she should join him. Overjoyed the took the first train to th destination. TELLS THIEF WHERE CASH IS. Woman Unintentionally. Gtvea Secret A war and He Geta 8. Mrs. A. E. McCauce of Marion when she returned to her home unintentionally told a burglar where he could find her money and the burglar got it before a policeman arrived. The burglar was in a bedroom and Mrs. McCauce coming into the home and seeing that a thief bad been there exclaimed: "I wonder if he found my money in the pantry. Then fhe went to call a policeman. When she returned the pantry, which on her. Crrt visit was orderly, was in a topsy-turvy condition. The thief, who had overheard her remark, got $8. ACCUSED OF STARVING WIFE. , Sick Woman Says Ilasband Related to Urin: Her Food. Prank Fanning is in jail and his wife is in a hospital as the result of an investigation made by the Marion police into the allegations that Mrs. Fanning was being tarved by her husband. Mrs. Fanning had been sick for ten weeks. During the last few days of her illness, she said, she was unable to get her own meals and her husband refused to bring her food. Fanning is said to have kept his wife locked in the house during the first part of her illness. Minor StaU Ite&a. Charles Bauer died tuddenly while sitting on the grave of a relative in a ceme tery at Poseyville. Death is supposed to have been caused from grief. Grant Hdrdesty, a retired farmer, com mitted suicide by taking poison. Hardesty was discovered dying on the- Grand Trunk tracks east of Valparaiso by the engineer of a freight train. Though the old court bouse in Peru has been torn down and a new one is under construction, yet the other day all contracts were declared illegal by a decision rendered in the appellate court. The Indiana department. G. A. R. changed the dates of the State cjcampment at Fort Wayne to accommodate the visit of National Commander Browr.'The encampment will be held May 22, 23 and 21. Charles Tadgett of Sullivan county, a well-known southern Indiana hotel man and xoIitician, has sued Newton Vaugin, recorder of Green county, for $15.000 for alleged alienation of Mrs. Padgett's affections. The acts of which Padgett complains are said to have been committed three days after the marriage of the couple. Oliver Wallace, a fanner, about two mi'es south of Milton, bought a one-third Interest in the home farm from his brother for $1,500. The farm contains ICO acres. Mrs. Rachael Johnson, 40, bnrned to death at her home in Seilersburg. Her clothing caught fire when nhe tried to open the door of a stove with her apron. She is survived by two sons. The colony of Greeks at Sooth Berd has organized a church, probably tha first of the Greek Catholic faith in Indiana. The first ceremony was the baptism of to infants, one from South Bend and one from Kalamazoo. Miss Hazel Eddy, aged 19, is under arrest In Elkhart for participation in one of the boldest holdups ever perpetrated In that city. Early the other night Emory Labelle entered Bowner's meat market and was met by a man who presented a revolver and ordered him to stand still. A girl stepped from behind the counter, opened the cash register and took the contents. Then the pair backed out of the' market and escaped. Miss Eddy -was arrested an Lour later. Her lover, Thomas Dixon, -whom Labelle recognized, escaped. Near Shelbyville Charles Theobald sold his ICO-acre farm to Alvin Myers fer $20,000. George W. Yanlue cid V '.GO-acrt fara to Thxbali fcr Cl3rc