Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 26, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 April 1907 — Page 2

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(TU Q. TX N. M. J F. Q. F. M. 7th. (aJ 14th. fj 21stAg2Gth. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Thing are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to take it Complete. Sensational Tragedy In Texan. Lying but a few feet apart, the dead bodies of Miss Bertie Balkum, daughter of former District Clerk Balkum, of San Jacinto county, and Ed Patricks, of Coldwater, Tex., were found in the woods near Livingston, Texas. There was a bullet hole through Miss Balkum's left bre?st and one through the temple. Patrick's body was lying a few feet from Miss Balkum' with a bullft wound through his head and pistol by his side. The young woman left Cold Springs in the mail coach for Sheperd, and when about five miles from town was overtaken by Patrick on horseback. It is alleged Patrick forced her to get out of the hack and go with him into the woods where the bodies were found. Aaaerlcaa Rmbauf la Rome Damaged. While Lloyd C. Griscom, the American ambassador at Rome, Italy, and Mrs. Griscom were returning from the Easter services at the American church, they saw smoke rising from the roof of their home, the Palazzo Del Drago. Sir. Griscom hurriedly entered the building and found the servants were unaware that the place was on Are. After working two hours the firemen succeeded in checking the blaze. The loss is estimated at $10,000 and is covered by insurance. Serf na AVrerk on the B. .t O. Baltimore & Ohio passenger train No. 11, bound for Wheeling, collided head-on with a freight train at Pritchard's Mills, seven miles west of Fairmont, W. Va. Over 100 passengers were severely . shaken up and bruised and a brakeman on the freight train was seriously Injured. Both locomotives were, demolished and the trains badly damaged. A misunderstanding of orders, it is said, caused the accident. Picture Maehlae Operator Cremated. Albert Phillips, 21 years old, operator of a moving picture machine in the Arcana Theater at Lockport, N. Y., was burned to death. Phillips was in the box of the machine when it burst into flames. In the panic which ensued among the spectators, Phillips was forgotten. Ills body, burned to a crisp, was found inside the box. No one in the crowd was injured. Playern Alnnt Asphyxiate!. James Cooper, manager of the Arcade polo team of Canton, Horace Williams, Ralph Berger and .Sam Hughes, players, were almost asphyxiated by escaping gas in a hotel at Coshocton, Ohio. They were found unconscious. Berger's condition is critical. The others will recover. AVoIeottvlMe Badly Scorched. Fire of unknown origin raged with fearful intensity f jt several hours in the heart of the business district of Wo'cottvllle, Ind., wiping out half a dozen buildings, causing a loss estimated at from $12,000 to $15,000 and for a time threatening the destruction of the entire town. Safe Blowers Get (3,000. Safetlowers robbed the Farmers and Merchants' National Bank, of Hanover, Mich., getting away with $3,000. Two women heard the explosion and gave the alarm, but by . the time the villagers had organized a posse, the robbers had escaped. Four Killed on Itallroad Crossing;. Four persons In a buggy two men and two women were instantly killed at the Fifteenth street crossing of the Chicago & Alton railroad two miles cast of Kansas City, Mo., by the Alton's Red Flyer, west-bound from St. Louis. Mr. McDonald Charged with Marder. An Indictment charging Mrs. Michael McDonald with the .murder of Webster 8. Guerin was returned by the grand jury at Chicago. Mrs. McDonald shot Guerin after a quarrel in his office on the morning of February 21. Woman Jumped Into Seething Magara. An unknown woman jumped to death over the brink of the American falls from Prospect Park at Niagara Falls, N. Y. Several people witnessed the tragedy. The woman was about 40 years old and was dressed in black. Fonr Doya Killed Jy a Train. Four boys were run down and Instantly killed by a light engine on the Pennsylvania railroad near the eastern city line of Buffalo, N. Y. Pix Date of O. A. K Meeting'. J. Cory Winans, chief of staff of the Vational Grand Amy of the Republic, has received telegraphic notification from the citizens' commfctee at Saratoga, X. Y., fixing the date of the national O. A. R. encampment 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 50 cent reduction in the price of prepared 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 25 cents a ton, the operators say. Warns Against Forest "Waste. Trof. Macoun has warned the Canadian Forestry Association that unless the dopes cf the Rockies are protected from lenudation of timber the plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan will become arid.

WTVT.S WOIT AS PREMIUMS. Parmer in Dakota Gives Daughters to His "Hands." Daniel Kindred, a prosperous South Dakota farmer, who advertised that farm hands doing satisfactory work for him would in addition to god pay have a chance to win the hand of any one of his four daughter?, is renewing the promise with the number reduced to two. Hi? other two daughters having made their choice from among hands who answered the first advertisement, will be married soon. Thy first man to win one of Kindred's daughters came from the East, where he graduated from an agricultural college. Before he was at work three months cn the Kindred farm he had installed an irrigation ditch, a stose inclosed fish pond well stocked with pickerel and bass. Then he piped the water from an artesian well into the house, where he installed a porcelain bathtub. Kindred, who was pleased with his new man. readily furnished money for the innovation. When Kindred spoke to him about his selecting one of his daughters, he was promptly informed by his employe thf t he had made his choice and had won the affection of Miss Daisy Kindred, the youngest of the four. The father gave his consent and the marriage will soon take place. Early in January another man was hired on the Kindred farm. He was not a college graduate, but he showed mechanical ability in addition to his farming knowledge. He installed a small motor and generator at the artesian well and illumined the dining room by electricity. Mr. Kindred, satisfied with that part of the work, provided funds for a larger motor, and now the whole farmhouse has electric lights. This man won the heart of another pretty Kindred girl. The Kindred farm is on the Missouri river, forty miles from Pierre, S. P.. and is one of the best farms in this country. Mr. Kindred also owns a large cattle ranch.

$3,000,000 FOR. ST. PAUL POOR. Sr. T. H. W. V. Appleby Unable to Jlreak the Will Made by His Wife. The Minnesota Supreme Court has ll xi an opinion in the case of Pr. T. II. W. Villiers Appleby against the estate of his wife, Cornelia Day Wilder Appleby, holding valid the ante-nuptial contra ci by which it was agreed that Dr. Äopleby, on condition that he remained lnmaVried after his wife's death, should lecehe an annuity of $10,000 for life. Tba contract also gave Dr. Appleby the privilege of living in the Wilder homestead, with an allowance of $3,000 for its maintenance. The balance of the estate of Mrs. Appleby, with that of the Wilder estate, belonging to Mrs. Appleby's parents, amounting to about $3,000,000. was bequeathed in trust for the aid of the worthy poor in St. Paul. Dr. Appleby sought to set aside the ante-nuptial contract and obtain a share in the estate as an inheritance. The court held that, inasmuch as Mrs. Appleby died before her mother, Mrs. Wilder, did. that part of the contract giving Dr. Appleby the right to the use of the Wilder homestead was inoperative, inasmuch as Mrs. Appleby could not devise an interest in property in which she had no ownership. The court, therefore, decided that Dr. Appleby is not entitled to the use of the homestead or the $3,000 for its maintenance. GAS WELL FERE IS FIERCE. Crevices Torn in Earth by Captive Fumes, and These Are in Flames. Themas well two miles east of Sapulpa, I. T., that caught fire Saturday is still burning fiercely. After f-irteen days of work the well was capped. Rut the great volume of gas found another way out through the crevices, and for half a mile U spread open the earth. At one place a Lole three feet wide and twenty feet long was torn. Then the escaping gas caught fire and has been burning ever sinve. At one place a sheet of flame twenty feet long and fifteen feet high is blazinj. Tons of rock and shale were thrown from the cracks and the constant tremble of the earth is frightening the farmers and oil operators in the vicinity of the well. Great pools of oil on the creek and in the ravines also are on fire, andtbere are no signs of abatement. 1 MAY DIG CANAL IN FIVE YEARS. Congressman Scott of Kansas Optimistic on Panama Project. Representative Charles F. Scott of Iola, Kan., one of the party of Congressmen, recently returned from a trip to the isthmus, said in Kansas City: "The peop'e on the isthmus believe that the Panama canal can and will be finished in about five sears. It's plausible. I don't say that the work will be done within that tiiQ, but at the rate the digging is being carried on now I believe it could be. It certainly will not take much longer time than five years." ' Sweetheart Slayer Crazy. The trial of Frank Brink for the murder of his sweetheart, Ressie Newton, came to a sudden and unexpected termination in Fonca, Neb. Five physicians from Ponca and Sioux City, Iowa, made an examination as to the mental condition of Drink and unanimously agreed that he was suffering from melancholic insanity and at the time of the tragedy was unable to distinguish between right and wrong. Poetry Scorned, Gets Divorce. Ida Eckert Lawrence, commonly known as the poet laureate of Ohio, and composer of the ode to the battleship Ohio, was granted a divorce from Fred Lawrence b? Judge Brough in Common Pleas Court in Toledo. Her plea was that her artistic soul revolted at the barbaric attitude K-l her husband toward her poetry. Pastor Dies of Poisoning. Rev. Adam Newton Colvin,' pastor of Christ church of the sect known as the Christian Union, in Kansas City, died of ptomaine poisoning caused by eating canni.fd tomatoes. He was formerly in charge of a church in St. Joseph, Mo. Kills 7ife; Commits Suicide. Fred Banmbrotb, a teamster, living in a tent in San Francisco, shot and killed his wife and then killed himself. No motive for the tragedy is known. Just before' the shooting husband and wife were walking arm in arm. Defrauded Inventor Dies. John Brislin, whose invention made Andrew Carnegie rich, died in Pittsburg, aged and penniless, on learning that his claim for a reward, so long delayed, at last is to be honored. Fatally Shot for Stealing- Bread. William McEIroy, aged 18, was shot and fatally wounded by a policeman in Philadelphia while resisting arrest for stealing bread. Kentucky Town Voted "Dry." Lebanon, Ky., was voted "dry" by a majority of G3 votes, and the temperance people gathered in front of the churches and celebrated. Lunacy Commission for Thaw. Justice Fitzgerald in New York has appointed a lunacy commission to inquire into the sanity of Harry K. Thaw, and the prisoner's wife broke the dreaded news to her husband. Price of Gasoline Raised. The Standard Oil Company has advanced the price of all grades of gasoline, naphtha and refined oil in barrels H cent a gallon, f. o. b. at Cleveland. It is stated by Standard officials that the advance Is made necessary by the constantly increasing cost of cooperage and of the I material used in manufacturing, barrel.

MENACES THE COTTON

BOLL WEEVIL EXPECTED TO BE NUMEROUS THIS YEAH. Destructive Activity of Inject I Kx peefe! !- Anl tonal Crop Kipert (Irl Slayer Sent to Asylum fnt Criminal Inaane. The cot ion boll weevil will be unusually numerous and destructive this year, ac cording to a report by Pr. W. P. Hunter, in charge of the boll weevil investigation for the United States Department of Agriculture, lie says: "The conditions throughout the past winter have been unusually favorable for the hibernation of the boll weevil. The two critical conditions for successful hibernation, temperature and dryness, have been as favorable as they will prolwibly ever be. The mild winter and spring is having the effect of causing an unusually early emergence. The conditions indicate clearly that weevils will be unusually abundant in the cotton fields, and that great damage is to be expected. Some conditions that may occur will have the effect of counteracting the natural result from the present conditions. For instance, dry weather during June and July afr.r the cotton plants are well started will serve to check the insect." INDIAN GIRL SLAYER TO ASYLUM. Jennie Burch, Paby Poisoner, Is Declared Insane by Jury. Jennie Br.rch goes to Mattewan insane asylum. The jury, which had been trying the 15-year-old girl at Carmel. N. Y., for the poisoning of Baby Wilbur Winship, returned a verdict of "not guilty, by reason of insanity," and Justice Miller at once ordered lior committed to the asvlum for the criminal insane. The verdict came to the girl as she sat alone in the court room and she wept bitterly. Rut after she had dried her tears Mrs. Herbert Winship, the mothet of the baby to whom Jennie gave the poisoned peach, went to her to say good-by. In spite of her grief over her baby's death Mrs. Winship could not forget the girl she had reared anc. tried to cheer her. She clasped the pirl in her arms and kissed her and told her that she freely forgave her. Herbert Winship, the father of the poisoned baby, also told Jennie that he had forgiven her and promised that Roscoe, the older child, should visit her at Matteawan. FREE SPECTACLES FOR PUPILS. Committee Recommends that New York Buy Them for 30,000. The matter of furnishing eyeglasses for the pupils of the New York public schools came up again at the latest meeting of the board of education, when the elementary schools committee reported in favor of the proposition. The report stated that 00.000 children in the schools were found to be suffering from physical defects which prevented them from reaping the full advantage of the schools. An initial appropriation of about $-10.000 for the purpose was recommended. The question will be decided at the next meeting. . ' New York Bank Closed. The Corbin Banking Company of New York has assigned to George C. Austin for the benefit of creditors. The two members of the company are George S. Edgell and Austin Corbin. Mr. Edgell is president and Mr. Corbin vice president of the Manhattan Beach Iotel and Land Company. Fight Big Fire in Mine. For twenty-foar hours in Deadwood, S. P.. the Homestake Mining Company fought a big fire near the 000-foot level and 200 men were carried out unconscious, overcome by the deadly gns and smoke. The fire started from a blast and was discovered first when the night shift went on. Students Injured in Wrecks Fifteen students of the Blee's Military Academy at Macon, Mo., were slightly injured in a wreck of a Wabash 'passenger train near Pendleton. Mo., caused by spreading rail. Th passenger list conFisted mainly of about one hundred students en route to St. Louis. All were able to continue their journey. Gotham Fires Cost $5,679,601. Fire destroyed $.",709,001 worth of property in the boroughs of Manhattan, Bronx and Richmond in the year 1000, according to figures submitted in the annual reports of Fire Commissioner FranCIS J. Lantry aDd Tire Marshal Peter Soery to Mayor McClellan of New York. Explosion Kills Engineer. A locomotive attached to an ore train on the Pittsburg, Youngstown and Ashtabula road, a branch of the Lake Shore line, exploded at Lock wood, Ohio. The engineer, II. E. Watson of Mahoningtown. Pa., cannot be found, and it is supposed that he was blown to pieces. Bobbers Loot a Bank. Safe blowers robbed the Farmers and Merchants' National bank of Hanover, Mich., early Friday and stole $.1,000. Two women living over the bank heard the explosion and gavfthe alarm, but by the time the villagers responded and organized a posse the robbers had escaped. Labor Trouble Is Ended. Having adjusted all differences with the labor unions the newspapers of Butte and Anaconda, Mont., have resumed publication. Three-year contracts have been signed by the committee of the typographical union, the pressmen's, stercotypcrs' and mailers' unions. Thief Returns Stolen $75. "This is in payment for goods stolen." The above note, unsigned, and accompanied by $75 in currency, was found at a St. Cloud, Minn., grocery tore. About a week before a thief broke in and stole goods amounting to $123. Officials to Bo Held. A. II. Smith, a vice president, and Ira McCorniick, general superintendent of the New York Central railroad, are to be held by a New York grand jury for the wreck on the road last month, in which twentyfour persons were killed. Multimillionaire Kills Himself. William A. Procter, head of Procter & Gamble, soap manufacturers, r.nd a multimillionaire, committed suicide at his home in Cincinnati. Illness an'l melancholia due to the death of his wife are believed to have been the cause. More Pay for Engineers. Engineers of the Delaware and Hudson railroad have been granted an increase in wages averaging about 15 per cent. The drivers of freight locomotives are to get an increase of 10 per cent and of passenger locomotives about 20 per cent. Position lor Minnesota Man. Former Representative James T. McCleary of Minnesota was sworn in Friday as second assistant Postmaster General in succession to William Shallenberger, resigned. The office was held by Gen. Shallenberger for ten years and he vacated it to engage in private business. Spanish King Consumptive. A dispatch from Rome to the Paris Journal pays news has reached the quirinal to the effect that King Alfonso of Spain is suffering from tuberculosis and that the Spanish court is extremely uneasy regarding bis condition.

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The boy was last soon i;$r the haystack. This lias been torn down and raked. The innul was frozc. over, precluding the possibility of drowning. Tho marsh was searched tho.vughly. The father was in the kitchen of the bouse when the toy disapieard. No strangers were seen in the road.

WAR IN CENTRAL AMERICA. Present Conflict Win Precipitated by a Trifling Incident. The present war in Central America vas precipitated by a trifling incident. V Nicaragua n agitator who fled into Honduras was followed by Nicaraguan oldiers, who failed to capture him, but yent away with his mule. After hasty liplomatie notes had been exchanged Aar was declared and real war began. Better organized, better armed and wtter trained than ever, the forces of .Vicaragua on the one side and Ilonluras and Salvador on til other, clashed. The recent battle of Potillos Je. Namasique saw 100 killed on the Jide of Honduras and Salvador alone. I bis is three times as many as the merican fatalities in battle in the war between Spain ami the United States. There were' r.0O0 Salvadoreans and "Guatemalans in the fight, so the loss aas 20 per cent. Personally leading his armies, which have invaded Honduran soil and captured town after town, is President Zelaya of Nicaragua. War found him doubly ready for the conflict. His successes on the coast have been followed ip by the Unltinl States nary, which has Sanded small forces of marines at La Cc-iba and Trujillo, towns captured by Nicaragua, and at Puerto Cortez, threatened by Zelaya, to protect neutral property. Costa Rica may become involved, an old feud against Nicaragua making it potentially an ally of SalvaJor and Guatemala. The armies of Central America are made up of Indian stock mixed with Spanish blood. The socondary weapon 'consists of the ever truty machet te. Targe Wlies of the troops are armed only with these long, beavj- knives. The deadly machete Is resronr.ble for most of the carnage. Even when provided with guns the Central Americans are notoriously bad shots. Honduras has Men helped in this war by Salvador, with whom she had an offensive and defensive alliance, and she has had to contend with a reIrt llious outbreak of her u-n people. This was the? case In Nicaragua, the latent revolutionists in each country seemingly taking advantage of the diflicrrlties of the government to further their own cause. Only three Central American states have lecome involved, Costa Rica and Guatemala remaining neutral. The government of the United States sent gunboats to both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and marines werf landed at two or three ports on the northern coast of Honduras for the protection of American interests. These ports were in the possession of enemies of the Honduran government at the time, rnsiDCTT zelita, 2nd thy government of Honduras approved tje action taken by the United State The .Pture of the capital of Honduras by the Nicaraguans, coupled with tie recent defeat of the forces of lionet ras and Salvador at Choluteca and tae flight of President Ronllla of IlotJaras, it Is thought, practically puti an end to the war. Herbert D. Peirce, United States minister to Norway, returned to Boston and Isüaed an explanation of the charge that bjdl been made against him that he sought Kite for legal services before The Hague tribunal in a suit for damages brought tf the owners of American sealing ve tcls against the Russian government. Albert Nichols, a teamster employed by the St. Louis Transfer Company, was shot and killed by Kdward Court, who made a statement to the effect that Nichols had slapped Mrs. Court and when he took Nichols to task for the act Nichols drew a knife. While John Corcoran of Y'ouVers, N. Y., w ramming a charge of dynamite into a hole in a rock with the handle of a broom, the charge exploded and the broomstick was driven through his body below the heart. It pays to advertise in this paper.

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SCENE OF MARVIN KIDNAPING AND PICTURE

The school authorities of the city of Plainfield, N. J.,' have raised the pay of the teachers from 1IÖ to 40 per -ent without the least solicitation by the teachers or the superintendent. In connection with the big plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company at Bethlehem, Pa., a new industrial school is to be established by Charles M. Schwab, where a small arm3 of highly skilled workmen can be turned out each year. Goldwin Smith, the veteran Canadian scholar, writes in the Cornell Era that phonetic selling can never hope to make English the dominant language of the world, as there are more serious objections as to declension, conjugation, etc. He says simplification would involve a jettison of our liooks. Alain LcRoy Locke of Philadelphia, a colored student in the senior class at Harvard, has won this year's Rhodes scholarship for the State of Pennsylvania, being chosen on his merits. The Rhodes will make no distinction on account of race or religion. Lenke will be the first negro to get one of thes scholarships. Supt. Maxwell of the New York City school system appealed to the board of education to supply simple food at cost price to the xuplls who were found to be

THOSE DARNED ROOSTERS ARE AT IT AGAIN !

-Cincinnati Post. irnproxrIy nourished. At the same time lie asked the board to supply eyeglasses, free of cost, to children of needy parents, who may le suffering from imperfect vision. The commissioner of health had found 17.02S children with defective eyes in the schools last year. Through the energetic efforts of Mme. Brisson, a university for women lias been opened at Paris, in which a course in housekeeping is to hold the place of honor in the curriculum. There will be other courses in dressmaking, millinery, shorthand, hygiene, morality, history and literature. The idea is to attend to the practical matters of life first, but not to neglect the ornamental. Although President Eliot of Harvard refused to make any reply to the speech of President Roosevelt in defense of football and other rov.gh sports, he has given out a statement saying that no one had proposed to stop intercollegiate athletics at Harvard. Last year they said they would stop it or change it. Football had been changed and it would be played next fall. President Eliot thought his position on this subject was not essentially different from that of President Roo-lvelt. Taking direct issue with President Roosevelt in his recent "molly-coddle" address at Harvard in defense of all rougu college sports, the annual report of Harvard's head. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, takes the radical stanJl that football is no game for gentlemen to play or for gentlemen to -watch : that is, an undesirable one. President Eliot admits that under great pressure of public op'.nion last year the game was much improved, but says the Harvard players suffered about the arne kind of injuries as before. He insists that no game is fit for college uses "in which recklessness in causing or suffering serious bodily injuries promotes efficiency, and so is taught and held up for admiration." He finds the same sort of recklessness in hoc-key and basket ball, and thinks that intercollegiate contests should be limited to two a year in each sport. He believes it high time that the teaching profession unite "to protest against the present exaggeration of athletic sports during the whole period of education." lie deplores the waste of money and says that pumped cheering during good and bad play "has no counterpart in the contests cf real life," and is "weak, hysterical and ineffective" on the part of the spectators. At a recent conference the educational authorities of North Dakota adopted a plan to avoid the overlapping of work in the different State schools and colleges. The Wahpeton school of science is to have a three-year science course, ard the Bottineau school of forestry .is to become an agricultural high school, limited to forestry and horticulture. All the institutions are to have a commercial course, and the State university is to develop a college of commerce, while the normal schools will limit their work to two years above the high school course. Nearly one million telegrams are sent over the world's wires daily.

OF LOST BOY.

BOY. Marvin Cnne Likely to lie Parnlltl to Charley Horn KidnaplnK. As the dismal days come and go the seemingly iinienetrab'e mystery in the disa pi K-a ranee of little Horace Marvin from Dover, Del., grows deeper. And the army of astute detectives on the case, several of them masters of crime and hidden circumstance, admit that they are utterly bafllcd. It is an astonishing fact that these detectives, together with the jioliec machinery of all the principal cities iu the United States, the "famed Pinkertoii Detective Agency, and a host of amateur sleuths, have failed to derelop one single distinct clew to the missing loy's whereabouts since the search was begun on March 4. What did happen to little Horace Marvin when he passed from the eyes of his now sorrowing father for the last time? It Is a quest ion, that may never lie answered. And from present indications the case will go down as rivaling all other kidnaping mysteries in the historj of the country. Charles Brewster Ross, whose case is a classic in criminal annals, was exactly the same age as the Marvin boy when he disappeared from the home of his father. Christian Ross, Washington lane, Gerinantown, Pa., July I, 1874. lie is now generally believed to have been stolen from his home, altliough kidnaping was not at first susieeted. Ross reiorted the loss of the child to the Philadelphia iolice. He had boies of the safe return of Charley up to July (5. Then he received a letter demanding $20,000, conditional on the safe return of the boy. The police wt out to capture the kidnapers. From all parts of the country boys who looked like Charley Ross were; reiorted. One after another they were shown to be other children. On Deo. l-S, the same year, the first real clews were found. That night two men committed a burglary n the Bayside district of Brooklyn. Their names were William Moshcr and James Douglas. Both men died from wounds received in trying to escajte from the police. Before dying Douglas confessed that he and Moshor had kidnaied Charley Ross. Search was renewed for their fellow conspirators, and William Westervelt, brother-in-law of Mosher, was arrested. He was finally convicted as accessory after the crime and was sentenced to seven years' Imprisonment. No trace of the !oy ever was found, and it is now believed by the Philadelphia police that the kidnapers, in fear, murdered the boy to get him off their ha nds. Horace Marvin, the lost boy's father, is in great fear lest the kidnapers of his son le driven to some such desperate act by too strenuous police action. Deaf-Mtite Good Worker. A business man who conducts a large bottling establishment in the lower east side district of N?v York City has discovered that deaf-mutes make the most reliable help that he can obtain. He commenced about seven years ago by employing a deaf-mutt- loy, who filled his place so satisfactorily that others were employed from time to time, until now there are a dozen or more of these afflicted person's! drawing good wages at this establishment. The employer says he finds them faithful, and when they have fully grasped the idea of the task to be accomplished, rather more intelligent than the normal workman. Moreover, tbey aie very little given to dissipation. Against l'afttearlnzlnjr. 9111k. Prof. Behring, the famous Berlin specialist on pulmonary diseases, is quoted as opposing the Pasteur system of purifying mirk. He condemns also the sterilization of milk and the boiling of water to render them inocuous. He says that boiled milk is unsuitable food for infants, and that the boiling of water kills the elements intended by nature for the making of bone and sinew. True protection for those who use the milk of cows, in his opinion, is the production of healthy cows. Agricultural Department bulletin No. 277, referring to recent extensive experiments as to the economy and practicability of using denatured alcohol in gasoline engines, maviy of which arc already in use by farmers, toys that the fact has, been established that it is quite possible to use alcohol in any engine designed for the use of gasoline, alfliough the use may be uneconomical unless certain changes are made in the vaporizing device, and in the compression pressure. Whether the fuel is gasoline or alcohol, it is found that economy is largely a matter of adjustment, and the running cost may be much decreased.

PROFIT IN NEW LAWS.

Roal Win Million by AholilSng Dradbend and KrelKht RebaCM. How much have the railroads saved in revenue by abolishing deadheads? Nobody knows exactly, not even the railroads. All the same, it is eertaia that the passenger revenues have been wonderfully stimulated by doing away with passes. On the southwestern lines, for instance, iz was admitted by Mr. Stubbs that .10.000 passengers formerly rode free every year as "land agents," ' An official of the Pennsylvania road admits that 50,000 trip passes were formerly issued at Philadelphia every ear. covering merely the eastern division of that system. The deadheads on other lines have included thousands of politicians, most of whom travel as much as formerly, but are now paying fare. The latest official figures secured by the intvrstate commerce commission show the passenger revenues of all the roads in the United States as $472,G04.732. One of the most important scalpers of the country once told the interstate commerce commission that the deadhead and halffare business of the railroads, if done on a paying basis, would add 2." per cent to the passenger revenues. This is probably an excessive estimate. On the other hand, Charles Francis Adams, when president of the Union Pacific road, said that he could add 10 per cent to the passenger revenues if he could do away with passes. Taking the latter estimate as a basis for calculation, the abolishing of deadheads should add $1.720.047 to the passenger revenues of American roads. If the scalper's estimate was nearer the truth, the revenues may easily have been incrascd by $S,000,000 to $10,000,000. Ty far the greater increase in railroad revenues, however, during the current year will be from freight, which are no longer affected by rebates. THe gain is somewhere between ?2T,000.000 and $."30,000,000. . CORTELYOU RELIEVES MARKET. Uses Three !Itbol to Pour Money Into Xfw York Depositories. Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou again came to the rescue of the financial situation in New York by a triple appli cation of the resources of the Treasury Department to prevent a dangerous panic. He enlarged his recent instructions for the deposit of customs receipts in regular depositories to embrace the so-called subtreasury cities so that the public deposits in national banks iu New York City will be at once increased by about $15,000,(XX) from customs receipts alone. This action was taken to facilitate the redemption of 4 per cent bonds of 1907 and also to render available additional funds for the usual disbursements of the first of the coming month. Secretary Cortelyou also ordered the anticipation of the quarter payments on registered bonds of the 2 per cent consols of 1030 and the 4 per cent funded loan of 1007, and instructed subtreasnry officials to cash the checks sent out Wednesday on presentation, or to cash on presentation any April coupons belonging to the bonds of these two loans. This interest was not due until April and the order released approximately $4,000,000 in addition to the $15,000,000 released by the deposit of customs receipts. Secretary Cortelyou's action with reference to the deposits of customs receipts and the anticipation of April interest resulted in immediately relieving the money market to the extent of about ?1G.900,000. Of this amount $10.000,000 was deposited in the depository banks in New York City, for which government, Strte, municipal, approved railroad, Hawaiian, Philippine and Porto Rican bonds were accepted as security. About $1,900.000 has been paid in interest to April 1 on registered and coupon bonds. The Porto Rican House of Delegates has . sent this message to President Roosevelt:. "The House of Delegates unanimously request you to appoint a secretary of Porto Rico from among the natives of Porto Rico, thus giving us an opportunity to demonstrate our ability in slf-government. Such an act of justice will be gratefully received by the whole country." Editor William R. Hearst, in an address to leaders of the New Yofk State Independence League, again accepted the State leadership, but with the assurance that hereafter the league need not ally itself with either of the old parties, but could act alone. His term as a Democratic Representative from New York had expired and he was freed from all ties to the Democratic party. The prohibition forces in the Oklahoma constitutional convention won a decisive victory when the provision submitting the question of prohibition separately to the people of the new State was adopted by a vote of 17 to 13. On the same day the Arkansas State Senate defeated a measure which provided for the suimitting to t!.e people at the next State election the question of license or no license. During a dinner at Omaha last week, Henry M. Whitney, the prominent Boston Democrat, told W. J. Bryan that before he could secure the East for government ownership he would have to declare against confiscation of railroad property. Bryan replied that he and his friends would not tolerate such a system. Whitney then said that if the Harrimans and Hills kept on iu their present path the people would be driven to the ownership idea. Kx-Secretary Shaw has been elected president of the Carnegie Trust Company at New York. Asked as to the effect that this step would have upon his political fortunes, he replied: "A man by taking thought may make himself justice of the peace, but no man in my tim by taking thought has made himself President of the United States, and those who have given the subject most serious consideration have usually died in disappointment. Admittedly some of the successful ones have sought the place, but no one was nominated because he sought it." Gov. Stokes and both houses of the New Jersey legislature have practically committed themselves to the principle of selecting United States Senators uy popular vote. The (Jovernor, in his message, recommended such action as would secure an expression of the individual voter as to his choice for Senator, and a bill to this effect has been introduced in the Senate by the Republican leader, Mr. Hillery. The Democrats are committed to a similar course by caucus action, and a measureto effect the desired result has been introduced in the lower house. As the manner of choosing United States Senators is prescribed by the federal constitution, no immediate change can be made, but it is aimed to give the voters an opportunity of expressing their wishes. Ambassador Leishmann has resolutely refused to reopen the discussion with the Turkish government as to the official recognition to be accorded to American schools and missionary establishments in Turkey. Energetic measures are likely to be taken should existing conditions continue. Gov. Carter of Honolulu has aroused Intense indiguation by his recent statement that he would be quite willing that his daughters should marry Japanese. The two little girls, who have been greatly teased by their schoolmates, are said to have minds of their own in the matter and to have expressed them with much force.

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CIAL? CHICAGO. In view of the unusually favorable conditions it is not surprising that returns indicate Easter trade to have exceeded in volume all previous exierience, the remarkable buying having extended not only to the seasonable lines, but alco into the luxuries. In other respects the week's developments afford much reason for sustained confidence in the business outlook. Labor difficulties cause less alarm that a year ago, and the controversy with railroad worker presents no differences uot amenable to conciliation. Despite the high cost of money commercial borrowing shows no falling off, official statements of the banks exhibiting an aggregate of loans at the highest point recorded, an evidence of soundness in the fundamental basis of activity. The markets for staple merchandise remain largely drawn upon, many outside buyers making heavy purchases of spring and summer stocks. Transportation, runs more easily and the movement of freight of all kinds surpasses the enormous bulk at this time last year. Mercantile collections in the West maintain satisfactory promptness and no special features attend the defaults which are yet of small numbers. P.ank clearings. $221.448.070, exceed those of corresponding week ia 1900 by 1S.S per cent. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered -22, against 20 last week and 20 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. NEW YOKE. Bright, warm, almost summer weather, stimulating alike to retail trade and crop -progress, a cessation of liquidation in f!ecurities and in easing of strain ia the money markets, so far as the April 1 period is concerned, are the notably favorable features in an encouraging week. Reorts as to eastern demand are of a record trade, thus crowning a three months period which, except in a few sections., has exceeded any preceding year. and the only drawback in which has been the getting of goods in sufficient volume to supply demand. Collections are still backward, which is attributed various! to slow deliveries of goods, congestion of farm product deliveries and finally to the heavily increased volume of past trade. Money is still high, a long period of this condition is apparently in sight and there is a disposition to await a clearer view of the future before extensive commitments are made. Business failures in the United States for the week ending March 28 number 1G, against 157 last week and 109 in the like week of Canadian failures for the week numbc.' 21, against 32 last week ano 18 in this week last year. Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for tbe week ending March 28 aggregated 2,707,500 bushels. agaiDst 1,S7S,C14 last week and 1.542.S52 this week last year. For the last thirty-nine weeks of the fiscal year, 130,501,045 busbels, against 102,968,750 in 1005-00. Corn exports for the week are 1.S44.C33 bushels, against 2,508,780 last week and 2,043,47!) a year ago. For the fiscal year to date, 51.GGO&0 bushels. against 94,809,750 in 1905-00. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $0.85; Logs prime heavy, $1.00 to $0.55; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2, 72c to 74c; corn. No. 2, 42c to 44c; oats staniard, 30c to 41c; rye. No. 2. 07c to 70c; hay, timothy, $13.00 to $18.00; praiiie, $9.00 to $13.00; butter, choice creamery, 27c to 30c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 17c; potatoes 30c to 39c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs choice heavy. $1.00 to $0.45; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 75c; corn. No. 2 white, 45c to 47c; oats. No. 2 white, 41c to 43c. St Louis Cattle, $I..r0 to $3.50: yogs ?4.0O to $0.45; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheav No. 2, 70c to 7c; corn. No. 2, 43c t i 44c; oats No. 2. 40c to 41c ; rye. No. 2, G7c to CSc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; kogs $4.00 to $140 : sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2, 77c to 7Sc; corn. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 47c; oats No, 2 mixed. 43c to 45c ; rye. No. 2, 73c to 74c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.25; hogs $4.00 to $0.05; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, 75c to 70c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 40c to 47c; oats" No. 3 white, 43c to 45c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 71c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 78c to Sic; corn. No. 3, 41c to 42c; oats, standard, 41c to 42c; rye, No. 1, C8o to 09c; barley, standard, 70c to 72c; pork, mess $10.00. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.15; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.40; lambs fair to choice, $5.00 to $S-). New Yorl Cattle, $4.00 to $05; hogs, $4.00 to $7.10; sheep. $3.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn, o. 2, 51c to 55c; oats natural white," 47c to 49c; butter, creamery, 2Dc to 31c: eggs, western, 15c to 17c Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75c to 77c: corn. No. 2 mixed. 45c to 4Gc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 42c to 44c; rya. No. 2, CSc to COc; clover seed, prime, $9.02. Told Im Few Line, James Young, who with M. M. Towle founded Hammond, Ind thirty years ago, is dead at San Diego, Cal. Fire destroyed half a hundred tenant houses in Spartan Mills a cotton mill district of Sivartanbur?, S. C. A brutal murder was discovered at- 403 B street, North Oakland, Cal. The body of Mrs Martha Soderberg. 04 years of age, was found bidden in a clotet of her home. Erland II. Soderberg, her son, a stevedore, has been arrested on suspicion of being the murderer. Ten smallpox cases of a mild form were discovered in Lawrence, Mass. The board of health has ordered a general vaccination. The town of Lincoln, N. J has offered Upton Sinclair a big house and fertile land for the burned-out colony of Heliconites. It is understood that Dartmouth college will soon have a new gymnasium as a result of $100.000 bequeathed by Thomas P. Salter of New York. William John Merrall, vice president and director of the Acker, Merrall & Condit Company, died at his home in New York City. He was 70 years old. The largest balloon in America Is now being built for the Philadelphia Aero Club, of which A. N. Chandier is president. The basket will be capable of holding nine persons. J. Pierpont Morgan has announced bis intention of demolishing the old Dodge mansion near New York, for which be recently paid $500,000 in order to make his art museum absolutely safe from fire. The only complaint Simon Dresher had to make when he landed at the bottom of an elevator shaft in the building at 14 West Tenth street, New York, after having fallen from the tenth floor, was that he had caught cold coming down. He e caped with slight internal injuries. j

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