Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 27, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 April 1907 — Page 2

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TL. Q.X. M. 7v R Q.F. M. Vj 5th. V,rjl2th. V 20th.ygj2Sth. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Thin je re Shown. Nothing Overlooked to malt it Complete. Geaeral Barrillas Murdered. General Manuel Uzandro Barrillas, ex-president of Guatemala, was assassinated in the City of Mexico on Calle Semenario as he sat in a Guareloupe street car. He was on his way to supper when, as the car stopped, a young man a little over 17 years old climbed aboard and rushing to the general stabbed hJm twice, the first blow severing the jugular vein, the second cutting his face. He died in-J stantly. The assassin was captured. He gave his name as Jose Estrada, his home as Ocos, Guatemala. üprrtarolar Method of Suicide. Edward Murphy, a painter of St. Louis, Mo., committed suicide at Memphis, Tenn., in a horrible manner. Murphy, who was employed on the new Business Men's Cli.b in course of erection, climbed to the roof of the building and pouring a gallon of benzine over his clothing, set fire to himself. Tie flames attracted the attention of his fellow workmen and the fire department was called out. All trforts to rescue Murphy proved futile and the young man was literally cremated. His remains were carried away by fellow workmen in a basket. Murphy's friends say he was insane. Verdict Ar" Inst Elg Four Employe. Coroner Henry S. Curtis, of Hendricks County, Indiana, who investigated the wreck of train No. 11, known as the Golden Gate Limited, on the Big Four at Avon on the afternoon of Friday, March 22, in his verdict filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court finds that the accident was due to neg-lgence and carelessness on the part of the men placing the new flitch in position at the west end of the bridge across the Big White Lick. Xarrow Eaeape for Clark. While former United States Senator "William A. Clark, of Montana, was crossing a river twenty miles west of Trinidad, Col:, his carriage broke through the Ice and was upset. The senator was thrown into the stream, but was rescued by other members of the party as he was being carried under the ice. Died from Shock. Chas. W. Strine, business manager for Director Heinrich Conried, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, died in Boston, Mass., from shock following an operation for appendicitis. He was born in Philadelphia in 1867 and began his career as business manager for John Philip Sousa. 1 Attlea, Ind., IIa a f30,000 Fire. Fire broke out in the Sterling Remedy Company's large building in Attica, Ind., and damaged the building and its contents to the amount of $30,000. The loss is covered by insurance. . ' Lake Navigation opeaed. Navigation on the Great Lakes is now open. Several freighters left Buffalo, N. Y., bound for Duluth and Milwaukee. The steamer service between Buffalo and Cleveland opens on April 15. Eight Kroes Killed la Wreck. A disastrous wreck on the Southern railway occurred about one and a half miles from Mableton, Ga., by which' eight or more negroes were killed and twelve or fifteen injured, several probably fatally. fee Dealera Shatter Prices. The retail Ice dealerp of Detroit, llich., announced a reduction of fortytwo per cent. In the retail price of ice to domestic consumers. A large natural ice crop is the reason assigned. Two Die In Mill Fire. Two men were br.rned to death in a fire which destroyed the H. B. Newball tile mill at Saugus, Mass. Xen Postmaster for Chicago. State Senator Daniel A. Campbell has been selected to succeed Postmaster Busse, in Chicago. Mayor Basse Sworn In. Frederick A. Busse was sworn in as mayor of the city of Chicago. He will be inaugurated April 15. Mayor Busse is the first Republican to occupy the mayoralty chair during the past ten years. Kissed Mother; Shot Illmaelf. Horace CI tome, 19 years old, after kissing his mother good-by, committed suicide in Chicago by shooting himself in the head. No motive is knows, Vnraac .Explosion Is Fatal. Steve Zramski is dead and Frank nl linger is thought to be fatally burned a4 the result of an explosion at the Lowellrille furnace near Youngstown, Ohio. Six other workmen were severely burned. The explosion was caused by a "slip" in the furnace, which blew out th'j bell. Snubbed by American Minister. . Mrs. Ida von Claussen, formerly of New York, has complained to the State Department that Minister Graves refused to present her at the court of S taden, notwithstanding she had been invited by the king. Tornado Sweeps Territory. A' strong windstorm, assuming almost he proportions of a tornado, swept ovr the western part of Indian Territory to the Texas line the other night, doing some damage to small buildings at Kofi and Marietta. As far asv known, no lives were Icüst. Opera Singers Frightened. Fearing New York was to be destroyed hy an earthquake, as prophesied by a countryman, Italian singers in Hammer tein's grand opera company rushed t Octrai Park and nearly spoiled & per Cjrraanc.

HUNDREDS ARE RESCUED.

lien Taken from Ground Turing a Fire in Tunnel. Tiro caused by a spark from one of the boiler rooms in the excavation for the Mc.loo tunnel terminal nt ley, l-'ul-ton nnd Church streets. New York, did da maze estimated at $."V0r and a delay of thirty days in the completion of the work on tho huge terminal buildings will result. Five nsei were injured during the prepress of the fire by bring raucht in one of the d?ep caisson-, two of them so severely that it was nwessary to take them to a hospital. There were many thrilling rescues and several instances of personal bravery during th progress of the fire. Deep down under the ground in the l(x) and more caisson which are being sunk for the foundations of the big terminal buildings ti rest upon were between 300 and GOO men at work. When it was seen that there wan danger of the fire spreading to all of the engine houses south of Hey street, shutting off tlje supply of air, the pressure of which enabled the men to work under ground and the withdrawal of which would mean serious dagger, if not death, to nianj- of them, the danger signal was given and the buckets lowered into the caissons to bring the tunnel workers to, the surface. Around some of the derricks used to lower and hoist the buckets the flames raged fiercely, and in two instances the men in charge of the donkey hoisting engines lost their nerve and deserted their posts, leaving the men eighty feet beneath the surface of the ground to their fate. The dserted hoists were quickly remaruied by volunteers, however, and the men stuck to their posts with the flames roaring around them until the last one of the tunnel workers was brought up to safety. BAD FOOD CASES COMING. Dr. Wiley Seeks Samples on Which to Base Prosecutions. The Department of Agriculture in Washington is making preparations to begin prosecutions under the pure food law and Dr. Wiley, under whose directions as chief of the bureau of chemistry the work will be conducted, has given instructions to his inspectors , to obtain samples on which accusations will be based. Offending establishments have been found and nothing remains to prepare a basis for proceedings except to obtain specimens of the articles alleged to ie adulterated or impure. When these are procured charges will be formulated and given to the United Staies district attorneys in whose districts the offenders may reside. There will soon be forty or fifty inspectors in the field and Dr. Wiley expresses the opinion that a large number of prosecutions will result from their investigations. ' BOSTON TEAMSTERS OUT. Four Hundred Men Strike President Shea Promises Support. Fonr hundred teamsters went on strike in Boston Wednesday to enforce a demand for an increase of $1 a week in their pay and a reduction from' eleven hours in twelve to ten nnd one-half hours in eleven and one-half. Seven of the larger firms in the city are affected, and it was considered likely that the difficulty would spread to some of the smaller concerns. The support of the International Teamsters' Union is promised by Cornelius I. Shea, international president, and Thomas L. Hughes, international secretary-treasurer. ?To avoid the riots which marked the last strike ia 1002 the men deserted hoists were quickly remanned by away from their barns and not to engage in disturbance. p SEVENTEEN DIE IN FIRE. Italians Perish When Lodging House at San Francisco Is Destroyed. Seventeen Italians ' were burned to death and a score or more injured in the destruction of a lodging house at Twelfth street and Connecticut avenue, San Francisco, shortly after midnight Thursday, morning. So rapidly did the fire spread that it was impossible to rescue anyone. W. A. Cole, a fireman, was thrown from a ladder and. it is believed, fatally injured. A number of women are reported to have been in the building, and all of them are believed to have perished. Plot Menaces King Carlos A dispatch from Czernowitz. AustriaHungary, not far from the Roumanian frontier, says a plot has been discovered at the Roumanian capital against King Carlos and his government. The city of Bucharest, it Is added, is in great excitement, peasants are not permitted to enter the capital and numerous arrests have been made. Wreckers Cut Out the Track. An attempt was made to wreck a Pennsylvania Railroad express train near Tacony, a Philadelphia suburb. A track walker discovered that a foot of rail had been tawed out near a bridge over Long-' shore street. The electric signal connection was maintained by means of the fish plate. A New York express train was almost -due and was flagged. Steamer Is Cut in Two. A dispatch from the Lizard announced that the White Star Line steamer Snevlc, which went ashore near the Lizard March 17, was cut in two by weans of the extensive use of dynamite and that her after part was f lally severed and towed into port. Her fur part is firmly fixed on the reef. Great Month for Imports. That the month recently ended is the greatest recorded in the history of appraised merchandise at the port of New York is the statement made by Col. E. S. Fowler, appraiser of the port, who has made public figures showing that goods valued at $SÖ,CS1.323.07 have been passed. B. & O. Train Is Derailed. Baltimore and Ohio west-bound passenger train No. 7, from Washington to Chicago, was derailed at Dillon Falls, five miles west of Zanesville, Ohio, while rounding a curve. The dining car and two rear passenger coaches left the track, but no one was injured. Omaha Grain Man Kills Self. A. B. Asquith, a prominent grain commission man of Omaha and one of the original promoters of the Omaha Grain Exchange, shot and killed himself at bis home. His act is attributed to discouragement over recent transactions. He was about 4G years old. Tornado Kills Twenty. Probably twenty lives were instantly blotted out by a tornado which swept across portions of three gulf States. The storm was distinctly traceable for a distance of 300 mies and took about eleven hours in crossing this zone. Constantine Is a Prisoner. Frank J. Constantine, charged with the murder in Chicago of Mrs. Arthur Gentry, is a prisoner in New York and insists the woman committed suicide. Jiu Jitsu Chair at Minnesota. The University of Minnesota has added a professor of jiu jitsu to its teaching staff. M. Matsuo is the incumbent of the new chair. lie is two months out of Tokio. Proctor Estate $10,000,000. The wili of the late William II. Procter, the soap manufacturer, who committed suicide in Cincinnati recently, was filed in the Probate Court in Westerly, R. I. It directs that the property, amounting to $ 10,000 DOO, be divided equally among his five children. There are no public bequest.

HOST IS SOCIABLE.

CONVERSES INTELLIGIBLY AND HELFG WITH HOUSEWORK. -MiIIr and Int-nnny Maul f eolation ald to llavf Occurred About Ohio Homo :iml Sent to Man Soon to Ho Married. Ghostly manifestations in the Ileeter !io---e. three miles cast of Sorora. in Pref.le county. Ohio, have drawn hundreds of venturesome persons to the scene. Not only by rappings in the house does the spirit give evidence of its uncanny presence, but out in the yard the pump handle moves up and down, impelled by some invisible force, while the water flows freely. A sound of the pumping is heard as if on a metal wash. tub, erd kettles rise from the stove, Hoat about in the air, and then return to their places. Charles Iliiler tells of a conversation he had with tne ghost, in which the latter expressed itself by rapping. It said it had been in the house eight months. "Now." said I, "I will begin at the top of the alphabet nnd name the letters as J Co down, and when I come to the letters of your name, in regular order, rap onee," said Uiller. When he came to M it rapped, lie then went back to the beginning, and when he spoke A it rapped again, and so it kept up until it spoiled the name Martha Donald. It then told, by rappin?, of money that had been buried, and said that if Mrs. Ileeter would go out near the barn when she was near the place it would give three rops in the Louse. Mrs. Ileeter is infirm and cannot walk. CRIPPLES RIVAL WITH BOMB. Man About to Be Married Gets Infernal Machine. By the explosion of an inferual machine believed to hav been sent him by a rival for the auections of a woman Daniel Miller was terribly, injured in Schenectady, N. Y. If he recovers he w ill t totally blind and a cripple for life. John Ilalianan is under arrest. The machine was sent to Miller by express from North Adams, Mass. It was handed to him when he returned from his work at the American Locomotive plant. lie took it to his room and a few minutes later there was a terrific explosion. Miller is to be married to Miss Lillian A. Bedard in June. NARROW ESCAPE FROM MOB. Ohio Man Engages in Street Duel and Is Pursued by Crowd. Two negroes, Peter Ca!n and Will Jones, figured in a shooting scrape in the heart of the business district of Springfield, Ohio, which almost resulted disastrously for Cain, who was pursued by. a crowd of 300 people. Cain shot three times at Jones, but his aim was defective. Jones in running away stumbled and fell, nnd Cain, thinking he had killed him, took to his heels with a crowd in pursuit. Cain would have fared badly had cot a former city fireman intervened and hustled him to the county jail. SENDS BACK 374,270 LETTERS. Postal Department Beaks Record in Returning Undelivered Mail. . The division of dead letters in Washington broke all records by returning to senders during the month of March 374,1270 undelivered letters and packages. In March. 10j, the number returned was 223.438. The record for a ringle day in the returning branch of the division was also broken during last month, when 14,4SS letters were returned ou the 2Sth. Divorce Granted E. K. Norton. Through a divorce decree handed down by Judge Shumway of the Superior Court in New Haven, Conn., Edward Kenneth Norton of New York: City, formerly of Chicago, was freed from Josephine Celest Birney, with whom he eloped in January, 10OO, wi;ile he was a Yale freshman. The divorce was awarded on the grounds of infidelity. Takes Another's Run f May Die. An act of generosity for a friend who was nursing a sick w ife will cost AndrewSanders his life. Sanders was scalded in a collision between the two crack trains on the Northern Pacific railroad near Garrison, Mont. He had taken the run for the day to accommodate Firecan Taylqr, the regular man of the , North Const limited. Want More Wages and Holidays. About 350 stonecutters employed by three granite companies wont on fetrike in Milford, Mass., because of the refusal of the companies to .tränt them an increase of 3 cents an hour ic wages and a Saturday half-holiday throughout the year. The men have been receiving a half-holiday on Saturday from April to October. ' May Change President's Decision. President Koos? wit has exiosed the plot of the "rich men's combine," headed by E. II. Harriman to upset the policies of the administration, and opinion In Washington is that the fight thus caused may induce the President to accept a third term. Methodist Bishop Tasses Away. News of the death at Hongkong of Bishop James N. FitzGerald of the Methodist Episcopal church was received in New York City. Pleurisy was the cause of death. The bishop's home was in St. Louis. Offers to' Return Lands. The Union Pacific Coal Company, a Hsrriman corporation, has offered to return to the government -many thousands of acres of Western coal lauds, title to which was obtained by fraud, anJ thus escape possible prosecution. Marries Blind Sweetheart. , Former Governor L. F. C. Garvin and Miss Sarah E. Tomlinson, his blind sweetheart, were quietly married at the parsonage of the Lonsdale Baptist Church, Providence, B. I., by Bev. Theodore F. Gleason. Two-Cent Fare for Minnesota. i Both houses of the Minnesota-Legislature, with a suddenness that was start ling, passed by an overwhelming majority a 2-cent passenger fare bill. This action is a sequel to the rejection of the compromise fare project. Threatened Strike Setttled. The threatened railroad strike' has been settled by federal mediation. Employes numbering MM) on forty roads are to get increased wages amounting to $(J,0O0,000 per year. Miss Grigsby Wins Tube Stock. Emily Grigsby, by a settlement out of court, won 47.000 shares of the London Underground Railway left in trust for her by Charles T. Yerkes, but the market value is only about $130,000. Big Tunnel Plan Rejected. The Russian cabinet has rejected a proposal made on behnJf of an American syndicate for the construction of a railroad tunnel under 'Bering straits, by which it was hoped ultimately to connect the Trans-Siberian with the Canadian Pacific railroad. Suicide of Wealthy Youth. Myer L. Wilson, 23 yeans old, a son of IL I. Wilson, a prominent merchant, shot himself in the head as he stood at Eleventh and Walnut streets, in the business center of Kansas City. When help reached him a moment later Wilson was dead.

EVELYII Alii) IIASSY

vS fi' V?.-: RULES HARRY THAW SANE. Lunacy 'ormiillou I'naiiimou Lnnt;-I)elned VTHct. Harry K. Thaw was unanimously declared no liy tlio lunacy commission ami a new turn was Riven the famous case by the protest of District Attorney Jerome, who said he would carry the ruling to the appellate division of the sujireuie court on a technical point. The ruling of the commission that bad been appointed to determine the present state of mind of the slayer of Stanford White came as a victory for the defendant mid his family. Thaw was not I n" court to hear the decision. The jury which has heard the testimony a.cainst him was al.o excluded and both prisoner and jurors were out of rangv of the district attorney'sheated discussion with Justice Fitzgerald. All the members of the Thaw family. Including: the mother and wife of the defendant, were present, however, and their kern delight over the announcement of the favorable reIrt from the lunacy ommision was turned into alarm at the unexpected attitude of the district attorney, whose threat to take the matter before the appellate division of the court seemed toj involve another serious delay in the lons-drawn-out trial. The news of the commission's unanimous verdict as to his present sanity was carried to Thaw In the prisoner's pen. He expressed satisfaction, but not surprise. There has not Ken a time since the commission was appointed that the defendant has not been wholly confident of a favorable decision. He declared that he felt especially lucky, because the day wai the second aniiversary of his marriage. - CONSTANTINE IS CAUGHT. Alleged Slayer of Mr. Gentry Taken After Lons Chano. Accused of the murder of Mrs. Louise Hashes 'Gentry, Frank Constantine admitted to the New York police that he is the man whom the Chicago -authorir ties have sought for fifteen months. Since the murder of the woman on Jan. C. 1000, Constantine, who admits he was with her at the time of her death, has been a fugitive, fleeing from the police first to Italy, then back to the United States, to South America, and back to the United States again, lie was about to embark for a second trip to Italy when be was caught. He claims the woman committed suicide and says that he fled because bo was afraid h would be accused of the crime and would be unable to prove bis innocence. The murder of Mrs, Gentry was particularly brutal, her head beinjr, almost severed from her lody by a razor slash. Constantine had lieen a lodger at the Gentry home several weeks. He posed as a man of wealth. He Mi l that he was the son of Frank J. Constantine, the wealthy real estate man of New York. Mrs. Gentry had been Miss Louise Hushes, an artist of some prominence. She had been .married to Gentry about one year. Onee, it was reported, she told the wife of the Janitor that she was afraid she would be killed. She gave no explanation for this assertion. After Const an tine's disappearance a number of suspects were arrested in different parts of the continent. Xo Chinese on Cannl Work. Sereral of th? party of forty-six congressmen who have recently r turned from inspecting the work on the. Panama canal, made the statfment that they had not "seen a single Chinaman at work on the isthmus. They also reported an intense feeling against their employment. Congressman C S. Smith of California said that the laborers are taking out about .11.000 cubic yards of? dirt every day, with an average of 800,000 cubic vards a month. About 52,000,000 cubic yards are Mill to be removed. He says there are 3T.000 men on the pay roll. About ..000 ore Americans, about 0,000 Jamaicans, and the r?st are Gallegos. Iteaponnlbtlltr of Corporation. Chairman Gary of the United States Steel Corporation, which does the most extensive business of any company in the world, in a New York World interviewgave it as his opinion concerning the present financiil and jtolitical disturbance that the cure for public hostility toward the railroads and other corjHjrat ions would be simple honesty in their management and that large aggregations of wealth should be under control of wme whether federal or otherwise. kind. AeetIene Ali! rinnt Growth. How Prof. John Craig of Cornell university, in a long series of experiments, discovered that of artificial Slluminants none is so closely akin to sunlight as the rays of acetjlene gas. is reported by W. T. Walsh in the April Technical World magazine. By using the illuminant at all tiir.es when the sun was not on deck, either at night or on cloudy days. Prof. Craig forced the finest strawberries to maturity in sixteen days ahead of the record, and radishes in three foirths of the usual time, without deterioration in quality. Geraniums and lilies were mashown, moreover, that even on sunny days the use of acetylene re-enforced the rays of sunlight, and hastened the ripening process. In h duel oyer a poker game at Reserve. La.. Superintendent T. W. Farfell of the Ruddock-Orleans Lumber Company was killed outright and Benjamin P. 'Bourgoois, his opponent, was .seriously wounded. B. Alonzo and A. Garran while thawing powder lost their lives by the explosion of 200 pounds of dynamite at Goldsmith and McDonald camp, near Huntington. Ort,

THAW AND MEMBERS CF THE LUNACY C0MMKI03T.

TZ.Tt2. ROOSEVELT VS. HARRIMAN. EDWARD H. IIAKEIMAN. President Boogevelt emphatically denied the statement contained in a letter published In New York purporting to have been written by E. II. Harriman to Sidney Webster of New York In the latter part of Decemler last. In the letter the statement is made that at the request of Roosevelt he (Harriman) assisted in raising a . fund of $2."0.000 to lw'usetl in carrying NewYork for the Republican party at the election -which was thtn approaching. This statement the President characterizes as a "deliberate and wilful untruth by right It should Ik? characterized by an even shorter and more ugly word. I never requested Harriman to ralso a dollar for the presidential campaign in 1M4." With the full knowledge and consent of the President, details were given out nt the White House of the amazing combine which the President says exists among the Harriman Interests to tief eat any candidate for the presidential nomination who bears the Indorsement of Roosevelt. The President now claims that not only his candidate for the Presidency, but his policies, will be attacked by the men, who have pledged a $o,000,coo fund to carry out their scheme. . .' E. II. Harriman declined absolutely to talk about the report from Washington that a fund of $.".000,000 had been raised to prevent the nomination for President of a man of President Roosevelt's choosing in 1Ü0S.. ' ' BISHOP DIES ABROAD. Ilev. J. X. FHi(;crnld Stricken with IMearlsy While at HonRkong. Bishop James N. Fitzgerald of the Methodist Episcopal church, who died at Hongkong while making his quadrennial visit to the mission stations. was 0 years old and had been a bishop since LSSS. Pleurisy was the cause of death. His home was in St. Louis. Bishop Fitzgerald 'was engaged in making one of the quadrennial visits which the bishops are required to pay to the msnop fitzgkrai.d. mission stations. He left Montreal Oct. 27, accompanied by Mrs. Fitzgerald, his two daughters and son Roy, to visit the Methodist missions in Southern Asia, took part in the public celebration of the founding of the mission in India at Bareilly. Dec, 2S, and-was to have represented the Missionary Society at the China centenuial of Protestant missions at Shanghai. - His daughter, Cornelia, died at Tenang, in the Straits Settlements, on the way to India. Bishop Fitzgerald was born at Newark, N. J. He joined the Newark conference in 18(12. After acting as recording secreta"n of the Missionary Society from 1SS0 to 1SS8 he was elected bishop. He was formerly presiding elder of the Newark, Newton and Jersey City district Interesting News Item. Damage amounting to $100,000 was caused by three fires in the Chattman mill at Philadelphia. Arthur Bean killed his wife with an ax at North Baltimore, 'Ohio, and then committed suici'ie by shooting himself with a Flobert rifle. Lightning struck the glaze mill of the Austin Powder Company at Fall Junction, Ohio, causing an explosion which resulted in the killing of two men and the destruction of several thousand dollars worth of property. Frederick J. Hatterman, a memtar of the Fifty-fourth Congress from the Third Pennsylvania District, died in Philadelphia. He was born in Germany and was 75 years of age. A feud which began in Nome, Alaska, five years ago was ended, in a saloon in Goldtield, Nev.,- when Jack I lines shot and killed a man known as Count Podhorski of Warsaw, Russia. The coroner's jury at Los Angeles investigating the recent Santa Fe collision, returned a verdict finding Engineer Kelly and Conductor Humble guilty of disobeying orders and the company guilty of neglect. Eighteen thousand dolars worth of jewelry was stolen from the home of Charles Morgan, son of the founder of the Morgan steamship lines, at his home in Orange. N. J. The Union Savings nnd Trust Company of Cincinnati was named as receiver for the People's Gas 'and Electric Lighting Company of Xenia, Ohio, on the application of attorneys for Evelyn Bird of Chicago, a bondholder. Judge Boyd in the federal court at Greensboro, N. C, sentenced L. E. Davis, ex-chairman of the board of commission ers of Wilkes county, N. C, to one year in prison and to pay a fine of $1,000 for filing false expense accounts.

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TORNADO KILLS TWENTY. Terrific "Windstorm DemollKhe Alexandria, I. a. A cyclone occurred at .lexandria. La.. Friday, in which at least twenty persons were killed an.l iidoVi. than 10O injured. The storm is reporred to have been one of the worst ever seen in that section of the State and wrought ajpalling havoc. A great part of the town is in ruins. Fifty bouses have been torn to bit.s and several stores and factory buildings demolished, while scores of other bu'idings . were badly shattered. Alexandria is located near the center of the State and is an important railroad and commercial city, with a population of about 7,000. A wide swath was cut by the cyclone through the town, extending for miles through a rich and jmpulous farming district. The damage to buildings and crops will amount to millions. According to reports-the cyclone struck the town about 2 o'clock in the morning. It came with scarcely a warning note. The sleeping citizens were aroused by a tremendous, terrifying roar of wind that was scarcely beard before it seemed to fill the whole air of the town with a deafening" crash. Houses toppled down like cards or were lifted completely from their foundations and dropped many yards away a shapeless mass of timbers with their occupants. crushed In the ruins. Roofs were torn off and went 'sailing through the air like huge kites. Trees were uprooted ami tossed a hundred feet into the air, and some, of theni were carried miles away. The air was filled with flying tinders and. many persons were struck by those as they rus'uMl from their tottering homes. Men, women and children and animals were caught up by the mighty current of wind and some of them were carried a block in the air. The storm was over in a few minutes. RAILROAD WAR AVERTED. Mediation Prlnifn Alion( Settlement rt et ween Hondo nnd Men. Government mediation has proven successful in preventing the long threatening strike of trainmen on forty-two big Western railroads, affecting 514.000 employes, and endaugering the commerce of the entire country west of Chicago. It is the first time the Erdmann arbitration act has lieen called into play, and it has proved a su cess. ' v , Through the good office of Chairman Martin A. Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission and Charles P. Neil!, United States Commissioner of Lalior, the General Managers' Comuilt tee of the railroads and the Employee' Committee, representing the unions of th trainmen and conductors., Thursday, reached an agreement which remove! all possibility of the strike. ' The general managers ., committee granted a slight increase, to flagmen and brakemen. and the employes made all other concessions necessary to e tablish peace. The agreement goes Into effect as from April 1. By -the offer of the managers' committee made on Feb. J7, the employes receive an Increase amounting to $1.-"00,000 annually. The additional increase to the flagmen and brakemen prnounts to $.100,000 a year. Had the men accepted the terms of the managers' committee, effective on March 1, they would have received $450.000 additional on their March' pay. The principal terms of settlement ia the threatened strike may be summarized as follows: . Increase In wages of passenger cobductors, $10 per month; baggagemen, $7.."0; flagmen and brakemen. $0,ri0. Overtime In passenger service, on fifteen miles an hour basis, :." cents ai hour for conductors, and 23 cents fox baggagemen, flagmen and brakemen. Ten;rer cent increase for freight COductois and brakemen. I . To Test Amh r'uel. The claim put forth by John Elmore, t poor cobbler of Altoona, Pa., that he h. discovered a solution which, when adde to a mixture of one part coal to three parts coal ashes, would make more heat than the original coal from which tat ashes came, is to receive a definite commercial test at the hands of Jones & Laugblin Steel Company of Pittsburg. If the claim of the inventor should be sustained it would mean much' to the coal and all manufacturing industries. eilten Snlclde llnrenu. During the four weeks since the organization of the Salvation Array anti-suicide bureau in Chicago the managers say that not less than' thirty jersons have been dissuaded from suicidal purposes and have been put into iositions which yield a livelihood. Under the (terms of the w ill of Abby S. Queen, widow of a prominent optician of Philadelphia. $10.000 is bequeathed to the trustees of Princeton university to found two scholarships in any one of the departments of the institution which the faculty may think mo appropriate. In a petition filed in the United States District Court Otis B. Benton, a Cleveland lawyer, says he owes nearly $41.000. Talbot J. Taylor & Co. of New York City is the largest creditor and got judgment for $3o,oJl.' Miss Emma Rousey, aged 10, was killed by a Chesapeake and Ohio train at Central City, W. Va. Perry Meadows, a section hand, tried to save her and was himself killed. Southern stove manufacturers have agreed to advance prices 5 per cent because of the high price for iron and steel ac3 tht incrmed cost of labor.

WILL OF DR. DOWIE.

Devises Bulk of Cta(e to Uxtcnd ChrUCan Catholic Ciiu -ch. The last will of the late Juhn Alexander Dowie has been filed for probate in the County Coilrt of Iake County, at Waukegan. HI. It devises the bulk of the estate of the dead leader of Zion Cijy to extend the Christian. Catholic Church, of which he died the exiled and excommunicated head. To the widow, Mrs. Jane Dowie, only the strict allowance demanded by the law is bequeathed, and to his son, A. J. Glad stone Dowie, from both of whom Ifcwie died' estranged, the sum of $10 is deVised. An attendant. Barnett Burleigh. is given $1.00o, "as his lee and reward for the loyal service that God used him in, in the saving of my life in Jamai ca. r All of the remainder of the property. the existence and value of which is clouded by extensive litigation.-ft devised to John A. Lewis, a friend and adviser of the dead prophet, who was in Mexico at the time Dowie died. In brief the provisions of Dowie's will are: Orders payment of just debts. Gives widow, Mrs. Jane Dowie, only her dower and statutory rights in estate. Gives son. Gladstone Dowie. $10. Gives Barnett Burleigh $1,000 for sav ing Dowie's life in Jamaica. Gives balance of estate to John A. Lewis as trustee. , Appoints Lewis spiritual successor as head of church. Directs continuance of church work by Lewis, usins estate for purpose. If court finds Dowie had no legal title to property, directs selection of commission of five to determine disposition of whatever of estate may be left". Names Lewis, Fielding II. Wilhite and James F. Peters executors of will. RELEASE JAMES GILLESPIE. Supreme Court Says Trial of Aliened Slnyer Wan Invalid. ! By a decision of the Indiana Supreme Court James Gillespie of Rising Sun, serving a life sentence in the State prison for the murder of his sister, is set free. The decision is bastd on the ground that an error was committed in not granting a new trial. It holds that further prosecution be abandoned. Miss' Elizabeth Gillespie.a woman of middle age, was killed Dec 3. 1903. by a load of shot from a shotgun fired through the window of a room of her home. Her brother. James Gillespie, to gether with Belle Howard and Mr. and Mrs. Myron Barbour, were indicted and placed on trial charged with the crime. Th? jury disagreed, .and .later Gillespie, who elected to be tried separately, wa placed on trial tnd convicted la 1905. lie was sentenced to prison for. life. The other three defendants were later acquitted. In the first trial, after the jury had been sworn, it was found that one of the jurors was n second cousin of the deceased husband of Belle Howard, one of the defendants. Y. Reports from Jamaica show that Gov. Swettenham's resignation ha' been received with general satisfaction. The Governor's unpopularity is of long standing and has been brought to a climax by recent events. . . Secretary Taft has announced that Col. Goethals succeeds Mr. Stevens as chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission and engineer in charge of the canal work. Col. Goethals will receive a salary of $15.000 annually. The President has appointed George J. Woodruff of th forest service to be assistant Attorney General for the Interior, to succeed Frank I Campbell, who has been transferred to the position of. special attorney in the Department of Justice. The Kentucky Court of Appeals has declared unconstitutional the redistricting act of 1000. This will remove seven Democratic members oi the Legislature and render more doubtful the election of Gov J. C. W. Beckham to the United States Senate. United States Senator Cullom of Illinois, after 'emerging from an interview with President Roosevelt, said he had told the President that if he had his way he would try to put E. II. Harriman in the penitentiary on account of the Alton deal alone. George W. Te-kins. formerly the first vice president of the New York Life Insurance Company, has sent to that company his personal check for $4,010, in reimbursement to the company of the contribution made from its funds in 1904 to the expenses of the Republican campaign. " In a newspaper interview, while he was en route from the South, John D. Rockefeller declared emphatically that federal control of all the railroads would be a good thing for them, as well as for the general public. He said that the railroads and other big corporations were greatly overcapitalized, and his only; explanation of that policy by men with whom he had been associated was the temptation to make money faster. Former Secretary Shaw, speaking at the banquet of the South Carolina So-' ciety of New York, said it was the duty of all citizens Co go on record as promising the safety of railroad investments from the reckless manipulator, as well as from the reckless demagogue. As a punishment for those railroads which retaliate on lawmaking by reducing service or rRy. Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia, in an address at the banquet of the Cincinnati Receivers' and Shippers' Association, advocated limited railroad ownership, national. State and municipal, to supplement national and State control. "I had a letter a few diys ago." wild Congressman Hale of Tennessee, "from a constituent' who asked me to send him the rules and regulations of Congress." "Did you do it?" "Yes; I sent him a photograph of Joe Cannon." United States Senator William J. Stone, in the course of a speech in Kansas City, said that if we are to have .serious trouble with any nation it will be with Japan. "Japan," he remarked, "wants the Philippines. I am not sure if it would not be best for all concerned if she would get them, but one thing is certain, and that is she will never get them with our consent." That the labor unions have been the greatest forces for good in America, was the opinion expressed by W. J. Bryan in a speech before Chicago unionists. He credited organized laor with introducing the Australian ballot, raising wages, shortening hours of labor, and raising the age limit of child labor. Socialists in the Wisconsin Legislature' have caused the committee on federal relations to pass a resolution asking Congress to seize and operate Ul public utilities which inny become br.nkrupt. The plan is to work up a national movement in behalf of such a law and thus to give the people a chance to experiment with national operatba of railroads.

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JJXW YOB.X. Trade resiH;:ds to season.: Vir- weather, distribution of s-;:rin merchandise. fcHy equaling vanguine cxpcc.atio".. and country merchants purchase HVraüy from wholesalers at le.uihi: -n; -rs. Hearts from principal cities are uni'orn.lv favorable, active business being ac: oni ani?l by' further improvement in collections. Leading industries are fully occupied and no stiikes of more than local sisnifK-ai-ee have materialized. Manufacturers are brsy orJ j;o.)Js for eirly shipment snd s'aniple n'in"s for later season prcmiM continued ac tivity. Improved trnflie nditKs make deliveries more juomp-- Few line;' of finished steel an be delivered . promptly, mills averainr fonr Jo six months capacity engaged, and quotations ere .-eonsefjueutly . well maintained. Primary markets for textiles are more quiet, but there is i o diminution in the output of mills except ivhcie labor cannot be secured. Conmi'rt-ity exchange have re-1 stp.ii ed normal conditions and prices f-how some re-overy from the ensettkd position after tin Easter holiday, which was j rolonged abroad. Dun's Review. Despite some crosscurrents in demand, due mainly ro the withdrawal cf the Easter stimulus to trade and a sucteding sje!l cf-cold weather, the dcv!o; monts of the 'week have leen mainly favorable. Chief, pdhaps. of these i the final itifai-tory sett !en;-pt of th wc-st-i ein railway men's demands by arbitration. All rejorts as to trade in wholesale and jobbing circles in the hrst quarter are in a high d"gree favorable, and failure returns confirm 'the smallest number of casualties for a generation prist. .Brports from most leading industries are t-tHl of fdl order hooks and of backward deliveries. There is, however, slightly more manifest lispo-itkai to move irore conservatively as regards distant isi'ions, seme easing of metal quotations and a softening of asking prices for various products, and the jewelry, shoe, leather and wool trades note quiet. ending a clearer view of later developments. Business failures in the United States for the ck ending April 4 number 137. against ! last week nnd Ul in the like wek of 11 K. Canadian failures for the we0c number 20, against 21 last week ar.d 17 in this week a year ago. Bradstrcot's Report. CHICA'GO. Spring trade shows steady advar'-e in the leading branches, and the remarkable volume of nev, demands reflects continued strength in the buying power, making the best testimony that confiden-e in tb outlook for industry' suffers no impairment. The city, election interrupted dealings in the primary markets and the epra:icns In breadstuff's and 1U stock were lessened, but factory production, wholesaling ard forwarding ,of finished products and general merchandise exceed those of a year ago. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 13. against '22 last week and 22 a' jvar ago. For the firt quarter of this year the similar ' failures totaleri 2!h;, aiirst :i ia I!"; and ötiO in RMJT. Dun's Ricw. Chicago Cattle, common to prime $1.00 to $j.0T; hogs, prime heavy, $1.(0 to $.!); sheep, fair to choice, $3.iO to $5.00; wheat. No. 2. 74c to 7Ic: corn. No. 2, 42c to 41c: oats, standard. 4k? to 43c ; rye. No. 2. Ch to Cc : hay, timothy. $13.00 to $1S.X): prairie. SO.OO to $13.00; butter, choice creamery. 27c to 30c; eggs, fres-i, J3e jo löc; potatoes, 30c to 4Sc. Indianapolis Cattle, Khipplng. $3.00 to $d.30; hogs choice heavy. $4.00 to $'.90; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2. 74c to 70c ; corn. No. 2 white. 4-V to 4'c; oats. No. 2 white, 42c to 41c. St. Louis Cattle. .'$4.-Y to $C.30; hogs. $4.00 to $d.STi: sheep. $3.00 to $1.10: wheat. No. 2, 7V to 77c; corn. No. 2, 42c to 43e; oats. No. 2. 4(V to 41c; rye. No. 2, 07c to OSc. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.O0 to i .. c rut ti'i. . e'jrvi $'.00: wheat. No. 2. 77c to 7'Jc; coin. Xo. 2 mixed, 40k? to 47c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 41c; rye. No. 2. 73c to 74c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.23; bogs $4.0!) to $0.03; sheep, $2.30 to $3.00; yellow, 40c to ,47c; oats. No. 3 white, 43c to 43c; rye, No. 2, (c to tic. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern, TSc to S2c; corn, , No. 3. 40o to 41c; oats, standard. 41c to 42c; rye. No. 1, Cy- to tiOc; barley, standard. 7Ue to 71c; jtcrk. mess $10.00. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers $4.00 to $U.O0; hogs fair to choke, $4.00 to $7.13; heep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $3.40; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $8.30. . , VNew York Cattle. $1.00 to $0.33; hogs $L00 to $70; si-eon. $3.00 to $4.30; wheat. No. 2 ml, SV.- to 82c; corn. No. ', ..1c to I4o; oats natural white. 47c to 40c; butter, mamery, 20c to 31c; eggs western. 13c to 17c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 7Go to 78c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 4Cc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 42c to 41c; rye. No. 2, CSc to 00c; clover seed, prime, $3.30. Ppark from the Wires. A coolie riot occurred at Port of Snain, Trinidad, during which the manager of an estate was killed. Former President Cleveland was presented with a silver loving crp by the entire undergraduate body of Princeton university ia honor of his seventieth birthday. The Rothschilds hare purchased for $3,000,000 the famous Beatson group of copper mines on La Touche Island. Prince Willian Sound. Alaska, according to reports received in Seattle. , certificate of incorporation of the TolMo, Wabash and St. Louis Baüroad Company was recorded at Augusta. Me. The capital is $0.)0.0OO. The manifest of the German steamship Arabia, which arrived at Portland Ore., from Hongkong 'and Japanese ioris shows 2S.M3 casp of firecrackers, destined for forty-six cities of the United States. The indictment of the Cincinnati Traction Company and its officials is declared to be called for, 'according to questions submitted by the grand jury at Cincinnati ;n connection with the investigation into a. accident last Dee-ember. Jesse F. Welborn has been chosen by the board of directors of the Colorado Fuel and' Iron Company to succeed the late Frank J. Ilearne as president of that ctraiiany. Gov. Vardaman announced at Jakson, Miss that he would appoiut Assistant Attorney General B. V. Fletcher as Attorney General to succeed William Williams, deceased. The court martial in the ca cf Seconl Lieut. Morris C. Foote, Twenty-eighth infantry, stationed in Cuba, has convicted him of financial irregularities. A similar result has followed the court martial of First Lieut. Eugene P. Crowne, Twentxninth infantry.