Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 28, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 April 1907 — Page 2

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j ,5th yi2th v 20th. ,t2c:tri. - 1 II PANORAMA OF TtlE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. v All Pldea and Conditions of Thing a.e Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Earthquake In Mexico. An earthquake lasting four and a half minutes gave the City of Mexico a severe shaking. The earth rocked in a long swinging motion terrifying the Inhabitants but doinj: no damage so far as can be learned. Clocks in the dty stopped at 11:3 i p. m. (Mexican time, -which is thirty-six minutes slower than American time) and the perceptible motion of the earth ceased at 11:38. Telegraph wires were put out of commission and for a short time the city wa3 in darkness owing to the failure of the electric lights. One wall of the Associated Press office was cracked from floor to ceiling. The asphalt on "a paved cprner on Cinco De Mayo street, one j of the principal streets of the city, was cracked open a distance of ten yards. Grand Army Encampment. Th3 twenty-eighth annual encampment. Department of Indiana, G. A. It., and the twenty-fourth annual convention, W. R. C, and the fourteenth annual convention. Ladies of the G. A. R., will be held In Fort Wayne, Ind., May 22, 23 and 24. The city has raised i.: handsome sum for their entertainment and the citizens will throw open their homes and give shelter and rations to their guests. They will be entertained In royal style and amused in many ways a procram haying been prepared that will keep the old veterans and their ladies very busy daring their stay in the Summit City.

D.AO. Train Wrecked; Engineer Killed Speeding at the rate of seventy lhilei an hour around a curve near Sullivan, Ohio, a west-bound passenger train on the B. & O. railroad was wrecked. Engineer IL M. Dempsen was instantly killed under his engine, which turned over on its side. Fire- , man R. E. Crall, o! Chicago Junction, was severely injured. Three coaches left the track but none of the passengers was hurt. The train was a New York and Chicago fast mail.

BIS Fire at Laporte, Ind. The oil station buildings of the Lake Shore railroad at Laporte, Ind., including the office of the Western Union .'Telegraph Company, were destroyed by fire to the apparent delight of a crowd that had gathered and cheered each fresh outburst of flame. The fire smarted in the express ofüce, In which a quantity of dress goods and othr merchandise was stored. The orlgla of the . fire is a mystery. The total loss is estimated at $12,000. Lone Robber Hold V? Stage. A dsi patch from Great Falls, Mont., cays: The stage running between Malta and Zortman was held t.p by a lone bandit, and a sum estimated at about $28,000 Is said to have been secured. The message gave no details of the daring robbery other than thai It occurred Just north of Zortman and the stage vas entering the Little Rockies with a consignment of money to pay the wages of the miners at the Zortman mines. Train Wreckers Work Cnuaea Deaths. Three men killed and one probably fatally injured- is the result of what is believed to be the work of train wreckers at Cheneyville, thirty miles southeast of Alexandria, La., on the Texa3 & Pacific railroad, when a westbound passenger train plunged into an open switch while running at a high rate of speed. Dr. llaatEh Matt Die The State Pardon Board ha : refused to grant a reprieve to D-. Oliver Haugh, of Dayton, Ohio, who murdered his mother, father and brother. The application was made on the ground that Dr. Haugh Is" demented. He will appeal the governor. Xeek Braken, He Lire J. B. Kitchen, while riding a wild mule near Grayson, Ky., was thrown, the two bones of the neck being dislocated. An operation was performed and the Injury remedied. Farmer Comptroller of Currency Dead. James II. Eckels, president of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago, and former Comptroller of the Currency, died at his home in Chicago of heart disease apparently while he was asltep in his bed. New World' Swimming Record. David Bllllngton, a professional swimmer at Sydney, N S. W., swam three-quarters of a miio In 17:35 2-5, thereby creating new world's record. Train Wreckers Are Sought. Pennsylvania Railroad officials. are exerting every effort to effect the capture of the man or men who derailed five trains on the road, the last one being the Cleveland flyer at Hudson, Ohio, Saturday night. Enginemen on the system are panic-stricken and are asking to be taken off fast mas and put on slow freights. Kansas City After 1008 Convention. The Tiger Republican Club of Kansas City has appointed a committee of prominent citizens to raise $100,000 to bring the Republican national convention of 1008 to that city. Insane Mother Starves to Death. Mrs. Olga Knutson, wife of Nut Knutson. died in the insane ward of th county jail in Cripple Creek, Colo from starvation. Besides her husband, Mrs. Knntson leaves an 8-months-old baby. For weeks she labored under the hallucination that the little one was dying, nni she refused to eat. Lonjovorthn S;? Alaftkn. Representative and Mrs. . Nicholas Iionsworth expect to .penl a month In Alaska the coining summer. They will leave their home in Cincinnati about JuJj 1.

CAPTURE OF CON STA NT! NE.

Chicago' Most DafTinx Murder Cae Krarhe ('limns. The capture of the fugitive accused of tln crime has brjruht to a climax Chicago most liaillii g murder caso. Chicago's most liorrlfyin ono. Frank J. t'onstantliH. arrest od Jit Nov.- York as Ik was making a dash lor a steamship for Italy, will he tried for cutting the throat of Mrs. Iwise- .entry in her La Sali avenue flat on J.ri. 0, 1ÜTHJ. Constantino has born a hunted man from that time. II disappeared from the (.entry flat liathss and eollarless. Outsit e lie threw a Mood-stained overcoat .o a novsloy who had called his attention to the stains on it. lie hailed a cab, hastened to a pawnbroker, pawned a watch and diamond for $00, even ry. FSANK J. (O-NSTAXTIXE. while the jtollce were already on his trail, and disappeared. He says now that he wandered over the country and has been to Italy. lie had changed his name to Pasquale Girolamo and provided rhimself with a birth certificate issued under that name. Ills appearance enabled him to pass easily as aD Italian. After admitting his identity, lie declared his Innocence, saving that the woman cut her own throat while she was alone In the fiat 'with him. Constantino is a never-do-well soi; of well-to-do parents, who was alway idle and penniless. lie was a roamei in the flat of the Gentrys. who wVre both talented artists, and only six months married. The husband went tc work at S a. ui.. leaving the roomer and h!s wife at home. Two hours later the beautiful wife staggered to a doctor's liice on the first floor, gasping thai someone had cut her throat, and Med to death at his feet in a few moments The evidence against Constantino is purely circumstantiaK and there is nc motive known. Theories range from a crime of a madman, love. disapiointment and jealousy to murder for plain robbery. In brief, Constantino's Jtory of the tragedy is as follows : ' ' ' ' I never killed Mrs. Gentry. I was ic the house when she committed suicide I did not kill hrr, but was. in the room when she cut hr throat. I 'don't know why she did it. but sh certainly did cut her own throat. 2 aw it. I didn't know what to do. ! was then iloDe with the dead woman. I was the only witness of the deed I became jnnic stricken and thoroughly unnerved. I wan afraid L would be accused of having murdered her, so I ran away, anxious to ret anywhere, where I ft?5 MKS. I-OCISE GEXT8Y. ;ould hide. It turned out badly for me. There was th4 woman dead and I whe aad roomed in the house found missing. The natural conclusion was I dfd it, nd it was then too late for roe to show nyself, and assert that the woman bad ?ommitted suicide. I could not have convinced the police l the truth of my story, so I stayed away and tried to keep hidden. I have been a burted man ever since. Telegraphic BrcTltlea. The Delta Chi legal fraternity, in convention at Washington elected Harry II. Itarnum of Chicago president. The sawmill of the Maley, Thompson & MofTet Lumber Company at Cincinnati burned, causing a loss of $."(),O00. Iienjamin Thaw, a half-brother of Harry K. Thaw, has donated $."0.000 to the fund for the proposed new building for the Western University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburg. Milton II. Kirk of Chicago, who recent-', ly passed the examination for consular service, has been apiointed consulai cHrk, vice William Hunter Delaney, who has been promoted. Thj annual meeting of the hoard of directors of the Missouri. Kansas and Texas Railroad Company of Texas was held in Dallas. The entire board of old directors was re-elected. Two white men and two negroes wer shot at Lynchburg, Va., in a riot result, ing from the white men being jostled oS the sidewalk by four negroes. Armed with a rifle and standing guard over her dead husband's body, Mrs. L. C. Drew held a sheriff's jKsse at bay foi twenty-four hours at Water Valley, .La. Mrs. Drew is charged with shooting hei husband. Otto D. Stallard, defaulting cashier of the People's National bank at Sedan, Kan., was pranted a continuance in order to permit him to raise a crop on his home place to keep his family from want. He has agreed to plead guilty. The Shamokin wagon works, an adjoining planing mill and seven small dwellings at Shamokin, I 'a., were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $70,000. H. E. Bowman, an insurance agent representing himself to be from Columbus, Ohio, was found dead in a Delphos. Ohio, hotel. He retired apparently in good bealth. Death is supposed to have been due to paralysis. At a meeting of the executive commit, tee of the American Window Glass Company in Pittsburg, Pa., it was decided to continue operating all factories during the summer months. This will mean steady work for a large number of employes who are usually idle during the summer.

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LONG.DRAWN.OUT TRIAL COMES TO AN END. rarnons LprmI Rattle I.at. for Three Month Proceedings Have Been F!usrerly Follorved ly rteadlac I'ukl'c In Two Continents. Hopelessly divided seven for a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree and five for acquittal on ' the ground of insanity the jury which since January 23 has been trying Harry K. Thaw in New York. City reportc.I Friday afternoon after forty-seven hours and eight minutes of deliberation tl-.t it could not possibly agree. The twelve men were promptly discharged by Justice Fitzgerald, who declared that he, too, believed their task hopeless. Thaw was remanded to jail without bail to await a second trial on tlie charge of having murdered Stanford White, the noted architect. When this new trial will take place no one connected with the case could express an opinion. Distirct Attorney Jerome declared that there were many other persons accused of homicide awaiting trial and that Thaw would have to take his turn. Events moved swiftly and thiillinsly in the last day of the gi;oat Thaw trial in New York. For Thaw and for those who were hoping for hi" acquittal it was the most soul trying ordeal of the twelve weeks which the trial had lasted. Upon the heels of District Attorney Jerome's closing address, nearly every word of which was like the blow of a lash on Thaw and his girl wife. Justice Fitzgerald charged the jury in a manner that seemed to dry up every vestige of hope for Stanford White's slayer. And then the case was given to the Jury. The closing day of the trial proceedings was the most dramatic since the prisoner's wife recited her pitiful story on the witness stand. District Attorney Jerome dissected the argument of Mr. Delnias for the defense and tore It to shreds. .Seizing upon incidents In Thaw's life, he pictured the prisoner as a man whose Character was as black as that of Stanford White, and Evelyn Xesbit he portrayed as a girl anything but the innocent child Mr. Delmas had shown her. Harry K. Thaw sat with clenched fhts and blanched face while District Attorney Jerome tore his life to shreds, and demanded that the Jury asses cgainst him the death penalty. Sarvk?- it 'it? tiAf eiAxroiD vrniTE. casm tipped every word which the district attorney spokev. He declared thü pathetic "unwritten law" arguments of Mr. Delmas, if heeded by the Jury, would turn New York into the semblance of a western mining carup, and ridiculed the "dementia Americana" on which the final plea for acquittal bad been made. 'The district attorney declared that romance and sentiment did not enter into the issue; it was not a question of Stanford White's character or Evelyn Thaw's sufferings; It was a plain, matter-of-fact homicide. "A common, cowardly tenderloin murder," Is the way he termed It. It was Jerome's summing-up speech the last word In the famous trial before the jude intrusted the prisoner's fate to the Jury. Jerome lashed Thaw cs with a knout of a thousand flails. It was the most savage attack of the whole trial. There -was not a dark page In Thaw's life that was not turned to the light of criticism and blame. So fierce, so vindictive was Jerome that there were many who believed he was purposely peeking to goad Thaw Into pome outburst. "He Is guilty and should be punished," was the burden of his speech. And following this terrrSc arraignment which had turned the hopes of Thaw and his relatives Into forebodings, came the Judge's charge to the Jury. As the Jurist, avoiding all efforts at oratorical effect, went over the facts and admonished the men who are to decide on Thaw's fate to put aside passion and prejudice and render a verdict strictly on the legal points at Issue, an expression of abject terror overspread the prisoner's face. The Judge's definition of Insanity sufficient to cau.se an acquittal dampened the hopes even of the prisoner's lawyers, and as the Jury filed out of the room it was plain that all concerned were anxious. After deliberating for more than eighteen hours without being able to reach an agreement, the Jurors reported before Justice Fitzgerald Thursday morning and asked permission to examine a large number of the exhibits Introduced during the trial and alo asked to have read to theni the testimony of several of the eyewitnesses to the tragedy. Lumber Trodactlon Iinlletln. The national forestry service has made public its estimate of the annual production of lumber in this country at 100,000,000 cords, valued at $1,020,000.000. The State of Washington ranks first, with an output of 4.000.000.000 feet, and next in order come Wisconsin, Louisiana, MinneFora, Michigan, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Oregon. North Carolina, California, .Texas. Alabama, Maine, Virginia, Georgia, West Virginia. Florida, New York, Tennessee, South Carolina. Kentucky, Missouri. Indiana, New Pimpshire, Ohio. Vermont, Massac!- "?tts, Idaho, Montana, Maryland, Iowa, .' inois. To Dljr Cape Cod Canal. Word comes from Boston that work will be begun on the new Cape Cod canal by the middle of May, provided the State railroad commissioners take early action on the proposed change in the site of the Buzzards Bay station of the New York, Isew Haven and Hartford road. A warrant has been issued against Earl Varetare, a palmist and clairvoyant at Greensboro. N. C, charging him with larceny. Varetare is accused of taking jewelry and money to the amount of $10,000 from prominent women and others whose fortunes h told.

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Career of Evelyn 'IIt Thaw. Byron's expression, "The fatal gift of beauty." is strangely exemplified in the life story of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Evelyn Merit's early home, like Thaw's, was in Tittsburg. She is the daughter ol Winfield Scott Nesbit, a lawyer who had a small practice and died leaving the widow with only a pittance. At the age of 14 Evelyn began to work for hr living in a photographic studio in Philadelphia. Her employer ttok a picture of her to hang in an exhibition, and Evelyn woke op the next morning to find herself a famous beauty. Artists bezan to beg her to pose for them, and within a few months she wa earning a good income in New York a a model. In these model days she mot White, who induced her to go upon the stage, and persuaded a theatrical manager to give her a trial. Later White sent Miss Nesbit to a fashionable eastern school and after that he returned to the stage. Among the host of men who were smitten by her -charms was Harry Thaw. His attentions were .at- first received with disfavor, although he had a habit of sending to her home grand pianos, a,ATTORN ET JEROME. pearl necklaces, etc. These gifts were returned by her mother, who chaperoned her devotedly. Miss Nesbit subsequently went to Europe with her mother, and Thaw pursued. After a few months ,Mrs. Nesbit returned to announce that her daughter was at last accepting the attentions of "that odious man," and that she wished to have nothing more to do with her. Mrs. Nesbit married again, and Miss Evelyn went on her unchaperoned way. Little is known of the European exploits of Thaw and the girl. They automobiled together, but were very discreet, the only adventure being an arrest in Switzerland for fast driving, when they were booked by the police as man and wife. Oct. 22, 100 1, they registered at Claridge's in London as "IL K. Thaw and wife." When Harrys family heard of it they sent cutting cablegrams. Nov. 1 the pair landed in New York and went to the Cumberland hotel. Two da later they were ejected from the Cumberland. Then, after being refused rooms by four hotels. Thaw and Mis Nesbit parted temporarily. Thaw went to Pittsburg to confer with his family. Miss Nesbit followed him in the spring, and April 4, 1903, Warshlpa to De Fnnnelleas. One of the most interesting papers read before the recent conference of the Institution of naval architects in London was that which dealt with "The Influence of Machinery on the Gun Power of the Modern Warship." The author claimed that if a large number of guns are to be effectively mounted they must be ro placed as to fire on either broadside. To this end all deck structures, including funnels, must he abolished, but if funnels are to be eliminated steam can no longer be used. With this in mind, the Vickers Power fcr Garbage Costly. According to Henry Floy, an engineer who has been studying the subject for the city of East Orange, N. J., the scheme advocated by many enthusiastic persons of producing electric light and power, or, perhaps, steam, for heating purposes by burning the refuse of cities, is not a practicable on?. Mr. Floy's report indicates that the light and heat which would be produced by the burning of the garbage could be obtained more cheaply by burning coal, and that so far as the relative economy of the two methods is concerned it would be more advantageous to diipoM f th refuw by haulinf it

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1 1 1 itanTTT IMKHV CTEIHINQ EXCERPTS Tt03X JEROME'S CL03INQ SPEECH. There were two ordinary' men in this cas, and betweea them was a tigress urging them on. Why, men, there are the sanm old elements V.ere that have made criminal history ever skice the world began. Great actress. Indeed! She thought she could play csv you like so many children. She come here la her little school girl dress and tries to Impress on you this asumed chlldishncrs. This "anirel child' eoracs here, and weaves a web of lies to fool you to induce you to acquit a calJ-bioodeJ. cowardly murderer oa a defense of "dementia Americana." Does this "dementia Americana" flaunt the woman it lovej for two long years tfirousb the capitals of Europe and' then kill? "Dementia Americana" nerer hides behind the skirts oX a woman : "dementia Americana" never puts a woman oa the stand to lay bare her shame to protect It. If this rich young man Instead of beins Harry Thaw, the son of a millionaire of I'lttsburg, had been a poor Italian and his victim, Instead of a man of artistic tempratnent. a maker of plaster casts, and a girl whom they quarreled about was a chorus girl in the Indon Theater, tow long would brainhtornis and paranoia have prevailed? The real question here Is whether New York City Is to become a mining camp. If this sort of thing can go on. if the only thins between a citizen and his enemy Is a .brain storm, then every man had better pack a guu. Drlmaa to the Jury. We admire the chivalry of the knights of the middle ages who went about rescuing mal lens In distress. " Why should we withhold our sympathy from Harry Thaw who o raliantly rescued the child Evelyn from thli parasite? Harry Thaw called upon the district attorney, the man who Is now trying to take his life, and demanded that he io something to cleanse the city of this bucian leper, White. When she was the wife of Thaw, Whltt met the slrl and repeatedly Insulted her. Such conduct, gentlcuen, deserves tne scv?r est punishment. Waging a battle for American womanhood and bifSed by wealth and social position, Thaw met and killed Stanford White. they were married with Mrs. Thaw's consent at Pittsburg. Victim of Thaw's Jlullets. Stanford White, victim of Thaw's bullets, was one of the best known architects in the country. He designed many famous structures throughout the land, including a number of the most prominent buildings for the Columbian exposition. Mr. White was born in New York City Nov. 0, 1ST3. There is hardly a city of prominence in the country that does not boast at least one building designed by his firm. Possessing himself a sense of beauty that enabled him instantly to grasp the

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Company has been working on a system of gas machinery for propelling ships. They have perfected a design for a vessel using an explosive engine, which will have no funnels, and her speed will be higher than that of any existing battleship. While her dimensions are moderate, her batteries will be even more powerful than those of tho Dreadnought, since all her ten guns can fire on either beam, and six ahead or stern. The advantages of such a change were generally conceded to be great, and some believed that such a transformation of varships was a matter of the near futU!. away, as at present, than to erect and maintain furnaces especially for its 'combustion. While such a measure might be desirable from a hygienic point of view, the financial prospect is not an alluring one. The Old Dominion steamship Jamestown, which arrived it Norfolk, Va., from New York was seriously threatened by fire which raged in her forward hold between decks for an hour and a half. Chris Itodgers was arrested at Temple, Texas, on the charge of being implicated in a $75,000 cotton iwindla.

?! -. v. ; W "ij K.THAW possibilities . of a new suggestion, great or small, the amount of work of which he was capable was the despair of every man with whom he came into business relations. He could accomplish' his greatest duties on apparently three or four hours' sleep, and in eddition to all of hi.s vast enterprises, White was known over Europe and America as one of the most companionable and lovable men of bis time. Cultivated, gifted in practically all the arts, he took with him wherever be went that extriordinary love of fun and boisterous jollity that distinguished him to the end and that made his presence sought and prized in every branch of mm:;, (Vi -.TV V 4 .-t. DEUIIIN M. DF.LMAS. society. Mr. White designed Madison Square garden, in which he met hia death, and his great studio was in the tower, where he held all his famous artistic entertainments. Shooting: of White. Stanford White was shot dead by Harry K. Thaw on the Madison Square roof garden on the night of Monday. June 2.", 11)00. during a performance of "Mameclle Champagne," in full view of tVe gay throng seated at the tables watching the premiere of the musical comedy. Three fchots were fired by Thaw, each taking effect in the brad of the architect, who dropped to the floor a lifeless form. White had no opportunity to defend himself. lie had been sitting at one of the tables deeply engross.?d in the light opera which was being enacted, when he was suddenly confronted by the Pittsburger. Without a word of warning the latter leaned over the table, held the revolver within a foot of the architect's head and fired. As White fell backward dead Thaw turned on his heel and calmly surveyed the excited crowd. He had almost reached the side of his wife when a fireman, stationed on the roof garden, made him a prisoner. Note of Current Kventa Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, candidate for the presidency of Cuba, is ill with consumption: The trials of Judge Hargis and others, charged with the assassination of James Cockrill, were assigned at Lexington, Ky., to begin May 7. John D. nockefellcr opened the picnic season the other day at Iakewood, N. J. He took the choir of the Baptist church over to the seashore iu the afternoon and then entertained the party at supper in the evening. Three hundred Japanese will leave Honolulu on the steamship Korea for San Francisco, whither they will b shipped to Vancouver, B. C The report of the official naval tribunal of France of its inquiry into the battleship Jena disaster, rejects the possibility of malice as an explanation of the explosion and attributes it solely to powder "B." William West, an engineer on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, shot and killed Engineer Tracer at Montgomery, Ala., and finding escape impossible turned his pistol on himself, dying a few moments later. Wcbt was accused X stealing ri&.

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BAL SEASON IS ON.

GAME OPENS IN SEVEN CIG LEAGUE CITIES. Shivering bat Entbmiaiitlc Fbm Everywhere Welcome Return tf the Notionnl Sport Clone. Contest the Utile In Opening (James. Thursday fternoon. the gladsome cry, "Play ball!" went up in nearly every larjre city between Plymouth Hock and the Mississippi KivtT and letween th tJrcat likes and the Ohio, and the Titanic struggle for supremacy in the two great l"agus for the season of was on. t In Chicago tho pennant-winning; Cubs of the National League, who broke all records for the number of games won hist year, delighted the hearts of 8,fKK) faithful fans by defeating the St Louis Cardinals by a score of 0 to ,1. In St. Louis the world-famous world's champion Chicago White Sox of the American League went down to defeat at the hands of the Browns and handsome Nick Alt rock bowed his head iu sorrow at the supremacy of Harry Howell, the premier spit-ball ist. The score was 1 to 0. In only one city was the opening game postponed in Boston, where, 'on account of recent heavy rains, the grounds were Impassable and play impossible. In New York the Giants got into 4 row, as usual, and forfeited the ga.m to Philadelphia at the end of the eighth inning, when they were already badly beaten. At letroit Napoleon Lajoie and his gallant crew, weut down before the onslaughts of the Tigers.The Athletics and Bostons pulled off the prize stunt of the day by playing fourteen innings before the. Boston team finally won out, S to 4. At Cincinnati, notwithstanding ' the cold weather and the traces of snow which still remained, the Cincinnati team broke all precedents by winning the opening game, the 'pirates being the victims of this remarkable reversal of form. v In Washington, much to their sorrow, the Senators entertained Clark Griffith's New York Highlanders anl lost. Everywhere the attendance was good. The eager fans, who had ioen awaiting the day Impatiently, turned out by the thousands to witness the opening frays and shivered with delight quite as much as they did from the cold when finally, after months of yearning, the command to play was given, . AH of the big league teams hive trained more extensively this season than ever txfore and a heartier, huskier, happier lot of athletes 11 would be impossible to find on the lace of the glone than the gallant crews who vill battle against one anotlier for the liaseball honors of the world during the season of It is reported from Chicago that the Pennsylvania railroad, in addition to a 10 per cent increase In. wages, has made arrangements to increase the pension fund from $:KK).00O to $0.00.000. The annual report of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company of Xcw York City shows that during 11MAJ the nuoiber of pa.engrs carried on the subway and elevated roads was 42O,:;02..m an increase of 54,000,tXX) over ihe preceding year. ' x In the United States Circuit Court at Montgomery. Ala., the railroads operated within the State brought suit to prevent the execution of certain laws passed by the Legislature fixing freight rates and reducing passenger rates to '2 cents a mile. It is alleged that these rates would be confiscatory, and that they force service for which no adequate return is made. A special committee of the Pennsylvania railroad management has reported in favor of a comprehensive plan to substi-. tute all steel for wooden passenger cars ou the entire system within the next three ycars and it is proposed to buy and construct 2,090 all-steel passenger cars, which will make a complete change in all existing standards of passenger equipment. The cost of an all-steel car, such as is contemplated, is $lf,000. or about twice that of the present wooden car. This will make the new equipment bill come to about $30,000,000. The plan is to have the steelcars for every train which will be operated into the New York tunnel terminal, beginning with 1000. At the same time the Pullman company will be required to provide 500 steel sleeping and parlor cart, at a cost of $r0,000 each. It appears that the tunnel will be operated by such high voltage electric power as to make the ue of wooden cars dangerous. Western railroads have definitely decided upon a date for lengthening the schedules of their fast trains and on June 0 all trains will be slowed down. This announcement comes from Uniou Pacific headquarters in Omaha and is tht result of a conference between the general passenger agents of the roads involve!. Those in the agreement are the Union Pacific, Ilock Island. Northwestern, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and the Burlington. Other roads are expected to subscribe to the agreement, which was made necessary by the cutting of rates by western Legislatures. With New York Central officials aloard. a train, the exact counterpart of the Brewster express, which was wrecked on the Harlem branch, Feb. 10, killing 21 and injutfn:? 127 persons, r.nd with tie same motorman at the controller, was run over the same curve recently where the wreck occurred. This was done to try to throw some light on the cause of the disaster, and the test train was run past the danger point at sieeds varying from forty to seventy miles an hour. To duplicate the weight of the passengem sand hags were used. The only change in the bed since the wreck was the double spiking of the outer rails. A railroad Is about to be built in the island of Spitzbergen which will run ten degrees further north than the present most northern railway, which is in Scandinavia. The object of the new line is tc tap the coal deposits in the interior ot Spitzbergen. Owing to natural dificul tics it is proposed to construct an aerial suspension railway. . A threatened clash between the coal shippers and the railroads of Indiana and Illinois has been averted by the action of the interstate commerce commission in suggesting the iuadvisability of the advance of 10 cents a ton on coal rates to Chicago. The railroads decided to accept the commission's advice.

CHICAGO. J Aside from the temporary effect c' r seasonable weather the prevailing cUiitions impart sustained strength tef'busincss. No interruption appears in production of the loading industries, new demands come forward steadily and, with the resumption of navigation to loucr g lake ports, transportatiou of freight if f. more extended. Commercial loans exhibit tho trrntoKt "rpmilc ret attained here, f but, while the tone is easier, the discount rate may not decline appreciably until there is a further gain in deposits. Advices testify to spring merchandising equaling expectations at most interior centers, farm work well forward and attention turning to extensive improvements. Distributive trade generally is upon an encouraging bu.is here and in the West and there is yet much activity in the jobbing brauchen upon demand.-? for tetiles, footwear, ciothing, furniture and hardware. Some delays occur in forwarding general merchandise, due to scarcity in first hands, and road salesmen obtain good orders for summer staples, indicating that buyers have no lo.ss of confident in the future. Manufacturing progress is unabated. The capacity cf most plants is exerted to the limit, and the machinery and labor employed exceeds all previous experience in iron and steel, power, car and for:e work. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 11, against 13 last week and IS a year ago. Dun's Kevicw cf Trade. NEW Y0KK. Trade and Vnanufacturing conditions

are ia high degree favorable, despite the lull in demand usual at this stage of the ? spring season. , Some odd cross-currents are .visible because of the scarcity of t Vstoeks in so many lines, necessitating j . buying in other markets to eke out sup- j i, plies sold ahead some time ago. In re- j ; tail t.ade cold weather and bad country ; roads are a bar to fullest activity, but j ! the volume of business as a whole exied th rorrinnriftiniT nerirvl in other Tf-s '

Business failures for the wek endl. April 11 number T04, against 1X7 last week and 101 in the like week of l'JOO. Canadian failures for the week number 28, against 20 last and 13 in this wrk a, year ago. Wheat, including flour, exports from the United St.-xtes and Canada for the week ending April H aggregated 1,831.7 10T bushels, against 3.400.872 last week and 2.3G2.347 this week last year; for the laft forty-one weeks of the fiscal yea-. 13.vSH.VC2 bushels, against 107,rO0J)19 in lOOTf-OO. Cor exports for the' wenk are 1,470.719 bushels, against 2,OlV.OOl last week and i,72...7:tt a year age; for the fiscal year to date, 0G.O"A570 bushels, against Kt.ftKMSo in lKfi00. Bradstreet's Keport. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $0.75: Logs, prime heavy, $1.00 to $0.77 ; sheep, fair to choice, 53.00 to $0.00; wheat. No. 2, 77c to 7Sc; corn, Xo. 2, 4c to 47c; oats, standard. 41c to ' 43c ; rye. No. 2. 68c to CT)c ; hay, timothy, $13.00 to $18.00; prairie, $'J.00 to $12.."0; butter, choice creamery, 27c 0 ."c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 17c; potatoes 20c to 4Sc. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $0.00;' hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.!V)'to $..7o : wheat. No. 2. 74c to 7e; corn. No. 2 white, 4"c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white. 42c to 44c. St. Louis-r Cattle. $4.50 to $5.50; hogs $1.00 to $:J.7o; sheep, $3.00 to $.".75; wheat, Xo. 2, 77c to 7Sc; corn. No. "J. 44c to 4."k?; oats. No. 2, 41c to 4."Ic; rye, Xo. 2. ("7c to OSc. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to, $-".CO; hogs, $4.00 to $'.0."; sheep, $3.00 to $0.00; wheat. Xo. 2, 77c to 70c ; com, No. 2 mixed. 4c to 47c : oats. No. mixed, 42c to 43c ; rye. No. 2, 73c to 74c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $i.SO: sheep. $2.rJ to $'I.X; wheat, Xo. 2, 70c to 7.)c; corn, Xo. 3 yellow, 40c to 47c; oats. No. 3 white, 4.V to 47c; rye. No. 2, 71c to 73c Milwaukee Wheat, Xo. 2 northern. 70c to 83$ eorn. No. 3. 42c to 44c;'' oats standard, 42c to 44c; rye. No. 1. 00c to 71c; barley, standard, 70c to 71c; Iork. mess, $10.15. Iiuffalo Cattle, choice shipping fteers'. $4.00 to $0.00; bogs, fair to choice, $1.00 to $7.15; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.0.) to $0.50; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $0.00. New York Cattle. 4.00 to $0.00; ho? 8, $4.00 to $7.20; sheep. $3.00 to $5.87; wheat. No. 2 red. S2c to Sic; , corn. No. 2, 52c to 53c; oats natura V wbite, 48c to 50e; butter, creamery, 2?V' ' to 31c; eggs, western, 15c to 17c. r Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixe!. 77e to 70c ; corn. No. 2 mixed. 4 1c to 40c ; oaV. No. 2 mixed. 43c to 45c; rye. No. 2, OSe to COc; clover seed, prime, $3.23. Told Id a Few Line. 1 Thr: McDonald engineering building at McGill university at Montreal, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at between $500.000 and $750,000, insurance $120.000. . The negro longshoremen of the Merchants and Miners' Transportation Company and the Gld Dominion Steamship Company, who have been on a strike for an increase of 5 cents an hour in wages, have been notified by the companies that they need not return to work. All men have been withdrawn from the underground workings in the Ilomestake mine at Lead. S. D., in consequence of the presence of carbon dioxide gts caused by the fire that has been burning in the mine. There has been no loss of life, but many men have been overcome y the "as. The oyster settlement at Maurice river, near Millville, N. J.. was burned out. Loss $50,000, on which there was no insurance. Stephen Shellgo of Cleveland committed suicide on a railroad train near Washington. D. C., by shooting himself through the right temple. The artillery district of San Diego, which was discontinued in May, 1004, has been re-established and will now comprise Fort Uosecrans, Cal. The commission appointed by Secretary Taft to consider the improvement of the landscape of Niagara gorge continued its investigation of the American bank., A. B. Nichols 25 years old, sort of Jacob Nichols a prosperous fatraer, wanted for two months for forgery, was arrested on his return to Lebanon. Ind. Marquis Bindo Peruzzl de Me. com mitted suicide with a revolver in.L' - ' T'l T . 1 .. apartments at rioreuce, iiaiy. ne was 20 years, of ape and a well-known sport man. His mother, who is a widow, was formerly Miss Edith Storey of Bos! on. According to a report issued by the bureau of statistics of the Department cf Commerce, cocoa importations into tba United States are now averaging more than a million dollars a month, against a average of a quarter of a million dIiirs a raonth a decade ago.

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