Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 May 1907 — Page 2

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fTU Q.N. M."JV F. Q.AF.M. $ 4th. fe?I2th. ) 20thAg72Tth. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Rides and Conditions of Thing are Shown Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Four Children Perish In Flame. Fur small children were burned to death in the home of Martin Campbell, eight miles from West Branch, Mich., on a branch of the Michigan Central railway. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell had gone to a dance a mile away from their home, leaving their six little ones locked in the house. They left a big fire in the stove, and in some manner this ignited the house, which was destroyed with its contents. The children were awakened by the flames, and the two eldest, aged 8 and 10 years, managed to escape in their night clothes-. The four smaller ones perished in the flames. Tho parents are prostrated over the tragedy. Lady Bog to Save Wheat Crop. A dispatch from Kansas City says: The campaign in Kansas and Oklahoma to exterminate the green bug which has been doing much damage to wüeat iS. developing interesting features. The main effort is being directed in the collection and distribution throughout the affected districts of the ladybug so-called, which Professor Hunter, entomologist at the Kansas State University, recently discovered to be the parasite enemy of the destroying green bug. 91,500,000 Klre at Urrmra. Fire rbich broke out. in the Free Zone warehouse in Bremen, Germany, caused damage estimated at $1,500,000. The Bremen firemen fought hard for many hours. The flames were spread by a high wind and some new wooden buildings on the machine wharves were destroyed. In tie warehouses 20,000 bales of cotton were burned. The cause of the fire is not known. No lives were lost. Pot ef Gold Worth St,003. While tearing down an old West Bide building in Cleveland, Ohio, once known as the Ohio City Inn, B. W. Hollingsworth, a contractor, unearthed a pot containing $1,000 in $20 gold pieces. The gold was found directly under the spot where a pile of bones was unearthed a week ago, and much mystery surrounds the find. Degenerate Kli2 Eleven-Year-Old Girl. John Vaughan, aged 36 years, a weak-minded r;an, killed Elizabeth Strubel, aged 11 years, at a desolate place In the old canal bead in Lafayette, Ind. Vaughan, it is claimed, stabbed the girl to death In a fit of jealousy because of the girl's alleged refusal to marry him owing to religious differences. Wreek on El?etrte Line. A south-bound limfted car oi the Toledo Urban and Intorurban e'.ectric road collided with a north-bound local car on the same line about one mile south of Bowling Green, Ohio. It is reported that two persons are dead and more than a score injured. Hart by Pet Dos. As the result of a scratch which he received from one of his pet dogs at his country home tecently, William Cooper Proctor, president of the Proctor & Gamble Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, has left for New York to take treatment in the Pasteur Institute. Harare MarvlaV Body Fooad. Lying in a marshy piece of land, the body of little Horace Marvin, son of Dr. H. N. Marvin, whose mysterious disappearance had baffled solution since March A, was found about half a mile from the Marvin farm near Dover, Del., by Ollie Pleasanton, a farmer. IV reek on the Santa Fe. West-bound Santa Fe passenger train No. 1 was wrecked twenty miles couth of Raton, N. M., by the breaking of an axle under the engine tender. Twelve passengers were injurea, Jen seriously but not fatally. Crashed to Death. Clinging to a car of ore which they were unloading;, four Italians were crushed to death at Altoona, Pa., when the car was suddenly forced over the end of a twenty-foot trestle. Barling-ton Flyer Wrecked. The second section of the Burlington Flyer was wrecked near Manhattan, Mont. One passenger was killed and twenty-five others injured, a number of them badly. Former Consul Conley Dies. Edward M. Conley, former assistant Consul to Mexico for the United States died at his home in Richmond, Ind., aged 31 years. He wo? a newspaper man. Samuel T. K. Prime Dead. Samuel Thornton Kemys Prime, famous as the founder and editor of "Prime's Crop Bulletin," a relative of Mrs. Russell Sage, died Friday at the Chicago Home for Incurables, at the age of 73 years. He had been a sufferer from paralysis for several year. Millionaire's Son Is Cut Off. By the will of the late Charles Edward Warin. & hat manufacturer of Yonkers, N. Y., his son, Chester C. War lux, is cut off with a 'monthly allowance of $75, although it is said that the estate will approximate $8,000,000. Hangs Self in Cell in Prison. A man supposed to be Frank Thompson, a civil engineer of Philadelphia, committed suicide in a cell at the city police station in Columbus, where he had been removed from a Pennsylvania railroad train on which he was traveling from Chicago to Philadelphia. He Is said to Lave acted peculiarly on the train. Turned Loose Upon Chicago. The Governor of Massachusetts pardoned a man who murdered his parent from the criminal insane asylum with the understanding that he is to be cared for by a brother in Chicago.

WORK FOR DOLLAR WHEAT. Farmers Pledge Themselves Not to Sell Until Price Is Reached. Farmers in Nebraska who have thousands of acres of land in wheat have entered into an agreement not to sell their crop until wheat selb for $1 in Chicago. The agreement was entered into by the farmers at Hastings a few days ago following an address delivered there by J. A. Everett of Indianapolis, one of the offcers of the American Society of Equity, which is conducting a vigorous campaign for the advancement of wheat to the $1 mark. Farmers throughout Nebraska are being solicited to pledge themselves to hold their wheat till the price reaches the $1 mark in Chicago and farmers in other western states are also being; solicited to do so. Unless something unforeseen develops to damage the crop Nebraska will raise a big wheat crop this year. The plant louse found in wheat fields in a number of counties in the southern part of the state, which at first was pronounced to fce the aphis or green bug. which has destroyed the whe.y: crop of Texas and done great damage to that of Kansas and Oklahoma, is found not to be the aphis. Professor Bruner of the Department of Entomology of the University of Nebraska, says it is not of the aphis species, but he is not prepared to' say what damage it may work. If it does no damage and there is sufficient moisture the yield of wheat ia Nebraska will be a very large one.

POLICE INJURE U. S. SAILORS. Affray with Officers at Santiago, Cuba, Results Seriously. A dispatch from Havana reports that a number of sailors from the cruiser Tacoma were grounded in an afFray with the police of Santiago. Commander Tappan, in reporting the affair to the naval authorities, wired as follows: "About 2 o'clock this morning a small party of liberty men from the Tacoma were attacked by the police of Santiago while on their way down to the wharf. Ensign Brisbin, who was present in civilian clothes, also was attacked by the police. These were injured : Henry Leo Lee, fireman, shot in lung; Claude Joseph Pember, electrician, cut on left arm; Leslie Baldwin Dustin. seaman, arms fractured; all serious. Also cut and bruised: Ensign A. T. Brisbin, Machinists Mate C. B. Thackellon, Apprentice E. F. Anders, Seamen Glen Cavender and Louis Kline and Electricians Frank Leghorn and N. G. Sturdevant. All is quiet r )w. Am making a thorough investiga'io i" Gov. Magoon has telegraphed the gcrernor of Santiago province to investigate the trouble and report to him. No political significance, the dispatch states, it attached to the encounter in Havana. LAXD BALLOON NEAR GOLCONDA. Aeronauts Get Only 130 Miles Away from St. Louis in 19 Hours. Captain C. De F. Chandler, United States signal, service, and J. C. McCoy of New York failed to break the longdistance Lilloon record and to win the La hin cup. Their balloon, which left St. Louis at 7:20 Tuesday evening, landed fire miles north of Golconda, 111., at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon. To hare won the Lahm cup the balloon would have had to go more than 402 miles. Golconda is only 330 miles from St. Louis. Captain Chandler and McCoy, upon leaving St. Louis, hoped that the winds would carry them toward Washington. D. C, but the balloon took a southerly course immediately upon leaving the ground. It crossed the Mississippi rirer and continued southward near the river some distance, when it was driven back into Mis souri, where it continued south until near the Arkansas line. At noon Wednesday the balloon hovered over Cape Girardeau, Mo., until a west wind took it across Illinois into Indiana, where an east wind drove it back to Golconda. CAR STRIKE ENDS. Salt Lake City Company Sefuses to Eecognize Union. Street car service in Salt Lake City has been resumed after two days suspension. After the electrical workers had practically decided to go out in sympathy with the carmen, as well as for the adjustment of grievances of their own, the street car company sent for former Congressman Brigham II. Roberts and gave him power to come to any settlement with the men that would not involve formal recognition of the union. National Secretary C. O. Pratt told him the terms of the men. To these Mr. Roberts assented and the strike was over. The demand of the men, which was gran red. is a rate of 23 cents an hour for carmen, with 20 cents after the Crst year's service. Buried Miners Saved. Taken from the dark recesses of a coal min where they had been imprisoned for over 100 hours, and snatched altno? from the jawa of death, the seven men taken from the Berwind-WTiite mine No. 38, at Foustwell. Pa., are lying in the Windber hospital, physically exhausted and oblivious to all around them. All will probably recover. Panic It. Chicago Fire. Patrou3 and employes of the Lotus Club restaurant, on the second floor of the building 257 Wabash avenue, Chicago, battled with each other in a terrible struggle to escape death by fire at noon Wednesday. Forty were injured, some perhaps latally. The Story & Clark Piano Company and the restaurant were damaged to the extent of $15,000. Ice Combine Is Held Guilty. Judge Walter A. Powell, in the Circuit Court at Independence, Kan., handed down a decision reversing the findings of Special Commissioner W. S. Flournoy in the so-called ice trust cases. Judge Pow ell holds that a combination does exist among certain Kansas City retail ice manufacturers in restraint of trade. Millionaire to Wed Waitress. Two months ago, while spending a few days fishing at Catalina Island, A. II. Boris, a millionaire stock broker of PUtsburg, met Miss Jennie Donahue, a young waitress in the Hotel Metropole. During the coming week the millionaire and the girl who smiled upon tim while serving his meals are to wed. Jail for Bich Auto Scorcher. William E. Dodge of New York, son of the philanthropist, William Earl Dodge, and wn-m-law of Henry T Sloane. the millionaire carpet manufac turer, was sentenced in Yonkers to serve a ten days' term in prison, in addition to paying a fine ot $iuu tor automobile speeding. Kill and Burn Sheep with Babies By order of the State board of health eighteen sheep belonging to Robert Layron wer killed and burned near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, on account of suffering with ranies, having been bitten by a mad dog three weeks ago. Pianist Forced Into Army. Joseph Gahmas of Omaha, a pianist known on th? concert stag; throughout the country, returned to Berlin without citizenship papers, was thrown into jai Lnd made a private in the German army Autoist3 Waylaid by Farmer. Armed with a shotgun William Ewing, a farmer living near Hammond, Ind., !ay in ambush five hours for a party of five Chicago motorists, two of them women, and when they approached his ambuscade compelled them to stop their machine and pay him $75 for damage resulting from

a runaway they had caused.

BOY'S BODY IN BARREL

STRANGE MURDER REVEALED IN CLEVELAND. Kidnaper Hin med for Crime Which SInyer Tried to Hide by Covering C(irpe VV om mi Catches Ilnrglat ly llnnd I nder "Window. Alexander Hoc nig, 3 years old, was found in a whisky barrel near his father's home, L'S2J Scoville avenue. Cleveland. The body bore every evidence of murder. On the neck is a long red line. as if made by a rope. The iicck is also crushed in, as though with a stone. Proof of the murder theory lies in the fact that the boy rested on the head, as if pitched headfirst into the barrel. The child had been sought as a possible cap tive of kidnapers. The father fell in a faint when the news was brourht to him by neighbors. When he came back to consciousness h; cried out: "Is he dead? Is he dead?'' " he mother, was visiting a fortune teller to see if f-he could not get a clew of her baby's fate. The news spread rapidly through the neighborhood. which is largely occupied by foreigners. great crowd gathered. In a frenzy. neighbors of the Hoenigs attacked the barrel, tearing it to pieces and destroying every evidence of the identity of the mur derer that it might have offered. The body of the child was found in the bottom of a whjsky barrel in the rear of a store two doors from David Iioenig's grocery. The discovery vvas ir.ado by Mrs. M. Leopold. The body was covered with a lot of rubbish, empty tin jails and rags. The outer clothing had been removed. Stockings, shoes and underdrawers only were left on the body. The lloenig boy disappeared at 8 p. m. Monday from in front of his father's grocery, where he had been playing with his sisters. The kidnaping theory was followed from the hrst and every patrolman in the city searched for the child. VETEHANS UNVEIL SHAFT. Society cf Army of Potomac Honors McClellan's Memory. President Roosevelt, cabinet members, army and navy officers and men prominent in civil life participated Thursday afternoon in the ceremonies attending the unveiling of the statue to Gen. George Ii. McCIellan which has been erected in Washington by the Society of the Army of the Potomac. Hundreds of old sol diers were in the city to attend the cere monies. Of these veterans about twothirds are from the Army of the Poto mac, of Ahicb Gen. McCIellan was com mander. The monument, at Connecticut avenue and Columbia road, was unveiled at 2:) o'clock, Brig. Gen. Henry C. Dwight, president of the Society of the Potomac, presiding. Right Itev. Henry Y. Satterlec, bishop of Washington, opened the services with prayer, after which Brig. Gen. Horatio C. King of New York gave a brief history of the statue. The unveiling by Dr. George McCIellan was followed by a salute by the Fourth battery. United States field artillery. Addresses were made by Presi dent Roosevelt, Major Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, Major Gen. O. O. Howard and Major Gen. Grenville M. Dodge. WINS RICHES ONLY TO STARVE. Former Chicagoan Dies in Desert with Fortune in Possession. John L. Morgan, formerly of Chicago, possessed of wealth enough to keep him in luxury, has starved to death on the desert of Death valley. Morgan's death occurred at Furnace Creek. The story was brought to San Bernardino by Wal ter Adams, Morgan's partner. L For more than a year the men have been prospect ing on the border of Death valley. Last summer they were lost and suffered ag onies from thirst and hunger before be ing rescued. During that period Morgan ate the deadly "burning sand" of the deseit. He suffered periodically from the effects of the hardships sustained during that time and finally reached such a condition that he could not eat. Adams is now on his way to Chicago to find the widow of his dead partner. Morgan made his partner swear that if he died without seeing his wife Adams was to take to her Morgan's last farewell. Catches Burglar In Window. Mrs. Rudolph Luthy trapped a masked burglar in her home in Cleveland. She discovered the cracksman forcing a jimmy uoder a window. ' When the burglar thrust both hands under Mrs. Luthy saw tho trap ho had set for himself. She sprang forward and slammed the window down on his fingers. Mrs. Luthy called to her husband. The man at the expense of tome square inches of skin tore his hands loose from the trap and escaped. Pate of Tuj Told in Bottle. ' Captain J. G. Kiali of the life-savin station at Har'ior Beach. Mich., has re ceived a note found inclcsed in a bottle on the beach near Lexington which ex plains the fate ot the lost fishing tug Searchlight. The note reads as follows: "Searchlight .turned turtle off Harbor Beach ; all gone down except 'Jck in cork jacket. M. Perkins." The note is regarded ..s genuine. Gunboat Captain Takes Charge. General Davis, colored, was brutally assaulted at Puerto Cortez April 27 by Nicaragum soldiers and may die. Com mander Fullam of the United States gun boat Marietta has ordered the arrest of Nicaraguan office's and soldiers, and if the man dies they will be tried for mur der. Fullam has assumed charjre. Davis is not an officer. His name is General. Swettenham Is Retired. Sir Alexander Swettenham retired from the post of governor of Jamaica Friday. He has gene to his residence in the hills, where he will stay until he Ieaveä the island. Colonial Secretary Bourne has been installed as acting governor pending the arrival of Syduey Oli vier, the new governor. Turkish Settlement in Sight. As a result of the energetic representa tions of the State Department, through Ambassador Leishman, an imperial irade was issued in Constantinople in regard to the American schools and other questions long pending between the United States and Turkey, authorizing the min isters to take action in the matter. Aerial Navigation Possible. The problem of aerial navigation al ready is solved, und soon it will bo possi- " Ä ble to go from America to Europe in a few hours, says Alexander Graham Pell in an interview 11 London. Hope Breaks; Asks Damages. William Seeley of Montana has sued Kufus Wheeler of Omaha for damages because a rope he bought with which to commit suicide broke. Buy Timber Tract. A. C. Dutton & Co. and John Fenderson & Co. of Springfield, Mass., have purchased seventy-two square miles of timber lands and a null from C. McNair, Jaequet River, N. P., and twenty square miles and a mill from John Dutch at the same place. Blaze at Union City, Pa, Fire destroyed the Union City Chair Company at Union City, Ta., several adjacent stiuctures and damaged the Union City Electric Light plant, causing a monetary loss estimated at orer

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LIVING COST IS HIGHER. Gorernmcnt Koport Says Wholesale Prices Are Advancing. The bureau of labor has taken an other look into the cost of living and it tinds it is still increasing, its latent examination had to do with wholesale prices only. It is now making a study of retail prices. Tho bulletin, just is sued shows that wholesale prices, considering: 2-"S commodities as a whol reached a higher level in 11KNJ than at nuy other time during the seventocnycar jeriol covered. The average for the year l'.KJO was 5.0 per cent higher than for 1107. 30.3 per cent higher than for 107, the year of lowest prices tluilnjr 'the seventeon-year period, and i 1TJ.4 ir cent higher than the aveiaze! for th.s ton years from 1S00 to 1S00. Price readied thoir highest point during the seven tecn-y ear ieriod in Dminler, 1000, the average for that month being 4.1 jer cent higher than the average for the year 1000, and 0.3 per cent higher than the average for December. 1JKJ.". ' The averasre price for 1000 of farm products, taken as n whole, differs but little from that" of 10OÖ, a decrease of only one-half cf 1 per cent !einj shown. Fool as a whole increased 3.0 per cent in average price for 1J)C0, as compared with 11X17. The principal article showing an increaw were cheese, fish, fruit, hog products, milk, rice and vegetables. No change took place I the price of bread. A slight decrease in the whole sale cost of -offee, eggs, wheat flour, corn nival, beef, sugar and tea is shown. Of the seventy-five articles included under clothes and clothing, sixty-six' showed an increase In price, five show ed no change, and only four showed a decrease. In the group, as a whole, there was an average increase of 7.3 per cent In price. In fuol and lighting. as a group, there was an Increase in price of 3 tier cent SCHOOL GARDENS A SUCCESS. rhllndelphla IIa 1,800 ILK tie "Farmers" at Work In Them. The coming of pleasant weather has rut l,sno Philadelphia children into the school gardens working with rake and hoe to help nature do her part in the production of crops. Among Philadelphia's educational activities its municipal Kchool gardens, are unique. No other city has worked out the problem of supple menting school room work with nature study so successfully or to such an extent. The ten gardens conduct ed in different parts of the city by the Board of Edu cation for public school children are con sidered of such economic and civic imlortance that tho board this year closed it-j summer schools ia order to devote more time and money to maintenance of the gardens, and the encouragement of outdoor exercise in the playgrounds connected with them. Scientific gardening is tau;ht in thes outdoor schools. Punctuality is insisted on. The garden of the sluggard in taken away and put in charge of an embryo farmer who keeps down the weeds and pays the price of eternal vigilance for his crops. Kach child who gets a "plot" must register. lie or she is required to keep a record card noting the day of planting and the results, so that at the end of the season the principals can ascertain how product! vo the garden has been. Each one knows how many cabbage, bundles of beets, heads of lettuce, spinach, tomatoes and turnips have been grown in each truck patch. The 'garden teacher's position Is no sinecure. She has to be an expert farmer as well as good disciplinarian. She has to combine work and play nvthods and must be able to manage a hand plow as well as an obstreperous child. She must handle her rake and hoe with equal dexterity, be able to lay off and dig paths, discern plant diseases, l.now how to exterminate pests and be an all-around "handy man" as well as a good teacher. Strike of Sbipt OQlcerN. The American Association of Masters, Mates and l'ilots has declared a general strike of the first, second and third offcers on all coastwise vessels sailing from New York, to go into effect May 1, to enforce their demands for an advance in wages to $100, $SO and $00, respectively. This strike took the form of individual resignations, as the law requires them to give notice of intention to quit work. Later the strike was called off in the case of the Brunswick and Bull lines, which agreed to pay the desired wages. Xavy In I form 'ot Immune. Judge Sweetland, in the Superior Court at Providence, It. I., has decided that Chief Yeoman Buenzle, who was barred flora a Newport amusement hall because he wore the uniform of the United States navy, can recover at law only the price of his admission. The jude holds hat proprietors of such places may admit or exclude whom they choose, aud that the man in naval uniform has no special rights. This is the case in which Presi dent Roosevelt and naval officers took a prent interest, subscribing to the h'gal expenses of the prosecution. Yale Won't Indortte Stead. At the end of an address hv William T. Steid in the Yale auditorium at New Haven, Dean Hogers declared the Kession adjourned, although it was Mr. Stead's desire to ask the assemblage to express itself on his proposed nence -nil-rrimacc. - The dean explained that it was a rule at Yale never to indorse any shaker or bis ideas when presented on the free platform, even though they were admittedly correct. Already Mr. Stead has received the approval of audiends At Harvard. Allegheny, Tuskegee and other colleges. It pays to advertise In this paper.

ET 'FRISCO. INDUSTRIAL PEACE PREVAILS. SI a j Dar Found Little t'ltrest AmonR AVorker of America. Labor conditions in Chicago and throughout the entire country were more peaceful Ma3 1 than has been the case in years. While May 1 is cerebrated in this country only by the socialists, it has in past years been a day of industrial unrest because many wage contracts expire at that time and strikes are common before agreements are renewed. In Chicago, a dispatch says, there is not a strike of consequence. In the building industry, which gives employment to ."0.000, wage agreemeuts in every ctaft have been renewed. Nearly all branches of the building trades have secured wage advance this year, either under new ngreements which have been made or through the terms of existing contrrcts which run for another year. While there was a general slacking up of work reported a few weeks ago. whic? made it necessary to reduce working ; forces in some large, plants, business is a sain reported brisk aud labor is almost as well employed as it was a year ago. Reports from various cities show similar conditions prevailing throudiout the country. In New York labor, skilled and unskilled, is well employed. The building trades in that city are especially prosperous, aüd there are only a few sporadic strikes. In St. Louis the situation is better than in years. In Boston the only serious break in the labor field is n strike of teamsters, which has been in progress for a month. In Philadelphia carpenters and painters are after a wage increase, but most of the employers have already conceded the demands. The machinists in Pittsburg are on strike for increased wages.To Promote Church Harmony. The perplexing question of securing harmony and co-operation Ietween Catholics and Protestants was recently discussed in a public address by Prof. Adolf Harnack of Berlin. A better understanding, or modus vivendi, he thinks, is not to be brought about by Catholics becoming Protestants, or vice versa, a hope that even the dreamer cannot entertain. lie would, however, attain the desired end by (1) having religion and the church absolutely divorced from politics: (2) let the State do full justice without preference or interfererce with the internal affairs of the churches: (3) let all unnecessary controversies between the lenders of the different churches be avoided, and let all past sins and controversies be buried; (4) let the leaders ' of both churches try to understand each other and appreciate the good things in the opposing (hurch, and to this end he would have the theologians of each branch attend the lectures in the church. Prosperity seems to be moulting a few feathers. It will cost you 33 per cent more now to "telegraph your baby." All the railroads are ready to adopt tbe legislative block system. They are building San Francisco th?3 time with the graft attachments removed. Japan has launched the biggest battleship in the world, but it doesn't interest Russia. The season of severe mortality among office boys' grandmothers has once more set in. The human mind is singularly addicted to the diversion afforded the world by bascbaU. "Silent" Smith didn't have to talk. His $o0,000,000 of money talked enough for any man. The "early settlers" are the people who pay for their rooms in advance down at Jamestown. They say Taris cats 40,000 horses a year. No wonder there are so many horseless carriages there. There hasn't been a rainstorm in Cuba for six months. No wot der Cuban patriotism is drying up. In South America they have discovered a tree that gives milk. Maybe it was just a good old wooden pump. The jilted girl in Wyoming who hasn't spoken to a man for J7 years ought to bo encouraged to keep it up. If the price of groceries would only go down like the price of stocks, the householder would loug for a panic. Since the free pass was amputated, the average L?gislatures have not been blind to the faults of the railroads. Why should Anna Gould Castellane pay $170,000 for a divorce in Paris when she can get one just as good is Chicago for $'-97? This thing of burning ashes, after a treatment with salt is likely to be taken by most people with a grain or two of that article. It cost the former Countess de Castellane $17.",000 Co get rid of Boni, which shows that bargains are never the cheapest in the end. A North Carolina clergyman asserts that St. Patrick was a Presbyterian. And that just as the peace movement was getting along so well. A negro has won the Rhodes scholar ship from Pennsylvania, which will add a bit of ebony to the variegated collection at Oxford university. A little discrepancy of $400,000 has been found in the accounts of t ho University of Wisconsin. Better repair the chair of mathematics. Pennsylvania paid $1,000 for a $00 bootblacking stand in the new State House. Must have been' cutting up high shines a." Ilarrishurg. The Philadelphia man charged with marrying 150 women is conclusive evidence that neither the fools nor the martyrs are all dead yet.

SfriRCIAL;

CHICAGO. Developments in commercial affairs disclose a sustained confidence in the outlook. May payments through the banks usually are a test of soundness, and it is rotable that while much heavier this month than heretofore, there is no special pressure in money and defaults remain remarkably small. Low temperature yet delays a seasonable activity in leading retail lines, but less fear is felt as to the crops. Transportation by rail and lake reflects an enormous tonnage movement of freight, and new demands make considerable addition to the assured period of future "employment at the mills and factories, although the upward trend of costs and difficulty in getting necessary supplies to some extent hinder operations. Shippers lind railway facilities steadily improving, and, with the water ways fully opened up. the conditions become more favorable fcr increasing movements of ore, coal and forest products. The markets for raw materials reflect rapid consumption. Reports from the agricultural districts show that farmers spend liberally for implements and improvements, and seeding makes good progress where adverse weather has not interfered. Bank clearings, $'jr;S.l."X).3C. exceed tb.ise of the corresponding week in RK by 13.2 per cent. Failures reiorted in the Chicago district numbered 1.", against 1!) last week and 33 a year ago. Dun's Review. NEW YORK. Unseasonably cold weather still ham pers trade and crop development. Itetail business has been chiefly affected so far, but jobbers and wholesalers ' report that April trade as a whole does not equal that of April a year azo, though the volume of business for the four mouths' period is considerably in excess of l!Hi. Collections are likewise showing some'l effects of delayed trade, while improving where weather conditions have leen temporarily favorable. Reports as to advance orders booked for fall are quite en couraging in excess of this time a year ago. in fact though a few lines note hesi tation as to hooking far ahead. Indus try as a whole is actively engaged; May 1 strikes, largely confined to building trade.-, do not appear nearly as serious as in previous years. Business failures in the United States for the week ending May 2 number 1G3, against 157 last week and UK) in the like week of 1000. Canadian failures for the week number 25, against 23 last week and 20 in this week a year ago. Wheat, including flour, exports from the United State and Canada for the week ending May 2 aggregated 2.234,7." bushels, against 2,."iSO,242 last week and 2,101,718 this week last yea; for the past forty-four weeks of the fiscal year, 143.S0O.4S7 bushels, against 113,G0(U49 in 1D03-00. Corn exports for the week were 1,S17,00." bushels, against 1,011,041 last week aud 1.035.317 a year ago: for tlie fiscal year to date, 01,427,037 bushels, against 103.S37.343 in lOWOC. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $0.40: hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $.57; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $0JM) : wheat, Ao. 2. Sic to b'2c ; corn, No. 2, 4Sc to r0c; oats, standard, 43c to 45c; rye. No. 2. 71c to 73c; May, timothy, $13.00 to $10.00; prairie, $0.00 to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 2-c to 25c; eggs, fresh, 14c to llc; potatoes, 40c to rJk Indianapolis Cattle, Fhippinsr. $3.00 to $0.ir; hogs choice heavy, ?4.00 to $0.70; sheep, "common to prime. $2.50 to S5.75: wheat. No. 2. 70c to Nc; corn. No. 2 white, 40c to 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 13c to 44c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $1.50; hogs. $1.00 to $0.5."; sheep, $3.00 to $0.25; wheat, No. 2, 80c to S2c ; corn. No. 2, 50c to '51c; oats, No. 2, 41c to 43c; rye. No. 2, G7c to GSe. Cincinnati Cattle, $-1.00 to $.VT."; hogs, $4.00 to $0.75: sheer, $3.00 to $5.50: wheat No. 2, Kc to Sic; corn, No. J mixed, "lc to r3c; cats. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c ; rye. No. 2. 73c to 75c. Detroit Cattle, $1.00 to $5.00;-hogs, S4.00 to $0.7o: sheep. $2.50 to $0.00; wheat. No. 2, Sic to S3c ; corn. No. 3 yellow, Tile to .3c; oats, No. u white, 45e to 40c; rye. No. 2. 2c to 74c. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern. Sie to Sic: corn. No. 3. 47c to 49c; oats, standard, 42c to 44c; rye, No. 1, 71c to 73c; barley, standard, de to pork, mess, $15.50. " Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, fair to choice, ffl.00 to $7.00; sheep, common to good mixed. $4.00 to $0.50; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $8.75. New York Cattle. St.OO to $0.05; hogs, $4.00 to $7.20; hcep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red, SJsc to b'Jc. corn. No. 2. 55c to 57c; oats, natural white, 4Sc to 49c; butter, creamery, 24c to 27c; eggs, western, lue to lc. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SOc to S2e: corn. No. 2 mixed, 4:'c to ole; oats. No. 2 mixed. 45c to 47c;" rye. No. 2, OSc to 70c ; clover seed, prime, $'J.-o. All Around the Globe. During a quarrel in a liquor store at Ynim-stown. Ohio. William Price shot and almost instantly killed Tom White head Price was cantured. Gov. Folk has granted a respite of sixty days to William Spaugh, Jr., sen teneed to be hanged for the muruer o: Sheriff Folk c? Iron county, Mo. Announcement was made that the general conference of American Friends will be held in Richmond, Ind., opening on Oct. 15. Canada, Cuba and Mexico will be represented. An invaluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed for the Cleveland. Ohio, Window Glass Company in the United States District Court. The liabilities are given as $450.100. The Marblehcad life-saving crew res--,1 thrrt mon adrift on a scow which lecame separated from the tug I'ankrantz during a heavy storm, the men spent a wild night on Lake Lne. Michael McNamara was convicted at St. Louis of rourder in the second degree. McNamara killed his wife while she was with another man in a hotel last August. He is yet to be tried for killinz the man at the same time. The auxiliary gasoline sloop-yacht J. Daggit, owned by Captain James Havity of .Miami, Fla., was burned in Albemarle sound. North Carolina, following the exulnsion of a casoline tank. Cnnt. X. T. Smith, the veteran treas urer nf the Southern Pacific Raihvatr Company, died at his home at San Carlos, San Maleo county, Cal. 1'neumonia, comhined with mralvsis. caused death. Koiinlor Ellis of St. . John, N. B., Knote stromrlv against the increase in postage on newspapers to the United Sfnte He said it wns not in the in tet est of Canada, as many Canadians liv ing in the United States would be depriv ed of home news.

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America's 31 out Spectacular Plongtf Retires from Wall Street. John W. Gates, America's most spec tacular financial plunger, has resolved to plunge no more. He has gone out of business. Wall street says John W. Gates is "down and out," that he has "lost his nerve," and is fleeirf from th? scene of his disaster. Gat?s says he hasn't time to "discuss funny drcaIns.,, His son; "Charley," says that the head of the house is just going to France for a year or so for a good time, and that be will return. A Chicago partner de clares that all the "broke" stories are "plain rot:" "that the 'old man' got cold feet and quit when the stack In front of him was high enough" using the vernacular that Mr. Gates "uses when he 'used to "bet a million." There is one fact in the conflicting reports concerning the multi-millionaire speculator. He has quit business. Wall street knows that fact, for the formal notice of the dissolution of the firm of Charles G. Gates & Co. was given out. Admittedly also the Gates, father and son, are going abroad for a year. Wall JOriX W. GATES. street rejoices over those facts. Wall Btreet Insists that the father and son are quitting losers in a sliding sum of from $10,000,000 to $40.000,000. The notice of the dissolution of the firm of Charles G. Gates & Co. started all the reports about the financial decline of the family. ' That was the firm through which the great plunger traded, and It was brought into existence to enable him to plunge as he pleased. Son "Charley" headed ii, but father was in reality tbe finr. The so-called "rich man's panic" that reached Its climax Mar.h 15 was de clared to have been the cause of the downfall of the Gateses. Consistent bulls always, they are reported to have been caught heavily in that terrible slump of stocks.' ' ex GfK The Pennsylvania nousc passed the bill placing 3 cents tax a ton on anthra cite coal, it being argued that the burden would fall largely on consumers outside the State. Chairman Knapp of the interstate com merce commission announced its purpose to ask the Circuit Court at New York to order E. II. Harriman to answer cer tain questions concerning transfers and rales of Union Pacific stock which he re fused to answer recently when - he was a witness before the commiss' The commission thus seeks to establish its right to inquire into snch transactions. B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the Rock Island system, in a newspaper interview said that a railroad had no more business to be at the mercy of stock jobbers than a savings bank or a life insurance com pany, and that American railroads should be as much a public trust as those institu tions. He sa:d the people were not with out justification in their belief that the railroads had been systematically robbing them, and that.no one was to blame for the present anti-railroad sentiment but the managers themselves. As an offset to the raise in grain rates by the Union Pacific hot we n Omaha and Council Bluffs the Chicago Great v est era railroad began hauling grain free from Council BIuCs into Omaha when destined to elevators on the tracks of the Chicago Great Western and charging only $2 per car when destined to elevators on other tracks. The Union Pacific charge $5 per car for the same service. The Great Western's action will have a farreaching effect on Iowa grain destined to Omaha and places the Omaha market "on a parity with the Chicago market. Two more attempts have been made to wreck trains on the Pennsylvania rail road in western Pennsylvania and Ohio, and President McCrea has called a conference of the vice presidents and Various division officials to take extraordinary measures for the suppression of what is believed to be a desperate band of wreck ers. The detectives say that the motive of these crimes is robbery and not the vengeance of discharged employes. A re ward of $5,500 for information leading to tbe conviction and a much larger secret reward to employes, has been offered. Counsel for the Great Northern railroad at St. Paul gave notice that the fine of $15,000 imposed by Judge Morris for giving rebates on grain shipments would be appealed. ' The judge imposed $1,000 on each count,' this being the minimum fine. The 2-cent railroad fare bill passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature and signed by Gov. Stuart is to go into effect Sept. 30, but the letter from President McCrea of the Pennsylvania railroad to the Gov ernor requesting a veto served notice that the law would be tested through the courts as to its constitutionality. The report of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railway for 1904 shows gross earnings of $31,1S5,500 for the l.COO miles of the road in operation. The net earnings were $3.535,151, or an increase of $1,002,930 over preceding year. Directors of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railway have asked the stockholders to approve a mortgage securing $35,000,000 of fifty-year bonds bearing interest at not over 4Va per cent, the pro ceeds to go to consolidation, the debt, ex tensions and general improvement. Only $3,000,000 of the issue would be out in the near future. Blir Subiray Profits. The New York rapid transit commission reports that the city has spent $3S.7S2.270 in constructing the existing subways up to Dec. 31. The profits for 1000 were $3.S21,0S5, or 10 per cent on the cost. The board is against the operation of the subways by the city. The verdict of the German admiralty court on the collision in November last between the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and the British Royal Mail line steamer Orinoco off Cherbourg is that the accident was "due to excusable errors on both sides.

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EW U. S. BUILDING DEDICATED. Reception and Hanqnet Marie Ope Inj? of Hammond PostofCce. Hammond's new Federal building wss dedicated the other afternoon. The ceremonies began at 2 p. m. with a reception it which gu?sts from Chicago, Crown i'oint. Hammond. Y hitinz. East riucaro. ndiana Harbor and Valparaiso were resent. Mrs. Hugh F. Meikle. president of the Hammond Woman's Club, was in charge. President Jacob Schloer of the Hammond Business Men's Association and Congressman Edgar D. Crumpacker delivered the dedication addresses. Mr. Crumpack-r predicted that Hammond is to be a court as veil as a commercial nd industrial center. The banquet in the evening was attended by ZOO. Mayor Decker delivered the address of welcome, and was followed by Congressman C rumpack er, who spoke on "Our Country." The building cost $200,000. It is built of stone and is three stories iD height. n it are rooms for Justice Anderson, District Attorney Bowers, referee in bankruptcy, revenue collectors and grand jury rooms. The postofScc occupies tbe entire lower floor. SHOT DY MASKED WHITE CAPS. Indiana Farmer Then Escapes Whippine? Beeanse of Wound. Eight masked white men, first taking the trecaution to cut the telephone wires. appeared at the home of JoLn Laymon, a farmer, three miles west of Spencer, early the other da and aroused the fam ily. Mr. Laymon responded to the sum mons and was seized, but put up a stout resistance. Two shots were fired by his assailants, one .of the bullets striking Laymon in the breast, passing through his body. Laymon was then overpowered and tied to a tree. Ilia captors were de termined upon administering a sound whipping with w ithes, already at hand, but finally yielded to his entreaties and went away. Laymon was assisted into the house by memlers of his fajnily. SALOON'S WIN A DECISION. Other Besides Members of Familie Allowed In Darrooma on Sundays. In Valparaiso ex-Senator Agnew, as special judge in the case of the State vs. Theodore Timings, a saloon-keeper, held that a saloon-keeper had a right to permit people in his saloon on Sunday besides members of his family, though he had no right to sell them drinks. He claims that the Legislature in making new laws repealed the section providing that none but members of tbe family be permitted in saloons. The State, therefore, must prove that parties were served with drinks before conviction can be made. YOUNG MAN ADMITS IXURDCn. Indiana Farmer Says He Shot ia Self-Dctesiie In Sslsos Brawl. James Anderson, a young farmer living seven miles northeast of El wood, was taken to Anderson and placed in jail by Sheriff Smelser charged ruth the murder of Jacob Derhl, a glass worker, at Elwood. Anderson, according to the .sheriff, admits the crime but claims self-defense. Jacob Deihl and his brother, it is alleged, became engaged in a saloon brawl with Anderson at Elwood, with tbe result that Jacob Dcibl received a bullet wound in the right lung, dying several hours afterward. TEST CASE AGAINST XI A ILWA V. Judgment for Forty-flve Centa Seta av rredtat. A case of Interest to every railroad in Indiana was decided when the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Interurban. the largest in Indiana, paid a claim of 45 cents to George Todd. He had bought a ticket and was refused repayment when thirty days were up on grounds that tbe ticket was void. It was expensive litigation with nothing else involved. TWO TRAGEDIES IN ONE FAMILY. Train Kills Old -Man, While Child Dies Under Street Car. There were two fatal accidents in tie same Kokomo family the other day. David Martin, aged 05, was killed by a Clovjr Leaf freight train, and Mabel Maitis, aged 18 months, met death under a street car. Her father, John Martin, saw her killed. He is a locomotive engineer, nd was on his engine on a side track near the Fcene of the accident Jury In Walker Case D&an;reea. v After deliberating forty-two hours tbe jury in the case against John P. Walker, former county treasurer, charged with a shortage of $d3.000, was discharged la Evans ville because it could not agree. Cement Explosion Fatal to Three. James Jacobs and Albert Burt were killed, and Frank Jacobs was fatally burned by the explosion of cement at the plant of the Indianapolis Rubber Conpany. Minor Stat Itetua. While playing & game of pool at his saloon in Marion, John Dilday dropped dead. At riainville Peter Mallett shot' and fatally wounded Walter Simmons, 19. The two men had never met until a few minutes before, when Mallett, it is said, called Simmons a name and a quarrel followed. In an effort to stop a runaway Philip Riley, a fireman, was probably fatally injured in Richmond. The Commercial bank at Ashley was looted by burglars. The robbers escaped, though shots were exchanged amid great excitement. The loss is $7.50. J. M. Snapp, a druggist' in Bedford, pleaded guilty to selling liquor without a prescription and was fined $50 and costs and stock of liquors confiscated. On his stating that he would cut out tbe liquor end of his drug business, the other cases against him were dismissed. A well-dressed unidentified man committed suicide at the depot of the Michigan Central railroad ia Michigan City by throwing Jiimself in front of a moving engine. His head was severed. The combination of the Michigan City and Northern Indiana Gas Company, tbe Michigan City Light and Power Company, the Michigan City Gas Light Company, and the Michigan City Gas Company was effected by the filing of articles of incor poration in the office of the La Porte county recorded by the Michigan City Gas and Electric Company, with a capital stock of $700.000. The new cor poration belongs to the Geist syndicate. A proposition has been. made by tbe me of enCentral Union Telephone Company Fort Wayne to the thirty-five indepen dent telephone companies to abandon exchange in that cky and sell or lease it. In Jefferson ville. Judge II. C. Montgomery declared the will of Prof. W. W. Borden to be invalid. This conclusion was reached upon the basis that Prof. I lord n did not make his meaning clear. Thus the widow becomes the sole beneficiary of an estate valued at about $!,- 000,000. Prof. Borden bequeathed to the people of Indiana his museum, containing specimens gathered from all parts of the world. Another beneficiary waa the Indiana university.