Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 May 1907 — Page 2

THE PLYMOUTH TRIBUNeT PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS CO.. - . Publishers.

1907 MAY 1907

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I Q. ift N. M. "T F. Q.F. M 4th. V12th. y 20thAy27th. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. AH Side and Conditions of Thing are Shown. .Nothing Overlooked to to it Complete. TnHlTY-OXC LIVES I.OST. Sarlaers' Excursion Train Wrecked by Careless Könning Near Honda, Cat. "While hurrying northward over the coast line of the Southern Pacific railroad, homeward bound, after a week of fraternizing and fiesta in Ixs Angeles, Cal., 145 Shriners of Ismalla Temple of Buffalo and Rajah Temple of Reading, with their families and friend3, were hurled Into the midst of death, when their special train, running fifty miles an hour, struck a defective switch at Honda, a lonely station on the sand wastes of the Pacific boach, derailing the train, smashing the coaches into flinders, killing thirty-one almost instantly and injuring more than a score of others. The bodies of twenty-five are in the morgues at Santa Barbara and more are at San Luis Obispo. The injured, many of whom are terribly hurt and will probably die, are in two sanitariums at San Luis Obispo. Escaped Coatlet Again la Prison. After two years of freedom, during which he tried to atone for past misdeeds by hard work and decent living, John Allison, a member of the notorious Lake Shore gang, who was sentenced to seventeen years in prison for participation in the Richland, (Mich.) bank robbery and escaped In 1904, Is back In the Jackson, Mich., penitentiary to serve out his remaining twelve years unless he secures a parole or pardon because of his good record during the two years of freedom. lie was captured at Moline, HI., where he had xnarriedi and was working as a mechanic and was regarded as a model citizen. Thousand Immigrants In a Day. The flooding tide of immigration to American shores runs ceaselessly on and now high water marks for the influx of Europe's migratory hordes are being reported every month In the port of New York. Already the month of May lids fair to far outstrip the April record, when 133,432 immigrants poured through the gateway of New York into the country. Five transAtlantic liners brought in over 5,000 Immigrants in one day last week and officials at Ellis Island say that there are no signs of cessation of this European invasion. Fifty Street Cars Operated. Fifty cars were operated Sunday from 10 o'clock In the morning until Z o'clock in the evening over two or the twenty odd lines composing the Ur.ited railroads system in San Francisco, Cal. For the first time since the commencement of the strike cars were run to the ferries. About 20,000 passengers, a majority of them women, patronized the service. There was very little disorder during the dey in comparison frith the five days previous. gansas City JIan Sleeps Forty Days. T. C. Webster, who was taken from an east-bound train at Kansas City, Mo., on April 2 unconscious and removed to the City Hospital, has slept constantly for the past forty days and Is still asleep. Physicians say he is offering from acute melancholia. Webster is 60 years old. He was traveling from Horseshoe Bend, Idaho, to Gainesrllle, Ga, None of his relatives or friends has visited him since he was taken to the hospital. .A Trade Faie at JeffersonvlIIe, Ind. jamcj Rodders, 63 years old, superintendent of the Kentucky Wall Plaster Company's plant at Jeffersonville, Ind., was found dead in a hopper, his body upright and inverted. His head end shoulders were wedged in the circular receiving box. His feet sticking out attracted the attention of the workmen. He evidently fell into the hopper while feeding it. Six Ilart la Rock Island Wreck. Rock Island passenger train No. 5, the fast flyer from Memphis, Tenn., and Little Rock to Hot Springs, Ark., vras wrecked about two miles northeast of Haskell, Ark., and sx persons seriously injured. Earthquake la Ruaslv. ' Dispatches from Irkutsk, Siberia, zzj that the city was seven ly shaken by a series of earthquake shocks. No fletails of deaths or extent of property Äestruction were given. Fear a Hay Famine. There are strong Indications of a bay famine in Toledo, Ohio, ad some record-breaking prices. All grail ei have advanced $1 a ton, leaving the best trade of timothy at $17018. Corey-Gilman Wedding. Hiss Mabelle Gilman. who arrived in New York on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse from Europe, announced at the Hotel Gotha. n that on Monday, 2Xay 13, she would wed W. Ellis Corey, president of the United States Steel Corporation, Great Loss of Life. Very great destruction of life and property was caused at Canton, China, by the explosion of a gunpowder magaziae. Twenty-one bodies already have been recovered from the ruins. It is feared that at least 100 more are dead. Hundreds of persons were injured. Charged with Conspiracy. The manager of the international policyholders' committee has been arretted in Albany, N. Y., and two assistant?, in New York, charged with conspiracy in the recent New York Life Insurance election. Censures Woman; Gets Warning. John Florence, a farmer near Itesaca, Ohio, found a placard on a maple tree near hi3 front door declaring tbit his home will be burned if he does not stop denouncing the eighteen women of the neighborhood who two weeks ago whipped George W. Ward for cruelly treating his

OTiTEIL MYSTERY OF MOUNTAINS. Explorers, One a "Woman, Attain Highest Altitude in Himalayas. Two well-known explorers. Dr. and Mrs. Bullock Workman, have arrived in Faris from India. The doctor talks interestingly of their recent effort to unveil the mystery of the Himalayas. "We camped," he said, "at the highest altitude attained by man. 21. .ICH) feet. This was in the unexplored Minkurn range. From our camps on a iov plain surrounded by seven towering peaks, we ascended to a height where I stopped to take photographs, as the mist was increasing, while Mrs. Workman climbed to a reak 23,300 feet above the level of the sea. Only ence was this record broken, when I climbed the Chogo Lunga glacier, 23.394 feet. During the last five days of our climb, the atmosphere was so rare we were unable to sleep. Avalanches in the Airs were miniatures compared with those we saw in the Himalayas. Some were half a mile wide and plunged down the precipitous slopes with a terrific roar. It was avpalling in grandeur. I managed to make important scientific records. The Workmans found a people of Mongolian type at a height of 10,000 feet crowing rye. wheat, oats and barley and even at 12,000 feet they saw a village where human beings were living in huts with white goats, fowls, marmots and strange animals. At 14,000 feet the Workmans saw only a species of partridge and a pair of chough birds. The doctor said above 10,000 feet there was practically no life.

SEEDING LATE IN NORTHWEST. Work Delayed by Snowstorms, tut No Uneasiness 13 Felt. Throughout northern Minnesota, North Dakota and in some sections of South Dakota seeding has been greatly delayed by the inclemency of the weather experienced during April and so far this month. Snowstorm after snowstorm has made it impossible to put the seeders to work, am! probably not more than onethird he usual acreage in Manitoba has been seeded, while in Xor.'h Dakota, northrn Minnesota and northern South Dakota the percentage is still far below normal for this time of year. Despite the delay, however, there is little uneasiness felt on the part of fanners or grain dealers, who have found that a late seeding makes for a bumper crop, especially if the delay is caused by spring snows. The ground is full of moisture and a few days of sunshine will put it in splendid shape for the reception of the seed. WORK BUNCO GAME IN COURT. Sharpers Posing as Judge, Sheriff and Attorney Fleece Strangers. One of the boldest bunko games ever enacted in Marietta, Ohio, was brought to the attention of the police when Horace and Edward Napier of Burlington, Iowa, made compliint that they had been robbed in common pleas court by persons representing themselves to be Common Pleas Judge Jones, Sheriff Owen and Attorney Frank Wilson. The men were in Marinette to foreclose a mortgage on a farm of their grandfather and were approached by a stranger, who said he was an attorney. They went to the court room, stated the case before the supposed judge, who gave a judgment and ordered the supposed sheriff to issue an execution. They charged $70 for their services, which was gladly paid by the victims. LITTLE ONES PERISH. Three Children Burn to Death While Mother 13 Away. Three children named Dominique were burned to death in their home at Blind River, Mich. Their mother, a widow, built a big fire in the heating stove and. then went to a neighbor's, leaving the children alone in the house. Neighbors discovered the house on fire soon afterward, but were unable to rescue the children. They ranged in age from C months to f years. Raise for Traction Employes. Notices have been posted in all of the Twin City Rapid Transit stations in St. Paul notifying the trainmen in the service that on June 1 their wages would be advanced. The men, after the first six months of service, now get a flat rate of 22 cents an hour. After June 1 the first year men will get 21 cents an hour ; second year 22 cents, third year 23 cents, fourth year 24 cents and after five years 23 coats. War Official Killed by FaU. Charles J. Giers, a clerk in the adjutant general's office of the War Department in Washington, accidentally tumbled over a railing on the fourth floor of the War Department building and, falling to the basement, was instantly killed. He had been a sufferer for many years from locomotor ataxia, and had habitually used crutches. Giers was appointed from Alabama in 1SS4. Highwayman Rob Girl of $333. Mrs. Mabel Van Schassen, 23 years old, a cashier in a meat market, was robbed of $333.C0 in the hallway of her residence, 202 West One Hundr ed and Thirty-ninth street, New York, at noon, by two highwaymen. The bandits wrapped a cloak about her head to drown an outcry and then beat her almost into insensibility. They escaped. Fire in Chicago Stockyards. On the eve of a governmental inspect-on, in anticipation of which the plant Had been thoroughly overhauled and cleaned, fire broke out in the porkhouse of the Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Packing Company in the Chicago stock yards, damaging the building and its contents to the estimated extent of $300,000. W. D. Haywood on Trial. William D. Haywood, secretary an? treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, was placed on trial Thursday in Boise, Idaho, charged with complicity in the murder of former Gov. Frank Steunenberg at Caldwell, Idaho, Dec. 30, 1D03. ' "Drug Trust" at an End. A perpetual injunction was issued by the federal court at Indianapolis by agreement prohibiting the so-called "drug trust" from conspiring and combining to fix prices, blacklist dealers who cut prices, or to refuse to sell to retailers on equal terms. Tries to Kill Wife; Dies. Following a quarrel in their bedroom, Christian Miller, a St. Louis butcher, shot at his wife and missed her as she ran screaming from the room. As a po liceman, attracted by the shot, entered the room, Miller committed suicide with a revolver. Turns State's Evidence. W. O. Douglass, the New York bank clerk who stole $$00,000 worth of bonds from the Trust Company of America, pleaded guilty to the charge and turned State's evidence. On hii testimony Broker Dennett was indicted. Train Robbery in Montana. The North Coast limited on the Northern Pacific road was held up at Welch's Spur, about fifteen miles east of Butte, Mont., and the engineer was killed. The robbers obtained no money. Panama Town Is Wiped Out. Advices state that a fire at Bocas del Toro, Panama, practically destroyed the town. Bocas del Toro is a port on the Pacific, situated on an island of the same name. It has a population of between 3,000 and 4,000. A fire there in March, 1904, destroyed more than 100 houses, the damage aggregating $500,000.

WILD MAN IN WOODS.

MYSTERIOUS CREATURE FLEES AT HUMAN APPROACH. Almost Nnde and Apparently IlnrmIckk, lie In Allowed to Eeape from Captor Hoy of IS Admit llavlne Committed Burglaries. In the Long Creek settlement, five miles north of Hugo, I. T., a wild man has been discovered. He Avas first seen by a negro. It was in the woods along a path that led through thick underbrush. The negro was almost paralyzed with fright. The wild man was almost nude. His beard came nearly to his waist, and his hair was matted in strings down his back. He sprang into the wood: like a wild animal when he saw the negro. An alarm was spread and several white men finally succeeded in closing in on the wild creature in a bend in the river. When he was cornered he would only wring his hands and mumble something about having been in the woods 720 days, lie had an old sack, and in it was a piece of meat. The party of men who saw bim believed the man to be harmless, and when they let him escape he again bounded off into the woods and disappeared. EX-GOV. E. G. EOSS DEAD. Former Kansas Senator Expires in New Mexico. !dmund G. Boss. ex-Gorernor of New M xico and former United States Senator frcn Kansas, second victim of the "fatal Lane succession," r.hosc vote in the United States Senate prevented the impeach-, ment of President Johnjo.i and who was practically driven from Kansas a ruined man, died in Albuquerque, N. M. In the most dramatic incident of American political history, the President of the United States was defendant, prosecuted by the louse of Representatives before tlie chief justice of the Supreme Court, sitting as trial jivlge and a jury composed of the Senate. At the close of the trial seven IlepublicKi. Senators voted with the Democratic mirority against impeachment, the seventh and deciding vote being that of Senator Boss. For this act in the face of threats of political annihilation, social ostracism, financial ruin and assassination, all but the latter became Boss portion. The case of Boss is probably one of the most pathetic, and the wreck of his life the most complete that ever occurred in Kansas politics. Following his forced retirement from the Senate and the Bepublican party Boss went to New Mexico and besan working at the "case" in a printing office. Year's later President Cleveland appointed him Governor of New Mexico. He served four years, later returning to the printing office, where he remained practically up to the time of his death. ' WANT CLEVELAND TO RUN. Wall Street Men Said to Groom Him as Candidate for President. Bumors have reached Washington on high authority from Wall street that a movement is on foot among the conservative financial interests there, regardless of party, to influence ex-rresiJent Grover Cleveland to enter the presidential race next jear. It is stated from the same source that no encouragement has been received from Mr. Cleveland by the promoters. The movement is understood to be an attempt to head off Bryan and and Hearst sentiment in New oYrk. BOY CONFESSES BURGLARIES. Eluded Cincinnati Police by Fleeing to Chicago Each Time. John Ochs, IS years of age, has confessed more than a score of burglaries, according to statements of Cincinnati police officials who bav given him scver1 severe "sweatings." He was arrested at his home on Bates avenue in the West End. having been found concealed under a bed. For several weeks detectives have been on his trail, but he eluded them, they say, by fleeing to Chicago as soon as he had committed a burglary. MURDERS FAMILY OF SIX. In a Fit of Insanity Carpenter Shoots Half a Dozen Persons. In a fit of insanity Walter Charles Davis, a carpe-nter, shot and killed a family of six persons with whom he resided on Pierris street, San Francisco. The victims were: Orson B. Bush. 57 years old, his wife and their young son; W. S. Baru, a carpenter with relatives at St. Louis and Denver; M. E. Zinton. a surveyor, recently from New York, and Mrs. Lillian D. Carothers, who boarded at the hcuse. , Three Months for Modern Valjean, Attorney General Lonaparte has recommended that the sentence of John William January, alias Charles W. 'Anderton, the modern Jean Valjean, be commuted to three months from the date of his rearrest, and that he be pardoned at the end of that time, or on July 10, 19G7. The President has approved the Attorney General's recommendation. Youthful Hold-Up Ends Life. Foiled in his attempt to bold up with the aid of a companion two trolley conductors in West Philadelphia, anT fearing that he had killed a policeman in his efforts to esct pe. Harold S. Jones, aged 10 years, shot and killed himself on the street. His companion, G. II. Geddis. aged 18 years, was arretted while in bed at his home. Omaha Building1 in Collapse. At 8 o'clock Wednesday morning the six-story building at Ninth and Leaven worth streets, Omaha, occupied by the Parlin, Orendorff & Martin Co., whole sale farm implements, collapsed, the walls falling inward. The property loss, which cannot yet be estimated, is heavy. The employes had not reported for work and no one was injured. Wright Cleared of Murder. The trial of Benjamin C. Wright, formerly of Chicago, charged with the murder of his wife and 5-year-old daughter, was ended abruptly in Denver, after bearing the testimony of Prof. W. D. Engle, instructor of chemistry at Denver university. Tröf. Engle testified that carbon monoxide poisoning, generated, he believed, by a gas heater, caused death. ' . i Hundreds Killed in Battle. Confirmation of the report' that the Turkish troops have suffered a severe defeat in the Yemen province has been received in Constantinople. Seven Turkish battalions were annihilated by insurgent Arabs, it is now stated. Heir to Spanish Throne. Queen Victoria of Spain gave birth Fridav to a son. vno necomes neir to the throne of Spain. The baby will be named Alfonso. Indiana Woman Is Missing. Miss Liddie Jordan, aged 4Ü, of Bowl ing Ureec, Ind., has been missing fo r three days, having disappeared from neighbor's house when the latter stepp into another room. Search parties ha been working night and day, but ha a ed ve ve lounu no. iraie ui ur. Sten Toward Irish Home Rule. The British government's bill creating an Irish councn was presented to the House of Commons, passed its nrst readiv.9. and seems likelv to be accented bv the Nationalists as a step toward horn rul.

SPANISH HEIR IS BORN.

Irlnce of the Asturlas Arrive Amid National Rejoicing. A son was torn Friday to the Kin? and Queen of Spain. The baby will be named Alfonso and is htMr to the Spanish throne. The arrival of the royal babe caused demonstrations of the wildest joy throughout the city and nntiou. Cannon were fired, bells were rung, flags were flung to the breeze everywhere, while cheering thousands jcathcred about the palace gates and thronged the streets. Madrid took on a holiday appearance. All business was nispended and the clay was given over to feasting, speechmaking, parades, games, and other joyous amusements The arrival of the little heir to the Spanish thrJiie was attended by dignified yet ancient eereuionies which have been handed down by the custom of centuries. The christening takes place : V.-..:-in the private chapel at the palace. The fent used for the christening Is one that has figured at the christening of Spanish princes and princesses for sev eral centuries. The nurse for a royal Infant is alv.nys chosen from among the peasant women of the Asturlas, who are noted for their beauty. According to a decree of the Spanish government, the son born to King Al fonso and Queen Victoria will bear the title of Prince of the Asturlas. The principality of the Asturlas family was the mountain refuge of the aboriginal inhabitants of Spain, ho remained there unconquered by Roman or Mocr. In many respects the Asturias is regarded as the cradle of the Spanish monarchy, hence the pride taken in the title of Prince of the Asturias. Queen Victoria, mother of the royal Infant, was married to King Alfonso In Madrid May 31, 1000, amid scenes of the greatest pplendor, followed by the horrcr of a bomb explosion -which killed scores of people and narrowly missed the royal coach in which their majesties were returning from trhurch. One Kitchen for the Tuin. The women of Montclair, a New Jersey suburb of New York, have projected a domestic service corporation for t le purpose of doing away .with the drudjery of the kitchen and substituting for it a central plant, which shall prepare all the family's food, bring it to the bouse three times a day and take away the soiled dishes, leaving to the housewife only the pleasant task of adorning the table as may suit her fancy. Some of the advan tages claimed for this plan are the solution of the servant problem, the combination of a first-class hotel service with the comforts and privacy of one's own home, absolute freedom from the care and worry of providing for the table and a cost for the highest grade of food prepared in the very best manner probably not exceeding that for the average family table. The corporation may extend its service so as to include laundry work, housccleaning, lawn mowing and gardening. Serum for Menlnsltl. Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller institute, New York City, while declining to discuss the reported discovery of a serum for the cure of spinal meningitis, has admitted that experiments hava been conducted very successfully with the serum in the treatment of monkeys, although it has never been tried on a human being. Train vlth New Field Can. Dispatches from Berlin state that th German government has ordered 214,000 men of the army reserve and territorial army to join the colors for a fortnight's service, to receive training with the new field gun and modified rifle, with improved ammunition. The number of men summoned for duty is 80,000 more than were called out for training in 1000. The military authorities are displaying unusual activity in other directions. Military maneuvers on the largest scale, involving fortresses as well as troops, are being prepared. nrltiah Craiirr Launched, The new British armored cruiser Invincible wan launched from the K'swiek shipyard. This is one of a trio of the largest cruisers in the world, the first of which was the Indomitable. The dimensions of these two vessels ore alike, namely, 17,250 tons, length feet. The armament includes eight 12-inch guns, almost equaling the main battery of the great battleship Dreadnought. Under admiralty orders, the greatest secrecy was observed regarding the details of the new vessel. An enterprising American has begun to manufacture cement tombs.

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IDAHO TKIAL BEGINS.

GREAT DRAMA ENACTED IN SMALL COURT ROOM. Opening; of Case Acainst "Wester? Miner' Officials, AVhlcu lias ArouNcd Mach Iadou and Which I A'arlously Viewed. Crowded daily into the little court room of the Ada County Court House, in Boise, Ida., the largest audience of spectators that ever attended a trial in Idaho witnessed the opening of one of the greatest legal battles ever fought in America. Some would have us believe that it is an epoch-making drama, fraught with dangerous possibilities to the social and industrial fabric of our nation; others insist that it is but a trial for murder, cold-blooded murder with admittedly extraordinary phases. The State of Idaho, through its Governor and its prosecuting officers, declare that here the equity of American justice is to be put to its supreme test; that capital is not concerned, but that the power of a State to protect the lives of its citizens mut assert itself, by puuJsLiug those who are guilty of taking human life; that as prejudice will not be permitted to take the place of proof neither shall passion be permitted to stand In the way of penalty. The question of whether William D. Heywood, seeretary-trea surer of the Western Federation of Miners, orator, organizer and writer, and one of the ablest exponents of the cause of unionism in this country, was jointly responsible for the murder of e.x-Gov. Frauk Steunenberg, is to be debated. The decision In his case will be a fair guie to a decision in the cases of his prison colleagues, Charles Mover, president of the s.une organization, and George A. Pcttibone, chairman of its Executive Committee. When these cases have been rassed upon the public will learn what disposition the prosecution intends to make of the real perpetrator of the crime, Harry Orchard, who confessed that he was hired by these men not only to slay the giant ex-Governor at the portals of his home in Caldwell on the last night of 1003, but to murder about a score eZ working men and their superintendents. When 40,000 men can be induced to parade the streets of New York in pro test against a trial about lo take place in a State nearly 3,000 miles distant; when even the President of the United States can Ik? drawn Into the contro-versj-, It must be admitted that there is unusual interest in this ease, whether it be a mere murder trial or an entering wrdge in an Industrial redi vision o? the country. This interest is enhanced by the unique features in the ease. The right of a State practically to kidnap three citizens of another State and try them for a crime perpetrated in the former State while they were absent therefrom, has been declared by the highest court in the land as unquestionable, but it is a departure from precedent and involves the setting aside of habeas corpus. Furthermore, the Indictment of Moyer, Heywood and Pettibone does not accuse them of being accessories, but of being the actual perpetrators of the crime, although the State acknowledges that they were not in Caldwell, not even in Idaho, at the time the murder was committed. But as the State of Idaho does not recognize the crime of accessory it was necessary to indict them as principals in order to bring them to trial. This phase of the case has also been passed upon in the highest court of the land and the correctness of Idaho's position has been sustained. Unusual as are these conditions, the State declares that extraordinary means were necessary, as the State was dealing with an extraordinary condition. The State asserts that the assassination of Steunenberg was but the climax: of a series of dastardly crimes inspired by Moyer, Hey wood and Tettibone, aided by Jack Simpkins, who belonged to the Executive Committee and who was with Orchard on his terrible errand to Caldwell, after which he escaped and has never been apprehended. The State does not claim that the Western Federation of Miners was Implicated as a body in these crimes, but that the indicted officers were responsible. How much proof the State can adduce is a question. It has Or chard's confession and McPartland, the detective, asserts that he has proof In corroboration of the details of that confession. It also has the confession of Steve Adams, since repudiated, yet corroborated in many details, the State claims, by subsequent investigation. The defense will meet this case of the prosecution with an alibi, proving that the Indicted men were not in Idaho when the crime was committed. They will also present what tbey claim is proof that the assassination of Steu nenberg was brought tbout by the Mine Owners' Association, through Orchard, for the sole purpose of throwing the responsibility therefor upon the Western Federation ofliclals and thus creating a sentiment against them. While the whole State is a veritable volcano of feeling ready to burst Into eruption there Is little outward manifestation and no disorder. Such Turners as that Orchard will be shot to death when he takes the stand and that McPartland, the detective, is marked for assassination, are scouted by the sheriff and other authorities. The present atmosphere Is one of patient expectancy, rather than of violent outburst. Yet there are ominous conditions. From Far and Near Three saloons in Atchison and two in Leavenworth, Kan., were seized and closed by the receivers appointed by the State Supreme Court in the liquor injunction cases. Miss Helen Dent Wrenshall and Chaffee Grant, a grandson of Gen. Grant, will be married in Washington, Pa., in June. The bride-to-be is a descendant of Alfred the Great. Two women and a man were seriously injured as the result of an explosion of a gas retort at the plant of John and James Dobson, Philadelphia carpet manufacturers. The machinery was damaged. Thomas F. Manning, a saloonkeeper of Braddock, Pa., was shot dead in his barroom while in the act of ejecting John Mulligan, a mill worker. The correspondent of the Koelnische Zeitung, Cologne, says that English money will build the now Spanish fleet in English yards. He adds that the Cortes will be asked to provide $77,200,000 for the navy. Fire, believed to be of incendiary origin, imperiled the lives of twenty families and badly damaged the five-story flat house at 73o East One Hundred and Fifty-sixth street, New York. The loss is 1 7,000.

CHICAGO. Th? important factors narking the com sc of business show unusual developments, but the fundamental basis of heiilthy progress ',s undistutbed. In the continued spell of unseasonable weather and the government report disclosing the extent of damage to winter wheat are toimd the most unfavorable current features. In both respects, however, the? adverse effect upon commerc? s temporary, and offsetting these are sustained activity in production and distribution in the principal industries anl legislative action paving the way for local improvements involving great ootpyys and employment of labor. A totter indication of soundness cannot X ''"ted thta 'hat the unprecedented Mav payments tlirovgh the banks and the small trading defaults reported. Money his become easier, but there is lighter bor-owir. for mercantile purposes and improving in-vcsln-ent in real estate and bonds. Conditions in manufactures redoct ciormous deliveries, and new demands eotne forward freely, yet the difficulties liicrtas-e in obtaining adequate supplies of necessary materials for factory conversion, and the dearer costs force a. murk ing up of prices for mac'iinory :iiid other finished metal and wood products. Iiaihvay facilities have steadily improved, aud earnings of the Chicago roarls exhibit substantial gains over those of a year ago. More vessel tonnage is sought for the lake traffic, but most of the shipyavds remain idle owing to the protracted strike1, and freight charters rose above these of the last week. Dun's Beview. NEW YORK. Pietzing weather and snow have hurt t.vule and retarded crop preparations and growth in the Northwest, while low temperatures and heavy rains affect southern distribution and crop growth and measla'atly influence distribution in the central West and East. Despite the be-twoeu-seasons period, and the slowness of retai; trade and collections, there are fev complaints coming from jobbing an.! wholesale lines, except that filling-in orders are light and that retail stocks arc reportenl heavy. One explanation of this is that jobbers and wholesalers had a very heavy volume of business hooked, deliveries upon which have been slow, and the lull has enabled the latter branches to catch up measurably with demands. Demands from wholesalers, therefore, while smaller than some months ago, have been sufficient to keep all actively engaged, and crop and trade developments from now on will be closely watched to allow of a -proper appreciation of future need of fall trade. Business failures for the week ending May 0 in ihe United States number ."4, against 103 last werk and 102 in the like week of 1000. Canadian failures number 20, against IS last week and 28 iu this week a year ago. Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week ending May 0 aggregated 2,004, 410 bushels, against 2.234.7Ö0 last week and 2,142.042 this week last year; for the last forty-five weeks, 140.704.JKJ; bushels, against lir,74S,211 in 100."-. Corn ex ports for the week are 1,74, 800 bushels. against 1,817,003 bushels last week and 1,573,740 a year ago; for the fiscal year to date, 03,172,737 bushels, against 105. 411,083 in 1003-C Bradstreet's Report. f7 41 Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $G..ri0; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.33; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $0.73 : wheat. No. 2. S3c to Hc : torn, No. 2, 48c to 50c: oats, standard. 43c to 43c; rye, No. 2. 72c to 74c; hay. ti moth v. $13.00 to $19.00; prairie, $0.00 to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 14c to! lie; potatoes, 30c to 70c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.0C to $b00; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.30 to $3.23; wheat, No. 2, 80c to 82c; corn. No. 2 white, 51c to 53o; oats. No. 2 white, 42c to 43c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.30 to $0.23; hogs. $4.00 to $0.57; sheep, $3.00 to $0.23; wheat. No. 2, 82c to Sic; corn, No. 2, 50c to 52c; oats, No. 2, 42c to 44c ; rye. No. 2, 07c to ikSc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.K) to $5.73; hogs, $1.00 to $0.50; sheep, $3.00 tc $5.30; wheat. No. 2, 83c to S5c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 53c; oats, No. li mixed, 43c to 45c ; rye, No. 2. 74c to 7()c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.40: hogs, $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2, S3c to S5c ; corn. No. 3 yellow, 52c to 54c; oats. No. 3 white, 43c to 40c; rye. No. 2, 74c to 70c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, S5c to SOc; corn. No. 3, 47c to 40? ; oats, standard, 42c to 44c : rye, No. 1, 75c to 77c; barley, standard, 70c to 80c; pork, mess, $10-15. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $1.90 to $6.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.75 ; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.73 ; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to-$7.85. New York Cattle. S4.00 to $5.83: hogs, $1.00 to $7.00; sheep,. $3.00 to $0.00; wheat, No. 2 red, SOc to 00c; corn. No. 2. 55c to 57c: oats, natural white, 4Sc to 40c; butter, creamery, 24c to 2c; eggs, western, loc to 18c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 82c to 84c: corn. No. 2 mixed, .0c to 32c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 44c to 43c; rye. No. 2, 71c to 73c; clover seed, prime, $S.00. Briet New Itema, Fire on one of the' export piers at the foot of North Twelfth street, Brooklyn, did $100,000 damage. Superintendent Sands of the naval academy posted an order providing for an escort of midshipmen for President Koosevelt at Jamestown. Four companies, the pick of the brigade, will form the escort. The big repair shops of the New York Central and Hudson Biver railroad in the Melrose yards. New York City, were burned, with a loss of $100,000. Fire destroyed the plant of the Tort Blakeley Mill Company at Port Blakeley, Wash., the largest lumber manufacturing establishment on the Pacific coast, entailing a loss of $750,000. The mill will be rebuilt at once. John W. Gates is going into foreign gtouse shooting. With his son, Charles G.. the famous speculator Has leased for live years the 7,000 acres of woodland upon the hunting preserve of the Marquis de Augans, in France. James if. Lehnemann, who is alleged bv the government to have been connected as general manager with the attempt of the yacht Frolic to import Chinese im properly from Newfoundland to tho United States, has surrendered himself at the office of the United States district attor ney in Boston. Department heads of the United States mint in Denver and three government fürents are checking up the coinage of the mint. The gold coins from the Den ver mint have been found to be under value in fineness of gold and the government has begun action to discover who is responsible for the discrepancy.

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DRUG TRUST IS ENDED.

Court Ein Join Combine on Coiuplulnt of Government. The so-called "drug trust" was perpetually enjoined from continuing its operatior-s by the entering of a decree in the United States Circuit Court for the district of Indiana oa the complaint of the United States government filed by Joseph B. Kcallug, United States District Attorney. The defendants, ninety-two In number, who are the members, officers, directors, agents and attorneys of the National Association of Retail Druggists, the Wholesale Druggists Association, tripartite proprietors, "blacklist manufacturers," "direct contract proprietors," "wholesale contract proprietors" and Charles C. Bombaugh, are ierpctually enjoined from combining and conspiring to restrain trade in drugs, fix prices by agreement, blkklist retailers who cut prices, or to refuse to sell to any retailer on equal terms. All publication of blacklists is forbidden and all contracts and agreements covered by the charges are declared void. The direct contract serial number plan Is prohibited as well as the securing of the adoption of schedules for the sale of drugs. Charles C. Bcmbaugh was charged In the bill of complaint with leing en gaged in printing and circulating lists calleel blacklists, which contained the names of druggists throughout the country who sold proprietary articles and medicines at prices less than those which the alleged e-omblnation ordered. As charged, he would send a list each month to every retail and wholesale druggist in the United States who be longed to the association of those ac cused of cutting prices and as a result of this these "aggressive cutters," as they were called, could not buy goods. It was further charged that those ac cused of cutting prices on proprietary medicines were unable to purchase any kind of drugs from the members of the several associations. All such practices are perretually enjoined. The decree entered was dictated by the government attorneys and agreed to by the defendants. With the enter ing of the decree the litigation came to an end with a complete victory for the government. Railway Accident at N'ljjnt. George M. Stratton, the Johns Hop kins university expert on railway statis tics, discusses in the May Century the subject of railway disasters at night, and makes practical suggestions for a change of system which would minimize, acci dents. Prof. Stratton wants to shift the responsibility of the traveler's safety from the color faculty to the space sense by making the vane of the semaphore Jumin ous at night. Such a line of fire would be strikingly different from the usual lights of buildings or streets, and would stand out distinct from the colored lights which it might seem wise to continue for other purposes. This continuous line of light, moreover, would be visible at a far greater distance than is the present single light. It would at once remove all need of discerning whether the light burned white or greeu or red, with all the risk which the distinction brings. It would be virtually continuing at night the same system of signals which i used during the day. The State Department at Washington has been informed of the successful conclusion of peace negotiated between the recently warring Central American repub lics. A provisional government of Hon duras has been announced to administer the affairs of the country pending a presidential and congressional election, which will probably be held in about sixty days. Washington confirms the dispatches from Pekin to the effect that the Chinese minister to the United States, Sir Chentune Liang-Cheng, is to return to Pekin, where he will probably assume the office of president of the "board of foreign af fairs and controller general of maritime customs. Liang Tun-Yen, a graduate of Yale college, is mentioned as his prob able successor at Washington. The Italian government gave notice in the chamber that it would -reserve to itself the entire initiative regarding the proposed excavations at the ancient city of Ilerculaneum, thus excluding all foreign aid of a financial nature. This means that the work will be delayed indefinitely pending an investigation, as it is known that Italy lacks the funds to carry on the 'work as it was proposed to do by English scientists with the aid of English capital. The Japanese battleship Aki, which was launched successfully at Kure, Japan, outclasses the British Dreadnought and gives Japan the credit of having the largest battleship in the woild. The Aki is 402 feet long, 83 feet wide, has 19,800 tons displacement and turbine engines of 25,000 horse-power, expected to give her a speed of 21 knots. She has three funnels and an armor tclt inches thick. Her armament includes forr 12-inch, twelve 10-inch and eight G-incb guns. She was designed and constructed exclusively by Japanese, the net time of her construction being only eight months. The last vestige of war in Manchuria has now been removed, the Bussian and Japanese troops having completed their evacuation of that section of the Chinese empire; all military movements hav ceased, and the Manchurian towns have been turned over to the Chinese authorities. China has written to Japan expressing her appreciation of the withdrawal of the Japanese troops, and giv ing assurance of the reorganization of the Manchurian provinces. April 15 was the expiration of the eighteen months' limit for the evacuation of Manchuria, according to the treaty of Portsmouth. In tho House of Commons Chancellor Asquith submitted a budget statement showing a year of unusual prosperity, with a reduction of the national debt and a surplus of nearly $27,000,000. The old-age pension scheme is set to go into effect next year and $7,500,000 is set aside for that purportThe strike situation in Paris has grown more acute, many of the hotel waiters having joined the ranks of, the striking bakers and other food-producing wort men. While no ser.'ous disturbances have occurred, it has been found neivs sary to use the troops to disperse the mobs which have gathered from time to time. The committee appointed by the Bus sian tlouma to investigate the alleged torturing of political prisoners at Riga and other prisons submitted its reiort Tues day. This confirms officially the worst stories that have been told, and its state ments are admitted to be true by the ministers of the interior and justice. At Biga a committee was created to direct tortures, and the Governor put many prisemers who were merely suspects to death without trial. Patrick Gallagher and John Novack, miners, were crushed to death by falling roofs at Olyphant, Pa.

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MAX STABS CHILD TO DEATH. John Vanahan. WmIc.H lnded. At tack Girl 11 Years Old. John Yaughan, aged 30, a weak-minded man, killed Elizabeth Strubel, aged 11, at a desolate place in the old canal bed in the northern part of La Fayette. Yaughan, 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. After kill ing his victim Yaughan threw himself on the body of the girl and tried to cut his throat, but was prevented by the girl's father, who was attracted to the scene by the screams of his child. He succeeded, however, in inflicting several knife wouni's. Vaujhan followed his d'?fid victim to her home, where her lather carried her, and was arrested there shortly afterward. Yaughan is in jail with knife wounds in his neck, but none is serious. ROUTS 3IADDEXED HUSBAND. Wife of Crascd Incendiary Leaps from PrUon aad Qnrlls Fire. Henry Bearman, a farmer near Kokomo, went suddenly insane, locked his wife in her bedroom upstairs and set fire to the house. With the building burning in a dozen places, the woman leaped from a window to the ground, 15 feet below, uninjured. She fought the flames and her maniac husband at the same time and conquered both. Bearman ran two miles coatless in a driving rain and climbed to the top of a windmill tower, where he defied Sheriff Linley and his posse. IIa was finally captured. Bearman has been in the insane asylum and will be returned there. ACQUITS VETERAX OP MURDER. Marlon Jury Frees 82-Year-Old Inmate f Soldiers Home. John lliry, a veteran of the Civil War, his .air snowy mhite and his pala face covered with the wrinkles of 82 years, walked from the court room in Marion a free rran after a jury had acquitted him of a charge of killing John Smith, 70 years old, also a soldier. Both men were inmates of the National soldiers home. Following a quarrel the men fought with pitchforks and Smith was killed. Huzzy's claim cf self-defense gained him his freedom. PLAN IXTERURBAN SERVICE. Conference at Sontb Bend Will Tal. Place Wednesday. A conference between the Board of Public Works of South Bend and representatives of the Chicago, South Bend and Northern Indiana Bailway will be held to consider the establishment of intemrban sen-ice with t!;rough cars from South Bend to Winona and eventually to Indianapolis. The railway company has completed arrangements by which the service can be started immediately by way of Mishawaka, Elkhart, Goshen , and Warsaw. Jury Influenced by Ctrcns. Declaring the jury was so excited by a passing circus parade that it could not attend to the evidence, and so anxious to attend the performance it did not taka time to delilerate, attorneys for the defense demand a new trial for Harry Whipple of Logansport, sentenced to the penitentiary for shooting Patrolman Thomason. No Use for Brainstorms. Thi here insanity business hia been run into the ground," was a statement made by a farmer in the Circuit Court in Marion when questioned as to his right to sit ns a juryman in the trial of David McCain, alleged forger. McCain's plea is insanity. The venireman was discharged. Anniversary of I. O. O. F. Over 10,000 Odd Fellows attended the eighty-eighth anniversary celebration cf the order in Evansville. The main orator of, the occasion was E. S. Conway of Chicago, grand sire of American Odd Fellows. Mother of Twenty-one Dies. Mrs. Phlejnans Klass, wife of a farmer of Coal City and mother of twenty-one children, ten grown, is dead, at the age of C2. ,. Child Killed by Train. Henrietta Schwartz. 0 years old. waj killed by a freight train in Terre Haute while an elder sister held her hands trying to drag her to safety. Rnraod to Death la Bonfire. Laura, the 3-year-old daughter of Schuyler Wilfong, was burned to death while playing near a bonfire in Goshen. Fire Times a Drldeajroom. T. A. Payne, a coal operator at Burnett, married Miss Mary Fields. It is his fifth and her fourth marriage. Hosts Motfceri Breaks Ribs. Benjamin Beed of Evansville broke two of his mother's ribs while embracing her. Brief Statte Happening. In an effort to stop a runaway Philip Riley, a fireman, was probably fatally injured in Richmond. The Commercial bonk at Ashley waa looted by burglars. The robbers escaped. though sLots were exchanged amid great excitement. The loss is $7.50. William E. Cummins, town marshal of English, who nas fchot while attempting to arrest two men charged with firing a bridge on the Southern railway, wai taken to St. Joseph infirmary at Louisville, Ky. His condition is aerions. The Indiana Association of Congrega tional Churches, in session at Terr Haute, discussed the proposed union of that denomination with the United Brethren and Methodist Protestant churches on the plan adopted at the tri-Sttte conference at Chicago. The congregations of the State are divided over the question. narry Gueis of East St. Louis took $200 worth of jewelry from the room of a woman student at the Indiana Normal school in Terre Haute, He left the house whistling and putting on his gloves. He was caught and given an indeterminate sentence. Worried over his school studies and disappointed because he could not learn as quickly as other boys, Francis Dahoney, aged 13. committed suicide in Valparaiso by drinking a large quantity of wood alcohol. Alfred Macon of Marion, father of two girls who were killed recently at a railroad crossing, has refvjsed to accept the sura offered by the company as compensation. He does this on the ground that be values his daughters nore than all the money in the world, and thinks that to accent the company's offer would be like putting a price on his children's lives, receiving blood money, in fact. Twice in two days Frank . Woodcox failed to appear, because of timidity, to be married to Bertha Mills of Kokomo, and now the girl has changed beaux. The other evening the minister and guests were at t'ae Mills home with the feast spread. Woodcox came two hours late, and without a. marriage license. The feast went on, and it was agreed that the ceremony would fellow the following day. This time Woodcox failed to appear at all. Later he called Miss Mills up by phone and tried to square himself. She shut him off, declaring she had "another fellow," one this time who hid "easl enough to come up to the hitching pcr3 at the appointed time."