Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 34, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 May 1907 — Page 2

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J 4th. K&l'ZttL 20th. 27th. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. Jk.ll Bides and Conditions of Thins are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to it Complete.

SIRS. MeKIMEY DE-ID. -Last Days Were rencefnl and Foil of Tendrrnrmi. Mrs. William McKinley, wider' of the martyred President, died at 1:03 Sunday afternoon at her home in Canton, Ohio. The transition from life to death was so peaceful and gradual that It was with difficulty that the Vigilant physicians and attendants noted when dissolution came. There 'i Was no 1 struggle no pain. Mrs. Mc- ; Klnley never knew of the efforts made for days to pra'ong her life, nor of the solicitous hope against hope fat her sister and other relatives and friends for her recovery. At the McKinley home when death came there were present Secretary Cortelyou, Mr. and Mrs. M. C Barber, Mrs. Sarah Duncan, Mrs. Lather Day, Justice and Mrs. William &. Day, Drs. Fortmann and Rixey and the nurses.

Tied Himself to a Cow. Bennie Bone, 8 years old, of Oakland City, Ind., started to take the cow to pasture. The animal pulled and tugged until Bennie's hantl3 ached. He then tied the rope about his body. Bees stung the cow and she ran into a lumber yard, dragging Bennie behind her. He was thrown against a pile of boards and badly injured. In addition to broken limbs he received a severe scalp wound. Bennie will probably die. Tired of Shoveling Snow. Ifen employed by the Sparrow-Kroll Lumber Company in Marquette, Mich., have quit work because, as they put it, they did not intend to shovel snow all Bummer. They have hero compelled to shovel snow ever sinej they went on the job and there is no prospect of a letup. The Consolidated Fuel and Lnmber Company had a similar experience earlier in the week at Summit South Hit by Tornadoes. Six persons are reported to hare been killed and forty injured in a tornado at Emory, Texas. A special from Gainesville, Mo.t says a tornado struck Cribble Springs, eighteen miles southeast of there, wrecking twenty or thirty houses, killing two and injuring others. EransTllle Strike Settled. The street car strike which has held Evansvllle, Ind., in its grasp for fie past ten days with traffic and business Cemoralized, accompanied by violence ca the part of strike sympathizers, has been settled. The strike-breakers are leaving for Chicago and Cleveland. Both sides made concessions. Three Live Lost In a Dostoa Fire. Three men lost their Hve3 in a fire which broke out in the heart of the wood-working district along the water front In Boston, Mass. They were Pattick Rourke, of East Boston, a membez of the firm of Johnson & Rourk'.; lames Varasso, of East Boston, and : n Italian known at Tony Rose. Power Plant Duaierd by Fire. The electric light and heating plant ef the Central India' jsl Lighting Company at Bloomington, Ind., was badly d imaged by fire, entailing a loss of $3,000. It will be several weeks before tie plant can be put in operation. Wreck n the Lake Shore. A fast west-bound Lake Shore freight train crashed into a local at Dunlaps, Ind., wrecking fifteen cars. All the crew escaped injury. The debris caught Cre. The tracks were blockaded for several hours. Two Killed la Trolley Collision. Two men lost their lives in a headon collision on the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon interurban Une at Celery Farm, east of Muskegon, IXIch. Serious Rlotlas la Saa Fraaelseo. Serious rioting took place in San Francisco, CaJ., when several non-union street car men were attacked by crowds and beaten as they left the Turk and Fillmore street barns. If Horse Show for Chicago. There will be no horse show in Chicago this season perhaps none for several years and the automobile and the strenuous touring car with its blatant honk, are the cause. Hay Irwin Weds Her Manager. May Irwin, the actress, was married tX her summer home on Irwin Island, In the St. Lawrence river, to Kurt Eisfeldt, for three years her manager and press agent. ' Rev. Mr. Clark Is Forgiven. Rer. John L. Clark of Brooklyn hits begged the forgiveness of his congrega tion for officiating at the Corey-Gilman wedding, says he has returned the fee and has been permitted to .retain his pulpit. Banker's Wife Is Released. At Coshocton, Ohio, the Circuit Court reversed the lower court's conviction of Banker James Lingafelter's wife for forgery, but Prosecutor Fitzgibbons said he would appeal to the Supreme Co-rt. The woman's husband and eon are both in prison for forgery. Schmitz Is Out. The San Francisco Call says: From this time forward Eugene E. Schmitz will be the Mayor of San Frarcisco in name only. lie has relinquished the reins of government to a committee of seven, representing the five great commercial organizations of the city. Yerkes WiU Probated. Probate of the will of Charles T Yerkes, who died in New York Dec. 20, 1905, was granted in London to W. E. Uandelick, attorney for L. S. Owiley. The estate in the United Kingdom was

worn to be $28,200.

VULGATE TO BE REVISED.

Ksw Latin Translation of the Eibl Decreed by Pope. Ia a dispatch from Rome the correspondent of the London Times Fays the Pope has issued a decree intrusting the entire revision of the vilgate to the Benedict in order. This is the most important decision yet announced as an outcome of the biblical commission appointed toward tho end of the pontificate of Leo 'XIII. In aa editorial article the Times says it is difficult to overestimate the mpertance of this step. "No book,' the paper declares, "has exercised a wider and more powerful influence in molding the faith, morals, thought and traditions of the literature of the European world than the Latin version of the scriptures which we know as the vulgate. For 1,500 years it has been setting its impress upon the lives and the whole mental heritage of countless millions of men." The paper adds the step is a bold one, but it will be hailed with satisfaction by many within as well as without the church of Rome. THB3T KI FAEM PRODUCTS. Organization at St. Louis Purposes Control of Prices. The details have become known of an organization that has been in process of formation for several months to control the price of farm products. The organization is known as the St. Louis Equity Exchange, and its leading promoters are Rev. J. T. Tuohy, a Catholic priest; George W. Wickline and Owen Miller. Headquarters Lave been established in Indianapolis and there are unions 'n fourteen States. It is stated that n union label to distinguish union farm produce is to be adopted, and members of labor unions will be asked to purchase only articles so labeled. The farmers, in re turn, are to purchase only union-made goods. The national organization is said to have formed alliances with the Tobacco Growers Association, the Fruit and Produce Dealers Association and the Peanut Growers Association. ACCUSED WOMAN GAINS POINT. Change of Venue 13 Granted Mrs. Kauffmann at Sioux Falls. Attorneys for Mrs. Emma KauSman, whose case on the charge of having murdered her servant was moved for trial in the State Circuit Court in Sioux Falls, S. D., the other day completed the work of offering evidence in support of their application for a change of venue. The proprietors of the two daily newspapers of Sioux Falls and of four of the weeklies were present in order to show that the case had been commented en in all the papers and that some of the articles were of such character as to prejudice the public mind. Judge Smith brought the proceedings to an end by granting a change to the Circuit Court of Moody county and fixing June 4 as the date for the commencement of 'the trial of the case at Flandreau. HIGH POST OFFEBED STEVENS. Presidency of Northern Pacific Bailroad Is Tendered Him. John F. Stevens, former chief engineer of the Panama canal, has been offered the presidency of the Northern Faeiße railroad. He has not decided whether or not he will take it. At present Mr. Stevens is making an appraisement of the physical value of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. The present pi-esident of the Northern 'Pacific is Howard Elliot. Among Mr. Stevens' friends who have heard of the Northern Pacific's offer nothing is known as to what is to become of Mr. Elliot. Mr. Stevens has had other offers to head other railroads. Mr. Stevens formerly was an official of the Great Northern railroad tinder James J. Hill, who also controls the Northern Pacific. CHTJECH WINS SUIT OVER TAXES. Sishop . Given Decision in Action Started by Auditor in Ohio. In the case of the late Bishop John A. Watterson against W. II. Halliday, auditor of Franklin County, Ohio, in which the latter held that all the property held by the bishop for the Catholic Church not used exclusively for religious or charitable purposes, namely, that upon which the bishop's and priests houses or dormitory -were located, was subject to taxation, the Supreme Court decided against Mr. Halliday : nnd exempted a large p:.rt of the parcels described in the petition. The auditor sued to collect taxes on the property. Fatal Explosion oi Gas. Two Americana, well-known inillmen, and three foreigners were cremated, and four foreigners were seriously burned when an explosion occurred at the Eliza furnace No. 1 of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, Ltd., in the Ilazelwood district of Pittsburg. Of a crew of ten men at the furnace when the accident happened, only one, a foreigner, escaped uninjured. at Crowe Is a Free Man. Tat Crowe was acquitted by a jury hi the District Court in Council Bluffs of the charge of holding up two street cars in that city about two years ago and robbing their crews. The robberies were committed by two masked men and Crowe was indicted for the crime. One of the men robbed, however, testified that Crowe was not one of the holdups. Obdurate Father Is Shot. In Tulsa, I. T., Haskell B. Talley, a young lawyer and politician, shot D. F. Fettus, cousin of Senator Pettus of Alabama and a leader in Oklahoma Democratic affairs. Ill feeling growing out of Pettus refusal to accept Talley as a suitor for the hand of his daughter and accentuated by business troubles caused the shooting. Pettus may recover. Against Compulsory Fare Seduction. Fearing an increase in freight rates if the railroads are forced to carry passengers for 2 cents a mile, the National Association of Manufacturers, in session at New York, came out against compulsory fare reductions. Terrific Hurricane Destroys. A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W., pays a report has reached there that a hurricane and tidal wave swept over the Caroline Islands on April CO. Immense damage was done to property and 200 persons are reported killed. Two Dead In Hotel Fire. In a re at the Metropolitan Hotel in Utica, N. Y., Annie Sullivan, chambermaid, and George A. James of Clinton, a guest, were suffocated. A number of others were overcome. Lives Cheaper than Kails. The Railroad Gazette in New York declares that the United States Steel Corporation, actuated by greed for profits, deliberately turns out imperfect rails. Alfonso to Become a Farmer. King Alfonso is negotiating for an island in northern Spain, where he proposes to build a summer residence, lay out a farm, and breed thoroughbred cattle. . ' . Waterworks Seized by City. Mayor Carlile and the fire department at Salem, Ohio, took forcible possession of the Salem Water Company's plant, started the fires and resumed the service twenty hours after the company, chagrined over its failure to obtain a new franchise at increased rates, put out the fires and ordered a suspension of service.

TWO MEN FALL A MILE

RIP IN DALLOOM LETS AERONAUTS DOWN. IHanntcr la Xnrnnvlj Averted nnd Tuo Frightened Men Climti Down Anchor Hope In n Tree Absconding Teller (Jet Homesick. Landing in a tree top near Middlcficld, Mass., Harry Markoc, Jr., and Loo Ste vens of Now York Lad remarkable esrapes from serious injury and cl'ath in the balloon Centaur. The airship that carried Count de la Vaulx in his record trip across Europe from Paris to Iiuspi& has a three-foot rip and will probably never be used again for an ascent. Starting from Aero Park in Pittsfield at one minute after S o'clock, the aeronauts were carried eastward. Up they wont 0.000 feet. Tbr sudden ascent in the warm sun expanded the gas, swelling out the balloon so that it burst In two places. Down they shot a mil it three minutes. The aeronauts let out all the ballast end delayed for an instant the descent. Then they threw overboard lumh baskets, oven-oats, heavy shoes and ail instruments except a sloth" ope and a thermometer. As the anchor struck the earth it picked up a farmer's Virginia fence and dragged it 1ÜO feet. Then the iron weight caught in the branches of a maple tree and the frightened aeronauts tumbled out of the basket and came to earth by the anchor rope. RUFFIAN KILLS GIRL. Mystery Surrounds Attack in New York by Man. Amelia Charlotte Staffeldt, a 1 ."-year-old girl, was shockingly attacked and killed with a kiifein a field at Elnihurst, in Queens boroagh. New York. Borough Invoctor Flood personally lias charge of the case and he has admitted that his detective staff had nothing to show for its efforts. Every detail of the crime has been gone over carefully, he explained, and uo love affairs of the girl, which might possibly have led to the crime, has come to light.) Information gamed from an employing carpenter perhaps may lead to something tangible. This carpenter told the KIice that he paid off twenty men the day of the murder, who. had worked near Elmhurst for two mouths past. Several of the nvn had tVen drinking and at noon they started for Manliattan. On in particular is said to have taken n short cut across the old farm in a fieid of which Miss Staff-ldts corps was found. Several of Inspector Flood's detectives think the crime was committed by an insane man. owing to the many revolting phases. Joseph Engle. a farm hand, who saw a man runnins across the farm shortly before he found the girl's mutilated corpse, says that the man's eyes wore a crazed look which startled him. He thinks that the man was a foreigner. Adam Hummel, who was working with Engle, also believes from his cursory sight of the stranger that he was a foreigner. Engle and Hummel were nble to give t e police a fairly good description of t" e man they saw. PLAYS RACES WITH BANK MONEY Former Paying Teller After Fleeing Gives, Himself Up by Mail. Charles F. Grotefend, formerly paying teller of the Washington National Lank of St. Loui. who is accused of embezzling 5?3,COO and who was brought back to America from Sweden, whence he had fled, in the custody of David B. Dyer, Jr., who was appointed for the purpose, has been taken to St. Louis. Grotefend said he was glad to get hack." He said that his Kalary was too small to support his family and. himself and that he played the races and lost. Then he bvgan to take the bank's money. V"ien detection was near he fled to Sweden, where be was born, and became a waiter in a restaurant. Tiring of this, he got a job as woodcutter near Xorkopinj. Homesicknes and a lonsins to see hi wife nnd boy overcame hira and he wrote a letter to the bank,, revealing his whereabouts and stating that he would be glad to return and accept punishment. Moth3 Ravage Crop of Apples. 'Alarmed at the extent of the browntail moth throughout Nova Scotia anJ the danger to the agriculture business of the province should the pest become genera!, the provincial government has issued a notice stating that a ,bounty of .1 cents will be paid foreach Vpeoimcn of the moth secured. Murdered for Sack of Silver. Edward Manning, aged 00 years, proprietor of a restaurant ia Portland, Mich., was murdered Tuesday night while on his way home from his business. He was shot in the back. Itobicry was evidently the motive of the crime, as a large ack of Kilver that he usually carried was missing. 1 Train Derailed; Ten Hurt. The Buffalo and Cleveland express, west bound, ran into a derailed freight train four miles east of Little FallsN. Y and all but the four last Pullman coaches were thrown from the track, i It U understood ten persons were injured. Policeman Confesses Robbery. Foliceman John McKay of the Englewood station in Chicago confessed in the 'weat box" to having attacked and robbed Tony Jaukowski while wearing his uniform, and named as his accomplice a man now serving a term at the bridewell; Children Bura to Death. News has been received of the death of Milton and Paul Short, aged 7 and 5 years, in the destruction by fire of the home oi their father, Kev. E. J. Short, at East Point, Ky. Mrs. McKinley Stricken. Mrs. William McKinley, widow of the late President, has been stricken with paralysis at her home in Canton, Ohio, and her physicians hold out no hope for her recovery. Ammonia Explosion Kills Five. The third explosion of ammonia in the Armour plant in Chicago killed five and stifled twelve others, bringing the total fatalities for the three accidents to twenty. . Judge Hargis Not Guilty. Former Judge James Hargis, charged with the murder of Thomas Cockrill, was found not guilt.? in Lexington, Ky. The jury returned the verdict after long deliberation. Lynching in Georgia. A negro and bis mother were lynched and three ether persons were killed and seven injured in a fight in Georgia on account of the attempt of a regro, who escaped, to assault a white woman. Mino Fire Is Smothered. The Union Tacific Coal Company -n-nounced that the fire which raged in the mine at Cumberland, Wyo., for six months, has been extinguished and that work in the mines will begin immediately. The shaft, which had been hcimctically sealed, is now open. The fire has been smothered. Presbyterian Assembly Closes. The Presbyterian general assembly concluded its sessions at Columbus, Ohio, disposing of many important matters in the closing meetings and deciding to bold the next assembly in Kansas City.

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FIENDISH WRECK PLOT. Coast Line Limited Hurled from TreMIe Near Los Anseien. A fiendish train-wrecking plot was perpetrated near Los Angeles, Cal., that resulted iu the death of one man and the injury of twenty-two persons, four of whom are dying. Train No. 20, one of the Southern Pacific's coast line flyer?, Tuesday night wai? burial from the tracks on a trestle at West Glendale by the deliberate work of murderous train wreckers. Seven cars plunged off the trestle, while the train was making forty miles an hour, falling sixteen feet to the bottom of a gulch. In accomplishing the wreck of the train, which was the 'Coast Line Limited, a devilish Ingenuity was exorcised. At a point on a trestle over the Arroyo Seco the fishplates and bolts of two connecting rails on the south-bound track had been removed, and in the apertures whence the bolts were taken strands of heavy wire were fastened at the end of each rail. From the appearance of the track after the wreck it was evident that some person hidden on a hillside close to the trestle had pulled , the wire as the train approached ami spread the rails outward toward the edge of the trestle. The train, three hours late, was traveling at a rate of between thirtyfive and forty miles an hour. The engine wheels were first to leave the rails and the engine took to the tics, traveling nearly 100 yards before it was brought to a standstill. The tender, the diner, two Pullmans, the buffet, mail and baggage cars plunged over the edge of the trestle, falling a distance of sixteen feet. The buifet car, the express car, and one of the Pullmans were turned "upside down and the others landed on their sides. All were badly crushed and splintered. INVADING MEXICO. American Fnrmrr Are Denefltlnc Thenelve nnd the Greasers. More than a hundred families from the United States have gone into the republic of Mexico during the last thirty clays to develop farming lands along the port hern border. They took their household effects and went to live just like they have been living in the United States. This is somethins of a departure from the plan heretofore followed with but indifferent success by people from the States who have pone to live on farms in Mexico. The old plaz was to form colonies. The colony proposition was not a great success. It was due more to the failure pf the colonists to agree and adapt thcinf elves to thel? environment than to any other cause that the colonies were not successful. It has been discovered by the pioneer Americans on farms of Mexico that conditions in the republic are stable and there is no need for colonies. So individual American families are now locating themselves on haciendas in Mexico just as they used to do in the West. They are becoming neighbors to the Mexican families and each is learning something to advantage from the other. So far as the experiment of individual effort at farming in Mexico by Americans has gone, it has proven successful. The cotton-growing possibilities of the republic have never been t ppreciated by the people beyond the Rio Grande, and in this one line there premises to be great rrofit for the American farmers who understand growing the staple. The high price of cotton It an inducement to these farmers to plani cotton. The Mexicans are learning the American style of agriculture from their neighbors from the States, and the general result of immigration of families of farmers from the United States to occupy the cheap lands of Mexico promises to be very good. Aleobol the Future Fuel. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in a recent address before the Americus Club at Pittsburg, referred at considerable length to the work the department is doing toward the development of the production of alcohol for industrial uses. He said : "No more coal is being made. Our wood fuel is getting scarce, and the supply of mineral oils will some day cease. It is high time we were looking about for sources of light, heat and power. Other countries are doing this. Alcohol meets the requirements, and starchy plants yield alcohol. One of our explorers last year found the Siberians at Tomsk growing a large variety of potato for the alcohol it yields. He brought back half a ton of them, which will be distributed this spring among the experiment stations." lie made the further statement that corncobs made 11 gallons of alcohol to the ton, and sweet corn stalks 7, and that alcohol could be made from unmarketable fruit and vegetable matter and many refuse plants, and thought the time was surely coming; when the people remote from wood, coal or oil would arrange to grow plants Tich in starch for their supply of light, beat and power. STORM AND TIDAL WAVE. Immense Loan of Life from Hurricane that Sweeps Caroline Isles. A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. says a report has reached there that a hurricane nnd tidal wave swept over the Caroline Islands. Immense damage was done to property and 200 persons are reported killed. The Caroline Islands belong to Germany and consist of about "00 coral islets, in the Pacific ocean, of which Tonape is the seat of government. The population is chiefly of Malay origin, sith some Chinese and Japanese. The chief export is ropra. Francis Emory Warren, who is to represent Wyoming for the fourth time in the Senate, is a native of New England. He was a private at 17 in the Forty-ninth Massachusetts volunteers. He is one of the most extensive stock raisers in his adopted State. It pays to advertise in this paper.

MOB SLAYS WOMAN AND CHILD. Lives Lost fn Race Conflict In ticorKln Shots on Hoth Sides. At Iteidsville, Ga., a mob included a colored '.vornan and children among its victims at a "lynching." One white man and four colored persons were killed and seven are on the injured list as a result; of an effort to capture a colored man who attempted to attack Mrs. Laura Moore, a widow living near Manassas. Fifteen persons surrounded the house of Sam Padgett, whom they suspected of harboring the colored man, and demanded to be allowed to search the home. Permission was given, but when within thirty feet of the bouse those inside the building opened fire on the po.se, Instantly killing Hare and wounding' Pierson, Daniel and Kennedy. The posse then returned the fire, killing Padgett and his 10-year-old daughter and wounding two other girls, aged G and 13, and two of Padgett's sons, aged 20 and '22. The colored man who shot Hare was started for Iteidsvillo jail, together with Padgett's wife and son. who also were caught. On the way the officers were overtaken by about seventy-live men, who took tlia prisoners from them. The woman was told to run, and as tdie did so she was riddled with bullets, her pen lelng shot to pieces where lie stood. The other prisoner was jailed. WAGES ON THE CANAL. Secretary Taft AClnna Itntes of Pay and Hours of Labor. The decision of Secretary Taft affirming rates of pay, hours of labor, etc, for men employed on the Panama canal work applies especially to steam shovel men, construction train engineers and conductors. The shovel men wanted higher wages, as follows: Engineers, from $210 to $300 a month ; cranesmcn, from $1S." to $2TjO; firemen, from $83.:J3 to $110. The Secretary rules that the present rates are high enough "after comparing the advantages which the isthmian shovel men have over their brothers in the States, with the disadvantages which they have to bear in living on the isthmus." He explains that the present basis is from 25 to 3.1 per cent higher than the average ia this country, while the canal men get steady work twelve months in the year, six weeks leave with pay, twenty days' sick leave, lodging free, and the married men water, fuel and light at the public expense, free medical attendance and an eight-hour day. He siys further that yellow fever has been stamped out and the sick rate jrreatly reduced. Although denying that the contract.; with the men contain any promise of a gradual increase of pay, he has recommended a yearly increase of i per cent to skilled men. The wages of the construction train engineers arc advanced to $-10, as recmested. As to dismissal-?, the Secretary has approved a plan whereby final and summary action will rest with a committee consisting of one representative of the craft erncerned, on' of the foremen and one of the commission. ' ! Nephew Smith' Chief Heir. The fortune held by the late James N. Smith, known in Wall street as "Silent Smith." which was believed to be near $50,000,000, has now been divided among the heirs ly the will probated at New York on the day of the funeral. The real value of the estate is found to be not over $25,000,000. Oi this the largest piece goes to George G. Mason, a nephew, who has worked his way up from the shops in the service of the St. Paul railroad. He gets $12,000.000. A third goes to another nephew, William Smith Mason, a young real estate man of Evanston, I1IM while $3,000,000 Is left to the widow, $1,000,000 to a titled sister. Lady Cooper of England, and smaller amounts to other relatives. A May queen in flannels and furs bah! Ellen Terry has become a bride at fJ9. Terryble ! This year's spring weather was shipped to us by slow freight. , France is going to examine our meats by microscope. Another case of scein' things. A Ilobcken divorce suit hinges on the quality of the wife's doughnuts. They were not like mother used to make. The new San Francisco is reported to be "two-thirds finished." Boss Kuef was caught before he could quite complete it. Growing a garden should properly be classed as one of the luxuries, rather than one of the economies, of modern civilization. ' The Hon. Abe Ruef doesn't believe he can get a fair trial in San Francisco, but hardly anybody will blam'e San Francisco. Suburban gardening is again impressing itself upon the public mind as one of our most ponderous national extravagances. Commander Peary has succeeded in loading his proposed North Pole expedition with everything except the funds necessary to make it go. The Texas farmer who has planted 000 acres of peanuts and 120 acres of watermelons evidently anticipates a big season for both circuses and picnics. Commander Peaiy can't get enough money to pay the expenses of another dash to the Polo. Oh, well, he'll dash to the lecture platform anyway. The government statistician asserts that each of us eats 7G pounds of sugar a year in the United States. At this rate almost everybody's 'the candy man. Mrs. Cassie Chadwick' elaborate wardrobe of Paris dresses has just been burned. But Mrs. Cassie has been wearing much simpler costumes for some tim

JNARCIAL CHICAGO. Aside from the effect of unfavorable weather on leading retail lines, the course of business is steady, production in the industrial branches being fully sustained and new demands carrying the period of assured forward work farther into 100S. No diminution appears in the pressure for supplies of raw material. Current inquires indicate that heavy orders for rails and equipment are impending, aid there is fair activity in furnace product, structural shapes and wire. Local building operations involve unusual consumption of materials, and the forces employed increase, at exceptionally high wages. Manufacturing conditions remain favorable, wood and leather working plant steadily increasing outputs, and there is a larse distribution of electric and brass goods. Receipts of ore fall short of expectations, owing to late opening of navigation, but fresh arrivals of lumber and hides exceed those of a year ago. Dealings in ih wholesale branches make a fair ajrgroate. Mercantile collections continue to 'be very encouraging. Bank statements this week exhibit deposits at the highest level. Commercial borrowing is not particularly urgent at this tim but money works easier, although the discount rate remains at .52 per cent. The markets for provisions and live stock reflect steady absorption, and better t?ceipts of hogs increase packing, but the breadstuCs are in lessened demand, the rapid rise in prices having discouraged cash operations. The total movement of crain at this port aggregated only 7,4y.,8Sü bushels, against 0,308,130 bushels last week and 5,74;,r,$S bushels a year ago. Compared with those of last year, there are increases in receipts of 14.3 per cent and in shipments 42.G por cent. Receipts of live stock were LV.iJ.S03 head, against 253,315 head last week and 2S0.S14 head last year. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 14, against 2t last week and 24 a year ago. Ur.n's Review of Trade. NEW YOSIL Crop and trade rejKjrts are irregular, but there is a slight improvement visible as a whole, owing to higher temperatures. Ilelatively the bert reports as to retail end wholesale trade come from the Pacific Northwest. In the central West, Southwest, Northwest, .East and South the volume of retail trade. is behind a year ago almost without exception. ' Foundry pig iron markets are firmer. Business for 1008 is appearing ih various lines. Within the week 25,000 tons of malleable Bessemer were sold in Cleveland for delivery in ti e first part of 100S, the price basis being $22 per ton, valley furnaces. ome southern iron has also been disposed of for first quarter shipmeitt. the quotation being $18.50 Birmingham. Demand for basic pig for delivery in the last half of 1907 is. quite heavy. Business failures for the week ending May 23 number Km. against 184 last week, 170 in the like week of 1000, 179 in 100.-. J84 in l'tOi and 181 in 1903. Canadian failures for the week number 19. as against 22 last week and 13 in this week a year ago Bradstrcet's Commercial Report. 5 rsswy?Tüi Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $G.."; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to ' $0.35; t-heep, fair to choice, $3.03 to $0.10; wheat. No. 2, 9(Jc to f 8c ; corn, No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats, standard, 45c to 47c: rye. No. 2, Sic to S(e; hay, timothy, $14.00 to $21.00 ; prairie, $9.00 to $15.00; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, 50c to GJe. Indianapolis Cattle,' chipping, $3.00 to $t'..00: hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, Die to Ittc; corn. No. 2 white, 53c to 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 42c to 4ic. , St. Louis Cattle. $1.50 to $3.25; ho-s. $4.00 to $G.."V2; sheep, $3.00 to $.".50; wheat. No. 2, 97c to 98c; corn, No. 2, 53c to 55e; oats. No. 2, 43c to 45c; ryct No. 2, 75c to 70c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.C0; hogs, $4.00 to $0.55; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00 ; wheat, No. 2, 95c to TXk' ; corn. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 55c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; rye, No. 2, 74c to 7Ce. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 tt $C.C0; sheep. $2.50 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2, 99c to $1.00; corn. No. 3 yellow, 55c to 57c; oats, No. 3 white, 47c to 49c; rye, No. 2, fcCc to 87c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 00c to $1.01; corn, No. 3, 52c to 53c; oats, standard, 4tc to 45c; rye. No. 1, 81c to 83c; barley, standard, 83c to 84c; pork, mess, $10.45. Bulfalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.90 to $0.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.75; sheep, common to good mixed, $1.00 to $5.75; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.00. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, $3.00 to $0.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.01 to $1.03; corn. No. 2, 00c to 02c; oats, natural white, 49c to ulc; butter, creamery, 23c to 25c; eggs, western, 15c to 17c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 99c to $1.00; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 57c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 47c; rye. No. 2, 79c to 80c; clover seed, prime, $8.20. Intcrestlnc News Items, Joseph Milner is under arrest 'as the resu'it of the finding of tie dead body of T. Sirmans, a storekeeper at Sirmans station, Madison county, Florida More than a score of families were rendered homeless by a fire which swept Lincoln, N. II., entailing a lass of $100,000. Twenty-two cottages and two large residences were destroyed. George W. Caldwell, a contractor, was served at Little Bock, Ark., with a warrant based on an indictment charging graft in connection with the new State capitol. The steel steamer Saxon, owned by the Pittsburg Steamship Company, went ashore on Caribou Island, Lake Superior, during a fog, and is declared to be in bad shape. Secretary of State Schmail formally deuied to the Minnesota Retail Lumber Dealers' Association the right to incorporate on the ground that its articles of incorporation filed March 12 were la conflict with the State anti-trust laws. After consuming the warehouse of lie Aetna Standard mill of the United Stat Steel Corporation at Bridgeport, Ohio, fire, which threatened complete, destruction to the $2,000,000 plant of the concern, was subdued. The Armenian Students Association of this country through its executive committee nt Hartford, Conn., has memorialized President Roosevelt to bring before The Hague peace conference the present conditions of affairs in Armenia and further asks that he instruct the peace envoys to use every effort to secure a guaranty of personal property, life and honor to the Armenian sufferers from th Ottoman government.

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MU ST M n! mmw. 75-r -- irs jyi r 12G1 English barons victorious at Eewes. 1434 Yorkists victorious at Hexham (War of the Roses). 1500 Louis XII. defeated the Venetians at th? battle of Rivolta. 1525 Anabaptists defeated at Franknhauscn. 1010 Assassination of Henry IV. of France and acassion of Iouis XIII. 1G12 Montreal founded by Maisenneueve. 17S3 St. John, N. B., founded by U. E. Loyalists. 1791 Lord Corawallis routed the army of Tippoo Saib. 1795 Alliance t f Paris. 1790 First vaccination by Dr. Jenaer. ISO! Lewis anJ Clarke started up the Missouri river on their trip of exploration. 1801 Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of . the French. 1809 British took possession of the island of Anholt. 1811 Rattle of Albucra, between French and British. 1S30 Caroline Marat, sister of Napoleon I. and ex-Queen f Naples, died. " 1540 John M. Niles of Connecticut became, Postmaster General of the United Stat?s. ; 1541 Fall of rock from Cape Diamond, Quebec, killing 25 ieople. r ISIS Insurrection in Vienna. Emperor fled to Innsbruck. IS53 First railway train left Toronto. 185(J Queen Victoria distributed medals to the wounded heroes of the Crimea. 18G0 Republican convention at Chicago nominated Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, 1501 Adelina Patti made her first appearance in London. 1S72 I'ere. Marquette and party started from Michilimackinac to trace the course of the Mississippi. 18S5 Louis Biel, leader of the rebellion in North tvest Canada, surrendered. 1S8G Britain took possession of all Bur-n-.ah, annexing it to India. 1S92 Great damage caused by flood at Sioux City, Iowa. 1895 Count Kalnoky, premier of Austria-Hungary, resigned. 1897 Turkey agreed to an armiitice with Greece. 1S9S Battleship Alabama launched at Chester, Fa. 1S99 Edward Everett Hale resigned pastorate of South Congregational church, Boston, after forty-three years of service. . ' 1000 Gen. "BuIIer occupied Dundee, South Africa. 1902 Coronation of King Alfonso XIII. at Madrid. Rate of Forrt Dmtrartion. According to a bulletin issued by the forest service of the Agricultural ' Department, every person in this country is usiag over kx timos as much wood as the individual consumption in Euroie, and the country as a whole consames ovr three 4imes what the forests of the United States grow during the year. The consequence of this policy is an. inevitable timber famine. It is pointed out that the increased population since 1880 is barely more than half the increase in lumber cut, so that -the increase of forest destruction cannot be explained entirely on the theory of increased population. The Northeastern States have pased their maximcm production and the Southern States are near their maximum, while the State of Washington now ranks first in the volume of timber cut. At present one-fifth of the total forest area i owned by the government. The average age of trees felled for lumber this year is not less than 150 years. The Nfgro and the Sew Sonth. Kay Stannard Bcker, in the second of his series of articles for the American Magazine, dealing with the negro problem, condenses his observations into this phrase: "They want the new South, but the old darkey." He said he had the experience of being told that no northerner can understand the negro as well as those who have lived with them all their lives, and then of finding "that these men rarely knew anything about the better class of negroes, those who were in business or in independent occupations, nnd who owned their own homes'' On the other band, the best negroes did not know the higher class of the white people ia the South, and based their suspicion and hatred upon the acts of the "poor white trash." To this he attributes the danger of the present situation. : Fpark from the WLr;. Esther Carter, daughter of E. It. Carter, Newark, Ohio, while picking flowers along a canal fell in and was drowned. Gov. Folk granted respites until June 27 to John and Ameleck Brooks of Iron county and Tom Clay of Boone county, Missouri, all under sentences of death for murder. Counsel for the plaintiffs in the suit for an accounting of the estate of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy filed at Concord, N. II., affidavits declaring that the original charges are true. Judge Watts Parker granted the application of Bill Britton of Breathitt county, Kentucky, charged with the assassination of James Cockrill, for bail, fixing the amount at $7,500. J. K. Dysinger, a contractor of Cleveland. Ohio, while waiting for a car in the Pacific Electric depot, Los Angeles, was robbed of $S00. II is vest was cut open without his knowledge. , Many lives were endangered by fire in the dry goods store of Macarey Brothers at St. John, N. B. Two girls buns to a window sill of the third story vatil they were taken down on a I. Me. by firemen. The loss is $150,000. Figures compiled by the New York Journal of Commerce show that during April the fire loss in the United States and Canada was $21,825,900, pome $10,000,000 more than for April, 1905. No fair comparison can be made with 19O0 because the San Francisco fire occurred during that month. Alejandro Garland, Jr., attache of the Peruvian legation, was stabbed and seriously wounded by Charles A. Edwards, secretary of the Democratic congressional campaign committee and clerk to the House minority organization of which John Sharp Williams is chairman, in Washington. They fought over Miss Louise Scott.

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BOBDED O.V COL'XTKV ROAD. Chicago Man Lone $250 to Koad -Kfn("' in Indiana. Two masked robers dragged Maurice Ziclechower of t'hiraso from hi bi:T roar a deep ditch oa the roadside midway between Dolion and West "Hammond at 7 o'clock the other night and robbed him of $250, a diamond scarfpln and a Cold watch, according to a story he told the Hammond police an hour after the occurrence. Bielechower drove to the station and after he had told his story he fell in a faint. lie had born collectioz money for his employers in Hammond and Dolt on during the day and was returning home, whAn his horse w.ts topped by two men who wore handkerchiefs over their laces. Both were anred. Thy drajjjred him fro.n the buj?y, robbed him and then tlrew him back in the rig and told him to drive on. The victim could not Rive an accurate description of his assailants. CHOKES OX KERNEL OP CORN. Child's Life Saved liy Ilnrrled Rnsb to Throat Specialist. The 3-year-old son of George Miller, a farmer wet of Laporte, was chewinj a corn kernel, -when i. slipped into the windpipe. The chiid was choking and purple in the face when father nd mother drove frantically into town. A doctor could not reach the kernel and advised a trip to Chicago to see a specialist, with a view to an operation. ie mother was liatless and coatless. having rn-slicd from the field where working, but a train was taken at onco for Chicago, the child being scarcely alive. It was a race for life against death aud death lost it by ten minutes. The child was operated on und will live if it survives the shock. KILLS GIRL TO It CP Oil. '.I HC.t. Indianapolin Man Finds Childhood Flaytuate Leading Immoral Life. Charles Lewis, an iron worker from l lttshurg, who lias been in Indianapolis . less than a week, shot and instantly kill ed Anna La ton in a Tesort, then tried to kill himself. - Lewis recognized the girl as an old schoolmate whom he had known in Pennsylvania. He pleaded with her to give up the life she was leading. She refused. Lewis called upon her again, and upon her refusal to return home, shot her. Beaten and Robbed br Man He Aid. Fred Brinegar of Bedford, aged 25, gave a stranger permission to ride with him in his bu?gy and was attacked and rbbed for bis kindness. His horse walked home, where the j-oung man was found, unconscious in the buggy with wounds on his head. His condition is serious. He was robbed of $100, a watch and a jeweled pin. Dedleatea 111 TOOth Church. Rev. L. L. Carpenter of Wabash Sunday dedicated his seven hundredth Christian church at Charles City, Iowa, raising all of the indebtedness. No other living minister has dedicated so many churches. He has raised five millions to pay church debts. Shoots and Kills Friend. Following receipt of an anonymous letter threatening harm, Harry Toms of New Paris shot and killed Ilaslus Taul, his best .friend. Toms says he shot in self-defense and did cot know it was Paul until after the shooting. Ltd on In Dratll. For the first time in many years the saloons of Brazil were closed on Sunday. In addition all public gambling resorts have been closed and the gamblers have been warned to go to work or get out of town. Mutilated lr the Street Car. Warren Roberts, 15 years old, eon of Thomas Itoberts of Brandenburg, Ky., visiting in New Albany, was run over by a street car and fatally injured. Both kgs were cut off and an arm was broken. I) I er from Lockjaw. Mrs. John Kruger of Lowell died of lockjaw after weeks of intense suffering, the result cf stepping on a rusty nail while cleaning out a woodshed. She was 00 years old. "Woman Convicted of Mörder. Mrs. Alice Cooper Lawson was found guilty in La Fayette of murder in the Kecond dejrree for killing her husband. Charles W. Lawson, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Doya Isrnlte a Gas Well. Boys striking a match set fire to the pas well being bored nar Bedford. The fames wrecked the derrick. The well has reached a depth of 1,100 feet and the gas r;ets stronger each day. Conductors Vole on Strike. The street car conductors and motormen of Evansville made a demand for higher wages and the demand being refused the men voted to go out oa strike. Trouble is feared. , Minor State Iter George Taul of Evansville. aged 12, accidentally shot himself in the head with a Flobert rifl? and died instantly. Six great-grandchildren were pall-bearers at the funeral of Mrs. Cynthia Dedrick of Wabash, aged 94. This is said to be the first time in the history of the State that all the pall-bearers were fully grown and great-grandchildren. Wearing a pair of trousers and an expression of grim determination. Chief of Police Joseph Martin of Gary sallied forth to capture the thieves who stole the remainder of bis garments the previous night. These included a brand-new uniform, the pride of the town. The thieves entered almost every place in Gary and besides stealing clothing from tablishment, where the new uniform reposed. Chief Martin's predicament was shared by President Thomas E. Knotts of the village board, who was forced to order a new suit because of the raid. Farmers have been encouraged by the outlook for wheat, and in some sections it is believed the crop will reach an average, if indeed, it does not exceed it. The rscarcity of snow during the winter left the wheat exposed without any protection to the severity of the freezes, and when the thaw followed the roots of much of the crop were above ground. Mrs. Anna Daugberty, aged 70, was found dead in bed in Wabash. Her son, a former Big Four dispatcher, with whom she lived, was lying in another room heirless and speechless. He knew she was dead, but was unable to give the alarm. Martin Diall, for thirty-five years manager of the Torre Haute Gas Company, has obtained a restraining order from Judge Cox to prevent the officials cf the United Gas and Electric Company of New York, which owns the Terre Haute plant, as it does a number of others in western cities, removing him from his position. He alleges that his Is an elective effica and that he can be removed only by action of the stockholders. The family of Clarence Laurence .living near Evansville, ate new potatoes the. vines of which are supposed to have been sprinkled with paris green. Two of the family are reported ia a dirj condition.

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