Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 36, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 June 1907 — Page 2

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lg 3rd. MCtb, V lSthj25th PAST AND PfiESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Yelejrraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many. Victim of Fatal Cyclone. ' Twenty-nine known dead, and forty rersons injured, constitute the list of casualties resulting from storms of tornado severity which swept over Southern Illinois and Indiana and Central Kentucky. These fatal visitations came in the shape of cloudbursts, high winds nd electrical disturbances. The property damages will reach many thousands of dollars. Houses were swept away, bridges demolished and thousands of acres of growing crops were destroyed. Air Line la Itecelver Hand. That a receiver had been appointed for the Chicago & New York Air Line railroad, became known when President A. C. Miller, of the company, found George F. Hull, of Indianapolis, in Carge of th? company's Chicago office. Hull said he had been named receiver by Judge Sanborn, of the United States Circuit Court. Judge JSanbom returned to Milwaukee as soon as Hull took charge of the company's affairs. Javrator of Harvester Die a Pauper. A special from Richmond, Ind., says: Charles M. Hill, said to be the original inventor of the self-binding liarvesting machine, is dead at the Eastern Hospital for the Insane. Crazed by the alleged loss of his valuable invention. Hill has spent a large part of his life in a sanitarium, while others, it is said, benefited from the product of his fertile brain. He was Gj years old. Fred C. Bolts Fouad Guilty. Fred C. Boltz, of Fort Wayne, Ino, -was found guilty In the Federal Court at Indianapolis of receiving stolen postage stamps and was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years and fined $100. The sentence of the court provides for hard labor at the Fort learenworth prison. The jury reported guilty on three counts and not guilty on one count. Lightning Fires Lumber. Lightning caused a fire in the yards of the Gal ion Lumber & Coal Company at Gal ion, Ohio, which for some time threatened not only the destruction of that entire plant but many residences the vicinity. The flames were extinguished shortly after midnight. The loss is probably $25,000. 1S37 Prophet ays o Stimmer In 1007. "There will be no summer in 1007." This prediction was made by an unknown weather prophet in 1837. It wr.s found the other day in a musty, old almanac of that year. Mrs. W. C. Langenecker, of Toledo. Ohio, discovered the almanac last week in an old bureau drawer. , Father and Son Iloth Forgers. C A. Ferguson, a business man of Taa Wert. Ohio, was arrested at Lima on the charge of forgery aggregating everal hundred dollars. A peculiar roimldenee is that his young son turned the same trick on merchants in Lima and in Michigan six months ago. Coat 1 r Fire la Elkhart Shop. A cigar stub or a pipe carelessly laid down is believed to be responsible for a costly fire in the dry kiln of the "Lake Shore railroad's carpenter shop at Elkhart, Ind. Scores of valuable patterns were destroyed and the loss is estimated at $20,000 to $30,000. Tried to Fire SoHiervlUe, Ind. A fire supposed to be of Incendiary origin, burned three buildings 'at Soinersville, Ind., the total loss being intimated at $7,K. Race War In Mississippi. In a race clash rear Yazoo, Mis., three negroes were killed, four whLe men were wounded and two negroes fvere severely whipied. President Cabrera Assassinated. A private dispatch received in Mexico City states that President Cabrera, of Guatemala, has been assassinated. The news cannot be confirmed. Safe dowers Get 1,100. A large eafe In the Boston Store, a larjre dry gtods, establishment in Sche.nectady, N. Y. was blown and $1,100 ftolen. The robbery was discovered 'when the store was opened next morning. Slaughter In Street Car Craah. Five persons were killed and twenty Injured in a street car accident in Eagle Bock Valley, near Los Angeles, Cal. Jesse James Wins High Honors. Jesse James, a son of the noted bandil J A.J . V. - of that naiae, was grauuaun irwu iu Kansas City School of Law Friday evento?, rerdvinz the highest jrrad.j of any In his class of thirty-eight. He will practice law in Kansas City. ratal Ohio Trolley Crash. E. O'Connell, II. M. Billings, W. G. Allen and William Sala were killed in a rear-end collision on the Cleveland and Southwestern Traction oad at Elyria, Ohio. Thirteen persons were injured. TThree of the injured died the same day. Five others are expected to die. College Sports Immoral. President Eliot of Harvard, in an address befoie the Association of New York State Colleges at Cornell, Ithaca, N. Y., declared modern college sports are immoral and dishonorable to a large degree and said his own college would be better off without any athletics whatsoever. Folk lor President. The tip comes from New York that th Democratic leaders have decided on Joseph W. Folk of Missouri for their presidential candidate in 1903 and John A. Jataaoa ot lllnscsot for bis raininj

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TERRIBLE INDICTMENT AGAINST AMERICAN MANAGERS. More Attention Paid to Ineremlns Dividend than to the Ir-t ! 1 Methods of Transportation Aeeltlrnlii Llkrlr to Inrrrna. A list of the wrecks in the last twelve months constitutes an awful indictment against the American railway manager. In no part of the civilized world is transj)ortation attended by so many perils as in the United itate?. and of late the danger seems to lie increasifi instead of decreasing. Scarcely a day passe- that the newspapers do not have to report some new disaster. In many instances the tragedies ;re the result of gross carelessness on the part of the railroad jieople. Spreading rails, open switches, disregard of orders, carelessness of engineers, conductors and train dispatchers explain some of the other disasters.' In a few oaes washouts, snowstorms and fogs caused wrecks. These are the only instances in which the railroad people can bo held blameless. Something; Ilndirally Wrong. No part of the country seems to have escajKHl, and,' if anything, conditions appear to be worse on big railroad systems, where passenger traffic is supposed to be attended by every safeguard that experience can suggest, than it is on smaller lines, where roadbeds are weak and the equipment is not up to the times. That there is something radically .wrong with the railroads Is certain. James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern, acknowledged this when he Raid that he never topic a railroad trip nowadays that he did not fear disaster. Transportation men say the railroads are not to blame and that railroad managers are struggling against conditions süch as they never confronted before and which they could not guard ajainst. They say the public has no conception of the- strain to which the railroads have been subjected in the last year or two. There has been a tremendous Increase In traffic. The Increase came suddenly. The railroads have done their bet to handle it, but they have been unable to get cars or locomotives to meet the needs. From the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf to the Great Lakes nearly every road is glutted with freight. If this excess of business could be handled promptly the railroads would make knmense profits. The railroads did profit largely in the early days of the rise in the tide of traffic, but there was no end to tht- volume of freight, and soon men and machinery began to suffer from the strain. Cars and locomotives need rest and repairs just as human beings do. When they do not receive it tjiey are liable to break down. Men cannot be pressed to the limit of endurance week in and week out, month after month, without giving way. Railroads to Illume. Hut this explanation does not fully explain. Men Avho go to the root of the trouble lay the responsibility for present conditions upon the shoulders of half a dozen big men, who know more about finance than they do about practical railroading. There has been an evolution In the railroad business in the United States In the last eight r ten years. It has been a ieriod of reorganization and consolidation. Masters of finance rather than masters of transportation affairs have ruled in th councils of old and A PATHETIC Cincinnati Post. Spyglass that Tells Distance. M. Gerard, an officer of the French navy, has invented ap instrument called the telimeter, which enables one to find accurately the distance of any visible object whose height is know n, without complex calculation. The principle on which this Instrument works is the combination of two prismatic rings so adjusted as to give a variable refractive angle, enabling the user by means of a graduated scale to read ol the distance of the object looked at without stopping to go through a mathematical calculation. Jews to Demand Their Hljrnts. Indignant over the recent refusal of the Marlborough-IMenheim hotel at Atlantic City to receive the nieces of Senator Raynor of Maryland on the ground that they were Hebrews, a number of prominent and wealthy Jews of New York have organized the Society for the Enforcement of Equal Rights. It will endeavor to prevent discrimination of any kind upon the part of hotel managers against Hebrews or any other race of people, and an effort will be made to obtain legislation to this end in all States which have no such laws. Self-L.oaIlnsr Manier Itlfle. Herr Mauser, the invento; of the rifle which bears his name, and who still lives at Düsseldorf, Germany, announces that he has invented an Improved mechanism by which the weapon Is automatically reloaded from a cartridge chamber after firing. He thinks that all modern armies will be compelled to adopt this improvement. Prof. C. A. Meserve, instructor In chemistry at the James It. Millikin university, has been appointed food inspector under the national pure food commission and has resigned his position with the university.

new systems. Xrarly every merger has been attended by. a stock issue, largely of water, which has been saddled uioii the railroads. The masters of iinan-e were discounting the growth of the nation and the development of the properties they were consolidating. Every observant person has been aware of the fact that since the Spanish-American war the nation's business h:is l(vn expanding" at a irreat rate. The only branch of the country's mechanism that has not kept pace with this expansion has Inxmi the railroad. It ha been the policy of the masters of finance to chock the building of new lines, force indepcnd;t ones into submission and concentrate traffic so that it would yield the largest possible revenue to the trunk systems which they controlled. They have succeeded. The railroads of the United States to-day aire in few hands. But in their hunger for large profits and early returns from tin properties they have absorbed, the masters of finance have neglected the physical well being of the railroads. They have looked more to net earnings than to improved rondlieds. additional equipment and lietter service to the public. Tht viewed with more favor the manager who worked men and cars to the limit all the time and showed a reduction of operating expenses, with a big increase in gross earnings, than the one who always sought to improve the property. When about a year ago the tremendous bulge in the volume of traffic ca-jie suddenly it 'found the railroads unpreIared. The masters of finance had not added nm'ny locomotives and cars to the possessions of the properties they had absorbed. Neither had they extended the terminals of the various roads to meet the requirements of a constantly growing traffic. Division superintendents, yardmasters. masters of transportation, train dispatchers, conductor!:. firemen, engineers and brakemen did all they could. They buckled down to their work as only well-trained, earnest, efficient men will do. When they were called upon to work extra hours they did so willingly. lint they could, make no impression on the Hood. The more they battled, the more freight seemed to pour in upon them. IiOcomotlves capable of drawing thirty loaded ears were pressed to drag trains of thirtysix or forty. Men who could work safely and well twelve or fourteen hours a day were kept on duty sixteen or eighteen. Cars that should go to the repair shops were kept in service on the chance that they would get through all right. As It was with freight so was it with passenger traffic. Every passenger car that could be utilized seemed to be needed. One branch of the service seemed to keep pace with the other in growth. And now the railroads are in the throes of the reaction from the strain. Equipment has given way and men have given way. Hundreds of iersons have lieen killed and hundreds more probably will be slaughtered before affairs come to a normal state. The dozens and dozens of freight wrecks

with the killing or maiming of rail road employes have leen too small In Interest to attract general attention. Tears Kill Disease Germs. Dr. C. Lindahl of Copenhagen tells in the London Lancet of his discovery that tears have the power to kill various bacteria which pro-luce dUetse in the human body. This bacteriacidal capacity of the lachrymal fluid is not due to its inorganisms which it contains, known a leucocytes. The fluid when heated and cooled fails to prevent the growth of bac1 trria to the same degree as when in its 1 normal state. APPEAL. From Far and Near. Four churches and a school house were wrecked by a tornado at Home, Tex. There are about -lO.OfX) persons idle in Fan Francisco because of labor troubles. The fire department of Wyoming, Ohio, was burned out when the town hall was destroyed. The management of the Jamestown exposition will be undertaken temporarily and without salary by James M. I5arr, former president of the Seaboard Air Line. v Iluck Hizh, a l.Vyear-old negro, w..s hanged at Mclfctnough, Pa., for assault upon a -l-ycar-old daughter of a white citizen. For tN fortieth time the general assonibly th Tnitcd Presbyterian has declined to create the office of general treasurer. Üefore the end of the summer 1200,000 unorganized laborers and clerks of western railroads will receive a 10 per cent was increase. The Pocahontas Memorial Association has announced that the unveiling of the statue of Pocahontas at Jamestown is postioned until late in the fall. Former Police Captain Jacob Kchriba of Newark, N. J., charged with dereliction in office, was given the maximum punishment for his offense a fine of $1,000. A gift of $.7),000 to the Agnes Scott institute, a college for young women at Decatur, (Ja., is announced. The- giver is Samuel M. Inman, a wealthy Atlanta citizen. George Kern, alias (J. Thomas, was arrested at Toronto, Ont., at the instance of United States authorities an for whose arrest two warrants have been sworn out in Knoxville, Tenn one chargIi g perjury and tbe other concealment of fundi in a bankruptcy case.

HAYWOOD TßIAL ON.

OPENING OF FAMOUS IDAHO MURDER CASE. Harry Orchard, Self-Confesxed Slayer of Ei'CoTfrnor Steanenberg, Tells Hit Story on the Stand Proircnllon'i Slartltnu; Charte. Boise. Idaho, correspondence: "Harry Orchard, the witness who was to lay the foundation for the case of the State of Idaho against William D. Haywood, charged with the murder of former Governor Frank Steunenberg. went on the stand at Uolse Wednesday. The appearance of Orchard marked the real opening of the case. Orchard by his own confession is the actual murderer of Steuenberg. Haywood Is the first person to be tried on the charge of that murder and the self-confe?sed murderer Is expected, according to the statement of the prosecuting attorney, to convict Haywood. The specific charge against Haywoou is that he was accessory before the fact to the murder of Frank Steunenberg, brmer Governor of Idaho. Steunen berg was blown up with a dynam'te bomb as he entered his front gate en the night of Dec. CO, 1903. . In every day speech, the charge is that Haywood knew that Steunenberg was to be killed and helped plan the murder. Under the law of Idaho, vas of most other states, an accessory before the fact is deemed equally unllty with the actual murderer. Chief rrosecutor Hawley presented the introduction to the alleged trafl of blood that runs through half a dzen states and leads finally to the doorstep of Frank Steunenberg, who was blown to eternity, according to the prosecution, as a part of a conspiracy within the Western Federation of Miners a conspiracy directed by Haywood, Moyer and Pettlbone and 'executed by Harry Orchard, Steve Adams and Jack Simpklns. In the remarkable statement to the jury by J. II. Hawley for the State, a number of overt acts were charged against the "inner circle" of the Western Federation of Miners. Mr. Hawley, however, stated that be was holding other cases In reserve. These ho agreed to submit in writing to counsel for th defense, but he eald that it would 'be preferable for the development cf his case If for the present the announcement were withheld from the U understood that, tbe list of murders knd other crimes barged against the "Western Federatioa numbers at least twenty-six, but the specific cases mentioned by counsel for the State lu his opening address were some six op seven. These murders are not confined to tho State of Idaho, but extend o nearly every mining point In Colorado, wherj there have been mining troubles, and to other states. William D. Haywood, It Is declared, Is not on trial for being an official of a labor union. He is not on trial In aay reppo9entative character whatever. He is OA trial, simply as a citizen, for helping to murder another citlren. TLe lawyers for both the prosecution and the defense have publicly expressed themselves as entirely satisfied that the Jurors chosen will render a fair and Impartial verdict. Consequently thera should bo excuse for recriminations whatever the verdict may be. Frlee of IVhlsky Goes Up. When it became known that Attorney General Bonaparte would adhere to his recent ruling about what constitutes, real or "straight" whisky, wholesaler! received notice that nil straight whisky bottled in bond would hereafter bo retailed at an increase of from 20 to 23 per cent. Sotclde Record. Gronlng. The suicides reported In various American cities duriag the first four months' of this year, according to a summary in the New York Herald, were more numerous than ever before. Asphyxiation and banging were the most popular methods of self-destruction, and financial troubles furnished the principal causes. The Rev. W. Arthur Noble of Korea has one of the largest districts la Methodism. Recently he walked 300 miles, tbe churches in one section ef his district bdsj ntar enough for kin to i ti&is.

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GOLD MINE IN WHEAT. GoTsrnmfnt Expert Tells ITott Illches May De Won. "A handful of wheat is worth less than a cent; and yet a single kernel in that handful may easily be worth half a million dollars. Is it not worth a littlo effort to discover which is the half million dollar kernel?' The Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in Washington was cxplaiainjr one of the wonderful things of modern plantbreeding science. Mr. W. M. Hays was brought up in the Minnesota experiment station and is one of the authorities on this subject. "In fairy stories there were magic peas and iragic beans, which had wonderful power concealed within them," Prof. Hays continued. "P.ut nothing in those fairy stories is really more wonderful than, the simple facts. ,The mazic of heredity makes a single kernel of wheat equal to a gold mine, a single kernel of corn worth a king's ransom, a small and despised apple seed equal in value to the revenues of one of our richest commonwealths. "It is the power to transmit certain qualities that gives the value. One seed has it and another has not. That is the whole proposition. -Old Tetcr Gideon tt-ught 10,000 apple seeds, and grew 10,000 apple trees. There was one in the 10,000 that had the power to ripen good fruit in the Minnesota winter. That was the magic seed. That seed has been the parent of all the fruit in the great Northwest. Its latent power was literally worth a king's ransom.

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"Wood "So the best grain in our Northwest States is all the offspring of a sinple stalk of wheat numbered 470 of the 1802 plot. This was the most promising plant grown from 400 6ceds telected from tbe best then in existence. But, by setting this plant aside, and raising from it several crops of seed, a new strain was developed, 'Minnesota 1C9, which grows from one to two more bushels to the acre. "Do you realize what it means to add a single bushel to the yield per acre? In ten years it would add $200,000,000 to the wealth of the country. But at the Minnesota experiment station selection and hybridizing has already - produced a gain of 5 per cent in ' yield. Tiiis per cent, if generally applied, would add to the world's supply of wheat 02.",000,000 bushels. At SO cents a bushel this would be worth 500,000,000 a year. "The cost of breeding this -wheat is about onMenth of 1 per cent. And yet some business men say that the man of science does not realize about business vtlueg? "The beauty of plant-breeding is that any farmer can do it for himself. Patience, rather than learning, is what is required. A farmer, or small gardener, has only to select his subject and go to work at it. He may originate or . discover a new sort which will be a gold mine to hinself and to his section of the country." Told in a Few Ldnea. Fire at Carnegie, Okla., wiped out the entire business section of the town, entailing a loss of ?Go,000. Nathan Hawk, a veteran of the Mexican war and the man who in 1S-18 first brought east news f the California gold discoveries, is a hale and hearty citizen of Folsom, Cal. One man was fatally hurt, another badly injured and six less seriously hurt by the explosion of a boiler in a planing mill at Sycamore, Ohio. The ninth biennial convention of the General Federation of Women'.i Clubs will be held in Boston during the week beginning June 22, 1008. Irving Talley, colored, an expert hank note raiser, was entenced in the United States Court at Baltimore to twenty years in the federal prison at Atlanta. Fire in New Orleans destroyed six frame residences and damaged several others at I'eniston and Chestnut streets. A negro servant girl was burned to death. Ex-Gov. Frederick Ilolbrook of Vermont and ex-Gov. William Sprague of Rhode Island are the only living war Governors in the United States. The former is 94. George Taw, who was a member of Sir James Ross antarctie expedition in 1830, will celebrate his 01st birthday in a short time. He was also a member of the Franklin arctic expedition. The coroner's jury which investigated the recent collision between a Baltimore and Ohio express train and a freight near Wheeling, W. Va., in which four trainmen -were killed, returned a verdict fixing tht blame on A. L. Wilson, a brake-dan.

FILIPINOS ARE IMPROVIDENT.

Cornell Trofessor Says They Lack Thrift and Self-Control. The educational and social problems of the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico claimed the attention of the members of the American academy of political and social science at the recent annual meeting of that body in Philadelphia. Prof. K. M. Kemmerer of Cornell university, in spcakinj of the Philippine savings bank, said that the first postal savings bank was-opened for business at Manila on Oct. 1 of last year, and by Jan. 31 e this jear there were sixty-two banks ia operation in various parts of tbe islands. At the end of December, three months after the first bank was established, there were 021 depositors, having on deposit $92,500. The principal classes of depositors in the order of their numerical importance were clerks, artisans, professional men, laborers, soldiers and sailors and policemen. He said : "A striking fact in the figures is that of the 02 depositors up to Dec. 31 000 were Americans and ninety were Filipinos. The evidence is sufficient to prove a strong witness to the truth of the Filipino's reputation for improvidence, and in ko doing to show the imperative need of an educational institution like the postal savings bank and of carrying on a vigorous educational campaign through the schools and through the officers of the bank in the interest of teaching the saving habit to the rising generation of Filipinos. For until the Filipino has learned the lessons of providence, thrift and stlf-contrcl which the saving habit exemplifies and inculcates he cannot expect any high degree of either economic or political independence." CALLED WASHINGTON TRAITOR. Cngllsh Girl Starts a Riot in an Omaha High School. In Omaha the other day a .school girl started a riot by describing George Washington as a traitor. The girl is a pupil at the high school. She was born in England and still sees history through British eyes. In the course of the history class recitation the teacher unsuspectingly made laudatory remarks regarding the "Father of his Country," which were more than this English-bred miss could brook, and she broke forth vehemently with "GeorgeWashington was a base traitor. He abandoned the mother country and raised arms against her. He wras the real Benedict Arnold of the revolution." Instantly the class was in an uproar, but the English girl held her ground and it was several minutes before quiet was restored. KILL HOPELESS CONSUMPTIVES. Xoted Specialist So Advises National Tuberculosis Convention, Dr. S. A. Knopff, the famous New York tuberculosis specialist, who was decorated by Emperor William of Germany for his work in fighting the white plague, and who received a prize of JD.OOO for the best treatise upon that disease, startled the national tuberculosis congress at Washington by advising that hopeless sufferers from tuberculosis be killed quickly and painlessly by heavy doses of morphine. He said it was his practice to do that, and he regarded it as a sacred duty that the end might come quickly and painlessly. The committee on medication had made a report condemning the use of morphine and its compounds in these .cases, and a bitter debate was in progress when Dr. Knopff spoke. Doctors Flick and Landis had approved the report, but favored using creosote in advanced cases. Knopff was opposed to the use of creosote, but said he did use herbin and codein, both of which contain morphine or cocaine. One of the plans indorsed by the congress is to organize classes of consumptives among workingmen and school children for home treatment instead of in hospitals and sanitariums. Dr. Fulton said the secret of the success of the home treatment was that not only the patient, but the entire family, learned the road to health, while the man who returns from a sanitarium usually rannot chasga his family's mode of life. Dr. Low man urged the seclusion of consumptive school children in special classes, which, so far as possible, may be taught in the open air. . Snn Franciscans Ir to Tilde. While the United Railroads which control the San Francisco trolley system, have succeeded in running more than half their usual number cf cars, despite the strike of union men, these cars art receiving but scant patronage, through the fear of the public to incur tbe hostility of the unions by riding. The bj department and dry goods stores provids omnibuses to carry their employes home, and notices have been posted in many of these stores warning clerks and other employes not to patronize the cars, on penalty of dismissal. Chicago May Have the Dent. The question whether Chicago may employ as sanitary inspector Charles B. Ball, notwithstanding that he had resided in New York prior to his appointment three years ago, has now been decided affirmatively by the city civil service commission. Mr. Ball, who was formerly chief tenement inspector under Mayor IjOW, was appointed chief sanitary inspector after a competitive examination, but was immediately removed by order of Judge Ilanecy on the ground that he was a non-resident, and the second en the list got the place. It pays to tdTCrtlse in ttis paper.

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CHICAGO. No important developments appear to detract from the underlying strength which sustains confidence in the business outlook. Weather conditions were mainly favorable to operations and activity is kiore evident in production and distribution. Leading retail lines find the general demand steadily expanding, indicating that the purchasing power i.s undiminished, but there. is. some accumulation of lightweight apparel, which needs a warm wave to bring quick disposal. Wholesale dealings now show the effect of the between seasons period and current shipments dwindle, but forward buying for fall and winter supplies compares favorably with a year ago, and road salesmen obtain orders making a substantial aggregate in the principal staples. Notwithstanding tho; late spring and other adverse factors, farm conditions in both Illinois and Iowa never before were more encouraging, and land and stock values have advanced to the highest average. Mercantile credits remain quite satisfactory and money works easier, while trading defaults occasion little anxiety. Failures reported in Chicago district numbered 20, against 17 last week and a year ago. Dun's Review of Trad. NEW YORK. Cross currents in trade and crop conditions prevent generalization. There has betn a further slight improvement in crop condition. This has made for a more optimistic feeling as to ultimate yields and future trade in the sections enjoying even a small share of seasonable weather, but the great majority of cities and particularly those in the eastern half of the country complain of continued slow retail trade a ndcol lections. On the other hand the reports as to fall trade are quite satisfactory, a reflection possib! of the fact that retail stocks of heavy goods were well cleaned up last winter. Crop uncertainties and the fact that reorder business this spring has been practically absent in many, lines, however, induce conservatism as to future ordering and there is less disposition to embark freely in future commitments until the situation becomes clearer. Business failures in the United States for the week number lTfi. against 14H last week, and 102 in the like week of 1000. In Canada, failures for the weel number IS, against 14 last week and 17 a year ago. . ; Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada ' for the week ending June G aggregated ."i.2G3.138 bushels, against 2,401,004 last week and 3..T01.0Ü7 this week last year. For the last forty-nine weeks, 100.944.S0S bushels, against 128,027.113 in 1005-1000. Corn exports for the wek are l,lo.",005 bushels, against SUI'k. last week and 573.139 a year ago. For the fiscal year to date, ii,74S,02(; bushels, against 108,500.S4O in lfHXMOOG. BraGst reefs Commercial Report. mm -stoker 'O-r Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $0.75; hogs, prime heavy, $1.00 to?!.32; sheep, fair to choice, $3-00 to $0.8,"; wheat. No.. 2, 00c to !Oc; corn, No, 2, ."2c to Öle; oats, standard, 41c to 45c; rye. No. 2, S"c to 87c; hay, timothy, $14.00 to $21..7); prairie, $9.00 to .$10.00; butter, choice creamery, " 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 12e to 14e; potatoes, new, per bushel, $1.10 to $1.30. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.3-'5; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0.32; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $.".50; wheat, No. 2, 04c to 9."c; corn. No. 2 white, 3e to r5e; eats No. 2 white, 40c to 4Sc. St. Louis Cat lie. $4.50 to $0.50; bogs, $4.00 to $iV2."; sheep, $3.00 to $(J.(K); wheat, No. 2, We to $1.00; corn. No. 2, -c to ."3e ; oats, Nor 2, 45c to 47c; rye, No. 2, 81c to 83c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $3.85; hogs, $4.00 to $'.30; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to $1.01; com. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 57c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 4Sc; rye, No. 2, Sic to 84c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.30; sheep, $2.50 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2, UOc to OSc; corn. No. 3 yellow, 55c to 57c; oats, No. 3 white, 4Sc to 50e; rye, No. 2, 80c to 88c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.00 to $1.03; corn. No. 3, 52c to 54c; oats, standard, 47c to 48c; rye. No. 1, SGc to 87c; barley, standard, 78c to 79c; pork, mess, $10.20. , Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.30; hogs, fair to choice. $1.00 tj $0.43; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $0.00; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $8.00. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $0.50; hogs, $4.00 to $0.75; sheep, $3.00 to $7.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.01; torn. No. 2, (lie to 03c; oats, natural white, 51c to 52c; butter, creamery, 23c to 25c; eggs, western, 15c to 17c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 93c to 94c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 5dc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 49c; rye. No. 2, 78c to 79e; clover send, prime, $9.25. D!ftfitcr Hurt rarlfle Mail. The annual report of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company says that its earnings were $4,8:19.245, a decrease of $8S5,092, being attributed to numerous wrecks and to the effects of the SanFranciscc earthquake. Price of Ii read tan's Up, The threatened shortage in the wheat crop and the high price of that conuiodity are now reflected in the boost in the price of flour, which has risen from $4.r0 to $0 in the last month. If continued, this would necessitate a smaller loaf or a cent advance in price. Iron and Steel Fx ports. The bureau of statistics at Washington figures the probable total of iron and steel exports for the fiscal year at $175.000,OOO. as compared with $57,000,0(10 in 1897. - It ceo r a I rice for Ball. Tlv? highest price ever paid for a horned aniual at any auction in the world, so -far 'as kaown. was paid for Stock well, king of the herd of Jersey cattle sold at the Linden Crove farm, nenr Allentown, Pa. The pric was $11,5(H), and it was understood that the bidder was Thomas F. Byan. The suit to dissolve the alleged merger of (Jould interest railroads in Missouri was argued in the Supreme Court on dtmurrcrs filed by the defendants to the information of Attorney Ceneral Iladley. Decision is expected within thirty days. By the vote of 210 to 14G the Russian Pouma tabled the resolution condemning terrorism, the constitutional democrats, peasants and Cossacks opposing and tje socialists joining the monarchists, 0 ioberlsts and revolutionists in favor of it. Tft new rules of procedure permit only two speakers on each side of any question, and this mai.'s prompt action. The Czar again faces open revolution in several provinces, and there is talk of another general strike. A miners' monument to former Governor D. II. Waite has been unveiled at Aspen Colo.

Indiana

CURDS l0vi'i OK SALOONS. Indiana Supreme Court Holds CltfV Authoritr I Manifold. -'' The Supreme Court has held ' that a city ordinance not only forbidding Joons outsicV of the business part of tbe city but also defining the boundaries of tbe business part, ko as to include only a few pquares surrounding th court iiouse and the place where most of the business is done is valid. It held that tbe only ground on which such an ordinance can be successfully attacked is that the city has been guilty of an unreasonable abuxe of its power and discretion in declaring such boundaries. It also declared that a State may authorize saloons to be licensed and that the saloon business is lawful except as declared unlawful by the State. 3IAN OF TO HODS SISTER. Frederick W. Korbn of Indianapolis Decamps with Woman Money. The theft of $30,000 in stocks and bonds from5 a safety deposit vault in Indianapolis belonging to his sister, Mrs. Christina Nold, flight to Cincinnati and disposal of $1S.000 worth of his plunder, then complete disappearance, sre the revelations of one day police investigation and search for Frederick William Iloebn, aged 70 years. The discovery of the robbery was made when Mrs. Nold returned from a visit to Ohio. Going to her deposit vault, she discovered her fortune gone. Suspicion was not directed to ber brother until a letter was received from a Cincinnati broker making inquiries about stocks and bonds which he purchased from a man. SPAXKS ELOPING GIRL OP v15. Yonnsr Woman t Des Mercy and Threatens to Kill Herself. Cupid was balked when Katie Sellers, 15 years old, and George Gissom, 39, elopers from Henderson, Ky were arrested in Evansville just .as thy nere taking out a marriage license. The pirl was held at police headquarters until her father, wno had notified the police of the elopement, came and took h?r back home. The girl wore her dres to her f-hoe toj and had her hair plaited down her back. When her father found her at police headquarters in charge of Matron Roberts he requested Mrs. Boberts to withdraw and then gave the runüway school girl a good spanking. BOYS BLOWN TO BITS. Bellcred Two' Youngsters Set Fire to Storage Iloase Near Mine. By the explosion of several hundred pounds of powder at the t-torage house of the Farnsworth mine, near Sullivan, two boys were blown to pieces and three others were seriously hurt. The dead are Gaude Davis, aged (, and Paul Keen, aged 9. . The cause of the explosion is not known. It is supposed that the bej's accidentally set the building on fire. GIVES BIKTIf TO QUADRUPLETS. Indiana Woman Has Kour Children, out Only Two SnrOtf. Mrs. Frrnk Croxton of Itoanoke gave birth to quadruplets, three gir!s and a boy, the combined weight of which wes eleven and a half pounds. Two of tbe girls died within a few hours, but the other two children Lid fair to survive. Mrs. Croxtoa, who is 4.1 years old, is tbe wife of a section foreman of a traction line. " Drowned' Man Murdered. Edward Myers, whose body was found in the Wabash river at Mount Vernoa several days ago, was murdered, according to the verdict of tbe coroner. The man was working on a barge of corn and was supposed to have fallen into the river. Tbe coroner found a bad wound on the head, which leads to the belief that tbe man was murdered. One Fall, Another Succeeds. In Marion. Miss Lcnnie Lawrence tried to commit suicide because the did not want to fulfill her promise to marry William Bums. Mrs. Mary Saxon, a divorced woman, who has leen In poor health, killed herself. She was 31 years of age. Both, took carbolic acid. Coal Store Gas Kills Girl. Lucy Ball is dead 8nd Anna, her Fister, dying as a result of their father's storing n coal tove in the attic of his house in Michigan City. Carbonic acid gas, caused by coals 'left in the stove, is believed to have poisoned the girls. Stleep Talk Besnlts Fatally. F.ugvne McCltllan fatally wounded James Rinehart in FI k hart. McClellan vas talking in his sleep ard said sc-me-ihing which displeased Itinehart, who attacked him and cut his throat. Cljrarets Kill a Merchant. Adolph Ileywood, a j-oung Petersburg merchant, died from illness caused by the excessive smoking of cigarettes. Within Our Borders. Peter Krych is under arrest at South Bend on a charge of murdering Martin Hyska on the night of May U. The prisoner claims he acted in self-defense. Leo II. Huff, aged 30, employed by a Boonville coal company, received injuries in an accident which caused his death shortly afterward. Huff tried to uncouple a car and, the chain breaking, fell under the wheels and the car passed over him. Tony Miller, who thot and killed fcis former wife, fought a desperate battle with the Muncie police before he could bo captured. Armed with two heavy revolvers, he barricaded himself in a box car on the outskirts' of the city and defied the officers, having already exchanged phots with men who tried to arrest him. The police, followed by a large crowd, surrounded the cur and ordered Miller, to Kurrender. He replied with severai shots. The police returned tbe fire. Shots were exchanged until Miller had used up his ammunition. He received a bullet ia his right leg. ' In a R'Jtt at IIi!liburz, John Pruitt was k tabbed !y Curt Goff, after tae former had knocked GoflTs son down with a Leer bottle. His condition is critical. In the death of Charles Lewis at the city hospital in Indianapolis, the ioi!ce have given up all hope of solving the reason that causal him y murder Anna Eaton in a resort. Frank Staggs, who killed Dell Boss by stabbing him with a jxKket knife seven tinir. was given a preliminary trial in "Bedford on a charge of murder and the evidence showed that he acted in nJ-lf-d-fense. He was ordered released from custody by Prosecuting Attorney Fletcher. Charles ppesin, who. it is charg-ed. deserted the army twice within fix months, was arrested at his home in Sidney. teein had bcn stationed ia Alaska. George T. Anderson. -13 years of age, charged with attacking Alice Anderson, his U-year-old niece, was found cuilty in Shelbyville and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Two hundred Purdue Ftudents during the performance of a circus ia La Fay ette, broke vp a tide show and afterward gathered to make a similar assault on tia big show. A brisk skirmish with circca employes followed in which a nuntcr cl the atudenta were badly bettered rv

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