Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 37, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 June 1907 — Page 2

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J 3rd. KJKtU. y 18thA2öt!i PAST AND PRESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many. Yeuoe- Men Bantered to Death. Charles Dawson was killed and Fred Ochs was seriously injured by a north-bound Big Four freight train near Leavitt, a short distance south of North Vernon, Ind. The rhen had been fishing, and were walking along the track to their respective homes. They. saw a freight train coming, and it is said they bantered each other to see who could stay on the track th j longest. Dawson won, and was killed, while Ochs was, seriously injured. Both young mec aire from prominent families. Tebaee Declared to De a cejIty. The U. S. Government at Washington has officially declared tobacco to be not a luxury but a necessity in a decision by the Comptroller of the Treasury. The question arose through a number of laborers employed for the construction of the Panama Canal, who had been held in quarantine, demanding tobacco during their confinement. A Hoodooed Sheriff. Sheriff A. L. Briggs, of Monroe County, Michigan, thinks he's hoodooed. Elected on the 23rd of the month by twenty-three majority, he was taking his twenty-third prisoner to Jackson oa June 13 when the handcuffed prisoner jumped from a trolley car and escaped. The prisoner was William Ash, a Toledo clairvoyant, sentence! from Pontia to two years. Mr. Chapman la a Critleal Condition. Mrs. J. Wilbur Chapman, wife of the noted evangelist, who vas operated on In South Bend, Ind., passed a very restless night and is much weaker. Her condition shows no improvement, and considerable apprehension is felt. Her heart action is bad, and her condition Is more serious than at any time since the operation. Hotel G Dents Seared. The Olympic Theater, a large vaudeville house in Chicago, burned. The fire did not start until an hour after the night performance had ended. The loss is $100,000. Guests of the Union Hotel, which is across the alley from the theater, and of a smaller hotel nearby, were driven from their quarters. There was no panic. Hall Kill Chicken. A terrific hailstorm, the path of which was four miles wide and ten miles long, has wrought havoc with growing crops in Jenkins County, Georgia. The hailstones killed grown chickens in many places and went entirely through watermelons. Die from Bite laflleted by Mao. Jacob Korns became mixed up in a fight with Marion Provost, a wealthy liveryman at Lima, Ohio. Korns was bitten on the hand which had to be amputated. Lockjavr set In and Korns la dead. Both men are prominent. Theater Fire at Altooaa. Fire in the Eleventh Avenue Opera House at Altoona, Pa., did over $250,000 dmages. The basement and first and second floors were occupied by a department store. A dozen smaller buildings were damaged. Killed In Explosion. Clyde Kimball, aged 19, a machinist's helper of Sunbury, Pa., : was Wiled at Steubenville, Ohio, by the xplosion of a weak boiler during a test with too much steam at Kavanaugh Tool Works. Japan's AmbaMador Will Be Recalled. The Hochi, a newspaper of Tokio, Japan, says that Viscount Aoki, Japanese ambassador to the United States, will probobaly be recalled and that he -will likely be succeeded by Baron Kaneko. Francl Morph y III. Francis Murphy, the veteran temperance apostle, is seriously ill at his borne in Los Angeles, Cal., with a complication of ailments, and his physicians are in doubt about the outcome.' Harried 72 Years) Doth Die In a Week. After lying unconscious two weeks, Mrs. Albert Stow, aged 90, died at Kent, Ohio. Her husband, aged 97, died a week ago. They were the oldest married couple in the United States, their wedding having taken place seventy-two yars ago. Killed by Fall of Coal. William Hensler, 22 years old and married, was instantly killed by a fall of top coal in a mlno at Coming, Ohio. Says Pie Must Go. A pieless age is at hand, Dr. Wiley, government's iure food censor at Washington, having decided that the modern product has been debauched by oommrce and benzoate of soda until it is offensive to the integuments of the alimentary tract, and that it must go. Cyclone Destroys City. A destructive cyclone swept over Kurrachi Thursday. Several steamers were driven ashore and hardly a building remains intact. Kurrachi is one of the principal seaports of British India, and lias a population of more than 1-0,000. Hallway Raises Age Limit. At the meeting of the stockholders of Pennsylvania Railroad Company it -was roted to increase the age limit for persons entering the employ of the company from 35 to 45 years. This action follows a similar step taken by the other coapanies of tie Pennsylvania system. Scarcity of labor is the cause. Freight "Wreck Kills Two. By the derailment of an extra freight train on the Rock Island near Horton, j?mn t Brakeman J. Kirkshaw and. Gay Cennedy were killed, and Engineer D. T. of Horton was fatally scalded.

ELEPHANT KILLS A BOY.

Circus Animal Seizes Child and Dashes It to Pavement. Goaded to fury by the torments of a dozen small boys who had followed her for several blocks of the para do and pelted her with small missiles, Ruth, a feature of Cole Brothers' Circus, and said to be the largest living elephant, shot her trunk into a densely packed crowd of spectators at Lafayette Square in Main street, Buffalo. When she withdrew it the body of 12-year-old llocco Laquino dangle! in tho air. With a trumpet of rage the beast lifted the loy above her head and brought him down with terrific forte on the pavement. Then she released her hold of her victim and left him prostrate. His skull had been fractured by tho impact. Lily, an elephant following vicious ltuth. struck the body with her foot and knocked it several feet in toward the curb line. Laquino died in the ambulance on the way t the hospital and the body was taken to the morgue, whore .000 frantic men and women passed the slab, all' fearful that it was their son'. At 0 o'clock in the evening, seven hours after the tragedy, Mrs. Laquino was admitted to the morgue, and at the first sight of the boy's face she fell fainting a his side. It. S. Dunlop, trainer of the elephants, who was riding at the left side of Ruth, was arrested, the police holding that he should have taken up a position between the elephant and the crowd. A few hours later Dunlop was released, on the advice of Disfrict Attorney Abbott. Cole Brothers, announced that Ruth, who is 70 years old and valued at $7,000, will be put to death with chloroform. INCH EASE BUBAL MAIL BOUTES. Number Wow in Operation, in United States Is 37,741. The re oort on the operations of the rural ma. I delivery service up to June last, made public by the fourth assistant postmaster general in Washington shows that the total number of etitions for the service received up to that date was 54.25, upon which 14,777 adverse reports have been made. Since May 1 there has been an increase of 177 in the number of routes, there being 37,741 routes now in operation, which are served by C0.5CG regular carriers. All these routes are served daily except G4fi, on which service is rendered tri-weekly. There ate now pending 1,504 petitions, 241 of which have been favorably acted upon and service ordered established. A balance of $1,340,433 of the appropriation for new service during the current fiscal year remains unexpended. RETURN TO ASK TRIAL. Joseph Sanzori and Son Want Chance to Clear Themselves. After working for seven years to save enough money to defend themselves against a charge of murder, of which they were suspected, " Joseph Sanzori and Phillip, his son, who disappeared immediately after the crime was committed, and of whom all trace was lost, returned to Chicago and asked that they might stand trial in order to clear themselves of the blot against their names. "We are ready now," they said. "We have worked hard. We have lived poorly, so that we might have money to defend ourselves. Now try us and turn us free." They are snsrectcd of having killed Antonio Longo, son-in-law of Joseph Sanzori, June 25, 3000. CnZLDBEN DIE TO JOIN MOTHER. Girls, to Lighten Grandparent's Cares, Slake Suicide Agreement. Margaret and Fielen Curtis, aged 10 and 11, living with their grandparents on Lakota street, in Cleveland, mixed arsenic with 'their food and ate it, and both died. They entered into a suicide compact, the younger confessed before she became unconscious, because they wanted to join their mother, who died a short time ago, and wanted to lighten the cares of their grandparents. Tbey thought their grandparents had too much trouble, having been left with four grandchildren, the other two being younger than the sisters who-took poison. Their father Is at Marysville, Kan. Chicago Beef Barred by Ohio. Attorney General Ellis of that State rendered an opinion in the interest of the Ohio farmer by holding that State institutions must buy Ohio beef. Armour & Co. of Chicago were the lowest bidders to supply the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home at Sandusky with meat, but cannot get the contract. The law provides that cattle shall have been in the State sixty days before they can be killed and sold to a State institution. Electric Swing Hurts Eight. The large electric swing at .Electric Park, the new amusement resort at Forty-sixth street and Lydia avenue, in Kansas City, fell to the ground the other night, injuring eight persons, one seriously. The center shaft, sixty-five feet high, which imports the cars, snapped at the base and fell over. Great Strike 'in France. A million people in the south of France, throughout the wine-growing district. Lave abolished civii government and inaugurated a strike against the government. Mayors and city councils resigned, and a man who until recently was an obscure wine grower rules in supreme command. Big Fire in San Francisco. Fire destroyed property valued at $200,000 on Bryant street, between Seventh and Eighth streets, San Francisco. The Franklin grammar school, the Yosemite flour mills, a lodging house,' and the wholesale houses erf the Customs Seed Company and the San Francisco Paste Company were destroyed. Dorchester 277 Years Old. Dorchester, Mass., the first place in the United States to use the town meeting, the first to establish a free school supported by popular tax and the third oldest settlement in Xew England, celebrated Monday the 277th anniversary of its founding. Secretary Metcalf Found. Doubt as to the whereabouts of Secretary of the Navy Metcalf and his party has bee"i settled by a message received at Washington from Rear Admiral Evans, who said the Secretary was aboard the gunboat Dolphin at Newport, News, Va. Mayor Schmitz Convicted. Mayor Schmita of San Francisco has been convicted of extortion, the penalty for which is five years in prison. The city Is now freed from the power of the corrupt machine. Killed at Shooting Gallery. While painting his target board in Enid, Okla., A. O. Harris, proprietor of a shooting gallery, was accidentally shot and killed by a young woman who was examining one of his rifles. Becord-Breaking Coal Cargo. The coal-carrying record for the great lakes was broken by the steamer W. It. Kerr, which arrived at Superior, Wis., with 13,000 tons aboard, 2,000 tons ahead of provious record. Girl Ablaze in Crowded Car. Fire starting mjsteriously, perhaps from treading on a match, suddenly enveloped Miss Margaret Chance, 18 years old, while she was riding Mn a crowded Fox Chase trolley car, in Philadelphia, and, though the other passengers did all in their power to check the flames, the girl's clothing was burned off.

NEW SENATOR BLIND.

SIGHTLESS MAN PROBABLY CHOSEN IN OKLAHOMA. Candidate Who IIa Xot Seen Since lie Wan 11 V mm Old, Still Take Active Part in Campaigns Shaker Settlement Kern. Thomas P. (lore, whose nomination for T"iiit-I States Senator from Oklahoma over Hoy Hoffman scorns to Im assured from the returns, has been blind since he was 11 years old, when he accidentally shot his right eye out with an arrowpun. Three years Ik? fore a playmate, while in a boyish passion, had blinded his left eye with a stone. Gore has been in politics since, at the ape of 11 years, he was a page in the Mississippi Senate. At 1!) ho was a nominee for the Legislature of that State, and three years later he was Populist elector at large. 1JKIO he was unanimously selected for congressional standard bearer by the Fopulists in Texas, while he was absent in South Dakota making stump speeches for the fusion ticket, lie lives at Lawton, Okla.. and has made seeches in all tho campaigns since he came to that territory, several years ago. WOULD KILL THE UNFIT. Boston Doctor Advocates Extremely Revolutionary Practices. The theory of tho survival of the fittest has a new champion in Dr. Andrew Christian, one of Boston's most successful physicians, who advocates killing babies which show signs of idiocy or degeneracy. "A board of overseers of marriages that is what we want," he said the other da-. "The race is degenerating, ;nd some radical change must be made soon or we will in time have only idiots and imbeciles. Only the fit should marry, only those who are mentally and physically normal and sane, those whose ancestors were clean of life and well balanced mentally. The board of overseers fcr marriages should be composed of doctors who understand thoroughly physiology, psychology and sociology. If mothers would be willing to have their children quietly put to sleep forever when they are very young and show signs of deformity or degeneracy the world would be better. Of course that could not be unless the women could be educated up to the fact that it would be the kindest way to end a life which will be of no use to itself or any one else." THREE LOSE LIFE IX FIRE. T-vo Others Injured in Burning of Shaker Settlement in Ohio. Three persons are dead and two seriously injured as the result of the burning of the four principal baildings of the Shaker settlement at Whitewater Village, near Harrison, Ohio. Tho fire probably originated from a defective flue. Mrs. Kuele Hear, Katherine Sterr and Mary Middletown, aged women, who occupied charters in the main building, were burned to death before anyone could arouse them. Andrew Bi"s was hurt in making Ms escape from the burning buildings and Charles Sterr in an endeavor to reach the safe in the office. The loss is estimated at $20,000, partly covered by insurance. SLAYER OF TOUS IS DEAD. Business Man Who Figured in Wholesale Killing Dies in Cell. Thomas Ualdwin, the business man of Colfax, 111., who killed four people near l.Ioomingtou last February, will not pay the penalty of his crime. He was found dead in his cell at the county jail Wedrefday morning. He had been in poor health for some time, and the end was not a surprise. Ualdwin shot and killed Mrs. Simeon Eisenburg, her daughter Cora and Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy, who testified against Lim in an assault case. Dcrctor Costly; Tries to Die. Iffcther than rny a doctor's bill Josrph Springer, agd S5 years, an employe of the Westingbouse Air llrake Company of Wilmerding. Pa., shot himself through the mouth in his room in Airbrake avenue. He had been complaining about exorbitant fee charged by physician. and although in poor health he would not call a doctorpreferring to end his life with a revolver. Chicago Theater Burns. Seven persons were injured, property valued at nearly $200,000 was destroyed, and a panic Etamieded the after theater 'diners in the College inn and Union restaurant, when fire starting from cros-sed electric wires between the first and second lalconies in the Olrmpic theater completely destroyed that playhouse, the oldest vaudeville theater in Chicago, Friday niht. Price cf Meat Causes Riots. Riots were in progress all day by Jews In the eastern hection of Cleveland as the result of a 4-ceat increase in the price of kosher meats. Two hundred police were powerless for a time and succeeded in coping with the crowds only when they were re-enforced by the regular night squads of policemen. Ohio Principal to Resign. George W. Walker, bachelor, aged 38 years, assistant principe in the Steubenviile, Ohio, high school, will resign because he is charged with kissing his girl pupils and sending them improper post cards. The professor does not deny the charges, but insists there was no harm ic his acts. Toronto Bank's Loss Is Large. At the annual general meeting of the Sovereign Bank in Toronto, Ont., President Jarvis said it would be necessary to wipe out the whole, reserve account of $1,22,000 and also write off one-quarter of the entire capital, representing another million, in order to put the bank in a sound financial condition. i : Woman Says She Is Burglar. Mrs. Bessie Metzdorf 18 years old, confessed to the Cleveland police that she was a burglar. She admitted that on many occasions she had accompanied her husband, Otto Metzdorf, in his alleged raids on stores, acting as a lookout. Mrs. Nettie Tucker, mother of Mrs. Metrdorf, is charged with receiving stolen property. Figures on Wheat Crop. The government crop report indicates a yield of G1G.WJ3.000 bushels of wheat, of which 308,529.000 is winter and 218,004,000 spring, leaving no surplus for export. Blast Kills Seven on Canal. A rrimature explosion of dynamite at Pedro Miguel, on the line of the Panama canal, resulted in the Instant death of seven men and the wounding of several others, 5 Orchard Claims to be Repentant. Harry Orchard, witness in the Haywood trial at Boise, wept as he told how he confessed to nwike his peace with God, but adm'sions were wrung from him tending to show that perhaps hope of immunity from death on the gallows bad something to do with it. Hard Fight for Firemen. Fire in a big piano factory at 137th street and Southern boulevard, the Bronx, New York, occupied by Winter & Co. and Heller & Brooks, gave the firemen a hard fight. The lost on the factory was $ 150,00a

THE GOULD SQUABBLE.

llorrard nnd III Wife Fach Say I'&jly ThlnK" About the Other. The legal fight between Howard Gould and his wife, who was tho actress, Katherine Clcmmons, is gradually reaching a climax. Mrs. Gould asks legal separation on the ground that he is an unfit person to live with, and tliat he has tampered with her mail. She asks alimony to the amount of $250.000 a year. She admits the amount is large, but claims It Is in accord with his great wealth and none ei too much to enable her to maintain her social position. Gould, on the other hand, asks for separation on the ground that It Is Imposible for him to live with LLs wife because of her use of Intoxicants, because of her extravagance and because of her bad temier. He will fight her demand for alimony to any greater amount than $00,000 a year. CT It was announced that Princeton university had received gifts of $1.200,000 from perrons ttut named, and that the money wou!d be used to build two laboratories. President William Jewett ' Tucker of Dartmouth college has tendered his resignation to the . trustees, giving at his reason, heart trouble, which made it imperative for him to retire. Gov. Stuart of Pennsylvania has signed the bill authorizing school boards of cities to set aside money each year to create a retirement fund for public school teachers, the method being left entirely to the discretion of the different boards. Speaking at the 'graduation exercises of the Friends select school at Washington, where his sen, Archie, was a pupil, President Koosevelt pictured his ideal American boy as one .vho plays hard and works bard, who is brave and strong, but gentle and kind. The bully, he said, was the meanest boy in the world. The report of a committee at Bowdoin on the means employed by students who are working their way through college, shows sixty-seven different occupations in use. The highest amount earned was that $700 in a year by one student as the pastor of a church. Another made $400 by managing a summer camp. A canvasser for stereoscopic views profited $350, and a book agent made $200. One enterprising student got up a local directory, and was paid $500 for it. Another organized a touring party and earned $250. Other profitable jobs secured were tutoring, snow shoveling, car conductor, hotel steward, clerk, draughtsman, summer school teacher, chauffeur, butcher, fanner, purser, reporter and caterer. The committee reaches the conclusion that any person blessed with good health and the will can earn half his college expenses if he is not too proud, to work. United States Consul E. T. Lief eld reports that on April 22 a municipal school dental clinic was opened in the German city of Frieburg, the operations of which be thus describes: "The dentist at the head of this school clinic examines all the children In the city, both in their homes and in the public schools. A report on such examinations is sent to the parents, who are asked to send their children to the school dental clinic for free treatment. Those children having ten or more poor teeth are first treated, an exception being made in the higher classes where those with only slight defects are to be treated, so that they wili leave the public schools with sound teeth. After these worct cases have been attended to, all other children with defective teeth are to be treated, the younger ones given preference. The treatment of the teeth includes extraction, filling, crowning, etc. There is no actual instruction In dental hygiene, but at the opening of the dental clinic the fachers explain its objects and workings to the children. The tooth report card contains on the reverse side instructions as to tbe care of the teeth." Mayor McClellan of New York has vetoed the bill recently passed by the State Legislature equalizing the salaries of men and women teachers in the higher grades of the schools of the metropolis. He justified bis veto on four grounds: (1) Violation of the home rule principle; (2) local authorities already have the power to do the same; (3) discrimination in favor of a certain class of teachers; (4) that it would destroy the elasticity of the present school system. lioth houses of the Legislature passed the measure over the Mayor's veto. Maxime Gorky has repeatedly traversed Russia on fcoL

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SUNDAY SCHOOL MEET

GREAT WORLD'S CONVENTION IN ROME. Fifteen Iinndred Delegates from 3T Different Lands Assembled in Bierfirest Sunday School Gathering; in IIlMor- of the "VVorlU. There recently assembled In Rome, Italy, the greatest Suztfay school gathering in the history of the world. For five days about 1,500 delegates, representing thirty-seven different lands, nearly all evangelical creeds, nnd 20,000,000 Sunday school adherents met together to hear reports of progress throughout the earth and study the best methods of winning the world to Christ through the medium of the Sunday school. From beginning to end the keynote of the fifth world's convention was the Sunday school as a missionary force. It was clearly brought out that the hope of evangelizing the world lies In the potential energy, as yet largely untouched, of the Sunday school. Near the close of the convention there occurred the most eroch making event since the inauguration of the International system of Sunday school lessons a generation ago. There was formed the World's Sunday School Association to rapidly develop and promote Sunday school work throughout tue entire world. Bishop IlartzcII was chairman of the committee which brought this action before the convention, and in moving its adoption he declared It was .the most Important movement he had ever been privileged to endorse. Without doubt it will mean an unparalleled advance of Sunday schools during tho next few years. The lot fell to England to have the first president of the world association in Itev. F. Ii. Meyer, of London; but to America was given the chairman of the executive committee. Dr. Georg3 W. Palley, of Philadelphia. A strange and impressive scene was presented at the opening meetiug. The representatives of thirty-seven lands made a polyglot company as on the day of Pentecost lu Jerusalem, and as then all were with one accord in one place praying and praising God In divers tongues. There were seen In the audience dark skinned men of Egypt, with their red fezes; native delegates from Palestine; a dark faced college president from India ; swarthy men nnd women from Spain, Bulgaria. and other countries of southern Europe; fair haired delegates from Sweden; considerable delegations from France and Germany; over 300 delegates from Great Britain; as many as could crowd in the building from Italy, and about 500 from the United States and Canada. The five days of the convention were crowded with addresses by famous Christian leaders: reports of Sunday school progress In all lands; conferences In Italian and German and English, and committee meetings of the widest Import by the prominent business men who had charge of the convention and the worldwide Sunday school movement. Among the speakers who stirred the convention by their messages were Pkev. F, B. Meyer, Bishop J. C. Ilartzell, Mr. Marion Lawranee, Rev. B. B. Tyler, D. D., and numerous others, Including Madame Bieler, of Paris, the daughter of Professor D'Aublgne. the historian of the Reformation. One mau. Dr. W. A. Duncan, of Xew York State, journeyed over G.000 miles to Home and return, simply to address an Italian and a German conference on the home department of the Sunday school, which he founded. Not the least Impressive feature of the convention was the sight of a nunibor of prominent business men of America and England throwing all their great energy Into the task of making the gathering an epoch-making affair. A large part of the convention -was taken up with reports giving a bird'seye view of Sunday school conditions throughout the world. Many of these were intensely interesting and stirred the hearts of the audience with new enthusiasm for assisting the work in lands where the movement Is yet In Its infancy nnd where the work is carried on under the greatest difficulties. For example, in Belgium, there are only 2,300 scholars enrolled In the schools; In Tunis 2,000 in Bulgaria 3,000; in Spain C.500; In Egypt 11.391. In many other countries the number in the Sunday schools is large and the work Is growing nnd developing at an astonishing rate. In Japan there are (14,000 iu the schools; in France C7.000; In India 300,000; In Germany 000,000; in Great Britain 2,250,000 in Free Church schools, and 7,000,000 altogether, but not all are affiliated with the association. Last comes America with about 14,000,000. . . , The next convention will be held In 1910, but the executive committee has not decided in what city it will -convene. Previous to this it is planned to have a specially charatered ship sail from New York In December, 1908, carrying nearly or quite 500 Christian leaders to make a Sunday school cruise around the world. It Is expected that the English delegates will board the ship as it passes through the Mediterranean and numerous conferences und conventions will be held in Egypt, India, China, Japan and other countries. Minister Detleve In Danclnnr. "I have always believed that churches ought to provide dances and other entertainments for their young people,' is th way Rev. Wilson Ü. Stcarly, rector of Immanuel Episcopal church of Cleveland, recently expressed his views on the subject of amusements. He further Rtated his belief that the churches had a great work to perform in providing social pleasures for the young, and that they should take It up very soon. He said that many people thought you must not give young people a taste of dancing because they would want to go further, but that it did not work out that way in most cases. On the whole, it was better to provide them with dances in a good, clean atmosphere, and then they will not enjoy thera under any other conditions. "Personally, I should like to see more dancing in my church." . A statute prohibiting the employment, of a child under sixteen years of age longer than ten hours in any one day has been declared by the Oregon Supreme Court to be an entirely valid and proper exercise of the police powers of the State. There is talk in England of celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Wesley, which occurred Dec. IS, 1707. Alre&uy plaus are being made for the next convention of the international Sunday school convention, which will be held in Louisville, Ky., June 17-23, 1008.

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!!lNATCjAL' CHICAGO The recent heaviness' Tiich partially depressed activity in ctWributive lines ban dissolved under the encourajrin; inlh.ence of brighter weather, and business is characterized by a cheering tone. Local demands equal expectations in the principal industries, manufacturing sustains a strong position and the demand for seasonable merchandise gives a forward impetus to retail operations. Interior advices testify to high consumption and a satisfactory depletion of stock. Payments through the banks still largely exceed those of a year ago, and, with the purchasing power throughout the West evidently greater than at any time hitherto, it is difficult :o find a sound reason for apprehending any immediate diminution of commerce. It is significant that many visiting buyers from distant points attend the wholesale markets fort staple goods and that road salesman obtain substantial ord.rs for fall deliveries, the volume of bookings thus far making favorable comparison with that at this time last year. Mercantile collections at some points are better than in the early spring, and in this district remain remarkably prompt, while the defaults fchow much under ths normal average. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 14. against 2I last week and 21 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade NEW YORK. , Weather, crop and retail trade conditions over a wide area of country have changed for the better this week and the feeling is more opümistic than for some months past. In the Northwest, jarts of the central West and in some sections of the South higher temperatures have encouraged freer buying. of summer goods and made for more cheerful advices as to the wheat and cotton1 crops. Agreement is general that retailers' stocks the country over are large, that reduction sales are numerous, and that filling in orders from jobbers and manufacturers are a negligible quantity as yet. It is noted that fall trade reports are good in most sections, in a few being in advance of a year ago, but there are,' coincidentally, a few reports of cancellations of business booked, mainly in the Southwest, or requests for the withholding of shipments, and for extensions on payments on past businens. Business failures in the United States for the week ending June 13 number 1G1, against 155 last week and 170 in the like week of 1900. Canadian failures for the week number 22, against 18 last week and 20 corresponding week a year ago. Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week ending June 13 aggregated 3.370.902 bushels, against 5,23J3S last week and 2,329.242 this week last year; for the last fifty weeks of the fiscal year, 104,321.SG0 bushels, against 1 30,950.355 in 1905-0. Corn exports for the week are 783,455 bushels, against 1,145.005 last week and 320,40 a year ajd; for the fiscal year to (hue, 09.531,481 bushels, against 10T.S27,320 in 1905-G. Bradstreet's Commercial Iteport. CDChicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $G.OO; hogs, prime heavy, ?4.tK) to $0.03; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to ?C..X; wheat. No. 2, 9Uc to U2c; corn. No. 2, 51c to 52c; oats, standard, 41c to 45c; rye, No. 2. K0c to 88c: hay, timothy, $14.00 to $2.'i.0C; prairie, ?9.tM) to $ 1(1.00 ; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 2:)c; esrgs, fresh. 12e to 14c; potatoes, new, per bushel, 952 to $1.05. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $0.5; hogs, choice heavy, y?4.(K) to $0.27 ; sheep, common to prime, 3.00 to $.".50; wheat. No. 2. l2c to !).c; corn, No. 2 white, 5."Ic to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 45c to 40e. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to .$0.30; hogs, $4.00 to $0.05; sheep, $3.00 to $5.70; wheat. No. 2, 01c to 92c; corn. No. 2. 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2, 4.ic to 41c; rye, No. 2, 81c to 83c. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $5.85; hogs, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep. $3.0v to $5.25; wheat. No. 2, 97c to 98c; corn. No. 2 mixei, 54c to 55c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 40e to 47c; rye. No. 2, 8lc to 81c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.30: sheep. $2.50 to $.VTa : wheat. No. 2, 03c to 04c; corn. No. 3 3'ellow, !5c to 57c; o.its. No. 3 white, 4Sc to 49c ; rye, No. 2, 80c to 87c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 97c to O'Jc: Wn, No. 3. ole to T2c; oats, standard, 42c to i:te: rye. No. 1, S0c to 87c; marley, standard, 70c to 77c; pork, mess, $15.72. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers $4.00 to $0.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.13; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $G.OO; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $8.1)0. ' t New York Cattle, $4.00 1 to $0.35; hogs, $1.00 to $0.50; Fheep, $3.00 to $5.23; wheat. No. 2 red, 04c to 93c; corn, No. 2, GOc to 01c; oats, natural white, 4Sc to 30c; butter, creamery, 22c to 21c; eggs, western, 13c to 10c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, O0c to 91c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 50c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 47c ; rye, No. 2, 78c to SOe; clover seed, priinei .$9.00. News of Minor Note The Roman Catholic church of the Sacred Heart at Ottawa. Ont., was defctroyed by lire. Loss $200,000, insurance $S0,000. IL F. Coin, 22 years old, was hot and killed at Leesville, La., for insulting young women. His slayer was freed oa the plea of justifiable homicide. At Leavenworth. Kan., the federal court denied the motion for postponement of! the hearing of the application for the discharge of the receiver of the Uncle Sam Oil Company. It is believed that one of the men guilty of the Northern Pacific holdup was killed in a pitched battle with a sheriff's posse at the "O. W." ranch, sixty miles north of Sheridan, Wyo. Fire at Cananea. Mexico, destroyed the assay office, the old machine shops and part of the supply department of the (Jreene Cananea Copper Mining Company. Loss $150,000. At the hearing of the contempt case against Sheriff Shipp at Chattanooga, Tenn., none of the witnesses was able to identify any of the men who lynched Ed Johnson in defiance of the United States Supreme Court. ' Secretary Wilson denied he had been guilty of giving out advance information on crop reports or of suppressing charges of fraud, when lestifying at Washington in the trial of former Associate Statistician Holmes of the Department of Agriculture, accused of having revealed prematurely goernment cotton crop reports. Judge Hazel of the federal court at Rochester denied a motion to quash the Indictment in the case of the government against the New York Central and other railroads charged with making a special rate to the Vacuum Oil Company and Standard Oil Company on a consignment of crude oil sent from Rochester to the East.

SCHMITZ IS GUILTY.

MAYOR CF FRISCO MUST GO TO PRISON. In Convtctrtl of Extortion nnd Rraff Ilrlgn Is nt End Pall cf Chief and Iloa Ilaef Brines ' Boodlen to rief. Eugene E. Schmitz, Mayor of the ctty of San Francisco, has been convicted of the crime of extortion. District Attor ney Ingiloil declares that "the predatory princes of finance will now Ik? prosecuted until every guilty man has loen brought to Justice. San Francisco in her fight for regeneration may now wiy with Monte Cristo Iu his fight for revenge: Two!" Abe Ruef, ter of the eitv. lioss MAYOR SCHMITZ- , . . of two ixditical parties, and with an ambition to be a United States Senator, has pleaded guilty. Eugene E. Schmitz, whoso sudden rise from poverty to riches has been one. of the great political scandals of modem times, has been convicted of extorting some of his wealth from the French restaurant kecers of his home city. And now the district attorney declares the work of convicting the milllionaire criminals who have made the crimes of Schmitz and Ruef possible will be far easier ltecause of the conviction of the first two malefactors. The unanimity of the jury in the ease of Schmitz tells the story of the sentiment in the community concerning graft, bribe takers and bribe givers. There was no trouble or no struggle to secure a verdict once the cas had been given into the jury's hands. On a preliminary ballot, one juror voted for an acquittal merely to provoke discussion over one ioint In the judge's charge that he did not understand and immediately uKn a formal ballot beins taken the entire twelve jurors voted "guilty as charged." Mayor Schmitt' Cr! rar. The crime; for which Mayor Schmitz was convicted was the extortion of $1,175 from Delmonlco's French restaurant in January, 1004. Just before that time a "morality" crusade was begun against the French restaurants, and licenses were withdrawn for alleged violation of the laws. Then came a general investigation of these resorts, which resulted In the determination of the suiKTvisors nnd Mayor to force them to close by cancelling their liquor licenses. This meant ruin for most of the proprietors, as tbey 'could not operate without the privilege of selling drinks. After several mouths of agitation and investigation, it was decided by the "reformers" that all those places that complied with certain, rules should Ik? allowed to reoien. Then came the exIected applications for licenses from the "reformed" places. These applications were placed on file and In due course were taken up by the police commissioners, but for some reason none of the licenses was granted. Attorneys ap'iealed in vain to the commissioners and supervisors.' but the applications remained on the file. Finally the restaurant men made common cause of their cases and raised a fund to hasten the grantln? of the licenses. ApiMal was made to Ruef, who- for the consideration of a fee of about $10,001' undertook to secure the licenses. There was more delay, hut after a time the required icriuits to sell drink? In private rooms were granted and tlie reform crusade was at an end. It was shown on the trial of Schmitz thai Kuef was paid most If not all the promised foe of the restaurant men and thai he divided this money, with Schmitz. Schmitz received In all $4.0o0 from this graft fund, according to the cateiueul of Ruef. Anchoring a Skycraper. A ' new departure in architecture has been made in connection with the foundation work for the 45-story Singer building at New York, which Is expected to be the highest structure in the world. According to an article by C. M. Ripley in the Engineering World, the protection of this lofty tower from instability on its narrow base on account ol wind pressure has been effected by imbedding several lengths of great iron bars in the mass of concrete forming tht caissons fifty feet below the level of th basement floor. These bars are held together by pins C inches in diameter, which in turn are joined tothe upright steel columns in such a way that the uppull from wind strain might be counteracted. This has never before been done. The law requires that stability of structures be figured upon a wind pressure ol .10 pounds per square foot, and on this basis the force exerted against one sid of the building would be equal to 330 tons pressure. Short Personale. Sig. Enrico Caruso, the Italian tenor, has given $4.000 to the New York society which aids Italian immigrants. Gardner F. Williams, the American mining engineer who directs the diamond output of the world, was born in Michigan. "Long Ivan" of the First regiment oi Russian guards, is the tallest poldier in the world, being seven feet and eleven inches tall. He is only 21 and is of fine proportions. He makes a good target. W. Sidney Pittman, a colored man, drew the plans for the building at the Jamestown exposition to contain the negro exhibit. , Charles M. Jacobs, consulting engineer of the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railway Company, has been retained for the construction of a tunnel under the river Seine from Rouen to Havre. The sudden inheritance of $5,000.000 did not disturb Charles L. Van Wert, a watchmaker of Colorado Springs, for he put'away the paiers when he received them and calmly finished a small job o; repairing. ( William II. Tripp of Janesville, Wis., i believed to be the only man in America who can boast of having a mahogany sideboard in front of his residence. Melody Choir, r.bose real name was Melchoir, died in Seattle recently, a bachelor, and' legt $150.000, all of which, according to a will of 145 pages, is to be used for the purpose 'of the erection of a mausoleum. Dr. Paul Herr, who has recently sent to this country to investigate systems of reforming minors, has compressed the results of seven months' study in a book entitled, "The Modern American Reformatory System."

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Increased difficulty is being experienced in obtaining horses and mules for the army. Hids which have been opened rim lhat pritvs generally have inf r Ail Sod- For th ramlrv T" . y uirco are to be bought at an average price of $175 each. The artillery con is to buy nearly 350, for which $211 Js the average price. Army mules heavy enough to do traft work brins Jlh each, and nearly 300 of these have been contracted for. Lead mule?, somewhat lighter hi weight, bring $1CS, and pack mules, still lighter, $131. The quartermaster's department says that army v. mules are lougbt practically by the pound. An experiment is being made at Fort lliley, Kan., In buying yearly a small number of pedigreed colts and putting them through n course of training for the cavalry service. This experiment has proved beneficial, and thirty-six of these blooded horses have just leen purchased. The United States Supreme Court In a recent decision held that the action of Congress last summer In ratifying the collection of duties on merchandise going Into the Philippine Islands letween the date when the treaty of peace was signed and the enactmeut by Congress of the Philippines tariff was valid, notwithstanding several years naa passed. The court had previously held that the collection of these duties by authority of the tariff act promulgated by President McKinley under the so-called war iower was Illegal. It now affirms the power of Congress to ratify and legalize these collections, even though they were unauthorized at the time. Justices Brewer and Peckham dissented. It is said that this decision wil? affect claims of over $4,000,000 now pending, besides prospective claims to the amount of several millions more. Fresh eggs, $2 a dozen: milk, 50 cents a quart; bacon, 50 cents a pound; butter, 50 cents a pound; flour, $0 per 100 pounds.. These are the prices that Consul C. C Cole, or Dawson, reports to the government must be paid In the Yukon torrltrn-r- f 1 el- o T"Vmf Is rtn a f .....-'.j v . .mit. cm u. A it v a sc " v utide sold for less than 25 cents, nomatter how trivial," says the consul, "as there is no money In circulation of a less denomination thau that amount." Mr. Cole predicts that prices will remain h,'gh until a trunk line railroad from the open sea Into the heart of the great Yukon valley Is constructed. He suggests that such a railroad. If constructed, be under the control of the government, to keep down excessive freight and passenger rates. One of the most important Invest!gallons which the Census Bureau has ever undertaken will be an examination of criminal statistics, of the cost and methods of administering criminal justice. The practical value of such information Is evident from the fact that according to conservative estimate the apprehension, trial and support of criminals cost this nation half a billion Hollars a year. As yet we have no scicntilie Information about how this L".oney is j-iiit - i In response to the inquiry of Secretary Root, t'ov. Gl'lette of California has submitted a report concerning the recent attack upon Japanese restaurants In San Francisco. This and other official rcjwrts confirm the Imprer sion that the riots were the outcome of labor troubles, nnd had little to do with! the racial feeling, except In some details. ThLs subject is still causing consldcrable agitation on the part of the progressive party In Japan. The army signal corps conducted a trial trip from Washington with Its first big war balloon made by Leo Stevens. Capt. Charles Chandler and J. C. McCoy, accompanied Stevens on tho trial flight. The Journey was ended at Linlestown, Fa., a distance of 141 miles, la four hours and thirty-seven minutes. President lloosove't has proclaimed the conclusion of a ccmmerclal arrangement between the United States and Germany, mentioning the list f articles upon which duties are reduced In return for concessions made by the German government. The list includes forty articles, most of which entered Into the trade of the past year. t The President has ordered the Department of Justice to prepare suits against the so-called anthracite coal railroads, and these will be fileO In the federal court at Philadelphia. The cases grow out of the Investigation conducted by the Interstate commerce com- i mission in obedience to an act of Congress. SVf 910,000 on f 1 a Dar. A case has recently been reported from Ware, Mass., in which Octave Girard, w!jo is now 72 jcars of age, has accumulated $10,000 in twenty-seven years on wages not eiceeding $1 a day. He has no trede and not sufficient education to be able? to read or write. He and his wife have raised thirteen children, of whom ten are now living. He says thy have always been well clothed and had plenty to eat. He genj-usly accords a large share of his prosperity to bis wife, who, he says, provided . their clothing by purchaiag raw wool, washing, carding, spinning and weaving it into substantial tloth. He and his. wife both came from Canada, and he wiys that his incentive to save money came from the way the old folks were treated in that country, where they often prove a burden to their children. The rules he lays down for accumulating money are: Steady work at low wages rather than intermittent work at large wages; do not increase your ex penses as your wages increase; marry young, and don't marry a doll-faced woman ; let liquor alone; own your own home. Terence V. Powderly, formerly head of the Knighta of Labir,- who later was commissioner of Immigration under President McKinley, has now re-entered the service, being appointed thief of the bureau of Information In the immigration bureau. Captain George W. Ralrd, U. S. At lately retired, aside from his excellent war record, is a scientist, writer and Inventor tf some pretensions. - In Greenland potatoes never grow to be larger than marbles.