Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 40, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 July 1907 — Page 2

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TL. Q.T N. M, "IN F. Q.F. XI. S.2d. yrjlQth. y lSthA24tli PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlichtenment of the Many Three Story nioek Collapsed. Two brick buildings three stories high, located nearthe northwest corner of Meridianand Maryland streets. In Indianapolls, Ind., collapsed from some unknown cause early Sunday morning, causing a loss of $220,000. A subsequent fire In the debris entailed a considerable portion of the loss. Had the collapse occurred during business hours a large loss of life would certainly have occurred. As the buildings were among the oldest in the city it is thought this was the main reason for the collapse.' The principal losers are: Daniel Stewart Drug and Glass Company, $100,000; Martha Stewart, on building, $30,000; the Brunswick Balk Collender Billiard Company, $50,000, and Henry C. Balse State building, $20,000. W illy, 14, and Ella, 14, Wed. Willy Richards, 14, and Ella Brock, 4 - i ,1 a. rr i 1 1 m tri luarrieu ai iv.uui.vuit:, ituu., with the consent of their parents. It breaks all records for young couples in the South. The groom is in Knickerbockers, and the bride's dresses do not come below her knees. Both are email for their ages. The two met at school, where they were sweethearts, and because of their continued love their parents decided it wa3 best that they should marry. Jane Fire Losses. The losses by fire in the United States and Canada during June, as compiled from the records of the Journal of commerce and commercial bulletin, aggregate $14,763,000. This brings the total fire waste for the first half of 1907 up to $117,477,500 as compared with $377,663,500 for a like portion of the year 1906, but these figures Include $280,000,000 chargeable to the San Francisco conflagration. Cable Break at Niagara. The cable of the incline railroad in Prospect House, Niagara Falls, N. Y., broke, permitting both cars to plunge to the foot of the incline. Several of the passengers were Injured. Mrs. A. E. Burke, of Covington, Ky., was hurt about the eye and knee, Mr. Burke suffered a broken ankle and received several cuts and hl3 son was bruised. KIndne Im Reworded. Miss Ethel Bish, of Findlay, Ohio, received $20,000 -from Mrs. Mary M. Kendall, of Oswe;;o, N. Y., whom she befriended three year3 ago in Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Kendall was injured on the street and Miss Bish saw that she was given proper attention. Mrs. Kendall promised a reward at the time. Warden Strickens Blame Hanging. Warden Reid, of the Indiana Prison, North, Is reported seriously ill of Bright's disease in New York. His condition is said by physicians, who have studied his case, to be due to mental strain as a consequence of the thirteen hangings at which he has officiated. Telegrapher' Strike Off for Week. The telegraph operators employed by both commercial telegraph companies in Chlcag-o will not go on strike for a week at least. At. tho meeting called for the purpose of voting on the Btrike proposition, it was decided to postpone action for one week. Millionaire Plowman Critically III. James Oliver, the millionaire plowman of South Bend, Ind., who was critically ill a few months ago and who was thought to be dying, is again bedfast and is in a serious condition. He is suffering with heart trouble. 95,000 Blase at Wabash. Renn Bros.' shoe store in Wabash, Ind., was damaged by fire of unknown origin. The building, owned by Jacob Hyman, was damaged $1,000, while the loss on the shoe stock is $4,000, folly covered by insurance. Standard Oil riant Burned. The plant of the Standard tOil Company in Jackson, Miss., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $40,000, covered by Insurance. Cnild Fatally Scalded at Dinner. Rudolph, 2 years old, son of John Rlbar, of Hamilton, Ohio, while at dinner upset a bow I filled with soup, and was so badly scalded that death followed in two hours. Killed Father by Accident. James Ferguson, 52 years old, was accidentally killed at his home in Alex andria, Ind., by the discha" of a shot gun in the hand of his e larente, 10 years old. 510 Die in a Theater Tire. Advices from Hongkong say that 500 Chinese in a theater there and te clor were burned to death when the native theater was destroyed by fire. The flames spread rapidly, and the building collapsed, blocking the entrance with burtlng debris. Five Perish in Harnes. Fire persons perished in a fire which destroyed a laundry over which W. P. Armstrong, his wife and four children lived in Almonte, Canada. Armstrong was the only one of the family who es caped. Kills Her SIster-ln-Law. In a family fight near Bristle Ridge, Ho., Mrs. Walter Herd killed Mrs. James Herd, her sister-in-law, by slashing her 'with a butebch knife. According to the re port cf the affair received the women and their husbands had been drinking and a quarrel ensued. Body Pound in Fire Bains. The body of an unidentified man was found in the ruins of the Martin flats, which were burned in Omaha. The body la burn id so badly as to be unrecogniz able. Hone of the occupants of the fiats

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VAR ON SPARROWS.

Government People to Heir Exterminate let. The government is asking- people all over the country to make war on the English spannv and to put up bird house and bore hole under the eaves of tbe barns to entourage the swallow. This measure Is made Inoperative in order that the cotton industry of the United States may not Ih destroyed. All insect-eating birds are of Immense value to the farmer and the forester, but it has leen discovered by the government hug experts that there i no bird equal to the swallow. Particularly Is this trui? in the matter, of the Insect which is destroying the cotton plantations of the South. The 1)!1 weevil, despite every effort to stay its march, is spreading at the rate of ntmt fifty milts a year, and sooner or later it is said that it Is certain to infest the entire cotton producing area a fact which no, only seriously concerns the Southern plantC9 f AVU VARIETIES OF SWALLOWS. er, but in its ultimate consequences affects the well being of the whole country. The aid of the North in required, as most of the swallows spend part of the season -in the Northern States and In many cases do their nesting there. The bird is disappearing, however, lecauso the English sparrow harries him and kills his young by the thousands. Various methods of exterminating the English sparrow are recommended by the department. Most of them consist in the use of poisoned grain. Aeroplane, Balloon Fall. The first test of the combination of a dirigible balloon and aeroplane constructed by Santos-Dumont, which was made recently at Paris, resulted in complete destruction of the machine. It consisted of a balloon shaped like a cigar. 23 yards long and 34 In diameter at the center, hitched to two aeroplanes directly underneath, and a frame carrying a 30 horsepower motor, with a screw 400 centimeters in diameter, the whole being SO kilograms heavier than its bulk in air. The machine started all right and skimmed along over the grass a short distance until the rear of the aeroplane suddenly lifted and caused the front end of the balloon to strike the ground so that the whole thing collapsed. Famoai Doctor Opponen Ilraes. Sir Frederick Treves, physician to the King of England, speaking nt the opening of a London hospital, expressed the belief that the time was not far off when bottles on doctors shelves would be reduced to a very small number, and when people would ieave off the extraordinary liabit of taking medicine when they are sick." At that time people would resort to pimple living, suitable diet and plenty of sun and fresh air. lie said the time would come when it would be as anomalous for people to die of scarlet fever, typhoid, cholera and diphtheria as it would be for a man to die of a wolf's bite in England. lie referred to the discoveries in bacteriological science as being capable of reducing mortality from infectious diseases to the zero point. Union barbers of Cleveland, Ohio, are watching all the shops to see that they close on Sunday, according to law. During the last twelve months there was an increase of 50,718 members added to ie rolls of trade unions in Germany. The labor movement has taken hold in Egyt. The printers employed on a Cairo paper, Les Pyramides, are out for better conditions. Chicago ele'ator men have submitted to a board of arbitration a proposition made to building managers for an increase of $10 a month. Miss Anastasia O'Meara of Cambridge, Mass., has the honor of being the first woman to hold an office in the strong Retail Clerks' Association of that city. She was also the first woman member of the association. T. V. Fowderly, known to all r.Jder union men as the head of the Kni',h of Labor when that organization was ai the height of its power, has been apjointed chief of the Bureau of Information under the Bureau of Immigration. The National Farmers' Edumtion and Co-operation Union has organized its first branch in Oregon, in the Hudson Bay country, with a membership of fourteen. It is expected to organize unions in various other parts of the State in the near future. Conditions in the Canadian cigarmaking industry have been unsettled for some time, owing to differences between the employers and the union. The movement for compelling nonunionist miners to join the union is meeting with success in South Yorkshire, England, and adjoining coal fields. The latest and most up-to-date form of government sick insurance is being considered by Holland, and is now before the second chamber of the States General. ' The proposed insurance is obligatory and extends to all laborers employed regularly. Boston, Mass.. coopers, who have not asked for a raise of pay for fourteen years, wish an increase from the present minimum of $3.50 a day to one of $1 a day. Members of the waitresses union of Phoenix, Ariz., who have been working eleven to twelve hours a day, threaten to strike if their day is not reduced to ten hours. Grand Master P. H. Morrisey, recently re-elected by the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen to be the head of the organization for the next two years, has already served in that position twelve years. A considerable proportion of the trade unions of Great Britain, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Gernany provide benefits for unemployed members, and many other organizations, such as friendly societies and cooperative associations, similar protection. A man who was doing picket duty for the Machinists' Union at Seattle, Wash., has been adjudged guilty of contempt of court because he carried a banner on the street car near the shops where the strike eaiste?. The court had issued an injunction I e? training members of the union from intimidating would-be strike-breakers.

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' ll'll LEMON Melon-cutting time in Wall street, New York, is a pleasing function at any time, but this season the divide is the largest in history. The July dividend and interest payments of cororations reach the stuieiulous total of $1S0.SS1,S40. July and January are the months when the great bulk of corporation profits are up for division. The prosperity that reached such great headway last year and Is still under way is responsible for the magnificent proixjrtions of the July melon this YALE Yale Varsity eight Auchlncloss, Ide, No. 7; Boulton, stroke, and Bark yaJ2

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THE COST OF CRIME. In One Vear It Amounts to SI ore than 91,OO0,OOO,000. The detailed cost of crinw in the United States presents some astounding figures. In 1907 the cost of crime in Greater New York was $.",502,133.24. The State, county acd city authorities omvide of Greater New York spent for it $12.005.4 72.75. Iu 43 States (New York excluded) the expenditure was $G97,0S0,000. Criminal losses by fire totaled $100,000,000. liy customs frauds the national government lost $00,000,000. During this one year the loss in wages of 100,000 State prisoners was $2S,OSO,000, while the loss in wages of 150,000 prisoners In city and country jails was $33,000,000. The grand total, therefore, of the cost of crime in the United States reaches the stupendous fisuies. of $1,070,327,005.00. The cost of religious work in the United States is enormous. The cost of foreign missions, comprising all denominations, is $7,000,000; home missions expend thejsame sura. We spend for education, $200,000,000; for church expenses and ministers salaries, $150,OOO.OOO. Hospitals and dispensaries for the sick poor cost us $100,000,000; for Sanatoriums of all kinds we spend $00,000,000. City missions and rescue work of all kinds demand and receive $3,000,000; humanitarian work of every kiud, $12,000,000. Our Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations cost $5,000,000; while all . other , moral and social work in the United States requires an expenditure of $5,000,000. The total expenditure for humanitarian and religious work is, then, $540,000,000. As against this, the total cost of crime In the United States for the year reached the incredible total of $1,070,327,005.00. That is to say we spead more than $500.0fX),OC0 a .year more on crime than we do on all spiritual, ecclesiastical, physical, humanitarian, educational and healing agencies put together. Mr. Save L.trat lft. Mrs. Russell Sage's latest benefaction is an endowment fund of $300,000 for a pathological institute to be run in connection with the New York city hospital and city home on Blackwell's Island. The purpose of the institute is to inquire into the problems of disease, more especially the diseases of advanced life, and the improvement of the city's poorest sick and ajred in two of its largest institutions. The institute will be organized by Drs. E. (i. and T. C. Janeway, and will be under their direction, although it is expected to be closely associated with the department of charities. Beachr'a Last Exploit. Lincoln Beachey, the aeronaut, who has tailed in his dirigible balloon over the tops of several American cities, repeated the exploit the other day, when he sailed in his airship from an amusement resort on Staten Island across the harbor and over the city, alighting at Battery park. Contact with the crowd of spectators injured one of his propellers, and to this he laid the disastrous ending of his voyage, for the ship became helpless when he was midway over the city and drifted in the wind orer East river, where It settled upon the steel mast of a buoy destroying ta gaa baa .... ,

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vear. tue payments are sis.Wi.uii greater than those of last July. Some corporations that never before paid dividends come up smiling with profits for their stockholders. Others that were obliged to suspend dividends now cheerfully renew, and many companies announce an increase over their regular dividend Tates. The dividends to be paid are: Railroad, $:M).7:A0S0: industrial, $41,017,273; traction, $7,OStf,G7."5 ; bank and trust companies, $7,700,000; total, $02,ö."3.f:i7. The nmount last July was $SO,7r3,331. The Interest payments will be as follows: Railroad, $71,ft."0,000; industrial, $ll,4."K),00O; tractions, $2,100,000: government, $3,r28.SaS; total. $S$,32S.S0, as compared with $S3.030.S40 In July last year. Among the railroads the most notable Increases In dividends have lieen made by the Vanderbilt Hues. The largest amounts to be disbursed by railroads are Chicago & Northwestern, semi-annual, $3,4S0,CCl : Lake Shore & Michigan Southern,

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vT- '. ST bow; Mayer, No. 2; Bice, No. 3; Hop low, .coxswain. 17 X Parole Syntem for Criminal. At the recent National Congress of. Charities and Corrections at Minneapolis a most interesting paper was read by Harris R. Cooley, director of public service, division of charities and corrections, of Cleveland, Ohio. He described the working of the parole system, which has been greatly extended under the administration of Mayor Tom Johnson. During the six years of Maj-or Johnson's term of office over 4,000 persons have been pardoned or paroled. It is the theory in Cleveland that for a man condemned to prison for the first time there is a psychological moment in which help can be wisely given. To act too soon would lelittle the wrongdoing; to wait too long would embitter and harden the Individual into a criminal. Only 14 per cent of the paroled men have been returned, to the house of correction. According J to the statistics, this is less than the returns of those who were released after working out their entire time in prison under the old regime. The plan has been found to work exceptionally good in the case of men who neglected or deserted their families. Mr. Cooley strongly opposed the imposition of a fine as an alternative to a term of imprisonment. He claims that a man who tries to steal a franchise or a canal or a million dollars is in need of correctional treatment just as much as the man who tries to steal a ham or an overcoat. He stated that there was a growing sentiment in favor of moving penal institutions to the country, where more of the prisoners could work in the fields under the open sky. This has been tried in connection with the Cleveland house of correction and there has been little trouble with escapes. Interesting Newa Items Roy Nonkin of Peabody, Kan., was drowned in Big Sugar creek. He had gone there with a party of fishermen. The 10-year-old son of William Lamer, living near Dill, O. T., was instantly killed in trying to stop a runaway team. While handling a 5-year-old stallion at Ids farm near Laredo, Mo., Levi Bench, a prominent stock breeder, was knocked down and badly trampled and bitten by the vicious animal. Sixteen cars of meat for Fort Worth, Texas, were wrecked on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad near IVola, Kan. The wreck is supposed to have been caused by a gang of tramps. F. I). Coburn, secretary of the Kansas State board of agriculture, has accepted an invitation to address the NewYork State Agricultural Society next December. They wsnt him to talk on alfalfa. A State meeting for tho organization of a Kansas branch of the American Federation of Labor has been called for Topeka, Aug. 12, 13 and 14, by Heury Walker, a general organizer. Five persons were hurt and a considerable amount of property damaged in a cloudburst that struck Kingston, Texas. Walls, awnings and poles were blown down and the streets flooded. A loaded wagon ran over the 5-year-old son of Grant James at Goltry, O. T., crushing his hctd and killing him instantly. The boy leaned over the dashboard to whip the horses and lost his balance.

semi-annual, $2.007,000, and New York Central, quarterly, $2,080,230. The largest amounts to be distributed by industrial companies are United States Steel, common stock, quarterly, $2,541,512 ; Anaconda; quarterly, $2,100,000; American Telephone & Telegraph, quarterly, $2.1X51,028; General Electric, quarterly, $1,301,314; and Western Union, quarterly, $1,21G,757. Some of the banks and trust companies have done very well. The Fifth avenue bank pays a siedal dividend of iZO per cent In addition to the regular quarterly rate of 23 per cent. The Colonial bank pays a semi-annual dividend cf 10 per cent. The New York Trust company increases Its dividend rate from 20 to 32 per cent, New York Life Insurance & Trust from 40 to 45 per cent. Bankers' Trust from 10 to 18, Knickerbocker Ice from 40 to 50, Trust Company of America froni 32 to 40, Metropolitan from 20 to 34, and United States Mortgage & Trust company from 22 to 24 ier cent

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pin, No. 4; ruft, No. 5; Howe, No. 6; DEARTH OF FARM LABORERS. Fully 60,000 of Tbein Are Needed la ltrw York State. Despite the establishment of agricultural colleges and the agitation for a "return to thi land," there are 15,000 fewer fares in the State of New York at the present time than there were in 1S00, And it will possibly be equally surprising to the average city man to learn that in spite of this decrease in the nunber of farms, the shortage of farm laborers .has grown to such dimensions that the State is advertising in 11 foreign newspapers for agricultural la borers. These facts have been brought out by Representative Bennett, who is the chairman of a committee appointed by Congress to go abroad to study the immigra tion question from the viewpoint of attracting more immigrants from the agricultural countries of Europe. In addition to this, the Immigration Commission is to make another investigation, the scope of which will include all parts of the country, with a view to getting at tho real facts as to the shortage of farm laborers throughout the United States,' and by next winter's session of Congress its members hope to be in possession of statistics that will materially help to improve the conditions of employing agriculturists all oyer the United States. Bolton Hall, who is a missionary In the cause of people taking up gmall farms near the large cities and of working them on scientific principles, says the decrease in the number of farms in tNew York State is'owing to two causes. One is the great rise in land values near the large citis, and the other Is the creation cf vast estates by rich men through the absorption of many pmall farmers holdings. Within the last year alone, he estimates, 1,000 farms were sold va Long Island for conversion into building lots. In the counties just north of New York City many thousands of acres of farm land have gene to make up great estates. At the piesent time 50,000 farm laborers could find employment in New York State. Holmes Defends Himself. The motion to acquit having been overruled iu the trial of Edwin S. Holmes, former assistant statistician of the 'Agricultural Department, for sale of crop reports. Holmes took the stand in his own defense. He directly contradicted the testimony of Broker Van Kiper as to the giving of signals to confederates by the height of his office curtain. He said he had no relations with Theodore Price except to try to interest him in a private crop report venture. Vegetables Prevent Cancer. Dr. Robert Bell, a prominent physician of London, England, holds that cancer is not caused by any micro-organism, but is the result of faulty diet and consequent improper sanitation of the body. In a recent lecture he announced that bad eating and drinking was one of the chief factors in the production of cancer. One of the special causes was the eating of too much red meat, but in general the persons who ate freely of vegetables and milk wag better able to resist the approach of cancer. In his whole life he had met only one cancer patient who waJ a vegetarian.

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CARNAGE OP THE 4TH

MANY KILLED AND HURT CELE. CRATING THE "GLORIOUS." MiKuitfed Patriotism Makes a. Long Death Roll Deadly Lock Jaw Is eit und Many of the Injured Arc Sure o Succumb. Lists of killed and wounded published the day after the Fourth tell only part of the story of- slaughter. The dreadful after effects of hurts slight iu themselves, but harboring the tetanus prerm and resulting in lockjaw and death, are Ftill !o add horrors to the grisly tale. Stray, bullets did the usual amount of killing. Fools with cannon crackers and oilier deadly weapons used them where they would do the most damage. The. premature explosion was much In evidence. So the hospitals were crowded and the procession to the cemeteries began. From returns compiled on the Mh the roster of dead throughout the country held 78 victims of misguided patriotism. The lists of the injured were swelled largely when final Inventories of the wounded were taken, and the totals received show that more than 2,000 persons spent the Cth In sorrow and tribulation. The totals are far from complete, for nearly every remote hamlet in the country has its martyrs, and months will elapse before the final Ftatistics are gathered. The experience of former years has demonstrated that the full death toll of the "gldrious" is never completed until several weeks have passed. Many Killed and Hurt. Pittsburg heads the list of cities for loss of life, fifteen deaths being reported. In Philadelphia there was only one death, but the wounded numbered hundreds. In the hospitals of the birthplace of Independence (J4S persons were treated for injuries during the day. Late reports from Los Angeles show that four deaths occurred in that city as the direct result of the noisy celebration. In Chicago the death roll reacheÄ seven. Several victims were claimed in post-Fourth celebrations. With fireworks marked down. Young America, and In many cases Old America s well, simply couldn't resist the temptation to buy, aud the oth of July pyrotechnics added a large number to the already larpe list of Injured, dead and dying. At Peoria. Therrold Rogers, 18 years old, tried to bore out the muzzle of a cannon which happened to be loaded. When the steel bit struck the powder the young man was hurled thirty feet ana seriously Injured. In Beloit, Wis., an Italian, who had been in the country only fifteen days, was slnit in the head by 0 boy who supIosed he had only a toy pistol. The man is expected to die. Reports from Cincinnati were to the effect that the entire business section of the town of Moscow, Ohio, was wined out on the Fourth by a blaze that started from the explosion of a torpedo near a 200-gallon tank of gasoline, the tap of which was running. Early In the morning a fire started at Decatur City, Iowa, that burned eleven busluess houses and other buildings. The loss is $27.000 and the fire is attributed to smoldering cracker stubs. Many I-'lres Are Canted. In many cities there were other Maze' as the outcome of the fireworks. In Pittsburg the (VNVil Building, at 800 Fifth avenue, burned and several persona were rescued only by sixvtaoular heroism 011 the part of the firefighters. . f In a race riot In New York during the final honrs of the celebration Policeman Edw'ard Conrad was probably fatally Injured. The trouble starte! when the officer seized a negro who was discharging a pistol on the street At once hundreds of negro celebrants rushed up, and, seizing the policeman, slashed him with razors. A riot call brought succor, and the fight that ensued lasted half nn hour. Lower Salem, Ohio, was the scene of a pitched battle lctween two whole villages duriug a celebration of the Fourth. A picnic had been arranged nt Salem, and the whole masculine population of Elba turned out. Unfriendly rivalry between tho two towns started a row, the town marshal was unahlc to preserve the peace and the melee ceased only when the participants sank from exhaustion. Hundreds were hurt. Another "Joker" appeared at Gladden. Pa. He gave a pound of black powder to seven small children for a plaything. They are in the hospital. Dangerous fireworks are made to 1k exploded. If their manufacture were prohibited under ienalty, if their sale were made a serioas offense, if harmless substitutes for. deadly toys were generally used by sensible persons, the Fourth of July soon would take on an air of sanity and the pleasures of the day would be multiplied. Public opinion must deal firmly with this matter. The slaughterous holiday must be reformed. The noises of the Fourth drove Mrs. Johanna Evert to Insanity, and after frightening her neighbors she hanged herself from a bedpost iu her home in Jersey City. At Waukegan, 111., Henry Meyers, 11 years old, met death while returning from a Fourth of July picnic. The little boy stood on the tracks of the St. Paul Railroad within 500 feet of his home watching an exhibition of fireworks, when an express train bore down uion him, killing him instantly. Judge J. F. Anderson, a lawyer in Manitowoc, Wis., and prominent in the G. A. R., lost an eye. An unknown person threw a cannon cracker into a crowd, and it struck the Judge in the face. Capt. Ott ley. -the naval British delegate, who is the Inventor of the submarine mines now generally in use, appealed to The Hague conference to abolish the anchored mine, to prohibit the use of those kinds liable to get adrift and to restrict the use of all mines to territorial waters adjoining naval basis, with notice when such mines are laid. The new treaty between France and Japan was read in the French chamber by Foreign Minister Pkhon. The chief purjose of the treaty, from the standpoint of France, is to insure her possessions in Indo-China, and in return for this diplomats read between the lines the promised friendship and tacit understanding that Japan will have access to the French money market in the negotiation of future loans. It is understood that Japan expects to borrow something like $1,000,000,000 within the next few years in order to convert her high-rate loans into easier securities and furnish the capital for large industrial developments.

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fVr-Mrv I A nri Al A I UAL, CHICAGO. General conditions icdicati that commerce is sustained at an unprecedented volume and without impairment of confidence in the outlook. Payments through the banks ere now risen to a daily average o almost .jO.OCKMKX. surpassing all previous records, but there is no symptom of unusual financial pressure, credits being satisfactory and statistics as to defaults during the last six months showing decreased numbers and liabilities. Mid-year inventories and repairs to machinery caused but slight cessation in operations. Production is maintained close to the limit of capacity in the leading manufactures, while the weather favors distribution and has appreciably stimulated widespread demand for seasonable merchandise, stocks of summer goods undergoing rapid reduction. Raw material markets remain sharply drawn upon for fresh supplies, and prices stand at a higher level than a year ago, although hides, leather and irick exhibit recent declines in cost. Building work is unusually extended and calls for heavy absorption of lumber, quarry and planing mill outputs. Bank clearings, $24S,G."2,0i-". exceed those of corresjKjnding week in ltMXJ by 21.0 per cent. Failures reported in the Chicago district for the six months ending June SO number ".14, against (JS8 for similar period in 10O0, and those with liabilities over $.",000 number. 131, against 30i. Dun's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Continued favorable weather conditions have made for further crop development, expansion in retail trade in light summer goods, and notable stimulation of hitherto lagging reorder business. One of the most favorable developments of the week has been the improvement noted in collections at many markets. The future outlook as to prices of goods is now having the attention of manufacturers and wholesalers. Business failures in the United States for the week ending July 4 number 133, against 130 last week. 134 in the like week of 1000. 127 in 1003, 172 in 1004 and 134 in 1003. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to. prime, $.1.00 to $7.30; ho?s, prime heavy $1.00 to $0.OO ; sheep, fair to choice. ' $3.00 to ?0.O0; wheat. No. 2, 03c to 07c; corn. No. 2, 53c to 54c: oats, standard, 41c to 42c; rye. No. 2, 83c to '83c; 'hay. timothy, $14.00 to $21.00; prairie, $.U0 to $13.00; butter, choice creanierj Ilk? to 24c ; eggs, fresh. 12c to 14c ; potatoes, newr per bushel, $1.15 to $1.23. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.tM ; hogs, choice heavy, $4.0) to $0.05; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.23; wheat. No. 2, OOc to 02c; corn. No. 2 white, 32c to 54c; oats, No. 2 whit-, 45c to 4Gc. J St. Louis Cattle. $4.30 to $0.00; hogs, $1.00 to $0.03; sheep, $3.00 to $3.T5; wheat, No. 2, 04c to tXV; corn. No. 2, 3."k- to 34c; oats. No. 2, 42c to 44c; rye, No. 2, 81c to 83c. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 U $fJ.O0; bog-?, $4.00 to $0.30; sheep, $3.00 to $4.03; wheat. No. 2, 03c to OOe; corn. No. 2 mixed. 33c to. 30c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 47c; rye. No. 2, 80c to 8Sc. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.30; hogs. $4.00 to $0.15; sheep. $2.50 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2, 03c to Ü5c; corn. No. 3 yelloy, .4c to 5ic : oats. No. '.i white, 4Ic to 47c; rye, No. 2, 80c to 87c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.02 to 1.03; corn, No. 3, 31c to 32c; oats, standard, 42c to 43c; rye, No. 1, SGc to S7c ; barley, standard, 73c to 70c ; Iork, mess, $13.02. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $1.X) to $0.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.0) to $0.40; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.00; lambs, fair . to choice, $3.00 to $7.23. New York Cattle. $f.00 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, 1 $3.( to $3.00; wheat, No. 2 red, OOc to $1.00; corn, No. 2, COc to 02c; aits, natural white, 30c to 51c; butter, creamery, 22c to 23c ; eggs, western, 13c to 10c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 90c to OSc; corn. No. 2 mixed, 54c to 53c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; rye, No. 2, 79c to 81c ; clover seed, prime, $D-X). nones of Prehistoric Bear. Director W. J. Holland of the Carnegie museum at Pittsburg, after a thorough examination of prehistoric animals found-in a cave near Holidaysburg, Pa., announces that the bones were those of an Immense benx, unlike any now in existence, and which muft have lived 20,000 years ago. The smaller bones found in the cave, and which were supposed to be the offspring of the bear. Dr. Holland says are those of the mammoth's young, which the great bear must have captured in a raid upon the mammoth herds. Heretofore it has been assumed that no animal wis powerful enough to prey upon the mammoth. Besides these bones, there were in the cave the bones of numerous gigantic squirrels and other animals which are now extinct. Another similar cave has been found near Greensburg, Pa., and it is to be dynamited. Newa of Minor Note The Kansas penitentiary twine plant Is to be slat down temporarily because of the shortage of the wheat crop. A surplus of twine is in store there. Two golfers and their caddies were stunned by lightning at East Liverpool, Ohio, while holding umbrellas over themselves on the golf links there. ' Vicount Hayashi, Japanese mfuister of foreign affairs, declared the rumor that Ambassador Aoki would be recalled from Washington was totally without foundation. While playing in the street in Atchison, Kan., ltobert Dosser, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dosser, was struck by a street car and instantly killed. Steps arc being taken by the interstate commerce commission, in conjunction with the railroad commissions of various States, to prevent a recurrence of the fuel famine that created so much distress in the Northwest last winter. Stockholders of the Ottawa, Kan., Chautauqua have decided not to hive a Sunday program which requires the charging of an admission fee. Ju Ige C A. Smart was elected president in place of Ilev. C. S. Nusbaum, resigned. Gov. Cummins of Iowa, in an interview at Minneapolis, Indorsed President Koosevelt for renomination. The Governor said he himself was not a candidate. Philip M. Brown has been appointed secretary of the American embassy at Constantinople and Peter A. Jay has been appointed secretary of the embassy at Tokio. Jamvs L. Uradford, one of the most wic.?l known lawyers practicing in land cases In the United States, began a two years' nentence in the parish prison in New Orleans. He was convicfed on the ohar?e of conspiracy to defraud the government in various land cases in the Southwest by the false entry of canes.

Indiana j State News

STANDARD'S MEASURES SHORT. Indlanapnlln Inspector Threaten ArrMt ot II Vendors. City Inspector of Weights and Measures Wulfsen of Indianapolis arrested the driver of one of the Standard Oil Company's wagons after finding a shortage of three pints iu five "gallon" cans of oil delivered to a customer. When the conpany's agent appeared to give bail fo" the driver, he, too, was arrested anc compelled to give a bond. The company refuses to allow the inspection of the 80,000 cans used in that city, and the inspector threatens to arrest every man who is found serving patrons out of cans that do not bear the stamp of city inspection. PLEDGED TO HOLD WHEAT. Member of Society May Organise Whole Slate Into Leasrae. Farmers owning from 300,000 to 300,000 bushels of wheat, forming part of the' American Society of Equity, met at many of the county seats in southern Indiana the other. day and pledged themselves to hold their crop this year until they ore paid $1 a bushel for it. The biggest meeting was held at roseyville. It is said an effort will be made to organize "all the farmers of the State in a league pledged to hold this year's crop. Hoy Years Old I Forgrr. Charlie Williams, 9 years old, appeared at the First National bank in Mariott and reaching up to the counter presented a check for $30. The check was at once pronounced a forgery and the boy. was held until a po'iceman was summoned. The boy frankly admitted that he had fcrged the check. "I wanted to buy clothes and a bicycle. confessed the youthful prisoner, who is an orphan. Shaven, Then Shoot Himself. Dr. Henry S. Lat,haw, a 'well-known Vincennes dentist, killed himself by firing a bullet into his brain. Grief over the death of his wife and daughter and financial troubles are said to be the cause. The body was found in the doctor's office. He had thaved and carefully dressed himself, left notes to relatives and then placed a wet towel against his check to prevent powder burns. Ilea of Utc Colt la Jail. Joseph Gates, aged 43, the founder of a secret religious cult, whose basic doctrine is that "every man shall have seven girls clinging to bis coat tails, is in jail in Logausport to face a charge brought by Margaret Bailer, a 13-year-old girl. The girl testified to the State's attorney : that she and six other girls, none older than hertself, had been to Gates room. . Train Wrecked. In Tunnel. East-bound limited passenger train No. 12 on Ihe Paltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad was wrecked in a tunnel onefourth mile long, near Mitchell. The drawbar of the ergine broke and the coaches piled up on the tender. All left the track except a sleeper. No one was killed. Traction Compaale lulle. Hie Evansville Railways Company, incorporated, with a capital stock of $1,0X), marks the consolidation of th Kvansfille, Uockport and Eastern Railway Company with the Evansville and Mount Vernon Company, It is proposed eventually to build an electric line to Louisville. Splinter In Foot Kills Girl. While playing on the veranda of her home, the child of John Hays of Wabash ran a splinter in her foot. The accldcut was thought trivial. At the end of n week blood poisoning, followed by lockjaw, caused her death. Droiralnx at Indiana Harbor. Vincent Tecuson, 21) years old, wa drowned while swimming in the Indiana Harbor canal. The body of an unidentified man was found in Lake Michigan tad brought to Indiana Harbor. Indiana OClctal Dadly Hart. State Tax Commissioner John C. Wingate of Wingate, was seriously injured by falling down an elevator shaft at the Barnett house in Logansport. Jeffersonville 103 Year Old. The one hundred and fifth anniversary of Jeffersonville was celebrated the jther day. ' Mlaee Is Drowned. Floyd Shields, a coal miner, was drowned in Terre Haute in a iowboat. Minor ßtate I tea.. Tbe body of Cal French, a wealthy lumberman, was found in the Wabash river near Crawleyville. He is supposed to have committed suicide. Claude Wilkinson, a well-known stock raiser, who lived near Cynthiana, vac thrown against a barbed wire fence in. a runaway and died of his injuries. On account of a technicality in the indictment, the Supreme Court of Indiana reversed the conviction and sentence for embezzlement of WiTliam Wright, treasurer of a local union of the United Mine Workers. ' Constable Jacob Middleton of Marion served a warrant on himself. He was charged with violating the pure food law by selling "thinned milk at his restaurant. Middleton took it as a joke. When the justice handed him the warrant to serve he said he would go out an? find himself. He returned a little later, pleaded guilty and was fined. Herbert Güstin, 20 years old, a cartoonist, was drowned while swimming in an abandoned stone quarry near Anderson. William Reagin, aged 20, while on the bridge over the Wabash at Main street, Terre Haute, dared Rollo Apple to jump with him to the Water, fifty feet below. Apple refusing, Reagin handed bis coat to the latter and told him to meet him on the bank. Then be jumped, and, rising to the surface, started swimming. After a few strokes he sank and did not rise again. Reagin' home was in Vandal ia, 111. Frantically hunting for pirate's hidden wealth, 200 men, women and children dug felony ths. banks of the Wabash river at Logansport. The report that John Neal had found ten silver dollars buried along the river caused the disturbance. Neal sold 300 minnows to a fisherman for $10. He took the money home to his wife in silver dollars. Sh told a neighbor that her husband had "found it along the Wabash. Tbe news was wigwagged across the back yard fences, and .within half an hour scores had congregated to did in the gravel for the silver dollars. The police were called to disperse th crowd. Conrad Kuntkosky, aged 2.1, residing in South Chicago, was found dead in the woods near Otis. He arrived in Laporte Thursday, having driven through with a horse and buggy to visit his sister, Anna Satusky. Friday he left the rig at a farmer's house near Otis, and Saturday he was seen wandering around in the woods. He acted rather queerly, but no attention was git en the matter until it was decided to investigate his disappearance, resulting in finding the dead body. Death is believed to have been caused by starvation and exposure. The coroner is investigating the case, but there is no indication of foul play or the aupposition that be committed suicide.