Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 42, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 July 1907 — Page 2

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PAST AND PKESENT -AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telearraphlc Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlichtenment of the Many T Cardinal Gibbon Birthday. Cardinal Gibbons, who was 73 years old this week, celebrated the vent quietly at the home of friends In Westminster, Md. The cardinal said he was in splendid health. In commenting on his long life and his mrark the cardinal said that a life of usefulness and helpfulness to one's leUow men Is the only life worth living and with the glorious hope of Immortality the measure of one's years was not bounded by time, but endured forever. BIjr Building- Collapsed. A Six-story building, 100x118 feet In dimensions, collapsed at Nos. 116, 118 And 120 Franklin street, Chicago, 111., at a few minutes before 7 a.m. Tuesday and the Swlgart Paper Company sustained a loss of $75,000. Usually the sidewalk and alley on the margins of the structure were filled with workmen at the hour of the collapse. Owing to the hot sun both thoroughfares vere deserted. A tramp who has been sleeping In the alley entrance may be under the ruins. Girl Striken Violent. A squad of police was called out to disperse 2,000 girl strikers, who, with their frieni'j, filled the streets for cquares awaj from three strike-be imd silk mills in f'cranton. Pa. During the commotion stpnes had been hurled through many windows of the plants. The Saquoit, Hervey and Renard mills are completely tied up by the strike. Ifen and boys who work In the plant are out in sympathy with the girls. Glldden Tour la Ended. The first of the Ulidden tourists automobiles reached the City Hall in Jersey City, the end of their 1,500 mile run, at noon Wednesday, half an hour ahead of the schedule. Other cars promptly followed. Although the official figures of the run were unknown, it was 6tated unofficially that the team contest for the Glidden trophy was won by the Buffalo Automobile Club, of Buffalo, X. Y. Great Caal Bed Opened. The Lehigh Valley Coal Company has opened what Is believed to be the largest stripping in the world. t Is located at Lattlmer, Pa., and the coal Is In a solid bed 1,300 feet wide, 30 feet in thickness and extends from Lattlmer to Drifton, at least six miles. It is estimated that were the company to take out 500 tons daily it would reQuire 2ZQ years to exhaust the supply. Confesses Awful Crime. Joseph Jenetti, in jail at Belleville, DL, confessed to setting a death trap In the Consolidated Coal mine at Colllnsville, III., July 1. The trap killed Ills cousin, August Jenetti, and also killed Louis Cologna. He Implicates another coal miner, 'who is not under arrest. Tare Killed la Powder Explosion. Two foreigners and one American were kileld in a powder house explosion at Two Lick mine, near Grafton, T. Va. Six others were badly injured, come of whom wil'. die. A foreigner "with a pipe caused the explosion. The property loss will be heavy. Stable and Content Burned. A barn belonging to William Mowrey. at Emma, Ind., was burned. One horse, a stallion, was burned, together yrith all his grain and hay. The loss of the horse is very heavy on Mr. Mowrey. IaarfK3ee at Marrifo, Ind., Bobbed. Tie postoffice at Marengo, Ind., was roblted of about $1,000 in stamps, xnoiy orders and $400 belonging to the deputy postmistress Miss Anna Tamer. ' -Six Deaths from Heat la St. Loato. During the past twenty-four fcoura six deaths from heat prostration have been reported at St. Louis, Mo. Went to Gallowa Stasias'. Dowling Green, an African, was lumged in the Allegheny County Jail at Pittsburg, Pa. He went to the gallows singing. Green shot and killed Iiis young wife, Annie. Jealousy was the cause. Bride Commits Snlelde. Mrs. Garfield McKinzey, a bride of tour months, committed suicide at Frankfort, Ind., by drinking carbolic acid. No cause is known. T7oman Tourist Diss in Tire. The depot and depot hotel at Sbson, CaL, were burned to the ground a the result of the explosion of a lamp. Miss Laura Saxie, a school teacher who had just arrived there from New York to climb Mount Shasta, was burned to death. Several others were badly injured. r - , Xills Faithless Suitor. Marietta Pennoro, 18 years of age, an Italian girl, shot and instantly killed Raffaele Darbato, 19 years of age, in the street in Cleveland. They were to have teen married July 3, according to the story of the girl. She says he refused. Catch Fish in Town's Streets. Boys in the residence section of East Celina, Ohio, are catching huge carp in the village street as a result of an overflow of the Grand reservoir, the largest artificial body of water in the world. The overflow followed heavy rains. Flays "Jean of Arc," Fatally Burned. A game of "Joan of Arc," in which the participants were all Minneapolis girls tinder 10 years old, resulted in fatal injuries to little Mia Vjorling, who played the part of Joan. She was burned in bonfire that supplied the setting for the drama.

BEVOLT NIPPED IN BUD. Cuban Patriots Claim Plot to Continue Occupation. Particulars have just leaked out of a projected uprising in Oriente, Cuba, which recently gave Gov. Magoon some anxious hours. At the palace absolute i.rmorance is professed of anything in the shape of disturbance, but the interesting fact remains that an uprising was projected to take place on July 12, and vould doubtless have been started had i: not been for the vigilance of United States army officers detailed on secret service. All the trouble arose from the efforts of Capt. Robert Alexander, Eleveith United States infantry, quartermaster of the American garrison in Morro castle, Santiago, to beautify the grounds about the old fortress by setting out trees. Unluckily he selected coco palm for the purpose, and having secured from an acquaintance 100 young trees, had them properly placed. While the captain was congratulating himself on his efforts to improve Cuban property without cost, for all the work of planting was done voluntarily by the soldiers of the garrison, the rumor went flying through the whole province that the Americans were planting cocoa on the Morro, and as it takes six years for a coco to come into bearing, it was, of course, obvious that the Americans intended to remain for at lect that period. Patriots met in secret and decided to invoke the counsel of Gen. Loyna del Castillo of Havana, who is in a condition of chronic agitation over the question . of the duration of the American occupation, and that warrior dispatched two emissaries to Santiago to investigate. The excitement increased; more meetings were held; arms were distributed to the number, it is said, of seventy-five rifles vith ammunition, and a rising was set for July 12 under the leadership of one Rodrigues of Santiago and Gen. Camacho of San Luis. The plan was to begin operations by "rushing" small isolated posts of rural guards, massacreing the men, and then, as the insurgent ranks increased, attacking Santiago itself and, if possible, wiping out the American gar rison. The secret service officers went to work and exposed the whole plot several days before the date set for the uprising. To the leaders they read a lecture on the subject of arboriculture as practiced by American soldiers in Cuba, with a solemn warning to abstain from any in

terference therein. This sufficed to check thir patriotic ardor and now peace reigns throughout the Oriente. U. S. OPENS WAS ON "BEHS." Sims Cites 163 in State Courts in Chicago. . United States District Attorney Sims of Chicago took a most unusual action when he caused 103 perwns. nine of them women, to be cited before the Circuit and Superior Courts to show cause why they should not be clashed as anarchists. Unless these people an prove to the satisfaction of the court that they are not enemies of all governments they will be stripped of their citizenship and may be deported to the European countries from which many of them are said V have fled to escape the wrath of the government. The suits, UG of which were filed In the Superior and forty-seven in the Circuit Court, are all taken as the result of alleged violations of the United States immigration laws and. according to Attorney Sims, come under the jurisdiction of the State as well as federal courts. "The fact that they have been brought in the State courts," said Attorney Sims, "indicates that friendly feeling eiisting between the State and national governments." No 'definite charges are made against the defendants, but they will be compelled to swear that they are not members of any anarchist organization and that their ideas are not against the principles of the American constitution. In the event of any of the defendants refusing to take the oath or to give satisfactory testimony, their citizenship will be annulled end they will be cnpelled to either take out new papers or get out of the country. BLUE DIAMOND SCANDAL ENDS. fi i American Countess Who Accused Diplomat Escapes Libel Suit. The libel suit for damages brought by Alexandre Greger, Russian diplomat, against Count Rodellec du Pontic, growing out of the theft of the famous blue diamond, belonging to Countess du Porzic, has ended with the court's rejection of Greger's petition in Brest, France. He was ordered to pay the costs of the suit. Gregor, with his wife, was a guest at the Countess du Porzic's castle, KerS tears, in Brittany. The blue diamond, one of the crown gems of Louis Philippe, disappeared and was found in Greger's baggage. The countess had him arrested, but the matter was finally patched up without prosecution. Countess da Porzic is an American woman who first married Gen. St ears, an Englishman, and on his death married Du Porzic. Cubans Would Fight for U. 8. The War Department has received a letter signed by two Cubans at Havana, offering their services to the United States government in the event of war with Japan. The prospective volunteers asserted that they were moved to take this step by a sense of obligation to the United States for freeing Cuba from the control of Spain. Young1 Couple Drowned. While boating on McCullough's lake at Lima, Ohio, J. L. Davis and Miss Docia Vebryke were drowned by the capsizing of their boat. The bodies were caught in the lake under weeds, and the fire department worked all night dragging the lake, recovering the bodies at daybreak. The victims are Isaid to have been engaged. . 31 Excursionists Silled. Thirty-one excursionists met death and over seventy more were injured, many of them fatally, when an excursion train on the Tere Marquette Road, carrying almost 1,000 employes of the Pere Marquette shops at Ionia and members of their families, collided with a local freight train at Washburn Crossing, about two miles east of Salem, Mich. Dr. Earl Hau Convicted. Drt Karl Hau, Washington University professor, was condemned to death at Karlsruhe, Germany, for the murder of his mother-in-law. Crowds surrounded the court house protesting. Bains Cause Floods. The loss of several lives and great monetary damage has resulted from heavy rains throughout western Pennsylvania. ..tarn flhln, anrl Woof V.'i-! rrn. river and mountain streams are out of . their Danes. Must Have Automobiles. A Pittsburg woman's club reports that riany wives, in the race for social su rremacy, are causing their husbands to mortgage their homes to buy automobiles they cannot afford. Japanese Control Seoul. Twenty-five Japanese and a number of Koreans were killed and many persons were woutffled in fights in Seoul. Japanese troops have taken control of the city. Ships Crash on Pacific. The steamer Columbia of the San Francisco-Portland line' sank with 150 persons at midnight Saturday off the California coast. She had 300 passengers aboard, of whom only 168 are known to have been saved. The Columbia was run down by the steam lumber schooner San Pedro, which is afloat.

GREAT EXPRESS LOOT

PROCEEDS OF ROBBERIES WILL REACH $100,000. Warehouse of Adam Company In w York Systematically Robbed for a Year O.I-Year-Old Widow Wed Man of 30. That on Adams Express warehouse in New York City has been systematically robbed for nearly a year, the losses estimated to total $100,000, was revealed the other day in the arraignment in police court of three suspects. A woman is also under surveillance by the police, accused of receiving some of the stolen goods. The stolen goods were taken from a warehouse in St. Nicholas avenue. In many instances, it is said, trunks and packages were opened, a part of the valuables they contained abstracted, ' and then sealed. The police followed Joseph Smith, an employe, as he was leaving the warehouse. lie spoke to Frederick Bonitz, a driver. Bonitz drove to the Harlem river bridge, threw off some bundles which Smith was waiting to receive. The police caught both men. Albert Litt, another employe, wa"s then arrested aa a suspect. A letter in Smith's pocket, addressed to Miss Catherine Norris, his fiancee, gave the police her address. ITiey looked her up and she confessed Smith had giv n her stolen goods. Smith later told the police the warehouse was being systematically robbed. SUBMARINE BELLS WARN SHIPS. New System Tells' Captains of Approach to Danger Zone. A novel method hin been perfected of advising ship captaiiit of the approach of their vessels to the danger rone, in connection with the use of the system of submarine bell signals, in places where the warning bell cannot be placed on a lightship or lighthouse. In such cases the electric bell is hung from a tripod set on the bottom of the sea on the edge of the shoar at the required point and this bell is struck by a mechanism operated by a current of electricity conveyed through a cable from the signal station on shore. Such a station at Point Allerton. Mass.. and another at the entrance to Halifax harbor are operated through cables over two miles long. The bell strikes any code that is desired and the sound travels through the water so that vessels from five to ten miles away hear the bell and get directions accurately in a fog e at night when equipped with the receiving apparatus. The lighthouse board has completed arrangements to place these submarine signals on all lightships not already equipped. The board also has arranged for electric shore stations at the Delaware harbor of refuge and at Detroit, Mich., the entrance of St. Mary's river and Lake Superior. WIDOW ELOPES WITH EMPLOYE. Connecticut Woman and Hired Hand Leave Farm for Altar. Mrs. Mary Marius, whose age is G3 years, and who resides in Winchester road, near Winsted, Conn., and Cornelius Andrius, 30, who has been employed by Mrs. Marius on her farm for the past few years, amazed their friend when they were married in I'oughkeepsie, N. Y recently.. The union was kept a secret by the couple for nearly a week. Which proposed, neither will say. As the coup'e left Winsted early in the morning and returned home in the evening of the same day, their friends and neighoors suspected nothing. But the happy bride could not keep the secret any longer, and confessed that she and Cornelius had ruo away and been married. COAL LAND FRAUD CASES. Millionaire Is Convicted, with Attorney and Merchant. E. M. Holbrook, a millionaire ; 13. E. Lonabaugh, a prominent, attorney, and Robert McPhillamey, a well-known .business man of Sheridan, were found guilty In the federal court in Cheyenne, Wyo., of conspiracy to defraud the United States government of coal lands in Sheridan county. The maximum jenalty on each of the two" counts on which the men were tried Is two years in the penitentiary and a fine of $10,000. Judge Itiner announced that he would impose sentence in a few days. Fight Mail Order Firms. Thousands of retail merchants in the small towns and cities in the middle West are said to be flocking into a new organization, the Home Trade League of America, which has for Its object the wiping out of big mail-order houses, which, they claim, are threatening their existence. Rate Law Unconstitutional. Federal Judge Pritchard at Asheville, X. C, declared the penal clause of the new North Carolina rate law unconstitutional and scored the state for defiance of Labeas corpus for Southern Railway agenvs sentenced to the chain gang. Governot Glenn ordered an appeal, and Roosevelt has taken a hand. Troops Prevent Lynching. With the peaceable dispersal of a posse of 300 men who had formed at Gretna, La,, to lynch three of the Italians convicted of the murder of little Walter Lamana, an acute crisis in the law and order record of Louisiana safely passed. The jury refused to vote the death penalty for the kidnapers. - Wire Strike Is Settled. The telegraphers strike Is settled. The struggle which began In San Francisco and Oakland, Cal., June St and threatened to tie up the telegraph wires of the country ended Friday when the striking operators on the Pacific coast almost unanimously agreed to return to work pending arbitration. Ministers Ride in Airships. Premier Clemeneeau aud General Picquart of the French cabinet made a tour above Paris in the airship Pat rie, the premier being drenched with hot water in an accident to the ship's engine. Tragedy at Nunica, Mich. Heury Scutcheon, a farmer of Nunica, Mich., crazed by financial troubles, killed his wife, son and father-in-law and was himself slain by a neighbor. January Set Free. William January, who was sent back to the Leavenworth prison afc an escaped convict after leading an honest life for nine years, has been set free. Vardaman Pardons Mrs. Birdsong. Gov. Vardaman of Missisippi, acting under the unwritten law, pardoned Mrs. Angie Birdsong, who was convicted of killing her family physician. Hailstone of Five Founds. Hailstones the size of hickory nuts and oranges fell in abundance at Hatfield, Ark., several being much larger. Postmaster Smith weighed one, which was as large as a man's head, and which weighed five pounds. Crops were ruined over an area Oi two square miles. , Four Aeronauts Perish. The military balloon which ascended from the üronautic park at Tsarkoe-Selo, near St. Petersburg, last Friday manned by four army officers has been picked up at sea in a water-logged condition. It is believed that the aeronauts perished.

INTRIGUES IN KOREAN CAPITAL.

Imperial Realdence Hotbed of Dia lenniou and Bickerings. Telegrams from Seoul, Korea, state that intrigues ou an extensive scale are now in progress. It is declared that the palace is a hotbed of Illicit plots and conspiracies. The placing on the throne of the new Emperor has aggravated the jealousy between his mother, Princess Ming, and the mother of Prince Ying, each having a large following. This state of affairs is being taken advantage of by politicians, who are distrustful of one another. Disaffection 's spreading rapidly and rlotings of the people throughout the peninsula are expected. The crisis provoked by the enforced abdication of the Emperor is still full of menace. The two government arsenals are guarded by Japanese soldiers, although the number Is not large. They are under orders to exnlode the magatines If they find themselves unable to defend them. The Korean troops are frequently harangued by civilian agitators who take up their stand at the entrances to the barracks. The Koreans iwssess 00,000 rounds of ammunition, of which General Hasegawa, who has only 2,300 Japanese troops in Seoul, has been unable to demand the surrender. Two disturbing factors are, first, the enigmatical presence In Seoul of Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi, whose mission Is believed byfthe people to be the abduction of the former Emperor and his removal to Japan. Second, domicilary contact with the new Emperor and control and manipulation of the throne by the ex-Emperor. Japan's demands on the new Emperor probably will Include the revision of the Japanese-Korean treaty or new Korean constitution. In either case the power of the Japanese resident-general would be so extended that he can Intervene in Korea's Internal administration. Including the judiciary. The demand also will be made that the court be distinguished from the administration, making confusion between the two impossible. Another plan Is to give the residentgeneral direct control of all departments and make the cabinet responsible to him, the Emperor retaining the power of formal veto. In any case the Korean military system will be abandoned. At the suggestion of Marquis Ito the carious consulates have accepted Japmese guards. ..- , W A3 III The Northwest rn and St. Taul roads will not have to pay Wisconsin license fees due prior to Feb. 1, 1S00. The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided that the statute of limitations bars such collection. The Interstate Commerce Commission has announced the appointment of - a board of experts to supervise and conduct experimental tests of block signal systems and other safety devices as provided for by the joint resolution of Congress. The officers of the Southern Railway have appealed to the United States Circuit Court in North Carolina for an injunction restraining the Legislature of that State and the Virginia corporation commission from putting Into effect the reduced passenger rate of 2 cents a mile. Tiiis is the first instance in which the legal questions involved in the , reduced rate laws have been brought before a high federal tribunal and will probably be the first to reach the Supreme Court for final adjudication. The Interstate Commerce Commission has reaffirmed the right of interstate railroads to operate separate passenger cars for negroes, provided that accommodations be offered them equal to those intended for the whites of the same class. Commissioner Lane says that the reasonableness of regulations to segregate white and colored passengers is established, but that it does not follow that carriers may discriminate as to accommodations. The decision requires tY -t where a line is providing wash bowl and towels for first-class white passengers it must give the same conveniences to firstclasa colored passengers. The complaint was made by Georgia Edwards against the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis John IL Starin anij two other members of the retiring rapid transit board of ' New York City have made known their intention of financing a company to construct a one-rail system of transit between Newark and New York City. It is to be a four-track system, operated at from GO to 100 miles an hour, and is of the design invented by Howard II. Tunis of Baltimore, a sample of which in now on exhibition at the Jamestown exposition. This "American monorail' has a car 47 feet long and a maximum width of 6 feet, tapering at each end. The car is supported on two trucks of two wheels each, tandem, and the wheels flanged on both sides, and the whole being maintained in an upright position by a combination of trolley pole and overhead support. a The interstate commerce commission has announced the determination of the Department of 'Justice to prosecute practically every railroad company in twentysix States to recover penalties for violations of the Rafety appliance law. The recent conference of railroad presidents at Chicago resulted in an understanding favorable to the Immediate adop- ; ion of the 2-cent passenger rate on all 'interstate business. This is meant to be understood as bowing to public opinion, but the lawyers say they expect no difficulty in knot-king out the 2-cent laws in the higher courts. One effect of the new law which limits the hours of labor In railroad telegraphy is to create a demand for about C,000 new operators, and the supply is far short of this. Th general manager of the Pennsylvania railroad reports that 4,000 locomotive wenc in service last year on the line east of Pittsburg, and that only 3,147 passenger cars were used on the same lines. He says that the most important problem of equipment is repairs, and that it required 207.00(1 new steel wheels, 21,84.1 new steel axles and G,a8 new steel tires to keep the rolling stock in good order. At Dos Moines, Iowa, Judge McFherson of the Federal Court denied the application of two stockholders of the Iowa Central and the Minneapolis and St. Louis for an order restraining the directors of the roads from putting into effect the 2-cent passenger rate enacted by the Iowa Legislature. The report of Special Atto-.-ney Kellogg and of the Commerce Commission on the railroads controlled by E. II. HarriiiK'in asserts that these lines violate the anti-trust law by stifling all competition and inflation of securities. The commission is known to be divided on the question of being able to prosecute Haxriman successfully.

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BILLEK IS TO HANG.

CHICAGO WIZARD CONVICTED OF KILLING MARY VR2AL. Crime for Whlcn He Will ray Penalty tvlth Ills Life Only One of Series Quick Decision by the Jnry. Herman Billek, self-admitted faker and mixer of mysterious potions, was found guilty of murdering Mary Vrzal, 20 years old, by arsenical poisoning, and his punishment fixed at death, by a jury in Judge Barnes' court In Chicago. Four other members of the Vrzal family met death by poisoning. They were Martin, the father, Tillie, 18 years old, Rosie, 14 years old, and Ella, 12 years old. Five indictments were returned against Rillek, and this was the first case to be tried. When the verdict was read, Billek, who was standing against a wall near the jury box, staggered and put his band against a pillar for support. After the usual motion for a new trial was entered the prisoner was led from the court room to jail. He refused to make a statement. When the verdict was read Edna Billek, 9 years old, daughter of the convicted man, between sobs exclaimed : "They have deaded my papa !" Mrs. Billek fainted and was escorted from the court room by her sons, Frank and Herman. On the, other side of the court room Mrs. Emma Vrzal Niemann, the eklest Vrzal child, stood with Jerry and Bertha Vrzal. They cried when the verdict was read. History of the Crimea. Martin Vrzal was a milk vender, livins with his family at C77 West 10th street When he met Billek in the simimer of 1004 Billek informed Vrzal that a rival milk vender was his enemy and offered to cast a spell that would protect Vrzal from harm. Vrzal agreed, and n potion of white fluid was brewed on the Vral stove and strewn across the gateway of the Donosky home across the waj. For this service Billek accepted a loan. Shortly afterward Vrzal became ill and Billek administered medicine to him. Vrzal suffered from symptoms resembling the effects of arsenic poisoning and died in a fe days. In July, 1005, Mary Vrzal, the eldest daughter, and for whose murder Billek was convicted, visited Billek and told him she was 111. He gave her medicine and she died from arsenic poison. ; In rapid succession the deaths of other members of the family followed. Charged by her neighbors with a guilty knowledge of the manner of the deaths. Mrs. Vrzal swallowed chloroform and died Dec. 5, 1000. . Banker After Express Men. The express companies of the United States have been called to account before the Commerce Commissicn by the American Bankers Association for "unjustly and illegally encroaching upon the legitimate field of the banks." They arc also charged with using their influence as common carriers to discriminate against members of the Bankers Association. All this, say the bankers, is a departure from the purposes for which the express companies were chartered. Record Shlphnlldlna; Year, According to government repots for the last fiscal year, 1,403 vessels, aggregating 510,805 gross tonnage, wee built in the United States, this being a greater number of vessels and far greater tonnage than during any other year for half a century. The record shows a steady decline in the building of schooners and a corresponding increase in steamers, but there is now appearing a considerable number of schooners equipped with auxiliary motor power. Drltlah Steel Rail Combine. The principal English, Welsh and Scotch makers of steel rails are reported to have entered into an agreement with competitors in other lands so as to virtually control the entire world's markets. The United Kingdom and British colonies are reserved for the British makers by making the minimum price higher than that of South America, which is reserved for the United States, while the rest of the European market will go to the German, French and Belgian makers . Forty thousand persons are engaged in the manufacture of stockings in England. Congressman Itainey of Illinois warns Tammany that Booscvelt intends to enter the race for re-election and declares that Bryan is the man to defeat him. The largest frog Is now stated to be the new Itana goliath. from the Cameroon, with a head and body measuring not less than ten inches. Justice Keough of the NewYork Supreme Caurt has enjoined all dealers throughout ihe State from handling the Thomas A. Edison records without the permission of the New York Phonograph Company. About $32,000,000 is said to be involved in the suit.

EMPEROR OF KOREA ABDICATES.

Give Up (he Throne After Conference with Elder Stateamen. The Emperor of Korea has abdicated formally after a long conference with the elder statesmen of the empire. After a secret all-night conference the Korean cabinet recommended to the Emperor that an emperor regent be appointed aud that he proceed to Tokio and apologize in person to the Emperor of Japan for having dispatched a delegation to the Hague peace conference EMPEROB OF KOBEA. to protest against the attitude of Japan. This program was urged as the only solution that would prevent the Emperor's forcible dethronement WILLIAM JANUARY IS SET FREE. Mlaaonrl Man Like Jean Valjean Releaaed from Knnaaa Prison. William January, alias Charles V. Anderson, for whose pardon a etition containing the signatures of 50,000 persons was presented to President Roosevelt three months ago, was released from the Federal prison In Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Friday, Anderson returned to Kansas Citj', Mo., where he will engage in business. He denies a report that lie Intends to operate a pool hall. The case of January resembles that of Victor Hug3s hero, Jean Valjean. . Anderson was convicted eleven years ago of robbing an Oklahoma iostofiicc and sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. He escaped two years later and went to Kansas City, assumed the name of Anderson, married and prospered. In April this year an exconvlct who had known January In the penitentiary notified the warden of the man's whereabouts and he was rearrested and taken back to Leavenworth. Owing to the exemplary life Anderson had led In Kansas City, his neighbors started a movement for his release. The newspapers took up the case with the result that a petition, which Is said to have contained the largest number of signatures ever appended to an appeal for a pardon, was" forwarded to Washington. President Roosevelt reviewed the case, and, upon recommendation of Attorney-General Bonaparte, granted a pardonf effective at the expiration of three months from the time of his rearrest. January has proved a model prisoner. He says he will seek to have his citizenship restored, and, if successful, will then ask the courts to change his name to Anderson for the protection of his wife and child. Interesting Newa Item a. The largest icehouse in New England, containing 75,000 tons of ice, together with a large quantity of machinery and forty box cars, was burned at Southwick. Mass., causing a loss estimated at $200,000. The Spanish chamber of deputies has voted the electoral reform law, in which are embodied the clauses the previous nonacceptance of which by the government had caused the liberal deputies at one time to abstain from taking part in the work of the chamber. In Germany sound-proof building blocks are made of a mixture of gypsum with sawdust, coke, dirt or ashes. Some chemical skill is required to make th mixture. Of the tuberculous patients treated in Pennsylvania's "Camp Sanitarium," which was established with the aid of the State, 75 per cent have either recovered or been greatly improved. Just 100 years ago the first evangelical missionary' went from England to China. His name was Robert Morrison; he remained 34 years, translated the Bible into Chinese, wrote a Chinese grammar and a dictionary of 4,505 pages. Miss Anna Eckstein of Boston presented to The Hague reace conference a petition signed by 2,000,000 Americans asking for a general arbitration treaty. Two prominent Chinese from Shanghai have paid a visit to Manila and 'placed large orders with American firms for farm machinery to be used in Manchuria. An early American peacemaker was Elihu Burritt, the "blacksmith scholar" of Connecticut It was mainly to his effort! that the Paris peace congress of 1840 practically owed its existence. Though now almost forgotten, the same principles were discussed and the same propositions laid down as obtained at The Hague in 1809.

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100 SINK WITH SHIP.

TWO STEAMERS COLLIDE OFF CALIFORNIA COAST. Largre Veaael Donnd for Portland, Oregon, with More than 200 Peron on Board, Sent to the Dottom by Lumber Carrier. Probably one hundred persons were drowned and scores of others were; rescued after clinging for hours to drifting wreckage as the result of a terrible 6ea collision, word of which was received in San Francisco Monday looming. The ships were the passenger steamer Columbia, north bound from San Francisco to Portland, and the small lumber steamer San Pedro southward bound and heavily laden. The' disaster occurred early Sunday morning off Shelter Cove, Mendocino County, and from the meager leports which have come It Is certain that ore than half the Columbia's 210 passengers and crew went down with the 6hip in the fog and darkness. Carried About ISO Paaaenera. The Columbia left San Francisco on Saturday evening, carrying ISO passengers and a crew of about thirty under the command of Captain P. A. Doran. Soon after dark a heavy fog came on and the steamer was-feeling her way along the coast The sea was calm and the majority of the passengers were in their berths when Shelter Cove .was passed. Captain Doran was on the bridge when a few minutes later and just after midnight the black bulk of the San Pedro loomed up almost dead ahead. The Columbia at once reversed Its engines and Captain Doran put the helm hard aport but it was too lat to prevent the collision. Wth scarcely diminished speed the San. Pedro, laden with lumber, trashed Into the port bow of the pasamger ship with a force that cut the iron steamer to the water line. Many of the passengers must have been stunned or killed in their berths, for the force of the blow was terrific aud both ships reeled apart as if they had struck solid rock. Lifeboat a Had Been Shattered. Half clad and frenzied by fear, men and women rushed from thev staterooms to the deck of the Columbia, which was settling rapidly by tha bows. An effort was made to launch the lifeboats, Captain Doran standing calmly on the shattered bridge of his boat and shouting his orders through a megaphone. Several of the boats had been shattered in the collision, and so quickly did the Columbia go down that there was no time to launch the others. Survivors say that all the officers of the Columbia did their duty bravely and tried to save the women and children, but that they were powerless. Many Leap Into Ocean. Feeling the steamer sinking beneath their feet, many of the men amoug the Columbia's passengers and crew leaned into the sea and swam to the San Pedro, which could be made out drifting away through the fog. They alone, it seems, were saved. One lifeboat was launched, but it was swamped the moment it reached the water by the rush of frenzied men and women. All who were, in it are believed to have perished, drawn down by the suction of the steamer when she went down with a final rush, her deck3 still dotted with screaming men and women. Captain Goes Down with Ship. At the last moment the stern of. the Columbia rose high above the water, and many. of the unfortunates slid the length of the deck as the steamer shot beneath the waves, with Captain Doran clinging to the bridge and making no attempt to save his own life. The San Pedro, a wooden boat, was severely damaged by the collision, but was kept afloat by her cargo. Fluding their steamer was sae for the time, the crew turned to the task of rescuing the Columbia's passengers, and about eighty who had swum to the sides of the freighter were drawn on board. Boats were launched, and a number of others who had clung to wreckage were found and taken on board. Survivors among the passengers of the Columbia say that the San Pedro was not seen until she burst through the fog curtain less thau a hundred feet away and headed straight for the passenger steamer. Why the fog horns were not heard is not made ciear. Sighted by Another Vessel. The San Pedro drifted around helplessly for two hours before the fog lifted and the water-logged ship was made out by the steamer George W. Elder, which threw her a line and towed her to Eureka. The steamer Roanoke sooa came up and took off the passengers, many of whom were clad only In their night garments and were suffering severely from exposure. They were teXn to Eureka. Many of the drowned were residents of San Francisco. Others lived at Portland, the Columbia's destination, and other towns along the north coast. The Columbia was an Iron-screw ßteamer of 2,272 tons register. She was built In 1SS0 hy J. Hoch & Son, of Chester, Ta., and was owned by the San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company. She was 308 feet long, 38 feet beam and 23 feet draught The San Pedro was a wooden screw steamer of 455 tons register, built in 1SSD at Aberdeen, Wash. She was 1C3 feet long, 34 feet beam and 11.2 feet draught Fewer Fallares Since 1809. If the rate of business failures U a good criterion, prosperity cannot be Baid to be on the wing so fast. The recorJ of 5,007 failures in the first half of this year, as reported in Dun's Review, is the best statement for the corresponding period since 1S00. But the total cf liabilities, $00,508,002, is a little above the average, due to a few very large bankruptcies at New York. Lieut. Col. AyreR, who recently backed up his wife's criticism of West Point officials and the army, is ordered before retiring board. The death of E. McQueen, the engineer in the wreck on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, at Waldron, Mo., makes the twelfth man In the McQueen family to be killed on duty, all on locomotives, since 18S3. Siberian butter goes to Himburg, is repacked and sent to the far East as a German production. Russian sugar goes to Japan in an Austrian disguise, and Russian calico is sold there under a German wrapper. Those are some of the reasons why the Russo-Japanese Oommer cial Coapany has been formed in Russia.

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. rrMK i a m v t a i CHICAGO. Considering the hot weather which prevailed business has maintained a fcteady course. Commercial defaults cem to be yet in (excess of those at this time last year and are due mainly to the "pressuro of July settlements upon weak traders, but the list includes none of special Bignificanee in the effect upon credits. Money is in wider request for mercantile purIoses and the banks are adequately able to supply legitimate needs betides preparing for the approaching drain of currency lo move crops, but the discount rate may soon turn firmer. l)esjite the higii temperature and vacation season there is very little apparent interruption to production in the leading industries and distribution is remarkably extended for this period, retail'lines scoring a gratifying reduction of stocks. Visiting buyers attend the markets for staple wares in rapidly increasing numbers and their selections for early delivery rise to substantial -totals. Activity exiMinds in dry goods, boots and shoes, clothing, furniture and food products, notwithstanding the advanced average in price lists, as compared with a year ago. Conditions in the manufacturing branches lose none of their remarkable strength. Hides and leather move more freely, hard woods are in better request and shipments are larger of hardware, plumbing goods, merchant iron and wagons. The total movement of grain at this port. 0.034,248 bushels, compares .with 7,818,047 bushels last week and G,C28.120 bushels a year ayo. Receipts are 30J per cent under taose in 1000, wliile the shipments gained 117.7 per cent Receipts of live stock were 20820 head, against 230,008 head last week and 207,035 Lead last year. Bank clearings, $237,740,030. exceed those of corresponding week in 1900 by 9 per cent. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 21, against 25 last week and 10 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. ITEW YORK. Weather conditions still favor seasonable trale and crops, and there is no more than ordinary quiet noted in wholesale lines as a result of midsummer conditions and the reign of the vacation reason. Retail trade especially is turning out rather better than anticipated. One favorable development certainly calling for notice is the continuance of good reports as to collections. Fair activity, with firm prices, is noted in wool. Large sales are few. Conservative buying of shoes and leather is noted in leading markets. In the leading industries there are some croL-ss-currents. Iron and steel are quieter as a whole, with prices tending to ease, while copper Is lower and stocks reported accumulating. In the hoe trade business is moderate. In the cotton goods industry production is of record proportions, but still insufficient to meet demand. Business failures in the United States for the week ending July IS number 177, against 1S5 last week, 1SS in the like week of lOOtL 1C5 in ltXCi, 1JM) in l'Ot and 1S3 in 1903. Canadian failures for the week nunvber 26, as against 2S lat week and 18 in this week a year ago. Bradstrcet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. $4.00 to $7.30; bogs, rrime heavy, $4.00 to $5.05; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $iJ.O0; what No. 2, 90c to 91c; corn. No. 2, 52c to 53c; oats, standard, 42c to 43c; rye. No. 2, S5c to S7c; Lay, timothy, $14.00 o $20.00; prairie, $0.00 to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 25c; eggs, fresh. 12c to 10c; potatoes, new, per bushel, 78c to 82c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $G.S5 ; hogs, choice heavy, $4iX to .SU.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $.".00; wheat. No. 2, STc to SSc; corn. No. 2 white, 52c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 45c to 4Gc St. Louis Cattle. $1.50 to $7.35: hog. $4.00 to $515; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2. SOc to 9c; corn, No. 2. 52c to 53c; oats. No. 2, 43c to 45c; rye. No. 2, 82c to S4c. . Cincinnati Cattle, $4.0 to $G.00; hog-.', $4.00 to $5'0 ; sheep, $3.90 to $1.75; wheat, No. 2, 92c to 93c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 5ic; oats. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 47c; rt. No. 2, 80c to SSc Detroit Cattle, $4; to $0.00; boss, $4.00 to $0.00; fcheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. .2, 91c to 93c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 55c to 57c; oats. No. 3 white, 40c to 47c; rye, No. 2, 79c to SOc Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern, OSc to $1.02; corn, No. 3, 52c to 53c; oats, standard, 45c to 40c; rye, No. 1, 85c to 87c; barley, standard, C9c to 70o; pork, mess, $10.12. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.50; hogs fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.25; sheep, common to good mixed, $400 to $5.23 ; lambs, fair to choice, $5IX to $8.50. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $(.f; hogs, $4.00 to $0.G0; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 90c to 97c; corn, No. 2, 5!c to GOc; oats, natural white, 51c to 52c ; butter; creamery, 22c to 25c; eggs, western, 15c to 18c Toledo Wheat No. 2 mixed, 90e to 91c; cor&. No. 2 mixed, 54c to 50c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; rye. No, 2, 79c to SOc; clover seed, prime, $3.92. Told la a Few Linea. Germany alone sends to London annually 20,000,000 feathers of birds for millinery purposes. President Henry Hopkins of Williams college is to retire and Prof. Harry A. Garfield of Princeton, son of the late President Garfield, has been chosen to succeed him. The largest plow erer built has been successfully used on a Texas ranch. The implement clears a strip of ;.ound seven fee wide. responsible heads of lawless corporations should be placed in prison, as the present system of fining the corporations Is useless and absurd, says Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton university, in a speech at the Jamestown exposition. Re-enforced cement is now the favorite material with British builders of large chimney. One already completed la Ixjndon is 250 feet high with a base 20 feet in diameter, with a foundation 18 feet wiuare. One of the best architects in the world is the oriole. Its graceful nest contains four to six whitish eggs, marked with Hack and brown. Major General I. Franklin Bell, chief of staff of the army, explained at Leavenworth, Kan., that the "something wrong in the army, to which he recently referred, was "inadequate pry and insuScicnt number of ofixers. A movement is on foot among Americans in Paris to purchaw the .c-jse in which Benjamin Franklin lived while there and make it a museum. The bouse bears on its front Franklin's name, sur mounted by a medallion portrait of him.