Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 44, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 August 1907 — Page 2

THE PLYMOUTH TRIBUNE.

PLYMOUTH, IND. II ENDRICKS a CO.. Publishers. 1907 AUGUST 1907

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ON. M.-CV F. Q.F.M. I U Q. 9th. j) 16thAg23d. V$ 50th. PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Thins are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to lake it Complete. 8TANDAHD IS FINED 20,240,000. Oll Traut Given he Largest Flae In History of the World. Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, in the United States District Court at Chicago, fined the Standard Oil Company of Indiana 129,240,000 for violations of the law against accepting rebates from railroads. The fine is the largest ever assessed against any individual or any corporation ia the history of the American criminal jurisprudence and is slightly more than 131 times as great as the amount received by the company through its rebating operations. The case will be carried to the higher courts by the defendant company. The penalty imposed upon the company is the maximum permitted under the law and it was announced at the end of a long opinion. In which the methods and practices of the Standard Oil Company were mercilessly scored. The Judge, in fact, declared in his opinion that the officials of the Standard Oil Company who were responsible for the practices of which the corporation was found guilty were no better than coun terfeiters or thieves, his exact langu age being: "We may as well look at the situation squarely. The men who thus deliberately violate this law wound society more deeply than does lie who counterfeits the coin or steals ' letters from the mails. Judge Landis commenced reading his decision at 10 o'clock and occupied abou. one hour in 1U delivery. He reviewed the facts in the case, took up the arguments of the attorneys for the defense and answered them and then passed judgment upon the company, which, he declared violated for the sole purpose of swelling its dividends. Ontracea Coatfane la New York. Another murderous assault has been added to the New York City police rec ord of recent crimes against defenseless women and girls. The latest victim was Miss Ellen Bulger, a woman of middle-age, who was attacked In her apartments in the Bronx, cruelly beaten and left in a helpless state. The 'Woman was removed to a hospital where it was found that her skull had apparently been fractured, her face and hands lacerated and her body otherwise bruised. There was evidence that the woman had made a courageous fight. From what the police were able to learn from her, 6he was surprised by a smooth-faced stranger perhaps 40 years of age. He was coatless and wore an outing shirt and dark trousers. He escaped.' Trolley Car Strike Anlo. Aa electric car struck an automobile containing five Jackson residents about three miles east ok Jackson, JIch. Mrs. Levi Palmer, Mrs. Emily Priver and Bernlce Oliver were killed. It. Adelbert Oliver, a business man, vho was driving the cr, was probably fatally injured, while Mrs. R. A. Oliter, the fifth passenger, escaped with less serious injuries. CAitsr Become Fairbanks Secretary. A dispatch from Washington, D. C, says George B. Lockwood, editor of the Marion (Ind.) Chronicle, has been appointed private secretary to Vice President Fairbanks. The salary was increased by the last Congress from $2,200 to $4,000 a year. Mr. Lock--wood was formerly private secretary to Governor Durbin, of Indiana. The Magills Released en Ball. Fred H. Magill and his wife were released from custody at Clinton, 111., on "bonds of 1 5,000 each. On his bond are his mother and J. F. Deland. On her bond are W. W. Graham, her uncle, W. H. Oglevee and Edward Deboere. They went at once to the home of her parents. Fir Damp Kills Klftbteea. An explosion of fire damp in a mine at Mittel Bexbach, six miles northwest of Homburg, Prussia, resulted In the killing of eighteen men and the wounding of eleven others. Fence Agent Arrested. Through Chief of Police Ed Martin, of Gallipolis, Ohio, J. A. Butler, wire fence agent, who sold county rights to everal Gallia County farmers, buncoing them out of $1,000, was captured at Chatham, Ont. Iloy Kill Sister. Robert Watts, a boy of Gallipolis, Ohio, shot and killed his sister, GoJdie, aged 5 years, whil playing with a shotgun. Soldier Killed in Explosion. George Hammond of the One Una fredth company, coast artillery, was Inftantly killed and four other members of the company seriously injured by a premature explosion of a six-inch rifte gun t Battery Bradford, Fort Terry. Plum Island, N. Y. Drown When Launch Capsizes. A sasoline launch with ten men on board capsized in I lumber, near Toronto, loard capsized in I lumber, near Toronto, Ont., and only one succeeded In reaching the wear by shore, during a heav? thunderstorm. Preacher Is a Bankrupt. For the first time in its history the bankruptcy branch of the United States District Court in New York has before it a petition in bankruptcy signed by a minister. The petitioner is Edward Van Fradenbergh, a resident of Liberty, N. Y. In bis petition he calls himself a "retired minister." Horses Stampede Into Crowd. During a fire in a livery stable in Chattanooga, Tcnn., 300 horse: wero stampeded and dashed through a crowd, bjurinz a score of persons, some yf tksa tirioufly.

HELD AS JEWEL THIEF. Sicilian Charged by Brother with $30,000 Robbery. Nuncio Sergius was arrested in Philadelphia at the instance of his brother, Emilio Sergius of New York, who charges him with the theft of antique jewelry valued at $.i0.CHK). According to the story of Emilio Sergius his family is one of the oldest of Sicilians. The family homestead is in Sorento, where his father died several months ago. The family had been wealthy, but at his death little was left but a collection of antique jewelry, which it was decided should be sold to save the homestead in Italy for the benefit of two (laughters at home and the sons here. The jewels were sent to Emilio in New York and he says that no less an authority than Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke of the .Metropolitan Museum declared they were worth $30,000. On June 20 the collection disappeared from a strong box in Eniilio's rooms in Thompson street. New York. Simultaneously Nuncio disappeared from New York. A warrant was secured by Emilio for his brother's arrest. A few dajs ago Emilio received a letter from Nuncio which was mailed in Philadelphia. He says Nuncio explained in the letter that he had carried the jewelry away, but that after he came to Philadelphia he was held up near Ambler, a suburb, and robbed of everything by thvee Italians. Emilio, with a detective, w-nt through the Italian settlement, where they came upon the missing brother.

FRANCE DESIRES TREATY. Obstacles to Negotiations with United States Removed. What has been characterized as the one obstacle in the way of continuation of negotiations between France and the United States in regard to the tariff has been removed, France having notified the United States that she has extended from Aug. 1 to Oct. 1 the time for the decree for the collection of the minimum duty on coffee from Forto Rico to go into effect. France makes it clear that she considers this extension not a right which the United States can claim, but purely an act of courtesy and good will on her part and an evidence of her earnest hope that the negotiations upon the proposition submitted through M. Jusserand, French ambassador at Washington, will result In an agreement. The negotiations will proceed between Ambassador White and the foreign office. Their progress, however, probably will be slow, as almost all the foreign office officials are away on vacation. Ambassador White, who has been waiting in Taris to ascertain the result of France's consideration of this matter, is about to go to Carlsbad to take the cure. RAIL CASUALTIES 41,507. Startling Record of Deaths on American Railroads. Forty-one thousand five . hundred and seven casualties to passengers and employes is the startling record on the railways of the United States for the six months ending March 31 this year. The total number of casualties during the three months ending March 31 was 20,503, &s compared with 20,944 reported in the preceding three months. The total number of passengers and employes killed in train accidents was 421 and the number of injured 920. The total number of collisions and derailments in the quarter was 3,991 (2,078 collisions and 1,913 derailments), of which 323 collisions and 229 derailments affected passenger trains. The damage to cars, engines and roadway by these accidents amounted to $3,530,110. WOMAN W0BKS IN MINE AS MAN. Toils for Three Years with Husband Until Sex Is Discovered. Masquerading as a man and working side by side with her husband in Washington county (Pa.) coal mines, "Joe Provle was discovered to be Mrs. Susie Trovle when she was taken to a hospital suffering from injuries sustained in a mine accident at Cecil. The woman," according" to her husband, Steve Provle, had been working with him three years. Her deep voice and close-cropped hair deceived all as to her sex, while her strength equaled that of any of her male Slav companions. The woman's injuries were discovered to be not serious and her hus band was lodged in the county jail charg ed with violating the law in employing female help in a mine. The woman acted as Frovle's "helper" and was paid by him. FERE COSTS MEMPHIS $600,000. Cold Storage Plant and Big Grocery . Houses Are Destroyed. In an early morning fire in Memphis, originating on the eleventh floor of the Memphis Cold Storage Company's build ing, which was in the course of erection. Joseph Ilaskey, a fireman, lost bis life and two others were seriously injured. The loss approximates $000.000. The following buildings were destroyed: The Oliver-Finnie Grocery Company's, Behr Cole Grocery Company, Memphis Paper Company and the Memphis Cold Storage plant. The insurance will probably amount to one-half or three-fourths of the loss. AMERICA THE PROMISED LAND. Jacob H. Schiff Cheered by Jews at Chautauqua Meeting. Jacob II. Schiff, the New York bank er, in an address at the closing meeting of the Jewish Chautauqua at Atlantic City, N. J., declared that the hope of restoration of the Jewish nation in Pal estine was cot the guiding star of Is rael's hope; but that the promised land of tbe. Jews was in America. There was instant applause when the sentiment was uttered, which broke out afresh when Mr. Schilf reiterated his belief and said that in the free land o' the United States was to be found the inspiration of the Jew for a higher citizenship. Election in the Philippines. The Independence factions which united in the campaign under the name of the Nationalists appear to have won the first general election, held throughout the Philippine Islands. Incomplete returns from fifty out of eighty districts show that thirty-one Nationalists were elected to the Congress, ten Progressives, eight Independent candidates and one Catholic. In Manila the Nationalists won by a large majority In both districts. Killed While Stealing- Side. Charles Bradley, 35 years old, was killed at York, Pa., while, stealing a ride on a Lehigh Valley freight train. His clothes ignited from -a spark from the locomotive. He fell between the cars and was crushed. Schmitz Regrets the Tangle. Eugene E. Schmitz, convicted Mayor of San Francisco, has appointed thirteen supervisors to fill vacancies and expresses regret at the "official tangle." Flames Endanger 800 Lives. Eight hundred guests of the Long Beach, L. I., hotel, one of the largest seashore hotels ou the Atlantic coast, had to flee for their lives when the hotel was burned to the sands. Wireless Along Coast. The United States government has let a contract to the United States Steel Corporation for transmission towers which are to be used for wireless telegraph service in Alaska. The gortrnment intends to have a chain of the towers erected along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts end on the Gulf of Mexico.

FIX GEOllGIA BLAST.

DISASTER CAUSED BY A "FLARE. BACK." nvj- Department Act on Villains of Xnvnl rtonrtl In Dnttlesuip Accident ItiKltl Precaution Will De Taken In the Fnture. Rigid precautions will hereafter be taken to prevent disasters to battleships in practice work, according to Acting Secretary of the Navy Newberry, who has acted upon the findings and recommenda tions of the board which investigated the accident on the Georgia on July 15 last. resulting in the death of ten officers and sailors and the injury of a number of oir.ers. lhe report includes all of the testimony taken by the board. Almost all of the findings and recommendations, most of which have heretofore been published, were approved by Mr. Newberry, who has ordered them put into effect. The iavy Department is now convinced that the cause of the accident was beyond ques tion a "flareback," which it regards as a welcome conclusion because it is believed that such "fiarebacks" can be dealt with safely by additional precautions. Admiral Mason, chief of the bureau of naval ordnance, in an analysis of the pro ceedings of the board, expresses certainty that the accident's cause was a "flareback," and that "the entering of the cir cular loading scoop or tray prevented tbe proper action of the air jet, which was opened up properly." One of the board's recommendations is . that loading trays that will obstruct the jets of the gas ejectors should not be placed in the gun until after the bore is clear. WELL MAN THE "SEA HORNETS." New Policy in the Navy Is to Utilize Torpedo-Boat Fleet. Orders issuing from the Navy Department show that a number of midshipmer. have been placed on torpedo boat duty. This marks a new policy in the navy, showing the conclusion that the American navy is deficient as compared with foreign navies in torpedo boat work. There are sixty torpedo boats of various types in our navy, yet only sixteen of them are In active service. This has been caused by the shortage of officers, resulting from the heavy demands for such officers for the new battleships going Into commission. But the needs of the tor pedo boat .service are urgent and the navigation bureau has decided that they can be best met by educating a number of specially bright and capable young midshipmen for this work,-which requires in a peculiar measure a combination of resourcefulness, daring and seamanship, Included in this broad term of torpedo boat service is submarine boat work, where the young officers must be carefully selected to secun the necessary qualities of leadership i the extra hazardous conditions of u..der water practice. It is believed that the service will prove particularly attractive to the midshipmen just attaining commission rank, and many applications have already been made. 1,000 KILLED IN MINES. Official Report on Year's Casualties in Pennsylvania. More than 1,000 person? were killed last year in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, according to the annual report Issued by James Roderick, chief of the depart ment of mines. The statistics show that of 557 persons killed in anthracite mines, 274 were the result of the vkiims' carelessness; CO to carelessness of others, 1SS ULavoidable and 20 resulted from acci dents for which responsibility could not be fixed. Of the 477 killed in bituminous mines 277 victims died from their own carelessness, 10 by the carelessness of others, 142 by unavoidable and IS by ac cidents for which responsibility could not be placed. The accidents left nearly 1,000 widows with 3,410 children under 14 years of age. A great deal could be done to alleviate t'je distress, the chief says, if the age limit for the employment of boys inside the mines were lowered from 1G to 14 years. 179 DEGREES IN SUN. Terrific Downpouring of Old SoFl Rays in Texas. For one hour and twenty minutes the other day the most terrific heat visitation ever known occurred around McGregor, Texas. The thermometer registered 170 degrees in the sun and 117 in the shade, An area of three miles long and two miles wide was affected. The visitation was accompanied by a peculiar haze hangin like a veil in the sky, which moved over the area affected. Scores of people were overcome. Horses, cattle, hogs and poul try dropped dead, one man losing thirty five head of stock. The phenomenon has not been explained. PRESBYTERIAN UNION IS VALID. Chancellor Holds Neither Faction Can Control Church Property. In his opinion delivered at Fayetteville, Tenn., in the Presbyterian case be tween the unionists and the anti-union-ists, involving the right of possession in the property of the Cumberland Presby terian church, Chancellor Walter Beardea held that the "union" wa3 valid and in substantial conformity to the church con stitutions, but dismissed the bill of the "unionists" asking for exclusive poises sion of church property and taxed com plainants with the costs. Both sides ap pealed. Kills Father to Save Mother. Charles Sweed was shot and instantly killed in Zauesville, Ohio, by his son Will iam Sweed, 15 years old. It is alleged that Sweed was abusing his wife and threatening to kill her when the son se cured a shotgun and fired, the charge entering his father's head. Th9 lad sur rendered to the police. The Sweeds are negroes. Valued Paintings Found. According to the Milan correspondent of the LonJon Tribune, Paradiss, th? painter of Trieste, has found two hither to unknown pictures by litian in a church in the village of Traci, Dalmatia. One represents the Magdalen and the other the descent from the cross. The pictures, it is stated, are of great value. Archbishop and Girl Arrested. Archbishop Lagen of the Independent Polish Catholic Church, who fled from St. Louis with $1,000 of his parishioners money and a girl, was captured in Paris, France. The Archbishop and the girl at one time lived in Chicago. Georgia Prohibition Rill Passed. The Ilardman-Covington prohibition bill passed by the Georgia Senate has been passed by the House by a vote of 130 to SO. King Peter of Servia In PeriL The Vienna correspondent of a London news agency says that dispatches received from the frontier report an attempt against the life of King Peter of Servia. The royal train, according to the dispatches, we.s wrecked at Palanska. Nobody was seriously hurt. Engine Blows Up; Three Dead. Engineer L. W. Chamberlain, Fireman P. F. Weisner and Brakeman C. A. Stewart were instantly killed at Urbana, 0., on a Pennsylvania freight train. The boiler of the engine blew up, killing the three men and upsetting several can.

ALASKAN FARMS.

Nearly 3,000,000 Acres Soon to Be Opened for Settlers. At a distance of some 50 miles south of the Arctic Circle 2.9NO,000 acres of und will be oined fur settlement in Maska on Sept. o, by a recent order of the Secretary of the Interior. This great tract has been held in reserve for a nation:! 1 forest around Norton bay, but the projui was abandoned, so many were thf demands for entry on land which had iron found more suitable for settlement. The spriug rush for Alaska overwhelmed steamship accommodations and filled up the wharves at Seattle with household freight, but the order of the Secretary is expected to prolong the rush up to the approach of winter. Alaska has been in the throes of a general strike and tieup, but as usual in such cases this feature is wearing itself out. These trou bles were caused by the shortage of labor in southeastern Alaska, owing to the ac tivity of railway building and the devel opment of new mines, culminating in a cneral demand for higher wages. Agriculture is proceeding hand in hand with the efforts of government experiment stations, which are constantly determin ing what will grow which heretofore has been exotic to the soil. So far, all the hardier vegetables have been made to thrive, and in the large valleys of the interior experiments are "being made, with every prospect of success, to grow . hay, grain and stock 'feed capable of maintain ing work animals. The great valley along the Susitna river in central Alaska, extending north from Cook's Inlet and Res urrection bay. it is declared has a mild climate all th? year, owing to the warm curreuts of the ocean, and will grow almost anything that is raised in temperate zones. The permanent white population of Alaska is now 33,000, with 0,000 nomads at work here and there. The increase now averages 3,500 souls a year, a figure which the coming opening of lands ia ex pected to swell materially. These people shipped to the States last year $29,330,2S0 worth of gold, silver, copper and merchandise in the form of fish products. Cable, telegraph and mail connections are being generally extended and already Alaska is ambitious to become a State. Alienists for Mrs. Kddy. Dr. George F. Jelly, the Boston mental specialist, and Dr. G. A. Blumer of Providence were appointed comasters with Judge Aldrich to examine Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the aged founder and head of the Christian Science church, as to her mental competency to look after her business interests. Judge Aldrich had vritten Judge Chamberlin that he was averse to taking the sole responsibil ity in so important a matter. Later Dr. Blumer declined to act and the defend ants strongly opposed the appointment of any doctors. Counsel for Mrs. Eddy and her trus tees filed exceptions to the appointment of the two directors as comasters because they are non-residents of New Hamp shire, and are authorized to render a de cision not predicated wholly upon the evidence submitted to them, and also to the issue framed by the court and the denial by the court of the previous motions by the defendant, nil of which are expected to result in carrying the entire case, with all its complications, to the Supreme Court. France has 4,025 local unions, with an aggregate membership of 7S1.344. Blaeksnake whips, whip lashes and rid ing quirts are practically all prison made. Detroit, Mich., secured the 1003 conven tion of the St?arafitters' and Helpers' Union. Plasterers of the Pittsburg, Pa., dis trict have. been granted a half holiday on Saturday. , Wages of the carpenters of Stockton, Cal., were increased 50 per cent recently The scale is now $4.50 a day. Drug clerks throughout the Atlantic States are forming unions and joining the Retail Clerks' International Union. As a result of the 'longshoremen's strike at New York, the exports from that port dropped ?j,O14,0SO in one week. Thtf proposition to establish an old age home for miners was defeated bv the Iowa mine workers on a referendum vote,. The Electrical Workers of Cleveland, Ohio, have asked for an increase of cents an hour. The present pay is 45 cents. The "Patriotic Association of Labor Unions" has been formed at Hamburg, Germany, as a mcns of opposing Social ists in the labor movement of that country. The superintendent of colonization h?s received from the Ontario (Canada) Canners Association an earnest request for help to keep their canning works in op eration. A government bill has been introduced in the Hungarian Parliament prohibiting employes of State railroads from participating in strikes, under pain of instant dismissal. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters dm ins 1900 paid benefits amounting to $107,00O. and the death and disability claims äuring that period amounted to $218,202. San Francisco, Cal., laundry workers have all returned to their respective posts and tbe statement is made thai for three years all will bo quiet in the laundries of San Francisco. Since the workmen's compensation act came into force In Great Britain, the members of the Dockers Union have re ceived by way of legal awards for acci dents $1S5.371. ;. iigarmaKers international Union is now combating a lockout in Georgia and a strike at Mobile, Ala., the latter for an increase of wages. There is also a sirike at Havana, Cuba. Boilermakers and Iron shipbuilders on the northeast coast of England nave renewed their demand for an advance of Is Od ier week on time wages and 5 per cent on piece work rates. There is considerable unrest in Lancashire, England, by reason of the demand of the cotton spinners for an advance of 5 per cent. The Scottish Co-operative Society was organized in 1S0S with a capital of less than $0,00O. Now it has a capital of more thin $1,500,000. Boot and Shoe Workers' International Union has recently chartered local isiions at San Rafael, Cal.; Pueblo, Colo., and San Juan, Porto Itico. Five thousand freight handlers in the employ of railroads in Chicago, 111., probably will receive wise advances amounting to $25,00O annually. Should a strike be declared against the Western Union by the Commercial Telegraphers Union, the latter will probably order a $500.000 assessment. Boston, Mass., brewery coopers have been granted their desired $4 a day minimum wage by the arbitration board which adjudicated the matter. The British Federation of Engineering and Shipping Trades represents twentyfive societies, with a membership of 3S0,00O skilled artisans in those industries. The New South Wales Kail way Commissioners have established seventy-three "rest houses" on the various lines for the convenience and comfort of enginemen and guards when away from home.

1030 Olaf defeated by the Swedes at Stricklestadt. 1130 Portuguese defeated the Moors at Ourique. 1403 Hotspur (Sir Henry Fercy) killed at the battle of Shrewsbury. 1411 Lord o the Isles defeated at Ilar ia W. 1G2S Kirke defeated ltoquemont in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 1G20 Kirke defeated Do Caen near Malhai. 1637Itook of Canons and Common Prayer issued for Scotland. 1CÖ3 Baron D'Avaugour, governor of New France, resigned. 1701 Detroit founded by Cadillac. 1704 Gibraltar captured by combined English and Dutch force. 1750 Fort Niagara surrendered to the British. 177S French fleet arrived at Newport to co-operate with Washington. 1785 Saxony, Brandenburg and Hanover formed the German alliance. 1S01 First load tramway opened in England. 1S03 Ilising' in Ireland under Emmet. 1804 Georges and his fellow conspira tors guillotined at Paris for conspiracy against Bonaparte. 1S14 Americans defeated at Lundy's Lane. 1S2S Silistria invested by the Russians. 1S43 Abel P. Upshur of Virginia be came Secretary of State. 1S47 Salt Lake City founded . by the Mormons. 1S51 Window tax tDoIished in England. 1S54 The Danish government pro claimed a new monarchical constitution. .. .Allied French and English . squadron sailed for Honolulu to destroy the Bussian possessions in Kamchatka. 1S5S Third attempt to lay Atlantic cable begun in m:d-ocean. . . . Jews relief act passed by the British Parliament. 1S3I Dr. Livingstone returned from his expedition in Africa. 1SG5 Great Britain started to lay the second 1 Atlantic cable between America and Euroiie. 1SGS Territory of Wyoming formed from Dakota, Utah and Idaho. 1SG0 Irish Church Disestablishment act received the royal assent. 1S70 Michael Davitt tried for treasonfelony. 1S73 Franco and England signed a treaty of commerce. 1S74 Twenty-five persons killed by cloudburst at Eureka, Nevada. 1SS3 Capt. Webb drowned while attempting to swim the rapids of Niagara. 1S84 Congressman William Wirt Culbertson of Kentucky attempted to commit suicide in a Washington (D. C.) hotel. 1SS3 Princess Beatrice, daughter of Queen Victoria, married to Prince Henry of Battenberg. 1SSG Lord Salisbury became premier of tireat Britain. 1S00 A p.rt of Lawrence, Mass., wrecked by a cyclone. 1S91 France annexed Tahiti. JS04 William E. Mason defeated In effort to secure nomination as candidate for United States Senator from Republican convention of Illinois. 1S05 Henry Irving knighted by Queen Victoria. 1S09 Final sitting of the first peace conference at The Hague. 1900 King Humbert of Italy assassinated at Monza. 1901 Earl Russell sentenced by the British House of Lords to three months imprisonment for bigamy. To Break Telegraph Combination. Attorney General Jackson of New York has appealed to the Supreme Court of New York county for the appointment of a referee to take testimony on his allegation that the Postal and Western Union Telegraph companies have formed a combination to increase? rates of service in that and other States. This is preliminary to his action to restrain the said combination, and requires that Messrs. Gould, Schiff, Jepsup, Ilarriman, Mackay, Clowrey and other officials of the two companies shall testify before the referee. It is charged that this com bination was made last January and that it has resulted in an increase of 5 cents a message of ten words, and also that the companies have agreed to establish At various placeVoniT,on offices, and to divide tbe profits and business received BclKinn Ship Cnnnl Opened. King lipoid of Belgium, in the pres enee of a jrreat throng, formally declared open the new ship canal from Uruges to the sea, designed to divert a portion of the Rhine traffic and attract shipping from Antwerp. CaiupaiKH ICxpeuse Limited. Gov. Hughes has fcgned the bill amend ing the New York penal code so as to limit the expenses of candidates for public office. The maximum in the case of candidate for Governor is $10,000, and for any other elective State office $0,000, San Francisco Xew Mayor. Coincident with the announcement from the district attorney that the "reign of the big stick is at an end in San Fran cisco." the Board of Supervisors elected Dr. Edward U. Taylor Mayor to fill out th unexpired term of Schmitz. Dr. Tay lor, who is well known in the West as a lawyer and writer and as dean of the Hastings Law School of the University of California, also took his degree as a physician. He has been prominent in civic reform work for many years and promises to give the city a non-partisan administration. Coiitfres to Iet Tariff Alone. "l'e come to the conclusion after the talk to-dav that there will be no re vision of the tariff until after the next presidential election. It would be sui cidal to ti e Republican' party to under take a revision of the tariff at the next session of Congress. After the election it will be done." Thus spoke Senator Hopkins of Illinois to the reporters who met Lim at Oyster I5aj atter a long con ference with President Roosevelt. II. E Miles of Wisconsin, a leader of the re visionist movement, accompanied the Sen ator.

E0PS ARE ALL BIG.

NATIONAL RICHNESS GROWING UP FROM THE SOIL. iteports Show that PredietionM 0 Disaster llecanse of Frigid Sprln Were I n founded o Doubt About "Wheat Corn Only nackward. Pessimists who saw distress and financial -ruin for the fanners of the Uni teil States and because of th?ir ard times a .dringoncy for the whole )(I)ulatlon of the country, have been put to rout by reports of crop prostoe ts received in Chicago. The lato spring, with its accompanynpr chilly blasts, which lingered until the beginning of summer, furnished many prophets with dark visions for the future, and tho story of the complete failure of all the important crops was handed about as an estab lished fact. Just how far these false prophets tailed lias only recently come to light In the cheerful reitorts from practically every section of the United Stages. Stories of the prosperity near at hand for the American fanner a prosperity practically sure to be reflected to all classes of citizens ca-ne from the editors of various farm weeklies and periodicals devoted to crop conditions. Only in the case of corn does there seem to have been any appreciable effect from tbe bad weather of Mf.rcu. April and May. And even the corn crop Is said to lte merely a backward one, with a tendency to be underdeveloped, but a sanguine hope is entertained that it will come around In time to maintain its place among the other grain crops of the couutry, New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Indiana, and the southern states suffered probably the most with their corn crops, but these probably will be offset by the bumper crops cxiieeted from Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois, three of the greatest producing states for the grain. Practically nothing but cheering news has been heard from the all important wheat crop. Kansas will harvest (500,000,000 bushels this year, and highly satisfactory stories of tbe progress of the CTop and Its attendant prosperity promises have come from Minnesota, the Dakotas, Missouri, and the far northwestern states. Rumor of the destructive green bug have apparently died In the last few weeks, and while It Is admitted that the Insect did a deal of harm in Oklahoma und the Indian territory, its appearance in other important wheat growing states was short and the damage small. The weather has been of a variety calculated to give tbe boll weevil, the terror of the cotton fields, not even a chance for his life, and the southern farmers are corrcsixmdiugly happy. Report from Many Statea. MINNESOTA The farmers apparently have entirely forgotten there was such a thing as a late spring and are going ahead with enthusiasm. The prospects for ihe wheat crop are especially prom-is-'ng. NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA Conditions were never surpassed, with the possible excetion of the low lands. Tl?ere the crops have suffered slightly on account of the unusual rains, but elsewhere there will be at least an average wheat crop, if nothing better. The yield of oats, barley and flax will stand high, In comparison with recent years, especially when the acreage is taken into consideration. IOWA In most sections the crops are better than they have been in years. Late rains did some damage, but not enough to affect the general outlook. Corn, the big Iowa crop, will be above the average, and one expert has boldly declared the yield within the State will be over 300,000,000 bushfls. There will probably be a normal yield of oats, amounting to about l.'iO.OOO.OUO bushels. KANSAS A wheat crop approximating (500,000,000 bushels spells prosperity for this State beyond doubt. The farmers are as happy as they have been in a decade. NEBRASKA One of the largest corn crops Nebraska has ever known is confidently predicted. At first it seemed as if the yield would be shot, but good, steady weather around the first of July did the work, and now a bumper run is in sight. With an increased acreage of wheat, there will be an average crop, and the yield of alfalfa will also be jfreat. The ranges are reported in excellent shape. ILLINOIS Something better than an average crop of wheat, a fine large crop of both timothy and clover hay, and plenty of oats and rye is the story of the farmers. The corn is keeping up weil and fruit alone is in bad shape. INDIANA Records of last season will hardly be broken, but the crops will far exceed the early expectations. Corn and oats are a little behind the average, but the other field crops are about equal to other years. The fruit crop is below the normal. , OIIIO As a whole the crops are about the average. In some sections the prospects are away above the normal, but in others it i anaront there will be decreases in the yield, all tending to even up matters. 1 TEXNESSKK All the crops are late because of the cold weather of the spring, but prospects point to a crop of nearly average yield. MISSOURI Despite the disheartening predictions for corn urowers, an expert says the crop is only seven points behind last year. The oat crop is the best in years, and wheat is about the average KENTUCKY Plenty of late vegetables is the story of the farmers. The early outlook was anything but satisfactory, but the situation has cleared to a considerable extent. The corn crop is reported in excellent shape. VIRGINIA The tobacco crop is late and will be off in quality and quantity. Corn is also late, but is rounding to in good fashion in the hot weather. There is a good crop of hay. and feed for stock is said to be plentiful. LOUISIANA Rice, the principal crop, is in splendid shape with all prospects Iointing to a big yield.. TEXAS With 4,000,000 bales of cotton and ir."i.(MKMKK bushels of corn in sight, the outlook is highly encouraging. Range conditions are said to be better than they have been in years, and the small crops, such as peanuts, sweet potatoes, rice and alfalfa, are in excellent shape. MISSISSIPPI There will be no over production of cotton, the staple crop of Mississippi. Good prices are in prospect. FAR NORTHWESTERN STATES The outlook for grain, hay, fruit and potatoes is reitorted better than ever. The hops crop, however, will be a small one. NEW ENGLAND All crops were late getting into the ground, but with the possible exception of sweet corn, everything will be up to the average. There will be full crops of fruit and potatoes. CANADA Reports received are of a cheerful nature, with the possible exception of those from northern Manitoba.

CHICAGO. Midsummer quiet is more in evidence, but no loss of strength appears in the general conditions supporting the business outlook. The recent ratio of gain in the volume of payments through banks is not sustained this week and the record of trading defaults ajain compares unfavorably in number with those a year ago. The leading industries disclose no special change. Satisfactory weather permits factory production to run without hindrance, and the volume of distribution of finished products and general merchandise makes an increasing exhibit, although there is smaller movement of grain, due to decreased marketings. New demands in iron and steel aggregate no less than expected at this time, but there are more bookings of contracts for cars and other equipment, and inquiries increase for rails and plates to be taken next year. Furnaces work close to capacity. Operations at the mines are now rushed in the effort to overcome the setback caused by the strike. A further decline is established in copper, but other markets for raw materials continue steady. Building activity retains a good outlook. The wholesale markets for staples advance in activity. Agricultural affairs are seen to be much better than a month ago, and the returns obtained for grain and live stock steadily enrich growers throughout the West. Harvest reports indicate seasonable progress, with winter wheat and oats making good yields. Corn improves right along and spring wheat sections send in more encouraging advices. Supplies of live stock fail to measure up ade quately, and this brings the highest values recorded this year for choice' beeves and further rise in hogs, products of the latter alsa making a higher average cost. Dun's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Crops, particularly corn and cotton, 'have shown further improvement, there is freer buying for fall at leading south western markets, shipments of fall goods are expandinz and there is evident a more optimistic feeling as to distributive trade generally, based upon the active trade done of late at retail. Relatively most activity is noted in the larger south western markets, at few central western centers, and at' the larger eastern cities. In the South midsummer quiet rides. In some lines of wholesale trade, such as cotton dry goods, the activity manifested is still notable. Spelter, coppe? and lead are weaker, and business Is light. Raw wool is notably strong. Business failures for the week in the United States num ber 142, against 15T last week, 170 in the like week in 1900, 178 in 190. 179 in 11)04 and 1G4 in 1903. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. $4.00 to $7."i0; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $(.&; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $r.70; wheat, No. 2, 90c to 91c; corn, No. 2, 53c to c ; oats, standard, 40c to 47c; rye, No. 2, 81c to S2c; hay. timothy. $14.00 to $21.00; prairie, $9 to $12.tO; butter, choice creamery, to 24c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 17c; potatoes, jt bushel, SOc to 90c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $7.10; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $(.".; heep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 85c to S7c; corn. No. 2 white, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 45c to 4Gc. " : St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $7.25; hogs. $4.00 to $0.45; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2, 87c to SOc; corn. No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats. No. 2, 45c to 40c; rye, No. 2, 82c to 84c. Cincinnatiattle, $4.00 . to $025; hogs, $4.00 to $0.40; sheep, $3.0) ' to $4.85; wheat. No. 2, 90c to 91c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 50c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 40c; rye, No. 2, Stc to SSc. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to S5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $G.40; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 91c to 92c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 50c to 5Sc; oats, No. 3 white, 4!c to 50c; rye, No. 2, 79c to 80c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 99c to $1.01; corn. No. 53c to 54c; oats, standard, 45c to 47c; rye, No. 1, 85c to 87c; barley, standard, GSc to 70c; pork, mess, $1G.27. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $1.00 to $i.90; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.75; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.00; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $.00. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $0is; hogs, $4.00 to $0.80; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to Ote; corn, No. 2, T.Oc to OOc ; oats, natural white, 53c to 55c; butter, creamery, 22c to 25c ; eggs, western, 10c to 20c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 80c to 90c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 54c to 50c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 40c; rye. No. 2, 74c to 75c; clover seed, prime, $0.45. New of Minor K t Public meetings are being held in Chile, in opposition to the education bill, which it is feared would give the clerical party control of the schools. i An earthouake that rocked the tall buildings was felt in Santa Barbara, Cal. Several women attending the Potter the ater fainted. John D. Rockefeller told the Euclid Avenue Baptist Sunday school of Cleveland the secret of happiness. He said it lay in self-sacrifice and doing gooi to others. An attempt was made to wreck the train on which Grand Duke Peter Nicholievitch, cousin of the Czar, wa traveling from Peterhof to St. Petersburg. A pe tard exploded on the -track, but the train was not derailed. Joseph (livens, a wealthy tunentine manufacturer of Brewton, Ala., was shot and killed by his wife because he pulled her tresses in his opposition to her poniladour style of hairdressing. The Wilson line, it is announced in Mexico Citv. will soon be plying between v.. f)r!oaii4 and Mexican and Central American ports, touching at Vigia, Port Morelos, Belize and other points. The first annual convention of th Illu minating Engineering Society of Amor ica was oioned in Boston with delegates present from the New Lngland, New York. Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco sections. The Navy Department at Washington Announced that official investigation of the recent explosion on the battleship Georgia revealed that it was not due to defective smokeless powder, as had been intimated by Robert S. Waddell, president of the Buckeye PuwcLr Company at Peoria, 111. Latest of vast fortunes sought by seekers of lost treasure is the Transvaal war chest containing $5,000,000. The chest was taken from hiding at Delagoa bay in 1808 and shipped on the Dorothea, w hich vessel was lost on a reef in the Indian ocean. Now the steamship Alfred Nobel has been specially fitted up by a syndicate for the work of recovering this treasure.

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SEVEX PHIEST AHE ORDA1NCD. ISUhop AIlcrtlinK Officiate at Cere mony at Notre Dame. In an unusual ordination ceremony. that of solemn pontifical high mass, seven members of the Congregation of the Holy Cross were solemnly ordained rriests in the Church of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame, near South Bend. The new priests are: lathers Svtmewski, Uruza and Szybokiez of South Bend. Father O'Malley of Westport, Wis.; Father O'Connor of Galveston, Texas ; Father McKeone of New Haven, Coun, and Father Far ley of Patersen, N. J. They were or dained by Bishop Allerding of Fort Wayne. JEALOUS WOMAN KILLS 3IAN. Mrs. Florence Grave Shoot Frank Drown at Bllcblffan City lad. Infuriated by jealousy Mrs. Florence Graves, 2.1 yean old. shot Frank Brown to death In Michigan City. Brcwn had called at Mrs. Graves' home and ihe cou ple quarreled because of Brown's alleged attentions to other women. Brown started from the house. Mrs. Graves ran tothe top of the stairway and fired a bullet into his brain. The wounded man died a few minutes later in a hospital. When Mrs. Graves was arrested she admitted the shooting. Brown was 20 years old and came lecently from Three Oaks, Mich. SWALLOWS SNAKE IN DRINK. Camper Coufr;na Up Green Reptile Six lachei Long. Thomas Jefferiev member of the Rough Rider Club of Cincinnati, who has been camping on the Ohio river near Lawrtneeburg, got up the other night and took a drink from a spring near by. This was at 1 o'clock, and in a few minutes after he retired he awoke his companions with his groans. A doctor was summoned, but before the physicians arrived the man nearly died. .Tefferies was given an emetic and be coughed up a green snake six inches long. Jeleries has low entirely recovered. t ' ALL TO CHURCH) NEAR DEATH. Iadlanlan Who Lived Like Miser e Aid MUslona Very Low. Elijah Hays of Warsaw, who gave all his fortune to the cause of missions, at the age of 90 is at the point of death. For years Hays lived like a miser to get more money for charity. He gave $100,000 twentj'-one years ago to the Methodist College for Ministers at Mercedes, Argentina, and the church granted him an annuity of $1,(100 and one of $500 for his wife. From this sum he naved $20. 000, which he gave for missions five years ago. Indiana Line Will Obey. 1 At a conference between representatives of the railroads operating in Indiana and the Indiana railroad commiMion, it was agreed that the railroads will comply strictlj- with the law passed by the last session of the Legislature, by which all railroad trains must come to a full stop at iuterurban crossings unless they are protected by an interlocking device, a guard, or by other means. Youth Steal tirocerr Wasoa. Given a job as grocery delivery boy. Jesse Burkholder of, Wabash, secured his chum, Luther Lutz,' and the two lads started out to hunt Indians, first securing a big load of groceries on which they intended to feast for the first few weit of their nomadic life. They evaded capture for half a day, but were overhauled by parents. The boys are each 13 years old. Fort Wajne Hoy I Drownfd. William Rowley, aged 11, dived from a prin;rboard in St. Mary's river at the Taylor street hridge in Fort Wayne and did not come up alive. It is supjoscd he struck on his head on the rocks at the bottom and was stunned. Formrr Superior Court Judge W. J. Yesey waded in and recovered the body. Kill Slant Does Not Know It. In a quarrel over a dollar Oscar Proctor, aged IS, who had placed his horse with N. C. Titus, a Lebanon liveryman, aged 70, struck Titus on the head with a reck, secured his rig. and drove out of town. Titus died later. . Proctor was followed and arrested. He did not know Titus was dead. Fear Inanlty Ends Life. James V. Stewart, a veteran school teacher, nded his life in Peru by firing a bullet Into his brain. He wroie a letter to his daughter saying that he realised that he was becoming insane. Admits Roblilajr Ticket Ofllce. A man giving his name as S. o. Manual, who was arrested in B?dfa-d, owned to having robbed the Southern Indiana ticket office at Burns City. Brief State liappenlnc Mrs. Samuel Blackburn was fatally burned in Evansville In a fire due to sHntaneous combustion caused by gasoline. Myron, 5-year-old son of Sheriff Logan Staples of Whitley county, was burned to death by the explosion of a can containing gascline. Harry I lemon way, cousin to United States Senator Hemenway, v.liile picking blackberries near Iioonville, killed sixtjrsix Makes in one place. Word was received in Indianapolis ol the drowning of Karle Irvin at Colon. He rescued four Americans from drowning in the surf, but was so exhausted by his efforts that be was unabh to reach shore. Carson Emery was arraigned in court in Logansport, charged with snoring so loudly that be kept neighbors from sleeping. "He lives two blocks from me, said Louis E. (S arber. the prosecuting witness, "but last night he kept me awake by his snoring." Police Ju-Jge Smith put Emery under a $50 lnnd to keep the peace. George Connor, aged 21. was drowned Ir. Sylvan lake near Rome City, becoming entangled in weeds while swimming. Murray Phillips, aged 19, while bathing in (IreeD rive. near Fvansville was seized with cramps ar.d drewned. His body was recovered Mrs. Charles Robinson, living near Manchester station, took a desperate chance when she shot a vicious dog that was tugging at her husband's throat. The rifle was so well aimed that 4he bullet went through the animal'u heart. Mr. Robinson was so nearly exhausted by his struggle that he could not throw oJT the lody of the dog, which had lallen on him. Miss Map' McDonald, a teacher in the city school, was drowned in the St. Joseph river at South Bend. She. with three ethers. Mrs. Pearl Garfield, Dr. ThomaR J. Walsh and Frank Gale, all members of a picnic party, were out in a canoe when the craft upset. Not one of the four could swim, and had It not been for assistance it is probable that all would have drowned. Vnable to resist the desire to go nwin ming with other boys, although he was disobeying his mother, Paul Knightlinger, aged 1, was drowned in South Bend. The boy was sent on an errand by his mother, but went swimming in the St. Joseph river instead.