Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 September 1907 — Page 2

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G"N. M.-v F. Q.F.M. (TU Q. y:th. y 14thASy21st. J 29th. T AST AND PßESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORKERS OF THE EARTH. Telesrraphlc Information Gathered by the Few for the Ectichtenment of the Many. . Twenty-Four Killed in Wreck. A fearful head-on collision between the south-bound express and a northbound freight train on the Concord division of the Boston & Maine railroad occurred four miles north of Canaan Station, Vermont, due to a mistake in train dispatchers' orders. From a demolished passenger coach there were taken out twenty-four dead and dying and twenty-seven other passengers, most of them .eriously injured. Nearly all those wjo were in the death car ere returring from a fair at Sherbrook, Quebec, sixty miles north. The conductor of the freight train was given to undertsand that he had plenty of time to reach a siding by the night operator at Canaan Station, receiving, according to the superintendent of the division, a copy of a telegraph' order from the train dispatchc r at Concord which confused the train numbers thirty and thirty-four. The wreck occurred just pftor the express had rounded Into a straight stretch of track, but owing n the early morning mist neither en? infer saw the other's headlight until too late. Fatal Wreck on Pennsylvania. In a freight wreck on the Richmond division of the Pennsylvania railroad north of Richmond, Ind., Peter Muhl, aged 66 years, a resident of Hagerstown, was killed and Conductor O. E. Thomas, of Richmond, was injured, but not seriously. The train ran Into an open switch and several cars were derailed. The loss Is considerable. It was the second fatal wreck in two weeks at "Dead Man's Curve." The train, a west-bound double-header freight, was running fifty miles an hour when it was derailed. Six cars were demolished and Muhl was killed at the Washington street crossing by tumbling cars. The switch was thrown under the train by a broken truss dragging from a sixty foot asphaltum car. The roadbed was destroyed for several hundred feet and all traffic was delayed twenty-four hours. $1,C0 in Gold in Fire Ruins. Fire destroyed the fine rural home belonging to the Misses Martha and Elizabeth Longenecker, wealthy women near Mishäwaka, Ind. The fire started in the kitchen, and the house was destroyed. The loss will reach $4,000, with $1,000 Insurance. Nearly all c? the fine furniture was saved, but $l,S0O in gold, in a trunk on the second floor, went down in the heap of ashes and cinders. Circus Man Left $300,000. The will of the late LouJs Sells, last of the ehowmen of that name, who died last week, was deposited with the Probate Court in Columbus, Ohio, by W. B. Heston, his attorney. It ws stated by the attorney that Mr. Stils left an estate valued at $300,000, which Is equally divided between his widow and -his daughter, with provision for annuities to his sisters ample to sustain them for their lives. Millionaire Woodford Dead. A special from Charlevoix, Mich., says that M. D. Woodford, aged C9, a multimillionaire railroad magnate, real estate financier and former president of the C II. & D. railroad, of Cincinnati, Ohio, died Sunday in his summer home after a lingering illness. Voliva Succeeds Dowie. Wilbur Glenn Vohva was formally elected general overseer of the Christian Catholic Apostolic church in ZIon for life by the general ecclesiastical conference held in a tent at ZIon City, 1IL The vote of 1,202 was pronounced unanimous. Coincidence of Death. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Poole, 56 and 52 years old respectively, were killed at the same mcment, the former by an explosion In a coal mine, and his wife In the railroad yards at Centralia, III. Their home was In Odin, 111. Oldfield's Two Miles in Two Minutes. Barney Oldfield in the "Green Dragon" automobile made two miles at the Latonia race track in Cincinnati, Ohio, in two minutes. The first mile was made In 1:00 2-5 and the second In :59 3-5. Traction Magnate Dead. Furnam J. Stout, general manager of the Lake Shore electric road, died alter a brief illness following an operation In Toledo, Ohio. Heavy Shipments of Coal. Shipments of hard coal by lake from Buffalo during August amounted to 4C5,373 tons, breaking the record of July, when 421,525 tons were forwarded to upper lake ports by oat. Of the totai Duluth and Superior received 1S1.03S tons, Chicago 132,S00 tons and Milwaukee 87,350 tons. Blow Restores Man's Health. Frark Harold, whose face was paralyzed last March by a blow from a stick in a sawmill, was restored to normal condition by a similar accident in Newark, Ohio. , Hobbed while Burying Money. Fearing to trust banks and burying CS73 in his cellar the other night, Sam IWesterfield, a negro restaurateur in Llnroln. Neb- was attacked by two robbers and his money taken from him as he was diffging the hole. His head was badly cut and he was kicked into insensibility. First Football Hurt of Year. fThe first football accident of the season has been recorded at Chicopee, Mass. .Within a minute of beginning the fit football practice the collar bone of Fred Grlgss of the Chicopee iiiga öcüooi leren was broken in a mass play.

FINDS CITY OF UNKNOWN RACE.

Prof. Saville of Columbia University Returns from Trip to Fcuador. M. II. Saville, professor of ethnology fit Columbia university, who has returned from a trip to Ecuador, said he had discovered the ruins of cities near the coast which contained many evidences of a face hitherto unknown to present-day scientists. The professor's researches extended along the Pacific coast about fifty miles to the north and about the same distance to the south of the equator. Somewhere between these points and to a distance about 100 miles inland he found evidences of a city of antiquity. The city, he said, had streets lined with houses of a singular construction. Though the dwellings bed been made of light material, a sort of palmetto or thatch, they had been constructed evidently with a view of withstanding the shocks of the frequent earthquakes of the region and were intact. He said he Ixdieved the city had contained 3.000 or more people 5t0 years ago. In his opinion tlie race was one of the highest in civilization living in America previous to the coming of Columbus. REGAINS KIDNAPED CHILD. Finding Husband Had Taken Six-Year-Old, Mother Pursues. A double kidnaping, with the mother of the stolen child as the heroine, occurred at New Egypt, N. J., early on a recent morning. Because of domestic troubles Charles Hopkins and his wife separated some time ago, the latter retaining possession of their 0-year-old daughter, despite demands on the part of Hopkins tliat she surrender her to him. About - o'clock the other morning Hopkins, it is alleged, entered his -wife's home and carried the sleeping child away in a wagon. When Mrs. Hopkins awoke and missed the child she surmised what had happened, and, securing a fleet hors?, started in pursuit. At Cookstown she found her husband's horse and wagon tied in front of a store with the child fast asleep on some straw, and Hopkins, presumably, in the store. Jumping from her conveyance, she secured the child and returned to her home, to receive the congratulations cf her neighbors upon her quick-wittedness. ALASZA1I VOLCANO BREAKS OUT. Eruption in Aleutian Islands Covers Vilages with Ashes. Advices received at Seattle from an officer of the revenue cutter Rush, lying at Dutch Harbor, and dated Sept. 4, say that on Sept. 1 and 2 a volcano in the Aleutian Islands broke forth, sending tons of ashes and cinders over a score or more of native villages, frightening the oati-e Alaskans as well as the whites' out of their wits and covering the decks of the cutter with debris from the volcano. A hurricane accompanied the phenomenon and wild fowl of all kinds were driven far to sea. No lives were reported Ion. The eruption occurred in the vicinity of the volcanic island Ptrry, which sprang up from the sea a short time after the San Francisco earthquake. SOLDIERS STORM JAIL; REPULSED Attack Prison to Free Comrade, but Are Prlghtened by Shot3. A mob of nearly 'fifty soldiers of the Farriers' School at Fort Riley came to Junction City about 10 o'clock the other morning for the purpose of ' releasing a comrade who was confined in the county jail. The sheriff and city police force were notified of their coming and from positions in windows above the jail opened a fire that quickly dispersed the mob as it sought to force an entrance. The authorities at Fort Riley placed guards at the jail and are aiding in the effort to find the members of the mob. . Two arrests have been made. No one was shot. Submerged Wreck Perils Ships. The late survey steamer General Williams' reports the discovery of a wreck in thirty-six feet of water, two miles northeast of Colchester light. It lies close to tue track of boats bound for the Detroit river and taking the north side of Colchester light. The wreck has twentythree feet of water over it at the present stage, but in stormy weather it would be a menace to shipping. Rob Bank; Flee from Possee. Masked robbers broke int and blew open the safe in the Royal Savings bank in Chippewa, Ont. A posse was organized and at once set out in pursuit of the robbers. Officials of the bank say the safe blowers were frightened away before they got into the safe deposit box inside the vault, where the most of the bank's money was kept. Woman Is Slain In Bed. Mrs. Maude Westerfield, 20 years old, was found murdered in her home in Chicago. Her body, with a bullet wound over the left temple, was found in bed by her husband, Herman Westerfield, 39 years old. The police are looking for Edward Hildebrandt, 29 years old, who for several months has boarded with the 'Westerfields, and is said to have been attentive to the woman. Praises Lightning Rods. Fire Marshal Purtell of Wisconsin says that lightning rods are almost a certain safeguard against loss of property from lightning, and suggests that fire insurance companies offer lower rates to property owners who use them. Head of Czar's Prison Slain. M. Borodulin, general superintendent of the Akatui political prison, in Transbaikalia, Russia, was assassinated by an unidentified man on the streets of Pakoff, his home village, where he was spending a vacation. Picnic Is Routed by Bees. A swarm of bees, stirred to anger, put to rout a large Sunday school picnic at Ardmore, Ta. The woman picnickers were forced to strip off their skirts to fight away the buzzing enemy. Will Make 10,000 Idle. Th Amalgamated Copper Company will close its big mines at Butte, throwing 10,000 men out of work. This action, which is caused by overstock of metal, has demoralized stocks. Indiana Smugglers Unmasked. Laces and jewels worth several thousand dollars, which were found concealed on two young women of French Lick, Ind., when they landed in New York, were confiscated by customs officials. No Pardon for Stensland. Pan! m for Paul O. Stensland, wrecker of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank in Chicago, has been refused by the Illinois board of pardons in a meeting at the penitentiary at Joliet. Masked Men Rob Safe. Masked men bound and gagged the Missouri Pacific railway agent in Eldorado, Kan., robbed the safe of $1,300 and escaped. Train Kills Five Gamblers. Five negroes who were sitting on (the Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracks near Newburg, W. Va., engaged in shooting craps, were run down and killed by a train. Gourdain Is a Maniac. Louis A. Gourdain of Chicago, who duped half a million people in twenty years and whose operations netted him nearly $3,000,000, became a ravins maniac in the government prison at Atlanta, Ga. lie has been removed to the government asylum for the insane in Washington.

47,020 LIVES GIVEN.

COST OF REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA. Compilation Made liy Dr. Thdankoff Cover All ICInt anil Disturbance Fant Trail Held I n by Robber .""car Itexfurtl, Moiitunn. Statistics regarding the revolutionary movement have been compiled by Dr. Thdankoff. the noted statistician, and published by the St. Petersburg SI n o. The total number of victims of the "dramatic epidemic' is placed at 47.020, of whom 19,144 were killed. It is further shown that 2.3S1 sentences of death wen carried out, that 1.350 prisoners committed suicide, and that 21.40.1 persons were drowned. The largest loss of life, 12,053, re.u!:?d from encounters with the soldiers or police. The anti-Jewish,.. riots numbered 7,9; 12, and there were 4..140 anti-American riots, und 2,19:. mutinies. The Agrarian disorders were comparatively insignificant, only 5."i3. The revolutionists assassinated S3 generals or governors, (II prefects' and S.079 officials of various ranks. The geographical distribution of the victims was as follows : European Russia. 20.II11; Caucasus, 7,304 ; Finland and the Baltic provinces, 4.929; Poland, 4,3X5; southwest Poland, 7,433; Sib ria, 2,2W. TORTURED BY FIRE AS JOKE. Worker, Suspended Above Blast Furv nace, Is Fatally Burned. Henry Perry, a mill worker of Wheeling. W. Va., is fatally injured from a brutal hazing administered by fifty employes of the Tyler Tube and Pipe Company in Washington. Pa. Perry was beaten and burned. The Tyler Company steel workers have a custom of initiating new employes. Perry was fastened to a hook of a big iron crane and bound fast with cords. Then he was swung above a big blast furnace which is usually approached by the workmen only when covered by a shield. Finally the cords were burned through and Perry's unconscious form dropped to the floor right in front of the furnace, where his flesh was hriveled and his clothing charred. His tormentors, alarmed at . their work, called Dr. J. It. Maxwell, who Worked with the man for seven hours before restoring consciousness. Physicians believe Perry inhaled the flames and entertain little hope for his recovery. Warrants were issued for the arrest of the ringleaders of the affair, but they escaped arrest by getting out of town. SANDBAR BECOMES ISLAND. New Jersey Man Made Comparatively Wealthy Through Sea Action. By the action of the sea a bar of sand has been created into an island near North Wildwood, X. J., and the man who paid the State $1S.1 for it two years ago has just sold it for $10,000. The island is to be enlarged with sand pumped from! the sea and connected with Five Mile beach, which probably will afford a means of connecting the coast trolley lines between Atlantic City and Cape May in the great project of a continuous line from Atlantic Highlands to the Capes. By one of those puzzling switches of the currents the bar began to rise about ten years ago, and as it gradually grew higher and higher it at last was visible above high water. The shifting sands continued to pile up and finally created the island. ROBBERS HOLD UP FAST TRAIN. Take Registered Mail from the Great Northern Oriental Limited. The Great Northern Oriental Limited was held up by two masked men west of Rexford, Mont., at an early hour Thursday morning. The robbers crawled over the tender and at the jxint of their guns commanded th engineer to stop the train and gr with them to the express car and tell the express messenger, mail clerk and baggage man to back into the coaches. Afier the messenger, baggage man and mail clerk had left their cars the robbers went through the mail "cars and robbed the sacks of a large quantity of registered mail. The express safe was found empty. The railroad company has offered a reward of $ 10,000 for the arrest of the rolbers. Mother and Sons Burn. Two little sons of August Pumpke in Dubuque, Iowa, played with matches during the absence of their mother and set fire to their clothing. The mother returned to find them in flames, and was fatally burned try in; to save them. The children died soon after the fire was quenched and the mother a few hours later. The house was destroyed. Falls from Horse to Death. William J. Mulhall, farrier for the first city troop of Philadelphia, and a wellknown college football player and athlete, was killed at Strafford, a suburb, by plunging head foremost over a mustang;. Mulhall was showing a friend some of the evolutions practiced by cavalrymen in their drills. Lost Steamship Found Safe. Word was received In South Norwalk, Conn., of the safe arrival of the steamship Nebraskan at Salina Cruz, Mexico. The officers reported that the feed pump burst shortly after the start had been made from Honolulu, Aug. 1G, and it was impossible to get water necessary to supply the boilers. Neighbors Egg Artist Earle. Villagers of Monroe, N. Y., hurled eggs at Ferdinand Pinney Earle of "affinity" fame. It would be difficult to say which was the sadder when his train pulled out of Xew York the artist with over-ripe eggs spattered over his collar or the villagers because he had escaped with so little. Two-Cent Fare Law Void. Judges Willson and Audenried of the Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia declared unconstitutional the 2-cent railroad fare law passed by the last Legislature. The case' upon which the decision was rendered will be taken to the fState Supreme Court at once. Streeter Again at Liberty. Captain George W. Streeter of South Rend, Ind., who was arrested, charged with assault with intent to kill after he had held possession of the St. Joseph river for several weeks with a fortified boat, was released on bond, having been confined in jail for six weeks. Sees Bride Drown in Storm. Mrs. Marguerite Croft, bride of a few weeks, and wife of John Croft f 124 Casino 'street, New York, was swept overboard from a yacht in the Delaware river at Philadelphia and drowned. Mr. Croft plunged into the stream, but the efforts to save the young bride were futile. Mishap Causes Suicide. Driven desperate by the accidental shooting of his companion, Robert Ramsey, Jr., How: rd Kiley committed suicide by jumpi- g in front of an express train on the Allegheny division of the Pennsylvania railway near his home at Graff, Ta. Dynamite in Newspaper Shop. Dynamite wrecked the pressroom and composing room of the Joplin (Mo.) News-Herald, an afternoon Republican paper, which has been conducting a Crusade arainat the methods of the City Council and police department

WELLWAN POLAR TRIP FAILS.

Alrmlilp 2 Wrecked and Plan to Seel. Pole Abandoned for This Year. Walter Wellman on Friday arrived at Tronisoev Norway, on board the Fritlijof from Spitzbergen oa his way home. He announced that ho had definitely abandoned for this year, after a disastrous trial of his airship, the promised attempt to reach the North Polo. World-wide interest had been excited in Wei Inun's proposed trip. Mr. Well man's plans were as simple as they; were spectacular and scientilk. With two picked companions ho purposed to sail in his airship from Spitzbergen to the North Pole, a distance as the crow flies of CIS miles. The airship was a dirigible balloon, modeled on the lest lines known to French balloon makers. It bore 'a steel car 11.1 feet long, which would contain the three explorers, their outfit of meteorological and n ivigation instruments and a kennel of twenty-nine Alaskan Fledge dog with sledges. In case of WALTEB WELL5JA.N. mishap to the airship or unfavorable wind?, thi; men punosoI to abandon the America and take ta the slodgcs for the remainder of the way. With winds in their favor and the airship standing the stri'a well they ligured that the trip to the pole could Ie made in three days. With ordinary delays but still stickin,: to the airship, It might take them twenty days. Forced to abandon the America, thvlr trip might last three months. They had provisions for 273 days. Starting from Spitzbergen, they figured that they would have to travel 1,230 sea miles to the polo and back to their base; to the pole and thence to Alaska, the trip would cover 1,750 sea miles ; to the pole and thenoe to Northern Norway, 1,740 miles; to the pole and thence to Northern Siberia, an average of 1,500 miles; to the pole and thence as far south as human habitations In Canada, 2,440 miles. The airship made an ascent Sept. 2 In a strong northeasterly wind, which drove It southeastward over the land. It was fouud necessary to cut the lelloon adrift from the other parts of the airship, but It was recovered after two days' search. INCREASE FARMERS' EARNINGS. Illff Gain for Year Dae to IIIfthcT Price of Product. According to a preliminary rrport on crops, publisLed in the American Agriculturist, the American farmers' earnings are $l,OUKO,0XJ greater this year than last. This big gain will be entirdv d'ie to th; increased prices of farm products, as the production in general will be fully 10 per cent lss In quantity than in 11KXJ, which wa3 the burner year. "The farmer was never in so healthy a position as he is to-day financially, socially, politically, mentally and spiritually," says the report. 'Th increase in the valu of his real estate has leen prodigious. He owes les money than ever before. He has greater assets than ever. Again, the farmer's wants are greater. He is in the market for mow and better breeding stock, farm Implements, household goods and other merchandise." A Rate Law Tent Cane. That State control of interstate railroads has ceased by virtue of the Hepburn rate law is the broad ground of an apieal to the federal courts now made by the Missouri Pacific railroad from a writ issued by the Supreme Court of Kansas. The writ was issued in favor of the Larrabee Milling' Company of Stafford, Kan., to compel the Missouri Pacific to continue the practice of delivering cars to the mill over Santa Fe tracks, which cross at that point, at the old rate of $2 a car. It was conceded that three-fifths of the mill's business was interstate. The defendant railroad now asserts that the State court has no jurisdiction, and that the road is wholly under the control of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Ponalble Arlxono-Xcvada Union. Since the proposition for joint statehood with New Mexico has been rejected by the people of Arizona it has been suggested that in case Congress shows a disposition to withhold statvhood honors from Arizona separately a move might bo made toward a union of that territory with Nevada. Such a measure, it Is said, will be strongly supported by the very people who have opiosed the union with New Mexico. Use of SeUmojcrnph In War. According to dispatches from Vietina somp important experiments were made during the recent Ostend gunnery trials by Prof. Ilelar, director of the Löllbach eartlniuake observatory, who used the seismographic apparatus to see if It was possible to calculate scientifically by the vibrations of the earth the location and direction of distant artillery fire. The experiments were satisfactory, and they will be continued during the corniiig autumn artillery maneuvers in the Karawan ken hills. For Ontrnl American Pence. The State Department has received replies from five of the Central American republics indicating their -williugne.ss to co-operate along the lines laid down by President Itoosevelt and Prtsidt Diaz. The next step will be the arrangement of a conference, probably to be heU at Washington. f.l.N,0,!O.S In Tre.ii.arr. The monthly statement of the United States Treasury Department shows a cash balance on hind of $.'$S .W;i,4S on Sept. 1. The decrease in the public debt during the month of August was $.',K)8,772. Harvester Trunt I ' On Sept. 5 the International Harvester Company of Wisconsin pleaded guilty at Austin, Texas, in the anti-trust suits instituted against it by t lie State of Texas and paid the fine of $l!.(HN.) imposed by the court. The company also subscribed to the perpetual injunction forbidding from operating in any wty in Texas. The President has approved the sentence of the court martial of First Lieut. Charles E. McCullough, Thirteenth cavalry, recently convicted in Cuba of giving worthless checks and desertion.

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MARCH OF THE G. A. R

VETERANS PARADE THROUGH SARATOGA N. Y. Got. IlaRhc and Nationnl OIBeer Lead Line Through Rinse of .n tlouul Color nnd Then Review ltankit Fine Draped Grant's Rlcr. Martial music, the old war-time tunes to which the soldiers of the Civil War had marched in manj- campaigns, awakened Saratoga at an early hour Wednesday the day of the parade of the veterans who attended the national encampment of the GranuTvfniy"of the Lopublic. It was expected that 15,000 paraders would be in line and the weather, which was unfavorable in the early morning, gave promise of .bright ening before the hour scheduled for the start. Significant of the failing strength "of the veterans was the fact that the parading distance was reduced to one mile the shortest ever fixed for the national encampment. For the first time the parade was limited to members of the Grand Army Instead of toeing open to all survivors of the war. The national colors covered the fronts of buildings, were festooned at every convenient point, strung in rows at short Intervals across the streets and completely covered the interior of the great convention hall, where the ses sions of the encampment were held. Flap Ilecall Gen. Grant. One of the features of the parade was the presence of a big flag which covered the body of Gen. Grant on its way from iMouut 'McGregor to the tomb. In cus tody of the grenadier guard, command ed by Col. F. 31. Sterrett of St. Louis, of which every man was over six feet tall and each representing one of the forty-live departments of the G. A. It., this old Aug .brought up the extreme rear, escorted by the whole parade and being carried at last along the whole line of review. As planned, the national olhcers in carriages with Gov. Charles E. Hughes led the line, the chief of staff In com mand being J. Cary Winnns of Toledo. The department of New York State, al though entitled by seniority to fifth plate, selected as hosts the left of the line, which included a representation of every department, including Alaska, and of every branch of the service. The parade was reviewed by Gov. Hughes and the national officers of the G. A. R. The day's program began with a re ception at Congress hall, the New York State headquarters, in honor of Gov. Hughes at 11 :30 a. in. At 12 :30 lunchcon was served by the department of New York to the Tjovernor, Commander in Chief Kobert B. Brown and his staff, past national oflicers, department commanners and the other distinguished guests. Meanwhile there had been reunions of the various organizations. The real business of the convention began Thursday with the annual ad dress of Commander Brown, reports o officers and committees and election of officers. VACATIONISTS IMPORT TYPHOID Physician Deelare Them Responsible for Spreading Disease. Jf Chicago people had stayed at home during their vacations this summer and drank good lake water, the health department would not be coping with nearly 200 cases of typhoid, as is the case at present. This Is the conclusion of the health officers, who have made an exhaustive investigation of the situation. They wontvred what was causing so much typhoid, as the city itself is healthy enough. Calling for facts from attending physicians, the guardians of Chicago's sanitary welfare found that ul.9 per cent of the total number of typhoid were contracted outside the city. 'This figuring was male on the basis of known cases. There may be many other rases in the city for all the Board of Health knows, as a number of otherwise careful doctors have a habit of keeping the news to thcuiselvcs when they are treating a disease which should be reported to the department. The number of typhoid cases directly traceable to the outside vacation habit is much larger than last year, when the percentage was placed at 33. The "beautiful sparkling spring water" which many a resort prospectus tells about is good enough to swim in, but the Chicago health department would advise the seeker after country joys to take along a cask of the real thing, taken from Lake Michigan for drinking purposes. The doctors think some way that a man is more apt to take typhoid when traveling than when at home attending to his business. They do not wish to be understood as ."knocking" on the vacation habit,of course. They merely want to warn people so that vacations may be taken on an intelligent basis. Cityward Trend of Negroes. In the concluding installment of Ray Stannard Baker's series on the color line In the American 3Iagazine, an explanation is given why the negroes of the South are drifting so rapidly to the cities. It is that they feel the lack of schooling for their children in the country and the lack of iolice protection. The difficulty of keeping a supply of good labor is causing the owners of the big plantations to pell off small farms to the more thrifty To Be Named New York. It is announced from Washington that the President and the Navy Department have reached a decision to name one of the two 20,000-toti battleships authorized by the last session of Congress the New York. The armored cruiser now bearing that name will be rechristened Saratoga to, perpetuate the name in the navy of the historic old vessel with that title, which has been condemned and is about to be brokm up. The other of the two giant battleships authorized has been named Delaware. Told. In a Few Linea Mrs. W. B. Turner of Kansas City sued Hahnemaun Medical College of that city for $10,t)00 damages, charging that it had wrongfully obtained the body of her late husband for dissection and had lost the head. The failure of the Boice Grogan Lumber Company at Lexington; Ky., has Lrought about the failure of four other smaller lumber companies. The companies involved are: Clearfield Lumber Company of Clearfield, the Fincastle Lumber Company, Tuthill & Patterson Manufacturing Company and the Cypress Lumber Company of Cincinnati. Gov. Guild of Massachusetts was asked by the American Society for the Promotion of Prison Reform to end the solitarj' confinement of Jesse Pomeroy, a murderer who has served thirty years in solitary confinement. Thirty "undeclared" trunks were seized at New York when the liner LaSavoie arrived. Mme. Hughes, a dressmaker, -was submitted to an inspection and it was found she had $300 worth of fine lace wrapped about her person. Another dressmaker, Mme. Kilgannon, is said to have cut all the labels off the foreign gowns she brought in. The labels were found on t?r person.

FINANCIAL' '

CHICAGO. Together with steadiness In proluctiou and distribution there is a largely increased volume of payments through the banks and some decline in commercial default. These are encouraging r?turn$ in view of the continued scarcity of money. ' It is also gratifying that there is no evidence of less machinery and hands employed to indicate declining confidence in the business outlook The government crop report this week showing smaller growth tiiau last year caused unusual attention, but with the assured ample supplies to meet requirements and their enhanced values it is clear that the most probable elect musi be beneficial to trade, satisfactory marketings being almost a certainty. The markets for raw materials disclose no falling off in absorption, and aside from lower copper and minor merals, no change appears in prices of iron and finished products, wool, hides, leather and lumber. Country merchants attend the markets in the greatest numbers this s?asou, and their operation in fall and whiter goods add tone to strength in wholesale activity. Retail trade is seasonably good, fall exhibits attracting buying which promise to develop satisfactorily. The total movement of grain at this port, 12.032.11)4 bushels, compares with 7,t J. 77 7 bushels last week and 8,220,521) bushels a year ago. Receipts of live stock were 2Xr,.03S head, against 303(07d head last week, and 3U2.SS1 head last year. Lumber receipts rose to (53,2SO,(XK) fect, against .V,2.S7,f H H) feet last week and r3.Ol;,O0O feet a year ngo. Other leceipts increased in flour, wheat, oais, lye, barley, broom corn, dressed beef, pork, cheese, butter, eggs and cattle, aid decreased in corn, seeds, lard, wool, Is 03s and sheep. Bank clearingsi ?242,0"i 1,002, exceed those of corresponding week in IOOG by 18 per reu:. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 23. against 17 last week and 2." a year ago. Dun's Review. NEW Y0BK. Fall jobbing trade In dry goods and wearing apparel generally tends toward expansion as the ultimate outcome of leading crops becomes more assured and as evidences increase of higher prices offsetting small yields. ' From the northwest reiiorts are of orders previously held back now coming forward and there is evidence also of more life in southern trade and of improvement in collections in that section as .the cotton crop begins to move to market in good volume. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Sept. 12 number 172, against 13) last week, 104 in the same week of 100t 5. 1S8 in 100T,, 107 in 1004 and 170 in 1!X3. Canadian failures for the week number 22, as against 10 last week and 17 in this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.30; hogs, prime heavy 4.00 to $(.3."; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to !?0.S"; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 04c; corn. No. 2, H2c to G3c; oats, standard, 52c to r3c; rye. No. 2. S'.)c to 00c; hay, timothy, $14.X) to $20.00; prairie, $0.00 to $ir.00; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 27c; eggs, fresh. irc to 20c; potatoes, per bushel, i.jc to t2c. Indianapolis Cattle, ' shipping, $3.00 to $7.0); hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $i.4.1; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.70; wheat. No. 2. 0)e to 01c; corn. No. 2 white. .0c to Ulc; oats, No. 2 white, 4G to 4Sc. St. Louis Cattle, $4.oO to $7.10; hogs. $1.00 to $..(m; sheep, $3.00 to $5.10; wheat, No. 2, 01c to 02c; corn. No. 2. 01c to 02c; oats. No. 2, 47c to 4Sc; rye, No. 2, 85c to 80c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $.".S0; hogs. $4.00 to $0.03; sheep, $3.00 to &.00; wheat. No. 2, 02c to 03c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 03c jto 0.V; oats. No. 2 mixed, T0c to wlc; fye, No. 2, S4c to Sjc. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $0.00; hags, $4.00 to $0.."0; sheep, $2.o0 to $4.73; wheat, No. 2, 03e to 04c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 07c to OSe; oats. No. 3 white, 51c to o2c; rye, No. 2, Sic to S3c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.04 to $1.00; corn, No. 3, 03c to 03c; oats, standard 31c to 32c; rje, No. 1, SOc to OOe; barley, standard, 03c to 04c; pork, mess, $13.30. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, ?4.00 to $0.83 ; bogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $3.25; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $8.10. ' New York Cattle, $4.00 to $0.70; hogs, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep.- $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.00 to $1.02; corn, No. 2, 74c to 73c; oats, natural white, 50c to 57c; butter, creamery, 22c to 27c; eggs, western, 17c to 21c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, D3c to 03c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 03c to 07c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2, 70c to Sic ; clover seed, prime, $0.75. Ail Around the Globe. The invention of the typewriter has Siven work to more than 1,000,000 women. A recent decree of the provisional governor of Cuba provides that civilian residents and citizens of Cuba may be compelled to appear as witnesses before general courts-martial of the array. Refusal to so apiear will be punished by fine and imprisonment. Alonzo J. Whiteman, ex-Mayor of Duluth, has been removed from the State prison at Auburn, N. YM to the Dannemora prison. At Auburn he was put to teaching iu the prison school until it was discovered he was teaching prisoners surreptitiously how to "work the ,bank." The full administration ticket of the Grand Aerie of Ragles, headed by T. A. Bell of California, was elected at Norfolk, Va. A coup in Chinese affairs is expected in an effort to strengthen the central government. Yuan Shih Kai, viceroy of Chili, it is thought, will be made head of the war department. W. A. Farren, alias N. W. I). Adams, former cashier of the Farmers' bank at Clearfield. Iowa, accused of embezzling the school funds of Taylor, Iowa, thus wrecking the bank, was arrested at Kansas City, he having leen traced by means of lerters he had written his wife. At Boise, Idaho, the State filed a motion for the continuance of the case against George Pettibone for complicity in the murder of Gov. Steunenberg until the trial of Senator Borah is concluded. John D. Spreckels admitted in a hearing before the United States commissioner at San Francisco that the Havemeyer interests owned a large block of the stock of the Western Sugar Refining Company. Wesley Christopher, a youth who killed Charles L. Stanley, a commercial traveler, in St. Joseph, Mo., March 30 last, was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary by a jury. Christopher attacked a woman and when Stanley went to her rescue the boy shot him.

STEAMSHIP'S FA?T TRIP. Lasltanla Croup he Atlantic In Five Days and 54 Minutes. After a spectacular ocean race against time, which held the attention of the world fci live dars, the LnItania reached Sandy I kok lightship The giant turbine liner of the Cumird Line made the voyage from Queenstown in 5 days 54 minutes. The Lusitania beat the best time ever made by her sister ship of the Canard Line, the Lucania five days, seven hours and twenty-three minutes by over six hours, but was thirtyfive minutes behind the time set by the Hamburg-American liner, Deutschland. Slxty-oue years ago the little steamship Europa of the Cunard Line, with old-fashioned engines, crossed the Atlantic from Liverpool to New York in eleven days and three hours, breaking the world's record at that time. Then began the contest for supremacy of the sea which led to the building of the fleet Lusitania. The Lucania's record of five days, seven hours and twenty-five minutes, made from Queenstown to New York in 1804, was r.t an average speed of 21.81 knots over a course of 2,779 miles. . Then the North German Lloyd and American lines began to battle for the western record from Southampton to New Y'ork. which was lield between 1S03 and ISO; I, by the ste'ainshlps Paris, New York and St. Paul of the American Line. The St. Paul in 1SO0 made

the voyage in six days and thirty-one minutes. Then the North German Lloyd Compasy put over the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, and the new vessel n 1S07 lecamc the marine wonder of the world when it hung up a record of five days, twenty-two hours and thirty-five mln-1 utes from Southampton to Xew York. The big Kaiser created a new record In ISOO. iwhen it steamed from Cherbourg to New York, a distance of 3,050 miles, in five days, eighteen hours and fifteen minjites. This record was lowered in the same year by the Kaiser to five days, seventeen hours and thirty-seven minutes. A CRIMINAL ENIGMA. Konstantine, Allegred Slayer of Mrs. (Jenlry, Soon' 1o Ae Tried. The authorities of Cook county, Illinois, Esust soon deal with a criminal enigma whose crime shocked the whole country and led to the crusade against law-breakers which for the time being almost fre.d Chicago of criminals. This man is FraiJt J. Constantin, slayer, of Mrs. Louise "J entry. The fellow has spent several months in jail and his trial is about la open. It will be one of the hardest fought on record in Cook county, for, though there is little doubt in the public mind that Constantine is the murderer, he will be ably defended and the evidence against him is all circumstantial. The prisoner is of Italian birth and his mother runs a grocery store in New York. Although he admits nothing, the police assert that they have him positively identified and that they not only have his own admission of his identity made when he was arrested in New York, but that he made statements about the .crime. Mrs. Gentry was a joung woman, married but a year, and lived in a flat where there were other occupants of similar tastes. Her husband was a man of some means and they lived in a refined manner. In the latter part of 1003 a young man named Constantine came Vi live in the same flat and made the acquaintance of the Gentrys. He spoke of -fine family connections and conveyed the impression that his people, who, he said, lived in New York, were rich. About 11 o'clock in the forenoon of Jan C. 1000, Mrs. Gentry, fully dressed in street attire, dashed down the stairs from her apartments and rang the bell of a doctor's office on the ground floor, who, upon opening the door, saw her fall to the floor. Her throat was slashed almost from ear to car and there was blood all about her and trailing down the stairs. She pointed up the stairway in mute testimony that the attack had occurred there. In four minutes she died. Suspicion at once pointed to Constantine because he had disappeared, leaving his hat behind. From twat time on for well over a year Frank Constantine was hunted as suspected criminals seldom are hunted, the chase leading through three continents, being participated in and urged on constantly by an aggravated police force aroused by a series of dastardly women murders in Chicago. ) According to the story Constantine is alleged to have told the New York police after his capture he went from Chicago to New Y'ork; thence to Naples, remaining a month in that city before going to Argentina, South America. After five weeks he returned to Italy, went thence to London, where he remained until he sailed for New York in January, 1007. His relatives hid hin in New York, but when he was about to return to Italy he was captured on the docks April 2 by an Italian detective of the New York force. Constantine's shrewdness in evading arrest, his composure and alertness when under questioning by the police," and his present attitude of nonchalance and almost absolute silence show him as a man of self-composure far beyond what might be expected of a man of his years. Nevr Ifammer-Throwlns Champion, Mat McGrath of the New York Athletic Club defeated John Flannagan at Travers Island in the hammer-throwing contest, and is now the champion of the world. McGrath hurled the hammer 108 feet to Flannagan's 114. Telegraphic Brevities. Capt. Henry Brown, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars, and inventor of the bell buoy, as now used at American ports, died at Charleston, S. C aged SO years. He served during the '00s under Farragut and Porter. By utilizing the principle of the farmer's hotbed, exposing pipes of ether to the rays of the sun under glass cases, Frank Shuman, a Philadelphia engineer and chemist, claims to be able to turn the sun's raye directly into power, sufficient for commercial uses. President Roosevelt is considering an invitation to go bear hunting in the canebrakes of Louisiana immediately after his forthcoming journey down the Mississippi river. Two true bills have been found against the Southern Railw?y. Company by the Transylvania county grand jury in North Carolina, on "account , of the alleged dangerous condition of the roadbed. The police, of Paris sent to an infirmary a woman who says ,he Ls Miss Amy Root of Rochester, N. Y., and who claims to be a cousin of Elihu R00:. Her mind was unbalanced and she wjuld ciimb on restaurant tables and sing and dance. The mackerel fhvt of sixty-five sail, composed mostly of craft from Portland, Me., and Gloucester, Mass., reports that in the aggregate the vessels have stocked $500,000 worth of fish. In France all mechanics are required to serve an apprenticeship of from two to three years. During the half of that period they are required to board tbenselves and are not paid any wages. The Rapid Transit Company of Philadelphia has proposed that it will inaugurate a 4-cent fare on all lines, surface, elevated and suburban, and that all free transportation, transfers and tickets shall be abolished. The announcement h teen made to test public sentiment

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GIRL'S DIN N KU WINS HEART. Attorney Weds Fair Cook Week After Klr fMl.. II. John Hamm, a young Klwood lawyer, started to Anderson in an .automobile. Near Franklin his mcchine went "dead. He went to a farm house to buy a luncheon. Miss Telia M. Welch, who is just 21, informed the young man that if he could wait she would prepare dinner. He amused himself in the parlor playing the piaLo until he was invited into the dining room. The biscuits were superb, while the coffee was delicious. The pies and cake melted in his mouth. Th2 girl was interesting and pretty. They chatted while a cheuffeur was hastening from an El wood garage to bring his "dead' auto back to town. Just one week later' the young man and the girl rode to Anderson in the same old automobile, where a license was Vaken out. A wedding followed. INSURANCE SHOWS LOSS. Report Shovrs Deerease In Duslnesa of Indiana Companies. The report of the insurance department of the State for the year ending Dec. 31, 1IKM', shows that the fire insurance companies had thp4est of the business during i the year and that the life companies showed a decrease over the year prerding, though both made a comparatively good showing, circumstances considered. The Indiana fire insurance co-npanies wrote a total of $8.24.(4S worth of business in 1000, as against $1S,30S,!jS3 in 1005. The foreign fire insurance companies wrote ?SO.J37,077 worth of business in lOOu', which is a substantial increase over the $73.111.505 that they wrote in 1005. The legal reserve Indiana life insurance companies wrote a total of $50,022,882 worth of business during the year. TROl'HLE IN SIIEL.BYVILLE Race War Started When FlTe !ecjroes Attack Polieenaan. Shelbyville has another race war. The trouble started when five negroes attacked Policeman Daniel Starkey, beat him into insensibility and fled when a crowd of whites arrived. Five shots were fired at the fleeing negroes, but none took effect so far as is known. A posse of 100 whites was formed and scoured the city. Mayor Kwain and a party of policemen captured two of the colored men, Steve and Robert Marshall, near the outskirts of the city. They were taken to jail, where they are closely guarded. The streets were cleared of negroes. No violence wag attempted, but crowds of angry citizens stood on the street corners threatening the colored men. MORE TROUBLE FOR STANDARD Inspeetor of Indianapolis Gets Tip from Commissioner Smith. Isidor Wulfson. inspector of weights and measures in Indianapolis, who wrote to the bureau of corporations at Washington asking for aid in his fight against the Standard Oil Company, received a reply from Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith, in which the writer says that certain information asked for by Wulfsoa could not be furnished, as it was expected to use it in proceedings against the oil company. Mr. Smith said information gathered by the bureau ls submitted to the President, who may or may cot give it out as he sees proper. Woman, 1)4, Drops Dead.' Mrs. Mary Tucker, 04, who came to Wabash county when it was all a wilderness, died suddenly the other day. Dricf State Jlappenlncs Literally frightened to death by a parsing automobile, a horse driven by Mr. and Mrs. Squire Barr, living between Warsaw aad Akron, fell over in the roadway. When Carl Myers, the chauffeur, discovered that the animal was shying at the machine he Flopped, just in time to kee the horse lunge forward and sink to the ground. Despondent because she could not master the English language, Go.die Goldenberg, aged 23 years, jumped into the St. Joseph river at South Bend, in an attempt to drown herself. A policeman saw the girl 50 down and jumped in after her in time to make a rescue. The girl was tiken to the county jaU and later was turned over to the Associated Charities. It will require a joint meeting of the State executive boards of the Indiana miners and operators to decide if 400 men at a John R. Walsh coal mine' at Terre Haute are liable to a fine of $1 a day each, as prescribed by a contract, for striking pending an arbitration. The miners took their tools away,' Which is claimed to mean quitting employment and Thrown into a rage by several cups of water being dashed upon him, Henry Robinson, a demented man, who was locked in the city jail in Connersvüle, killed Austin Ford and seriously injured several other prisoners. After striking with an iron cuspidor Charles Ringo, an old trusty, and William Snow, a member of the city fire department, who was called in, Robinson attacked Ford and beat his bead to a pulp against the bars of a cell. Ford was killed before the jailer arrived. The jailer and police were notified, but were unable to, conquer the crazed man. The fire department was then called, and after a stream of water was played upon him he was dragged into a cell. The Rev. Waller Clark of Cassopolis, Mich., has donated $10.000 toward the establishment of an old people's home, to be controlled by the Brethren church. The announcement of the gift was made at the closing session of the Brethren church at Winona Lake. The body of Homer S. Casey was found sitting upright in a buggy in the barn at ids home near Bloomfield, with a bullet hole through the left temple. He was to have been married to Miss Anna Stone, and drove home the previous night from visiting her. The horse was hitched to the buggy when the body was found. After waiting thirty years for the sweetheart of his youth. Russell F. Wheeler, Sacramento, Cal., came to South Bend and announced his marriage to Mrs. Rebecca Baer Knoblock, 55. Years ago Wheeler became engaged to her, but just at the wedding date she married Henry Baer, rich contractor. After the latter's death she married J. C Knoblock, banker and manufacturer, and was charged by Prof. W. F. Sehroeder, a rival of Kr.oblock, with breach of promise. The case was settled out of court. Knoblock died one year ago. Mrs. Racr-Knoblock-. Wheeler is worth between $100,000 and $5K)O0. A shortage oF$l),0O0 has been discovered in the South Bend oflice of the Vandalia railroad, and it is understooj State's Attorney Talbot will take the matter before the grand jury, now in session. The shortage, it is claimed, has been caused through rebates given to large local rotnufa.'turing c;inern. Iu case this is proved true, the case will go to the federal court. Ambushed nnd shot by an unknown assassin. Russel Cox, 48 years of age. it dying at bis farm north of Peru.' The bullet, which was fired from a clump of trees adjoining the field where Cox was working, penetrated bis lungs. A posss is searching for his assailant.