Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 October 1907 — Page 2

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N.M.T P. Q.PM. J'L. Q. ;7th. V 14th. v 21st. Vj 20th. PAST AND . PEESEXT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many. Fontanet Will Be Rebuilt. That the citizens of Fontanet are not In Immediate need of aid from the people of Indiana was the gist of a report submitted to Governor J. Frank Ilanly by the commission which Mad been appointed to investigate and report as to the necessity for aid from the State at large. The commission relates In its report that the Du Pont Powder Company, representatives of which corporation the commission met, agreed not to stand upon its legal status but would act from a humane standpoint. The powder company will rebuild or repair all the property damaged or destroyed. Damages for personal Injuries will also be settled on a liberal basis by the company. Many Hurt in Trolley Collision. Information has reached Cleveland, Ohio, of a head-on collision between two traction cars on the Cleveland and Bedford line, about thirt miles from Cleveland, in which Charles Patterson, the motorman, was killed, and a large number of persons are reported hurt. A telephone message from Cuyahoga Falls says that nineteen persons are known to be among the injured, but that the officials of the traction company say their information is that no one was killed. Book Showed $300,000 Deposits. A passbook showing deposits of over 300,000 In favor of the late Mrs. Casie Chadwick in a Pittsburg, Pa., bank, has just come Into possession of Nathan Loesser, the referee in bankruptcy. The deposits were made on June 10, 1902, and the referee says there is nothing to. Indicate that the account was checked against at all. The deposits were made about the time of Mrs. Chadwick's dealings with the late James F. Friend, of Pittsburg. Suicide of South Bend Woman. Mrs. Bertha Nlederpruen, of South Bend, Ind., formerly of New Haven, Conn., committed suicide in Detroit, Mich., by throwing herself in front of a trolley car at Shermin street and Pennsylvania avenue. Her body was wound up in the gear of the car and dismembered. Mrs. Nlederpruen was a widow 49 years old and had bee a taking treatment for a month for a nervous trouble. A Fatal Wreck. Engineer John Thomas was killed. Fireman Boington was fatally injured, when the east-bound Santa Fe California Limited No. 4 went irito the ditch near Earl, twenty miles north of Trinidad, Col. The engineer of the second engine escaped, but the fireman Is thought to be buried under the wreck. A number ol the passengers arc reported injured. Trainman Killed; Engineer Arrested. One trainman was killed and ten other persons were injured In a headon collision between two suburban passenger trains' on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, near Grand avenue, Chicago. Walter Gushing, engineer of the north-bound train, was arrested and Is being ttd pending an investigation of the accident by the police. Graves Goes to Hearst Paper. It has been announced at Atlanta, Ga., that John Temple Graves, editor of the Atlanta Ceorjian and News', had accepted the chief editorship of the New York American. It is understood that Col. Graves will assume his new position about November A5. Root Back from Mexico. Secretary Root, Mrs. Root and Miss Root have returned to Washington, D. C, from their visit to Mexico. The secretary was looking particularly well and went directly to his home, expecting to take up his official duties soon. The Deadly Folding Bed. Mrs. James Marshall and her daughter, Mrs. Mary Wright, of Ingram, Pa., were caught in a folding bed. Mrs. Marshall died froii her injuries, and lira. Wright's recovery is doubtfuL United Presbyterians to Celebrate. Plans have been laid by the United Presbyterian church for the celebration in Pittsburg, Pa., on May 26 next of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the denomination in this country. Two Trackmen Killed. Perry Styles, aged 62, was instantly killed and Edward Sneed injured by n east-bound Indiana and North weitere car a mile north of Dayton, Ind. - Over Ocean in Little Boat Two men crossed the Atlantic vi a forty-five-foot yawl, the voyage t iking four months, and arrived at Ne v York on their way to the coast of II r.duras, where they hope to discover $0,000,000 they believe was buried by a pirate a century ago. Incendiary Destroys Dispensary. The dispensary of the town of Samson, near Montgomery, Ala., was burned the other night. The blaze, ft is thought, was the work of an incendiary. The antiwhisky sentiment is becoming almost a frenzy in some sections of the State. Fathers and Daughters Die. Six nrab'-rs of the family of Solomon Frank, a glAve cutter the father and five daugWci-s were killed by smoke when their home was destrojed by fire In Glovemille, N. Y. The father lost his life in endeavoring to save his childxen. . t Attendance at Jamestown. Fair. Director General Alvah II. Martin of the Jamestown exposition has made public the exposition attendance figures. His statement shows a total of 2,118,173 admissions from April 26, the opening date, op to and including &pt. 80.

TO ENTER UPON NEW ERA.

John Barrett Says Coming Conference Will Be Most Important. John Barrett, director of the International Bureau of American Republics, says of the coming conference of the Central American Republics in Washington: "The conference will be one of the most important international gatherings in North America. If it results ra a treaty which will bring permanent peace to that important section of the continent a new era will be inaugurated in the history of pan-American unity and progress. While it is not possible for me to discuss the political phases of the conference or the different questions to be considered, I am at liberty to comment upon what is at stake in the commercial and material development of Central America. These Central American republic. possess a wealth of agricultural products, mineral resources and timber that will invite the investment of great sums of American and European capital. Railroads will be built in all directions, new towns will spring up," immigration will pour into them from different parts of the world, and steamship connections with the United State.?, Europe and South America will be increased and improved, providing the Washington conference has a successful issue. It is a safe prediction that if all the countries sign a convention tha.t has the moral support of both the United States and Mexico, not only the United States, but all the world, will be surprised by the commercial, material, economic, educational, social and general development of the Central American states." RED RIVER FARMERS PROSPER. High Prices for Cereals Make Good Times in North Dakota. Because of the high prices being paid for ell cereals. North Dakota farmers, especially those of the Red River Valley, are receiving greater returns from their crops this year than for any of the last half-dozen seasons. Outside the famous valley the actual yield was not so large as last season, but it was taken off cheaply and the farmers are realizing heavily. Wheat is selling at more than $1 per bushel at all stations in the State, and at some barley has almost reached that figure, while flax ranges away above those figures and oats and corn are bringing higher prices than ever before in the history of the State. EDITOR KILLED BY. A WOMAN. North Dakota Man Mistaken for a Burglar and Shot Dead. J. T. Neal, editor of the Columbus, N. D., Reporter, was shot and killed the other night by Mrs. R. C. Rasmussen, who mistook him for a burglar. Editor Neal was at work in his office, when he saw a house on fire down the street. lie started for the fire, but on ihe way down stopped for Mr. Rasmussen, who, however, had already gone. Neal attempted to enter the Rasmussen home, and Mrs. Kalmussen, thinking it was 'a burglar, procured her husband's rifle and fired through the door, killing Neal instantly. Mrs. Rasmussen became a raving maniac when she learned whom it was she had shot. TWO DEAD IN CAR CRASH. Prominent Citizens Among Those ' Injured in Trolley Accident. ' An Elberon avenue electric street car jumped the track at the brow of the hill -above Cincinnati Wednesday, and two persons are reported killed and at least twenty-five Injured. The street, car was derailed where the track skirts the edge of Mount Hope road embankment and went down a twenty-five-foot declivity. Among those injured are a number of prominent citizens who were en route to their offices in the city. It is stated that the motorman lost control of the car on the steep grade, and it jumped the track at a sharp curve, turning several times in its descent over the embankment. Japs Injured in Frisco Fight. As a result of an attack on a Japanese laundry in San Francisco, the proprietor and one of his employes are nursing bruises caused by the clubs of the police, and the exterior of the laundry is a wreck. The trouble was occasioned by Joseph King, an Intoxicated logger, who crashed into the window of the laundry conducted by a Japanese named Umkekubo. The Japanese attacked King and the riot followed. Perish in Spanish Floods. The floods near Barcelona, Spain, continue to be most serious. Up to the present time five persons have been drowned and 30,000 thrown out of work. The greatest distress is reported from Manresa, the birthplace of St. Ignatius, the founder of the Society of Jesus. This village has been terribly ravaged and the waters have washed out countless coffins and bodies from the local cemetery. Try Young Teddy' Mettle. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.'s drubbing during the recent game between Phillips Exeter and the Harvard second team, which resulted in giving him slight injuries, is said to have been deliberately administered. The Exeter boys say they bad no personal feeding against him and only wanted to see if he was made of as good stuff as hi father. Trolley Cars in Collision. Twenty-five persons were injured, a majority of them seriously, but none, it is believed, fatally, in a trolley collision on the Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Company line at Mooreheadville, Pa. A passenger car, running at the rate of thirty miles an hour, ran onto a side track, the switch not being properly locked, and struck a work car. Church Deacon Is a Suicide. The body of Nelson W. Clark, aged 57 years, an insurance man of Minneapolis and deacon in Plymouth Congregational church, was found on the rocky river front. He had committed suicide by jumping from the Murshall avenue bridge. Ill health is said to have been the cause. Cleveland Three-Cent Fans Illegal. Judge Lawrence, in a decision in Cleveland holds as illegal all franchises for 3 cent fare lines not granted prior to the date upon which Mayor Johnson was alleged to have become financially interested in the roads. Murder Charge Not Proven. Frederick II. Magill and his wife, Faye Graham-Magill, were freed in Decatur, 111., of the charge of murdering Pet Gandy Magill, Magill's first wife, on May 30 last. Judge Cochran instructing the jury to bring in a verdict of acquittal. Father and Two Sons Drowned. While trying to cross the Cumberland river a short distance below Nashville in a skiff T. J. Warrr.ack and his two sons were drowned. The boat capsized. Youth KI113 His Mother. George Smiley, ag'nl 17 years, shot and killed his mother, Mrs. Lizzie Scholfer, aged 42 years, in their home at 2913 Myrtle avenue, Kansas City, at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. Smiley said he shot his mother in defending her against a burglar and tolJ a dramatic story of the encounter. - i Long Flight of Balloon. United States signal service balloon No. 10 broke all long distance records for balloons and Aeronauts McCoy and Chandler captured the Lahn cup by covering 500 miles in flight from St. Louis.

MAN IS I5UKIED ALIVE

ANOTHER FATALITY IN SOUTH CHICAGO STEEL PLANT. Ja me Senk Fall Into Hin of Pulverised Flag nntl In Smothered Soldier Held Responsible for Brownsville Shooting. A laborer was buried alive in the plant of the Illinois Steel Company in South Chicago, 111. The man was smothered to death shortly after he fell head first into a bin of pulverized flag. The body was not recovered until several tons of the material had been removed. The unfortunate workman Mas James Szak, 25 years old. Szak was employed Derating the lever of a chute through which the pulverized flag. ued in the manufacture of cement, is conveyed into a bin. Suddenly he was seen to lose his balance and fall forward with a cry. Fellow laborers rushed forward, but were too late to effect a reseue. Only his legs could be seen above the surface of the flag when they reached the spot. They attempted to grasp his feet and pull him up. but to their horror his entire hotly disappeared. Szak, who was an Austrian, had been employed by the Illinois Steel Company for eighteen months. BRITAIN SHOWS SEA MIGHT. Great Fleet of War Ships Gathering for Maneuvers. There is now assembling in the North sea and the English channel, fov maneuvers under the command of Aclniral Lord Charles Beresford, a fleet of British warships representing an aggregation of naval power surpassing all the immediately available resources of any two other countries of Europe. Not a single ship of this fleet has Deen drawn from the reserves, the Mediterranean flqpt or the J)evonport and Portsmouth divisions. The home fleet now assembling consists merely of those ships maintained in the vicinity of the British Isles. It numbers 110 pennants, and is com rosed of twenty-six battleships, fifteen ar:nored cruisers, several protected cruisers, various auxiliary vessels, and forty-eight torpedo vessels. The battles'ilp Dreadnought is not taking part in the maneuvers, as she is being fitted with a new steering engine before being subjected to a further series of sea trials, which It is hoped will prove of assistance in determining the design of future large battleships. . HOLDS COMPANY B RESPONSIBLE. General Crozier Announces Findings in Brownsville Shooting Affair. Company B of the Twenty-fifth infantry is held responsible for the shooting up of Brownsville, in the annual report of Brig. Gen. William Crozier, chief of ordnance of the army, made public the other day. Gen. Crozier directed "a most careful and technical investigation to determine whether the shells found upon the streets of Brownsville and the bullets recovered from the walls and houses bore distinguishing marks which, would indicate the make of gun used in the shooting." The report says that as a result of the investigation "it was found that of the thirty-nine cartridge cases in question, eleven had been fired from the wime rifle, eight from another rifle, eleven from another rifle and three from a fourth rifle, the remaining six having insufficient gun marks to classify them." . MOSQUITO BITE IS. DEADLY. Scientist Says 250,000 Deaths Are Caused Annually by Insect. "There are 2."i0,000 deaths annually as th result of mosquito bites," said Dr. Edward A. Ayers, a member of the faculty of the New York Polyclinic, at a meeting in the New York Academy of Medicine. Ih Ayers furnished astonishing figure in his lecture on "The Mosquito as a Sanitary Problem." He' said five diseases are directly traceable to the bite of the insect. They are malaria, yellow fever, beri-beri. dengue and filariasis. The government is eliminating the mosquito danger by draining swamp lands, he said. Buss Wheat Crop a Surprise. The foreign crop report of the Department of Agriculture in Washington says the shortage of the wheat crop in Russia, reported in the first quantitative estimate of the central statistical committee, was a surprise and that if the Russian wheat production falls below last year's low level, only France, and possibly Italy, have surpassed materially the harvest of 1900. Champion Town for Stork. Roebling, the new manufacturing town near Burlington, N. J., claims the, champion stork of America. Since the town was founded two years ago the bird has paid a visit to more than 00 per cent of the families that make up the population of 2,500. In some instances the stork has even made a second visit. Cannot Pay Jamestown Loan. Fear is expressed by treasury officials that the $1,000,000 loaned by Congress to the Jamestown exposition will never be recovered. Money was also advanced from the federal funds for construction work on the fair, and this is expected to be merely charged on Uncle Sam's books in the profit and loss column. Evelyn Will Not Tell Story. Delphin M. Delmas, who has returned to New York from the Pacific coast, to resume his practice, said he was no longer interested in the Thaw case as an attorney. Those familiar with the preparation of Thaw's case for the second trial say Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will not ppeat her story, told at the first trial. May Bar Out La Follette. A correspondent wires from Washington that Senator La Follette, an avowed candidate for the presidential nomination, may have to fight for admission to the Republican national convention, as it is likely the national committee will not recognize delegates elected under the Wisconsin primary law. Thrust Out of Wall Street. F. August a -j Heinze, shorn of power, has been booted out of Wall street. He has been compelled to resign the presidency of his New York bank, and his bank in Butte, Mont., has closed its doors. A bank in Houston, Texas, and one in Hamburg, Germany, have failed. Rearrested as He Leaves Prison. After completing a three-year sentence in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, Ieroy (J. Harding, alias Blazer, head of tee now defunct Viaduct bank there, was arrested on the charge of devisinz a scheme to defraud by mail. He will be ! taken to Birmingham, Ala. Shoe Man Is Acquitted. After deliberating four hours the jury in the criminal court in St. Louis found John II. Tennent not guilty of obtaining $7.,000 from the Franklin bank of that city Ly false pretenses while he was president of the now defunct Tennent Shoe Campany. Guilty of Disrespect. A report in Washington says President Roosevelt ordered the suspension of Pilot Nicholls of the steamer llartweg, because Pittsburgers on that boat during the Mississippi river trip kept yelling "Teddy" at the President.

EXPLOSION KILLS FORTY

Du Pont Powder Mills Near Fontanet, Ind., Are Wrecked TOWN IS WIPED OUT. More than Six Hundred Hurt and Scores of Others May Die. DESTRUCTION IS WIDESPREAD. Mysterious Blasts Buin Village and Spread Death and Injury. Fony or more persons doad, almost as many fatally burned or hurt, COO others injured more or less seriously, and a prosperous town leveled to the earth such was the harvest of a series of terrifying explosions at the Dr: Pont blasting powder mills near Fontanet, Ind., Tuesday morning. After the explosions, which followed one another with frightful effect, came fire, and what the one horror left undone the other completed. Thus, many people who might have been dragged from the ruins and revived were the victims of the flames. How many bodies have been incinerated is a matter of guesswork, but twelve hours after the catastrophe the fatalities were believed to be below fifty. The worst explosion came when 40,000 kegs oi powder blew up. Governor Ilanly and a detachment of the Indiana National Guard at once took control of the death camp. Soldiers paced up and down the wreckcrammed streets. In and about the smoking ruins of the great powder plant privates In the ranks In detachments endeavored to discover the remains of unknown victims. Scores of women and chiklre.i whose husbands and fathers were missing were In the HOMELESS FONT A background, anxiously awaiting word from the relief corps. Torrn la Hopeless Ilaln. Tuesday morning Fontanet was a prosperous, cozy little town of 1,000 persons. That night it was a hopeless ruin. Every building, including homes, stores, offices and factories, was shaken Into pieces. A hand of Infinite power sweeping all before it with demoniac wrath could not have worked greater havoc The dead and more seriously hurt have been removed to other points most of theni to Tere naute, eighteen miles distant At least 500 inhabitants of Fontanet remain, however. Nearly all of tbem bear bloody traces of the visitation. They are camping out in tents hurried there by the Governor, and must be fed and cared for during many months to come. The town is devastated. Yet its people, so far as possible, seem determined to remain and make the test of their misfortune. The explosions at the powder mills came without warning. What caused the first one is a mystery and may never be explained. Once the combustion had started there was no stopping it and one by one seven mills were shot Into the air in splinters. Two hundred men were employed at the works, but luckily only scventy-flve were at their labors when the first explosion took place. Bis; aim la Shattered. The big pre?s mill was destroyed first. This wai at 9:15 o'clock. The shock and detonation were indescribable. The ground shook for miles around it Is reported tbat the effect was felt at a distance of 200 miles buildings rock?d as if riding a seismic swell. And then within two minutes the glazing mill was ruined. The buildlDg burst outward and upward, shooting timber, metal and glass In all directions and killing many. Next, the two coining mills and finally, as an unspeakable climax, the magazine and cap mill were torn to bits. The magazine was situated about 300 yards from the main buildings of the plant and did not ignite for over an hour. Then the flames which were licking up the debris had so heated the atmosphere that the magazine responded. There were 40,000 kegs of blasting powder stored In the magazine and every one blew up seemingly at the same moment. It was this detonation that shook to pieces the homes and stores and factories In Fontanet and which brought death or injury to scores miles distant. Shock Is Felt Far Off. Throughout the surrounding country, In farmhouses and country schools, where women and children sat, buildings crashed to the ground. Fersous out in the open, walking in the road far from the powder plant, were hurled off their feet and Injured. A passenger train on the Big Four Railroad, nearly five miles from the magazine, was all but blown off the rails. Every window in each coach was broken and a number of passengers were cut by flying glass. Old pdpers for sale at this office.

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HAS BURNED FORTY-FIVE YEARS

A Coal Mine Tire lo Which a Romance Attaches. On Taint creek, about twenty miles above Charleston, W. Va., a coal mine fire is raging. At night the mountainside is ablaze with a weird play of light; by day a column of smoke ascends like a monument. In truth, the mountain is afire, an unquenchable fire, as those who have already lost $20,000 in a vain attempt to smother it will testify. In the late 50's of the last century the Kanawha Coal and Oil Company was organized for the purpose of producing oil from cannel coal found in the mounm imam '''dalOlatt &A--?y3U..j -V ' rr5 DAMAGED HOUSE, TWO MILES tains divided by Paint creek. The vein located was a comparatively thin one, lying in the heurt of a thick seam of the bituminous coal. The company was busy with its operations when the Civil War broke out, but continued at work fo" some time thereafter. The. superintendent wag a blunt old Englishman named Gordon, who Lad a handsome daughter, Itowena, who was the delight of her father's heart and the despair of the young men of the neighborhood. There was the usual courting and flirting, with the usual final selection of one man and the inevitable preparations for the wedding. The lucky man was one Adkins, a native of the mountains, a strapping young fellow, who had won the father's favor as a workmen even before he won the daughter's esteem as a lover. Thus the course of true love seemed to run smooth. But the war came, and the Taint creek section was as badly torn by opposing factions as any other small part of the entire country. The natives were of the South, while most of those who had come to work in the mines were Union men. Of the latter was old man Gordon, while Adkins was a regular fire-eating son of Dixie. Adkins was forbidden to enter the Gordon home, and Rowena was ordered NET TEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THEIR not to see him. He enlisted in the Confederate army and marched out with Wise on his famous retreat up the valley. I his was in the spring of 1SG1. In the autumn he returned home on a furlough and sought to renew amicable relations with the Gordons, but was repulsed by both father and daughter. It is said that in a spirit of revenge he set fire to the drumhouse of the mouth of the mine. The fire was communicated to the rich vein of cannel coal inside, and, obtaining a good bold, has been burning ever since. Adkins returned to his regiment and was killed in battle. The Gordons left the country soon after, and their subsequent history is not known. In the late '80s a company was formed by Charleston men to extinguish the fire and reopen the mine, but, after spending $20,000 in a vain attempt, the enterprise was abandoned. It is probaWe that the fire will be allowed to burn until the entire vein of coal is consumed. Of late it has been burning visibly at night, the extent being perhaps 100 yards along the face of the mountain. Tobacco Trost Makes Aasirer. The American Tobacco Company has filed its answer in the suit begun by the United Slates Government last July. The answer of the trust and of the co-defendants, including Thomas F. Ryan, James B. Duke, Oliver II. Tayne and Anthony N. Brady, directors, is that while the trust has combined many companies and Interests into one it has no power to control the industry in which it engages. The trust holds that so long as brands of cigars remain in existence competition cannot be destroyed, because it is a struggle between brands, and not between factories. It holds that brands have their strength in the fact that tobacco is a luxury, the consumer desiring only that his taste shall be satisfied. The trust denies that the United Cigar Stores Company, which aims to monopolize the retail trade, was started by the American Tobacco Company. It credits this vast retail business to George J. Whalen and associates, and pays that they entered the field in spite of the opposition of the trust. It is admitted that now the trust owns $000,000 out of $900,000 worth of stoc': In the United Cigar Stores Company. Povrer by Wireless. A young scientist of Lyons, France, asserts that he has discovered a means of transmitting electrical energy without wires and experiments along that line are now proceeding with a miniature car running on rails, which is said to bJve been propelled a distance of 1100 yards by means of power from an electric transmitter. Details of the process are withheld for the present. Patents were taken out in August and a syndicate of bankers has been formed to develop, the invention. The Helena, Mont., Record publishes a story to the effect that numerous Montana and Washington investors have been mulcted to the extent of more than a third of a million dollars through the discovery that certain placer mines near Lander, Wyo., had been salted and that the properties are worthless. The cholera outbreak is gaining alarming proportions in Tokio, Japan. Nineteen new cases have been reported recently. The municipality has issued the most urgent instructions regarding the means to be employed to prevent its spread, and cautioning the populace of their danger.

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THE POSTAL CARD CRAZE.

What Win Originally Fad Ha Decome a Great Basines. Three years ago souvenir or picture postal cards were on sale in about 100 stores or shops in the United States. To-day they may be had in 80,000 different places. What was originally a fad has become a great business. The picture postal card flourished for years on the continent. Every small town or inn had a yretty souvenir of this kind, while, in tht big cities, every place of interest was reproduced on a postal. Then the idea struck the United States. The eastern cities took it up. Now it "3 - s.j.&-'L nuwri i mi it ::Zr:-:'4 - 7w;wif t win it v ;,rsriraurcvTratt FROM THE FONTANET EXPLOSION has spread to almost every village. Some idea of the extent of the business may be giinei when it is stated that a man who has a booth at a seaside resort near New York sells $13 worth of postal cards a day. It is estimated that as much as $200,000 a day is spent for picture postal cards in the United States. So Urge is the number of picture postal cards passing through the mails every day that special regulations have been adopted for them. It was only recently that permission was given to write a message on the address skle. It is interesting to add in this connection that the official estimate of the number of souvenir postal cards passing through the British postoffices last year was 500,000,000. The value placed on these cards was estimated at $5,000,000. The revenue to the various governments from postage on souvenir cards approximates millions. Tract nK Oil Trust Loans. In the course of the Standard Oil hearing before Referee Ferris at New York Government's Counsel Kellogg brought to light the fact loans aggregating $32,701,7C0 were made last year by the Standard Oil Company of New York to outside interests, but which Vice President Tilford of the oil trust could not remember about. RUINED HOMES. The evidence of these loans was found in last year's balance sheet, which was produced in court. When asked directly what this account meant, Tilford replied bluntly, "I do not know" or 'I cannot recall. To secure this information the treasurer of the company, W. G. Rockefeller, son of William, the brother of John, was subpoenaed. It was thought that possibly these vast loans, which officials of the Standard could not explain, might conceal the purchase of ostensible rivals. On a preceding day the spectacle was presented of the head of an oil company reputed to be a competitor of the Standard, the New York Lubricating Oil Company, refusing on cross examination to put in the hands of the Standard counsel the private papers and original contracts of the firm. He said he would not thus put in jeopardy information which could be used against his concern. The fact was brought out here that all the big railroads pay from $30,000 to $100,000 more for their lubricants .bought of the: Standard than would be the cost at the rates charged by the independent company. A complete balance sheet and income account of the oil trust were made public for the first time. They showed that while the company paid $40,000,000 in dividends last year, more than $S3,000,000 was carried in the income account, leaving a surplus of nearly $44,000,000. This made a total surplus of $201,000,000. The balance sheet shows total assets about $371,004,532. The values of the various subsidiary companies is given. Records of the liquidating trustees were introduced to show that the dissolution of the trust, which occurred ostensibly in 1892, never occurred. Bernard Shaw Defends Polygramy. The columns of the London Times have recently contained an animated correspondence on the subject of Kulin polygamy in India. The Brahmin practitioner of this social theory believe that a woman should not be deprived of the ddty and privilege of motherhood for mere lack of a husband. Sir George Birdwood, a noted authority on Indian affairs, wrote to the Times that the results of the peculiar practices referred to was an improvement in the race, the selection o fathers being on the principle of the best breeding. This aroused a storm of protest against what was denominated a "revolting and abhorrent" idea. Thereupon George Bernard Shaw took up the cudgel in defense of the Brahmin practice, pointing out its advantages from a social an4 physiological standpoint over the conventionalisms of English society. In oc plaining the Brahmin view he said: "The Ilengalis hold that rt is a part of the general purpose of things that women should bear children, and that childlessness is a misfortune and even a disgrace. Football claimed two more victims ia the deaths of Thomas Bertram, 20, year old, at Altoona, Pa., and Eugene M. T.oiirne, 13 years oT3, at Salt Lake Cit?. At the business session of the Genescv conference of the Methodist Episcopal ('h'jrch in Itufljnlo, the question as to whether or not the conference should indorse the election of negro bishops for n pro conferences was decided in the negative, ayes 18; noes, 14S. The union labor city and county convention of San Francisco nominated a ticket headed by P. II. McCarthy, president of the Building Trades' Council, for Mayor. The other candidates named are the present officers. The program of exMayor Schmits was carried out to tto letter.

IQCIÄL mi A Aril - I I' CIAL CHICAGO. In the largely increased volume of payments through the banks, decline in commercial defaults and shipments of breadstuffs double those of last year bringing the highest prices this season are found encouraging testimony to well-sustained activity in buiness. Less presur is also evident in money and the autumn demand for necessaries and factory outputs reflects steady consumption, which would not be so were the purchasing power generally curtailed. Weather conditions favor the leading distributive lines and movements of commodities compare favorably with a year ago, forwarding to the interior being especially heavy. New contracts in iron and steel show best in structural shapes, wire,- pipe and merchant iron, but there is no falling off in furnace deliveries and rail mills have booking running into next July. . Mercantile collections in the Wct make a satisfactory showing and credits are regarded healthy, notwithstanding the tightness of money. Agriculturists continue prompt in their marketings for cash and the unusually profitable returns add rapidly to country bank deposits. Retail trade here and at interior centers is seen to be of seasonable proportions. Buying remains large in wholesale branches . of dry goods.clothing, boots and shoes, furniture and food products. Bank clearings, $209,577,109, exceed those of corresponding week In 1UU by 18.7 per cent. v Failures reported in the Chicago district number 18, against 24 last week and 110 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $.",000 were 5 in number, against 9 last year. Duns Trade Review. NEW YORK. Trade, crop and industrial reports arc rather more irregular. Interest as to distributive trade has now largely passed from the wholesale and jobbing branches to retail trade, the development and proportions of which will be closely scrutinized from now on. So far the reports as to this line are conflicting, being best in parts of the Northwest, Southwest and South, and relatively slackest at the East, which needs sharp, cold weather fr best activities. Jobbing business is fair as a whole, it being noted that house trade is very quiet, while filling-in orders vary with sections reporting. The money stringency is an additional feature which attracts attention, affecting as it does the item of collections On past transactions. As to this item of collections, too, it may be said that holding of crops ha; been a subject of complaint from several points. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Oct. 17 number 194, against 192 last week, 170 in the like week of 1900, 17S in 190T, 227 in 1904 and 21G in 1903. Canadian failures for the week number 30, as against 24 last week and 18 in this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $7.43; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.S3 ; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.73; wheat. No. 2, 98c to $1.01; corn, No. 2, G2c to C3c; oats, staudard, 31c to 52c; rye. No. 2, 83c to S0c; hay, timothy, $12.00 to $20.00; prairie, $9.00 to $13.00; butter, choice ereamery, 27c to 2Sc ; eggs, fresh. Ilk: to 21c ; potatoes, per bushel, T3c to C3c Indianapolis Cattle, shippicr, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, ,$3.00 to $G.S0; sheep, commro to prime, $3.00 to $4.73; wheat. No. 2. $1.01 to $1.03; corn, No 2 white, U3e to 01c; ioats, No. 2 white, 32c to 53c. ! St. Louis Cattle, $4.30 to $7.20; hogs $4.00 to $0.73; sheep, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.03 to $1.04; corn, No. 2, 03c to 04c; oats. No. 2, 49c to 30c ; rye, No. 2, 82c to 83c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $3.75; hogs $4.00 to $0.73; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.08 to $1.09; corn. No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 33c ; rye. No. 2, 91c to 93c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.30: hogs, $4.00 to $0.50: sheep, $2i0 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2, $1.03 to $1.04; corn. No. 3 yellow, 07c to CSc'; oats. No. 3 white, 35c to 50c ; rye. No. 2, 89c to 90c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.08 to $1.10; corn. No. 3, 02c to 03c; oats, standard, 51c to 52c; rye. No. 1, 87c to 88c; barley, standard, $1.10 to $1.11; pork, mess, $15.50. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.00; hoes, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.10; sheep, common fo good mixed, $4.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair' to choice, $5.00 to $8.75. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $C35 ; hogs, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.00 to $1.07; corn, No. 2, 72c to 73c; oats, natural white, 58c to 02c; butter, creamery, 25c to 2Sc; eggs, western, 18c to 23c Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.01 to $1.05; corn, No. 2 mixed, G5c to CCc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 50c; rye. No. 2, 89c to 90c ; clover seed, prime, $10.90. In the Sport iusr 'World. Sir TDomas Lipton expressed great disappointment at not being able to make terms to race for the America Cup. Keene's Colin won a $9,000 6take at Brighton. George Bennett announced he would quit the turf forever. The Yale football eleven started off with a smart victory over Wesleyan. Bobby Waithour, the American cyclist, was seriously hurt in a race in Berlin. Line bucking won the game for the University of Tennsylvania which its team played with Villa Nova. Philadelphia and Detroit American League teams played a remarkable seven-teen-inning game to a drawn score. The Cardinals in St. Louis, took more than their share of the games played, while the Browns did wonderfully well on their eastern trip. Saloons In Large Otic. A census compilation recently made public shows that Cleveland and San Francisco lead all other cities in the number of saloons as compared with the total population, the number in the former city being 3,117 and in the latter 3,280. New York had 10,700 licensed saloons, with 1,070 grocers and druggists authorized to sell liquor. Of the 198,250 arrests in New York, 52,310 were for intoxication. Many Trees In. Small Space. In the Garden Magazine R. T. Barnes advances the opinion that the rapid spread of the San Jose scale and other tree enemies will bring about the adoption of dwarf varieties for the production of fruits especially by the amateur fruit grower. The reasons he gives for this are the greater ease with which small trees may be treated with sprays for protection from enemies that feed upon the foliage and bark and the possibility of raising these trees in small yards, the earllness with which they come Into1 bearing and the scantiness of their shade, thus leaving the ground available for small fruits and vegetables.

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AEGno ABDUCTS GIRL Cab Driver Drives Society Leader Into Conntrr as Escort ShMts. Forcibly abducted, in the midst of a hail of bullets by a negro cab driver, and driven at top speed into the country. Miss Grace Marvin, a beautiful society girl of Logansport, was rescued by a posse, which found her unconscious in the vehicle, with marks of violence on her throat. Claiburn Lewis the cab driver, was discovered in the cab beside the unconscious girl. It was necessary to take him to jail through the back streets of the city, to avoid a mob which had formed to lynch him. Miss Marvin's abduction was spectacular. She had been making a tour of road houses in the vicinage, in company with Barry Cardigan, a vaudeville actor. He left her in the cab while he entered a cafe for a cigar. When be returned to the street he saw the cab rapidly disappearing, with a negro lashing the horses into a gallop and the yoving woman leaning from the window, screaming for aid, but not daring to jump. Cardigan gave chase on foot, bring his revolver at the negro, and ran until be was exhausted. The shots had attracted a crowd and a posse was hurriedly formed, which overtook the ab after a chase of two hours. When caught, Lewis had driven into a secluded lane, apparently with the idea of throwing his pursuers off the track. When abducted the girl was wearing diamonds belonging to Cardigan valued at $1,000. These, together with the actor's overcoat, in which was $100, were recovered in the cab. William Marvin, the young woman's father, has sworn to kill the negro and is being guarded by his friends PECIL.IAII OLD MAX DIES. Sleeps In Open on Iron Gratlna; for Fifty Years. "Cast Iron" Jack O'Connell ia dead at the county infirmary at Evansville. lie was S3 years of age. O'Connell was a well-known character in that city. For fifty years or more, until removed to the Wll'llfv l'nfirnnpr Vi n u a o n opir lrnMi-n tn sleep in bed, but instead he lay on the iron grating in the rear of a factory in First street. No night was too severe for him to sleep in the open. His food came irom the free lunch counters in the saloons, and as he always had friends who would buy liquor for him, he never went hungry or thirsty. Where he -cance from was a mystery. The death certificate reads: 44 'Cast Iron Jack O'Connell. aged 83 years. Cause of death, old age." DASHES IXTO A CROWD. One Blan Killed and Several Injured at Warsav. West-bound Pennsylvania fast train No. 10 plowed into a crowd of people at Bourbon Station, killing Tota Sloane, a Warsaw saloonkeeper, and seriously injuring several others. At the time of the accident 1,000 persons were standing on the platform waiting for the east-bound passenger train. Somebody cried TIere she comes" and the mass of humanity surged toward the track, several persons being thrown in front of the locomotive. The most seriously injured were Frank Miller of Plymouth, who lost a band, and George Rodibaugh of Milford, who suffered internal injuries. GIVES 7-1 FE FOR HER CHILDREN. Marion Woman Perishes in Fire In Attempt to Assist Family. Thinking only of the safety of her seven children and disregarding her own danger, Mrs. Harvey Mendenhall perished in a fire which destroyed their home near Marion. The husband and six of the children escaped, but the seventh child, Theodore, aged 0. died with his mother. Mrs Mendenhall was overcome in attempting to rescue the children. The parents, aroused by the crackling of fire, found themselves shut in. their exit being barred by flames. Mendenhall and six children escaped through a window. Chlcasjoans Ran Xw Road. At a meeting in Bloomington of the stockholders of the Bloomington Southern railroad, the new quarry line the Illinois Central is building from Bloomington to Bedford, the follow inj directors, all Chicagoans, were elected: I. Pawn, J. B. T. Titus Blewltt Lee. The other members of the board are J. T. Harah&n and W. G. Brucn. Two Fatally Hary by Explosion. In a dynamite explosion at Wolcottville Howard Roy's head was crushed. Charles Craft was also fatally hurt, both his legs being broken. Minor State Xte&a, Alexander Sarvas was probably fatally stabbed by John Czima, with whom be quarreled at a church fair in South Bend. Czima fled. Julius Toth, 15 years old, touched a niv wire that came in contact with a live t - O V X J . 1 electric wire in ssvaui muu ana was instantly killed. The removal from office of Marshal Greene and the appointment of Fred Bohnk? to the place has caused Mayor Coffee of Decatur a peck of trouble, and be niust now fight impeachment proceedings started by the common council. The council charges Coffee with intimidating officers and with incompetency. Thomas Shea, tramp, shot by Sheriff Oglesby after the official had been fatally wounded by bullets from Shea's revolver, died in Winamac from his wounds. f A receiver was asked for the Lesh Manufacturing Company of Warsaw, of which Theodore P. Shouts, former Panama commissioner, was for many years president. Xf 1 im a n n A-m Art la ririul naming iwo uiocivs auer usu ureu a bupllet into his heart with suicidal intent, Abraham C. King, aged 33, dropped dead in the street in La Porte. He had been despondent on account of sickness. In Terre Haute Alice Black, 10 years old, was accidentally shot and killed by her nephew, William Bennett, 10 years old, who was playing with a target rifle. Her father was killed in a mine a week before. Paddling out into Berks lake on a log to secure a mud hen that he had woundd, Louis Bauckle of South Bend almost lost his lie. The log became unmanageable and rolling first one way and then the other, kept him submerged until he became exhausted. After fighting against odds for thtee hours he was rescued by two hunters, lie is in a serious condition. Miss Iva Wagoner, 17 years of age and the daughter of a well-known minister, is under arrest, at Rochester on a charge of trying to wreck a Lake Frie and Vcstern passenger train, thus endangering forty or fifty lives. No less strange II . ,1-1 . I I. J C X i the accusation that the wreck was planned by Miss Wagoner in order that she might get to see her sweetheart, who is employed by the railroad company, and who would ha.e been summoned to the scene of the wreck, iiad it occurred. A fire at the Vickburg coal mine stables near Terre Haute destroyed twentyfive mules and cost $12,000. A miner took several mules from the burning building at the lisk of his own life.