Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 6, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 November 1907 — Page 2

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Q-N. M. ?V F Q. 5th V 12 h.l9tb. (J 2Tth. PAST AND PEESEXT JIS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telecraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many Murdered by Tramps. Three men who were found dead along the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway at various points iu Indiana last week, and supposed to fcave met with accidents; were murdered. Chief E. A. Snyder, of the railway detective force at Cleveland, Ohio, declares. The body of J. W. Murphy, of Colorado Springs, who was caring for a load of horses, was found at "South Bend, Ind., Nov. 2. The body of Ralph Kyle, a telegrapher of Edgerton, Ohio, was found at Goshen, Ind., last Tuesday, and the body of Henry Rank, of Berrien County, Michigan, was found at LaPorte, Ind., on Friday. The detectives established the Identity of the dead and declare they were really murdered and robbed by tramps. The car In which Murphy wa3 riding bore evidence of a struggle when examined at Buffalo, N. Y. The detectives have traced the tramps In the direction of Detroit and hope soon to make an arrest. Girls Run Down by Cars. Edna Hyde, aged 17, and Leonora Stout, 19, were probably fatally Injured at the Main street crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad at Lima, Ohio. Miss Hyde lost both legs at the knee, while it Is feared that Miss Stout's loft leg cannot be saved. Georgia Shearer and Grace Moscow were also badly injured, but will rqjpver. The Injured persons were standing on the same track, which was occupied by a cut of freight cars which the yard crew was attempting to pick up. A faulty kn ickle on the end car prevented a coupling when the switch engine struck the cars and they were bumped -down the track directly upon the young women. They failed tc see the approaching cars until it was too late to avoid them. Earthquake Victims Number 14,000. The first direct reports from the scene of the great earthquake at Karatagh, Russian Turkistan, about three weeks ago, has just been received from a corerspondent who accompanied the relief expedition sent In from Jamarkand. Telegraphing under date of November 9, the correspondent cays: "The town of Karatagh was completely destroyed. The victims number about 4,000 in Karatagh and about 10,000 In the adjoining district of Denausk. All the villages in the vicinity were wrecked. It is probable that there are hundreds more dead in these villages, but investigation is only now determining the approximate number." ' Anna Gould Married Again. Mme. Anna Gould, who was recently diyorced from Count Bonl de Castellane, was married to Prince Helle de Sagau In London, Eng., about a week ago. Rumors that the former countess was to marry the prince have beea rife for several weeks, but it was not supposed that the marriage would take place until early next spring. Dreyfus to Get Pension. A dispatch from Paris, France, says: On the list of those to whom pensions are granted, printed in the Journal Oflclal, is the name of Major Dreyfus. He 13 to receive $470 annually. , His ervice extends over a period of nearly thirty-one years. Volcanoes Busy in Eastern Asia. Advices from Victoria, B. C, received In Japan of remarkable volcanic eruptions In the Kamchatkin mountains. Mount Kahauchouskya's Hames were visible for 500 miles and -volcanic ashes have been falling in a radius of 200 miles. Superior Loss is Heavy. Losses in the fire at Superior, Wis., are placed at $2,268,000, including about three-quarters of a million in wheat All firms except Whitney Bros, have insurance covering a large proportion of the losses. Little Girls Mangled. Marie Miller, 5,, and her sister Mar tha, 9 years old, were frightfully man gled under an elevator in the Blymer building in Cincinnati, Ohio. The youngest girl cannot recover. $83,000 Fire Loss. The plant of the Cornplanter Refining Compan at Warren, Pa., was destroyed by fire with a loss of $80,000. John Bustavos, an employe, was probably fatally burned. Suicide Precedes Failure. Tie Commercial State hank, with deposits of $380,000, closed in Grand Island, Neb. It had $50,000 m the First National bank of Chariton, Iowa, whose cashier committed suicide. Acquitted as Bribe Taker. Eimer II. Dearth, former State insurance commissioner of Minuesota, who was Indicted by the Hennepin county grand Jury on a charge of having accepted a bribe from W. F. Bechtel, former president of a Joca! life insurance Company, was acqu It(ed of the charge in the Dis trict Court in .Minneapolis. Diva's Narraw Escape. Mme. Olive Fremstad, opera .ringer, had a narrow escape from drowning while on the deck of the liner Li Provence when a huge wave swept the deck of the vessel, carrying away the bridge railing ar.d smashing in the captain' cabin. Hawaii Sugar Breaks Record. Hawaii's sugar crop for 1907 U tbe largest in the history of the islands. It mounts to 420,000 tons. N-xt yearns crop promises to reach 575,000 tons. This large increase is due to the extension of acreage by irrigation.

80LD SECRETS OF COURTS.

Discovery that Papers Were Stole Open 1,'p Far-Reaching: Plot. Secret service operatives are working in Chicago to determine to what extent government secrets in recent cases of national importance have been sold by Miss Etta McLean and Alexander B. Gondee, who were held in $5,000 bonds tc. tho spiracy and the theft of papers In the John R. Walsh case. Discovery of papers relating to the Standard Oil trfnl In the rmvm ct MIa McLean has led to the suspicion that she and her confederate may have dis closed government plans not only in the Wa!h case, but in the cases against the Standard Oil, the Chicago and Alton railway, and the school book com bine. .miss .McLeans position as srenographer In District Attorney Sims of fice, which she held since April, sore her ample opportunity to obtain copies of the most valuable papers in all these cases. The fact that Gordee. her sweet heart, was able to live in idleness, din ing at expensive restaurants, for the past six months has made it apparent he had some secret source of income. While the government officials feel confident they have unearthed a farreaching conspiracy, they have yet to learn its magnitude or to vhat extent its operations have injured government prosecutions. In the prosecution of the Standard Oil, the Alton, and the book combine it was apparent at every turn that the defendants knew in advance the government's moves, no matter how secretly planned. The arrest of the ccuple, it is -believed, has solved this enigma. By the will of the late Robert X. Car son of Philadelphia, his fortune, amounting to $5,500,000, will, after the death of his widow, be devoted to the establishment of a college for orphan girls, simi lar to the Girard college for orphan boys. Girard's benevolence was Carson's inspir ation, and in thus disposing of his fottune Mr. Carson took satisfaction in the thought that no man would live in idleness as a gentleman of leisure on the Carson wealth. The college thus provided for will be known as the Carson College, and will be erected on his estate in Montgomery county, near Philadelphia, It will be .non-sectarian in character, al though clergymen will be allowed to talk within the limits of fundamental Christian principV. Two more cities have joined in the popular chorus against the secret fraterni ties in the public high schools namely Washington D. C. and Denver Colo. In the former city Supt. Chancellor hold's that the "presence of secret societies is the sign of a decaying or very young civilization," and that where the proper spirit prevails there is a "loyalty to the school as a whole." In Denver. Mrs. Margaret T. True, president of the Board of Education, U leading the opposition as chairman of the committee appointed to investigate the matter. She says: "The board feels that the existence of these societies is an injustice to all the pupils, as it creates false ideas of social status and wronzs those children who become outcasts through not being admitt h1 to the societies." Trouble is reported at Sumrall, Miss., growing out of the opposition on the part or the natives to Italian children attending the white public schools. The en deavor to shut the Italians out began some weeks ago. The State superintendent of education and the Attorney Gen eral were appealed to and they decided that the constitution provided for whites and negroes and did not catalogue Italians as a separate race. One of the lead ers of the Italians who insisted on the rights of his people was taken beyond the town limits, soundly thrashed and ordered to desist in his efforts to get l011 cail" dren into the white schools. The antiItalian sentiment is strong in Mississippi and one of the candidates for Gov ernor made it the chief plank in his plat form. Discontent with the public school sys tem has crvstallized Into a war cry for neighborhood schools, says the Literary Digest, and this war cry is raised by the friends and not the enemies of the public schools, who believe that concentration has reached a limit in schools as well as in other departments of civic activity. Boston has had the subject brought to its attention by observing that over S0,000 of its children, or over one-third of Its school population, are attending pri vate schools. A writer in the Boston Transcript says there is among parens a growing dread of the big public school, where little children are herded together by the hundreds. They, are afraid of it nhvsicallv. mentally and morally. Year after year these public schools have been trowing bigger and bigger, until at pres ent it is common in the larger cities to see from 2,000 to 3,000 little tots crowded together into the same building, which is in consequeace just so much further from the homes of many. Machine meth ods, under such circumstances, become inevitable, and it is difficult to give any kind of elasticity to such a system, and the writer believes that the growth of the private schools marks a revolt against this kind of public school. He thinks the remedy will.be the develonjneut of neighborhood schools under central su pervision. The limit of pay for grade teachers in Minneapolis has been raised from $800 to $1000 after a lively campaign in which a committee of citizens took part, the Board of Tax Levy appropriating the necessary amount. The National Academy of Design of New York has decided to separate the men and women art classes. Heretofore, with the exception of those devoted to work from living models, the classes Lave been mixed. The management has the impression that flirtations have distracted the attention of the students from their work. The report of the United States commissioner of education for 1905, just issued, shows the number of students in the medical schools of the country to be 25,835, a decrease of 1,114 from the preceding year. Dr. J. II. Long, writing in Science, said that fully one-half of these are "fully prepared in schools that exist merely as commercial ventures." Woodstock College, the philosophical and theological training school for tl Jesuit scholastics, which has been located at Woodstock, near Baltimore, since 1889, is soon to be moved to New York City and made a part of the university at Fordham. The senior class of the University of North Carolina has adopted a resolution commending the sophomore class for the manner in which the latter body has turned its face resolutely against the tradition of hazing. Since the students of t'lis institution have taken the matter in hand, hazing has become a thing of the past. At Cuthbert, Ga., all the public schools In Randolph county were represented in a contest for the best corn, cotton and poultry produced by the pupils in connec tion with their agricultural courses. Presbyterian synod at Milwaukee petitioned Congress to stop Sunday ball play lag by soldiers and sailors.

RESULTS OF ELECTIONS

Overwhelming Victory for Tainmany in New York. TOM JOHNSON WINS. Cleveland Mayor Re-EIected in Hard Fight with Burton. ILLINOIS COUNTIES GO "DRY." American Tarty Successful in Salt Lake City. New York Ilearst-Rcputlican alliance beuten by Tammany. Cleveland, Ohio Johnson defeats Roosevelt's candidate, Burton ; assures 3-cent car fare. Salt Lake City. Utah Mormonism hit by election of Bransford anti-Mormon Mayor. San Francisco Anti-graft element wins in election of Acting Mayor Taylor and District Attorney Langdon, graft prosecutor. Kentucky Republicans elfct Willson Governor, switching State from- Democratic column. Toledo. Ohio Open-town platform fleets Brand Whitlock (Independent) Mayor. Columbia, Ohio Republicans elect Bond Major, defeating Duncan, who declared for "lid." Cincinnati, Ohio Markbreit, Republican, elected Mayor, city returning to Republican Leader Cox's control. Maryland Democrats elect Crothers Governor. Nebraska Republicans elect justice of Supreme Court. Rhode Island Democrats re-elect Gov. Iliggins. Pennsylvania Sheatz, Republican, elected State Treasurer. New Jersey Katzcnbach, Democrat, elected Governor. Virginia Democrats regain control of Legislature. Much importance properly is attach ed ,to the results of -Tuesday's elections, notwithstanding the fact that they were limited to a few States and a number of cities. With some exceptions, the voters showed a full appre ciation of the Issues presented to them. Tom Johnson has been elected mayor of Cleveland for the fourth time, though by a reduced plurality, over the Republican candidate, Conpssman Burton. Though the traction Issue was kept to the front in the campaign, doubtless the general results of Mayor Johnson's efforts to Improve and broaden the scope of the municipal service had much to do with his success. His notable victory, together with the strik ing defeat of the Hearst-Republican ticket in New York, brings Johnson conspicuously to the front In Democratic national politics The reform candidates won a Fplendid victory in San Francisco. District Attorney Langdon is re-elected and will continue his work o( prosecuting grafters of high and low degree. In Salt Li.ke the American party has overthrown the mormon element, thus loosening the strangle hold of the church on Utah polities. ' An Important development was the desertion of the church candidates by thousands of mormon voters, who do not desire longer to mix politlcj with their relig ion. Kentucky has elected Willson, Re publican, for Governor. Not since Tay lor was unseated after the murder of Goebel has that State had a Republi can executive. Maryland apparently demonstrated the effectiveness of Its law to smother the negro vote by electing a Democratic governor over the Republican candidate. Rhode Island has re-elQcted Its Democratic governor, Hlgglns, but its peculiar election lawi have permitted It to return another strong Republican legislature. By no means the least striking feat ure of the election was the sweeping success of prohibition in Illinois dis tricts which took advantage of the new local-option law to vote on the question of saloons. The results prove that the people In many parts of the State want protection from the evlli of liquor selling. laauea Voted On. Pennsylvania State treasurer. New Jersey Liberal Governor elected. Rhode Island Governor and State offi cers. Maryland Governor and State offi cers. Utah Municipal officials ; Mormon ism an issue. Kentucky Voters show preference for local option law. Nebraska Supreme Court justice ; other State officials. California Municipal elections: graft issue in San Francisco. New York County judges and sheriff; Republicans' and fusionists combined. Virginia General Assembly, county. and eight district congressional tickets out. Ohio Cincinnati, Columbus and To ledo elect Mayors favoring 'liberal saloon policy. Delaware Two districts of State pro hibit sale of Iquor; one favors it; ona in doubt. Massachusetts Governor and State officers; ten tickets resulting from Whit ney- Bartlett controversy ; railroad mer ger issue. Illinois Eight counties out of seven teen voting are completely against licensing saloons. Prohibitionists win in many districts of other counties. Mississippi Noel, Democratic Govern or, favoring prohibition, bad no opposi tion. Notes of Current Events, London, according to the census, has just passed the 7,000,000 mark. The last friend of Byron, the poet, has just died at Darlmghurst, New South Wales. She was Mrs. Catherine Crunv mer, the widow of a Waterloo veteran, and was OS years of age. A monument has been erected to Anna" Holzel In the Schlossgarten, at Mann heim, Germany. She waj the wife of a carpenter, who in 181 saved k poet Schiller from a debtor's v'son. The Swiss army win icon include corps of volunteer motorists. They will have a special uniform, and will be armed with revolvers. Louisville, the Kentucky cnter, though not so well known as Richmond, the Virginia center, is the largest tobacco market in the workl. It is now fourteen yearn since an ai propriation of $10,000 wa5 made for ex periments with the project of raraJ free delivery. As recently as ten years ago the appropriation for this new service amounted to only $40,000; last year it was more than $25,000,000, while this year rural free delivery will cost $37.000,000.

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Brand Whitlock, author and prison reformer, re-elected mayor of Toledo, Ohio. Theodore E. Burtou, Roosevelt candidate for mayor of Cleveland, defeated by Ton. Johnson. Curtis Guild, reelected governor of Massachusetts by an overwhelming Republican majority.

EUROPMANIA IS COSTLY. f 000,000,000 Goes Abroad In Allinnre with Mobility. More than 400 American girls have married foreigners of noble families and many of them have taken big fortunes to their European husbands. A French journal, Le Petit Parisien. declared the other day that Americanl girls who had married, abroad, mostly for foreign titles, had carried with them to Europe the astonishing sum of $900,000,000. The Paris writer did not associate this statement with the reports of "tight money" in America, yet the fact that hundreds of millions have gone out of the country with the title hunters may well occasion a little financial as well as a social speculation. Henry Clews, the veteran financier, when asked for an opinion on this estimate, said: , ' "I think the statement that $900.000,000 of wealth has been taken out of this country, or at least that the ownership of this vast amount of assets has been transferred to aliens by tho marriage of American girls with foreigners is conservative. Undoubtedly the withdrawal of such nn enormous sum has an appreciable effect upon the money market. "The folly of Americans who have Europa mania is extremely costly to this country. . Our tourists spend at h.-ast $150,000,000 abroad evpry year, most of it foolishly." A New York paper prints a list of .i50 American girls who have married into distinguished foreign families. Following is a list of twenty-two such heiresses who have carried $1W,000,000 out of the country : CarrlotI awav. May Goelet Pauline Astor . . Anna Could. . . . Mrs. Marshalt O S40.(MM.O(lO L'o.ooo.ono ll.otto.ooo rj.o 0.000 10.oyo.ooo 10.ooo.ooo ri.ooit.noo n.oou.ooo n.ooo.tHX) n.ooo.ooo 5.000.000 4.(MM.OO0 2.000.000 .'t.000.000 J.ooo.;oo 2.000.000 2.000.000 u.ooo.ooo U.OOO.IHMI ü.000.000 2,000.000 2.000.000 Itoherts. Sarah rhelps Stokes Consuelo anderbtlt Mary Leiter . . Nancy Ieller . Margaret loiter Helle Wilson . . rarollne Astor ... Marie SatterflHd . Lily Hammersley . Uertrude l Parker Julia ltryant (Mackay) Miss Garner Florence Garner I'lalre Huntington Mrs. Livingston (nee Sampson) Minnie Stevens Iteatrire WInans Helen Zimmerman This list alone foots up $100,000,000. Undoubtedly upward of $.'100,000,000 has been paid for titles alone, for the dowries have by no means represented all that went with the brides. LIVES LOST IN EARTHQUAKE. Flasares Opened I'p at Torre 1 ltlbera, Spain. A violent earthquake has occurred at Torre la Ribera, in the province of Huesca, Spain. The earth opened, leaving great fissures, the disturbance being ae-c-orupanied by subterranean rumblings, which caused a panic among the population. Many houses were shaken down. An unknown number of lives have been lost. The province of Huesca lies in the northern portion of Aragon and is bounded on the north by France and on the east by the province of Lcrida. It has an areA of 5,872 square miles, with a population of approximately 273,000. The capital city of the province is Iluesca, with a population of over 10,000 ieople. The city is well built and of a picturesque nature, but is in a decayed state. The principal building of the town is its cathedral, which has numerous statues and a magnificent altar piece. The city has fifteen convents and a foundling asylum and the ancient palace of the kings of Aragon. A dispatch received at St. Petersburg from Samarkand says that a special press representative, who was sent to Karatagh, in the Hissar district of Bokhara, which was destroyed by a landslide following the earthquake of Oct. 31, reports that 3,400 persons perished and only seventy escaped. Milk Cong-reaa Honor Siran. The International Pure Milk Congress hehl at Brussels put Itself on record as against the use of raw milk, advising all mothers to give their infants milk brought to the boiling point, pasteurized or sterilized. This action, following upon the address of Nathan Straus of New York tailing of his efforts toward pasteurization, was in the nature of an indorsement. It was announced that Mr. Straus would give a complete pasteurizing plant to the city of Brussels. The Straus plan, which was first put into operation in New York City fifteen years ago, has now been adopted in nearly 400 cities in all parts of the world, and the United States government has Indorsed pasteurization as the proper way to make milk safe and to stop the spread of tuberculosis. King Alfonso of Spain is very fond of the sea. He and Queen Victoria Eugenie find one of their greatest pleasures at San Sebastian in the long daily swim. Both are perfectly at home in the water, the young queen having early acquired thfc art of swimming in Solent waters. More patents were issued during 1900 and more money collected by the United States patent office than in any single year previous, wtyh the exception of 1Ü03, since the establishment of the patent office in 1830 Noble county, Indiana, has raised over half a million bushels of onions this year.

'CHE BATTLE OF BALLOTS.

WILL ASK AUTO MAIL CAR. I'oatal Lcagrue to Presa It Plan Before Conitrena. The next Congress will be asked to provide for an experiment in automobil postoffices for rural delivery serviee. This suggestion was made at a inciting of the Postal Progress League recently ty James L. Cowles, the secretary and treasurer of the league. Mr. Cowles estimated that the present loss to the government on rural delivery service amounted to $172 for each route. With the adoption of automobiles and ft change in the postal regulations to permit a local rural parcels delivery with a weight limit of eleven pounds, Mr. Cowles declared rural delivery would become a profit instead of a loss to the govermneut Following out this suggestion, the league will ask Congress for an appropria tlon of $00,000 to test the plan. Mr. Cowles calculations were made for a route of twelve miles covered twice a day. lie estimated that the cost of these trips, including the carrier's salary, , would amount to only $3 a day, which would be more than provided for if each of some 173 families along the route paid only 3 cents a day for parrels from the town. Frederick C. Beach, th-? president of the league, said that the National Grange, the association which obtained the passage of the free-alcohol bill, would liock the Postal Progress League in this and its other postal reforms. President Beach was empowered by the meeting to appoint a committee to draw up petitions to be presented to Congress this coming winter, j Pope PIna liana Modernlam. A new encyclical issued by Pope. Pius X. at Rome makes a sweeping condemnation of all the so-called heresies of the present time, which he has grouped under the term "modernism." In taking this attitude the Pope assorts that he is but following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Leo XIII. The document examines the different aspects of modernism in philosophy, religion, history, criticism, and the various social reforms known as radicalism, contending that in all these respects the effect would be toward the destruction of dogmas and of the church hierarchy. Modernism is further characterized as "unlimited curiosity, presumption, individualism, ignbrt'cce and disrespect of real Catholic science and discipline." All bishops are enjoined to see that the clergy and the laity be turned from this line of thought, and are ordered to establish ta college of censors in every diocese to revise Catholic publications and rigidly to proscribe all objectionable books, newspapers or pamphlets. Notwithstanding this general prohibition, the Pope's letter ndeavors to distinguish between moderristic thought and the modern studies which are not in opposition to the church. He foresees that the adversaries of the church will represent it as the enemy of science and progress. "To this," says tle Pope, "we will reply by our actions," and he goes on to say that the most illustrious representatives of Catholic science will be grouped together with the object of favoring and helping "the progress of everything that can be called true science or erudition." The encyclical also orders the dismissal from seminaries and Catholic universities of all teachers who profess modernistic theories. In the European press there is rome discussion as to whether this encyclical is aimed at one country more than nnother. Some say it , is directed against France, and others against the United States, but it is by no means certain that the Pope had any particular nation in mind. Pure Food Law Defended. Dr. N. W. Wiley, chief chemist of the Agricultural Department, in in interview, defends the national pure-food law from the attacks of thoso who charge the increased cost of living to its operation. Or. Wiley admits that pure foods are worth more, and should bring higher prices in the markets than debased fods, and says that any legitimate rise in the price On this account is a benefit to the consumer rather than to the producer, ami should be regarded as a blessing and not as a curse. He calls attention to the fact that while pure foods have advanced in price the adulterated articles have declined. Nevertheless he joints out that the great staple articles which form JK) per cent of the food supply, are not, and cannot be, affected by this law. He warns the public that in no case does the government guarantee the purity of any article manufactured and sold, but merely aims to have the goods sold for what they are. From Far and Near. People of China are pleased by assurances given them by Secretary Taft. European military engineers are working on a form of automobile to draw artillery. The floor space of St. Pet -rV, Rome, is 227,000 square feet, the greatest of any cathedral :n the world. Three big life insurance companies of New York returned to the State $01,331 on account of illegal rebates. The newest Mills hotel has just been thrown open in New York. It cost $1.300,000, has 1.S73 rooms, the highestpriced of which are 40 cents a day, and is equipped with all modem improvements. Several millions of American capital are invested in the coppr fields of Cen tral Chili the gold fields of the extreme south and the nitrate field of the north. The best of feeling prevails toward Ainer leans and American goods.

Wjnarcial:

CHICAGO. Despite the difficulties interposed by stringent money conditions, trade generally maintains satisfactory activity, especially in the distributive branches. The efforts to bring about financial relief are unrelated, and there is more encouragement for the future in gold imports, increasing note circulation and ready acceptance of checks in local payments. Liquidation is not yet exhausted, and it is not surprising that further Khrifikage is seen in values of leading commodities, together with increase In commer cial defaults. In view of the limitations attending settlements through the banks and absence of discount o;crat ions t the total clearings this week make a fair ex hibit, although the comparison with a year ago is unfavorable. Conservatism toward new enterprises and accommodating borrowers is imperative until credit has become firmly reestablished and indications favor an early return to the normal status, but legiti mate needs will have timely protection. including necessary renewals upon a proper showing. Mercantile collections at various interior points are slower, owing to scarcity of currency, but most credits cause less reprehension than was feared and recovery from the temporary disarrangement is looked for soon. Advices indicate that country merchandising maintains seasonable proportions, and colder weather has brought' an increased move ment of heavy-weight apparel and household necessaries. Farm work and improvements involve liberal outlays. City trade in the leading retail lines disclose no decline, and the absorption of clothing and footwear equals expectations Dealings in the wholesale district -compare well with a year ago. , Manufacturing reflects no Important change, most of the heavy industries having ample work to assure steady employment of forces for months to come, particularly iu iron and steel. The market for lumber shows weaker prices and smaller shipment". Shoe factories prepare larger outputs than at this time in 1000. Failures reported in the Chicago dis trict number 37, against 27 last week and 19 a j-ear ago. Those with liabilities in excess of $3,000 number 10, against 1 in IOO4NEW YORK. Good progress has been made in accom modating the country to the changed financial conditions, this, too, with strikingly little friction, considering the scarcity of currency and the widespread sub stitution of credit instruments for actual cash. At the same time wholesale and jobbing trade has quieted down very per ceptibly, and the disposition in industrial lines has leen to curtail production wherever possible, the aim being to avoid un necessary or possibly burdensome accumulations of stocks. There is a rather more optimistic tone prevailing this week than last, the outgrowth of the better feeling at the East, .the large arrivals of gold from Europe, and the idea that basic conditions, both as regards the purchasing power of the people and the absence of large stocks, are better than in some preceding years of stress. There are, it is true, increasing evidences that the level of commodity prices has been forced unreasonably high, and that the process of readjustment will compel numerous revisions. Bradstreet's Commercial Itcport. Chicago Cattle, common to prime $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $3.40; sheep, fair to choice. $3.00 to $3.23; wheat, No. 2, 87c to 80c; corn; No. 2, 57c to 3Sc; oats, standard, 41c to 43c; rye, No. 2, 7c to 78c; hay, timothy, $12.00 to $18.00; prairie, $0.00 to $14.30; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 19c to 23c; potatoes, per bushel, 33c to 02c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.73; hogs, good to choice heavy, $4.30 to $3.80; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.73; wheat. No. 2, 00c to 91c; corn, No. 2 white, 39c to 01c; oats, No. 2 white, 44c to 43c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $7.10; hogs. $4.X) to $3.40; sheep, $3.00 to $5.33; wheat, No. 2, 90c to 01c: corn. No. 2, 50c to 57c; oats. No. 2, 44c to 43c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 79c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $3.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.10; sheep, $3.00 to $4.73; wheat. No. 2, 98c to $100; corn. No. 2 mixed, 00c to 02c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c ; rye, No. 2, 81c to 82c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.23; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 97c; corn. No. 3 yellow, G2c to C3c; oats. No. 3 white, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 2, 77c to 78c Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 90c to 99c; corn. No. 3, 00c to 61c; oats, standard, 49c to 50c; rye, No. 1, 79c to 81c; barley, standard, 94c to 95c; pork, mess, $12.30. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $G.40; hogs, $4.00 to $3.70; sheep, $3.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.00; corn. No. 2, GSc to 09e; oats, natural white, 53c to 55c; butter, creamery, 23c to 27c; eggs, western, 25c to 29c. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 o $0.2.1; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.00; heep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.(50. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 94c to c: corn. No. 2 mixed, (lie to G2o; 9 oats. No. 2 mixed, 49c to 51c; rye. No. 77c to 78c; clover seed, prime, $Ü.10. Telegraphic Brevities. Chief of Police Creecy announced that his order to prohibit boxing shows in St. Louis is absolute and general. The London Daily Mail notes that a Swiss village has been decorated with flags in honor of a hen that has laid her thousandth egg. Bidding for next Republican national convention is open to any city having hall which will seat 10,000 persons and fund of $100,000 to spare. Representatives from six cities, St. Louis included, attended a meeting in Chicago looking toward the formation of a new major baseball league. Wabash university, by holding out for a larger percentage of the gate receipts, may prevent the Wabash-St. Louis U. football game from being played. Several State records were broken at the Texas State fair at Dallas. A boxing match between Attell and Weeks was arranged at Los Angeles. Dispatches from Berlin state that Herr Bebel, the leader of the (Jeraian Socialsts, will leave that city early next spring for a tour of the United States and Can ada. While in America he will deliver a series of lectures on socialism and will study the organization of the labor unions, paying special attention to the coal and iron' regions. He will also investigate the workings of the trusts, particularly their influence upon the condi tion of the working classes.

BIEGE OF TICKSBDRG.

THIRTY-SEVENTH REUNION OF ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE. "Gibraltar of the Sonth' Undergoes Another Siege Com me moral 1 the One Which Wax Anions the 31 oat Remarkable in Military History. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee, composed of ollicers who served In the great army of the West iinder Crant and Sherman, recently held its annual reunion at Vicksburg, Miss. There, where frowned during the first two years of the Civil War the impregnable fortifications of the Confederacy, choking tbe trade of the great river and cutting the southern half of tho republic in two, there, whera the great siege was fought out bitterly and bravely on each side, but with victory to Grant, the commander who never led to ultimate defeat, tho remnant of the society which, formed iu the field In 18C3 and included all of the officers of the Anny of the Tennessee, met in its thirty-saventh session. With it foregathered some of the surviving Confederate officers who were among the besieged in tho fated city, with Gen. rcmberton, from May .0, 180.3, when the ring of assault was finally closed around .Vicksburg, until the 4th day of July, when the suffering garrison stacked their arms and 27.000, troops surrendered to the forces of the Union. The siege of Vicksburg is considered one of the most remarkable n all military history. The difficulties to be overcome were tremendous. Again and again were the naval forces on the river and the army on land repelled from "the Gibraltar of tbe South," but ta? whole nation knew that the struggle must never end until Vicksburg was in the hands of the Union forces. The United States government has, In commemoration of the great siege, purchased the fighting ground around the city, 1,283 acres, and is making a a x . w . ' ' X i. - f , .-. ILLINOIS MONUMENT AT VICKSUUBC. great military pirk which is to be at once a beautiful pleasure ground and a lesson In the history of the memorable siege. The grounds are la'.d out In broad, paved avenues, with fine bridges, and with a wealth of , monuments and tablets to show the position o tbe various commands of both armies. Solemnly impressive is the other gov ernment reservation at Vicksburg, the A , A 1 A. ' national cemetery, wucre rest, cue ashes of 10,822 Union soldiers who lost their lives in and around the city diking the war. Something of the conditions under which these lives were lost may be Imagined from the fact that the graves of 12,719 are marked "Unknown." Fourteen1 States Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wisconsin have appropriated large sums of money for the Vlck-;burg national park, and each of these States has erected suitable monuments and memorials of its sons who fought upon this ground. Illinois, appropriating $200,000 for the purpose, has striven to show, .adequately, tho feeling of a loyal State toward those who fought among thef trenches and hills and wild ravines around Vicksburg. Along the line of the Union works. nine miles in extent, the State has erected monuments and markers showing the position of the seventy-nine Illinois organizations which took part In tbe campaign. The State memorial is a white marble temple lighted .from its open roof, and upon the Avails of it appear, in bronze-lettered tablets, the names of the 30,000 officers and soldiers from Illinois who served in the campaign. A scroll of marble runs around the Interior, like a frieze, and upon this is inscribed the names of the commanders from Illinois, beginning with Lincoln, the commander-in-chief of all the armies, continuing with that of Grant, the commander of the Army of the Tennessee, and naming all of the Illinois generals of that army that participated in the Vicksburg campaign. Demand Credit Currency. The resolution adopted by the American Bankers' Association at its recent Atlantic City convention favors the credit currency plan submitted by the commission appointed last year and favored genr erally by eastern financiers, although opposed by western men. This indicates that another effort will be made to get another credit currency law through Congress. In general the plan is to authorize national banks of good standing which have a surplus fund equal to 20 per cent of their capital to issue credit notes in amount equal to 40 per cent of the bondsecured circulation, subject to a 2, per cent per annum tax, and a further amount equal to 12V& per cent of the bank capital, subject to a 5 per cent tax. In a recent single issue of the New York Herald, among the "personaF advertisements, were 70 which asked information of the present whereabouts of certain persons, some of whom have been absentees for more than half a century. A learned man of London, in attacking the recurring ambidexterity craze, says that this accomplishment is quite common among idiots, and that it is quite natural that well-balanced persons should use one limb more than the other. The iead" of a very cheap pencil la often nothing but coke.

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Indiana Slate News

YOUTH KILLS HIS DROTIICR. Elder Son Shot While Attacking III , Parent, a CItII War Veteran. Charles Hughes, 20, shot and instantly killed his brother, Martin Hughes, 30, in Tell City. Mrtin Hughes had been drinking, andher reaching hom j atln-k-d his father. Captain James lltthc, a Civil War veteran. Charles ILighvs entered the house as his elder brother ha4 lis father prostrate on the nor, an?, fo!zing a Khotgun, the boy fireJ. thi la-id taking effect in Martin Hughes' bead, tausing instant death. Charles I Inches was placed under arrest. The father of the boys is in a serious condition as ihe result of the fight with his ell?r son. TAKKS lU'SUAND'S FLACK IX JAIL Wife of Thieving rostofflre Clerk I Locked I'p In Ilia Stead. Clifford Blanchard was arresied, charged with robbing the mails in the -South Bend iKstoCice, where he has been a clerk. His wife, believing hiai guiltless, offered to take his place in the cell whil he secured proof of his innocence, and, accordingly, 'was locked up. Later Blanchard confessed. The amount of his stealings, it is thought,. will be a'oout $2,000. CIVIL WAR CAPTAIX EXDS LIFE. Cheaterton Man Drowna Self In Shallow Tank. Despondent because of losing his position as Lake Shore agent at Chesterton, and, according to s note he left, tired of life, Willard W. Place, captain of an Indian company in the Civil War, committed suicide by drowning In a tank containing a foot and a half of water. Two sons live in Chicago. Preacher Capturea m Crook. Although he did not know it at tbe time, it develops that the Rev. Benjamin N'yce of the First Presbyterian church of Muncie, who recently, with his automobile, ran down and captured eiagle-hand-ed, the thief that had stolen his overcoat, turned over to the authorities a noted crook. The thief gave his name as Frank Miller, but he was recognized by Judge Leffier of the Circuit Court as Jack Hayes, who had been !efore Lis court once before on a charge of burglary. Miller, or Hayes, received a penitentiary sentence. Atempt to Barn Coantf Infirmary. When Superint enden t llenty Roberts of the county infirmary . at Shelbyville entered the men's sitting room on a recent afternoon, he found the room filled with smoke, and a large hole burned in the floor, near, a window. With the aid of inmates the fire was extinguished without material loss. A threat was made by one of the inmates to burn the place, but the superintendent has no proof of tbe identity of the incendiary. Prolific Field for Reernlta. Lieut. John M. Craig of the Unitej States army has been ordered to Terre Haute to take charge of the recruiting district, of which the city has been made headquarters. The success of the Terre Haute station caused the War Department to establish a district tnd put a commissioned officer instead of a sergeant in charge. Substations will be established at towns within a range of Cfty and seventy miles in Indiana and Illinois. Cheap Ga for Indianapolis. The Citizens' Gas Company, organized by popular subscription ni Indianapolis, to manufacture artificial gas for 00 cents per 1,000 feet, has paid $400,t00 for the mains and plant of the Consumers Gas Trust Company, which have been idle since the exhaustion of natural gan. The price charged by the Indianapolis Ga Company is tK) cents. Aeeepta Place aa BHaalonary In Japan The Rev. Ross Farley of Noblesville has accepted an appointment as missionary in Japan under the auspices of the M. E. church, and he will leare in a few days for the Orient. lie has had a charge in the Austin (Texas) conference for the last two years. Mrs. Farley will accompany him to Japan. Shooti Slater'a Hand OST. Willard Irwin, aged 12, shot his sister Laura' hand off, trying the William Tell shooting trick, at Dagger. She had a hand mirror in her hand holding it over her head to look at her hair when WilIari fired one barrel "of a shotgun at the mirror, but hit his sister's hand. - Under Dallf Xahbed In Thett. Martin Woeful, who is being held under bail to answer a charge of having counterfeiting molds in his possession, pending a trial at Indianapolis, was one of three men caught in the act of robbing the malleable steel range factory In South Bend. Evaaaville Store Damaged. Fire practically destroyed the Boston A 6tore, one of the biggest department stores in Evansville. The loss is $200,000, with partial insurance. Riff Fire In Grlfila. Fire destroyed several business buildings at Griffin, the loss being from $75,000 to $100,000. Minor State Itetba. Simon Voicey, miner, of Brazd, wc terribly crushed by a fall of rlate in t1o Kokomo mine and his right leg was broken in two places. Frightened by a cat which jumped through a window in the room in which she was at work, alighting at her feet, Mrs. Alfred Purdy dropped dead in Wabash. She was singing at the time and in perfect health. Appraisers appointed by the Dupont company report the loss on tbe property of residents of Fontanet by the recent powder ex-plosion at $15T,000, and on the company's property at $220,00o. Nothing is said about damages for twenty-six lives lost and the fifty persons injured. There will be suits for many thousands of dollars. Carl Burdoine of Fort Wayne was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun which he was cleaning preparatory to going on a bunting trip. lie leaves a widow and one child. The Aurora National bank has closed its doors. Notice was posted to the effect that, owing to the stringency in tbe money market, sufficient currency could not be obtained from the larger banks, ar.J business would have to be suspended temporarily. The bank was established in with a capital stock of $50.000. The deposits amount to $120,000. John Ullrich, cashier of the bank, claims the bank is solvent. While Benjamin Hamilton was woiking ou the farm of Chauncey dark, near Clarkshlll, where he was employed in uprooting a hedge fence, he was trac?c on the left car by something that alm$t nt off the lower portion, and csus?d a givh which required several stitches f clos-j. The blow felled him to the ground, au-l he waj unconscious for some time. He has no idea of the character of the mis-tile which struck him, nor in what manner u.T by what means the blow was inflicted. Fire of mysterious origin aid $13,000 damage in Fdinburg. The losers are: Thompson & Berry, John L. Moore, (JeTheater, Modern Woodmen and the Thompson-Bowman Realty Company.