Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 9, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 December 1907 — Page 2

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QN. M,T F. Q.F. M. (I U Q Sth. j) 11th. xJ 19th. l 27th FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Condition of Things are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Elevator Plunges Nine Stories. Two persons were killed and seven were seriously Injured by the falling of a passenger elevator in a building at 202 Jackson boulevard, Chicago, III., occupied by the clothing firm of Edenheimer. Steine Sc Company. The elevator, which contained nearly twenty persons, for the most part women employed by the clothing firm, was approaching the ninth floor on a downward trip when the cable parted. The cage fell to the bottom of the shaft, a mass of wreckage. The body of one of the two men killed was identified as that of Jacob Scrammack, 43 years old. an employe of the firm. Leo Consldine, 21 years old, was acting as elevator conductor, though not regularly bo employed. He was arrested. He could assign no reason for the breaking of the cable. Illinois Farmer Shct in Quarrel. Frank McCoy, 40 years old, was shot and killed and his father, Joel McCoy, was fatally wounded when Edward Ford opened fire on the McCoys with a revolver. The shooting was the outcome of charges made by Ford that the McCoys had poisoned several of his horses. After being arrested Ford claimed he shot In self-defense. The men are well-to-do farmers near Bloomington, Til. Five Killed in a Crash. Five factory employes were killed la Waterbury, Conn., at the West Main Btreet crossing over the tracks of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, when an extra freight train crashed into a trolley car containing twenty-five persons bound for the pin factories at Oakville. Six persons were Injured. Three of the dead were wom.n. Factory Burned; Many are Idle. Fire destroyed the factory of the Hickson Bedstead Company in Muncie, Ind. The concern manufactured iron bedsteads. The plant, which gave employment to 125 men, had only been running about ten days after a shut down of several months. The loss is estimated at 50,000, which i3 covered by insurance. Sixty Men Entomred. Between fifty and sixty miners are entombed in the Naomi lain of the United Coal Company at Fayette City, Pa., as the result of an explosion of blac'c damp. It is thought many are dead behind tons of rock and coal which fell during the concussion and blocked the entrance. Fire at Lap orte; Loss $20,000. The large three-story flour mill of P. Lorig ti Son, in Laporte, Ind., was wrecked by a supposed incendiary fire, causing a los3 estimated at $20,00,0, with insurance of $16,000. A man was seen running aw-iy from the mill a short time before flames burst forth. Kentucky Feud Battle. In a feud battle between the Miller and Jones factions on the left fork of Beaver Creek, near Whltesbitrg. Ky., John Miller, a reputed leader of the Miller faction, was killed. Andy and Herrill Jones, of the Jones faction, were mortally wounded. Muncie's Mayor Recovering. "Word has teen received at Muncie, Ind.. that Mayor Lon Guthrie, under treatment in a Battle Creek (Mich.) sanitarium for nervous prostration, has improved and hope is entertained that hl3 recovery may not be long delayed. Jamestown Exposition Comes to End. The lights of the Jamestown Exposition were turned oft by President Tucker, after formal exercises late Saturday night and the exposition, which has been running since April 26, came tc an end. Houston, Texas, Has Big Blaze. Fire destroyed property in the center of Houston to the value of $7Ct,00Q, breaking out In the rear of the Frank Dunn jewelry store and pawnshop. Heavy Fire Loss in Milwaukee. Fire in the store of the C. W. Fisher Furniture Company, on Second street, Milwaukee, Wis., resulted in damage of between $80,000 and $100,000, mostly by smoke and water. Highwaymen Rob Safe in Nevada. Robbers visited the freight depot of the Tonopah, Goldfield & Bullfrog railroad at Goldfield, Nevada, overpowered the watchman and blew open the safe, securing everything it coLtalned, Princess Flees to Parents, The Vienna newspatr Dia Ziet publishes a Brussels dispatch, according to which the Princess Elizabeth has left her busband. Prince Albert of Belgium, heir to the throne, and will not return to Belgium.' She is with her parents in tluni-ch. ' Dewey's Secretary Disappears. Lieut. John W. Cr.iwford, secretary to Admiral Dewey, is missing from YVashfagton. and it is believed he has committed suicide. Bennett A. Allen, a friend, received a letter from Crawford stating Cut he had determined on suicide. Jw Chosen for Home's Mayor. The auti-cjericals who gained a victory la the general municipal election bld in Home on Nov. 10 have deckled to elect Hrnet Nathan as Mayor of Rom. Mr. tfatban is the first Jew to be made Mayor cf Rome. He is a former grand master cf the Free Masons. Tobacco House Burns. The five-story building on East Second street, Cincinnati, occupied by Downard Ct Roking, leaf tobacco brokers and dualen, wax destroyed by fire, causing a lose edited at 1,00,000. Sroral other final damage placed at $10.000.

ROBBERS IN CLINTON BANK.

Rob Illinois Institution and Later Lose Their Booty. Two rMors looted the St;!.'"1 hank of Clinton. 111.. Monday afternoon of $2,200 in sold and silver -coin, ovrlo keil a much :;reat.r treasure in hills r.nd finally, through their darin?, lost SI."" of the money they had stoleu and barely escaped falling into the hands of the local police. Posses were sent out in every direction after the fugitive?, and two suspects were mptured. One gave the name of Edward Miller of Chicago and the other said he was IMward Davis of Chicago. The hank had closed for the day. Already the paier money had been placed in the vault and only the gold and silver coins remaincd on the counter when th' two bandit entered through a rear door. The robbers forced the hank officials to hold tip their hands and then marched them to the big vault wherein many thousands of dollars acre stored. Tin's they were compelled to enter and the bandits shut tho c'oor. They then scooped the gold and si'.er into a suitcase and calmly walked back to the Ilenion hotel. There they called up the telephone operator and asked iier to send around a man to free some of the bank officials who accidentally had been locked in a vault. Through the phone operator the call was traced to the hotel and the police went there. Instead, j.owever, of surrounding the place, they went to the room of the bandits and knocked. The robbers jumped oat of a window, carrying the gold with them, but left $1.5)0 in silver lying on a table. SONS SEE MOTHER SLAY FATHER. Children Cower in Corner as George ' Mayer Is Shot at Home, (leorge Mayer. 42 years oi l. was shot and instantly killed by his wife in the presence of their two small children in Chicago, and the woman was arrested after her 7-year-old son had run to the jjoiice station to tell of his mother's deed. The two children, Robert, 7 years old. end William, 2 years old. cowered in a corner of the room while their parents iwrticipated in the quarrel which ended in the tragedy. According to Robert, his father came home at 4 :30 p. m. lie said that his mother started the quarrel as soon as hi.s father entered the house and that she took a revolver from a bureau drawer and threatened to shoot. The husband, according to Itobert, attempted to wrest the weapon from his wife, when she pulled the trigger and he fell back dead. Robert immediately ran for the joIice and when he returned with two policemen his mother was found pacing up and down with the younger son in her arms. The boy's face was covered with Mood from kissing the face of his dead father. Mayer was a proofreader. His wife told the police that the shooting was .in accident. BURGLAR SUSPECT IN SKIRTS. His Deportment Was Most Ladylike, but His Big Feet Betrayed Him. Hmil Siege of EI wood City, Pa., was caught in Pittsburg masquerading in women's attire. He is thought to be the mysterious "woman burglar" who ha: terrorized the fashionable east end district as well as the suburbs for some time past. There was rain falling about 4 a. m. and Officer Dickey at South Fifth street noticed a "lady" jassing. "She" had remarkably big feet so large that he hailed ber and got a rap on the jaw for his pnins. There was a murderous street fight, in which the officer came out victorious, tearing the skirts off Siege. On the prisoner wn? found enough jewelry to warrant holding him, and in one of his silk stockings was found a cold chisel which would serve as a jimmy. TOBACCO IS USED LESS. American Consumption Doe3 Not Increase in Proportion to Population. That the consumption of tobacco in America is not increasing in proportion to the increase in population is one of the, interesting facts brought out in the hearing of the government's suit against the American Tobacco Company end others under the anti-trust laws. T. B. Yule, head of the purchasing department of the company, in his testimony stated that while the acreage in tobacco had been increased, this was due to the .arger foreign demand for American tobacco, the domestic consumption having by no means grown in proportion to the growth of the population. ' DID WHALE SWALLOW JONAH? Preacher Says He Will Ask Decree in Attacking Orthodoxy of College. The courts of Massachusetts are to be called on to pass on the truth of the .story of Jonah and the whale. The Christian Bible college has brought suit against Rev. Gustarus A. Hoffman of Mdplewood, Mass., to enforce the payment of an Indorsed note. Mr. Hoffman declined to pay the note on the ground that when he signed it he believed the college to be orthodox, but says he discovered that it was not. He cites the story of Jonah, which he says the college refuses to accept, and says he will ask the courts to pass on the matter. Missouri Hits Western Union. Attorney General Hadley has filed application in the Circuit Court in Jefferson City, Mo., for ä writ of mandamus to compel the Western Union Telegraph Company to comply with the State law regulating foreign corporations which desire to do business in the State, pay a regular corporation tax and receive authority to do business from the Secretary of State. Boy Kills Young Brother. Shouting gleefully at the antics of his older brother, little Franz Lundstrom, 7 years old, suddenly uttered a piercing screaia as a shotgun held by the brother, Itango, 11 years old, was discharged and the bullet entered Franz's head, killing him instantly. The scene of the shooting was in the tome of the boys, 2100 West North avenue, Chicago: Oil Blast Kills Woman. As the result of an attempt to start a fire with oil in her bome, near Wheeling, W. Va., Mrs. J. P. Deschler is dead, her husband was seriously injured in an effort to quench the flames, and three of their children were severely burned before they could be rescued from the hous, which was destroyed by the fire. Normal TJmes Are' Coming. . Frank A. Vandtrlip, vice president of the New York City National bank, who is visiting in Chicago, predicts that the currency situation will be normal as soon as the December pay rolls are met. Frenchmen Rout Arabs. The( French forces in Algeria routed th Arabs, who mads a fierce, attack on the camp, and 1,200 of the tnoe.smen were killed. Three Children Lost in Sea. On the arrival of the steamer President at San Francisco from Puget Sound ports the officers reported that when off Gray's Harbor, No?. 22. three children were presumably washed overboard by a heavy sea. They were Rita Schotte, "aged 12; Ada Schotte, aged 4, and Flossie Duckman, aged 13. Confession Shows Looting. Confessions of Howard Mdxwell, the slf-slain president of the Borough bank of Brooklyn, and of other officers show that millions were juggled and the iastitutloa was looted.

NAVAL RECRUITING UP TO DATE.

Gur.fcoat Wasp's Novel Trip Up the Hudson a Great Success. A Loud experiment in naval recruiting is Sx'ing tried, f4ir with great success, n ili- IIutlon riwr. The little gunboat Yap. formerly a private yacht, is making it trip up the river, stopping at various towns and making an effort to secure ai!ors which the navy needs so badly. So far the success of the trip has ben great. Five days were passed at Yonkers and when the Wasp sailed up the river tln-re were twenty nvruits from that town on hoard. The plan adopted on the trip is to send a sailor ahead, who plarards the town and furnisb-v copy for the lo. al newspapers-. A day of two later the Wasp oasts anchor off the town and for several days keeps open house. Visitors arc welcomed and are shown the actual life if snihtr in the navy. In spite of th fact that the navy is greatly in need of sailors, the physical and other examinations are so strict that not 30 per cent of the applicants for enlistment are accepted. EIGHT MEN ATTACK TOWN. Man Who Proclaimed Revolution in American Newspapers Defeated. Sebastian de Masai?, with four Canndiaus aiid four Englishmen, all well armed, attacked 11 Leos, a seaport, 120 miles from l'ahia, Brazil. The jol'ee and a number of inhabitants offered resistance. One of the attacking party v as killed and another was made prisoner. The rest f the jiarty fled, after cutting the telegraph communications. The government has set a price on the heads of fhe men who escaped. De Magali, who is a Brazilian, recently published in some American newspapers a proclamation inviting subscriptions to aid an expedition in overthrowing one of the States of Brazil. UNITED STATES MANUFACTURES. Government Bureau Places Blame for Less of Chinese Cotton Market The bureau of manufactures report, issued in Washington, sets the value of the annual production by manufactures in the 1'nited States at $15.000,000,000. Special significance is attached to the increase of nearly $20,000,000 in the exports of completed manufactures, in view of the faVt that the exports of cotton cloths declined more than $2 1.000,( XX), this being entirely in the cotton trade with China. Th iopuIar feeling aroused in that country growing out of alleged outrages against Chinese residents in the United States is assigned as a contributory cause for this decline. MILLIONAIRE LEPER CURED. Returns in State to Mexico from Germany, Where He Was Treated. Cured of leprosy after eiglu.en months' treatment in Germany, und traveling in the private car of Kamon Corral, vice president of Mexico, accompanied by four of the vice president's daughters, Juan Bringas the other day passed tnrough El Paso. Texas returning to his home in Guaymas, Sonora. He is a millionaire, and, after all efforts to cure him in his home country failed, he went to Europe, purchasing a private car for the trip to Vera Cruz, and then paying ijr the entire furnishings of n steamer stateroom, so they could be destroyed, before he could secure passage. FINDING OF BOMB IS RUMORED. Infernal Machine Reported Near Home of G. W. Glover. An infernal machine loaded with slugs and dynamite is reported to have been found near the home of George W. Glover, the son of Mrs. Mary 1!ak?r G. Eddy. Mr. Glover lives at Load, S. i., and it is believed that an attempt was made to assassinate bim, although he denies the story. It is known, however, that the chief of police has a mysterious explosive parcel and that an investigation is being made. It is said a wire was stretched across the walk in front of Mr. Glover's house and connected with the infernal machine. FIVE DEAD IN CROSSING WRECK, Trolley Car Smashed to Splinters by Freight at Waterbury, Conn. Five factory employes were Killed about 0:30 Friday morning at the West Main street crossing over the Highland division tracks of the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad in Waterbury, Conn., when an extra Hart'ord-bound freight train crashed into a trolley car containing twenty-five persons bound for the pin factories in Oakville. The car was struck with great force and all the ciead were badly mangled. Sil others were seriously injured. Plans Simple Life on Wheels. Cpton Sinclair has a dozen persons pledged to a new plan for the simple life. It is to be a colony on wheelsr a wagon trek on two continents. He plans a family affair, an elaboration of the recent Helicon Hall scheme at Englewood, except that the children will have governesses, the women folk maids and the men, mostly of the literati, will have stenographers. Xeep Christ in Songs. Whiiput a dissenting vote the New York biard of education went on record as favoring the continuation of the Christmas festival in the public schools in the same form as that in which it heretofore has been celebrated. Furthermore, the board disclaimed any intention of atolishing the sorg books now used in the school v Marcum Murder Unavenged. The jury in the case of II. Fulton French, accused of complicity in the assassination of James B. Marcum, has returned a verdict of not guilty in Beattvville, Ky. The acquittal ends one of the most noted feud trials in the Kentucky mountains, Hargis, Callahan and Jackson having been previously acquitted. Sealskin Catch Very Small. The official report of the season's catch of sealskins just made up by the custom house shows it to be the lowest on record, a total of 5,307 skins for the season, 2,530 taken in the spring off the coast and 2,858 in Bering sea. La sc year the total was 10,370 skins Czar's Will Sole Law. Premier Stolypin read to the Ituss.'an duina the government's declaration that the unfettered will of the Czar will in the future as in the past be the sole law of the empire. Big Blaze in Dakota Town. Fire which started in Lamoure, N. D., destroyed the Capital Hotel and four business buildings, causing a loss of $100,1X10. about one-half of which is covered by insurance. Wells-Fargo Cashier Gone. Charles W. Wiley, St. Paul, cashier in the Minneapolis office of the Wells-Fargo Express Company, is being sought for by the police of the Twin cities and secret apents of the express company on a charge nf embwulement of $4,000 of the company's funds. Convicts Burn to Death. Two convicts John Wade and Albert Bunch, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a stockade at the State convict farm in Lincoln county, Ark. During the excitement three othe.' con vict escaped.

WILL ADD tO MISERY OF A HARD WINTER,

European Labor Leaders Alarmed Over Increase in Homecoming Contingent. STEAMSHIPS ARE LOADED DOWN Hundreds of Destitute Aliens Wandering Streets of Paris on Verge of Destitution. The increasing contingents of homecoming Italians, Lithuanians and other Mediterranean steerage passengers are disconcerting not nly to the steamship companies, who have Inadequate facilities for dealing with such a sudden and unexpected tratlic, but to the labor leaders of Europe, who deny that these newcomers have sultieient money to pass the- winter without working, and declare that they will thus add to the misery of what is sure to be a liard winter among the European working classes. ' The figures given by the French labor bureau as to the returning emigrants are corroborated by Nicholas Martin, agent of the American line, who says that all the steerage capacity of every vessel has been taken until Feb. 1, while thousands .more will be unable to return to Europe before spring. If this keeps up, a Paris eorresjtotdent says, some sieclal measures must be taken to repatriate the hordes of disapiwinted adventurers, for the ordinary means are insufficient. To my knowledge several hundred of more or less destitute aliens are wandering In the streets of Paris on the verge of starvation, and the prefecture police looks will probably multiply this figure by. tbreo," said one of the officials nt the ministry of works to the correFpondent. "The best we can do Is to expedite their return to their native countries. Something like half of them have no more money than Is barely sufficient to pay their fare." Tarn of Immigration Tide. Never since the first ship sailed out of New York harbor has there been anything like the present exodus of emigrants from that iort. Day by day the crowds clamoring for transportation abroad grow greater, with no prosiect of their reduction in' numbers. Last week IJ0.000 steerage passengers were carried from New York; this week steamship men say the total will reach 50,000. The steerage rate was raised from 21- to $31 In hope of staying the exodus, but without avail. DEFECTIVE CHILDREN. One-Third of All School Pupils Have Something Wrong with Them. According to the report of a committee of prominent educators, headed by Charles C. Bürlinghatn, former president of the board of education of New York City, one-third of all the school pupils in the United States are behind in their grades because of some physical defect, such as impaired hearing and vision, enlarged glands or malnutrition. The committer reports that in the vast majority of cases these defects could be cured if taken in hanj at once. That many millions of the children cjf the United State have physical defects which are retarding their progress, that in most cases these defects are removable, but that in the vast majority they will not be because of ignorance or carelessness are statements startling enough to merit wide attention. If the average throughout the United States b the same as that in New York, there are in our country 1,440,000 ill-nourished children. .',010,000 with enlarged glands and G,92r,000 with defective breathing. Comprehensive plans for dealing with the physical defects of school children are outlined in the report. These include a thorough physical examination of all children, notification to parents and the enforcement of existing laws. Where proper authority is now lacking it is planned to compel parents to take necessary steps in behalf of their children's health. Enforcement of health, tenement house and child labor laws and the establishment, in connection with boards of education, of departments of school hygiene, the duties of which shall be to see that school buildings are so constructed and so conducted that they cannot themselves produce or aggravate physical defects, are clao pecommended. ' Differ About Saturn' It I dkm. The yiew advanced by Prof. Percival Lowell that the "knots'' recently discov-qf-d in the rings of Saturn Indicate that the rings are falling is not accepted by Prof. Siman Newcomb of Washington, who says that Struve more than a half century ngo propounded the theory of the falling rings of Saturn, based upon early drawings compared with late ones. Newcomb says the rings are now viewed almost edgewise, so that it is impossible to distinguish one from another. He prefers the theory put forth by Clerko-Maxwell sixty years ago, that the small satellites which compose the rings sometimes crowd together. Prof. Brashear of l'ittsburg agrees with Newcomb. j Near Aeroplane Prlie. Henry Farman came very near to winning the r0,000-franc Deutsch-Archdeacon .aeroplane prize Monday at Paris. The conditions of this prize are that the machine shall complete a kilometer in a clos'.-d circle without touching the ground. Mr. Faruam made several flights. In the final effort the machine left the ground easily and traveled down the field to the turning point at a good speed. In turning, the wi.e-?ls touched for an instant, and again a few seconds later, but after that the rest of the circle was completed with ease. MuenMerberjc on Charity. Prof. Kmi. Muensterbcrg, head of the public chariries of Berlin, was the principal speaker at the. celebration of the twen'y-fifth anniversary of the New York Charity Organization Society at Carnegie Hall recently, along with Mayor McClellan, Gov. Hughes and others. Prof. Muensterberg said that charity work had to be undertaken nov in "the twilight of widespread egotism and selfishness," but that the work had changed from a purely philanthropic to a social conception. He finds that private charity does in this country the work done by the government in Germany. To Produce Soclnllntlo Piny. The Socialist Stage Society of New York City has for its object the production of plays in which socialism is the keynote. Its manager, Mr. Hopp, says that when the society is in good running order it will be able to assure a manager on audience of 5,000 at the start for a satisfactory play. In the neantime it intends to produce its own plays, which it Is claimed can be done for a very small actual cash outlay. In an explosion on the Easiern Construction works of the Grand Trunk Pacific at Dryden, Ont.. seven men were killed and four injured.

PEDESTRIAN COMPLETES GREATEST WALKING IXAT.

Edward Tayson, GO Years Old, Tramps from Portland, Me. to Chicago. Kdward Pay son Weston ended his long tramp of 1.2:11 miles from Portland, Mc, to Chicago, covering the distance in 24 days. 1) hours and 1." minutes. B-'inarkable indeed is the endurance shown by Weston, the aged athlete who at iJO has reixnitcd his feat of forty years ago in walking from Portland, Me., to Chicago, and has broken his former roeord bj twenty-four hours.. Deducting the four Sundays on which hedid not walk, the actual time rciiuired in covering the distance was twentyfive days. His longest day's walk on n V.... : ft-- W' 1 y EUWARD F. WESTON. this trip was 00 3-10 miles, while on the former journey the best day was only eighty-two miles. Weston's stride is almost a shuflle. He takes two or three steps of ordinary length and then falls into a dog trot. But it Is not a dog trot. It is a little trick to relieve the strain upon the leg muscles. And it gets him over the ground amazingly fast. He walks with as little effort as possible, leaning slightly forward and frequently zigzagging. At times he is apparently forced onward by his weight, falling from one foot to the other without visible effort. TRY IT ON THE D(Jfi. Food Expert Wiley Deems Refrigerated Meat Unsafe. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Uncle Sam's wizard in chemistry, believes that refrigerated meat is unsafe. Meat and other foods, if appearances are to be accepted, may be kept in cold storage for long periods without any apparent degradation in their nutritive value or qua?:ty. But between the time they are removed form the refrigerator and the time that they arc prepared for eating, ptomaine or alkaloidaF bodies may develop that would make them fatal if taken into the human stomach. The meat, poultry, game and other articles that have been in Dr. Wiley's Icehouse for the last two years will not therefore be fed to the poison squad. When put in the refrigerator plant in the first instance the tissues of the meat were carefully measured ?rid have since been remeasured at frequent intervals. Every change in texture has bceen carefully oted from time to time. In the final examination of the refrigerated foods they will be tested by Dr. Wiley and his assistants and their odor will serve as a guide in determining whether or not they are sound, nutritious, and wholesome after being for a lonfj time behind closed doors in an ice cold atmosphere. In taste and odor the refrigerator meat will be compared with fresh beef. Then the beef will be fed to the department dog, who has waxed fat these many days on foods generally regarded by the world at large as, hurtful to health. While Drl Wiley absolutely declined to comment on the lessons taught by the experiments about to be conducted, there is reason to believe that he' will report to Congress that it Is in all probability unsafe and doubtless dangerous for one to eat food that are kept in cold storage for periods exceeding three months. This applies particularly to meat, game asd poultry. What Dr. Wiley himself thinks of eggs that have beep on ice from summer until iate in the w titer he refused to say. When the subject was mentioned he merely held his nose. SPAEKS FROM THE WIRES. The Oklahoma corporation commission notified all Oklahoma railroads that a GO per cent reduction in coal rate will go into effect Jan. 2. The Ixmis Lipp Company's plumbing manufacturing establishment at Winton Place, a suburb of Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire. Loss ?S0,0. Sulzcr's Harlem Itiver Park, an uptown Coney Island on Fast One Hundred and Twenty-fifth streej. New York, was totally destroyed by fire. Los $.100,000. To. show the gratitude of tue country for good government the Havana chamber of commerce has unanimously decided to give a banquet to Gov. Magoon. Harold J. Clark, a salesman . of St. Louis, enlisted in the marine corps at the federal building and was sent to the Mare Island navy yard. Clark's uncle is Capt. Clark, commanding the battleship Texas. Krnest Thompson Seton is in New York after seven months in the Canadian Northwest, where he gathered information about the country, people and animals. The author-explorer almost lost hi:; life in a canoe accident. .llanche Kerfoot has told the Oakland (Cal.) police that Kiemschmidt, the student under arrest in connection with the death of Frank Bellows, a Chicagoan, attempted to eompci her to commit suicide and also that Bellows and Kieuischmidt had an interview the night before the former was found dead. In the trial of twenty-seven men of the Eleventh Nicholas I. regiment at Odessa, on charges of mutiny and insubordination two sergeants and one privete who had destroyed a picture of Empercr Nicholas were sentenced to death and at once shot; nine other men were sent to the mines for life and twelve sent to the mloea for ten years.

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KURDS LOOT AND BURN IN LAWLESS ORGIES

.Many Villages in Armenia Are Plundered and Then Put to ' the Torch. SPARE THE PEOPLE'S LIVES. Erzerum, Betlis, Van. Kharput and Draibeker Scenes of Speculation by Vicious Hordes. Constantinople advices say the lawless activity of the Kurdish tribes in the Armeno-Kurdish districts of Erzerum, Bitlis, Yan,Kharput and Diarbckir is causing lively concern at the Torte, particularly as the foreign embassies are Interesting themselves and arc urg ing that prompt measures be taken by the government to prevent a possible massacre. Under tho protoWion of the notorious Ibraham Pash.1, who is known as the "despot of Kurdistan," Kurdish horsemen are making raids without discrimination, Turkish villages suffering equally with Armenian homesteads on the plains around Diarbckir and Jezireh-Ybn-Omar. Sixteen villages have been pillaged and burned within the last month in these districts and eight village In the JSert district have met with the same fate. Several of these villages were comiKJsed entirely of Moslems and In most cases the lives of the inhabitants were spared, though they were deprived of all their possessions. The pinch of hunger already is being felt, as eveiywhere, there is a scarcity of food, fodder aud fuel. The missionaries are doing their lcst to mitigate the misery, but outside help is urgently nccdiHl if the danger of a severe famine is to be averted. ; The movement In favor of autonomy is gaining ground in Asia Minor as the popular disaffection against the Constantinople government is very strong. But at the same time there Is a great degree of loyalty amcng th Moslems, and this constitutes a iowerful support to the present regime. Mass meetings are being held at which the -enioval cf Ibraham Pasha is being demanded. The Porte has ordered trcops from Kharput and Iiioppo against tiie refractory Kurds, and it will endeavor to induce Ibraham Pasha by friendly iersuasion, to come into Aleppo. Some of Ibra ham's villages were enclled recently by Turkish troops -nd sixty Kurds were killed. THE NEW CHINATOWN. Oriental Quarter Arises on the Old Site in San Francisco. San Francisco's new Chinatown whicli has ariseu on the ruins of the old is ready for occupancy and is rapIdly filling up with merchants and tradesmen who were scattered to the four winds by the terrible earthquake and fire of a year and a half ago. All movements ' looking toward the transfer of the Chinese to a less desirable part of the city failed utterly, and the new Chinatown has risen on the site of the old, under the shadow of Nob Hill and touching shoulders with the finar clal district. In the first flush of hope after the catastrophe several plans were evolved for moving Chinatown out toward Telegraph Hill or to some suitable part of the Mission district. The site of old Chinatown was needed for the expansion of the financial district. One thing stood in the way of this" part of the "city beautiful" dream. Chinese firms and wealthy Mongolian Individuals owned much of the property in Chinatown. They were satisfied with the site of their quarter. It was near the big hotels patronized by eastern tourists, and it was not too far from the water front whence their goods came. The Chinese refused to sell aad straightway set about rebuilding. There is a reason why Chinatown was rebuilt lief ore the other parts of the buried area, even before Market street had been rcpaved. The Chinese property owners had no trouble In getting ready cash. They did not try to borrow from San Francisco banks or even from New York money lenders. The first steamer to China carried long letters describing the situation. Inclosed were drafts on the treasurer of the company which backed tue San Francisco firms. The return steamer brought the gold that, was needed and the Chinese could tell their contractors to go ahead. The buildingt department and the health authorities insisted that tha new Chinatown be built according to law and the new Chinatown has, of course, lost such picturesqucness as was found In the dirt and the squalor and the tumbledown effect of the old buildings. To offset this, however, there will he a heavy gain in hcalthfulncss. 1 (iron! er rittnhurR Legalised. ' The fight over tho consolidation of Pittsburg and Allegheny ended ;h th Supreme Court when Justice Moody har-ded down the decision sustaining the Sup-mc Court of Pennsylvania, which had upheld the consolidation which' a majority of the people of the two cities voted udcr fi legislative act. The consolidated rty has an area of thirty-eight square ffciles, an estimated population of 500.000, nd will contest with Boston the sixth place among American cities for population a position also claimed by Bait-more. nvlnate Iloth Land and Water. . On Nov. 12, at New York City, M. Bcvclllers gave nn exhibition of his hnd and water machine, which ho has christened Saterland I. After driving the machine for several blocks, much of the distance through soft sand and over bowlders, it was forced into the North rrvfr, where it maneuvered for some time, shewing that it was under perfect control. It then pushed through the shallow water and on to the beach, whore it proceeded down the road without difficulty. It Is clained that this machine can make fiftyfive miles an hour on laud and liftevn afloat. Mobile Threatens Secession. President McDermot of tho Bank of Mobde telegraphed a State Senator after the passage of the prohibition bill by the Legislature that the city of Mcl ile whs prepared to secede from the State and Et up its own government rather than kddmit to the rule of the country cousins. A. V. It. tor Jap Exclusion. The American Federation of Labor, which has been in session at Norfolk, placed itself on record as favorieg the exclusion of all immigration from Asia ind the islands of the Pacific ocean to the United Stat or its possessions.

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OR MORE PAY TO MEN. Enforced Service Faces American People, Declares Adjutaht General Ainsworth. Unless radical measures are enacted to induce men to enlist In the United States army, conscription must be resorted to. declares Major General F. C. Ainsworth. adjutant geucral, in his annual report. "Notwithstanding the most strenuous efforts on the part of the War Depart ment and the recruiting officers,"' says General Ainsworth, 'it has been found impossible wholly to make good the losses, to say nothing of Increasing the enlisted strength to the authorized lim it. If present conditions continue there will be nothing for the government to do but meet this competition by materially increasing the soldiers' pay or to evade competition altogether by a resort to conscription." Never before has such a suggestion come from an officer clothed with the authority to make recommendations. The idea of compulsory enrollment of individuals for the military service has been held abhorrent to republican principles and the absence of such a law is one of the most forceful arguments used iu attracting desirable immigration from Uurope. Officials of the War Department anticipate that the possible necessity for such action outlined by General Ainsworth will prove efficacious In securing consideration by Congress of the increase of pay bill. It is with the greatest reluctance that army officers entertain the thought of conscription, but generally they agree with General Ainsworth that it either must come to that extremiry or more money must lie provided for tho soldier if the standing of the army Is to be maintained. INDIANS TO FIGHT INDIANS. Mexico Pits Yaquis Against Mayas, Decreasing Both Tribes. The Mexican war department, by direction of President Diaz, is trying the experiment of using the Yaqui Indians to fight the Mayas. Tho uprising of the Maya Indians against federal authority began several months agoi and It has spread until practically all the members of that trile are now in armed rebellion. The Y'aqui Indians, like the Mayas, are waging a bloody conflict against the government troops, and upon the peaceful settlers of their territory in the S'ate of Sonoro. The' government has leen trying for several years to put down the Yaqui rebellion. It has succeeded In largely decreasing the force of Indians by capturing hundreds of tbem and deiortlng them to the Quintana Boo territory, in what was formerly Yucatan. The Maya Indians formerly occupied all of what Is now called Quintana Boo. They were brought under temporary subjection about 19 years ago, and the new territory was created by the government and was ojened up for settlement. The Mayas soon went on the war path again, and there has been no settlement of the territory that was formerly occupied by them. The government soldiers have had all that they could do to keep the territory from being retaken by the Mayas. The Maya Indians have been making such an Incessant warfare upon the federal troops that were sent against them during the last few months that the order was given to augment the forces of the Mexicans by organizing the Yaquis who had been deported to Quintaua Boo into military companies. It was believed that this experiment of pitting the Yaquis against the Mayas would prove successful from the fact that the few peaceable Mayas who had come into contact with the Yaquis seemed to show a natural hatred for that race of Indians. DATA ON WATERWAYS. Commission in Washington Considers Plan of Big Scope. The Inland waterways commission, in session in Washington, considered a plan for the development of waterways looking toward the restoration of navigation not only on the Mississippi Itiver, but on other waterways in various parts of the country. The commission has been encouraged In this movement by tho various waterway conventions that have been held recently. , The commission Islworklng on a preliminary report which It will make to the President outlining the general scope of Its plan and which It expects later on to supplement by statistics, which it has collected relating to the decrease in water transportation and the inadequacy of railroad transportation. The proposed "lakes to the gulf channel movement, which is already under way, will receive first attention from the commission, which has made two trips down the Mississippi River investigating river conditions, rates, both rail and water, terminals, ports and tho general question of river transportation. SHORT NEWS NOTES. Gov. Folk made an address at the opening of-thß Miners Congress at Joplin, Mo. The Aero Club of New Eagland was organized at Boston with thirty-seven members. The interior of the Albert Theater at Berlin, ,N. II., was burned out. The loss is $100,000. The necessity of a Department of Mines in the national cabinet was urged at the Miners' Congress ct Joplin, Mo. Walter Pamrosch, directorof the New York Symphony orchestra, has announced a concert at which he will apply the Wagnerian theory of the invisible orchestra. The Commercial Club of St. Paul received a letter from John D. Rockefeller in which he declined an Invitation with thanks, to a banquet which t was proposed to give in that city in his honor. The Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress at its meeting in Muskogee, Okla., decided to meet next year in San Francisco. A resolution was presented asking Congress to vote to improve the Missouri river. The Pennsylvania railroad has placed orders for the construction of 200 allsteel cars for its passenger equipment, which is the result of a long period of inquiry and experiment. Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston has assured labor union officials that there will be no discrimination in the city departments against any man because of Lis labor organization affiliation. The Supreme Court of Mexico has affirmed the sentence of death against O. T. Kichardson, William Mason and Dr. C. S. Harle, charged with conspiracy to murder in connectioti with insurance frauds, and the men are to be shot Dec. 6 at Chihuahua.

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. r. j r l a .1 Ulli, i f r "IK i a rTT a i UAL; CHICAGO. Further progress appears in '.he effort to place credit upon 'a satisfactory basis, and the banking conditions reftect distinct advance toward ro-umirtion of cash i.iymeuts. Encouraging replies from the interior indicate a general des:re to act Ci. rly in restoring the normal ;tatus, ami with this favorable tendency spreading the monetary outlook assumes an oneouraxing aspect. Trade conditions reflect no notable development, but the tone is !etter. end with the necessary adaptation to events it is expected that improving üemand will come in due course. Liquidation in securities and commodil!cs is not yet at the point of exhaustion, but this is not any longer a disturbing factor, and there are increasing currency shipments to move crops aud provision and more renewal of loans upon satisfactory evidence of solvency. Defaults tLus far have not reached distressing proiortions, nor has the stoppage of machinery and reduction of workmen been as great relatively as wax feared. Although the business indications may be regarded as improving, there is yet n very conservative feeling extant. New enterprises and consequent increase of obligations are given little consideration and contracts made at this lime are confined to absolute requirements. Colder weather would stimulate a more active movemcut of seasonable goods in both retail and wholesale branches, but the Thanksgiving trade here and at country stores has been equal to expectations. Manufacturing disclo-tes no particular change aside from slower demand for furnace and finished products. Bail mills have bookings assuring stea'dy work for seven months ahead, aud the wire mills remain bti3. Leather remains in fair request for the shoe factories, but bides are cbsorbel slowly, notwithstanding lower prices, and dealings are mom limited in lumber and building material. Failures reported iu the Ch'cago district number II., against 'HI last week and '22 ayear ago. Thosa with liabilities o-er $r.(HK number l.'t. Against H last week and G in I'.Ni;. Dan's Review of rade. j NEW YORK. The Improvement in the tone of financial affairs has be:ome more widespread, so notable, indeed, as to gh-e a much more cheerful appearance to the entire situation. For one thing, the security markets have displayed more evidences of healthy strength than for a long time past, the money market ha snown sign of loosening up, the currency premium has dropped quite materiilly close to the vanishing ioint, in fact and the expectations are widely entertained or expressed that the country will be back upon a cash jmyment basis in a few weeks. But trade is still quiet the country over, and new buying, owing partly to holiday observances and also Co mifd weather, which still is a check oa retail trade, is small, while industrial operations are still being restricted. Collections are still very poor, with numerous extensions bing asked nd in many cases granted. While the bankin situation is improving, loans are not being made with any degree of freedom and rates are still prohibitory. Business failures in the United State for the week ending Nov. 28 number ."0. against !"" last week. 174 in the like week o URKi, 1SS in 100", 1S1 in Il and 23f in 1903. Canadian failures for the week number 40, as against 5 last week and 25 in this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prim", $4.00 to fG.(l; hogs prime heavy, $1.00 to $4.S"; sheep, fair to choice, $3X to $3.00; wheat, No. 2, i'Tc to 0Sc;v corn, No. 2, .V to 'Üc; oats, standard. 4oc to 40c; rye. No. 2, 7Zc to 77c; hay, timothy, $11.00 to $10..j0; prairie, $!.00 to $13.00; butter, choice creamery. 24c to 2tc; eggs fresh. 22c to 2c; potatoes, per bushel, 45c to 52c. . Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to Vk50; hogs, good to choice heavy, $4.00 to $5.10; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2, 'Jlc to 02c; corn, No. 2 white, 55c to uGc ; oats. No. 2 white, 44c to 45c. St. LouisCattle, $4.50 to $C.00; hoes $4.00 to $4.70; sheep. $3.00 to $3.23: wheat, No. 2. 'Mc to 07c: corn. No. 2 5Sc to 50c; oats. No. 2. 47c to ISc; ry. No. 2, 75c to 7lc Cincinnati Cattle, $1.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $4X0; heep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, o. 2, 05c to IHic; corn. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 00c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 4Gc to 47c; rye. No. 2, 81c to 83c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $1.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $100; wheat, No. 2, l)4e to 05c; corn. No. 3 yellow, CZtc to GOe; oat. No. 3 white, 51c to 52c; rye. No. 2, 71)c to 80c. Milwaukee -Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.00 to $1.0S; corn. No. 3. 5-c to C0e; oats, standard. 4Sc to -V.c; rye. No. 1. SOc to 81c; barley. No. 2, $1.00 to $103; pork, mess, $12.07. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $1 00 to $0.25; hogs fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.30; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.00. New York Cattle,, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs $3.50 to $4.S0; .hecp. $3.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.00 to $1.02; corn. No. 2, !3c to G5c; oats, natural white, 52c to 54c: butter, creamery, II5c to 27c; eggs, western. 25e to 30c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 05c to 00c; corn. No. 2 mixed, tJOc to Clc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 4Sc to 40c; rye. No. 2, 70e to SOc; clover seed, prime, $0.20. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. President Gomiers cf the American Federation of Labor in an address at Norfolk, Va., enjoined industrial peacK The Matin of Paris has dxided to organize an automobile race from New York to Paris b way of Chicago, Alaska, across the Bering straits through Sileria aud Russia. A decree was rendered by Chancellor Stout at (Jallatin, Tenn in favor of the State against the Standard Oil Company, upholding a bill to revoke th? license of the Standard and to prevent it from ding business in Tennessee. At its final session the Presbyterian Brotherhood of America elected Charles S. Holt of Chicago president and pickM Chicago as the headquarters. With the resumption of the political campaign in England tfce shrieking sisterhood," as the woman suffragists are known, Is actively pursuing tee threatened plan of upsetting all liberal meetings. New York federal building, which contains the New York postoffice, is condemned In unmeasured terms by Congressman Richard Bartholdt of Missouri, who la a member of a committee appointed to investfgate the postal facilitie oC thtt city.