Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 December 1907 — Page 2

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PAST AND PEESEKT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Ealishteamcnt mf the Many Many Skilled Workers Idle. There is a great army of unemployed in New York. The skilled mechanics have felt the unhappy condition of the money market the hardest. Tho stringency has compelled the speculative builders to wait ur.til a time when money will flow more readily, and as a consequence it is estimated that more than 25,000 men in the building trades alone are out of employment. The members of the Building Trades Employers' Association say that building operations will be considerably less in 1908 than they have been in many years. Ia 1903 the construction for office buildings was bo plentiful that there were not men enough to do the work and the workers received double pay for overtime. The year3 1905 and 1906 were not as good, but there was work for every one until the money crisis came. American Schooner Wrecked. After successfully riding out a succession of gales which she encountered all the way across the Atlantic Li which she lost all her lifeboats, the American schooner Thomas W. Lawson was capsized in Broad Sound, Sicily Islands, where the captain sheltered from tie fierce storm raging along the En&hsh coast. Of the crew of eighteen, including Pilot Hc?:s, vho boarded the vessel from the life cavers boat during the night, only three were rescued. These were Captain G. W. Dow, of Melrose, Mass., Edward L. Rowe, the engineer, of Wisassett, Me., and George Allen, of Bradford, England. Almost 11,000 Sheep Drown.. A flock of sheep numbering nearly eleven thousand were drowned in Mad -xirer near Entiat, Wash. The sheep were being driven from the Cascade Mountains to the Entiat valley to winter. While the flock was carefully going down a mountain side the leader slipped on tho sleet-covered ground and rolled over a precipice into the river below. This demoralized the rest of the flock and before the men In charge could control them several thousand of sheep had slipped or plunged into the river. Queen Carola of Saxony Dying. A dispatch from Dresden says the condition of Queen Carola, wiiow of King Albert, of Saxony,' who is tufferIng from nephritis, is hopeless. . The last sacraments were administerel and tho queen is not expected to live. Queen Carola Is a daughter cf Prince Gustav of Sweden. Sho was married to Prince Albert of Saxony in 1873 and on the death of King John ascended the throne with her husband. King Albert died June 19, 1302. Colorado Bank Closes. The Colorado State Bank, of Durango, Colo., has suspended pending reorganization. It has deposits of $500,000 and lis capital is J3.000.. The officials of the bank issued a statement In which they assert that the assets are entierly, unimpaired and that the bank will be able to pay Its depositors a3 well as its stockholders In full. Consumption and Pneumonia. Figures Just compiled by the State Board of Health show that consumption killed more people in Indiana during the month of November than any other disease. Consumption war responsible for the death of 292 persons last month, while pneumonia killed 249 more. One hundred and seventylive people met death by violence. Abe Hummel Near Death. Abe Hummel, the New York lawyer who is serving a centence In BlackweH's Island penitentiary for conspiracy in connection with the Dorge Morsse divorce case, is near death from kidney affection. Hummel's sentence on Blackwell's Island will expire within a few weeks. President Delano Not to Resign. The report that President Delano, of the Wabash railroad, has resigned or ' Is about to resign, has been "officially denied at the office of the company In New York City. Three Children Die by Fire. Fire at Sturgissoo, V. Va., destroyed two dwellings and caused the death of three children of Superintendent O. P. Corbin, of the Sand mine. Fatal Collision on B. & O. Five persona were killed and about twrnty injure 1 ia a rear-nd collision between local passenger train on tbe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Ilanover, twelve miles west of Baltimore. Some of the injured are badly hurt and may die. The men killed were negro track hands. Bank Goes to Wall. The State Brnk of Admire, at Admire, Kan., with deposits of $125,000, closed its doors. It bad $28,000 in the failed National Bank of Commerce of Kansas City, and the failure was due to the closing of that institution. Insane Man's Victim Dies. Edward Cohen of Lynn, president of ?se Massachusetts State branch of the American Federation of Labor, who was one of three prominent labor leaders asBailed by an insane man in tlie Statebous Sa Boston, died at the Massachusetts gen ral hospital. Says Hallways Menace Ration. W. J. McGee, secretary of the inland waterways commission, at dinner of the "Geographic Society in Chicago said railways menace tbe nation by monopoly of land and water ways, and urged ( action to avert revolution.

TWO SENATORS ELECTED.

Robert Latham Owen and Thomas P. Gore Choice in Oklahoma. Robert Latham Owen of Muskogee and Thomas I. Gore of Lawton, who have been elected to the United States Senate bly the Oklahoma Legislature, are Democrats. Owen was born at Lynchburg, Va., Feb. 2, 1S50. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, with a mixture of Cherokee blood. His father, Robert Owen, was a distinguished Confederate soldier and later became president of the Virginia and Tennessee railroad. The Senator's mother was a daughter of Chisholra. the last hereditary war chief of the Cherokee Nation. Senator Owen was educated nt Washington and Lee University. Since 1S79 he has practiced law in Indian Territory. President Cleveland appointed him agent for the five civilized tribes. Senator Gore has the double distinction of being the first blind member of the United Srntes Senate and of being the youngest man in that body, being only 37 years oil. His sight was destroyed in childhood when he was a page in the Senate of Mississippi, his native State. At that time he was boarding in the home of United States Senator J. Z. George, and it is said that tl.e associations of that period inspired him with the ambition to be a Senator. He was educated at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn. Mr. Gore has great oratorical ability and in the last two national canvasses his services were called for in many northern and western States. He is a lawyer. LOVE MOVES HER TO KILL BABE. Pathetic Story of Mother Driven Desperate by Convict Husband. Mrs. Frances Cooper of Indianapolis, aged IS years, confessed the murder of hex 10-months-old baby. Her husband, Stephen Cooper, was sent to the penitentiary recently. Thrown upon her own resources, she says she tried to get employment for herself and a home for her child, but the stigma of relationship to a convict caused her to lose one place after another until in desperation and through love for the child she killed it. Then she attempted suicide by drowning in a lonely spot on the bank of a stream in Bartholomew county, where she loft her baby's body in the creek. The finding of the child's body recalled the recent visit of Mrs. Cooper and led to her identification and confession. I nrD MANY WAR BOATS USELESS. Japanese Will Confine Building to Four Types of Vessels. According to advices received on the steamship Empress of Japan, the naval program of the Japanese admiralty will entirely eliminate cruises, coast-defense ships, dispatch boats and gunboats, which in view of Japan's experience they regard as useless. A prominent Japanese naval officer says that future building will be confined to battleships, armored cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats. The new battleships will be of 20,000 tons and the armored cruisers not greatly inferior in aimament and displacement. The duties of small cruisers will hereafter be done by destroyers. AIDS "PAUPER;" GETS FORTUNE. Florida Girl Bequeathed $75,000 by Aged Chicago Man. ' Miss Annie Burkhart, 20 years old, thought she was entertaining a pauper in Thomas Caldwell, an aged recluse, who came to Pensaeola, Fla., from Chicago two years ago with a stock of groceries in a trunk and eked out a miserable existence by peddling fish and food. Miss Burkhart ministered to the man when he was ill, and he often said she had sA'ed his life. The girl has received information that she has been made the sole heir of the estate of Caldwell, valued at $75,000, and that Caldwell's four sons had been cut off with $1 each. SUICIDE BLAMES STANDARD OIL. Independent Dealer Say3 "Unbusinesslike Methods" Ruined Him. ' Lawrence S. Nicolai, formerly a prosperous independent oil dealer in Washington, drank laudanum and died shottly afterward at the Emergency hospital. He left letters indicating that he had contemplated suicide since last August on account of financial and domestic troubles. He attributed his financial misfortune to the "unbusiness-like methods of the Standard Oil Company," which he declared had left him penniless. He and hJj wife had separated. FIRE LOSS AT PITTSBURG. Damage of $100,000 and Great Excitement Caused by Flames. Fire in the downtown business district of Pittsburg caused gTcat excitement and a loss of $100,000. The flam, started in the building at 955 Liberty avenue, owned and occupied by Graff & Co., stove manufacturers, and damaged the adjoining properties of John Flocke r & Co., rope and cordage dealers; Seeley & Leanl, wholesale hat dealers, and II. W. Johns, electric railway supplies. Several fire'jxn were slightly injured. Selling Coal by Mall. At the semi-annual meeting of the Wisconsin and Illinois Retail Coal Dealers' Association in Milwaukee it developed that the greatest danger to the trade at present is the entry into the traffic of mail order houses. A Chicago fnel house, it is said, has gone extensively into this odd branch of the trade, and it is feared the small retailer will be driven out of business. Mail Pouches Missing at Omaha. Two mail pouches containing 2,000 letters addressed to Colorado and other points in the West mysteriously disappeared from a postofüce wagon between the Omaha poitoffice and the Union station. Judge's Son Shoots Policeman, Will Win free, son of Judge W. n. Winfree, shot and fatally wounded Policeman Charles Herd in Ilopkinsville, Ky. Herd had arrested Winfree and a companion for drunkenness. Women Arrested for Arson. Two aged women, one the wealthy president of the W. C. T. U. at Steubenville, Ohio, and tb other a poor nurse, have been arrested on the charge of burning the laser's home to collect the insurance. Nomination to Be Pulled Back. Because he has not displayed the alacrity expected of him in prosecuting land fraud cases the nomination of Wjlliam C. Bristol to be United States attorney for Oregon will be withdrawn. Engineering Course Made 5 Years. Regents of the University of Minnesota have voted to extend the engineering course from four to five years. Hibbard Mayor of Boston. George A. Hibbard, Republican, has bf en elected Mayor of Boston by a plurality of 2.013; elections throughout Massachusetts show notable gains or 'no license." Morgan Gets Light Plant. The North American Company, dominated by Morgan interests, came into control of all the railway, the lighting and power companies of St. Louis, when it purchased the La Clede Power Company and the Edison Electric Illuminating Company from E. W. Clark & Co. of Philadelphia for $3,000,000.

CAN CONCERN- ABSORBS A RIVAL.

American Company Nov Absolutely Dominant on Pacific Coast. Papers wre signed in Sr.n Francisco the uther day by which, it is said, the American Can Company, ' the wealthy eastern concern, absorbed the United States Can Company of San Francisco, its larg-st rival on the Pacific coast. The i-onxidrxatiua exceeded $1,000,000, but the parties to the transaction refused to divulge the exact terms. By this purchare the American Can Company becomes absolutely dominant cn the Pacific coast. The United States Can Company has a large plant and has enjoyed a large part of the California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska trade. The American Can Company made a futile attempt to et this trad? for itself, but it was finally forced to bay out its rival. ROBBED IN JESSE JAMES STYLE. Three Men Take $3,000 from Bank in Aldrich, Mo. The Bank of Aldrich, Mo., was robled of $3,000 in Jesse James style Thursday afternoon. Shortly before 4 o'clock three men drove to the bank in a buggy. Two got out and entered the building, pointed revolvers at the cashier and bookkeeper and demanded the cash. The third man remained in the b;igy. The cashier gave up about S.1,000, which was the amount in the drawers, but did not go to the vault for the larger sums kept there. The bank officers theji were compelled to walk in front of the buggy, which was driven to the edge cf the town. They were irmittetl to return while the buggy containing the tLrc roblers was driven away rapidly. FAMOUS STRIKE IS ENDED. Western Federation Officially Calls Off Walkout Which Began in 1903. The executive board of the Western Federation of Miners has officially called 0'7 tho strike in tie Cripple Creek district ot Colorado, giving as the reason that the camp is in need cf skillec workers and that many union men emjdoyed in less fr.vorable places tan go to Cripple Creek p.nd accept work without vitiating their pledges. The Cripple Creek strike was declared Aug. 12, 1!03, in sympathy with the millmcn of Colorado City. The stirring events that followed, including the declaration cf martial law and the deportation of union men, made Colorado the center of interest lor many months. AMATEUR FARMERS' GOOD LUCK. Business Man Sure Farming Pays; Digs Up Kettle of Gold. T. J. Jones thinks farming is just lovefy, and remunerative, too. lie had that idea about a year ago, when he quit business in New York and bought Edgar IYtt's farm, in the Mcniall district near New Milford, Conn, ne was not so sure about it the other day, when his back began to ache from digging a trench. Then there come h clink as his spade struck an old iron kettle, and his original belief was confirmed. There was $3,000 in gold double eagles in the kettle. CLOSED tatjttr ARE TO REOPEN. Three that Quit After Kansas City Trouble to Resume. Three additional small banks in Missouri and Kansas that suspended following the closing of the National Bank of Commerce f Kansas City are to resume. They are the Union Avenue Bank of Commerce of Kansas City, a branch ot the National Bank ol Commerce ; the private bank of D. A. Becker at Stotesbury, Mo, with deposits about $20.000, and the State Bank of Admire, at Admire, Kan., with deposits of $100.000. , Flood Wrecks Bridge. High water cauusüd tho collapse of a new bridge in oour.se of erection over the West Branch cf the Susquehanna River at MiffiicvUJe, tight miles north of Bloomshurg, Pa, and resulted in the death of seven moa and the injury of nearly a score of others, two perhaps fatally. Forty men were at work on the traveler on the middle span of the structure when it collapsed. They were all tl.rcwu into the s .vollen river. Bishop Mulcted for Damages. In the case of Salcni Armstrong Hopkins against Bishop James M. Thoburn cf the Methodist Episcopal church for $100,000 for alleged libel the jury in Syracuse, N. Y., returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $500. MLss Hopkins formerly was a misfiJonary in India, working under Biahop Thoburn. She alleged the bishop wrote leiten to thia country refcVtkig on her w(rk and financial transactions. Kidnaped Child Restored. Little Lilliaa'WuhT of Chicago has been rescued from kidnapers and returned to her parents; hor captors uncbr arrest first pretended they took the child to replace their own, who died, but the woman later confessed and told cf the criminal CLreer of her husband. Court IIclp3 Express Companies. Judge MePhoraon ia the United States District Court in Kansas City issued an order temporarily restraining the Missouri State board of warehouse and railway commissioners and Attorney. General Hadley from patting inzo effect the new law reducing express ratea. Barnard College Get3 $500,000. The contest over the will cf Miss Emily C. Gibbs of Newport, It. I., who left most of an estate valued at $300,000 to Barnard College, New York, was ended in the Supreme Court the other day, when a decree was ordered sustaining the Probate Court in allowing the will. Bryan Dollar Dinner Jan. 15. Chairman T. S. Alieo of the Democratic State central committee of Nebraska has announced that the $1 dinner in honor of William J. Bryan would be held on the evening of Jan. 15. Distinguished gue&ts from many States are expected. Data for Grand Army Encampment. At a meeting of the national executive committee of tlic Grand Army of the Republic in Toledo, Ohio, the date of the nfffional encampment of the G. A. R., to bo held there next year, was set for Aug. 31 until Sept. 7. Drown in Minnesota Lake. Miss Lola Bright of Walker, Minn, and Walter Johnson of Robinsdale were drowned while skating on Leech lake. The bodies have been recovered. Weekly Commercial Reports. Trade conditions continue to improve, according to the weekly reviews issued by Dun and Bradstreet, bijt the volume of business is smaller than last year. Liner Ashore;" Forty Rescued. The Dominion Atlantic Railway Company's steamer Yarmouth, bound from Digby, N. S., to St. John, N. B., ran ashore in the fog at Black Point, near the latter port. The vessel is not in Lnmediate danger. The forty passengers were rowed ashore. New President for Swiss. The federal atwembly at Berne elected Dr. Ernst Brenner, Radical, to be president of the Swiss Republic for 1908. Dr. Brenner is vice president of the federal council. The present chief ex ecu tire of Switzerland is Eiari Mueller,

ROOSEVELT ENDS ALL THIRD TERM TALK.

3 Issues Statement Repeating His Election Night Pledge Not to Accept Renomination. POLITICIANS ARE SURPRISED. "I nave Not Changed and Shall Not Change," Is Hi3 Irrevocable Decision. President Roosevelt has oflicially and finally reiterated his refusal to accept a rcnoxnimition and re-election, first made on election night of 1901. Ho did this in a statement formally Issued from the White House Wednesday evening', which came as an entire surprise to everylnxly. Correspondents who wont over to the White House for the statement, of which they had been notified by telephone, were entirely unprepared for its contents. It was written out by the President without consultation with any of the party leaders. Text of the Statement. He took into his confidence only his secretary, Mr. Loeb, and between them they prepared the following statement : On the night after election I made the following announcement : "I am deeply sensible of the honor done m by the American people in thus expressing their confidence in what I have done and have tried to do. I appreciate to th5 full the solemn responsibility this confidence imposes upon me, and I shall do all that in my power lies not to forfeit it. On the 4th of March next I shall have served three and a half years, and this three and a half years constitute my first term. The wise custom which limits the President to two terms regards the substance and not the form, and. under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination." I have not changed and shall not change the decision thus announced., In tho absence of any Information further than that afforded by the statement itself, theories ran riot. Every statesman and politician at once put on his thinking cap and began to sjhxuilate as to what happening or happenings had "forced the President's hand,'' as most of tbem put it. To those who have enjoyed the President's confidence in relation to the perplexing itolitical situation confronting the Republican party, the statement was as much of a surprise as it was to those not favored. Tho surprise, however, it must be lxrne in mind, was not so much with regard to the contents of the announcement as that It had come just when. It did. It Is practically certain that only a few days before the President had no Intention of saying anything formally with resiect to the third term question for at least several months, bej-ond what he said in his order commanding office-holders to cease their activity In bis behalf. View of Politician. I have assumed from the beginning that President Roosevelt would not be a candidate. The statement he issued the nijjht of election left no room for misunderstanding, and I have felt that his friends were doing him an injustice in suggesting that he would change his position on the subject. William J. Bryan. That has been his position all the while, I suppose, but I don't care to discuss the matter, thank you. Senator Foraker. I am not at all surprised. I believed him the first time. The President's word is always good with me. Senator Knox. The President speaks for himself. It is useless for me to attempt to speak for him or interpret what, he says. Speaker Cannon. I am surprised that it came at this time. I had not expected any statement from the President on this subject until much later, if at ail. Senator La toilette. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. An immense balloon, the "All Amenca," carrying seven passengers, made successful trip from Pittsfield, Mass., to Conterbury, N. 11. Leo Stevens was pilot. While rounding a shaip curve near Marshall, Cal., a train of the Northwestern Pacific railroad was derailed, and after running over the ties for a distance of 00 feet dashed down an embankment into Tomales bay. Only the shallowness of the water saved the crew and passengers from being drowned like rats in a trap. Two citizens were shot and two iolieemen injured by being struck by stones in a street riot in Louisville, Ky. The riot was an outgrowth of the street car strike. Founders day and the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Harvard were celebrated at Harvard university. The shakers were Prof. F. G. Peabody, Dr. Lyman Abbott and President Kliot. As a result of an agreement between the tu!emakers of the United States, Germany and Great Britain, to stop losses from international competition, the Scotch hibemakcrs advanced the price CO shillings a ton. Captain John I lawn, who was captain f a militia company in Kentucky in ifKX), testing at the trial of Caleb Powis at Georgetown that the defendant and his brother John Lad tried to get him to rake his company to Fronkfort in citizens' clothes and with their arms boxed. Sa"buro Hisaraidzu, the retiring Japanese consul at. Seattle, Wash., on the eve of his departure for Tokio refused to accept a costly silver loving cup presented to him by the Japanese associa:ion of Seattle, and instead asked that the cup be disposed of and the money used in a fund started toward building a club house ia that city as a gatheiing place for tht subjects of the Mikado.

PRESIDENT EOOSEVELT.

WANT HALF PAY.

Volunterr Army and Navy Officers to Urge Their Claims in Congress. Backed by precedents established after the Revolutionary War, surviving volunteer officers of the army sind navy of the Civil War are to demand of Congress the enactment of a law providing for their benefit a volunteer retired list with half pay for life. In the last Congress a bill was introduced providing for such a ltei, but restricting it to volunteer army oMcers. It did not pass, largely because of the cry of discrimination that was raised by naval volunteers and their friends. It is now proposed by a committee of volunteer naval officers t have prepared a measure that shall be satisfactory to the navy and marine corps;. Circulars have been sent out to all surviving Volunteer naval officers ?n the United States calling upon them to take an active part in the interest of the measure. These circulars re-, view the history of legislation for tho benefit of volunteer veteran officers from the close of the Revolutionary War to the adjournment of the Fiftyninth Congress, and it is charged that there has always been a systematic attempt to eliminate the naval volunteers from the benefits of such laws. SKYSCRAPER MENACE. What a Conflagration Among These Cliff Dwellers Would Mean. A catastrophe that will eclipse the destruction of San Francisco is the cheering prospect offered for the contemplation of New York by the president of the board of fire underwriters, says Collier's Weekly. And it is not New York alone that is threatened, but every great city that permits the construction of skyscrapers. The underwriters think that there is not only a possibility but a very strong probability of a blaze starting in the top stories of a neiit of these aerial hives and leaping across the canyons that sexaiate them, raging aloft liko a fire in the upper branches of a forest, and sweeping unchecked out of reach of the helpless f.remen in the street. When office buildings go higher than the Washington monument all the ordinary methods of protection become obsolete. No hose can carry a stream half way to their roofs. No street mains can furnish pressure enoagh to s(-nd water up in standpipes. Of course there are satisfactory methods of supplying the upper floors in ordinary times, but they would count for nothing in a conflagration. The experience of San Francisco has shown, in the opinion of President Babb, that "so-cah-nl 'fireproof buildings cannot withstand the attack of a wave of fiamt'." If a fire should sweep the financial district of New York it would cause a loss of from one to two billion dollars ; the insurance companies would be liard pressed to pay '20 to 25 cents on the dollar, title guaranty companies, mortgage concerns, savings banks, and all other financial institutions would suffer, and the city would feel at once the loss of revenue from the destruction of taxable values. Another menace that hangs over the skyscraper districts of great cities is the danger of panic. It is said that if a sudden shock should send the swarming cliff dwellers all surging to the streets at once the highways would not hold the human flood. The streets of our cities were designed to match buildings three or four stories high When ten such buildings are piled one on top of another, and the same thoroughfares are expeoted to accommodate the people from all of thm, the results are likely to be startling. The London (Canada) Laltor party has pronounced in favor of old-age pensions. 1 A majority of the musicians of Santa Cruz, Cal., met recently and organized a union. Organized labor in Seattle, Wash., has carried out its proiosed plan of obtaining a coal mine. t ', Springfield (Canada) miners ask for another board of conciliation to investigate the system of weighing boxes. The building trades of San Francisco are discussing a proposition to settle on a Krale of wages for three years. The Central Labor Union of Scranton, Pa., has decided to build a ,?.-jO,000 temple for the uce of the trades unions of the city. At a meeting of Engineers local No. 1 of Denver, Colo., CTie finance committee rciorted that increased wages to the members of the union daring the last year amounted in the aggregate to $C,ri00. It was reported that conditions iu this trade art very prosperous. The total number of men killed while mining coal in the United States during 11)00, according to statistics gathered by the geological survey, was 2,001. The number o workmen receiving injuries in this industry more or less serious, but not fatal, was 4,798 during the sann; period. Miss Marot, secretary of the Woman's Trade Union League of New York, a short time since delivered an address in which she urged women to organize in every branch of industry and co-operate in union agitation, holding that in that way only can women compete on equal terms with men in the trades. The union men of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., have started a movement to boycott the beef packers as long as prices remain at the present high rate. The Federation of Labor at Springfield, Mo., has decided to enter politics next year, and will put forward its president 03 a candidate for the General Assembly. The Carpenters' Union of Winnipeg, Manitoba, has three memlers who have been continuous members of the orgnnization for more than thirty-six years. Their years of membership total alout 110 years. The union behoves this sets a record. The average wage paid to the hulk of the working population of Porto Rico engaged in the coffee and sugar industries is 13 cents and 45 cents, respectively, for ten hours work a dty. During the last year f.ix new districts were added to the international Spinners' Union, according to the report of President Urgan Fleming, at the annual session, held in Boston, Mass., recently. The manufacturing jewelers of Paris, France, at a recent meeting not only iositively refused to recognize the union, but decided to reolt the previous concession of a nine anj one-half-hour day, and to insist on a ten-hour workday. The Methodist Episcopal conference of Erie, Pa., at its recent session by a unanimous vote indorsed resolutions favoring eight hours as a day's work for laboring men. At a meeting of the Woman's Trade Union League of Chicago a committee on benefits reported a proposition whereby all women trade unionists of that city can have the service of a physician for 10 cents a year. The Co-oT.erative Bank and Trust Company of Oklahoma City, proomted by the Farmers' Union and the labor unions of OMahoma, has been chartered, with a capital stock of $500,000. No stock is to be sold except to us ion men.

STOESSEL ON TRIAL; PLEADS NOT GUILTY

Officer Who Defended Port Arthur Charged with Surrendering Fort. DISPLAY OF RUSSIAN POMP. Crippled and Star-Spangled Veterans Who Fought Japan at Fortress There in Force. Before a brilliant assemblage of his old comrades in arms, Lieut. Gen. Stoessel was placed on trial in St Petersburg to answer with his life and reputation for the loss of Port Arthnr on Jan. 1. 1905, and in firm tones and with confident manner the general pleaded not guilty to the charge of needlessly surrendering the fortress and thereby humiliating the Kassian army. The trial took place in the auditorium f the Army and Navy Club. The room resembled more a social gathering of officers of high rank than the scene of a court martial. Among the judges, spectators, and witnesses were Gen. Kuropatkin. Gen. Linevitcfli. Gen. Rennenkairpf. Vice Admiral Wircn, ami scores of other prominent leaders In the Russo-Japanese war. There were also present L'OO officers and soldiers who had been at Port Arthur and who were clad in their full dress uniforms blazing with stars and decorations. Gen. Stoessel alone was in civilian attire, and this made him conspicuous, lie wore proudly around his neck the cordon of the military order of St George, which was conferred upon hin by the emperor during the siege, and on his breast was pinned tbe cross of George III., awarded the general for conspicuous bravery in fron tier-fighting. . This same coveted decoration wag worn by many of the witnesses and spectators. Empty sleeves nnd crutches, especially among the men who had been at Port Arthur, showed that many of them had seen hard service during the war. CHICAGO THE WINNER. Republican National Convention to Be Held There June 16. The Republican national convection of 190S will be held in Chicago. Juno 1G. This was the decision r:aclod by the Republican National Committee hi session at Washington, Chicago Having thirty-one votes on the first ballot, against eighteen for Kansas City nnd four for Denver. Chicago won on a guarantee to pay the legitimate expenses pertaining to the convention, and without any promise to raise the nucleus of the campaign fund for the national committee which will le chosen to prosecute the work looking to victory at the election in the fall. It was pointed out nt the meeting of the national committee that the next convention of the parry will develop the only real contest Incident to the nomination of a presidential ticket since 1SSS, and that In consequence a great crowd will be attracted. Chicago was the city that offered the facilities to care for the crowd, as well as the best facilities for the transmission of the news of the convention to 90.000,000 people vitally Interested in every feature of Its action. FOREIGN NEWS NOTES. Chinese troops in Formosa mutinied and killed sixty-three Japanese. Horace McKinley of Portland, Ore, bored his way out of jail at Mukden. Two hundred students at Kiev Russia, were arrested to quell an incipient riot. Richard Croker announced his intention of leaving Ireland to spend the winter in Egypt. The Pope postponed until January the consistory which was to have taken placa in December. Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, a mainstay of the British navy, died in London. The King of Spain was enteitained at a ball given in the subterranean palace of the Duke of Portland. A stone hurled through a car window in St. Petersburg injured the Aostriaa ambassador, but not seriously. It was reported that the IIa.! of Yarmouth would seek a divorce from hhi wife, a sister of Harry K. Thaw Miss Mary Robinson, a witness in tho famous Druce case, fainted in a London court room, where she was testifying. The session of the Russian dama opened without extraordinary scenes, it beinj in marked contrast to former meetings Frenchmen, eaj;er to help America in the financial -stringency, urged the Bank of France tJ ahip gold to the United States. Count Okuma urged Japan to take a hand in the affairs of India, saying that heaven has granted an opportunity which cannot be ignored. The Germap Kaiser, visiting the Isle of Wight, where he was supposed to take the rest cure, devoted himself to the most strenuous pursuits. The German government has completed plans for the construction of a harbor on the island of Heligoland, in the North sea, at a cost of $7,500,000. The new armored cruiser Ibuki, which was launched at Kure, Japan, was built entirely from Japanese materials and her keel was laid only last April. Japan has made the lowest bid of any power for the construction of a warship for Spain. A strike begun by the European engineers on the East Indian railway, which is 2,105 miles long, has now spread to include the native helpers so that the most important section of fie road is tied and thousands of passengers are stranded, while many industries .ire at a standstill. The strikers complain of overwork, and poor pay. The situation s especially serious in view of the recent mutinies and of the prevailing famine.

LIEUT. CF.X. S TO ESS EI

WORK OF CONGRESS

The Senate convened at noon Monday and the resolutions of Senators Clay and Culverson calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information concerning the n-cent bond issues were called up. Owing to the absence of Senator Aldrich they were allowed to go over for another day, as was a resolution by Senator 1111 man instructing tho committee on finance to investigate the matter. A resolution calling on the Secretary of Agriculture for information concerning the reclamation of swamp laud was adopted. At 1 :15 p. m.. the Senate adjourned. The House convened at noon, but beyond the introduction of a number of bills, no business was transacted. At 12:10 p. m. adjournment until Thursday was taken. -: :- Senator Aldrich informed the Senate Tuesday that the Committee on Finance would within a short time bring in a resolution providing for an inquiry into the recent bond issues of the government, and that it would provide for. an investigation into all matters contained in resolutions offered by Senators concerning the financial stringency and the efforts of the government to relieve the situation. With this assurance, Senators Culberson of Texas and Clay f Georgia agreed to permit their resoluntions to go to the committee for its consideration. Senator Tillman allowed his resolutions on tbe same subject to lie on the table until he secures data he desires to present. The House was not in session. . . . The maiden speech of Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas, bitterly denouncing trusts and urging the passing of his bill to do away with them, was the principal event in Wednesday's session of the Senale. Several bills were introduced, and after a brief executive session adjournment taken. The House was not in session. -: :- The session of the Senate Thursday opened with a debate on he propriety of department heads sending in bills for passage, and it was decided to refer the matter to the committee on rules. The reoolution calling on Secretary Cortelyou for . information regarding the financial situation was adopted. Senator Frye was formally inducted into office as president ot the Senate pro tem., and at 2 :1G p. m. adjournment was taken until Monday. The nous was in session but eight minutes, during which tim numerous bills were introduced. Adjournment until Monday,was taken.' Seeking Came of Povert" The idea of going after the cau- j of poverty, instead of dealing with effects, was championed by Gov. Hughes in a notable speech at tbe recent silver jubilee of the New York Charities Organization Society. He said, in part: "This society is the true agent of democracy, seeking not merely to apply balm to the bruises of life, but to eliminate the causes of unnecessary injury. W'c cannot but realize that a large portion of our brethren are the helpless victims of an environment from which they cannot escape, and through which they arc destined to physical misery, moral impoverishment au-1 economic inefficiency. It is our duty patkntly to consider what can be done, noi merely to afford temporary relief to immediate sufferers, but to change the improper environment and promote a heaLhiei life." He went on to enumerate the conditions desirable, and said that the number of preventable casualties to workmen is a disgrace to the country. ctv Way f 'Phonlnn. Two young women of St. Louis recently discovered by accident that it was not necessary to place the lips near the transmitter of a telephone to be heard at the other end of the wire, provided the transmitter were placed firmly against Tho ches-t or even other parts of the body. The advantages claimed for the new system are that it' is germ-proof and nonfatiguing. Prof. Calvin M. Woodward, one of the scientists at Washington university, explained that there was nothing new in the principle, but admitted he had never before thought of its application to the telephone. He said tbe sound vibration in the lungs is communionted througa the chest instead of through the lips, .in ! then carried over the wire in the usual way. The system, he said, is in 'accordance with the principle of the physician's stethoscope. Common Law to Catch Traut. Attorney General Dickson of Colorado is tho latest convert to the theory that the common law is sufficient to abate the trust evil, lie has begun action thereon against the State corabinationof grocers and coal dealers, which have boosted the prices of food and fuel until the public is wild to down them by fair means or otherwise. If the case is proved, showing secret and monopolistic practices, an injunction is to follow, the violation cf which will be punishable with fine or hiiprisonment or both. Dickson, in supporting the Railroad Commission law before the State Supreme Court, charges the onpesijtion with adding fuel to the flames of popular passion which would surely result in confiscatory legislation later on. Price of Freh Moatu Down. Since the beginning of the financial stringency the big meat packers have made a concession of .1 per cent to retailers in the price of fresh meats an! have forced a 20 per cent reduction in tho price of live stock. Retailers generally have cut prices 3 cents a pound. NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. Tho Senate elected William P. Frye of Maine its president pro tem., an office occupied by him continuously since Feb. 7, lSt)G, except during periods he has served as president of the Senate. Secretary of the Treasury Grtelyoti and the British ambassador, Mr, Bryce, have both found themselves unable to accept the invitation extended them to be the guests of the Chicago Real Estate Board at the banquet to be given early next year. Representative McKinley of Illinois introduced a bill raising the pension of widow? of Union soldiers and sailors to $12 a moy.th. Representative Acheson of Pennsylvania introduced a bill proposing to tax all beer brewed in the United States $1 a barrel to raise $50,000,000 annually for the development of waterways. A bill to establish postal savings banks for depositing savings at 2 per cent interest was introduced by Senator Carter of Montana. The proposed system is to bo under the supervision of the Postmaster General and Secretary of the Treasury. Major W. X. Seward of Guilfcrd. Conn., a doorkeeper of the Senate, dropped dead while entering a revolving door of the capitol. Major Seward was appointed to his position six years ago. The War Department published a general order of the President requiring every field officer to make a daily practice march of at least thirty miles for three consecutive days at lost once a year. Senator Beveridge has reintroduced hi bill forbidding the transportation, in interstate commerce, of the products of child labor, j Chicago concerns laid off many thoulands of workingmen.

CHICAGO. Although the volume of business falls short of the normal, there are indications that point to some recovery. Payments through the banks reflect a smaller comparative decline, commercial default run under those last year, and there are not only increasing deposits but more rapid cancellation of emergency checks and renewal of discount oieratiuns in mercantile paper. Shipments of currency to the interior have expanded for the marketing of corn, and the preparations assure ample funds to meet heavy January disbursements at the banks. Settlements on December maturities thus far have bcn made with less trouble than expected, and the small rggregate of extensions sought was the cause of lessened fear in financial circles. Quiet conditions prevail iu the leading industries, but seasonable weather brought improved demand in distributive branches, and the absorption of winter apparel, food products and Christmas goods makes a rapid reduction in stocks. There is also more activity in the advance buying ia wholesale lines, with a better supply of mail orders for dry goods, woolens, cloaks and suits and boots and shoes. With the approaching' holidays there is greater tendency to curtail machinery employed in factory work, aud shut-downs may be more extended than usual. Receipts of raw materials reflect further shrinkage, but these are ample for requirements, and prices have an easier tendency in pig iron, lumber, leather and wool, although hides steadied on buying for eastern consumer. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 23. against IS last week and 25 a year ago. Those w ith liabilities over $5.000 number 5, against 7 last week and 3 in KKW. Ihin's Review of Trade. NEW Y0SK. Cross currents in trade, '.nance and industry prevent generalization, but financial conditions generally have shown further easing, while the approach of the holiday period and more seasonable weather helped enliren distribution, which in some sections also v feels the stimulus of price concessions. On the other hand, 'wholesale and jobbing trade has rather quieted and manufacturing industry has slackened slightly. Collections generally are very slow, and failures tend to increase in number. There is less talk of cancellations, though there arc evidences vf these in many lines. To offset the possibility of large stocks accumulating, buyers are keeping their activities restricted, and this tendency is also re-enforced by a fair volume of resales by jobbers who find tmtplus supplies at hand. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Iec 12 number 2S4. against 272 last week. 220 in the like week of llXW. 22Ö in K05, 139 in 1004 and 230 in 1003. Canadian failures for the week number 50, as against 20 last week and 31 this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to rriroc, $4.00 to $G.10; bogs, prime heavy, $1.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat,' No. 2, 92c tu !3c; corn. No. 2, 50c to O0c; cats, standard, 40c to 50c ; rye, No. 2, 77c to SOc ; toy. timothy, $11.00 to $1S.50; prairie, $:.00 tn $12.50; butter, choice creamery. 21c to 29x eggs, fresh, 22c to 27c; iotatoes, pt r bushel, 4vSc to 5Gc. Indianapolis' Cattle, shipping, $3.00 ti $0.50; hogs, good to choice heavy, $1.00 to $-1.05; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.50; w heat, Nx 2, t3c to l5c; corn. No. 2 w hite, 51c to 53c; oaU No. 2 white, 4'Jc to 52c. St. Louis Cattle. $1.50 to $0.25; hogs. $1.00 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, J7c to .Xc; corn. No. 2, 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2, 50c to 51c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 71 Cincinnati-Cattle. $4.00 to $5.15; hogs, $4.00 to $5.05; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2. 00c to $1.00; corn. No. 2 mixed, 01c to (2c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 52c; rye, No. 2, 79c to 81c ..Detroit Cat tV, $1.00 to $5.00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.10; bccp, $2.50 to $L50; wheat, No. 2, 97c to USc; corn. No. 3 yellow, 05c to 00c; oats. No. 3 white, 51c to 53c; rye, No. 2, 79c to SOc Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.04 to $1.00; corn, No. 3, 00c to 02c; oats, standard, 52c to 53c; rye, No. 1, 77c to 7Sc; barley. No. 2, 99c to $1.00; pork, mess, $12.85. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.25; bogs, fair to choice, $3JiO to $5.20; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.15. New York Cattle, $1.00 to $5.53; hogs, $3.50 to $5.25 ; - sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 99c to $1.01: corn. No. 2, 00c to 07c; oats, natural white, 57c to 59c; butter, creamery, 25c id 27c ; eggs, western, 30c to 32c Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 95c to 90c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 50c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 51c to 52c; rye. No. 2, 79c to SOc; clover seed, prime, $9.90. TOLD IN A FEW LINES. ; The farmers' Union warehouse at Taylor, Texas, with 2,0 bales of cotton, burned. Loss $125,000, fully covered by insurance. 1 ive hundred persons will leave New York City Jan. 15, ÜH1S, to establish an industrial colony on one of the islands of the Southern Pacific ocean. At the sale of the effects of the late Stanford White in New York a Damascus carpet 21 feet long by 10 wide was purchased br Miss Elsie De Wolf for $1,100. The interstate commerce commission, at Washington, is preparing to assume jurisdiction over the street and intern rbin railway sj-slems doing an interstate business. Practically all of the Cambria workmen suspended recently, partly by reason of needed repairs and partly on account of a shortage of orders, have resumed their employment at Johnstown, Pa. Oscar Frederick Spat, alias Regnal Spaulding, alias Sterling, was ficd $100 or thirty days in the workhouse at Pittsburg on a charge of swindling certain pcoph. of that city with an offer to introduce them at King Edward's court if well paid. King Leopold's private domain In the Congo will pass to Belgium and be subject t'j Belgian laws as the result of the King's agreement to the treaty annexing tne ongo State to Belgium. He will thus lose all his revenues from this source. The treaty recognizes American rights in the Congo. The Philadelphia company, a holding company for various companies operating traction lines, natural and artificial gas and electric light plant in Pittsburg, Pa., end surrounding boroughs, announced a .eduction in the price of natural gas in Pittsburg for domestic purposes, to 30 rents per thousand cubic fet, with C1, cents discount if paid within ten days.