Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 13, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 January 1908 — Page 2

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1908 JANUARY 1908

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GN. M. T P. Q. P. M. (I' L. Q. y3rd. ) 10thAg13tb. V$ 26th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All 8Ide and Conditions of Thins re Shown. Nothing: Orerlooked to make it Complete. Two Indiana Tragedies. During a sudden attack of insanity, Claude Dodson, SO years of age, killed his aunt, Mrs. Jane Harrison, a widow 70 years old, by cutting her throat with a butcher knife, at the home of his father, Mint Dodson, of Oxford, Ind. Mrs. AY. L. Bevk, of Seilersburg, ten xrJles from Jeffersonville, Ind., shot son-in-law, Daniel Schiller. She was driven to desperation by wrongs which she thought her son-in-law had Inflicted upon her daughter. Mrs. Beck is the wife of Prof. W. L. Beck, principal of the Sellersburg schools for the last fifteen years. Five Die In Wreck cn Grand Trunk. "Speeding through dense fog at forty miles an hour, Grand Trunk passenger train No. 5 collided head-on with a double-header freight train half a mile north of Wilcox, Mich. Fire trainmen met death, four being killed Instantly. The fifth one died three hour3 later. All passengers escaped Injury except a baby, which was slightly hurt by being thrown out of Its mother's arms and over a seat. The passenger locomotive plowed under the engines of the double-header and the trainmen were buried In the wreckage. TLeir bodies were terribly mangled. All tbe dead trainmen lived In Detroit, Mich. Jap Spies in Portland, Oregon. Mayor Harry K. Lane, of Portland, Ore., created a sensation In an address before the National Guard Association, when he declared that agents of the Japanese government had secured accurate maps of the city of Portland, maps and specifications of every roadway leading into the city and of the various pipelines from which the city obtains Its water supply. Mayor Lane did not discover the presence of the alleged spies until their work was completed, whereupon he transmitted his Information to Washington and was asked to furnish all the details of th-j operations of the alleged spies. Shooting at Muncie. John Skinner, a saloon keeper of Muncie, Ind., shot and killed Gola Eppards, 26 years old. Skinner says he Mlled Eppards in self-defense, as the latter with several companions attempted to hold him up. Skinner i3 In Jail charged with murder. Roy Eppards, a brother of the dead man, and Grover Gillian were arrested in connection with the crime, it being alleged they were implicated in attempting the robbery of a house while Skinner was passing and before the hold-up took place. Children's Home Burned. Fire destroyed the Washington Caildren's Home south of Seattle, Wash. Two children were burned to death and the matron and a nurse were injured.' The others escaped clad only In their night robes. Mrs. Minnie Meyers, the matron, was seriously burned and injured in an attempt to rescue the two burned to death. Miss A. L. Hill, day nurse, was slightly burned and was bruised in jumping from a second story window. Oil Gusher Struck in Louisiana. In the Noble Company's No. 1 well, at Jennings, La., which came in on the new tract a quarter of a mile southwest of the proven field, oil began forcing high in the air, estimated by oil experts to be doing at least 5,000 barrels per day. A great deal of excitement prevails at the field, owing to the fact that another pool has been struck. Two Students Die In Fire. The Roman Catholic school at Monterey, Ind., caught fire during the rehearsal of a play by the children. A gasoline lamp exploded, fatally burning Clara Karmes and Margaret Fcx, aged 15 years, and both pupll3 of the school. They lived but a few minutes. Famous Painter Dead. John Lambert, the well-known artist and portrait painter, d'.ed at his home In Philadelphia, Pa., aged 46 years. Women and Children Burned. Mrs. Boyer and one child were burned to death and another child badly burned as the result of a fire that completely destroyed their home near Hamden, Vinon County, Ohio. Col. Bryan at Hunting Grounds. "Willian Jennings Bryan and son have arrived at Galveston, Tex., to be the guests of Col. W. L. Moody for several days' duck hunting on the preserves of the latter at Lake Surprise. Season's Loss Is 9743,000. Ti e total loss to vessel property on the pat lakes amounted to $713,000 for the sra on of 1907, according to figures compih 1 by Cleveland marine men. Thirteen steamers and one schooner were lost. Kills Himself to Foil Black Hand. After hanging up a sign, 'This store closed on account of death in the family," Max Bonavecture, a well-to-do saloonkeeper of West Mount Vernon, N. Y., committed suicide by hanging himself. For several months Bona venture had leen receiving threatening letters from the Black Hand Society. Shoe Factory Resume Work. The shoe factory of A. B. Bates & Co.' in Webster, Mass., which has been Tanning on short time, has resumed operations in full. The firm has GOO hands. Trust Company Officials Indicted. J. Dalzell Brown, general manager of the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company. San Francisco, and Walker B. Bart let t, director of the institution, were indicted by a grand jury in San Francisco for alleged embezzlement of securities of the Ellen M. Colton trust fund. Bail in each case was fixed at $200,000, with $100,000 cash on each indictment.

SLAYS RECALLED WIFE.

Attempt at Reconciliation End In M artier at I Vast. Having reassembled his family for a reunion after an estrangement which had lasted for a year, Dr. Walker R. Amesbury, formerly a British nrmy surgeon, at dinner in Hyde Park, Mass., shot and killed his wife, who wa.3 formerly Anna Bees, a concert singer. At the doctor's request his wife had returned from Dan-. ville, Vs., where she had been teaching at Roanoke college, and his sons. Walker, aged 20, and Ira, aged 17, had returned from New York, where they had lived since the family was broken up about a rear ag. Mrs. Arnesbury's mother, Mrs. Jennie Reese, was completing the dinner preparations when the doctor and his wife became engaged in a quarrel. The two sons admonished their father to remember the day, when suddenly the doctor drew a revolver and fired at his wife's breast. The woman fell unconscious and lied within a few moments. MATRIMONIAL RUSH IN N. Y. Hundreds Seek to Wed Before Llcenae Law Make It Dlfllcalt. Cupid ha3 been having an inning in New York. Beginning Jan. 1 a new law requiring licenses to wed will be in force, nd hundreds of couples have been rushing to tae ministers to escape the publicity which will follow the recording of all marriages. There are commonly about 250 marriages a day. in the city, but for a. week this number has been increased threefold, bringing the biggest matrimonial rush the city has ever seen. One minister announced that he married twenty-five couples in one week and had engagements to unite twice that number before Jan. 1. There are many objections to the new law voiced by ministers and Dthers. The objectors say that the law makes marriage more difficult while they believe that all difficulties in the way of matrimony should be smoothed away. Thoy believe that the new law will induce elopements. VANDERBILT WEDDING IS OFF. Society Folk Hear Count Is Dissatisfied with the Settlement. New York society is stirred by a report from Newport that the wedding of Miss Gladys Vcnderbidlt, heiress to the fl'2.(KXMMXJ Vanderbilt fortune, had been called off owing to dissatisfaction on the part of Count Szechenyi, the Hungarian to whom she was betrothed, with the amount of the marriage settlement which was to be made to him. In all the salons Df Newport the story went that the sturdy Americanism of Alfred G. Vanderbilt and Reginald Vanderbilt, the prospective bride's brothers, had revolted against the carriage of their sister to a man who they believed had revealed himself as a fortune hunter and that they had persuaded their sister after much trouble that the foreign nobleman is unworthy of her. The Vanderbilt family, however, will go no further than the admission that the wedding has been postponed. PUT PUMP ON PIVOT. V Warrlns Families In Double House Involve Unique Plan. A war has been in progress for some time between two families using the same well in Marion, Ohio. The man who built the houses occupied by the two families drilled s well exactly on the line between the two lots. The purchasers "fell out," and ns a result there has been a lot of bad feeling whenever one family trespassed on the lot of the other to get water. A neighborhood Solomon suggested that the pump be so adjusted that it would turn around, permitting the handle and spout to be over the lot of the family which wanted to use it. The suggestion was followed. Each family is so pleased over the solution that the contention is about ended. THINKS WEST NEEDS TROOPS. If Xavr Falls, Officer Says, 20,0, OO Japanese Could Control Coast. Col. T. C. Woodbury, acting commander of the department of the Columbia. U. S. A., in a statement said that the whole Pacific coast would be helpless in case the navy should prove unable to prevent the landing of a force of 20,000 Japanese or other foreign army at any of the numerous unprotected bays along the coast. He said there are not 2,000 regulars on the coast to resist an attack by land, while 13,000 infantrymen are needed. Dig Year for Cotton Mills. Statistics just compiled show that the dividends paid to stockholders of New Bedford, Mass., cotton mills in 1907 have been the largest in the history of the city. The total dividends of eighteen corporations reach $2,578.250, on a capital stock of $19.770,000, an average of 13.73 per cent. Last year the average rate was 8.02 per cent, in 1003 it was CO and in 1904 the percentage was 5.2. Frisco Has n 200,000 Blase. Fire destroyed nearly the entire block bounded by Mission, Jessie, First and Second streets, in San Francisco. Several factories and stores were burned out end the loss will amount to more than $-00,000. Mrt of the buildings destroyed were only-temporary afTairs, so that the loss was principally in stocks carried by the firms involved. Two Die In Apartment Fire. Two people were burned to death and a third fatally hurt in a fire which destroy-, ed the general store and apartment house of J. B. Currier in North Dover, Ohio. Michael Veltrie, aged 50, who lived over the store, and Joseph, his son, aged 13, were burnsd to death. Mrs. Veltrie jumped from a ladder and was internally injured. Engineer Falls to See Slarnal. Five men were killed in a collision on the Grand Trunk railroad at Lenox, Mich., due to the engineer of a fast passenger train failing to see a signal set against him. His train crashed into a double-header freight train standing on th track, and three engines were piled in a heap. Children See Mother Die. Mrs. Mary Colcott of Youngstown, Ohio, 27 years old, was giving the finishing touches to a Christmas tree when her j two children, coming down stairs, saw her j 'rop dead. She had been seized with a I hemorrhage. Court Orders Sale. Judge Grosscup has ordered the sale of the Union Traction properties in Chicago to the Chicago Railways Company, which means that the traction question is settled and the rehabilitation work for the Nrth and West Side lines will progress. Entire Family Is Cremated. Five persons were burned to death in a fire which destrosed the house of John Clark at Watertown, a Boston suburb. Every member of the Clark family met death in the flames. Pennsylvania Trains Crash. Three persons were killed and seventeen others were injured in a rear-end collision on the elevated tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad a short distance from the station in Camden, N. J. The ccrs were thoroughly smashed. Fire added to the difficulties of the work of rescue. Murder on Iselln Estate. The body of a well-dressed young man has been found on property owned by C. Oliver Iselin, near Mount Vernon, N. Y. There was a bullet hole behind the right ear. It is not believed that the man killed himself.

DANK R03BERS GET $2,5C0.

Fleo After n Itnttle with CItlxens, ImiI Are Cap Iure! liy Posse. The Rank of Camden Point, at CamtVn Point. Mo., thirty miles southeast of St. Joseph, was robbed by three men at 3 o'clock tbe other morning aud $2,500 was taken. A battle between citizens and therol le rs occurred and many shots were exchanged, but the robbers escaped. They were pursued by a posse and captured about noon near Edgerton Junction. The reblers were discovered by Prof. Barhan. president of Camden Point college, who saw a light in the bank and aroused the citizen. Three explosions occurred after the alarm was given, and the safe and interior of the bank were wrecked. FOEMAN FOLLOW YOUTH FAR. Relative All Slain, Austrian Flees Country, but Is Wounded In Ohio. R.idivagi Rakich, a young Austrian, was shot and fatally wounded at Bedford, Ohio, as a result of a vendetta which had b'en carried on in his native land for years. Rakich, the last of his family, fled from Lodz, Austria, to this country, but was followed, according to a diary which he kept, and which was found in his pocket after the shooting. The other day h? withdrew his money from a bank and was alut to leave for another city, fearing pursuit, when he was shot from ambush. Three unknown foreigners, who have been seen loitering about Bedford, are suspected and farmers are in pursuit. VOTES "DRY" TO GET BIG GIFT. Hodion, Ohio, Takes Preliminary Mep to Obtitlu. Ellsworth Benefit. Because a gift of $200,000 supposedly made by J. W. Ellsworth, millionaire New York coal nian, which promises to make the town a model village provided that the sale of liquor ceases lefore the money is paid over, Hudson, Ohio, voted out saloons by a vote of 200 to 188. The town's sentiment is overwhelmingly wet," but the chance to get municipal light and gas plants, with a senage disposal plant and the remodeling of the old Western Reserve College at a cost of $100,000 overcame the saloon sentiment. FIND CHILD'S TONGUE. Clie to Disappearance of fllrl Causes Arrest of Father. Sheriff Bauman of Fremont, Neb., directed that Olaf Olsen of Rosalie be arrested, and that Mrs. Olsen and her two children be sent to Fremont. This is the result of the sheriff's investigations of the mysterious disappearance of 4-year-old Lilie Olsen, daughter of Olaf, two weeks ago. A thousand men searched for her in Thurseton and adjoining counties. One day Sheriff Bauman discovered a piece of flesh in a wheat shock on the Olsen farm. Physicians pronounced this a portion of a child's tongue. CHICAGO SOLDIER ENDS LIFE. Anton Gnrlsch Commits Snlclde In Akron, Ohio, by Drinking Poison. Anton Gariscb, son of Andrew Garisch of Chicago, and honorably discharged from the Fifty-fifth United States artillery at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, a month ago, committed suicide in Akron, Chiix by drinking carbolic acid. He was cut of work and dcsiondent. A year ago near Fort Hancock Carisch captured an Italian murderer of a policeman, receiving a stab in the side which laid him up a month. For this act he received a reward. Verdict of Chlcao-o Jnry. Thomas Cha males, the Greek proprietor of the Savoy, a saloon in the 3cee district of Chicago, has been fonnd not guilty by a jury of his peers. Cha males was charged with keeping his saloon open on Sunday and with soiling liquor on that day; he admitted the truth of both accusations; the court ruled that such actions were in violation of the law the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Meets Family, Only to Mourn. Leaving four young children to the care of strangers, Mrs. Ttosalbina Miazzi died on the liner Hamburg, which has arrived at New York, anu was buried at sea. Thj family was on the way to America to join the father in a new home. After the mother's death the children were cared for and were turned over to the father on arrival. ' Slayer Suicide in Prison. J. C. Cain, convicted murderer of Charles II. Morris, wealthy mine owner, committed suicide in the county jail in Des Moines. He smuggled a razor into his cell and cut his throat from ear to ear. Cain was waiting transportation to Fort Madison, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Plttshur Mills to Itesume. By Jan. C, WOK, every mill in the Pittsburg district will be in full operation. This includes the mills of McKeesport, Glassport, Duquesne and up the Monongahela valley as far as Monessen. More than 50,000 men will by that date have returned to work. Mrs. rirndley After Money. Mrs. Annie M. Bradley has brought suit in Salt Lake to break the will of the late United States Senator Arthur Brown, whom Mrs. Bradley shot and killed in Washington in December, 1900. She wants the estate for Brown's two children. Spoon Oar Inventor a Snlclde. James B. Rensley, 87 years old, inventor of the spoon otr and maker of oars for most of the prominent boat clubs of the country, committed suicide by shooting himself in Poughkcepsie, N. Y. Rensley invented the spoon oar in 1S53. Itenl "Admiral Evans Entertained. Sir Thomas Moore Jackson, British governor, entertained in honor of Rear Admiral Evans at Port of Spain, and toasts were drunk to King Edward, President Roosevelt and the United States navy. Ilrcaks Xeck Hiding Presents. Jackson Stilley, 50 years old, a wellknown resident of West Elizabeth, near Pittsburg, while stealthily trying to escape the eyes of the younger members of the family and hide Christmas presents, fell down stairs and broke his neck. Corey 3Iay Divorce Mabelle. Pittsburg hears a rumor that W. E. Corey will procure a legal separation from Mabelle Gilman and make an effort to remarry his first wife. A. (. Ilennnlsne Is Dead. Albert G. Beaunisne, assistant publisher of the Chicago Daily News, died suddenly of heart disease after a treatment recommended by his physician. Dutch Cabinet Is Out. The Dutch cabinet resigned following the defeat in Parliament of army estimates. Illfth Wind Causes Wreck. The baggage car and first passenger coach of train No. 25, north bound, on the Colorado and Southern railroad was blown from th track and overturned in the ditch, a quarter of a mile north of Marshall. J. C. Garrett of Longmont. Colo., was fatally hurt and died. Fire persons were injured. Many Children Disappear. Reports to St. Petersburg police chow manv abandonments of babies, the dis covery of many bodies of dead infants and the disappearance of many boys and girls from the schools.

SAYS ERRORS IN NAVY UNFIT IT FOR BATTLE

Expert Declares the Boasted Fighting Ships Are Merely Death Traps. AEHCK BELT IS TOO LOW. Defects in Construction Pointed Out and Promotion System Is Scored. Henry Reutcrdahl, associate of the United States Naval Institute and American editor of "Fighting Ships," is the author of a startling article on "The Needs of Our Navy" in the January McClure's. Mr. Rcuterdahl's expertness on naval matters is not disputed and neither is his patriotism. He agrees with President Roosevelt that a navy must be built "and all Its training given in time of peace" aul with this in view he exposes defects in our first-class battle ships and armored cruisers which all but make them useless as a efficient units in a fleet on heavy sea and in real action. Mr. Rcuterdahl's criticisms appear to be the more amazing on account of the contention that most, if not all of the weak points he emphasizes, will be acknowledged by sea-going officers, "or, if the reader is sufficiently Interested, by the testimony of his own eyes." His principal points are the following: That the shell-proof armor of the American battle ships Is virtually below the water line where It will do no good, leaving he broad side of the vessel exposed to the shells of the enemy. That this defect has been pointed out time and again ; that other nations years ago recognized it as fatal and now have armor wrapped around the sides of their war vessels from five to seven feet above the water line. That, despite repeated accidents on A BLOT ON THE board our ships, the Navy Department year after yoar has approved of plans by which the greatest guns on the ships are directly above an open shaft leading to the powder magazine. That other nations long since recognized the criminal stupidity of thus endangering the lives of officers and men and haw remedied the defect by use of common sense and ordinary precautionary measures That, without regard to the protests of experts, our battle ships have been built so low that if the sea Is heavy and ships are in action, the sea would wash over the vessels, render some of their most effective guns useless and practically leave the ship to the mercy of the enemy. 1 The officers in the American navy who command the battle ships and squadrons are too old; that under existing conditions young men cannot attain command, and that the service is badly crippled as a result. That there is too much "bureau management" In Washiugton; too much r?d tape in the Navy Department; that American genius is stifled because of the bureau's immersion in details, ami that with the Secretary of the Navy a civilian, he should have a board of expert advisers. Other matters are dwelt on, but the foregoing are by far the most Important. An afternoon's fight on water sealed Russia's fate in the recent war with Japan, says Mr. Reutcrdahl, and the same may well be true of the next war Into which this nation is plunged. Tiy Issue is so Important and the stake so tremendous that the sea power which is prepared in every respect to inut the crisis will be the victor. Striped Suits Abollxhed. John V. Coggey, commissioner of correotion at New York City, has announced th. abolishment of striped suits and the lock step at the penitentiary on Black-wf-li's Island. The reason given for this aitJon is that it saves the prisoner from a humiliation which he can never forget. II gives it as his opinion that there is a gcm of decency in every human being acJ that with proper treatment there is hope for the reformation of many of tltfise who pass through the' prisons of O.iater New York. Particularly does tli apply to first-term offenders, but to nOWd any prospect of success in this direction the heart must not be crushed out ol the unfortunate by piling humiliating indignities upon him. Law Kieinpt Ilaby Carrlas-es. Under the wheel tax law recently passed by the Illinois State Legislature, and which the Governor has intimated his intention of signing, every vehicle in Chictgo on wheels that uses the city streets, ith the single exception of baby car-ri-ages, will pay a wheel tax. The money thus raised i3 to be expended on the repair of the streets. It is expected that tie revenue will amount to $300,000 each yttr. Aceldents Lessened by Publicity. According to the report of the New York public service commission, the numbor of street railway accidents in that cicy for November shows a steady decrr.se since the commission began to keep a -ord four months ago. During Nove. r 45 persons were killed, as compared with 47 in October, G3 in September and 42 In August. An even greater decrease is noticeable in the number injured. Mrs. John R. McMahon, known in literary work as Margherita Arlina Hamm, is dead of pneumonia in New York.

I &fT 4M,ua,m t&fammo

DISASTROUS MIXE ACCIDENTS IN RECENT TEARS.

Lives lost. 3804 Albion colliery, South Wales. 2X0 1902 Fraterville, Teun 1902 Rolling Mill mine, Pennsylvania 1003 Hanna, Wyoming 1901 Lackawanna mine, Pennsylvania 1004 Tercio, California R'05 Virginia City, Ala 100.V-Ziegler, 111 Ib05 Welsh coal mine 1905 Diamondville, Wyoming .... 1905 Kurtsisk, Russia 1905 M., K. & T. Coal Company.. 105 175 10 21 132 :" 120 IS 10 13 1905 Princeton, Ind 13 100," Coal mine in Prussia 55 lfKtt Wilcox, W. Va 1900 BlueGelds, W. Va 1000 Johnstown, Pa 1000 Century, W. Va 1000 Durham, England 1000 Dutchman mine, Blossburg, N. M HI 23 1j 3," 1000 Courriere mine, near Calais, Fran -e 1,000 1000 Japan 250 10OO Oakhill, W. Va 28 100O West Fork. Va 1000 Quarto, Colo 1007 Saarius, Prussia 1007 Primero, Colo 1007 Fayetteville, W. Va 1007 Saarbruck, Prussia 10O7 Las Esperanzas, Mexico 1007 Forbach, Germany 1007 Monongahela, Pa PK)7 Toyoka.' Japan 1007 Tsing Tau, China 1007 Negaunee, Mich 1JMT7 Monor.gah, W. Va....' 1007 Yolaude, Ala '. HO 80 200 vss 73 30 470 112 17 SOS SI 4,000,000 Christmas Trees a Year. In discussing the effect on the forests ol the country by the use of Christmas trees, of which it is estimated that 4,000,000 are used each year, Gifford Pinchot, United States forester, says that the effect is infinitesimal compared with the destruction caused by forest fires and wasteful lumbering. If planted four feet apart these trees would be grown on less thin 1,400 acres. He says that trees suitable for Christmas trees do not grow in the old forests, where reproduction is most important, but in the open, and there is nj- more reason for an outcry against us;ng land to grow Christmas trees than to grow flowers. According to Mr. Pinchot, the center of the Christmas tree industry lies in the big cities of the East. New York City and the New, England States consume 1,500,000 trees, or nearly one-half of all the output. Maine, New Hampshire, the Berkshire Hills" in MasLAST CHAPTER. sachusetts, and the Adirondacks and Catskills, in New York, are the sources of supply for New York, Boston aud Philadelphia, and even Hr . Baltimore and Washington. The swamps of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota furnish' the markets of Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Detroit, while the local demand throughout the central West is mainly supplied by nursery-grown Norway spruce. Replying to this declaration, Mrs. John S. Crosby, president of the Women's Democratic Club of New York, points out that there U little in the training of children that the man, as well as the woman, ought not to learn, and that if womankind were restricte4 to the rearing and teaching of children she would be deprived of many of the best opportunities for learning how to do that very work. As an exercise in the duties of citizenship the political class of Columbia university held a mock Republican nationil convention. The only outsider who participated was Timothy L. Woodruff, exLieutenant Governor of New York State. The favorite candidates in the order of pcpularity were Hughes, La Follette, Root, Cannon, Roosevelt, Cortclyou and Fairbanks. On the final ballot Hughes received 525 votes end La Follette 352. ' President Joseph Swain of Swarthmore announced that he and the trustees had come to the conclusion, after asking the opinion of twenty-five other colleges, that they should not accept the millions left them by Miss Anna T. Jeans, with the condition that all intercollegiate athletic contests be abandoned. President Swain said, however, that if the estate were very large he would favor trying the experiment, with the privilege of returning the money if it were found that the gift vas of less value than the lack of freedom. Prof. Franklin II. GidJings of Columbia university, after a recent address before the People's Institute at Cooper Union, New York City, on the subject of "The Jews in America," was asked for an expression of his opinion as to the recent agitation over the Christmas ceremonies in the public schools. He replied that he could not see how any one could subscribe to the doctrine that it was right a tax on group of persons for a general purpose aud compel them under the law to submit to things that are contrary to their conscience. In reply to the question how the Jew would treat the Christian if their positions were reversed, he said that, judging from history and present conditions, he did not think the Jew could treat the Christian worse than the Christian treats the Jew, and he was inclined to think they would treat them better. The professor gave it as his opinion that the Jews in America would, hi time, become so Americanized as to lose their rr.cial identity. The faculty of the Cornell university medical college at New York announced that hereafter the usual high school course generally accepted ns sufficient pieparation for the study of medicine would not enable students to cuter there. Candidates for admission would have to le graduates of approved colleges or scientific schools, seniors in good standing at Cornell or any other like university which would permit the substitution of the first year of the medical course for the senior year. Also others not possessing a degree may be admitted by passing a special examination. There are but 8G3 postofflces In Chill.

GRAIN CROPS SHORT, BUT WORTH FAR MORE

Government Final Estimate Shows Great Decline in Cereal Production. PRICES HAKE FAEIIEHS HAPPY. They Will Get Half a Billion of Dollars More This Year than Last. The government report shows a shortage of 785,OS7,000 bushels in total crops as compared with the crops of 1000, which were the largest ever raised in this country, and a shortage of 377,2S7.000 bushels as compared with the yields of 1005, which were also very large. The chief shortage is la the corn crop, with S35,000,C00 bushels, oats with 211,000,000 bushclg and wheat with 101,000,000 bushels. There is something of an otfset to the big losses in the feeding grains in the Increase of 0,431,000 tons ct hay as compared Xo that of lOCa and of 3,045,3SS tons as compared to the crop of 1005. Prominent features of the final revision of its crop estimates for the year by the Department of Agriculture were the Increases made in the reports of area seeded to spring wheat, corn and oats. In each of these particulars as well as In the estimated weight of spring wheat and oats the official reports ran more or le?s counter to the general impressions of speculators. In a few instances, such ns the weight of oats, the figures given wore at variance with all the experiences of the trade for the year to date. res of tbe Report. The rciwrt gave final estimates of acreage, production and value of farm crops, showing winter wheat acreage to be 28,132,000, production 400,442,000 bushels and value per bushl SS.2 cents. Spring -wheat acreage was 17,070,000,

CHOPS OF UNITED STATES FOR THREE YEARS. 1007, bu. 1000, Lu. 1005, iu.

Winter wheat . . Spring wheat .. Total wheat.., Corn , Oats , Rye Bcrley , Buckwheat . . . . . Flaxseed Potatoes i i 1 Total , Hay, tons production 224,0-15,000 bushels and value SO cents. Corn acreage was 90.031,000, production 2,302,320,000 bushels and value 51.7 cents, Oats acreage was 31,S37,000, production 754,413,000 bushels aud value 44.3 cents. It was announced that the tojal value of the farm crops for 1007 was $3,404,000,000, an Increase of $428,000,000 for 190G. The farm value on Doc.' 1 of the four crops already mentioned follows Corn, $1,340,440,000; winter wheat, $381,217,000; spring wheat, $193,220,000, oats, $334,508,000. The comparative prices for the grain crops for the past three years follow : 1907. 1900. 1905. 1904. Wheat 81.7 C6.7 74.8 i 02.4 Corn 51.7 39.9 41.2 44.1 Dat 4L3 31.7 29.1 31.3 Rye 73.1 58.9 C0.7 08.8 Darley ....44.3 41.5 40.8 42.0 Buckwheat 09.8 59.0 58.7 C2.2 -'lax 93.G 101.8 95.0 l9.3 Potatoes ...G1.7 51.1 C1.7 45.3 Hay ... .$11.03 $10.37 $8.52 JSX.72 FARMING IN A DESERT. There Are Colonizing Possibilities Even in Death Valley. The craze of "honiestaking" which is seems to have reached its limit in the rhoice of Death Valley as a colonizing possibility. With the idea of tracsforming the most arid and most desolate portion of the great American ds&rt Into farm land, a number of traces have been honiestaked, irrigation systems have been planned, and othar pxeparr-tiona are now In progress for beginning the reclamation of Death Valley. A railroad Is already built from Greenwater, at the southern end ot the valley, to the borax works owned by the celebrated "Corax" Smith of 20mule team fame, and there Is an automobile stage line through the valley. liven enthusiasts do not claim that piping water ,from Teleseope Teak across the Funeral range into the valley is also under consideration. Labor "Warns Clvlo Federation. The significant feature of the banquet preceding the annual meeting of the National Civic Federation at New York was tbe warning contained in the speeches of Gompers and Mitchell, the labor leaders, that the proposed reduction in waes would be fought to a finish. Gompers wanted to know if the soil was less fertile, its treasures less valuable, or if laboring men had become less industrious, and held that every such reduction of wages to meet such conditions as now exist had only made mctters worse. The reason ho tdvanced was that "when you reduce the laboring man's earning capacity you reduce his consuming power, and thereby intensify what was already bad enough He therefore gave notice that in this instance the employers would not "have the plain sailing they had a few years ago." He said the American workingman had come to the conclusion that hf was not responsible for the financial breakdown and that he was not going to be the chief sufferer. Andrew Carnegie spoke a strong word for asset currency as the true remedy for the existing trouble. He did not think the central bank was necessary. When the federation met on Tuesday August Relraont resigned äs prer-'denr. and Seth Low. former Mayor of New York, was elected to the vacant office. Stnte Holds Waters-Tierce Company. The Texas Supreme Court h-is decided that it has final jurisdiction in the disputed receivership for the debarred Wat-eis-Pierce Oil Company and Atton.ey (General Davidson has moved the appointment of a State receiver to take charge of the properly, pending a final disposi tion cf the penalty and ouster proceedings. Col. A. S. Colyar, aged 90 years, noted jurist, statesman and author, died at his home in Nashville, Tenn. He was a member of the Confederate congress. The best sponges cost $10 a pound.

JEFF DAVIS DE3X7T.

Arkansas Senator Delivers Haiden, Speech. Bieaking all traditions and precedents. United States Senator Jefferson Davis, of Arkansas, addressed his col!oagues on "trust control of business," after nine days' service. Up to a few years ago it was an unwritten lew that no Senator should address his fellows in a set speech unless he had served at least one term. bLNATou iiAvis. Then Senator Bevcridge reduced the time limit of senatorial apprenticeship by speaking after three months occupation of a Senate seat. Davis' purpose to estabdlish a new record had been widely advertised and there was a large crowd to hear him. In 1S0S Davis was Attorney General of Arkansas and, while in this position, secured the Democratic nomination lor Governor. Although bitterly opposed by practically every newspaper in the State he was elected by one of the largest majorlLes ever given in Arkansas. Three times he was elected Governor. He is of a restless, nervous temperament, devoted to his family, an enthusiastic lover of books and a keen student of men. Jle is of fine appearance, being over six feet tali. Ills daughter is his constant companion and stenographer. Senator Davis is a nephew of the illustrious Southerner whose name he bears. TWO NEW BATTLESHIPS. Government New Building Largest in the World. Coincident with the departure of the Atlantic fleet for the Pacific, there was laid down In the Fore River shipyard, at Quincy. Mass., the keel plates of the battlfship North Dakota, which Is expeeled to be far more powerful thrtn the most effective ship now under the convniand of Rear Admiral Evans. The biggest vessel la the Pacific bound fleet is of 1G.0C0 tonnage, but the North Dakota will be of 20,000 tons displacement; nearly 2,000 tons heavier than 400,442,000 402.SS8.004 428,402.834 224,045,000 242,372,000 2G4,51G,G55 C34,0S7,000 735,200,070 C02,070,l0 2.r,02,320,000 2,927,410,001 2,707,003,540 754,443.000 004,001.522 33.374.S33 17S,01G,4S4 i4,ui,o::7 25.570,140 S0S,O3S.3S2 U53,21G.l77 27.G1G,45 130,051,020 14,535.02 28,477,753 2G0,74Um 3J.500.000 153,317,000 14,200.000 25,851,000 207,912,000 t.,1 37,003,000 5,023,800.235 5,515,180,810 03,577,000 57,143,059 00,531,012 the famous Dreadnought, of the Rritish navy, and 25 per cent more elective in gun-fire than the latter. The Ncrth Dakota will be 510 feet long. It is already figured out that the launching will take place next October, or in ten months from the time of the laying of the keel. Although the keel was laid only recently the North Da kota is regarded as nearly 8 per cent finished. Long before the keel blocks were placed in position the ship was completely laid down in the mold-loft and over 50 per cent of all the plans in the construction of the ship were developed and approved. The North Dakota is a sister ship of tbe Delaware, now being built at New port News. Could Cut Fares in Tvrn. According to newspaper declarations, the public service commission for New Ycrk City will, in its coming report to the Legislature, make some rather startling declarations and suggestions in regard to tbe railroad companies of tbe city. It is hinted, for instance that the commission will declare that with proper capitalization, the railroads could carry passengers at less than half the fares now charged, and still make large profits. In totaling up the business for the year ending June 30, it was found that the receipts of all the New York City companies amounted to $00,003,770. The total operating expense for the year was $37,013,002, leaving a balance of $29,OSO714. ' Money is suffering from bad circulation. Pennsylvania miser who spent only 3 cents last year is dead. He just couldn t bear the increase in living expenses. An Aurora (111.) physician has discovered that peanuts are a beauty diet. This ought to be a circus for some people. ; An Eastern banker says, "We want more common sense." We want also more dollars, which are not so common now. If prices of bread and meat keep on coming down, pretty soon the average man can afford to cat three meals a day. Chief Sprybuck, the Indian who drank a quart of blue paint, is carrying the "decorative interior" fad to an extreme. With 1,300,000 diyorce suits in ten years, the United States is plainly in need of a national "Stay-Married Association. After a while it may dawn on the army recruiters that the average soldier doesn't look upon $13 a month as any great graft. Secretary Cortelyou is trying to impiess us with the fact that stockings were made to be worn and cot to hoard money in. James J. Hill says the railroads need billions of dollars. From present prospects, it will be some time before they get 'em. An Italian count one American heiress married turned out to be an ex-corivict. Some of the other counts haven't yet been convicted. Those peaple who will fail to notice the absence of "In God We Trust" from the new ten-dollar gold pieces will be largely in the majority. ' Astronomers are worrying over the fact that the rings of Saturn are disappearing. Mcybe the hard times have compelled her to pawn 'em. Fines aggregating $14,000 have been Inflicted upon a party of hazers in a Chicago school. ' There won't be any more hazing in that school. Every time the price of meat goes up a cent it costs the American consumer $1GS,000,000. That's enough to drive a man to breakfast food. If Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish can engineer an effective crusade against American girls marrying foreigners, she will save this country lots of money and the Irls lots of trouble.

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WÄRCIALf CHICAGO. Business for the year is now virtually ?ompleted, and the necessary preparations for inventories and repairs to nia:hinery engage more attention. Developments this week have not been without encouragement for the future. Banking conditions made a closer approach to the oormal, money circulated riiore free'y and the Christmas trade rosj proportions which indicated increasi cheerfulness among the people. Exchange upon NewV York works tmoothly, country" banks biL oftener for commercial paper and the disc-punt rate, for local account is les3 rigid, aJthoujh tili quoted at 7 per ceat. MerdAntlle collections have not recovered promptneVs at western points, but they bring less trouble, and the record of defaults remains comparatively unimportant. Manufacturing conditions reflect further curtailed production and temporary reduction in hands employed. It is noted that inquiries are substantially better it pig iron and structural steeL while tL. rail and wire mills have bookings running months ahead. Failures reported in the Chicago dis trict number 22, against 28 last week.' and 17 a year ago. Those with liabilities! over $5,000 number 7, against 12 last! week and 4 in 1900. Dun's Review of! Trade. HEW YORK. Trade as a whole has been quiet and industry has slackened perceptibly, bu. the financial situation has eased, except where, as in the case of New York, large end of the year disbursements have to be provided for. Mild weather is still complained of as aCVvting retail trade in, seasonable goods, such as clothing, shoes, rubber footwear and "kindred lines. At some cities the usual Januiry reduction sales were held in December in many instances occurring before Christmas. Jobbing tride was quiet till after the latter date, when the usual clearance sales of wash and other dress fabrics were made, arousing a fair amount of interest. Wholesale business has been quiet and both this line and the jobbing trade note the receipt of many requests to delay shipment of goods. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Dec 2G number 24G, against 300 last week and 161 in the like week of 1000, 212 in 1905, 218 in 1004 and 209 in 1003. Canadian failures for the wek number 50, as against 40 last week and IS in this week a jear ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. $4.00 to $0.15; hogs, prime heavy, $1.00 to $4.70; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2, 97c; to 09c; corn, No. 2, 5Sc to 59c; oats, standard, 47c to 49c; rye. No. 2, 77c to 79e; hay, timothy, $11.00 to $17.00; prairie, $9.00 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 29c; et,gs, fresh, 22c to 27c; potatoes, per bushel, 50c to COc. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $4.00 to $4.85; sheep, common to prime, i'J.OO to $425 ; w beat. No. 2. 97c to OSe ; corn, No. 2 white, 53c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 49c;. to 52c. . St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $5.85; hogs, $4.00 to S4G5: sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; w heat. No. 2, $1.02 to $1.03; corn. No. 2, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2, 47c to 48c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 79c. Cincinnati Cattie. $4.00 to $5.25; hogs, $4.00 to $4.70; sheep, $5.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2, 99c to $1.01: corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to EGc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 4Sc; rye. No. 2, 81c to 84c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $4.40; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1.03: corn. No. 3 yellow, COc to Clc; oats. No. 3 white, 53c to ,54c; rye. No. 2, 80c to S2c ' Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.07 to $1.10; corn. No. 3, 57c to 5Sc; outs, standard, 49c to 50c: rye. No. 1, 79c to SOc; barley, No. 2, 97c to $1.00; pork, mess, $12.50. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.90 ; bogs, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.70; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50 ; Iambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.25. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.05 to $1.00; corn. No. 2, G4c to COc; oats, natural white, 55c to 57c; butter, creamery, 25c to 30c; eggs, western, 22c to 24c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.00 to $1.02; corn, No. 2 mixed, 59c to Clc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2, 79c ta SOc; clover seed, prime, $10.00. TOLD IN A FEW LINES. Attorney General Davis of Texas, after a conference at Dallas, .decided to run for a third term on the anti-Bailey issue. The schooner Jesse Barlow was run down near Pollock Rip lightship on Cipe Cod. The crew of six men had a narrow escape. Seth Low, former president of Columbia university, has been elected president of the National Civic Federation to suectcd August Belmcnt at the New York meeting. Admiral Dewey gave a dinner at hii home in Washington. . His birthday is Dec. 2G, but the dinner was held when it was so that the President might attend. Ex-Senator W. A. Clark of Montana is acting as mediator at Butte in th fight between the labor unions and th Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company. The national board of arbitration, in which newspaper publishers and the International Typographical Fnion are interested, met at Indianapodis and discussed the printers' scale paid in Chicago. Foreigners attacked Constable i James Dolan at Lebanon, Pa, when h attempted to arrest coal thieves, and ths constable, in self defense, shot into the crowd, killing two Hungarians. Peru and Chile, through the m?dium of Senor Balmaceda, the Chilean minister to Peru, and Senor Polo, the Peruvian minister of foreign affairs, signed their first treaties of amity in Lima. The liverymen who furnished the carriage for President Roosevelt and others to ride in at the opening of the Jaaiestown fair has sued Gov. lloko Smith and the Georgia commissioners for $500, alleging that Le has not been paid. After twelve hours of strike the executive committee of the New York Cabmen's Union ordered the men back to work, on a compromize of $15 a wwk, instead of $!4, which tbey were getting. When the agreement was announced ibe men became so violent that the police had to be called. George Wilson, alias Williams (colored), arrested in Philadelphia on suspicion that he was implicated in the murder of Frederick Romer in Orange, N. J, would not admit the charge, though put through a "third degree." A pawnbroker identified him as the man who pledged a diamond ring belonging to the murdered mau.