Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 15, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 January 1908 — Page 2

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3rd. j) 10thAg18tb. $ 25th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. Jtll Sides and Condition of Thins are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to take it Complete. Ceventy-one Persons Lose Life In Fire. Seventy-one persons were burned to fleath in a fire which completely destroyed Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pa. The opera house was crowded with the members of St. John's Lutheran Sunday school, who were attending a benefit given for that church. .While the show was in progress a tank exploded. The actors endeavored to quiet the audience but in their anxiety to make themselves heard and to avoid the awful stampede of the women and children the coal oil lamps which were used at the foot lights were overturned, setting the place on fire. The flames fed by the oil shot almost to the ceiling and there was a wild rush of the several hundred persons to escape from the burning building. Scores of women and children were trampled upon and several who escaped being burned to death died after being dragged from the opera house. In many cases, it is said, entire families have been wiped out. The scenes which followed the explosion is indescribable. Scores of persons who were in the balcony at the time 1 the explosion occurred jumped from the windows and sustained fractured limbs and skulls. To add to the terrible disaster the fire apparatus became disabled and the structure was left entirely to the mercy of the seething flames. It Is almost certain not a vestige of the bodies of the unfortunates who were overcome by the flames and perished will ever be found. Ten Hurt in Dynamite Explosion. Ten persons wrre injured by an explosion of three dynamite bombs which partially wrecked a six-story tenement building on East Sixty-fourth street, New York City. The injured were removed to Flower Hospital. The dynamite bombs were planted in the cellar of the tenement and exploded one after another in quick succession. The ' explosion threw ihe occupants of the tenement in a panic and there was much excitement among the patients and nur3es of Flower Hospital, which & only a short distance away. Scores of people rushed from the adjacent bouses and the police had all they could do to quiet the terro -stricken. There are a number of Italian families among the tenants in the house, but the police believe the bombs were exploded by members of the Mack Hand ociety. Martial Law Ends at Muncle. Martial law wa3 declared formally at an end in Muncie at noon Monday, when Major Powell, quartermaster general, arrived with the Governor's proclamation. He delivered thi3 to General McKee, who communicated it at once to Mayor Guthrie, the police 'board and the sheriff. The saloons, which have not been opened since December 31 excepting for four hours on January 2, received permission to open their doors for business. There has been no trouble growing out of the strike of street railway employes for several days. Woman Mysteriously Murdered. Mrs. John Hazel, wife of a railroad man, was found dead in her kitchen in ber home in Toledo, Ohio, lying in a pool of her own blood with her head pounded to a pulp. There Is no clew as regards the identity of the perpetrator. The Hazel residence h?d been ransacked, but nothing of value is missing. Both tho husband and the son of the dead woman are being held by the police. Big Fire at Porttand, Ind. Fire destroyed th warerooms and stock of the Portland Eggcase Company, causing a loss of $15,000. The total Insurance will not exceed $5,000. J. A. Long, of Portland, is the principal stockholder. The plant will be rebuilt without delay. $500,000 Hotel for Autoists. The Chicago Automobile Club will build a hotel to cost $300,000 at the proposed summer resort near New Buffalo,' Mich. Work will begin in the spring. Another Postoffice Looted. The pcstoflBce at Overpeck, a village four miles north of Hamilton, Ohio, was robbed. The same men who committed the Trenton robbery are suspected, but there is no clue to their Identity. Postoffice at Springport Robbed. Robbers blew the safe at the store of F. O. Perkins and took a small amount In stamps and money from the postofllce at Springport, Ind. Broker Kills Himself. Charles W. Whitney, a member of th Stock Exchange firn of E. N. Whitney & Sons, committed suicide at his home on West 72d street, NVy York, by shooting. Ihe motive has not been ascertained. Mr. Whitney was 28 years old. Greene and Gaynor Imprisoned. After a long- legal wrangle Benjamin D. Greene and John F. Gaynor have begun their four years' sentence in penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., for embezzling from the government. They were put through the usual examinations, but their work was not decided upon. Tobacco War Goes to Court. The struggle for supremacy between th American Society of Equity and the American Tobacco Company is to result in criminal proceedings. The Society of Equity will seek indictments against all Kentucky agents of the tobacco company for alleged violations of the State antitrust law adopted in 181)0. Negro Hanged for Murder. John Boyd was hanged in Toronto, Ont. He murdered E. Wandle, another negro, July 11 last, and was found guilty at the November assizes. Boyd came from Boston.

SHAFT TO BENNINGTON VICTIMS.

Sailors, Soldiers and Citizens Attend Unveiling of Monument. The monument in memory of the sailors who lost their lives in the explosion of the United States ship Bennington was unveiled in San Diego, Cal., Tuesday, at the National cemetery on top of Point Loma. Thousands, including the officers and sailors of the Pacific squadron and citizens of San Diego and other California cities, gathered to witness the ceremony. The plain shaft stands within the plot where are buried the most of those who perished in the disaster of July 21, 1903, and is composed of seventy-four slabs of San Diego County granite roughly dressed and towering sixty feet above the concrete base, carped by a pyramid of polished granite. The national cemetery i3 almost at the top of the promontory add the monument looks ia one direction out over the Pacific and in the other over the waters of the bay. The principal speech was made by -Admiral Goodrich, commandant at the navy yard, who was commander of the Pacific squadron at the time of the accident on the Bennington. When Admiral Goodrich finished the unveiling took place, consisting of the dropping of the national ensign which had been draped over the two tablets on the face of the monument. IMMIGRATION IS PARALYZED. Arrival of Foreigners in New York Shows Heavy Decrease. Because of the heavy falling off in immigration which has reduced them to comparative idleness, the government employes at Ellis Island, New York, through whose hands the incoming aliens pass, fear a more or less sweeping reduction in their ranks in the near future. Commissioner of Immigration Watchorn " says there will undoubtedly be a reduction in the force if the decline in immigration continues. There are about 3ilO government employes of various classes at the immigration receiving station at present. Instead of the 5,000 or more immigrants a day whom this force has been accustomed to handling, the average now is less than 300. Each arriving foreigner therefore is able to have a personal attendant to usher him through the mazes of the landing process. There are no signs of any immediate stimulation of the incoming stream, which has been reduced within the last few months. 1 STRANGE MALADY GRIPS CITY. Thousands of People at Lansing, Mica., Stricken at Night. From some unknown cause Lansing, Mich., was seized with a( strange malady some time during the eight, thousands being suddenly stricken with extreme nausea, accompanied by acute intestinal trouble. Most physicians attributed the malady to atmospheric conditions. From midnight until morning and all during the forecoon calls for physicians were incessant. Whole families were stricken. Two boys were found lying in the street, too ill to walk. Fifteen city teachers and hundreds of pupils were absent from school. AH '- the stores were short of help. Outside of the waterworks zone the disease was quite as prevalent as in other sections, so the water supply is not under suspicion. OWNERS SEEK AID. Operators Ask Geological Survey to lake Thorough Investigation. Appalled by the recent mine disasters which have claimed hundreds of lives, the West Virginia Mining Association has appealed to the government for aid ia locating causes of the trouble. Resolutions were adopted urging legislation enabling the geological survey to ascertaii the causes of the recent mine explosions and apply remedies found necessary. Th resolutions set forth that the operators cannot account for many of the disasters which have occurred in the best regulated mines, and that the federal government should take steps in the matter immediately. The operators pledged an annual contribution for private research along this line amounting to between eight and ten thousand dollars. LOSES LIFE IN ROUNDHOUSE FIRE Man Burned to Death at Elkhart, Ind. Blaze Amounts to $140,000. Eighteen of the fifty stalls of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern passenger and freight roundhouses in Elkhart, Ind., with the big machine shop and oil house that stood between, were destroyed by fire that started at 4 o'clock Thursday morning. Each stall had its engine and the woodwork of these was burned. William Shamburger, aged 18, who had charge of the tool room, was burned to death, dying on the ground just after he emerged from the oil room. The loss will reach $140,000. The fire was due to an explosion of paint. ENTERTAINS BLACK HAND MAN. Merchant Chats with Seeker After $10,000 Till Police Come. For nearly half an hour Harry S. Hurst of John E. Hurst & Co., wholerale dry goods merchants, sat in the smoking room of his home in Baltimore and calmly entertained a Black Hand man who had called by appointment to get $10,000 he had demanded by mail. Mr. Hurst had instructed the butler to call up the police. The caller when arrested said he was Thomas Sessums, 22 years old, a bugler of the Coast Artillery. Boy Admits Firing Hotel. Charles Goodland, 15 years old, who kept watch at night in the Beacon Light Hotel in Worcester, Mass., confessed that he set the fire which nearly destroyed the building and resulted in the death of Dennis Driscoll, about a hundred other lodgers having narrow escapes. He had made previous but unsuccessful attempts to burn the place, the police say. His sanity will be tested. Iroquois Indictments Quashed. Judge Windes of Chicago has quashed the indictment against George Williams, former building commissioner, indicted in connection with the Iroquois theater fire. The action was entirely on technical grounds. Judge Windes decision disposes of the last of the cases growing out of the Iroquois fire. Not one of the ;ersons indicted in connection with the fir? was ever convicted. Pillow Saves Man's Life. Thomas Holder of Green Grove, Pa., who was thrown over a forty-foot em bankment by a fractious horse, owes the saving of his life to a feather pillow, which he was taking home to his wife. Japan Send3 Takahira. It Is officially announced that Baron Takahira has been chosen adbassador from Japar. to the United States to succeed Viscomt Aoki. Chancellor Andrews Resigns. The resignation of Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews of the University of Nebra.4ca has been placed in the hands of the regents, but the rejxjrt that it is due to the educator's defense of Rockefeller is denied. Boy Shoots a Burglar. Paid Bowers, 14 years old, shot and killed a negro burglar who broke into the hjme of his father at Alverton, Pa. The boy was awakened by the noise made by the negro and lay in wait with a shotgun. As the burglar ascended the stair theboy fired.

LONqgOCEAN WAR IS ENDED,

German Lines Driven to Union by Cunard's Fast Boats. The Hamburg-American and Njrth German Lloyd steamship lines have burie! the hatchet after a battle for transatlantic supremacy lasting from the time the steamship Deutschland captured the speed pennant from the Cunard line, about seven years ago. The Deutschland holds the record for crossing the Atlantic between New York and Plymouth in less time than any other ship. The North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II. claims the record between Sandy Hook and Plymouth. That is the way the situation between the rival liues stood when the Cunard line, with the Mauretania and Lusitania, knocked out all speed and time records. The White Star line, after diverting half of its fleet from the Queenstown and Liverpool service to the Southampton, Plymouth, and Cherbourg route, naturally came into direct competition with the German ships, tak ing away much of the patronage the Hamburg and North German Lloyd lines had monopolized practically for years. The German companies have -entered into a four-year-agreement covering the Ameri can, African and far eastern trade. By its terms the Hamburg-American line re nounces its passenger traffic in the far east and limits itself to the carryings of freight. In return it is to receive from the North German Lloyd company a greater share in American second-class and immigration traffic. JARRED BY POWDER BLAST. Illinois and Missouri Towns Feel Shock of Explosion. The Du Pont company's mills, two and one-half miles from Edgcmont, midway between East St. Louis and Belleville, 111., were blown up at 10:.i0 o'clock Thursday night. Noliody was killed, but ninny were hurt. Eighteen men had just left the mill, and seventeen men were preparing to take their places in the mill at the time. The shock was felt sixty miles. At Edgeniont fronts of business houses were wrecked. Plate glass windows in St. Louis and other cities were shattered. At Alton. 11L, there was a stamped? to get out of a theater. A suburban car entering Edgemont was partially wrecked. Several passengers were bruised and out by flying glass. Motorman Claude Barnes of Belleville was blov.n from his post and picked up unconscious ten feet away HELD AS SLAYER; BLAMES GIRL. Son of Murdered Man, When Arrested, Shows Note of Confession. With the arrest of George Tennyson r-ud Horace Trosper, it is believed that the mystery which has surrounded the murder of David Tennyson, a wealthy farmer of Minneapolis, Kan., since Feb. 27, 190. will be cleared up. Young Tennyson made a confession, producing a note written by his sister. Flora, on her deathbed, three weeks after the murder. The note read : "George : I was the cause of father's death. Don't tell anyone unless you have to. Flora." It was believed that this confession was given to shi ld Trosper, with whom she was enamoitd. There was objection to their marrying. MOUSE HELD IN HER WAIST. Ohio School Teacher Has a Harrowing Experience on Train. Biding from Lorain to Cleveland on a Lake Shore car with a mouse imprisoned in her waist was the experience of Miss Elizabeth Tristram, a school teacher. She felt something crawling about inside her dress. With a shriek she clutched at her side and was horrified when her band closed over the' animal. Miss Tristram confided her predicament to companions, but none was brave enough to aid her. When the car reached Cleveland Miss Tristram was still holding on to the mouse, which was nearly dead from squeezing. MADMAN KILLS AGED (WOMAN. Corpse Found in Detroit with Head Beaten to Pulp. Bound hand and foot, her head beaten in either by a madman or some one who had taken her life in revenge, the dead body of Mrs. Mary Welsch, 70 years of age, was found in Detroit, Mich. Though the police have arrested more than a dozen perspns not one has been connected with the crime and the mystery seems farther from solution than ever. Thomas Welsch, a cook, said to be a brother-in-law of the dead woman, is being held. He denies having killed her. Too Many Children; Suicide. Dcsiondent because he could not properly care for his family, Joseph II. Sheppard of Millville, N. J killed himself. He often said he had more children than he could properly support, and since a day or two ago a seventh child was added to the family, he had been despondent. He paced the floor all night and then shot himself. Ship Plant Closes; 450 &re Idle. The Collingwood Shipbuilding Company at Collingwood, Out., has closed its plant, throwing 450 men, 75 per cent of whom are residents of the town, out of work. The men demanded a 15 per cent increase in wages. The situation was explained to their committee, but the men not returning to work, the directors decided to close the plant. Ice Yacht Kills Chicago Boy. Frank Purdy of Chicago, a freshman in the College of Agriculture of the Wisconsin University, was run docn by an ice yacht while skating on Lake Mendota and so badly injured that he died. Preacher Convicted of Counterfeiting Rev. James II. Kaye, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Wheaton. 111., has been sentenced to sev2a years in the Leavenworth prison for counterfeiting. Many Killed in a Wreck. A wreck is reported on the Alabama pnd Mississippi railroad, running from Vinegar Bend, Ala., to Leaksville, Miss. Several persons are reported killed. New Battery Tunnel Opened. The new Battery tunnel in New York has been opened, carrying 140,000 persons, but, their absence is scarcely noticeable on the Brooklyn bridge. Report Andrews Will Resign. E. Benjamin Andrews is to resign the chancellorship of the University of Nebraska, according to a report at Lincoln, Neb. Paymaster Killed by Engine. Captain Robert Dew, paymaster, in the employ of the Southern Railway at its Pinners Point, Va., terminals, was run over by -an engine and instantly killed. Report on Monongah Disaster. The report of the Pennsylvania mine experts after an investigation of the mine disaster at Monongah, Va., was made the other day and agrees with that of the West Virginia experts that the disaster was caused by a dust explosion after a blow-out shot. Slayer of Blind Son Dies. Edwin J. Collier of Cleveland, who killed his blind son and then shot himself a the grave of his wife, has died. Collier died as a result of exposure. Collier v as despondent both over the loss of bil wife and his son's affliction.

S WORK OF j I CONGRESS j

The Senate was in session only four niiuutes Monday, adjourning as a mark of respect to the memory of Senator Mallory of Florida, who died recently. One hundred and sixty bills, some of them of considerable importance, were introduced in the House. President Roosevelt's message urging that the employes to take the next census be chosen under civil service rules was read. Representative II. B. Slemp of the Ninth Virginia district took the oath of office. Senator Aldrich introduced bis curren cy bill Tuesday, which was read, and announced that the committee on finance would be glad to consider in connection with it ail bills which Senators might desire to introduce. Senator Clay of Georgia announced that he intended to have a vote on his resolution favoring a federal law to aid the States in their efforts to enforce prohibition. The reso lution was allowed to go over until the next meeting. Several addresses were made in , the House in connection with the resolutions referring to President's annual message to the various commit tees. Representative Sheppard of Texas made a plea for the restoration of the Irgend, "In God We Trust" to American coins. Mr. Willett of New York sought to blame the recent financial disturbance on President Roosevelt. Representative Hardick of Georgia declared that the only safety for the RepuÄican party lay in the nomination of Taft for President. Mr. Morris of Nebraska spoke in favor of taxing national bank deposits to provide a guarantee fund. The Senate was not in session Wednesday. In the House a rule was adopted giving the bill to revise, codify and amend the laws the right of way along with other preferred measures. Upon the conclusion of the reading of the bill it was laid aside to permit Mr. Gaines of Tennessee to address the House in favor of an appropriation for "The Hermitage," the home of Andrew Jackson, near Nashville, Tenn. The Brownson affair was brought up in the Senate Thursday, when Senator Hale explained the navy personnel bill. Mr. Tillman intimated that he wisued to call before the committee witnesses to testify concerning this matter. Mr. Hale replied that he thought there would be no obstacle to allowing the Senator to do that. The Senate adjourned until Monday. Members of the House took part in a lottery for rooms in the new House ofFce building opposite the capitol. Aside from passing tv.o bridge bills the assignment of quarters was the only business transacted. The Senate was not in session Friday. The House resumed its old activity and for over five hours transacted business of a public nature. Material progress was made with the biN to codify, revise and amend the criminal laws of the United States, which was taken up after some routine bills had been disposed of. An attempt by Mr. Littleficld of Maine to amend the bill so as to afford protection to aliens in the matter of civil rights failed by a decisive vote. The feature of the session was a brief address by Mr. Burleson of Texas, who credited Senator Foraker and other Republican with having charged the President with the resjonsibility for the recent financial crisis. Mr. Burleson became engaged in a lively colloquy with Mr. I'ayne of New York. NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. Representative Gill of Maryland offered a resolution designed to open the way for a congressional airing of the Admiral Brownson incident. It was referred to the committee on naval affairs. Richard 'A. Ballinger, commissioner of the general laud office, has tendered his resignation, to take effect March 4. President Roosevelt has appointed Fred Dennitt, assistant commissioner, to take his place. Representative Fuller of Illinois received a petition for the admission of New Mexico as a separate State, with the announcement that a delegation would be In Washington in a short time to urge Congress to act. Senator Knox of Pennsylvania introduced a bill to remedy the defects in the present emplo3'ers liability law by making it applicable only to corporations engaged in svli commerce as Congress has the undoubted right to control. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: George L. Godfrey of Iowa, to be surveyor of customs for the port of Des Moines, Iowa; John II. Page of Arizona, to be secretary of Arizona. There were also a number of army and navy promotions and many postmasters named. President Roosevelt directed the Secretary of War to have prepared appoint ments for James F. Tracey as secretary of finance and justice on the Philippine commission, and Gegorio Arenta to be judge of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, vice Tracey, appointed secretary of finance and justice. Treasury Deficit $ lO.OOO.OOO. Owing to a falling off in the customs receipts, the United States treasury ended the old year with a deficit of nearly $10,000,000 since the begHinrng of the fiscal year. Most of the decrease occurred after the money panic set in. There was also some decrease in the internal revenue receipts. Tie Up Eddy Charity. A new turn has been given to the recently expressed intention of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy to bestow $1,000,000 for the founding of an institution to be used as a training school for poor people who desire to become Christian Science healers by the formal notice served upon Trustees McClellan, Fernald and Baker, having in charge Mrs. Eddy's estate, ordering them not to make the gift recently announced or any other appropriation from Mrs. Eddy's estate pending the outcome of litigation. Meningitis Care Verified. The numerous favorable reports concerning the cure for cerebro-spinal meningitis discovered by Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research are now officially and authoritatively verified in the announcement made in the official journal of the institute. While no claim of infallibility is made, the results have been such as to prove the great efficacy of the remedy, and Dr. Flexner and his associates feci sure that it will prove one of the greatest benefactions to mankind. The Board of Health of New York City has been co-operating with Dr. Flexner in his investigations, and it is said that the city' has furnished the doctor with nearly fifty monkeys, which animals were used in experiments because of their anatomical resemblance to the human race. The Hero. "Who Is the hero of this piece?" askrd the man who was coming out of the theater. And the manager thoughtfully replied, "The man who Is supplying" the money." After a mnu reaches sixty, his great hope at the end of every day Is that he will feel better in the morning.

The Signal Corps of the War Department has made public specifications for the construction of a dirigible balloon to be used iu a series of tests at Fort Myer next spring. Proposals for furnishing the balloon will be opened at the fepartmeut on' Jan. 13 next. The balloon is to consist of a gas bag of silk, to le covered Avith an aluminum preparation. Th material for the bag and tho hydrogen with which it will be inflated will be furnished by the government Tho dimensions and shap? of the bag will be left to the bidders, except that the length must not excised 120 feet. It must be designed to carry two persons having a combined weight oi 350 pounds; also at least 100 pounds of ballast. A speed of twenty niles an hour in still air is desired, and the scheme of ascending, descending and maintaining equilibrium must be based on shifting weights, movable planes or some method which will not ' necessitate balancing or changing of position by the aeronaut. The balloon must have all the fittings necessary for successful and continuous flights. It will bo accepted only after a trial flight to bo held at Fort Myer next spring. In a recent address at New York City Francis E. Leupp, commissioner of Indian affairs, took occasion to reply to some of the criticisms that have been made regarding the treatment of the Indians by bis bureau. He outlined the present policy of the government as that of absorbing the Indian into the white man's civilization, thus reversing the old policy of assisting him in, his ardent desire of keeping rs separate from the white man as be ossibly could. He expressed the opinion that the final solution of the problem would be reached by intermarriage. Ho described the success of the government in making the Indian work; even the Utes, he said, were now working on the railroads and helping to build up the country of which they were a part. The commissioner said it was true that about S3 per cent of the Indians that went to Indian schools, such as Carlisle and others, and went back to the reservations sooner or later reverted to the blanket. But their children started away nhead of where their parents did so that the schooling was by no means wasted. An unusual view of the army has lately been presented in a complaint over the decrease in strength of the coast artillery regiments. The Tenth Company, for instance, which mustered a hundred and one men in 1900, was able to get out only fourteen In the ranks In October. The explanation offered Is that the men In the coast artillery receive training in sporne branch oi mechanics, and can get employment outside at good wages. One officer instructed his company in the art of telephone repairing, and made the men so clliclent that the telephone company in the neighboring city offered them sixty aud seventy dollars a month, and in some cases bought the discharge ol the men, so that they might begin work lcfore their enlistment expired. If the army can train its men as effectively as this, it ought to be a pretty good school. If there are not forty-eight stars on the flag within a year or two it will not li for lack of effort on the part of Arizona and New Mexico. A convention of delegates from every part of New Mexico adopted resolutious the other day demanding the admission of the territory as n State. The governor of Arizona has reported that the statehood sentiment in that territory Is stronger than ever before. Bills were introduced in the Senate on the first working-day of the session of Congress, providing for the creation of two new States out of the territories. As the effort to pass a joint statehood bill has been abandoned, it is now necessary for the two territories to convince Congress that they are worthy to be admitted to the family of States. -: :- According to Terence V. Powderly, formerly grand master of the Knights of Labor and now connected with the government Bureau of Immigration, extANslve railroad building in Italy, the approach of the presidential election and scare headlines In the newspapers, aside from the financial flurry, are the causes for the present exodus of aliens from the United States. "No alarm need be felt because of the ebb In the tide," lie says. "There is more work to do in this country than there ever was before; there is a necessity for men and women to do it, and the tirst months of the next year will see a return of aliens, who will be able to find remunerative employment in this ccuntry." s The War Department has published a general order of the President requiring every field officer to make each year practice marches of three consecutive days of not less than thirty miles each. In his order the President says it Is just as much the duty of army officers "to pursue such habits as will maintain a physical condition fit for active service as to cultivate their minds for the Intellectual duties of their profession." Ö j l There are 43,000 men and women holding positions under the government and when oue of the departments dismisses the working force for the day there Is an appreciable activity In the streets about them. The report of the recent trials of the new battleship Idaho sent to the Navy Department shows that on her twenty-four-hour endurance run she maintained an average speed of 17.10 knots, thus exceeding her contract spexfd, which was 17 knots. The United States government Is advertising for bids for beavier-than-air flying machines. Acceptable machines must be able to carry two persons of a combined weight of 330 pounds, besides fuel sufficient for a continuous" flight of 123 miles. They must also be abie to niake at least 40 miles an hour. They must be able to start from any open field and laud In like surroundings without damage. The right ear is generally larger than the left

SECOND TRIAL OF HARRY K. THAW IS ON

Young Millionaire Who Shot Stan, ford White Again Faces the Charge of Murder. SCENE IN NEW YOKE COUET. Evelyn Will Repeat Her Story, but "Unwritten Law" Will Not Be Kelied On. The second trial of narry Kendall Thaw, the young rittsburg swell and spendthrift, for the murder of Stanford White, the New York architect and man about town, is again under way. It was tedious work securing a jury. The first trial was reported so completely and was so widely read in all its sensational and nauseatiJg details that an attempt to secure twelve men who had not read of the ease and formed more or less of an opinion was hopeless. jThe most acceptable jurors then, were those who could swear that despite reading an opinion they could judge Thaw's guilt or innocence purely on the evidence submitted to them. As to the actual commission of the deed, of course, there is no question. The defense is not to combat that palpable fact. Neither is It relying, as Del mas did in the first trial, on "the unwritten law." Martin W. Littleton, "Deliuas' successor as chief counsel, depends entirely on the plea that Thaw was insane and irresponsible at the time of the shooting. The prosecution is devoting itielf to proving the commission of the crime and to controverting the evidence for the defense. Littleton will put Evelyn Thaw upon the stand and she will tell her story all over again. This is necessary In order to demonstrate that there was reason for Thaw's attack of 'brain storm" or Insanity, but the young wife will not be handled as tenderly by the prosecution in cross-questioning as she was before. Jerome has had one of his assistants follow out the European tour, mile by mile, which Thaw and the girl took before marriage and will be able to catch up the witness at every misstatement as to that trip. Evelyn has so far been in daily attendance on the trial and is putting up the same bluff of appearing in the sim ple garb of an Ingenuous school girl. though she is a mature woman with experiences enough back of her to fill several lifetimes. Her girlish, almost in fantile, appearance and her counterfeit ing of confiding innocence at the first trial had a tremendous effect It is doubtful If they will be much of a lever this time In moving public opinion or in Impressing the jury. Judge Victor J. Dowling Is doing all he can to expedite the proceedings. There has been at this second trial no great crush to attend the proceedings, though there is a daily assemblage outside to see Evelyn pass from her automobile to the court room or to see Thaw cross the "bridge of sighs" on his way back to the Tombs. Thaw Is In good health. Regular hours, plain food and forced decency of life have had a good effect on his phy sical condition. IVovel Trealment for Inaanltj-. Dr. Henry S. Atkins, superintendent of the St. Louis Asylum for the Insane, has been testing an entirely new course of treatment for mild cases of insanity among the woman patients, it being nothing more or less than a Christmas shopping expedition It is his theory that anything which occupies the mind pleasantly without causing too much excitement must be beneficial. He therefore sent about twenty of his patients under the charge of trained nurses, and each supplied with a moderate amount of mouey, to the department stores. The entire party was so dressed and conducted that no intimation was given of its real nature, and this was not suspected by the other shoppers, the unfortunate wom en deporting themselves in the most con vntional and natural way possible Luncheon was eaten at th restaurant, which all enjoyed, and it was with re luctance, but no attempt at resistance, that thej returned to their quarters in the asylum. To Explore South America. A party of Boston scientists, under the direction of George Melville Boynton, has organized an expedition to explore the wilds of South America. A Gloucester fishing vessel has been bought and will be christened the , Discovery. There will be about thirty-five men in all and the trip is expected to last five years. Opera tions will be confined chiefly to the unex plored regions south of the Amazon river, but the expedition will eventually follow the Amazon to its source and cross the Andes, coming out at Punta Parine, Peru. In the party will be botanists, minerologists, ethnologists, taxidermists and pho tographers. Photo Sent by" Wlrelena. Tascal Berjonneau, an inventor, recent ly exhibited before the Postmaster Gen eral at Paris a new telephotography apparatus which can be adapted to the wireless system or to the ordinary telegraph wire system. He transmitted the picture of the postmaster without the aid of wires from one end of the hall to the other. The inventor claims that distance does not interfere with the effectiveness of his method. Photographs, he says. can be sent by it between New York and Faris. Home Complete Electric Circuit. A novel device by which a horse is made part of an electrical circuit has lx-en reported to the War Department by Lieut. A. C. Knowles of the One Hundied (and Thirtieth Infantry, at Fort I j avenworth, where tests have been made for permitting communication between mounted operators. By placing a small piece of copper proierly connected with the telegraph or telephone instrunwnt ataiust the animal's body, a ground con nection is completed through the horse's feet, and the operator is enabled to transmit messages to his base without stopping his horse. Arthur Wilcox of Burlington, N. J in an eating contest, disposed of 33 ham sandwiches, four dozen small pickles, two pounds of cheese and twelve cups of coffee, but was defeated by a Ft ranger, who went him one better through the whole menu. About the first ship subsidy ever known was that given by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to Columbus when he sailed west for the Indies and found America. It was 2H0 years ago that the Society of Friends founded its church in Lynn, Mass. 1

A Nil J-Lit CHICAGO. While the curtailment of production in various industrial branches continues, there are evidences of a favorable nature for. steady improvement to take place soon. With the banks now virtually back to specie payment and discount opera tions extending, it is not surprising that the volume of business, as reflected by bank exchanges, makes the best exhibit in nine weeks, the comparative decline being the lowest in that period. Following the extra time taken to make necessary repaL-s to plants, resumption became general and quickly reduced the number of workers made temporarily idle, and the indications now turn for the bet ter at the furnaces, mills and forges. Some substantial bookings appear in iron, steel and wire, and fair orders come forward in furniture, boxmaking, footwear and vehicles. Little change is expected in pricesof finished products, but a feeling that, costs may be lowered is to some extent causing hesitation where much capital is involved. Weather conditions advanced the Jan uary clearance sales in retail lines, stocks undergoing satisfactory reduction, and a considerable increased number of visiting buyers attended the wholesale markets for staples, textiles, boots and shoes, cloth ing and food products. Mercantile collections throughout the West are irregular, some sections remitting promptly, while at others the defaults indicate weakness. Failures reported in the Chicago dis trict number 3G, against 28 last week and 20 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $0,000 number 7, against 1 last week and S in 1907. Dun's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Financial affairs show further and marked improvement, and money is myc plentiful and easier to obtain, but1, the gain in trade and industry proper is still largely one of sentiment, because business is quiet, the country over, railway earnings and bank clearings are below a year ago, collections are slow, though better than a month ago, and industry is as a whole on short time, with the larger' centers reporting a great number of unemployed. In trade lines the general report is one of backward business. Mild weather is still a bar to the widest activities in seasonable goods North and West, and retailers are stimulating lagging demand by reduction sales. Southern trade shows little more life than a week ago. Some lines report after-holiday collections as better than those of December, and in some cases better than anticipated, but they in few cas are better than slow to fair. Business failures in the United States for the week' ending Jan. 9 number 431, against 343 last week, 2S3 in the like week of 1907, 28i in 190G 293 in 1W3 and 313 in 1901. Failures in Canada this week numbered G3, against 27 last week and 21 in this week a year ago. Bradstreet'g Review. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $G.43 ; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $1.33; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.23; wheat, No. 2, 99c to $1.02; corn, No. 2, 3Sc to 00c; oats, standard, 49c to 30c; rye. No. 2, 81c to S3c; hay, timothy, $9.30 to $1G.00; prairie, $S.00 to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 30c; eggs, fresh, 23c to 30c; potatoes, per bushel, 30c to 00c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $4.00 to $4.03; shoep, common to prime, $3.00 to $1.30; wheat, No. 2, 98c to 99c; corn. No. 2 white, 33c to 30c ; oats, No. 2 white, 49c to 51c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.30 to $0.00; hogs, 54.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.03 to $1.04; corn. No. 2, 33c to 30c; oats, No. 2, 49c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 79c. Cincinnati Cattle. $1.00 to $3.33; hogs, $1.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.02 to $1.04; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 37c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 51c; rye, No. 2, 82c to 83c. Detroit rCattle, $1.00 to $3.23; hogs, $4.00 to $1.30; sheep, $2.50 to $4"0: wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1.02: corn, No. 3 yellow, Glc to C2c; oats, No. 3 white, 51c to 53c ; rye, No. 2, 81c to 83c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.09 to $1.11; corn, No. 3, 57c to 59c; oats, standard, 30c to 52c; rye. No. 1, 83c to S3c; barley. No. 2, $1.03 to $1.03; pork, mess, $12.47. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.73; sheep, common to good mixed, $1.00 to $3.30; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.83. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $3.93; hogs, $3.30 to $3.10; sheep, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.03 to $1.07; corn, No. 2, 07c to (59c; oats, natural white, 54c to 50c; butter, creamery, 27c to 31c; eggs, western, 24c to 28c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.00 to $ 1.02 T corn. No. 2 mixed, 59c to 00c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; rye. No. 2, SOc to 82c; clover seed, prime, $10.50. IluincNK Im Iluine. "You butchers certainly have a snap," remarked the grocer. "How do you figure that out?" queried the man behind the meat Mock. "Wiry," answered the grocer, "you weigh the bones with the m::at and charge meat prices for them.' "Well," rejoined the butcher, "I don't see where I get the bulge on you. When 3rou sell cheese don't you weigh the holes and get cheese prices for theiaV" Reciprocal. The ex-widower was speaking of his new wife. "But how about the children?' queried his bachelor friend. "Oh," replied the happy husband and father, "she doesn't mind them and they don't mind her." Atmoxphere. Fly Old Moth is going around telling people he feels like au actor. Ant Well, he ought to feel that way. He has been living In a heavy tragedian's fur overcoat for six months. ConMultinK nu Authority. "Say, paw," queried little Tommy Toddles, who had picked up a few racing terms on the street, 'what is the home stretch?'" "Trying to make both ends meet, my son," replied Toddles, Sr., -who was auditing the month's household bills. The Iteal Tent. Young Physician Do you have much trouble in getting your patients to do what you want them to? Old Doctor Yes, at times especial ly when I send in my bills.

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"WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. Two Children Injured While Try 1 be to Save Her Life. ( By the explosion of a roal oil can in the kitchen, Mrs. Mark Hershberer, 40 years old, of Crawfordsville, was burned to death and two of her four children were seriously burned. Mrs. Hershberger was alone at the time of the explosion and was preparing dinner. It is believed she attempted to freshen the fire in the stov.e with oil. The explosion forced out the windows. Mrs. Hersbberger, with her clothing in flames, ran out the back door and fell to the ground, where she died before assistance could reach her. Her daughter Mabvl, aged 17 years,' and her son (Jlenn, agd 14, were in the house at the time, and they suffered severe burns about their heads and hands in an effort to save their mother's life. They were taken to the home of neighbors, where their injuries were dressed. Mark IIershlerger, the husband, is foreman at the shale pit of the Foston Brick Company. He came from Veedersburg about twelve years ago, and a month ago moved into the new home which he erected. The home was not damaged, the fire being put out by the assistance of chemical. Mrs. Hershberger was formerly Miss Myrtle Chesterton of Veedersburg. Sees Blaek Hand Vengreanee. Fhilip Rock, an Italian merchant and banker in Bedford, fears for his life because of what he believes to be the Black Hand's work. Vague warnings for purposes of extortion have been followed by the burning of his store, the destruction of a car load of goods, and the murder of a fellow countryman. ' Terre Ifante Orphans Home Ilarn. St. Anne's Orphans Home, a Roman Catholic institution on North Thirteenth street, Terre Haute, was totally destroyed by fire. One hundred orphans were in the building at the time the fire started and a panic ensued among them, but all escaped without injury. The loss is about $30,000. Show Inereaae of Salelde. In his monthly health report City Health Officer D. W. McNaraara of South Bend deplored the increase in the suicidal mania and the absence of an pffective preventive remedy. lie stated that the increase of the number of suicides in South Bend is alarming. Eloper Bzfcck; Is Forgiven. Josef-h Chambers of Union Mills, who a year ago eloped with Mrs. Charles Quigg, has returned and has been forgiven by his wife. Quigg secured a divorce from his wife after she disappeared, but it is announced that they will be remarried in Chicago within a short time.Convict Attorney of Fraud. , Charged with embezzlng $1,200 and certificate of purchase for forty acres of land belonging to the Arbnckle-Ryan Harvester Company of Toledo, Attorney, Jack Graves was found guilty in War-', saw and sentenced to thirty days in jail and fined $100. Farmer Hans: Self After Arrest. Ben Trader, prominent farmer, committed suicide by hanging himself in ti barn at Waldron. He was arrested recently for attempting assAlt on an 11-j-ear-old girl. Penitentiary for White Cappers, j David Fox and Jacob Kirk, ehargrd with wbitecapping William YancM of South Bethany last June, were foud guilty. They will serve a term at Mich igan City of from two to fourteen yeajrs. T S Ade warns to te uciwie. George Ade, the humorist, announcjed in Indianapolis his candidacy for del gate from the Tenth district of India ria to the .Republican national convention. He will support Fairbanks. ALL OVER THE STATE. The first annual fruit show will be held at Purdue university, Jan. 13 to 18. An option has been received on acres oi stone tana near liioomingron. The stone will be shipped to Gary. Mrs. Nancy D. Morris of Shelbyvill who is JO, rode on the first train over tbe Bdinburg and Ivnightstown railway, i A negro of Richmond has patented a corn harvester covering luirty-eignjt points. It is said to be a great success. The second dairy train which went oiat from Lafayette covered 500 miles ou tl Monon and 4,000 pwple heard the 1c tures. A farmer near Owensville raised, somi freak corn. Each stalk had but onl ear. It -vas grown from one grain of corn tV a 8.alk. Capt. Evan Sharp, one of the leaders of the successful plot by which 100 prisoners escaied from Libby prison at Richmond in the Civil War, died at the hojne of his sister, Mrs. William Ilaseltine,' in Kokomo, aged 70. Joseph Robson, 10, was accidentally killed by a bullet from a Flobert rifl in New Castle. He was with Freddie Scptt and William Wallace. Scott was hold ing the rifle and it was accidentally discharged, the bullet hitting Robson. A chicken thief broke into the henhouse of James B. Flmore near Evansville, carried off half a dozen chickens and tacked on the door a paper with the following verse: "Christmas time Is drawing near; Thought I'd get my chickens here." Emery Shaffor was killed and Andrew Lindsay, a saloonkeeper, was seriously shot in a duel in Lindsay's, saloon at Harmony. The duel was the result ol a dispute over the price of jjfllrink. Much of the money offered in payment for the recent issue of Hagerstown electric light bonds was in bills that were damp and musty. This iudicated that it had been buried for a long time. Local business men say that concealing money has grown since the failure of the Commercial Bank, in July, 1S95. All of the issue of bonds was paid for by local people who were eager to get more. The mob injured five persons and riddled street cars with bullets in Muncie in a riot that followed an attempt of the Indiana Union Traction Company to run cf.rs manned by non-union men. The strike followed the refusal of the company to re-sign the wage agreement that ha been in effect for five years. While kneeling in prayer in St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church in South Bend, Miss Margaret Joyce's pocket was picked by two fa shionably -dressed women. Discovering her los. as the' women were leaving the church, she gave chase, bnt though she ran after the pickjwekets for nearly a mile, they finally escaiwd. The mystery of the disappearance ol Miss Imogene Kinner from the home of her elatives in Michigan City Dec. 11 was ileaied up by the finding of her body near a creek two miles from the city. It was a wild and unfrequented place where the body was found, and it is supposed that the woman perished from exposure, probably having lost her way. Miss Kinncr was. 45 years old and had long been a teacher at Nyaek and Yonkers, N. Y. Her aealth failed and she came to Michigan City in November to spend the winter. As the result of a "windy shot" in th coal -mine at Princeton, McLelland St. Clair and Simon Lawrence were killed.