Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 January 1908 — Page 2

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fN. M. T P. Q.2 P. M. T L. Q. r3rcL lOth.vglStb. Vj 26th. PAST AND PEESEXT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlisbtenment of the Many Jap Spies Fired on by Guards. Bullets iired with deadly intent by National Guard sharpshooters in San Francisco, Cal., frustrated a second attempt to rob the armory of Companies K and M, Fifth Infantry of the National Guard. In the building which is located at Buchanan and Water streets are kept valuable military maps of San Francisco's coast defease and topographical plan3 of the peninsula. That the attack on the building was not a burglar's ordinary operation seems apparent from the persistency of the mysterious visitors. Early Saturday morning and again in the darkness of Sunday morning two men tried to gain an entrance into the premises. Fearing that a third attempt might be made, the officer in command ordered the guard of soldiers doubled. Armed men watched the premises from nightfall Sunday until dawn Monday morning. From the descriptions of the trespassers furnished the officers of the regiment by the sentries the authorities th jie are working on the theory that Japanese spies were seeking to gain entrance to the secrets of the armory. 'big Blaze in Chicago. One firemen Is supposed to have been killed, more than a score others were injured and property valued at half a million dollars was destroyed in a fire which devastated the Mayer building, a seven-story brick building and the Hotel Florence at 163-167 Adams street, Chicago, HL The fire broke out In the basement of the Mayer building and spread so rapidly that when the first detachment of firemen arrived the ' entire building was in flames. A ttrong north wind swept the flames to the adjacent hotel building and in a few minutes that structure also was a roaring furnace. The walls and roofs of both structures collapsed an hour later carrying with them an entire company of firemen. All except one, James Gallagher, of truck company No. 1, were rescued. His body is believed to be in the ruins. Water Main Burstsd. By the bursting of a water main in Garfield Place, Cincinnati, Ohio, it was estimated that damage had beei done aggregating 100,000. Property was damaged for several blocks in &'l directions and the loss to the city alone will be several thousand dollars. The cellars were flooded, the water spouting a thick stream several feet in the air and not being shut off for several hours, a broken valve in the main delaying waterworks employes. Signs of a Business Revival. Two more big open hearth furnaces resumed work at Pottsville, Pa , while the 19-Inch and 2S-inch rolling mill departments at the Eastern Steel Company's mills also started up fuL handed. Thirty-eight collieries of the Readies Coal and Iron Company, employing thirty thousand men, who have been idle since January 23, also went to work, while one thousand men at the same company's repair shops resumed on reduced hours. Harvester Trust Hit In Kentucky. The Franklin County grand jury returned an indictment against the International Harvester Company, oi Milwaukee, charging that said company had combined with the McCorxnick, Champion, Deering and Osborne companies to regulate and control the prices on mowers, reapers, binders and other harvesting machinery. The fine for such an offense under the Kentucky antl-t'ust statute i3 from 1 1,000 to 5,000 for each ofTense. Family of Seven Perish. By the collapse of the house of Anthony Franklin, a negro of Bedford City, Va., the building was fired and destroyed and his whole family, consisting of Ids wife, himself and five children, were burned to death. The family was sitting up with the corpse of a child that died suddenly, when the building fell in and Imprisoned them. Girl Dies of Burns. Alice Wiley, aged 19, daughter of a farmer near Bloomlngton, Ind., died from burns received from the explosion of a gasoline stove in the home at Jasonville, whtre she was visiting recently. Whisky Broker a Suicide. . Joseph C. Bloch, senior member of the whisky brokerage firm of Bloch Brothers, shot and killed himself in fcis office in Louisville, Kj. Explode Bomb to Get Gold. An exploding bomb wrecked the front ti an Italian bank buildiig in Elizabeth ttreet, Xew York, briefly exposing $40,000 in gold which the bankers had piled in the windows. The guard stuck by his charge and soon had the money stored away in the vaults. 1 Old Man Found Murdered. The body of J. II. Joslin. an aged resident oi Hast Topeka. Kan., wa;t di--ov-etetl o;i the floor of his home by a gas collector. A rope was around Joslin's neck, and the otlicials think he may have been murdered. Shoots Wife and Her Sister. In New Haven, Conn.. Clifford. M. Ca.Jwell shot and fatally wounded bis wife, from whom he had been separated, because she refused to live with him again. He also shot and wounded his sister-in-law. Miss Virginia Peck. Caldwell made no attempt to injure himself and is under arrest. Grip Epidemic in Prison. An epidemic of the grip in the State penitentiary in Columbus. Ohio, has sent 200 prisoners to the hospital and in addition to this ai; the hospital nurses have been stricken.

ÄIUT.DEKS 12; REVEALS PLOT.

Italian Confesses Crimes and Seeks Black Hand Membership. An Italian detective has produced an n Hefted confession from Antone Xeroni. alias r.avori, charged with the murder of four Italians, three men and a woman, at Florence, Colo. The detective is Frank Sandesko of Pueblo, who, according to ! th? storj, gained the confidence of Xerjni, now coniined in the county jail at Canon City, by pretending to be a member of the Jllack Hand Society from Pittsburpr. Pa. The two were permitted to converse in a cell in the jail. Sandesko explaining to Xeroni that he was held for a murder committed in Omaha. Neroni expressed a desire to belong to the P.lack Hand and when Sandesko told him that it was necessary for him to prove that he had committed twelve murders before he could bo admitted, Xeroni replied that he was eligible. Sandesko states that Xeroni then related to him a series of murders he had committed, beginning with the killing of a neighbor who had abused him ia Italy when he was but 12 years old. The narrative gradually brought him to a recital of details connected with the disappearance of the four Italians at Florence. KANSAS BANKER'S SUICIDE. Kills Himself Rather than Appear in Court for Trial. W. Leo IJockemohle, cashier of the suspended Hank of Ellinwood at Ellinwood, Kan., under arrest for making a false statement of the bank's condition in December, shot and killed himself. The suicide took place at Ilockemohle's home In Ellinwood. Bockemohle had given bond several days ago to appear in court Saturday. His bondsmen had surrendered him and were leaving the house after notifying him of their decision. As they reached the gate he called out, "Wait a minute. They turned and saw Bockemohle shoot himself in the head with a pistol and fall dead on the porch. Tho Bank of Ellinwood was founded twentj--three years ago by Ilockemohle's father, now dead, and was until lately considered a strong institution, but is alleged to have been mismanaged. SAVED FROM SEA COLLISION. Missing Passengers of Steamer Amsterdam Brought Into Port. All the missing passengers and crew from the steamer Amsterdam were brought in safely to Hook of Holland. The steamer Amsterdam belongs to the Great Eastern Itailway Company. She sailed from Harwich for liotterdam Jan. 21, with fifty-six passengers on board. That night she was in collision with the British steamer Axminster near Nieuwe Waterweg and sustained serious damage. Her crew and passengers left her in small boats and all the boat3 excepting one were speedily picked up. The passengers on the missing boat numbered twenty-one and the crew seven. Tbey were picked up by the Norwegian steamer Songa one hour after they left the Amsterdam in a small boat. Consequently, they suffered no hardship. A life boat took the party off the Songa, landing them. SUBMARINES MAKE A FAST TRIP. Three Travel Through Heavy Seas from Newport to New York. The trip of three submarine torpedo boats Ttrantnla, Viper and Cuttfcfish from Newport, It. I., to the New York navy yard is causing much interested comment in naval circles. The trip was made in seventeen and a half hours, although much of it was through heavy seas, and in the teeth of a stiff breeze. This is the first time that boats of their class have made such a trip under their own power. The boats will go into dry dock and, after scraping and repainting, they will go to Newport News, said to be the longest trip ever attempted by submarines. DEMANDS REVISION OF TARIFF. National Board of Trade Calls for Prompt Action. The National Board of Trade concluded its sessions in Washington with the adoption of a number of important resolutions, among them being one urging an expeditious revision of the tariff anl indorsing the proposition for the creation of a permanent tariff commission. It was unanimously agreed that the President and Congress should be petitioned to take immediate steps to bring about reciprocity treaties between the United States and other countries. Postmaster General Meyer's proposition for the establishment of a postal' savings bank was commended. Would Navigate Missouri. The Missouri river navigation congress held its first session in the new Grand Theater in Sioux City. The hope of the congress is to devise means for improving the Missouri river so as to make it Davigable. It is hoped to open it to steamboat traffic as it was in the old days, and that thus more advantageous freight rates may be secured. To Curb Scarlet Fever. To prevent the spread of scarlet fever the board of education decided to burn at least 750 text books in use in the Kenvood and Douglas schools in Minneapolis. Though there are only thirty-six cases of scarlet fever in the city, the appearance of the disease among school children has alarmed parents. Private Bank Breaks. Injury to the reputation of the head of the institution, combined with inability to realize on assets with sufficient celerity, resulted in the closing of the private bank of A. C. Tisdelle, 94 LaSalle street, Chicago. As an outcome over $00,000 in deposits, including those f many workingmen, are tied up. Riveted Clothing's Inventor Dead. Jacob W. Davis, inventor of copperriveted clothing, is dead at his home in San Francisco, aged 78 years. ' He b?gan the manufacture of the copper-riveted overalls while in Porto Kio and moved to San Francisco in 1873. Michigan Treasurer Resigns. Frar P. Glazier, State Treasurer of Michigan, has forwarded his resignation to Gov. Warner and made counter charges against the Governor in connection with the failure of the Chelsea Savings bank. Murderer Constantine Dies. Frank J. Constantine of Chicago, slayer of Mrs. Louise II. Gentry, died in the Joliet penitertiary from injuries sustained in leaping from a gallery in a suicide attempt. Plans' of Liquor Dealers. OfiHals of the Chicago Liquor Dealers' Association have divided Lo banish musir, remove slot machines and closely observe all dramshop laws. Blast Kills One and Hurts One. Cleveland. Nuro Druch, a laborer, was hurt and two were seriously injured as a result of a premature explosion of dynamite on the new belt line railroad near Cleveland. I 'uro Druch, a laborer, was struck by a HOO-pound rock nnl instantly killed. Juro Druch received fatal internal injuries. Christian Science Head Moves. Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy ha abandoned her home at Tleasant View, Concord, N. II., and has taken up her residence in a mansion prepared for her in Brookliae, a suburb of Boston.

FATAL BALTIMORE FIRE.

Three Firemen Killed and Fifteen Injured by Falling Walls. Three firemen are known to have been killed and lifleen injured in the worst fire Baltimore has had since the big conflagration of 11)01. The fire broke out a slmrt time after midnight in the upper part of the building occupied by the firm ot J. I'egester & Sons, southeast corner of Ilolliday and Saratoga streets. The first alarm was followed by a general one, calling out all the apparatus in the city. Then by a high wind from the northwest the lire spread rapidly, and in an incredibly short time the north wall of the building fell. Saratoga street being very narrow, four fin-men weie killed nud many injured by the falling wall. The fire burned toward a number of old structures. A four-story building in the rear, occupied by the E. I. Bead & Son Company, soon caught fire and burned furcelv. DIES BEFORE $93,000 COMES. Inventor Breathes Last in Dire Poverty, but Had Fortune Won. Charles (i. Biedinger. an inventor, was found dead in his room in a cheap lodging-house in Troy, N. Y. lie had been in extreme want lately, but had just learned that the Superior Court at Cincinnati had decided a patent right claim in his favor, awarding him $93,000 and interest upon it for several years. His invention, a machine for making paper wrappers, was patented by his financial backer, who refused an accounting when Biedinger was discharged from a sanitarium, where he had been ill. Biedinger was so reduced in circumstances that he was recently employed as. a dish-washer in the Young Men's Christian Association restaurant. VETERAN SAYS HE IS HEIR. Answers Advertisement for Missing Relative of Millionaire. With the assertion that he is Gideon 1 1 ill, Ohio soldier, who is mentioned as the sole heir to the vast estate of Charles I Jill, a California millionaire, who died about four years ago, an aged man appeared at the office of Attorney Huntington in Columbus. Ohio, and placed his case in the attorney's hands. The administrator of the estate, who resides in New York, inserted advertisements in several newspapers asking the wheteabouts of one Gideon Hill, an Ohio soldier, who is mentioned as the sole heir. Hill claims that he is an old soldier, having enlisted at Columbus', and that he served under Grant. ADOPT UNIFORM DIVORCE LAW. League for Protection of the Family Hears of Work Accomplished. Members of the National League for the Protection of the Family gathered .t the Episcopal diocesan house in Bosron for the international meeting of th organization. Bishop William Lawrence, first vice president, presided, in the absence of President Seth Low of New York. The report of the corresponding secretary, Dr. S. W. Dyke, showed that the uniform divorce law proposed a year a so has been adopted in its entirety in two States and in part in others. MINISTER AND HIS CIGAR. Pastor, Exiled for Smoking, Clings to Weed as a Right. Although the Kev. J. D. Dover, secretary of the Ministers' Association and former pastor of Tower Methodist church, Dayton, Ky was banished from the eldership of Ashland district to a small church in Somerset, Ky., because he smoked, he still enjoys the weed. "I am not an inveterate smoker by any mean-c, but smoking is a question of personal liberty and I light a cigar whenever I like, which is about once a day," he said. HEIR TO MILLION ERRAND BOY. Chas. D. Davol on $15 Monthly Salary 13 Learning Railroad Business. On a salary of $15 a month, Charles D. Davol, a graduate of Harvard with the degree of bachelor of arts, and a son of a Fall River,, Mass., millionaire wool manufacturer, has begun as night mes senger at the Bock Island raih.-'.y sta tion in Topeka, Kan., to learn the railroad business from the ground up. He is 22 years old. Former Ohio Senator Freed. L. L. II. Austin, former State Senator of Toledo, who was sentenced by the Supreme Court to ten days in jail anl to pay a fine of $100 on 'he charge of conspiring with former Supreme Court Clerk Emerson fraudulently to obtain a certificate to xractice law in Ohio, was released from the county jail on paying his fine and the costs in the case. lie had served eleven days. Blizzard Hits the East. The snowstorm which swept over New York City late Thursday develoied into a blizzard during the night. The streets were covered in places with drift and street car traffic and the movement of ferryloats and other harbor and river craft was hampered. All the Eastern States were affected, and there was rough weather on the Atlantic. Orange Crop to Set Record. The orange crop harvest of California, now in full season, in quantity and in quality promises to break all records. The fruit exchanges of the State estimate that the total output of oranges will reach the enormous sum of 30,l00 carloads, about 0,000,000 boxes, or 1,350,000,000 oranges. The harvest will last continually until next Fourth of July. Italian Emigrants Returning. The return to Italy of emigrants from the United States is gradually stopping, while emigration to that country is being resumed. Steamers leaving Genoa and Naples before the end of January take back to America at least 5,000 emigrants. Street Railway Properties Sold. The properties of the Union Traction Company in Chicago were sold at auction to the Chicago Railways Company and the work of improving the traction system is expected to be pushed without further delay. Morris K. Jesup Dead. Morris K. Jesup, retired banker and long prominent in civic affairs, died at Lis home, VJl Madison avenue, Xew York, of heart disease. For two weeks Mr. Jesup had been confined to his bed. Reforms for Philippines. Secretary Taft, after his visit to the Philippines, recommends four reforms in the government of the island, and says that self-government cannot be given the islaudcrs until a generation has passed. Workmen's Order In Row. Xebraska grand lodge officers. Ancient Order United Workmen, are enjoined by local members from making payments to the supreme officers at Texas headquarters. If the suit succeeds-, it may mean the disruption of the order in all older States. Man Is Trapped in Well. A horrible death claimed James Thomas, a farmer near Xorth Platte. Xeb, He descended a shallow well to thaw out some pipes. His clothing caught fir from the blaze, he could not reach tal toy, and was burned to death.

PROGRESS OF THE THAW MURDER TRIAL

Court Refuses to Exclude the Public While Defendant's Wife Is on the Stand. EVELYN A MATCH FOR JEROME. Drops Child-Like Pose and Fences Well District Attorney Merciless in His Examination. Just as a year ago, Evelyn Xesbit Thaw has been tho star witness in the second trial of her husband for the murder of Stanford White District Attorney Jerome, of whom It had been hinted that he would spare the woman no mercy this time, askoci that the public bo excluded, and Littleton, for the defense, raised no objection, but Judge Dowliag held that the prisoner had a right to a public trial. During tho first week Littleton dovoted himself to demonstrate Thaw's insanity, by right of inheritance and by his actions from infancy to the climax of murder. His purpose in putting Evelyn Thaw on tho stand was to demonstrate bow the story of her abuse by While, which slip says she told Thaw in Paris, acted on his erratic brain with such force as to make him irresponsibly insane Under hiss questioning she maintained her pose of the ingonuoiH school girl who In her innocence had been LEADING FIGURES IN y j ; 4.made tho toy of a monster. But under Jerome's severe cross-examination she dropped the mask of girlish innocence which she had worn when sailing on the smooth waters of direct examination. She revealed herself as a shrewd woman of the world, at times more than a match for her questioner. She told how, when he had learned of her relations with White, Thaw said : "lVtor little girl, you have done no wrong." And yet, she was forced to admit, that within two weeks he made her his companion and started on a tour ot Europe which lasted for months, during all of which time they traveled as man and wife. Jerome also forced her to admit White's kindness to her, his sending her to school, his paying her surgeon's bill, and his furnishing both her and her mother with money. She also admitted that White gave her and her mother money with which to go to Europe, and that once there she went direct to Harry Thaw's quarters. Evelyn told her story much as she did a year ago, leaving out some of the most Indecent details and adding a few more Incidents. Mrs. Thaw had a remarkably clear recollection as to what she had testified to a year ago. Jerome confronted her with hundreds of the statements made then, in the hope of confusing her or leading rer into contradictions, but she adhered to her story In every detail. Thaw heard his wife's story with ndngled feeling of joy and sorrow. At times he put his handkerchief to his eyes and wept. At other moments he smiled with satisfaction that seemed to have almost a touch of pride. Several times he wagged bis head at his wife in a way that caused Jerome to lielieve that Le was trying to prompt her. Other witnesses called after the conclusion of Kvolyn's story brought out nothing in particular beyond what was developed at the former trial. Mnhillf)- Law Uuconnt National. The congressional act known as the employers' liability law has been pronounced unconstitutional and invalid by the Supreme Court of the United States by a vote of 5 to 4. The ground of the decision was that the act embraced subjects upon which Congress had no power to legislate. Labor Indies of Anaconda, Mont., will petition President Itoosevelt to pardon two linemen imprisoned for violating an injunction granted the Iiocky Mountain Telephone Company to protect employes.

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KILL! ON DOLLAR FIRE.

City Hall and Police Buildings oi Portland, Me., Destroyed. Fire whhli n.used damage of $1,(XHM.0 destroyed tho Portland, Me., city hall and police buildings and en- j .1. ...t. ...... 1 ,.. is.-,... ,. .t.... i-r ' Mclllpl HU Iii.- m.- in mini1 lllilll 4"V persons. Tho city hall was occupied by c-ity and county offices', while the police building sheltered the Supn-mo, judicial and municipal courts, in addition to the police department. Delegates Attending the Western Maine Knights ol Pythias jubilee were in the auditorium of the city hall when tho Harnes wer discovered, but only a few persons were hurt. The estimated financial loss docs noi include papers in tho r.flice of the registrar of deeds, where everything was dof'troyed. Other city departments lost every thin lt, with the exception of the city dork's and treasurer's office:. One of the most valuable libraries in the State, the Grecnleaf Law Collection, was destroyed, with a loss estimated at $10.0oo. Tho lire originated in the city electrician's office and was caused by crossed wires, which made it impossible to ring a call for the fire department ia any of the loxes. The city hall survived tho great fire of lSit;, although it was damaged at that tiiiie. The building had a frontage of 150 feet and was 250 fvot loii Its central dome rose 150 feet alwvc the roof. The building was constructed ol colored Nova Scotia Albert stone, and contained eighty rooms. TERRORS OF "FRAT" INITIATION. Sorority Ceremonies Shatter Nerves of Novitiate and Arouse Mothers. The nerve racking, e en though fancied, terrors of an initiation into a Greek letter soc iety of girl students in private and THE THAW TRIAL. NX"'.'1 -if , vv ' V.T. JSP 'f-v. preparatory schools in Xew York City caused a meeting of twenty angry mothers at the lome of Mrs. Elizabeth Moore. Their first purpose is to break up the local organization of the Sigma Gamma Society, and their second is to start a campaign throughout the couniry against secret societies among school uirls. It was the story of Julia Mills, not yet 17, as told by her to her mother, that caused Mrs. Mills to take the first steps. Julia Mills was "initiated'' the other night. Miss Mills, according to her story, was summoned to appear at the Moore home. When she was ushered in she was led into a dimly lighted room between two columns of black robed, black masked figures, up to the high priestess. "This will be a test of your fortitude, of your fitness to be a sister. You are ordered to thrust your hand into a small caldron of molten lead, which you see before you. Heady ! Obey orders !' Miss Mdls dashed her hand into the liquid and sank to her knees in fright. After she recovered her composure in part she was surprised to note that the caldron was fillod with mercury. Suddenly the lights went out. Miss Mills felt the floor give way beneath her and she felt herself go down, down, and then land on the pillows. The candidate was ordered to grasp the hand, for which she could only feel. Shuddering, she involuntarily drew back her arm when she felt the clammy fingers. She had grasped a wet chamois skin glove filled with sand. Again she was led forth, this time to drink a nauseating liquid out of a skull, which liquid "would serve to make her of or.e blood with her other prospective sisters." Revolting at each gulp, she was compelled to drain the skull. III Xfrlenn Ilriitce Contract. Dispatches from London rejH)rt that the Cleveland Uridge and Engineering Company, a Itritish concern, has received from the Soudan government a contract for the construction of a combined road and railway bridge over the IJlue Xile at Khartoum, where the length of water-was-to be crossed is 1,7K) feet. It is cxpecved that the bridge will le completed by the end of VM). This is s.iid to be the most valuable bridge contract ever idaced for any part of the African continent. Mo nil rind Heady Market. Of the $.,0.(00.000 of equipment trust bonds of Xew York Central lines recently offered for public subscription $24,000,000 was taken the first day. They were offered at prices to yield from 4 to 5 per cent. It is understood that several Millions of these certificates were placed abroad. Imprisonment for the manipulators of trust funds is the recommendation of E. E. Itittenhouse, commissioner of insurance for Colorado, in a report cf the investigation of the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of Xew York.

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The bill revising the crrmtnal laws of the United States was taken up as unfinished business in the Senate Moa lay, and its discussion occupied the greater part of the session. A letter was received from Secretary Cortelyou explaining his delay in giving the financir.l figures which had been asked for. Unrestrained opportunity to express views on the immigration question was afforded members of the House by the decision, soon after convening, to take up and consider a bill appropriating $2."0,O0 for an immigration station in Philadelphia, and so many took advantage of it that the code of laws bill, which the managers of the House had planned to take up, was also sidetracked for the d.iy. The entire session was devoted to a consideration of the bill, which was passed. The Senate Tuesday discussed the propriety of authorizing one of its committees to investigate the circumstances connected with the issuance of an injunction in the case of the llitchman Coal and Coke Company versus John Mitchell.' by Judge Alston G. Dayton of the United Slates Circuit Court of the northern district of West Virginia. Senator Culberson asked to have a resolution for that purpose adopted, and Senator Hale thought it should not harass judges in their decisions, and he did not favor such a Resolution unless there was considerable ground for believing that a judge had exceeded his authority. Considerable time was spent in considering the bill to revise the criminal code. At the close of a clay of excitement in the House of Itepresentatives an amendment was added to the penal code bill making it a criminal offense for any officer or employe of the government to give out advance information regarding any crop statistics authorized by law to be prepared. The original amendment was by Mr. Purleson of Texas, who made a strong plea for its passage, but a substitute by Mr. Sherley of Kentucky, with a brief addition by Mr. Olmsted of Pennsylvania, was accepted. Earlier in the day interest attached to a tilt between Mr. Dalziel of Pennsylvania and Mr. Itandcll of Texas over the latter's amendments prohibiting Senators or members from being employed by public service corporations. " The Senate spent over an fiour Wednesday in discussing a resolution offered b. Senator Ilansbrough of Xorth Dakota directing the Department of Commerce and Labor to suspend its investigation" into the alTairs of the International Harvester Company, which was ordered by a resolution over a year ago. Duriug this discussion Senator Ilansbrough declared that the "harvester trust" is attempting to control the selection of delegates to the next Republican national convention and is especially plotting to defeat him for re-election to the Senate. Th? resolution finally was referred to a committee. The criminal code bill was again considered for over two hours. Rapid progress was made in the House of ltepresentatives in the consideration of the bid to codify and revise the penal law3 of the United States. The only amendment of any importance Which got through was one by Ollie James of Kentucky, making it a criminal offense, under heavy penalty, to falsify government crop statistics, the object of the amendment being to protect the cotton and tobacco growers from speculators. Over fifty pages of the bill were disposed of. In the Senate Thursday Senator Stone presented statistics of government dejx)sits in national banks to show that the distribution of money durin? the recent currency stringency was not "equitable," as contemplated by the law governing the Treasury Department. lie declared that the West and South were discriminated against, whil Xew York and Boston were favored. Senator Teller followed with brief comment upon the action of the Secretary of the Treasury, declaring that the placing of money in Xew York City during the panic was fully justified. The Senate devoted the latter part of the session to a consideration of the bill to revise the criminal code, and adjourned until Monday. The urgent deficiency appropriation bill occupied the attention of the House to the exclusion of all other business. A surprise was sprung when Chairman Tawney of the appropriations committee warned the members that the country was confront. with the certainty of a $H0.00(),000 deficit unless the estimates for the next fiscal year should be cut down materially. A discussion ou tariff revision was injected into the proceedings, in which leaders on both sides of the House tried to commit one another to a definite announcement as to whether, if successful at the Xovember elections, there would be tariff legislation. The Senate was not in session Friday. Although the urgent deficiency bill was technically up for consideration in the House, not a word pertinent to thr bill was spoken. Under the privilege of general debate several members addressed the House on a variety of subjects, but the speech which attracted most attention was a criticism by Mr. Hitchcock cf Xebraska of a political forecast by Gen. Charles II. Grosvenor of Ohio. Th; debate brought to their feet numerous Democrats, who sprang to the defense of Mr. Ilryan, while Gen. Keifer of Ohio, supported by several other Republicans, undertook to refute all the arguments concerning Mr. Itryan's two campaigns. Adjournment was taken until Monday. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES ' Republican members of the Oklahoma Legislature indorsed Secretary Taft for the presidency. The residence of Justice E. It. Carpenter at Andover, X. Y., was badly damaged by a boinb. The justice has rigidly enforced the liquor law. Thomas F. Lonergan, one of the supervisors under the Schmitz administration in San Francisco, who confessed the taking of bribes, died in that city of heart disease. t Tariff revision, with the removal of the duty on hides as the leading feature, was advocated at the meeting of the Xatioual I'oot and Shoe Manufacturers in Xew York. Mayor Gerber and the whole police force of Reading, Pa., have been threatened with death in a "lllack Hand" letter if any harm comes to two Italians under arrest. Six bids were opened in Washington, I). C, for furnishing the military establishment with a dirigible balloon. Tho lids ranged from $.".0(K) to $1',,-V)0. All bids may be rejected and the balloon may b-.' bought in the open market. David S. Kose, four times Mayor of Milwaukee, announced at a mass mooting that he would make the race again and intimated that he was in favor of an open town. An order has been issued directing Senator riatt and his counsel to turn over all letters and papers in regard 4o the Mae Wood-PIaft divorce case for the iisiecitan of Miss Wood's attorneys. 11. Grey Duberly, said to be a cousin )f Earl Grey, governor general of Canida, committed suicide in the Hermitage, 1 bachelor hotel in Xew York. In a letter found Duberly charged his father, a raptain in the British navy, with misicating him.

II H "HELLO ' JOBS OPEN FOR VJOMEN

Railways Are to Use Phone in Place . of Telegraph After March 1. OPERATORS TO EE LET OUT. Elock Signals Also Will Be ' Irl stalled and Man? Small Stations Closed. A new field of employment for woncn is to be opened by the railways. This docs not mean that the roads will employ women telegraphers, but on the contrary their employment will be for the purpos of taking the place of telsgra pliers already in the service. The future woman railway operating employe will be engaged at the smaller stations taking train orders over a telephone, where formerly such orders were transmitted and received by telegraph. This new field will be open to women when the new nine-hour day law governing the working time of railway telegraphers goes m into effect ou March 1. It was confidently expected that this law would work a revolution in railway operation, and It was with this end in view that the Order of Railway Telegraphers procured its passage despite the determined opposition of the railway managers and even against advice direct from the White House. The tevolutiou is coming, all right, but it will be a revolution which will relegate the telegraph to a back scat as an adjunct to railway operation and will throw thousands of operators out of employment wndj annually will decrease their number until tbey will almost disappear from American railways. It was expected that the reduction In the workiug hours of railway telegraphers to nine hours would compel the railroads to employ at least 8,000 additional men at once. It was also known that It would be Impossible to secure this number of men when needed, and It was therefore hoped by the men that an Increase iu vage3 would bo a part of the revolution planned. Change to Reaalt. The railway managers at first took a similar view of the situation, but It soon was -discovered that it would be Impossible to supply the demand if all existing telegraph offices were to b; maintained after March 1. As a result of a careful study of the situation the nine-hour day for telegraphers will bring about the following changes: 1. The abandonment of all stations as telegraph stations except division headquarters and Junctional points. 2. The substitution of teclphones for the receipt and the transmission of or ders and messages. N 3. Tlie employment of women as agents in many stations thus transformed into telephone stations. I. The transaction of a tremendou'ss amount of office business by Kr which formerly was transacted by telegraph. 5. The rapid extension of the automatic electric block signal system, which will make telegraph stations unnecessary. In determining to inaugurate thes? changes the railway managers found that they had in reality been preparing for them for years. It was discovered also that by adopting the most expensive system of block signaling train orders and telegraph stations could for the greater part be done away with. The railroad?, therefore, decided that they would rather spend millions In providing and maintaining automatic block signals which never go to sleep and which never fall unless they spell "danger," than to spend the same money in maintaining telegraph stations and telegraph operators. The closing of stations as telegraph stations Is made possible by the fact that with an automatic electric signal all that Is necessary is to start trains as fast as the terminal block is empty and keep them going until a semaphore says "stop." Snrpreon Knife Car en ltradarhf. After suffering excruciating pains in his head for twenty-five years, Louis Wolfson of Cincinnati has secured relief by having the surgeons cut out two nerves. The pain was above the eyes and at the temples and recurred four or five times a week. He bad consulted the leading specialists, tried medicines, various forms of massage and electrical treatment in vain. The two offending nerves, one on each side, were between one and two inches long and about as thick as a pin. They are termed sensory nerves that is, nerves which give the sense or feeling and not control of the movements of muscles. The headaches have not returned since the operation. Local surgeons say this is the first case of the kind on record. TOLD IN A FEW LINES. In an attempt to rob the Citizens' Xational bank at Long View, Texas. Alex Walker, a negro, was shot by Sheriff Little and probably fatally wounded. The new whitehead torpedo developed a speed of thirtj--one and thirty-two knots in tests off Xewjwrt, R. IM of a consignment recently purchased abroad. Uright sunshine and summer breezes called a summertime crowd to Coney Island, X. Y., the other daj It is estimated that 20,000 people went to the island. Rioting followed the announcement in Mid-Devonshire, England, that an election to fill a vacancy in the House of Commons had been won .by the Conservatives. President Roosevelt has approved the recommendation of the isthmian canal commission approved by Secretary Taft to increase the width of th-j caua! locks to 110 feet. Senator Jefferson Davis of Arkansas said, "I don't believe any man on earth ever made a million dollars honestly'' in an address before a mass meeting of tho Progressive Democratic League in Coojier Union hall, Xew York. f Prank Pixley, the Chicago playwright, is quoted as faying in Los Angeles, Cal., that King Carlos of Portugal recently conferred on him the decorations of the Order of Christus and also the Order of Yasco de Gama in appreciation of hi enjoyment of "The Prince of rilsen." Mr. Pixley displaj-cd the jewels of the orders. Ticket scalpers lost their fight in the United States Circuit Court in Xew Orleans to save part of their business from the recent Supreme Court order making ticket scalping illegal. The scalpers asked for a decree making the Supreme Court decision applicable only to those tickets bearing the signature of the pur-chiiaer.

CHICAGO. Trade conditions in the Chicago di trict are summarized in the weekly review issued by R. G. Dun & Co. as follows : In view of the effort to strengthen credits and the severe test from which business generally is emerging, it is not surpris'iig that the commercial mortalitj again exhibits a comparatively large ratio. It is an indication, however, mat tb weak concerns no longer rtiuain to distuib confidence. Other factors are mainly most encouraging and add to further revival in activity. Dealings at the banks now make the closest approach tc those at this time last year, heavy settlements proceed smoothly, and the legitimate needs of lKrrowera are tnoro readily extended. The discount rate is much easier, but the offerings of paper reflect uo undue pressure to obtain funds. Some further gain appears in the machinery and labor employed in manufacturing, although the effort to idvance production is tide slowly, but the indications constantly improve in iron, wood and leather branches. Prices bear a firmer tone in the principal raw materials, particularly hides, lumber and minor metals, and more inquiry from consumers is thought to mean an early addition to furnaces operated. Developments in construction and building are not yet notably interesting, but the indications become brighter, and with receipts' unusually light and yard stocks small, the market for lumber becomes more encouraging, esjcially for factory needs. Carshops run low on forward orders, but shipbuilding engages more help, and there h steady running in footwear, clothing, foundry and electric lines. Weather conditions have favored sustained absorption of winter merchandise, and seasonable dealings appear in the leading retail and jobbing branches, with larger numbers of visiting buyers operating in the principal staples. Failure- report! in the Chicago district number d), against 47 last week 8nd 24 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number IG, against 3D last week and 8 in 1I7. NET7 YORK. Trade and industry arc still quiet, commodity prices have quite generally moved downward, collections are backward, an increased quantity of railroad equipment is reported idle, less satisfactory repo'rt as to demand come from the iron and 6t'e-I and coal industries and an Increased disposition is noted to discuss wage redjetions as an offset to restricting production. 1 Wholesale trade as a whole is slow to open, though leavy cuts in cotton gocJs by western jobbers, equaled or cxcedd by eastern houses, have aroused interest and attracted buying in these kindnJ lines. Travelers on the road report buy ing to be of a filling-in character, suf5 cient merely to replace broken stocks and a slew and late opening of spring ist J trade is looked for. üustinoss xaimrcs ior me weeic end Jan. 23 number 408, against 431 last week, 232 in the like week of 1007, 273 in rJOfl, 228 iu 1905 and 242 in 1904. Canadian failures for the week number 51, as against 41 last week and IS in this week a year xgo. Bradstreet's Re port. .A4 1 Chicago Cattle, common , to pria1. $1.00 to $0.20; hogs prime heavy, $4.j0 to $4.42; sheep, fair to choice, $.w0 to $5.15; wheat, Xo. 2, i)7c to iX); corn, Xo. 2, 5Sc to 5!c; oats, standard. 40c to 51c; rye, Xo. 2. Sic to S5c; hir, timothy, $I.50 to $15.50; prairie, $8.X) to $11.50; butter, choice creamery. 2 to 31 c; eggs, fresh, fiOc to 25c; pctatof-S per bushel, 55c 1o (-5c j Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. 3 ("0 to $0.00; hogs, good to choice heafTt $3.50 to $1.45; sheep, common to priiref $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, Xo. 2, U7c to lKb: corn, Xo. 2 white, 54c to 55c; oats, Xo.2 white, 51c to 52c. i St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $d.OO; ho'js, $4.00 to $1.40; fheep, $3.00 to $5.25: wheat, Xo. 2, $1.01 to $1.03; corn. Xo. 2. 54c to 55c; oats, Xo. 2, 49c to 50c; ryf, Xo. 2, S2c to S4c i Cincinnati Cattle, $1.00 to $5.35;; hogs, $1.00 to $4.30; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, Xo. 2, $1.01 to $1.02; corm Xo. 2 mixed, 55c to 5Cic; oats, Xo. 2 mixed, 50o to 52c ; rye, Xo. 2, S2o ta 85c Detroit Cattle, $1.00to $5.00; hog, $4.00 to $1.25: Fheep. $2.50 to $5.00: vi heat,-Xo. 2. Wk? to $1.00; corn. Xo. 3 yellow, 58c to 59e; oats, Xo. 3 whit p. 52c to 54c; rye. Xo. 2, Sic to S3c. Milwaukee Whe.it, Xo. 2 northern, $1.07 to $1.CJ; corn, Xo. 3, 57c to 59c; oats, standard. 50c to 52c: rye.'Xo. 1, 83c to S5c; barley, Xo. 2, D0c to $1.01; pork, mess, $13.50. Puffalo Cattle, choice snipping Ktejrs. $1.00 to $5.75; bogp, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.15; sheep, common to" good mixed, $4.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice $5.00 to $7.25. Xew York Cattle. $1.00 lo $5.12; hogs, $3.50 to $1.00; sheep. $3.X to $5.25; wheat, Xo. 2 red, $1.03 to $101L corn, Xo. 2, 05c to 07c; oats, natural, white, 54c to 50c; butter, creamery, 27c to 31c; eggs, western, 22c to 25c ToleJo Wheat, Xo. 2 mixed, 00c to $1.00; corn, Xo. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; oats, Xo. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; ry Xo. 2, Sic to 82c; clover seed, prime, $10.50. First NurloKlcal Hospital. Commissioner of Charities Ilebberd of Xew York City, with the help of several local experts, has established the first neurological hospital having a separate medical board and organization. . It is to be located on Illackwell's Island and will be known as the Hospital for Xervoui Diseases of Xew York City. Country Dank Illamecl. A circular issued by the Xational City P.ank of Xew York shows that $270,000.000 was the total amount of u?h that disappeared from circulation dur-pg the recent panic, and blames the country banks for hoarding and thus unnecessarily putting a strain on the reserve cities. Two grizzly bears were born in the Pronx zoo, Xew York, the oth?r clay. One of the babies was frozen to death. Th other is in a bad way, but it is thought that warmth and frequent feeding with milk will save it. Senator William II. Meek of Dayton declared in the Ohio Senate that there bad been graft in the issuance of teachers' certificates and introduced a resolution to appoint a legislative committee to investigate. Gov. Iloeh's message to the special nesidon of the Kansas Legislature urged the passage of a direct primary law to provide for the nomination by t'irect vote of every State, county and district officer. Edward M. Smith, aged 70 years, a life convict ia the State prison at Thomaston, Me., was clubbed to death by Xeal Dow Brooks, 23 year old, another prisoner.