Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 19, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 February 1908 — Page 2

THE PLYMOUTH TRIBUNE.

PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS a CO.. . . Publishers. 1908 FEBRUARY 190S

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PAST AND PBESEXT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Maar Mob Lynches Negro. Tili Pigot, the negro who criminally assaulted Miss Williams, -a young white woman near Brookhaven, Miss., several weeks ago, was taken from the custody of the Jackson military conpany and a posse of deputies am! hanged from a telegraph pole within less than a hundred yards of the court house, where he was to have been tried. The military company and posse were overpowered by a mob of more than 2,000 persons. Several shots were fired during the melee and two members of the mob were wounded. Paint Concern Goes to the Walt. An involuntary petition in bankruptcy against Heath &, Milligan, one of the oldest an largest paint manufacturing firms In Illinois, has been filed in the Federal District Court at Chicago, following a conference of creditors of the concern. No formal statement of the assets and liabilities of the firm was filed but attorneys for the numerous Interests Involved say the liabilities amount to about $1,440,000. The assets of the company aside from its plant at Canal arid Lumber street was estimated at $1,000,000. Killed Her Baby Brother. Flossie Ford, 6 years old, shot and Instantly killed her 3-year-old brother "with a revolver at Whitestown, near Lebanon, Ind. The tragedy occurred at the home of Wesley Wolf, an uncle of the children, where they, with their -parents, were visiting. While ransacking an old trunk for curiosities, the little &lrl found what she thought was a toy pistol. She pointed it at her baby brother and pulled the trigger, killing him instantly. , Bank President a Suicids. Francis T. Roots, president of the First National Bank, of Connersville, Ind., committed suicide by shooting. He had been la 111 health for several months. Mr. Roots served several terms in the Legislature and was identified with a number of business Interests, Including the Connersville Buggy Company, Roots & Barrcws, the Connersville Natural Gas Company and the Triple !3Ign Company. Thousands Go Back to Werk. Between 5,000 and C,0r j men have returned to work at the Lorain, Ohio, ptent of the National Tube Company. The plant has been closed down for several months. Under normal conditions about 8,500 men are employed. It Is understood to be the present intention of the company to re-employ a full quota of men within a very short time. Men on Cruiser St. Louis Scalded.' A dispatch from Vallejo, Cal., says: Boiler tube3 on the cruiser St. Louis blew out while the St. Louis was off Sausalito. E. E. Scott, coal passer; F. Thompson, water tender; E. W. Baker, fireman of the first class, and D. LewIs, fireman of the first class, were horribly scalded with steam. The origin of the explosion Is not known. Fatal Mine Explosion. Nine miners were killed and one other fatally injured by an explosion of Cas in the mine of the Moody Coal Co. at South Carrollton, threa miles from Central City, Ky. The mine Is a small one and only thirteen men were at work in the diggings at the time of the explosion. Three Dead from Gas Fumes. Three persons were asphyxiated and two persons were rec cared fatally ill at Cleveland, Ohio, by escaping Cas fumes. WTiile the five were sleeping the chimneys became clogged with soot, thus causing the house to be filled with the gas. $2,500 for Springfield Poor. John W. Bookwalter, the millionaire and former Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, has cabled $2,500 to llayor Burnet, from Nice, Italy. The money is to be used for the poor people of his city who are out of work. Wage Cut Announcement. The Republic. Iron and Steel Company has announced a 7 per cent, reduction in the wages of the blast furnace workers-in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys. Welt-Known Editor Dsad. John W. Oliver, editor and principal owner of the Yonkers Statesman, i3 lead at his home In Yonkers, New Tork, at the age of 92 years. lie was la charge of the paper until last week. Kills Child and Self. Calling his daughter Helen, 9 years old, to his bedside. Gustav Walstedt of Chicago sent a bullet through her brain, killing her. While th weapon still smoknl he turned it upon himself and the next moment had joined his daughter i.t death. Temporary insanit3 caused by an attack of the grip, is believed to bave caused the act. Killed in Great Crush. Many women were injured and or.e child was killed in a crash at the c'rnvh in Lisbon where the bodies of the dead king and the prince were lying in state. Minister Kill3 Hinrelf. Dr. Carl Ilullhorst, a former practicing physician and Presbyterian minister, expelled from the church on a charge of preaching heresies. died at the State hospital for the insane in Lincoln. Neb., ns the result of exposure anJ injuries sustained some hours earlier when lie attempted to drown himself in a creek. Rosevelt Denie3 Charges. President Roosevelt has made public a reply to the charges that he ha used federal patronage to inlluence the nomination of Secretary Taft for the presidency, and explains his system of appointments.

ARMY KATION IMPROVED.

War Department Takes Steps to Remove the Causes of Discontent. Many responses have come both from officers and enlisted men to Secretary Taft's invitation to give reasons for the discontent and unrest in the arm-. The causes mentioned as contributing to disturbing conditions are practice marches, compulsory exercises in the gymnasium in some cases, inadequacy of the ration, the cutting out of "extras" in the way of food and the nature of extra work. The department has taken steps to ameliorate some of these conditions. The ration has b en increased and Congress has been asked to pass a bill to create a service corps costing $100,000 to do extra and non-military work now required of soldiers. The value of the increase authorized in the ration is a little more than 2 cents a meal. There will be established a haversack ration of bacon, hard bread, coffee and sugar, and, possibly, canned beef, to be used in emergencies. HE'LL EULE FOR PEOPLE. Manuel Declares He Has No Knowledge with Which to Reign. King Manuel of Portugal uttered the following touching words to a statesman who was among the first to offer his services after the double royal assassination : "I am terrified at the death of my father and brother, and especially at the death of my brother, whom I greatly loved. He was much more capable to reign than I am. His education had prepared him to govern ; his recent trip through the Portuguese colonies, was part of that education, while only yesterday I was taking mus'cj lessons and have been given no special education for kingship. Put my heart and life, all I have and shall have, I will give to the people for their happiness and well being." LOSE DEPOSITS; MUST PAY CASH. Patrons of Defunct Banks' Find Clearing-House Holds Paper. It developed that the collateral which the New York clearing house accepted against its certificates from the suspended Mechanics and Traders' bank consisted largely of notes and commercial paper. The clearing house has $0,000,000, face value, of this kind of collateral with some stocks and bonds mixed in. When its doors were closed the Mechanics and Traders had $1,000.000 of clearing house certificates outstanding. Makers of the notes and paper held by the clearing house want it to take as an offset the amount of their balances with the Mechanics and Traders. Nearly all of them are depositors in that institution. This the clearing house refuses to do, and will insist upon full payment of the notes when they mature. SCOUT WHALE STORYP NO CASH. Minister Withdraws Donation Because School Teaches "Heresies. An amended answer was filed in court by Rev. Gustavus Huffman, a retired Christian church pastor, who is now in the banking business in the St. Louis fbburb of Maplewood, in the suit by which the Bible college of Missouri seeks io enforce payment of a note for $.",000 given by Rev. Mr. Huffman as a donation. In his petition Pev. Mr. Huffman states that his reason for not turning the money ver to the college is that the college, in Its teachings, scouts the story of the (jarden of Eden, and the swallowing of Joiiah by the whale. He declares that "in 1 view of these facts," he does not want to pay the $.",000 as he "has no desire to indorse heresies." ROCKEFELLER TO AID CITY BOYS. Oil Chief and Harold McCormick to Provide Summer Playgrounds. That money furnished by John D. Rockefeller and Harold McCorniick, his son-in-law, of Chicago will provide summer playgrounds in the country on an extensive scale for city boys was stated the other night by Capt. Jack Crawford, sometimes known as the "Poet Scout." Crawford says he is to have charge of the first playgrounds to be opened, a tract of wilderness in Michigan on Portage lake near Manistee. According to the plan outlined the boys summer play, systematically supervised, will be largely In woodcraft. Other parks, it is said, are planned. Boys from the big cities will be selected to make up the camping parties. Dynamite Non-Union Bridge. All of the false work and a part of the iron work on a city bridge being constructed at the foot of Eagle avenue, Cleveland, was wrecked by dynamite. In addition to this, much damage was done to factory walls and windows in the immediate vicinity. The bridge was being constructed by non-union men. This is the fifth attempt that has been made since Jan. 1 to wreck bridges being built by non-union men. To Wed Leiter, Not a Duke? When the Duke of Abruzzi, heir presumptive to the Italian throne, returns to this country to press his suit for the hand of Miss Catherine Elkins. daughter of Senator Elkins of West Virginia, he will find that a young American millionaire has "cut him out." Joseph Leiter is the favored one. Missouri Prohibitionists Triumph. Columbia, Mo., voted dry by a majority of 42 votes. The wet people, who charge that eighty-six nonresident students voted illegally, will contest the election. Boone County voted on the same question and the returns indicate that it has decided to be "dry." Boy Badly Bitten by Baboon. Mark Hewlett, 13 years old, a pupil in the Ocean Park, Cal., school, was badly bitten in the face, the back of the neck and legs by a large African baboon, which escaped from its cage nt the home of George P. McClelland, and broke into the lunchroom of the school, causing a panic. Will Not Favor John D. John I). Rockefeller has $120,000 of his gilt-edged bonds in the collapsed bank of North America in New York and has been told by the receiver that he must take the same chance as the humblest depositor in getting his money out. Practices on Mark; Kills Wife.' After several daj-g of revolver target practice, Jacob Koretzky shot his wife on the street in Denver, and then himself. Itoth died shortly af'erward. Koretzky, who was .dying of consumption, was insanely jealous of his wife. Feud Leader Is Slain. James I'. Hargis, leader in the famous Breathitt county, Kentucky, feud, was shot and killed by his son Peach, in the father's store in Jackson, K3'. The son iiftd been Irinking and a quarrel preceded the tragedy Cut in Two by Train. The body of Dr. F. II. Mosi of Palo Alto was found on the railroad tracks near the station at Morgan Hill, Cal., cut in two. The father of Dr. Moss was for years and up to the time of his death chief justice of Canada and his uncle, Charles Moss, is now occupying that position. Saloon's Foes Lose. The saloon question in Chicago will not bo an issue at the April election, as the foes of the dramshop failed to get the required number of signatures to place the question on the ballot.

HAVOC TN GALE AT SUA.

Vessels Wrecked in Furious Blizzard that Sweeps Atlantic Coast. The furious storm of wind and snow which raged along the cntiri Atlantic const from Saturday until Monday, and which extended far out into the ocean, left a trail of disaster, the extent of which is just becoming known. The disasters reported include the burning of the steamer St. Cuthbert in midocean in the midst of a blinding blizzard, th. details of which were received in wireis message from the White Star liner Cymric, which rescued a portion of the crew; the sinking of the big schooner Emclie Birdsall by the Old Dominion steamer Jefferson off the Virginia coast, while the storm was at its worst, causing the loss of four lives; the wreck of the schooner Mary L. Marshall near the Bermudas and the stranding of the British steamer Winifred on the Long Island coast. WRIT HITS BUCKET SHOPS BLOW Minneapolis Court Upholds Chambei of Commerce in Fight. Judge Brooks in the Hamilton county (Minn.) District Court has i-ued an injunction in the case of the Minneapolis chamber of commerce against W. S. Daggett, which is considered the most sever? blow administered to bucket shops since proceedings were instituted against them The hVat centered around the use of the regular quotations furnished by the '"liik'-r" service, the defendant claiming he had a right to use quotations obtained by that means. Judge Brook held that the quotations of the chaimVr of commerce are private property and enjoin 0 the deft ndant from using any ticker scro anil from lasting any pries that la iiii to have a basis on the Moor of "he clumber of commerce.. TO CURTAIL IRON ORE OUTPUT. Mine Owners Will Not Cut Prices 'Hits Lake Traffic. For the apparent purpose of endeavoring to maintain the price of iron ore for this jear uion a standard equal to the prices last year. William E. Corey, president of the I'nited States Steel Corporation, attended the conference of iron ore mine owners in Cleveland. The Steel Corporation is not a purchaser of ore, having its own mines. There was no apparent disposition to make a rate less than last year. To maintain the price, however, there is every indication that a reduction will le made in the amount of ore ruined. The curtailment will mean that many loats will be idle upon the great lakes this coining summer. CREW AT PUMPS 120 DAYS. Officers and Men of Leaking Schooner Arrivo at San Francisco. After working at tb; pumps 120 days to keep the schooner William Nottingham afloat, the oncers and crew arrived in San Francisco on the long overdue vessel almost prostrated. During the voyage it had sprung a leak. The schooner, on which 50 jer cent reinsurance was quoted, spent 310 days on its way from New York to Seattle via Melbourne. During nearly the entire trip she encountered rough weather and was obliged to remain at Melbourne from Aug. 20 to Oct. 8 to repair damages. THREE DEAD IN NEW YORK FIRE Four cf Eight Families fn Apartment House Accounted For. Fire in a five-story apartment house at West Seventieth street and Columbus avenue, New York, at 2 o'clock iu the morning resulted in the death of three persons. Margaret Landon, 21 years old, died from suffocation a few moments after being carried to the street by firemen. Four-of eight families occupying the building are accounted for. Some members of the family of Adolph Schwartz are missing. Two persons were killed by jumping from the windows. MAJOR A. W. EDWARDS DEAD. Editor Who Made North Dakota Famous Expires'After Long Illness. Major Alauson W. Edwards, founder of the Fargo Daily Argus in 1X79 and later of the Fargo Forum in 1S91, died at his home in Fargo, N. D., after a long illness. He was born in Iraine county. Ohio. Up to a few years ago he was a prominent figure in business and itolitical affairs of his adopted State. He had been mayor of Fargo, and his last official position was United States Consul at Montreal. Mrs. Triggs Weds. While Prof. Oscar Lovell Triggs, once possessor of the brightest mind on the faculty list of Chicago university, whose brilliant achievements were nullified when he was sidetracked by free love ideas, lay mi mourned and near death in Chicago cablegrams were received announcing th wedding of Laura Sterrette McAdoo, who divorced him, to Dr. Julien Gagey in London. Given Aid; Falls Dead. Mrs. Moses Tucker of Wilkesbarre, Pa., fell dead in the office of Poor Director Charles West field as he handed her an order for food and clothing for her hu sband and five starving children, whom she had been s.'riving for several weeks to support. Food and clothing were taken to the family before the body was carried home. Louisiana Mob Hangs Slayer. Near Oak Grove, La a mob of mor than four hundred persons, including manj- women, overpowered a deputy sheriff having in custody Robert Mitchell, a negro, who shot and killed Lon Threlkeld of Ilarrisburg, 111., and hanged the prisoner from a railroad water tank. Threlkeld had charge of some work and had discharged Mitchell from his employ. I Gas Fumes Are Fatal. Three persons were asphyxiated and two probably rendered fatally ill by escaping gas lumes in Cleveland. The dead are: John Gehringer, an auctioneer; his wife, Ida, and , his niece, Mrs. Pansy Brookway of Peoria, 111., who was residing at the Gehringer home. The chimney lecarne clogged with söot. Countess of Yarmouth Divorced. The Countess of Yarmouth has been granted a decree by a Ixndon judge, nullifying her marriage to the Karl of Yar mouth, who made no defense, it is said, because of insanity testimony and verdict in recent trial of Harry K. Thaw in New York. Die in Burning House. The house of Thomas Yeast, four miles southwest of Preston, Minn., was burned to the ground the other night. Mrs. Yeast, Charles Ensle and wife and baby were burned to death. Mr. Yeast barely es 'aped. Seat or No Fare. The Oklahoma corporation commission has issue! an order that exempts any person who is unable to secure a seat in a railway coach from paying his fare or giving over his tickrt. Unless rescinded, the order will become effective in sixty days. Ohio County Option Bill Passed. The "Ohio Senate, by a vote of 24 to 1.1, passed the Hose county option bill. The measure now goes to the House, and friends of the measure claim it will have a larger majority there than in the Senate.

THE FAKE FOLLOWS THE FLEET.

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MORSE IN FINANCIAL STRAITS. Former Great Financier's Property of All Kinds Is Attached. Charles W. Morse, organizer of the oe combine and of the Consolidated Steamship Company, and a few months ago regarded as one of the greatest financiers in America, recently disappeared from New York. Ills creditors attached all his property in that city, Including his residence at 728 Fifth avenue, in a suit for $243,321 begun by Charles A. Ilanna, national bank examluer, as receiver of the National Pank cf North America, which Morse controlled. In the papers on which the attachment was granted it was stated that More had left for I'tirope. ' Morse has had a meteoric career. He organized. 'consolidated ami Uoatel one enterprise after another. At one time he controlled banks, trust eorapaules. Insurance companies, steamship companies ami other eon orat ions f aggregate resources valued at more than öW,(,tMX). Morse's fortune several years ago was estimated at 92O,0f)O,00O. Three months ago he displayed quantities of securities and claimed to be worth $11,000,000. That there is no possibility of a war with Japan and that the sailing of the fleet to the Pacific is not a threat to any nation were the opinions expressed by Svretary Taft at the banquet, of the Ohio Society at Philadelphia. Hut he added that it was sometimes helpful to have it understool that yc j can back up what you say. The influence of the navy in the Orient cxuld not but be of great benefit. The next day after the formal announcement of (Jov. Hughes that he vculd not objct to a unanimous expression of the Republican party in New York favorable to his nomination tor the presidency Secretary of War Taft made public his letter to Chairman Parsons of the New York county committee, in which he said that friends of his should not attempt to divide in his interest the delegation from any State which has a candidate of its own. Secretary Dover of the Republican National Committee, who submitted to a committee of three lawyers the question of the legality of the proposed primaries in Ohio for the choice of delegates to the national convention from congressional districts, as alvocatel by the Taft followers, now reports their decision as being unfavorable to that plan. While the opli ion is not binding on either the eommktec or the convention, it is taken by the Fcrakerites to be a victory for them. In reply to the opjtosition of some Democratic leaders through the East and South to the candidacy of W. J. Hryan for the presidential nomination, Mr. I5ryan is rejKirted as having sent word to prominent Democrats at Washington that if they can show him that any considerable number oC earnest, real and reliable Democrats believe that his candidacy will prove detrimental to the best interests of I he party he will refuse to accept the nomination. He has further said that he will give his support to any one of ;hese three Democrats. (Jov. Johnson of Minn'sota, (!ov. Hoke Smith of Oorgia or Senator Culberson of Texas, but he has declared with emphasis that h- cannot be i'MiM'cted to stand for another campaign such as was made for Alto.i I?. Parker. He will not relinquish his own ambitions in ord.-r to turn the Democratic party over the the conservative e!etr.eiit. In view of the remarks made by Secretary Taft at a semi-political gathering lately, In which he refused to agree to the harmony arrangements proposed by Senator Crane, Senator Foraker has expressed himself as very loubt fill about any adjustment of the political rivalry b twecn the two Ohio men. "It may be i-fgarded as settled th. t the contest will Ik? fought out to the end," was his coinlüiiit on the situation. The Los Angeles limited oa the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad was wrecked at Fettly Station, Cal. Five passengers were injured.

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Bl Breathitt County, Kentucky, Terror Shot Down While Busy in His Store. QUARREL BEFORE TRAGEDY. Long and Deadly Struggle of Two Factions of Mountaineers Recalled. Former County Judge James Hargis, notorious Kentucky feud leader, practical dictator of Breathitt county, anil accused of complicity in many murders, was shot and instantly killed In his general store at" Jackson by his son, Beach Hargis. The son tired five shots In rapid succession, four of which took effect In his father's body. The exact cause of the quarrel which resulted In Judge Hargis' death Is unknown. It is supposed, however, that the k I' ling was the result of an old grudge between, father and son. which had been inflamed of late by the young man's dissolute habits. The two men are said to have had an altercation several nights before, daring which the father was compel led to resort to violence to restrain his son. Beach, who is reported to have been drinking heavily of latf, entered his father's general store In the middle of the afternoon. Judge Hargis was standing behind the eouuter in the rear of the place, and several customers were grouped in the front. Young Hargis, who was apparently under the Influence of lhpior at the time, walked toward his father, who Is said to have remonstrated with h!ui. A quarrel started, which attracted the attention of the customers. Young Hargis 'then joined his father behiml the counter, and after a few moments' conversation drew a revolver anl tirexl three shots 'at poiui blank range. -Mercy! Merry! You've killed me," appealed the elder man as he lay on the Uoor. Young Hargis' answer was to tire two more bullets into his parent's prostrate , body. A panic ensuetl, during which the store was emptied and Town Marshal Coran Smith notified. Smith, with Grover Blanton, placed young Hargis under arrest after a desperate struggle, during vwhieh he raved like a madman. IK was removed to the county jail, figntliig every inch of tbo way with his captors. Can Electric .Car Tetel. On Wednesday at Schenectadj-, N. officials of the Delaware and IluJson Company and the American Locomotive Company made a test of the new gas electric car which is expected to revolutionize railroading on short lines. It combines in one the inver house, transmission lines, substat'ons and all the benefits of electric traction without the costly and cumbersome features of the trolley. A powerful gas engine drives an electric generator. The current obtained in this way supplies power to the motors which drive the car. Th gas engine, which consumes gasoline, runs very smoothly, and the electrical equipment assures ' perfect control of speel ami as comfortable riding as is enjoyed in the modern interurban electric. The shape of the ends of the car is parabolic, to retluce the air resistance to a minimum when traveling at high speed. The eight-cylinder gas engine tlevelops 1.0 horse-power, and is coupled to 120 horse-power direct current generator. The machinery worked finely on all kinds of grades, and a speel of over sixty miles ai hour was made at times. The car was especialli' designed and constructed by the General Electric Company for steam railroad work on the Delaware and Hudson lines, and will be used on several of its branch roads. Inillan Veteran 1'roteat. It is reporte! from Johannesburg, Transvaal, that 110 Indian ex-soldiers who acted as hospital bearers and the like during the Boer war have seijt a I etitioti to the Earl of Elgin, England's secretary of state for the colonies, protesting against the gross insult to thera in the identification measures adopted by the Transvaal govern meat, which they declare infringe upon their religion. The petition further says that if the imperial government is unable to protect them they will pray the king to order that they he shot on one of the South African battlefields on which they served. The offensive regulation referred to was one ompelling natives of India to furnish finger prints ami other means of identification as a condition of remaining in the ndony. Several prominent Indiaa natives have been sent'iiced to two and three months' imprisonment for refusing to omply with the ropiireuu-nts of the law. Wo in nit SuflfriiKc lit Frniir-. The growth of the sentiment for woman suffrage in Fiance is shown by the fact that a resolution to be presented to the chamber favoring votes for women has received ."0.000 signatures. When the number reahes ltO,0(K) the petition is to be presented by the National Council of Women. Fire destroyed the Dominion Coil Company's store at Dominion, N. S. Los3 $70,000. The demand for aluminium still exceeds the supply.

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j WORK OF ? jj CONGRESS I

Senator Piles of Washington Monday delivered an eloquent appeal in favor of an appropriation by Congress of $700,(KX) for a government exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, to be held in Seattle next year. The day in the Senate was chiefly levoted to a consideration of bills on the calendar, several of which were passed. Three of the giants of the House had their innings Monday. Technically the Indian appropriation bill was under discussion, but legislation was relegated to the background while national politics occupied the stage. Before the political question cropped out the House, with next to the largest attendance of the session pn'sent, with but one dissenting voice, passed a general widows' pension bill granting a flat pension of $12 a month to the widows of all honorably discharged soldiers of the United States who have not heretofore received the benefits of the pension law and an increase of $4 a month for those who have under the act of June 27, 1S'.K1. The bill involves the expenditure of more than $12,000,000 annually. The Senate Tuesday passed the urgent deficiency bill, carrying an appropriation of over $21,000,000. The large deficiency appropriation for the navy brought .out considerable discussion on the subject of executive departments making expenditures ;ot provided for in appropriations. Deficiency appropriations for the Panama canal gave rise to Democratic criticism of the publication of a paper by the Canal Commission at Panama, and incidentally Senator Teller declared that Ik believed the lock canal at Panama would some day be declared a failure, and that a sea level canal would take its place. The Senate devoted two hours to consideration of the criminal code bill. President Roosevelt's recent message to Congress on the relations of capital and labor and of corporations and the public again was the theme of discussion in the House of Representatives. .So great was the demand for time that general debate on the Indian appropriation bill, which is the pending business, was extendel for four hours. Interest in the proceedings centered in a speech by John Sharp Williams, the minority leader, who, while lauding the President for some ol his sentiments, expressed the belief that others were dangerous. Mr. Williams spoke for nearly two hours. His remarks on the financial question prompted a lengthy discussion of that subject by McIIill, of Connecticut, in which he op posed the Aldrich financial bill. Other speakers were: Messrs. Uonygne, of Colo' rado, Ne, of Minnesota, and Macon, ol Arkansas. -Jie latter urging the passage of his bill prohibiting dealings in futures in agricultural products. Senator Poveridge of Indiana delivered an appeal to the Senate Wednesday to adopt his bill providing for a nonpartisan tariff commission, a plan which he tleclared conformed to nKxlem and business ideas on this subject. Several Democratic Senators spoke briefly on the general subject of the tariff. Tariff revision and the President's recent special message to Congre.s again were the main topics of discussion in the House. As has been the case for nearly a week, the Indian appropriation bill ostensibly was before the House, but no word was spoke a in regard to it. A long speech by Sereno Payne of New York, the majority leader, was considered important because of his assurances that a tariff revision plank would be incorporated in the Republican national platform of this year, lie credited Mr. Bryan with going about the country accusing President Roosevelt of grand or petit larceny in purloining his ideas. Other speakers were Messrs. Thomas of North Carolina. Cox of Indiana, Hardy of Texas and Nelson of Wisconsin. A financial speech by Senator Culberson of Texas and the passage of a bill providing for a government exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition were the chief features of interest in the proceedings of the' Senate Thursday. Mr. Culberson gave the results of his analysis ol the recent report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Panama canal bond issue, in order to substantiate his contention that national banks of New York were unduly favored in the disposition of public funds, and that the Secretary had violated the law by issuing these bonds The Senate adjourned until Monday. Consideration of the Indian appropriation bill was resumed in the House. A bitter fight was waged on the proposition to abolish non-reservation schools. Mr. Clayton of Alabama spoke on the President's message and held up the Republicans as being divided into two factions "the reactionaries and the White House cuckoos." The message, he charged, was an indictment gainst the Republican party foi its dereliction and incompetency. The Senate was not in session Friday The session of the House was levoted almost entirely to consideration of the omnibus war claims bill, which was passed after considerable discussion. It carries a total appropriation of $31o,000. Mr. Macon of Arkansas in tbe course of the debate defended the Senate against what he said were aspersions cast upon that body by Mr. Payne of New York, when he predicted that the Senate would load the bill down with a number of unraeritorious claims. A number of private claims bills also were passed, and he House adjourned until Monday. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. Dr. Henry Gibbons, Jr., flean of the Cooper Medical College, was badly injured in a street car accident in San Francisco. ' Latest information indicates that more than a score of persons were killed in the cyclone that swept the region thout Ilazelhurst. Miss., Friday. Five persons were burnexl to death and jthers seriously injured by the burning of a three-story rooming house at 1110 Wyandotte street, Kansas City. Thousands of people in Columbus, O., suffered from the cold on account of a shortage in the supply of natural gas, which was said to be due to the breaking of a pump. Gov. Hughes of New York, speaking at 1 mass meeting- at the Majestic theater, IJrooklyn, made a strong plea for the abolition of racetrack gambling in the State. I'n-jiident Itoosevelt will touch a button kvhicli will open the tunnel under the rludson river between New York and New Jersey Feb. 2-. Govs. Hughes and Fort will shake hands at the Slate line 100 f. et below the surface of the river. New York at last has a real solendon. The solendon is an insect-eating beast from Hayti. It was presented to the American Museum of Natural History by the late Morris K. Jesup. Yclla Wiley, 17 years old, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. R. C. Wiley of Wilkinsjurg. Pa., and Robert Patterson, 22 years i!d, of New Alexandria, Pa., were drownil while skating on the Beaver river, near Heaver Falls, Pa. John T. Wilson, international presilent of the Brotherhood of Maintenance jf Way Employes of RiJlroads, while aghting with his wife in their home in St. Louis, was probably fatally shot by Frank G. Engleman, his brother-in-law.

UNITED STATES H WEALTHIEST Hi.

Treasury Figures Show that the Per Capita Is in Excess of $1,310. VAST GROWTH OF FINANCES. Money in Circulation on Jan. SO Last Was Nearly $3,000,000,000. " Major Alfred R. Quaiffe, vault clerk of the United States treasury, who has charge of Uncle Sam's money, called my attention the other day to the :dmost incr"di'jle growth of the business of the Treasury Department since he came into tho sen-Ice, forty-two years ago, and he furnished me with some very interesting and rather startling comparisons, writes William E. Curtis, the Washington correspondent. For example, the wealth of the country, which, of course, has kept pace with the transactions of the treasury,. s three and one-half times greater to-dj?y than It was in 1S70. The total then was $T0,OaS.518,000. The estimated total to-day, based uion the census reports and information received by the Agricultural Department, the Secretary of tiie Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency, is $107,104,211,917. The wealth per capita of citizeus of the United States, based upon similar estimates, has increased from $77f.N in 1S70 to $1,310.11. in 1907, which makes the United States, with Its enormous population, the richest country In the wcrld. The money in circulation has increased four-fold since Major Quaiffe came Into the treasury. The total in 1S70 was $073.212,794, while on Jan. 0, 15X7, it was $2,914,:42,25('. The circulation per capita has almost doubled, notwithstanding the present money famine, and has increased from $17.00 to $33.SG during the last forty-two years. When Major Quaiffe camV Into the cash room we had only $2T,0)0.00() in gold; to-day we have $75G,ÜGÖ.S(K) in gold coin In the treasury alone, not counting that In circulation and hoarded away. Uncle Sam's working capital on Dec. 14, 1907, amounted to $1,700.491,401.31 -all of which Is hard cash. Cf this amount $l,2r,7C.",SG9, In coin is held on deposit to secure the payment cf $7öGOC'ö,Si9 gold certificates, $471..2.V 000 silver certificates, and $r.51","00 treasury notes outstanding. The treasury reserve, which is kept by Jaw, amounts to $ir0,000,000. The cash balai'ee available to pay the current expenses of the government on Dee. 14 v.-as ?25:).7G2,C0:).C".- ' . Uncle Sam does not keep all of his money in Washington, although thre Is a good deal of it here. The remainder is scattered among the different subtreasuries, mints and national bank depositories as follows: Treasury, Washington .. .$17."5.971.S 1J.79 Subtroasury, New York.. 270.J2.-i.iK7.87 Subtreasury, Baltimore .. G.027,02::.41 Subtroasury, Philadelphia.- 1S.9GS.S20.00 Subtreasury, Boston. 19.928,27 lit) Subtreasury, Cincinnati.. 13,U7.8SJJ'J Si:btreasury, Chicago n..OS.-i,802.72 Subtreasury, St. Louis... 1S,000,SG2.40 Subtreasury, New Orleans 2.1,(WMW0.S!) Subtreasury. San Francisco SrUPAWCTO Mint, Philadelphia 311.178.311.72 Mint, Denver 3S.37O.907.19 Mint, New Orleans 3.-J.392.S71.34 Mint, San Francisco 322.4S3,71l 10 Assav office. New York... 79.S7S,32.T27 National banks 21G.2S4.4.VMU) Treasury Philippine IslanIs C79.V99.r9 Ir. transit between ySces. 49G.7SS43 In addition to the working balance and the reserve, there is a total of $S1 1.720.12S in bonds in the vaults at Washington, of which $rJ.i",970 Is to secure circulation of national banks and $l78,200,ir8to secure deposits In national banks. An additional sum of $103,7öl.iS0 is deposited for similar purposes in the subtredsuries of New York and San Francisco, making a total of $9ir,4S7,518 of other people's money In Uncle Sam's charge. Fnrman Wins Alrkhlp Prlsp. , Henry Farman, the French aeronaut, has won the Deutsche-Archdejcon prize of $10,0tlO promised to the List person who should make a circular kilometer in an airship heavier than air. Mr. Farman did even better than the conditions of the test required. His outer mark was 512 meters from the start and his curves were such that he actually covered 1,3(N meters. Aeronauts consider this exploit the greatest since M. Santos-Du-mont circumnavigated the Eiffel Tower in a dirigible balloon, and as being of far more prosiective value than Santos-Du-mont's performance. Tbe aeroplane weighs 300 iounds. A framework of ash and piano wires supports two horizontal parallel planes of light sail cloth GO feet long. A fifty horse-power motor is placd just behind and above the level of the lower plane of the forward set of sails. With a preliminary run of a hundred yards over the ground, the aeroplane had risen to a height of 12 or 13 feet before it reached the starting role. Then, with outstcetched 'wings, it sailetl out across the field at a height of from 25 to 30 feet and nt a speed of twenty-five miles an hour. The test took place about five miles from Paris. Steel Trv"t's Biff EarnlBg. ' Despite the unfavorable showing of the last quarter of the year, the records of the Steel Trust rhow that its profits for 1907 were $100,91,477, which is over $0,000,000 in excess of the previous highwater mark reached in 1900. The October earnings, immediately preceding the financial and industrial disturbance, were the largest in the history of the corporation. The directors have declared dividends for the last quarter of the year of V) per cent on the preferred and onehalf of 1 per c'nt on the common stock. The first five years of the profit-sharing plan of the trust have nearly closed, and it is reported in Wall street that those of its employes who have continuously held the preferred stock purchased when the plan was first announced in 190;$ will receive an extra dividend of V.4 per cent. The naval 'ordnance bureau has perfected arrangements n battleships for effectively separating the turrets from the powder handling rooms to prevent sudden ignition of the explosive. Daniel E. Fitton. in charge of Las Animas forest r'serve, reports fully 73 per cent of the homestead entries there fraudulent. One building of Dr. Amos J. Givens' sanitarium at Stamford, Conn., was burned. Loss $13,000 When a woman really loves a man, tlQ will shoot him if occasion arises.

IAL '5 'aXil ,nnu 4 J-cW t' tun ' T 1- In WWSCIÄIJ CHICAGO. Conditions of trade in the Chicago district tre summarized in the weekly review issued by R. G. Dun &. Co., as follows : n Trade activity felt the check Imposed bj- the severe weather and the marketing of farm products was restricted, but the general conditions toward recovery remain eLcxwraging and a healthier tone apinars in the leadipg branches. Muchsattention is devoted to the course of distributive dealings in mercantile lines, and thus far the indications are mainly satisfactory. Good headwas is made in reducing both local and country stocks, although clearance sales are j-ct in evidence. The markets for wholesale stop'cs tdiow a large attendance of visiting buyers and increasing selections are noted in tbe textiles, footwear, furniture, clothing and hanhvare. Road salesmen report more numerous orders and the outlook is better for spring and summer wres, but there is some hesitation due to a feeling that cost may yet go lower. Agricultural conditions remain exceptionally good, and with a continuance of high values for grain the prospects become brighter for wider consumption cf necessaries. Financial affairs reflect gratifying reaction from the depression and more funds seek investment. Money is in greater supply, with the discount, rates easier. Additional resumptions in the iron industry and further decrease of idle workers furnish the main developments in the principal lines of production. Wooilworking is more extensive Lan a month ago, and this imparts a Letter tone to lumber dealings. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 32, against 37 last week and 23 a "year ago. NEW YORK. While retail trade in some ' lines of wearing apparel has been helped by tbe coldest or stormiest weather of the winter, other branches of trade and industry ami transportation have been interfered with s'ficiently to make the week as a whole a ather quiet one the country over. Wholesale and fobbing trade has been rather quiet, and, while there are signs that improvement along conservative lines is making progress, the caution as regards spring buying is as marked as ever. From the Southwest come reports that some canceled orders are being rein-tited. From the South come advices of slow trade and collctons, but some lumber mills are reiorted resuming with srocks reduced by the recent shutdown. Kastern trade reports are of quiet, except whre helped by special weatherborn demand. Business failures in the I'nited States for the veek ending Feb. 0 number 272, against 339 last week, 198 in the like week of 1907. 204 in 1900. 207 in irxi3 and 202 In 1904. Canadian failures for this week number 30, as against 44 last week and IS in this week a year ago. Bradstrcet's Commercial Rejort. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. 54.00 to $Glo; hogs, prime heavy, $1.00 to $4.33; sheep, fir to choice, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2, 91c to 9Gc; corn, Xo. 2, rSc to T.Dc: oats, standard, 30e to 32c; rye. No. 2, 82c to 81c; bay. timothy, $9.30 to $15.01); prairie, $8.00 to $12.30; butter, choice creamery, 27c to 33c; eggs, fresh. 22c to 20c; potatoes, I er bushel, 02c to 73c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $3.73 ; hogs, good to choice heavy, 53.30 to $4.03; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.30; wheat. No. 2, 94c to 93c; corn. No. 2 white, 34c to 33c ; oats. No. 2 white, 51c to 52c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.30 to $0.00; hogs, fl.OO to $4.30; sheep. $3.00 to $5.30; wheat. No. 2. 9Sc to $l.O0; corn. No. 2, 33c to 50c; catsv No. 2, 4Sc to 50c; rye, No. 2, 81c to S2c. Cincinnati Cattle. $1.00 to $3.50; hogs, $4.00 to $l.Vi: she p. $3.M to f5.O0; wheat. No. 2, 07c to 9Sc; corn, Xo. 2 mixed, 55c to 50c; oats, Xo. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2, S3c to 80c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.23 : bogs, $1.00 to $4.03: sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 97c to 9Sc; corn. No. 3 j-ellow, 57c to 5Sc; oats. No. 2 white, 52c to 54c; rye, Xo. 2, Slj to S3c Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern $!.00 to $1.0S; corn. No. 3, 51c to 5Gc; oats, standard. 32c to 53e; rye, Xo. J, Sic to S3c; barley. No. 2, 99c to $1.01; pork, mess, $13.50. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.0O to $G.00; hogs, fair to choice, $-1.30 to 4.95 ; sheep, common to good mixed, 74.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.75. New York Cattle, $1.00 to $0.10; bogs, $3.30 to $4.90 : sheep, $3.0O to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.00 to $1.02; corn, Xo. 2, 02c to u3c; oats, natural white, 50c to 5Sc; butter, creamery, 2 Sc to 32c ; eggs, western, 22c to 27c. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 91c U 90c; corn. No. 2 miHl, 3c .to 37c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 52c; rye, Xo. 2, 7Sc to SOc; clover seed, prime, $11.40 INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS. The Merchants anI Shippers ware house in Buffalo was burned. Loss $200, (XX). The school of commerce of New York university has announced a course in practical advertising. Fire destroyed every building in Twin Lakes, Minn., the population of over two hundred being made homeless. "The Toilers" is the name of a club launched in New York at a meeting oi e.ghty of the city's hotel Herks. Two fires did $400,000 damage in Berlin, N. II. The (Irecne block, tbe Perl in National bank and six wooilen buildings were destroyed. The saltpeter warehouse and chemical laboratory of Smith, Kline & French Company, druggists in Philadelphia, was burntnl. Los $75.000. New York railroad officials estimate that the loss to 153 railroads owning idle cars represents a loss cf $2,00.OX) s mouth in interest on investments. Cracks were left in the crth by 1 earthiuake in the Housatouic river valley, near N-w Milfohl, Conn. Houses were shaken, but no one whs r'iorted injured. . Kmperor William has personally expressed his thanks to the Carnegie institute tri stees for a bok sent him entitled "Memorial," devoted to the dedication at Pittsburg a year ago. Representatives of several steel rail iranufacturrs and railroads have held a conference in New York and ngred ujon a heavier rail with an improved section designed to minimize accidents. Knoxville (Tenn.) io'.icc lelieve that robbers attacked James Johnson -;J2i James Jackson of that citv, killing .l'? latter after robbing him of ol.OOO. Johnson was found nn-onseius, but ther I no tra?e of Jackson, who had inteniil coins to Chicago.