Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 20, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 February 1908 — Page 2

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TSvN. M. -v F. Q.y P. M. T I Q. yyjapd. y sth. Tgy.Ttb. 21th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Thins re Shown. Nothing Orer looked to make it Complete. Priest Meets Frightful Death. The street car, which runs from South Bend, Ind., to Notre Dame University, ran into Father Salmon and Rev. Father Murphy, killing the former and badly injuring the latter. The accident occurred about a half mile from the college gate. The two priests had been taking a sleigh ride and were returning to the college for supper. A short distance from the school they got into a snow tank and one runner of the sleigh was inside the car tracks. Both must have seen the car coming but were unable to drive out of the way. The lights cn the car were very dim and the motorman did not see the sleigh until he was almost on top of it and then was unable to stop in time. Father Salmon was thrown directly under the wheels and his, body was almost severed in two. Father Murphy was struck in the back and suffered a bad bruies on the head. Serious Fire at Marion, Ind. Fire which threatened to sweep the entire east side cf the Public Square In Marion, Ind., was confined to the Philip Matter building, a three-story structure, only by hard work on the part of the firemen. The fire started in the basement of the building. The walls stood the test of the flames and prevented , their spreading to the adjoining buildings. The first floor and basement were occupied by the Marion Furniture Company, which recently purchased the furniture stock of R. H. Frank and most of the loss falls on this firm. The total loss on buildings and contents will be about $55,000? It is supposed the fire originated from an electric wire. Miners Alive and Fighting. Twenty-eight miners were Imprisoned in the 'Midvalley colliery, near Moun; Carmel, Pa., by the breaking of a dam which had formed In a drift, which caused a rush of mud .nt the gangway where the men were at work. All day long a party of resciurs endeavored to reach the entomb A men, and they were encouraged y sounds of digging on the Inside. Later a shot was heard, indicating that the men are actively at work to effect their own rescue and that the air inside is good. "Irj God We Trust" Wins. A .Washington dispatch says: "In God We Trust" is to have a place once more on the gold coins of, the country of those denominations on which it formerly appeared. The coinage, weights and measures committee, of which William B. McKinley, of Illinois, is chairman,; will report favorably a bill to this end and the President will not veto it. It may be that the design of the Saint Gaudens coins must be changed. The artists will decide that point. Wool Buyer a Suicide. Just after purchasing a $10,000 consignment of wool at Lima, Ohio, H. A. Dunlap, of New York City, closeted himself in his room at the Hotel Norval and emptied a two-ounce bottle of carbolic acid. He was found dead by a chambermaid" He had been despondent for days over the business outlook. He leaves a wife and three children. On his person was found a New Testament presented to him personally by John Wanamaker in 1903. Rumor of Alfonso's Assassination. A dispatch from Pari?, France says: Rumors were current here that King Alfonso of Spain ahd teen assassinated but no confirmation of or denial of this could be obtained at the French foreign office or the Spanish embassy. No details accompanied the rumors. William Sells Dead. William Sells, son of one of the three brothers who organized the famous Sells Brothers circus combination, died suddenly in' New York City. He wa3 42 years old. Two Men Burned to Death. Two men were burned to death In a fire which destroyed a dwelling house at Limestone, N. Y., near Bradford, Pa. Panic Forces Tennessee Firm Under. At Murfresboro, Tenn., it was announced that the firm of W. B. Earthman .& Co., extensive dealers In lumber, had assigned. The liabilities it i3 said, will approximate $700,000 with assets between $500,000 and $600.000. Insurance Co. in Receiver's Hands. Receivers have been appointed fof the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company of New York, upon the application of a policy holder's committee. Metcalf's Son Quits. The Secretary of the Navy lias acceptjd the resignation of his son, Midshipnan Victor N. Metcalf, because of ill health. It was with considerable reluctance that Secretary Metcalf accepted the resignation as he was anxious that his ion should have a naval career. Arrest Ten Italians; Seize Arms. The Statu police raided many Italian lomes between Shamokin, Pa., and Mount Carmel, collecting a large number of knives and revolvers and arresting ten Italians suspected of being memlers of a oand of outlaws. N Rob Bank in Wild West Style. While one masked robber held up the rashler in true wilu Western style his two companions lootid the vault of the bank at Granite Falls N. C, and secured all the cash in the institution, $2,700. Then they forced the cashier to enter the vault, and after locking him in scaped. "Sunday Lid" Is Platform. Judge William II. Wallace of the Criminal Court of Kansas City announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Missouri on a Sunday Slosing platform.

FOUR DEAD IN TEXAS CITY.

Tornado in South Claims Many Lives and Wrecks Towns. Tyler, Texas, was swept by the most disastrous tornado in its history about 4 o'clock Friday morning. Coming up from the southwest the storm swept over the main residence section of the city, leaving a trail of death and devastation. The dead are: C. A. Francis. Mrs. Willie Francis, his wife; Francis, infant; Mose Lee, an aged negro. Irwin Franklin, Mrs. Franklin and their four children were seriously injured. Ohe of the children is expected to die. They were caught in the wreckage of their home. Wires are down in all directions from Tyler, and while reports from farmers who are hastening in to ascertain the extent of the damage are to the effect that farm houses all around Tyler were blown down, it is impossible to ascertain the loss of life or to approximate the extent of the disaster. It is known, however, that the tornado swept everything clean for a distance of five miles. At least three towns in Mississippi have been destroyed. Only one building is standing in the town of Mossville. Miss., and that is the depot of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City railroad. The town had a population of 500, many of whom, it is feared, are dead or injured. WANTS U. S. TO BUILD ROADS. Wagon Route from Yellowstone Park to Grand Canyon, Arizona. In return for the millions of dollars paid in taxes by the West for river and harbor improvements in the United States, the business men of four Western States will petition the next Congress to appropriate $10,000,000 for a wagon road 1,000 miles long to be built from Yellowstone National Park to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado Kiver in Arizona. Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Arizona will be asked to join hands in making a campaign for the road. None of the States through which the proposed road will pass has su (Seien t finances to build it, but as it will be a great highway for travelers from all parts of the United States, it is argued that the road is of more importance than some of the inland harbors upon which vast Bums are lavished annually. HONOR FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS Bronze Tablets on Monuments of Men Who Fell at Pekin Unveiled. Six bronze tablets from the Rock Island arsenal, Illinois, placed on the monuments that have been erected at Tientsin, China, in memory of the American soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in the Boxer outbreak of 1901 were unveiled Thursday. The monuments have been officially transferred to the American legation by Col. Webb C. Hayes, president of the Chinese battlefield commission and a son of the late President Rutherford B. Hayes. A seventh tablet will be placed on the monument erected in memory of Col. Emerson H. Liscum, who commanded the Ninth regiment of infantry, and who lost his life during the attack of the allied forces at Tientsin In July, 1900. The tablets were unveiled by Col. Hayes. ALL SUNDAY WORK UNDER BAN. Police at Winnipeg Arrest Hundreds at Many Kinds of Labor.! ' Police officials in Winnipeg, Man., are making out and serving hundreds of summonses for alleged breaches of the Lord's day act. The campaign started two Sundays ago, and the first cases appeared in police court on a recent morning. Already some 500 summonses have been issued, and several hundred more are to be made out. The police are proceeding under instructions of the police commission, their action being a counter-movement opposed to action by members of the Lord's Day Alliance. Each Sunday police have pounced upon undertakers at funerals, newspaper men transcribing notes of Sunday sermons and editors. Another man was taking a bath when the police arrested him. INDIAN GIRLS' SCHOOL BURNS. Dormitory and Class Building on the Idaho Reservation Lost. While the entire school was at mass, the girls' Indian school, and the dormitory attached, at Desmet, Idaho, on the Coeur d'Alene reservation, twelve miles from Tekoa, Wash, were totally destroyed by fire. The fire originated in the third story in the dormitory from the falling of a stovepipe. It is thought. The personal effects and books of the Indian girls were lost. The inmates of the white girls' dormitory saved their personal property. Loss, $33,000. ! Chauffeur Found Guilty. Chauffeur Jesse Watson was sentenced in St. Louis to one year in jail and fined $1,000 for killing little Christine Musick, who was struck by Watson's automobile last October. Watson was in the employ of Clay Arthur Pierce, son .of Henry Clay Pierce, chairman of the board of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company. Testimony during the trial was to the effect that the automobile was running between fortyfire and fifty miles an hour. 4 Echo of Gen. Slocum Disaster. Captain William II. Van Sehaick of the excursion steamship General Slocum, which was burned on June 15, 1004, in East river with a loss of about 1,000 lives, must serve ten years in prison, his senten-e having been affirmed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Blown Up by Black Hands. Black hand operators exploded a stick of dynamite under the porch of the home of Vincenzo Manelli, in Rochester, N. Y, and blew the entire side of the building into fragments and endangered the lives of Manelli's and two other families that occupy the house. Student Badly Hurt in Gymnasium. Foster Holmes of Minneapolis, a Phillips Exeter senior, while exercising in the gymnasium in Exeter, N. II., fell to the hard wood floor from a swing and sustained serious injuries to his head and back. Bank Robbed of $23,000. Taking $23,000 after dynamiting and wrecking the building of the Farmers and Manufacturers' Bank in Rich Hill, Mo., five bandits, heavily armed, terrorized citizens and escaped. Strained Relations in Europe. Relations between Sweden and Russia are near the breaking point beause of Russia's plan to establish a naval station on the western shores. Night Rider3 Whip Ten. Night riders, ."00 strong, visited Eddyville, Ky., at 1 o'clock Sunday morning and whipped ten men, four of them white, and six negroes. Nun Catches Burglar in School. A burglar entered St. Mary's parochial school, Creehwich, Conn, and was searching the building when his presence was suspected and the police were sent for. When the burglar attempted to escape by the main door one of the sisters caught him in her arms and held him until the officers arrived. Rule by Commission Wins, i After a bitter campaign lasting several weeks, Leavenworth, Kan, by a majority of approximately 500, adopted a commission form of government patterned after that of Galveston.

JOINT ACTION IN MACEDONIA.

Russia, Britain and France Likely to Oppose Germany's Plans. It is expected here that Russia and Great Britain will enter upon an rgreement for joint action with regartl to the situation in Macedonia and that these two powers will be supported by France and perhaps by Italy. If such a coalition is made, the reason for it undoubtedly will be the latest developments at Constantinople the fact that Germany intends to abandon the allies and adopt the counter proposals of the Sultan: which are in the Russian point of view tantamount to no reform at all and which are regarded as creating a situation rivaling the Moroccan entanglement in international Importance. Only by such a four-power league, according to the Russian pres, can the necessary reforms in Macedonia be carried through. Austria-Hungary's desertion of the concert in return for individual advantages from Turkey is generally accepted as a fact in spite of the assurance from Vienna that the agreement with Russia remains the basis of Austria-Hungary's Balkan policy. SHOE DEALER IN THE TOLLS. St. Louis Man Arrested as Burglar Accused of Leading Dual Life. A respected shoe dealer in St. Louis by day and a burglar by night. is the dual role attributed by the police to John llasey. 12!) years old. arrested on the charge of burglary. A search of his room revealed $400 worth of optical goods and pawn tickets for goods that had been pawned. The police say Hasey had been leading a dual life for month. Many of the articles recovered were identified as the property of the Rembold Optical Company. The store was robbed last October. The police say Hasey is wanted in Cleveland, Ohio, on the charge of having robbed a jewelry store.- According to their story, he walked out of a Cleveland court room while awsiting trial on the charge. Hasey has served in the. navy. He denies the charges. PLOT TO DYNAMITE BANK. Social Revolutionists Planned to Destroy State Institution. The arrest of a sergeant of gendarmes at the Finnish railway depot in St. Petersburg has led to the discovery of a plot of social revolutionists to wreck the branch of the State bank in that city. When the gendarme was taken into custody it was found that he had a bomb in his pocket. He has confessed that he had been hired to transport the bomb and has given the police particulars relating to the plot. Acting on th!3 information the police arrested twelve of the alleged conspirators, includin; former Deputy KornI lieft". During their investigations they seized a' quantity of bombs and other explosives. JAPS MAP U. S. BAY. Queer Maneuvers of Yellow Men with Cannon at Fleet Station. On an infrequented biuff, which marks the northern limit of Santa Monica bay. Cat. a party of seven Japanese with a small cannon in their possession have been for several days past engaged in experiments that have aroused the suspicions of the settlers as it is presumed that a portion of the American battleship fleet will spend several days in the bay. The Japanese have been engaged in making maps of the cliffs along the bay, and a small pivot gun, mounted on a cliff 1S5 feet alove the sea, was fired, first iu one direction and then in another. There is not even a theory to the purposes of the party. TRAIN KILLS EIGHT IN CAR. Motorman Falls to Heed Signal and Express Strikes Trolley Coach. Eight KTsons were killed and a dozen injured when a Big Four passenger train struck a Toledo and Western electric car at the Michigan Central crossing in West Toledo. Ohio, at 8 o'clock Saturday night. According to an eyewitness of the wreck, the conductor stopped at the crossing to flag the car across. Seeing the train coming, he motioned the motorman to stop, but this signal was either misunderstood or disregarded. Receiver Appointed for Railroad. On complaint of George A. Fernald & Company of Boston the Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville railroad was placed in the hands of a receiver by the federal court in Indianapolis. James P. Goodrich was appointed and he went to Cincinnati to take charge of the company's office and property. The road Is known as the short line between Chicago and Cincinnati and has been in operation about five years. It is285 miles long. r ' Found Guilty of Murder. Willis A 1 mack was found guilty in Omaha of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at life, imprisonment. A I mack and two companions, employes of Ham Pak, a Chinese restaurant keeper, killed and robbed their employer on the night of July 11, 1907. Basil Mullin, one of Almack's companions, is now serving a life term for complicity in the crime. Alinack is ,19 years of age. Found at Bottom, of Well. The roll of death resulting from .the financial panic has been swelled by the addition of the name of Henry Harris Barnard, lumber merchant and former director of the Twelfth Ward bank, who escaped from Dr. A. Sharp's sanitarium at Katonah. N. Y, and was found dead nine hours later at the bottom of a well on an abandoned farm p quarter of a mile away. Leaves Millions to Charity. The will of Mrs. Rylands, widow of John Rylands of the, famous Manchester (England) cotton firm, bequeaths $2,305,000 to various charities, including $1.(NJO.O0 to the John Rylands library at Manchester, on which, during her lifetime, she spent $7,500,000. -I Bad Tooth Kills General. Brig. Gen. Henry Carrdl. U. S. A, retired, a veteran of the Civil and Spanish-American wars and an Indian fighter, is dead at his home in Colorado Springs, aged 70 years. Death resulted from blood poisoning caused by an ulcerated tooth. Declares War Talk Absurd. Baron Takahira, Japan's new ambassador to the United States, on landing in New York, declared all talk of war is absurd, and said the little differences are of no real importance. Large Exports from Argentina. Argentina more than justifies large estimated exports, breaking all records with nearly 2,000,000 bushels to spare. The world's markets are temiorarily demoralized. Death of a Booth Captor. Col. Andrew Wendell, one of the twenty-seven troopers who hunted, surrounded and killed in a burning barn J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, is dead. He expired in Chicago after an intermittent illness of more than a year and a half. Bonanza Oil Man Dies. John Ward, once known throughout the country as "Coal Oil Johnny," died in Crookston, Minn, Friday, the cause of death being excessive alcoholism. At one time he was wealthy. For the past eighteen years be had lived in Crookston.

HETTY GIVES NO CASH

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Refuses to Play Pawnbroker and Furnish Money to Go to Hungary. RICH ON VERGE OF POVERTY. Woman Financier Tells of Big Loans and Makes Prophecies on Political Outlook. Mrs. Hetty Green, Queen of Finance, has boon "hearing things," and the other day in an interview at Boston she confided in the public through the liess. The financial stringency has plunged many of the notably rich Into a sea of temporary poverty, if Mrs. Green's statements are true. Mrs. Green, according to her story, got under cover before the pinch hit, and had plenty of cash. Then the financiers came to hereon bended knees for relief. The Vanderbilt family, she says, came to Ivr with their family jewels. They wanted her to take them as security for a loan. This was before Gladys married the count. Mrs. Green told them, she said, that she didn't deal in diamonds, and their offer was spurned. "They say Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Is going to marry a Hungarian count," said Mrs. Green. "She ought to have a guardian instead." Mrs. Green says men high in politics have tipped off the inside information on the presidential nomination. Roosevelt, she says, is to be nominated again. Taft knows it, too. She says the scheme is to poso Taft lofore the country as the President's choice. He will get all the delegates he can and then will get up himself and nominate Roosevelt. It is all framed up. declares Mrs. Green. She says money Is cosier, but bard times will continue until after the election. VICTIMS OF IGNORANCE. Doukhobors of Canada Preparing for Another Outburst. Reports received at Ottawa, Ont., indicate that the coming spring will see the 7,000 Doukhobors leave their Nortawest communities and go on another wild pilgrimage. All accounts agree that the fanaticism of the sect has no parallel in modern times. Doukhobor leaders have been particularly busy Issuing decrees since the beginning of winter, and each new promulgation seems to have been drafted with n desire to outdo the preceding ones in inflicting hardship and suffering on "the faithful." Children are said to be dying for want of proier food. The people are pauicrs. ' They have obeyed au order to sell all their cattle and sheep. All products of the land go to the sect leaders. All chickens have been sold in obedience to a decree. Tea, coffee, sugar and pancakes have leen tabooed and the general diet has been narrowed to raw iotatoes. onions, carrots, turnips and a few other vegetables. Among the latest decrees have been those abolishing timepieces and looking glasses. Agents of the leaders have taken away from the people about $7,000 worth of clocks and watches. The women, who are noted for their deftness with their needles, have been forbidden to make any more embroidery. The Doukhobor wheat Is handled by a committee, which des what it pleases with it. This committee controls pretty nearly everything in the nay of labor. The gangs which work on the railway and In the community brickyard pay over their wages to the committee without receipt. But when it comes to le laliorers getting their meager food allowances from the committee they are compelled to give a receipt for every ounce. In one district 500 persons are living In two houses. Fach adult Is allowed a sleeping space of four feet wide. All have to climb Into their beds over the footboards. The younger men ore stowed away In the garrets of the houses after the fashion of canned sardines. HARD LUCK TALES. Two women were found dead in the kitchen of a fashionably furnished 22room house at No. 351 West Seventy-first street. New York, of which they were caretakers. There was a little coal in a bin in the cellar and 17 ceLts was found in a cupboard. Nelson P. Thoren, a prosiwrous and respected farmer living on the White Bear road west of Stillwater, Minn, fell from a cake of ice dead. Assisted by his on he was pulling ice from a small lake, to be stored on the farm. Being overcome with faint ness he sat down on a cake of ice ami a moment later fell over dead. Heart disease was the cause of death. ('apt. Smith, master of the British steamer Ashfield, cleared from Mobile, Ala, for Nipa, Cuba, committed suicide by drinking j,oison in his stateroom following a mutiny of the crew while on the high seas. At his own request William Winrich, an orphan lwy of Morrisonville, Wis., was sent to the State reformatory at Waukesha. The boy, who is 14 years old, declared to the judge that he was tired of knocking about, and desired to be sent to some place where he would have a chance to learn a useful trade and get sonic .education. After eight years of hiding from business failure in Saginaw, Mich, William Andrews, trapper and hunter, blew off the top of his head in his shack iu the woods about a quarter of a mile from Allen Junction station, on the Mesa be iron range. The lody was found with the rifle clutched in the dead man's hands. William Robbins, aged 10 years, the yon of Moses Robbins, a prominent farmer residing near Oilman, Iowa, was instantly killed by falling from a wagon, which ran over him. He and a little companion tried to climb upon the wagon, and in doing so young Robbins fell, an ! the rear wheel passed over his body. A man named William Buttcxworth entered the boiler room of the Fergus Falls, Minn, woolen mills at an early hour and built up a red hot fire. The boiler was empty and the scorching ruined the flues, the damage amounting to hundreds of dollars. The police were called and it was found that Butterworth was an escaped lunatic from the northern Wisconsin insane hospital at Oshkosh. A letter purporting to have been written by Smith College girls protesting against a burlesque opera to be given by students of Wesleyan university at Middletown. Conn, was denounced as the work of a press agent.

HALF A BILLION FOR CANALS.

Stupendous Scheme of Senator Newlands, of Nevada. Congress at Its present session will face the greatest scheme for 4 the aggrandizement of the commerce of the country that was ever presented. It will have before it the bill of Senator Newlands of Nevada, creating a first fund of $50,000,000 for an inland waterway paralleling the shores of the Atlantic and r. o. .nuvuxus. tue lim or .Mexico rind contemplating the expenditure of 5500,000.000 within the next ten years. It may not pass at this session. But that It must pass, or that some measure of commensurate magnitude must speedily be adopted, every man in American public life, from minor politician to far-seeing statesman, has already conceded. There is no choice, no alternative, unless it be the choice of purblind folly. Senator Newlands. who introduced the bill. Is one of 'the experts selected by the President as specially qualified for membership iu the Inland Waterways Commission the Nevada authority whose broad knowledge of the subject ranks him with Frederick II. Newell, the director of the reclamation service; Dr. W. J. McGce, the distinguished expert of the geological bureau; Gifford, Pinchot, the government forester; Senator Warner of Missouri, who has been one of the most thoroughly versed students of the plan, and Representative Burton, long acknowledged as the Congressman qualified to speak the last word of wisdom upon the needs of the country's rivers and harbors. "In the next ten years," declares Senator Newlands, "the United States should spend at least $500.000,000 In the Improvement of Inland waters. The government should enter Into this work In every section of the country, on the Pacific coast, the Atlantic coast, the Gulf coast, and along the Mississippi river and Its tributaries." The proposal is to cut a channel at the northern end of the Intercoastal canal, from Barnstable bay," north of Cape Cod, to Buzzard's Bay, giving access to the comparatively smooth waters of Buzzard's bay and an inner passage down Long Island sound to the Delaware and Raritan canal, at Perth Am boy. The I Via ware and Raritan, deepened, is to give access to the Delaware river at Trenton, N. J, whence there will Ik? the route of natural water courses to the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, which extends across the narrow neck of Delaware and the eastern shore of Maryland. This will provide a ship route from the Delaware river to the Chesapeake bay. Down the Chesapeake bay the route proceeds to Norfolk and down the south branch of the Elizabeth river. It is likely to cut across Currituck sound, through Coanjock bay, across North Carolina, into Albemarle sound aud on through Croatau sound Into Pamlico sound. Cutting through the Beaufort, it; has access, by means of various cuttings, to an inland route paralleling the whole Atlantic const line down to Florida, and then on, skirting the Gulf of Mexico and admitting the enormous traffic of the Mississippi, to Texas and to the mouth of the Rio Grande. V?0S SENDS, or The University of Wisconsin will have four coaches to make its football eleven for next season. The Columbia .Yacht Club of Chicago is preparing for an increased interest in yacht racing on the (treat Lakes. The Grinnell track team, last year the champions of Iowa, will make a strong bid for the same honors this spring. The management at Nebraska , has offered the Thanksgiving football date to Ames, the game to be played in' Lincoln. In a roller skating contest at Chicago Miss Pinkerton and Miss Souchard covered fifty-one miles and eight laps in four hours. , In connection with the Cuban winter festival it has been decided to inaugurate horse racing on a new track at Bucna Vista, near Havana. On a slushy track at Oakland, Cal, the -best race the other day was the seyenfurlong event, which was won by Raleigh, in a game finish. Louis Drill, oue of .St. Paul's veteran catchers, who played with Pueblo, Colo, last season, will manage the Terre Haute, Ind, team this season. At Los Angeles, Cal, Battling Nelson was given the worst ixating in ten rounds that he ever received. Rudolph Unholz won on the bit, beating the Dane at every kind of Ighting which the former lightweight champion introduced. George Hackenschmidt of Russia easily defeated Joseph Rogers, American, in the wrestling match at Oxford music hall, London, for the championship of the world. The girls' basketball team of the State agricultural school defeated the girls of Drummond hall, Minneapolis, in the armory at the agricultural school, by a score of 111 to 3. At South Bend, Ind, in a wrestling match for a $100 purse "Wild Joe" Collins of Wisconsin defeated Dan McIJride of Cleveland, winning two successive falls in ."1 and 23 minutes. The negotiations between Nebraska university and Iowa university for a game of football to be played between the teams representing the two institutions next fall have fallen through. A Russian trotting mare of the famous Orloff breed has arrived in America for the purpose of being bred to a stallion through whose veins runs the pure blood strain of the American trotting breed. Thomas A. Huesfon of St. Louis sac cessfully defended his title as champion tool lyer by defeating Jmtuh? Kcogh of Buffalo, the score for the three nights' play in Sr. Iiouis being: Ilueston OtM, Keogh 5S1. Brugger, the big tackle on the championship Ames football team, has "been elected captain of the Ames track team for the spring of IMS. The New York Jockey Club has issued a pamphlet entitled "The Truth About Racing," which is intended as an answer to the various criticisms against the sport. Harry J. Huff of Grinnell college, Iowa, whose sprinting last summer placed him In the front rank of the, short-distance men, will be taken to the Olympic games in London next summer whether he wins a place on the American team or not. If he docs not make the American team he will go on the Chicago Athletic Club team.

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j WORK OF ? 1 1 CONGRESS 1 1

Senator Aldrich, chairman of the committee on finance, opened the debate in the Senate on his bill to provide an emergency currency. In the galleries was a large audience, among others J. Pierpont Morgan. Senator Foraker made reply to the President's statement concerning the use of the appointing power for political purposes and had letters read showing the President's attitude in one case. Senator Depew defended the course of the Secretary of the Treasury in depositing public funds in New York banks. The criminal code bill was again considered. A fiery speech by Mr. Leake of New Jersey, in which he outlined his opposition to William J. Bran as a candidate for the presidency, relieved somewhat the monotony of debate in the House. His remarks were greeted with hisses from the Democratic side of the House. The Indian appropriation bill was amended so that the commissioner of Indian affairs, before he carries out the policy of abandoning nonreservation schools, shall investigate the question fully and report to the House. Another amendment restored the appropriations for the Indian schools at Fort Lewis, Colo. ; Carson City, Nev, and Mount Pleasant, Mich. Consideration of the Indian bill was not concluded when the House adjourned. Debate on the Aldrich currency bill ia the Senate Tuesday was followed with interest by many bankers in the galleries. The discussion was directed chiefly toward the provision for railroad bonds as a basis for emergency circulation, a wide difference of opinion being developed concerning the method that should be adopted in determining the valuation to be given such bonds as well as opposition to the use of such security under any terms. The bill was finally read through and committee amendments incorporated, it being understood thrt the entire bill is to be subject to amendment hereafter. Interest in the proceedings of the House attached to a criticism of the President by Mr. Tawney, chairman of the committee on appropriations, for having, as Mr. Tawney charged, appointed the inland waterways commission without authority of law. The debate was on the urgent deficiency bill and grew out of a Senate amendment to pay John II. Bankhead, now Senator from Alabama, for his services on the commission. The House refused to accept the amendment. In a vigorous speech Mr. Harrison of New York condemned Secretary of State Root for his manner of handling the negotiations with Russia regarding passports to Russian Jewish citizens of the United States, while Mr. Lowden of Illinois defended the Secretary. The Indian appropriation bill was amended in several important particulars. Another of the large supply measures, the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, was reported. m Senator Rayner of . Maryland spoke at length in the Senate Wednesday on the currency bill. The Senate devoted two hours to considering the criminal code bill. The tariff question and the President's message were the principal themes of discussion In the House. In the course of the concluding debate on the Indian appropriation bill the proceedings were enlivened by Messrs. Hamill and Leake of New Jersey, both Democrats, discussing the virtues and faults of William J. Bryan. Mr. Leake reasserted his charge that Mr. Bryan did not represent the principles for which Democracy stood. The Senate Thursday discussed the law governing the reserves of national banks, that subject being brought up by Senator Hayner. The criminal code bill also was a subject of discussion, Senator Clay and others securing the substitution of the old law Instead of the proposed revised sections, which will effectually prevent intoxicating liquors being sent through the mails into "dry" States or counties. General debate on the legislative appropriation bill was brought to a close in the House. Several speeches were made on the issues of the day, the most notable being by Champ Clark of Missouri. Other speakers were Kainey, Illinois; Tirrell, Massachusetts ; Gillett, Massachusetts, ftnd Hanimond, Indiana, all of whom discussed various phases of the tariff question. -: :- The Senate Friday gave attention to a speech on the Aldrich currency bill by Senator Clay of Georgia. Mr. Clay's declaration in favor of the issuance of paper money by the government provoked a controversy between him and Republican Senators. Senators Lodge and Teller both gave their views on the policy of issuing paper money by the government. At 2:00 p. m. the Senate adjourned until Monday. Oratory in the House gave way lVto legislation, with the result that material progress was made in the executive, legislative and judicial bill. It met with comparatively smooth sailing until on Ioints of order by Mr. Macon of Arkansas the proposed increases in salaries of the assistant secretaries of the several departments were stricken out. Mr. Macon explained his action by saying that an appropriation bill was not the place for such legislation. With nearly two-thirds of the bill disposed of, the House adjourned. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. Fire at Rochester, Pa, caused a loss Of $05,000. Fire did $250,000 damage in the business section of Rome, N. Y. The London Tribune, a liberal morning newspaper, founded two years ago, has suspended publication. The House committee on claims has begun an investigation of the $178,000 subtreasury robbery in Chicago. More than f'JTiU.OOO in the treasury of New York City, owing to former employes, has not been called for. Two thousand Italian citizens held a mass meeting in- New York to devise means to fight the "black hand." The New York health authorities admit that there are at least fifty cases of hydrophobia being treated in New York. Gen. Bompiani and Baron Vincenzo Negi fought a duel with swords at Reggio de Calabria, I tab. Bompiani was seriously wounded. Louisiana had four hangings the other daj the largest number in one day for several years. Two of the murderers executed are negroes. Notices have been posted at the. Globe smelter in Denver announcing a reduction in wages of from 10 to '2't cents a day. About 700 men are affected. Raisuli, the Morocco bandit, has released Kaid MacLean, the Sultan's bodyguard, the British government paying the bandit his price, $100,000. An investigation of rebating by railroads in California will be begun by the State railroad commission, which is said to have perfected 4,X0 cases against the Southern Pacific company. A new steel twin screw pleasure yacht for Morton F. Plant of the New York Yacht Club is being built at Leith, Scotland. The yacht, named the Iolanda, is SO." feet long and of G, 100 horse power. Dr. Albert Harrison Mixer, professor emeritus of modern languages at the University of Rochester, died in Rochester, aged 85 years. He was a member of the original faculty of the university in 1850. For ten years he was a professor in th University of Chicago.

FRESH AIR SCHOOL. Hot Soapstones Furnished Pupils with Cold Feet. A fresh air school, unique among educational institutions in this country, Jias just been opened in Providence, R. I. The school will le conducted indoors, ia that it is held inside a building, but great swinging windows on three sides of each room, extending the length and width of each, and an extensive system of ventilation afford an atmosphere of cold, pure air, making the room easily adaptable to the conditions necessary to comfortable and hygienic study by every student. The idea of establishing the school was first suggested by the Rhode Island League for the Suppression of Tuberculosis, which had heard of the satisfactory results attained by many schools of the kind in European countries. The system in operation In the German schools, which is almost universal throughout Euroie, has been adopted for the Providence school with but few variations. The usual custom of removing the outer wraps while In the class rooms will not be followed In the "fresh air school," except when the weather compels the closing of the large windows. Students subject to cold extremities will have their feet and legs encased in woolen bags, made for the purpose, and wear gloves or mittens when their studies and play permit. The chairs and desks and other paraphernalia in the class rooms have been constructed on portable platforms, so that it will be possible at all times to keep within the rays of the sun. The school Is a part of the city's regular school system.

A MODERN UTOPIA. Millionaire's Plan for a Model ! ' Village in Ohio. James W. Ellsworth, a coal operator, whose home Is in New York, has taken under his protection the village of Hudson, in northern Ohio, which was for more than half a century the seat of Western Reserve University, and intends to make it the most beautiful spot In Ohio, as well as a seat of learning. He has already made one gift of $100,000 to the village, and within the next few mouths he will spend many additional thousands in beautifying the little town and carrying out his plan of making Jt an educational center. Perhaps the most novel part of the program In beautifying the village is the destruction of unsightly buildings and everything in fact that does not suit his taste. His agents have been busy buying up property all over the village on which are located buildings which he thinks are a detriment to his plans. These structures will be torn down and fine new buildings erected in their place. ' Ellsworth is over CO years of age and was born on a small farm near a splendid estate he owns not far from Hudson. Ills father conducted a general store in the village. As a young man the son moved to Chicago. He obtained employment therein the office of a big coal firm. After several years' hard work ho started in the coal business for himself. In a few years he became one of the largest independent coal operators in the country. Cabinetmakers' Union, of St. Paul, and Minneapolis, Minn, have formed a district council. Minneapolis, Minn, Trades Assembly represents about 13,000 memoers of labo unions in Minneapolis. In Germany the strongest trade union affiliated with the general federation is that of the metal workers, which at the close of llKXi had a membership of Srtc,075. Efforts are being made to organize a tranoh of the independent labor party in Torcn:o, Canada. Fees an J applications from' several hundred labo men have already been received, and it m expeccHl ti have at Irast 5,000 names before the end of the year. The new Alabama child labor law recently went into effect. It forbids the employment of children, under twelve years of age in cotton mills and other industries, and children between the ages of twelve and fourteen are not allowed to work full time. In the Clyde shipyards the shadow of the threatened strike has been removed, the men having accepted a reduction of 5 per cent on piece rates, the masters having on their side agreed to forego the proposed reduction of one farthing per hour on time rates. The eleventh annual convention of the Tennessee Federation of Labor, he!d relently, took practical steps looking toward obtaining favorable legislation for labor in Tennessee, and a campaign will be instituted to obtain more thorough organization of the laboring people. Industrial conditions are greatly improved in Bridgeport, Conn. Every factory has resumed operations, some in full force and others to perhaps 73 per cent of their capacity, and some which were running on short time will increase the number of working hours each week. Plans are being made by the Structural Building Trades Alliance aud the Central Labor Union of Spokane, Wash, to erect a labcr temple in that city to cost $75,000. There are 7,000 union men in Spokane, and by 40 per cent of them taking $'2t worth 6f stock the amount can be raised. The right of the State Legislature under the constitution of the United States to enact a law prohibiting the employment of female laborers for more than ten hours a day, in vhich the State of Oregon is involved, wa argued before the Supreme Court of the United States recently. President Roosevelt's recoranicmlation to Congress for a postal savings bank is meeting with the indorsement of union labor throughout the country. It is looked upon as a boon to the mechanics, in that it. gives them a place of absolute security to place their savings, whether they are of large or small amount. For the first time in its history, Mexico is to have a great central labor body similar to the American Federation of Labor, and exercising all its functions. Detroit (Mich.) Lodge of Shipmasters Asf-cciation has adopted a resVution, urging Washington as a permanent ti??f.in4 place for the annual winter sessions. All lodgis along the lakes will be asked to support this plan. The union barbers of Washington. I?. C, are waking up. They have appointed a business agent and orgauize- to push the organization and strengthe:i its ranks. The Central Labor Union ani American Federation of Labor will aid tbe local in its work.

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CHICAGO. Discussing trade in the Chicago Cistrict for the last week, II. G. Dun & Company's report ' says : The general course of trade is headed toward recovery, although the returns disclose some irregularity. Operations this week were restricted to some extent by unfavorable weather and the holiday, and there are smaller marketings of farm products, less freight movement and decline in payments through the banks. Against these temporary setbacks there are gratifying offsets in inijKjrtaut resumptions at the mills and furnaces, further re-employment of workers and an improved demand for manufactures and spring merchandise.' ( Retail trade here and at most interior points benefited from a wider buying of heavy winter apparel and depletion ot stocks previously in slow absorption. The attendance of country buyers in the wholesale markets for staple good shows seasonable increase and dealings are encouragingly stimulated in dry goods, woolens, clotaing, footwear and food products. The bookings in some respect? make favorable comparison with a year ago, and the aggregate would have been better were all buyers making their usual full selections of needs, but there is yet a rather conservative feeling, which is likely to last until the trend of prices and the business outlook become more settled. Road salesmen have fair success in the textile branches 'and new accounts are opened in the south and southwest sections. Indications generally encourage confidence in the prospects for wholesale and jobbing activity. Manufacturing is not 3-et marked by an appreciable increase of-outputs and improvement in deliveries is not expected to become general before spring. The situation, however. Is better by the machinery set in motion and reduction of the unemployed. Inquiries appear more plentiful in iron and steel branches, especially for rails, structural shapes and wire products. Bank clearings, $201,4 10,85, are 10.3 per cent under those of the corresponding week or 1907. Failures in the Chicago district number S3, against 32 last week and 2-1 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number 1G, against G last week and C a year ago. . NEW YORK Buyers of spring jgoods are more in vidence this week at all markets, responding to the advance of the season, and jobbing trade shows more vim than at any time since last autumn. In tio case, however, is the buying reported as equal to a year ago, and in some cases the decreases are very heavy. The easing of prices of staples shown in January has gone further this week. Building was at low ebb in January, and this is reflected in easy prices for lumber. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Feb. 13 number 824, against 272 last week, 201 in the like week of 1007, 208 in 1000, 243 in 1905 and 231 in 1904., Canadian failures for the week number 44, as against 50 last week and 29 in this week a year ago. Rradstreet's Commercial Reiort. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $iJ.10; hos, prime heavy, $i.O to $4.35; ?heep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25 ; wheat. No. 2, 92c to 3c ; corn, No. 2, 00c to 57c; oats standard, 49c to 50c; rye, No. 2. 80c to 81c; hay. timothy, $JXO to $15.00; prairie, $S.OO to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 27c to S3c; eggs, fresh. 19c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel. C2c to 73c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.75 ; hogs, good to . eWice heavy, $3.50 to $4.Cj ; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 97c to OSc: corn. No. 2 white, 53c to 54c; oats. No, 2 white, ole to u2c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $.00; hogs,' $4.00 to $4.40; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No.' 2, 95c to 97c; corn. No. 2, 54c to 55c; oats. No. 2, 50c to 51c; rye. No. 2. 79c to 80c Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs. $4.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 97c to 9Sc; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 5"c ; oats. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c ; rye, No. 2, 85c to 80c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.10; hegs, $4.00 to $4.40; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 94c; corn. No. 3 yellow 57c to 5Sc; oats. No. 2 white, 52c to 54c; rye. No. 2, 82c to S4c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.02 to $1.04; corn. No. 3, 54c to fie; oats, standard, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 1, 81c to S3c; barley, No. 2, 95c to OCc; pork, mess, $11.90. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $C.G0; hogs, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.55 ; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.50. New York Cattle; $4.00 to $5.G5; hogs. $3.50 to $1.90; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, lMc to 9Sc; corn. No. 2, G2c to G3c; oats, natural white, 57c to COc; butter, creamery, 28c to 31c; eggs, western, 19c to 20s. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 9Gc to 97c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 5ic to 57c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 53c; rye. No. 2, 78c to SOc; clover seed, prime, $11.47. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. Railroad officials and telegraphers are slow to agree upon a schedule of wages for the latter under the eight-hour law. Representatives of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce will go to Washington to protest against the passage of the Culberson and other bills aimed at exchanges. Grand Forks was chosen as the place for the next annual meeting of the Mutual Blacksmiths and Mechanics' Union of North Dakota. Tbe memliers took steps to avoid the "dead beats" and will keep each otlier posted on characters of this kind. All passenger cars used in this country ten years bonce will have to be made of steel if a bill which will soon le introo'l ed in Congress is passed. The Travelers Protective Association, consisting of 37,000 commercial men, is to father the measure, it Is said, and has gathered together a mass of statistics relative to casualties in railroad wrecks. A number of prominent iren of the Red river valley have formed a company which has as its object the erection of a uum on im inv .. uai naiaiau, Minn, at the junction of the Red river and the Wild Rice river, and if they are allowed to carry out the project it will mean the construction of the biggest power plant in that section of the country. It will supply power 'for manufactures and lighting to Crookston, Grand Forks and Fargo. The South Dakota railroad commission has ordered the Great Northern Railroad Company to reopen its stations at Grow and Ranville, Codington county, which bad been closed as a measure of economy. ,1 .t T -1 1' A W nnn. 1F.t1.J