Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 23, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 March 1908 — Page 2

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P. Q.yF.M. 9th. Vyl7tb. U Q. 2nd. J 25th. FEATURES OF INTEREST .ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. f&n Sides and Conditions of Thing are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to te it Complete. Train Plunged Down Embankment. Burlington passenger train No. 4 was derailed at Kearney, Mo., twentyfire miles north of Kansas City, and went over a fifteen foot embankment. Twenty persons wer1 injured. None of the injured were seriously hurt, their Injuries consisting mostly of cuts and braises. The wrecked train was made Bp of baggage car, smoker and two roach.es. It is an accommodation train thjt stops at every station between "Kansas City and Chicago. The accident was caused by spreading rails. The train was not running fast and this lact probably prevented more serious results. Unidentified Dead in Coliinwood Buried Twenty-one little white caskets were placed beneath the ground in the cemetery in Coliinwood Monday. Of these seventeen contained the bodies of unidentified children who lost their lives in the burning o the Lake View school Wednesday, March 4. The other four caskets contained the bodies of identified children, but were included in the public funeral as the expenses were borne by the village. Bad Wreck on Union Traction Line. In a collision betw.een a freight and passenger interurbancar on the Noolesville branch of the Indiana Union Traction line nine persons were Seriously injured and many others were acre or less Injured by being shaken up. A north-bound passenger car and a south-bound freight came together at Brays crossing, near Noblesville Ind-. making almost a complete wreck cf both cars. Ignored the Fire Drill. Four hundred children in the public school at Lee 3 Summit, Mo., rushed out In disorder when a fire alarm was sounded. Attempts were made to use the fire drill, but a call of "fire" from outside of the building caused the children to make for the nearest exits. No one was Injured. The , fire was Quickly extinguished. Threw Herself Under Train. Rosa Gray, from whom her husband recently obtained a divorce, died Friday from Injuries received by throwing lierself under a moving train. She "waved her hand to. her mother-in-law, -who was standing near her, as she threw herself under the train. Woman Leaps to Death. Miss Jessie Daw, cf Brooklyn, who feas been an inmate of a sanitarium at Kshkill Landing, N. Y., for the past three months, threw herself from a third story window and was killed. She liad suffered from nervous depression. Xiiss Daw was 48 years old. Three Women Drowned While Boating. While boating on the Appal achee jnillpond near Greer, S. C., a skiff containing ten people capsized and three young women were drowned. There rere but two men in the party and it was only through their efforts that the ether five women were rescued. Mme. Gould Not Married. A dispatch from Paris, France, says: 2Ime, Anna Gould ,who recently obtained a divorce from her husband, Count Bonl de Castellane, has authorlied an absolute denial of the report Chat she had been married to Prince Helle de Sagau. Edward Jones is Dead. Advices from Atlantic City, N. J., anSioonce the death of Edward Jones, regarded as one of the greatest authorities on constitutional and international law in the United States. Mr. Jones' home was In New York City. Incendiary Fire in Toledo. A fire supposed to be of incendiary origin in the furniture manufacturing plant of Kelger Brothers, Toledo, Ohio, entailed a loss of 175.000. Bad Fire in Peoria. Fire wtflch started In the Hart Grain Weigher Company paint shop at Peoria. 111., did $195.000 damage to the trail dings and stock. Fatal Wreck on Pere Marquette. A Pere Marquette passenger train collided with an extra train near Wyoming Yards, Mich. One person 13 fcnown to have been killed and several others Injured. Chicago Firemen Hurt. A score of firemen were injured. three perhaps fatally, by a fire which destroyed Apollo Hall, a three-story structure in Blue Island avenue, Chicago. I1L The damage is $83,000. Snd Coffln to Coroner. When Coroner Paris arrived at his office in the court house in Birmingham, Ab., the other morning he discovered a -large-sized coffin there with the following note tacked on it: To Coroner Paris; You next." The note was signe-J by a picture of a hand made in black ink. Trampled in Church Panic. A special from Guadalajara, Mexico says that the art of a half-witted man in locking the rear door of a church at Wotla'n while services were in progress resulted in a panic and the trampling to death of two men and six children. Woman Autoist Kills a Man. Louis Klein, aged 50, who has been a county official for over thirty years, for ome time past an assistant in the engineer's office, was run down and almost instantly killed while crossing a street in Cincinnati by an automobile driven by Mrs. Charles Haas, wii'e of a cit,ar manufacturer. Steals Jewelry from Friends. Mrs. Jeanette Newmann of New York is said to have admitted stealing $20,000 la jewelry from a society friend to maintain her son in a private school and to eep up appearances.

It takes about :0G,0UO men to run the Federal government and this is not a groat mnn'er when we consider that there are nearly tHj.lNXMNX) of people in the country. This mimler iu-i-ludes a great ninny country postmasters :iud others, who do not give their whole time to the government, but does not-include some 40.000 privates and non-commissioned men in the army. It is notable that there are two kinds of jobs which it is hard for Uncle Sam to till those in the army and those in technical positions. The army is about 23.000 men short of the proper force and the number of those in the service is decreasing steadily through desertions and expiration of enlistments. Men can do better iu civil life, and ?ven West Point appointments go begging. The technical positions in the various departments in various branches of the service are hard to till. The examinations are very strict, the reluircinents are of the highest and the pay is about one-half that in civil life. It is no wonder that it is hard to se?ure the right sort of men. Every man is supposed to be a patriot, but that Jies not mean that he . is willing to work for Uncle Sam for half pay, espe. ?ially as this employer is rich and able to pay better salaries. Members of Congress voted themselves 30 per cent additional pay, but did not take into consideration the great mass of employes of the government, most of whom are working at a compensation fixed more than 30 years ago, when the cost of living was not more than half what it Is at present. The joint Congressional Committee appointed to investigate the working of the PosJ Office Department has made a preliminary report suggesting several radical changes in the organization of the executive machinery of the department, chief among which is the recommendation that the actual direction of the business of the service le placed in the hands of an officer. with necessary assistants, to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, for Ions terms, so us to insure the continuity of efficient service, which, they say, can not be expected in the fullest measure when the business is intrusted, as at present, to a postmaster general and certain assistants selected without special reference to experience and qualifications, and subject to frequent change. Under men a system, they say, a large railroad, commercial or industrial business would inevitably go into bankruptcy, and the Postofficc Department has averted that fate only because the United States treasury has been available to meet deficiencies. It is not proposed to abolish the office of post master gvneral, who would still have control of matters of policy as a cabinet officer. Every four years Uncle Sam has a ob that requires workmen having more than the ordinary amount of daring In their make-up. It Is the difficult task of cleaning and painting the dome of the Capitol at Washington and the Goddess on top of it. Nine tons of paint are used and it requires two months work of from 30 to 40 men to complete the task. The top of the lome is so far above the ground that a workman loses all his friskiness, movng about slowly and with great care. It is not so hard for the men .who do the actual painting, as they usually liave scaffolds to protect them. It Is the men who put up the scaffolds whe take the greatest chances of leing lashed to their deaths somewhere below. The entire capitol dome is in four levels ; first there is the cuiola and the statue on top of all; then comes the dome proper; then two levels columns. All of this except the statue, including the columns themselves, Is of iron. The Goddess herself Is some 20 feet high, and weighs 19,000 pounds. m The annual pension bill as favorably reported to the House carries a total appropriation of $130,800,000. As a nethed of economy it proposes to conjolida e all the branch agencies in cer:ain cities Into the central bureau at Washington. This policy is opposed by the G. A. R. There are now 007,371 persons on the pension roll, and the um paid them last year was $138,)30,S94. In order that the War Department Jiay appreciate the strong sentiment of the people of the Pacific coast In favor of permanently maintaining a fleet of at least six modern battleships iu these waters, various commercial bodies of Washington, Oregon and California will be asked to pass resolutions to that effect and to forward copies to the authorities at Washington. At the graduating exercises of the West Point Military Academy 108 cadets were given diplomas and are now In line for commissions In the regular a uny, where they are said to be greatly neinled. Secretary of War Taft made the principal address and delivered the diplomas. lie reminded the young men that an army man lost a good part of hi freedom of initiative and speech and reminded them that their plain duty was to "olicy orders and keep your mouth shut." One of the many recent and ancient criticisms of the American navy was that in time of need a ship might le commanded by a man who had litt'e. or no exjerience as captain of a battleship. The President has lately approved a change in the regulations which permits commanders to serve as executive officers on battleships mid armored cruisers, to command a flotilla of torpedo-loat destroyers, and to serve as engineer "of the fleet. Under the old regulations these duties belonged only to captains and flag officers. The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has reported adversely a bill introduced by Senator Owen, appropriating $200,000 to establish a government school In Oklahoma for the teaching of Indian art. It was the plan to teach the Indian children- how to do bead work, make fancy baskets, tan skins and furs and make tools used by the Indians in their primitive state. Hundreds of women are employed in the secret service of Germany.

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The diagram shows how nearly 2) K-hool children lost their lives in the horror at North Coliinwood, Ohio. From the description of eye witnesses the artist has graphically pictured this terrible child tragedy. Marching in line after the sound of the tire drill Ih'11. the children sw a tongue of tiame shoot up from the basement. The children occupying the four rooms on the ground fltor escaied. The flames cut off exit by the front stairway for those on the second and third floors. Those on the second floor rushed for the rear stairway and attempted to escape through the rear door. Th door opened inwardly, and in their wild rush the children piled upon one another in front of the door. Shrieking, tliey surged down the stairs, whirling, triiping. dropping, then falling headlong to the landing, where the outside do-r, oiK'ning, alas, inward, caught them. In almost the twinkle of an eye a ghastly pile of trampled, mangled innocents grew, piled high betn-een stairs and door. All escaje from the third floor was mt off. Then the tire and the UNCLE SAM MAY DEPORT MANY. Starts War on Anarchists by Taking Census of Public Charges. Aroused by the attempt upon the life of Chief Shippy of Chicago, the United States government has oTicially swung its forces into action in a nation-wide battle against anarchy. Orders went out from Washington to take the first step in purging the nation of these foes to government and Individ ual life. The Instructions from Wash ington were the result of a prolonged Cabinet meeting, r.nd in addition to the word sent out by Attorney General Konaparte to his subordinates they were embodied in a siwcial order issued by Secretary Strauss of the Department of Commerce and Labor, who Is especially intrusted by law with the duty of deporting anarchists and see that they do not gain entrance to tis country. For the second time since the passage of the new Immigrant law In 1003, details of Immigration Inspectors have started out to take a census of the prisons, insane asylums, reformatories and charitable Institutions of the country to collect statistics relating to the number of alieii3 In these institutions and those who have become public charges. It is said this Is the first step in the war which the "Department of Commerce and Labor will -vngc against anarchists and members of pernicious secret societies. Hundreds of deportations may follow. In official circles it is admitted that future Immigration legislation of a radical character may result from the reports brought in by these Investigators. The details of men were ordered to work as rapidly as possible and to have their reports ready for presentation to the department at Washington by May 31. Under the law an alien can be deported If he becomes a public charge within three years after landing. It is believed a large percentage of the aliens now depending ou charity have not leen In the country three years, and therefore wholesale deportations are likely to result. To Improve Factory Condition. Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan, and several other wealthy society women, are leading a movement, . intended to be of national scope, to improve the condition of working women and men in large cities. To this end they have voluntarily assumed the duty of factory insjectors in New York City and vicinity, examining closely into the hygienic and social conditions prevailing. The purpose so far developed is not to remedy( existing conditions by intluencmg legislation, but to work ; by private influence on the inlividual , manufacturing firms in whose workshops are found abuses or unsatisfactory con ditions. Immigrant Outflow f'ontlnnei. The record of the transatlantic steamship lines show that for she first fortytive days during the present year the number of incoming foreigners was 22,K"K while those returning for the same period reached a total of 87,443. The incoming figure is 21! per rent less than for the corresponding period in l'.M7, while that for the outgoing travel was per cent. Seventy-six mjnf.s, most of them .Tnjanese, were kille! in an explosion at La Itosita mine, near .Sau Juan De Cabins, Mexico, Thursday. Count and Countess Szechenyi have given Lieut. William Kennel of New York a set of amethyst waistcoat buttons, cuff buttons and shirt studs, presumably for his courtesies when t.Vy were obtaining their marriage licenses. Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, at a banquet in Boston made a plea for the fullest freedom of commerce, for "equal opportunities ioliticaliy, economically and individually." Miss Mayme Shal?s of WilWesbarre, Pa., is dying of poison as the result of putting an indelible pencil ia her mouth.

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flaming timbers came, andlead, dying and injured were caught in one dreadful pyre. The smaller picture showing the burned school bouse was photographed a few minutes after ,the roof had fallen hi on the heaped-up, man im mi Ex-Sonator William E. Chandhr of Xtw Hampshire and William Pitt Kellogg, former Republican Governor of Louisiana, have issued from Washington an appeal, or, as they term it. "a few suggestive words," to the Republican voters of the South. First, they ask that the Southern delegates to the presidential convention be not massed in favor of any one candidate, expressing their belief that any candidate nominated as a result of the united action of the Southern delegates would le defeated at the polls. They urge that the delegates be, if possible, "free and uninstructed, . who from the brgiuning to the end will act with prudence, discretion and wisdom, according to their best judgment, formed only at the time and place of the convention," They also issue a warning against allowing the delegates to be named or con trolled by federal officeholders. And, above all, they protest against excluding colored Republicans from taking active part in the election of delegates. The first written word from Gov. Hughes of New York defining his attitude toward the Republican nomination for President was contained in hit reply to a letter of inquiry from a member of the New York City Republican Club. In it the Governor says he is not seeking office, but will respond to the call of his party should the voters, with deliberation rnd harmony, decide to present his name. He reiterates that he will not attempt to influence the selection or vote of any delegate, and that the State administration oiust cor.tinue to be impartial and not tributary to any candidacy. He says the matter is one for the party to decide, and that whatever its decision he will be content. The expected statement from the President in reply-to widely circulated charges that he had used federal patronage to aid the candidacy of Secretary Taft came out in the form of a letter to William Dudley Foulke of Indiana, who had written to the President as a friendly inquirer. The President Kays that all iuch charges are "false and malicious." For the great bulk of iost masterships and ciHectorships the President asserts that he has followed the custom of taking the recommendation of the Senators and Representatives as the basis of his selections. The President says his interference in mattrs of patronage has been limited to insisting "that opposition to the purposes, policies and friends of the administration shall not Le considered a a necessary prerequisite to holding the commission of the President." The advices which told how the Republican convention of Florida had leen broken up by a row started by the antiTaft faction also disclosed the leginning of a concerted effort of the anti-administration forces to divide all the Southern delegations to the rational convention by similar tactics and then trust to influence with the committee on credentials to got contesting delegations seated. The Democratic State convention at Hutchinson, Kan., i-eb. 21, unanimously adopted a resolution instructing all delegates to the Denver convention "to cast a solid vote for the nomination of William J. P.ryan." At a conference of lenders of the Indejvndence League, held in Chicago, steps were taken for the formatier of a new national io!itical party. A declaration of principles setting forth the objects of the organization was adopted and a national provisional committee, of which W. R. Hearst is chairman, was authorized to call a national convention, to be .JieM after those of the Republican and "Democratic parties. As the foremost rival of Taft for the Republican nomination, Gov. Hughes of New York is very much in the glare of publicity at this moment, his every word and act being watched and reported by the press

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gled bodies of nearly 200 children and several of their teachers, who had heroically thrown themselves into the midst of their panic-stricken little ones in an effort to save them from the awful doom that overtook thorn. SAID TO SOUND KEYNOTE. Ohio Hepublican Platform Considered of National Significance. The. platform adopted by the Ohio Republicans is considered of national significance, as it is the joint work of the ablest advisers of President Roosevelt and of the most astute of the campaign managers of Secretary Taft. As the joint product of these men, few Republicans doubt that the Ohio platform sounds the keynote of the Republican campaign, always in the event of the Roosevelt-Taft control of the National Convention. Following Is the platform in brief : Government regulation of railroads as against government ownership. Re-enactment of the employers liability set. Limitation of the exercise of the power of injunction. Greater merchant marine and an adequate navy. Revision of the tariff by a special session of the next Congress. Protection of the civil and political rights of negroes. ' Reduction of representation in Congress and the electoral college in all tjie States where white and colored citizens are disfranchised. Approval of the prosecution of illegal trusts and monopolies and of evil-doers both in the public service and in the commercial world. Indorsement of Roosevelt administration. The platform which the Nebraska Democratic State convention adopted, and which is the announcement of principles which will go into the national platform at Denver in July, declares in favor of the vigorous enforcement of the criminal law against trusts and trust magnates, urges tariff reform and an income tax and demands "such an enlargement of the powers of the national and State railway commission as to give to persons and places ' full protection from discrimination and extortion." Mr. Bryan, in a brief address following the naming and instructing for him of sixteen delegates to the national convention, said : "As the Republicans used one faction of the Democrat party to defeat us in ISOtj, we shall return the compliment this year and use one part of the Republican party to defeat the otter." inteeesti.no news items. Senator Young has been expelled from the Philipino assembly by a vote of 40 to 3T. He was very bitter in his attacks uion party leaders. Dr. Inslee B. Berry of New York recommends that all trains carry besides the ax end crowbar, a kit containing bandages, whisky, splints, plaster and sterilized cotton. The German steamship Robert Heyne arrived in New Yoik after a furious battle of twenty days with a series of storms, which its captaia declared the worst he ever saw. i Seven terrorists involved in the plot against the lives of Grand I )Jke Nicholas and other Russian dignitaries were sentenced to death at St. Petersburg. Serious rioting -occurred during the course of the celebrations of the Muharram, the first month of the Mohammedan year, at Bombay, India. The police were atta'-ked, and fired into the mob, killing several and wound jig many others. Six bronze tablets from the Rock Island arsenal, Illinois, have boon placed on the monuments that have been erected at Tien-tsin, China, in memory of the American soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in the Boxer outbreak of 11)01. Notices were posted at the Naunikeag Cotton Company's mill in Salem, Mass., announcing a curtailment of 110 per cent of working time. About l,r00 hands are employed. Fifty-one dollars paid at a New York auction of coins for a copper half-cent, is said to be the highest price ever given in this country tor a coin of that denomination and date, 182.". John W. Riddle, American ambassador to Russia, has stopped Ihe prosecution of Dr. Duboiehct, an American physician, practicing "n Odessa, who had been arrested a a revolutionist and refused je mission to consult the American consul

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In the Senate Monday Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan spoke against the railroad bond feature of the Aldrich currency bill. Most of the day was devoted to the passage of bills on the calendar which are not of general importance. A resolution wa3 passed by the House authorizing the immigration committee to investigate charges of peonage in certain States. Mr. Clark of Florida denounced Assistant Attorney General Russell, in connection with certain peonage prosecutions in Florida and referred sarcastically to Attorney General Bonaparte. There followed a lively discussion over a hill to deport, after the serving of their sentence, all aliens convicted of felony. The measure was defeated. Four hundred pension bills and a few other private bills were passed, and some time was spent in considering the postoffice appropriation bill. Mr. Hepburn of Iowa introduced a bill imposing a tax of 50 cents per hundred shares on sales of stock or agreements to sell. -: :- In the Senate Tuesday speeches on the pending currency bill were made by Senators McCumber of North Dakota and Newlands of Nevada. The Senate r&ssed a resolution offered by Senator Tillman calling on the Attorney General for all information concerning court proceedings in the Indian Territory affecting the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes. A number of bills of minor importance were passed. The charge that the railroads of the country carrying mails had robbed the ieople of $70,000,000 was made by Mr. Lloyd of Missouri. He declared that the new system of weighing mails was aa admission of the Postmaster General thai the weighing in the past twenty-seven years had been fraudulent. He called for an investigation of the Postoffice Department, and Mr. Wanger of Pennsylvania, chairman of the committee to control the expenses of that department, promised that an inquiry would be made. Currency legislation was made the subject of consideration in the Senate Wednesday. Senator Hepburn opposed the Aldrich bill and Senator Hopkins spoke in support o the bill. Senator Aldrich announced that he hoped to have a Vote on the measure the next Wednesday. Th9 postoffice appropriation bill technically was under consideration in the IIous2, but the discussion, under license of general debate, took a wido range. Speculation in cotton, finance, the tariff and a number of miscellaneous matters in turn occupied the whole time of the session. Mr. Sims, 'lennessee, ppoke in favor ol !he Burlescn bill to abolish dealings in cotton futures: Messrs. Chancy of Indiana and Lindberg of Minnesota talked on the financial question. Mr. Hitchcock of Nebraska pleaded for the placing on the free list of wood pulp and print paper. Immediately after the open'ng prayei the Senate Thursday morning adjourned ont of respect of the memory of the late Senator Proctor of Vermont, who died the previous day. Without transacting any business the House adjourned out of respect to the memory of Senator Proctor. -: :- The Senate Friday passed the arms pay bill increasing the pay of oificcri from 5 to 25 per cent and the average pay of enlisted men 40 per cent. Mr. Depew spoke in favor of the Aldrich currency bill. The Douse unanimously adopted a resolution to investigate the charges brought by Representative Lillcy of Connecticut of corrupt influences upon members of the House naval affairs committer in connection with authorizations for submarine torpedo boats. The bill to pay tc the archbishop of Manila, of the Roman Catholic church, $103,000 for damages to church property by the forces of the United States was passed. The Senate was not iu session Sarnr day. A part of the session of the House was devoted to the consideration of private claims bills. A number were passed, after which the remainder of the daj was given to eulogies of the late Representative Campbell Stemp of Virginia. As a further mark of respect the House adjourned until Monday. NATIONAL CAPITOL NOTXS. A bill was introduced by Mr. Cale delegate from Alaska, to establish a territorial government in Alaska. James Speyer, banker, had a long conference with the President on business conditions. He declined to discuss th details of the intervTew. N. B. Thistlewood was sworn in as t member of the House of Representative! from the Twenty-fifth District of Illinois in succession to the late George W. Smith. Secretary Metcalf received from Admiral Washington L. Capps, chief constructor of the navy, a report refuting criticisms which have appeared regarding naval construction. The naval board, headed by Commander Frank Fletcher, which examined Into the recent drownings of Privates Steenerson and Mcintosh of the Marine Corpi at Newport, It. I., has reported that in ita opinion the deaths were purely accidental. The bill to codify and revise the criminal laws of the United States was passed by the Senate. The amendment offered by Senator Culbertion of Texas penalizing the improper giving out of information by government officials affecting th market value of products of the soil was incorporated in the measure. The eight bridges crossing the Allegheny river at Pittsburg will not have to be raised, according to a decision rendered by Secretary Taft. He gave notice, however, that future bridges to be constructed over the river must be built 47 feet above the water. A favorable report ou the bill of Representative Humphrey of Washington, providing for a government exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific , exposition to be held at Seattle, Wash., in 100D, was ordered by the House committee on industrial arts and expositions. The bill carries $700,000. The House committee on interstate and foreign commerce favorably reported the Sherman bill forbidding the carrying of explosives on any passenger vehicle engaged in interstate commerce. The Senate confirmed t?.e nominations of Louis A. Coolidge of Massachusetts, to be assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Charles P. Grandfiold of Missouri to be first assistant Postmaster General. The monthly statement of the collections of internal revenue shows that for the month of January, 1U0S, the total receipts were $11,742,KU, which is a decrease as compared with January, 1007, of $1)07,013. It is probable that in a day or two Chairman Knapp of the interstate commerce commission and Commissioner of Labor Neill will undertake by the terms of the so-called Frdinan act. to mediate between the employes and officials of tha Southern railway in respect to wages. L. Allism Wilnier of Maryland has been appointed a special assistant to the Attorney General in Washington, to have charge of cases under the commodities clause of the Hepburn law. T. C. Spelling, formerly with the interstate commerce commission, also has been appointed a special assistant to the Attorney General with special reference to antitrust cases.

WHEN CHINA'S EMPRESS DIESj. Then, It Is Said, Japan May Figbfc the United States. So long as Tsze An, the dowager empress of China lives, the Japanese question will not become acute. That is the consenus of opinion in the Philippines today, a Manila correspondent asserts. When the dowager empress dies Japan undoubtedly will try to grab Manchuria, and as a result of the complications the Philippines may beeonie involved. In Manila it is not expected that the Japanese question will assume a serious phase at all soon. With Evans fleet in the Pacific, Uncle Sam will have sixteen first-class battleships and eight cruisers available against Japan's entire navy of thirteen battleships and five cruisers. No one believes Japan will precipate hostilities. In the event of war, though, Japan could take the Philippines. She is only seven days' sail from Manila, and no navy in the

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DOWAGER EMPRESS OF CHI.XA. world would be abje to patrol the 10,000 miles of island coast line. Japan has facilities for landing 40,000 troops in the Philippines in a week. There are 11,000 United States troops in the islands, including the constabulary. A large force in the Philippines is a necessity against the menace of Japan. Her statesmen know there would be nothing left of the Japanese but an artistic temperament after America had finished, but there same statesmen may be forced into a war by the unrest and ambitions of a people whose assurance and conceit has become unbearable since the encounter with Russia. Canadian foundry and machine industries employ 17.02S people. Adelaide (South Australia) soap and candle factory employes have formed a union. With almost 1,500 members, the Boston Bakers' Union is -the largest in the country. . v One of the latest fads in labor circles is the formation of a Pallbearers' Union in Alexandria, Va. St. Paul Ice Wagon Drivers' and Helpers' Union is already at work on a scale of 'wages for next j-ear. At Lynn, Mass., there was recently held a convention to organize national K. of L. Shoe Cutters Assemblies. . More than forty unions of retail clerks are under course of organization in as many cities and towns of New England. Ten thousand men in Ontario and the Canadian maritime provinces received increases in wages during the second quarter of the current year. The weekly rest day bill, which provides that all employes shall have one clay of rest in the seven, was approved by the Italian Chamber of Ieputies.. A union of hospital superintendents has been organized in Chicago, which may be extended to take in medical and surgical workers. It is called the Chicago Hospital Association and has twenty-five hospitals in its membership. The Mississippi State branch of the Farmers Union is planning to establish a central bank in Jackson, with a capital stock of $TjO,000, and it is also proposed to establish branch .banks in the principal cotton growing portions of the State. At the seventh annual session of the New York State Federation of Workinpmen. held recently in Syracuse, the Federation pledged its support to the Women's Trades Union League in its efforts to organize the women workers of the State. Durham ('England) Miners' Association has decided by 4S.000 votes to 18,400 against, to join the National Federation of Miners of Great Britain. Nearly 30,000 members abstained from voting, the aggregate being nearly 00,000 members. The Jaw of New York State forbidding newsboys under fourteen years of age from selling papers between 10 p. m. and G a. m. has been put into effect. In any event, to sell newspapers at any time, the boys must have permits from the Board of Education. Children under ten years of age are prohibited from selling newspapers at all. San Francisco retail grocery clerks are making arrangements to secure the application of every such clerk in the city to become a member of the new union. New York State Farmers' Union will hold a convention in .August at which steps for organization to obtain better prices for farm products will be taken. An International, agreement forbidding night work in factorief by Women has j been signed by England, . France, Ger many, Austria.. Italy, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, -Sweden and Switzerland. It will be put in practice In December, 1910. Toronto has been chosen as the next meeting place for the biennial convention of the Amalgamated Associations of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America. San Francisco (Cal.) Women's Union League is making efforts to obtain the appointment of a woman organizer by the American Federation of Labor for the purpose. of organiring women into unions. A gain of CO per cent, in the membership sinae the meeting in Buffalo was reported by the International Association of Car Workers of America at its recent biennial convention, held at Rochester, y. Married women whose husbands are not invalids hereafter may not be employed nt cigarmaking in Boston, Mass., according to a vote taken by the Boston union. The decision will require indorsement of the international. Other cigar makers' unions will be asked to take similar action. Judge O'Neill, in the Circuit Court at Eau Claire, Wis., has set "aside a verdict of $3.250 damages awarded the father of Charles B. Clemens, who, with his sister, was killed by an Omaha train at a grade crossing. The court holds that no money judgment could assuage the grief of the parents.

CHICAGO. Trade conditions in Chicago for tie reck are summarized by R. G. Dun & Co. as follows: Seasonable weather and the removal of lirheulties in forwarding heavy freight tnd grain brought more general activity ind trade advances encouragingly in the eading lines of distribution. Buyers irom many sections have crowded the wholesale district and their purchases increased the business thus far negotiated 'or future delivery of the principal staples. An active demand also developed mr prompt shipment of textiles, food prolucts, footwear and furniture. Sales of millinery and notions show distinct improvement, and there is less hesitancy in men ana women a wear man was icji throughout last month. Local shipping rooms are under great pressure in getitng jut goods for the interior and the quantities increase right along, although railroad returns show a smaller aggregate of lonnage than a year ago. Mercantile collections reflect further ?ase in financial conditions, and there is less anxiety as to credits, the drastic elim ination of weak concerns making the outlook less clouded. 'M arch payments through the banks swell the volume of hearings considerably over recent figures, ind there is additional release of funds. but the offerings for discount remain moderate and choice commercial paper is luotecLat G-per cent. Shipments of cur rency usually rise about this time, but ieposits stand exceptionally high, and the investment for improvements is not yet fairly started, although there will be better demand soon in pnt paration for spring work on the farms and resumption of lake traffic Building permits for business structures during r ebruary were - S m auinber, and $1,317,800 in value, cgainst 30 in number and $1,081.300 in value in February, 1007, the gain being gratifying in view of the late drawbacks. . New bookings in iron and steel are not significantly large, but the fact that demand shows recovery creates a better toDel in the industrial branches. Factories in this district have more machinery active and increased numbers of hands employed, and the prospects brighten for aa early startirg up of some furnaces and mills. Fouudrymen find orders coming forward and they would be heavier buyers of pig iron were prices more settled. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 40, against 3.1 last week and 19 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $r,O0O number 13, against 14 last week and 4 in 1007. NEW YORK. Distributive trade shows growth from week to week as the spri ig season approaches, and the tone of trade as a whole is more optimistic, but, despite the larg number of buyers in evidence at leading markets, the character of the businers done does not vary from that hitherto described. Conservative buying, largely of staples, is the rule, and the uncertainty as to prices in many lines acts as a check to fullest activity. This is especially manifest in some lines, as, for instance, cotton goods, where prices hare been of late sharply reduced, without, ( however, evoking the interest expected. In few, if any, cases are comparisons vith a year ago satisfactory, and a number cf measures of monthly trade and industrial movement point to shrinkage of 2T per cent or more. Business failures for the week ending March 5 number 2S7, against 2'A last week. 172 i, the like week of 1007, 177 in 100G, 100 in 1005 and 200 in 1004. Canadian failures for the week number 41), against 33 last week and 21 in the like week of 1007. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. m ' . Sfi serf ii II li?4 Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $G.23; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $4.03; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, OSc to 90c; corn. No. 2, 00c to Glc; oats, standard, 52c to 53c; rye. No. 2, 84c to S5c; hay, timothy, $0.50 to $10.50; prairie, $8.00 to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 2oc to 28c ; eggsv fresh. 20c to 22c ; potatoes, per bushel, G5c to 73c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.73: hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $1.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 90c to H.00; corn. No. 2 white, 57c to 50c ; oats, No. 2 white, 51c to 53c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $G.OO; hogs, $4.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.03 to $1.0(5; corn. No. 2, 04c to G.V; oats. No. 2, 51c to 52c; rye. No. 2, 83c to 84c Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.35; hogs, $4.00 to $4.S0; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2, $1.01 to $1.02; corn. No. 2 mixed, 59c to GOc; oats. No. "2 mixed, 51c to 53c ; rye. No. 2, 85c to SGc Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.00; hogs, $4.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.01 to $1.02: corn. No. 3 yellow, G4c to G5c; oats. No. 3 white, 53c to 55c ; rye, No. 2, 85c to 80c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.00 to $1.11; corn. No. 3, 58c to COc; oats, standard, r3c to 54c; rye, No. 1, Sic to 83c; barley. No. 2, 03c to 95c; pork, mess, $11.90. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.30; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $3.23; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $7.00. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $3.00; hogs, $3.50 to $3.15; sheen, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.00 to $1.03; corn. No. 2, Glc to G3c; oats, natural white, 57c to GOc; butter, creamery, 27e to 30c; -eggs, western, 23c to 2Gc. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, OSc to $1.0); corn. No. 2 mixed, 57c to 50c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 54c; rye. No. ? 2, S3c to S4c; clover tfed, prime, $11.00. TOLD IN A FEW LINES, '.tie cabinet factory of Edward 1. Jotdan & Co., in Brooklyn, was totally destroyed by fire, causing a los3 of $H 0.000. The entire east side of the ousinesj section of Russellville. Ala., was d-stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $10,000. The New York society which was farmed for the purpose of erecting a monument to the late Deputy Chief Claries Kruger of the fire department, wbi was killed recently in the discharo of his duty, reports a gift of $1.009 from J. Pierpont Morgan. Fire at Ellimvood, Kan destrcyel th Mangelsdorf grocery and dry goods store, the Opera House block, the drug store of J. C. McCracken and an unocotpied rtorsroom. Loss $140.000. It was announced by Santa Fe officials at Phoenix, Ariz., that President Ripley had rescinded his orders stopping new railroad construction in so far as the Arizona and California railroad is affected. Matthew Astor Wilks, a great-grandson of the first John Jacob Astor, whoso reported engagement to Miss Sylvia Green, daughter of Hetty Green, caused a flutter of excitement in New York, said : There is absolutely no foundation for the story.