Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 26, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 April 1908 — Page 2

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OVIS F. Q.P.M. I' Lk Q. 1st f 8th. gyl6tb. 23rd. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Side and Condition of Thlnos are Shown. Nothing Overlooked lo make it Complete. Chester Gillette Goes to Death. Chester Gillette has paid the full penalty of the brutal murder of Grace Brown. He went to his death Monday In the electric chair at Auburn Prison without a sign of weakness and with the same lack of emotion which has characterized him from the day he was arrested charged with the crime.1 He appeared to have been fully reconciled to his fate, and In a statement given out by his spiritual advisers immediately after the execution It Is understood that he had made a confession of his guilt. Gillette himself, so far a3 the public was concerned, never admitted his crime. Gillette's step was firm and strong and he walked rapidly toward the instrument of death. He seated himself In the chair, the straps and electrodes were placed and within two minutes Gilette had been officially pronounced dead. He did not require assistance from the keepers and hi3 spiritual advisers, who accompanied him in his last walk. Death Trap to Be Abandoned. The official list of the victims of the explosion in the coal mine at Hanna, "Wyo., given out Monday by the Union Pacific Coal Company, contains thirtytwo names and .it is believed that at least eight others met death In mine. It Is estimated that this double disaster will cost the operators not less than $500,000. The explosion of 1903 cost the company more than $1,000,000. It Is announced now that this mine will be abandoned and sealed as soon as the bodies are recovered. There Is talk of asking the Governor to appoint a commission of experts to probe the disaster and if the rumors afloat as to the unsafe condition of the colliery are verified then efforts may le made to close It through process of law should It not be abandoned by the coal company. Shot Self in Front of Crematory. Mel vln A. Root, 69 years of age, arrived in Buffalo. N..Y March 20th from Bay City, Mich., and made arrangements with a crematory to cremate his body when dead, adding that If he should be found dead in front of the crematory, his body should be taken in a:d cremated. Monday Root went out to the crematory and shot himself three times on the front steps of the building. He was taken to the Bisters' Hospital, where It is said, he cannot live. Roofs wife died recently. Her body was cremated and brought to Lockport, N. Y., where her ashes were burled. Root, who was originally from Lockport, has also arranged to bare his ashes hurled there beside his wife. Vessel Hit by Own Torpedo. As the result of being struck by a Whitehead torpedo, fired from one of her own tubes, the torpedo boat BlakeIj, which has been engaged In target practice off the port of Pensacola, Fla., has a large Jagged hole just below her water line on her port side. A Whitehead torpedo had been prepared for a range of 4,000 yards and fired. It had only gone about 100 yards, when it suddenly swerved and, after making a complete circle, came directly toward the Blakely, striking the vessel on the port side below the water line. Mattresses and bedding were used to stop the inrush of water and the vessel headed for the navy yard. Feud War in South Bend. As a result of a feud which had its Inception at Mirana. Italy. Anthony Comport! and Salementa Montelanl were shot and probably fatally woundad at South Bend. Ind. Their wouidbe murderers have been traced to the woods, five miles northeast of Niles. Ilich. Armed officers are in pursuit. . National Cash Register to Resume. The National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio, which has been shut down f or over a month, has Issued notices th'it it will resume operations fa several days. Three thousand persons are employed. Fire Ruins Fall; Boys Killed. : The standing ruins of the Centenary Methodist church in Provincetown, XIass., which was burned two weeks ego, collapsed Monday afternoon, killing two boys and injuring several ether persons. New Senator Sworn In. Johr. W. Stewan.. appointed by the Governor of Vermont as the successor -of the late Senator Proctor, has been ifworn in as a member of the Senate. Wife Slayer Found Not Guilty. Andrew Kol inoski, charged with slaying hi? wife and her boarder, with whom it rrs alleged she was infatuated, was f -eel by a jury in Judge Rc.bcoek's court h, Ch veland. Kolinoski admitted the deed, tru nleaded emotional insanity and justification. Shoots Self in Blazing Barn. Killed with remorse because he had struck his drunken father, Chas. Hurdlebrink of near Genoa. Ohio, set fire to a tarn, then lay down in the blazing building ami fired a shot through his brain. The body was incinerated. Test for Anti-Pass law. An appeal to test the legality of the Kin? anti-pass act has been filed in the Nebraska Supreme Court. Dr. D. T. Martin, a Union Pacific surgeon, was prosecuted in the District Court of Platte county on the charge of being a passholder, tnd bo won the suit. The State appealed. Traveling Man a Suicide. J. W. Smith of Cleveland, a traveling man. shot and killed himself at a hotel in Tittsburg. Smith was 58 years old and lived at 1023 East Eighty-sixth street, Cleveland-

TIMBER TO GO IN 20 YEARS.

Government Forester Predicts Famine Plead3 for Preservation. Declaring that a timber famine wouM overtake this nation within twenty years, and that all former famines and panics would be insignificant in comparison. Enos A. Mills of tlx bureau of forestry delivered an address in Lincoln Center, in Chicago, in which he pleaded for the preservation of the forests and the plantin? of millions of acres in order that the nation might avert disaster in the reckless destruction of the woods. "We would still need to preserve oar forests even if they had no other value than to stem the floods that rush unhindered into the waterways and carry millions of dollars' worth of fertile foil of the farms into the great basins of ,the lower country," he said. "Our streams are slowly becoming filled and broadened with the soil of land rendered too poor to maintain the farmer." Mr. Mills told his hearers that destruction from floods was becoming more alarming yearly; that the natural reservoirs created by the growth of primitive woods were becoming sun baked and eroded, and that rainfall formerly stored away and fed into the spring life of the country now rushed in torrents to the sea, carrying millions of dollars of valuation with them. The American schools were condemned for their neglect of the forestry q jest ion. "Trees are great chemists," concluded the speaker. "I5y day and by night these lofty wooded spires extract the poisons from the air and from the earth and render the greatest service to all animal kind." LYNCHING POSSE CATCHES GIRL. Young Woman in Man's Attire Mistaken for Negro Murderer. Catherine Rooks, 123 years old, was returned to her parents home by the authorities of Lawrence county. Fa.. after a most exciting experience. Miss Rooks, while in man's attire, was chased by a sheriff's posse in Lawrence county which was in search of a negro who had fatally stabbed his wife. In the darkness the girl was mistaken for the much wanted negro, and she narrowly escaped lynching. Her voice saved her as she was about to be hoisted on a rope by the mob. The girl, whose family is poor, has a brother sick in Chicago, and a few days since she got the idea that she' might beat her way on freight trains to Chicago to help him had she but boy's attire. leing of large frame, she secretly tried on the clothing of her uncle, and, finding it fitted well, she left a note in the house and started for Chicago. JOIN IN CORN EXPOSITION. Eleven States Will Support National Fair at Omaha Next December. Eleven States have joined in the scheme to promote the National Corn Exposition which will be held in Omaha next December, and officers of the exposition association have the assurance from the agricultural departments of these States that they will send exhibits. A feature of the Nebraska exhibit will be corn grown by children of the State, who compete annually for a prize oJered by the . State university. Notice has been received from Minneapolis that the exposition is to have the support of the millers of that city, and the Kansas State board of agriculture has given promise of participation. BOBBER BLOWS OFF OWN HEAD. i Premature Explosion of Dynamite Saves Bank at Springtown, Ark. In a futile attempt to blow open the safe of the Farmers' bank at Springtown, Ark., the head of one of the robbers was blown from his shoulders by a premature explosion of dynamite. The body of the dead robber was found in the bank near the safe. In his pocket was a map showing Gentry, Springtown and Sulphur Springs marked with crosses. Ranks at the two latter places have been robbed lately, and the police are led to the belief that the sameang attempted to rob the Farmers' bank. The identity of the dead robber is not known. CHURCH TO HAVE BABY BUREAU Salvation and Soothing Syrup Will Go Hand in Hand. Salvation and soothing syrup will go Hand in hand if the plan of the Memorial Baptist church in Hartford, Conn., meets with success. The deacons of the chnrch have noticed a falling of! in the number pf married women who attend service, care of babies in almost every instance being given as the cause. With the approval of a majority of the congregation, the church has now decided to open a baby bureau, where the infants may be checked while the mother gets divine consolation. Shot of Korean Proves Fatal. D. W. Stevens, the American agent of Japan, who was shot by a Korean in San Francisco, died Wednesday night. That afternoon he suddenly developed symptoms of peritonitis. A hasty Operation was performed and it was found that one of the bullets had punctured the intestines in several places. There were evidences of blood poisoning. Will Send 1,000 to Philippines. The government will send 1,000 workmen to the Philippines next month for work on the fortifications of the island I of Corigidor, at the entrance of Manila bay. This will make 1,000 to be sent within a month. The fortification of the island was only recently determined upon, and the work will be rushed. The workmen are offered $50 per month. Will Not Accept Hill. Germany startled official Washington by reversing its recent decision and refusing to accept Dr. David Jayne Hill, present minister to The Hague, as American ambassador to succeed Charlemagne Tower at Berlin. Dakota Prairie in Blaze. The most disastrous prairie fire that section has known in many years started between Pukwana and Kimball, S. D. A high wind carried it over a large area. Many farmers lost all their buildings. Bomb Throwing in New York. One man was killed, another is dying and a score were injured as the result of a bomb thrown during a big meeting of the unemployed in New York. Seventy Entombed in Mine. Seventy men, fifty of them heroic rescuers, were entombed by two explosions ia a coal mine at Hanna, Wyo., caused by fire damp. Gov. Johnson Is Willing. Gov. Johnson of Minnesota has given formal ierniission for the presentation of his name to the Democratic convention as a candidate for President. Editor Sniff 13 Acquitted. The jury in the case of Editor A. 11. Sniff, charged with the murder of M. E. Urundridge, returned a verdi.-l of acquittal in Logan, Iowa. Self-dc(cue was Sniff's plea. Theater Steamer Is Sunk. The steamer Columbia, towing a Marietta (Ohio) show boat, was sunk at lock IS in the Ohio river, above Parkersburg, V. Va. The boat ran into the lock wall and sank in two minutes. The crew was saved, as were also the actors on the show boat. A misunderstanding of signals is said to have caused the accident.

D0WIE3 RAISING CHICSEN3.

Widow and Son Go Into the Poultry Business. Dm Mac Dhui. "Apostle" Howie's costly farm at Muskegon, Mich., has gone, not to the dogs or to weeds, but to the chickens. The long, sloping lawns are covered' these days with chickens, geese, and turkeys, and the halls of the summer home are devoted to a chicken hatchery. The I Üble has been displaced by the incubator. Mrs. Jane Dowie and Gladstone Dowie, the widow and only son of the former ruler of Zion City, are managing the enterprise, and their entire income is derivtd from the poultry business. Mr. Dowie is a graduate of the Harvard law school, the University of Chicago, and several Australian schools, and is bringing all the resources of his trained mind to the fattening of fowls for the Chicago market. Den Mac Dhui was one of the pet projects of "Elijah" Dowie at the height of his power. It consists of 1GO acres, and Dowie expended an immense amount of money on it. Of all the valuable property that belonged to the elder Dowie before his death,. Ren Mac Dhui is almost the only piece that Gladstone Dowie now possesses. BARE SI 00,000 LAKE THEFTS. Wholesale Robbery of Big Cargo Vessels Charged to Pirate Band. Six negroes, alleged members of a gang of thieves banded together to rob" vessels laden with valuable merchandise, were arrested in Chicago on the river docks and in the RIac-k Dolt after desperately resisting capture. The prisoners are Charles Mattock. Curtis Garden. Edward Edwards, Henry Perry, Joseph Wilson and James Kelsaw. In the capture the Iolice recovered half a dozen trunks filled with silks, laces, valuable dry goods, jewelry and o'hr loot. Down in the holds of vessels bringing valuable merchandise to the big Chicago stores the negroes are said to have committed robberies that netted them from .100,000 to $150,000 in plunder. It is charged that the alleged thieves broke out bales of goods and boxes from Paris, Derlin, Constantinople and other great marts of trade. After plundering the packages the goods were secreted in the clothing of the thieves and then taken and stored in trunks until turned over for sale. TAKES OWN WOULD-BE SLAYERS. Detective Marked for Death by Four Beds'' Arrests Them. Incensed because their chief, Paul Rignami, the so-called king of the San Francisco anarchist colony, was taken into custody by Detective John Rocca. four anarchists took oath on a miniature coffin marked with skull and cross-bones and the red flag that they would have the life of the officer. This quartet is now with Itignami in the city prison. The four men who took the oath are Joseph Tumiatti. Charles Anjori. August Nocchi und Charles Dalhoni. Detective Docea heard that he had been marked for death and arrested the would-be assassins soon after. Nocchi came from Chicago about a year ago. ACTOR KILLS WOMAN AND SELF. Tregedy Results. When Actress Threatens to Quit Companion. William D. Trainer, a vaudeville actor, shot and killed Mrs. William Pryor, an actress, with whom he was traveling, in their apartment at the Clarendon hotel in .St. Paul, and committed suicide. Mrs. Pryor was 1!5 years old. An open letter found in the room indicated that Mrs. Pryor had threatened to leave Trainer. The letter had been sent by Trainer to Mrs. Pryor lefore she left her husband, and it is believed the actress was reminding Trainer he had not kept his promises. It is thought they were rear the end of tlicir resources. GIVES S3,000 TO BOY PIANIST. Audience Deeply Moved by Rendition of Mendelssohn's Concerto. At a dinner given at the St. Louis Club in St. Louis Abe Morris, 10 years old, a raMe and anaemic boy, rendered Mendelssohn's concerto so well that his enthusiastic auditors immediately subscribed a fund of $3,000 to sond hun to Drussels for a thorough musiccl Education. The youthful pianist thouht the zenith of his musical education had been reached when he played befo'? the club, and the spontaneous subscription vns a complete surprise. Couple Dead in Woods. The discovery in the woods near'Williamsport, Pa., of the bodies of Frank Roberts and Mrs. Gustine Rrizet disclosed a double tragedy. Doth todies contained bullet holes, and beside Roberts lay a revolver with two chambers empty. Roberts is known to leave a widow in France. He was "0 years old. Mrs. Drizet was 21. She is survived by her husband and two children. Mormons to Attack Chicago. The Mormons plan to capture Chicago. Undeterred by the agitation aroused against them when Reed Smoot was sent to the Senat?, the Mormon leaders have been quietly planning a campaign to extend the influence of their church. The initial step in their program has been inaugurated. They have begun an advertising campaign. " Tornado Wrecks a Town. The town of Lynn, six miles from P.ainbridge, Ga., was destroyed by a tornado early Wednesday. Two persons were killed James Wright, colored, and a child of Major Lyles. A numler of others were injured. Many dwellings, barns and storehouses were destrojed. The track of the tornado was 400 yaids wide. Hangs Herself with a Blanket. May Thompson, aged 32 years, a patient in the delirium of fever, escaped from the city hospital in St. Louis, crawled into the cellar of a Park avenue residence, four blocks away, and hanged herself. Her body, hanging at the end of a Uospital blanket she had taken with her, was found six hours after she was last seen at the hospital. 35,000 Miners to Quit. Thirty-five thousand members of the United Mine Workers of America in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas will go on strike following a decision reached at a meeting of the division vice presidents held in Kansas City. To Encourage German Inventors. Karl Lanz, a merchant of Manheim, Germany, has handed over to the German Aeroplane Club $10,000 to found a prize to be contested for by aeroplanes heavier than air of purely German make. Herr Lanz has donated also $2.."100 fo help ioor German aeroplane inventors. Chinese Student Gets Honor. I'onsou C. Chu of Shanghai, a wealthy Chinese student in the junior class of Yale College, has lieen elected to membership in the Psi I'psilon fraternity, and John Kendrkk Pangs, Jr., of New York City has been elected into Delta Kappa Epsilon. Firebugs Burn Warehouse. The leaf tobacco warehouse of T. S. Hamilton & Co., at Fourth and P.akewell streets, Covington, Ky., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss estimated at $150. 000. The fire is thought lo have been of incendiary origin.

DE E State Convention Held at Indianap olis and Instructions for Nebraskan Are FrameJ. LARGEST MEETING SINCE 1S32. Interest in Selection of Delegates to Denver Who Will Decide on National Committeeman. Governor Lieutenant tlovernoi-, Sec-rotary of State.. Auditor of State. . . . State Treasurer...., .Thomas 11. Marshall Trank J. Hall James V. Vox Marion Il.iiley ....John Isen'mrger , Walter J. Lou M. 15. laky Attorney (Jcneral Supreme Court Juiljre. . Appellate Court Jucljje. 11 W. Weit Indianapolis correspondence: The Indiana Democratic Convention Wednesday entered upon its two days' task of adopting a platform, naming a State ticket and selecting delegates to the National Convention at Denver. All the thirty national delegates, which number includes the four selected by the committee on rules, will vote for William Jennings Dry an for President The program the first day included a brief session at 11 o'clock, district meetings in the afternoon to select twentysix delegates to the National Convention and to name convention com in ittecs, and a night meeting at which all of the committees except that on resolutions reported, and the convention address was delivered by Rolert W. Miers, of Hlooinlngton, former Congressman from the Second District. Robert W. Miers, temporary chairman of the convention, in addressing the delegates alluded to William Jennings Dryan as the "idol of the people." He referred to the principles held by the fathers of the republic, and continued: "The leaders of the Republican party have done nearly everything that the fathers feared. They have gone into a far country to spend their substance in riotous living. They have quadrupled the standing army. The doctrine of Alexander Hamilton is again revived and the doctrine of a strong, centralized government is in control that a few men shall run the government and fewer control all the business of the country, until by reason of legislation by the Republican party along that line trusts have been formed by the thousands. "They say that new trade ha brought about new conditions which require large aggregations of wealth to handle. Is the expansion of trade only for the purpose of adding to the millions of the millionaire, and is its effect to be loss to thousands of men of small means? If that is the new trade we are expanding into, let tm drop it, because it is a losing trade." The session Thursday adopted a platform, named four delegates-a Marge to the National Convention and selected a State ticket auionf thy twenty-seven candidates, of whom Söven were aspirants for the gubernatorial nomination. The platform instructed the thirty Indiana National delegates to vote for Dryan and was unanimously adopted. The platform pledged the party, "when returned to power, to correct the -vils that have grown out of Ilepublican official shortcomings to an economical administration of public affairs and to a consistent enforcement of tho laws relating to public welfare." "For nearly twelve years," says the platform, "the Republican party has been in absolute control of all the departments of national government, yet during that time colossal combinations of capital have dominated the people and illegal perversions of corporate laws have stilled competition and unfairly limited the opportunity of the individual citizen. We denounce the byiocrisy of the Republican party, which, while pretending to legislate against these conditions, deals only with the symptoms and not with the disease." The candidates for Governor wore Samuel M. Ralston of Lebanon, Carroll K. McCulIough of Anderson, Thomas R. Marshall of Columbia City, L. K. Slack of Franklin. Thomas M. Kuhn of Richmond, C. G. Conn of Elkhart and William O'Keefe of Plymouth. For Lieutenant Governor the candidates were Frank E. Herring of South Dend, William P. O'Neill of Mishawaka and Frank J. Hall of Kiishville. James F. Cox of Columbus was the only candidate for Secretary of State. Marion Railoy of Lizton had no opposition for Auditor and John Isenbarger of North Manchester was not opiKised for Treasurer. The three candidates for Attorney General were Walter L. Lötz of Muneie, Milton P. Ilottel of Salem and Richard M. Milburn of Jasper. Other candidates nominated were for reporter of the Supreme Court, Judges of the Supreme and Appellate Courts, State Statistician and Superintendent of Public Instruction. The convention brought to the city the largest gathering of Democrats here since 1S92. Ilecause of the election of a memler of the National Committee by the delegates at Denver great interest was taken in their selection by the district meetings of State delegates. Sorry for the Author. "Whit did the rector say when the curate read the lesson from Genesis so badly?" "Suffering Moses!" Harper's Weekly. Eloquent Mlenee. "Maude and her beau are still in the' parlor," si'id the girl's father. "How do you know they're still there?" asked the mother. "Because everything is still there." Philadelphia Press. Anything lint llnre. "No, I don't like him, because he's always trying to say something funny." "Well, you must admit that he has a rare wit." "I disagree with you there. I think it's overdone." Philadelphia Press. The Method. "What beautiful children's books they are getting out," said the shopper. "Yes," answered the salesman; "the b'.st way to sell a child's book Is to get up something that will interest and ruiuse its parents." Washington Star. One Kemeily. "Do you know, my husband had a terrible habit of sleeping in church, but he broke himself of it." "How?" "Gave up going." Ta tier.

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WORK OF CONGRESS The announcement of the death of Senator William James Dryan of Florida was made iu the Senate immediately after the prayer by the chaplain Monday, whereupon, in resiect to his memory, the Seuatc adjourned. In the House Mr. Mann of Illinois charged that Mr. Sulzer of New York had put in the Congressional Record what purported to be a speech delivered by him last Saturday, but which Mr. Mann charged was not the one delivered. A resolution offered by Mr. Mann to expunge the printed speech from the record was adopted by a strict party vote, but not until after the House had been treated to a bitter denunciation of Mr. Mann by Mr. Sulzer and several lively tilts between the latter and the Speaker. The currency bill was practically given an exclusive right of way in the Senate Tuesday until finally disposed of by an announcement from Senator Aldrich that he would move Wednesday to give it that status. Senator La Follette concluded the third installment of his speech on the bill. A question brought out a statement by Mr. Aldrich that he hoped to see the creation of a joint commission of the Senate and House authorized to consider permanent currency reform before Congress adjourned. Determination to conduct a filibuster on all occasions where opportunity presented itself, in order to force the Republicans to action on an employers' liability bill and other measures deemed necessary of enactment was announced by Mr. Williams of Mississippi in the House. General debate on the agricultural appropriation bill continued throughout he day, except for a brief time, when Mr. Sulzer of New York, by way of retaliation for the action of the House Monday in eliminating from the record his speech of Saturday last, sought to have expunged some remarks of Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania regarding the rules. In that, however, he was unsuccessful. . : :- Voting on amendments to the currency bill consumed nearly the entire session of the Senate Wednesday. All of the committee's amendments were accepted and incorporated in the bill, and all other amendments, except one, were disagreed to, the voting showing conclusively that only with the sanction of the committee could any change be made in the bill. In the course of a bitter denunciation of President Roosevelt on the floor of the House of Representatives Mr. Stanley of Kentucky compared him with Alexander Hamilton, whom he designated as "an obscure adventurer," and both of whom he said had profound contempt foi the constitution and displayed, everlasting impatience with its restraints. Mr. Dryan, he said, had the respect of the country as a statesman. Apparently ignoring Mr. Stanley's remarks, Mr. Cocks of New York, representing the President's district, defended the President against the recent attack of Mr. Willett. Mr. WilIett, replying, declared his complete ability to defend all that he had said. All the remarks were made during general debate on the agricultural appropriation bill, the consideration of which had not been concluded when the House adjourned. The Senate Thursday devoted considerable time to the credentials of Senatorelect John Walter Smith of Maryland. The result of a long debate was the admission of Mr. Smith. The currency bid was then taken up and amendments wer? considered. More shafts of sarcasm and invective were aimed at Pr-sident Roosevelt in the House. Mr. Dea'l of Texas charged the President with having been guilty of "a disgusting usurpation of power" not only toward the national legislature, but the judiciary as wed. God and the future alone knew, he declared, just what niche he was to occupy in the temple of Lis country. The agricultural appropriation bill was considered for amendment, and when it was I lid :tside for thday there had been stricken out the provision for new weather stations in the States of Texas, Kansas, Virginia, Michigan, Vermont, Missouri and Indiana. The Senate devoted its entire session Friday to a consideration of the Aldrich currency bill. After further amending the measure, it was passed by a vote of 4J to 1. The Senate then adjourned until Monday. The question whether or 'not President Roosevelt is an intolerant man after the fashion of King George HI., arose in the House. The discussion was founded on a local newspaper story covering what purported to be the details of an interview between the President and Representative Deikema of Michigan, in which the President was represented as thumping his desk and berating Mr. Deikema for having joined. in the report of the subcommittee of the judiciary committee censuring "Judge Wilfley of the United States Court in China. Mr. Deikema absolved the President from thq suggestion of intolerance, and said he had displayed the greatest liberality in receiving his explanation. The agricultural appropriation bill was taken up, but it had not been materially amended when it was laid aside. " "" The Senate wis not in session Saturday. Put little irogress was made in the House in considering the agricultural bill. The discussion dwelt mainly upon the proimsed establishment of federal standards of cotton grades and federal inspection of grains. Consideration of the bill had not been concluded when the House adjourned till Monday. NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of William L. Day to be United States Attorney for the northern district of Ohio. Mr. Day is a son of Associate Justice Day of the United States Supreme Court. The President announced the selection of a referee board of prominent scientists of the country, who are to aid the Department of Agriculture in passing upon the suits based upon the use of benzoate of soda, sulphur and other preservatives in the foods of the country. A bill to reorgaiiie the consular service of the United States passed the Senate. Mr. Lodge stated that the net result of the measure is to close Wentycight consulates and to create seventeen new ones. On motion of Senator McEnerney, the Senate passed a bill appropriating $13.",-' (100 to provide a crypt in the chapel of the Naval academy as a permanent resting place for the body of John Paul Jones. A bill to tax the sale and trVisfer of stocks, at the rate of .r0 cents per. hun-; drel shares, was introduced in the House by Representative Hepburn of Iowa. The bill granting additional time to the Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Co. to file completed surveys by road sections, was ordered favorably reported without amendment by the Douse committee The Senate passed the resolution offered by Mr. Tillman calling on the Attorney General for information in his possession concerning court proceedings in ltKX) in the Indian territory affecting the Choctaws. The receivers of, the Jamestown Exposition Co., with their attorneys, were before the House committee on naval affairs and advocated government purchase of the 3Ö0 acres composing the exposition site for a naval and coaling station.

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DEMAND OF ROOSEVELT Short, Sharp iMessajje to Congress, Urging Action on Pending DRIs. TO AMEND SHERMAN ACT. Employers Liability and Labor Injunction Statutes Need Changing. President Roosevelt Wednesday sent a sieeial message to Congress which is expected to stir the do-nothing legislators into useful if tardy activity. The comimulication from the White House is, in fact, a protest against congressional dolee far niente and the slumbrous loquacity of the Senate. In it Mr. Roosevelt outlines and urges action as follows : Tariff Immediate placing of wood pulp on the free list, with a reduction of the duty on paper made from wood pulp; also provision for collecting data that tariff revision may be undertaken at the next session of Congress, the necessary information to be gathered by congressional committee and government agents. Labor Legislation prohibiting temporary restraining orders without notice in labor disputes. Petitions for permanent injunctions to be heard speedily; issue in contempt proceedings to be decided by another judge ; noting to be done to legalize cither the black list or the boycott. Anti-Trust Law Amendments permitting industrial, labor and farmers' combinations whose objects do not conflict with the principles of justice and freedom. Interstate Commerce Law Amendment giving railways right to fcrm traffic agreements subject to the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Amendment giving power to the commission to make public and pass upon all securities issued by railways. Financial Action by Congress at the present session. Establishment cf postal savings banks also recommended. Child Labor Prohibition throughout the nation. Model law for District of Columbia. Employers' Liability Immediate reenactment of a law conforming with Supreme Court's ruling. Also a law giving compensation to employes injured or killed in. service of government. . The message is short and to the point. The President confines himself to a discussion of the legislation outlined and avoids subjects which have made his recent communications to Congress the theme of such widespread discussion. 700S&NDS, or In basket ball Wisconsin gave the Nebraskans a drubbing at Madison, the final score being 43 to 4. Joe Gans,' the negro lightweight cham pion, has been sued for divorce by his wife, Madge Gans, in Daltimore. At Lafayette, Ind.. the University of Minnesota basket ball team defeated the Purdue quint by a score of 31 to 25. Grinnell college won the Iowa basket ball championship from the State university, 33 to 14, on the Grinnell floor. The Wisconsin University football team has decided to play no game with Iowa this year, but Iowa will probably play Minnesota. Playing his last championship game, Jake Schaefer, the veteran billiardist, retained his title to the 1S.1 championship by defeating Willie Hoppe 500 to 423, in Chicago. Recause he lashed Graphite with a bull whip until the horse's legs bled, Vincent Smith, assistant starter at the Emeryville track Oakland, has been arrested for cruelty' to animals. II. J. Handy of the Illinois Athletic Club established a world's record for swimming seventy-five yards with the back stroke by covering the distance in 54 2-3 seconds at Madison Square Garden, New York. Columbia university rowing authorities will spend over $11,000 in the maintenance and care of iheir 'varsity eight, four-oared and freshman crews this year, and the season consists of but three important regattas. The United States naval academy boat crew has sustained a loss through the injury to Midshipman Archibald F. Douglas, who broke a rib in a wrestling contest recently. He was the strongest man in the academy. Promise of a purse of 35,000 for his appearance in the ring Labor Day, in a long-distance battle with Jack Johnson, will pass unheeded, declared Champion Jim Jeffries, who said he would not reenter the ring for any purse. Ihikc of Milan won the Undine stake for 2-year-olds at Oakland, Lee Ruse second and Mozart third. They are all California youngsters. Tony Faust's stake victory made it virtually certain that S. C. Ilildrcth would lead the list of winning owners at Emeryville to the end of the season. At Omaha, Frank Gotch, American champion wrestler, won from Harry Dransfield in two straight. The first was won with a toe hold in 13 minutes 43 seconds, and the second with a hammerlock in 10 minutes 25 seconds. Sandy Griswold was referee. Emmanuel Cedrino, driving a sixty-horse-power Italian car, won the 100mile auto race for the Minneapolis cup in 110 minutes and 20 seconds over the Ormond Beach course in Florida. This is 31 minutes and 40 seconds slower than the record made by Clifford Earp in 1906. At a meeting of Wisconsin college presidents in Reloit, a permanent athletic conference was effected and a code of fifteen rules was agreed upon to govern intercollegiate athletics. The tendency of the new rules is lo raise the scholarship qualifications of athletes and then bar professionalism. Professional coaches are allowed. At Ios Angeles, Cal., Jewell, placed at 200 to 1, shocked the bookies by winning from a field of 14. One bookmaker is known to have paid two tickets calling for 1,000 to 5 each and to have lost $1,000 more on scattering bets. Other lookies are said to have su0ered equally heavy losses. Nut Pireaker, a trotter valued at $20,GOO, and will a record of 2 :OT?i in an eight heat race, was found dead at New Haven, Conn., where his owner, Joseph Kuhmyer, lives. Death is alleged to have been due to muriatic poisoning, administered through the tube which was inserted in the trctter's throat some time ago to do duty in place of a defective trachea.

CHICAGO. It. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade conditions in the Chicago district says : "The volume of trade, as reflected by payments through the banks, maintains steady recovery, but the commercial mortality is yet high and the process of liquidation, although fatal to many weak concerns, is really placing credit upon a healthier basis. Factory outputs rfill remain much behind those at this time last year and new demands come forward rather slowly in leading industries, yet there is further evidence of increased distribution, particularly in general merchandise, breadstuffs and provisions. "Spring exhibits in retail lines command more interest, and wholesale dealings in the staples reach a satisfactory aggregate. Some caution is exercised in making commitments for distant delivery and mail orders from the interior are moderate, but the current buying is well maintained in textiles, footwear, light weight apparel, household needs and food products. "Mercantile collections throughout the West have almost returned to the normal state, and country storekeepers report seasonable1 consumption, the buying being much stimulated by warmer weather. "Farmers, as a rule, find the outlook very promising and, being in a strong position financially, they are expending liberally for machinery and materials for improvements. Country banks are enabled 'with less difficulty than heretofore to furnish the funds to carry on spring work and shipments of currency from this city are less than at this time last year. "Financial affairs generally denote decreasing "anxiety as to the future, dnosits accumulate and the discount rate for choice commercial paper is now more frequently quoted at 5 er cent, although the offerings of manufacturers make a comparatively light showing. "Failures reported in the Chicago district number 39, against 32 last week and 22 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $5.000 number 12, against 10 last week and 4 in 1907."

NEW YOSK. The first week of spring has seen an expansion in retail trade and an enlargement of operations in building lines, especially at the West. Conservative estimates of actual needs govern buying, and replacement of broken stocks is the chief source of jobbing and wholesale demand. Trade in the primary branches is therefore quiet, and operations in industrial lines are below normal. Fall trade is backward, awaiting clearer view of the future crop and price conditions. Industrial conditions are still very irregular, and short or reduced time is practically universal. The iron and steel industry does not show much increase, in activity outside of the seasonable lines. The textile trade is still depressed, with short time and wage reductions common in cotton goods manufacture North and .South. Fear of a coal strike has subsided and buying is less active in this line. The leather and shoe trades are irregular and unsettled. Shipments of shoes are 2 per cent below last year. Dusiness failures for the week ending March 2 number u the United States 2ST, against 303 last week, lfG in the like wc(k of 1907.. 1G9 in 190, 227 in 1905 and 212 in 1901. Canadian failures for Die week number 40, as against 39 last week and 21 in this week a year ago. Dradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.35; ho?s, prime heavy, $4.00 to $5.S5; sheep, fir to choice, $3.00 to $0.75; wheat, No. 2, 94c to 95c; corn. No. 2, 04c to C5c; oats, standard, 52c to 53c; rye. No. 2, 74c to 77c; hay, timothy, $9.50 to $10.00; prairie, $8.00 to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 29c; eggs, fresh. 11c to 10c; potatoes, per butshel, (13c to 70c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.90; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $5.35; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 90c to 9Sc; corn. No. 2 white, C3c to Glc; oats, No. 2 white, 52c to 53c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $7.23; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.73; wheat, No. 2, 99e to $1.00; com. No. 2, C3c to 04c; oats. No. 2, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 2, 83c to 81c. ' CincinnatiCattle, $4.00 to $3.S5; hogs, $4.00 to i?5.05; sheep, $3.00 to ifS.öO; wheat. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.01; corn. No. 2 mixed, 04c to 05c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2, 80c to 87c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.00; hogs, $4.00 to $4.05; sheep, $2.30 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2, 90c to 97c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 07c to OKc; oats. No. 3 white, 53c to 55c; rye. No. 2, 84c to S5c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.00 to $1.08; corn, No. 3, C3c to C4c; oats, standard, 53c to 54c; rye, No. 1, 80c to 81c; barley, No. 2. SSc to 90c; pork, mess, $11.90. Iluffalo CattJc choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.0u to $3.70; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $SJ0. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $7.15; hogs. $3.50 (to $0.05; sheep. $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.00 to $1.02; corn. No. 2, CSc to 70c; oatsi natural white, 57c to 00c; butter, creamery, 25c to 29c; eggs, western, 13c to lGc. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 95c to 97c; corn, No. 2 mixed, G3c to GOc; oats, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2, 81c to 82c; clover seed, prime, $13.05. SHORT NEWS NOTES. William T.j Manning, who was campaign manager for Alton B. Parker in 1904, died of pneumonia in New York. Parapregia, a species of paralysis, is interesting New York physicians. The patient is Miss Mary Asche, who is said to liave become afflicted because of too much dancing. The death record of New York City for 1907, just issued by the department of health of that place shows a rate lower than any of the other great cities in the world 18.48. Death of Grace Seamans, an 8-year-old girl in New York, is directly attributable, the doctors say, to the terrifying effects of a "black-hand" letter which she picked up on the doorstep of her home some time ago. The world's congress of the young people's missionary movement oiened in Pittsburg with 3.5(H) delegates present, representing 14,000,000 persons in all parts of the world. The IJev. A. C. Dixon, pastor of thQ Moody church. Chicago, is conducting a successful revival campaign in Atlanta, (Ja. The tabernacle, the largest auditorium in the city, was packed at the opening meeting. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago, while in San Francisco to deliver a series of addresses, said there the church was losing its leadership because of creedal issues. He said divorce was not a fundamental evil, but only a symptom.

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KILLS MOTHEE FOE MONEY. Grover C. Rinke of Andcruon I mpllratm III Companion. Needing money to continue a drunken debauch. Grover C. Dlake of Anderson has confessed that he, with Orsel Reynolds, murdered his mother. Doth younj men were arrested in Fort Wayne. Young Dlake in his confession said he had been drinking with Reynolds, and they needed money. He went home and entered the kitchen, where his mother was cooking dinner. According to the confession, Reynolds was standing guard outside. Dlake says his mother accused him of having been drinking, and he went into another room and got a hammer. He returned, crept up behind her and struck her on the back of the head. She fell insensitle. He says he then opened her dress and seized a bag she had fastened aroin-1 her neck, which contained money and jewelry. While he was upstairs changing his clothes Le heard a scream. He returned to the kitchen and found Reynolds standing over his mother's body, hammer in hand. He says Reynolds admitted striking ber when she moved. The two young men tL?n went to Fort Wayne, spent the night in carousing, and were arrested as they were about to board a train for Michigan. ONE WOMAN STABS ANOTHER. Man, In Whoi Office Flftht Ocean, Dien Before Inquiry. Dr. II. C. Jorgenson, an EvansTille veterinary surg-xm, was found dead soon after he had been questioned regarding a stabbing affray in his ofGce the other night, in which Mrs. Jennie Farmer was perhaps fatally wounded by Mrs. Fanny Davenport. Mrs. Davenport, after ber arrest, attempted to commit suicide in ber cell, using a blanket as a rope, but she was cut down by the jailer. She later was committed to an asylum. Mrs. Farmer, who is the wife of a cigar factory owner, says she went to Jorgenson's office at 9 o'clock at night to obtain some blankets which her servant was to wash. She says Mrs. Davenport, who is the wife of a local politician, was there and accused her of attempting to win the affections of Dr. Jorgenson. An altercation followed, in which Mrs. Fanner was wounded. The surgeon and Mrs. Davenport were arrested, but he was released later on his promise to appear ia court. Defore the case was called .he was found dead. A post-mortem examination failed to show the cause. OCTOGENARIAN GOLD SEEKER. Promliie Great Thlnjt for Mormons It Ilia Mine Ian Ont. Dr. Edward G. Cannon, the octogenarian gold seeker, who has been spendics the winter in Jeffersonville, will leav soon for Nome City, Alaska, where b first located seven years ago, and staled out a number of claims for himself and children. He is an enthusiastic Mormon, and he has expressed himself to friend as determined to dedicate the fortune which he is yet to win from his miDca in furtherance of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. If it should be a million dollars, he said, it will be dedier ted to the erection of a temple in Missouri. As for his children, he says, be has staled out a claim for each of them, and they must dig the gold out themselves. SAW SON ON HELL SIDE. Milwaukee Man Goe After Ilnnafray Doy See Ulm In Michigan City. The 15-yar-old son of Joseph IlyWer of Milwaukee ran away a few days ago and his father, who had been in Michigan looking for the lad, passed through Michigan City the other afternoon en route to Chicago. While the train on which Hybler was a passenger was passing through the west end of the city, Ilybler saw a boy on a hillside who, he says, was hi missing son. When he arrived in Chicago he telegraphed back, but the police have failed to find the runaway. MEN'S LEAP YEAR RIGHTS. May Ask Divorce from the Women Who Propose. Since leap year began thirty suits for divorce have been filed in Delaware county, exactly half of which were instituted by husbands, a most unusual condition, as the proportion is generally two or more women plaintiffs to one man. County Clerk Harve Lcffler explains it this way: "In leap sear the women do the proposing, so it is but natural that the men should make the requests for divorce. Ordinarily the man seeks the wife And the wife the divorce. Wealthy Farmer Dnrni to Death. Michail J. Witt, one of the wealthiest men near Liberty, widely known in eastern Indiana, was burned to death in a brush pile fire on his home farm. He was SI years old. He lived alone. Witt's wealth was estimated at $."OO.ij0. Some years ago two of his children, girls, were burued to death, their clothing catching fire from a brush pile. ALL OVER THE STATE. Elmer E. White of Honey Creek, whfli crazed with liquor, attacked Harry Warnock, a merchant, with a razor, slashing him on the arm, and when "Jacob Abshire attempted the role of peacemaker he was alsovsevert ly cut. George O. Eldridge, aged 53 yecrs, rice president of tke E. II. Eldridge Lumber Company, killed himself in Indianapolis. Leroy Ilollenbeck, 27 years old, tnd Miss Nora Day, 18 years old. were married in the county clerk's o-Tice at Hartford City within five minutes from the time they first saw each other. The romance began through a iersonal in the columns of a newspaper which was inserted by the man and answered by the bride. They met at the court house, and being pleased with each other, they called a justice by telephone and were wedded witho-tt loss of time. f Miss Maggie Wilson, who lives nesr Pittsboro, is in a very dangerous condition and may lose her life as a result of a rough joke. Some days ago she was attending a party at the home of a neighbor, and in the course of a grjnc was seated on the floor. Some one behind her playfully tilted a chair in which another girl was seated, and she fell against Miss Wilson, forcing her head to th floor and so twisting her neck that the s(inal cord was ruptured. Since the accident she has been totally blind and throughout a part of each day' she is unconscious and suffers terribly. Tle physicians give but little hope cf her recovery. Fire destroyed the Dutchess and Betts Mocks, in Walton, a-nd for a time it seemed as if the whole village would be swept away. The town beiug without water works systeai the property was at the mercy of th flames. The bucket brigade saved the Rank of Walton and the residence of Mrs. W. C. Schwahn. Ties en the Pennsylvania railroad tracks caught fire and passenger trains were held fot some time. In Redford Mrs. IMla Miller filed suit against Reuben and Catherine Miller, the parents of her husband, charging them with influencing him to, leave her and their child and go to California. Sh asks $30,000 damages.