Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 28, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 April 1908 — Page 2

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CN.M.-J F. Q.F.M. TU Q. Ist. j 8th. VgylCtb. Vj 23rd. PAST AND PRESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many Powder Mill Wrecked. The separator mill of the Aetna Powder Company at Miller, Indiana, was completely wrecked by the explosion of a quantity of nitro glycerine. Nobody was in or about the mill at the time and the cause of the explosion is unknown. The building was blown entirely to pieces, the wreckage being scattered over the country for a quarter of a mile around. A large hole was blown in the ground where the building stood. The shock of the explosion was so great as to be felt at Hammond, ten mlies away. Attempt to Wreck D. L. & W. Train. A desperate attempt was made to wreck a west-bound passenger train on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, near Owman, seven miles east of Elmira, N. Y., by piling ties on the track. The train was running 60 miles an hour when it struck the obstruction. The locomotive ground one of the ties to pieces and pushed the others along on the rails. When the train was stopped a similar obstruction was found on the east-bound track, where a freight train was due. Was Probably Murdered. The severed head of a corpse supposed to be that of Michael Soboda, of Bedford, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, was washed ashore from the river, revealing what is thought to have been a case of murder and robbery. Soboda, with $900 in cash, left Bedford five weeks ago for Cleveland, where he had engaged a ticket for the old country. He never called for the ticket and the police surmise that he was killed and robbed and his body thrown into the river. Robberies at Lima. An organized band of thieves broke Into several stores at Lima, Ohio, and a considerable sum of money was taken, together with a quantity of groceries, cigars and tobacco. The places looted were the grocery of J. B. Coon, the grocery of Samuel Shrider and the BaJoon of P. Keiffer. These were in different parts of the city and as yet no clew has been found. Thousands Drown in China. A dispatch from Shanghai, China, says: Disastrous floVa are reported to have occurred in Hankow In the province of Hu Peh and It is stated that two thousand persons have been ärowued. Seven hundred junks were unk or wrecked. The floods are said to be due to an unexpected freshet. The waters caught the people unexpectedly in the middle of the night. Fell Over a Cliff. Hiram C. Millard, brother of Baily Millard, the author and novelist, was killed at Alum Creek canyon, near San Jose, Cal., by a fall over a 100-foot cliff. He had alighted, from a buggy Crom which he was escorting two young ladies, who live near him, to their homes, and presumably stumbled over a surveyor's stake and pitched headlong over the edge of the cliff. Fire in Indiana Hotel. Fire at Shelburne, Ind., caused a panic among the guests at the Taylor Hotel and resulted in s loss of $1,000. The fire, which is thought to have originated in a store room filled with rubbish, spread rapidly, owing to the high rind and the entire two story brick frcilding and its contents were burned. Ten Miners Killed. Ten miners lost their lives in the Horten Hill colliery in Somersetshire, England, as a result of an explosion of coal gas. The first rescue parties to go down were overcome by the fumes In the mine and were saved only with the greatest difficulty Held Up Logansport Bank Cashier. Earl O. Fisher, assistant cashier of the City National Bank of Logans port, Ind., was attacked by footpads while on his way home and robbed of $47 and a watch. Mrs. Anna Dayton Dead. Mrs. Anna M. Dayton, mother of Rear Admiral JUmes M. Dayton, United States navy, in command of the Pacific squadron, died in South Bend, IncL, Monday, aged 83 years. Creosote Caused Death. Creosote which Miss Lulu Brightbill, of Mansfield, Ohio, used for an attack of toothache, caused the death of the young woman, after suffering great Sony. Millionaire Physician Marries. James P. Mnnyon. the multi-millionaire homeopathic medicine man of Altoona. Pa., and Mrs. rauline Metzger, known to the stage as Pauline NeSF, a former dazzling beauty of "The Social Whirl," were married in Jersey City Thursday night. Prof. Munyon is close to CO and his bride is 24. BiUek Denied a Rehearing. Unless Gov. Deneen or the State board of pardons intervenes, Herman Billet, the poisoner, will hang in Chicago April 24. The Supreme Court has denied Billek's petition for a rehearing. Auto Runs Over and Kills Man. Walter Hobson, a laborer, residing in Bay City, Mich., was run over and killed by an automobile driven by Austin Leckleider. chauffeur for Fred T. Sta 1berg, in Toledo Ohio. Naked Daukhobors Taken to Jail. Closed carriages were used by the police of Fort William, Ontario, in conTeying naked men and women, members of the Doukhobors sect, to jail. Although the thermometer registered at the freezing point, forty of the sect cast off their clothes, fifteen of them parading the streets.

POUND AFTER 23 YEARS.

Slayer Who Fled After Crime Becomes Respected Citizen. In a western city lives a prominent and respected citizen from whom the Supreme Court of New York the other day removed the stigma of an indictment which was returned twenty-six years ago charging John Taylor with the death of Thomas Murray. The present home of Taylor and the name under which he has since lived, married and risen to the head of a big mercantile establishment, are known to but three men in Kingston, X. Y., and his secret will be kept. Taylor's identity was made known by him to the court after a search which covered two continents and took several years had been abandoned. Throwing himself upon the mercy of the prosecutor, Taylor invited an inquiry into his life for the past quarter of a century. This was made, and it proved so satisfactory that former Supreme Court Justice Clearwater, who, as district attorney, obtained the indictment against Taylor, declared that it would be gross injustice to reeval the man's new name. Justice W. C. Howard of Troy, sitting in the Supreme C'urt, dismissed the indictment against Taylor after it had been shown that all possible witnesses against the defendant were dead. Murray was killed at Port Ewen, Ulster county, on an election day, when there had been a riot at the polls. Taylor and Murray were unfriendly. They belonged to opposing political parties and loved the tame girl. On election day they quarreled at the polling place and then fought on the street. A brick with which Murray's skull was cracked is still in the office of the district attorney. Several days later Murray died and Taylor fled. JABS WITH POISONED NEEDLE. Man with Peculiar Mania Is Sought by Philadelphia Police. "Jack the Needle-Jabber" is a new terror who is being sought by the police of Philadelphia. One of the victims has died. The police say he travels the redlight district and whenever he gets the opportunity jabs a hypodermic needle, which is poisoned, into the arms of pedestrians. John Anderson. a marine at League Island navy yard, and a man who died the other evening in the Hahnemann hospital were victims. Anderson, before he lost consciousness, stated that a man walked up to him without a word oi warning and jabbed him in the arm with a hypodermic needle. The arm was swollen to about the size of his body. The man who died is supposed to be William Davis. He was found at Franklin and Vine streets and his right arm was swollen, the same as Anderson's. The doctors said he died from poisoning and shock. PHYSICIAN LIVED DUAL LIFE. Dr. Cabanne, Founder of Fashionable St. 'Louis District, Dies. Dr. James Shapard Cabanne, OD years old, founder of the fashionable residence district of J St. Louis known as Cabanne place, died at St. Vincent's asylum in that city. For twenty-five years Dr. Cabanne lived a dual life, maintaining one home in Cabanne place, where he was known as a wealthy and successful physician, and another in North St. Louis, where be was known as "Mr. Norris." Mrs. Cabanne divorced her husband in 1904. Soon afterward he lost his money through unfortunate speculation. Last May, as an act of reparation, he wedded Delia Doherty, a former servant and the mother of four of his children, who livod in the "Norris'' home. He secured a position as street inspector, but later lost it. He at one time unsuccessfully applied to be sent to the poorhouse. LOTTERY MEN ASSESSED $32,200. Kentucky Court Imposes Penalty and Defendants Will Quit Business. Fires aggregating $32,200 were assessed against Morris Richmond and six others, who were arrested some weeks ago, charged with conducting the Kentucky lottery contrary to law. The men were arraigned before U. S. Judge Cochran in Covington under the indictments that recently were returned and all pleaded guiliy, the fines being at once announced. Richmond was fined $10,000 and lesser a Mounts were announced against the others, all of whom declared that they were through with the lottery business forever. Prison for Oklahoma Bankers. Judge Pollock in the United States Circuit Court in Oklahoma City sentenced C. It. Billingsley, former president of the Capitol National bank of Guthrie, to seven years and five months in the federal prison at Leavenworth, and A. S. Hayes former cashier of the First National Bank of Lexington, to five years. Billingsley was convicted of misappropriating bank funds and Hayes of falsifying reports. Dynamite Plot in Paris. The police of Paris have taken into custody three well-known anarchists, named Kuhn. Hour and Roussel: They also captured a cart loaded with dynamite which the prisoners had. The strictest secrecy is being maintained. Pastor Convicted in Court. Rev. Dr. George II. Brooks, pastor of the First Spiritualistic church of Pittsburg, was convicted in open court of fortune telling. The minister, who is about GO years old, is said to have derived a large income from reading the hands of women at $1 per reading. Two Hanged in Philadelphia. Max Soifer and Joseph Toirico were executed in Philadelphia. Soifer killed a girl because she threatened to end their engagement to marry, and Toirico killed the brother of his sweetheart after trying to shoot the girl. Former Official Tells of Graft. W. J. McGarigle, former police chief of Chicago and fugitive, tells of paying $14,000 bribe, furnished by Mike McDonald, to county commissioners, and says theirtotal graft handled by him in 18SG wa $100,000. Prohibition Laws Valid. . The Alabama Supreme Court has held both the general prohibition and the 9 o'clock closing laws constitutional and ef fective. Attack had been made on both by the liquor forces of the State. Suicide of Retired Broker. Lorenzo I). Kneeland, for years a wellknown figure in Chicago financial circles, committed suicide at his home, shooting himself in the head with a revolver. His act was caused by hopeless ill-health. China Boycotts Japan. China,' infiamed by resentment against Japan for the Tatsu Maru affair, has started a determined boycott that threatens disaster to the trade of the island empire. Assassination Is Attempted. A supposed attempt to assassinate Antonio Lumia. a well-to-do Italian jeweler, his wife and his 11-year-old son, Luigi, was made at 2 a. id. Wednesday, when the front of Lumia's house, 49 Gault court, Chicago, was riddled with bullets fired by persons whose identity is unknown. Ohio Troops Sent to Cuba. One hundred and fifty recruits at the barracks in Columbus, Ohio, have been text to Cuba, but it is supposed some of the soldiers on the island will be trans erred to the United States.

BOYS KILLED BY SAND.

Lads, Aged 11, Smothered to Death When Roof Caves In. Carl Hedfeldt and Karl Gustavson. each 11 years old and first cousins, were smothered under several tons of sand which had been heaped on strips of sheet iron to form a rooting over a dugout playhouse which they with other boys had constructed west of Sheridan road, between Addison and Waveland avenues, Chicago. With several other boys they went to the vacant lot after school tad closed for the day. Most of the boys played ball, but the two who lost their lives went to the dugout with Thomas Gordon, 13 years old. All three had worked in the place for nearly an hour when Gordou went home to see if he could lind a spade. When he returned he found the sand roof had caved in and he could hear the moans of his playmates. He immediately called the boys who were playing ball and then ran to the town hall iKli-e station, llenold Hedfeldt, followed by Albert Anderson and Roy Bruise, Walter Richter, Walter Lemeke and Wesly Wulllinger, ran to ".he place and with their hands and pieces of boards began shoveling away the sand. Policemen W. F. Murphy and Timothy Nolan arrived with spades in the meantime and soon had reached the victims. Hundreds of persons passing in carriages and automobiles stopped. Among them was a physician, who made an examination of the Imhücs of the boys and pronounced both dead. From the positions in which the bodies were found the boys had been working on their hands aid knees and had Itecn unable to move when the heavy weight of sand poured down upon them. OMAHA MUST BUY WATER WORKS Court of Appeals Reverses Decision of District Court. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis handed down an opinion ordering the case of the Omaha Water Works Company against the city of Omaha remanded to the United States District Court with the instruction that the case be so decided that Omaha must purchase the system for $,203,205.40. This is the value of the water works ns appraised by three engineers appointed to determine its worth. In 1003 the Legislature of Nebraska required Omaha to install its own water works system. The City Council ordered that the city purchase the plant of the Omaha Water Works Company. When the appraisers made their reporc the city refused to accept the deed. The light in the federal court started, the United States Court of Nebraska holding that the city did not bav? to make the purchase. HOLDS CHILD SLAYER INSANE Commission Decides Case of Father Who Murdered His Baby Boy. Lionel M. Coie, assistant cashier of the Mutual Life Insurance Company in Buffalo, N. Y., charged with the murder of his infant child, was declared by a commission to be insane. Cole's insanity took the form of an exaggerated idealization of his wife and child. He believed the mother, son and himself possessed spiritual qualities and that they needed no bodies. He thought that on the death of the baby its spirit would return to the mother, and that by killing them all he would obtain their greatest happiness. "ROOSEVELT WAY" IS PLANNED. Project for Road f r m Atlantic to Pacific Is UnJcr Way. A project for uniting a series of roads, making one road fro'n the Atlantic to the Pacific, as nearly straight as possible and under one name tie. Roosevelt Way is well under way ir. Denver. There will be at least 550 mile from the mountains in Colorado to St. Joseph, Mo., in an absolutely straight line. The plan has already been indorsed by the Governors of three States, the commercial bodies of five cities and the leading automobile .manufacturers of the country. Orders Girl Bathed; Sued. John E. Vincent, principal of the Canastota. N. Y., high school, has been sued for $1,000 damages because he had one of the young women teachers under him put 12-year-old Jennie Rehringer, a pupil, in a bathtub, scrub her and put clean clothing on her. Mrs. Lottie Behringer, the girl's mother, charges assault. She says that her daughter was ill and sore for two weeks as a result of her enforced bath. Kills Man in Mistake for Burglar. Awakening to find four men trying to force an entrance to his home in Cleveland. William E. Bopelle, district electrician for the Bell Telephone Company, opened fire with a revolver. The supposed burglars withdrew. When they again came back Bopelle pursued them in his night clothes. Opening fire with his revolver again, he killed Martin Ward, an inmate of the city infirmary. Attorney Is Found Shot. Former Judge James A. Frink, an attorney and past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of that State, was shot through the temple and perhaps mortally wounded in Springfield, Mo. The police found him on the street within a block of bis home an hour after the shooting. An empty purse which had contained $400 was near him. Woman Perishes in Fire. Mrs. William Hayes was burned to death in a fire which destroyed her home at 2853 Clay street, San Francisco. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp accidentally overturned by her husband, who was fatally burned. A man boarder was badly burned. G. R. Brown suffered a fractured skull. Temperance Legislation Wins. Temperance won a final victory in the House in Columbus, Ohio, when the Woods "anti-bootleg bill" was passed by a vote of 75 to 10 and now goes to the Senate. The bill provides that all "C. O. D." sales of liquor shall be deemed to be made in the county to which the packages are shipped. Harriman Astounds Wall Street. Wall street was aghast when it realized that Ilarriman's "charitable assistance" to Erie has given him control of that $400,000,000 corporation and a through line from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Violates Law He Had Passed. State Senator Edward Methudy, who introduced the bill requiring a State license for automobiles, appeared in court in St. Louis, charged with having violated his own measure. Great Fire in Boston, Mass. A ten million dollar fire swept Chelsea, Mass., killed three ersons, injured 100, made 1,500 families homeless and burned a square mile of buildings. Toothache Remedy Proves Fatal. Creosote which Miss Lulu Brightbill used for an attack of toochnhe caused the death of the young woman in Mansfield, Ohio, after suffering great agony. Miss Brightbill came from Sharon, Pa last January to visit relatives. She was 17 years old. Murders Unfaithful Sweetheart. Joseph Kerhounek killed Antonetta lieber and ended his ovn life in Chicago, following her breaking off their engagement. The romance began in Austria and he paid her passage to this country out of his earnings, but lost his position.

THE QUADRENNIAL CYCLONE.

UNCLE SAM: "IT IS ELECTRIC CAR KILLS FIVE. Crashes Into Funeral Carriage Occupied by Women. Four women ard the driver of the funeral carriage in which they were returning to Chicago from Oak Ridge cemetery were killed Wednesday afternoon at West Madisoa street and the Buttcrficld road, near Bell wood, when a train of tha Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Electric Railroad crashed into the vehicle at a sieed estimated at fifty miles an hour. The carriage was cut in twain and the rear half, with two of its victims, was carried 500 feet along the track. The forward iortion was burled to the side of the track, the driver leaping from the box, but receiving fatal injuries. The two women who had occupied the forward scat were killed instantly. The others were dead when found under the wreckage, with which their bodies had been carried by the motor car of the train. Several carriages were in line on the return trip from Oak Ridge cemetery, that which was wrecked being the second. The oi; preceding it passed the tracks in safety at the erossing. The driver, Newman, evidently had no realization of the siieed of the train which he saw approaching west-bound. He whipped his horses and they plunged across the track. To the onlookers In carriages following the car seemed to leap forward as the horses reached the track. There was a crash and shrieks from the occupants and an outcry from Newman. The train, with half the carriage propelled in front of the fyytbr ear, appeared to pass in a flash, as Newman and two of the victims were hurled in the air. As the train sped by,- mourners poured from the other carriages and congregated at the scene. As the train was stopped, the wreckage of the carriage was seen to be in flames, due, it is believed, to ignition from the third rail. Newman, when found thirty feet from where the carriage had ieen struck, was unconscious, and remained so until he died. FOR A RUSSIAN REPUBLIC. The Man Who Has Called on the Czar to Abdicate. Like every other country whose people are awakening from centuries of lethargy and trying to burst the) bonds of autocracy, Russia is producing "reformers" of all degrees, some of whom are too extreme in their aspirations ever to see them realized. One of these is Ivan Norodny, who is now in New York, and who calls himself the advance IVAN KORO DSV. agent of Russian independence. His ambition is the establishment of a Russian republic, lie has served notice on Czar Nicholas to aUlicate and make room for the "United States of Russia," but so far the autocrat shows no indication of abandoning his inherited light to rule. Norodny claims to represent a central committee with headquarters at Moscow. He is trying to raise $5,000.000 for the cause of freedom by Issuing "liberty bonds" signed by himself in his official capacity. Another oUelfn Gun, Another device for making the discharge of all kinds of firearms noiseless is now added to that of the younger Maxim recently reported. This is credited to Oliver A. Smith of Worcester, Mass., and is different from that of Maxim. It tan be carried about in the pocket and be adjusted at a moment's notice. It consists of a narrow cap with a narrow bar across the top and which adds an inch or so to the length of the gun barrel, the cap having a bore slightly increasing in diameter from the outlet inward. I the North Pole Shlftlngf M. B. Colworth, the British scientist who is conducting a scries of climatic and magnetic observations in Alaska, has reached Victoria, B, C, with the information that the whole north polar region is undergoing a radical climatic change and that th? pole itself is shifting, so that the nor .hern territory of this continent is becoming warmer and that of North Asia colder. Colworth believes that huge masses of ice in Baffin Bay and Arctic waters near Greenland are causing this movement, the immense weight of these masses tilting the earth toward Siberia. Texna Dnrn Western Union. The State of Texas has won its suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company for not taking a State charter to run a line between two points within the State, and the judgment rendered by Judge Calhoun in the District Court at Austin is that the company be ousted from doing business in the State and a fine of $100,000 for back franchise taxes. This operates to prevent the doing of any but federal government business. Robbers blew up the postoffice at South San Francisco and took $2,000 in money and stamps.

ALMOST ON US, BOYS

MAN WHO SUCCEEDS EVANS. KEAit ADMIRAL THOMAS. Rear Admiral Charles Mitchell Thomas, who has succeeded to the command of the United States fleet at Magdalena Bay because of Rear Admiral Evans' illness, has. been In the navy since 1S05. when he was graduated from AnnaH)!is. He is n native of Philadelphia and is (;i years old. Rear Admiral Thomas has been mostly In active service, but has served at the Naval Academy and the Naval War College and in the coast survey work at different times. In 1S90 he commanded the Lancaster, in 1990-1901 the Brooklyn, in 1001-1002 the Oregon, and In 1001-1005 was commandant of the naval training station at Newport. He became commander of the second division of the Atlantic fleet in 1007 and has since been commander of the second squadron. MORMONS ACTIVE? Sect Is Carrying on Well-Directed Campaign in New York. Mormon missionaries are carrying cn an active propaganda in New York City and are openly attempting to proselyte members of other religious denominations. Eight of these missionaries are now In the greater city, half lieing on Manhattan Island and half in Brooklyn. Many of them are young men of engaging manners and impressive address and are making a house-to-house canvass in some quarters. Especially is this so on the upper West Side. They do not content themselves with trying to Induce persons f little education to take up the Mormon faith, but are going to the homes of influential citizens. The fact that many of the Protestant churches send canvassers from house to house gives these missionaries a chance of being heard, and they do not at first dwell upon the peculiar tenets of their faith. These zealous disciples are well educated and able to converse intelligently on a wide range of topics. After they have obtained permission to leave one of the book they say they will call later after there, has been an opportunity of reading it. In addition to these regular Mormon missionaries there are many Mormons from Utah iu New York, who came here to educate their children. As the result of all this effort there is a perceptible Increase in the Mormon membership in the metropolis. Formerly the church had a mere handful of worshipers in Gotham, but now it has a membership cf over 200 SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. One man was dabbed and probably fatally wounded and a panic narrowly averted in Havlin's theater in St. Louis. New York postoffice officials are holding a letter just received from abroad. Any Fifth avenue resident identifying himself ac "Sir Abraham Lincoln" can have it. Edward L. Loyett, a St. Louis florist, received a second "black-hand" letter demanding $300 on pain of death. In a note to his sister inclosed was a drawing of a coffin with the words: "He will need thia if he does not bring the money." In giving the recipe for making a statesman Speaker Cannon told a delegation from the Intercollegiate Civic League : "Above all, be practical ; don't attempt to roost by yourselves." Only one-third as many automobiles were imported into the United States by way of New York last month as were received during March of last year. Jewels showed a still greater falling off. Arthur F. Williams, II. M. Ralston and S. K. Ford of Chicago, with other officials of the defunct Standard Title and Trust Company at Philadelphia, have been held for trial on charges of conspiracy to defraud. Seats on the New York Stock Exchange are again going up. It is said $'.5,000 has been offered for one in the last few days. - Two men have confessed perjury in connection with the Schooley-Crawford will contest at Scranton, Pa. They declared the Schooley will, aiming to inherit the $1,000,000 estate of James L. Crawford, was a forgery. Forty-one students at Stanford university, California, have been dismissed because they made a demonstration against prohibition on the campus. It is said the order will result in 100 students quitting the university. A general walk-out of students is threatened.

WORK OF CONGRESS

m The army bill, carrying an appropriation of almost $100,000,000, was passed by the Senate Monday, practically as reported from the Committee on Military Affairs. The bill materially increases the pay of officers and enlisted men. A 1 resolution introduced by Mr. Foraker was adopted calling on the Secretary of War for the names of all former soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, discharged without honor on account of the Brownsville affray, who have applied for re-enlistment. Beyond forcing roll calls on the approval of the journal and on adjournment the Democrats of the House offered no obstruction to the orderly transaction of business. Being suspension . day, several important bills were put Through by practically unanimous vote. Among these was the Sterling employers liability bill, only OLe vote being recorded against it, that of Mr. Littlefield of Maine, !' As an aftermath of the passage of the army appropriation bill Senator Hale, chairman of the committee on naval affairs. Tuesday warned against increases of the military establishment, saying they were inviting a deficit. He moved the reconsideration of the vote by whib the army bill was passed and his motion was then laid on the table at his request. Senator Burkett characterized the proceeding as one of bad faith. The Senate passed the fortifications appropriation bill carrying an aggregate of $12,100,187. As a mark of respect to the memory of the late Representative Brick the Senate adjourned until Thursday. The whole of the session of the House was devoted to the consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill. Two amendments were adopted, one providing for 75-cent gas for all district establishments and the other requiring that all outside doors to public school buildings shall open outward. An effort to secure the incorporation of a child labor provision failed. The bill was passed The Senate was not in session Wednesday. -Wednesday's session of the House will go down as one of the stormiest in its history. The sum total of the day's proceedings was the adoption of several additional rules to check further the Democratic filibuster and the passing of the two resolutions introduced by Speaker Cannon calling on the Department of Justice and the Commerce and Labor Department for certain information regarding the so-called paper trust. There were nine roll calls during the day, five of them on the new rules. The Democrats exhausted their resources before they were made to feel that the Republicans by sheer force of numbers had them beaten at every point. The debate brought all the leaders of the House to the front. The Democrats were again charged with making the special rules necessary by reason of their filibuster, while the Democrats reasserted that they at last were causing the majority to enact legislation. The employers' liability bill recently passed by the House was on Thursday passed by the Senate without amendment, so that it is ready to go to the President for bis approval. The Senate adjourned until Monday. Three times in the House the Democrats caught the Republicans napping and forced them to produce a quorum. On one other occasion a vote by tellers disclosed the absence of a quorum, but Speaker Cannon peremptorily applied tbs Reed rule and declared a quorum to b present. Both the army and the fortifications appropriation bills were sent to conference; the Senate b'ü to increase the efficiency of the revenu cutter service was, with Democratic help, passed, and the bill to promote the safe transportation in interstate commerce of explosives was considered. The Democrats prevented the adoption of he conference report on the Indian appropriation bill and caused it to be sent back to conference. : :- The Senate was not in session Friday. Instead of interminable roll calls and clashes of party leaders on questions of parliamentary law in the House, there was an orderly session devoted almost entirely to the consideration of the naval appropriation bill. Chairman Foss of Illinois anc Mr. Padgett of Tennessee made exhaustive speeches justifying the action of the committee in repotting what they characterized as a conservative naval program for 'the next fiscal year. Messrs. Favrot of Louisiana and McKinlay and Knowland, California, pleaded for a navy of such size as to be capable of upholding at all times the honor of the country at home and abroad, while Mr. Bartholdt of Missouri advocated a halt in naval increase and the substitution for it of arbitration in matters of international disputes. Consideration of the bill had not been concluded when the House took a recess until 11 :30 Saturday. '- '' The Senate was not in session Saturday. Debate on the naval appropriation bill in the House resolved itself into a discussion of the possibilities of a war between the United States and Japan. Mr. IlolWn of Alabama pleaded for four battle ships instead of two for the next fiscal year. A war between the yellow and the white races he regarded as inevitable, and he asserted that Japan's present military activity was with a view to the supremacy of the Pacific, and as a natural consequence there would be a clash at arms with the United States. On the other hand. Mr. Burton, Ohio, and W. W. Kitchin, North Carolina, disputed that contention, each of them avowing that the clash would not come, but that the United States should remain in the forefront of modern civilization as the exlnent of peace. NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf, in a communication to the House of Representatives recommends that an appropriation of $2,000,000 be made immediately available in order that bills for armor and armament may be paid The bill introduced by Mr. Hull of Iowa, chairman of the House committee on military affairs, to establish the status of the Porto Rican regiment as a part of the regular army of the United States was voted on favorably by that committee. A bill was passed by the House authorizing the donation of obsolete Springfield rifles, bayonets and bayonet scabbards to independent military companies composed of veterans of the war of the rebellion. A House bill increasing the. pay of persons engaged in the life-saving service of the United States was passed by the Senate with an amendment giving to a dependent mother the same pension allowances as the bill gives to the widow. A resolution was passed by the House authorizing the loan of 2,500 army tents for use at the natioual convention of the Elks to be held at Dallas, Texas, in July next. The system of legislative procedure in the House of Representatives was severely criticised in that chamber by Mr. Murdock of Kansas. He declared it to be all wrong and asserted that under it the vitality of initiative in the individual in his representative capacity was being sapped. The bills to increase the efficiency of the navy and the hospital corps by fixing the status of pay clerks as warrant offirer and making chief pharmacists warrant officers have been agreed to by the House committee on naval affairs. The House laid on the table a resolution calling upon the President to supply tfie information on corporations gathered by the bureau of corporation.

FIRE LOSS $10,000.

OF Three Killed and One Hundred Hurt in Conflagration at Chelsea, Massachusetts. 1,500 FAMILIES ARE HOMELESS. Square Mile of Buildings Destroyed Churches, Hospitals, Banks Gone. A monetary loss of $10,000,000, 1,500 families homeless, three lives lost, 100 persons injured and one square mile of buildings destroyed such are the chief results of a fire which raged at Chelsea, a suburb of Boston, from 10:50 o'clock Sunday morning until 9 o'clock at night before it was brought under control. It leaped to East Boston, where it also did some damage. ' The ruins of the burned district are under the guard of fourteen companies of the State militia and marines from the Charlestown navy yard, and the city is under martini law to prevent looting. The soldiers were supplied with ball cartridges. The conflagration, which is the greatest that has scourged any part of the metropolitan district within the last ten years, was got under control only after half of the Boston fire department and apparatus from a dozen other cities and towns had gone to the help of the Chelsea brigade. Two Women Lone Live. Two of the three persons known to have died are womn. There may have been other fatalities, and some of those injured may die. The list of injuries is chiefly due to burns, although a number of men, women and children were hurt by falling debris. One woman is reported to have shot herself in a frenzy over inability to save her property. The fire swept a path for itself one and one-half miles in length at the extreme point. It devastated th; manufacturing, retail and tenement sections of Chelsea, many of the city's Quest structures becoming the prey of the flames. Exact estimates of the monetary los.s are Impossible to obtaju as yet, but it is believed by the ciknoollector that the $10,000,000 figure i vonservative. It Is estimated that 10,000 are homcles and that 500 buildings were burned. Hard Gale Driven Flamen. The fire would have been much les serious had it not been for a furious gale from the northwest, which at times reached a velocity of sixty miles an hour. The fire, which is thought to have been caused by spontaneous combustion among rags, began In the extreme southwestern part of Chelsea and swept to the extreme southeastern part. The fire originated in the rear of the Boston Blacking Company's works on West 3d street, near the eastern division of the Boston and Maine Railroad, and in close proximity to the Everett City line. The sixty-mile an hour gale from the northwest carried burning shingles, embers and myriads of sparks to a score of wooden buüriugs, most of them of cheap wooden construction. The fire started almost in the extreme southwest section of the city and cut a path to the end of the city, which borders on Chelsea Creek. This is about one and a half miles from where the fire l)egan. The flames spread through the heart of the retail business section, which was about midway between the two extreme limits reached by the fire. Among the structures destroyed were thirteen churches, two hospitals, the public library, city ball, five school houses, twenty business blocks and a score of factories. The flying embers and the showers of sparks were carried across Chelsea Creek to the East Boston district and the East Boston engines were obliged to return from Chelsea to protect property in their district. Genin and Insanity Identified. . That there u an actual identity between the states of mind ordinarily understood as genius and insanity is the conclusion reached by Prof. Cesare Lombroso, but this extreme view is now combatted in a new book by Dr. Joseph Grasset on The -Semi-Insane and the Semi-responsible," translated by Dr. Jelliffe of New York. Dr. Grasset finds that intellectual superiors frequently possess psychic defects which are sometimes very marked, and he believes that while their intellect and their nervous affection are connected they are not as cause and effect. This is proved by the fact that many people have the disease who do not possess the genius. Grasset's conclusion is that "the common trunk which unites superiority and neurosis is a temperament, but not a disease." TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES After years of unsuccessful effort to introduce Egyptian cotton into the Unit-, ed States, the bureau of plant industry of the Department of Agriculture reports that promising results have been secured in New Mexico and Arizona. ' Eight suits have been begun against the Great Northern Railroad Company charging violations of the federal law, which provides that cattle in transit shall be unloaded for rest, food and water at intervals of not more than twenty-eight hours. Two Chinese officials have arrived at San Francisco to investigate and report to their government on commercial conditions and the educational system in the United States. A gigantic lockout affecting 150,000 masons, bricklayers and allied workmen in the building trades went into effect in Paris, France. The men want a maximum day of nine hours and a weekly rest day. The crisis in the Antwerp diamond industry, which is due largely to the cessation of the American demand for the stones, is acute. Failures are anticipated as the' result of business depression. The United Korean, published in San Francisco, defends the assassination of D. W. Stevens. Two thousand copies will be sent to Korea. Two million pound of tinned meat, valued at $100,000, have been reshipped from Ixmdon to New York, because of scarcity in America. Sir Alfred. Mosely of England is expected to arrive in New York soon to consult with Superintendent Maxwell of the public schools regarding the proposed visit to Europe this spring of twenty teachers from that city. Besides the teachers who go from New brk, 480 others will go from other sections of the country.

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CHICAGO. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade in the Chicago district says: "Business as a whole does not make the progress usual e.t this season, and demands throughout the leading industries are yet inadequate to warrant increased effort in production. The tone, however, reflects confidence in the outlook, and support is drawn from the favorable facial report as to conditions in agriculture. Some conflicting currents find their basis in rumors of further' weakness in steel and iron quotations a possible delay in starting up work at the mines, and a feeling that the stability of prices is not yet assured to heavy consumers of factory supplies. "Money is not sought to the extent expected, and the plethoric aggregate of idle deiosits has brouglt the lowest discount rate recorded in a long time. The volume of payments through the banks again discloses loss, and the commercial mortality has risen, but credit has strengthened Jtnd finances are amply restored to encourage wider enterprise. "Transportation earnings undergo recovery from the low point, and railroad construction is , more active, indicating that the percentage of unemployed cars is nnder reduction. "Distributive dealings in general merchandise continue to make a good exhibit, there being sustained buying in the principal staples and improved absorption at both city and country retail stores. Accumulated orders for summer and fall shipments reach a fair aggregate in the textiles, food products, footwear and clothing, and fa exceptionally large number of late buyers from nearby w?taies attend the markets and call for immediate forwarding. "Failures reported in the Chicago district number 21, against 10 last week trnd 11a j-ear ago. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number 10, against 3 last week and 5 in 1007." NEW YORK. Though irregular, the week's developments have been in the direction of improvement. . The approach of Easter has stimulated retail trade in some lines and sections, with a sympathetic effect on pome jobbing business and a slight gain in collections. The Southwest and Northwest send the best reports, while southern advices are little more satisfactory 88 a whole. So far the early crop and oil conditions are better than a year ago and the reports of insect damage are conspicuously fewer than in 1907. One effect of these developments has been to depress cereal and cotton prices to the lowest levels of the year. Lower priors of cottons have brought in some buying of specialties, but men's wear woolens and winter wear hosiery show little gain. The strength in sole leather continues and hides are slightly higher. Fashion has made the tan shoe situation a good one, but eastern sho shipments are 27 per cent below 1007, and the loss from last year is about 25,000 cases per week since Jan. 1. Business failures for the wek ending April 0 number 25 against 217 last week, 104 in the same week of 1907, 1C1 in 1900, 190 in lt05 and 193 in 1904. Canadian failures for the week ending April 9 number 28, as against 32 last week and 28 in this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common ( prime, $4.00 to $7.25; hogs, prime heavy, $.00 to $0.17; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $G.75; wheat. No. 2," 90c to 91c; corn. No. 2, 05c to C7c; oats, standard, Jlc to 52c; rye. No. 2, 7Cc to 78c; hay, timpthy, $9.50 to $10.00; prairie, .00 to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 2jc to 30c; eggs, frsh. 11c to 14c; potatoes, per bushel, 03c to 71c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, good to choice hrary, $3.50 to $0.30; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2. 92c to 93c; corn. No. 2 white, C3c to C5c; oats. No. 2 white, 51c to 52c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $7.23 ; bogs, $1.00 to $0.13; sheep, $3.00 to $0.00; wheat. No. 2, 9Gc to 97c; corn. No. 2, 03c to 05c; oats. No. 2, 49c to 50c; rye, Xo. 2, 77c to 70c. Cincinnati Cattle, $L00 to JG.75; hogs, $4.00 to $0.25; sheep, $3.00 to $.".5; wheat. No. 2, 94c to 95c; corn. No. 2 mixed, G4c to C5c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 2, S2c to 81c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $G.50; bogs, $4.00 to $G.10; sheep, $2.50 to $0.00; wheat. No. 2, 91c to 92c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 00c to GSc; oats. No. 3 white, 55c to 50c; rye, No. 2, 81c to 82c Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.01 to $1.03; corn, No. 3, C3c to C5c; oats, standard, 52c to 53c; rye. No. 1, 79c to 80c; barley, No. 2, 84c to 85c; pork, mess, $13.15. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0-83 hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.50; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $0.75; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $8.10. Toledo Wheat, Xo. 2 mixed, 92c to 93c; corn. No. 2 mixed, G7c to GSc ; oats. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; rye. No. 2, 77c to 79c; clover seed, prime, $13.40. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $7.13; hogs, $3.50 to $G.G0; sheep, $3.00 to $G.OO; wheat, No. 2 red, 97c to 98c; corn. No. 2, 68c to 70c; oats, natural white, 56c to 5Sc; butter, creamery, 25c to 30c ; eggs, western, 13c to 15c NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS, New York's board of education will spend $1,000,000 to make the school buildings safe. Fire started by burning brush destroyed the central part of the village of Greenville, Ky. Tetrazzini, the prima donna, signed in New York a contract with Oscar Hammerstein to run five years. She is to get $750,000 in all, $3,000 for each of fifty performances annually. The corporation commission of Oklahoma made an order requiring railroads to reduce freight rates on crude petroleum 40 per cent and on refined oil 50 per cent. In Anderson county, Kentucky, night riders dynamited the tomato plant bed of James Phillips. Phillips had destroyed a tobacco bed and had planted tomatoes instead and had put up a sign Ij that effect. Frof. Charles Zueblin of the University of Chicago told a New York audience that saving is more dangerous than spending, because it so often leads to niggardliness, which brings neglect of the family. Men who say they will quit business when they have saved $100,000, cannot do so, said he. One hundred passengers faced death when Colorado Midland train No. 4 rushed up to a burning bridge which spans a chasm at Yale Siding, four miles easti of Buena Vi6ta, Colo. The engineers of the two locomotives pulling the train pplied the airbrakes and jumped with, their firemen. Both engines went over the precipice, but the train was saved.