Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 April 1908 — Page 2

THE PLYMOUTIIJRiBl'NE. PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS 21 CO., - - Publishers

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TäN. M. "J F. Q.ZT2F. M. (T L, Q. VEJfeth. j) 15thAgy22nd. 29tb, FEATÜIIES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All 81dea and Conditions of Thine re BhowÄ. Nothins Overlooked to mike it Complete. Street Car War at an End. Three-cent street car fare on all lines operating within the city of Cleveland, Ohio, .became a possibility Monday night at the regular meeting of the City Council, when a "security grant" was passed, under suspension of the rules, to the Cleveland Railway . Company, a new corporation which took over tho consolidated properties of the old companies. Thus ended the seven years contest which has been waged for low street car fare and public control of urban transportation, marked by much bitterness throughout and noted for the many appeals made to the courts. Various predictions are made as to the time when it shall be possible to inaugurate the proposed three-cent fare, ten duys being the lowest time spoken of. Twelve Persons are Drowned.' A dispatch from Helena, Ark., says: Twelve persons were drowned, one a woman, when the show boat Marion capsized eight miles above the mouth of the St. Francis river. Captain W. A. Joyce, of Newport, Ark., who was in charge, returned to Helena bringing the Information. The Marion, a sixtyfive ten boat, left Helena carrying the members of a carnival company that had been playing there. The boat was struck by a storm and was capsized. The sixty-two passengers and members of the crew climbed on top of the overturned boat. Ten foot high waves swept the overturned boat and many were washed from their hold, drowning before the eyes of their helpless companions. Twelve in all were drowned. Lives Lost in Ocean Collision. The total number of dead and missing of the Gladiator's crew as a result of tho collision between the American liner St. Paul and the British cruiser off the Isle of Wight Is twenty-eight Twenty-three men are missing, according to the list, a id six are suffering severe Injuries. The Secretary of the Admiralty expresses fear that there are still eight others missing. Divers have searched part of the sunken cruiser for bodies, but were nor. successful In Hading any. Wild Ducks are Dying. Again, as for several seasons, wild ducks are dying by the hundreds daily in the marshy regions bordering on Lake Erie, between Huron, ten miles east of Sandusky, Ohio, and the mouth of the Maumee river, near Toledo. Bluebills, canvasbacks and occasionally a "redhead" are attacked alike. Examination reveals the presence in the bead feathers of the ducks of "a small insect not unlike a flea. Captor of Davis Is Dead. David H. Haines, treasurer of the Kalamazoo Gas Company and for several seasons manager of the Belvidere TJotel at Charlevoix, Mich., is dead at bis home In Kalamazoo, Mich., of apoplexy. He was 64 years old. Mr. Haines was a member of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry that captured President Jefferson Davis, of the Confederacy. Whisky Kills Little Boy. Willie Boyle, aged 5, of Rockport, Ind., Is dead from the effects of drinking whisky. The parents gave the child a small quantity of the liquor to cure a headache. The boy waited until his mother had left the room and drank freely of the liquor. Three Drowned in Lake. Mr. and Mrs. William Stone and Boyd Ward, of Muskegon, Mich., were drowned In Muskegon Lake when their boat was overturned by the high waves. Miss Ethel Stewart clung to the boat and drifted a mile to the shore. Father Giliig Dead. The Rev. John Paul Gillig, for fifty year J a priest In the Catholic church, died Saturday afternoon at St. Edward's Hospital in New Albany, Ind., where he had been foe four years an Invalid. Wreck on the Frisco. The Frisco passenger train from St. Louis went Into a ditch near Stanley, Okla. The sleeper and two coaches left the track. Nineteen people were injured. Raid on Rattlesnakes. The famous "Rattlesnake Blulf," near Fairfield, 111., has been dynamited and sixty-nine rattlers were killed. They had been biting and killing live stock. Shoots His Brother Fatally. In a row over a division of ranch property near Moon. Mont.. A. S. Francis, who was on his honeymoon, shot and probably fatally woumled his brother, Henry Francis, and is now in jail. Francis claims he shot in self-defense. Widows Get Bigger Pension. Under the new pension law, which went into effect on April 1'., only widows who married previous to June 27, 18I'K), are entitled to a pension 'with the increase provided by this law. This affects all persons whose pension is under .$12, it now being increased to that amount. Duke of Chaulnes Stricken ty Death. The Duke of Chaulnes, whose marriage on Feb. 1." t.o a Chicago girl. Miss Theodora Shonts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore I. Shonts, was one of the most brilliant weddings of the year in New Tork, died Thursday night in Pans. Death was due to embolism, the obstruction of an artery. Batters Wife's Head with Ax. Lonis Fletkenste'm, a well-known German resident of Johnstown, attacked his wife with an ax, fatally injuring her, and then hanged himself- He Is believed to kave been temporarily deranged.

WORK OF CONGRESS

Calling attention to the Grand Army button he wore on the lapel of his coat and insisting that he had no prejudice against negro soldiers, some cf whom he claimed as comrades. Senator Warner of Missouri in the Senate Tuesday declared his conviction that the town of Brownsville, Texas, had been shot up by negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry in 11KX. Without concluding his remarks, Mr. Warner cave way for the naval appropriation bill, which was read in part. An amendment was adopted making the 20 per cent increase in the pay of officer? apply to those retired as well as on the active list. The Senate then entered into a long discussion of the policy of sending the naval flotilla around the world. The Senate adopted the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill, and adjourned. Although several hours were consumed in roll calls the day in the House was one of comparative activity and several measures of importance were put through. The principal of these perhaps was the resolution 03- Sjeaker Cannon providing for an investigation of the paper trust, The Brownsvil-e affair and the naval appropriation bill occupied practically the entire time of the Senate Wednesday. The naval bill was read through, with the exception of the sections relating to battle ships. Mr. Hale announced "that he would propose an amendment appropriating $7,000,000 to begin construction on the new battle ships. Senator Warren, reverting to a recent speech by Senator Hale against military enlargement, read statements from the Secretary of War and the chief of staff disclaiming any purpose of securing a regular army of 1S5,000 men. The sum total of the proceedings of the House was the passage under suspension of the rules of three bills and the defeat of one. When adjournment was reached there was pending a measure which instructs the Attorney General to institute suits against the Oregon and Ca'Jfornia Railroad Company for the forfeiture of several million acres of land grants la C.egon. The bills that got through were as follows: Declaring the right to enter as oil lands certain mineral lands; authorizing the alienation'of certain allotments of the five civilized tribes, and removing the restrictions against foreign ships with respect to trade between the United States and the Philippine Islands. : :- As the Senate was about to conclude consideration of the naval appropriation bill Thursday Senator Piles of Washington proposed an amendment increasing from two to four the number of new battleships to be authorized. As several Senators desired to speak on the amendment, the further consideration of the bill was postponed. An amendment to the naval bill was adopted appropriating $7,000,000 to begin construction on the two battleships authorized. An amendment to remove the restriction of the purchase of materials for the construction of the battleships, submarine boats, etc., to those of domestic manufacture was defeated. Senator Rayner of Maryland spoke on the constitutional rights of the States and executive encroachments. He insisted that the commerce act of the Constitution had been interpreted as applying to the industrial life of the country to a far greater degree than was contemplated by the framers of the Constitution. liy the overwhelming vote of 24." to 8 the House, after several hours discussion, adopted without amendment the Senate joint resolution introduced by Senator Tillman authorizing the Attorney General to file suits against the Oregon nd California Railroad Company for the forfeiture of all or part of 2.800,000 acres of land grants in the western part of Oregon. It is claimed by the government that by reason of breaches and violations o! the act making the grants the railroad company had forfeited all right to the land in question. Arguments in favor of the President's program for four battleships consumed most of the session of the Senate Friday. Mr. Hale laid before the Senate a statement of battleships and other features of the American naval program, which he said showed that as large a fleet as is now in the Facific can be kept there, and at the same time there would be ships for a still larger fleet for the Atlantic. Senator Beveridge concluded the debate for the day with a strong appeal for four battleships. The Senate passed a bill appropriating $100,000 for a survey of an inland water route from Boston to Wilmington. The business of the House proceeded at a rapid gait, despite the fact that the Democrats forced six roll calls. Another day was Kient by the Senate Saturday in considering the amendment to the naval appropriation bill, but a vote was not reached at the close of the discussion, which was iKirtiei'ittted in by a dozen Senator. Mr. Hale secured an agreement lor a vote before adjournment of the Senate on Monday. Much of the dis-Mission was devot ed to the improbability of war being forced upon the United States. Senators Beveridge and Piles were sharply criticized by Senators Aldrich, Perkins and Macumber for their statement Friday, and several heated colloquies occurred. At the conclusion of th debate a number of bills were passed. The House was in legislative session only two hours, during which time, after considerable discussion, it passed the bill reclassifying and increasing the pay of certain officials and employes of the customs side. NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. A limited free trade bill was introduced in the House by Mr. Sulzer of New York. It provides for the placing on the free list of all goods which are sold in foreign countries cheaper than in the United States. A joint resolution was adopted by the House committee donating to the State of Oklahoma "the first flag bearing fortysix stars, which for the first time floats over the capitol to-day." The resolution places the flag in the custody of the Oklahoma Historical Society. A vigorous denial of a newspaper report that there was peonage in the State of North Carolina was made in the Senate by Mr. Overman. The army appropriation bill as reported to the Senate carries $08.820,401, a net increase of $14.012,K43 over the amount of the bill as it was passed by the House. The House committee on the District of Columbia reported favorably a bill to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the district, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for other measures to prevent the spread of the disease in the District. Gov. W. B. Iloggatt of Alaska presented to the House committee on territories an argument against a bill to provide a territorial form of government for Alaska. The general arbitration treaty agreed upon at Tire Hague conference was ratified by tie Senate, as were arbitration treaties between the United States and Mexico and between the United States and Italy. The Senate committee on education and labor authorized a favorable rejtort on Senator La FolWte's employers' liability bill. The bill is intended to remedy defects in the present law pointed out by the Supreme Court.

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With many places yt unheard frcin, the death list in the tornado which recently devastated the States of Alabama. Mississippi. Louisiana and Georgia is estimated at 400 and the tally of injured e.tceeds 1.200. Arkansas contributes a list of three dead and thirty injured. The following table gives the casualties In the towns so far heard from:

Killed. Injured. Killed. Injured. Albcrtsville, Ala 2." ."5 Angie. La 2 10 Bergen. Ala 4 Caddo Parish, Ln 2 9 Cedar Creek. Ala S 12 Richland, La 4 10 Democrat. Ala 5 0 Adams County, Mis; 25 100 Fort iVjtosit, Ala 3 25 Baxterville. Miss 0 10 Rcids, Ala 2 3 Church Hill, Miss 35 100 Thomas Mill, Ala 2 10 Columbus, Miss 1 4 Warrior, Ala 3 7 Fayette County, Miss.... 3 75 Hector, Ark 3 20 McCallum, Miss 12 35 Grifhn, Columbus, Shipley, McLain. Miss S 25 Ivocust Grove, Harris Natchez, Miss (JO 200 City and McDonough, Ga 15 ... Port Gibson, Miss 1 5 Thome, Ga., district 0 12 Purvis, Miss (2 250 Cameo, Ga 2 ... V.jlialak, Miss 8 35 Stinson. Ga 1 ... Wingate, Mis.s 3 10 Cove Springs district, Ga. 15 ... Bluffton, Ga 3 Amite, La 15 100 Total 35G 1,173

WEATHER FOR MAY. St. Louis . Forecaster Predicts Fierce Storms, Snows and Fro3ts. May is to be a continuous ierformance of tornadoes, thunderstorms, hail ami frost. Rev. Iri R. Hicks has hung out the danger signals in his long-distance forecasts for the month, and trouble is feared by those who have faith in his prognostications. Violent thunderstorms,1 approaching tomadic violence in the West, heavy rains and hail, followed by snow squalls and sleet, are among the things predicted. Careful watching is advised by the St. Louis prognostlcator early In the month ps frost Is due. High temperature, dally rains and thunderstorms, with probable tornadoes. Is on the menu for the 13th to the ICth, and floods over wide sections follow immediately. Much cooler weather is due from the 10th to the 10th. From the 19th to the 22d is not seriously threatening, but look out for tornadoes, says Mr. Hicks. Quiet and calm and much warmer until the 24th will usher in the most dangerous ieriod of the month, and Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the 25th, 20th and 27th, storms m ay le ex pected to become very threatening, if not tomadic. The 27th is the twelfth anniversary of the St. Louis cyclone. The danger ar?a extends over the central and western part of the country. The month Is to end In comparative peace, although seismic disturbance is possible, from the 27th to the 31st. X. itf"flr The latest spring hats are almost as high as their price. The furnace-shaking days have gone, the saddest of the year. Even Canada i banging the door in the face of Japanese immigrants. After the marriages of the Dues and Dukes come the tailors' bills. Time for "spring opening" of the millinery stores and papa's pocket book. Anarchy is one imported plant that ought to be pulled up by the roots. Only immensely rich people can afford more than one nobleman in the family. A western bishop adtiscs old maids to "pray for husbands." Whose husbands? Other people can be just as unhappy as Mrs. Hetty Green on much less money. Science has made the discovery that Pharaoh had toothache and gout. It will be possible to think more kindly of him now. A Michigan man ate three electric lights in an attempt to commit suicide. Some people attempt to make light of death. New York families of wealth appear to be able to buy everything but domestic happiness. If Uncle Sam has a billion dollars in gold in his pocket he ought to get over his nervousness. The United States will have the first armored fleet that ever "looped tho loop" around the world. China wants to see the American fleet, so if anything happens she will know what struck her. Mine. Anna Gould must be a believer in the old adage. "If you don't at first succeed, try, try again." New York likes the pay-as-you-enter cars because the system gives you that go-as-you-please feeling. The new Senator from Vermont is S3, which shows that there is no keeping the young fellows down. These ducal marriages cause considerable worry to people who enjoy meddling in somebody else's affairs. Fifty of the largest yachts in the country are for sale. Likely the owners want to get some bigger still. It cost Count de Castellane $20.20 to pummel the Prince de Sagau, which is pretty tough when you haven't got the 20 cents. Hetty Green's daughter is to wed a man without a title. Hetty always was lucky in financial matters. The buildings are getting so high in New York that they will have to carry the tire engines up on elevators. Woman suffrage would progress rapidly if they could in some way combine it with the new patterns or bridge whist. When the Thaws are separated there will Im? two of them, and then we shall probably get twice a much of it as bow. This year the circus is to have no sideshow of "freaks." Probably the proprietors feel it useless to attempt to compete with the politicans.

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Candidates of sis iolitical parties received votes in the presidential election of 1904. Only two of the parties were represented in the electoral vote. Eight parties polled a vote in 1900 large enough to be recorded ; six of them failed to choose a single presidential elector. In national elections the great majority of the voters remain loyal to one or the other of the old political' parties. Other parties are sometimes strong enough to carry State elections In the West and the South, and by holding the balance of power to decide elections In the East. Presidential electors have cast their votes for a third party candidate only twice since the Civil War. The first time was in 1892, when Mr. Weaver, the People's party candidate, carried Colorado, Idaho, Kansas and Nevada, and won an elector In North Dakota and In Oregon. Four years later Thomas E. Watson, who was a candidate for the Vice Presidency with Mr. Bryan on tho People's party ticket, by means of a coalition with the Democrats, divided with the Democratic Vice Pvcsldential candidate the electoral votes of ten States. As Horace Greeley died between the time of the popular vote In November, 1S72, and the meeting- of the electors, the Democratic vote of thai year was distribute! among other candidates. In the transition period election ol 1$;0 the electoral vote was divided among one Republican, one Union and two Democratic candidates; but in 1S5C Millard Fillmore, as "American" and Whig candidate, carried Maryland, and received Its electoral votes. This year the number of independent, or extra party, candidates is likely to be large, but It Is probable that all the electoral votes will go either to the Democratic or to the Republican candidates as usual. Youth's Companion. To le Furnace Waste Heat. "To pick 100,000 horse-power off the tops of eight roaring blast furnaces tnd use it in performing a hundred giant tasks is the purpose of the colossal apparatus now being installed in the wonderful steel plant building at Gary, Ind.," writes II. G. Hunting in the March Technical World Magazine. Bj a heretofore unthought of device this power will entirely displace steam in the great mills. Thirty-three huge gas engines are being installed, each of 3,000 horse-power to use the gas produced by the iron smelters and convert it into electric power. At the top of each of the blast furnaces an outlet lor the heated gas is provided leading into a cleansing tube where the dust is removed by means of a series of tanks or "washers." About 30 per cent of the product is diverted to the blast stoves to heat up in preparation for the air blast. Drnntailo Trust Formed. An organization has been formed for the purpose of effecting practically a control of the dramatic material ceod.l by the hundreds of play companies in America. Miss Marbury, the play broker, is president, and the company will have offices in New York, with branches in Chicago. London. Paris, Berlin and Vienna. It is said that the "trust" already controls about nine-tenths of the foremost playwrights of England, France, Germany, Austria and Italy, and the number of authors enrolled on the books runs into the hundreds. The British ship Celticburn will carry Pacific coast wheat in bulk to Europe. Thus is the first time that a grain shipment has ever been sent in that manner from Portland, Ore., and is in the nature of flu exierimcnt. Economy in both time and money and span is expected to result. A bill prohibiting farmers of the new State of Oklahoma from sowing Johnson grass has been approved by the Governor. It also makes it a misdemeanor for any person to sell hay or grain from Johnson grass land without informing the purchaser. United States laud o flier rs are trying to run down the gangs of swindlers who locate new settlers in the Dakotas on poor lands and charge them $25 mIi for the service. The officials have issued circulars advising land svker to get their information from the land ofl'is or to visit the lands themselves before making selections. John P. Brown, the catalpa exiiert, has recently finished planting 200,000 trees on his plantation at Carney, Ala., and 200,000 more of small size in nursery. Besides this he has sei 300,000 trees for the L. & N. rUroad.

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IBNA1TC1AL' CHICAGO. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade in the Chicago district says: "Business activity, while recovering slowly, is seen to be upon a steadier basi?. Liquidation remains but causes less apprehension as to results, and the commercial defaults, although yet seemingly numerous, include none of conspicuous influence u)on credits. Lower cost of accommodation is accompanied by a heavier movement of money and preparations indicate prompt settlements of the May interest payments, a considerable iortion of which will rest here. A very satisfactory volume appears in the distribution of general merchandise, and interior buyers not only make frequent calls for reassortments, but also place liberal advance orders for fall and winter lines. "Itailroad traffic returns suffer from a liraHed marketing of crops and restricted shipments from the factories. Weakness in pig iron discourages large buyers, and ore supplies carried over show an unusual surplus, which may be slow of reduction, unless additional furnaces resume. Factory work in the iron branches runs more steadily, especially in machinery, heavy hardware and farm implements, but the forges and foundries have little forward work and resumption of normal operations is not yet discerned. "Restriction yet appears in wood working branches, but not so severe as a month ago, there being more activity in furniture and boxmaking. while planing mills obtain increasing orders from the extension of building enterprises. "Mercantile collections throughout the. near by States eh;bit more promptness with the growing ease in money. Farm advices are uniformly good as to progress in spring work and condition of winter wheat. "Failures reported in the Chicago district number 34. against 21 last week and 19 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number 10, against 0 last week and 7 in 1907." NEW YORK. Improved weather conditions and excellent crop reports throughout the greater part of the country, coupled with the favorable construction put upon recent financial developments, have made for the growth of a better feeling as regards the outlook, but tho actual effect upon distributive trade and industry is as yet of the slightest. Some gain is reported in a few sections, notably the South and central West, in retail trade, but at the Sor.th retail business since Easter is rather quieter, and Easter trade as a whole was not up to expectations. Some enlargements in fi!ling-in orders by jobbers is noted, and a few western points report slightly more buying for fall delivery, but hesitancy and conservatism rule operations to an extent not approached in recent j-ears. Textiles are very much depressed, though weather and crop reports are harbingers of hope for the future and short time is well-nigh universal. North and South. The shoe trade reports more orders, especially at leading western markets, but business is hardly up to expectations. Business failures in the United States for the week ending April 23 number 254, against 2J1 last week. 157 in the like week of 1907, 177 in 1900, 193 in 1905 and 197 in 1904. Canadian failures for the week number 30, as against 29 last week and 23 in this week a year ago. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.25; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $5.77; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $15.25; wheat, No. 2, 97c to 9Sc; corn. No. 2, fi5e to 07c; oats, standard, 51c to 52c; rye. No. 2, 79c to SOc; hav, timothy, $!.5( to $10.00; prairie, $S.O0 to $13.00; butter, choice creamery, $21c to 25c; eggs, fresh. 11c to 15c; otatocs, per bushel, G5c to 77c Indianapolis Cattle, " shipping, $3.00 to $0.90; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $5.75; sheep, common to prime., $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2. 90c to 97c; corn. No. 2 white, 03c to (k'c; oats, No. 2 white, 51c to 52c. St. Lou is Cattle, $4.50 to $7.00; hogs, $1.00 to $5JS0; sheep, $3.00 to $0.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to $1.01; corn. No. 2, G5c to COc; oats, No. 2, 48c to 4fc; rye, No. 2, 70c to 77c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $050; hogs. $4.00 to $5.S5; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2. 90c to 97c; corn. No. 2 mixed, C5e to 07c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; rye. No. 2. 82c to Sk. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $0.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.05; sheep, $2.50 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2v97c to 90c; corn. No. 3 yellow, I9c to 70c; oats. No. 3 white, 54c to 55c; rye. No. 2, 81c to 82c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.07 to $1.09; corn, No. 3, 05c to OGc; oats, standard. 52c to 53c; rye. No. 1, 7ik- to 80c; barley. No. 2, 80c to 87c: Iork, meas, $13.35. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.10; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.05; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.O0 to $0.75; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $8.40. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 90c to 97c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 07c to GSc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2, SOc to 81c; clover seed, prime, $12.50. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $ 7.15; hogs. $3.50 to $0.20; sheep. $3.00 to $0.00; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.05 to $1.00; corn. No. 2, 74c to 75c; oats, natural white, 55c to 57c; butter, creamery, 25c to 29c; eggs, western, 13c to 17c. INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS. Samuel Insull, president of the Chicago Edison Company, was appointed receiver of the Consumers Electric Comjiany. New Orleans, on application of the National Conduit and Cable Company of New York, a creditor. United States secret service officers arrested V.. J. Pelliekas in the woods near Quebec on a charge of making 25-cent pieces. Mrs. Kate Palter was found strangled to death in Ker home at 127 West 21st street. New York, and in the kitchen was Vito Debello, with his throat cut. lie died later. The man who rertorted the rase is suffering from two knife cuts. Coroner Weisendang said in New York that he believed Julius T. Rosenheimer, murdered recently while walking with his wife in his garden jit Pelham Manor, was killed by one of two Sicilians who mistook him for his rival in lov-. Herbert S. lladley, Attorney General Df Missouri, has gone to Boulder, Colo., where he expects to pass two months in an attempt to regain his health, II. B. Alexander, now engaged in litrrary work at Springfield, Mass., has been chosen professor o philosophy at the University of Nebraska. Charles Henry Tarker, 92 years of age nd the oldest Harvard alumnus, di-d at his home on Chestnut street, Boston. He was a member of the class of 1833. Sir Thomas Iwrence's "Portrait of the Hon. Maria Liddell" brought $5,300 at the closing sale of the Blakeslee pictures at Mendelssohn Hall, New York.

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HAVOC III 13 STATES Tornadoes from Dakotas to Gulf Lay Farms Waste and Injure 460. SOUTH BEARS THE BRUNT. Many Towns in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana Destroyed, with Big Death Lists. A hundred and seventy-two persons are believed to have been killed and 400 injured, many fatally, in a tornado which Friday swept thirteen States of the Union from the Dakotas to the Gulf of Mexico, leaving a trail of destroyed villages, ruined farms, devastated countrysides and bereaved households. The full weight of the storm fell on the States of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, where many small towns were badly damaged. Before bursting on that part of the country the tornado traversed North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Oklahoma. Where Live. Were Lost. The following is a summary of the damage reported: Killed. Injured. Natchez, Miss., district 04 12G Amite, La 45 75 Dora. Ala 5 50 Warrior, Ala 2 5 Vidalia, La 5- C Richland, La 4 102 Albertville, La 30 CO Columbus, Miss 1 2 La more, La 1 Deport, Texas 1 5 Nebraska 14 Walls, Miss : 1 White Station, Tenn 2 Baxter, Miss 8 Shawnee, Okla 5 ... St. Louis, Mo j 3 Alton, 111 1 Clinton, Iowa 2 1 Lakota, N. I) 1 Unidentified Ala. town. .. . 3 ... Winchester, Miss 2 ... Total 172 400 In the vicinity of Natchez, Miss., sixty-four persons were killed and 12G injured. Hundreds of houses were destroyed. The tornado plowed through the counties of Adams, Jefferson and Claiborne, MIssissipi, for a distance of fifty miles, leveling every building which came in its way. Its path was a thousand feet wide. The town of Vidalia, across the river in Louisiana, was badly damaged. Many injured persons have been taken to the hospital at Natchez. In Louisiana it is estimated that a score of small towns were destroyed or partially wrecked. They include Amite City, Arcadia and Independence. Belle Grove, Melton, Lorman, Pine Ridge, Quitman Landing. Fairchild's Creek, Purvis and Lumberton, Miss., are reported seriously damaged by the storm. Amite, a small town in southeastern Louisiana, was almost destroye!. The dead are estimated at forty-five and the injured at seventy-five. At McLain, Mis.., eight are reported to have been killed; at Quitman Landing, eleven were killed; at Punis3 Landing, Miss., twelve were victims of the storm, and reports from one to Are deaths come from many towns scattered over the storm-swept area. The cyclone struck Dora, Ala., known also as Bürgin, a mining town on the Frisco, thirty-five miles from Birmingham, Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Five persons were killed. Many cars standing on the siding were blown off the track and smashed to plecee1. Reports state that the storm struck Albertville, Ala., at 4 o'clock and destroyed almost all the northern part of the town. Winchester, Miss., a small town, is reported wiped out, thcugj only two persons are known to have been killed. The tornado destroyed the eastern portion of Deport, a town twenty ndles southeast of Paris, Texas, killing W. R. Isbell, a druggist, and injuring several others. Practically all the residences on the east side of town were destroyed, at least twenty-five or thirty being scattered over the country in fragments. The path of the storm was several hundred yards wide. Oak Grove, a town east of Clarksvllle, on the Texas and Pacific Railroad, is reported almost destroyed, many houses being demolished. Reports from Flandreau, S. D., say that a severe storm swept that place, demolishing many buildings. Losscj aggregating $20,000 resulted from the tornado at Valley Springs, near Siour Falls. Although twenty-two buildings were destroyed there was no loss of life. The Methodist Episc-opal Church was completely demolished. From Lakota, N. D., comes news that Nels, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Heinmark, was playing near the edge of the slough a short distance from from his home when a terrific wind picked the little fellow np and blew him into tlve water. He was drowned. The gale blew down on iron smokestack back, of the Planters' Hotel, St Louis, injuring two employes and did some damage in different iarts of the city. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. Mme. Fritzi Scheff is seeking divorce from her husband, Baron Frederick von Bardeleben. Work has been resumed with full forces at the mines on the Mesaba range, but no shipping is expected before June 1. Willie Edouin, the English actor, is dead in London. He had been in failing health since his return from the United States. After having been closed for three months the plant of the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company at Gadston, Ala., has been put in blast. The Borough bank of Brooklyn, which closed Oct. 12 and whose president, Howard Maxwell, killed himself, reopened under a deferred payment plan. While twelve camels consigned to a Chicago zoo were at sea on the steamship Ida of the Austro-American line a birth increased the number to thirteen, the new-born being named in honor of the shii. In obedience to the boycott decision of the United States Supreme Court Samuel Gompers omitted the customary list of non-union or "unfair" establishments from the April number of the American Federationist, J

The leaders of Congress have notified the President that the several laws tvhich he desired to have enacted at this session will not be put through. But they will try to pass bills making i more elastic currency system ; granting compensation to government employes injured while in the government service; prohibiting child labor in the District of Columbia; authorizing the Ways and Means Committee of the House and the Finance Committee of the Senate to give hearings preliminary to a revision of the tariff ; approbating i sum sufficient to enable the Inland waterways commission to continue the work on which it started last year. : iA number of South Dakota Sioux Inaians from the Standing Rock reservation are in Washington urging action by Congress on the bill to authorize the sale of a portion of the surplus ani unallotted lands of that reservation. The Indians have called upon the members Df the Indian committee of the senate, which has favorably reported the bill, and they have also had a conference with President Roosevelt regarding the measure. The landing bill sets no t!me for the opening of the reservation. About 3,000,000 acres are affected by the measure. As a result of the first conviction under the pure food and drug law, Robert N. Harper, president of the Washington chamber of Commerce, formerly president of the American National Bank, a drug manufacturer and ane of the best known business men of the city, was sentenced by Judge Kimball in the police court to pay a fine of $500 on one count and $200 on another ?ount of the indictment recently returnHl against him for manufacturing and selling an alleged mislabeled pharmaceutical compound. -: :- The statistics of the Postoffice Department indicate that the rural delivery system pays its way, notwithstanding its very considerable cost The ratio of deficit moves in a contrary direction to the ratio of rural delivery expenditure. The fact appears to be that the rural delivery ias proven a bringer-in of new revenue. There has also been accomplished a saving of $12,000,000 through the closing of small postoffices and the discontinuance of star routes. The new Federal forest bill for Minnesota, which Senator Clapp had passed by the Senate, will open approximately 100,000 acres of land in vicinity of Cass Lake for settlement. The opening, however, will not occur until the spring of 1909, in May or June. Under the provisions of the bill a com mission of three members, one to . be named by the President, one by the Secretary of the Interior, and one by the Indians, is to appraise the timber which is taken for forestry purposes. President Roosevelt is going to have a series of conferences with the busi ness men of the couutry, manufactur ers, farmers, wage earners, railroad officials, bankers and merchants. He wants to get in close touch with the existing industrial conditions, and he wants to know what the people of the country think about the present situa tion. The validity of the Elkins anti-rebaU law again was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court in the decision sustaining the conviction of the Armour, Swift, Morris and Cudahy packing houses for accepting rebates, and f the Burlington Railroad for granting them, each of the d. 'fondants having been fined $15,000. Mark II. Davis, of Shelby, Ohio, has leen appointed special agent of the department of commerce and labor to investigate markets abroad, with special reference to the exiort of American wheat and flour. The appointment wiy made upon the recommendation of tb? Millers' National Federation. President Roosevelt informed a delegation of Oklahomans that he would help them secure the removal of tho restrictions upon the sale of I:dlan lands, but that each Indian must preserve a homestead of good land, and tbnt the Reds must be given a square deal. Many members of Congress are now urging an appropriation to pirchase hmcs for American legations in foreign capitals in order that it iray not be necessary to consider the wealth of diplomats in making appointments. President Roosevelt declined to allow Secretary Loch to appear before the senate committee on Indian affairs with certain papers filed by Helen Pierce Gray In the Crtnv Crctk IndiaD controversy. Secretary Wilson is planning to demonstrate the manufacture of denatured alcohol. He will Install a plant in'one of the buildings of the department at Washington. : :- Owing to the large Increase of tht business of the interstate commerce commission, the clerical force has been largely increased during the past year, more than 100 clerks, stenographers and other office assistants being added to the force. The President has instructed Attorney General Bonaparte to see that Southern railroads obey the orders of the interstate commerce commission to furnish negroes its good care as are. furnished whites for the same money Chief Coos, of the Crow Indians, has presented Senator Clapp. of Minnesota, with an elaborate war lonnet, made of eagle feathers in token of the Indians' appreciation of the Senator's courtesy to them. In certain towns In Germany householders are compelled by law to sort out their house dust. They have to provide three receptacles one for ashes and sweepings, one for cooking refuse, and one for rags and paper. The rubbish is utilized by the town authorities.

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RAKED UP KETTLE OF GOLD. Yard Cleaning . Troved Profitable SI an Xear Waynetowa. While cleaning his dooryard, James Weaver, two miles south of Waynetown, uncovered with his rake a teakettle which proved to be partly filled with ?old. How much of the yellow metal was found is not known, as Mr. Weaver is keeping the details to himself, but it is known that, he was well repaid for the cleaning prof cess. lie found the kettle buried about' half way between bis house and the well. How it came there, and by whom buried, still remains a secret. Mr. Weaver is hopeful that additional treasures may be found. EXPLOSION WRECKS ICE PLANT. Engineer Blown Some Distance, bat I ot Injured. The battery of boilers in the Tipton ice plant, situated in the residence part of town, exploded the other day, being heard for miles around. Charles Covert, the engineer, was blown Rome distance, but was not injured. Pieces of machinery, heavy timbers and thousands of bricks' crashed through the sides and roofs of houses, but not a person wan hurt. Oct pitK of znachinery weighing 500 pounds went through a roof and landed in a bed. Many windows in the city were demolished. The loss is $25,000. 18-HOUR TRAIN NEAR WRECK. Pennsylvania Flyer Ilaa Narrow Eaeape at Warsaw, Ind. The New York-to-Chicago eighteenhour Pennsylvania railroad flyer had narrow escape fror destruction at Warsaw. A few minutes before the train was due a freight train ran into a heayy pair of angle irons which had been placed on the track. A thick fog obscured the view of the track. Some foreigner living near, who were recently laid off from work, are suspected of having placed the obstruction on the rails. CENT IN STOMACH SIXTY YEARS. Man Who Swallowed Penny Wkea Seren Years Old Dies front Effeeta. A large copper, cent, swallowed sixty years ago, caused the death of James Huckins. G7 years old, a farmer near Laporte. The coin became incased in the lining of the stomach at the time it was swallowed and remained there nntil recently, when an' abscess formed and acids in the stomach began to dissolve the coin. Poisoning ensued, causing death. Minister Hast Face .the Charge. The Rev. George T. Butler will have to stand trial for obtaining money under false pretenses, in which Mrs. Belle Howard of Peru is complainant. Judge Antrim refused to quash the indictment. Mr. Butler is accused of selling stock in a proposed cement mill n Michigan at a price beyond its real value, and it is alleged that after he had sold nearly $25,000 worth of stock to residents of Peru and vicinity, the mill never got higher than the ground before it went into the bands of a receiver. Franklin Snffers 925,000 Fire Losa. Fire in Franklin destroyed the Hohlen, factory plant. The water pressure was poor and the department was practically helpless. The loss is estimated at $25,000, only partly covered by insurance. The buildings of brick were originally used for pork house purposes, and still later by the National Starch Company. The Holden Company began Operating there three years ago. The company Is controlled by, local stockholders. Three Attempts o Kill Himself. Scott Carroll of Noblesville, 71 years old, failed the other night in his third attempt to commit suicide. A few months ago he tried to freeze himself to death by going to sleep in the snow. Before rhat he attempted to hang himself in his barn, but his wife and friends foiled the effort of the pain-racked man to end his existence. The other night he tried to cut bis throat, and again his wife interposed. Boys Raft Upsets j Two Drown. Grover Spurgeon, sged 12, and1 John Spurgeon, aged 10, were drowned in Newton pond, in Lawrenceburg, on their way to school. The boys had constructed a raft, which capsized in ten feet of water. The bodies were recovered. Greenhouses Destroyed by Fire. The Lebanon greenhouses, owned by Taul O. Taaer, were totally destroyed by fire. The 'oss is $2.500, with no insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. Choked While Eating Chicken. ' Ballard Bowen, 77 years old, choked to death while eating supper in St. Joseph, a piece of chicken lodging in his throat. He leaves a son and daughter. AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS. William Weber, 55, a farmer, aas killed by a traction car at the crossing in Gem. Mr. Weber had been nearly deaf a number of years. Alex Gardinier, William Fenaal and Gus Linda of Center Point were arrested charged with dynamiting a business block at Center Point a few weeks ago. Gov. J. Frank Hanly has issued his Arbor day proclamation, fixing Friday, April 24, and Friday. Oct. 23, for observance by the people of the State. The Rev. T. M. Haines, formerly pastor of the First M. E. church, Logansport, has carried out his declared purpose of retiring from the ministry after twenty-three years active service and he will live on his farm in Kosciusko county. At an adjourned session of the Warrick Circuit Court, with jury trials in each instance, Levi and Otto Lockhart were found guilty of robbing the Hudspetch saloon in December last. Levi has been sentenced to prison at Michigan City from one to fourteen years, while Otto goes to the Indiana reformatory for the same length of time. Delbert Johnson, .1 years old. the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson, three miles northwest of Kokomo, slipped away from care of his mother and wandered on the Pennsylvania right-of-way in time to be struck by a passing train and instantly kille?. The Indiana battle grounds monument commission, in whose keeping the Tippecanoe monument fund was placed, has let the contract for the building of the monument, which is to cost $24,5X). The monument is to lc erected on the Tipn1canoe battlefield. A bronze figure of William Henry Harrison will be placed at the foot of the shaft. After holding at bay forty-eigtt hours the crowd which h.id handled hitn cxtremly roushly, William Talton, accused of wife beating, was -aptured by the officers. Talton wa seirtnl by a mob and tlmitened with a coat of tar and feathers. He managed to break away froa them, but had two ribs fractured in the struggle. lie fortihVd his house and prepared for a siege. The sheriff's officers at last dislodged him and brought him to jail in La Porte. Socialists announce the nomination of W. D. Van Horn as candidate for Congress from the Fifth Indiana district. Mr. Van Horn is president of district No. 11. United Mine Workers of America.