Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 May 1908 — Page 2

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ON. M. "Tv F. Q.F. M. (T L. Q. 8th. J 15thAy22nd. V4 29th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN t TO BE. All Side' arc 8ho aaake it iltiont of Thing line Overlooked to o. Atlr One hun tiro of th -i . Another Fire. md seventy-five horses, ow prize winners; half a block of buildings burned "with a $100,000 loss; a threatened panic in a crowded theatre near by and half a dozen perosns. injured, none seriously, summarize?; a fire which started in the business section of Atlanta, Ga., and lor an hour threatened to make a cleaner sweep than did the flames which last week destroyed a million and a quarter dollars' worth of proj,erty In another section of the city. The flames started in the Piedmont stables on Marietta street, near Spring, and were checked at Marietta and Barstow streets. Half a biock away a panic started in the Orpheum theatre, which was crowded from floor to balcony with persons watching a vaudeville performance. Half a dozen negroef. were bruised in the first crush, but no ! one was seriously hurt. Attempt to Wreck Pennsy Flyer. The passing of a shifting engine which the would-be train wreckers had not counted upon, uT.Joubtedly averted serious disaster to the east-bound flyer from St. Louis to Pittsburg on the Pan Handle railroad of the Pennsylvania eystem between Washington, Pa., and McDonald. An obstruction was placed on the track in such a manner, experienced railroad men say, that nothing could have saved the fast train had it not been discovered. The switching engine ran into the obstruction and was ditched. A piece of rail was laid across the track and firmly wedged in position. The flyer is one of thej mrst Important on the road in passenger and express traffic. Eight Persons Killed by Storm. At least eight persons were killed and scores of others injured in the several tornadoes in Northwestern Oklahoma. The most serious results were in the vicinity of Arnett, where fully thirty persons are believed to have received broken limbs. The only town to have been destroyed Is Vicci, in the southern .part of Woodward County, when? it is said there i3 not a house left standing. At Mutual fifteen young persons had gathered for a social. The t storm lifted the house completely off the floor on which they were seated, leaving the floor and the young people unharmed. Rock Crashed Into Car. While the Chicago & New York express on the Baltimore & Ohio was passing Hammond, seven mites east of Fairmont, W. Va., a large rock rolled down from the hillside and ci ashed through the roof of the smoking car, Injuring three passengers. The train was sapped at Fairmont where physicians took charge of the Injured. Tie train was running forty miles an hour when the accident occurred. Fire Wipes Out Town. Carip Crook, a town of four hundred population on the Little Missouri river, north of Deadwood, S. D., was destroyed by fire two days ago, loss 200,000. The flames, the origin of which is unknown, swept from one end to the other of the village and only a few buildings were left standing. Camp Crook was a trading point for a large territory and the merchants carried large tsocks. Killed by Carelessly Handled Gun. Ray Toney, 19 years eld, was accidentally killed on the farm of William Dixon, east of Rockville, Ind. He was attempting to remove a loaded shotgun from the rear of a buggy, pulling the muzzle toward him. The hammer caught, discharging the load into his chest. He lived but a few minutes. Wealthy Stockm-n Killed. James Brown, a wealthy stockman living at Galveston, was shot and killed at Logansport, Ind., by Robert D. Cottennan, a tenant on cue of Brown's farms. The shooting waj the result of a quarrel over Cotterncai.'s eviction from the farm. Cotterman is in jail. Dead at Her Home in Indianapolis. Mrs. Helen E. Moses, national pres Ident of the Christian Women's Board of Missions, is dead at her home in Indianapolis, Ind. She had been actively ngaged in the work for many years. Nine Hortes Cremated. The livery barn owned by J. C. Worley at Martinsville, Ind., burned and is thought to have been set on fire by an electric bolt, and nine horses were cre mated and much property destroyed. Held as $3,000 Bank Eobber. Arrested as one of the " two bandits who held up the cashier and robbed th Citizens' State bank of Oiautauqii? . Kan., on April 17 of $3.000, William Tennant is alleged to have confessed in Denver to a part in the job and returned all he possessed of the loot, . Iowan for Alaskan Prosecutor. President Roosevelt has announee'1 that i.- n.nM hnrtlv send to the Senat? the nomination of James 3. Crossley o: Iowa to be United States attorney for the third district of Alaska, to succeed Nathan V. Harlan, resigned. Wjill Enlarge Liverpool Docks. TLJMersey dock board finally has approved a project for the extension of the docking facilities of Liverpool to cost more than $lG,00O,fXW. The rapidly increaing trade with America has made necessary an enlargement of the facilities. Dowie's Estate Worth $1,200. The appraisers of the estate of the late John Alexander Dowie have just filed their report in Waukegan. 111., showing $1,1R assets. Mrs. Iowie r,as awarded $100 as her share as widow. She still has a claim on his real estate interest

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The Senate Wednesday passed a bill prohibiting the employment within certain hours of children under 14 years of Bge in the District of Columbia. The Senate also adopted a resolution offered by Mr. Foraker of Ohio directing the interstate commerce commission to inform the Senate whether the commodity clause of the interstate commerce act had been complied with since May 1, 1908, and if not whether the noncompliance by the railroads has been due to any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the railroad companies and the authorities. The conference report on the army appropriation bill carrying an aggregate of $05.377.241 was adopted. Senator Warner of Missouri concluded his speech on the Brownsville affair, his closing remarks calling forth a statement from Senator Foraker that a Western paper had announced that the President recently wrote to Senator Smith of Michigan to the effect that he had not changed his mind as to the guilt of the negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Regiment. Mr. Foraker suggested that the introduction of that letter in the record would be interesting. Ey a vote of 17 to 40, and following a two hours' Vlebate, the House again went on record against the re-establishment of the canteen in national soldiers homes. In the course of the discussion a man giving his name as George E. Gridley of Providence, R. I., unfurled an American flag and proceeded to make an address from the gallery on the temperance question. He was promptly taken out. Perhaps the real sensation of the day was an admission by Mr. Rennet of New York, a member of the immigration commission, that he had, under the old immigration law, "railroadp!" the naturalization of many foreigners in one day. With the exception of the adoption of the conference report on the bill reorganizing the consular service, the sundry civil appropriation bill was under consideration the entire day. The forestry provision of the agricultural appropriation bill was before the Senate several hours Thursday. Senator Teller of Colorado denounced that service as unwise and its administration as arbitrary, while Senator Dcpew spoke in advocacy of the extension of the work of the forest reserves. An address in support of the bill to establish postal savings banks was made by Senator Carter of Montana. Senator Culberscn of Texas called the atention of the Senate to newspaper publications to the effect that the President and the interstate commerce commission had agreed to allow the railroads to increase freight rates. This suggestion precipitated a discussion as to the powers of the President or the conimision to make such an agreement. The Senate passed a bill appropriating $.1,000 toward the erection of a monument to Pocahontas at Jamestown, Va. After ten days' discussion consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill was completed by the House, but before putting it on its passage a recess until Friday was taken. The bill carries a total appropriation of $lUH;;,r,i;f. or $1.241.000 more than as rejorted by the committee. A provision providing that salaries and wages for work on the Panama canal should not exceed by more than 2.1 per cent the salaris and wages paid in the United States for similar work was defeated, 10 to 101. Rut little progress was made in the Senate Friday on the agricultural appropriation bill, the session being devoted to a discussion uion the principle of forest reserves and the administration of that service. Senator McC'uniber called the attention of the Senate to a deadlock among ti conferees on the pension appropriation bill on the Senate amendment requiring a continuance of the pn-si-nt system of having the pension fund disbursed through eighteen pension ag-nts located throughout the country instead of through a single agent in Washington. Many Senators expressed the desire that the conferees should insist on the Senate amendment. The officers and enlisted men of the army won their fight for increased Iiy, when the House agreed to thp conference reiiort on the army appropriation bill. An appropriation of $7.000,000 was made for the punose, $5,O00,(MO of which will go to the enlisted men. Fuder suspension of the rules bills were passed placing the Porto Rican regiment of infantry on a permanent basis, and authorizing additional aids to navigation in the lighthouse establishment. i The debate on the main features of the agricultural appropriation bill was practically concluded by the Senate Saturday. Senator Smoot of Utah poke at length in advocacy of the forest reserve service. Senators Lodge, and Newlands also supported th policy of the service. Senator Clarke of Wyoming reviewed at length what he said he regarded as the weakness of the forestry service. Although on several occasions it ha-1 difficulty in maintaining a quorum, the House transacted considerable business. A number of measures were passed, including a child labor law for the District of Columbia, intended as a substitute for the Senate bill ; permitting appeals in naturalization cases from the District to the Circuit courts of appeal; providing for the widening of the channel of Michigan City, Ind., and repealing the act of the legislature of New Mexico of 1903 regarding civil procedure in personal injury cases. j NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. A general arbitration treaty between the United States and Spain was signed. The House has agreed to the conference retort on the bill reorganizing the consular service. It is stated at the Department of Justice that arrangements are w 11 under way for a test case of the "co nmodities clause" of the Hepburn act to be made, unless a material change takes place in the situation as a result of legislation or other circum-jtances. The Volstead bill, authorizing the draining of certain lands in Minnesota, was passed by the House. Senator Lodge has secured favorable action in the Senate committee on foreign relations on three propositions looking to the purchase of a building in Paris for use as an American embassy. Each makes an appropriation of $4O0,000. Lawrence O. Murray, former assistant Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor, took the oath of office as comptroller of the currency, lie succeeded William R. Itidgely, recently elected president of the National Rank of Commerce of Kansas City. An omnibus bridge bill, the. first measure of its kind to be framed and introduced in Congress, has leen reported favorably by the House committee. The conference report on the army appropriation bill carrying $05.377.210 has been adopted by the Senate. This amount was $3,4' 'OW loss than the bill carried when first -jmssed by the Senate. Senator Lodge has reported from the committee on foreign relations an amendment which is intended to enable the Secretary of State to return to contributors the $V,G.O0O raised to ransom Miss Ellen M. Stone, an American missionary to Turkey, who was abducted by brigands on Sept. 3, 1001.

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Finding of Nine Bodies in Yard Reveals Mysterious Wholesale Killings. WOMAN CALLED A BLUEBEARD Supposed Death of Herself and Children in Fire Only Adds to the Puzzle. Wholesale murder murder more ruthlessly premeditated and diabolically executed than the famous Holmes castle crimes in Chicago was revealed at La port e, Ind., Tuesday when five mutilated bodies were dug up in the back yard of the home of Mrs. Rclla Gunness, who, together with her three children, are supposed to have met death when their house burned one week before. Fifteen persons already have a place on the list of known or probably siain, and cimmistanccs point to Mrs. Günnes as the arch-conspirator in at least twelve of the crimes. Until this time it 'V' had been accepted as true that she and her three children had met death in the fire that destroyed their home, but now the suspicion arises that the bodies that were found In the smoldering ruins were brought from soine hospital or medical school for the purpose of creating the belier that Mrs. Juuness and her family had passed from existence. L.lt of Known Vletlum. Ilelgelein. Andrew, 0 years old. bachelor, Aberdeen, S. D. : suitor for Mrs. Gunnfss' hand, who came to La port e in January and disappeared one month later after loaning the woman $ 1 ,r00 ; body dug up to-day. Gunness, Jenn.'e Olson, 2 years old, adopted daughter of Mrs. fJunucss; disappeared in September, lfKX, ostensibly to attend school at Iah Angeles; body dug up to-day. Unidentified man, believed by Sheriff Smulzer to have been an admirer of the woman. Unidentified boy, apparently 8 year3 old ; mutilated body in gunnysack. Unidentified girl, about 7 years old; mutilated body in gunnysack. Gunness, Joseph, husband of Mrs. Gunness, whose death at Laporte four years ago had always remained a mystery, Sorenson, Mads, woman's first husband, who died under mysterious circumstances in Chicago eight years ago. Gunness, Mrs. Bella, believed to have been burned to death in fire which destroyed her home. Sorenson, Myrtle, 11 years old, eldest daughter of Mrs. Gunness; thought to have perished in the fire. Sorenson, Lucy, 9 years old, another daughter; also believed to have been a victim of the fire. Gunness, Philip, 5 years old, youngest child; said to have been killed in the fire. Lindblom, Olaf, 35 years old, of Wisconsin ; employed by Mrs. Gunness on the farm. When he disappeared Mrs. Gunness gave it out that he had gone to Norway. Verhalt, Eric, 40 years eld, of Wisconsin ; worked five months for Mrs. Gunness, then he disappeared. Man from Ohio, 50 years old, name not learned; worked on the farm and owned a horse and buggy. Disappeared and Mrs. Gunness fell heir to the horse and buggy. In the arrest of Ray Lamphere, a former servant of the woman, Sheriff Smulzer believes, some light may be thrown upon the circumstances surrounding the deaths of at leas: some of the victims. Lamphere before the fire had trouble with Mrs. Gunness. He bad declared about town she was trying to "get rid" of him because he kne.r too much. He has told several conflicting stories concerning his relations with the woman and his presence In the neighborhood of the Gunness home the night it burned. The discovery of the bodies led expressmen to tell of the delivery of five trunks to the Gunness farm during the last six months. This fact has caused the authorities to incline to the theory i that the place may have been a "clearing-house" for murders. They suspect that wealthy persons, after being lured to Chicago and killed, may have been packed into these trunks, sent to Laporte and disposed of there. Lamphere In his cell declared Ms. Gunness frequently asked him to buy poison for her. She wanted chloroform, he said.

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Mads Albert Sorensen. Austin. 111., dies mysteriously (11MXV). His widow collects .$S.."J insurance. Candv store at Elizabeth street and Grand avenue, Chicago, owned by Sorens ns, burns. Insured. Two ieeuliar fires in Austin I.Jine. In surance collected. Widow marries Joe Gunness. Moves to Laporte farm. Adopts Jennie Olsen. Günnes killed lfM4 ) . Widow says meat cleaver fell on his head. Collects S3.."im insurance. Ray Lamphere goes to work for Mrs. Gunness as hired man. Widow sets dogs on visitors. Neighbors see lanterns on farm at 2 a. m. Jennie Olsen disappears. Real parents are told she is in Los Angeles school, but can not find her (1000). Andrew Ilelgelein, Aberdeen (S. R.), answers matrimonial ad. and arrives at Laiort farm. Ians Mrs. Gunness $1,5m. Disappears with like amount in pocket. Widow says he went to Norway. Mrs. Gunness (1007 tells sheriff strange man killed a child in woods tear farm. Sheriff finds only empty grave. Ray Lamphere arrested for annoying Mrs. Gunness. , Widow tells lawyer (April 2.1) that Lamphere intends to kill her. Draws up will Home burns April 20. Rodies of three children and headless woman found in ruins. Lamphere arrested in hollow tree, hiding. 1 V . 3 GÜNNES v . . i- ' MLLE May r, A. K. Ilelgelein finds body of brother buried near house. Jennie Olsen's bdy also found. Nine unidentified bodies of men and c'.rldren are found, buried near house. M- -it bodies lie on mattresses under four fet of earth. May 0, Joe Maxson, farm hand, tells police he dug- holes on orders of Mrs. Gunness, but never filled them. Expressmen tell police of mysterious arrival at farm of many big trunks. Four of the bodies were found buried in a refuse pile about l."0 feet from the house, while another lxdy was du;? within a few feet of the ruined home. It is the opinion of Coroner Ma ok and physicians who examined the bodies that they were burned after death. Ilelgelein was easily identified by his brother, although the remains had been badly mutilated. The body of the other man shows a red mustache. The discovery of the bodies primarily was due to the efforts of Mr. Ilelgelein, of Mansfield, S. D., brother of Andrew. The former had known of his brother's correspondence with Mrs. Gunness and of the latter's trip to La Porte. When the brother arrived in Laporte he demanded a thorough search of the Gunness' premises. Two weeks ago he had been informed in a letter written by Mrs. Gunness that his brother had gone to Norway. Mrs. Arthur Olander, 2818 South Park avenue, Chicago, sister of Jennie Olson Gunness, also spent two days in Laporte following the fire searching the ruins in quest of the girl. The theory now is advanced that Jennie knew too much concerning the death of Mrs. Gunness' second husband, who succumbed to wounds received from a meat chopper four years ago. Mrs. Günne Matrimonial Ad. Personal Comely widow, who owns large farm in one of the finest districts in La Porte county, Indiana, desires to make the acquaintance of gentleman equally well provided, with views of joining fortunes. No replies by letter considered unless sender is willing to follow answer with personal visit. INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS. An ice cream factory is the latest addition to the American plant in the Panama canal zone. President Castro of Venezuela has ordered the port of La Guayra closed because of three deaths and twelve cases of a mysterious tubercular fever there. The department of municipal engineering at Washington is planning a complete Rystem of macadam roads for the canal zone and work is being pushed forward rapidly. In the vicinity of Panama there have been constructed since American occupation about eight miles of macadam roads. ' The largest single Easter church offering in New York was $irS,000 at Grace church. It included a $10,000 memorial fund, to be used for endowment of a home for aged rnea. Half a hundred survivors practically all there are left of the Ninth New York volunteers, more commonly known as Hawkins' Zouaves, held their annual reunion at the Hotel Astor, New York. Gen. Vigy, with a column of 4,."00 men, is making a demonstration in th Ainchair region of Algeria to suppress antiFrench fanaticism which exists among the Derber and eastern Moorish tribesmen.

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'JOSEPH WHISKY TO BE DETINED. Judicial Determination of Ingredients Expected as Result of Suit. After months of preliminary skirmishing between the government and the whisky nianufactrrers, the public is alnut to ascertain just what constitutes real whisky. A test case has been started, a leading distillery having filed its answer to a suit begun by the Department of Justice, according to prearrangement. The question of what really Is whisky has been a thorn in the side of the pure food law since its enactment. The President was appealed to, but he did not know and passed the problem along to the Attorney General for a decision. Mr. Ronaparte sat up late many nights and evolved a schedule. This did not suit the manufacturers. ,Tbe Attorney General decided that whisky was whisky; that a mixture of two whiskies was a blend; that a mixture of whisky with neutral spirits was a com ound, and could be termed a blend, and that .neutral spirits, doctored and colored, must be called imitation whisky. In his opinion these essential facts should appear on the labels of bottles. Over he Alp br Water. II. G. Hunting reports in the Technical World Magazine how an Italian engineer named Caminada has undertaken to transIort freight across the Alps from Genoa to Rasel by a novel system of water tubes linking the Mediterranean with the Raltic and North seas. The tubes are to be constructed in pairs parallel at inclines corresponding to the natural contour of the land with open water levels at convenient intervals. Water derived from the mountain streams and lakes will be used to fill the tubes while gates at each water level so control the inflow and outflow that whila the water is rising as one of the parallel tubes is filling up the otljer tube is emptying into it. Thus a boat floated into the upper end of one of the tubes passes down the incline to the lower end, as the water level falls and at the same time this water, let into the twin tube may lift another boat from the lower end of the incline to the higher. The boat, both in rising and descending, is kept at a proper depth of water by two running sheaves, placed upon the prow and below the stern respectively, which will guide the boat on its way with two rails fixed longitudinally on top and bottom of tb,e lock, springs being provided to avoid shocks. Because, they allege, they have been fed on too monotonous a diet of rough roast beef and butter of more than ordinary strength, six young internes of the Long Island (N. Y.) college hospital have quit that institution, leaving only two to do the work. Oscar Ilammerstein will produce "Salome" at the Manhattan opera house in New York next season, with Richard Strauss, the author, as conductor, and Miss Mary Garden, both singing and dancing the title role, according to a dispatch from Rerlin, Germany. Tue explosion of a bomb, which wrecked the home of William Scheneck In East Oakland, Cal., is supposed to have been an attempt to kill his brother-in-law, J. Li. Gallagher, former supervisor in San Francisco, one of the chjef witnesses for the prosecution in the bribery cases.

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CHICAGO. Heavy May settlements and interest disbursements account for a largely increased volume of payments through the banks, while commercial defaults sustain their recent high average. The business; situation generally presents no siecial development, production and distribution in the leading industries reflecting but little departure from conservative policies pending a clearly defined revival in demands. Unusually wet weather hinders seasonable activity in leading retail lines, construction and farm work, but encouragement is derived from further favorable reiorts as to winter wheat growth and the promising outlook in agriculture. Crop marketings run short of those a year ago. and there is smaller outgo of breadstuffs from tihis market, although operations in the May deliveries apear on a heavy scale and prices have risen to the highest average this season. Money is quoted lower and choice conmercial paper commands the easiest rare in several years. Offerings of desirable discounts, however, remain extremely licht, the best borrowers being in position to dispense' with customary accommodation. More investment is seen in real estate and improvements, and better demand strengthens the market for highgrade bonds, but sales of locul securities are of smaller volume than at this time last year, with values moving irregularly, although averaging above those of a month ago. Rank deposits here and at interior points show steady gain, but some complaint is noted as to the inability to find adtKjuate employment cf surplus funds. Freight movements compare unfavorably with the corresjKjnding period of last year, there leing continued falling off in heavy materials forwarded. Iron and steel returns disclast- little headway in outputs over recent low figures. Quarry products, builders hardware, cement and plumbing materials reflect wider absorption, and there is more demand for some hard woods. Failures reported in the Chicago district numW .'HI, against CO last week and 1! a year ago. Those with Habilitier) over $.,Oi0 number !. against J) last week and 1 in 1!07. Dun's Review, of Trade. f NEW YORK. Weather, trade and industrial conditions are little changed from last week, and farm work, retail and jobbing business and the movement of old crops to market have loon restricted by heavy rains, low temperatures or bad roads. The only not.ible exceptions to this are found in the Pacific coast and at a few southwestern centers. Reports from the leading industries are still of great quiet. Manufacturers feel the lack of confident buying by joblers and wholesalers, who, in turn. ' reiort final distributers cautious in buying only what they need to replenish broken stocks. The textile trades are dull and on short time, but cotton goods men are more confident that lotto:n prices have been reached. The iron and sted industries show little change.' The leather trade is rather quieter and eastern s'joe shipments arj VA) per cent off from RKiT. Collections are still backward as a whole. Rusiness failures in the United States for the week ending May 7 number against 2S2 last week, l.4 in the like week of 1C2 in 1!MH'. l.,S in V.MC, and '201 in 11)01. Canadian business failures for the week number 2"J, which compares with '22 last week and 18 in this week of l'J07. Rradstreet's Commercial Report. 3SB mi Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $t.(N to ?7.:(); hogs, prime heavy, $4.(10 to $.".(V; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $.j.7."; wheat. No. 2. $1.TJ to $1.0."; corn. No. 2, 72c to 7-lc: oats, standard, r."c to Öde; rye. No. 2. S(c to 81c; hay. timothy. $U...0 to $1'..V; prairie, $8.00 to ? Ki.r0 ; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 2.V; eggs, fresh. 11c to l.'o; iotatoes, per bushel, !.")c to 7Se. Indianajolis Cattle, shipping, $o.00 to $7.00; hogs, roikI to choice heavy, $0.00 to $0.70; sheep, common to prime, $:.00 to $."J0; wheat. No. 2. !i9c to $1.00; corn, No. 2 white, tic to trc; oats No. 2 white, ."ilc to o2e. St. Louis Cattle, $4..V to $7.1."; hogs, $4.O0 to $T,.l50; sheep, $.,.0o to $;.2Ö ; wheat, No. 2, $1.02 to $1.03; corn. No. 2, 72c to 7.'ic; oats. No. 2, 49c to öOc; rye. No. 2, 7tc to SOc. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, $4.00 to $n..NO; sheep. ?.3.M to $.".00; wheat. No. 2, $1.03 to $1.01 ; corn. No. 2 mixed, (2)c to 71c; oats. No. 2 mixed, oOc to öle ; rye, No. 2, S2c to Sic. IVtroit Cattle, $4.00 to $ij.50; hogs, $4.00 to $.i.M): sheep, $2.oO to $0.00: wheat, No. 2. $1.01 to $1.02; corn. No. 3 yellow, 71c to 72c; oats. No. 3 white, 53c to 4c: rye, No. 2, Sßc to S7c. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $7.15; hogs. $3.."i0 to $0.10; sheep. $3.00 to $o.o0; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.07 to $1.08; corn, No. 2, 73c to 74c; oats, natural white, 58c to .10e; butter, creamery, 23c to 2'c; eggs, western, 13c to 17c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.00 to $1.11; corn. No. 3, 72c to 73c; oats, standard, 50c to 50c; rye. No. 1, 81c to 82c; barley, No. 2, 74c to 75c; pork, mess, $13.35. Ruffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.O0 to $7.00; hots, fair to choice, $4.00 to $.5.10; sheep, cvmtnon to good mixed. $1.00 to $.7o-; Lrnbs, fair to rihoice, $5.00 to $7.85. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.00 to $1.01; corn. No. 2 mixed, 00c to 70c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2, 81c to 8,'le; clover seed, prime, $13.00. CURRENT NEWS NOTES. Ruildings on Adelaide street, Toronto, Ont., were burned. Losses : Jones & Moore, $! 10.000: J. J. Zook, $00.000; Canadian Silk Com pan 3', $50,000. At a meeting of advocates of Esperanto in Pittsburg it Was said that 1,000,OOO now are studying the new language, "which means a world's jeace." : Mrs. Rorman Wells, the English woman suffrage speaker, has complained to the New York jwlice tliat she was brutally treated while attempting to address a meeting at Harlem. LaGuaira. Venezuela, is completely isolated because of a decree closing that iort for fifteen days. The fatal disease there is spreading rapidlj but the government will not admit it to be tHie bulonic plague. John J. Taylor, convicted of seconddegree murder for killing his wife at Coal Rasin, Colo., last August and sentenced to twenty 3'ears in the penitentiary, cheated the court order by hanging himself in his cell. Investigation by the naval department shows that tattooing is decreasing among savages, where it originated, and increasing in general. Alout GO per cent of seamen who have served ten years axe tattooed.

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46 WARSHIPS IN LINE i Million Persons See Evans Lead Biggest Modern Squadron Into Port. SEC. METCALF BEVIEWS CKAFT Combined Atlantic and Pacific Vessels Enter as Guns Boom and Carnival Begins. Saluted by the guns of the Tresidio, cheered, by scores of thousands of men and women, greeted by the blasts of countless whistles, .the Atlantic fleet swept into the harbor of San Francisco shortly after noon Wednesday. Four months and twenty days out from Hampton Roads, the fleet thus successfully completed the first leg of the round-the-world cruh;e. The demonstration with which the fleet was welcomed was one of the most noteworthy which has ever occurred on the Pacific coast. Every hill, tall building, army reservation, park space, coastal precipice and wharf surrounding the Golden Gate and the shores of the spacious bay was massed black with people whose voices rose in roar after roar of cheering. It is eski? .ated that at least a million onlookers were gathered to watch the fleet's entry. The harbor itself was jammed with excursion steamers, sailing vessels, yachts, rowboats and miscellaneous craft, all gay with flags and each giving vociferous greeting by whistle or by the hurrahing of its crew. From the city proper came the chiming of all San Francisco's bells, while 1 above IHhe c; above the whole outburst of acclaim annou of the Presidio boomed slowly the salute of the American navy to the American navy. The navy meanwhile ollicially welcomed the navy through Secretary Met calf, whose white-anchored, four-starred blue flag flittered from the gunboat Yorktown. The marine picturo afforded by the chips was one beautiful in the extreme. In all there were forty-six vessels in the line which threaded Its way up the harbor. The Atlantic fleet of sixteen battleships and six destroyers, whicL bad made the voyage from Hampton Roads, held, of courwo, the place of honor. With them were the eight supply boats and tenders which had also made the 14,000-mile eruise. As an escort for these thirty ships steamed the nine armored cruisers and five destroyers ot the Pacific tlee-t, as well as the battleships Wisconsin and Nebraska, which joined the Atlantic fleet there for the remainder of the cruise around the world. KvniiH L.eatl Proceion. At the head of this formidable fleet steamed Admiral Evans' flagship, the Connecticut. The admiral stood on the after bridge of that famous flagship as she led the way through the. harbor gate. After the flagship there followed at equal distances and in single column the seven other vessels of the first squadron, the Kansas, Vermont, Louisiana, Georgia. New Jersey, Rhode Island and Virginia, with the new recruit to the Atlantic fleet, the Nebraska. After the first squadron sailed the two divisions of the set-ond, the flagship Minnesota, with Rear Admiral Thomas on the bridge, and the Ohio, Missouri, Maine, Alabama, Illinois, Kearsarge and Kentucky, with the other newcomer, the Wisconsin. After these t ighte.i battleships came the six destroyers of the Atlantic fleet, the vessels of the Pacific fleet and the supply boats and tenders of Admiral Evans' command. The ships as they Failed into the bay were dressed only at the nristheads, big American flags flying at fore and after trucks and at the peak of the gaffs. The blue flag of Admiral Evans on the Connecticut was followed by the red flags of six subordinate rear admirals, even Admiral Dayton himself pulling down his blue flag as commander in chief of the Pacific fleet and feubstltutlng the red ensign. Pressing to anchor, the ships steamed in review before Secretary Metcalf, the Connecticut liring a salute of seventeen guns. When the last of the ships had swung Into four long anchorage columns a signal " from the flagship sent the fluttering lines of multi-hued flas flying to the mastheads, and the ships were at full dress during the remainder of the afternoon. ALL ABOUND THE GLOBE. The agricultural appropriation b.dl carries a total of $11,518,S00. Gov. Sheldon of' Nebraska received at Lincoln a government warrant for $5,227 for the officers of the Third Nebraska regiment which Col. W. J. Rryan commanded in the war with Spain. Nora May French's poem, "Suicide, claimed a third victim in New York when Rossale Peck pulled a pistol trigger and sent a bullet into his heart as he lay on & bench in Prospect Park, Ilrooklyn. Wallace II. Ham, ex-treasurer of St. Paul's Episcopal church of Roston, Mass., who was serving a sentence in the Massachusetts State prison of fifteen to twenty years for the larceny of $214,000, died. The legislative committee of the Minnesota Automobile Association proposes that a tax of from $10 to $20 be levied by the State on each machine and the proceeds applied to building good roads. Charging desertion, William Cooke, husband of ('race MacGowan Cooke, authoress, filed suit for absolute divorce at Chattanooga, Tenn. Sixteen beet sugar factories in Michigan in PJ07 produced l(l,OfK),000 pounds of sugar. Nine thousand four hundred acres were planted to beets last year anf farmers received $4,500,000 for their crops. In parts of North Dakota, where wheat has been almost the only market crop for years, the farmers this year are turning to oats and barley. In northwestern Minnesota, on the other land, the acreage of wheat will be increased. W. J. Riggins of Columbia, Tenn., replevined his wife, formerly Ada Templeton, from her parents, according to a dispatch received from Chattanooga, Tenn., and when required to give bond for twice her value fixed the valuation at $10. The government pumping stition at Garden City, Kan., has been started. The plant is the first of its kind. It consists of a central power station, 300 wells located in groups of ten, each with its awn pump and concrete conduit, which lischarges into the main canal. The plant will supply 11.000,000 gallons, or 30.-300-acre feet of water to the farmers :anal during the season, irrigating 8,ti00 teres this season.

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OLD LINCOLN BZCORD FOUITD. Entry Shown Father United with Cbnrch In Indiana In An old record of great interest to the people of Fort R ranch was. unearthed the other day by Elder Archie Urown. The record is in the form of a book which contains the minutes of the Primi tive Raptist church of Pigeon. Warrick county, in what was then the territory of Indiana. The first entry in the book was made in 1S1C, and regular accounts of the more important events of the church and congregation are given for a period of nearly thirty years. In one of the entries, made in the month of Jane, 1S23, Thomas Lincoln and his wife ere shown to have united with the church. the first-named by letter and the latter on profession of faith, or "experience,! as it is given in the book. Thomas Lins coin was the father of Abraham Lincoln, and his wife was the stepmother of the futu:e President. HERMIT'S EODY IDENTIFIED. Ilendleaa Form Found !Year Gary. that of Furnier. The headless body of a man found ini the woods six miles from Gary was idf-n tified as that of Joseph Schneider. 0$ years old, who disappeared from Lak station April 3. The skull was foundj U: t a. i mL iuiriy icei away in some uusnes. . i necoroner based a verdict of suicide on thi fact that a boftle that had contained chloroform was found beside the body. Thomas Peterson, a contractor of Ixikc station, was looking over a piece of pro: erty when he stumbled on the body. E--ery bit of flesh had been eaten from the head by wild crestures. In a inxlet of the dead man's coat was found an old book in which his name was ir.sTlfK'd.Schneider Lad lived alone for several yeari in a cabin in Lake station. He formerly! was a farmer, and is supposed to have had some money. His son, Philip Schneider, now runs the farm. COLLEGE HEAD'S "WIFE .GCSE. Pre. iV. E. Slone of Pnrdae University Abandoned ly Helpmeet. Mrs. Winthrop E. Stone, wife jf the president of Purdue university, Las gone to Germany to join a religious colony of the freak kind. Mrs. Stone several months ago, after some differences with her husband on religious matters, departed for her former home near Rerlin. For some time before the separation Mrs. Stone became a convert to theosopby and stranger religious beliefs. Reforc she left for Germany, she said that after many years of married life she discovered that Dr. Stone and she were not in sympathy. Dr. Stone, who is living with his two sons, aged IS and 15 years, loth students of the university, was too deeply affected over his wife's desertion to discuss his domestic troubles. He taies theposition that Mrs. Stone is mentally irresponsible. WINDOW EltOKLN WITH BRICK. Hammond Store Itottlted und Pollee Put on LooLnnt, Jewelry valued at $2.000, consisting of a large tray of diamond rings, was stolen froci a display window in the slore of Dexter & McKay of Hammond, and the police of surrounding towns have Ix-'n notified. A brick was thrown through the winJow and a man reached his hand through the broken glass and seized the jewelry. The police of the South Chicago station were notified to look out for the roblx-rs, the one seen by one of the clerks in the store being described as .15 years old, 5 feet 11 inches tall, and wearing a gray suit. !(nlli(on n Store Damaitrd by Fire Fire did considerable damage to the dry goods fifore of J. P. Charles & Co. in Knightstown. The fire ttarted in the rear of the si ore. Firemen worked hard to save the building. The large stock of dry goods was ruined by water. Fal tn Death front Window, Herbert II. Edward.?, a prominent Mason and Republican politician, fell from a second-story window of his room in Redford, dying shortly after being found. He evidently had been sitting in the window. Find Hutband Dead In Bed. ( On awaking on a recent morning Mrs. Jacob Lawr of Wabash found her husaand dead at her side. He had apparently been in perfect health when he retired. Farmer Die of Iii Injnrlea. R. N. Parsley, fanner, 42 years old. of Ediuburg, while cutting stalks in a field, was injured by his team running away, dying the next day. AMONG OTJT& NEIG HBO KS. Fire at Richmond caused $2.",000 damage to the property of the Simon Wagner & Cook Hat Company. Othfr firms lose $5,000. Willie Eckstein, 14 years old. picked up in the streets of Salt Lake City four years ago as a waif, and cared for by Judge Willis Brown of Anderson, is probably heir to a share of a larg estate In Russia by the death of a relative at Odessa. Judge Rrown, in charge of the boys' city at Winona Lake,- ha.9 gone to New York with the lad, where it is thought his right as an heir can be established. Robert Parker, owner of the private bank at Remington, which failed Dec 19, pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was sentenced to prison for from two to fourteen years. He was taken to the State prison at Michigan City. A. N. Canine, CO years old, who was brought to Lebanon from Thorn! own and committed to jail, awaiting transfer to the insane hospital, killed himself in the hospital department of the county jail. He tore a Ktrip from his blanket, fastened one end to ühe cell grating and the other around his neck, and, leaning forward, strangled himself. "Foxy" Morris, infielder on the Decatur, 111., baseball nine, in the Throe-I Deague, raced with death to Evansville and lost. He received word that his little child was dyina and he took the first train at Decatur, arriving in Evacsville a few minutes after his loved one had passed away. Ex-Sheriff J. W. Stillwell of Winslw, who disappeared recently, taking with him $SO,Oi0 in cash, has ben su by his wife, Alice, for divorce, ftr abandonment, and $5.KM) alimony is asked. Abijah Humphrey brought suit asrainst Stillwell for $.10,000 damages for alienating his wife's affections. Toll Carey of Albany has been arrested on the supjKsition that he may be a wife murderer. It is alleged that he went borne intoxicated, knocked his wife down and kicked her in the abdomen so that she may not recover. Her injuries are internal. Mrs. Ella La Toine, an Indian woman, indicted for prertrditated murder in the killing of Mrs. Florence Resaoeon, in July, 1007, after the charge had been changed to voluntary manslaughter, entered a plea of guilty in Hart-ford City and was sentenced for from two to twenty-one years in the womct'g prison. Roth women were infatuated with the same man, and jealousy ir:ited tfit murder.