Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 34, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 May 1908 — Page 2

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CN. JLTv F. Q.F. M. (T L. Q. lSth. V 13thAy22ncl. 2'Jth. PAST AND .PßESEXT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Teleerapbic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlichtentuent of the Many Three Killed in Trolley Wreck. Three persons were instantly killed and at least five others were so badly Injured that there is no hope for recovery, and twenty-five were seriously hurt in a collision between trolley cars on Germantown avenue near Chestnut Hill, a suburb within the northern section of Philadelphia, Pa. The only body thus far identified is that of Mrs. Geo. Wagner, aged 65 years, of Cornwall, Pa. The bodies of an unidentified vornan, about CO years of are, and an unidentified nrn ab.rat G3 y.ars old, are in a hospital near the sceac of the accident. Forty-five persons were taken to the Chestnut Hill and Germantown hospitals, each of which is several miles from the scene of the accident. Mtny were taken away in automobiles by the wealthy residents of the exclusive Chestnut Hill district. They were treated by private physicians and in consequence absolute details as to the Injured cannot be obtained. Among those who were seriously injured were George Wagner, whose wife was killed; Alexander McKay, aged 43 years, who has a wooden leg. The artificial member was jammed up into the body and he cannot live, It is saul. The accident wa3 caused by a car running north jumping the track while going down a steep grade not far from Chestnut Hill. The car swung across the south-bound track and was struck by a car on that track. Poth cars were filled with paäsengers. Absolute Divorce for Mrs. Vanderbilt. Mrs. Ellen French Vanderbilt was granted an interlocutory decree of diTorce from Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt by Justice O'Gomran, in the Supreme Court at Xew York City, on the report of David McClure, the referee "who was appointed to take testimony and determine the findings in the suit Instituted by Mrs. Vanderbilt. Jusiice O'Gorman confirmed the report of the referee that Mr. Vanderbilt had been guilty of misconduct and directed that Mrs. Vanderbilt be granted a judgment of absolute divorce. The divorce decree provides that Mrs. Vanderbilt may marry during the lifetime of Mr. Vanderbilt, but prevents him marrying during her lifetime. The custody of William H. Vanderbilt, the only child of the marriage, was awarded to Mrs. Vanderbilt. No provision was made for aliomny in the decree nor was the subject alluded to in the report of Referee McClure. 170,000 Men Accept Wage Cut. The new wage agreement between the cotton manufacturers of Fall River, Mass., and the Textile Council, which will be in force until next November, has become effective. Under the agreement the 25,000 operatives accept a wage reduction f 17.94 per cent. The mil's have been running on short time foi several months, but It is ex pected 'hat the production will be increased considerably next month. The cut in Fall River swells the number of cotton operatives In New England whose wages have been reduced thi3 spring to about 170,000. Mae Wood Released. Mae C. Wood, charged with perjury in connection with the prosecution of her divorce suit against Senator Thomas C. Piatt, ha3 been released by Supreme Court Justice Greenbaum under $5,000 bail. The bond was signed by the American Surety Company. The worn 'in refused to make any statement. Through whose Influence the bond was secured no one connected with the case will say. Ate Wild Strawberries and Died. Stephen S. Pierce, 35 years old, of Garnett, Kns., but formerly of Hagerstown, Ind met wHh a mysterious death. Together with his wife he visited his farm near Hagerstown, Ind., where he ate wild strawberries. He was taken sick immediately, dying In half an hour. He was the son of Isaac A. Pierce, former County CommisEioner. Apparent Plot to Blow Up Bank. It is believed that a plot to blow up one c f the Vevay, Ind., banks has been unearthed by the authorities. Twentytwo sticks of dynamite have befen discovered, and the supposed ringleaders have been captured. Famous Comedian Dead. Peter F. Dailey, one of the best known comedians in the United States, died at Chicago Sunday. He had been sick for about a week. Woman Convicted of Murder. Mrs. Ann Da!: ringer, charged with the tnurd-T of her husband, T'loaded guilty in Sharon, Pa., to murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to serve eight years in the penitentiary. The woman is alleged to have shot her husband te obtain $13.000 life insurance. Maniac Attacks Prie3t. A maniac attacked Rev. Father Joseph F. Labeley as the latter completed the celebration of mass in a Roman Catholic celebration of mass in a Roman Catholic church at Salisbury, Mo., and inflicted injuries that may prove fatal. Peculiar Oklahoma legislation. The graduated land tax bill, which by excessive taxation seeks to pi event the owning of more than 040 acres by one person in Oklahoma, has been passed and sent to the Governor. The income tax and inheritance tax bills are ia the Governor's hands also. One Dead; Four Hurt in "Wreck. The second section of Southern Pacific train No. 10, known as the Oregon express, was wrecked at Pinole, Cal. Express Messenger Cummings was killed and four persons were injured. Two injured trainmen are not expected to live.

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0n3 Giant Craft Wrecked at Berkeley and Another at Toledo. Three hundred feet above a crowd of U.(iO souls, gay one moment, dum! with horror the next and then screaming in panic, the huge Morrell airship tipped, split and exploded at Berkeley, Cal.. Saturday morning, tumbling from its flight like a bullet-striekon bird and dashing Its human freight to the earth. In tho f tokening plunge downward one of the miracles that sometimes shaiio men's destinies occurred and no one was killed outright. All of the sixteen bold passengers, however, including the inventor, John Morrell, were seriously crushed and mangled. The torpedo-shaiK'd hydrogen bag was 450 feet long and thirty-six feet in diameter. Below this hung six stripied automobile engines which are tended from a running board. Aeroplanes were also exacted to add to the ship's dirigibility. The machine rose eascily to its greatest height and then suddenly the giant gas bag, containing 32.00O cubic feet of illuminating gas. burst. The machine began to settle slowly as the gas escaix'd. and it apieared that it would settle to the ground without injuring the occupants of the car. When it had reached within seventy-live feet of the ground the remaining gas was let out with a rush, and the whole machine, thousands of pounds in weight, dashed lo the ground with a terrific force. The occupants of the car were caugnT under the heavy machine and all seriously Injured. Among the thousands watching the ascent were many women, and as the big machine collapsed and dashed to the ground scores of them fainted. Captain Mori ell, the Inventor of the airship, was picked up and rushed to tie hospital. Ills leg was broken and h-? was thought to have sustained internal injuries. The inventor of, the airship had made claims for the dirigibility and lifting jtower of his air monster and had advertised its adaptability for commercial use. Falling In their disabled airship a distance of more than 1,000 feet into the center field bleachers of Armory Park, A. Roy Knabenshue and his two assistants, Hess and Hamilton, barely escaped death at Toledo, O., Saturday afternoon because the owerful engine that drives the ship suddenly stopped and refused to start again. Seeing that the drop was inevitable, Knabenshue threw out all ballast, tossed over the drag roies, and, resuming his Kat in his basket, awaited the crash he knew must come. THAW TO STAY IN ASYLUM. Justice Morschauser Denies Application to Eelea-e White's Slayer. Harry K. Thaw, the slayer of Stanford White, will not be released from the lunatic asylupi. This is the decision reached by Justice Morschauser of the New York Supreme Court, in a decision filed on Thaw's application for release on a writ of habeas corpus. Both points brought up by Thaw's attorneys are decided against him. The justice declares that Thaw is now insane and should not le allowed at large and he further declares that the commitment to the lunatic asylum by Justice Dowling after the last trial of the case was entirely legal. I am satisfied from the evidence adduced before me, says the justice, that the mental condition of Harry K. Thaw has not changed and I find that he is now insane and that it is so manifest as to nake it unsafe for him to be at liberty. . To review the voluminous evidence adduced on the hearing would unnecessarily lengthen this opinio). Thaw was committed pursuant of section 454 of the code of criminal procedure, which reads cs follows : "When the defense is insanity of the defendant the jury must be instructed, if they acquit him on that ground, to state the fact with their verdict. The court must, therefore, if the defendant be in custody, and they deem his discharge dangerous to the public peace or safety, order him to be committed to the State lunatic asylum until he becomes sane.' The question of the constitutionality of this law is assailed by the relator in that he claims there was no notice given to Thaw of a hearing upon the question of insanity, that no hearing was accorded to him, that he has been deprived of his liberty without due process of law, and that the statute under which he was committed does not provide a method by which his mental condition, as then existing, could be legally ascertained, or any method by which his sanity could be shown. The court holds that these contentions are not borne out and that Thaw was properly committed. NUBBINS OF FARM NEWS. The drouth in the Rio Grande valley of Texas has been broken and people are rejoicing. Several farmers in Oklahoma are losing cattle from a new disease and the State veterinarian has been asked to investigate. The condition of winter wheat on April 1 indicated a final yield of 403,808,000 bushels, according to the government crop report. At a Shorthorn cattle sale in Wisconsin recently forty-seven head sold at an average of $417. The top price of the sale was $2.750, paid for a 10-months-old bull calf. In order to protect the water sheds in the irrigation countries of the West the government will restrict grazing on the banks of streams supplying water for irrigation purposes. The Kansas Agricultural college has sent nine samples of seed corn to India, an assortment of grain to Russia, lesides smaller lots of, seeds to Australia and South America. Around American Fork, Utah, sheep shearing is on and sheepmen claim that the clip will be an average one. Contrary to other years, a good share of the wool is still unsold. According to the latest reports from northwestern farms, the acreage of flax is less than last year by -0 per cent. The acreage of durum wheat in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, is less than last year by 20 per cent. Spring wheat will show an increase of 5 to It) per cent. In the coarse grains corn will increase 10 per cent, barely 10 per cent, and there will 1 an increase of 15 per cent in the acreage of oats. Eastern fruit buyers returning from trips through the Yakima, Wenatchee, Prosser, Spokane and Columbia river and Snake river valleys, declare that unless the unusual happens the Spokane country should produce the best crop of diversified fruit from orchards to berries in its history. Reiorts from crop observers along the line of the Northwestern road state that with the exception of corn and flax, seeding was practically all done before the recent storm occurred and the prospects are fine. There is an increase of 15 per cent in what acreage over last year, 10 per cent in barley and 25 per cent each In oats and speltz.

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AT Meeting Place for 1909 Fixed by the Indiana Department, G. A. R. ALEXANDER IS COMMANDER. Bedford Man Chosen to Succeed W, A. Ketcham W. R. C. and L dies of G. Ä. R. Officers. Kokomo correspondence : The thirtieth annual encampment, Department of Indiana. Grand Army of the Republic, will be held at Crawfordsville. that city having leen selected at the business session of the encampment held here. At the last moment South Rend withdrew, and Torre Haute followed suit, leaving the way oien for Crawfordsville to be chosen by acclamation. The following officers wore elected: Department ronimander John l. Alex ander. T.eilfortJ. fculor Vice Commander Milton Hell, Kokomo. Junior Vice Commander V. E. (Jorsuea, South I'.end. Chaplain F. M. Klliott, Hammond. Metlual Director S. I. iSrown. Knox. Dei'ate-rft-large to National Encampment W. W. lfcuisherty. Indianapolis. Council of Administration Josonh I. Halleher. Willianisport : T. 1'.. YViüinson, Knislitstov.-n ; D. II. Miller, Franklin; V. 1'. M.v.-rs. Kendallvilic; J. I Miller, Jcffersonville. (ircnt Parade on Wednesday. Hardly had the last strains played by the bands in the grand- parade of veterans Wednesday afternoon died away before the encampment crowd began thinning out. The visitors left' the city in hundreds, hurrjing away on locals, lhuiteds ami sicclals, whichever offered the first opportunity. More than enough remained, however, to overflow the Alhambra and Grace church, where camp fires were held Thursday evening, and the city was for several hours longer host to hundreds of soldier guests and members of i'jo women's auxiliary organizations, the W. R. O. and Ladles of the (J. A. R. Most of those remaining were delegates who participated actively in the two business meetings Thursday. One of the meetings was for the section of telegates to the national encunpment at Toledo, which begins Sept. 1. The other was for the election tnd Installation of department officers and the transaction of general business. The W. R. C. and Indies of the G. A. R. also held their business meetings, settling up their affairs for the year and electing and installing officers. The W. R. C. elected Mrs. Anna Tucker of Noblesville, president, and Mrs. Laura Kalter of Kokomo, second vice president. The Ladies of the G. A. R. elected the following department otficors: President, Mrs. Pearl Wright, Logansport; senior vice president, Mrs. Emma Reach, Aurora ; junior vice president, .Mrs. Rebecca Hammel, Monticello; chaplain, Mrs. IL Graves, Lafayette; treasurer, Mrs. R. E. Ilollis, Washington ; secretary, Mrs. Etta L. Tobey, Logans port. Canipflrc Wre Enjoyahlr. The campfires Wednesday evening were presided over, reflectively, by Department Commander Ketcham and Judge Marsh of Winchester. In nearly all resiK'cts the two meetings were alike, and though they were enjoyed by the7 general public, they were particularly interesting to the veterans. The eampfires bitught an opportunity once more to talk over exierlenccs of camp and march ami battle, to tell the stories of soldier life, hear the old tunes of fife and drum and sing the old songs. The veterans lingered over their reminiscences until late at night and many of them protested when the meetings were adjourned. Kokomo ieople are greatly pleased with the approval expressed by practically all the visitors of the manner In which the encampment was entertained. Particularly gratifying to them Is the commendation of Department Commander Ketcham, who, in sneaking of the encampment's success, said: "It has leen a great encampment, one of the most enjoyable and successful the department has ever held. Practically everything has gone forward proierly and pleasantly, and the department officers can but view the encampment with satisfaction. The people of Kokomo have done splendidly, as I felt certain they would do from the hour they were given the encampment. They have proved that they are patriotic, and they have revealed that they are cordially hospitable. They have more than met the fondest exaltations of the department, and are entitled to Its gratitude." Quite So. "Julius Casar, young gentlemen,- reformed the calendar. What may we surmise from this?' "That he was a good iolItician and stuck to harmless issues," answered the class as one man. The Swift and the It ace. "The race is not alwaj's to the swift." "No," said Farmer Jinks, looking reminiscent, "hut the swift is 'most always to the races." IIaricr's Weekly. Iladly ExpreRcd. Clergyman You can, however, comfort yourself with the thought that you made your husband happy while he lived. Widow Yes, indeed! Dear Jack was in heaven until he died. Judge. Th .Natural Tendency. "There is one thing I don't like about automohilists." What is that?" "They have such a tendency to run down other iMi.ple." P.altimore American. Not lluatlintf Much. "So Lazenhej Isn't employed at jour place any more?" "No, he's his own boss now." "Ah, bis work is easy then. I piu pose " "As easy as be can make it. He's looking for a job." Philadelphia Press. Aildn Zent. "Honest, now, do you really enjoy competition?" "Yes, indeed. You see, I advertise, and I'm getting about all the biz." Washington Herald.

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MAB WOOD PIATT WINS SUIT. Mae Vood Is Committed for Perjury in Divorce Case. Mae C. Wood's divorce suit against Senator Thomas C- Vlatt was dismissed by Justice O'Gorman in the New York Supreme Court Thursday afternoon and immediately afterward the justice committed Mrs. Wood to the Tombs in default of $.",000 bail on a charge of perjury. This startling end to the case was no less sudden than sensational. The taking of evidence over, Justice O'Gorman had asked her a few questions concerning her claims and had then listened to a short address by her counsel in opposition to a motion to dismiss the suit on the pleadings and evidence. The lawyer's apologetic argument ended. Justice O'Gorman leaned forward in his chair and delivered himself of this short but iositIvc opinion : The court cannot credit the plaintiff's evidence as to the alleged marriape, and the testimony in the case impresses the court wirh the belief that it is a most wicked design to support a fictitious claim by ftrjrery and perjury. The court cannot believe from the evidence that there ever was a marriage. On the merits of tin ease every issue Jias resulted in the court's impression that the plaintiff ha committed willful perjury in this case. Reing impressed with plaintiff's guilt of perjury, the court commits her to the city prison unless she furnishes bail in $.VXM. Delivered with all the impresslvepess that goes with a black silk gown and a judicial position, these words fell like thunderbolts on the Wood camp. The case was one of the most remarkable suits ever to come np in New York City. A United Stf.tes Senator, a feeble man of 73 years, the president of the United States Express Company, a grandfather, the father of adult sons, the husband of a second w'.fe whom he married five years ago suh a man being sued for divorce by a woman who claims to have secretly married him nearly seven years ago. The woman who brought this astounding action is Mr?. Mae C. Wood, or Woxl-PIatt, as she calls herself. The defendant was Thomas Collier Piatt, for decades the political boss of the great State of New York and now representing that commonwealth in the upper house of Congress for the third time. Mrs. Wood, who was herself divorced by Allert Wood years ago, began her suit for a divorce from Senator Piatt on the ground of his marriage to Mrs. Janeway, and It was the trial of this suit that resulted In her commitment to jail as a ierjurer. The two most ImK)rtaut links in her chain, the marriage certificate and the "confession," were made her own worst accusers when the defense finally displayed its hand. Months of patient detective work, weeks of microscopic study by handwriting exierts, and day after day of testimony taken by dejKsitlou in various cities and States, demolished the careful iy built fabric of evidence Mrs. Wood had prepared. The marriage certificate was traced to the stationers who sold It; from them to the lithographers who printed it. It was shown conclusively that this certificate, purporting to have loen drawn on Nov. 9, 1001, was not printed until 1002. The other link In Mrs. Wood's chain, the "confession," in which Piatt was made to acknowledge her as bis wife, seemed to almost cry out for Itself that it was on impudent fraud. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. The- Continental Express Company, through which the Chicago, St. Paul and Milwaukee road is to operate its own I ress business, has fdd articles of incorporation in the States where IhU -s required. A party of surveyors is completing the survey of the Huron Gas and Electric railway between Huron and Aberdeen. Cio-k & Mack of MinneaioIis have the contract for this work, and will begin at a point near lklan, in Spink county, where the work was abandoned last fall, and continue the line to Alerdeen. A labor colony, removed from the influence of walking delegates by a ten-foot fence, is tteing established by the Corn Products Company on the banks of the drainage canal near Summit. The ?t,N),xiO new plant of the company is to be completed with non-union lalor. To avoid interference by walking delegates from the city, cottages have been built inside the enclosure. Dynamite was used in an attempt to blow !'p the home of Charles Girchner, a non-union woodworker, in Chicago. No one of the seven occupants was hurt, but the windows in the front of the cottage were shattered and the stairs leading to the front door were reduced to splintets by the force of the explosion. Kirchner bad left the union and joined a rival organization. Daniel Frohman, president of the Actors' Fund of America, which held its annual meeting in New York, told those assembled that the fund, in its twentyseven years of existence, had disbursed more than $l,0m.0 to the needy, bat that the last year showed a deficit of Fire in Holliday, Read & Sons' chemical works, New York, caused damage to the extent of $50,000.

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ATJKATOk? T.C.1LATT HOMES FOR POOR MEN. Eary to Acquire Under the Operation of the "Carey Act." For. the poor man the government has provided a plan under which land can be homesteaded at practically no cost. For the man who can arrange to pay a small sum each year in 10 annual installments there are great projects that have Itoen undertaken by the United States reclamation service. Rut there Is another large class of those who wish to own a small section of ground that they can call their own, and this class is "oniiKsed of uion who cannot afford to drop all of ther present affairs and take up their residence for five years in a new country, as would be necessary If they either acquired a homestead on the prairie or obtain land that Is irrigated by the government. For all such there is what is known as the "Carey act" lands. The Carey act provides for the segregation of LCGO.OUO acres of arid laud in a State. This land is to be sold for tiot to exceed ,10 cents an acre and is to le irrigated by" private Ämipanies. In order to obtain water rights for this land it is necessary for the settler to enter into a contract with the company that does the irrigating and to agree' tc pay a certain amount a year in easy installments. This is from $3 to $4 a year for each acre, as a rule. When the entire amount haa Itoen paid the irrigating system passes Into the ownership of those who have acquired the water rights. "One of the most Interesting things about the Carey act is that under its provisions only a short residence is necessary and a teacher, professional man or capitalist can sieud a short vacation on the ground, make the small payment required and obtain title. In Wyoming, where the Rig Horn Rasin Development Company has just thrown open 21.J.000 acres for settlement, n residence of 30 days is all that is required. King Cobalt wou the Dunton stakes at Jamaica, N. Y., easily, going the six furongs in 1 :12 1-,". Calvin Demarest of Chicago, national amateur bijliard champion, added the international title to his list when he defeated Lucien Rerolle. Wm. II. Hendrickson of Relle Meade, is trying to' arrange a threj-cornereJ match race to decide the much-disputed question as to which horse was the best in central New Jersey. Through the efforts of Coach John F. Moakley of the Cornell track team, a rural school track athletic association has been formed in Tompkins count y. New York, by the various teachers of the country school, and Cornell College of Agriculture. Stone Street, the bay colt from the Hamilton stable, won the Kentucky Derby at Louisville under lowering skies and over a track that was ankle deep ia mud, coming home with his ears pricked up and without urging, two lengths and one-half in front of a tired field. Cold, cloudy, with a strong wind, were the conditions which faced the hundreJ trap shooters in the annual western tournament at Omaha. R. R. Rarber of Paulina, Iowa, broke 110 targets without a miss, but a Milwaukee man, J. M. Hughes, was' high gun for the day with 10S out of a iHssilde 2M. Rarler with 102 and George Maxwell of Hastings, Neb., and Chris Gottlieb of Kansas City, w!io were tied with 100, were the other high professionals. Announcement is made that the English iolo team that was making arrangements to play a series of matches at Newport, Meadowbrook, Rockaway and other places in this country cannot come this year. Denying that he intended to pave the way for an international marriage. Prince Prospera Colonna of Italy arrived la Washington with his son, Prince Mario Colonna, and the Marquis of Soiumi. Mrs. Hetty Green is said to be guarded every day by a detective since the receipt of a "black hand" demand for $0,000.

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U.UUU MIIL lIUnlLLL'Ji Torrential Rains Cause RecordBreaking Rise of Trinity River in Texas. LOSS WILL BE VERY LARGE. Portions of Fort Worth and Dallas Completely Inundated Much. Distress Feared. At least twenty-five persons are dead and more than Ö.(k' homeless as a result of the Trinity river flood, according to reiorts received at Fort Worth, Tex. The damage mounts into the hundreds of thousands. Following torrent ial rains the river rose three inches above the recordbreaking flood of 1S.V0. Stock valued at thousands of dollars, including 2.r00 sheep penned up in the stock yards at North Fort Worth, was washed down stream and drowned. A dozen or more persons are report od to have been killed in Fort Worth ia spite of efforts to rescue those in peril. Rowboats from Ilandley, White City and Lake Coamo, hauled to the scene of overflows on street oars, wagons and In patrol wagons, figured prominently in the wonc of rescue. A woman, a child and throe men wore among the known victims of the Hood. The body of the woman floated past the foot of East Fourth street and caused a panic among negro refugees. A negro child was washed from its mother's arms ia the Rock Island yards. An unknown white man was drowned a mile from the long bridge. His coat, containing a note of farewell, was found lodged in a treetop. A negro attempting to pilot two men in a buggy through deep water opposite the city park gate was thrown from his horse and drowned. A German in North Fort Worth was caught In the swift water and drowned. Many persons are missing, and the police believe the number reported is only the beginning ,of a long list of deaths In the flood. Not until the water has receded will it be io?sibIe to tell the exact loss in life and property. Not a vestige of the big wagon bridge over the Trinity, near the steel foundry, is visible. Piers, girders and abutments were swept down stream and for a time threatened the lives of thousands of sightseers congregated on the City Park bridge and approaches. Mayor W. D. Dart, of Fort Worth, issued a proclamation calling on the more fortunate citizens to help the homeless. The' Salvation Army also cared for many. One man drowned in sight of many people who were powerless to save him, fifty families marooned in a submerged section of the city, the electric power house engine rooms under water, street cars out of commission, two bridges destroyed, and hundreds of people homeless In the suburbs, are n few of the results of a flood which followed a a sudden and terrific rise in the Trinitj river at Dallas, Tex. r II I'- ."1 ,L.V At Mason City, Iowa, the organization of the fourth-class postmasters of Northern Iowa was perfected by Postal Inspector Farrell of the northern district of Iowa. George A. Knipit, the California orator who seconded the nomination of President Roosevelt in the last national convention, expects to second the nomination of Taft at Chicago this year. The Minnesota Democratic State convention instructed its delegates to Denver to vote for John A. Johnson for the presidential nomination, and overwhelmingly defeated a motion to name Rryan as second choice. It has been openly admitted that practically all of the Republican leaders who at first tried to organize a movement against the candidacy of Secretary Taft have now joined in the Taft procession. Various motives are given, but the fact is no longer questioned. This virtual stampede is accompanied with some renewal of the third term talk, since Utah and Texas voiced the demand for Roosevelt first. Tliis appears to give color to the statement widely circulated that th; conservatives have accepted Taft in order to prevent the jwssibility of a convention stampede for the President. Chairman New of the Republican national committee, has announced that no tickets to the Republican- national convention would be sent to any one by mail, no matter whom he might be. Every ticket to the national convention will be kept under lock and key until forty-eight hours before the convention doors are oiiened, and then they will be distributed only in Chicago. Owing to the unchecked deluge of ticket demands Mr. New (has decided that no season tickets will be issued. To make them go as far as possible, the tickets will be issued by sessions. The Rryan bureau has put forth the claim to two-thirds of the Democratic delegates so far chosen, of which iNVS delegates are instructed for the Xebraskan. South Dakota Prohibitionists have nominated a full State ticket, headed by G. R. Erskine of Mitchell for Congress, and G. F. Knapien of Rrookings for Governor. Ren Rrave, (ie of the presidential electors, is a full-blood Sioux Indian. Fred R. Lynch of St. Paul, manager of the Johnson presidential boom, ha Ik'CU in Washington recently, and made sufficient impression among the Rryan men to arouse the ire of the Nebraskan's leaders. 1 Gov Cummins of Iowa, in a speech at Rock' Rapids, claimed he would defeat Senator Allison by 1ÄU00 votes at the primaries. In case William J. Rryan receives the Democratic nomination, bis daughter, Mrs. Ruth Rryan Leavitt, will take the stump in Colorado, Wyoming and several other Western States, and will campaign in her father's interests. Gov. Hughes will not under any circumstances be a candidate for second place on the Republican national ticket. He has so stated his osition in a letter to Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, bead of the New York delegation to the Chicejo convention.

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WORK OP CONGRESS Announcing that the conferees of the Senate and House on the currency bill would be unable to agree if Congress is to adjourn at an early day, S?nator Aidrich on Thursday reported from the com mittee on finance a joint resolution creating a national monetary commission to b? composed of nine Senators and rone Representatives to investigate all matters concerning the banking and currency system of the country and the resolution was passed without debate. Senator Rayner again discussed his resolution authorizing and requesting the President to order a court of inquiry to investigate the charges against Col. William F. Stewart and the resolution was placed upon the calendar. The Senate passed the general deficiency and military academy appropriation bills. the last of the great appropriation bias. bill regulating child labor in the Dis trict of Columbia and the territories was passed. Following a debate the conference report on the District of Columbia traction bill, permitting the laying of street car tracks to the Union station was adopted by the House with the provision for universal transfers eliminated ; the conference report on the agricultural ap propriation bill was agreed to; the Sen ate amendments, which increased by $12,0)0,000 the public building bill appropria tion were disagreed with and a conference asked. The open session of the Senate Friday was concluded with an extended debate on the power of Congress to regulate in terstate and foreign commerce and a negative poll, 2o to o2. was taken on a motion to adopt the Foraker substitute for the interstate commerce commission reso lution extending the time when the pen alty provision of the commodity clause of the Hepburn railroad rate law is to take effect. The Forakcr substitute provided that the prohibition against railroad tr.insporting across State lines coal or other ar ticles produced by them, shall apply caly to property acquired since the passag? of the Hepburn bill. May 20. 1000. The committee resolution applied to all products without limitation concerning the time of ownership. The bill to place the date of canning meat products upon packages was discussed briefly, as was the omnibus bill, but both were displaced. The disagreement of the House to the conference report on the postoffice appropriation bill on account of the Senate provision for mail subsidy was laid before the Senate and another conference was ordered. with in. tructions to insist upon the amendment. Practically all hope of a ship subsidy was abandoned when the House, byta vote of 143 to 1Ö0, rejected the conference report on the postoifice appropriation bill, containing a provision therefor. The bill was sent back to conference, and there is little prospect that the House conferees will yield, lsy a strict party vote of 100 to 12."i, a campaign contribution publicity bill with an amendment providing for a reduction of representation in the House in the South ern States was passed. The Democrats voted against the bill because of the amendment. The conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill was agreed to and tiie Senate amendments to the general deficiency and military academy appropriation and omnibus Indian land bill were all disagreed to and the bills sent to conference. The net result of Saturday's session in the Senate was the adoption of the con ference agreement on the omnibus public buildings bill and the approval of a partial airreement on the postoffice appropriation bill, the items in the latter measure relating to weighing the mails and ocean mail subsidy being sent back to conference. Various questions were discussed during the day. Senator Teller reviewed court decisions on the limitations of federal power under the constitution. Mr. Racon discussed the same topic, both referring to the President's remark that he would veto bills that did not reserve water rights. Mr. Owen of Oklahoma spoke on his joint resolution providing that an amendment to the Constitution for the election of Senators by the people be submitted to the States for ratification. Ineffectual efforts were made by Mr. Reveridge' to pass the omnibus territories bill, and by Mr. Newlands to secure consideration of his resolution creating an inland waterways commission. For the second time within twenly-four hours the House, following a discussion of two hours, rejected the mail subsidy provision for ocean steamships and the postoffice bill for the third time wa sent back to conference. The conference reports on the omnibus pension claims bill and on the fortifications appropriation bill were agreed to; the resolution providing for a remission of a part of the Chinese indemnity growing out of the Boxer troubles of 1000 was adopted, as was also a resolution increasing the pay of over a hundred of the House employes and officials; the conference report on the bill enlarging homestead entries in the arid region from 100 to 320 acres was rejected, thereby finally defeating the bill and the report authorizing an extension of time foi the construction of a dam across the Rainey river in Minnesota was passed over the President's veto. NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. The conferees on the bill to enlarge homesteads from 100 acres to 320 acres on non-irrigable lands agreed to an amended report striking from the bill the provision that this change should apply to Idaho and California.' Frank E. Ferguson of Hagerstown, Md., was appointed assistant director of the bureau of engraving and printing by Secretary Cortelyou. Senator Newlands of Nevada introduced a bill for the appointment of a national commission for the conservation 01 natural resources, and defining its duties. The Senate committee on public buildings and grounds completed consideration of the omnibus public buildiags bilk which has passed the House. Ihe committee added about $8,000,000, bringing the total carried by the measur to over $30,000,000. A bill appropriating $0,000,000 "for the enlargement of the capitol grounds, and to provide a site for a monument or monumental memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a dignified and adequate approach to the capitol building, anl for the erection of a monument to Abraham Lincoln," was introduced in the I louse by Mr. MeCall of Massachusetts, chairman of the committee on the library. The bill passed by the House granting certain employes of the government compensation for injuries sustained in the line of duty was reported to the Senate favorably from the committee on judiciary. The Senate committee on immigration ordered favorably reported the House bill amending the laws in relation to the nat-U'-a ratTcn of aliens. The committee amended the bill by increasing the fee for naturalization from $5 to $10. An unfavorable report was ordered by the public lands committee of the House on the Senate resolution providing for the protection of innocent purchasers in connection with prosecutions authorized by this Congress and about to be begun to recover for the government some millions of acres of public lands in far western States, which, it is alleged, have been illegally administered by railroad companies to whom they were granted.

CHICAGO. The usual index of activity reflects slow recovery in business generally, but confidence in the future gains strength and operations indicate a steadier basis. Weather conditions this week were less of a drag in distributive branches. Some extension is seen in construction and out door work, aDd a better tone is discerned in iron and steel, the absorption of pig iron being wider and fiuis'.ied steel shares in good request, although rails and equipment are yet 'quiet. Factory production shows a slight gain and more hands employed in farm implements, foundry and woodworking. The local demand is good for building materials, lumber and sanitary supplies, and there are seasonable outputs in the leather trades, orders remaining satisfactory for footwear, saddlery and novelties. Rank lea rings, $227,430,102, are 0.7 )cr cent under those of corresponding week in l'.M)7. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 28, against 21 last week and 14 a year ago. Those with liabiliiio.. over $0,000 number 7, against 7 in last wet-k and 4 in 1007. Dun's Review of Trade. NEW Y071K. Mixed conditions prevaMing in the crop, trade and industrial situation prevent generalization, except to say that crops as a whole are in -ather Itetter shape than a week ago; there is a better tone in some lines of wholesale trade, and retail business has b"en benefited in some sections by better weather. Still, as a whole, business is quiet beyond the normal, and industry is still slack. Rest reports as to retail trade come from the Southwest and Northwest. Wholesale trade ia a fev lines, notably dry poods, has a better tone, cotton goods are firmer, there is more doing in staple lines for fall, and souie large special sales at auction or at cut prices, notably at New York, Chicago and St. Louis, have distributed large quantities of goods and brought Buyers more in evidence than for months past. Business failures in the United States for the week ending May 21 number 281, against 281 last week, 1C" in the like week of 1007, 170 in 1000, 170 in 1003 and 184 in 1004. Rusincss failures in Canada for the week number SO, against 22 last week and 10 in this week of 1007. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. SUITS Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $7.30; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $T).S2; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.01 to $1.02; corn, No. 2, 74c to 75c: oats, standard, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2. 82c to S4c; bay, timothy, $0.30 to $15.30; prairie, $8.00 to $13.00; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 17c; potatoes, per bushel, GOc to C3c. . Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.O0 ; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $3.80; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.73; wheat, No. 2, 00c to $1.00; corn. No. 2 white, G3c to C3c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 32c. St. Lcuis Cattle. $4.50 to $7.15; bogs, $4.00 to $5.73; sheep. $3.00 to $1.73; wheat, No. 2, $1.02 to $1.03; corn. No. 2, 71c to 73c; oats. No. 2, 51c to 53c; rye, No. 2, SOc to 82c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $0D0; hogs, $4.00 to $3.73 ; sheep, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.01; corn. No. 2 mixed, 74c to 73c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2, 84 c to 80c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to SG.00; hogs, $4.00 to $3.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.53; wheat, No. 2, OSc to 90c; corn. No. 3 yellcw, 70c to 77c ; oats. No. 2 white, 54c to 5Cc; rye. No. 2, S3c to 83c Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.07 to $1.00; corn. No. 3, 74c to 75c; oats, standard, 54c to 55c; rye, No. 1, 83c to S4c; barley, No. 2, 74c to 75c; pork, mess, $13.35. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.03 ; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.30; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to SG.C0. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $0.75; hogs, $3.50 to $G.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.03 to $1.04; corn. No. 2, 74c to 7Gc; oats, natural white, o"c to 50c; butter, creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, western, 13c to 17c Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 9Gc to 97c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 75c to 77c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2, 81c to 83c; clover seed, prime, $13.00. PACTS FOB FARMERS. Drouth in -parts of Texas has resulted in the loss of hundreds of cattle. Teachers in Illinois hereafter will b required to make the study of tgriculture part of their work. Several of the Western States areIanning to hold a national corn exposition next December at Omaha, Neb. Two business men of Illinois recently purchased a C23-acre ranch in Iowa for $23 an acre. It will be used as a stock farm. The Southern Cotton Association has made arrangements with the Fanners Union for holding what remains of th cotton crop in order to stimulate better prices. A hearty meal of greens prepared from the tops of rhubarb plant resulted in the death of a woman in Iowa recently. She was attacked with a violent case of acute gastritis. One hundred and seventeen thousand acres of land in Washington State are devoted to apples, pears, plums, peaches and cherries and a full crop is worth millions of dollars. W. J. Gillette of Wisconsin, owner of Colantha IV. Johanna, the champion butter cow of the world, owns a cow that has just completed a thirty-day test, producing 154 iiounds of butter. The irst unit of the Sun rirer Immigration project of the national government, 'consisting of 17,000 acres of Montana land, has been thrown open to settlement, and 13,000 acres in the Dearborn tract, near the Sun river, has been placed on the market, under the Carey land act. In order to safeguard the city against the ravages of tuberculosis, the Mason City, Iowa, council has ordered the inspection of all the dairy herds, which supply the city with milk. As a result of the examination of ninety-seven head, seven were found with positive cases of tuberculosis, while three were questionable. The diseased -animals were slaughtered. The Montana lamb crop is unusually large this year. It is expected that the wool dip throughout the State will be at least a third heavier this year than last, owing to the difference in the weather. Wool growers from the north side of th Yellowstone estimate that Miles City will' receive about 2,500,000 pounds of wool' from tie country heretofore tributary to Billings. A price not over 20 cnts is' generally looked for, -against 21 in 1000 and 23 in 1007. The Secretary of the Interior has restored to public entry and settlement 376,000 acres of land in Montana which was withdrawn in connection with the Little Missouri irrigation project.

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