Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 47, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 August 1908 — Page 2

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1908 AUGUST 1908

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T P. Q.F. M. (T L, Q.N. M. JjJ 5th. vgyllth. V5 19th. s)2Cth. PAST AND PIIESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Teletrraphlc Information Gathered by the Faw for tha Enlightenment of the Many. Baron Sternburg Dead. Baron Speck Von Sternburg, the German ambassador to the United States, died in the Hotel Victoria in Heidelberg, Germany. The baroness, who was Miss Lillian May Langham, of Louisville, Ky., was with her husband at the enl The baron and the baroness came from Hamburg the end of last month to consult with Prof. VIncenz Czerny, a skin specialist, concerning a malady from which the ambassador had been suffering for some time. After a prolonged examination of the diseased part on the left side of Baron Von Sternburg'a head Prof. Szerny affirmed that the trouble was not cancer, but a lupus, and he could cure iL Both the ambassador and his wife were immensely cheered at this opinion. Baron Von Sternburg is described as having fe!t that his long agony was nearly oxer and that soon he would be a well man again. His wife also shared that hope. Baron Von Sternburg left New York for Germany on May 16 last. Farmer Stung to Death by Bees. John R. Stanberry, one of the most prominent farmers of Liberty TownShip, Delaware County, Ohio, died as the result of being stung by a swarm of bumble bees, which attacked him while he was cutting clover. Mr. Stan berry, who was 72 years of age, was walking behind the mowing machine, which a farmhand was driving, when the knives cut Into a bees nest on the ground. The farmhand whipped up his team and escaped, but Mr. Stanberry, enfeebled by age, was unable to get out of the way and was soon enveloped In the swarm. When rescued there was scarcely a spot on his body not covered with bee. stings. He was rushed to his home where medical at tendance was called but he died within an hour. Steers Eat Dynamite. Oscar Huff, living near Bremen, Ind., lost two valuable steers last week in an unusual manner. His cattle were grazing in a field where Mr. Huff was blasting stumps. While he was absent the steers ate a quantity of the dynamite. When driving them in at evening Mr. Huif threw a stone at the herd. The missile struck one of the steers that had eaten of the dynamite and the shock exploded the stuff in the animal's stomach and the steer was blown Into smithereens. The crash of the explosion Jarred the other steer and it, too, "blew up." The shots were heard distinctly for severa! miles. Auto Dashes Over Embankment. One man was killed and two were Injured, one probably fatally, when a speeding automobile dashed over an embankment in Delaware ark. near Buffalo, N. Y., and into an abandoned stone quarry. James Wayland, a chauffeur, was instantly killed; John Wakefield was fatally Injured, and James Morrison was seriously hurt. The automobile wa3 reduced to splinters. The men were running over the parkways at high speed and dashed over the quarry brink at a turn In the road. Seven Thousard Homeless. The fire which r-ged in the Stamboul quarter of Constantinople, Turkey, has been extinguished. The houses in the quarter were mostly built of wood and proved easy prey for the flames carried by the high wind. It la estimated that more than 2.000 buildings were destroyed. A number of firemen and women and children ate reported to have been burned to death. The homeless probably number seven thousand. Methodist to Erect Home at Winona. Methodists from all over the United States In attendance at the Winona Bible conference held a meeting and voted to incorporate the Methodist Building Association with a capital of CA AAA ..V. - n each, and to erect a pretentious denominational building cost'ng $50,000 at Winona Lake next spring. Dynamite Kills Two. In an explosion caused by a light nlng bolt, which set off a charge of dynamite, two expert tunnel drivers were killed and another was probably fatally injured at Pittsvllle, Pa. Fire at Grand Rapids, Mich. Fire in the plant of the Grand RapIds Rag and Metal Corpany caused damage of $10,000, witninsurance of about $4,000. The fire started in the third story from tmknewn cause. Mexican Bullet Kills American. Consul Maxwell II. Moorhead, at Acapulco, Mexico, has notified the State Department of the death of Grant U. Price of Winona, Minn., from a gun shot inflicted by a Mexican named Manuel Saluda at Pie de la Custa, near Acapulco. The Mexican authorities are making efforts to capture Saluda. Ilains Defense Outlined. Captain Ha ins will pleid insanity to the charge of killing Annig and his lawyer has issued a statement that coulter suit by Mrs. Hains unbalanced the si Iyer's mind. Will Demand Taylor'3 Return. Gov. Willson of Kentucky said that he will issue requisitions for the return of ex-Gov. Taylor and ex-Secretary of Stote Finley from Indiana, to stand trial for complicity in the murder of William Goebel, but will insist upon the men beirg released on bail. Husband Slayer Commits Suicide. Mrs. Mary Cassidy, who a few days ago shot and killed her husband, John Cassidy, while he was sleeping, leaped to death out of a second-story window at the Passavant hospital in Chicago. The womu was almost instantly killed.

SECHET GEM-CRYPT IS LOOTED.

Thieves Get $50,000 in Jewels from Commodore Bourne's Mansion. From a treasure-room in the country mansion of Commodore Frederick G. Bourne t Oakdalc, L. I., the location of which has been a family secret ever since the - mansion was erected, jewels valued at more than $.,000 have been stolen. The jewels were those worn by Commodore Bourne's three daughters at the horse show, the opera and other functions famous for the display of gern. Although the robbery took place nearly two months ap:o, it was not until the other day that the facts became known. Every effort has been made to recover the diamonds through the agency of private detectives without appealing to the police. Commodore Bourne and his family left Indian Neck Hall, as the mansion is called, two months ago for Dark Island, on the St. Lawrence river, while alterations were being made. Following the departure of the family 100 men were engaged on the repairs. A member of the family discovered the robbery and reported to the commodore. SORROW KILLS MAN IN JAIL. Pittsburger on Spreo Locked in Prison Under False Name. Robert Shankey, a bookkeeper of the north side, Pittsburg, Pa., died of a broken heart in the county jail in that city. Shankey had leen sent to jail to sober up after a spree Friday night, and was committed under an assumed name by advice of friends. lie did not want his relatives to know where he had gone, so he didn't send any word. A friend who was to tell Shankey's folks he had been sent out of town on business forgot to do so, and when his father succumbed a search of the city for the son proved of no avail. Not until just before the body of his parent was laid away was young Shankey found. When told it was too late to get to the funeral the prisoner sank to the floor, crying, "My heart will break." Before the jailer could unlock the door Shankey expired. ARTIFICIAL LEGS SAVE A LIFE. Make It Possible for Wearer to Free Man from Electric Wire. Harry Pinkerton, a police alarm operator .in Pittsburg, was able to save a I fellow man's life because be is a cripple. having two artificial legs. As Pinkerton was walking along a street on the north side, he saw William Wilson writhing in agony at the end of a trolley line feed wire, carrying IjOO volts, that had-been broken from its moorings. Wilson could not let go cf the dangling wire he had picked up. Pinkerton hurried to Wilson, caught him around the waist and jerked him away from the wire. Pinkerton's cork and wooden legs being a nonconductor, the current could not reach the ground through his body. Schools Must Be Safe. The Attorney General's office in Columbus, Ohio, rendered an important opition to the inspector of workshops and factories in regard to boards of educa tion which fall to equip school buildings with fare escapes and to make other changes which are ordered for the safety of the children. The opinion says that it is the duty of the mayor of the city to resist all attempts of the boards of education to open the buildings until all changes ordered have been made. Six Children Burn to Daath. Six children are dead and two others are burned so seriously that recovery is doubtful as the result of a fire at the II. W. Schultz ranch, between Colfax and Palouse, Wash. Four of the dead children were those of Schultz and two were those of W. W. For, a brother-in-law. The men were away harvesting and the mothers were attending a theatrical performance. Sent Up for Five Years. Five years' imprisonment in the federal penitentiary nt Leavenworth, Kan., was the sentence pronounced by Judge Garland of the United States court in Sioux Falls, S. I., in the case of George D. Horras, former cashier of the Hot Springs National Bank, which closed last fall. Ilorras pleaded guilty to making false reports, embezzling $23,000, and other irregularities. Circus Train in Wreck. Eight men employed by the Itanium & Bailey circus were severely injured, two probably fatally, when spreading rails caused four menagerie cars to leave the tracks of the Great Northern at Bellingham. Wash. The seriously injured are W. C. Wheaton of Rochester. N. Y., and Andrew Melane of Mount Vernon. Wash. m Stork Calls on Beveridge. A son has been born to Senator and Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, who are stopping in Manchester, Mays., for th? summer. Mrs. Beveridge, who was Miss Catherine Eddy before her marriage, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus N. Eddy of Chicago and a niece of Marshall Field. Troops - Leave Springfield. The withdrawal of troops from Springfield, 111., has been continued and the civil authorities are now left responsible for maintaining the peace. Negroes are panic-stricken, fearing a renewal of the rioting. Private Klein of Chicago has been sent to Kankakee, guarded by a company of militia, to face a murder charge. Train. Hits Auto; Two Killed. John Gluek, a Minneapolis brewer, and hvs wife, were instantly killed at Cottage wood. Lake Minnetonka, in a collision between their automobile and a train on the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway. Physician Commits Suicide. Kufus D. Whitehead, a physician of Elizabeth, N. J., committed suicide in his room at a hotel in Portland, Me., by shooting himself through the mouth with a revolver. It is believed he was temporarily insane from overwork. Seventy Die in Mine Blast. Not one man of the seventy miners entombed by an explosion in the Maypole coal mine at Wigan. England, is believed to have survived. The four reported rescuer vere engaged in an adjoining buildin?. Corn-Crop Is Saved. The corn crop throughout Northern Missouri, Eastern Kansas, Southern Nebraska and Southern Iowa, which has been sufTerinir from dry weather, is now safe. A soaking rain has fallen. Shcrc.an Accepts Nomination. James S. Sherman, accepting the' RepuMkan nomination for Vice l'resident, declared that Approval of the Koosevcl! n'.l ministration is the main issue of the Lake Erio Grape. Crop Large. Iieports from points throughout the Lake Erie grape belt indicate that this year's crop will be exceptionally large and the best in quality gathered for a number of years. The harvest will bo early and good prices are promised, a number of contracts at $30 a tou having already been closed. '.thirteen Hurt in Wreck. Passenger train 13 on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railway, running between Little Rock and Kansas City, was derailed near Illinois, Ok la. Thirteen persons are reported injured.

BURNED BY GAS EXPLOSION.

Catastrophe Occurs When Sisters Open Door Leading Into Kitchen. Laura V; I'ey, lO years old, was killed: her sister Saiab, aged 17. fatally injured, and another sister, Mildred, agrd 1(; their mother, Mrs. Alexander Walley ; Gus Alpenuan, and Gustav Brown were severely burned by an explosion of gas at the Walley home iu West Etna, near Pittsburg. The three girls went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast and when they opened the door au explosion occurred, the room immediately fi"'ng with flames. Gas escaping from an Id well under the house is presumed to hve filled the kitchen and ignited from a light in the nest room when the door was opened. Alpermnn aid Brown, carpenters working near by. were attracted by the girls' screams when they ran into the yard, their clothing in flames. Ito:h men und the mother, who appeared soon afterward, were terribly burned in tearing the flaming garments from the girls. Laura died and it is said Sarah had inhaled fire and cannot recover. The inntlior in in a critical condition from burns and shock. LOST WOMAN FOUND IN ASYLUM. Kidnaping Declared Used to Aid in Imprisoning Sane Wife. Through a letter from a former inmate of an insane asylum on Iug Island, relatives who were nonplussed by the disappearance two months ago of Mrs. Lottie Ijng have discovered that she is detained there. In an application for a writ of habeas corpus made by her brother, Charles A. Play, it is charged that Mrs. Long was kidnaped from her home on the night of June 1. drugged with morphine and carried in a blanket from her bed to an automobile, in which she was taken, struggling to. regain her liberty, to the asylum. Mrs. Long is 37 years of age and the wife of William I.ong, general agent of the American Express Company, Brooklyn. Flay said: "I anr positive that my sister is sane. She told me that her husband offered her several months ago $1.1 a week if she would agree to a Melioration. Sh; refused." GETS CONSUMPTION; SUES BOSS. Blames Employer in Whose Factory He Contracted Disease. Liability for causing the contracting of a case of tuberculosis is charged in a $2.".0OO damage suit filed in Louisville by Richard Devine against the operator of a rug factory. So far as the local courts are concerned this is n novelty in damage litigation. The plaintiff says that in the course of the defendant's business he collected old carpets and worked them up into rugs and that in this process no antiseptic treatment was given the carpets for the purpose of destroying the disease germs contained in them. It is averred that the plaintiff can never recover. COL. GOETHALS IS OPTIMISTIC. Says Panama Canal Can Be Completed in Five Years. That the Panama canal can be completed within five j-ears, and at much less cost to the government than has been generally supposed, is the information which Col. Goethals, engineer in charge of the work, is expected to bring Secretary of War Wright from the isthmus next month. Col. Goethals contemplates a trip to this country in September for the purpose of conferring with Secretary Wright on canal zone matters. One of the subjects of discussion will be the estimates for the next year, to be submitted to Congress at the coming session. MAY BE A JAPANESE SPY. Mystery in Detention of Subject of Mikado at Pittsburg. Sam Flu, a Japanese, was lodged in jail in Pittsburg, charged with trespassing on railroad property. He is held in default of bail. It is intimated that the trespass charge is made merely to hold Flu pending investigation of a suspicion that as a representative of the JaiKinese government he. has been after the secrets of the manufacture of projectiles at the plant of the .Firth-Sterling Steel Companj', near McKeesport. When arrested he is said to have told the railroad detective he was employed at that plant. Seize Jewelry for Customs. Jewelry estimated to be worth $l,.rjO0 was seized by the customs authorities in New York from J. Thomson, "retired gentleman" of Chicago, on the pier of the Hamburg-American line in Hoboken, just after the Deutschland had discharged her passengers. Thomson had declared personal property to th ,-aIue of $8.". A watch and a diamond brooch were discovered y a treasurj agent in his iocket. 6 Millionaire's Wife a Suicide. Mrs. X. Snelleuberg, wife of N. Snellenberg, the millionaire department store proprietor of Philadelphia, committed suicide at the Oaks home in Denver by eating strychnine tablets which had been prescribed for her as nedicine. Mrs. Snellenberg was afflicted with consumption and it is believed her illness produced melancholia. Glass from Man's Forehead. Theodore Norman of Avon-by-the-Sea, N. Y., removed a piece of glass threequarters of an inch in length from his forehead which, unknown to him, had been imbedded there ever sinx he fell downstairs with a bottle in his hand twenty-six years ago. Subtreasury Official Arrested. Private detectives caused the arrest of former Subtreasury Teller Fitzgerald as the man who stole the $173,000 in Chicago eighteen months ago, friends of the accused making indignant denial. Improvement in Conditions. A decided improvement in financial conditions is shown by the reports of national banks, says Acting Comptroller Kane in Washington. Prize for American Aeroplane. The aeroplane designed by Octave Chanute of Chicago won the third prize in the French Aero Club contests in Paris, making 820 feet in twelve seconds. Moroccan Usurper in Control. The victory of the usurper in Morocco is confirmed and Mulai Hand is recognized as ruler by practically all the officials of the cities. Chicago Pioneer Die3. John V. Farwell, Sr.. founder of the dry goods house which boars his nime, and one of the pioneers of Chicago, died at his home in Iake Forest Thursday. Slain at Birthday Celebration. In a liglit at a Lirthday celebration near Nanticoke, Pa., Michael Poplowski, aged ."!, was killed and John I'rablow sky, acd 40. was fatally stabbed. Candidates Open Campaign. Mr. Taft, answering Mr. IJryan's challenge, "shall the people rule?" declared they rule now through the Republican party. W. J. Pry in opened his campaign with a big meeting at Des Moines and devoted his attention chiefly to the tariff. Steamer Strikes Bock and Sinks. The steamer J. T. Hatfield struck a rock in the Ohio river twelve miles above Gallipolis, Ohio, and sank. The Hatfield was owned by the Hatfield Coal Company of Cincinnati and was used in the coal j trade. The boat was valued at $22,000.

CAN'T MAKE WEATHER

KUK6AL0DLHVW During" "RC.Nörr. x 24 rlOUSrw HMüßGET OUT vuw M (BÖRBBJ? Vvnm Among the many causes to which was attributed the business depression which first manifested itself in March, 1907, ar d which reached its climax in the panic of October, was the high level of prices to which practically all commodities had been forced. Financiers, manufacturers and merchants were almost a unit in declaring that prices must come down. Put we are recovering from the depression and, with few exceptions, prices remain at their greatest altitude. The most recent report of rhe Department of Labor and Commerce, covering the movements of wholesale prices for the past eighteen years, including 1907, shows that in spite of the financial and market depressions coincident with the last sii months of 1907 prices of commodities save in a few departments, such as lumber, fuel and metal materials, were higher at the close of the year than at its opening and that the average price of all commodities showed a decrease of only a little over 1 point for the period, the actual decline being from 127. to 11M.4. The report sftows that wholesale prices, considering the 2T8 commodities as n whole, reached a higher level in 1907 than at any other time during the 18-year period covered. The average for the year 1907 was 5.7 per cent higher than for 1IXXJ ; 44.4 per cent higher than for 1897, the year of lowest prices during the 18year period, and 29.5 per cent higher than the average for the 10 years from 1890 to 1899. Trices reached their highest point during the 18-year period in Octoler, 1907, the average for that month being 1.2 per cent higher than the average for tie year 1907 and 2.8 per cent higher than the average for December, 1905, the month, of highest prices in 1000. Of the 253 articles for which wholesale prices were obtained, 172 showed an increase in the average price for 1907 as compared with 190, 85 showed no change in the average price for the year, and 51 showed a .decrease in price. When the commodities ara considered by gioups, all of the nine groups showed nn increase in price in 1907 as compared with 1901. For farm products taken as a whole this increase was greatest, namely 10.9 per cent; for food, 4.G per cent; for cloths and clothing, 5.( per cent ; for fuel and lighting, 2.4 per cent ; for metals and implements, G.l per cent ; for lumber and building materials, 4.9 per cent ; for drugs and chemicals, 8.3 per cent; for house furnishing goods, CS per cent, and for the miscellaneous group. 5 per cent. Utica Globe. WÜS SENDS, Jack Iyburn helped the Michiganders rhristen their new Detroit track by trotting a mile iu 2:01,i in the Illue Ribbon event. Nancy Hanks, the famous trotting nare, has foaled a bay colt by Ttdd at Iamburg place, John E. Madden's farm, icar Lexington, Ky. Manager Fgan of the Rurlington baseall club has been in IXivenport injJiring !nto tho prospects for purchasing the DaveniKrt baseball park. At Tekin, III., Justo, in the 3-year-old :rot, went the first mile in 2:13,i, the lastest this year for a 3-year-old trotter. The quarters were made ' iu 0:341a. t:07j. 1:41, 2:13'4. At Brighton Beach Ktherial ran 'urlongs in 1 :00, equaling the time made y Brookdale Nymph and Royal Vane for :he distance. Half Sovereign won the handicap at eix furlongs from a good field n the fast time of 1:12 2-3. The records of the Fargo track, all the :rack records of North Dakota and the ialf-mile track record forthe entire Unit;d States so far this season were broken jy Lady Maud C, owned by Walter 'aimer of Ottawa, 111., when she made a nile in 2:08j. The six-round bout between "Billy" Papke, the western middleweight, and 'Sailor" Burke of New York, which was set for the Coliseum Athletic Club in New York, did not take place owing to Iolice interference. A number of persons had gathered to see the fight. In the Winnipeg rowing regatta, the Minnesota Boat Club crews of St. Paul, won six out of nine events. They were: First in senior fours, in junior eights, in junior singles, in senior singles, in junior fur, in junior doubles, second in senior eights, in bantam fours and in senior loubles. Although Il.iyes, the American, won :he great Marathon race in the Olympic rallies, Dorando, the j lucky Italian who might jmssibly have won had the British officials not tried to assist him, is the :ie:o. Queen Alexandra presented him with .silver cup and the American athetee will present him with a gold me Jul. In the Y. M. C. A. relay race from ew York to Chicago bojs ranging in tge from 12 to 20 years carried the silver ube containing Mayor McCIellan's mesage 1,000 miles in 119 hours and 32 minites. In some places the boys made as iigh as 20 miles an hour. Owen Moran, the United Kingdom aghtweight champion, who recently whipped Seaman Hayes, arrived in New York. "After I beat Abe Attell at Colma, Cab," aid Moran, "I want a go with Battling Nelson." Moran fights Attell at 122 pounds four hours befcnj the fight, and ie offers to tale on Nelnl at 133 pounds ringside.

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Jtwas wt COLD" CMOUCH 'BIFFIN bay 7 OrfjnrK, 'sr' VALUABLE FUEL IN WASTE. Results of Experiments with Coal ol All Kinds Are Published. The results of the work done at the United States fuel testing plant at Forest Fark, St. f.ouls, from Jan. 1. 1900 to June SO, 1907, are presented in a report Issued by the United States Geological Survey. The scope of the work during th period covered has been largely restricted to a series of comparative tests rnad under conditions as nearly uniform at possible on bituminous coals and lignites from different fields of the United States as representative of known extensive deposits. Chemical analyse were made of samples of these fuel! collected at the mines by United State Inspectors sent out for that purpose, and also of samples taken from tb( cars, from the fuel as fed to the boilers, as fed to the producers, befor brlquettiüg, before and after washing, and before coking. Samples of briquetted coal were also analyzed and the re suits of the utire series of aualysei and tests art; presented in the report The briquettlng plant has developec new possibilities in the utilization ol slack coal and anthracite culm as ax efficient fuel for combustion on locomotives. Experiments are now befuj extended to determine the value ol briquetted coal for use in the naval vessels of the United States. The plant at Forest Park was dis mantled in March, 1907. The section! of stcuni, producer gas and brlquetting were transferred to a new gas plant erected at Norfolk, Vn., and those ol coking and washery to a new ylant al Denver. The principal chemical la boratory of the fuel testing plant hai been removed to Pittsburg, but a branch laboratory will also be main talned at Norfolk for the purpose ol experimenting on the gases In different portion of the combustion chanibcn of steam boilers and of gas producers The smoke abatement investigations at public buildings will be supplemented by more detailed ejperiinents at tin Norfolk plant. The city council of Spandau, in Brand enluirg, Prussia, has inaugurated a movement to raise $1,023,000 as a natio-ia gift for Count Zeppelin. Advices have been received at thi American embassy in St. Petersburg thai Ambassador Kiddle is making good in provement under the treatment at Kis lovodsk, whither he went to rocuperati from the effects of his recent illness. Capt. Lumsden, who commanded thi British cruiser Gladiator at the time s?i was lost in a collision with a liner, hai been found guilty of default iu not complying with the rules of navigation, an! has teen dismissed from the service. The insular constabulary band, of Ma nila, is going to Australia as the guest ol that government, to participate in the receptions of the American fleet. The Phil ippine authorities donate the service ol the band and Australia pays the expenses. The presidential election in Panami went off smoothly, the result being thi choice of Senor Abaldia, candidate ol the opposition to the government, unanimously. The supjorters of the government remained away from the polls. Th electors are to meet Aug. 1, and theii decision will be certified Aug. 18 in advance of the meetiug of the National Assembly on Sept. 1. In a desperate battle between Mexicos troops aud Papago Indians at the Imaculada ranch, near Cetrocolo, a mining camp in the Altar district Of Souora, nineteen Indians and two soldiers wen killed and five soldiers were wounded. At the Quebec eclebrat ion. the Prince ol Wales proved himself a worthy representative of King Kdward, appearing at th various functions s a field marshal, an admiral and as a plain English gentleman. The military pageant on the plains of Abraham was the greatest ever seen in Canada. At Frankforton-the-Main seven American turners gained a sufficient number ol Kints in the all around athletics of th international tournament to entitle them to Jigure in the prize list. The eventa consisted of both apparatus and Jield work, 1Ö0 points being the maxiinum number possible to obtain. Thomas P. Moffat, the American consul at La Guayra, Venezuela, has returned to this country oi account of the bubonic plague, which has isolated that port from tire rest of the world. The gunloat l'aducah came within live miles of the harlKir and the consul rowed himself out to this mean3 of escape. The Central American Court of Justice at Cartago, Costa Kien, has taken steps to prevent the continuance of the revolution in Honduras or its spread to other countries by acting on the complaint of President Davila of Honduras that Salvador and Guatemala have violated the terms of the treaty. The court has ordered that the Salvadorean troops stationed near the Honduran border be withdrawn, and commanded President Cabrera of Guatemala to prevent his people from entering the territory of Honduras. Iu the meantime the life of the movement has been knocked out by the defeat of the revolutionists in two engagements north and south.

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HIGH COURT IS STUNG III OIL CASE PETITIOII

Government Flays Federal Appel late Tribunal in Rehearing ' Demand. MAKES WILL-O'-WISP OF LAW. Reversal of Judge Landis' Ruling Held to Nullify Interstate Commerce Act. In a petition bristling with criticism 3f Judges Grosscup. Seaman and linker, the government lias asked a rehearing of the Standard Oil case. The document was filed with the clerk of the United States Circuit Court of ApIcals in Chicago. It describes the reversal of Judge Laud is $29,2 lO.t'OO line against the Standard Oil Company of Indiana as a "misinterpretation of the law" and asks the right to submit tbe entire matter to the United States Supreme Court. Tbe government contends that the Court of Appeals, in its opinion, has laid down an erroneous rule and that Presiding Judge Grosscup did Judge Landis a "great injustice" by misstating what he did in connection with the imposition of the fine. Wlpf Act from Statute. The document,, signed by Attorney General Dona parte and Government Attorneys Frank II. Kellogg. Edwin V. Sims and James II. Wilkerson, reaches a climax when it declares that no court short of the Supreme Court should undertake to practically wipe from the statutes the Interstate commerce act The proceeding attendant uion the filing of the petition was devoid of ceremony. The papers were taken to the office of the clerk of the Court of Appeals by Chief Clerk William A. Small of tbe district attorney's office. Clerk Ilallowell, in behalf of Judges Grosscup, Seaman and Baker, receipted for the 5,000-word document and later mailed a copy to each of the judges, all of whom are out of town. Mr. Sims and Mr. Wilkerson also are away. Formal bearing on the plea will not be had for several weeks, as, under the law, Attorney John S. Miller for the oil company has twenty days in which to file an answer. The Appellate Court judges then may reconsider their decision, assess a fine satisfactory to them, pass the entire matter to the Supreme Court or ignore tbe government's pleading. x Jndeo I.nndlM Defended. There is no mincing of words in the govenmient's defense of Judge Iandls. That lie did not exceed his discretion In assessing the maximum penalty is declared, and it also is vigorously denied that be attempted to punish the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, as maintained by Judge Grosscup. "The opinion as it stands," the government's jetitiou concludes, "erroneously states material portions of the record; doe. Injustice to the trial judge; leaven doubtful in a new trial flhe rule of law to bo applied, both as to knowledge on the part of the FhipIK'i and as to tbe number of offenses; appears to be In conflict with the language of the Supreme Court and with the prcvhAis language of the presiding judge of this court, and with the great weight of legal authority, ami, if permitted to remain unmodified, will tend to encourage disobedience to law, to impede tbe enforcement of salutary Mntutes and largely to defeat their puriKise. Thep Contention Made. Following are the five principal contentions of the government: That Judge landis proceeding, instead of amounting to "a strange doctrine in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence," is in accord with the elementary principles of criminal law. That the ignorance of lawful freight rates, if due to negligence, is not a valid defense for the acceptance of an unlawful rate. That each carload shipped nt unlawful rates in the case against the Standard Oil Company constituted a distinct offense, and that any other construction would provide a loophole through which the guilty could evade justice. That an "innovation" is created by the Court of Appeals in holding that a defendant cannot be fined more than the amount of the property he possesses, the government denying that the penalty imposed by Judge Landis is excessive. That the amount of the fine alone does not necessitate a new trial; that if the Appellate Court holds Judge Landis abused his discretion it is called upon to name a proper tine. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. The county commissioners of Blue Earth countj-, Minn., have voted fb have the county pay half the cost of repairing bridges, roads and culverts damaged by the recent floods. The cost is estimated at $40,000. A company is being organized in Boston to operate aeroplanes or dirigible balloons between Boston and New York. According to the present plans the first experiments will be made with small dirigibles, with a carrying capacity of two passenger.-! iu addition to thv? operator. The Commercial Association of Walker, Minn., has purchased ninety acres of land on the lake to provide suitable sites for factories. A five-acre tract has already been cleared and graded for a box factory, which will be erected this summer, and negotiations are now under way for a $1J,000 boat factory. The co-operative store, run at Harvard for the lienefit of the students, reports sales for the fiscal year amounting to w(0,000 and the payment of a dividend of 8 per erut to the numbers. Similar stores on the co-oicrative plan at Ya1, Cornell, Princeton and other college: 3 re also in n prosperous condition. A a -result of a disagreement between the local branch of the International Brotherhood of Paperliangers and Night Foreman Coyle o' the Bhinelander Paper Coaipany, machines Nos. 1 and 2 at Bhinelander, Wis., are shut down, it is thought for an indefinite length of time. Ten million feet of logs are on then way down Bed Lake river and Crooksten is promised the opening of the Crookston Lumber Company's big mill eg'iin, wh ich has been closed in the sawirg department this year. Three million feet of this diive is destined for the Crookston mil", and a few more millions will be on their way later to add to this trade.

CHICAGO. The indications of recovery in business activity appear to be well sustained. Further decline is seen in the comparative shrinkage in volume of payments through the banks, and thre is increasing demand for industrial outputs and heavier operations in general merchandise. Dealings in leading retail, lines run close to the aggregate at this time last year; the buying being augmented by many .visitors who spend freely, and the early demaud for fall apparel and household needs expands to seasonable proiortions. There is a general expression of confidence in the outlook for extending consumption. It is also made clear that stocks throughout the interior are at an unusually low average and that liberal replenishment is likely, although that process may be conducted gradually. Prices generally stand upon an attractive basis in staples and some heavy buyers secure their needs in lines which continue under curtailed production. Encouraging agricultural conditions and high values of the crops, rising pay rolls at manufacturing centers and the improvement in iron and steel branches in this section afford substantial reasons for the healthier tone which now characterises commerce. The total movement of grain at this ixrt, 8..k4.30 bushels, compares wkh 9,828,205 bushels last week and 9,490,117 bushels in 1907 Compared with last year there is a decrease in receipts of 20.1 per cent, and increase j ship-nents of 27.C per cent. Live stock receipts were 243EJ3 head, agaiust 27,851 head lat week and 273,V7 head last year. Bank clearings, $21. -,300,013, are 2.6 Iter cent under those of the corresponding wek in 1907. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 24, against 1G last weck' fand 11a year ago. Those with liabilities over $.-,090 number , against 3 last week and 2 in 190i-Dun's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. While conservatism still rules purchasing, the number of buyers in leading northern and western centers is very large, and there is a distinct gain in the jobbing distribution of fall and winter dry goods, shoes, clothing, hats and millinery. Optimism as to the future is noted, and the, practical completion of the small grain harvests, especially of spring wheat, and the advance of the corn crop toward maturity have made for an accentuation of the more confident feeling. Southern markets arc slower to feel the impetus of prospective . od crop yields, and the strjke'in the Alaba'ua coal fields seriously affects trade in and near Birnfiugham. Collections show signs of improvement, especially where the early crop movement has begun, but there arc a number of reports of lagging settlements, and payments as a whole are not yet np to normal. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Aug. 20 number 200, against 249 last week. l."3 in the like week of 1907, 15Ö in-UKX, 17 in 190."V and 185 in 1904. Canadian failures for the same period number 30, which compares with 31 last week and 19 in the corresiionding week of 1907. Pradstreet's Commercial Beport. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $7.7--; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to ?CSr: sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $1.30; wheat. No. 2, 94c to 90c; corn, No. 2, 78c to 79c; oats, standard. 47c to 49c; rye, No. 2, 77c to 78c; hay, timothy, $8.00 to $13.00; prairie, $S.00 to $9.00; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 22c; eggs, fresh. 17c to 20c; potatoes, per bushel, C4c to 7rc. Indianaiolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $o."j0 to $1.80; sheep, common to prime, $2.r-0 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2. 91c to 93 ; corn. No. 2 white, 79e to SOc; oats, No. 2 white, 47c to 48c. . St. I mis Cattle, $4.1 to $7-V); hogs, $4.00 to $:.97; sheep. $3.0O to $4.20; wheat. No. 2, 9tJe to 97c; corn, No. 2, 7."e to 7Ge; oats, No. 2, 43c to 47c; rye, No. 2. 7"e to 77c. Cincinnati Cattle. $1.00 to $."JV); hogs. $1.00 to $0.80; sheep. $3.00 to $1.00; wheat. No. 2, 9."c to 90c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 80c to Sic; oats. No. 2 mixed, 49c to TjOe; rye. No. 2, 78c to 79c. Iietroit Cattle. $1.00 to $.".10; hogs. J $4.00 to ?(J..iO: sheep, $2.."0 to $4.00 wheat. No. 2, 94c to 9oc; corn, o. o yellow, SOe to 8lc; oats No. 3 white48c to 19c ;x rye, No. 2, 7."c to 7Gc Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.13 to $l.ir; corn, No. 3, 77c to 79c; oats, standard, T3c to ."dc; rye, No. 1, 77c to 7Sc; barley, No. 2, 74c to nc; pork, mess, $10.2.-. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $ß.55; hogs $3.50 to $7.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 99c 10 $1.00; corn, No. 2. 89c to 90o; oats, natural white. 55e to 5k-: butler, creamery, JOc to 23c; eggs, western, 17c to 19c. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers $4.K) to $0.7."; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.10; sheep, common to good mixed. $4.00 to $5.30; Iambs, fair to tuoice, $5.00 to $7.00. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 92c to 94c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 79c to 81c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 4ic to isc; rye, iso. 2. 7Cc to 77c ; clover seed, October, $0.85. Paper Trnut Strike On. Tbe employes of the International Paper Company, or trust, which operates mills in many places, were ordered out recently as a protest against the reduction of the wages of some of the members of the union. Most of the 30,000 workmen resjwnded, and the mills were Idle. ' Tneatrlcnl Trnut a Mealltr. Every form of theatrical amusement and every kind of playhouse in the United States has been brought .under a huge combination of interests by means of what is known as a "gentlemen's agreement"' made at New York rec-ently in the omVs of Klaw & Erlnnger. The ostensible object was to discuss the betterment of conditions and harmonious co-operation, and a committee was appointed to draw up a plan. Even Belasco nod Fish were gobbled in this agreement thraugh the presence of Iee Shubert. It is in effect a union or organization of the manAnolhrf Kentucky lyd. The "dark aud bloody ground'' had an Other drenching with humau blood in thtown of Layman, when a family feud letween the Taylor and Blanton families broke into open battle over the counting of votes for school trustee. Before the 6inoke had cleared away two men and one woman were killed and six persons dangerously wounded with gunshots or knife thrusts. Dig demand for farm laborers and factory hands at the information division of the bureau of immigration at Washington is regarded as a striking evidence of return.ng prosperity.

FITZGERALD ARRESTED FOR $173,000 THEFT

Former Assorting Teller of Chicago Subtreasury Released on Bonds of $io,ooo. CSIME EIGHTEEN MONTHS OLD Taking of Former Official FollowiDetectives' Investigation Ofüer to Sell Big Bills. (Joorge'W. Fitzgerald, who was discharged as assorting teller of the United States subtreasury at Chicago a year ago following the mysterious disappearance of $173.(XX from the vaults of the government treasury house, was, arrested early Sunday on a state warrant charging bini with the criuie, and was arraigned lefore Judge Arthur IL Clietlaln Monday. Fitzgerald was released by Judge Chetlain oil $10.000 1riu1s, tbe hearing beiug continued for a week. The bondsmen are James Kalth, 0729 Wabash avenue, formerly iu tbe cooperage business, ami John C. McCafferty, treasurer" of tbe United States Tent and Outing Company. Arrested at III Home. Fitzgerald was arrested at his home. 943 Chase avenue, on a warrant swrn out before Judge Chetlain by Herbert F. Young, head of tbe Young agency. The detective manager acted under tbe orders of Subtrcasurer Boldenweck when he made the arrest. The arrest of tbe former teller took on some of the spectacular. No warning was given bini until Detective Joseph Kinder of State's Attorney Ilealy's office and Detective Young dashed up to the house In au automobile. When the lell rang at his new home early Sunday morning, the for-" mer assorting teller responded in person. The pressing of a button had flooded the porch with electric light. Fitzgerald oiencd tbe door and tbe detectives announced tbelr mission. "I know what you want, he said. "Never mind reading the warrant.' . I prefer to read it. said one of tbe detectives. The prisoner's wife appeared sud denly and Intuitively she grasped the situation. My God, they have, got him," she cried, the detect Ives say, and swooned, but soon recovered herself. Titzgerald was granted permission to kiss his children good-by, and was then taten to the La Salle street offices of ,the Young Detective Agency in an automobile. He was held In the offices of tbe agency until 2 o'clock In the morning, when be was taken to the county Jail and locked up. It is said that representatives of tbe government secret service department in Chicago are xkeptical and inclined to discredit the evidence gathered by tbe Young Agency, oicratives of which have .trailed Fitzgerald for months. While Fitzgerald was long under suspicion and was dismissed following the failure of the government detectives to detect the thief, evidence against him strong enough to warrant his arrest was never unearthed by tbe - federal authorities. Heribert F. Young, head "of the agency which caused the arrest cf Fitzgerald, is confident, however, that "be has landed the man responsible for the theft. Mj. Young has hinted that one of two prominent men susjiected of being accomplices in the gigantic theft has made a partial confession of his part in the crime. Alleged Offer to Sell Dill Stir. The alleged offer of Fitzgerald tc disuse of two $1,000 bills to Col. Harry C. Gauo, superintendent of A. Ilootb & Co.'s cold storage plant for $50C each, is the newest link In' the chain of evidence against the former teller according to curatives of the Young agency. Much of the money which disappeared from the subTeasury was in bills of the $1.000 denomination, .md Young declares that he had Indisputable evidence that Fitzgerald had sonic of these greenbacks In his jiossesslnn. While he did not make good his offer to dispose of tbe large bills, the detectives say that others overheard his offer to Col. Gano. On the other hand. Attorney LV1 ward K. Litzluger. who has lecn retained by the prisoner, laughs at the idea that his client is guilty and rays that the affair is likely to turn out seriously for those who caused the arrest. The fact that the Federal authorities knew nothing of the hunt for tbe man who took the $173.000 and the fact that th State's Attorney's office wns cognizaut of the whole case for weeks before Fitzgerald was arrested If looked upon by the lawyers as a further complication. Mora Troopi for m Strike. Gov. Comer of Alabama has orderec two regiments into camp in the mining section around Birmingham, followins th lynching cf a negro striker. Will Mill"n accused of dynamiting the home of e strike breaker. Officer Fear Lyncblnie. The Pcnsaeola (Fin.) sheriff and deputies who fired into a lynching party with fatal effect, have been threatened with violence and one deputy has fled the city. The sheriff says he will stand his groend Switchmen Voto to Strike. The "Lackawanna railway wa on th .-crge of a general tie-up owing to the proposed strike of the switchmen. The anio.i of the hvitcr voted to go out unless two men discharged at Buffalo were reinstated. The comjiany had refused to resaying that in a clay t!ey could pet Tiorc than enough men to take the places f the strikers from the ranks of the unmployoiT. The buret u of immigration since Feb. I has sent 1,K0 aliens from the cities to 'arming districts where t!iey were needed is laborers. Cooks, pastry coois and chiefs of Greater New Y'ork, to the number of COO and upward, have formed a local union of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes International Alliance. The 5.000 and odd rooks of Greater New York work from fourteen to sixteen hours a day in the fall and winter time, but during the summer there is Ii' tie or no employment to spe&k ot. Gov. Gen. Smith returned from in inspection of forty municipalities located in the Southern Philippine inlands, and reported that conditions existing In til these places are highly satisfactory.