Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 October 1908 — Page 2

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F. Q.F. M. (T L. Q.tfN. M. 3rd. s9th. Vi 16th.s 25th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND JS TO BE. All Sides and Condition of Thins re Shown Nothing Orerlooked to make if Complete. TroMey Cars in Crash. Three trolley cars on the Troost avenue line collided at Thirteenth and Troost avenue In Kansas City, Mo., and were badly wrecked. One man was killed and fifteen other passengers were more or less seriously injured. The air brake failed or one of the cars at Tenth street and Troost avenue and It rushed back down a steep hill. There were two cars coming up the hill back of the first car and for two blocks these cars backed away in a thrilling attempt to escape. For three blocks before the cars finally collided men and women jumped frantlc;Jly to the street and many were hurt la their efforts to escape. R. L. Smith, of Nerada. Mo., aged 43, was kille! when the front end of the rear cr.r was crushed in. A wrecking car collided with the runaway car after the latter bad come to a standstill and the crew were forced to jump to save their lives, the foreman being badly hurt. Heavy Snow in Colorado. A storm, accompanied by rain, which changed frequently to snow, has previlled throughout northeastern Colorado for several days. In sections of the mountains heavy snow has fallen. Considerable damage was done to electric wires and telephone and telegraph wires are seriously affected. Railroad and interurban electric lines have been Interrupted and at places completely blocked. Several accidents and at least one death have resulted from persons coming in contact with broken electric wires. Tornado Blew Car fre-n Track. Two persons were kill-jo d twentyeight others more or 1c sy injured as th'i result of i. ornado blowing the caboose cf a Uuivu Pacific work train down a thirty-foot embankment near Sherman, thirty miles west of Cheyenne, Wyoming. The two men killed? were laborers and their names could not be ascertained. Among those In the caboose were Traveilng Auditor Sumtion, of the Union Pacific railroad, who escaped without serious injury. Military School Burns. The Nebraska Military Academy, located three miles west cf Lincoln, was destrojed by fire. The school was established by B. D. Hayward and the building erected for the Western Normal College was equipped for the venture. The fire started In the torthwest wing over the kitchen. The loss Is estimated at $100,000 with $20,000 insurance. Sixty-five boys were enrolled and these were taken from the build'l ins in safety. Attempt to Murder Chicago Priest. An attempt to assassinate the Rev. J. K. Fielding, pastor of the Corpus Christi Roman Catholic church in Chicago, 111., was made. After twice shooting at the priest in the Sunday school hallway of the church, the would-be assassin, knocking down scores of children, ran Into the street and escaped. The shooting and the screams of the children created wild excitement in one of Chicago's fashionable residence districts. Roosevelt Signs Contract. President Roosevelt has signed a contract with the Outlook to act as an associate editor after his retirement from the presidency on March 4 next. This is made subject to the existing contract to write the story of his African travels for Charles Scribner's Sons. His work in connection with the Outlook is to cover political and economic topics. Four Persons are Burned to Death. . A message from Paintsville, Johnson County, Kentucky, says that during a fire there George Stafford and three children were burned to death, and Mrsr Stafford, becoming frightened lest she would burn, jumped from a second story window and broke her neck. Particulars of the fire are yet unobtainable. $150,000 Fire at Shell Rock, Iowa. Fire destroyed fifteen business bouses and caused a loss of $150,000 In Shell Rock, Iowa. Choked to Death on Slate Pencil. Hollis, son of Charles Miller, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, swallowed a button and a Plate pencil. The button was coughed up but the slate pencil stuck in his throat, causing him to choke to death. ' Typhoon Kills Three Hundred. Reports received from Chang Chow, China, are to the effect that more than 800 lives were lost in that city as the result of the recent typhoon. Try to Wreck Chicago Train. An attempt to wreck the Chicago express on the Erij railroad was frustrated just in time, when an operator accidentally discovered a jack under the rails at Pymatnning, Pa. Detectives are working on the case. Shoe Strike Is Over. More than half the 1.1,000 operatives employed in sixty-seven shoe factories in Lynn, Mass., returned to work when the factory gates opened Friday in accordance with union action ending the strike of the lasters, which has been in force since Oct. 2. Presents an Auditorium. Announcement is made that Mrs. Mary M. Emery has given to the Ohio Mechanics Institute $500,000 to erect a building to be known as the Emery Auditorium in Cincinnati. The new structure is to be a home for the institution primarily, but shall likewise be devoted to the use of th music loving pcop'e of the city. Man and Wife Asphyxiated. Mr. and Mrs. John Coleman were found dead in bed at (irafton, N. D., having been asphyxiated by coal gas. Both were rr , MM T fnlomo n an f ttnrrt

JAPAN AND CHINA CLASH. Attack In Northern Korea May Causo Complications. Serious complications affecting the peace of China and Japan are threatened as the result of an engagement between Chinese and Japanese troops at Kantao, northern Korea, in which several men were killed or wounded. The refusal of the Chinese war ofCee to permit the pursuit of a detachment of soldiers who are said to have been the aggressors may result in the crossing of the frontier by Japanese troops. Chinese soldiery are reported to have opened the hostilities by firing upon a police station occupied by the Japanese troops, who were sent into Kantao as a guard for the Koreans there. The firing that ensued lasted several hours and though the exact number of casualties is not ascertainable a number were killed or wounded. The commander of the Japanese garrison immediatejy called upon China for permission to cross the frontier and pursue the assailants, who seem to have been worsted in the engagement. The request was denied by the war office. The Japanese foreign ofliee has made representations to the government at Tekin and the situation is beginning to assume a serious aspect. It is intimated that unless China takes prompt action satisfactory to the Japanese government the latter may assume he initiative and cross the frontier to give protection to the Koreans.

BB FRIENDLY, URGES JAPAN. Mikado Says He Wants to Be on Good Terms with Every Nation. The Japanese Official Gazete publishes an imperial rescript in which the Emperor says : "The East and the West are dependent upon one another for the promotion of their mutual welfare, and on this account we should endeavor to cultivate tha friendship of other nations. In this w shall be acting in accordance with the sacred traditions of our forefathers and our glorious national history." The imperial rescript became public property because of an addessnade by Premier Katsura before the prefectural governors. The premier' outlined the government's economic policy and emphasized its determination to reduce unproductive expenditures. The fact that the foreign relations of Japan were increasingly cordial with all the nations, he declared, would be an incentive to the administration to remove every possible cause of friction. HOBO LEFT $30,000; HAS HOTEL. Detroit Man Becomes Boniface After Tramping for Twenty Years. II. P. Craig of Detroit, Mich., for twenty years continuously on the road as a tramp. Las purchased the Huerfano hotel in Colorado Springs and will settle down permanently. Craig's mother died in Detroit recently, leaving him $30,000. He is a member of an old family, is well educated and was admitted to the Michigan bar at 19, but left home when seized with "wanderlust," and has spent his time since with hoboes. He has tramped all over the country and practically has been lost to his family far twenty years. Kept Vow Never to Work. "Col." James A. Murray, one of the city's most pecnliar characters, died at the branch hospital in Cincinnati at the age of 52 years. Twenty years ago Murray was the leader of a plumbers strike and took a vow never to perform another lick of work if the union was not successful. The union lost and Murray, who up to that time had been an industrious and frugal workman, kept his vow, living off his wits and the indulgence of his relatives. More Officers Under Civil Service. Many Washington government offices are brought into the classified executive service under an executive order signed Friday and announced the other day. They include employes in the five civilized tribes commission, 112 in all; persons connected with logging operations of the general land office, clerks in the bureau of education, employes connected with the Indian service and scattered employes in CK her departments. Car Goes 120 Miles an Hour. In an effort to capture the world's record for speed in an automobile Washington A. Roebling, second son of Charles G. Roebling of Trenton, N. J., tried out on a private track his new 140-horse-power racing automobile, designed to develop a speed of 140 miles an hour under ideal conditions of track. It is understood that the morning test showed 120 miles an hour easy of accomplishment., Failed Bank's Cashier Suicide. Following rhe closing of the Bradford State bank at Bradford, Ark., and the issuance of a warrant for the arrest of the cashier, II. J. Drennan, who was alleged to te $10,000 short in-liis accounts, Drennan's dead body was found at his home. The shotgun with which the man evidently ended his life was found near Injunction Keeps Rates Up. The St. Louis and San Francisco railroad has filed a 3-cent per mile passenger rate tariff with the Arkansas railroad commission. The other main lines of Arkansas will file similar tariffs. The reestablishment of the 3-cent rate results from the granting-of a temporary injunction to the trunk lines of Arkansas, against the enforcement of a 2-cent rate. 100 Periled in Mine Fire. Fire in one of the galleries of the Koenigsbrnbe coal mine near Kocnigshuette, Prussia, Imperiled 100 men at work, and it was thought for a whilo that they would be lost. They escaped through an adjoiaing shaft. Twenty-three men in another gallery were brought out unconFcious. Twcnty were revived, but three SUCCümbed. Yale Students Earn $214,449. Students working their way wholly or in part through Yale earned during the year ending March 20 a total of about $214,449, according to the annual report of the bureau of self-help at the university. Fire Sufferers Need Help. Hundreds made homeless by Michigan forest fires need shelter and food and Governor Warner has issued an appeal for help. Relief work already is under way. The fire situation is improved. irown's Kin Scorn $100,000. The Lynn, Mass., brother of J. Rumham Brown, the Chicago man whose millions will found an educational institute in Ipswich, has refused an offer of $100,000 to stop his contest of BrownVi will. Serves Summons on Hearst. Summons in a suit for $000,000 charging slander and libel of Gov. Haskell was served on W. It. Hearst at Omaha by a deputy sheriff who broke in the door of a stateroom on a railway car. Robbed Mails for Many Years. Robert F. Palmer, eighteen years a letter carrier in Joliet and highly respected as a church member, has confessed, after arrest, having been robbing the mails for seventeen years. Broken Wiro Kills Man. John G. Cheney, a car conductor, was electrocuted at Holland, Ohio. The trolley pole of the car of which he was conductor left the wire and broke it. Cheney stepped to the interurban private telephone to report the accident. The trolley wire had fallen over the telephone wires.

FIRE STIRS SOUTH CHICAGO. Whole Section in Terror ai Salt Depositories Ara Destroyed. Fear of flames that threatened to destroy the homes, stores and factories of South Chicago drove thousands of persons from their beds before daybreak Friday to watch with anxiety the burning of two big warehouses filled with salt, which stretched along the west banks of the Calumet river for the entire square between K'2d and 103d streets, South Chicago. The salt warehouses, property of the International Salt Company, were only a short distance to the southward of the business district of South Chicago and the flames and blazing brands were hurled high into the air amid dense clouds of smoke by a wind that rushed steadily toward the north with almost the violence of a hurricane. The great warehouses were destroyed, and the loss on them and their contents is estimated by Superintendent James Ellison to approximate $750,000. The office of the Belt Line railroad was burned, as were also thirtyfive empty freight cars standing on sidings awaiting loading.

ANTHRACITE MINERS' SCALE. Union Recognition, Eight Hour Day and Increase of Wage3. The convention of the anthracite coal miners closed in Scranton, Pa., after making public the scale agreed to by the scale committee and approved by the delegates. The demands are as follows: "That an agreement shall be negotiated between the representatives of the miners and operators of the anthracite region, and all disputes arising under the contract shall be adjusted as provided for in the said agreement. We demand the complete recognition of the United Mine Workers of America as a party to negotiate a wage contract, ard that the United Mine Workers of America shall be recognized in our right to provide any method we may adopt for the collection of revenues for the organization. We demand an eight-hour day, with no reduction of wages, and that all employes paid $1.50 or less per day shall receive a 10 per cent advance, and all employes paid more than $1.50 and less than $2 per day shall receive a 5 per cent advance." TANK CAB EXPLOSION HURTS 6. Many Others Hurled Down a Twen-ty-Foct Embankment. Six persons were burned severely at AmhcKst, Ohio, late the other night when a tank car filled with gasoline exploded following a wreck on tile Lake Shore road. The injured are: F?re Chief John Fjnwachter, Sebastian Stolz, Herman Kahl, a fireman; A. J. Ilamel, a fireman; William Hägen, a high school student, and William Kuss. Fifty persons were hurled down a twenty-foot embankment beside the tracks. The tank car wai in the center of the west-bound freight train and the two cars immediately behind it were telescoped. The persons who were injured by the explosion hail gathered to see the firemen extinguish the blaze, which caught from the hot box. TRAMP THRASHED BY A WOMAN. Knight of Road Becomes a Badly Whipped Person. " Mrs. John S'uyder of Riverside, Pa., who weighs 275 iounds, dusted the roadside with a tramp who had insulted her. When she was through with him the knight of the road was a pitiable sight. The tramp went to the Snyder farm house and after being given something to eat discovered Mrs. Snyder was alone and iusulted her. Mrs. Snyder knocked him down, picked him up again, rau him to the road, held him with one hand, and beat him with the other. Neighbors, hearing the tramp's shrieks, ran to Mrs. Snyder's aid. They wanted to lynch the man, but she insisted the punishment she had given was severe enough. U. S. IMPORTS LESS 0PIULI. Government Figurea Show Decrease, Though Total Reaches $1,350,000. That the opium traffic in this country is on the decline is indicated by figures compiled by tha bureau of statistics in Washington. This shows that opium imports decreased $250,0 JO in 1008, as compared to the previous year. Thus far this year the Chinese empire has supplied this country with $1,322,001 worth of opium, while from elsewhere the opium imports amount to ?14,012. BROKER KILLS GIRL AND SELF. Sewell Sleuman Puts Cash in Banks, Warns Police and Ends Two Lives. After putting $25,000 in the banks to pay his creditors and telephoning the police that a tragedy was about to take place, Sewell Sleuman, a wealthy Omaha grain operator, killed Miss Eva Hirt at the girl's home ami then killed himself. Mr. Sleuman, who was well known for the fight he made on the Chicago Board of Trade, left a wife and five children. Jocko Briggs Gets Two Years. "Jocko"' Briggs,- who escaped being hanged in Chicago five years ago for the murder of Hans Peterson by the narrowest of margins, is in jail in Cleveland, Ohio, and will be taken to the Ohio penitentiary to serve a two years sentence for pocket-picking. Briggs was tried under th,e name of Joseph King and admitted his identity only after he had been convicted. i40 Students Poisoned. About 140 of the students and teachers of the South Lancaster Academy at South Lancaster, Mass., are suffering from ptomaine poisoning, believed to have resulted from eating canned corn. During the whole of one night practically all the doctors in Lancaster and Clinton were kept busy. No sessions of school were held the next day. . Immense Cathedral Begun. An era of extensive church building in St. Louis culminated Sunday in the laying by Bishop Falconio of the corner stone of the new Catholic Cathedral, which when completed will, cost more than $2,000,000, and in the dedication of the Second Baptist Church at King's Highway and McPherson avenue, which has just been completed at a cost of $250,000. Balrd Guilty of Land Fraud. The federal court jury in Omaha, in the case of Frederick S. Baird of Chicago, charged with attempting to defraud the government out of public lands in Imwcs county, Nebraska. ly fictitious entries, has returned a verdict of guilty on six counts. Baird is the head of the Chicago Ranch Company. Four Children Die in Fire. An overheated stove set fire to a dwelling house at Summit, a mining town ten miles west of Altoona, and four children lost their lives, while two other persons were probably fatally injured. Gould Pinched in Panic. Howard Gould pleads that he was pinched in the panic, at the trial of his wife's suit for $125,000 a year alimony and also asserts that the woman's vulgarity, profanity and drunkenness forced him to leave her. "Wets" Will Contest Election. The returns of the electiou held under the Rose law as certified to the board of elections shows that Futnam county, Ohio, went "dry" by a majority of 21, instead of "wet" by a majority of 145, as the unofficial returns indicated. The 'wets'

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THE eASEBALL WORLD Final Victory Over Detroit dives Chicago Team Greatest Record in History of Game. OUTCLASS TIGERS EVERY WAY. Michigan Fans Admit Chance Has Fast and Accurate Machine that Knows AH Tricks. Final Game. The victor Chicago Cubs The vanquished Detroit Tigen The score It. II. E Cubs 1 0001000 02 10 C Tigers . ....0 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 00 3 C The batteries For Chicago Overall and Kling. For Detroit Donovan and Schmidt. Attendance C.21C Gross receipts ?9,577 5C Each club owner's share 4,30!) 87 National commission 957 75 Totals for Five Games. Attendance C2,232 Gross receipts .' $94,970 00 riayers pool (four games)... 40,115 19 Cubs' slrare (21 players) 27,000 11 Each player 1,317 57 Tigers' share (20 players).... 1S.410 OS Each player 022 CO Each club owner's share 19.GS1 00 National commission 0,497 CO The total attendance for five games last year was 78.0SC, and the gross receipts $101,728.50. Chicago will hold its world's baseball championship title at least another year. The Cubs by shutting out the Tigers at Detroit Wednesday, 2 to 0, established themselves as the monarchs of the diamond. They eliminated the Tigers in fou rout of five games and won their glory In the most zlean-cut and decisive manner. In their long struggle for another title Df world-beaters the Cubs overcame every obstacle In a thorny path, and now stand out above all tbeir rivals in a class by themselves. In driving the Gnal spike through the rennant and into the masthead the Cubs gave the Tigers their worst trouncing of the entire series. Give Foes Their Dent. To wind up the bobbins of the American League champions the Cu)s wont at them with the best they had at their disposal and fought an aggressive battle from the very outset. The confidence of the National Leaguers was marked. They kDew as well ns they knew their names that lluy were the masters of the. Tigers, and every catch, every tbraud every move by the Cubs bespoke their superior kill as mechanics and their absolute confidence In each other and the team as a whole. In justice to Manager Jennings and the Tigers they must be awarded much credit for the game stand they made. While It was a foregone conclusion that the fhibs would capture the big share of glory, the Tigers put up as valiant a stand in the last ditch as ever a beaten baud of athletes did. Their battle to keep Chicago's total of runs down was superb, especially as there was small hope held out to the Tigers of getting any runs for themselves off Overall. Every man in the Detroit outfield helped to protect Donovan by at .least one catch that brought surprise to the faces of the Cubs. It was errorless ball all the way through for the Tigers as well as for the CuVr, but the play which stuck out like a sore thumb was O'Lcary's dash back into center field for Tinker's Texas leaguer in the fifth inning. The shortstop reached the ball just as he fell to the ground. He went over on his head, but, when Crawford picked him up, was still holding the ball. Although that catch was made with nolxnly on the bases. It was mighty lucky for the Tigers, for Evers hit a two-bagger later in the Inning, and without O'Lcary's startling piece of fielding another tally would have resulted for the Cubs. In the attack upon Donovan there was glory enough for all of the cubs, but to Evers and C.'iance went most of the hits. The manager and the Trojan bagged three clean whacks apiece, one of the leader's being a bunt, which he beat, from Coughlin to first. While the integrity of the national game heeds no defense, it brought great satisfaction to the Cubs to be able to say they put the Tigers out of business in four out of five games. Last year they did it In four straight. NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS. A course in mental heeling will form part of the curriculum at Tufts college, at Boston, Mass., this year. The Michigan Federation of Labor went on record in favor of woman suffrage and against prohibition. Two persons were killed and three probably fatally hurt when an auto leaped an embankment at Ashland, Pa. The list of doad in the collision at Young's Point has now reached twentyone and the injured are placed at nine. The cutting mill of the Williamsport (Pa.) nail works was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $75,000 to $100,000. About 250 men are thrown out of work. Specifications inviting bids for dredging Pearl uarltor, Hawaii, where the United States is to establish an important naval station at an estimated cost of $2,500,000, have Lecn issued at Washington, D. . After a police search extending to all ports of the United States and Europe, Dr. George Morton of New York was arrested in Philadelphia on the charge of obtaining $100,000 by means of fraudulent notes. The exploding of a tire on an automobile containing six persons, near Mount Eden, Cab, overturned the car and all of the' occupants were injured, but none fatally. Three men lost their lives on th Toronto, Ilamjlton and Buffalo railway when a burning trestle gave way, precipitating a freight train into the dry bed of a stream. An attempt to kill Joseph Ganster, a grocer at Reading, Ta., and his family by exploding dynamite under his home was made the other day, the members of the family being thrown cut of bed, but not

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CHICAGO. The Weekly Review of Chicago Trade, published by It. (J. Dun & Co., says: Payments through the banks, as reflected by the volume of bank clearings, are the greatest in over five months, and now compare closely witEi the normal Commercial defaults again make an encouraging exhibit in decreased numbers and liabilities, but there is yet evidence of liquidation on old indebtedness, although not adversely affecting the improved position of credits. Business generally indicates a moderate gain in activity, particularly at factories and in merchandising, but caution remains the keynote, and new demands fall short of expectations in iron and steel. An outstanding feature is the gradual increase of machinery and hands employed in production. Soma plants engaged in metal, wood and leather working have become larger consumers of crude supplies, and their outputs mainly exceed those of a month ago, although only in a few instances is there closer approach to the former active capacity. Ship buildiug Las lapsed into further dullness, and lake tonnage compares unfavorably with a year ago. Better indications are found in rail and furnace oierations, car building, heavy construction, farm implements and machinery. Weather conditions have favored a seasonable expansion in leading retail lines, and local sales reflect a gratifying distribution of necessaries. Dealings make a fair aggregate in dry goods, food products, men's furnishings and footwear. Mail orders include numerous supplementary lists for immediate shipments to the interior. Bank clearings, $213.279,108, are 9.7 per cent under tüose of corresponding week in 1907. , Failures "reported in the Chicago district number 21, against 25 last week and 18 a year ago. Those-with liabilities over $5,000 number 2, agaiust 5 last week and 5 in 1907. NEW YORK. Continued warm, unseasonable weather and the approach of the national election tend to hamper distribution of seasonable merchandise, the purchase of any but immediate necessities and the projection of new enterprises. On the balance industry is slightly more active, some branches of the iron trade having increased forces, while building is more brisk; but at the same time drought or low water in various navigable streams tend to affect such lines as coke, waterway navigation and iiper mills. Kailway tonnige is heavier, and current gross earnings phow smaller decreases than for any time in the past ten months. Summed up, caution still prevails but confidence is very strong, and therefore natural conditions, together with light stocks, should produce a marked degree of expansion after the turn of the new year. Until then repression seems to te the policy, the hand-to-mouth buying movement is deemed to be the part of wisdom, and new enterprises are being held in abeyance, either by the credit-giving institutions or by their projectors. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Oct. .15 number 244, against 250 last week, 194 in the like week of 1907, 170 In 1090, 178 in 1905 and 227 in 1901. Business failures in Canada for the week number 29, as against 31 last week and 30 in this week of 1907. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.07; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.80; wheat, No. 2, 99c ti $1.00; corn, No. 2, 78c to 79c; oats, standard, 47c to 49c; rye, No. 2, 71c to 72c; hay, timothy, $8.00 to $13.00; prairie, $8.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 24c; potatoes, per bushel, 52c to fOe. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.75; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $0.25 ; sheep, -common to prime, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No.2, $1.00 to $1.01 ; corn, No. 2 white, 7('c to 77c; oats, No. 2 white, 48c to 49c. St. Louis Cattle, $1.50 to $7.50; hogs, $1.00 to $0.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.35; wheat, No. 2, $1.02 to $1.01; corn, No 2, 75c to 70c; oats, No. 2, 47c to 48c; rye, No. 2, 75c to 7Gc. Cincinnati Cattle. $1.00. to $5.25; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.05 to $1.00; corn, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 79e; oats. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c ; rye, No. 2, SOc to 82c. Detroit Cattle, $1.00 to $4.50; hogs, $1.00 to $5.40; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1.02; corn, No. 3 yellow, 80c to 81c; oats. No. 3 white, 50c to' 51c; rye. No. 2, 77c to 78c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.02 to $1.01; corn, No. 3, 77c to 78c; oats, standard, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 1, 75c to 70c; barley, No. 1, C5c to CGc; pork, mess, $13.50. New York Cattle, $1.00 to $0.40; hogs, $3.50 to $0.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.08 to $1.09; corn, No. 2, 78c to 79c; oas, natural white, 52c to 51c; butter, creamery, 25c to 27c; eggs western, 21c to 2Ge. . Buffalo Cattle, clwice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.40; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.15; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.0O to $4.75; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.10. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.01 to $1.(3 ; corn, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 7Sc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; rye. No. 2, 77c to 79c; clover seed, pctober, $5.02. 1 1 1 s Bartels, Thelen & Co., i&oe manufacturers of 'Boston and Chelsea, made a general assignment for the benefit of creditors. The liabilities are estimated at between $100,000 aud $500,000. J. Q. Wellington, a druggist of Colorado Springs, was run down and instantly killed on Pike's Peak avenue, that city, by an automobile. The driver of the car made his escape aud his identity is unkuown. Arnold Lawson, son of Thomas W. Iiwson, announced in Boston that it had been decided to sell the Lawson stables at auction in New York this fall. The Equitable Life Assurance Society has sold its holdings of 2,500 shares in the First National Bank of Chicago, receiving $100 a share. Mrs. Armar D. Saunderson, formerly Miss Anne M. Archbold, daughter of John IK Arehbold, has presented to tLe American Museum of Natural History in New York mounted specimens of the rare bongo of the antelope family, and of the forest or giant pig, which she obtained from natives in Eldamo ravine, British East Africa, these being the first specimens of both animals ever brought to this country. Government experts are endeavoring to find some means of lengthening the life of lumber by chemical; treatment.

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Refugees from Metz, Mich., Are Trapped by Forest Fires and a Score Perish. FIFTEEN SKELETONS FOUND. Engineer and Fireman Have Thrilling Escape After Seeking Safety in Vain in Water Tank. Nearly a score of men, women and children, refugees from the Michigan forest fires that have destroyed seven towns and have caused property losses estimated at several million dollars, were burned to death In a relief train wreck Friday. The train, consisting of box cars, after leaving the town of Metz in the upper peninsula, struck a burned out culvert and left the track. The passengers were trapped on all sides by the flames and cremated in a fiery furnace. Fifteen charred skeletons were found in the burned wreck. The forest fires above Alpena, In Tresque Isle county, suddenly become threatening Thursday, after It was believed that the heavy rains early in the month had extinguished them. They spread rapidly and soon were menacing a number of towns along the line of the Detroit and Mackinac Railroad. The village of Metz, with about 100 Inhabitants, -lay In the path of fhe flames. Its situation became dangerous Thursday night. Relief Train of Box fan. The railroad sent in a relief train of box cars. Household goods and mercantile 6tocks were loaded on some of the cars and the people filled the others. How many were taken aboard Is not known, nor Is It known whether any of the farmers from outlying points had come Into Metz seeking refuge from the flames. With its load of frightened men, women and chirdren the train pulled out of Metz about midnight and started for the north, with flames along the tracks on both sides. The cars proceeded toward the north as far as Hawk's station, about half-way between Metz and Millersburg. There the fire was sweeping across the track so fiercely as to make further progress in that direction Impossible and the train was headed back toward the south for Alpena. While rushing through the fire and smoke the engine struck a culvert which had been burned. It left tbe rails and fell into the ditch. Engineer Foster and Fireman Lee took refuge In a water tank, where they stayed until the water became so hot that they had to leave the tank and run for their lives. They, with Conductor KInville, realizing that the train was hopelessly ditched and that to remain with it meant certain death, started to Tosen. They left the wreck and escaped by crawling along the tracks on their hands and knees, with the forests on both sides roaring furnaces. Conductor KInville Is reported to be blind from his burns, but Foster and Lee ore understood to be not severely Injured. There are reports that several others escaped with the trainmen. George Boston, a travellnj salesman, was on the derailed rescue train, but succeeded In reaching Tosen, where he arrived badly burned. He says that one car of the train was filled with men, women and children and that probably about twenty must have perished in the fire. Two-Men Flyla Record. Using a more powerful motor and propeller than formerly, Wilbur Wright made a "new record flight at Le Mans, France, when Iiis aeroplane carried himself and a reporter for the Paris Figaro through the air at high speed for fifty-five minutes and thirty-two seconds, the latter part of the flight being after dark had settled down over the field. The speed with passenger was 37.87 miles an hour. Lazare Weiller, the Paris financier and promoter of invention, has ordered the construction of a flock of Wright aeroplanes, and all Franco is rejoicing at the prospect of taking the lead of other nations in this new industry and possible means of defense. 31 n 100,000 Yeara Ago. Trof. Peuck of Berlin is coming to New York soon to lecture on the Interesting anthropological discovery ha a wonderful cave at Santis, Switzerland. In it Dr. Pachler has unearthed numerous remains of a colony of bears, with a quantity of human bones of the prepaleolithic period. It is held that the men lired in the cave and ate the bears, which had been hunted and killed. Trof. Teuck claims to have proved the. life represented in these remains must have had its being in the interglacial time or before the last glacial modification of the Alps. That would make the time about 100,000 years ago. NUBBINS OF NEWS. Representatives of the coal miners of Washington and the coal operators met recently and signed an agreement for the present wage scale to be in force for the next two years. Tresldent Roosevelt has told Israel ZangwiU. the playwright, who was his guest at lunch-on, that the line, "Not be ing American, we hold our tioth sacred, in "The Melting Tot," was an unjust slur uDon American domestic life and suzsrested that it be changed, which suggestion Zangwill is considering. F. T. Ecker and S. Ecker were sentenced at Clarksburg, W. Ya., to four years in the penitentiary for making spurious nickels, which were used to work slot machines. Grand Duchess Elizabeth, widow of Grand Duke Sergius, who was assassinated at Moscow in 1905, has retired to a Russian convent near Moscow. She may decide to take the veil. At a reception in the Lyric Theater, New York, under the auspices of the United Irish League, John E. Redmond and Joseph Devlin, the Irish envoys, were given a rousirg reception by a large audience. A gift of $500,000 to Tufts college under the provisions of the Braker will, recently probated in New York, was announced to Tufts students at Medford, Mass. The money is to be used as a foundation for a school of finance and accounts. D. M. Carr, an advocate of parcelspost legislation, in an address before the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association at Omaha, Neb., urged the passage of the Burnham congressional bill, which, he contended, would make the rural postal service self-sustaining. He said onecent postage, if it should become effective, would entail a loss of millions of dol-

inCHIGAN'S FOKEST FERES. Million Acres of Timber Land Have Been Burned Over This Year. This year's forest fires in Michigan are among the most destructive that havo ever visited the State. Fires in 1S71 swept a strip- of forty miles wide and ISO miles long, extending across the central part of tbe State from Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. At this time more than 4,000,000,000 feet of timber la board measure was destroyed, entailing a financial loss of $10,000,000 and reciting in the deaths of several hundred persons. Ten years later, in September, 1&S1, more than 1.S00 square miles in various parts of Michigan were swept by forest fires. This resulted in a loss in property of $2,300,000, in addition to the timber destroyed. The number of lives

lost was estimated at from 150 to 500, j ana more than 5,000 persons were rendered destitute. This year's fires, while not involving great sacrifice of life, are wofully destructive of timber. Prof. Roth, Sfcte forester of Michigan, who has visited the burned districts in the northen: parts of the State, says that at the lowest calculation a million acres of timber have been burned over this year, including between 3,000 and 4,000 acres of the Michigan forest reserve. To re tlmber this land will cost $5 per acre, and the new growth destroyed was easily worth as much more, so that the total loss in these two items alone will approximate $10,000,000. Id addition there was the merchantable timber, the farm dwellings and even villages that fell prey to the flames, bringing the total loss up to startling proportions. Michigan was once the home of magnificent forests, but they have been frittered away until now only a reminder of their, former magnitude remains. Where the timber barons have not stripped the land of Its wealth forest fires have been permitted to rage at will, aside from the efforts put forth by settlers in checking their progress, and millions of dollars that might have been saved by the exercise of proper caution have gone up In smoke. Forest fires differ greatly, but In any event the results are the same a blackened waste that will for a generation or more be practically worthless even for agricultural purposes. The rich mold covering the ground, and which may have been accumulating for, ages, is burned ovVr, the nitrogen extracted and the soil rendered useless for years to come. There Is no more magnificent exhibit tlon of unrestrained force than that furnished by a forest fire. The spectacle Is one never to be forgotten, and well worth witnessing, provided you are at a safe distance and have - no financial interests In the district devastated. Onward the flames 6wcep, forming a wall of fire as high as the trees devoured. The roar is as of a thousand trains, and the crackling of the flames as they leap greedily from tree to tree, licking up everything Inflammable, reaching out for fresh prey, Is easily distinguishable above all other sounds. Nothing is spared. The higher the tree, the more greedy the tongues of flame that dart forth to envelop it Filling the air for miles around Is a dense cloud of pungent smoke that chokes the 'lungs and makes breathing difficult. The country Is hidden from view, and It is often difficult to see more than a few feet away. And through it all can be distinguished at times the sun high overhead like a great ruby ball, strangely emblematic of the ofien futile struggle for life being waged in the plague-stricken district. VSJ Locks like Bill is going to be elected. Open season for political broadsides. The most popular college this year is the electoral college. The habit of burning letters ought to be taught in the schools. That Dr. Rustin of Omaha must have been a cheerful citizen. China has decided not to let France elide down its cellar door. No campaign is really hot until the election judges begin to fight. That is an ominous shadow which the cholera is casting over Manila. Business is beginning to pick up. Look at the ready letter-writer industry. Lots of people can see political rain bows without going up ia airships. Nobody's being kept awake by the noise of the c-ampaigu contributions. Airship trips by moonlight. For re served seats apply to Wright brothers. The American fleet is experiencing all sorts of novelties, including a typhoon. The poor little tuberculosis germ will cow have time to take a little needed rest. This country's ecord-breaking pump kin crop ought to make pie lovers laugh. The new Chinese minister-elect, Chung Men Yew, has a name like a midnight cat. If the freak styles in hats keeps on. next thing we w ill have a men's millinery tore. Things seem to indicate that we are now living in the United States of Standard Oil. Is giving $7,000 automobiles to acfresses a pastime among needy Wall street brokers? Bulgaria thought she might as well take a slice of freedom while it was going around. Who would have believed that the ma chinery of politics had been so completely oiled up? Not in it now unless you hare either a new cure for consumption or a Standard Oil letter. The case of Thaw shows that even in jail the bill collector will get you if you don't watch out. An automobilist who is not fined now and then considers that Le might as well not have a machine. This warning against collecting campaign money sounds like a grim joke to the committee treasurers. Hunting bears in automobiles in Yellowstone Park. Now it's up to the President to hunt African lions in an airship. There are 117,404 paupers in London, not to speak of the J,204,407 other people who conceal the fact that they haven't any money. Landslides are great things unless you happen to be caught under the landslide. IiOoks like good business with the Wrights selling 50 aeroplanes at one time. An elephane in the Bronx too in New York was frightened by pumas and ran away. After frightening women until they were driven nearly into the reptile tanks the animal sought refuge among the snakes, where he was chained up for the night

The great w hite plague costs the people of the United States over a billion dollars each year. This statement was made by Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale before one of the sections of the tuberculosis congress. He estimates that consumption kills 138,000 evry year in the United States. This is etrual to the deaths frontyphoId fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, appendicitis, meningitis, diabetes, smallpox and cancer all put together. Then again, it generally takes three years to die, during which time the poor victim can earn little or nothing. Finally the scourge picks out its victims when they are" young men and young women, at the very time they are beginning to earn money. The minimum cost of su ;h items as doctor's bills, medicines, nursing and loss of earnings before death amounts to over $2,400 In each case, while tbe earning power which "might have teen," if death had not come, brings the total cost to at least $S.000. If this is multiplied by the 13S.000 deaths, we find tbe cwt is bigger than the almost Incalculable sum of $1,000,000,000. Prof. Fisher estimates that over half of this cost generally falls- on the luckless victim himself, but the cost to others Is over $440,000,000 a year. As a matter of selfdefense it would he worth while to the community, he shows, in order to save merely a quarter of the lives now lost by consumption, to invest $5.500,000,000. At present only a fraction of 1 per cent of this money Is being used to fight tbe disease. Five mlion people now living in the United States are doomed to fill cousumpt Ives' graves unless something is done to prevent it As each death means anxiety and grief for a whole family, he estimated that there will be over 20.000,000 persons rendered miserable by these deaths. It has been reported that District Attorney Jerome of New York had been asked by William Nelson Cromwell, organizer of big trusts and counsel for the government In the purcbase of Panama Canal rights, to Investigate charges of blackmail against one Alexander E. Bacon, who claims to have found evidence that a part at least of the $40,000,000 paid for those rigUs by the United - States went to Cromwell indirectly. The story told was to the effect that American financiers had bought largely the stock of the French company prior to the purchase by the American government It was said that the Cromwell syndicate had netted $30.500,000 In the deal. By order of the Secertary of War an Investigation has been liegun at New York of charges brought by Presidnt Brothers of the Balanced Cab'.e Crane Company of Baltimore, who claims that he was deprived of a contract for Panama Canal work, although he was the lowest bidder. -: :- Ever since the passage of tbe pure food law, manufacturers have complained of the Injustice of denying them the use ot the small amount of preservatives necessary to keep certain kinds of food products from fermcatation or other form of deterioration. Professor Wiley of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture has appointed a pure fool committee, to represent the different States having pure food laws, the object of which will be to harmonize the State laws with the laws of the government The commit te will aho, wthout doubt define what is a safe amount of preservative to be used. It is said that there has been an increase of ptomaln-pol-sonlng since the jwre food . law went Into effect, but perhaps the statement like some of the food products, can best be taken with a grain of salt or of boracic acid. After taking observations of the Wright trial flights t Fort Myer, the Navy Department has set forth the requirements of aeroplanes that will be acceptable to that department for use in scouting and dispatch bearing. They must be able to float on the water and rise from It without extra aid. They mi st be supported wholly by the air without the .aid of a gas bag. Each machine Is to carry two jicrsons and a sufficient amount of fuel for a continuous flight of 2i0 miles for four hours at an average speed of forty miles an hour.. They must le able to light without damage on either land or water and float on the water without wetting any of the supporting areas. The Secretary of the Navy has written a letter to RoVrt Conklin, master of sruis at the. United States naval training statiou at Newport, commending him for his fearless action In Jumping overboard fully dressed and rescuing from drowning Woodward Thelrw, a G-year-old boy, at Newport, Aug. 2I last The army board of physicians which was ordered by the department to ex amine Colonel W. F. Stewart, the exiled oilicer at Fort Grant who came under the displeasure of President Roosevelt has reported that Stewart Is suffering from heart disease, and Is blind In his right eye, these ailments having been incurred in active service. The -doctors are of the opinion that the colonel is unfit for uUive service. Tostmaster General Meyer has sent a circular letter to postmasters throughout the United States Instructing them to confer with the local school authorities, with a view to arranging talks or other method of Instruction on how to address letters, and on the working of the postal system. The occasion for the letter is the fact that last year more than thirteen million pieces of mall-matter were sent to the dead-letter office, most of them, of course, U'cause they were not properly addressed. In the Juvenile court Judge De La cey rendered a decision maintaining the constitutionality of the act to regulate child labor in the District of Co lumM. and decided that newspapers Jn the sense In which they are named In? the act are not merchandise. The boys may sell papers out of school hours. -: :- Director Leach, of the mint has re fumed the purchase of silver at tbe rate of 125,000 ounces a week for the uljsidiary coinage.