Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 November 1908 — Page 2

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Tt P. Q.F. M. (T L. Q.N. M. .1? 1st, vysth. V 15th.'; X 23rd. PAST AND PßESEXT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Manx Many Killed by Tornado. According to advices received at Little Rock, Ark., meagre because of the remoteness of the section affected, more than a score of lives were lost and many other persons were injured in a tornado which swept the northwester! bcrtion of Arkansas, completely demolishing several towns and razing vas: tracts of timber. The section reportel storm swept is removed from both te'egraph and railroads and necessarily details and confirmation of many of the leports are lacking. At Piney it is said twelve persons were killed and a number injured. Practically the entire settlement was demolished. At London ten are reported to have lost their lives and considerable damage to property occurred. Wallerville and Jethro aro reported destroyed, several fatalities occurring In each place. In the vicinity of Mulberry the death list is placed at five. At Berryville one vornan, Mrs. J. O. Hoskins, was seriously injured and several other persons sustained lesjer injuries. A luth one hundred yards wide was cut through the town, six buildings being completely wrecked and a number of others damaged, either being torn from their foundations or unroofed. Here the property loss is estimated at about J23.000. Explosion Kills Ten or More. Tea or more persons are dead and tvice as many injured as a result of an explosion on the Mississippi river steamer H. M. Carter, near Bayou Gouia, about 100 miles north of New Orleans, La. The boiler of the Carter exploded while the steamer was on its way from New Orleans to Baton Rouge with a earfeo of general merchandise and fifty cr more passengers. To add to the horror of the disaster fire succeeded the explosion and the boat was burned to the water's edge. Reliable reports from Barou Goula are that fifteen persons are missing, and that the loss of life will be about the same number, and about that number were injured. Diphtheria Record in Indiana. The havoc wrought by diphtheria throughout Indiana during the month of October, 1908, is shown in figures just compiled by the State Board of Health from the monthly reports of the County Board3 of Health. In all there were 1,600 cases and 47 deaths. The State Board of Health has renewed its fight on diphtheria and is sending broadcast ovsr the State circulars giving Instructions in preventing, diagnosing and treating the disease. Indiana Girl Has Fine School Record. Miso'Goldie Gibson, of North Salem, Ind., it is jbelieved, hold3 a State record for school attendance. She is a High School pupil now in her third year, who has not been tardy, sick or absrent in her eleven years of school life. In addition, all her grades have been good. She hopes to complete the twelve-year course and graduate with the record unbroken. Find Fcot and Mouth Disease. The discovery In Philadelphia, Pa., of the presence of foot and mouth disease among cattle, which is prevalent in more than ten counties in Pennsylvania, Is causing much anxiety to the authorities and they are doing everything in their power tar check the spread of the disease. Crape Stolen From Door. The crape on the door of the home of Mrs. Lotta Wells. South Third street, Terre Haute, Ind. was stolen. Her son Elmer, aged 37 years, lay dead in the house. Persons sitting up were at the door at 2 o'clock and the crape then In place, but at breakfast time it was gone. Powder Blast Kills Two. Two men are dead and two others probably fatally injured as the result of the explosion of a blast of three keg3 of powder in excavating work along the tracks of the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville railroad near Cincinnati, Ohio. Three Ohio Counties Vote Dry. By majorities respectively 766, 600 and 973, Jefferson, Sandusky and Clermont Counties voted dry, knocking out 210 salocns. Prince County voted wet by 15. Michigan Cattle Afflicted. , It Is reported at Detroit, Mich., that more than forty cases of foot and mouth disease have been discovered in herd3 of cattle in Livonia Township, In Wayne County. Bank Breaks Following Run. The First National Bank of Fort Scott. Kan., one of the oldest banks in the State, closed its doors Friday morning. The lunk had deposits of $702,000. The closing followed a run on the bant, during which depositors withdrew $50,-000.

Four Die in Burning Building. A building of the Crystal Ice Company's storage plant in Mount Cafmel, Pa., was destroyed by Ore, and Adam Counwller, bis wife and child and Monroe Snyder, who had sleeping quarters in the place, were burned to death. Uses Frank, Loses Job, Fined. On a plea of guilty. Judge Carland of the United States court in Sioux Falls, S. D., has fined Anson Wager $.'100. Wagar was ouce United States commissioner at Dallas, S. I- and used his frank on postal cards of a private character, lie was removed from office several days ago by Judge Carlr.nd. Jumps from a Train Windov. Earl Wheeler. 13 years old. of JanesTille, is., escaped from a reform school officer by jumping through a window of a car going forty miles an hour. , The boy was uninjured and got away.

ST. PIERRE FOR ANNEXATION.

Islanders Carry United States Flag While Demanding Free School3. 1 emonstrations approaching rioting 'i.tvi resulted from tlie demand for free schools, and a nio! which besieged the sovernnirir house in St. Pierre, Mip. bore ar its head an American fiag and shouted for annevtion to the United States. The pM;!e wan: i he schools, which have been dosed by the government, thrown open free t all and with religious instruction permitted. Over 1 , n M persons joined the march on the governor's residence. Temporary order was restored by a promise that the demands would be cabled to the authorities in Paris, with a request for an immediate reply. This island, owned by France, is not far from Newfoundland, and if the trouble becomes more serious a British warship may be ordered there, ts France has none in that vicinity. The police force is entirely inadequate to cope with the situation. ! The belief is held that should the French government refuse to reconsider its action the annexation party at St. Pierre will endeavor to induce the United States to purchase the colony. SENTENCED FOR LAND FRAUD. J. H. Edmisten Must Serve Four Months and Pay $1,000 Fine. Despite the earnest pleas of his lawyers for clemency in view of the Ions public, service of the defendant, .lames Harvey Edmisten, former Populist State chairman and State oil inspector under Governor Ilolcomb, was sentenced in Omaha to a fine of $1.000 and four months in Lincoln county jail on the charge of conspiracy to d?fraud the government out of large tracts of public land. Edmisten was first indicted in June. r.HK. In February of last year his bond was declared forfeited on his failure to appear for trial. This order was later set aside, however, on proicr showing that illness prevented his presence in court. In behalf of Edmisten it was contended that there had been no thatochad therrmvoseeLra Omthe AA violation of the law. and that not an acre of land had been secured under the fraudulent entries. Edmisten pleaded guilty, to the charge of conspiracy. Other charges of perjury, subornation of perjury and forgery were dismissed. CAPT. 0. M. CARTER IN NEW JOB. Managing Plant of Mexico, Mo., Brick and Fire Clay Company. Oberlin Montgomery Carter, former captain of the engineer corps of the United States army, was found the other day acting as the superintendent of the Mexican Brick and Fire Clay Company, whose plant in Mexi-o. Mo., was recently purchased by a New York syndicate. ' ExCaptain Carter was reticent concerning his case in the federal courts in Chicago, and refused to discuss the merits of bis case against the United States government, lie has been in Mexico more than a month, but few persous knew his identity. Carter is an unrelenting worker, and lives in his office. He said : "I do not care for any more newspaper notoriety. I accepted the position of manager for the Mexico Brick and Fire Clay Company's plant and am too busily engaged in its affairs to discuss my personal business." HUGE DEAL IN TOBACCO. Growers Force Great Combine to Come to Time. The American Tobacco Company has been made to bow down to the Rur'ey Tobacco Society, some of whose members unoflkially formed the bands of marauders known as "night riders," who resorted to tactics that were unlawful and sacrificed many lives to attain their ends. By a deal between the Burley Tobafco Society and the American Tobacco Company closed Thursday the 10OJ and part of the. 1!M7 crop of tobacco, involving 80.000,000 pounds, becomes the property of the American Tobacco Company at a cost of almost $14,000,000. The average price per ound for the ICHJti crop was 20 ' cents, and 17 cents for the 1 crop. There is great rejoicing in Kentucky among the night riders and those who sympathize with them. PRISON FOR DESERTING TO WED. One Year for Musician Who Won Hand of Gorman's Daughter. Secretary Metcalf has approved the sentence in the case of Charles J. nartlove, musician, alias C. JL. Magness, win deserted to marry the daughter of the late Senator .Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland. The punishment is imprisonment for one year in the naval prison at Portsmouth, N. H.t and dishonorable discharge. The plea of Hartlove's counsel was that he "was in a state of mind that might be called delirium in anticipation of hir honeymoon. I Villain Was Too Realistic. An intoxicated man. who Itelieved the villain in the play was in dead earnw, nearly put a sUp to a theatrical performance in the opera house in RedfieM, Sj I)., and created a small sized panic. No sooner had the villain struck the supposed death blow with a long, gleamink knife than th drunken man arose unsteadily from his seat and made for the stage. Sheriff Hopkins chanced to be sitting near and arrested the disturber. Hunt Rabbit; Find $3,C00. While digging around a hole in which a rabbit had disappeared, Edward Woods and Thomas Dickinson. lumbermen em ployed near Oil City, Pa., uncovered an iron kettle containing $3,000 in gold coins and $22 in silver. Old residents of that section believe the money was buried by John Caldwell, an eccentric farmer, who died in an insane asylum nearly thirty years ago. Auto Takes River Plunge. A plunge into the Calumet river, causing tie death of a man and a woman, brought to an end early the other morn ing an automobile ride of a party of Chicago merry-makers. Six other men and women, the remainder of the group, had a narrow escape, being rescued from the icy waters by four witnesses of the accident. Elkins Marriage Not Likely. A high official of the Foreign Office in Rome, when asked : "Do you know anything about the betrothal of the Duke J of the Abruzzi and Miss Elkins?" KakJ : "That is an affair which concerns the royal family. I do not know how mat ters stand, but my own presentiment is that the marriage will not take place." Inventor Sells Patent and Dies. Patrick J. Creedon, an inventor of N n&ra Falls. . N. Y wis found it.l I his bed at the Burnet House in Cincin nati. Creedon went there to disnose of patent bit and the previous day a contract was urawn up ior me sale of his invention to a newly organized company for $31.000. Girls Injured In Accident. A platform bearing 100 girls employed at the Mercantile eorporat ion's plant in Dayton, Ohio, collapsed while the young women were being photographed, precipitating its burden to the ground. Fourteen were more or less injured, but all escaped death and but three were seri ously hurt. Van Vlissingen Assets Increase. Real estate owned by Peter Vah Vlis singen, Chicagos arch swindler, will bring total of assets up to $03,000. His wife is believed entirely dependent o her

own efforts to make & living.

TWELVE MEN DIE IN BLAST.

Buried in Deep Excavation by Explosion ol a Gas Main. Twelve men me believed tr have been killed by the explosion of a gas main in an excavation at Gold and Froat streets. Brooklyn. X. V. The explosion tore the street to pieces for rods on each side, and the men who wer' working in an excavation for a large sewer pipe were buried under the debris. They are believed to have been smothered or burned to death in the fire that followed the explosion. Samuel Trout, who lived near the scene, lost his life in attempting to save a woman who was passing through (Jold street at the time of the explosion and fell into the trench. .Trout was caught by the flames from the gas main and roasted to death. The woman 'was dragged out of the trench by a boy. The workmen were digging a trench through Gold street for a thirty-six-inch sewer pipe. The excavation was to be nearly forty feet deep, and ns the laborers removed the earth the walls were shored up with large timbers. An accumulation of gas from a main which had been accidentally broken during the course of the work suddenly exploded with tremendous force. The suporting timbers were riped away and theearthen walls toppled over on t hartes Schiit meyer. a city in spector, and his men. A large water main also was broken by the explosion end a torrent began to spurt up throuzh the mass of wreckage. Side by side with he water roared the flames, fed by gas escaping from the broken main. REPAYS WHIPPING BY TEACHER Boy of 25 Years Ago Keeps Promise and Beats Aged Pedagogue. Twenty-five years n;o, Hubert üamble. now, a prosperous farmer living near (Jreensfork, Ind.. received severe punish ment at the hanriri of William Baldwin. teacher of the county school which Gamble attended. Gamble then told Baldwin that if opportunity ever offered after be had become a man he would return and whip him with interest. The opportunity came the other day and (Iambic, not the least softened by the lapse of a quarter of a century, attacked Baldwin and beat him severely. The two met on the streets of Grcensfork. Camble stopped Baldwin, whom he had riot seen for years. and asked if he were not the teacher of long ago. Baldwin admitted as much and Camble then administered the punish ment. The case was reported to the Richmond authorities and (iarcble was placed under arrest. Baldwin is now 72 years old. LOSES SON AFTER 13 YEARS. Woman Denied Custody of Child Adopted by Washington Family. After prosecuting a search for her child for thirteen years and finding the boy in Bcllingham, Wash., last June, the adopted son of A. W. Deming. Miss Maude Fields of St. Louis failed to secure possession of the child. Judge Xeterer of the Suierior Court rave the boy into the charge of his adopted parents. When the child was 3 months old Miss Fields left it at a hospital in St. Louis, returning for it three weeks later. It had been adopted and further information was refused her. A long sea roll which ended in Bellingham commenced and for months legal battles followed. Miss Fields became hysterical and threatened to take her life when the decision was renderci. "JOB" INSURANCE THE LATEST. Every Policy-Holder Who Loses His Place Gets $500. Insurance Commissioner James V. Barry of Michigan has discovered a new form of insurance among railroad conductors. It is a "job" insurance scheme by which eery man who loses his position through any cause except drunkenness or garnishment of salary receives $5X). The next Legislature will be asked to pass a law regulating and controlling this form of insurance. William .1. Boss, a Michigan Central conductor, is the organizer. Night Rider Leader Dead. Tom Wilson, charged in Frank Ferriner's confession with being the hangman of Captain Quentin Rankin at Walnut Log, Reel foot Like, died at 'the city hospital in Nashville. Tenn. Congestive chills caused Lis death. He was one of the nine alleged night riders in jail who ar(e seeking release by habeas corpus. Wilson was an jobion c-ounty farmer and leaves a widow and five children. ' Leaps Out of Window to Death. A special dispatch received in, Par'.s from Berne, Switzerland, says that Count Rhena r, second secretary of the German legation there, jumped from a j window while suffering from an atack of fever and was killed. Count Rhenar was a son of Baroness von Nieust, ihe morganatic wife of Prince Charles of Baden, and was engaged to a niece of Prince von Buelow, the (lerman imperial chancellor. Tainted Beef Kills a Woman. Ptomaine poisoning, resulting from eating tainted beef, caused the dehth of Mrs. John T. Iloge in Washington. Her husband, a clerk in the postoffice, and her daughter were made ill by eating beefsteak at dinner, but will recover. Mrs. Root Inherits $500,000. Mrs. Eliliu Itoor, wife of the S. cretary of State, comes into jmsscssion of a fortune estimated at from $2,V),000 to $500,OOO through the death of her niothor, Mrs. Salem II. Wales, whose will has just been filed at Riverhead, L. I. Lawton's Son to Lead Scouts. Manley Law ton, a son of the late Major (Jen. Henry W. Lnwton, who was killed in the Philippine Islands in ItKX), has been appointed second lieutenant of the Philippine scouts and ordere 1 to Fort Thomas, Ky. John D. on Witness Stand. John D. Rockefeller took the witness stand in. New York in defense of the Standard Oil Company and talked freely of his early life and of the formation of the big corporation. Gompers Is Re-elected. Samuel (iompers was re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor at its Denver convention, and Daniel J. Keefe withdrew bis candidate for the executive committee. Hold Citizens Off; Rob Safe. Robbers held several citizens at bay in Attica, Ohio, while they blew open and robbed the safe of Renninger & Silcoi of $0,000. The robbers were fired upon, but escaped. Freeze Kills in FloriiV. There has been ice at Cottonwood. Ala., one-eighth of an inch thick for three mornings and all tender vegetation both there and across the line in Florida has been killed. Hop Yield Is Poor. The total yield of Russian hops is the worst in the past ten years, although the area of hops plantations has been greatly increased, according to a report of .Tame W. Ragsdale, American consul at St. Petersburg. Woman Gets Five Years for Perjury. In Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. Alphia M. Shevalier, accused of perjury, was sentenced to five years in prison. During a will contest she testified that Mrs. Helen Horn died without leaving any cash or personal property. More than $4,000 was discovered in Mrs. Shevalicr'i possession.

PRISON DOOR CLOSES

F Prominent Chicago Real Estate Dealer Gives Up and Confesses to Huge Swindles. SENTENCE IS 1 TO 14 YEAP.S. Skillful Juggling of Bogus Notes and Deeds Dupes 25 Persons and Extends Over 18-Year Period. Confessing h?s authorship of an endless chain of forgeries involving more than $700,000, Peter Van Vlissinjrcn, for many years a prominent Chicago real estate man and once reput- d wealthy, was indicted, tried and sen tenevd to the penitentiary Monday afternoon for a term of from one to fourteen years. The am.itsin? revelations of bow :i man who ran'ijd high among his associates could carry out a gigantic swindle in which be victimized .more than a score of persons a number of them close friends out of $700,0) came like a thunderbolt. lie first Confessed to his crime Saturday to two friends. At mwii Mtmday the case was presented to the State's Attorney, and thereafter steps toward sending Van Ylissingen to a felon's cell were taken with remarkable rapidity. The confession of the real estate nia. revealed a scheine of systematic anti cunning forgery of notes and real estate trust I'eeds and mortgages extending over a period of eighteen years. For years Van Vlissingen practiced a system of forgery that did not arouse suspicion. Even bis own nephew, John A. Yanderroel, his chief clerk, was wholly ignorant of the swindles being pen nitrated almost under bis eyes. Van Vlissingeifs scheme was to loan money and take a mortgage or trust deed as security. The notes and securities would I? made out in due form. signed, niiproved by Vandcnoel, and recorded with the county recorder. Van 1)1 AG ISAM INDICATING 1IO Vlissingen would then lock himself In his private otlice, where be bad a desk socially designed to aid him in forger; . In the top of this desk was a srmJl hole covered with a piece of gla', beneath which was an Incandescent light. Placing the genuine mortgage on the glass he would cover it with a similar blank form and turn on-the light below the desk. The signatures and notations on the genuine instrument were outlined on the blank by the light. The signatures were then traced by the real-estate man, and forgeries were turned out which were practically as good as the original. Sometimes the forger made one, and in several Instances two, Vopies of the original mortgage and sold them. The genuine he sold in Chicago, the spurious ones in New England, in Westem and Southern States, and In Germary and Holland, his native country. To make the forgeries jrfect, Van Vlissingen counterfeited the signature of the county recorder. For nearly two decades he managed to liquidate the fraudulent paper when it fell duo and In that way avoided exposure, but recently he became unable to meet the demands of this endless chain, and, despairing of further Immunity, confessed his guilt. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. Exploitation of the railroads by the State in Relgium has resulted this year in a $2,000,000 loss to the State. Lord NorthclifTe, the British newspaper owner, has given the Plymouth church of Brooklyn a stained glfss memorial window. i The Minnesota State twine plant promises to pay $1,000,000 into the State treasury during November, and as a result it is expected that the State will get along with borrowing $."00,000 instead of twice that amount usually borrowed at this time of the year. The St. Paul road reports that during the 1908 season 4,425 cars of wheat have been shipped from the 43 towns on the James River division, and V. is estimated thai C.403 will be shipped before the close" of the season. The estimate for the 2G towns on the Hastings and Dakota division is 7,400 cars. Ed Corrigan has donated his famous old race horse and sire, Riley, now 21 years old, by Longfellow, dam Geneva, to the Kentucky breeding bureau, and he will be sent to London, Laurel county, far back in the mountains. Coach Warner f the Carlisle Indians has gone to work on the development of a new kicking staff, as Thorpe, who failed somewhat at Philadelphia, cannot be depended on as long as his leg is out of shape. Records tell that seventeen deaths were due directly to professional baseball in the season recently closed and twenty-six were seriously hurt. Rates on the carriage of milk and cream between stations in the State of Minnesota are not entirely satisfactory to (he Minnesota Milk Shippers' Asscy' ciation, notwithstanding the action taken in 11K)7 by the railroad and warehouse commission setting a maximum reasonable rate for the express comjwnies. The Chicago Great Western has been cited to shew why it charges more for carrying milk on baggage cars than the expref s companies charge. U was reported in Washington that Mr. Taft will retain Mr. Corteljo as Secretary of the Treasury and that Mr. Loeb will not be a member of the next cabinet

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r-ETER VAX VLJSSINCEX. QOOD TDIE TO BUILD. Prices of Material Are Low and' Contractors Ajo Anxious for Work. Country Life in America has been looking up the building situation and as a result declares that there has not been such another chance in years for people to build, cheaply and well. Tne prices of material have fallen so, contractors are anxious to obtain work, and lalor Is so ready to jump at the chance of assured wages, that a saving of from 10 to 20 per -ent in cost, depending on the section of the country, can be made in all domestic architecture. Lumber Is lower now than it will probably ever Ik? again, llrk-k is almost a drug on the market.. Good workmen nre not yet busy and are not bard to find. In some localities, according to the magazine, the conditions are so improved for the person about to erect a home that he can do GO to 10 per cent better than in 1007. However, these extremes are unusual and H'eur in only a few sections. The American Lumberman declares that pices are from 20 to 23 jer cent lower on lumber in the west and south than they will be in a few months, llriek Is '20 per cent under last year's schedules. Grades which brought $7 md $S in New York in October, 1007, I are wiling at $4.00 and .$3 a thousand W FORGERIES' WERE MADE. now. Common brick was quoted in Chicago for $0.10 to $r.2." in 1907. The prices run $3.."0 to $3.75 there to-day. The saving on domestic cemeut lu Chicago is 31 0 icr cent, and in New York about GO per cent. Plumbing rates arc down about 25 per cent from the figures of the first of the year. Hardware for domestic purposes is ' about 20 per cent cheaper. So it goes throughout the list of materials. To Hinke the Neuro "Work. Charlotte Perkins Oilman, in the American Journal of Sociology, olers as a solution of the negro problem that the whole body of our negro population that is in a degenerate condition from whatever causes be organized into a great industrial army, controlled by the State aud under strict military discipline. This army should have uniforms, dvx'orations, titles, ceremonies and a careful system of grading, membership to le a sign of honor and advancement. Enough should Im placed upon farms to provide for the entire body, and the farms should lw in themselves schools of efficiency. Others should be placed in shops and mills to clothe tlhe rest and provide other articles of necessity. Rut the main occupation of the great organization would be in the construction of better roads. Mrs. Gilman argues tüiat with kind, but firm, treatment, good living, reasonable hours and the. absence of the strain of personal initiative which tells upon the negro in ordinary life competition, a great amount of useful work and betterment could be thus performed. Rut as fast as the individuals proved tüieir "capacity to work under their own initiative, they should be graduated with honor, thus the institution being compulsory at the bottom and free at the top. ( A road made from sand and sawdust is the latest style of road making desijned by George W. Cooney, Minnesota State highway engineer. Last spring he made a section of road with clover and rye oa a sand foundation. This has been very successful. The road made from sand and sawdust is at Cambridge, in Isanti county. Four inches of sawdust were raked on the sand road after being graded. This was worked into the sand by passing teams, and as fast as ruts are formed the sawdust was raked into the ruts, to be further mixed with sand. In the Ozark mountain region, where bitter rot and other diseases had become so bad that farmers were becoming fearful lest they lose their orchards, the government showed them how to apply methods which have resulted in the saving of about 03 per cent of tie crop wherever intelligently applied. Hundreds of pounds of dynamite have been exploded in the North river at New York to learn whether Mrs. Julius Fleischmann committed suicide by drowning. She disappeared from home and was last seen near the banks of the river. For the first time the great automobile race for the Vonderbi'.t cup has been won by a machine designed and built in America and of American material. Moreover, the driver Is an American. George Robertson. 'The machine was a 120 horsepower locomobile. The average speed made was G4.4 miles an hour. He made the 258.8 miles in 4 hours and 48 1-5 minutes. Because she is opposed to divorce on principle, Ruth Bryan Leavitt will not seek to free herself from David lloncer Leavitt through the Denver (Colo.) court.

KAISEE'S TALK 01 WAE PUBLIC.

German Emperor Said to Have Declared Etrita Inevitable. The New York World p::l üshes what it says is an accurate iwA authentic synopsis of tils' now world celebrated interview granted by Krtisvr Wilhelm to Dr. William Ibiy.ml Il.ile. and which was suppressed ,t thf request of the German government. Summarized, the main points of the Kaiser's interview, which took place on the imperial yacht llohcnzollern off Bergen. Norway, are as follows:That King Rdward of Great Britain bad been humiliating him for more than two years and that he was exasperated; that Germany was the paramount power in all Europe, and that England was trying to neutralize that I tower. That be held France in the hollow of bis hand, and that Russia was of no account since the disastrous war she had waged with Japan. That if the Fan-Europoan war which has been so much talked about was inevitable the sooner it came the ltetter it would lo for him. U-cause he was ready and was tired of the susjense. That Great Britain had been a decadent nation ever since her victory over the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, because hers was an unrightEMPKR0R WILLIAM. eons, ungodly cause, and divine Judgment-was Ixmnd eventually to overtake the powerful nation that waged such a war. That the Anglo-Japanese alliance was an iniquitous alliance against all the white races, England proving absolutely her faithlessness as a Christian nation; that Japan was honeycombing India with sedition and Hooding it with spies while professing openly to be England's frieiyl and ally. That the only way to counteract. this alliance was for Germany and America to act together at an early, date or America would have to right the Japanese in ten months. That in the event of a great war England would lose many of her large colonics, espec ially those in the Pacific, and that all.be would take for Germany would le Egypt, though he would lilerate the holy land from the yoke of Infidel, presumably moaning the Sultan. That the perfecting of the Zepielin dirigible balloon would give" Germany a ioworful vantage in war, and she was ready to make use of it to the fullest extent. - Leonard "Wood in Command. Major Gen. Leonard Wood, upon his recent arrival at New York from Europe, relieved (Jen. Grant as commander of the Department of the East, with headquarters at Governor's Island. Gen. Wood said he was glad to le home again after his six years in the Philippines. Speaking of the war maneuvers which he witnessed in France and Germany, he said that dirigible balloons were an unquali fied success in Kurope, and that it was a common thing to see them maneuvering in the sky in Germany, and that the time was coming when they would be protected from shot from below. The aeroplane, he said, was bound to come titer the dirigible, and would probably prove more efficient. The Wright brothers he called the leaders as aeroplanists. Gen. Wood doscribed the conditions in the Philippines as peaceful and prosperous, but said there would be even more prosperity if trade relations with this country were better. He thought Philippines products should be admitted into this country free, that it was Siard for farmers to raise crops under the American flag and then have to pay, duty on thorn. Philippine scouts, he said, were among the finest soldiers in the world. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. (i. P. Engelhardt has returned to New York from Guatemala with specimens of the stingless bee. i F. L. Ie la Karra has been appointed to succeed Enrique Creel as Mexican ambassador to Washington. ' Thomas McGrath, a St. Louis election official, was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary for making false returns. The Rev. Dr. Myron W. Haynes, formerly of Chicago, has resigned the pastorate of the Del mar Avenue Baptist church in St. Louis. He says enemies "have hounded him. Col. William F. Tucker, husband of the daughter of (Jen. John A. Logan, will have to undergo an operation for Bright's disease, according to a statement issued by his physician. J. W. Soloman, a Salt Lake City lineman, narrowly escaped death when he fell from a jwle among broken wires charged with 4,000 volts. He picked his way through the deadly wires to safety. It is understood that a movement has beeu started to depose R. L. Borden from ihe leadership of the Canadian conservative party in favor of Sir Charles Ilibbert Tupper. Miss Elsie Dutton, aged 20, daughter of II. E. Dutton, an official of the Green Bay and Western railroad, was killed in a collision between an auto and a street car. A special medical board at Manila has notified the commander of the American cruisers in the harbor there that shore leave is now safe owing to the improved conditions in the quarter of the eitj' afflicted with cholera. Secretary Cortelyou has notified national banks having treasury certificates of indebtedness on deposit to secure circulation that the $!,(X)O,000 a month limit does not apply to circulation based on the treasury certificates issued a year ago and that the full amount of $14,000,000 may be retired at once if the banks desire, The various Japanese associations interested in foreign trade gave a banquet at Tokio in honor of the representatives of the Pacific coast business interests now visiting in this country. The function was attended by 200 business men. The American sjieakers showed keen appreciation of the receptions accorded them in all sections.

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CHICAGO. The Weekly Review of Chicago Trade, published by R. G. Dun & Co., says : "Evidences of healthy recovery in commerce become more distinct. The recent ri.se in the volume of payments through the banks is accentuated by an aggregate which is the largest in thirteen months and exceeds that of the corresponding week in 1900, when business was exceptionally good. "Trading defaults also make a gratifying exhibit, both numbers and liabilities boing only one-half those recorded at this time last year. ' "Another gratifying testimony !.s seen in the diminishing ranks of idle workers and freight cars. Investment interest lias become very encouraging, a safer balance being established by the check to overtrading in Wall street securities. Money is ample for legitimate purposes and the discount rate favors renewed enterprise along both industrial and financial lines. "I vocal developments denote increasing activity in production and distribution. Movements of finished products and crude materials furnish heavier tonnage to the railroads, while marketings of farm products run above those of a year ago. Notable gains appciar in forwarding of flour, provisions and live stock. "Ore receipts are ample for the winter consumption and new furnaces at Gary will start in a few weeks. Heavy orders permit more employment of machinery fcnd labor at Pullman, and in soiws iron branches there is now day and night work. 'Railroad returns testify to sustained recovery in earnings of the Chicago systems and more pressure appears for equipment to market corn and live stock within the next few weeks. "Merchandise stocks undergo rapid reduction, while the luxuries do fairly well, particularly in furs, jewelry and art wares. Mail orders disclose more confidence of country buyers and there are substantial selections of spring and summer staples. House buying provides fair activity in dry goods, footwear, men's furnishings and. food products. "Bank clearings. $23(;.rjOS,2S9, exceed those of corresponding week in 1007 by T.4 ter cent, and compare with $211,aV4.4t'i0 in lt00 "Failures reported in the Chicago dis trict number IS. against 2S last week 3 in V.K)7 and 20 in V.l. Those with liabilities over $.",000 number f, against 10 last week, 14 in 1007 and 10 in 1000." NEW YORK. ( Enlargement and expansion are still tli dominating influences in trade and industry, and the volume of sales and of orders booked by wholesalers and manufacturers continues to show gains, partic ularly in the commercial anT manufacture ing centers of the North, Fast and West. Still certain evidences of irregularity are found in the reports that mild weather is res-tric-ting sales of winter goods at retail in the above sections, and southern advices are that improvement in that section is rather slower than expected and that low cotton prices and holding of that product by producers are checking trade and collections. Idle cars are reported growinj fewer in number rapidly. Heavier buying of pig iron is reported at the East and lake markets are more' active, but Pittsburg rei orts transactions smaller. Prices are higher. , In wholesale and jobbing lines North, East and West reports are generally thit trade is expanding, that spring purchases ore increasing and that stocks in final distributers' hands are light. C?tion goods are growing in demand and prices are ieing advanced. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Nov. 11) number 273, against 207 last week, 2lJ5 in the like week of 1007, 212 in 100G, 224 in 190T and l'.n in 1901. Business failures In Canada for the week number 33, which compares with 22 last week and 3." in the same week last year. Bradstreet's Commercial Rejort. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.75; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $;.OT; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.."0; wheat, ,Ao. 2, $1.03 to $1.0."; con). No. 2, G2c to 03c : oats, standard, 4Se to 40c; rye, No. 2, 75? to 70c; hay, timothy. $8.00 to $14.00;' prairie, $8.00 to $12.r0; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 27c to 20c; potatoes, per bushel, G2c to 71c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $o.l0; wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1.03; corn. No. 2 white, 01c to C2c; oats, No. 2 white, 40c to 50c. St. Iiouis Cattle, $4.50 to $7.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.0 to $1.08; corn. No. 2, (He to 03c; oats, No. 2, 40c to 50c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 74c Detroit Cattle, $4.O0 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $.".40; sheep. $2.50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.04. to $1.0i: corn. No. 3 vellow. 04c to C5c; oats, No. 3 white, 51c to 52c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 7Cc. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1XX3 to $1.05; corn. No. 3, COc to Glc; oats, standard, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 1, 74c to 75c; barley, No. 1, C3c to 64c; pork, mess, $14.70. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $.75; hogs, fair to chrice, $4.00 to $G00; sheep, common to goii mixed, $4.00 to $4.75; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $0.25. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $5.90; hogs, $3.50 to $5.S0; sheep. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.12 to $1.13; corn. No. 2, 71c to 72c; oats, natur&l white, 54c to 57c; butter, creamery, 27c to 31c; eggs, western, 3.1c to 34c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.04 to $1.00; com. No. 2 mixed, Glc to 63c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 49c to 50c; rye, No. 2, 77c o 7Sc; clover seed, $5.50. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $5.05; hogs, $4.00 to $0.05; sheep. $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.07 to $1.08; corn. No. 2 mixed, 62c to C3c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2, 78c to 80c Receivers have been appointed for the Hudson River Electric "Power Company, which was organized in 1903, and controls the Hudson River Water Power Company, Hudson River Electric Company and Hudson River Power Transmission Company, together with various sub-companies owned by the last two i;amed. supplying central an, eastern New York State with power. The National Civic Federation will hold it:, annual meeting in New York. "Trade, agreements among employers and employes as a means of promoting industrial ponce and commercial prosperity, "Industrial Insurance," "Employers Liability." and "The Salary Loan Evil will b? among the subjects discussed. Ueoorts on the Argentine wheat crop are so conflicting as to cause a 'nv.dv disturbance in the market. The South American crop has been damaged by storms and frost. Estimates as to the extent vary. The government report places the loss at 11 per cent.

REBATE KILLS OIL RIVALS.

Rockefeller Cheerfully Tells How Competitors Were Driven Out. John D. Rockefeller's own story of his fortunes and the history of the birth of the great Standard Oil Com pany, was listened to with breathless interest by a larg" crowd that Jammed the courtroom at the bearing boforA Referee Franklin Ferris in New York Thursday, With seeming can-, dor he told bow and why the combination was created, and cheerfully admitted that it secured rebates from the railroads which enabled it to drive competitors out of business. It was the final re ply of the oil comi J. D. EOCKEJXLLEK. pany to the attacks that have been made for years, the revelations of Miss Ida Tarbell, the fulmlnations of campaign orators, the charges in newspapers, and the remarkable letters of John D. Archbold that injured Senator Foraker and smirched half a dozn rtatesmen. In answer to question by John G. Milburn, his counsel, Mi. Rockefeller told how his combination reached out its tentacles for more ond more refineries of rivals, and fattened on them for ten years or more, till it became strong enough to chang into what became the Standard Oil Company cf Otdo. Between 1S72 and 1SS2 ti.e Rockefeller combine taught aüd bought rivals. When it was strong enough It organized them all into ne concern. The oil king said that the company was constantly reaching out for more refineries and more markets. It bought refineries to get them out of competition and to get their business. That is the way II. II. Rogers ai ct John D. Arc hbold went into the company. They were bought up. Roth were strong, brilliant and bold. The Rockefeller combine had to get them out of the way; it absorbed their rival eonc-eri's and them at the same time. Mr. Rockefeller snaiped up the American Lubricating Company, and once In that field he looked around for more lubricating companies. Before his ilvals appreciated what had been done, his combine controlled most of these concerns that had done business lotween 1870 and 1SSO. When the Pennsylvania railroad, through its Empire Pijx Line, began gathering oil and shipping It to the seaboard at reduced rates, the Standard stopiyl in. A bitter war followed, the end of whicli came only when the Empire concern was turned over .to Rockefeller and the dangerous competition whjed out. The railroad for its surrender was permitted to form a rar combination, the. certificates of whkii were bought by Rockefeller and his associates. Whatever they had we took.' Mr. Rockefeller said, in -explaining the absorption of the Umpire concern. The most conservative reports from Great Britain tell of an unprecedented condition of unemployment in that country, a situation so desperate ttat the government can no longer ignore it. Already groat numbers of the idle workmen have shown signs of extreme discontent. Some groups were reported to be on the march toward London and at Glasgow bloodshed was prevented only by the prompt action of the city authorities in appropriating $500.000 for public works, to give relief. Dublin tlso is sending "$50,000 for the relief of ber poor. IJvcrpoo!, Sheffield, Birmingham and other industrial centers are likewise confronted with an acute situation. In the face of these facts Premier Asquith has announced bis intention of formulating a general plan for giving relief. The highest court of Australia has rendered a decision invalidating one of the important laws passed in the Interest of organized labor, the party which holds the balance of power in that country. The unions had forced the passage of a law imposing an internal tax upon the output of the manufacturers of agricultural instruments. This was designed to about counterbalance the effect of the protective tariff, but gave 10 all concerns which paid the union scale of wages an entire remission of the tax. As the labor unions controlled the Parliament, they could remit or impose the tax upon whatever business they saw fit, so that no business which suits the unions could be put out of the running. The court ' decided, by a vote of 3 to 2, that the new law was unconstitutional on the theory that the purpose of the law is to regulate wages instead of to levy a tax or to raise revenue. , By a vote of 43S to 47, the FrenchChamber of Deputies has condemned the campaign which the anti-Dreyfusards are, conducting against the decision in the case of Major Dreyfus, handed down by the court of cassation in 190G. The venerable Russian patriot and revolutionist, Nicholas Tschaikovsky, who has been in prison at St. Petersburg for many months, and who has many friends in England and, America, was released the other day on $i5,000 cash bail demanded by the Russian government, the money being contributed by wealthy friends in this country and in England. The Japanese government has established a strict censorship oTer all communications between Koreans in this country and friends or relatives in their native land, according to ReV. R. S. Ryang, a Korean minister of the Methodist faith, who has just arrived in San Francisco. Victor GraysoB. the Socialist member of the British Parliament from Colne Valley, created a scene In the Commons by loudly denouncing the members for their failure to come to the rescue of the thousands of unemployed and starving men in England. The speaker ordered him to leave the house, which he did. John W. Riddle, the American ambassador to Russia, has returned to St. Petersburg from his sojourn in the south, of Russia, where he has been recuperating from an illness of several months duration. His health is now completely restored, and he has assumed charge of the embassy. A meeting of the Irish national party under the presidency of John K. Redmond, was held at Dublin to devise plans to force the government to push the question of Irish land legislation in the House of Commons. Incidentally a hearty rote of thanks was accorded the Amefirn people for their generous support of the party.

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