Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 9, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 December 1908 — Page 2

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M, (T I Q. N. M. F. Q ksi'th. V 15tb. r?23rd y 29th PAST AND PIIESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the M&ny W. J. Bryan Has Bout with Bear. W. J. Dry an is the hero of a bear hunting expedition in Mexico, in.which a wounded bear attempted toThug the Democratic leader in a death squeeze. After several shots had been placed in the bear and he tumbled to the ground as if deal. Mr. Bryan ran up to measure the animal, which suddenly grabbed at him. With a quick jerk Mr. Bryua escaped with a few scratches on hi3 body as the hunting coat was torn from his back by the claws of the enraged beast. His companions rushed to Mr. Bryan's' jescue and quickly dispatched the bear before he could do further damage. The animal weighed about 500 pounds, and the skin will be preserved as a memento of the event. The members of the expedition were cautioned by Mr. Bryan to keep the escapada quiet as he. did not wish to be held up as a nature faker. Murder and Suicide. Actuated by jealousy R. J. Byman (colored) shot and killed Mrs. Myrtle Evans (colored) and himself near the Pennsylvania freight house in Fort Wayne, Ind. Two witneses saw the trouble, but heard none of th conversation. When officers arrived on the scene half a minute later the two negroes were found lying outstretched on the brick driveway heaving their last groans. The man died within five minutes, but traces life were noticed in the woman for . minutes or more. On Mr. Byman's "sons was found a letter addressed to .vir. Charles Allen, Gary, Ind. . SL O. Limited Wrecked. One mnn was killed, five others seriously injured and many passengers shaken up when train No. a, known as the Chicago Limited, on the Pittsburg & Western branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, crashed into a "buckled" freight train near Valencia, about twenty miles north of Pittsburg. The wreck was due to the breaking of a long freight train on the grade near the scene of the accident. One of the rara on the end of the rear part of the disconnected freight lurched out over the northbound tracks just as the limited came. along. Two Boys Buried Alive in Sand Bank. Verne Cripe and Walter ' Evans, of Walkertoa, Ind., aged 13 and 13 years, were found buried in a sand bank near the Baltimore & Ohio coal chutes. The boys had left home early in the day to spend the day In their cave in the sand bank. The heavy rains caused the roof, of the cave to fall in. The boys had been dead three hours when found. They were of prominent families, who had been searching for them for hours. Two young companions led them to the cave which was the boys tomb. Fire Causes Loss at Philadelphia. Fire, of supposed Incendiary origin, destroyed the bending shop and other property at the car shops of J. G. Brill & Co. in Philadelphia, Pa., entailing a loss exceeding $200,000. The plant is one of the largest of its kind in the country. The loss is fully coveted by Insurance. San .' C els' in t lattt blac ers. polb. -co's Police Chief Drowned. 'ice Biggey, of San Franweed off Alcatraz Island, the man who was placed Abraham Ruef after the it on a charge of levying n French restaurant keenly was later made chief of Fa til Collision at Boston, Mass. Willi un A. Buchanan, a brakeman, was killed, five persons were probably hurt and thirty-five more or less serijusiy Injured in a rear end collision between two local passenger trains at the South Boston station of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. Fire Damages College. Fire destroyed two wings of St. Jerome's Catholic College at Berlin, On tario, entailing a I033 of $40,000. Stu lents had narrow escapes and -all got 3ut In their nightclothes. Citizens Frightened by Robberies. The numerous bank robberies and postoffice burglaries in Ohio and Indiana have frightened the village ot East Liberty, Ohio, and a Citizens' Protective Association 13 being formed. Large Catch of Wild Animals. William D. Favors, a trapper and unter of St. Paul, Ind.. reports the following catch for nine nights: Ninety-six muskrats, three 'coons, five oposlums, four skunks and three minks. Section Hand Meet Death. Four Greek section hands were killed and four others were terribly injured when the Downers Grore express on the Burlington road, loaded with suburban passengers, crashed into a hand car near Highland, seventeen miles west of Chicago, at 7:QO o'clock the other morning. Found Deud In Hotel Room. Seated upright la & chair by the side of his bed, the body of Charles II. Seaver, a traveling salesman of Jackson, Midi.. wa found in a room of his hotel in Zanesville. Death probably was caused by heart diseas?. L.eap.i Off Train and Eapen. Malcolm Stewart, accused of being short $1,700 in his accounts with the Universal Milling Company, leaped head foremost through a window on the Oniafca'a Twiligiht Limited in the night end escaped. He was being brought from Minneapolis to Daluth by Sheriff Bates for trial. Mora Asset of Forger. Ileal estate owned b; Peter Van Vlisslnren, Chicago's arch swindler, will brinff total of assets up to $G3,000. Hit wife la believed entirely dependent on her wa effortj to make & lirirj.

END 01 TOBACCO WAR.

Trust Yields to Growers Organization and Lawlessness Will Cease. After years of lighting, involving the depredations of night riders, the American Tobacco Trust has closed a deal with the Hurley Tohaeeo Soeiety, its unrelenting foe for five years, involving the sum of $H.(KV;0 and SO.OOO.tXiO pounds of hurley tobacco. Practically all of the money will Ik put into circulation at once in Cent ml Kentucky, and after a long period of self-enforced poverty, that part of the State producing hurley tobacco once more will be prosperous. The transaction also marks an unusual situation in the United States, in that a great corporation has been worsted by a band of humble, but determined farmers. The Burley Tobacco Society is an organization that comprises about fiftyfive counties in the northern and central jtortion of Kentucky, and has in-its membership all tobacco raisers. T lies 2 growers tooled all of their crops of 190; and 1907, and the organization was controlled exactly like any corporation or trust would be, that is by officers and an executive board. For years previous to the time the farmers organized, the American Tobacco Company had been driving out competition and setting a price upon tobacco from their offices in New York, and had not for four or five years allowed the farmer practically any profit for raising the weed, never-vpaying more than 7 or 8 cents a 'pound as an average. The tobacco growers, knowing that the trust was realizing at least from 40 cents to $1 for the Burley tobacco after it was manufactured for consumption, decided as a last resort, to organize against trust prices. ' This they did, with the result that by the recent deal tby received an average of nearly 19 cents a pound for their tobacco, thus attesting they have gained their ioint. This was done by curtailing the production and not raising a crop this year. Lawlessness was brought about lJ several counties of the burley distiict because farmers refused to go in the pool and wanted to take advantage of the high prices paid by the independent buyers and raise a crop. To hot-headed members of the Burley society this brought about much disorder, as these obstinate farmers were "either forced into the pool by threats or duly pun ished, either by violence to person or to their property. While the ofiicers nnd leading members of the Burley society frowned upon these acts of lawlessness, they, In a manner, nodded conseat to some of the depredations that were committed. KECORD POSTAL DEFICIT SHOWN According to Report of Postmaster General It Is $16,873,222. In his annual report for the fiscal year ended Jun .I0, 100$, Postmaster General Meyer gives the total receipts for the year as $101,47$, and exIKMiditurcs are $208,3." 1 .SSrt, thereby showing a deficit of $10,873,222, the largest in the history of the department,-with an additional loss from fire, burglary, etc., of $37,050. The deficit of 1!H)0, it is estimated, again will exceed $10jCO,000. Attention Is particularly called to a number of improvements in, business methods of the department as tending to its advantage and the saving of considerable amounts. The necessity for good roads is 1 minted out in connection with the development of the rurarfree delivery service. It is suggested that should Congress grant the trcpartment authority to utilize rural routc.i still further by the establishment of a limited parcels post, confined entirely to rural delivery routes, it would then be possible to earn additional revenue amounting to millions of dollars and at the same time benefit the farmer by enabling him to have merchandise delivered when ordered by telephone or postal card which otherwise would not be purchased. The Postmaster General urges legislation permitting the establishment f postal savings banks or-hposltaries In connection with ist offices. PREDICTS CHILDLESS WORLD. Great Peril In Itftc Sulfide IsiSeen ly Prof. Wilcox of Cornell. That there will be no children left if present race suicide tendencies continue during the next century throughout the civilized world was a prediction made by Prof. Walter P. Wilcox before the class in military science and public health at Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y. "The true reason for the fall in the birth rate," he said, "is that in modern times, mainly in the last half century, births and the birth rate have come under the control of human will and choice in a sense and to a degree never before true. This power to control inereise has been used and i. being used to-day with reference to pri vate economic advantage and far too little with due consideration to social welfare and progress." Unite to Control Tarlnc. Iespite official reticence at Washing ton, it is learned from reliable sources that Japan and America have reached an agreement amounting almost to an offen sive and defensive alliance in the Pacific. Prominent Canadian Dies. Gen. Sir Henry Wilkinson, who had large mining interests in the Lake of the Woods, is dead at Kenora, Ont., aged CO years. He served in the Indian mutiny with the Sixteenth Lancers and was in spector of cavalry at Aldershot. Billek to DI Dee. 11. Herman Billek, convicted slayer of the Vrzal family in Chicago, has only a few more days to live. According to present plans, he will be executed in the Cook county jail oa iriuay, Dec. II. Mother of Dlllek Dead. Herman Billek, convicted poisoner sen fenced to die Dec. 11 in Chicago, broke down Friday when he received news of his mother's death in Cleveland. Since her son's conviction Mrs. Ilillek has failed gradually. Wife Deater Shoots Tiro. Two men who attempted to stop An drew Bagotas, an Italian of Pittston, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., from beating his wife were shot by the infuriated husband one of the men dying instantly and the other so seriously wounded that he is not expected to live. Shoots Heraelf In Hotel. ' Mrs. Eleanof Merron Cov.'per, play wrighr, shot herself in the St. Itcgis hotel. New York, in the same manner her aged friend, James II. Wallick, committed sui eide. Rob Bank of All Cah $-1,000. Six robbers dynamited the bank of Page, Neb., securing all the cash in the bank, said to be about $4,000, and made eood their escape. While two men did the work the others stood guard. Two guests of a hotel near the bank witnessed the whole a. flair, but did not give an alarm, fearing they would be shot.

m HIDE I JULY

BY THE UNITED STATES Uncle Sam Reaches Agreement rith .Mikado in Affairs in Pacific. WILL CONSULT EACH OTHER. Kations Promise to Respect Respective Territories and Chinese Independence. Despite ollicinl reticence at Washington, information from reliable sources has been obtained of an agreement of far-reaching importance between the United States and Japan covering the policy of the two countries in the Pacific. The agreement is based on the idea of encouraging and defending free and loaeeful commercial development in the Pacific. It contains not only a mutual guarantee to respect each other's territorial possessions there, but defines the attitude of the two countries toward China, binding each to defend by every peaceful means China's Independence nnd integrity, ami to give equal commercial opportunity In the Chinese empire to all nations. ' But more important still, the agreement In the event oi comp .cations threatening the status cpio. Pin s the United States and Japan to cons It each other with a view to acting together. , The agreement has .been drawn up in the form of a declaration and consists of live articles. 'The first article gives expression to the wish of the two governments to encourage the free and peaceful envelopment of their commerce in the Pacific. The second is a mutual disclaimer of an aggressive design, "and (ojf.'ins also a definition of tbe policy of each 'jvernmont, both as directed tD the Maintenance of the existing ftatus quo in the Pacific and the dsfense f the principle of equal opportunity for commerce and industry in China. The third article contains a statement of the consequent "firm reciprocal resolution of each government to respect the territorial possession in the Pacific of the other. In the fourth article the United States and Japan express their determination, "in the common interest of all the iowers," In China to supiort "by all peaceful means at their disposal" the indeieudenee and integrity of China and the principle of equal commercial and industrial opportunity for all naLINER BURNED AT SEA 1 he British liner Sardinia ami the passeuger steamer was destroyed location of the scene of the djaster tions in the empire. The fifth article mutually pledges the two governments, in the case of "the occurrence of any event threatening the status quo," as above described, or the principle of equal opportunity, ns above defined, to communicate with oath other for the ptinose of arriving at a mutual understanding" with regard to the measures they may consider it useful to take. 3,000 HOMELESS IN FLOOD. Guthrie, Ok., Half Under Terrific Torrent of Water. Three tlionsand persons were made homeless when the Cottonwood river, fed by its tributaries, overflowed lis banks Smulay and Inundated half the city ot Guthrie, Okia. r Hundreds of persons who refused to get out the Hooded district, lelievIng that the river would not rise ns rapidly as it did, fired shots of distress before sunset, and hundreds of boats with an army of rescuers brought many of the tardy ones to places of safety. ITS' rapid was the rise in the Cottonwood that twenty head of cattle were drowned lefore they could, be gotten out of the waters. Street car service is completely at a standstill. Tho city's water plant Is under water. Five thousand dollars' worth of Cotton belonging to the Farmers' oil mill was washed away down stream. ALL AROUND THE GLOBE. Two elks in the San Francisco (Cal.) roolo;;ical garden engaged in a fight that resulted in the death of one. Ix)inbrosos nephew, Guglielmo Ferrero of Itoine, will visit tbe President when he comes to this country to lecture. The cultivation of the camphor tree as a substitute for orange cultivation is being considered in parts of Florida. Mrs. George Ileimrod, wife of the American consul at Borne, Switzerland, a former resident of Omaha, died in the Swiss capital. Mrs. Matthew Birchard, mother of Mrs. Frank II. Mason, wife of the American consul in Paris, France, is dead there at the age of 83. Fire broke out in the rear of a tenement house at 221 Sidney street, St. Louis. Two children were badly burned And a man is missing. William A Biggs of Greenville, Miss., was found dead in a deserted house near bis home. The body of a woman was in the room with that of Biggs. Wells Brothers Company's big department store at Litchfield, Minn., was burned the other day. Loss on stock and buildings. $00,000; insurance $43,000. Count Anton feigray, cousin and best man for Count Szechcnyi when he wedded Miss Vanderbilt, has eloped with a 20-year-old Austrian girl, the daughter of Count Haroncourt. The Bight Kev. F. A. Gosket, now engaged in translating the Vulgate of St. Jerome's translation of the Bible, has no funds with which to work, according ta Borne dispatches. Frank Melville, one of the best known circus men in the United States and for a number of yean equestrian director of the Hippodrome in New York City, succumbed to heart failure in the general offices of the Hippodrome.

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FIGURES IN THE LAMPHERE GUILTY OF ARSON. Jury Ignores Murder Charge Sentence from 2 to 21 Years. Bay Lamphere was found guilty of arson after the jury had been out twenty-six hours in La nor to, Ind. Judge John C. Kichter Immediately sentenced him to the penitentiary for an indeterminate term of from two to twentyone years and assessed a fine of $3,000. The verdict was In the nature of a compromise, ten of the Jurors having held out from the first for a verdict of murder In the second degree, with a penalty of life imprisonment. Two stubborn members all day contended for a verdict of arson and not guilty, reioctively. Following tbe sentencing of Lamphere all the jurors signed a statement that they were convinced by the evidence at the trial that the adult body found in the ruins with the bodies of the throe children was that of Mrs. Gunness. Lamphere expressed a similar belief in the first extended statement he has made to other than his attorneys since tbe trial began. He said he considered himself lucky, in view of the evidence produced, in getting oft as easily as he has? He maintained Ms innocence, however. Contrary, to excitations, Lamphere's attorneys made no motion for a new trial. Unofficially, however, they expressed such Intention, but In view of Lamphere's light sentence in comparison with the heavy punishment which another jury might bring in were the new trial secured there is little likelihood of his being tried again. In his cell Lamphere professed that he exjected acquittal, but his unwonted buopancy belied his words. He responded to congratulations on the lightness of the verdice with whole hearted ncss. AND HARBOR OF VALETTA. view of harbor, iust ontsldo of wliii-h by fire. The map shows the relative in the Mediterranean. "I'm ready to start and take my medicine like a man," he said. "Considering the circumstantial evidence that was produed against me I KupjMvse I am lucky. "I'm Just as IunoeMit as you are of what I was charged with, but It ain't any, wonder the Jury thought what it did. The-way I acted that morning of the fire certainly looked suspicious when it was presented in -ourt. "I thought' Belle Gniioss was not in the lire, because all the -money she must have had wasn't shown up. But after hearing the evidence it looks to me as if "that must have leon her IhmIv in the fire." OPENS FIRE ON FAMILY. Mnn Klll.-i DaiiRhter 'and I'roltahly Fntnlly Won ml Son, n 7lnlter. Returning to his home on tin upper Kast Side, in New York, after an allnight absence, Carl Ixose, a baker, 07 years old, oiened fire with a revolver upon members of his family, who were at breakfast. He killed his 17-year-old daughter, Meta, and probably fatally wounded his 21-year-old son, Frederick, a Lutheran minister. The man was disarmed by his sou John, V.) years old, before a third shot could be fired. Loose refused to give any motive for his act. Frederick, the wounded man, has a bullet in his abdomen. He had received a call from a church at Yale, S. I)., had married an Illinois girl after receiving the call and was preparing to leave for the West with his bride. SOLDIER FREEZES TO DEATH. Goe Alone on Alatkan IlnntlnR Trip ant Lata On Day. A story of reckless adventure by one of the signal corps operators ia Alaska has been received by Gen. Allen, chief of the United States Signal Corps in Washington. Private William A. Bonney, who last June went to the lonely post of Minto, in central Alaska, went alone on a five days' hunting trip, and his frozen body was found next day eight miles from Minto. Dank at I'ldred, Pa., Saunend. The Eldred Bank of Eldred, Pa., has suspended. It is said the liabilities are about $1C0,000 and assets about $140.000. Alleged overdrafts by an official of tbe bank are said to have caused the suspension. Doctor Kill Himself. Dr. O. K. Mills, aged 48 years, house physician at the Columbus (Ohio) insane asylum, left his room in a Gallipolis hotel and going to the middle of tbe city park killed himself by sending a bullet through his head. Gammln Goes to Senate. A. H. Cummins was elected United States Senator by the Iowa Legislature Tuesday to öll the unexpired term of W. B. Allison, and Lieutenant Governor Warren Garst was inaugurated as his successor. Kill Self and Tvro Children. Mrs. Michael Maria laky, wife of a ranchman living near Evanston, Wyo., killed herself and two children and attempted to murder three other children with pie dosed with strychnine. The act is believed to be the result of domestic unhappiness.

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LAMPHERE TRIAL.

H. TV. lVOP.DE.3C ?TY TOR 125 DIE IN EXPLOSION. Nearly All at Work Killed by Gas in Marianna, Pa., Mine. At least 13S men, mostly Americans or English sieakiug miners, are dead in the Pittsburg-uBffalo Coal Company's mine at Marianna, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. The, men were caught in an explosion just before noon Saturday and when rescuers broke through the debris, all were found dead. The force of the explosion was such that the heavy iron cage which carried the men from the surface to the workings was blown 200 feet away from the mouth of the shaft. Two men who were on the cage at the time were killed, one of them having bis head blown off. The workings in which tbe catastrophe happened Is known ;:s the Itachel and Agnes mines, in reality a double mine with underground connections. Construction work was practically finished and Deputy State Mine Inspector Henry Louttit a few minutes before the explosion had completed a two days inspection which had revealed no cause for apprehension. The bodies of the men were hurled through the top of the building and far beyond It. Thompson was dead when picked up, while the others, although mortally injured, were hurried to a hospital. So great was the force of the explosion that shattered portions of the woodwork alsmt the mouth of the shaft were blown into Ten Mile Creek, 2,000 feet from the shaft. Besides the three men in the cage, portions of at least two other 1 odios were blown from the shaft and wire foin.d in the field nearby. The ventilating fans were put out of commission by t'.io explosion, and for several hours, until repairs could be made, no air could be forced into the mine. Immediately following the explosion a dense column of smoke issued from the shafts and it was eared a fierce lire was raging at the bottom of the mine. A short time afterwards the smoke almost c: . ly ceased, but those on the surface were unable to tell whether the fire had boon smotheni out or the shafts so filled with falling debris that the smoke could Hot escape. Itcscuc work was immediately started. lOO DIE WHE17 STEAMER SINKS Iliillnine 'UMllnfC Veaxel Striken n Itock DurlnK a Storm. The coasting steamer Ponting, carrying a large number of laborers from Narvacan to the rice fields in Pangasinan province, P. L. struck a rock ami sank during a storm off the town of San Fernando in Union province. It is estimated that a hundred of the passengers and crew were drowned. The steamer Visenya rescued fifty-five. A patrol of constabulary which was established immediately after the accident picked up fifteen bodies and many more- were coming ashore. It is not known whether any Americans or Europeans were aboard the wrecked steamer. ROOSEVELT TO ADVISE CHINA. lleport t!iat lie Will Ito AnUrd to Help Itemndel (Government. The Japan Advertiser in Tokio gives prominent publicity to the rumor emanating from Pekin Miat one of tii' principal objects of Tang Shao Yi's mission to the United States is the endeavor to induce President Roosevelt to act as confidential adviser to China during the process of remodeling the government on constitutional iines. Dr. It. S. Copeland, now dean of the Xew York Homeopathic college, will tender his resignation from the University of Michigan faculty. Prof. Richard C. MacLaurin, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia, has accepted the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Southern Minnesota teachers have appointed committees to act with committees from other associations in securing desired legislation for the schools this winter. The Minnesota board of regents has decided not to repair or rebuild, the anatomy building recently burned, but to -erect an entirely new building, adequate to the needs of the department. Through the General Education Board John I). Rockefeller has offered the Richmond College of Richmond, Va., $130,000 on'coudition that the Baptists of the State raise an additional $330,000, the object being the development of the institution into a great Baptist university for the South. Rockefeller regards Richmond as the strategic point for such a college. At the Minnesota university freshmen girls have just completed the organization to further the acquaintance and friendliness of the girls of the class, many of whom come to the school with few acquaintances. The organization will be similar to the Cap and Gown of the senior girls. Commandant C. W. Weeks of the Iowa university regiment is planning to organize a company of university students into a cavalry troop. Already saber drills have been given a company of the student soldiers and the equipment soon will be secured from the United States government. Liang Cbing Kwai, Chinese educational commissioner, has arrived in Chicago to establish a school in that city for Chinese children. The school will be supported by the Chinese government, and by contributions given by local Chinese merchants. The commissioner came to Amer ica on a special educational mission a few ! months ago, and has already established schools in San Francisco and New York. Member?- of the Minnesota school board are discussinc a plan for making the present high school buddings of the city do double duty, with both morning and afternoon sessions, thus obviating the necessity of building- any more high schools in that city.

NEARLY 200 ARE LOST WHEN STEALER 6HS

Cua Liner Going to Egypt DttroyeJ and Passengers Die in Mad Panic Aboard. SCORES JUMP TO DEATH IK SEA. Tugs Hasten to Rescue, but Fail to Lend Aid Because of Furious Gale Raging. Nearly 200 persons, passengers and crew of the Eilerman line steamer Sardinia, are reported to have perished when the steamer was destroyed by fire just after she hud sailed for Alexandria, Egypt, from Valetta, Island of Malta. The Sardinia was scarcely a mile off Grand harbor when the first sign of fire appeared, but with a strong wind to fan th,e flames the whole ship was soon ablaze and the passengers and crew had scarcely a chance for their lives. There was a wild scene of panic on board as the rapidly spreading flames drove the passengers to the rails and many ot- the exefted ones, not even waiting tor .the boats to be lowered, plunged Into the sea. Scores are believed to have been drowned. Others, trapped by the fire, were literally roasted to death or smothered without a chance for life. There were many craft in.tho harbor at the time of the disaster and several tugs and other swift small vessels rushed to the assistance of the Imperiled liner. The" high sea and strong gale which prevailed at the time, however, made it Impossible for thorn even to approach the Sardinia, and they could do little in the way of aid. The Sardinia left Liverpool Nov. 14 with a cargo of general merchandise for Mediterranean ports. Her crew numbered forty-four,' and about twenty first-class and six second-class passenger.! embarked at Liverpool. Most of her other passengers undoubtedly were Levantines, Maltese and Egyptians. Many of these people cross on the steamers of this line from Malta to Alexandria. It is their custom to pitch their tents on decks for shelter during the four days' trip. The decks are cluttered and this condition undoubtedly made the orderly clearing of the ship difficult; . Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.S5; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.00: sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.03 to $1.05; corn, No. 2, Clc to 02c: oats, standard. 47c to 4Sc ; rye. No. 2, 7."c to 7Gc ; hay. timothy, $S.OO to $13.50; prairie, $8.00 to $12.50; Gutter, choice cre&mery, 27c to ;iOc : CRgs, fresh. 27c to 20c ; iotatoes, Ier bushel, 02c to 70c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $o.50 to $(.15; sheep, good to choice, $2.r0 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2. $1.01 to $1.03; corn, No. 2 white, 03c to 01c; oats. No. 2 white, 5 to 51c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $7.C0; boss, $1.00 to $5.90; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, $1.07 to $1.08; corn. No. 2, 01c to 02c; oats. No. 2, 40c to 50c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 75c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; ho-s. $4.00 to $580; sheep, $3.00 to $3.05; wheat. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.07; corn. No. 2 njixedo. 03c to 01c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 5lc to 52c; rye, No. 2, 7Sc to SOc Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep. $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to $1.07; corn, No. 3 yellowr-Olc to G5c; oats. No. 3 white, öle to 52c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 77c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.03 to $l.or; corn. No. C, GOc to Glc; oats, standard, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 1, 74c to 75c; barley. No. 1, 03c to 04c; lork, mes;s, $14.70. Jluffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.0) to $0.75; hogs, fair to choice, $1.00 to $0.00; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $4.75; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $0.25. New York Cattle, $1.00 to $0.20; hogs. $3.50 to $0.00: sheep. $3.M) to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.11 to $1.13; corn. No. 2, 71c to 72o; .oats, natural white, 51c to 57c; butter, creamery, 27c to 32c ; eggs, western, 31c to 35c. - Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $l.a" to $1.00; corn, No. 2 mixed, 01c to 03c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2, 75c to 77c; clover seed, $5.52. l'aper from Cotton Stalk. Taper is to be manufactured from cotton stalks, a heretofore useless by-product, according to a report of the bureau of manufactures in Washington. A company capitalized at $500,000 has been organized at Atlanta for the purpose. It is claimed that paper can be made frofti cotton stalks at a cost of about $15 per ton. Cotton Broker Kflletl by Train, I'eter E. Hellwege of the cotton firm of I'eter E. Heljwege & Co. was run over and killed by a railroad train at Elysian Fields avenue and North Prior street, New Orleans. Mr. Hellwege was about 35 years of age. Three grofi Are Hanged. Three negroes threatened with lynching at Tipton ville, Tenn., were tried immediately at a specially called session of coiiit, convicted and sentenced to death, and the mob then executed them. Girl ruplls Flee for, Lives. While the forty girl pupils of St. Christina's school, Saratoga, N. Y., were at breakfast a fire broke out in the laundry aud spread so rapidly that all were forced to flee to save their lives. The building was damaged to the extent of $5,000. No one was injured. Life Convict Coin Pardon. After sixteen years imprisonment, John Heise, a miner, aged 48 years, serving a life term for second-decree murder, was the happy recipient of the Thanksgiving pardon at the hands of Governor Harris of . Ohio. XS'lt Caasen Klldare'n Arrest. On complaint of his wife, Owen Kildare, the playwright and author of New York, was taken to J. Hood Wright hospital a prisoner, and, after being locked up in the West One Hundredth street station, was arraigned in the West Side court on a charge of intoxication. Accused of Killing with Anto. Edward Erewerton of Ossining, N. Y., was arrested on suspicion of being the auto driver who last Saturday night ran down and killed William Kramer and William Purdy on the Albany post road, near the estate of William Rockefeller.

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CHICAGO. The usual indexes of activity make a healthy exhibit. Payments through the banks indicate a satisfactory average, and the default record is about normal. Trade generally is sustaining Its recovery, while new demands strengthen the outlook in manufactures. Permits for new business structures and additions now excel all former experience, lhi3 month's aggregating $0,000,400, against only $352.200 in 1007, and $882,100 in 1900. Thanksgiving sales rose to satisfactory totals, but colder weather would have been more beneficial in leading retail lines. Distribution of commodities shows increased tonnage by both rail and lake. Failures reported In the Chicago district" number 20, against 18 last week, 23 in 1907, and 22 in 1900. Those with liabilities of more than $5,000 number 5, against 5 last week, 13 In 1907, and 0 in 1900.-luns Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Wholesale trade, crop and industrial developments are generally in the direction of improvement, there is less idlo machinery and the tone of affairs generally is still cheerful, but there are numerous irregularities noted in conditions in different sections and industries. The situation as a whole, therefore, lacks some of the uniformity which chara clerked it some time ago. Most optimism and strength Is exhibited in the leading lines ot domestic manufacture and wholesale trade, aartlcularly as to the outlook for next year, and manufacturers are buying more freely of most raw materials, while wholesalers report evidences of scarcity in many lines, esiecially cotton goods, for spriug and later delivery next year. In retail trade there Is a good deal of irregularity, though the advent of rains and snows, followed by colder weather, helped to" improve conditions as the week advanced. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Nov. 20 number 193, against 273 last week, 25S in the like week of 1907, 174 In 1900, 188 in 1005 and 1S4 in 1004. Business failures In Canada for the week number 25, which compares iiü 33 last week and 40 in this week last year. lirndstreet's Commercial Report. ürJohn D. on tbe Slaud. Mr. Itoekefeller's memory is a miracle of mobility. Indianapolis Star. Mr. Rockefeller's original investment iu oil was only $4,000, since when the inside of the earth has continued to run out at his feet. Galveston News. The uncertain memory of Deacon John on the witness stand is a bad recommendation for that autobiography. Atlanta Constitution. John I). Rockefeller insists that the oil business js "hazardous." That's so; there is always danger that the tank may spring a leak, thar one of the horses may run away, or that autumn leaves may get into the pipe line. Kansas City Star. It may be gathered from Mr. Rockefeller's testimony before the court that the Standard Oil Company was not brought up on baby food. Toledo Blade. Mr. Rockefeller justifies the enormous Standard Oil profits on the plea that the business has been "hazardous." And President Roosevelt has introduced a new element of hazard for Standard Oil operations ;the hazard that attends violations of law. Kansas City Times. MoBzlIng the Knlner. The Kaiser has not yet learned his trade. What he neinls is a Ixeb. New York World. . The (Jerman Emperor can go oft behind the barn and "talk to himself as much as he likes. Baltimore Sun. What has happened tit Berlin is quite as likely to be the beginning of something as the end. Indianapolis Star. Poor William ! While his friend Theolore is to be an editor, he, the Emperor of (lermany, has been compelled to bow the knee to the blue pencil of the chancellor. Detroit" News. If the Kaiser is not having a corking ood time it is not because he has not been bottled up. Atlanta Coasiitution. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. Lumber manufacturers of the Middle Northwest will send a committee to Washington to urge- the removal of the tariff on .lumber. Pacific coast lumbermen are said to favor a retention of the duty. . Winona jobbers and manufacturers have entered a formal protest against the recent action brought about by the Seahoard lines by which the through rates from the East to Winona and La Crosse rm freight have been raised above the rates granted to St. Paul, which rates havH been given Winona and La Crosse for a number of years. The value of the more important minerals produced in the United States in 1:K)7 is placed as follows: CoaL $G14.79,898; iron, $529,958,000; copper, $179,799,300; clay products, $158,912,309; petroleum, $120,100.740; gold, $90,-435,700;-stone, $71,105,SOT ; cement, $55,903,851 ; natural gas, $52,S00333; lead, $:W,707,570; silver, $37,299,700; zinc, $20,401,910; wind and gravel, etc., $13,242,002; lime, $12,040,512; phosphate rock, $10,G53,558; salt, $7,439,551; mineral waters, $7,331,503; zinc, white, $0,490,000; slate, $0,019,220; rJrhur, $5,142,850. Judge M. D. Purdy bts signed an order pxlending the time at which the receivers ot the Pil'sbury-Washlurn company are to make their report tc the court thirty days beyond the cxpirat'.ou of the ninety intys from the date they were appointed. The Tobacco Growers' Union of the Wisconsin American Society of Equity, has decided to make Chippewa Falls one of the tobacco growing centers of tbe State. Large tobacco warehouses will be erected and tobacco will be shipped in from surrounding counties to be prepared for the markets. The Progressive League will provide the site for the tobacco warehouses. At Belleville, 111., Judge Moore, in the Circuit Court, has issued a permanent injunction restraining 110 fire insurance companies doing business, in Illinois from fixing rates and maintaniing a joint agent at East St. Louis. The suit was begun in June, 1902, by II. J. Hamlin, then Attorney General of Illinois. Charles M. Meyers and Edward M. Colie, receivers for the Telephone, Telegraph and Sable Company of America, have filed - in the New Jersey Supreme Court the declaration In their suit against John Jacob Astor to recover $11,000 claimed to be due for an assessment oa stock of the company alleged to have been subscribed for by him.

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Confession of Woman in French .Murder Case Involves Several Noted Personages. FEIEND OF LATE PRESIDENT. Paris Inflamed by Charge Artist' Widow Poisoned ExecutiveNoted Suspect Is in Jail. After almost ten years of mystery, it. Is charged that a woman poisoned Felix Faure, president of France, because he opposed revision of the Dreyfut ?ase. Whether she was the Instrument of conspirators is a question that Is shaking France. On the answer may deiend a tremendous political upheaval. Tbe accused woman is Mme. Steinhell, who has been arrosted.-Jor tho murder of her artist husband, Adolpha Steinhill, rich and famous, and Mme. Japy, his mother-in-law. President Faure died suddenly In tb house of M. and Mme. Steinheil, Feb. ilk. jr.r. a in 111 31 rr fvtr ufin made. Steinheil and Mme. Japy were strangled to death the night of May 30. 1908. The artist's beautiful and accorati N. rW 1 k 7 vi ' ' pushed wife In tbe next room escaped unharmed. Tbe anti-Semite Libre Parole charges Mine. Stej.iheil with having poisoned President Faure because lie opiosed revision of tbe Dreyfus ease. One man in Paris, high in tbe confidence of the government officials, gives 1 story of President Fa tire's death hitherto untold. This man said that President Faure visited Mine. Steinbeil' secretly the afternoon of Feh. lft. 1S30D, at her home. The President had an engagement for tbe afternoon at the Elyeee palace, and when he dkl not appear Mile. Faure, bis daughter, searched for him, 4 finally going to Mme. Steinheirs dome. There she found her father seated in an arm chair, dead. When tbe household had recovered from the shock the body of tbe President was conveyed from the house through back streets of Paris to the Elysce Palace and there the formal announcement was made of death by apoplexy. It was said the President had died In his own home, but European courts were secretly Informed of the real facts. hi. iV mm In Delgiam the exploitation of raU reads by the State is proving disastrous. Tbe deficit on last year's working was estimated between $SOO,000 and $1,000,000, but it will exceed $2,000,000. The Chicago, Milwaukee and SL Paul has added another order for 2,500 cars, and has just placed the contracts for their early delivery. This will mean the consumption of 10,000 tons of structural steel. The machine shop, boiler hop and blacksmith shop of the No"thern Pacific Railroad Company at Erainerd. which have been running but eight hours per day for the past year, went back to nine hours last week. The Arkansas State railroad commission has voted to issue an order to tbe railroads against their charging 3-cent passenger rtte. All the railroads ar now charging this rate and heavy penalty suits will follow on the part of the State. Judge Trieker'in the federal court at Little Falls, Ark., granted the nine aux iliary Iron Mountain lines a temporary injunction against the 2-eent passenger rate and freight tariff, promulgated last winter by the railroad commission. A new rate sheet, prevalent throughjut the United States, excepting Michigan, has just been put in by the Pall man company, which, it is said, will result in in increase yearly of hundreds of thousands of dollars. For chair cars the company proposes to increase the cost every tea miles, instead of every fifty &s at present. The unfavorable results of the Statt jwnership of railroads in Switzerland promises to be a leading issue in the coming electoral campaign. The coafed eration has $24O,000?X)0 invested in railways. The deficit this year will be between $1,000,000 and $1,200,000. With the formal .signing of a general .ontract with a prominent construction firm, it was 'stated that actual work on the Chicago and Northwestern Ilailway Company's new $20,000,000 depot and terminal facilities in Chicago will b?gin tt once. When completed, two years hence, the new station will be the largest ind most costly west of the Alleghenics. Three new railroad branches In the Celadian Northwest have recently been pened for traffic. The Canadian Northern railway inaugurated its service on the Brandon-Itegina Line, 225 miles long. The Canadian Pacific Line from Yorkton, Sask., to Leslie, Sask., sixty-six miles, (ras opened, was tlso its ninety-one-mile line running from Moose Jaw, Sask., io Conan, known as Outlook, Sask. Two small loans for railroad construejon and improvement have been signed in fekin. One is for $1,075,000 and will e used for the Kuanchengtzu-Kiria line, rhe term is twenty-five j-ears, issue price, )3. interest, 5 per cent. Half of it is :aken in Japan and half in China,