Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 13, Plymouth, Marshall County, 31 December 1908 — Page 2

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M. J' L. Q. rfcN M. F FQk?Clh. Vj 14th. -:21st V 28th. PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL COHNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many Miss Ethel Comes Out. In the historic east room of the White House, beautifully decorated for the occasion. President Roosevelt's youngest daughter, Ethel, made her formal bow to Washington society. Preceding the dancing in the east room, Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt received the invited guests in the blue room. Miss Roosevelt's gown was of soft white satin, trimmed with crystals, while that of her mother was of dark blue satin. Seldom if ever has the ?ast room presented a more attractive picture. Seated on a platform at the north end of the room was the Marine band orchestra, whose brll liant scarlet uniforms against a bachground of green formed a rich frame for the beautiful color scheme lavishly painted In the center of the room by the handsome gowns of the fair debutantes presenL Tho invited guests numbered about 400, only unmarried members of the younger set participating In the dancing. Dunn Jury Unable to Agree on Verdict. Hopelessly divided and unable to arrive at a verdict after being out more than forty-six hours, the Jury in the Dunn case was discharged by Special Judge Watkins at Fort Wayne, Ind. Thu3 comes to naught the third trial of the aged man indicted for the death of little Alice Cothrell at Wallen more than seven years ago. The deliberation of the jurors was a prolonged one. establishing a record in the State. Dann will remain at liberty under his present bond until the case is again taken up. Nins Workmen Killed in Collision. As a result of a collision between a freight train and a work train on the Great Northern railroad nine men are dead and a number of others badly injured. The collision occurred at Mldcartyon, about forty miles south of Great Falls, Mont, but details are lacking thus far. The work train was carrying men engaged on dredge work for the company and with one exception all the men killed were carpenters. Attempt to Wreck Wright Aeroplane. Just before making a flight at Lemans, France, Wilbur Wright, the American aeroplanist, discovered that someone had filled the oil box of his eroplane with gasoline. The discovery probably prevented a serious accldenL Subsequently Mr. Wright gave a remarkable exhibition in the presence of a large number of spectators. Including M. Barthou, the minister of public works. Big Diamond Robbery in New York. A robbery of $30,000 worth of Jewel ry and $5,000 In cash from a safe In the jewelry store of Oscar Stakle at SG6 Third avenue. New York City, has been discovered. The robbers who got eafely away with their booty, forced their way into the cellar, sawed a hole through the flooring to the store and pried off the dial of the combina tion lock. Hill Back of 7.C00.C00 Acre Ranch. According to private dispatches re ceived in Denver, Col., a merger of Texas ranches in the territory pene trated by the Colorado & Southern Is being formed and will comprise seven million acres of land worth $75,000,000. James J. Hill, who secured control of the Colorado & Southern, 13 named as the interest behind the movement. Hard Cider is Hit. Attorney General Denman gave an opinion to Prosecutor Ladd. of Wood County, Ohio, that cider, If Intoxicat ing, and home-made wine may not be Cold In dry territory. Cider may bo fold if not Intoxicating:. A Jury must decide If the cider Is Intoxicating. Slayers of Carmack are Refused Bail. Judge Hart at Nashville, Tenn., has refused bail to Colonel Cooper, Robin Cooper and John D. Sharp, charged with the murder of Senator Carmack. Ten Mn Killed In Cave-In. Ten are dead and several Injured as the result of a cae-ln at the blast fur nace plant in Eüsley, Ala, Admiral Fcrsythe Stricken. Rear Admiral James Forsythe, U. S. N., retired, was stricken with paralysis at his home in Shamokln. Pa., and grave fear3 are entertained for his re covery. IÜ3 entire left side 13 affected Auburn Junction Postoffice Robbed. Safe blowers cracked the safe In the postoffice at Auburn Junction, Ind., and made good their escape with $226 in money and over $100 worth of tamps. Child Swatlows Tablets and Dies. Anna Haines, of Goshen, Ind., . years old, swallowed tablets prescribed for Mrs. Karl Haney and died an hour and a half after in convulsions from strychnine poisoning. Her father, Ar thur Haines, lives in Pitttbu'-g, ant", they were visiting his slater, Mrs. Haines. Brakeman Run Down by Engine. Vhile his foot was caught In a switch at llobart, Ind., Charles Rowe, a brakeman on a passenger train, -was run down by an engine and killed. His tome was rt Fort Wayne, Inl Neck Broken in Fall Down Stairs. Howard Hagenbush, a cement contractor of Winamac, Ind., wa3 instantly killed by falling down a stairway in his office and breaking his neck. It is not known what caused him to fall. He was about 40 years old. ; Steamer Wrecked; Seven Drowned. The British cotton steamer Irada, from Galveston to Liverpool, was wrecked in a terrific gale off Point Mizzenhead. the captain and six of the crew being drowned. The cargo, including 21.000 bales of cotton, was destroyed.

PRESIDENT OF FRANCE MTMED III STREET

Man Throws Arms About Falliercs' Neck and Tries to Pull His Beard. ROYALIST PLOT IS SCENTED. Insult Generally Believed to Be Act of Vainglorious Seeker After Notoriety. While Armand Falliercs, the Presi dent of France, accompanied by M. Ramondou, his secretary, and Colonel Lasson, military attache at the Llysoe palace, was taking a morning stroll near the Rue de l'Etoile in Paris, a poorly clad Individual, who evidently had been lying in wait, suddenly Jumped upon the President from behind and threw hi.- arms about M. Full if res neck in an effort to seize his Ixwnl. Colonel Lasson and Secretary Ramondou sprang to the Assistance of the President, dragged off his assailant and turned him over to two special detectives who had been following th? party on bicycles. President Fallieres cano was broken in the strudle, but beyond a scratch on the ear he was not in jured and insisted on continuing his walle. As the detectives slipped the hand cuffs on the man he cried: "I am unarmed. I simply wanted to pull the President's beard." At the station house tht President's assailant proved to be Jean Mattis, a enfe waiter, 21 3 i n I sap?. , 1 Zy, - . c .1 rULSIUOCT FALLltELS. fears old and a native of the depart ment of Savoie. Medals of General Mercler, the former Minister of War; stamps bearing the head of the Duke of Orleans, a card "of membership in the Patrie Francaise and other Royal ist documents were found on his per?on. During the examination Mattis boasted of being a Royalist and talked confusedly of haviug done his "duty" and obeytd the dictates of- his "conclence. Quantities of Royalist reac tionary literature were found by the police when they ransacked his resi dence. The investigation reveals the fact that Mattis was in close relation with the Royalist organization, and this 5111.1 ivjii iu luuiuia iuav uu nas iiiu Instrument of a Royalist plot. Serious evidence in this direction, however, is lacking up to the present time. MISSOURI OUSTS OIL TRUST. Standard of Indiana, Republic and Waters-Pierce Fined $50,000 Each. Declaring that the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the Republic Oil Company of Ohio and the Waters-Pierce Oil Company of Missouri had conspired and combined to monopolize the oil buslaess In the State, the Supreme Court 'A Missouri has issued a decree ousting all thiee from the commonwealth and finiog them ."jO.OOO each. The decree agamst the Water-Pierce company Is tempered by the proviso that it may continue in business if by Jan. 1.1, 1900, It can show to the court that It has taken steps to oierate as an Independent concern and has satisfied the Judgment against It The other compauies are given until March 1, 1900, to wind up their affairs In tha State. The decision, which was unanimous mi the part of the seven Judges, and was written by Judge Woodson, is so weeping that Attorney General Iladley and Governor Folk hail It as the end of illegal commercial combinations in Missouri, and the former asserts that. In conjunction with tho decision of the Supreme Court of the United States In the tobacco trust case, It will affect similar suits In other States. G. A. B. WILL NOT GO WEST. Refusal of Rail Kate Keeps Encamp Dient In (he Kaat. J. Cory Winans, chief of staff of the National Grand Army of the Republic, ays that from all present indications the next national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will not be held at Bolt Lake City, but at Cincinnati or Pitts burg. This is because of the refusal of the traffic association which met in Chi sago recently to prant a rate of 1 cent per mile to the veterans. UANY HURT IX THEATER PANIC. Fire on Stage at Altoona, Pa., Ronta Spectator In Harry. Following the close of an act at the Keith Theater In Altoona, Pa., where a moving picture show was being presented. fire started on the stage. There was a mad rush for the exits by the panicstricken spectators and many received painful bruises. While the firemen were responding to an alarm the flames spread rapidly, consuming the stage nad much of the interior. The origin of the blaze is not known. BURGLAR GETS $29,000. Bak Tbeft Dae to Faul tr Itepalr Work. But for the reversing of a spring in the ault time lock a burglar could not have carried away $29,700 fron the First National Rank of Monrovia, Cal. Four days before the robbery an expert lock smith from Los Angeles overhauled the lock. He did his work faultily and left the lock outwardly in good shape, but actually useless. The fact that the burg lar had still to open an ordinary combi nation lock has caused the belief that he was skilled in the handling of locks.

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SUGAR KING SPRECKELS DIES. Founder of Huge Refineries Is Victim of Pneumonia. Claus Spreckels, widely known as tin "Sugar king of the Pacific coast." died at 4:30 o'clock Saturday morning at his home In San Francisco in his eightieth year. The Immediate cause of death was an attack of pneumonia, w'll.-h developed with alarming sjmptoms during the past few days. Ills condition Christmas night told his physicians death was war and relatives remained at his bedside until the hour of his death. Despite his advanced age Mr. Spreckels had devoted a large share of attention to the various enterprises in which lit? was Interested, and it is not more than a month since lie appeared before the Ways and Means Committee of the House Ij Washington as an authority on the subject of sugar duties. .part from the imiortance which attached to Claus Spreckels as the pioneer Fugar refiner of the Pacific coast and as an investor of millions In California and the Hawaiian Islands, the Spreckels family has for many years been one of the most prominent In the State. Claus Spreckels was born in Lamstadt, Germany, In 1S2S, and came to the United States in ISU). After being employe 1 for some time in Charleston. S. C, and New York he came to San Francisco, reaching this city In 1SÖ1. He established a store there and later conducted a brevery. In 1S0S hq built the Ray Sugar Refinery and began the mportation of raw material from Hawaii. Prospering In this business, he established other refineries and promoted the loet sug.ir industry by establishing refineries and engaging in the fanning of bints on a large scale. He also built a refinery at Philadel phia, invested largely in the Oceanic Steamship Company and many other enterprises, including the building of the San Joauuin Valley Railroad. Many of his Interests In Hawaii are reported to have been disposed of by his son Rudolph during the latter's recent trip to the islands. TRADE OF WORLD FALLS OFF. United States Not Alone with De creased Exports and Imports. The United States Is not alone In the record of smaller imports and smaller exports that will characterize the his tory of our foreign commerce in the year 1003. Of the twenty-five principal countries of the world all but four show a falling off In exports, and near ly two-thirds show a falling off in Im ports. Every country with the excejH tion of Argentina, Spain, Greece and Sweden show exports of 1'JjS below those of 1007. It will thus lie seen that the falling off of approximately $300,000,000 i . lmIM.rts and perhäpn $1.V),000,000 1 1 exIorts In the commerce of the United States during 1008 is part of a general condition Kvhlch prevailed the world over. An analysis of our foreign com merce this year shows that the principal decrease on the Import sidci occurred In trade with Europe and on the export side In the trade with North Amei'ca. HOLDS TEACHER MAY USE ROD. Kentucky Attorney General Find Leeal Rlicht for I'unlnhmrnl. The controversy relating to the legal right of the school teacher of the common schools of Kentucky to whip a disorderly pupil was ended when Attorney General James Rreuthitt handed down an opinion to State Huperintondent of Public Instruction Crabbe in which it is held the teacher is given the authority to whip if it is necesHiiry to maintain discipline. A recent opinion of Judje William Carroll of Newcastle, that the teacher hal hho right to whip, has partly disorganized the common schools and almost made k necessary to close some of them. Stone Church I Darned. Harlem Park Methodist Episcopal church, a handsome stone structure on Gilmore street, opposite Harlem Square, Raltimore, was burned the other night, making a spectacular blaze. The damage will probably exceed $"i0,000. More Quake In FrUco. Two slight earthquake shocks lasting three seconds, according to Forecaster McAdie of the United States weather bureau, were felt in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon. No damage was done. Heport l,Ot4 Shipwreck la Year. There were 1,004 vessel disasters In the United States in the last fiscal year, resulting in a property loss of $1,803,700, and the loss of '22 lives, according to the annual report of General Superintendent Kimball of the United States life saving service. See llnftbaad Darted Drop Dead. Immediately after she had looked upon her dead husband, who was being buried from their home, Mrs. Catherine Moore, aged 02 years, dropped dead from heart disease in Philadelphia. The Moores had been married forty years. Low Water Dela Coal Ships. A shipment of 1,000,vjO bushels of coal left the Kanawha river the other day for Cincinnati and Louisvills. The river at dam No. C lacked one foot of enough water to start the Pittsburg fleet of over r5,000,000 bushels for the South on Tues day. Commits Suicide In a Tab. Despondent from a long illness, caused by a cancer of the throat, David Hart, 80, a Civil War veteran, committed sui cide by drowning himself in a bathtub in the hospital at the Soldiers' Home in Dayton, Ohio.

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GROSS-EAIUJINGS TAX IS LEGAL. Minneantn Win Cohoi Against CIreat Northern nntl the Maple Lenf. The S'tatf of Minnesota won a double victory in the Supreme Court in St. Paul when that court, by Justice C. L. Rrown, filed opinions in its favor in both the Chicago Great Western and the Great Northern railways tax cases. The court u;.liolds the validity. of the law increasing the railroad gross-earnings tax from 3 to 4 per cent, which the roads attacked as unconstitutional. Attorney General E. T. Young personally fought the roads' contention that they could not be made to p.iy a gross-earnings tax larger than the 3 per cent, which was provMed for in their territorial charters. The Great Northern case nominally involves $120,TöLCS for RXk" taxes. The Great Western case involved about S2.1.000. The amount at stake, however, is really more than $l."iO,000 a year to the State treasury, if tho decision is sustained by the United States Si pren.e Court, to which it will undoubtedly be appealed. RIVALS FIGHT DUEL TO DEATH. Girl Reject Iloth, Cballrnse Follow and One Is Killed. Reoause Julia Pico, aged 14. would accept neither as her husband, Powell For-

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- 1 rt r room in Cleveland. Formich was killed after he had buried his knife in the neck of his opponent. During the fray several boarders in the house formed a ring about the contestants. Repeatedly the girl for whom the men fought attempted to interfere. Not until they paused long enough to knock her senseloss did she desist in her attempts at peacemaking. Roth men loved the girl. Roth proposed marriage to her. She refused loth, paying that the man she loved was far away. Milanovitch supposed that Formich was the lucky man and challenged him to a duel. Milanovitch was taken io a hospital after he had been charged with murder. His condition is serious. W0S&NDS, or The Australian tennis players won the Dwight F. Davis international cup, Gnal1 defeating Messrs. Wright and Alexander, the American contestants. Myron Curtis, who has couched the Carleton football team for the past two seasons, has resigned his position and will return Last and go into business. Harry Stover, manager of the track at Rütte, Mont., says he has advices to the effect that there will be no legislation against racing in that State this winter. Jem Driscoll, claiming to be featherweight champion of England, knocked out Charley Griffin, featherweight champion of Australia, in the eleventh round of a bout which proved the best boxing exhibition seen in Roston in many years. No football game will be played between Iowa and Minnesota next fall and negotiations have been practically ended, as the Goj.'ierf. insist that the game be played at Minneapolis and Iowa insists that it bo played at Iowa City or not at all. Alfredo De Oro of Cuba is the threecushion .billiard champion of the world. having won the third block of the match with Thomas A. Iluestou of St. Louis by the ücore of IX) to 3S. The final score for the three blocks game is. De Oro 1.7), He est on 107. Now that Demarest and some of the other stars are out of amateur billiards, owing to the showing up in Chicago, it should be possible to arrange arTiinusually interesting amateur tourney, for the lesser players will have a chance now they did not have before. Negotiations are on to take the Cornell. Ya'.e and Harvard rowing crews to Seattle during the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition next summer. It is planned to liold at least one regatta on Lake Washington each month during the exposition. which opens June 1 and closes Oct. 10. The State board of control of high school athletics will not decide on the place for the annual meet of the Iowa high schools, but the different institutions will be given an opportunity to choos: the location of the big yearly event. Des Moines expects to capture the meet. A fine row has been stirred up in baseball circles by statements from Umpires Klem and Johnstone that an attempt wa made to bribe them at the deciding garue between Nev York and Chicago at the New York Polo grounds. National League officials are investigating and prosecutions may follow. Harry Pulliam was unanimously elected president of the National P.aseball Loague at the annual meeting of the association. John Ileidler was re-elected to the secretaryship. Freeport wants to stay in the Wisconsin-Illinois League. A committee is now bu?y in the Illinois city raising the difference between $l,ROO already subscribed and the total $2,oOO deficit. The crowds attending football games are increasing every year. An attendance of 30,000 or more at big games is not uncommon this year. The smaller college games are drawing proportionately large crowds. Itestigouche, carrying top weight, easily won the Oneonta handicap at six and one-half furlongs at Los Angeles. He so overwhelmed his field that he was held at 1 to 2 in the betting. He took the lead early and gradually increased his advantage, winning pulled up by five lengths in 1:18 2-r. A new, novel and highly successful way of hunting rabbits after night was made near Marshalltown, Iowa, the other night when II. II. Nichols and Charles Eldridge equipped a touring car with a double set of head lights, scoured the country roads and killed thirteen rabbits without getting from the car, in a little more than an hour.

INVITES TWO NATIONS.

President Roosevelt Asks Canada and Mexico to Aid in Conservation. Announcement has tcen made at the White House in Washington of a proposed plan for a conference looking toward the conservation of the natural resources cf North America, to be held at the White House Feb. 18 next. Letters suggesting the plan have been addressed by President Roosevelt to the Governor General and to the Premier of Canada and to President Diaz of Mexico. Thy will be delivered to the iHkiaIs In person by Gifford Pinchot. chairman of the National Conservation Commission and chief forester of the United States whom President Roosevelt has chosen as his personal representative to convey the invitations and to confer with the authorities of the two governments. Mr. Pinchot first will visit Canada. He then will carry the Invitation to President Diaz at the City of Mexico. The proposed North American conference is the outgrowth of the two conservation conferences held in Washington, in which the governors of the States and Territories were the princi Ignateil by the Canadian and Mexican governments will, under the proposed plan, consult with representatives of the State and other departments of this government and with the National Conservation Commission. The main object of the conference, as announced will be to iMiiut out that natural resources are not Hunted by the boundary linos which separate nations, to develop a better knowledge of the natural resources of each nation on the part ol the others, and to Invite suggestions for concurrent action for the protection of mutual interests related to conservation. K0EESH I. IS DEAD. Body of C. R. Teed, Head of Queer Sect, Held for Resurrection. Cyrus 11. Teed, known as Koresh I., founder and bead of the Korrshan Unity Corporation of Western people. who bought a large tract of land in Lee Count J', Fla., several years ago and nought to establish their ieculiar be liefs in that section of the country, died early Tuesday morning. The fact of his death was not disclosed until Thursday, ami when investigation was made, bis devout followers said they were awaiting a resurrection. While tho body of the leader la3 unattended, Victoria Gratia, the supposed wife of Teed, assumed the throne with much so!emnit3 and declared that the body should not be burled until there was a manifestation of the divine will. The basis of "the Korcshan cosmogony is that all life is cellular, originat ing in cells, all living structures being composed of cells and propagating cells; whence the conclusion that the universe, the great aggregation of all cells, must itself be a cell, the material walls of which are composed of the shell of the earth. Teed was one of Chicago's company of eccentric religious leaders up to about six years ago, when he removed his headiuarteis to Florida. It was In Chicago that he developed his cult of Koroshanlty and gained the nucleus cf a following that eventually numbered from 15.000 to 20,000 believers. Deaten, Ilohhed, Cremated. J. A. Gollahon, 75 years old, of Proad ford, Va., was beaten, robbed and incin crated in his own hou-sc, which was set afire by tramps, who are thought to have known that the old man had nionej' around the premises. Kn tomlx-d Mlnern Kound Den.l. Entombed Hi the Pennsylvania eollierv at Mount Carmel, Pa., by an avalanche of coal, the bodies of Frank Ixgan and Stanislaus Mortsvage were found in a manway by a rescuing party. Dank Treasurer End Life. Frank W. ( Utting, Zu years old. for the last forty years connected with the Worcester, Mass., Mechanics' Savings Hank, and for seven years its treasurer. was found dead by stiicide at his home Ga Kill F. A. Durnliam. . Frederick A. Ilurnharn. former president of the Mutual Reserve Life Insur ance Cotupanj-, was found dead in bed at bis home on East Seventy-eighth street. New York, as the result of gas poison ing. The police say it is a case of suicide, t;aa Main Hrenkaf People SufTer. A bad break in the natural gas main of the Columbus Gas and Fuel Company at Nv: Albany, Ohio, caused the gas to go out in hundreds of homes in Columbjs and there was much suffering. Fall Fatal io F.riTrnrd CreaMer. Edward Le Forte Cregier, son of the late Mayor ('regier, and official photog rapher of the Chicago police department. was fatally injured when he stumbled down the steps in front of his home, and died when on the way to a hospital. He kft a widow and a son, De Witt Cregier III., 5 years old. Steal f 10,000 Genta In Store. Almost at the instant that the clerk places it upon the show counter a tray of diamonds valued at $10,000 was snatched up by a thief in Jacquemin's jewelry store in Helena, Mont., and carried away. Iicfore an alarm could be raised the robber, who. With a companion, had come into the city in a rig, lud untied his horse and driven quickly toward the outskirts. Rob Kannas Dank of $3,000. Robbers blew open the safe of the State Pank at Halls Summit, Kansas, secured $3,000 and escaped.

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E KILLS li! ITALY WES I Province of Calabria Scene of Vio lent Seismic Disturbance. To-Day. STEFANC0NI IS HARDEST HIT. Casualties Reported at This Place and Also at Mileto and Gonedi Ships Injured. Southern Italy suffered from a seri ous earthquake early Mondaj-. The center of the disturbance was in Sicily, and the greatest loss of life and property occurred on this Island. The reports are as 3'et incomplete, but the people everywhere were thrown into a panic. At Caltanissetta, a Sicilian town of 30.0C0jeople, a number of houses were shaken down and the inhabitants fled for safet3 to the streets. Vast crowds gathered in the parks, and the churches are filled. At Mineo, a small town 100 miles southwest of Catania, several houses collapsed and the scenes of panic were repealed. At Catania the docks and shore front were overwhelmed by a tidal wave that rolled in from the sea. Much damage was done to the shipping. Details are lacking, but It is known that several steamers were damaged. At Catania the shocks lasted for twenty seconds. At Agosta, in the provinc of Syracuse, two churches and several bouses were demolished, hut 'no lives were lost. The prisoners in the local Jail escaicd and dashed through the praying crowds on the streets. The troops were called out and quiet was restored. There were shocks also at Lindua Glossa, Santa Saverina and Noto, all in Sicily. Serious damage is said to have resulted and some casualties are reported at Mileto, Gonedi and Stefanconl. At Stefanconi the shock was most severe, but San Gergorio, San Glorgo, Majjerata also suffered. The latest reports from Calabria saj-s that three dead and sixt3 Injured have been removed from the ruins of Stefanconl. Soldiers have been called in to carry on the work of rescue. The troops have been ordered also to tear down damaged buildings In order to minimize the danger from falling walls. Sixty persons are said to have been injured at San Nofrio, and the population is camping out in the open ai: The troops everywhere are engaged In the work of rescue. Urief reports have been received from Talermo, the capital of Sicily. The shocks there lasted thirty-two second. The telegraph and telephone systems were put out of business and railroad communication was interrupted, but the submarine cables from Palermo arc still working. TORTURED; YIELDS TO ROBBERS. Ohio Farmer' Feet Darned fntll lie Aftree to Op;n Safe. Tortured by lighted matches applied to his bare feet, II. A. Schabow, a farmer mar Curtice, Ohio, turned over to robbrrs $1S0 belonging to an insurance compar.y. The money waa in a safe which Schabow opened when he could stand the pain no longer. The first the Schabow family knew of the robbery was when the children rushed to their father's room to wish him a merry Christmas. He was not there, and upon entering a little front room used as an office they found him upon the floor, unconscious, with his hands and feet tied and a woolen mitten stuffed in his -mouth. Upon regaining consciousness Schabow told that, hearing a noise in the office, he went to investigate and was attacked by two masked men, who demanded money. He refused to open his safe, whereupon they bound and gagged him, then applied lighted matches to his feer. He endured this torture for a white, but finally gave in and opened the safe and then became unconsftfus. Schabow is in a serious condition, but will recover. While one of the robbers was torturing Schabow 'with the matches the other kept him covered with a revolver, threatening to kill hira if he uttered a pound. The bandits then had gene to the barn, stealing a horse and buggy, and escaped. MAN SLAIN BY YOUNG WIFE. Kansas City Man's Attempt to End Marital LMcord Results In Death. Frederick L. Peterson was shot and almost instantly killed in Kansas City by his wife, Mrs. Rose Peterson, as they were returning from a dance. The couple were married three years ago, but lived together but one year. Last month Mrs. Peterson filed suit for divorce, but her busband had been attempting to effect a reconciliation, and persuaded Ler to .accompany him to a dance. They quarreled while he was taking her home, and in a lonely snot in the southeast part of town, it is claimed, he slapped her face. She drew a small revolver from her pocket and shot him four times. She was arrested, but expressed no regret. CURRENT NEWS NOTES. Cardinal Victor Lucian Sulpice Lecot, archbishop of Ilordeaux, died at Chamber-, France. Date culture in the Imperial valley, California, is declared to be a success by J. V. Jennings, an experimenter. Justices of the Court of Special Sessions in New York sat almost all night in efforts to catch up on cases. Forty-two steam and thirteen sailing vessels were built in the United States and officially numbered during November. A special commission from Porto Rico s in Washington for the purpose of inducing Congress to impone a duty of 5 cents a pound on foreign coffee, the principal industry of the island. A bridge three miles in length will be built by the Pennsylvania road over Hell Hate, from Port Morris, a suburb of New York, to Long Island. The center arch will be 1,000 feet long. .The Ilev. John P. McCIoskey, assistant pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Toledo, in the pulpit announced that his days were numbered, according to doctors, but he would labor to the last. The Rev. Thomas A. Kelly of St. Agnes' Roman Catholic church, Paterson, N. J., committed suicide in midocean by jumping overboard from tho steamship Arabic. Chiefs of the native tribes in German Samoa are threatening trouble. They want independence and may appeal to the United States and Britain for moral support. An "energy machine" used in the Carnegie nutrition laboratory in Roxbury, Mass., is said to make possible the calculation to a nicety of every fraction of energy exercised by the body and the amount it nutrition needed for the best results.

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STRANGER SLAYS STUDENT.

Ilan Enters House of Rich Woman's Relative and Kills Youth. Van Dwight Sheldon, an engineering student in the junior class at New York University, was shot to death after a struggle at 9:13 o'clock Wednesday morning In the cellar of the home of Charles II. Snow, dean of the school of arts and sciences of the university in New York City. While dying he casped out an incoherent statement whose purport seemed to be that lie bad been kllb-d by a strange man who j was seeking Miss Helen Gould. Dean Snow Is married to a cousin of Miss Helen Gould, and Miss Gould has! been in the habit of visiting her cousin and remaining over night. There was j a report that Miss Gould was in the house Tuesday night, but this the dean 1 denied. He said, however, that the intruder probably thought that the house belonged to Miss Gould, that she was In it and that be went there with the idea of getting money. Sheldon, who was 24 years old, was living with Dean Snow and helping him about the house. The young mar lived three hours after he was shot When found his wrists and ankles wer; bound. Only a fragmentary, story ol the tragedy could be drawn from tut dying boy, and he expired while strug -gling to make an ante-mortem state jnent to Coroner MacDonald In tht Ford ham Hospital Young Sheldon said that just as In aiiproached the furnace a man stepped out and said: "Is Miss Helen Gould In this house?" "No,' replied the startled student. "Is this her house?' "No," repeated the young man, plcklnj up the furnace shake for a weapon "You lie!" cried the man, springing at the boy's throat. Then began the struggle which the dying 3ouug man sough I In vain to describe. It was ended l5 a shot that penetrated the left side ol the abdomen, passed through several organs and lodged in the spine. The police were unable to find traces o? ar intruder and were Inclined to call It s case of suicide. WILL GIVE UP CUBA JAN 28. Provisional Government of Island U Terminate on That Date. Answering Governor Magoon's request for authority to convene the Cuban Congress and give formal pos session to the Cuban government or Jan. 28, the following was recti vec the other day from Washington: Magoon, Havana : Pursuant to in slructions from the President, the Secre tary of War directs: 1. That you assemble the Cuban coä grcss on a convenient" date, to be selcctex by you, to act on the credentials of mem bers-elect of the Senate and House o' Representatives. " 2. That, having passed on the creden tials of members-elect and completed theii organization, they assemble in joint ses mo:i to canvass and declare the result ol the vote of the electoral college for Presi dent and Vice President, and rhereaftei be in recess until reassembled by you foi the pur;oses specified ia the followini paragraphs : 3. That the terms of office of th President-elect and Vice Pre-ident-clec-of Cuba .'hall begin on the 2Sth of Janu ary, 1099, on which day they shall b inaugurated; that congress shall be as sembled during the forenoon ol Jan. 2S 1009, the call therefor specifying the in itial duty of congress to be the Inductior into office of the President and the Viet President, and thereafter the considera tion of all matters withiu the jurisdictior of congress at its regular sessions; thai the President be inaugurated and tht provisional government terminated at 1! o'clock noon on said Jan. 28, 1000. This means, the complete approval o! the plan submitted by you. EDWARDS. FREES CONVICTED PARRICIDE. Kansas Governor Pardons John ColUnit, AVitiics llavlns Hec-anted, Gov. Hoch ol Kansas pardoned Johr Collins, row serving a life sentence foi the murder of his father, J. S. Collins, a well-to-do real estate and insurance man of Topeka. in May, 1808. Young Collins was a student at Kansas university at the time of his father's death. He was convicted upon the testimony of thrw negroes, all of it beiug circumstantial The State set up the plea that Collini was in love with Miss Frames Pabcock. a wealthy young woman of Lawrence, and planned the killing of his father that ht might gain the big life insurance which the senior Collins carried. One of th uegroe8 has since written a book asserting that the testimony at the trial wnt part of a plan by enemies of yoang Collins to ruin him. INCREASE IN ALIENS SMALL. America Coined Only G,29S Foreigners tn Year. The Increase in the alien population o! the United States in the year ending Sept. 30 last was only (5,2!S. According to Secretary Straus, 724,112 foreigners came to this country in the years bei ween Oct. 1, 1007, and Sept. T.O last, hot during the same period 717.S14 foreigners left our shores for their own countries. Secretary Straus paid that never !efore hot the government had figures as to departing aliens. Steamships have been r'ied1 upon to f Ornish estimates of thes, hut until the last year the figures were not officially recorded. Hereafter this will ba done. Höfel Darned; I,aw ? 100,000. Fire the other day destroyed the Arlington hotel and seven other buildings kthe heart of Oneonta, N. Y., causing a loss of $100,000. Sboota Three 1 KI11 lllnineir. Despondency due to a prolonged spree led John Stornier, a blacksmith in Johntown, Pa., to shoot bis wife, her brother and her sister-in-law, and then commit suicide. The shooting occurred at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon in full view of many people. Wounds Sweetheart; Ends Life. Lawrence W. Peters, aged 25, committed suicide in a boarding house at Alexandria, Va., after shooting and attempting to kill his sweetheart, Jennie W. Reaudette, 21 years old, a silk mill worker. The tragedy was provoked by jealousy. Hargl Jury I Dismissed. The Jury in the case of Peach IT'trgis, charged with the murder of his ft t her, Judge James Hargis, reported its inability to agree and was discharged at Irvine, Ky. The jury tood nine for acquittal and three for conviction. Extra Fare Law Held Valid. The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the law enacted by the Legislature last winter, giving railroad companies authority to charge an extra 10 cents for tickets purchased on trains. The question came up in a case from Logan county, brought by Marion Miller against the Toledo and Ohio Central. At Frankfort, Ky., Justice lawing. In the Court of Appeals, rendered a decision giving horsemen a swe?p!ng victory, holding-that betting or wagering on a horse race is not gaming and cannot be construed as a felony.

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m. m CHICAGO. "The dominant -features in business circles testify to sustained recovery In both activity and confidence. Statistics to some extent Include figures for one day less than a year ago, but the comparison of averages is gratifying. Payments through the banks maintain their recent high volume and trading defaults have declined. The returns exhibit unprecedented local sales of holiday goods, increased dealings fn foodstuffs and further gain In mnnn--facturcrs. Conditions generally afford much encouragement. Important factors are the starting of the steel plant at Gary and enlargement nt varlo.ts points, all assuring employment for large forces of men aud machinery. New demands for pig Iron, rails, equipment and structural materials come forward with less hesitancy. Heavy machinery end hardware lines report inquiries which promise much work. " Structural materials reflect heavy tonnage needs in the near future. Lumber yard stocks are less extensive for the winter than heretofore and this strengthens values for grades in Jyst demand. Wliolesole merchandise departments are in the lull Incident to the close of the year. Mall orders, however, for spring and summer .wares reflect prompt country settlements. Grain growers still reap high prices and the growth of winter wheat antl rye Is healthy. The total movement of grain at this port, 8,003,112 tmshels, compares with 8..7)3,0r.3 bus'jels last week and 8,518,203 bushels a 3-ear ago. Compared with 1007 there Is decre.iso In receipts of 10.C per cent and Increase In shipments of 4.7 per cent. Flour receipts were 100.982 barrels, against 174,801 barrels last week and 220,ST2 barrels a year ago. Lire stoei receipts, 31.1.52 head, compared wlfti 403JV51 head last week and O'SO head in 1907. Receipts of hides were 3,571,2T6 puuds, against 2,001,103 pounds last week and 2.003,100 pounds in 1007. Lumber receipts were 34.0m,000 feet, against 51,210.000 feet last week and 27,714,000 a year ago. Wool receipts, 400,122 pounds, compared with 5S8,5o7 last week and only 32.000 pounds In 1007. Compared with the closings a week ago. cash prices art nnrh.inpvfl tn floor nuil tir Huf lrkiwv

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weight, and higher in corn and oats, id oats, at VA ; tibep each cent a bushel; wlieat cents; ribs, 12& cents a barrel 15 cents per hundredweight; pork. 20 cents a barrel; and lard, 42 cents a tierce. Failures reported in the ChS cago district number 22. uginst 41 last week. 22 in 1007 and 17 in 1IKXJ. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number C, against 13 last week, 7 in 1007 and 4 in 100C Dun's Review. LVJt I. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $10 to $7.85; hogs, prime hfavy. $1.00 to $5.S0; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.02 to $1.03; corn, No. 2, 50c to 57c; oats, standard, 13c to 40c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 70c; hay, timothy, $8.00 to $13.00; prairie, $3.00 to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 27e to 31c; eggs, fresh, 27c t 31c; potatoes, rer bushel, 00c to 75c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $5.00; sheep, good to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.03 to $1.04; corn. No. 2 white, 50c to COc; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 51c St. Louis Cattle, $L50 to $7.S5; hogs, $4.00 to $5.05; sheep. $3.00 to $1.25; wheat. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.07; corn. No. 2, 57c to 5Sc; oats. No. 2, 4Sc to 40c; rye, No. 2, 74c to 70c Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $0 23; hogs. $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 t $4.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.07; corn. No. 2 mixed, O0c to 02c ; oats. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 5c; rye, No. 2, 78c to 80c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs; $4.00 to $5.25; sheep. $2.50 to $X50; wheat. No. 2, $1.02 to $1.03; corn. No. 3 j-ellow, 50e to GOc; oats. No. 3 white, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2, 75c to 77c Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.04 to $1.07; corn. No. 3, 55c to 50c; oats, standard, 49c to T0c; rye. No. 1, 74c to 75c; bartey. No. 1, Clc to C5c; jKrk, mess, $14.70. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, ?.00 to $G.75; hogs fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.10; sheep, common to good mixed, $1.00 to $4.7o; lambs, fair to choice, $5 00 to $7.85. New York Cattle. $4.00 to $5.90; hogs, $3.50 to $0.00; idieep. $3.(10 io $1.00; wheat. No. 2 red. $1.07 to $1.08; corn, No. 2, G3c to 01c; oats, natural white, 55c to 57c; butter, creamery, 20e to 32c; eggs, western, 28c to 32c Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed. $1.02 to $1.04 : corn. No. 2 mixed. r,9c to COc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; rye. No, 2. 77c to 7Sc; clover seed, $5.57. TRADE AND INDTSTRY. Northwestern timber magnates bar failed to complete the combine begun in J Chicago Fome weeks ago. Another meet- ' ? I.. I I T..1 . U V . . t - ing 11 uriu ni i'uiuiu, uu( vjiii? vk vum hrge timber owners were still opposed to the consolidation. The C. A. Smith Timber Company, with headquarters in Minneapolis, will applj the principle of reforestation to upward of half a million acres of timber land. This action results dimply from the action which is to be taken up by lumber men throughout America. The property of the Northwestern Cooperative Coal and Dock Company Tras sold under foreclosure proceedings at Ailand, Wis to the Northern Dredge Company of Duluth for $100,707, Che amount of the dredging claims. The company nis started about three year ago by farmers of the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. The expense of promoting the project is said to have been heavy nnd the organizers. It is said, were bit terly fought by coal magnates. The National Forest Conservation league has forvarded o Congress a petition asking rl at the tariff on forest products be repealed. Nearly 400 business men from the four teen Southern States met at Washington 0 form a permanent organization to be known as the Southern Commercial Congress. Its object was said to be to show that the development of the South is of vital importance to the whole nation. Doth Secretary Straus and Secretary Wright addressed the convention, the latter showing the commercial advantages of the Panama canal. L. T. Drake of the Standard Oil Company testified that $25,000 had been spt.it in educating the people in the advantages of using gasoline. The work was so successful that In 1005 and 190G the dem&sd for gasoline equaled the supply.