Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 January 1909 — Page 2

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,F. M. (Z L. Q. N. .L "IN F. Q. K-JzWl. Vi 13th. s.J 20th. V 20th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND. IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Thing are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Thieves Make a Big Haul at Muncie. The police have been at work almost constantly for more than twenty-four hours in an effort to apprehend burglars who robbed the Fred W. Heath home at 714 East Adams street, in Murxie, Ind. It is estimated ta.it between $3,000 and 56,000 worth of valuable papers were taken, including notes, certificates and other instruments. Besides this a diamond ring valued at $20) and about $13 in cash were obtained. Most of the paper will be valueless to the thieves, but might Dot be able to be replaced by Mr. Heath. There is but little evidence upon which to trail the thieves1, according to detectives. The officers hope to obtain some clue by the possible distribution of some of the stolen papers. Professionals are credited with having performed the work. Child Assaulted and Murdered. Although two arrests have been made the police f.ämit very little progress has been made in solving the mystery surrounding the assault and murder of 15 year-old Mary Forschner, whose body was found in a shed near her home ia Dayton. Ohio. The men being held as suspects doubtless will be released. The mysterious assault on Miss Fcrschner Is the fifth of a similar character in recent years. In only one Instance has there been a conviction. Two years ago Dona Gilman was asBaulted and strangled. A year ago Ida Mark jwitz was attacked and killed. A negro is now serving a life sentence for this murder. Previous to these crimes Dessie Little was strangled and thrown into the Miami river. Ada Lentz was assaulted and her body thrown into a cistern. Uncle Sam Prods Railroads. The United States Government has filed thirty-five suits against the Oregon & California Railroad Company, the Southern Pacific Company, the present owners of the Oregon & California railroad, and more than one hundred other individuals and private corporations to recover from the railroads and their grantees, who comprise the other defendants, an aggregate of 353,288 acres of land within the "old Ore.goa & California land grant" In Oregon. The lands are valued at over $3.500,000. Lincoln's Native County Goes Dry. In an election a few days ago, Larue County, Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln's native county, voted "dry" by a majority of 1,085, the vote being over "four to one against license. The bells in the church were rung at intervals during the day, children marched and a brass band furnished music. Prayer meetings were also held, and hot coffee was served by the .women at t lie voting places. The vote was virtually solid against liquor selling. Superintendent Killed by Explosion. While a party headed by Supt. P. A. Logan was inspecting the Boswell coal mine near Pittsburg, Pa., to look for defects an explosion occurred. Superintendent Logan was killed, two men are unaccounted for, one of those who scaped died after being taken out and several are burned and bruised. The mine had been closed on account of a defect. Secretary Root Resigns. Secretary of State Root has tendered to President Roosevelt his resignation, effective upon the qualification of his successor, Robert Bacon, whose nomination, with that of J. C. O'Laughlln, to be Assistant Secretary of State in place of Mr. Bacon, has gone to the Senate. Taft and His Party Sail for Panama. President-elect and Mrs. Taft and party, including a small staff of distinguished civil engineers, selected to iuepect with the President-elect the Isthmian Canal, have started for Panama. The party will reach New Orleans on the return trip on February 13. Ohio Centennarian Dead. John Patterson, the oldest man in Logan County, Ohio, Is dead. He was 104 years old and until Christmas time he shaved himself and smoked hi3 pipe every day. Three Fatally Burned. Four children were burned, three of them fatally, when one of them ignited three kegs of powder at Stoughton, Pa. All of the children, who were foreigners, were terribly mutilated, two of them having their eyes burned out. Millionaire Is Dead. Charles L. Tutt, millionaire mining man and smelter magnate of Colorado Springs, Col., 13 dead in New York City. Death was due to heart disease. Thaw Fights Order. Counsel for Harry K. Thaw has asked Justice Tompkins at White PI. ins, N. Y., to rescind the order gri-nting Thaw a trial In New York County to determine whether or not lie is now sane. Thaw wanted a hearing before a jury in Dutchess County. Morgans Gift to England. J. Plerpont Morgan has purchased and presented to the British Museum the collection of pre-historic weapons which was made by Canon Greenwell, of Durham, illustrating for the most part the bronze age in Great Britain. "Empty' Nitroglycerin Cans Explode. After a charge of 100 quarts of nitroglycerin had been placed in an oil v ell at Oakland City, Ind., the cans in which the explosive had been brought to the well were placed out in a field and shot at with a rifle. The explosion which followed shook tho town. Two Saloons Close; Sixteen Remain. Brookville, Ind., is gradually becoming "dry" without a remonstrance, two saloons having closed their doors in the last few days, the licenses having expired. Sixteen saloons are still in operation here, however.

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M PERISH LIKE RATS Ninety Workmen Caught in Blazing Prison on the Chicago Water Crib Structure. LEAP FE0M FLAMES TO WATER. Hundreds of Persons, Powerless to Give Relief, "Witness Struggles of Laborers from Shore. Over throe score unfortunate -workmen lost their lives and many others were badly Injured Wednesday morning In a fire which destroyed the intermediate crib In Lake Michigan, a mile and a half off 71st street, Chicago, used by George W. Jackson, the contractor, in the construction of a new water tunnel. Estimates of the fatalities ranged from sixty to seventy. Ninety men. who lived at the "rib anil worked in shifts, were ou the structure when the fire broke out. Many of these were burned to death before they could reae'i the doors. Others, their clothes aflame, leaped into the icy water regardless of the results. A number, unable to swim, sank beneath the surface. Others swam to cakes of ice to support themselves until the arrival of relief. Starts from Ponder Explosion. The fire originated In the powder magazine on the first landing, Many of the employes were asleep in bunks, and others were just going to work, when a sheet of flame shot through the building. The alarm spread rapidly. Chicagoans who heard of the Impending disaster were appalled when they learned that over seventy workmen

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Unfinished Water Tunnel. nt tbe crib were completely isolated from the shore. Smoke could be faintly seen putting up S.000 feet away. Where a light mist lay over the water. Occasionally a tongue of red flame flared up. An alarm was sent at once to South Chicago, where the fire tug Conway was stationed. Confined In a fiery prison, with all means of communication with the shore cut off and the icy waters of Lake Michigan all about them, the workmen made a desperate fight for their lives, which was witnessed by crowds on the shore. As soon as the alarm was given prompt measures of relief were taken, but tbe quick spread of the flames In Hie wooden structure and the distance to be covered made these efforts all but useless. Tbe crowds on the shore watching the distant blaze with its plume of black smoke, the squad of men on the adjoining crib and those working from the fire tug Conway, which had been hurrid through the ice floes from its station In South Chicago to the scene of the conflagration, were greatly alarmed when It was learned that three tons of dynamite were stored in tbe eubstructue of the burning crib. The flames spread rapidly, and it was but a few moments wheu the crib was a mass of flames. Hundreds, helpless to aid, watched from th? shore. Kansas City Fnnils tl.'t,MM Short. A shortage of .1."..wk in the t-ity audi tor's ollice was disclosed in Kansas City V. II. Cireen, the auditor, says the shortage probably is the result of systematic stealing by clerks. OOO.OOO Acres for Settlers. The Sangre de Christo land grant, one of he oldtst pivrn by the .Mexican government, has been thrown open to settler after bavins hen in the possession of f-i Costilla family more than a century and a half. It comprises ('00.1100 acres. The grant lies partly in New Mexico, but mostly in Colorado.

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PEOPLE NAME SENATOR. Oregon's Republican Legislature - Elects Democrat as Instructed. Governor George E. Chamberlain, a Democrat, was elected Tuesday by a Republican Legislature as United States Senator from Oregon, thus solving the problem of choosing Senators by popular vote without infringing on the Constitution of the United States. Popular will triumphed, backed by a strong people's lobby determined to see that the members of the Legislature carried out the Instructions given at the polls. A suggestion of extreme measures for any violating pledges heljed keep all in line. It was also declared that the "recall" would be used on ofTeiidltg lawmakers. With the Republicans in a majority, many party leaders hoped to secure one of their political faith chosen as successor to Senator Charles W. Fulton, despite the voters Instructions, and a campaign with this object in view had been carried on. but without result. Tuesday's ballot was by the houses separately, and the result was ratified by a vote iu Joint session Wednesday. In the House Chamberlain was given 34 votes and iu the Senate 19, a total of 53, or seven more than was ncessary to bring about the election. Under the Oregon direct primary law political parties nominate a candidate as the choice of the party for United States Senator. For nominee of the Republicans in the last election Senator Fulton was defeated by Henry M. Cake. The Democrats had only one aspirant. Governor Chamberlain. Prior to the June election Cake and Charuberlain campaigned for the popular vote, ChamlMTlain, Democrat, defeating Cake, Republican, although Oregon is Republican by an overwhelming majority. QUAKE VICTIMS SWAMP ITALY. Cost of Co. rlii if for 200,000 Homeless Estimated at 100,000 a Day. Italy is confronted with a grave problem, the caring for th -()O,(X)0 persons made homeless by the earthquake of last month in Sicily and Calabria and who have dispersed not only to the interior of their native provinces, but have pone in great numlwrs to Naples and other of the large cities of the country. At present, it is estimated, it is costing $100,X0 a day to meet the simplest necessities of the ioor, a sum which neither international charity nor the State can long continue to bear. Furthermore, the lestowal of charity is having an ill effect upon the lower classes and many disorders are reIorted to result. (ids Wisconsin Central Post. Newman Erb lias been electd president of the Wisconsin Central railway at a meeting of the directors of the road held in New York, following the transfer of the road's control to interests said to be afliliatd with the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroad. Venesaeln Hows to Holland. Jose J. Paul, the Venezuelan envoy, had a lengthy conference with M. Van Sv'.nderen, the foreign minister in The Hague, and an agreement was reached on tie principal points at issue between Vene uela and the Netherlands. This will e."i nble the completion of a protocol, restor ing diplomatic relations. Teueh Crop Ilmtly Da ma geil. Iteiorts to the Horticultural Associa tion indicate that the peach crop of Ar Kansas lias leen damaged thousands of dollars by storms aud unusually severe weather. Carload of Dallies (Isen Array. A carload of seventy-five babies was distributed in New Orleans the other day. The precio is freight -siin from the New York foundling and orphan asylum. Scores of foster-parents were waiting at the sta tion to claim the little ones, for whom they bad previously applied. I'enltentlary fur Itexlstrntloit Frantl. Andrew White, who pleaded guilty in St. Ixmis to a charge of fraudulent registration and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, was the thirteenth voter to be convicted of fraud in the lat registration.

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EILI.IK'S NECK IS SAVED. Sentence of Alleged Chicago Poisoner Commuted to Life Imprisonment. Herman Rillik, sentenced to hang on Friday, Jan. was rescued from the gallows when Governor Iknoen, on recommendation of the State Board of Pardons, commuted his sentence to Imprisonment for life. The convicted slayer of Mary Yrzal, who live times vas granted an eleventh-hour reprieve, fell on his kuees Ht the county jail and wept when the news from Springfield was conveyed to him. "Life imprisonment moans liberty," he declared. "I shall 'now have the chance I have been fighting for to prove my Innocence." Commutation of Rillik's sentence is due to the testlmnoy and subsequent confession of perjury of Jerry Vrzal, who, with his sisters, Emma Neiman and Bertha Vrzal, were the only memlers of the Vrzal family to escape death by poisoning. "We an of the opinion that even with the elimination of this testimony there is evidence to support tbe verdict of the jury beyond reasonable doubt," says the pardon board. 'Rut in taking into consideration statements later made by some of the jurors we feel we are warranted in the conclusion the death penalty would, not have been inflicted." Blllik, who is 12 years old and was bom In Volfort of Bohemian parents, was indicted more than two years ago for having poisoned flfive members of the Vrzal family. He was placed on trial in June, RX)7, before Judge Alfred C Barnes for the murder of Mary Vrzal. the oldest daughter, and was Frantic Relatives of the Victims. found guilty on July IS. r.MVT. He denied h'.s guilt and blamed Mrs. Emma Vrzal Niemann for his prosecution because he had Incurred her en mity. "Impulsive brainstorm. insanity" is a new kind of The Tennessee Night Riders are legin ning to see daylight. If the "foot-and-mouth" disease should ever strike Washington Things are still a little bit shaky in the neighborhood of Messina. The Senate seems to have blackballed New Mexico and Arizona again Somehow, hanging doesn't seem to be quite enough for a Night Rider. Japan might get some satisfaction by declaring war against the California leg islature. President t astro considers it much more pleasant to be hung in effigy than i;i real life. Judge Landis thinks $20M 10,000 worth of lining entitles hun to a rest in the Standard Oil case. I'ncle Sam tells Miss Columbia that two a year is all he can afford of Merry idow-Kize battleship. Mr. Taft told the tieorgia ijirls that matrimony isn't necessary. No; but they nil know it is very desirable. If they don't quit bothering him, Farm er Jim Wilson will pick up his scythe and noi down a few professors When Tmle Sam is sending those .1.000 houses over 1 Italy he might send along some firm and stable land to put 'em on. The Ohio n an who has invented a cur rent of air which will throw people out of the way of a street car is hot stuff al light. The New Yorker who h;s found t Rockefeller prototyic 1T..M years old mujt have been going back to the ol Adam. Hit doctor friend says John D. Rocke feller will live to be lOO years old. I?y that time will the rest of the country have any money left? "Phoaiste" is the new name for the Menfoue girl. Rut the man who can't trvt a number will probably continue to cab her the same old names.

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House Grants Demands for Battleships ,to Cost $30,000,000. The war god held full sway in the House Friday and the navy appropriation bill, carrying $13."..KMMKM, including $lS.Ut0.000for twotirstnlass battleships, was jiassed just as it came from the commute. The Japanese war scare was the sole topic, in the discussion of which the leaders on loth sides joined In addition to the passage of the bill favorable action was taken by the committee on the fortifications bill, provisions for coast batteries in the Philippines, Hawaii and Fort Travis. By a vote of K'0 to so auth rization was given for the construction by the United States of two of the greatest battleships in the world. This action was taken despite the opposition of some of the President's Republican enemies in the House, powerful lieutenants of Speaker Cannon, and over the heads of the few men of both parties who sincerely believe it a mistake to go on enlarging the American navy. The action authorizes the construction of two Dreadnaughts, leviathans of 25.0U0 tons each, carrying 14-inch guns,tbe largest on any warship. v and the tv6 vessels to cost when in commission nearly $".$0,(00,00O. The vote was ac companied by a patriotic demonstra tion on the floor and in the galleries, Participated in by Itoth Democrats and Republicans and significant of what tlie spirit of the nation would be if a for eign war were actually threatened The opponents of the two battleship roposal, led by Chairman Tawney of he House Appropriations Committee, ittacked President Roosevelt, virtually leclaring that the present Japanese agitation was a ruse cooked up at the White House to iuduce Congress to vote for naval increase. "I am tired of these annual wars with Japan, which always occur simultaneously with the consideration of the naval aproprIation bill by Congress," declared Mr. Tawney. "All the rest of the time our relations with Japan are friendly. ut as soon as we liegin to consider the naval appropriation bill then we learn from the press and other sour vs that war Is Imminent." DROPS ANTI-JAPANESE BILL. Governor of California Says Objec tionable Measures "Will Not Pass. As the result of an urgent message from President Roosevelt protesting against the anti-Japanese measures IH'iidlng before the California legislature. Governor Gillett has aunouueed that no bill of the kind will be passed. The Governor has authorized the following statement : "After conferring with the leading members of both branches of the Legislature, I am convinced that no legislation directed against the Japanese will bo enacted. I am satisfied that the people of California, and particularly the members of our Legislature, appreciate the efforts being made by the Federal government and the representatives of Japan to stop immigration to this country of Japanese laborers, skilled and unskilled. "There can be no doubt that the Japaneso government is acting absolutely In p'.-rd faith in its endeavor to prevent its pvople from emigrating to our country, aud in my judgment it would be a serious mistake while they are so doing to enact any laws directed against the jappnese people. This question is one in which the Federal government Is particularly interested and Us wishes should be carefully considered and will be, I am sure, by the people of this State." Jeriiiniiy's Trade In Decrease. The export nnd import trade of Germauy for ÜHlS, according to estimates based on the prevailing prices of 1007, amounted to $2,lK4,."i0.000 in imports, which is a decrease of $0i;.2.iO,OOO from the 1007 figures, nnd to $1.70l.2r.0,000 ir exports, a decrease of $01,750,000. Threaten Pastor rvlth Death. Rev. W. A. Amis of Hot Springs, leader of reform measures before the Arkansas Legislature, has received anonymous letters which threaten him with death. "Within thirty days," he says, "I have received seven anonymous letters." Farmer Ilohbed and Murdered. Tlie body of William Collier, a farmer, living north of Lonvrmont, Colo., was discovered the other day. Collier had evidently been murdered for robbery. His assailants poured coal oil oer the body nnd around the house. Powder Hlast Hurts Twelve. An explosion in the mixing building of the Du Pont powder plant at Gihhsto-vn, twenty miles south of Philadelphia, inI jurel twelve men and Ir-stroye! several small corrugated iron buildings. The ifp'.osibu shx-k was felt witliia a radius of thirty miles.

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III Crew Leaves Republic at Last Minute and Finds Safety on Revenue Cutter. SIX ARE KILLED IN COLLISION. Passengers of Both Vessels on Baltic Taken Into New York Harbor Through Fog. Six lives were lost and two persons were injured when the Florida of tbe IJoyds-italiano Line cut her way through the sides of the Republic, the White Star Mediterranean liner, in the fog-bound waters of the Atlantic o(T Nantucket early Saturday morning. Despite valiant efforts on tbe part of half a dozen other vessels to save her, the Republic sank at half past S o'clock Sunday night off No Man's Land, near Martha's Vineyard, while the Gresham. a revenue cutter, and the Seneca, a derelict destroyer, were towing her fo New York and the Furnessia of the Anchor Line was steering her aft. The Republic is sunk in l.'.O feet of water off No Man's Iand. and is gone forever. Kflorts to raise her from this depth would be useless. Captain Sealby and his crew, who had returned to their ship when she was taken in tow. remained aboard until tbe last moment when they were carried off in small boats and transferred to tbe Gresham Meantime the Baltic, carrying the passengers of both the Republic and the Florida, numbering more than l.Ooo, was making all speed to the port of New York. Two of those killed were passengers on the Republic, as were the two injured. The other victims wire seamen. .-even hundred persons, in round numbers, were transferred from the

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XT Republic to the Florida, and then 1.050 from the last named vessel to the Paltk That this transfer of nearly 2.500 persons was effected without the loss of a single life is considered a marvelous performance, though the fortunate occurrence of a placid sea and mild, almost springlike weather was an Important factor in this work. Throughout all of Sunday the only Information which reached New York or elsewhere of the situation on the fog-bound waters off Nantucket came fitfully in the detached and sometimes conflicting wireless dispatches, but without these nothing might have been known for days. Thousands of homes would have been plunged into grief and anxiety but for the reassuring news tha the' accident was not so grave as hail been feared, and that the loss of life was small. Ü. S. GRANT ACCUSES BANKER. Financier Arrested as Cmbezcler of $750,0 1)0. Homer G. Taber. former president of the United States Rank of Los Angeles, former president of the International Rank of Searchlight, New. and now presideut of the San Diego Rank and Trust Company, has been arrested, and will be taken to Pioche, New, to answer to nineteen indictments said to involve altogether $750,000. It is charged Taber embezzled $10.000 worth of telephone bonds from U. S. Grant. Jr.. of San Diego. S. K. Williamson, cashier of the Lincoln National Rank of Searchlight, was arrested simultaneously with Taber. Throws Itohber Into Creek. William Cain, a miner, 50 years of age, put to rout in summary fashion a holdup man who attempted to rob him not a block away from the police station iu Denver. Cain seized his assailant and tossed him over a bridge railing into the bed of the creek. I Ilryan's Danshter Seeks Tllvorre. j Ruth Rryau Leavitt, daughter of William J. Rryan, has filed suit for divorce from William II. Ieavitt in Lincoln, Neb. ' The petition was immediately withdrawn. ' T. S. Allen, brother-in-law of Mr. Bryan, i is the attorney for the plaintiff. Leavitt is now in Paris. 0,000 Acres of (irain Itulned. San Jacquin valley, Cab, was flooded the other day by the preatest freshets of the State's history. All telephone communication with the flooded region has been cut off. I'p the river the water Las destroyed 00,000 acres of grain. New KIntI of Road Urged. A new kind of country road a macadam highway with a strip of asphalt in the middle was advoeatel by Amzi L. Barber before the annual meeting of tho Independent Asphalt Association in Washington. Toletlo Has n ?.-00,000 Itl.ize. The greatest fire Tolclo has hid in years started in the Brown, Racer & Hull Book Conpany buihling at 4O0-1H Summit street. Two large business blocks were destroyed aud others damaged. The loss is estimated at more thau $300,000, about half insured.

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President in Special Message Tells Congress of Nation's Peril. President Roosevelt in a special message to Congress urged upon the nation the necessity for conserving its resources, and told of the duty of the citizens of to-day to the generations to come. The message transmitted to Congress the report of the National Conservation Commission showing the peril confronting the country If the present waste is permitted to continue. "We should do all in our power to develop and protect individual liberty, individual initiative, but subject al ways to the need of preserving and promoting the general good," said the President "When necessary, the private right must yield, under due process of law and with proper compensation, to the welfare of the commonwealth. The man who serves the community greatly should be greatly rewarded by the community; as there is great inequality of service, so there must be great inequality of reward." In the message the President reviewed practically all the accomplishments of his administration and asked for tbe development of th inland waterways and for the preservation of the forests and minerals, liesldes making a plea for the "square deal." Some of the striking points made In the message as showing the reckless waste of the natural resources of the nation were as follows: Mineral production of United States, ir07, value $2.000,000.000 ; waste mora than $.0K0.000. Available Coal Supply 1,400,000,000,. Oo0 tens: threatened with exhaustion by middle of next century. High Grade Iron ' Ore ?,.S40,000,000 tons; threatened with exhaustion by middle of next century. Petroleum Supply 20.000.000,000 barrels; wastage euormous; supply not expected to last beyond middle of present century. Natural Gas Daily Waste More than HKK,ixk(,hX) cubic feet; enough to supply every city of more than 100,000 population. Fire Losses per Year $150, 000,000; four-fifths preventable. Forest Burned Yearly 00,000,000 acres. Of 70.000,00,000 cubic feet of water anr . t.x 'v-r vT - - : - x -y LS ZOXStXIXZ r OF TJi - J2EJU3Ziey Map showing the position of the Republic when it was rammed, the location of the ships summoned to its assistance by wireless telegraphy nnd the land stations that also got the messages for assistance. nually flowing into the sea less than one per cent is restrained and us for municipal and community supply. Annual Mortality from Tuberculosis 150.000. Fstimated Economic Gain Annually from Mitigation of Preventable Diseases l,50t,000,tK!0. Tennessee (Joes "Dry." Over the veto of Gov. Patterson both houses of the Tennessee Legislature passed the Senate bill No. 1, which prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors within four miles of a school house in Tennes-s-e, and is in effect a State-wide prohibition act. It will become effective July 1, l'JOO. Cholera Grip A'ot Loosened. The promised extinction of Asiatic cholera in St. Petersburg by cold weather has failed, and medical authorities are agreed that it will require almost a miracle to prevent a scourge of this disease in the spring. New cases are developing at the rate of thirty and forty a day. Guilty In Dank Failure. Jacob and Abraham Kapnar, father and son, hosiery manufacturers, and J. S. Prettyman, vice president of the First National Bank at Dresden, Ohio, which failed in October, 1907, were found guilty by a jury of misapplying the bank's fundi and conspiracy to wreck the bank. Steals $2.75 1 Gets Two Years. J. II. Trimm, a railway clerk, pleaded cuilty in the federal court in San Antonio, Texas, to the charge of abstracting $2.73 from the mails. He was sentenced to serve two years in the Leavenworth penitentiary. Eighteen. Hurt In n Wreck Eighteen passengers, incl;u'iug five women, are suffering from cuts f.nd bruises received in a street csr acc'deut in Portland, Ore. A car and its trailer jumped the tnu-k while turning a corner on the east sMe. There were siiry-six passengers. Jacob fcies is cxpvtc! to die. Falls Head ns Foe Gets Life Term. As Judge Murphy in Hamilton, Ohio, sentenced Buck Col tongs me, Keutucky feudist, to the penitentiary for life for the murder of Farrish Ar:K-t. the father cf Arnet fell dead ia the court rooai.

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' Tlie Brownsville affair was again before the Senate Wednesday, Senator Frazier of Tennessee speaking in opposition to the passage of the measure for the reinlistment of the discharged soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Regiment. He insisted that the guilt of some men of the regiment lad been established beyond any doubt, although the individuals who had committed the crime had not been determined. Mr. Foraker announced that he would move the next Monday to take up his bill to reinstate the soldiers unless an agreement on a time to vote for the measure is made sooner. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was under consideration also. After p.doptiig without opposition n resolution by which Governor George F. .Lilloy of Connecticut ceases to be a member of Congress, the House of Representatives proceeded with the naval appropriation bill. There were few amendments offered to the measure, the items under consideration being those of maintenance and improvements to navy yards, stations and other public works of the navy. Representative Foss of Illinois, chairman of the naval affairs committee, had charge of tbe bill on the floor. A debate on the propriety of increasing salaries of federal circuit and district judges consumed nearly the entire Um of the Setiate Thursday, with the result that the compensation of the twenty-nine circuit jmlges was In creased from $7,000 to $0,000. nnd that of the eighty-four district Judges from $0,000 to $8,000. Senator Borah, who had offered amendments reducing tbe Increases of salary, recommended, by the committee on appropriations, declared that the action of the Senate In increasing the salary of the President to $100,000 was in violation of the spirit of the constitution and would never have been taken before or during the recent jolitleal campaign. Senator Tillman Insinuated that some federal judges were on the pay rolls of corporations. Strictures upon the efficiency of officers of the navy In the care of machinery of war vessels were uttered in the House during the consideration cf the naval appropriation bili, with the result that an amendment was adopted requiring the Secretary of the Navy annually to report to Congress those instances where more than $200,000 is expended for repairs. After futile efforts to obtain legislation looking to the restoration of marines aboard ships, an amend nient was agreed to prohibiting tbe purchase of powder "manufactured and sold in violation of the Sherman antitrust law. Tbe debate disclosed the fact that the amendment was directed at the Dunont eonipanj-. Amendments appropriating $250.000 to double the government's output of powder, aDd fixing the price for powder other than for small, arms at 64. cents per pound, were adopted. ' On Friday in the Senate Feb. 12 next was declared to be a special iegal holiday and a survey and plans for a highway from Washington to Gettysburg, to be known as the "Lincoln way," as a memorial to Abraham Lincoln, was provided for by a joint resolution passed by the Senate, after an extendel debate. The resolution did not commit Congress to the construction of the highway when surveyed. Final action was also taken on tb legislative, executive' and judicial bill, tbe Senate refusing by a vote of 41 to 27 to fix at $75.000 the salary of the President, previously increased by an amendment to $100,000. Exactly as reported by committee the naval program for the fiscal year lf09 was adopted by the House nnd the naval appropriation bill was passed. The opponents of tbe navy Increase feature of the bill found themselves in a hopeless minority. The only vital alteration made in the measure was the striking out of the provision restoring marines to naval vessels. The aggregate amount appropriated by the bill Is $1C5,000,000. 1 The Senate was not In session Sat urday. A large nunilK of pension bills were passed and by the decisive vote of 42 to 10.'i the House refused to in crease tho pensimi of Julia B. Coghlan, widow of the late Rear Admiral Coghlau. U. S. N from $.V a month, as rec ommended by the Committee on Tensions, to . $100, as projiosed In an amendment offered by Representative Oleott of New York. Conshlcratlon of a bill to prohibit the Importation of opium except for medical pur'toses was prevented by Mr. Payne of New York on the ground that such action would rVtlueo the national revenue $1,000,000 a month and would not Jssen the i:se of the drug. At 2 oVhck the House adjourned until Sunday when memorial services were held for the late Representative Duuwell of New Yonc. SHOUT NEWS NOTES. The large warehouse of Codville & Co., grocer at Brandon, Man., wa burned. Loss $100,000. John M dishing, a "'er," died in San Francisco. He was-horn in Salem, Mass., in 1S25. Frank M. Howe, who designed the electricity building at the Columbian exposition, died in Kansas City, Mo., aced 50. Witnesses summoned from Chicago will testify in New York at the hearing of the povernmcnt suit against tbe alleged powder trustDa vM Jackson, a millionaire land owner and philanthropist of Monterey, CaU died there. He was born in Scotland eighty-eight years ago and came to California in 1S19. Thomas V. iAWRon was blamed for his financial troubles by Cardmio Flavius King, when he was sentenced to fron; ten to fifteen years in the penitentiary for larceny and embezzlement. Senator Buckley will introduce a bill in Congress for the incorporation of the "descendants of signers," the purpose of whih is the organization of descendants of those who signed the declaration of independence. The steam schooner Sybil Marston, loaded with lumber for Belond. Cal., was driven ashore near Surf, Cal., and two of the crew lost. ' Fire destroyed the Peekskill (N. Y.)' Military Academy, causing a loss of $75,OOO. The 150 students escaped in safety and had time to save their books and other movable proierty. It is reported in St. Louis that the Standard Oil Company is attempting to force II. Clay Pierce out of the WatersFierce vuniiiou.1 - . v. his Attitude in the ouster suit. The Standard has cut the price of oil and brought a competitor into the Missouri field". i . i ULi&