Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 20, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 February 1909 — Page 2

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FEÄTUKES'ÖF INTEREST ACOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Siltt and Conditions of Things are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Pennsylvania Special in Wreck. The Pennsylvania Special, the eigh-teen-hour flyer from. Chicago to New York, struck a rocl; at Newton Hamilton. S3 miles west of Ilarrisburg, Pa., wrecking the train. Official reports say that 'beyond a severe shakins-up 110 cne was injured. A heavy fog obscured the tracks at the time of the accident, and the engineer had no opportunity to reduce speed before striking the recks, which had fallen from the hillside. The combination buffet car, the bagg?.ge car and three sleepers were derailed, the engine and first two earn turning over on their sides. The last car remained oa the track. All the passengers were still in their berths r.nd were thrown about. The number of passen -.trs on the train was small. Shock of Riches Kills. Theodore Robert Shear died of heart disease in New York City following the excitement attendant upon the discovery that he had inherited a fortune of 510,000,000. Within a few months the fortune would have been turned over, to him. This fortune was left to him by John C. Packard, an uucle, who went to California in 1849 and amassed wealth which he iuvested in Pacific coast real estate. He left an estate valued at $20,000,000 when he died in October last. Shear was a New York lawyer. The estate will now go to his widow, two sons and a daughter. Three Hundred Perish In Fire. Three hundred persons were burned to death when the Tatro Flores of the city of Acapulco, Mexico, was destroyed. Several Americans were among the victims. There were but three narrow exits and the panicstricken audience rushed to them, many persons falling, to be crushed to death. It was Impossible to attempt rescue work, and those imprisoned were literally roasted alive, as the fire burned with little smoke and few were suffocated. Two Girls are Burned to Death. Two girls were burned to de.-.th. their mother was fatally burned, and two other children of the same family were bidly hurt in a fire which destroyed the farm dwelling of Albert Bennison, twelve miles south of Herten, N. Y., near the village of Rexville. Mrs. Dcnnison with her night clothing in .flames, leaping from a second-story window. Her sons, Thomas and Albert, also jumped. Cora Bennison, 15, and her sister Alice, 1C, were burned to death In their beds. i , Two Chl?3 Slink by Ccliision. An unknown sailing vessel rammed the reigian steamer Australia during a storm February 12 near Alboran Island, in tho Mediterranean, 100 miles from Gibraltar. Both vessels ioun dered. The total loss of life was thirty, fourteen men from the unknown ves sei ixid sixteen from the Australia. Ten members of the crew of the Aus tralia were taken olf the steamer in small boats and were picked up by the German steamer Liberia. Train Derailed; One Man Killed. One passenger was killed and eight Injured, some seriously, when three coaches of a Missouri Pacific passen ger train left the rails at Uuion, forty miles south of Omaha, Neb. Ail the in jured persons, and Thomas Barnum, dead, a stockman of Union, were in the smoker which turned on its side. John Mitchell Hurt In Wreck. John Mitchell, secretary of the Na tional Civic Federation, while on th? way to New York, after a short visit at his home in Spring Valley, 111., was slightly injured In a trolley collision Mr. Mitchell had his wounds dressed and proceeded on hi3 journey. Severn: others were also slightly hurt. Seventy-five Babies are Given Away. A car load of seventy-five babies was distributed in New Orleans, La., recently. The precious freight came from the New York Foundling and Or phan A3ylum. Scores of foster-parents were waiting at the station to lay claim to the Lttle ones for whom they had previously applied. Famous Winter Resort is Burned. The Hotel Clarendon at Sea Breexo, Fla., one of the largest resort hotels cn the east coast, and ten cottages adjoining were totally destroyed by fire. Two hundred and fifteen guests were rescued without injury. Hct:l Fire at Finda), Ohio. The Phoenix, the leading hotel of Findlay, Ohio, burned. No lives were lost. The property loss will e..CfcM $20.000. Women Hurt In Fir. Several women were Injured In a fire which swept the fashionable Ballard apartment building, at Fifty-first street and Jefferson avenue, Chicago, Hi. One hundred and fifty persons, members of the fifty families occupying the building, rushed Into the street. Benton, ill., Bank Closed. The Comptroller of the Currency at Washingtoa. D. C, has announced that the Coal Belt National Bark of Benton, III., has been closed by oder of the directors and that Georg... C. Ball ha3 been appointed receiver. Wireless Man Drowned. While standing on the ice on a pond in a cedar swamp near Woods Hole, Mass., Charles Gottliebson,- a wireless operator of the revenue cutter Acushnet, fell through and both he and Seaman Oscar Rongved who made a brave attempt to rescue him, were drowned. Leiter Mine Explosion. It has been reported that another explosion had occurred In the Leiter -mine at Zeigler. 111. The report said that three men had been killed. Twenty-six men were killed by an explosion early In January in the Leiter mine.

Lays Corner Stone of iMemorial at

the Cabin Where Lincoln Was Born. KENTUCKY TOWN A MECCA Hodgenville Temporary Capital of World Other Noted Men Make Speeches at Famous Farm. In an address which probably will rank as one of the most forceful he has ever delivered. Theodore Roosevelt on Lincoln's birthday delivered, the nation's tribute to the War President on the siot where ICO years ago llie great emancipator was born. Mr. Roosevelt drew a lesson for the men of to-day in solving the great problems of the nation, from Lincoln's 'combination of indomitable resolution with cool-headed sanity." lie never went to extremes, though "timid and luke-warm icnple were nlways de nouncing him because he was too ex treme," the speaker asserted. "No more practical man ever lived than this homely Lackwoods idealist," said Mr. Iioosovelt. "but he had nothing In common with tlmse practical men whose consciences are wariMl until they fail to distinguish between good and evil, fail to understand that strength, ability, shrewdness, whether in the world of business or of politics, only serve to make their possessor a more noxious, a more evil memler of the community If they are not guided and controlled by a fine anil high moral sense. Lincoln did not hate the man from whom he differed. He saw clearly that the same high qualities. the same courage and willingness for self-sacrifice, and devotion to the right as it was given them to see the right, belonged both to the men of the North and to the men of the South. "As the years roll by. and as all of us, wherever we dwell, grow to feel an equal pride In the valor and selfdevotion alike of the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray, so this whole nation will grow to feel a peculiar sense of pridti in the mightiest of the mighty men who mastered the mighty days; the lover of his country and of all mankind; the man whose blood was shed for the union of his people and for the freedom of a race Abraham Lincoln." The President's address was delivered in the laying of that corner stone for the memorial on the farm near Ilodgenville, Ky.. where stands the log cabin which was Lincoln's birthplace. Governor Wlllson of Kentucky, Secretary of War Wright and former Governor Folk of Missouri were the other speakers. PEACE WITH VENEZUELA. Protocol Signed to Settle All Disputes with United States. A protocol, in settlement of the matters between the United States anl Venezuela, was signed Saturday. The Venezuelan cabinet the previous day approved the proposal to effect the settlements directly between the United States ami Venezuela, thus removing the last obstacle to the signing of the protocol. . Three claims go to The Hague tribunal for arbitration; the fourth is settled by a small cash payment, and the fifth has been settled directly between the Venezuelan government and the claimants. The protocol is equally satisfactory to the United States and to Venezuela. It saves the dignity and honor of Venezuela, while as for the United States the troublesome claims that have led to so much negotiation are disposed of. The New York and Bermudez As phalt Company, hrough Mr. Buchanan, has reached a direct settlement with the government, by which the company obtains possession of Its, property in Venezuela and agrees to pay the gov ernment a minimum revenue of $20.000 a year. Furthermore, the company will pay the government a cash indemnity of $00.000 to compromise the suit brought against it on account of its al leged participation In the Matos revo lution. HAT FACTORIES ABE REOPENED. Dauliurr, Conn., Work Are Iteady to RecelTe Application. The hat factories in Danbury, Conn., which had been closed the greater part of the time since the strike of the United llnttor. declared nearly a month azo. were openefc Tuesday morning to receive applications for employment from indi viduals. Although it had leen announced that the hat factories in the Newark and Orange districts would he started up the same day, there were no signs of renewed activity about any of the plants. TRIES TO KILL SELF. Tonus Girl Leap from Window on Sixth Floor in Denver. In an effort to kill, herself Miss Violet Brierly, aged 2S, steiKlaughter of K. A. Powe!!, leaped from a window on the sistli floor of the Mining Exchange Uuilding, in Denver, to the stone pavement. In the pocket of her coat was a note . directing that communication should he had with C. M. YV, a civil engineer," in case of her death. It is thought the girl cannot live. YOUTH FREEZES TO DEATH. IVudc Rod) of Man Fonml Nwir Mattoon After Strange experience. "I am living ar. Jesus lived," said a young man who walk-d through the "Big Four" iVpot in Bollfontaine, Ohio, offering figs and dates to the crowd. Afterward be purchased a ticket to Mattoon, HI. The next day he was found near Tower Hill, a town outside of Mattoon. The body was nude end frozen. Before leaving Beüefontaine the youth pent a telegram to Mrs. T. H. Fitzgerald. Vallejo, Cal., signing biuwelf "It. A. Graham." Chltled by "Wife, End Mir. Because his wife chMed him for running away after bein :n a "fight, II. II. Schleuder, a young bu r.oejs man of Florence. S. D., agd 25 years, drank carbolic acid and died. AY nnlx Trees tt Monuments. Liring trees are proposed by City Forester Buddy of Cleveland as monuments to great men. Iii scheme is to set out a youcg tree for the man to be honored, and to place silver tubes, containing the nanio and other records, in bol?a in the trunk, where they will remain for 100 years or more.

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GREAT TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN. Nation and Its Head Join in Most Notable Demonstration. Chicago and the nation joined Fri day, the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, in paying to the memory of the martyred President the most notable tribute ever accorded an Individual in the history of the United States. The homage of centennial day was rendered by every class. 1k)üi sexes, numerous creeds, all ages, by native-born Americans and bjnaturalized citizens of many nationalities. Everywhere it was a tribute of the wliolf people. It was a democratic, allembracing demonstration, ts the sympathies or Lincoln himself were democrat ie, all-embracing. Lincoln as the doer of vital deeds for the nation's wel fare, Lincoln as the exponent of lofty ideals for the nation's guidance, Lin ed n as the prophet of the cause of hu manity. Lincoln us the deliverer from lcmlage of n people, Lincoln as the chief individual for'-e which maintained thf Union such wpip the themes to which speakers e cry where addressed themselves on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. In Ilodgenville, Ky., where Lincoln was born, - President Uoosevelt voiced ringing praise to Lincoln's eminence. At Springfield, 111., two of the leading European powers. England and Franco, laid the laurel before Lincoln's shrine through their ambassadors. There, too. the Democratic party, through William Jennings Bryan, joined in doing reverencet; Lincoln. In Pennsylvania Vice President Fairbanks and his successor-elect, James S. Sherman, glorified Lincoln's achievements, while in New York City, whore extensive celebrations took place, l'.Kker T. Washington spoke on behalf of the race which Lincoln freed. Nowhere, however, was there so widespread or noteworthy a general celebration as that In Chicago. On the three sides of the city, all day long and through the evening, tens of thousands of men, women and children joined In doing their part tp swell the chorus of Lincoln's praise. By song and speech, by prayer and by music did Chicago pay her reverence on centennial day. White capitalist and negro laborer, school child and Gettysburg veteran, society woman and shrp girl, Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant. European and Yankee, all Joined In mass meeting or banquet. In church service or school exercise. SINGING STOPS FIRE PANIC. I.iarola Celeltrntlom at Karjto, X u.. Nearlf Krault In Trajretly. With the Fargo opera house in Fargo, N. D., packed to the doors, George Itndley, engineer at the theater, dashed from the stage through the audience calling for Fire Chief Sutherland. In an instant the place was filled with a mob, with every one rushing for the exits. The pianist rushed to the instrument on the stage and "America" was played. A chorus of voices on the stag took up the air and in a moment the audience joined and order was restored again. Although a few were jostled and slightly bruised, none was seriously injured. Explosion Fatal. The locomotive drawing a Great Northern train blew up near Muokilteo. Wash., killing the fireman and fatally injuring the engineer. No passengers were injured. Progress Due to Weather. Willis L. Moore, chief of the United Slates weather bureau, says Americans o.-e their spirit and enterprise largely to ever-changing weather conditions in this country. He made the assertion while b'cturing at Columbia University, in New York, on "storms and weather forecasting." Mother of Triplet mt 10. Mrs. Bichard Shuttle -ortb, 10 years old, has become the mother of triplets,, two girls and a boy. The youDg mother lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. She will name the boy William Taft Shuttleworth. lias Serum Cure for Pare. In his address before the Union Medical Society in Massillon, Ohio, Dr. J. I). O'Brien exhibited four patients who are suffering from paresis and who have been treated with a recently discovered serum. His theory is th..t paresis U a germ disease and he says he has found a .erum that will cause the disease 'to yield to treatment. Falls from Crane to Death. II. J. Miller of Detroit, Mich., an erecting engineer, fell forty feet from a crane at Oakmount, near Pittsburg, and was killed.

NOTABLE TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF LINCOLN. Ambassador Itryce of England at Springfield. "To us in England he is one of the herKs of the race whence you and we spring.' Wiliiara J. Bryan at Springfield. "The eloquence of Demosthenes and Cicero were 'no more necessary to their work, and Lincoln deserves to have his name written on the scroll with theirs." Ambassador Jusserand of France at Springfield. "That boou from above was granted to the American ieople, who had a Washington when a Washington was needed and a Lincoln when Lincoln could save them. Baron Takabira at Teoria, 111. "The golden mit is fully in accordance with tho high Meal of Lincoln's diplomacy, which is now being so energetically exliounded and executed by another great President. Theodor Uoosevelt.' Senator Lodgo at Boston. "I wish to detach Lincoln from the myth that his wisdom, his purity and hi.- greatness were as obvious and acknowledged, or ought to have been ah obvious and acknowledged, in his lifetime as they are to-day."

Booker T. Washington as New York. "Says the great look somewhere, though a man die, yet shall he live. If this is true of the ordinary wan, how much more true is U of the hero of the hour and the hero of the century Abraham Lincoln? One hundred years of the life and influence of Lincoln i the story of the t niggles, the trials, ambitions and triumphs of the people of our complex American civilization." President Iioosevelt at Ilodgenville, Ky. "As the years roll by and as all of us, wherever we dwell, grow to feel an equal pride in the valor and self-devotion alike of the men who woie. the blue end the men ho wore the gray, no this whole nation will grow to feol a peculiar sense of pride in the man n!iose blood w.is h?d for the union of his ixople and for th freedom of a race; the lover of his country and of all mankind; the mightiest of the mighty men who mastered the mighty days Abraham Lincoln." At Johannesburg, Transvaal, ten white men and ir! natives were drowned in u mine which became flooded by the bursting of a dam. Jose de Paul, the Venezuelan ambassador, has opened negotiations with France, looking toward a settlement of the trouble Ixtivccn the two countries. A landslide following a severe earth shock in the rtsion south of Tetuan, Morocco, has wiped out several villages, it is reported that hundreds of peopVwere killed or injured. An imperial edict issued by the Chinese government directs that the sum of 7),i KM I taels (. .!.", XX)) be paid over to the Italian minister as a contribution to the relief of the earthquake sufferers in Calabria and Sicily. The Dominion and Canadian express rouipanie have telegraphed instructions to their agents throughout Canada to restore the schedule of rates existing prior to .Inn. 1. ae-onling to a ruling of the dominion railway commission. The January schedule was alwut 3." per cent in excess of the old schedule. The Prussian diet has voted down various motians favoring electoral reform. The national liberal motion, demanding a direct ballot, laked three votes of a majority. The Canadian Pacific Railroad company has sent three otlicials to St. Paul and CLicago to investigate the ojM'iation of stock yards and packing plants with a view to erecting ai plant at Winnipeg. In Paris, the civil court of the Seine oidered Harold Vanderbilt to pay $lOO to a peasant named Guigard. who was struck recently by Mr. Vanderhilt's automobile near Nice. Mr. Vanderbdt has already given this man .3H) voluntarily. Although embarrassment prevails in France through lack of information as to the exact nature of the visit of the American fleet to French iorts, the officers and sailors will be given cordial receptions. No special features have been arranged for. The Shakspeare Memorial Committee in England has decided to establish a national theater at which Shakspearean and other plays are to be presented under tiie best conditions possible. The educational and municipal authorities of the country will he asked to associate themselves with the theater which will represent current literature, drama, music and education.

CALIFORNIA YIELDS ALL. Japanese Segregation Bill Reconsidered and Defeated in Assembly. Yielding to the pressure brought to bear by President Uoosevelt and Governor Gillett, the California assembly retired from Its previous position on the anti-Japanese matters Wednesday by reconsidering the former vote on the segregation of Japanese students In the public schols and finally rejecting the measure toy a vote of 41 to 37. An effort by the supiorters of the bill further to reconsider was lost by a tie vote, and the assembly Is now clear of any antl-Japances measure objected to by the national administration. The fight for the suppression of the bill was won only after many hours of heated debate on the floor. The struggle started at 10:.,0 o'clock In the morning on the presentation of a resolution by Assemblyman J. l Transue of Los Angeles, nilirining the right of the State to govern its schools, but withdrawn? the Japanese segregaton measure because of the President's objection to it, and lasted until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when Grove L. Johnson's motion further to reconsider was defeated on a tie vote. CS to 38.

SLAYS MUIISTEÜ AND HIMSELF. Public Assassination for ClerKymtin Lawyer In Divorce Salt. Kev. S. P. Kellum, 4S years oM. a M?lhodist minister, a lawyer and editor of the College Corner News, was assassinated in the main street of College Corner, Ind., nt 7 o'clock the other night by Clyde Ilandley, 20 years old. of the same village, who then committed suicide. Handley met Kellum in front of Clark Bark ley's drug store, and, drawing a revolver, tired three shots. The third shot struck Kellum in the left iemilr- killinir him insta-.itlv. Immediately after the murder Ilandley ran to his ruother's homo, where he killed himself with the same revolver with which he. had committed the crime. It develops m.iw ......... v., ....v. j -": for divorce and tnat Kellum acteu as her attorney. Kellum leaves a widow and seven children. BROKERS FAIL FOR A MILLION. Lamprerht Ilrothers Jt Co. of Cleveland Forced to 31nke Assignment. With liabilities running close to $1.000.OOO, the firm of Lamprecht Brothers & Co.. bankers and brokers of Cleveland, made an assignment in the State court to T. II. Bushneil, who, in a later action in voluntary bankruptcy in the United States Court, also was appointed receiver. The immediate cause . for the csslgnment, it is stated, was the illness of the senior member. W. ILIamprecht, whe was stricken with partial paralysis two months ago, thereby preventing hinj from giving attention to the business. Received Btishnell s:iys there will be consMerable loss to creditors. Mnl.er of Pear' Soap Dead. Andrew Pears, managing director and head of the well-known firm ef A. & F IVars, limited, died at Isleworth, England, of heart disease. lie was born in 1SH'.. and was the last member of the Ptars family to Im? connected with this linn. He was a grandson of the founder of the establishment and was worth many millions. l'ortr Itouted liy Hotel Fire. The Narragansett Hotel in North Den ver. Col., burned early Tuesday mornin 1 mornin lt. fnrt tr tvitrnna liiwl a tiofsa cape from the flames and were forced to t'ee into the low temperature of the street in their night clothes. Knüll! Italeü In lltrlln. King Udward of Hngland, accompanied by Queen Alexandra, arrived in Berlin the other morning from London and was given a warm welcome by Emperor William and the (Jermau authorities. The city was gayly decorated in honor of the visitors and large crowds gathered in the streets. Twenty-live Near Death In Mine. One miner was probably fatally burned and twenty-five others narrowly escaped in an explosion of gas in a coal mine owned by the Pittsburg nnd Eastern Coal Company at Cherry Valley, Pa. Factional How Caue Suicide. Captain Samuel P. LefhVr, aged 70, president of the Board of Education, committed suicide at his home in Hanover, Ohio, by shooting himself in the heart with a shotgun. A bitter factional row in the board in which LefHor considered that his integrity had been attacked so preyed on his mind that he became insane. . 50,000 Fire In Kamn t llj-. Fire destroyed the interior of the Ilueston buildinjr, in the heart of the retail district of Kansas City. The loss is estimated at $00.000.

The pnst.al savings bank bill was leforo the Senate during most of the session Wednesday, and Senator Ileyburn of Idaho spoke in opposition to it. Little progress was made. The Senate took a recess in order to join the lluse of Representatives in the counting of the electoral vote, resuming its legislative work immediately thereafter. The ever interesting ceremony of counting the electoral vote was performed by the Senate and House of Representatives in joint session. William II. Taft of Ohio, was ollieially declared elected President and James S. Sherman of New York Vice President, the count disclosing C.21 electoral votes for the Republican candidates, as against 102 for Messrs. Bryan and Kern. Following the refusal of unanimous consent for tho consideration of a resolution appropriating J?l,2.V.C0O for a Lincoln memorial in Washington and the passage of several bills of minor importance, consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill was resumed. A report was made to the Senate Thursday from the Committee on Appropriations on the President's statements concerning the attitude of Congress toward appropriations for the support 4 the Secret Service. Senator Ilcmenway, who presented this report, added that the President was not justified in making the statement contained in his message to Congress. A bill

was passed repealing the increase in the salary of the Secretary of State from SS.OOO to $12,000. po as to permit Senator Knox; to accept an appointment as Secretary of State. Senator McLnurin made a speech in opposition to the passage of any bill for the reenlistmcnt of the negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Regiment accused of having "shot up" Brownsville. The Senate adjourned until Monday. After having traveled a thorny road for a week, the agricultural appropriation bill was passed by the House practically as it came from committee. A successful fight, led by Mr. Sabath (111.), was made against the bill amending tho naturalization laws, which, among other things, increased the naturalization fee from $3 to $10. By an emphatic vote the conference report on the measure was rejected and the bill laid upon the table. A tribute to Lincoln by Mr. Boutell (III.) closed the day's proceedings. as The Senate was not In session Friday. The charges of corruption and fraud in connection with the Pai ania Canal purchase made by Representative Rainey recently were reviewed in the House, when Mr. Lovering of Mas sachusetts entered a sweeping defense of William Nelson Cromwell. William H. Taft. Charles r. Taft and others whom Mr. Rainey named as having been Involved in the transaction. When Mr. Lovering hegan tho Illinois mem ber had gone to tho station to take a train for Ualtirrore, where lie was to d. -liver a Lincoln address, but he was hastily called back. Mr. Lovering In the meantime suspending his remarks. Mr. Balney was obliged to leave shortly afterward to keep his en gagement, but he announced that he would make full reply. The Indian appropriation bill technically was under consideration and all the speeches were made under license of general debate, Speeches were made on a variety of other subjects, and about 500 pension bills were passed. Previously to tak leg up-the Indian bill brief exercises commemorative of Lincoln's birthday were held. a The Senate jv.is not in session Sat urday- The Indian appropriation bill technically was under consideration in the House, hut many memlors availed themselves of the opportunity for genl eral dehnte. Mr. Lamar (Fla.) argued for the a mendmoKt of the railroad rate law, claiming the law was Insufficient rover imp casrs inr-iiidPii in ire nrrv. visions; Mr. Madden (111.) referred to Increases In freight rates since tho rate law wont into effect: Mr. Murphy (Wis.) delivered a eulogy of Lincoln; Mr. Washburn (Mass.) favored a modi fication of the Sherman anti-trust law In order that it migl he less burden some; Mr. Hayes (Cal.) attacked the rules t.t the House; Mr. Langley (Ky.) criticised the administration of the af fairs of the Choctaw Indians; Mr. Sherman (X. Y.) explained the provi sions of the Indian bill, while Mr. Fos ter (Vt.) pleaded for an adjustment of postal rates as affecting merchandise tent through the mails. The Indian bill was pending when the House adjourned until Sunday, which was set apart for eulogies of deceased members. rBSIEF NEWS ITEMS. The corner stone of the Cathedral of St. John the Hvangelist. to be built in Denver by the Hniscopalians at a cost of Sr)0.!00. was laid the other d i.v. nlel A. Vvest, former, Covernor of Utah, died in a hospital in Oakland, Cal.', where had been confined since Dec. 22 with appendicitis. Fire at Calvcston. Texas, originating with the explosion of a watchman's lantern, destroyed the entire wharf and wharf sheds, entailing a loss estimated at f l2.-..tKM. The special committee of ship owners ni..4:T,., Vevvenatlrt-tli.T, ?." I . r two consecutive periods of thirty days each, with a view of regulating the sup ply ot tonnage to the demand. After her automobile had run down Charles H. Osborne. 0 years old, in New York. Mrs. Benjamin Ettelson. wife of a lanker. drove the victim to a hospital where he is near death. Representative Charles II. Brumm of Pennsylvania, the last member of Congress that wore boots, has resigned to be come judge of the Schuylkill County Court in Ins Mate. A thirty-story building wiil replace a seven-story structure at Nassau nnd Lib erty streets. New York. The small build ing was sold for $1,2.0,000. St. Louh capitalists, it is said, will erect the new building. The derelict destroyer Seneca, whiel 1 1 1. 1. .1 l: T , , auieu IUK nnTMii iiuer ItepilUllC, IS searching for the three-masted barge sunl off the coast of New Jersey in the patl of coastwise steamships. Paul J. Ilolinan, son of the late Con gressman Ilolinan of Indiana, died in th St. Pancras hospital in Ixmdon. Consu (Jeneral Wynne has taken charge of hi.affalrs. The family is in Los Angeles Cal. imuiors or ine v,icveianr uailwaCompany petitioned Federal Judge Taylor to issne an order restoring the 5-cen fare, alleging that a $123,000 deficit hai been created under the 3-cent fare tinct the receiver took charge.

In Special Message Sent to Cor

grcss Needs of Rural Residents Are Urged. CO-OPERATION IS GREAT BOON. Commission of Inquiry Reports Results of Its Recent Investigation. The farmer's opportunity for an easier life is pointed out In the report of the country life commission, submit ted to Congress by the President Tuesday. The President points out that the commissioners have served, and will serve, without pay. but $2r,000 is asked to defray expenses of gathering and compiling facts. "If country life," said the President, in a message accompanying the report. is to become what It should be, and what I believe it ultimately will be one of the most dignified and desirab'e ways of earning a living the farmer must take advantage not only of the agricultural knowledge which is at hi disposal, but of the methods which have raised and continue to raise the standards of living and of inteiiigenct in other callings. Growliiflr Crops Only Foundation. "The commission has tried to hcli the farmers to f?ee clearly their own problem and to see it as a whole; to distinguish clearly between what the government can do nnd what the farm ers must do for themselves; and It wishes to bring not only the farmers but the nation as a whole to realize that the growing pf crops, though an essential part, is only a part of couutry life. Crop growing Is the essential foundation, but it is no less essential that the farmer shall get an adequate return for what he grow?, and it is no less essential Indeed, it Is literally vital that he and his wife and his children shall lcad the right kind of life. "For this reason it Is of the first Importance that the United States Department of Agriculture, through which as prime agent the ideas the commission stands for must reach the people, should become without delay In fact a department of country life, fitted to deal not only with crops, but also with all the larger aspects of life in the open country. Immediate Needs Pointed Out. "From all that has been done und learned, three great general and Immediate needs of country life stand out: First, effective co-operation among farmers, to put them on a level with the organized interests with .which they do business. Second, a new kind of schools in the country, which shall teach ' the children ds much outdoors as indoors and perhaps more, sjo that they will prepare for country life, and not. as at present, mainly for life in town. Third, better means of communication, including good roads and a parcels post, which the country people are everywhere, and rightly, unanimous in demanding. "To these may well be added better sanitation, for easily preventable diseases hold several million country people In the slavery of continuous ill health." Organization to secure for the country the things that are the country's is the central theme of the commission's report. Farmers Blust Help Themselres. There must be a vast enlargement of voluntary organized effort among farmers themselves," say the commissioners. "It is indispensable that farmers shall work together for their common interests and for the national welfare. If they do not do this, no governmental activity, no legislation, not even better schools, will greatly avail. "The forces and institutions that make for morality and spiritual Ideals among rural people must be energized. We miss the heart of the problem If we neglect to foster personal character and neighborhood righteousness. The best way to preserve Ideals for private conduct and public life Is to build up the institutions of religion. "The church has great power of leadership. The whole people should understand that it is vitally important to stand behind the rural church and to help It become a great power in developing concrete country life Ideals. It Is especially important that the country church recognize that it has a social responsibility to the entire community as well as a religious responsibility to Its own group of people." WRECKS HOUSE TO SAVE TREE. Mrs. HuRnell Sage Heeds Requeat of Women's Improvement Society. In order to save one large ekade tree Mrs. Itussell Sage is sacrificing a large fine house in Sag Harbor, L. I., much to the gratification of the residents. Mrs. Sage bought the old Seaman property fcr $10,000 in order to build a public library upon the eite in honor of her grandparents. Colonel and Mrs. John Jcrmain. The house was to be removti, but a few days ago it was discovered t.Ut it could not pass between the two handsome trees. The Woman's Village Improvement Society called Mrs. Sage's attention to the fact that one tree wculj have to be cut down if the house were moved. Her response was prompt and characteristic: "Tear down the house and move it in pieces." WHOLE CITY GOES ON STRIKE. Laborers, Dankers and Merchants Quit as Protest Against Taxes. A strike of unheard proportions began the other day at Kosario, Argentina. Not only workmen but merchants and shop. :ceepcrs and even bankers tuspended work as a protest against the increase in thq municipal taxes. The city is without jread, meat or milk. The dock laborers, lumbering 5,000, resolved to join the strike the nej:t dny. This is most critical, is the harbor L: full of vessels loading grain. Hnrt Ity Fnlllnfc Icicle. An icicle weighing between 200 and XX) pounds, which fell from the roof of he Ilaselton furnace in Youngstown, ")hio, struck Raymond Reagan and Patick McCann. Reagan is thought to be atally injured. McCann was injured ibout the back and shoulders. 20,000 Elk Starving (o Death. Members of the Legislature in Cheynne received word that 20,000 wild elk re starving in Jackson County, Wyomng. The deep snow, covered with a hard rust, prevents the elk from getting the rasa beneath.

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CHICAGO. Commercial activity reflects steadier .onditlons In production 'and values, and the outlook affords more substantial basis for healthy expansion. Much irengtft is derived from the excellent statements issued by the bank.- on Tuesday. These indicate not only an. Increasing use of money in business, but show splendid recovery over the depressed state of a year ago and for th ?irst time gross resourci-s exceeding j!X0,OOU.o;o. It is dear that cap. itai will be abundant t satisfy legitimate needs, and the cost T a-eomnio-datiou should be favorable to further rnterprise in manufacturing. A redt ced trading mortality testifies to improvement in collections. Distributive trade shows the advance expected In the general demand f.;r staples. Heavy buying Is fvh in dry goods for prompt delivery and Interest increases In fall lir.es. t Failures re;oned In the Chicago distfict'numlier J.I, against 27 last week, CS Iii 1!WS and 'Si in 1907. Those V;lth liabilities of more than 5v.O0O number fj, against r, last week, Ki In IMS and o in 31XT. Dun's Revie w of Trade. NEW YORK. Unsettled., stormy weather lias aercntuated the quiet prevailing in general trade and the situation as a whole Is rather irregular. The first nf the spring season's buyers.'- excursions are, however, attracting merchants to the leading markets East and West, and .while conservatism characterizes dealing, the feeling is still one of optimism as to the future. In the industries operations as a whole are still lelow the normal. Best reports come from the textile trades, particularly cotton and wo.lcn dress goods lines. Some light cottons are sold ahead to (Mo'ht. Tho metr.I and coal trades are conspicuous for the dullness of demand and the continuance in the former industry of output it a reduced rate. Reports as to collections reflect the Irregularities lue to weather or the reduced purchasing power of the coun-' try and are still only a Unit fair.4 Business failures in the United States for the week ending with Feb. 10 were 211, against 2SG last week, 32J in the like week of 100S, 204 in 1907, 208 In 1900 and 243 in 1905. Bradstreet's. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy. $4..V to SG.70; sheep, fair to choice $3-00 to $5.73; wheat. No. 2, $1.14 to $1.10; xm No. 2. COc to C2c: oat, standard. Mc to 53c; rye, No. 2, 75c to 7Gc; hay, :imotby. $8.00 to $13.00; prairie, $S.OO : $11.50; butter, cboiee crenmery. 27c :o 30c; eggs, fresh, 29c to 32c; potatoes, per bushel, 80c to 92c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 :o $7.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, fCJ.50 to $0.90; sheep, good to choico, F2.50 to $i.O0; wheat. No. 2, $1.1.1 to M.10; corn. No. 2. white, COc vo Cle; 5ats, No. 2 white, 49c to 51c. St. Louis Cattle, $1.50 to $7.25: hozs. M.00 to $0.75; sheep. $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.21 to $1.25; corn. No. 2, 51c to G2c; oats, No. 2, 50c to 52c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 77c Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $G.25; logs, $4.00 to $ti.S5; sheep. $3.00. te FC.25; wheat. No. 2, $1.10 to $1.17; corn. No. 2 mixed. 02c to 03e; oats No. 2 aiixed, 51c to 53c; rye. No. 2, S0c to Sl Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; bo-s, fl.00 to $t.r; sheep. $2..0 to $1.50; nheat. No. 2, $1.11 to $1.13: corn. No. 5 vellow, G3c to trie; oats. No. 3 white, Gc to 55c, rye, No. 2, 78c to 70c. Milwuke Wheat, No. 2 northern, fll.13 to $1.15; corn. No. 3, f2c to G4-; oats, standard. 51c to 53c; rye. No. 1, 75c to 7(c: barley. No. J, 04c to G5c; pork, mess, $15.00. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, M.00 to $0.70; hogs, fair to choice. $1.00 to $7.10; sheep, common to good cixed, ?4.00 to $4.75; Iambs, fair to choice, K5.00 to $S.00. New York Cattle. $4.00 to $5.90; nogs. $3.50 to $7.00; sheep, $3.00 to f5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.10 to $1.18; .x)rn. No. 2, 71c to 72c; oats, natural ivhate, 55c to 5Sc; butter, creamery, 27c to 32c; eggs, western, 31c to 32e. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 ruiied, $1.11 tc f 1.13 : corn. No. 2 mixed. C2c to C3c; rats. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 53c; rye, No. 7, 77c to 79c; clover seed, $5.52. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. The St. Paul board of aldermen Ibas passed an ordinance requiring that all milk sold in the city must be from inspected (herds. South Dakota millers are asking th Legislature to require that all fiour old in that State be branded with the name f the manufacturer. Fully 1,000 farmers from the Dakois tnd Minnesota were present in Fargo, at Ihe meeting of the Tri-State Grain Grow;rs convention. The theme for the day tvas "Crop Rotation!" ind it was discussed in its several phases by expert from all the States represented. Representative Charles L. Sawyer, of MinneaiKjIis, introduce! in tlie Minnesota House a resolution giving a vote of dianks to Mr. J. A. Pafton. the wheat ting of Chicago, for his work in keeping a heat at end above the dollar mark. The resolution was sent over under notice of lebate. Chicago grain shippers' won their long.rotraclcd fight for an equalization of the irain rates on shipments from the Northwest and West to the Southwest with rlijhc on shipments passed through other jratewrjs than Chicago. The establishment of a permanent tarff commission was condemned and Contress complimented on its report in th sroposed action to render it impossible or the executive departmrcnt to negotiate tariff agreements without full congressional consent and approval, at the twentj'-fourth annual meeting of the jnrican Protective Tariff League, held tn New York. In a statement signed by fJompers, Mitchell and Morison, the federation oficers who have been sentenced to jail for contempt of court in the I hicks Stove ind Range Company boycott case, they declare that they have not asked and will lot ask for clemency and hope that triends will not urge them to pursue such i course. To ask pardon, they say, 'would render useless all the trial and sacrifice which our men of labor and oar friend in all walks of life have endured ;hat the rights and liberties of our penile might be restored." Lumber prices in the Went have advanced $2 per thousand on common trades. A further advance if predicted