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iF. M. U Q. M. "t r. Q. gyöth. Vj -3th. ijTOth y !th. PAST AM) PBESEiNT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered toy the Few for the Unlicbteoment of the Many $75,CC0 Fire in Fort Wayne, Ind. Loss which it is believed will aggregate fully J75.0Ö0 was occasioned by r. disastrous fire in the sales and shipping department of the Wayne Shoe Manufacturing Company, manufacturers and wholesalers of shoes and rubbers, at 123 West CoU rcbia street. Ft. Wayne, IQd. Guests at the Wayne Hotel, adjoining the shoe company's building on the east, were driven from their beds by dense volumes of smoke which filled the hotel, but the fire was wholly confined to the building in rvhich it originated. The cause of the fire is unknown. Death Comes to C. D. Wright. Carroll D. Wright, president of Clark College and former Commissioner of Labor, died at his home in Worcester, Mass., aged C9 years. President Wright had been a sufferer from diabetes for more than two years, but the disease did not give him serious trouble until after his return from Washington on December 7. His last public appearance was at the dinner of the trustees of the Carnegie Institute, with which institution he had been connected for some years. Finds More Use for Hague. So thoroughly Impressed is President Roosevelt with the necessity of conservatism of natural resources of the world that he recently directed Secretary of State Bacon, at the suggestion of the North American Conservation conference, to extend a formal invitation to foreign powers to participate in an International conference tto deal with thi3 problem, to be held at The Hague next September. All of the nations represented at the peace conference will be invited to participate. Windstorm in Kansas. The Missouri Pacific depot and four buildings at Reece, Kas., a village forty miles east of Wichita, were destroyed by a windstorm. No one was killed and no one seriously injured. The storm was most severe from fifteen to thirty miles northwest of Reece. Four .persons were seriously Injured there. The property loss In the district northwest of Reece will be heavy. Lightning struck several oil tanks at Coffeyville, causing heavy loss. Insane Farmer Kills His Children. Han3 R. Hanson, a farmer living near Strup, Wis., cut the throats of his forr children, a boy and three girls, ranging in age from 5 to 15 years, with a butcher knife. He followed this by stabbing several horses and cows, firing the barn and house and then cut his own throat. Hanson was insane. Nephew of the President Killed. Stewart Douglas Robison, 19 years old, a nephew of President Roosevelt, and a sophomore of Harvard College, fell from a six-story window of Hamil ton hall, a dormitory on Massachusetts avenue, Cambridge, Mass., and was killed. He was a son of Douglas Robi son. New Postoffice at Toledo. Rased upon the revised specifica tions prepared by J. Knox Taylor, su pervising architect, the contract for the Toledo, Ohio, postoffice building was awarded to the McCaul Company, of Philadelphia, The contract price is $46S.5G2 for a lime-stone building. Thirty Years for a Blackmailer. Robert B. Bludsoe, of Dallas, Texas, who last veek entered the home of Lawrence M. Jones, a millionaire mer chant of Kansas City, Mo., and attempted to extort $7,000 from blm, has been sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary. Sevt:i Killed in Explosion. Word ha been received from Port Arthur, Out., that seven men were klh"d by a premature explosion of dy naaite on the line of the Grand Traik railroad, fifty miles north of Nipegon. Millionaire Oil Man Dies. Col. T. W. Moore, a millionaire banker and oil producer, is dead at his home in Marietta, Ohio. Seven Men Killed in Collision. Seven men were killed or burned to death In a head-on collision between an express train and two engines on the Delaware division of the Pennsyl vania railroad at Delmar, Delaware. Big Fire In Indiana Town. Fire at Shcals, Ind., destroyed tie Plummer-Ross block and Gwyn McFar land building and damaged the Bank block and the Wallace and Boyle build Ing. Loss. $50.000. Well-Known Inventor Dead. John F. Russell, 71 years old, an In Tentor of national reputation, died at Springfield, Ohio, following a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. Russell was associated with William N. Whitley years ago in the perfection of the modern reaper, and also possessed several patents upon devices In the development of tho steam locomotive. Crushed by Freight Car. Walter McBane is instantly killed by being crushed flat when a car propped up, under which he was work ing in Wellsville, Ohio, fell on him. Booth Has Collapsed. W. Vernon Booth, head of the socalled fish trust, social leader and polo expert at Chicago, has zZl but collapsed physically under the flood of sensational disclosures in connection with the failure of the firm of which he was the head, A. Booth & Company. Prayer Book 300 Years Old. Joseph Klieber, a farmer living south of Milton, Ind., has a German prayer book that is 300 years old. The book belonged to an ancestor of Mr. Klieber'a mother, and was bequeathed to

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Roosevelt, as Commander in Chief of Navy, Welcomes Admiral Spcrry's Squadron. PANDEMONIUM REIGNS ON SEA. Nearly Ten Miles of Formidable War Craft Steams Majestically Past the President's Yacht. Wi'h (tennnuts streaming, twentyeight hand playing the "Star-Spanghil H inner" ami saluting cannon roaring f tribute to the President, the battle hip fleet of tho American navy ended its world cruise at Old Point Comfort, Va.. Monday. After steaming in review before the President, whose eagle-crest-etl flag of blue was at the main of the cruiser yacht Mayflower, the sixteen white battle ships cast anchor in th? fairway of Hampton Roads, from which they started fourteen mouths ago on their voyage of 45,000 miles. The joy of home-coming was writ (en uixui the face of every blue jacket and officer on the vessels. The long cruise. the visits to many of tho most famous ports of the world and the homage paid to the fleet by every nation have Iteon sources of pleasure to everyone alioard. but there was no scene in all the world to compare in beauty with the familiar landmarks passed by the fleet as it st cam eil a triumphant, self-reliant and efficient force through the Virginia capes and entered the hospitable waters of Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads. The flagship Connecticut steamed at the head of the returning squad rons. In the wake of the white ships was a welcoming host in gray- four battle ships and five powerful cruisers being in this escorting column sent a thousand miles to sea to convey the first word of welcome. President Receive Officers. i Foreign naval attaches, parties of government officials and high officers of the army and navy were aboard the fleet which steamed out to greet the incoming vessels and to see the review by tie President at the tail of the horscstoo. The Mayflower came down from Washington with a distinguished party, f.nd cast her anchors in the waters in which she took up a position at the sailing of the fleet. Immediate ly behind the Mayflower, carrying the President, lay a convoy of vessels, each loaded to the gunwales with humanity. Congressmen, diplomats, "navy widows and "nary sweethearts" lined their decks. From every mathoad was flung the signal "Welcome Home." Now athwart the Mayflower a Idackmuzzled gun belched forth a puff of white smoke and a tremendous explosion woke the echoes along the shores of historic Hampton Roads, covered with people as far as the eye could reach. Twenty-one guns fired from both broadsides in rapid succession from the flagship Connecticut learing on its bridge Admiral Slurry, commander of the fleet, saluted the President. Her streaming "Homeward Itound" pennant and the long lines of jackies manning her yard arms and fighting tops and dressing ship along the decks were soon wreathed in smoke. From every vessel in the welcoming fleet rolled back a volume of cheers such as was never heard In Hampton Roads before. It was a burst of patriotic enthusiasm In which the human voice was matched against steel and gunpowder. Kvery sea captain grabbed his whistle line and tore loose at a rate that threatened to leave his vessel stranded on the shore for lack of steam to get home. After the ceremonial greeting of tho battle ships and their escort the Mayflower steamed at the eul of the long column into Hampton Roads, and when the home-coming craft bad anchored she took up a position in the center of the fleet. Admiral Sjterry and the other flag officers, together with captains commanding were received on board, and to them President Roosevelt extended the cordial thanks which he afterward expressed anew to the officers and crews of the four divisional flag ships the Connecticut, the Louisiana, the Georgia and the Wisconsin which he visited late In the afternoon. Gala Dar Historie Waters. The boom of the sunrise gun echoing over Uie moat of picturesque old Fortress Monroe marked the ln-ginning of a gala day on the waters of Hampton Roads, first made famous by the battle of the Monitor and the Merrlmac. It required a vivid imagination to look back over a span of forty-odd years to picture the fury of that conflict and compare the combatants with a modern battle ship of the class of the Connecticut. In the battle ship ami cruiser squadrons which filed past the Mayflower and saluted the President's flag were represented 420. 100 tons of water displacement. Kvery battle ship in commission in the navy had a place In the long line. There were twenty of the heavily belted vessels. EXTRA SESSION MARCH 15. IreIieut-Kleet Taft Announces Date fur the Convening ttf Conirrea. The extra session of Congress will be convened on March 15. This date has been definitely settled and President-elect Taft authorized the announcement. Formal announcement of the date was made by Republican Floor leader Payne for the information of the House. He said he had been authorized by Mr. Taft to state that the special session of the Sixty-first Congress would be called to convene on March 15. 32 ENTOMBED MINERS RESCUED. Remainder of 147 In FiikIImIi Shaft Ilelieel to Have I'erlahetl. After twenty-four hours of rescue work ir. the shaft of the colliery at West Stan ley, England, where a disastrous explosiou had occurred, the mine was paitly cleared and thirty-two men were found abve. Most of them, however, were severely injured. The bodies of a score of nit-ii who apparently had succumbed to after damp also were recovered. Ail told, only thirty-seven men have been brought op alive out of a total of 147 ia the mine

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-Chicago Examiner. ANGELL OUT AS PRESIDENT. Resigns at Ann Arbor to Be Made Chancellor Forthwith. Dr. James Burrill Angell has resigned from the presidency of the University of Michigan after thirty-eight years of continuous service. The board of regents accepted the resignation, as Dr. Angell urgently requested that action, but gave assurance that he would not entirely sever his 'connection with the institution by proffering him aipointmeut to the (tosition of chancellor of the university. President Angell s resignation will take effect at the close of the present college year. He attempted to resign four years ago, but at that time the regents refused to consider his request. DR. JAMES B. ANCEIX. Since that time rumors have leeu frequent that the venerable educator would relinquish the reins to a younger man. Despite these rumors, the action both of President Angell and the regents came as a big surprise. Dr. Angell will continue to lecture on international law and the history of treaties even after his resignation takes effect, and as chancellor will receive an annual salary of $1,000, besides having his present residence maintained. QUAKE OF LAST MONTH FOUND. Mysterious Shocks Widely Recorded Occurred in Persia. News has been received showing that the violent earthquake recorded on Jan. 23 at almost every scientific observatory in the world where seismographs are Installed had Its location in the province of Luristan, western Persia. Sixty vilages In this district were wholly or partially destroyed, and the loss of life is placed at between 5,000 and 0,000. The districts of Ilurujurd and Selahor in Luristan province were the center of the greatest violence and there tie heaviest casualties occurred. Several villages are reported to have been ingulfed. The destitute survivors are lletlns into the town of Uurujurd, whence appeals for assistance are now reaching the government. The province of Luristan Is mountainous and sparsely settled. It is about 300 miles southwest of Teheran and the only communication with the Torslan capital is by courier. The inhabitants are chiefly Rakhtyaris, an offshot of the Iranian people. Peanut Illumed for Death. Ptomaine poisoning, said to have resulted from the eating of peanuts, caused the death in Pittsburg of Catherine Ly-don-aged' 7 years, after an illness of a few hours. Manitoba Cuts Phone Toll. After the announcement was made that the profits of the Manitoba telephone system under the operation of government officials was $108.000 for the first year, the legislature decided to reduce the present rates one-third. Score Carried Oat Into Lake. A score of fishermen and their clogs were carried out into Lake Krie from r.uflalo when the ice field was set in motion by a shift in the wind. All were rescued except Joseph Satusky. The man and his dog team are missing and arc ;io doubt lost. Karmer Kile In Airship. YV. N. Martin, civil engineer and farmer, made a flight of 250 feet at a height of six feet in his aeroplane at Canton, Ohio. The initial power was furnished by a horse attached to rope and pulleys. Other flights will be. made. 18-IIonr Train Ia Derailed. The eighteen-hour flyer on the Pennsylvania Railroad bound from Chicago to New York ran into a small landslide in a deep cut near Newton Hamilton, Pa., derailing the train, but injuring only one person, II. 17. Minjjua, a baggageman, of Jersey Citj. Oklahoma Denies Vote to Women. Woman's suffrage legislation is out of the question in Oklahoma for two years. ".The Senate by a vote of 21 to 15 sustained the unfavorable report of the committee on the bill granting suffrage to both sexes.

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Defect in Infernal Machine Saves Lives of L. W. Jones and Family. Lawrence M. Jones, a wealthy dry goods merchant of Kansas City, and his family were gathered into the library of their home Tuesday by a man with an automatic revolver and n dynamite bomb who demanded $7,000. After clever maneuvering Mr. Jones managel to gain the man's c-onsent to accompany him ami his son to a bank for the funds. While the trio were about to enter the Jones motor car Mr. Jones threw himself npm the man from behind and seized him around the chest In such a fashion as to pinion his arms. At the same time, by a trick he learned when a boy, he kicked the man's feet from under him. Poth fell and rolled down the stone steps at th edge the Jones porch. Chester, the son, was upon the intruder before he could recover. The young man seized the man's pistol In one hand Just as the trigger was pulled. The weapon failed to explode. Mrs .Jones then ran in close and seized the bag containing the bomb, which she carried to the house. An examination of It showed that the matches had Ignited, but failed to explode the powder and dynamite surrounding them. The man gave his name as C. II. Garnett, but admitted this was assumed. In his grip was ten pounds of dynamite. He bad rented a house in Independence, Mo., and fitted it with chains where he lntenlel to hold Jones a prisoner. He said he had frequently contemplated suicide because of his poverty and bad health. PROFIT UNDER TWO-CENT FARE. All MIonrl Elinor I nds and Several Trunk LI now Show C.ninn. The Missouri railway commission report on the passenger traffic on the principal lines in the State, shows that all the minor lines had increase! earnings from passenger traffic in 19 C, as cornpared to 1107, when a 3-cent rate was in effect. Several of the important trunk lines show a loss, but several also show satisfactory gains. The Santa Fe had average earnings of JsT5,557.5; per mile on Missouri business in 1!K)7 and $1,-LM5..-!0 in lfiUS, a gain of $OS7.74 per mile. The Missouri Pacific had an average of $1,;70.S0 on all business in 1!K)7 and $1.4'.KU3 in 1IX)S, a loss of $171.70, but it had an average of $2,073.10 on Missouri business in 190S. a gain of $1,002.27. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the Iron Mountain exhibit light gaius while th Walash, the Frisco and iLe Ilurlington show losses in their averages. State Hailroad Commissioner John A. Knott says these statistics convince him that the railroads can operate at a profit under Missouri's 2-cent faro law. 70?S&NDS, or Kdward Lewee, former shortstop with Puffalo and Milwaukee, will probably take the management of the Milwaukee club. A committee of th 'JVxas I-pislature has decided to report a bill providing for a racing commission. All matters referring to racing are to be Missed on by this commission. The seventeenth annual how-ling tournament of the Minnesota State Howling Association, which will be expanded this year into the. International Howling Association, will begin in St. Paul Feb. 11. Dr. II. L. Williams has been tenderel and accepted, a contract engaging him as coach for the University of Minnesota foot ball tain for the coming year. This formality completed the action taken by the board of athletic control some months ago. The Eel set a new reord for a mile. pac"d on ice at Ottawa, Out. Three seconds were clipped off the old record, as siv official watches caught the time ar. 2:11 Vi The quarter was made in :32; hal; in 1 rOÖ'i ; the three-quarters in 1:J0, and the mile in 2:11 Vi. Dorando, having bcatm llayn twice, will, in the St. Paul Marathon, run against five men in relays of Ihre miles each. The best of the relay men is Hicks, who won the Chicago Marathon. Minnesota and Michigan universities, which suspended foot ball relations five years ago, have buried the hatchet, and will play a game on the Minnesota grounds Nov. 20. Two New York teams have leen made glad by the national commission. Hal Chase and Jake Weimer wert loth reinstated by that august body en the condition of paying fines of $2U and $150, respectively. Herman Mace, champion lightweight wiestler of Canada, added another win tc his string of victories by defeating Jimmy Potts, the champion lightweight wrestler of the Northwest, in two straight falls, in approximately thirty-two minutes of actual wrestling, at Warren, Minn. Uaring in the State of California received a vital blow when the Kenale, by a vote of 33 to 7, passed the Waker-Otis nnti-race-track gambling bill, which prohibits pool-eslling. bookmaking or gambling on horse races. Th bill, having already passed the Assembly, will iiow go to the Governor for his signature, after which it will become a law.

Mobs in South Omaha Burn and Wreck Houses of the Foreigners.

FIGHT THE POLICE IN STREETS. Legislators Address Meeting That Starts Riot Two Vicious Attacks Are Made, j Three persons were shot, a score of others injured by heavy missiles, and thirty houses partly destroyed by lire and axe.-, as the ivsult f race riots between hundreds of men of South Omaha. Neb., am! the menilers if the Greek colony there. There were two mob concerned in the affair, a second crowd renewing the attack Sunday night after the first had teen lispersed by the police p the afternoon. There have been hfteen arn'sts made and the iolico are guarding the Creek settlement to prevcp.t a third outbreak. As a precaution the South Omaha fire and police board issued an order that all saloons in the city shall remain closed until further orders. The attack on the Creeks followed a mass meting where violence was urged by the speakers among whom were two inemlors of tho State legislature and a former city attorney. The meeting was called after hundmls of men had signed a petition in which the Creeks were charged with serious crim?s against girls and women. The speakers referred to the murder of Patrolman Edward Lowcry, who was shot and killed on Friday by a Greek whom he had placil under arrest. 'J he slayer had been arrested while in the room of an American girl. Mnreh Upon Greek It en In. When the meeting broke up, with the intention of meeting again at night, a crowd of more than 1,000 men starte! toward the quarters of the foreigners In the neighborhood of 20th ami Q streets. They were determined to punish some of the leaders of the Greeks, but when two of the mob, Frank Sweeney and Joseph Gamble, lsdh young boj-s, were injured in the attack on the first house by shots fired from the interior, some began to apply the torch. Two blocks eart another crowd smashed the front of a saloon and attempted to pillage the interior, when a squad of iolico charged the crowd and prevented the mob from securing the liquor. A third crowd rushed to 21th and L streets and attacked a confectionery store run by Demos Pros. The big plate glass windows were quickly smashed, the doors kicked in, and tho stock and show cases destroyed. Mrs. Mary Demos and her aged father were in the store and lxjth narrowly escaped death at the hands of the mob. The three attacks were made almost simultaneously and the , destruction was complete before Chief of Police Ilriggs could get bis scattered force together and stop the depredations. Meantime, Sheriff Prailcy was notified and collected all the deputies possible ami rushed them to South Omaha to aid the jtolice., It took some time to get the force organized ami during the Interval Greeks were attacked on every hand. It was thought that the oflittTS were in control, but at 0 o'clock the mob had gathered again and it renewed its attack. The first disorder was at 30th and (J streets, where the rioters smashed in the plate glavs front of a Greek grocery store. A moment later the fire department was called to 32d and Q streets, where the mob had set fire to a Greek grocery and residence. The rioters beat two of the Greeks into unconsciousness and starttnl downtown with the third, beating him as they went. The police succeeded In getting the man away and took all three of the injured men to the station. Home of Thirty Darned. At 9 o'clock the fire department was calleil to 2Sth and 1 streets, where a large two story double frame building was in flames. Thirty Greeks had lxeii quartered in the place, but all are belleved to have escapd. Tho buihling was entirely destroyed, however. The lesieged Greeks defended themselves with firearms, with which they apparently were all equipiod. They fired a fusillade out o the windows, one shot hitting Charles Estroyl In the head. It was this scrimmage which undoubtedly enraged the crowd Into setting fire to the building. At 11 p. in. a riot call was turned In from -Oth and X streets, where the crowd had gathered. The mob quickly tied to 21th street, where they demolished a Greek candy store at 430 North 21th street. Piy this time almost every building In South Omaha occupied by Greeks, ami many tenanted by Roumanians, had boon wreckecL Twenty or more injured Greeks were given protecti-jn at the police station. Siicref ill Suicide Attempt. Mrs. V. C.-Roak Fenner, 30 yeais old, who twice made attempts to end her life after she had gained notoriety following her arrest on a charge of extertion, made by the Rev. Perley W. Powers, died at the Park Avenue Hospital'in Chicago. Find a Well of Hot Air. While hunting in the vicinity of lite pass, above Manitou, on the side of Pike's peak, Bert Webb, formerly of the Colorado City police department, claims to have found a huge crevice in the side of the mountain from which a strong current of hot air issues. He will acquire the property and pipe the air to Manitou and Colorado City for heating purioses. Fall of Floor Kill Fire. Five persons were killed and seventy eight injured by the collapse of a floor in a hall in Valencia, Spain, where lots were being drawn for conscription. Untitle Fluherle Treaty. The Senate has ratifil and made pub lie the siK'cial agreement with Great Rrit ain known as "The Newfoundland Fishcries Treat y." The agreement provides for submission to tin permanent court of arbitration t The Hague of question relating to fisheries on the North Atlantic coast. 100,000 Found Idle In llerlln. A house-to-house census which has been taken under the auspices of the trades unions shows a total of unemployed persons in Rerlin of 07,307, in addition to 33,033 unemployed in the suburb.

The postollk'e bill, carrying appropriations (if over $232.000,000, was passed by the Senate Thursday after a stormy debate, during which Senator Penrose, in charge of the measure, made an angry assault upon Senator La Fol let te, who had entered into a general criticism of Senate committees because of what he termed their unwarranted delay in reporting great appropriation bills. The controversy over the legislative appropi iation bill, in connection with the ;nuch discussed salary of the Secretary of State, involving the eligibility of Senator Knox for that office, was settled in the House when the bill was sent to conference and the committee authorized to consUler the salary provision as if in disagreement. This gives the committee power to reduce the pay from $12,000 to $8.000.' its former figure. Tho Republicans were caught napping when a resolution by Mr. Fitzgerald was adopted disagreeing on the Senate amendments creating the office of undersecretary and fourth assistant secretary of state. The bill codifying and amending the penal laws of the United States was passed and the fortifications appropriation bill diseussel. Vigorous attacks on the House rules were made by Messrs. Hubbard and Hepburn of Iowa. Not during the presnt session of Congress has such a large amount f legislative business lieen done by tho Senate as was accomplished Friday. The army bill, carrying appropriations amounting to $1 02,02s .'50, and the iension bill, with appropriations aggregat

ing $lo,sn.ooo, 0f winch $i(M).(Mx,orto was for pensions and $szi,(k;0 for fes. etc., were passed. Forty-five other bills forty of which had previously been fs vorably acted upm by the House, were passed. The fortifications bill was cou pleted by the House and went over to the Senate; the sundry civil bill wa reiorttd and the postoffice appropriation bill was sent to conference. The report of the sjKclal commission on pulp and paper Investigation was read: the river and h:irUr bill was reiorted, and the report of the special printing investigation committee was submitted. During the general debate on the fortl fica tions bill numerous specc-hes on mis eellaneous topics were made. The Indian appropriation bill occu pied almost the entire time of the Sennte Saturday and was passed with ap propriations aggregating over $0,000, 000. Of this amount nlout $1500,000 was added to the bill by Senate amendment. Two more of the annual supply bills, the diplomatic and consular and the military academy meas ures, were passe! by the House. Neith er excited much debate nor was either amended in any inqtortant particular The rivers and harbors bill also was passed under susiension of the rules. after Mr. Keifer (Ohio) had inaug urated a full-fledged filibuster against In the expectation of securing an amendment providing for a survey of the promised Ohio and F.rie canal. The House also sent the pension nppropria tion bill to conference. Following" a siooch by Mr. Hitchcock (NVb.) advo- !! M J t C.II1UK me Unix's:. ion or an income tax. the sundry civil Mil. carrying an ap propriation of $1.17.000,000. was called up. and an ngrement reache! whereby two hours were to be devoted Moml.i to general -debate. At 5:57 p. m. the House adjourned until Sunday at noon, when a spex ial session was held for the delivery of eulogies on the late Sena tors Allison of Iowa and Latimer of South Candina and Representative Wiley of Alabama. The fact that the House adjourned instead of reevssed disposed of the previous Monday as the continuous legislative day. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. Revised estimates of the loss caused by the fire at I'rineeton, N. J., place the figures between $(X.0K) and $70,000. Tor frame buildings were destroyed. A man and woman were found asphvs iated in a hotd at Philadelphia. Thej are thought to be Maurice P. Patterson and Margaret Loman of that city. The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the State pure food law in the case of Jacob Mcssbesher against the Channel lene Oil and Manufacturing Company. Reiause he prepared a thesis in whiol he denied the credibility of the resurree tion, along with other miracles, Samuel S. Hanta says he was compelled to leav the Wesleyan University at Lincoln, Neb The building of the Oakdale Raking Company in Philadelphia burnd. , The Fpstein Shirtwaist Company and th American Chewing Cum Company, occu pants of the luiiklin, share in the losses, estimated at No.OOO. Gov. Gillet of California signal the requisition iipers for the return to Warrcn County, Tennessee, of W. W. Wal lace, charged with embezzlement while he was county clerk, but a searcli of Los Angeles revealed that the man never had been arrested. The Oregon Senate passed a bill providing that any candidate who signs a pledge to support certain bills shall be disqualified from holding office he seeks. James T. Scheuer, 27 years old. of New York, plunged from the deck of the Old Dominion liner Princess Anne, en route to Norfolk, Va., and was lost. He was in ill health. The Unite! States has been asked to he represented at the international mu sic congress to be held in Vienna in May, KMO, on the occasion of the centennial celebration of the birth of Josef Haydn, the composer. Creditors of the Pillsbury-Washbum Flour Mills Company at Minneapolis wil form a company with $2.000.000 capita to operate the mills, which will be leased foi twenty years. A broken flange was the cause of the wreck of the Oregon express on the Union Pacific Railroad, near Dana. Wyo.. in which one person was killed and thirty were iujured. Frank llagrrman, the Salina (Kan.) banker, who a year and a half ago walk ed from Salina to Kansas City, will ac company Frank Rnstow, a son of Sena tor-elect Rristow, in walking from New Orleans to Mobile, Ala. President Roosevelt announced at the dinner given in connection with the childien's conference at Washington that he would send a message to Congress advo cating a federal children's bureau. A committee of the New York State Par Association approved a plan to amend the corporation laws to allow com paries to issue shares of stock without issijrnmont thereto ot any value m money Senator Thomas C. Pl.it t, through eouu el in the New York Supreme Court, re nounced all responsibility for persona! debts contracted by Mrs. Lillian Janeway Piatt, from whom he was separated in 1000, and sought to have reversed a judg

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Sentiment at Indianapolis Conven

tion Unanimous for Commission Plan. CAMPAIGN IS TO BE KEPT UP. Before Final Adjournient J. W. Van Cleave Is Put at Head of Permanent Organization. The national tariff commission con vention came to an end in Indianapolis Thursday and its officials and delegates, before their departure, expressed confidence that its work would soon lc ixrpetuated In the form of a permanent tariff commission, toward the attainment of which their labors have been directed. The convention was small in num bers, but large in enthusiasm. Its delegates represented jxreat commercial, agricultural and civic bodies and many were United States Senators, Congress men or national and state oliieials. James W. Van Cleave, chosen as its permanent chairman, had behind him scores of members of the National Association of Manufacturers, and from the platform on the last day Thad Snow, who declared himself "just a plain, unattached fanner of Indiana," joined with his predecessors in what had been a remarkable unanimity of expression from various sections, pro fessions and occupations for the establishment by Congress of a jtermanent scientific and non-partisan tariff commission. During the session hundreds of messages of congratulation and encouragement were received. The messages bore the names of many great manufacturing firms and business houses. None came from Andrew Carnegie, although the Pittsburg Ironmaster had previously expressed his approval of the purposes of the convention. Before the final stroke of Chairman Van Cleave's gavel each delegate pledged himself to continue In his home territory the work for which the convention was called. The permanent committee of 100, of which J. W. Van Cleave is chairman, will give the widest posslblp distribution to the records of the -convention proceedings and carry on the work of agitating for the creation of a permanent tariff commission. The chairmen of the permanent committees of the convention selected by Chairman Van Cleave are II. E. Miles of Racine, Wis., of the Executive Committee, and John Herbert, Jr., of Dayton, Ohio, of the finance Committee. Biff Field I Open. Asserting that if the United States is to develop her trade with the twenty Latin-American republics in the western hemisphere, John Barrett, director of the International Bureau of American Republics, in an address before the convention urged that most careful considerations be given tariff relations." "Equally important with the Improvement of steamship facilities, the establishment of banks backed by United States capital and the thorough, legitimate exploitation of the markets of South America by responsible agents of Ameriman manufacturers," said Mr, Barrett, "is the need of framing our tariff with some reference to the interests of our sister republics. "In other words, if the Unitel States expects these twenty growing, resourceful and ambitious countries to purchase our manufactured products in greater volume we must in turn give them an opportunity to sell Within our limits their natural products in larger quantities." He said that the undeniable importance of the Latin American field of trade was proved by the fact that in tho year I'JOS these twenty countries conducted with the outside world a commerce valued at $2,000,000,000, an increase of $1,000,000,000 in ten years, or an average of $100,000,000 per annum. "The share of the United States in this total," he declared, "does not exceed $500,000,000, including both exports and imiiorts, and the balance of trade Is overwhelmingly In favor of Latin America." Scramble Kvery Ten Years. D. A. Tompkins of Charlotte, N. C, pointed out the evils of the present tariff system. "The present method of making the tariff is a sort of scramble about once in ten years," he said. "The industry which gets unsatisfactory results has no remedy, but has to wait ten years and tike chances again. If under the present system a tariff Is laid which develops graft, this condition must continue until the next general tariff revision. Under the commission plan the tariff might be in process of revision or readjustment all the time. Revision might be upward or downward. It Mould mean whatever changes were necessary to produce tbe best Interests at home for the American people." China IIa a Naval I)u part men I. An imperial edict issued Friday brings into existence a naval department for China. Prince Su is to be the chief and his associates are Duke Tsai Tso, a cousin of the late Emperor; Tieh Liang, superintendent of customs, and Admiral Sah. Prince, Ching is adviser to the department. Hipper' On trage Up to The vicious attacks on women on the streets of Berlin continue, and the criminal has not yet been arrested. Two new cases occurred on a recent morning, and both women were slighily wounded. This brings the aggregate since the beginning of these "ripper" outrages up to twenty-two. Two Die In Barnlna Mansion. Mrs. Robert Skipwith, an aged woman, belonging to a prominent family, and a man named Johnson were burned to death in a fire which destroyed an old mansion near Clayvillc, Va. Found Gnlltyj Is Pleased. "Bully," exclaimed Alois Alumer, when told that the jury in Toledo, Ohio, had decided his fate. It was first degree murder with mercy recommended. Aumer was charged with murdering his wife on July 25 last. The jury was out only an hour and twenty minutes. Xesro, Identified by Girl, Lynched. Jake Wades, the negro who was arrested in Gainesville, Fla., accused of bein; the assailant of Miss Irma Newell at lakeland, Fla was lynched immediately following his identification by tbe youo; woman.

CHICAGO. The volume of payments through thcbanks again testifies to the Increasing use of money and letter state of trade. Delays in transportation and lack of irompt communication were temiorary drawbacks due to the stormy weather. Influences at work imlicate some progress in obtaining concessions in cost of iron and steel, but no drastic changes are likely to interfere with factory iroduction, and there is more anticipation 3f substantial contracts being obtained for construction and equipment Developments remain highly encouraging in building lines, wckhI working and lumlier, with assurances of more extended oj erat ions soon. New demands for heavy materials are foreshadowed by extensive plans for Improveim-nts mil new enterprises involving larg? rmtlays am! much employment of labor. A healthy sign In the wider interest in the markets for wholesale merchandise. Visiting buyers in greater numbers than heretofore are seen to Ik? operating more confidently In (selecting staple.. Gratifying crxlers were regot iated this week in dry goods, millinery, footwear and food products. Failures reported in the Chicago district numlier 25. against 23 last week, 41 in VMS and 22 in 1007. Those with liabilities of more than $5.000 number 0. against 0 last week, 12 in l'.tOS and T In 1007. Dun's Weekly Review of Trade.

NEW YORK. RejMuts as to trade and industry arc irregular, reflecting Interruptions due to stormy weather, talk of (tending tariff revision and price unset tlemcnt caused by manufacturers in some leading lines offering concessions to secure business. Taken as a whole, the volume 'of business doing is still belov exjtecta tions, while Industrial output Is irregular and below tbe norma!. Business failures for tbe week ending with Feb. IS were 2S2.,against 211 last week. :J2 in tile like week of 1908, 177 in l'J07, ISO in 100 and 220 Iv 1005. Canadian failures for the week numlier 34. which compares with 20 last week and 41 in the corresponding week last year. Bradstreet's. Chicago Cattle, common to primev $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.fi0 to $!l.45; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.10 to $1.18: corn No. 2, CCc to 04c: oats, standard 54c to 55c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 77c; hay timothy, $8.00 to $13.00; prairie, $S.0C to $11.50; butter, choie- creamery, 27c to oOc; eggs, fresh. 27c f 30c; potatoes, per bushel, S0c to 91c Indianapolis Catt! shipping, S3.0C to $0.50; hogs, good to choice havy, $3.50 to $G.00; sheep, good to choices $2.50 to $4.00: wheat. No. 2. $1.1(5 te $1.10; corn. No. 2. white. Clc to C3c; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 51c. St. Louis Cattlf, $4.50 to $7.00-, hozn $4.00 to $0.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.40; wheat. No. 2, $1.25 to $1.27; corn. No. 2, 01c to ;3e: oats. No. 2. 51c to 53c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 77c. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $o.00; hogs. $4.0) to $0.00; sheep. $3.00 tc $5.25; wheat. No. 2, $1.22 to $1.23: corn. No. 2 mixed, C5c to Ode; oats. No. mixed, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2, SOc to 81c IVtroit Cattle, $4.00 to $0.00; hog. ?400 to $0.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.75: wheat. No. 2, $1.17 to $1.18: corn. No. 3 yellow, 04c to (5c; oats. No. 3 white, 53c to 55c; rye. No. 2. 7Sc to SOc. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern $1.13 to $1.14; corn. No. 3, C5c to 00c. oats, Standard. 53c to 55c; rye. No. L 77c to 7Sc; barley. No. 1, 05c to C7c pork, mess $15.00. 'Bnffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $4.00 to $0.70; hogs, fair to choice, $4.0C to 50.SO; sheep, common to good mixed $4.00 to $4.75; lambs fair to choice $5.1 H) to $7.S0. New York Cattle. $4.00 ti $5.00; hogs. $3.50 to $0.r0; sheep. $3.00 tc $5JM; wüieat. No. 2 red. $1.17 to $1.19; corn. No. 2, 71c to 72c; oals, natural white, 55c to 50c; butter, creamery, 27c to 31c; eggs, western, 27c to 31c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed. $1.10 tc S1.1S; corn. No. 2 mixed. 03c to G5c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye, No 2, 70e to Sic; clover seed, $5.45. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. Plans for the reorganization of th Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company, .limited, have been announce J bj th- creditors committee. Boston wool buyers are already in the Montana field, and it is surmised that the reason for this activity is that tbey art afraid of the success of the wool storage movement, and a desire to pay a cent Of two more per iwund at present and secure the good wools before they are stored. The United States Steel Corporation ' statement of earnings for the last quartei showed a total of $2G.225,2S5 or a falling off of $SS0,O00. This gives an in- ' dicated earning for the year of $01. 820.- ' 520. as compared with $Ki0,0 4,074 the I preceding year. A hot ch'bate has Ieen on before the rommittees on agriculture in the Minnesota legislature, as to the value of the tuberculin test for tuberculosis in cattle. Cattle owners appearing before the committee differed widely in their testimony, some holding the test good and others de- , claring it worthless. I The stockholders of Swift & Co.. a Iheir annual meeting decided to increase the capital stock from $r0.O00.000 to $(, 000,000. The report for the previous year showed that $20,000,000 had been paid out in wages. Attorney General Gilbert, of Wisconsin, has handed down a decision denying that the Wisconsin Telephone Company, a Uell pro'K'rty, is a trust, as alleged bj the Independent Telephone Association, of Chicago, and b declines t allow the Independents to begin suit in the name of the State for the forfeiture of th charter of the Wisconsin Telephone Com pany. Representatives of the leading independent steel companies not controlled by tht United States Steel corporation have held a conference in Pittsburg for the expressed purpose of taking a ttand against th abolishment of the protective tariff upon steel. The Wis-.onsin and Upper Peninsula of Michigan Rrewers Association has announced a State-wide campaign for the eradication of law-breaking saloons, beginning with tbe raiding of every saloon in Milwaukee County, Wis, where slot machines could be found, and bringing suits for the revocation of licenses of s-loon-kccpcrs who have sold liquor to minors.

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