Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 24, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 March 1909 — Page 2

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V6th. Vi 14th. 21st. 28th. FEATU11ES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Side and Condition of Thing re Shown. Nothing; Orerlooked to make it Complete. Yankee Merchants Stir Up London. The opening in London, Eng., of the first of the American department stores was a memorable event in the history of English retail business and the new Yankee enterprise, as it is generally called, has electrified the old firms to frantic efforts to outdo the new competitor. They are resorting to costly methods to attract the people from the opening of the American store, such as concerns, anniversary celebrations and other entertainments on a large scale. Even employing grand opera singers, military bands and music hall performers to attract the crowd. All the newspapers have print d long accounts of the new enterprise and the personality of the chief movers. Dynamite in Liquor War. The home of Charles G. Renner, attorney for the Anti-Saloon League at Martinsville, Ind., was partially wrecked by dynamite. The charge was placed under the stone steps on the north side of the house. The steps were shattered and the porch was broken into many pieces. All the windows on the north side of the house were broken. Mr. and Mrs. Renner, awakened by the explosion, hastened to the library to find that room filled with smoke. Mr. Renner said he did not believe the dynamiters Intended to kill him, but wished only to warn him to cease his activity as tie Anti-Saloon League's attorney. Down Go Wages of Steel Employes. The Pennsylvania Steel Company, one of the largest Independent steel companies in the country, has announced a reduction in wages approximating ten per cent, effective April 1. The order reducing wages stated that the reduction would be made "pending a return of normal conditions." The order Ckas a surprise to the 6,000 employes. Nine thousand men are employed at the plant when It is running full time. Ethel Barrymore Wedded. Miss Ethel Barrymore, the actress, now appearing in "Lady Frederick" at the H0IÜ3 Street Theatre, in Boston, Mass., and Russell Griswold C )lt, of Bristol, R-1., son of Col. Samuc 1 Pomeroy Colt, for many years president of the United States Rubber Company, were married at the rectory of the Roman Catholic Church of the Most Precious Blood in Hyde Park, according to announcement. Train Ditched by Wreckers. Chicago & Burlington passenger train No. 10 was wrecked by train wreckers at the Vicary coal mine switch, five miles out from Peoria, 111. More than 200 passengers were aboard and the Impact, which demolished the locomotive and several of the coal cars, resulted in several minor injuries. Miraculously no lives were lost Hundreds of Indians Dying of Grip. Seventy-two Indians dying from la grippe at Fort Chlppeweyan Man., and more than 150 in all afflicted at the four posts in the Mackenzie river district of the Hudson Bay Company, is the news brought from the far north by Angus Beabont, Inspector for tho Hudson Bay Company in the Mackenzie river district. Poisoned His Children and Himself. Word has been received from Danville, 111., of the triple murder and suicide by Robert Strawser, a rural mall carrier at Flora, 111.. Strawser gave his three children strychnine and then committed suicide by swallowing a quantity of the drug. The four lifeless bodies were found by tho mother of the children. Run Over by Threa Autos and Lives. Arthur Subers, 23 years old. was run over by three ntomobiles ii succession on Michigan boulevard, Chicago, 111. The only injury he received wa3 from the jar when tho first machine struck him. Wright Brothers Order S'x Airships. The Wright brothers have placed an order with a London, Eng., firm for the Inmediato construction of six aeroplanes. Date is Set for Hains Trial. Capt. Peter C. Haines, Jr., U. S. A., will bo put on trial April 19 at the courthouse In Flushing L. I., on the charge of murdering William E. Annl3 at the Baysido Yacht Club last August. Option Gets Deathblow In California. The local option bill was defeated in the Senate of the California Legislature, in session at Sacramento, by a vote of 12 to 21 Put It In His Sausage. J. J. Schmidt, a butcher of Chicago, was found guilty of using diseased horse flesh in the manufacture of sau3a.se. The conviction of Schmidt is the first one under the State law, which imposes a fine of $1,000, a year's imprisonment in the County Jail, or both. Fatal Storm in Alabama. A windstorm passed over Blocton, Ala., blowing down a one-story building in course of contsruction and killing W. A. Harpley and fatally injuring John A. Dobbins, carpenters. Letter Circles the Globe. On January 13 a letter was mailed at Grlmesland, N. C, to "Wilton T. Allen, Greenfield, India." The letter was received by Mr. Wilson recently, after It had made the circuit of the globe. It went direct to Bombay, India, and after visiting several towns in India was started for Indiana. Iowa Pu s Pood Decision. The Iowa S:i ;eme Court, In a recent decision, hld that the pure food law applied to original packages and not to retail quantities taken out of large receptacles.

OIL TRUST WINS CASE;

'II Judge Anderson Decides That Evidence Against Standard Com pany Is Insufficient. ORDEES "NOT GUILTY" VERDICT. Decides Nearly All Technical Points Against Prosecution Government Gives Up Tight. The famous $29,210,000 rebate case against the Standard Oil Company was ended Wednesday. Government attorneys ibandoned the prosecution, declaring that under the court's rulings they could not continue the case against the corporation. By the direction of Judge Anderson the jury returned a verdict of "not guilty." Judge Anderson ruled that the government had not produced sulficient evidence against the oil company to establish the points upon which they were basing the prosecution. In his instruction to the jury the judge dwelt on the theory that the government had established no case against the oil company. This end of the, famous case leaves Judge K. M- Landis, who imposed the anornious line on the corporation, alone In his judicial attitude. Ills rulings are discredited and his opinion in the first trial was not taken into consideration. Judge Anderson, who has thus set at naught the rulings of Judge Lan3l3, is a boon companion of the latter jurist. Both men are "Iloosiers," coming from the same part of Indiana. JThey were boys together and throughout their lives their careers have run parallel. As boys they frequented the same "swimmiu' hole," and when they grew to manhood both became lawyers and Republicans in politics and both were made federal judges by ex-President Roosevelt. Their philosophies have been much the same, and both have been noted for their incisive grasp of the cases on trial before them. ' Judge Landis brought John D. Rockefeller to the bar of his court and the witness chair. , Judge Anderson directed the dismissal of the case because there is "no proof.". He in instructing the jury to return a verdict of not guilty, said he dismissed the counts in the indictment covering the shipments from Chappelle because there was a fatal variance between the indictment and the evidence. The Elklns law, he said, provided that offenses could be committed In only two ways, one way by violating the law on shipments carried by a common carrier over its own line, and the other by violating the law on shipments carried over its own and other lines. t The indictment charged, he said, that the Chappelle shipments were carried by the Alton road over Itt own line, whereas the evidence showed that they had been carried over its own and other lines. Judge Anderson, in the first ruling of the retrial, ordered that a new venire be' drawn when the Standard Oli counsel raised objection to the first panel because only three Chlcagoans were among the 150 summoned. Ie then ruled that the government in presenting its case should confine Itself to only thirty-six offenses, thus making the highest possible fine against the oil company, should it be found guilty on every count, bul $720.000, while Judge Laudls assessed the company a $29.240,000 fine. GOMPERS DEFEATED AGAIN. Court of Appeals Affirms Blow at ! Boycott List. : The Court of Appeals of the District . of Columbia has modified and affirmed I the opinion of Justice Gould of the I Supreme Court of the district, enjoining the American. Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers and other defendants from publishing in the "We don't patronize" list the name of Buck's Stove and Range Company of St. Louis. The opinion, which was handed down by Justice Itobb, holds that the decree of Judge Gould should be modified to the extent that there should be eliminated the order against the labor organization and the other defendants prohibiting "mentioning, writing or referring" to the business of Buck's Stove and Range Company or Its customers. Otherwise the decree is aflirniecL The court holds that the "combination" and the boycott in furtherance thereof, and the publication In the "We don't patronize" list in aid of the boycott are illegal. SENDS MESSAGE 4,240 MILES. Japanrar Stramrr Accompllahe "Wonder in Wireless Telegraphy. The steamer Aki Maru. of the Nipion Tuscn Kaisha fleet of Japanese steamships, sent a message by wireless from Yokohama, Japan. Ho Puget Sound, a distance of 4,210 miles, without losing communication with the stations on either the Japanese or American coasts. The accomplishment was made possible by retjyinij messages through wireless equipments of other vessels of the company, which were picked up between the Aki Maru and the coast. SAVED BY JULIA MARLOWE. Secretary' lire in Flames Actrcsa Smothrr Ulate with Ulanket. Miss Julia Marlowe saved her secretary. Miss Elizabeth McCracken, from being burned to death at the Plaza Hotel, New York. Miss McCracken was using an alcohol lamp to seal a number of letters and the flame set fire to her sleeve. She tried to smother the Ore with a furlined cloak, but it caught fire also. Miss Marlowe seized the blankets from her bed. threw them about Miss McCracken and stifled the fire. Miss McCracken was severely burned. 185 Children Kscane In Fire Panic. Although 1H." pupils of the Sacred Heart Parochial School in Rrocton, Miis., were thrown into a panic by a fire that destroyed the interior of the buiid'ng ami many of them jumped from the w. -on d-story windows to the ground, no lives were lost, nor was anyone injured. Fire Ilentroy $00,000 Church. The First Presbyterian Church in Kittanning, considered one of the finest houses of worship in Western Pennsyl vania, was totally destroyed by fire. The loos is $00,000.

$29,000,000 FINE VOID

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MISSOURI OUSTS STANDARD Oil Waters-Pierce Company Continues to Do Business In State. The motions by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and the Republic Oil Company of Ohio for a rehearing of the ouster suit recently decided against them, and for a modification of the judgment, were overuled by the Missouri Supreme Court Tuesday. Upon payment of the assessed fine the motion of the Attorney General for an absolute ouster of the Missouri company was denied, the compliance with the court order recently filed by the company was approved and the judgment of ouster against it was suspended. The effect of these decisions Is to expel the Indiana and Ohio companies from Missouri and to restore to the Waters-Pierce Company, CO per cent of whose stock Is held by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the right to do business within the State. The decision is considered a great victory for the Waters-Pierce Company and incidentally for the minority Interests of that concern who claim to have been making unavailing efforts to free the company from control by the New Jersey corporation. With this object In view they declined to approve the proposition made by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana that that company be allowed to continue business in the State under a trusteeship composed of representatives of the court and the company. This proposition excited the liveliest Interest In that it would have given to the State a measure of direct control of a corpora t Ion's affairs, had it been adopted by the court. Hut it was ignored In the announcement by the chief Justice. With the judgment of ouster made absolute against the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and the Republic Oil Company, these concerns must nov pay their fines of $50,000 each and cease business in the State. The $00.000 assessed against the WatersI'ierce Company his been paid. SAYS JAPAN SEIZED ISLANDS. Chinese Commander Force Mikado Men to Hani Down Flag; Chinese fishermen engaged at Pratas Islends, having sent an urgent appeal to the Viceroy of Canton, alleging that the Japanese were occupying the islands, the Chinese cruiser Feuyinj? and two destroyers were dispatched to investigate. The squadron spent four days at the islands and returned. Commander Woo, who seized the Japanese steamship Tatsu Maru in RM7, reports that he found the Japanese flag flying on thr island and more than a hundred Japanese established in permanent settlement, actively engaged in removing phosphate, pearl shell and tortoise shell without permission from the Chinese government. The Japanese claimed they discovered the islands eighteen months ago. They had destroyed an old Chinese templix driven off many fishermen, b.irned six junks, the owners of which refused to leave, and continually threatened others with death if they persisted in landing. Commander Woo compelled the Jajtanese to haul down their flag and destroy the iost which announced the alleged discovery of the islands. It is estimated that the Japanese removed five million yen worth of produce. Shipments have been forbidden. Old and Famed Miner Dlea. Sam Raird, SO years old, who was "Lucky" Raldwin's side partner in the lays of Virginia City and an associate of Flood. Mackay and Fiiir during these days, was buried in a rude coffin on the desert Tiusday. II died unattended save by his aged wife at Cold Mountain, Cal. Child Open Combination Lorkn. Robert Oxford, 8 years old, broke into a number of the combination lock boxes of the Montrose, Colo., postoflicc, and secured $108 and a considerable amount of jewelry. The boy oiened the boxes by listening to the click of the tumblers, lie was arrested shortly after. r;oult Sueceeda S. Flah. Kingdon Could, son of George J. Could, has leen elected a member of the board of dirctors of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, at the annual meeting of the company in St. Louis. He succeeds Stuyvesant Fish. Steel 31111 Explosion Fntal. One man is reiorted to have been killed and seven injured in an explosion of a metal pot in the iron mill of the American Steel and Wire Company in Cleveland. ninrk Hand Thron Domb. A bomb exploded in a stairway leading into a cellar of a four-story tenement at O Stanton street. New York. No one was injured, but the stairway was badly damaged. The police say that the "Black Hand" is responsible. Two mi who were seen running from the building were arrested.

AMERICAN EAGLE GETS A JOLT.

FIGURES SHOW ACTIVITY. Import of Manufacturer Matrrlala (iron Over 1SM.N nnil 07. Renewed activity ia the country's manufacture is shown in figures prepared by the bureau of statistics, -omparing imports of manufacturers materials in January with those of the two preceding Januarys. In practically all cases the importations of manufacturers raw materials in January, 100!, show a large advance over those one year ago. and in not a few eases the figures are actually larger than lhce of January, 1007, when all the industries of the country were running to their full capacity of production. The quantity of wool, for example, imported in January, 1JHK, was more than 21,000,000 pound, against 0,.V0O, H K) pounds in January, 1.XW, and 18,000.000 pounds in January, 1007. Of lumber there was imported in January, 1000, S.",7S.",000 feet, against ."0,714.000 feet in January, 1UOS. and 41,7477,000 feet in January, 1007. DAYTON WOMAN AGAIN VICTIM. Seventh Murder Mystery Appear in D I cover j- of Uody In Canal. Another mystery confronts the police of Dayton, Ohio, in the discovery of the decomposed body of an unknown .white .vornan in the canal below the Apple street bridge. In the opinion ef the officers, it must have Iain in the water, about a month. The woman apparently was I0 years old and well dressed. She was attired in- black. She wore slippers, but over these she bad a pair of new rubber shoes. The woiran's under garments were in good condition. The decomposition will, it is feared, prevent the identification of the woman. The body was found lying half out on the bank, face down, while both hands were clenched and were near her throat, as if she had tried to protect herself. ' Six girls have !een found slain in Dayton recently. Four of the murders have never beeu solved. Count Arthur Paulovitch Cassini, who hae been for nearly fifty years in the Russian diplomatic service, has applied for retirement. The Rritish authorities at .Calcutta have continued to seize important native newspapers which support the Nationalist movement. The treaty settling our differences with Columbia over Panama, has been approved by President Reyes and in before the Columbian congress. The officers of the American supply ship, Celtic, and the gunboat. Scorpion, made an excursion to Mount Vesuvius as the guests of the municipality of Naples. During the ensuing session of the Manitoba legislature -the government will be severely questioned regarding the promised reduction in telephone rates, which have not yet been announced despite the fact that the province took over all the Pell lines in die province more than a year ago. The liberals claim I hat, owing to the fact that the system has made a piofit for the year of $200,000, the promised reductions in rates should be made. Russian diplomacy appears to have solved the Ralkan problem, so far as it involves liulgaria and Turkey, by offering to remit to Turkey the annual payment of $1,000.000 which under the Rerlin treaty was to be paid to Russia for 100 years until the claim of Turkey against Rulgaria shall be satisfied, namely, $21,OOO.iiOO. Russia in turn will collect that amount from Rulgaria in smaller payments on easier terms, Roth sides have assented to that plan. Quern Helena, of Italy, has decided to undertake with her own private funds the reconstruction of a town on the outskiits of Messina, the actual location to be on the hill where the lighthouse stood. The new community will start with 1,000 inhabitants. A committee of the French Senate has drawn up a bill to establish a system of old age and invalid pensions and insurance, which goes far beyond the recently adopted Rritish system of age pensions. It reduces the age limit to instead of 70 years, and incorporates many of thf features of the Oerman labor insurance laws. Emperor Nicholas of Russia came to St. Petersburg to entertain King Ferdinand of Rulgaria at the Winter Palace. Although the visit of the latter was said to be nonpolitical, it is believed that the neeting of the two monarchs means the de facto "recognition by Russia of Rulgarian independence. President (loinez has asked the (' Congress to appropriate $1,02.'1..514 tc equip at once an army of 10,000 soldiers to be organized under one head, nn insiector general who will be under the immediate orders of the president. He roint.3 out that this need did not exist while the Ameitcan soldiers were in Cuba, but that h is very imperative now.

ailNEES' DEMANDS REJECTED.

Operators Ask That Present Agreement Be Extended Three Years. The authracite coal operators have flatly denied all of the eight demands oflicials of the union had made for changes in the agreement, which will expire on March 31. The operators then proposed that the present agreement be renewed for a period of three years. The conference was held in Philadelphia. This decision was not unexpected by the workers. President Lewis has his plans laid and is conferring with other leaders to perfect the details of the next move. Those who have followed the trend of affairs in the anthracite region believe it will be useless for the miners to insist further upon any material changfe in the present agreement, and it Is expected the miners' committee will call a convention from three districts to take up the operators' refusal and counter proixjsUIon. What the outcome will be is a matter of conjecture. So far as could be learned from the miners, a majority of the workers are opposed to a strike, because they feel that they are not strongly enough Intrenched to carry on a campaign of the magnitude of that of 1000 and 1002. The present agreement, made in New York three years ' ago, when John Mitchell led the miners In the negotiations, is Identical with the award of the Roosevelt strike commission, made in 1903, after the strike of 1002. Three years ago the miners made numerous demands, but all-were rejected, and they accepted the renewal of the strike commission award, which is the same proposition, again made by the operators. The demands of the mine workers, drafted in Scran ton last October and ratified by the national convention In Indianapolis In January, ask an agTeeinen under which all disputes shall be adjusted and recognition of the union as a party to negotiations in wage contract and its right to provide any method it may adopt for the collection of revenue. The other demands were for an eight hour day with no reduction in wages, for a contract by which all coal shall be mined and paid for by the ton of 2.000 pounds, and a definiteand more uniform scale of wages and prices. They ask that all employes paid $l..iO or less per day shall receive a 10 per cent advance, and all employes paid more than $1.50 and less than $2.00 per day shill receive a 5 per cent advance. Tbey also demand that the system whereby a contract miner has more than one job or employs more than two laborer: be abolished; that the eniplj-ers be required to Issue uniform pay statements, and. finally, that the contract shall be made for a period-of one year. TO BUILD FOUR DREADNOUGHTS. Itrltlxlt nnl Kntlinatc Call for Expenditure of 175,713,500. The eagerly awaited Rritish naval csti- j mates about which there has been so much ; comro' ers-- inside and outside of the cabi- i j)et have been issued in London. A com ! promise won the day, for the estimates provide foi a total expenditure of $17.",713,."0O, an increase of $14.110,000 ovei the estimates of 1908-1909. The new building program provides for four Dread noughts, six protected cruisers, twenty tor pedo boat destroyers and a number of submarines, the latter to cost $.",000,000 SHIPS COLLIDE; 20 DROWN. (irrman Vel MarKretlm Sinn er Manx lilKfttahlit After Crah. The Norwegian sjeanier Mascot, for Sundelantl. collided with the (Jerman ship Margretha, Iquique for Hamburg, about twenty miles west of the Maas lighthouse. The Margretha sank almost immediately, twenty of the crew being drowned. The six remaining members ol the crew were saved. The Mascot returned to Rotterdam with a big hole in hei bow. The Margretha was commanded by Captain Wohelere. She was 2,000 tone : burden. Ilrlver Saves Boy Lose Own Life. John Vant, a truck driver, is dead in New York, after having sacrificed his life to save a C-year-old boy who darted in front of his horses. In turning tho teair aside. Vant was thrown from his seat, and fell under the wheels. Irish Immigrant Matlntlrn. Figures issued by the Irish Emigrant Society show that d'iri'ig the year 1!MS there landed at the port of New York from Ireland 10,341 persons. Of that number 0.090 were males and 0,331 fcmilcS. They brought about $300,000 witb them.

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rMAnCIAL

CHICAGO. An uausually low number of trading defaults reflects gratifying settlements this month, which generally is a time of heavy payments. Further testimony to the improving state of commerce is seen in increasing movements of factory outputs, general merchandise and grain. Money is also in wider demand for the leading industries and currency outgo exceeds the receipts, but discount rates for desirable paper remain favorable to borrowers and encourage a revival of enterprise. Production is jet upon a conservative basis. The iron and steel branches obtafn a fair aggregate of new demands, although the readjustment of prices causes revision of estimates and de-, lays commitments for equipment, bridge and track needs. Some contracts are closed for lake freighters of heavy tonnage and this improved the .shipbuilding outlook. Specifications become more plentiful for plates and structural shapes, and there is a moderate gain in forces at the rolling mills and forges. Car construction steadily expands. Railroad plans assure much work, involving heavy outlays in the near future, and there is further accumulation of contemplated factory extension" and mercantile and hotel bulldiugs. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 18, against 27 last week, 30 in lOOS and 2. in 1007. Those with liabilities over $0,000 number C, against 10 last week. 11 in 190S and 8 in 1007." Duns Weekly Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Trade and Industrial developments have been slightly more favorable, the result being a letter tone iu various lines of trade and some enlargement of activity in spring demand from jobbers and from retailers. Helpful in this respect has been the arrival of better weather conditions, the advance of the season's trade toward an early Easter, large shipments of grain to niarfcet, attracted by high prices, the placing of some business in Iron and steel Induced by lower prices and the resumption of building operations at many dtiesaftcr the winter shutdown. Where jobbing demand has improyed however, conservatism in buying has rulect, trade at first hands has remained pretty quiet and the enlargement of retail buying has not been very marked. Still, even collections show a slight gain. Business failures in the United State for the week ending March 11 were 254, against 210 last week. 27S In the like week of 100S, 1SG In 1907, 1S7 In 1900 and ISO in 1903. Caandian failures for the week number 40, which compares with 33 last week and 31 In this week last year. Iiradstreets. Chicago Cattle, common to prim," $4.00 to $7.10; hogs, prime heavy, $1.50 to $0.1O; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.V); wheat. No. 2, $1.17 to $1.20; corn, No. 2, 04c to GTc; oats, standard, S3c to 54c; rye. No. 2. 77c to 80c; hay, timothy, $S.00 to $13.50; prairie, $8.00 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery. 23c to 28c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 19c; potatoes, per bushel, H)c to 00c. s Indianapolis Cattle, fhipoing, $3.00 to $d.30; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.30 to $0.(50; sheep, good to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.20 to $1.22; corn. No. 2. white, Clc to C3c: oats. No. 2 white. 49c to 31c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $7.10; hogs, $4.00 to $G.93: sheep, $3.00 to $r,.73; wheat. No. 2, $1.23 to $1.27; corn. No. 2, Ciöc to 07c; oats. No. 2, 53c to 53c; rye, No. 2. 79c to 80c. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $0.33; hogs, $4.00 to $7.10; sheep. $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.20 to $1.27; corn, No. 2 mixed, 07c to 0ic: oats, No. 2 raised, 5"c to ."Cc; rye. No. 2. S2c to 81c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.23; hogs, $4.00 to $0.70; sheep. $2.30 to $"i.0; wheat, No. 2 $1.10 to $1.20: corn. No. 3 yellow, f7c to OSc; oats. No. 3 white, 54c to Xic; rye. No. 2, SOe to S2c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.13 to $1.13; corn. No. 3, 07c to 0c; oats, standard, Mc to 30e; rye. No. 1, 79c to 80c; barley. No. 1, 03c to 07c; pork, mess, $10.33. RuflVo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $4.00 to $7.05; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.85; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $1.73; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $7.90. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $590; hogs. $3.50 to $7.00; sheep. $3.00 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2 red. $1.22 to $1.23: corn. No. 2, 73c to 70c; oats, natural white, 58c to Clc; butter, creamery, 23c to 27c; eggs, western, 17c to 20c. ToleaV Wheat, No. 2 mixrd. $1.19 to $1.20; -orn. No. 2 mixed, 07c to C$c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 81c to 83c; clover seed. $3.20. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. . Chicago detectives took into custody t,hc 10-year-old Michigan City, Ind., youths who confessed to having left their homes to "break the Chicago Iward of trade." They said they had a "system" to beat the mark t and produced between them $900 whh which they had expected to begin operations. An application for a preliminary injunction restraining the reorganization committee o the Southern Steel Company from carrying out its plan for the reorganization of that company was denied by Judge Noyes, of the United States Circuit Court iu New York. Propelling and controlling submerged torpedoes by wireless telegraph, hurling instruments of destruction against hostile battleships without the sacrifice of a rain on the part)f the naval power equipjed with tee new terror all this is made lossible, it is claimed, by the invention of a resident of Ios Angeles, Carl Abrahamson. Minnesota school children will be enlightened on the habits of the gypsy moth, the brown-tail moth, the San, Jose scale, native scales and other injurious insects, and the principal insectivorous birds of this State, if Representative Ole Peterson's bill is passed. Tho State entomologist is to draw, lithograph and distribute illustrated charts to all ungraded nd graded schools. An appropriation of $3,500 is included. Taking their cue from the recognition if the tri-county delegation as one of the itanding committees, the farmer members of the Minnesota house have organized what is to be known as the agricultural dA-kiation of the House.

CONGRESS HIES

Güll RE-ELECTED Illinoisan Chosen Speaker of Hocse When Extra Session Begins Work. NEV MEMBERS ARE SW0N IN. Lively Scenes at the Nation's Capitol "When Lawmakers Gather for Tariff Revision. Washington correspondence : The extraordinary session of the Sir-ty-tirst Congress, called by the President to enact tariff legislation, began at noon Monday. Great crowds were attracted to the capitol, but only a few were able to gain admission to either chamber. The Senate being a continuous body, its organization was already complete, although interest in the proceedings centered on the new Vice-President, Mr. Sherman, and the swearing in of Senator Stephi.ison of Wisconsin, who has been re-elected after a bitter tight in the Legislature X his State. At the other end of the capitol, however, a different situation was presented. The House, with its seventy-seven new members, had to organize, Which took considerable time. While this was being done the clerk, Alexander McDowell, acted as presiding officer. It was necessary first to swear wmmm I i?, Sf y ' SPEAKEB CANNON. in the entire membership by States. The ' various groups o' members marched down the aisles and, standing in the well in front of the rostrum, took the oath of office. The President's proclamation was read to both bodies, after which business proceeded. A few minutes after the House met Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois was reelected Sjwaker. The vote on Speaker waü:. Cannon, 204; Champ Clark, Missouri, 106; Cooper, Wisconsin, S; Esch, Wisconsin, 1; Norris. Nebraska, 2; Hepburn, Iowa, 1. Aside from the qtestion of what would be done with rules, the greatest solicitude upon the part of members was felt concerning the outcome of the biennial lottery for seats. Those having desirable places in the chamber were loath to give them up, but they had to take their chances with the rest This is always an Interesting proceeding. A blindfolded page draws from a box, a marble bearing a number which' indicates the seat the member Isi to have, the names being drawn in alphabetical order. To fare Jlrltlli Poverty. The report of the Rritish Royal Commission, which is the result of three years of investigation of the whole question ol the poverty and the poor laws, will fill more than forty . volumes. It contains more than 230 recommendations, the most striking of which are for the abolition of general workhouses, the separate treat ment for the aged, weak and able-bodied unemployed and loafers, the compulsory detention of persistent idlers for from six months to three years, the institution ol labor exchanges and the prevention oi child labor. An appeal is made to the prosperous for persona! service and a good example. It is held that extravagance in dress and numerous frivolities are responsible for much pauperism and distress. The evidence shows that city populations degenerate, and that a majority of the unemployed are city bred. Many of the reforms proposed are drastically revolutionary. CURRENT LWS NOTES. Daniel Guggenheim, president of the American Smelting and Refining Company, who was taken ill in Mexico, retched Laredo, Texas, on his way to New York. Peter Seery, the fire marshal of New York City, says in his annual report that 1,112 fires in Manhattan out of a total of 8,212 in the last year were caused by the careless handling of matches. Fire t Hobart,' Okla., destroyed the building occupied by the Dixie department store, with contents. Loss, $150,000. Sir Robert Dond at St. John. N. F announced that he would hand in hia resignation as premier in a day or two. Ills opponent. Sir Edward Morris, will be called on to form an administration. Sigmund Grabenheimer, treasurer of the firm of Schwartzschild & Sulzberger, and well known in the beef trade, fell dead from heart disease in the arms of his brother, Nathan, while walking near the Grand Central station in New York. The Kelly Hotel, Arthur Kelly's general store, Mrs. Scott's residence and the public library at Estevan, Sask., were destroyed by fire. Ixss $00,000. Loss of $150,000 was caused by fire in Ruffalo, N. Y., a six-story building occupied by II. J. Rrock & Co., Wile, Herman & Co., George Y. Hatt & Co., Clawson & Wilson and Cohn & Frank, all dealers in clothing, being destroyed. While on her way to a theater in Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Ethel Roeshans, aged 18, a bride of two months, was electrocuted when her umbrella came in contact with a live wire which had been torn loose from a pole by the storm. Dr. Joseph D. Rryant of New York, the late Grover Cleveland's pbys'cian, was robbed of his watch, a gold penknife and fi!0O in a New York hospital while getting ready to perform an operation. For recklessly driving his automobile Louis J. Denes of New York City, a senior in the Sheffield Scientific Schoa" at New Haven, has been sentenced to th.rty days in jail. He gave $300 bonds pending an appeal. President Thwiug of Western Reserve Universitj, Cleveland, announces that $.7.j.0OO. conditional to a gift of ?12-,)00 from the general educational board, has been raised. Thi fund is (pr i-ndowment of undergraduate colleges.'

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Record of Events of the Past Week FOUR CITIES MAY JODf. Dotliifi 31 en of Calumet It I Ter Völler Launch Movruifut. At a mass meeting held in HammoDd preliminary steps were taken by mann-. facturers, business men and municipal officers to unite the citica of Hammond, Whiting. Indiana Harbor and Iast Chicrpo into one municipality under the snggested name of Calumet. The amalgamation would also include a down lesser places, embracing in all a total population of 73,000, making it the srcond c:ty in the State of Indiana. Officers of the four cities point out the lessened cost of government in having but one Mayor and City Council as well as the economy in civic administration. The cities named touch each others boundaries now. Gary would be welcomed into the municipality, bur it prefers to be independent. The cities of Hammond, Kast Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Whiting border on Lake Michigan, and the desire for a government harbor for which each city has been fighting individually for years is tbcmeans of bringing them ell together with the hope that a canal connecting themwith the Chicago Sag can thus be obtained. INDIANA LIGHT PLANTS UNITE. Gas and nieclric Companies Jolted 1b f 10,000,000 Corporation. Through papers filed in the office of the Laporte County Recorder an amalgamation and consolidation of the various gas und electric plants in Northern Indiana owned or controlled by Clarece II. Geist of Chicago and Philadelphia was perfected under the name of th Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Company, with capital stock of $10,000.000. Frank J. Canail has been elected President and Rollo M. Cole, Secretary. The new corporation absorbs the gas and electric plants at Michigan Sity, Hammond, Valparaiso, Indiana Harbor and East Chicago. SUES BOAD FOB $63 HENS. Value ot Eirsr-Larlna- Abllltr lm sue In Action Airalnat Railway. nie value of a heu'u egg-laying ability is the novel feature introduced in a damage suit against the Chicago. Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company in the Iake Superior Court in Hammond. Richard Puller, a farmer, complains that owing to the high embankments on the railroad the Kankakee River was forced out of its banks and swept away his ben house, containing fourteen bens. Assuming that each hen would lay an egg a day for six months. Fuller figures the output for the life of the hen at $03 and brought suit for that amount. DEATH NOOSE OF GRAPEVINE. George Cooper' Body Poind HangInn; to Tree In Woods With a noose made of grape vines, fastened around his n$ck, George Cooper, of Elizabeth, was found hanging in the woods near bis homo. He bad been acting strangely for several months, giving evidence of mental unbalance, and f-teps had been taken for his confinement in the Hospital for the Insane at Evansville. Cooper was 39 years old and leaves a family. SEARCH FOB MISSTNO PASTOB. ' f Friends of Preacher Fear Mlba IIa Occurred. The friends of Rev. A. C. Rand, wbo disappeared from bis home in Warsaw several days ago. are adrancing tha theory that be has met with foal play. The minister was traced as far as Wabash. Nothing has been heard from him and all efforts to locate him are unavailing. His wife is much alarmed and has coused a search to be mad in all surrounding cities. BORE 2,000 FEET FOB OEk Snnd Pierced In Knox County, bat Flow IV ot Tapped. Local oil men report that the drill ia the well in Knox County has passed through forty feet of oil sand, but no oil has been found. The well will be continued to a depth of 2,(X)0 feet, unless oi! is found in paying quantities at a lesser depth. Several oil men are looking after leases on the Illinois side of the river. Married Eight Tlinea. William Crane, of Greenfield, who vai married recently at Muncie- to Mrs. Elizabeth Fowler, is S3 years old, and has been married eight times. Six of bis marriages were dissolved by divorce and all of his former wives are living except one. Three Store Conatlea Go "Dry. In three more counties of Indiana the voters have expressed by larg majorities their disapproval of licensed saloons, and as a result fifty-three of these places will be closed in Hendricks, Fountain and Fayette Counties. AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS. Joseph Itaczynski died in South B.j4 at the age of 103 years. He was born June 14. 1S00, at Plock, Poland, comiujr to the United States when IS years of age. A Rig Four pa,ssenger train struck a pile of stones five miles north of Wabash. Fifty feet from the pile of stones was Pawpaw Creek, into which the tram would have fallen had it been derailed. Revenge is believed to have been the motive for the attempted wreck. Newton Strickland. V years old. and his son, William Strickland, both died of pneumonia at their home, north of Rloowfield. Their deaths were not more thai th?rty minutes apart. The family is seriously afflicted, as three other members art ill with the same disease. Joseph -Welsh of Last Chicago killed himself while hunting ducks on the Calumet River near Paleine. Fred Ilitner. a barber, was found ia McKinney's livery stable in Evansville, seriously injured. His t-ku'.I was crashed nd he was ia a dying condition. My:ery surrounds the affair and the plico ire investigating. Robert and Jams Raughman, anvsted evcral weeks ago following a scries of robberies in Ohio and Indiana, made their escie from the county jail in Inlianapolis and have not been recaptnured. The men were awaiting action by the grand jury. The body of Mrs. Mary Nichols, 52 years old. was found in Indianapolis, the licad crushed in from repeated blows of some heavy instrument. Gustave Caton, a gardener who made his home with Mrs. Nichols, was arrested on suspicion. He said four utrange young men tied him ia a shed and bcai Mrs. Nichols to death. VRiaraiso, the home of the Valparaiso University, is completely dry, the last two saloons having closed heir dvors. This is the first time that the staic. old college town has been without a saloon for sixty-two years. There will be no more liquor sold over a bar there until the majority of the people vote for it tw years hence.

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