Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 6 May 1909 — Page 2

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STvF M. a- U Q.TN. M. T b Q. löth. V 12th.Vs19th. V 26th. 'features of interest ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Side and Condition of Thlac are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Three Lake Vessels Go to the Bottom. Three vessels lost, one of them with her crew of seven men, and a fourth craft found floating deserted on Lake Michigan, with the fate of her crew unknown, is the summary of the disaster from storm and ice on the great lakes. On the bleak and t rocky points of Huron Island the schooner George Nestor, of Detroit, was torn to pieces by the furious gale j asd ail of her crew of seven were lost. On Lake Huron the packet freighter Russia, of Port Huron, succumbed to the waves after her cargo had shifted and went to the bottom. The Russia's crew of twenty-two men, however, escaped in small boats. On Lake Michigan the Ann Arbor railway car ferry No. 1 picked up nineteen miles south of Fox island the big steel lighter Batavia, deserted by her crew and with no positive evidence as to whether they perished or were taken off the lighter by the steamer which is believed to have been towing her. To these fresh stories of marine disaster was added from Saut Stc. Marie with the arrival there of the crew of the steamer Aurania, the first story of how she was crushed by the ice and sank, and how the members of the crew made a perilous way over nearly four miles of ice floes t; the steamer J. H. BaHow. Straus and Rockhill Appointed. A dispatch from Washington, D. C, rays: Oscar S. Straus, former secretary of commerce and labor, ha3 been selected for ambassador to Turkey, and W. W. Roc kh ill for ambassador to Russia. Mr. Rockhill was formerly assistant secretary of state and later minister to China. Mr. Straus telegraphed from New York his acceptance of the mission to Turkey to Secretary Knox. It Is not known at the täte department when he will take up his diplomatic duties. Mr. Rockhill Is a native of Pennsylvania. He will remain at Pekin for a time, the president not yet having determined cn his successor. Four Ohio Men Drowned in Flood. Swollen by floodä resulting from rains the past seven days, the Tuscarawas river claimed four men as victims. Two others almost dead from exhaustion were rescued as they were sinkirg In the swirling waters for the thid time. The six men comprised a pelasure party which set out In a motor boat for a trip on the river near Coshocton, Ohle. By some accident the boat was capsized and the four victims went down to rise no more. Entire Wabash Train Leaves Track. One hundred passengers on a Wabash railway east bound limited express, had a narrow escape from death when the entire train jumped the track at Eden. O., near Montpelier. All of the cars left the track and went Into the ditch after running along the roadbed for about 1000 feet. Some of the car3 were overturned but only one passenger, N. Burgess, of New York, was injured, beyond slight bruises. Blows Himself to Bits. A dynamite bomb was the means employed by Carson Martin, a farmer, forty-five years old, living in Belle River south of Mount Vernon, 111., to commit suicide. Mr. Martin took the explosive to an out building early in the morning. The structure was blown to bits and his body was scattered over the premises. Fairbanks Buys a Winter Home. Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice president, has concluded through agents a deal for the purchase of a $30,000 residence in one of the fashionable districts of Pasadena, Cal. It la said he will make this his winter home. Johnny Appleseed's Rival Dead. Foster Udell, known as the apple king 13 dead at Brockport, N. Y. He had been a student of pomology for over sixty years and probably planted more apple trees than any other man in the world. Butcher Kicked to Death. Joseph Riglig, a butcher, of Ham ilton, Ohio, was kicked to death by a horse. He entered tha stall and frightened the horse by turning on an elec- j trie light t Auto Turns Turtle; Eight Hurt. Eight persons were injured, four eerioualy, when an automobile going at a good rate of speed on the Ocean Beach boulevard near San Francisco, Cal.. turned turtle at a curve. Husband's Strange Charge. Mrs. Henry Williamson, of Oxford, Ohio, was bound over to court on a charge of failure to support her children. This action was taken by Mayor King on complaint of her husband. Lawyers say that such a charge against a married woman is unprecedented. Bastball Injury Fatal. Leonard Dc'I.eng. , high school student, injur."! whilo pl.iying baseball at Lainorii, Iowa, h dead. DeLong collide! v.itli , base ruu'er, bursting a blood ves.se 1. Is Killed by Automobile. Fannie Smith, a colored woman. was run down and billed by an automobile at Mail and Yellow Springs streetts, Springfield, Ohio. The machine was driven Uy Chas. Winkler. The car was not -unnins at a high rate of speed, and the woman paid no attetntion to the warning sounds. Corn Ready to Cultivate. L G. Keller, who planted corn on hl3 farm east of Columbus, Ind., on St. Patrick's day, says he has a fine stand and he nill ber cultivating it this week.

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Elevator "B" of Illinois Central in South Water Street, Chicago, Burns. FIGHT ON BLAZE IS STRENUOUS Striking of Structure "by Lightning Followed by Terrific Explosion, Then Fall of Wall. Two firemen wore killed, eleven persons injured and a loss of $1.000.000 caused early Thursday by the tiro that destroyed Illinois Central elevator II, foot of South Water street. Chicago. A cordon of firemen narrowly escaped being caught beneath falling walls, whilo dozens of others were overcome by the heat and smoke. Lightning is believed to have caused the Maze which was blown cityward by a heavy wind from the lake, when the Canies burst through the roof and the gale sent thousands of burning embers and sparks flying over the loop district, imperiling big business houses. Within an hour the huge elevator was a mass of fire and looked like an Immense oven, as the sheet iron became redhot and the walls began to tumble. So intense was the heat that firemen were constantly overcome, and one after another fell at their posts of duty. It wns seen to be impossible to save the burning structure. Consequently the firemen's main fight was to prevent a spread of the flames to nearby property. Firemen Cooper and McElligott met death in the collapse of the south wall. They were leading the battle at that point, when somebody shouted a warning. A rush for safety was made by the firemen, but Cooper and McElligott were too close to the building to escape being caught. Both were buried beneath tons of brick and burning beams. Several other firemen who narrowly escaped a similar fate were seriously Injured, being struck by flying bricks. The elevator stood between two river slips and contained 401.000 bushels of wheat and about the same amount 'of corn. It was one of the largest in the city and was surrounded by big business houses. It was nearly 100 feet high and about 2T0 feet long. For a time the flames threatened to destroy the Illinois Central docks, the Goodrich" docks, the Wisconsin Central freight house and other huge buildings. The two freight houses caught fire more than a dozen times, but hard work by the firemen prevented their destruction. 8 DIE IN "BLACK HAND" BLAZE Children Amouc Fire Victims In Crowded New York Tenement. Eight persons, five of them children, were burned to death and fourteen others were injured, some of them fatally, in an incendiary fire in a five-story tenement at 37 Spring street, New York, occupied by twenty Italian families, early Friday. The blaze followed a demand by members of & -'o-called "black band' society for the payment of $1.000 blackmail. It spread th rough the building iwth startling rapid:t3 as the hallways were soaked with kerosene oil by the blackmailers. In a panic which followed the alarm the tenants fought their way down the fire escapes or jumped from tie windows, while babies were thrown from windows into the arms of policemen on the sidewalk. Six injured, three of whom are children, are not expected to recover. Jacob Bruck, the proprietor of a grocery store on the mail floor of the building, received on April 18 a letter reading: We demand $1,000 or death. Bring it in Mott street. Petrosino is dead but the black hand lives. Black Hand Society. On Monday last Bruck received another letter written in a similar strain. He turned both letters over to the police. FIGHT FOR THE PENNANTS. Standing of Clahs In the Principal Base nail Leagues. JJATIOXAL LEAGUE. W. Boston 0 Phil'd'lphia Pittsburg ...S Cincinnati ..10 L 4 Chicago .. 4 Brooklyn . New York 8 St. Louis w. ...8 ...4 ..4 ..U L. 7 G G 11 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. Detroit ....12 Boston 7 New York ..7 Chicago 0 L. 5 8 7 10 3 PhilM'lphia ..5 5 Cleveland .....r 5 Washington . .3 6 St. Ixuis ...4 AMERICA ASSOCIATION. W. Milwaukee ..10 Louisville ..12 Ind'napolis .10 Minneapolis .7 L. 2 Toledo ... 5 St. Paul . 2 Columbus , G Kan. City W. I ..7 10 ..4 8 ,..G 12 ...4 9 BICH GIRL ON TRIAL FOR LIFE. Face Jury to Answer Charge of Slaying Sister's Sweetheart. "Johnny" Davidson, a wealthy young woman, who killed Roy Ramsour in Neo sho, Mo., on June G, 1908, following a quarrel at the Davidson home, in which It is alleged Ramsour applied an epithet to the girl, is on trial there. Miss Da vidson's plea is self-defense. Ramour was a suitor for the hand of Miss (Irace Davidson, the defendant's sister. A few days before the murder the two had guar reled. Ramsour used improper language toward Miss "Johnny" Davidson, and when he refused to retract she killed him with a revolver. OLIVE LOGAN DIES A PAUPER. American Actress and Author Sneenmbs In Kngland Asylum. Olive Logan is dead of valvular heart disease in the Eanstead public pauper and lunatic asylum near Cutton, Surrey, England. 1'nless the body Is claimed by tome friend within a few days she will be buried in the asylum cemetery. Olive Iogan was once a successful author, actress, lecturer and journalist. Her last newspaper work was an interview with ex-President Roosevelt on woman's suf frage. She came to 1mdon three years ago as private secretary to Iady CooK. . Killed a Itcnult of Italian Fend. Vincenzo Meyua was shot and killed and hi brother, Uestenat Mcy'na, seriously though not fatally wounded, by four unknown men, who attacked them A . I ... I Mil on Iat 1 1 sireei. ni. mui. 1 ne crime is the tight the outcoitie of a f.Äul started in Italy. llnrislars Steal Teanij Itol, IlnnU. Stealing a team, a gang of safoblowers drove lo IUberton. Wash., which they cut the telegraph and telephone wires, broke into the Rlherton Rank and took 11 the money in the safe. It U not known how much booty they secured.

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: HELD AS SLAYER OF GIRLS. Man Said to Have Admitted CrimeArrest May Clear Many Crimes. Klmer Carr. declared to be the murderer of Mary Forsch ner and Lizzie Fulhart, has beea placed under arrest in Dayton, Ohio, at the instance of II. II. IlollenUxk, assistant State tire marshal, and Dort llulliuger, a deputy öre marshal. So strong is the web of evidence in which both Iloulenbeck and llulliuger believe they have tnwined Carr that Ilollenbeek was given instructions to proceed to Dayton anl tile affidavits against Carr for murder and arson. This arrest, while having no direct connection with the Dona Cilman crime, it is firmly beA'ved by the authorities, who have been ceaselessly working on the murders of young girls in Dayton, that Carr may be able to explain how Iona Oilman was killed. Mrs. Carrie Middlestettor was being examined by officers of the Fire Marshal's office relative to the destruction of a house belonging to a relative of hers, and during her testimony she said that Carr had confessed to her that he had killed Elizabeth Fulhart. Mary Forschner's body was discovered by her stepfather on Jan. 2.1 in North Dayton. One arrest followed another, but nothing came of them. On Feb. 5, or about two weeks later, the body of Elizabeth Fulhart was found in a cistern In the rear of n house on West Jefferson street, Dayton. Again many arrests took place, but no prosecutions wore instituted lecause of the inability of the police to get the proper evidence. Recently a fire destroyed a house be longing to Joseph Voges, a relative of Mrs. Mlddlestetter, near Dayton, and the inquiry bold adduced the following testimony: That Carr had brought the Fulhart girl to a room in Mrs. Middlestetter'8 house. The following Sunday the same program was carried out. but that was the last seen of her. The dress which she wore that day, as de scribed by the Mlddlestetter woman. and the dress which she wore when her body was recovered are Identical. The next Monday, Mrs. Mlddlestetter says, Carr conndeutially nsked her If she had seen anything in the newspapers regarding the dlsappearanec of any young girl. She replied that she had not. "Well, you will," he is said to have replied, according to her testimony. On the following Friday the discovery was made, and although she was taken before the court during the Coroner's inquest, Mrs. Mlddlestetter states that she did net dare to tell what she knew of the case through fear of Carr. Carr was arrested and held as a suspect, but later released because of lack of evidence. Carr is said to hive known Dona Gllman, who was also slain. NATIONAL DEBT IS GROWING. Expenditures for Month of April $3,000,000 Larger than Receipts. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business April 30 the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,025,083.825. which Is an increase for the month of $..207.r)3. The total cash in the treasury Is $1.725,471),434, against Which there are demand liabilities outstanding amounting to $1,413,045,590, which leaves a cash balance on hand of $277,4.ws,h... l he government receipts ror April were $52.075.974 and eipendl tu res $55,050,1 ;20. The monthly coinage statement show3 the total coinage executed during April agregates $31 .851. 14. of which $30.011,000 was gold, $1,172.00 silver and $38.G14 minor coins. The monthly cir culation statement shows national bank notes outstanding $(kS7,04S,227, a decrease for the year of $10,237471 and an increase for the mcut h of $3 001,012. Laundress Leaves fZO.OOO Cash. The will of Annie McNamara. a New York laundress who came from Ireland fifty years ago and was considered poor by her friends, disposes of $20,000 in cash which she had in savings banks. Al most the entire amount is jiven to Cath olic institutions and clergymen. Owns ralullngsi Dies In Want. Herman Linde, an art inUructor, who came to Denver from New York in 190, and who claimed to be the possessor of art works valued at $5lO.'o stored in New York, is dad. Lin refused all offers to sell his pictures, though his last days were passed in poverty. Woman Leaps from Window. Florence Mcintosh, an insane patient in Oak Hospital,' Minneapolis, jinnpc from a second-story window and fled through the woods for several miles be fore s!ie was recaptured. She may die from exiosiire. Tvn .Ilnrt In llnnnnnf Car. Ten persons were injured, live if them seriously, when a Homestead, Dr.'ddock and I.ast I'lttsburg trolley car became uncontrollable on a steep grade on Forbest street, in the Squirrel Hill scefh of Pittsburg. The car dashed down, jumped from the track, and crashed against u trolley pole. Four Deud, Four Hurt In Illat. Four men were killed in an explosion in the glycerin packing house of the Potts Powder Company at Reynolds, Pa Four other workmen were injured. The cause of the explosion is not known.

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Above, Patrick McElligott and Simon TURKEY'S NEW SULTAN, 29 TU OF OTHMANS, LACKS CRAFT. Rechad is 05 years old, and next to the deiosed sultan, is the oldest male descendant oi the house of Othman, the founder of the dynasty. lie is the twenty-ninth sultan to take the throne 6ince the conquest of Constantinople i 1451. Abdul's nephew, Yussef Izzedin, was preferred by many as his successor, but his selection would have violated the Turkish law that the succession shall go to the oldest male descendant of Othaian. Otherwise, Yussef would have been cho sen, as Rechad is considered a man of weak qualities. Rechad has had no experience in gov ernmental affairs. For twenty-five years he has been almost a prisoner in the Yildiz Kiosk. It is conceded that he will do whatever the Young Turks demand, as he is lacking in the craftiness and initia tive of Abdul. 770S&fVDS, or On a wager of $500 Charles Iambie, St. Paul, agreed to walk to Seattle, 1,912 miles, in ninets days. "Eddie" Dugan, the jockey, is lack in New York after having failed to procure in Rngland a jockej's license. The French Prix de Palaisan was won by W. K. Vanderbilt's Northeast. Nash Turner's Pilfard was second. At Ieicester. Eng., the (Jadby 2-year-old plate of 103 sovereigns, distance five furlougs, was won by Midhurst. For the seventeen minutes tussling it took Frank Gotch to upset Mahmout, the terrible Turk, twice, the champion received a total of $14,088.05. George Demsey, of Columbus, was given the decision over Hugh McMahon of St. Paul in a six-round boxing contest. The contest took place at Columbus. At Nottingham, England, the Littlcjohn plate of 2(H) sovereigns for 2-.ver.r-olds. distance four furlongs, was won by II. P. Whitney's Oversight, ridden by J. II. Martin. As fa result of the efforts of a number of prominent Yale and Princeton alumni it appears probable that the "varsity crews of these two universities will meet in a dual regatta on Carnegie Iake. Another runner looking for Marathon honors, with the hope of a contest with St. Yves, Dorando or Longboat, has arrived in New York. He is "Indian" Simpson, who has been winning laurels in Canada. Charley Comi.skey announced that he had chosen Catcher Rilly Sullivan as manager for the White Sox this season, to MKceod Fielder Jones. This action was generally expected and was what Chicago fans wanted. In a battle at Savannah, Ga., Jimmie Dasher, of Savannah, received credit for a knockout over Owie Liss, of Jlrooklvn in the seventh round of a scheduled fif teen-round engagement. Mack Catlin, coach of the Iowa University track team, has notified the men that any violation of diet or other training rules will be followed by expulsion of the offender from I the team. The failure of the New York .Iokcv Club stewards to provide any dates for the I'righton Reach Racing Association has brought forth a protest which may develop into a skinnWi before the State raving i omniissi-jii. llenn St. Yves, a French waiter, easily defeated Longboat. Dorando. Hayes and Schrubb in a Marathon race in New York. Sandy Ferguson, of Chelsea, defeated Jim I'.arry, of t'hicago, in th tenih round of a scheduled twelve-round bout in lloston, but was prevented from winning a straight victory by a foul blow from I'.arry. In Pittsburg. Pa.. Albert II. Nnss, of Philadelphia, an Indian, better known as P.lack Hawk, and Percy Small wood, of Conroy, Wales, defeated Pat Sweeney and William M. Kchoeller. of Pittsburg, in an indoor professional relay Marathon race.

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Cooper, firemen killed under wall. GIRL SLAIN AT COLLEGE. Youth Shoots Senior on Campus and Ends Own Life. Porter Macdougal Smith of Chicago, traveling representative of the It. P. Smith Sons Company of Chicago, wholesale shoe dealers, shot and fatally wounded Miss Helen Ayer Marden, a senior in Smith College. Northampton, Mass., who had broken her engagement with him, and. then committed suicide by turning the revolver upon himself. Miss Marden died a few hours later. She was a daughter of Frank Marden, of Somerville, Mass. Smith, who was about 25 years old, was graduated from Dartmouth College a year ago last June. He had since becu traveling for the comprty of which his uncle, Edward E. Smith, of Chicago, is president. For several days prior to the shooting he had been In Northampton trying to renew the engagement. Mis Marden evaded him and sent him word that his attentions must cease. He persistently followed her, and she apparently was afraid of him, for she kept away from chapel exercises, at which Smith was accustomed to meet and speak to her. At Thursday morning's chapel Smith was seen at his usual post, and when Miss Marden did not appear he started in the direction of her dormitory, lietore he reached the dormitory the girl came out and they met. No one was near enough to hear what words passed between the two, but a second or two after the meeting Smth was seen to draw a revolver and fire three shots at Miss Marden. She fell and he then sent a bullet Into his brain that caused his death before a number of workmen on the campus could reach bis side. Miss Marden was taken to Dickinson Hospital, where she died shortly before noon. Two bullets entered her back near the neck and a third entered her head. ROOSEVELT PARTY GETS LIONS. Three Killed by One Shot Apiece by Ex-President. Four lions are trophies of Theodore Roosevelt's camp in the Mau Hills near Nairobi, Rritish East Africa, and the two hundred or more native followers joined with the American party in the celebration of the unusually good luck. The lions were bagged Friday, and Mr. Roosevelt's mighty gun brought three of them to earth, each on the first shot. Thus one of the former President's fondest ambitions has been realized, and he is proud, too, that the fourth of the jungle kings fell before the rifle of his son Kermlt, who, however, took three shots to kill his quarry. Roth father and son are jubilant. It was their first lion hunt and so magnificent a kill was far beyond their expectations, but lions have been plentiful In the hills for the last month, and the Engllslr bunter, F. C- Solous. has teen out for several daj-s laying plans for their extinction. Mr. Solous accompanied the former President, who also was attended by the usual retinue of beaters. As a rule the beaters go into the jungle with considerable trepidation, but as Mr. Roosevelts' reputation as a hunter had reached there long liefore he arrived in persou tne beaters on mis occasion were exceptionally cninusiasiic. iiioy socio ed ever eager to play a part in the first hunt of the distinguished American. ItnUes Fares In Missouri. The St. Louis and San Francisco Railway management save instructions to its agents to put in etfect May 1 the 2Vi-cent rate basis for pr.ssenger fares in Missouri and Arkansas, with 3 cents for fares paid on trains. This will be the maximum and minimum basis. Anto Kills Policeman's Son. Thomas Flyun, 8 years old, son of Edward Flynn. a special policeman on duty at the 72d street station of the subway in New York, was run over and instantly killed by an automobile owued by Lc Roy W. P.aldwin, president of the Empire Trust Company. I'lrvafur In HnfTalo Is Iturned. The elevator of the Husted Milling and Elevator Company, in Trenatt street, RiuTalo. was destroyed by fire, together with 21XUXH) bushels of grain. The loss is estimated at $.'00,000, with insurance covering the amount. UnnUer Guilty of F.niltezxlement. Antonio F. P.onelli was found guilty of embezzlement in the Common Pleas Court in Cleveland. Ronelli conducted the P.anka lionelli, a private bank. II is alleged to have absconded with ?.';0,JiO intrusted to him by Italians to be sent to relatives in Italy. Student Drowns in fimoclii j?. William Thompson, 2 years old, an undergraduate of Columbia University, was drowned in the surf off Coney Island through the upsetting of a canoe in which be and two companions had ventured to sea.

LIS SNUFFED OUT BY STORM II SOUTH

Nearly Thirty Persons Are Reported Killed and Many Injured in Three States. 0NL TOWN IS BLOWN AWAY Lake Steamer Lost in Hurricane on Whitefish Bay Blizzard Conditions in Northwest. P.etwoen twenty and thirty persons are dead in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas, and scores of injured were the total Thursday night of a series of tornadoes in those States. The storms which wrought this havoc ap pear to have been little outriders of the big disturbances which simultaneously were sweeping through the North. Although more fatal to life than the Northern storm, these Southern tornadoes each covered only a small area of a few acres or a few square miles. They struck at widely scattered points at Intervals. The death list as received was as follows: Youngs Crossing, Tenn., five; Medina, Tonn., two; Horn Lake, Miss., twelve; Forest City, Ark., two; West Marlon, Ark., one. During the night telegraph wires went down all over the South, with the exception of the South Atlantic States. .On both sides of the Mississippi, for hundreds of miles, it was a gusty night, with here and there a puff of wind which knocked trees over and which isolated many sections of the South for hours. Memphis, Tenn., was the center of a storm that destroyed plantation buildings, caused loss of life and injury, and made useless many telephone and telegraph wires. Near West Marion, Ark., the storju demolished twenty-four houses. Miss Nancy Young was killed and four persons were injured. Near Wheatley, Ark., a negro was killed. Near Horn Lake, Miss., plantation cabins were wrecked and twelve negroes killed. At Raleigh, Tenn., a score of build ings were blown down and trees uprooted. Locke, Tenn., a village IS miles from Memphis, was practically obliterated and a number of persons injured. At Youngs Crossing, near Jackson, Tenn., five persons were killed and many injured. In the vicinity of Medina, Tenn., two were killed. The wind cut a path half a mile wide through the towns of West Marion and Weakley and vicinity. In Northern Arkansas, a dispatch from Fort Smith says, ninety persons were injured. At Plum Point a dozen houses were wrecked and one persou was killed. Near Jackson, Tenn., seven persons were killed and others injured. At Medina three houses were wrecked. Four persons were killed, at leasl twelve injured, and great damage done by a tornado in Golden, Mo. The town was destroyed, every building being razed. It Is the general opinion that It was the Corrigan line steamer Aurania which Capt. Royce of the Peavey saw sink In Whitefish Ray. A furious storm raged over the upper lake region. Capt. Robert C. Pringle of Cleveland and a crew of twenty men were in charge of the Aurania when It left P.uffalo for Lake Superior with coal. A terrific wind and rain storm struck Chicago early Thurhday evening and left death and destruction in its wake. One man was killed outright, one fell dead from heart disease during the tumult, and nearly fifty were Injured, some probably fatally. Twenty-five houses were blown down, , many more unroofed, several set afire, and more than fifty families rendered homeless The extreme south end of the city was cut off from street car service and thrown Into darkness by the destruction of electric light wires. A delugt of rain accompanied the wind, and west of the city hundreds of acres were flocded. Two inches of rain fell during the day and the evening. Telegraph and telephone wires were down In nearly every direction. A tidal wave Ir Lake Michigan did great damage Id Waukegan and Kenosha. FATHER AND SON INDICTED. IlrokeraKe yirm A censed of Km. beszlluu; Kallroad Donds. W. J. Hayes and his son. Harry E. Hayes, of the firm of W. J. Hayes & Son, Cleveland bond brokers, were indicted by the county grand jury on th charge of embezzling $227,0 K worth of bonds of the Cincinnati, IUuffton and Chicago Railway Company. It is alleged that the father and ton, to wboir. $500.000 worth of bonds were intrusted for sale, converted the $19S,0J0 worth to their own use. The son was arrested immediately and released on bond. Ilia father is out of the city. BEACH HARGIS FOUND GUILTY. Youth Who Shot Father Conrleted of Murder Charee. In Irvine, Ky.. the jury in the case ol Reach Hargis, who was tried on a charge of killing his father. Judge James Hargis, returned & verdict of guilty, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. This was the second trial of Hargis, the first having resulted in a mistrial. The murder of Judge Hargis by his son Reach occurred in the father's store at Jackson, Breathitt County, on Feb. , 1908. TORNADO KILLS ONE IN KANSAS. Wrecks Many Houses In Doaglai and Adjoining; Towns. One person was killed and ten injured by a tornado which wrecked a large portion of Douglas, Kan.. Wednesday evening. The storm spread over a wide area, doing much damage to farm property. At I'dall the storm, accompanied by hail, did much damage. Between I&se Hill and Douglas many houses were blown down. Three school buildings were completely wrecked. At Rock, south of Douglas, a store building was wrecked and one man injured. (irnfter Sentenced to Prison. Frederick 11. Swancott, sujM-rvisor anl chairman of the Republican County Committee, who waa found guilty of grand larceny in one of the Oneida County, New York, graft cases, was s-ntenced to not Ies-s l;.an three years nor more tliaa five years in Auburn prison. Alleged I'loper Shot. John Thompson, 20 years old, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by (.Jeorge Patterson, a reputable farmer whose home is near Sevierville, Tenn. It is assorted that Thompson was Mtempting to elope with Patterson's daughter.

HOUAND'S HEIR IS DAUGHTER.

Popular Hope of a Son to Succeed to Throne Is Disappointed. Queen Wriieiniina of Holland Friday morning gave birth to a daughter. Queen YVil hekiiina was married to Prince Henry of Moeklpnburg-Sehwfrin Feb. 7, 1001. The queen is now in her twenty-ninth year, having been born Aug. .11, ISSo. S'.ie came of age Aug. 31, IS'JS, hut had previously been queen for eight years, having succeeded her father, the late King Willem III., Nov. -3. 1S00. ' The queen's marriage to Prince Henry was said to be the result of a love match pure and simple. She had been sought in marriage many times and often reported engaged, but she refused with a determination that surprised 1 4V - . ber counsellors this or that prince Prince Henry was at the time of the marriage In 1001 a handsome youna German military lieutenant attached tc the battalion of chasseurs in the Prus sian Guard. The birth of a son to Queen Wilhel mina might In the course of time caus her to retire from the throne owing to the status of the Salic law in Holland. Her son, when IS years old ant? legally of age. would probably In crowned king and assume the throne A daughter, on the other hand, wii: succeed her mother should she outllvt her. POWERS' EYES WATCH TITRKEY. AH European Nations Interested is Fate of Ottoman State. Turkey for many years has been tht bete nolr of European governments be cause her name symbolizes that endur ing bugbear of old world chancellories the eastern question. What nations are to divide the territory of Turkey in Europe should the Ottoman Empiri crumble? Is Russia to occupy Constantipole? Is the Anglo-Saxon or th Slav to be champion of occidentalism in the twentieth century? These arc three of the chief questions which, tak en together, constitute the famous neai eastern question of which so much hai been written. England and Rusäfa are the powert which chiefly stand face to face on th question. British diplomacy on thi near eastern question has been mainly aimed at checking the attempts of Rus sia to extend her empire and strength en her strategic position by absorption of part of the Turkish territory. When ever any phase of the eastern question Is opened the whole world becomes concerned. Russia Is interested because the question affects her route to tht sea and her relations with England, thf United States and the other great now ers. Austria Is concerned because tho question affects her prospects in th Balkan states. France Is concerned be cause it affects her commercial ambitions in the far East, her claims la Africa and her route to the orient. Hurt In Fire Escape Test. By the breaking of a rope fire escapeMiss Jeannette Tandy of Vevay, Ind., sophomore at Wollesley College, Wellesley, Mass., fell two stories, striking oi her back and head and suffered serious in juries. The accident happened whili Miss Tandy was fulfilling the college requirement that each student at intervals make a descent of the fire escape. Joseph W. Ilabeock Dies. Former Representative Joseph W. Babcock of Wisconsin, for fourteen years a member of the lower house of Congress and for many years chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee, died at his home Tuesday. He was 59 years old. Crap Shooters Kill Sheriff. Deputy Sheriff Mark Hoffman was killed and Constable Alexander Cargill seriously wounded while raiding a negro I cn.p game in Marshall. Texas. When the ofiicers arrived the negroes put the lights out and commenced firins. Director Con r led Dead. Heinrich Conried died at Monday morning. His end was peaceful. Mr. Conried. who was former director of the Metrox'otitan Opera House in New York and whi previous to that had managed tha (Jerman Theater, was stricken with an apoplectic stroke a few days ago in Meran. Tyrol, from which he never recovered consciousness. Headless llody Is Found. The headless body of an unidentified man, about 45 years of age, was found near the tracks of the Southern Railroad in Washington.

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IAL A A ' "V CHICAGO. While the stormy weather Interfered with transportation and outdoor work, the course of trade shows steady progress. Aside from the commercial barometer and other favorable signs of returning activity the financial statis tics furnish a healthy exhibit. April bank clearings testify to the increasing use of money. Aggregate discount are seen to Ik? well above the previous showing, and the decrease in gross deposits is largely due to withdrawals for investment and new enterprise. Conditions in agriculture from now on will enter largely into calculations for the future. v Reports show thai farm work has liecome widely extend od. and, while some fields are being plowed over, the actual acreag? is much greater than at this time last year, especially for spring wheat and corn. Manufacturing slowly, reduces the idle capacity ami another blast furnace resumed operations. Pig iron tonnages; enter more frequently into ttiircNjuartcr deliveries, while specifications for rails' and structural steel add to tb pressure at the mills. Preparations are made for a larger movement of iron ore, coal and lumber. Receipts of the raw material for factory consumption run in excess of those rejwrtod earlier this year. Heavy contracts inipeud for railway equipment, and the buying is good for structural forms, plates, wire and finished shapes.. Metal values reflect nopecial change, but there Is firmness in furnace product, hides, leather and hard woods. Wholesale merchandise markets find the demand equaling expectations, and some increase Is noted in mail orders for fall goods. Leading retail trade here and at the interior would be better with higher temperatures. Failures reported in Chicago dis trict number 25, against 32 last week, in 100S and 15 in 1 007. Those with liabilities over $5.000 number 7. against 8 last week, 9 in Rxj8 and 3 in 1907. Dun's Weekly Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Summed up. the situation may be said to be a current trade, wholesale and retail better than last year, but disappointing as a whole, while the tone for the future is still quite markedly optimistic. Reports from leading Industries are rather better than for some time past. The business doing and the reports coming from the iron and steel trades are distinctly better. Low prices have evidently brought out slumbering orders and there is talk of the bottom having been touched and a new ascent begun. In the textile trades, quiet as to the present, but optimism as to the future Is the rule. Cotton goods still lead the rest of the market, but the strength of raw wool seems to point to confidence In finished Hues. High prices are being paid in the West for the new wool clip, shearing of which Is active. The leather trades are strong, sole leather being active and hides higher. Shoe orders are below normal, but improving. Coal Is In better demand, and, the new agreement for three years in anthracite being signed, stability and peace are certain for a long period. Coke Is still weak and low In price. Lumber is Irregular, despite activity in building, and southern production is slackening. Naval stores are close to or below cost of production. Business failures in the United States for the week ending kith April 20 were 208, against 217 last week. 2S2 In this week last year. 1C3 In 1007, lo0 In 1000 and 103 In 1005. Failures in Canada for the week number 21, against 3G last week and 22 In the like week of 1908. Rradstreet's. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.50 to $7.45; tihecp, fair to choicp, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2, $1.40 to $1.43; corn. No. 2, 71c to 72c; oats, efundard, 54c to 5Cc; rye. No. 2. 84c to 8Gc; hay. timothy, $8.00 to $14.50; prairie, $8.oV to $13.50; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 2ic; eggs., fresh. 17c to 21c; potatoes, per bushrl, 95e to $1.03. St. Louis CMtle, $4.00 to $7.10; hogs, $4.00 to $7-V; nhecp, $3.00 to $0.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.4J to $1.47; corn. No. 2, 73c to 74c; oats No. 2. 54c to 55c: rye. No. 2, 81c to 83c. - Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $5.25; hogs, $4.00 to '$7.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2, $1.38 to $1.40; corn. No. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 55c: rye. No. 2, 88c to 90c. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping ateers, $4.00 to $0.75; hogs, fair to choice. $4.00 to $7.85; hhecp, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $4.75; Iambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.75. New York Cfcttle. $4.00 to $0.05; hogs, $3.50 to $7.75; sheep, $3.00 to $0.00; wheat, No. 2 red. $1.40 to $1.42; corn. No. 2, 7Sc to 79c; oats, natural while, 58c to 01c; butter, creamery, 23c to 20c; eggs, western, 17c to 22c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.30 to $1.38; corn. No. 2 mixed, 71c to 73c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 57c; rye. No. 3, 85c to 80c; lover teed, $5.85. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $0.00; hg. $4.00 to $7.35; sheep. $2.50 to $0.00: wheat. No. 2, $1.37 to $1-18: corn. No. 3. yellow, 75c to 70c; oats. No. 3 white, 50c to 57c; rye. No. 2. 8'5c to SSc. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern. $1.22 to $1.2!; corn. No. 3, OSc to 70c; oats, standard, 55c to 5ic; rye. No. 1, 87e to 8c; barley. No. 1, OSc to 70c ; pork, mess, $1(1.75.. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.40; hogs, good to choie heavy, $:?.5 to $7.50; sheep, good to choice. $2.50 to $ci.l5; wheat. No. 2. $1..T. to $1.40; corn, No. 2 white, 07c to 0Cc; oats. No. 2 white, 51c to 52c. Present prices of staples as compared with the name period of last year ro moving steadily upward. J.ecf and pork are 1- to IS per cent higher than last year, chickens retailing at fron 12 to IS cents a oun.; bans up atout 5 -ents a ieck. butter retailing ground 34 -cuts, and 2 per ceni less green vegetable than before. At Portland. Maie, the firt commercial wireless tclephon system in the world was oiened to the public, four ou )f thirty stations which are to connect Uie city with the islands in Casco Bay being in commi&iiou.