Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 38, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 June 1909 — Page 2

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ks3rd. j 10th.yVyi7th. f? 25th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All 8!iea and Conditions of Thtnr are Shown. Nothing Overlooked m make it Complete. TEN LIVES CRUSHED OUT And Forty Hurt in Crash Between Two Traction Cars. Ten persons were killed and forty injured in the wreck on the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend railroad in Porter County, Indiana, when two of the big electric cars collided head-on. According to General Manager II. U. Wallace, the wreck was due to a disobedience of orders by Motorman Geo. A. Reed, of the east-bound car, who was killed. Reed received instructions at Gary to wait at Wilson, a short distance west of Baileytown, the point at which the disaster occurred, for the west-bound car to pass. The impact of the cars was so great that they were reduced to a mass of wreckage. The Dead. GEO. A. REED, motorman, Michigan City; formerly of Villa Grove, 111. RAY F. MERRIMAN, married. South Bend. CHARLES JOHNSON, Porter, Ind. EDWARD . GILBERTSON, Porter, Ind. A. BARBER, Mishawaka, Ind. i F. T. MOORE, residence unknown. WILLIAM LEON," secretary of the Dowagiac Motor Works, Dowagiac, Mich. F. A. LAKE, President Dowagiac Motor Works, Dowagiac, Mich. II. IL HUTSON, NTiles, Mich. CHARLES SWANSTON, Porter, Ind. The east-bound car running at train No. 59, it Is stated, was going at the rute of fifty miles an hour to make up lost time. When the crash occurred the east-bound car was telescoped. In this train were all of the killed and most of the injured, passengers on train No. 58, west-bound, escaping with slight bruises and scratches. The body of Motorman Reed was terribly mutilated. One of his arms and one leg were found a dozen yards from the track and his bodywas pinioned near the top of the wreckage. Delbert E. Kinney, conductor of the east-bound car, is in a. South Bend hospital and probably will recover. The South Shore line, aß the road 13 known, has been in operation for about one year, running cars from South Bend to Chicago. Dr. Foster Is Ousted. Professor George Burman Foster, of the University of Chicago, whose denial of the divinity of Christ in a recent book has stirred Chicago Baptists to the high pitch of resentment, was dropped from the Baptist Ministers' conference of Chicago. Hisses, yells and general confusion made the meeting one of the stormiest ever held by churchmen in Chicago, and It was referred to by one preacher as resembling a political meeting in a rowdy ward. Speakers who had been howled or hissed down sat with flushed, Indignant faces while the chairman pounded for order. During the excitement motions, counter-motions, and parliamentary mixup prevailed. After four hours, however, worn out by exertions and emotions the preachers adopted the resolution dropping Prof. Foster from the conference. The conference has not the power to expel him from the church, and while such an event seemed to be desired by those present, no definite plan of action was mapped out. Diagnosed Ailment and Killed Himself Believing he was suffering unendurable pains from a disease of an artery. Dr. Justin Steer, a member of the faculty of the medical department of Washington University, killed himse?f at his home in St. Louis, Mo., with prussic acid. He left a note diagnosing his ailment. The family physician said he and several specialists had examined Dr. Steer many times and that Dr. Steer had no illness such as he thought he had. f; . f Landslide Derails a Train. The Great Northern west-bound Oriental Limited passenger train was derailed near Ural, Mont., on the Kootenai river. Thirty passengers were injured, but none killed. A landslide caused the accident. ; Deaf Organize Noise Club. A new club has been organized in Shelbyvllle, Ind., known as the "Noise" Club. It Is composed of a number of deaf mutes of that city. A club room has been rented. Dr. Cleminson Held to Grand Jury. Dr. Haldane Cleminson, of Chicago, IIL, was held to the grand Jury by a coroner's Jury at the inquest over the body of his wife, Mrs. Nora Jane Cleminson. Passenger Train Turns Over. A passenger train on the Guaymas branch of the Southern Pacific railroad Tras wrecked at Pesquern, near Hetmosillo, Mexico. Conductor A. C. Budge, of Nogales, and eighteen passengers are reported to have been seriously injured. All the coaches except the sleeper urned over. Shovels Pay Into Fire. While giving his fireman a lift on a coal train. Conductor Levi Miller, of Norristown, Pa., Ehoveled his month's wages, $38, into the firebox. tic Aicohol in Mississippi. In a decision just handed down at Jackson. Miss., the Supreme Court of that State declares that no beverage can be sold in the State that contains any percentage whatever of alcohol. This decision will stop the sale of "near beer" in Mississippi. Rob Postoffice Safe. Teggmen, after stealing a horse and buggy to reach the scene, blew open the Lakeville (Ind.) postoffice. and escaped with several hundred dollars in tamos and money. .

CHEVROLET IKS CUP IN MOTOR Güll RACE

Crowd of 35,000 Persons Cheers Victors in West's First Big Automobile Meet. SIATSON TAKES INDIANA TKOPHY Oaring Drivers Defy Curves of Death, and Machines Reach a Speed of Nearly 100 Miles an Hour. Amid plaudits from shrieking thousands, Joe Matson, a Western speed annihilator, on Friday won the Indiana Trophy stock chassis race, the first event in the West's big two-day automobile meet. He drove his 25.6 horse power Chalmers-Detroit car over 232-74 miles on the Crown Point-Lowell course in 4:31:21, or at an average speed cf SI1, miles an hour. He was sixteenth and last to start and third to cross the tape. The redoubtable George Robertson, winner cf the Vanderbilt cup race last fall, was second in the Locomobile, covering the ground in 4:39:03. In third place ran A. Monsen, in a Marion car, his time being 4:42:03. Terrific bursts of speed were made at times over the best portions of the roadway, Burman in a Buick making one lap around the 23.27-mile course in 23:41, near enough to be a mile a minute to call it such. Not a racer was 'spilled and not a car turned turtle. The pilots went around the curves discreetly instead of precipitately. They had been cautioned by their managers against being foolishly reckless and they took no more Aances than needed at treacherous spots. Chevrolet Win Cobe Cup. Out of a field of twelve speed demDn3 Louis Chevrolet Saturday won the Cobe Cup race the West's premier auto prize driving his Buick car over $93.66 miles on the Crown Point-Low-11 course, in 8:01:39, or at the rate Df 49.3 miles an hour. "Billy" Bourque, in the Knox, came second, beaten for first place by a margin of :01:03, while George Robsrtson. In his Locomobile, got third place, his time being 8:14:30. Be:ause he started tenth and was crowded closely in the final laps, Chevrolet followed Bourque over the tape. In spurts of speed nearly 100 miles an hour was reached. The following table shows the recJOE MATSON, I I . . Ml I ord of each car and order of time standing: Order. Car. Driver. 1 Buick Chevrolet 2 Knox Bourque 3 Locomobile '. Hobertson 4 Fiat Hearne 5 Stodilard -Dayton . .Engelbeck Uulck Strang (13 laps) 7 Stoddard -Dayton . .Miller (12 laps) 8 Apperson Lytle (11 laps) 9 Knox Denlson (6 laps) 10 Buick Burman (5 laps) 11 Apperson Seymour (3 laps) 12 Locomobile ..Florida, out in 1st Strang was still on course when race finished. At the conclusion of the race Chicago Auto Club officials announceJ $60,000 had been expended on the event and that they were well satisfied. No statement of receipts or deficit was given out. The first ambitious effort of the Chicago Automobile Club to present a Western automobile "classic" which might compare with the Eastern Vanderbilt cup races was a success from the automobile racing point of view. Perfect weather, a course which Is pronounced .excellent by racing authorities, and entirely sincere enthusiasm on the part of the intense persons who drove the cars combined to make the opener a hit with the lovers of rapid transit who saw the races. Estimates vary as to the attendance at the big race, as the onlookers were scattered over the 23.37 miles of the course, but the highest figures place the attendance at about 33,000. Troops stationed along the route kept the course clear. ' Three Sali marine float n Launched. Three new submarine boats of the United States navy were launched the other day at the works of the Fore River Shipbuilding Company In Quincy, Mass. The boats are the Grayling. Bonlto and Snapper. Train Robbers Kill n Man. In a battle between officers and three train robbers who held up St. Louis and Iron Mountain and Southern freight train No. 168, near Bragg, Ckla.. Deputy Constable Kirk wa3 killed. Snlrlde Pnet End Honeymoon. Albert Munro and his young bride Of a week were found dead In a room at their apartments in Williamsport, Pa., in what the police think Is a suicide pact. The police are investigating the cause of death. Ida M. Wynne I a London Bride. Ida M. Wynne, second daughter of lobert J. Wynne, the outgoing American consul general In London, was married In that city Thursday to Hugh Ronald French, a first lieutenant in the Seventh Dragoon Guard.

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TWO IOWA MEN MURDERED. Mike Maloney Confesses Crime at Kadoka, S. D. Mite Maloney, who was arrested Friday evening at Cottonwood, S. D., by Marshal Wiltfang of Kadoka, has confessed having murdered W. D. Toney and J. Goodwin of Sioux City, whose bodies were found in a well on the McNally ranch Friday morning. Maloney said he killed one man with an ax and the other with a club, and the conditions of the skulls of the murdered men bear out this statement VICTOR IN THE INDIANA TROPHY jig ' Robbery was the motive for the crime. The prisoner will be taken to Fort Pierre and placed in the county jail. Maloney registered at the hotel at Sioux City, May 28, as Mike McCann of Kansas City. He was in the employ of Toney and Goodwin, who were running a breaking outfit. The bodies of two men, J. Goodwin of Rock Valley, Iowa, and W. D. Toney of Sioux City, were found Saturday in a well on the McNally ranch, two miles north ol Kadoka. Toney and Goodwin were running a breaking outfit on the McNally ranch. They were known to have had about $900 in cash when they arrived. May 19. Ten days later Maloney came to tov n and said he had bought his employers out and taken them to Phillip the night before. He disposed of several of the horse? and lager left town with the rest ol the breaking outfit When the bodies were found Saturday the city marshal started in pursuit of Maloney and ar rested him at Cottonwood. FIRE ROUTS VETERANS. Ilnmlng; of Auditorium Force Them to Other Quarter. A cigar or cigarette carelessly tossed cway is supposed to have caused a fl.-e that destroyed the auditorium of the Monumental Building In Newark, Ohio, In which the Ohio Grand Army veterans had been holding their annual encampment. The veterans the next day met in churches and schoolhouses. $15,000 STOLEN IS SETUKNED. "Two Thieve" Ue fSfOOO to Farnlh Home and Give Back Beat. Mrs. George Sheat, of Duluthi Minn., who notified the police in Seattle that on May SO $20,000. which she had concealed under the mattress of her bed. had been stolen while she was watching a parade, has received $15,000 in a letter signed "Two Thieves." The writers say that they used $3,000 to furnish their home and have no further use for the money returned. 100,000 Lou in Factory Fire. The concrete building of the Peninsular Milled Screw Company and the factory of the Michigan Stamping Company, Bellevue avenue, near Mack avenue, Detroit, were destroyed Wed nesday by fire of unknown origin. The loss is $100.000. Lnr Y. M. C. A. Corner Stone. The corner stone of the new $4 )0,000 Y. M. C. A. building in Mexico City has been laid. Vice President Ramon Corral officiated at the ceremonies.

AN EXCITING DAY FOR INDIANA.

TRY TO ASSASSINATE A MAYOR. Attempt to Dora 1 1 o u e of Executive In Town In Oblo I Made. what is believed to have been an attempt to assassinate Mayor William R. Nlven and burn his residence in Bellefontaine, Ohio, was made the other day when a burning bottle filled with kerosene was thrown through the large plate-glass window of his house. Curtains, carpets and all furniture in the room were set on fire, but the department quickly extinguished them. The mayor was away from home at the time. Mayor Niven RACE, AT THE WHEEL OF THE ,: . . . was elected on a "dry" ticket two years ago. He is a well-known democratic politician, a member of the State committee, and last year made the race for Congress. or Chicago horsemen hope to have racing at Harlem track this summer. The betting system now used In the East may be employed. The Marshalltown Iowa Driving club which proposes to 'hold a biweekly harness racing at the local fair grounds, was organized at a meeting of horsemen. The appeal of the Kentucky "State racing commission from the judgment of the Kenton Circuit Court holding the act of the legislature creating the commission Invalid, is now in the hands of the Judges of the Court of Appeals. . According to the Western Horsemen, New York merchants and manufacturers have agents searching the Middle West for good horses for delivery work, and the agents have not been able to fill the orders, so scarce are good animals on the market. George Sutton won the world's championship title at 18.1 balkline billiards from George Slosson in New York. A five-man relay team from the Irish-American Athletic Club established a new American record for the mile at the club's annual spring games at Celtic Park, Long Island. Provided the consent of the faculty can be obtained, the University of Wisconsin base ball team will travel to Japan this summer to play a series of games with the mikado's university in Tokyo. Rowing a terrific pace designed by Coach Courtney to kill off the veteran Harvard crew In the first mile, Cornell's plucky new varsity crew won Its lntlal race on Cayuga lake, crossing the line a length and a half in front of the Crimson oarsmen. At Kansas City, Packey McFarland. of Chicago, won a ten-round bout with Harry Trendall, öf St. Louis, before the Empire Athletic Club. The bout was devoid of spectacular features, McFarland forcing the fighting most of the time and his opponent covering up.

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10,000 TO STRIKE JUNE 30.

Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to Fight "Open Shop" Order. More than 10,000 skilled workmen. members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers who are employed by the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, will quit work on the night of June 30, at which time the "open-shop" order ol the company becomes effective. Many unskilled workmen also will be affected. The decision to take thi3 acthy followed a special convention held in WINNING CASL wiv;:Vi,j, j V- : . ... MrU Pittsburg. It occasioned little surprise as at a previous meeting, held by th advisory board, resolutions were adopted strongly recommending thai the union resist the company's order In the Pittsburg district a majoritj of the mills of the American Shee and Tin Plate Company, which is subsidiary of ihe United States Stee1 Corporation, are nonunion. The com bined plants in which a strike ordei will be effective total 152 mills capac ity in the tin trade and fifty-one mills in the sheet steel trade. By States the mills are grouped as follows: Pennsylvania Greer, and Shenangt plants. New Castle (tin), 50 mills; Sharon (tin), 20 mills; Conneüsvilli (tin), 6 mills. Ohio Martins Perrj (tin), 23 mills; Bridgeport (sheet), 2k mills; Cambridge (sheet), 11 mills; Piqua and Struthers (sheet), 10 mills West Virginia Wheeling (tin), 1( mills. Indian'a Elwood, Andersot and Gas City (tin), 43 mills; Munci (sheet), 7 mills. MANY HURT IN WRECK. F.rle Train Leave Track Whllt Coins at llliih Speed. Erie passenger train No. 9, west bound, was wrecked a short distance west of Waverly, N. Y., at 2 a. m Wednesday. Every car on the train except one left the rails while the train was running at high speed. Many passengers were shaken badly and cut by flying glass, but no one, so far as Is known, was seriously hurt. 40,000 Gift Made Anoaymonaly. An anonymous gift, the value 01 which Is estimated at $40,000, was an nounced in Des Moines at the nation al convention of the United Norwe glan Lutheran Church of America The donor Is a woman. Three, Die In Boiler Blast. Three persojs are dead, one proba bly fatally injured, nine severely in jured, and three missing as the result of the explosion of a 200-ton boilei in the power plant of the Denver, Gas rtnd Electric Company, Denver, Col. Killed a rarent Are Evicted. Edward Arnold, 2 year3 old, was playing In front of the house from which deputy sheriffs were evicting his parents at Far Rockaway, N. Y.; for nonpayment of rent, when he was run over and killed by an ice wagon. Girl Strike for More Wage. The four potteries of the Sebring brothers were closed at Sebring, Ohio, by a strike of the 140 girls employed in the plants. The girls ask for an increase in wages of from $1.25 a day to $1.50.

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President, in Special Message, Ree ommends Levy Upon the Net Earnings. WOULD INVITE AH) OF STATES. Congress Advised to Seek Constitu- . tional Amendment Allowing Assessment on Incomes. Recommending legislation looking to the placing of a 2 per cent tax on the net income of corporations and also the adoption of an amendment to the constitution providing for tho imposition of an income tax without an apportionment among the several states, President Taft Wednesday sent to Congress a message embodying his views on the subject. This action followed a protracted special meeting of the cabinet. In his message the president speaks i'f the apparent inability of Congress to agree to an Inheritance tax. and as regards an income tax, he refers to 'be decision of the Supreme Court in "ho case of Pollock vs. the Farmers Loan and Trust Company, in which the court held the tax to be unconstitutional unless apportioned according to population. "It is." says the president, "undoubtedly a power which the government ought to have. It might be indispensable to the nation's life in great crises." The amendment, therefore, he declares, is the only proper course. Such an amendment to the constitution, he contended, was preferable to the one proposed of reviving a law judicially declared to be unconstitutional. The amendment which he proposes should be made to the tariff bill provides for the imposition upon all corporations and joint stock companies for profit, except national banks (otherwise taxed), savings banks and building and loan associations, of an excise tax of 2 per cent on the net income of the corporations. This, it is estimated by him, will bring an annual revenue of $25,000,000. "This i3 a tax on privilege and not on property," he says, "and is within the federal power without apportionment according to population." The president points out that another merit to the tax on corporations is the federal supervision, which will eive to the government, the stockholders and the public knowledge of the real business transactions and tho gains and profits of every corporation in the country. The adoption of the amendment, he says, will make a long step "toward that supervisory control of corporations which may prevent a further abuse of power." IWELVE IN BLACK HAND NET. Raid in Cincinnati Held Important in Ohio Crusade. In a spectacular raid made by postoffice inspectors and city detectives a patrol wagon full . of Italians was rounded up in Cincinnati Thursday night and taken before Federal Commissioner Loveland. The party arrested comprised an even dozen men, and two of that number, Vicenzo Arrigo, fruit dealer, and Frank . Spadero, saloon-keeper, were held on warrants charging them with conspiracy in connection with an alleged attempt to extort money from John Aniicon of Columbus, Ohio, by Black Hand methods. . Inspector Oldfield, who led tha raid which resulted in the arrests, said that proof had been obtained that Spadero up to three weeks ago was the local president of the Society of the Banana, since succeeded by Salvatore Lima. In the raid' a large amount of literature was captured, which the inspectors declare has an important bearing on the cases of the Black Hand suspects recently arrested at Marion, Columbus and other Ohio points. TIGHT TOR THE PENNANTS. Standing of Club In (he Principal Due Ball I-eatrnea. NATIONAL XJCACUE. W L Wa Lai Pittsburg .37 13 Pi'd'lphia ..24 24 Chicago ...35 18 St. Louis ..23 30 New York .24 22 Brooklyn ..13 33 Cincinnati .23 26 Boston ....13 33 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L W. U Detroit ...34 19 New York .24 24 Ph'dlphia .28 21 Chicago ... .23 26 Boston ....27 24 St. Louis ..20 32 Cleveland .27 24 Wash'gton .17 30 AMEBIC AN ASSOCIATION. W. L. w U Milw'kee ..33 .28 Louisville .31 30 Ind'n'polis .34 29 Kan. City .27 31 MIn'polis .32 29 Toledo ....27 32 Columbus .33 30 St. Paul ...23 31 Leave Million $15 for Danxbtrr. A dining-room table, "valued at $15," Is 'the sole bequest made to an only daught?r 'n the will of Mrs. Frances Hartley, widow of a million aire gun manufacturer in Newark, N. J. More than $1,000,000 in cash Is distributed among relatives and friends. No reason Is given for the cutting off of the daughter, Mrs. Helen K. Jenkins, of New York. Wyomlna; Wool Itecord Broken. "Wyoming this year will produce 40,000,000 pounds of wool, for which the growers will receive $8,000,000 gross, according to conservative estimates. The clips average close to eight pounds a fleece and some of the wool has sold for 23 cents a pound. rrUon for Tllack Hand" Act. Joseph Rameira, formerly of Chicago, who was found guilty in Fernie, B. C, recently of "black hand" practices, was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. Stocking- Dye Kill Wearer. Mrs. Phoebe Clayton, of Freehold, N. J., is. dead of blood poisoning caused by dye from her stocking. Mrs. Clayton was driving, and when her runabout was overturned she suffered a wound In the leg, In which the stocking was imbedded. The leg was amputated later. Fire Sweep Railroad Shop. Fire destroyed a portion of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad shops in Denison, Tex. Estimated loss,, $80,000.

BISHOP RVN OUT OF T0WÄ.

Action Against Nebraska Catholic Dignitary Follows Feud. At Ulysses, Neb., a mob Friday night drove Catholic Bishop Bonacum, of Lincoln, and two priests who accompanied him out of town and threatened them with violence. The trouble of the evening had its oilgin in the long church feud between Bishop Bonacum and the Rev. William Murphy, for several years priest in control of the parishes of Ulysses and Seward. Bishop Bonacum excommunicated Father Murphy, was sustained at Rome, and recently secured a ruling in the civil courts ousting Father Murphy from the parish property. The majority of the parishioners throughout the lon controversy have stood with the priest, the trustees at Sewarj at different times refusing to permit priests sent by the bishop to occupy the church. The storm broke when Bishop Bonacuni, accompanied by Fathers O'Brien and Kline, came to install them, respectively, at Ulysses and Seward. Father O'Brien was sent out from the hotel to rcconnoiter. He found the churrh strongly guarded and the aspect '.hrcatening. It was then decided to hold the formal ceremonies of taking possession of the church at the hotel, and this formality was begun. The mob on the outside of the hotel began making a demonstration. Threats were made to "egg" the bishop, and at the most critical moment when it seemed that violence would be done Father Murphy arrived and pleaded with the people to commit no breach of the peace and to acquit themselves as law abiding citizens. He asked the people to protect from any violence the bishop and the priests. Father O'Brien arranged for a vehicle to take them out of the village. Almost before the crowd knew what was being dene the bishop and the two priests were loaded into the livery rig and a start was made for the country on the road to David City. The conveyance started away at a lively pace, and it was some time before a.n automobile carry representatives of Father Murphy's flock went in pursuit, The story told by the liveryman, who returned soon after without his passengers, was that he was overtaken on the road and his passengers were or. dered to get out and walk. This they did, and then the liveryman was ordered to turn about and drive to Uly es without loss of time. It was late at night that Bishop Bonacum and the priests went to a farmhouse for protection and engaged a farmer to take them to David City. EXPORT DECREASE $200.000,000. Shipments in 1909 Fall Below Those of Three Previous Years. A statement issued by the bureau of statistics in Washington, D. C, says that ''it is now apparent that the export? Irom the United States in the fiscal year, which ends with the present month, will fall materially below those of 1908 and 1907, and slightly below those of 1906." From statistics compiled by the bureau the total value, of domestic merchandise exported in 1908 was $1,S33,000,000; in 1907, $1,S54,000,0G0, and in 190Ö, $1,718,000,000. The bureau estimates that the domestic exports for the full fiscal year 1909 will be nearly $200,000,000 below the average of 1908 and 1908 and perhaps $30,000,000., below those of 1906. The cause of this marked decline in the export trade of tha United States are ascribed as "practically those which have produced similar conditions in other parts of the world a reduction in the general demand for merchandise and a material reduction in the prices cf certain of the mere important articles exported." BODY FOUND IN TRUNK. Victim Believed to Be Elsie SlgeL Granddaughter of General Siel. The body of a young and pretty woman, strangled to death and thea wedged Into a small stealer trunk, was found by the police on the top floor of a four-story brick building at 782 Sth avenue, New York. Two Chinamen who disappeared si: denly about the time the woman came to her death are being sought by the police, who are also endeavoring to ferret out the significance attending the mystery in the disappearance of Elsie Sigel, of 209 Wadsworth avenue, a granddaughter of the late General Franz Sigel, of Civil War fame, who has been missing from New York for a fortnight. Around the dead girl's neck was found a gold plated clasp pin bearing the letters "E. C. S." The father of Miss Sigel, who is an inspector in the health department, could not identify the trinket as that of his girl. Her mother identified ii later. CHINA PACKS DOWN ON BIO LOAN American Protent at Deine Darrvd front Participation Effective. Acting on representations made by Henry P. Fletcher, charge d'affaires of the American legation in Fekin, China has agreed not to ratify tho foreign loan of $27,500.000 from British, German and French tankers for the construction of the Hankow-Sze-chuen railroad. ' It Is expected that this refusal, coupled with the representations made by the American ambassadors In London, Paris and Berlin, wil result in arrangements being üade in Europe for American participation in the loan. , Arrnard of Marder la Fined. Mrs. Emma Kaufmann, wife of a Sioux Fall3 brewer, accused of the murder of Agnes Polreis, a domestic, was found guilty of battery in Flandreau, S. D., and was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or to serve fifty days in Jail. The fine was paid immediately. Fire Make 00 Idle. A loss of $500,000 was caused by fire to the Great West Saddlery Company in Winnipeg, owned principally by E. F. Hutchings. Six hundred men are thrown out of employment. Iloy Admit KlUlna- Pour. Dan Tso Ac, a 17-year-old Navajo Indian boy, pleaded guilty in the Ur.ited States District Court in Salt Lake City to the charge of murdering his aunt, uncle, sister and cousin. He was sentenced to serve ten years in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. : ; 1 Fall Dead la Hotel Lobby George W. Hull, 58 years oil, ence campaign manager of the late Senator Calvin S. Brice of Ohio, died suddenly from apoplexy. In the lobby of the St. Charles Hotel, Toledo, Ohio.

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The message of President- Taft recommending the incorporation in the tariff bill of a tax on corporation earnings was read in the Senate Wednesday and referred to the committee oa finance after Senator Goie had made an ineffectual effort to order the committee to rtport next Friday. The finiJice committee's recommeudat'ons regarding the admission of Philippineproducts was adopted. Senator Altrich presented the committee's substitute for the House zinc schedule and after several long speeches this also was adopted. The silk schedule as reported Tuesday was agreed to. Mr. Aldrich said It made the rates slightly above, the existing law. The House was not , in session. The Senate spent the greater part cf tha day' Thursday in the discussing of Senator Aldrich's amendment Increas Ing the duty on print paper from onetenth to two-tenths of a cent per pound. Senator Brown of Nebraska in opposing the increase asserted that even under the present tariff the American mills had a big advantage over those of Canada, and declared that the cost of production of the Dominiou was greater ihan in the United Ststes. This statement was denied by Senators Aldrich and Hale. Tho duty a illustrated post cards was raised 325 per cent to shut out German competition. The Senate schedule on window glass was adopted fixing a lower duty than under the Dingley law or that provided in the House bill. After a wrangle of nearly an hour the Democrats in the House failed to obtain the passage of a resolution calling upon the State Department for the transmission to the House of reports on foreign waes and cost of production in foreign countries, except Germany. Representative Hull of Tennessee, author of the resolution, made the point of no quorum. The House then adjourned, after a roll call, until Monday. The President's special message on corporation and income taxes was read at the beginning of the session. The Senate Friday adopted, by a vote of 44 to 32, the finance committee's amendment placing a duty of (4 a ton on print paper instead of $2, aß provided in the House, bill. Senator Brown's amendment for free print pamper was voted down, 52 to 29, Senator Lorimer, who had just been swern in. casting his first' vote against- the amendment Shortly before adjournment Senator Bailey's income tax amendment became a regular order of business, and an agreement waff sought for the disposition of that measure. Senator Aldrich state.l that he was willing to take up the amendment and dispose of It when the schedules are completed. Senator Bailey sought unanimous agreement by which the Senate would take a direct vote on the passage of his amendment, excluding any motion to refer it to a committee. This was not agreed to, and at the established hour, 7 o'clock, the Senate adjourned. The House was not In session. -: :- The Senate Saturday covered a multitude of subjects In connection with the tariff, but made final disposition of nothing of importance. Beginning at 10 o'clock the Incomr and corporation tax questions received attention for some time and ultimately were postpojed, with the understanding that they should not be taken up again until after the tariff provisions proper should be finally settled. Senator Aldrich brought in the committee amendment to the wood pulp paragraph, which proved to be a provision for doubling the duty on wood pulp coming from countries which undertake to prohibit the exportation of logs to this country. Senator Beveridge presented an amendment for the cutting in two of the 'nouse ad valorem duty on cash registers. Mr. Aldrich also prr-scnted the finance committee's provision fo a duty on hides. All these measures were brought to the attention of the Senate, but so far as action was concerned were left at the close of the day where they stood at th beginning. The House was not In session. NUBBINS OF NEWS. A big snow slide is reported In Abercrombie canyon on the Copper River in Alaska and two men were buried by the slide. The famous Holbein portrait of Christina of Denmark, which has been in the national gallery in London for twenty-eight years, has been sold for $330.000. Charles Miller, is ho worked as a waiter in the old Ast or House in New York at $34 a month, has resigned and is going for a trip to Europe. He has accumulated a fortune of $200,000. Edgar Serber, 16 jcars old, wai called from his home In Nashville, Tenn., and shot and killed by Jesse McPherson, 15 years old, who later admitted that he was settling an eld grudge. George Baglin, vice president of th United Copper Company and aid of F. Augustus Heinze, was sent to the Tombs prison in New York for failing to produce the company's books in court. James J. Hill at Seattle said that James A. Tatten did not cause a corner in wheat. It was the law of supply and demand that caused the Surry, he said, as this country now consumes 630,000,000 bushels a year, leaving only 20,000.000 for export Engineer Flannigan of a New York Central train saw a little child sitting between the tracks near Medina. N. Y. He put on the emergency brake. The train came to a stop ten feet from the child, but so great was the strain that four cars were wrecked. Harry Heath of Unionville, Mout, mourned as dead since last November, is alive and well in Caspar, Wyo., after having been for some time at a sanitarium in Minneapolis, Minn., according to dispatches from Helena, Mont., where the missing man's brother has just arrived. The life of unmarried Americans in the Philippines Is lonely, it seems. A touching appeal from George P. Grey, dated Malabaug, Mindanao, P. I., has been printed in a New Haven (Conn.) paper. Grey says he and other young Americans are in every way able t6 care for wives, yet are pining without them. He asks aid from "the folks at home." Maj. Albert E. H. Johnson, one of the oldest practicing patent attorneys in the United States, died in Washington, D. C, in his S3d year, following a stroke of apoplexy In his office.