Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 July 1909 — Page 2

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3rd. 10th. 17 th. y 25th. PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many Disaster to Wellman. The steamer Arctic, of Walter Wellman's north pole expedition, has returned to Tromsoe, Norway, from Spitzbergen with her flags at half mast, brings the news that Knud Johnson, one of the two men who remained at the Wellman camp this winter, had perished in the pack ice and that the airship shed had been destroyed by a heavy storm. Wellman and Vanignian say that the destruction of the airship 'house means a delay of four or five weeks and they are uncertain whether or not it will be practicable to finish the new house in time to make tfcv1 voyage northward thi3 summer, but they are determin.d to make the best possible fight against the ill-luck which seems to have pursued the expedition. Wellman and .Vaniman say the- will continue their efforts as long as it is necessary to attain success. Friend of Dumb Brutes Murdered. George F. Guernsey, of Memphis, Tenn., humane officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is dead, and Charles W. Siler, foreman of a construction company, Is held on a charge of murder as an outcone- of a visit of Guernsey and an assistant to the camp and seizing several animals not fit to be worked. According to a statement Siler overtook them while en route back to Memphis with several disabled niules and demanded that the animals be released. An argument followed, he declares, which terminated in Silei firing on Guernsey. The- Pittsburg Strike Settled. The street railway strike, which cost tfce city of Pitssburg, Pa., over $200,OCO ia two days, wa3 officially declared to be at an end. In the private offices of Mayor William A. Magee articles vine signed by officials of the Pittslur Railways Company and the executive committee from the Amalgamated Assoiation of Street and Electric Railway Employes, which will for years to come prevent another tie up of the 400 miles of street railway tracks in and about Greater Pittsburg and Allegheny County. Company and Crew Held for Wreck. In his verdict on the South Shore :wreck near Chesterton, Ind., which has just been filed. Coroner J. C. Tierson, of Porter County, will hold the railway company and the east-bound crew responsible for the wreck. The verdict will state that the company was at fault In that the conductor and motorman were not familiar with the line and should not have been placed on a fast run. The crew, Delbert ' Kinney and George Reed, will be charged with disobeying orders. Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Is Deposed. On charges that he had been guilty of conduct unbecoming a minister of the Gospel in that he had been unduly familiar with certain women whose names were not made public, the Rv. Wm. F. Hunt, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Elizabethtown, Ind., was deposed from the office of minister of the Presbyterian church at a meeting of the Indianapolis Presbytery at the Second Presbyterian church. Dug His Crave, Then Killed Himself. Joseph II. Hamilton, a farmer living east of Salem, Ind.. committed suicide by shooting himself thri0h the heart .with a shot gun. iie seated himself pn a stump near the spring house and adjusted his gun and tripped the trigger with hi3 toe. It has been learned Blnce his death that he had dug hi3 own grave in the family burying grounds. Bishop Cotter, of Winona, Dead. The Right Rev. Joseph B. Cotter, sixty-five, head of the Cathplic diocese of Winona, Minn., died at his home in Winona. In the early '80s he was for several yeare president of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of AmericaFear Causes Girl's Death. The 7-year-old' daughter of J. D. Thorne, of Onarga, 111., became paralyzed with fear when she saw a fast train on the Illinois Central approaching. She held her hands in the air and permitted the engine to kill her, although she had time to escape. Samuel Gompers Arrive in London. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor has ax Jived in London. Former Preacher Sentenced. Clyde Gow, a former Methodist preacher, was sentenced to serve four years in the penitentiary at Mexico, Mo. A jury had found his guilty of being an accessory in the death "of Mis3 Elizabeth Gleason, of Elsberry, about a year ago. Falls Under Freight Train. James Monahan, an orphan boy aged 16 years, fell in running In front'of a C. P. railroad freight train an Mingo Junction, near Steubenville, Ohio, and wa3 run over and killed. Noted Baptist Dead. Rev. J. J. Porter, one of the mcst widely known Baptist ministers In the United States; died at Winhe,ter, Ky., where he was pastor of the First Street Baptist church. He came to Winchester from Joplin, Mo. Girl Bather Drowr.s. Getting beyond her depth and being unable to swim, Misn Ethel Davis, 20 years of age, of New Kensington, Pa., a visitor in Steubenville, Ohio, was drowned while bathing in the Ohio river at a camp north of Steubenville.

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IN ifflf . SAf S LEITER Supposed .Murderer Dies ia Fight with Posse or By His Own Hand. WOMAN IS BLAMED FOE CRIME Roberts, or Eastman, Declares Gage's Protege Was Struck Over Head with Wine Bottle. Sensation after sensation has developed in the mysterious murder of Mrs. Edith May Thompson Woodill, protege of Lyman J. Gage, at St. Michaels, Md. The first was the death of Emmet E. Roberts or Robert E. Eastman, the supposed slayer, who was followed by a sheriff's posse on the Back creek at 1 o'clock Friday morning, and killed in a fusillade of bulle'.s. Roberts died either by his own hand or the shots of the posse. In his pockets was found a letter addressed to Miss Vinnie Braxcome, care Klaw & Erlanger, New York, in which the writer asks the girl to come to Maryland to take charge of his body and property, as he intended to commit suicide. Roberts added that he had been out In a boat with four other people, two men and two women, that all had been drunk except himself and one girl; that one of the women struck another over the head with a wine bottle and had killed her. 31 r. Wood 111 Cventful Career. Some facts of the meteoric career of Mr3. Woodill, in whose brief life, love and romance played such a great part, have been related by an Intimate friend of the slain woman who said they were told by Mrs. Woodill herself. Mrs. Woodill said she was born in Minneapolis about twenty years ago. Her mother, who called herself Mrt-. Ames, died when she was about 3 years old, leaving her In utter ignorance of her parentage or forbears. Mrs. Charles II. Thompson, of McDaniel, Md., then took her and brought her up, telling her that she (Mrs. Thompson) was her mother's intimate friend, but never disclosing to her the name of her father. When she wes about 12 years of age, they went to Washington, where they lived for som time in the house of Lyman J. Gage, who took a great interest in her. When she was about 15 he sent her, with Mrs. Thompson, to Paris, where she studied music, Mr. Gage paying all expenses. On her return from Paris she went to Boston to complete her studies, and while in Boston she wa3 married to a Mr. Ci3well, who was an osteopath. Whr-x she wa3 about 17, she went to Baltimore to continue her studies at the Peabody conservatory, leaving her husband. She was known as Miss Edith Thompson, concealing her marriage from all but a few intimate friends. In a very short time thereafter she entered suit against Dr. Caswell for a divorce. She left Baltimore Easter time a year ago, being engaged at the time to Harry Adams of Mount Vernon, N. Y. After a brief stay In New York she went to California, where in less than thirty days after her divorce from Dr. Caswell she married Gilbert Woodill, of Los Angeles. During her residence ia Baltimore Mr. Gage sent her check3 continually, some of them amounting to $1,500, and when sho was married to Mr. Woodill he gave her $3,000. At the time of her death Mr. Gage was also building her a house in Los Angeles, with the understanding that he was to come and live with her and her husband. Story of the 31 order. A few weeks ago Mrs. Woodill left her home in California to visit at the home of Capt. Thompson. She was often seen in company with Roberts, who took her for launch rides on the river. On Saturday, June 19, Robert3 told Capt. Thompson that Mrs. Woodill had gone to Baltimore and would be back in a few days. Suspecting, that something was wrong, Capt. Thompson gave voice to his belief that the woman had met with foul play. Roberts heard of this and disappeared. A search was made for Mrs. Woodill's body and it was found in Back river, the skull crushed and the corpse weighted with an iron post. A search of Roberts' bungalow revealed a bloody bedroom, but everything indicated that the young woman had been killed outside and the body dragged into the room. Where and under what circumstances Eastman and Mrs. Woodill met is not known, but both are said to have been immediately attracted to each other. The alleged slayer of Mrs. Woodill was "Lame Bob" Eastman, a Wall street broker, who failed in New York last July with liabilities of from $150,000 to $200,000. He was a broker on the Consolidated Exchange. Eastman left the city and was arrested in Chicago on complaints made by person3 who had lost money through his operations. At that time he said: "There was never a more complete failure than myself. Wall street never witnessed a more complete ruin." BOY IN BLUE BACK AGAIN. Armr Do Array with Ilronn Canva FatlRue Uniform. The War Department in Washington intends to save $192,800 in the next three years and a proportionate süm yearly thereafter by changing the cloth of the fatigue uniform or working clothes of the enlisted men of the United States army from brown canvas to blue denim. The latter material has been found in every way as satisfactory as the former and th c st is about one-fourth less. American llronn In Irlnta Lake. A large rowboat carrying five Americans and four English tourists and four Irish boatmen was swamped in a gale while crossing Lower Killarnej lake, Ireland. All of the tourists and two of the boatmen were drowned. Shoot fit Darn Kill Mun. To test a twenty-two caliber rifle, a farm hand fired it at the side of a barn near Aberdeen, S. D. William Douglas, aged 30, formerly of Detroit, who was in the barn, was struck and tied as he staggered into the yard.

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Police Description of Chinese Wanted lor the Killing of Elsie Sigel, the New York Missionary, and Chum Who Told the Story.

I j ;.f rjr LOW "TO. PATENT THE TOP LEON MRS. GOULD WINS HER CA2Z. Granted Divorce and $36,000 a Year Alimony. Mrs. Howard Gould won a sweeping victory in her separation suit against her millionaire husband in New York when Justice Victor J. Dowling from the bench granted her a legal separation and alimony at the rate of $36,000 a year, practically $100 a day. In voicing his decision Justice Dowling gave Mrs. Gould a clean bill so far a3 intoxication is concerned. He said that no proof of excessive drinking had been introduced by Howard Gould's lawyers. The court intimated that Mrs. Gould under all the circumstances had been indiscreet In her meetings with Dustin Farnum, the actor, even though there were business relations behind them. The decision of the court was that Howard Gould's abandonment so far as concerned the proof offered, was not only without justification in any degree, but without provocation. The only question which puzzled the justice wa3 the amount of the alimony. He declared that the case was without precedent so far as he knew, the husband's admitted Income being in excess of $750,000 a year. The fact that Mrs. Gould had acquired $57,000 worth of jewelry at her husband's expense since the actual separation was taken Into consideration by Justice Dowling. He told Howard Gould that if his wife returned to the stage, an event that he did not think likely, Gould could reopen the case with an application to have the alimony decreased. FIGHT FOR THE PENNANTS. Standing of Club In the Principal Daae Dall Leavnes. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Pittsburg .42 14 Philadel'a .23 30 Chicago ...37 21 St. Louis ..24 34 New York. 31 22 Brooklyn ..20 3G Cincinnati .31 28 Boston ....15 40 AMERICAN LLAGUE. W. L. W. L. Detroit ...41 20 Chicago 26 30 Philadel'a .33 24 New York .26 30 Boston 34 25 Wash'gton .20 36 Cleveland .31 27 St. Louis ..L') 39 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. W. L. Mllw'kee ..37 31 Columbus .34 35 Ind'n'polii .37 33 Kan. City .31 33 Minn'polis .36 32 St. Paul .. .29 32 Louisville .34 34 Toledo 29 37 Loot BnnU Under IMntol Fire. In a fight to capture the burglars who blew the safe and obtained $3,500 in money of the Citizens Bank In Locke, N. Y., State Senator C. J. Hewett, president of the bank, exchanged about a dozen shots with the robbers, but they escaped unhurt. 1.1ft Fall One Killed, Seven Hart. One man was killed and seven others were injured in the fall of an elevator from the seventh story of the Murdock Building In Cincinnati. Directly the lift dropped to the ground floor the pulley beam became unloosened and crashed down upon the car. Mnnkcd .Men Lynch ero. Fifteen masked men took Albert Reese, a negro, from jail in Cuthbert, Ca., and hanged him. Reese attacked Miss Mary Tauiton with an ax, chopping off one of her arms. Tired Worker Commit Suicide. Frank M. Campbell, manager of the Philadelphia branch of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company of Pittsburg, while on his way for a rest, shot and killed himself in Van Wert, Ohio. Two Shot Hunting Desperado. John Crutchfield and James Price, members of a sheriff's posse in pursuit of a desperado near Claremore, Okla., opened fire on each other, mistaking one another for the outlaw. Crutchfield is dying and Price is seriously wounded.

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5 FT. 4- IKS. e- 3LZCK If MIR -eC7T xu(c a J ijj SIrJfTZ. T 2ZOC77CD Fiji?, . "WFJICjHT 125 SLACK 2 LOTHE? TAPtllOjC. CjOLD HUXTIXd MOYEMEJCT.. HAY HAVE, mokocjUtim cat -w.L.L.: satte; riKcJE, OF LEPI HÄKD. DEATH OF SARAH OHNE JE WITT "Vell-K norm Xovellat Pae Away In Mnlne nt the Aire of SO. Sarah Orne Jewett, the well-known novelist, died in South Berwick, Me., ThurJay night after a long Illness from apoplexy and paralysis. She was 59 years old. She died in the house in which she was born, which has been in the possession of the Jewett family since 1740. It is a fine old colonial mansion and has welcomed within its doors many of the literary celebrities of this country and Europe. Miss Jewett's first novel, "Deephaven," was published in 1877. After tbit she brought out about a dozen successful stories, the last one, "The Try Lover," appearing In 1901. 71 W , 1 11 yßJlJ iJ- ) An effort is being made to secure Pure Food Commissioner Ladd, of North Dakota, for a federal position. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, the wealthy New York society woman, has. returned from England a convinced advocate of woman suffrage. The "Thraldom of Names" is the title of the editorial preachment which the Outlook offers from the pen of former President Roosevelt. It is in substance a warning against the extremes of both socialism and an uncontrolled individualism. Upon the threat of the Single Tax League to hold as formerly a public meeting in the Philadelphia City Hall plaza, the Department of Public Safety hastily revised its previous order against such meetings. The meeting of the Single Taxers was not Interfered with, for fear of having the order construed by the courts. Prior to his sailing for Europe President Gompers gave to the press a formal interview or message to the American public on behalf of organized labor. He said he would carry with him the ideal of a world-wide movement on the part of the workers to get their rights. The cause for which he stood, he said, demanded a reconstruction upon the foundation of common humanity, common justice and common liberty of our institutions. The time was past when "Van Cleave can Intimidate unionism." They would demand a solid "square deal." and would get it by force of organization and by international fraternity." Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota, has engaged to deliver forty lectures in various Eastern cities at $200 each. Former Representative Tom Marshall, of North Dakota) is expected to announce his candidacy for p. J. McCumber's place in the United States Senate shortly. Mail carriers In cities who rode on street cars at reduced rates, and policemen and firemen who rode free before the pasasge of Minnesota's iron-clad anti-pas law, are planning the defeat of a number of State Senators. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. tho woman suffrage leader, now declares that the women cf New York State must change their tactics. They will not again petition the State Legislature to submit a suffrage amendment to tho people, but will organize speakers all over the State and oppose all candidates for the Legislature who will not pledge themselves for the suffrage. Robert J. Wynee has resigned as consul general to London, and John L. Griffiths, of Buffalo, N. Y., has been appointed to succeed him.

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BOMB EXPLOSION IN CHICAGO. Seven Persons Are Injured and Damage Aggregating $150,000 Done. With an explosion which wrecked the rear of the Chicago Title and Trust Building. 100 Washington street and damaged every structure in the block bounded by Washington, Clark, Madison and Dearborn streets, and the Boston store, the series of gambling bomb outrages in Chicago Sunday night reached its climax. Seven persons were injured and a loss of $150.00 was caused. In the series it was bomb 31. In destructiveness it exceeded the loss of all the other outrages combined. The explosion, which occurred at 11:20 p. m., resounded like a thunderclap and was heard all over the downtown district. The nearby streets were filled with pedestrians, who were showered with the glass which came pouring down from windows for blocks around. Many were hurled to the ground by the force of

the blast. The dynamite, which the police offi cials are convinced was the explosive used, evidently was placed in the alley at 111 Madison street. The room used by Mont Tennes, "king of gamblers," as the base of operation from which all his syndicate business was conducted and as his clearing house, was on the second floor just above the place where the fuse hau been set off. At the opposite side of the alley is the Title and Trust Building, which houses the Central and Randolph exchanges of the Chicago Telephone Company. The full force of the blast struck the manhole of the main cable vaults leading to the exchanges, and twelve of the cables, each containing hundreds of subscribers' wires, were snapped apart like thread. Thousands of telephones in the loop district were put out of service. The wreck and ruin wrought by the explosion were terrific. Heavy steel gates at the rear of the Title and Trust Building were twisted as if made of straw. A heavy sheet iron ventilator pipe five feet in' diameter, leading from the kitchen of Thompson's restaurant, was crushed like an eggshell. Many large plate glass windows on the west side of the Boston store facing in Dearborn street were blown out, while within straw hats on their frames were undisturbed. Assistant Chief Schuettler laid the outrage to labor troubles. TUCKEES AGREE TO DIVORCE. Wife to Get $20,000 Property and Charge Colonel with Desertion. An agreement in the domestic difficulties of Mis. Mary Elizabeth Logan Tucker, daughter of the late General John A. Logan, and Colonel William F. Tucker, U. S. A., retired delayed, it Is said, because of differences regarding the amount of money Mrs. Tucker was to receive in lieu of all alimony has been reached, which will result in the latter applying for divorce on the ground of desertion. When Colonel Tucker learned that the name of Mrs. Myrtle Piatt had been dragged into the case, it is understood, he let it become known that If any further charges were made against him he would retaliate. Fearing that these charges and threatened counter charges would result in a bitter court struggle and notoriety, it is said, Mrs. John A. Logan brought sufficient pressure to- bear to bring about an amicable settlement. Under the terms of the agreement, according to friends of the Tuckers, Mrs. Tucker will receive property valued in excess of $20,000. JURY CONVICTS A. P. HEINZE. Brother of Copper King Found Guilty of Impeding- Justice. Arthur P. Heinze was found guilty In New York of Impeding justice by inducing a clerk in the employ of F. Augustus Heinze's $SO,000.000 United Copper Company to evade a subpoena issued by the United States grand jury investigating the actions of F. Augustus Heinze as president of the Mercantile National Bank of New York. The penalty for the offense is $000 fine or three months in jail, or both. Sentence was suspended until the October term of court on the promise ol the prisoner that he would do all in his power to produce for the grand Jury the books of the United Copper Company which he admitted he had caused to be removed from the offlct of the company at No. 74 Broadway. He began that task by going before the grand jury and telling where he sent the bo ks and all he knows of their whereabouts and the mutilation of them. $250,000 PITTSBURG FIRE. Pollee Hont Incendiaries Hotel tianti In Panic. A quarter million dollar fire occurred in Pittsburg Monday night, but in a district which caused fear for a time that twenty timo3 that amount would be lost. The Arrott Power Building on Penn avenue in the heart of the downtown district was burned out. and about twenty firms which had offices ttere are homeless. The fire caused a janlc at the Colonial Annex Hotel, adjoining the fire on the rear, and hundreds of guests who had retired early hurried out In their night clothing. There is a rumor that the fire was of incendiary origin. ;feat KIII Twelve In Xeur York. The hot wave which inflicted torture on the east side of New York Tuesday was blamed for at least twelve deaths and more than a score of prostrations. Ilnrned hy finnollne Iilant. Mrs. C. M. Robinson of Detroit, Mich., was probably fatally burned in Norfolk, Va., as the result of the explosion of gasoline with which she was cleaning a dress at the Merrimac apartments, where she was a guest of her sister, Mrs. A. B. Eisman. Killed mid Hurt in Panic. Dispatches tell of an explosion and disastrous fire in a moving picture hall in r.elagu'.T. Spain, in which at least twelve p?n?cr.3 perished and fifty wero injured. . Kldnnper of Girl Kill Two. After forcibly bearing off a 15-year-old girl, and shcoting down Henry Brown, who tried to rescue her, Gilbert Wilson returned to Opelousas, La., and killed Sophia Jackson. He then committed suicide. All are negroes. Ilor and Farmer Drown In River. John Abshire, aged 12, and George Cole, aged 35, a farmer, were drowned in the Ohio River" at Portsmouth, Ohio. Abshire got beyond his depth while swimming and Cole attempted to rescue him.

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CHICAGO. The bank statements show the aggregate resources nearer the '$1.000,000,000 mark than at any time hitherto, and the otherwise favorable condition of the principal items reflecting financial strength testify to distinct progress in business generally. The first half of the year is now virtually completed. A comparison with the same period of last year discloses gains in payments through the banks equal to 19 per cent, in bank resources 12 per cent, in deposits 12.5 per cent, in loans 13 per cent, in value cf new buildings 77 per cent and in value of business improvements 214 per cent. Commercial failures are also notably reduced in numbers, and in liabilities the amount is 33 per cent under 190S and 52 per cent under 190G. "All the comparisons with the great business year of 190G exhibit more substantial gains except discounts at the banks, which appreciated 12.2 per cent. The more recent comparison also includes recovery in values of various commodities and remarkably high quotations in breadstuffs, live stock and provisions. "The current developments continue along the line or sustained recovery. The warm wave stimulated leading retail lines to seasonable activity, sales comparing favorably with previous records in light-weight apparel, food products and housewares. Advices from the interior reflect a gratifying reduction of store stocks and some moderate replenishment. Wholesale bookings for fall deliveries continue rising in dry goods, footwear, clothing, men's furnishings, carpets and draperies. Earnings of the Chicago steam roads indicate sustained improvement in the movements of heavy materials. Bank clearings, $250,960,473, exceed those of the corresponding week in 1008 by 20.G per cent and compare with $237,547,909 in 1907. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 19, against 26 last week, 32 in 1908 and 20 in 1907. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number 7, against 9 last week, 9 in 1908 and 5 in 1907. Dun's Weekly Review of Trade. NEW YORK. 0 Improvement is more manifest this week, the mainspring of thisbeing better weather and crop reports and further expansion in the volume of industrial operations. Retail reports are still rather irregular, excessive heat being credited with retarding dis tribution in some sections, but, on the whole, sales of summer goods have been benefited by more seasonable temperatures. Jobbing trade reports are slightly better, pointing to an improvement in re-order demand, but by far the best reports a3 to distributive trade still come from wholesale lines, which represent crop reports stimulating the placing of business for next fall and spring delivery. The industries led by Iron and steel show expansion of operation, larger output, some wage advances, and more confidence is expressed than at any preceding time since the depression began. The situation in leather trades is one of great strength. Business failures in the United States for the week ending with June 24 were 225, against 213 last week, 25S in the like week of 1908, 150 In 1907, 146 in 1906 and 186 in 1905. Business failures in Canada for the week number 30, which compares with 25 last week and 31 in the like week of 190S. Bradstreet's. Chicago Cattle, common to , prime, $4.00 to $7.33; hogs, prime heavy,, $4.50 to $7.S5;; sheep, fair to choice, $4.25 to $6.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.45 to $1.50; corn, No. 2, 72c to 74c; oats, standard, 56c to 57c; rye. No. 2.. S6c to SSc; hay, timothy, $8.00 to $15.00; prairie, $8.00 to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 25c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 20c; potatoes, new, per bushel, COc to 90c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $S.00; sheep, good to choice, $2.50 to $6.15; wheat, No. 2, $1.40 to $1.50; corn, No. 2 white, 75c to 76c; oats, No. 2 white, 54c to 55c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $7.15; hogs, $4.00 to $7.90; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.49 to $1.50; corn, No. 2, 71c to 73c; oats. No. 2, 52c to 53c; rye. No. 2, 84c to SGc. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.46 to $1.47; corn, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 75c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 56c to 5Sc; rye, No. 2, S9c to 90c: clover seed, $6.40. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $6.25; hogs. $4.00 to $8.10; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, $1.48 to $1.50; corn, No. 2 mixed, 76c to 77c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 57c to 59c; rye. No. 2", 90c to 92c. New York Cattle. $4.00 to $6.65; hogs, $3.50 .to $8.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.46 to $1.47; corn. No. 2, 79c to 80c; oats, natural white, 59c to 62c; butter, creamery, 22c to 2Cc; eggs, western, 17c to 22c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $6.35; hog3, $4.00 to $8.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.41 to $1.43; corn, No. 3 yellow, 76c to 77c; oats, No. 3 white, 59c to COc; rye, No. 2, 91c to 92c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.30 to $1.32; corn, No. 3, C5c to 67c;' oats, standard, 52c to 53c; rye, No. 1, S5c to SGc; barley,, standard, 73c to 77c; pork, mess, $19.25. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.15; hogs, fair to choice. $4.00 to $8.n."i; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $4.73; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $9.00. According to crop reports in the Federal Department of Agriculture, the condition of rye on June 1 wasS9.6, against 8S.1 on May 1, 1909; 91.3 on June 1, 1908; S8.1 on June 1, 1907, and S9.4 the June average of the past ten years. The area sown to oats is about 32,422,000 acres or 78,000 acres (.2 per cent) more than the area sown last year. The condition of the crop June 1 was 88.7, as compared with 92.9 on June 1, 1908; 81.6 on June 1, 1907, and 88.4, the June average for the past ten years.

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Terrible Disaster at Wehrum, Pa., Fire Sweeping Entire Coal Kine. A terrific explosion occurred at S o'clock Wednesday morning in the mine of the Lackawanna Coal and Coke Company, located at Wehrum, Pa., about seventy-five miles northeast of Pittsburg. Between 100 and 150 men are known to have entered the mine shortly before the catastrophe happened, and at 10 o'clock, when only a few of them had reached the surface, the greatest fears were expressed that many of those in the pit ha-d perished. ' The few men who escaped from the mine were burned and blackened, indicating that the force of the explosion was heavy. None of them were in condition to give details, but from one it was learned that the explosion seemed to strike every portion of the mine simultaneously. Three men, seriously burned, who succeeded In reaching the surface are: Al Johnson, son of Superintendent Johnson of the mine; Patrick Burns and William Burns. When Johnson and the Burns brothers succeeded in escaping from the pit they stated brokenly, while suffering the greatest agony from burns, that the explosion was a bad one. It appeared to them that- the explosion had taken place throughout the entire mine and that every one at work underground, for a moment or two, seemed to be paralyzed. With the explosion there seemed to be a Sash and then all was darkness. Pitiful calls for help and groans were heard by the three men as they made their way to the entrance, staggering and falling over the bodies of comrades who had succumbed with the Brst shock. As soon as it was known that an accident had occurred at the mine, the greatest excitement prevailed both at the mine and in the little hamlet, i short distance away. Wives, moth3rs, sisters and brothers rushed to the mouth of the mine tearfully begging for news as to the fate of their loved snes. A number of the foreign wornsn, screaming and crying, tried to rush into the dark pit of death. Superintendent W. N. Johnson of the mine, wljen questioned, said: "I do not want any exaggeration of reports published as to the facts, which in themselves will be bad enough. The explosion from some unknown cause seems to have been worst in a portion of the mine that we recently opened up. We think the. death list will be a long one and the list of those Injured much larger. Owing to the ex:itement prevailing, we have been unable to get details, but we are doing out best." ROYAL SPANISH PEINCESS BORN Consort of Hing Alfonso Gives Birth to a Daughter. Queen Victoria of Spain gave birth o a daughter at 6:25 a. m. Tuesday. The booming of fifteen gun3 announced :he birth of a girl and the rejoicing .hereafter was general. Half an hour ater the king, accompanied by the mis:ress of the robes, his face beaming with joy at the happy deliverance of :he queen and the fulfillment of their Vish for a daughter, proudly presented .he infant to the dignitaries assembled in the antechamber.- As the baby nestled in the basket which was richly idorned with exquisite lace. It was seen that she was a blonde and healtty in appearance, although smallr than her brothers. The first two mildren are boys, Prince Alfonso, born May 10, 1907. and Prince Jaime, born June 23, 1908. The eldest, the heir to the throne, is fair like hi3 mother, but he has the protruding lips of his father, a pronounced characteristic of the Spanish Hapsburgs. The second son, on the other hand, is dark-complexioned and looks the real Spaniard. HIch Youth Shoot Glrlj Dies. Charles Ulray, whose father Is said to be a wealthy undertaker of New York, shot and slightly injured Beatrice Kelly, 18 years old, In Erie, and then committed suicide by shooting. Twelve Hart in Sixty-Foot Fall. The cage in the Klondike mine. No. 1, at Clinton, Ind., dropped sixty feet while taking twelve men down to work. One man's back was broken, five men's legs were broken, and all the other men were seriously injured. It is expected that several will die. Noted Ilrltlah ArtUt Dead. Edward John Gregory, R. A., president of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors, died at Great M.irlov.-, England. He was born in IS'jO. Sl.iya Wife nnd I'nds Life. In Columbus, O., William' Reed Puyear, assistant electrical engineer at the Ohio State University, shot and killed his brother-in-law, Fred West, fatally shot his -wife and then rushed to the attic and sent a bullet Into his brain. The tragedy resulted from a luarrel. Fire Ilnin Aoted Hotel. The Fort William Henry Hotel at Lake George, N. Y., owned by the Delaware & Hudson Company, was deitroyed by fire. The loss Is $250,000.

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By a vote of 46 to 30 the Senate Tuesday took hides from the free list, where they had been placed by the House, and gave them a duty of 13 per cent ad valorem, the same as under the Dingley law. Just before adjournment for the day at 7 o'clock Senator Aldrich, on behalf of the finance committee, presented the committee's new lumber schedule and also a number of amendments relating to linoleum and oilcloth. The committee proposed a rate of $1.50 per thousand on sawed lumber, which is a 50-cent increase, over the House rate. Neither the lumber nor linoleum schedule was acted upon. The House was not in session. The Senate made short shrift of several provisions in the tariff bill Wednesday. An amendment for "dollar lumber" was defeated, as was a move for free lumber, and the finance committee's proposition for $1.50 a thousand on sawed lumber was adopted, 24 to 44. The finance committee's provision reducing the House rates on rjineapples to the old Dingley schedule was defeated, and Senator Taliaferro's amendment raising the rate above that in the House bill was adopted. Senator Aldrich's committee won a fight on their coal rates, which lowered the House rate on bituminous coal from 67 to 0 cents a ton and eliminated the reciprocity clause. Attempts were made to lower the rate still further and .to have coal free, but were defeated. The House was not in session. The Senate Thursday adopted amendments to the tariff bill increasing the duty on shoes from 15 to 20 per cent ad valorem and on sole leather from 5 to 10 per cent. The greater part of the session was devoted to speech making. Senator Beveridge, advocating his amendment , in regard to the size of tobacco packages, declared the t tobacco trust was making millions by keeping packages down to war time feizes notwithstanding the war tax was long ago removed. Mr. Bailey and Mr. Newlanda discussed the tariff at length. On the eve cf the expiration of the current fiscal year the House authorized an emergency appropriation of $10,000,000 for defraying the expenses of the thirteenth decennial census. In presenting the bill for that rurpose Mr. Tawney, chairman of 'the committee on appropriations, explained the situation with respect to the permanent census measure still In conference and announced that unless the money was forthcoming the census bureau would be compelled to suspend all business Wednesday. To get the members for this vote the sergeant-at-arms and his deputies scoured the capitol under orders of Speaker Cannon. Members reached the chamber in droves. About eighty of them were found comfortably seated In the Senate listening to the tariff debate. Adjournment was takea until Monday. -: : The Senate Friday raised the duty on Scrap Iron from 50 cents," as fixed in the House bill, to $2.50 ton, increased the duty on wire nails onequarter of a cent a pound and substituted specific for ad valorem rates ou files, rasps, etc The duty on harness was raised from 35 to 40 per cent. The increase on scrap Iron called forth vigorous protests from several Western. Senators, but was ordered by a vote of 42 to 28. Senator Penrose's amendment for a duty of one-half cent a gallon on crude oil was voted down. The House was not in sessiou. Although it devoted almost eight hours to strenuous effort in that direction, the Senate Saturday failed to conclude its consideration of the schedules of the tariiT bill, and when at 5:15 o'clock an adjournment was reached there were still a number of important rates to be determined. The day, however, was full o? achievement, and a number of provisions were disposed of. Among the more important questions which received attention were agricultural implements, wood pulp, cash registers, Hhographic plates, laces and jute yarns. Wood pulp was placed .on the free list, but the attempt to put agricultural implements In the same category failed. Senator Beveridge's 3 amendment to cut in two the duty on cash registers was defeated. Other changes made duringthe day were as follows: Increasing to 2 and 4 cents a pound the duty oa hemp, providing fcr the free importation until 1912 of linen manufacturing machines, increasing to the ettent ot about 10 per cent over the present law the duties on laces and embroideries,' imposing" a duty of 50 per cent on cngraved lithographic platej. slightly decreasing the duty on jute yarns, striding from the free list the products of petroleum and eliminating the House retaliatory provision regarding wrapper and filler tobacco. The House was not in session. SPARKS FROM THE WTHES. A negro was lynched at Arcadia, Fla., after attempting an attack upon Mrs. P. R. Read of that place. Floods caused by melting snow and heavy rains have caused great damage in several sections of Colorads. The Carnegie Foundation has awarded an annual pension of $SG5 to Prof. Charles Edwin Loss of Transylvaa university, who retires at the age of 85. Frank Wiley, his wlTe and his sister, all of Jersey City, w?re convicted of shoplifting. Wiley's 6-:rar-oll daughter, who is said to be an important factor in the theft, was not on trial, " but her case will come up in th2 children's court. When President David Siarr Jordan of Leland Stanford University told the graduating class at Brya Mawr that "France is by her own confession a decadent nation,"' Prof Foulet, a French instructor at the latter ebool, arose in the audivc cud thoulog. "That's a lie." walk'.d cut Dr. Lenox Newman 22 years old, son of. Dr. A. M., Newman, nho vas killed ln a street fiht at Meadville. Miss., Monday, died Thür dry. He is the third victim of t;ie t:.-fc0dy. Ten men are under arrest for complicity in the feud. After being woun ted pob-b' fatally by five men in a fight on the roof of a five-story house In Ncv York, Thomas Smith chased John McNally to the street, severely bra: Mm, pursued him back to the roof and had him almost unconscious from a beating when others interfered.

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