Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 42, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 July 1909 — Page 2

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lg 3rd. 10th.Q;nth. tJ 25th. PAST AND FEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Teldfcrraphlc Information Gathered fcy the Fe ir for the Enlightenment f th Many. Excursion Stoop Lost. Ten persons were drowned, two of them little girls, when the excursion loop Roxana, carrying twenty-two passengers, was capsized by a sudden squall in lower New York Bay. The captain of the Roxana and the twelve survivors were picked up under great difficulties in a rough and choppy sea by the tug Laraont. The Roxana with her skipper. Captain Samuelson, was chartered at Ulmer Beach, Brooklyn, by a party from Brooklyn for a sail across the bay to Midland Beach, Staten Island, and back. The first leg of the voyage was made without mishap and all hands piled ashore to make merry. Beer was served and some of the survivors could give but a hazy account of the accident Latham' Marhin flrnn Intn Sa. Herbert Latham, the French aviator. I tempt to cross the English channel In kls monoplane. He got away splendidly under perfect conditions from the top of the chalk cliff at Sangatte and had covered over half the distance at an average height of five .hundred feet when the motor slowed down and he was obliged to descend. The air space of the "wings however, kept the machine afloat and the monoplane, lying like a wounded bird, was stretched out on the water when the French torpedo boat destroyer Harpon, which had kept abreast throughout the journey, cam? alongside and picked up the aviator. Girl is Killed in Auto Wreck. Margaret, 9-year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Means, of Columbus, Ohio, was instantly killed and several other occupants hurt when Dr. Means" automobile was wrecked just outside the city of Bucyru3, when the auto struck a rut and wrecked a wheel and wa3 landed In tbe ditch. The daughter was thrown upon the pike and her skull crushed. Mrs. Means was badly bruised. The governess, Mrs. May Lovell, had an arm broken. The driver, John Wade, negro, was unhurt. One Man Killed and Five Injured. Theodore Gullow, of Monroeville, Ohio, was killed and Ato men were Injured la the wreck of Wheeling & Lake Erie passenger train No. 6 at Trowbridge, sixteen miles east of Toledo, Ohio. The train jumped the track within forty rods of the station while making forty miles an hour on a straight track. The engine and combination coach went into the ditch and the three other cars left the track. Express Package With' $10,000 Stolen. A package containing $10,000, being conveyed by the Adams Express Company from the National Bank of the Republic of Chicago, 111., to the Second National Bank of Monmouth, HI., Is said to have disappeared from a Burlington train some time last week. The package Is said to have been taken from the train somewhere be tween Galesburg, 111., and Chicago. Five Lives Lost When Boat Capsized. Five lives were lost in the capsizing of a gasoline boat in the Ohio river, and four persons were rescued from the water more dead than alive, but were resuscitated at Stuart's Landing, on the Fort Thomas, Ky., side. The dead: John and Jacob Hoffman, Andrew Elbert and George Franso, all of Newport, Ky., and one person, name not yet obtained. Big Shops for Terre Haute. Deeds conveying 120 acres of land Just outside of the city limits of Terre Haute, Ind., by W. R. McKeen to the Vandalia Railroad Company have been exectjled. The tract Is to be used by the Vandalia for the erection of its new shops. The price for the land was $93,000. The cost of the shop3 will exceed $500,000. Ella Gingles Goes Free. The Jury at Chicago in the Ella Gin'gles case returned a ;verdict of not ! guilty, at the same time exonerating Miss Agnes Barrette, whom Miss Ginglc accused of improper conduct. ! Daughter of Jeff Davis Dead. Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, daughter of the late Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, died in Colorado Springs, Colo., after an Illness oX six months. Burned to Death In Stable. ' Anson Klinghammer is believed to have been burned to death in a fire which destroyed the stable of Thomas . Bless, at Mishawaka, Ind. Four horses died In the fire. Lightning Shattered Her Eyeglasses. During a heavy thunderstorm lightning struck near a buggy In which Miss Ida Hill, of Shelburn, Ind., .was seated. Miss Hill's eye glasses were broken into small pieces, but the young lady was uninjured. The storm played havoc with both telephone systems. Louis Loeb, Artist, Dead Louis Loeb, of New York, a wellknown artist and illustrator, died at his summer home In Canterbury, N. II. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, fortytwo years ago. Fruit and Blooms on Same Tree. Waynetown, Ind., has an apple tree that blossomed bountifully last spring and is now loaded with apples half grown, and is again putting out blossoms for more apples. George Fowler, in whose yard the tree is located, expects to harvest two crops off the tree. Seventy-7 vo Guest? Poisoned. Seventy-two guests who sat down at a private dinner in Toledo, Ohio, were poisoned by the ice cream served tnewi and the condition of the majority was described as serious.

A DESPISED WEED

Wkich. Will Bring Millions to Land Owners of Southwest. The discovery by Oscar Paciu.s, of Monterey, Mexico, of a process for extracting wax from the candelilla plant has created a new and important industry in Mexico. Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. The candelilla plant is a desert weed, which grows abundantly upon many million o acres of semi-arid land in northern Mexico and parts of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. It is one of the types of vegetation peculiar to the southwest which long had been looked upon as useless. It was despised by cattlemen because it has the faculty cf forming such a dense growth upon lands as to shut out ffe grass and thus injure the range for grazing purposes. Land owners who formerly despised the weed now find themselves In a fair way to reap a fortune from the utilization of the plant. This already is being done in Mexicf. and steps have been taken in Texas to carry on the manufacture of wax from the plant. When it was "liscovered a few years ago'that a goo?, grade of crude rubber could be manufactured from the guayule shrub experiments were begun by Mr. Pacius and others .with various other kinds of wild vegetation. Mr. Tacius found that the candelilla contained wax to the amount of 3i to 4 per cent. He perfected a process cf extracting the wax, and it Is in practical operation in several factories that have been established in northern Mexico. The new Industry Is having a rapid growth. It is predicted by men who are familiar with the different varieties of commercial wax that it will not be long until the principal source of supply of that product will come from the candelilla plant. It means an enormous Increase of wealth to the people of Texas, Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico, where this plant Is found in its native state. The demand for the product comes chiefly from Germany, and the factories which are in pe ration are making regular shipr tents to Hamburg. The present price in Mexico is $600 gold per ton. It is said that about thirty tons of the weed are required to make one ton of the crude wax. The same factory that manufactures the crude wax from the plant also puts the product through the refining process. The cost of producing a ton of the wax is $75 gold. One Important and valuable advantage of the new Industry is that the refuse of the weed is available for fuel for the factory. TWO PUMPKINS WORTH $2,000. Resurrected Invalid Debt and Bring About Its Collection. Two pumpkins were worth $2,000 to Dr. J. F. Keith of Sturgeon, Mo., last year, and the purchase of them was one of tbe cleverest bits of financiering that has been recorded thereabouts for many moons. Thirteen years ago Dr. Keith loaned a considerable sum of money to a farmer near Sturgeon, and he was never able to collect it. The obligation ran on until the Statut of limitations made the claim invalid. Last fall, which was the thirteenth year after the debt was made, Dr. Keith happened to be at the home of hi3 debtor and saw some very fine pumpkins. He purchased two of the finest ones that he could select out of the pile and told his man that he could apply the purchase price to the amount that he owed him, which at that time was about $2,000. This arrangement was .satisfactory to the pumpkin raiser. By the purchase of the pumpkins ahd the indorsement of the note the obligation was renewed and the doctor was able to get his money through the courts. The teamsters of Peekskill, N. Y have organized a union. The gravediggers have organized a union In New York City. Cincinnati will get the next convention of the American Federation ol Musicians. There are 12,000 members of the Teamsters Union in the New York City district Representatives of nineteen typographical unions in Michigan held a convention in Jackson recently. It is announced the organized workers of Superior, Wis., are to build a $40,000 labor temple and clubhouse. Plumbers, painters and plasterers threaten to go out in sympathy with the striking carpenters at Edmonston, Canada. The trade unionists of Nebraska recently held a convention in Lincoln for the purpose of organizing a State branch of the A. F. of L. In the South Wales and Monmouthshire coal fields an award was recently given for a Per cent reduction. In spite of the protests of the mennd of the National Federation, to which they belong. The Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern men who wish Increased pay, among other things, have applied for conciliation. Montana laboring men have sixteen card men in the House of Representatives and two men carrying union cards in tlib Senate. By referendum vote Metal Polishers, Buffers. Platers and Alolders and Brass and Sliver WorKers International Union has decided not to hold , convention this year. The majority against holding the convention was 687. In Scotland it is reported that the mine owners have broken away from the conciliation board, being fully determined to enforce the reduction in wages which they , demanded. A local unlo nof motion picture operators was installed recently at Washington, D. C, and affiliated with the Theatrical Stage Employes Union of the United States and Canada. Under a rule adopted by the Oklahoma State board of public affairs only union labor will be employed on all public buildings. No fontractor who is not willing to stipulate that h will employ union labor need bid on State work. The ordnance factory workmen have Seen negotiating with the British secretary of war for a pension scheme. It is stated that the men are hopeful of success. A lodge of the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks has been Instituted in Concord, N. II., to be known as Merrimack lodge. It is expected thtjt lodges will soon be Instituted in Manchester. Dover and Worcester. This will practically complete the organization on the Boston and Maine system. According to an English Orientalist the taxicab was known to the Chinese at least 1,600 years age.

TARIFF MUST BE LOWER

!S TAFT S U U

President Tells StanJpatters He In tends to See That Downward Revision Wins. STATEMENT AS THREAT OF VETO Executive Meets Arguments of Congressmen by Declaring Party Pledges Shall Be Kept. President Taft clarified the tariff situation Friday by issuing his first formal statement on the subject. This statement, made after a conference with twenty-two Republican and one Democratic representative who demanded a high protective tariff, !ollows: "Mr. Young of Michigan opposed free ore; Mr. Mondell opposed free coal or reciprocity with Canada and free hides; each on the ground that the policy would injure the, interests in his State, and a discussion was participated in by other representatives, who urged that the doctrine of free raw materials was not a Republican doctrine. "The President replied that he was not committed to the principle of free raw materials, but that he was committed to the principle of a downward revision of the tariff which he had promised, and that he was obliged to look at the matter not from the standpoint of any particular district, but from the standpoint of the whole country, and also from the standpoint cf responsibility for the entire Republican party. "He said the question In each case was a question of fact, to be determined by evidence, as to whether the present duty was needed for protection or whether the rates was excessive, so that a downward revision, or putting the article on the free list, would not injure the Industry. Tnft Define the Issues. "He repeated the platform of the Republican party and said that he had always understood that it meant a downward revision in many instances, though perhaps in some few Instances an increase might be needel; that he reached this construction of the platform on what he understood to be the principle of protection and Its justification namely, that after an industry was protected by a duty equal to the difference between the cost of production in this country, including a fair profit to the manufacturer, the energy and enterprise of American business men and capitalists, the effectiveness of American labor and the Inger uity of American Inventors under the impulse of competition behind the" tariff wall would reduce the cost of production, and that, with the reduction In the ccst of production, the tariff rate would become unnecessarily high and ought to be reduced. "ThU was the normal operation of the tariff as claimed by the defenders of the protective system not In every case, but as a general rule that of course a revision of the tariff could not be perfect, must have defects and inconsistencies, but in so far as his influence went when called upon to act in connection with legislation It would be thrown in the direction of performing the promises of the party as he understood them; and that if Iron ore and oil and coal and hides did not need protection and the conditions were such as to enable the ore producers and the oil producers and the coal producers and the producers of hides to compete successfully, without reduction of wages, with the producers from abroad, then they did not need a duty and their articles should go on the free list. "It was a question of fact which he hoped to make up his mind with respect to, on such evidence as was available to him in order to carry out what he understood to be the promises of the party to the whola people. He slid he felt that his position as the titular head of the Republican party and as President, with the whole people as his constituency, gave him a somewhat broader point of view than that of a single member of Congress in respect to articles produced In his district. He felt strongly the call of the country for a downward revision within the limitations of the protective principle, and he hoped to be able to respond to that call as he heard it, as well In the Interests of the party as of the country." LAND PILING IN WASHINGTON. 200,000 Application Kiprt trd for a Indian HmrrvHlinn In Weit. Twenty-five thousand men and women are expected to file applications for lands in the Coeur d'Alene, Spokane and Flathead Indian reservations. In Spokane, alone 7,000 applications are expected, while the list at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, may exceed that number. It is estimated that 100,000 men and women will file for lands, many applying for ail three reservations, making argrand total of 200,000 appli- ; cations by August 5. From 15,000 to 20,000 applIcatiDn3 from veteran (Boldlers and sailors are expected. It 13 j believed that one applicant in fifteen will be able to secure a homestead worth taking up. Klrrleil Head of IMUs. At the completion of the official count of the Grand Lodge, B. P. O. Elks, it wa3 announced that J. U. Sammis of Iowa had been elected Grand Exalted Ruler over Garry Herrmann of Cincinnati by 63 votes. The official vote was: Sammis, 192; Herrman, 529. Stork Visits the De Sngans. The Princess de Sagan, who was Mis3 Anna Gould of New York, has given birth to a boy. Prince Helle de Sagan and Mme. Anna Gould were married on July 7, 1908. Ilody of Claude Hunt I Found. The body of Claude Hunt, the young farmer who was drowned In Klinger lake, St. Joe county, Michigan, with Miss Mamie Davy, of Chicago, has been found by a dredging party. This puts an end to the theory that Hunt had fled the theory the police had been working on. Ilrother of Sultan I Slain. Prince Suleyman Effendi, a brother of the sultan of Tcrkey, died suddenly Wednesday of heart failure. He was born in 1S60.

BUEAK COL. SNELL'S WILL.

Jurors for Second Time Set Aside Last Testament of Millionaire. The third contest over the will of Col. Thomas Snell, of Clinton, 111., the eccentric old man who died leaving estate of $2.000,000 and cutting his only son off with an annuity of $30, was ended Friday when a jury decided that Col. Snell was insane at the time he made the will. This decision sets aside the bequest of several thousand dollars to Mabelle Snell McNamara, the aged colonel's affinity. The jury wa3 out a little more than an hour and took but one ballot, which resulted eleven to one for the contesting son, Richard Snell. The dissenting juror changed his vote without the formality of a second ballot. The first trial of the contest resulted in a verdict that Col. Snell was insane, but a higher court set aside the verdict and remanded the case for another trial. If the will had stood the legal heirs would have received, all told, annuities aggregating $3,000, and not exceeding $1,000 in any single case, while the residue of the fortune would have been held in a weird trust agreement for heirs, yet tinhorn. On the date set for a final distribution, in the terms of the will, the estate would have grown probably to $100,?00,000. The Snell will case will go down in American court annals as furnishing one of the most amazing instances of the depths to which women h ive descended to gain money. The most sensational feature of all three hearings of the case was the introduction of letters from nearly a score of women, young and old, all of whom professed to love the aged millionaire madly. To cater to a degenerate tendency which appeared to be one of Col. Snell's senile vagaries, the women interlarded their letters with unprintable obscenities. The more vulgar the tone of the letters the better pleased the old man appeared to be, and It was found when the letters were exposed that ho had formed the habit of marking them with his impressions. Scarcely a letter was written to the doting old man 'by any of the women which did not demand gifts and money. BIG COUNTERFEITING PLOT. Secret Service 31 en Sr Gante IIa Operated for Years. What the secret officers declare Is an international counterfeiting plot with agents throughout Italy and the United States was revealed the other day when operatives arrested two Italian women and two Italian men in Chicago. A fifth arrest is expected. The officers refuse to divulge the names of the prisoners. According to the secret service men the gang has been operating in this country for four years. The plant where the counterfeits are made Is in Italy, they declare, and Is under the eye of the Italian police. The operatives say thousands of dollars of bogus $5 and $10 silver certificates have been passed which were so well made that even experts had difficulty in detecting them. Secret Service Officer Ritchie recently located members of the gang at Warren. Mass., it is said, but made no arrests, hoping by following them to locate the plant. The Italian police later discovered the plant in Italy. EICH WOMAN A SMUGGLER P Indictment Heturned Aialnst , Mrs. Fremont II. Cheshroujcta.. An indictment for smuggling was handed down by the federal grand jury In New York against Mrs. Fremont B. Chesbrough of Detroit, owner of the Chesbrough coastwise line of steamers running out of Boston. The true bill was due to the discovery of a double bottom In one of the trunks which Mrs. Chesbrough brought to this country with her on the Kaiser Wilhelm II. last May. Wearing apparel appraised at several thousand dollars was found in this hidden compartment. A $23,000 necklace was turned over to the customs officials by Mrs. Chesbrough's attorney. The woman is ill in a sanitarium. Fitzherbert, 3-year-old. easily won the recent suburban handicap in New York. Umpire Truby, of New York, has retired from the staff of National Leaguo umpires. Mrs. Ramsey and three companions of New York are crossing the continent to San Francisco in a motor car. Reports from Sheephead Bay are to the effect that its racing programs are beli.g Increased. The tracks are all said to be making money since the public has grown accustomed to oral betting. Jay Eye See, known the country over as the first 2:10 trotter, died of old age near Racine, Wisconsin. Ho was born in Kentucky thirty-one years ago. His grave will be marked with a granite shaft. Newton Colver, a seasoned sportsman of Spokane, suggests that the climatic conditions in and around Seattle are conducive to extraordinary running records such as have been made at that city during the past few years. At the conclusion of the Paducah (Ky.) Fair Association's exhibit, there will be a race meet. Over 300 horses are expected at the tracks of the Faducah Fair Association. These entries will represent Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky and other States. Again has King Edward broken all traditions by wlnnhig the James Pal-act-stakes, for 3-year-olds, nt a mile, with Minoru, who won the Derby. Among the many New Jersey farms where trotters and pacers are bred and reared is the place owned by Geo. Stengle, who raises horses for the pleasure he derives from the pursuit. The greatest crowd that ever witnessed the historic annual contest between Harvard and Yale watched the crimson triumph over the blue on the Thames at New London. Conn. Harvard was the victor In three events in spite of the heroic efforts of her rival. Manager Sullivan of the Chicago White Sox fell wh'.le chasing a foul lly in the game with St. Louis and tpralned his wrist. The Berks County, Pennsylvania, annual horse show was an event that appealed strongly to the gentler sex and they outnumbered the masculine spectators in attendance. Reports of fast miles are coming in from the training camps. It is a singular fact that it is the Northern trained horses, especially the trotters, which are showing the sensational speed. In years past all the early speed reports came up from Memphis, but all this is changed this summer.

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BIG Alf ON Sil AS INDUSTRY RE'iES

Twenty to Thirty Thousand Men in Pittsburg District Quit Work as Resumption Comes. MINE AND MILL ABE CRIPPLED Disorders at McKee's Bocks Quelled by State Police After Thirty Men Are Injured. Between 23,000 and 30,000 workmen coal miners, tin and sheet plate workers and members of various steel crafts are on strike in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia. A majority of the idle men are in the Pittsburg district. Except the strike at the plant of the Pressed Steel Car Company at McKee's Rock, where rioting resulted in the shooting and beating of thirty persons, the strikes are orderly. The conflict between capital and labor In the Pittsburg district is unique, coming, as It does, at a time of returning prosperity. Resumptions have been ordered in all trades, and men who have been without work for many month's are being afforded employment. On the other hand is the present unrest of the workmen. Solutions of the causes leading up to the strikes are varied. In several instances the men claim that their employers, taking advantage of their recent prolonged idleness, are offering them low wages for their work. The officials assert conditions do not warrant higher remuneration at this time. Other grievances ara the alleged violatiou of the eight-houd workday, recognition of organized labor, a controversy over the use of so-called "safety", powder for coal mine blasting and better working conditions generally. In the strike of the United Mine Workers against the Pittsburg Coal Company over 14,000 miners employed In the mines in the Pittsburg district are out. The men claim various violations of their working agreement. Steel workers unorganized, to the number of about 3,500, are in conflict with the Pressed Steel Car Company. The men say the wages paid are too low. Rioting and bloodshed has resulted during this strike, and further trouble is feared. The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers is engaged in a strike against the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. Over 7,000 men, it is estimated, are out. The trouble is over the "open-shop" policy recently declared by the company. Three thousand members of the Tin Plate Workers' Association employed by the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company at New Castle quit work to-day. The wage scale expires at midnight and the men will join the strike of the Amalgamated Association. It is said that the tin plate workers' strike will affect plants in different portions of the country, adding from 5,000 to 10,000 to the ranks of the strikers. The trouble is spreading to the Independent sheet and tin plate plants, and from present indications there is apparently no hope or effort toward an adjustment SEVEN KILLED AND 24 HURT. Hundred of 1'edestrlans Have Narrow Escape When Ilulldlnx Falls. In one of the busiest sections of Philadelphia and at a time when thousands of pedestrians were passing, the five-story brick building at the northeast corner of 11th and Market streets, which was being reconstructed for the United Gas Improvement Company, collapsed with a terrific roar early Thursday afternoon, burying or pinning beneath the ruins thirty-two persons, seven of whom are dead, one missing, one fatally injured and twenty-four more or less seriously Injured. Those killed were workmen employed by Sax & Abbott, contractors. The two lower floors of the building had been torn out and the three floors were shored up by heavy timbers. Steel girders were bracing the shoring. It is supposed that by moving one of the girders the entire structue was loosened. FIGHT FOR THE PENNANTS. Standing of Clubs In the Principal Date Dall Leagues. KATION A L LKAÜUE. W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ..56 21 Philadel'a .33 43 Chicago ...50 27 St. Louis ..31 43 New York.. 43 2D Brooklyn ..2S 50 Cincinnati .40 C!) Boston 23 54 AMEBICAX LEAGUE. V.'. L. , W. L. Detroit ....52 28 Chicago ....33 45 Philadel'a .46 33 New York.. 35 45 Boston ....48 34 St. Louis ..33 47 Cleveland .43 33 Wash'gton .21 53 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. I W. L. Minn'polls .50 43 Columbus ..43 47 Milw'kee ..48 43 St. Paul ...42 44 Louisville ..47 43 Kan. City.. 41 45 Ind'n'polls .40 46 Toledo 41 48 Find Cure fo- Deadly Sleep. The John D. Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research believes it 'has discovered air absolute cure for African sleeping sickness. Find Chicago Ch!l"a Body. . The body of the 4-year-old daughter of George A. Rose, a locomotive engineer of Chicago, was found at Ottawa, Kan. The little girl lost her life when the train upon which she was a passenger went Into the river. Sixty Are Overeonie ny Smol r. Sixty Bremen were overcome by smoke while fighting a small fire n a sub-basement at 7th and Poplar stress, St. Louis. The flames were caused by spontaneous conibusion in a cement room thirty feet below the street level. Illaat Wnnnili Seven Soldier. The explosion of a hundred pound? of powder in the barracks of Battery A at Fort Russell, Wyo., injured seven soldiers, three fatally, and destroyed the building. The injured men were preparing blank ammunition at the time of the explosion, the cause of which is unknown. Auto Explosion Kills One. One dead and nine badly burned is the result of an automobile accident which occurred about five miles from Sylvania, Ga.

NEBRASKA ELECTION LAW VOID

Superior Court at Lincoln Gives Decision in Test Case. In Lincoln, Neb., the Superior Court handed down a decision declaring the Donohoe nonpartisan judiciary election law Invalid. Te decree says: "Tho majority of the court holding that the act is void, the judgment of the District Court is affirmed." This means that the election of judges of the Supreme Court, District courts, regents of the State University, county judges, and county superintendents by use of a separate ballot, cannot take place. The old law will continue to hold. The chief objection of the court was to the provision requiring that for 1,000 names to be on a petition for judge, not more than 500 of which could come from' one county. They declared that it was a hindrance to tha free exercise of the franchise, and was repugnant to the constitution of the State. Four of the six members sitting believed this provision formed the chief reason for the passage, and thus invalidated the whole act. The entire court declared the provision denying the right of party conventions to indorse candidates for the offices affected by the act was without forca and void. SAFE-CRACKERS ROB POSTOFFICE Huntley, 111., Strong Box Looted of f.'OO In Cash and Stamp. Safe-crackers blew open the safe of the postoffice at Huntley, 111., on the Northwestern railroad, some time in the night and escaped with about $300 in money and stamps". The robbery was a daring one, the Interior of the store being wrecked by the force of the explosion. Postmaster E. H. Cook, of Huntley, was the first to discover the theft when he went to his drug store in the morning. Tho postoffice was located in the back of the store and the robbers had been thorough in their work of looting. No one, apparently, heard the sound of the explosion and the men worked with little fear of discovery. The robbers stole a horse from the barn of John Kelly and drove about three miles east, where they tied the animal. No further trace of them was found. TORNADO WRECKS TOWN. Sturm Dors Heavy Dnniage in Tike County, Arkansas. Nashville, Ark., and vicinity were visited by a tornado, resulting in heavy damage, especially at Murfreesboro, Pike County. At that place the livery stable and the residence of T. E. Wilson were wrecked. The chimneys of the Pike County courthouse were blown off. The front of C. E. Stoll's store was blown in. Wilson's mother was injured In the wrecked home. A box car,in the yards of the M. P. G. Ry. was blown against the passenger coaches, rolling the train a hundred yards. Several localities report serious Injury to the corn crop. SCION OF ROTHSCHILDS DEAD. Reported to Have Killed Himself Iteenuse of Love Affair. Baron Oskar Rothschild, the youngest son of Albert Rothschild, head of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild house, died suddenly in Vienna. It was reported that he committed sulcide because of an unfortunate love affair. Baron Oskar was 21 years old. He returned to Vienna two days ago after eight months spent in travel, during which he vUlted the United States. The Rothschild family deny that the baron committed suicide. They say his death was caused by apoplexy. Cable advices from Lemberg, Austria, told of the outbreak of new antiHebrew aggressions, and 100 Jews and landlords were said to have been slain in Bessarabia, Southwestern Russia. The christening of the infant Spanish princess took place with the customary ceremonies for such occasions. The dignitaries of the land were present and representatives from other countries. The American liner. New York, reached Plymouth, England, four hours ahead of her nearest competitor In a race In which nine liners were participants. The Hamburg-American steamer, Amerika, was second. It is considered practically certain that the assassination at Stockholm recently of Maj. Gen. Heekman, of the Swedish coast artillery, is the beginning of an anarchistic demonstration which will' continue throughout the tour of the czartof Russia through Europe. ) The capital city of Persia was reported to have been completely invested by the armed forces of the revolu tionary nationalists early in the week and the only thing that prevented their further occupation of Teheran was the joint ultimatum sent to their commander by the diplomatic representatives of Russia and Great Britain. Lord Charles Beresford outlined his naval policy before the Iondon Chamber of Commerce, saying that England's position was due purely to arrears in shipbuilding. He advocated a plan which would give the nation twenty-six Dreadnaughts by 1914, which, with Improvement in stations and Ftores, would cost about $300.000,000. At the close of the Imperial Press Conference Beresford urged the creation of live distinct navies, one for each of the five national divisions of the empire. The new galleries of the Victoria and Albert museum at South Kensington, London, the foundation stone of which was laid in 1899 by the Queen Victoria, have been formally opened by King Edward with full state ceremony. Delayed dispatches from Bogota, Wednesday, told of an uprising against the government which had started at Barranquilla on July 4. A porrion of the army had made prisoners of the municipal olHeers and had proclaimed Gonzalez Galencia as president. Iiter the revolutionists took possession of Cartagena and of several steamers on the Magdalena River. Dr. Alexander Wekerle has been reappointed premier of Hungary by the ci.iperor-king after having resigned office several months ago. This evidently means that his plan of a separate state bank for Hungary will be carried o it. Fron. Peking came the report that ,the Un.ted States government had Iroade forma.1 protest against the ratification or the proposed treaty between Russia anu China giving virtually sovereign power to Russia in the towns along the 11. of the Russian railway In Manchuria. The objection is that American residents in those town will thus be deprived of their rights.

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IL Merchandise Sold in This Way Said to Aggregate $500,000,000 Yearly. INDUSTRY CENTERS IN CHICAGO Thousands of Country Merchants and Manufacturers in Middle West Organize to Fight System. There is to be war to the knife leteen the country stores in the Middle West and the owners of the "mail order business," which is centered In Chicago, and the battle will be a battle of giants. The mail order business has become a tremendous institution. In Chicago two of these houses do a business aggregating $20,000,000 a year and it is said that the total of merchandise sold by mall la the United States yearly amounts to $500,000,000. Chicago is the great center of this huge commercial industry. From that city the catalogues of the mail order houses go to every corner of rural America. There Is hardly a farmhouse or a woodchopper's cabin, no matter how remote, where you will not find one. These catalogues are bulky tomes, almost as big as a family Bible. They weigh about five pounds apiece and cost their sponsors from 3G to 40 cents each for postage. One house sends out 000,000 of them every year, and the other a few thousand less. The expense of preparation and printing is more than a million dollars for each. Urgaulie for Protection. The mail order houses have almost ruined the business of a good many manufacturers and country merchants, and these manufacturers and country merchants are eager to take advantage of anything that will give them a chance to fight back. And that opportunity came with the formation of an enterprise, which is organized more for the benefit of the small dealer and the consumer than it Is for purely gainful ends. Already it has enrolled on its side 6,000 country, merchants and many manufacturers, some of whom had grievances against the mail order houses. The latter buy tremendous quantities of goods from manufacturers at very low prices. The first year the contract is made the manufacturer is happy and indulges in golden dreams. The next year the mall order house comes along and makes a yet bigger contract, but at a lower figure. In order to cheapen the cost of production the manufacturer enlarges his plant, puts In more machinery and greater capital In his business with the expectation that hi?, orders from the mail order house will continue to expand year by year. It is then that the mail order concern gets the manufacturer in its power. It comes forward the third year with an offer for a still greater quantity of his product, but at prices that are about equal to cost of production, or at least so near it as to leave no margin for risk or profit. If the manufacturer refuses the offer the order is placed elsewhere and the manufacturer has to face the prospect of ruin owing to his having a plant that Is too large for hi3 formal trade and which will "eat Its head off" if not run to its fullest capacity. In most cases, too, the additions to the plant have been made wth borrowed money.' The res lit is that the manufacturer either has to go into bankruptcy or accept the mail order concern's terms, which practically make him its servant to the end of the chapter. How the Association Works. Driven to desperation a year or so ago some of these manufacturers and some of the smaller merchants in the west got together and after expressing their indignation at the big mail order houses formed an association with its headquarters In Sioux City. The plan of procedure is simple. Certain special articles that have been handled by the mail order houses in enormous quantities are selected. They generally are staple goods for which there is a steady demand. The small storekeepers combine their orders, in this way making them mount up to a huge aggregate. The manufacturers belonging to the association are thus ahfce to produce the goods and place theai on the small merchants' shelves at prices lower than the mall order people can afford to sell them, but at a 1 vlag profit to themselves. As the merchants and manufacturers connfeted with the association advertise in their local papers, the enterprise Is having the solid support of the latter. I t The result ha3 been to cut down very appreciably the volume of business done by the Chicago concerns and all over the Middle West merchants are joining the association at the rate of 10 a day, or 300 a month. Manretanla's Latest. The Cunard liner Mauretania, which arrived at New York Friday, scored th! new mark for the western voyage of four days, sixteen hours and thirtysix minutes. Worker Shnnnlnsr Hawaii. Officials of the Department of Commerce and Labor have reached the conviction that the unemployed are not so anxious to work that they will endure conditions of labor in the plantations of Hawaii. This appears to be borne out by the report of a territorial commission which has been visiting our larger cities in an effort to engage farm laborers. Finally a band of men, willing to accept the jobs was got together in New York and put aboard a train for San Francisco, but when the train got there only three of the recruits was on It. Frozen In Own. Ice Plant. Frozen to death in his own ice plant was the fate of Morris Grosh, 48 years old, of Lockland, Ohio. Grosh had been working outside his plant and the heat, which was over 100 degrees, beoyne unbearable. He walked into a cold storage-room. The sudden change in temperature was too great a shock. He fell to the floor of the room and was found dead two hours later. Over 1,250 miles of new electrical railroads were built in the United States, Canada and and Mexico last year.

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CHICAGO. The usual Indices of trade activity continue to reflect accumulating strength and better disposition toward increasing active capacity in manufactures. "Weather conditions favor the growing crops and marketings of farm products are well sustained, those of live stock showing considerable increase. The markets for breadstuffs remain quiet, but packing Is more extended, and there is good absorption of provisions for both domestic, and export consumption. H.gJ temperatures stimulated demand for seasonable needs in the leading retail lines and there is ample reduction of merchandise stocks here and at interior points. Wholesale trade in the principal staples promises to show expansion. Buyers come forward in large numbers, and the demand is strong In textiles, clothing, footwear, fod products and furniture. Compared with this time last year, there is larger forwarding of goods to country stores, while current bookings Indicate gain in deliveries to be made of fall and winter lines. High prices and reasonable assurance of great crops make a remarkably prosperous position In agriculture, and this encourages more effort in the distribution of finished products and farm needs. Bank clearings, $209,236,22$, exceed those of the corresponding week In 190S by 14.7 per cent and compare with $243,4S3,5S9 in 1907. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 29. against 20 last week, 30 in 1908 and 21 In 1907. Those with liabilities over $3,000 number 12, against 3 last week, 10 In 1908 and 5 In 1907." Dun's Weekly Review of Trade. XEW YORK. Despite irregularities in crop and weather conditions, midsummer influenceu In trade and industry and conservatism in placing orders ahead, business is of fairly good volume for the season of the year and shows a perceptibly steady advance toward normal proportions. In retail trade clearance sales are universal, but there are numerous reports that reduced purchasing power offsets the stimulus offered by this means of Inducing buying. Wholesale trade for Immediate delivery and jobbing business in summer goods is of a light volume. Fall trade reports are still relatively the best of any branch. Still, there are reports of quiet In the Southwest, and Chicago seems to be the most active market in the country.wlth the Northwest coming next as regards favorable reports. Business failures in the United States for the week ending with July 15 were 206, against 182 last week, 215 in the like week of 1908. 177 In 1907, 18 In 190 and 163 In 1903. Canadian failures, for the week number 36, a3 compared with 27 last week and 28 the corresponding week of 1908. Bradstreet's. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4,00 to $7.50; hogs, prime heavy, $4.50 to $8.32; sheep, fair to choice, $4.23 to $3.40; wheat. No. 2, $1.23 to $1.30; corn, No. 2, 71c to 72c; oats, standard, 50c to 31c; rye, No. 2, 81c to 82c; hay, timothy, $8.00 to $15.00; prairie, $8.00 to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 26c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 21c; potatoes, new, per bushel, 63c to 87c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 -to $5.50; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $S.10; sheep, good to choice, $2.50 to $6.15; wheat. No1. 2, $1.27 to $1.31; corn, No. 2 white, 74c ;to 75c; oats, No. 2 white, 53c to 54c St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $7.15; hogs, $4.00 to $8.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.40; wheat. No. 2, $1.27 to $1.30; corn. No. 2, 72c to 74c; oats, No. 2, 53c to 56c; rye, No. 2, 80c to 82c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.C0; hogs, $4.00 to $7.90; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.29 to $1.40; corn. No. 3 yellow, 75c to 76c; oats, No. 2 white, 53c to 59c; rye. No. 1, 82c to 83c . Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.31 to $1.35; corn. No. 3, CCc to C9c; oats, standard, 55c to 56c; rye. No. 1, 79c to 81c; barley, standard, 70c to 72c; pork, mess, $19.65. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $8.20; sheep, common to god mixed, $4.00 to $4.90; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $8.70. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.37 to $1.3S; corn, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 75c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 51c to 53c; rye. No. 2, 79c to 81c; clover seed, $6.65. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $6.25; hogs, $4.00 to $S.15; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; whsat. No. 2, $1.20 to fl.SO; corn, No. mixed, 73c to 74c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to D4c; rye, No. 2, 84c to 86c New York Cattle, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, $"..50 to $8.40; sheep, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2 red. $1.40 to $1.42; corn, No. 2, 77c to 79c; oats, natural white, 54c to 5Sc; butter, creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, western. 17c to 23C It is expected that the opening of the Western reservations at Flathead, Couer d'Alene and Spokane will cause a great Western rush of settlers. Much interest is being shown in this matter, and the Western railroads anticipate being taxed to the utmost to care for the traffic. The striking miners In the Kansas district to the number of 8,000 were ordered back to work by President Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America, pending the outcome of conference between the managers and the union, requested by the former. J. II. Wilson, manager of the men's department 0 the Minnesota State free employment bureau, states that there are more men from Eastern States looking for work at this time than there have ever leen during any previous year. Most of them are farmers and Mr. Wilson is sending about seventy-five a week to farms in Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin for general work. A box factory at Cass Lake, Minn, was struck by lightning and a fire resulted, whose damage was estimated at $10,000.