Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 5, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 November 1909 — Page 2

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a- L. Q.N. M.Tv F. Q.Sn F. M 4th. V,rl2th. V 20thAS27th, PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered ly the Few tor the Enlishtenment of the Many Say Peary Found Pole. A dispatch from Washington, D. C, states Commander Robert E. Peary practically was indorsed as a discoverer of the north pole by the National Geographical Society- Every indication points to the fact that Peary's personal statements before the sub-committee of the society convinced its members that he had set foot on the top of the world. The explorer has been invited to deliver the first of his public lectures before the society there on November 12, and it was pointed out that had the prcofs been open to the slightest question he never would have been asked to appear. It was announced at the home of Rear Admiral C. IL Chester, retired, that a public statement of the findings of the society would probably be forthcoming in the near future. Leaped to Her Death. Believing that the automobile in which she was riding with her husband in Chicago was about to collide with a rapidly moving taxicab, Mrs. Mary Blake jumped to the pavement and was run over and killed by the wheels of the taxicab. Mr. Blake avoided the collision by a quick turn to the side of the street. Before she made the fatal plunge Mrs. Blake threw her baby boy who was in her arms to the side of the street and tae little one escaped injury. Disastrous Blaze in Cincinnati. Flames which threatened the destruction of many stables at Latonia race track, Cincinnati, Ohio, raged for an hour. The elevators of the Cincinnati Grain Company adjoining the race track were destroyed, entailing a loss estimated at $100,000. The stables at Latonia were filled with dozens of horses brought there by tbe fall meeting now in progress, and all of the available fire apparatus of the Covington (Ky.) department was brought into use in fighting the blaze. $5O,C0O Fire at Cromwell, Indiana. Fire of mysterious origin, which broke out in Cromwell, Ind., cat.? 3d losses to the amount of $30,000 and laid the entire east side of Main street a total ruin. The fire started in Chas. Slaybach's general store. The city has no system of fire fighting and the citizens, seeing that the building already on fire could not be saved, turned their attentions toward saving adjoining buildings. The fire badly crippled telephone service and all direct communication has been cut off. More Trouble for Brandenburg. Broughton Brandenburg, the maga line writer, acquitted in New York City not long ago of selling to the New York Times a spurious article credited to Grover Cleveland, was hauled into court again by his wife, charged with abandonment and non-support. He was held in $500 ball. Brandenburg said that he was anxious to return tc St. Louis, where charges aro pending against him for enticing away hl3 stepson. Masked Men Hold Up Stage. Two masked highwaymen held up the Cariboo stage at One-hundred-and-fifty-mile House in Cariboo, B. C, and stole several sacks of registered mail. It is believed they obtained four or five thousand dollars. The robbers were armed with rifles and met with no resistance from driver or passengers. Treasurer of Circus Robbed of $6,000. The treasurer of a circus which showed in Pine Bluff, Ark., recently, was found; bound and gagged in his private coach of a circus train on the way from that city to Fordyce, Ark., and claimed he was robbed of $6,000. The robbery is said to have occurred Just after the train left Rison. Robbers Shoot Marshal. Four robbers surprised at work in the general merchandise store of Bradshaw Brothers at Lenexa, Kan., twelve miles west of Kansas City, shot and mortally wounded W. D. Haskin, the town marshal, after an exchange of shots. One of tho robbers was also shot, but all four escaped. Son Kills Father in Quarrel. Samuel Weaver, a farmer near Marco, Ind., died as the result of being struck on the head by his son, John Weaver. The two men quarreled in a field and it Is alleged the father first gtruck the son. Engine Explodes, Five Killed. A freight engine on the coal and coke railroad exploded at Yankee Dam, W. Va., about forty-five miles from Elkins, W. Va., killing five men. Steeple Jack is Fatally Hurt. Harry C. Adams, a steeple jack, who claims Maine as his home, was fatally hurt when he fell a distance of 100 feet from the inside of a stack in course of construction at the power plant of tho Ft. Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Company at Lafayette, Indiana. Ohio Man Killed in Cuba. Frank Kraft, aged 24 years, of Hamilton, Ohio, was kiled at Cienfuegos. Cuba, according to a cablegram received by his family. He was engaged In contract work. Heads Both Gould Properties. Official announcement is made in Denver, Colo., that Chas. H. Schlacks, vice president of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, has been appointed vice president cf the Western Pacifirt railroad, thereby becoming active head of both Gould properties. Barber Shops Must Close. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin, in a decision handed down at Madison, upheld the law passed by the last Legislature providing for the closing of barber shops in Wisconsin on Sunday.

GRAFT OF PRESIDENT TAFT IS BEHIIH

Gets an Object Lesson on the Difficulties of Navigating the Mississippi. IS WELCOMED AT VICKSBUBG Other Officials Take to Railroad and Eeat Chief Executive to Mississippi City. President Taft and his party moved on Vicksburg, Miss., Thursday by land and water. The executive steamed in at night several hours behind time and found that his escort of Governors, Senators and Congressmen had beaten him in by the base ruse of taking to the railroad. When the Oleander whistled for the Yazoo Canal it was 9:30 o'clock at night, but as the President alighted from the vessel half an hour later he found the steep streets of Vicksburg lined with people who had been waiting since early afternoon.. Mr. Taft made a brief speech, In which he did not touch on .water ways, and then went to the public dinner which had been waiting for three hours. The President left on the Oleander at 11:33 p. m. for Natchez. When the sailing orders were changed the previous night and each boat was told to steam along as fast as it could, the days of steamboat racing on the Mississippi were suddenly revived. Each captain tried to crowd as much out of his boiler as he could, and the sparks spouted from the stacks as the boats flew along. The state fish boat Illinois, commanded by Captain Nat Cohen, showed a clean pair of heels to the others and easily followed close astern of the Oleander, the President's craft. When the Governors and other dignitaries woke up Thursday morning and peeked over the rail they discovered that they were left hopelessly behind. It looked as if they would reach Vicksburg long after the President had left the town. There was much roaring. Officers of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Water Way Association and of the Business Men's League of St. Louis, under whose auspices the river trip Is being given, came forward with explanations that they were not responsible for the change in sailing orders. In order that the Governors and other honored guests might not be deprived of the trip over the battlefield and through the national cemetery, which had been looked forward to as one of the big features of the voyage, President Smith of the Business Men's League sent the steamer Alton ahead to Greenville to charter a special train. Shortly after noon the boats that had been left at the post drew up at the river's edge at Greenville and disgorged more celebrities than that city had even seen before. While the difficulties of getting to Vicksburg appeared to chase water way talk to the woods for the time being they have given the travelers an excellent object lesson of the troubles in navigating the Mississippi in its present unimproved condition. It took the President's boat, the Oleander, one of the fastest on the river, over twice as long to get from Greenville by river as it did the others by train, and at that the train did not fuse the railä by Its speed. $457,000 SHORTAGE IN BANK. Peculations of Wisconsin Financiers Grow Under Investigation. "Every conceivable form of irregularity has been turned up," is the way treasury officials describe the developments in the investigation of the Mineral Point. Wis., First National Bank, which closed Its doors Oct. 12. The reports reaching the office of the comptroller of the currency in Washington continue to increase the amount involved, and to show the remarkable nature of the transactions that led up to the placing of the institution In the hands of Receiver Schofield. The latest information Is that the los3 from forged paper and embezzlement reaches $457,000. There were many deposits made that were never entered on the books of the bank, It is alleged. FOOTBALL KILLS THREE. West Point Schedule Called Off After Death of Cadet. Football caused three more deaths Sunday in the United States, making a total of eleven for the season of 1909. Eugene A. Byrne, the West Point cadH who was injured Saturday in the game with Harvard, succumbed early Sunday morning. Col. Hugh L Scott, superintendent of the military academy, announced that there would be no more foootball at West Point thl3 year. The other victims were Roy Spybuck, an Indian boy 19 years old, playing on the second eleven of the Haskell University, and Michael Burke of Shenandoah, Pa., 21 years old, a player on the team of the Medico-Vhl-rurglcal College at Philadelphia. Spybuck's injury was received in a game at Buckner, Mo., and he died at Kansas City LEAVES FORTUNE TO AID POOR. Caroline Phelpa-Slokra Give Balk of f3, 000,000 Katate to Poor. Caroline Phelps-Stokes, who died on Aug. 26 last at Redlands, Cal., left the hulk of her big fortune for the building of model tenements in New York City. Her will, giving sums ranging in the thousands to her relatives and the residue of her $5,000,000 estate to the cause of better homes for the poor and the education of negroes and Indians in the United States, was filed with the surrogate in New York. ALL LAND APPLICATIONS IN. Total 'ambtr Heoelved Reported from Aberdeen to De 81,450. The last of the letters sent by land seekers in the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock reservations have reached Judge Witte in Aberdeen, S. D. All the 81,456 letters received are stored In great black iron cans. Following are the final figures for the registration: Aberdeen, 55,304; Bismarck, 10,106; Lebeau, 3,023; Lemmon, 2,606; Mobridge, 2.C64; Pierre, 1,293. Grand total, 81,456.

GENERAL 0. 0. HOWARD DEAD. Last of Union Commanders of Civil War Succumbs to Heart Disease. General Oliver O. Howard, last of the Union commanders of the Civil War, died at his ho.ne in Burlington, Vt., Tuesday night. Heart disease was given as the cause of the noted soldier's death. He was 73 years old. The previous week General Howard was in Ontario delivering his lecture on "Abraham Lincoln." His last public appearance was at London on Sunday night. Monday he returned to his home in Burlington and was apparently In his usual good health. Tuesday night, while sitting in a chair at hi3 home, he was attacked by heart disease and was dead when a physician reached the house. Including General Howard's services in the Indian wars, he was probably In more engagements than any other officer in the United States army. General Howard, besides having been an able and efficient commanding ofr.cer, who had the friendship and confidence of Lincoln, Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, was known as the religious general. He was known In European army circles as "The Havelock of America." In 1863 General Howard was appointed head of the Freedman's bureau, various societies having been organized under this name to help the emancipated negro. He established schools of general learning and also Sabbath schools during the nine years he continued at the head of the bureau. He received the degree of LL. D. from no less than four colleges and of late years, since his retirement, has written many books. He was also a writer of" magazine articles on military subjects and addressed many religious meetings. or At the Bols du Bologne race course (Paris) the Prix Gladlateur for a purse of $6.000 and a trophy valued at $2.000. was won by W. K. Vanderbilt's Seasick II. Eello. at 5 to 1, won the Ilarbar Hill cup for 3-year-old jumpers, defeating the favorite, Oakhurst, by half a length. The race stamped the filly as a clever jumper. In the last of the series of garr.es which the collegians crossed the ocean to play, the University of Wisconsin base ball team defeated the Tokyo University with a score of 8 to 0. Jim Flynn, of Boston, heavyweight, defeated Ralph Galloway, colored, of California, in twelve rounds of the hardest fighting ever seen at the Armory Athletic Association at Boston. Penlsa Maid scored a straight heat victory in the Walnut Hall farm cup race for trotters of the 2:15 class, which was the feature of the postponed sixty-day card at the Breeders' meeting at Lexington, Ky. She reached the wire a nose ahead of Margin. The loss of Lee J. Talbot will be severely felt by the track team at Cornell this year. Talbot, the intercollegiate champion hammer thrower, has been refused permission to re-enter the college because he failed to pass upon one subject in which he has been conditioned from his freshman year. W. W. Evans, known throughout the country as "Billy" Evans, perhaps the greatest developer of young trotters and pacers in the country, died at Lexington, Ky., at the age of 40, after a lingering illness. During his career he developed more trotters and pacers than any other trainer in the country. There were nineteen starters in tne Kempton Park Nursery handicap in England. General Botha won. Whitney's Artless. Belmont's Fond Memories and Carroll's Washoe ran in this event but failed to secure a place. Playing golf of the very highest quality, Miss Dorothy Campbell, of North fJerwick, three times woman champion of Scotland and the present holder of the British championship, defeated Mrs. Ronald II. Barlow, of the Merion Cricket Club, in the final round of the women's championship of the United States on the links of the Merion Cricket Club, Ilaverford, Pa., 3 up and 2 to play. Cornell defeated the Oberlin eleven at Ithaca, N. Y., by a score of 16 to 6. The heat made snappy work impossible, and, with the exception of the playing of Capt. Grey, of Oberlin. the game was uninteresting. Traveling at a terrific rate of speed over the eight-mile circuit at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, George Robertson, the hero of many a classic automobile contest and winner of the Vanderbllt cup a year ago. won the 200-mile stock chassis road race in a Simplex car from a field of twenty-one automobiles handled by seme of the most expert drivers In the country. Time, 3:33:53 4-5.

WANTED A DEEP WATERWAY.

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E TO TAFT The Deep Waterways Convention Opens with the President as Meadliner. OTHER BIG ONES ARE PRESENT Hundred Thousand People Cheer When the Little Oleander Arrives Athenaeum Is Packed. To the roar of guns from the warships at anchor in midstream, saluted by the deafening shrieks of sirens, the clanging of bells and the shrill cheers of one hundred enthusiastic citizens who lined the banks of the Mississippi, President Taft arrived at New Orleans shortly after noon Saturday, bringing to a successful conclusioa his long trip down the river from Ft. Louis. It was a reception, well worthy of the big President and that he enjoyed It was very evident. Standing on the bridge of the trim and speedy little Oleander, marked among the group of his personal- entourage by his immense size, clad in the now familiar silk hat and frock coat, he bowed and smiled happily at the enthusiasm of the throng, turning now and then to whisper to one of his party. As the salute guns of the battleship Mississippi ceased spitting out their noisy greeting, and while Captain Marshall, in command of the squadron, stood on the bridge, the Oleander rounded to and crept up to the wharf at the foot of Canal street. "Plenty of w.-tter here, Mr. President," remarked the pilot, "we have now nearly two hundred feet beneath us." A moment later the reception committee was on board and the President was escorted to the landing. The delay in the arrival of President Taft, which also delayed the starting of the parade, postponed the opening session of the lakes-to-the-gulf deep waterways convention. But as soon as President Werlein's gavel fell the prearranged program moved with celerity. Following Mayor Behrman's address of welcome, William K. Kavanaugh, president of the waterways association, delivered his annual address. Immediately following came the appointment of committees, the address of the secretary, F. W. Saunders, and the introduction of resolutions, followed by an adjournment until the afternoon, when Mr. Taft addressed the convention. NEBRASKA!? WINS LAND PRIZE. Choice In South Dakota Drawing Goes to Dutte, b., Farmer. With 2,200 names announced the first day of the drawing for lands on the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian reservations closed at Aberdeen, S. D. Stepping out upon the platform of the Auditorium, which was filled with . cheering, expectant home-seekers, the little Misses Josephine Burke and Alice Jackson drew the name of William Jengel, a farmer, of Butte, Neb., for No. 1, and Calvin Bowdry, a negro, of Bismarck, N. D., for No. 2. Jengel is entitled to select any quarter section for his own out of 2.230.000 acres. He will file ty April 1, 1910. The first choice may be wortn $10.000. Advance for Itallvray Laboren. Officials Of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad have Issued circulars to their 3,000 laborers announcing that when they draw their wage3 Nov. 1 for October work they will receive pay on a basis of $1.65 a day instead of $1.50. Ontario Town IIa f 150,000 Fire. Fire destroyed HillUrd's opera house and hotel, in Kenopa, Ont. The loss is estimated at $150,000. The fire started in the scenery in the opera House. Digs Mother's tiruvej Faints. Richard Swineford, aged 12, collapsed at the grave of his mother, Mrs. Octavis Swineford, in Colorado Springs, while filling the grave that contained her body. He dug the grave, being without money to pay for the work. Mrs. Swlneford, who came from Owosso, Mich., died of tuberculosis. Orphans Perlah In Fire. Five children lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the Girls' College of the Presbyterian Church Orphanage in Lynchburg, Va.

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$5.000.000 LOSS IN STORM.

Two Known to Have Perished as Result of Cloudburst in Mexico. Property damage estimated at $3,000.000, two lives known to be lost, and many others, it is feared, and hundreds of homes washed away are the results of the cloudburst and storm in the State of Tabasco, Mexico, Monday. Following twenty-one days of incessant rain rivers are out of their banks, towns are inundated, thousands are homeless, and no relief is in sight. From north to south, extending across the State from the Mescalapa and the Grljalva rivers, which take tae two names after forking near Huinaguillo to the banks of the Usumacinta, which for a short distance marks the boundary between Chiapas and Guatemala, the country is a waste. Only the high mountain villages and plateau farms escaped the onslaught of the waters. Five hundred families are homeless in the city of Atasta alone. Other cities and towns inundated are Huinaguillo. Tenosique, Jalapa, Tlacotalpam, Tlapa. Santa Rosa, and a number of smaller villages along the Mescapapa River, while on the south border of the State of Jonuta, Balacan, Carmen, Palizada, and Santa Rico, in the valley of the Usumacinta River, are badly damaged. SEER ANTICIPATES CONFESSION. Kansas Man Tells of Triple Marder as Slranfff Letter Is Received. While James McMahon was sitting in the sheriff's office at Kansas City, Kan., telling how he murdered his two sisters and his brother-in-law the previous week, a letter wa3 delivered to the county prosecutor which advanced the theory that McMahon was . the slayer. Tbe letter was dated Oct. 25 and signed L. W. Chelley, Frankfort, Kan. It gave nearly the exact details confessed by McMahon. Several of the officers assert it 13 an example of clairvoyance. In his confession James McMahon exonerated Patrick McMahon. Joseph Taggart, prosecuting attorney of Wyandotte County, said that charges would be placed only against James. Judge Pritchard. at Asheville, N. C, signed the final decree terminating the receivership of the Seaboard Air Line Railway and the delivery of the property in accordance with the plan of reorganization. The Pennsylvania Railroad has purchased a fifty-acre farm near Bacon, Del., which is to be worked as an experiment station, the object being to demonstrate what may be done by scientific farming in that section of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Four great American railroad systems have reported their operations for a whole year without a single passenger killed. These were the Pennsylvania, the Burlington, the Northwestern and the Santa Fe. During the year ended June 30, these systems carried 100,000,000 passengers. The one most important factor contributing to this result, in addition to the latest safety devices, is the enforcement of rigid discipline. All devices depend at seme point on the faithfulness of an employe. The Alaska Central Railroad was sold recently under foreclosure by United States Marshal Sullivan of Spokane for $600,000 to F. G. Jemmett, the only bidder. This means that the road has passed under control of an Eastern syndicate for which J. P. Morgan & Co. are agents. The report of the Erie Railroad Company shows a decrease of 10 per cent in the ratio of operating expenses to revenues. This had left the company with a surplus of $2,563,000, as compared with a deficit of $2,199,000 thft vear before. The gross earningf were $50,411.000 and the operating expenses were $30,904,000. The Wisconsin Central Railroad' report for last year Is one of the bes the road has ever issued. The total gross earnings were $7,494,354, the operating expenses being $5,094,507. The Great Northern Railway has put into operation its announced daily mall and express train on a schedule which, will cut eleven hours off the former running time between St. Paul and' Seattle, and will make it possible to deliver mail from the East in Puget Sound cities twenty-four hours earlier.' It is now the fastest long-distance train in the world. It covers the 1,814 miles from St. Paul to Seattle in fortyeight hcurs of actual running time.

FIGHT SALAMS AGAIN

IN REVOLT III GREECE Government Defeats Rebels on Scene of Themistocles Victory. CLAIMS TO HOLD ARSENAL. Government May Ee Overthro-wn, but King George's Position Is Thought to Be Secure. Almost 2,000 years after the day when Themistocles gained a memorable victory over the Persians, Salamis, Greece, again Friday was the scene cf a naval battle. The correspondent has just returned to Athens from Scaramanga, whence he witnessed twenty minutes of fighting between field batteries and big war ships on the one side, and the mutinous band of naval .officers which quitted the capital Wednesday, with torpedo boats, on the other. The first shots were fired soon after 4 o'clock and a sharp exchange of shell followed. Some of the projectiles struck the arsenal building3, but the correspondent saw only one shell hit a torpedo boat the Sphendona which immediately was enveloped In a cloud of smoke. During the action the torpedo boats gradually retired, steaming backward until they obtained the shelter of the headland, when the firing ceased. The rebel vessels, while the engagement FIGURES IN THE or PRESENT AND PROBABLE was in progress, returned the fire of the war ships and field batteries, but apparently little damage was done on either side. The rebels were led by Lieutenant Tibaldos and are reported to have numbered 300 men. It is officially announced that only two of the men of the loyal fleet were wounded. The losses to the mutineers is not known. One of their torpedo boats was disabled and another took flight in the direction of Eleusys, on the bay of Levsina. A third reached the Poros naval station, where it met with a hostile reception and again put to sea. Former Premier Rallis in an interview predicted that the upshot of the crisis would be the overthrow of the government and the entrance of the Military League Into office. This development, he thought, would not affect the position of King George. The general opinion is that the Military League has suffered a great loss in prestige by reason of Friday's events and may be compelled to proclaim a dictatorship. Athens remains quiet, but much suppressed excitement preTWELVE KILLED IN EXPLOSION. I'eunnylvniila Miner Met Death It Shaft Three Make Their Eirape. Twelve men were killed in the Cambria Steil Company's coal mine, two miles from Johnston, Pa., as the result of what is supposed to have been a dynamite explosion. All the dead are foreigners. Three men escaped with their lives on life ladders, through poisonous mine gas and falling slate. None of the bodies have been identified. Fatner Arrented mm Kidnaper. William Allan Wagner was arrested in Havrisburg. Pa., on the charge that he was implicated in the kidnaping of Dewitt C. Young at Richmond, Ind. Wagner is the boy's father. His former wife says he carried ou the boy in defiance of the law. The lad was with him when arrested. Street Car Kills Two Women. While on their way to a revival meeting, Mrs. Hiram Snyder and Mrs. Mary E. Hortlng were run down and killed by a street car In Canton, Ohio.

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vails. An official statement has been issued, saying that the arsenal, which was in the hands of the rebels, has been recaptured. Lieutenant Thibaldos appears to have been actuated by his disapproval of the tactics of the Military League and the junior naval officers in consenting to negotiate a compromise of the ultimatum recently issued by the Military League for the enactment of an ordinance suspending all promotion for five years, and the abolition of the posts of rear admiral, vice admiral and fifteen places . of lesser rank. Tibaldos took a prominent part In the military movement last August. He was the first officer to go to the camp at Goudi, outside the city, after the premier's refusal to receive a deputation of officers, and he subsequently was appointed commander of the rebel camp. GAMBLERS HURL TWO BOMBS.

More Spectacular Outrages in Chicago's Long Series Arouse City. Bombs No. 33 and No. 34, fired within twenty minutes of each other, wrecked two buildings in the loop district of Chicago Sunday night, caused nearly $10,000 damage, frightened hundreds of citizens and served notice on the people of Chicago that, in the face of the oft-repeated denials of the police, open gambling is still going on in the city. The two cases Sunday night left no chance for .the police to ascribe the outrages to anything but a gamblers' w-ar. Each of the places blown up sheltered gambling establishments. FOIL LYNCHING MOB IN KANSAS MrMabon, Confeaned Slayer of Three, Im Ilualietl to Mlnaourl Jail. To prevent lynching by a vigilance committee reported to be forming, Sheriff Al Becker late Thursday night GREEK CRISIS. FUTURE RULERS OF GREECE. removed James McMahon, the confessed slayer of his two sisters and brother-in-law, from the county Jail in Kansas City, Kan., to the city Jail on tbe Missouri side. Patrick McMahon accompanied his brother and remained at police headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., all night. Patrick was told he might have his liberty, but he said he preferred to remain under police protection for a while. LOSES THREE CHILDREN AT ONCE Wyominar Mother Finds Snake Killing Two Uaby Falls Into Well. Distracted over the death of her three small children in one day, Mrs. Lent Henderson, of Sundance, is under the constant care of physicians. While Mrs. Henderson was in the yard with the baby Sunday she heard the two older children scream, and, rushing into the house, she found that both had been bitten by a rattlesnake. While caring for them she heard a faint cry from the baby. Answering this Ehe saw the child fall into a well and drown. The other children died from the effects of the reptile's poison. Twenty-two Die In Mine Explosion. A score of miners were killed by 1 explosion in the Rbymney Iron Company's colliery in Glamorganshire, Wales. Manager Bower and two companions who attempted a rescue were killed by the afterdamp. Train Runs Down Couple. Mrs. Walt McNallan. of Kellogg, was fatally hurt by a passenger train of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road when they tried to cross in front of it at the station at Lake City, Minn. Shoots Child-Wife) Slays Self. Following a domestic quarrel in their home in Wise County, Virginia, Charles Rhinehart fatally shot his 13-year-old wife and then killed himself. Youths Stricken by Epidemic. Forty students of the Georgia Military Academy, near Atlanta, were rushed to the city suffering from an illness which has struck the school in epidemic form. They were distributed among several hospitals. The nature of their Illness has not been learned.

CHICAGO. The weekly review of Chicago trade,

published by R. G. Dun & Cc. says: Favorable developments are sustained in the flow of new demands for raw and finished products, and in the high aggregate of solvent payments through the banks and increasing use of money for manufacturing and mercantile purposes, which impart further firmness to current discount rates. A healthy situation in commercial credits is indicated by lower trading defaults. Con ditions generally favored wider activity, and with Wie more settled weather movements of grain, live stock, factory outputs and general merchandise became heavier. The markets for crude materials reflect unusual absorption, and this causes increased efforts to accumulate supplies for the winter consumption. Retail trade here Snd at the interior broadens under seasonable weather Influences and strong demand for necessaries. Satisfactory mail and road orders maintain a good volume of business in the wholesale branches of dry and fancy goods, holiday novelties, footwear, clothing and food products. Bank clearings, 5269,099,679, exceed those of the corresponding week in 1908 by 16 per cent, and compare with $236,701,075 in 1907. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 21. against 14 last week; 43 in 1903, and 27 in 1907. Those with liabilities over $3,000 number 6, against 3 last week, 13 in 190S. and 8 In 1907. NEW YORK. Trade as a whole is good, or better, the former word, in fact, hardly sufficing to characterize the buoyancy and breadth of demand shown in many lines. Industry, in utrn, responds with advices of full manufacturers' order books, full or overtime run, and general reports of an Insufficiency of skilled labor to meet requirements. Altogether the situation is, all things considered, a very satisfactory one. and the rate of improvement in the late months of the year promises to place 1909 close to the front in the list of years of prosperity. ' A number of mills announce shorter time in operation, the coarser products showing the most strain. Iron and steel are being produced in large volume, though some advices of ease in pig iron are noted. Business failures In the United States for the week ending with Oct. 23 were 217, against 244 last week, 241 in the liko week of 190S, 223 In 1907, 1C3 in 1906, and 160 in 1903. Business failures In Canada for the week numbered 24. which compares with 30 last week and 32 in the same week of 190S. Chlcago Cattle, common to prime. $4.00 to $9.10; hogs, prime heavy, $4.50 to $8.00; sheep, fair to choice, $4.25 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.18 to $1.20; corn. No. 2, 39c to 61c; oats, standard, 37c to 39c; rye. No. 2. 72c to 73c; hay, timothy, ?S.OO to $14.50; prairie, $8.00 to $13.00; butter, choice creamery, 27c to 30c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 26c; potatoes, per bushel, 40c to 4Sc Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $7.50; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $7.93; sheep, good to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2. $1.15 to $1.17; corn, No. 2 white, 57c to 5Sc; oats, No. 2 white, 39c to 40c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $8.50; hogs, $4.00 to $7.S7; sheep. $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2. $1.20 to $1.24; corn. No. 2, COc to Clc; oats. No. 2, SSc to 39c; rye, No. 2. 74c to 7Cc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $6.30; hogs, $4.00 to $7.83; sheep. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.22 to $1.23; corn. No. 2 mired, 61c to 62c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; rye. No. 2, 77c to 7Sc. Detroit Cattle. $4.00 to $3.30; hog3, $4.00 to $7.65; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.22 to $1.23; corn. No. 2 yellow, C3c to64c; oats, standard, 40c to 42c; rye, No. 1, 73c to 77c. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 nortnern. $1.03 to $1.0S; corn. No. 3, 57c to 59c; oats, standard. 40c to 42c; rye. No. 1, 73c to 74c; barley, standard, 6c to 67c; pork, mess. $23.73. Buffalo Cattle, choice f.hipplng steers, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $8.00; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.23. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed. $1.21 to $1.23; corn. No. 2 mixed, 62c to 63c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 42c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 77c; clover seed, $0.00. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $6.80; hogs, $4.00 to $8.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.23; wheat. No. 2 red. $1.21 to $1.23; corn, No. 2, 68c to 69c; oats, natural, white, 43c to 4Cc; butter, creamery, 27c to 31c; eggs, western, 27c to 28c. Mrs. Clara Meyer was killed in Rochester. N. Y., when she and her daughter Dora fell from a balcony from which they were watching the industrial parade eiven in connection with the Rochester Industrial Exposition. Tho Southern Iron and Steel Company has filed In Gadsden, Ala., - a mortgage for $16.000.000 given to the United States Mortgage and Trust Company and John V. Platten sf Nerr York. The loss from the fire which swept Quebec's water Tront will exceed $1,000,000. All the burned buildings were full of grain and Roods awaiting shipment on ocean-going vessels. McKenzie & Co.'s warehouse at Brandon,' Man., and several carloads of seed were destroyed ly lire. Ix3S, J60.0C0. Maurice Ilarpshan and his wife, Alice, were found dead In their home in Philadelphia, Two bullet wounds were in the man's chest, and lying beside him, shot through the head, was his wife. They had quarrelel frequently. After beinj out on a. strike since Jan. 15, 1,300 employes of the K. V. Connett & Coa . two ' hat factories at Orange and Newark, N. J went back to work. A cloudburst drenched San Marcos, Texas, causing heavy propeny loss. More than ten inches of rain fell within twenty-four hours.